Remarks by Vince C. Lago
518 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 21
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“Anyone else from the board or from University of Miami would like to say a few words? Perfect. Before we turn it over to the commission, I'd like to have a motion and a second if possible.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner. I'm not going to be as brief.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Let's start with a little project called Lenar. I'm the only one that was here. I remember a young lady in the back saying Lenar is going to be what destroys this community. I remember making that vote against the pressuring of one community member. It's going to be a traffic nightmare. I drive by Lenore every morning at 4.30 in the morning on the way to the gym. Come back, 6 o'clock, drive on the way home. I drive to take my girls to soccer. It's a traffic nightmare because Miami is a traffic nightmare. But Lennar has internal queuing. Lennar has parking attached to the building. Basically,…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's nothing new. It's not being discussed or brought to the table now. There will be no development of the park. There will be deed restrictions, which have already been laid out. The property shall be perpetually used and maintained for public park purposes only. The project shall not be sold. By the way, I have a piece of property that's coming before the boards right now that will be coming before the next commission that says unequivocally that any green space, any park can never be sold unless it goes before the residents of this community through a referendum, and the residents…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Oh, that's the next one. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you very much. See you at the second reading. We have not had lunch yet. It is 3.30.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, let's go have lunch for 20 minutes. So we got a long agenda here, and I'm actually going to defer some items, because I know that people here probably want to quickly. I'm going to defer item E7, which is an ordinance of mine on first reading. Let me see what else.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“He said one second. I think everything else is pretty simple. All right. Be back in 20 minutes. So at 3.50. Thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Proceed with taking item 2-1, which had a 330 times certain, the library historic marker. Okay.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Oh, here she is. Hey, Paige, how are you? Come on up. Good afternoon.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you very much. I love the idea. More than anything, what I love is the community service and the engagement. All of your incredible members of the community who are involved in not only just one aspect of the city, but on multiple levels, multiple tiers. And I hear from all of you on a weekly basis, which is great, by the way. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. No, no, all of you. And I think it's great. And I know the rest of the commission is the same way. So thank you for bringing this forward, for making the commitment to get this done. And again, just impressive as…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“My privilege. Thank you very much. Anybody have any advice, Mayor?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Mayor Locke. Yes. Thank you, ladies, as always. I appreciate you leading the way. And thank you to staff on this. I appreciate you. Thank you so much. We're going to do item E6, and then we'll move on to G1, which is time starting right after that. Item E6.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Again, thank you to the manager. We couldn't have done it without the manager. He made it happen. You may have a very complicated few issues. Again, it was a straggler in regards to the new six parks that we're going to have in the downtown. This is one of them. But again, we missed one issue. But look how pretty that open space is. Again, that goes to show you that our city was lacking these green spaces, and now you're going to see them in the downtown. When you include Pond Circle Park, there's going to be about seven of them in the downtown. And again, this is going to be transformational…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“If you think about it, if you think about it, between Pond Circle Park, between this park, between Publix, And between the Armando Codina Manny Cadre site, which is on the corner of Almeria, you have four parks within a two-block radius. I mean, that to me is a game changer. A game changer for property values.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Moving on a motion second, yes, sir.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. Mayor Lago. Yes. So now we, as a city, own this park. Thank you very much. E18. May I have a motion?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you very much. Since we're talking about this area, I want to put it on the record. think it's next Commission meeting we have we have the adjacent block that's forthcoming to the city it's going through the process right now and I asked my colleagues to familiarize themselves with why I'm sponsoring that item and it's the adjacent block to the south so you can understand exactly what my requests are and what the process is going through right now and why I am asking for this to come before the Commission for consideration Just giving you a little heads up, taking advantage of the…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“love it i drive by it every single day five six times it's a beautiful area and i love the design i love the bench and it's a beautiful piece of art so again i think it's gonna get a lot of attention that area is getting better and better every day so thank you thank you for bringing that and also the wolson family again we need to talk about the wolson family so it's a great it's a great addition just to have their name involved and we love the fact that they're involved here in the city of beautiful and not in the city of Miami. They've done a lot for this community and they deserve this…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“It's cool, right? I like it. It's amazing. Yeah. We have a motion. I'll second. Mr. Clerk, any public comment?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So this is the final piece in regards to moving forward with obviously the mobility of correct. Your mic is off.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“A LONG TIME COMING. I WANT TO THANK THE VICE MAYOR. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A LONG TIME. IT'S GOOD TO SEE SOMETHING MOVING FORWARD. MADAM VICE MAYOR.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Madam Vice Mayor, how many years have you been working on this?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“OH, SHE'S TALKING TO YOU THROUGH TEXT. INTERESTING. SHE SAYS SHE SENT YOU A TEXT.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Let me explain to you. Mayor? Wait, wait, please. My conversation is with me and him afterwards. No, but I'm running the meeting.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026