Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Councilwoman, when the chief is responding, he's not just responding to you. He's responding to all of us.”
“Here's how we're going to handle this. No one will be interrupted. If the chief needs to finish his statement, he'll finish it, and then you will have the time to ask all your questions. No one is going to take that away from you. However, I think it's unfair to not allow someone to finish a statement when you're asking very sensitive questions. That's how we're going to conduct ourselves here.”
“Sorry, Chief. Chief, if you could hold on, don't go.”
“Any other questions, comments? Councilman Pinedo.”
“Thank you, Councilman. Any other comments? Councilwoman Reynoso?”
“I do have some final comments before we take up the item. So first, I also want to thank the chief of police and the entire police department. I think you guys do a great job of being out there and building relationships with our residents. And it's so important. And I think it's always been a priority of this department. Unfortunately, as it's been stated here today, and I passed out a folder as we did a lot of research before we were told that this needed to come forward and we had to do this to be in compliance on the obligation that had been put on us by the state to comply. We have an…”
“Thank you may ask for someone to place a motion motion motion to approve a councilman right now so second by Councilman the needle. But a clerk please call motion to approve a councilman Reynolds. Councilman also yes, Councilman NATO, yes, Councilman got on yes, yes, yes, yes, motion passes all right, thank you very much all for your patience on this item, thank you chief great job.”
“All right we're going to take councilman Reynolds was laid on item now. May I read it into the record, Madam Mayor? Yes.”
“All right. Council Member Reynoso, this is your lay-down item.”
“Thank you, Councilwoman. Any comments? Motion.”
“Motion to approve by Vice Mayor Porras, second by Councilman Pinedo. If no one has any comments, I do have two. First, I want to thank you, Councilwoman Reynoso, for bringing this forward, for being attentive in all the meetings, for participating during our Tallahassee visit in all of our meetings and taking this and running with it. We had an extensive conversation about HOA reform. because it affects us deeply, and I think the most important part of this bill, if it passes, is it allows local authorities to investigate and audit. and be more part of catching those fraud. And a lot of times…”
“All right, thank you very much. Okay, now I believe we're going to go into... Mayor's report? The city attorney's lay down item. Do you want to take that up now? We can take it up now. Are you good with that? Yeah, yes. Okay, we'll take it up now. Read into the record?”
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“All right, thank you very much. So we're going to take up the reports at the end of the evening. I'm going to go ahead and take the public hearing items now.”
“All right, thank you very much, Madam Clerk. I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public hearing for this item.”
“Public hearing is now open for item 25-6110. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium at this time. Okay, being none, public comments is now closed. If the applicant would like to approach, I don't know if there'll be any questions. If there's any questions, I don't know if there's staff Staff presentation, okay. We'll let staff present, and if there's any questions, then you can come up, okay?”
“Thank you, Michelle. Okay, is there any questions for the applicant otherwise or for staff? That's pretty straightforward. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Cabral. If there's no additional questions, Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Yes. Mayor Porras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Congratulations. We look forward to having you guys in our city. A lot of people wanting paddle.”
“All right, I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public comments for this item. Public comments is now open. If anyone would like to come and speak at this time, please do so.”
“Closing the public comments portion. Madam Clerk, with the record, if anyone has chosen to speak at this time. And this is my item. Basically, we are amending the ordinance for boards and committees once again. As I mentioned earlier, when we were approving the committees, it's very difficult to meet some of these standards. We don't even impose them on ourselves as elected officials. I wasn't supportive of the change initially, so we're gonna roll it back to the way it was, which it's worked for 20 years. So if there's any questions, I would need a motion to approve. Motion to approve.…”
“Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the vote.”
“Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much.”
“All right. Thank you very much. We're going to open up public comments for this item. Item 25-6126 is now open for public comments. Anyone would like to speak, please approach the podium. Being none.”
“Public comment is now closed. Madam Clerk, let the record reflect. No one has chosen to speak at this time. And we will hear from the city attorney.”
“Thank you very much. If there's no questions, I need a motion to approve. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Reynoso, second by Councilman Pinero. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”