Remarks by Oliver G. Gilbert, III
209 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
- Play at 7:47:38
“Yeah, I don't want him to be alone. I could change my vote to yes if you don't want to be alone. You just seem so lonely over there.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:48:18
“You can record me as a yes, and I'm going to tell you why. I don't necessarily agree with you. But Renee, your argument that a variance is basically doing a favor for someone that deviates from the rule, I never thought about it like that. But that's just true, y'all. Every time we grant a variance, we're allowing somebody an exception to the rule. A rule that we've established as the best policy for the county. And so I don't necessarily agree with this project being there. I really don't agree with you doing it in his district. I don't agree with that. But I think that that was probably the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:49:38
“But sometimes we do after the fact permitting. Yeah, we do after the fact permitting. We do after the fact permitting. And so my point is that it's not something, first of all, I think this is a bad actor. And so we shouldn't reward this level of bad acting. There's a precedential effect of that that's horrible. But this isn't something that's beyond the scope of something that we've done previously on this board. So I don't want it to seem like, we've never done anything like this before. Yes, we have. Yeah, we have. I'm comfortable with the results. Very good argument though. Can you hit me…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:55:10
“When you say take the underlying team, you mean take the team or take the concept of, what do you mean?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:55:28
“Well no, I think their general expertise is telling us one thing and charging us a lot more and getting another. I don't want them to do that again, but thank you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:08:45
“I'm really just, Mr. Chairman, just be mindful that if you include this in a proposed budget, if you decide to adopt something that's not in a proposed budget, something that's not a part of the proposed budget, we're going to be forced with changing it on the fly during our discussion of the proposed budget. That's why the resolution is probably preferred. amount so that the resolution then allows them to work in what we've said into the budget, a balanced budget. So I'm not telling you all how to do administration, Mr. Chairman, I'm not telling you how to direct them, but if we get into a…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:16:50
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We struggle with this every year, and I understand why we struggle with it every year. But it's not necessarily that complicated, especially when we're bringing back recommendations, when the administration's bringing back recommendations that align with the CPI. If the gas goes up that operates the trucks, It costs more to operate the trucks. It costs more to pick up the garbage.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:17:33
“I mean, if our labor costs go up, for the people who operate the trucks that the gas went up in, then the cost to pick up the trash goes up. It is a fee driven system. I do not want to pay more, but what this board did that addressed years of imbalance was bring the rate back in alignment. I think we did that two years ago. I just caution you all. That it might seem like a little bit now, because it is. They're recommending 2%, you want to keep it flat, it's no big deal, it's just 4.6 million. It doesn't seem like that, but it probably didn't seem like that to prior commissions when they did…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:40:14
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the spirit of guard wells, I think probably an appropriate standard would be making sure something's agnostic enough that it's not singularly usable by the vendor that we get it from. And so I think that's probably How we need to look at it, because I appreciate the mayor's position, but we won't always be in a position where we have to wait for everyone else to test something from around. That's not realistic. That's not realistic. It's cool to say, but from our perspective, we will have to be at some point, make some decisions where, hey, we don't know there…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:09:09
“If you all could quiet down in the back, please.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:10:14
“I agree that we need to find a way to challenge it. I just, I'm trying to figure out the best way. So I guess I have some conversations with the, need to have some questions about what we do here.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:10:38
“Through the chair to the attorney. Is that a viable path here? I mean, I have some ways that I think we might wanna look at this,”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:11:36
“So, okay, Chairman, may I continue? So how this works with regard to community groups is that we won't be able to fund some people because of what their name is or what they do, the population they serve. That group will then be adversely affected. The reason why we won't be able to do that is because of the state law. They should sue us.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:12:21
“Chair. I think that that's probably, and we- Sue the state. No. No, I'm saying that the group should sue us. The state would then have to intervene to defend their statute. If they didn't intervene to defend their statute, then we just settle.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:13:44
“Mr. Chairman, and what I was going on is I don't know that we have standing. So that's the challenge. I don't think we have standing. So how we get before court is somebody challenging us. Yeah, somebody challenging us.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:31:07
“It was a comma and you assumed it was a period and this went on and it was a thing. Okay, so. No, I don't want people to come after us for money, but if we create an application process for, I don't know, our community based organization funds, money that we give out. And for instance, some of the groups that are affected, they apply, but we don't accept their application because we can't under the new law, then they get to seek declaratory judgment against us. That's how you get to court faster. That's just how you get to court faster. I appreciate the suing. It's going to be hard for us to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:32:50
“Well, it's everything, but we could start by doing something like that and see if it's legal. You never know. I mean, we could try doing something like that. Commissioner. I think those are options, but I'm not advocating that they sue us for money. I'm advocating that we need to actually get in front of a judge, and that's probably the quickest way for a judge to tell us whether this law is binding or not. I get that. Commissioner from District 12.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:51:21
“We're just waiting to see my documentary when they stealing my signs, so yeah.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:52:19
“I have a motion and an appointment, they can go ahead and read them for me.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 9:53:45
“Yes, I'd like to appoint John Williams to the Commission on Disability Issues.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 0:56
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Transportation Committee · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:29
“It's been moved by Commissioner Bastian, it's been seconded by Vice Chair Regalado. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, show the agenda adopted. First order of business is running in order.”
Transportation Committee · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:54
“1G1, public hearing on 1G1 is now open. Public hearing on 1G1 is now open.”
Transportation Committee · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 2:22
“It's open, public hearing is open. Anyone want to be heard and put once you want to come forward public hearing is now closed on once you want I see you right here like you don't want to speak look like you did because I don't really want you to but regular.”
Transportation Committee · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 3:54
“I'm asking the attorneys. So I'm asking them to speak out of turn.”
Transportation Committee · Jul 14, 2026