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--------- broadcast is now starting. All attendees are in listenonly mode. >> Good morning everyone. Welcome to our June council meeting. Today is Wednesday, June 10th and the time is now 10:16 a.m. and we

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are calling our regular scheduled council meeting to order. A reminder to please silence your phones. If you must take a call, we ask that you please step outside so that we can re uh maintain a respectful atmosphere. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Councilomano,

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>> present. >> Counciloman Marine Porz here. >> Council Rafael Pedo, >> present. >> Vice Mayor Dav, >> present. >> Mayor Chrisa, >> present. >> Mayor Hworm. >> Okay, thank you very much. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Councilman Pedo to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Before we go into our invocation, I'd like to ask for a moment of silence.

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We are having a moment of silence for a family in our community that has lo lost loved ones. We will remember Melanie Hire and her daughters Savannah and Sienna. This heartbreaking tragedy has touched our entire community and serves

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as a reminder that behind every smile, there are many struggles that we cannot see. It is also a reminder of the importance of supporting one another, checking in on loved ones, and ensuring that those facing challenges know that help is available and we are community that supports each other. As we mourn

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the loss of these precious lives, let us come together in compassion, prayer, and support for all those affected. Thank you. We will now ask um Pastor Edwin Castro from Presencia Viva to please join us for the invocation today.

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>> Thank you. Good morning. and may your members of the city council and members of our community. As I was praying this morning about this meeting, I remember the story of King Solomon, the son of King David. When he was very young, he

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faced a similar situation like yours. Uh he had to make big decisions that will affect a whole nation just like in your your decisions will affect the entire community. Solomon felt overwhelmed because he knew he was young and did not

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have enough experience because his heart was in the right place. He asked God for wisdom. The Bible says that God gives wisdom to anyone who ask. But also the Bible says in the book of Proverbs that the fear of God is the beginning of

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wisdom. For that reason, even more than asking for wisdom, we need to ask for the fear of God. And this simply means being aware in every decision you make how to please him and make choices that align with his word. And that is exactly

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what I pray for you today. Father, we come before you to ask for your wisdom to be manifested in this meeting. Give each member of the council a humble heart so they can ask for your fear and your wisdom so they can lead us

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in a future of peace, prosperity, and joy in our community. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you, pastor. Thank you. >> All right, we'll now move into the agenda order of business. Go ahead and start with the city manager's office.

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>> Yes. Good morning, mayor and council. Um, I need to defer item 21L to the August meeting. That item is in the evening. Okay. Mr. City Attorney, do you have anything? >> I have nothing, Madam Mayor.

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>> Councilman Pino, >> I don't have anything. Thank you, >> Vice Mayor Cabraw. >> Yes, I have 6 A, 6B. I'm still waiting for some information on 6Q. So, I'm going to put 6Q in if anything. Um,

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>> and 6Q. Those three, >> please. May I hear >> A 6B and 6 Q >> Q. Okay. Councilwoman Reynoso. >> Um, no, Mayor. Thank you. >> Okay. Councilwoman Boris. >> No, none.

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>> All right. I'm going to go ahead and pull 6K and I am actually deferring 9A. Um, I have been had I've been having conversations with uh the

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manager's office and finance and I've been asked to you to have this discussion during budget. It would be most appropriate with a full presentation. So, we're going to do that. So, I'm deferring indefinitely and it'll come back in some shape um with the

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budget as a discussion >> motion. Um, no, no motion right now. We don't need one. Nothing else has been done. So, >> if there's nothing else to be pulled, we'll go into public comments. Everyone's good.

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>> Okay, we will now open the floor for public comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on the agenda today or any matter related to the city of Dorado. Please begin by stating your name and address for the record and ensure that you have registered with the city clerk. We will first hear from those who have

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pre-register to speak. If you have not pre-registered, I will follow by asking anyone who would like to speak for any final comments. Uh before we close the public comments, as a reminder, in accordance with our city's code of conduct, we do ask that all remarks

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remain respectful, courteous, and in an orderly manner. Personal attacks, offensive language, or disruptive behavior will not be permitted. Let's work together to keep this forum productive for all. We will now open public comments. I do have a few public

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comments pre-registered speakers starting with Theo Carinastilus. I always say it wrong. How are you? Good morning. >> Good morning. >> My name is Theo Karen Salis, 289

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Shadowway, Miami Springs. >> Some of you may remember me as the librarian at the old Dural branch. >> Others may be as the barista who opened Dural's first Starbucks in the late 90s.

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Today I'm here as the former chair of the Miami Date County Disability Board and as a current member of the Miami Springs Disability Board. I'm here in strong support of Chief Matthew Castillo.

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When I brought to his attention that people with disabilities were being shut out of downtown Miami Springs life because others were illegally parking in disabled spaces. He organized an enforcement operation

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that netted 30 violators in just a few hours. Those of us with proper placards can engage in civic life again because of his leadership. Chief Castillo has trained his officers

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to serve people with all types of disabilities. My adult son has autism and schizophrenia and sometimes runs away from home. His officers know exactly how to respond

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with patience, skill, and humanity. Chief Castillo also spearheaded coffee with the cop events at Starbucks. My son went took photos with the officers

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and came home and told his mama in Spanish that the police were his friends and and many of whom he now knows on a firstname basis. I'm a retired assistant library director. I worked at Miami Dade College

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when Matt was training at the academy next door. He has always been an avid reader, a man with a genuine passion for continuous improvement and and it shows. I was at his swearing in ceremony in

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Miami Springs in 2015 and I've watched him rise through the ranks ever since. He is visible, he is approachable, and he gets things done. And you could not be choosing a better person to lead this city's police department. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Carasses. Mr. Richard. Richard Gluxad, 4768 Northwest 114th Avenue. I show everybody this. It's a medallion that I received from the City of Dorado Police Department for my

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work with them. I've been helping them for many years. I have limited law enforcement experience myself with the state of Florida in two different positions. So I think I know what I'm talking about today. Answer true or false

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to the following statements. Number one, the city of Durell has had three mayors. Two, two mayors were Cuban. Three, one mayor was Venezuelan. Four, under the Venezuelan mayor, the police chief was Italian-American.

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Number five, under the Cuban mayors, all police chiefs were white Cubanameans. Number six, all of the Dural police chiefs were brought in from other places. Number seven, no Dural police chief have has ever been promoted from

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within the department. Number eight, no Dural police chief has been a female. Number nine, no Dural police chief has been an African-American. Due to the efforts of Chief Edwin Lopez, the police department has become a very

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successful and most importantly a diverse organization. At present, the department has a black female assistant chief of police and a female African-American major. They are Alicia Neil and Sam Gibson. The

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department also has a distinguished male major who is a Bronze Star recipient of mixed Colombian Cuban heritage, Major Leonel Ooa. I think some of them are sitting over here, right? I don't see uh

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the men and women of Dural PD may feel they are never fully trusted as displayed by the history of outside hiring of his chief of police. The history of not hiring our best from within negatively negatively affects morale and level of service to citizens.

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15. Durell has two other options. Either hire from within or advertise the position nationwide. Dural can eradicate its history of political and social cronyism by changing its hiring practices.

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17. Deral can be its best when it gives all groups a chance, not just CubanAmericans or other white males. Number 18. Nobody can be a better police officer than one who already knows and

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cares for Durell. Since all the statements are true, I reached the following conclusion. 20. Hire our new chief of police from within. There is no other reason to look any further. Long live the Dorado Police Department

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and may they prosper and be successful always. >> Thank you, Mr. Glutstad. >> Next, I have Mr. Tobias Rochce. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Pleasure to be here today. My name is Tobias Roach. I live in Miami Dade. I'm a retired

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supervisory special agent with ICE here in Miami. I've served as a consultant ATF, Secret Service, and other federal law enforcement agencies. been part of Haida task forces with state and local. I'm a former police officer in Massachusetts.

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My expertise is in Venezuela and investigations. I've appeared on numerous uh television shows, radios, also consulted with Marco Rubio and Carlos Carelloo. Uh, I'm here to tell you that Derell and Raphael Panero, who

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I know well, uh, we had concerns about infiltration of chavistas here in Trenagua coming here since 2012. Um, my cases have resulted in a new book, and I'm not here to promote it. I have one for the

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mayor, one for Chief Castillo when he takes office, and one for my good friend Ralph. It's called The Chista Hunter. It's written by Pete Thrawn, a New York City police officer. It's number one in law enforcement on Amazon. Unfortunately, Deral has been

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infiltrated. It has been infiltrated. They have run chist operations through here with businesses. Uh I had talen with uh Mr. Panero years ago about filtering that out, but the city manager at the time did not want to do that

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licensing and things like that. I think now with the state of Venezuela with Maduro in custody, it's time to clean house and look at things like that. So, if you need me, uh, my contact information is available and I'd be more

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than glad to help here, but there are some some of the names in the book you'll be very familiar with. I'm not going to talk about the book, but it's very detailed on the operations here in the Dorado, Miami Dade. uh some of the people that are there's $5 million

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rewards on. So, thank you very much for your time and uh who should I leave this with, mayor? >> You can leave them with the clerk. She'll give them to us. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you so much. >> All right. I have no other pre-registered speakers. Now would be the final opportunity to speak. If you have not pre-registered and would like

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to speak on an item on the agenda or gerine to this council, please approach the podium. Good morning, Mayor Fraka. >> Good morning, >> Councilman. Um, I'm not sure if this is the right part of the program about the HOA pilot program. >> You can speak now. Just state your name and address for the record and once you

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finish, you can uh just register with the clerk. >> Okay. My name is Brent McNab, resident of Dural, 7863 Northwest 111th Court. I wanted to just touch a little bit on the and Mayor Frag and I have conversed several times in the last couple of

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years on HOA problems here in Dural, but it seems that we're always addressing the outside of it and we're not never getting to the root problem of HOAs here in Florida. The HOA is a mafia of the developers.

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The developer create the HOA. They govern the HOA until the completion. They install their own boards. They create the rules. As a homeowner, if you want to live, you're entitled. You have to join it or

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you don't buy your house. And we seem that everybody is looking at everything, the fraud here, the fraud there. But we never get to the root of the problems we have with HOAs. Further, the problem is there's no support for the homeowner.

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As a homeowner for an HOA, I'm governed by 720 for statute 720. Mayor Frager knows my thing, my fights in islands of Dorado for the past couple of years that you go to the DBPR and I

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was here at the event yesterday to talk with them with a problem I have. And the first question from DBPR, are you here to discuss 720 or 721? I have a 720 issue. Sorry, we can't help you. Who can help you? Nobody. There is

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no no entity in the state of Florida there to support an HOA. And I'm the president of the HOA now because we took over the board from last year, which was the first election in 20 years. 2,900

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homes in an HOA. 20 years never had an election because of the rules of the community are in favor of not having an election. It took a tremendous effort of over 200 volunteers in our community to

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get it and we're moving forward. But I just wanted to see like, you know, and uh we met with uh Representative Pores at your last event and he put forward the bill. Vote out

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your HOA. How are you going to do that? Get a quorum. It took 6 months and 200 volunteers to get a 20% quorum for an election, which they give you 14 days. The board, we're going to hold the election. They'd let you know 14 days

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ahead of time. How are you going to get We needed I believe it was 897 homeowners to vote to have an election, but you know, there's so many things and it's being addressed, but we're never

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looking at the root of the developer. >> Thank you. Yes, we we'll have a discussion on it. If you could just see um >> the city clerk and register and we'll be having a discussion on this. Thank you so much for being here. Anyone else would like to speak at this time? Now

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would be a reasonable opportunity. All right. Being none, we're closing public comments and we will move in to the agenda. I'll just give the clerk All right. Madam clerk, would you please order uh read the um items that have been pulled from the agenda so we can get a motion on the consent?

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>> Yes, it will be all of the items on the consent agenda with the exception of 6 A, 6B, 6 Q, and 6K. Motion >> motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso. >> Second. >> Second by Councilman Pinedo. All in favor say I. >> I.

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>> All right. That the record reflect that the consent agenda has been approved unanimously. Now need a motion on the minutes. >> Motion. >> Motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso. Second by Councilman Pinedo. All in favor say I. I. >> Let the minutes reflect that they have

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been approved unanimously. We'll now move into presentations. >> Item 8, presentation. Keep draw beautiful business award. Good morning, honorable mayor, uh vice mayor, members of the council, madame manager, Mr. Deputy Manager, uh Mr. City

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Attorney, and Madame Clerk. Uh Gina, assistant co- compliance director. This month uh we are pleased to recognize Holiday in Express for their outstanding commitment to keeping Dorado beautiful. Uh the property for which they are being recognized is located at 1691 Northwest

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107th Avenue. Holiday Express uh has been in the city for 5 years. The property is approximately 50,170 square ft and it is managed by 22 employees. Holiday Express is a contemporary hotel in in a proximity to Dorado's Bavern shopping districts

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accommodating guests seeking high quality affordable and reliable stays. Recent improvement and ongoing maintenance efforts at the property include daily leaf blowing, weekly pressure cleaning, daily pavement scrub, monthly grass and brush trimming, quarterly waste tank cleaning, yearly

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window cleaning, and the presence of an on-site maintenance team responsible for the daily maintenance of the exterior areas. Uh it is with great pleasure that we name Holiday and Express for the keep the beautiful business award for their continued efforts to keep Dorado

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beautiful. Uh madame mayor and council here to upset the award on behalf of the property. You may step up please. um is general manual, general manager Daniel Orianos, front office manager Emily Prattz, director of sales Jessica

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Machado, executive housekeeper Tanya Batista, and chief engineer Rolando Quintan. >> Hello, welcome. >> Thank you. Would you like to say something? >> Hello, council Dorado. Just want to say

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thank you to the city of Dorado, Madame Mayor, the whole council. Uh it was an honor to be nominated. It's it's even proud of us to receive this award and we will continue to be a beautiful image for Dell. >> Thank you for your investment in care

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for the city. Can we have a photo? Would you mind coming up here? >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Jeans. Waiting for a second. Wait. Thank you. >> Good job.

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Moving along, we are moving into the next presentation item 8B. >> Item 8B, fiscal year 2025 annual comprehensive financial report. >> Madam, city manager or finance? >> Yes. Good morning, mayor and council. We

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have our consultant here and our finance director who are going to give us a presentation on the result of our act. >> Thank you. >> Good morning, mayor and council. We have here Jerry Donates, a partner with a firm Garcia Espino Rodriguez Treva,

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which is our external auditing firm. I'm handing over the presentation to them. Thank you. >> Thank you. Soul. Good morning. Mayor Fraga, vice mayor, council members, and city administration. As Soul mentioned, my name is Jerry Lonatis with GMRT. I

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was the uh lead partner on the city's audit for the fiscal year ended September 30th, 2025. So, I'm just going to give a brief overview summary summary results of the audit. So the annual comprehensive financial report or the acter as it's abbreviated was issued towards the end

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of April and the city submitted this these financials to the GFOA for the purpose of then obtaining the certificate of achievement uh for excellence in financial reporting. The excuse me the opinion in the audit report it was an unmodified opinion. So that just means that the financial

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statements are presented fairly in all material respects. Uh in essence it's a clean opinion. So we did not have any findings to report and there were no prior year findings to address in this year's report. In terms of our fieldwork and testing, uh we did not have any difficulties in

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dealing with management and we didn't have any issues in completing our procedures and our audit. Uh you know throughout the audit we asked for a lot of information, supporting documents, a lot of inquiries, questions and and Soul and her team were able to pro provide you

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know responses and documents in a timely fashion. In terms of some technical aspects, uh, accounting practices and policies, everything was consistent with the prior year. There was one new standard that was, uh, needed to be implemented, uh, Gazsby standard related to compensated absences, but that did not have a

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material effect on the financials. In terms of some key financial highlights, a property tax revenues increased by approximately 3.7 million when compared to the previous year. uh mainly attributed to assess uh you know assess value increases new construction

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now obviously that's a hot topic uh in the state of Florida with the property taxes so that that's something that will need to be monitored in the upcoming months capital expenditures were approximately 53 million including the land acquisition uh ongoing construction infrastructure and acquisition of

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vehicles and equipment in terms of fund balance in the general fund at the end of the year was approximately 86 million out of that balance approximately 70 million was unassigned. So that's well above the city's requirement of of its minimum unassigned fund balance requirement.

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In terms of the budget, revenues and appropriations were sufficient to cover expenditures. And then lastly, we also did complete a federal single audit that's related to the federal grant um awards and the spending uh based on the expenditures and the threshold. So there were two major federal programs that

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were audited and for that audit in the single audit we also did not have any findings and the um opinion in the single audit report was also unmodified. So basically that's a high level u summary results of the audit and as I mentioned like to thank soul and the

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finance uh department as a whole for working with us to complete this audit and my team my team as well Francis Cabrera was the lead uh senior manager on engagement she's currently on maternity leave so she couldn't be here uh so we wish her well with the baby and my entire team for for getting through

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the audit um if you know you have any questions and as always we're available throughout the year if anything arises and and you need to Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. Is there any questions for the consultant? >> All right. I don't think we have any questions. Thank you very much. We

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appreciate it. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. So, all right. We'll go ahead and move into our discussion items. Discussion item 9B, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of D approving the revised recreation fee schedule for the city of D park parks and recreation department

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providing implementation incorporation recital and an effective. >> Okay, madame city manager, deputy city manager, I don't know if there will be a parks presentation regarding the fee schedule. >> Yes, mayor. Good morning. We have our

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consultant here from JRD and Associates. Um, as you're aware, last year we voted on an item to have JRD and Associates conduct a an overall fee study for the city. Um, we are in the process of

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finishing that study. However, we wanted to address the parks fees now because, as you also know, we are in the process of rolling out our software program which is going to be handling park operations called Amelia. and we wanted to be able to have the fees in place in

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order to be able to roll that out as it should. So, I have George Duos here um who uh I've had the pleasure of working with in Coral Gables um as as he provides service to that city. He also did our fee study for our building

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department a couple of years back. So, he's familiar with Dural. So, um with that, I'm going to turn it over to George. >> Thank you, madam manager. Good morning, mayor, vice mayor, council members. George Studios with JRD and Associates. Um, believe we have a presentation

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>> if you could. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, as the manager stated, uh, our firm was hired to conduct uh, fee assessments for several city departments including parks and wreck, public works, planning and zoning, and

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some others. So, today we're presenting uh, the the parks and recreation. I will uh kick off the presentation with some background, talk to you about how we went about the fee study, and then turn it over to the parks director to walk you through specifics of fee changes for

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the parks department. Uh the objective as as you all know um now is a time with the all of the property tax discussions and legislation. Uh now is a time to take a look at those services that you provide

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and those that are eligible and should be um uh cost recovered by adequate fees. So this was one of the objectives of of the study also to improve transparency and the clarity of your fees and to simplify and standardize

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your fee structure. Right now it's a very large fee structure. there's uh inconsistencies and um so working with the department over the last uh few months, we've been able to arrive at what we think is um a

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fee that's going to achieve cost recovery but also maintain the level of service that you provide to your residents. Cost recovery is one of your key performance indicators in your parks um urban um in your parks master plan.

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So, it's very important that uh the city keep going with looking at the fees for the parks. So, what is a fee? Basically, user fees uh unlike property taxes are are those fees associated with receiving

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a service. They help uh to maintain your facilities, administer your programs, and they also help the city continue delivering those highquality services that your residents are used to in the community. They also uh help alleviate the financial burden on the general

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fund. Why are they needed now? Well, as you all know, your parks, your facilities, your programs, your amenities have expanded significantly in the past few years. It was a good time to take a look at how your fees are structured, what

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the actual fees are, how you can better serve the community by having uh the appropriate fees, and how the new software can implement these fees. As the manager mentioned, your your software Amelia is in the process of um

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being implemented. So, this is a good time to get these fees approved. So once you go live with your software program uh the the appropriate fees will be included. The approach that we took was to

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basically as I mentioned we worked very closely with the department with the director and uh his team. We looked at the your current fee schedule. We assessed what fees were um in need of

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change. Some fees were eliminated because you don't uh need them anymore. Some new fees were created, some were consolidated, and the director will go into some of those in a little bit. We also gathered cost information to make sure that as much as possible your your

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costs could be recovered for the services you're providing. We benchmarked also against other municipalities. I'll um talk about that in a minute. and develop some options for the department to consider when

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looking at a simplified fee schedule. The cost recovery approach, which is essentially what we wanted to obtain, is is one that balances recovering your cost with the community benefit. So, we wanted to make sure that

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the programs that you provide, some of which will not fully recover your cost, such as your your your senior and special needs programs are maintained at a reduced cost, uh, and you want to maximize your community participation. So, for instance, some of your senior

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programs on the new fees are um, uh, like a Taichi class for $2.50. Well, you might have three or five people attend that class and you're paying an instructor, you know, maybe up to $100. So, but you want to keep providing that service. You want to make

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it affordable to as many residents as possible. So, there are some of the fees that are not going to result in in cost recovery. However, there are others which should that involve significantly more staffing, operational requirements,

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complexities, and those have to do more with facility rentals and pavilions and some of the other programs that the city provides. I mentioned the comparative analysis. We wanted to make sure that um because there are there are other

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options, especially when you talk about non-residents or or businesses that are in in your city. um to maximize the use of your facilities, we wanted to look at what others charge. So, we looked at um all of these cities here and our

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findings included that your um department your parks facilities are are newer. They're they're very wellmaintained. They offer many more amenities than other parks facilities offered, but we

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wanted to make sure again that the costs were um on the same level as as the others uh to the best degree possible for several facility types such as athletic fields. Um baseball fields as an example where your fees are lower in

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uh right now you currently charge for one hour of a baseball field rental $40 for the hour. We looked at some of the other m municipal um parks. Um city of Weston, for example, charges $45. Not a big difference, but you'll see in the

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proposed fees, uh we're proposing $45 uh for that. Again, that's to achieve cost recovery, but not to increase it to a level where it it becomes unaffordable. You obviously want those fields used and the community to be able to uh enjoy

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them. So even with moderate fee increases as such as the example I just gave, Deral would maintain its competitiveness regionally and um finally targeted fee adjustments are warranted to better reflect the premium nature of the services that you provide.

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So at this point I will turn it over to the director to walk through some of the specific updates. Good morning. Michael Fesa, parks and recreation director. Uh, so with youth programming and programming across the board with the

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non-resident rate, we're going from 20% to 25%. Um, and we're setting that as a as a benchmark. Previously it was it wasn't it was a different percentage depending on different programs but we're across the board so it's easy to understand for staff easy to understand for the customer that it's a 25% search

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charge for for non-residents. Um on our recreation leagues we're consolidating the fees so it's one fee or a set number of fees instead of the six or seven that we have now. Um and then we've adjusted some of the programming fees. Uh especially the the smaller programs

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where you have a lot of um it's a very low uh instructor to uh uh participant ratio. Uh event venues. So anything involving event venues, the non-resident rate is going to go from 25 to 30% across the

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board. Um, we're applying discounts for things like nonprofits, public schools, and government organizations that use our venues at a discount. Um, we're also um consolidating our security deposits to have a three uh security deposit

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amounts across the board depending on the value of the rental. So, it's easy to understand for the customer and for the resident. And we're eliminating any inconsistencies between facilities. So all facilities, all pavilions will have uh a set fee within a small uh category

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that we have. And then we standardized the pricing and we'll give an example at the end. So for field and court rentals, we are eliminating all administrative fees and we're just moving that into our hourly rate again. So customer understands

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you're renting in a field for two hours, you're paying $90. It's not $90 plus whe the lights are on and off, administrative fee. It's just one set number that's easy to understand. Um and then those uh resident and non-resident rates and the discounts for nonprofits,

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public schools, and government institutions carry forward towards the use. This would not impact any schools in which we have joint use agreements with uh Miami Day public schools. is add-on if any other facil any other school that we do not have an agreement with wants to use our facilities.

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Uh special events, we adjusted the vendor ranges for food trucks and we uh standardized pricing across the board. Uh and then we introduced some fees that we've been charging uh for parking for special activations that you'll see at

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the 4th of July where the residents are going to have still the free event but we're going to have some ticketed events as part of that. For example, we'll have the Dorado Central Park fitness members which we have over 2200 members in the fitness gym. will have access to the uh

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rooftop patio that we have at uh at uh the center as a member perk but but also as an add-on camps. Uh we eliminated uh some of the seasonal camps and we restructured fees on that. We added fees for the summer camp that we are running in-house now.

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And I think going forward, um, what we're going to do is primarily we've outsourced a lot of our camps. Um, but we've had tremendous success in the camps that we've been doing in-house and we'll be expanding that in the summer and during season, uh, seasonal, so spring break, we have the

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Thanksgiving break now and winter breaks. Uh, senior special needs, uh, we've eliminated all fee rental, uh, fee ranges that we have. Um and now on our fee sheet it's a clear fee that is easy to understand. We have it uh based on uh

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fitness classes. We have enrichment for seniors. Um but the programs themselves are not going to change. The fees for the most part are not going to change because we're already charging this. It's just standardizing it to what's on the fee sheet versus a range. Before it would show $2 to $5 for a senior class.

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Now we're setting it at $2 a class or 225 a class, 275 a class. uh for Dorado Central Park, the fitness center. Um and to George's point, this is a facility that we run more as a as a business than a community benefit

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because it is a gym. We do have members. We've consolidated membership categories. Uh we've expanded uh what membership includes to have perks, discounts. We've uh expanded uh the ability for members in the in the

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aquatic center to use the child care in the gym. Um and for members of Dorado uh Central Park fitness center, we are adding access at Dural Legacy Park. The idea is is that it entices uh individuals that are wishing to sign up

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for memberships to have the more encompassing packages so they have access to all three facilities with one membership. Um, you will still be able to buy individual memberships per the uh fitness center, the pool, and at uh at

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Legacy Park. Um, and then we uh one of the things that we're going to be able to do with Amelia now is we're going to consolidate um our uh the add-on classes for fitness where you're going to pay one set fee a month additional onto your membership

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and you'll have unlimited access to the fitness classes at the at the fitness center at Dal Central Park. And then we consolidated uh the um the fees at Dorado Legacy Park. Uh Deral students with an ID will still have free

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access um but they will receive a membership fob so we can track who's coming in and out of the building. And this is something that we're going to be rolling out um for uh memberships at Dal Central Park uh Dal Legacy Park and at

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uh at the aquatic center. We had a very convoluted uh veteran and military discount section that was passed about 10 years ago. We've consolidated it. So, it's one set percentage fee, easy to understand, easy for us to track. Um there it removes a

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lot of the administrative backend that we used to have with the old um veteran discount. Um and we've expanded it to include all personnel uh at uh US selling command. So just a summary, we've consolidated a lot. It's going to be easier for the residents to understand. We it's going

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to be easier for staff to communicate this. It's going to be able allow us to when we move staff between facilities, reduce the training time that's needed. We've expanded the search charges for non-residents. Um we are going to be treating uh commuters, so people that work in Duron can show a payub that they

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work in Dural. At the fitness center and the aquatic center, we will be treating them as residents. Um, anyone that is a non-resident will be have will still pay the search charge. Um, and then we're um just eliminating just a bunch of uh underutilized and redundant fees that we

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had. And then just to give you some examples, this is an example of our youth basketball league instead of having two fees per season. It's basically the same season in the fall and the spring. We're consolidating into one fee with the non-resident search charge at 25%.

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And then this was our fee structure for pavilions. Now it's easy to understand depending on capacity, you're going to pay one of three rates and then you'll have the discounts under there and it's a flat $100 security deposit. Um the good thing with Amelia is we will be

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going away from security deposits being checks. >> Goodness. >> Um which a lot of people don't carry checks. Um, we'll be doing that all electronically and that'll be something that will be done on Monday after the rental is once we've confirmed the facility was returned in the condition

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it's supposed to, that gets all refunded to to the resident to their credit card. Uh, for most pavilion rentals, uh, and high dollar amount rentals, we're going to go to strictly uh, credit card. Um, we will not be accepting cash at the

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park just to allow us to better to have better accountability of the funds. But the smaller ticket items like the waterpark entries, your small programs that will still be um cash or or credit. And this is an example of some fees went

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up. In this example, uh fees did go down after we assessed the rental at that facility, the use, and balancing the resident non-resident rate. Uh, so one of the things that's going to change for us and why we brought fees up is on the software, um, you're not going to see a

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non-resident resident rate. What it'll be, it'll be the non-resident rate with a resident discount. So, we had to adjust all our fees to be able to, uh, configure within that percentage versus a dollar amount. And that's that's my presentation. Thank

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you. >> All right. Great. Any other questions? >> I have some comments. I have some questions. >> Councilwoman Boris. >> Thank you. Um, thank you to Michael and the city manager's office and the consultant for putting this together. I

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just have a couple of um clarification questions. >> Yes. >> So, the first one is regarding the the use of facilities by the government agencies. I think before we had um fee waiverss, right? And now, if I understand it correctly, it's a 30%

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discount. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we moved away from allowing government entities to use our facilities for free at no cost to a 30% discount, the same as nonprofits. >> We'll get like the health department that'll have an employee uh gathering

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not related to any like business that the um an elected official has, and they still pay the fee to use the facility. Um very popular to do that across the street. Um, we've had the sheriff's office use uh the event hall at um at

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Dorado Central Park and we have assessed it. It depends on the usage. Um, typically the the fees for uh like the tax collector will use the space. We don't assess fees for for those things. Um, but if it's like an employee gathering type activity, we have been

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charging the the rental fee. >> Okay. So if just to understand so if it's part of um an event part of their duty you we're not charging fees. So >> is that if you can clarify that please. >> Can can I can I jump in here because we

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had this discussion. Um what what what what's been noticed is that there's been a little bit of um an excessive request because we're one of the only places that doesn't charge other governments. >> I remember that. So, what we have talked about doing is potentially allowing once a year for free and then after that

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they'll have to they'll have to pay um to be able to utilize unless they're doing something directly with the city. Some of our agreements have um or so in those cases then the the agreement will stipulate whether the

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space can be utilized within that agreement. But it's we have to um have to create the revenue. So um there has been an excessive amount of requests for here because we're the only one of the only cities that have a newest

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facilities and free facility for other government agencies. So we're working on reducing that that request to being once a year. >> Yeah. It also takes staff time and effort. And >> I'd just like to add one thing. Um uh so

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um it there has been an excessive amount of requests like the mayor said also we have to take into consideration that those events require setup resources to go take down everything else and so it's taking an inordinate amount of staff

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time to be able to plan to have people here to do everything else that is needed as support for the meetings. So that's mainly the reason. >> Yeah. I know and I I'm I'm in support of it. I you know, we had that conversation that where we determined that there was

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a lot of requests and um I just wanted to see if there was something across the board if this was the policy. So, it sounds like there's maybe something else that could come before us to set sort of like the uniform policy, right?

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Okay. Okay. Um the let me see there's one more. So, I I'm obviously excited about the the use of Amelia because it's just going to make our work so much better, too. I I know I bombard you with a lot of emails

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for facility rentals. So, that's going to be um really great. You know, I I don't remember my other question, but I I don't think I have anything else that's concerning. That was just my main question because I remember that um we had talked about it, but if we're going

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to see something else come up, you know, I'll I'll look forward to that. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Mayor, I do have a comment. >> Yes, Council Marinos. >> Again, also thank you staff for the report and our consultant. Thank you. Um

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my question is, are we giving discounts to our seniors? So, right now with how it's set up, um the fees for programs are heavily subsidized. Uh and then for the membership at Central Park and the

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aquatic center, meaning for lap swimming, we do offer a $25 a month versus the 40 that um other adults would pay for that. Um, we have discounts for the um the 5K that that have been used by the Silver Club to register for 5K,

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but as far as like a blanket senior discount for other like the water park, that's not in in this fee schedule. >> Okay. And did we analyze potentially doing free classes or giving something of the programming, some aspect of the

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programming for free? Was that analyzed? >> Yes. Yeah. So, we do the bingos, we do seminars, we do um some of the activations that we'll do aside from like the big socials that those are we offer those uh for free. They also have access to with a paid not with a

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membership, but if they have a fitness class at Central Park, we give them access to the um uh the walking track within the gym outside of a membership. So, most of the seniors that use our facility at Central Park, they're paying as as they go for programming. They

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don't have to have the senior membership plus their the the program fee. That's uh separate. They're separate. They're treated separate from that. Um but we what we will be doing going forward is if issuing them membership fobs so they can sign in and out because right now

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it's kind of like a free flow inside in and out of the building and we need to know kind of what we have in there. So that'll be part of that. So, they have certain discounts for certain programs and they have uh certain privileges. Um, and that access to the walking track

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includes uh the track at Legacy Park on the second floor of of the gym with a paid uh fitness class. They have access before and after the class to use the the space. Uh part of the um upgrades that were just approved in consent, we will be expanding the cardio deck there

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at Legacy Park and that'll be included in that that access. >> Okay. I appreciate that because that was uh definitely a concern for uh our seniors particularly a few. And then um the other question is we are

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expanding the military discount to those that are in the armed forces in southern command. Correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. So we'll be expanding that. Uh the previous resolution was vague. So, we've defined it to include uh active military and and uh and veterans

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>> and those that are working within Southern Command as well. >> Correct. With an ID. They can show an ID at the park and they'll they'll qualify for the discount at any discount at any of the facilities that we have for programming. >> And I also appreciate those that are working within the city of Dorado to um

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obtain some sort of benefit, especially when it has to do with health and quality of life, that they're able to have some buyin into the programming at the resident rate. So, I did appreciate that um being included into what's was assessed and in the study. So, those are my questions. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Good job, guys. >> Anyone else? Yes, Counciloman Pedato. >> Just to follow up on that, mayor. Um well, first of all, Michael, thank you uh for bringing this forward. as a as a former park manager, I get excited everything that you know you especially

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you since came on board have been implementing a lot of positive changes that I believe the department needed as well. So thank you for doing this and uh when we speak about the operational cost recovery that by the way has been part

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of the 2017 uh park system master plan. So it's something that we needed to do. So, I'm I'm I'm happy that that we're doing it now, especially with what we can face after November with all the changes

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uh that might take place. But at the same time, following up on Councilwoman Reos's comments, um certainly, you know, seniors is important for us. Special needs programs uh are important for us. Uh there is a program actually as a

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matter of fact for seniors that that is every it's the first Monday of every month that is for free. >> Yes. >> Is Aqua Aqua Sumba right? >> Yes. Aqua. It rotates but yeah it's the the senior splash day. >> That one. Yes. So we're we're going to keep that one. Correct.

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>> Yes. So those are you know good things that we still providing and we're going to keep providing for for the seniors. And I just want to make a comment. I'm glad that we're increasing the age from 55 to 60. So, so I always thought that 55 was too young to be part of the

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silver club. Uh I don't know if if it's because I'm you know we're getting >> closer and closer and closer every year but uh I'm glad that we're moving forward and increasing the age as well from 55 to 60 and putting a moratorum for non-residents because that has been

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always one of the concerns from a lot of our seniors that are residents of the route having seniors from other places in Miami day county coming to our program. So, I'm glad that we also put in a moratorum on that. So, those were my my comments and I place the motion to

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approve. >> I have one more question if you want. >> All right. Uh, we have a motion to approve. >> A second. >> A second by Council Member Noso and we have a question from Council Member Forest. >> Yeah, just really quickly. Um, so looking at the rentals, for example, for the

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the Cultural Arts Center, um, those are not hourly, right? They're per rental for the day. Correct. >> Okay. It's a window of time. It's >> it's uh it's usually like a five or six hour gap that you have the the facility for. After that, we assess an additional

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usage fee for that. >> Okay. And that's also for the other uh multi-purpose rooms, Morgan Levy, and all the other parks. >> Yeah, they all have a four, it ranges between four to six hours. So, when you rent a pavilion, you have it for for six hours. And that includes your setup and

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breakdown time. And and the same goes for the the indoor spaces. >> Okay. And now it includes the tables and chairs. >> Yes, for the most part, except for this facility because you can it's very flexible. If you're using the event hall at uh Morgan Levy Park, at Dorado Park,

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at Legacy Park, and Central Park, your fee is inclusive of what you need with tables and chairs. Anything above that that you did additional tables and chairs, there is a fee for that. For but for the most part, people just need, hey, if the room sits 100, I need 10 tables and and 100 chairs. Um, so we're

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rolling that into the fee. Um, because what we saw is it wasn't consistent across the system and people pick up on that. They'll say, "I had to pay at tables and chairs at central, but it's included at Morgan Levy." So, we rolled that in. It's it's uh I think it it

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eliminates that perception that we're trying to nickel and dime >> uh when you get your estimate on on the rental. >> Okay. And I guess the last question, is the um the garage still an add-on for the Culture Art Center? right now. I think we eliminated that.

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>> Okay, >> let me see >> Yeah, I believe that was a fee that was assessed through the public works side because it's a facility managed by public works. So, it was in coordination where they would contact public works advise that the uh facility was needed.

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They would make sure it would remain open and then that fee was included as part of the rental. >> So, it's included now. No, it's still part of public works. It's separate public works. >> It's not on our fee sheet. It's on public works. >> Choose to use the garage or not, but there is a fee assessed, >> right?

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>> Yes. Um just to add um the whole purpose of the fee schedule and and the fee study that we have done with Jerard and Associates as I explained to all of you has more and for the benefit of the public is why I'm saying it is um we needed a methodology of how to do this

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over the city with each of the departments to be able to have a standard that we could proceed from going forward. Um, so there needed to be a methodology behind all of this, which is what George has helped us to do, which is very important, and that's why we've separated the departments and who

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charges for what and what to do. Okay. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second. If there's no additional questions, madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve by council pin, seconded by council marinos. Council Pinto, yes. Council Marinoso, yes. Council Poras, yes. May Corban, yes.

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Mayor Frag, yes. Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you very much. Okay, next item, madam clerk. >> Item 9 C, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of city, Florida, approving and adopting the condominium owner association and homeowner association fraud detection pilot program for authorization, implementation, incorporation of recitals, and an effective date.

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>> All right. Thank you very much, colleagues. Over the past several months, we've heard directly from residents across our community who feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and in some cases financially harmed by issues related to their homeowners and condominium associations. These concerns

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are real and they are impacting not only quality of life but also affordability for many of our families in the city. At the same time, it is our responsibility as policy makers and stewards of public trust to be clear and honest about what we can and what we cannot do as a city

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council. As outlined in the attached resolution, under Florida law, the city of Dorado does not have jurisdiction to regulate, audit, enforce, or oversee HOAs or COAs, and that's condos. We cannot intervene in elections,

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management disputes, or governance decisions. Those authorities rest either with the state of Florida, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, also known as DBPR, in limited cases, or the associations themselves. And that is precisely where

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our challenge continues to lie. Residents often turn to the city because it is where the closest level of government is to them. We are accessible, responsive, and engaged. But the reality is many of these issues they bring forward fall outside of our legal

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authority. If we are not careful, we risk creating a false expectation or misleading residents to believing that we can solve problems that by law we simply cannot. That said, there is one area where we do have both a

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responsibility and an opportunity to act. Criminal conduct, specifically in this case, fraud. When allegations rise to level of potential financial fraud, organized schemes or exploitation, especially of our seniors or vulnerable

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populations such as the elderly, our police department has both the authority and the obligation to investigate provided there is sufficient evidence to support such claims. However, as we have discussed, providing approving fraud is

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not as simple as it may seem. It requires financial expertise, documentation, and investigation resources that go beyond a typical complaint. This is where this pres proposal becomes both important and measured. What is a pilot program and

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what is this pilot program? The proposed HOA and COA fraud detection pilot program is designed to fill a gap, not overreach on an authority we don't have. It creates a structured process within our police department to evaluate

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whether a complaint may constitute actual fraud, provide residents with a pathway to present credible, documented, and advance only those cases that meet the legal threshold for investigation

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and potential prosecution. It is critical to emphasize this program will not resolve HOA direct disputes like enforcing rules and regulations. It will not enforce or it will not overturn

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elections or address dissatisfaction of your board's management. What it will do is help determine whether a criminal h crime has occurred and if so will help build a case that can can persuade uh can be persuaded through the legal

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channels. Why this matters? This is fundamentally fundamentally a quality of life and affordability issue for many. The largest investment of our residents is their home. when funds are misused, when assessments are improperly handled,

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or when um alleged financial misconduct impacts um are actual impacts and not just theoretical, it's deeply personal and often a financial burden for our residents. At the same time, the state continues to place the burden of these

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issues on residents and indirectly on municipalities without pro providing meaningful tools, resources, enforcement mechanisms. This creates a disconnect between where problems occur and where

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authority truly exists. This program is to direct response is to is to a direct response in this gap. It is also an example of what local government does best. Step up, provide solutions, and put people first. Even when the system

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above us falls short, fiscal responsibility and the need for this pilot program equally as important to the approach is the responsibility of the financial standpoint for us as a city. It's a reality that we just don't

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know yet. How many complaints will we receive? How many will rise to the level of actionable fraud? How many hours of investigation work will be required? Whether we will need an ongoing external financial forensic support or whether long-term this fun this function should

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be supported by dedicated personnel within our police department. It is entirely possible we receive a handful of cases or hundreds of cases. We simply just don't know the data today. That is why a I think a responsible approach is

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implementing this one-year pilot program to study and look at what we can solve and how much it will cost us. During this period, the city will absorb the associated costs with training and outside financial um auditing services.

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We will track utilization outcomes and resource demands. and we will evaluate whether the program is sustainable, scalable, or requires restructuring. At the conclusion of the pilot, we will have real data to answer critically uh

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critical policy questions including whether a dedicated funding mechanism is necessary, whether a fee structure should be considered, whether cost recovery is possible in cases where fraud is excessively prosecuted, and what the appropriate long-term model

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should be. This measures this ensures that we are not uh making permanent commitments based on assumptions but rather on true measure measurable results. I also want to be clear that this program is not a guarantee of outcomes.

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Not every complaint will lead to an investigation. Not every investigation will lead to a prosecution and not every case will result in recovery of funds. What this program provides is something equally important though. a pathway to accountability where no none may

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currently exist. It'll allow us to filter legitimate cases from general disputes, support residents in navigating complex situations, and work closely and collaboratively with the US with the state attorney and the US attorney's office of which both I have

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met with regarding this issue and have committed to strongly um supporting us in prosecuting cases. Um the bigger picture here is an initiative that um underscores a broader issue that we continue to face. Local governments

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are being asked to do more, respond to more, solve more um and serve more while simultaneously facing constraints uh on revenueing on revenue authority. This is a clear example of how policy decisions at the state level fail to

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fully recognize the role municipalities play in delivering real tangible quality of life improvements for residents. And yet we have consider consider consistently demonstrated in DAL. We do not step back from challenges. We step forward.

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For all these reasons, I respectfully ask for your support in this resolution um so that we can provide ongoing um training to our police officers. I have asked Damara Reyes to be here, which her proposals are attached. She currently

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works with the city of Miami and the city of Homestead in training their officers to be able to look specifically at these types of complaints and reports. Um I will ask Damara to come up and maybe just say a couple words. I've been working with her for years on um

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not just what we can do locally with our limited authority, but how we educate our community and particularly the investigators that just don't have the training to understand the complexities of these financial crimes. Uh more importantly, we must continue to

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advocate. So in addition to this, I will continue to do the expo that we do every year, the resource fair, which I do along with Tamara, many attorneys in our community to give their time for free to educate and train our community. Um, and

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I encourage our residents to come together. We will be hosting I will be hosting a legislative workshop later this year where we will specifically talk about very key legislation that we will take to Talahasi and hopefully be able to get passed. My goal is to start

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signatures um after we we formulate formulate uh what legislation needs to happen. that was as was discussed earlier uh by the president of the uh islands of Dorado Clubhouse and association is that the root of this problem is that there is no

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accountability uh at the state level and in legislation and we must see that change and as much as we've gone and led and advocated yearly and proposals have come forward they just haven't taken uh priority and have not gained the support. So, we are going to have to

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collectively have stronger voices to truly get uh relief for our residents and seal real see real change. Just before I turn it over to Tamara to say a couple words, I also want to say that personally I have also made it a um a a

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a goal to see CDDs uh reformed and hopefully eradicated from the legislator's ability in comm in in um in cities. I I think that they are extremely uh excessive and just pass on

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the bill for years to come to our homeowners, making home homeowner entry and and costs even more expensive. People don't understand what they're paying. They think they're paying a city or a government ed entity, and they're not. They're paying basically another

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group of residents to manage and upkeep infrastructure that wasn't paid for by the developer. It's the developer passing the buck. Um I can tell you here I will not be supportive of CDDs expansions any longer or establishing any new CDDs. Um and the other thing I

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want to say about something that was said earlier is unfortunately we don't have the authority to vote for the creation of HOAs or or um condos either. when a development comes forward, it comes forward to us under zoning categories of either multifamily, so on

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and so forth. But we do not have a say on whether a HOA is actually created or not. So with that I want to turn it over to Tamara has ex you know extensive um experience with this and has a true understanding is has been up in Tallahassee for I don't know how many

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years that advocating for this over 15 years advocating for this and um was the um the the investigation company behind the the um the issue that happened at Kendall Village I believe it was called

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right or at the town homes over there. So, I want to go ahead and turn over to the mat for a couple minutes to have an opportunity to present what her proposal is. >> Hi, good morning. The reason I'm here is because these HOA complaints and condo

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complaints are not going away. As a matter of fact, they're getting worse. Um, we have a private entity where people can pay to have us look into their books, their financial situations, and see if we can identify

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any misappropriations. The issue is that not everybody has the money to pay for our services. And then once we do get involved and we do the investigations, our accountants do the financial reviews or the accountants do the audited financial and we do find that there

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might have been misappropriation, we hand it over to the law enforcement agencies. And what we found is that these officers have no clue on how to handle these cases. These condo cases are complex. They're document. But more importantly, they're worked differently.

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And the example that I always give is if you come out of your house and your car is not there, you know that it's a grand theft auto. If you walk into your home and your home was ransacked, you know it was burglarized. With these condo cases, we know who the subjects are. It's

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anyone with a decision maker or someone with a checkbook. Now, we have to figure out the crime and that's what takes and that's what's so tedious. and the law enforcement agencies even now some civil attorneys will refer the clients to us

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and say if they find it then you can bring it back and we will prosecute it. So what we're trying to do is not only train the law enforcement agencies, something we've been doing for years, but we're also trying to establish patterns where

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the cities, the counties, the municipalities are not getting bombarded with these complaints because now you'll have a direct place where you can come in and make your complaint. We're going to establish an intake procedure. We're going to establish what the person

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coming in making the complaint, what they have to bring in order for this complaint to be done. But more importantly, on the onset, often times people come in and they're making these allegations. But it's a lot of the times it's because they don't have access to the records. A

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lot of the times is because even if they have access, they don't know how to read these financial statements. So they're immediately assuming that there's misappropriation of funds. So on the onset, we really don't know. It's our job to find out if there is

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misappropriation of funds or not. Because in all reality, we've had a lot of cases that when we start looking at the case, we may think that there's nothing there. And when the accountants get into all the accounting, we find that there's hundreds of thousands of dollars that are being misappropriated

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from the communities. And as a result, there's a special assessment to be able to compensate for that loss and people can't afford it. And if you can't afford it, then they're going to foreclose on your home. So, we have to establish something that not only are we training

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these officers, but we're also establishing procedures on how it is that someone can come in so people are not shopping around. Because one of the things that we find is that they'll send emails. I get emails that are copied from everywhere from the governor all

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the way down the state attorney's office, the cities to see who would actually respond to it and people aren't responding because they don't know. It's no fault of the police department. There's no training on this. Um, I do want to I'm sorry I started backwards,

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but I do want to add I worked for the Miami Day Police Department for 29 years. The last nine years I was assigned to economic crimes. And it was then that we started seeing homeowners with a lot of complaints that they're thinking that there may be money missing from their associations. Their

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maintenance is going up and the uh associations are not being well cared for. And it's not until we started getting involved and seeing and bringing in all the resources that the state was missing that we decided we were going to

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do this as a way to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the DVPR. And I also want to speak really briefly about an important topic because everybody knows and I don't know if this is people have been made aware of this

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but the reason that the DBPR does not regulate HOAs is because they don't pay into the fund. So, every condominium unit and every building, every unit has to make a contribution of $4 per year to

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the state and that's how they fund the regulation of condos. HOAs don't pay into that fund. So, although all of these rules and all of these state statutes are on the books, they're not enforced and they're not regulated. So,

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if you live in an HOA, which is the majority of the people here in the city of Dural, unless there's a crime or unless we put a case together against the property manager and then we can do a regulatory complaint because we'll go against their license. Unless it's

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something like that, there's no other recourse. So, I feel that we should at least give them an opportunity to look at these complaints and see if there's any validity to it instead of just saying we can't help you. And just I want to add so how many years have you

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and I been talking about doing this and do working on this together for like five six years now right? So >> when I was mentioning at the last at the last meeting you know there was an idea to bring forward a an an advisory board it really is not solving an issue that

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we will continue to see. So, I think this does truly at least provide some additional relief to residents that don't seem to find a place to find relief because there's no there's no mechanism for it at the state level or locally. So, this truly will provide

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some ability to find where fraud can can exist. Again, I'm going to I'm going to reiterate and um I hope you all read I really took a long time writing this full policy um with very specific um guidelines for our police officers and

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the task force that will be created of professionals that will have the ability to carry forward um any criminal cases that may come come out of this. There will be an intake process which I have asked Tamara to work with the police

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department to create in this process. Um so that some of these cases that may not have a criminal but may have any may have a code compliance issue will be referred to code compliance. So there will be a process for receiving complaints so people feel that they

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actually have a place to go and take take them. Not everything will result in an outcome that is positive because there are some things we just can't get involved in regulating and that truly just have no mechanism for regulating because we can't also sit there. We're not first attorneys and we also can't

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sit there and read the rules and regulations of every HOA. Um but I do think that this will at least tackle the biggest problem which is the financial crimes and the burden that that causes to the homeowners. So that's really

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essence of of putting this together. We've been talking about it for years and and the other reason I mentioned the fee structure last time was because we've been talking about that there should be some fee structure or fund that HOAs um build to be able to

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pay people back if something is found to be a a a criminal case, but also so that there can be enforcement mechanisms. Um and there's just not that ability right now. So again, for for this pilot year program, we will be burdening we will be

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burdened as a city with the cost of it and we'll see how many cases come forward and how many of them actually result into crimes. I put in there that maybe we can recover some of that because if something does come out of it and it's a crime that funds can be recovered, then maybe the city can be paid back for all of the uh financial

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auditing fees that we'll have to endure and incur to be able to then be paid back for it. But um in the meantime, it's a service that we'll be providing to our residents through our police department and code compliance. So that's really the essence of the proposal. Um if anybody has any

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questions for Damar, myself, uh Lorenzo also took a look at the policy and gave it his blessing, but really took time to think about what would be the best solution and provide real relief to our residents. >> I have a couple comments. >> Yes. Council for us.

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>> So I think it's a it's a great idea. I I think it's something that's been um said to the residents that we would do at the police department and I think it's great that now our officers or at le I think it's one officer, right, that's going to receive training or maybe multiple multiple.

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>> Okay, that's I think great. Um and I think that it's great that we're doing it as a pilot. Anything that the city does to um bridge that gap and those issues with HOAs, condos, and the residents and even the board members, I think helps. So, you know, the

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constituent days, the DBPR days, everything adds up. And I I'm all in favor um for that. Um and I'll be in favor of this, of course. I I just want to reiterate that, you know, once this pilot program is done, I I don't support

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adding additional fees to um associations or residents to do this work. I think this is um work that our police department has been can do and hopefully will be equipped to do once you once they do the training. Um I know

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that the county has a specific task force for this. It's something that they've been doing as part of the police um uh services, but again I I'm in very I'm in support of everything and anything that we can add and continue to add um to help the residents. And again,

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I I'm not going to be supportive of any fees, additional fees that will be taxed to residents. >> Yes, >> well, I'm in complete agreeance with my colleague um Councilwoman Boras in terms of obviously never passing down anything

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to the residents that necessarily they don't have to um be accountable for. Now, from my understanding, okay, in layman's terms, there is a difference between condo law and HOA law, in order for the DBPR

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to be um have any type of accountability component to what is happening with HOAs, there needs to be a buyin into the DBPR per unit of that um HOA association. If not there, that's what

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really cuts off the accountability portion and the investigation portion of what the DBPR can do. Correct. >> Yes. So, I want to I want to be clear on something. The DBPR is a regulatory agency. >> So, all it's doing is saying you

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committed this violation and so you know, >> like the mayor said, the burden of proof is always on that owner. And that's not fair either. >> Correct. But what happens is if they do find that there was a violation committed, it's not the board that pays.

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That fine is assessed to the building or to the community, which in turn, the same person that made that complaint >> is paying for it, >> is now going to pay for it. >> So that's never a solution. Mhm. >> The solution is to ensure that they know that there's

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accountability, that they know that there's an agency that's looking into their books, that's looking into what they're doing if indeed there is some sort of misconduct. And for a long time, for many years, as long as I can remember the nine years that I worked in

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economic crimes, everything that had to do with an HOA or condo, they looked at it as a civil and it was a civil matter and go get an attorney, >> right? >> That's not the case. We just don't have the people. We don't have the expertise and we don't have the units that are

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willing to look at this. We do this. My entire team with the exception of the accountants are our retired law enforcement officers. Today here with me is Margera. She just retired. She was a major in um Palmetto Bay and she has joined my team. So we have very very

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skilled people. We know investigations. We know the importance of the evidence. We know how to read these documents. And more importantly in the process, we know how to educate the person, the community member that comes to us because we're not just going to send them away. We're

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going to tell them why. We're going to show them this isn't civil or this isn't criminal because of this and we're going to educate them in the process because what we want to do is prevent them from continuously coming and coming and coming >> with these complaints,

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>> right? And then so this item essentially is what what we're doing is we're giving law enforcement, the police, the tools that they need to look at these claims that are made um by HOAs to see if there's something that that that they can take and make a case out of it for

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the HOA and the community. Okay? And I think we're all align here. I'm speaking for my colleagues in that we want to find a solution wherever it is our authority of power allows. And whether that is advocating, whether that is finding these types of solutions for our

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residents, um what what I don't want and I'm sure my colleagues don't want either is to give false expectations. And I think this is part of the steps that have been taken um as a council to find these remedies for our residents. It's

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it's pretty incredible to think that it's 2026 and with all the complaints and all the feedback that have we have been getting just not in the city of Dorado but really throughout Miami date county of this being a very apparent issue that there isn't laws guidelines

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um and real outcomes for these types of issues that are happening within communities. So, I think that this is right now the best effort that the city of Dorado can do to try to to the word that's been used, the bridging the gap

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between the complaints and actually giving it meat within law enforcement to actually do something about it. >> All right, any other questions? Councilman Pedato. >> Thank you, mayor. I'm going to place a motion to approve, but first of all, I want to say thank you, Tamara, for for

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being here and thank you for everything that you do. I know that you have been doing this for years and I know the mayor has been working with you all this time and I also want to thanks the mayor for bringing uh this initiative forward. Um I think that you know next year

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should be a very interesting year when it comes to the Florida legislation. You know, we know this year state representative Juan Carlos Boris tried to they the house passed the bill 657 uh and hopefully next year something

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something similar can uh bring uh to the house again. But we also have to I think that we have a a responsibility as well as an elected officials. That's why when you know when when we spoke last time about a potential advisory board and all

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that I think that we as a board have the responsibility since we represent the residents as well. So yes this is a great initiative mayor and I and I agree with you and and my colleagues on this. uh but at the same time I think this is a great opportunity for us as an elected

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officials to raise the voice and and speak about you know something similar to that house bill that unfortunately the Senate's leadership didn't want to move forward. So we should be questioning the Senate's leadership

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right now in the Florida in the Florida leg for the Florida legislation because didn't want to move forward that specific bill for different reasons. So next year I think that we should have a very good opportunity to move

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legislation similar to that one because I do believe the res should have the right to initiate the dissolution of an HOA for example. They should have the right. Why not? They created it. Let's give him the

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right to actually dissolve an HOA. That's the conversation that we should have from now until legislation uh reconvene next year in 2027. I agree with everything that we said. Obviously, I hear the concerns from all

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the residents, but we have to tackle the main issue, which I believe next year again and hopefully we work on that together as a council, residents should have the right to initiate the dissolution of an HOA. I think that that

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will be the real solution. But we also have a responsibility as an elected officials that again I thanks the mayor for this initiative. But at the same time, we have a great opportunity to actually push uh our representative at

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the state level to hopefully create a real real change in the state of Florida. Mhm. Well, there is already the martyr is in place for HOAs. And what that is is an association, an HOA association.

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They're they have to revitalize their documents, their their bylaws. They have to revitalize how they incorporated by year 30. And often times, Deral is a relatively young city, but often times they don't do it. They forget to do it.

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And nobody even realizes until three or four years down the road. They're still issuing fines. You're still getting paying maintenance. But there is something already in place for them that they have to revitalize before year 30. And if they do it prior to the year,

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they can do it with a simple board of directors meeting. If they wait for those for those articles to expire, then the entire community has to sign and agree to continue with the HOA. Most HOA unit owners don't even know that. So

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there is opportunity there to where maybe once those documents or if the documents are not revitalized is to try to see if something can happen at that point where um maybe some provisions can be in place making it harder or I I

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don't know that that'd be up to Tallahassee. But there are things in place already and unfortunately it's just too difficult to >> and if they're not if they're not renewed at the 30 years, what happens? They can't collect fee. They're not supposed to be collecting fees. Basically, the organization doesn't exist,

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>> right? It abolishes. >> Mayor, I have an additional comment. >> Interesting. Okay. Yes, Council Mary. So, >> so um just kind of piggybacking off what um Councilman Pinedo said, we have been supportive and I think um unanimously as

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a council when it came to um supporting a state rep Boras's items regarding HOA reform and I I know that we will continue to do that. What I would like to do is I would like to see if the city could organize and maybe this is out of

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turn. See if the city can organize perhaps um meetings with the different HOA presidents to kind of um give this information that you're giving out today in a more organized fashion. um again if there's residents within the community that want to participate to that but I

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think this information is so valuable and at least for me it has been explained very uh clear um and I feel that this is uh valuable information that the managing board members of HOAs should receive at the minimum the

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presidents of the HOA should come in here so when let's say for example this 30-year u mark of re-evaluating ating the bylaws within the HOAs, making sure that they do that before. What are the certain remedies? What is the city looking into doing now? So there at

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least that type of support is given from the city and I and I and I think that's um another thing that we can do. I know that we do other workshops. >> No, but I believe do do the HOAs also fall into the certifications required by board members now? >> Yes. >> Or it's only condos? No. So there is a certification that the when you're on

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the board, you must have the certification out by state uh you by the the state um and and so there it's similar. They have to get the certification which it teaches them all of these um rules and and statutes that govern that govern their HOAs. Um and we

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have been providing opportunities for those certifications for free from the city. So it it allows them to come and they they learn all of Tamara is does them and so does an attorney that she works with which we've we've provided a room at the training facility

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>> several times to do these to do this um this certification. So we can continue to do that and open it up and invite them because they have to be certified to be able to be on the board. >> And I understand that but really it's really like a gathering of the minds event too, right? just to I understand that that there's a certification

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component that they have to do but more like let's gather let's talk about the different issues let's go through what we can do and just make it more of a a board member but for sure the president oriented of the different HOAs and and hopefully the city can at least

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facilitate the meeting room for that >> yeah I would like to >> especially if we're going to advocate for legislative changes >> correct correct input is valuable >> absolutely >> yeah that that will definitely be doing a a a workshop to be able to gain um information from the entire community.

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Definitely the board that the board presidents and directors because >> that's uh that's the basically the governing body of those HOAs. So um all right. Well, that's this is I just want to clarify also this proposal has no

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fees attached to it. Uh but again, we just don't know what it'll cost us at the end. Um we're going to be keeping good track of that. So, it's important that we have this information in a year so when we re-evaluate, we know what the city's contributing to these cases. And

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it'll also be a good opportunity to use that in Tallahassee and take it to the state and show them this is what the local municipalities are facing in order to help the affordability crisis of our residents. Um and with the facing what

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we're facing also in um deductions in our revenue of that that fund our police department and things like that. It's going to be something interesting to watch how we how we're able to subsidize a lot of these programs that really are not our responsibility but we do it because we know it directly impacts our

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residents. >> Correct. Yes. >> So motion again. >> I think we have a motion by Councilman Pedo. We need a second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Final comment by uh Vice Mayor Cabrell. I want to thank you for uh bringing this up and for your service and your team too. I actually

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can tell you that I was the president of my association for nine years before I even thought about running at the time that it was not uh an obligation to have the certification to be part of the board. Uh that's something that I brought up when I first was elected to

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have everybody um understanding you know what are the bylaws when it comes to 718 and 720. So, and also I uh like the gentleman that came before and he was talking about the transition from the developer, I actually experienced that

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twice. And I can tell you that even though uh the developer still there, you have a voice. In my case at that time, we're talking 20 years be the first property that I bought here in the city of Dal at that time was within the transition uh well before it was a transition with the uh the developer to

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the residents. And I was able to bring down the uh monthly fee from 308 to $198 plus they had to give a res a check for $50 to each of the residents. So you still have a voice even though they're there. Um if you gather everybody and

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you just sit down with the budget and go line item by line item, you will be able to accomplish a lot because I already experienced that. And also then I got involved in the uh community development district at that time of my community. That was in 2015. And I came here to the

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city at that time because I noticed that the elected officials at that time were just approving CDDs and they were not even they would not even understand what what was the entitlement of approving those CDDs. And I said that because at that time when I came here to the podium

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and I explained them many of them had no clue when I asked and they were approving all these different development here in our city. And at that time I requested to have a workshop that actually was overwhelmed the amount of people that came to understand what

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is uh Florida statute 190 and uh and I I'm all science so I don't have nothing when it comes to any uh background as as a of law or anything but I think that it was very important for people to understand what is that they were paying

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and understand also at that time that that was not part of the city. uh those fees because many people thought that those taxes were go directly to the city and I think that uh we needed to keep educating uh the community. So I make sure that my board before uh none of

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this was uh required that they would do the course and understand and that's why I brought that up when I came into the city and work very close with our now senator uh Anamaria Rodriguez who was one of our elected offic uh when it comes but I do understand

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that there's a lot of lobbying strong lobbying with uh developers against all of this. So definitely we have to keep working together and make sure that our neighbors look after our neighbors because when you're part of a board, you're looking after your neighbor uh

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when when you live in that community. Uh and also to make sure that what it calls common Florida practice like I was told by vendors that will come and try to uh get the contract and and offer me cash, thousands of dollars of cash. Uh I would

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definitely completely take them out of my community because for me uh we have to keep transparency, honesty and more than anything is to look for each other. So I hope that by the time that comes uh the results on the pilot and something

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that I would like to suggest if it is possible being within your experience is that within six months if you will be able to come back I will not be here on on the deas but still I will be a resident of the city. Uh if you can give us maybe a summary of what have you

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found and see how soon we will be able to progress on on this issue. Uh so if my colleagues uh also agree that within six months you will be able because I'm pretty sure with your experience taking a few of the cases hopefully there will not be too many cases in our city and

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like I said people are really looking for each other instead of taking advantage within uh the uh and also uh not just the residents that part of those boards but also the management companies too that sometimes unfortunately they mislead uh some of

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the residents that have the best intention. to make the right thing for everybody within that community that you will give us an overview or a summary of what you have found if that's okay with you. >> Perfect. >> We'll be capturing stats from the onset. So >> great. Thank you so much for that and to

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your team too. >> All right. Uh so we have a motion to approve by Councilman Pino, second by Counciloman Reynoso. There's no additional questions. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve by council pen. Second by council maro. Council Pedro. >> Yes. >> Council Reynoso. >> Yes. >> Council member Porz. >> Yes. Vice Mayor. >> Yes. >> Mayor Frag.

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>> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Thank you very much. We'll move on to the next item. >> Item 9D. A resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of Dorado Florida approving and adopting the Dal Seeds business grant program providing for the expenditure of budget of funds providing for implementation incorporation recital conflictability

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and an effective date. >> All right. So this is a Dal Seeds program. If you remember this was passed in our budget this year. It's $20,000 for our first ever Dural uh business grant program. Um we did get matching funds. So we have 40,000 uh the other 20

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will come from Banesco Bank. Um through the manager's off office, I'd like to ask our um economic developer Luis Amore to come up who helped put this whole thing together along with our city attorney's office. um everything was

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attached as far as the policy that would govern how this is going to work. It's kind of like a Shark Tank type style um competition that we'll do where uh there will be a period to receive applications, a close period, a review

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period. It'll be scaled down to a certain amount of businesses that will be uh will be qualified by by the rating sheets that are attached. Um and then they'll go into the presentation. Um the committees will be independently made up

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and Luis, can you tell us a little bit about the committees that we envision having created along with the sponsor uh the S the SDC >> SB SBDC um and they're also going to be

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doing the educational component which is the part I wanted to add in our policy after reviewing it again yesterday. Um I noticed that there was no requirement for the final top tier businesses to go through the education component which is

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probably one of the main most important things of this whole process so that they're successful. So to I to section 8.2 I wanted to add um G. So 8.2G 2G, which would be the educational and technical assistance

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component that would require applicants to go through the program related educational and technical assistance sessions prior to demo day as determined by the city. That's the only little change I wanted to make to the policy. Um, but besides that, everything was attached. I hope everyone got an

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opportunity to review it. I want to thank Lui did an amazing job along with Nick and uh everyone who was involved in putting this together. and our goal is to award this first grant by September 1st. So that's why it's on the agenda now and the whole process will take

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place during the summer. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm appreciate the opportunity of being part of this and if you have any questions about the grant, uh I'll be happy to answer. >> All right, there any questions? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilwoman Pedo. >> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. There's no additional questions. Madam Clerk,

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please call. >> Motion to approve as amended. Made by Counciloman Pino. Seconded by Councilwoman Reynoso. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. Counciloman Reynoso. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Boras. >> Yes. >> Gordon, >> yes. >> Mayor Fra, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. So, um, just real quick before we move on, we have a little bit of a time

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constraint. Um, some of us, myself with the development services director, were invited to speak at a conference for the Realtor Association that's taking place at Intercontinental. Um, and we made a commitment to be there. So, I'm going to respectfully request um we'll hear item

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9E and then the items that were pulled and then I'm going to ask for 9F through H along with the reports to be heard this evening. Is everybody okay with that? >> Yes. Through consensus. Okay. So, let's go ahead and do item 9E real quick and then we're going to do uh 6 A, B, K, and

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Q. >> All right. Item 9E, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Florida approving the code designation of Northwest 117th Avenue from Northwest 34th Street to Northwest 25th Street as Father Elkin Sierra Way providing for implementation and corporation recital and an effective date. Council Pel, this is your item.

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>> Thank you, mayor. It's my honor to present this resolution code designating Northwest 117th Avenue for Northwest 25th Street to Northwest 34th Street as and we're making a a change from way to path. Father Elinier Path as today we

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honor certainly his life and legacy of a man that was extraordinary that had an extraordinary journey that was defined by service, sacrifice and faith. As many of you might know before answering the call to the priesthood, Father Sierra

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served our community for 21 years with the Miami Day Fire Rescue Department, rising to the rank of lieutenant and serving as a chaplain. Throughout those years, he dedicated himself to protecting life, comforting families in time of crisis, and supporting his

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fellow first responders. Yet, Father Elkins story is remarkable, not only because of how he served, but because of the sacrifice he was willing to make. Just couple of years before becoming eligible for full retirement, he answered what he believed was God's

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calling and left behind a successful career to enter the priesthood. The decision certainly speak volumes about the kind of person he was. When faced When faced with the choice between personal security and a higher purpose,

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Father Elkins choose service. He chose faith. He chose to dedicate the rest of his life to helping others find hope, healing, and spiritual guidance. Through his life, he touched countless life across our community. He celebrated our

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joys, comforted us in certain moments, remind us of all the power of compassion, humility, and love for one another. Although Father Elkin is no longer with us, his legacy lived and the life he transformed, the families he

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guided, and the community he helped strengthen. His example remind us that true leadership is not measured by titles or accomplishments but a lifetime dedicated to serving others. It is therefore fitting that we permanently

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honor his memory through this street code designation ensuring that future generations will know the story of a man who devoted his life to serving both his community and his faith. I also want to live on the record this resolution was also approved by Miami Day County Board

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of Commissioners sponsored by our uh uh commissioner and uh it certainly and I'm hope and I respectfully ask my colleagues to support in approving this resolution. >> If I may. >> Yes. >> Thank you so much for bringing this up.

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as a catechist for the past n 19 years. Our lady walupe, I I want to thank you for allowing me to co-sponsor uh this item. I I can truly tell you that I knew personally uh father Sierra how he

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actually touched so many young life uh with his experience as a firefighter and with his vocation of service. He had that experience on how to really uh embrace the youth of our community. He

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is very uh well missed and um I can tell you that uh in our community was not just in our church of our lady Guadalupe that he was able to bring so many uh into the faith but many others from around our community. So thank you so

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much for bringing that and motion to approve. Okay, we have a motion to approve by by Vice Mayor um Cabra, second by Councilwoman Porus. Um all right, if we have no other comments or questions, I think this is great. Thank you, Councilman Pedo. >> Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

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>> Motion to approve made by Vice Mayor Carell, seconded by Council Pores. Vice Mayor Carell, >> yes. >> Counciloman Pores, yes. >> Councilman Pedo, >> yes. >> Council Reoso, >> yes. >> Mayor Frag, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. I forgot to mention real quick in my mayor's report um we have a check presentation from the PGA for the

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donation to PP4K. So we're going to take up the other items and we'll do it right before we break. Okay. Sorry. Okay, madam clerk. Next item. >> I guess mayor we will go back to the items that were pulled from consent. >> Yes, please. Item 6A. >> Item 6A. A resolution of the mayor and

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the city council city for approving the employment agreement with Matthew Castillo's police chief providing for authorization implementation incorporation of recital and an effective date. This was pulled by Vice Mayor Carell. >> Okay, Vice Mayor Cabell, this you pulled this item. >> Yes, I pulled this item because I think that it's important um to have our new

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chief uh that is coming in through the manager if he will be able to come into the podium. >> Yes, Vice Mayor. >> Thank you. >> Welcome, Chief Castillo. >> Welcome, >> Chief Castillo. Thank you so much for

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being here. And the reason that I pulled the item and I think that it's just fair to one to welcome you here in the podium and also to be able for you to talk a little bit about you. I know that we had a meeting a brief meeting uh just on my

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agenda review and we met uh in a in an event briefly with your beautiful wife and I wish you your union for many many years together. uh and I would like you to talk a little bit just briefly uh about the things that we actually talked

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that day uh on your introduction when you said uh the things that you're looking you know to bring into the city just briefly I think that it's just fair for our residents to have this opportunity to know a little bit about you uh I review the uh your contract and

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as we spoke in the meeting is the same as what at that time was offered to our chief Chief Lopez and thank you so much for your service in the years that you were here. I also want to recognize that I know that we have excellent uh uh um

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officers in our department. So many that have started from the that with us since we started the department. And I know by just having that brief conversation with you that you will be open on any uh

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experience that they can and any support that they will be able to give you. uh because they already have the experience here on our city on how things are run and also uh how is the culture that we have like we we talk among different

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cities have different issues different culture and I also talked to you at that time what are some of the concerns that our residents and I also had uh that I know that has been worked been working with our chief and our officers as well.

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Uh, so I just wanted to give this opportunity to you to have the floor. >> Absolutely. So in Miami Springs, I didn't really have to do this because I was born and raised there. So pretty much everyone knew my story. So I went to the local high school in Miami Springs. Born and raised there. I got the opportunity to become a public

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service aid over there. Fell in love with the profession. And then I became a police officer over there. From day one, I never stopped learning. I grew of such a passion for this profession and ultimately rose up the ranks to the chief of police of city Miami Springs. It was an honor to serve that city for

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such a short amount of time, but we did so much in such a short amount of time. Um, one of the reasons I wanted to come over here and thank you for the opportunity, thank you city manager for giving me this opportunity was because we have similar issues in Miami Springs but a little bit different. Miami Springs is very unique. But one of the

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main problems in Miami Springs was traffic. And traffic was uh a big problem for us for the residents. And I was deeply affected because I lived there. So anything that happened traffic related to the residents, it affected me. So I wanted to make sure that we

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tackled that head on. And one of our problems in Miami Springs was 40 to 40 to 60% of our calls for service were at the Northwest 36th Street corridor, which is where our hotels are, which gave us a lot of issues. and we had a lot of homeless encampments in that

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area. So, as a resident, it wasn't fair to them that all of our resources were going over there and not to the residents because I think that we can all agree that our number one primary uh responsibility is the safety of the residents. So, I want to get a chance to know the community. That's what I'm I'm

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big on. I'm big on the community relations and I want to get a chance to evaluate the different problems we have here in the city of Dorado. And it's very minor compared to the problems we were experiencing in Miami Springs as far as crime is concerned. And today it was very knowledgeable that uh I was able to sit down and hear the residents

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concerned about the HOA which I'm definitely going to go ahead and get with our staff that are very very competent um individuals and tackle that problem head on and the traffic problem as well. So you got me. I'm an open book. I had a great relationship with all the council members with the

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community and I can't wait to get started. I um wanted to to say also that I check I mean review your uh background and uh not just the experience that you have as a chief but the years that you

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have a service like I told you have many family members that are also uh part of the service in the military and also in the police department uh in the United States. Yes. Uh not in this state but in other states and um and also your

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academic uh background. So your academia is very important too to be able to understand uh certain uh issues. So, I like I said, I just want you to please to work together with the officers that are still here. Uh especially with those ones that been for a long time that have

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vast of experience and I'm pretty sure that you were enrich of of that to be able to continue uh the great work that they have done here in our city and to take your time to make the decisions on how you're going to allocate and make

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those changes within the department. Uh so then you will be making a wise decision uh by the time that is needed. >> Absolutely. Time is of the essence, but time is very important. Uh I want to commend Chief Edwin Lopez for doing a phenomenal job here in Dorado. And I

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just want to continue to build off of his legacy and continue to build the foundation the city of Dorado. And thank you so much for calling me up here so I can introduce myself. And I know there's going to be a lot more time for me to introduce myself. I want to meet all the residents. I know we have 80 something thousand residents, but I'm going to be

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sure to shake a lot of hands and meet people and introduce myself to them. >> Sure. I know that our city manager was concerned to see what was my questions if I have any. But, uh, sometimes, like I told her, it all depends on the comments that will come up and things that maybe I needed to ask, but we will

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have more time to go over a few other things in other meetings. >> Whatever you need, I'm here. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Comments, mayor. >> Yes, Councilwoman Poras. Well, um, again, welcome, Chief Castillo. Um, we had a great conversation and I'm looking forward to your leadership, um, as well

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as your deputy chief. Um, welcome as well. Um, you are coming into a really great city. Um, where I think our residents respect and really care for our police department and that is a lot. Thank you um Chief Lopez because he's

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the one that has created that um with the great work and service that he's provided to the city and thank you for your commitment to continue um being that that that connected to the community and that voice for people and as well for um your commitment to

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respect also our hardworking immigrant community. >> Absolutely. It's something that we definitely are looking forward to and um as my colleague the vice mayor has said, your background is really great. Um I think it's it's definitely going to help with a lot of the issues that we have

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here and I'm looking forward to that. So welcome again and um Deputy Chief Dwek, right? Is that how you say it? Dwek Dwek. >> Dwek. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. I promise I'm not going to disappoint you guys. Thank you. Anything else for me? >> Yes, Councilman Pino.

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Thank you, mayor. >> Well, first of all, welcome. Welcome to the best police department in Miami Day County. >> Absolutely. >> And we're going to keep it that way, >> 100%. >> Just for the record, Chief Lopez. Okay. >> And no disrespect to Miami Springs, we

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have a great department over there. >> Next year, we're going to keep saying the same thing. So, but I just want to welcome you to a department that and it's true. Chief Lope has done an incredible job, especially in the last couple of years. I think that and that's

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why I always very proud to say it that way because I because we are. It's not because I believe and I know that and I'm very confident that you're going to continue that path. We have great men and women in uniforms. A lot of them are

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here today that Yes. have offered their and have been with the city of Dorado for a good number of years and they have done a great job but as always everything comes to leadership and and I believe the last year especially the last year probably has been one of the best years when it comes to to our

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police department uh when you look at the numbers we had the lowest crime rates in 2025 in Miami date county so uh Dorado is a city it's a diverse city of course there are some concerns that have been putting out there with with

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you coming on board uh that those have been clarified because again it's a it's a city that is is a diverse community. A lot of people from Latin America, a lot of immigrants. I know immigration has been one of the things that have come

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forward. Uh a lot of those comments were and I'm going to say fake news. I'm not going to use that term, but it was misinformation or misleading information for not actually looking into the details of what you have done in Miami Springs. So, I'm very confident we're

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going to keep that way. City of Dorado has done again is about community policing. It's not about serving as uh immigration agents or ICE agents. So, I just want to put that out there because it has been something that unfortunately

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has been misused and misleading out there to create chaos for no reason and in a community that is already facing a lot of challenges when it comes to this particular matter. So, uh I just want to

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put it out there because again, I'm very confident of your of your background and what you're coming to do here in our city. you're going to continue what Chief Lopez has been able to build in the past years and I'm very confident that you know next year once once we celebrate your first year in the city of

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Dorado we're going to keep saying that we had the best police department in Miami date county so congratulations and welcome welcome home >> thank you so much thank you for having me >> councilwoman Reynoso >> well first of all I want to start with actually recognizing the actual police

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department that we have here within the city of Dorado all the men and women that serve within our police department that have great skills that are really dedicated to the community. I think that they do their work um with heart, with integrity, and always looking for what

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is best for our community and those that transit within our community. Um with that, I want to thank Chief Lopez for his leadership, for everything that he's done for our community, for leading the great men and women of the city of Dorado PD. And welcome, Chief Castillo.

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I mean, you have such an incredible police department, such an incredible city that you're gonna be in charge of. Um, I know that you're going to serve our community well. I know that you're going to win over the residents that we have in our community. And um, well,

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welcome aboard. >> Thank you so much, Councilwoman. And just to address uh, Councilwoman Pierro's comments, uh, Miami Springs is 80% Hispanic. 80% Hispanic or 80% residential and not one concern about

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the immigration issue. My dad came to this country at 10 years old and my wife came to this country at 7 years old. I have a deep empathy for the immigrant population. Just want to put that on record. Thank you. >> And the mayor before you sorry and this

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council is representative of um immigrant backgrounds. I believe we all represent um either families that had to leave the country to come here or are second generations from immigrant communities. So I welcome that you also have an immigrant background and can

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empathize with the residents and their concerns. And again, you're in law enforcement. I know that you're going to take care of the our city as best as you can within the parameters given to you. >> Absolutely. We're in this together. Everybody here doesn't matter if you're wearing a gun or a badge. Doesn't

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matter. We're in this together. >> So, a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by uh Vice Mayor Cabraw. Second by Councilman Pedo. >> Mayor, I'm sorry. Can I >> I I just really quick I wanted to make a small comment. I know we're pressed for

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time, so I won't speak long, but I wanted to just um I I um I wanted for the benefit of the public to for to understand that we took a look a a lot about u what the organizational needs

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and what the best interest of the city was when when I made this decision. Um, Chief Castillo is a highly qualified law enforcement professional with leadership experience, command command background, education, and operational knowledge that is necessary to lead this

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department. Um, he has risen through the ranks. He understands modern policing, and he's demonstrated the ability to lead with professionalism, accountability, and strong commitment to community trust. Um, this was this appointment was made with careful

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consideration for what the Dur Police Department needs at this particular moment. We're at an important point in the department's history with major public safety priorities ahead of us with highly visible events such as the G20 coming up, including continued modernization of our department,

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operational growth, and future police facility. Having said all of this, I also want to put on the record I had conversations with Deputy Chief Neil and with one of the majors. Um, the deputy chief indicated that she was not interested in pursuing the chief

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position and she has requested to return to her previous position as a chief executive officer. I am extremely grateful for Alicia Neil staying with us. I know we're going to recognize the

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chief um today, but um Alicia has a very um special place in my heart because she has been an incredible support to Chief Lopez and I just wanted to put that also on the record and I think she will continue to be an incredible asset to

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Chief Castillo and to Deputy um Chief Dwek. So um I just wanted to put that on the record. Um, my husband always tells me not to speak past the yes, but I think this was important. >> Yes. Thank you. Uh, Madame Manager,

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welcome, Chief Castillo. Um, you know, this was not something we foresaw having to have to face. Um, Chief Lopez has done an incredible job and I'm not going to talk about him because we're going to talk about him tonight. So, I'm not going to give him that much importance. Clearly, he chose otherwise. So, I'm

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just kidding. Um, but you know, this is something that is extremely important to us and a huge priority for our city. You know, when I became mayor, I I I thought I knew what I what I envisioned for this city and certain things. Um, and and for many cases, I did, but there was one

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thing I knew for sure. Um, when I came, I knew that uh there was an a strong administration that we needed to have. And at that time, our city manager um was Barbie Hernandez. And when we talked about the chief of police, well, at that time we had a a chief who resigned, um,

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you know, we we worked together to find somebody. And I told her, the chief of police in the school district is amazing and has so much potential to really lead and create an incredible um an incredible morale in our in our city.

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And so coming in, I knew Chief Lopez would be our chief. He had to say yes, and the manager had to say yes, but he did. And so there was that for me was always a priority was the position of chief of police as well as the department that we have and we have an incredible team and that has taken time

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to build and we've had people that have been with us from the very beginning who have given a lot of sacrifice, time and care and passion to this department. So the way I look at this is like building a basketball team. Um, and I don't know much about basketball, but what I do

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know is that I see teams going out and recruiting the best. It's not about the titles and it's not about the position you play because every position is important. If we don't have good defense, you don't win. If you don't have good offense, you don't win. And

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so, in looking at it that way, I think that as a department, it's important that we're always recruiting the best. I saw your work from afar. I got to go to the your your chief's gala last year and I remember telling uh our chief at the time I go he's a rising star. Um I saw

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how much your department admired, respected and trusted you and I saw the care and the love that your community had for you. And I don't go off and read blogs too much because they can get in your head. But um I saw when the city of

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Miami Springs posted that you had accepted the position here and I went and I read a lot of the comments and even when it was being talked about and the comments were all extremely positive. I know Theo who came and spoke today as a resident from when I was a school board member and representing

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Miami Springs who's a very vocal and active resident. He still emails me today here in the city of Dale. Um, so I was not surprised to see him come and speak on your behalf and support you. Um, and many of the residents that I know from Miami Springs that I've run into or have called me have said, "What

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a great choice." Like, amazing. So when the manager and uh was faced with with the decision that had been made by our chief that we will always love very much um for all the work that he's done and the incredible um job that he did in

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valuing and seeing the professionalism and the team we had and putting people in the right place. Uh we had a a discussion uh because that's how we work as a team. And so the discussion was about making sure that we continued on

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this path, understanding the very very hard year that we were going to have policing wise. Um, and it was important that everyone felt valued, respected, understood, um, and that the chief had made very strategic choices on putting people in

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the right place for their expertise. So, it was about recruiting the best to continue building on the best. But they can't do it without you and you can't do it without them. And I think everybody knows that. And so, I think that this is a great opportunity to continue the work

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that has been done, the foundation that has been laid. I know the residents are going to see your heart. I always, you know, I get asked a lot, what do you wish, if you had one superpower, what would it be? I wish my superpower was that people could see my heart. That you could just see right through it and I

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wouldn't have to say anything. You would just be able to see my heart. And I see that from you just from the conversations we've had. You want people to see your heart and you show it through your passion. Very similar to what I saw in Chief Lopez. So I am excited to have you on board, Deputy uh

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Chief Dwek as well, who is a resident of the city of Dorado. And when Chief Castillo and I had a chance to meet and we talked a little bit about the organizational um opportunities in the city, knowing that Deputy Chief Neil wanted to stay,

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which I was very excited about. Sorry, Chief Lopez, but she wanted to stay and um but go back to the XO position um that we had that discussion. you mentioned uh deputy chief Dwek Dwek

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which will be coming on board and um that he was a resident everything. I went back into my Instagram and I was like I wonder if he's ever written me and I have had several conversations with him as a resident. Very active, very attentive to what was going on policing wise. We even had a conversation about a homeless who was

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around your community and we sent police out and you were very supportive of how the officers handled it. So someone who who not only cared as a resident but obviously is going to have double the care as a member of this team. So my point is

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it's not about the titles, it's about your passion, your heart. It's about the commitment you make in serving the people of Dorado behind that badge. So thank you for being a part of the Dorado family. I basically just said what I was

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going to say. You're swearing in. So, we might as well just skip the swearing in ceremony. Um, but uh thank you for choosing us and um thank you for choosing this profession. All of you for choosing this profession. We know it's difficult. We know your families endure

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it as well. And so that's why for me it's always important to build on not just the relationship we have as the DAL family, but also the family you bring with it. So, thank you for your service and I look forward to an incredible tenure here. uh you serving the city and

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the residents of Dorado and all of you, the incredible job you do. Really, we couldn't do what we do as a city without this uh department and without the leadership that each of you shows. So, thank you. And you have our support in each of you being able to grow in your

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in in in your talents and in your passion and profession. So, thank you. God bless you. I know you're going to do a great job. Deputy Dwek, same to you. We appreciate you and um and I look forward to continue to work with you. So >> absolutely. Thank you for those kind words.

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>> All right, item clerk. >> Motion to approve made by Vice Mayor Cabell, seconded by Council Pedo. Vice Mayor Cabell, >> yes. >> Council Pedo, >> yes. >> Council Porz, yes. >> Council Marinos, >> yes. >> Mayor Frago, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Welcome aboard. Thank you.

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>> Okay, we're going to move on to the next item. Take these up quite quickly. >> Yes. Item 6B, a resolution that made me on the city council report awarding invitation to bid 2020 2016 government center third floor renovation recondition of city manager office and finance department office areas to Masita Constructors Inc. as the lowest, most responsible, most responsible

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bidder, authorizing the city manager negotiate and enter into an agreement with Masita Constructors LLC for the provision of performing renovation of the existing city manager's office and finance department office areas in the amount of $39,798 plus a 10% contingency for a total not to exceed amount of $429,8786.

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Authorizing the city manager to negotiate and enter into an agreement with the next highest ranked firm successively if an agreement cannot be reached with the top ranked firm. authorizing the city manager to expend budget funds and further thereof providing implementation incorporation of recital and an effective date. This was pulled by vice mayor.

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>> Vice Mayor Bra knows what I uh feel when it comes to this type of resolution the same as the one with our office. For me, it's not operational necessary and it's not fiscal responsible to approve this.

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>> Okay. There's no additional questions or comments. I need a motion to approve. Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. >> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. >> All right. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve by counciloman pen. Seconded by council. Council.

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>> Yes. >> Counciloman Reoso. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Porz. >> Vice Mayor Cabra. >> No. >> Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Move on to my item K. >> Item 6K. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, awarding request for proposals RFP 202610 custodial services for city

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of Dal Park facilities to a SEMA facility management most responsible and responsible proposer authorizing the city manager to enter into an agreement with a SEMA facility manager for the provision of city park facilities custodial services in an amount not to exceed departmental budgeted funds for a period of three years with an option to renew for an additional three one-year periods under the same terms,

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conditions, and prices of the contract authorizing the city manager to approve as qualified service providers the second and third highest ranked proposals on this RFP allowing the city manager to select the provide services in the top ranking proposer is unable to fulfill the full scope of the work or meet the terms and conditions required under the RFP authorizing the city

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manager to execute the agreement and expend budgeted funds on behalf of the city providing for implementation incorporation of recital and an effective date. This was pulled by Mayor Fraga. >> Okay. Um I'll make this very quick. Um I'm actually recommending to go with the second um bidder. It was off by one

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point. A SEMA uh was scored an 88 and SFM, which is our current service provider, scored an 87. But when I looked at the scoring sheets, I pulled them up, they were not very consistent. When I looked at it, out of the it was

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four four people who who rated four of three of the four rated SFM extremely high with one person rating them extremely low. um and there was consistency amongst the rating and not

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consistency for one and then and a SEMA's it was the reverse. So um I I I spoke to the director and we were out in the park actually on Monday and they're very happy with the service with SFM. Um and I think more importantly the

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relationship is there where they can pick up the phone and call and there's a dedicated person there all the time. I was concerned also with the pricing structure. If you look at the pricing, AEMA came in 68% lower than every bid, 63% lower than every bid that was received. And that's concerning to me

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when someone loss that much, especially when it's a manpower operation and really what you're providing is a service through manpower. It's not a product. Um, that tells me you're not going to have the personnel to really do the work. And this is

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extremely important in this park. This contract services our showers which need to be cleaned very well. Um you know the floors, the windows. So maintenance is extremely important and I feel uncomfortable moving forward with someone who low you know went so low

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that they won't be able to give us the level of service that I think our residents accept expect and deserve in the maintenance of the park. And again, SFM has currently been doing the uh service and and our our our team is happy and so I just don't want to, you

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know, jeopardize level of service um for one point and I I did talk to SFM about the price to try and work that out a little bit. It is by our so this is like a budgeted fun a budgeted amount but doesn't mean we actually expend that amount because it's based on the service that's requested from the director. So

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that's my recommendation is to go with SFM um who is our current service provider. >> Yes. Second. >> We have a motion by Councilman Counciloman Reos. So second by Councilman Pito. You have a comment. >> Councilman Pito. >> No. No. I was going to make the motion there. >> Okay.

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>> All right. If there's any is there any other comments, questions, concerns? >> No. >> Hope everybody was able to review the bids. I have copies of what I was discussing if anybody wants them. >> If not, Madam Chair, please call the role. A motion to award RFP 2026 attend to SFM by counciloman Reynoso. Seconded

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by counciloman Pedo. Counciloman Reoso. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Porz. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cabra. >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you very much. We'll move on to item Q. >> Item 6Q. A resolution a mayor on the city council of the city of D Florida

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approving an amendment to an existing agreement issued to Daniel Rottenberg to provide real estate consulting and advisory service in support of invitation to negotiate ITN 202605 public partnership P3 draw 10 authorizing the city manager to execute set amendment to the agreement and to do all things necessary to effectuate resolution including expend bonds with

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the firm in an amount not to exceed budgeted funds providing implementation in corporation recital and an effective date. This was pulled by Vice Mayor Crabr. >> Vice Mayor. >> Thank you. I I just want to understand uh what is the additional work uh that requires increase. I mean this contract

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was uh signed in January just a few months ago. I know that it's not a lot is from 50 to $75,000 but I just wanted to understand what is the additional work that is need to be done to have that increase within just a few months and uh what is remained

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within the scope of work for what they were hired for. >> Okay. Um that's an excellent question vice mayor. So this consultant we hired to help us with the preparation of the RFP for Dorado 10. That was a specific

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engagement that he has been u working on. Um he's actually supports our office in doing that. Um and that was the first part of the contract. The second part of what we're doing right now is the committee that will be uh evaluating

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whatever proposals we get and the ITN is out for bid right now. Um he is going to be supporting the committee being able to talk to them and advise them and also he is going to help us with the negotiation process. While I am very and feel I am very qualified and capable of

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being able to do that, I cannot from my role which is why we had to hire a consultant. I have spoken with the city attorney and he suggested from day one that if we were going to do this this way I there needed to be a consultant and police. I cannot play asset manager

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and and and and city manager at the same time. So because I'm the final arbiter conflict of interest. So that is basically now what he will be doing and we don't expect that we're going to get all the way there but he needs to be on board. So I wanted to be able to have

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ample room to be able to to to have him u advise the committee and and help us with the negotiations. >> Yeah. I wanted to understand what was the scope of work and what is it that still was remaining that increase. >> Yeah. It's also important for the benefit of the public and to be totally

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transparent. This is a person that has extensive experience. He ran the department of real estate and asset management at the city of Miami for many years. Um I worked had the opportunity to work with him from Coral Gables while he was there which is why I wanted to bring him here to advise us.

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>> Okay. Thank you for clarifying that. >> Okay. Do we have a motion? >> Motion. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pedo. >> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call RO. >> Motion to approve made by Council Peno. Second by Counciloman Reynoso. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. >> Counciloman Kaporas. Yes. Vice Mayor,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Frago, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you very much. So, we're going to do very quickly the check presentation from the PGA to RP4K. This was um as many of you may recall four years when when they used to be

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here and then they left for a period of time and now are back for 5 years. We're super excited. Um we basically reestablished the agreement that had taken place since 2009 where um incind services are given to the PGA in an effort for the city to be involved and

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um and and and encourage this type of um event in our city that provides economic uh impact to our to our our area. And so we donated in police services and they in turn do a donation to parks and police for kids. This year's donation is

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140 $120,000. Hold on, I have the full amount here. $120,420.19 is what PP4K is receiving um from the PGA for the services. So, we're very very thankful. And if everyone would join me to take a picture at the bottom

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with the big check with the members of the PGA that are here. Dave Mack is here. Um, so we're incredibly proud to receive this and incred incredibly proud to have the PGA back in the city. It's a great opportunity for us, another

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another opportunity for the city to be in um known and recognized internationally. We have worldrenowned golfers that come and play here and people that come from all over the place to watch the PGA. So, we'll do this check presentation, then we're going to take uh so I'll take a motion to recess

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till our 6 p.m. Remember, we do have LPA and a me uh also to let everybody know that we are starting protocol hour a little earlier today because we do have a lot of certificates. So, um we'll see everybody back this afternoon. Need a motion to recess. Motion >> motion to recess by Councilman Pedo,

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second by Councilwoman Reynoso. All in favor say I. I. >> All right, we'll see you back here for LPA.

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All right, please take your seats. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to our evening June council meeting session. Today is Wednesday the 10th of June. The time is now 6:05 p.m. I hereby call this meeting to order. A reminder to please

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silence your phones and you must take a call. kindly ask that you step outside to maintain a respectful atmosphere. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Councilwoman Corinoso, >> present. >> Councilwoman Morin Porz here. >> Counciloman Rafael Pinedo,

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>> present. >> Vice Mayor Dina Cabal, >> present. >> Mayor Christie Fraga, >> present. >> Mayor, you have quorum. >> All right. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Councilwoman Reynoso. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, so for agenda order of business, we do have a couple little changes here. Um, so I'm just going to go through it very quickly and then we'll go ahead. So we have items 9F, G, J, I'm sorry, 9F,

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G, and H that were deferred from this morning. Um, so we're going to hear those first, then we'll go into our presentation or recognition of outgoing police chief Edwin Lopez, and then we'll go into our public hearing items, then we'll go back to our reports. Um, when the recognition, when it's time for the recognition, I will go through our

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protocol just so everyone is aware. Okay, any other changes or agenda order of business? Okay, being none, we'll go into our public comments. We will now open the floor for public

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comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on today's agenda or anything that uh pertains to the city of Dorado. Please begin by saying your name and address for the record. Make sure you have pre-registered with the city clerk. If you haven't pre-registered, you could speak and then register with the clerk. We will first hear from those who I have

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uh listed as pre-registered. As a reminder, in accordance with our city's code of conduct, we ask that all remarks be made in a respectful, courteous, and orderly manner. personal attacks, offensive language, and disruptive behavior will not be permitted. Let's work together to keep this a forum that is productive and constructive for all.

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Okay, we'll go ahead and go right into the items that we deferred from um this morning. Madam City clerk, we're gonna do >> item 9F, a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of draw authorizing the establishment of city draw historic archive to present and

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exhibit the city's arts pieces, significant historic events, and the contribution of its residents, directing the city manager to coordinate with the city clerk, local cultural organizations and relevant departments to develop and maintain the archive, providing for authorization, implementation, incorporation of recitals, and an effective date. Okay, Councilwoman Reynolds, so this is your item.

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All right. Thank you, Mayor. So, our city is 23 years old and as the time goes by, it's going to be a little harder to really collect events that have taken place. So, basically what this item is doing is establishing

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um a history a history and someone to collect the history of things that have already happened and things that will continue to happen. And because we're a younger city, I think this is the right time to do that. So, as we continue to grow, as different events take place, um

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we have somebody collecting and storing and keeping together these events in a place, whether it be digital or here somewhere in the city, um that we can see whether it's artifacts. Think about the Trump Golf Course, how that was really not always the Trump Golf Course,

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that um there's probably a special golf club there that um the Jewish community first used as their way of being able to play golf, many many years ago. um the starts of our park, uh different

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documents, even um recording special residents that live in our city and getting their testimony of their time here in the city of Dorado. So, this event is I I'm sorry, this item will open up that opportunity to be able to

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record things that are special within our city starting from now. >> Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman. Great item. Any questions, comments? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. >> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Assume

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that you'll work with the city manager's office to establish what that protocol will be. And Absolutely. >> Yes. Awesome. Great. There's no additional questions. We will go ahead and call the RO. >> Motion to approve made by Council Pedro. Seconded by Council Renoso. Council Pedo. >> Yes. >> Council Maroso. Yes. >> Council Porz. Yes. Vice Mayor Carell.

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>> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. We'll go into item 9G, >> a resolution of the mayor of the city council of the city of D, Florida, directing the city manager to add voluntary pet insurance as an opt-in employee benefit for the city of D employees to be initi providing for authorization,

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implementation, incorporation of recital, and an effective date. >> Okay, Councilwoman Marino, this is your item. Thank you, mayor. This item simply will allow for our employees to well, if they're interested in getting pet

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insurance to be able to do so. um this month is bring your pet to work day. I think it wasn't appropriate to bring it uh to this month's meeting and when um I I believe when the October budget cycle comes and it's time to um do our open

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enrollment, this may be available for um our employees to take advantage if they choose to. If not, it's not going to cost the city any additional money, but I thought it was a benefit that we should be looking into for those that um do have pets because our pets are our family and um we deserve that

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opportunity to have um that insurance if it's something that they choose to have. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Any questions? No questions. >> Okay, we need a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pedato. >> Second.

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>> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. I'm sure all of our pet owners are going to be happy to be able to have that benefit. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve made by Council Bened, seconded by Council Marino. Counciloman Pedo, >> yes. >> Council Marinoso, >> yes. >> Counciloman Poras, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Cabraw,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Fraga, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay, we move on into 9H. And this is our final item from the morning besides the reports. >> 9H. to a resolution of the mayor and the city council of city of D Florida approving requisite ballot language for the submission to the electors of the city proposed amendments to the city charter prepared by the city council

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pursuant to section 6.01 of the city charter providing for copies of the Texas charter amendments to be made available for following inspection authorizing the city clerk to request and utilize the services of Miami day county supervisor of elections to administer a special election by placing the chart amendment ballot question the congressional general election providing for implementation conflict serability

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and an effective date >> okay Mr. City Attorney. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Madame Mayor, uh council. Uh so, this item is one that I've discussed with uh many of you uh at different points. And what it does is really establish a lifetime term limit

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for the position of council member and the position of mayor both independently. Uh so, it's a four term so you know four times four uh 16 years for a council member and then a full 16 years. Now the remainder portions of the

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charter which require that uh after two terms there is a period of time in which the person is not in office still remains in place that has not been disturbed. Uh so that's the item that's before you and what it would do would be to bring the charter question uh before the electors of the city of Dural to

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choose if this is something that that they wish. Uh I can let you know that the idea kind of came to me. I also serve in other municipalities, one of the Miami Lakes and the charter review. this is something that um they're going to be putting out to their voters. I know the city of Miami also last year did the same thing and Miami Beach also

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has a very similar provision. So that's what's before you and I'm open to any questions that you may have. >> Thank you, Mr. City Attorney. Any questions for the city attorney? >> Just to confirm. So I and I know we we spoke about it but just to confirm this is establishing limits and also um the

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four terms cannot be consecutive. >> Correct. >> Right. They need that break in between of four years. Just to confirm. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Motion. >> Motion to approve by Councilwoman uh Pora, second by Councilman Pinedo. >> There are no more questions. We will

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call the role. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pora, seconded by Counciloman Pedo. Councilwoman Poras, yes. >> Councilman Pinedo, >> yes. >> Counciloman Reynoso? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cabella? >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. That exhausts our items for the morning agenda. So, we'll go ahead

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and move into the recognition um that we have today. Okay. Madam clerk, you want to read that item? >> Yes, madame mayor. Let me find my spot on the agenda. >> Presentation recognition to outgoing police chief Edwin Lopez. >> All right. Thank you very much. So, um

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I'm going to go ahead and just open this up. So, today we will be recognizing the um accomplishments and the uh contributions that our outgoing Chief Edwin Lopez has made to the city of Dorado. Um, we're gonna first watch a video. Then I will ask Pastor Steve

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Allessie to come up and do a blessing over the chief and his family um and our city of Dorado. Then each of us will get an opportunity to do our special remarks and then we're going to go down and we have several recognitions uh for the chief. The only thing I will ask please because we do have a heavy agenda

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tonight is that once we wrap up the pictures, anyone who would like to take additional pictures with the chief, we highly encourage it. we just ask that you do them outside the chambers um so that we can get our meeting done because we want to also be able to go and and um and recognize him and spend some time

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with him and his family. So we would ask that you please respect that we have to continue our meeting right after the recognitions are done. So with that, cue the tribute video. >> It's never easy saying goodbye to someone who meant so much to this

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community. >> Soul leaders leave a mark that lasts long after they moved on. And Chief, you're one of them. We love you, sir. >> People move on to new chapters. Titles changed >> and new opportunities lead us down a different path.

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>> But the impact we live in others last forever. >> Thank you for your leadership. >> Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for your friendship. >> Thank you, Chief. >> Thank you, Chief. >> I want to say thank you for your mentorship, for your friendship, and

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good luck to you. >> And thank you for the difference that you made in the lives of so many different people in our city, in the police department. Thank you for your support and you'll be missed. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Chief >> Edwin. Thank you for your service, for

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everything that you've done for our community. We will miss you and we wish you the best always. Even wherever life takes you next, you'll always be a part of us because you've already become part of the heart of Dural.

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>> All right, we'd like to ask um Pastor Steve to please come and say an invocation. >> I need a mic. Is that all right? Can we all do something? Would you mind just coming and standing over here for a second, Chief?

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Precious family. Come on. This is a family affair. If you believe in prayer, I'm just going to ask you to bow your heads and pray along with me as we just bless this family in this new endeavor that they are stepping into.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunities that you bring in life. Some of those opportunities are the kind that allows us to blend with people and build relationships with them that far surpass even the

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opportunity that we're presented with. And that seems to be the case at this season with Jeep Lopez. He brought him to the city just a few short years ago. and the impact he has made has truly been felt in so many

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individual people's lives. That though we're so grateful for the opportunity that sits before him, there's a bittersweet moment that we all share. Because as much as we want to see

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him elevate to the levels that you have planned for him, we're going to miss him. So tonight, we just want to bless him and Janette and the wonderful children that he has as they step into

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this new endeavor together. Father, bless his heart. Strengthen these shoulders. Give him the wisdom. Give them every aspect of courage that is needed to step into this role that's going to be impacting

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the larger city that we all live in. We know you've never called a man to a place that you haven't prepared him for. This is one of those moments that he's ready for. So we bless him. We encourage him. We stand behind him with our prayers. And we know that the weight of

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his leadership will be felt as even the new administration will sense Lord the strength and the platform and the foundation that he's been able to build. But touch our friend, encourage him. Anoint even these hands every place that

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he steps into for the best is yet to come over his life and his destiny. In thy wonderful name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, pastor.

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All right. So, I want to open up the opportunity from the deis to, you know, say our message. Chief, will you join us for the last time on the podium? at least on this podium. >> I'll be here next week with the new team as well.

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>> That's right. Yes. Our new chief of police is here as well, Matthew Castillo and Deputy Chief John Jonathan Dwek. >> Madame Mayor, may I say a few words? >> Sure. Absolutely. Going to let you go at the end, but you're welcome to do it right now. >> And and it's impossible to to really

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truly recognize everyone individually. like I really want to do, but the most important people and as I look at those pictures and and it brings me back to three and a half years of amazing times, challenging times, but times that we that we collectively overcame. U the

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true heroes are the cops, the ones on the street that are doing the work every single day. It's it's the people I got to thank first. Uh the pastor thanked the good Lord Jesus Christ first before I did because that is truly the one in in control. Um but my time here in

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Dorado has been uh the most precious time the time that I've looked back in my career 26 years in public service. Started from the ground level as a teacher in a classroom for a year wasn't my calling. uh navigated into the

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uniform as a police officer. Worked my way up the ranks to the chief of police after the tragedy at Parkland when believe 17 individuals were killed. I became chief a month after that leading the nation's largest school district. Extremely challenging times, amazing

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cops I work with. What a blessing to be able to come to Dorado. Three and a half years here uh working alongside you, mayor, and the entire team. five city managers to finally get some stability with with Seda who's

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amazing. Frank holding the fort down for a few months during some of the most troubling times in my career. Fernando, where's Fernando? Fernando on my other side as well. Uh playing therapist one day, playing CFO one day, playing assistant city manager the other day.

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Just the the the entire team. Rey in the back as well. um playing a pivotal moment for for for a short time. Uh but just a lot of conversations and through it all, our cops did their job every single day. And as a leader, I went to work every single day with the pressure

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on my shoulders, not because I'm strong, but because the good Lord provided me a solid foundation and some of the unsung heroes like my wife every single evening, hearing the stories, going to work the next day, not knowing if I was going to have a job the next day, not

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because of of anything of that I did, but because of the stressors and what comes with wearing the four stars. wearing the four stars. A lot of people uh desire or aspire to to be that, not knowing at all what it takes to to wear

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that uniform and wear those stars. And and that's where I feel comfortable leaving knowing that Matt and John will come in and continue driving this Lamborghini that we've built collectively here. And I told them, you have an amazing opportunity to do amazing things here. Don't crash the

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damn car, though. So, so like I said originally, the the officers on the streets really deserve the credit. They're the ones responsible directly with lowering our crime rate over the last three and a half years to over 50%. They're the ones that have

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assisted me shoulder-to-shoulder developing the operational plans that have kept our community safe. the ones who have helped us safeguard this community during the Shield of Americas, during the congressional delegation, during the the the countless amounts of presidential visits and dignitary

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visitations that we've had here in our city. Our city has been ground zero for the world several times over the last three and a half years. And we've done it with a smile on our face. We've done it effectively. We've taken action when we need to take an action. We've had mass shootings in our community. We have

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officers shot in the line of duty here and still we've come to work every single day and with a smile on our face and doing the amazing work. And the cops that get no credit, not because they seek it, but they're no one's giving anybody credit at 3:30 in the morning on New Year's Day when everyone's sleeping

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or partying or waking or opening up Christmas gifts on the 25th or going trick-or-treating with their families or dropping their kids off at school while they work. It's important. A lot of our cops don't even light up a sparkler on the 4th of July with their kids because

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they're working Central Park with 10,000 people enjoying the amazing park systems that we've built here collectively under your leadership. And those are true unsung heroes. So, as I stand here before you with the opportunity to go to the city of Miami, God has opened up

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that door for me. It's a it's hard to to leave the city, but I know that if it wasn't in God's plan, that door would never have opened. So, I'm always going to be a Dorado uh part of the Dorado family. Um I was at at Alibabaso when the mayor called me

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at 3:00 in the morning saying, "Hey, uh this just happened." And I was there for the next week every single day alongside them and celebrating with this amazing Venezuelan community as well because at the end of the day, I'm part of their family as well and they brought me in

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here with open arms. So, uh thank you all. I appreciate the honor, the recognition, uh, but most importantly, I appreciate the friendship. I love you guys. >> Madam City Manager, would you like to kick us off?

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>> Wow. Mayor >> Mhm. >> Edwin, um I think I said it took a few um takes because I couldn't get it out with u when I was trying to do this with Carlos Fong and

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and do the video. But um we have so much to thank you for. Um I've been with you for a year and a half. Um I don't want to get emotional, but I it has been wonderful. You are an incredible leader. You're going to do great things um after

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you leave here, but we have to be grateful for what you've done here, what you did for your department, what you did for all of your officers um and what you did for the community. So, for that, I'm eternally grateful. I'm eternally

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grateful for everything you've taught me since I've been here. So, we made a great team. I'm gonna miss you terribly, but I do wish you so much success and so many blessings. So, >> thank you.

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>> Deputy City Manager, would you like to say anything? >> I I'll keep it short. So, a critical part of our team over the past three and a half years. I I thank you for the support and I thank you for being a a key member of that team. Uh, and what I will say is I think the word is alumni.

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you leave here an alumni of the Dorado team and as alumni the door is always open and you know anything you need from me brother you have it so good luck and I know you're going to do great things >> right you want >> chief um it was wonderful to meet you

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and work with you um the one thing is that I'm going to admire that that I learn most about you is you're a man of faith uh you you keep that in front of you uh and you lead with that faith that you have and and it's evident in in your officers uh that that have followed uh

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in their conversations and and how proud they are to to work with you. I know you're going to be a phenomenal leader in Miami. Uh and you know, I wish you all the best. >> Connie, >> I'm a woman of few words. >> Chief, congratulations and best of luck

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and congratulations to your family as well because this is an all family affair. So, best of luck. >> Thank you. >> Well, I always say that congratulations to you. I know that we might have a few differences, but we work together and I really appreciate everything that you did for our community for all these

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years that you were here and for the department as well. As you know and everybody knows, I really admire uh the work of more than anything that they work the the vocation of service because at the end of the day being a first responder, it is a vocation of service

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because it goes you go beyond of what a job description shows. So congratulations to you. I uh hope that God will keep enlighten you and guide you on this new journey to you and your family as well and many blessings to you. >> Thank you,

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>> Councilwoman Boris. >> Well, Chief, I mean, we can't thank you enough and you know, we really can't find all the words to say how grateful we are for your service and for your leadership. Um you're a great person. You really, really are. And it showed. That's why so many people are here to

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recognize you and thank you for the work that you've been doing. And um I know you're going to do even greater and better things. Like I said, don't forget about us. Um and this is definitely not goodbye. I know that we'll be seeing you. I know that we're going to be working with the city of Miami, I'm sure, as we work with other police

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departments. Um and again, thank you for coming in. um some days when you know it it was chaotic, you look like you had it all together and that counts for a lot because your team saw that, our police officers saw that and as the great

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leader that you are, you recognize that they were a lot of the force behind everything that was done. So, I do want to thank um our police officers as well. I know that we're going to continue doing great work under new leadership. Um and again, thank you for for all that

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you've done for this community. Councilwoman. >> Well, Chief, um, thank you so much for your leadership. Um, I think you're leaving behind the best police department there is in all of Miami Day County. And, um,

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I know I took your line. Sorry. Um, >> thank you. >> But it's true. It's true. Our men and women in uniform are really the heart of our community. And um it's thanks to that leadership, that bond that you created for them and the representation that they've been able to give our

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residents and just be out there every day connecting with them, establishing relationships with them, which is super important and I know that's going to continue. Um the other thing is I'm going to miss our hip-hop and rap sessions. So I don't know if Matt's going to be able to take over that one,

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but you know, that was pretty cool. >> He loves oldies. >> Oldies. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But thank you. Thank you again for your leadership and I know that you're going to do great things at the city of Miami. They really got a good one. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> Councilman he

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>> Thank you, Mayor Chief. Um, listen, I think that, you know, I'm I'm lucky enough to serve this community at the same time that you you have been our chief of police because

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there's no doubt that you transform the department in all sense. You have showed what leadership is about. You have showed that you were serving a

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whole community. you were now serving elected officials and that for me has a lot of shows a lot of respect and I want to congratulate you because you alone as your you know

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in your family you have been part or you have become part of this community people know that people feel that people that are here have been next to you for the past years and you have served a community in all sense. You have been

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present in good moments, bad moments, moments that we as a council and as a community had to come together. But at the end of the story, you have showed again what

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the truly meaning of service. You do it with passion, dedication, faith, which is very important for you and your family. And that's something that sometimes it's difficult to find

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in leadership in overall doesn't matter where you go. So, yes, I'm proud to say that we have the best police department in Miami Day County, but we're going to stay as the best police

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department in Miami Day County. So, I just wish you the best. I mean, it has been a great ride. I think that you're going to pass as probably the best or one of the best chief that we

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have ever had in our city. I know we're going to stay working together. You're always going to be welcome. You're always going to be part of the round. And I wish you and your family the best because we, you know, we we love you guys. And it's not that I

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say it because I'm trying to be nice with you. is because you have earned that and me and my family share the same sentiment and I just want to thank you. Thank you for for your service. Thank you for your dedication and thank you for making a

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difference in our community. >> Thank you, sir. Chief, um, I think everybody said everything and this is why it's hard to go last, but truthfully, what's been said is is the honest truth about everything that you have done in this department. You do lead with your faith

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and that's what's made this department what it is. >> Very grateful for your service. said I was going to cry. You're a critical part of the team that we built. So, we will miss you tremendously. And I know that we have

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great people, nothing um nothing but amazing people that we have in this department, but you really created a heart and soul in the department. So, thank you. and more importantly to you to your family

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to Janet, Evie, EJ. You guys don't realize how much sacrifice is put with all these men and women every day. But your dad bared the weight of of that on his shoulders and

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he's going to do bigger things now in a much harder department. But I think he's proven that he's ready for that and that the leadership that he has will transform that department too. So we are forever grateful for your

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professionalism, your love of this community, your passion, and the transformation that you leave behind, which will carry Dorado's police department stronger than ever into the next

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the next generation and the next years. But your work has left a footprint, has left a heartbeat, and has left a new soul for Dal. So thank you for everything you've done. I know this is not goodbye. First, we're friends anyway, so I have to see you. Um, and

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and you're her family, and I'm so grateful for that friendship that was built upon a foundation of of faith, of care, of the same passion to serve a community. And that's really why I think

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people talk so much about what Dorado is because we wear our heart on our sleeves and our passion in front. We lead with with our faith and passion for what we do every day and for the people we impact. So, thank you so much. There was a lot of firsts. First mayor and chief's gala,

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which you'll buy a table for now from the city of Miami, right? Getting our first sponsorship here. um and so many incredible opportunities, units that have been established that provide um that provide so much to our

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our residents and give so much more purpose to our police department and to the men and women in blue, which you so rightfully recognize. and we want to always let them know how much we value them and that the members of this team that continue to be added are there to

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continue to add value to what we're doing. So, thank you once again for your service and um and we look forward to continuing to work with you all and I know that our paths will cross again and we'll continue to serve this community together. So, thank you. We're going to

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go down. We have a couple of really nice presentations for you. So, you can take a piece of Dal with you into the office. When you have hard days, you can look back and be like, "What did I do?" No, I'm just kidding. I mess with him a lot. You can turn around and be like, "Can I go back to Dal?" You'll have to deal

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with Matt at that point. Um, but no, you'll always have a home here. We we love you and I know you're going to do amazing things in the city of Miami and we know that you're going to win the hearts of that community as you did here. So, we'll come down. We're going to do um a recognition from My Safe Schools, which I know is an organization

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that truly cares about you too and is so grateful for everything you did uh from the DO Hispanic Women's Chamber of Commerce and then uh the city manager's office and the council has a recognition for you. We have a key to the city for you so that you can come. It doesn't open any doors, but

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we had to change all the all the door locks at uh at at the at the police building. Um and then um and then we'll just do a photo op. So, thank you very much for everything. >> Thank you. >> All right. All right. All right. So, do we have Tammy from My Safe

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Schools? Of course I would. >> All right, we have Tommy. Hola. Um, school. My school

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Symphony Edwin Lopez. Carlos have two rolls. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, next we have the Jer Hispanic

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Women Chamber of Commerce, Roxanna Sa President Eador, Chief Fore for Miami. Professor Are you fit? Is

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Do you first? Okay. Now we have a um recognition from the administration for you to take Edwin. I hope to come visit you and see this at

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your new place. Um it's Small but with a lot of heart for you to take with you. We have the key to the city. All right. Key to the city. We know you like to hang things on your wall.

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>> All right. And uh well, actually before we do that one, we have I believe your staff has something for you. Good evening everybody. On behalf of the nine, the very first group sent by the city of Dorado Police Academy, we would like to take a moment and recognize and

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thank Chief Lopez. Chief, being the first group entrusted with this opportunity is an honor that will always carry with pride. Your leadership, guidance, and belief in us helped lay the foundation for our careers and inspired us to strive for excellence every day. Thank you for investing in

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us, mentoring us, and giving us the opportunity to begin our journey in law enforcement. The impact you have had on our lives and careers goes far beyond what words can express. As you begin this exciting new chapter as a chief of the city of Miami, we wish you and your family continued success.

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happiness and many blessings. We are proud to have been a part of your legacy and we'll always remember the role you've played in our journey. Please accept this plaque as a small token of our gratitude and appreciation. Thank you, Chief, for everything you've done for us. You'll always hold a special place in our hearts. Congratulations and

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best wishes on your new role. Go ahead. Go ahead. Maybe >> a little Is that my layer? >> You guys can all take pictures. We have to get started. >> All right. Yes. There's one more.

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>> Oh, okay. We do have one more, but it's not for you. >> We have one more surprise. We also have a plaque because he is taking one of our originals with him. We have a plaque for Ricardo Arenas.

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You cannot see the camera. We love you too, Ricky. All right, this concludes our recognition of the chief. Anyone who would like to take photos, please, like we asked, if you could just quietly exit outside. You're welcome to stay, take photos, and then we're going to wrap up our meeting and come out and join you

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guys. So, thank you very much. It just up. Thank you to everyone who joined us for recognizing our chief. >> We will join you in a couple minutes. >> I'm being optimistic. >> Yeah. No, no, no.

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You know, I didn't Ladies and gentlemen, please exit the room. We are in session. >> Please and thank you. Okay, we're going to go into our public hearing items. Let me explain how this is going to take place. We do have quite

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a few items that we can take up at the same time. So, we're going to go ahead and take up item 21B and 21 C together. Ladies and gentlemen, please. Mayor We're fab.

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>> Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and take up items 21B and TW 21 C together. However, 21D, E, F, and G are also for the same presentation. So, we will hear one presentation from staff, one presentation from the applicant um for

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for these items and then we will take them up um at the same time. So, we'll go ahead and have the clerk swear in the witnesses. If you'll be presenting testimony in any of the public hearing items tonight, please stand up, raise your right hand, and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that the information

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that I'm about to present shall be the truth and nothing but the truth. Thank you very much. Okay, madame clerk. Item 21A, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of D, Florida, approving a modification to the approved site plan and associated

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conditions of approval for Shelton Academy to permit a two-phase expansion of an existing school facility providing for increase in student enrollment up to 800 students in phase one and a maximum student enrollment of a thousand students during phase two, approving the development of a three-story parking garage located west of the main school

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building, amending condition numbers 1 2 4 7 8, and 9 of resolution number 2131, deleting condition number three of resolution 213. 31 providing for conditions of approval, implementation, and an effective date. >> Okay, we're going to go ahead and open up the public hearing. Public hearing is

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opened for item 21A or also known as 26-6614. Anyone would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium at this time. Being none, public comments is now closed and I will take any expporte

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communication on this item. Has there been any expporte communication on this item? I've met with the applicant and I will not influence my decision. >> Okay. I also have met with the applicant will not um affect my decision. >> Me as well. It will not affect my decision. >> I also met with the applicant doesn't

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affect my decision. So >> same mayor will not affect my decision. >> Okay. We'll go ahead and start hearing presentation from our staff. >> Good evening everybody. Alex McGriso, planning and zoning. Uh good evening mayor, Madame Manager, Deputy City

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Manager, Mr. city attorney, council, and uh madam city clerk. Um so I have a presentation for uh Shelton Academy today. We can pull that up. >> It can you pull up a presentation. Okay, I think this Okay, so um the

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applicant is Shelton Academy. It is located at 9455 Northwest 48th Street Road. Um, and it is a current existing uh, Catholic school that is seeking a modification of their site plan that was approved back in 2021.

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Um, this is just a couple aerials of the location itself. Uh, you can see the surrounding um, locations, their adjacent uses and the land use categories and zoning designations. Um, this is pretty close to um the Miami

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Dade County Fire Rescue Department, City of Dural Police Department, and there is a uh a couple residential commercial locations uh within the neighborhood. Uh these are a couple existing views of um the current location as it stands. Um

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they are seeking to include uh two phases of uh expansions. Um their first request would be to increase the student enrollment to 800 students. Currently they are capped at 600 students. Um and that would be the phase one of their

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project. And phase two would increase their maximum enrollment uh from 800 to a,000 students. And the second phase would also include a parking garage um on the west side of the development uh that is three stories in height.

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Um so uh you are deleting uh condition number three. Um I I won't get into all the amendments of of the of the conditions 1 2 4 7 8 9 but the deletion of uh condition 3 has to do with public

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art. Um the original modific component. However, there is a carveout in your code uh that exempts um religious institutions from this public art component. So, we're removing the uh public art condition within the site

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plan. Um so, everything's pretty consistent with the site with the comprehensive plan. Um you'll you'll have a better design. Um there there's not going to be any any modifications to the exterior of the building itself. They are going to

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be making interior modifications, but that'll be done um you know with required building permits um and and there won't be any anything that needs to be done to add to the building itself other than the creation of the parking garage. Um so staff recommends uh

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approval for the uh item and I'm here to answer any questions and uh the applicant is also here to answer any questions that you may have. >> Thank you, Mr. Magis. The applicant would like to make some brief remarks. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. James Williams

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with Gunster Law Offices located at 600 Brook Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33131. Um, Mr. McGristo did an excellent job as always um explaining the application. Um, I'm joined by several members of the school, the entire design team, the community. Um, they are all supporting

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this this application. I had a presentation, but due to the number of items on the agenda today, I'm happy to just answer any questions you may have and just keep it at that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Williams. All right, we'll open it up for any debate or questions at this time for the

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applicant or for staff. >> Approve. >> Motion to approve by Vice Mayor Cabraw. >> Second. >> Have a comment. >> Second by Councilman. >> I have a comment >> by by Councilwoman Benedo. We'll start with uh Councilwoman Reynoso and go to Counciloman Bedo. Thank you. So, I actually I got to look at the project. I

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got to discuss the project. I think the project is beautiful. The amount of students that are going to be able to grow within the um the planned school is is going to be great. So, I I do appreciate the upgrades that they're doing around the area as well. So, for that reason, I will be approving this

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project. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Counciloman Pinedo. >> Thank you, Mayor. I first of all want to thanks uh Mr. Padulla for not only for trusting in in our great city of Dorado but also for

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setting an example when it comes to education and everybody when talks about Shelton Academy I believe we it's one of the best and we're proud to have them here in our city. this is something that it's is needed not only because I know

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they have a a very good waiting list right and that speak highly about the great work that you guys do so not only to the Padulla Mr. Padoula's family, but the entire team that is here. Congratulations because you guys do an

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amazing job and we're here to support you because we believe in in education as well. So, that's why I'm I'm supporting this as well. >> Okay. Thank you very much, Councilman. Likewise. I'm glad we're we're here. Uh I think that Shelton economy has done a

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great job, has met with the met up to the commitments and making the improvements. I think the footprint within the boundaries that will um be enhanced and increase student uh stations are very well merited and will be a great uh addition to our community. So, thank you very much for the work. I know it's been a long road. Uh but we're

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here. Um so happy to see this moving forward so that the students can join the community um in the coming school year. >> I have a quick comment. >> Yes, Council Porest. Yeah, I also want to echo um what was said here and I I think something that was extremely

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impressive was the the percentage of students that are Dural residents, right? What was it James? It was like 80%. >> It was roughly 80% according to a dispersion study they did. >> So, this is really going to have a really great impact in our community. So, we're very proud. Thank you guys for

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the great work and for the um setting that example and bar for education. So, I'm happy to also support it. Thank you. >> All right. >> I'm just going to say that I'm glad that we are here. I know that it took a while and and a little bit of effort, but

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thank you for being patient and for us to be able to be here at this point to make the decision for our community. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we need a motion to approve if there's no additional questions. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Was there a motion? I forgot. >> Madam Mayor, if >> Yeah, there's already a motion. >> If I may project really quick. Um, and

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this is something that we just want to read into the record. This was a just a minor change that was done, but I want to bring it to your attention. It was the last uh paragraph in section two. Uh and if I could just read into the record what the the new clause is going to be, it's very simple. Failure by the city to timely enforce any of the above

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conditions shall not constitute a waiver by the city's right to enforce the same. Any enforcement of these conditions shall be undertaken in accordance with the cities of Dorado's code enforcement regulations set forth in chapter 11, article 3 of the city's code of ordinances. So this will replace the language that is currently the last paragraph in section two. That's okay.

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>> Thank you. Uh, Mr. City attorney. All right, madam clerk, please call a role. >> Motion to approve made by Vice Mayor Corell and seconded by Council Ped. Vice Mayor Corell, >> yes. Councilman Pedo, >> yes. >> Counciloman Pores, >> yes. >> Counciloman Reoso, >> yes. >> Mayor Fo, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you all so much.

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>> Congratulations. >> All right, we'll move on to the next public hearing item. Again, I will reiterate. We're hearing 21B C together, but they are all part of the same uh presentation for 21 B, C, D, E, F, and

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G. There will be one presentation, Mr. uh actually, let's go ahead and open up the public hearing. >> Read it into the record. >> 21. Yes. Go ahead and read it to the record. And we're going to open a public hearing. >> First reading item 21B, ordinance number 202609, Greyar Comprehensive Plan Amendment. An ordinance in the name of the city council of city of D Florida

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amending the city of D comprehensive plan future land use element by creating the mall mixuse MMU future land use designation establishing purpose and intent applicability and development parameters for regional shopping mall properties 15 acres or greater currently designated on the future land use plan map as business B and providing for

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residential development opportunities within qualifying developments authorizing the transmitt of tax amendment adoption package to state land planning agency and other required governmental reviewing agencies pursuance provisions of section 163.13184 Florida statutes providing for conflict severability authorization and adoption

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and an effective date. >> Okay. If if you're from Shelton and you need to go, go ahead. You just go, but just do it quietly. Thank you. Don't feel embarrassed. Go, go, go. Good night. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and open up

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public comments for item 21B, also known as 26-6615. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, we'll close the public hearing. Madam clerk, let the record no one has chosen to speak at this time and

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we'll now hear from our city staff. Mr. Margarito. >> So I I have an entire present. Do you want me to do the whole presentation? Okay. >> Yes. >> Hi T. Thank you. to the public. >> So, this is the uh Greyar development,

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also known as Miami International Mall. >> Um, like I said, Miami International Mall. It's located um off a 107th bounded by the 836. Currently, it is uh designated as business with a zoning as

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commercial corridor. Um, this location is pretty much centered at the heart of Deral. It has easy highway access um and is uh relatively close to Miami International Mall within 10 minutes. So, this applicant is requesting six

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different uh requests for this um specific site. You're going to have one request which is the comprehensive plan text amendment, the um actual formal amendment itself. Then you're going to have the zoning land development code text amendment, the reasonzoning itself.

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Then you're going to have the uh DRRi modification, and finally the master development agreement approval. So why this project? Um uh as as we all know Miami International Mall has has been around probably since the '7s I

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would say and um the growing trend in malls has declined uh based on you know Amazon and and ease to get things delivered to your door. So um we are kind of converting it into a what we call a modern mall and it's something

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similar that is what is being done in South Miami and in um Cutler Bay where uh old malls are being redeveloped to include uh a residential component to increase the density of the area. So the first application is for the

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comprehensive plan text amendment. Um like I said this is a novel um idea for the city. So there was nowhere in the code to include it. So, uh, the city is in creating a new district, uh, designation called the mall mixeduse

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designation. Um, this amends the comprehensive plan to create this new district and new, uh, land designation and applies to all mall properties of greater than 15 acres and an existing business designation. Like I said, the

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purpose of this is to increase density and increase um underutilized malls so that people can visit more often. Um the you'll have um many different um

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inclusions within in your new designation. you'll have a 25 uh density unit uh for per per acre and then that could be increased to 35 units per acre if you achieve creative excellence. The maximum stories permitted will be six

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stories and we are requiring 35% minimum open space on residential and 20% minimum has to be dedicated to landscape. So the like I said uh maximum density would be 25 units per the per acre. Um

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and this would only be applicable for areas that are 15 acres or or more. You'll have um the permitted uses will be multif family residential town homes and existing retail commercial entertainment centers.

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The next item is the um actual zoning text amendment. Uh so likewise there was no area in the code. So you're creating a new zoning category similarly called the mall mixeduse zoning district.

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Um what I want to really focus on is is is the density table so I can explain how how the density is going to work. Um the the total project is 25.617 acres. So what we did is you divi we

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split it up into three separate phases. Phase one, phase two, and phase three. Uh phase one has a total of 7.3 acres. Uh their base density gives you approximately, it's hard for me to see, 183 uh units. Uh if they achieve creative excellence, they can reach up

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to 256 units. Phase 2 has uh about 5.6 acres. That gives you 142 units with base density and 198 with um creative excellence. The final phase which we are

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um we don't have the final site plan for uh yet and we're we're not sure whether or not they're going to achieve creative excellence. Uh you have a total acreage of 12.62 acres giving you a base density of 315 units. And if they do achieve

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creative excellence, they would uh be allotted 441 units. Um the total number of units that they are allotted to go up to is about 896. So what we did was we allowed them to share density between the three

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different phases. And we're allowing them to share density from phase 3 to donate to phase 1 and two. So you can see that they are donating 67.25 25 uh units and they are splitting those

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between phases one and phase two. So that's going to give you 292 units for phase 1, 2 and I I think that says 30 maybe 230 units for phase 2 and

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then there is going to be a determination of whether or not phase 3 meets creative excellence or not. If uh phase three does meet creative excellence and they're entitled to the three uh 35 units per acre um then they

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would have the whatever um the total number of creative excellence is minus the 67 uh25 units. If they don't achieve creative excellence then they will be limited to the 315 and they have to

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subtract the 67.25 25 units from that um calculation. Um but in no case can they achieve more than 896 units for the entirety of the project. Sorry. This is um just a visual of the actual

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uh conceptual site plan itself. You can see it's divided into three separate phases um and and two different sites. Uh it this encompasses the current JC Penney and the former Sears locations on

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the northeast side of the mall. Um this is the um amendment from business to your new mall mixed use uh future land use category and this is the reasonzoning from

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commercial corridor to the new zoning uh creation which is also mall mixed use. You can see that we have uh consistency with the comprehensive plans um the effects on the surrounding properties the sustainability for property and proposed use and the effect on traffic

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utilities and public facilities and it is also consistent with the land development code. Um this is your zone your newly created zoning map uh changing from commercial corridor to mal mixed use. Um the next item is the DRRI

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development order modification back in the DRRI was created back in 1979. It has been amended throughout the years. In 2018 uh I think it was 2018. The state uh delegated all the um

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modification has to come from the city itself. So, you're going to be looking to 2026 for the proposed modification to include uh residential dwelling units on the site. Uh transportation uh improvements and concurrency. So, you're going to see a

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new traffic signal. You're going to have extended turn lanes. Uh we are coordinating with the county to ensure compliance with all their regulations. Um so, you know, you you you'll have a better flow of traffic within the mall area itself.

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So staff finds all six uh approval uh all six applications are consistent um with a comprehensive plan and we recommend approval for all six items and if there are any questions I'm here to answer anything you might have or the

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applicant is also here uh to answer any questions you might have. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Thank you Mr. Margarisso Mr. Williams or Mr. Navaro not sure who's doing the presentation. Thank you so much. Uh James Williams again, 600 Pickerl Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33131.

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I'm here representing the applicant Grey Star Development East LLC. Um I'm joined by the entire design team. Um we also have George Navar from Greenberg that's joining me here. Um and I have my colleagues Kathern Carbonell and Alberto Torres. Um like I said, like Mr.

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McGristo said, um he went through it in detail. It was fantastic. Um I have a brief presentation if we could put it up on the screen. Right. T. >> So, I'll quickly go through it. Um, like I said, Mr. McGrista did a wonderful job. So, just going back into the site.

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The, um, subject application I've outlined in green. It consists of the Sears property with the J C Penney. I do want to put on the record that J C Penney is not closing anytime soon. They have roughly about 15 to 20 years left on their lease. Um, and they would be very upset with me if I if I didn't

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mention that. Um you have the old Sears site which will develop into phase one and phase two and then the J C Penney site will be phase three and as Mroso said there is no site plan at this time for the phase three. Now the there's a number of project requests before you

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today you have 11 there's a total of 11 today you have six and I'll quickly walk you through them in order. So, um, I've outlined them in green. Starting from number one, you have the comprehensive text amendment. That's creating the mall mixed use on the comp plan side. You then have the feature land use map,

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which is the designation we would ask now that we're it's being created that we get designated to um, from business to mall mixed use. You then have the creation of the zoning district to the land development code for the mall mixeduse zoning district. We would then ask that we be reszoned to that zoning

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district. as a matter of fact. Then you have the modification of the Myime National Mall development order, the regional impact. Um that is from 1970s. It's a it's something that there was two DR eyes essentially. It was consolidated in 2005 by the city of Dorado. It's been

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amended once in 2012. And what we're coming to do is we're asking to do residential because it currently doesn't allow for residential. And we'll bring in the residential site um into that DRRi as a condition number 17. And then you finally have the master development agreement which really talks about the density sharing of the whole site and

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how we're going. We're adhering to the 35 units an acre um with creative excellence standards. Phase three is up in the air as to it. But we also show how we we density share across the board. So there's a national trend um I'll fly through this a little bit.

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There's a national trend to do this. This is not uh something that's been created because of COVID. you with the advent of online shopping with Amazon being able to deliver in less than two hours now you have Walmart you have all these these large retailers that are able to make these deliveries in such a short time a lot less people are going

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to brick and mortar shops and when you look at the trend across the board they're trying to do two things revitalize the malls and bring housing that's needed to these areas especially in South Florida and in the last um as of 2024 and December over 200 malls

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across the country are now in putting in residential. So, if we, you know, we can't get the customer to us, we'll let them live right next to us. Um, if you go to the next slide, I like to hit close to home, right? Because I want you guys to see that this is something that's being implemented not just across

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the nation, but in our own backyards. And so, when you look at Colorbase Southland Mall, they approved 5,000 new market rate apartment condos. They still retain um over 500,000 square feet of commercial retail. Um, and then they also have a hotel medical. You have city

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of sunset uh city of south Miami sunset place. They've been approved for over 1500 residential units across seven towers and they also have uh office, hotel, movie theater and significant retail space. And these are some of the renderings up there. Now the existing

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land use and zoning on the site you your existing land use is on the lefth hand side that's business. On the right hand side you have your zoning uh zoning map which shows the area to be corridor commercial. Now, I want to premise this, right? Because I' I've always like to be very clear on the record when we're

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doing a land use change and a resoning change. We have to anticipate and look at it at the maximum development potential possible. So, it's not what is the project or what is the existing, but what could the max be done and the reason we look at maxing it out is simply for infrastructure purposes. We

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can't oh, you well, the council can't approve something without knowing that the infrastructure is in place knowing that they could go to the max development of it. So, we've analyzed the existing business at 836,000 square feet approximately. Um, even though the mall itself in that area is currently

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built out at 341,336 ft. That's the the J C Penney and that's with the Sears building. Um, the existing land use and zoning does not permit residential, which is why we got creative um working very closely with your staff. We came up with the mall

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mixeduse district. Now, not anyone, no, there isn't someone that can just come and apply for it as of right right in in front of you. It's going to have to go through an approval, but you have to meet certain criteria. Um, it has to be a regional shopping mall. There has to be 15 acres. There has to be at least

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300,000 square feet of gross leasable retail area, and you have to have an internal pedestrian corridor. The internal pedestrian corridor requires that you have a business on each side of the corridor. So, this could not apply to strip malls that do not have that internal corridor. On top of that, in

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the land use section, we're doing the density as of 25 units base with the ability to go up to 35 units an acre. That is consistent with your CMU and that's consistent with the DMU. Um, your max density. So, if everyone used on this site, right, the J C Penney, the

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Sears, if everyone used Creative Excellence, you'd be looking at 896 units. If you go forward and and hopefully approve the site plans are currently under review, um, you would have two with Creative Excellence. And if they decided not to do it, you'd be looking at 770 units. The height when we

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were drafting this, we want to be consistent with what's existing there, right? Consistent, compatible is key. So, we set it up to where it's no higher than six stories. Now, the 75 ft, that's more in the zoning code. It doesn't say that in the actual land use, but I thought it'd be helpful to include that. The open space that we're providing is

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currently 20%. So, this goes handinhand with across number one. We created the mall mixeduse district. we'd like to be redesated into it. So, this is just showing, you know, I had purple because at the time we hadn't selected a color. Um, so I just show showed as purple, but we'd like to

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go from business to mom mixed use. Now, we're now in the zoning side of things. We're at the creation of the mal mixed use on the land development code. And what I did is I highlighted just certain important aspects um that are usually uh concerns, right, when we're when we're

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drafting these provisions. So, what I did is you have three columns. You have your existing corridor commercial, which is what the designation is right now. You have your proposed mall mixeduse, and you have your downtown mixed use, right? Which is kind of what we use to model it after urban areas. We want to

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be able to expand and have mix of uses. When you look at the um the corridor commercial, right now there's no density permitted because there's no residential. We're consistent with the downtown mixed use with the mall mixed use. The minimum lot area under the commercial corridor, we can build on one

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acre. As long as we have an acre, we can do a project. Under the mom's excuse to apply it, you have to have 15 acres. Under the CMU, we've actually gone above and beyond. The CMU allows 10 acres standard, but it actually goes down to five acres if you're in certain locations of the property in the city.

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Um, the max height under the existing corridor commercial, six stories under the proposed mall mixuse, six stories. We are not trying to take advantage. The DMU though allows for eight stories but with an advantage where if you meet the creative excellence you can actually go

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higher than the eight stories. Um the F is straight across the same um for all three. Your minimum open space under the existing corridor is 17%. Your proposed mall mixed use is 20% which is double what the DMU permits. Um residential

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parking not permitted in the corridor commercial. In the mall mixed use we have a minimum of 1.5 spaces per unit. So, one bedrooms, two bedrooms, they all get 1.5 spaces per unit. That's a little different from the DMU. The DMU allows for certain situations where you have

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over 1500 dwelling units and over 500,000 ft of retail to just do one parking space per per unit. In the Dorado decor district, it also allows for one part one space per bedroom. So, we are exceeding that. Now, again, that

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was the land you that was the zoning side of things. Now we're asking to be zoned re reszoned into that mall mixed use. So this is the fifth request. This is the modification to the DRRi, right? This is the Miami National Mall consolidated DRI development order. This

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again was originally approved and and started in 1979 with the mall with the Miami International Mall. You have your uh 896 dwelling units that you permitted max on it. it's going to apply the 25 um acres and then you still sticking to

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your 25 base with your 35 increase for creative excellence. Um this is essentially just one more sentence added to the DRRI to allow for residential um uh to be used on the property. And as Mr. McGristo said in 2018 before this

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had to go to the state and get reviewed those laws were changed. So this is all up now to the city. The final um request for tonight is your master development agreement. And this is to show you just the conceptual site plan that we're showing. The site is broken up, I said,

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into three sites, three phases. Your phase one total is 292 units with creative excellence. That is currently under review. Site plan is submitted. Your site two, 5.66 acres. That's the east side of the Sears site that is

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currently submitted and that's 230 units with creative excellence standards. Now site three is not going to be submitted for some time under the the develop the master development agreement. Site three if they use creative excellence they can get 374 units. If they do not use

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creative excellence they go to their base they are 248 248 units. Now site one and site two combined have pulled 62 67.2 25 units from the overall phase 3. So no matter what, phase 3 has lost their units and those are the numbers

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that they stick to. Base 248 and then with creative excellence 374. Going to the next slide now like I wait let me go back going to the next next slide. Now, these numbers are staggering

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and like I said early on for the clarity of the record when we're analyzing a CDMP or reszoning any of these kinds of requests, we have to look at the max buildout capacity. So, what we did here under the requirements is we analyzed 836,000 square ft of retail development

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versus 896 units maximum development potential under residential. When you do that analysis, you actually have a reduction of 26,391 daily trips. That is a huge reduction. AM peak hour is reduced by 274 trips.

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And then your PM, your PM rush hour, afternoon rush hour, that's reduced by 1,412. So significant reduction. Now your neighborhood, this is there's benefits to the neighborhood obviously with this. You're enhancing property values with the beautiful buildings coming in.

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you're you're bringing in retail attraction because now you're bringing all this residential. You have the customers not trying to get them in the door because they live right next to the door. So, they can come over and they can have the benefit of entertainment with the 11 area, the 11 um um tenant

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that's coming in. They can have retail commercial, they can have dry cleaning, they have food, access to food, food courts. It's um the whole purpose of this district is to create that functionality between the residential and the commercial. You have an expanded tax base that goes up because you have new infrastructure that could be used

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for city benefits. And then you have just the overall aesthetic upgrades. You're going to have beautiful landscape by sales connection to the mall. Um it really goes above and beyond. And this really fits in perfectly with the 15minute neighborhood. Um essentially

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what you want is you want it when you're urban planning, you want to have everything within 15 minutes of a walk. In this case, you have everything within 15 minutes of a walk because the mall will be right next door. And so you, like I said, you have your food, your retail, everything is going to be right there. It actually beats Amazon's

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delivery time because you can literally just go downstairs. Now, with that, um I I'll conclude that staff, we've worked very closely with your staff, and I'm I'm very appreciative. Mr. Griso has been just unbelievably um wonderful to work with. He's twisted an arm or two a

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couple of times, but that's uh that's how you know he's doing a great job. Um and we're really honored to be working with him. You know, we've worked closely and we're very excited to say that staff has supported all of these applications for approval. Um and we are we're we're really honored to be able to bring a

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project like this into the city of Dell. And with that, I'll conclude. If uh you have any questions, myself and my team are here answering answer them. Um and I'd like to reserve some time for rebuttal just in case if necessary, but I don't anticipate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Williams. So, as I said, we're

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taking up these items together. So, this will be the only presentation and the only time for questions and answers. We're only going to open up the other ones for public hearing, expert communication, and for a vote. So, now is the time to ask your questions, and discuss the application.

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Mr. Pedo, uh, Councilman Pedato. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, well, first, I placed a motion to approve, but I'm going to make a quick comment. Um, thank you James for the great work. I, you know, when I heard about this

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project around the mall for the first time, I I always, you know, I I made the same comment couple of years ago, I'm going to make it again. I think it's needed. I think it's a win-win, not only for uh for the city, but at the same time for the mall, especially for the

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mall. Uh because with a project like this, you guys are pretty much saving the mall. I mean, unfortunately, everybody knows it's not a secret. International Mall has been suffering for the past years, especially after

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COVID. >> It's not a secret that Dolphin Mall is taking over pretty much the whole area. So I think this actually goes alone in a location that is doesn't affect uh when it comes to any concerns about

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density or or traffic as you show actually the trips the number of trips are actually going down with a project like this. So again it's something that makes sense to me and that's why I'm I'm in faith not because you're here. you

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you you do a great job by the way. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> But since the first time that I heard about this, it's something that I said is needed. So, I'm glad that, you know, we're moving forward now and I'm happy that we will see it coming along very soon as well.

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>> If I may. >> Yes, ma'am. I would like to second the motion and also I want to thank you for listening to my suggestion and including them when it comes to the connectivity from the building to the mall also the

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green spaces uh that are very needed in and that's something that we also are set as a difference from other communities that we keep our green areas. So, thank you for for that and the path around so the people will be able to have more access around the

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community. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other comments, questions? >> Councilwoman Reynoso. >> Well, I really like the Hold on. I really like the redevelopment um idea that it's going to take place sooner

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rather than later um in that area. Um the traffic improvement is a big plus. the uh potential of having people that work in the area, live in the area, um I think is also very beneficial for our community. I think the project was very

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well organized. Um thank you, James. Thank you, George. >> And um the Gunster team. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Thank you for a thorough presentation and you know we went over it and um

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again I I think it is going to bring new life into the mall and hopefully um revitalize it as well. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh I'll just keep my comments very brief too. We've been u working on this for quite some time now. So I know it's been a long journey but I know that there was

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a lot of thought and intention put into this. uh when we this was first discussed, you know, there was a lot of concerns of proliferation throughout the community with what could potentially take place with creating the district. And I think that um the way it was done was really um you know, methodical for

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the area that is an area that hopefully one day will be considered a high transit oriented district. Um because it's close to the rail, you've got access to two expressways and really leading into a third. So the connectivity is is it's it's there. It's

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I mean it's a the infrastructure is there for it to invite this type of um uh redevelopment and community. So um but it's also not overbearing. I think the amount the you know the density is the right amount of density. We really

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thought about the heights which was something that was important in that area. So, um, the way that Deral has been planned and the way we, you all came to the table and we were able to find a product that would be, um, that would stand the test of time that would

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not jeopardize the, um, the quality of life of Dorado, revitalize the area and think about the connectivity, um, was very intentional. So, I want to thank the entire team. Michelle was a big part of it, too. Thank you, Michelle. I know it's been a hard long road. We've had

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lots of conversations about it. Alex came in and just hit the ground running with it, too. We're here. We got it done before summer. Look forward to seeing the site plan where we'll get into some of those other little details and I know staff is is really working on. But I think you guys have really taken the

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comments of the city and um you know what we have done over the years to really plan um for growth in a responsible way is important. I'm glad you talked about J C Penney not moving yet because I know there was a little bit of concern over, you know, the the the amount of units going up so quickly,

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but this is really a phased out project. Um, with Elevate coming in, hopefully that's a success and I think it's really going to create um re it's going to revitalize the area, but it's really going to create a good foot traffic. So, I'm excited. I know that you guys build a good product. So, um I I think that

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this is a great um addition to the city and will bring new tax revenue, which is also appreciated. So, we're looking forward to seeing this be a product that will um that will bring residents um an opportunity to live, work, learn, and play in our city uh in this new

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development. So, thank you once again, and I'm ready to support the item and move forward if there's no additional questions. There is a motion on the table by Councilman Benedo and a second by Vice Mayor Cabraw. So if there's no additional questions, we'll go ahead and take up each item individually.

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>> Motion to approve ordinance number 20269 on First Street made by Council Peno. Seconded by Vice Mayor Cabrell. Councilman Pedo, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Crawl, >> yes. >> Council, >> yes. >> Council Pores, yes. >> Mayor Frago, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right, let's go ahead and read the other ones into the record. We'll open up, take a vote, and move on.

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Ordinance number 202611 grace time film amendment. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of D Florida approving a small scale land use amendment to the city of D comprehensive plan future land use map to change a land use designation from business B to mall mixuse MMU for plus or minus 25.61 acres for the property generally located

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at 1625 Northwest 107th Avenue and 1603 Northwest 107th Avenue providing for incorporation recital servability conflicts and an effective date. >> All right, I'm going to go ahead and open up for public comments. uh public hearing for item 21c also known as 26-6617. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone please

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approach the podium. Being none we will close the public hearing. Madam clerct no one has chosen to speak at this time. Um we have incorporated the comments um and the presentations from the last item into this item and I will entertain a motion.

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>> Motion by counciloman Pedato second. >> Second by councilwoman Cabra. Madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 20261 on first reading made by council Penedo. Seconded by Vice Mayor Corell Council Penedo. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carell. Yes. Counciloman Pores. Yes. Council Marinoso. Yes. Mayor >> Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes.

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>> All right. Next item. Madam clerk, please read it into record. Item 21D, Ordinance number 202610, Greyar LDC text amendment, an ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Dorado, Florida, amending chapter 68, land uses and zoning districts, article 5, mixeduse districts of a city of draw land development code

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by creating division six mall mixuse district, MMU zoning district, establishing purpose and intent applicability permitted and prohibited uses, development standards, design criteria and development review procedures for original shopping mall properties 15 acres or greater. providing for the integration of residential uses within qualifying developments, providing for

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incorporation into the land development code, serverability conflicts, and an effective date. >> All right, I'm gonna go ahead and open up public hearing for item 21D, also known as 26-616. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, public hearings closed.

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Madam clerk, let the record reflect. No one has chosen to speak at this time. And now I will take expporte communication. >> I have spoken to the applicant and will not um influence my decision. Same. I have already met and it will not influence my my decision. >> Same mayor.

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>> Mayor, same day. >> Likewise, um I met with the applicant and it will not affect the decision. Um we are incorporating all the previous um presentations and communications about this uh I'm sorry and debate about this as well. Questions? And we'll take a motion. >> Motion

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>> motion to approve by council penato. Second by vice mayor cabra. Madam clerk, please call the role. Motion to approve ordinance number 202610 on first treatment by council Pedo. Seconded by Vice Mayor Carell. Council Penedo. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carell. Yes. >> Council member. >> Yes. >> Council Poras. >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. >> Yes.

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>> Motion passes. >> Next item. Madam clerk. >> Next item 21E. Ordinance number 202612 Grey Reszoning. An ordinance of the mayor of the city council of the city of Florida approving an amendment to the city's official zoning map from corridor commercial district CC to mall mixuse MMU for plus or minus 25.61 61 acres for

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the property generally located at 1625 Northwest 107th Avenue and 16003 Northwest 107th Avenue providing for incorporation recital serability complex and an effective date. >> Opening up public hearing for item 21E also known as 26-6618. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone please approach the

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podium being none close public comments. Let the record reflect no one has chosen to speak at this time and I will take any expert communications for this item. >> I've met with the applicant and I will not influence my decision. Same same. >> He will not influence.

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>> Okay. >> Thank you, mayor. >> All right. I am also putting into the record previous uh as far as all these applications I met with the applicants. It will not affect the record. I'm incorporating all the presentations, comments, and questions that were from the last item into this item. And I will entertain a motion.

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>> Motion. >> Motion to approve by counciloman Pedo. Second by council and by Vice Mayor Cabraw. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve for No December 2026 12 and first reading by council peno. Second by vice mayor. Councel pen. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Craw. Yes. Council Marinoso. >> Yes. >> Council Porza. >> Yes.

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>> Motion passes. >> Okay. Item 21F. >> Item 21F. Ordinance number 202614, Greystone International Mall DR modification. An ordinance in the name of the city council of city of draw Florida approving a modification to the Miami International Mall Consolidated Development Regional Impact DR Development Order to allow residential

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development within certain parcels of the DRI totaling approximately 25.612 acres for the property generally located at 1625 Northwest 107th Avenue and 163 Northwest 107th Avenue. finding that such change does not require review pursuant to section 380.06 Florida statutes providing for findings of fact

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and conclusion of law and providing for an effective date. >> Okay, I'm going to go ahead and open up public hearing for item 21F also known as 26-6620. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone please approach the podium. Being none we are closing the public hearing. Madam clerk of the record no

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one has chosen to speak at this time and I will take any exparte communication. >> I've met with the applicant and it will not influence my decision. Same mayor. >> Same. >> Same too. >> All right. Likewise. And we are incorporating all the former presentations, comments, and questions into this item. And I will entertain a

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motion. >> Motion. >> Approved by Councilman Pino. Second by Vice Mayor Cabraw. Madam Cler, please call the role. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 20614 on first street by Counciloman Pen. Second by Vice Mayor Car. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Craw. >> Yes. >> Council Reoso. >> Yes. >> Council Poras. >> Yes. >> Mayor Frago. >> Yes.

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>> Motion passes. >> All right. 21G. >> 21G. Ordinance number 202615 Greyar International Mall DA an ordinance of the main the city council of the city of D Florida approving a development agreement with EWE Retail to LTD JCP International 1L LC and West a county

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associates for a conceptual master site plan for a residential development project with the Miami International Mall Consolidated Development of Regional Impact DRRI limited to certain parcels totaling approximately 25.612 and 612 acres for the property generally located at 1625 Northwest 107th Avenue and 163 Northwest 107th Avenue in the

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Mall mixu zoning district MMU providing for incorporation recital and an effective date. All right, opening up public hearing for item 21G also known as 26-6621. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone please approach the podium. None public hearing is now closed and I

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take any expert communication. >> I have met with the applicants and will not influence my decision. Same. >> Same. Mayor, >> same. All right. I think we all put it on the record. Uh we're incorporating all the comments, questions, and presentations from the former items to this item. And I want to chain a motion to >> motion. >> Second.

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>> Motion to approve by counciloman Pedo. Second by Vice Mayor Cabra. Madam Clerk. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 2365 on first reading by Counciloman Peno. Seconded by Vice Mayor Carell. Counciloman Penedo. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Crawl. Yes. >> Council Poras. >> Yes. >> Council Renoso. >> Well, yes. >> Mayor Fraga.

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>> Had to do it. Yes. Motion pauses. >> All right. Thank you very much. That exhausts those items. We'll move on to the next items. >> Thank Thank you all so much. Really appreciate it. >> Thank you guys. >> Item 218, ordinance number 202613, text

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amendment digital signs for public institutions. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of D Florida approving slash denying a text amendment to chapter 80 center relations of city's land development code by amending section 80-.3 definitions to create a new definition for public institution amending division 4 a permanent size for non-residential uses

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of article 5 sign standards and requirements by amending section 80-2591 office signs and section 80-260A1 industrial signs to provide for the inclusion of a digital changeable message sign as detached freestanding or monument sign as allowable sign type for public institutions providing for

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conflict and an effective date. >> All right, I'm opening up the public hearing item for 21H, also known as 26-6619 anyone would like to speak on the item. This item alone, please approach the podium. >> Being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, the record reflect no one has chosen to speak at this time

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and we will hear from staff. >> This is a simple um zoning or sorry, amendment to the ordinance. Uh if anybody has any questions, I'm happy to answer them. It's um just creating a carveout for uh public institutions, the

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state uh federal and local governments. >> Just I just want to for clarity and for purposes of the of the benefit of the public, there was a request from the elections department to put a digital sign. Yes. Which is why this is coming forward. So it's only restricted

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>> to government buildings, federal, local. >> Correct. >> Motion to approve. >> There's a motion to approve by council member Pedro. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Mal clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 202613 on first reading made by

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Counciloman Pedo. Seconded by Council Maros. Counciloman Penedo. >> Yes. >> Council Maros. Yes. >> Counciloman Poras. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cell. >> Yes. >> Mayor Frago. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Move on to the next item. >> Next item. Item 21 I. Ordinance number 202616. Text amendment nurseries. An

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ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of D Florida. Amending chapter 74 entitled miscellaneous and supplementary regulations article 3 entitled special setbacks and uses division 3 entitled regulations for uses under power lines specifically section 74-123 entitled permitted use and conditions of the city of draw code of ordinances adding

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subsection 74-123.1 entitled nurseries 74-123.2 entitled definition 74-1.3 entitled permitting and approvals 74-1.3.4 4 entitled permitting facility types and portable structures. 74-123.5

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entitled setbacks, buffers, and street distinction. 74-1.326 entitle 88 and accessibility requirements. 74-123.7 entitled structural standards. 74-123.8 entitled pavement and draining standards. 74-123.9 entitled environmental and sanitary requirements.

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And 74-123.10 10 entitled city inspection and enforcement providing for incorporation to the code conflicts implementation servability and effective date. >> Okay. Opening up public hearing for item 21 I yeah I uh 26-6645. Anyone who would like to speak on this

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item and this item alone please approach the podium. Being none public hearing is now closed. Madam cler the record reflect that no one has chosen to speak at this time and we will hear from our planning and zoning director Mr. Margariso. Uh so this is another zoning um change that

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we're making to the code. Uh currently you don't have any any set regulations for for nurseries that are located under these power lines. We did receive an application uh for one and going through it we realized that there there was not

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enough uh information to move forward. So what this does is it creates uh pretty much a new section where um mainly it's it's uh uh building requirements that would need to be undertaken um before a nursery can be um

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propped up underneath the power lines uh to ensure uh safety with any uh portable buildings that might be on site. So, this just specifies uh the building restrictions and pretty much mirrors your Florida building code uh in within

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the zoning section. >> Motion >> motion to approve by councilwoman Por, second by Councilwoman Benedo. >> Any other questions, comments? >> I do have a question. >> Yes, councilwoman Reoso. >> Do we know what type of plants we're

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going to have in that nursery? >> Okay, Laura, >> we don't know. Yeah. >> There was no specific. I think it's plants. I mean, I don't think it's like >> nursery. >> Yeah, it's a nursery. >> Just plants. >> Just plants. >> However, the site plan will come before

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us. >> Yes. >> So, we will have an opportunity to see the site plan. >> Yeah, that's important. Thank you. >> All right. There's no additional questions. >> Please call the role. Make sure to refer to Councilman Renos as the Lorax.

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Motion to approve ordinance number 202616 on first reading a by counciloman pora. Seconded by council council >> yes. Council >> peno. >> Yes. >> Council woman. >> Yes. >> Vice mayor >> corral. >> Yes. >> Mayor P. >> Yes. Motion pass. >> Toxic complaint.

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>> Next item. >> Item 21J ordinance number 20617 adopting a ratified investment policy. an ordinance of the mayor of the city council of city of draw Florida adopting a ratified investment policy for the city of draw providing for survivability implementation conflicts and an effective date.

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>> All right, opening up the uh item for public hearing item 21J also known as 26-6634. Anyone would like to speak on this item this item alone please approach the podium showing none public is closed. Madam cler the record reflect one has chosen to speak at this time.

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Mayor, >> madam school. >> Hi. Good evening. We are adopting the ratified investment policy as we do every year. There are no changes from this policy and the one we adopted last year. It's just we have to do it every year. So, um, if you have any questions,

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this CFO ACM Fernando Casamayor is here and our finance director soul as well. >> I was hoping to hear from both of you, but I think we're good. >> Motion to approve. >> Thank you, madam city manager. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. >> Second.

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>> Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. There's no additional questions. Madam Cler, please call the RO. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 202617 on First Street by Counciloman Pedo. Seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Council Reynoso. >> Yes. >> Counciloman Poras. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cabrell.

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>> Yes. Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Awesome. >> Second reading items. >> Second reading. Ordinance number 2020 606 amending chapter 26 article 3 shopping carts. An ordinance of the mayor and city council of city of draw Florida amending chapter 26 article 3 shopping carts providing for

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implementation incorporation into the code incorporation of recital severability and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on May 13th. >> All right. Opening a public hearing for item 21K also known as 26-6591. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone please approach the podium.

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>> Well, I didn't think you had anything to say about it. Being none, public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, the record like no one chosen to speak at this time and we will either hear from the city manager staff. >> Yes. >> Once again, mayor um this is second

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reading. The only change that we have um is that the start date which it will be to start in October >> but otherwise there are no changes between first and second reading. >> Perfect. giving people um giving the supermarkets enough time to

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>> comply >> to comply and the assistant uh code compliance director is here if you have any questions. >> Thank you. All right. >> Motion >> motion to approve by Councilman Pedo. Second, >> second by coun by Vice Mayor Cabron. >> Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 20260 on second reading by Council Pedo.

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Seconded by Vice Mayor Carell. Counciloman Pedo. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cabell. >> Yes. >> Council Reoso. >> Yes. >> Council Porza. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. 21L was deferred. >> Yes, ma'am. 21M. Ordinance number 20268. No hourly room rental signage. An ordinance of the mayor of the city

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council of the city of D Florida amending chapter 80 article 7 human trafficking and science creating section 80-326. No hourly room rentals public awareness sign providing for implementation incorporation to the code incorporation of recital serability and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on May 13. >> Opening a public hearing for item 21M

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also not 26-63. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone please approach the podium. showing no interest. The public hearing is now closed. Madam clerk, the record reflect no one has chosen to speak at this time and I don't believe there's been any changes, but >> yes, mayor. There has not been any

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changes between first and second reading. >> Perfect. There's no additional changes. Motion to approve by Councilman Pedo. >> Second. >> Second by councilwoman Reynoso. Madam clerk, please call the role. >> Motion to approve ordinance number 20268 on second reading. Made by Councilwoman Pedato. Seconded by Councilwoman Reynoso. Counciloman Penedo. >> Yes.

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>> Counciloman Reynoso. Yes. >> Counciloman Pores. Vice Mayor Gab. Yes. >> Mayor Frago. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Wonderful. That exhausts all of our items in the evening agenda. However, we are going to go back to our reports very quick from the afternoon. And I will go into Mayor's mayor's

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report. Yes. Uh just very quickly, um I'd like to request the city hall be illuminated in blue on June 29th in recognition of World Scaroderma Day. This observation helps raise awareness of sclerodma, a rare autoimmune disease that affects thousands of individuals

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and families. that lighting city hall is a meaningful way to show support for those families living with this condition and to help bring greater awareness to community. Today we also proclaim June sclerodormal awareness month. Um second, I'd also like to request the city hall be illuminated in

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red, white, and blue throughout the month of July in celebration of our nation's 250 years of independence as we commemorate this special day and reflect on the freedoms and opportunities we enjoy as Americans. This display would serve as a visible expression of our

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patriotism and pride in our country. So, um, again, just asking that we do this and I know it's being done throughout the nation. >> Absolutely, Mayor. >> Uh, on June 4th, it's Danny Del Toro's birthday. I'm assuming that's why he's not here. >> Danny's not here. He's Oh, he's in a conference.

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>> He's at a conference. Mayor, >> I was like, yeah. All right. And on June 13th in just a couple days, Jane Decker, our development services director. Happy birthday, Jane. We love you.

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See, I didn't know I bought you lunch today. Could have sang happy birthday. I forgot to look at this. All right, moving on to the rest of the reports. Um, advisory boards. I don't think they came. >> Correct. Mayor, if you if the council would like, we would move them to August.

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>> I believe their report is attached. Um, we'll move into the city manager's report. >> Jul's birthday. >> July's birthday. Oh, you missed. >> The councilman is saying that you did not say that Jul's birthday is the councilman's birthday.

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>> We're going to do it during the budget. >> That's right. >> There you go. >> We always forget because your birthday is in July. >> I know because it's in July. >> In July. >> It's okay. We got you. >> I know. >> Manager's report. Yes. Um, mayor, um, as

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you know, because we took a picture, um, with the HR staff, um, during protocol, um, it's with great pride that we share the city of Dural has been named 20 a 2026 South Florida top workplaces winner, a distinguished regional honor awarded in partnership with Suns

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Sentinel that celebrates organizations that truly that with truly exceptional workplace cultures. This is a remarkable achievement for our city, placing Dural among an elite group of just 66 organizations with more than 400 employees recognized across South Florida in this year's publication. We

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could not be prouder of what this recognition represents, which is a vibrant people first culture and our shared commitment to fostering a positive, engaging, and high performing work environment where every employee can thrive. Most importantly, this recognition is based entirely on

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employee feedback gathered throughout the intergage workplace survey, making it one of the most credible and authentic measures or organizational culture. More than 240 city employees participated in the survey, providing valuable insights that

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contributed directly to this achievement. Since this accomplishment reflects the collective efforts of our workforce and the strategic initiatives that are led um by the human resources department, please join me in recognizing the human resources resources staff and city personnel for

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their attendance. >> Awesome. >> Thank you, madam city manager and congratulations to HR and really to the administration really to all of us because it talks about the culture that and the environment that is being um you know is being felt in city hall and by

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those who work here. So, we're so proud that you guys are proud to work for this great city. So, thank you. We love you. We value you. And if we don't say it enough, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, we thank it all the time. So, you guys make this place what it is. So, heartbeats of our city. Thank you.

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>> Anything else? >> All right. >> City attorney's report. >> City attorney. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Nothing to report. >> Good. Because the clerk was dying to get to her report. >> I got nothing. My report is attached. All right. All right, this exhausts our

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um council meeting for June. Remember, we have no council meeting in July, but we do have our mill rate and obviously the budget will be a big one. So, thank you very much for joining us today and we look forward to seeing you all in August. Have a great summer, safe

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summer. Put on sunblock and God bless you all. Thank you. Well, we'll see you at Fourth of July events. Fourth of July. >> Yes.