Remarks by Juan Carlos "JC" Bermudez
132 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“Chair, thank you. Yeah, I have a friendly amendment that, obviously for both, and I'll certainly let the attorney read it if he so chooses. But essentially, I think it's important for us to send the message that if you don't comply one time, We need to know why, and you need to explain to us why you didn't comply. Because I just think it's good public policy for us, in particular in this area, to start sending the message, let's get things done and done timely. So I don't know if the attorney wants to read the language or he wants me to read it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I just have a question because I think Commissioner Cohen-Higgins brings up some cogent points. And I just... I want to make sure moving forward and I agree with Commissioner Gonzalez. I would hate to come back because this happens too often and then things do not work. The history of Miami Dade County and some of these radios has not been great for those of you who follow the history of Miami Dade County radios. So I would just want to make sure, and both of you are correct, and there's a big difference between life safety issues, fire, police. uh obviously corrections and other departments…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Co-prime because we were doing the flow. Absolutely. A fog report. And I just wanted to quickly, if I could, ask the administration, if not now, certainly soon, to give us an update because we were supposed to get some of these fog reports in 90 days. Because you know it's been an issue for all these restaurants. It continues to be an issue. I can tell you at the get committee, It was even a gentleman who flew from Raleigh, North Carolina, who wants to open up two restaurants, and it's a problem. It's making the cost of doing business here much more difficult. So I just want to go on the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Oh, wait a minute. That's the one I have up front. Well, can I have the attorney read the amendment? Absolutely.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I have two questions, and I agree with Commissioner Gilbert. I don't know why we have rules if it turns out that we don't follow them. But I'm still confused, if I may ask, Mr. Chair. Is there a possibility that Tetra Tech will charge us for overtime or not?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“There's no possibility that they'll charge us for overtime, okay. And then the second thing is on the bid protest, this is for the attorneys. Assuming there's a decision made today and either party has an issue, what can they do, if anything?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay, and then I guess the last thing would be, well, two more things. Number one would be, and Commissioner Lopez is not here now, but when she asked a yes and no answer, it was very difficult to get a yes or no answer. Which is what complicates it, but I agree with Commissioner Gilbert in the sense that, And I know there's so many procurement ordinances that it baffles the mind. Some of the answers that have been provided today have really confused everyone on this process at least I'm confused I'm like you know and maybe because the answers are nebulous maybe because but I think that we…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“I just wanted to be clear, Commissioner Regalado. It's only for Key Biscayne, is that correct?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay, perfect. I'll support it. I just want to remind everybody, I've been banned in Boston. I've never been on the policy committee. Thank you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, and Commissioner Gilbert, thank you, Mr. Chair. Two things, because when I get something like this this late, I feel like I'm in Dante's Inferno, the poem. You know, you are, and I'm going to trust you, you're saying that the unions are fine with”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I just wanted to make sure because I think that they work very hard on these collective bargaining agreements and I don't want them to, it's just, and I know it's January, by that time we should know any of these questions we need answered. So okay, that was my question.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, the senator's going to defer it. Yeah, no problem.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yes, it's item 7D. The applicant and the administration or the staff of the administration are still having discussions and there's a request to move it to the July 21st BCC. So it would be a motion to defer to the date certain of July 21st of the BCC.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“It's the non-bifurcated. The non-bifurcated.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah. I applaud the intent of, uh, of this proposed ordinance in the sense that certainly regionalism is something we can argue would be great, whether it's traffic and other things. Having said that, this commission has gone through numerous headaches when it comes to deal with, and many times we've repeated on this dais, to our friends in Broward and Palm Beach to try to do some of these things collectively. I'm a little bit concerned that a creation of this board, which is a Miami-Dade County board, will have representation from people from Broward and Palm Beach County when there has been…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“I don't have a problem with the board, but yes, if the representation is solely from Miami-Dade County, I don't have a problem with it, because I do believe we should hear from residents on this, and I'm fine with that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, but I'd like to make a comment first. Sure. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for bringing up this item, which is important to me. I come from a little bit of a different position, though I also understand Commissioner Hardeman's point of view. And I just want to throw that out there because I was also, with Commissioner Bastien, pulled the item. And I'm not going to read the language now, though I have something to run it through the attorneys. But I just want to make sure that entities that continue to do this, whether developers or organizations, Developers organizations that continue…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, the problem that I see, the words sole source, while they apply sometimes, when I went through the list of some of these sole source, for example, I think it included grease traps, which I don't think is a sole source, but I'm a little bit reticent, in particular with the airport, to continue to sole source as many things as we do. Some make sense, like for example, what do you call those tiles on the roof? Whatever, acoustical tiles, that makes perfect sense. But others don't make much sense to me to be sole source. I just think it opens it up to not a process where, at least from the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Oh, the bond engineer has been 60 years.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“We still don't know what's under the airport. Only the people that proffered one of the... Which is amazing to me, but... Anyways, my concern is what will stop other departments from doing this? And my concern with the sole source process, in particular at the airport, but in other places also, I am not the biggest, let me rephrase that. I think our procurement needs a lot of improvement. In our first committee meeting, and I think Commissioner Cohen-Higgins was there, and so was Commissioner Regalado, we found out there were 177 ordinances that deal with procurement, which to me is,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to be supportive of it because we've got to get it along. But I want to point out to all of you, my colleagues, that this was awarded in December 21st, 2023. Two and a half years later, it's coming for an award with us. And I just think, with all due respect to the administration, that as we try to, as we ask our staff and The county to be more efficient, you know, it's it behooves us to make sure that when we need, you know, we should get the information timely. I know it's beyond the 120 day time frame for goods and services. This is important. It deals with…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“Not me. It's me, and I'm going to tell you why. All right. First of all, I thank the Commissioner of the District for having good intentions on this process when it comes to dealing with the support for a free Cuba. And by the way, I'll begin, Mr. Chair, that Carlos Alberto Montaner, who's no longer with us, but was a great Cuban thinker of the Christian democracy movement, and you honored him here at one time, honored his family. He was part of a book called Culture Matters. Because South Korea went from one of the poorest countries after World War II to one of the top economies. So culture…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“To be clear, I just wanted to be clear that... I never questioned the intent of Commissioner Herbis because she has worked very hard on. We have been, actually, she and I were at a press conference at the Resistencia office, precisely, and they have a plan. So all I want to be clear is that we don't exclude others' plans. Maybe the amendment could be support the roadmap for free Cuba and other plans that that Exile groups have proffered. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm certainly open to that my my my comment was more to understand that you know there is there's more than one group…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026
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“I thank Commissioner Orbitz for, and we've got to get the language right that we include. The other plans, because La Resistencia has their own plan. There are other plans. And Commissioner Regalado is correct. They're not the only two plans. Having said that, I don't have a problem supporting the plans of all the organizations, and that's fine. That's okay. I'm also supportive of what Commissioner Gonzalez said and Commissioner Orbison, you, the Chair, said. I do think it merits, as Commissioner Regalado said, real discussion. And the reason for that is, again, they are looking... They,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jun 2, 2026