Remarks by Oliver G. Gilbert, III
209 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the attorneys could come forward, I have a motion to reconsider. On the port item that we determined, we decided at our last meeting, there's some technical changes that came to light after we engaged the consultant, the expert that we need to make. And so I'm going to make the motion to reconsider. I'll give it to the attorneys to read.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Short reconsidered. Thank you. Now that it's before us, I move the item as amended. We have some technical amendments. I think it's been filed with the clerk.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Chair, you're going to wait until you recognize Commissioner Regula? Yeah.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'd just like to commend Commissioner Regalado on the work she put on this.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“He also used to say he was going to take a skinny minute. Skinny minute, this is a skinny minute. I just want to thank Commissioner Bastian for actually bringing this item and thank the family. I knew Commissioner Rowe, the governor, I knew him. He was a good man who worked tirelessly with the community. He loved this community. He loved this county. I think this completely, this is overdue. This is fitting and it's overdue. Thank you very much for doing this. Thank you, Commissioner Bastian.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mr. Chairman- And Commissioner Koinigan will still have the floor if necessary, but- At the risk of agreeing with Commissioner Regalado twice, I think she's likely right on this. And I think that it actually came through the Transportation Committee. And so the reason why it passed through the Transportation Committee, was because, like it did, was because of its limited nature. Now, this board can broaden it if you like, but let's be clear, we do have a committee process for a reason. This broad of an item would have been treated differently in committee commission. Chairman, it would have…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Chairman, point of order, yeah. If she just brought an item, then if there was a hole, her bringing an item would have eliminated the hold on- Somebody else might have a hold.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“The length of district residency to run for county commission.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's my understanding that this will go on the ballot in 2028?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mr. Chairman, I don't have an objection to letting the voters decide. I don't have an objection to letting the voters decide. What we did in Miami Gardens, my city, is our charter was actually modeled after the county's charter on salaries, and we put salaries in the charter. On my way out, I actually sponsored the item so that it would affect them, not because I needed more money, but I needed to structurally make leadership and public service available to more people. So we had this conversation because we have it in the context of the people who are here, and we're all elected officials,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“First of all, if the people to my left can stop talking, I see airport people over there. Your airport items are gone. If you all cannot be quiet in the chambers, leave the chambers. Can we do that? Mr. Chair, a rough count would seem like there are a lot of no's on this item. If we could just let this dead horse die.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mr. Chairman, thank you. Just a couple points. First, while I appreciate your voters might not be okay with that, I don't know that I've heard that complaint. We've had advertising around parks and schools in Miami Gardens for a while now also. So we haven't heard that complaint. That's the first thing. The second thing is everything has to be relative to the other thing. So we're going to have no money for parks. Are they okay with higher rental fees? Are they okay with higher participation fees? The things that we're actually using the money for. Yeah, so in an ideal world we wouldn't do…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“So I'm going to say this like not an accountant, all right? This 500 million that's owed us. But of that 500 million, they're only working on around, this year, they're working on 42 million of it. Because they don't have enough people to work on all 500 million at the same time. So what they're working on is, what they assigned is 42 of the 500. Of the 42 that they have assigned, they have collected 21. Thus, they're 50% of collections recovery of what they're actually working on. And they clear a new file, then they add another file to it because they're working within the confines of their…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, my original point that I was going to make on this debt was just a couple of things to the folks who, we can do whatever the will of this body is, of course, why we vote, we do it. But remember that some of this debt is attached to stuff that people actually need. And so when they use the words like humane collection, what we're saying is some of our debts like people whose water gets turned off for lack of payment. So people need water to live. sometimes people don't have money to pay for water. And so I think that let's just be mindful when we go forward assigning these things to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, 8K4, I think my question was why the PA needs folks' social security numbers. I know why we need it and we're sharing information. I don't know why they need it. So I didn't really, I wasn't vibing that portion of it. The attorneys, is there a reason?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“The underline. Yeah, well, we all know. Like we don't have to guess about this. Now, I just want to say, I'm going to pull like, I don't know which of you always say give me credit, but give me credit for like putting this on the agenda transportation and getting it out of committee. And to Stacy Miller, our very apt and able director, and Roy, who they both did their tedious early morning calls lobbying for this item. It's before the board, so you all can pass it. I'm going to vote no on this. I understand why it needs to pass, but fundamentally understand what we are doing. We're giving…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, to your right. To your right. Right here.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“This is going to be interesting. Okay, we're going to be sharing, I guess, Social Security numbers with you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“And I'm told that you need that to do what?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'm not sure that actually answered the question why you need Social Security numbers. Well, basically- You said it's because you always had them.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“So it's not the only way. I could think of one way almost immediately. If someone lists a homestead with an address, and that address is also listed on a voucher, you know that there's an inconsistency and you can do it without a social security number. You don't need a social security number to do that. That's why I'm asking what you need it for.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I appreciate your constitutional office now. I appreciate that you've always gotten this and now it's before us and I'm reviewing it and I'm saying I don't know that you actually need it to do what you're saying that you need to do. So if you're giving them them and it's associated with people who are having vouchers or housing and you want to check it versus someone who's claiming homestead, almost direct line from point A to point B is the actual address. And so I get what you're saying. Are you telling us the statute requires us to give you the social security number?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“So if it requires it, then that's the only answer. It requires it. But if it doesn't require that, and I'm going to call, look at the attorneys, and they're going to tell me whether it requires us to give you the social security number. No, that's not what I said. If the statute requires us to give you the social security number, you ought to collect it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I would love to defer this to actually look at this further. Second.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, there you go. That's what you should do, yes. No, I'm going to vote yes.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026