Remarks by Cristina Eveillard
175 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 7
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“Yes. Go ahead. Yes, I want to address... some statement that was made in reference to the millage rate that the commissioners on the majority side are making false promises in reference to when they're campaigning that they're going to lower the millage rate. First of all, when I'm campaigning, I cannot tell anyone that I solely can lower the millage rate. When we were campaigning, we said that we will advocate, meaning that we're proposing. We're advocating that when we get here, we're going to propose and we're going to advocate to see how we can lower the military rate. Yes, we were…”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Yes. Well, I have a few things to say. First, you know, in reference to this, THE COMMISSIONER IS NOT MAKING A SMART DECISION OR MAKING AN OBSERVED DECISION AS FAR AS EMPLOYEES. Do you prefer to cut salary or you prefer to lay off the employee?”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“No, you can't respond, but I'm just talking in a piece. So my thing is this. To save the city, everybody has to give up something for us to save the city. It cannot be just raising taxes on the residents to bring in revenue. On the other side, what I'm saying, too, is that if the staff wants to still save the city and get their jobs, they, too, on the other side, would have to be able to understand that they have to be somewhere or the other. So everybody has to be able to come to a point where you have to meet each other in the middle. And with that, I said again, I think that option two can…”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Yeah, so as I was saying earlier, To operate within our means, it means that we have to understand that we have to work with each other and we have to, you know, be able to balance the budget without having to touch the reserve. That is operating, you know, within... with another means and leadership.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“No, I'm not. I keep getting interrupted.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Yes. So, um, We as a community, community, you know, we hear as a community, as a whole, we hear bickering at each other while we're decimating our residents. And you're not looking at the big picture. When our residents, when our seniors, who are the true community leaders, who are the true representation of West Park, especially in the subdivision of our ranches, the way how we're acting, we are moving them out. And guess what? There will be people that's coming in that's gonna fill up these seats that's not gonna look like you nor me. So if we don't get together and learn to come together,…”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“We're still awaiting a report from the city manager to see what would it look like 7.6 because I didn't receive any email or text. So do you have a presentation or a slide to show us. Mayor, you want me to?”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Um, City manager. Speak into the mic, please.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“I mean, if not, at least give a recommendation as far as how much you can cut.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Okay. But just for a determination of the military, can you just go back and highlight, like, how much you were able to reduce the salary and what was the amount that you compute?”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Okay. Under the reconsideration of Amendment 3, and since we don't know if it's going to pass or not, and since you're discussing about how we can probably make some adjustment to the salary or some other parts in the budgets, so that way we can be able to still cut back regardless of whether we go for 7.9 or 7.6 millage rate. Then I'm going to ask my colleagues to reconsider and then keep the millage rate at 7.9.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“We'll have to withdraw the amendment motion.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Okay, if the Umbi Festival is an issue now for it to be in the budget, Explain to me how come in the past the Goombay festival was celebrated by the city a few years ago. And I didn't hear anybody talk about this law and this violation and so forth. Like the prior years that we celebrated Goombay, how come we were able to do it back then?”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Yes, home. If the the bill was but it was discussed back on April 5th June 3rd June 17 a 15. Why was it not presented to us. They're white white just discussing it now. that we mentioned about these activities, the Gumbe and the multicultural festival. And also keep in mind that since it's not going to be effective until January 27, we still have month of December where the multicultural festival can be celebrated. And I know back in last year of December, we had initiated to start doing it because there's even a flyer that was put out. But then all of a sudden, it was just canceled and we…”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“It was documented, but it wasn't explained specifically what festival was not. You know, it was in there, but I don't think we ever got to it. Plus, it was never stated to say was the game festival or it was cultural festival, because if that was the case, then...”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Yes, I'm. I noticed that you did not address the senior funds to show us where how the funds were distributed and who distributed for. In the package, I don't see that you said that what a senior's senior funds 400,000 to show on the breakdown as to who got paid for that, what organization got paid for it, and what amount. I had a request for that, too, but I don't see that.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“It just was in general, but you didn't specify the name.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“The amount. That's what I was specifying.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“No, but if you go back to the... No, we didn't... This is verbatim. This is verbatim. If you go back to the recording, you will see what I specified. I specified it twice.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“I need that now so that we can... You can do whatever you want.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Why would I want their name and not the amount? We're talking about a budget. We're talking about a budget.”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026
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“Thank you, madam mayor City manager Has anything changed in the in the budget or are you presented the budget as what it was because I look online and TO ME, EVERYTHING WAS MUCH THE SAME. BECAUSE, YEAH, HAS ANYTHING CHANGED? BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THAT YOU WANT US TO APPROVE A BUDGET, BUT YET WE'RE NOT, I'M NOT GETTING CLEAR EXPLANATION OR RECEIPTS AS TO WHY. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY INDUSTRIAL From 501,217, we are proposing 632,413. So where is the reasons for the increase? So we're not getting any details for the reason for those increase. The same as for, for example,…”
City Commission · Sep 30, 2026