Remarks by Scott Tate
228 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 10
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“Okay. And another option is this new pass where we would pay 4,000 for 200 lucky souls to be able to ride for a year. Uh, lottery. Right. Right. Okay. Um, okay. think at least now have a better picture of it thank you and so your questions are uh psta yes or no and at what cost any additional micro transit which i'm almost because the alternative to microtransit might be this u-pass so maybe i should lump the u-pass over into microtransit and possibly also there's two hundred thousand dollars the trolley to go a little bit further might be the alternative to a microtransit i know it's not…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I understand what you're saying. I'm trying to figure out is this a decision you want us to make tonight and then later you will come with the five options in the more detail and we'll be able to make a decision or you're saying?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“All right. And very specifically freebie in this case, which No, no, no. Okay.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Understood. That is a microtransit decision. Separately, you want us to make a PSTA decision? Okay. Got it. Okay. Okay. Apologize for... That's okay. Took a little while for your words to get over to my head, so I got it now. Thank you. All right. I'm sorry. I know there's some questions. Commissioner Marriott, please.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“What it's worth, I took one of those numbers earlier, the ridership was nine months and the other ridership was 10 months, so I just equaled them out to an annual ridership. We get about 84,000 on the trolley and about 5,000 on the access, just using those numbers and putting about 12 months worth of service. So you think 30,000 riders, I'm sorry, 90,000 total riders between trolley and access at $220,000 was our cost last year, ended up about $2.44 per ride. projected at 242 this year which is next year's assuming the ridership stays the same that's two hundred sixty eight dollars two…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I don't believe we ever got ridership numbers from our current micro transit. I know we ultimately said it's $15 to $17 per person, so we must have some sense of ridership. You just mentioned 1,200 registered.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, so you've already done that math. 550 that we pay minus the three dollars per and we end up losing The cost of the city is about 17 for about 17 purchase in the net end of all that right versus Again, I did some early math earlier on that I know that they're not equivalent but the math on the on the bus was two dollars and 45 cents something in that range versus 17 per ride. I think that you pass is an interesting alternative i think uh you know maybe some of these uh for our for our paratransits i think the psta access is is also an interesting alternative um and as other commissioners…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, I think, can we please take those comments?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, city manager, do you have what you need? Good, just wanna make sure, okay. Thank you very much, I appreciate you, and lively, interesting discussion. Thank you everybody for your feedback, we appreciate you. I know there's a lot of, I will say this, we get lots of emails on this, I know there's a lot of passion on both sides, so thank you for everybody for your passion and your feedback. I think right now we're just trying to figure out what we can do with budget constraints and other things that we're dealing with, so thank you all.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I think it's where we're headed next, right? Yes. So please call general audience comments, please.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, that's it, thank you. Thank you. Yes, city manager, I would just personally comment. I mean, if we got our, everybody's trying to get back from these hurricanes and obviously if they got mischaracterized inappropriately, I would love us to see if that's truly happening. If I could ask please, would you and your team just kind of look and see if they've been mischaracterized? Let's make sure that they're characterized appropriately. because we don't want to punish people for just trying to get back on their feet, you know, post-storm, so. And I'll scratch that off my list for our next…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Keep going, sir. Please continue. Thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Understood. I did. Thank you. City Manager, can you please make sure that we have staff look into this? Do we have we have contact information, I'd like to make sure that he has, please, if he could either get your information for questions, please. And, and I would like you please to help make sure that we follow through on this is as appropriate as we can.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you so much. Always good feedback. Thank you, everybody. Over to the agenda. Just a reminder, we polled B, C, and J for separate discussion. Minus those, do we have a motion on the remaining items minus B, C, and J?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. I'll vote to take an order. Let's go with consent 4B. Authorize the city manager to exercise the first extension as outlined in the contract to renew the parklet agreement with Chill Restaurant. I believe, Commissioner Robinson, you pulled it.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Next item, 4C, Consent 4C. Authorize the city manager to execute the holiday decoration services agreement with Christmas Designers Florida slash Holiday Outdoor Decor at a cost of $76,621 for December 2026 holiday decorations.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“i liked last year's decorations i i will just i thought they were a nice change up from everything that we've done so i hope you didn't take a lot of heat on that we took some well you took it well to the to the to the um you know uh state on road and i think that's an interesting take on it right that's obviously entire Gulf Boulevard, all of that is state owned stuff. Interesting to see what they do. I would ask, how do we compare with other beaches? Is that just every beach suffering with the state has us doing the work? Or is there something unique about St. Pete Beach? I would just ask…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“We should have. We got tomorrow's roadshow left to maybe get a little feedback.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“This is our last year on this contract and we can revisit and discuss subsidies and all that fun stuff next year theoretically.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I will say this late in the season I'm sure that they've got many municipalities that they deal with so I don't think we're gonna get a lot of changes it's it's either go or no go and I would personally have the mindset of go because I don't want to see a no decoration year I will say if our contracts up before next Christmas we've got opportunities to talk about you know what type of lighting which polls subsidies And and I also just while we're at the dialog, I've had some comments about kind of the plastic use inside of those things as well, in addition to some of the other comments. And…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Very impressive. Thank you very much. Other audience comments, please.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you so much. That was quite interesting. And so since we don't have a staff report, we don't have any questions or comments unless there's commissioner comments. Okay, is there a motion?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. We're on to ordinance item 5B, first reading ordinance 2026-17, reclaim water fees. City attorney, please.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. I understand there's no report. So audience comments?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Any Commissioner questions of the City Manager? Anybody else? All right. Is there a motion then?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026