Remarks by Joseph Corradino
550 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 22
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“Could you explain that in a little bit more detail? 8.2% increase in expenditures. We spent that or we're planning on spending it? what is built into the budget. To the future one-year proposal.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Those are all choices that we're making.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But that doesn't include just the ambient cost of things.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah. What's two-thirds of five? OK. Yeah, that column, it's not as clear as it could be.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So how many councils have even numbers of people? None?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So you're saying that if that passes, we're into an austerity mode. We're going to be laying off staff.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, really it's not, I mean, that conversation is not necessarily about this year, but it's like, how do you generate new revenue sources or additional revenue in the future? We only have 6,000 homes. There's only so much you can do. But you need more than 6,000 homes.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Those things are- You're only making density changes, right? The last changes we made still haven't gotten anybody to bite. In fact, we're losing- power on the US-1 corridor. It's almost like it's going out of business.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's not true. I mean, you could do a lot on US-1 and not impact one ounce of the residential character of the interior pinecrest. The concept of all the US-1 vision plans that we've done dating all the way back to the beginning, never had commercial intrusion outside of the commercial corridor. It never intruded into the residential area. In fact, what we've done is push the residential into the commercial corridor, not the opposite way around. So that's a fallacy that reconsidering land use and zoning on the US 1 corridor impacts the residential character of Ion Crest neighborhood. It's…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“You could put giant things out there and not impact the nature of the residential quality of life. And the proof of that is that story that I told with the folks that developed a half acre property literally in the shadow of day land and took a half acre property, put 7,500 square foot home on it, sold it for $7 million. It doesn't degrade the property values literally in the shadow of Dayland Station. And it actually increases the property values, which is the national trend. So that's a fallacy. I know some people would disagree with it, but they're going through attrition. The new person…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think my opinion is that it's never too early to start having those conversations. Anything we would possibly discuss at this point in time in this budget would be a planning exercise anyway to collect data and gather information. You couldn't necessarily do anything. So I don't see why we don't do that. I would imagine that you've got a new council coming in in the fall. you know, that group is going to have to, it seems like a lot of hard work.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We ought to start framing, I mean, I don't mind framing that conversation this time, but ultimately.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So to answer the question, I would say it's probably worth the discussion during the budgeting process.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think part of the budget has to almost be to educate our constituents on what that means to the village of Pancras. Effectively, we pride ourselves on the highest level of service that we can possibly get out of our very, very small budget, one of the lowest in Miami-Dade County. We're going to obliterate that, right? There will be no... The level of service that we provide will not exist anymore. This will become... it'll become the lowest quality of service that the public could possibly tolerate, because there will simply be no money. We don't have staff in the first place, in spite of…”
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, who wants to pick a number pick a number between 1 and 10 and that's effectively what we get.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But not a lot of people were against it. The referendum was defeated. Oh, I understand. In significant landslide-like numbers. You're absolutely correct. There was a very loud, very... Yes. A poignant minority.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah. So it was actually very favorable in Pinecrest. You're absolutely right. 70% of the people liked it. I stand corrected. You're absolutely correct.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Okay. Interesting. So, right now, if we had to. I guess what you all are saying, this doesn't have really anything to do with what we vote on in the long run. This is just for discussion purposes. And I start to think then, what's the point? Because if this is the feeling that we have now, no matter what the number we discuss is, if this was the way the vote would come out, we have to go back to the rollback rate. Because it takes four out of five to do anything but the rollback rate at this point in time.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“If not, what rate do you want to go to? No, I'm sorry. Let's say it differently. You're not suggesting that we're going to do a higher rate. What you're suggesting is that for the purposes of discussion, as we put a budget together and start to go to the workshops, that we give ourselves the latitude to explore the entirety of this budget and not pin ourselves in anything. But you're perfectly willing to accept the manager's recommendation right now. But for discussion purposes, you want to have freedom. And for bringing the public into the discussion. You want to have that freedom. Right. So…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“What I'm hearing is that there's not advocacy to go to a higher rate. There's just the advocacy to have the discussion.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'll support that. Anybody got a motion? We'll open the public comments. Anybody from the public want to speak? Seeing none. Nobody wants to speak on the budget. Well, candidates in the room, nobody wants to speak on the budget. Duly noted. All right. Public hearings closed. Anybody online?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anybody opposed?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I don't think I'm going to support it either. That's why I think if we voted to – I mean, it – I – I wouldn't support it, honestly. But if it's for discussion, I'm all for it, because it's a good topic to discuss.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026