Remarks by Shlomo Danzinger
381 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 16
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“Which appropriations did you get during your two years?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“You know why he vetoed that? Because your mayor decided to pick a fight with him.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“It comes from sitting with the governor's person for an hour and 45 minutes going line item by line item. Each appropriation has a number, and that's all it is to Tallahassee. But what that number applies to a woman that was hit by a car in a corner who was six months pregnant and lost her baby, and I could say that person's name and articulate that I need the funding for a light on the corner, I got it. When I can articulate that I live on a barrier island and I've got people whose water is coming in their front door and going out the back and I can say them by name, that gets me the money…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, it's they come to me, I don't go to them.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay, you know what? This is where you lose us, and you lose this connection. This conversation is over. We're moving forward. You don't like the item. I get it. You don't have to. That's fine. I don't like everything you propose either, but this is what this is about.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. Eliana, please stop screaming. Sit down.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. This is what it is. Every time I go to an event, and I'm speaking yesterday, I met the secretary of the DBPR, as we spoke about. You know what the first response is? Have your office call, and we'll schedule the next. That's the assumption, because that's the way everybody works. Now, you want to keep operating like we're six blocks with a $5 million budget once upon a time? We are not that anymore. I can't tell you how many phone calls, how many emails that people are waiting for me. I get it all day long. I have my friends calling me up. This and this person has been trying to…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“On the one hand, you're telling me I don't need it. On the other hand, you want your own. I support it. If you're telling me you want that, 100%, because I know what it's like.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Four, because according to Gerardo, we don't need it. So, so far, just four.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Listen, maybe you start an internship program if that's what it is, see how it goes, and if you're having trouble, then turn it into a paid position. But I know there's nobody that's going to want to intern and do the work that I'm asking them for without compensation.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Right now you're voting to keep it as in the budgetary item.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, I know you don't want it. So why am I going to spend the next 30 minutes explaining it to you? It doesn't matter. You've already stated no, and that's without knowing what it is. Mr. Mayor, I want to know what it is so that I know what we're putting in the budget. You've already said no.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, it's not. Right now, it's the money. It's a monetary thing.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“If you guys are happy with the projects moving forward, I think we have a good list. I would love to... Again, you know, I've tried to answer it. I try to have the conversation. This is a budget meeting. I don't want to have an hour conversation about what it is, right? You know what it is.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, my first objective is to get it approved. After that, I will look at the other cities. I'll see how they structure it and how they do it and what the normal is. I've already had conversations with Mario back then, who has worked for multiple cities and proposed three, four different ways. Let me bring that back. But why would I do all that research before I even get it on the agenda?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So we're at 2.7 roughly for capital projects.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Let's see if we can. Did that money go back into reserves again?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So the 11 million is including the 10 that was allocated for those projects?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Anything? Other than saying it's 40 years old and we have to fix it, has there been a problem that's been isolated? Are we having challenges with it? Nothing years every new development they've been doing the surface of their building so we've been upgrading that slowly. Yes, but is there like a critical have we reached a critical mass essentially.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay. I mean, we've asked Christina essentially go out and see what grants and what money is available for a project like that. So if we had to budget, you know, six and a half, nine million dollars, how much of that is coming back to us? And, you know, that wasn't asked when it was thrown into the expense. Or it was and it wasn't given either. So let's, I think the direction at our last meeting to kind of the manager was, and my first question was, where's the money coming from? And we couldn't even get that answer. It's coming from the general fund, great. How much money is there in…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, I don't think we've reached critical mass.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. All right. So like you, I would love to be able to come back down, you know, but we also want to do something here. And that's been the challenge. We kind of came in and the entire budget was allocated for us without any capital projects. Our job is to, you know, obviously keep the town moving, but also improve on it. I think we have some numbers here that make sense. There's projects that we just can't touch this year, and hopefully next year, but.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We can do everything we want here. No, no, I'm just asking. But if people don't hear about it, it's not helpful. So I don't think it's a lot. We have a couple of quotes coming in. And I think we'll be seeing those before we approve the final budget.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, yeah. I mean, this, I think, was the high end or whatever we were putting in as an estimate for Mario. But we'll get some more specific numbers soon.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I think those were your words. It was a general comment to the commissioner. But it's important for us to improve our communications. I think we have the methods that we have and we've been using, but we want to enhance it. And that's one of the enhancements, one of the projects that the commission had discussed and prioritized was enhancing our communications.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026