Remarks by Michael Joseph, Esq.
231 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
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“7.1, Commissioner. 7.1? Yes, sir. Madam Clerk, can we go to consent, please? Go to consent, please.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“All in favor say aye. Aye. All right, discussion items.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right. Your turn, Commissioner. So your next item kind of.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay. Next discussion item is proclamation. Your item.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“The only thing I would say, not to cut you off, is because something was brought up and this needs to be mitigated a little bit harder. There was a key that was given this past weekend.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Let's be clear. It was, right? But that didn't, I think we should do a better job in informing all of us, especially when it's something like that. to be a lot more aggravated in letting us know that that honor is going to be offered.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“So I didn't know what, I knew what was happening, but even it slipped my mind. That's what I'm saying.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, what? No, I'm just a. No, we were all we were all invited. Know what I'm saying? This was more of like communication. No, we were all.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“The email had the time. It was. I got the email. If I said at this time, the key will be presented. I just think that we have to do a better job at least letting us all know when those events are happening. So it was there. I saw it. It was on Saturday. And it said at this specific time, the key will be given. It said it.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, no, wait, wait, wait. Just to clarify, Bernice is here. Please, because I have her email, so I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus. I got the email.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“What I would suggest is this. I think we need more of a policy. It's going to take some time to draft that up. If you want to work with staff and the manager's office to come up.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Can we have something so we can work on? I just said for our commission conferences. Got it. Just for amongst us. Can we just keep it to one person? One hour. No, not one hour.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“You have a prime sponsor and you have a co-sponsor, so that would be yours. I guess everybody can co-sponsor. Commissioner Chernoff, sorry.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, it came for our legislation that we had to do.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“All I'm saying is can we recommit to that, please?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, I understand it, but I think keeping the consensus for our city business on a day we do business, that's sufficient enough. Look, for me, you know, as a matter of fact, long ago, under the prior mayor, unless he gave the say-so, none of them got out. No proclamations, no keys, no nothing. No, no. Madam Clerk, correct me if I'm wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong. You're correct. Correct. No, no, no. If he didn't... Tony. Tony. Unless he's got the green light, nothing went out.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I just my thing is that I'm I think we're here and we have we represent the city. I think we use our own best judgment on who to honor. And I've never abridged that. It's up to you guys. So at the end of the day, I think one proclamation per commission conference is sufficient enough. And let's move on to the next.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“For what? For the title sponsor. All right.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, no. We had, the Juneteenth event has always been between $20,000 to $25,000. It was, we hired an outside group, said that we can do it for this. Subsequent to that, a lot of things happened, and it didn't work out. I guess the manager, through his staff, decided to do a pare-down version, and that's what occurred. But there was already money in the budget for that event. And when we do our budget next year, coming for our next year budget, that's one of the events that survived the DEI purge. one of the few. I'm concerned and I know that we're going to get guidance from managers as well…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, but no, no, no. You can't give any resources to them.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I understand that, but like I said, we gotta be cognizant of what's gonna be allowed next year. I know we have a packed agenda. Can we go to the, I think we have like the first agenda, like we're actually going into our real business right now, so agenda item, what's the first one? Legislation.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Oh yeah, the consent, yeah, start out with the consent items that we pulled. Please, go on, start.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, no, no, we, no, we, we. Going back years. Yeah, but we were going back years.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, I'm talking about newsletter. I'm not talking about, like, the... Oh, no, no, I'm talking about... I'm talking about newsletters. Like, we used to have... We used to have a newsletter that went out quarterly.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“So in regards to your legislation, Commissioner Smuckler.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026