Remarks by Bryan Morera
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Thank you, Mayor. I think most of you took the opportunity to read my item, and obviously this was written at a time where the statue of J.K. Duque was still missing. I did want, if it's okay with you, Mayor, to open the floor to the Duque family, who I believe wanted to make a statement. So at this time, I'd like to invite them to the podium.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Because what we said was to combine H and K. or yeah so number one i wanted to thank the duca family for coming out obviously this was important to them this is important to our town that's why there's a new business item for it but that's also why there was so much discussion online on the facebook groups uh on whatsapp chats uh i saw all sorts of community involvement on this um and i will say right on the one hand this this act of stealing the the statue shows potentially some of the worst that our society has to offer, right? Someone of that level of a depraved mind taking, stealing the…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Is there some sort of deadline on us saying yay or nay or one ramp, two ramp, three ramp to GMX?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, just to make it, can you clarify or restate your motion real quick?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you so so just to be crystal clear yes or no yours is right now as of right now if we were to vote yes, it's we we do oppose the any solution for now that includes the offer.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so that to me is the most important thing because I don't see a, during my meeting, I even started already discussing other options with them. If we were to proceed forward with the on-ramp only design, including doing something like what was done in 57 with the always go lanes, you know, the ones that are like the green arrows, with the protected left turn, for the people coming north that way it's because I'm trying to minimize the traffic light because the last thing I want to see this town council make the mistake of doing is what happened on one fifty four with forty seven…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Councilman Sanchez. I'll go ahead and come over to me. My question is actually, it seems like one of the biggest impediments towards feasibility of the removal of Ramp B seems to be the relocation of the toll gantry. However, I don't see how the removal of Ramp B at all affects the location of the toll gantry. Right now, your renderings and your plans show a new toll gantry on the entrance ramp, ramp A. It does not show one on ramp C, but it says here, a existing mainline tolling gantry to be relocated but it kind of seems like you guys are relocating it because you feel like it,…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just to be clear, and I don't know how much this really, the location of the toll gantry goes into engineering, which I know is your forte, but again, just the way I see it, in this most recent version that I guess I'm looking at, the toll gantry is at the deceleration lane. I guess what you're saying is, i could see how maybe saying that the tog entry would need to be modified maybe but now it doesn't need to be relocated it would probably just need a minor modification to extend it make it a little wider so that it catches that deceleration lane so that if you're trying to get off sorry…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes, I can answer that one for you. You definitely can save the TOGA entry as long as it's working today, which I'm pretty sure it charged me today, so it's working. All right, all you.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just to say, as far as Miami Lake way north and south, I definitely think that we've already seen an uptick in speed there. So I think that this is very beneficial for that. I do want to just point out, I also don't think that we need to... how do I say, answer a problem that doesn't yet exist as far as some of the other streets mentioned, Lake Patricia Drive, Lake Saranac Ave, and Lake Candlewood Court. Those were referenced by several members of the several residents that live in those areas as though those were going to be used as back alley speedways for people avoiding traffic on 67. And…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“and just to be clear if we were to say no because we don't want to overrule the residents on that uh that nothing stops that if somehow this project does get built and it does suddenly start creating back alley speedways they can come back and ask for it again we're not prohibiting that right okay councilman fernandez”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And I'll tell you, by the way, just as a last concluding point, and I'm sure Councilman Sanchez will echo my statement here, it's the same statement made to every single member of the of the vc which is you need something let me know and I'm sure he'll echo my sentiment on that with all of us really it's one of our are several we have a lot of little treasures but that one we we hold really close to us it's hard to your car yeah it's hard we hold it very close to our hearts so thank you for serving in both the military and in our committee thank you once again all righty with that we are on…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Any other comments? Just, you know, great job on getting the statue back. I know, like he said, I thought it was gone. And I think I saw some of our detectives were involved directly in figuring out where it was as well as accumulating all the tips and all stuff so thank you guys for everything you guys done and for the numbers which still do not lie thank you and shows that you guys are doing a phenomenal job thank you thank you so much all right have a good evening thank you all righty we are on to 8b public works monthly infrastructure report director Santos good evening council”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Give me one second to ask a question about that. And it's, I just don't recall us voting in favor of the repair part. I remember, yeah, the maintenance, yeah, obviously we maintain what's ours. But I don't remember voting for the piece by piece. I remember us, me moving the canal bank stabilization project and they're getting voted down by Councilman.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Something you said earlier about the options on Miami Lake Drive kind of just jogged my memory. That time that we met and discussed the whole AI timing thing with the synchronization of the lights, the last I heard about that was like a while ago, and we were still waiting to hear back on some permits from Miami-Dade County. What has happened since then? Has it finally gone active? What's going on?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Does that, when you say the hardware, does that mean essentially that whatever we paid for as a town, the whole AI thing, was basically just a waste or is not going to go active? Well, not 100%. That's the part I'm not understanding. Yeah, some of the things we did. I'm trying to understand what exactly we paid for and what's going to happen when it goes active and will it ever go active.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“is your just going back to the the both items the concerns specifically to the 79th avenue intersection or just that entire it's a whole thing in my opinion i'm going to ask this last question and then i think we really should just move this into uh sunshine honestly um because i think this is actually a very prudent discussion um and it's could something be done sort of like what was done with the speed bumps where maybe the town real sorry the county relinquishes that very tight grasp that they have over the signals and allows us to do it under certain criteria the way it is with the speed…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“coverage or authority i think that it's a fruitful discussion to be able to make the ask right like if they say no they say no but but i think that that you're saying about the concern about how it affects hialeah or unincorporated data or whatever i think that that's where the criteria come in and obviously we cannot set all of our lights to permanent green so that we're just jamming up all of hialeah streets obviously um there has to be as great as that would be just kidding UM BUT BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY WE CAN ASK AND IF THEY SAY NO WE SAY NO AND AND WE MOVE ON ALL RIGHT THANK YOU UH…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I actually don't think the price is that crazy. I've seen IT costs before. They do seem that way, right, to the average person. In option one, for example, $14,464 out of the, they're charging 17,000 for the hardware plus the AV upgrades plus the accessories. What exactly are the AV upgrades and the accessories that we're talking about there?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So there are more ports? Correct. Okay. So my experience in my own purchasing for my law firm is Quality in these kinds of things matters. The last thing you want, and personally, I just have to say, I don't like the projector option. It is the most expensive option. And I just don't like the idea of having a projector hung 20 feet down from the ceiling. It's just going to look weird. um the the tv option is far superior but then now you have to wonder if for a considerable period of time it is going to literally show something that looks like that right kind of like a placeholder image…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, out of all the options, that's not my least favorite because my least favorite is the projectors, but it's very close to being tied for my least favorite, primarily because, I don't know, it just gives me PTSD from school when they just rolled in the little TV cart. but also I think it's a gigantic waste of space in our council chambers whether you put it there they're also where are you gonna store it because we have a lot of special events in this chambers and that thing's gonna break if you just leave it out here so so you could try in there nothing fits in there yeah I'm into the…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“that sorry councilman Fernandez get him next time all right discussion beginning with the vice mayor yeah I definitely think that this is uh more likely than not something that it's regardless of what happens with the amendment I agree um and and the primary reason is You know, we see what's been happening with our police budget. It's just ballooning and it's not really a cost that we're able to control. So I do see this as, you know, a secondary source of funding to possibly fill some gaps. The only question I really had was whether we knew whether we know or have any estimates of what that…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, Mr. Vice Mayor, go ahead. Just a friendly amendment to go along with it is just to have the staff analyze and check out that intersection, see if there are existing lights that may potentially be out and need repair or replacement. If not, what the cost would be to get power to that area and what exactly would be needed to properly illuminate that intersection. And then potentially presented to us in time for the budget season.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026