Remarks by Christi Fraga
2,372 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 20 of 95
“Thank you. And you're still driving to Doral. Your office is such a good place. Yeah, yeah.”
“I will. Yes, next time. Where shopping is a pleasure. Yes. All right. Thank you. And lastly, we have Milkshake's birthday on Friday. She will be a year already. So we just wanted to wish her a happy birthday at the request of our chief. Thank you guys so much. You're wonderful. And Officer Carrillo, thank you so much for taking care of her. Has she learned a lot?”
“Yeah. Thank you, Officer Carrillo, for everything you do in our community. And I know that the community loves Milkshake. So thank you very much for bringing her today.”
“Yes. And that will conclude our March council meeting. We will see you all back here in April. If there's nothing else, I need a motion to adjourn. Motion. Motion to adjourn by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by Councilman Pinedo. All in favor say aye.”
“This meeting is adjourned. See you all in April.”
“Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our February council meeting. Today is Wednesday, February 18th. The time is now 10.15 a.m. We apologize for a little bit late start. I hereby call this meeting to order. Just a reminder to please place your phones on silence. If you need to take a call or have a conversation, we kindly ask that you please step outside to maintain a respectful atmosphere. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Mayor Halcuan. Thank you. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And today, we are going to be led by Bill Watts from our Military Affairs Advisory Board.”
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
“Thank you. Thank you, Pastora. That was beautiful. All right. We're going to move into the agenda order of business. We'll go ahead and start with the manager's office.”
“We will now open the floor for public comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on today's agenda or anything germane to this council or the city of Doral. Please begin by stating your name and address for the record to ensure that you are registered with a city clerk. If you have not pre-registered, please go see her after. I'll start with any pre-registered names. We will first hear from you if you've registered. And if not, then we will open it up to anyone who has walked in. I always like to remind our public speakers to have a code of conduct to make sure that…”
“OKAY. I NEED A MOTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.”
“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. On favor say aye. Aye. Madam Clerk, let the record reflect that the consent agenda has been passed unanimously. I now need approval of the minutes.”
“Motion by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. On favor say aye. Aye. Let the record reflect that the minutes have been approved unanimously. We will now move into presentations.”
“We appreciate your investment and your dedication to the city. Would you like to come up for a picture? Yes. Awesome. Come on up. Thank you. Thank you.”
“Okay, great. We move on. Madam Clerk, we're going into discussion items.”
“All right. This is my item. Give me one second. Let me get there. members of the City Council I present this item to you as many of you know I participated and have been working with our tax collector as well as other mayor's within Miami-Dade County to continue to protect our communities. There's many Venezuelans, as well as Cubans that live not only in Doral, but Miami-Dade County. And so the mayors have gotten together, our cities, along with our tax collector, to continue to enforce and protect against the, obviously, the criminal organizations that happen in countries like Cuba and…”
“Motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso, seconded by Councilwoman Porras. They both did it at the same time. So if there's no more questions, then we will go ahead and roll call.”
“Yes. Councilwoman Porras? Yes. Councilman Pinedo? Yes.”
“Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much for your support on this item. We move on.”
“OK. Again, this is similar to the same policy that we just passed, except that this will create, oh, I'm sorry, this is Councilman Pinedo's item. Go ahead. I'm confused with my ordinance tonight. I was like, I thought this was on tonight. Go ahead, Councilman Pinedo.”
“NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU, I APOLOGIZE, I THOUGHT IT WAS MY ORDINANCE SHE WAS READING OUT LOUD. IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR COUNCILMAN PINEDO? MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILMAN I need a second. Second.”
“Thank you very much. First, I want to thank you and our city manager and the entire administrative team because obviously it was heard loud and clear that our priority for this year and really for the next couple years is leveraging our assets, the ones that we have, to create revenue. After the discussions that I think all of us have had in Tallahassee and we're watching come down the pipeline, it's extremely important that we become less reliant on property taxes and find ways to create revenue for the city in creative ways, which we're doing actively. And this is a first look at that. So…”
“So I think to clarify a little bit, the process that we went through for this is it goes through the CCNA standards, which means today what we are awarding is to move forward to create the actual plans so that then we can go into the construction. So we will see something come back to us as far as contract for pricing up in the future, no?”
“Right, that doesn't happen right now because first we need to have the design so that then we can get the construction cost and then the design is a percentage of that. So that's how these standards work to be able to move forward. So what you're seeing today is us moving forward with this decision to create... Parking garage to move forward with the plan that we've discussed several times. I want to make it very clear That's not the first time we've discussed it here. We discussed it in strategic plan. We have had multiple conversations up here about it We've had opportunities to discuss it…”
“Yes. No, absolutely. I think all those comments will be well taken, and we will be able to see a final design concept as we move into the construction. Obviously, we have full access to the manager's office anytime when we want to see the design concepts as they move forward. I hope and I know that we will be a part of those conversations. Our own code says that when a parking garage is built, it shouldn't look like a parking garage. So I have full faith in the team and our capital improvements department to make sure that we're abiding by all those things. Again, I just want to reiterate,…”