Remarks by Rafael Pineyro
205 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 9
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City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I would like to, first of all, to recognize some of the members of the community that are here as well. I know we have members from the Silver Club, they're here. We have veterans here, so thank you for your service.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. It's good to see you, Melissa. If you don't mind, can you go back to your presentation for a second?”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“The next slide will help. That way. And through the manager, we can have Michelle to... I'm going to use your map. Yeah, of course. To ask Michelle a couple of questions, if you don't mind. Thank you. Thank you. So I know we had conversations back and forth based on some of the concerns that I have when it comes not to your project. You always do a great job and it's good to have you here. But I like the fact that we're using this graph to show exactly what we have been talking that unfortunately in the past had nothing to do with you or your applicant. is the mistakes that we have been…”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Which it will help because right now you have trucks blocking 89 Court trying to make a left and they block the two lanes westbound in order to make a left turn on 89 Court going on, taking 33rd Street. So I'm glad that we're going to have traffic lights. Those traffic lights, it will help. And now we're also installing the school traffic lights as well.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Right. So my question is, how soon is it going to take for those traffic lights to install before we have the project installed? Because it's going to be 89 Court and then 91st Court where we're going to have the same issues of trucks blocking to make a left turn on 33rd Street.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“And that will be kind of my request to the administration to see what we can do in order to make sure that at least these two traffic lights are installed before we have the opening. Again, it's a nice project, and it makes sense based on the area. So those are my concerns, and those are the points that I want to leave on the record, especially for my colleagues to think about it. Thank you.”
City Council · Mar 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. Well, first of all, as the only Venezuelan American part of this council, I felt certainly the obligation to bring this forward. Let's remind everyone that is here. First of all, let me say thank you to everyone that is here, because a lot of the people that are here are actually Venezuelans. And they are part of this community. They have been part of this community for a good number of years. And I guarantee you that some of you or a lot of you, like myself and part of the council too, at least know someone that is under a TPS or some type of immigration process right now…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Yes, just for the record, the resolution reads, to work with Congress to find a permanent solution. However, when you get to the second page, Section 2, we're striking to find a long-term for a permanent solution as well.”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“No, and I was going to say that Keep in mind that certainly we're doing this now for the Venezuelan community, but I'm sure and confident that we will be doing the same thing for other communities, and especially our Cuban community here in South Florida, for the Nicaraguan community here as well, that they're all suffering the consequences of a regime. And on top of that... And I want to share what, and I concur with Secretary of State Marco Rubio when he made the statement that we have to work to remove the cost of the issue, which is Maduro. So I think that there is a commitment as well,…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Great job. So what I'm asking the council is three things, the recommendations. One is establishing a partnership with U.S. Southern Command Two, organizing the Veritans Application Workshop to assist veterans. And three, launching a social media marketing campaign led by the administration to raise awareness of the resources available to veterans, including a promotional video and maybe some type of interactive social media post as well.”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“absolutely through the mayor i think that is um an amendment that i'm willing to make for this agenda item and i think that it's beneficial to our community thank you thank you very much okay we need a motion oh councilman just a quick comment i want to thank uh councilman renoza for bringing these forward as well since i think since we got elected the silver club program has been getting better and better and they recognize that too so i want to thank the members of the silver club they're here today and now with the opening of Doral Central Park, it's gonna get even better. So I think it's…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I also want to wish everyone happy Valentine's Day on Friday. And thank you for being here, not only to our residents, our veterans community. Thank you for your service. I want to take this opportunity to also thank our administration, Parks Department, Police Department. We had a great Camping Under the Stars event last week. It was pretty amazing to see over 600 tents. First time that we have so many tents in our Camping Under the Stars event. So I want to thank everyone that was involved. Over 3,000 people, if I'm not mistaken. So it was nice. First Camping Under the…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“We'll make that challenge. But I'm sure we can do it. We can do it next year. Okay. We're going to do it next year. including the city manager is going to do it next year. So I want to really thank you everyone that was involved because it was a very, very nice, well-organized event. I also want to thank this opportunity to thank our police department for launching the aggressive driving unit, which I think is pretty cool. And people were asking for that. So now if you're driving the route or through the route, be careful because you can get a ticket if you're not doing what you're supposed…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. As I expressed to the city manager during our meeting, I was in favor of this last year. For me, it's common sense more than anything else. And the fact that we actually voted for, selected a new city manager less than 60 days ago, certainly entrusting your judgment as a city manager. And I know that we're going to keep things transparent. And if I have any questions about any of the agreements, I know that I can reach out and make that request. So I think that we don't have to get behind other cities if we want to continue to be the city that we keep preaching that we are…”
City Council · Feb 12, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you today as a council to seek your guidance, wisdom, and strength as we make decisions that will impact our community. We ask for your presence to be with us throughout this meeting, guiding our thoughts and words with your divine wisdom. Grant us the humility to listen to one another with open hearts and minds and the courage to make the decisions that are just and fair. Help us to remember the needs of all those we serve. Bless our deliberations today and may they be filled with your grace and love. In your holy name we pray, amen.”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. As you might all know, during the 2024 Florida Legislative Session, the State of Florida adopted amendments to Florida Statute 125.0231, titled Public Camping and Public Sleeping, which provides that a county or municipality may not authorize or otherwise allow any person to regularly engage in public camping or sleeping on any public property, including but not limited to any public building or its grounds and any public right of way under the jurisdiction of the county or municipality as applicable. As you know, we have been dealing with more homeless presence in our city…”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I certainly, I also echo what Council Member Reynoso mentioned. And I want to thank the vice mayor for us as well. However, I want to add, well, I know the city manager already expressed her feelings about it. Do we need a resolution to move forward with this? Because if we move forward with a resolution, I'm afraid that we are asking her to come back to us, which I don't think is appropriate. But I also want to leave on the record that the new sheriff that was elected, by the way, Rosie, she actually is ending the remote work for staff. I think that we have a lot of…”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. As you all know, on October 23rd last year, we adopted ordinance number 2024-30, which requires the specific establishments to display human trafficking public awareness signs at their place of business. The ordinance also allows for the design specifics, including color, graphics, and additional verbiage to be adopted via that resolution that was approved. The reason why I decided to pull this item is just to make a few observations on the sign that has been proposed by Code Compliance Department, which I wanna take the moment to recognize the city attorney, the city…”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I also want to welcome our new city manager, someone that I had the privilege to work with years ago. So it's good to see you again back to your home. So welcome back. And I certainly look forward to four years of great work together. also want to thank the administration the rest of the staff you know 2024 was a good year for the city but this year is going to be an even better year for us so i look forward to working with each and every one of you to to keep making the rally a great place to to leave work learn and play i also want to thank councilwoman reynoso for…”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Mayor, I also met with the applicant. It doesn't affect my decision.”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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City Council · Jan 15, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. I also concur with your comments, and thank you, Vice Mayor Porras, for bringing this forward. I think it's a good initiative. However, I agree with your comment, Mayor, so therefore, I place a motion to defer.”
City Council · Jan 15, 2025