Remarks by Ariel Meyer
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Sorry, but I had a bad connection. So, is this on the topic of the bike racks or on another topic?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I don't see a drawback to this, quite frankly. I mean, the cities that have done this in other parts of America have benefited from an increased level of pedestrian and bike traffic of local residents attending their local commercial districts. And as one of those residents that likes to visit our US-1 establishments, I usually and often struggle to find places to park my bike safely. And at times I have to park it in places where it's not visible and I worry about it's, you know, that it might be taken away, et cetera. So, I think in the end, everyone's going to benefit from this. I…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“just have a question clarification question if you don't mind um i believe we had a lengthy conversation this is related to the um building um that will be uh well the us uh the um hosp you know building yeah i believe that where the former macy's furniture macy's store used to be that's going to go up and we had a lengthy conversation about um You know, ensuring that we have limited open parking spaces visible from us 1 and rather. That we would be asking them to have, um, underground parking enough so that we can repurpose some of the. Ground level parking and replace asphalt for trees, et…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I believe so. And Mr mayor, I'll introduce that topic on behalf of the, um, and I'll provide a little bit of context as to why I'm doing that now versus, uh. Um, which is not necessarily in line with with how I introduced the topic earlier. So, um. As part of our strategic plan, we have wording that expresses our support for public schools and specifically in support of exploring private public partnerships that would help improve the field conditions at some of our public schools. And specifically, we've been focusing presentation. Yeah, we've been focusing those conversations on the…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Who's up and with that, I'll let the come up to the podium.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Yes, I'm still awake. I'm still awake. In case you were counting me out. I'm even more awake now that Spain has beaten France in the World Cup. That makes me happier. But that's just my personal preference. Okay, so...”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, no, no. It's just that I prefer to play against Spain in the final.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, so the questions I have are... I have two questions. So one is related to the acquisition price for the property. So how much did the... Did Carbonell LLC pay in foreclosure for the property? Can you clarify what that amount is? That's question number one. And number two, because maybe you have answers to both. Number two is, what was the appraised value of the property at the time that Carbonell acquired it in foreclosure?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Excellent. Thank you. And what was the appraised value of the property at the time that they won the bid for the acquisition?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Let's just take low 4 million and round it up, round it up to 4 million. Cause that proves my point. When you're buying a property in foreclosure, you're, you know, you're going at it with risk number one, and you're assuming the risk and the value of that risk is the difference in value to 1.9 million, right? The 2.1 versus the 4 million. Um, And so you're taking that risk. You're assuming that this property is going to come with some surprises that you don't know what they will be. But in exchange for that, you're paying for almost half the value or the appraised value or…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I have a question for the chief. Um. As you did the studies on these other intersections, did you study the ones on 67th that had been originally studied by the vendor?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But your staff, it is the village that did the studies on these other new intersections?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“who did the study on these additional intersections? Was it us or the vendor?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, all right. Thank you. Thanks for clarifying.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I am so I have a question for, you know. Generally speaking, I agree this is a safety matter and as such, if we have a solution recommended by the chief to address the safety matter, we should before and support it. And that's my opinion. I, you know. I'm curious if the chief has any data or any insights as to whether these types of deployments, these types of cameras do actually impact the number of red lights that drivers run. Because we're not going to be the first village that installs them. So what are the statistics? What does the data prove or show in other deployments, other cities…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Is it at the Mirabelle Gardens? Does that ring a bell?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“My wife made sure that I was muted when I went to the bathroom.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay? So to clarify though, at this meeting today, We'll vote on a preliminary military and. For that to pass, we just need a simple majority. We don't need. You know, say, I'm just going to an illustrative example. Imagine today we said we will vote. Somebody makes a motion for 2.5, 2.53, the current military. And then that motion gets the support of three votes today, then it passes. And then that becomes the preliminary military. But for a military, yeah, the tentative, exactly. But then for the final military to become the law, basically, in Pinecrest, you will need four votes to rectify…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But that's I know it's not typical what you do, but should we move on to tab 13 that I guess is what you're asking us want to read that may have may have may have just makes just reflect a little bit on on the conversation and also the document that the manager shared with us. And I think all of us know there's, I mean, this is the busiest time of the year, maybe for our staff. And when it comes to planning, there's a lot of work that goes into this. So, 1st of all, I wanted to acknowledge that and thank the manager and the staff for for the great work that always takes place. You know, I…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I believe that direction has been provided already in some past council meetings. We can maybe discuss it again, but if I recall properly, there have been a few council meetings in the recent past where we've talked about the need to begin to assess what that looks like and that we had discussed, not in the last meeting, but in the meeting before that one.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Of 2028 for me to prove that all that to counsel, but I think if not in the last council meeting in the in the 1 before it, we had discussed the possibility of including it as part of our budget workshop conversations. And if we're going to have a, you know. An informed conversation during the budget workshops, then I think we should, we should begin to think about what that can look like now so that the staff can provide us with options or topics or how we can approach it.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, I think another aspect of the conversation needs to include our reserves. And the way they have evolved over the years. I think we could all agree that would have. dollar buys you today is very different than what a dollar bought you 10 years ago or five years ago and i don't know if our reserves have been growing at the same rate as we've seen the cost of things go up or i know the cost of our projects capital projects has probably doubled you know um over the course of the last five to seven years Um, so I don't know if the level of our reserves have doubled over the last 5. To 7 years,…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So I'm with vice mayor Furman here. And, um, To me, we're doing a disservice to ourselves and the community by shutting down the potential conversations that could take place, the potential decisions that could take place as we workshop through this together more or hear feedback from the community. If we weren't to incorporate an additional buffer in this tentative military that we passed today, Um, to accommodate for that, so, um, it doesn't mean that we are voting for a tax increase. Not at all, because the conversations that take place during the workshop may lead us. To keep in the…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“May I just ask a question? How is the wording, how is the communication drafted to residents when they get this letter? Is there a reference to the millage rate in that letter? Or is there a reference to your taxes are going up by X? Because they're still going up, right? I mean, even if we get the same millage rate, their taxes are going up. Yeah, it will always say that their taxes are going up.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026