Remarks by Francisco Herretes
199 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 8
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I can show you several news articles here by Jorge Mas. There's Messi saying it. There's... MLS, there's Time Out Miami, there's Miami Herald, there's... My understanding is...”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“How do we, I mean, the stadium is opening in 20 days. In 20 days. How do we not have that information? Let me ask you this. Not to be... I'm not trying to be cynical or anything, but if you would grade yourselves on Miami Freedom Park and how this public art process has occurred, let's include the city administration building and the call to artists that we asked not to, what would you grade yourselves? Do you really believe that this issue is about us creating new program guidelines?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“If I may. I mentioned the city administration building and we're talking about the developer. This is exactly where 11.7 applies. All developers for government development projects shall provide for the acquisition of art equivalent in value to not less than 1.5% of the project cost of all government development projects. What that means is contained inside A is either art that's equivalent to 1.5% or 1.5%. So when staff is mentioning option A and B, really option A for developers on government projects development projects, option A or ordinal A already has implicit both A and B. However,…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“I don't understand. What are you saying about the city building? Sorry.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“So the resolution that was published in the agenda last week had the language regarding the special art division and everything else. And so this is a different version, but, I mean, you know.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“I'm still, you know, I disagree. Again, I disagree wholeheartedly that what we need is just, you know, a change in the program guidelines, et cetera, because of option A or B. I think we need, honestly, I think we need a legal opinion on the nature of the public art board, on the power of the public art board, what we're here to do, what the law is telling us that we need to do and not do. I disagree that the city administration building somehow is separate and the city manager and the planning director get to decide on that separately from this board. I don't think it's an optional thing. I…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yeah, but only at the final stage, but nothing else. And that was Director Snow's communication is that City doesn't really have to give us any of that. That you're doing us a favor and that, you know, that we're to provide feedback. And that's it. And that all we do is approve this at the end. And that's actually not true. So we approve this not at the end, but the scope and the whole process. And that's, you know, that's the disconnect that I think that still exists here.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yeah, no, I provided both. You published the first one. and then you substituted the second one at the end, right?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“The big deal really isn't that... It's just... It's one more... issue, but it's not really the main issue. The main issue is that there is a disconnect between staff, the planning department, director, staff, and this board that didn't exist before. Before, it didn't exist. I mean, we're still arguing whether this or that, instead of saying, you know what, we're gonna have a report, Miami Freedom Park, these are the numbers, we're gonna have a budget, we're gonna move, we're gonna talk to the developer, this is what we can do, this is, but none of that. It's just trying to explain why maybe…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Thank you for reading it. With the assistance and recommendations of the Planning Department, So planning department, public art division, other city departments as necessary are there to assist the AIPP board. And one of our functions is to approve, prove with conditions, or deny proposed installations, educations, or donations of art based on the public art program guidelines and the public art master plan, which includes budgeting and everything else. So...”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“We have an interim master plan. We have an interim master plan. Number seven, the city attorney shall act as counsel and provide legal services to the board. So that's what we're going to do. We need you to act as counsel to this board and provide legal services to this board regarding Chapter 62, Article 16, and Article 11 of the Miami 21 Code.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Thank you. And I'll put it in writing so that it's clear. One of our roles, as you just mentioned, was number two, was to recommend the public art master plan and amendments to the public art master plan to the city commission. And that's the intent of this resolution, is to recommend an amendment to the master plan to insert a section called program administration, because right now we have the guidelines and we have the master plan, sorry, and we have the guidelines in the text. But there's no place in the master plan that says how the program is going to be administered. And maybe that's…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Well, let's deal with the item at hand, please. Representatives to Freedom Park, we can talk about that later. Freedom Park wasn't the subject of this. It's just an example. is just an example of this. The problem is that there's a disconnect between staff and this board, and staff is not informed of the, properly, or at least has not informed us, of the city pipeline of capital projects. It was working before it was changed, and now it is not, and my motion is to amend the Miami Master Plan to reiterate and reaffirm some of these processes and try to give some organization to this.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“I'm proposing a change to the motion, actually. So I don't know if you, City Attorney, can I make the motion or should somebody else make the motion?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Right, that's the first, exactly. The effective implementation of the Art in Public Places program requires that public art be considered at the earliest stages of capital project planning and design. so that artwork can be thoughtfully integrated into the built environment and public art obligations under the city code and the Miami 21 code can be identified and enforced in a timely manner. I don't know if you want me to continue reading it, but upon identifying a construction project or development application that is eligible for or subject to public art obligations, the public art…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yeah, sorry. It's not exactly set. So... Obviously, the word budget is thrown here and there, but if you see the master plan, the structure of the master plan has obviously an introduction, the ordinances, how it's created, the vision. Then it has a chapter on the master plan itself, the goals, criteria, policy, artwork at tourist-oriented locations, how all of these things should be applied. And then, right, and then it jumps from there to program guidelines directly to, okay, artwork project, development of projects, and it says that the art in public places oversees the implementation of…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“How is this going to work? If we're just repeating the stuff that we already know, I mean, I'm very clear on all these concepts. You know, today, honestly, I'm a little surprised that staff has this interpretation of Chapter, sorry, of Miami 21 Code, of Article 11. But, you know.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“No, no, no. The 1.5% art requirement, this is not, this resolution is not for that. This resolution is to fill in the gap. There's an information gap. There's a process gap. There's a, you know, with regard to the board and staff. And 1.5% is just an interpretation of the public art requirement. It's a separate thing. And I think we should definitely find out what the city attorney's office considers. But that's a separate thing. The reason why I'm adding the special arts, the special projects division first is because that's the way it was before. And Steiner mentioned that before it was…”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, guidelines, you can pass more guidelines. That's fine. That doesn't, you know, this is the master plan. This is a section called program administration, you know, that”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Yes. Yeah, all of this has to go to City Commission, of course.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“May I ask, forgetting any objections that could validly exist, what is your objection to special projects division supervising the public art division. Why is there opposition from staff on that? From the department?”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“Oh, no, well, no, we're not, we're definitely not doing any staffing. This isn't about staff. This is about having the information... at the earliest stages, having the natural supervision of the public art division should be the department with the most access to that information.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026
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“And we're gonna have to have a, yeah, definitely a legal opinion on this.”
Art in Public Places Board · Mar 9, 2026