Remarks by Robbie Hughes
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 12
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“Scope of services. The program will be responsible for all programming, and that happens at the Martin. And then it comes down here to say that we want them to generally align with the community values and all programming is subject to the approval of the city. Big Brother does not need to be watching and approving. If we're going to have a partner and all the qualifications that they're going to have to show us, that should be enough. They've proved that to me. I don't need to know if Bambi's playing over Star Wars. It's not just my thought there.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, now that's different. But programming is what's being played there. We're not changing the scope.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“But that can be interpreted that way. I agree. And so I just want to make sure there. Also, on the broad part, Let me see here.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm still on page 11. The specific number of days that would be used for the community. I want to be broad in that too up front, but I think here... Once we get into having people make us proposals, they're going to tell us more about how many days, what their plans are. So I'd rather that be a negotiation than something inside here, if that's okay. Just things to collect there.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 2:28:59
“That was on page, well, that's in just above paragraph 2.2.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“No, no, third paragraph. Yes, the third paragraph.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I guess I am in a different... And then also, we have in here under financial, y'all want us to propose a base rent plus... Again, we're trying to get away from this is all about making money for the city. We're going to make money sometime. It doesn't need to be day one. Our contribution to this is we have put together this nice, shiny object. We need somebody that's professional, that knows what they're doing, and that's not us. Let's let them come in and tell us, and then we'll work about how the money is. But have it as a requirement? I can't get on board with that.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Because they're going to tell us in their proposal. Right now, this is saying that they're having to tell us we're not going to fund anything. This is all in the proposal. This whole thing is set up for the proposal to spend all the money make all improvements or changes, and we get paid. We're going to take care of the major components of the building only, and we don't pay property taxes.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“It is, and I think that will come to the surface in their proposals. I think they'll show us that without having to have that. It's really the base requirement, and That may not be there. And it has another modified version.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. That's what I've got so far. Yeah, I sat up and read this whole thing.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm sorry. I did get a call on the audit, which, by the way, I want us to audit them to make sure the money's right. There are certain things that are exempt in audits in these, and trade secrets are one of them. And I'm sure if you have any familiarity with that, I'd like to include any statute that's in here that identifies what they don't have to have in an audit so the public understands that's not going to show up. That number might not show up. That's a transparency thing I want to put in there.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“My point is base payment plus percentage shouldn't even be in there. That's introducing an idea of the city wanting money up front, and that was what we were trying to get away from in this one.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“So my experience so far, and Jason said it, the scoring thing kept a lot of people from, I think you're going to see bids that we're going to be okay with. And people have been calling saying, thank you for getting that far now.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“And I'd also like to add that when it's time to review vids that come in, I'd like to have a minimum of two industry experts that would understand if these bids have some legitimacy in what their expectations of income and expenses. if that would be okay with y'all. The staff is very smart and good, but industry experts being an advisor, not on the committee, just being an advisor, they can offer up some help to maybe, we make better decisions on who we choose.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“Let's get this out. Does this get this out first at the same time, Brian, in that motion?”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“And I would second that and just add into that possible, there's some grammatical, clerical errors, like a date that would not be okay that staff have the ability to update that.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“I would put my money on. And we need to tighten up. We're going to have to tighten up our timeline because it's easy for, they book Robbie and Janice and they, oh, we're not done yet. We need to move the date back. They booked Allen and Kenny Chesney. They're on their tour.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“So we have to. That's a good ticket. He's the opener for you.”
City Commission Meetings · Aug 11, 2026
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“This is a reading. Are we voting? Yes, this is final. Yes.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“The idea of one sounds good, but there are a lot of easy yeses in there. And I'm concerned that if somebody doesn't like one of the issues and they don't know, we don't get the easy yeses. And that directs me back to the three questions. And not that you're trying to set that up, but you're setting up that if the easy ones pass, we can change. If the hard ones don't, and I say easy, adding the pronoun she, because he was the only one that was in there. I mean, that's an easy one. Updating the rules and regs to go with today's environment. Those are easy yeses. But we want to change when we…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'll second that for a question. If we go with that, does that mean the way that the questions are written today, that's what we're approving? Yes.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“And remember, what's going to suck up on the air is the property tax, though. So we have to make sure that we're in different areas all over the place bringing the information because they've got more money than we need to put all that information out there.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Thank you. I have some concerns that we've asked staff, I feel like given pretty clear direction, to go back and make some modifications. And what we got back, there's some major changes that we never talked about. And it took that long to read all the changes. really what we're talking about is we want to make it easy for people to get a permit. And I believe that the current version is exactly the opposite. And so what I'd like to do is we had some success with our charter review and our parks committee is what if we gave it we had an appointment put that back with 60 days we come…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“I feel like we write these trying to protect the city against problems. And that creates a lot of angst out there of trying to come in and work with us. There's going to be a problem. I don't know what it is, but we can't think of them all. But let's not put it in the program up front. So that would be my thought. And this is not about staff did something wrong. This is about there's a lot of people input. And what we found out is if we take us out of the deal, it just seems to gel a little bit more and have a better discussion.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“Could we vote on that separate, Nevin, and say we went on that particular case because if this isn't in place, they shouldn't be penalized for the ask that they made, in my opinion.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026