Remarks by Jerome Charles
393 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 16
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“Well, it was gunite and steel. I mean, the first 178 feet also has a sidewalk, too. You'd sit there and judge what's failing on it. It's spalling all over the place. It does have spalling.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, it's at 2.3 feet. You're putting the sidewalk up to the cap. It's flush. Correct. It's mirroring the same condition.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“I think there are two different things. One is sublimation, going up and down with... In and out. That's the title, in and out, but I mean, the moon pulls, I mean, it's It's just under everybody's piece of property. We just did Shores Estate. The guy was in scuba doing and laying down pipes. Exactly. But it doesn't come in from the canal. It comes in from the bay. It's a sponge. It goes into the bay. It comes out of the bay. We're on a sponge. It's just the aquifer. If you punch a hole in this, the aquifer comes up to Mira Lake. It's punching a hole. There's water underneath us everywhere.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“There are two different things, though. One is the motion. You don't think that they... No, I do. I hear you. But there's two different things at play. One is actually sublimation underneath that's always there. Digging anybody's backyard. Are they coming in from the bay? Not with the tide.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Well, the other thing with it, I think the public needs to know for serendipity. The project originally did not have – it was just going to be a sidewalk on top of the existing one. So there was a problem underlying it that we went with old data. We found new data accidentally, and now we're fixing it.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Well, it's brand new data. The day it happened, and if you went down there, it was surprise data. How's that? Because the original, from the project at the beginning, and there's a newsletter out there, the drawing that you see in the newsletter is from the Parks Master Plan. This is a different project than the Parks Master Plan. This is from the beginning was the wall was an engineering, had engineering failures, and we were to fix the wall. So they're two separate projects. It seems like it's the same thing. People have also said, one, you do the one when you did the other. That's because…”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“it's the time in the meeting for public comment if you do have a public comment it's general comment right now if you have a comment on one of the items later on you could speak on it now but then you can't speak on it when we bring it up plus please state your name and your address and it's a three minute time limit”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“The manager was just looking for consensus.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Madam Clerk, are there just confirmation? Are there any e-commons?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Second. I have a motion to second. All those in favor, signal by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Madam Clerk? Aye.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Mm-hmm. I just noticed in the, I mean, they redid the Burger King, but then in that parking lot, it seems like it's private. Obviously, it's not ours, but there's new FPL stations. Yeah. And it looks different than the ones that are by the tennis center, so they've, I haven't walked up to it to see which, what level it's at for the, I mean, because everybody just wants the, obviously, the supercharger, the faster one that they can get it.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“I would like to hear what our current arrangement is.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“How many phases there are, if it's three phases?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“What is the actual cost of the program that you would estimate per person?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Well, you have five, and then I would assume that it's $1,000 per student.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay. But, I mean, to the answer of the question, it's like a fellowship program.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Beth, I have a question for you. You said that there was multiple locations where Miami Light Project has been in Dade County. Where else were you before you came?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“And since 2023 and having Miami Shores as your address, is there an impact to your project?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“We're not voting on this? This was because when we do this, we need a resolution that's tied to this.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“It used to be manager's discretion. There was money set aside in the budget, and then it switched to council, and we have a resolution for it. But I've stated from the day as a bunch is that it also gives each one of these charities an opportunity to come before the council that's elected and actually state the state of the union of where they are. And I think it's an opportunity that each one of them that comes before us, an ask is an ask. And if you don't ask, you don't get. And anybody that does not for profit. So I just, I don't want tone here to be that somebody comes here and it's not.…”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Before we do that, can I just take a five-minute break? Yeah, I've got to use the restroom. Bladder bust. Is that okay?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“I think what he's asking for, and I think just to interject here, it's when we looked at the ordinance as written, there's a gap. So there's A and B. What I think when I brought this up, it was this is basically not an early retirement because this is how it's written as early retirement, which could actually have a bigger effect on the whole village as a whole. It's more of a death benefit. When we read the ordinance for what death benefit is, the family just missed the death benefit. So changing it to a number where it's a little bit more flexible. And it's still, when you do the math with…”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Just for anybody, not just early retirement as it was presented to us.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“That's exactly what I'm saying. But sometimes I need somebody else to translate. Does that make sense?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“uh that was b the reason i brought it up and the first one that was b if you read b okay when we read the original ordinance that what happened with the family is that our b didn't cover them this would have but it's not retroactive it's just moving forward so another council and like i said i think if we do the math here whichever number we get somebody give you this will cover 93 percent of all you know capable you know just So you know what you're doing instead of just changing a law for a law purpose, otherwise you just keep the original. But obviously the original had a gap.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026