We're going to wait just a few minutes until some more of the folks who we're going to recognize tonight have a chance to uh filter in. Good evening everyone and welcome. Uh our apologies for the slight delay this evening. I'd like to call to order the
city of Homestead uh presentation agenda. Today is uh Wednesday, May 28th, 2025, and it is now 5:14 p.m. I'd like to turn the floor over to Councilwoman
Bailey to uh make some recognitions this evening. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. Um this is going to be a tearary presentation. I'm getting you ready, giving you a warning. Uh this
past weekend we celebrated our eighth art walk homestead event and we promised to make it bigger and better than ever and we certainly did. Um I need to first thank our amazing staff. Uh everybody
was just incredible. I felt like that Homestead hometown feel um was just so alive and well. uh just when we thought our new chief of police couldn't be any cooler. He apparently used to be a graffiti artist and he was uh showing
off his skills. It was amazing. And one of our ideas was, you know, it's it's year eight and we have really seen what some of these events
have have started in the community. Um, we offer these little scholarships to amazing organizations that we feel just need a little leg up or an artistic uh help to be the amazing group that they were
meant to be. And to be able to see how far some of these organizations and individuals have come has just really been so incredibly amazing. I mentioned this was year eight. Every year we kind of focus on something a little different. We've done
fine arts, sports, music, dance. Uh during the pandemic, we got incredibly creative and we put together these zoom kits that we had different uh local organizations set out for their children to come pick up and we did a virtual art
walk. Um was last week that was really cool. kind of a culmination of all the different art forms. And this year we were really excited to try and teach the youth that this is a business also. So we had a whole little youth entrepreneur
market that was incredibly adorable. Um so yes, we have our curator here, Miss Tana Dixon, who was an artist with us a few years back. she was hired onto the team this year and did an amazing job curating the art. So, I just
wanted to please invite up if we have any students that invite that submitted art as well as some of our previous scholarship recipients. If you can come, please meet me up here at the podium. We just wanted to share some of the stories
of where we are and uh how we met. And Miss Sharon Coleman, please join us as well. So, eight years ago, I had just been elected and this young lady here comes into my office and says, "I've got a
vision to have this really cool art gallery." and I said, 'I absolutely love that, but I think it's more fitting for the east side. Um, what we need are resources. So, she came back a couple days later and she says, "Let's do both." And here
we are. So, we have we have just really met some amazing people um throughout the years. Miss Monosan, if you want to come join us. Um, Miss Monosan was one of our artists who is now an art teacher. She was an
artist, a student. Um, and she just hosted her own students artwork here in City Hall Plaza last week. Um, we have Laura C. Saunders, we have the PAL Jim, we have Bol. We also did a little
scholarship for the super wacky activities truck with our parks department so that they could add a little artistic uh piece to it. So, I just wanted an opportunity to tell you all especially just how incredibly proud
we are. um you know, you've you've got a vision of how you think that that people will be will take this and how things will grow and just so incredibly proud of the work that you continue to do. And I just wanted to give you a quick opportunity to say a few words if you
would like. Oh, I was not expecting that. Um well, hello everybody. My name is Kayla Montesan. Um like Councilwoman Bailey said, I'm born and raised in Homestead. I'm very proud to be from the homestead community. Arts is my passion since I can remember. So, bringing the arts to
my community and then it flourished. We have some incredible talent down here. So, the fact that I have the opportunity along with my other art teacher, my partner, Miss Borges, um at Somerset, we get to, you know, highlight that talent that we have here in the South is a truly incredible opportunity and truly a
blessing for me to, you know, where I started as a student and I see a lot of myself and my students and getting to help them craft them in the way that I was. I had some amazing art teachers myself, so I hope to continue and be that for them. Um, so yeah, thank you,
Councilwoman Bailey. Thank you to the council. Like I said, I'm very proud to be from this community and I hope we can continue um you know, highlighting the arts here in in Homestead. So, thank you. Um good evening everyone. My name is Dr. Johnson. I'm the very proud
principal of Laura C. Saunders Elementary School and I want to thank um Councilwoman Bailey. Um what we were able to do with ours last year, she was able to donate a very nice penny to our school. And what we did was we made a mural in one of my hallways and we are
Jaguar Nation and because of um Councilwoman Bailey and the proceeds we were able to paint that and you would not believe how expensive paint can be. You understand? And I just thank you so much for that is you know to make our kids come into a beautiful school and you help make that possible. Thank you
so much my dear. Good evening everyone. I am also Rogers um director of the homestead path and uh just want to thank Councilwoman Bailey for her continued support for our students and the people in our community. Um with our proceeds we were
able to give five scholarships to graduating seniors. Johnson C Smith uh University of Florida uh Florida State and University of Miami and because of
you dreams of come true. Good evening. My name is Tron Brown with B stands for build your own legacy. I want to thank M for Bailey because with the scholarship was able to expose younger the younger generation of men to
take it on trips uh to tournament basketball tournaments to do things they have never done before. Thank you. Good evening. I'm paid Rain Aldos, the director of parks, recreation and open spaces for the city of Homestead. And I want to thank the councilwoman all the mayor and council for their support of
our super wacky activities truck. Um with their scholarship, we were able to replenish a lot of the supplies and crafts kits that we put out at our different events and our our truck is just becoming a staple at all of our events and different um neighborhood associations and whatnot. Thank
you. Would you like to read that because I'm gonna cry? Yes. Good evening everyone. Thank you for having us and being able to acknowledge the artist. Um, as she said, this is our
eighth year and for those who are spiritual know that eight um is new beginnings. And so this year we had put on a flyer that it would be bigger and better than ever. And who knew that it was going to turn out to be bigger and better than ever. And it's because of
the people who started with us and continue with us. Um it is very emotional because to see Travana I remember the first year he was street team. He was a young boy. He was a street team. He was like I just don't know how to get my nonprofit working.
and B was like, we're going to teach them not only how to be artists, but how to be entrepreneurs, how to be owners of their business. So, we want to thank each and every one of you, those who are here and who are not here, who will see this on TV or um on social media, we
want all of the artists who have been a part of it. And I want to emphasize that it's not just fine artists. There are musicians, there are dance teams, there are performing arts, fine arts, there is photography art, there was a pottery artist, and I saw the pictures of all
the kids that really enjoyed that. So on behalf of the city of Homestead and the entire Art Rock presents team, we extend our deepest thank you and heartfelt gratitude to you, not only as a past recipient of ArtWalk scholarships, but
also as continuing forces for creativity, expression, and positive change in our community. We know that when funding is low, most times the first thing to go is the art programs. But when we have council members like
yourselves and artists like yourself who are committed to preserving the arts in the community, we can continue to make a difference in creative and artistic ways. Your journey beyond this scholarship has been nothing short of inspiring. You continue to demonstrate
how the arts can heal, connect, and empower. Your work remind us reminds us of why we started this program. to invest in artists to uplift others and to leave lasting remarks and marks on the world around them as well as to
highlight the nonprofit and organizations that are serving people in artistic ways every day. So I am going to so we don't take up too much time. Miss Tana, we want to acknowledge some of the children. This year we focused a lot on the children. We had
children vendors. We had children artists. Um and we want to acknowledge them and we did a contest where we wanted to give gift cards to some of the kids who really went out their way to make sure that they were curated in the gallery. Our slogan was that they are
not the future, they are the now. There is no need for them not to be next to the professional artists because as long as they believe in themselves, we do too. So, we want to acknowledge Tyla who is holding up her art as well as Aiden. So, if we could give them a hand
clap for their art as well as Somerset Prep Homestead. Majority of the art came from a lot of your students. um as well as we had Keysgate Ghouls Elementary and a Talamanasauri. So we
had students model. So we have gift certificates for them and we have um I mean certificates I'm sorry certificates for them and we have gift cards for the ones that entered in the contest. So we couldn't choose just one. We were supposed to but they were also great so
we decided to honor them all with a gift card. Thank you very much, ladies. You guys did a phenomenal job. Once again, thank you to our amazing staff, Jasmine, who always goes above and beyond. Um, and for you to just be
continuing this wonderful work. Um, this was not at all supposed to be you thanking me. This was a thank you to you guys. You guys are the ones doing the work out there and we see it and we appreciate you. So, thank you again. Thank you to everyone.
I did already. Um and thank you mayor and council for your continued support. We have some amazing sponsors that obviously this would not have been possible without and also one of our sponsor who has sponsored canvas art from the very beginning to this eighth year. Councilman Larry Roth with this is
for the children. This is for the kids. We appreciate it. Every year he's like what do I need to do separate as a councilman just as a community leader. He asks us what do we need? always comes through. So, thank you for always supporting the vision. And this year we had Kiwanis and Rotary as well. So, it
is truly a community effort. And if you check out our socials, we thank all of all of you so much. So, it couldn't be possible without you. And congrats to you guys. You're going to keep painting, keep drawing. Promise. All right. I'll see you next year then. Here
Thank you again everyone. Have a great night. And thank you Councilwoman Bailey for your passion and perseverance and putting this together for the last eight years. and we all certainly look forward to four more years of uh of you helming the uh the artwalk uh event. So with
that, this concludes our presentation ceremony for this evening. Again, thank you and congratulations to everyone who was recognized this afternoon and just as soon as the clerk is ready to begin, we will convene our community
redevelopment agency meeting. Good. Thank you all. All right. Good evening everyone and welcome. I'd like to call the city of Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency meeting to order. Today is Wednesday,
May 28th, 2025 and it is now 5:28 p.m. We have a roll call, please, Madam Clerk. Member Davis, board member Roth, board member Bailey, board member Cannibal, board member Avula, Vice Chairman Fletcher
here, Chairman Lawman here. Thank you all. We have a quorum. Mr. Beck, is there any are there any deletions or deferrals from the agenda? No, chairman. There are none. All right. We have uh before us the
minutes of our meeting from April 16th. We have a motion to approve those minutes. Moved by uh board member Roth, seconded by Vice Chair Fletcher. Are there any questions or comments? All in favor? Any
opposed? Um there's no u objection. I'd like to deviate from the order of the agenda and go directly to car number 4600 uh regarding the uh triangle redevelopment project presentation and
recommendations. Following that, we'll come back to the CRA annual report. Excellent. Very good. We appreciate that, chairman. Uh and appreciate the amount of time and effort that has gone into the discussions of this project and to bring it here to you tonight. You all
have received in your backup some fairly lengthy background in terms of uh the process and the timeline. So I'm only going to highlight a few of the items from the staff perspective, but then we'd like to go ahead and turn this over to the development team that has uh attended in mass to uh give a brief
presentation as well on their component. Uh and we'll certainly jump in and add in uh where appropriate. Let me interrupt you just a second before we get really busy tonight and I forget. We have with us tonight Cor Gable's Mayor Vince Loggo. Like to recognize him and
welcome him to our council chambers this evening. Welcome, Mayor. Okay. Excellent. Thank you for that. Uh as a reminder and and just for everyone that's perhaps watching this as is the first time, the intent of this project is to create really a dynamic and
vibrant active gateway uh into the historic southwest neighborhood uh and historic southwest 4th Street as well. This project is one that started in earnest in 2020 with the assemblage of properties by the CRA as well as conveyance of properties by Miami Date
County. This proceeded over the following years uh resulting in one and then a second RFP that was issued and subsequently the selection of the development team that's here today. Over the last number of months, we have had the opportunity to work with
the development team in the uh terms for this project. Uh what would be agreeable for them in in making it financially feasible as well as achieving the goals that the CRA and the city have had uh including any of the funding partnership as well as some of the public improvements that would be made within
the community. Just so we all understand too and to be clear, the goal of tonight is to give ideally a support for the general terms that have been negotiated between the CRA, the development team and the city manager's office. From tonight, we will go forward then and
work on a formal and final development agreement which will come back to this board for your approval. And then following that, as some of you have brought forward and discussed, we will work on some of the community engagement and greater discussions on architecture and details and all those. But the goal
tonight is to uh have that general support for the terms that have been uh identified. Just as a recap as well, there were specific development parameters that were identified in the RFP uh for what this project was seeking in terms of having that mixeduse mixed
in income component. And I'll touch on that briefly as we move forward. Uh this was also one that had sought for the selected developer to really look at ways in which they could invest in this project to invest in the community and help really create some greater uh
quality public realm and active use spaces that this neighborhood has not historically had. There were also some general development standards that were identified within the RFP which is being followed uh with what was uh submitted as well as a willingness and understanding that the CRA may need to
invest in this project uh being the first private project that we've really had at a a larger redevelopment scale and also as we have done further assessment we know that there is a lack of capacity in our existing utilities. we simply have to do some upsizing and investment in that which we can
certainly speak to more. And then as you know there's a various uh a number of different overlays zoning aspects that we will work through and uh James our legal council can certainly speak to that. Putting it into context for anyone that is watching these are the overall
properties that we have immediately west of the busway. The properties in orange are owned by the CRA and the sort of teal colors are those that are owned by Miami Dade County for which we have the specific uh restrictions on. The RFP also anticipates that we would do some
roadway vacation in what would become the development area which then leaves us with an overall project footprint uh that would be developed just under three and a half acres. The development program that we have come to now has 132 units. 51% of these
would be affordable and workforce housing units. 49% of these would be a market rate. Uh we are pleased that this introduces a variety of housing product including uh live work as well as some for sale units. We'll have 10 to 15,000 square feet of commercial use. Uh we've
had very robust conversations on a willingness to work with the CRA and the city in identifying an appropriate commercial use and ensuring that that does occur as the project uh develops and then more so some uh significant investment in those public amenities
that we have really wanted to see as a part of this project. Uh there would be a linear park, a public park, public arts, rooftop areas, uh as well as some shared parking. As you know, uh seven or eight of these parcels are owned by Miami Dade
County. So, we did do a cursory review with staff and presenting where we were at and what we wanted to to really do as a part of this vision, and they have supported it. So given all of the discussions we've had uh the program criteria uh the investment that they will be making the public drum spaces
and and many of other reasons we uh would like to to move this for an approval uh to continue. That being said, I know you want to see the more uh shiny parts of this. So I'd like to invite uh someone from the development team to come forward and just share a
few few slides on the project. Let's get the mic turned on and then if you'll give us your names for the uh record. Mr. Mayor, vice mayor, council members, thank you for having us today. City manager and staff, it's been a pleasure
to work with everyone at the city to date. We've been working hard and together with staff over the last almost two years almost two years on this project and uh we're happy that we finally have it hopefully at the finish line and we're proud of a project
to present to you today. I would like to um have Vince Labo from BDI say a couple words because we believe that this the quality of this project is something that all of us want to bring to light and we believe Mayor Londo will be able to help us achieve that.
Thank you very much. Usually on the other side, but I'm blessed to be on this side today. Uh mayor, vice mayor, members of the council, Mr. City attorney, city clerk, also our distinguished city manager, ladies and gentlemen, I know some time. Thank you
for allowing me the privilege to be here. That's truly an honor. Uh during the day, I'm privileged outside of Tuesdays twice a month. I'm privileged to be an engineer and general contractor. We specialize in building both uh public housing, housing, also medical
and schoolboard work along with different types of schools or universities throughout Miami Day County, throughout the state of Florida. Uh we recently finished four different housing projects that deal with public housing in one form or another at different different rates uh for housing trust group in Miami County and we're
building throughout the state of Florida. UI Construction is a family-owned business that I've been privileged to be a part of over the last 18 years and it's an organization that has a stellar record in regards to having no liquidated damages, uh, no lawsuits and has finished all the projects that we've undertaken. I'm a
minority partner in the business and I tell you every single day after being there over 16 years, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made outside of being I thought to marry my wife. So, I want to thank you uh for allowing me the privilege. Uh, these are the type of projects that are in our wheelhouse. that are bread and butter projects for us uh that bring a lot of pride to
myself uh and to everyone involved with DDI construction which stands for build design international. So thank you for aligning with the privilege. I know that you have a long agenda. I know what it is to be on that side of the aisle and the decisions that you have to make and we look forward to delivering a project
not only on time within budget but something that again you can put your name to and you'll be proud because at the end of the day this project will have my name on it and I promise you as the mayor of Coral Gables take my hat off bey construction uh my legacy is not
only in city but also in regards to my private sector job so thank you for allowing me the honor to be here we have a great team that you're going to here year here from now. And if you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask me. Thank you very much. Before I pass the uh mic over to
Gabriel Dwarte, I just want to mention that Redwood Devco, we have a bunch of our staff here. Um, and we're excited to work with the city. We have in our pipeline about 4,000 units between various municipalities as well as Miami date county that we're working on a a
mixed income um communities, buildings that will have apartments, retail, park renovations, and this will be one that we are all going to be proud of. So, I'll pass the mic over to Gab Gabrielle, director of development director.
Good evening, everybody. We're excited to be here today. and I'll walk you guys through our presentation so you get a feel for what we're envisioning for this neighborhood. Uh you all can see what's on the screen up here. Perfect. So, we've been working to design this
project with what we believe the city of Homestead wants to see for this area and what we feel belongs in this area. So, as you can see on this corner right here, Railroad Avenue, it would be transformed into a linear park with space for farmers market areas. Uh lined
with shade trees, new lighting throughout, and a nice community rooftop on the third level of the residential portion, which will also contain the commercial component at the bottom. On our right side, you will see
the town homes that were inspired by the Floridaian architecture proposed in the Southwest District plan. Scroll to the next slide. This gives you guys a good idea of what the project will look like at night. It'll be
activated. We'll have lighting throughout. We'll have event space on that linear park on the ground level and also on that rooftop there that is envisioned to be community space where we can have Friday night movie nights for the kids. Uh whatever else
um the city might want to see in that space. So we set aside plenty of community space on the ground floor plaza as well. That's where commercial will be all parts are activated here. Now you'll see here on our right the additional park that we're providing
that will have playground activity space additional lighting that connects to the town hall town home area as well. We on our left that is the multif family building that will have 120 apartments 51% of the apartments up to 80% AMI and
the remaining 49% at market rate. There will be 12 town homes in total. Those town homes will be market rate. Now, these are just some of the points and how our development ties into the southwest neighborhood plan. This the
flanian architecture we tried to incorporate here the shade trees, making it as pedestrian friendly as possible, making it a community hub that we believe the area could really benefit from and lining it with shade trees. What's great about this development as
well is right on the smart corridor on the rapid buzz busway which would connect the development the commercial space community to this new revamped transit corridor. Just a nice blow up of that additional park with the shade trees and
the community space. Now, here are just some points on the economic benefits. Just some of the economic benefits that would be provided to the area. As you can see, just in construction fees, we're at around 1.7 million. In the construction impact
alone, we're at a labor income of 28 million, providing addition 418 jobs just in construction. This is a summary of our annual tax revenue that the project will bring to the city and to the county. As you can see on year at the end of year 15, it's
a total of 3.6 million to the schools, 4 million to the county, and 3.4 million to the city and tax revenue below. I don't want to speed through it too quickly, so I'll give you some time to go through it. Okay, just a summary of the deal terms
as well. $200,000 paid to the CRA at financial closing year 1.2 million capitalized lease payment repaid at year 15 with 2% interest. These combined repayments offset the CRA's $3 million investment
into this project with long-term benefits exceeding the initial outlay of the CRA. As you can see, that's a breakdown of some of the costs that will be allocated to the CRA investment. The sewer extension, power
line removal and undergrounding, sidewalk drainage, soil remediation, landscape improvements, and heartscape improvements to the public park, the linear park. Now, to make it clear, this development will be funded with non-competitive 4% low-inccome housing
tax credits. We We designed a project that is realistic that we can fund and get moving without the need for competitive funding. A lot of these projects get stalled and aren't able to come to fruition without this competitive funding which could take year a year two years. We wanted to design a project that works that we can
get going right away. Uh as soon as we can get through development the development agreement on this we can get going with design engineering and break ground and Q3 of next year on the multif family town home's going to be even quicker. I mean, I believe Q2 of 2026 if
we move quickly on this. And Gabe, if you don't mind, I'd like to just interject. Oh, I didn't realize that was so loud. Uh, I'd like to just interject and expand on the financing and the deal terms so everyone understands this. The um couple things to put in, and you'll certainly learn this uh about me, is
that I do like the numbers. And so, I appreciate that the development team went ahead and had a third party economic impact assessment done. A couple points to note out of this. Um, this project, as I understand it, and certainly correct me if I'm wrong, it will not be applying for the tax
exemptions, uh, which means that this will be generating based on the numbers they've shown on the previous slide, $200,000 in tax increment every year that will come back into the CRA for us to continue to reinvest. I also want to make note that as it relates to the $3 million investment, um, we really do see
that as an investment both in tax increment as well as in grant funds that are awarded. As we have worked through this process and done some additional um research and working with our public works department, we recognize that we do not currently have the water and sewer capacity necessary to support any
development. So, uh our contribution will be in upsizing those utilities. We do want to um really match the investment in the public realm that's happening on the project itself. So, we will look to do some enhanced streetscapes uh gateway elements as well as contribute to the park components.
noted we do have grant funds that will be applied as a part of that overall three million. So I do want to set that up that there are specific reasons on where that's coming from and also uh for any of you that perhaps were not at the earlier conversations the parcels that were acquired by the CRA in this
assemblage were funded through ARPA funds and the way in which we have come to the deal terms and the dollar amounts is really a target to make the CRA whole. we have encumbered or expended about $200,000 over the last couple of years in actual CRA costs for the
clearing uh and site prep of these properties. And so that down payment really makes us whole in that aspect. And then the overall terms that have been provided with the um payment being the 2.7 in the total will then more than compensate for what we are putting
forward into the overall capital projects. that compounded with the tax increment that we'll generate from this and an estimated 1.8 in annual uh economic impact in dining, retail and entertainment are some of the other positives that we have found out of
that. So uh setting that clarification for everyone. Gabe, I'll turn it back to you to finish up. Thanks J. Appreciate it. Here's an overview of our development timeline. Um, our phase one is intended to be the town homes. We can move
quickly on those town homes in order to see some transformation the area while concurrently we're working on our phase two plans and titlements approvals. So, as you'll see in phase one, we're we can start construction as early as Q1 of 2026. Uh, while we're working through
design and engineering on phase two, on phase two, we're anticipating groundbreaking as early as Q3 of 2026 as well. seeing the total development really come together and complete by the Q4 of 2027. These are some of our team members that will be involved with this project.
A lot of them are here today. We do have uh starting Del Valencia. We have Doris Arisa, Brian Sidman, Max Daniels, Michelle, and David Bur here with us. So these were just some of the financing
complexities that made this project a little more difficult to put together but we were able to make it work. So we are at 120 units which is closer to the 60 units per acre is the economy of
scale. Fewer fewer units raised per unit cost worsening our debt to income ratio. Miss will probably speak better to that point if you have any questions on the on the scale. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, I was going to say and and we actually are um on the
3.3 acres that slightly different number, but I do want to give the opportunity for the executive director, Zary, if there was anything he wanted to add. Otherwise, certainly turn this over to the board for for discussion or recommendation.
No comment at this time. Thank you. Well, thank you. Appreciate that. Very, very comprehensive. But let me open it up for questions and comments from the members of the board. like to kick it off. Board member Alola,
thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for being here and speaking on behalf of the the the company and the reputation. Um, this has been in conversation for quite a while. Uh, the economy as a whole has changed significantly significantly since we
began discussing the potential of these projects. Um the legislation in general for residential development has also seemingly become more and more aggressive. So that that does concern me. Um the density and how it relates to
how it affects live local and opening the doors for other developers and properties to kind of follow suit. That's obviously a concern. Um, but I understand the intricacies of this property, the the the county's uh contribution and the requirements that
we have to do the affordable housing components. Um, but what I'd like to do is is really defer, you know, my my decision making, to our mayor, who I know has read everything involving this with a fine tooth comb and um and of
course to Councilwoman Bailey where this directly impacts her district. So, I'll just, you know, put a hold opinion there at at this point, but I've I have supported this project from early on, the vision in general. I think that this
would be a great catalyst for for um you know, commercial and investment in general. But for those reasons, I am kind of on the fence right now. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you, board member Bailey. Thank you. So, yes, we have been
disappointed multiple times with funding falling through and I have been especially excited about the potential that this piece has. Um, having it be a gateway to the historic southwest neighborhood. Um, there is just so much
potential. The linear park I think is an amazing amazing piece to it. Um, I do appreciate the broader range of housing. Um but obviously density is a very bad word. Um so as long as the amenities and
that you know commercial pieces there which it does look like like it can be um the shade trees with the opportunity for the farmers market that definitely is homestead um the rooftop amenity. I
would absolutely love to see if we can't afford a nice big swimming pool to maybe do some type and I know we're not getting into design yet, but I've my mind's been racing. Um to to maybe have that uh that focal part be a big fountain that could double as a splash
pad because that is that is one amenity that the Southwest is in desperate need of. Um but I appreciate I appreciate the beautiful rendering. I I can visualize it. And I think if we can if we can really look at that density and make
sure that the amenities outweigh um outweigh that piece, I I really appreciate all all the hard work and the thought that went in behind this. Thank you, Bober Davis. Thank you for an excellent presentation. like my colleagues were
very excited to see this go forward. I did have a question about the um the number of units that will be considered affordable at 80% AMI. Correct. Uh what mechanism is there um
in my history? I've seen developers come back say in 24 months and say, "Oh, look at that. The cost of living is up. It's no longer 51%. Now we can do maybe 30%." You know what I mean? They want a modification to that number. Is there a mechanism for that to not
happen? That's what I really want to know because we really need that affordable housing here. I don't want to see that number fluctuate. Yeah, my understanding there is a deep restriction on the property I believe from county that requires us to be at
minimum 50% 51% 8 up to 80% AMI. So that affordability is baked into the project as a requirement. That's what I want to hear. Thanks. And we will put it into the development agreement as well. Thank you very much,
Vice Chair Fletcher. Yes. Thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman. Um, thank you again for the presentation. Um, I've been, uh, watching this project for almost five years now, and we're finally seeing something come to fruition. I know we all kind of get scared of the word
density down here in South B. Um, but I believe this particular project is going to be the catalyst for the redevelopment of our southwest section of Palmstead and uh we have a lot of work we have to do down there and and if we're able to make this uh work, I think this is the
right plan at the right time to move forward. So those are my comments. Uh we can we can work on the the other intricacies later, but I I believe this is a a solid project ready for implementation. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Chair. And you know to your point
there are numerous intricacies and those you know not to be cliche and we'll hear it again later tonight those devil in the details that you know if we give an affirmative vote to authorize the CRA director and the manager to go forward
with negotiation that that those will come out of the woodwork and they may need to bring some of that back to us to uh to mediate or uh you know make a decision on. Um, I think it's it's setting aside the bad word of density
for a moment. I think it's it's notable that the maximum height on the street on Fourth A um on Fourth Street seems to be three stories. I know that the Southwest community is very
concerned not to have that overwhelming height and scope and scale right on the uh the street. So, the town houses look like they're three stories, and it looks like the facade portion that that hits the uh the south side of Fourth Street
is uh at least on the street only only three stories, which I think, you know, generally uh most of us can uh can get behind. Um got a couple of questions though. You talked about the the public portion. So, what what I kind of
envision is we're going to have two different crews out there. you're going to have, you know, city contractors and your people out there. Is that the way that's going to work? Where the the the public contribution of the hardscape, the streetscape,
uh landscaping, um are we just going to fund that or is that going to be through our procurement processes? You had a table there that that that itemized that.
So u if I mayor and council I think there's a feeling and a direction and guidance that during the general this is a general terms when we got into the details we may have to look for opportunities of facilitating those infrastructure improvements perhaps
through the developer. It will accomplish a lot of things. It will lead to savings. It will lead to reduction of time and it will minimize impact to the environment. uh there are certain intricacases with respect to uh mitigation of the site. We
use this particular site to get a federal funding for mitigation and there are requirements as to how that could be accomplished. So there's a whole slew of details that needs to be worked out. Well, thank you. And certainly that was my concern, the time constraints, the
the the constraints on the use of public dollars to go out and do these things. So, you know, you you hit the nail on on the head of my concerns is you how you know, we know that that our contribution will be up to to X. It's just the
logistics of of how to do that. That's what uh what jumped out at me. I don't believe it was in the materials, but you had a table talking about the phasing and clearly we're under some constraints with respect to those properties that
were transferred to the county from us. Talk talk to us about what's contained in each phase. So the town homes will go first as because w with the permitting and so forth that should be the quickest and
we'll also be doing the engineering the MVPs during that time. So we'll have a flow as soon as the town homes are done. We would immediately transfer over hopefully to start doing the building. I also wanted to mention that the town homes are two stories, right? I saw
that. Yeah. two on the north, three three stories for the adjacent to the sidewalk for the the apartments. Yes. Well, Mr. Manager, aren't with those time constraints that we have with respect to those properties conveyed
from the county, then the proposed phasing is really reverse of what would expedite and give us plenty of time to meet those county deadlines as they currently exist. Is that correct? So my feeling at this point is to focus on compliance
with the reverse from the county. It requires us to have those units affordable 51% by 2029. We we need full project completion by 2029. Yeah. Okay. I was thinking 27 and looking here at quarter four of 27. So
okay. So we're in Yeah. Knock on wood we're in good shape. Yeah. We're going to make it happen well within that time. Okay. you know, and again to to your density concerns and certainly there
are loopholes, if you will, under the Live Local Act where we can determine what the bonus portion of the total number of units is so that we don't inadvertently increase the cap or the
the the level that we're forced to now deal with under under Live Local. And that that will be, you know, baked into the cake that that comes back as the actual development agreement where we determine, you know, by the wow factor. And I, you know, I remember some of you
may remember when uh, you know, former I think you were in on the conversation. I remember former Vice Mayor Guzman that in in awarding some bonus, we talked about the wow factor. you know, if you bring us this and they brought potential rooftop amenities and and open space
and, you know, open air markets and and playgrounds, those can all go to the wow factor to justify whatever 40 per acre is above what is uh layered in for that site that
site now. So yeah, that that is a very very valid concern under under live local and as well as the RTZ. So those are those are some of those details that we'll we'll have to deal with and and come back with. So you know with with
that and I guess you know it's fair to say with respect to density it's a time and a place for everything. Typically, this is not a level that I would ever begin to support without other safeguards or other, you know, rationale or justification.
Um, I sit here also and I've got to say I think that, you know, when we undertook the purchase of these scattered properties, prior public works directors, prior CRA directors, prior managers never said, and I think it was
because they didn't have the capacity to realize and understand that we did not have the infrastructure necessary to do the project that was being sold to us as a justification. for these acquisitions. And I think if you know
these guys are really candid tonight, we would talk about that the process here to bring this to us tonight has really accelerated under this manager and under this CRA director and the public works and whoever else is, you know, whatever
other cooks are in this this kitchen. We were really u you know, not well served by the lack of due diligence when these properties were were acquired. I'm I'm certain willly willing to go forward and see if we can overcome all of those
those issues and obstacles. Vice Chair Fletcher. Yes. Thank you. And I you know, one other one other thing I I believe needs to be said is the of course the staff has worked on this diligently uh with the new manager and and I'm glad to see uh the requested
action is for us to approve the recommended development rather than we are seeking direction. So, we actually have some staff people are doing their homework. So, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. So, do do we have a motion to approve the general
terms for development for this item? I'm sorry. Board member Bailey. All right. Board member Bailey, the the district uh the seat holder for that area has moved the approval to to move
forward and negotiate and bring back. Seconded by board member Cannibal. Let me open this up for public comment. Is there anyone online or in the audience wishing to speak? Public comment with respect to this item.
Okay. So, I'll close the public hearing with respect to this item. Any further from staff or the proposers? Don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you for coming down through the mayor. Again, thank you
to the council, to the mayor, the vice mayor. Congratulations, Mr. Manager. It's been a pleasure to work with you over the last few decades. Uh this is a great opportunity for us and I promise you that we'll deliver something that will make everyone proud. Thank you very much. Good. I look forward to working very closely with, you know, my
background, you know, in what I do in real life. Look forward to uh to being intimately involved in in bringing this this package forward. So, with that, we'll close the public hearing. And Madame Clerk, let's have a roll call
vote. Board member Davis, yes. Board member Cannibal, yes. Board member Roth, yes. Board member Abular, yes. Board member Bailey, yes. Vice Chairman Fletcher, yes. Chairman Losner, yes. The motion carries. Thank you. Thank you all again. Thanks for coming down, Mayor.
Appreciate it. All right. So, we will go back to the uh agenda order and uh with the uh with the knowledge that the uh police honor guard is waiting in the wings and the pastors here to pray
for the big core council meeting. Let's have the CRA annual report. We can Oh, actually, let me grab the the remote. If he leaves with a clicker, all deals are off, right?
[Music] And we can keep this fairly quick. Uh board members, uh as I have shared with you all in the past, we as a CRA are required as a special district to provide annual reports um that have various uh performance metrics and data
included. It is just a special district requirement of the legislature. What you have in your package is the 2324 annual report. So this spans from October of 2023 through September 2024. Uh it covers all of the required elements uh
essentially the creation documents uh tax increment values uh the appreciation over the years as well as our overall structure um staffing our uh CRA area highlights on the financials the programs that we've started as well as
just an overview of some of the projects that have been undertaken uh currently and also some of the things that we are looking towards in future years. There's no action necessary from you all at this time. This isformational. It is something that we do have to uh compile
as I mentioned for statute. Uh this has been posted on our website. Uh we are meeting all of the requirements as necessary. So um just giving you a brief overview. I also have a hard copy that we'll distribute to each of you for reference and then we will be using this as the basis for going uh in future
years and elevating some of the metrics that we have. So certainly glad to entertain any questions or comments that you all have. Uh but wanted to give you the courtesy of presenting this at a board meeting. Thank you. Appreciate that and certainly respect and compliment the caliber of the report
that is contained in our council package. Board members any further? Just keep up the great work. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Anything further for this board this
evening? Uh, no sir, not from staff. Very good. Well, with that, um, public comments with respect to any CRA matter. Again, this is with respect general community redevelopment agency
matters. Okay, seeing none, I will close the hearing and ask for a motion of adjournment. Moved and seconded. All in favor? and let's uh let's take uh five and we will uh
convene the regular city council meeting. Thank you all. Yeah, that's Let's convene the local planning agency meeting. We can go ahead and get in position for that. Uh police explorers,
we're not quite ready for you. We've got one item of business and then we'll open the council meeting. Oh, good evening everyone and welcome. I'd like to call the city of Homestead local planning agency meeting to order. Today is Wednesday, May 28th,
and it is now 6:16 p.m. Roll call, please. Madame Clerk, here. Board member Davis here. Board member Bailey here. Board member Abula here. Board member Cannibal here. Vice Chairman Fletcher here. Chairman Lawman
here. Exeicial Lawrence Ventura. He was earlier. There he is. Are you afraid we're going to start throwing some? Okay. Um, are there any additions,
deletions, or deferrals, Mr. Director? No, sir. Thank you. All right. We have before us the uh minutes from April 16th. Do we have a motion to approve? Moved by board member Bailey, seconded by board member Cannibal. Any questions
or comments? None appearing. All in favor? Any opposed? The next item is Mr. White. Yes, Mayor. The uh the first and only item on the uh agenda this evening is
legislative item car number 4569. This is an ordinance of the city of Homestead, Florida, providing for a six-month extension to the 12-month temporary moratorum enacted by ordinance number 20240618 on issuance of development orders and permits and on the processing
of development applications, city code text amendments, resonings, comprehensive plan text and land use plan amendments for development of town home, cluster home and multi multiple family residential dwelling units within the city. proposed residential development on lots of less than 7,500
square feet within the city and any proposed residential development over six dwelling units per acre within the city exempting specified development and providing for an effective date. Thank you, sir. Mr. Cook, good evening, Mr. Chair and board members. stated by
the um city um attorney. The item before you is the extension of a moratorum that was executed on June the 26 of 2024 for a 12-month period. We're seeking to extend this moratorum for 6 months. As
you understand, um through the manager at the vision of the um council, he felt it was necessary to have an assessment of our infrastructure so we can improve our services to the community and serve the growth of the community in a in a in a fashionable way. And with that in
mind, we've deemed that it is necessary that we extend this for six more months as we continue to achieve this so we can serve the community better. Very good. Thank you, sir. I'll open the floor to questions or comments from the board members. Board member Davis. Uh thank
you uh Mr. Mayor. I I did have a question. Um and we all understand why we did the moratorum and we understand why it's there, but I do want to be able to put a period on this thing at a point and uh uh you know, we brought up the issue of of this has been a slow burning
fuse. Um and you know and these things need to need to get done in a in a um predictable manner. Uh is there a way for for example for people to put in various applications that will that they can
start going through the process without being approved until this moratorum is lifted? Is there is there something we can do to keep th keep those gears working uh uh until we actually put a period on this thing and move on from it?
I'm going defer to the city attorney for that. So, Councilman Davis, there there there is a way um in which you could um modify the scope of this moratorum.
um in a way in which you still have a moratorum on the actual development order approvals of a particular project that would be covered by this. Um but you could allow development applications
to proceed in which they would make application go through the the application approval process. you know, that would work for anything that's not a single family development, single family developments.
Um, there's not really any process except for them to submit for a building permit and and and that would be it. They're not going through a DRC. They're not going through uh multiple reviews and stopping at that
point, right? They don't get to that point. If you if you uh if you do that right, then you'll probably have to um modify this in such a way where you allow those development permits
um but also allow for you don't have to but you you would something to think about, right? in that you would allow for um developments or however we frame it on lots less than
7500 square f feet because you would have residential development that's ready to come in single family residential on lots that are less than 7500 square feet. Okay. And so if it was a a larger something, you know, whatever it may be,
uh, to be built, six months, it may not actually even be through the entire process yet. Correct. I mean, I could take time. Okay. I don't know, mayor. What do you think? Well, uh, board member, you probably probably heard from some sounds like you've heard from some
of the same folks I have. And and I want to point out that our statutory limit is this additional 6 months. Whatever we're permitted to do, it has to be completed within that
six months. I have received requests to at least allow development applications to be submitted for the city to be allowed to accept and process
applications that would you know require our approval uh for anything that's under the ambit of the moratorum now so that when we come out the other end of the moratorum those items will be ready for public
hearing rather than having a crush now. There's more of an orderly perhaps uh you know f beginning to fill the pipeline of applications. So I I kind of thought that's where where you you were going when you started this. I'm not
sure that's where it was, but you know the two takeaways, six months at most and we're done. And I I would support a an adjustment to the item that's before us if however it needs to be
written to allow application to be made. It does not allow permits to be issued, correct, or even public hearing, but it allows applications to be made to be ready for public hearing upon the
expiration of the moratorum. Was that is that what you had in mind? That is what I meant to say. That's what you meant to say. Exactly the way I meant to say it actually. Raw. Yeah. Just a question because I know in some of our one-on- ones that I had u there there are lots that are
developable in the city that I'm aware of that are less than the 7500 square feet that may be conforming to those specific neighborhoods and I've received a couple of calls from let me call them mom and pop
developers who own a single lot that the mortorium has been in place for a year now and you know six more months starting to create, you know, hardships that can't even go through the process of developing a house on that property that conforms to the neighborhood that it's in. So, I I I was thinking that
maybe we could similar to what you're saying is kind of open up the process a little bit to um those situations as well. the 7500 lot restriction um can't be a permanent one because there's already people that have rights
I think to build on those lots that are smaller infill they're basically infill lots that are conforming to those those neighborhoods and those communities so does even affect those at this point because they they could come in and and start their process as well to walk down
the line and then come six months down the road they could start their process as well. So, um I'm still interested in hearing and seeing uh the the works that were put in place
to to actually help us understand where we are infrastructure- wise, right? So, you know, we talked about the Triangle properties tonight a little bit in reference to the infrastructure is not in place to to to with water and sewer and we're
going to have to make some accommodations for that. So I don't think a single family house on a conforming lot with the neighborhood is going to put that kind of a strain on the infrastructure where we have to limit and keep them out of the process
for another six months. Just just my thoughts. Let me ask Mr. White and yeah there there are let's say lots of 6,000 square feet. thing. Have we in fact by the terms of the current
moratorum limited that or I guess asking the question another way do we have can can you say c that our absolute minimum building lot size
and I'm thinking detached single family not talking about duplex not talking about townhouse I'm talking about a detached single family, but what size range are we in? And I'll throw that out there to either the attorney or the director to kind of
give us some some guidelines on that. So, as the moratorum was instituted, it did um prevent development of lots less than 7500 square feet. So, so, so mayor, if I I could add to Mr.
cook. So, there are um there are places infill lots that allow you to have uh uh a in some instances allow for you to build a uh
less than 7500 square foot depending on the na the nature and makeup of the surrounding neighborhood. In some cases that that requires a special exception to come for you. In other places not like in the southwest neighborhood there are um I think in the sub areas where
the detached uh single family minimum lot size is like 5,000 square feet. So if you're inclined to to to to do something less than 7500 square feet, we could modify that number
with a minimum number for the next six months. Well, but that would I would think that that would need to be with respect to lots existing as a you know, we're not going to allow
someone to come in and do a plat containing 5,000 square foot foot lots. So, you know, and I don't have a problem as long as it's detached single family and I would suspect there are a relative
handful of of those lots and we still have the frontage requirement of 65 feet, you know, at least in the in the Northwest. So certainly, you know, we could layer in a provision for existing
lots less than 7,500 but greater than 5,000 that were existing lots as of the date of the moratorum for the construction of detached single family residential and to
allow those other to at least you know take their chances and get in the pipeline. No guarantee of approval, but at least go ahead if they want to spend the time, money, and effort to do so to go ahead and get in the pipeline. And
mayor, if I could, I would just re Well, the caveat to that is that anyone if we're going to open the door to allow applicants to come in and make application, then they're going to have to sign a waiver. of the time frames associated with
processing their application so that no one can then say under pending statute that uh has a shot clock time frame that we're not following or there's some issue right so that I I think that would
that would be a a I would advise you to be a requirement if we're going to proceed down that I don't have a problem we all all good with that to accommodate those. And look, the application doesn't denote approval, doesn't denote it'll ever go
forward, but the relative handful of substandard infill substandard size infill lots is negligible impact. And just uh for for the purposes of this
discussion, those that have those infill style lots that may be less than the 5,000 square feet that are already entitled to build on those lots that are conforming to the neighborhoods. Do any of them have to come before us for approval? There are
some that require a special exception. And so in those instances, you they would apply, but it's not going to get them across the finish line because you're not going to approve a development order or development permit for a special exception. They're they can apply, but
they'll be stuck in in in they can't go any further. A six-month window, right? Okay. But at least we're lowering the bar from 7500 to 5,000. Got it. Thank you. Okay. Yes, council. Excuse
me, board member. Thank you, Chair. For these purposes, are we aware of any lots that are less than 5,000 square feet? CRA owns a bunch of them. But so the CRA I know, but would it be allowed for are
there any other lots in the in the southwest neighborhood for example um that are not developed yet? I'm just curious because for me the whole point of this moratorum was for us to obviously catch up with our
with our infrastructure, right? Make sure that um that we were doing our part. Um, but as far as I'm concerned, a single family home is a single family home. So if there's somebody then with 4,800 square feet, are we I don't understand why we would but
if we still don't have, let's say, wastewater capacity, we can't issue a permit anyway either way. So, you know, we're not kind of we're not eating away at the rationale for the moratorum. you're not letting some horses out of
the gate and others others not. Right. So, in in lowering the bar to 5,000 a minimum 5,000 square feet, then those folks would then be able to come in if they don't require a special exception. Those folks will be able to come in apply for a building permit and have a
building permit issued assuming concurrency. Assuming Right. Assuming Assuming there are no capacity issues or concurrency. Is that it? So going forward, this would allow application. You
the the three issues that we discussed, right? It would I I could modify this to lower the threshold from 7,500 square feet to 5,000 square feet. um modify this so that it would allow for the processing of applications but
still keep in place prohibition on the issuance of development orders and development permits with the waiver. Yeah. Right. In in the waiver, right? So would someone like to move it as uh amended?
We'll let Councilwoman Bailey move. Board member Bailey second by Cannibal. Yes, Mr. Proctor. Is the mic on? Better. Okay. Much depends on what you're going to ask for. Okay. All
right. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Mayor Jerry Proctor, Attorney, 7600 Red Road, South Miami. Uh, I'm joined by my client, Robert Rubin. I have an exemption request, very limited, very narrow in
scope, but a little different than what you've been talking about. Um, Mr. Uh Ruben and his partners own about 2 acres of property in the um uh in the Southwest neighborhood. Uh
their property is on the north side of Southwest 4th Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue. And as I said, it's about 2 acres. uh their property is zoned
uh in the southwest neighborhood and it is designated as neighborhood mixed use. Um we have a specific need and have spoken already to to staff about
developing a project that has residential only. It does not have mixed use. And under the neighborhood mixeduse part of your southwest neighborhood code, the code requires or the code
allows residential only on the second floor or higher. And we want to be able to seek the approval of the council in an ordinance to amend that for certain properties, not all properties, but
certain properties in the southwest neighborhood area. Um, as someone said earlier, that's a subject for a different day and it could be voted up or voted down, but we want to have that opportunity. We think our development
checks a lot of the other boxes that the city is looking for. It's affordable housing. It's about 32 units. Uh, and it's located in an area where the city is encouraging development. It's not a large development. Um but we need and
and the other kind of special characteristic or unique characteristic we are expanding our property slightly to purchase two properties from the city which you have heard in recent weeks and months
property that we're purchasing from the CRA. And so we have a development approval for our property through a prior owner that goes back about four years, but we want to develop something that we that is different. That is we
think nicer and that incorporates a little bit of additional property uh and has residential all the way to the ground floor does not contain commercial. the ordinance that you adopted 11 months
ago uh does not allow text amendments of this type uh text amendments that would increase the possibility of multifamily residential uh and I think that's the main reason
that we're here. I have language that I'll read that's very sightsp specific. It doesn't carry over to the entire area, but I'll read this language and then I'll put it in the record as well as our property folio
numbers. The language reads to be exempt property in the southwest neighborhood located between Southwest 5 Avenue and Southwest 6th Avenue north of Southwest 4th Street where the property owner
seeks to add additional property under consideration for purchase from the city and request approval of a text amendment to the city code in a neighborhood mixeduse sub area and to
seek approval of a new site plan that would replace a plan approved in 2021. Um, we don't uh we don't think we're going to have a shovel in the ground in the next six
months, but we want to explore these opportunities uh and these requirements, including an ordinance with the city uh in order to be shovel ready, if you will, when we get to the end of this
year or the early part of next year. Um, I'll I'll submit this language and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Let me ask Mr. White and maybe maybe I misunderstood what what you said, Mr.
Proctor, that the language of the existing moratorum prohibits text amendments. Is that correct? Yes. The existing language prohibits a comp plan text amendment or a code text
amendment that would uh increase multifamily development. And so Mr. Proctor has a project that was previously approved that includes mixeduse commercial and
residential. It's my understanding that um they want to modify that site plan. But in order to modify that site plan that's contingent on possible comp plan amendments and zoning code amendments to
realize they're proposed. I haven't seen it. I've just briefly spoken to Mr. Proctor about it. I I'm struggling to justify having this conversation in the context of
extending the moratorum. um because it seems to be so narrowly focused. It's thinking out loud. Pretty narrowly focused that the guy next door across the street's going to say, "Hey,
give me one of those exemptions." Also, now big picture, this body has had the conversation that the Southwest master plan has overkill on mixed use and that
and we even looked at the maps and the colors and again back when Mr. Guzman was here as vice mayor, we talked about this is really seems to be excessive mandates for mixed use. I guess I'd look
to the attorneys to to to to thread the needle to to find a way to accommodate this if there's a because clearly you're not going to be out of
the gate early prematurely or uh you know violating the moratorum. Um well with regards to the language if you all Yeah. that would allow Mr. Proctor's client to
start applying for a site plan amendment in whatever comp plan or code text amendment is necessary. Um, and so but it just wouldn't be brought to you within that
six-month time frame for approval or denial. M just like we talked about a general project in excess of six units per acre has the right to apply this situation could also be
covered with with language in the that's so yeah now let me ask Mr. Does does that solve your problem if it can't be heard prior to 6
months from the expiration of the moratorum? I don't have a strong objection as long as the council can take up the code amendment. the code amendment. Uh we could take up a code amendment but certainly it can't
be implemented as to a property prior to the expiration of the moratorum. I think that would be acceptable. Well, the way the way that this you would not be able to take it up. This would be a private initiated development that's associated with a project that they're seeking
approval for at least I think. Right. I mean, the the alternative of this is that you could modify the section that provided for specific exemptions. Yeah, we could amend the code, but they can't avail
themselves of it until 6 months. Well, I I think it might be problematic with them even applying to amend the code, right? Depends on depends on how this is being teed up. I'm not sure how the applications are all going to but if we teed it up in the context of hey we've had the discussion that there's too much
mixeduse mandate that's initiated by council and staff rather than a specific property owner and then we're not spot zoning so to speak. I'm not sure if this helps. The code
amendment that we have in mind is something that would apply to numerous properties in the southwest neighborhood, not just our property. Uh we've looked at it with with staff and
we've devised what from a planning standpoint, what we think is a sound proposal. We don't want to the the message we received as a kind of as a communitywide review is we don't want to get rid of mixed use through the entire
area. And so um the amendment that would come forward irrespective of who sponsors it at least in my discussion up until now would would apply to the entire area.
I'm not sure if that helps or answers your question. Let's let's do this. This has to have a second reading. Correct. That is correct. So, let's move forward tonight on first reading with what we've already
discussed and perhaps you and Mr. White and others can put your heads together, make a pile of rocks and figure out some additional language that we could bring in at second reading. Okay. I'll get um what I've entered, I'll submit it to the
clerk and await await the decision. Very good. All right. So, I think we have a motion and a second before us to on first reading to approve with those issues that that we discussed. Certainly, we have an understanding there may be additional changes at
second reading if we can find a way to appropriately accommodate that without opening the Pandora's box. So any public comment on this item? This on the on the moratorum on
the extension of the building moratorum. Hello everyone. Just um coming up here to express get your name and address for the record. Alexander Carbajal. I'm a mom and pop builder for a small little lot in the southwest area coming to
express um my concerns about the moratorum and uh given how you guys have expressed yourselves about how you feel and considering that you're going to drop the square footage on the moratorum I think that's I'm more than pleased. Um I would like to see the infrastructure
built out within a reasonable time period. Um, I understand everything takes its time and process, but for the most part, I think I'm pleased and I just wanted to thank you guys and uh for uh taking um me and a couple of our friends into consideration with this
moratorum. I think we should be able to move forward with our projects and that's basically it. Very good. Thank you. Anyone else speaking on the ex six month sixth month final
extension probably the last moratorium to ever be enacted in the state of Florida to come to the podium and give us your uh name and address for the record. How you doing mayor? How you doing? Council Roino um also have a lot on the
southwest 640 10th a um I appreciate you guys. Thank you for taking the time and was mom and pop. Uh the father, husband, a a brother, a fireman also. We came together to build a lot. And um I know you were asking the
size. Um the plan stay where we could build a nice single family, 1700 ft. It's not going to be anything small. Something nice, high ceilings really bring life to the community and continue to see the city of Homestead. Very good. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Appreciate you coming tonight. Anyone
else? Yes, thank you. I wanted to just uh at least from my recollection is that when we enacted the moratorum, we had considered lifting it potentially in phases starting with the southwest area. So, this is in line with what I I think
our original intentions were and I do want to thank uh Councilman Davis for opening up that discussion, but um I appreciate the the consideration for the Southwest area and for these properties. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right.
So, let's have a roll call vote on the first reading of the extension of the moratorum. Vote member Roth. Yes. Board member Davis. Yes. Board member Avula. Yes. Bo member Cannibal. Board member Bailey. Vice Chairman
Fletcher. Yes. Chairman Losner. Yes. The motion carries. Very good. Um any uh final comments from council on any matter, Mr. Cook, any further business?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, Mr. Attorney. Nothing at this time. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And where's Mr. Ventura? I don't want him to run off tonight. We're going to need you for our next meeting. So, we'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.
Moved and seconded. All in favor? Any opposed? We will convene the regular council meeting momentarily. And she tells me she Well, good evening everyone and welcome. Like to call to order the city
of Homestead regular city council meeting. Today is Tuesday uh Wednesday May 28th 2025 and it is now 6:50 p.m. This evening we will have the invocation by Pastor Luna Alvarado of
Ministerio Pentecostal Laroka Eterna followed by the pledge of allegiance with Councilman Cannibal and the Homestead Police Explorers. Please rise everyone. Is the pastor here? There you are.
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for the opportunity. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Dear heavenly father, thank you for bringing us together this evening as leaders and neighbors here in the city of Homestead. We're grateful for the council members that serve this vi vibrant and diverse community as we
all call home. As we begin this council meeting, we ask for your wisdom and guidance. help approach each topic with open minds and caring hearts. May everyone listen to one another with respect, seek solutions that uplift our residents, and work together for the
good of our city. That this be a reminder for everyone's role um is to serve God, not just with policy, but with purpose and compassion. Bless everyone, Lord, in this room and everyone in our homestead community. May all decisions tonight help make the city
an even better place to live, work, and grow. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Left, left, left, right, left. [Music] United
States and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. We have a roll call, please. Councilman Cannibal, Councilwoman Abula, here. Councilman Ross, Councilman Davis, here. Councilwoman Bailey, here. Vice Mayor
Fletcher here. Mayor Losner here. All right, we're at the uh the portion of our agenda while we where we allow general public comment limited to three
minutes per person. Um first I will take those who have clocked in. I think a couple of you have already spoken with respect to the moratorum that filled out a uh a signin sheet.
Um Mr. Aguero, are you still with us? Raphael Aguero, are you still with us here? Now, you registered uh yesterday to to speak regarding moratorum and two other items. Mr.
Aguero. Okay. Um I Mr. Mr. Power, I see that that you registered, but it's with respect to a specific item. So, you're good. We will hear from you at at that point. All
right, that uh covers that. Is there anyone online? Is there anyone else in the audience wishing to speak? Please. Hi, my name is Jessica Hake. I'm from Chefs on the Ren. We are located in
downtown Homestead in the historic district. I have um emailed all of you about why I'm here today, but I took notes just in case. Um I'm here because about the 24th of April, we
were told by the code enforcement that we were no longer allowed to have an A-line sign outside. And although I understand that it is right now under legislation to change, I'm requesting if we can have a temporary pass. We are
losing anywhere from $300 to $400 daily because people don't know that we're open. If you would like to see my numbers, I will show them to you. People don't know that we're open. Downtown Homestead was already a ghost town and not having signs outside is putting a
tombstone on all of us. We need some sort of signage that says outside. Now, I get it that I'm allowed a sign. I I read what it says and a couple of you have been kind enough to describe that to me. I get it. But right now, if until
that changes, if we can have an A-line sign outside, I had it out of the pedestrian's way. I'm ADA compliant. I'm requesting this not only for myself, but for other businesses. Is that a possibility? I have already a petition going because I already spoke
to Miami Day Commissioner. She has requested for me to have a petition going. I started that two weeks ago. We have over 250 signatures. We need this signage outside. Okay, if that's a possibility, that
would be great. That's why I'm here. And of course, you already know that Chefs on the Run helps the community anytime that we get. We've been there for 14 years. We know that a lot of businesses use us as a beacon of hope. We were at Southeast Wine Festival for 10 years in
a row. We give a lot. We're only asking for this sign outside. Okay. Thank you for your time. Um, well, no, that's that's fine. I, you know, this is, you know, a hot button
topic. I've seen the petition. There are a lot of folks outside the city who have signed the petition and yes, you know, anyone wanted to weigh in on this. There's got to be an alternative
to allowing you to continue to do an an unpermitted act. I mean, if it's an issue of letting people know you're open, is is there an overhang on your
building? Because this is an issue of putting a sign on public property. It doesn't matter that it's out of the way. It doesn't matter that it's ADA compliant. It is an issue that is it is on public property. That's that's the
baseline issue that I I tried to convey to you. And it's not that you're no longer allowed to do that. After many many years of neglect, we are finally trying to enforce our code. It started at your end of the I
understand that you're I understand that for the past 14 years I've been allowed to do that and I also understand that for the past three terms you've been our mayor, right? So you you we should have been warned, hey, this is this
legislation is going to change and we we should have been pre-warned and told this is not going to happen. The re I know that I'm allowed to sign a light box. I don't have the money for that. You know, as I know that I've been four years trying to put an awning outside.
So, it's one thing after another. That that awning outside has taken every dime that we've had and it closed my patio for a year and a half. So, there's a lot going on. And even though businesses weren't able to show up, there are businesses that are signing. There are
businesses that are saying they need this sign. But as small businesses, as you already know, every small business is on a tight margin. No one can afford to get extra help and they have to be at their establishments. I'm here because my husband's able to be
there. I'm only requesting a temporary as far as that concerned. And then once you have it in legislation, then everyone needs to follow it. But as of right now, no one knows that we're open. There's people calling me saying, "Are you open?" Because your sign doesn't say
it. And it is out of the way. And I understand that it is public property, but I put those palm trees there that I was told to take out a year ago and I took them out without a problem. I was never told even then, hey, you're not even allowed to have a sign there. I'm
just saying that the message wasn't correctly given. I get it. And you know, privately we can have a conversation about the state of code enforcement then versus now and and why,
but you know, and not not to belabor the point tonight. We certainly want to help and support and promote our small businesses downtown. We know you've been there a long time. and we'll sit with our code enforcement, public works, and manager and see what see how we can
thread that needle to to help you stop losing business. Okay. I spoke to the officer and he explained to me that unless you all agree to do a temporary pass, he doesn't have that authority. Well, and I don't know
that he even has the authority to tell you that. Right. Well, I mean, I was I asked because you're asking us to tell the manager to convey to his people, ignore the law. I'm not I'm not I'm not requiring to ignore the law. I am saying
that it's been ignored this long and we didn't know that. And what I am requesting is permission to have a temporary pass for all small businesses. The summer is already slow enough for all of us, right? This will help anybody be able to say,
"Hey, my barber shop is open or my beauty salon is open or chefs on the run is open." Okay, Councilman. Thank you, Mayor. Um, question to staff. Do other cities allow for signage to be put out? And could we come up with
some type of u ordinance that allows shopkeepers to display during business hours and then retract those signs when their businesses are
closed. I I don't know how other cities do, but I mean, I was in the restaurant business as well, and especially during the off season, things were slow in Homestead.
And I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I might have been violating the sign ordinance, too, back in the '9s when I painted my windows all the way up and down to just, you know, to attract business, right? Yeah. We still see it
along all over the city as it is. and and I and I and I get the other side of it too that we want to try to create some uh aesthetic improvements in the city as well, but I think um helping the
small businesses out by allowing them to display, we need to figure out a way to do something in the interimm uh and to help them out. I mean, I don't think what they had displayed was abusive, but we see others that are right. And I
think if we give them the rules to follow that, allow them to feel that the presence of the sign is helping them, that the presence of the sign, we're giving them the ability to help themselves as well. So, um I just I don't know what the solution
is. I don't think we can just say ignore. Uh I don't know that a temporary pass is the answer either. I think we need to make a permanent solution to something that helps the local businesses um not only in downtown
Homestead but throughout the city. So, I'll challenge you guys to at least come up with something. And I I I really think by the discussion I you know, there's bigger picture issues. And I think the discussion here sends a
message to the manager and his staff to try to find a stop gap solution to assist our downtown businesses, you know, first and foremost. And as you say, you know, citywide, but that's where the impact falls. Vice Mayor, I do
have a question for staff. Don't we have a like a facade grant uh process that we might be able to utilize? I know we had that at one time along Chrome Avenue to improve building facads that this might be able to put a sign over door over her
door rather than than the A-frame sign that's out there. Something to think about if if we have that available. Yeah. Uh mayor and council, this is something that is very complex. It deals with a lot of a lot of uh side issues. Uh my immediate county code actually
prohibits signs in public right away. State statute 479 prohibits signs in the public right away. So we I need to talk to the city attorney, find a way we can thread the needle and create some kind of signage that will be on private
property cuz I'm not sure that this council can pass an ordinance that can supersede the state law or Miami date county code. because we are sub subsidiary to them in terms of level of authority. So let's work with the city attorney and find how
we can create accommodation for private property areas not on sidewalks. Sidewalks are part of public streets. I wasn't on the sidewalk. No, I'm not referring to you're making general statements. I understand. So it's not specific to your situation. give us time to talk to the
city attorney to look ways and means of creating a solution if any is available. So So if you weren't on the sidewalk, the code officer explained that an AON sign wasn't permitted. Correct. And I
took it out immediately and I haven't put it back on and I know other businesses that are and they would prefer getting a violation because it's affecting their business. I followed the rules. Okay. And the reason I haven't applied for that grant that you spoke about is because the rules say in CRA
that until I am finished with my awning, I can't apply for another. That's why my my my track record is always to follow what is there. So when this it it it it was shocking because I didn't know what I was doing
and if I would have started my business without the sign then it would be it would be fair, right? But I was told since the very beginning and I understand that I was told wrong that I get it because I understand your email. But I was told that you were allowed to put a sign outside and then you were
allowed to bring it back inside every night. If you left your sign outside, you were responsible for they, you know, the code enforcement would pick it up. You would have to pay for I get that. I never violated any of that. And it was again, it was always out of the way and
I only put it there so people could know that we were open. And we were so long not open inside for changing things that we had to do after CO that it literally there's one sign that says dine in open so people would know because we were consistently
getting are you open inside? So it's just it it's it's really just a matter of trying to survive. No, we we get that and many of us have been in those business situations where you certainly understand that and very sympathetic.
It's interesting though because I was under the impression that let's say if you had an al cove into a doorway, a shop behind the sidewalk that A-ine signs were permitted. And since you contacted me two or three weeks ago,
I've kind of been more attuned to that. And just today, I saw two A-frame signs behind the sidewalk in front of a very prominent antique shop.
So, what's got to be It's good for the goose is good for the gander. I believe in this case, the sign was on the grass area. After the sidewalk on the grass area, which is still public, right? Perfect. and and I did read the
email and as I had mentioned the the explanation is is on point and my recommendation was to potentially modify the existing awning um application with the CRA to include the signage application as soon as possible or to
allow the dual processing of the additional sign application if that's an option. But um you know this is a challenge say we got to find a way to thread the needle. Exactly. So yeah, as a as a stop gap measure and bigger picture, right? And just for council's uh knowledge, I I have been in
communication with our city attorneys to try to work on drafting something to come back for our consideration uh for businesses like yourself to showcase um you know different kinds of signage, not just the A-frame signage. So we're working on it, but it will take time. So
we have to let staff kind of So what do we do right now? Am I allow I mean I know that he's saying that it's a very um strict um restrictions and that Miami date doesn't allow it but what can we do
right now to let people know that we're open? People are driving people are not looking at buildings to see. People are driving forward. How can we How can we tell people that we're open? I can't I'm not asking for balloons. I'm not asking for a big, you
know, running guy or anything. I'm I'm simply asking for an A-line sign for small businesses that that need it. You know, there's businesses on Washington Avenue. There's businesses on on Mallerie that used to have signs
out. What can we get to? And I know you guys don't meet for the summer, right? You do meet in the summer. Absolutely. And I know that first thing in the morning, this is going to be a topic of conversation among staff, right? to see where we can go short term and bigger
picture. Okay? And that doesn't help you tomorrow, but I'm telling you the process is going to start tomorrow. Okay? So, who do I contact and how quickly am I able to put a sign back outside because after July 4th, we are super
dead and I need to be able to function again. Right. Mr. manager. Who who would be a point of contact? So, the point of contact for the city of Miami is going to be me, my office, city of Miami. Sorry, city of Homestead. I
apologize. I was reading I hope that's not a Freudian slip. No, it's not. I was reading actually a case. The county placed a big hammer on city of Miami. That's why I mentioned that. Um, this is something that is very sensitive. You don't want the city of Homestead to be
placed in conflict with the county. That's why I mentioned that we need to speak to the city attorney first. There are certain areas in the Miami date county code in chapter 2-103 that creates some kind of wiggle room on how he can tread our needle. But I need to
seek his legal opinion before I can even express myself. That's why I said give us time to look into this. If you're expecting me to say that tomorrow you're allowed to put out signs in the public streets, I will be misleading you. I understand that. But the urgency in my
voice is we're losing money and we're not the only business losing money and we don't have salaries. We work paycheck to paycheck. All businesses. So that is the urgency in my voice. Ma'am, if I have a solution by tomorrow
morning, trust me, this council will be back under a special call to consider that. Right now, I don't have that solution until I speak to him. Okay. And um as far as then I should also speak to be speaking to the commissioner too,
right? Miami Dade commissioner because I already spoke to her two weeks ago. I'm not. She has no jurisdiction here. Oh, that's what I thought because he mentioned Miami Dade. So that's why I was that's the only reason why I was mentioning it. So I thought that maybe
hey can I can I expedite any process? So let let me let the city attorney pie waiting on this. Okay. Okay. Okay, I just want to manage expectations here. So, Miami Day County has a sign code. We as the city and municipalities are subject to that sign code. They preempt
the city in certain regards. So, there's two issues here. There's one with A-frame signs, right? Sandwich board signs. We can allow for those in the city if we don't if if if they're not listed as a permitted sign, we could allow for those. That's not the issue.
The issue is signage in the rightway and that's going to be the the the thing that we're going to have to look at that we're going to have examined because there are multiple layers in multiple issues that come along if you open that door.
Yeah. Hi. Can I lean it on the building then? Cuz he said she said that's the rightway, right? The grass area is the rightway. And until we have the proper side, would it be if it's on the sidewalk, can I lean it? No, the sidewalk. The sidewalk and the grass
area out to the to the curb, the back side of the curb is uh right of way public land, you know, and that's that's probably, you know, your your question is probably best answered by that be
development services or sign placement. Yeah, you know, temporary in terms of put it up in the morning and put it away at night. Correct. So, even if we were to permit the A-frame um sign, still an element in the code that says that you
have to be at least five feet from the rightway. I don't know if she can even achieve that. Well, how does window signage comply then? If you have a building that's on the rightway line and you put a sign in your window, how is that compliant?
So for the sake of discussion, you know, the window is part of the structure of the building. Um um a freestanding sign is not so it can be an obstruction. Okay, we're going to thread the needle on this just as fast as we Okay, as we
can now. And not to belver the point, but bigger picture as we start to talk about or as we've talked about widening sidewalks to allow outdoor dining. And we've all seen in other jurisdictions where restaurants have
dedicated platforms that are out actually in the rightway and and and cannibalized parking spaces. And some of those may have the name of the restaurant painted on the side of that that dining box. You know, how does that
how does that happen? So, those are going to be have to be things that we're going to look at as we begin to enhance what we all talk about outdoor dining on Chrome Avenue, but that's another discussion for another day. Okay. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any further public comment? There's one online. All right. Online. Who's online with us? Ram. Romero. You're on. Mr. How are we doing? Hi. Hi. We're at 2040 South 19th Street
Homestead. Um just uh couple things. Um stuff on the run. Great restaurant. It's we can probably give him like a a a temporary pass um so you guys can figure this thing out just to help small business. Um also um um we are in favor
for the six month additional moratorum um with the new construction going on now and the traffic I I don't think we can allow anything at this point until these are actually completed and maybe we can work on the road. Um also I I I
have two questions. one for council and one for chief uh chief not maybe you there uh council um last year late last year you guys were proposing cameras in school zone um you
you mentioned that you were going to implement it in early 2025 what happened to that and are we still moving forward with that and for chief nap um many people are concerned with the uh increase in mass deportations especially
in Homestead. Does Homestead HPD have a current task force with ICE? Thank you. Let let me address the your question with respect to the speed cameras in
school zones. They were approved several months ago and last I heard they were still in permitting to be installed. So yes, I would imagine that certainly by the time school opens in late August, early
September that those speed detecting cameras will be in operation in the city limits. Chief, yes. So to answer your question, we our primary responsibility is public safety
in the city of Homestead. Uh we do have partnerships with many other federal agencies, DEA, ATF, FBI. We also now have a relationship with ICE. We have not done any operations with them.
What's that? Is he still there? Okay. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. And and just a a a followup with all the for the uh cameras. Um with all the issues that Miami date is having with the bus, do you guys foresee the the same issues or
um have we come up with a solution in other jurisdictions? that issue that with the speeding cameras uh that you know trying to make the analogy to the to the school bus cameras has has not
manifested itself at all. Entirely different system, different parameters. Gotcha. Thank you, mayor. Have a good night. Thank you. Good night. All right, last shot. Any further public comment? Yes, ma'am.
You need to come to the podium and give us your name and address for the record. Good evening to all. Um, hi, my name is Dafany Alan Santana. I live here in the city of Homestead. Uh, I'm here uh this evening to speak on behalf of myself
uh and my children. I have two children with disabilities. Uh and uh I live here, as I said, I work here and I like to um bring my children uh to the Chrome Avenue, right? Uh on the days off, um
for ice cream or sometimes uh for a little treat or for dinner. Uh both of them has disabilities. Um and I think that uh working out or finding a happy medium uh for the signs that the
businesses is very important uh because it's part of efficient uh communication and also safety against in regards to those that do have disabilities and other impairments. Um so please let's
find a way to um work something out um for the signs. Um because we I know the city is thriving um but we uh the people that live here are what make homestead
um and I think it's very important as I said for efficient communication uh and a lot of people with disabilities are um how can I say visual right uh and uh they see the signs they see the
colors Uh and also a lot of the signs for the disabled uh the letters are so small and they're so tiny. Um and and I think it's important uh for all of us to
to find that happy medium. So thank you this evening and thank you for your time. Thank you for coming tonight. Appreciate it. Okay, I will now close the public comment section of this
meeting. Now, Mr. Manager, I understand we do we have any additions, deletions, or deferrals? I understand there's one addition we need to uh to add to the uh Yes, Mr. Mayor. We have an addendum to the agenda. Uh car number
4627 is being added to the agenda which is a resolution to approve event production and management for race to the fourth event. This is the 4th of July event that we hope to accomplish and we need the services of a professional production team to assist
us. So need a motion to add this to the agenda and we will consider it later in the evening. Moved by the vice mayor, seconded by Councilman Davis. Any commentary? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. With that, if there is no
objection, I would like to jump to tab number 24 with respect to the presentation of the development of uh what we've historically called the baseball complex or the the Homestead
Sports Complex. We're on moving to tab 24 at this point. Thank you. Is the mic on? There we go. Here I am.
Good evening, Mr. Mayor, vice mayor, city council members, uh, Mr. City Manager, and city staff. My name is Christopher Panellis. Uh I'm an attorney at Acreman LLP with law offices located at 98 Southeast 7th Street in the city of Miami, Florida. This evening I'm
joined uh by my colleague Dennis Carbell and also uh the architect for the project Christian Peshin from Labella Architects and our principles JP Ranal and Dario Salo who's the CEO of our proposal. Uh before I get into the substance of
our project, um I'm pleased to report that we do have the support of the South A EDC as well as the South Chamber of Commerce. And before I begin, I would just like to give Miss Lisa Greer an opportunity to speak on the record. Um and then we'll get into the substance of
our presentation. Very good. Thank you. Honorable mayor and council members, thank you for letting me come up here. I am Lisa Greer and I'm represented as the chair of the economic development council for South Miami Dade as well as a board member of the South Dade Chamber. The EDC and the South Dade
Chamber have been following this project for a good eight months. Um, and we would like to make note that the project itself we're very much in support of its original location. We were not in support of because it was close to the
Homestead Air Reserve base. So given the 10,000 seat multiplepurpose stadium that's proposed, multiple other sports courts and activities, benefits to the city, job creation, uh we expressly encourage the council to continue
discussions with the developer for a long-term lease because we are in favor of the proposed location here in Homestead. So I thank you for your time. Thank you. Appreciate you coming. Thank you, Miss Greer. So, with that, I just want to give a brief summary of of
our uh development team and the shareholders that make up VSGS facilities. Uh oftent times you have a a name of an entity um and not familiar with the individuals who are behind it. Um, and I just wanted to point out that that our shareholder team and and uh
owners of this proposed development include former gold medalist, NBA champions, uh, renowned coaches and managers, developers, professional tennis players, CEOs, and Hall of Famers. uh this team is well positioned to bring this project to a reality to
finance this project and bring something that's really special here to the city of Homestead that benefits both the economic community and the citizens at large. Uh with that I'm going to ask our architect uh Mr. Christian Pes to come up go through the site plan um and then
I will have a brief presentation about the benefits and our proposed term sheets and the asks. Thank you Chris. Honor honorable mayor council members thank you for the opportunity to present the Homestead Sports Complex to you. My name is Christian Patchet. I lead sports and
entertainment and public venues practice at Lavel Associates. We're one of the leading architecture engineering firms in this um type of work. One of the things that we do and we're very proud of is that we create um sports complexes
that we call uh the community's playground and we create uh stadium facilities that we call community hubs. And I will show you how we're doing this in Homestead. Um there was a plan that was approved previously for the same
location and one of the things that uh we've done working very closely uh with the client is to try to make sure that everything that was included in that plan is also included here and more uh you can see in green uh all of the uh
areas that we've actually increased the capacity of what was included in the earlier plan that was approved. You can see in yellow uh the items that actually remain the same. And the only thing that is missing is that there's two uh baseball fields
that were there that we haven't included because we wanted to have a wider variety of mix of assets for the community and uh there was a a running track that no longer fits there uh that there may be a possibility to include on
nearby land. Uh one of the big new items obviously is the multi-use stadium uh which will is a multi-use facility uh that will uh include uh that will be uh capable of uh having soccer, American
football, lacrosse, rugby concerts and it also is being designed to host rodeo. This is the plan. Uh you can see through the bullet points uh what where everything is. Uh as you can see there's three major zones uh we have to deal
here with uh the APZ zone. That's the accidential accident potential zone where we can't congregate more than 25 people per acre. What we have done is that we haven't included any part of the program there. Uh there are three basketball courts that you can see as
number eight there. uh which we've that were there in the exact position in the previous plan that we have left there. Uh there's number 12 which is a pump track which is a track uh that was proposed that is for you know cycling
and uh you know skateboarding and rollerblading and different kinds of uh wheeled activities that can be used there which we uh have uh left there to meet the the criteria. Uh the rest is open spaces and parking but not places
really where people congregate. And obviously on number nine you can see that we have two baseball fields uh that were there before that are remaining there. Another zone is the zone where you can see the fields. We have six fields. One which is a hybrid grass. The
rest of them are synthetic turf which means that it can be used uh in as in as a hightra service that can also be used by the community and it will be rem remained uh u uh well and won't require a lot of maintenance. We have um tennis
courts, we have pickle ball courts, uh we have two uh volleyball courts that were before in the APZ that we have been able to locate next to uh the racket sports center which is number 10 there as you can see in the plan. Uh you see
number 16 and 17 there. That's one of the central aspects of what the client is proposing which is uh an academy. It's an academy uh that we imagine like a high school where uh you have uh students that have are aspiring to be
elite athletes and they will receive specialized training uh in sports. It's thought of as a campus. As you can see, it has a courtyard where, you know, the students are kind of protected in a private area where they can have
activities and swimming and so forth. Uh there's basketball facilities in there. Uh you can imagine them as a gym that can be used for many different things, sports performance center, and some offices as well. Uh, one of the interesting things about the design, and I will show you several renderings where you will be able to see this, is that as
you go west on that facility, it's only one story. It's the terraces that you see to the left on that facility that says PH. And then as you go east, it turns into two stories, three stories, four stories, and then five stories because we are kind of acknowledging
that there's a residential area that goes east of that and that we want to maintain the heights low until you start going towards the right. Obviously, it's located across from the existing high school. So, it has a similar program as well. And then the third area that I'd like to point out is the stadium itself.
It's located uh near the lake. It's a very strategic position because we are as far away as you can be from the residential area and also it creates a very nice civic space outside of the APZ zone where we can have docks and walks all around it and a lot of civic space
where you can have art walks and you can have uh farmers markets and you can have all kinds of events around it 247 365 days a week. And then uh the the stadium itself uh I will show you that has that west building that is connected to the
park and to that walkway which is aos that that tends to be a hospitality area. We have uh congregation spaces, we have kitchens, we have events spaces that are part of what we call the community hub that will be available to
the community in different dates for you know clubs, uh voting sessions, uh community meetings, etc. as well. I will expand a little bit on that. And then number 14 is a hotel that has been strategically placed to the furthest
south spot on that site uh with the terraces facing south. And then you have views uh with a platform that you can see that has parking underneath that look overlooks the actual field or rodeo area uh with very limited views north
because there's a video board uh that screens that off and you will be able to see it on the renderings. So pictures speak louder than words. These are some of the images that we created so you could visualize the project. You see the stadium there on the southwest and how
everything's located outside the APZ zone. This is a view from the uh southwest looking north. This is a view from the northwest looking south. This is the park.
I just wanted to briefly show you what I was talking about this concept that I actually speak often at conferences about which is the stadium is the community hub. So you can see on the top which is the west side which is connected to the park area. You can see there's a pitch club. The pitch club has
bathrooms. There's concessions and there's also a commissary kitchen. This is a catering space. You could imagine it akin like you would have in a in a hotel that you have these event spaces. It's very much what it is. Obviously, during games, it operates as an area
where people can be and get a drink and get food, but off off event spaces that can become part of the community hub. You can see there's stairs that lead to a second floor. So, there's a total of 8,775 square feet on that first floor
for event space. And when you go to the second floor, uh it gets much larger. You have a large club lounge that has dining areas, that has warming kitchens, that has sweet areas that serve as offices. Obviously, all of it overlooking uh the field, which is actually quite nice. And then you have
two large terraces, all of it combined, summing up to about 34,548 square ft of event space that will be available to the community for events on specific dates. This is a view of the um stadium.
uh uh slash rodeo uh with a hotel view. You can see that it's a five-story building with a rooftop. Um there's two canopies on the on the on the east and the west that actually served for uh lighting the stadium. So you only have lights in the north and the south to minimize the amount of lighting that
there is. You can see part of the concept that on the vertical surfaces is the homestead sunset and on the horizontal surfaces it's the sky. We're using a lot of organic elements to kind of uh mimic what we're seeing here. There's a lot of
nature. There's the ocean. There's the Everglades. And we really wanted to incorporate some of those organic elements on there as well. This is a view. So, the stadium is being designed. So, from a technical point of view, and we've done this before, uh it operates as a as a rodeo.
So, you will be able to fit the you know, the trucks will be able to pull in. They'll be able to have the will have all the gates that uh that you need to be able to technically operate that and it uh it will be capable to have uh 16 inches of sand brought in and out for these events that we'll have once a
year. Some of the views of the fields. This is the racket sports. One of the things that we're doing is that we're adding shaded structures all over uh strategically so there's always an area that can be shaded. um underneath those shaded structures, we're going to
provide the right amount of bathrooms and concessions. So, there will always be uh these facilities that will be available for to the community as well. The bathrooms that we have on the stadium itself, some of them will face two ways in the concessions as well. So, they'll be part of the infrastructure of
the parking facilities as well. Uh some of the tennis courts have grandstands around them. The concept is that there can be you know championship championships and uh places where the youth leagues can have some uh event spaces as
well. This is some views of the of the uh PH of the academy. So the first floor is learning center. You could imagine that's a high school and as you move up those are dorms. That's where the students live. And those two big blocks towards the back that are leaned against that residential building are where you
have the offices and you have the the gym so to speak and the basketball courts and so forth. And then you have a large courtyard where they have swimming pools and they can have most of their campus activities. And the building you see in the back there is a residential building that will be part of the community. We're going to have a lot of
parents from different countries that are going to be coming here and that they're going to be staying um as well. Those are around 150 units on that building. So, uh, we prepared these
sections just to, uh, speak to some of the concerns that the Air Force may have as well. Uh, some of those have to do with heights and some of those have to do with lighting. And that's what these, uh, slides are about. Uh, you can see here, and it's hard to read on on the screen, but, uh, the highest point that
we have in any building here is around 65 ft. which is uh not a very uh tall building. Uh the lights as we're showing it here, they're around uh 90 ft, which would be the highest element in the entire project. We can bring them down a
little bit, but that would be standard. Uh so we hope that that's okay, but we can always bring them down. And the second tallest item is the video board, which I believe stands 85 ft. Uh the video board is also uh a kind of a
screen because one of the items that was uh uh brought to to us is that they don't uh the air force does not want views from the hotel north towards the air force. So this is kind of one of the screening points of uh from the terraces
from the the platform that we have in front of the hotel. So you're actually looking at the screen. Obviously it's one of the important points that you have in entertainment when you have a game. It brings everybody together. If we have concerts here, that's also a very important element uh for for
concerts as well. And this is an example that I wanted to bring forward of another project. This is not a rendering. This is an actually uh built project in Colorado. And we did this to show how
modern lighting systems, it's very technical lighting. uh we can provide 100 foot candles even across the entire field with zero light spillage. So this is actually at night. This is Claro Springs. This is an area where uh light pollution was very important and same
thing with sound. We do the same thing contain it. Uh here you can see from above within 10 ft there is zero light spillage. Uh this is the kind of lighting we use. It uses special lenses. It uses a special masking and cut off points uh that we make sure that the
light is actually pointing towards the field and not people's eyes. And certainly it won't be something that is going to disturb any uh kind of uh air force uh plants. And finally, I have an animation to show you just so you can
see it in real time what it might look like. And hopefully the place now Yeah, somebody can press play on that. Maybe it got turned into a PDF instead of the PowerPoint. If it did get
turned into a PDF, I think that you've seen enough. That was a nice Thank you. So, I've asked my colleague Dennis to send the uh animation to it. Hopefully, we can get that up and in the in the interimm I'll uh to go through the rest of the presentation uh to be efficient
with everybody's time. So, just real brief, I mean, look, obviously what you've seen today and what Mr. Pesin has presented is a preliminary concept plan. Our goal would be hopefully pending your direction this evening uh to work with city officials, work with relevant stakeholders uh to make sure that this
park is something that works for everybody in the community um and functions in a way that's respectful to the existing community uh and to existing operations. Uh we've also submitted into the record and you all have seen a proposed uh term sheet. Um and that proposed term sheet kind of
outlines uh what our our proposed deal to the city would look like. Obviously, that's going to be pending negotiation and pending your direction uh this evening and negotiations uh with the city manager and and the city attorney. Uh but just high level a few points that
I want to point out. Our investment to build the concept plan uh that was shown to you this evening is approximately 275 million. Uh that investment uh my client is prepared to finance that uh develop, operate and maintain those facilities at
no cost to the city. Uh we are not seeking any uh any grants or any financing from the city to build these improvements. Um the development as you saw will include park facilities, a sports academy and multi-purpose a stadium that can be used for events um
soccer franchise and also the uh homestead championship rodeo. Uh we we're we through our lease we are going to be guaranteeing public access to those facilities uh that are provided as part of the Homestead Sports Complex. We are also going to pay our taxes and we
are hoping to receive an expedited timeline to build these improvements as quickly as possible. So, additional public benefits in addition to the in in addition to developing the park and maintaining it and operating it at no cost to the city,
uh we're also uh uh profering uh to operate a non-residential sports academy, give 10 scholarships to uh uh children who reside within the city of Homestead. We're offer also profering a quarter of a million dollars to fund other park improvements throughout the
city uh to give access to other residents. Uh obviously as I mentioned before dedicated times for city use u and dedicated use uh by the homestead championship rodeo to take advantage of that multi-purpose uh uh complex that we
decided and designed in that manner. Uh economic benefits I just wanted to point out this economic uh the economic benefits outlined here were based on our previous study. We're pending an update to that study which we uh will have prepared uh before we come back before
you um so that you guys can review in greater details. But again, we estimate about $275 million investment. We we believe it's going to be about 4,300 jobs created during construction of the proposed improvements, about 610
permanent jobs after stabilization of the project. Um and then obviously payment of the relevant building permit fees and impact fees to the city as well as the reoccurring revenue of taxes uh and other uh uh impositions as time goes on. Um with that I do want to close
before we before I give my client an opportunity to come up and speak or closing remarks. I do just want to point out uh what our ask is this evening. Um, our ask is that you direct the city the city administration to begin negotiations with my client so that we
can come back to you in July with a fullyfledged contract to make this project a reality. Uh, internally my client does have certain business timelines and business considerations specifically in relation uh to the franchise uh the soccer franchise that
they plan on relocating to this multi-purpose stadium that do expire uh at the end of July. So timeline is is of the utmost importance here. We are here ready, willing and able to facilitate any documentation, any studies that you
guys need, any additional information. Uh we are excited to partner with the city of Homestead. Uh but that is a limitation on our side. So, we would ask that tonight you would direct city administration uh to begin those negotiations, conduct the necessary due diligence uh to enter into that contract
and come back July 16th with a fullyfledged uh document uh for for consideration by this body. And with that, I would like to welcome uh JP and Daario for further commentary and closing. Thank you.
Mayor, city council members, my name is uh John Paul Reynol. I'm honored to stand here before you today joined by Dario Salah, CEO of the Sports Performance Hub. This is a very exciting initiative and I'd like to take a moment to introduce the team behind this
project. We're a group of world-class athletes and entrepreneurs who share a common vision for creating a state-of-the-art sports facility that benefits the community. Our team includes my partner Dio Salah,
professional soccer player with 18 years of experience, co-founder and general manager of professional soccer teams in Florida and known for community soccer programs for underprivileged kids in the United States. Juan Sebastian Baron, current president
and chairman of Estudantes Dea Plata, a professional soccer team in Argentina's Premier League and one of the greatest soccer players of all time, who brings his expertise in sports and community development. Manu Jenovi, four-time NBA
champion and basketball hall of famer who is passionate about giving back to the community throughout through sports. Juan Monaco, former top 10 ATP tennis player and CEO of Suma Sports Group, who's mentoring and supporting tennis players
globally. Martin Grammatica, Super Bowl champion with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who's running development programs for kids all across Florida. Ricardo Silva, owner of Miami FC and a seasoned investor in the Miami sports scene, having invested in the area for years
and demonstrating his commitment to the local community through sports. His expertise and passion for sports will be valuable asset to our project. Juan Masio Pep Sanchez, former Olympic gold medalist in basketball and founder of one of the top basketball
development centers in South America. Mariano Savaleta, former ATP player and board member of the Argentine Tennis Association, who is involved in development programs for tennis players in South America. Amidiano Fernandez Val, co-founder of DLo, a payments
company that is successfully he successfully took public on NASDAQ and co-founder of Suma Sports Group who brings this expertise in business growth and entrepreneurship. And finally, Gaton Remy, former CEO of DAO and recognized as one of the top CEOs in Latin America,
who provides strategic guidance and leadership. Our project aims to create a state-of-the-art sports facility that benefits the community by providing access to top-notch training facilities, promoting healthy lifestyles, and fostering community pride. With a focus
on youth development and empowerment, we're committed to creating a positive impact on the local community. We're proud to partner with the city of Homestead on this project, and we believe that it will bring numerous benefits to the community, including job
creation, economic growth, and increased access to sports facilities. We're committed to working together to make this project a success. And now, I'd like to hand it over to the CEO of the Sports Performance Hub, Dio Salah. Thank you,
John. Uh, final message for me and thank you so much for your time today. As we stand here today, I want to leave you with a vision of what this sport facility can mean for our community. Imagine a place where children can learn
teamwork, discipline, and perseverance through sports. A place where families can come together to cheer on their local teams and create lifelong memories. A place where athletes can train and compete at the highest level
and where our community can come together to build a brighter future. This facility is more than just a place to play sports. It's a catalyst for growth, development, and connection. is a symbol of what we can achieve if we
work together. I believe in this community and I believe in this project. Let's work together to make it reality. Thank you. So I I do believe we did get the animation up. So maybe we can close on that point and then I will open the
floor up to any questions that you may have uh from the council. So, with that, that does conclude our presentation. I want to thank you all for your time and consideration this evening, and we're here to answer any questions that you may have. Very good. Thank you. Before I open it up to
council, uh, Mr. Manager, is there anything you would like to add or or uh talk about up front? Uh Mr. Mayor and Council, um depending on which way council decides to go, I'll make a special ask at the end of presentation
and discussion. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Roth. Sure. Thank you. Waved first. I'll go first. What the heck? Um very impressive. I I I I like what I see. Um, I probably would have liked to have met with you in private, too. Yes,
sir. Um, but since I'm not afforded that opportunity, um, I'm going to air some concerns that I have absolutely for the project. one uh before I get into the project. Um staff, have have we seen or vetted the
financials to this organization that they have the ability to create and do what they say they're going to do? Uh Council Member No, thank you.
Um, some of you may not even remember or may not even been in the city when LA Sports came through here. Did somebody laugh? Okay. So, there's a little bit of history
to profers of this magnitude to the city where that one didn't end so well. And I I just want to uh before I can even put my stamp of approval on this is have some more evidence that what you say is true that
you can produce what you say you can produce uh on the financial aspect of it. Um I don't know anything about your business plan, your business model. Um, it's hard for me to imagine
that you're going to create 610 permanent jobs annually there on what is basically a recreational area and a a stadium. The other thing I was kind of concerned about is
parking. They have a 10,000 seat stadium and how many parking spaces are proposed because I don't see that information here as well. Through the mayor, if I may respond,
councilman, thank you uh for your comments. Completely understand your concerns. Certainly, we do not want to repeat history here and that's not our goal. U I I would be happy to meet with you in private to further flesh this out and hear out hear out your concerns and any other questions that you may have.
Uh pending the direction of of the council this evening, we will provide the city and the city administration, happy to provide it to you privately as well, all of our financial documents, our financial plan uh to satisfy your concerns about my client's capability uh
to bring this vision uh to a reality. certainly don't want you to to be concerned about our ability to uh accomplish this or bring this vision uh uh to fruition. In terms of jobs, um what I will say in that is we will have an updated economic impact analysis that
shows uh our estimated jobs uh moving forward once the project is stabilized. Uh but part of the programming here and really where where a majority of the jobs will come from uh is the premier sports academy that is going to be located on the triangle site. Uh so that
sports academy will will host uh student student athletes who will come to the city. They will reside in that complex um and they will train at the proposed recreational facilities uh at al peak hours um and and live and reside on that
triangle property. between those jobs and the jobs that we contemplate and expect to provide at the stadium. Uh that's how we reach that that that number. Uh but we'll give you that final updated economic analysis before your final vote in July for consideration and
verification of the information we've provided this evening. And parking and parking. Yes. Um so in terms of parking what we've done in the program we've looked at uh maximizing uh the parking capability. Go ahead
Christian. I can speak from a technical point of view. We do a lot of these. Um generally for a stadium uh you use uh for every three seats one car. So for a 10k stadium you would use you would need 3,000 parking spaces. We have over 3,000
parking spaces here. I can tell you in over 95% of all the projects that we do across the nation and the globe uh we don't have as that you know we don't have the one to three ratio on the stadium itself. What you generally do you do is you talk about a 5 minute and
a 10-minute walk and you analyze what other parking facilities there are nearby. In this case, we do have the 1:3 ratio on site because there's also parking uh underneath the hotel building. And we have a lot of parking on the NASCAR site that is potentially
useful within a 10-minute walk as well, which would, you know, basically double that as well. Okay. So, you don't have the the one to three. We do on property. We do have the one to three. We have over 3,000 parking spaces on property on this property alone. Yes.
Isn't it shown in the legend box on the legend? We on the legend the map. Yeah. Yeah. On the legend, if you want to go back, I have the clicker. On the legend, we're showing around 2,500. There you go. One more to the right. here. If you see on the there's
2529 there, but that is not excluding the parking the the the parking deck that we have a number 14 that has over uh 400 parking spaces. And we can also optimize the parking that we have there. Have you seen we have a lot of trees on
the parking lots and the reason is we wanted to keep it green and shaded as well, but we can maximize as well getting more parking there. But we do meet the 1 to3 ratio which is standard. Okay. Thank you. So, we'll we'll end up with the the
financials and all those different details. I'm just kind of surprised we don't have those yet. Sure. You know, because you're asking us to move something forward without really any knowledge, right? So, um the sooner the better for the personal meeting so we
can hash out some things and look at some some details. Um, I I'll rest for now and listen to my colleagues and what their comments may be and um, but if this is the real deal, then you'll obviously have my support on it as well.
Um, the other thing uh that I wanted to ask about the 99-year lease concept is interesting to me. Um, besides the buildout in the park, what financial benefit does it bring to the city aside from collection of
taxes? Is there a lease payment involved in this at all? So, from your perspective, Councilman, from our perspective right now, the proposal does not contemplate a lease payment. Uh the way that we've done the math math on the uh capital investment is that the $275
million capital investment that's being made uh on an annual basis is about 2 million $2.2 million um to build those facilities and provide those facilities to the public. So that's kind of how we were looking at the math in the proposal that in
addition to the tax payments and other economic benefits uh that are contemplated in the proposal is how we presented this. Obviously, this is subject to negotiation with city staff and city administration moving forward. And is is there at this point an
estimated tax benefit to the city for this property? That will be included in our final economic uh impact report. Council, thank you, mayor. Thank you. Who's next? Council Bailey. Thank you, Mayor. So, definitely sounds a little too good to
be true. Um, I am forever an optimist. I am thinking about all the amazing local talent that we have here and thinking about the opportunities that they would be able to avail themselves to. Um, obviously finding a home for our beloved
rodeo is a very big a very big piece. Um, so for me it would really be for the city to for staff to make sure that those safeguards are in place for us. we have had some not great turnouts there.
So, as long as as we can protect protect the city on that aspect, um the only other piece that that I'm curious to see more detail on is when it will be um available to the public. Um especially because I'm sure you've heard the east
side does not have many many parks. Um, so to to have that piece taken away from a lot of the residents that want to go there on just a regular afternoon with their family, I would want to make sure that uh that we're taking that into account as well. Absolutely,
Councilwoman. Thank you for your comments. All those safeguards will be outlined in the lease agreement to be negotiated with staff. We certainly are are contemplating and want to provide real public access to these facilities. So those protections uh will be contemplated within our long form lease.
Super. Two more quick questions. One is just out of pure curiosity. How why is there one field that's natural grass and the rest are artificial? It's a maintenance issue. I'm going to defer Christian Bergario maybe if you want to answer that. But it's really boils down to maintenance.
Yeah. Basically what we graduated the maintenance is because of traffic. In my experience running clinic, soccer camps and professional clubs, we and especially attending the the public use, we decide to go one professional soccer
team field that is going to be for professional teams and elite training and the rest have to be accessible for everyone. So we had to do a mix. Some of them is going to be hybrid. Two I think is hybrid and three full artificial
turf. uh in term of uh Larry Rod uh concern I want to make sure that we're going to prepare all the documentation for you business plan and all the financial also we have the commitment from uh Miami FC that's part
of our program and when you said the timeline of how we're going to do this as well we planning to bring our professional team Miami FC to relocate and also we applying for a women's professional team as well. So those are significant investment that we already
done for this project and we were looking for a place to do it. I appreciate that. Um go ahead. I just have the t technical side. So a natural grass field you can have two three two to three matches per week otherwise the
grass dies. And that's why everybody that has multi-use fields these are multi-use. All of these, you can see the lines in the drawing that they're for not just soccer, but for three or four sports at a time. And also small fields laterally, they'll be used all week long. It's the only thing that will
survive is a synthetic field. Yeah. No, I'm not against it at all. It saves on water bills and I think it's generally better for the environment. I was just curious why one of them happened, but that makes sense. My very last comment is as you are, you know, thinking of different ways to help our city with
creative um creative issues, I'm sure it came up as well, the need for conference space. So, if there is anything to take into consideration with the hotel, um that is that is something that the city is also in desperate need of. Yeah, I do believe our proposed stadium complex
does include a community hub for for events and for for community uses. Certainly something we'll take into consideration as the site plan is proposed. And again, right now what we're considering is a preliminary just concept plan, right? Um our goal hopefully once there's a lease uh that's
negotiated, brought back to you, um we will engage in a fully fleshed out process with the city manager and city administration to bring a real site plan uh uh to to fruition for approval and we can we can consider these these items as well for incorporation into that
community hub. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's one hour and then go ahead. Thank you, mayor. Um, talk about a game changer. Uh, just trying to come up with ways to develop something similar and and what that was
going to look like and the the constant uh battles that we we've uh faced trying to even come up with engineering and drawings and whatnot. Um, I have faith and confidence in administration's ability to try to come up with a an agreement in a month
compared to our last uh gauntlet of negotiations. I I would be very pleased to to be able to consider something in the near future. Um, assuming we have the blessing of Mr. Ventura on the project. I'm sure we'll
hear from him on this in a in in a moment, but um I'm not I'm not uh ignorant to the to the history of the the the prior um entity that tried to do something similar. So, I'm very cautious
uh in making sure that we we look to the to the history for wisdom in that and that we make this a very strong and um feasible project and that it makes sense for both sides. I mean, you're checking a lot of boxes here. So, good job on that. I'll defer to mayor and the rest of council. Thank you. Thank you,
Councilwoman. Thank you, Councilman Cannibal. So I understand that you're here to get approval from us to start negotiations with the city manager and the staff to get the contract done before July. Correct. Yes, sir. Well,
during that time you can bring all the um the elements that he's ask. Yes, sir. Absolutely. Perfect. Perfect. You have my full support on this. I'm going to vote yes with my eyes closed. Okay. Thank you, Councilman. Appreciate it. Okay. Councilman Davis. Thank you. than
the vice mayor. Uh delighted to see this project. I actually lived nearby there for quite some time and that piece of land was so totally underused. I had it to myself out there. Is this it needed it needed some some of this type of work. Uh one of the things that I have
concern bringing up is to make sure that we have quantified those requirements of the air base. Uh what um what I'm concerned about is I I don't want the Titanic to hit an iceberg like we had about a year ago.
Uh height, lumens per height, height of the you know how much lumens are are on the are on the uh parking lot. And I get it. Pilots have to fly and they have to they have to uh uh not be distracted by light, but that needs to be quantified.
Uh Mr. Ventur, can we talk for a second? You come on up. Um, well, you stay here too, counselor. You're not you're not off the hook, [Laughter] man. Um, no, but my question my question is this. Um, have these things have they
been quantified and quantified with an AFI next to them that says, you know, so many lumens at this height at this distance from the from the airfield and you quote an AFI or some kind of safety rig or something. Is has
that been done at all? Well, we uh only recently became aware of those coming over here. As you know, we have an AFI on this. As you know, there is an AUS that goes into details. Um, we haven't uh between the time I found out about this and and had a discussion with your
city manager uh I haven't examined the lumen specifically. We'll be looking into that. Uh I'll let you know the air base is uh encouraged. I spoke with the wing commander on Monday uh and uh we are optimistic uh that uh details can be
worked out. They are well aware uh about our concerns about the lighting. Okay. And that was the first thing that the wing commander mentioned and it's the first thing I mentioned and they're well aware of that. I was encouraged by the presentation they made. Uh as you know in this is still within the heightened
hazard zone. So one of the things we look for is uh lighting uh issues, no interference that would cause uh glare uh to the pilot or have them in in inclement weather mistake the airfield. And so uh downward lighting, glare
protection and they've in their presentation I address a lot of things. Of course we need to see the details uh engineering plans and lumens and other spilling onto the field and we'll take a look at that. What I'd like to have and I think it'd be beneficial for the council is to have because we're going
to protect our base um that list of 12 things that the base wants. You know what I mean? Or whatever whatever the number is. we want these things and you you list them and you quantify them and you quantify where that requirement comes from. I think that'd be very
valuable for you as well because that gives you a document to to look at and particularly as you do your planning. Um the um that was probably my biggest thing. Other question I had for you. When we had our last interaction, I had requested a threat briefing and uh we
all know that threat threat briefings can be up here, you know, super top secret, but you you tailor them to your audience. I think it'd be very valuable for the council to have a threat briefing of every every time there's a development, you know, there's an issue
of a potential threat. Um, I think it'd be very valuable for us to be able to get into the skiff, leave your phone behind, you know, leave your notepad behind and go into the skiff and get a briefing of this is why this stuff is important. And I think that would be a very valuable thing and I I'm sure the
chief would want to be a part of that to be able to see what's going on as well. Uh, I think that would help our decision- making a lot because it's always um it's always kind of like, trust me, this is the way it is. You know what I mean? And we have to quantify this stuff because it for you
it ends up being money. How are you going to put things and you know what requirements you're going to have. Um I think that would be very valuable as well. And additionally when we met last time uh I asked for like a you know there there used to be like a cheat
sheet that said or a memorandum probably a better way to say it. I'm sorry I'm using shorthand. This is Homestead's uh this is Homestead's skin in the game with the base because I know the base is a huge economic impact for the entire
county and into you know into Broward and Monroe. What is Homestead skin in the game and I'm still waiting for that. I'd very much like to see that um so that we can see which subcontractors from Homestead are being used, how many reserveists, active duty um what we call
it um uh civilian workers. the gross numbers. I mean, you don't need names right now, of course, but how many people live in Homestead? How many how many how much how many subcontractors in Homestead work for the base and then and that money's coming directly into Homestead because this
money is coming pretty much directly into Homestead. And I understand it'll be a a lesser percentage of the enormous economic impact of the base, but I think I still think that's a very good thing for us to know. Well, to the last item, yes, that's not that's not a problem.
and we're pleased to uh put that together. I don't think that'll be a problem and we can do that in whatever venue you choose. Uh as to the uh the threat briefing, that is all I can do there is take that back and if if you want that I can ask to see what they can
put together uh and and get back to you on that. And then as far as the soccer stadium itself goes, as I said, I'd like to say we are encouraged. uh our airmen do need a place to come and uh as you know we've tried multiple times uh to
try and help out with the sports complex and and that has not been successful. So we're encouraged by this and yes lighting and orientation of the hotel they're already aware of and so we'll be looking at some of that stuff. So as soon as I can get actual technical
drawings that we can examine uh then we're we're we want to get right back to you as soon as we can. We certainly don't want to hold up the process, but we are encouraged by the prospect. All right. So, when when can we have an expectation of seeing that? Uh I know
you I know you bring the threat briefing back to the commander. Of course, he he's he's the one that'll have to make that determination. But when when can we expect to see that memorandum that uh I call it the skin in the game memorandum? When can we expect to see that for
Homestead to see the I think what you're talking about is the mission brief where we break down how many people we got and what flavors of people and the economic impact of the city jobs that Nope. The it well yes but no um that needs to be
tailored to Homestead because the economic impact as the briefing that I used to give says 1750 reser whatever and of course that's in a threecount radius. I just want to know Homestead. I want to know how many how many military people live in Homestead, how many
Homestead contractors are being used, how many civilian workers live in Homestead. That that I don't know that we track those numbers because I've asked those same questions before and those were uh nobody was really tracking that. It just wasn't a thing that we were tracking for whatever reason. They
just it wasn't a thing they were tracking. the the the way I did it about a million years ago and I had to do it um I had to do it manually is you know that they can't release the alpha roster period of course but what they did do is give me the column with the zip codes
and so I have no names no units no nothing associated with that zip code and then that way we sorted with the five zip codes or so I think it's five zip codes here in in um Homestead and if if you lived in one of those then I I'm I got to check. You know what I mean? We
got we we knew someone lived at that zip code. That's all I had. And no no no knowledge of who it was or family or address or anything. So, you're looking to find out how many people from the base live here in Homestead. Yeah, that's where you went. Yeah. Well, and and the other things I mentioned too,
how many subcontractors of Homestead work at the base? I mean, they could be doing yard work. I'll be honest with you, Councilman, I don't think I'm going to be able to come up with those numbers. But I really don't think anybody's trying to know. I will take it back. I won't be personally doing it, but I will
take it back to the base and I'll tell them you're interested essentially to know as I gather from who lives here in Homestead that is working at the base either as a military member, a civilian, as a reser, as a contractor, as a
subcontractor. What is the, as you say, skin in the game for Homestead in the base? That's kind of what you I will I can take that back. um is all I can say, but I I can't promise anything to you and I'm not going to lie to you. The um the final thing then, when can we expect
that list of deliverables to be provided to the developer? In other words, these are the things the base wants to see. Well, those things are already in the ordinance. So, I'm going to look at the plan and I'm going to measure that against the ordinance for them. Those
are already in the AKUS and it's already in the ordinance. orientation of the mo of the hotel is not in the AKUS. It's outside. Okay, you're right. You got me on that one. That's not in there. Well, but my I'm not trying to invalidate that. What I'm saying is we need to validate what it is the base wants to
see because if it's outside the AKUS, it's outside the AUS, but that doesn't mean the Air Force base can't influence it, right? But we have to be able to quantify what that influence is. So when these guys move forward um uh they don't have a you know it's like it's more than
a verbal agreement. It's something that's like this is what we want. It most of it is it is outside the accident potential zone. It is not outside the euse. It's in the height and hazard zone. Correct. It does list those things in there. Uh but I have to look at those
and measure as you say something like the orientation is not in there. That's an OBSC issue as we have previously discussed at other meetings. Um, and those types of things. When it comes to the lighting, it says to prevent glare and interference with pilot vision and and interference with navigation. But in
the AUS itself, it doesn't give looms, for example. So, that's something I have to dig into. So, when can we I don't think it's going to be I'm going to have him give me his plans. I'm going to examine them. And I don't think there's going to be a laundry list of things that I'm going to get back. I think he already knows what our concerns are. I
think they've already acted proactively to address those. All right. Thank you. Thank you, council. You just skipping. I don't think it's an issue. Okay. Mr. Mayor at all. I'm I'm good, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you, mayor. And uh I want
to thank uh you, Mr. Penelis, for the presentation along with your colleagues. And I want to thank my fellow colleagues up here for asking the questions. Uh they did as well. Uh I too didn't have an opportunity to meet with you prior, but I've kind of been watching this through the county process as it's been
going on up there and uh you know I was in the back of my mind really hoping that this was going to come this way. So here we are. Yeah, here we are at this day and time. But but I too want to go back a little bit in history. He goes back to LA which was 2007 time frame 2008. Prior to that there was a
gentleman by the name of Leonard Hamilton who tried to do the same thing and we said no. You know it was a city-owned facility. there was a lot of money at stake and you wanted the taxpayers to foot the bill. Uh here I think you're providing a plan to show that we're not going to be doing that. Uh and we can have the staff work with
you to do that. But we have already expended some money on on our our plans for the park out there. I just want to make sure that we don't lose that money that we can take those and use those maybe somewhere else in the city where we might be able to utilize them and
maybe Harris's Field type thing so we're not double dipping and getting more money out of that. Something to keep in the back of your mind. Mr. Manager, I think the vice mayor is referencing during the conversation and negotiations the city may look towards recouping some of the previously expended funds uh
which is typical of governments. Well, or just making sure we can utilize those plans and just relocate them to another facility. Something to think about is all. Keep it in the back of your mind. You're an engineer. I know you can figure it out.
Uh extremely excited about what this could do for the community. Uh especially having the the open space available for the community during certain times. Um, a little different layout than what we had had before, but I I think the options are are there to to really
benefit uh everybody in Homestead. This happens to fall into my district as councilman, but uh to see that hotel become uh a major impact in that area along with uh some
of the other plans with the recent announcement of the 2026 NASCAR Championship race coming back. I think there's some potential for you all to work with them, maybe to create a NASCAR driving academy, maybe uh something like that. So, just something to keep back in
your mind. I'm going to be there for any questions you might have. Uh I'll be supporting this tonight to move forward with staff. Uh but uh I I would suggest that uh typically it's staff working on things and then we get a report later.
So, I would I would ask that the council that we would maybe ask the mayor to be part of those negotiations and then that way the manager can get that information back to us quickly as we move forward. That way, somebody one of us is in the room. So, I I would I would offer that
and be ready to support this to move forward tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Appreciate that. You know, and certainly all comments tonight are very relevant on point. The financial, the parking, all of those those issues. There are the proverbial
million devils in the detail, but also, you know, the journey of a thousand miles starts with that first step. And I think, you know, particularly in light of their self-imposed deadline. This is
not going to be another brand X something something something negotiation that goes on beyond three years. this is in or out in a very business-like manner uh a very you know fairly fairly
detailed and comprehensive and and well thoughtout plan for the first crack. So, you know, I support going forward. Um, certainly, you know, there are things I want to be very clear. We're going to need phasing. We're going to need
definite time frames that as we go forward, you're going to deliver this within a certain time frame after that. And also, it's going to be very important, and I'm gonna say this time and time again, to ensure the public that we are not quote
giving away public land, that this will be a park that has true public access. Yes. Is there private work and training going on there? Absolutely. But it's the
way that we potentially get this facility. You know, we need to be very clear and not let others take that narrative that we're giving away this uh this regional park. And obviously, we're
going to have to come up with a good name for it and lots of things. But, uh I'm I'm ready to move forward. I you know, I think we've got about six and a half weeks to uh to get it done. I know Mr. Ventur has already looked at this in
some detail. Um I think next step is the rodeo folks need to look at some more detailed plans for for that portion of the venue and be comfortable and and assured that that will be be doable. Um
so your parking issue remember the area should between that's not in color that's between the school and the ovalshaped pond we control. They have a non-exclusive parking license there. Certainly after hours and on the weekends, that's parking. And it would
seem to be very easy to strike deals with the Keysgate K through8 across the street to obtain parking rights there. And and again, that's that's very important. um you know some of the things that have already been considered like keeping the height away from the
new residents on on a portion of the former golf course. So I think this is a very good uh it's a good starting block to take that first first step from. So let's see if there's anyone in the public who
would like to make a comment. There's anyone online? Yes, Ram. Ram, are you there? Yes, sir. Mayer, can you hear me? We can. Please go ahead. Perfect. Thank you. I just have a a
couple of questions because just like Larry Roth and or uh Councilman Roth and others on on the diet. This brought back some flashbacks, you know, from the team stadium that we had there for years and ironically with the same pitch that we
had some type of professional team that's going to come down and and utilize it. Um my question is do we know who this professional team is? Do we have a ring commitment? Um also um they
mentioned that there's a there's going to be an academy there. Will they have an exclusive rights to that field where only that academy and what academy is it? And also just one more question um did we do a traffic study for this big
project because um just like Councilman Flesher I actually live in the area and during the times where they're having the races not even the championships and it's chaos there. Are we planning on extending these lanes um down 344? Um do
we have a traffic study? Just a couple questions that I had. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pell. You want to take a crack at the Yes, sir. through the mayor. A few things. We do have commitments for the professional franchise. That professional franchise
is Miami FC. Um that is the franchise we agreement that we have that does expire at the end of July. So, we are committed uh uh there and we have that commitment. Um as my client mentioned, we also have a bid in for a women's franchise to also be uh hosted at that stadium. I believe
the second part of his question was the sports academy. Um and the sports academy, I don't know if you all are familiar, but there's a a sports academy in Bradington, Florida called IMG. Uh the concept would be similar to that where we would have dormitories uh for these students. they would
basically live uh be educated and train in this facility full-time. So that is kind of the concept behind this and obviously with all the talent that we have in my client team uh to to provide the necessary trainings, clinics, etc.
to facilitate um those those uh that that program and the sports academy. And then I believe his third question was the traffic study. uh more than happy to com accommodate that at the uh at the design phase. Uh once we come in with our our permits, we would be happy to uh
submit a traffic study to show uh our our impact on the community and how we're satisfying relevant levels of service. Thank you. I just want to add on the second item on the sport academy as he mentioned residential with school the high school. So we're going to be
able to accommodate the the school time for our students. So that that's the way that we're going to nonexclusive fields. We're going to be accommodating those. Okay. Thank you. Thank you,
Romero. Yes, Councilwoman Bailey. Thank you, Mayor. I'm sorry, I missed one piece in my notes here. I was curious about the 10 scholarships that you mentioned. How often does that happen? Or that would give a little detail. Yeah, I mean that would be as part of our non-residential sports academy. So,
obviously we have the residential academy that's going to be located on the triangle site. When we have the programming offered um as part of our non-residential academy, the the sports league uh that's open to city residents, other folks in the area, those scholarships would be provided as part
of that program. We're happy to provide further details on how that profer will play out in terms of timeline and and what programming that happens uh for and the reoccurrence of that in our long form lease that will come back to you. So as far as the detail that you had on the screen in the beginning that those
10 scholarships you're thinking happens about how often it didn't mention annually. I would I would say every season is every season every season that we have that that non-residential sports academy and we field teams. I'm assuming that's when it's going to happen. We'll provide
those details in the long form lease. Super. And then the very last thing is that that legend the uh the last screen that was up the numbers all got jolted around. Yeah. If you could please, I know some of the other reports are going to take a while, but if you could circulate that with the numbers where they belong. Councilwoman, I noticed
that when that was up on the screen. I will I will circulate and email each of you individually plan with the accurate I could tell where the baseball field was and some of the soccer ones, but the other I will give you an updated plan as as soon as this hearing ends. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Anything further? I'll
close the public hearing. Anything further from council? I'm containing my excitement until there's an actual agreement. So, but thank you for bringing it to us. Thank you. All right. So, I guess um does this call for a
vote? Seeking direction. Okay. We hear the motion is uh giving direction to from the mayor and council to the manager to um negotiate this proposal. Proceed. To proceed. Yeah.
Proceed. Mr. Mayor and Council, um there are quite a few housekeeping items that needs to be accommodated as we move forward because of the timeliness issue. They've indicated that they want to close this deal by sometime in July. So,
I anticipate to have periodic special calls, quite periodic, it's not going to be one for oneoff. So you guys expect to have uh your calendar open because occasionally we may have to seek your direction, give you briefings and uh there were quite a few things we've made
them aware that we need uh due diligence is very important. Thank you councilman uh Roth for highlighting that. We also talked about the economic impact analysis and the study report which they are working on which will also encompass the business model. We talked about
lease terms. We talked about branding and naming rights. So there are so many things that are still up on the table for us to negotiate when we get involved. And also we talked about potential uh timelines to coordinate it with other city capital
improvement projects such as the bond that we're trying to roll out. Also we talked about thank you vice mayor for taking the words off my mouth about having the mayor participate so that it bridges the gap of us communicating and fill the pause of council.
uh the there are certain issues related to public benefits that is there to my heart. It's not just about scholarship for one spot. It's going to be scholarship for every amenity on this campus for city of homestead
residents. It has to be edged in stone. It has to be part of the agreement so that it's all clear to everyone. And al I know thank you guys. Uh congratulations. I know Inter Miami is at the other stadium by the airport. It's a good thing that the second soccer
team, professional team is coming down south to Homestead. So that creates a balance for for us. Uh at some point we delve into the potential uses of the hotel just like we have with the speedway so that we have some kind of access and amenities available to city
of Homestead forational use, hosting conferences and the like. So we have those also as part of the recognized uh use of the facility. Uh we also would like to look into the method of project
delivery because of your time sensitive schedule. We may have to look into potentially granting you a whole harmless agreement where you can proceed at your own risk while we work out the details of permitting. I just want to manage expectation so that you don't
come in here expect to get a permit in 12 days. you have another option where you can start and proceed. That's the same method of delivery for the stadium for Inter Miami that is being utilized. Uh the terms for the lease is still open
for conversation. So when you met mentioned that you don't anticipate to give the city anything that's open for conversation. It's not etched in stone yet. So, I can assure you that the city administration is ready, available, and willing to get kick the ball rolling and
get this delivered. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Any further? Nothing, Mr. Mayor. Just want to thank you all again for your time and consideration. Uh, looking forward to hopefully working with you all to bring this project and this vision to reality.
Thank you. Well, and if we just I want to make note, you know, you brought virtually your entire team tonight and just as a prior uh group were here with their entire team. That was impressive
and that speaks I think to the importance of our area and the trust and confidence and the importance the the level of importance these projects have. Um, I would venture to say that when this goes forward in terms of impact,
true community impact and dollars expended, you know, looking at the time value of money, this is a bigger deal than the construction of the racetrack. Sorry, but it it is. It is, and it's certainly with true immediate community
impact. So, uh, let's stop talking and start doing. Do we have a motion? Councilman, the councilman from the district. Yes. The vice mayor, the member representing the district moves. Seconded by councilwoman Avala. Let's
have a roll call vote. Councilman Ross, yes. Councilman Davis, yes. Councilwoman Abula, yes. Councilman Cannibal, yes. Councilwoman Bailey, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion carries. Good. Thank you.
Thank you so much. looking forward to working with y'all. Thank you. Absolutely. Now, let's move quickly to to tab 25 regarding the homestead station issue. I think Mr. Fernandez is here in thestead of uh our friend
Melissa who's uh in Hyia. Um was it after? Um while we are awaiting that though, let's have a motion to extend this meeting until 9:30. Moved and seconded. All in favor?
Extension to 9:30? I. All opposed. Okay. So, we're ready for the uh Mr. Manager, does your staff want to kick it off the the Homestead station discussion? Mr. Mayor, this is a discussion item
being proposed by the developer team. Uh the I think you're here for it, Mr. Fernandez. Fernandez. Yes. Fernandez. Afternoon council.
Ben Fernandez, attorney on behalf of MMG. Uh we're here to answer questions. We really don't have a presentation ready. I'm sorry about that. But uh my partner couldn't be here tonight, but I'm happy to answer any questions about this uh project that
you may have. But essentially, I think the ask here tonight is that we authorize the manager and the attorneys to go ahead and further negotiate uh those asks that were contained in
uh in the letter dated May 19th, 2025. I think there were four bullet points. Um to allow multiple ownerships of the property, to allow vertical subdivision, uh enter into an easement and operating
agreement to uh outline the terms and operation of the property, uh the acquisition of the retail portion from the city to uh promote an investment of not less than a million7. Correct. And uh when that that
conveyance would include a reverter clause. Wow. Bang. Any further Mr. Manager? This is just for discussion and direction to go forward. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Um, the proposal also aims to stabilize
the financial outlook of the downtown area by taking a look at this facility in order to attract additional desirable economic tenants and create mutual economic benefit. Now because the
homestead garage was built with PTP funds from CITT subject to further communication and discussion with the county as part of this process that would determine which direction we're moving but on the surface we don't have
any objection on this. So I guess upfront it would be incumbent on the current owner and operator to to make those overures and inquiries to the CIT. Yes, they've been briefed and they're aware that there is a
requirement for us to have that coordinated discussion and bar barring resistance there then the ask is to authorize you to to get deeper into this proposal. Mr. Attorney, you have any com
additional comments, James? No, I mean provided that there provided that there's authorization that we get confirmation from CITT, then we uh can certainly start negotiations to bring
back something before you all for approval. Okay, as vice mayor, anything questions, comments from council? Councilwoman Bailey. Thank you, mayor. One thing that I didn't think of when uh when we first heard about this is if maybe we could do some research and see
if there have been other projects that are similar um while we're reaching out to the county. Is that something has that happened before with the the types of funds that we received for the garage these types of partnerships or we don't know that yet.
Well, with this I'm not I'm not sure. Councilwoman. Okay. I was just curious. Thank you. All right, we have a motion to direct the manager to to proceed. Moved by Councilman Naval, seconded by Vice Mayor
Fletcher. Any public comment? We'll close the public hearing and have a roll call vote to give manager direction to to move forward. Councilman Ross, yes. Councilman Cannibal. Councilwoman Bailey, yes. Councilman
Davis, yes. Councilwoman Ailio, yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion carries. And with that, we've been sitting in these seats for a long time. Any objection to maybe a 10-minute recess?
Yes. One tab item. Oh, okay. Let's let's go ahead and do that. We'll go back to tab uh let's see, tab 18. I'm gonna have to step out on and I will hand the
gavvel to the uh to the vice mayor who will I know will not sit in my seat and take selfies like the last vice mayor did. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, uh this is tab 18 18. Yes. Uh vice
mayor. So, this is a resolution of the city council of the city of Homestead, Florida, approving an amendment to a covenant running with the land recorded in official records book 13719, page 1487 of the public records of Miami Day County, Florida, relating to the
property located at 120 Northwest 16th Street, Homestead, Florida, authorizing the city manager to execute the amendment and providing for an effective date. Thank you. Anything for staff to report on this? So, if I could just briefly, this is uh
this was a a covenant that was entered into between the um the former owner of the property, which was the bank, and the city back in 1988. And it was a covenant that the property would be developed pursuant to the B1A zoning, as
well as being used for bank purposes. And so, the propertyy's now been sold from the bank to another owner. Um, and that owner is now requesting pursuant to the covenant, which allows the owner uh and us um to
uh examine potentially uh uh determine whether or not we could modify the agreement. It allows for you to mod modify. And so the the language that's proposed to be modified leaves in place the requirement for the property to be developed with B1A zoning, but it
removes the rest of the language. It says for bank purposes. Okay. Uh any questions from council at this point? Any questions? Uh we'll open the public hearing at this time. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this item?
Anyone online? Yes. Uh Ram. Mr. Orta. Are you online? Hello. Yes. You have a comment on this item? Yes, ma'am. Yes, please go ahead. Uh
just yeah just just one one um uh quick question in in regards to this. Um where's the um hold on Hello. Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Okay. Perfect. You can hear me now. No. Yeah. Just the the the question that I I I want to ask what financial institution owns the rights and what financial institution is trying to purchase it? Mr. The property is no longer owned.
Originally in 1988, the covenant, the agreement was entered into by First National Bank. Now, that's been sold to the current property owners who are looking to develop it. And I'm not sure what their mortgage
situation is or who, you know, if they even have a mortgage on the property. Um, but the original agreement allows for uh changes to be made provided both the property owner and the city agree to
it. But I don't have information with respect to what financial institution may have an interest in the property as we speak and everything else. Okay. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Uh, any additionalbody
online? Okay. Okay, I will close the public hearing. And at this time, I would request a motion from council. Moved by Councilman Clemente, seconded by Councilman Davis. Let's do a roll call vote. Madam Clerk, Councilwoman
Bailey, Councilman Cannibal, yes. Councilwoman Abula, Councilman Roth, Councilman Davis, yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. The motion carries. Okay. At this time, we will take a 10-minute recess. be back here at 5 minutes to
9. Thank you. like two years. expanded. You need All right, let's uh try to get back in place and uh continue. We are going to pick up with tab um 10 and then it's
companion item 17. Uh, Mr. Wright, tab 10, and then we're going to go to 17 after that. The companion. Yes, mayor. Tab 10 is an or card number 4617 is an ordinance of the city of Homestead, Florida amending the budget
for the general fund of the city for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2024 and ending September 30th, 2025 by increasing the total budget expenditures by $500,000 providing for repeal servability and effective date. All right, Mr. Manager.
Uh this is a midyear budget amendment. As council and mayor will recall back in September when we approved the budget for the current fiscal year, I made a promise on the record that we'll come back in 6 months time to do a media budget amendment. So this is the first
reading of the budget amendment and I'm going to ask uh next the budget amendment. Oh 10. This is tab 10, right? Tab 10. Oh, so I apologize. I was going on top nine since the vendor is here. Yeah, I know. That's
why um Mr. Greg, you see from the ice rink folks, uh this is some novelty that the cities are trying to initiate for for us to procure the materials for an brand new ice rink for the city of
Homestead first time in South Dade. And also it's going to be the first item which is tap 10 is for the budget funding for the procurement of the item. Then tap 17 which is the companion item is the procurement of the actual item.
Carlos you want to kind of uh give us up to date as to the budgetary impact. Mayor and council good evening. Basically what the budget impact is for is for the impact for fiscal year 25 which is predominantly $500,000 to cover
the capital portion of the investment that we're planning on making. The rest it's a three-year commitment which you'll see when you talk see the agenda. The rest of those years are basically going to be impacts to the operating budget to the special events because they're going to be basically for the
rental and everything. So this item is really for the purchase of the capital. So, it's $465,000. We're doing the budget amendment just on the safe side for $500,000 and it's coming from reserves.
Questions or comments from council? All right. Moved by Councilwoman AO, second by Councilwoman Bailey. Any public comment? None. We'll close the public comment and take a roll call vote on tab 10. Councilman Ross, yes. Councilwoman
Bailey, yes. Councilwoman Abula, Councilman Davis, Councilman Cannibal, Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Lawson. Yes. The motion carries. Very good. Now, let's jump to the companion item of Tab 17. Mr. White. Yes. Tab. Tab 17, car
number 4614. It's a resolution of the city council of the city of Homestead, Florida, approving the procurement installation of portable ice skating rank and accessory equipment from Seaside ICE LLC doing business as ICE America in the amount of 1,379,41563 waving competitive bidding
pursuant to section 2-411B of the city code providing for implementation and providing for an effective date. Again, the difference between the 500 we just approved and the amount here is the three-year commitment for the ancillary items for
um the rink. Is there any presentation from from the vendor generally talk what? Not really. Not really. Okay. So, and then the the dimensions of this rink or what like it's going to be 82 feet by 40 feet. 40 by 80 is what I was Yeah.
Link wingle. Yeah. So the good thing is that uh the current fiscal year we intend to roll this out in mid November to run through mid January of 2026 for the first year as going to be located at
Loza Park. In subsequent years we will explore the possibility of having a more permanent installation. Right. Very good. Okay. So I think we have a motion and a second. We've had public comment. Any further from
council? Roll call. Madam clerk. Councilman Cannibal. Councilwoman Bailey. Councilman Davis. Councilman Ross. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Losner. Yes. Motion car. Very good. Thanks for hanging out with us tonight. I know June 1st was a drop dead
date to get that order in to get it here. Looking forward to it. Thank you. All right. So, let's get back to the regular order of the Well, we're not not yet. We're going to go to car number
4627, the event production and management for race to the fourth. Mr. White, the add-on item. Yes, mayor. Addendum one to the agenda car number 4627 is a resolution of the city council of the city of Homestead Florida approving the procurement of
event coordination production and management services from Dynamo Entertainment LLC, One World Music Publishing LLC and Sandre York PLLC for the annual race to the fourth event at the Homestead Miami Speedway in the amount not to exceed
$165,000 inclusive of contingency waving competitive bidding pursuant to section 2-411B of the city code provided for implementation and providing for an effective date. Thank you, sir. And I think that the explanation was uh given when we added this on to the uh
agenda. Any public comment? We have a motion to approve. Moved by Avala, seconded by Vice Mayor Fletcher. Roll call. Madam clerk. Councilman Cannibal. Yes. Councilwoman Abula. Councilwoman Bailey. Councilman
Davis. Councilman Raw, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Osma, yes. The motion carries. Moving on to agenda item number five, tabs 1A through tab six, the consent agenda. Do
we have a motion to approve? Moved by Councilman Ross, second by Councilman Cannibal. Any public comment? Seeing none, roll call. Madam clerk, Bailey, yes. Councilman Cannibal, Councilman Ross, Councilwoman Avil,
Councilman Davis, Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Losner. Yes. The motion carries. We go on to tab seven. Mr. Wright. Yes. Tab 7 card number 40 4569 is the first reading of an ordinance to the city of Homestead of Florida providing for a six-month
extension to the 12-month temporary moratorium enacted by ordinance number 20240618 on issuance of development orders and permits and on the processing development application city code text amendments resoning comprehensive plan text and land use plan amendments for development of town home cluster home
and multif family residential dwelling units within the city proposed residential developments on lots of less than 7500 square feet within the city and any proposed residential development over 61 units per acre within the city exempting specified development and providing for an effective date. All
right, we need a motion to uh approve with the changes we talked about. All right, it's been moved by council Ross, second by Councilman Cannibal. Any public comment? Hearing none. Roll call. Madame clerk. Councilwoman Bailey, yes.
Councilwoman Abula, Councilman Davis, Councilman Roth, yes. Councilman Cannibal, yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Los, yes. The motion carries. Tab eight. Tab A, card number 4588, an ordinance of the city of Homestead, Florida, amending the city code of
ordinances, chapter 28, utilities. Article 7, electricity division 2, deposits, rates, and charges section 28256, street lighting and rental outdoor lighting rates to revise the rates charge for street and public property lighting and rental outdoor lighting and to levy a rate for LED
lighting provided for conflict serverability codification and effective date. Thank you. I think we've all been briefed. Any issues with waving the staff report? We have a motion to approve. Moved by Vice Mayor, second by Councilman Roth. Public comment. Roll
call on tab eight, please. Davis, Councilwoman Bailey, Councilwoman Abula, Councilman Cannibal, Councilman Roth. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Lawson. Yes. The motion carries. Moving
on to tab nine. Yes. Car number 4594 is the first reading of an ordinance to the city of Homes, Florida amending the budget for the general fund of the city for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2024 and ending September 30th, 2025 by increasing the total budget expenditures by $250,000 providing for repeal or
severability and effective date. It's first reading. Thank you, Mr. Manager. You've been practicing your spiel all day. So, but you wanted to give us on blast on him. Uh, this item is actually the media budget amendment. First reading. Uh there are two principal
significant changes on the budget. I'll let the finance director walk us through the changes. Mayor and council, the two changes are one for the development services department, the professional services for inspection services. Um our
projection is that there's a need of $225,000 to get us through the end of the year. The funding for that will come from the permits. The permits are coming in at over what we had expected. So that'll be the revenue source to cover that. Um the other item is for the mayor and council is based on projected needs
and commitments for the public relations account. We're going to be funding each of your accounts and the money from that is coming. If you recall the special events budget that we had, there was 79,000. It was considered unallocated. We're tapping into that to fund your
your PR accounts. That's it. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Okay. Thank you. All right. Any public comment? We have a motion to approve tab 9. Move it. Moved by Councilman Ross. Second by Councilman Cannibal. Roll
call. Councilman Davis. Yes. Councilwoman Abula. Councilman Ross. Yes. Councilwoman Bailey. Councilman Cannibal. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Lawson. Yes. The motion carries. We've uh taken action on tab 10. Tab 11.
Tab 11. Car number 456. Second reading of an ordinance to city council, city of Homestead, Florida, amending section 2255 fees of chapter 22, public improvements, the city of Homestead Code of Ordinances, amending the city storm water utility fee, providing for collection of such fees on the tax bill,
providing for severability, conflicts, inclusion in the code, providing for an effective date, second final reading. Thank you. We'll weigh the staff report. Any final questions or comments from council? Seeing none, we'll open the public hearing and close the public hearing.
It's been moved by Vice Mayor Fletcher, seconded by Councilman Davis. Roll call, Madam Clerk, on tab 11, second reading. Councilwoman Aino, Councilwoman Bailey, Councilman Cannibal, Councilman Roth, Councilman Davis, Vice Mayor Fletcher,
yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion carries. Uh, next item is tab 11. Uh, I'm sorry, tab 12. Tab 12, car number 4496. A resolution of the city council of city of Homestead Florida authorizing city manager enter into an agreement for the purchase of certain
police equipment including tasers, bodywn cameras, and related software and data storage services pursuant to city code section 2-41185 exemptions from competitive bidding providing for an effective date. Thank you. We'll weigh the staff report. Any questions or comments from
council? Moved by Councilman Roth. Second by councilman Cannibal. Question. Yes. Vice Mayor, so previously we had a three-year contract with Axon and now we're going to a five. Go ahead. Oh, it was it was previously a fiveyear. We went into negotiations with them a year
early because we were going to enjoy some uh discounts in the previous year pricing. Well done. Thank you. Right. Any public comment? None. Roll call on tab 12. Councilman Ross. Councilwoman Bailey.
Councilman Davis. Yes. Councilwoman Abula. Councilman Calibal. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Losner. Yes. The motion carries. And speaking of lacking infrastructure, tab 13. Mr. White. Yes. Car number 4583. It's resolution of city council of the city
of Homestead, Florida approving the proposal from CES Consultants, Inc. in the amount of $97,291 94 cents for design and permitting services for the South Flagwood gravity sewer and water main line replacement project. Authorizing city manager issue a purchase order
authorizes a contingency of 10% for additional engineering services providing for implementation and providing for an effective date. Thank you. We'll wave the staff report. Any questions or comments from councel? We have a motion moved by Councilman Cannibal.
Second. Second by Vice Mayor Fletcher. Any public comment? Okay. Roll call. Madam clerk. Councilman Ross. Yes. Councilwoman Abula. Councilman Cannibal, yes. Councilman Davis, yes. Councilwoman Bailey, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor
Losner, yes. The motion and tab 14, Mr. White. Yes. Tab 14, card number 4595's resolution of the city council of the city of Homestead, Florida, providing for the submission to the city electors of proposed amendments to the city charter in accordance with section 6.03 03 of the Miami Day County Charter,
providing for requisite ballot language for submission to the electorate, calling an election on the proposed amendment to the city charter to be held on November 4th, 2025, providing notice of election, providing for balloting, providing for inclusion in the charter, providing for servability, and providing for an effective date. Thank you. Any
questions or comments from councel? Okay. Move moved by Councilman Cannibal, second by Councilman Davis. Any public comment on these items? Okay, Ram. Uh, yes. Good evening. What exactly are
we amending? We are providing that in the event of a special election to fill a seat for whatever reason that there is a primary and a runoff if necessary. For example, if you
will recall when we had to have the concurrent special election in 2023 to fill the seat vacated by Vice Mayor Guzman, that was a winner take all election. So, I brought this item
forward under the theory that, you know, we should have a clear majority vote rather than a oneshot winner take all. That's item one. Item two would be allowing a mayor to serve 12
years co-equally with the 12 years afforded to a consecutive years afforded to a city council member. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. All right. I think we have a motion and a second. We had public comment. Let's
have a roll call vote. Councilwoman Bailey, yes. Councilman Davis, yes. Counciloman Ross, no. Councilman Cannibal, yes. Councilwoman Abilo, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner,
yes. The motion carries. And tab 15. Yes. Tab. Tab 15, car number 4611 is a resolution of city council of the city of Homestead, Florida, providing for the levy and collection of a stormwater utility fee against residential property located within the boundaries of the city establishing the storm water utility fee for fiscal years beginning
2025 through 2026, including an annual adjustment. Confirming the preliminary rate resolution establishing the method by which the proposed storm water utility fee shall be made. Providing for equalization, filing and lean on properties to be assessed. Providing for the effect and adoption of final assessment resolution. providing for
severability and providing for an effective date. Thank you. We'll wave the staff report. Any questions or comments from councel? Okay, let me open the public comment public hearing. Close the public hearing. Do we have a motion to approve tab
15 moved by Vice Mayor Fletcher, seconded by Councilman Cannibal. Let's have a roll call. Councilman R. Councilman Cannibal. Yes. Councilwoman Bailey. Councilman Davis. Councilwoman Abula. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes.
Mayor Losner. Yes. The motion car. And on to tab 16. Yes. Tab 16. Car number 4613. It's a resolution of the city of Homestead Florida approving the agreement to subordinate the grant of permanent easement to the rent rental assistance
demonstration rad use agreement with Miami Day County. the subordination agreement or Homestead Gardens phase one authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the subordination agreement and any additional documents pertaining to the subordination agreement and to take all actions necessary to implement the terms and
conditions of the subordination agreement and providing for an effective date. Thank you. All right. Uh any questions or comments from council on this one? Mr. Power, thanks for enduring this night with us.
Anything to add? You're just observing. Just observing. Wise choice. All right. Do we have a motion to approve? Moved by Councilwoman Bailey. Seconded by Councilwoman Davis. Any public comment? Seeing none, let's have a roll call
vote. Councilman Roth. Yes. Councilwoman Bailey. Councilman Canibal. Councilwoman Avula. Councilman Davis. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Lawler. Yes. The motion cap. And moving on to tab 19. Tab 19, card
number 4619, a resolution to the city council of the city of Palmster, Florida, approving a sub subawward agreement with the International City County Management Association, ICMA, in the amount of $24,000, providing for implementation and providing for an effective date. Thank you. We wave the staff report. Any questions or comments
from councel? We have a motion to approve the acceptance. Moved by council. Second. Second by Councilman Roth. Is there any public comment? Hearing none, let's have a roll call vote.
Councilwoman Bailey, yes. Councilwoman Abilo, Councilman Roth, Councilman Davis, Councilman Cannibal, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Lawson, yes. The motion carries. And moving on to a
second reading for tab 20. A second reading, car number 4563. Second reading of an ordinance the city of Homesteader Florida amending the city code of ordinances by amending chapter 30 zoning article 3 district regulations division 10 B1A professional business restricted district section 30-241 uses
permitted removing daycare as special exception use division 11 B1 restricted retail commercial district section 30-256 uses permitted division 23 planned urban neighborhood district section 30-396.42A 42A Southwest Planned
Urban Neighborhood Designation of Funds section 30-396.62 sub areas removing daycare centers as a permitted use within the neighborhood mixeduse sub area and modifying the prohibited uses to include daycare centers within the commercial sub area. Division 24 business mixeduse
district section 30-396.501 uses permitted and division 25 neighborhood mixed use. Section 30-396.532 use as permitted removing daycare centers as a permitted use and article 4 supplemental district regulations division 8 special
exceptions section 30-531 established relating to daycarees providing for severability inclusion of the code conflicts providing for an effective date second and final reading no changes from first reading mayor if I may recuse yourself okay do we have any questions or
comments from councel on this second reading Approval. Move for approval by Vice Mayor Fletcher. Second by Councilwoman Avala. Is there any public comment hearing? None. Let's have a roll call
vote. Councilwoman Abula. Councilman Roth. Yes. Councilman Cannibal. Yes. Councilman Davis. Yes. Vice Mayor Fletcher. Yes. Mayor Losner. Yes. The motion carries. And moving on to tab 21 regarding the uh temporary sign
regulations. Yes. Sab 21, second reading of an ordinance to the city of Homes, Florida, amending the city code of ordinances by amending chapter 23, signs and advertising. Article 3 signs to address current case law requirements and establish specific standards and regulations related to signs providing for conflicts over building providing
for an effective date. No changes from sec first reading. Thank you. Moved by Councilman Roth, seconded by Vice Mayor Fletcher. Any public comment? Anyone online? Roll call, please, Madam Clerk.
Councilman Davis, Councilwoman Bailey, Councilman Calibal, Council Raw, yes, Councilwoman Avulo, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion. Tab 22. This is the prohibition of wood and
chain link fencing. So tab 22 uh car number 4542 second reading of an ordinance to the city of Homestead Florida amending the city code of ordinances by amending chapter 30 zoning article 3 district regulations division 22 RT and D residential traditional neighborhood development district division 23 planned urban neighborhood
district section 30-396.42A 42A, Southwest Plan Urban Neighborhood. Division 24, Business Mixeduse District. Division 25, Neighborhood Mixeduse District. Division 26, Technology Mixeduse District, by modifying the fencing standards and requirements to prohibit wood and chain link fencing.
And further amending article 4, supplemental district regulations, division 5, fence restrictions by modifying the fencing regulations for residential and mixed use zoned areas within the city, providing for serverability, providing for inclusion of the code, providing for conflicts, and providing for an effective date.
second and final reading reading. Uh this version incorporates the modifications and changes that you all requested on first reading with respect to a carveout for um properties that were subject to an HOA or a condo
association. They would not be subject to this prohibition. Very good. Thank you. Any questions or comments from council? Do we have a motion for approval on second reading? Sure. Moved by Councilwoman Avala. Let's get a second by cannibal
councilwoman. Thank you, Mayor. Just a reminder for uh staff to let me know if we can work on either confirming we have in place uh or developing an assistance program for fencing improvements like similar to our grants for in the CRA.
Okay. Thank you. Very good. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any public comment? So, let's have a roll call vote on tab 22. Councilwoman Avula. Councilman Davis, yes. Councilman Roth, no. Councilwoman Bailey, Councilman
Cannibal, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion carries. And tab 23. Similar item for Southwest Neighborhood. Correct. This is card number 4584. or the second reading of ordinance to the city of Homestead, Florida, amending the Southwest Neighborhood Master Plan by amending
general standards clarifying the city of Homestead Zoning Code shall take precedence over the master plan in the event of conflict and further amending the development standards applicable to residential and mixeduse building types to prohibit wood and chain link fences, providing for conflict severability, providing for inclusion in the southwest neighborhood master plan, and providing
for an effective date. uh the uh changes that you all requested uh in the corresponding item um relate to this item and they've been made from first reading and incorporated into this as well. Good. Thank you. Do we have a motion to
approve? Moved by Vice Mayor Fletcher, seconded by Councilman Countibball. Any public comment hearing? None. Let's have a roll call vote on tab 23. Councilwoman Bailey, Councilman Roth, no.
Councilwoman Abulu, Councilman Cannibal, Councilman Davis, yes, Vice Mayor Fletcher, yes. Mayor Losner, yes. The motion carries. And that takes us to business from the city manager. Yeah. Just c mayor and council, just a
couple of calendar reminders. Tomorrow the city will be hosting at the William Dickinson Community Center a health and financial fair under the opices of the human resources department. This is for city employees
from 9:00 to 2:00 p.m. And also tomorrow there's going to be a retirement lunchon for Conor Scott Kennedy at the PD headquarters tomorrow from noon to 1:30 p.m. And uh on May 31st, the military
appreciation day event is hosting at Los Park from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. And on June 12th, there is going to be a women's veterans summit here in city hall. And it's going to be all day from
10:00 in the morning to 3:00 p.m. They intend to use the chambers for the summit for all the veterans, the women veterans in Salade. And this is being coordinated by the big council with also the salad folks. Uh thank you Councilman Roth for
bringing to attention the PAS flyer from Morgan and Morgan. We looked into it. Uh it appears it's a marketing tool that by the law firm soliciting for clients that they want to initiate a class action. We had sent that notice to my immediate
county as well as to all the cities mentioned. None of them had heard about it. They were hearing it from the first time from city of Homestead. Um, I'm happy to report that the code compliance and parks and recreation departments have moved into their
permanent facility with the completion of that building and I believe they're having fun with brand new building and stuff. So, you may have noticed that we recently installed some audio audio vis audio uh system in the lobby of city
hall. So anytime there's an event in the chambers, folks that in the lobby could actually be listening to the conversation here, which is for for us to be able to take care of any type of uh u capacity issues. So that place is going to be a spillover. If we are this
capacity is filled and people are in the lobby, they can use the other system to listen to meetings. and the city's customer service department answeret service implementation, the new call center provider. We're already 30 days in with
the new call center provider. There are some issues that they're working to mitigate them and I'm happy to report that there has not been any major challenges in the process. So that's what I have for tonight. Thank you, Mr. Manager.
Uh I think tonight we passed an item what we call the animal protection system against the suicide to preserve our animals so that they don't kill themselves by getting into the electrical substations. Thank you
council and mayor for passing that item. So now is for procurement to move forward with getting those uh protective covers and that will address some of the incessant outages you have. Okay. Yeah. Pass some concern. Yeah.
All right. Mr. Attorney, anything? Yes, Mayor. Quickly, I have to uh request an executive session in three cases. First case is Altona and Asbury and Ant Wanle Homes versus City of Homestead Miami Day County. Circuit case number
22-0000538-C1. Second case is of Veronica Salceto and Mary Branellia versus City of Homestead Miami Day County Circuit case number 23-00004269-CA-01. And the third case is Marello Marino versus City of Homestead
OJCC case number 23-016099 Division of Administrative Hearings Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims. Make it happen. All right, that it. That's it. Quickly,
Councilman Roth, he's I'm ahead of you. So, just two things real quick. Um, it is 9:30 at night. Um, a while back we passed some kind of an ordinance in reference to RVs in the
city and people renting them out in their on their properties. I'm not going to dwell on it tonight, but can you bring back that information to us so we can review what we actually put in place and what our enforcement um abilities
are with the RVs that are obviously housing more than um the number of people that are supposed to be on a single family lot. And the second thing is uh I'm going to bring it up now and I know AA is going to bring it up also. So they'll get two plugs tonight, right?
the Kuanas and MAC uh I'm g say the Kuanas 40th annual along with the MAC co-hosting the event uh is taking place next week. The captain's party is June the 5th at our very own Homestead Miami
Speedway Champions Club and the tournament is on Saturday, June the 7th. And the weigh-in will be at Homestead Bayfront Park from about 2:00 to about 5:00. And I'll let Councilwoman Oavia
give you some more details on how you can get involved in this 40th annual Kuanas Fishing Tournament. Thank you, Mayor. That's all. Thank you. And to your point, I think specifically with respect to the RVs, we we did some overhauls prior to November of
23, but I know that Mr. Pearl was working on a further amendment to create rebuttable presumptions that if the awnings were open, the sliders were out, we could presume um occupancy and and begin the violation process. And I don't
think that ever came forward. I know it's been drafted. So, let's see if we can get that back on track to give some more tools to our code enforcement officers. And, you know, to Mr. Ross's point, it seems to be getting more prevalent and just more more open and
obnoxious. Okay. Um, Councilman Davis, thank you, Mayor. I had a a very quick point. I wanted to to uh recognize uh team Zuri and their and their uh participation in this weekend's uh on
the Memorial Day weekend observance in the local uh cemetery. We had a lot of people there. It was really a very important event and um uh they put a lot of effort into it and just the respect to show to the veterans and the families
and to those that came before us. It was a it was a great representation and I I thank you all for it. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Davis. Councilwoman Avala. Thank you, Mayor. Uh thank you to uh staff. Thank you, council mayor, for
your um support for the Kuanas Dolphin Days Family Fishing Tournament. On behalf of the Kiwanis Homestead Foundation, um this is the 40th year of this organization putting on this fundraiser. is the sole fundraiser for all the programs that the Homestead
Kuanas does. And we are so thankful to have partnered with the Military Affairs Council to help with their hands, with their efforts, with their fundraising to make it a success. And um I have the privilege of chairing that tournament and it is a lot of work. And I thank all
of you for coming if you're available to the champ to the uh champions club captain's party on June 5th. There will be plenty of silent auctions, raffles to enjoy, fun times, and you can fish the tournament. We do not provide the boats
unless you find your own boat. Uh but military get to register and fish in our tournament for free. So do children. So it is a a great cause to raise money for the programs we put out and it's a service project. Um, congrats to Councilwoman Bailey on another fantastic
art walk. And thank you Barbara for keeping our lights on and the iguanas out and thank you Zary and staff for all of your efforts in bringing some pretty uh amazing potential projects to the city. It's a it's an honor and a privilege to work alongside you. Thank
you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you, Mayor. Uh definitely, you know, whenever we see these big books, it's it's typically they come with some not so fun um agenda items. So these fun these fun projects are always welcome. I
did a whole presentation earlier thanking our amazing staff for all your help with ArtWalk. Um so I will take a quick personal point to say congratulations to my baby who graduated kindergarten today. I miss graduation dinner, but Quentyn, I am so incredibly
proud of you. AB honor role and the science award. I just um super proud. So, we'll celebrate tomorrow. Thank you. Congratulations, Vice Mayor. Yes. Uh thank you, Mayor Lawner. And uh
in the spirit of winning and all things going in that way, uh hopefully uh some of these projects are going to go uh will be brought here very soon. Uh with that though, we have the uh 2026 championship race back at the Homestead Miami
Speedway. Um I would ask our colleagues uh we have the championship rodeo. We have the championship race next year. We have the championship dolphin fishing tournament. So, I'd ask for you to try and think of a little where champions are made or some type of little slogan
so we can help look at rebranding our city uh here over the next uh 6 months or so so we can get ready for that big event that's a big economic indicator for uh all of the folks here in the city of Homestead. With that, uh happy holidays to everyone. Uh and soon coming
July 4th is around the corner. Yes, it is. In the interest of time, I'll just put in my two cents that this is, you know, a very momentous night. If either of these projects come to fruition, it's
a really big deal and uh you know, we're we're taking the leap of faith. We're dealing in good faith and uh we're going to demand that from those who seek to partner with us. With that, motion to adjourn.
So say we all. Good night, everyone.