Remarks by Richard "Buzzy" Sklar
119 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“I'd like to call upon... Do you want additions?”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd like to pull C7A and put that on for discussion.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So first of all, Gabe, thank you so much for all of your help on this. It's really appreciated. Just to give a little education, when we say hotspot, that's the first 800 feet from the jetty, 800 feet. So that basically only covers the area of the Ritz. That's the only area right now where we're actually removing the sargassum. The rest of the beach, which, again, I think, I can speak for myself and I think a few other members of the dais. When we hired Beach Raker to take care of the rest of the beach, we had to give them a year contract. We budgeted the $250,000. I…”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“We'll get a great photo op, but nothing will happen. We don't care about photo ops. We care about action. And we literally have this conversation, I think, this time every year. when we're overwhelmed, and we always say, you know, and again, I always say I'd rather be proactive than reactive, and unfortunately, here's another year where we're trying to be reactive, and we really have to figure out a way to get out in front of this as much as humanly possible, because it gets to this point where it becomes unmanageable.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“As per our meeting last week, we were told it's going to be restored. We were told that it's going to come back. But as per our meeting last week when we had with them, it was still 25% less that has not been restored as of yet.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“So to that point, George can attest to this, a few years ago we met with a company and actually we had the ritz involved about providing what's called a boom technology. The boom technology basically is, it's about a foot high, it floats on top of the surface, and it keeps it off the beach. These guys were very gung-ho. We actually got the ritz to pay for a very big chunk of this. And all of a sudden, the company that we were dealing with, we had it probably at the five-yard line. disappeared, dropped the ball once we told them, hey, go to DEP, go get permits, go make it happen. We're fully…”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“George, we budgeted 1.2 last year for 26. What did we spend out of that 1.2? I've got that. And the same thing for the previous year, for 25?”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I think it's important enough to do. Okay.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I think we should know the statutory maximum for unanimous. Got it.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Well, George, let's see what the other, if I could make a suggestion. What is the number you think we need? And then let's try and back the millage into that number.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Well. I mean, you're the one that's dealing with the bills. You're the one that. Yeah.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, may I? And I think the big thing is, which we've discussed many times, Eitan's great up to a point, and then there comes a point where we need the bulldog. And your hourly there doubles or more. And we don't have that bulldog right now. So that being said, the hourly from Eitan to the bulldog doubles and triples. And how many hours are they going to spend? So that, I mean... You really have to take that into consideration.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“More important than anything we're going to do on this. People have to understand why their taxes are being raised, especially since this is what they asked for.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Right, that was over the course of a few years.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“One quick question. Yes, sir. If we see the 3.6 isn't enough, there's still money in fund balance to fund extra.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, could I just say one thing? I just want to know if we have a number.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I just want to say I think we are being very responsible in a fiduciary way to our community. And the reason we're doing that is because we're making sure that we have enough money to fight on behalf of this community the way the community wanted us to fight. So I will take offense to saying that we're not being fiduciary responsible. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Yes. Can you set a maximum millage rate at the north?”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Why don't you make it a little higher just in case we, because this is going to be the maximum.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And do that. Okay, that's fine. I'd like to make a motion on 2.5132. Okay? Second.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“So you're looking at it more from a marketing perspective. That's precisely what I'm looking for. Policy perspective, I guess.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“R9B, Mosquito Spring. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First and foremost, Celia and the team, 4th of July, did an unbelievable job with that production. But anyone that was out there, Got eaten alive. It was terrible that night. And again, no fault of ours, but I definitely think we need to reach out to the county very quickly and make sure that we are getting sprayed for mosquitoes on a regular basis out on that beach path.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“No, they're not allowed to use those types of pesticides.”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay. And then R9C. Yes, R9C. And D are basically the same kind of, sort of the same item because I remember a few months back we pushed our jetty project out due to the beach reclamation project because they were going to do a pump and dump with the sand and the was going to go over the jetty. So we said, why stop our construction? We're going to have this giant pipe sitting over the jetty. So I want to know where we are with that re-nourishment project. And then with that being said, when will the jetty project finally commence?”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Right. But then you have 90 days on the ITB. Yeah, you give it 60 days. So it could still be January, February. There's still a lot of opportunity for January. Great. Because, honestly, that's one of the questions I get asked all the time by residents is, when's the jetty finally going to start?”
Village Council · Jul 13, 2026