Remarks by Mac Driscoll
30 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Thank you, President Williams. There's been an amendment proposed by the administration, but they don't have the right necessarily to amend an ordinance once it's before council. So someone from the administration, I believe, is here to present an amendment to this ordinance.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, clerk. I'm sure you all read about the motorcycle accident that took place in South Toledo Saturday afternoon. It grieves me to say, someone I graduated high school with, Josh Seaman, he was my age. We were in the same class. He had been over to my house a couple times. We weren't great friends, and we definitely went our separate ways after high school, but he was a good guy. served his country in the Navy and had two young daughters. And as chair of the Transportation Committee, I do want to refocus our efforts along transportation safety. This accident looked to be like a lot of…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is along the same lines. When did some of these, so I know we're gonna hear about another piece, item 13 here. When were some of these decisions made about some of the new ways we're considering spending these ARPA dollars?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“But it's not what we originally said we were going to spend these dollars on when we did the ARPA plan at the outset. I mean, some of these projects aren't going to happen at all. Some of the money was supposed to go to SIFT. That's obviously not going to happen.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Right, it's in the same spirit of the idea, but I guess I wanted to know when did we make the decision, whatever we're going to hear about item 13 and maybe we can wait for it then, but when did we make the decision that we were going to be authorizing an agreement with the Board of Health?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“We've had two meetings this year where we talk about the remaining ARPA dollars. And I don't think we've really gone into this level of detail. And I think the administration had an opportunity, I think, to share that this is the program that we think we were going to do. I think that this project probably took months to put together. think there was kind of a lack of transparency about that I would also just say there's I mean well I don't see how we could move this SCP when we don't have the accompanying legislation from neighborhoods so we would have to wait I think until we get that piece…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you chair. So I assume we're waiving competitive bidding because we use this all across the city.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, and do we use this all across the city?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, and what do we use general fund money or what pool of funds we pay for this across the rest of the city?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I figured. Yeah. I know it is eligible, and we've gotten into this before about using capital dollars on software, which I know we are technically allowed to, but doesn't necessarily strike me as the spirit of capital expenses, nor does it strike me as the spirit of why we put the TIF in place. And I do think that I've asked for this earlier this year, but I really think we need to sit down and talk about a long-term plan for each one of our TIFs, because what I don't want to set up is some sort of system where every time we need to spend money, we see that there's a balance inside these TIF…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to say on 403-26, I had hoped that we would hear back from the administration on whether or not the software that we've seen from Lake Erie West Regional Council is duplicative of the software they're proposing here, but we haven't heard yet back from the administration, so I'm just putting a referral in because Lake Erie West has some kind of tree canopy data that they're providing us. And if it's redundant, then I don't understand why we would make an investment in that. So I just haven't heard back from the administration yet. So I'll have a referral…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I don't know if you all saw the referral response to the question I asked about the portion of the climate action plan that this refers to. But I think the administration admits in that, I think the 1% for the environment is designed to address our climate action plan. And the monies we spend from that fund ought to be used to address our climate action plan, which I think of as an internal document. It's about our operations. This audit, it seems to me, and I think it is admitted by the administration in the referral response, is taking a look at everybody's…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“you madam president i promise this is the last time uh we got a referral response to this question uh from the administration said this was in fact a budget adjustment but after discussions with chief robeson uh what i learned about this is this does not uh we did we did not find any savings anywhere else in the budget i think we'll attempt to do that at close out at the end of this year but i think everyone on council should recognize What this does is it just increases our expenditures by $1.4 million, and that will ultimately, if we don't find cuts elsewhere, savings elsewhere, it will…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to relieve item 353-26 from the Transportation Committee.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think at the very least, the zoo needs to expand, expound a little bit on the decision, why they came to it. And they say operational, financial. It's not exactly clear to me that they're having any operational or financial issues. And so I think they owe it to the community to explain why they would have ended such an important program so suddenly and affected a few dozen kids in our community that RELIED ON THAT PROGRAM AND GOT A LOT OF VALUE OUT OF IT. I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION THAT OBVIOUSLY I THINK EVERYBODY HERE, THEIR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THE MAURO FAMILY, ANDREA…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'll go SEP. I will say that when I got appointed to council and I had lunch with Councilman Morris for the first time, this and passenger rail were the two things he told me he wanted to get done. So I'm glad to see him making progress on this. One thing I'd say is when the design is done, it'd be nice to see what that'll look like because I think every time we get um an opportunity to work on our roadways to think a little bit about um alternate modes of transportation i think this gives us an opportunity to do that so i'm just you know interested to see what the pedestrian and cycling…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm curious, and maybe it doesn't, but do you feel that this audit aligns with the Climate Action Plan, and which piece of the Climate Action Plan do you think it aligns with?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, this is not a got you moment. I just pulled this up because I was curious if this is what you're referencing. Action 4.3, assess the Hoffman Road office recycling pilot. Is that what you're referring to? And use learnings to implement full recycling at all city facilities? Is that what you mean? Because this doesn't strike me as city facilities. This strikes me as.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So what part of the climate action plan?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, I mean, I'll have to go through it, because I really don't, I mean, I appreciate, I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad idea, but to you, I think that, to me, the spirit of the 1% fund is specifically to address the climate action plan. So I'll submit a referral then for that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. This might be a question for finance or for referral, but why is this not a budget adjustment?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm gonna go first reading on this. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, I'm curious, were any of you present when, I guess, now Lake Erie West presented all their data? I think they said, they told me yesterday, Executive Director Spank told me that they presented it in front of the cabinet, so would that include any of you?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, the only reason I ask is they presented on tree coverage as well, and we, in committee, we have our team of COG dues, and I don't want to double spend here, I guess, if another agency's already doing this, and so I want to understand better what it is that we're, what the difference is between what we're doing and what they're doing, because if they've already got that information, and if it is LIDAR, which obviously is better than somebody Individual and it can give you more information than somebody just going and telling you where a tree is So I'm not opposed to this, but I do think…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think so. If Lake Erie West is already using LIDAR and can tell us what our tree coverage is, I don't understand why we would do that as well. And their potential rollout of this is for everybody to have access to it, including council members and people in the district.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026