Remarks by Fernando A. Vazquez
140 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“I've been asking for this. I'm sorry. The many ad hoc committees have been requesting reports on the CCTV and I've been getting a good hand wave apparently because I'm not really, I thought this work was already being done.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I agree, Mayor, and I'm not questioning the technicalities of the shifting of the funds. I'm talking about actual activity. I'm talking about a lot of discussions being held at the ad hoc committee with a sense that this thing was actually in place being done so we could have a report which constituted everything that we were doing. So I'm surprised, honestly. And again, it goes back to getting a hand wave. Everything's fine.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“We were waiting for the decision of April 22nd. Listen to the tapes. I keep on asking over and over again. And again, I'm being told, yep, yep, it's being done. Or, you know, that's what I get. So again, anyway.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I have one more question before that. I'll take a motion, but can I add a question? On this? Yes, sir. Go ahead. It's related more on CFP. Thank you.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I'm worried. I notice we've taken not the lowest bidder. That's fine if we think they're responsive, but I did notice that they are six years of experience. Whereas the other one, who's the lowest bidder, has 21 years of experience. And the third one came out a little higher, obviously, at nine years. So why did we take the one with the lowest experience?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Did that come in as a formal writing evaluation in the write-up?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Did you get a formal note that they didn't perform such a great job and maybe a lower rank? And was it germane to the work that they're doing? Yes. Yes, yes. The due diligence process, that came up. Sometimes you just make it a bad thing, you build a road, but he's doing a beach park, so what gives?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“All right. Well, thank you for that explanation. Thank you.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“You all recall at least five of us here were at quite a momentous location back in May 2023 when we approved this plan here, right? I forward it to everybody to review. This plan It was a highly debated plan. It was just to remind everybody. It was prepared by previous members of the village council, residents of this community. It was debated by the community. I remember when the room was, I remember May 23 when we voted for this, the room was more full than I've seen it before. It made the GIT thing look like a funeral because it was packed. And everybody had their respective positions. But…”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Okay, what I would say, aspirational, if you're looking at it... Are you asking structurally if it's aspirational, or are you asking from a civic duty to the community and from a philosophical standpoint? No, I'm saying structurally. Structurally, it has, we've been conducting projects, we've been doing projects, but we have not been to the degree that the manager has advised us. I don't think we have been. Every project that we approve, we say this is part of the vision plan. This is what we set on the vision plan that we're going to do. There's a big project here, by the way, which I never,…”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I know. I'm just saying. My question is, that goes to my second question. Are we aligned with, is the administration aligned with the vision? This is policy. This is not just an aspirational plan. This is a policy. We are to move in this direction for the community. This is what the community wants.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Absolutely, no, I don't expect us to have a workshop at this precise moment. I just think that it's important to, this thing has grown stale as far as I'm concerned, as far as the community is concerned. I don't think we discuss this vision plan. I don't think we bring it out to light. I think there's just a lot of people wondering, what are we doing? And that's what really concerns me because the residents are, in my opinion, what I read and what I listen to is that we lost our way somewhere. We lost our, we did. I mean, technically, when we move forward with a massive project and the…”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I would ask, and this is not something, I don't think I caught anybody by surprise on this. I forwarded this two weeks ago. I forwarded this little report that I try to do on things for everybody to see ahead of time. and to discuss, I wasn't expecting to really make any decisions tonight, but I would like us to get back on track. I don't know whether we're following council's vision, which was the community's vision, or we're following the administration's vision. I don't know, I don't really understand what the alignment is there yet. That's why I think it's important that the…”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm hearing. But there is an implementation matrix that the plan developed.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I would ask that we make it the main, one of the main components of the agenda in our discussion and how aligned we are to this plan. And I want to bring the administration and everybody in the same course of action. and advise the community. We should be having workshops of this. We should be calling out the members of the community and telling them or reporting to the community how close, how far we are from the vision that they wanted us to adopt and make policy out of that.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Absolutely. Absolutely. And I'm not questioning that. I guess what I'm trying to bring up is, I guess I'll ask the question, are we aligned with this plan? Can everybody say at this precise moment that you feel comfortable that we are aligned with the vision of this community with the work that we're doing?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Well, I understand. I see it differently because I see that it was an adopted vision. And I know the manager and the administration participated in these meetings. So and it had a matrix and implementation matrix. And although we have done some progress and they move forward with them, the cost that's been allocated, the budgets that have been allocated. I don't know if they're balanced with that vision. I also don't know if technically we are really following the philosophy of this vision. And if we're reporting that back to council, it's been three years. I haven't heard a beep about this.…”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Absolutely, Mayor. And I'm not suggesting that anyone here has not really thought of the best interests of this community whatsoever moving forward with the right projects. All I'm asking is that we, I think we need to just understand where we're at with it. That's all. I mean, how far, how close we are. That I just need to get some operational mechanics on how we're moving forward with this thing. You want a progress report? Yes, of course. I want to gain the confidence of the community that we're moving in the right direction.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Right. I do have one specific question, and I hope that next time we talk about it, I really want to talk about that entrance. I don't know what happened with the entrance, the circle, the traffic circle, remember that? And the entrance coming around, we have not discussed that. It's not been funded. I really would like to have a discussion about that on the status of it.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Yeah. Please read about it. But anyway, I'll leave it at that. I don't want to hand wave. I'm going to keep pushing on this one, so I want to see it implemented.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“But I think I have a question. When you say it would have to be updated to how you envision that?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Okay, so just update the AC master plan for that time. That's it.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“I have a question to the attorneys. Would this be considered, I mean, given the excessive flood conditions of the school, would this be considered an emergency contract? Could this go under? Because we want to get it done. We're in hurricane season. We've been debating back and forth on the big day. I'm wondering if under what Council Member Lennon is bringing up, Clearly could qualify as an emergency condition and get it done in an emergency Steve has bids already from a couple different drillers.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Under that particular condition, and that's why I was suggesting an emergency approach to it to handle it before hurricane season, but that would also include the assessment. Well, I think it fits because obviously we want the kids, we're tired of having that place all the time. It's about time. I don't know what they call the emergency.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“He wants to move forward with the issue of the school. And I'm suggesting the only way they can be done quickly enough, I think, would be under an emergency contract.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026