Remarks by Joseph Corradino
550 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 22
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“All right. So the question was, who agrees with the chief's recommendation? I've got one. Ariel's got two.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Three, four. OK. So we don't need to vote. That's the consensus, right? Is that all you need, Mitch? We don't need a voting on this?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“OK, in an abundance of caution, even though we're not voting. All right, does anybody want to comment on this? Open to the public? Seeing none. Seeing none. We'll close the public hearing. Nobody online, I'm assuming? or nobody online cares, that's fine. All right, submission of the budget. That's different than tab 13?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Any questions? This is for like an impact fee type of thing, right?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Got it. All right. Understood. It's not an impact fee like a developer comes in. No. It would be on the property.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Any questions from us? Just a comment.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Anybody else? All right, seeing none, we'll close the public comment period. Do we have a motion? I'll move. All right. Second. Motion to favor? Okay, second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All right, motion passes unanimously. Excellent, all right.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So what's the alternative? To not do it? Right? You don't spend the money. What are you going to do? Give it back?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“You have to give it back. The whole idea. It's not our money.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But that's what you'd do anyway, wouldn't you?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“It was $66,000 less than the new low bid.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“which is 66,500 roughly above what the low bidder originally was, which was a 745.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I got no problem with it. I think it's not our money. We'd have to give it back to whomever gave it to us. And this is exactly the process that we'll be going through anyway. When the low bidder pulls out, you pick the next low bidder. They revise their bid because we value engineering. We got a price that's less than, it's 8% higher than we did before, which is not necessarily significant. And if we don't spend the money. We have to return it. We're going to return it. And we got to vote on this anyway to give you authorization. So if we don't do it now, we don't even vote on it now, we're…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I guess the question is we're committed to the project in the first place. We're spending 8% more money. Is that the reason not to do the project? whether you vote on it now or you vote on it whenever, is that the reason to risk the project? I say no. Same project. We all were committed to it. It's 8% more now. TODD BANDUCCI- Right.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We would have just authorized a little bit before because we were committed to the project. And this will be the first raised sidewalk.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, so does somebody want to make a motion? I will. Motion to accept the second bidder. Anybody want to second it? Second.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, chairman got it. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Aye. Nope, unanimous. All right, what's next? Budget. All right. Pass the gavel.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, let's bring it back to order.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. This is everybody's favorite thing. We're back. The only reason we're here.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So why set that rate in the first place?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We'll have- So you could set the rate at whatever you wanted, the maximum rate, the tentative rate, and you can change it whenever you want. Correct. You can lower it. You can lower it.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So you can go higher, you just got to notice.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We need four out of five votes to maintain that rate. Correct. OK, so the main question.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“It would be a good idea to go over that tonight.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026