Remarks by Richard Chervony
409 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 17
- Play at 5:19:26
“Yeah. And the TDR, if I'm not mistaken, is for the property that is west.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:21:57
“In prior conversations on this day issue, we're not here yet, Doris. That was supposed to be the Harvey Rubin Civic Park.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:22:27
“With everything else that was going in there. Yeah, it's a good dream.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:23:50
“We gave up the TDRs on the Civic Park, so you can never build it.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:24:23
“Let's be realistic. TDRs are going up in price in the near future because we have limited number of TDRs. And when you have a limited quantity, you have to sell them for more money.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:24:40
“He was already given us a free rate to charge them for the difference. I mean, you want to give them the two TDRs, you gave them the two TDRs and you remove them from your stock at the price that there are now, which is 150. You can't sell it and say to them, if they increase to $200, you've got to pay me the $50,000.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:25:06
“I'll make a motion that we give them, we can offer them one TDR if they don't accept it, give them the two TDRs for the use of their lot for two years.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:26:48
“There is a motion. There's a second to the motion already, people. Can we call the question?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:29:29
“As we have said in the past, remilling our streets without fixing the underground is just putting lipstick on the pig.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:29:37
“Throwing money away, actually. We did it in North Bay Island, and immediately, not even six months later, we had the cracks back. But let's be realistic. We promised the residents... Three years ago?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:29:57
“It's been three years now. When are they going to do the work? I get that question all the time.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:35:13
“It'll feel the same, but I like the way Harbor Island looks. May I ask how much money we have spent already on the subject of remelding or resurfacing Treasure Island? Can somebody give me that figure? Every time we discuss it, we spend money on doing a design study. Nothing happens. This is about the fourth or fifth time.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:37:56
“Residents had to remove pieces so that they would drain down the street.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:38:00
“Because that's what they did in North Bay Island.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:39:49
“It's moving money from contingency to spending.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:40:59
“It wouldn't all be done at the same time. So we don't have the funds to do the whole remodeling of Treasure Island?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:41:10
“Now, the design, the remodeling, the actual work, do we have the funds for that?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:42:34
“To reseal Harbor Island, you have to A, put a bid out, and you have to see what it costs and see if we have the funds available. This is to continue the design of what has already been started, because we voted to do that portion before. This is exactly what I bitched about in my report. We keep designing, redesigning, and redesigning, and nothing gets done.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:43:25
“But the residents are not going to see any results from it.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:43:29
“But understand, residents will not see it and the bitching will continue on Facebook. I know, I understand. You promised to remodel the roads and nothing has been done.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:50:34
“I've hated this project since 2010. This is the South Park and the North Park and the connector under the bridge. to connect both sides, which we're never going to see under the bridge at the rate we're going. That's number one. Number two, if we get an $897,000 fine grant, if I'm not mistaken, fine requires a one-to-one match. Where are we getting $897,000 to match it?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:51:17
“From the DOT? DOT is giving us $897,000.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:51:26
“And we haven't used any of the DOT funds to do what we've done already on the North End?”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:51:34
“So if we have the funds, then I will look at it differently to finish the damn park. Because that's also part You raise your hand.”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026
- Play at 5:51:57
“That I really don't mind because as long as we're getting our funds back and we submit it in a timely manner, and hopefully we have a whole new finance department that has changed a lot. As I'm looking at her, you know, we will be getting our funds back. So I'm not concerned about that. My concern is, A, the project stinks in theory. We have setbacks after setbacks after setbacks at the north side as well. We had to remove the sign. We have the new signage going in. We needed new seawalls. FDOT didn't like something and turned it all down and we approved it. As long as we have the funds, it…”
Village Commission · Apr 21, 2026