Remarks by Michael J. Ryan
398 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 16
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“So the proposal I had made to staff to have them consider was whatever we decide to fund, we budget. But we do not agree to fund all of it. until we come back together post Amendment 3. So as staff has pointed out in one of the slides, that if Amendment 3 passes, we're going to have to have workshops.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“If it doesn't, it would be at that time where the commission can make those decisions based on whether we continue to have this. To your point, this isn't going away. Some of the politicians at the state level are saying, if it doesn't pass, we're going to try to do it another way. We're going to do it just as radical. going to put it through the next Constitutional Commission so we cannot just feel relieved we'll know more from the numbers but to answer your question at least what I asked staff mine's on I won't move my face anymore that that we agree to whatever we think we would do if…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Kirch. Thoughtful as always. Before we move on to charitable, I want to finish with what I expect will be a foreseeable response from some in the community. Why not just cut people? Start cutting programs and cut people. I don't really care if seniors have a free minibus. You don't need that. They can find their way. Why not just cut some staff in buildings? We can take longer delays on our permits. We don't need them. That scream is going to start coming louder and louder. And yet, we don't, I don't hear it. I don't think my colleagues hear it. We don't hear the…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Deputy Mayor. I'll offer to Commissioner Skudo, I don't know if he's able to, where he's at, to be able to speak, but if just as a courtesy. If so, I don't know if it's possible. We need a motion for that. No, he can speak. It's public. I'm going to treat it as public comment.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'm opening it up for public comment, so I'm taking the risk.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“In the meantime, if anyone else wishes to speak, they can come forward as well. I'll reopen public comment. Or they can press five-star as well. I see he's unmuted, but I don't hear anything. He may be muted on his end. Okay. All right. Seeing no one come forward, no hands raised, and Commissioner Skudo having challenges coming on, I'll go ahead and close. Reclose public comment to make Tom feel more comfortable. We used to have a cardiac monitor he would wear that we could watch on the screen every time we did something. All right. So on the charitable. All right. So to put in some context,…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“It's not on my page. They didn't have it on this one.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. And where would you find the funding for that?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“The chamber is $97.50. Correct. All right. To those who received funding last year for the first time we required quarterly reports And I'm happy to report that everybody provided their quarterly reports Part of that transparency that we sought And that's very helpful I think we need to make sure that's institutionalized moving forward allows us to make sure that we're not only what service are we being provided but also helps us to validate what hasn't been spent and uh... and the process as i understand it from staff yes if someone is awarded and it's funded they don't spend it it's kept…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“If that was the will of the commission. And if we kept all of the others, I know that early learning also went up $6,598. We kept it flat at that. Goodman Jewish Family Services, if we kept that flat, I'll talk about the new ones in a second. Special Olympics, we were at 13.9 last year. If we kept that flat, and if we kept Voices for Children of Broward and Youth Empowerment both flat at their last year funding levels, we haven't gotten to the new requests, what would that leave us at?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“We're talking about the gross. We're going to talk about 123. 123 is a policy decision. It's not staff. So we'll come off that. We start with what we're allowed to do, and then if we roll back, we'll do that. So I appreciate you showing that, but let's talk a little bit more about whether we get there. The new ones, as I see it here, are Family Central at $5,000, FarmShare at $60,000. You guys are here tonight, right? So FarmShare? FarmShare? Yes, sir. OK. $5,000 from Hope United or United International. So those are the only new ones, correct?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“OK. So the smaller ones are $10,000, and then they have farm share at 60, correct? And let's start with the concept of if, I'm not saying the commission would do this, but if we went to the 172, which is funding everybody flat, excluding chamber and chest, because that's moved into the general fund budget, into the departmental budgets. If the commission said, all right, we're gonna approve that as a budget, we're not either there's two choices we're not funding it we're not letting staff fund a penny yet until we get to november 3rd right because that's one option another option say we're…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that that's option one, where we would budget.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“But we're not, we're budgeting, we're not funding. We're budgeting because that's staff funding, right? We're budgeting, but we're not approving disbursement of any funds until post-November 3rd when the commission gets it. That is an option.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“I think it would be healthy to do it to make it clear to each of the organizations. Certainly we could do that. And maybe some withdraw and they decide not to. That is a third option for sure. I don't want to kill a good idea. That's an excellent idea as well. But I think even if it passes November 3rd, we have the money in the budget to at least provide half funding. say all right we're giving you a lifeline for this year but you know you're not getting it next year because it's just not going to we won't have it there or you have to adjust and i think commissioner kirk's really you know…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“And this is an example that the state is crushing us with an unfunded mandate. They want us to address affordability. One issue is people being able to eat, right? Food deserts, food insecurity. Who's making up that? Cities that have been contributing, working with great donors, vendors and corporate, and we know that we want to provide that service.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“No, I understand. It's not, again, to Commissioner Kirch's point, right? Whatever numbers to the right in the column that we approve is not a reflection of the value. I understand. It's the challenge.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“I know. I agree. All right. Thank you very much. No, thank you, sir. Other questions? So if we funded at the same level or budget at the same level, did the two new ones, which generally what we've done in the past for new ones is only 5,000. Hope United International is an entirely new. We've not funded in the past. Is that correct?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“I just want to go through a couple more things. Family Central has been here before. It's not really a new one. And I know FarmShare has also been asking in the past as well.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Even if we and post removal if we were to just so people can visualize we were to do half on on farm share at 30 on the Two new ones which was actually Youth empowerment wants to go to 10, but if we kept them at the same level that they're not new so Hope United International is new at five. Family Central is technically five. That would only be ten of the new, right? So that would be essentially 212,900. Is that the number you got?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. That's a generalized concept. Assistant Deputy Mayor, we want to make that motion, by the way? Assistant Deputy Mayor? Mayor. Yes.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, I will in a second. Did you want to make that motion on the two? Sure. And we can. Okay. Motion to remove chamber and CHES program and move it to departmental. I have a motion and a second. I'll open it up. Deputy Mayor.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm opening it to you. Hang on one second. Floor is yours, Deputy Mayor.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026