Remarks by George Burch
186 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 8
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“And then the second question, of course, the only pitfall, I think this is a great idea. Well, I have two more questions. Which of these options here would you prefer?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“which is now a couple of years old. And then Elizabeth had brought up that it needed to be fair. So I would think that if we included option two, which would make it the same for all village employees, if we were going to pursue what we had brought up last council meeting, I mean, this doesn't help Olson any. by increasing this. Am I correct in that?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay. And so then with the proposal we had, we were, again, assuming the actuarial table and life expectancy, we were looking to give her, I think, 221,000 over her expected lifespan but if we also included in this option too it would make that same set of circumstances available to all village employees instead of just to one is that correct”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“So I have a question, then, if we're going to begin to consider option three. We have an employee that's 20 and we have an employee that's 50. Certainly the probability of death for those two people is not the same. How many employees do we have in the village?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“the actuary because the probability of death from each one of those people is going to vary depending on how old they are.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“So unfortunately, I'm not qualified to give you that number And then in addition to that we have 34 cities in miami-dade County and What do the other 33 cities do relative to this?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“But I thought we were trying to address the gap, and one way to address that gap would be to increase what we're paying from insurance. I like it.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“on this insurance because you have to begin negotiating for that so that you have it set for October. Is that not what you said?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“And also the insurance, then, perhaps, what other cities are paying as far as insurance.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, but all the things. We want to look at the death benefit, and we want to look at Olson. Those are the two things that we need to do. We've got to figure out something for her, and then we need to figure out something for everybody else, right?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“We have an agreement that we're going to talk for 10 minutes more, and that's it. How about that? That's fine.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“I Want to know what the other 33 cities are doing I think we said that that that in reference to their clients look at cost as far as specially then with item 3 although I think that you know, I don't think there's consensus there I don't agree with that but as far as cost of those items if it would be possible you know that's going to require some research legally and financially for us to understand what that's going to cost the village to to do that but we certainly need that information what else do we need”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“And that's a biggie because this all started with Olson, and that's what we have not addressed after all of this.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Well, but the advantage to the 30 years was the amount of money she was going to get per month then with her life expectancy.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“But the pension board, we spoke for... 30 years instead of the early retirement at 55 because she got so much more money total from as a benefit, right? That's correct.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“There was a three-year wait. for her to get a bigger amount of money.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yes, we talked about that at the last meeting. If you multiply that out, Jesse, for the whole, her average life expectancy is 85. She ends up with a lot more total money waiting for the waiting the three years. But who knows?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Angie, another question. Another project, it's my understanding, Esmond, that right now our contract at the park at the end of 96th Street with this particular contractor only involves him building the seawall.”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Right. And so as a part of this Parks Master Plan, I don't know. I'm interested in what the committee felt. But right now we're going to end up with a seawall with basically a fence on this side of it if we don't proceed with doing something with that strip of land there in your plan. So how did the Where did that fit into the group's thinking as far as – It's definitely on the priority list.”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Well, then I would agree that we need to get some type of priority, you know, discuss that as far as what we're going to include and do first and over what – over what time frame? Certainly your triangle is number one, but I'd hate to see us another five years with nothing but a fence there at the end of 96th Street. MR.”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“And of the 10,000 students that attend, How many of those are Shores residents?”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“you know subsidizing somebody else's like charity basically because they're going to go and make a selection and they're going to choose who who gets it I don't I don't know it's it's it's it's rough chair Neil if that's a motion I would second it these are the type of programs I believe that we need here in the shores I think they're good for our community and good for our students We have a lot of organizations that we need to support. We've only got a limited amount of money as far as spending other people's money. Every penny we spend here on any project we okay. is other people's money.…”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026