Remarks by Sam Ruth
80 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Any other questions? The only thing that I would suggest is the $25,000 for the tree maintenance. At least send somebody from our staff out there to evaluate. Some of them trees are at their extended life cycle. It's only going to get worse. So make some decisions on... Yeah, you know, cosmetic. At least get the ones that we know are going to fall in this upcoming year. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“It was pretty cool, I was there. Yeah, it was great this year.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'd be somewhat hesitant to, it is an asset. It's a property that we have already made a major investment to. I want to kind of let everybody know that 20 years ago we were promised a downtown center and we spent a major investment on that. We got a shopping center. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It was just I think we went backwards when we sold it. So let's be careful. It's a prime piece of real estate. And what you'd hate to do is let it go. And once you sell it, you can't control its destiny. And right now we can. So I would urge you to. to at least entertain the thought of…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“We're talking about the same thing. I just used the wrong term.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Page 52. What pages are these? Page 52. 52 through... 54. 54.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:16:49
“Please. Yes. Building inspection falls under community development.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Is there any reason why we can't have that pushed over to fire? That is. And the only reason I say that is as a marketing tool. Yeah. Our developers, they'll come in here and they'll plaid something, mixed use, and then down the road, they reinvent the wheel and turn the development into something else. If we had a means, the building department's the last people to go through that, them and the fire marshal. At that time, we can make sure that the mixed use is compliant with the impact fees that were charged for it.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And the permits because they follow the permits. What I'm trying to do is create a mechanism to follow the permitting process but yet have a, having the means to either make the developer adhere to the change or ensure that we get the necessary collections of the change back way of impact fees, make sure the services meet the intent use of the project.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“This is when I saw that I was like, well, when did they go to community? And I'm just trying to circle back and find out why they're there.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, the only reason I say that is we have a couple items that come before us where the intent of the project has changed and it's either gotten litigated or there was a mixed use or we come to find out they changed the project and they don't have the right exit plan. or business items like that that come before us.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“But the fire marshal and the building official, they were... They were can in hand.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And I just see service fees there that we could, you know, that we're not picking up on. We're being asked for the service, but we didn't get compensated for it.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Can we have a discussion with the police and fire chief to make sure that we can strategically locate our fire stations where our service area needs are? and have a better understanding about fitting our extended boundaries to fit the stations that we currently have and our response times are not gonna be affected.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think that strategic plan would be better served if we could collectively with those two partners you know, get a consensus on our area served and our services are required to service the areas needed.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Are we taking into consideration that Seminole County is, if you go by all the retention ponds, they're full. So, I mean, we need to really pay attention to our surrounding partners because they're getting to a point where they're gonna start shed their water and we're at the bottom of the hill, so.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm not trying to put you on the spot. Yes, no. I'm not sure the other dais members.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do we have any spray fields that we can divert that water to? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“The next four weeks are going to be our rainy season.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Ish. But we don't have any concerns with this upcoming season of an event occurring there.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Please. Do we do our own backflow preventer? preventative maintenance, especially on our commercial backlog preventers, or do we sub that out?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“That department's fully staffed, so we're not running any deficiencies there?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:57:27
“I know it's very important that we stay on top of that, that especially our quarterlies and preventative maintenance on it don't need to be overlooked. Yes.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I commend you for doing that because it's greatly needed. Yes, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do we see Amendment 3 affecting our tipping fees?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026