Remarks by Monica Perez
54 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“If I may, through the chair, I concur. That's an excellent point, Councilwoman. And I think that in the past, we've also discussed having included in the book that we did have it several years ago, but we didn't last year, the budgeted proposed positions versus the fulfilled positions. I don't know if that's included this year, but I did say that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“per department, citywide. Okay. And then the ones that have been vacant. I know in the previous years, we've had kind of like a statistical data for like the last five years. So it will show how many have been budgeted for and how many have been fulfilled in the last five, seven years. We've had that in the previous years. Is that included in this one?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Just to quote Amando Hidalgo, I know that this is a living reading document and it will change. And so if we could have it a month in advance, even if you don't have to print it, because I know there's a lot of costs, it's a very thick encyclopedia. Even if we could have a digital file, we could use the PDF option to search whatever we need if it's a hefty file. Something like that that we could work with and be under the understanding that numbers may change, but at least to look it over because it is a hefty read. And then we're walking into this meeting that we have with you on Monday, and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“If I may, to the chair, I have one more question. Another topic that I remember that we brought up was how much of the department was funded through grants? How much did they receive in order to function? I don't know if that's something that's included in the.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“For example, there's some positions that I know, like in the fire department, that that position is budgeted through grants. But then we also have maybe a position budgeted through that salary. So that's what I want to know. I want to know which position has a grant, but yet we're also budgeting for them in their salary.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I know that we saw the map that had some of the parking and you shared that it's 45 recommended spaces with six on the street parking, right?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So it would be 45, it would be 39 then and six on the street?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Is the one that's in the triangle that's facing this.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, the parking, the 45, or the, I'm sorry, the 51 that you're going to do is on that triangle that's adjacent to the residence.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So the spaces will be on that corner lip, on the corner.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“three or four i have it here currently there's a storage unit that's there on okeechobee that has it all on the first floor and the building's kind of lifted above it so hugo i'm sorry is the parking below the building and the building's raised up there there is covered parking yes but if you if you go to slide five Because I know that there's one like that right now on Okeechobee.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm sorry, the colorful one. That one, okay. So then this is the retail on the first floor, right? And then the parking's on the backside of that property?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So there's nine in the triangle and the remainder out on the street.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Claudia, if I could ask you something. There is a massive center for this, this exact self-storage on Okeechobee. How close is it to this proposed project?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“On Okeechobee, we have two other ones. This would be the third.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I don't know if this is a little bit too much of an exaggeration of having these self-storage on this road because they're very tall, massive projects as well. I mean, is there that much of a need for this kind of project to have now a third one on the same main road? Is that all that we're attracting there on Okeechobee, these self-storages? We can't get more creative?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I mean, I don't know. To have a third one on Okeechobee, I think it's a little bit excessive. That's just what I think. And it's eight floors.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Six. Well, it seems massive in the photo that you're carrying. Yeah, I mean. And it's just.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“To have a third one on Okeechobee. It's just. Yeah, you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“To me, it's like it's a lack of creativity. You know, this is our main road here in the city. And we keep on approving these excessive things back to back. You go a quarter of a block and there's another huge. Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So just to address, I agree with some of what you say, Councilman Gonzalez. However, I believe that there should be hands off, but there shouldn't be throwing the papers up in the air and just make decisions that we have no kind of urban planning, no districts, no respect for certain corridors, no quality of life to bring to our residents in certain areas. If you're raising a family here, you don't wanna have an excessive amount of one item, because then you're gonna have to travel outside your city for other ventures, whether it's restaurants, whether it's hospitals, whether it's parks. You…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I made through the chair. I think that's an excellent point, Councilman. And you're right. We have it for the pawn shops. We have it for the gun shops. We have it for the vapes, the vape stores. I'm not really aware what other business has this imposed in the ordinance, but I would be interested in kind of getting a review on that. If you have any other businesses that are included in these restrictions of radius of being near one another, I would love to get a study on that. And I know that this is something we've discussed in the past. When we did the Hialeah 2050 plan, we asked, what are…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“It says La Sirena Beach. Yeah. Fish market coming soon.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“If I made to the yes, ma'am, and thank you for bringing that back. Because, yeah, those were a lot of the concerns when this application came before us and I believe it was also a drive through back when it 1st came and then that was null and voided that. In addition to all the concerns that that the councilman has brought up. Another issue that we had was that the applicant decided to purchase that home and demolish it, going east and west, impeding onto the neighborhood instead of continuing going down north and south and expanding down that main corridor. Now he encroached into the…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“It looks like a like a structure to building.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026