Remarks by Scott Tate
228 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“When we do enforcement measures, I assume they occasionally, generally, I'm not sure what the right word is, result in fines that presumably do then cover our costs?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, which is offsetting the cost of the enforcement, theoretically?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Understood. Understood. Okay. Commissioner Marriott, please. Thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, I'll interject as well. I think I keep hearing that it's the bad actors that are concerned. I can imagine people that rent on a monthly basis as they're allowed to and don't have, if they had noise ordinances, even on a two month rental, we would go out for the noise ordinance. We have those ordinances in place. So when I usually think about what we should invest our time in, what we should invest valuable city staff time in, even researching and figuring things out, I usually think about what's broken. and what's not covered by current policies and procedures. So similar to what…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, and I would say, listen, I agree. I don't think anybody wants to see the short-term kind of – nightmare that I think some of our sister communities are dealing with. We're blessed with the grandfathering that we have ordinances in place, we can enforce them. I think we should find a way to cost-effectively enforce them. I think, as what I heard from you, there is a cost to enforcement, I agree, but I assume fines and fees associated with that enforcement, just like enforcing tall vegetation or whatever else we might, noise ordinances, those things come with a fine and a fee that…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“I'm worried about grandfather I would like to see us work on the enforcement pieces of it, and I'm not in favor of moving forward at this moment with staff time to research something different. To be very clear, if it's a very simple AI tool that doesn't involve additional FTEs and it's something we can do more efficiently, but I'm not looking to add costs and significant resources to this. I'm in favor of the enforcement methodology.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“One more comment for Commissioner Colvin.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“I think city manager, you have kind of the direction that you're looking for from this group. I mean, I think I'm hearing, Minimal, you know, if there's some AI tool that's minimal, kind of invasive, those kind of things might be tenable, but I don't think a large effort is at this point what you're hearing from the commission, at least not the entire commission.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Next item for discussion, city commission agenda preparation.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“listen I think anything we can get earlier is always beneficial but I thought I saw city manager correct me if I'm wrong I thought I saw some rationale as to why it's on its current time frames and I don't know if you can reiterate or and or kind of paraphrase some of that for us please yeah I might lean on the clerk a little bit since she manages us internally very very efficiently I might say um Renee maybe you could overview the timelines we're dealing with”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you. i would concur frankly i don't know mr mayor you're ultimately looking for three yes move forward or or not i'm gonna i'm gonna just go on record of saying that i think the current cadence givens particularly what uh uh you know our city clerk said about uh if we wanted to continue something to next session it isn't until next session it's now two sessions out and it slows down the city we probably lose some some quality overall so i i'm in favor of of keeping it and i am the recipient i would tell you i've spent many a night staying up till you know one two three in the morning…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So that's all I had on that one. Other comments? I do have a personal comment, but I don't know if others, I usually reserve my last piece.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“It's the reverse. It's the reverse. Kathleen Peters is our. No wiki is the at large. Is for our district. Okay, thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“All good, all good. I'm sure Commissioner Nowicki and Commissioner Peters- Understood. And respect that, so thank you. Okay, next item for discussion is customer use. I think Commissioner Robinson, you raised that?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Can I ask you, City Attorney, I feel like because there's litigation involved in this, I personally feel uncomfortable having a lot of open public conversations about it. And I don't know if you'd suggest that we, I think, you know, table it, have our own, you know, non-legal type conversations or something on not in public forum, because this is an ongoing litigation. You tell me if I'm wrong.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So you're requesting that, then, if we've got documentation on use? I'm just trying to understand you correctly. Send it in?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So are we giving out your city attorney email address for people to email?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And City Attorney, you'll work with City Clerk to at least make sure that that's documented and people know how to contact you appropriately.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“We're concentrating on so to be clear I think I'm hearing Thank You city manager.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And then that will come out with instructions on how to send this information, Jermaine, to this case.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“What you're basically saying is if you live in this part of St. Pete Beach, this is your at-large commissioner, this is your direct commissioner. You're just basically trying to make sure that you clarify the record on which county commissioner represents which part of our city. I don't have a concern with it unless somebody else has a concern.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, just a quick glance. Thank you, City Attorney.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Right, if I'm reading what you're saying, we've got two at-large that bifurcate our city?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026