Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“Okay, and what about 5P and U? All right, so Commissioner Gilbert moves 5P and U, seconded by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins. Clerk, please call the roll.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“On 5P and U? This motion is for what? Just 5P and Peter and U. Clerk, please call the roll on 5P and 5U.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, and then I'll entertain a motion on the remainder of the items that were not bifurcated.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“We have a motion by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so we're not voting on those right now. No, I said the non-bifurcated items. So we have a motion by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins, seconded by Commissioner Gilbert. Clerk, please call the roll.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Commissioner Koenig, is he recognized on 5D?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“It's been moved as amended, seconded by Commissioner Gilbert. Do I need a roll call on this, voice vote? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed nay. Show the item passed. Commissioner Orbis on 5M. You had some- Thank you, Mr.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Commissioner Cohen-Higgins. There's a motion and there's a second by Senator Garcia. So I have a motion and a second to deny. Commissioner Cohen-Higgins, do you recognize?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Commissioner Bermudez, you're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Senator Garcia, the Vice Chair and then Senator Garcia.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Second October meeting, seconded by Commissioner Regalado. So then on the deferral?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, Commissioner, she hasn't spoken, so Commissioner Lopez.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, so we have a motion to defer, a second. All in favor of the deferral, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Show the item deferred to the mid-October meeting. All right, so now I'm going to take up together, and if anybody needs to split it afterwards for voting purposes, we can. But I'm going to take together the strict task force items, which is 5E, 5F, 5E substitute, 5F substitute, 5G substitute, and 5H substitute. And at the appropriate time, just to make it easier, I've heard all of the concerns and discussions of those that came up to speak. And so at the appropriate…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“I will wait. All right. I also want to take a special moment and thank Namita. Namita, are you here? I'm sure you are. Namita, thank you as well because I know that even for yourself, it was difficult dealing and challenging to deal with all the committee members. striking a balance between, of course, the administration's priorities with some of the recommendations. And honestly, I could not think more highly of you after this strip has concluded. So thank you for being honest, for being balanced and neutral in your work. admission so appreciate you and of course your entire team to the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you madam chairwoman and I will say and I alluded to it earlier in my remarks, but I will reiterate that. In fact, all the members here from strip force today are included in this comment and some that are not here as well, but. 1 of my biggest fears that I made sure my team. Kind of kept tabs on and monitored throughout the meetings is that that at no time and we're all human. At no time any of the strip committee members would put their personal interest before that of the counties and I will tell you not just because they've told me because of. Because of hearsay, but but I've seen…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. So with that, and I'm sure there'll be questions as there's some bifurcations, or I guess two or three members bifurcated the items. But to start, I'll entertain a motion on all the items.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so there's a motion there's a second by Commissioner Orvis all right Commissioner the here's I'm gonna go to you last I'm happy to go first, but I just don't want you to jump back in later I mean, it's your decision All right, so I'm gonna start over here then Commissioner Lopez”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner. On this side, Commissioner Gilbert.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Namita, the director could come up, because I know that was something that. Director, can you address Commissioner Gilbert?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you commissioner Gilbert. And, uh, and look, I, when, when we went over everything, that's something that I asked that. So I agree with what you're saying. The reason that we added it, I think you understand it is because they're reducing it from. 5 members to 3, so it's difficult to just take. 2 and to consider, you know, 2 numbers. So that's why they wanted to count all 3. So, in theory, if it stayed at 5, I understand what you're saying. Like, I agree with dropping the last, you know, the lowest score. We're bringing it down to 3 members. It, um, it's, it's kind of challenging to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, what if you have an outlier, how does it still not do you want to address that? If you have an outlier, there's still like a 30, there's a, there's a.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Can we have Madam Chairwoman Diana? Can you come up and probably just stay sitting up here. Because I know that this the specific portion of the item passed like 8, 0, I could pass unanimously out of out of the strip committee can you kind of walk us through why we're reducing it to 3 from 5 and then you know the second piece I think was addressed, but the reason for the reduction is it just it's so hard to get.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“We're only dropping it for that scenario, not for the five. Are we dropping it across the board for the five as well? For the larger procurements. Namita? Probably Namita should stay at one podium and Diana at the other. This is going to be, this is a big package, so we're going to have a lot of questions.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So what would you feel more comfortable commissioner Gilbert to just remove it from the smaller procurements? I mean, add it back to the, to the smaller procurements, but keep it off from the bigger ones that have the 5 members.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So what can we amend to It's a lot more than just their calendar availability. It's qualifications, and then that adds time to procurement, right? So that's how we're able to reduce. I mean, that may not be the 60% we're reducing, but that's 5% or 7%. It adds up. So a lot of little things we're changing add up to that over 60% timeline reduction. So that's why we need to bring it down to the three-member evaluation committee for the smaller procurements and I agree the big procurement for for small businesses, but smaller in the grand scheme of all of the contracts that we put out. So I I…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026