Remarks by Robbie Hughes
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 12
- Play at 3:14:11
“Replanting MLK. We own the majority of the dirt. How hard is it to re-flat?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:14:18
“The vacant dirt. The vacant dirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the vacant dirt and improved, and everybody has to agree, right?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:14:55
“Okay. And there really are, I mean, there's some lots in MLK that you've got to move on to the next lot to change your mind. It's so small. So what I'm thinking is the owner of that lot, they didn't do that to themselves. And we have the ability to maybe give some dirt that way, different, and you change the lines and make that lot buildable and usable. That's a way to automatically change things. But we have to remember something.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:17:18
“Or we can consider that this is on here because we never responded to him. No, we didn't. His original one, we didn't. And the reason this is because there was one at the last meeting that was going to run through, and I thought it was fair that he have a shot at this. Now, if we want to consider... undoing that or and and treating this as an unsolicited offer i'd be open to that discussion but i at least want to acknowledge that it's here because he submitted an unsolicited offer and was not it was not acknowledged by us and that's and that's why i wanted it on here yeah what you'll see is…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:19:43
“I think that both of the ideas, the 12 lot and the spark, that's going to give us some direction on how to process, which Tom Jansen, we might get it. and we'll have that plan. I think we need to experience that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:21:30
“Why? It's in the CRAs. It's not a CRA parcel, though.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:21:42
“General. It was? General fund. Only share?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:24:58
“I was about to ask the same thing. Do we have to vote on this at a CRA meeting, or can we do it here?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:29:22
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
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“Staff has that letter. We might have that letter. No, sir. And so this money, this letter is specific about where it goes, who it's paid back to. So the agenda item is wrong because it goes back to the reserve, but it shouldn't say that. So my question to Jonathan is, why don't we have the letter?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:30:52
“Jonathan, the letter that you received from the Florida Housing Corporation through Sheila.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:31:04
“Yeah, because Jared Whitten got it for me out of his office.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:31:09
“It's a letter from the Florida Housing Corporation that I asked for. And it specifically says what we have to do with these properties. And that has not been considered in this agenda item because we don't have it. And I'm very concerned about that. Yeah. So .”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:32:40
“And all I'm saying is this money needs to go back to housing for this letter and not to general fund.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:33:30
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:35:16
“Just to grind. As a clarification question, they made an unsolicited offer. It didn't really go anywhere. We brought it back. We know that we have to sell this. We're now under the gun on that. It's the only piece of property that I've been able to look at of these five that we're going to get back what we paid for. Thank you for that, sir. I would recommend that we sell it because we've approved other things tonight on a solicitive basis, and they have a plan for it.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:37:13
“Two years after we bought it, there was a quick claim deed taking that piece out. uh apparently we're supposed to buy three acres and we bought five and um it was it was a scrivener's error i'm told uh and and you know legal strip your legal strip says what you buy and so i think that was what i was understanding yes ma'am she will wear housing community services”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:38:08
“Yep. It does. I mean, I drove all over the lot. Yeah, it does. Any other discussion? Please call the roll.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 3:38:26
“That's not against y'all. That's against the RFP, by the way. Motion to adjourn.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 26:50
“I tend to lean towards one, however. The he is the only pronoun in the current charter. So we have to update things like that. And I'm afraid that that's an easy win. And I'm afraid if you dump it all together and somebody doesn't like one piece and we vote no on that, then we lose the easy wins. And that's why I'm kind of drawn towards three. But Josh pointed out something that is my major concern is no matter what, we're always going to be last on the ballot because we're going to be in a national election or a state election and or both. And two, in this particular case, Most of the people…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 42:20
“We've never had a holiday. Yeah, we really haven't done it. We don't allow it. But here's my problem. We're turning it on and making it very expensive and very intense. And it's like we're treating it so different and putting a lot of rules on it. And to me, that's the wrong intent. And I expressed this yesterday with staff. So to Bill's point, if the holiday is on a Friday, the way that it's written, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday are all into that time. But if you're having an event on any other time, it's that one day. So I think it ought to be one day.…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 44:33
“Bill's paying $60,000 a year for COPS for the farmer's market. That's a lot of money. They do a great job. They do a wonderful job. But $60,000 a year for the same spot on Harrison Avenue every Saturday, that's a lot of money. I think we can do better than that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 49:07
“So what about the other $80 an hour? Where's that going?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 49:33
“but nobody ever says to me, that $6.75 fee is expensive. And they say, my God, is that it's so expensive, I can't even do no, I can't get a permit because it's too expensive because of the police.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 49:53
“I would, Chief can provide us a, here's a list of people that are off duty. Let me hire them straight up. Why do I have to use ODM is my question. There's something about that that's driving the price up. Yes, sir.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 14, 2026