Government Efficiency & Transparency Ad Hoc Committee - Regular Meeting

Okay. We don't have a quorum, but that doesn't keep us from moving forward with the presentation. So we're going to start with the invocation of the Pledge of Allegiance like we always do. So if you could all please...

Thank you so much, Roy. And by the way, that is the highest ranking invocation we've had here in a long time. So maybe it'll get me up there a little bit quicker. So thank you, Roy. Thank you very much. Because he's an important guy. All right. So the I want to thank all of you that are here, including, you know, in the back of the director. Is he who? I appreciate you being here and Manny also for being here. And we're going to have these young men and women. Oh, and the county. Sorry, if I forget the attorneys, I don't want you guys. We're going to do the presentation, which is not going to

Okay, before Roy, because there might be some questions, I want to point out two things. You know, we've already requested legislation based on this report from our colleagues on the dais and the chair. And you've got my commitment that we're going to try to move forward and Obviously working with the administration on whatever else, the second and third part of this. But I wanted to point out one thing that the gentleman who started this is a Trojan. He graduated from Hialeah, Miami Lakes. There's also another graduate of Hialeah, Miami Lakes on this dais. That's me. Uh, and I went to pace an

One of the things, Roy, that I'm glad you brought up the fog ordinance, because we're already talking through our office with the federal administration and the state, which don't seem to have an objection to even if we cannot get out of that consent decree, because that requires some legal maneuvers, no legal document is impossible to amend. And what our office is working on is let's amend the ordinance with, obviously, the approval of these two other governments, which have no objection to it, so we can actually bring some relief to the small businesses without impacting what we have to comp

And I met them at Miami-Dade County League of Cities meeting, and it really caught my eye because you don't get to see that very often in today's world, not only in your generation, trust me, that they're carrying people, young people, and carrying people, period. that care about our government and how it works and how to make things better for our community. And that is what a democracy is all about as we celebrate these 250 years of the greatest democracy in the history of mankind. So thank you very much for being here. And you've got my commitment that I will take a couple of your suggestio

And with that, I guess we have nothing else. We'll adjourn. But thank you for being here. And I wanted, Roy, the reason why we wanted to have this presentation is because I don't want it to keep on getting delayed. Yes, they could send it. And Manny's done a fantastic job. A fantastic job. And I don't say that because I beat him in basketball when Doral played Miami Leagues twice, but that's okay. I just wanted to remember that. But Manny's done a fantastic job, but we need to turn some of these ideas, as we were talking about yesterday, some of these things have to happen. We need to put asid