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And there's been a lot of wiggling going on on, you know, in the, and through these administrative processes that made me feel very uncomfortable, but it has nothing to do with you in this, but it just, that's what brings about the questioning.
Because in these districts where people do need jobs, where you do have professionals that provide all of these services and people are trying to find placement, people do want to know how is it that this person got an opportunity to apply with Miami-Dade County to write them a job that did not exist before.
It is a place to lay your head, um, which is part of the reason why the, the board has had discussion and even as, especially though, uh, the department about taking that hotel out of service and doing something different with it.
And so, Madam Chairwoman, I think that this is, it's just an appropriate time for us to still like consider, and I don't know if people still have the appetite for it because at a time we had an option to have two hotels built brand new at the facility, one at a higher cost, one at a, at a lower cost, a more budget friendly hotel, right?
May you place your hand on all of us here, especially my colleagues and myself, as we make decisions that impact so many people.
To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.