Remarks by Oliver G. Gilbert, III
209 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 9
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“But we're not advocating you all go to the airport unless you have to be there.”
Aviation and Seaport Committee · Jul 13, 2026
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“Madam Chair, I don't necessarily want to bifurcate. I do want to get an update from the airport director because I understand he's here. And also, I believe that Asmar, as he was leaving, he was saying something about being unfairly a ticket or something. If somebody could talk to him down there and figure out what that was, it'd be great. Madam Chair, the last committee meeting we had, I think, for airport was actually at the airport. And there was a situation we were briefed on with regard to one of the employees and one of the companies, and we had expressed our opinion on it. And I wanted…”
Aviation and Seaport Committee · Jul 13, 2026
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“Can we have them come up? I think- Sure. Elaine is, yeah.”
Aviation and Seaport Committee · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. AGI, so AGI is the backhandlers that, I guess they work with us or for us, for the county?”
Aviation and Seaport Committee · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay, what's the process for debarment for those type of companies? Because independent of him requesting the OSHA information, I find it offensive that someone's wife was dying from cancer and you fired them. I find that offensive. And so to the extent that our governance reflects our values, that's outside the paradigm that I would understand to be acceptable values. We've expressed ourself previously in as nice a way as it was going to be expressed by me at least. So what are those procedures?”
Aviation and Seaport Committee · Jul 13, 2026
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“No, no, I know, but I'm- We're going for a presentation on the item. I've been briefed on the item by staff, and my staff has been briefed on the item by the developer. Commissioner Hardiman's staff has indicated he wants us to proceed. Okay. To proceed.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 18, 2026
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“Commissioner Gilbert. Commissioner Hartman, thank you for bringing this to our attention. To staff, I think this is just inappropriate. I mean, I don't know how to say it any other way. I think it's inappropriate. We have the ability to actually file applications. We can do that. If we want to change the nature of an area, let's do that. But if you tack it onto somebody else's application and you make it a lot more likely that that application gets objections and how it's rated, you are placing their project and their money at peril. They're paying for this. We have the ability to actually…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 18, 2026
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“I think that we can, well, I'll say this now and then hear the comments from the pooling commissioners and my colleagues and then I'll go into the item. But I just want to say this in the very beginning. I told you all that we would be here doing this. I told you all that we would be here doing this and that it would be more expensive, a much more expensive conversation. It was nonsensical to believe that we shouldn't have negotiated with the people who owned the property versus the people who were buying the property. And so now when they make expectations of cost, We can call it…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Thank you. This has been a very interesting conversation. I'm very happy that I let you all go first. Just a couple of notes. Just a couple of notes. I'm not going to say I told you so again. I'm not going to do that. I will say this. I listen attentively to each of you. And when my colleague and dear friend Commissioner Regalado says we know, I want you all to remember we know is actually she believes. And I think we probably better correct the record on that. We don't know. And I don't believe. We don't know. I disagree with nearly 100% of the stuff that she just said. So I understand it's…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“So what that covenant does is it says the property has to be used as a fuel farm unless we say, It doesn't. Is that correct? That's correct, sir. The $25 million appraisal made a lot more sense when I found that out. What also made a lot more sense, though I disagree with port employees not reporting up to the boss, telling them that this property's for sale. It had been sold several times and everybody used it as a fuel farm because the covenant that runs with the land says it has to be used as a fuel farm. So assuming we can't come to a negotiation, and I hope that we can, though I believe…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I'll support the item. Ray, I was curious. I know we only budgeted 95%. Are the projected numbers higher than we thought they were going to be this year”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I just want you to say that. I just want everybody to hear that. Just that one, that was it, right there. Sometimes we don't connect the dots, but when we make decisions about things like the World Cup, the argument is always, hey, you know what, it drives in money. Well, it does drive in money, because it drives in occupancies. That's what happens. That's the economy of large scale events coming to your community. And so we don't have the conversation on the back end where we connect the dots so that people see that we actually use that money to do things. Help organizations in some…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I'm very comfortable with the motion. What they're trying to determine is, because I'm the board's designee on the host committee, they're trying to determine whether I have to recuse myself. Right. Okay, okay. Yeah, that's the question.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Now that the item is passed, because I didn't want to, I'm supportive of the item, and I didn't want to necessarily engage the conversation on this item particularly, or specifically. But this item and one of the other items that was on the agenda, Kind of sent me down a rabbit hole of asking questions about how we actually list things in our budget. And I only ask the question because we have previously bought a lot of things and we buy things, for instance, for law enforcement. And that's the sheriff now. Well, some of the times we actually incur debt. And so I ask the question…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, because that is, I was shocked, Mr. Chairman, I was shocked by the fact that we're just still, we're still saying that's our, like the debt is all ours. But the property is all someone else's, and we're not even accounting for the debt service in the money that we allocate to them as a part of the budget. So to me, that seems like something we need to be looking at. I think we definitely will.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Mr. Chairman. Thank you. I think that's exactly the point. So the property actually belongs to us, even though it's always going to be used for them, the debt actually belongs to us. But we're not actually saying, when we're spending the money, that we're spending the money for them. Because there are things that we buy for constitutions that we will never use. And so we need to have that accounting in the money that we actually give to them. And we did talk about it with regard to contracts, ongoing contracts, but we didn't specify with regard to the debt service.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“That is such a yes or no question and I don't even know.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay, so I think we just need to slow down and back up a little bit. We don't do an initial responsiveness evaluation for responses. I'm nearly certain that we have to do that. We do.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay. Yes. They're all responsive. Correct. So the Commissioner's question was with regard to the FEMA regulations. That all the submittals address it in a way that allowed them to be responsive.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“And so the answer is yes. Okay, because that got- Wow, wow.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I just want her to answer questions for everything. You can answer questions about parks. I mean, yeah, because that's how you answer a question. Just answer the question.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Chair. Time out. Time out. No mas. No mas.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“in a solicitation, but then an I.O. that says if you don't comply, you're still not responsive. It's not non-responsive. So I think that's kind of, I don't know that we should be able to deviate in that way. So if something says something in a solicitation, I think the solicitation should govern whether something's responsive. And so we haven't done it in this instance, so it's not really relevant, but probably something we need to take a look at. That type of latitude, having an exception that invalidates the rule probably means that you don't have a rule. So I don't know that we knew that…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“So could we just put in all of our solicitations the option for us to do a baffo between the top two bidders, that way giving us the opportunity to actually still stay within the solicitation, but if this board wanted to actually get a best and final offer at any time? Yes. Well, Mr. Chairman, maybe that should be the policy? Maybe we should have in our solicitations going forward through strategic procurement, a baffle option built in so that if we wanted to do that, we could in fact do that and still be within the four walls of that solicitation.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“So once we built it into the bid, it would no longer be a waiver. So that's what they're saying, right? And future solicitation. Future solicitation. So it would no longer be, so maybe just from a policy perspective, maybe we ought to probably consider doing that, Mayor.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026