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Vicki L. Lopez
Commissioner
District 5
Miami-Dade County, FL
August 28, 2026
Last heard
Voting patterns
Derived only from verified roll-call votes (15 counted); voice votes are not included.
0.0%
Dissent rate · 15 votes
100.0%
With majority · 15 votes
Voting record
Roll-call votes parsed verbatim from meeting transcripts; motion wording is transcript text. Follow the meeting for full context.
YEA
Do I have a motion on 1G1 and any discussion? So I have a motion by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins, a seconded by Commissioner Gonzales.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Motion
— 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
Move by. Second.
— 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
All right, do I have a motion on 4A? Moved and moved by Commissioner Bastien, seconded by Commissioner Regalado.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Second. So, public hearing is open, and it is closed, and the balance of the agenda has been moved by Commissioner Gilbert, seconded by Commissioner Lopez.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Do I have a motion to move the item? So I have a motion by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins, seconded by Vice Chairwoman Milian Orbis.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
We need a second. We need a second. No, we need a second.
— Motion passes 421.
YEA
Seeing none, do I have a motion for the remainder of the items? It's been moved by Commissioner Gilbert, seconded by Commissioner Cohen Higgins.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
So moved. Second. Second from Commissioner Cohen-Higgins.
— Motion passes.
YEA
So with that, we do have a motion. We do have a second.
YEA
The motion is separate. You can take the motion up separately when we're done with 4A through 4C substitute. All right, so 4A through 4C, it's been moved, it's been seconded.
— Motion passes unanimously.
YEA
Do I have a motion? So moved. Second.
— Motion passes unanimously.
Statements in public meetings
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at 25:06I noted on the bottom of page MDC 005, it says, uh, that meetings of the agency shall be held at and alternate between the following locations or such other location designated by the co-chairs together or chair if applicable.
at 1:40:29No, I was just going to make mention of the fact that the unincorporated CRAs are slightly different than the incorporated CRAs, and we needed to make that distinction that, you know, not with a broad stroke.
at 2:00:18Um, this is not it, um, anyone who's ever done accounting and budgeting, and I don't know who prepared this budget, but I'm assuming that if the CRA is paying the office of the, uh, you know, to have administrative services, then clearly the chief should have a template, uh, that reflects how this would absolutely be done in the real world of accounting.
at 2:00:42So, I don't know who did this, and if it was, if it was our poor executive director who may, may or may not have, uh, budgeting experience or experience in accounting, but you do, your office does, that should be provided so that we don't have to go through this, because I'm telling you, this was a waste of my time.
at 43:36I'm hopeful that not only were we increasing efficiency by having created a strip committee of people who, you know, have used the system and can tell us, you know, their experiences and then come forth with recommendations that would make the system more efficient.
at 45:38So I'd like to see an analysis by department, which systems, when they were bought, when they were replaced, if they had to be replaced by something else because it didn't work, and those systems that are not speaking to each other, creating much greater inefficiencies within government.
at 14:13And I appreciate you pulling this item because I was also going to pull it to ask a few questions just because of the late nature of the item and we didn't have a chance to fully have a chance to debrief on it.
at 44:16And now we're going to get to the presentations, except for that, I have a request that I will be making formally to the chair's office for item 3B for the award of the contract due to time stipulations and constraints.
at 13:49When we talk about workforce, we're talking about people making at least, you know, $70,000 to $100,000 a year, right?
at 48:57You took a couple more minutes, but you're forgiven because I think you won the most dynamic presentation award this afternoon today.
at 1:40:44And the aging because I found I was able to save millions of dollars at the state level by eliminating all vacancies over 90 days, except with the exception of law enforcement, which sometimes takes a little longer because it's a specialty skilled job.
at 2:01:51So at some juncture, you know, we have to probably do a better job, and I'll certainly pledge and commit to continuing to go to Tallahassee to say, look, we are sending our money to you, and you're not sending it back.
at 17:54So I just wanted to point that out, that we seem to have a disconnect and that might impact the services that, you know, in particular, the hotspots, if you will, as you have described some of them.
at 18:06So I just wanted to put that on the record because it sounds like we are we are not both sides have to be fully functional in order for us to ensure that we don't have any illegal dumping in the community.
at 25:59I guess my only question to the administration would be, had the RFP that was issued been followed during the process to the letter of the RFP, who would have been the recommended vendor?
at 1:23:57So I want to set the record straight, um, as to exactly what this item does and then what the future steps will be, um, in the, in sort of the context of, um, and as I understand it to my colleagues, I understand that, um, we had a lot of discussion, uh, in our zoning and CDMP,