Remarks by Lynn Hurtak
246 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“Yeah and so I think this is perfectly fine and I think we just do an ordinance and get it done. Because if you put compensation in the charter, I think that's too tight.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I understand, but A, I believe in this, I think it would have a hard time passing. B, I really do think that it's just not a, I think this is an ordinance issue. I do not think that we should be talking about salaries in our charter.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, because 6.06 just says the salaries of officers of the city may be increased or decreased at any time by the concurrence of the mayor and a majority of no fewer than four votes. This is for staff. This is salaries for staff. When we're talking about salaries for us, I think the ordinance would do just fine. And I think we could ask the city attorney's office to come up with an ordinance that says just this and let's just get it done. Does anybody have opposition to it at this point? I know Council Member Vieira, you had a lot of opposition earlier, but now that you're leaving office, and…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“About $200,000. It's like $189,000 or something like that.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“But not only that, the most important reason we're having this discussion is because somehow when this was done after the election, when Councilwoman Henderson focused on this, Somehow it ends in May. It goes back to $53,000. So we have to solve this. We cannot kick this can down the road any further.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, no, I tied it to, um, ATU, but again, it ends in May. Right.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“So I'd like to make a motion to ask staff to come back with a ordinance that uses number four as its base of the document, the document that he had that's on the screen right now. It's called city council compensation. I drew it like to direct staff to come back on October 15th.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“We're not doing the charter. We're doing this ourselves as an ordinance. Understood. Which is why I want city legal staff to come back on October 15th. Ideally, if that's not enough time, that probably isn't enough time. You know why? So let's do November 5th. I'd like city staff to come back on November 5th with this ordinance, proposed ordinance that follows number four. And I'm going to throw chair under the bus and have, since this was something that you wrote down, I'll have city staff talk, work with you on getting this done. Does that, is that fair?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay. So that's my motion. And then I'm sure. Oh, and then I know he wants to talk.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, that's what we chose. My motion was November 5th.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, I thought you said you didn't want to keep it.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay, so you do think this is fine. I just wanted legal.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“We already passed that motion. I would prefer to take the number out. And that, again, is just me, just because. So that's going to be my recommendation, is that we take the actual statute out, because nowhere else do we really use the statutes. And I'm just uncomfortable and worried, because we're taking stuff out that talks about 1979. Anyway, that's just me. If nobody else agrees, that's fine.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay, so then I motion that we accept that.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Actually, I believe the state of Florida just said no city elected official can't be, I think it's six years now. It's now six years. And that's a state law. This is kind of null and void because the state has already.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Or actually I think we could just simply solve it by saying until one year after the expiration of the term to which they were elected or in accordance to a state law.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay, fine. Then, then send it to. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, I don't want to put restrictions on the ability.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“This is just citizen initiative and referendum. Pardon me? This is just for citizen initiatives and referendums. This is not about running for office.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“So 10.10, charter review, why go to 12 years instead of eight?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“no um because this this issue uh the county does it every five years and the reason that we went to eight that's what i'm saying it was that it just went to eight yeah we just went to eight no i mean it went to eight in 2023 when everybody voted on it i really think that this is an asked and answered question i don't think we should change it until um at least another charter review commission I'm uncomfortable with. The only thing that I don't have a problem with is citizen participation, including dedicated city staff for administrative and research support to allow for a comprehensive…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I want to take your language. Lisa, if you would, it's the first page of this Inspector General one.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“And then it's the first, the second, and the third. So let's just leave it on. If you can zoom out a little bit, and then that way we can leave it on for the public to look at while we're talking about it on each page. But I strongly believe that... So for me, someone mentioned earlier, how to, who inspects the inspector general, whether there's a retention committee and that committee, that is their job. Um, so I I'm, I'm fine. I believe that the inspector general will be, uh, um, judged by the people who are on this board, but I want to take the mayor and the council people off. Um, which I…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026