Remarks by Luis B. Santiago
193 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 8
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“Okay. The vans. That's included in the budget. All city vehicles. What is the amount that we are spending in that, in repairs, maintenance, and gas?”
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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“No. Well, I believe, yes. If we made the rules and we made, you know, to be done, okay, whatever we need to do in it, we're going to save money there. And that repairs tires, everything. Every day.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“It's a lot of cars. A lot of cars too, yeah. And how are we doing in the repair? Do we have the personnel, the mechanic that they can fix in the cars? They are AC, you know, transmission, whatever. Why do we have to go out and bring the car out? Why?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“External services is out. Yes. Not in. Other contracted services, yes. Contractors, yeah. That's separate of this.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah. It is more comfortable, more easy, less expensive when we're doing it outside than doing it in-house?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Wow. Incredible. Because I see you have a very good shop there. Mechanic shop, probably what you don't have is the people to do in the job.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No. Okay. If we have the certified mechanics that they cost us a salary every week, they're supposed to, you know, take care of the whole fleet. That's what we call it. Okay. In the city, because that's the reason why we have it there. That's the reason why he have there. If we have mechanic, why did I have to send out my car to change oil? Why did I have to send my car out?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, but what about the rest? I'm talking probably not the part of the, what do we call it, collisions, or body shot repair because we don't have it. Mechanical, that's what I'm talking about. If we have three mechanics, I think that's a lot of mechanics. That's enough mechanics to take care of our cars.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Correct. Well, we have it for it if we don't have the equipment.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, okay, we're going to make a review of that. Let's leave it there now. But I want to go with my manager, okay, out there with the person that is in charge in the city, and we're going to be talking there, okay, to see what's going on. All right, but I try to reduce whatever expenses that we have in the city because... It's coming years that we more have to know where we're going to get money to keep and pay everybody here in the great city of Palau.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. And also, my colleague said to the manager, mother manager, we had to see and do an inventory out there for whatever that we don't need no more. We discussed them yes, we're going to do a surplus we're going to be bringing that to the committee, yes, yes, OK, you know I see to see if we can get you know OK. We go home.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. What did we have? Why we don't touch that?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“131 and the details on page 130. cip that's the department the uh the leaner running a part of it yes sir okay um my manager um all the projects that we have in that department is in the general fund safe neighborhood right this is under safe neighborhood yes No, I'm talking in general, whatever we do with CIP. CIP, yeah. Because before I know that we work, sometimes we're grand that we receive to do that.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, you know, what I see for that department, they do a lot of things around the city and they make a lot of Improvement, right? That project that we have there in 127, I see that great, you know, what happened there. And the last time that you say that we're going to be ending like December, but they finished before. That's something good. I hope that we have the funding to finish whatever we have there. I hope.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Rental. Revenue. Well, we receive that money, the city, for rental. Yes. From the school that we have there for many days. Do we have any rental for the county, for the office that you're using out there?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Long time ago. Yes. Okay, well, that's a good way to get revenue. You know, with the city, we can change it. Why not? Okay, that's one. Keeping going, what are you talking about? You know, that and...”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And what are we going to use that money for by the manager?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Um, Something that I heard from public, my colleague too, okay, is the complaints, okay, for the service that we have in the elevators. Okay, I know that elevator, how old that building is here, like 30 years old? That for 2008, 18 years? Okay, I mean, that's elevator serving for 18 years already. I think it's time for the manager to see if we can do something about it because it's every day they broke down. And, you know, people scared to get stuck. That changing that we have any plan to or in the $150,000 is including that project for the elevator.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Do we already have something in place? Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, yeah, that's very important. You know, that's part of the maintenance, you know, the facility that we have. And I don't know in the future if we can come, I'm the manager too, to make, what are we calling it, a cargo, a service elevator.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026