Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Item 11A, youth civic committee. Please, come on up. I apologize.”
“Good job, Chris. Awesome. You guys did wonderful. First off, I was just going to say that. So the Youth Advisory Board was an initiative I brought when I was a councilwoman in 2013. It was, I think, my first item as a council member. So I'm super proud to see you guys up here presenting. Congratulations. Thank you. We did do a couple of events with the Youth Advisory Board back in the day. I actually hosted a college prep event. And one of the things that I did out of my office many times, and I tried to get the youth advisory board involved. It was just hard because everybody's on a…”
“Yes, yes. Well, obviously, we're going to make a motion to waive the fee for the room as we're going to host it alongside you. So yes, absolutely. So I've already told my team to get with you, because I have the list of all the colleges that we did it with before. So we'll reach out to them and help you guys put it together. But great job. You guys did a wonderful, wonderful job. Anybody else have any comments?”
“Mayor Fraga? Yes. All right. Thank you very much. I think my team is in the back. They're going to talk to you guys so we can help you get the list of the colleges. Okay. Thank you, guys. Great job, guys.”
“Oh? Yes? I was just telling them to wait we have two little two minutes. Thank you Do you have anything in your report madam clerk madam manager? We're almost done two items”
“As soon as we take our pictures, we will go ahead and commence that meeting. All right. This has exhausted our morning agenda. We'll be back in the afternoon. Any motion to recess? Motion to recess by Council Member Reynoso. Second by Council Member Bineto. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right. This meeting is recessed. We'll be back at 5 for protocol and 6 o'clock for our meeting. We are calling this meeting to order. We're back for our evening session. Today is Wednesday, February 18th. The time is now 6.11 AM. Before I officially have the roll call, I just wanted to welcome Sara Paguda.…”
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
“Thank you, Sarah, our mayor, for the day. Members of the council, this is the ordinance that we had just briefly discussed earlier today. This is a regulation that would be added to our code in an effort to continue to promote what the efforts of our mayor's around the county as well as the tax collector have been promoting to make sure businesses are in line with OFAC regulations if they are doing business with countries as such as Cuba and anyone who is not following these regulations and working outside the scope their license may be revoked before we go ahead and and take a vote I would…”
“All right, being no public comments, the comments have been placed, and we will entertain a motion to approve.”
“Thank you so much for indulging us. This is an opportunity for our youth to see how local government works and civic opportunity within our city. So congratulations, Sarah, for your job well done. We're going to take a picture now with the entire council when we finish. This concludes our meeting. So now what you need to ask for is a motion to adjourn the meeting. Go ahead.”
“Aye. Aye. This meeting is now adjourned. We'll see you all at our March meeting. Thank you very much, and God bless you.”
“Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our January council meeting. Today is Thursday, the 15th of January. The time is now 1016 a.m. We apologize for the late start, and I hereby call this meeting to order. A reminder to please silence your phones. If you must take a call, we kindly ask that you please step outside and maintain a respectful atmosphere. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Thank you very much. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilman Pinedo. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic Okay, we will now have our invocation, our first of the year, by Nando Quintero from WWJD.”
“Amen. Thank you, Nando, and thank you for serving also on our... faith-based advisory board. I appreciate you. Okay, we're going to move on to our agenda order of business. I'll go ahead and start with the city manager's office.”
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“Okay, thank you very much. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna pull item 6D for discussion, but I'm gonna do it in the evening, if that's okay. And then we're gonna go ahead and pull off item 9D off the agenda. An email was circulated this morning to all of you. The applicant has asked to take the item off and will hopefully maybe be coming back in the future. Okay, anything else before we move to public comments? Madam Clerk, you good? Nothing for you? Okay. All right, we're gonna go ahead and open the public comments portion of our meeting. You will now be able to approach the podium for…”
“Are they here? Yes? OK, please join us. Would you like to say anything?”
“Thank you. Thank you for continuing to invest in our community. Please come up for a photo. Fabulous. Okay. We'll move on to our discussion items.”
“Members of the Council, I brought this forward, as you all know, I've been working with Parks and Police for Kids now for the past year. We had our first Mayor and Chief Scala, benefiting Parks and Police for Kids, we had a golf tournament, raised over $300,000 in benefit of this organization to be able to provide more funding for the programs that it has provided. After much consideration and discussion, as we prepare for what may come out from the state with property tax reform, we feel that it would be prudent to restructure this organization being that we have now proven that we can raise…”
“That will happen when we sit as the board, because only the board can do the restructuring and changes. So once we sit as the board of the organization, we will be bringing forward a complete restructuring and how we will move forward the potential ideas for the organization and what it will fund in the programming.”
“Yes, I think I was pretty clear in stating the intent of the fundraising. So the way this nonprofit has been functioning is that it never actually raised money. It would only take money from our general fund to program. And so the idea would be that it actually becomes a nonprofit of the city so we can fundraise and move subsidized programming to that organization. So that would be the new idea of the board.”
“It is a nonprofit. It would continue to be a nonprofit, but it was never functioning like a nonprofit.”
“So let me clarify, because I think you misunderstand what's happening. And also, I think you misunderstood what happened in 2014 or 2015 when this was done. The only way to restructure the bylaws of this organization is for us to serve as the board to do that. I'm not taking it away from the residents. We're bringing it in to restructure it, and then we will put it back out to be an independent organization. Again, if that is what this body so chooses, once we do the restructuring. So that's what's currently going to happen now. For many, many years, and you can go back and request all the…”
“OK, are those complete, your comments? So I would check the bylaws, council, because the board cannot change the bylaws. They cannot change the bylaws. And I would read them again because they're not allowed to change the bylaws. It's very clear because we as a city don't want the committees to be able to change the bylaws. To my understanding, that's why we had to bring it back. Because they cannot change the bylaws. They cannot change the vision or the mission of the organization. Only we can. Exactly. They bring it to us, they present it, and then we vote. But we're the ones presenting the…”
“Yes. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Through the mayor? Yes. Councilwoman Reynosa.”