Remarks by Sam Ruth
80 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“I think everybody knows who Pastor Bankston is and our house rep. Yes, sir. Thank you for coming in.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Any additional comments? Yeah, let's don't forget about Old Dixie and going to the park, neither. We don't have a means of getting from the west side of Park Avenue over to the park. Right, to the park, we don't. And Old Dixie is the main, it's the oldest road we have in the city, and it's the one that's, there's no sidewalks there, neither. So, I hope we take in our... our CRA district, we start circling back and start taking care of some of these deficiencies.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“The only one that I have is I think it's important that we understand it's not our money. And I think that there needs to be some strong wording in there that it's not our money to spend personally for, you know, theater for us to entertain ourselves and our friends now outside of that what i'd like to do is i'd like to see if we can you know either privately or have a discussion with our attorney to find out what those guardrails could be obviously i think that there needs to be some strong wording in there to where that we could assemble this in a manner that there's going to be a paper…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“All right. I was personally singled out. I have no clue what you're talking about. And my comments to staff on Monday was strictly about discretionary funds. I have... I said in my gender meeting this week, what you're speaking of, I know nothing about. I wasn't on the dais. And I haven't talked to anybody on this board. And I've even made records requests. My records request today was... for what our discretionary funds were spent on. Thank you for advising me that there's something else going on. I don't know what you're talking about.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, I just think it's important if we're going to tell the customer, our residents that money's tight. And, you know, we're not going to, you know, we're. Things are so tight that making the investment in the roads and the infrastructure, you know, the lack of police service and fire service and everything's tight. I want discretionary funds to reflect it. So I'm just trying to be well rounded and, uh. The rest of the stuff we've been talking about, I don't know what they're talking about. I don't watch social media. I leave at 5 o'clock in the morning, drive to the coast. We're trying to…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“But when you say two events, is that two events? Is that 10 events, two per commissioner?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Have we done a workshop to know what the value of this request could be?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Who do we ask for the request? I know nothing about what we're talking about. Is this what we asked you? I asked you Monday what this was.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I wasn't on the dais. I don't know what it was and I don't know anything about the request, although I asked.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, the one comment I want to make to this is my dear friend, his wife passed a month ago. I came in here and requested the facility at the VFW to hold a funeral. You know, Nobody volunteered that to me. And we paid for the event out of his pocket. I would have liked to have known that there was an avenue like this. He was only the city administrator for 25 years. But, you know, what I'm trying to get at is nobody told me that this even existed. So I'm hearing this for the first time and had no clue what this was about. But you would think that Somebody may have said, hey, you know, you got…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I mean, one of the eligibility is it's no one even asked to what extent or what type where I was doing at the event.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“It's one of the hazards of discretionary funds, which I'm deadly opposed to anyway, so...”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Who would I ask in staff to supply me with the information that we're discussing?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'll make a motion to table. Okay. Do you have a date, sir? Or just in perpetuity right now? I'd prefer it be in perpetuity until we can find out a little bit more about what we're trying to accomplish here because I'm not opposed. I mean, I'm opposed to discretionary funds for this exact reason. There's too many hazards. Although it affects some of our community members here that I greatly appreciate what they do.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, the one person sitting on the dais that I can actually say, I made the motion to hire you. So, and it's been a good ride. I didn't get to spend the rest of your time here with you, but you were always a friend to me. And I always valued your opinion. And even when I thought I knew better, you were always that little voice that says, step back and take a deep breath and see it from somebody else's shoes. So I appreciate that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I would like to say that this 4.6761 rolls us back to where we were two years ago, correct?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So we're still where we were two years ago and we're looking for a brighter future. Thank you for all your help.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“And the staffing services required to support that increase is still two years behind. And the personnel we needed for it is still going to fall two years behind.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“No, it's an exact representation of what we are. It is not.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“At our current budget, I make a motion that we keep what we got.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Every tax dollar needs to be defined in public purpose. We need to be careful, especially with November right around the corner. Every dollar needs to be accounted for right now. And like you said, we can always come back.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“running plumbing because some there's faucets that are not working things of that nature you also have in hr you got seven people you know when when um residents walk in the staff members in there have to turn their computers off because employee information is relatively available for it's visible and it's visible And we're talking about a risk management person. So now we're going to have overcrowded offices in that area. So there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that needs to be taken into consideration. We are growing. The staff is growing. And remember, that was Apopka High School.…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Is there any way that we could create matrix to where we can find out funding mechanisms that we could at least make sure that we're covering our staff costs?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I'm a huge fan of it. I also go out there, but I think it'd be negligent on our part not to try to find funding mechanisms.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I know Blanche is not looking nicely at us because we're adding money back to our already laboring.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026