Remarks by Mike Butler
114 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“Thank you, again, similar to the item that we had on the CRA earlier, I don't want to spend a lot of time going through each of the points on this item, but I do wanna take these opportunities. So this is the second emergency purchase item that we had, what amounts to a fairly generic invoice that doesn't really provide a lot of detail. It's interesting, on tonight's agenda, item Q is an emergency purchase order approval with, lots of detail relative to the one that we have to approve here. So I will move to approve this item, but similar to the CRA item, I'm just asking that the city…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner Adams, for those comments. Yeah, this might be our last time, right?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“We have another meeting end of October. Yeah, we have one more meeting together.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, yeah. We can talk about this later, but I know we have the Hallandale Beach Boulevard closure coming up. Please, yeah. Somebody else? Let's go through it.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“No, then you guys, Michelle will blame me for talking too long. I think it should be under your comments. So, look, I know we have it. So, October 10th through the 13th, I was on the call with Commissioner Lazaro yesterday,”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I was just saying Commissioner Lazaro was on the call and asked a question which was great. So we have, obviously we're closing the, we're closing Howlett Beach Boulevard. The MOT looks like they're actually putting notifications on I-95, north and south, which is fantastic, right? So far enough in advance that people know, and hopefully we'll be able to divert a lot of traffic before it even gets to the actual closure location. I don't, you know, I love to make lemonade when we have something like this that Sunday without the... with the road closed, I don't know if we.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is there anything on Dixie that we should be doing there if we have an event because the road's closed? But that might complicate matters if we try to get people to actually go there when we're trying to avoid them from going there, right? So anyway, I just wanted to make a comment about that before I move on. Anything?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“But they're doing all the intersections, right? So they're coming down from. No, I know.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah. But the great thing is the MOT shows a ton of signage. And I'm already seeing the signage notifying people it's coming.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, they have signs up already saying it's coming.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“It's great. And we might want to start putting it on our social media as well.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you. That's it. Yeah. So and then King Tides. That's the next one of my let's talk about King Tides. So I you know, listen, I was on Hollywood Beach Saturday night at their band shell watching music and watching waves come over. the uh the sand of the beach hit the wall on the broadwalk and then run down the road to a1a so on either side the road on either side of the i don't know what the roads are but You couldn't go north and you couldn't go south because it was just a foot of water, running water. It wasn't just standing water. And it wasn't shallow. It was deep. So whatever…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“ever um actually begin to address all the rebar and all the other issues on our bridges so thank you all very much great great let me go ahead yeah it i just it's great that and i and i can remember speaking with you about our bridges years ago dr earl so i'm glad to see that we have um now started to actually apply some uh some dollars to fix those and and your your point about the um the the leading up to the bridge, how we do that. You know, it's interesting if we look on the Intracoastal Waterway, every bridge that crosses in Hollywood used to be flat, and now the homes that are…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I don't think this is a money thing, but it'd be nice if we had something to say. Well, that's what I said. We had projects.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“No, under my comments. Under your comments?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'm finished with, yeah, king tides, yeah.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“And I think that that was great information, and I think that, yeah, we do need more communication, and I look forward to hearing more. Commissioner Lazaro's comments earlier. So I do want to ask, and I know this is going on for a long time, but I do want to get the list of the roads that are planned to be resurfaced for next year. I still do want to get the methodology we're using to pick those roads, but I just would like to get the list at this point, if I can get that at a minimum.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I think we'd all appreciate that. I do want to bring up, so we had an event Sunday at South Beach Park that was canceled. So I went because it was on my agenda. And the cancellation notice wasn't very clear on the city's sites. But the bigger thing that I noticed is that we have the original... calendar invite I have says they're 5 o'clock. The original posting we made for social media says Sunday's at 5 o'clock. The event Sunday was scheduled at 3 o'clock, ending at 5.30. So we have some conflicts in our scheduling for these events. It was the last event, so... I don't think it matters…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“We have competition here. So it's $8 for three hours. and 20 bucks overnight for non-residential parking isn't that interesting they do overnight parking so i just wanted to mention that i'm glad somebody can do that in an open parking lot i don't know how they're doing it but good for them the last thing i just wanted to mention this is my last item Sorry, Commissioner Lazarus.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“So Director Mazzei did a great questions and answers on our budget. So I wanted to recognize it's a fantastic job. I think you did a really good job. The one thing that I think sometimes that I would like to add is that when we talk about our budget a lot of the money is locked like we you do mention it you do a great job at mentioning it um uh but when we say that the city has a 240 million 242 million dollar budget of that 113 million is in dedicated funds over which i think it's state mandated how we uh bill and how we utilize those funds and so the the actual money that we have oversight…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, just a couple of comments while you were speaking that I just wanted to add on, because I thought they were great. So the first one is, I know we've, we've reached for a couple of ways to try to show people what the amount of water that's fallen. And I appreciate all of the different ways that we did it, but I try to do something a little bit simpler, which is what is the average annual rainfall in South Florida? And I just looked it up, it's 52 to 68 inches of rain a year. So when we get 18 inches, that's a 25% of our entire year's rainfall. in however many hours that rain event…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“And I get that's federal and state, but to Commissioner Lazaro's point, these residents, they don't care. They're just like, no, no, I'll fix it. So that brings me to the last point that, you know, I'm going to make two more points. So the first is you brought up this great point about three years ago we started doing this, right? And a lot of people forget that we were operating in a deficit until fiscal year 2019. Mm-hmm. We didn't really get out of that until 2022, which means basically almost immediately we started addressing flooding as soon as we got our financial house in order. Great…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“All of us. Not for you, not for you, for me.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 28, 2026