Village Council to finally meet on Wednesday
The Village Council is meeting on Wednesday, November 18 from 6 to 8 pm at the Abanico Theater (3138 Commodore Plaza). That is atop the Academy of Arts and Minds school. You take the elevator to the top.
The new Village Council will be introduced and then the discussion will be about the 3 am to 5 am bar closings. This is the first reading and it will be a discussion only.
I have contacted Mayor Regalado, but still have not heard back his reasoning on having the Village Council vacate City Hall. It's ironic being that City Hall is on Grove land and they are shunning the Grove Village Council, who should have more rights to that land and building than the City of Miami, which really should have their offices and chambers downtown.
The answer I keep getting is that they want to rotate homeowner groups and give everyone a chance at being on tv and meeting there, yet they are sending the Village Council out without being able to be on tv or able to meet there. This is very strange and not making much sense at this point.
The chambers are sitting empty and no one is using them other than the City Commission right now and there is not really even a City Commission right now, or at least a quorum. It's really very, very weird.
The new Village Council will be introduced and then the discussion will be about the 3 am to 5 am bar closings. This is the first reading and it will be a discussion only.
I have contacted Mayor Regalado, but still have not heard back his reasoning on having the Village Council vacate City Hall. It's ironic being that City Hall is on Grove land and they are shunning the Grove Village Council, who should have more rights to that land and building than the City of Miami, which really should have their offices and chambers downtown.
The answer I keep getting is that they want to rotate homeowner groups and give everyone a chance at being on tv and meeting there, yet they are sending the Village Council out without being able to be on tv or able to meet there. This is very strange and not making much sense at this point.
The chambers are sitting empty and no one is using them other than the City Commission right now and there is not really even a City Commission right now, or at least a quorum. It's really very, very weird.
posted by Tom Falco at 10:00 AM
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7 Comments:
Techinically with your thinking. This is all American-Indian land, or God's lamd before that.
This is City of Miami property.
I would appreciate it if as many groups, both business and homeowners, would send a representative to this meeting to give their official position on the 3-5am issue. Obviously, we want to hear from as many individuals as we can as well, but since the groups represent a large group of people, it will give us more input. While we will only be observing at this meeting, as a mamber of the incoming Council in December, I and all the other new members need to have as much input as possible representing as may Grovites as possible.
Thank you,
Patrick Sessions
Chairman-elect CGVC
The Village Council should meet in City Hall as they always have, no matter what.
Let the police block their entrance if they have to. Let the world see how the City Of Miami operates on a whim.
And if the Council must meet in obscurity, I hope they start by writing up our own Village Charter. We'll need it when we dispose of the City Of Miami altogether!
Meeting in a centrally located theater within a school is hardly obscurity. The City of Miami has graciously accommodated the Village Council with the use of the facilities at City Hall for the past several years.
It is the City's prerogative to continue to allow the Council or any other group to meet there, and as the owners of the venue, they also have the right to dictate how and when the facilities can be used and under what conditions.
The Village Council is lucky that there are so many other venues willing to donate the space for the use of the Council's meetings, including the Sailing Club, the Chamber of Commerce, Abanico Theater, the Rolle Center, and many other locations.
As to the use of the cameras, while that is a nice feature which allows recording of the meetings and the ability for those who may not physically make it to enjoy it from home, it is my understanding that availability of filming of meetings may not always be available with the new arrangements at City Hall.
The new VC is working on similar arrangements to film meetings in the future.
Besides, it is kind of a good thing to show up in person and learn support to the good work of the Council whereever they may meet.
Liliana Dones,
outgoing Secretary,
Coconut Grove Village Council
The problem Liliana, is that they have not "dictate[d] how and when the facilities can be used and under what conditions." Instead they have abandoned previous policy, without making any new policy, in an effort to keep the only group that has used or publicly requested the use of city hall, when there is no scheduling conflict whatsoever.
The city must have a stated policy, that is equally enforced. That is all anyone [reasonable] wants. The fact is, Marc Sarnoff is just manipulating the situation, and Tommy Boy is starting off looking like a bullied weakling of a mayor.
Make a policy, demand that any request for use be made a month in advance, two months, six months, whatever, but don't just say, "you, the only group that has used it, which has the use scheduled, we are not going to let you use it anymore, without an reasoning provided, and while there is no conflicting event or request.
Regalado, where are you? why have you said nothing on this yet? what are you doing with your time?
The City is going to hell in a handbasket. Two Commissioners are out at the same time. While one other one is awaiting an election.
The pensions are a burden upon our city while the overbuilding has lead us into this hole for city revenue.
Oh the economy is doing bad too.
The MPA is slowly sucking the life force out of the Grove while Code Enforcement is ensuring to stomp on any survivors.
So....do you honestly think that the Village Council's schedule is a priority on this guys list?
Oh did I forget to mention everything I mention did not even touch what is happening OUTSIDE the center Grove.
Remember Regalado was one of the NO votes on this 5 am AND He has not even been in office a week.
Geez guys, give him a break.
Ill informed anon 4:18 - you obviously were not at the vote on the 5am and aren't aware that Tommy Boy thought all existing 5ams would be grandfathered in. He said as much after the vote.
So, in fact, he voted yes to roll back the time to 3am, but he was not smart enough/ misled by sarnoff enough (he claims), that he says he would not have voted the same way, if he had known.
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