Remarks by Jerome Charles
393 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 16
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“No, no, no, no. It should be. It's on. Do you want to say hi, visibility?”
“Oh, we don't hear it through the AV system. Oh, are we back?”
“Here Here At this point in time it's order of business are there any additions deletions and deferrals I Have one I would like to run by since Parks Department has Is that okay with the rest of council we're just swapping the parks to go before the pension talk Okay, it's 11 a to just basically swap numbers. I mean 10 becomes 11 11 times 10, but I mean If you want to move it that we're fine with that too if you want to do that If we're drone for expediting I'll believe that all right yep, so then it would be a Item 11a, right after, right with the consent agenda. All those in favor, aye. Aye.…”
“We just want to move the parks framework and parks department up right after consent agenda. Okay. Is that okay? Yes. Okay. All right. Madam Clerk. Thank you. So it's item 5A. Thank you.”
“No. Okay, great. Madam Clerk. The, out of the parks, the parks would like to change the amount of, members as they expire so that they could have quorum. So I think it's a nine-member board right now per the memo, and then the first step is to take it down to seven as they term out. It's a report. It was a report from the head of the Parks Department Advisory Board.”
“Okay. Do you want us to do? It would be later, though.”
“When we were going over boards and committees, did the parks, have we touched the whole ordinance for parks? Yeah. I mean, there's so many. There's 13, I think, that we're trying to tackle here. I don't think we've done a part.”
“No, on the record, it would be, in my opinion, is to give the attorney direction that we want to amend the ordinance, I guess, for how many members there are. That's my opinion. That's what's the recommendation. We're having problems in the village of getting volunteerism, and I think any time that we, if the sitting board that's been there for a while sees a problem and then brings it to us, I know that we ran across this, but then the reality of the situation is IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO STAFF ALL THESE BOARDS.”
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“This is a public hearing at this point in time in the meeting. The meeting is open for public comments. It's a three-minute time limit, and it's usually a general comment at this point in time, or if it's item-specific and then the item comes up, you just can't do the comment again during the item. Seeing as there's no public comment or hearing then, are there any e-comments from today?”
“No e-comments. Next item is the consent agenda.”
“I have a motion. Second. There's a motion and a second. All in favor, signal by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Next item. We move.”
“After adoption of this, just recommended next steps if we adopt the resolution. If Ryan can...”
“No, well, it just would have been nice. This is why we moved it up to not spend some time with him.”
“Okay, I'd appreciate that. Yeah, in the corner it says click to join audio.”
“Yeah, go for it. We're testing workplaces, what we're doing here, right? This is a Microsoft thing?”
“Thank you. I appreciate that. Are there any other questions or comments for him?”
“I'll take the time right now for doing it. It's 18 months that we've been working on this. Moving forward, realistically, I've asked residents had pushed and see, you know, how this works. And it's like, well, the earliest this could go for referendum would be November for the midterm election. But if you look at the village's timeline for that and even the requirements for Dade County for getting an item on a ballot, That would be pretty difficult to do and a little bit rushed in my opinion We do have the opportunity that we have elections a special election in April of 2027 and what we…”
“No, but I think it's made clear, that last one, the deferred maintenance on everything, the demand that the residents want, and it's been obviously the first crack at this in the past 50 years was 2016. We saw why that did not pass. that was just a project and one of the things we've learned from being on this council is that the village does have a plan and first step is adopting this resolution that we're adopting the plan the phase part of it is definitely I mean that was presented to us that it was in phases what I would also like to put out there is also how other communities are dealing…”
“It's a resolution. There's a motion to approve the resolution. Second. It is a public meeting. Is there a public comment? Hearing as there's none or seeing there's none. There's a motion on the table to approve the resolution.”
“There's a motion and a second. Do you want to read the resolution so that, or do you want me to read it? I'll read it.”
“I think we give direction. I don't know if that's part of this actual resolution. I think that would be a separate.”
“I think that would be a separate, you know, to rewrite this. I think you're correct in that. I think this is the first step was, If you get over this hump, then the next one. Okay. And because of the timeline, there's a definitive timeline of it's less than a year. Yeah. And then we also take, and we take August off, so. It's going to come quick. Yes. So, just again, the same thing that I did with the infographic for the management company switching out. I did that previous July. So, I think we just do the same thing with that. And there are dates that have to be hit. that we haven't done as…”
“But she can't hear now. Maybe we should speak more into our speakers.”