Remarks by Michele Lazarow
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 32:27
“So who up here would like the calls when I start getting the complaints? No, because I'm already getting them for King Tides and Three Islands. Oh, I get complaints all the time. Which one of you want the call?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 32:55
“Take the picture because I never go west. Can you show it to us? Sure. Send me a picture of it. I don't go west on my meeting. Yeah, yeah. I never take Hound.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'm going to ask for this information by my comments. So I've had some conversations. I have questions from residents that want answers tonight. So I've already told city manager and he's going to have JT come down because they're watching online right now. So I want these questions answered tonight. Oh, okay, well, let's get answers.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 44:56
“If you can have the floor and you can ask the questions. No, no, no, I want to read the question. Let him finish.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, I will just to let everybody know, I will not be here on that meeting in September, October 28. But I will try and call in and I will not be here. I thought you said you were going to be here for that meeting October 14. We don't have a meeting.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 50:19
“No. She just said no. So you're not going to be here October 28th either? No. No. Oh, wait a minute. No, wait a minute. I lied. No, I will be here. Sorry. Yeah, that's what it was. You flipped it. September 28th meeting. It's the September 28th meeting. Oh, my God. What is going on?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 50:45
“I am not here on October 28th. And neither am I.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 51:16
“I may call in just for this because this is going to be fun. In what universe would both of us be away at the same time? That's so weird.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 51:46
“Oh, gosh. Sounds like a challenge. Okay, all right, jumping in. Let me do this first because I think it's the best way to do this. All right, I'm gonna read the question because it's long. I wanna tell you what I've already addressed and how I've addressed it and because I have addressed this numerous times and I don't get anywhere because, for whatever reason, it's not that I don't get anywhere,”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 52:23
“Well, he's listening. So let's just say we're gonna address.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 52:30
“Correct, okay. So let me read the question. My primary question, there's multiple primaries, but my primary question is what projects are currently underway pending under review or recently proposed to more effectively prevent homes cars, roads from flooding in the northeast quadrant of the city, particularly Houndo Beach Boulevard and 3rd Street and 8th Avenue and 12th Avenue as a result of significant rain events. Additionally, I have the same question regarding any projects to more effectively and expeditiously drain standing water, which obviously has become an issue because of king…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 54:00
“Almost four years. So my question to people is, how bad has the flooding been in four years? Because when people say things like, I'm taking a kayak to school, I'm like, well, in the last four years. So two of the four dates... Two of the four dates were 2023 and 2024. I looked up both of the days, which was April 12th, 23 and June, 2024. Both of those days were hundred and thousand year rain events. So I'm trying to explain the distinguish that we're not gonna be able to control mother nature. Don't put days like that up and then ask us what else are we gonna do? Because there's no answer…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Wait, can I just stop you for a second? Why can't we prevent flooding? Start with that, because that's the question I'm getting. What can you do to stop flooding?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:05:46
“Can you give the timeline, please, on the tranche one, two, and three in the northeast? Okay.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“But there will be some relief before 2030 based on work that you're doing first, second, third tranche. Exactly, yes.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Actually, I was the one that said that. I said, I'm telling this person it's king tide. I just want to make sure that I'm right. And you said, yeah, I'm about to send everybody an email. And what I was told, I'm sorry. What I was told is that, no, no, no, you need to fix everything, the drainage down in... Meanwhile, this person lives on Three Islands, doesn't even live on A1A, happened to be driving through that day. And I was explaining to her that that's not accurate and you need to go learn about King Tides. And then I was sending her the Instagram videos of what was going on in…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:18:59
“Well, I mean, the difference in that and what's going on in the Northeast is that cars are affected, homes are affected, that they're losing vehicles. We get it, I understand that. So there is that panic when it rains and it starts rising very quickly. when people are losing cars and they can't drive their cars and get to work. But I mean, certain amount of these, yes, it's an inconvenience versus property damage. I'm not as concerned about the inconvenience as I am about the property damage, period.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:19:41
“Nobody called me either. So we've not heard. I complained that it didn't go down fast enough. Four hours? Yeah, it wasn't fast enough.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:24:34
“No, I agree. I mean, that would be a great way to do it because I hate to play catch up. So as soon as somebody asked me that I have to go and run to the city manager be like, Can you give me the list of everything that we've done since you know, blah, blah, blah. But in any event, I agree with you on that we need to do better communication. Absolutely. And for a lack of, look, for myself as a layman, I was going to say dumb it down, but like for a layman, myself, after doing this all these years, you have to dumb it down for me.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:28:43
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City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:29:41
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City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:31:03
“I'll tell you, first responders are really helping.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:31:09
“I'm not going to. I'm going to wrap it up.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:31:12
“I'm wrapping it up because I know Mike is getting upset. Well, I have a few.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:37:43
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026