##VIDEO ID:XKjRedZZjao## e e e e this say Jak okay J that's that's okay so good afternoon please everyone take your seats we're going to proceed with a swearing in ceremony of council member elect Angelo Quadra Garcia okay so I welcome you all this is a very nice and important occasion and I thank you all family and friends that are here a celebrating the Victory and the swearing in of Mr Angelo guad Garcia the first thing that we're going to do is the invocation and for the invocation I'm going to ask council member Brian Mora to please come to the podium [Music] and good afternoon Let's uh stand if you're able and bow your heads please Lord we thank you for bringing us all together this day uh for this Monumental occasion not just in the life of Angelo but also in the life of all Miami Lakers and uh the life of all of its citizens I we pray Lord that you bless Angelo that you give him uh guidance that you give him patience that you give him wisdom needed for the difficult decisions that he's going to encounter uh throughout his journey on that dis we ask for your blessing also for all the other council members that we can work with Angelo that we can um disagree with him Civ but also understand that through it all we are always looking out for the best interest of our town Lord bless Angelo throughout his term with good health with Good Fortune with good decisionmaking and with good wisdom we pray this all in the name of our Lord Jesus in the name of the father son and the holy spirit amen okay and now please remain standing for the presentation of colors e please remain standing and I'm going to ask council member Steven hburg for the pledge of allegiance to lead us I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to a republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay and now before we Pro proceed with us wearing in I'm going to ask two dear people in our community former Council woman Marine Rano and council member Josh Diez to approach the podium and they would like to share some words of wisdom their thoughts their sentiments to share with you in such a ceremonial and important moment the floor is yours thank you Gina and thank you to everyone that's joining us here today this is a very special occasion and I consider Angelo a very dear friend one of the many people that I have met in my journey here as an elected official and one of the wonderful people with a big heart that Miami Lakes needs to represent this town so I just want to let you know to stay true to yourself always MTA Mendes used to say that there's something in the air on the day that changes people and when you sit up there you will feel that pressure to change don't ever do it stay true to yourself stay true to your heart be honest with everyone honesty is sometimes very difficult and your colleagues and your constituents will sometimes not like your honesty but they will always respect you for giving them that Honesty so words of wisdom that I can share with you is disagree cordially be kind to your colleagues even in moments of of disagreeing with them respect them as they should respect to you and always always stay true to yourself one of the hardest parts of retirement as an elected official is that fear of what's going to happen in the future what's going to happen to your community to the town that you love so much and I know that with individuals like you that are good-hearted and kind honest people Miami Lakes is and always will be in good hands congratulations to you Angela and uh the councilwoman took a lot of my thoughts but I think that's because the truth is that those are uh true statements that continue on regardless of who's in office right you should always vote your conscience not always uh which won't always be politically popular right but at the end of the day your oath is to the community and to do the right thing for the community always and as long as you are sincere and you're able to show how you got from point A to point B they'll respect you for that and they even honor you with their support even if if they disagree with you on some big issues right so I want to Echo her sentiments there especially also that again there were times when the councilman and I did not always agree and yet we have a very strong friendship coming out of this process out of the six years that I was able to serve with her already am missing you very much um but uh but again true words has never been spoken and and I just want to Echo those sentiments the other thing I would also tell you is as a as a lifelong Miami Laker right and I have to say this is just you you always need to remember where we came from to know where you want to go next right there are some people that will want to take the town in a direction that it's just not true to what it is right and understandably there are changes that are going to come that are inevitable um but ultimately we need to keep the original visions of town in mind when we're making even those changes right and stay true to that also so welcome to the council Angelo I think you're going to have a good time um it may seem daunting at First Learning all sorts of acronyms government loves acronyms right but with time you will learn it and I guarantee you you will excel so I look forward you know God willing on Tuesday to uh to being elected as our next mayor being able to continue serving with you but regardless welcome to the council and I I'm putting my faith in you that you will do well and I know that you will not let our residents down thank you okay so now we will proceed with the Loyalty oath so if you want to I can hold the purse if you want to exactly exactly very [Music] good and Jonathan where's Jonathan because okay if you want you're good here we're good here okay so so right hand up and you just repeat what I say I Angelo guad Garcia I Angelo guad Garcia a citizen of the State of Florida a citizen of the State of Florida and of the United States of America and of the United States of America and duly elected council member and duly elected council member of the town of Miami Lakes of the town of Miami Lakes do hereby solemnly swear or affirm dly SW dly solemnly swear dly solemnly swear or affirm or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America of the United States of America and of the State of Florida and of the State of Florida and the charter of the town of Miami leaks and the charter of the town of Miami Lakes very well thank you and now you will sign here beautiful so no so I was going to say if you would like to address your friends your family your residents um this is your first time come come come come over here every everybody is congratulating you and welcome welcome to the Town Council and just say a few words well I am uh you know I'm I'm not a very I don't say a lot of words I'm not a person of a lot of words I think I'm similar to my dad my dad was actually a gentleman of very zero words but uh actually coming into this town and seeing all the you know I I think I've learned a lot of the words by sitting in this town Council you know these big you know I've told you guys that I'm not a Harvard or a Stanford vocabulary guy I'm I'm I'm actually like Ross perau how many of y'all remember Ross perau you actually all very young so you actually Bonnie remembers rossbo now you all listen to me now I'm gonna be the next president of the United States you guys remember that and people going like the guy the Potato Head guy is going to be the president of the United States well here I am you know I mean I'm not like Rosboro but I'm that's the kind of vocabulary that you guys are going to get from me you know it ain't going to be those you know huh well he was a little petite he was a little sure than right I'm a little taller than him so but anyways sincerely thank you all very much I'm going to give it all I've got and I'm going to tell you the same thing I told the residents as I knocked on their door if you give me 3% of your trust I'm going to do what I'm going to earn the other 97 whatever it takes I'm going to do it thank you very much for all of you being here today thank you huh Angela we want some pictures we want some e