Remarks by Lynn Su
245 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
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“I wanted it to be qualifying, meaning after qualifying, then you put up a bond at the time you qualify. But the attorney advised that that would be a First Amendment violation. And I never want to violate anybody's First Amendment rights. So I agreed with the attorney. we are doing that and then as far as the bond goes every candidate should put up a five hundred dollar bond with the city and if they do not remove the signs within seven days after the election they would get their bond confiscated they have a three-day grace period to remove the signs some more if they don't do that on the…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, I motion to adopt the actual sign size that we have all agreed on, right? Is that what we're doing? Okay.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“You could get to put your signs. I'm a homeowner, so I'm going to put the sign. No way. Give me $10 a day.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“MAY I ADDRESS COMMISSIONER SMITH? I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I THINK YOU'RE THINKING OF LAWN SIGNS. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAS THE COMMERCIAL, THE LARGE COMMERCIAL. IT DOESN'T SAY LAWN SIGNS. LET'S PUT THAT IN. NO, WE ALREADY PUT 25, NO MORE THAN 25 SIGNS OF ANY SIZE EXCEEDING 616 SQUARE INCHES. the non-residential districts, right? These are for commercial signs. But so I'm talking about...”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, if that's the case... Because that's the one that's hard to get out. Usually you put the residential signs on the street. Well, even the commercial, you know what?”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“That's what I'm saying is that our code enforcement right now is taking care of that issue. And I think that the city is not in the business of cleaning up political signs.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So my point is this. We've seen signs last two weeks after the campaign or the election is over. And our code enforcement has to eventually go there and pick up the signs. I don't think that that is something that our code enforcement was meant to do. So with that said, if they don't, if they have one sign out of their 25 that was not taken out, and we had to go there to take it out for them, and usually what the code enforcement does is they do, they come and take it back and put it in the back of the building department, then you still have signs that are like you know that are on park like…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“And here's the other thing. Putting up a bond is not taking away someone's First Amendment right. It's just that if they clean up after themselves, they get their money back. Number two, if they have less money and they can only afford four signs in the entire city, there is no bond. So I don't know how else I'm going to be so much easier. If you can afford more than four signs, you can afford a $500 bond that you will get back when you take out the signs. That's it. I felt that I was being responsible about this with my own sign. So I am going to call a question. No, I have questions. Oh,…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“May I make a request? So for your nos, I would love for you to submit your revisions and what you'd like to see. We can't, you know what I mean? We've had this conversation before about the noise. I would ask, have the staff ask you guys what you want to see on it. and then you vote no, but then you don't contribute to it. I thought I did that here on the dais now and took up all that time.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Motion to approve. Motion to approve. Oh, do we have to do that before we discuss? Do I have a second?”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, we motioned to introduce. He read the stuff already, so.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Resolution. 14.4 resolution 2026, one 18 terminating and replacing greenspoon martyr. All right. I'll second it for discussion. Thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So for me, it's more of a fiscal responsibility standpoint. It's more of that than anything else. I think our city attorney right now is costing us over a million dollars. We have somebody who is a resident who is a current city attorney for, I mean, an attorney for our CRA. And he's a resident of the city who's willing to step up and reduce that cost for us. I think that's a big thing for me right now, especially during our budget season. The manager has produced the fiscal impact of all the things that is related to this item. And I think that it's a smart financial sense for us to do that.…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I agree, I think we have to look at what's best for North Miami Beach. Right now, like you said, having an attorney in house would mean that that person is there nine to five, right? During office hours of our city and during the function of our city, anybody who needs anything will be able to go to them face to face and get an explanation, get a legal opinion, and we would have that person dedicated to us full time. Currently, I think that having a firm is good because then we have more access to more attorneys. The thing is, I've never met any other attorney in our city apart from the two…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I just wanna ask, so we are completely against bringing the attorney in-house, is that what we're saying? We have an attorney.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, but I mean like if we're planning for moving this attorney in-house, commissioners, I mean, sorry, Vice Mayor Fleurimond said that these things, like if we wanna bring it in-house, it takes a while. It takes a study.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I don't think this... Well, I just wanted to point out something. If we were able to... If we're paying whatever we're paying Greenspoon Martyr and we pay an in-house team, we would get more people. Right now, the 650 is... That's one thing. The other thing is that we have... There's so many conflicts of interest. I'll let you chime in. No, I mean, I'm talking about him. But I was gonna say that we, I think that, I lost my train of thought. I'm sorry. Where were we? I think that if we are planning for that, there's too many conflicts of interest when there are firms. If we had, let's say…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Through the mayor. So I just, I checked on the history of BTR employees before. Is there, from my understanding, like we have, when the BTR was working like clockwork, which was a while back, it had two BTR employees. I am wondering if we can repurpose like the four and then have the two do other duties that are inside and perhaps like from the eight employees, you could reduce it down to six.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“But I mean, I think that maybe that's one of the ways that we could bring that down without compromising on any of the other services, right? We're just bringing down the staff level.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“in full effect go ahead spend much more but in the meantime we need to cut and a million dollars is a lot of money for that for one department through the mayor um i think commissioner smith said something very important what she said just now was was mayor howard weinberg was the one who was discussing with the developer to bring him into aventura i was thinking about the things that i want to bring to our city um early in my career when i got elected we had like the ambassador from beijing bring in a cohort of chinese investors who open up restaurants because i'm very interested in creating…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah. But we do need to, we need to do something. And like, you know, like right now, I know they're hard at work with the whole NMB Bites for the centennial. And we really need to get that going so that, I mean, businesses are very happy to see that the city is supporting them. I mean, I think we should review a little bit of the new business initiatives. A lot of companies or a lot of businesses get their BTRs way ahead of six months before the ribbon cutting. And to limit it to six months is a little, you know, because they have to do certain things and go to Durham and go to, you know,…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“TO THE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, WHICH PARCEL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? DID YOU ALL TALK ABOUT THIS PRIOR TO MY JOINING THE DEUS OR THE COMMISSION?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Ah, okay. 158. Yes. It had blinded brown. Have we talked about that? Like what we want to see on?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026