Remarks by Shlomo Danzinger
381 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 16
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“Good to start. All right. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Thursday, August 27, 1013 a.m., calling today's meeting into order. Madam Clerk, if you'll take the roll, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you. Chief, if you'll lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you. Moving on to Item 2A. Ordinance is received.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Mayor. I guess I do want to echo and expand on what you said. I think there's more people in this room this morning than there were at the 7 p.m. regular meeting last month. You know, today's schedule, just to give you guys a little information on at least what my day looks like, all right? I've been in here since 9 this morning. There's a special meeting in the morning. There's a budget workshop. And then I have the planning and zoning that I'm liaison to. So I'm not going to be leaving until 9 o'clock at night. This is the job we signed up for. It's, to Commissioner…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you so much madam attorney Madam clerk if you'll read the title of the ordinance to the record, please”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right, so just very briefly, this item changes our code back to what it was prior to the changes that were made in the last commission. Correct. This doesn't really address or remove The public's right to speak. We've addressed some of these things and hopefully we can get some clarity up here by the town attorney. But for now, the consensus among the commission was to put the rules back to the way it was, to allow the chair to run the meeting as intended and as written by our charter. So if we can get, but at the same time, I think there's some ambiguity and I think residents deserve…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So we have a motion on the table. Let's go through public comment first. We have Salida Kranzer. I'm gonna keep this to two minutes because we have so many comments that this is an hour and a half of public comment as is.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Is there anybody else that wants to get it up before we close public comment on this item that didn't submit a card yet? All right. Seeing none, we'll close public comment and go to the commission discussion.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner. Again, if you're going to spend half your time cursing out the commission, that's on you. So we can either discuss the item. I haven't cursed anyone.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We can either discuss the item or you can make a political grandstanding up here, but that's your choice. And so we're going to go around. I curse no one.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Can I ask one more question? I just need to make sure if it's accepted. Okay, yeah, yeah, sure. All right.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“find a balance. So I want to address that because that seems to be a miscommunication either internally or at least the information that I've gotten when this thing came forward. 702c specifically says public discussion on agenda item, right? That's where this belongs. 702b is public hearings. A public hearing is defined as a quasi-judicial, It has to do with second reading ordinances, zoning. This language does not belong in 702 . 702 says, when a town commission considers an agenda item, input from the member of the public shall be limited to no more than three minutes. That's already…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I can answer because Steve was referring to state law. There's state, there's county, right? There's different requirements. The state requires mandates for hearings, for second reading ordinances. The county has another law about the right to be heard, which we address within our thing. And then there's the town law. So I mean, I'm scared if I ask Steve to explain it, we'll be here for the rest of the day as well. But that's it.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So what I'm trying to do, and I'll be bringing this forward, is to have a standing meeting, essentially move the nines off of the Tuesday meeting, right? Because we're never getting to it and we're getting to them at 11 o'clock at night. Move them off, have a separate standing meeting. So it's not a special meeting sporadically, but The residents know that, let's say Tuesday is the regular meeting, ordinances, resolutions, following Thursday is the 9th. We can start a little earlier, we can have a full discussion, make sure that public input is done, and this way the town staff has enough…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“If I have 60 comments on one item, we may have to.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Right. Listen, it. But you need to be able to play it by ear. Right. That's the that's the job. And that's the role that I'm in.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I hear you, but this is not a court of law, right? If I find somebody slanderous, they don't get fined for millions of dollars. If you get up here and you're going to say time after time that I accepted money from Dubai, that's slander because you don't have any evidence of that. And if you're going to repeat that message over and over and everybody starts hearing that, that's problematic. So unless you're going to get up here, if you're going to get up here and make accusations against anyone sitting up here, you need to back that up. And that's pretty simple. I'm not penalizing you for…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So again, I can have the attorneys address that. This forum over here is not a complete First Amendment. There is a limited right to speak. And the town attorney, we have gone through this before. You can't get up and scream fire in a thing. You can't get up. There are rules and regulations in this room. And for us to enforce that is not a First Amendment violation. I've had multiple ethics complaints of people complaining that I didn't like what they had to say. And all I had to do was point at our laws and say, here's the books. And okay, so Madam Clerk, let's call the roll, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“It was adopted by the motion maker in the second.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Again, it's existed in our books. And for some reason, it was fine forever. What law school did you go to? It's a good thing we sit up here with a town attorney who can advise us as we go through these meetings.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We're calling the roll. So I'm just asking you because I know you're trying to fit. Are you going to say yes if we take out slanderous?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026