Remarks by Robbie Hughes
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 12
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“You're not going to do that at your house.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Discussion? I think that we ought to answer community events. It's the longest accredited running school in the state of Florida, a high school, and let's keep it going. And it comes down Harrison Avenue, which we have not been able to do on the regular for the last several years. And I would invite that every year. Oh, you're going to come on down.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“It was my understanding that we weren't supposed to be charged by Bayhawk based on the way that we set that up. And so I think that's a separate discussion, but I don't think the school board should charge us for that. And or if we're going to do this, we just have that understanding.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Now, why is it going to cost us more money to get the school of right money? Because, and this is my problem with ODM, why can't we just pay for it? Why can't we just pay all regular, why does it have to be time and hours?”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“But it's not, they're not having to pay, that doesn't make zero sense.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, and my argument is then, why can't we just have another section of, there they are, there's 18 officers that day that are off, I'm sure.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“But what they're saying is if we're going to fade, they have to use on-duty officers versus off-duty officers.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“And we disagree with it because it's costing us more money to save the school money.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“We can go raise $2,000 just like that and pay for it through ODM from Bay High. It doesn't make sense for the city to have to take a hit to try to do something nice for somebody.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'll go grab a bunch of friends and go raise money.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“We'll get 20 people with $100 and we've got the money.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“So your friends... I like the idea. And my friends, run, because I'm coming after you for $100. But does my point make sense? Kind of.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“It's going to cost the taxpayer more money for us to say we helped Veha out. To me, that does not make sense. I get the point. There's a way around this. What if we had a third party of security firm that we had... Because remember, I'm looking... No, ma'am, that's a third party. If they hired a third party, they could pay the security.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Whatever, third party. The argument that I've been making is, and this time this is showing up, this is about the wall now, is if we had another third party or another option, then that option could come in and it would cost less.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Interesting. Okay, so that fixes my issue. He went to Rutherford, everybody. Go Rams. And back in the day, he wouldn't have done that back in the day.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I see a couple of y'all in here. Get your checkbooks out.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'll make a motion. We need to discuss. How do we do that? Because we don't have something... A motion to accept something? Okay, we can discuss. I mean, normally we have to make a motion to accept whatever it is.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Can I talk to that, please? I got a lot of phone calls on this. And if you don't know, I'm a real estate broker, so I dove into this. Well, some people, the friends that I don't have, then I'm not coming after the $100. And I really dove into this because I wouldn't ask any money to go pay a million dollars to that site. I wouldn't ask you to pay $900,000. You've got elevation issues and drainage issues that you're going to have to work with, and the site work itself is just a lot of money. But to test the market, we gave it three weeks on an unsolicited offer, because I've also been asked,…”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“And just the percentage of... And going forward, I'd like for us, I'd like for staff not to alter a purchase agreement and to bring it to us before we vote. Because what that does is it's setting, we're talking about something right now that's not in their offer. So we're making a counter. So are we accepting their offer or are we changing it and then they're going to have to agree to it? The motion is to accept the offer. And this percentage of lots and affordable and all that is not in there. So I would encourage staff not to include things like this in the future because it's setting up a…”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“But staff has created a reason for us to have to fill in a blank? Well, you don't get it. Did you create that? We don't know if we're going to talk about it or not. And I'm not saying... In fact, Shane, it's something that... I can give you the history. I think it limits us from being able to have... We have to now factor this in in this contract if that's what we're going to accept. I say what you're saying. Bring us back an acceptable, executable contract. This may or may not be in there, but let's not vote on that today because that's not what we were asked to vote on.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Right, exactly. Right. Like they have to hold on to it. It's got to be built in three years, which they said they were going to do. I like the idea they have to hold on to it for 10 years. But if we're going to give them a discount, it is very plausible that if we want 10% of affordability in there, we discounted it. That's where we get to make the rules. However... I would rather us address the offer, which instead they're going to do workforce housing, just not a percentage. I'd rather us address the offer on that today, take Commissioner Granger's motion, that y'all go negotiate something…”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“You got some thoughts? We have a liquor license notice in here that there might be one, and that's a question that was asked. And if so, can we transfer that there?”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“So we still don't know yet. Well, that's about a million-dollar expense. So I think having that information sooner than later, because that's going to have to work into their budget, yes. Okay, so 2.4. and allow proposers to submit other considerations not listed in the RFE. And I want to thank the staff for adding that in. And what that means is, I'm learning in RFEs, if you get outside the box, It disqualifies you. Here, we're allowing them to say, hey, I've got another idea that's going to work with the Martin Theater that I'm going to do, and so maybe those come together so they can tell…”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“So you can do some research on that. Okay, sweet. Very good.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I think in Section 1.5, you have May 15th. That needs to be October, I think. Is that correct, Keith? All right. All right. A couple of other things. In Section 221, we have it here that the proposal will be responsible for planning.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026