Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“All right, congratulations. All right. Well, he's not here either. Let's see.”
“If that's what staff is saying, then that's what it is. Thank you, staff. All right. Let's take item 8C1. Anything to read into the record?”
“All right, we'll now open up public hearing. I have no public speakers signed up to speak, so I will now close public hearing. Is the applicant here?”
“All right. I mean, does the same way that the last one commissioner from district six, you're recognized.”
“It's been moved, it's been seconded by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins. Seeing no further discussion, clerk, please call the roll.”
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“I'll go ahead and open up public hearing at this time. I don't have anyone. Any public? No. All right, so public hearing is now closed. I see the applicant at the well.”
“Prepared. All right. Like how many hours, billable hours have you prepared? Efficient. Commissioner from District 5, you're recognized.”
“All right, it's been moved. It's been seconded by the Vice Chair. Seeing no further discussion. Everything good? Clerk, please call the roll.”
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“All right. I have no speaker, so public hearing is open, and it is closed. The applicant is already ready, also very well prepared, I assume. You want to introduce yourself?”
“Self-awareness is so good. I love it. Congratulations. Number one quality in a person almost. Commissioner from District 5, you're recognized.”
“Commissioner from the 5th District moves the item. Seconds by Commissioner Gilbert. Clerk, please call the roll.”
“congrats all right so i have two left and the district commissioners are not here so i don't know what the will the body will be in the past it could go either way but i guess i'll start with one in district three and one in district 11. we normally defer is not here so for district 11. unless there's a memorandum or a staff for my other staff i'd like to hear the presentation on um for a On which one? On 4A? Yeah. Without the district commissioner?”
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“So if we hear- All right, so what about, let's go with- Let's go 8B1, and although the district commissioner's not here, I don't know if his staff is here, but I do have speakers for 8B1, and they're all in favor of the application. So I don't know if that sways our decision here on this dais. Can my office try to locate, see if someone from his office is available while we wait? And then do we know if commissioner Hardiman is on his way. Do we know has anybody I'm going to go forward. You want to move you want to check what we can check with. You want to take up the 1 in district 3. All…”
“all right um public hearing is now open and i have without the commissioner here yep he's coming all right the commissioner is coming all right well i'm going to call your name are you the applicant i'm going to call the public speakers first so everyone's in favor of it i don't know if you all want to actually speak or wave in support but i have five Alexis Santos, Giancarlo Vergara, Jarek Mariategui, Alessa Calderon, and Maria Garcia Essen-Wanger. Do you want to stand? I'm for it. You're waving in support? All of you are waving in support? Awesome. Okay. All right. Those are the five that I…”
“Gonzalez is coming. Great, perfect, okay. But we're on 4A. We're on 4A, we're on District 3s. Okay, so everyone wave in support. Public hearing is now closed. All right, to the applicant. Is that the, guys, I see, Commissioner Gilbert, what's going on here? What are we doing? Because I see half the body is trying to see if we defer, half the body is seeing if we hear the presentation. No, I'm not, I'm doing something else.”
“Yes? Okay. All right. That's all I needed to know. I just saw confusion on the days. All right. Please proceed with the presentation. How much time are you going to need?”
“So just for clarification, the folks that I called up earlier and Are for another application it's for a b1 so we have all those that we've been supported and I have one That signed up a little late which I'll call up in a moment, but when the time comes But either way, I have no no one registered to speak on this item. So same applies public hearing was open and closed Commissioner from district 3 recognized”
“Thank you so much. And officially, just for the record, I'm going to go ahead and close public hearing at this time and recognize the District Commissioner.”
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“All right. Show Commissioner Gilbert present as well. All right. Now, if you can please quietly stand for the invocation given this morning by Rebetson Shani Lipsker of the Shoal of Bell Harbor at the invitation of Commissioner Steinberg. And he is accompanied this morning by Bell Harbor Mayor Salver and Bay Harbor Island Mayor Salver. So thank you all for being here this morning. And please bow your heads for an invocation.”
“Amen. Thank you so much for those heartfelt words. And thank you again, Commissioner Steinberg, for having them out this morning. If you cannot join me for the pledge.”
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