Remarks by Mike Butler
114 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“So we increased roadway improvements by $150,000. Did we not also put additional money in the Department of Transportation? Did I misunderstand?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“All right, so these are for increased roadway improvement. So that's part of our street repaving program?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“is that simplifying your request yeah let me just i just want to i i know if it's not then correct it because that's what i'm hearing let me and let me just say yes and i want to i want to add some additional context to that because you're right that that's that seems like it should be available this is the the note that we had from the um um at the time the dpw director so The note was roadway evaluations were conducted through field assessments by the streets division and documented through the city's GIS roadway inventory and internal maintenance tracking systems. Due to licensing issues,…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“I don't know off the top of my head, but I'm not going to go into that right now.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So the other thing I just wanted to ask, so we reduced the R&R fund by a million dollars?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So is there anything that we have pulled out of what we're doing? Is there a reduction in what we're doing? What's driving the reduction, I guess?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you. So there are two items that I wanted to bring up. So we had a conversation about the annual commissioner action plan. One of the items that we talked about was the green pathway. I had requested that item seems to have dropped from it. I just wanted to ask if I could now I did send an email asking for an update I didn't get a response so I want to just my understanding during a recent city commission meeting we had brought it up and we were told that it was being added back to the action plan, am I wrong about that?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And I can remember her also talking about a safe walking area, right? I think that was COVID, maybe during COVID that you... So that's great news. And it actually, if I could go into my next item, right? So I shared an email about the street lighting on... IN THREE ISLANDS, IN THE THREE ISLANDS SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT. AND THESE ARE THE STREET LIGHTS ON ATLANTIC SHORES AND ON THREE ISLANDS. SO I KNOW THAT THIS IS A, THIS MIGHT BE A FUNDING ISSUE, BUT IT IS WITHIN THE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE DOING A LOT OF SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD. Commissioner Lazaro has brought up several times…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, we're just talking about budget, and it came up during the action plan, the commissioner action plan, and the email that I sent to you referenced the fact that the DPW is already coordinated with FPNL and identified what needs to be done if we want to do it. And now it's just a matter of understandably time constraints on the part of the DPW staff. I just wanted to bring it up for the city commission because I incorrectly identified that they were not in the safe neighborhood. They are in the Three Islands safe neighborhood area. And I just want to clear that up and believe still that…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“My understanding of the issue, this isn't a dollars issue, this is a time capacity issue on the part of DPW.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, that was it. I just wanted to make sure that we brought that back and gave it some attention. Solar would be great. I'm all for solar.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“That's great. If it's not part of the, I don't think it is, but if it's not already part of the Safe Neighborhood Plan. Okay, so my next question about the budget. On the five-year plan, and I brought this up before, I wanted to ask on this five-year plan, we used 2.25% as our estimated annual property tax increase for every year going forward. 2% all right 2.25% this year and 2% going forward that's correct okay so the taxable value increases in the past years I'm just going to tell you they were 10.72% 17.26% 9.09% 8.17% those are the last few years and then 2.25% this year so the simple…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“annually going forward. So we're doing 2% annually, go to 4%, go to 6%. And let's just see what that looks like. I think it'll be a little bit...”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Is that what you were... Yeah, I'm just curious to see how it looks. So that gives us a conservative, a moderate, and a historical norm, right? So that was one of my other requests. Oh, and then... This one, I want to, I guess I can bring this up later because it's not specifically on our budget.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, because this I could bring up during the meeting.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, all right. So one of the questions that I had, and I'm all for us doing stuff at the beach, So I want everybody to know that. And I voted in favor of all the funding.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“That's not what I'm going to say. That is not what I'm going to say.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“But I just want to be clear. So when we first said, hey, let's do some beach activation, it was in support of this snack bar. And I'm going to say that over and over and over again because the snack bar didn't open and we're still doing the beach activation. Not opposed to it. Happy to do it. I made a recommendation in a very long email to the city managers and my apologies to everybody for my long email, that we get food trucks out there in order to offset the fact that we don't have a snack bar. So I will be very open and share with everybody that this all comes from spending a month with…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“You go to the beach, you've got to bring everything with you. Good luck buying anything. So I'm still interested in us doing things that will help us activate our beach. And the $75,000 that we approved for South Beach events, and we have another one coming up, I think very soon we also approved the so far sounds which I think is part of our 100 year anniversary. Preparations and now we recently just approved I think $250,000 for furniture for the North Beach facility. Now all of those are great, as long as they all are leading us to eventually getting a revenue generating tenant into both of…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, no, no, no, no. I'll come and have a cup of coffee. So I won't be there 7.30, but I'm very excited about that we're doing things and that our North Beach facility will actually have some activity. And I even went to the point where I suggest that maybe some of our staff should use the second floor as offices, right? And the only point is in order to get usage out of it, right? So that people are using it on a regular basis, that the elevators are working, that the air conditioning is working, that we have people that are utilizing the facility. So... I can't imagine somebody wouldn't…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026