Remarks by Lisa Bonich
216 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
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“Can you please read, shall the charter be amended one more time?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have two questions. One, when you're saying traffic count, you're saying with the machine that we already own?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay, and then the second part of that is why are we doing this? And I'm asking some of these questions. I may know the answer, but when we're talking about it, the universe doesn't know the answer. Yes, absolutely. So it's like we're doing all these traffic counts and traffic studies. Why are we doing them?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“But we didn't really have a plan by area necessarily it was sort of like this street and that street and so So essentially this is in response to all the residents who keep coming to us saying we've got speeding We've got cut through traffic. We've got all of this so that we tie this into how it counts for our residents and”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I know that in the past, the reason a lot of these things didn't happen is because we would send a letter to every single resident, and they all had to write back saying that they wanted it. There was a discussion that was had a while ago that was about possibly changing that and saying that if you didn't want it, you had to write in, and we had to have a certain threshold for that. So did any of that happen or no?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Madam Commissioner recognized Thank you, I Just want to put a comment out there, which I was thinking about as I looked at all of this I know I've mentioned it in passing to our city manager While we're looking at everything that falls under CIP general fund anything that has to do with money coming out of our pocket I think we need to be extremely judicious in both our thought and our action because we don't know what is coming our way. And when you spend money not knowing what the dictates of the state are going to end up looking like for us, we start to slowly, you know, it's either the…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And when I say this, I don't just mean this little section. I mean the whole document.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“MAYBE I'M REMEMBERING WRONG. SO PLEASE CORRECT ME. IN THAT PRESENTATION, THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF THINGS OF WAYS TO TRY TO KIND OF catch funding for this. But the only thing, for lack of the right word, that we've caught so far is the idea of this 1.5.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And are we going to spend that $100,000 before we have those answers?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“But my question is, are we planning to spend that money before we have those answers? Because I wouldn't want to spend that money.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ONES THAT ARE MARKED FOR THE PARK IMPACT FEES, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Here I see the Dante Fasel community building that we keep kind of moving and moving and moving. And that's another one where I say in light of what we don't know, I feel that we really need to prioritize the things that we absolutely need. Like during my conversation about that, it was like, okay, we've got... South Miami Park X percent of the way done the parking lot will essentially in the bigger scheme of things Finish that park you'll still have trees or whatever, but that park will be finished Then we look at Dante Faisal and we have you know the possible building. We've got the fitness…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Why would we spend $10,000 on a sign if we are likely relocating that park? That doesn't seem like a smart fiscal move.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I just think that when we're looking not just at that park, at any park that we have, Community input is great and and we need to understand from our perspective as a city What is needed and I'll just use this as an example because I don't know where we are with a dog park We had a dog park and then the dog park went away. We now have no dog park and We're a community with lots of dogs. So while that two block section might not necessarily want a dog park the city as a whole May feel differently or we as professionals you as parks professionals will be able to say, hey, looking at the…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“So are we looking at getting 5 in 27, 5 in 28, 5 in 29? Is that why we're seeing the 300 and something thousand every single year? Well, it's like 350, then 330. You see how it runs, 28, 29, 30, 35?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I just have a general question when it comes to the garage. And I know the answer is going to be no. But does our revenue in the garage come even close to touching any of this? I feel like every time we see the garage, it's like, you know, I think the British call sprinkles like hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions. And I feel that's like every time we look at the garage, it's like, like hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands. And I'm like, how much money do we make in the garage? Are we ever going to be close? Are we, you know, like, is this like?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“So this $85,000 that we're seeing for the Baptist contribution, that is not a negative number. That is an actual deposit into.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And I tell you as the mom at drop-off in the SUV, I'm not a hater on moms with SUVs. That is me. If you give us more space, we'll take that space, and then we'll take the space you didn't give us, because I can just kind of, I literally crashed on 57th and Sunset one time, because, yeah, shocking to no one, because I was trying to get around a car to be able to go to the beginning of the turning lane, and I clipped them. Well, we would have that every single day if we did that there. But I would suggest maybe we leave the 84th Street alone for now because we realize there's just so much going…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“What is number 117, signage for community rating system?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“What does GIS mean? Geographic Information System.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Because is this what I wanted in the parking garage? That's what I really want to know. That's what I wanted in the parking garage.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I if I was gonna be voting on public benefit trust fund we we told everybody we would be beautifying our downtown To switch that now to something else. I think it's a very unattractive big and switch And I know that we have needs all over the place, but that's a big need at least for me that's a big need and it's a need that our residents will benefit from all the time and”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And do you, sorry, do you want me to wait? Do we have an idea of how that money would feed in and when? Because if we're saying we're going to switch out this for this, what does that look like?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“You were right. No, but I'm saying you were right.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I agree. It was just what dawned on me afterwards was they're doing their side of the street. They're doing the center thing. I don't know what it is, where the four streets meet. They're doing the other street on both sides of the street. So literally, we just stayed with one little piece. And I'm with you. I voted not to do that. And then afterwards, I was like, I? They're doing every other piece.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026