Remarks by Mark Scott
36 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I'll be quick. You stole my thunder. Do ask me later about two-inch trees. Just remember that statement. There's those of us that have been involved in some of this a long time. I remember a city council argument in the 80s about two-inch trees, but I do have to admit, come on, really? Ten trees? We can't do more? Come on, Debbie. A few more trees and I don't know the logistics and all that, but I did want to get that out there. I think there's a lot of cities that lament not having the opportunity to help keep a mall vibrant. I think there's a lot of malls in the country that are dark, and I…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I don't know the whole breadth of your organization. They seem to be doing fantastic. And as you know, I think the world of your... film commissioner um i've heard yeah so uh i think you're doing great work there and you know people say hey what else are we going to do in corpus and the answer would be let's get people to film films down here and the success that your organization has done to steal some scenes from places like galveston whatever uh or other places in the state is a testament to the success so Let me know what I can do to help, and you knew that already, for the film and music…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So my brother lives in New York City. And he was there on 9-11. What he says is the terrorist mistake was we came together, right? We came together. And you saw it that day. He saw it when he was walking down to see if he could volunteer. And they said, you know. And then we saw it in the baseball game a couple of days later. So I just want to say thank you. Chief, thank you. Chief, thank you. Thank you to your men and women for their service. And I look forward to coming together and recognizing the prize. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I thought that was an impressive presentation. I think the issue is Are there protections in place regarding bias? And what I heard both of you talk about was the multiple layers of protections to try to remove any bias on the committee selections. I think until you can change state law to negotiate based on rates with consulting, then we're not really getting anywhere. I think if the council wants to direct staff to create a policy on rate checking or whatever you called it, then we ought to tell them to go do that. I mean, if that's something we want, then just go do it.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Hey, Joseph, thank you for what you're doing. Just wanted to make sure I didn't let that go. Thank you to you and your team. Just keep rolling as fast and hard as you can, and I think we're committed to try to find help as soon as we can. I just didn't want it to go without saying how much we appreciate you and the others that are with you here today and up in the department. Thanks.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I want to thank you guys for the work that you've done when you cut out was a million nine nine hundred thousand. What do we start cutting halfway through the year? About $1.9 million. So, I mean, it's not like we haven't worked hard to cut the budget, and I appreciate the work that you all have done. I appreciate the work you've done on the adjustments to the 100 and 200 level. I think we actually added a lot of expense to the audit department because we wanted it to be competitive, and that's awesome. I'm okay with the budget as it is. I think the reason we're in this spot is…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Two quick things. I know I can look this up, so this is a very lazy question. The main library, when is that project scheduled to be completed? Is there a lifeline here?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So, yeah, that's just idle curiosity. I was riding by it the other day with some friends and they were very excited to see it.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So end of this calendar year, a couple months.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“I think it's going to be a beautiful addition. I think the changes in front certainly look,”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I hope we'll have some sort of celebration. All right, that's number one. Number two, what, the JFK Causeway that was on the 2020? What's that project?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Come to San Jacinto's Holley office. I can show you firsthand what happens when you start renovating. So, yeah, no issue there.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“And so their plans, are we proceeding with that?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Oh, I'm sorry. You're talking on the... It would be the east side, right?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Is there some... Can you send me... Something to go look at, so I don't have to bug you. Send you some drawings of what's going to go. I originally thought you were talking about the ramp on the Flower Bluff side. No, no, no. Now I realize, then I started thinking, oh, we're talking about the ramps on and off. And now I realize, then I thought we were talking about the west side. of the intercoastal waterway. But now I think I realize we're talking about the east side, the island side, where we have the marinas. Is that? Correct.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“They had a master plan where they called it the village. I remember some of this because it was always flooding. park out there?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Got it. Okay, if you can just tell me, steer me in the right direction on whatever.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay, last thing. This is an ongoing peeve of mine, Peter, and it's in the grand scheme of things. I'm almost embarrassed to bring it up, but when Carol and I travel through airports, there's always a paved area around from the parking lots the walkways from the parking lot to the terminal and the one exception is Corpus Christi the parking lot to the terminal is just pure asphalt which is fine right but there ought to be a smooth walkway for all the people that park out there and that are pulling luggage and so I saw one of your slides we have three or four or five projects so just Is…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“That's all I have. Thanks. Great. Appreciate all you've done.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So, how do you go about this? So, hey, do we make money on solid waste? No, we don't.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“That's silly. Yeah. Point is, we don't we don't make money on anything we do. It's just whether it's a break even or not. That's the cost of services. My point is, I guess you're telling me that the the cost for recycling exceeds that the amount of money we're putting in through the budget.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“What was that? Does recycling have subsidies involved? Like the government? Yeah, like the city. No. So we started recycling saying we're going to put a dollar in and we're going to be able to sell the recycling for two, so we're going to make a dollar.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“And then one day we can't sell the product. that we're getting in, so we're losing money.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Do cities generally subsidize recycling? Yes, they do nowadays because the sale of the commodities is less now.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“And we are unable to sell the plastic that we recycle?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026