Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“You're right. That does include the debt millage. So the total for, you're absolutely right. The total for the non-bonded is 5.4. You were right on the money. I was looking at the wrong number. Thank you. I think Marion's making copies of this. So here we have total value of senior homesteaded properties. So of just senior homesteaded properties, every single household with senior homestead was exempt from paying municipal taxes, it would be $61,000. So about the same amount of money we budgeted for our grants this year to senior homesteaded properties. So we're returning that money to our…”
“So I'm going to have this shared with all of you because I think it's an important document to look at. And thank you, finance, for preparing this. Very helpful.”
“And we're going to circulate that. Anybody else have any comments from the administration? OK.”
“Yes, I do have one more I want to add. After conversations with State Representative Juan Carlos Porras at our HOA information session, he talked about requesting some funding for fraud investigations for police department. He was very particular about not calling it homeowner association investigations, but focusing on fraud prevention for police. So I would like to add that in there as well. We've been in communication with his office, and they were going to send us some suggestions of funding amounts. And I have been in conversation with Representative Rizzo. I haven't been able to talk to…”
“Okay. So then this resolution for property taxes. I'm going to incorporate it into the resolution. So I'll work with Lorenzo. We'll work on a resolution that will encompass all of this. And then my idea is to write a letter on behalf of all of us with all of our names on the letterhead. and send it to our entire delegation, make sure our lobbyists receive it, and move forward on making sure. And then when we go up to Tallahassee, that we all are kind of communicating the same message. Yeah, very important.”
“Yes. Thank you. That's good. Yep. All right.”
“Any other comments? I don't know if staff or any of the department directors want to add anything. I know everybody had input on this. Nothing else? OK. If there is nothing else, and everybody is good with this, we will proceed on creating the resolution and bringing it forward in November. Regardless, I'm having Mario make. I should have made copies. I'm sorry. I forgot about it. But it's been on my desk now for like two months. So I will have this get received to each of your offices in just a couple of minutes so you have it, because I think it's great information. Anything else? Good job,…”
“Thank you very much. I just need a motion to adjourn. Motion. Motion to adjourn by Councilman Pinedo, second by Councilman Reynoso. All in favor say aye. Aye. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you.”
“Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our October council meeting. Today is the 8th of October. The time is now 10.09 a.m. I hereby call this meeting to order. A reminder to please silence your phones and keep a respectful atmosphere as we conduct our meeting. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Thank you very much. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilman Cabral.”
“Okay, we will now have our invocation, and today the invocation will be led by Pastor Miguel Menendez from Presencia Viva. Thank you for being here.”
“Amen. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we'll now move into our agenda order of business. Starting with the City Manager's Office, do we have anything to add or delete?”
“Thank you very much. Council Member Pinedo?”
“OK, there's a motion on the table to lay down this item. A reminder of our charter and our code. Per the city charter, we do have a requirement to notify and to place items on the agenda by a certain time period. Otherwise, a lay down item requires for fifth vote of the council. Additionally, the section of our code that provides for how items will be placed on the agenda, requires that any item with a fiscal impact be done two weeks prior to the council meeting so that staff has an opportunity to review all the documents and make sure that, in this case, the recipient of the sponsorship…”
“There's a second on the table. To help someone, yes. Is there any additional comments? Okay, being none, Madam Clerk.”
“Okay, just a reminder that this item can come back next month with the proper notification of time so that everyone is informed. All right, any other items that you'd like to pull?”
“We will be having our legislative workshop.”
“I'm not going to be supportive of deferring it again. We are going to have a legislative workshop where we'll have a discussion, and then I'll be bringing an item forward in November based on that workshop that all of us will vote on for a cohesive, unified voice to the state about what our legislative priorities are. So you can bring that to the workshop, but we're not going to defer this to November. Or at least I will not be supportive of that.”
“You could pull it, but I won't be supportive of a deferral.”
“All right, anything else? Nope. Okay, just six out. All right, Councilwoman Reynoso? No, Mayor, thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Cabral?”
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“Second by Councilman Pinedo. All in favor say aye. Aye. Madam Clerk, let the record reflect the minutes have passed unanimously. We will now go into the next item.”
“VANESSA BASAYO. Of course. Welcome. Thank you for joining us, and congratulations.”
“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do you guys still have the warm chocolate chip cookies? Yes. We do. Should have brought us some. Just kidding. Coming up for a picture.”
“All right. All right, we move on to our discussion items.”