Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“Thank you commissioner commissioner from district to you recognized.”
“All right, Commissioner from District 12, you're recognized.”
“Commissioner from District 7, you recognize?”
“Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Bermudez, you recognize that Love Island is actually your show of preference?”
“Commissioner Cohen-Higgins, you're recognized.”
“Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you for that. All right. Listen, I've been listening very closely, and I'll call a question here shortly. Look, I'm going to support this item because on the surface of it, and not on the surface, actually, the reality of this item is I look at it as something like a scrutiner's error or correction of the legal description on to what this item is. my only hesitation with it and i said this back whatever that was nine ten months ago and it's still my hesitation today is the very real risk associated with the eminent domain proceedings and the risk even if…”
“Commissioner from District 1 for a closing.”
“It's been moved. It's been seconded as amended. As amended. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed nay.”
“Show the item passed, just reflecting one nay. All right. Now, thank you all. Please exit quietly if you were here on the fuel farm item. Please exit quietly. That is not quietly. That is the opposite of quiet. That is the opposite of quiet. Please exit quietly. And while they exit, to my lovely attorneys and staff, I looked at you all kind of funny yesterday when you were optimistic and thinking we could put both of these items time certain for the same time. And that my colleagues were not going to really elaborate. They were optimistic. the some in the county attorney's office and some on…”
“With its supplement, yes. Can we please finish exiting? There's a lot of people here for Fuel Farm. All right. So first, of course, I want to start. By thanking everyone involved in getting us to where we are today on this mental health item. And what I anticipate today will be the supportive action to move this building in the direction for it to open its doors in the coming months. So first I want to start by thanking Judge Leifman. I would allow it for Judge Leifman because he has been working on this for 20 plus years and your passion, dedication and leadership for those 20 plus years has…”
“It's been moved. It's been seconded by Commissioner Regalado. Madam Mayor, you have the floor.”
“I let the first one slide because it was warranted, of course.”
“Thank you, Madam Mayor. With that, Commissioner from District 2, you're recognized.”
“Thank you commissioner. All right. And I skipped, I skipped, I'm going to add you guys. Now I skipped, um, the actual pooling commissioner. So commissioner from district that you recognized.”
“Thank you commissioner and thank you for sharing that personal story with us. I would I will recognize now have in line the commissioner from District 5, but I want to add. I should have said this earlier, but I want to thank my co-chairs for our intergovernmental committee, both co-chair Lopez and chair Orbis, and all the members that sit on that committee. I know that includes, you all know who you are, because if it wasn't for your tough questions and what could have been posed or was posed in the news of stalling, or moving the goalposts, we wouldn't be here today with this more perfected…”
“Thank you again, Commissioner, for all your leadership during these negotiations. Commissioner from District 11 is next on my list, but I don't see him. So you may be, I'll have the Vice Chair, D11, and then I can add you to the list as well. Commissioner from District 11, you're recognized.”
“Commissioner from District 7, you're recognized.”
“Thank you. Thank you for that, Commissioner. Vice Chairman. All right, Commissioner from District 4, for your one-liner. She's going to hold it against me. Yeah, for your one-liner. Go ahead, Commissioner.”
“Commissioner from District 2, you recognize? Yep, you are.”
“Thank you, Commissioner, for those words. And as I get ready to call the vote, I just want to say, and echoing a little bit of what Commissioner Bastien just said, but I'm going to go in a little different direction, is we've praised A lot of the folks in this room for their hard work, and sure enough, we've all worked tirelessly. I know I have my staff, the administration, a lot of staff, many other commissioners here, as well as Judge Leifman, the justice system, the chief judge and her team, Jackson's team. I mean, we've all worked tirelessly, but the vote that I'm about to call isn't…”
“Thank you, Commissioner Haman. Many, many champions and leaders, but this is all done for those that are personally affected. So with that, all in favor signify by saying aye.”
“All opposed, nay. Show the item officially passed. Congratulations. Thank you all. And for those that were here on this very sensitive and important topic and item, please exit quietly. Guys, please exit quietly. We have a lot. All right.”
“Mickey keeps us, you know. So, all right, guys, again, please exit quietly, and congratulations to everyone that was here in favor of this item. In fact, I don't think I had anybody here opposing it, so congratulations again. Judge, I think people will follow your lead as soon as you exit. Judge Leifman, I think people are gonna follow your lead as soon as you exit. All right. I have, if the attorneys can, before we get into first readings and the rest of the agenda, I have a motion that I'd like to make, and I just didn't want to make it at the end. I wanted you all to have the opportunity…”
“So it's, yeah, I mean, like I accept the co-sponsorship, but it's a motion. I don't know how that works, but yes. Okay, you could co-sponsor a motion. All right. So it's been moved. It's been seconded. Commissioner Hartman.”
“And commissioner, let me kind of give you some you and all others. Uh, so we were, we were selected, uh, by the. U. S government to host the world expo on behalf of the U. S. And by that means we weren't selected by the host committee. We were selected by, uh, the administration, the federal government, uh, to apply to see if we're, uh, granted this, uh. if we're selected by the World Expo Committee. And we haven't done this in, the U.S. has not participated in decades. There is not enough FIFAs, there is not enough championship games, Super Bowls that we can count in our lifetime that will…”