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So usually you see him picking up all right now. on the start. Turn on the microphone first. First

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right now. Go ahead. Good evening. My name is 89th Avenue. I was looking at some of the agenda items for tonight and I have one question about the police.

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provide full health question. So another item I want to bring up which involves resolution numbers. solutions. I was very s

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about a year ago couple months. like, okay, this is crazy. Either I'm crazy or somebody's crazy or whatever we're doing. But it doesn't make sense. There's been no presentation to my knowledge of the need or where they are. Are there police reports supporting

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that? Uh we're entering into sort of a contract or getting committed to all driveway solutions and they're going to be installing throughout Elsads need them, what don't need them. Um has there been a track traffic census done

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or anything from FDOT or any other agency um for this? So, I find we're entering into this thing very quickly. And I just wanted to uh suggest that we um vote no right now and uh look at it and see what we're actually talking

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about because, you know, our funding um also, which I haven't seen a copy of the budget yet uh for this year of how we're spending our money, but we don't know anything about whether we can even afford this or how it's going to be funded or anything like that. So, I think we need to back step backtrack a

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little bit and get some more information before we vote on this. Thank you. >> Thank you. Timbosity, 149 Northeast 89th Street. Uh I would also like to uh request that we vote no to the speed bumps resolution.

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Uh and my reasoning for it is I think through a lot of the conversation around the potential school um and as we get closer to the potential flow development on 87th and Biscane uh there's been a lot of people asking for a comprehensive

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traffic study uh from an independent source. I know I'm one of them. Um, we've also had, I think, conversations and asks around just the overall street plan, around code review. Um, are we protecting our swailes, what we're

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allowing with with heights, setbacks, slot coverage, what are we doing to fit the village style, what are we doing to enforce it? And so, I'd like to see kind of our big picture items that we care about addressed first uh, and have a comprehensive plan. I think there's an

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inclination generally uh to not save the general fund for the big picture stuff that we care about um like traffic um and so you know speed bumps tot lots things like that are all great but it's time and limited dollars and resources that do nothing for what we view as

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existential to keep Elport tall Elport tall um so I'd like to see what the plan is to have a a comprehensive uh look at all of this um and and I would also request that uh an agenda item every time for these

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meetings would be reporting out on call it the big items. Um what are we doing with our code review? We saw that be used against us. We got a lot of feedback as to what people want for in our code. Same with the traffic study. Um where we are in terms of what's going

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on with conversations uh for the flow development for the school that the council and the mayor are aware of. Um, I think it'd just be good to have versus us have to ask or scan the agenda uh to see if it's going to be mentioned or how it might come up just to have those big

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items addressed every time. Uh, as well as the the timing piece for the code review. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good evening. Noel Pace 206 Northwest 91st Street. Uh I'd like to make a mention of the Westside Traffic Circle.

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Okay. Um you know, as you know, there was a lot of discussion about the Westside traffic circle. It got approved. It got put in. Um some adjustments were made there. I appreciated not having to knock down our wall that had had a variance for 20 plus

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years there uh uh on our property. Um, however, I I do want to ask the village to explore with the county some potential policy exceptions or I mean, right now, according to our their

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website, our village traffic circle doesn't match up with the the the county's own policy for this. They encourage splitter islands that have foliage, like green splitter islands, you know, the little islands in between the streets, you know, where people stop if there's a car coming, they can stand

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between the two lanes of traffic. Uh we don't have any landscaping or foliage in the circle itself, and they encourage that. I mean, and you know, I started to look at different traffic circles around the county, and for the most beautiful

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village in the county, we probably have the least beautiful traffic circle. So, I I just think there's some inongruity there and I know you guys can do something about it most likely. The second piece is is that along with that came some great lighting for safety and

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for visibility and so on, but it's probably one degree too bright. Okay, it's like you're it's like daylight outside when you're over there. Uh and we are concerned about the we live on Screech Owl Street is 91st Street and the owls, you know, at night can't hunt

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because it looks it's like daytime. So, uh, and we have a lot of owls in that area. The last thing is is that when the light contractor put the lights in, they did a lot of excavation of the soil and the rocks, you know, on the coral ridge. And instead of taking that debris out with them, they went and threw it in all

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our landscaping. And so now I have these giant rocks, uh, these white rocks in the middle of our green foliage with dirt piles. Uh, and so hopefully we can get that taken care of. Lastly, and I would always be remiss to say that the

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old Razer church property, I hope that this council has digested this now, has seen the big picture that it should really be a park in accordance with our community plan and our future site use. It's a pretty small area. It's in the center of town. It would match up with

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our Miami Shores neighbor along with Biscane Park. Uh it would provide some of that open space. And then in talking about uh plans for the future, I think anything, you know, in terms of these, you know, big changes, you know, we need to sort of see the the the developers

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master plan, not just for that property, but for all of them, uh before, you know, hey, so you guys can make informed decisions on behalf of the people that elected you. So, um I think that's good for now. Uh happy 4th of July. Happy 250. Thanks for your support. Thanks.

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And Next, >> Daniel Roas, 60 Northeast 86 Street. Uh so I just wanted to for the good of welfare I wanted to remind that um we had discussed uh especially considering that we're going over the

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the CBA police agreement. We had discussed in the budget last year that we were going to have some workshops. We're going to have some more transparency about that and I just want to know where we stand with that if it's the village manager or mayor or council. Um, where are we standing with anything

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regarding uh transparency and visibility of the current budget for this year and and even for last year's? Um, that's my first item. Number two is uh it looks like today we're going to discuss uh joining a challenge to the property tax constitutional amendment, but I remember

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last uh meetings we had actually discussed joining the SB180. And maybe even now that Miami voted last week to explore a legal challenge to the live local act. Uh maybe we can explore joining either or both of those possible

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legal challenges. Um, and then uh to join uh our our neighbors over here. I just want to reiterate that uh I think that the Raider Park Raider Church lot would make a fantastic park. It would be an amazing addition to our village. Probably uh increase our our values and

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uh just uh if we can explore that possibility being that seems like those plans are at least on hold just to bring that up to the council. Thank you. >> Thank you. Greg Steer, 120 Northwest 86 Street. Uh, just a couple of things again. I wanted

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to reiterate what other people have already brought up. The fact that we are nine months into the budget, uh, and yet we haven't had a single review. We have no idea whether we're overspending or underspending.

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We I asked specifically if there was any money in the unassigned fund, which is our rainy day fund. Never got a response to that. And as far as I know, Florida mandates that every municipality has a uh independent audit, which is due by

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June 30th, which was yesterday. So, I'd like to know if that has been done. Uh, as far as the CBA, another question. We're we're here to ratify a contract that started in October of last year and ends in 3 months.

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Uh, I'm not sure why that is. We these contracts should be negotiated before they start, not almost before they end. Uh, the other thing about the CBA is I didn't see anything in there about salaries. I saw compensation, but there's no actual salaries in there. We

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don't know what the police chief makes or the lieutenant or any of the officers or even how many the how many officers we have. Although I see many of them here tonight, so maybe we'll find out. I will commend the police chief for finally submitting the police reports,

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although there's a few missing from last year, but from uh January to June of this year, they're all on the website. And you can see for yourself from what I could tell in those six months, first six months of 2026,

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there was a grand total of two arrests in the village. But we issued 2,479 tickets. Uh that's almost 100 tickets a week, which is great. I'd like to know

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where that money goes. Anyway, that was it. Thank you. Thank you. >> Good afternoon. Alexandra Basa, 120 Northwest 86 Street. Um a few people have already asked about it but I ask again as I do every single time and of

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for some reason that answer never gets you know that question never gets answered and is about the followup for the budget review that was due in October the 2025 and is still not um we still waiting for it. Uh so and again

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more budget more details about the budget of this year and um as um the previous person was saying um there's so many bigger items that I don't understand why are being discussed

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just now. So like the contract with the police um contract now um if it was discussed in October, why is it brought up right in the middle of the summer when there's absolutely nobody coming to

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these meetings? It is is very similar to the you know what happened last year about the increased salary again with very few residents um attending. So I would like to ask that those bigger

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items are reserved for to be discussed in August or prior to ju to June when there's more people uh willing to come to these meetings. Um the last thing that I wanted to ask uh about the the

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speed bumps is um when we just moved in, one of the first discussions that we continue having with you, mayor, uh was uh the need to reduce the the speed uh in on streets like 86

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Street and um and uh Northwest Second. So the solution for that was a speed bump uh in front of her house that honestly nobody paid too much attention to it and uh the traffic circle on Northwest Second that nobody pays

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attention to it. So after a three like threequarters of a million dollars people are still uh speeding both on Northwest 2 and on Nate Street all the time. uh we were told at that point that the police was uh being trained uh to

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use the speed guns. The only place where we see those you those uh speed um um you know that they they're doing that is on Northeast 2nd. I don't know why because that's the the last place where

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you you see people on the on the you know there sidewalks on that street. the rest of the of the town doesn't have sidewalks. You don't find people walking their dogs anywhere else on on on second, but it's the only place where they they they're um tracking uh the

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speed. So, that is one thing that I would like to bring your attention. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Who else? Good welfare. Good evening everyone, mayor, council, and neighbors. My name is Thomas Pulium and I live at 205 Northeast 86 Street.

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I'm here tonight in a spirit of respect, good faith, love of civics, this village, and love for the rule of law. Because the law is what informs, guides, and protects all of us. It protects residents. It protects public servants. It protects the integrity of this

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council's decisions. and it ensures that no homeowner is left guessing which rules apply on which day depending on who you ask. As you all know, last Tuesday, this council voted unanimously to preserve my property as is until July 28th as actionable

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pathways to close or cure my open permit is investigated, which I have been asking the village administration to do since March of 2025 when the Coral installation was done on my property. I'm deep deeply grateful

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for last Tuesday's council directive and the caringness shown because it created a peaceful path forward. It gave everyone room to pause, breathe, and proceed thoughtfully. But less than 24 hours later after the

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council's 50 vote, the inspection report to my permit record in the government database was revised to be a failed foundation. I believe that entry is materially inaccurate and does not reflect what occurred on site per my recorded video

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that I have shared with everyone and entered into the public record. Here are the facts. The person who appeared at my property declined to identify himself, which on its face is illegal when you're operating as a contractor of a government entity. The recorded video

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from the visit shows the field technician stating that they were there to take a distance measurement from a wall using a digital meter. That's it. A distant me distance measurement of a finished wall is not a foundation inspection. And it and it is especially

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not a foundation inspection when my approved permit has never required structural or engineering blueprints. And that fact has not changed in the 16 months this permit has been active. There is another related issue. The revised June 24th inspection sheet cites

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code provisions that apply to structural work, but my permit has not been reclassified as structural. And I have not received any list of building deficiencies, a safety analysis, or final agency action despite begging for this information for over a year. And

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just four weeks ago, I formally requested a fin another final agency action notice so there would be a clear appealable decision. I still have not received one. That's why I came in front of the village just last week. So the issue before us is simple. The public

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record now reflects a failed structural inspection that based on the recorded video of the site visit itself and the current permit classification did not occur and was not required to occur. I do not raise this to create conflict. I raise it to protect clarity. This

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council created calm. The permit record created confusion. And for the good and welfare of this community, clarity should win. That brings me to a broader point. Today, July 1st, Florida House Bill 803 takes effect. My understanding is that this law strengthens property owner protections and requires greater

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clarity around private providers, inspection processes, and related fees. Residents deserve to know their rights. They deserve to know their options. and the village has a responsibility and legal responsibility to communicate those rights clearly and follow the law consistently. So, as a matter of good

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and welfare, I ask the village to publicly clarify its updated process for residents who elect to use certified private providers, including where residents can find the updated fee schedule and inspection fee methodology that reflect the new state requirements that are effective today. And with

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respect to my property, I request uh my request tonight remains simple. On Monday morning, I submitted a formal request to the village manager for a written administrative stay consistent with this council's June 23rd vote. As is typical, I have not heard back from

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the village, and I respect respectfully leave this open request in your care and ask for written confirmation this week. My hope is simple. Honor the spirit of last week's vote, preserve the peace this council created, and keep the process fair, stable, transparent, and

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lawful. Because when one resident or developer can trust the process, every resident and developer in Elportal is better protected. Thank you for your time, your service, and your care for this community. >> Thank you very much. >> Good evening. My name is George Alvarez.

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I live at 165 Northwest 88th Street. I want to commend and thank um the council and uh manager Roseman. Um although I do find it curious that the CBA is being done now as opposed to uh towards the

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end of the last fiscal year. Perhaps you guys can explain that when when given the opportunity. Um I know it's a lot of work. So I want to commend uh all parties involved uh especially you manager Roseman. Um

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uh my friend uh Thomas Pullium just made mention of uh trusting the process and uh I'm going to extrapolate on that for for a moment. Um although I cannot claim to know every

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detail about what Mr. Rapoleium has gone through. I don't fully understand it. And frankly, it's so crazy making that it makes me crazy, but that's kind of a sign that the system is a little bit um broken or as I like to say, faka. And

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it's it's a real thing. It seems to me that with what I see going on in the council, especially in the city of Miami right now, as regards um development rights and the near willy-nilly lpping down of some very

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like culturally significant like um sites, older houses and trees that we should be focusing far more on making the lives of people like Mr. Pium a little bit easier at least at least a

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little bit more clear so that there's a path forward. I frankly after the meeting last week I wasn't sure what the council could do to him. I I'm I'm unsure as to whether the council had any power to somehow mitigate his situation

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and I'm I I'd love to hear you guys address that um so that we all may proceed on the same premise. The issue that's going on in Miami right now with the city council is endemic

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and it's it's going to harm all of us. And some of fellow residents have mentioned transparency as regards our budget process. I think it's very important that we make

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every effort to make things as tr transparent as possible so that the people can see where our budget is and decide where our priorities are how you know it's it's like it's uh it's the

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what is it Socrates cave or whatever we don't know where we are in the darkness of a cave so I'm encouraging you guys Miami Shores already has their first budget workshop shop advertised on its website for next month, second or third week of next month, the first of two.

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And I think that that's a great start. Their old budget for comparison so that people can understand what's going on is posted on their website so that they can kind of pinpoint the things that make sense or don't make sense. Uh as as uh Tim alluded to. Um so I'm encouraging

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you guys to do that. And once again, I'm going to encourage this council to join the lawsuits with the other municipalities to stand firm for local rule. Home rule in the state of Florida

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is under attack. And for those of you who wish to make it a partisan thing in other states that are have other parties uh in control, home rules under attack there as well. It's under the guise of affordability and it uses terms like

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workforce housing, but when you start to look at the details, and the devil's always in the details, you start to realize that it's really a much different agenda. We can get into it. I'm well past my time and I thank

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you for yours. >> Thank you very much. Next. Good and welfare. >> Going once, >> twice, >> three times. All right. Coming back to

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the council. All right. So, the >> Yeah. No. Do your thing. Do your thing. >> Okay. Okay. So, I have no doubt that the mayor is going to address the questions regarding uh the uh contract and some of the budget issues as well. So, before he goes into all that, I just want to say

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that in regards to the uh the former Raider Church site being a park, um I agree, however, the village had its opportunity almost 10 years ago to acquire that property. And um uh I mean

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I I I I'm concerned a little bit with uh talking uh so comfortably about acquiring somebody else's property. Um I'm a little cautious in that even though obviously it's exactly what it should be as a park, even a community center for the village. But I do just

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want to say the village had its opportunity 10 years ago to acquire that property and and uh I would want to be at least cautious in a path towards uh discussing how to accomplish that. Um uh when we talk about uh I don't I' I've

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said what I need to say I think. So >> thank you very much counc appreciate you. Um, let me just say also for the park, uh, as far as the old Raider church, you know, it's always something, and I I explained this last time about, you know, my vision of and why I named this

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little peacock park. I already explained that. Um, that's something has to go like into the negotiations. Thing about it is we don't own that property, right? So, so if you're soulful now and you're that developer, we have to find a

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way to give them something somewhere else, maybe over here, right? Because maybe density or something like that. Because if you're soulful, you're sitting there and and you're saying, I bought this property for 13.5 million or whatever. Okay. So, now what's my incentive on now making it a park?

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You know what I'm saying? So, so I understand and I agree with the sentiment, but I want to work in like a realistic format, right? Because I can if I just start going out to the residents saying, "Hey, we're going to make that a park. We don't own the property, right?" And

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then what's the incentive on them paying millions over $10 million for it? And then doing that favor for us for no reason or no benefit to them, right? So I try to think about it from all angles and from a development angle

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also. So I'm with that but there just has to be a realistic way of getting there. So that comes with the negotiations with developer. Okay. Um besides that let me just say that to

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move to the speed humps. First thing I'll move to when it comes to the speed bumps or the speed humps. You guys, and I know a certain council person uh addresses this up also. When it comes to the speed bumps or speed humps, you

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know, it's interesting because sometimes uh it's almost like uh when that old saying, no good deed goes unpunished. The reason why it's on tonight is for transparency reasons. It doesn't have to be on tonight. If you look at the resolution for tonight, it

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says in the second whereas in 2025, the village of Alpert initiated by Mayor Omarc Nickerson committed to a villagewide installation of speed humps and signs and the village of Alpert shall remain committed to such installation for the continued and

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increased safety of our residents. That was in 2025. We passed a resolution for this village wide. I'm gonna go I'm going to go to the 2025 resolution in a second. This is tonight's resolution. The third whereas says whereas the

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village of Albertal via resolution reviewed past tense because it was done in March 2025. via resolution reviewed three proposals and found that the proposal quote for the installation of speed humps and

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signs obtained by all driveway solutions the lowest responsive and responsible proposal and that it was proper source of procurement under Florida law that was in 2025 we passed that the only thing I'm doing now is saying hey which

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I didn't have to do is saying hey we already did the procurement we already had the three proposals, we chose all driveway solutions. I'm coming back a year later and saying that now that we used them, we already went through the proposals, we all went through the

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procurement, we chose them. Now I'm coming back looking at their work and saying, "Hey, we already agreed to the villagewide speed humps last year." I'm saying, hey, instead of going through the procurement process because they

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were the lowest, let's lock in their prices and let's continue with them. Now, whether we continue with them or we continue with one of the other two who were higher, much higher,

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the villagewide speed humps has already been done and decided back in 2025. I will also say that the reason why not only transparency matters me coming back and saying hey you guys which is never usually when we go through the procurement process and we choose

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somebody we choose that company that consulting group or whatever when do we ever come back and say hey let's look at their work and let's do another resolution to decide we want to keep them that's all I'm doing that's all I'm doing so

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I'm doing this for transparency purposes which I didn't have to do. Also, I would say that if you look at the one from 2025, it says a resolution of village Albertal Florida providing for installation of

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speed humps and signs villagewide providing for an incorporation of size provided for authorization providing an effective date. The village of Alberta is desirous of in installing speed humps and signs as a method of increasing traffic control and safety villagewide.

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It's 2025. Another reason why I'm bringing it now is because for the past year, I have residents over here, especially in this this part right here

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that are like, "Mayor, you promised us speed humps a year ago. Where are they?" So that's why I brought it back. And as I said in 2025, we already passed this. I didn't have to bring it back strictly for transparency purposes.

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Okay. The next thing is um for the uh TTO lot, we get to the code review, Mr. Bossy. For the tot um was no taxpayer dollars. Okay. Um, as far as the code review, you guys know about SB 180 that the the uh the

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governor passed a while ago in the legislation that says that we can't update our code. We did do remember that code thing we had here. We did the code workshops. Um, that got implemented right after that. Okay, that being the case though, there is a certain way that

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you can get around that. Um, being that that was passed while I was uh president of an organization which is uh which is recognized uh statewide, we can get around that. That being said, the architectural landscape and environmental

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board which some people said would have no teeth. A couple of months ago, we passed here because of the carveout that I have around 180 because of my position as uh president of the League of Cities. We

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have we passed that in the government in the village of upper child the government can no longer use the same individuals to cut down the tree as the same company for the arborist. We passed that a couple of months ago.

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That's large because up until a couple of months ago when we would have to cut down a tree, usually the person can use or we we would have to we could use the same company would be like, hey, we got the arborist also

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and we use the same arborist. And I was like, well, that seems like a conflict of interest because some of these trees, especially the large ones, they're are tens of thousands of dollars to cut down and and and and chip up, right? because they cut them down, then they send them through the little wood chipper.

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It's tens of thousands of dollars. So, it's a conflict of interest financially for the same company we're going to use to remove a tree to be the same company that provides the arborist report. Got rid of that through the architectural landscape and

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environmental board that I started. So, that's what's going with the code review. There's ways around it because of that um in that position um that I have and we can continue to talk about that. As far as uh Mr. Pace, the Westside Circle, I don't know if you saw

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this. Um I agree with you when it comes to the lights. Um I was over there a couple of nights uh last week. um right here on June 24th, 2026, 11:47 a.m. Um you might not have saw

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this, but you have two emails on this list on the response. So I wrote back uh this was to Mr. Carmelada, Lewis Carmelada. I said, "I hope that your day is going well." I said, "Good morning, Mr. Carla. I hope that your day is going well. We have been in contact with the senior representative of Leed

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Lighting Solutions, which is a government FPL company. We have also been speaking with the Miami Day County Department of Transportation and Public Works. They stated that the lighting installed was required at Northwest Second Avenue where the roundabout is located in the county right of way and

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not controlled by the village. After continuing to push them in quotes, push them um to understand the importance of them treating us correctly, they said that if we feel that it's too bright, then we should go to the county to ask

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for a reduction in lighting and explain why it's too bright. We have begun that process. I then go on to say, "We have been told that the county will send their engineers and technicians to evaluate the brightness complaints and if found

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valid, they can then recommend reducing the light intensity. Right now, they say the lights have been installed as per county requirements. What may also help is that is is if the complaints were also being expressed by

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those in the vicinity of the lights. Those households are also free to lodge to also free to um lodge brightness complaints with Miami date county department of transportation and public works. We will continue to in quotes

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stay on top of them and and advocate for all of you. If you would like to file a complaint with them, feel free to let me know and I can provide the email address for that. Regarding the construction debris, which was also a problem over there after they

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put that in from the light pole installation and sod that was destroyed and removed, FPL states that they have not informed the village that they have completed the work and cleanup yet. So, they were trying to say it's still a open ticket item. They haven't closed it yet. So, they're not done. We told them

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that if they are not yet finished, they should still leave the area clean and presentable between their work working days. We have requested to the FPL representatives to clean up. Um I told them that if there it's not cleaned up by Tuesday of um next week that uh then

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I'll we'll I'll lodge a a direct complaint official complaint against that and I I will clean up myself after that. But I'll put an official complaint in after that. All right. >> By Tuesday of next week. >> Um I'm going to get to the budget on the >> Yeah, go ahead. So just real quick on the lights. Uh the village should be

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petitioning the county to have blue lights there. That's it. Thank you very much, Council. Uh, as far as the come back because some of this police stuff the uh manager and the and the attorney have to answer because I don't

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know the answers to those you guys. Um, okay. Last thing I'll say before I turn to that stuff. Oh, uh, Miss Baza. Um, the reason why the police after they got the the uh the laser uh guns, for

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lack of a better term, the uh the speed solution devices, the reason why they concentrated on Northeast Second so much is because we had within like maybe a threemonth period, two month period, I think we had like two or three accidents

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there and that had never happened. Um, and so we noticed that a lot of the speeding on Northeast Second just because like you know it's it's it's that one lane, well it's two lanes, but it, you know, it's one then opens up for us right here,

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then it closes down again when it hits like Miami Shores. Because of that, I think people were, you know, they're like one behind the other when they're south of us and then when it opens up to the four lanes, they gun it before it goes back down to the two

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lanes when you hit Miami Shores. So because of that, we were finding that there was a large amount of speeding happening here and then like I said, we had three accidents. One was really bad um within like a two-month period, I think it was. And so that's why we concentrate on here to make sure we got

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that down. Um but we can put a speed watch order over there um for that, especially especially when school starts again, right? When people are, you know, gunning up and down that way uh to take their kids to school. What we what also helps out for speed watch orders you

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guys is if we kind of have an idea of um what day or time of day is the worst. If it's random then it's fine. We could put you know watch order over there. But what does help us out is if you you know people say sometimes oh traffic going to school or you know in between you know

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300 p.m. and whatever weekdays or oh weekends mayor on that helps out. But if it's random, then we can, you know, go over there um and see what we can find from there. From that point on, what I will say is uh uh Mr. Toppenfeld,

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just uh shake your head up or shake your head up and down in an agreement or shake your head side to side in disagreement. Um when I reached out to you a few weeks ago, didn't I reach out to you and say that I'm going to I might even let you finish this this comment.

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Come up to the mic real quick. Few weeks ago when we reach when I reached out to you, I said um I said, "Hey," I said, "Get me the current budget because I wanted to do what with it." What did I say I was going to do with it? >> You wanted I'm sorry. Uh Harry Tabberfeld, CFO of Village Mail Partell. You wanted to sit down review it uh so

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that we >> and I said I want to have to sit down review it for what purpose? What did I say? I said I want to have this. I said I want to find a way to put it in layman's terms so I can do what with it? >> Put it out to the residents. >> What I said to every single household. Correct. >> That is correct. >> So all the budget information current

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once I meet with him. Uh uh Mr. To, we're meeting Tuesday. Correct. >> That's correct. Once I meet with him, my flyer packets, I'm putting every single thing out, every single household, all the residents. And that's why I said I wanted in the

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most layman's terms so it's easy to understand. Okay. Already been working on that for about a month. Um, when it comes to the budget workshops, those we usually do in the end of August, beginning of September. This one will be

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moved up a few weeks as I said before um in August. Okay. So, we're gonna try to move it up in August. Um like it like it was correctly stated, Miami Shores is having two budget workshops in August. Uh and we're in the beginning of July. So, we were looking to do it in August

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anyway. Okay. But before that, as you just heard, I'm going to be putting out all of the budget information in a flyer packet on everybody's door um for all you guys to see. All right. Spelled out and kind of like labeled out everything. Okay. So, you guys see that? Um you want

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to say something before I go to the police? >> Uh yeah, I just wanted to ask uh follow up on where are we at with the current audit? And then uh additionally um we do need to address why there was not a

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budget review um in October or or early into this year. >> You mean after October? We we we passed the budget. Yes. So >> um I have the audit on here you guys. So I'm going to go I'm going to hit that also, but I was going to hit that with the um right before the police thing.

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Um, as far as the audit, the audit, uh, I believe that it's completed or almost complete. I know that there were some things that had to be turned in. Um, but we can get an update on that from the auditors, you guys. But it's pretty much done. The audit is done. Um, I believe

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everything was turned in. So, um, so we should be getting that back when we get that when we get that back. Uh the I know that the assessed value the assessment assessed value as you said as you heard that I'm going to be u meeting with the CFO on Tuesday and I've been working on getting all the information out to you so I can uh kind

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of decipher that. But the assessed value the final assessed value uh and this one right here CFO and ffell you can shake your head up or down yes or no. Didn't that come to us like yesterday or today? The final final say was it today? Yell out for me. >> Thank you very much. Um so I'm on top of

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it. Okay. I'm on top of all that type of stuff. Uh this is for mostly the manager and the attorney. So I used to be involved in the um police negotiations, the police contract. Um since I was

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mayor for some reason um manager, this started with manager. I can't necessarily blame manager Roseman about this. Um this started with manager. I for some reason in this last contract I was kept out of it.

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Okay. The only time that I would know that a meeting would be happening is when I would walk into village hall and a um staffer here would be like, "Mayor, why aren't you on the the the meeting?" I'd be like, "What meeting?" "The police

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negotiations meeting." I'd be like, "Nobody told me." And I used to be a part of all of them. So, I don't know what happened with that. So unfortunately these questions I cannot answer because they kept me out of it um completely. Um but and like I

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said this started with manager so I can't blame um manager Roseman for this. Um but when it comes to uh either attorney Geller, manager Roseman, when it comes to the police officers, do they have uh in the contract negotiation, do

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they have full health care or is the health care um is it part is it full is it full coverage is my question. Is it full coverage? Uh this may be more of a question for um our CFO um because these were elements

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that were negotiated before I I came on board. But there is partial um um negotiation. Um, we have walking u the um um

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the representative of the u of the um of the fraternity order of police or maybe even the chief can address the the exact coverage. But these were elements that were pretty much uh negotiated before my

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arrival. >> Uh who whoever knows the answer to that question? Um Mr. Mr. You want to come up? Whoever knows the answer to that question, can you just answer do do they have full healthcare coverage? >> While he's while he's coming up, just correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a

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this is the uh the end of a process that lasted three years or more. Uh >> I can give you history. >> Yeah, there we go. Please or some of it anyway. >> I think it is helpful to >> and enlighten uh enlighten everybody as as best as I can. So, typically the

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contract with the police department is a three-year contract. Uh, the village signs a a three-year agreement. Uh, the agreement uh expired uh last year uh this of I guess 2025. Uh prior to that,

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obviously, we were negotiating with the FOP uh uh for a three-year agreement to continue what's been uh going on here for um I guess as long as I as long as I've been here. Um unfortunately, uh things got in the way, I guess, with the

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manager leaving, onboarding a new manager, getting him up to speed, uh negotiating back and forth. uh seeing that the year was almost done, we both parties felt it was best to go with a one-year contract uh for this year and

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then sit down and start again and go back to what we normally do is a three-year uh negot. So, the goal again is to do a one-year contract this year and then follow that up with a three-year contract. Uh the only change that you have for this one

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year is the 5% increase. uh from the prior year contract. So everything rolled over with the exception of a 5% increase which the commission approved at the prior year budget. So that's really the only one change. >> And the healthare

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>> as far as health care goes uh the village does not does offer healthcare uh to the um officers a percentage uh off the top of my head I don't recall what it is. >> Is it full coverage? It is not full coverage and we do charge uh it's we do charge if they do want to add any

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dependence to the employee that I know is certain but uh I'm almost certain also it's not full coverage what the percentages off top of my head I I don't recall >> uh before you walk away uh Mr. Tomfeld I know that the ticket money uh Mr. here. I know that the ticket money doesn't go to the general budget stays in the

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police budget. Correct. What >> part? Most of it goes to the Well, everything flows into the general fund. So, the police fun the police budget is part of the general fund. So, the revenue goes into the general fund. Um, and as well as the >> but but the ticket money I thought could

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only be used for public safety. >> That is correct. >> Public safety items. So, it can't be used for like the top lot. It can't be used for it can only be used for public safety items. >> Police related >> police related items. So it kind So that's why I mean like it stays kind of in their budget. Correct. Basically.

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>> All right. Thank you very much. >> Um go ahead attorney gather and then we're going to move because the first item is the police. >> I am but just to to finish a question that you answered. Um, you are an unusually active mayor and

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everybody knows it and you deserve all the credit in the world for all the many things you do. And it is a fact. I mean, I've been here long enough to know you've been in the past were very active in helping us achieve labor peace. But

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at some point in looking at it, it got very contentious for a little while there. And that's one of the reasons I mean when people say it should have been done sooner, it's not like negotiations weren't ongoing, but there were real

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issues and the biggest of them was the budget issue and what the village could afford. Everybody's in favor of having strong law enforcement, but you also got to keep the streets paved and pick up the garbage and and other things. And

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there were real budget issues that weren't settled. They're not completely settled, but at least they have a better idea. And that's why this was entered into after the previous agreement expired. It wasn't that there weren't

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negotiations before. There were a lot. They just didn't come to conclusion. But in the course of that process, it was determined that whatever the administration basically the manager and the CFO

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with the assistance of my office. My partner actually did most of this one was going to be presented to the village council for a vote such as we're doing tonight. And to avoid any complications,

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there were some issues with the the police union that having you as part of the villages negotiating team might impact how you would vote as a council member. So to protect you, to

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protect the village, to protect the union, to protect the residents. Everybody wants labor peace and not attorneys fees being spent in Tallahassee. It was determined that it would be cleaner to not have you part of the

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negotiating team so you could be in the same position as your colleagues on the council when it's presented to you for a vote. It's not that you couldn't do it or hadn't done it or weren't good at it, but this way it's presented to you and

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you can look at it completely independently from having been a part of the villages negotiating team as you'd been in the past. So, no reflection on you, just a matter of keeping everybody in their lane. And the one year,

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frankly, was the union's suggestion. We always try to do three, but there were some budget shocks this year, as I'm sure all of you know. And so the one year was a stop gap, but the standard is

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still to do three years. As soon as this is approved, frankly, we're going to go right back and start negotiating so that hopefully we could have a new three-year agreement in place by the time this one expires. But if it takes a little

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longer, it takes a little longer. And the important thing is to get it done. And that's what the manager and the CFO and and my partner managed to get done this time. They got it done. And we don't have to waste money on litigating

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with our union. We have labor peace. Uh provided, of course, the junior colleagues approve the CBA. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. I'm go to Council President Urban to close it out, but um let me just say, Mr. pulium. Um, I'll talk to the building supervisor um, with the manager and we'll see what new

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procedures or whatever they have to implement based on that new law, that new state law, and we'll get that updated. So, I appreciate that. You close it out for us. >> Uh, just very quickly based on uh, the input from the attorney, I would it sounds to me like as we uh, plan for a threeyear my as questions start to come

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to me like can we do a fiveyear, sevenyear, is this right? So, right. So, I believe we've had these discussions before, but out of the input you've just given us, I feel like we would be uh perhaps ready as a council to have an executive session regarding this matter

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so that the manager uh the mayor, the council would be able to, you know, this would an executive meeting would uh session would essentially u uh become public record at some point. The full meeting will become public. >> For the record, if I might, mayor. Yes.

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Through the mayor. Um once you approve tonight that the existing one that goes back for the beginning of this fiscal year um I'll put on the record which is a prerequisite that the attorney's

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office is requesting at the appropriate time with the manager's input an executive session to talk to the council about our negotiating posture for the next CBA. BA, which we hope is three

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years. And let me just say, anytime you do that, you're looking in a crystal ball thinking how much money you're going to have, not this year. It's hard enough to know that, how much you're going to have three years from now. If you try to do that for five or seven,

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there's just no no way. even the three with the way they're acting in Tallahassee now and I rail on that every time hostile to home rule hostile to the cities >> um it's impossible to predict >> but we got to try and so I'll put on the

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record sir at as you've requested we are calling formally for an executive session to discuss with the council our negotiating posture for the next agreement hopefully a three-year agreement at the appropriate time. It would

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probably be best after the manager reaches out and we get some idea of what the union is looking for, we can come back to you, talk to you about it, and see how you feel and what you think should be our posture going into

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negotiations. I'll just leave it as uh my desire for a more lengthy agreement is uh is to provide an environment of stability for uh for you know uh our folks who face the highest level of hazard within the jobs that they perform

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for the village. So uh that stability uh is uh incredibly helpful to uh have the outcomes that we would hope for. >> Thank you very much, Council President. Moving right along to the resolutions, you guys. Um, attorney Geller, if you can read that first resolution to the record for us at CBA.

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>> Yes, sir. >> Item F1, a resolution of the village council of Alpert, Florida, authorizing the execution of the collective bargaining agreement with Fraternal Order of Police effective October 1st, 2025 through September 30th, 2026, providing for

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authorization and providing for an effective date. Mayor, I I apologize. There is a request to read into the record before proceedings a very brief statement by an absent councilman. So I'll I'll do that if that's the pleasure

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of of the body. >> Uh we we've never done that before. Uh we've never done that before, but yeah, you can go ahead and do it for sure. >> It's let me say it's not point of automatic >> just a point of order. Would would it be more appropriate to read it aloud during the council discussion on the item?

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Well, he references two items. >> Fair enough. >> So, that's why I thought before we vote on either, it's quite shorter. Uh, to be clear, good. >> If this was three pages, I would note it and maybe excerpt it, but never read it, but it's just a couple paragraphs and I

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read fast, so I'm going to do that here. It's from Councilman Wyers. Um, I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, despite trying to rearrange my travel plans, I'm still at the airport and not land until 7 PM and can't attend a meeting. As I stated in the record at

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last week's council meeting, I understand and appreciate the need for a special meeting to address the time-sensitive police collective bargaining item that was inadvertently emitted from

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previous agenda. So for the record um and then he said if possible I respectfully request following statement be read into the record on my behalf. For the record he is not have any adverse comment to this first item and I just thought that should be read before

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we do the item. He does say the following. I respectfully object to considering the speed hump agenda item during this special council meeting. Unlike the police collective bargaining item, this matter does not appear to require the same time-sensitive consideration. Whether this agenda item

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is for payment of the previously approved speed hump project or an additional appropriation or another action related to that project, I believe it'd be more appropriate for it to be considered at the next regularly scheduled council meeting um when all

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council members have the opportunity to participate. uh if this item is simply payment for work that was approved approximately 15 months ago. I respectfully question why this is now why it has now become so timesensitive that I cannot wait until the regular next regular meeting. If there's a

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legitimate reason for that urgency, I would welcome the explanation during the public discussion. I also wish the record to reflect that I do not support expanding or making additional expenditures on traffic control infrastructure while existing traffic control devices remain

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um pardon me still in a meeting call you shortly. Um while exist uh on ex traffic control infrastructure while existing traffic control devices

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remain inadequately uh maintained. We've previously discussed on the record that several speed feedback signs remain inoperable due to bad failed batteries and other traffic signs throughout the village have deteriorated to the point that they are faded or difficult to reach before investing additional public

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funds on new traffic control devices. I believe the village should first demonstrate that it can properly maintain the infrastructure it already exists. Thank you for your consideration. I request your assistance and ensuring my comments are included in the public record while I'm unable to attend. That is the entire statement and

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I just I will note that the mayor has already addressed these items at some length in respond to response to public comments and offered some of the explanations that were requested. >> With that said, we mayor, you're >> eligible to move forward with

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consideration of item F1, the resolution to approve the collective bargaining agreement. >> Absolutely. And just for the record, what council person Winters doesn't understand is that um he voted for this last year, the village speed humps. I

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remember that that meeting. So, okay. Thank you very much. Um so, we're right. So, he read this resolution for the the contract for the police. Before I open it up to the um audience, is there anything on the council you guys want to say about the police contract?

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>> Well, I mean, I uh I'm prepared to uh move to approve this item. >> Thank you very much. Um, I'm going open up for you guys for the police contract. Uh, you guys come say your name and address for the record. This is about the police contract itself. Um, and you

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have three minutes, you guys. >> Okay. I mean, given the explanations that we've had um as far as the kind of the the one-year gap, I don't have any specific issues I would say with that, but I think kind of ties into the

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continued negotiations um for a longer term deal. And then as we talked about all the items on the budget, I mean, I think last time I looked um the uh and the police department was about 40% of the budget for um believe it's over 50.

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>> Oh, it's 60%. You're right. I had my I had my percent 60%. And so I think, you know, given that um I just in terms of what we're doing for, you know, long-term pay adjustments, how we're planning to expand the force, how thing what the ticket revenue is being used

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for, uh transparency around all that and then just keeping it kind of uh open for comment and feedback in terms of like our priorities as the city. I think our existing force does a great job, but there's always natural turnover um in the force. And so I think it's it's a

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question of like do we need to start like replace or keep hiring people or expand you know budgets and personnel um based on the limited amount of money that we have and what the needs of uh the village are. Um just because it's a

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you know we're we're lucky and it's credit to you guys that we have a safe community. Um but Miami keeps getting you know safer and safer. We obviously need great law enforcement. Um, but we also have no money in this town. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Police contract. Someone else.

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Ian McKenzie, 8950 Northeast 4th Avenue. I still don't understand if this contract includes health care for them. I do see it says every other year they can get an exam or physical but you know I'm in healthcare and I firmly believe

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that people should have health care coverage in some sort of form and I used to work for an insurance company years and years ago and I know there's different plans you can negotiate different out-ofpockets um uh contributions from the employer uh

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deductibles things like that that can all be negotiated or figured out some sort of thing. So I'd like to ask the chief of police, do you have health care? >> Whoever wants it. >> Whoever wants it. So they contribute and do we contribute as part of the the

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thing? >> Okay. Because the way I read this contract, it says, you know, they would provide in the contract um an exam uh every other year and uh whatever ultrasounds or imaging type things that

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are necessary, but it doesn't go into and then it talks about insurance and other things like that, but it doesn't say specifically whether officers have, you know, a healthcare where let's say they get sick, they can go to the doctor and they may have to pay a co-ayment or something like that but they are

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covered. So I just am concerned about that part. >> Okay. So there is coverage that is paid for. Okay. So that's that's the answer to my question. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Next next up for about the police contract.

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Alexandra Vasa 120 Northwest 36 Street. Um I just I'm not sure if I'm not understanding correctly. So today is appro you're approving or disapproving the uh agreement that started in October.

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>> So last will be retroactively effective to to October. Yes. >> So this will go until this coming October. >> It will go until this coming October. So now you're going to start negotiating the one that is going to be for another year or another three years.

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>> Yes. Yeah. They'll start negotiating this is as from what I understand but you can ask I mean they can answer that. I'm not part of it. So >> Okay. Yeah. No I I heard that part. Uh so the question is um I know that we were we went back and forth you know a

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lot um about how it it was my position last year that the salary should be a bigger compar component of the budget as opposed to cars or other items in that

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for the police budget. uh you know, assault weapons and things that I think are overkill for our town. >> Uh so if I know that you're going to present like a more detailed part of the budget next year, next week.

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>> So that's kind of what I wanted to see so we can review it for the next uh >> negotiation. Thank you. >> I see what you're saying. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I understand. Thank you, Miss Buzz. I see what you're saying. She's saying the budget itself because the budget is the one that lists the

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line items. So in the police budget, the line items will be listed in the budget, right? Salaries, cars, whatever they use. And what she's saying is the negotiators. So she's basically talking about the manager, the attorney, um CFO. So you guys need to basically

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look at the budget and understand the different line items and kind of like where you want to prioritize or put like the weight so that when you go to negotiations it reflects that basically is what she's trying. >> Yes. Go ahead. Floor is yours.

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>> Hi Denise White 173 Northwest 88 Street. I've been working on that Tom. Um what you call it? Uh, so, so when I looked at the budget and I'd be worried about, you know, the fact that we don't have any money, I'd be like, that's crazy.

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But then when Day County did I'm a teacher, so when Day County did their thing and they told us, well, the governor said he's not giving a lot to public education, so they don't know what they're going to do. And we were faced with not having a raise.

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I was a little distressed. So, I can understand civil servants who are concerned about the fact that maybe they're not going to get a rate because Miami date and I know I know we just got to do better about getting some money or

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making money. I'm not sure how because you know we got Adam Newman looming over our head and he might be nonprofit but we got to do better at making money because civil servants people who serve I am a teacher I am one who serves and

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if they county say they can't give me no raise next year I'mma have a problem. So I can only imagine how my police brethren have a problem. But I will say y'all make more money than us. But at the same time,

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every year cost of living goes up. So for us to say, well, we have a very safe village and we're not being and I don't think we should be majorly competitive, but somewhat competitive so that the people who are here and the police officers who

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have invested in our little town, if we keep changing people, that's not going to be good for us. They not going to know us. They're not going to know, you know, that Mr. So and so's dog gets out every now and then, but it's okay. He don't got to, you know, arrest Mr. So and So because these officers have been

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here for a little while. I mean, I don't know anybody a lot of them, but I know that when I go to the park, there are some that open that door up at 6:00. >> They were doing it earlier. I liked it when y'all do it earlier, but no stress. No stress, fellas.

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So, that's just mine. And I do know that we have a budget problem. I'm quite aware of our budget problem, but then we have to do better together to find the monies that we need to make sure that

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Elportell Slave safe. Yes. Amen. >> Thank you very much. Just a quick reminder, Florida is 50th 50th uh in the US for teacher pay. 50th. >> Thank you very much, Council President. Uh anybody else for the police budget? I

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mean police contract, you guys. Greg Steer, 120 Northwest 86 Streets. just real quick. I mean, this budget contract is basically over, so I think it's would be a good idea to just move on it, but in the future, I think we

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should be negotiating. Uh, I think three-year contract is pretty ambitious considering everything that's happening or could be happening in the village. Uh, but that is a contract that we should already, I think, be talking about instead of waiting uh until it's

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half almost already finished. 60% of the budget on public safety seems really high to me. Uh considering the level of crime which is trending downward not just countywide but statewide uh nationally as well. Crime is going

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down has been going down for over a decade. Uh I'd also think it would be very helpful to actually see the actual salaries in the interest of transparency. That's something that's missing. uh and also the report some sort of report on the fiscal impact of

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this contract on the budget. I'd like to take a closer look at what we're actually spending on vehicles on equipment. As several people have pointed out, we don't have a lot of room for error. There's no money in the bank. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you very

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much. Scott Cobri, uh 400 Northeast 85th Street. Hello. Um so yeah, I uh am all for uh the uh definitely having the police department. Um, and uh I just

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wanted to uh I was I wasn't even planning to say anything about it, but I just heard that uh it's the 60% of the budget. And I my house was actually broken into um a couple weeks ago. I woke woke up into somebody in my bedroom

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uh with a mask and a flashlight um in in right right down the street here. I woke up at 2 am the to somebody in my bedroom. Um, and uh, they uh, my air conditioning was broken, so I had left my windows open. Um, so I did believe

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that it was a little bit safer and and in a safe neighborhood, but um, anyway, I I woke up immediately. I chased them out of the house. Um, they left their while I was chasing them, they left their Crocs um, by like they kicked off

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their Crocs. Um, and afterwards the the police uh responded very quickly, which was great. And I think it's very important to have uh the the benefit of of that uh as I've dealt with city of

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Miami police where it takes way longer. Um, and the response time was really really great. Um and uh the one thing that that brings to my that I wanted to mention though is with respect to the budget um because afterwards um as a

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followup to the investigation, I had wanted the uh police department to take the Crocs for evidence um and uh for DNA um and and also to uh enter my watch

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into a uh a very popular uh database called leads online uh which basically has any pawn shop because I think I forgot to mention my watch was stolen um and uh would notify any pawn shop any

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pawn shop that would get the watch the police department would be notified within 24 hours um of that serial number. So, uh, I was told that, you know, we we don't really have the equipment or money, um, or, um, any

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maybe, um, you know, coordinating coordination with the county or anything like that to a get, uh, DNA on on the Crocs. Uh, well, I actually think I was told that because I handled them um and moved them uh, outside that uh, that

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that that might have impacted it. Um- but as far as the watch and the subscription, um it does seem like something that we should be able to have access to as a village if 60% of our budget is uh going towards that. So

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anyway, uh thank you very much. Uh that's my comment and thank you to the police department for everything you do. Uh thank you. >> Thank you. Uh Mr. Cob, have you had followup on any of those items? Uh yes, I did uh speak to uh um Sergeant

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Gutierrez. Um and uh and uh you know, he he informed me of some some of where where we were at. Um but uh the the uh disappointing thing is that we don't have access to the leads online and that

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there's no sub like we don't have a subscription or coordination with any >> I'm sorry to interrupt mayor but it's not appropriate for the ongoing police investigation to be discussed publicly and information could be revealed that would be counter to the ability of the

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police to do their job. No disrespect to anybody, but I I do have to interrupt that. I'm sorry. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Oh, I hope Mr. Cobra, you're getting the help that you need. I can see. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Anybody else for a police contract? Uh,

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good and welfare or public comment. Daniel Roa, 60 Northeast 86 Street. Uh just uh I guess going back on the budget, uh I know in the previous budget we had set aside a certain amount for the salaries. Just want to make sure it reconciles with the amount that is in

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the agreement. Uh just to make sure all all officers actually line up with this this amount. And then also I think I'll end up uh with Greg um uh with respect that there's no actual details given on on

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salary or base pay per position and what the differences are for the different positions there if there's any any differences between lieutenant and a captain and things like that. Uh and uh yep I just uh thank you to Mr. Ger for

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clearing up that negotiations are going to happen soon for the next one. That'll be very important. And uh that's about it for me. Thank you on this one. >> Thank you very much, Mr. House. Anyone else? Police contract. Going once,

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going twice, going three times. All right, you guys bring back the council. any other uh comments or questions you guys have? >> Uh just to reiterate that um uh that

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I'll try and be succinct here. Okay. So to uh Mr. Steer's point of the uh low number of arrests, um I would hope that going forward all law enforcement would start to look more towards like white collar crimes and things like that. And

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uh um so I would hope that we would have a police department that would be able to be of assistance uh for kind of um uh uh a more of those crimes, especially as um uh the growth of Miami is going to be bringing in uh more scammers and things

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like this, right? Uh I fundamentally believe that if you don't want an officer having an envelope of money in his pocket, then you compensate that officer. You provide a benefit package that is adequate to that officer. Um you

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give them the uh dignity in that so that they uh come to work and do the right thing every day. Uh it is uh very much a people business. Um my the people business I worked in for 25 years is food service and uh and so within all of

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that you understand uh so I'm talking bars and restaurants right so people drinking and thing I mean I've just been around alcohol and drugs for 25 years essentially right so in all of that you get to know uh different aspects of uh

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law enforcement as well and so uh I just fundamentally believe that you must uh have a uh a compensation package that gives you the things you believe. Now a small village like us, I believe there's an opportunity for us to be we might

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have younger people coming in and uh they uh you know our ambition to uh go uh do big things uh and things of this effect. I don't see why we couldn't be a village where we have essentially a training program uh with uh uh officers

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with experience being uh you know matched with some younger officers and having a uh a department knowing that we're not going to be able to keep everyone. So, within the restaurant business, the biggest argument that I had with the owner of the place I was

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working or the GM uh as I got into supervisory and management roles, I would the thing I would go head-to-head with the owner of a company over most often was time spent on training staff because there is no industry on earth that has a higher turnover rate than the

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hospitality industry. So the question becomes, why why should I spend time training anybody at my restaurant if I know they're going to be gone in three months, six days, five months, 10 months, most won't make a year. Because

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if you have it as an industry standard and you participate in an industry standard, then you have a larger, more talented, more skilled base to get employees from. So, so it doesn't

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concern me so greatly in terms of turnover more than I would want to have a plan for that turnover, understanding that it's something that's going to happen. Uh, and so having these ideas of wanting to discuss these things, we

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cannot under sunshine laws discuss these things without an executive session, which is why that was my request earlier. >> Thank you very much. Um, any last questions or comments before I go to a vote? Very good. Do I have a motion to approve the CBA police agreement? So move.

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>> Moved by Council Person Lightoot Ward. >> I'll second. >> Second by Council Person. M clerk, I please have a roll call, please. >> Roll call. Lightoot Ward. >> Yes. >> Council person Bomb. >> Yes. >> Mayor Nickerson. >> Yes.

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>> Motion passes three to nine. >> Thank you very Mayor item F2, a resolution of the village council of Alpert, Florida, providing for installation of speed humps and signs, providing for incorporation of recital, providing for authorization, and providing for an effective date. >> Thank you very much. Um, before I open it up, is there any other discussion?

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Let me just say really quickly, um, after Council Person Winter's, uh, thing that he said, um, which he did vote for it last year, but let me just say, uh, you know, respectfully, I didn't mean that to be disrespectful, you know, you can change your vote. Um, even though you voted for something, you can't change your mind later on. We all have

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that option. All right. Um, any questions or comments from the council before I open up to the audience? >> All right. And, uh, for the audience, yeah, go ahead. For the speed humps, >> Timbosity 149 Northeast 89th. Um, totally understand your point. Um, Mayor

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Omar around proved last year, but I mean, I think it doesn't necessarily mean we have to >> spend the money, lock ourselves into something now. A lot has changed obviously in the last >> you know year and a half um with what could come here in terms of you know traffic with with flow traffic

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potentially the school other development and so I think and um to your point around yeah absolutely we get funding in for other things that aren't from our taxpayer dollars um but there are yeah sometimes very specific ways we can use it sometimes more broad and general ways

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that we can use it and so I I think even if this is something that has been, you approved and we think is ultimately a great idea. Like I I from my perspective, I think ultimately more speed humps is probably fantastic. Um I wouldn't disagree with the original uh

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with the original motion there, but I'm more saying like we have a lot going on right now and we don't really know. We we're a little bit fine blind as far as budget, as far as all the things going on. To me, it seems like not the time to spend or lock ourselves into spending

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more money on things like that that we might have to we might want to rip up in a year because it doesn't fit a comprehensive traffic plan based on everything else that's going on. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I'll respond after all of you speak.

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>> Hello, Ian McKenzie, 8950 Northeast 4th Avenue. I agree with the previous speaker um totally. Um I'd also further like to read something from this section where it says section two approval that the village council approves all driveway driveway solutions to continue

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speed hump and sign installation and authorize the expenditure of funds necessary to carry out our future speed hump and sign installation. So by that I take it and our attorney can certainly

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comment on this as this is a contract to say that you can go ahead and carry out and pay and do these things and I caution you about that because before we even know what money we have, we should really look at that and vote no. I

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encourage you to vote no on this. You can always revisit it. And also I've learned in negotiating things in contracts and things in business over 40 years that if a price that they've quoted you is good, great. Doesn't mean

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you have to take it. If they don't want to offer that or extend that at a future date, then there probably was something going on or some changes and there would be some shortcuts taken or something. So, you know, don't let the price the

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fact, oh my god, I'm going to lose out because you never know what you can get from somebody else maybe if you re open up the bid again and so forth. So, uh they could even give you a better price because they may realize they didn't get the bid the first time. So, um you know,

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I just I think it's really um and I'm not against speed bumps in any way. In fact, I was the one who suggested putting in speed bumps before spending a $1.7 million on a traffic circle that uh looks like nothing kind of if you look at it. And I've been around that area.

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So, um uh the other thing for the traffic circle, you can also take a light meter and use the light meter to gauge how bright the lights are and compare it to other things and that would provide substantial documentation for, you know, arguing for a dimming of the lights if needed. So anyhow, those

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are just some of the thoughts. Thank you. >> Thank you very Thank you very much. >> Next for speed humps. >> Alexandra Basa um 120 Northwest 86 Street. I understand that the the um project was approved last year, but at

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the same time I know that there were changes within the budget that were not expected as you know like the income that was supposed to come from the project uh in Kabista that changed. So those adjustments need to be taken into consideration. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Denise, 173 Northwest 88th Street. I just have a question. Why we need steep bumps if we got the roundabout? I thought the roundabout was supposed to make it so that people slowed down because we asked for speed bumps and

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they told us no, we couldn't handle speed bumps or something like that. So then we couldn't get no speed bumps. So, if we got the roundabout, ooh, the $700,000 roundabout, he was $500,000 was a match grant, but we ended up paying700,000.

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Something like that. Anyway, I'm not completely sure, but I think that's how it went. So, I just want to know, well, why we got to have speed bumps? I mean, it's not like we big like Miami Shores, so we don't got to do everything Miami Shores does.

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We have speed bumps on 86 already and then oh my gosh there goes that crazy budget again. Yeah, I think we should rethink that because we did pass the roundabout that nobody wanted. So I think we should just rethink that. That's just my opinion. You can't trust

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nobody wearing a tutu. But that's my opinion. Back. Anybody else for the speed humps? Speed humps going once. Daniel Roas, 60 Northeast 86 Street. Uh, I just wanted to ask what the total contract value for this phase of the

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speed bump project would be. >> $17,000. >> 17,000. And then um and so it's a non-competitive bid. >> It went through the procurement. I can read the thing off of the um last year's

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re resolution again. >> Right. Right. Right. So, so and then we are satisfied with the work that they did and hence we want to keep them. >> We are I believe all your neighbors love the speed humps. I hear I hear from from Miss Miss Kraken Bush. I hear from uh

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Terry. You know, >> much better than what we have before. It's still people try to speed in between the speed bumps which is not the most efficient >> but from what it used to be >> better than before. Yes. So, I appreciate that. I'm grateful for the speed bumps. Just want to make sure we had clarification on on on those little items that weren't visible to us. But

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thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you very very much. >> Anyone else for the speed humps? All right. Going once. Going twice. Speed humps. Going three times. All right. So, the first thing

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I'm going to say is this. What was being argued is not what's up for tonight. Right. The speed humps were passed last year. The second where is this for the villagewide speed humps.

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The village of Alpert has reviewed three proposals copies of which are attached here too and finds that the proposed quote for the installation of speed humps and signs obtained by all driveway solutions is the lowest responsive and responsible proposal and that is the

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proper source of procurement under Florida law. Like I said, all I'm doing for transparency reasons is coming back here and saying, "Hey, instead of which

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we have every right to do, instead of me just popping up with speed humps two months from now or next week or tomorrow, what I'm saying is is that

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all driveway speed humps that have been down, right, that are satisfactory to the residents where they are over the past year. We've looked at their work, we've studied their work, we reviewed their work, their work is

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satisfactory. All this does tonight is say, "We've studied their work. We reviewed their work. their work is satisfactory. If I didn't have if I didn't have the tonight's thing

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from last year, I can put in a speed bump tomorrow. I can put in a speed bump next week. I can put in a speed bump two months from now. Resolutions don't expire after one year, five years, 10 years.

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And it's interesting because something told me because I say people always say transparency more transparency more transparency and I said you know what I was sitting there writing a resolution. I said I can be transparent. This is never done because usually when you go through the

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procurement process you just do whatever the procurement results are. That's what you do. Like we have for example we use cap government. We use, you know, different consultants. We use Corodino Group. We've never come back

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with a resolution and say, "Hey, for Corodino Group, I have a resolution that we're going to use them for the next two months." We never do that. But everybody wants more transparency. So, that's what I try to do.

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But was was done though was done last year. Now, this right here, what we're doing tonight, that doesn't mean that we have to put speed bumps out tomorrow. I did this one. We did this one last

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year. I put some speed bumps out. I didn't put them out for the rest of year. Why? because of things you guys brought up. Budget, where we are now, what are our priorities? Oh, but this one last year, I could have put down a 100 speed humps over the past

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year. So, it's already done. I'm just trying to be more transparent as far as the work that was done. We've looked at it. We reviewed it. It's satisfactory. So maybe we won't put

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another speed hump down for three more years, but we going through the procurement process. uh questions, comments from the council. >> So, it's not that I'm against speed bumps, it's that um I have low confidence in competent execution of

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speed bumps. What I mean by that is uh I want to understand what thought was put into the harmonics of the road that the speed bumps going to be put on matched with the shape and material of the speed bump. So on Park Drive here,

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for example, uh you can clear that speed bump down there that's 5 mph listed, which you will regret if you're at 10 or 15. But, uh, as I've said before at multiple meetings, uh, 40 to 45 miles an hour on

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that long straight there is actually, uh, uh, just about as easy on your vehicle as five. There's a leadup where you can accomplish 40 to 45 miles an hour on park drive. Other streets, there may not be such, you know, uh, lead time from

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it. Uh, I do find the speed bumps over Miami Shores to be effective. They're plateaus. You rise up onto the plateau and then drop down off the other side of the plateau. Um, as someone who is a master of pine tree drive at 45 miles an

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hour without hurting my suspension, let me explain to you that the speed bumps in Miami Shores with the plateau are effective, far more effective than anything they've ever put on Pine Tree. Uh, I did now Tiger Tail, okay, in in Coconut Grove. I don't know if many of

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you familiar with the entirety of Tiger Tale, but there is one intersection. It's not a speed bump. It's offset teardrop concrete formations that are actually quite small. Footprint of like, I don't know, like less than 10 square feet, 12 square feet each, something

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like that. But they're offset in the middle of the intersection. They accomplish a safe island for a pedestrian. they accomplish breaking up a dead straight path through multiple blocks without any interruption from a stop sign or other. Uh and so, you know,

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it's easy to just find yourself with the natural progression of the road. You'll be at 60 m an hour by the time you get down to uh the stop sign at I forget what it is, but I want to say 17th Avenue. The point being that there are

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multiple options for either breaking up a straightaway, which accomplishes slowing down traffic on a road that has straightaways, and then again, which speed bump is going exactly how it's designed, where exactly on the street it's placed because of the momentum that

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is accomplished from wherever the person's most recent stop point is, you know, to where they're to where the next stop point is on a street, however long that is, and however However straight it is, the longer and straighter, the higher speed you have. I mean, I grew up

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on I70 V8. They didn't make a V8 that could even go fast enough on a 70. The road is designed for a car to be going at literally like close to 200 miles an hour. There's there's 170 mile rated turns on I70. You know, it was a

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fantastically fun road to grow up driving on, but it's um it's engineered specifically to accomplish incredibly rapid caravans of incredibly, you know, massive vehicles, right? Well, Elortal is a little different. We don't need I

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10 running through Elportal. We already have 95. The point being that uh that I'm not against speed bumps. I just want to know that what we're putting in uh has data that I mean there's established

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databases on on what's going to happen uh or what can be accomplished to overcome a speed bump. And then I will maintain that Plurbia the resilient streets project that they've offered us. Um, I do believe that there is a mathematical path to accomplishing a

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labyrinth of one-way streets in Elporttow, which would accomplish a villagewide traffic uh, speed mediation because locals will understand how to navigate it and outsiders will be confused by it and will stay out. So my

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I maintain that the most efficient thing we can possibly do is uh is uh I mean Miami Shores is not going to tear down the walls that they built, you know, for racial reasons back in uh whenever they did. That's it doesn't that's not that's

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not a a a an efficient path to then start to decide what we're going to do once those streets would be open. So I maintain that I am in favor of Elportal the Labyrinth. Thank you very much, Council President Urban. Um, have you have you read over have you

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ever rode over to the west side and went over those speed bumps over there? >> Uh, yeah. Yes, they're effective, but those are actually uh uh they're almost too effective, meaning that it's like you're punishing the locals with with sometimes with speed

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bumps like that. like the there is a factor of um do you punish everybody to address you know a small percentage of violators essentially and so um I'm not a fan of punitive speed bumps >> yeah I mean I wouldn't consider them

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punitive I would consider them they work right and they're and they they bring safety to the uh to the speeders that are there so the kids can play outside >> park drive works but there are people who have learned that it's better for their car at 45 miles an hour that is and then the expectation around that

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speed bump is five. So when you have an offset expectation of speed versus reality, this is how you get a pedestrian hit uh which would be worst case scenario and then everything below that. So so uh so I believe that uh that

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that's what I'm speaking to. So so yeah. No, I hear you. I would just say that if we feel like >> Yeah, I hear you. I hear No, I hear you. I hear you on brother. I would say that if we feel like

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speed humps, which we passed last year villagewide, if we feel like that's something that we want to continue, whether it's a year from now, three years from now, five years from now, resolutions don't expire, um

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then there's nothing against continuing to solidify that the work that was done was quality work for us. Now, what I can also do, which I'm not

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sure if you know if I would do it, um, to be transparent, is every time I put in a single speed hump from now on, I can do I can just bring it back to the council, you know, even though it's I don't have to, right? Because we already voted for

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village wide. But if you know if it's going to be the same argument for every individual speed hump then I I don't know. >> Right. So you'd want to have a prescribed plan already of what types of bumps where you'd want to have and

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>> which was already done in in in last year. Right. Everything was already done last year. The attachment to last year show it had everything. So well we're so I would move to table this to October

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so that the budget would be in uh we would have clarity on the budget. I think that is uh probably the single uh largest concern across the board seems to be. Uh and then additionally in

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that time uh there would be the ability for uh the public to understand uh what is going where and so that is my motion to table this to October uh for those purposes. I disagree with that but is a motion on the table. Is

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there a second? We have a motion on the table. We need a second to the motion. Going once, going twice, three times. Motion fails for a lack of a second. Is there another motion?

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for the resolution. You move your motion for the resolution. Council person. >> Yes, >> we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second going once. >> The collective bargaining agreement with fraternal order of police effective. >> We did that. Have a second.

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>> We did that. We did that. Council person. We're on the one of the speed humps right now. >> Okay. So, one is already done. >> Yeah, we're done. >> All right. So, the resolution on the El providing for instation humps. >> Yes, that's providing. >> Yes.

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>> And we're talking about this. I can't get anybody to go. >> We have a second going once. >> We have a second going twice. We have a second going three times. Uh, fails for lack of a second. Motion fails. Do I have another motion of any sort?

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>> Okay. Do I have no motion? I have no motion beyond what I've already presented. So I would only be >> okay >> making the same motion. >> So we have a no motion. Um >> no motion. No motion going once. No motion going twice.

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No motion. We have no motion on F2. Let's move to agenda item G1. Uh Attorney Geller. Yes sir. Agenda item D1 as I discussed with the council at the last meeting is the regarding our joining the proposed property tax

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constitutional amendment challenge. I've circulated um some correspondence from an attorney at Weiss Serota and a copy of the lawsuit that they filed. Um, we frequently get the opportunity to

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join some litigation against some misguided thing that the state legislature does. As a former member of that body, I feel comfortable using that description of their actions. They're they're not helpful often. Can't say

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always, but often certainly to a city of our size trying to survive. Um that said, most often when we get the opportunity to join such a lawsuit, it comes with a price tag. And you know,

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$10,000 to contribute to the costs is not all the money in the world, but it's a heck of a lot more affordable if you're the city of Miami or the city of Hyia or some other city that has a lot

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of money that's not us. This is unique because it's being funded by a nonprofit corporation. And so we've been in invited to join as a party plaintiff for free.

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I like free. Free is good. Free doesn't cost anybody here any money. The only possible downside I could see if the suit completely failed. I suppose someone could move for costs against the

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plaintiffs. Um hopefully the nonprofit would cover that as well. Even if it didn't, I don't see this as a very high cost case. Even getting an award of costs wouldn't necessarily be simple. But frankly, there's not a lot of

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depositions. There's not a lot of experts. This is pretty much presenting the language, arguing it before the court. So it's a relatively lowcost case. Based on that, I see little, not zero, but little possibility that worst

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case it could cost us any money. And in all likelihood, we just get to lend our voice to it. And of course, if that passes as written, it would be devastating to this village. I recommend to you that we join the lawsuit

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free of charge. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Any questions or comments for attorney? >> There's a comment. Um my favorite line from the big Labowski is nihilist or oh no I'm sorry I already messed up fair. Who's the nihilist here?

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Right. So um um I often get I was raised ultra-conservative. So it's only natural that at some point in my life like I am eventually the conservative in the room. Um uh even though I have not been a conservative for an exceptionally long

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time now. And so about a year ago I was explaining to my wife that uh if you could picture a mountaintop, a rocky mountain, okay, like a mountaintop rock, okay, and halfway down that mountain you have a lush plateau, a very lush

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plateau. Uh but that plateau is mostly soil, not a lot of rock, right? Well, if you could imagine, you know, I don't know, an earthquake, I suppose, or something to that effect that would kind of uh shake that plateau loose, the entirety of this lush, fertile plateau

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that's supporting uh all types of communities collapses into the valley of the mountain. So, that is what's happening to the middle class in this country. The unbelievably wealthy are

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placing side bets as entertainment on the end of our economy so that they can begin the fire sale of acquiring industries wholesale neighborhoods wholesale retail wholesale. All right.

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So there is a eliminating of what you call small to medium businesses and a consolidation of what you would call mega businesses. Okay, I've mentioned several times I worked in restaurants a lot. Uh I don't often

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speak of it, but I worked always at the highest levels of the food service industry. And so we would have people come into the restaurants wherever I was working and uh oh man that guy's the that guy's the owner of Navaro Pharmaceuticals. Oh my god. You know, stuff like this,

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right? How much is he worth? 300 million. Oh man. You So people mumble and and oh man, can you believe this? You know, it's not always just celebrities. Fame and celebrity, give me fame and fortune, give me fortune, right? Like I have no interest in fame, but give me fortune. So you'd have all

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these fortunate people come in and and you'd have uh you know pretty regular people waiting on them and uh pretty impressed by the wealth, right? So I'd kind of calm them down and say, "Guys, that person has $300 million. They still measure their wealth in dollars. They still get their food from Publix. They

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get their food from the same place you get your food from." So when you're talking ultra wealthy, you're talking people who trade mountain ranges for ocean floors. That's what we're talking about. All right? So the people who trade mountain ranges for ocean floors, they are de they are collapsing the

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middle class. So I believe in property rights and uh you know when we talk about these things uh I'm not against some of them but there has to be a plan. So if so if you're going to make a uh

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cataclysmic change to the way things are then there must be a plan for what's going to happen afterwards. And so my concern with with all of this is in that realm of where's the plan. So

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it's deeply concerning. Thank you very much. Counc any other comments from the council. Hearing seeing none, do a motion to adjurnn. Um, do I have a mo What motion do you want? Attorney

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>> the request is that you said but you said you were going to join is free >> but I can't do it without your authorization. >> Oh money but somebody has to head too that we add our name as a plaintiff >> provided there's no charge. I move to

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the to direct the attorney to join uh any lawsuit available to take on home rule issues in the state of Florida. >> You have a second. >> Uh m roll call. Um council person likeoot Ward. >> Council person Irv.

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>> Yes. >> Mayor Nickerson. >> Yes. >> Motion passes three to none. >> Thank you very much. Um do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Have a motion. Motion moved by council person Ward. Uh second by council person. All in favor say I. I. Oppose

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say nay. Hearing none. The special council meeting for Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 is adjourned at 8:25 p.m. >> Thank you. >> Not on you.