Remarks by Tom Keen
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 29:26
“Good afternoon, Mayor. Thank you very much. Over the past several weeks, been another busy stretch here in District 1. I want to take a moment to highlight some of the work that's been happening across the community. I had a chance to get behind the scenes and look at some infrastructure that keeps our region moving. I toured the FAA airport tower at Orlando International with GOA, as well as a waste management construction recycling facility. I Bet you can figure out which one I enjoyed more. So much of what makes Orlando work happens behind the scenes, and I appreciate the professionals who…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Where do I start, sir? Thank you, Mayor. I've got probably an hour and a half worth of questions, so I'm going to try to limit it here to a few things. First, Mike, I've got a question for you. I know Orange County is looking at a new ordinance, and I would want to make sure that whatever ordinance that we come up with, it mirrors that so that we don't end up with a patchwork of ordinances across the county. And I'm just I want to make sure, I noticed in your presentation you talked about the current, but you didn't talk about their new ordinances coming up. Have you had an opportunity to…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Sure. But I do think consistency is extremely important. Whatever they do, as long as we agree with it, that we mirror it and we don't end up with different things. So, for example, I don't know whether they're going to require photo IDs while operating. What kind of photo ID is an 8-year-old going to have? I mean, I look at that, and your comment up front was do something that's enforceable, and yet then you come up with a photo ID, and it's kind of like, okay, is that really...”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“And then that age restriction was another question I had. You mentioned that we have to comply with state law, and state law doesn't have an age restriction. Are you saying that because they don't have it in law, we could actually impose an age restriction separate?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“OK. And you have a recommendation for an age?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“be able for an officer to look and say that's a 10-year-old or 12-year-old. Correct.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“And I noticed in here, again, I realize it's not your recommendation, but you talk about sidewalks and things like that. My concern about sidewalks is that There are a lot of streets that it's really not safe regardless of whether there's a bike lane there or not. And I'm gonna use Narcoossee as an example. There is a bike lane, but cars travel 45 and obviously they're gonna go faster. I wouldn't want my, I won't want to ride on it unless that was with a group. I certainly wouldn't want a child to be out there on that road, I want them to be on the sidewalk. And I would say a lot of the times…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right, thank you very much for that. And I would just say, Chief Smith showed some videos here that look like they were taken right in my neighborhood, no question that they were. But a lot of those videos, those were not e-bikes, those were e-motos that were in a lot of those videos. And I'd caution us to make sure that a lot of those Commissioner Sheehan, would you call them a group, you call them a pack? Yeah. A lot of those, and they are mostly boys, there's no question, but a lot of those folks are not on e-bikes, they're on e-motos, right? So there's another caution there that we…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Good afternoon, Mayor. Commissioners, everyone join us today here in person and online. As always, I want to highlight some of the great things happening throughout District one. It's been a while since the last council meeting Last few weeks have been busy and a great reminder of just how much is happening here in Orlando. I had the opportunity to spend some time with our young people as the afternoon all-star and YMCA summer programs began wrapping up. I want to thank the staff, counselors, and volunteers. These programs gave our kids opportunities to run their very own restaurant and to…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“So I don't know if this is an actual question for you, but maybe we can find out. I know with Save Our Homes, we're limited to 3%. So on page two, we say that the non-homestead property assessment increase will go from 10 down to 5. is how big of an impact is that has it been over 5 every year for the last 10 years or have we kept that is the property assessor kept that assessment down below that number no i mean in some cases it's been over five percent you know i mean in some cases it's maxed out at ten percent it's been it's been a variation of it”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Just a quick question. So on capital improvement program by department, that's a mix of general fund as well as other funds, right?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Well, and just going back to some earlier comments here, I think it's kind of important to highlight where that money comes from. Because as we heard, we don't have enough money to pave the streets. or repave the streets, right? And that is coming from general fund, right?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“As opposed to sanitary sewers, which is coming from the enterprise fund.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“So breaking them out, I mean, we could easily say that we're, you know, $30 million a year in repaving and we're underwater every year and we're not getting any better. The backlog continues to grow. And that's out of the general fund.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026