Remarks by Jay D. Schwartz
142 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“Thank you. I just have a couple questions, that's all.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And is it the project manager or who approves the number of, I guess, the number of installations expected? Expected?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“All right. So specifically at Pines Place, do we know how many are in need of replacement today?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“I would like to be able to put something out to the public that is going to actually occur. Because what's going to happen is you could have, let's just say, a major retailer with orange stripes on their building. They have the economies of scale to go ahead and procure this from the specific manufacturer. You've already selected where the top is going to be produced and what type of top it's going to be and the bid spec. Therefore, the only other possibility for a vendor to come in is to buy in quantity. The more you buy, the cheaper the price. So if they're putting a bid in for potentially…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Colleagues, it sounds like staff is not objecting to making some language modifications and quantity modifications. If you're comfortable with that, may it be appropriate for me to move staff's recommendations?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“I'd like to... City Attorney, give me the language. I don't want to mess this one up. It's going out to the street. What would be the appropriate language adopting staff's modification to quantity and language? Well, you indicated as needed.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, I think the as-needed actually trumps the quantity. I think the as-needed makes it self-evident that there's no quantity guaranteed if it's on an as-needed basis.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“4.1. But you're not looking at the screen I'm looking at, sir. I'm looking online. You don't have one of the screens? Sir, I have two screens. I'm looking at this one. So don't tell me it's in front of me.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So that clarifies the as needed. So there's no need for me to make that point, to make a change. I think there should be a separation between point and place. I think there ought to be. Okay, so do you want to make a motion? Yeah, I'd like to. Would that be a bifurcation? I mean, how would you?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Have we considered, given the fact that we've given the city manager spending authority up to a certain amount before it comes here, that we can just procure the actual material and just pay for the labor, just bid the labor out?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Mayor, a question to the city attorney. Yeah. City attorney, just to restate for the record, it was determined at first reading I do not have a voting conflict. Has anything changed?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Mayor, customarily, colleagues who've attended conferences, whether it be the mayor's, the National Mayor's Conference, Flower League Conference, usually the material that's covered and gathered is distributed amongst the rest of the commission. If able, can you share that with our executive assistants?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I certainly wasn't able to attend the National Mayors Conference. So any of those.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“If we could share with all the entire commission. Sure. Thank you. OK. Thanks.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Mayor. Yes. Assalamu alaikum. I want to be clear from the outset. When we go back, MTIs, 11, 12 years maybe, right? Remember when I was called a threat to national security because I hugged an imam? Remember that? Remember when we didn't have iftar dinners in Broward County? Remember those days? Remember the days when, I mean, like I said, I mean, God forbid you sat down next to a Muslim and had a conversation and broke bread. But the truth is I condemn hatred, intimidation, and discrimination on all levels. Anti-Semitism. I mean, it's been less than a year since I've been attacked on social…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And just know that the city will continue to stand against hatred and discrimination. Mayor, I remember 2015, an eight-year-old boy attending Pines Middle. who came up to me and said that he was being bullied in school because he's a Muslim. And I went to the parents, and the parents were afraid to speak out because they thought they were going to get horrific things done to them or their property. And that's three blocks away from here, right inside the border, right inside the municipal boundary of Pembroke Pines. I remember knocking on the door, and an individual came out and says, well,…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Dan Giustino, Director of Emergency Management.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Before you say die for lack of a second, the purpose of this is to protect the public from horse manure waste, properly using the appropriate storage bins, how you manage it to prevent runoff. And this came forward from a discussion, I think I did it back in May or June, I believe.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Most of it's in the backup. So I would ask my colleagues for a second.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 19, 2026