Remarks by Damian Pardo
99 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
- Play at 3:41:05
“So my question really is to the city manager. I mean, we reallocate all the time. We have mid-year budgets all the time. $10 million is a very small percent of our overall budgets. We can find this money and take care of this and not have to wait while this process goes on.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 3:47:14
“Well, I'm just trying to figure out what does that ballot language look like?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 3:47:29
“So how does the voter know that they have other options or that they could?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 3:47:59
“Document what's stipulated what we're saying so so if I make No, no I just want to so the ballot language of the 75 words would still lead the voter to believe that They have this choice either between safety police and fire or increasing their taxes There's no nothing outside of that that doesn't change regardless of the amendments that we're adding right now That's correct, right now it's not. And there's no discussion with the community, and there's no outreach, and there's no engagement, and there's no, we're just putting this on for 450 million. That's what we're voting on? We're just…”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:12:57
“I think the summary of the concessions would be the best thing, kind of like where we heard the community and what changed.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:17:22
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City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:17:29
“And they were denied intervener status. A request for intervener status. And I know they have the option to request it again.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:17:38
“So has anything changed from the legal aspect that was given in that PSAB hearing to now?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:37:14
“Yeah, I do have some comments. I have a quick question for the city attorney. When it failed at PZAB, it failed because it was a supermajority, correct?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:37:26
“So five in favor, four against. So it's the supermajority. But the Miami 21 code requires a supermajority. Requires a supermajority. That's why it failed. So this obviously has been an incredibly contentious and emotional issue in Coconut Grove, decades long contentious emotional issue. And from the days when I first started knocking on doors and listening to residents, it became very clear that people just wanted something positive done. People wanted to stop the arguing, the bickering, the fighting. And how do we get to a place where we reach an understanding and we do something that is…”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:44:23
“Thank you, Commissioner Regalado. Thank you, Ashley Thomas. Appreciate all your hard work.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you. My concern would be, for example, there's someone near my home that is outside a lot with an umbrella, cardboard box, sitting in a chair with their stuff. You know, if somebody complains about that situation... what would the police do in that sense? Is that an encampment, having an umbrella and creating a small area?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:50:03
“I think I definitely am concerned about us being perceived in any manner or opening a door for criminalization of homeless people.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:50:11
“I think that's what we're all trying to prevent. And from a policy perspective, when I hear something like a reasonable time, a warning and a reasonable... What's a reasonable time? I mean... Yeah, the last thing... So, in a way, I'm also trying to protect our force, our police force, so that somebody doesn't make a an error in judgment and it ends up being just a really bad situation, a human situation.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:00:09
“Thank you. Thank you. I have a quick question. So when a person doesn't accept housing, what happens to them? I mean, if you're offering them a bed and they say, I'm not interested in that. I want to just stay with the shopping cart, my umbrella.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:00:32
“So they're not going to jail? No. Because my understanding of this whole thing is that it eliminates a bureaucratic need to issue a written warning, which is cumbersome and actually delays being able to get them into assistance. Is that your read on this?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:13:40
“Look at me. He dies for lack of a second.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:18:55
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City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:27:28
“But we're also taking away a reasonable solution to that issue that the voters and the residents may really be supportive of. They may be supporting it.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:27:42
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City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 5:57:14
“Just on FR1, I think we have a substitution, George.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 2:55:29
“I'd like to pull RE5 and RE7. RE5 and 7.”
City Commission · Jun 25, 2026
- Play at 2:56:43
“Yeah, I'd actually like to have staff come here and kind of describe the major challenges that Live Local Act really poses to our code in Miami 21 and really how it impacts us daily at the city of Miami.”
City Commission · Jun 25, 2026
- Play at 3:01:18
“I wanted to ask you also, is there a financial impact, we were briefly discussing that, of funds that would normally come to the City of Miami but don't?”
City Commission · Jun 25, 2026
- Play at 3:04:04
“Madam Chair, just to add to those comments, I think it also puts us in a very precarious situation when we have development teams coming into our office and saying, well, we want this variance, and we want this, and give us this, and we're trying to figure out how do we retain control because Miami 21, correct me if I'm wrong, gives a lot more thought to open spaces and the form and the outside areas and the envelope of the buildings. And when we lose control of all of that, which we don't want to do, then we're in a bind. Because either we do these exceptions and variances, which the…”
City Commission · Jun 25, 2026