Remarks by Kevin A. Burns
27 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 1:18:21
“thank you madam manager um budget director cfo and y'all been working at this this for a long time yes we did have a lot of community meetings out there i think i went to three of the four and listened to what the residents were asking about Listen to what the residents did not want to have in our budget and where they thought our priorities should be. I have a couple questions for the manager just in general before I go on under the building department. There's the the the 2.6 million is that toward the purchase of a of a building that we've been talking about. That that's the fun that's…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:20:14
“The question in the 6.18 the parks and rec. Community projects what what you can you go to the page number please it's it's throughout the parks, it's identified a couple times it's 6.18 parks and other community projects that's on page. One 20 of on page one 20 and then it appears again and another part. It's just that division is 618 and it pops up a couple places. And what does other community projects mean? Because when you... The young page one 21 20 is one of them I know and then there's it shows up again under 6.20, I mean 6.18 somewhere else.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:21:28
“You're on the one page is 650,000 and another page it has some money so that is like a catch all unidentified projects or identify, but we don't want the cost of them yet.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:21:48
“Okay. Thank you. In the reference to an item you have under centennial it has a $500,000 this past year we gave you the mission we budgeted a $1,000,000 for the centennial events and then 500,000 was taken out to do the new features with which most people very like them a lot. And then we had other events that took place which I'm sure cut into the money so is this 500,000 new money to that Centennial category or is it what the money was left over that we did not spend as a million dollars this year and what was that money coming from.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
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“in order to get all of the wayfaring we're trying to do that um piecemeal and have some additional signage right and that's where you're expecting that money to go okay to anything else that continues from centennial and for signage okay i noticed that last year and we've had this discussion but i want to get it on the record there's no money in this budget this year for the stadium bleachers allocated as a standalone item for the stadium bleachers. But last year we did allocate, I believe, $200,000 in there, but I don't know if we spent any of that and it just came back to the general fund.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:24:15
“And some of these are for clarification for the public and just so everybody knows what's going on. before I get into it. Under public works, I think the format of this book is a little bit different than it has been in the past and so you got to look around a little bit and it's not as detailed as i i thought but under public works last year we would see street resurfacing streets striping sidewalk striping and at a time you would divide it up by districts i know you put it all in one lump sum and went to wherever the priorities were but where would i find the striping fund the sidewalk fund…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:25:53
“Are they at about the same level as last year or did they get decreased the what we're going to do on us resurfacing striping and sidewalk.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:26:18
“Okay, yeah, so that this is new money that you're allocating yeah, this is new money that we're allocating to that but we're still completely have money left over from this year that if you don't get something completed.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:26:55
“Okay, very good. What's the policy? I know sometimes when we do replacement vehicles, If you drive by the motor pool, you'll see lots of police cars damage and you'll sees a couple other utility trucks damage here and there. So if we allocate in the budget that we're going to purchase 4 new police cars for the year because of rotation and then 2 of them get totaled out within the course of the year and especially if they're brand new ones do we replace those 2 and then continue on replacing the 4 or you know, two damaged cars and we were allocated four and that's it. And the two damaged ones…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:28:37
“Okay. All right. Thank you. Clean team. Is that funded at a CRA or just our general fund also?”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:29:47
“And whether it needs to be enhanced or not, I don't know. I'm going to jump over to the traffic devices, the common devices. I know you have a plan. I know we're getting ready to install some now. You have money for next year, $600,000, about that. My thought is that the more we can do with the humps, because that's the majority of the ones that are in the plan, the calming devices, the black rubber things as opposed to the circles, If we tried to knock out more of those humps over a larger portion of the city, because those circles eat up $100,000, they eat up about $100,000, $200,000 a…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:31:16
“All right now let me go I'm going to we're going to jump into the an area. Under the parks under special events city events is just my opinions there's going to be consensus. I I find that. 3 million dollars just in general for special events is a lot but a lot of very worthwhile just casually looking at it. um my opinion there's about 1.2 million dollars that or maybe even more that i don't find necessary and again it's my opinion and i will um like to talk to you about that or your conveyment We were special events we have the fireworks were under contract we have the celebration expenses…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:35:07
“I would rather write a check to the water department for $100,000 or $150,000 and not do the festival, but take a line item because we'll save $650,000 over... spending 800 000 to to raise 150 000 for a a one one-time event i can't get bleacher seats at you know 800 600 a million dollars but a one-day event as a that could pay 75 of it or 80 of it as opposed to bleachers that are going to last for the next 30 years um i i This category is writing the ad for why people should vote yes on property tax reduction. I'm not in favor of it, but this type of spending, people are going to say, why am…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:40:23
“Okay. I'll come back to that that comment is actually I'll touch it now. It's the perception and I do the shamrock the block. I take sponsorships and I take it out of my discretionary money and I don't really use any city staffing or or But I don't have anything line item out in there. But if you take the events one by one and look at it and what is your return, your number of people that participate, do we need three Mother's Day events by three different individuals or do you have it as one that is one that is put on by the city of North Miami and not any individual council member if it's…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:43:22
“Okay that makes sense. I think I'll be done one more item I think You have a $171,000 in the for the for the for the the mocha bathrooms. Which is great they need to be renovated but at the tennis courts we have $260,000 for the bathrooms and if you ever been to the tennis courts and saw the size of their bathrooms and been to the bathroom situated here and mocha they're they're totally 2 different mochas much nicer and larger and so forth um but the discrepancy of almost a hundred thousand dollars of what it's going to cost to renovate them it caught me by a little surprise 260 000 to…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 1:44:54
“That's all I have for now right now Mister mayor.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:23:19
“Since I kind of started some of the conversations off some of the events that are stables of the community 4th of July Memorial Day.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:23:35
“CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING, YOU NAME IT, EVERYTHING ACROSS THE BOARD, TAKE THAT $3 MILLION AND PUT IT SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE BOARD. WE'RE ALREADY CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED FOR BREWFEST. I THINK THAT SHOULD BE UNDER A DIFFERENT CONTRACT, NOT PART OF OUR...”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:23:51
“Yes, okay fine and and the or that that's one concept across the board or go back and see how much you can actually slice and dice on some of this stuff and here's another strange thing. Allocate an additional special event. dollar amount to the individual council member and mayor whether it's 50,000 or 75,000 they pick and choose if they want to do 4th of July that not for the time now Father's Day Mother's Day barbecues whatever as a separate thing if to get together. or three of us get together and and and put a bigger program together that's fine but yeah so we can either wipe out every…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:25:52
“If that makes Mister marriage yesterday to counter what you're saying I'm not going to tell public works how much because I don't know what a storm drain I don't know what a what whatever the storm I'm not going to tell it what they need and don't need because that's not what what I do because they know the crux there the professionals being paid to work with the departments, the managers being paid to work the departments. The thing that we have a lot of say in, because a lot of us are encouraging, great showing off the city, which is amazing, some people enjoy it, but That's the easiest…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:27:14
“The thing that was not to interrupt, but that's a false, that's a false narrative because $76 million of it is the police department and the water plants, all this money. But when you come down to the crux of the little bit of money that we actually can play with, it's a very, very, very little amount that we have discretion because of the salaries and the pension, all that's built in. And that's $200,000 before we even look at the pages. And so that's all I'm saying is that, so yeah, the budget overall is massive, but guess what? We don't really have discretion over the whole. You do, you…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:28:59
“Like like I said that we could have we haven't you know, no events or whatever so you still have a 200 million dollar, but you can continue with that on her budget and what the Department of the they're doing amazing things they've done a lot of stuff in the department you can see the transformation or a parks evasives are coming and it's amazing what the managers been able to do so far with what she has good, however. I went through every single budget line and what's appropriate from from an educated guess and stormwater and and community planning and housing and so forth and how they're…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:30:42
“We're still ahead of the game today. No, we're not.”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:32:22
“But I agree. I think at least the requests that were important to D1, the manager was able to do some of them. And I see some things that other districts have wanted. They're in the budget. It makes sense. But other things, not that she told me, listen, you have to wait till next year. I'm not getting, not me, the city's not getting bleachers to restore the high school. We're in violation of our joint agreement with the school board because not having the bleachers. And remember, we've already spent $1.2 million and have nothing. If it is to have $800,000 for a one-day event or $800,000…”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026
- Play at 2:42:10
“Yes, sir, good with a overall cut percentage wise and that city offense as you know it eliminate it all together. One way or the other, I don't care. If you cut everything there by 50%, that's a start. That's a start. But whatever, I'm just saying, we're looking for reductions or re-reduction across the board. you get the gif like the councilwoman said and you talk to all of us every other day uh and so you uh kind of get the the direction that we're we're going and so what's the scenario if on the 15th we uh don't agree on the budget can we schedule a third budget”
City Council · Sep 4, 2026