Remarks by Eileen Higgins
260 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 11
- Play at 4:22:14
“Motion. All right, so we have a motion to defer.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:22:17
“Second to the September 10th, I think, meeting. Okay. All in favor, say aye.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:22:23
“Any opposed? All right, show that. Passed. All right, I think we're at RE14 and 15, which kind of go together. Commissioner Rosado and...”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:27:35
“If I may, because I heard a possible amendment. I also, when I read this... Commissioner Rosado, I had similar thoughts to Commissioner Pardo. When we put it in the charter, we're putting it in our constitution, right? And basically, there's no flexibility forever. And the auditing requirements versus having our city audit worried me. The other thing that worried me is this committee was tasked with developing and managing our dashboard in the language, right? they are supposed to develop and publish.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:28:22
“The language says to audit, monitor, publicly report on, and develop and publish a publicly accessible dashboard, which puts them in the role of IT without sort of the cyber security constraints. So I think this is a great idea. I also think parts of this item could come out of this board as a directive that any time we issue, I'm making it up here on the fly, debt over X millions of dollars, that must be disclosed on a publicly available dashboard that we direct. And by the way, the next year's budget fund the administration to build on that. And that we perhaps on our audit and finance…”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:32:37
“But can I just, if you don't mind, Commissioner Cabela, the team that is conducting the audits of our finances is funded. Correct? And so we already have a certified auditor going through not just our city finances, but obviously all of our associated organizations and all of our bonds. And so that is funded in our budget and will be funded next year because otherwise we don't have a bond rating. We don't have any kind of fiscal rating nationally to allow us to do business. So, you know, Should, right now our bonds are audited, right? They are audited. What I think, and they're auditing at a…”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:40:04
“There's so many good things in here. Mm-hmm. Right? Which we're up against a shot clock. Basically, if we don't deliver this to the supervisor election tomorrow, it can't be on the November ballot. But there's another election right around the corner. And to develop and publish a publicly accessible dashboard showing the status, cost, time, and That could be in complete conflict with what we're doing. And they are going to have access in order to do that to our city's raw data.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:40:47
“And without cybersecurity protections around that. There's so many good things in here for me. So, but colleagues, I'll take a...”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:41:37
“Well, how about if I make a suggestion? And with the authority to get rid of the word audit, monitor, and publicly report on projects, including the status cost timeline and remaining... It doesn't say the dashboard and then we just make sure we do some other item that says sorry James You've got to create a dashboard anytime. We do this I accept and then I think we You know we my attorney has to look at it Mine does too our attorney can look at it Javi does that work for you I?”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:43:34
“And then what do we do to get the exact 75 words? We've cut a lot of words, so we should still be good. I think. Todd, help us.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:44:09
“All right, so... You know what to do to make the referendum item?”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:44:15
“Okay. So, Commissioner Rosado, as amended, as amended, as amended? As amended. Okay, show that move. Second it, please. Commissioner Gabela, how about? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed?”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:44:26
“Just one no. Todd, this has to be delivered tomorrow, so you'll work to get my signature on that today?”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:44:37
“Yeah. I'm sure I've forgotten something. What have I missed, Todd? Oh, here, we have BU1, the budget. I think you all received a budget report. Would you like to accept that report or discuss it? Yes. Have questions?”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:45:48
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:46:17
“You can come fetch me and I'm happy to gavel it out since I have to wait for Todd to send me everything I need to sign so we can get it to the supervisor elections today. Are we doing lunch? You all are the only ones in the shade, so you all decide.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:46:33
“Lunch, so 3 o'clock shade meeting, or is that too soon? 3.30? 3.30. 3.30. All right.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:48:16
“That gives you 50 minutes. Everybody, is 3 okay? Yeah, your friends are asking you for 3.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:48:32
“3.15. All right. We'll reconvene at 3.15. Todd.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:48:50
“They'll go up to the shade, then we'll come down and gavel out. Right.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:48:53
“Okay. And only three of you need to come and gavel out. So if somebody needs to... Yep.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 4:51:50
“The regular meeting is now open. I do not believe, Mr. Clerk, we have any other business.”
City Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 0:30
“How you doing? Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the City of Miami Commission meeting, our first meeting in July. This particular pass has been a pretty important one for the City of Miami, particularly with the efforts of City of Miami Police Department and Miami Fire Rescue. We have two amazing, I think, I don't know if milestones is the right word, but endeavors that went off extremely successfully and as residents can make all of us very, very proud. And so we have some folks we need to recognize today. and give special thanks to. And I'm going to start off with something that I guess is…”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 4:25
“All right, shall I turn it over to you, Chief and Chief and Chief? I guess it's hard to say before I turn it over to my colleagues.”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 16:52
“And David, do you want to, before you leave the stage, want to talk a little bit about the economic impact quickly?”
City Commission · Jul 9, 2026