Remarks by Luis B. Santiago
193 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 8
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“Okay. Yeah, that's part of the beautification of the city. I'm going to be on top of that. Especially in Charizard that I see all this apartment now abandoned. Do you see that? Yeah, it's bad. It looks very bad, that area right there. Yeah, we'll pick it up too. Yeah, let's pick it up and let's sign it and let's get, you know, see whatever we have to do to collect some revenue for them.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Can you repeat that again, please? Oh, when you permit. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. We have removed $115,000. We will remove $150,000, mean less. They're going to have less budget? Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And why we, why we reduce that or what we're taking from there?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Um, well, we in public work, I think it's a lot of things to, you know, to review. Okay. Um, regarding about the water storm, no, that's the water that we had to push out from the sewer, um, by the manager, um, that we have published work to, um,”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's probably, yeah, it's like in a little... Yeah, it's in the corner of 43rd and 133rd. Now that you're there, you know, I believe that's, you know, part of the published works items. But let me say that, okay, when they're going to finish that project?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yes. Like... I asked him for that number before, and they said to me, just wait when we came to this part for public work. Okay, I'd like to know, okay, what is the expenses that we have in maintenance for all the equipment that we have in public work? That's including the police cars that the officers use every day.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And that's including also, you know, some cut for the police department.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. You want to wait when we get there? Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“that's for the street lights citywide okay yeah i heard about that before the expansion that we have but do we receive any uh uh what are we calling by the manager uh franchise from fpnl yes we do and that franchise that we receive is not covered all that amount of money in the”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Remember something? The F. P. And now they they're giving the power to the whole city residential and commercial that we don't receive anything for that for them for the state or whatever.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“$1.5 million. Okay. And that's not covered up on that money that we receive for them, you know, to discount the electricity or power that we use in the city and buildings. And you told me that we had to pay for the light, the street light. Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“for that department. For all, everybody, the whole city, okay? Well, that's something to thinking in the future to see how can we reduce, you know, the cost or the power that we use in the city. And I think we'll be talking about one of these day to come in when I plans to only make the city operating four days a week. One day a week, we're going to be saving a lot of money in costs to operation in the city.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, yeah. Commissioner question is we're talking about side sidewalks. Your department repair the sidewalk. Because I think Adelina had a problem when the Grimes before, no? Does public work?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“How are we doing in the personnel in Polish? Do we have enough people to do the work that we really need in the city?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah. What is that deductible that we have right now?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“$1,500. Well, not bad. Not bad, because in my commercial policy that I have for my business, the money that I have to pay for that is $2,500. But it's good. $1,500, I don't think it's bad. But we have a policy that covers repairs, accident repairs in automobiles.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, they cover that also, you know, like total loss.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Total loss in our vehicles? Yes, sir. Okay, that's good to know. Okay, that's not a problem with that. Okay, let's keep on going down to maintenance. Okay, did I ask you what is the money that we added to the new budget coming up in 27? Because what I see here in this year, we are spending... 815 and for the next year it's going to be 826 no well close to 20 to yeah to 8 probably to 827”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Okay. That's okay. Now we're coming with that. Okay. In the vehicle repairs and expenses that we have, you know, gas. Okay. For both departments, for all the departments. Okay. Police department, police work, parking recreation, because parking recreation have cars too, no? No. Assigning for what? What do you mean?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026