Remarks by Steve Calle
169 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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“I have a question for the attorney. Yes. Do we have an update? When you say Turner, that's not, what was that?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“My question to you is, do we have an update roughly on how the term sheets and the lease is going with 13th floor?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I think that there's three major crossings, Sunset, 57th Avenue, and then 70th Street. So I see more and more usage model of people crossing the street. I don't know if the idea is that we want people to cross from one side to the other. I think people are going to cross, especially all the residents that we have coming in on the other side, on the west side of US 1. They're not going to want to go up and across when we have three easy intersections that are working. I think they would rather wait to 20 seconds, let the light turn the crossover, and then go all the way upstairs, go all the…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Midtown developers to figure out if they can use that grant. If we have a lot of the infrastructure, maybe we can connect them with them. They can get the grant and figure out if that's something that they want to go work on.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“The only thing that I would say about that is that if we're using a metro station and this is a destination that's going to be used a lot more. No, this one not. I'm not talking about this one specifically.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Sure. I would just say maybe instead of doing that, we just remove it from the charter. Let it just be legislative. Let it be part of the code. Just get rid of it. And just put it in the code.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Can I make a comment? Please, you can. So I spoke to a resident today, and they're extremely happy with the situation. They had already gotten out of their contract and have been on a month-to-month, so they've been working on this. So they're extremely excited and said thank you both.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes. Discussion. That's what you would want to do? That's your opinion on it?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I don't I think that one of the things that we spoke about is With the impending vote with tax reform That is really forcing our hand to return a mill rate, right? So our taxable revenues are actually going to decrease significantly, which is really a cost savings across the board to all our residents throughout the city. So reducing the mill rate was something that, just like you, that's something I really wanted to continue to work on, whether it was commercially or giving back in improvements, if it wasn't revenue itself. Yeah. But now, if the state forces our hand, then there's no real…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Or 129 to 143? 129 to 143. I read 108 to 112.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'm sorry. You're recognized. Chief, is there any way that, I was just looking at the data reports with Director Munoz on an SDK. My understanding is that we used to do, we can do traffic counts as well through the SDK system. Is that?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“They'll aggregate some data for us, but it's not a hard count that the county would accept No, it's not about the counties for our information, but is it part of the system now, or it's something separate We have to go to I'm sorry to have this could be separate sir. Is that something we have to pay for I?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I saw the report earlier today. And I saw the average speed. I just didn't see a count.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mayor, I just wanted to follow up. The reason why is because, for example, on Zone 1, collectively, we've seen a lot more traffic going through that area, 77th, 78th, 80th Street, and so the idea of how do we start mitigating and protecting our neighbors when we have all this construction going on there And how do we figure out what money to allocate and try to figure out first we need to do the implemental plan and trying to get a really good plan and execution in place. So I think that's where it all started for my side specifically on zone one. I know Commissioner Rodriguez has been…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT POINT, I WASN'T AWARE THAT WE DID A STUDY SPECIFICALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW. I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE NOT APPLES ON APPLES. WOULD THAT BE ACCURATE?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And just to follow up, I think most of these line items for Safe Streets also have allocations from USDOT, which is the funding source, which is, where's that funding source? It's not from?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“So we're getting federal dollars for this? We hope to.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“We had conversations a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago, in reference to another crosswalk on 80th Street and 58th Avenue, connecting two parks on the crosswalk there. Is there any way that we can add that to the budget with my colleagues? At least we could talk about it.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“With my colleague's consent, yeah. I would like to.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“JUST WALK ME THROUGH AGAIN REAL QUICK, DIRECTOR. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MASTER PLAN AND ALL THE PLANS THAT WE HAVE FOR TRAVEL ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“MAYOR? SIR? JUST SOMETHING SMALL. LINE ITEM 67, GENE WILLIS PARK, THE SIGNAGE, WHAT'S ALLOCATED THERE? I KNOW IT'S SMALL. 10,000. WHAT IS IT FOR?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I Think that's true on the south side, but on 53rd Terrace. It's not the same It's not parking's on an issue on there. They're not using as at a parking lot on 53rd Terrace So that might be and it's a lot smaller. It's not as big as it is on the south side So just keep that food for thought”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yep. 116 doesn't have a price line. Can you just update us on that? What's the vulnerability study, implementation and pending? What is that?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Director, one of the things that we spoke recently was about GIS digital twins and digitizing a lot of the stuff that we want to start moving into the 21st century. What I only see here on the GIS side, is there a plan, master plan, a platform that we have in place or looking to incorporate all these future endeavors that will be very cost effective and good return on our investments?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026