Remarks by Vince Nowicki
60 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“You know, the FAA barred any sort of, I think, you know, like DBE rating. And this is an old contract that it went out from 2024. And so I didn't know, you know, if they had any input on the email I sent them. I know it was kind of last minute, but, you know, I got an anonymous email last minute. So I just kind of forwarded it off. So I don't know if they had any thoughts that if we moved forward with this today, if it would be a reason for protest from another bidder based on how it was scored.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“So I think it went out to bid in 24 and then the FAA under President Trump issued an executive order in 2025 after this went out to bid. And so I think, again.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay. It says minority business status. Point D on the special conditions, 25 points.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“and the faa in that executive order said it should be based on merit and not based on minority status so considering the second bidder was only a few points behind this bitter i think it could be reason for protest well let me just ask a question this is obviously something we've”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“um you know if you want to waste your time money continue to do so but i think it's absolutely ridiculous um but like there you have it and i appreciate commissioner flowers's point i think what i agree with our administrator is that this went out in 2024 two years ago and was scored then And then this FAA guideline came out a year later, 2025, and what we're being brought was scored two years ago in a two-year-old contract, not after the FAA issued the executive order. I think that's...”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“changed in the year from this being bid reviewed and scored 25 wall change. Here we are 26. So again, this isn't delaying the construction. This isn't delaying, uh, I mean, it's, it's an owner's rep. And so I don't want to be sideways with the FAA when we're getting tens of millions of dollars to the airport.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah. And, Chair, just one last thing, and I'll stop. Go ahead. You know, just to Commissioner Flowers' point, I mean, you have men that are being discriminated against because they couldn't get 25 points just based on their sex. So, you know, men were discriminated against just based on their sex by not getting those extra 25 points that a woman would get just for being a woman. And that was the whole point of discrimination. The executive order was grants that are tied to FAA are based on merit and not someone's sex.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I would be supportive of the shade, but I also feel bad leaving our veterans hanging here, too. I mean, there's a veterans park we're not funding either. So, I mean, for Memorial, you know, what's that Purple Heart Memorial Park? I mean, so I mean, if we're going to start, you know, shade, I mean, I think our veterans are important to them.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“And chair, you know, I'll bring this up, um, and yak to, um, you know, our youth advisory committee, maybe there's a facility or something, maybe Karen or somebody can come in and talk to, you know, yak about, you know, mental health or care about me, you know, the program to help get into high school.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you chair. Um, the only new business I have, you know, I sent everybody an email last week talking about the flock camera, a license plate reader resolution. Um, you know, I'm happy to, you know, entertain and move that forward today. Um, though, if it's, you know, the kind of the will of this board to wait for the sheriff to come and do a presentation, you know, I'd like to get a list, uh, of the sheriff's, uh, inventory of assets. Um, of all the tools and devices that he has to fight crime. I support law enforcement. I support ICE and DHS too for the people that spoke earlier. So I…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, for me, I mean, it would be like a list of all assets used to fight crime. vehicles of all modes of transportation i don't know if they have robotic dogs that go after people uh mobile command centers it's a facial recognition uh big operation that's really um that's pretty tall list to ask for the sheriff i'd be happy to talk to him about it and forward that to him but yeah”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, generally, just nothing too encumbrance. We'll keep it to a page or less.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Anything else? Yeah, no, I mean, just again, you know, reiterate, you know, I called the sheriff before I, you know, emailed everybody because I do have respect for the sheriff. So I don't want that to be, you know, misconstrued, you know, as an independent elected. I gave him a call and reached out to him and sent him a copy of the resolution ahead of time to give him that respect. And we talked multiple times on the phone. so you know i'm looking forward to a robust conversation and um you know to hear his more perspective and and again don't want to take away anything from this but you…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. It's an interesting position to be in. I think I have an angel and a devil on my shoulder, so I'm split on the issue.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“And that is Pastor Flowers. That's good advice. But we'll see if we can get to saving that, but maybe making a cut somewhere else if I could get some support in other places, since that's what we're asking for now. How much money are we still putting aside for the new county campus?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“And so those last items on the blue graph of the cuts to get to the full rollback, what do those add up to?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, the just the last line to get to including the sheriff. Well, I mean, obviously, you know, we don't want to take away any more tools from the sheriff. So we're not going to touch that. Yeah.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“I'm okay with keeping the social action funding if we can decrease the amount that we're putting aside. Because when is it due for the bids for the new county campus?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“I misspoke. I apologize. The bids for the downtown Clearwater land, when is that the due date for those bids?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, because we may get in a scenario where we get no bids. You know, we'll know by our second budget hearing if we get bids or not. But, I mean, I think if we get no bids, that's going to dramatically change where we're at. budget-wise and what we're putting aside if we get no offers for the land. So again, I'm in favor of keeping the social action funding, but I would like to decrease what we're putting into the new county campus, putting aside that money for it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Or more. Or more. Because that's not a core, to a couple commissioners' points, is that, I mean, that's really not a core function of government. so uh... that might be what i call a great area i live in the great having housing for for folks is pretty important yeah i mean but we don't know i mean we don't know you know we don't know what amendment three is going to do you don't know how much the account of campus is going to cost you don't know if we're going to get any bids on the downtown clearwater land it's been active we'll know next friday we're going to”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Because I think the social action, I mean, I think it's a small amount in the overall large budget, like the yak, you know, if that's on the chopping block, I'm happy to sacrifice the full 5,000 for my office budget, but maybe we won't need to get that desperate. But, you know, so I'm in favor of keeping the social action funding only if we can find the money somewhere else. like in the reserves we're setting aside to reduce that amount. But I happily yield to my colleagues.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“The collection, the collection. Commissioner Nowicki. Chair, I don't know if Commissioner Scott had something first. Okay. Thank you. So with, you know, conversation of the reserves, I mean, I don't know if we can adopt in our budget a reserve level that is lower to even achieve a greater reduction. When you mean that wouldn't have an impact on millage? Well, yes, it would if we took if we lowered the reserve rate to 12 percent. and took the money difference between where we're at in 12% and applied it to the full rollback.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, I don't know. Okay, to that point, yes, I understand, but I don't know if we still can set a reserve policy to be lower and to just free up. Our reserve policy is 20.8%.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026