Remarks by Roberto J. Alonso
229 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
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“Thank you so much, Board Member Espino. I see that Board Chair Rojas has a question or comment.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Vice Chair Colucci, you're recognized.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you so much, and thank you Board Member Espino as well for bringing this item. We all know that marketing and the social media world is where everybody gets their news nowadays. I actually want to compliment a lot of our schools that I've actually been seeing on my feed coming up as they're coming back with administrators sharing the news, that they're excited to see our students that come back. But as it was said by Board Member Blanco, not every school has the resources or the talent needed to be able to run these exercises. I mean, there's a lot of tools out there nowadays that are…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay, now to approve the item as amended to go to our board meeting.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay, that now concludes all of our H items. We'll now take a motion to move our H items to the board meeting of August 11th.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Any further questions or comments? So with that, I think I hold the record for today. This exhausts today's agenda. If there's no further discussion, I move to adjourn today's committee meeting. All those in favor?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you so much Madam Vice Chair for the opportunity to speak and thank you so much Board Member Blanco. I was running down here because I was excited that you were here and I thought I was gonna see some like crazy animal with you because I was running late from another meeting but you gave me so much more. And that's why you're being recognized here today. Those stories are amazing. And the purpose of our life, right? We talk about it all the time as board members on living purposeful lives. And you truly have done that. And you've inspired so many in our community. You've inspired me…”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Well, I'm looking forward to having you at District 4 and throughout our entire district and speaking. Thank you so much for your hard work. And thank you for inspiring so many young people and inspiring adults in our community to not just learn about the zoo, but to enjoy life and to look at the greater purpose. So thank you. God bless you on your retirement. And I know that you're going to probably be working harder than you've ever worked now because now everybody here knows that you can come to our schools and speak.”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to speak on this. And thank you, Board Member Blanco. As we discussed in committee, these are questions I've been asking. I have two schools in my district that I represent that are revenue generating schools now through programs that we brought in. In one of them, we have an autistic charter school. In another one, we have an early learning center. and the questions have come up, but as you said, this is new to our district, and I appreciate adding this language here, but I do believe that we do need policy that will follow these with some…”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Madam Chair, if I could have a moment just to follow up on something. I wasn't gonna speak, and I never speak when there's public speakers, but because I think this is a very sensitive, important topic, I myself had the opportunity to shadow a school interpreter that was working with our students that are hard of hearing in one of our elementary schools where we have specialized programs for these students. I wanna share with the superintendent, our teams are doing incredible work out there when it comes to these, and I was in a classroom where we had a teacher plus an interpreter plus…”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Budget cuts? Oh, budget cuts. Budget cuts.”
Facilities and Construction Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to speak. And Board Member Blanco, I'm completely with you. I have one of these new centers at one of my schools that is opening up right now in August. And they're great partners. I think this is one of the greatest programs that we're doing in our schools because it's not only generating revenue, it's bringing students into our schools early on. And more importantly, it's providing families a safe and secure place where students, their young children can be at Nothing against our friends that own shopping centers, but sometimes our shopping…”
Facilities and Construction Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Facilities and Construction Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Facilities and Construction Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Facilities and Construction Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and thank you, Board Chair Rojas, for bringing this item. I think it's always important for us to explore different options, especially as the environment changes around us and parents are looking for their opportunities. This would be an interesting study to bring up because it's one that I've been having a lot of concerns with in my own district. I have two co-location schools coming into my community where we're gonna be putting elementary school students inside of high schools. So this would almost be introducing the same type of co-location of bringing…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Just as a follow-up, I appreciate that. And I completely understand that it's a different scenario where you still have students in a school building that are mixed ages and you have little ones versus older ones. So I just think it's a great analysis that we can use to learn from as we kind of go into this world a little bit in a larger scale with now five schools this coming school year, this data's gonna be very beneficial. So I think it serves a lot of purposes in having it. And look, the more options we have for families, and I would love to have my kid in the same school,…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“I just want to take a moment of privilege because Jacob had to leave, but Jacob is once again here. He's an intern in my office. He has to have transportation back home. But it's an honor to have Jacob back again here this year. He's excited to work on board items. He's at Miami Lakes Educational Center, and he just left a few minutes ago so he can have his transportation taken back home. I also want to give a big shout out to district staff for supporting these students. Jacob at first thought he could never have an opportunity to do this, and our ESC department together with our teams here…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Remember, Alonzo, I know that was your item. Sorry, can we get a split screen for the soccer game to play while we're here?”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026