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City Commission Meeting <br />March 24, 2003 <br />Page 28 <br /> <br />I have no problems signing and moving on to issues like redevelopment, that's what I ran on, <br />that's what I believe in and that is what I am going to see happen one way or another by hook or <br />by crook. They have only been effective as long in my opinion because we are in transision and <br />they have us at a very vulnerable time and they are very well aware of that and they are taking <br />advantage of it. It's nasty but it is life but hopefully we now get our City Manager and we move <br />on. Like I said I will go door to door, I don't have any problem with that, it may take a little f~me <br />off work, but I'll get out and talk to people, you talk to people I think we will be successful and <br />looking at all the choices and the choice could end up being Progress Energy. And that is what is <br />so absurd about this whole thing. It's really a if it is I am not sure that I want to renew them for a <br />long time. I not sure I am going to any functions that they sponsor, I think I'm going to have to <br />abstain but I wouldn't have any problem having a conference with them. <br /> <br />HART: ! am just trying to keep in mind and I expressed this to everybody. It is not just now <br />that we need to be concerned with, we need to be concerned with the residences long after we are <br />gone from this Commission. We need to be concerned fifteen, twenty and thirty years down the <br />road. Because we are signing a thirty year contract and that is what we have to look at, not just <br />what we want now. Now when I say that, they kind of get this look on their face that, you know <br />you are right and you go out and really start talking to people, just picking up the phone and <br />talking to people and they realize that that mean commissioner Linda Hart has you know has a <br />voice and has a face. We live in this City and pay the same bills that they do, it just kind of breaks <br />down that wall. <br /> <br />PRONOVOST: You are absolutely right, certainly one of the concerns that I have always had <br />is making sure that since it is a long term, thirty year agreement, long after any of us will be here, I <br />hope to be retired at that point, but I want to make sure that we are not setting up a future <br />commission thirty years from now from having to face the same type of a battle, setting them up <br />for failure at a future point in time, so long term impact obviously is. <br /> <br />HART: I think we all need to do that and I made a lot of new friends with this so actually in a <br />way I am really kind of grateful that that letter went out because I don't think I talked to any of <br />those people. <br /> <br />DOERNER: I think it actually had a very, it had a reverse effect and I think that was kind of <br />interesting, I had fun with that, I intend to be an optimist. I thought that was pretty nice, you. <br /> <br />CLARK: I wasn't really going to talk about Florida Power but I will comment a couple of <br />things. Number one, I am sending a letter out to the people that gave me addresses and names. I <br />found a lot of things that I got were form letters with just a signature, no address, no return, same <br />letter with my name taped on the envelope. It wasn't even written on the envelope. So some of <br />these people I couldn't even contact and being gone for the past week or so here, I haven't really <br /> <br /> <br />