Remarks by Raquel A. Regalado
227 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
- Play at 4:33:45
“And what I'm saying is, I think the restrictions that we're placing on objections, I don't want people to then send letters as a quasi-objection. I'm trying to hold everyone to that rule. And I think that this allows us then to look at those arguments in the context of not choosing to object.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:34:40
“No, it's a clarification on the record because I can think of three times that it's happened where we've put our attorneys in a difficult spot because then we ask the question. Like, could this have been an objection, right? So I think if it already comes to us with the determination, saying look they didn't file an objection or they did file an objection and what's in this letter is a repeat of that objection or they could have filed an objection for maybe they mentioned five things they could have filed an objections for one two and three but they didn't now four and five that would have…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:37:20
“And I would add, this will allow us to quantify it, so then we can go back and look at this. And if people keep doing it, then we can actually do something about it. Because I think right now it's kind of left to our memory to remember how many times this happened, because it's not something that we consider. Okay, all right. Next one. To Commissioner Gilbert's point about deviations, one of the things I was hoping to find here, and I didn't find, was more accountability in terms of change orders. And I would separate change orders into two buckets. Change orders as a result of a change in…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:40:13
“No, when we look at dropping the lowest, right, I think that's when you should look at change order history. I'm happy to include it also as a selection committee, but they're going to say, oh, but that was different. I think if you include it, in the selection committee's decision-making regarding that, it might be presidential. But I think as you decide to drop folks, that's something that you might want to consider and definitely something that the board should have access to as we look at those decisions.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:41:38
“I would say maybe go back five years and just look at the vendor driven and maybe when it comes to the board. Not as part of the selection process, but when it comes to the board. Because I think that's when it really, like when the rubber meets the road, right? I don't want to jam up the selection committee process, but I think that's information that we need in order to make a final determination. If it's like a serial change, because we're the ones that have to approve the change order, not the selection committee.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:42:13
“Thank you. All right. Now, Mr. Chair, to the more complex one. So. One of the things that we've talked about that are part of this is how we make up the selection committee. And I've talked about this before, selection committees were created by this board over two decades ago when there was an administration that did not trust staff. And over the years, we now have selection committees made up of staff. So how the pendulum has moved is very interesting. One of these changes changes the makeup. And I think that there's been a lot of concerns about the makeup of selection committees in terms…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:47:11
“But what about through the chair? But what about the vacation time and the cost of that and the loss of that employee for that?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:47:54
“But to my point, I mean, we do have cases where people are walking into selection committee and saying that they haven't read it. They haven't even read the executive summary. That is a thing. That is a thing. We get complaints about it all the time, and it's not a new complaint. It's an ongoing complaint. And I appreciate that the directors are now participating in this election, but it's challenging for us to know that they're not at their desk, they're getting vacation time, and then they're saying that they're not prepared or they haven't read.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:49:05
“Thank you. I'm just concerned. I can tell you there's certain departments that we need these people to approve things. So they need to get back to their desk, right? The procurement part is important, but so is the everyday work of Miami-Dade County. And when you combine all these things, it gets a little complex. So I hope, I think this idea of maybe reporting back on this and saying how it's working is a good idea. Because I think... having the directors participate, having some accountability, and making sure that someone is not overly participating in selection committees, because some of…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:51:34
“Point of order. So Commissioner Steinberg made up a good point. Are we running that stat? Because I really do think we need a report. I would say six months. Are we running a stat through all of them?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:51:47
“I'm happy to second her friendly amendment.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:56:21
“There's more. We talked about providing information to the board regarding change orders in this one when it comes to the board.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:11:01
“Mr. Chair, if I could proffer a solution. I think we all agree it's not expressed, but that's their legal opinion. So I would tell you to leave it in and just to add that you could maintain or enhance reporting unless expressly prohibited by existing state law. And then you're good, because if it's expressly prohibited by state law, right? But give yourself the flexibility of being able to do that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:12:04
“As long as it's not expressly- Prohibited. Prohibited by the state, it has to be expressly prohibited by the state.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:17:34
“Thank you. Um, I just want to clarify a few things with staff cause we've made a lot of changes, um, to the application, um, and, and put something on the record. Um, so first of all, I want to thank everyone that came out and that has reached out to talk about this. I want to thank the applicant for all the changes that we've made to the application. I think in its current form, it really is best in class in terms of wetland protection for the folks who have spoken against this. I just want to say that concern is not conservation. Talking about preserving wetlands and actually preserving…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:20:43
“You know, this is not a promise. This is something that we're going to hold them to before they open their doors on this. We have a funding mechanism that fully funds a long-term maintenance. We know that we have issues with EO. We'll be dealing with that on Thursday, and I look forward to that conversation. We're going to maintain it in its natural state, free of any exotic vegetation. Under the maintenance plan, RER would be reviewing and approving that. We have legally a conservation easement, a requirement of rezoning to the conservation district for the preservation area, pursuant to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:35:22
“Thank you. I think it's a good item. My only concern is whenever we do... First of all, all love to the germites. But whenever we do this, we don't take into consideration ownership. So I'm all for a valuation, but... At the heart of our problem is who owns the parcels, right? So I think we make these decisions on other people's property, and I think it needs to speak to the ownership. It also needs to speak to the cost for restoring the wetlands, right? Because we know that that's going to be one of the big issues. I mean, I'm happy to do an audit so we can figure out where the wetlands are.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:51:43
“Thank you. And on this one, I'm going to agree with Commissioner Orbis. I loved Manolo. He's wonderful. There's also part of District 7, too. But still, that being said, you know, and I talked to many Reyes and the family about it. We're all so excited that we could provide Manolo and his family and his grandchildren with this honor. He's so deserving of it. Such a wonderful man. But street name is in my district are are very delicate. Um, so, you know, I, I really think that upholding the rule that we get to decide, even when it's a kind of decision, uh, would be the best because we are the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:05:09
“I just wanted the director to speak to it a little bit. I'm glad that we're finally getting to the jet fuel storage. It's so important. I know Ralph has been working on it for some time, but I really believe it's worth a quick mention.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:05:33
“Yeah, just a general overview. I mean, we don't have to get into redundancy and all the other stuff, but just a general overview in terms of how it gets us closer to compliance and how important it is from an infrastructure perspective.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:07:04
“And I will say to the board, when we were going to do the VIC, there was going to be a piece of the VIC that did some of this. So that's why this item is a little bit different, because the VIC wasn't able to do that piece. And obviously, we already approved an item that redis all the generators and all the electrical and everything else. So this was the missing component in terms of the infrastructure. So thank you, Ralph. I'm going to move it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:11:20
“I'm good, but we're going to talk about this at length on Thursday.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:14:00
“Yeah, on this item. Again, I would like to be excluded. I read the item also with some concern. I mean, I think from a price point, a few of us I think might already be excluded. But that being said, I don't think it's compatible with the uses that I have in my district. I will say also when reading the item, I have concerns about Kind of the intersection of the state law on this, like what is ag for the state and then the designation by the property appraiser. There's a lot of different things there. I know that when we were working on agritourism, we all learned a lot. about they wanted to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:21:01
“okay okay um commissioner regalado did what was your question answer are you still requesting to have your district carved out of this also i'm happy i mean if i don't i mean if we're not going to carve out i'm good we'll do it all together my i just wanted to make sure this came up when we were doing agritourism and remember we took it out so i just want to make sure that when this comes back to us there's some analysis as to all the different triggers, right? So this compliance with the state is this, to comply with our rules and the property appraiser's designation says this, and then…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:22:30
“Yes, I think it's a good idea. I just have some questions. Whenever we look at our portfolio, I mean, PIOD should be doing this already. But whenever we look at our portfolio, I just want to make sure that if it's in the master plan, so for example, water and sewer, the fact that it is vacant does not mean that we don't have a plan for it. So that's my only issue with the way that it's written, because we have a tendency to say vacant land, but it may be vacant, but we may be using it in three or four years, and it's part of our expansion. Also, i think that in the case of the sheriff and i…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026