Remarks by Robbie Hughes
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 12
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“Just come back next week. He's got results. You probably will.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“It's north of that. Cone is also on the other side of Massalina. Yeah. On Harmon. I mean, Cone and 2nd.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“So their intent really is to leave the back open but close and ask for... from the south, from the north, close that up and keep access to the back of all the businesses that are on that side. So they still keep access.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“A little history on the property. The city bought it to be a federal courthouse or tried to woo the federal courthouse there. What they didn't know at the time is that federal courthouses will not go in flood zones, no matter how high you offer to build it up. And so there you have a piece of property that's 60% in the flood zone. I will tell you that in my world, I did some homework, and I respect Don Giles tremendously, but respectfully disagree with his number here from 25. I wouldn't pay a million dollars for it, and I wouldn't ask you to pay a million dollars for it. So that does not…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“My experience is when you put into contracts time-specific completion dates, right now we're having trouble On the Martin Theater, somebody that's looking at it to manage it, we can't give them a date for completion. So it's hard for them to come in and say, how am I going to program and be ready for you? Here's one of those that, what if a pandemic happens again and it's on month 20 and we've got to be 36 months in, they've got to be done. So we have to have some caveat in there that there would be an agreement outside of this contract that says if it's within there that acts of God, things…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“So the unfortunate part about an unsolicited offer and then turning it into an RFP, everybody knows what they got to be. And that's why I'm opposed to bringing unsolicited offers to the commission in an open forum like this without us even deciding. We wouldn't even have a conversation about selling it. But with that in mind, just like there needs to be some preference given to the people that are building in a neighborhood right now before the city starts giving deals, I think there needs to be some preference in those guys. Nobody in my lifetime has made an offer on this site. There needs…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, I'm saying when it went away, once it went down, nobody's made an offer to bring it back.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“The numbers work. The numbers are harder to make work. as you go up in price because of what it's going to cost for site work and for just foundation work to build. You're going to have to be elevated. You're going to have to bring in dirt. You're going to have a lot of money just in site work. So to your point, if you put in an RFE, here are the things that you're going to bid on. Never mind the price. You're going to tell us the price. But this person's doing all this. You've got to do all this. And when are you going to pay for it? I promise you, to make money, it's not going to be that…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“I like that idea. All right, how about this? How about let's, by next meeting, I'd like for the same terms, if somebody feels like they want to make an offer to us based on what these guys have offered, okay? Let's be an apples to apples. Feel free to make us an offer, but it's got to be higher than $350,000. Because if it's 250, we're not doing that. We're having this conversation about money. But don't give me a $500,000 deal and tell me to build three houses. Because it's not the same. We've got to be exactly the same.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Two weeks. Come back at the next meeting if they're here. If somebody really wants to do it and they're paying attention, they don't need six months. They can do it in ten days. We can have us an offer. We can have it tomorrow. But I say by the time we come back, if there's anything here, it's something we can discuss. And we need to make a plan to either move on this one or discuss about this compared to others.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“The big piece was purchased first, and then the lots were purchased second. Let me change my motion. I'd like a motion that we... Staff, let the public know that we're considering disposing of this site from an unsolicited offer. And over the next two weeks, if you'd like to make an offer on this site for anything you want to do, bring it to us. But it's got to be in time, in city manager's hands by Monday. What, Jonathan?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“July 20th. That's not two weeks. Yeah, that's one week.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, that's two weeks and we're going to talk about it. So it'll be on the next commission meeting is when I'd like for that to meet. So they have until July 20th to get it to us.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“And this one right here, I'd like for it to come back with us so we can compare anything that comes to us. I'd like for that to come back as well.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I was, but Nevin's idea, I think, is better. Don't encourage him, please. If we truly are considering getting rid of something, they brought that to us. Let's see what somebody else has. I bet you this is probably the best idea. But let's give somebody that opportunity. I like that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“They've committed. Well, yes. But right now we're not negotiating this deal right now. Okay. That's the thing, right? We're not negotiating this deal.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“The motion is to keep this on the table, and in two weeks, in between now and two weeks, anybody that would like to make an offer on that site for anything that they're thinking about, have that to us so that we can consider it against this.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“That is so easy. If somebody wants to write an offer on a house today, come see me. I'll write it today. I do not need 10 days to do that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“You keep forgetting. Somebody's bringing it. The private person's bringing it, not the government. So we have a motion on the table to have a second.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“This is a public meeting. We're giving them the opportunity. The more time you give somebody, the longer they take to get it to you. If I give you two weeks, you got until day 14. Why don't I give you 10 days, and I'm going to save myself four.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“Or you can also lose the people that are initiating the conversation. Well, I hope that's not what happens.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“Again, all I have to work off of is how the one experience I went through, it showed up on the agenda. The then city manager, along with the current city attorney, told me they didn't want to know anything about it. They didn't tell the commission anything about it. And they said to the public, you have two weeks. If you want to make an offer on this lot, then we've got an unsolicited offer on it. Bring it to us. So that's happened before? My experience, and then I got run through the mud for five years by somebody on social media over that lot. And that's exactly how it was done, except it…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“So that's going to be at the first meeting in August. Correct. Is that right?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“Just know that everybody on there, y'all don't have access. Okay. I got a motion and a second.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
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“I second it. Any discussion related to that, those motions? It's a motion to make sure they have access. I'll second that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026