Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“Thank you, Sheriff. And we love you. We honor you. We thank you for your service. And we thank you for being a law enforcement officer first, an elected official second. So thank you for that.”
“Thank you again, Sheriff Cordero Stokes. All right, next. Where's Mary? She gets jealous sometimes. Oh, Mary's not in the chamber, thank God. The supervisor of election, Alina Garcia, come on up. So Alina, we thank you for not just being an advocate, a pioneer, a trailblazer for women, but I have to say like a 30 second story about Alina. One that I've never said publicly and I probably shouldn't say in the chamber. But when Alina and I met, we didn't meet under these circumstances. You see, Alina happens to be one of the most loyal people that I've ever met. I mean, hands down. And my first…”
“All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm not going to sell you short. I'm going to keep reading this over and over for each and every one of you. You all deserve it.”
“Be it resolved that our mayor of the county, myself, as your chairman, Anthony Rodriguez, members of the board of county commissioners, on behalf of Miami-Dade County and on behalf of Daria Fernandez, proclaim today, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, as Alina Garcia Day. Oh, wow. All right. Picture. That's it, people.”
“Alrighty, I'm going to skip one because it's the one that couldn't come. Gloria Stefan is also an inductee, but she's somewhere filming, I think, in New York right now. So, yes, I'm assuming she's filming. She has like a new show coming out, right?”
“On Broadway. Oh, pretty cool. All right, so make sure to follow that. But Gloria Stefan is one of ours as well. So congratulations to Gloria Stefan. She couldn't be here, but... All right, someone that I've known for a good amount of time now, time kind of catches up to you. I felt like we just met, but no, it's been almost a decade already, if not a decade, is someone that I call a friend, president of FIU, Jeanette Nunez, come on up. So talk about a real trailblazer. Someone that, when I met, was, I was gonna say just, but that's not just, and I was in that role too, so I won't diminish it,…”
“Thank you. Madam President, and with that, be it resolved that, again, the mayor of the county, Daniel Levin Cava, myself as your chair, members of the Board of County Commission, and on behalf of the 2.8 plus million residents of Miami-Dade County, and of course, as you know, my friend, Daria Fernandez, we proclaim today, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, Jeanette M. Nunez Day. So, congratulations. I know, Daria did not sign it, but we're going to get his signature. He has this for you, too. He has this.”
“What is it, a citation? It's like he's... It's not a parking one. Yeah, no, it's not a parking citation.”
“All right, second to last, second to last. We're good on time. All right, so this next one is someone that I honestly, so I'll say this. Let me start by saying this. You normally, all of us, have our foretastes. We have our strengths and we have our weaknesses. And you're lucky if you're self-aware to know what those weaknesses are. Some of us think we're strong on everything. We know it all, but that's not the truth. I have not met someone, and I mean this, it's not just because we're here today in the chamber and we're doing these proclamations and recognitions. I have not met someone that…”
“Thank you, Madam President. And with that, we resolve that the mayor of the county, Daniel Levine Cava, myself as your chair, members of the Board of County Commissioners, and on behalf of Miami-Dade County, it's 2.8 million plus residents, and all of Miami-Dade College, we present today, proclaim today, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, as Madeline Pumariega Day. So congratulations. He is the king of the pictures. All right. Last but not least, very important, the house, as I called it at the beginning. Our Madam Mayor, Mayor, I talked about, very little, but I talked a little bit about everyone. And…”
“Yeah, that's what I was about to say, thank you for, so be it resolved that I, as Chairman of the Board, Anthony Rodriguez, and the members of the Board of County Commissioners on behalf of Miami-Dade County and this entire community, and let's add, you know, Dariel Fernandez to that, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, as the Honorable Daniela Levine Cava Day. Congratulations, Mayor.”
“Rob, you want to come on up pretty quick?”
“Congratulations, congratulations. All right, now if I can just have the five honorees that are present to come up for a photo with the board, and then we'll get their family and friends. Yes, and the, oh, thank you. And the Commission of Women board, board members that are present as well. All right, so let's get the honorees in the middle. Let's all step to the side. Let's get the honorees. Yeah, the commission and Daria. Daria should come up as well at this point. Oh, he's already there. Actually, silly me. Silly me to think I had to actually call him up. So silly of me. Yeah, exactly. All…”
“Congratulations. Hold on, family and friends. Hold on guys, one more photo. Family and friends that are present, Rob could come back up. Or was Rob here already? Rob. Families and friends, staff? Staff from?”
“Yeah, your FIU folks, I saw them. I saw Didi. I saw Frankie. Frankie, Didi. Undersheriff, the undersheriff.”
“Frankie, Didi Contents, Didi Contents. Angel Sayon.”
“Angel Sayon. Titi Cantense, come on down. Titi, you're not a lobbyist. Come on down. You should have worn a tie today, my friend.”
“Titi, come on in. You got to support your president. Yeah, the entire chamber. All right, undersheriffs. Let's go. The sheriffs, 27,000 officers that are present. Chiefs. The entire chamber, come on down.”
“All right, congratulations. Once again, congratulations.”
“Those that are staying for the meetings, take your seats. Those that are exiting the chamber, exit quietly. Alright. All right, clerk, if you can call roll.”
“All right, sorry, I didn't say present. You got me though? All right. All right. Please stand quietly for the invocation given this morning by Reverend Father Denrick Ephraim Roll of the historic St. Agnes Episcopal Church of Miami at the invitation of Commissioner Hardiman, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Senator Garcia.”
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“Yes-ish, yes. On that note colleagues, I think and I know that this is this may fall on deaf ears, but it is helpful when we submit our request to the attorney's office with ample time not last minute. Motions deferral requests pulled items bifurcations. We understand that. Not everything is perfect, but in those cases where it is possible. It is appreciated that we do that ahead of time.”
“Okay, and it was who else? It was Regalado and who else?”
“Are the two of you good with drawing your poll since it's going to be deferred with the agenda? Yeah?”