Remarks by Rocky Ford
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“So the Richardson basketball is only twice, but it's $5,000 in total.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“It's in the second column and the bottom column. Let's see. That's David's.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“I just want to say y'all are doing a fantastic job, and I'm amazed at what all y'all can get done with that amount of money. Thank you very much. I mean, that's remarkable what you just listened to. Appreciate that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“Chairman, I'd just like to say, And they do this service for nothing, really. I mean, they don't make anything off of this. They're just doing this for the cats, mainly. Chantel Brown used to work in Fort White also. I'm sure you know Chantel. And my daughter and my wife work with her quite a bit. And I'm going to tell you, it's made a big difference in the population of feral cats in Fort White and in Southern County and other areas, too. So this is a good program, and it's definitely working, too. in cleveland county as far as getting a number of cats straight hats down so yes sir man do…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“I didn't realize the cat problem was big. We got a group in Fort White that feeds about probably 15 to 20 cats a day on my property right here at my office in Fort White. But like I say, they haven't grown up. The population hasn't grown because they didn't trap them all. They spayed and neutered them. And when a new one comes in, the first thing you do is they trap it, you know, and they spay and neuter it. oh and that is one of the problems though when you when people see you're feeding cats in a certain area if they got a cat they want to get rid of they drop that cat off in that area so…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“That's good. That's good. Okay. My wife started taking in baby cats, bottle feeding them and stuff. For 40 years, we didn't have a cat. Now we got six bottle feeds and everything else. She can't get rid of it. She can't give it away. Now she's attached to it. I told her, you got to stop that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay. We're obligated to fund that, right, Joe?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“When you're taking care of your parents in their older years, sometimes the adult daycare just, I mean, you can't leave them alone. Some of them are their age. We experience that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“Debbie, do y'all take in, y'all take in strays from people that call in? Do y'all have availability for them?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“I know at one time I had some that wanted to be picked up in my district, and we had no place to put them because of the mugs. I was thinking, but we do not do anything with cats, right? We don't have any service for cats.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“so so we do allow people to come up and turn in dollars turn in dollars or have the board adopted that six months ago eight months ago and if you remember mr chair i'm sorry mr chair uh ms ford the uh that's when we put this kennels remember over at the uh so we do charge to take in streets what i'm saying you're saying we charge to take in streets That's why they drop them off at Walmart.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“They don't have to pay anything if they just drop them off. Yeah, they just dump them. Yeah, they just dump them. Then you got to pick them up. Okay.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“they're going to eat that up because that saves them and they also don't have to go to the vet because they've been spayed vaccinated home ready yeah right i got a i got a question for you debbie yeah so so my wife showed me this thing the other day on facebook or something where they got this group of people sitting like in a square and they turn a dog loose out there and the dog picks the owner Do y'all ever do any programs like that?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“She showed me that. I've watched some of it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“discussion so yes okay this is new they get started up and I didn't remind them to be here so they probably didn't know they understand how this works probably carrying on the program right now yeah”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 13, 2026
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“I recognize that thing you just showed us.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“okay I understand now okay sorry about that please the last week I have been reading everything about these data centers right read a lot so one of the things I have read is invidious data centers cooling process it relies on a closed-loop liquid architecture a mixture of 75% water 25% propylene Basically, it's chip level heat absorption. And it does not require any more water at all. Basically, once you mix this mixture, they just recirculate.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“I mean, what it says is zero on-site water consumption and energy savings by eliminating massive power hunger, hungry chiller plants, and fans. NVIDIA's DSX reference designs can cut cooling-related energy cost by 40%. Are you familiar with this system? Has anybody looked at this system?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“I'm just reading this stuff and I'm just saying, so yes, I think we're all trying to read a lot of stuff and you don't know how to take it if it's true or what, you know what I'm saying?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I know technology moves fast. Yeah, for sure. I'm going to tell you what I remember. cell phones come out. You know, it was a big old bag phone on our dash. Now we got these handheld computers, you know, with our hands and everything else, you know, in a matter of 30 years.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“You can call somebody. And you don't use no water.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“not say also i appreciate all y'all coming out i think one thing about florida we're kind of behind the eight ball a little bit on these data centers because everything i can read florida's climate is not conducive for these data centers because of the heat and stuff and the hurricanes so something changed for them to start oh i agree with i agree with the rest of the commissioners here you know anything that comes into columbia county is going to have to come before us and we will have all the answers at that time before or i will i know before i prove anything”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“And when was the last time the millage rate been lowered?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026
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“No, no, millage rate lowered? Lowered. 30 years.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 23, 2026