Remarks by Luis B. Santiago
193 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 8
- Play at 35:22
“We're not there yet. We're not. Oh, okay. We're not. Okay. That's in the equation.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 35:35
“Okay. And that's a slight increase over 2026 of $206,000. Wow. Okay.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 35:52
“Okay. The electricity. Well, all right. Let's see if we can go to solar energy to reduce us amount of money in the future. Okay.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And what do you see as why. That is a very and then be when you bring that.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Let me be sure something that I see here in office supplies. This year, what we amended is stay the same team. 4,700. And now in 27, we're going to have 9,500. Yeah. Okay. You're asking about that.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“You see, Mr. Mayor, you know, sometimes you have to ask him. Because it's something here that is not normally. Okay, from 47, now we have to 9,500. We're talking about close to $5,000 more. Okay, in that budget. And she explained it to us. It's not only for the city clerk's office. It's people that we use in things that we're not supposed to use. Let's be clear. Let's be very clear.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Clerk. Well, what I want to be sure, Mr. Mayor, okay, if we are supporting that item is the paper, yes, that we need. What the commissioner and the mayor need some paper for, okay, for events that we do yearly, the events, okay, some workshop that we make, something like that. But I don't want anything to be used for any personal items, okay, that we have. And I don't know if you're unclear or you don't understand where did I come from. But the only way that I be with this, $9,500 approved, is if they're going to be using it the right way. The right way. And the commissioner…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 45:25
“I mean, we redo the cost for that department when we hide in the in-house position.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 45:45
“Yes. Okay. I think the cost of, you know, money for us, you know, now we have inside. Yes. Okay. The cost now for getting inside is less, no? Than what we paid before?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 46:39
“Okay. I'm not complaining about that because I think that I see the department in the last six months working very, very, very perfect.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 46:51
“Okay. That's my point of view. I'm not complaining. I'm only asking questions. But the department is running the right way.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 51:50
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 52:25
“And that's enough employment for that department to make that department, you know, running and be more efficiency with all the projects that we have in the city to creating more revenue, like, you know, impact fee. I think that's, you know, his department and all that, because I know there's a lot of, you know, Well, comments, you know, around that we take so long, you know, to do things out there.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“It's filled now. He needs to fill it out. It's filled. It's filled. Yes. Does that mean they're going to make that department better in the future? More efficient? Okay. If it does, it's okay. No, it's fine. What I say is it's going to make that department to be better. They should run more efficient. More efficient, yes. Yes, okay. They're good, but I say more efficient to try to, because I know they generated a lot of revenue if they had the power to go through with the plans that they have. Okay. No more questions.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I don't know where the question is coming from. Go ahead. Yeah, present him first.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 57:33
“Oh, man, I am, but when I ask you a question, what, why. The other part, I mean, you to make it for, why not to for the. No, I only ask you for the inspector. So.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 58:36
“Thank you. Let me find out. Okay. Are you asking you why? Okay. You're talking about the need for the inspector that we have. Okay. But I know that we have some outside inspectors. Outside that we, that we are hiding the encounter that for another city.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 59:08
“What happened with all this vehicle that we have before, even they. Auto service, they are more there because I see PublixWork fill a lot of vehicles. They are parking all the time. What are we going to do with that? We can fix it. We can put it in service again.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 59:43
“And when we purchase any vehicle for any major dealer, they don't come in with a warranty, you know, to fix anything? No, they come with a warranty. Yes. They come with a warranty. Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I know. Well, yeah. Hey, when we purchase, you know, cars for the police department, for public work, okay, any dealers and any company, they know that they're going to be using for a public service in the city. I mean, they're going to have miles. They're going to have, and by the future, whatever purchases that we do, less thinking about to get some kind of a warranty that they added miles, okay, because we use it for work, you know, for the public. But that's in the future. Okay, right now, okay, whatever we have there, I don't know what they're going to do, but they don't do…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean, we have to be, you know, careful with that to see if we can, you know, keep on going. And if that love is not affecting, yes, hey, let's try to get any revenue that we can get before that thing hit to everybody and we lose money.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:02:18
“Okay. Yeah, we have to be sure that we can move out of that department the quickest we can. Thank you. No more questions.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“11 new vehicles in the police. In this year or the next one?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“OK, that's necessary to have that money officer.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026