Remarks by Nicole Reinoso
212 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 9
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“Great to see you here. Just points of clarification for me. When you were the city manager, were you not selected by the council members, excluding myself, present today?”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Okay. Okay. And you did have the prior position of being the city manager for this city, and upon your resignation, you had valid points to why you no longer wanted to serve as our city manager. Case closed with your resignation letter and leaving the city as our city manager, correct?”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“And again, just to clarify the definition of propensity, when you have a propensity to do something, there's a history, there's a natural inclination of a pattern of behavior, one that you do not have. I believe that the comments made by our Councilwoman, I'm sorry, our Vice Mayor, Maureen Porras, isn't really related to the situation because that was your prior employment, what you were doing before. And based on your professionalism and what the committee decided, I think you are perfect for this position. I think you're going to serve this community with integrity. And based on your years…”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“It is in the manual. Point of clarification? Yes, Councilwoman Marino, so you're recognized. Thank you. Is the Councilwoman then deferring her own item for a later date now? I'm confused.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · May 14, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. Well, this item I'm bringing up because, you know, I think when the city of Doral is invited to events or we can sponsor, we can attend, it brings a level of prestige to the event. And I don't think it's a good look for our city when we have empty seats there that have been paid for. So my item deals with fiscal responsibility. You know, during my research, I found out that, you know, RSVP, it is a French word. And we all do a very good job responding, but we don't do a very good job attending. So my item brings in a payback system where if we paid for a seat, the city…”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Originally, I have here exceptions to this policy may be granted under extenuating circumstances such as medical emergencies or unforeseen conflicts at the discretion of the city manager and ended there. Okay, that's all. And I'm happy to entertain any conversation.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Through the mayor as soon as you're done.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Yes, so I think there's a level of self reporting self-governing that we need to be responsible for it, right? And I think your comments are very interesting because it kind of gives me a read on your level of integrity, right? Because as public officials, we have to have integrity, right? Do the right thing when nobody's looking. So if there is a family emergency, if there is a medical emergency, I think it is to our discretion to alert, which will now be the city manager of that excuse. I will not be making a change though to the time.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Is that correct? Yep. That would be the correct way.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Thank you, mayor. So, um, I spoke to a few of our residents and one of the concerns was, you know, we are a smart city. This is 2025 and chargers charging stations to not take multiple hours to charge a vehicle. So in our city building, we have a few chargers. They take an excessive amount of time to charge. So I think we need to revisit the charging stations that we have and also provide opportunities to our city, provide opportunity to our residents of having additional charging stations at our parks. Right. We want to make it easy for people to come visit our city. Our residents come…”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“I would like for the city manager to consider the possibility of not charging our employees to use the charging points, whether it's in the city building or at our parks.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Well, first, Chief, I think you did an excellent job answering the questions. I think that brought a lot of clarification to our community that was extremely needed at this point. I want to thank all our police officers as well. I know that they worked really, really hard day in and day out. And what I would hate to come out of this agenda item is for that hard work to be affected in a negative way. And I have a message to the media. I hope that the media will use their platform to clarify what has been reported and help our police and help our city send the right message to our community.…”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. This lay-down item has to do with House Bill 983. This was proposed by Representative Juan Carlos Porras. It has to do with homeowner association reform. Why does this matter in Doral? Many of our neighbors in Doral are run, many of our neighborhoods in Doral are ran by HOAs. And we often hear the complaints about lack of transparency, financial issues, not having access to important records. And this bill helps protect homeowners and gives them more rights and oversights. Um, for that reason, I thought it was very important to bring it to this agenda to hopefully get the…”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“The mayor April is autism awareness month just want to recognize that this month and every month that we are always aware of that community that we have to take care of and should be taken care of. Next, we together with Councilwoman Vice Mayor Porras, Councilman Pinero, Mayor Fraga, and myself, we did the sixth annual autism bike ride that Miami-Dade County Fire hosted, which was an amazing event. Our Doral PD did an amazing job also taking care of us and putting us on the right route. We also had a productive time. In Tallahassee, during Day Days, we spent an incredible amount of time…”
City Council · Apr 16, 2025
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“All right. Mayor? Yes. Could you give me one second? Yes. Can you repeat? Mayor, could I pull item 6U? Yes.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I've said this little piece of facts throughout a few council meetings, but my husband is Venezuelan. He's from Maracaibo, and I have three Venezuelan children. Anything Venezuelan has a priority in the office that I hold here in Doral, especially with the injustices that are happening in the country. I want to thank Council Member Pinedo for putting this out. I heard one of the council comments saying, I'm sorry, a public comment saying that we need more people to be involved, more of our leaders to be involved. But, you know, a movement starts with one and then it grows.…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you. Well, colleagues, I am bringing this item very similar to the item that I brought last month for our Silver Club. I want to be able to represent the special needs community and make sure that the things that are important to them is being well represented. I was very disheartened to know that last year one of their equivalent to their end of the year gala was not programmed. And I want to make sure things like that do not happen to them again. We need to include and represent and take care of them just like we do any other function that the city does. And that's not to say that's…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Madam Clerk. Well, these items I pulled on a matter of principle, I cannot stand and approve two monuments, sign structures that are exceeding a million dollars and the additional costs that come into placing this. I think about the programmings that we could fund with this money. I think about other projects that the city can fund with this money. So on principle, I cannot vote yes on any of these three items for that cause, so thank you.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“To the mayor, I would agree with Councilwoman Cabral, but then we would both read wrong. So I would like to just call the question. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Well, once again, I'm very happy to see all these wonderful faces at our council meetings. Again, I think community engagement is super important to the job that we do here up in council. I want to thank each of our department directors. I haven't gotten around to meeting all of you yet and having our one-on-ones, but I'm extremely proud of the work that each of you do for the city of Doral and the team that you lead. I think it's... You know, it's just the sense of teamwork and the pride that we have for our city and always committing to excellence. So thank you for leading that. And thank…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Yes. I think it's absolutely wonderful that this is your third year participating and adding to our culture. I think during the course of the next couple of years that I have sitting here as Council, I would love to help and also feed the culture and opportunities to enhance all the different uh backgrounds that they're out represents so i think it's great to see a combination of that during the event that you do program so thank you for your time and your effort and thank you to again to enhancing all card all cart culture thank you thank you very much all right madam clerk”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Councilman Reynoso? Through the mayor? Yes. When my grandfather was alive, he would tell my husband, my Venezuelan husband, that what happened in Cuba will happen to Venezuela. But what is the difference? We have this and we have this. And as a community leader that represents a good majority of the Venezuelan community, I am here to support and stand up for those that do not have a voice and for those that need to be represented. I want to thank Councilman Pinedo for his steadfast leadership in the Venezuelan community. He is always the first one to stand out and support his nationality, his…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025