Remarks by Vince C. Lago
518 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 21
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“All right, moving on to the approval of minutes. B1, regular city commission meeting of May 19, 2026. May I have a motion?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Item B2, regular city commission meeting of June 2, 2026. May I have a motion?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Moving on to public comment.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“And also please, I'd like for everyone to be concise and also to be aware that if you speak on an item during public comment and it comes up later in the agenda, we won't give you a second bite of the apple, so.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you for respecting the city's time and your time.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Lane, good morning. Good to see you. Before Lane comes up here and speaks, Lane and I have been friends for a long time. I've had the pleasure of visiting Lane at his home. And Lane is the individual, along with his husband, who are responsible for the beautiful fountain that you see adjacent to the Granada Country Club, the one adjacent to the Country Club. One of the works that he's been working on is to make sure that fountain is up and running. He writes me emails and text messages. If there's ever a tree in the way or the fountain stops working or you see something that's not right in…”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“not surprised at all that the manager's team is already on it because this is again we're addressing every single every single email that comes from the state of florida our director of government affairs is on it along with the manager not only looking at funding issues but also looking at preemption issues which again are extremely painful for the city because there is nobody And I want to be very clear, and I've told this to our leaders who I have the utmost respect at the state of Florida. There is nobody closer to the residents than the individuals that you see here in front of you and…”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“We've gone over a minute and 40 seconds.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“But they didn't go over a minute and 40 seconds. I asked you to please bring it in for a minute.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here with us.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“All right, we'll close the public comment. Now we're moving on to the consent agenda.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to time starting at 10.30 a.m., agenda item G1.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you for your service to the city a great impact and we're grateful for the work that you do along with the director Ms.. Cathers Massey just a few questions very quickly My questions, one of them is a question and one is just reiterating it to bring it home. Number one, what is the percentage of the money that's spent, of this grant money that is spent in the City of Beautiful?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Can you repeat that again? 100%. That's number one. And number two, where does that money come from?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“I want to be clear. So what we're doing here right now is, if you look at the numbers, over $20 million of economic impact here in the community. So when you have an event, for example, like a World Cup game, and everybody disperses after two hours, where do they go? They go have lunch. They go have dinner. They go have a drink. Maybe do some shopping. Maybe go see the Miracle Theater, the cinema. maybe they go to Books and Books, maybe they go have a coffee somewhere, but they spend their hard-earned dollars here in our community. So we are already respected as the cultural destination in…”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“A final report which basically says this is when the event happened, This is proof that the event happened. This is how much money was spent. This is a receipt so that people understand that the taxpayer dollars being used for the appropriate venue or event that we as a board and as a city dictated and approved.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“OK. Want to be clear on that? OK. Any further comments?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. Mr. Clerk, do we have any public comment? All right, we'll close with a public comment. May I have a motion? I'll move it.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Just really quickly, she said 210, it was 110 or 210? No, it's 110,000. Okay, I just wanted to make sure.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“No, Mr. Mayor. Close the public comment. Do I have a motion?”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yes. Mayor Lago? Yes. Again, thank you and send my best to the board. We're grateful for your work on the board. Thank you so much.”
City Commission · Jul 7, 2026