Remarks by Joe I. Rasco
192 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 8
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“So the material pricing is from last year, which should be better than if we did it out today, right? Exactly. Okay.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Thank you. And this was in our capital improvement program?”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay. One of the most important things we need to talk a little bit about right now is the property tax issue. So if I can get our CFO to come up and bring us up to date.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Which, by the way, this would impact... in the future, our capital improvement budget, it would impact potentially our debt, it would potentially impact our future revenues, and more importantly, what we can and can't do. So it would be another super preemption. And so, Let's talk about it at a little high level right now. We don't have all the answers yet, but we have started looking in depth at this. Mr. CFO.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Sure, so we've been obviously... Get the mic closer to you. We've been monitoring and updating this throughout the past”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“So, I don't know, tell me if this is an appropriate example. Chris was just up talking about the $300,000 for road improvement The one possibility would come out of that is that you'd have to extend the period of time that you do those road improvements instead of doing it over whatever five years you got to do them over 20 years and and you would be restricted from. From being able to get that done in a faster, more prudent manner.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I want to add something. Fernando was talking about who we contacted I'm talking to a lot of different mayors and I know cities like West Miami Biscayne Park Cutler Bay There's serious serious problems for those folks, I mean serious serious problems We're in much better shape than than a lot of other cities, but I We have to look at also from that point of view. The county is probably going to be in big trouble also.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“You probably see a flood of buyers at the end of the year if that were the case, right?”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay. We are still Going through the bill and understanding it there there may be Entities that will want to challenge some of the language and that's something that's going on As we speak so But in any case we got a we got to be ready for it You know a little bit about that chat as to so there”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Well, that's a big slogan. That's an excellent question, because by the same token, our hands are tied as to whether we can advocate freely against this. So you want to address that?”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay. Very good. Let's deal this issue about, I got Michael there, and talk about the solid waste contract. Mike, if my memory serves me, you wrote a letter asking for it to be delayed? Didn't we go through this already?”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“But what I what I heard Mike say and the manager say is yes, we will extend as needed okay we can solve it faster fine if we we need 2 months, which is what Mike said that would be the outside the right.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“So if it's not enough we will we'll work with the rest of what's going on okay, thank you very much okay. To go Mister mayor way way way. You want to announce a little bit about the soil situation.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Thanks, Jerry. Let's see. Status report from manager regarding installation of timed access. Okay.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yes. We're jumping around a little bit, but yes. Go ahead. Okay. Go ahead.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Consensus of council. All right. So this one's done.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Let's go to Pelotons, a favorite topic of the item.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Come on now. I've only been asking for three years.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“And like the conversation we had about masks, this is something we control, even though the majority of the money comes from the county.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“And they're going to pay $1.9 million of it, and we're paying a couple hundred thousand?”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay, so we're meeting on June 30th for, hold on a second, hold on. It's the strategic workshop, no, the budget preview. OK so and then the next one is July 7th.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah. I'm saying it so that all of you look at your calendars and make sure you're going to be there.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Or $52 million, then you have to have an election over $2 million.”
Village Council · Jun 9, 2026