Remarks by Raquel A. Regalado
227 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 10
- Play at 3:56:07
“Just as a point of privilege, I just want to make sure that the attorneys had that vote for also 11A24, the two of them went together. I don't know if when they read it, they said that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:56:22
“That's why we pulled it so that it could go together.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:56:40
“All right. We'll go to 5F and we'll come back.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:56:47
“All right. So on 5F, I just want to mention something to the board just to give you some numbers. We have a lot of bond items that were added to this agenda. And I want to speak a little bit later specifically about the port one. But just to give you an idea on the number. If you combine all these items, you get in this agenda alone, we're drawing down or authorizing $1.7 billion. We have 5E, that is the transit for 35 million. We have 5F, 38 million for capital that we're discussing now. We have 5G, 35 million for general obligation. We have public facilities in 5H, 275 million. We have 5I,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:02:41
“I'm fine. I mean, I think the ad valorem is the bigger issue because of the impact that it has on the debt service. I think on these, we're paying down some of it, and we're still pulling down a lot. But I looked over the list, and it's not egregious. So happy to move it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:04:32
“I mean, it was- Yeah, no, five aye was bifurcated.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:05:20
“I don't know what happened. I'm going to vote no. And I want to discuss it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:06:01
“Right, but I also want to discuss it. So, yeah, I want to discuss it. I pulled it. I don't know what happened. I can show what I pulled. It's on my list. I even mentioned it when the Port Director was on here that I was going to talk about the item. So, I don't know where the disconnect is, but...”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:06:22
“But we don't have to open public hearing.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:06:54
“Five I. All right, so Five I, I just want to mention a few things on Five I that I find concerning. I understand that. We're retiring the outstanding commercial paper. I have no issue with the 200 million for that. This is a common vehicle and the interest rate is fine. My concern with this item, which is 700 in total is the 380 million for a series of projects. The projects, unlike many of the other items, do not have the amounts. If you go through the item, in exhibit A in particular, you can figure out what they are. Some of them we've heard about before. For example, the new birth in 10…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:11:56
“He has to respond, we're waiting for the response over there.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:12:40
“But what about the requirement for the return on investment in terms of the cost? There needs to be an analysis in terms of the cost.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:16:57
“Flipping through. By the way, I have an airport item. I know that they're waiting here, so I hope we can take it up soon. There's still a pending airport item.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:17:09
“All right. So this was 14. You could just do it by the state statute. 11, 8, 14.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:17:27
“They were added late, so it's not on this one.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:19:28
“It seems like they're nodding their heads.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:22:39
“Yeah, so on 11A14, I know that there were- We're on 11A15, sorry.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:23:14
“Thank you. And I want to thank everyone who participated in the charter review. They were interesting meetings to watch. And I know that one of the things that was mentioned was either increase the time or the pay. And I wish we would have chosen increase the time. And the reason for that is ANIPA takes ten years. um and eight years is really not enough for someone to finalize a large-scale project and what's happening to us time and time again is that whenever you're at the end of something someone hits the the reset button um i think that the salary on the ballot with proposed Property tax…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:39:22
“Thank you. I have a question, Dennis. You had the two issues and the reason that you all suggested that the term limits should go later is so that it wouldn't apply to us, right? So I'm glad that that was one of the conversations was the applicability. I maintain that we should consider putting term limits and then having it apply to the next round of humans. I think we could still do that. And I agree with Senator Garcia that it's interesting that the logic that was used on the term limits was the Board of County Commissioners should not put something on the ballot that would extend their…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:01:14
“I think that, to Mickey's point, the situation with the annexation is already complicated enough. I feel like we're doing another thing. And I've said this before, if we want to do a moratorium, let's do a moratorium. If we want to change the rules, change the rules. But creating yet another thing that's going to further complicate this situation. Again, we had this issue before term limits where these things lingered for years and years and years. This just seems to me to be another way to further complicate the situation. So I'm a no on this one.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:11:13
“Just as a point of personal privilege on this, I think that we should all consider some of the things that were mentioned here. Because for example, instead, and we've talked about this before, JC obviously gets very triggered when we talk about this issue. But we've talked about how the applications should speak to the broader issue and not just the area and the fiscal impact. And I can tell you when South Miami came with an application that they wanted to take Daedaline, I said no. So I think we need to take some of these ideas and maybe incorporate them into our process.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:12:09
“Thank you. I have a friendly amendment that I think might help. So in my prior life as a school board member, I worked on advertising at our schools. And one of the biggest complaints that Miami-Dade County Public Schools receives, and that I still receive as a county commissioner, are the horrible banners that the school district puts around the schools. Everybody hates them. I was against them. I tried to limit them while I was there, and it is a constant issue. I appreciate that we're going to do some advertising in our parks because we want to increase revenue. But I do not want to have…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:13:48
“I appreciate that, but I think people will vote against this if that is not clarified. Because so many people hate the banners around the schools that I think when they see parks and advertising, that's going to come up. And while I appreciate that we do the policy afterwards, I think it's going to hurt its ability to pass.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:14:46
“My friendly amendment would be just to speak to the fencing and maybe a percentage because- Do you have something drafted? No, but I mean, because if there is fencing, they would be like, you can't cover more than 25% of the fence. And that way you could put a banner, but you can't wrap a park.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:15:45
“It's the fence. The issue is the fence. So I think you have to specifically speak to the fence because that's what the voter's going to think about. They're going to think of the school district and the fence.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026