Remarks by Alix Desulme, Ed.D.
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“We'll have the Pledge of Allegiance by Major Raymond Maycock of the North Miami Police Department, followed by invocation by Pastor Geraldine Whitaker of the New Way Holiness Outreach Ministry. And then we'll get into the hearing for today. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Pastor. I think we have everybody here.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Okay thank you and then we'll move to tab a.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Thank you so much, madam clerk. Mister attorney, I'm sorry, madam manager. How do we move? Do we is a discussion on what we do open into public hearing I can't recall. Yeah, I'm not OK well. I think we already did yes, since we already know we did not increase the myth the military the property taxes went on with the property assessment of the city. Hello, vice mayor. For the record, I have and he's nice mayor arriving at 5.10PM yeah. So public hearing is open on top a public hearing this is just a millage rate. Seeing none public hearing is close since we already so motion to approves move…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Thank you so very much. Tab be there. Public hearing is open on tab be you mean to be the whole thing. Fixing them public in his clothes. Madam manager any.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“There's two mics. If you're planning on speaking on this item, please use the other one as well.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“There's a couple of things before we get into the discussion of the budget I wanted to address. First and foremost, there isn't any increase in terms of our budget. This is the same millage rate we had last year. What this is saying that there has been an increase in the property values. Countywide it's not that we there's an increase in Your taxes in terms of that it's it's been I think we've been having the same rate for the past three or four years Whatever the five five years on Thank You councilwoman, so there isn't no increase. That's number one in terms of and that all of us decided…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Yes, thank you for that clarification, and that just goes to my point. We don't want to be here on Friday, but there are certain things, and by law, we had to start the meeting. That's why I was the only one up there. Councilwoman was in her office, and Kevin was right there, and then the attorney said, just open it at 5 or 1. We must, by state law, state statute, start the meeting at 5 or 1. So that much I know in terms of that. So it's not something that I know that we did intentionally or trying to get folks to come. But again, it's my understanding and always has been, by the time this…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“No we went with your we we should be. I think you had the meeting you shared your notes with my office, but we didn't court name we didn't have that mean no no we I we had the meeting in terms of that in wheat what we're going to do on Monday all of the departments that need to be there and we invited Gabby in terms of the summary.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“um had begun with the city and so now we do need to have a formal relationship if they would like to be a vendor thank you for that because i was a little taken back also because i was under the impression it was um discretionary money that we we gave them and so i i didn't really know i think that the federal government took their money away or trump oh um so yeah please come on yeah no okay yeah i think this administration has taken away every you know yes We kind of especially with the you know doing the environment work, but I was not under the impression make some change and I think the…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Which community? When you say the community. Acena.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“One person, please. So... If the homeowners, so they approve it. And we don't want to have, I just wanted some clarification because we have a long meeting. But thank you. Thank you both. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Yeah, she just said to you, we didn't know anything about it, that we'll work and we'll do what we do. Because we didn't know anything about it. you know, Arch Creek, you know, the homeowners authorized, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Thank you so much. Excuse me? No, no, no, no, no, no. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Have a good one. Thank you. All right. So what we will do in terms of... I think I addressed the flat cameras. I addressed the quality of life. Someone mentioned the Nomi Fest, the $800,000. First and foremost, they talked about, I don't have nothing…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Okay, thank you Councilman Burns and Councilman Charles.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Okay, Councilwoman Irving, everybody stay put. We are going to be here for a long night. It's my understanding. But go ahead. Yeah, no, he just announced it, because we have to give them direction and go. Because second budget, it's... By the time we get to the second budget, it should already been... We got to... LEGISLATED AND TELL THEM WHAT WE NEED SO WE HEAR SOME OTHER STUFF SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BE AS EASY SECOND ONE WILL BE VERY EASY WILL BE IN AND OUT BUT TONIGHT IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE SOME STUFF BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET THAT THEY PRESENT TO US I'M SORRY GO AHEAD…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“that's that's all my question for now thank you all right thank you so much councilwoman um estimator irving and all of my colleagues um some of the issues that i've heard today and i wanna the reason i say you know it wasn't the intent to go um department by department um i had that was not the intent but obviously some of my colleagues had different things and i did not expect that because i i do think this has been a long budget process and being out in the community folks um you know would say whatever they needed from the council person and or they they may they may say it at these…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“He made some comments, Councilman Charles made some comments. So what I think we could do, Vice Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“That's what I thought that we were going to do, but they had specific line items and specific things that they would like to see in terms of cut. If we're going to do that, then I wasn't open to- Can we do that through the manager? i mean we can but they would not they wouldn't well no the manager normally comes back with a change memo that it will be available to the public so either way we could do it tonight or on the on the 15th i'm i'm more going towards the 15th but i would like to if what i'm asking and i i probably will take your lead on this not necessarily to do it department by…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“I think that's proper. Which is fine, but I wanted to hear the specific because last time we did that and I started getting texts, oh, I didn't know they did backroom deals. But the change memo is posted on the agenda, is it not?”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“Vice Mayor. This was even on you know we had the workshops we had these in all I'm saying I'm not asking that we do line by line, but if they are you clear on the specific the councilman talked about because I could talk about some specific to and then we call it a day.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026