Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
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“No, it's not. The issue really is the liability. It's their liability because the island walk back behind 360 is very different than the island walk at the Moda.”
“No, it's not. It's not. Litigation accomplishes nothing and wastes a lot of money. We got into litigation with the guy who we had a lease with. No, I mean, we waste money litigating. It's the same thing I'm having the conversation with.”
“It's like, do we want the Island Walk or not? We do want the Island Walk.”
“OK, well, that's definitely not grounds for a lawsuit. So just careful there with the words that you use and the things that you suggest in a public meeting.”
“I think that you are confusing two separate issues, but that's not.”
“Here's my issue. Commissioner Darrow is the Harbor Island commissioner. Why hasn't he gone to the 360 to talk to these people and come to us with an agreement?”
“You're not the Harbor Island commissioner. I'm not. Respect me. I'm the Bay Village commissioner of all three islands. You are, but he's the one who lives there. He's the one with the kid in the stroller.”
“Why have we not discussed the initiation of a code case in like more seriously on this dais? This feels like, I mean, I understand that it's not the black and white letter of the regulations of the city, but it is a violation of a development agreement and a site plan. Do we have the flexibility in our authority to bring them through code enforcement?”
“Yes. would bring them into, first of all, it would initiate enforcement. It would obviously light a fire in terms of a negotiation with staff on an opening date. If negotiations with staff don't move, then there's a special magistrate proceeding. And the special magistrate proceeding is like a trial where they come with all of their evidence as to why they don't have to open it. staff comes with all staff's evidence as to why they do have to open it the special magistrate who is an independent third party makes her ruling and if the special magistrate finds in favor of the village which they…”
“You're not listening to me. No, I'm quite literally providing you a solution that is expedited faster than litigation.”
“I'm supporting a citation. I support a citation.”
“Make the motion for a code enforcement and see how I vote. I mean, there's just no reason to be illogically upset about things that are actually moving forward.”
“Andy, I think you've gotten quite a bit of feedback.”
“I mean, you know, I really want to be clear. Getting to court, you've got two streets that'll take you to court. Street number one is through filing a complaint in the circuit court. They have 30 days to answer. And then once they answer, we can... you know, file discovery requests, and that will be depositions and production and documents, and it goes back and forth. And then you're in litigation doing the discovery for a year or two years. Actually, it's expedited, but the rules have changed. But it's two years before you get a judge to make a decision about who has the right to do what,…”
“I don't know. It's a really good point that you just made, though.”
“Well, okay. So you make a good point. Let me just say this. The expenses in a code enforcement appeal versus the village's expenses in filing a complaint are significantly different, right?”
“Yeah, so what happened in the Javits case is that he not only appealed the order of the special magistrate, he appealed the decision of the circuit court, which found in the village's favor. He appealed to the third district court of appeal. So he did his second tier appeal, right? And then he requested oral argument, missed oral argument, got an assessment. That was at the circuit level. That was at the circuit level? Okay, so he's appealed to the third DCA and requested oral argument. So they are very deliberately taking every opportunity that they can to... I mean, I have a sense that…”
“No, I don't know. I don't know what their schedule is either. I don't know what their schedule is either. You can try. Look, you've got two votes for litigation. I think two votes for code enforcement. Vote for conversation over here. Well, hold on.”
“No, of course a code violation has to be properly noticed.”
“You cannot, like, I wanted to go over to the 360 for their holiday party, I remember. And I was like, okay, I'll just walk over there. You can't get into the 360 for the sidewalk. It's a fortress.”
“The next commission meeting is the third Tuesday. It's June 23rd. It's the fourth Tuesday. Great. It's the fourth Tuesday, right? And Commissioner Acosta is out of town and asked to change it. I don't know that that's feasible at this time. It's already noticed. So what I was going to recommend is that the June commission meeting be must do items only and that most of our stuff be handled in July. I don't think we can change the June commission meeting at this point.”
“um i i will not be here on june 25th at all so for the budget meeting no no i'm gonna be at my nephew's high school graduation on june 25th so it's i don't want to delay the I would think that on June 23rd, we should be able to move this forward one way or another.”
“Are they installing the, I don't know the difference between level one and level two chargers. One is faster. Are they installing the superchargers where it's like a couple of hours or is it the regular where it's eight hours?”
“I support this initiative and moving forward on it. There's a lot of details to work out. One is the power supply for an EV charger requires a significant amount of space for the transformer and for FPL to literally situate the power source for those chargers. So that is a thing that needs to be evaluated. Two is if we're doing superchargers and it's a couple of hours, that's less of a concern. If we only have the basic chargers and it's an eight-hour charge... We need to think through that. I also want to remind everyone and the village manager that there are, I think, 19 EV charging spaces…”
“i support adding more chargers throughout the village generally speaking and i'm giving you at least my blessing to go forth and get more proposals and figure out more details especially on the power issue but for the logistics of allowing residents to charge evs at village hall I think that we can accomplish this with some very basic governing, right? I mean, this means signage that says you have to be out by 9 a.m. or you're going to be ticketed or towed. You know, we could physically... tow cars away from the EV spaces into some other location so that our staff can park and then charge…”