Remarks by Scott Tate
228 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
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“that we could prioritize other alternatives for post-storm recovery okay i do some more questions let me just think a moment on what i just heard you say please um listen i i i think everybody here probably in the room or you know i certainly can speak for myself went through those storms of 2024. I know we have infrastructure in place right now. I saw generators running there, portable generators running for, frankly, weeks, if not longer, after the storms, keeping these things running. And I'm honestly, in my head, trying to balance, we have a current solution that got us through the storms…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“And to be clear, the 850, I think, was the number you alluded to, 850K. We've still got to pay for gas. We've still got to pay for other things. So I assume there's still some cost in your proposed solution. What's the savings, if you will, by going to this proposed solution? Again, I know there are some costs. It can't be $850,000 in savings.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. I may have more questions. I'm going to pause. I know Commissioner Robinson's got some questions for your comments.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I do probably want to pause, I don't see any other green lights here, so I'm going to pause for audience comments.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Any other audience comments, no further comments. Okay. I don't know if there's other Commissioner comments or questions associated with what we just heard or, you know, any other dialogue.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Right. Correct. Yep. Three that are. confirmed and I think I heard you say expire 2028 and we're asking for more. Not sure we'll get them, but obviously they'll have a lengthy expiration date presumably.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“So thank you. I don't see another green light, so I'm gonna jump in. Given what I'm hearing, I'll give you my perspective on this. I don't think we're at risk of losing money in the immediate future. I do agree that we should continue resiliency. That should always be in our plans. We should always be preparing for the future. I will say this. We moved quite a bit of, for lack of a better term, heaven and earth to go have these budget roadshows, and we kind of rallied and got some good work done. all within five to six weeks. I'm not saying that it's all hands on deck for this, but I do think…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“um with that you know economy is a scale now you're looking at three lift stations instead of 15. i would anticipate that we'd be looking at higher costs down the road if we were to delay this and and then revisit let me ask you this but just based on what you just said so you've got 15 in total to do these three are projected to be the first hypothetically what if these three become the last or somewhere near the end and you continue to work with the other 15 going and you allow us time to revisit different alternatives here does that change”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. I will tell you, I still don't think that we've got, I think we've got not only lack of community buy-in, we've got a significant outcry that I think we need to be cognizant of as a commission, which is my perspective on it. One of five. Commissioner Robinson.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I don't think I'm alluding to stall. A month or two isn't, you know, given the grand scheme of what we do over the course of our 10 years, As a city, I don't know that a month or two is a significant amount.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“2nd I would assume given all the comments I assume we get it as fast as we can but give us time to get some feedback would be my recommendation. So I would say I would be more in favor of November 2nd than letting it slip beyond that.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I need a motion to extend our meeting another 10 to 15 minutes. I would say just to wrap this up.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I was in the middle of one motion and I didn't want to run out of time.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“We paused in between the motion and the second one. I think we should redo it if you don't mind, please.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I WILL COMMENT I THINK MY EXPECTATIONS IN ALL OF THAT IS THERE ARE SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY IN THE COMMISSION SO OR THE CITY IN THOSE COMMUNITIES TO GATHER ALL THE MOSTLY AESTHETIC I THINK WE HOPE FEEDBACK BUT WHATEVER FEEDBACK WE CAN GET AND TRY AND ABSORB SO WITH APOLOGIES TO YOU DIRECTOR MILLS YOU'RE GOING TO BE BUSY OVER THE NEXT MONTH AND A HALF OR SO KIND OF HELPING US DO THIS PLEASE Next topic is on to items for discussion. I don't think we had any during this session. I just wanna make sure, okay. And then we've got the report. So I'll start with city clerk.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, City Manager and City Attorney.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Assume that wasn't a report. City Attorney.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Anything else? No, that's it. Okay, thank you. At the risk of being repetitive, thank you again to Representative Cheney for the funding that we've received. Appreciate it significantly. Thank you for the passion and the input that we get from the community consistently. throughout roadshows, throughout even these commission sessions. I appreciate the feedback and it's all valuable and all considered and welcome, so thank you. Commissioner Robinson.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“At the? The American Legion. Okay. Just make sure I know the location. And that's it. I apologize. I think we're out of order, but I think we've gone through all of the reports. and just making sure there being no further business to conduct this evening, I officially adjourn our city commission meeting of September 9th, 2026.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Commission budget workshop to order. Today is August 25th, 2026. It is 4.30 PM. Just as a reminder, we're going through the budget review process. Let's please stand for Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Okay, that was a nice reminder when I looked back and saw everybody standing. That was really nice, thank you. I apologize, I'm kind of running between meetings. So I know we've got our budget session today. I'm certain there's going to be a great presentation. I want to remind everybody, just a real quick reminder, we've been doing our budget road shows throughout the different districts.…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Devin and team, thank you very much. These are always good to see. I might echo a few comments, and then I have a few others as well. Commissioner Koshy mentioned the future FEMA reimbursements, so I as well would love to see what we've gotten so far in recent years. Obviously, don't go back 50 years of historic, but maybe last three or four or five years of fema reimbursements and anything that we have applied and or projected going out forward in what years they theoretically would come in i know none of that's guaranteed but just an understanding of where we've applied and might be…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So theoretically, future years, more revenue coming from the fees, less fund transfers, I think we call it, right? Coming out of general, theoretically leaving more money in general for the other needs. And I would love to see that, you know, I know we're talking 27 budget now, so I realize that's our priority in the moment, but I would love to start seeing that project out, right? And so theoretically, our general fund should be um you know a benefactor in all of this work as well because we're no longer subsidizing the the enterprise funds accordingly i'd love to see how that starts to…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Out of 159 FTEs currently, so like about maybe a 4% or something like that is kind of what I'm rough math thinking at. Might be off on that.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, so I don't know, is that, you say currently, six out of 159, so can we project that out annually? I don't know. What I'm really trying to get at, let me just cut to the chase of where I'm trying to go with this, right? So let's imagine that's 4%, but that's only a current slice of time, but across the year, maybe it's 8%, 10%, whatever the number is, right? So my question is, as we've talked about previously about software, for example, that might make our... gosh, are permitting a little faster, a little more efficient, things like that. We've talked about other operational…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 25, 2026