Remarks by Jonathan Groth
96 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Okay. Thanks, Paul. Just one point of clarification. You said audit. I want to just make sure that you agree that this is not a bad audit. This is a five-year standard audit, correct?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Okay, and once we clear that audit, the expectation is that CITT will release the funds that they've been hanging on to for us, correct?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Thanks, Paul. So can I give a very high-level understanding, and can you confirm for me if I'm correct, just because I'd like it to come from you, from finance, from the person who really understands this stuff. So the CITT, and I'm going to use approximations. That's fine. So approximations, approximately CITT granting to Biscayne Park annually about $200,000, approximately, correct? Correct.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“And 80% of that money is freely used by Biscayne Park for things like capital projects, things like road paving, infrastructure, things of that nature, correct? Correct. And 20% of that money, approximately $40,000, needs to be allocated to transit, which freebie would fall under, correct?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Okay. So that's just a high-level breakdown of how... those numbers shake out without considering what other revenues are coming in, what other grants are coming in, just that money and the two allocations that we need to make. All right?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Sorry, yes. That covers kind of a high-level understanding of the money that comes in through CITT and the two buckets that we need to fill with those funds.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“And is it also correct that if we don't spend the 20% on one of these kind of qualifying transit style projects that we are in danger of losing all of our CITT funding, is that right?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Helpful, Paul. Thank you. And I know you mentioned this already, but without any additional funding, without any additional grant funding, if we were to just, and Claudia, I know you're here with us too, so you can feel free to jump in if you need to, if I'm stepping outside the bounds here. But I think what you'd said, Paul, was approximately the total annual spend on freebie is about $120,000. Is that right? Correct.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“That's not considering where the money's coming from. That's just straight cost.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Okay. Got it. All right. And. One last thing, and I think you already mentioned it, so please forgive me if you had, but assuming that we're successful, that we have no issues with this five-year audit that sounds like it's going along as it should, and we continue to pledge and spend that 20% on a transit-related project, we would anticipate Freebee releasing those funds that they had on hold for us for some time.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“We need you up here, though, just because we need you on the mic. Go ahead, Paul.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“All right. Great. Claudia, thanks for the clarification. All right. So I want to give the commission certainly time to to ask any questions to Paul about the numbers. before I provide my comments on my understanding of all this. So go ahead. If someone has questions or you don't want to talk to Paul about the numbers, please go ahead.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Not even. We're going to start in a month. But yeah.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“All right. Look, I'm going to answer the question on the funding thing. I think there are multiple sources from which we can fund if there's a shortfall. Yeah. We can still get the grant. A grant can be pulled at any time. So we could have lost that money today because FDOT said, sorry, we're not going to fund it. So we can fund it from CIT. And if we fund it from CIT, in theory, we still have money for capital projects on top of a full $120,000 fund from CITT. And we have Al already shared with me an early plan to claw the money back from CITT to finish the five-year audit to bring that…”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“But there are other ways to use these funds.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Sorry, he's in a discussion with Claudia. She said they're open to expanding it even further and helping us with marketing and advertising.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Well, this is a discussion that we have as we continue to partner with them. But, you know, the fact that this came up and the fact that you're you're willing to work with us and that we're renewing a partnership, if there's a full vote for it. I don't know. From all sides of this, I see this as a positive development that we found that there's additional funds that we can pull down for the projects that we want to do, and we can continue to provide freebie out of the CITT. I'm very happy with this development, guys. Yeah.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Claudia. So listen, I, yeah, go ahead.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“I understand. Ryan, I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into the research. I appreciate it. You know, well understood. Well heard. Listen, I don't know if there's any other discussion or anyone else wants to speak or ask questions. I'm ready to call for a vote.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? No? All right. All in favor of approving the resolution?”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Got it, Madam Clerk. Okay, great. All right. So having no other business for tonight's meeting, I will ask for a motion to adjourn.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Thanks, everyone, for coming this evening.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Paul, if you can still hear me, he's still there. He's not. Sorry. I'm sorry. Thanks.”
Village Commission · Jun 18, 2026
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“Anyone know if Commissioner Ansler is coming through? No? Yeah, please. Nope. Is that her? I didn't want to get started if she was on her way.”
Village Commission · Jun 16, 2026
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“9 o'clock, right? Are they playing? Doesn't matter. Some days they'll start earlier. I think just yesterday they started at noon. Yeah, and then that night, there's like a late game that starts at midnight. It's all, yeah, it's like West Coast. Right, exactly. It's 9 o'clock there at times. Answer? Is there someone else on Zoom? Okay. All right. Good evening, everyone. It's 6.04. We are here for our special commission meeting today, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. And we will call the meeting to order. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll?”
Village Commission · Jun 16, 2026