Remarks by Patrick Barry Devaney
19 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 1:19:52
“I think I'll just make a quick comment about I think the issue is that we already have a proven history of Miami Shores tennis management staff working with this community specifically you know I think the joint venture I think they have a lot of skill combined experience among them but we already have this proven experience and community relation and I think the other thing I'm considering is like if the joint venture if we vote yes and they have to walk away would they form an LLC and continue to solicit other communities That would be my concern. It's like essentially I don't necessarily…”
Village Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:25:22
“I think that I'm in favor of waiting and seeing, I guess.”
Village Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:25:33
“Essentially, like, evaluating should we sell it or should we not?”
Village Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 45:46
“He has been swimming in it literally for a long time.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 1:20:03
“Through the Chair, I'd like to just ask, the confounding question is climate change and sea level rise, the longevity of the new wall, but roughly what would be the minimum number of years we can expect that our new wall will be viable? Because the last wall lasted 40 years.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 2:20:32
“Yeah, I was just wondering about The artist fees mentioned in the purpose of request for the open moment, would that be like salaries or wages?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 2:21:30
“You mentioned a little bit in the technical fellowship program some of the workforce development you connect the students to. Do you have like a broad network of different theaters across the U.S. and Miami?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 2:45:32
“I have a quick question about the life insurance. So I'm looking here at the Florida statutes that define groups like the police and a fire department hypothetically as a special risk class and also that that's for like retirement pension and for chapter 185 premium tax revenue so my question would be for the life insurance essentially wouldn't we have to look at different risk tables for like it wouldn't be the same”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 2:47:37
“Yeah. There are two different things in the memorandum, but it affects, I guess, the way that we frame like option four talks about bringing it in alignment with the police, like 10, 15, 20-year suggested I guess my thing would be for options three and four, we don't really know. how much the effect will be on costs in the future?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 3:07:11
“Through the Chair, could you clarify that the retroactive application under Option 3, it's different from Option 5's non-pension survivor settlement?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 3:08:15
“My concern with option five would be exposing us to legal liability as far as dispersing public funds without proving a public good.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 3:21:08
“I think the question is whether we're thinking of having a plan that includes the police in it or whether we aren't, if that should be negotiated separately in their collective bargaining. But I think one of the things I would like to know, I guess, is how much each plan costs versus how much of the benefit it is for the general employees.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 3:21:44
“But some plans cost more and give less benefit in a way, so then they're worse plans to go with. Correct. That's exactly how it was going. So out of these eight ones, I'm most interested in the ones that give the most benefit for what they cost? Correct.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 1:27:01
“Through the chair, I'd just like to echo my colleague's sentiment that it is a very concentrated benefit. It could be a huge impact for those children's lives to have that scholarship, but the only thing is it's only for two people, and the other concern is we have an implicit precedent that we've set where the Miami Shores Community Alliance asked for $15,000, and we settled on $5,000, and then subsequently the Miami Shores Elementary parent-teacher association asked for $5,000 as well. I think we settled on $1,000. So I just feel like throughout the rest of the year, if we get more…”
Village Council · Jun 2, 2026
- Play at 31:59
“Yeah, I'd like to make just a couple quick comments. When I talk to residents, there's significant demand for the overhaul of our parks and recreation. My only concern would be trying to tackle the funding and implementation of all the projects at once. So I concur with my colleague about perhaps a segmented approach of identifying the biggest wins that we can produce with a master plan and maybe building those and funding those first?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
- Play at 1:43:53
“Yes, through the chair, I'd like to ask the actuary. We have numbers here that the funded ratio would go down to 92.2, and the actuarial liability would be $221,000. Yes. Did the pension board happen to make those similar calculations if we gave this benefit to the beneficiary, but also extended the option to every employee?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
- Play at 1:45:22
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · May 19, 2026
- Play at 2:30:31
“sounds good to me through the chair I'd like to make one quick comment if we defer this is not really a situation where we would defer it and you bring it back to us with just small edits to the language I think what we're arriving at is that we need like a significant rework and to explore all the options and that leads me more so towards voting it down rather than deferring”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
- Play at 2:37:37
“It's Wednesday, right? No, it's June. June. June 3rd.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026