All attendees are in listenonly mode. --------- >> Good morning everyone. We are officially calling this meeting to order. Today is Wednesday, September 10th. The time is now 10:08 a.m. >> Madame Clerk, please call the role.
>> Councilwoman Nico, >> present. Counciloman Rafael Pinedo, >> present. >> Councilwoman Dina Gabrell, >> present. >> Vice Mayor Morin Porz, Mayor Christie Fra, >> present. >> May you have quum. >> Please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Councilwoman Reynoso. I pledge allegiance 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. >> Just a quick reminder for everyone to please silence their phones during the council meeting. And we will now go into
the invocation. I don't see is he here? >> Yeah. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't see you. was trying to buy some time. >> Good morning. >> In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
>> Almighty and ever loving God, we come before you today with grateful hearts asking for your presence in this gathering. Bless the mayor, the council members, and all who serve this city of Dal.
Grant them wisdom to discern what is just, courage to pursue what is right, and compassion to seek the good of every resident. We thank you for the diversity, energy, and creativity of this community. Help
us to listen to one another with respect, to speak with integrity, and to work together for the common good. May every decision made in this chamber be guided by fairness, peace, and a true
spirit of service. We entrust this meeting into your hands. Lord, strengthen us in unity and guide us always in truth and love. Amen. >> Amen. >> Have a blessed day. >> Thank you very much, Father Maro.
So, tomorrow marks September 11th, a day that forever changed our nation. We remember the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost. We honor the bravery of the first responders and stand in solidarity with the families who still carry that loss. May we never forget and may we always
work to protect the freedoms and the and and pay them respect. At time at this time, I'd like to call for a moment of silence in their memory. Thank you very much. And now we're going to move into the agenda order of business. >> Madame City Manager's Office, do you
have anything? >> No, mayor. >> Okay, Mr. city attorney. >> I only want to point out uh item 6A. There's going to be a small change in the final version. Uh it states here that um the uh uh the plaintiff uh was dismissed in 2022. It was in 2023.
>> Okay. Thank you very much, Councilman Pedo. >> No, mayor. Thank you. >> Okay, Vice Mayor Porz. Yeah, I'll I'll be pulling 6A and I'm going to defer my item 20A to October and 20B to no time certain.
That's for the from the evening. >> 20 A. >> Yes. And 20B. One second. >> Okay. You said 20 A to October. >> 20B to no time. >> Okay. Counciloman Reoso. >> No, mayor.
>> All right. Council cab. >> None. >> Madam city uh city clerk, do you have anything? >> No, mayor. >> Okay. All right. I also do not have anything to pull today. So, we will go right into public comments. The public
comments portion of this meeting is now open. You have three minutes to speak on anything on this um agenda or anything to this council. Please speak in a respectful manner. Approach the podium. Say your name and address for the record. And I'm going to go ahead and start with the comment cards that we have. If you haven't filled out a comment card, you'll still have an
opportunity to speak. We just ask that you see the clerk after to register. We're going to go ahead and start with Mr. Richard Glutad. Good morning, Frogamagus. Today, I I'm going to say a special prayer for our president. I mean, even a great
sinner like him needs prayer today more than ever. So, I figured I may not like the guy, but at least I can pray for him. It's entitled a prayer for Dural and our glorious leader. Thanks be to God. First, I would like to
ask the Lord to protect our real president, Donnie John Trump. that you would put a Jesus force field on him and our Dural MAGA party of family values and protect Donnie John from the 91
felony indictments that he did not do any of that. The entire justice system is the deep state. Totally innocent. All judges are liberal operatives. I want to thank you Lord for Donnie
John. I pray that you help people to quit messing with him and saying he cheated on his third wife, Melania, while she was pregnant with his fifth child with Stormmy Daniels, a porn star, and then used legal
campaign funds to pay her hush money against the law. Lord, we weren't there. We don't know what happened. We could have been witnessing. He could have been witnessing to her and he dropped his Bible and then he fell
into her hoo-ha. You don't know. Dear Lord, we want you to stay zeroed in and focused on your will, which is making sure that we all know which potty to make Titi and poo poo in daily.
We close thanking you Jesus for all you do for us and to give us the wisdom and insight to see ourselves as you and others really see us. We humbly pray for your forgiveness of our transgressions and blindness to the realities of your
path of righteousness. Amen. >> Thank you, Mr. Gladstein. Let's have a few moments of silent meditation. Close your eyes, >> Mr. Glitza. Thank you. The 3 minutes is now up to take up the next speaker.
>> Pardon me. >> The 3 minutes is now up and we need to take up the next speaker. >> The three minutes is up. >> Yes, the three minutes. >> Well, it was I saw one minute over there. Still had a minute left. >> I believe >> it was over a minute. You just ch You changed the clock. No, I I don't have
access to the >> Well, somebody did. It was a minute. There was a minute left. >> I think the point has been made. >> I saw it was a minute. >> You're done. The the mayor has spoken. Your your your time is is complete. We've given you the the time that's required by law to be able to speak and
you've spoken for. >> You're cheating me out of my minute. I saw a minute and three there and then you put it on three minutes. >> You're mistaken. You you you spoke for three minutes. >> It was a mistaken. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Did we have a minute left on the clock? No, the clock had run out. >> Well, why did I see a minute and 3
seconds or over here? You don't have any time. So, I looked over there and it was a minute and three. >> We'll give you 30 seconds. Okay. Pardon me. >> 30 seconds. So, you've made your point and remember that public comments should be anything that's germanine to this council. And while federal matters may be very important, they're not gerine to
our city of Dorado business. So, we ask that you please respect the time of our residents and us up here. We we love to hear you speak and we're always open to listen to you, but we we do give you the time and th that time should be utilized in talking about things that are important to the city of Dorado. >> Okay.
>> Okay. So, I I have 30 more seconds, right? >> 30 seconds. >> Okay. So, just close your eyes and think Make sure I have 30 seconds up there. Put 30 seconds. It >> counts backwards. It's going. It's ticking. You're >> put 30 seconds up. >> No, no, it's going up to 30 seconds.
>> Oh, okay. Then start it over. >> No, no, sir. Let's go. >> Wow. You're something else, huh? >> No, we have to go on to business. >> Well, anyway, what what I'd like to say is I supported you and your campaign, >> but then when I realized you were a MAGA
person and all of you are MAGA persons and this city is dominated by that. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. >> I decided not to support you anymore. >> Thank you, Mr. >> And I would hope that all the >> You already had your 37. We appreciate your comments. Do not vote for any of you again for anything.
>> Thank you, Mr. Gladstat. I would ask you please respect the time. >> Thank you very much. And I wish you would respect democracy. That's more important. >> We absolutely do. Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right. Would anybody else like to speak in public comments at this
time? Anyone else? Okay. Public comments is now closed and we will um hear the motion to approve for the consent agenda. Madam clerk, could you please the items that are being approved in the in the consent agenda? >> It'll be all of the items on section six
with the exception of 6A. >> Okay, we will hear 6A after discussion in the morning session. >> Correct. >> All right. Thank you very much. I need a motion to approve on the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve by council marinoso. Second. Second by council Pero. In favor say I. I. >> I. >> All right. Let it show Let it reflect
unanimous support on the consent agenda. Thank you. Item seven, approval of minutes. >> Okay, I need a motion on the approval of minutes. >> Motion. >> Motion to approve by council member Reynoso. Second. >> Second by Councilman Pedo. All in favor say I. >> I. Let the record reflect. Unanimous support on the minutes.
>> And we'll move into presentations. >> Presentations. Keep our beautiful business award. >> Mr. Estrada, thank you for joining us. Good morning, honorable mayor, vice mayor, members of the city council, madame manager, Mr. Deputy Manager, Mr.
City Attorney, Madam Clerk, and members of the audience. Edgar Dradical, compliance director. Okay. This month, we are pleased to recognize Baptist Health Cancer Care for their outstanding commitment to keeping Dorado beautiful. The property for which they're being recognized for is located at 3125
Northwest 84th Avenue. Baptist Health Cancer Care has been in the in the city of Dorado for about one year. This property is approximately 43,000 square feet and the center has 20 employees. Baptist Health is comprised of a multid-disciplinary team of doctors to
give imaging, genetics, laboratory, and surgery services to patients all in one place with commitment to provide the most compassionate and comprehensive cancer care to its patients. Some of the recent improvements made to the property when they acquired it were painting the entire building, resurfacing and
restriping of the parking lot, and continuous landscape maintenance throughout the property. It is with great pleasure that we name Baptist Health Cancer Care for their keep the raw Beautiful Business Award for their continued efforts to keeping Dorado beautiful. And madame mayor and councel
here to accept the award on behalf of the property is Sahana Sundaram along with uh numerous members of her of her team. If we can invite them up uh for just a few short words. >> Please join us. >> You can come up.
>> You'd like to go to the podium and say a few words and then we can take a picture. >> Good morning everyone. So I'm the property manager for that property. I'm very grateful for the award. It was an group effort, a team effort. Nothing
could be done by one person alone. And this is the wonderful team. Uh starting with the manager of the office, Sahana. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for this honor. I'm Sahana Sundaram. I'm one of the practice managers for this site. Um I started about actually a year ago as
of tomorrow. Um working with Miami Cancer Institute. um kind of helping start up the clinic um as we were under construction and we opened officially in February and it's been great seeing its growth up till now and um I'm very excited to see how we continue growing.
So, thank you so much. >> Thank you very much for joining us. Anybody else want to introduce themselves? Lisa, we all know you but for old time sake. >> Hello everyone. Uh Maria Louisa, government and community relations for Baptist Health. have been in the community of Dorado for 23 years
supporting supporting the city and we're happy to one more time be here with a great facility to support the Dorado residents. Thank you. >> Thank you Misesa for everything you do in our community. Thank you all for um being here. We appreciate the investments that Baptist has made in our
community. I was able to be at the ground not the groundbreaking the ribbon cutting of the building and it's absolutely beautiful but more beautiful is the work you do inside. So, thank you for what you do and for taking care of those patients and um and we continue to pray for your success. And we'll just take a picture up here to commemorate the uh the keep draw beautiful award you
received. Thank you. Congrats. Thank you. >> Congrats. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Great team.
>> Thank you very much. Thank you guys. >> We move on from the presentations >> discussion items. Discussion item 9A, a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of D Florida approving and adopting the city of D golden heart senior support ramp program providing for purpose eligibility program administration funding
allocation and oversight providing for implementation incorporating incorporation of recitals and an effective date. >> Okay and thank you very much. This is my item. This is basically just a policy um resolution um memorializing the um
golden hearts grant that is in our budget so that as soon as the budget passes we can go ahead and do the distribution of this grant. So um all the information is in the backup. I presented it during the budget hearing and should this be approved today it's the policy to be able to distribute the grants.
>> Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by counciloman Venado. >> Second. >> Second by counciloman Reynoso. If there's no further questions, madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve made by council pin, seconded by council maros. Council Pedo, >> yes. >> Council Marinos, yes. Council, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Poras. Mayor Fraga.
>> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Move on to the next item. >> Next item. Item 9B, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, adopting the city of D emergency hardship grant for families program policy providing for purpose, eligibility, program administration, funding, allocation and oversight,
implementation, incorporation of recitals, and an effective date. >> All right. Um, similar to the previous item, this is also a item in our budget polic. This is a policy to be able to distribute the grants and have a process for them. Um, this is a hardship grant
for families um in our community. The way to qualify the policy that will um screen people and provide the time frame for the the grants is all included in the policy. I'm happy to go through it with anyone if you have any questions.
Um, but like I said, it was all in the backup. I think the policy is very descriptive and um provides clarity to how it'll be distributed. So, if there's any additional questions, I can take them now or I can go through it. >> Motion to approve.
>> Motion to approve by Councilman Pedo, second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Is there any questions? >> Okay, madam clerk, please call the ro. >> Motion to approve by council pen. Seconded by councilman Reynoso. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Reynoso? Yes. >> Counciloman Cabal? Yes. Vice Mayor Bores. Yes. Mayor Faga. >> Yes.
>> Motion passes. >> Okay, great. We go on to the next item. >> Item 9 C, a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of D, Florida, directing the city manager and the parks and recreation department to create and issue new identification cards for all members of the silver club featuring the members names, photo, and QR code providing access to a monthly
list of participating businesses offering senior discounts and a calendar of events providing for implementation, incorporation of recital, and an effective date. >> All right. Um, Counciloman Reo, this is your item. Apologies. >> Thank you, mayor. So, my item is just to
um find better utilization of the senior membership cards that are that they currently have. Right now, it's just a card with their picture on it. It has no function. So, what I would like for parks to do is find a way to embed
certain information onto that card so it could be more useful to them. I also would like to explore the possibility of having a profile for each one of our seniors, their name, birthday, maybe any medical condition that we should be aware of as part of that profile of that
card. And that card so far based on the memo will have um the calendar that they can access through that card, a QR code that's going to allow for that to h to happen. Um they can also see any discounts programs that we may have for
them. So, we're going to find out how many different functions we can actually put on that card. >> Good morning. Definitely. We'll start working on that. >> Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Councilwoman Reynoso. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Bado.
>> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reinoso. Thank you for bringing this forward. If there's any questions being none. All right, we'll have the staff work on that. >> Motion to approve. Made by Council Peno, second by Counciloman Reoso. Council Pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Reoso. Yes. >> Council Mabal. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Porz. Yes.
>> Mayor Fra. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you very much. Next item 9D. >> 9D. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of D Florida directing the city manager to create a publicly accessible online dashboard to display the attendance records of all the city council members for regular and special meetings providing for implementation incorporation of recital
and an effective date. >> All right. Council member, this is also your item. >> Thank you, mayor. Well, in the spirit of transparency and responsibility and accountability, I bring forward this item as a way to see what our attendance is as a council for regular special and
workshops. Um, through the mayor, uh, madame city clerk, the title that we're using on the agenda did not reflect the workshops. Okay. >> Can you amend that? >> If it's the will of the council, I should >> I just need a motion. If you can make up the motion with that. >> Okay. Motion to amend my title.
>> Okay. like and to approve your item. Right. Y so motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso with the amendment of including workshops as well in the attendance uh dashboard. >> Second. >> Second by Councilman Bado. Any questions? >> I just have one question. Council Maros,
do you have any examples of this for staff to maybe work? >> I actually do, mayor. Um um madam city clerk, there is a file folder. Nit also has an example of what that would look like. I will put it there >> and I hope that answers your question.
>> It is in the council meeting presentations folder. It's a link. >> Brianna put it up shortly. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Love it. >> Awesome. So, this is from the city of
Dallas, >> correct? And in the example that is in front of you now, there's different clicks that you can do, whether it's to look through based on the council member, the mayor, the different type of workshop or meeting, and it will filter
it out um based on those two things. At least that's what the city of Dallas has, which is the example that I'm waiting for. >> So staff can work off of this example to create. Exactly. Beautiful. And it's super user friendly. >> All right. Any other questions? like it.
>> Great item. >> Thank you. >> All right, Madam Chair, please call the RO. >> Motion to approve as amended to add the workshops made by Councilwoman Reynoso. Seconded by Councilman Pedo. Councilwoman Reynoso. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Caval. >> Yes.
>> Vice Mayor Boris. >> Yes. >> Mayor Frag. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay, great. Item 9E. >> Item 9E. A resolution of the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida approving a special event permit use of the city logo requested by Luardo Orosco to host the Dorado Christmas Race 2025 as detail in exhibit A map event site
having a meeting location at Dorado Meadows Park located at 1155 Northwest 58th Street, DA, Florida 3316 on Sunday, December 21st from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. providing for implementation incorporation of recitals and an effective date. >> Okay. I believe this is a planning and
zoning item, but I don't think we need Michelle. This is just a change of date. Correct, Michelle? Oh, I'm sorry. He did not he didn't include the city logo in his application and then asked for it. >> I remember now. Okay. Councilman Pedo motioned. >> Second. >> Council Reoso second. Madam clerk, please call the role.
>> Motion to approve by Councilman Pedo. Seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Councilman Penedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Reynoso. >> Yes. >> Councilman Cabal. Yes. >> Vice Porz. Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. And item 9F. >> Item 9F. Discussion advisory boards, committees, and commission member nominations. Mayor and council members. These are just some additional
nominations that we received for your review and approval. >> Motion. Motion to approve by Councilwomano. Second. >> Second by Councilman Pedo. >> Motion to approve the nominations as presented. Made by Counciloman Reynoso. Seconded by Counciloman Pedo. Counciloman Reoso. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes.
>> Counciloman Caval. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Boras. >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. We're going to take up the item that was pulled. Item 6A. >> Correct. Item 6A, a resolution of the mayor on the city council of city of Jford approving a legal settlement with Yamir Adas providing for implementation,
incorporation of recital, and an effective date. This was pulled by Vice Mayor Poras. >> Okay, before we hand this over to Vice Mayor Pors, I'd just like to remind the council that we have in the shade sessions on these items, which are still um settlement matters and litigation that are pending. So, I would leave it
to the city attorney um at this time just to remind everyone. I I do not want this to become a habit where we're pulling these items. We have in the stage sessions that everybody should participate in. By the time it comes to us here, it's because the parties have agreed for a settlement. So, we should not be having discussions on the deis.
>> I just wanted it. I I don't want to be have it in the consent agenda because I want to have my own vote on it. That's it. >> Okay. So, do you have any comments on the item? >> Just individual. >> Okay. >> So, I need a motion then. >> Motion. >> Motion to approve. >> Yes. Second.
>> Second by counciloman Reynoso. Madam clerk, if there's no additional questions, >> motion to approve by council pined, seconded by council maroso. Counciloman pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Reynoso, >> yes. >> Counciloman Cabal, >> no. >> Vice Mayor Porz. Mayor Frag. >> No. >> Motion fails.
Okay, we'll go back to settlement. >> Thank you very much. >> Mayor's report. >> Uh, yes, we have the mayor's report. All right. So, I just wanted to remind everyone that um Hispanic Heritage Month
starts uh next week. Tomorrow is our first event at the Cultural Arts Center at 6:30 p.m. I would encourage everyone to join us as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a variety of cultural events here in our city. Besides that, um our gala information,
so Parks and Police for Kids is having its official gala. Um it's the mayor and chief's gala where we're going to be raising funds to be able to continue the great programming we have um from Parks and Police for Kids. We would encourage people to join us at the gala. It's also a golf tournament on October 22nd. Gala
followed on October 24th and the state of the city on October 23rd. So tickets I believe are live today to be able to purchase. So, we hope that you will join us and help us raise funds for this great organization um which is led by a group of residents uh and is a city a city organization. Besides that, there's
no additional comments. We'll move on to the next item which is our city manager report. >> Good morning, mayor and council. Um first of all, I'd like to um give a quick update on the farmers market item
that Councilwoman Reynoso had brought up. Um we um we just wanted to uh we were supposed to come back in September, but we're continuing our evaluation of options for launching the farmers market in Dorado. Um over the past several
weeks, uh staff's been in active discussions with multiple vendors, and we believe that additional time is needed to assess the best schedule, location, and structure for the program. So accordingly, we respectfully request until the next regular council meeting to complete our review and bring forward
a well-developed recommendation. >> Okay. >> Um and the second thing I wanted to just bring up is um the wellness recognition. So I'm pleased to share that the city of Dorado has been recognized as one of 20 of the 2025 healthiest employers in
Florida, ranking fourth in the midsize category. This honor reflects our strong commitment to employee well-being and to success of wellness initiatives such as fitness challenges, cooking classes, meditation, and financial wellness workshops. I'd like to thank our human
resources team um for their leadership and dedication in driving these efforts. We are proud of this achievement and remain committed to expanding programs that support our employees health and work life balance. >> All right, thank you very much. Great job, everyone.
We'll move on. Is there anything else, Madam City Manager? >> No, mayor. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Mr. City Attorney. Any reports from you? >> I have nothing to report, mayor. >> Okay. Thank you very much. City clerk report. >> It's attached in the backup. >> All right.
That concludes our morning session. That was a fast meeting today. If there's no other comments, then I just need a motion to recess for the afternoon session. >> Motion. >> Motion to recess by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second. >> Second by Councilman Pinato. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. All right, we'll see you back at 6:00. Beautiful. Part: 2
They are in listenonly mode. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our September 10th evening session of the council meeting. Today is um September 10th and we are now calling this meeting to order. Madam clerk, please call the role.
Counciloman Corinoso, present. Council member Finedo, present. Council Medina Cabal present. Vice Mayor Moras here. Mayor Christie Fraga present. Mayor for All right. I'd like to Well, let's do the pledge of allegiance first. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. I'd like to please do a moment of silence. Unfortunately, there was a horrific attack on um what I consider a
true patriot in this country, uh Charlie Kirk. And fortunately, he has passed. And so, I'd like to ask us to please do a moment of silence in his honor. Okay, thank you everyone. We'll now move into the agenda order of business. Is there any changes,
deletions, additions? Being none. Okay, we'll move into public comments. The public hearing portion of this of this meeting is now open. If anyone would like to speak on any item to this council or on this agenda, now is your opportunity. Unless you're here
to speak on a public hearing matter, then your item will come up and you'll be able to speak during public hearing for that item and that item alone. I will now call up those who have filled out the comment cards. If you haven't filled one out, just see the clerk at the end. And we'll go ahead and start
with Mr. Richard Gutstack. Please remember you have three minutes to speak in a respectful manner to this council. Thank you very much. Good evening Braamagas. Uh I have a present here for for Christie. Uh I'm going to be giving it to her
shortly. But what I wanted to say is that the Greeks have this uh uh custom when when they get married things like that they break plates. Well, it's a very old custom because
what they used to do is they used to write the names of their uh elected leaders on the plates and they knew the Greeks knew from experience that after one year at least two years all their political
leaders became corrupted. It's just the nature of the beast. That's one of the reasons I didn't want to run for political office. I know my limitations. I would have been a horrible political leader. I would have probably been very corrupt and dictatorial.
So what I did here, it's really not your fault. But this is what I've seen here. So I wrote your names on this plastic plate. And like I said earlier today, I recommend to the people because of this uh lapse in your ethics and some of you
already have had brushes with ethical violations in the past. Not all of you, but some of you have. I suggest that none of you should run for office after your term is finished. Or if you do that, you should not be
elected again. Christiey's been here for let me see four six [Music] let me see eight 10 and now maybe 12 years already she could be here her for quite a long time
I think 12 years is enough she needs to find another occupation and also I used to stand up here and defend Christie when she was on on the council because she was the only lone uh voice against
the the Bermuda's regime and I even put on this shirt that she gave me and I I campaigned for her and I spoke in favor of her and I really gave it to Bermudas. That's why I guess she finally got me to
do one of her video presentation. She also gave me two hats. I used to wear these to the meetings. But because of what's happened here recently, that's why I call them frogamagas.
All of you have uh turned the page in my opinion on me having the ability to support you and I just can't. I love all of you very much. I think you're very beautiful women,
educated, wonderful people, but politically speaking, you're a zero. And if you continue like this, you're never going to go anywhere. Believe me. I'm going to leave this with uh Connie. Thank you, Mr. Glutz. Thank you. Anyone
else would like to speak at this time for public comments? Please approach the podium. Anyone else? Being none. Okay, public comments is now closed and we'll move into our presentations.
Hi, team 19A. Presentation of the Miami Day County Fire Rescue Department annual report. Good evening, Chief Jadava. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Good evening, uh, Madame Mayor, um, vice mayor, to the members of the council,
city manager, city clerk, and of course to our, uh, members of the community of Dural. Uh, my name is Ray Jadala, fire chief of Miami Date Fire Rescue, and I have to say with, um, you know, headquarters being just down the street, a couple of miles, we are truly
ingrained in this community. and to show the um uh to show our our uh excuse me, lost my train of thought. So, again, my again my uh my apologies.
So, with headquarters being down the street, it's an honor to stand here before you to present the 2024 service delivery report uh for Dural. And to kick it off, we're going to kick it off with a short video that highlights uh the services that we've provided uh Dural. So if we could
I think it we have the Yes. the presentation ready. There you go. Chief has to do believe that his it is the other one. But we who know the work which a fireman has to do
believe that's not it is they're going to pull it out. Just give them one second. No problem. Sorry. That's the only video. No, it's not a video. It's in the folder. It's called IT19A, Fire
Department presentation. It's a PowerPoint. It is. Yeah. There we go. All right. No problem. All right. So, we'll start off with a quick presentation, a video presentation to service uh to highlight our services
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right. So just an overview of Miami Dade Fire Rescue. So you know this year we actually began ser uh uh highlighting our 90th anniversary uh as a department starting in 1935 as a single company patrol unit. Today we've grown to the
sixth largest fire department in the country operating 72 firehouses, three of which are in Dural, 169 frontline units and as you can see here eight of those are operating out of Dural. and uh over 3,100 now actually uh MDFR
employees from our sworn firefighters to our professional staff and uh currently we're on track to break over 300,000 calls uh this calendar year. Miami Date Fire Rescue is also an ISO1 accredited uh department and we are one of only 123
departments out of the 30,000 fire departments that actually have attained uh both of these uh accreditations and classifications. So, so fire rescue services here in Dural. So, as uh you're aware, you know, there are three fire stations that are
currently in Dural. We are working on station 87, which is the station next door to uh headquarters, uh which we hope to have opened up in the next 18 months. In addition to that, we, as you may know, we opened up station 68, which is on the outskirts of Dural, and we're
actually looking to open up ladder 83 at the end of this month, which is going to be in the Medley area. But as you all are aware of our fire rescue units, we send the closest resource. And of course, you know, if a unit's out on a call, we send the close the next closest
unit. But as you've seen in large case incidents, it's not just one fire truck or a rescue truck. It's usually a complement of resources that tend to come and they'll come from as far as North Dade and South Dade if necessary. Um there are 81 firefighters that are on
duty daily here in the city of Dural and right now we're averaging uh seven and a just under seven and a half minutes in response times in the city of Dural. So building a safe and resilient Dorado, you know, as you're well aware, you
know, the population has increased and so has the call volume, you know, since 2019. Um, you know, we have placed six new units in service since 2019 here around in or around Dural. And as you can see here, the various units that once again
tend to respond if necessary. Uh, response times remain under the industry standards of uh, the NFPA. you know, Dural as you once again, you know, the growth of Dural and I know we've had this discussion, you know, during uh council meetings and, you
know, just out in public. uh the rapid experiencing uh uh growth of uh in development and we've we're actually tracking that with our planning division. And those little blue markers are different areas that we have already uh taken note as to different um either
uh residential, commercial or mixed occupancies that are looking to pop up in the city of Dural. Um, you know, there are three large mixeduse developments within one mile of MDFR that's opened up since 2020. And and unfortunately, sometimes there is a call
for uh service. Um, you know, there are 10 proposed new developments, 4,200 of which are residential, 1 million commercial, and 2.6 uh million in industrial. And last year, Miami date fire had inspected, you know, just un uh
just under 6,600 businesses in the city of Dural. So future growth for uh fire rescue um in and around Dural as you're aware you know rescue 45 was uh implemented here
uh last month as I just mentioned station 83 with ladder 83 it's planned to go into service just on the outskirts of uh Dural in the medley area um and then of course you know we continue to work on construction of station 87 which
is the station next door to uh headquarters ers um and you know take it into account and you know some of my team members are here from our planning division. They do take into account when there are permits that are you know being filed for either mixed occupancies
residential high density. We take notice and we work on, you know, plans to either increase service or work with development uh with the possibility of inserting uh, you know, fire stations in the future to reduce response times as the density grows in different areas of
all communities of uh Miami Day County. Oops. So, this was the uh uh Miami MDFR had the honor of being recognized um during the June 12th uh Miami Dade Fire Rescue Day here for the city of Dural. We received a proclamation and you know,
members of the uh council had uh shown up to headquarters and presented to us. And of course, you know, it's always humbling and we've said it before, we say it again, you know, just having headquarters here um as part of Dural is it's just an honor.
So engaging with our residents and as you've seen in part of the video um all those different incidents actually originated in Dorado and of course you know uh engaging with Deral residents. We had 56 community events in Dural. You know over 8,100 residents received fire
and life safety education resources and we taught 22 health emergency life programs which is a course in CPR awareness, stop the bleed, uh stroke uh recognition. Um, so the classes that you saw in the video is actually members of
the uh uh the community from the city of Dural. And of course, you know, MDFR continues to strive to do better. Uh, we send out uh surveys out to our residents after calls and we did receive 21 um surveys
back from our residents here in Dural. And those are just some of the excerpts that were uh you know um mentioned you know statements mentioned from uh various Dorado residents. You know the crew was great, excellent service and I think there's one about you know Chief
Jadala great guy you know and stuff. So and with that madame mayor Mr. or Madame city manager I want to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to present the 2024 uh service delivery report. And at this time I open the floor for any questions.
Thank you chief. Do we have any questions for the fire chief comments? Yes, Council Marinoso. Thank you. Well, first of all, thank you for putting a transport vehicle Oh, yes. Station number 45.
Second, um, is there any plans to remodel that station? Yes. So, all of our stations are actually on a rotation. So, station 45 actually we received uh some grant funding to replace windows to replace
the roof. Um I know that the flooring is one of the things that's also earmarked for replacement. I don't have a full list but I know that it is part of the 72 firehouses that is on a continuous and again the plan is usually about 10
years. Uh but we did receive a grant to uh do some you know upkeep with the the fire station. Do you have any timeline more or less of when that would start? I could get the information and I could, you know, pass it up to the city manager to get it to you. That would be great. Thank you. Absolutely.
Thank you, Chief. Anybody else? Yes. Counciloman Cabal. Chief, thank you so much for everything. Your team is always I mean since for me the most incredible part was when we had the fire in the recycling uh plant. So, thank you for everything and also for
the help class. I can tell you that have um helped so many community members while they will be able to identify and minimize the risk of someone having a stroke or having any incident. So that's wonderful the class and how it was presented from the members of the fire
department. They're like really well prepared and I know this because I've been part of the stroke registry when moved from Colombia here and I mean came down from Columbia University and they do they did they do a terrific job. So, thank you for that. Thank you so much.
Absolutely. Thank you. I just want to also say thank you, Chief, for coming in today and also keeping us updated all the great work that you and your staff do and also the great collaboration that we have with our with your department and our city. Thank you. Oh, thank you. And uh speaking of collaboration, I do got to, you know,
thank uh Chief Edwin Lopez from Dorado Police. Um, you know, actually him and I text message quite often and constant communication and I again just a a great individual with a great department. So, you know, public safety here in Dural is
first class for sure. Thank you, Chief. I do have a question also. First, I do want to thank you, your entire team. You're all wonderful. Um, great communication that we've always had. Um, obviously the work that you do in our in our city from fire
rescue to, you know, dealing with actual fire calls is extremely important and we're very grateful for the quality service that we get from you. Um, I did have a meeting with you and the city manager when she came in. Yes. And we talked about something that's very important to us and we've tried for many
many years to do um which is having some type of um service on the second floor for permitting review so that we can expedite some of the concerns of our business community that you know tends to sometimes get stuck um in the in you know the process and we want to be able
to help and it would be very very efficient if there was someone here. So I I just like an update on that conversation. I know that there's been some advancements. Sure, Ben. And um we completed our process and we actually submitted the request with the uh plans
processor, you know, plans reviewer uh from fire, you know, to be embedded with Dural. Um unfortunately, as you may know, once it gets past us, we constantly have to make um notifications to outside departments. So, currently, it is with OM. Um they're reviewing the
language that's in there and it's going to go to the city uh to the county attorney and then after which it's going to go to the county for vote and then after which it'll be put out for uh hiring. Um I I don't necessarily have a
timeline. I just know that OM right now with all the budget discussions everything kind of has taken um you know priority for the the budget. But if you once again, I'll uh take a look at it this week. Uh once I get some information, I'll pass it on to the city
manager to get to you. Thank you, Chief. I really appreciate that. I think that would be a huge relief um and help for both of us. So, uh I look forward to seeing a positive outcome on that. And we'll do what we can on our part to make sure we communicate to the county the importance of that and the efficiency it would it
would create for our business community. So, and even our residents. So, thank you very much. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. I think there's no more questions. Any other comments, questions? Being none, thank you very much. We appreciate all the service that you give us. Thank you so much and to your entire team.
All right, we'll move on to the next item, discussion items. Madame Mayor and council members, both discussion items were deferred in the morning. All right. Yes. So, we're now moving into public hearings. If I can please swear in the witnesses. If you'll be presenting
testimony on any of the public hearing items, please raise your hand. Repeat after me. I do solemnly so affirm that the information that I'm about to present shall be the truth and nothing but the truth. Thank you very much. Item 21A, a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida,
approving the site plan for BP Dural 826 FL LLC for the property located at 7775 through 7785 Northwest 48th Street and 7705 Northwest 48th Street in the city of Dorado, Florida, pursuant to section 53-184F of the City Land Development Code providing for implementation
incorporation of recital and an effective date. Madam Clerk, before we move on, I do have a question for the city attorney. We do have two items for for this uh property today. the second reading um of the resoning I believe as well as the site plan approval. Could we take up both items at the same time?
As long as you have different votes. Yes. Okay. So, let's go ahead and read this the other item into the record now. Madam clerk, I should have done this during agenda order of business. I apologize, but I think for efficiency purposes, it's best to do them both together. No problem. This will be item 21K.
Ordinance number 202526 BP DAL 826 Florida LLC resoning. An ordinance of the mayor on the city council of the city of Dford approving an amendment to the city's official zoning map from industrial commercial IC to industrial I for plus or minus 1.8 acres of the property located at 7775 through 7785
Northwest 48th Street providing for civility conflicts and an effective date. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and open up the public hearing. Public hearing is open for item 25-6304 and I'm sorry but I'm pulling it up. One
second. It's 21 and 21K. Item 25-6256. I do believe I have one public comment for item 21K, which is Adriana Rubio Dinatal. I'm sorry, I
can't really read this entire thing. Good evening everyone. Um, my name is Ariana Ruin Natal. I am a property owner here in the RA and I want to voice my opposition to the change of zoning from commercial to industrial in this area. I
believe 97th Avenue is already very crowded as it is. We can't have more than 2 hours of rain when it floods. We have a school. We have multiple commerces already there. I don't believe it would be appropriate to overcrowd an
already crowded community in this area. So, I want to oppose this proposition for the city. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. If there's any other public comments, now would be your opportunity for public hearing. Item 21A or 25-6304
or 21K 25-6256. being none. Okay, public hearing is now closed and we will hear from staff. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and council. Michelle Lopez with planning and zoning. Uh the applicant before you
this evening is BP Dural 826 Florida. Last month uh you heard first reading of the resoning from industrial commercial to industrial. Before you this evening, a second reading of the resoning with the concurrent site plan. The portion of the resoning is the western parcel which
you can kind of see on the map. Uh and it's approximately 1.8 acres and they're reszoning from industrial commercial to industrial. Effectively, that resoning would not generate additional trips per se, uh because the site already has uh
certain allowances and entitlements uh that wouldn't necess the distinction between industrial, commercial, industrial isn't going to put an arduous uh impact on your roadway network. I hope that alleviates the public's concern. Um the second application uh as
I mentioned is your site plan. So, we'll talk about the resoning first and then we'll get into the site plan. So, as I just indicated, your resoning is 1.8 acres going from industrial commercial to industrial. And the site plan is a greater portion of 15.7 acres for site
redevelopment uh to include two new class A warehouse and office buildings. The uh the site has a future land use of industrial to the north, south, and west. Uh bounding on the east is the
Palmetto Expressway. Uh and then to the to the north you have industrial zoning and industrial commercial. To the south industrial and then to the west industrial commercial and multif family 4 with again um the palmetto to the
east. So the proposal to reszone and your site plan is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. on the screen before you are some photos of the site and the surrounding area just to kind of uh get situated. And then the zoning change um from
industrial commercial on the left hand of the screen to industrial on the right. That would be the the change that you're going to see effective on the maps. The site is currently split zoned with industrial to the east and industrial commercial to the west. So we want to have that compatibility uh throughout
the site. Um, again, the the subject site on the west, the resoning is 1.8 acres. It's part of a current overall warehouse development with a guard house, some surface parking, and a two-way road which serves as um vehicular access between 79th Avenue and
the Palmetto Office Park. The request to reszone the west parcel from industrial commercial to industrial is consistent with your industrial future land use map category and your comprehensive plan. it's consistent with your land development code and it's compatible with the surrounding area.
Some of the uh uses that would be permitted through the resoning include professional offices, medical offices, restaurants, retail, educational facility warehouses, mini warehouses, self storage, which um are similar uses that are already permitted in your uh
industrial commercial uh zoning category. Um the the site plan seeks to redevelop the entire 15.7 acres uh with two new office and warehouse class A buildings
totaling uh 284,713 square ft broken up between two buildings. Again, consistent with your industrial zoning district and your industrial uh future land use map uh future land use map category. The the
architecture is modern architectural design for the warehouse and office building. You'll see some elevations in a future slide. Proposed parking is consistent with code at 249 regular parking spaces, 89 loading spaces and 108A. Uh they're also providing some
bice uh some bike rack areas uh upgrading the landscaping and providing heat reflective material which is incorporated throughout and consistent with your land development code. Before you on the screen is a copy of the site plan. No variances are sought out through this application. So we don't
have that to contend with. And here are some colored elevations which show that modern architectural architect style uh with the distinction in elevations and that articulation so that you can um look at that design. Again, some specs
on the screen. And again, no no variance changes consistent with your um maximum floor area ratios, your heights, your lot width, lot coverage, open space, and minimum building setbacks.
And we've reviewed the site plan with your site plan evaluation standards, consistency with your comprehensive plan. The site promotes a better site design. Uh the project integrates more effectively with the surrounding environment. It's compatible with the surrounding area. It enhances property
value. It's it has a harmonious relationship amongst buildings for uses and visitors. It protects the health, safety, and welfare for the residents and visitors. All traffic concerns have been addressed and the license criteria is not applicable. With that, staff recommends that the mayor and council
approve the proposed reszoning and site plan for BP Dorado 826 for project located at 770577757785 Northwest 48th Street. as the site plan and the resoning are compatible with your comprehensive plan, your land development regulations, um adjacent
uses and zoning districts, uh compatibility with warehouse and office uses in the surrounding areas, and it meets your site plan evaluation standards pursuant to section 53184C3, approval of development plans and your land development code. The applicant's legal council is here this evening prepared to present if that is the
council's desire. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll hear from the applicant. Good evening everyone. My name is Tracy Slavvens. My address is 3800 Northeast 1st Avenue, Sweet 200, Miami, Florida. Um, thank you staff for a great
presentation. She sort of took the words right out of my mouth. Um, showed you a lot of the the renderings and plans that I was going to show you this evening. Um we are here today uh on behalf of BP Dural 20 826 FL LLC. Um they do own the
property located at 7705 Northwest 48th Street and 7775 and 7785 Northwest 48th Street. This property um has its main access on Northwest 79th Avenue, not 97th Avenue, just to make that one clarification. Um,
and the requests before you are reszoning of a 1.83 acre parcel I outlined in yellow on the screen and a site plan approval for the entirety of the property which consists of
approximately 17 uh 15.75 acres. Um, as uh staff described, this is an existing office park. Um, it is been in existence since the late 1970s. Um and it is um primed for redevelopment along this
industrial corridor between 79th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway. Um Northwest 48th Street, as you can see at the bottom of the screen, is the main driveway. It's characterized today by a monument sign letting you know that that corporate park is back behind the
7-Eleven shopping center. Um and that monument sign will actually go away, but the driveway location and general orientation of the site will remain the same. Um, this is a two-phase project. So, um, there is an existing building on the
southeast corner of the property that contains a physician's office. He has a longer lease than what the rest of the tenants in the buildings that exist today have. So, that existing building will remain for phase one of the
project. When the lease is up for that tenant, um we will move on to phase two and extend building 2 by about 14,000 square ft to fill out um the remainder of that building and demolish the existing building. Um the site has great
circulation, great visibility from the Palmetto Expressway and the intent is to attract class A warehouse and distribution logistics um businesses to Dural. Um, you know, it's designed to accommodate all types of users. Um,
there's a little bit of trailer parking. Um, so that, you know, there that's accommodated on the site, which is something that a lot of tenants are looking for. And then obviously we have the loading areas and parking. The views that you will have from the Palmetto Expressway show, you know, modern class
A off warehouse building, not unlike what you see a little bit to the south of this property. uh on 40 uh 1st and 79th Avenue um adjacent to the atrium dural. Um and here's another aerial view of the
project uh facing towards the west from the A26. Um this is an image that staff showed you, but this is the character of the buildings. There will be glazing fenestrations in the buildings um features on the front um so that you
won't have blank walls and there will be some color variations and landscaping throughout. So with that I'll conclude my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you Miss Levens. Any questions for the applicant or for staff?
Yes Counciloman Pedato. Thank you mayor. Um well more more than a question is I want to share speaking since we're speaking about 79 Avenue I I do share your concerns about 79 Avenue. I mean I think it's not a
surprise how bad already is when it comes to traffic uh when it rains. Uh certainly for me and it's not because of these project traces because you know um I do
I'm I'm really concerned about when it comes to these type of approvals um and and looking into the future of the city since I understand the use it certainly makes sense because that's
what it it is for especially that area. Unfortunately, that there has been some approvals in the past in that area that has been a terrible mistake for for the city of Dorado and but certainly we cannot go back. We have to look to the
future. So, um, and I'm going to express this overall to to the administration and to my colleagues because I'm I'm I'm concerned about how, you know, if we're going to look for the future of the city of Dorado, the quality of life of our residents,
traffic is is an issue. And with this type of appro not not with this type of approval but with this type of projects certainly it becomes even more challenging looking into the future how we're going to resolve it as an elected officials and not on the city side countywide. I mean it's not the city of
Dorado uh only but having said that my comment is more through the administration if we can have our public works director to come forward. Yes councilman. Thank you. works director Carlos.
M madame mayor, if I may, while we're waiting for him to come up, we we have done a comprehensive traffic analysis for this project. Um, and because this was previously a corporate office park, it had general office, medical and dental office, and that's a very high
trip generator. So, the warehousing is actually an overall reduction in trips. Um so the reduction in net new vehicle trips is approximately 50 vehicles. Um so this does improve the conditions and the AM and PM peak hours.
Thank you Tracy. And and and the reason of asking our administration is because I know 79 avenues belong to the city. Sometimes people Yes. Unfortunately, it's not the county, it's the city. And 79 Avenue is an area that
we still have a lot of work to do. I mean looking into the future of the route. I think it has to be our priority. So I know there's some projects along 79 Avenue if you can go over that. And also to clarify some of the streets are
private roads as well. So when it rents obviously we have the issue on the side on the east part of the 79 Avenue. So right well that's that's another one. Yes. Yes. But if you can explain that would be great. Yes sir. Um we're currently designing uh
storm water improvements along 79th Avenue between uh 58 and 41st. That's the first phase, right? Then we're going to move south. We're going to be designing then between 41st and 25th Street, right? I hope that that's going to help, you
know, um help the solve the problem in the area. Um the second part of the question, um those east western roads, uh they're all private south of uh 53rd Street, right? And on the eastern side,
north of 52nd, it's all public. Uh south of that, they're all uh private roads except 50th Street. 50th Street is public, too. Thank you, Carlos. Thank you, Madam Manager. And again, I
just wanted to have that clarification as well because it is important for residents, for business owners, business owners to understand what we're doing on 79 Avenue as well, which again, it should be one of our priorities when it comes to uh
improvements and and overall to keep the quality of life in, you know, in our city, especially because we have a school on 53rd Street right there. So, um, I just want to say thank you because I know we're making some improvements on
79 Avenue as well. So, thank you. Okay, you're welcome. That concludes my my comments. Thank you, Councilman. So, any other questions? So, I do have questions for clarity. Um, just so that it's on the record correctly. The reasoning that's being
done is a parcel within the same property. It just happens to be a separate folio. Correct. So, it's all the same property that's currently industrial and there's an inconsistency within the same property. That's correct. The purpose of the resoning is only to create the consistency within the entire
property. That's correct. There's actually not another building going there. It's going to be parking. That's correct. Okay. So that's and and just to tail on that, the two zoning districts that sit on the property today, the I and the IC are
exactly the same except one has a different landscape open space percentage requirement than the other. And we've actually designed it to exceed landscape, right? It's overly landscaped than what it used to be. I think one of the important things to remember and 79th Avenue for me is, you
know, we're always talking about how to improve. It's one of the older areas of our city that needs a lot of attention and we have very heavily prioritized this area and a lot of the private roads that are resident responsibility. We've
actually gone above and beyond in trying to assume some of those so that we can better assist and maintain them um as much as we possibly can within our limitations. I think that when we see redevelopment in these areas which are going to consistently be industrial
because it is the consistency of what is already there and we may see some commercial but likely commercial industrial is what will continue to be in that quarter. It's really what it should be. Um with that redevelopment comes better infrastructure and so that will also
assist in the problems we're having with flooding. The only way that we will be able to increase capacity for our systems for our drainage and also assist with improving traffic flow is that when these projects come before us, we make
sure that they are um that we're uh requiring of them the proper infrastructure to deal with the problems we face. So that's where I look at in these projects. Um, I'm not going to create a burden on the property owner in saying you can't reszone because you
know it at the end of the day it's what makes sense for the reasoning for the consistency of the project but rather I'm going to impose more on the infrastructure of this property. So what we did here was higher landscaping so you have more water retention. You have
better infrastructure the ingress and egress to allow for uh flow free traffic flow and making sure that we're not increasing the trip capacity on the property. So you're not increasing traffic and that's obviously those things that we look at when we are um
approving projects like this but also what our staff needs to look at when we are um getting a recommendation. So that's what that's what we're required to look at when we make these approvals because we sit up here um you know
looking at the facts and at the information that's presented to make the best decision possible. We rely on experts to give us the opinions and make sure that um they're consistent with the the development and the future uh plans
for our city. So that being said, I I think this is very consistent with that area. More importantly, I think that it improves infrastructure in the area, which is desperately needed, and we on the public sector need to do our part as well to make sure that we continue to
prioritize the improvements of infrastructure on 79th Avenue. Yes. And and to just add more detail to that, the what is also important to acknowledge is that this site has been as it is for since the let's call it the
80s. And so it sits low. its drainage systems are outdated and it doesn't help with the storm water management issues that exist in this corridor. By redeveloping the site, you get better drainage. You know, you you raise the
property so that it functions better and it doesn't flood on site. The water's properly contained underground and you start to improve on some of the local street flooding issues that occur from these older developments. Okay. Any other questions for the
applicant? Um, I think Michelle has one comment she wants to put on the record. Sorry, I failed to state for the record. I wanted to add a condition to record the covenant in le of unity of title within 30 days. You good with that? Okay. Thank you. Okay. You got that madam clerk.
Madam clerk, you got that? Yes. Okay. Okay. If there's no additional questions, then we need to take up two separate votes. No additional questions. All right. Let's go ahead and take up um the vote for item 21A first, which is the site plan approval. Motion.
Motion to approve by councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by councilwoman Cabra. All right, madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve, made by counciloman Reynoso. Seconded by council cab. Council Renoso, yes. Counciloman Gabrell, yes. Councilman Pedo, yes. Vice Mayor Poras, yes. Mayor Frago, yes.
Motion passes. Okay. Now, let's go ahead and take up the um item 21K, which is uh the reasoning second reading. This is also second reading for this item, correct? Yes. Second reading. A motion.
Motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by Councilwoman Cabral. Motion to approve ordinance number 202526 on second reading. Made by Councilwoman Reynoso. Seconded by Councilwoman Cabell. Councilwoman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Cabell. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor
Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you for attending. And thank you to the applicant. All right. We move on to item 21B. Item 21B, ordinance number 202530, text amendment to public arts. An ordinance
of the mayor and the city council of the city of Delford approving slash9 a text amendment to the city's land development code by amending chapter 75 public arts program certificate of occupancy section 75-108.1 A1 to include the requirement of an approved on-site inspection amending section 75-108.1
A3 to remove the requirement of providing financial security providing for incorporation recital incorporation into the code serability conflicts and an effective date. All right thank you very much. We're going to open up a public hearing for item 21B or 25-6305. Anyone who would like to speak on this
item and this item alone, please approach the podium. I have no comment cards for this item at this time. Okay, being no public comments, we'll close the public hearing. Madam cler the record, no one has chosen to speak at this time and we'll hear from staff.
Thank you, mayor. We're proposing a very small amendment to chapter 25, your public art chapter. Um, in Miami Date County and throughout the municipalities in Miami Date County, there's a public art ordinance. And in that ordinance that the cities have effectively copied
from the county, there's a requirement to submit a bond. And the purpose of the bond is to ensure if a developer is proposing art on site, right? We we collect the bond at time of building permit to ensure that that art gets developed and then an inspection is done. If the inspection passes, right,
once the art is complete, then we approve the inspection, give you your CO and return the bond. In our code, there's conflicting language where the reference to the bond is required at time of building permit and then also at time of CO. That doesn't make sense
because if you've effectively built your project, you get your CO, it it's going to be very challenging for the city to be able to collect that bond to ensure that the art gets um placed on site consistent with your public art committee approvals and your council approvals. So we are proposing to strike
the duplicative language um and remove it from certificate of occupancy, keep it under building permit where it also currently exists and then also uh add in the language to require an on-site inspection to ensure that the public art
is constructed correctly and consistent with plans prior to obtaining your building permit. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions or comments for the planning and zoning director? Being none, I need a motion to approve. Motion. Motion to approve by councilwoman Reynoso. Second.
Second by counciloman Pinedo. Madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202530 on first reading made by Counciloman Reynoso. Seconded by Councilman Pedo. Counciloman Reoso. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Councilwoman Caval. Yes. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor Pragoa. Yes. Motion passes.
Okay. We move on to item 21 C. Item 21 C, ordinance number 202531, Midtown MDA modification Nature Preserve. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dford approving slenying a modification to the Midtown Dorado plan unit development PUD master development agreement to provide for payment in lie of the required off-site
park parcel donation for phase one providing for incorporation of recital and an effective date. Okay, we're going to open up the public hearing for item 21 C item 25-6306. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium to speak on this item and this item alone. I do have one comment card again from
Miss um Ariana Rubio Dinatel. Good evening. It's Ariana Rio Datalia again. Um I want to voice my opposition to this uh reversal of land dedication. Phase two of Midtown RAW was intended to
be first office spaces. This then this then changed to be 505 residential units. Then the developer apply to increase the density of this zone to 675
units which was approved on the on the dedication of the 5 acre land in front of Midtown phase one. This was dedicated. The developer got 107 additional units on phase two. He
built that. He profit for that. And now he wants to reverse the dedication back. So this is what we know as having your cake and eating it too. And it's it's problematic for homeowners and residents
of Dorado most importantly because what is the precedent that we're setting? We can't reverse the 1077 units already added to a phase that was not there. We can't revert that yet. They can revert a dedication land for parks and recreation
to gain more profit for this. So, I highly oppose this um proposition for the the city of Dal. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any additional public hearing comments? Final call for public hearing 21C, item
25-6306. Being none, public hearing is now closed and we will hear from staff. The applicant uh Century Town Center 1 and Century Town Center 2 uh is proposing to amend a fifth modification
to a master development agreement for Midtown Planned Unit development, modifying a condition in the second modification of the development agreement to revise prior parkland mitigation obligations by replacing a previously planned land conveyance with
financial contribution to the city. We're going to talk throughout this presentation about three areas in the city all congregated um you can see on the location map. The first all the way to the east in the pink is Midtown
phases one and two. The second in the green is a 50 acre site that's called the offsite parcel or the nature preserve. I'll I'll refer to it as a nature preserve. The third, the yellow bounded to the east is Dorado is a
portion of Dorado Isles north. So, as I'm going through these varying properties, just keep this location map in mind. In December 2014, the city approved a master development agreement for Century
Midtown Properties LLC, the developer. The proposal for the plan unit development or the PUD included phases one, two, and three which permitted a maximum of 1,548 dwelling units, 300,000 ft of gross
leasable area of commercial use and 75,000 square ft of net leasable area of office use and a clubhouse totaling 47,000 ft. In February of 2020, the first modification of the MDA kind of modified
the entitlements where they added some additional phases which included phases four, five, and six and shifted densities around between this this those five additional phases and square footage and the clubhouse remained as
part of phase 2. In April of that same year, the I'm sorry, in April of 2022, the developer proposed a second modification to the MDA, which uh specifically dealt with phase 2. So,
going back to the visual that you saw earlier, it was that pink area that you saw on the map on the east side. So through that modification the units the entitlements were increased by 170 dwelling units and 4650
ft of commercial gross leasable area. Uh the developer was required to provide um up to 10% of those units for workforce housing. They were to install electrical vehicle charging stations. They were to operate an ondemand shuttle service within the Midtown PUB for residents and
their guests to get uh to and from the clubhouse during operating hours. And then the main subject of this presentation this evening, profer future conveyance of an off-site parcel consisting of approximately 50 acres which is located generally on the north side of Northwest 74th Street and west
of Northwest 107th Avenue. Uh, as I mentioned, this this 50 acres is going to be the main subject of the presentation this evening. In 2023 and in 2024, there were some additional modifications and shifts um which uh
don't impact tonight's hearing, but they were part of the record and so I wanted to reference them. In 2002, the developers sought approvals to develop Dorado Isles North, which was an approximate 458.53
residential subdivision, a acre subdivision, as part of the proposed development program for construction and operation of phase 1. The South Florida Water Management District and Army Corps of Engineers required that the developer maintain a 50 acre nature preserve as a
wetlands mitigation area, including buffers for surface water management and storm water management. Um the and the preservation of existing wet prairie and transitional wet prairie areas and enhancement and restoration of wetlands on the South Florida Water Management
permit and the Army Corps of Engineers permit. There are certain conditions and restrictions that we'll go through in this presentation as well that talk about what's permitted and what's not permitted um through each of those approvals. So, as part of the permits, the um the
50 acre area, the nature preserve was deeded as a conservation easement. And the purpose of the conservation easement was to retain land or water areas in their natural, vegetative, hydraologic, scenic, open, agricultural, wooded
condition to retain such areas as suitable habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife. Permitted activities include restoration, creation, enhancement, maintenance, and monitoring activities or surface water management improvements which are permitted or required by the
permit. That is the only thing that's permitted on this site. Um prohibited activities include construction or placement of buildings, road signs, billboards, other advertising utilities or other surfaces on or above the ground, which would include boardwalks,
walking trails, etc. Dumping or placing of soil or other substance materials such as landfill. Dumping, placing trash, waste, unsightely or offensive materials. Removal or destruction of trees, shrubs, other vegetation except removal of exotic nuisance vegetation in accordance
with the district approved maintenance plan. We'll talk a little more about that. Excavation, dredging, or removal of lone peak, gravel, soil, rock and other material substance in a manner as to affect the surface. activities detrimental detrimental to drainage,
flood control, water conservation, erosion control, soil conservation, fish and wildlife habitat preservation, including but not limited to digging uh uh dyking and fencing uh acts or uses detrimental to the retention of land and
water areas. That language is directly out of the conservation easement verbatim. Additional restrictions that are cited through the permits referenced. No right of access by the
general public to any portion of the property. There are costs and liabilities related to operation, upkeep, and maintenance pursuant to the South Florida Water Management District permit. And the language in the conservation
easement also includes to have and to hold unto grantee forever. The covenants, terms, conditions, restrictions, and purposes imposed with this conservation easement shall be binding upon grantor and shall continue running in perpetuity with the property. So perpetuity means
forever. The restrictions have to stay in place forever. Um again the only activity permitted is the restoration, creation, enhancement, maintenance and monitoring activities or surface water management improvements which are permitted or required by the
permit. No right of access by the general public to any portion of the property is permitted. So over the course of the last eight months to a year, um myself, the administration, the city attorney's office have been factf finding, trying
to determine what's permitted and what's not. Can we create walking trails, boardwalks, open spaces? Can we amend the permits so that the general public could use the property as um profered by the developer? Um and what we found is
that no, we can't. The 50acre off-site parcel is a designated wetland. All mitigation credits have been utilized for purposes of developing Dorado Isles North in 2002. Uh and what that means is in the future this property cannot be
developed. Um the entity the entirety of the off-site parcel or the nature preserve uh is presently under a conservation easement which I just described some of the restrictions uh cited and um has permits through the water management district and the Army Corps of Engineers that are recorded in
the public record. The conservation easement restricts the city's ability to develop the parcel for public use and imposes substantial maintenance and liability obligations. The land shall remain undisturbed. right of access by the general public to any portion of the property is expressly
prohibited by the conservation easement. And on April 7th, 2025, the South Water South Florida Water Management District conducted an on-site inspection and found that the property continues to have invasive vegetation which was observed between the preserve which
exceeds 5% of the coverage which is inconsistent with the maintenance planned approved by the district in 2002. Additionally, the interior wetland areas um were transitioning to hardwood do hardwood dominance due to the presence of um certain wax myrtle which
is not suitable for wetlands. Uh, an additional issue is that the developer remains in non-compliance with the district for its failure to transfer the environmental resources permit to the islands of Dorado master association and section 7 association which at this time
should be the responsible party for maintenance and operation of the ERP or the environmental resources permit as required by uh the ERP permit number 1301931. So through conversations with the water management district uh in asking you
know how we can convey title to the city. Could the city be free free and clear? Can we amend the permit? Um can we can the HOA not be a permit? Right? Can the city just be the permit on its own? Uh we were told no. In accordance
with rule 606 62-330.340 of the Florida administrative code if the city accepts the off-site parcel upon transfer to the city the city shall become a co-pertte of the ERP with the Dorado master association and section 7
association in perpetuity again forever uh as a co-ery the city will be jointly responsible for the maintenance and operation of the nature preserve and common areas located within the isles of dural master association and section of an association uh which are subject to
the ERP mitigation areas. So here is and it's very small on the screen um but here's a copy of the inspection report and some of the photos from the water management district that was conducted in April. And then we also have maintenance costs that were
estimated in April of 2023. And so if the city were to take conveyance in the first year, it would cost approximately um 60,000 uh plus there's going to be a plus to uh
buffer the supplement area which has specific dimensional requirements per the South Florida Water Management Maintenance Plan and shrub and woody removal of invasive species. Right? So in that first year it's 60,000 plus the
cost to um uh hire a consultant that has expertise in environmental resources management to file the requisite reports with the district and to oversee the vendor that's hired to ensure that the
maintenance plan is properly adhered to and property liability insurance. So we don't know what those costs would be. Um and then thereafter annually would be approximately 70,000 to maintain in addition to the costs for
the consultant which would be probably around 30,000 a year we guesstimate and the property liability insurance which we have no idea at this time how much that would cost the tax base. So staff recommends that the mayor and
council approve the proposed fifth amendment to the Midtown PUB master development agreement with the following conditions. The first is a one-time monetary contribution from the developer to the city totaling $500,000.
The second would be an inind contribution for parks related projects totaling $400,000. The city has 180 days, 6 months to advise the developer of a list of
projects that we would like to for the for the developer to undertake as part of that $400,000 in kind contribution. the developer will give us a serti bond uh in the amount of 400,000 so that if at some point they walked away from the
responsibility of completing the inkind contribution the city could call in the bond and finish those projects out. Um and that's that's pretty much the sum of that whole paragraph. So again, we recommend approval and I'm here for
questions. Uh the applicants legal counsel is also here should you have questions for them. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Uh Michelle, I don't know if we need to hear from the applicant's legal counsel, but you can stick around for any questions. I think
the manager has a comment. Um yes, mayor. Um I just wanted to add and was an excellent presentation that the planning and zoning director did. Um, I just wanted to add that we um I think when I arrived that I we first
started to uh work through this this entire issue um we realized the the applicant or the um developer could not meet what had actually been profered which is really the the the just here.
And what we've done now is tried to negotiate something else. Um that this was not something that was um for the city to to actually do or or the city couldn't take ownership of because of
all of the other costs in perpetuity that we were going to incur. Thank you, Madam Manager. So I I do want to appine here and put this kind of into layman's terms because I definitely don't want the wrong information out in the public. I've been dealing with this personally since I walked in. Um, from
day one, I did not necessarily agree with the uh negotiations of this when the increase in density was given to the applicant. I was not on the deis at the time. There was other people here. Maybe they can speak to why this was uh
decided upon. But this land was something that was a huge liability for the city. Not only in cost, but in the fact that there was nothing we could do with it. It has to be uh completely fenced there.
There's no benefit to the public um and could cost us again a lot of money to maintain. No one more than this team tried to do something with it. I met with the Mkasuki to try and put it into one of their trusts to see if we could turn it into some type of park nature
reser preserve. There is a consent decree on this land that very much limits what can be done. You saw the list of things that prohibited uses. So basically nothing can be done on this land except for it to be a conservation easement for a reserve. There are
several agencies that dedicate themselves and have the funds to maintain preserves. We do not. The city of Dorado is not one of those entities and we should not be using public funds to maintain a land that is the developer's responsibility and the HOA's
responsibility. So besides the fact that we as a city could not be restricted to be on a deed and a permit with an HOA, there was really absolutely no public benefit to keeping this land for the
city. It was just going to cost us a lot of money. Now, by giving the land back to its proper owner, the one that's supposed to maintain it, um that does not mean they can build on it. This land can never be built on. There is an a an consent decree with the Army Corps of
Engineers. There is South Florida Water Management District uh easements. So, it cannot be built out. It is now their responsibility to maintain it and make sure that all these issues and permits that are open with these agencies are taken care of and clarified. It should
not be the city's responsibility and we should have never agreed to take this for that land. So what this team did and I want to thank planning and zoning and the attorney's office from Lorenzo to Valerie Vicente who's here too who handled it when I first came in and then
now came back in and also jumped on and our entire team and even the applicants team which we met with several times to come to some type of agreement that would create a true public benefit for the units they were given. You're absolutely right. They did get a value
and we did do an appraisal on the land to see what the value was. That land's value was $0 for us as a city. They did get quite a big value for those 100 170 units that they got 100% in agreement.
And so we fought for dollars that would really go to public benefit. So today, what we have in front of us is a $500,000 contribution to the city and then a $400,000 in kind to improve one of our parks that you can utilize that
the residents will utilize. And so we have identified some projects that we will be able to improve such as Legacy Park. You know, there's things there that we can improve. So we want to make sure that these funds are going to
public benefit. Keeping that land was not a public benefit. It was the worst deal I had ever seen for this city. And I made that very clear to the applicant for the day I saw it. Another thing I want to clarify is there was never transferred to the city. It was never ours and we're giving it back. It's that they couldn't comply with the deal they
made. So right now they were not in compliance to the deal they had made and they did build some units. I also want to clarify that this was never supposed to be an office building. It was always a residential building. What they did when they got some of those units was
they decreased the commercial space to get more units and in addition to that they offered this land. They offered the other things that that were profered workforce housing 10% you know a trolley or a little vehicle to go between the clubhouse and their property. So there was things that were profered. Part of
that was this land. So, we really tried to make it work, not just for the city and for the residents, but so that the applicant could meet the demands and the the compliance with the agreement. But that could not be done. And it was really not a good idea for the city to
take this land in its long term in the long longevity of it because we're trying to cut costs and reduce our costs so that your taxes don't go up. And this was only going to create new expenses for the foreseeable future that we really didn't know what it was going to cost. How is that a good deal for the
city? So, with all due respect to the people who were sitting here when that happened, it was horrible and should have never been allowed. But all we are here to do is fix it. We're here to fix solve problems we did not create. So, what we did do was get for the residents
the best deal possible. So, it's to the tune of $900,000 in improvements that will be put to good use for public benefit. So, I do want to clarify the record because the comments that were made earlier were not correct. Um, and I know sometimes these things are harder to understand when you read
it on paper, but there's been a lot of talk and a lot happening behind the scenes to make this the best deal possible for our city. So, with that being said, I I want to again thank our staff because it was a lot of back and forth, Miriam, and to the applicant. I
know this wasn't necessarily what you all hope for, but at the end of the day, we are here to protect the interest of our cities of our resident and our city. And so, that's the job that we were elected to do. I do believe that this is in the best interest of the city and the
dollars that will go to a real public benefit. So, I just wanted to clarify that. Any other questions? I do have a comment. Yes, Councilwoman Reynoso that I did speak to the applicant before this meeting and it's not going to affect my vote. Yeah,
just in case. Perfect. Yes. Thank you very much. Any other comments? Yes, Councilman Penal. Just a quick There's no expert on this one, but I think you just want to be careful. Just a quick comment. I also want to
echo what just the the meure the mayor just mentioned. Uh great job to the administration. I know. Great job to you as well because I know you guys have spent hours and month well months already. Yes.
You Yeah. the whole planning and signing team since the beginning has been I know working on this and also media and Alejandra it's good to see you here as well you guys have done a great job too I mean I know it's it's hard when you represent the client but I know the
client has been also involved and they have been helping in the process too because at the end of the day is what the mayor mentioned I mean it's about we're one community we have to work together in something that makes sense for the residents and and the future of the city, the nonsense from the past is
over. Now we make sense to a lot of things that unfortunately didn't happen in the past. So um I think that what we're about to prove is is again something that it's
beneficial not only now for us as a city but for years to come. the same way for you guys as as the applicant. I think this is something that will certainly you will see the benefits down the road in the next five 10 years and we're going to go back and and say that
decision really makes sense for everybody. So I want to congratulate both sides because we finally hopefully we're coming to a conclusion on this on this topic because I have been hearing this since I got elected as well as the mayor mentioned. So, uh, I'm I'm I'm
happy with what is being proposed and I place the motion to approve. Thank you, Councilman. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinato. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Any additional questions. Okay. Being none, Madam Clerk, please call the role.
Motion to approve ordinance number 202531 on first reading made by Counciloman Pinedo, seconded by Councilwoman Reynoso. Council Pinedo, yes. Councilwoman Reynoso, yes. Council, yes. Vice Pores, yes. Mayor Fraa, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. Moving on to item 21D.
21D. Ordinance number 202532 amending chapter 11 code enforcement. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of D Florida amending chapter 11 code enforcement to the city's code of ordinances to clarify inspection authority of non-residential properties to provide for enforcement limitations based on anonymous complaints pursuing to Florida statutes
and to authorize enhanced code enforcement fines pursuant to Florida statutes. providing for implementation, incorporation of recital, incorporation into the code, severability, conflicts, and an effective date. Okay, we will hear from code compliance. Good evening, uh, honorable mayor,
members of the city council. Uh, Edgar Dra, co compliance director. Uh, our department, uh, CO compliance is seeking to make an amendment to chapter 11 of our code of ordinances, which is the code enforcement chapter. Uh so there's three particular key areas that
we'd like to incorporate into our our existing uh chapter. So the first one will codify uh the co-compliance officers authority to enter non-residential premises. Uh and it's basically our standard operating
procedure of of what we do now on on a daily basis. Uh we are just seeking to incorporate this into our code. uh it does carry uh a a prohibition to obstruction. Uh but I do want to clarify that the right of entry for our co- compliance officers is during reasonable
hours when the businesses are are open for business. Uh the second area that we're uh seeking to amend here is it comes straight from chapter 162 of of the Florida statutes. Uh chapter 162 is what regulates code enforcement in the state of Florida. Uh
and there is language in there for anonymous complaints. Uh that was that state law was passed in 2021 where every single code enforcement uh department in in the state of Florida is prohibited from investigating complaints that uh originate from an anonymous uh source.
Uh I'm we're seeking to incorporate that language into our existing code so that it aligns with uh the existing Florida statute. And it's the same scenario for the third point that we're seeking to to amend. Uh chapter 162 states that
municipalities with populations of 50,000 or higher, uh the special magistrate during a a hearing is able to impose uh stricter and and uh heftier fines for uh first offenses, second uh repeat violations, or irreparable or
irrevocable uh violations. Currently, our uh our code allows for a $250 per day for a first offense. With this amendment, that would give the magistrate the ability to impose up to $1,000 per day. Uh for repeat violations, it's currently 500. He would
be able to impose up to 5,000 per day. And uh for irreversible violations, it's currently 5,000 uh $5,000 fine. This amendment would put it up to 15,000. Uh important to note, it doesn't necessarily mean that the magistrate
will impose fines of up to 1,000 or or the new limits. It just gives uh the magistrate the ability to do so uh depending on on the severity of a particular violation. Uh by passing this ordinance or this amendment, uh it would continue to
ensure unobstructed uh proactive and reactive inspections uh to protect to protect the health and safety of of our community. Uh like I mentioned previously, it it aligns with current language of of chapter 162 uh and stronger fines. The intent uh or the
potential to impose stronger fines is to deter any chronic violations uh and to encourage uh voluntary compliance, which is what we strive to achieve every day. All right. Thank you very much. I'm going to go ahead and open up public comments. Didn't do that right before.
It's okay. It was my fault. So, I'm going to go ahead and open up public hearing for item 21D 25-6297. Anyone would like to speak on this item, this item alone, please approach the podium. I have no comment cards. Being none, public hearing is closed. Madam clerk, the record no one has
chosen to speak at at this time on this item. Okay. Is there any comments, questions for our code of compliance director? Motion. Motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by Councilman Pinedo. There's no additional questions. Madam
Cler, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202532 on first reading made by Councilman Reynoso. Seconded by Councilman Pedo. Council. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Council. Yes. Vice Mayor Pores. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Code compliance and Mr. Estrada for the presentation.
Okay. We'll move on to item 21E. 21E. Ordinance number 202533. Establishing penalty for operating without valid BTR or CU an ordinance on the mayor city council of city of Dorado Florida amending chapter 41 taxation article 3 business tax of the city's code of ordinances amending section 41-79 penalty for late payment to
establish a $250 code compliance penalty for businesses operating without a valid business tax receipt and or certificate of use providing for implementation incorporation recital incorporation to the code severability conflicts and an effective date okay I'm going to go ahead and open up the public hearing public hearing is now open for item 21E
or item 85-6309. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Okay. None. We close the public hearing. Madam clerk, I got the record of no one has chosen to speak at this time and we will now hear from
staff code compliance again. All right. Good evening again, mayor and council. Edgar Desard, code compliance director. Uh this uh amendment to our existing uh chapter 41 uh- 79 section of our uh taxation code uh is
seeking to impose a onetime $250 penalty for any businesses that we find to be operating without a certificate uh of use or a business tax receipt. This would be enforced like we we do so uh presently. Uh however, this $250 penalty
would be imposed upon the issuance of a notice of violation uh which comes after our our uh courtesy warning and this would be consistent with uh chapter 205 of our Florida statutes. Uh adoption of this amendment uh it it would provide a penalty which again it's
it's to uh provide as a deterrence for businesses violating our our codes. Uh it's not too excessive uh as well. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Estrada. Any questions? Motion to approve.
Motion to approve by Council Pedo. Second. Second by Council Reynoso. I do have one comment because I do want to put this on the record. I'm not usually in favor of providing for penalties as an incentive. However, for many, many years, we have had no penalty. And what happens is
businesses will go 5, 10, 12 years, we've seen, and they've never pulled a BTR. So, to my understanding, this penalty is a onetime $250. So, if you've had your business here for three years and you weren't caught. Basically, you pay the onetime $250. It's not 250 for
every year that you were operating. Correct. That's correct. Okay. So, I do think that this is reasonable and we should have something in our code to make sure that there is a, you know, a penalty for those who don't comply. But I think more importantly, we need to start focusing on incentives that we provide additional
resources to the businesses in our community that do apply for the the BTR. They should have an incentive, right? You apply for a BTR, you're getting something in return. Small, but you know, some of that should go into business resources. So, we are working on that. I just wanted to say that we're
working on it through the city manager's office. I've been working with them um through economic development and and public affairs to create some type of additional incentive when you get your BTR. So, businesses that are listening, sign up for your BTR because something good is coming. Um and you won't be
penalized because I think it's important to always incentivize with a positive reinforcement versus a a penalty, but in some cases it is required. So, thank you very much for bringing this forward and for being reasonable in the amount. Thank you. All right. If there's no additional comments or questions, please call the RO.
Motion to approve ordinance number 202533 on first reading made by Council Pedo, seconded by Council Reynoso. Council Pinedo, yes. Council Reynoso, yes. Council Moral, yes. Vice Mayor Poras, yes. Mayor Frago, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Item 21F, Madam President.
21F. Ordinance number 202534, amending code of ethics, truth, and advertising policy. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of the city of D Florida amending chapter 2 administration article 7 standards of conduct and code of ethics providing for implementation incorporation of recital incorporation to the code enforcement serability and an effective date. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and open up
public comments for item 21F also known as 25-6319. Anyone who would like to speak on this item please approach the podium. Being none public hearing is closed. Madam clerk like the record no one has chosen to speak at this time on this item and this is my item. So, this is
basically what I brought last month, the um amending the code of ethics and truth and advertising policy in line with our citizen bill of rights. Uh just basically codifying it, making sure that we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of ethics and transparency. If anybody has any
questions about the item, I'm happy to answer them. I have a question. Yes, ma'am. So part of the changes here under section 2-398 enforcement and penalties I see that we are removing the ethics commission from being able to
investigate violations. Is that correct? So or how does that work? We're not necessarily um removing it. It's that the IG now oversees our code. So uh the ethics department does not oversee our charter or our code necessarily. they oversee state statue
or ethics violations that may be brought to their attention, but many times they throw them out because they're not the responsible um and and Lorenzo can speak to this matter, but they're not necessarily the enforcement agency over uh over our our our direct code and ethics. It's our IG
department. It's our our our IG now in Inspector General. Yes, Madam Mayor. Uh that that is correct. and and part of the inspector general's responsibility is to enforce the charter and he has also the ability that if he believes that the matter should be referred to the Miami day county code of ethics I'm sorry the
Miami day county department of ethics he can do so correct so it's my understanding that the ethics commission has jurisdiction over municipal um code of ethics they have jurisdiction over the Miami date county code of ethics there are
instances where our code of ethics uh does cross and uh it it's included in the Miami County code of ethics. So the inspector general feels that that it's a violation. We're all required to follow the Miami County code of ethics. So if we violate it, the inspector general can refer it whether it's written or not. Correct.
Yeah. I know this is first reading, right? So we can you look into something and I I found it after we had our agenda review on the the creation of the commission of ethics
and public trust section 2-1068. I'll I'll give you that jurisdiction says that the ethics commission has jurisdiction um over any person required to comply with county or municipal code of ethics ordinances. I just want to make sure that you know they retain jurisdiction.
And I know we we can also go through the attorney general, which is what they're here for. Um, but I just want to make sure that if they have proper jurisdiction as well, we can also go to them without having to go to through the expense in inspector general.
So, I'll share it with you after. Maybe it's something we can look into. Yeah. So I I I don't believe even if it's not stated in our code that it would we ever are pro precluding the ethics department, the Miami date county ethics board to
correct impose any um violations or or or penalties. Um they have the authority to oversee whatever falls within their their their ability. Um but many times things have been referred to them and
it's been And it's important to know, madame mayor, that the reason that this is being that this was included and it's now being stricken out is that this predates the adoption of the inspector general. Now we have our own inspector general. So that's why it's being crossed out and is our direct investigator.
Correct. Yeah. I'll if you can look into it, I'll give you the information. Thank you. Okay. Certainly. All right. So we need a motion if there's no more questions. A motion. Motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by Counciloman Pinedo. If there are no more questions, madam clerk,
please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202534 on first read by counciloman Reynoso, seconded by counciloman pedo. Counciloman Reynoso? Yes. Counciloman Pedo, yes. Counciloman, no. Vice Mayor Porz. Mayor Fraga, yes. Motion passes. All right, we'll now move into item 21G.
Item 21G, Ordinance number 202535, microobility devices. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of draw Florida creating article 7 of chapter 44 titled microobility devices relating to the regulation of microobility devices providing for implementation incorporation of recitals incorporation into the code serability and an effective date. Okay, I'm going
to go ahead and open up public hearing on item 21G also known as 25-6321. Anyone would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium. I do have one comment card for this one. I believe it's Sabrina Grim. Yes. Okay.
Good evening. Good evening, mayor, city council members, and members of city of Dorado. Um, I'm here because we have a huge problem. Can you please state your address for the record? Oh, 8180 Northwest 36th Street,
Dorado, Florida 3166. Oh, I'm so sorry. This is 21 G. I'm sorry. We're in 21G. I had the paper on the wrong one. Is there any other public hearing items
for 21G 25-6321? Being none. Okay. Public hearing is now closed and we will hear from Councilman Pedo or from staff. Thank you, mayor. As you might recall,
during the August 13 of this year, we approved and we instructed the city attorney to draft legislation providing for age and safety equipment and for schedule of fines for violations related to uh the ordinance about microobility
devices. As you might know, the Florida statute or the Florida legislation amended Florida statute 3162128 to provide municipalities with greater authority to regulate microobility devices on the right of of way. And I
want to take this opportunity to thanks our city attorney administration for uh working on drafting and uh this part of the ordinance which will amend chapter 44 creating article 7 uh related to microobility devices not only including
the definition but also uh everything related to the enforcement and penalties minimum of age requirements safety equipments something that for me and I believe for the rest of the council is very important since we have witnessed a lot of unfortunate incidents that had
happened out there in the streets when it comes uh underage kids at different times of the day especially during school hours or when especially during night time without any safety equipments or any
lights or anything like that. So certainly creating this ordinance number one will be the we will be the first one in Miami date county in creating an ordinance related to micromobility. So I think that this is huge. This is great for for us as a city. We're taking the
lead on such an important matter that affects our families, affects our quality of life in our city. So, I want to thanks our city attorney, our administration as well because we're putting something together that certainly will set the standards
hopefully as a model for other municipalities to take over and again we will be the first one in in Miami date county. So, uh from here I will let our city attorney to take over. Thank you, Councilman. I just have a brief uh presentation just to kind of go
through the uh different aspects of the um of the new ordinance. it. Okay. So, um next page. So, this is basically uh what some of the microobility devices are. Um it
means scooter. It means any any vehicle that any device uh that has a motor. So, it could be a motorized bicycle, it could be a scooter. Uh and it also means shared mobility devices uh which are those are madeable for short-term rentals. um you see on the bottom uh
next screen. And so when we're talking about um regulating microobility devices, we're talking about regulating microobility devices and how they're operating on our rights of way. Rights of way are streets, our sidewalks, and also shared bicycle paths. Next screen.
Uh the one thing that we're able to now regulate is really the use of um safety equipment. And some of these are a lamp exhibiting a white light visible from at least 500 ft uh in front uh a functioning uh brakes able to stop the uh device and also operators under the
age of 16 have to wear a properly fitted and fastened uh bicycle helmet. Um in in this case we're we're probably going to uh change this to make uh anyone uh that is really uh 16 years or older. And and the reason why is that going on to the
next train, one of the changes that we did and we added uh later on was the fact that uh only f persons that are 16 years age of or older uh can operate microbility devices on our rights of way. Um and last but not least, uh there
is a bite to this ordinance. Uh there's an enforcement and penalties. Uh there is a civil penalty of not to exceed $100 uh for those that are violating our microobility ordinance. and I have open to any questions that this council may have.
Thank you, Mr. City Attorney. Council Mino, would you like to add anything? Sure. I just want to make a quick comment. Thank you once again to our city attorney. Uh, one of the things that is very that I thought was very important was to certainly and is something that, you know, we're going to be uh hopefully
moving forward with which is the educational component. Hopefully once we approve the second reading, one of the uh requests that I will make to the administration is to to launch an educational campaign through the police
department and our public affairs department through the mayor's office as well. Uh that we can start informing the residents about these new ordinance, the regulations and also the enforce enforcement and penalties. Obviously, there's going to be a some type of a a
period of educational part that that has to be included and obviously warnings and all those type of uh information that our police department and our police officers I'm sure will be able to um to handle from from that moment on.
So, once again, I just want to thanks the the city attorney and the city administration for for working with uh with my office in putting this together. Thank you very much. Any other comments or questions? I do. Motion. A motion to approve by Vice Mayor uh Pores. And there's a question from Councilwoman Reynoso. Councilwoman
Reynoso. Thank you, Mayor. I think this is a great item and if allowed, I would love to co-sponsor it. Yes. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I also just have some quick comments. I think this is also extremely uh necessary. We obviously have all
heard the concerns about the micromobility especially with children um or minors. I do I did get some questions from some people just making sure that this wasn't going to affect bicycles which I think that was clearly stated that it's a motorized bicycle
because it did say bicycle. So some people were worried that bicycles some kids ride bicycles to school. So bicycles normal bicycles are not impacted but if they do have a motor that's where it's it's impacted. Um, but it also is very important to state now
that we do this educational outreach campaign because there is children under the age of 16 riding these scooters to school and they won't it will no longer be allowed now on our public rideways. So there needs to be a heavy push also in the schools. So you know through the
the the manager office with police. I think we should even maybe host a safety equipment event. Maybe we can give out helmets and make sure we do something um so we can work on that through your office. Councilman Bato, I think it would be great. So, uh, there's going to have to be a very heavy educational push now because
there's a lot of, you know, misinformation and I think also people got very used to letting their kids because they feel safe in our community, which is great, going to school. But I know there was a lot of people, motorists that were feeling, you know, anxious about having kids on the street
on these motored um, scooters that could cause an accident. So, we did need some regulation. Uh, you know, there there also has to be some training on the police side of if you do pull over, I guess, or enforce and there's a child
under the age of 16 on this scooter, how do you, you know, most of them don't have identification on them? How do you contact the parent and and all that that you're going to need to do to be able to impose a fine? So, I do think there are some fine tuning we're going to have to do. definitely educational part, but I
do believe that this is very necessary uh to to enforce. So, thank you for bringing this forward and if there's no additional questions. Second. All right. There's a motion by Vice Mayor Pors, second by Councilwoman Reynoso. If there's no additional questions or concerns, please call the
role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202535 on first reading made by Vice Mayor Pora, seconded by Council Marenos. Vice Mayor Pores, yes. Council Maros, yes. Council, yes. Council Pedo, yes. Mayor Fo, yes. Motion passes. Okay. So, we move on to item 21H.
21H. Ordinance number 202537, creating a council reimbursement policy. An ordinance of the city council of city of D Florida amending chapter 2 administration article 2 city council division 3 rules or procedure creating section 2-0 council member expense reimbursement of the city's code of ordinances providing for implementation incorporation or recital incorporation
to the code serability conflicts and an effective date. All right. I'm going to open up public hearing for item 21H- I'm sorry 21H also known as 25-6329. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium.
Being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, like the record of No one has chosen to speak at this time on this item. And this is also my item. Um I will also have the city attorney Alpine if if need be. Uh so council members, this item was um brought
forward for two reasons. one uh the charter change that was implemented in 2024 required us to adopt some type of policy for reimburseable expenses. Uh we do have the stipens but this is for items for reimbursement which has come to our attention that there are quite a
few of them. I did have the clerk circulate today um our accounts and basically what's being reimbursed quite a bit. So, I just wanted to point out in this um ordinance, the only thing that was not necessarily included is tickets
for events. So, there have been a lot of purchases, some more than others, of tickets um whether it's for a table or a concert or uh from dues and subscriptions. We did not include that in this ordinance. It will continue to be um through the city clerk's office
where the council can purchase um tickets through there, but anything else should be done through the PO and through finance. Um they should be vendors of the city and go through our proper protocol. And then any reimbursements that would be directly to
us, which may happen if something is last minute, which can happen. It's absolutely merited at times. We find out about an event that we need to go to. um those will have to be approved through the mayor's office and then uh the IG will also be reviewing those uh
reimbursements uh on a periodic basis. So again for transparency purposes, for auditing purposes, for compliance purposes, we needed to codify a ordinance that had additional oversight of our accountability as a as an elected
body. So that's what this item does. If anybody has any questions, I'm ready to answer them for you. I have a question. Yes, Vice Mayor Pors. Okay, so just to clarify, this is only um revising the reimbursement policy.
Everything else how we've been doing it, requesting the tickets through Yes. through the clerk or through the purchase orders remains the same. Correct. Okay. Yes. The only other thing uh the other thing that stays the same is the perdm for travel. So if you travel that you
get your perdm check like always. Uh again this just has an additional set of eyes for compliance, transparency, accountability. Um because there is a lot of reimburseable expenses being being done. So you can see them. I went ahead and and and circulate had the
clerk circulate those. Those will come through the mayor's office now for approval for reimbursement. And that way we can also be accountable for what we're spending our tax dollars on. Madam Mayor, if I make my point, Mr. city attorney. One of the things also is um the fact that we're actually codifying the
resolution, the 2015 resolution with regards to the the PDM. Correct. So you're you're basically doing what the charter is asking you directing you to do. That's correct. There also was not a codified policy or ordinance on the PDM for travel and so we felt that that
needed to be codified as well. Now again the events is the only one that is not here. If that is the desire of the council to also include that, we can. Um, so that they all have to be done through PO and if you do have to pay for it last minute, then that would have to be done through a reimbursement, but we
didn't include it for the purpose that I do know that there's from experience last minute events sometimes that have to be paid through with uh the city clerk's credit card for the for the offices. So there's no motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second.
Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Madam clerk, please call role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202537 on first reading made by counciloman pined. Seconded by council reos. Counciloman pinedo. Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Council. No. Vice Mayor Poras. No. Mayor Frago. Yes. Motion passes.
All right. We move on now to item 21. Item 21 I. Ordinance number 202538 amending towing and immobilization. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of Dford amending article 3 towing and immobilization section 44-72 vehicles parked on private property of the city's code of ordinances providing for saleability
incorporation to the code and an effective date. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and open up the public hearing for item 21, also known as 25-633. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the appointment. I do have a comment card for this one. I apologize. I thought you were here for micro mobility and this is of Sabrina
Green. Hi everybody again. Um, I've been a resident here in Dorado since uh 20 the year 2000. So, I've been living here for a while. We managed the building on 82nd Avenue
and 36th Street. And ever since uh Raising Canes moved next to us, it's been a nightmare. Um we've been having the problem with people parking even um employees,
people that go to eat there parking our spaces and it's affecting our business because a lot of our tenants are complaining to us. Um, we hired a company that does the immobilization and we need to see if we can increase the
the cost to $75 and to either zero time weight or 15 minutes because the thing is that we have Uber drivers, dash drivers, everybody parking in our spaces,
getting off, get picking up the food and coming out. We have also experienced intimidation. We we have a great relationship with the police department in Dorado. We always had we always worked with them on everything. But there is a certain police officer which
I sent an email with the video to each one of you and I believe to the city um attorney and also to the head of the police department. Uh they were intimidating us and that is a private
parking lot. Um we need to I don't know what else to do. We try to put um shrubs in the between us. They try to make um a walkway into
our parking space. We I called um the code compliance. They went they responded right away and they stopped the people from making the walkway to our towards our parking lot. They we tried to cooperate with them at the
beginning. We told them we don't mind if you have your customers parking here after hours and on the weekends and they told us we sent emails. They we just asked for them to pick up after their clients because they left a mess in the
parking lot. They told us that it was our problem. So, we tried to fix it hiring uh the booting company. So, unless you give me another solution, I don't know what else we can do about it.
We cannot put um the sticks on the street because we will create a mess on 41st Street. So, I'm running out of options. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other public comments for
item 21 I 25-6330? Being none, public hearing is now closed. And I believe this is Vice Mayor Porsus items. Thank you. So currently our city's code um allows for the regulation of private
parking through the immobilizing and towing of illegally parked vehicles. Um, right now the the owner of a business has to provide 30 minutes or afford 30 minutes to someone that's illegally parked in their space, which has, as
we've heard, um, caused a lot of, um, a big impact to the businesses that are right now, not just this one, but it could be causing impacts to other businesses, too. So, the request is to reduce that time limit. And what this ordinance does is reduces the time limit
that the um owner has to wait until they can enforce this policy from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, I believe. Right. That's correct. And um and Mr. Attorney, if you could just explain why we couldn't do the 15 minutes as opposed to, you know, the 20 minutes.
Certainly, Vice Mayor, the reason is Florida Statute 715.075, 075 uh which permits a regulation of private uh parking spaces or parking spaces on private properties uh states that you have to allow uh and I'll read exactly what it says. The owner of an operated private property use motor vehicles
parking must allow a grace period of at least 15 minutes upon entrance to such property before any parking charges may be incurred. So enforcement can occur after sorry enforcement can only occur after that 15 minutes. Right. Yeah. And obviously it's been impacting this business. Um the one
that's being heard is the actual business that's in our city um by illegally parked vehicles who have taken advantage of it and they have tried to work out work something out with the business on the other side which has also caused a lot of traffic jams during
certain peak hours. Um and so I think this is very you know fair to um help alleviate some of that uh stress and burden to our business owners and I hope that the council can support it. I don't believe that there's a change in the the
fine. Correct. We we didn't include anything in the ordinance about changing the fine. No vice this is just strictly reducing that time afforded to from 30 to 20 minutes which is a 10-minute period which is extremely helpful in this case.
Okay. Thank you Vice Mayor Pores. So I and the fine how much is it? I believe the current the current fine we'll look that up and and in the meantime I do have some comments. I don't know if anyone else has some
comments. Okay, council may thank you mayor. So it only came to our attention right now that this was a particular situation that caused the onset of this item.
I do think um perhaps additional conversation should be had with this particular business. Um second as part of the memo that was turned into us part three said and the question that is
asked is good faith estimate of numbers of businesses likely to be impacted by the ordinance. This is not applicable. So other than this instance I don't know what other business would be affected. So, I think this needed to be clarified within the memo and the ask.
Right now, I do not feel comfortable lowering the amount of time that we allow for a car to be booted. I think when somebody goes to a business, whatever business it may be, let's say a restaurant, can you imagine sitting there and you have to scarf down your burger because you're worried about
getting a boot on your car? I mean, there's other implications to this. And I think the best way to handle this is not necessarily lowering the time because I don't think the effects of lowering the time has been viewed at a
different angle. How that could be affecting let's say the resident or the person parking there. I'm a big fan a proponent of an educational component of this. Perhaps educating the residents that they can't park in certain places or having a parking attendants that take
care or oversee the parking lots to make sure people that are not in that or going to visit that certain area businesses park there. But lowering the time just seems unfair and unjust at this point to me. Well, I'm sorry. We can't have a debate from this audience. Okay, you had your
public comments. Now it's the council's turn to debate. Okay. So, thank you. Anyone else? Yes, Councilman Bonito. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, first of all, thank you for coming because I I mean, it's the only way that sometimes we get the information or you send an email as well. And I understand your frustration.
I mean, if I I was a business owner like or the management company, I will do the same. So, thank you for for bringing this to our attention. However, I think that for your problem right now that you're facing right now,
and I agree in part with uh councilwoman right now. So, I don't think that lowering the time 10 minutes will resolve your issue because cars will keep parking there. That's a reality. So, however, I think that you that you need help for sure and
that we're here to support you and help you in the process. I think that we have to take that approach. So, um, well, and let me go back and say this. The business that you have next door, which was approved by the previous council, by
the way, and we have one council member sitting here that voted yes for that one, never address the traffic situation. It was a very bad decision to approve that particular business the way that
was approved. It's a great business. I like it. But it was it was it was bad the way that was approved, bad design, terrible. So, but now you're paying the consequences. That's why I always like to say that it is important for business
owners, for residents to get involved every time that we make a decision because it really impacts quality of life is impacting you right now. A decision that was made three years ago. So, we're here to support you, to help
you in the process. I don't think that lowering 10 minutes will avoid cars parking over there. To be honest with you, I think that it, and I just going to throw this out uh through the manager's office,
code compliance can start going to raising canes every time that you file a complaint to follow up on those complaints. they get get they can get fines if they don't resolve the issue because at the end of the day is their issue they have to resolve it so they
can get fines we will provide I mean we will issue the fines if we have to increase the fines on on this particular matter I'm okay with increasing fines too that might help too I don't mind but
lowering the time 10 minutes you will keep having the same issues you're going to keep calling else you're going to keep calling code compliance or the police department and so on. So I don't think that that will resolve your problem right away. I think that we have to address it as a city. Absolutely. And help you and support you in the process.
I'm sure the administration can can help as well through code compliance, our police department and so on. Plus any other initiative that you can take internally as a proper property management, we will certainly support you as well. provide uh to to modify a
10 minutes window citywide to address your particular issue, which I understand. I understand your frustration. I don't think that will resolve that matter. And that's why I'll be I'll be concerned about just
modifying or revising an ordinance just to address something that is not going to get resolved for sure through the mayor. Yes. Do you mind if I make my comments real quick too? Yeah. Thank you. So I I do want to comment on this as well too. Council know where you concluded. Just
wanted to make sure. Okay. So I agree. I think that the problem with this is that when we modify it, it impacts the whole city. So it's not just your property and I I fully understand the situation you're having and and I some empathize with it. Um and and I want to help you guys and
so we will definitely have conversations about how we can help you. But making this change impacts everybody. And then what we're going to get is just emails from residents that are upset because they went there and they got booted. Um and and that's not your fault either. You're protecting your business. But we want to protect the well-being of the entire city and all the residents. And
there's a lot of hardship. And so the last thing I want to do is create hardship on anyone, including our residents that go there to buy $10 chicken nuggets and now they're paying, you know, a $200 bill or $175, I'm not sure what it is, um on on a booty. And and I know people that it's happened to
and I've told them it's $75. It's $75. So now they're $75. So they're paying this fee on the booting and I know people personally that's happened to and they call me and I'm like you shouldn't park there. That's not a parking. So for that for that business, I agree with Council Pedo. I think that was a really bad
design and it's even impacting our traffic on 41st Street. So my commitment to you is I'm going to I'm going to address it and we'll go out there and talk to the to raising canes. Um, maybe there's some type of shared parking agreement you guys can do after hours.
We'll figure it out. But I I can't be in agreement of lowering the time um on on a citywide, you know, standard that can impact people all across the city. So, understanding the situation, I'm willing to help you guys if if if you'll take
the help, but it can't be through changing an ordinance that will impact citywide residents. and and and trust me, while I agree with Con, it's not going to fix your issue. People will still park there. They're just going to get angry or we're just going to get more complaints. Um, and then it's going to impact other comm other other areas
and other businesses. So, I completely empathize with you all. Thank you for being here. I'm happy to meet with you. I'm happy to have a conversation. I've had, you know, Raising Canes has has been great in the community as far as like giving back to organizations and to
PTO. So, I'm happy to have a conversation with them and tell them listen this is a ser serious problem. You're affecting other businesses and we have to come to a solution if you all will take that um that opportunity because I'm sure we can find some type of solution. We can work with code compliance. We can work with u planning and zoning to see if there's a new
traffic pattern that can happen. But like I said earlier, we're here sometimes solving problems that we didn't create. Um so again, I I'm very sorry, but I I just don't think that the solution is lowering the time frame. Um, and I do believe it's going to create additional burdens on our residents.
It's going to create additional burdens on other businesses because now, you know, they may lose business because, you know, because now people are getting booted when they're sitting there. Granted, I understand it's not their parking, but again, this could happen in another location with another business.
And that's not our that's not our goal. Our goal is not to hurt the residents, not to hurt the businesses in the community. We have to work together to find a solution. you have my commitment that we will do that but it's not going to be in in my opinion I won't vote for for luring this time. I just don't think it's the answer to your solution and I'm sorry that this is the way we found out
about it. If I would have heard from you all directly that this is something you all wanted then but I haven't seen I I did get the email about the officer but that was the only and it was handled I believe. So I don't I I I believe we did have an answer
because I remember it. So, we'll we'll look at that. But there was there I I can guarantee you from my end because I remember seeing it myself um that there was an answer. However, I don't believe that that's going to be the solution for you guys. So, thank you for being here. I think Councilwoman also has another comment and then we'll take final
comments. And I'm sorry if I seemed at all insensitive. Again, it's just this problem that we didn't know was particular to one business was not made apparent to us until right now. and I am viewing it as how it's going to affect
our community as a whole. Now, is there any way that we can defer this item so we can have some time to kind of I'm not going to reduce the time. No, no. I think there's other solutions. I'm not I mean I won't be in favor of differing because we're just giving the
false hope that it's going to be reduced at another time in my Hold on. We we can answer your questions after, but we don't take questions. It's not a debate between one and Okay. I'm sorry, but then we set a bad precedent. So, is there any other
I want to clarify a couple things. Okay. Vice Mayor Pors. Yes. So, we were talking about cars that are illegally parked in private property. We are trying to protect and also
respect the rights of private owners who have tried everything including having the booting company there telling people kind of like an attendant telling people not to park there because it is illegal and they're ignoring it because they know they have 30 minutes. Does that
make sense? So, they're literally parking despite the warnings that they're being given because they know that they cannot legally be booted or um you know, they're not legally in violation of anything until after 30
minutes. And that's really the problem. The other thing is um I know and it's my understanding that the the the individuals here today have tried to contact the council. um my understanding last I heard they
didn't get a response. I don't know if that has changed since today. I think it is a good idea to talk to to get the feedback and more information from everyone um that's on the council, but I really do think that we have to stop seeing this as it's it's to the
detriment of the people that are actually violating the laws illegally parking in a business that's suffering because they don't have enough parking spaces for their tenants and their customers because they have to be forced to absorb all the parking um overflow
that's happening with a different business that has no right over the parking lot of their business. That's the way that I'm seeing it. Um, and so for me, I'm going to make a motion to approve so that we can at least get something here. And it's I think it's
great if you know after this meeting, the rest of the council or the attorney or the manager or whoever can speak with you and actually answer your questions and try to see what else can be resolved. But for now, I'm placing a motion to approve. Okay, we have a motion to approve on the table by
council by vice mayor uh pores. Second. Second by councilwoman Cabral. Any additional questions? Okay, if there's no additional question, I just want to state again I I understand all the the concerns and
again there is absolutely correct. This is private property and people are parking illegally. That's why there's penalties. The penalty is 30 minutes so that people can be booted and get off. So there is ways to to remedy this issue. I again I don't think that by
lowering this you're going to get a solution and I think what you're going to get is more upset residents and people because of the burden that it causes them the additional cost that it costs. Now if you can show me that you have a parking attendant there basically
telling people and they're still ignoring you then again I think that we can handle it different ways. can even talk to police to be there with you guys and do an educational campaign with them. But I I really don't think I don't feel comfortable with this being a change across the city. I see this
becoming an issue with our residents thinking that we're just trying to um you know create create more profits for the tow companies and the booting companies. Uh I can see that being the email is you know how much campaign contributions are we getting from the booting companies. So again, I'm happy
to help in any way possible, but I will not be supportive of this. Madame clerk, if there's any additional questions, please call the question. Ordinance. The motion to approve ordinance number 202538 on first reading made by Vice Mayor Pora, seconded by Councilwoman Cabal. Vice Mayor Porz, yes. Councilwoman Gabrell, yes.
Counciloman Reoso, no. Councilman Pedo, no. Mayor Fra, no. Motion pass. Motion fails. Okay. Um, I did ask my my team to look for the email that we responded to as well as the chief. If you'll either wait for us to finish at the end, I'm happy to answer your questions. I just don't
we don't get into dates after public comments. If not, you can step outside and I'll have through the manager the chief speak with you on the issue and then we will be reaching out to make sure we help you as much as we can. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for being here.
All right. We'll move on to the next item. We're now going into second readings. Item 21J, Ordinance number 202525, capital improvements element update. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of Dora, adopting the annual update to the capital improvements element CIE, of the city's comprehensive plan for 20 2025 and the
5-year schedule of capital improvements for fiscal years 2526 2930 pursuant to section 163.31773b, Florida statutes and providing for an effective date. All right. This is item 21J, opening a public hearing, also known as 25-6255.
Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium. Okay. Being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam cler, no one has chosen to speak at this time. And I believe we will hear from staff. No changes.
No changes. Thank you very much. All right. This is second reading. There's no changes from first to second. Motion to approve by council member Pedo. Second. Second by councilwoman Reynoso. Madame clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202525 on second reading. Made by
council pened. Seconded by council maroso.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o. Councilman Pinedo. Yes. Council Maroso. Yes. Counciloman Cabral. Yes. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. 21K was uh uh was exposed of and we will now do 21L.
Item 21L. Ordinance number 202527 text amendment special exception an ordinance of the mayor of the city council of the city of D Florida amending chapter 53 administration to establish a process for the review and approval of special exceptions providing for incorporation recital incorporation into the code serability conflicts and an effective date. Okay, I'm opening up public
hearing again for item 21 also known as 25-6268. Anyone who would like to speak on this item please approach the podium. Being none public comments is now closed. Madam clerk, no one has chosen to speak at this time. This is second
reading for the item that um I proposed along with planning and zoning. If there is any questions, I don't believe there's any changes. No changes. Okay. Any questions? This is special exemptions or conditional uses. None. I need a motion to approve. Motion to approve by councilman pined. Second,
second by council maroso. Madam clerk, please call ro. Motion to approve ordinance number 202527 on second reading. Made by council pedo. Seconded by council maros. Counciloman pined. Yes. Council maros.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o. Council Mal. Yes. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Next item, Madam Chair.
Next item. Ordinance number 202528, telecommunications and the rightway. An ordinance of the man of the city council of city of Dford amending chapter 38 article 2 title communications right away providing for incorporation recital incorporation into the code severability and an effective date. All right, we're opening on public
hearing on 21m also known as 25-6276. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, the director of one has chosen to speak at this time and I believe this is councilomanito's item.
Thank you, mayor. Uh no changes between first and second. The only well there's a yes, there's there's a few changes, but there's also presentation. So, I'm going to let uh our city attorney to take over from from here. Thank you, Councilman. I unless there's
any major questions, I I I can forgo the presentation. I just wanted to bring to the council's attention just two changes. One of them is is that uh we put a requirement that notice is going to be given. So when the permit comes to to the city, they have to notify everyone within a four/4 mile radius of
it's a condominium building then they just need to um advise the condominium association board. Uh the other changes as to the aesthetics and it requires that the permit provide a design that encompasses the general pervasive design of the area. For instance, here in uh the downtown area, we have a lot of
poles that are brown and they have a certain design. So, the the telecommunication poll would need to be of that design up to the discretion of the manager and the public works director. Correct. Thank you. All right. Motion motion to approve by council, I'm sorry, by Vice Mayor Porz. Second.
Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. If there's no additional questions, comments, concerns, madame clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202528 on second reading made by Vice Mayor Porz, seconded by Council Reynoso. Vice Mayor Pores, yes. Council Reinoso, yes. Counciloman Cabral,
yes. Council Pedo, yes. Mayor Fraga, yes. Motion passes. All right. Wonderful. Last item of the night. Last item. Ordinance number 202529, amending rules of procedure, public comments. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of the city of Ro Florida amending division 3 rules or procedures article 2 city council of
chapter 2 administration of the city's code of ordinances providing for implementation incorporation to the code incorporation recital serability and effect date. All right item 21N is now open for public hearing also known as 25-6266. Anyone who would like to speak on this
item and this item alone please approach the podium. Nobody just kidding. All right, being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, like the record, no one has chosen to speak at this time and I believe this is your item. It is. There's no changes between first
and second read. All right. Thank you. Motion to approve by Vice Mayor Boris. Second. Second by councilwoman Cabra for change of pace. Why not? Madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202529. A second reading made by Vice Mayor Pora. Seconded by Councilwoman
Cabrell. Vice Mayor Pores. Yes. Counciloman Cabal. Yes. Council Marinoso. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Mayor Frago. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Before we adjourn, I do want to wish a happy birthday to Mario from it. Happy birthday. September 22nd is
birthday and he's always here late with us back there behind those mirrored glass windows. Thank you, Mario, and everyone in it. All right, we have exhausted our agenda for today. Our next meeting is September 17th, our public hearing.
I do have one item. Yes, I do need to ask for an executive session on the matter of Yara versus the city of Dell. Okay. Yes. Thank you very much. We have a public hearing on the budget, the final budget hearing on September 17th. We hope you all join us there. This concludes our meeting and I need a motion to adjurnn.
Motion. Motion to adjurnn by councilwoman Reynoso. Second by council p in favor say I. I. This meeting is adjourned. See you all next time. Good night.