Remarks by Andrea Travani
143 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
- Play at 15:10
“Yeah, so I just want to echo the words of Commissioner Vildosta. It's not easy to be here in the morning. I appreciate that you found the time to come to show up and give us your opinions. We got emails, we got phone calls, and we like it that way. But I really hope that in the future we don't do this unless there is really a compelling reason. So.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I just want to look at this from a practical standpoint. We've been meeting for maybe six months now, and this ordinance was in place. What's interesting is that usually you don't have a lot of people attending the meetings when it's ordinary business, and therefore the inefficiency that we get out of The ordinance, the way it stands now, I think is quite frankly minimal. We may have, I don't know, 20 more minutes or 30 more minutes that are going to be added or have been added to our meetings because people come up and speak. I don't know if it makes sense to get rid of that time because…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, so I was going to ask, can we at least keep the nines, maybe also the first ordinance in there? And I'm saying this because you've seen that. I mean, we've all seen that. When we go and we talk about... You said the nines? Yeah, on the agenda, you know, the items under the discussion items so that people have the residents have the right to speak on the discussion items. I'm saying this because when we talk about all these initiatives, I find it beneficial to hear from some of the residents who have a different perspective. And usually, at that time, there's maybe four people left. So…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 52:56
“But right now, I think that, because I'm trying to reconcile the email that we got from Steve with what you're saying.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 53:26
“I guess my question is very specific. So when we get to the discussion items and So as a standard, they will need to be addressed during good and welfare.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 53:38
“No. No. So every, right, because that's, I guess, what the town authority. Remember, good and welfare is for everything not on the agenda. Not on the agenda. Now, do I enforce that? No, but that's what our code says. All right. So then residents are still able to come and with every discussion item, speak their mind and give us their comments.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 54:35
“So when we set up that meeting, then we can go item by item and residents can give us their time. Yeah.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 57:58
“So did you just ask the town attorney to look also into the word slanders to see if there's any conflicts with the First Amendment or any of that? I'm not taking that.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, because this is kind of important. Can they give us an opinion on that? Let me ask you, if I take out the word slanderous, are you going to vote yes on this item? And provided that we have that conversation on that, like a separate meeting where people can speak on this. The motion has been made.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Listen, I'm going to say yes if we also have the, which is not part of the motion, I understand that, but you said that, so I want to make sure that we do that at some point where we have a conversation, like a separate meeting on the 9th where people can have this ability to speak on every item. Can we do that?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, then I would vote yes. Yeah, yeah, I'm taking out slanders, and I would vote yes.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 59:49
“I was asking for information, yeah, I'm curious. All right, so can we take it out and then I will vote yes. We do that? I'll leave it up to the motion makers. Motion maker? So at least we have a little consensus we can.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So are we taking that out or no? The worst line. Sorry, it's just to verify. Because that depends if I'm going to vote yes or no. Maybe we should ask the attorney's opinion before.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right, so following up to what the town attorney was saying, I could vote yes if we can have this step two that is just described and maybe instruct the town attorney to work on that and clarify so that we also take a look at the discussion items and make sure that people have the right to speak on those. then I will vote yes.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“With the comment that I just made, which I don't know how, I mean, this instruction would be part of the... Well, after the motion, I'll quickly instruct them, yeah.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so a couple of thoughts here. On one side, I want to clarify that it's important that we separate the role that we have with the role that the town staff has. So in other words, it's like in a business, right? So the town manager is the CEO. We are the board. So it's important that we avoid... being in the way of the town business. What that means is that if I was the CEO of a company, I wouldn't want to have the board sit in my building or in my office that is that is something that uh is like you don't do but now i'm pragmatic by now you guys know that so i i…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I'm trying to focus on the problem. I happen to believe that having an ordinance for this might not be the best way to solve the issue. Just because there's an ordinance which nobody goes out to enforce doesn't really help. So I wanted to look at this from another angle. What if we can repeal this ordinance but replace it with instructing Parks and Rec to look into an educational program where we were really able to start the conversation with residents about the dangers of, you know, digging holes without filling them and the issues that caused the death of this child a couple of years ago…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Question, so that would be able to, are you okay with instructing Parks and Rec maybe to look into an educational?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So question, can I make a, can we vote on this and then can I make a motion on, uh, on, on parks and rec or it would need to be an agenda item and, uh,”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I think that one of the biggest issues that we have in Florida, well, in the whole world for that matter, is the citizens' distrust in the government in general, especially in local government. This is gonna be one of the major issues with the upcoming property tax ballot question, right? People look at the local government, and they see, for some reason, corruption. They see inefficiency. They see people that spend money left and right. And a lot of that is not true. However, it's something that people think. I would actually do the opposite thing. keep the law that we have now, the…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“One o'clock. It's one o'clock, right? It's about 30. 30 minutes.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah, with the previous years and strengths, we can say it's sort of a stress test. I don't know.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 5:55
“Yeah, I was going to ask. Do you want me to go over there? Okay. Good if we see it.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“That's... Can I ask you if you could go on maybe presentation mode so that it... Yeah, I just have to... Yeah, down at the bottom. Almost, no, up, up left. A little bit to the right. One more. There you go. Well, now.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Let's see, capital project. 3.69 from the right. Wait, what was it? 3.69. Let me see. The Surfside Memorial Park. Thank you. Yeah, on the page, page 133. So much better with page numbers now.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026