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Raquel A. Regalado
Commissioner
District 7
Miami-Dade County, FL
August 28, 2026
Last heard
Voting patterns
Derived only from verified roll-call votes (13 counted); voice votes are not included.
0.0%
Dissent rate · 13 votes
100.0%
With majority · 13 votes
Voting record
Roll-call votes parsed verbatim from meeting transcripts; motion wording is transcript text. Follow the meeting for full context.
YEA
It's been moved by Commissioner Regalado. Vice Chair has been seconded by Bastien.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
It's been seconded.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Second. It's been seconded by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Seconded by Commissioner Bastien.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
I'll entertain a motion on 14-A-2. So moved. Seconded by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Alright, sounds good with that. I'll entertain a motion on the two non-bifurcated items, which is 4A and 4D. So moved by Commissioner Bastien, seconded by Senator Garcia. Are you, yep, good with it?
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Motion passes unanimously.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Second. Happy to second.
— And with that, show the item approved and moved to the next County Com
YEA
Do I have a motion? So moved. Second.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Motion
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
I'll second. All those in favor, say aye.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
It's been seconded.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
I need a motion on the remaining of the agenda. I'll motion it. It's been moved by Bermudez, seconded by Bastien.
— Motion passes unanimously.
Statements in public meetings
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at 22:40Um, and, and to the point, I mean, yes, we, we could amend the bylaws every single meeting, but the, the purpose of the bylaws is to give the people that live in this area a parameters as to what's happening in the CRA.
at 1:39:59So, I think if we're going to have a conversation about the municipal CRAs, we also have to look at the fee that they're charging for their administrative piece of it, and then possibly compare it.
at 1:40:00So I think if we're going to have a conversation about the municipal CRAs, we also have to look at the fee that they're charging for their administrative piece of it and then possibly compare it.
at 1:55:47But I just want to make sure from our attorney's perspective, because we know that the state of Florida requires everyone to submit their budgets by a particular time.
at 2:11revising vehicle age requirements for certain passenger motor carrier vehicles, amending definitions,
at 2:15making technical and conforming changes, providing severability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date.
at 6:19And one of the things that I talked to Nathan about after we were given a copy of that is that we might consider moving forward, instead of just doing an unsolicited that closes the door on everyone, when there is potential HUD housing, HUD financing involved, that we would open up an RFP period.
at 9:05Everybody knows how the game goes, so that we're all on the same page as to that it is your opinion that this would not – the fact that it is not competitively bid would not prevent them from receiving surtax funding.
at 53:06I'm, you know, but I also think we need to have a conversation about moorings and about marinas and about other options, because the issue here is we're not talking about how many humans are impacted by this, and we're also not giving them alternatives.
at 2:13:26And we really haven't this, you know, we haven't had conversations about the budget in any real sense up to this point, which is why I always think that these conversations should happen two or three months before so we can start kind of figuring out what are the tools that you need in order to get it done.
at 3:48:36So I don't think there's necessarily, like, a clawback, because whatever money we get back from the sheriff goes back into the pot, just like any other constitutional officer, if we get back and then we start the budget again.
at 3:50:17And then, obviously, we have, you know, conversations during the budget process with the sheriff on how much they're going to give us back that they haven't spent and how much we owe them as a result of in-kind.
at 3:24:22So as we move forward redoing the infrastructure, I just want to, I want the board to be able to see what we're investing in Metro Rail and what we're investing in mover.
at 3:34:59but in essence it is a forgiveness of those taxes because the collecting of them is more expensive than actually receiving them.
at 23:41I just think that, I think that's something that you've got to think about, because the, what I, I, what might happen, the unintended consequence of it is that in order to circumvent the public meetings, you just do an unsolicited.
at 36:51Um, when Pepe Diaz was the chairman, we had a long protracted conversation about, um, these items in particular, the ones that were in Commissioner Hardiman's district and what had occurred, um, right before his election in 2020.