Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Okay, thank you, Council Member Reynoso. Motion by Council Member Reynoso.”
“Second by Council Member Pinedo. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Thank you.”
“No. Mayfra? Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. We will call a meeting of the board in the next couple of weeks. Thank you.”
“We need to have a translator. Necesitamos una traducción.”
“Thank you, Councilman. Any comments? Councilwoman Reynoso?”
“Thank you, Councilman. I first would like to ask if you'd be OK with me co-sponsoring this item and anyone else who would like to join. This is obviously a great thing for our community. So thank you for bringing it forward. Maria Corina Machado is an incredible woman that represents courage, freedom, democracy, human rights, perseverance. And so not only is it an incredible Role model and something to a person to look up to by many young women in our community but those who have had to flee Venezuela and even Cubans and Nicaraguans and everywhere and and she was so rightfully given the Nobel…”
“Yes, Vice Mayor would like to say something too.”
“Okay, I think we can all be added as co-sponsors, the four of us that are up here. If you don't mind, Councilman? You don't mind? Thank you. On behalf of all of us. Okay, we need a motion. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Vice Mayor Cabran.”
“Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Go ahead. Do you want to say your comment?”
“Okay, if it's okay with my colleagues, we can take a quick 10 minute recess so we can say, you know, just hug the members of the community I'm sure wanna say thank you and then we can reconvene, is that okay? All right, any motion to recess? Motion for a 10 minute recess? Second. Second, all right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, we'll be back in 10 minutes. Let's try and keep it brief.”
“Okay, before I turn it over to Councilman Pinedo, can we have the sergeant at arms just make sure that they keep their voices out down there? Please, and the door is closed. Out of respect for the meeting. All right, thank you very much. Councilman Pinedo, this is your item.”
“Thank you, Councilman. So if there's any other, is there any questions? I have a couple. Okay, I do have some questions because I was a little confused on, I looked at this actually yesterday at the map. You mentioned 112th, because right now, as it states on the resolution, 102nd Avenue between 27th and 25th is a residential, it is a no-through-truck street because it's right in the middle of Vanderbilt.”
“Okay, so the actual resolution says 102nd Avenue, so it should be 100. I just want to make sure that it's 112, because the resolution reads 102nd Avenue between 27th Street and 25th Street.”
“Okay, I just wanted to make sure. So we're looking at 112th Avenue. Correct. And 108th Avenue.”
“Yes, okay. So I just want to make sure we change that Is this the new one? Oh, okay, I have the old one. Okay, perfect, because the one I had said 102nd, so I wanted to make sure. Okay, and then the, when we bring this forward, it would be for specific hours. My only concern with that area is, and I know it is very dangerous, and I've seen it forever, and unfortunately, this is an industrial zone that the school is in, is that we don't, There's very few other access points to some of those businesses in that area. So I think we're going to get a little pushback in the sense that if they have…”
“I just want to clarify that for the residents because whenever they see a no through truck sign, they almost have an expectation that that means that there's no trucks going through there. And that's not the case. We can't prohibit conducting business, right? And that is an industrial area. So you're going to still have trucks that as long as they can prove that they're going to their final destination or a destination within their route within that area, they still have to utilize that. Now, if there's another way to get there, then they're required to use that other way. But in looking at…”
“Yeah, and with that being said, I'll just mention also, there was a time where it was put into our code further restrict schools opening up in industrial zones. And we were preempted. We cannot restrict schools opening up in these zones. So a lot of families will say, well, why did that get approved there? Well, our hands are kind of tied to, limitations on that so it's something that we need to because when we take actions like this sometimes it it just welcomes Tallahassee's pre-emptive legislation and which is not what we want so we want to make sure that we don't strangle free commerce…”
“All right. Wonderful. All right. We pulled item 9D, so we're moving to 9E.”
“Thank you. We'll hear from the other presentation and then we'll do questions at the end. Thank you.”
“Make sure you speak into the microphone, please, because it's hard to hear.”
“OK, thank you very much, both companies. Do we have any questions?”
“All right, so I did review the proposal and the memo presented by staff to take a look at what was being proposed. First, taking into consideration a traditional lighting option, which would be connect with hardwire, FPL. I realize that this proposal or this estimate was done in 2021. But to do 13, so the proposal of a traditional hardwired corridor would be 13 poles at 228,000, assuming that's probably going to go up a bit. And that has no infrastructure. basically a cost associated with it, which means the actual preparation of the groundwork, possible easements, all of those things that we…”
“And a full traditional lighting system, you would have a lot of groundwork that would need to be done. So you're looking probably much higher cost. And then the ongoing cost of FPL, correct?”
“So that's why solar was taken into consideration.”
“Correct. Okay. So now looking at the two companies that have been proposed that you have had conversation with, to my understanding, and I may say your company name wrong, Fonarch? Fonarch? Okay. Yes. Fonarge had an opportunity to install a poll, which I've seen. I've gone out there and seen it myself. I've gone a couple of nights to take a look at it because this is something that I've taken an interest in for some time now. Was CELS given an opportunity to install a poll?”