Remarks by Steven Meiner
128 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
- Play at 4:21:15
“All right, thank you. This is what I'm going to do, because I was just having some conversations with the clerk and legal, and we're trying to get We're going to take a break now. We're not going to continue the discussion, though. We're going to take the vote after we get back. This way everyone can collect their thoughts, make sure. No, we have to, because I think there's some confusion when we even, when I even just broached it, which item is which. Yeah, I mistakenly said that it was C, but option one is B.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 4:21:55
“Okay, we're breaking, we're coming back at 1.45 and then we're gonna take the vote. And Mr. Mayor, maybe one thing we can consider is”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:20:07
“Okay, welcome back to the afternoon session of our commission meeting. So this is what we're going to do. We have County Commissioner Mickey Steinberg here for some CRA votes. Thank you for being here. She claims that she has to be back downtown, so we're going to hear this item first. Then we're going to go to Sutnick and then back to the item, the Geobahn stormwater rate item. Welcome, Commissioner.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I have a question for Commissioner Steinberg.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:25:32
“Hope you make your next commitment. Okay, let's go to the subject portion, public comment.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:35:25
“Okay, so let's bring back R7. Thank you, everyone, for speaking on these topics. R7A, BC, and R9D, which we were talking about before the lunch break. Welcome back, John. Thank you. Glad to be back. Seriously? No, we appreciate it. There's a couple of things that could happen here right now because there's three proposals. I'm not sure we have the votes for any of them collectively, but what's gonna happen is I'm assuming once something fails, let's say somebody has a priority on A, Once that fails, they'll go to B. So we may have to actually take a vote, and we may have to have a motion for…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:39:19
“I really I'm gonna let it go but we I feel like we've been through this we got to take the vote I'm so I'm trying to get now you're asking questions I'm answer the question but I'm we've been through this for an hour and a half. PJ can you put the presentation up again?”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:41:46
“Okay, so unless anyone else wants to speak on where they're at, I'm going to call the vote. We have a motion and a second.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:44:47
“Okay, we have a motion and a second on R7. Is it B as the hybrid model?”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Okay. Let's call the no geo bonds, just the increase.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:46:54
“This is just on the rate increase. Oh, okay. No geo bond.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:47:09
“It was seconded by Commissioner Suarez. Hold on.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:50:31
“I don't know about that. We could take a vote and see if we have the 5.7. Then we could overturn the moratorium.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:50:50
“This is for the rate increase only of the hybrid version. No, no.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:51:09
“I mean, we can do it. The reason why I didn't do it that way, because I was trying to be fair to each one. So the first one we just voted for that failed needed five sevenths. Seriously, you didn't even get four. You didn't even get the four votes. So it wouldn't have passed regardless. I don't know. So I would take the vote. I would take the vote on this item, see where we're at, and then we'll kind of overturn the moratorium. I'm trying to be fair. Because I've told you where I fall, so I don't want to make it look like I'm trying to skew the vote with four votes on something that I'm…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“You're lifting the moratorium got it Which is why we don't need five because otherwise you need four I withdraw that's good because it's I can just add something I know we have Two who are supporting my two at the ends here. Well are supporting the geo bond model only is anybody else supporting that I Do you want me to call the vote just to have it on the record? Okay, I'm taking everyone that they're worried that that's the case. So if we have a motion and a second on the GEO bond only. We've had only two people say they're voting. Let's get that out of the way.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Okay. So what I want to do now, I know I'm getting a few suggestions here, is ALL THE SEWER RATE ITEM ONLY, THE SEWER RATE INCREASED PORTION, WITHOUT THE GEO BOND, IT NEEDS A 5-7 VOTE. IF THAT PASSES, IT PASSES. IF IT FAILS, THEN WE'LL GO TO REMOVE THE MORATORIUM. MIND YOU, THE HYBRID VERSION ONLY HAD THREE VOTES.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 5:59:01
“Vice Mayor Dominguez and we have Commissioner Suarez and then we've called two of the three votes. I want to call the third item that hasn't been called yet.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:02:35
“ACTUALLY, SEE, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. I DON'T VIEW IT THAT WAY. THE WAY I VIEW IT IS WE ARE FUNDING THE PROJECTS THAT WE WANT TO GET DONE IN THE NEXT FOUR, FIVE, SIX YEARS. WE DON'T HAVE THE, WITHOUT THE GEO BOND, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE FUNDING FOR NINE, TEN YEARS OUT, AND THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE REVISITED. BUT WE HAVE ENOUGH NOW, AND BASICALLY WHAT I AM COMFORTABLE IS NOT CHARGING OUR RESIDENTS AN EXTRA TAX AT THIS POINT AND IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. to do that. I think we can get done what we have to get done now.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“And I agree with that. Thank you, Commissioner Fernandez. If this was about picking winners and losers, I wouldn't be supporting this next vote and proposal just to raise. But what I'm hearing is we're going to fully fund the projects we need to just over a shorter time frame, maybe five years as opposed to 10. And I'm comfortable with doing that now. And I think it's actually fiscally the prudent thing to do. But how do we decide what projects to fund?”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:10:08
“We have a motion and a second already on the sewer rate increase.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:10:59
“So, you know, that's... Let's call the vote on the sewer rate increase portion of that hybrid without the GO bond component.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:11:16
“And by the way, in all fairness, I actually announced this is the way I'm going to do it. I'm going to call all three votes, which I have. I've called two of the three. And listen, we'll call it. If it doesn't pass, then we'll figure out the next option. But I really want to call this vote, and we're kind of delaying that.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:12:22
“I feel like these are just, these are literally morphed from the first two that failed.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
- Play at 6:14:07
“Guys, I'm calling the vote. I'm calling the vote. I literally laid out how I was gonna do it, and now I feel like you're stalling a vote that needs to be called. There's a motion and a second. I'm calling about, okay.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026