Remarks by Richard "Buzzy" Sklar
119 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Yes. Well, that's where the death was, so...”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Thank you. I just have a question about that.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“I just had a question. Oh, sorry. So I always thought when, and again, this would probably be an Elliot question more than anything, I always thought when you remove your tree, you had to replant it. It was always, you know, common. You have to replace it. You have to replace it. So if these people are cutting down these trees... You know, and again, you know, sure, they're cutting down, you know, these beautiful 100-year-old trees and replacing it with a twig. Is there anything within code that says you have to almost match apples to apples?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Am I wrong that when you remove a tree, generally they make you replace the same green space?”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Everyone have a great Fourth of July. Thank you. Thank you.”
Village Council · Jun 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd like to add something to our discussion item, discussion of our plastics ordinance, please.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Are we grouping them together now or no?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Questions? Okay, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. What I'd like to suggest is put a true plan in place, sort of what Gabe was talking about, and I think that plan starts with getting Chip from Beach Raker back in here for our next meeting and see what else we can do beyond what we're already doing. I mean, he's definitely the expert. He's the guy that's out there, and... He really knows what he's doing when it comes to the Sargasso pickup. So I would suggest getting Chip back out here and see what kind of plan he wants to come up to because it's getting bad out there to what Gabe…”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“So we have a month to basically have him come up with a plan based on Current circumstance.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“I mean, I will throw my hat in the ring if you want to be the lead. Yeah. Okay.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“I'd just like to have a coffee with you, Gabe. I don't accept sake.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“We don't churn in Bell Harbor. They actually take it, they pile it, and then trucks come and remove it. And I'm going to compare this to Michael Jordan. Like they used to say about Michael Jordan, you know, you can't guard him, you can only hope to contain him. And that's really what the sargassum issue is. You know, George always compares it to shaving. You shave and the next day it grows back. But we can't let it build up because then it becomes very unmanageable to what Patricia was saying. There has to be a point where we could just do the best we could do to remove as much as possible…”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah. Just to compound on what Jeffrey said, what are our peak times? Because we might not need a 12-hour second car. We might just need a five-hour second car that will just take care of the peak times. Do we have those statistics?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“collect data on people that are not using it. To that point, we cut it back. We had hourly data, and it used to start at 8 o'clock, and we were getting no rides from 8 to 10. So we used that data to move the hours from 10. So we did skew the hours based on that.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Based on the original. That's a very good question. Very good question. Is it going to be based on the original square footage or the updated square footage is the question?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“So basically, to what he's saying, that allows me to basically cut out the ARB process. Yes, every time. I personally think it should be based on the original square footage.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“It's our job to stop future loopholes. As a council. I think that's a big part of what we're elected to do is to get rid of gray areas and this could be a gray area of someone subordinating ARB by continually building 29% of what their existing home is. I think personally it should be off of original square footage. Just based on that.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Mr. Vice Mayor, one thing. First of all, thank you very much for taking public comment before we make a motion. This is one of the instances where it's been brought up in public comment that could really sort of sway our decision. So thank you very much for allowing public comment first.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“I just want to make a motion to amend to original square footage.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“I'll make a motion as amended by the LPA.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Question, did they only have 40 or 30 out of their 100 rooms open anyway for the past year?”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“In fact... No, no, from an occupancy perspective, they were doing great. But I know that they had, they were down to like 40% of the rooms that they were using. So I don't think it's going to move the needle as much because we also got new restaurants and Bal Harbour shops that came online.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah, that's the three matches after that.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“Thank you so much. A couple of quick questions. I know we're going to bring influencers down and it's going to be a big content moment. It doesn't say Bell Harbor anywhere except on the floor and no one takes a picture of the floor. So how can we sort of brand this a little bit the way a regular soccer ball is branded and So when someone does take a picture, we do get a bit of branding behind it. I'm not going to tell the artist to make it from red to, you know, Bell Harbor light blue. But, you know, that would be kind of cool, you know, to really incorporate more Bell Harbor into it as…”
Village Council · May 19, 2026
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“I appreciate that, but how do we know this is Bell Harbor? How do we know it's Bell Harbor? If we're going for a branding content moment, for people to take this picture and go, wow, that's Bell Harbor, it's just going to be a picture of a nine-foot red soccer ball.”
Village Council · May 19, 2026