Remarks by Bree Farrugia
38 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 1:55
“um oh i see chris has just joined i think jacob is joining as well so we should well actually we should have quorum anyway yeah i'm on oh hey jacob”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“I believe so. I think, well, we have four now, and given we have a quorum, I think we can start.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Jacob has joined. He's on the anonymous iPhone.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Jacob's joining from South Africa, everyone.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“So I'll call this meeting of tonight's community enhancement board to order Thursday, April 30th at 6.30 PM. I'll proceed with a roll call. So Jacob Petrini.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Absent. And let me just... I'm having some technical troubles here.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“OK. So we have a quorum. So next item up on the agenda is approval of the February 25 minutes. Has everyone had a chance to review? And thanks for preparing those, Chris.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“No, we appreciate it. Can I have a motion to approve and a second?”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 6:05
“A motion to approve? Second. Great, excellent.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“So before we move into the items, number three on the agenda, the third item on the agenda today was all business, which was updating on the board action tracking document. I wanted to note that this is now attached to the agenda as a PDF. So thanks to everyone, Lily and Isabel and the staff who have attached that. I'm sending it in once a month.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Yeah, so the intention is that that becomes our primary tool for tracking progress now. I wanted to take a couple of minutes just to get some updates from people who are listed as the primary point of contact, 30-second updates based on what is in progress. and pending updates on this list. There's only two or three key issues I just wanted to grab some updates on. So I'll start with one, I'll start with number, I want to start with number 13, which was just the community center grand opening and center signage, which we had as a pending update. I had Lily as the owner of that. I know it's…”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“That's excellent. Everyone's invited to that, is that right, Lily? Yes. Fantastic. Fantastic. We should definitely make a point of going there.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Yep. Great. Actually, on that, on the same topic, Lily, we had in here, in my tracker, I had you to give an update on community center signages.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Okay, great. That is very good to know. It was mainly for this board's information as to whether this was something we needed to continue to track. Another thing on my list before we move into the... on the future of the forward-looking business is the bus shelters. Commissioner Dara, do we have an update on the bus shelters installation timeline?”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Absolutely. How many are we installing? And how many are coming down?”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 10:53
“Okay. That seems like it could be... That seems doable in a matter of like... Yeah.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“That's fantastic. That's great. Excellent. I did have one other item on my rolling agenda, but I'm going to keep that for the new businesses at a later point because it relates to Alexi's comments and our discussions last time about the shade system. um shade structure examples for future park planning um we have an agenda item that's about north bay village parks so alexi i'll shift your i'll shift our update on the rolling agenda to that future agenda to that agenda item in due course um also i alexi i didn't include you on the roll call so uh chris can we amend can we can we amend the um…”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“My computer is only showing a certain number of people before you have to toggle through various new pages. So thanks for that. It's OK.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“All right, moving on. First item here is the discussion on emergency and disaster relief trailers. Does someone have a ownership or does someone want to take this?”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“um yeah i i wouldn't i would actually was at this point alexi because i think it's it's one thing it's certainly one thing for um the uh village to kind of consider whether or not we should look at um like emergency trailers and that sort of thing um but i would know for the record given it and it's clearly a personal relationship and a potential conflict of interest in the context of the procurement of the village and the very strict policies and conduct that exists around it. At this point, I'm not sure it's something that the board, without conferring with what the village policy is on…”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Yeah, I think what it would be helpful to do is to, rather than trigger any potential ethics or code issues under kind of Florida local governance norms right now, and certainly to preserve the optics of the impartiality of this board, um i think we should kind of like perhaps keep the discussion to a more general uh keep the discussion more generally to the issues of whether or not emergency trailers of this kind of of this kind of description is something that the village could consider and whether it's more generally something we as a board could make a recommendation about i mean i i…”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Like I said, I'm sure there's certainly merit, I think, in discussing the general need or utility of something like this within the village, more broadly speaking, rather than the specifics.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 24:27
“Great. Actually, Alexi, would you mind holding that until we get to the parks discussion, which I think is number four on this agenda?”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“It's number five on the agenda. um okay oh excellent so moving moving to item 4b which is the discussion on the island walk this has a few moving parts so helpfully the agenda is being broken down into four sub parts Jacob I think this is something that you have been looking into do you want to update the group”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“I imagine these concerns aren't exclusive to Grandview Palace. I agree. I imagine that these are probably concerns shared amongst whichever else, which the other buildings that are potentially limiting their engagement on this as well.”
Community Enhancement Board · Apr 30, 2026