Remarks by Francisco Herretes
199 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 8
- Play at 1:34:31
“Where is it? For example, Freedom Park. You mentioned that Freedom Park has option A and option B. Where is option A?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:34:46
“11.7 Government Development Projects Public Art Requirement. Subsection B. Private funds used for government development projects on land owned by the city, county, state, federal, or any other governmental agency and on private property are subject to a 1.5% public art fee to be paid into the fund prior to issuance of a master building permit. So... Where is option A?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:35:46
“Well, but this is private funds. The private funds is subsection B.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:36:00
“I disagree. It's a private fund. Private funds used for government development projects on land, the fee must be paid into the fund. There is no option A for private developments on government property. There is none. You're mentioning subsection A, which applies to government development projects. DEVELOPERS ON, FOR PUBLIC DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPING ON... CAN WE HEAR FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY ON THIS? YEAH, SURE.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:37:34
“Sorry, if it includes all development, then why does a subsection B exist for private funds? Why is it specific for private funds used for government development projects? Why is there a specific ordinance B? If what you're saying is everything fits in ordinance A, Why is there a specific ordinance B? Why isn't there an ordinance A and B for everything?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:38:06
“You're calling it an option, but it's an ordinance. So it's not necessarily an option. You're saying it's an option, but I'm saying it's not an option. Ordinance A applies to a certain type of development. Ordinance B applies to private funds used for government development projects. It's very specific.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:43:52
“I understand. I'm sorry. If you can explain, I'm sure.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:44:30
“No, no, no, no, no. That's precisely the point that that's precisely the point that I'm trying to make to the planning department and precisely the reason why, you know, I believe that we should amend the master plan to explain that, to clarify that. But for example, for freedom park, I mean, We've been asking for information about Freedom Park for over a year now, probably a year and a half. In 2023, we were informed that the project had an estimated cost of one point something billion dollars, that the 1.5% was close to 20 something million dollars. That was in 2023. In 2026, to this date,…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:48:17
“Well, we're opening with no public guard. The master plan, we'll see. And we're not complying with the city code. I'm struggling to understand how Freedom Park specifically, because we're talking about that one. But how does that not qualify for 11.7B?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:49:46
“And why haven't you informed us? And what payments have been made and based on what? What was the calculation?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:50:05
“Do you believe that this board authorized the city manager to disregard 11.7B because we're in a master plan? Do you believe that that's what this board did? Sorry, because that wasn't in the resolution that we approved, though.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:50:28
“Well... Again, I'm making a formal request to the city attorney to provide, I'll put it in writing and I'll be very specific exactly what we want, but”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:51:21
“But what funds? What's being paid to the public art trust?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:51:32
“Is 1.7, sorry, 1.5% public art fee being paid to the fund prior to the issuance of a master building permit? Yes or no?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:51:53
“I'm talking about the half billion dollar stadium that's opening on April 4th.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:52:06
“Well, pull it, please. I mean, you know, please, yes, let's pull the receipt. Let's see the numbers. I mean, you're mentioning that an amount was paid into the public art trust, sorry, fund.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:52:57
“So we don't have, still, we still don't have any information on this amount. I want to get back, sorry, to the point of my resolution. And the point of my resolution is that there's a disconnect between this board and staff. We've lost some organization. We've lost some structure here that we had before, that we had prior. And what I am proposing, this... plan go back under special projects division which means that Efren Nunez who is the person who has the information and who can provide it to us timely he can assist the public art division with the program that's what I would like now…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:54:35
“This isn't about going back to Efren. This is about going back to a structure where we had the information, where we were given timely information, correct information. where we had knowledge of what pipeline, what was coming, what was not coming, where we had the budget presented to us before time and everything else. If it's Efren in there or if it's anybody else, that's okay. It's not because of Efren. This is because the Special Projects Division has the information of the capital projects in the city of Miami that other departments do not have. It is not because of Efren Nunez or…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:56:03
“So there's obviously a gap. There's a gap here. And that's what I'm trying to address. This isn't about Efren Nunez. This is about the Special Projects Division.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:58:50
“But capital improvements is not inside planning, right?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:58:55
“Right. So who is inside planning that has access to the capital pipeline of the city of Miami? Who best?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:59:06
“Well, let's talk about Freedom Park, Watson Island, any of the city administration building, any of those.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 1:59:24
“Okay. Okay. So we pick one, Special Projects.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 2:01:43
“We need to see the budget and everything else that is.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
- Play at 2:02:56
“But may I, may I, may I, may I, may I, may I? You seem to believe that the problem that we're having is because we need to redraft some guidelines? You believe that that's the problem that we've had for the past year and a half or more?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026