Remarks by Mike Mannino
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Yeah. Or emergency services? Yes. Correct? Thank you. Yes.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Mayor, I agree as well. My only question would be, if we're talking about extending a time, should we put a time limit on this extension to put any sort of guardrail, or are we just opening it? You could have 15 people that say they want to hear their voices heard, and we continue through.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm hoping one of us makes a motion and we can move on with this soon. But I do want to double click and zoom out for a second, because things are happening downtown. There is absolutely no doubt the hope and optimism for our downtown, putting this discussion aside, is at a place that it has not been for generations. And everybody in this room would acknowledge that. There's no questions. the very greatest thing we could do as a dais to support the very hilton hotel denuncio development that we've discussed is help him feel it fill his real estate in his offices and his restaurants and…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.5. Second. All those in favor?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.9. Second.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.13. Second.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.17. Second.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.22. Second.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Chair Greg Musil Sure. Somebody asked to, right? I appreciate the discussion and the way you kind of communicated and walked us through this process. I'm not an attorney, so it's not my field of specialty. It seems to me from the options you're giving us that legal action in one path or the other seems inevitable, depending on where it's initiated or where it comes from and what side. if what you're saying is in June our paid outside counsel and federal court basically placed the court system, the city of Clearwater, and saved the garden on notice of a possible violation of state law…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“OK, thank you for that clarity. So I think what you need is direction on those four or five options you gave, just direction without needing a motion and a vote. And then am I understanding correctly that the motion and vote you would need would actually be whether we're handing that responsibility off to the supervisor elections? Am I understanding that correctly?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. To close, I'm supportive if that's the group's request of having that transfer of verification to the supervisor of elections and removing the clerk from that front-hand responsibility. And of your four options, I find the most comfort taking a legal pathway of letting the Attorney General give the city direction and then proceeding from there.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm not interested in us on a sole mission of requesting from the Attorney General. I think we saw the way the gentleman was treated when he did that solely. And I think we all learned a lesson from that, that this discussion should be had here on the dais exactly like we're handling it. I'm supportive of it only takes three. It sounds like you have the direction to request the opinion from the Attorney General. You can count as well as I can. I think the only other thing that I would add to that, I am supportive. If they did make the request, Supervisor Elections count it.…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Didn't Mike second? I made it, he seconded.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Mayor, if you don't mind. I mean, I think we're leaning towards the city attorney as the lead attorney that represents the entire city. And I think what is being asked right now is a direction of giving is the city of Clearwater needs a legal answer and a legal determination regarding the possible violation of a state law. And I think that what the direction I was asking for was direction from the city attorney's office that represents the city of Clearwater to ask for that opinion. I wasn't asking for that on behalf of me or him or you or councilwoman. I was on behalf of the city of…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“drafted send it out i don't need to see it i just don't understand how we as a city back in june took a legal stance that we believed in a federal court this was a violation of state law and that's what our legal counsel put on the record in federal court how we then sit here and believe that we're going to take a different route or a different course of action when we believe it to possibly be a violation. This seems like the only recourse. And whatever direction we get from the AG, then we have another decision to make. And some way or another, it's going to lead to inevitable legal action.…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 10.1 and 10.2.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Chair Greg Musil. Move to approve Agenda Item 6.1. Second.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Quick question. If they did not annex into the city and stayed under county land use, what restrictions would they have? Would they still be able to move forward with their desired project without city sewer, EMS, police, and sanitary services?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah. And, Mayor, I appreciate our partnership with Ford Pinellas. I move to approve Agenda Item 6.5. Second.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Mayor, thank you. Just briefly, on a bigger note, the amount of work that staff puts into these grants lately has changed the last couple years, and it's greatly appreciated for what it does for the taxpayers, alleviating that burden, as well as lot of our local community partners this project alone you said 2.4 million and you're committed to searching for more we're doing that across all of our departments to alleviate that burden on our taxpayers and it's appreciated so thank you staff any further discussion that's their emotion”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Move to approve agenda item 6.10. Second.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Motion to approve agenda item 6.14. Second.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026