Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
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“Who said, Mr. Chair? Commissioner Regalado.”
“8F1, let me see. We're on the pool list.”
“It's been moved by commissioner as amended as amended commission Gonzalez just you're recognized.”
“All right. So it's been moved. As amended. As amended. It's been seconded by Commissioner Bermudez. All in favor signify by saying aye.”
“All opposed? Show that 8F1 and its supplement passed as amended. 8A1 and its supplement. Commissioner from District 12, you're recognized. Yes, on 8A1, the sole source MDAD.”
“Commissioner, quite frankly, I don't know why we need this item. They kind of do this now, right? Well. Kind of do this now?”
“Commissioner Quinn-Higgins, is that a friendly amendment?”
“Okay. All right. Show it, uh, moved by commissioner Cohen Higgins as amended seconded by commissioner Gonzalez on favor of, Oh, go ahead.”
“I'll oppose nay. Show the item passed and you're recognized.”
“Director, thank you so much for your time.”
“All right. And that was much lighter than what I was actually going to do. All right. 8G2, Commissioner from District 13, Senator, Commissioner from District 13, you're recognized.”
“It's all right. You want to continue on the other one? What were you on, DOH contracts?”
“AG3, you recognize because you're the one pooling bifurcator, pooler, whatnot. Go ahead.”
“All right, so it moved as amended by Senator Garcia, seconded by Commissioner Lopez. Commissioner Steinberg, you're recognized on the motion. Show Commissioner Steinberg got it as a co-sponsor. And Commissioner Lopez and Commissioner Bastien. All right, with that, all in favor of the item, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Show 8G3 passed as amended. All right, Senator Garcia on 8G2 now. Okay. So commissioner, who's the sponsoring commissioner on this department item? All right. Commissioner Gonzales will move the item seconded by commissioner Bastien on favor signify by saying, I…”
“Seconded by Commissioner Bastien. On favor signify by say an aye. Aye. All opposed nay. Show the item pass. Commissioner from District 12 on 8 and 4.”
“All right, show it moved by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Gonzalez. On favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed nay. Show the item passed. All right, Commissioner from District 8, you're recognized on 8 and 6.”
“All right. To the administration or the attorneys, you could read the administration's amendment.”
“All right. So show it. Well, Commissioner from... This was short moved as amended by Commissioner Cohen Higgins, seconded by Commissioner Gonzalez, and then Commissioner from District 6. You're a pulling commissioner as well. Yes.”
“So as we do this budget, we've got to make sure that we add more funding there, not less.”
“I'll report. Again, it's not our job, but every week I spend hours driving my district and reporting. So I have times when I report something that was thrown out, and I take a picture of it, and they come out and pick it up fairly quickly, in fairness, right? The day, two days, three days, depending on what it is. And just five, ten feet away, there's something else. And they don't pick it up. I don't know if it's this is like a union thing. Honestly, I don't know if it's a training thing. I don't know what it is. But like the culture of once you enter Miami-Dade County, you just never get…”
“Mayor, I thank you for that. And again, I don't know why, I don't think we're talking the same thing. I agree with what you're saying on funding. And I think part of the discussion that Commissioner Hardiman brought up, some of that is funding. What I'm saying is something completely different. And I wasn't, I was talking about staff, not leadership, but actually it starts at the leadership level. And it starts with our contracts. I mean, our landscaping contracts, I see them. I see the landscapers mowing the grass and if there is garbage in the way, they mow around it, do not pick it up and…”
“See what you did, Commissioner Hardeman. Commissioner Regalado, you're recognized.”
“I forgot if I had a motion. Do I have a motion on this?”
“It's been moved by Commissioner Regalado, seconded by, who wants a second? Who wants a second? Seconded by Commissioner Orbis. And we're going to get all this cleaned up in this one item.”
“Yeah, and we're also going to be reducing the dumping and the overall debris pickup when we approve something that can cost us $30, $40 million of a mental health building. That's new money. So if your streets are bad now, wait until we add a $30, $40 million tab to this budget. So the mayor's right. We haven't done that yet. So I hope the Herald is here so they could tweet that as well. so with that all in favor signify by saying aye mr chairman as amended as amended yes all opposed nay all right show the item passed all right and the next one is fitting debris removal pool all right…”