Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Okay, this item has been deferred several times. I think it's very self-explanatory. There was a little update to just bring it to current status of number of hostages and what we've seen transpire throughout the past couple of months. Still extremely relevant in our society and so It's before us once again after being deferred twice. Is there any comments?”
“Motion to approve by Council Member Pinedo. Through the Mayor, may I? Yes, Council Member Portas.”
“So I think this is an additional reaffirmation, more so because of what transpired over the last couple of months. I think that it's extremely relevant. There's been new findings, new events that have taken place. Also, what happened here at the city, I think it's important for us to reaffirm our position strongly. I would like to. On my part, I think I've done so. But this is an additional step so that the last record for our city is our position on anti-Semitism, bigotry, and just making sure that we are firm in our position as a city, that it's unacceptable in our community. OK.”
“I had sent an email to the clerk back when this was originally on the agenda offering everyone's opportunity to co-sponsor. I'm 100% in favor of that.”
“Thank you. Okay, we have a motion by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Councilman Porras, with co-sponsorship by the members of the council that are present.”
“Thank you very much. Appreciate the support. Okay, we can move on to item eight. 9C, I'm sorry, 9D. Item 9D, discussion territorial. Oh, this was my fault. I was supposed to pull this at the beginning of the meeting and I remembered after.”
“So we can, if everyone's okay with this, we're just gonna move it. The person who was gonna come didn't make it from Spain, so I've decided to pull it off. That's okay with everyone?”
“Yes. Okay. All right. You don't need to vote for that, do you? No. Okay. Item E, advisory board member nominations. Okay, these are just more so the youth advisory board. We had some students that left to college, and there were some very eager students. They have been extremely active, and they want to bring something forward, so they need to meet and did not have the amount of members since graduation took place. So I just need a motion.”
“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilman Porras. Madam Clerk?”
“Okay, Councilman Pinedo, this is your item.”
“There's a motion for a deferral on the floor by Councilman Cabral, second by Councilman Porras. Do you have a comment, Councilman Pinero?”
“Thank you, Councilman Pinero. Any other comments? I agree. I don't think it's necessary. I think it's important for a position to be stated. At the end of the day, this is about future generations and how it will affect them. So I think taking a position is extremely important for the education purposes of how this will change our communities after November. So taking a position early so that there's not consequences or that there is an ability to educate on it is imperative. So I won't be supportive of a deferral. But let's go ahead and call the roll.”
“Okay. Motion to approve. Second. Motion to approve by Councilwoman Cabral, second by Vice Mayor Puig Corvey. Any other comments? Thank you, Councilman Pinedo, for bringing this forward. Madam Clerk.”
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“Okay, and then I wanted to add another part to this, if possible, because I thought about it last time I was there, and actually, it was my community outreach coordinator who came up with the idea, and I thought it was great. You know, we're right in the flyover of the airport with that park, and so I'd like to see if there's a way we could add for the word or our logo, Doral, to be put at either the top of the building or on the top of the water tank as well. So I wanted to see if there was a way we could incorporate that into this call to artists. Because it's a great opportunity for…”
“Awesome. So I just wanted to make sure those two things were incorporated in putting out this call to artists. Do we need a motion? Okay, I need a motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Puig Corbett. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Thank you. Okay, we'll now take up item 6P that was pulled from the consent agenda.”
“Okay, there's a motion and a second. Any other comments?”
“Okay, thank you very much. Yes, Councilman Pinedo.”
“Thank you very much. Any other comments? Questions? No?”
“Okay, move on to the next item, item 6JJ.”
“Okay, I just wanted to quickly state on the record, I'm not against this item, and I think that there's a lot of great people here that have done wonderful things for this city. But I feel like this, not just in the keys to the city, but in every recognition we give, we have absolutely diminished and devalued its prestige as a city by how many we are giving and by not really valuing what it means to have these recognitions from the city. This exact list of people were recognized in the 20-year anniversary in a very special way. And so again, I'm not against it. I'm not going to sit here and…”
“Motion. Motion to approve by Councilwoman Porras, second by Vice Mayor Puig Corvey. There's a comment by Councilwoman Cabral, then we can call the question.”
“Okay, we move on to the Mayor's Report. Yes, ma'am. Okay, just a couple quick things. First, I want to thank our Police Department and also our Parks and Rec Department, as well as Parks and Police for Kids. for a great event that we had on the National Night Out. There were several book bags given out. It's always an event that has a huge turnout and a great motivator for our families to get back to school. I also wanna thank Parks and Recreation Department as well as Councilman Porras for the initiative of the Pickleball Courts. It was a great opening, and I know people were very happy. I…”
“Perfect. Okay. Last but not least, I want to make sure that our community comes out on August 24th for the first phase opening of Doral Central Park. Thank you to all of the staff that has been so diligently working on getting that done. I think we've all been out there several times and are extremely excited for the official grand opening of the park. So that's my mayor's report. Move on to council. Council comments?”