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e e e e e good evening everyone and welcome we can go ahead and take our seats and uh all right today I'd like to call the City of Homestead local planning agency
meeting to order today is March 19th 2025 and it is now 5:36 p.m. we have a roll call please member here board member
cannibal board member Roth board member Davis board member Bailey she's Vice chairman feter here chairman lner here ex official Lawrence Ventura very good thank you um are there any
delet additions deletions and deferrals for this agenda there are none okay we have before us the minutes of January 22nd 2025 I ask for a motion to approve those minutes moved and second moved by
councilman Ross second by vice mayor Fletcher there are no questions or comments all in favor any opposed all right next item AI judicial items Mr White there are none mayor moving on to
legislative matters good the first item for consideration tonight is Tab 2 card number 4557 it's an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the city code of ordinances amending Chapter 30 zoning article 3 District regulations division 11 B1 restricted retail commercial
District section 30- 256 uses permitted and division 12 B2 retail commercial District District section 30276 uses permitted to revise permitted uses in the B1 and B2 retail commercial districts providing for separability
providing for inclusion of the code conflicts and providing for an effective date good thank you so we'll go ahead and have the staff report on this item and we'll wave it at the regular meeting good evening Mr Mayor and councel this is Derek cook with
development services department no it says you're L of insur very we are thank you we make that so as you aware the item before you is a modification to the um code the intent
is to allow for single allow for certain uses along the store Frontage along Chrome Avenue and Washington Avenue as stated in the um document it was originally as intended from
Camel Road to excuse me Mari road is the extension for both streets so what I intent is here is to introduce an Avenue where we can
generate um energy pedestrian um activity along Chrome and Washington Avenue and I thought as staff and Consulting with you as councel that we can introduce certain uses along this Avenue that would help facilitate that
and we have identified 27 uses along Chrome Avenue and 28 uses along Washington Avenue which are delineated in your packet this code will not restrict the
uses from B1 and B2 from taking place on the properties is just restrict what uses that can transpire along the the street Frontage as store Frontage along Chrome in Washington Avenue that is the intent of the um code and that is the
request before you thank you uh Mr cook and um you know as a reminder for public this is a an extension of some of the recommendations that came out of the shereet this is probably the first legislative item that that we're considering to to help
Implement those recommendations that uh that came from the shet uh typically if there are questions we develop them more fully at the the formal council meeting rather rather than here um is there anyone here in the audience that plans
to speak on this matter during the council meeting all right very good so are there any um questions or comments from Council on at the LPA level so I'll entertain a motion for approval Mo by
Council a board member AA second by board member Davis uh with that let's uh calls for a roll call on the side board member Roth yes board member Davis yes board member aula board member
cannibal Vice chairman Fletcher yes chairman lawner yes the motion carries and our next item is tab three Mr White yes Mr Mayor tab three and tab four are companion items um I can introduce both
of those and you can have a collective discussion public hearing on that and then take a separate vote on each so the next item tab three car number 4560 is an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the Southwest neighborhood master plan by amending
General standards and the regulating sub area zoning regulations for the commercial sub area providing for separability inclusion providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date tab number four car number 4 5 59 is an ordinance of the City of Homestead
Florida amending the city code of ordinances by amending Chapter 30 zoning article 3 District regulations division 23 planned Urban neighborhood District section 30- 396.25 modifying the Southwest planned
Urban neighborhood commercial sub area zoning District regulations and standards providing for severability providing for inclusion of the code providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date thank you sir good evening mayor and counsel it's Derek cook with development
services as stated by the attorney the items that you have before you is one um item 4560 which is seeking to amend the Southwest Master PL neighborhood master plan and car item
4559 is seeking to amend Chapter 30 of the zoning code the intent of this is to allow for single use along Chrome Avenue on the West Side traversing from Southwest Fifth Street to where the city
terminates at its border this would allow for what was usually would required for mixed use along that Corridor now we're allowing for single use and it also will allow for use of drive-throughs on that in that area
specifically that the intent of this um legislation thank you sir any questions or comments from the board on on this matter okay we we'll hold all right then so on tab three I'll entertain a motion for
approval moved by C board member aala second by board member cannibal there no final comments uh let's have a roll call Board member cannibal yes board member R yes board member Davis yes Bard member avula yes
Vice chairman Fletcher yes chairman lner yes the motion carries and we've had the presentation on the companion item which is Tab four which is the text Amendment to the plan we have a motion to approve move move by board member Avala
and when a second by board member Davis question to board member Raa thank you chair I do have some proposed um changes to that text amendment is it appropriate to discuss it now or can we include him in the the discussions at the let's go now okay so um one of the sections
with regards to um to adding the the drive-throughs and the single use my recommendation would be to have it be listed as a special exception so it would have to come back to council so that it doesn't foreclose
us being able to review a plan and review that section So currently all the parcels in this area are allowed for a mixed use and so if we do this change they can do the single use or mixed use horizontal or or vertical but it would
not have to come back to council it would be able to get approved administratively that's my understanding so the so the recommendation would be to allow it as a special exception so that it comes back to allow the single use correct and I appreciate that my thought
is though that in effect we are at most addressing a three block area this only from on one side of Chrome from fifth down to eth which is Lucy Street the city limits and all of those lots
may not even go all the way through to Chrome so at most we're only talking about a three block stretch where we have the potential exposure for single uses or single uses with with drive-throughs as you're concerned the
single use or the drive-thru the concern is the single use or that multiple partials will end up becoming single use and coming away from the original intent of having a more mixed use type of development um so and
and more so as the uh vision of the city and the chared plays out eliminating this which was part of the original shetes uh you know review it might just change the opportunity for that section which is I think our furthest uh
Southwest area of Homestead to just not be what it was intended to be so app appreciate I'm personally happy to take the risk of apartments off the sidewalk on Chrome Avenue where wherever they're
located um you know certainly throughout the balance of the area covered by the Southwest master plan there's a plethora of mixed uses which are required okay that we're not changing that we are only changing this three block distance
fronting Chrome to allow single commercial use with a drive-thru should they request it okay so that's that's kind of why why I would shy away from a special exception um you know perhaps you know
there are other areas we should should revisit you know you might recall uh you know during our last term and and former vice mayor Guzman really brought up a good point we seem to have an excess of mixed use
requirements even within within the Southwest so that's a good point so this kind of starts to chip away at that okay that's and given its location I'm I'm I'm personally good with that I'll you know be happy to you know absorb
thoughts from anyone else so so that's where you know that's where I would be on this thank you it's just a recommendation I'm I I think I was looking at the at the project bigger picture I wasn't looking at the additional parcels outside of the of the area that this was going to be affecting and I I thought that the extra verbiage
just kept a little bit more control for future councils to be able to make the decision but no I I I get that but again I come back to a very limited Frontage that's your point Thank You may okay so we have a motion in a second are there any further questions or comments from
Council uh motion a second as presented in in the package so let's have a roll call on that Madam cour board member Davis yes vard member Roth yes board member cannibal yes vard member aula Vice
chairman Fletcher yes chairman lner yes the motion carries very good thank you all right are there any public comments with respect to this agenda we'll have general public comments I know some of you have signed up to make comments during the regular council meeting but
with respect to this agenda all right so I'll close the public comments anything further Mr cook thank you Mr Mayor no thank you anything further Mr attorney either of you not at this time mayor okay and
anything further from this body acting as the local planning agency all right so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so moved and seconded all in favor any opposed and uh we'll reconvene this is
not the the council's time certain or we can roll right into so let's take a five minute and uh we'll reconvene here for the regular council meeting in five minutes and this meeting's adjourned thank you all all
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uh get this moving all right good evening everyone and welcome I'd like to call the City of Homestead city council meeting to order today is Wednesday March 19th 202 5 and it is now 6: p.m. um this evening we'll have the
invocation by Deacon Alpa Flareon pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by councilen alala and our great Homestead police explorers you please rise good evening Pastor thank you
let's put ourself in the moment to praise the Lord Heavenly Father we come before you today with gratitude for this great city of homestate for its people for the leader who serve within this wall we ask for this wisdom and guidance and the decision that they are making
for this community may fairness Justice and compassion be at the heart of every one of them here bless those who lead that they may govern in the integrity and humility strengthen them the time of
Challenge and expire them to seek the well-being of all let this city be place of Peace Unity opportunity for everyone who call it the great city of hes St we also pray for those who work tirelessly
to serve this community may they be safe supported and encouraged to do more for every single citizen in this city may this chamber always be a place of wisdom service progress and may your presence dwell Among Us not only just for today
but for every single day that come in through Christ Our Lord amen amen [Music] reset all United States America forward thank you please be seated and thank you
again Police Explorers okay roll call Madam Court coun Davis councilwoman Bailey councilman caball councilwoman aula councilman Roth vice mayor Fletcher
here mayor lman here all right thank you we have a all right we'll now open the floor to public comments each individual will have three minutes to speak uh I'll first call upon those who have
pre-registered and first in line is uh Ed Powell welcome back Mr Powell the podium is yours if you'd like to speak please three minutes is the mic on okay well I want to thank uh the city for
hosting a pancake breakfast at um our clubhouse Saturday I missed it and I also missed the Butterfly Park with the new the new Chief and to the city manager he spoke to our little rag tag
homeowners group at length a couple of weeks ago it's our their little North Gate group gets together and talk to each other but he gave an informative speech we're going to record it I think and have that available because I missed
it and I'm sorry I wasn't there okay we all know hay Gate's gone through a tremendous turnover declarant now aboard a lot of stuff going on I don't dig a lot of other people okay so
instead of giving you a half hour of the bad news I'm going to bring up to date now that statute 720 has got some teeth in it about owner's rights as it applies to homeowners the biggest item is
transparency and access to files we never got them before now the law is saying the board has to supply it well guess what they do they set up a portal online said the The Good the F the files
are out there the law says we have a right to see them touch them their out is it's on the it's on the portal they only put out what they feel like half of what they need they put on a portal okay I'm looking at
contracts that never before did they show us they never showed us the Landscaping they never showed is the Security Contracts we've now got some of that one of which was a Landscaping well mayor you remember a
couple years ago I asked you about who took care of the median on Kingland and you thought that way back when probably some horse trading went on that keysgate did the Landscaping well how do we know that
they never get that information guess what not only is it uh Kingman we're paying for those roads every road there besides South
Canal is a state road we're taking care of three of those four roads I left a copy with uh with uh parks and recs they're going to look at it basically they don't know who's on first they don't not sure who cuts what
okay let let me interject right there your your three minutes is up but this raises a whole lot of issues as to you know if by contract with the city or land use um the association has been collecting money and supposed to have
been doing that you know I'll ask the manager to determine have we been paying for it have have the associations been paying for it those are things we need to determine that's you're right there well last but not least they're taking
me to court Civil Court I am a endangerment uh notice of assault and defamation andam I defamation okay I'm not even sure what
defamation was but you imagine 80-year-old Ed Powell assaulting Larry Mino your good friend and from what I know you guys spent a lot of time together and you know a
second Mr Powell thanks a l the no the three minutes are up and we're not here to referee that I think we all know what's going on out there okay but again you do raise a very good point as to the intricacies of responsibility versus
Financial stay tuned going to be coming and we've got a manager and team will address that Senator poris is is looking into the HOA stay tuned go see you thank you down the cour please okay any other public comments no
one else has signed in is there anyone else in the audience okay good evening good evening everyone any Ramirez 2231 Southeast First Street um I thought it was good enough and fair enough to always give kudos when things
are are positive in our community so I just wanted to come and share with mayor and councel uh that recently in our community V we uh had a little bit of concern but um I'm happy to say that I was able to get some items resolved with
uh the new director from code enforcement Jose so I just wanted to thank you very much for reaching out rapidly um he does have big shoes to fill because we all know that lanca Collins did an amazing great job there um I'm sure she's shining wherever she's
at now and that being said I just want to follow in the footsteps of our amazing Captain uh amazing Chief that's here that started off on the website of Homestead police to honor the women for women's month as we know right now March
and so I just wanted to congratulate are two amazing Council women for women's month and all the strong amazing women that work in the City of Homestead and congratulations to the new city manager Crystal so thank you for your time and
have a good evening thank you good evening and although we know you give us your name and address for the record please it's always an honor Mr Mayor Cel Hayes 3910 13 Drive uh to a esteemed mayor vice mayor
counsel uh particularly to the ladies Council AA Council Bailey uh we are honored that we are going to be presenting a third annual women's business lunch um my name is Cardell again and
I'm the executive director to South day connections our goal is to always support the minority businesses here in this community to be able to have advocacy and a platform for those that may not be heard or seen so for years
city of home state has supported our efforts to continue to to lift our organizations in this community so thank you and so we're going to continue that on April 4th right across the street that fourth floor we're looking for a
great event and it is free it is free to the city it is free to the administration it's free for for our entire women's community that sound St oh okay thank you that's
better all right so once again on April 4th we're going to have our annual women's business luncheon and the goal of this is to provide that platform for our community
of women businesses which by the Numbers 80% of the businesses here are women businesses over 50% are black and brown businesses when we talk about the economic development here in the City of
Homestead Homestead is leading away right and so we're proud to be a part of that um years ago with the help of the CRA we launched a lot of those initiatives including small business training so we're glad to continue this
effort being talking with the the steam City Manager on some of our efforts to continue it and making sure that we're align it with the City of Homestead so we passed out the flyer our goal is to put on the social media every platform for everyone to see we would love for
everyone to come out and be a part of this Joy occasion so thank you okay thank you thanks for your continued efforts all right is there anyone online one more live one well maybe one
more good evening hi good evening my name is Menda I am Ral director we are a nonprofit organization for the culture and so we celebrate world the
day in Miami day County for four years okay offering a um free theater in Old County so this year we are hosting an outdoor theater event in in losar park
here in Homestead on March 27 so I'm here because we need financial help to cover it cost like lighting sound and transportation for our show in in this place the next H
27 so I I don't know if possible for George help help us thank yeah Council Bailey thank you mayor um I'm sure some of you remembered last year and the year before this is going to be the third
year right um before it was held at the seminal theater but this year um he wanted to do something a little more open to the community um it has been really well attended especially last year I think we were able to reach a lot more schools and just to be able to provide these performances especially in
Spanish for our community I think it's a great thing so um I wanted to encourage him to come and let you know you should have received an email from me as well with the flyer with a little more information so anybody that is able to continue this I would really appreciate
you joining me to help it happen what is your what is your goal right now $3,000 3,000 total yeah okay very good why I think you circulated the Flyers and each have probably some resources to help out with
that okay thank you thank you all right anyone else in the house anyone online so I will close the public comments and if there are no
objections we need to jump forward to tab number Mr manager tab number 22 I believe is that correct from Talking good afternoon Mr Mayor I believe you're
mentioning uh is it the presentation or the defal the presentation let's go ahead and do the presentation so the presentation is coming from Miami date County Office of the mayor and it's
being led by Mr William porro and it is on Tab number 22 right thank thank you again welcome pleasure to meet you earlier this evening thank you my name is William por assistant director for the Department of Community Action and Human Services I'm
also a recovering City of Miami employee where I retired from I spent about 20 plus years there I know is that how you know this guy that's how I know Mr EA Waba whatever he tells you about me I only believe about 50% of it so um but uh it's just an honor to be before you here this is uh good news Wednesday so
hopefully uh you'll be the first to be part of uh what I'm going to present today workforce. Miami is something that uh I developed when I was part of the mayor's office in uh Innovation and economic development I was able to develop two platforms one for small
business called st305 hub.com which I hope you'll take a a a look at which is really a compilation of all the small business resources that are throughout the county we'd like to obviously have uh the city of homestad is part of that st305 hub.com but the
one I'm going to present today is is workforce. Miami it does two things quite well let me see if I can get this to work here excellent um the intent behind this just so you know was there's a particular group of individuals through Miami date
County I don't know if you've ever heard of this um this term but it's called the Alice population it's something that was coined by United Way about five years ago and uh there's a report that's called the Alice report that's that's done every year so so the 200 uh 24 I'm
sorry 23 24 there's about 488,000 people that fall within the all population they are assets limited income constrained employed so these are the people that are busting their hump every day possibly two um um income
households going back to work they're probably a transmission failure away from going under that was the intent to provide or create the so it's not a black hole when somebody is looking for and you've probably heard it said many times all the good jobs are
taken it's a matter of who you know all of that nonsense we wanted to do something that is innovative straight to the point but also driven by municipal government who usually gets the calls when somebody's looking for jobs or or homeless and a
variety of other things so this site does two things very very well we partner with the south Florida anchor Alliance which is funded by the health Foundation they bring all of the anchor institutions the most recognized institutions in South Florida and in
Broward County Miami day county is obviously there um Miami day County Public Schools the port the airport Baptist you there's about 40 or five different um in institutions that are part of that we wanted to bring the
best jobs available to these individuals the other part that we wanted to show is the jobs the UPS Skilling opportunities let's say the person is working they love what they do but they want to get a certificate and get more income we have the upscaling probably
the largest compilation of CTE continuing education um pre pre uh apprenticeship apprenticeship internship certifications anything that's about 12 months or less on that site we want somebody to be able
to take their skills scaffold them and hopefully improve their uh their income in their household why why do we do this the the issue is is we just want to make it easier for people and employers the job seeker and employer to find each other
basically with the employers uh and we and I hope that you'll be the first uh municipality that will be part of this with us you'll have the ability to have connect your employers directly with the job Seekers you don't have to do anything other than just look at the
metrics which I'm going to show you in a little bit the local government you have a power that probably nobody ever has you probably have um developers coming to you projects that are coming Community benefit agreements and the like and you
have no way of really figuring out hey are they really producing the jobs that they say on paper they're going to produce you'll be able to keep everybody accountable by the website and obviously Community we want to get everybody from from Morgan that's down here any CTE courses that they have to throughout
throughout the Miami day County we want to be able to make it easier for the person to find it so we're going to create well this is already created that we launched this in uh beginning of December of last year so it's it's very very new we have a Mobility dashboard that we
create within our department that really encompasses the whole activity of the website but the City of Homestead can actually have their own dashboard so they can see what's going on in terms of that I just did screenshot to you just can see these are numbers that I that I
plugged in the actual uh total companies we have we about 300 right now uh total employees we just started we have which is the really the phase that we're in we want to get this out to the job Seekers so they can register we about 336 job Seekers that are on the site we
have 2225 job postings the hardest part of all of this work is getting the employers on board really technically they're my client the job Seeker is the product right so we try to find people for jobs not jobs for
people so if you have all of this amazing activity that's happening in in Homestead we want to be able to facilitate that right now the average wage rate is about $21 an hour which is really really good excuse me the person
can come in without any intervention from any of us here and actually search for the jobs of all the anchor institutions by job site by company by industry they can plug in their competencies and they can Lally search on a percentage basis uh what jobs are
available for them this is the part that I'm really most proud of is that we we have the largest compilation of all of these uh upskilling opportunities so we like to augment it working with the City of Homestead as we have with others here's just a group of anchor
employers that we have we uh helped um when we just launched it I went to the ribbon cutting at Amazon and I said let us help help you uh get people we got a lot of people for them we did their own landing page right now as we speak if you go to workforce.
Miami City of Homestead you'll see the website that we just created for the city see board Marine Port Miami uh Mia is on there I still haven't had uh I need to add the vendors that are part of the airport which is huge in itself
so we can create landing pages for the big ones like my goal is to have all 30 municipalities as part of this Initiative for the county the two uh crazy scientists are right there myself and Carlos Basquez who's a nonprofit in downtown Miami
doing amazing work they have something called go Sprout to help um um J not uh job Seekers employers I'm sorry with uh the apprenticeship program because if they're registered apprenticeship there's a some paperwork and some activity that needs to be
tracked go Sprite can do that for you so any questions I'm here hopefully that you'll join our our mission thank appreciate it councilman Davis thank you for bringing this forward thank you thank you mayor I I just want to thank you so much for your presentation today and this is exactly
what our community needs and and to the city manager we talked about this gosh several weeks ago and he said don't worry about it I got an idea and then here we are today so um so much of our community are one paycheck away or or a
month away from from home lessness and you know when you have a job and get laid off you don't have two or three months pay in the bank to keep the mortgage running or keep the apartment you've got to have this it's got to be out there it's going to save people from homelessness or uh break the cycle of
homelessness so people can keep working and keep getting jobs in our community boy that's what it's all about you're doing God's work and I I thank you very much for what you're doing uh I I only speak for myself but I think I can join with our with our uh uh Council that we
are in it with you right now and it's all about taking care of our community all about taking care of our citizens and helping them to get jobs so thank you very much for what you're doing thank you councilwoman AA thank you mayor thank you councilman for bringing this
item onto the agenda great presentation I have questions that we can uh talk about offline if you don't mind um connecting with me thank you AB um I mean certainly there's a lot of different ways to connect a an employee to to a job um but whenever there's a
better mouse trap you have to support it and I think that this is exactly um what new age uh people need they need a fresh platform you need the connectivity the the the collaboration with the employers and um you know making sure that you're marketing those positions those higher
paying positions so that we can increase the uh you know just the overall Financial stability of our community so thank you again councilman and I will be supporting this item thank you thank you C woman thank you mayor um ditto um my only question and I'm
just curious is um I'm not sure if you're aware but we have a contract with Career Source as well so I'm just curious like how the relationship between you and Career Source would work and what that means for us can I they're they're part of they're they right I saw that there so I'm just curious how does
how do you not everybody that's a great question not every this is another part of the intent when I was at the city of Miami I was actually um part of a director of the department uh that was the Career Source provider for about 5 years I created something there called the Opportunity Center because what I
found was that a lot of the individuals and especially the Alice population will not qualify for those benefits so even though you can go to uh employee Florida that's about as far as you're going to get I wanted to take it one step this is not an end all and be all obviously but
what the councilwoman said it's going to fill another Gap for that individual that is that Alice population they don't qualify for any of other benefits I want to help them hopefully Grease the skid so they can find something diverse anything from a janitor to software
engineer are part of those so I hope that answers your question but we do work with them so I understand that you know our our Joiner would be the first municipality in Miami Dade to to join this platform and there's no CL topics
into this we're covering that as part of our and and in simplest terms this is just another platform upon which we can advertise employment opportunities is that kind of in it it basic form yes sir absolutely
you know just as we've learned with procurement and bidding and so forth the more platforms the better so appreciate it again thank you to counc cannibal vice mayor good all right so so Mr Mayor yes
so at the beginning of the current fiscal year the administration had announced the establishment of the Human Services office so this is one of the major initiative of that office in addition to bringing back Career Source
Career Source plays a role but this other this program from miid County Office of the mayor is a little different it's crafted to also offer City residents upscaling opportunities in terms of training there are certain
categories of Trades that are difficult to find in the field like mechanics so certification as a mechanic is something that is huge which your platform also can engage people to get
that opportunity to get trained and uh just a little Nuance Career Source we fund partially 50% of what they do this is at no cost to the city so there's an additional advantage in also
combining both because they're complementary and Career Source we normally do over a summer time period but this is all year round so there's additional benefits in also engaging with these type of platforms and and obviously uh council members you're
going to bring employers that probably uh career SCE doesn't have or I don't have so that's the whole purpose of this think beyond our our you very good thank you so yes coun one more thing for staff are we able to um
somehow offer a link where a business owner in the city can opt in to participating with uh with this program oh yes definitely um this is they're creating a website on their website for Homestead so there is a link for people
to get engage and participate as a service provider or to actually draw job job Seekers to their employment you know yeah we hope that they would put to make sure that the reso is strong enough to allow for our development services department to make sure we connect the
business applicant or the business owner renewing their certification for example with the agency okay the and also just a point the intent is that um one the city is the first municipality but also that we
work in tandem with um Mr poro shop at the county that the that the City of Homestead serves as the flagship location um in South Dade right um where we whether we're hosting um
informational sessions uh that is drawing employers um that is also a part of the awareness building uh that we're looking to coordinate and and connect on so very good thank you Mr Mayor I
apologize I I forgot to bring up an additional uh uh angle of why this is so important uh the city manager and I had met with um Special Operations Command South and one of the reasons this was coming was percolating because they have
a lot of uh dependent family members spouses what have you that are looking for positions and they're all PCS and in and then they PCS out but they got to get a job uh and this is one of the ways that we're in a very tangible and a very meaningful way taking care of those
military families that they they can come in and now they're going to know this is where you go you PCS in the homestead this is where you go to get a job and I we very much appreciate that on behalf of our veteran community and we want to work with you to make it something well something really really good for you guys so let the work with
you very good so let me open the floor quickly to public comments any public comments done I'll close the public here oh okay I have to repeat the address sorry um it's good that's great
thank you Mr Davis for bringing that however I don't think that's the problem uh my question is Mayor is our city including City of Homestead residents when they apply um I know many callers have called me mentioned that they've submitted their
applications and they don't get a response from HR they don't hear back they have the credentials they have their certifications many people waiting 6 months 10 months are we telling our city managers are we telling HR
definitely be looking in the City of Homestead for Homestead residents I just say it's a new day in HR new director another good move I'm glad glad to hear that hopefully that addresses your concerns
and and those experiences will will not be common in the future I app appreciate that thank you anyone else all right so we'll close the public hearing councilman Davis would you like to make the motion on this resolution sir I'm so moved second
by Council Avala roll call please councilman R yes councilman Davis yes councilwoman aula councilman cannibal yes councilwoman Bailey vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion
carries all right so back to the uh agenda Mr manager do we have any additions deletions or deferrals yes Miss May tab number 23 car number
4487 is being deferred to the next council meeting on April the 16th so do we need a vote on that or you just withdrawing that item I'll take a motion for the deferral to the date certain okay motion Mo
moveed by vice mayor Fletcher second by Council canabal all in favor any opposed any further okay all right we have before us the consent agenda consisting
of tabs 1 through 7 I'll entertain a uh motion to approve mve by councilman Roth second by councilman cannibal all in favor I any opposed moving on to legislative matters beginning with tab
eight Mr White yes mayor tab a c number 4557 is the first reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the city code of ordinances by amending Chapter 30 zoning article 3 District regulations division
11 B1 restricted retail commercial District section 30256 uses permitted indiv divion 12 B2 retail commercial District section 30276 uses permitted to revise permitted uses in the B1 and B2
retail commercial districts providing for severability inclusion in the code conflicts and providing for an effective date this is first reading thank you sir all right we discussed this a little bit in our LPA meeting um certainly we had the staff
reports so there's no opposition we'll wave the rereading of the staff report and I'll entertain any questions or comments from Council all right this item has been moved by councilwoman AA second by councilman cannibal let me open this yes
I'm sorry I was going to say public hearing yes no I was going to open the public comment yeah now it's been moved and seconded I'll open the floor for public comment on this item on Tab eight the code amendments regarding uh Street
Front usage on Washington and Avenue corridors so seeing none I will close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote on Tab 8 councilman Roth councilman cannibal councilwoman Bailey
yes councilman Davis yes councilwoman aula vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion carried and tab nine is a second reading on the ordinance establishing the affordable housing advisory committee Mr White
tab 9 is the second reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending chapter 2 article three of the city code title boards committees commissions to include division 12 titled affordable housing advisory committee pursuant to section 4209 076 for the statutes codifying the
committee's functions Powers duties composition appointment qualifications and requirements for membership providing for officer officers meetings quum legal support and public notice providing for severability inclusion in the code conflicts and providing for an effective date second and final
reading very good uh any objection to waving of this reading of Staff report Let's Get It On the Floor do we have a motion moved by vice mayor Fletcher second by councilman Roth do we
have any public commentary on this item okay so I'll close the public hearing and as we go forward let me remind councel uh refresh yourselves with the very tight categories of of members if you have someone in mind you'll need and it'll be
posted on the the website they'll need to submit their resume and a letter of interest with the category that they would fit into uh to the clerk for my bringing back forward a a slate of members and this is time sensitive I
think we need to do this by April 8th is that correct so we'll we'll advertise that and certainly I'm certain that some of you have uh members in mind and I'm trying to figure out which one of you to uh want there is a council member there
is a seat on the board for a member of the the city council um so with that let's have a roll call vote councilwoman aula councilwoman Bailey councilman Roth
yes councilman Davis yes councilman cannibal vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lawner yes the motion carries good thank you all right moving on to Tab 10 this is a second reading on our Solid Waste franchise ordinance Mr
White I'll take this one mayor okay uh this is the second reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the city code of ordinances by amending chapter 23.5 Solid Waste Article 1 in general to include definitions for franchises creating Article 2 regulations of persons engaged in commercial waste
collection amending AR article three collection by the city to include special Collections and charges providing for conflicts providing for severability and providing for an effective date again this is second reading so if there are no objections we'll wave the staff report I'll ask for a motion to approve Mr Mayor I think let
City attorney opine on certain amendments text amendments of the ORD if I could yes um during the The Briefing The Briefing discussion uh the manager made raised a an excellent point for on a way to expedite the things one of the
Amendments between first and second reading allowed for subcontracting and the way that it is drafted in the matter before you it requires the subcontractor to obtain the same franchise the manager would like to make an amendment that
would eliminate the requirement for them to be awarded an independent franchise and rather require them to meet all of the same operational requirements as the prime franchisee without coming back from for an additional award the prime
franchise being the ultimately responsible party all right so will the maker of the motion to include that we need a motion to I don't think we had to move by with subject to the amendment motion by councilman NOA second by councilman
Cannibal and we open the public hearing anyone wishing to speak on this not appearing I'll close the public hearing further yes councilman Ro thank you mayor so I don't remember where this came up but I think I was talking with
uh Kamar about the the trash collection and in the new developments to require bulky pickup locations in those townhouse and condo areas if you go into any of the other
communities they don't have that so um we had talked about that and I like you know it's a good idea we we may require them to have specific locations like if if you go into Venicia Groves or the gardens you'll see bulky trashes laying
in the street next to their dumpster so but they don't have designated areas so it's not a part of this but it should be something we think about in the future as these guys have to go in there pick up trash and uh how they own they police their own communities so I think that would be something we might want to think about in the future well and
certainly any future site plan approvals and plant approvals may need to have those areas designated uh as as part of as a as a check the box as as part of that process um that certainly doesn't prude when an
HOA or a CDD contracts with a provider from the provider and that's something we could encourage the providers to do for Aesthetics and and efficiency is to you know the contract between the provider and and the recipients could
provide for that those centralized locations so I I think we can you know for future we can build that into sight plan and pl approval but for now you know we're and encourage that designation in in future
contracts yes yes councilwoman this um these communities would still be subject to the same schedule for Bulky Trash pickup like they couldn't decide they're going to have Bulky Trash pick up with their franchisee three times a week just extreme example but that's not an option
right like the residents in this is it whatever they want to pay for it's outside of our schedule right so is is it going to be whatever they decide so you would be on the same frequency you can't have less frequency than what the city does but if they wanted to pay for
more just like if a resident let's say was cleaning out their house and contacted Solid Waste for an additional pickup that's a service that we do provide for a fee right and that that that policy is currently structured and built in so if they wanted to pay the
franchise more for that as an HOA that's that's between them and the franchisee I'll let it rest so we let the minimum there'll be no less service you're not going to have it piling up in theory okay
so did we have public comment I don't think we had public comment on this let me open the public hearing on the solid waste franchise ordinance so seeing none I'll close the public hearing we had a motion in a second correct yes sir all right so let's have
a roll call vote councilwoman Bailey councilman cannibal councilwoman aula councilman raw yes councilman Davis yes vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor law yes the motion carries and moving on to tab 11 the
first item is uh resolution regarding Financial Federal financial assistance subrecipient grant Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor uh tab 11 is a resolution of the city council of the city of home state of Florida accepting a grant award from the
Florida Department of Agriculture and consumer services for the city's tree planting project authorizing the city manager to execute the grant agreement and related documents providing for implementation and providing for an effective date very good thank you and Mr manager this we we have already
identified the locations several months ago this is just the formal acceptance of of this one of of two grants tonight Des Mr Mayor and also as as part of the Grant application we were required to
identify locations ahead of time so this item has been moved by councilwoman AA second by councilman Davis let's open the floor for public comment seeing none I'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call
vote on Tab 11 councilman Rong yes councilwoman Bailey councilwoman aula councilman Davis councilman can vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion carries and moving on to tab
11 car number 4541 12 12 I'm sorry I'm looking at 12 and saying 11 4541 uh Professional Services for permitting plan review and inspection services Mr furl yes Mr Mayor uh tab 12 is a resolution of the city council of
the City of Homestead Florida approving the award of an agreement under request for proposal 20 2436 for professional services for permitting plan review and inspection services to cap government Inc NT Causley LLC and HBC engineering company authorizing the city manager to
negotiate and execute agreements with each of the rank proposers providing for implementation and providing for an effective date good thank you uh is Council comfortable waving the staff report on this lengthy item all right so let's uh do we have a motion to approve
mooved by councilman Davis second by Council lman Avala we open the public he hearing seeing none I'll one down Mr Powell my name Edward po 745 Southeast 8 L did I see or read
that they're going to build a separate building for code did I see that someplace well that that that doesn't have anything to do with this item but yes we had an existing building that the county terminated its use so over the
last several months we have have authorized um the placement of code enforcement in an existing building the city Oro okay is that the old library build no no this is down in the southwest section Southwest are you're retaining the
original code enforcement group Holly or well it's been it's been restructured it's out of the police department now okay let's hope that gets fixed because it never did get fixed in my 20 years here good luck all right thank you so let's have a roll we'll close a
public hearing on Tab 12 and have a roll call vote on inspection services and permitting and plan review councilwoman abula councilman cannibal councilwoman Bailey councilman Davis yes councilman
rth vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion carries tab 13 is the item with respect to a change order for the future home of code enforcement it's car number 4561 Administrative Office renovation
change order number two Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 13 is a resolution of the city council of the City of Homestead Florida approving change order number two to the administrative office renovation project with San Construction LLC authorizing the city managers to execute change order number two providing for conflicts
and providing for an effective date thank you and in L of the staff report let's just be very clear that most of this is due to County regulatory requirements for fire suppression uh small amount with respect
to some air conditioning replacement but other than that this is all uh County regulatory items through the fire department so we have a motion to approve tab 13 moved by councilman Davis second by councilman cannibal anything further
from Council on this item public comment roll call Madam Clark councilwoman Bailey councilwoman AA councilman Davis councilman raw councilman cannibal vice mayor Fletcher
yes mayor lner yes the motion carries and moving on to tab 14 car number 4562 PP Station 22 upgrades Grant acceptance Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 14 is a resolution of the city council of the city of homestate of Florida accepting a grant award from the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development for Pump Station number 22 upgrade project authorizing the city manager to execute the grant agreement and related documents providing for implementation and providing for an effective date thank you without doing a full-blown staff report Mr manager is there anything you'd like to put on the
record with respect to this item yes uh this is the same Pump Station that we recently completed the bypass and we were successful in getting additional funding from federal government to the tune of $3.5 million for the actual Pump
Station to be rebuilt uh we are hoping that uh at some point we'll be able to draw this money down without any additional perhaps recall effort from the federal government so we'll be coming back with an item in the near future to award this contract under
the existing emergency declaration that we have in place in order to expedite the construction but the bypass system is in place the pump the temporary pumps are pumping for the past I believe two weeks we are hoping that as soon as we
go to the monitoring phase with myate County durm we will be able to have a release from the moratorium so that uh about 16 entities that are still on the waiting list should be able to connect tremendous news thank you thank everyone
on staff that that put this together made this happen councilman cannibal thank you very much Mr Mayor and with city manager H this is something that we needed we had that moratorium for 12 years already okay so we're in the verse of getting
rid of it just for clarity purposes the pumps the moratorium has only been in place for one year but the notification about the work that needed to be done was made about 12 years ago plenty of lead
time all right so um need a motion on Tab 14 move by Council second second by question U councilman Cannibal and a question by vice mayor Fletcher yes and not needed tonight but uh can we get some numbers
of what the uses J have been with the recently installed temporary pumps not not needed immediately just when you get a chance very good so we have a motion a second on the table any public comment
anyone want to object to accepting $3.5 million from the federal government you thought you get rid of me I'm just question just curious on West of on Maui they put in three pump systems in where
the the U RV park is is that part of your pumping system I know you you had a pipe that you put all the way over to the uh sewage like a 6 in that that took took quite a 6 or 12 in uh is that part
of that pump station there on Mai so I believe you're referring to the recently completed construction work where the city installed 24 in pipes from the original Pump Station location with the temporary pumps all the way to the
westwater treatment plant on 6th Avenue so this is the same Pump Station that has been under moratorium and it's actually homestead's Regional Pump Station because it receives flow from 13 other palum stations let's let's go
thank you Mr BR all right we have a did you have a question no I just wanted to to uh comment this is fantastic $3.5 million congratulations to staff congratulations to our city manager um this is by far
some of the largest infrastructure Improvement that I think the city has seen in in many years so um just congrats and thank you for the grant that's fantastic good all right so we have a motion to second we've had public
comment so let's have a roll call vote councilman Davis yes councilwoman Bailey councilwoman avula councilman cannibal yes councilman R yes vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lman yes the motion carries
very good moving on to tab 15 this is a first reading of car number 4559 and this is a code amendment to chapter 30 regarding zoning Mr White mayor as we did in the PA tab 15 and 16 are related items so I
can introduce both please do them together and we'll have separate votes tab 15 car number 4549 ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending city code of ordinances by amending Chapter 30 zoning article 3 District regulations division 23 planned Urban neighborhood
District section 30- 39662 sub areas by modifying the planned Urban neighborhood commercial sub area zoning District regulations and standards providing for sever ility providing for inclusion in the code conflicts and providing for an effective date tab 16 car number
4560 first reading of an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida amending the Southwest neighborhood master plan by amending the general standards and the regulating sub area zoning District regulations for the commercial sub area providing for severability providing for inclusion in the master plan providing
for conflicts and providing for an effective date thank you and we discussed this at length at the uh the OPA so let's have a motion on Tab 15 okay we got move byis I by
cannibal any public [Music] comment close a public comment any final questions or comments from Council on Tab 15 let's have a roll call vote councilman raw yes councilwoman Bailey
councilman Canal councilwoman aula councilman Davis Vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lar yes the motion carries and now a motion on the companion item tab 16 move by Al seconded by councilman
cannibal any public comment okay will close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote councilwoman Bailey councilwoman aula councilman Roth councilman Davis yes councilman cannibal
yes vice mayor Fletcher yes may lman yes the motion carries thank you all moving on to Second readings tab 17 car number 4511 and this is with respect to the parks and roadway trust fund Mr Pearl
yes Mr Mayor tab 17 is the second 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 separability providing for inclusion in the code providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date any objection to waving the staff report okay is there any public well let's get it on the table we have motion
moved by Council NOA second by councilman Davis we have any public comment on this item seeing none I'll close the public hearing ask for councilman Roth one question the the
homestead of Miami meway funds um I remember when we started out the uh the police officers camera program we were using that money for that program is that something we looked at before we take this money restricted to
Parks I I think the the language here is anything above the Baseline we have now okay you know they they have their that that we that we're utilizing to offset the body cams that is not drag netted into this this would be
any money over increases naming rights amendment of leases anything in excess of the amount we get now perfect so I just want to make sure that we didn't do something that jeopardize the body program thank thank memory is that it councilwoman did you have a question no
okay public comment no public comment I'll close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote on Tab 17 councilwoman aula yes councilman ra yes Council woman Bailey councilman Canal yes councilman Davis
yes vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion carries and now a second reading on car number 4513 establishing guidelines for educational qualifications and professional development Mr
furl uh yes Mr T 18 is an ordinance of the City of Homestead Florida establishing educational and professional requirements for City Department directors and assistant directors providing reability and an effective date very good let's uh I believe there was some discussion
about a slight Amendment if you could uh turn to that in section D2 under the exceptions for the applicability um there's two Provisions one identifies uh people that are currently working in their respective
positions but the second says notwithstanding the requirements main the section the city manager shall have the authority to hire promote current employees who do not meet the minimum requirements enumerated herein to fill the covered positions um during the briefing process it was suggested that
we eliminate every the from current employees forward so from who do not meet the minimum requirements would be deleted and there would be a period after employees striking the word current striking the
word right got that that's in the uh last page of the ordinance in sub paragraph D exceptions okay so any questions or comments from Council councilwoman Bailey sorry so just to clarify striking
that word I know that that was one thing that came up during our talks is that there were no current employees right now that this would affect is that still the case that's not correct um Madame council member there is one of the
directors that we reassigned recently with the promotion of Miss Crystal oliv to be an assistant city manager she's going to take Direct Control of the office of customer service that currently had a director so
we eliminated that director position so that she has direct control over the department for process and efficiencies for how to do improvements there thank you okay any further all right do we have a motion to
approve moved by Council AA second by councilman conal public comment let me open the public hearing seeing no comment I will close the public hearing and ask for a roll call vote councilman Davis yes
councilwoman Bailey councilman cannibal yes councilman Roth yes councilwoman aula vice mayor Fletcher a reluctant yes mayor lner yes the motion carries and moving on to
tab 19 this is a resolution car number 4463 amending resolution R2 25-13 amendment to council meeting and agenda procedure Mr Pearl yes Mr Mayor tab 19 is a resolution of the city council of the
City of Homestead Florida enacting revised comprehensive council meeting and agenda procedure sueding resolutions on the same subject providing for conflicts providing for severability and providing for an effective date thank you and in effect I mean just for public
consumption um this will create a a process similar to that by the county any one of us initiates something uh it provides for others to become a co-sponsor of of that
item yes Council wman thank you mayor I do like this um this addition one um one one change I did want to recommend is that it's it's there is a potential for there to be two prime sponsors so for example if we were to have a sunshine meeting to develop uh
you know some type of reso there would be two prime sponsors did that make it into any um revised text for us to review or can we just add it to the you can add it it's a simple addition by just adding basically a parentheses s after in two spaces what what section
was that going to be in again it is on page 12 it's in sub paragraph three there um on preparation of legislation I found it thank you so it would read under the underlined um any other council members correct who wish to
sponsor or be designated as co-sponsors may join plural yes I would just ask offer that motion subject to that Amendment so move thank you all right we have a motion do we have a second all right second by councilman Davis
any further questions or comments from Council Mr manager yes uh I just want to bring to your attention and to council members there potentially could be two Avenues to become a co-sponsor you that on the floor of the of the date of the council meeting you may want to indicate
that you want to co-sponsor or during the agenda briefings if a council member decides to co-sponsor an item it can bring it up to our attention and when under the item being considered the city atton can read it into the record and when they read it by title they'll
announce the the prime and and and co-sponsors all right so I think we have a motion a second public comment none let's have a roll call councilwoman aula yes councilman Davis councilman R
councilwoman Bailey councilman cannibal vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lman yes the motion carries and moving on to tab 20 car number 4552 this is a resolution encouraging cleanup efforts near schools I'll have uh Mr furl read it by title
and then hand this item over to council monop thank you mayor tab 22 is a resolution of the city council of the City of Homestead Florida encouraging the city Administration to monitor cleanup efforts on public spaces and rights of we near schools providing for incorporation of recitals providing for
distribution and providing for an effective date Council wman thank you mayor so um this item is uh to encourage enhanced cleanup efforts around public spaces and rights of ways and to prioritize liter removal and regular maintenance in these
areas and it seeks to ensure that families students and the broader Community benefit from Clean safe environments it also calls for greater departmental coordination Partnerships with local schools and Community groups and active pursuit of Grants or
sponsorships to sustain and expand beautification initiatives and through this measure measure the City of Homestead underscores its commitment to safeguarding the welfare of its youngest residents and cultivating a welcoming atmosphere in proximity to educational facilities so I want to thank staff for
creating a a perfect background information in our booklet so I figured I'd read it because it really does um capture the the essence of this uh reso thank you councilman questions I'd like to co sponsor I I accept your co-sponsorship
councilman Roth thank you the support then also I'd like to um also recommend that maybe we put together a a quarterly or biannual cleanup that's sponsored by the city and I encourage all of us to participate in that as well thank you I
agree and I think particularly in the closer proximity to schools to encourage you know their ptas their sports teams or service organizations throughout the city to adopt that block or their those
couple of blocks and that this because in in reality I mean this is not 500 ft from the school this is 500 yards from a school and given the location and the number of schools in this city understand that if you draw that
Circle you've basically covered the entire city with this initiative given the number because we aren't differentiating between traditional public private or Charter correct mayor and and I did include um all of you should have
a packet and you can um you know take the time to review it between now and second reading there should be a second reading on this one right this isol sorry thank you so this there is a map and it does show some circles and dots and it kind of will help you um get
a feel of where in your districts this would be impacting um and it could always be revised in the future if yoube maybe we can figure out a way to use some of that red speed money for counil Davis thank you mayor thank you very much for this for this coming forward I mean I think this is a great
way uh to improve the way we do business and I just think it's important to say to remind our city manager and staff how much better things are now that this team has come together uh and this this uh item does nothing more than than kind
of fine-tune how we're doing business uh Kamar how many things have I sent to you and it's like I take a picture and then I tell you what intersection and it's it's done you know um thank you much so much for that but thank you for fine-tuning this this uh process that
we're in today thank you very much okay yes thank you mayor I'll Co co-sponsor if you want to put the the the S to to the test um I just had a comment to for you to consider I don't know if um if you were here but um there is an app
called Literati with litter being you know it's not literally but it's called litera um and I had a few different um mentoring programs um and I brought them all here for a council presentation to
encourage them to encourage their kids um to download this app um and it might be an interesting way to get the youth involved if we get to the point where we're getting the schools to be involved um it has to do with taking a picture of what you are collecting and it helps us
also keep track of how many items um of trash have been collected during what cleanups it's a really interesting thing um some of those mentoring programs ended up using it uh but that might be something to consider for this I love the idea and if you can videotape
offenders throwing trash out the window at the same time that'd be good too for sure just with the youth you know always wanting to to to take a picture of what they're what they're doing um I thought that could fit thank you thank you all right any public
comment heing none I'll close the public hearing ask for a roll call out councilwoman Bailey councilman Rong councilwoman aula councilman cannibal councilman Davis vice mayor Fletcher yes
mayor Lawman yes the motion carried and moving on to tab 21 which is car number 4553 a resolution encouraging Miami day County County to repair potholes and County maintain Road roadways within the City of Homestead thank you may let's
read it by title yes Mr Mayor tab 21 is a resolution of the city council of the City of Homestead Florida encouraging Miami D County to expedite the maintenance and repair of County owned right of way within the city providing for Corporation recital providing for distribution providing for an effective
date thank you Mr Mayor yes Council I think there is a substitution for this I read the substitution okay just want to bring to the attention Okay there was a it was a substantively the same um an amendment to the title you have it on your desk in front of you
okay thank you mayor it really is what it says it's just to push the county to focus and prioritize um all of the City of Homestead roadways and to get these potholes filled and I want to thank staff for um doing what they can in the
interim um but um it it shouldn't have to be said and we we shouldn't have to constantly bring it up uh for attention but apparently there's only one team for All ofd County with six employees that are going around fixing potholes uh so you know I say let's continue being a squeaky wheel about it and hopefully the
reso um which will uh be dispersed to our County Commissioners and I'll have it in hand tomorrow when I do my ride along with uh commissioner or vice chair McGee's um office we can get more attention on these matters thank you very good thank you for bringing this
forward so you'll make the motion to approve the substitute item do we have a second second by Council and cannibal open the public hearing close the public hearing comments from councel Vice May cletcher thank you Mr Mayor and thank you uh
councilman AA for bringing this forward uh I understand we still have our qrt team and we will address you know immediate concerns when they are identified to us but you know summertime's coming rain's coming so they fix the Poole one day and it's back the next so uh let's uh let's keep
pushing our County yeah cuz it's the quality of the repair correct so but I want to thank our our city employees who do make those quick repairs but sometimes it just don't last well the County's lack of quality in the repair yeah all right so roll call oh
I'm sorry Council Ro is it possible for us to get a map and identify which roads are the county ones we have we do have it yeah we have it CU you know I I particular I drive around all over the city and I call every time I see a pothole somewhere and sometimes it's our road sometimes it's not the County's
Road or it's the County's road so um that way we we know at least where they are because I mean you guys even come into other areas that aren't your jurisdiction just to take care of the problem because at the end of the day the resident doesn't know who owns Which Road and they don't care and they don't
care they just want to fixed so um and if you drive outside the city it's horrendous you know inside the city it's pretty pretty good but outside the city it's getting really really really bad out there so I appreciate that thank you is yeah we we had that uh when we created those project priorities several
months ago with the the DR Horton impact fees we that was a very very very legible and and beneficial map so that would be good to circulate those again all right roll call councilwoman
abula councilman Davis councilman Ross yes councilwoman Bailey councilman cbal vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lawner yes the motion carries thank you and that brings us to business from the city manager anything further Mr
manager yes Mr Mayor and Council um last week the mayor and I visited talahasse to shop around and uh promote some of the city's legislative priorities that this Council had authorized I'm happy to report that some
of the interventions that we made are beginning to kind of uh be on the right path we're hoping for success and most of those legislative priorities and also at the last Committee of the whole slash special
call council member Larry Roth had requested for a report which we circulated this afternoon for your perusal and digestion and also the NASCAR RAC is this weekend the digital tickets are being distributed to council members for
you to share with your any of your interested uh residents and uh there since yesterday or days before there has been a raging fire on the Saturn border of the city and myate county fire rescue as well as state
forestry have been battling to contain the fire just a report on that and we also received a a request from the office of the executive governor in talahasse asking for a bunch of financial information for the past seven
years and asking us to certify that the city has been compliant with State statue Florida statute 28503 uh we have a deadline and we're hoping to comply with that and we'll share the results before we send it out to tazi for Council to take a look at
and I think the last item I have here is that we'll be coming at the next meeting with anou that the state requested for ice which is immigration uh office to for us to certify that our police department will be partners with the
program most cities in the state of Florida receive the same request so we want the city council to authorize for us to execute the agreement which places a PD at the disposal of I for any kind of intervention they want to make thank
you thank you Mr manager any questions from Council the manager's report okay Mr attorney anything further couple of quick things um I'd like to request two executive sessions one of the matter of the of trov City of Homestead it's case
number 25- 3659 in Miami dat County Circuit Court and the other is Warren V City of Homestead it's ojcc case number 24-02 3758 in the administrative hearings office for compensation claims and then
aside from that I just wanted to remind everybody I circulated a copy of the charter if there are any suggestions or you know areas of concerns if you can email them to me so I can start compiling a list of uh topics to uh
present to you that we can discuss at a future meeting I'd appreciate it thank you very good thank you all right well so let's uh let's make the are those very time sensitive do we have some meetings scheduled in the coming weeks that we could tag on I'd like to have an
initial discussion if we could um during you know the night of the cow um I'm talk about the executive sessions oh the executive sessions um nothing that's that pressing the the second one Warren is more pressing Treo we were just
served so it's just an introduction when it whenever whatever schedule time frame that needs to uh to happen councilwoman Avala no I'm good thank you okay councilwoman Bailey just another quick
happy women's month especially to all the fabulous ladies that help make our city run smoothly and a big I love you to my mama and my sister who are are my favorite ladies in the world thank you
thank you councilman cannibal you're good councilman Roth thank you just two things um one I I want to thank the staff and the city manager for the attentiveness to those yard signs they're still out there they're
prevalent they keep popping up every single place you look you pick them down and you pick them up and they put them up there again what's that yeah yeah it's there's just so many of them um and also for stopping some of the uh the car lots that are popping up
everywhere I did notice today out on uh Northwest 8th Street and about Northwest 9th or 10th Avenue right around the old uh railroad tracks there were three or four vehicles that were parked in the swell for sale um I I guess it's a good market for Homestead to have used car
sales everywhere and uh through through the vice mayor seat just to update on the traffic light at Center gate the installation for the new traffic light at centergate do we have a this thing's been going on for like five years
now literal no exaggeration we we'll provide you with an up construction schedule update all right appreciate it thank you dud I can and say that there has been work being performed there I'm actually seeing some some bases put in for the polls so again five years but
it's moving forward now we got to start looking at a couple other intersections thank you that's well you know and in that regard I we have a very good relationship social and and professional relationship with the new director the
county director of uh Public Works director uh you know that's you know I think the value of the relationships we've all um fomented as well as you know our manager relationships so I think that you know
going forward we do have a friendly and and attentive ear in that department for those for those issues do that conclude your business thank you councilman Davis thank you vice mayor Fletcher just quickly again Homestead
will be on the nation's television this weekend hopefully uh without a fire in the background but uh uh we have talked with uh you know our chief of Public Safety the chief of police and uh they're monitoring the situation as well and they will make any any inputs or uh podcasts that need
to be made so they can inform the the citizens where we're at but uh remember to keep your areas clean if you can it is a it's a big weekend for the City of Homestead and uh we're hoping for some good news in the in the near future so uh let's put on a good show thank you that's it Mr Mayor thank you thank you
Mr vice mayor and I join in those sentiments with respect to the race this weekend okay my first formal item of business is the appointment of our some of our former colleague or some of us he was a former colleague uh Leo Guzman to fill a recent vacancy at the homestead
Housing Authority if there are no objections we'll we'll go forward with that just want to springboard on what the uh the manager said about our trip to Tallahassee last week we knocked on a lot of doors a lot of doors were opened
a lot of good deep friendly receptive conversation think as we've all read and heard Tallahassee is just seemingly from the outside looking in and kind of chaos and you know a lot of a lot of cats being hted in a in a different direction
but we're able to stay within our Narrow Lane and and get good responses and uh you know some indication that maybe some of those real questionable items could be very detrimental to all cities May butter out were going to be amended so
it was uh it's always an adventure to go to Tallahassee um what real quick and then uh this morning I had the opportunity to do career day at at my alma Mo Redondo elementary school this morning a
cafetorium full of uh eager third graders it's always always quite the experience and uh you know I don't know that they could get their heads around the fact that was 58 years ago when I started the first grade there and the only thing that had changed is they now
had air conditioning you know beyond that it was basically the uh the same school but it's it's always great to get back to those roots you know from elementary to high school that's it's one of the real fun parts of of being being up here and I know all of you have
that opportunity and I want to thank them for uh inviting me back Council Avala one final item sorry thank you um there are street lights that are not operating on 137th Avenue I know that the county has addressed them and uh
this is specifically affecting um right uh close to where Campbell Drive and 137th um intersect um the majority of the string that was out from waterstone's main entrance to Campbell Drive is working now but there's still
about a block that is not and my question is do we have the ability to add any of our own lights just freestanding there in the meantime so that there's uh some type of uh you know safety lighting safety going on I'm getting calls from the community it's been out
for over a year thank you we'll look into that thank you viice mayor Fletcher yeah uh councilwoman a if you remember uh several years ago we were having high ffts of copper wire and a lot of those lights may be FPL or
fdot uh so sometimes that takes takes some time to get those but I know that our wonderful director of uh Energy Services will make those calls and contacts thank you very good and with that if there's nothing further I'll ask for a motion in a second to
adjourn all in favor all thank you all good night for we want to impose conditions that will consider stringent such as the type of speci of trees and the maintenance timeline so that we can all have a you
know proper definition as to what our commitments will be right and as I understand we'll come back just as we're doing with the other Grant to come back and discuss location and speed and dispersement but let me get back up
on the soap box two months in a row we have voted to accept or approve grants something that I hope happens every month from here on out so move by Council aala second by councilwoman
Bailey second also and just take this opportunity real quick to thank you guys since you're here for the last rock your block I know that you didn't come to a council meeting after but you guys are great community partners and that was a really really wonderful Initiative for you to help out with so thank you all
right so I'll ask for any public input close public comment section we have a motion a second let's have a roll call vote councilwoman Bailey councilwoman aula yes councilman Roth yes councilman
Davis yes councilman cannibal vice mayor Fletcher yes mayor lner yes the motion carries very good moving on to tab 18 Mr manager