Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“The amendment does for now. And then I think from my understanding from the lawyers is that not administratively, but by this body legislatively, we can then bring legislation after this, assuming it passes, to maybe create park regions, because what we don't want to do is for folks to just start advertising in our four or five regional parks throughout the county, and then our small community neighborhood parks kind of start to fall behind. So we want to spread it, but we also want to try to contain the funds to sort of a zone. It doesn't necessarily need to be a commission district. We…”
“having money parked when parks needs a lot of help right now all right so the so so this just brings in the possibility for this revenue to start flowing into the county uh parks department specifically i want to make sure this isn't swept for any other department but that it stays within the park system and then we as as the legislative body when we approve our annual budget we decide kind of where we allocate the funds but it it'll stay within the park system it can it won't go to the district commissioner it won't go to uh water and sewer you know won't go to any other department uh other…”
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. And that's precisely why working with our parks director, we decided to amend it to give us some more flexibility on it being spread throughout the system. Commissioner Lopez.”
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“So colleagues, first and foremost, I'll say this is something I understand. I'll let the deputy mayor speak to it in a second, but this is something I understand the administration is supportive of. We've been working on trying to figure out what to do with this specific RFP. This was competitively bid out, and it was for two different locations. And all bidders just bid on one location, not on the other. So kind of our process here, that's of course something we're trying to fix now with the strip committee, which we'll be hearing about soon. You know, our process here would require for us…”
“And to answer the question, also to be recognized, unless she has more questions, Deputy Mayor.”
“When was that date, by the way? I want to know. Because I didn't really hold it for much longer than a month.”
“That's a long time. I think we should look at that. We should look at it, because I definitely did not hold that item.”
“I wouldn't do this if the attorneys didn't bless it. So if they change their mind now, then we have a bigger problem. So do you guys want to respond to the deputy mayor's concerns?”
“Okay, so is the motion accurate the way it's written? I'm sorry, because my staff was talking to me.”
“Uh, it is my understanding that from the, some bidders that have been in communication with the administration or with maybe our office, but I understand that there, It's acceptable to them to do it in this manner. Okay. Thank you, sir. That's my understanding. And this will save us six, seven, eight months of going back out to bid at best.”
“It sounds good with that. All in favor signify by saying aye.”
“All opposed, nay. Show that item passed. All right. And now, does that conclude our actual agenda as far as action items?”
“Which is presentations. But action items are all done, right? Correct. All right. All right, where do we start? First and foremost,”
“All right, we're going to start with the one that came up and spoke, or one of her representatives, our supervisor of election, Alina Garcia. Come on up.”
“Could you all quiet down? Yeah. Starts to get loud on the side.”
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“Thank you so much Mr property appraiser. All right, I'm going to kind of go a little bit out of order because I was rushing too quickly at the beginning by calling my friend and colleague. I'm actually going to recognize our office of management and budget to give their brief presentation before we continue with the constitutional officers. And then at the end, of course, we'll have questions, but. If my colleagues can save their questions to the end, pretty much for everybody, yes.”
“Thank you. Um, and we'll hold the questions to the end, but, uh, commissioner Gilbert can, I know you may not be thrilled to do this, but I may need to entertain a motion.”
“At least another 30, 45 minutes. Yeah. All right. So let's do another 45 minutes for now. And then if we need to revisit it, we will, but, and if we end early, then we'll, we just tend early. Um, all right. So it's been moved. It's been seconded by commissioner Gonzalez on favor of extending signify by saying aye. Aye.”
“Correct, yes. I know I do see some here for airport, I believe so. Yes, immediately after Policy Council Aviation Committee will begin, Aviation and Port Committee. All right, so I think I'll save, I'm not going to save the best because then we all get jealous, but I will save the best for last. The sheriff for last, and I'll call up my friend and colleague clerk and quarter controller. Well, for that is breaking.”
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“Thank you very much All right, I'm sure that there's going to be several questions from the day is so Lead off with Commissioner Cohen Higgins and of course you can ask questions of the administration of OMB You can ask questions of any of the constitutionals that are present And just have an ebb and flow in Q&A as you wish”
“Thank you so much, Commissioner Lopez, you're recognized.”
“Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Gilbert.”