Remarks by Scott Safford
139 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“And or help, you know, just clean up the island.”
Town Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, historically we did that, excuse me, but this is just the study.”
Town Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“But you want them to chip in for the study. Yeah. All right. Good to you.”
Town Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“That's $650-ish. So it increases, the increase goes up to $1,062,641 on the revenue options, and that brings our emergency funder reserve to $658,839.”
Town Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I have a question. I thought we had gotten rid of the STR fees for workforce housing.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I would think we should really look at the Key West model. I mean, it's basic economics. I mean, when there's a surge in demand and there's a priority on where you park, you pay more. It's just like going to a football game. You know, if it's a credit concert, parking's $20. If it's Stones are playing, it's $100. And if you want to park next to the stadium, it's $150. So, I mean, Key West does it. You know, a lot of, in season, there are a lot of people that stay up in Cape Coral, Fort Myers, they come down for the day. I think we're getting most of the emails from the citizens that are…”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I'm not not talking about the annual park. I'm just talking about just, you know, we we talk about raising it a dollar, but I think you could raise it to two or three dollars and in search search times in February, March, when it's high demand, people are going to pay it. The amount of revenue is incredible.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“The other thing, too, is the annual parking fee for off-island. I mean, Sanibel does it, and they sell out in what? Two weeks.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“What about for short-term rentals, 300, three rooms in the last 400, four rooms or more?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Right now, these four or five-bedroom houses, I know how much they make. They can handle $100, but some of the smaller... You know, one-bedroom condos and a monthly condo, you're charging them the same amount of money that another individual or company could make five times the money on. If you charge everybody $400, it's not fair for the smaller condos.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I'm just saying keep it $300 for three and under, and then $400 for anything four and above.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I just need some more information on it. What are we really, how much more money are we actually going to get?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“The beach vendors contention is if you have a bad actor, get rid of them.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, a portion of that goes back into the capital recovery. It's not additions. Yeah.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“YEAH, LET'S GET THE PUBLIC'S BEEN CUT ENOUGH TO BE HERE FOR TWO HOURS.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Sorry, I thought Ellen was going to get up and speak.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“You can't you can't do John, you can't do a budget on a property for sale. I understand where you're coming. I understand your frustration. First couple of things you said, I mean, we're we're dumping money and not getting anything in return for it. But I, I think at this point, Echoing what the mayor said. Well, number one, you can't do a budget for 27 or 28 based on the property being for sale. That's not what I asked. I know, but down market, I don't know, again, who's going to buy it. I don't think the town should give up an asset that they could eventually use that property to swap for…”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“It needs to become whatever it's going to become. It needs to generate some revenue. But it's not happening. It needs to happen.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I have a question, I have a couple questions for you. I hope you can answer these, and if you can't answer them, I'd sure like an answer in two weeks. Number one, what exactly is our emergency fund number? Where are we sitting for our emergency fund? 2.1 million. 2.1. Do we have any other reserves?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Do we have any other reserves? No, we do not. Okay. I've got just a basic question. Is there a way that we can have a reserve account and then an emergency fund account where the emergency fund doesn't get touched for any reason? It's not bouncing back from the general fund. where we actually have some reserves. And I think piggybacking on what his question was, if we end up with some reserves left, if we have stuff left over from last year, where does it go?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Well, if we have money left over, where's it going?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So that's kind of where I'm going. If we have a reserve account and an emergency fund account, wouldn't that be cleaner accounting-wise? I believe so. Okay. So what would it take for us to – to get that in place? Would that be an ordinance? Would that be a resolution? Would that be something you'd?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“that we have reserves and that those reserves can be used for studies. Those reserves can be used for grant matching. Those reserves can be used. I don't want to go down this path of we're using reserves to maintain stuff, but It's different than an emergency. That's scary that we only have $2 million in emergency reserves. I know we went through a massive hurricane and all that, but we've got to build that up.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Right, but that should be coming out of reserves, right, not general fund?”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“No, so today we're... So for the next two weeks, we're going to get a lot of feedback from residents, from business owners. People have to digest these numbers and look at them.”
Town Council · Sep 9, 2026