Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
749 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 30
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“Before we move on, a note on our finance department. There's a new CFO coming next month, and we'll have a controller. I'm really looking forward to having a new CFO. North Bay Village has the highest debt millage of any municipality in Miami-Dade County by 100%. Our debt millage is 1.1 compared to other municipalities that are a 0.17 or a 0.12. We are at 1.1. I've been the mayor for about 18 months. I've instituted some really meaningful changes as far as cover sheets and account numbers and current balances being requirements for all of the checks that I sign. And yet I'm still seeing…”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't want to point fingers. I'm trying to set very clear expectations for what the future holds.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“The expectation was not that we were going to lower the debt millage. I'm listening to the man as he's talking about pulling down another tranche of $10 million to pay for infrastructure. That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about specifically within our finance department, tightening it up, making it leaner, less prone to human error, more professionalized and more efficient.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Yes. Understood. Okay. All right, let's move along to 13A. These are public hearings. These are ordinances on second reading. We're going to talk about signs right now, signs in the First Amendment. This is 13A, an ordinance of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, amending Chapter 11 signs, Chapter 15 form-based code, to address current legal requirements, to establish specific standards and regulations, and to consolidate all provisions related to signs, providing for severability, providing for codification, providing for conflicts on an effective date.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“This is second reading on the sign code.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“You have problems? Okay, great. We'll talk about your problems in just a second. Let me ask a question. You said murals are limited to 1500 square feet. What is the mechanism whereby someone gets approval for a mural on the entire podium wall of a building?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“But it comes to the commission for approval?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Craig is saying yes. Craig says yes, it's non hardship based and it does come to the Commission and we have strict criteria to follow so that we're not approving or denying subjectively these murals.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Commissioner Schiavone, talk about your problems.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“My understanding is that it's 90 days tied to an event. So the event could be the primary. The event could be the qualifying date. The event could be the runoff. The event could be the election, right?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“So the provision still limits the nine to nine square feet before an election?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I don't think we should be measuring square feet when we're talking about campaign signs. It's not a logical thing that people are measuring.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Do you want to defer this again or are you ready to move it?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I think they just measure though, right? I mean, you can... Who's going to measure them?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Don't brag about it. So his issue is measuring. He doesn't want people to have to measure and he certainly doesn't want Orlando out there measuring things on people's yards, which I can understand.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“So let's figure this out and bring it back in June. Right?”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I don't want to over-regulate speech. I don't want to make it too complicated, and I don't want our Code Enforcement Director to be out there measuring things. Okay.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I think we're incredibly fortunate that we haven't had a fight about signs or flags here in our community, and I would like to keep it that way. I mean, I'm not going back to 1945. Neither am I.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Okay, well, that's more personal problems over there. All right, I'm going to move to defer the sign code on second reading to the June meeting. Who seconds? Commissioner Cervone seconded.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“is an ordinance of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, amending chapter 150, boats, vessels, and houseboats of the village code of ordinances by creating section 150.22, overnight anchoring restrictions to regulate certain overnight anchoring of vessels within the waters of the village, amending section 153.04, schedule of fines and civil penalties to establish a penalty for violations providing for severability codification providing for conflicts on an effective date sponsored by mayor streitfeld and co-sponsored by commissioner acosta this is second reading commissioner…”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“What you have just highlighted is actually a very, very meaningful issue for derelict vessel removal, for law enforcement on the bay. It's an FWC issue. Yeah. So getting vessel registration addresses and notifying owners of vessels based on their address is actually something that probably needs to be handled at the state level, I think.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“No, this is just a carve out of a statewide preemption.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“it's not why we're having these problems it makes it makes enforcement on the bay very particularly challenging we don't have another option i'm totally ignorant to it yeah yeah so you can read you can register a vessel anywhere you can register a vessel in the bahamas in barbados in miami um and where that vessel is registered is where it's going to receive the notice right But there's also a posting of the property, which we are not doing.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I think the bottom line is we need to approve this tonight.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026
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“So these are questions that... Look, there's a law enforcement task force that is working on enforcement of these issues. Miami, Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FWC, Carlos and Sam and Picovara, Kenny, they're all over it.”
Village Commission · May 19, 2026