Remarks by Joanna Katz
234 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
- Play at 1:29
“I make a motion to approve the minutes. I second.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 2:13
“It was wonderful. So first of all, Rita, thank you for getting the food. The food was so delicious.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 2:21
“It's great. It was great. Cressy was the boss. Cressy. Cressy, really good. Great falafel. I can't say enough good things about Anna Menendez. She was so generous with her time and so interesting. The discussion was great, and I just really thought it was a success. It was great. It was.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 4:07
“idea and she is definitely wanting to do that so I think we can do another event with her and it could be really impactful we could even have maybe two authors there or something I don't know one thing and do so it's like workshopping would we allowed to we would we be allowed to add something tonight for that”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 4:27
“Well, if we do miscellaneous items, is that what you're saying?”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 5:20
“They may keep this board. It may not go away. We just may not be on it. We don't know. Both things could happen, though. They could literally do away with the whole entire board and it doesn't exist anymore, or most likely we'll all go back into the pool, reapply, and whether they put us on or not is going to be...”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 6:19
“Through the chair, we do have things that we are planning. So maybe that is something that will help us to argue our case. We've met with the chief of police to do this rodeo. We've got things in the works. hopefully when we reapply we can mention all these great things we have going on. They show us where and how we could apply, you know?”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 7:22
“Right. And now that it's an established board, I think they'll have any, you know, they had a little bit of a hard time in the beginning nominating everybody, but I think now that it's established, I think it will be the same thing.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 9:36
“Right. Well, we're doing children's bereavement, which I sent you the contact of Gail Slacco, who lives in Surfside. Okay.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 9:45
“Yeah, so they're going to have a table for sure. Okay. They're a great resource. Yeah.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 11:07
“But we can ask for, I don't know, too much? I think so, maybe? I don't know. People are going to be walking through to go to the beach. That's true.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 12:42
“Yeah, through the chair. Maybe this one's a little smaller. And then we sort of see how it all goes.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 16:23
“We're going to pay $300 for our police to sit there and mute people? No, I don't think so. That's my personal opinion. I think they're out and about.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 17:06
“Oh, right. He said they're for me. Oh, yeah. Okay.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 19:10
“Yeah, I met with the chief. He was wonderful. He wants to do a lot with us, by the way, and he hasn't picked a date yet. He's thinking it will be deep into the spring. We just don't know if we'll be around, but I told him to. We came up with a lot of great ideas. He's also, he used to be the chief in Key Biscayne, and he had a sort of partnership between Key Biscayne and some of the... less affluent neighborhoods of miami where they did things together and we talked about maybe we could help with arranging where we do book exchange or anything with we'll pick a town whatever it is and do…”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 22:27
“Okay. David will be, if you're not able to, David.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 24:04
“general lending library for miscellaneous items i could not get a place yeah until we have space we'll just keep pushing along step it on the agenda or should we wait till the building um i guess we can wait on that you know it's all in our minds but once we have space for it we'll be ready to rock and roll okay so we'll probably that'll be a good point for that i saw that um”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 25:09
“Well, I talked to Sarah. Did you guys pick the date, May?”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 25:30
“Yes, and I... I think it's a great idea. It was really fun last year. I will be in Ducasse that weekend.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 25:41
“Oh, we were in Providence, huh? Oh, thanks. Love Ducasse. It was so much fun. But I can tell you how we did it last year.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 26:02
“Very popular. I am happy if people want to do the clothing. We can, by the way, do anything we want. Sarah is going to give us space if we want to do something instead of a clothing swap, if we want to do a trinkets thing, you know, not clothing, things around the house. You just put your stuff there, and you just take stuff. So what we did, it was work, but it was good. We brought hanging racks, and we hung everything up, and people came, and they took, and it was actually really fun.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 26:45
“That was my son, actually, because we also did tables where people could sell stuff. Oh. so he sold records a three thing of a three record out thing of prints for three dollars wow so yeah that i mean that's like free and and then um the next day i then stored everything in one of the closets there and the next day lotus house came and picked everything up which is great so i think it worked on every level we've So I definitely would recommend we do it again. I'm not going to be here. But. Yeah.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 27:28
“It was too complicated. Definitely not. Just for everyone to participate.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 27:32
“It was not at all. I think we were thinking it would, there were too many people who want to do it. Right. Who cares? Yeah.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026
- Play at 28:36
“Do you keep track of this in your head or on your calendar? I'm in Los Angeles. You're exotic. Sorry, so sorry. I wish I were going to be here.”
Community Relations Board · Feb 19, 2026