Remarks by Omarr C. Nickerson
301 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 13
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“We're good. We're gonna make a motion to that and then we have a second.”
Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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“I'll second. All right, so motion by Councilperson Winters, second by Councilperson Erbom. Madam Clerk, may I please have a roll call, please?”
Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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“She's here. All right. She's coming. She's coming.”
Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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“All right. Very good. Councilperson Lightfoot Ward.”
Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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“Oh, my Lord. If you guys look there, you see my manager, my mayor's report. If you have any questions, contact me. Attorney Geller? Attorney Geller, do you have a – Attorney Geller, is there an attorney report?”
Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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Village Council · Jun 23, 2026
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“All right. Full moon, how are we looking? We're good? Thumbs up from full moon. The regular council meeting for Tuesday, May 26, 2026 is called to order at 7 o'clock p.m. We're going to have a moment inside of meditation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Clerk Jacoby's not here today. I'll do the roll call. Roll call, Member Winters.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Member Lightfoot-Ward. member or council person Irvine president vice mayor Martin present and mayor Omar is here we also have for the record the village manager David Roseman is here attorney gellers on his way says he's running late and clerk Jacoby would not be here with us tonight we also have police officers in the back and we have some of the staff All right, so let's move down. So we're going to move to the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda?”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“We have a motion. We have a second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. Hearing none. All right, we're going to go down to good and welfare. All right, before we get into good and welfare, we are going to work the clock today. Let me just say this very, very quickly. It's been a good run, people. It's been a good run for a very, very long time. I've allowed a lot of lenience when it came to good and welfare, a lot of overtime, a lot of multiple occasions of individuals coming up after one time, but we are going to bring it back to the rules and regulations. I've noticed that…”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“The part that's tied to the agenda, the historic preservation part, we're gonna go over that part. Okay. Can that part wait till we get to that? You want me to wait? Well, the part about the historic preservation part, is that tied into the first part you're gonna be talking about or is it all tied together?”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Oh, if you can wait till we get to that agenda item.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Oh, just, just for the record, just say your full name.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“I'm Erin Mara. Thank you very much. Yeah.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Anyone else good in welfare? Good and welfare going once. Good and welfare going twice. Okay, we're gonna close for good and, okay, we're gonna close for good and welfare. I'm gonna bring it back to the council. All right, before we move on, I just wanna say a couple of things. I'll get to that part and then you can, we'll join in on that, Councilperson Dreher. All right, so as far as the school not being on the agenda, The school's not on the agenda. The school understand, I said it a few times, but the school has to go through two readings, almost three readings, before it even gets to the…”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“I think that'd be a wonderful idea. Part of the reason why, last month, you all who were here, we finally officially named that park the Little Peacock Park that's behind us, right? Because the Tot Lot was never the official name of the park, it was just a name that our predecessors were calling that area. So now we have the official name, and part of the reason why I named it the Little Peacock Park is because, you know, in my vision, one day we will have a large El Portal Central Park, and hopefully that park will be the Peacock Park, right? And so this is the little Peacock Park. I also…”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“So... don't have it in front but i know just from you know just from the stuff that i do as mayor and president of the cities i know that there are numerous um municipalities that are in lawsuit against for sb 180 because they're fighting back on that you know tooth and nail because to not be allowed to update your code or amend your code in any type of way is a problem for every municipality”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Absolutely, I agree with you. Absolutely. The next thing is, okay, so I did put a watch order twice on 87th Street between Northeast 2nd and North Miami Avenue. It's difficult because, yes, it doesn't have any sidewalks. That's a larger project, and that's not something that we're not looking into. Trust me, as a matter of fact, I think it was my second year as mayor, I brought in, it was $837,000. to put sidewalks west of Northeast 2nd Avenue. And what ended up happening was that for some reason, I don't know what it was, but for some reason in not only the 11th hour, like we were actually,…”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments from the council? What do you wanna talk about? What do you wanna talk about? I mean, you can talk, do it now.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“I'm just having a, for some reason. Do you want to speak about doing your attorney report?”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Or do you want to, if you have it right in front of you, we can go ahead and knock it out.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Oh, they're open to answer any questions that were asked.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026
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“Please, we're trying to keep the quorum here. Please. Please. We can't have the cross conversation.”
Village Council · May 26, 2026