Remarks by James E. McDonald
121 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
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“I'm going to take a little bit of credit, and I'm going to hand this to you. Can we get to see? Yeah. Okay. This is a whole bunch of them. What is this?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I last served, I finished my second term in 2020.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“And then I got recruited to come back for six months only, though, folks.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Does someone need to make a presentation?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I have a question. Yes, sir. Chief, so you catch someone with an e-motorcycle on the street. You intervene, but what does that mean?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Okay, anybody have any comments on this one?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“What's the penalty for failing to remove the garbage receptacles?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“They're repeat offenders. So we're going to have some notice to everybody in the village about this.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“But why not just have some notice to everybody that this is changing?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I guess what I'm hearing is if it's not broken, it's been around for 30 years, we don't need to fix it now. Or if it needs to be fixed, we ought to take more time to get more input. I mean, it seems to me like, as I said, I agree with you. When I read it, I said, what are we doing this for? We're not Coral Gables. But if we've been doing it and it's not causing problems and there's no pushback from the residents, then I would say leave it in for now. And if we want to study it more.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Well, the old saying, if it's not broke, you don't have to fix it. And I would say, if we want to take a more Thorough look at this that's fine could be done at a workshop or whatever, but I don't think Removing something that's been in the code for 30 years.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“It's really a completely, on 20, let's see, what is this? Page three of six, under definitions. One, I mean, this is really just being a lawyer. Vehicle shall mean the functioning, everything is plural. It should be singular, that's all. Which one? It just says vehicle shall mean functioning automobiles, trucks, buses, trailers. It really should be just vehicle shall mean functioning automobile, truck, bus, trailer. In other words, vehicle, singular, it's all minor.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Well, vehicle shall mean functioning automobile, Okay, so we got that. Anybody from the public want to speak? We'll close the public hearing.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I remember going until 3 in the morning on the Gulliver thing, so that was a marathon. I would just say, from my experience, staff, we have limited staff, and they work very hard. Sometimes, I mean, 1,000 pages, certainly that's a lot of reading. Whether we're going to read each 1,000 page, I'm not sure. Some of that stuff, thick agendas, is stuff that is not necessary to read every, it's not necessary, but I think staff does the best”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I think what Council Member Meyers, he makes a good point. You know, some of those, Sidewalks we just saw are not compatible with riding a bike. So I think he makes a good point. And I tell you, the one in there I saw with the driveway going through it, with the artificial turf in the middle, that's an accident if a bicycle is coming. And I don't know how much you would sink, but that's a great way of flipping your bike if you're riding. But I think it's a good point, that we should keep it, whether we adopt standards or not, when we design sidewalks, to keep in mind that people will be using…”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I'm not disagreeing at all. I think I'm just saying with the time we're going to have that discussion, it's going to be soon. Yeah, it's coming up. Yeah.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“And I'm out. You're out, too. I can make it where we've scheduled it. I've sandwiched it, being here between.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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Village Council · May 5, 2026