Ben Sorensen
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9,257 appearances
42 recordings
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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But none of that could have been possible without our staff, and I want to thank Justin Sosarchik, who is somewhere here in the room.
Raise your hand there.
He's right there.
And I want to thank Commissioner Glassman's new aide, Kiara Coleman, who was in our office during that entire time and took all the phone calls from our eager constituents on specific issues that they had concerns with.
Moving on, with respect to the process there, your lobby corps, your lobby team, your contract lobbyists, we're in the halls very frequently helping with a lot of these projects and getting some of these across the finish line.
I do want to take a moment to kind of talk about two of them that were very important to me.
And I know that one of our favorite constituents, Rich Walter, is listening today.
So I want to make sure he knows that over the last six years, we've brought in $8.3 million for the city of Fort Lauderdale alone.
So when he holds up his, as long as he gets those through the finish line, when he holds up his next check, I'll be right next to him.
But look, it all benefits the city of Fort Lauderdale and constituents.
In this year's budget, we're the final dollars of the Galt Mile Street Improvement Project, safety project for $1.25 million, which would close that project out as the state is a partner of the city, which is very important.
And something that was very important, I know the senator didn't mention it, but she and I partner on a lot of projects over the years.
One that holds a very special place in my heart was the
Boys and Girls Club project in the townhomes that we just opened up, BBI Village.
And this year it was the reserve fire boat that I know that Chief Golan is going to be very happy to see.
And I was able to see him in the airport last week before I was heading off to a trade mission to Canada, and we talked a bit about that.
But truly this process in Tallahassee is about working together.
It's about working together across communities.
different political parties, different neighborhoods, people that you've worked with over the years, and finding out what's important.
And certainly we had community activists in Tallahassee this year on the ADAPT funding.
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