Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“Is it appropriate for us to move into reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard at this time?”
“all right so reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard is now open i will call your name seeing that i have several registered to speak um you will have one minute to speak i state the item on which you're speaking on your name and address and please be respectful of other people's time i will start I'd also like to welcome some elected officials that I know we have in the chamber today. I don't know if everyone's here, but I know some city of Miami elected officials are here. I see Gabela, I see Pardo, and I see Rosado. Thank you guys for being here. And with that, actually, if you…”
“Wow, that was great. Thank you, Commissioner.”
“Jason Liberty, President and CEO of Royal. Phil Err, Joe Capo, John Armbrust, George Rovirosa, Salomon Sinord, Duce Martinez, Noel Cleland, and Theophilus Williams. All right, wow. You all speaking together?”
“All right, so who, is it most that I just called right now?”
“Mr. President, just, sorry, I've allowed you the liberty.”
“I'm almost done. To continue given that I'm assuming everyone behind you is going to yield, is yielding their time.”
“All right. Up next. I think there's more people standing than what I called, but pretty sure.”
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“Thank you, sir. All right, I have Gerard van den Hovel, Theophilus Williams. Geneva Claus, Jeff Agron, Steve Leifman, Sharon Frazier, Mighty V Betancourt, Stanley Young, and Rabbi Jessica Jacobs.”
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“Thank you. Mr book. Appreciate it. And thank you for that as well. All right. Um, that is all the speakers I have registered to speak on a reasonable opportunity. Um, so therefore reasonable opportunity is now closed. Madam attorneys in order to set the agenda at this time.”
“It's been moved by a second vice chair second by commissioner Lopez all in favor of setting the agenda with all of those 2 ways one just from service to mission Hardeman on the agenda is on the agenda.”
“All right, so with that, all in favor of Commissioner- Mr.”
“All right. Anyone else? All right, with that, all in favor of setting the agenda, signify by saying aye.”
“All opposed, nay. Show the item, the agenda here set. All right, so. We have a time certain, as most of you probably noticed, on two items, on AJ1 and 14A1. I am going to first take up AJ1, which is our fuel farm item. But before we begin on it, I'd like to make a statement to lay out some groundwork for today's discussion. There are a number of issues that require us to limit what is said publicly today. As we all know, we are making a decision today about entering into an eminent domain litigation. We have already been sued. the fisher island condo association and the fisher island club so…”
“Absolutely, as long as it doesn't, I mean, you've been doing this long enough. You know that what could hurt us in litigation and what won't. So let's just keep that in mind as we all discuss this, but I'm sure we will have plenty of discussion on it. So with that, I will call the item officially, AJ1. And I can start- Through the Chair. Yes, Madam Mayor.”
“That works, yeah. I was going to start with the sponsor of the item, but you're welcome to lead.”
“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Commissioner Gilbert, would you like to, as a sponsor of the item, say something now? Or would you like me to go to the pooling commissioners?”
“Commissioner from District 8, you're recognized.”
“So is that it? You accept it? All right, so it's a friendly amendment. And then just for procedural, are you moving the item as well? As amended?”
“All right, so it's been moved as amended, seconded by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins. And then I have Commissioner from District 7, you're recognized.”
“Commissioner from District 5, it was going to be you, but Commissioner from District 11, you're recognized.”
“If you could please, while you do that, and you could probably do that. First of all, I want to thank you, Commissioner Gonzalez, for actually asking the attorneys if your line of questioning was accurate. On that note, A, I encourage all my colleagues that are going to speak to do the same. And B, to the attorneys, if you can just, I said I would be jumping in, but if you catch something that I don't, please feel free to jump in and just advise any commissioner of the same. But go ahead.”
“Commissioner from District 5, you're recognized.”