Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Richard, thank you for your comments. Please, let's be more respectful next time. Otherwise, we will not be taking comments. Especially with expletives. Thank you. Any other comments at this time? Any other comments? Okay. Public comments is now closed. Let the record reflect. No one else has chosen to speak at this time. And we'll move into the discussion item. So before we move into the first discussion item, I will ask for a couple of ground rules as we move forward in the interview process. There are, I think, four candidates here. I believe there may be one virtually. Correct? Are four…”
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“Yes, so go ahead and ask your question. The candidate will respond and then you'll be able to ask your next question. We are doing three questions per council member.”
“Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Reynoso.”
“I was not implementing a timer. Let's try and keep the question, the answers a little more concise so that if they felt the liberty to have to elaborate more, we could. But let's try and keep it a little bit shorter.”
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“So one of the things that strikes me is the Extensive work experience, however, very short time periods. So can you just explain to me or elaborate a little bit on, for example, your previous employment with Palm Beach was for one year. Right. Then previous to that, less than two years. The city of Sweetwater. The city of Harrisburg, which you speak a lot about, was one year.”
“Then before that, the Seminole tribe was less than a year as well. Yes. Before that, city of Miami Beach, about three years.”
“So there's a little bit of a time there.”
“Thank you very much. Just very quick closing remark.”
“Well, right now we're not gonna go into questions from us just because we do have three other candidates that are waiting and I think each of us, we have a strategic planning session where that is discussed at length and we want to be prepared for that which hopefully we'll be doing in February or March which is why it's so important that we kick the ground running in January with a new manager since our manager resigned effective December 31st. But those are discussions we'll have with the manager through our strategic planning session which we do every year. But thank you very much for your…”
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“Good morning. So just very quickly, we're going to allow you two minutes to do your opening remarks, and then we will have questions from each council member. Each council member is allowed to ask three questions, and we are asking the same question to all candidates, and then you'll have two minutes for closing remarks. We're going to go ahead and start with Councilman Cabral, whenever you're ready. However, we'll give you two minutes for your opening statement. Sorry.”
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“NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. SO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.”
“in order to be able to create like i said these recurring sources of revenue that we need thank you that's all me thank you councilman miss sardinas um you're currently employed yes ma'am so one of the things i'm looking at in all these resumes and i think it's been a common trend and what we've discussed you know with your interview is stability Councilman Cabral had the question. Civility is super important because I think it's what will allow us to achieve our goals long term over the next many years and in a very crucial time for their city. And something that stood out to me about your…”
“And even before that, Your previous employment, that was seven years?”
“And so I think that that trend in someone's experience is extremely valuable. Can you speak to that a little bit on maintaining a position for as long as you have and what that brings to your role?”
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“We've tried to keep the questions the same for every candidate, okay? And we'll start with Councilman Cabral right after your two-minute opening statement.”