Remarks by Monica Matteo-Salinas
36 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“So this is the second reading, and I move my item.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you. I understand. I mean, you know, again, I just, and thank you. And I'd like to connect with you and commissioner Lopez. You always are. Again, I have to reiterate so responsive. So, um, and I appreciate that. And I just, you know, There are multiple concerns in the building and I know all the tea in that building and I probably know it before it reaches even you guys because I live right there and people will knock on my door, which is fine. And I love that building. So I just wanted to share those concerns that we just have this open communication to make sure The residents in the…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Really quickly. I don't want to prolong this as we take our vote, but I just to Commissioner Botts point I would love to have a sunshine meeting to discuss this further because I think it really is important to clarify what happened with the Miami Beach Community Development Corporation and how we went down this path and We're discussing one building but there's actually in total 12 that are going to be transferring to the county and I just really want to be clear that what that means, and so I would love to host a Sunshine Meeting, Commissioner Bott, if anyone is interested, because this is…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“COMMISSIONER MATEA SALINAS Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a really difficult topic to absorb and digest and understand. I'm concerned with the GO bond that is everything together, because if it fails in November, then we have nothing. We have nothing. We have no backup plan, we have no you know, finances to help the projects that we want to do and so that's why I'm supporting the hybrid model. Now, I was just presented with Commissioner Magazine's solution and I understand it and I agree that there is merit to it, but I just don't know what the number would be that we could reduce the debt…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I don't feel comfortable doing stuff here on the fly right now, although I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, and I'm not necessarily against it. But, you know, I want some more time to process this and speak with our staff, Jason and Tamika. So I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable doing this right now. And like Commissioner Bott said, it is a process. Um, and you know, we're not all aligned on where we want to cut and where we want to save and we all differ. And, uh, you know, we're still hearing from our residents about things that have been cut, reduced. So I just want to be…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You know, I had suggested the $100,000 to go to a tip line for folks who call in for suspected human trafficking, provided that it leads to, and they'll get a small amount, provided it leads to an arrest or conviction. And that's something that's not my personal slush fund or pet project. It's something that's very important to me and very important to the public safety community of our city, especially considering there was a very high profile arrest that happened in our city not too long ago. I'm sure you heard Andrew Tate and his brother was arrested right here in…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“But another investor, so everything will just kind of remain the same? I mean, is there a percentage that we get?”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I would suggest that we get a percentage of that sale. Is that the discussion where you said you had never heard of that before? Correct. Okay. Yeah. But thank you for what you're doing because I think it is a great project. And thank you again for the human trafficking funding. It's very important for our city. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Yes, so I did pull it only because I was wondering if we could send this to FERC because what's the dollar amount that we're going to be, is there a dollar amount? So I would just like to send this to FERC and maybe even dual refer it to, no, no, just to FERC. Let's just send it to FERC because what exactly are we trying to do with this? I just want to understand a little bit more.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I just have one more question, actually. But is the consultant AI, or are we hiring a consultant to tell us what AI model to contract? You know what I mean?”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Yeah, fine, let's prepare the RFP, but I still want to hear it at FERC because I know, Commissioner Suarez, you mentioned the contingency because everything over $75,000 has to go to FERC anyway, so we would prepare the RFP and then based on the responses that we get and then look at, you know, I can't imagine somebody would do this on complete contingency.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner and Mr. Mayor. I just want to say that this is excellent legislation. This really does help our businesses. I had a meeting recently with the Washington Avenue bid, the Lincoln Road bid, and the 41st Street bid as well. And they brought this up that this was so helpful to them last year. And I said, great, let's bring it back. And here we are. And thank you for this legislation. And I'll move our item.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I also want to send it to FERC for similar reasons. Thank you.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Well, but I would like clarification because I know that everyone's doing different things. I mean, two or three of them are up in the communications room running all of our meetings. You know what I mean? So they can't do what Neighborhood Affairs, you know, and And it's a fair question. I'm not trying to, it's fair to ask, but I do think we need to define what people are doing because then residents get on Facebook and they say, oh, wow, there's 19 people in this department. What are they all doing? Again, fair question, but people just don't know. And so at some point we should clarify…”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Aye. We make me co-sponsor to that, please.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Actually, I'd like to withdraw that item.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“In May we did have some nests in April this year, but the book starts in May So we've we've always We've I am pretty sure for the last several years. We've had both a July 4th activation and the Carbone Beach event has any of those events that harmed the sea turtles that we've had historically the past five, 10 years or whatever we've had events? I mean, they're already happening, so.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“We're not waiving for everyone. We're just waiving it for, I guess, two, maybe three events.”
City Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Chair great item vice mayor Dominguez. I support these recommendations. I do have a couple more suggestions If it'd be okay with you vice mayor so the first Suggestion that I'd like to make is that the committee's can only do one event per year I know there are some committees that have multiple events per year and that takes up a lot of staff time to set up and break down and the speakers and the chairs and so I'd like to Propose that we limit the events that each of these committees have to just once per year I agree with that and I just have a question for our attorney. I WITH THE NEW DEI…”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, so then I'd like to make that suggestion that each of the committees do one event per year. And then I'd also like to suggest that I know some of our committees have more than seven members where we get to nominate two or three. I know one committee actually they self-reduced where they asked us to reduce them from 14 or six, however many there were, to seven members because they felt that they couldn't get enough done because so many members, they just, they felt like it was better and more efficient to reduce. So I'd like to look at having each of the committees, the resident…”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I just have one clarification that I want to make very clear. When I suggested seven members only, I don't want anyone kicked off. I want it to be when their term ends, just like the Women's Commission did it. When their term ends, then there's no other seat that opens.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026