Remarks by Maureen Porras
392 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 16
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“Perhaps you also disfavor or you favor, let's say, a department director, an employee, that could potentially contribute to a bias, whether good or bad.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“And do you think that your appointment could, sorry, I don't know. Okay. Do you think that your appointment could result in the city being sued for having potential conflicts of interest?”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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City Council · May 14, 2025
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City Council · May 14, 2025
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City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Thank you for clarifying. And I'm glad that we actually clarified that on the record because I still believe that the ordinance is not clear on that. And also one of our. Committee members also raised that during the meeting, who's also an attorney. But I'm glad that we're putting it on the record. Again, the ordinance is not that clear. But just to respond to you, think of it this way. You are a judge, essentially. Judges do not initiate their own cases. They receive cases.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“And so when a judge receives a case, where they have a conflict of interest, they have to recuse themselves. So it doesn't matter who initiated it. You are the independent person that's going to be deciding how an investigation happens, where it goes, so it still applies. But thank you for clarifying that.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Correct. Yeah, thank you. And I just want to say one last thing. I appreciate you coming up and responding to questions.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Okay. I have a quick question, just for clarification. Thank you. So is this in addition, so just to understand, now that it's been brought up, is this a request for funding in addition to the one that we already made for the third floor? Construction.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Okay. And I ask because, you know, I'm fine with the reconfiguration. Will there be other, like, additional requests for funding changes? as it pertains to the reconfiguration? Because I thought that the first one was like it. Or do you expect or anticipate more?”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“All right. Any questions on this item? I have some. Vice Mayor? Yes. Just very quickly, I spoke to the attorney about it. The Well, there's two items. This one and the other one, I think my comments are relevant, but I'll make this one quick because this one's only essentially assigning the duties of a code compliance officer to an inspector general. But the last sentence of section 2-1857, which is being added to this, says that citations issued by the inspector general may be appealed to the 11th Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, And that sentence is incomplete and…”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“I have comments on this. Okay, Ms. Mayor Porras. Okay, so just to reiterate the same, this one actually goes into the actual procedure for issuing a citation as well as withdrawing or, let me see, deducting the the fine from the council stipend. So, I think that, and I agree with adding the citations should be addressed or handled pursuant to section 162.21. My issue is that the way it's written here is not consistent with that. So if we could say that again, like reiterate the same thing, I think it would meet the requirement because, I mean, I can point out exactly what's not consistent…”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“That one and also right after C, any fine due by a member shall be deducted from his or her stipend by the finance director at the direction of the city manager. I think adding language again that it needs to go through.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Okay, just wanted to clarify. And just to clarify, whatever the process under section 162.21 is, is what's going to be followed. And yeah, it does not include the special magistrate. It includes the courts, but it's still a section that provides for a procedure. So just clarifying, we're using that section.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“I have a quick question. So when would the advisory boards be meeting or start meeting?”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Thank you, Councilman. I'd also like to co-sponsor it. That's okay with you? Yes. I want to thank Mildred, Francisco, the entire team for all of their hard work because without them, this would not have gotten this far. So congratulations on all the great work. I think you guys have over 300,000 signatures now. We need to get to 500,000 guys. So go to the website and sign the letter. It's very easy and quick. I'm very proud and happy to see that we are reaffirming our support for this piece of legislation. And of course, I wholeheartedly support it. And I hope that we can also get the same…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Okay. Vice Mayor Porras. Thank you. I pulled this item just so that we could have a very quick summary on, you know, how the vendors were selected. I know that there's a lot of individuals that want to do business with the city, which is great, And now that we're opening Central Park, we have a lot of programming as well as in our facilities outside of Central Park. So I just wanted to just do a public sort of a very brief explanation of all the great things that the city has already been doing to encourage participation and how we're selecting vendors so that the public just hears it. Thank…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“No, I think that's fine. Just wanted to make sure that, you know, we talked about it, and thank you. And with that, I'll just place a motion. Thank you.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Are these the tall monuments, like the really tall ones? I personally don't like them, but I don't know. I agree that, I mean, I don't like either, to be honest. I just wanted to put that on the record.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“I want to reiterate my condolences to the family members of all those that passed away in the last couple weeks. I also want to thank our city staff, our manager, everyone that's doing the great work and continues to do the great work. We really have had amazing turnout at a lot of our events, and I'm hearing it from all of our residents. They're very, very happy. They love all the programming. Erin, her team, and everyone else that's worked on it, thank you. keep up the great work. I also want to congratulate all the women as well for Women's Month. This is really the time to recognize all…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you for reviewing it I think that we we did need to look at it and and really like you said eliminate sort of like The repetitive stuff. I just have a couple questions Who should I direct my questions to the attorney or to you either one? Okay, we worked on it together Okay, so my first question is on page 18 of the ordinance under section 2-6 9d where it says Robert's Rules of Order are superseded by the Rules of Procedure. Does that also mean that if the rule is not here, then we're gonna use Robert's Rules as gap fillers, or no? Is that what it is?”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“The second one is page 22, section 2-73, number 10. No member shall leave a regular council meeting without permission from the mayor. Any non-permitted exit from a regular council meeting shall result in an unexcused absence. Does this also apply to having to leave to the restroom? Because I don't think that's something we should be announcing.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“So again, you're saying that if we need to take a restroom break, we have to get permission?”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Do you want to add that in those cases where it's a very brief absence to use the restroom, it should be notification as opposed to permission?”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Well, quick question on that, kind of a follow-up. The old version said, the first part, which is the first sentence, but it didn't include that if you leave, it would count as a non-excused absence. That's a big penalty.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025