Remarks by Michael J. Ryan
398 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 16
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“Just to be clear, when you say you monitor social media, you're talking about particular locations that could potentially lend themselves to promoters, correct?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“I mean, you're not looking at social media for dry cleaners. No, sir. The department's being proactive at locations where the concern's been raised, where it could possibly happen, and monitoring their social media, correct?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“And you're being kind in terms of the service, but when you're reaching out to the property owner to introduce yourself, are you doing so to let them know the police department's going to be there to close them down if they go forward?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. As part of that education, do you indicate that if it moves forward, you will be there to close it down?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“It's discouraged because you've flooded the zone, so to speak.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay. You don't want to take a chance that it even gets started.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“Have you had occasion where you've had to go in to actually shut down an event that somehow slipped through the cracks?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“When you say make it work, what do you mean?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“There's a request or a condition of multi-camera surveillance system. Why is that important from your perspective?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“The registered trespass program, how is that beneficial from your perspective?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“And to be clear, if they're not part of the program, it makes your job a little more difficult, correct?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“The two licensed security guards... What is the plan, if this is approved, what's the plan to engage with the owner of the establishment to ensure you understand who's on site and when?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Other questions for the chief? All right. Thank you, chief.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“At this time, unless the city has any other witnesses, it's the time for the applicant. We're going to get to you all as well, and you're going to get to ask questions as well. It's time for the applicant. I'd like to start with the property owner. Saloma, if you could come forward and, again, give us your name. You're under oath.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. You've heard the staff's presentation and the conditions. Are you in agreement with those conditions? Yes. Why?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“Evictions yeah eviction all right let me let me ask you a few questions just understand me first of all when you bought the property you said you met with staff yes and they threw out on the table all this stuff what did you mean by that so we had the issue of crave we had a $250,000 lien on the property when we purchased we had the issue of melanin edge which was another one and”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“You had a choice. You could have kept those tenants, right?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“But you knew that going in, that when your vacancy rate gets too low and the bank is entitled to know about that, that that would be a default.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“With respect to this additional option that you could do that is a page that sets out the non-monetary default provisions, which would be violations of these conditions, explain what that means to us.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“But from a landowner's perspective, once you issue the seven-day notice on a non-monetary default... The rules and law are set up to benefit the landowner, correct? Oh, yes. Makes it very hard on the tenant, correct? There are very few defenses available, correct? From one to none. Right. And in a non-monetary default, there's even less options, correct? Correct. It's a monetary default. They can put money in the trust and they can tie it up for a while. But a non-monetary default, very few options, correct? Yep. All right. Have you had a discussion with the proposed tenant that that might be…”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“And did you explain to the proposed tenant what you had done in the past to tenants who had fallen short of your expectations?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“I want to thank you on behalf of the city, separate and apart from what decision we made tonight. You've done an amazing job there. And for those that have lived in the area for a long time, you know how bad it was. This is the guy who made the difference, who could have chosen economics over that. And we're very, very appreciative. And staff reports that they have a great relationship and able to have open communications with you.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“Well, we have other plazas you can talk about. All right, before I turn it over to you, hang on. Commissioner Scooter's got some questions for you.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“So you knew you didn't want that. That's not a legal term, by the way.”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026
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“There were questions about the number of parking spaces and the latest hours of operations of your tenants currently. Are you prepared to answer those questions?”
City Commission · Oct 13, 2026