Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Perfect, thank you. Your cost with the precast breakaway is in the memo. Thank you.”
“No, I think everybody understands that they're both very customizable.”
“That's what I asked here. I asked the material of your poll in the proposal.”
“OK. All right. So what are we going to move forward with? Because we have to have a decision. And I don't want this to be prolonged for another six months. Ideally, I would like to see this area be illuminated this year. That's the priority and our goal. We can move forward in having them install a light in the next month. And we bring this back in March. And we make a decision based on looking at both of the polls independently. Or we make a decision today with what is in front of us, taking into account, again, the proposal of both and the product that's being offered. And we move forward.”
“I'm only saying because if they're gonna install it for us to actually look at it, I think there needs to be an identified location for them to do that. I agree. It may not, I mean.”
“You have one already? OK. All right. Well, then, install it. Carlos, we trust. Install it and put it back in February and let us know where it's installed so we can go take a look at it. The one that Fornage has, it's back there. I don't know if any of you have noticed it. It's right between the Publix and the- In the little pathway. It's right in the little path right there, right behind our building. So you can go take a look at it at night and look at what it illuminates. Question for you, he mentioned that you can control the luminaries on the light.”
“Okay. All right. Perfect, all right, I don't think we need to, do you need an action or I think you all have direction as to what to do?”
“I think we have to hold ourselves accountable and go out there and look at it. Just make sure you email us the address. I'm telling you, I've gone out and looked at this one several times when I leave late, yes. So just make sure you email us the location. Yes, cool.”
“If anyone would like to go out with Public Works, I'm sure they can accommodate to send somebody with you.”
“All right, great. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll see you all back in February then. Yes. Thank you for coming to present. Appreciate it.”
“Thank you, Councilman. I have no problem with that. We've extended it in the past before to organizations that applied and just didn't meet the amount by very little because we usually just pick five but we have extended the funds. We can always take it from the funds for the later one to get them the opportunity to give it to more of the ones that applied for this round. It's something we've done in the past and I have no issue with it. Usually we try and limit it to five but, They all applied and are all, I mean, equally merit the opportunity and serve a great purpose in our community in…”
“Second by Councilman Pinedo. Madam Clerk, please call the vote.”
“All right. Okay, this exhausts our discussion items for today. So I will go into my mayor's report. All right, so very briefly, I want to just, we went to Tallahassee, myself and Council Member Reynoso were in Tallahassee this week. We just came back yesterday and had very productive meetings. Obviously a lot of eyes on what will happen regarding property taxes. Um, we have not much news different than what everyone's hearing at this time, but we will continue to monitor and be involved. We met, um, had a great meetings with, um, the governor's office and, um, and talked about our…”
“Actually, if you don't mind, if you just wait till the end of the meeting, we'll go down and take a picture with them as we recess, OK? Don't go anywhere. Does that conclude your mayor?”
“So I forgot something. It is also our city manager's one year anniversary. So congratulations. Great job in your first year.”
“It's attached. So efficient, thank you. All right, we're ready to take a recess.”
“Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Vice Mayor. Happy birthday to you.”
“Okay, we need a motion to recess. Oh, motion. Motion to recess by Council Member Reynoso. Second by Council Member Pinedo. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right, we will see you back here at six o'clock.”
“Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the second session of our January Council meeting. Today is Thursday, the 15th of January, and the time is now 6.16 p.m. I hereby call this meeting to order. Just a reminder that if you need to use your phones, please step outside. We kindly ask that you help us maintain a respectful atmosphere during our meeting. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Vice Mayor Cabral. Okay, I don't believe there's any changes to our agenda order of business. Just item 6D from the morning. Okay, perfect, thank you very much. And now we're gonna go ahead and open for public comments. We will go ahead and open the floor for public comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on today's agenda or anything that's germane to this council. Please start by stating your name and address for the record. Make sure you are registered to speak with the city clerk's office either before or after…”
“Thank you, Jody Steinbauer. Anyone else who would like to speak at this time? We have no more pre-registered speakers. Please approach the podium. All right, being none. We will now close the public comments portion of this meeting, and we'll move on to our first item, which is going to be the item that was pulled this morning, which is 60.”
“All right. Thank you very much. So the only reason I pulled this is because I would like to reduce the amount of years that we're going into the contract for. For several reasons, we're currently restructuring the events that we're having, how many. There was a conversation had at one point that why didn't we have our own tents, the quality of the tents that have been used in the past and their conditions, and the difference of what we would get versus what we're getting if we were to have our own and things like that. So I'm OK with moving forward with this. I just want to reduce the period…”
“Yeah, I just think it gives us a better opportunity to evaluate throughout the year the quality of what we're getting and also maybe do an analysis of if we buy our own tents, if that's an option, and if we would save money. So I wanna take a look at that.”
“All right, motion to approve by Councilman Pinero with the amendment. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso.”
“Okay, great. Thank you very much for your support on that. We'll now move into the public hearing items. May I pre-swear in the witnesses, Mayor?”