Ben Sorensen

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9,257 appearances 42 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2023 last heard 15 Sep

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Fort Lauderdale City Commission · City Commission Joint Workshop with BAB and Conference Meeting on 2026-06-16 1:00 PM - Jun 16, 2026 · 16 Jun 2026 meeting

Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

Great.

All right.

If you come on up and state your name, you have two minutes.

Hi.

Douglas Meade, District 1.

I wasn't planning on speaking, but I just want to respond to this, that most citizens don't know the difference.

You all know what a general fund is or this is.

All we know is we pay taxes, okay?

And we know everything that comes out of the city comes from money we pay taxes.

So, sitting in big things saying 60.4% is almost fear-mongering, and what we should be sending out to the people is, yes, it's going to be this, you know, at whatever percent we think it's going to reduce, it means this amount of money, and maybe we can put it in relation to what's the budget for STRATCOM, or what's the budget for the mayor's office, or put it in context somewhere, not just...

THROW OUT OUR BUDGET AND SAY, WELL, LOOK AT THIS IS WHAT WE PAY FOR AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NO PARKS AND HAVE NO THIS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE THINK.

SO I THINK WE SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, TEMPERING DOWN PEOPLE'S FEAR AND NOT, YOU KNOW, ACTING IT FOR A REASON THAT WE WANT YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FEAR-MONGERING WITH THIS PARTICULAR THING.

BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT TO SAY IS AS A CITIZEN, YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THE COMMISSION IS ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR THE CITY IN THE FUTURE AND SOMETIMES YOU LEARN SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE DISHEARTENING THAT

with the whole City Hall project, which I know has been discussed ad nauseum over and over again.

And it's always been a question on why we can't get a developer to do a real P3 that puts up a huge building.

It's profit-making to them with apartments.

We get free office space.

And, you know, why would someone say no to that if we made the right deal?

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