ations and create hearing procedures related to such school zone speed limit violations providing for correction severability conflicts implementation codification and an effective date thank you sir Mr manager can we summarize this by
saying this is a statutory requirement in order to install the proposed uh school's Z speed detection systems yes sir align with the mayor's interpretation of can we wave the staff report yes okay any questions or
comments from Council move by Council Wan Bailey Say by councilman cannibal any public comment roll call Madam clerk councilman rth yes councilman cannibal yes councilwoman Bailey councilman Davis yes
councilwoman aula yes just Vice May fleder with a comment if you don't mind yes sorry thank you one one thing I did wanted to make sure and and staff did reassure me in our briefings is that the schools would be contacted there would be Outreach and So for anybody listening
who might have that concern that will happen okay thank you thank you mayor LNA yes the motion carries very good thank you all all right tab 11 Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 11 is the first reading of of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the budget
for the general fund for the fiscal year beginning October 1 2024 and ending September 30th 2025 by decreasing the total budgeted revenues and expenditures by 2,372 264 providing for severability and an effective date thank you Mr manager
so this is simply a housekeeping item uh during the budget process we mentioned that there was a famous $2.4 million shortfall in the tax able Revenue so this is simply to correct the records and in addition to that I think there is
a minor adjustment in the expected expected Revenue stream that is coming from the tax Ro Mr Finance director do you have any additional comments other than the [Music] $31,000 council has been briefed so simply to correct the record that the
actual Revenue stream coming from the tax row is less $2.4 million which has been less than 1,000 that's going to be coming back to us again for those listening this was a county calculation
error I we heard the word shortfall a minute ago that's probably not the best word to use we never had it we didn't spend it we did not lose it this is uh correcting a math error at the County uh
county level so we have a motion to approve move by cannibal second by uh councilwoman Bailey any public comment hearing none anything further from Council roll call Madam clerk councilwoman abula
councilwoman Bailey councilman Ron councilman Davis yes councilman cannibal vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor LNO yes the motion carried thank you and moving on second reading on Tab 12 Mr Pearl
yes Mr Mayor tab 12 is the second reading of an ordinance of the registered ahead of time is there anyone here in the audience wishing to speak on any general matter with respect to the City of Homestead is there anyone
online very well I'll close the public comment uh section of the uh agenda I'll bring that to a close uh Mr manager are there any addition deletions or deferrals yes Mr mayor council um tab
number 17 car number 4518 is going to be withdrawn not 17 yes sir okay and also I understand with respect to and I don't have the tab number eight
tab number eight with respect to the franchise agreement the second reading there uh we'll need to defer that for some for some clarification to the uh next to the March meeting to March 19th all right till date certain March
19th uh just to make sure that uh we we address some last minute uh issues so uh I need a motion to defer tab8 and tab 17 to uh March 19th moved by councilman
Ross second by councilwoman Avala all in favor any opposed all right very good we have as our next item tabs 1A through um tab six the consent agenda do
we have uh a motion to uh approve the consent agenda moved by councilman Davis second by councilman cannibal are any questions or [Music] comments seeing none all in favor
any opposed all right moving along public hearings ordinances land use items Etc Mr White here doesn't appear we have any quasi judicial items correct mayor no quasi judicial so we have one legislative item this evening for
consideration that's a land use uh item this is the second reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the comprehensive plan future land use map designation as requested by FV PPL LLC of an approximately 75 acre parcel of land
from medium residential use to Light commercial use for property located at 1351 North Chrome Avenue as identified by Miami day County folio number 10797 0220 one30 and legally described
in exhibit a providing for conflix cability and providing for effective date this a second and final reading thank you sir as this is a second reading and this is uh one of those items that brings the zoning and the uh comp plan overlay into compliance is
there any objections to waving the staff report any final questions from Council is there anyone wishing to in the public wishing to speak on this matter okay I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion to approve
move by Council AA seconded byoun councilman cannibal a roll call please councilman rth yes councilman Davis yes councilwoman abula councilman cannibal councilwoman Bailey yes mayor
lner yes the motion carries and tab eight has been deferred so moving on to to tab nine Mr attorney tab nine is the second reading of an ordinance of the city of home St of Florida amending
chapter 7 of the city code entitled code enforcement by amending articles 1 2 and three of the code changing the term code enforcements a code compliance clarifying the city's code enforcement procedures and courtesy notices for certain violations providing for inclusion in the code providing for severability for providing for conflicts
and providing for an effective date very good and I understand that the only change has been to address the statutory requirement with respect to the red speed system is that correct so staff has proposed three minor changes to section
7.5 um two relate to the criteria for special Masters one relating to the what you had just mentioned where a retired law enforcement officer would be eligible to serve as a magistrate for the purposes of the school zone enforcement program uh there was an
amendment to a proposed amendment to the qualifications for the person with a experience in real estate to have a minimum of 10 years experience in that industry as licensed realtor and the final change was to expand the term of special Masters in section 7.5 C from
one year to 2 years I believe you have uh versions of these in front of you so if those are accept if those are acceptable um you know motion to approved with the inclusion of staff's recommended changes very well um Council any
questions comments Council Bailey thank you mayor I was just curious I know during our our talks that I had asked if it affects any of our our current special Masters did we get an answer on that yet go ahead good evening honorable councel
mayor and councel uh currently it would not affect our current special magistrates um they are still eligible under the provisions good thank you okay that it all right so are there any questions further questions or comments from Council
regarding uh this item have n yes councilman ra thank you mayor uh during my one on with uh staff I just wanted to uh be kept updated on the number of special Masters we have and when you get down to only one we should be notified
and we should put a a call out to um you know seek others um and also in respect to the qualifications if this is that hindrance to bring in qualified maybe we need to look at this one more time um but I understand we only have two
special Masters at at the moment that's correct we have to I think someone had resigned a few few weeks ago so hopefully we should be aggressive in making sure we have quite a sizable number of people available thank you
that's all very good thank you okay so let me uh open the public hearing on this item and ask if there's anyone from the public who would like to speak okay we'll close the public hearing no one online and uh and clearly we're going to
wave the staff report I think we we had that so I'll entertain a motion to approve subject to the changes uh announced by the City attorney move by councilman Roth seconded by Council wman Bailey let's have a roll call vote Madam clerk
councilman Roth yes councilman cannibal yes councilwoman Bailey yes councilman Davis yes councilwoman aula yes mayor lawner yes the motion carried and moving right along to Tab 10 Mr cour Mr attorney yes Mr Mayor Tab 10 is the
first reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida establishing educational and professional requirements ments for City Department directors and assistant directors providing for severability conflicts and an effective date hey thank you
um Mr manager if you don't mind if if you'd like brief us quickly for the record as to um the compilation of the requirements what you drew from what your experience is has been so Mr Mayor and council
members um this ordinance is actually going to standardize the processes of recruitment as well as retention of Senior Management staff in the city uh we are able this is applicable to City Director City Manager assistant
and Deputy city managers assistant directors as well as Senior Management that are part of the city's executive management team to guide this effort we conducted a survey amongst all the municipalities in miate County through
the Miami dead County city and county Managers Association to assess and establish what are the minimum criteria and minimum requirements both for educational purposes and as well as professional expertise that other cities
and municipalities have established for their use the findings reinforce the need for standardization in terms of qualifications that will be reflective of the evolving nature of the uh min governance and the complexities of the
local environment uh recognizing the direct impact that executive management has on efficiencies process improvements as well as accountability and quality of Public Services to be rendered as public servants the ordinance ensures that our
own executive leadership is equipped with the necessary scales as well as educational expertise that can uphold operational integrity and also public trust and support the city's long-term commitment to professionalism so we're asking Council to actually consider this
ordinance change there in as part of the ordinance we have identified the applicable positions in the city management level and CER with all the educational requ minimum educational requirements and experience requirements that are consistent with what other
cities are currently doing so we recommend that you consider this and pass it into on first reading thank you Mr manager for that uh that discussion any questions or comments from Council on this
item okay just want to say that I it was as a result of my request that that this was brought forward I mean over the last 11 or nearly 11 months we've seen a lot of folks come and go mostly go that uh
we're in their position by virtue of being in the right place at the right time and although we had great affinity for many of them and we're part of our city family um probably shouldn't have been in some of those those positions so you
know as a manager said this this establishes some guidelines some some consistency and certainly we have programs that allow our staff to further their education and and become qualified and and and have those succession plans
so I appreciate the work that the manager and the staff did to to compile these these tables of qualifications and and bring them forward so with that if there's no further questions or comments I'd like a motion to approve moveed by councilman Davis
second second by councilman cannibal all right is there anyone from the public wishing to speak on this okay I'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote councilwoman abula yes councilwoman Bailey yes councilman
Ron yes councilman Davis yes councilman cannibal yes mayor Lo yes the motion carries thank you moving on to tab 11 car number 4534 Mr furl yes Mr Mayor tab 11 is the first reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead amending
chapter 2 article 3 of the city code titled board's committee's commissions to include division 12 titled affordable housing advisory committee pursuance section 42097 Florida Statutes codifying the committee's functions Powers duties composition appointment qualifications
and requirements for membership providing for officers meetings Quorum legal support and public notice providing for severability providing for conflicts providing for inclusion in the code and providing for an effective date thank you sir um I know we've all
been briefed uh there any objections to waving the uh the staff report um this is uh the something that uh statutorily that if we are going to pursue any monies we
need we need to have in place and I know we'll talk more in depth about leadership at the CRA and perhaps with some of the properties we have acquired this will help us move forward and and obtain funding on our own or on behalf
of of others to to build out those projects so let me open the public hearing is there anyone in the audience or online wishing to speak on this matter okay hearing none I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion to approve move by councilwoman Bailey
second by councilman cannibal let's have a roll call Madam bur councilwoman Bailey yes councilman cannibal yes councilwoman aula yes councilman Roth yes councilman Davis yes mayor lner yes the motion carries thank
you and next to car number 4511 parks and roadway trust fund Mr F yes Mr Mayor uh tab 12 is the first reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the City of Homestead code of ordinances by creating division 6 parks and roadway trust fund of
article 9 Finance of chapter 2 administration of the city code in order to provide for a dedicated funding mechanism for the development and Improvement of city parks and roadways providing for severability providing for inclusion the code providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date good thank you uh any objections to
waving the staff report all right it is mooved by councilwoman AA seconded by councilman cannibal um Let me let me open the public hearing very quickly is there anyone wishing to speak on this matter hey I'll close the public hearing oh I'm
sorry yes sir go on down to the uh Podium and give us your name and address for the record and uh we'll limit your comments to three minutes in duration hello everybody my name is motto um I live on 901 Adams Terrace
homestad Florida 20334 um for for this kinds of things does the people the city have like a say so on how the money's distributed to like like build better infrastructure for the community or is it something that's like decided here for like how this money is
spent well both it's decided here with public input I mean this fund could ultimately have several million dollars in it certainly we have a a Vision to rebuild a homestead Regional Park on the
100 plus acres that we own where the former stadium was located uh certainly a lot of roadway um this is an item that I brought forward my thought was it does a couple of things it builds trust this trust fund builds trust with the public
that as we are paid for Capital assets we're going to continue to use that money for Capital needs rather rather than recurring cost this money can also be used to help us leverage and match grants sometimes grants are two for one
so conceivably we could turn $5 million for example into $15 million to do park or roadway improvements so you know the distribution of this money each time will come back to this Council and be publicly noticed oh so the city will
have access to view how this money is spent as well or is it something that's like private no no this is public money these will be for public limited to parks and roadways within the City of Homestead and how would one just find
how this money is being spent as far as like where this money is going how much is being spent and all these kinds of things well uh again each time money is going to be allocated and right now it's a dry trust fund there's nothing nothing there yeah monies will come in and it
will require a each project will require a council vote those actions obviously are published There's an opportunity to come here and and weigh in and as an aside the city is now in the beginning
process of establishing a a long-term strategic or master plan the city plan I see which you know I'm sure implicit in that will be a lot of public input and will include major Parks work so from
the very beginning the public is going to have an opportunity to be involved and throughout the process sounds great well thank you for your time thank you thanks for your question thanks for paying attention appreciate it okay is that anyone else anyone online Noe so
let's close the public hearing and uh think we have a motion in a second on the table so let's have a roll call vote councilman Ron yes councilwoman Bailey councilwoman aula yes councilman Davis yes councilman cannibal yes mayor LNO
yes the motion carries I want to thank Council I I tried to bring a similar item early in my tenure probably in 2020 with a entirely different Council that uh really didn't want any part of it but
we're we're in a we're we're in a different place now in terms of the vision and collegiality of the elected body and the professionalism of our staff from top to bottom so uh I think it's a big step forward to building
trust and confidence and I kind of view this as a companion item to our bond discussion later on the uh the agenda speaking of that that's the next item tab uh tab 14 uh we still have to do 13
we we we have 13 we can flip them if You' like sorry I flip the page too early okay they no skip the artwork no these guys in the audience are going whoa whoa wait a minute wait a minute okay car tab 13 car number 4468 Mr Pearl yes mayor
tab 13 is a resolution of the City of Homestead Florida granting installation of public art requested by burwitz Development Group Inc as part of the homestead uh Commerce Park located south of Southeast 8th Street North of Alex muo Jr Boulevard west of Park of Park of
Commerce Boulevard and east of Southwest 152nd Avenue is Le described in exhibit a and providing for an effective date okay thank you and this uh I think was a tweet to uh we did the Tweet okay I think we can wave the staff report is
there any objection to waving the staff report let's get a motion on the table we're not going to let councilwoman Bailey no move by councilwoman Bailey seconded by councilwoman aala mayor yes yes before you take a
vote on this item um there's one condition that we would like to place there's a resolution approving this um but there's a condition that we'd like to add and I can read that please do that condition is pursuant to city code section
3237 the applicant shall provide the city a license agreement subject to approval by the City attorney prior to issuance of a building permit for installation of the public art if you recall back in October of last year we modified the public art ordinance to
make it clear that there was a distinction between art that was donated to the City versus art that was placed on private property and really it deals with the intellectual property rights and for art
that's placed on the property we get a limited license agreement whereby we can use the image for purposes of promoting the city's public art program but the artist retains the copyrights to it go ahead so I'm just curious since this
is obviously a well-known artist in the area how does that work do you require an additional um an additional something from bro yeah it it would just be a it's specified the language is specified in
in the in the code amendment that we did so it's a limited license agreement that would um uh give us the ability to utilize that image for a very limited purpose right but I'm sure that the person who's
building the actual car and the artist are going to be two separate two separate people so I'm just curious when you're asking for that licensing for the image are you asking for the person who was designing the car as well as painting the car so in this
case it would likely be the artist but I know that there's the artist has a different entity as well and so when we draft the language we dra I drafted the language to be very broad where it talks about the applicant the assigns or a
company that may be Associated how whatever may be applicable so it leaves open the ability for us to look at any of those circumstances that may be applicable when we get this license agreement and so we'll have to work with the applicant and the artist on what
that entity will be right because the artist and the property owner have their own agreement right with respect and not going to get involved in that but what we're concerned about is just that we'll be able to promote as part of our public art system that particular piece of art
okay well thank you thank you mayor thank you any further counil do we have a motion yeah we do we have a motion subject to the comments uh by Mr
White so is there anyone here wishing to speak on this matter I think so so we'll close the public hearing and I'll ask for a roll call vote for approval councilwoman abula councilman cannibal councilwoman Bailey councilman Davis
councilman Roth mayor laa yes the motion carries and as an aside uh councilman Roth and councilman Cannibal and the manager and I had the pleasure of attending the groundbreaking last week this project and we had one heck of an
air show that just was coincidentally going on as as we were out there um but the point is is this is part of a 280,000 square foot industrial project
situated on 20 ACR in the Park of Commerce that is exactly what was envisioned three decades ago and it's finally happening and I just I want to express my thanks and appreciation to to again to everyone on staff and and the
investors and Builders who are are bringing this to fruition thank you all right car number 4514 Mr tab 14 Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 14 is a resolution of the city council of the
City of Homestead Florida directing City staff to take the actions necessary to initiate the process of issuing a general obligation bond to finance improvements to city parks and infrastructure including requesting that the Miami date County Supervisor of Elections hold a special election to run
concurrently with the city's regularly scheduled election on November 4th 2025 to seek voter approval for the issuance of said Von providing for implementation and providing for an effective date thank you and this is too big and too important to gloss over the staff report so Mr
manager for the public so this is one of those once in a lifetime opportunity for the city to carve a niche and carve a pathway to success in terms of infrastructure improvements in order to take us to the next Century uh the
proposed reso is simply to direct myself and staff to take all necessary actions to initiate the process for issuing a Geo Bond and this bond is essentially to finance improvements of city parks and City
infrastructure and uh we are going to work with the city attorney's office to identify the respective Bond counts the disclosure Council as well as the bond transaction financial advisor as well as uh perhaps the underwriter that would guide us through the process of issuing
the bond we've established a timeline hoping that we'll make it onor before June which gives us enough time at least 75 days before the actual uh referendum on November 4th 2025 uh we are very lucky that uh City
attorney y Sera has inhouse suitably qualified and experienced Personnel that is going to guide this process so we don't look forward to hiring anybody at this stage all is inhouse for now and of course we have a bond financial advisor
which is pfm that is also on contract with the city so we are ready to roll and uh we've already established like I said earlier timeline to get this done thank you thank you sir Council questions
comments okay it's been moved by councilwoman a second by councilman cannibal let's open this item for public comment is there anyone online anyone in the audience okay so I'll close the public hearing then we have a motion in a
second and I'll ask for a roll call vote councilwoman Bailey yes councilwoman aulum yes councilman Davis yes councilman Roth yes councilman cannibal yes mayor law yes the motion carries thank you all that's a third of
three really big deal items that we have moved forward tonight that this that's what's called progress okay tab 15 car number 4523 Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 15 is a
resolution of the city council of the city of homestad Florida approving and creating the local affordable housing assistance trust fund accounts establishing the local housing assistance program designated designating the Community Development and Human Services Division of the administrator of the progam as the
administrator of the program providing for implementation and providing for an effective date thank you are we okay waving the staff report on this one okay no objection there okay do we have any questions from Council let's get a motion on the floor
and we'll have public comment motion approved by councilman cannibal second by councilwoman by councilman Davis um is there anyone wishing to speak on this matter do we have anyone
online and no one in the audience so let's have a roll call vote councilman Davis yes councilwoman Bailey yes councilwoman abula yes councilman cannibal councilman raw yes mayor lner yes the motion carries and moving on to
tab 16 car number 4519 Mr Pearl this tab 16 is a resolution of the city council of the City of Homestead Florida authorizing the city manager to award invitation to bid number 20257 for ernstein Jackson Seymour park playground replacement to the lowest
responsive and responsible bidder linear plans Inc doing business as corat and providing for an effective date good thank you um wave staff report no objections okay um any
questions from Council yes Council no thank you mayor I see in the uh car it references up to 28 weeks to receive the equipment and then installation another three to four months is there any way to expedite that so that we can get the uh
Park in sooner than later or what what can we and here I am about to also ask if we can add some shade sales so it's only another quarter get the B so we would have to reach out to the manufacturer once we're able to contact
them it's still an incon Silence with the ITB um and we'll be able to get a better lead time um that's just what they submitted with the during the ITB and it's three to four weeks for installation not three to four months okay thank you for that clarification no that was a misread on
my part and then um I did want to consider I know that in the renderings it shows a lot of trees and shade but I don't think that that's necessarily the case is in order to add some shade whether it's a sale or it is trees is that something we can do after this U
gets approved and gets installed or does it have to be simultaneous to the project we we can explore um adding that additional okay great all right thank you thank you so I guess I may have to come in here we may I think we need to
be cognizant of the fact that this is a small size Park so whatever we are adding means that we may have to take something out you a pocket park it's only 29 ft wide I'm familiar with the site and this
because it's between housing and what not I I would just like to make sure there's some shade because I'm not I don't believe there's trees on the lot okay take a look at that thank you okay any further questions did we have a motion on this
one move by Council a second by Council wman Bailey anyone wishing to make a comment any public comments I'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote councilman R yes councilwoman Bailey yes councilman cannibal yes
councilwoman abula yes councilman Davis yes mayor Lawman yes the motion carried my tab 17 was deferred so we'll move on to tab 18 car number 4528 Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 18 is a resolution of the city council of the city of homes said of Florida accepting the proposal and
approving work authorization between the city in and J and partners pursuant to RFQ 20152 architectural and Engineering Services forbidding and construction Administration services for the city's Code Compliance building providing for implementation and providing for an
effective date thank you any objection to waving the staff report all right any questions from Council we have a motion to approve move by councilwoman Bailey second by Council
wman Avala I'll now open the public hearing do we have anyone online or in the audience wishing to speak on this matter so I'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote on Tab 18 councilwoman Bailey councilwoman
aula councilman rth councilman Davis councilman cannibal mayor lner yes the motion carries and moving on to car number 4537 radio infrastructure battery replacement tab 19 Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 19 is a resolution of the city
council of the City of Homestead Florida approving the purchase of uninterrupted power supply batteries exempting the purchase from competitive bidding in accordance with section 2-41 11185 of the city code providing for conflicts providing for cability and providing for an effective date thank you any
objections to waving the staff report on this item okay any questions or comments from Council let's get a motion on the table on Tab 19 moved by councilman Roth second by councilman Davis let's open this up to
public comment public hearing is anyone online no one in the audience on this matter so we'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote to approve tab 19 councilwoman aula yes councilman Ross Yes councilwoman Bailey councilman
cannibal yes councilman Davis yes mayor lman yes the motion C thank you moving on Mr manager any further business just uh a couple of uh updates earlier this evening I had sent out a
manager's memo to the council and to Mayor and I'm happy to announce what I met mention in the memo that Miss kimar bran has been redesignated as the deputy city manager of the City of Homestead and uh she contined to extend
her exceptional leadership to all the assignments have given her which she has done well since she had joined the city about 10 months ago Miss Kim BR well done and congratulations amen I'm also happy to announce the appointment of Mr Jared
Beck Mr Jared can you want to stand up as the city's new community redevelopment agency CRA director the memo actually explained his professional background uh Mr Beck is a certified planner licensed and also a Florida
Redevelopment professional with over 20 years of experience in diverse areas we're happy that Mr Jarett is joining us and hopefully we'll see new developments new master planning efforts in terms of making sure that work together with development services to
take it to the Finish Line as well as work harmoniously and constructively with Council and mayor on the initiatives that we have for the city welcome on board Mr B and also I think you may have received a memo from the
administration that we plan to start the strategic planning sessions soon asking for your permission as well as your availability for dates that had been mentioned if you could please help us by responding on so that we can coordinate calendars to make it more
meaningful and I'm happy to announce that we launched the new agenda management platform which is a software system for agenda management the city cler is able to work remotely and uh seamlessly
with all City departments to put together the agenda book and for the first time we're able to publish this agenda on time one week ahead of Council meetings which gives everybody the time and opportunity to look through them and uh moving forward uh the next
month we should be able to announce a date sarting for The Old City Hall Workshop as Council has requested currently we're engaged with the land surveyors to put together a platin documents in order to cover out the three Parcels that we
talked about in the last council meeting and we should be able to hold our Workshop soon so that can fine tune and agree on development intent and some of the exceptions and entitlements that were pertaining to it thank you sir and ladies thank you appreciate everything
that has transpired during this week Mr attorney anything new no request very good Council aala good thank you councilwoman Bailey yes mayor just a couple quick things um so February is Black History Month I
wanted to thank staff I love the little tidbits of History I think that's one part that a lot of people just forget you know it's the whole point is to educate um I'm proud that my six-year-old did his first oral report for black history he did it on Ruby Bridge
it was the cutest thing ever because he kept calling it The Supreme Council instead of the Supreme Court which I'm sure had something to do with us up here um but basically he's like so there was a battle between brown and the Board of Education and um you know just as long
as we continue to especially teach our youth some of the terrible decisions that have been made in the past and that we make sure that we keep going in the right direction wanted to thank uh staff for that as well as the poetry slam that we have planned at the seminal theater
this Friday we had a really nice day with everyone making the Southwest neighborhood beautiful um so thank you to everybody that came out for that um and I was a little breathless when I saw that we had lost one of our Headliners
for the um big event and then to see that we got the Whalers um super duper I think it is going to be even better than last year here so thank you all for your hard work I know that it was a lot to put it all together thank you mayor thank you
councilman cannibal yeah good very good councilman Roth thank you mayor uh I just wanted to say thank you to zeri and his staff there's an epidemic and those of you that drive around the city every
day see it and it's these yard signs and signs are just everywhere again and Ziri and staff has responded immediately to the ones that I send into to them um
and I just want to say I appreciate that and it's an ongoing battle to just get those unsightly signs off of the properties and the in the rways throughout the city um I I don't know that there's anything we can do to the offenders um some of those numbers are
simly pretty much Anonymous and they don't even go anywhere except to a sourcing or an agency that um locates uh you know contractors to do the work that their their advertising so um just I just ask that you be diligent
for those of you that are in the public that see them out there report them to us uh I'm not sure if the app Fixit Homestead is working or somebody's monitoring that um I did have somebody call me in reference to some work that needed to be done in one of the street lights um and they got no response to
that but we took care of street light for them and for Barbara thank you for that as well um just tell us if there's problems out there and we'll address them and the city staff and city manager have been excellent at at at responding to all the requests I just wanted to say
thank you for that thank you may thank you I think it's a war of attrition those signs aren't cheap and sooner or later they'll quit spending money if we keep picking them up it's just it's I'm disgusted by you know and I see the same signs in Homestead that you see in kindall that those folks are paying
people to spread out through our community and spread that garbage go ahead I wanted thank you uh thank you mayor I wanted to just share that um a couple weeks ago I had a ride along with our commissioner uh Commissioner's
Office commissioner Cohen higgins's representative and um we identified several items of concern within our city limit limits and within the surrounding area of Homestead it's just as important to keep our border under control no pun intended um because it those areas they
think it's part of the city limits and it's it's really not but I wanted to just share that um we have um some pothole inspections going on in the Northeast uh side of town we have um damage near the roundabout on Northeast 15th Street that they're going to look
into the they did some inspections for illegal dumping and some homeless encampments um along our areas as well as um illegal dumping around avocado and uh specifically on Campbell
Drive within my district there are many roadway signs that are missing completely from different accidents over the year and years and not being replaced so that um that ride along to get conducted and I want to thank our city manager for joining us on that ride
and um assisting us with um keeping tabs on these ongoing um items for our attention and then I'll be doing a similar ride along with commissioner McGee's office in uh his his district where it overlaps with the city and of course the surrounding areas so I wanted
to invite you to send any areas of concern my way and I'll be happy to make a pit stop thank you thank you councilman Davis thank you uh Mr Mayor I just wanted to say that Kamar I'm in that cheering group uh
congratulations I mean I'm only sent you about 200 things in the city that would you please look into this would you please look into that and he took care of everyone and I very much appreciate it um so okay I won't send you anything for like two days and give you give you a break but uh they'll be coming but
thank you very much for all you do and it's very well deserved thank you councilman our best wishes to vice mayor Fletcher and his family we hope he's uh able to join us in the coming coming weeks we uh we miss you here tonight
so there are two vacancies on the homestead Housing Authority board that we need to fill so if we could publish that and if you have an interest please send in your resume and a letter of interest to the city clerk she'll circulate it to me and we also have that
ongoing vacancy limited to a homestead resident on the uh the police pension board um want to remind everybody that Mar coming up March 1st and 2nd is the 7 th annual Rotary Club Homestead charitable Foundation seafood festival
at the site of the former uh Sports Complex last year we had uh about 12,000 folks over the weekend that event has enabled the foundation to fund nearly half a million dollars in schol college
scholarships just in the last few years it's bigger and better every year in terms of food in terms of music um bigger and better all the time and I would encourage everyone to uh to take part in that both Saturday and Sunday
March uh 1 and 2 and again I just want to reflect on what we accomplished tonight in 45 minutes is really an earthquake Earth shattering Earth Earth
moving with the things that we have with very little or no dissension we're in a on to move forward to lay the foundation for the future of the community I mean there are things that we'll do that are for the here and now but this council is
going to be known as the one who laid the the groundwork and the foundation for those who who come after us and I I really I want to thank all of you all for coming on this ride and again to the management and staff and finally I had
the the real pleasure of spending about 45 minutes this afternoon with the new CRA director I don't mean this in a bad way look forward to having you at the table and under the gun and I look forward to real progress in that uh that area as
well thank you so with that we have a motion to adjourn second all in favor I thank you all good night meeting adjourned I know it's e [Music]
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