Remarks by Joanna Katz
234 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 10
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“Yeah, and I have to say, and I didn't take the picture because I thought it would be creepy, but I was walking the dog and there were three probably 13-year-old boys on fast scooters. So fast. No, they were wearing their helmets and they stopped at the stop sign. And I said, you guys, great job. Thank you so much. We stopped. And they were like, and I was almost like, can I take your picture? Because I wanted to put it on next door. I decided it would be weird. But I watched them too. They stopped at the next stop sign and they were very considerate of the street.”
Community Relations Board · Jan 14, 2026
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“I might just stop downstairs and leave a note.”
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“Bike rodeo might be more. Bike safety. Just like, oh, tell me what's going on.”
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“I think bike safety rodeo is good. It gives them the strength.”
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“For the 19th? Yeah, it's the day of our meeting and that's fine for me.”
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“It's 3 or 4 o'clock, okay. Oh, for the meeting? Yeah, it's at 4 o'clock.”
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“How senior are you? It's good. Okay. It's over.”
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“And through the share, you can order on it. Just as, like, an example really quickly, you can order –”
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“So, sorry. Lori Da Silva is at Beach High. She's like the mental health coordinator there now. When my kids were at Beach High, as the parent, I ran the... Mental and physical wellness day expo and so now it's still going on I was one of the ones that started it's basically an all-day thing where they bring it it's similar to what we're doing except it's it's targeted to teenagers and It's it's mental and physical wellness, but they have like all of the different resources So she is a really great resource for that.”
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“She's a great resource. She's very busy, but she can give.”
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“It's true. Audra's the mom that's in the Bermans.”
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- Play at 41:30
“Good question. March 1st is a Saturday, isn't it? I think it might be an issue. Wait, wasn't it? No, no, I hope it was a Sunday. I might be looking at the wrong year, sorry.”
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“Organizations will man their own tables. Right, I know that.”
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- Play at 42:43
“Through the chair, in my experience, we had more people than we could fit. We had 40 tables.”
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“Right, but I guess if the eight people he calls all say no, we have another eight. There's a million different scenarios we could do these.”
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“yeah but two meetings ago the Jewish Family Services through the Debbie through the chair we had for instance Surfside police come every year when I did the expo they brought Mike the dog they walked around they talked to teenagers about how police are they're there to help them not to be so there were so many different we can go other avenues I don't know”
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“I think that's a good idea. There are things within Surfside that we don't even know. are available to us.”
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“You could tell Walter Javier, who's a Surfside resident, is a fireman. We can have him come and talk about fire stuff if we wanted to. I mean there's a million different...”
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“No. It's pretty good. I just bought it. I haven't started it yet.”
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“Do we want to do food? Did we talk about that yet? We probably need a budget. I think we did talk about it.”
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“The hard part for the food is going to be we don't know how many people. There's not an RSVP kind of situation, so it could be four people and it could be 40. I doubt it'll be 40. The parking situation makes it impossible. People can walk.”
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“I'm happy to be the point person for the food if somebody else wants to be the point person maybe for beverage so we can split it up a little bit and then”
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“So what I would, through the chair, what I would recommend is that one of us meets with Anna Menendez before to see how she would like to do it, to see if she... And who she's inviting. Who she's inviting. That's a good point, and also she may have specific questions already that she has.”
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“so what did we want to so and then what happens in a book talk do you like um do you have some questions ready for her or so through the chair my recommendation is that she may have some already that she's because she's maybe done these before and if not i think we can definitely find them online but there's a pretty good chance that she's going to have specific talking points from the book that she would like to.”
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“How's that? Yep. I can't imagine having a book club without wine. It seems kind of crazy not to not have a wine, but I don't know how the town feels about that. Then we would have to make that bed like 21 years old.”
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