Remarks by Lisa Bonich
216 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
- Play at 8:52
“this is more a comment to them than to you. I actually spoke with our city manager about this earlier today regarding traffic flow and dirt and stuff because I feel like It's it's not as clean as it should be in it It just feels like there's so much dust there more and it's interesting more dust than before So just so that you have the benefit of hearing no You guys know that the chip is is working on that. He has been working on that.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 43:28
“That's all I hear. All I hear is the Mexican hat dance in my head right now.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 43:33
“He's amazing. For my husband to say somebody is amazing in charter review, like, I'm sorry, but that doesn't sound like fun. I'm sorry it doesn't sound like fun at all. So, to be amazing in charter review, I can... I ONLY HOPE HE BRINGS THAT AND MUCH MORE TO THE PLANNING BOARD. AND, YEAH, YOU HAD HIM IN MIND.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 43:56
“YEAH, THERE YOU GO. OR HIS EXTRAORDINARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE CHARTER REVIEW.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:20:44
“Thank you. So in essence, what we're doing here is complying in most part, from what I understand, just essentially cleaning up the books. Because it's not something we're seeing, facing, I mean.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:20:56
“Correct. So it's literally just paper right now.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:24:15
“Thank you. I agree with you that the tree maintenance should remain with us. If we are going to be planting, which I think that we are based at least on the conversations we've had so far, we will be planting trees in the right of way, you know, the sway or whatever you want to call it. then we can't tell somebody, I'm putting a tree there, but by the way, your house looks at it, so now it's yours. I get it with the grass because it's almost impossible to kind of maintain that. But as far as trees, if we have a plan in place for how the trees get trimmed when and where, we shouldn't have a…”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:27:12
“That's okay. No, I know. I got carried away here. The other one would be that whatever we decide to plant as trees and swales, we have to be super cognizant that the majority of our city is on septic. So whatever we plant has to grow down, not out, because we're going to mess up people's septic tanks. That's all.”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:39:01
“I understand what you're saying, but I share the Girl Scouts' concern. They have like a little pool area, correct? You've got a bunch of little girls in bathing suits, and then you've got a wooded area, and if you're able to kind of sit in there and stare at them, that's like super creepy. I would be really, really uncomfortable with my daughter in a bathing suit in that scenario without having a privacy fence. I understand the wanting to be able to see everything, and I think it's beautiful, but I think it's more important to protect the girls. I don't know if that's how you feel. I just…”
City Commission · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 16:40
“It's funny that you and I, of course, are stuck on the underline. I agree with you. It's a complete voluntary thing. The thing nobody ever says out loud is, do you get shamed when you say you don't want to be part of it? Because everybody else is doing their part well. I don't really care what everybody else is doing. I agree with you guys and what you wrote here. Like, hey, we need to scale this back. It's so much money. And when you think, like you said, we take it over, OK. If we take it over, what does it cost us?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 17:16
“then does it become, OK, we're not going to take it over? Because I can understand that's not what they want. OK, then that's what we're willing to pay. So I think that for us, that's going to be a very robust discussion. And I find it very interesting you guys landed, I think, where most of us have landed. So I appreciate you guys. I know that this is probably the most unsexy. of the committees, but probably one of the most necessary. Thank you, guys.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 28:43
“You know I'm not going to let that slide go without asking you this. Are there items that the police department asked for that we are not funding for this fiscal year? And if so, can we just get a little bit of a highlight on those and the reasoning?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 33:05
“Is that a necessary position that we're just holding on? Or is it something that is an aspirational thing? Is that a police officer that we need that we're not getting on the street because we don't have the funds? Or is it something like, is it a want or a need?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 35:10
“And I'm sure that we have. So this is kind of a stupid question, but have we looked at what we're doing with overtime versus adding positions? Because I get it. We can't fully staff, so we have to do overtime. So it's kind of like, I got a toothache. The dentist is closed. Have we looked at saying, hey, ideally, so that we wouldn't have all this overtime and this kind of like restriction in being able to do the things we want to do? And I'm making up a number, so whatever. If we say we have 50 officers and 54 would be the sweet spot of where we could get things done, is that what we're…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 44:42
“When we're talking about stormwater drain improvements and what have you, what is our responsibility and what is the county's responsibility and what is the state's responsibility? Because it seems like, to me, as a person who doesn't maybe know how it all works is, OK, well, I pay water and sewer, so why wouldn't water and sewer fix whatever the drainage problem is? And I pay the county, and I pay the state. I see it in my taxes, blah, blah, blah. So who's responsible for fixing things when they're broken? Because when we start talking to the residents about this type of thing, they're going…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 46:14
“So like dummy situation, there's, I don't know how do you say it, where the water goes down.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 46:27
“So that's in the corner of my house. That backs up, and it's all broken. And who's responsible for fixing that tube that goes from that thing at the corner of my house to the canal where the water throws out?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 47:10
“Got you. Okay. So then the short answer is if it's in the city, chances are we're responsible for it. If it's part of some big monster thing, it's probably somebody else. Okay.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 53:52
“OK. When we're talking about the full-time employee positions that we essentially want slash need but aren't able to fill now. I think there was five of them. Do we have them on a most needed? Do we have it on a number scale or something that if we find the funds, here's where we're hitting first, here's where we're hitting second, that type of thing?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 59:07
“OK. And then for you guys, there's just three things that I want us to have in mind The underlying budget I think is way too high. I think we need to look at that extremely critically. Mobility, the VIA program, what have you, I am a huge fan of having people pay for that simply because I don't want it coming out of our general fund. I don't want us not having the grant money come in be something that we cover. I think those things exist. And if we can tap into what the county is doing, whatever, then it's a burden we don't have to necessarily carry. And then I had this conversation with…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:00:48
“I love that. I worked at the Coral Gables Youth Center, and we had a director. And that lady was a fire breathing dragon. And there was no fooling around there, because that lady would not have it. And I think that we would benefit from that. But notwithstanding, all the other things are important too.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 23:12
“When you say you are currently in our city, you provide the hurricane preparedness. What else are you doing with our seniors? And how is that getting funded?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 56:25
“Okay, madam commissioner Thank you Mine is much a much more practical conversations Number one, how do we avoid the flagami situation? If you go to where the waste transfer is, I imagine, by flagami, by the park, any given day on 75th Avenue, is it, or 72, there are 10 trucks backed up just sitting on the street waiting to go in. You can imagine it smells wonderful. So I'm like, okay, how are we proposing to deal with that? If we've got all this trash, supposedly like 10, I'm going to make up a number, 10 times the trash that we could give you flowing in there every day, the smell is going to…”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 57:27
“If you need four acres, and we have three and we're using some of it, how is that supposed to work?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 57:57
“No, you don't produce the smell. The garbage coming to you produces the smell.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026