Remarks by George Burch
186 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 8
- Play at 51:15
“thank you there's a motion in a second all those in favor signal by saying aye aye motion carries”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I Would say two things Jesse that might help one is I Last year, because the park was closed, Angie provided bleachers there for the people to sit on, to watch it on that vacant lot that was on the bay. They also invited some food trucks to come. But as you know, this is something I believe in. We have an egg drop, for instance. And the egg drop we have around Easter is so that the children here in the village can come to the athletic field and collect the eggs and whatnot. It's a tradition that the village has. I don't know that this is now, this will be the fourth year. It has been well…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“To grow the event, we've got to get some money. How about going the other way? How about giving them $2,000? Because all they do there as far as the park, and we don't even know if the park's going to be gone. I rented that lot last year because we needed an alternative place to go to. We may have to do it again this year. Well, I hope not. You're right, Jerome. I hope we'll be done with it. But, you know, I'd rather give them the $2,000 because at the most we're going to set some chairs up. We're going to have... some police there, the food trucks, I don't think we have to pay. Do we to have…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Do you have any idea how much money then you spent in sponsoring that event last year?”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Question A, could that be done for this year, or that would have to go into the budget for next year? The event's in December.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“all right all right and I'll second that and then let's see Patrick you have any comments for us I”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“the meter stops at the time of compliance the code officer will check back after a few days so compliance stops the meter”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“But one of the big complaints that I get from residents is go back to the dirty roofs. And so the fellow gets a fine. And you looking up the number of days, I think, is crucially important. Because we need to be able to tell the public, once you get one of these first notices, if you don't correct this problem in X number of days, and that number of days needs to be consistent with everybody, not vary from person to person. But this particular individual got a notice and said, my roof is dirty. And he said, well, that's fine. But he says, come outside with me. Why didn't he get a notice? And…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“come into compliance that you're breaking a law in the in the village of Miami Shores yes there was no cap on the land at the Boulevard and 105th Street that that fine was over right I had a million dollars he paid it to keep ownership of the land”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Let's get some some time from her first get the rest of the information”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have a bigger problem with the time. We had a guy with a car up on cement blocks on – on Miami Avenue, he got a notice that that was illegal and that he needed to get the car moved. Now, does he have two days to do that or 12 days to do it or two months to do it? The problem is he was never told that. Well, it turned out that they gave him like three days. and came back, and of course the neighbors had complained about it, etc. That fine started that day. He went out of town. He's a guy that drives a tractor-trailer to California and back again, and comes back again before he ever really…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, he's going to pay $500. He's already gotten the citation. He's going to pay $250 for day one, assuming that there was a board meeting the next day, and they may not meet for a month. Now he's going to pay the $250 every day until the meeting, plus pay the $250 for the meeting.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“the exact language but I think we should try to put in there to the chair I can't understand this you know we had doctors charter school come in and they came in and said this is what we would like for a board we had parks and recreation come in they are the ones that go to the board meetings every meeting they are the ones that have to carry on the business they said this is what we would like to have for a board and we granted that but now for some reason when we have pension we don't seem to care what the pension board wants we're going to tell them what they have to have I don't…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, no, we're not adding, Jesse. There's seven now. We're just keeping seven. You're adding, though. You took away the council member and the manager. Now you're putting four residents to pull off the street to show up.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“But seven people is. I would just say that the board wanted. three employees one for each level of government and if you have three of the if you have three employees you're going to have two residents period so number one you're going to take somebody off of there who is very qualified to be there which is going to be a shame to lose them and second of all I don't understand who is supposed to be representing the taxpayers in this if it's not going to be the residents that are on there. If I could speak to that real quick. They are in a minority.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, it hasn't worked very well with the police board, I will say that. And I say that from personal conversation. You have two residents and three policemen, and it has not been a – in fact, I think one of them is quitting, aren't they?”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“in the morning so let's backtrack saying it sound it sounds like we all wanted to get a five except for George you think it needs to stay at seven right is that what I'm hearing it was a unanimous I mean you know what again it wasn't my idea that came from a village employee named McCoy and that was his and then that was also Bob Williamson's opinion Tom Longman this idea that we didn't have a quorum we've had everybody at every meeting except Esmond missed one I'm sure for good reason but aside from that since I have been going you know every chairs been pulled and you know it's an active…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I said the committee voted unanimous for it.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, again, I think that one of the reasons we have trouble getting people on our committees is because we ignore them. I mean, we have a pension board with some excellent people on it that are knowledgeable in pensions. If we're not interested in their opinion and we're going to decide whatever we are and really don't even want to know what they think, then that's fine. If that's how you all feel, we could do that. We do have a pension board. They are experts, at least three of them in that particular field, and at least we could find out what they think of these proposed changes before we…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I sure want to make 10 o'clock. We'll make this very quick. I was driving down the boulevard about a week ago and there were seven or eight political signs between the sidewalk and the road for a political candidate. And according to our ordinance, that's not legal. You have a copy of the ordinance here. Shanae said that we are, I'm not interested in rewriting the ordinance. I just don't want Miami Shores to look like North Miami or some of the other cities where every time you go by a lot, there's a... 13 or 15 political signs tacked on to it and especially We know we call ourselves the…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right. This is a this past week. I've had three different people come to the front door and they come to the front door and they Hi, I'm here. Do you need your gutters cleaned or do you need? I'm a Andy, man, anything you want fixed or I'm a painter, would you like your roof painted or whatever? And then another guy came and said, I'm with CARE. And I said, what is CARE? And he said, well, we're an organization and we do this and we do that. and so I asked him I said do you have a peddler's permit and a peddler's permit requires an individual it only cost $10 to come to City Hall and give…”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Not to say that they should not know you always have constructive notice of these things, but that's something we could put in the magazine Sure, but I mean the solicitor themselves most people might not just assume that I need to go and get a permit But it's the residents that need to know it because if we get that information to the residents Then they're gonna get in the habit of that as more of these people come to the door. Hi. Yes. Thanks for coming. Do you have a permit?”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:19:49
“If you don't have a permit, then come back after you get one.”
Village Council · Jul 21, 2026