Remarks by Lisa Bonich
216 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 9
- Play at 58:11
“Yes, but no, because they are building huge condos there.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 58:20
“It's huge. I don't know if any of you have been by there.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 58:52
“Thanks a lot. OK, so those are my concerns. My concern is the space, the smell, and that is a heavily trafficked road. And when you've got trucks of that size backing up there, that's a huge concern. Thank you.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:10:39
“No, he already answered the questions I had. Thank you very much.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:19:33
“Aren't they just, they're gathering the information to give to all of us, I imagine.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:19:46
“I don't have any reticence about exploring both. They're very different.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:24:20
“Something having, like, really, yes, restaurant, no taste of somi. You know, Kitchen 57 has bingo on Wednesday.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:24:28
“Tomorrow night, I'll see you there. I know, there you go.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:46:03
“I personally don't see any difference from when we originally looked at this till now, except that we find ourselves in a more precarious position cash-wise than we did when we decided that this was not worth our money. More than that, I think we find ourselves, just like I said when we were talking about, and I know it's not safe streets, but it was that study where people are getting hurt on county and state roads, and they're looking to us to pay for it. US 1 is not our road yet. We're being looked at to fix or fund or find a way to fund a bridge that is crossing a street that is not ours.…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:47:17
“Exactly. More than all of us probably combined. And he doesn't ever have a problem. Again, to fork out even $200,000 to figure out, hey, what's the bridge going to cost us today, I think is highly irresponsible considering everything that we are possibly facing and the changes we want to make to our own city as a whole. Why on earth would I even spend $2 trying to figure out a bridge for someone else? It doesn't make any sense for me.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:51:28
“if you're looking at what they're doing, an at-grade crossing that was an enhanced something pretty, whatever, that you were actually alluding to, I think would be, if they were considering anything, that would be better for them because if not, you're taking, the bridge is, if there is a bridge, the bridge draws your eye. So if you're a developer and you're building all of this thing, the last thing I think you want is a bridge.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:53:56
“Yep. It's actually super simple. When we were looking at all of the possible charter amendments a while back, we picked the ones that we thought were the best, and those are being put on the ballot. The rest, we have a list somewhere in the universe of, hey, things to consider for the future. I had forgotten all about this because my planning board person was there forever, but now she's stepped back. And I wanted to see if there's any interest from any of you to put onto that list of charter amendments for a future date of the possibility of having landowners, commercial landowners, be part…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:55:54
“No, no. And it's not something that we want to do. I'm not saying to do it now.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:56:12
“Somebody that is not me needs to remember this.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:56:15
“I will never remember this after we have this conversation a year from now. It literally popped into my head because I had to replace my planning board member.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:57:23
“OK. Removing it from the charter, not adding commercial people.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:57:26
“Got you. OK. So maybe the discussion then to be had is removing it from our charter. That's actually a good idea. And having it managed by code so that it can be easier to manipulate. OK.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:08:20
“I REMEMBER, AND MAYBE I'M REMEMBERING IT CORRECTLY, BUT I'M HOPING MY MEMORY ISN'T FAILING ME, THAT WHEN WE ARE DEALING WITH THE COMMUNITY RIGHT BEHIND 6-2, RIGHT BEHIND WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING SPROUTS, They literally reach out to us when they are going to trim their trees, and we pick it up. Other than that, I don't think we do regular big claw pickup there. So maybe that's something for us to consider on second reading, that those larger scale buildings don't have big trash pickup every week. because it is essentially those bigger communities that have this big trash problem. I've seen it. I…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:16
“Yeah, but the only way that you can control that is by maybe controlling time frame?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:18:24
“I THINK IF WE'RE LOOKING AT INVESTING THAT MONEY, JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT'S COMING FROM MY MOUTH. Vice Mayor Corey for a long time has talked about reforestation of our city. Our director, Surami, has really leaned into that. And I think we would do our city a disservice if we started to cannibalize those funds that could be used for something that quite literally will visually affect every single one of us. So I just put it there. We don't really need to talk about it, but just something to consider.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:25:39
“9, 10, 11 makes sense to me. Even the way they read is simple. If you read 8, there is a ton of words there. There has to be an easier way to say this. If it wasn't because Javi's sitting here explaining to me exactly what that says, and I was just any person standing there trying to vote, I would have no freaking clue what you're trying to tell me here. So I am a hard no on this, unless we can, as a group, come up with a better way of saying this. If what we're trying to get through here we want to be able to change the leases, the time of the lease, then we've got to save that. I mean, if…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:27:10
“If you didn't have the city manager and the city attorney and the mayor, you wouldn't know what that means.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:33:21
“I don't know that more words makes this more palatable.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:34:10
“Can we can we take out narrowly define a franchise? Like, you know what I mean? If you want to add those words, are there words in this word salad we could take out?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:37:16
“narrowly define a franchise as a privilege granted to a private entity. Can't you say that in normal people talk?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026