Remarks by Fabiola Stuyvesant
109 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
- Play at 1:22:26
“Exactly. But that's what 161 says. So the municipalities are the ones who have to enforce. We are giving here the power to a private condominium deciding who can and cannot make an event. And then remember that we do have some kind of a precedent. Because right now, we charge $150 a year for these condos to apply to preset and put those chairs on the beach. I'm going to repeat in case that people don't get that number. $150 a year to allow them to get all the spaces that they get that is supposed to be in the website, because I continue getting people asking. We asked this long time ago to be…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:24:11
“No, no, no. That's not the reading of the 161. And I'm saying that you are in the same level that what they are saying. So to your point, and their point is the same.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:24:43
“OK, if it's going to be fixed, that's all I'm asking for. Because like I said, we cannot have a public application where the public cannot apply. That doesn't make any sense. So the people has to be able to go and request. And then we are the one who say yes or no. By giving that better power to a private entity, I don't think it's intentional of the law either.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:26:25
“you know we'd have to set up something where they'd be it would be a rental similar to other parks right okay if may i i asked this specific question in march and the answer was by our deputy city manager, that it was a decision made by a previous administration that we are not here, apparently, because I never get clarification of which administration, that Sansom Park was not part of the rental parks PROGRAM. SO RIGHT NOW I WANT REALLY SO RIGHT NOW I WANT REALLY CLARIFICATION BECAUSE WHAT IS CLARIFICATION BECAUSE WHAT IS BEING SAID RIGHT NOW IS NOT BEING SAID RIGHT NOW IS NOT THE SAME AS…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:27:17
“I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BEACH. THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:27:23
“No, it was the beach. It was the same discussion that we had in March. One second.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:29:47
“I think to your point, Commissioner Susan, you're talking specifically about the yoga events that were... No, I'm just talking about anybody, every resident of Sunny Isles to be able to apply to have an event on the beach. It's very simple. Right now, we don't have that. And whenever you're going to do an event, whenever you're going to do it, if you're going to rent Pelican Park on the first floor, guess what? So... somebody is not going to be able to use that space when we are renting. So the same thing applies for every single rental. So to the example that, oh, yeah, they're going to be…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:32:26
“So it's only if they- Yoga people. The yoga people- move out when they're making their own yoga things. I receive those, even pictures all the time. They try to do their yoga, and then they tell them that they don't have a permit to be doing yoga.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:43:18
“Right. Because we don't have parking, which is a good thing too.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:43:25
“They don't have a parking. They were to park.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:45:55
“Yeah, I have one more question. So if there is no commercial activity permitted, what about the just kids rental?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:46:11
“But they can go to the county instead of coming to us?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:46:57
“You can go to the next one. We don't have the time for this one anymore.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:47:13
“OK, so I guess we all know what is an inspector general, but I'm going to read it. It's a single independent office investigators and auditors that review our contracts, our procurement, capital projects, cash fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement before the money is gone. It reports to the residents, not to the officials they are watching. It is internal affairs for the whole of city government. So I had this also a long time ago. I brought it here. Many municipalities are right now either contracting with other bodies, the inspector general, or having their own inspector or, I don't know,…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:49:03
“Whatever they are tasked to do. Like I said, the best example is like internal affairs for the police department. And like I read before, they are the ones that do. I'm going to repeat. They have auditors, investigators that review contracts, procurement, capital projects to catch fraud, waste, mismanagement, and abuse before the money is gone.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:51:12
“Oh, I don't know how they do it internally. I will not even ask. But it's like, it's the watchdog of the police. How is it triggered? I'm trying to see where they're triggered. Somebody has to make a request or so. But to the auditor part, OK? So right now, I am researching about and continue just still waiting for information, especially the reconciliation of the 533, about the building fund. Because the building fund used to be $8.5 million. And this year, it's going to be less than $100,000. Again, it went from $8.5 million to less than $100,000. It's supposed to be around $97,000. So in…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:52:11
“Well, precisely. And the audience was amazing. Guess what? They reviewed what they were asked to review, but they were never asked to review the building fund. So we passed, like I said, flying colors about something that we didn't even ask to check. So I'm going to repeat, they check investment, they check that what we say came in actually came in, that what we say came out actually came out. But one specific question, how we drain $8.5 million of the building fund was never answered. It was not a reconciliation. Why? Because it was not in the scope of the audit. So to point out that…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:53:15
“I'm not pointing fingers to anyone. Because like I said, the amount of money in, it was the right money in. The amount of money out, somehow it was reconciliated. However, it's very specific how we can use the money of the building fund. And guess what? Building a restaurant is not how you use the money of the building fund. Pay salaries of The general staff of the city, no. The building fund is specifically for building enforcement. It is for inspector to read the reviews, plans, et cetera. That is what is money that is restricted. So to your question, do I believe it was misused, the money?…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:54:57
“I don't know about the details how we are going to be putting it. I think not only us, probably also employees of the city staff should be able to initiate or request something to be seen. So I think those are the details of how it's going to be built. And we will probably have to check best practices of other inspector generals in other municipalities. But that's why I'm giving actually two examples. A contract that started with $100 million and right now is at $1.2 million after amendment, after amendment. Building fund that is being used as basically a slush fund to use it for anything or…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:58:40
“Are you asking me? Yes. I don't know the departments of the cherry department. No, I don't know. It might or might not.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:58:56
“And how they're used? That's not the issue. It's that we need oversight.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:59:09
“Well, we'll be talking about that if we are naming them. First, we need to know if we're going to have the inspector general.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:59:27
“I usually don't answer with another question, but I'm going to ask you. So you don't have any, anything has never come to you of questions that we need some kind of investigation? Because you claim everybody in the city talks to you and ask you everything, and that you are the one for the people.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:59:44
“OK, so that has nothing to do. This is very specific. We're going to have the inspector general office, yes or no. If you don't want oversight, that's OK. That's your decision. So just like the mayor said, she doesn't want it. That's fine. So I said that we need it.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 2:20:38
“Yeah. Sorry, my only comment is, like, we can put it in the priorities that we're going to be setting.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026