Remarks by Michael F. Bracken
117 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
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“Before, right after public comment. Before consent agenda. Before consent agenda, yes.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“what's next I guess I guess the intention is to have a status report of where we are on projects okay so fundamentally where we are that's correct so it should it should be you know I would only a real highlight something's changed or something changed yes okay so that we we set we set that so we're aware okay and that the community is aware”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“There's a material change where there's a material change.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So the idea here was to start this discussion, to come up with some format that Steve could help work on that we could deliver. Okay, and I wasn't expecting to have the solution tonight. I was expecting to have feedback from you guys so that we could all come up. And there may be things that Benjamin wants to put on this list, financial stuff, like where we are. So the idea is to have a, for all intents and purposes, a roadmap for where we are going and what we're doing.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“The attention's both. I mean, it's also a certain amount of holding ourselves accountable and administration accountable and also giving the community sort of an update, like what's happening, okay? You know, where are we on zone one, undergrounding? Where are we on zone eight, undergrounding? You know, what's the status, okay? quickly so that we can get that out in front of the community. And maybe this goes into the newspaper. I don't know, I'm not sure. It's just something that's out there.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Quarterly is fine. I mean, I just think it's important to have some working agenda that's up front that we review every meeting.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Are we working towards understanding what we're trying to do? Guys, you feel like this is helpful or not helpful?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Maybe we just focus on the decision needed items.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Those are the ones that we need to be focusing on.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Brett, since you're here and you're going to be the future mayor, you got any comments about this? Because this is something that the intention is to help.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“anything else just just so we're clear on the schedule the RAF Council workshop is going to get changed to most likely to that site the site plan for well that's a long meeting both of them are gonna be long meetings so let the mayor and I kind of see how to do it on separate days figure out yeah because you have resilient infrastructure program and the Zork”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm out of town from 28 to the 6th, so I'm here for the budget meeting.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“He just went on vacation for two weeks. I can go on vacation. You can. He's the mayor. No, you've been here for two weeks. Mike, you've been here for two weeks. I just, I mean, we're not talking about doing anything before the 10th anyway.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm talking – I just also want to understand the financial ramifications. So are we talking about – $4 million, $5 million, $6 million. What are we talking about as far as expense to proceed with this thought? You actually got there very closely. Yeah. Cause I thought that's the number.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Chris, can I ask a question, please? Do we have an example of a street that's compliant?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“The areas that we don't have any streetlights whatsoever so you tell us what street that is sorry yeah I'd have to go back and look at the presentation at the photo metrics so you so just find if I threw out some street names with just so is island drive for example complain.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“The reason why I'm asking the question is that. and I think Oscar pointed out the fact that there might be some intention to make the lights lower. So if we have a street that we know that was in somewhat compliance, we could say, okay, does this meet, does this meet the, first off, does compliance meet, and then does this actually meet the standard that we're intending to have, right? So, because we may not need to be at the extreme level, we may need a happy medium by between, so that may be go for 500 lights The 300 lights, I'm just throwing numbers out there.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“particular element of the code that is an issue so jeremy he came to me and just you know i might have made the mistake so i'm going to put it on the record okay he said if i take those little plastic poles and i move them i told him move three feet from the road okay and that would be okay now that's probably that is incorrect information at this time that is what we had decided to”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So what he's expressing now is the fact that he's getting noticed for these plastic poles.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“that temporary elements when you temporary elements are allowed okay all right so the definition so so question for you is what is the time period that you're going to allow and not enforce because if you're re-sodding and you're constantly re-sodding you could you could therefore have these plastic poles out there forever so we could tell steven hey by the way just keep throwing sod out there big boy and you can keep these plastic poles as long as you want so this is this is so”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Get the rocks. I think we had a conversation, Jeremy. Maybe I didn't communicate. There must be some plastic pole that does this.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Ed, question for you. Are you looking for a maintenance contract that would be inclusive of parts in labor? Is that what you're talking about? I think, Colleen, that's kind of a common process.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Mike. Rollin, excuse me. Devices that are being considered. Are we talking about jetties? What are we trying to move literal drift from trying to stop?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Are we piggybacking on something that Miami Beach is already doing? I believe there's something of that similar.”
Village Council · May 14, 2026
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“Right. Yeah. So is there any way to piggyback off that engineering study?”
Village Council · May 14, 2026