Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“All right. And you'll move it. Yeah, it's been moved by commissioner Bermuda. 2nd, by Gilbert all in favor signify by saying, aye. All opposed nay. Um, 8 P 1, that's the 1 that we heard already. And passed 8P4, Commissioner from District 5, you're recognized.”
“Let me pause, because I don't know, and I don't want to speak for Commissioner Lopez, but what I'm understanding her asking is not what you're answering. I think you're just not understanding her question right. She's not explaining herself correctly, one of the two. Given the benefit of the doubt here, but I actually have similar questions and I won't jump the gun, but I think are you referring to. The 0 dollar amount, not the 0 hours because of course, we don't know if there's going to be a. Hurricane or not, you know, of course, this is all projections. I think she's referring number. It's…”
“So you negotiated with every company or just with Tetra Tech?”
“You only negotiated with one of the companies?”
“So the fact that they were even referred to the selection committee means that they were responsive.”
“You're welcome to answer the question and give Commissioner Lopez a response to her very simple question.”
“All right, Commissioner Gilbert, you're recognized, Commissioner Gilbert. You still have the floor afterwards, Commissioner Lopez.”
“All right, Commissioner Lopez, do you still have- No, that was my final question, thank you. Okay, Commissioner from District 4, I'm skipping to you, but I've got other polling commissioners.”
“Is anybody familiar from the administration on these changes coming down the pipeline?”
“Are you able to, wait, wait, wait, don't go anywhere. Come back, please. Are you able to answer the question that Commissioner Lopez was asking and then Commissioner Gilbert decided to get all work?”
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“The answer is yes, to her question. But Thompson was lower, $800,000, yes. That's the thing, you just gotta listen to the question.”
“Commissioner from District 7, you recognize? Thank you.”
“Commissioner from District 6, you're recognized.”
“the the legality of the rfp no commissioner no doesn't matter okay thank you thank you commissioner so commissioner from district one are you going to wrap this up or should i i mean i'm like running on fumes here but i'll get a second wind do you want to bring this home or should i bring it home i don't i don't have a lot to say i think it's confusing that we have um okay we got others so yeah we're not bringing it home we have what is it uh price requirements”
“All right, I got Commissioner Bermudez, Bastien, and the Vice Chair.”
“Thank you, Commissioner. I don't want to recognize any of you two. You both already went. Well, the vice chair hasn't gone, actually. So, vice chair.”
“All right. Thank you, sir. And the vice chair has indicated he's done with his questions. But I'd like Tedra Teich to, of course, approach the opportunity to kind of give us a one minute, two minute.”
“Thank you, sir. All right, I need to bring this in for a landing. So a few things. We need to make a decision today. This contract expires June 30th. We're in the middle of hurricane season. So we need to make a decision. I suspect that maybe we can extend the existing contract 30 days or so, but ideally. You know, this item went to committee, it was discussed. We didn't have all the questions answered there because. We know why. It was said already. And this item moved forward with a recommendation from committee. It followed the process. It was not bypassed. This body doesn't have to vote…”
“Four of you in addition with me were in that committee. So we need to start moving forward and start and stop putting something that we have the information in front of us. Madam Mayor.”
“I agree. And I think the attorney should chime in for sure. I think if we go into a baffle, there's complications with that as well. Not that we can't do it, but there's complications with it as well. And it may come back as a bid waiver at that point, right? So in the absence of a baffle, I mean, again, I'm willing to hear from all of you, but I'm prepared to make a decision. I'll start with Commissioner Regalado.”
“I mean- So I think, sir, I think you're a terrible presenter. Okay. Terrible. But I understand what you're saying. It makes sense. But either you're not understanding the question or you're not explaining yourself right. So I think you need to reset. This has happened here before. I recognize that standing at the podium is intimidating, even for executives and business owners and CEOs. I recognize that. You need to reset because what you're saying is what the commission is trying to get to. It's the same thing. You guys are saying the same thing. You really are. But you're explaining it so…”
“Because you're just explaining it so complex, you're saying what she's saying. You're just saying it so complicated that you're about to just, you're confusing everybody.”
“You're confusing everybody. So do you want to reset and do you want to continue your line of questioning or go to the next person? Are you done, Commissioner?”
“Okay, Commissioner Bastien, you're recognized.”