Remarks by Vince C. Lago
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“And we have a slide. There's a slide here. Yes, there is, sir. And by the way, I'd like to give credit to somebody who's watching a resident by the name of Tom Wells. I did all this work just to showcase the actual savings because he came to multiple meetings and refuted the actual savings over the long run. So this is especially for that resident so that he can see very clearly what the numbers are. that he, that we did the right thing.”
“Yep. But look at those numbers. Look at those numbers. So that's what we said for a long time, for about a year when I was harping about moving elections in November. And I remember I got pummeled, pummeled for this. But here it is. The proof is in the pudding.”
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“They didn't fare so well today, right? They lost against Switzerland.”
“Penalty kicks. No, it was penalty kicks. Four to three. Yeah, four to three penalty kicks.”
“You know what was awesome about this? We took this early. This place was”
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“I want to take a quick moment, and I forgot to mention the plaza, the plaza who helped to sponsor this event, along with everyone in the city. Look at this at night. Look how this was. It was packed. There was an energy there. People were enjoying the game. People were going to the plaza. They were buying food. They were having drinks at the plaza. They were coming back. So these are the type of events that, again, in my opinion, are when we've done these events in the downtown, they energize the downtown. These people leave here, 8 o'clock, 9.30, they go have dinner. People are walking all…”
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“It was a very fast turnaround. How much social media time did we do?”
“But you know what's incredible? The people who wanted to go have an alcoholic beverage, they walked over, and they had it at the plaza, and they walked back. They had multiple different bars open at the Lowe's. They had the Sallosa Bar open. They were able to have drinks there. If you didn't want to eat, for example, the food that was in Ponsonville Park, you walked over to Sandwich. Or you walked over to Joe and the Juice. Or you walked over to, you know, Follow the Child.”
“And by the way, the parking was amazing. I didn't hear one complaint about parking. People got there. Everybody was, it was a controlled crowd. People were excited. This is the type of event that is only going to grow exponentially once we deliver on Pond Circle Park. This is what I foresee Ponce Circle Park being at least once a month. It could be something really special. Really special.”
“Because maybe it's not the bounce houses, but look at the turnout that we had. We didn't have any time to really promote this. If we're going to start promoting now for the 18th, And we're talking about 11 days away. People that experience this Whether you're Colombian or you're American or whatever it is that you are, you want to enjoy the World Cup. And they're going to say, we're coming back here. Look at the experience that we had. The weather's going to be better. The atmosphere is going to be livelier. It's going to be the World Cup final. It's going to be the third place game. So maybe…”
“It'll allow people to walk around. From the plaza on one side easier and we could put vendors on the other side or both sides or regions are regions on the region's back side and we just close it off and we push people towards Lejeune and we push people towards 37th Avenue and we put up those signs. I'm just giving ideas that because I have a feeling that it was so successful. And people are going to be here just like 4th of July.”
“And I'm going to give you an example right now when we talk about 4th of July. I heard 4th of July was packed. All I received was phone calls of people telling me, I've never seen so many people here. So if that was successful, imagine after we had this event. what people are going to be coming to.”
“So we'll get started. Amazing job. Amazing job. Moving on to item F17, the recap for the July festivities. All I got was phone calls and photos from people talking about the drones. I'd like to give credit to the vice mayor. She came up with that idea a few years ago and she brought it to fruition. Amazing. I can show you text messages people writing me. They were making bets. They were making bets how many drones there were. And I said, 350 drones, because I wrote staff, and I said, how many drones do we have out there? And it was 350 drones is what they told me. The amount of people, how…”
“You know what? I had people. I had two owners on the golf course call me and say, next year, we need the drones to be higher. And the music to be louder. I said, you've lost your mind. Yeah, yeah. I told that to the manager.”
“But they said, we want to hear the orchestra.”