Remarks by Luis B. Santiago
193 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 8
- Play at 1:07:35
“No, I had to wait for the green light from you. Okay. I know that you say before, yes, wait for a week, come to Polish work. Okay. To talking about something, but that's regarded to our police department. What I see for the next fiscal year, okay, for me it's not too much what they're going to need in comparison for last year. Because the police department, one of the departments that we had, they worked 24 hours. All day in the road, seven days a week, 365 days. Service the public, made the city safe. But we can get, you know, some way to, you know, to reduce the spencer in that police…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:09:00
“Only one? Yes. Only one. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to have some questions with you and the police chief, okay, between me, you, and the police chief about the department, okay? Now, when we get to police work, I know, and I'm asking for that number, and I don't have that number yet with me, okay? And I need to know what is the experience that we have in the police units, not police work, the police units, okay? Okay. That's police unit. They be using it to go home, okay, to do what we call in... The extra hours, what we call it?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:09:40
“Off-duty, okay? They use the police cars, let's be honest. And I like to bring a point. Okay, when I have the number for the gas that we are spending in that car, repairs, it's not only the gas, the repair, the maintenance and everything for these units, okay? I noticed something when I asked a question to the chief. OK, chief, I see something, you know, very unusual every day. OK, when I see, you know, cars for your police department parking. OK, in the lunch break. Any break that they take in the car, they own. They out of the car eating, but the car is they own outside on. Why the police…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:10:39
“Yeah. I don't know why, but I see that all the time. And I say, what are the countries doing? Let me tell you what happened with this. We put in a lot of hours in that engine, okay, doing anything. That's one. And we're ruining the car because the car is standing and on, on the AC, on everything. That's something that I see, and I see it a lot of times all over the city.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:11:28
“Good. But how is it too long to make something work properly? Because that's inside of the city, inside of your department. They have to come through us.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:12:00
“When the chief say the policies, the manager, okay, my question is, okay, they prepared a team with the city attorney for what? You know, that's between you. That team had to come to us, to the commissioner?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:12:32
“My question again is, OK, that's going to be bringing to the commissioner chamber. No, it doesn't have to go to the commission, but we need legal to review. That's between inside, okay, nothing to do with us. That's my question. If it's necessary to bring a resolution about that, I bring it. But what I say, that's what I see, and that costs a lot of money to your department.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:13:04
“Good. Now, another thing is, okay, why we had to let people take the car home. Because I see cars sometimes all the way down, you know, fall out of there or whatever, you know, and I say, what are they doing here?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:13:37
“Yeah, because if we calculated, I believe my manager, all that thing that we're doing right now, out of the order that we need to do, it costs a lot of money to the city. A lot of money. Probably we're going to save a lot of money for that department if we do that thing right. I love the police department, but any department here has to go by the rules. Especially now that a lot of things are going to be cut. And I don't want that, you know, affecting our police department. It's going to be so unaffecting. And we have to be prepared for it. Thank you.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:15:30
“Let me say that. This is not what we're talking about before. Okay, if they are working and they are in an emergency, in an accident, whatever, and they have to be there under the investigation of what's going on, and they have their lights on, it's fine to have the car on because they're working. But what I'm talking about is I saw cars, the people, they're sitting, eating an hour, eating, okay, and the car is on outside, okay? That's not an emergency. This is nothing to do, okay? They use the car to be sitting, you know, 24 hours in the 24-hour club. That's what we're calling up there.…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:16:38
“Emergency, that's emergency, Chief. Work is work. But when they're not working, they're eating, they have an hour. That's you giving an hour lunch?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:19:33
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:20:58
“Where is that funding going to the general fund to help any department?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:23:31
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:24:23
“Oh, oh, oh, we're not there. Oh, yeah. Sorry. That's a very rich department.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:25:06
“All right. Okay. All right. Cool. My mistake. We're not there yet.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:25:19
“But that's including in the cost before that we're talking about the police department. Okay.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:28:34
“We finished with the swimming pool already?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:29:57
“Madam manager, okay, yeah, I heard your concern, okay, about it. But my concern is why we have to begging that company to go in and maintenance output in the park.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:30:15
“Department of Health. Department of Health. Oh, okay, but that's not a company that they are, okay. That's the department, okay.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:30:27
“Yeah, I hope that don't happen in the future again.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:35:02
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:35:28
“Correct. It's me. I see Arabian Nights is going to have a game. Christmas, at every night, we're going to have $280,000 again.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:35:58
“Good. Okay, that's my question. I know that we already passed through that, Mr. Mayor. But let me say that, okay. I believe that the amount of money that we use this year is because we have the anniversary of the city of 100 years to celebrate it together.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:36:25
“I don't think that we need that type of money for the next year to celebrate that again. We have to go down and reduce that amount because what we can use is try to do it with private entities that they want to come and cooperate with us and celebrate something for the whole community, for everybody.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026