Remarks by Michael Joseph, Esq.
231 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“To call it. To call it. Other than the mayor. To call the meeting.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, can you call the vote, please? Yeah, I could. Okay. Call the vote. All in favor?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's what I'm saying. It's going to get knocked out. What was it voted on?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“But if it's not legal, why would you probably do it? No, but it was presented. It was presented.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, he said it was questionable. Well, can you clarify, city attorney?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“They're giving great deference to the committee. So whatever it's on here, they think that it's fully fleshed out. Even though, as you pointed out, a lot of this stuff is by ordinance in other cities. And we're doing a lot more restrictive approach in making this applicable. We would be going a step further than other cities that have this as ordinance. That's why it seems kind of bizarre to me. Commissioner Chernoff just said move to the next item. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a vote.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, you heard it. Is there a motion to accept it? Wait, question.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“It can't just be something that you can do.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“I guess I would ask just to have the manager or the water plant director provide a plan to do that or give you the plan. You can take a look.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Is there a second for that motion? Seeing none, next item.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. To me, this seems like we're going backwards. Every other city around us has a November election. Sunny Isles, Aventura, North Miami. Miami Gardens is in the, they have like their general in August, but they have their runoffs technically in November. The whole reason this passed last time was because of the cost. And even Coral Gables went from, to now went from May to now November. It seems kind of like we're trying to reduce the participation and it doesn't make any sense. And you're gonna have a lower turnout regardless based on that assumption. You just will, it's gonna cost more…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Recently, Carl Gables just did it. I mean, that's pretty much comparable to our size from a population standpoint. I think it would look like we're disenfranchising a lot of people because now you're saying that instead of 11, no, I think we had like 17,000 people vote. You're going to expect on average 3,000 to 4,000 people at most, not 7,000, not 6,000, 3,000 to 4,000, and having that group decide You know how a city of hopefully fingers crossed and an excesses 50,000 plus one gets the move and I think it's unfair It's it's disenfranchised Anybody looking at it from an objective standpoint…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, but I'll go, like, look. You got 18,000-something people voted.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, but you're not taking consideration. Not all of them, like, we didn't get the same, like, the same people that voted for president and the same people that didn't vote for in our municipal election. It doesn't work. There's a drop-off. Oh, yeah. But you still had 18,000 people that went all the way down and made that decision to vote on a particular municipal issue. It just is counter conducive to the fact that one, this was voted initially in May, initially to go to November. And to now say that, well, we don't feel that those voters that vote first, the one that initially pushed us…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, there's mail-in ballots still, right? Yeah, they always have mail-in ballots.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Because back in the day, it would stay. ABs would stay. They don't stay anymore.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“To your point, what this does is, one, it creates a perception that doesn't even look right. One, you're extending the terms of everybody up here. That's one. Two, because that's going to be the first perception. It's going to say extending terms right off the bat. That's what it's going to say. Because the way to accomplish your goal is that you have to do that. Two, the way that they would normally have been doing it for over a decade, is going to be changing, and there's no more early voting. It's going to be day of election, and you have to sign up for ABs because it's going to reset…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. So we've got a motion and a second. Was there a second? Aye. Aye. Aye.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“So we're going to the Civil Service, right?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“This would be, I guess, picking the ball along in regards to that issue.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, is there a motion and a second?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, the moment that election happens, that's it.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Right, but... All right, can you explain real quick the last item of civil service? I can make this quick and you'll be happy.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That being said, is there a motion for this? There's a second? To accept it? No, not yet. Yeah, they'll be removing it.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“So is there a motion for 7.1? Yes. Is there a second? All right, it fails.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026