Remarks by Vince C. Lago
518 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 20 of 21
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“Okay. Whatever you'd like to do, it's fine with me. As long as it goes before, as long as it goes before.”
“Again, again, because what happens when you bring it, it gets more and more complicated the more lawyers that get involved, okay? So.”
“I understand that, but it's also, that's why you guys make so much money, because you drag the process on. Trust me, I have a lot of you on payroll. So, my point is this. I want to make sure, very clear, okay? I haven't voted yet. I want to make sure No green space in the city, parks, plazas, country club, Prado, the youth center and our historic golf course and not be sold. When you sell something, There's multiple different types of sales, a 99-year lease, trade, a transfer, you know? My daughters are trading those FIFA cards now everywhere they can. No trading, no trading any green space…”
“I know, but in two weeks they'll be not valuable. So my point is that I don't care, no trading, no bullying, no transfers, no Bitcoin.”
“But we can get through it. We move. We move quick.”
“Commissioner, I wholeheartedly agree with you, but that was the reason why I made the comments that I made. No matter what you vote on, they'll say, ah, you know what? One of the comments was made up here. You know what? It'll be somehow, someway, they'll paper, rock, scissor, and they'll sell the facility. It's something insane. They come up with ridiculous ideas to basically undermine the commission. We've got to stop that.”
“I don't give power, but may I give you, just with all due respect, may I give you an example, multiple examples? Did you ever believe that somebody would vote against an IG? Did you ever believe that somebody would raise their own salary and vote against giving residents the ability to control salaries? Did you believe that people would vote against a November election? Did you believe that? No, I didn't believe that. I didn't think in my lifetime I would see, after being up here 13 years, see somebody raise their salary the way that I saw it happen here, 101%. I don't believe that would…”
“No, we're good. We're almost there. The city manager items will be quick. He told me. All right. We'll, we'll, we'll like the vice mayor. Thank you. Thank you. City of team, city attorney team. Um, F nine.”
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“Perfect. It's a big deal, especially during the rainy months. That's a simple one. If we can get those out of the way, it opens up the system.”
“I so move Do we have any public comment?”
“Yes Do we have f11 next or was that was that moved? F11”
“Commission, does anybody like to say anything before I speak?”
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“But how big is the city, though? How many people live in Bar Harbor? Does anybody know? You want me to look it up?”
“So we have a city that we're going to do an agreement with to market their city and their shopping center with 3,000 people, but they're going to benefit of the fact that the city of Coral Gables has 51,000 residents, that we're going to tell them to go to Bar Harbor instead of come to the city of Coral Gables? I'm kind of wondering whether people are just figuring out where Bar Harbor is and where the Bar Harbor shops are. So at the end of the day, I can't support this because our resources should be spent here in the city promoting restaurants. We just saw kids that came up here and that…”
“If I can give you a bit of advice, if you'd like to do something else.”
“I thought you had finished, but let me just add something to that. If you'd like, why don't you work with a chamber so you can connect the Mount Harbor Chamber with the Coral Gables Chamber and connect the business community, and hopefully that will drive some synergies between the business community. I understand what you're trying to do and to promote our businesses and our community, but if there's just such a finite amount of resources here in the city, I think we have to concentrate on the city of Coral Gables first and foremost, not another community.”
“You move it? Do we have a second? Through the mayor.”
“Again, if I may, I'm not disagreeing with you, but my job as the mayor and the person who runs the meeting, I got to call a vote when it's a resolution. I hear you. So at the end of the day. Commissioner.”
“Do you have any further comment? Perfect, we'll close the closing comment. So we have a motion and a second.”
“Thank you for that. I also vote no. Moving on to the next item, F-14, I'm going to defer. It's a longer conversation. It deals with code enforcement, and it's a simple one. I just want my colleagues, you know what, I'm not going to defer it. I'm just going to tell you really quickly. I'm just going to tell you, just get out of the way. Just get out of the way. It's very simple. I would love my colleagues, don't worry, I would love my colleagues just to, not that they're not paying attention, they have their eyes and ears on everything, but just to pay special attention to the waterfront. I'm…”
“And also, maybe we can have someone from green space, vegetation, look at the overgrowth in certain areas, because you have certain areas, for example, on Blue Road that I've seen some very large invasive species that are on people's properties that, you know, we can figure out a way hopefully to remove them, like those pines, those large pines, Australian pines and stuff like that.”
“Right talk about the next Commission meeting. Yes, maybe a little bit more smart after you've talked to to your staff Yes, mr. Clerk will will defer this item to the next commissioning F-15 Mr. Clerk this is an item discusses the cost of April referendums. I'd like for you to briefly give us an overview and Absolutely there's been again a lot of misinformation a lot of misinformation and”