Remarks by Larry Roth
128 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“Thank you, Mayor. So in my briefings with Nick, they assured me that the construction phase of the stadium, they would be working directly with the organizations that are already scheduled, especially our high school football teams and things like that, to relocate them to other facilities during the construction period. Because if they break ground in October, football season starts basically in September. So that means that field's not going to be available to them to play there. And also, I think they're only taking over the stadium aspect and I think the two fields to the east. Is that…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Right. So there's still a tremendous amount of opportunity for reimagining the rest of what Harris Field will be. I think I remember during the talks we had about that, adding pickleball courts and adding other amenities to the park, which won't even come even close to being in this area. So I think the opportunity is tremendous. it's gonna save us a million dollars in renovations from taxpayer dollars, because we've got to do it anyways. And I think if we can get them started like today, they can get the field ready for football season, but I don't think that's gonna happen, so.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Right, which gives us more reimagining of Harris Field. So I think it's cool. I think, yeah, we need to give them an opportunity to negotiate a contract to see what comes out of that. But, yeah, I think it's a great idea. And I was kind of... when you were talking about the sponsor side on the north side and making i was kind of like are they going to put people on top of there because that would really be cool too i mean it's like a rooftop i don't know how many letters in the gentleman's name that passed away oh that's he's got a big last name i think yeah yeah so whatever i mean that's…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“I just want to say one thing. It took me a very, very long time to figure out that orchids are probably the most easiest flower to bloom. Just don't touch them. Just don't do anything to it. Put it outside and let nature take its course. I have many planted around the base of my palm trees and things like that. And every once in a while, I walk out, hey, look, another one bloomed. Hey, another one bloomed. And they don't do it at one time. They do it at different times. And they're different colors. And it's really cool to see. So I kind of like this. And I think we ought to put some out by…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Councilman are off. It's interesting. You said that the new boards that come in. are evaluating the past performance. So you can actually go after them even though they're not on the boards anymore?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah, just to piggyback on the jet thing. I know the MAC, the Military Affairs Council, had been working a couple years ago with the military base, and it was scheduled to be repainted. And then something happened.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“That happened. And I thought we were also looking into maybe purchasing a second jet, retired jet, and placing it somewhere else in the city as well. So I think those are some cool projects. And I think if there's expense involved, We need to find out how much it's gonna cost us to do it. I'm sure we can find dollars to do that or even civic organizations to help us raise the money to re-wrap these jets. As Vice Mayor Bailey mentioned, earlier about the photo ops for the new signage. The jet would be a great idea for a photo op. That's why it needs to be moved. You can't do it there. You…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah, I didn't want to go there. But anyways, great job. We can work on next year, too. And I'm going to work on getting some flags. I passed out some flags in the audience. Just walked through there, and man, they were trying to mob me. So...”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah. But no, I looked. I mean, they're very inexpensive. You can get by 500 flags for like 80 bucks. Right. The little three by five little handheld ones. And I think it'd be cool for everybody sitting in the stands and everybody, you know, that's standing up wherever they are, that have little flags and wave them as the fireworks and stuff shows goes on. So and I'd be I'd be even. uh happier to see the drone show come back too so i think that was actually better than the fireworks show so just my two cents thank you mayor so councilman with respect to the jet it's always and i remember you…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“The only thing I would say is we don't have another meeting until July, so that delays their process. So is there anything we can do to speed that up?”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Thank you. So you bring up Audubon Plaza, and I agree with you, it's a little overkill there. But during my briefing, I started questioning different scenarios, the life safety issues with police officers and holdups and burglaries in progress and not being able to see inside. And as we debated some of the information, there's nothing in our code that keeps anybody from hanging curtains on the inside of their windows, taking out and blocking visualization inside of a property. And I went to the extreme, is what if they bought curtains or blinds and had advertisement placed on those, they're…”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“all of the east side, Waterstone, Malibu Bay, Oasis, Vineyards.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“And the villages, before 1980, whatever it was, they were built, was all farmland. And I shared a little story with, in my meeting, that when I had the restaurants, the Royal Palm and Larry's All American, They used to come to my back door with sacks of potatoes for $5 for a 50 pound bag of potatoes. And that kind of went away. And so there is a lot of heritage to what Homestead was. And I'm thinking as you guys are talking, the fact that we asked the developer to put fruit trees in people's backyards is a testament to heritage, right? We may not get the groves that we had in the past, but we…”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Councilman? Yeah, the only scenario that you brought up for the 12-year continual. Which exists now. Right. If we don't change the two-year term for the mayor, that penalizes somebody in their sixth year. Because if they don't get elected, can they run for mayor after their eighth year? yeah because you can do one you can do two twos or one four and to get to a total 12 years of service but if it the way it is now the way it is now you could leave people that that can't run for mayor right now that have to leave their seat would have to sit out the two years and then wait for that mayor's…”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Well, then they could do another 12 years as mayor as well. So, I mean, that's just one of the things when you look down the road, what did we do? And we restricted somebody from being able to actually do 12 consecutive as they can today. I'm okay for the eight year term. but I think we have to think about a lifetime limit as well of time served. I think 12 is a long time. Some of them are younger than we are and I know I'm not coming back. So, because in the current situation, if I even wanted to and come back as councilor mayor, that'd be four years. No, but there wouldn't be an election…”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“So just some stuff to think about, right? I'm all with you on that, but the other thing.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“But as a side note to that, As we conclude this one, I'd like to talk about the vice mayor spot as well. Cause I think I spoke to somebody in my briefing about it, how other cities do it. And most of them do it from the dais, right? We vote for who we want us to represent us on the dais as the vice mayor as well. So we'll have that conversation, I think after this one, because I think we can figure that out too. I think it's confusing to be on the ballot in two spots. And I think we can figure that part out. So we'll talk about the eight years now, and we'll go on to that.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Well, would that be an actual charter change?”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, we can do it, but as long as we get a plan in place. Oh, yeah. Thank you, Mayor.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“This is just to figure out where people are going, right? Correct. Because we also have a large contingent of people that go south to Monroe County for work, too.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, it's where do you go and how can we better get you somewhere else? yeah because I when they mentioned it to me in my briefing I was like well, we have so many modes of transportation and take people. Around the city, we have freebie we've got trolley we've got Miami dade county buses somebody mentioned sts which is all over the place too, but that's a little bit more challenging. Even Uber, but it's not a free service.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, so I'd be curious to see if people would actually respond and tell us where they go for work and stuff like that.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“and more good news to come out out at the homestead sports complex area with that i'll let everybody go home early tonight relatively thank you councilman roth thank you mayor uh no one's mentioned it yet so we don't have another meeting this month so i'd like to invite the public out to our 250th Fourth of July celebration, right? We don't have another meeting, so we got to talk about it now. Somebody give me details times. We're going to have like a 45 minute fireworks show this year, right? Not a three minute fireworks show.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I can just slow it down a little bit.”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026
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“When you say tiered, access to specific areas or different areas? Yes, sir. So how would people obtain access or tickets?”
City Council · Jun 2, 2026