--------- [Music] Good morning everyone. We are calling this meeting to order. Today is Wednesday, May 14th, 2025. The time is now 10:12 a.m. Please make sure to put your phones on silence. Madame clerk, please call the role. Councilwoman Nico
Reynoso, present. Counciloman Rafael Pinedo, present. Councilwoman Da here. Vice Mayor Morin Porz here. Mayor Christie Fraga, present. Mayor Horum, please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Councilman Pedro. To the flag for the United States of
America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Today we have an invocation by our Rabbi Rashaviski. Good morning. Good morning, Rabbi. So, I
want to share with you something very special and base my prayer on that. A little less than just about two weeks ago, at least for me, I had the best experience I've ever had yet so far in the 20 years that I live in Dorado. And that was the special concert, the prayer
that we had. Uh, literally, and I'm not exaggerating, since the event, I've been literally thinking about it before I go to sleep and almost waking up with it, too. But something very special happened that was kind of the highlight for me
personally right before I went back to my car. And that is I bumped into a Catholic priest and we were kibitzing. We started to joke around. I think Marian, it was great for you. Where are you? Jes well needed
laugh. I He was joking about my black keepa. I was joking about his black coke cloak. I don't know even know what it's called. Anybody know kasuk or something like that? Right. Doesn't matter. But I said wow this is what it's about. Here we're able to
find you know irrespective of the past history and the difficulties and challenges between you know Jews Catholic classes Jews it doesn't matter. Here we are here together able to see eye to eye able to get you know even joke together laugh together and then I went home. So this brings me to my
prayer. I say almighty God please bless us. Give us the wisdom. Give us the strength. Give us the courage that even when we totally disagree we should still be agreeable. Even when we do not see eye
to eye on the topics on the issues we should still be able to look at each other. Even when we cannot listen to the others ideas, still we should be able to hear
each other. And finally, even when our minds are totally closed, still our hearts should be open to one another. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rabbi. And thank you for participating in the lovely event with us. Thank you. All
right, we have the agenda order of business. Um we'll go ahead and start with uh the manager's office. Madam manager. Yes, Mayor. We'd like to defer to June item 6E. Okay. Mr. City Attorney. Thank you,
Madam Mayor. I'd like to defer item 19A to no specific date. 19A. Okay, Councilman Pado, I'm okay, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor Porus.
Council Marinoso. Mayor, I would like to defer item 9E. Okay. I need a motion on deferral for 9E. Motion. Second. We have a motion and a second. Okay, we have a motion and a
second. Madam clerk, have a motion to defer item 9E made by Council Marinoso. Seconded by Councilman Pedo. Council Marinoso. Yes. Councilman Pinedo. Yes. Council Caval. Just a second. And what is the reason it's going to be deferred?
Through the mayor. I don't believe I have to provide a reason for the deferment. Nope. Does he has to to uh through the um uh city uh attorney does he has to provide by our code a reason why it's going to
be deferred? Uh she does not. It's a it's a motion. Um you can have you can ask questions. I mean if if she doesn't have any answer and she doesn't have any reason for it, she doesn't need to to provide any. I believe the motion's on the floor and we're calling ro at this
time. So, council, no. Vice Mayor Poras, no. Mayor Frag, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Counciloman Cabal. Yes. I would like to pull 6J and 6M. And I also would like to
uh have discussion of 9D before 9F. 9D before what? 9F. 9E. She said, I mean 9E. Sorry. Yes, it is in that order. It would I want to have the discussion on 9E before 9D. 9ERD.
So that that no longer this was the other one that was referred to. Okay. Oh god. So you would just like to pull 6J and 6M. Correct. Yes. Okay. I need um
see. Okay. I need to defer item 6A, please. To June. I need a motion on that deferral, please. Motion. Motion to approve by council marinoso. Second. Second by council bead. Madam clerk, please call the role on the deferral for 9 I mean
for 6A. Motion to defer item 6A made by Counciloman Reynoso, seconded by Counciloman Pedo. Councilwoman Reynoso, yes. Councilman Pedo, yes. Counciloman Caval, no. Vice Mayor Poras, yes. Mayor Fraga, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. We're now going to move into public
comments. Anyone who would like to speak on anything on this agenda or gerine to this council may approach the podium. You have three minutes to speak in a respectful manner to this council. If you have not filled out a comment card, please do so after you approach the podium and make your comments. Make sure you state your name and address for the record. We'll go ahead and start with those who have filled out comment cards.
We'll start with Louis Garza. Louis Marabetti Garza, I have been gone away for quite a few months, still homeless. You've continued a few things, but I guess in my public comments, I will just say, can you smell the MK Ultra stench and pick out the jar
babies as are the belligerent occupants behind the DAS in these dank chambers? And to you, resign, resign, resign. And as Trump himself has disassociated himself of all Zionist Jews, you would
all do well to do the same. You've apparently continued quite a few of the um items on 6H. Are you overbudget? Bad budget planning. They're always always always asking for an increase in their bad budget
planning. Continuing um you've apparently wanted to continue 6M regarding the EV electricals. I'm wondering how many EOS you might be violating if you do proceed with that. 9A. You still haven't mastered this simple formal notification system for
upcoming road work? Check with Google. They seem to have a handle on it. And 9B, we have enough 5G towers in our measly 15 square miles. For 9C, um, really you need a sergeant-at-arms
just for yourself, mayor. Are you really just that handled? how much and blink twice if you are being MK ultra handled and beyond that I don't see how many how much time I have left which I think uh oh over
there I would like for each of you to understand that Sheriff Joe Araio is willing to sign one of these for each of you in that each of you have done in in the past few years as you've known me for 20some years that you are merely a
center for money laundering you're a much smaller one. And yes, I have been gone for 6 months because I've gotten a lot of training in Maricopa County for 6 months. I've been going to every single meeting for 2 years there. And I will grant you this. You grant a little bit
more time for the public to speak, but I would like for you to put back into effect the webinar. you had it and I understand with Connie that you had it before and because of COVID we
came along used it and then we got rid of it all the more reason to bring it back. Thank you. Thank you Miss Luar. Next we have Carmen Himenez I believe Jimenez I believe she's Um, Miss Gibson, can you do me a favor?
Can you go out and ask if car if Carmen Himenez is in the lobby? She's up for speaking. Thank you. Okay. All right. We're going to move on then. Um, anyone who would like to speak for public comments, now would be your time to come up to the podium and
speak. Any additional public comments? Seeing none. No. Thank you. All right. This will conclude public comments. Madam clerk, I to reflect. No one else has chosen to speak at this time. And now we will move on. I need a motion on the consent agenda. Madam clerk, can you please read items
that are in consent agenda? It'll be all of the items on section six with the exception of 6 A, 6E, 6J, and 6M. We'll hear 6J and 6 M after all the discussion items have been exhausted. Madam clerk, we'll do. All right. I need
a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. All in favor say I. I. Madam clerk, let the record reflect that the motion has passed unanimously. I now need a motion on the minutes. Motion. Motion to approve by
councilman Benedo. Second. Second by councilwoman Reynoso. All in favor say I. I. Madam clerk like the reflect that the motion has passed unanimously. We'll now move into presentations. Item 8A, keep draw beautiful business award. Good morning, honorable mayor, vice mayor, members of the city council,
madame manager, deputy city manager, Mr. Attorney, Madame Clerk, members of the audience, Edgar Distra, co- compliance director. This month, we are pleased to recognize Russo Tires for their outstanding commitment to keeping Dorado beautiful. The property for which they're being
recognized for is located at 8300 Northwest 58th Street. Russo Tires has been in the city of Dorado for 18 years. This property is approximately 75,000 square feet and the business has 11 employees. Russo Tires is a tire shop
that was founded in 2007 in the city of Dural with the vision of serving the community with the best services and tires. Some of the ongoing maintenance efforts to keep the property with a clean, professional, and inviting appearance include routine trimming of trees and shrubs, seasonal planting of new
landscape, regular inspections and pressure cleaning of the building exterior. It is with great pleasure that we name Russo Tires for the Keep Dorado Beautiful Business Award for their continued efforts to keeping Dorado beautiful. And madame mayor and council here to accept the award on behalf of Russo Tires is Petro Russo, Ignasio
Russo, and Pao Russo. The Russo brothers, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Would you like to say a few words? Yes. Good morning. On behalf of my family and everyone at Russo Tires, we thank you for this keeping the beautiful award. We
take pride on the work we do and also in the way we show, you know, everything that's good in Dal and we'll keep doing our part to make Dal a place we're all proud of. Thank you. Thank you very much. We appreciate your investments and commitment to Dorado. Would you like to
come up for a picture? Yes. All right. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Madam Clerk. Next items. We're now
going into discussion items. Item 9A, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, directing the city attorney, city manager, and public works director to initiate coordination and discussions with the appropriate Miami Day County departments to develop a formal notification system for upcoming road work closures on municipal roads within
the city of Dal boundaries in order to enhance communication and public awareness, providing for authorization, incorporation of recitals, implementation, and a reflective date. All right, Councilman Pedato, this is your item, sir. Thank you, mayor. Uh first of all, the the reason why I
decided to bring this forward is because uh as we all know as residents, the road work performed by Miami Day County on municipal roads within Dorado frequently leads to traffic disruptions and resident inconvenience. I mean, it's not a secret that sometimes you're driving
around and suddenly you see a lane closure and you don't know what's going on and and we don't even know what's going on. And unfortunately, this is something that the county passed back in 2021 where pretty much take uh all that
power from municipalities or actually communication which is what I'm trying to accomplish with this resolution which is uh the lack of communication has been uh something that has been going on for the past years. So my take and I would
like through the manager to see if we can bring Mr. Carlos Aroyo from public works to the front so that he can give us a little bit of the background as well because the idea will be to see I mean we're going to give it a try to see how we can establish a communication with the county at least for us to be
notified and we send the notification out to the residents when it comes to the closure of lanes. I also am aware that when it comes to um uh utility companies or like AT&T for example, if they're doing a work out
there, they don't have to notify anybody. So for me that's an issue because during the time that they do it is especially during the rush hour times and people believe that it's something that the city has approved and that we just want to close a lane uh during a
five or four o'clock traffic time because we that was our decision. So I think that if we can create a communication or at least that we can inform the residents about you know this is coming up today or tomorrow at least people will will be aware.
Definitely councilman will work with the with the county and see how we can establish a better process. Usually they they provide us with information for their projects as you mentioned but based on the ordinance that they adopted in back in 2021 21-99 they are the sole
regulators of the rightway so for all type of construction so on their rightway we don't have jurisdiction okay so but definitely we'll work with them and see how we can improve this thank you Mr. Roy. Okay. Anybody has any questions or any
questions? Motion. Motion to approve by councilwoman Reynoso. Second. Second by Councilman Pinedo. I just wanted to say I I completely agree. As a matter of fact, uh back when I was a council woman, I believe it was 20
2015. Actually, our city manager helped me at the time with the legislation. We had passed an MOT ordinance that required the county or any um utility company to have to pull a permit here in Dorado. So, we knew when the roads were going to be closed, but unfortunately the county rolled that back, kind of
preempted us from being able to require those permits. So, I think there has to be established communication and protocol at least for the benefit of those traveling on our roads and for us to even have information of knowing when roads are clos road closures are going to happen. So, I would think it's common
courtesy from other government agencies or or the companies that do business in our city, but clearly it's not happening. So, I want to thank Councilman Pino for bringing this forward because I do think we need to establish some type of uh clear communication or understanding of what our rights are within what we can require from other agencies. So, thank
you very much for bringing this forward. Madam Clerk, I have a question. Oh, Councilman Cabal um through the U manager um to Mr. Aoyo. have I mean when you have encountered these issues that maybe I mean how have you had any
complaints from the from the community they usually come in and they they advice on on their projects the issue that we have mostly with utilities the ordinance prevents us from asking for anote permit or any permit so now we don't have that grip that we used to have so utilities you mean who FPL yes
FPL communications all of them but but it's not directly I mean with the public works department uh the county or with Yes, they they actually have to get permits with the county on the county right away. When it's our rightway, they come in and they request permits from us. Have you communicated with the and
bring this up to our county commissioner? Not the county commissioner, but co-workers on the other side and and you um u miss manager, have you also communicated with our commissioner regarding this issue? No, ma'am. We're trying to do this
through the staff and to be able to communicate with the departments, adequate departments inside of the county um and also to take a look at the at the ordinance that is from back in 2015 15 2021 20 1516 um to redo that. Um
so we're going to get the process started on the staff side um and see where we go from there. But okay, speaking to the county commissioner is always uh an option for any of you to do. Yeah, I guess I mean
he's the one that represent our our district. So I think that it will be also adequate to get in touch with him. Okay. Thank you. Madam clerk, please call the role. Have motion to approve by council, seconded by council peno. Councilwoman Reynoso, yes. Counciloman
Pinedo, yes. Council, yes. Vice Mayor Pores, yes. Yes, Mayor Faga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much, Madam Cler. Next item. Next item, item 9B, a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, directing the city attorney to conduct research of the city's code and state statutes to determine the
viability of modifying and enforcing monetary bonds or similar mechanisms on telecommunication companies for failure to comply with city requirements, including but not limited to hosting community town hall meetings prior to initiating new work and providing advanced notice to residents within 1,000 to 2,000 ft of all proposed cell
tower projects or related installations. providing for implementation, incorporation of recitals, and an effective date. Thank you very much, Councilman Pedato. This is your item. Thank you, mayor. This is another issue that has been certainly, you know, caught my
attention, especially in the last years. Sometimes you're, you know, you're driving around and you see a new cell tower being uh put outside a community or or on the rightway section without
anyone knowing. So the most recent uh in well that complaint that I received was from the Grand Bay area where a cell tower was installed just right outside the community. So you now you have residents inside their community facing
a cell tower on the other side of the of the backyard. So this is for me it's it's something that um I will ask and it's part of the resolution to ask our city attorney to look into this matter and see we can how we can actually uh
enhance the public engagement and notification and accountability by uh certainly exploring requirements for telecommunication companies and to comply with community engagement expectations because again It's all
about perception. When if you're a resident and you see that outside of your your community, you believe that the city is the one that gave the green light for that to be right outside of a community. So I think it's not just a matter of um
kind of explaining to the public how that is performed but at the same time for us to have some type of say when it comes to this type of um telecommunications in infrastructure projects. So certainly one of the
recommendations will be to require these companies to comply with community engagement expectations including mandatory town hall meetings and also to direct notices to residents within a th00and to 2,000 radius of proposed projects. Again these are literally
right next to a sidewalk right next to a community. So I think that by instructing our city manager to look into these options certainly will uh create something that we can explain to the residents. This is how these
projects are taking place but this is also what are we're doing to make sure that you guys at least are notified. So uh I don't know how I don't know if you have any questions or seat attorney. Thank you Councilman for bringing this item. Uh I I agree with you. There are
things that we are very limited because we are preempted by statute. Uh but nevertheless, the statute does provide for certain options for the city. Uh so that is something that I can take a look at what we have in our existing code and work with you to bring that up to date and and uh and bring something back.
Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you, Councilman Pedo. I I I just wanted to comment. I did um this is something that had come to our attention while before I even came back to the city and had started working on a couple of changes with our previous city
attorney which I told the city attorney during our agenda review that I was going to provide him with. I think the the code is extremely antiquated. So there does need to be updated um measures to make sure that the city is not only uh informed and residents are informed but the city has some type of
say. I will say that cities are quite preempted federally and statutoily by the state. um when it comes to telecommunications and this is something I expressed heavily to residents and parents who were concerned about um these antennas near schools and in
communities. And so I do want to make sure that we are doing things to protect um within the boundaries that we can and we have the rights to be able to create measures that will um will will shield residents. But at the same time, I I just want to put on the record from the
research I've done, we have there's pretty strong preeemptions on how much we can actually regulate, which really is not it kind of is horrible for our residents, but um it it's something that I think we we need to set the expectation for. So, any other questions
or comments? Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Counciloman Pedo. Second, second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the RO. Motion to approve made by Councilman Pedo, seconded by Counciloman Reo. Council Pedo, yes. Counciloman Reoso,
yes. Counciloman Kal, yes. Vice Mayor Poras, yes. Mayor Fraa, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much, madam clerk. Next item. Next item, item 9 C. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado amending resolution number 25-39 to specify that the sergeant-at-arms position shall be assigned solely for the protection and security of the
mayor, providing for implementation, incorporation of recital, and an effective date. Counciloman Maros, this is your item. Thank you, mayor. Well, my item is very simple. Over the last couple of months, we've um seen the amount of work and events and meetings
that the mayor has attended on behalf of the city. And I believe the best course of action for the sergeant-at-arms position is to be exclusive for the mayor as she is the full-time council member uh representing the city. Thank you. Thank you, Council Marino. So, any
comments or questions? Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo through the chair to the um to the city manager. I would like to ask you because I I have a few questions that I want to ask our
um our chief of police. Um yes, Abselony. [Music] Um he's outside. One moment. Chief, please approach this podium. We're on the item of uh
sergeant-at-arms. Thank you. Through the mayor. Yes. Point of personal privilege. Yes. Thank you so much. I believe in order to have skin in the game to really appine to this item, you needed to be involved with the
before of this item. In other words, attend community events, attend community engagement in order to really see the need of a sergeant-at-arms, none of which you do. That's my comment. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Gabrell, you
had a question for the chief. Responding to the councilwoman, I also represent the people. I also go outside the 15 miles radius from the city to go to events as well. So the creation of it, yes, I understand that it was created even though I don't agree that this
person was going also to uh be a that we will be able to also ask requests for this person even though they was never provide a uh a calendar or availability of this person for us to be able at least not to me. I don't know of the other council members but not to me. So,
I do understand that and I've been here longer than you and I've been in many, many more events and I do understand uh the um that we were supposed to be using this person. But my question directly to our uh police, our chief of police and
thank you so much. I understand that one of the reasons that says here to protect and um and security of the mayor. I understand that we go out from the 15 mile radius of our city, but my understanding seeing on the statistics
and everything that is out there, um how safe our city right now under your command, how safe is our city? In my opinion, we're extremely safe, but we're just one critical away critical incident away from something happening. Anything can happen at any time. Um, so we can never
be too comfortable even though we've had over a 40% reduction in crime over the last few years. Um, we have we're not immune to anything evidenced by, for example, what happened in city place last year or um, at any time. So, um, we can never be too comfortable with that. Sure. But my understanding is that our
department has done a terrific job. I mean, going into how many residents we have here, I mean, per capita, how much crime we have. So I really don't see and I'm asking you this because one thank you to all the uh to the entire department for everything that they do
and I I really was trying to understand I mean what is the protection that is needed so urgently that the mayor needs you know security almost I don't know if it is 24 hours or because it doesn't specify here uh how often it is uh aside
from majority of the events happen here in the city there's a few that we go outside And that's doing uh uh I mean within most of all of us or all of us that show up to those events too and we don't have that luxury especially that
the media pay for this person is between 92,000 tound what up to 150 almost $150,000 a year. So, uh, my concern is that that I don't really see why and I don't think that many I have to check. I
haven't checked on that how many mayors of the of the within the 34 municipalities have. Yeah. No, no, no. This is me, but thank you so much. Thank you so much. So, you can be dismissed. Thank you so much for answering my question. That was only my question if that's okay. So, uh, why is it that the
mayor needs to protect, you know, a person to protect and secure solely only to her? uh within somebody that is serving the community. I still have my five minutes. I still have 211 point of order. So um so I just want the community to know there how's your
taxpayers money is being allocated and to ask those questions too. Thank you so much. I haven't answer. Does that conclude your comments, Councilwoman? Great. Um so actually I'd like to address some of these. Chief, how many threats have I received in the last year
or two years? Do you remember? You have those, right? I have the data. You have the the letters that we received here with the threats. Yeah. And and even me personally, I've received threats. Obviously, we don't discuss that publicly. Um but yeah, um you have been a target of multiple threats and and so
have I. And I'm happy to provide those into the public record. I also have emails that I've kept with threats. Now, I'm not scared for my life. I will tell you that. That's not the reason we have a sergeant-at-arms. We instilled a sergeant-at-arms for several reasons. One, it was um because there is
sometimes an urgency to get from one place to another in and out of the city. Um that was one thing. Secondly, I have never excluded council members from being able to use the sergeant-at-arms with us. As a matter of fact, most of the time when we're going to events outside of the city that all of us
participate in and that we are SVP that we're going to be going to as a city and in representation of the city, most of you have joined me um in going. It's it's really more so uh for the city to have the accessibility to attend and represent ourselves outside of the city
and still do our job here. The sergeant-at-arms is not with me 24/7. Um it's mostly for events that happen outside of the city or from getting from point A to point B within the city. Um she's actually also attended sorry she's also attended um
situations on our behalf like recently when the tri when the trolley caught fire um we sent her in our representation to go get an update to make sure that public affairs was able to get uh a real-time information to inform the public of what was happening.
Um so it's really that connection to the police department from city hall. It also provides security here at city hall, which I believe you asked for several times. Am I correct on that, Chief? Correct. There was several requests for protection at city hall from Councilwoman Cabral.
Um, what's that question? Sorry. So, I believe there was several requests from Councilwoman Cabral in the past for security at city hall. From my understanding, there had been conversations in the past about wanting to have an armed security guard or armed police officer here. No, I was actually
there was someone that I even have to go to court because he was threatened and I have to be in front of a judge, but I never requested someone that to be with me all the time. No, for city hall for city hall. Yeah, we've had a conversation as to having an armed presence here for the safety and
security of city hall. So, at this time, this person is here making sure that every member that's here inside the building um is secure. So, there's many aspects to the sergeant-at-arms. I appreciate counciloman no bringing this forward. I didn't ask for it. Um I think
that the purpose of it is intended because of how many things that we uh are required to attend and particularly myself. I'm here every single day. I was the first one here this morning. um I'll probably be one of the last ones to leave and I think that there's um a a
certain you know respect that goes with the position of mayor to make sure that there's security but for all of us as well. So you're all always welcome to participate and join me in any events that we're all invited to. Um, but my schedule is very fluid and so sometimes
it's hard to be able to accommodate um anybody who who asks for the sergeant-at-arms without my presence. Um, and so I think that that was the purpose of kind of clarifying the the role of sergeant-at-arms, which was not just for all of us to be able to have
the security here at city hall, to have the direct connect with um the police department, but also to make sure that we have protection when we're outside of the city because you you just never know what can happen. Also, in emergency situations, if if I'm outside of the city and something happens and we need
to get back quickly, then it it allows us to be able to do that. So, it's really just being prepared for any situation. So, appreciate your comments. Um, and I understand that maybe some other cities don't do it, but I would say most of the cities do have sergeant-at-arms for their for their
their their mayor and c and councils um uh that are uh the current body. I want to clarify that I never requested to have anybody to protect me when I was coming here to the city. But I want to clarify that because the uh the comment that you said is like you asked him if I
requested. I never requested when um this person unfortunately their emails are there. I have to go in front of a judge and everything. The the the chief at that time said when you're coming to the the the building because this person is around the building that personally
did it also. I mean when this person threatened for death death in email it's on writing as well I can show what it was discussed with the judge he was the one who offer and say when you come to city hall because this person is around
just let us know so we in case we just alert nothing else so I have never asked for any protection I feel very safe aside from that because and this is something that I follow by our former uh attorney attorney who was the one who uh
advised to go in front of a judge. So I have all of that for that person that threatened me for to death twice. Yes. Just to clarify, I didn't say that you had asked for it. I said that there was request for there to be a a but I wanted to make sure and clear that I
never requested I there was a request for there to be an armed police officer at city hall. That was by that was by the chief of police. Again, I never requested. That was him. Motion to call the question. That was him. There's a motion to call the question. Thank you.
There's a motion to call the question. Motion to call a question made by Councilwoman Reynoso. Is there a second? Second. Second by Counciloman Pinedo. Motion to call a question made by Counciloman Reynoso. Seconded by Councilman Pinto. Counciloman Reynoso. Absolutely. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Absolutely. Yes. Councilwoman Gab. No.
Mayor, are we This is a motion to call or for the item. Okay. Yes. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much, Madam Clerk. We have a motion on the item. I'm missing a second. Second. Motion by Counciloman Noso.
Second by Councilman Pinedo. Motion to approve. Motion to approve made by Councilwoman Reynoso. Seconded by Council Pedo. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Pedo. Absolutely. Yes. Counciloman Gal? No. Vice Mayor Porz, no. Mayor Frag, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. We move on
to the next item. Next item. Item 9D, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, appointing Ray Valdez as inspector general pursuant to ordinance 2025-08 providing for implementation, incorporation of recital, expenditure of
budget of funds, and an effective date. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Mr. City attorney, would you like to present this item? I may. Is that is that okay, Madam Mure? All right. Uh, so the uh the next item uh is uh the appointment of Ray
Valdez as the inspector general. Um, as you are all aware, uh, the city of Dorado passed in November a, uh, charter amendment, uh, requiring, uh, the establishment of the office of the inspector general. Uh, pursuant to that, uh, this year, uh, there was an
ordinance creating that office and establishing for the, uh, to make findings of, uh, uh, of an inspector general. Uh, the committee has met uh, met twice. uh during its last meeting uh it interviewed uh two
candidates, one that was not found to be uh qualified although the interview was offered uh and also that of Mr. Valdez. Uh during that meeting uh Mr. Valdez was interviewed uh he is uh I believe here so he can you know if necessary answer
any questions uh and during that um during that meeting uh the committee five all of the committee members uh voted unanimously for the appointment of uh Mr. Valdez uh pursuant to the ordinance that was passed uh the next step would be uh today uh after should
you all decide and you are all the ultimate voice. So the committee proposes it to you but at the end the the council has to make the appointment. Uh so the appointment rests ultimately with with this body. Uh so if you decide to appoint Mr. Valdez as the inspector general the next thing would be for the
mayor and I uh to be able to uh negotiate his uh his contract. And that's what's before you today. Thank you, Mr. City Attorney. Okay. Uh, any questions on this item? No, I have some questions, Mayor. Okay. Vice Mayor Porus. Um, I know Mr. Valdez is here. Can you come to the podium to answer
questions? Morning, council members, mayor. Good morning, Mr. Manager, Deputy Manager, Mr. Attorney, Madame Clerk. Good morning. How are you? Good. So, did you read the position description um and requirements for this
job? Yes, ma'am. Are you aware that the inspector general needs to be independent and partial and objective to effectively fulfill their role? Absolutely. Do you think you're going to be impartial and objective? I
believe my track record here in the city and in the county, I think my integrity speaks for itself. my transparency uh and I can be completely impartial. Okay. Can you remind us why you resigned as city manager? I resigned because I
had an issue with you and with uh Councilwoman Cabaral. Did you accuse us of violating the charter retaliation among other things? Among other things. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And are you aware that as a
private citizen you can actually file a complaint with the appropriate agencies? You can actually present your grievances to a court if you felt that there was a violation. Are you aware of that? I was not aware of that. You're not aware that
there's an ethics commission? Oh no. I didn't honestly I didn't want it to I didn't feel it it would warrant that. I didn't uh Okay. I thought my resignation spoke for itself. I think what I said on the days on the evening of the 30th of
September spoke for itself. Yes. And going back to that meeting, you clearly displayed a very strong disfavor, dislike, however you want to put it, and a strong propensity I feel to discriminate against two sitting council
members, including me, Councilman Cabra. If you are going to be presented, let's say, with an investigation against one of us, are you going to recuse yourself? No, because I'm the body that investigates. But what you can be
assured is that I will be impartial. Okay? And I will be transparent. Okay? I call balls and strikes. Okay? It's either black or white. There's no gray area with me. That's how I've lived my life for the last 40 years, both with Miami date
police and during my tenure here, both with the police department and uh when I was a special assistant to the manager, when I was deputy manager, and I was a city manager. I call it like it is. Okay. So, do you still believe that we violated the charter?
You can answer truthfully. I believe you did. I believe you did. Right. As city manager, how many employees did you oversee? 530 something. And as inspector general, as you know, your job would be to investigate waste,
mismanagement, contracts, including some of the work that some of the departments are doing. You know that, right? That's my understanding. Yes. So, do you think there may be a conflict of interest if you're asked to investigate some of the staff that you once oversaw?
I don't understand why what that would be a conflict of interest. Perhaps, you know, you also disfavor or you favor, let's say, a department director, an employee that could potentially contribute to a bias,
whether good or bad. I I disagree with that, Councilwoman. I bring uh again I can't offer you a crystal ball as to what the future holds but I can tell you to look at my integrity and look at my past in the
public arena and I challenge you to find anyone anyone who's ever called my ethics or my integrity into question or who's ever had my integrity or my ethics investigated.
Okay. And do you think that your appointment could res Sorry, I don't know. Okay. Do you think that your appointment could result in the city being sued for having potential conflicts of interest?
I can't. Again, I can't tell you who's going to sue. I I I don't I I don't know that. Okay. Just some Now, thank you. Thank you so much. If you want to say, you can. If not, you don't have to. Okay. Just some questions for the attorney.
So, I know that we talked about this when you were drafting the position for the inspector general. And I don't know if you recall that I mentioned that the city of Miami Beach has a prohibition of hiring past employees as inspector general for the very reasons I just
mentioned. You oversaw everyone here. Obviously, we're adding now that you've publicly come out against two sitting council members. And so, my question to you is, have you assessed the risk and liabilities that we as a city could
encounter if Mr. Valdez is appointed today? And by the way, I'm just going to add that's your job as our attorney. My job is to provide you all with with legal advice and and to inform you all of what are the the potential, you know,
risks. There's always a potential risk with the hiring of any employees. Uh there's the risk that someone may have a bias. I mean, that is uh bias, I think, is inherent in in all of us. We all have preferences and we all have dislikes. Um Mr. Valdez, I I understand your your
concerns and and I think you've you've put those on the record. Uh but I think also, Mr. Valdez is stating his record also, 40 years as a law enforcement officer and one that has been uh that pretty much has an unblenmished uh record. Um I'm sure in his career uh he
has had to uh manage people that he likes and dislikes and has had to uh be impartial and put his feelings to one side uh and do his job. And personally as an attorney, that's that's a something that I I take very uh heavily as an attorney because there, you know,
obviously I have to a job to do and perform and sometimes I have to take positions that are in favor of my client even though I may not 100%, you know, necessarily agree with that. So I I'm trying to in coming to what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to empathize and
put myself in in Mr. Valdez's shoes. Um you know, he's up there and he's he's stating that he's being truthful. Um, so I think it's for this council to weigh uh your concerns versus his record and and what he's he's stating and then, you know, vote accordingly. Thank you. Um,
you know, there's there's really no doubt that you meet the minimum qualifications. Any police officer with a decade of service would meet the minimum qualifications. Um, what my question is is do you, Mr. attorney. Do
you find any bit of conflict of interest or potential problems with impartiality with Mr. Valdez? The the particular our particular code doesn't provide those that you mentioned from the city of Miami Beach. Uh what I would have to base it on is our ethics and
code and also the Miami date county code of ethics. And there's nothing that I feel that right now by hiring as an inspector general, Mr. Valdez in general would have any conflict. Um if there were a particular circumstance of where he's called to do something uh that
would be uh raised by by the code of ethics then at that point in time we can have that discussion of whether he should recuse himself or not. But at this time I in general I don't see that there's any uh general conflict. So I'm referring to applying the rules that we
have before us. Okay. I'm referring referring to the charter and the city ordinance that states that the inspector general has to be independent and impartial. So I'm I'm referring to those two things, but I think I I I got your answer. Thank you. So for me, Mr.
Valdez, it's clear that you do not meet the required standards. You may meet the minimum standards for the job, but I do think that you lack the independence and impartiality as required by the charter and city ordinance. And like I said, you've accused sitting council
members, including myself, of violating the charter. You just reiterate reiterated that today, said it again. And you know, you have demonstrated a very strong propensity to probably use this position to retaliate. I'm very
concerned with that. Obviously, I think that if you want to file a complaint against anyone, you could have done it. You can still do it as a private citizen. It's been done against me before and failed. You could have done it. I don't think you have to
wait for this job to do it. I really do think that this lack of impartiality is absolutely going to lead to lawsuits against the city which of course are going to divert important resources and time from our city and
it's going to cost us money. So for that I will not be voting in favor of your appointment. If I may say something with your permission, it's my understanding that I cannot unilaterally commence an investigation. Okay. If
something is brought to my attention, okay, I have to take a sworn complaint, sworn affidavit from that individual indicating that he's making a complaint, whether it's against an employee or against an elected official, I then
weigh that complaint. Okay? And depending on the merits, it said something that I either investigate internally or god forbid if it's something that's criminal, I would then forward to the appropriate criminal agency and I would sort of act as a
liaison uh as to what's going on with that investigation to keep the council apprised of the progress of that investigation. I cannot unilaterally say I'm going to single out this council woman or I'm not going to
single out this employee and I'm going to investigate him. That's my understanding. I cannot do that. And I think that this is something that came up during my interview and I more than that was clarified and that was something that was affirmed by the attorney during the interview. I cannot
unilaterally commence an investigation. So if you're worried about a witch hunt, it's not going to commence with me. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying and I'm glad that we actually clarified that on the record because I still believe that the ordinance is not clear on that and also one of
our committee members also raised that during the meeting who's also an attorney but if you know I'm I'm glad that we're putting it on the record again the ordinance is not that clear but to just to respond to you think of it this way you are a judge essentially
judges do not initiate their own cases they receive receive cases. Correct. And so when a judge receives a case where they have a conflict of interest, they have to recuse themselves. So it doesn't matter who initiated it. You are the independent person that's going to be
deciding how an investigation happens, where it goes. So it still applies, but thank you for clarifying that. Okay. Madame Mayor, Mr. City Attorney. Yeah. So I believe going to what uh Mr. Mr. Valdez said uh there's two functions of
the um of the inspector general as per our ordinance. Function number one is if he receives a verified sworn statement as he mentioned it's his duty to investigate that sworn statement. It could be something dealing with with the code. It could be dealing something with ethics. Could be dealing with something
criminal. Depending on the nature then he has to take the the appropriate action. And that may be uh referring it to the state attorney's office. That may be referring it to the FBI. That's that's up to what you feel and deem is is necessary at that point in time. Now,
additionally, if this council instructs the uh inspector general to go ahead and let's say look into public work contracts or look into uh what's going on with code compliance or or a number of things, then he will go ahead and do so. He cannot initiate those types of
investigations on his own. He's uh not say completely prohibited but because he can bring a suggestion to you and say hey look I'd like to look into that but independently he can't do it on his own. Correct. Yeah. Thank you. And I just want to say one last thing. I appreciate you coming up and responding to
questions. Okay. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Council Marinos. Thank you through the mayor. Maldes. Yes. Council woman. Great to see you here. Um just points of clarification
for me. When you were the city manager, were you not selected by the council members excluding myself present today? Uh I was selected uh by uh yes by Marin Poras Dignal and Oscar Puig who's no
longer here. Okay. And you did have the prior position of being the city manager for this city. And upon your resignation, you had valid points to why you no longer wanted to serve as our city manager. Case closed with your resignation letter and leaving the city
as our city manager. Correct. Correct. Okay. And again, just to clarify, the definition of propensity. When you have a propensity to do something, there's a history, there's a natural inclination of a pattern of behavior, one that you do not have. I believe that the com the
comments made by our councilwoman I'm I'm sorry our vice mayor Marine Porus um isn't really related to the situation because that was your prior employment what you were doing before and based on your professionalism and what the committee decided I think you are
perfect for this position I think you're going to serve this community with integrity and based on your years of dedication in law enforcement I think you know how to handle this position so I have No regrets. I have no inclination to think that this position will be held with the utmost integrity from your
part. Thank you. I appreciate the board of confidence. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, Councilman Pinedo. Thank you. Well, first of all, I want to say welcome to Mr. Valdez and Mrs. Valdez. Thank you for being here. Morning,
Council. Good morning, sir. It's um it's good to see you back to be honest with you. Likewise. Uh, as Councilwoman Reoso mentioned, I certainly uh, and it's a conversation that we had after the hiring last year when you were
selected as city manager. Uh, I think that you have show what your character is made of and and I respect that and I think that you have earned the respect not only from the majority of this council but also from the majority of the residents of the city of Dorado.
And and I want to say that and leave it on the record because I sometimes is it's hard to uh to make comments and or judge someone's character and and that person disappear or you're back and and
you're back not because we say yes so far is because a committee say yes. a committee that we selected, my representative actually sitting right here. I know he voted
yes, but the five members voted yes for you. So, uh I just want to leave that on the record and I want to welcome you back to your to your house to your home because you have show you have been a long time
resident more than probably anybody sitting up here. you and your family. So, you have shown that you put Dorado first before anything else or any personal ambition that you might have. So, therefore, I I place the motion to approve. Thank you. Second. Motion to
approve by Councilman Pino, second by Council Marenos. So, Councilman Kal, you have comments. Yes, I have uh a few comments uh not to you, Mr. Valdez. uh to the uh my concern that I sent an email uh date on April 15 to the city
manager and to the uh attorney also city clerk asking to please to send my email uh with my concerns to the committee. I never uh got a response on that email and um it was not distributed to the
committee as I requested to do so. um here I expressed many concerns but at the same time when I was listening to the interview that was conducted by the committee I heard within that Mr. actually refer that he knew that there
was some communication that was going around. Something that for me was really concerning because the other uh person that uh that was interviewed didn't have any knowledge about it. Not even the committee. I don't know how he got that information that is there on the script
on the day of the interview. But I also want to understand why is it that my email was not with all my concerns uh was given to one to be acknowledged by any of you and second to be distributed to the committee. I have a point of
order for a second. Um if we can is not every email and communication set in the city public record? Yes, correct. Public record. every single email. I believe you're saying that your email was to be distributed as
public record. No. To the committee? I request it to be given to the committee. Yes. Which makes it public record. Correct, Mr. City Attorney? Yes, madam. I think your question is null and void at this point because it's No, it's not. I wanted to have it on record that it was never acknowledged my email. I
believe your question is that it's public record and um and I requested to please to be given to the committee at that time. So cuz the information that was there was really relevant and it was cons the same concerns that the vice mayor has about how um the uh the the
selection of the person that was going to be appointed needed to be someone that it was going to be impartial at the time that u this person going to be selected for this position as inspector general. Madam clerk, was the email circulated? I
believe it circulated after No, ma'am, it was not. And I also advised the council woman that it had not been circulated before the the committee. Correct. So you had this conversation already with councilwoman and I put it and I responded to her in an email as well advising her that it was not
circulated. Okay. All right. Mr. City attorney again, public record. The email is a public record. Yes, mayor. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Council Gal? No. All right. To the mayor. Yeah. I actually have some comments, too. Would you like to just very quickly I
just want to again point out that Mr. Valdez did state during the questioning of the vice mayor that he is going to be impartial. So his purpose of recon of resignation should be not considered at this point because this is turning the page. You're here to do a different job.
This is what you're going to be doing. You answer the questions. You're going to be able to perform the duties of this position impartially. Thank you ma'am. All right. Thank you very much. I have some questions. Um, first of all, I actually attended the
committee meeting that was uh taking place with the two applicants. It was very clear that the minimum qualifications were met by Mr. Valdez. I do believe that this was properly um advertised and there could have been several applicants and we only got the
two applicants. Um, the committee voted unanimously uh for this position and so now it's before us for a decision. I did review the applications. Um I do have some questions based on what's been put on the record for Mr. Valdez. First, um thank you for clarifying the ordinance
and the way that it is stated where the inspector general can only initiate an investigation based on a complaint that comes in with a signed affidavit. It cannot be a unan uh I'm sorry, it cannot be a an anonymous complaint. It has to be an a complaint with an affidavit
signed. So that was first of all uh clarified. I do believe that there is some uh benefit to the fact that you not only have lived here for a long time but also have some understanding of how the city works because there can be recommendations that come forward for looking into things that the inspector
general general's office should be providing. So, but again those things cannot be initiated unless the vote the council takes a vote to allow you to initiate in those um in those dealings. I have a question based on that. Do you
plan to investigate former grievances? No. No. As far as I'm concerned, you know, it's whatever my effective date is. I mean, if something is brought to my attention from something that occurred in the past, I have to look into it. But like again, unilaterally, I
cannot initiate your own investigation. My own investigation. If I do find something, then I bring it to the council's attention and I await your direction because that's the way that it's written. Right. As a recommendation. As a recommendation.
Number two, how do you plan to conduct these investigations if something is brought forward to you? and partially and with transparency while communicating uh when allowed by law when allowed by law communicating with the council with
the progress of that investigation. Would you recommend for prosecution or penalties on anything that didn't have proper and identified clear evidence of a mis of a misdoing? Of course not. I'm I'm not going to compromise myself or my integrity by putting something out there
that is nonsense because that would fall on me and I'm not going to do that. So any investigation that would result with clear evidence and penalties is what you would bring forward clearly as your recommended
um your recommended um misuse. Of course, there there's a a certain threshold that has to be met uh when you have to weigh the evidence. You have to uh evaluate the totality of the circumstances and if that threshold is
met, then that's something that I would move forward on. And you also recognize that you have discretion to be able to hire invest private investigators and so on within the budget that's allowed to you to be able to do those things. So, it's not really you always doing uh the
searching of evidence, but rather more so reviewing the entirety of its case and whether it is a violation of our charter or our code. That is correct. So, in other words, don't do anything wrong and you won't have a problem. Basically,
all right. Just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Um, the other question I had for you, it allows us within our code to either retain you as an independent contractor or as a part-time employee. You have submitted that you would like to be an independent contractor. I would
be working with the council's approval. I would be working as an independent contractor. Uh, that's something that I would then negotiate. uh uh you know when when the time comes I would negotiate with the attorney and with your office uh as to the terms of this
contract and you realize that the contract also has two-year clauses which means that at the end of two years if we feel that um the job has either been done or hasn't been done to our under to our liking that the contract can't be terminated. That's my understanding.
Yes. So it's not in perpetuity basically. Exactly. Okay, just want to make sure I'm answering all the questions. [Music] Um, I feel very comfortable moving forward. Um, you know, I think that
there is a level of um, benefit to having someone that understands the way the city works for the purpose of what the IG office is intended to do. Obviously, someone with your experience in investigation and and and law enforcement, I think, is important as well. understanding of our charter and
our code also provides um you know benefits. Um I don't believe that you're here to abuse the powers within the uh IG's office. Um but I do think you'll keep people in check and I think that that is important. Um I
I see it very clear. Follow the rules, do things right and you have nothing to worry about. We have had a charter of office enforcement. We had it for 10 years and never got filled. I intend to fill the office of IG for 10 years. The
charter of office enforcement in our charter sat vacant because of conflicts of interest, because of impartialities, because of this, because of that. We never fulfilled the will of the voters. We will fulfill the will of the voters under this body. And so this is
what we are doing. It went through a committee. It went through a transparent process. It was opened. And I think that there's several safeguards and guardrails put in to make sure that neither this body nor the office of IG is abused. So I believe that your record
um does speak for itself. There was uh a a a background onto your previous history in law enforcement and nothing turned up that would be of any consequence or uh of any of anything that would worry us. Um, so I feel very
comfortable moving forward. I look forward to um working with you and hopefully everything that comes forward are recommendations from your office on how to be more efficient in government and that your office doesn't have to be used for in investigations if everyone does what they're supposed to do. So,
thank you very much for being here. Thank you for your patience and for answering the questions. I believe that there is a motion on the table. Um, so if everyone is done, we can go ahead and call the role. I have only one uh comment for the record. I would just ask that you please wait to be recognized when you want to. Am I
recognized? Yes, you are. Thank you for recognizing me. So my um I understand that this was uh the position was published in different um website because I requested um and what it the information that was given to me is that
it was posting the Florida Legal Cities FCCMA and Florida Public Human Resources Association platform. Um and I really don't understand even though my appointee of the committee also requested and asked why is it that this position was never posted our website
how is being always standard practice on our city to post all the positions on our on our website. So I just want to put that in the record that this position was not posted in our city uh website was just within the uh the links that I just read.
Thank you the mayor. Um, Councilwoman, I believe we answered that in the email that you forwarded to us um and explained that we followed the same process. HR followed the same process and the city clerk and the city attorney which were the ones that directed um the
committee that we followed for the charter enforcement position. Think I just wanted to put in the record. Thank you. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, please call. I have a motion to approve. Made by Counciloman Pinedo, seconded by Councilwoman Reynoso. Counciloman Pinedo, yes. Councilwoman Reynoso, yes.
Councilwoman Cabrell, no. Vice Mayor Pores, no. Mayor Fraga, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. Welcome, Mr. Valdez. We'll be in contact. All right. We have one more item for discussion items. Item 9F, discussion, council
meeting procedures and agenda management. Okay, Councilman Kabad, this is your item. I requested this item because we need to clarify the procedures we follow when um an agenda item is defer uh defer or move
after being placed on the formal agenda. At our city council meeting uh on April, one of my items was removed without a motion and without a state a stated reason that raises concern because our charter provided specific guidance on
how uh this action must be handling. And what it says here on uh charter uh civil rights on section A number seven says no matter once having been placed uh on a formal agenda by the city shall be
postponed or another day except for good cause shown. So um I'd like to ask a few questions city attorney to clarify. Um Mr. City attorney. Yes madam mayor. Counciloman. Okay. It's just to to be
able to interpret uh the other language and apply during the meeting. Um so u Mr. Lawrence, so it is your position as an is it your position that an item may be removed or deferred from the council
agenda without a motion or a vote? No. A motion needs to be made and a vote needs to be taken. It is correct that the charter uh requires good cause showing for any item placed on a formal agenda to be postponed
based on the civil rights I bill of rights. I'm not sure what document you're looking at. I can look at it and and this was uh updated on November 5th of 2024. Adopt a charter amended amendment. She's looking probably section 4.10 of
the charter. Okay. I'm assuming. Is that what you're looking at? Uh ma madam uh councilwoman. Yeah. C of Bill
right section A number seven and my last month was deferred without any vote I believe and I think that's a question for the the clerk that a vote was taken on the motion to defer last month. No, you can you can look into the video, but
aside from that, could you please answer on or you can interpret or you can be able to answer my question. The bill writes on the section 7 number seven, I mean section A number seven. Councilman, I'm trying to pull it up. I
was not prepared to answer this question. You cannot answer now. I can bring it back and so you can be ready for the next next then agenda. I would appreciate that. That would be fine. I will bring it then back to the next agenda so you will be prepared. Thank you. Before we exhaust this item, I would
just like to say that you know we all have preparations for our council meetings. We have our agenda review meetings. So when items like this come up, I think it is prudent um for efficiency and the benefit of the public as well as our time management that these items are discussed with the city
attorney, especially if it's your own item, councilwoman, um that you bring this to the city attorney's uh attention so that he is prepared to answer your questions because I think the uh gotcha moments got moment to educate everybody because you were saying that point of clarification, councilwoman, I'm I I had
the floor at this time. That's fine. Um, so I think that it's it's really more beneficial to be able to be prepared for these meetings um and come with a clear concise u prec precision on what you want to
discuss with this council. If there was a violation of the charter, well, we now have an IG office, so you can take up your grievances with him through the clarification. Yes, counciloman Marino. So, you're recognized. Is the council woman then
deferring her own item for a later date? Now I'm confused. Yes. And I'm giving the reason. The reason is because he needs to check on it. So I'm giving a reason. I'm deferring for his for him to be able to have the time to review because you I'm giving a reason. I'm not
just deferring it because you know is with a reason like is it on on the on the civil rights on the section seven number? Section A number seven. I have a quick question for the city attorney. Mr. City attorney, is this the first time you're being asked the question?
Yes. Yes, mayor. Okay, madame clerk, let's move on to the next item. As to this particular issue, I Well, I ask you if she if he could be defer and if there was no vote. We talked about that over the phone. We did. We spoke about We did talk about that. We spoke about the issue. Madam,
Mr. Counciloman, I just I want to clarify my my answer. You did speak to me absolutely about uh how motions are made and how they need to be voted with regards to deferral with regards to the issue of the of the section that you're referring to the charter. This this is the first time that I I'm hearing of it and I'm more than happy to look into it
for you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Madam Clerk, let's move on to item 6J, please. Yes, mayor. I think you need to take a deferral a resolution defer. You have to Okay, we need a motion on the deferral. Motion to defer.
Is there a second? Second. Motion to defer made by uh Counciloman Kar, seconded by Vice Mayor Pores. Council, yes. Vice Mayor Pores, yes. Council Reynoso, yes. Council Pedo, no. Mayor Fra, no. Motion
passes. Okay, we'll go back to item 6J. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of D, Florida authorizing the city manager to execute a work order with CHA, Inc. to provide professional services for the design and development of construction documents for the reconditioning of the existing city manager's office space area in the southwest side of the third level within
Dural government center building and for the reconditioning of the existing finance department office area under north side of the government center building in an amount not to exceed $113,750 authorizing the city manager to transfer $113,750 from account number
301.8005620 to account 301.8005 8000500310 and authorizing the city manager to expend budgeted funds on behalf of the city and furtherance hereof providing for implementation incorporation of recital and an effective date. This was pulled by council cabal. Okay, council cabal. This is your pled
by thank you for recognizing me. Um this item I just want to um I just want to ask a few questions to understand um this item of re renovation. Um on my understanding this is a work
that is going to be done on the third floor renovation uh involving uh the city manager's office uh finance department um and um and I think that there's other other departments as well um uh that are
involved also uh public affair uh public works no um no um public affairs and also uh HR car and uh also council members office and so yes ma'am am I right okay um what is the total amount
allocated to date for all third floor renovation including offices for the council council members uh legislator aids city manager deputy city manager finance department and any other related office is expected to be in that area
well councilwoman And um once again, um I uh I can tell you what this particular item's amounts are. If you would like an accounting of what all of that is, I will gladly share that with your office, but I'm not prepared to answer you
because I didn't know that this was information that you needed. Okay. Does this total include the current uh requested listed on the agenda or do you think that they might be even more? You mean for design services? No, we
believe that this particular phase of it the design services are going to be this amount. We you voted on the amount to do the design services to move the council offices and create your new offices in
the last meeting. in the last meeting that was for the $55,000 that has to do with the safety sprinklers and a few other things that has to do more with with the safety. Uh I I I know because I read that. So I So does this if you look at the proposal that's attached with the
item, it explains and I can read it off to you if you like. I know exactly I know exactly what I voted for, but thank you. What was the original proposal of a master plan that was presented for the third third floor uh re renovation project
master plan the um uh for the renovation? What was what was presented uh for the for the third floor in the last meeting on the well when we when the the one with the $500 we're talking that was uh
on February. What we presented in the meeting was simply the design services for the council offices. Okay. How many times uh have the finance and city manager office uh brought forward
additional funding requests for the third floor renovation since the first requested will be what was originally approved uh by $500,000? I mean I don't know which $500,000 you're referring to. Councilwoman. Okay.
But again, if we we went over this, um I had an agenda review with you. I I did not re I just need to ask these questions. I I understand, but I I would be much more prepared to answer them. You would have let me know that you wanted
Well, this is an item that is there. So I just have one the last question is how uh why have many of the supporting documents related to the renovation of uh are not being easy to be able to be
allocated within our web page uh or shared through the normal channels like it is in in legisar because last night I was searching and with the items attached to it I couldn't find it. I had to go to legislator to be able to find
it because there's nothing on the regular website and if you want we can later on if you don't have a knowledge of this I can sit down with you because all the others I open it and all the memos and I can see it except for this one. Okay. Well, um the clerk is here.
She can answer your questions with respect to that because I believe items are attached to the agenda through legisar and that they should be easily accessible on the website all of them for all agenda items. Again, you could have called me. I would have been happy to forward you whatever you needed last
night. It was really late. So, the uh this one it's not um this particular one. If you want after the meeting we can go. Absolutely. Because I want to understand why is it that one all of the other ones I was able to open it and I can see it except this one. Absolutely.
Wanted to make sure that you know any relevant documents will be very easily accessible by by the residents. Okay. Okay. I have a I have a quick question just for clarification. Thank you. is so is this in addition so just to understand now that it's been
brought up is it is this um a request for funding in addition to the one that we already made for the third floor construction yes ma'am so the design services that you voted on in the last meeting were to do the side of the council offices that is needs to be done
first and it needs to be done individually so that then we can move everybody and then rework the area that you're going going to be emptying out and also the legislative analyst area which is going to be incorporated as part of this design um into the
manager's office um and be able to do the work in finance so that we can rework um the asset management and procurement department um HR um and finance so that we are able to move
everybody around but we can't do that until we move the legislative analysts and the council to their new offices. So, this is the second part that we're going to start doing the design on to be ready once you're done probably at the
beginning of next year, which will be moving to be able to start and have this already permitted and ready to go. Okay. And I ask because, you know, I'm fine with the reconfiguration. Are will there be other like additional
requests for funding as it pertains to the reconfiguration because I I thought that the first one was like it or do you expect or anticipate more? So these are designed there will be construction that will be done. Um there it is my
understanding that we do have a certain amount that has been set aside for that construction for a very long time that's been being rolled over um years past to do this work and there will be that there. But once we have the design
completed and the permit then we will put that out to be able to see what the actual construction costs will be and then those will come back to you. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions?
We need a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Benedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman umo. Madam Clerk. Motion to approve. Made by Counciloman Peno. Seconded by Counciloman Reynoso. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Caval. No. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes.
All right. We move on to item 6 M. Item 6M. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dur Florida authorizing budget transfers in total amount of $166,359 and $40,000 from account number 001.800500633 to account number
001.800500461 and $45,000 from account number 001.800500633 to account number 001.800500522 $800500522 to cover unforeseen city vehicle maintenance and fuel expenses and $81,359 from account number
001.800500633 to account number 001.800500640 for the purchase of needed equipment for the public works department authorizing the city manager to process the budget transfers and to expand budgeted funds and furtherance hereof providing for implementation incorporation of recitals and an effective date. This was pulled by counciloman Caval. Okay, Councilwoman
Cavvernardi, you pulled this item. Thank you. This is a it's just a quick question that the transfer is uh reflecting uh forecast uh gaps or simply exceptional uh maintenance needed. Okay. Um, Councilwoman, I'm
going to bring up um our assistant city manager, Fernando Casmayor, and um our public works director, Carlos Aoyo, to answer uh the questions with respect to the budget transfer.
Good morning, Madame Mayor, council members. Uh councilwoman, this budget transfer is to cover a couple of things. One is the increase in fuel uh charges that we've seen, number of gallons used and then also price of fuel which um has
gone up. Uh the other one is to additional tire changer uh for post lift for the public works department and I believe a hot box which is part of street repair and if you need details regarding that uh Mr. Aoyo can can answer those. So this is just then
forecasting uh gaps within within the account. We we budget a year out and using information that is current or prior year information. It's very difficult sometimes to particularly hit a number like fuel um because so many
factors out of our control. Sure. We just leave a little contingency and that will help. Okay. We do the best we can. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I need a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by council. Second by counciloman. Madam clerk, please call the ro. Motion to approve by
counciloman pedo. Seconded by council car. Counciloman pined. Yes. Counciloman Carral. Yes. Counciloman Reoso. Yes. Vice Mayor Pores. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. Mayor's report. Yes. Mayor's report. All right. So, very quickly, just wanted to um remind everyone that
Saturday is the opening of phase two of Dal Central Park. I want to thank our parks and recreation uh department and particularly Lazro Kintterero too for their incredible work and dedication to getting this open. We have a lot of
great surprises. Um and I'm very excited for the community to see it. So, we hope that you will all be out there um on Saturday at uh 10:00 a.m. to be able to enjoy the activities and get a tour of the park, which will then be open for
use on May 18th, which I think Erin's more nervous about than the actual event. Um besides that, I just wanted to wish a happy birthday to a couple of special people. We have our city clerk's birthday, which was yesterday. Connie
Diaz, happy birthday. We also have Chief birthday which is coming up on May 30th and Councilwoman Reoso's birthday which is on May 10. So if you'll join us, we're going to sing happy birthday to all three of them. 1 2 3 Happy birthday to
you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Connie, Nicole, and Edwin. Happy birthday to you. [Music] [Applause]
All right, that concludes my uh mayor's report. You're welcome. City manager report. Yes. Thank you, mayor. Um so I'm going to call up our assistant city manager
CFO Fernando Casamayor um who is had a uh going to introduce um our new procurement and asset management director Roman Martinez. Good morning again. It's morning. Yes. Um good morning again. It is absolutely
my pleasure and an honor to present to you Mr. Roman Martinez who is our new procurement and asset management director. Uh Mr. Martinez has spent a considerable number of years in the procurement area uh both in the city of Miami Beach and also at most recently at
Miami Date College as their procurement director. Um he's hit the ground running. Uh this department has been in a state of flux for a while. So I am more than anyone here. I am super happy he's here because now I can sleep a little better at night. Thank you. And
um true wonderful human being. Everyone else that I know in the procurement world has congratulated me on hiring him. So I must be doing something right. Roman, welcome to the city of Dural. Um this is your family now. And hopefully um hopefully everyone else treats you really well cuz I would hate for you to
leave. He's got good chocolate on his desk. Well, I feel fortunate and blessed that I've been able to join the team here at Dural. Um, I want to thank city manager Zeta Sardinas and uh, Frank
and also um, Fernando for putting the trust in me to be able to do this job. Without their help, without their support, I I'm not going to be able to do it. So, uh, definitely I'm proud to be here and be able to be part of the team here at City of the RA. Thank you. Welcome, Roman. And as long as you keep
having chocolates on your desk, good. Thank you. Um so um next I would like to call up uh Chief of Police Edwin Lopez um for a special recognition of our police officers um whose actions led to
um saving the life of a toddler in our community chief and our deputy chief Alisa. Thank you madam manager. So, as many of you may have seen in the media coverage, three of our officers
performed some heroic acts um a few short weeks ago. Um they were involved in the saving of a life of a 2-year-old baby that for over a minute was upside down in a pool. And uh it just goes to to show you the courageous work that our
officers do in the face of adversity. Um officers work 24 hours a day, different schedules. only one of the officers was able to be here today, but it happens to be the officer that is also a parent um of two small kids. So, Officer Gallow, without further ado, and your and your
lovely wife, please come forward. [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] on behalf of the entire city of Dorado, city manager, mayor, and our entire elected body here, city administration, the Dorado Police Department, the Dorado
Police Department command staff. Um, I want to commend you on your heroic actions. Um, you are one brave individual and there's no way to train for a situation like that. Um, and we relied on you to represent the city well and do God's work and you far exceeded
that. So, we're grateful to have you on board. I am here presenting you with our life-saving award for your heroic actions and the corresponding insignia that goes on your uniform that very few people wear that you will wear for the rest of your career. Congratulations.
[Applause] Officer Gallow, we actually have something else for you as well. Um, and the other officers who couldn't join us today. Uh, uh, Valdez, right? Also, yes. Um, I saw the video personally and
actually got to meet the family and, um, for those who didn't hear the story, this little girl was, um, basically lifeless when they found her. She had been underwater for about a minute and a half. Um and the officers didn't stop um trying to save her life um until they
were able to get a gasp of air and then um ambulance got there shortly after, but they responded in less than 2 minutes. So very impressive and obviously those are the moments that are I mean that that really represent what law enforcement and our first responders do. Um but they're also moments very
difficult for I'm sure you as a father to see that was very very difficult. So we want to continue to remind our law enforcement that you do not have to go through these moments alone. They can be very traumatic and we want to know want you to know that the city's here to support you and that um to to support your families as well because we know
you go home to them and um and and they so graciously, you know, allow you all to do this line of work that you love. That's very honorable, but it's one of sacrifice. So, thank you very much for what you've done. I know this that family will forever be grateful to to the three officers that that um saved
the life of this little girl um and to the city of Dal. So, we will forever be grateful for you guys cuz um something that could have been very tragic turned out to be a story to highlight the good work of our police officers um that we know you guys do day in and day day in and day out but sometimes doesn't get recognized. So, we have some plaques for
you guys as well on behalf of myself as the mayor and our city council um to commemorate and and recognize the work that you guys do not only every day but in this specific moment. So, we're going to come down and take some pictures with you if that's okay as well. Madame Mayor, one one second, please. Um, officer GTO had he's been begging me for
just when he knew that he was going to come up here to speak. He wanted to Oh, yes. He So, he looks like he has a speech prepared. Yes. So, Officer G, a few words. Well, good morning everyone. Um, I'd like to thank everyone um especially the
chief of police and you know the body of the city of Dorado for this opportunity. Um, I was just doing my job and thank you for this recognition. It means a lot to me and my wife and everybody around me. Thank you. Yes. [Applause] [Music]
[Applause] Where? You can't talk. Get your photo, guys. Get your photos and then stay there for me. One here.
All right, madam city manager, do you have anything else for your report? No, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. your city attorney. Uh the only thing is I need an executive session on the Gomez matter. Okay. So, you'll be calling that
session? Yes. Okay. Um city clerk, we're ready to hear your very extensive report. My report is attached. Thank you very much for the birthday wishes and the cake. I appreciate all of you. How was your birthday? It was yesterday. No, not not when I know when it was. How was your birthday? It was very good. Thank
you. I worked. All right. Um that's all that is exhausts our morning meeting. I need a motion to recess. Motion to recess. Motion to recess by councilman Benedo. Second. Second by councilo. All in favor say I. I. All right. Let the record reflect that the motion has passed
unanimously. We'll see you all at 6 p.m. [Music] Part: 2
All attendees are in listenonly mode. Guys, we're starting. Good afternoon everyone. We're calling this meeting to order. Today is May 14th, 2025. The time is now 6:16 p.m. This is our afternoon evening session
for a regular scheduled council meeting. Madame clerk, please call the role. Councilwoman Nicoroso, present. Council Rafael Pinedo, present. Councilwoman Da Gab, here. Vice Mayor Moras here, Mayor Christie Fraga, President Motion passes. Please rise. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance
led by Council Reo. 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.
Okay. Agenda, order of business. Is there any other new items to consider in this agenda? Madam, city manager, Mr. City Attorney? No, mayor. Okay. No, Madame Mayor. All right. We'll move into public comments
at this time. All right. For public comments, please remember that you can approach the podium and speak on any item on this agenda or anything germanine to this council. You have three minutes to speak in a respectful manner. Please state your name and address for the record. We'll go ahead and start with the comment cards. If you did not fill out a comment card, you can still speak. Just
make sure to fill out a comment card as you conclude. Um, we're going to go ahead and start with Mr. Richard Gludstat. Good evening. Richard Luxstead 4768 Northwest 14,000. I have this t-shirt. You can read it. It says, "I'm not really mad.
I'm just German." But what does that really mean? Well, a German person like me who happens to have been born in the United States because of World War II is very sensitive to the political
environment in which he lives today. especially anything that has anything close to smells like, looks like, acts like fascism, Nazism. But I am
disappointed. I never in my wildest dreams thought that the people in Dural and even the nation as a as a whole could wind up falling into the trap of fascism in which we've created
for ourselves right now. We know how well corruption destroys government and society. Germany was a product of that corruption. Anytime we have corruption in government and we get to the point
where somebody comes in like Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump and says he's going to solve all our problems on day one, you know that's a lot of bull. That's just to get people to vote for them, to support them. So when they get into the power, they can steal all the money. They can do all the corruption
they want. They can take airplanes from the Qatari royal family. They can rape people. They can take people away and make them disappear. That's what we've gotten to now.
Transparency International, which is located in Berlin, Germany, has rated our country an F- rating in corruption. We have a 64. We're number 25 from the top. That's an F. Now, most of the c most all the countries that you
come from are in the 40s, rated in the 40s. Latin America, even more corrupt than the United So, the reason you came here, your families came here, like my family came here, is to get away from that. And you're doing the same exact
corruption and stupidity that your families ran away from, that you yourselves ran away from. You're acting like corrupt fascists. You see it, but you ignore it. You smell it, but you pretend it's not
there. Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, just to name a few. That's the background we see here. So why are you here today? Why why didn't your families just stay in those
countries? Or why did you have to be born here to continue that corruption that you supposedly fled from? The dictators, the right-wing dictators. You people supported those dictators. Samosa was in there twice. His son, the father
and the son. Haiti, Papa Doc, and Baby Doc. Mr. Cuba had Florencio Batista in there twice. He was elected dictator twice. When are you going to wake up and
smell the coffee and stop putting money in your pocket just thinking about yourselves? Where are you going to go when this place collapses? If you ready for a revolution, don't. Believe me, it's going to happen because people are going to get fed up. We've given you an
additional 20 seconds. Please wrap up. Thank you. So be careful what you do, what you say, the way you treat people. Learn the constitution. You take oath to support it, but yet you don't support the constitution. What you do is you
support yourselves. Thank you, Mr. Gladstat. Appreciate it. How about supporting the country, democracy, people? Don't think of yourself first, think of your country first. If this is your country, thank you.
Next we will have Louis Mar Gara. I got a quick question because it's been a while. Still trying to clarify. If I comment now for three minutes when it has to do with an actual agenda item, do I wait till you discuss it or do I discuss my agenda item now? If it is a
public hearing item, we will open up public comments at that time for those items specifically. But you have to speak specific to that item. Yes. And do and how do I know that it's what second reading? Um the first and second I can talk on. I will open up public comments. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, I guess but based
upon what he did, is this like a freebie? Well, we we always have public open public comments at the beginning of every meeting. On the second one, correct? Again, Louis Marissa Betty Garza. Once again, I'm just going to kind of uh tie into what he just said.
Um if I can find it here. I am going to be a little bit opposite of you, my good friend. I'm going to say to each of you, start listening to where Trump is pointing. And in the vein of God works in mysterious ways to all the crafty and
illegal vulture Venezuelans, as have been traitors in Dorado for decades. You have heard our commander-in-chief Donald Bam Bam Trump and it bodess you well to seriously reconsider a longstay destination in your familial
genealological homeland. God shall guide you from there. Doi and Dural and seen I'll see you on the next items. Thank you Miss Garza. Okay, that concludes our public comments common cards. If anyone else
would like to speak, now would be the opportunity. Please approach the podium. Being no more public comments, we will close this portion of the meeting. Madam clerk, with the record, no one else has chosen to speak at this time and we will move on to our public hearing items. Madam clerk, madam
mayor, can I please swear in the witnesses? Yes, ma'am. If you will be presenting testimony in any of the public hearing items, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear affirm that the information I'm about to present shall be the truth and nothing but the truth. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you very
much. First item, item 19B, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida approving 9A parking variance for IMF Dorado LLC for the property located at 1212 Northwest 82nd Avenue, Dorado, Florida, pursuant to section 53-460 of the city's land
development code providing for survability conflicts and an effective date. Thank you very much, Madame Clerk. I will open up public comments for this item at this time. Public comments is now open for 25-6153. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please
approach the podium. Okay. Being none, public comments is closed. Go ahead. Sorry. Waiting for the queue up. It please presentation. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Michelle Lopez on behalf of the planning and zoning department this
evening to present your first land use item. The applicant is IMF Dorado LLC for a project located at 1212 Northwest 82nd Avenue. Uh the site is approximately 3.35 acres and the applicant is requesting a variance from
section 77139 required off- streetet parking uh of the city's land development code to permit a parking reduction from the required 151.2 parking spaces to 133 parking spaces which effectively is a
12% reduction through their application. The site is currently uh land used as business with an industrial zoning classification. Uh land uses to the north and to the east are also industrial with business land uses to the south and west. And then we have
industrial zoning to the north and to the east and commercial corridor zoning to the west and the south. The site uh was developed in 1988 when uh prior to the city's incorporation and
followed the parking calculations for hotel at the time which is a transient use and typically doesn't require the level of parking that multif family does. Um the site currently features eight two-story buildings and four three-story buildings each containing four units per building. Uh there's 52
one-bedroom, one bath apartments and 60 studio apartments which totals 112 units. The applicant intends to convert the existing hotel into a multif family residential apartment project with a deed restriction for residents aged 55
and older. The site plan is currently under administrative site plan review subject to the uh Florida Live Local Act affordable housing program pursuant to Florida statutes 166.04151 which was effective July 1st
of last year. Site photos on the screen will show uh a photo of the interior side of the property as currently developed and the bottom photo is a view from Northwest 82nd Avenue. The site plan through uh the
administrative site plan process is not changing. The site plan is simply converting the use from the existing hotel use uh to multif family with the deed restriction discussed.
parking calculations in our code um require effectively 1.35 uh spaces per unit which is how we got to that 151.2 calculation. The site as I mentioned has uh 133 parking spaces. The
original application was seeking to go for straight multif family. Uh however, in an effort to reduce their desired variance or or their needed variance to continue with the project, the applicant profered uh the deed restriction for
residents that are 55 and older and the code effectively reduces the parking calculation for that specific use with the deed restriction. As such, staff recommends that the mayor and council members consider the proposed parking variance for IMFl
located at 121282nd Avenue with the added condition that the variance will be null and void at time of future site development. I'm available for questions and the attorneys land use council is also present this evening. Thank you. Thank you Michelle.
Okay, there's any questions or if there is any presentation from the applicant. Otherwise, we need a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by councilman Benedo. Second by councilman Kavad. If there's no other discussion, madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to
approve made by Councilman Pedo, seconded by Counciloman Caraval. Councilman Pedo, do something. Counciloman Pedo, yes. Councilwoman Caraval, yes. Counciloman Reoso, yes. Vice Mayor Poras, yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much. We move on to the
next item. Item 19 C first reading ordinance number 202518 amending chapter 34 alcoholic beverages. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of the city of Florida amending chapter 34 of the city of D code ordinances titled alcoholic beverages providing for incorporation of recital incorporation into the code severability and an
effective date. Thank you very much. We're going to go ahead and open up public comments for this item. Public comments is now open for item 25-6162. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium at this time. I do have one comment card
for Mr. Richard Bled. He's outside. One last time, Mr. Richard, we do have a comment card for you for item 25-616219C. Would you like to speak? That's right. Please make sure your comments are
addressed to this item. Okay. Pardon me. Please make sure your comments are addressed to this item for public comments. Thank you. Yeah. I wouldn't want to be disappeared if I didn't, would I? No. Sent to a goolog
in Afghanistan or some place. Okay. Richard Lux. I'm going to talk about this because I remember all the hubbhub when the thing was originally passed and when I saw the contract prepared so well so fast I said
that nobody in this city wrote that that had to be a mafia contract that one of the club owners had had put in front of you to pass. And I remember uh Marine Porus viferously supporting it originally.
Mr. Some of you were were against it. General, please. I'm talking about this. I know. So, my trying to be kind, but please, that's this is the way I I talk. Just don't don't interrupt me. You're just like Bermudas. You're you're all the same. You're all
dictators. So, now I see everything's changing. A lot of the old stuff was struck out and basically nothing was put in there to to to to really change it to make it better. As a matter of fact, it looks worse to
me. And from what I can see, you're letting these uh these clubs stay open basically as late as they wanted to in the first place. So what happened is here they are fighting after people were killed so we could
change things and everybody would look nice and kosher and everything except maybe Marine Porus who thought the thing was terrific. But now you're going back and changing it again to make it less desirable for the
public in general and more dangerous especially for the police. So that's why I'm against it. There's no reason you had to change that. It was fine the way it was. The clubs had to go through a process in order to get extended hours. That was
fine. I was kind of okay with that. Even though I didn't think they should stay open till 3:00 like you're going to do now. But this is wrong. Somebody's putting money in somebody's pockets to pass this, to change it, to go back to the
way it was. You'll say, "Okay, don't worry, Mr. Martini Bar. We'll do this now." that in 6 months we'll bring it back when nobody remembers and we'll change it for you. Don't don't worry, we'll get it right back to the way you want it. And that's what's happening now.
People have a real short memory. Real short memory. I have a good memory. There's a lot of things about some of you I I remember that that aren't even worth repeating. If I really wanted to get down and dirty, I could really I could
really do it. So don't pass this. Don't BS the people anymore. Stop changing things all the time for your own conveniences. Do things the right way and stop changing political parties
at the drop of a hat. Thank you, Mr. Gladstone. Anyone else can do what's in your best interest item? If anyone else would like to speak, please approach the podium at this time. Being none, madam clerk, public comments is now closed. The
record reflect no one else has chosen to speak. And we'll turn this over to uh planning and zoning and the city attorney's office for clarification. Thank you, Madame Mayor, City Council. uh in conjunction with city attorney's
office and uh code enforcement planning and zoning. Uh after receiving the direction from the city council during the February 12th, 2025 council meeting, staff was directed to review and recommend
modifications for policy direction to chapter 35 of the city code. Through these proposed amendments, we've done that for the council's consideration. I'm going to walk you through these eight items. They're highle points. I'll explain them in a little bit more detail
to provide some clarity and then uh Mr. Kella and myself are available for questions. So the first item that I'd like to touch on is a clarification to the definitions where we've added definitions for regular permitted and
extended permitted. Specifically, regular permitted, which wasn't previously defined, uh, means the sale of hours for alcohol, um, I'm sorry, sale of sale hours for alcohol shall mean the permitted sale of alcohol from 8:00 a.m.
to 1:30 a.m. For extended permitted sale hours for for alcohol shall mean the permitted sale of hours from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. The second item on the screen is a clarification of the classification of
vendors. So in the prior rendition of the code, there was three classifications that all had varying definitions and it we found that it caused confusion for the businesses, the residents, the patrons, staff, code enforcement, etc. Not because the staff
doesn't understand the code. We understand it quite well. But because you could be one classification prior to a certain time in the evening, we'll say 1000 p.m. just for an example, and then at 10:01 your business can turn into a different classification. We found that
when applying that in the field during business operating hours, that became confusing and we always want to provide clarity. So the previous classifications were alcohol establishments, entertainment venues, and entertainment
establishments. So we've combined all three of those classifications under entertainment establishments, which is also referenced in the land development code. So by doing this, we don't have to go back into the LDRs and amend those.
So entertainment establishment as currently defined in the proposed is a business primarily devoted to serving alcohol beverages in which the service of food and/or entertainment is secondary to the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Entertainment establishments include without limitation dance halls, nightclubs,
adult entertainment venues. Uh they may also include art galleries, theaters, state charter nonforprofit theaters with live performances, movie theaters, museums, banko halls, bowling alleys, billiards, and amusement facilities. Um they may also include alcohol alcohol beverage establishments which are
business businesses primarily devoted to serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises including without limitation bars, pubs, lounges, tasting rooms and wine cafes. The third item that we're going to touch on is the extended hours review
and approval process. So in the current version of the code as adopted, the extended hours permit is a council action item. We felt that we could effectively get to the same result by making it an administrative review
process, administrative review and approval process. And if the administration denied an application, it would then default to an appeal process that's available in the code. This is very similar to or actually exactly like your administrative site plan review process where if staff denies the
request, the applicant may appeal it to the city council. The next item on your list is location restrictions. So currently your code has a distance requirement um from educational facilities, places of worship from
2500 ft to a place that serves alcohol. We felt that this was excessive and so we're reducing that distance from 2500 ft to 500 ft. And then also uh there was a very extensive list of similar uses
that we've stricken. And what that means is if you're in a shopping center and you have three or four restaurants, the code effectively didn't allow for all of those restaurants to pull entertainment established permits or um extended hours permits. So we felt
that that was a hardship to some of the businesses. So we've gone ahead and stricken that list. The next item on the list is the city exemption where the city is exempt from the requirements of the chapter and the city may host and participate in events where alcohol will be sold or
included with or without price or admission or without the necessary to comply with this section of the code. The next item your list for clarification from the public comment received is the hours of sale and consumption. We're actually rolling back the hours, not rolling them forward. And
so, currently, restaurants can do last service at 1:30. That's not changing. Restaurants will continue to be able to sell sell and serve until 1:30. Entertainment establishments, which was previously
entertainment establishments, alcoholic establishments, and entertainment venues. Currently in the code, uh, they have to do last service. They can call for last service at 2:30. We're rolling that back to 1:30. So, we're rolling it back by an hour. And then current the
current closure as codified is 3:30 a.m. We're rolling that back to 2 a.m. Uh for extended hours, we're doing something similar. Last service as codified is 2:30 a.m. We're proposing 2 a.m. a 30-minute roll back. closing as codified
is 3:30 a.m. We're proposing a 2:30 a.m. um closing. So that's a roll back of an hour. And then in the current code, everyone needs to be out by 4:00 a.m. We're proposing 3:00 a.m. The next item on the list is the
public safety measures affidavit. In the current code, uh there's a security plan that is required um which includes security cameras, use of offduty police officers or private security, uh use of weapons detection system, identification
checks, uh and then obviously compliance with the Florida Responsible Vendor Act pursuant to Florida statute. uh as the code is currently written. The applicant submits that security plan to staff with their application. Planning and zoning reviews it. We give it to the police
department. They review it. They conduct an inspection. The police department signs off. They give their approval to planning and zoning. And then we issu and then we take the item to council. We felt that that was an exhaustive process for the city staff. It also created
extensive liability to the police department, the administration, and staff. Florida statutes does have regulations that require the applicant to comply with not allowing firearms in a place of business that serves alcohol
and other measures that they require for security. So, we felt that we could keep the requirements for security measures, but rather than the city signing off on those security measures and conducting conducting an inspection, the applicant would give us an affidavit certifying
that they're in compliance and they need to maintain that compliance. And the last item on the list is the code enforcement measures. Uh, in the current rendition of the code, code is to go out four times a
year. We felt that the c uh the the businesses if if they determine that they're only going to be inspected four times a year, they can take the risk of going through those inspections,
possibly failing, possibly passing, and then they're not inspected the rest of the year. We felt that all code enforcement measures should defer back to chapter 11, which is the code enforcement chapter of the code. And that allows our code enforcement department to inspect businesses as
needed year round um without restriction or limitation on number of inspections. I'm available for questions. As stated earlier, our city attorney, Mr. Coella, is also available for questions. Thank you so much.
All right. Thank you very much. Anything you want to add, Mr. Just want to add one point uh to the actual affidavit that's going to be uh signed. It's also going to include an indemnity uh provision and hold harmless. Uh so in the event that something happens,
another tragedy, God forbid that never happens again, then the um holder or the theant will hold harmless the city for any u thing that may may occur. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you very much. Any questions from the
[Music] council? I do have uh just a couple clarifications. Um and I think most of it was ex was was uh clarified in your presentation. U Michelle, but um from my understanding of reviewing
this and and I had actually stated from the very beginning I was in agreement and wanted to see a change to this to stricter hours which is what I had proposed originally which this code does and is much more clear. But I think the most important part was the clarification of uses and um
descriptions of the businesses because of the complications of confusion that it could cause even for the business owner under what they fall and what licenses they have to pull. And I think that's where most of our violations um is that thought they thought that they fall under one thing and they fall under another and and and those restrictions.
So I think clarifying who has what type of license is just it's much clearer for staff and for the business owner to understand what their limitations are. Correct. Okay. Second um you went through the roll back of the hours. I
just wanted to make it very clear. Right now the businesses were still o available to be open till 4 a.m. We are rolling that back where it has to shut down at 3 if you are established under nightclub as an extended hours. Yes. As extended hours. And if not, it's 2:00
a.m. Yes. Um, and last call is at 3 at 3:30 for those extended hours or 2 a.m., sorry. And then 3:30 is the last call is 2:00 a.m. 2 a.m. Right. And then they have the 30 minutes to get out and then 30 minutes to make sure everybody is
cleared out. Correct. Right. So, just to make sure cuz if you have last call at 2 a.m., the idea is you get 30 minutes to be able to have that drink, whatever it was, lights turn on, everybody has to be out by 3. Correct. with the extended hours permit. The extended hours permit. Otherwise, it's you fall under the
regular restrictions of 1:30 and 2 a.m. Yes. Correct. And then restaurants, we left it the same. We didn't touch it, which that was at 1:30. Um, for the extended hours, we didn't change the fact that we've created security measures except we've taken the liability off the city and required them
to do it. And now we can do random inspections. Yes. Versus basically they know they don't know when we're coming, but they know it's four times a year. So they did four already. They know the rest of the year they can party free. Right now it's now it's randomly we can show up and if we do do that inspection,
they're not following the code, they're not doing the wanding and all the things they're supposed to be doing, we can pull their license. Correct. Okay. And there's after after a number of offenses. Yes. Correct. But eventually you can pull their license if they're not. So I just want to clarify any misconception that there may be that
this is a less stricter um section of our code. We're actually making it more clear for everyone and we are making it stricter and safer in our community rolling them back which I think was what we should have done from the first place. I didn't I didn't support the first read the first changes
because I didn't think that it actually um met the the the needs of our community. I don't think that it accomplished the intent of what we were trying to do to make sure that what happened doesn't happen again. So, I'm very comfortable with these changes. Obviously, this is something that we
will continue to monitor. Um, you know, the the the changes that were made also in distance, I think, was very very heavily studied because there was a lot of businesses that ran into issues um that had been here and who came first and if the business sold. So, I think
that they're very reasonable um and and we haven't had an issue with, but obviously we monitor these things and review them um so that if changes need to happen, they can. Clearly what what was changed back in October did not work. Um and that's why these proposals
have come forward. So I feel very comfortable moving forward this. I think that um it really clarifies any ambiguities that may be in our code. So thank you very much for working on this. I need a motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pedo. Second. Second by councilwoman Reynoso. If there's no
further questions, madam clerk, please call. Motion to approve ordinance number 202518 on first reading made by counciloman pedo. Seconded by council. Counciloman Pedo. Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Cavan. Yes. Vice Mayor Poras. Yes. Mayor Faga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. We move on to
the next item. Madam item 19D, ordinance number 202519, amending chapter 68 article 3 tandem parking and mixeduse developments. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of Dal Ford amending chapter 68 article 3 of the city of Dal code of ordinances title office districts creating section 68-307
title tandem parking and mixeduse development providing for incorporation of recitals incorporation into the code serability and an effective date. Thank you very much. We're opening up public comments for item 25-6163. Anybody that would like to speak on this issue, please approach the
podium. Louis Mara Betty Garza. Um, there seems to be a little bit of flexibility in how we're communicating. And I will tell you, as as witchy as I am in comparison to Maricopa County, Arizona, you're miles above. And I'm sure there's going to be some
comparisons made video-wise soon. But for the tandem on 19D and 19E, if I could make a suggestion, part of the order of when we come here and take notes of the presentation and then we formulate our
questions as you're formulating yours, would it be too much of a hardship if you reverse the order of allowing the presentation first? I take notes. I know which kind of questions I wish to ask and then it goes back to you and it
might answer many questions without us going and not being able to actually review the attached hyperlinks. So in that regard, I had two or three comments for the one before without realizing once she presented it. So I I'll end up sending you an email, but number three
for extended hours. Now I'm going to get a little witchy. It seems to me like it's an easy way if you roll back the hours and have them have a special use permit that it's a way to bank a little extra money for the filing fees and the people that they have to hire, etc. That
would be my negative point on that, but consider the order in which it's presented. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any other comments on this item 25-616319D? Being none, madam clerk, I got the record. Everyone has chosen to
speak at this time and we will hear from planning and zoning if there's any or sorry city attorney's office. Not sure which one. I think it's city attorney's office. Yeah. So this is um an item that I worked on with with planning and zoning. Um it's something that is uh
addressing a particular need in a very specific area uh in the city uh in order to be able to provide uh for better residential parking in this particular mixed use. Uh and what it's basically doing is it's just allowing for tandem parking. and tandem parking and forgive the graphic, but it's the easiest way is when you have a car parked and you have
a car parked right behind it. Uh, and you allow that. That's usually allowed in uh single family homes and we're just going to allow it in in mixed use in the in this particular uh district. Uh you'll notice in the actual ordinance itself that geographically it is restrictive to a particular area. Uh and
if you have any questions uh either Miss Lopez or I can can answer those. Thank you very much, Mr. City Attorney. If there's no more questions, then we just need a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso.
Madam Cler, please call. Motion to approve ordinance number 202519 on first reading by Counciloman Pedo. Seconded by Council Reynoso. Counciloman Penedo. Yes. Council Reoso. Yes. Council Caral. Yes. Mayor Boras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much. We move on to the next item. Next item.
19E. Ordinance number 202520. Amending chapter 68 article 4 tandem parking and mixeduse developments. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dal Florida amending chapter 68 article 4 of the city of draw code ordinances title commercial districts creating section 63-387 titled tandem parking and mixeduse developments
providing for incorporation recital incorporation to the code serability and an effective date. Thank you very much. We're opening up public comments item 25-6164. Anyone like to speak Garza? She didn't answer but did you explain what the tandem issue? give me the cliff
notes on what this tandem uh parking is like and that's why in the order of things I could present that question before the it's approved. So if I could get that for this one, what is the entire structure of tandem parking? Thank you. Anyone else would like to
speak on this item? Any public comments? Please approach the podium being none. Public comments closed. Madam cler no one else has chosen to speak at this time. Mr. city attorney. Any additional comments? Uh madame mayor, this item is identical to the previous one. Uh the previous one dealt with particular mixed
use uh units, I'm sorry, in office districts. This one addresses the same in commercial districts. Uh but it is basically the same identical ordinance. If you have any particular questions, if you like tandom parking is one car parks behind the other in the same unit. So if
you have the same unit, you can park one car behind the other husband and wife and it preserves some space valet. Correct. Yes. You're welcome. Okay. No other questions. We need a motion. Motion. Motion to
approve by Counciloman Pedo. Second by Councilwoman Cabaral. Sorry, I wasn't sure where it came from. Madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202520 on first reading. May by Counciloman Pedo, seconded by Councilwoman Caval. Counciloman Pinedo. Yes. Counciloman Caval. Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes.
Vice Mayor Porz. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. We move on to second reading items. Madam clerk. A second reading item 19F ordinance number 202514 amending article 3 boards committees and commissions. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of city of draw amending article 3 boards committees and
commissions in chapter 2 administration of the city's code of ordinances revising the sunset provision and appointment requirements providing for implementation incorporation to the code severability conflicts and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on April 16th. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We're opening up the uh public comments
for item 25-6137. Anyone who would like to speak, please approach the podium. Louis Morett Garza. Um you are according to the hyperleague amending the article 3, the board's committees, commissions, and sun setting. Um and appointment requirements, are you minimizing them?
Are you complicating it? Are you changing the whole structure? um if you give us a little bit more clarity on what is going on with this particular one. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other public comments? Being none,
public comments are now closed. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pedato. Second. Second by Council Reoso. Any other questions? All this does um Miss Garza is um take certain restrictions off like um members that are appointed
had to attend a meeting before actually being appointed to a board. Um background checks, things like that. It makes it a little bit more accessible to our community to be able to be appointed to a board. That's all this does. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Madam clerk, please call the motion to approve
ordinance number 202514 on second reading. Made by council pedo, seconded by council also. Counciloman Pedo, yes. Councilwoman Reynoso, yes. Councilwoman Cabal, yes. Vice Mayor Pores, yes. Mayor Faga, yes. Motion passes. All right, moving on to the next one. Sorry, I thought I was closing public comments
again. Move on, madame clerk. Item 19G, Ordinance number 2025, amending chapter 8, pedals, solicitors, and canvasers. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of city of D, Florida, amending chapter 8, business article 3, pedals, solicitors, canvasers, providing for implementation, incorporation into the
code, severability, and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on April 16th. Okay, we're opening up public comments for item 25-6126. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium. Well, God works in mysterious
ways. Again, um certainly this hand um is directed somewhat to homeless people. So, if you could give me the cliff notes on what is being modified in this particular thing. Um, bear in mind I have not had time to dig into all this
from today. So, because like I said, I've been gone for a long time. So, cliff notes, please. Thank you. Anyone else would like to speak? Being none. Public comments closed on item 19G25-6162. Motion. Motion approved by Council
Member Pedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. There's no further questions. This item has coming forward to amend our code because uh business owners had to pull a permit through the clerk's office to solicit private communities. So, it is basically just
taking the clerk out of it. Now, they just have to go to planning and zoning to pull a permit to be able to knock on doors if you're selling something. That's all. Madam clerk, please call the vote. Motion to approve ordinance number 2025 on second reading made by council pedo. Seconded by council pedo. Yes.
Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Council Cabal. Yes. Vice Mayor Boras. Yes. Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Item 19H, Ordinance number 202516, amending Office of the Inspector General Duties, an ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, amending chapter 2, administration,
division 5, section 2-185, Office of the Inspector General, providing for implementation, incorporation into the code, serability, and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on April 16th. All right, we're opening up public comments for item
25-6118. Public comments is now open. Forgot about me. Please make sure to give one to the clerk, Miss Garza. Okay, Louis Mar Garza with reference to this as you have put together and I'm sorry I'm going to be a little witchy now as you've put together um the IG the
new IG and I would like to present to you as you are involved with this also this is a book if you look at page nine I just checked it out of the little city library and I would like for you to read what you're reading and from Arizona Maricopa County
Arizona I say to you Arizona ARS 3507 say hello to Florida statute 847012 and I the reason it applies is because the new IG said that he's ready for a job and this is a kind according
to the memo that says your conduct has permitted this book to be in access for the library just down the street now I'm going to read it real quick because I know I don't have a lot of time but Florida statute says does. And this book
is called It's Perfectly Normal. And as you know, in addition to all the societal ills that I am suffering at the moment, I also happen to be of the LG community, the lesbian version, one gender for my female body. It is unlawful for any person knowingly to
sell rent or loan for monetary consideration to a minor to distribute to a minor to allow a minor to view harmful material. A person who violates this section commits a felony of the third degree. As used in this section, harmful to minors means any reproduction, image, description,
exhibition, presentation, or other written or recorded matter that depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sexual assignment. Page nine predominantly appeals to a purant, shameful or morbid interest of minors and finally is
utterly without redeeming serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors. That being said, I do commend you for allowing me to speak because if you take the time to look at the videos that have occurred in
Maricopa County, Arizona for the last 6 months, it has been obscenely contentious. Now, each one of you work for the government and the conduct of having this book in this library and they apparently are all over the country needs to be removed out of the reach of
the children and definitely not in the libraries. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going. All right. Any other public comments? Being none, public comments is now closed. Do we have a motion or any questions? I have some comments. Okay.
Before we actually go into that, I just want to clarify. Um, Miss Garza, the public library is under Miami date county. I will be sure to contact our county commissioner's office and I would suggest he's right down the road that you go and speak with him as well because that should not be in our public
libraries. Copa County is going to learn from you. We'll make sure to to let them know that that is in our public libraries. I definitely don't want that in our city public libraries. But I'll give you Commissioner Bermudez's office which is right down the road because that that falls under county commissioners. Just talked to him for three years now. But go ahead. But I
will make sure to reach out to the chairman of the board as well. Thank you. All right. Any questions on this item? I have some. Vice Mayor. Yes. Um, just very quickly, I spoke to the attorney about it. The Well, there's two items. This one
and the other one. I think my comments are relevant, but I'll I'll make this one quick because this one's only essentially assigning the the duties of a code compliance officer to an inspector general. But the last sentence of section
2-1857 which is being added to this is says that citations issued by the inspector general may be appealed to the 11th judicial circuit in and for Miami date county, Florida. And that um sentence is incomplete and makes it in
my opinion in violation of due process as we need to actually receive notice and an opportunity for a hearing before any penalty can be assessed. Um, my suggestion is to remove that last
sentence since we're going to deal with it in the next item, but I'm happy to discuss it now or if we can discuss it in the next one. But the point is that my my view on that is that it lacks the
constitutional protections that uh due process affords to us. Mr. Attorney, can you opine Mr. City Attorney? Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Vice Miss uh Miss Madame Vice Mayor. Words are hard to get out of my mouth after a full day.
Um, chapter 162 has two different sections, part one and part two. Part one is really where it it discusses an alternative method by which code enforcement officers can either create a code enforcement board or a magistrate process and and process the citations.
Um, let's call it in-house. There's an alternative also. Actually, that is the alternative. the the standard is embedded in chapter 162.21 which is enforcement of county or municipal codes or ordinances. That entire code provides that uh how code enforcement officer is
supposed to act who can be a code enforcement officer. The fact that 30-day notice needs to be provided uh the fact that uh also citations um that for for the contesting of citations in county court. Um it was discussed that based on the nature of these particular
types of violations which deal with really the the conduct of the uh of the board that it's perhaps better for those to be contested. I mean after giving due notice and and all the necessary requirements under chapter 16221 to county court. So, I would suggest if
we're going to adopt it, uh just to to make a couple of uh corrections um in in in spec specifically where it says citations issued by the inspector general, I would put uh may be contested um as provided in Florida uh statute chapter 162 to the county court in for
Miami date county. And that way it just follows one or and we can be very specific actually more specific and say as provided in Florida statute chapter 162.21 21 uh which uh lays out all the all the notice provisions if that that's acceptable. I think that works.
Okay. Madam clerk, did you gra Did you grab that? I'm going to have to gather it. We're adding Yeah, I I'll be specific. So section 2-185 section 7. Right. So on section 7 where it says appeal to the 11th circuit court in for Miami County, Florida, we
would strike that and replace it with contested as provided in Florida uh statutes chapter 162.21 to the county court in infor Miami date county. I will get that from the record. All right. Okay. Motion. Motion. All right. Motion
to approve with that um addition. Right. Second by by Councilwoman Reynoso. Any other questions or concerns? Being none, Madam Clerk. Motion to approve ordinance number 202516 as
amended. Made by Counciloman Pedo, seconded by Councilwoman Reynoso. Council Penedo, yes. Counciloman Reynoso, yes. Council Makoda, no. Vice Mayor Poras, no. Mayor Fraga, yes. Motion passes. Okay, we move on to the next item. The
next item 19 I, ordinance number 202517, penalties for violating rules of conduct an orders of the mayor and the city council of the city of D Florida amending chapter 2 administration article 2 city council and creating division 5 penalties providing for implementation incorporation or recital incorporation into the code serverability and an effective date.
This was approved on first reading on April 16th. Okay, we're opening up public comments for item 256140. Anyone would like to speak, please approach the podium at this time. All right, being none, public comments is now closed. Madam clerk, the record
reflect no one has chosen to speak at this time. Any questions on this item? I have comments on this. Okay, thanks Morris. Okay, so just to reiterate the same. Um, this one actually goes into the actual procedure for issuing a
citation as well as withdrawing or let me see deducting the the fine from the council stipend. So I think that and I agree with with
adding the citations should be addressed or handled pursuant to section 162.21. My issue is that the way it's written here is not consistent with that. Okay. So, if we could say that
again, like reiterate the same thing, I think it would meet the requirement because I mean, I can point out exactly what's not consistent with it, but I think that'll that'll fix it. Yeah, I imagine that you're you're referring to section B where it discusses appeals of citations to the 11th. We can strike
that and and and reform it and be specific as to following all the uh notice provisions and requirements as provided in chapter 162.21. that one. And also right after C, any fine due by a member shall be deducted from his or
her stipen by the finance director at the direction of the city manager. I think adding language again that it needs to go through it needs to go through process. Right. Absolutely. And once the order is final, then that can be deducted. But once all uh all remedies have been exhausted, I'm okay
with adding that language if the board is okay with adding that. Yeah. This still this doesn't change the fact that um it has to go through the process of um being appealed to a court. Correct. I what I don't want is our magistrate to become a courtroom which is why I think
it was important to se have those separations. There needs to be enforcement of penalties. Right now we have sections of our code that be that get violated and there's no penalties. There's no enforcement to you know someone not following the rules. they're
there, but then they are violated and and and there's no penalty. So now with the IG's office, those um complaints should and grievances should be taken up with the IG's office, the IG office will review if there is evidence and actual
wrongdoing based on the charter and the code. And if they have findings of such based on that evidence and their due diligence and investigation, then they will recommend the penalty or they will they will actually issue they will issue the citation of the violation. Um, if it
is a criminal one, I'm assuming they will take it to the state attorney's office. If it is just a violation of our code, such as maybe giving a certificate you weren't supposed to give or whatever that may be, in that case, there is a citation that is tied and a penalty that is tied to not following the rules. just
like you would get a ticket if you take a red light. That citation is given by the IG's office and if any of us are to receive that, we can take up our um our ree our objection to it at the court. We
can object to it and then plead our case and the court and a judge will decide if the IG was right or if that person was right. At that point when the order is is finalized then the penalty will be deducted from your stipend or your
paycheck or whatever it is or it will be paid by that by that by the offender. Correct. Correct. I just wanted to put it on the record what the process would be. You have the right to contest. You have the right to receive notice. Correct. Everything that's laid out in in the chapter not and you also have the right to then appeal it afterwards if you you just can't do it with our
magistrate or our it's separating the process process. It's a separated independent process for this specific correct purpose. Yes. Okay. Just wanted to clarify and just to clarify that whatever the process under section 162.21 is what's going to be followed
and yeah it does not include the special magistrate. It includes the courts but it it's still a section that provides for a procedure. So just clarifying we're using that section. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, anything that has to do with with code
compliance and code enforcement has to have a procedure. The the city can choose a chapter, it can choose an alternative, but if it's choosing to to follow this the statute, it can follow either section one or section two, and it can have different codes uh governed by by the different sections of the
statute. But what the statute basically says is that you are able to contest Yes. You're have a place to to contest that that that um citation. That citation. Yes. Yes, m. Okay. Is everybody okay with that?
So the motion can incorporate the amendment. We can say the amendment for the record. That would be great. It's the same thing. He's going to get you the section of the statute that the council that the vice mayor would like to be referenced within the madam clerk. Thank the motion and a second on the
table. Thank you. If there's no other comments, madam clerk, please call the vote. Motion to approve ordinance number 202517 on second reading as amended. by counciloman Reynoso. Seconded by council pino. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Pinedo, yes. Counciloman Cabal, no. Vice Mayor Porz, no. Mayor
Fraga, yes. Motion passes. All right. I think we have just passed one of the most transparent policies in the history of the congratulations. All right, we will now move on to the last item. Last item, item 19J, advisory boards, committees, commission, member
nominations. This is my item and council. Thank you so much for your patience through this process. have received some additional nominations. Uh we are still missing some which we would put in the uh June council meeting now that the ordinance changing the process has changed. So we'll move forward. Thank you. Um madame clerk, yes, the
process was difficult to nominate people because of how strict the uh ordinance had become on who we could appoint. So I think lessening now the restrictions gives more opportunity to residents to participate creating engagement and you
know participation. So thank you very much. I need a motion. I have a quick question. When so when would the advisory boards be meeting or start meeting? More than likely either late June or July August. I think most
already have at least five members. No. Still no. Okay. And I have to conduct the the issue is that I have to conduct an a training for all of them at once. I have I have it broken down for two sessions, but I'd like for everybody to be nominated so I don't have to continue to schedule training sessions and I could just do them all together. So,
please try and get your nominations in by June is what she's trying to say. Yes. Okay. Motion to approve by Counciloman Reynoso. Thank you. Second by Counciloman Pedo. Madam Clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve the nominations as presented. May by Counciloman Reynoso, seconded by Counciloman Pinto. Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. Counciloman Pinedo. Yes. Yes.
Council Mal. Yes. Vice Mayor Boras. Yes. Mayor Faga. Yes. Motion passes. All right, Madam Clerk. Thank you very much. This concludes our May council meeting. Thank you very much. We've exhausted the agenda. I need a motion to adjurnn. Motion. Motion to adjurnn by
Councilwoman Reo. So, congratulations. You beat Councilman Pinato today. I need a second. Second by Councilman Pino. All in favor say I. I. All right. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much. Hall. God bless you.