Remarks by Raquel A. Regalado
227 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
- Play at 5:24:32
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. And just as up to Commissioner Lopez's point, the city of Miami opted out of Lady Bird. It's a very different situation. We do not have an opt out of Lady Bird. So irrespective of this, we cannot do the things that the city of Miami does. When we talk about digital signing, it's a very different conversation to the Chair's point. It's about wayfinding, similar to what we've approved at the underline that provides people with information and then some advertising. Our rules are a lot different from the City of Miami. So when we say digital signage, it's very, very…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:37:03
“I appreciate that, but my issue is that my residents absolutely hate the ads on the fences. And to Christina's point, the tournaments, that's not an ad, it's just an event that's happening there. It's not advertisement, so I don't think that that would impact that. But I can't support it with that. And honestly, I don't think it'll pass without speaking to this issue, because the advertising on school sites is so hated by so many residents. So I want it to pass, which is why I think we need to deal with this issue. Because every resident that I've spoken to about advertising in our parks,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:41:31
“We have an airport item, if we could do it real quick.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:41:34
“Yes, if I could have the attorneys read the airport motion.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:41:47
“Mine. An item or a motion? A motion. Motion, sorry. Motion. Oh, one second. We'll get that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:51:43
“Thank you. I just had a question for Lourdes on this, because I remember that we did some of this already, and the City of Miami actually is now copying what we did. So I think this is codifying some of the things that already exist. So Lourdes, what's new here? Correct. Just so we can put it on the record.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:52:09
“Okay, all right, because I was like, when I read it, I was like, we actually do this already.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 5:52:29
“All right, then that's fine. Well, I'm happy to support it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 6:08:11
“Thank you. And look, I appreciate what we were provided. I just have two recommendations very similar to what other folks are mentioning. First, I think we should have a distinction for noncompliance. So if it's noncompliance for not providing financials, that's very different from noncompliance for not sending a form or sending a form late. So I would appreciate if we broke the noncompliance into ministerial and actionable because that would give us a little bit more information. I'm more concerned with a nonprofit that is not providing financial information or programming information or…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 6:20:43
“Okay, so- I can take mine, which one you have?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 6:20:55
“It's really quick. We talked about this at transit committee, so I just wanted to mention it again. I appreciate the report on the electric buses, but I really think that we need an update of what's happening with the litigation and the bankruptcy and all of that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I appreciate the report. The only thing that I think we should consider when we do this report is also evaluating our lobbyists. We changed the way that we hired our lobbyists this last time around, and there were a lot of expectations. And I know that it was a difficult session, but we've had two difficult sessions. So I think moving forward, we should have a postmortem and really look at, how people did so that we can use that to inform our decisions when we choose our lobbying team for the next year. Happy to move it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 6:46:43
“Thank you, and I was going to say almost exactly that, Commissioner. The only thing I was going to add is that unlike debt collectors in some of these debts, we have the opportunity to collect more even though it's over a long period of time when the individual comes back to open an account, to get a permit, to have service at Jackson. So that's a different situation from if we sell it and we get pennies on the dollar. It does not harm us to hold that debt for a long period of time if what we're going to receive is so much larger than the sale minus the profit that a company is going to make.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:07:54
“He's in the building if you give him a few minutes.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:08:01
“By the way, I think it has to do with determining homestead.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:12:50
“I just have a quick question on 804 because the work was completed in 2025, but the payment wasn't issued. We're seeing the change order dated March 2026. Was there a reason why we have over a year from when the work was completed and when WASDE signed the change order?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:13:39
“I appreciate that, but I think a year and three months is a little bit more than what we usually see here in terms of close out. But yes, I'm happy to support it, but I think we should be mindful of the timing. I know it takes a while to get on the agenda, but I think a year and a few months is a bit much to wait for payment. Thank you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:18:42
“There's someone here from the PA's office.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:38:13
“Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to echo some of my colleagues' points. I will say this. Well, I appreciate persistence, and you've brought this item many, many times. Last time it came before us, we brought up the point that this was being moved by a particular actor, and that this actor had a series of violations. Since then, we have a lot more information, and this is a particularly egregious case. The county commission spent a lot of time with staff establishing a rule. That rule establishes a particular acreage. And also other rules that have to be followed. People have paid a…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:53:51
“Yeah, I didn't pull that. I'm happy to move it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:54:05
“Yeah, I just wanted to say something. I wanted to thank the commissioner for bringing the item. I know the friends of the Ludlum have been working very hard on this, and I'm glad to see that there's a path forward. The only thing that I would say is that the Ludlum is also in my district, so I appreciate that we're moving it forward. I hope that we can figure out a way to do it together. I am a little concerned about Parks doing it and the timing, but hopefully this will get her done. We've been waiting for the Ludlum for a long time. One of the things that I've mentioned to the groups that I…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 7:55:17
“I'm talking about Irene and the folks that have been working on the underline. The underline is done in October, so they have a particular expertise that would be helpful to the or any trail.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:11:18
“Yeah, thank you. I know everyone's getting tired. On the solid waste, we really haven't had an opportunity to work on the budget. But the reason that I brought the item as a flat item is because I think that there's certain changes to our solid waste department that we can bring in order to keep it flat. I've been working with my district about making some changes, and I think throughout the budget process we can show how we can do both things. But we would have to change some of the things that we do in solid waste, but it would not impact our ability to pick up solid waste. So that's the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:23:14
“I get it, and look, and I appreciate that Commissioner Gilbert, we always have this ideological conversation. I think last year we got the department to make some cuts. I think this year we have to get the department to change the way it does certain things, and it just hasn't done that. I've brought a lot of items asking this department to make more revenue, and it's going to take something like this to have to push them into that uncomfortable space. And the reality is that while we talk about all the things that are going to be cut, look, I was upset when I found out that we ended up…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 8:52:00
“Thank you, and to follow up with what Commissioner Rabunis was saying, Mr. Chair, I think that we should make a motion to provide air support to the department by tasking our federal lobbyists to make this their number one priority. I think that's what we need to do because God bless them. They're calling and they're doing their thing, but we have a federal lobbying team and they could help. So I think every day that we lose on this, we lose an opportunity to do something with these buses. So I think that we should make this a priority for our federal lobbying team.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026