as I do. For me, not for me. I get it. First time this video. Yes. for day and council this morning at the strategic planning session for elected
officials. We may want to do a quick introduction purpose is simply to additional information share what has been gathered from the environment to scan the city as well as determine what
we believe their strategic purpose. So that's introductions. Oh, good morning. Thank you. Appreciate you all being here. I not supposed to do like turn the pages
and we have so many things that are about to come together, right? What we're working on today will be the glue that perhaps puts puts those pieces together. We may never see a lot of the fruit
that's born from our efforts, but at this point in my career, we're laying the foundation for long-term legacy for for the future. We'll see some things, but this is something that will benefit our community for into the uh into the
future. For the record, we have Alba Davis with us and young member of the public if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself.
Nice morning. You got a packed day for us. Since there are only four of us here, we can really get things done. Exactly. Are y'all ready to jump right
in? Thanks so much. Um well, before I start the slides, I want to thank you all for the time that we're going to spend together today. We're really excited to get this point in the process. Um as you all know, there's been a lot of community engagement and a lot of work that we've done with your staff really get us to this point. And today is really about getting your ideas
and your thoughts and your vision for the future of the community out on paper. I say this early process today is not a group writing exercise. So, we're really just looking for raw material that Lucas and I, the team will take back and turn into that draft plan that we'll bring back to you all um later
into the summer so that we can set that direction that the mayor is talking about. So with that make sure I've got clicker on I don't know that it's connected now that we've heard there we go. All right. So we've
done the introductions. Um next Lucas is going to walk through the environmental scan. Then we'll really dig into the meat of the day which as you see here is developing the mission vision. Once again, the ideas, the themes that you all would like to see in that going forward. We'll talk about core values
and then the priority areas and the goal statements. Where do you really want staff to focus over the next five years? Where you going to align your budget and your resources to make progress um as an organization or community? And then we specify steps where we're going after
today. So, a little about who sitting in front of you. I'm Karen Richard. Um been with Mary Dell for a couple years. I do this work all over the country strategic planning projects ones I have currently going on in food mar we just finished up St. County, work for the New Bron, Texas
on County, North Carolina, which is actually really similar when I was looking at that. They are an agricultural community with King. So that mix of military and agriculture that really speaks to me. Um my prior career joining very young, I worked in local government with Charlotte region.
So I always tell folks I started as a PIO, I ended as an assistant county manager, and I did a little bit of everything in between along the way. So really excited to be here with you all. strategic was always my favorite thing I did when I worked in the government and it's such a pleasure to work across the
country doing this. So that's me Lucas. Good morning. Thank you. Uh parents said thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is I also have experience in local government. Um I actually have done so
many but uh my expertise in process and things of that really looking for a session here too. So just as a reminder foundational you all have seen this but what are we
doing? What is the strategic plan? What's the purpose? So the strategic thing as you see here really three key things is what the study is going to prioritize supporting for that alignment with your budget the alignment priorities. You can't do everything at once. So really what is the core of the focus that middle document is so
important that it is something that is a living document is something you reference often when you're allocating resources when you're looking at new initiatives. How does it fit into the plan? What does this mean for the organization? What is the capacity? Where are we going? And then the transparency piece. This is a way for you to communicate very clearly and
succinctly to the residents. This is where we're spending our time and energy so that they know where you're going and why. Um this bottom part, so it's where you're going, how it happens, the details, the action steps, that's the implementation, and that's a later
thing. That's really what today we're focused on the what and where the plan development process. and so intimately involved in this, which is great for the community forums, but there's really three key components to developing a good citywide strategic
plan and and goals for everybody. So there's the community, there's the work reforms that we put them, survey data about where they should go, what they think the priorities are, what they would like to see. Um, so that's their role. Um, you all are here really today
to set that policy direction. What is the mission, the vision? Where do you want the organization to go? What does the tagline look like and your document? This is your document. This is your road map for where you'd like the organization to go. And then staff's job next week, they'll take the work that we
do here together today and say, "Okay, this works. Maybe we have to tweak this or add this or modify that." And then go into the objectives. to the specific um model stuff. So here's where we're going. We're going to accomplish the work inside the parties and most
importantly to me for budget person. So how are we going to measure it and how are we going to right? So what does that look like from a performance measure standpoint? So with that I'm going to turn it over to Lucas to quickly walk through the environmental plan. You all have seen some of this um so we've
abbreviated it and but really the purpose of this is just to share with you all the latest data that we have from the community and their perspectives looking at those broad themes that will really help us to work. So as you can see yourselves uh here we have the results of the
environmental scan and I won't go through each of them but when asked the question what are some things that the city government does well the top five items include emergency response operational active public parks and facilities engagement with communities and residents public transit and
emergency preparedness. So we see some of the themes of related to emergency uh response and preparedness as well as public areas and transit. When asked what are some things that city government could do better the
top five responses were road maintenance, city beautifification, economic development, cultural amenities as well as affordable housing. The way I personally like to see this is that the city does some things well but it's like okay let's just take it to that next
level. And then the top five aspects that you think homestead should prioritize in the next strategic plan are similar to the ones we see that could be included from the previous question. What are some areas for improvement which include the
roads, maintaining outdoor spaces, neighborhood improvements and that economic development piece as well as jobs and workforce development. here during the interviews when city does well. We see very much a lot of similarities to the survey
responses. Uh the top some of the items include the community events, effective communication and transparency and trust. That's a big transparency trust. Absolutely. Yes. And that's that's so crucial because if residents trust trust council, trust the
city to do well, then I believe it's easier to pass things along and make sure that involve accepting various changes. My perception would be that many times folks who respond to these surveys of this
game have an axe to grind. Either you really want to be a part of it or you really want to play. But when you factor that in the transparency and trust here is is very heartening to me that we
are everybody etc. But that yeah they trust us generally. The other thing I wanted to also add to that is that even though they're acknowledging we do this as well. I
don't I don't take this as a boss. I think they see through transparency that we are constantly working to improve this right and so that they feel that that's being taken care of but I don't feel
we've reached absolutely and that's good mentality to have but you know don't take your head off the gas right maintain what you're going to be doing and one group I take away as well is because the city have not done this in the past it's now baseline
Absolutely. And in the future if you uh if you conduct another district planning for strategic plan uh so customer service I want to be that priority of
this because you know we are trying to do things the way I'll give you an example like we pass the um legislation about the signs and everything, but the people are going over there taking out the signs, not addressing the situation
with the the owners of the of the business and not giving them any information and then they come over here and we don't give them any answer. That's a problem. Next, during the interviews, when asked a few things the city can do better,
some of the items uh included transportation and infrastructure, internal process improvements, uh balancing road preservation among others. It's funny that you know one you have to talk about transparency and trust on the other hand say well we can doation a
little a little better that's the other component sure yeah of the respondence yeah but and but I think it also is a different leg of communication yesterday for example I was talking to a business owner and she was venting that as a business owner they're not receiving
communication as to upcoming events that are happening in let's say plaza for businesses nearby. So if she had the communications, although we tell there is on social media, if you're plugging, they're going to know a lot. If we can move the communication to the stakeholders directly, which things like
that, then they can prepare their business to create flyers, promotional advertising note like the things that are happening this month in the line. So maybe alternative forms of communication
expanding what we do now just in communicating bunch of basics and everyone talking about because I don't think the communication part per se is against the city management you know because there is pretty it's about one of these things
happening what's the bus schedule there's no one a lot of yet to do anywhere in the country. This isn't something and part of it is, you know, the meeting environment has completely changed. It's more dispersed. It's more
individualized and keeping pace with that. And part of it is just there's so much out there. There's noise and helping people figure out through that clutter what's relevant to them. That's hard other than to your point. I love that basic we are providing free
Wi-Fi when they like log in we put a question you know what the business do you know the transportation of the scale and they can access that immediately right you have to answer questions for Wi-Fi all the time
platform Yeah, log in. Yeah, that's a great way to engage with uh during the community forums. Moving on to the slides. During the community forums, there were a handful of themes that popped up. Among them, uh traffic congestion, jobs, and amenities in the
community, and public safety. So these are voluntary consistent things that keep popping up through various engagements that congestion is well everybody's asking about that. Yes. Turn is expanding the ramps on
Campbell and I know I know that I know that it's still a problem. I'm just everybody's complaining about When when asked what is important to you, um there were a handful of
different areas, but the top being economic development, entertainment, uh like a district or a hub, revitalization in downtown. Absolutely. Of course. Yes. And improve the permitting process. And so again, this is sort of the way I see it is
okay, the city's doing great. Let's elevate it to that next level. Uh during the employee survey when asked what are some things the city does well very similarly to the other surveys we saw emergency response and preparedness public transit city gather
civic gathering areas as well as recreational programming. What can the city do better? Road maintenance making it easier to do business with the city. Affordable housing. City beautifification. smart efficient management of public
funds and then when I'd love to know what back of that is yeah it's pretty high up on this you know on one hand they have trust and we're transparent the other well that's employees that's why I find at least from the inside
perspective that they see improvement on how we how we yes and that's a benefit of asking different groups It's the same question because you get a different perspective and even they recognize we can we can make it easier to
do sometimes that's embedded right that's not when you do things better with the telling you there are too many books. That's
my too many regulations in books. ress and employs. So, we're gonna simplify. Interesting. Which sort of makes sense because if we go back really quickly, uh, excuse me, I went the wrong way. Uh, so on here, we see that improve the
permitting process was one item that popped up uh that is important to you. and seeing that employees and staff say uh making it easier to do business with the city because employees are the ones that facilitate that
business. Not every single employee here is the boss. That's the problem. You won't do one later. That's it. instead of passing the boat will resolve that problem. This is
the problem that we have. You know, it's interesting. It's been the last 90 to 120 days since you've done this initial survey. We have implemented you know permitting and a new customer service
provider. So those things are and we are also transitioning to digital forms of delivering on October 1st travel plans review licensing and fee payment plan.
So employees are looking for some slips that makes it easier for them to invest right everything is by law yeah and then also like what's really happening in a way that's easy to see and that's more
than the data that we can implement these to strike things more yeah it's a it's a launching off point business over here that they have been three four years waiting. But also I think it's the being that we're we're
incorporated we have our our password license or business permit but then also you have need to go you have to get that one as well to see you. So and you can't do this one until this one's done. Yes. And then people don't realize that they're opening a business in the city of Publish and they think they do this
and that's it. But no, there's a whole extra leg and they're not budgeting or planning and they're opening they're paying rents things like that. No, but we have it was on the the terms that first come, first serve and if you like the first time, then you go back to
the need to wait too long, three months. That's ridiculous. I do think that leaison uh position that was just filled I think this week or last week I is hopefully going to help solve that problem. Yeah. And as someone who worked in the community development departments
uh as management analyst uh the department wanted to find efficiencies and improvements in those processes and staff are able to see that because they firsthand work in that space uh and so they can have insight into okay
bureaucracy because they live working. So it you know it kind of makes sense that uh the employees and that this pop up when employees and I do want to acknowledge that in the development services department my understanding is that the DRC process is
not they're not waiting for that clock to start off whereas before if you um you let's say you missed the deadline to submit your for review by one day you have to say a whole month. It sounds
more things for years sometimes. Yeah, that that's I think it really kind of take this conversation is this is a point in time and things are in progress and so I would expect this to look at a different and that's also a big challenge
that so once you come in they So it takes about a lot of time when you have your house. Oh wow. Moving on. So when asked to select the top five aspects we think homestead should prioritize in the next strategic
plan. Uh the top five items included traffic alleviation, roadway expansion, police services, job workforce development, and economic development. So again, just those consistent themes that we've been seeing throughout. This is who was the pool everybody
all employees public. No, this is just the public. Is there any more granular information when they talk about police services? Yeah. like presence versus count versus
I'm not sure we can uh look into it. Um engagement versus friend. What we can do is take another look at the qualitative responses for that specific question and get that back to you. But at this level, this is really
just looking for broad use. And I'm sure that a lot of these responses are without the knowled or engagement within the chief entity. Um it's always been great. I think there's fortunately we get lumped into greater
homestead and there is a perception of crime. Yeah. That doesn't really exist in our jurisdiction. One of the things we're seeing nationally regardless it could be the
safest place on in the United States um is that the perception of crime has risen across the board. So our um some of our clients we do statistically on surveys like you all the TV market you're in right you know that can impact
people's perception so we always counsel to take this with a little brain and your family intuition about what's occurring and your knowledge and anxiety however that perception is important so what we engage with one communication standpoint might be something to consider. I think
that going back to the public affairs site that's a public affairs machine they didn't call channel 7 for example they just have a nearby incorporated Miami day county and fix it or my next call to our city
attorney to make that kind of enforcement not happen because everything is homestead I have opportunities with the script. They're saying it like enough but that's hard with this especially as staff or
somebody or they were but it's and they just don't they also don't know it you know personally they don't know the difference they don't know the barriers and they're just reporting it's exactly what I was saying a rapid response effort when the narrative out there is
is against us well it's it's a you know to transition these now into referring to South Miami Day County or Southwest Miami Day County as folks from outside Homestead have driver's licenses say
Homestead addresses say Homestead just as out in West Kendall it says Miami and they're nowhere near the city of Miami but Miami doesn't get tagged with all the stuff that goes out or out in the unappropriate area of Chris Kendall.
We do not only that let's say we are not enough with the Florida police department also but helping in whatever situation and the the incident is in Florida city
what they all the right so I had this came up in some conversations just this conversation. She says something I think. All right. So, we'll transition now to So, we just I'm going to move this so
you all can see this. So, we actually did a great job talking about this along the way, but from the environmental scene, one of the things we like to capture is what stood out to you. And I will start by saying because we're early in our time together, I'm a
terrible speller and my new writing is so so we're just have to bear with that limitation that I have. Um and Lucas also have the best but it'll be okay. I promise. I always say that a patient should follow. So from the environmental scan we've already talked about the
transparency and trust being important. So, I want to know that. There is I've got a note here about responsiveness and customer service is something to focus on and that's important. Okay. And then my other
note is um alternate communication methods are important to consider and I think that's also part of the conversation you have about service. What else stood out to you all from the environmental scan? What do you think is important as we spend more time
together today and think through? I think the most important thing is customer service. Okay. Sorry about that. And I'm going to explain you why. Everything reflects in us. I mean those people out there doesn't do the right thing. They're
going to be calling us thinking that we are the ones. We have to concentrate a lot. And that translates to all the department services whether it's development services, police department, parks that representational.
Yes. I think another issue I would ask is a little grips about the certain resurfacing and I know a number of things happen but we don't always quantify that this many have been resurfaced this year and
this is protected for next year that kind of stuff. So, um, unless I can really, uh, with a basic kind of moment start putting that out to people, they just assume that my work isn't done, so I'm done. And that's not necessarily an accurate,
you know, perception. That is a really interesting point and one that will carry through to the staff retreat next week because that's um, a great performance measure, right? There's always a couple of measures that are really important for community to build that message and that story. So um we'll
make sure that we not to mention there are much five different jurisdict within the city and just so that I don't forget I know I came in late but according to crime the same should be done with PD yeah talking
about what specific crimes did happen so that didn't frustrate a couple couple three months to say just a snapshot of what what's going on. Yes.
and especially now through uh one thing I'd like to add on the board is um expediting uh and fasttracking development services with uh also educating the stakeholders about the properties, what
they're zoned for, what they can develop, what would be the process to change before they enter, you know, individuals into leases with landlords. And that's that could we could we could activate um you know chambers and real
realtor associations and make sure they're getting the information so they can educate their client base which turn our reg yeah I think it's important realtor and also signage you know we want to make sure we clean up our our city and
we are you know creating a balanced u balanced code. Um so an example uh from yesterday speaking to a a business owner they were only using a an A-frame sign. I said well why don't you just put a regular sign on?
Oh I can't because I have uh some CRA application open. So that's closed I won't be able to file. Well how long has that been open? Since 2019. So there's got to be efficiency. uh made in the applications
and and looking for ways to to improve that process. So I said there will ask if you can uh that 2019 sorry I already to go into this tangent here but the 2019 application that she had to open on CRA is for a a an awning. The awning now since then has increased in price. So
she's got to go back and reopen that awning CRA application. Yes. Exactly. I got the the sign that they had on us. I know. Well, so then I said, "Well, if you're going to go back and amend the price, it's got to come back to CRA after you can roll in the
signage, uh, because you're not at your threshold for the business grant." So these are things that I think staff should be able to come to the table with these solutions not be trying to put out fire on business owners and say no tell me listen here
but also back to the point of educating about signage and what you can do she kept she kept saying I don't have it on the sidewalk I don't have it in the rightways the grass is public rightway that's and she did not understand that so regardless of all whole conversation she had in person on the phone mixed up
and try to understand that point was being missed. She did not know that the grass wasn't the right way. It was outside your wall by the same people in their think exactly that's my point. So it's time to educate and we have to do a better job
of customer service driven to make sure these are I think I've solution minded customer service that that mindset like that's really that was a computer place and then they come to us they fix
everything. No. And in that example because they were told that they can't even have it on their own private property which you know so that's where we have to find a balance when we do even the new things inside the property the open sign and these are things that are not in our code because our code is
antiquated but we do need help with identifying what are some years the we need help with identifying what sign code because our sign code is pretty not exist like it existence,
right? And and it's very antiquated. So perhaps we need to identify what cities we like. What do we like uh that's going on in other cities and how do we replicate that here? What's where's the gap? All right, I've got that. Anything else from
the environmental thing that you think we need to keep in mind as we go through our time today? Anything else that stick out for you? surprises or anything like yeah I think we don't understand like the results here so this is for example what are things that the government does
well some but does this mean that they meant you don't do it well or they just didn't select so it's like you can select all five so it wasn't a huge charges some people go in and they say oh this is something well some people select nothing some people select four
things so it's really so it's not it wasn't done as a like on a scale of one to one to five So that didn't but as you referenced the proceeding slide things like cityification water things that we can do better
what I did go to this is what no but the one that okay so what I what I look at anything below the 25% mark are things that happen Yes. Well, that's
what you don't do well when you when you flip them. Now, what's interesting about y'all's responses that we don't typically see is you don't have to answer every question on the survey. So, you'll notice that there's 67 here and there's one on the other. So, that's
your back to brain, right? Um, but in general, this lines up. These are the things that you can do better or y things do well could do better when you flip it. Well, that's what I wanted. So, so when
they So, on the ones that said the government does well, there's the bottom one is economic development. Do I take that as a negative? That was a negative response. Yes. Only seven people said we do well. Yeah. has seven of
usage where it says 155 people say we need to prioritize 16 and so the other thing I would point out is we're thinking for themes right so there's this theme percolating up that we've heard from the interviews around not having to be a veteran with a
few jobs here things to do here. I heard a lot from staff would like to have a little bit of money, you know, like you know, just that sense of vibrancy. So, we heard that in the interviews. You see it in the survey around. So, what that's really telling us, this is all qualitative data. So, if
I have any statistical data in the room, it's not statistically that um but it's like this is the thing. This is the thing that multiple different types of people care about working at different ways. this is something to consider as you're working today, right? Um and then
you take your lived experience and your expertise in the community too as a photographer. That's really that your question about the data. Yes. Okay. Anything else we need to put here before we go into um the swap part of our exercise? No, but I reserve the right to
Okay. We have lots of markers and sticky paper notes. So, we're going to be having another meeting. Um, so how this works is we go through today and we're getting the raw material. Um, then we meet with staff, they build upon the work that you do. We're really the
intent is policy direction today, how to make that policy go next week, then we bring all of that back to you to work with. So that's your next step. Great question. So let's talk about the swap analysis. Um, so what I have here and
y'all have all read, which I love. So Lucas, if you want to go to the next, but um it's really what we have is what are you all good at? What do you want to build on? What are some of the external external challenges that you are facing? What are some of the internal opportunities? Um just to get a
sense of that current state. So here's how we are today. So about the next five years, what do you build upon? What do you want to improve? What did you wore better? Um and then what are some changes you might consider making? So the SWAT analysis um that we have here I always say this is our first strap.
There are obvious things missing from here for you all to add in just to help get you thinking. So what we're going to do here is talk about what should be added or removed. So I'll walk through our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges and then Lucas will write probably on that paper um what changes
they will make with additions. So for the strengths that we all saw as our team is that you do have good public safety like that is a strength of this community is perception but the actual supervision of the service is good. You've got some good education efforts going
on. Um I think that there's more room more work more work more work more work more work more work more work more work more work more work more to do but there there's some good foundational basis there. I'm sorry to interrupt. Yeah you confirm the the the individuals that answer the polls. Do we know if they're residents of the within the city limits
or have zip codes? We don't have information on Facebook. Yeah, it is well, but we see the same. Um, some of the strengths that we saw in
looking at all this, there's a family member. Um and then the record is a strength. Um from a weakness standpoint, the traffic that's that's a weakness. It's a whole region. It took us forever to get
here from the airport yesterday. There was some trash and different I mean it's just the nature of Florida in a lot of ways. Um the perception that we've already talked about. Um and then the location of jobs. So people living here and working elsewhere but more people wanting to live this place. big
community opportunities. There's some redevelopment opportunities here. Uh uh the connection to the Florida Turnpike is an opportunity and we really have an opportunity to be a destination city. thems like there there are some real positive attributes to this place and as
more people um come here what does that look like to really make this the destination of and then the challenges um the economics of the community the the nature of the jobs here household income levels are a challenge um housing access is a challenge in the community u
infrastructure challenges tied to the roads and then that identity that Um, so that's what we started and that's not always been the case. Yeah, we we evolved into that over the last 30 years
that with the devel Oh, interesting. Okay. And to a certain extent, you can say pre-entry and post-entry. Yeah. But, you know, an evolution of time, the hometown mom and pop businesses, you know, look, we're a city that'sund
whatever 13 years old now. So businesses only go so many generations, people die, you know, the change in the impact of the agricultural economy, um, you know, and then we never really
had gay communities until the early 2000s, so 2005, you know, in in 2008, folks came here for the housing value relative value then with no ties to the community other than
the same house that they were buying here same house in Kendall would be $100,000 more they were willing to trade that commute for that savings and they also traffic they also did they also were enjoying the minimum traffic at that time travel was not the issue that
it is today so that that is true the majority of our population that lives on the east side don't have deep roots. We're newbies. We're newbies. Even after 20 25
years, because you you don't have that history here, you probably never most folks never worked here or in the homestead. Very true. But with that said, being one that moved down here in 2009, right, living in one of those newly developed communities, we have a
love for the agricultural surroundings. And so to see those being sold off and being developed little by little, it's it it pains you. And so you work so hard to try to, you know, live, work, pray, play, and here in the city, and you're just feel like you're in Kendall. For
that, I would have just stayed in Miami. So trying to recapture that save what we can and keep that small town feel while bringing the amenities we need as families that need jobs and places for our children and things to do otherwise we're leaving to go spend our money and
and that's the big thing I saw that on the campaign trail in November of 23 people want things to do here whether it be more diversity in dining opportunities
entertainment things for kids to do. Now, big picture, you know, a destination city we can tie to familyfriendly and parks and recreation. Hopefully, we're on the cusp of having a major
expedited rebuild of 125 acre regional park here that will will play into that as we revitalize downtown. You know, I think philosophically with the more mom and pop type amenities that
first and foremost there are folks still who live in East Homestead who have never been cross invite them to our Christmas tree lighting events or the Halloween or whatever it may be.
Exactly. that there there's I think there's this mentality of almost two there is a mentality of two almost that the east to the west and I think west to go to the east of the regional
part we and we do for the current dining events like the outback and with the bonefish and the on. All right. Also, in all fairness, I hardly go to any of the other
restaurants on the east side. It doesn't appeal to me, you know. So, question. Um, I do want to make sure we cover all our stuff today. From a strength standpoint, what else would you add to
this list? Strength standpoint, have a strong counsel. You are the typical age sometimes in the question. I like that you got that. Yes. Again, this philosophy of relative
affordability for businesses and res the weather, the the accessibility to go to the national park. Yeah. Yeah. Really important. the keys
of course. I think also a strength we have is that there is still I think a good sense of strong community. Yeah. kind of can still go places and know multiple people. Make sure you have the house to know that you're going
to run into somebody even as much as we even though we're kind of a blogated city. I think a lot of folks still have this they have the feeling of a hometown
community but they didn't have wherever they they came from because you know one of our big strengths in this we are one of the few municipalities in South Florida who have a real downtown
yes city blaze or whatever it may be a traditional real you know you can identify This is homesteading. This is This is the core. Yeah. So, absolutely that downtown street and a lot of your neighbors are creating them and manufacturing them, but it's not that.
That's right. Yeah. I think a another strength that we have is our religious community. Churches have proper structures or renting space or we have churches for
Hispanics and Creole and we got a Korean church, you know. Yeah, if you want to if you want to go to church, and and I say that because that lends itself to Yeah. I want to do something to that. Um
Oh, look. Especially get down to And what a melting pot. Yeah. I lived all around the world almost. And I think that that is why I settled here is I just feel like it's a little piece of all different areas. So you have that melting pot. I think
tradition as well. Um we have the longest standing I think rodeo longest standing it was longstanding rodeo parade if we didn't have one year right rodeos in the 7th year. We have a good
fire good Friday which is anniversary. We do have legacy events that are deeply Yeah. And that gets to that community feel. So all that's really good. Well, I think what we like Oh, we also are celebrating the 40th
year fishing tournament. So we have a we have a good strength in our volunteer. Yeah. Veterans Day. So um I think the challenge with that is is is keeping the new generations engaged and wanting to continue the
legacy. That's where that one of the I see as a huge threat to our community and the outside forces of legislature preempting our own
development use. I mean, I think we want our downtown to be traditional and motorized. We're not a high-rise high density. And over the last few years, the legislature has and to a certain extent, the county commission mandated
certain levels of intensity in density and it I don't think this council would ever ever bless. It's a huge threat in theory. the the you know the goal and the impact to create housing affordability. You can
see that but you you end up diluting community and things that they don't have these strengths and these values that we have now that just will eliminate what we do love about and it's really it's not just housing affordable affordability it is subsidized correct
and I think that generally speaking you know if you're going to have a microy downtown folks in those units are not the families or the folks that can walk
downtown and have a $12 craft be $22. It's and they've also our ability potentially to make to retain to obtain tax revenue. They're they're non-t taxable. It it challenges our
opportunity for policing. It exacerbates traffic. That's I'll say all the fiction of living on transit lines is just that the jobs are not north and south. the jobs are east and
and and west and I mean it's just I mean it is a a shift at least in my opinion a shifting of a less more or less a population that's been happening since
yeah it really has high density in south Miami and prest gables Miami is often very affluent very high in there's nothing to indicate that
would be the case if you know our history has always been high density are you know the less fortunate not economically viable residents right I think our our plan and development and the way that we strategize is it has to
complement the type of business that we want to see open up and so they have to have the disposable income available to go to the of the, you know, the malls or the commercial and those mandates could even
challenge our downtown. Yeah. In theory, someone could come in, assemble blocks of property, demolish it administratively, but no, very little public input roadblocks and do out of
character, high-rise, high density, subsidized apartments to replace our downtown. Those were real threats. And I think I think it would be good exercise for us to kind of also look at what do we already have in place that um that supports the needs of our
elderly so we can know that our we already checked those boxes. Yeah, we do have what we need. Yeah. Well, we're required to do that as part of the affordable housing mandate. Yeah. and these new local ordinances
access statutes. Neither of us do that. Let's go back here real quick. Let's spend about five more minutes on this actually break and then go into mission vision. So I feel like we've had a really good conversation on the strengths
um weaknesses and challenges. We've talked about the um lack of local control development preemption by the legislature and lots of different things. That's an issue. Um, engaging the next generation, I noted as far as you got this good right nonprofit um,
culture now and making sure that the reason why that is so important. Um, because once that evaporates nearly impossibly the knowledge gets lost, the knowledge is lost, the culture, the this is what we do as a family. We go through these
things. Um, that's so important. Any other weaknesses or challenges that we should add here? the perception of dirty. It's not a perception of dirty that the the streets are dirty. There's signs posted on all the time. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, for example,
tomorrow email that this trash has been building up on the street gets cleaned up immediately, but there's just so much trash. It almost is. It's called the floor. I seen it. Yeah. And
my kids do it too. But also, one of my daughters, don't hate her, but mom, are we are we outside of homestead? I said, why are you saying that? We're literally on on literally on camp right in front of CI
school. So, why do you say? She goes, "Well, because I saw the welcome to Homestead." I said, "Well, that means that's for the people on the territory that are coming out." Well, they should clean it because it's really right in front of the school. So the children are noticing that even on our city monuments that we're not pressure washing it,
we're not cleaning it and it's it's at the bottom of the totem pole of priorities. But but the perception is the first thing you see and if that's meant to welcome people who aren't homesick but it kind of wants to sit on the turn that's what they're seeing. So that that's interesting. Um Lucas has
got that um smooth funniness that level of beautifification. Anything else that you would add? And then I want to end on opportunities if anything comes to mind later. Look at my list. I'm thinking about the garbage and stuff
like that mostly is culture about education. It can help. I'm telling you because the school and I don't know that even the fathers my kid came with like four or seven signs like that because my
wife tell my kid doing it but don't pick it up. I had to Yeah. Oh yeah. Community service branding service there. Oh goodness. Um let's talk about
opportunities branding. Uh okay like relationship becoming that destination city not just for one destination multiple stop here before you go to the keys. We should have a buck down that we are available for for staff
to also for the community to have that reception. I wasn't that the new one that we Yeah. That's better. That's going to be good,
but it shouldn't be that should be well there. Our three most immediate opportunities that are real on the horizon are the development of the regional park, revitalization of downtown
and the attracting whole new job space by working to ensure that the aerospace designation for the area southside air base that we can play off
of that and and promote our privately and on industrial projects and make a plan. And if we can demonstrate to folks in that industry that this is the place to be. Hopefully soon there's going to be an announcement that a defense
contractor that does stuff they can't talk about also has a product similar to Starlink is relocating to Homestead. Interesting. that it's my belief that once they announce they are here, others in the
industry will say, "Hey, what's going on down there? We should take a look." What was the basis? I forget the name, but they have defense contracts. They have a product similar to Star, right?
And that's the nature, you know, that's that's the nature of Facebook is that it other communities have just leveraged that into enormous because it's so um it it mixes military and civilian. It's a bunch of
smaller producers, you know. Uh then boys we are trying to to sing that song that says you are welcome here. That is the job and the development city. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else to the
opportunities? I think there's an opportunity for us to continue to harness the relationship with our school board to improve the perception of the school industry as well as um expanding
the the magnet program. What was that magnet theory that we talked about? The magnet program that they were adding and we were asking to get that magnet. I think wasated as I don't think does they have
and they have a dual mechanics with aerospace but that's so the only school so that goes there that's where they go I understand, but South Bay does go to
Yeah, they take half of their class. And Miami Day College is very interested and attuned to working with the school board to create that track and be very connected to that aerospace. See, I and I don't know if it's an
opportunity. I understand the the difficulties with the company, but Homestead should have had ownership of that base 50 years ago. Um and I you know I don't know it landed and and we'll have that
ownership of the base like other other cities around the nation do you know as your base and care for it take care of everything goes long distance to the city to the county position when it should be residents right here paying the jobs you know they have a lot of
leverage anyway here jobs are here money's here what have you Um I think I would love to look into that if it's if it's available discussed that it's an opportunity I can always let's put better connection to the base
I think that's the opportunity whatever more it is I think it has been a typical basis by you know that's just the nature of that flyers yet we'll let you know if
but yeah to be able to be just all right with that if there's nothing else burning let's take take a break let's come back if that works we'll come back and start working
She doesn't take coffee. That's something if you want us bring your own Oh, you're talking about my favorite mentoring program, Build Your Own Legacy. Did it not? What's that?
I wanted to sponsor a baseball tournament and basketball tournament. just a couple weeks ago and I haven't anything since well there's supposedly something I
don't know why you give us that money see that financial department is a mess okay you are the money to for us to use that we can use it because the question that's everything I don't know what we're going to be doing with that I came to hire everybody in the
finance department people in there still oh really exercise. Can you put it on? Yes. There's a third my friend. So these are
easy like electrical contractors and changes some of them $700 coming. Who's the vendor? Do you know the name? I walked in and got I think we just got a pop.
regular price. You have to pay rent in Oklahoma. Oh, you mean here bring it down in a year and a half. We'll bring it down, but we can park it at the base for 80 bucks a month. Oh, really? That's good. Sure. Yeah, I put it on my house.
I have the space. They just can't believe that. Yeah. I would assume Yeah. Whenever my if there's a hurricane and my parents were looking for something, I searched through all the U-Haul places that offer. They're always
full. My parents have to leave. Especially around Yeah, they they've done it a couple times where there's a hurricane coming here. So, they head up north, but they're we always have a speedway in the sher
region. Come here in South Florida. They'll drive off. be waiting a couple times to take somewhere else. Yeah. I don't know what it is, but it's the other one, please.
Is that what it is? Thank you. Where are you guys? So, I'm in Charlotte. Yes. Yeah. and also otherwise connect.
to take you down and try to be good and then get black coffee. You want black coffee? The first time around I need to get black now that I have my little because
14. So the county I was late. Yeah, not bad. They're like the best sick kids ever. I just feel bad. I really like that they uh so the oldest is a boy. Okay. Uh and so the older I have Yeah.
So the elders are 18 months apart and they because it's boy and then girl they basically twins but developmentally they're really a lot um and then the younger that like nurturing that the older two have with the younger one is
just it's not like that. There's another 16 14 31 and 23 and yeah was their age
28 25 23 2 Okay, it makes you to come down. I'm looking to stay for you know
I made everything to study here in Florida because I paid Florida prepaid to all them. Not going anywhere but Florida. Yeah, that's it. It's already got 16 state schools that are really fortunate and like the top one is really really good but there's a school
for everybody but state level you can go anywhere you want beyond that you're not so my had about 15. Wow.
UF. Oh, wow. That's fantastic. When you're done with all the good or not wants to go to money, but it's free.
wants to get her. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. But she wants to be a traveler though. She wants to live in a trailer. My brother does say his girlfriend and she wants to get like figure it out. the police after seven
years beautiful at the end. You're old already. And the change really If y'all want to step back early opportunity and get going with that so
we can get in the next hour we should get all the way through mission vision and tagline it's really iterative builds and we're just looking for ideas and words from a sparkle. Um this what we just said here is actually be really really helpful um in a later step of the
process around writing go statements and all that. Um, so if it works back on Is it right on the balcony? Yes. Yes. Yeah.
County. We don't have any 16. So 16. Yeah. Which ideal location. Do they have enough work? Oh, yeah. It's a it's
been two two years now with the firefighter of the year. So, we do go there um a couple times a year, but it's uh yeah, it's pretty good. My sister was a paramedic. She has to do her rides there. So, there's been um would be nice
to have more located still in the same area, but So, I think for the east side, it's more station six and I want to say 33. There's one on like 288.
And Chief Santana was over all of the ones in the area. He was the chief for all of them. So he would be a very good person. Yeah. To talk to heard. So
this I thought we did the surplus where this area used to be minority. They got to put the photography the
location. Sorry. When the system the county like 60 or 80 from that they got after homestead your wife
yes within the last year county received that is where the other minor facility I shot arms about five or six years ago. It's there across the street to the north where the
commissary basically straddles what would be his kingdom looking way out on the base the original entrance into the base. Um, are we ready to get back at it? Yeah. All right. So um over the next hour
we're going to uh work on developing an mission vision and the tagline. So we're going to start right off the bat with the definition. What is a mission statement? So the mission statement really is your purpose for being it's why cities and counties exist. I will
say that city and county mission statements are boring and the same because you all typically exist with the same purpose, right? So, it is really the stated intent of what you're here to do and and why there's so much organization. So, we've got some examples here of some mission statements
for some of our other clients on this slide. So, you'll see here Hollston provides a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can live, work, play, learn, and create a small city with a big that's what they wanted their mission statement. Yep. St.
Schorers at the Charles, Illinois. We provide exceptional services, honor tradition, and foster a thriving community. That's what they feel their mission is. Um, Jamesville, Wisconsin, an adaptive and welcoming community, enriching life. So, those are some examples to kind of get the juices
going. Some additional examples that are more local to you all. So, we didn't need as a firm, but they're neighbors. So, um, to serve our city by continuously encouraging quality of life through community engagement, exceptional service, and accountability. And then um the last example here from
Miami Beach. We are committed to providing excellent public service and safety to all who live, work, and play in a vibrant tropical historic community. Um so that's just some ideas of what is out there because really what we're going to ask you to do now and
Lucas is going to chart with this is answer some questions. Um so what is the purpose of the city? What do you do and why? And how long do you work? So we're going to do this as a group. Um, so just rapid fire like why are you all here? What is the purpose of the city?
The people that live in say that it's Yeah. So what we're going to do is y'all are just going to give these questions and then we will go off and find a fancy way that fits and honestly the conversation we're going to have really gives a sense of where you all are when you're
feeling too. Okay. serve the community. Please forget the handwriting. What else? Protect our our res. Protect the resident. Protect the resident also to protect our way of making our opportunities, right?
We don't want to let it go to the top. Foster foster foster community. Okay. Uh you said foster community. Okay.
What else about being an environmental stewards with the national parks? forget that. It's silence. What's I thought you were saying Siri. That's what I heard, too. I think I
think that we've you know in the past we've um we've used the working to create the live work play create model right I always ask that question like where are you on the spectrum of the
workplace and people still really liked it sounds like people maybe not so much we used it over and over again cliche it's cliche but at the same time it is what we're looking for, right? We want to be able to work close to home and have enough things to do with
it's a cheesy way. Exactly. People would be happy with the live and play. I think also the word that comes to my mind is creating a holistic lifestyle. When I say holistic, I'm using the word holy as we're set apart,
right? We're part of Miami, but we're want to look like Miami. I want to feel that many preserve a sense of community and preserve is the better word versus protective too community hometown feel that kind of
thing. So you want to change that one above to preserve way of life and hope preserve instead of pretense right. So we're wandering into mission land or vision land right now which is fine. So
we'll do that in a minute. community. One more. Yeah. Terrible. Cross off the number three because the last one you wrote is exactly what I meant to say. Got because it's not so much as during
not number two. Well, you need to protect the rest. at this point for a holistic way. Thank you. Kind of where the language anything else that you think words or ideas that you think is really are
important to consider that purpose why we're here. So using the examples you provided, I'm welcoming. I think it's we want to welcome, right? Come here, build your business here. Um uh enjoy the the businesses we have down here. So
creating a welcome, I think to go along those lines, what I think we should key in is the act of words. We serve, we foster. What are we serving or who we serve? What are we fostering? you know um you know that
that will help us to prove our ideas as we yes I'm kind of brain dumping here all the language and your terminology and then we can go off and craft and you'll have the more you give us the better
I like the contin continuously enhancing quality of life because you're never done that is this a place to mention multigenerational that's always a big tie could you I want to write that down you
and then we can bring some a great place for all generations generational right you know could you even mold that down into heritage of families.
Very good. Because I just that's one of the call the way you said it. I think it could go something like a multigenerational community serving residents and visitors, fostering this and that. Yeah,
I think so. Yeah. So you have artists who are writing musical community and then it can say serving our residents and visitors fostering whatever we have in there holistic lifestyle.
Yes. And then one more. What else did you say? Serving. Fostering. Then there's a second preserving. And then at the end maybe preserving fields. Exactly. All right.
Thank you. Are you working here? We should include also that we like your highlighting the maintenance of our being a gateway. Exactly.
Now, keep in mind, Florida City use a gateway in there. So, we have to play on those words. And I I want us to be known for our patriotic presence, right? American flags everywhere.
Community are we can we can we can we let's do this. So, you are all in the vision space. So we're just going to go to if it's in Southgate. Can we say that? Yeah. So the vision this is aspirational and this is what you're saying. I want us to be the I want it to be that. So let's go to vision time.
Um and so one of the things you wanted to be as aspirational. So we have the examples here. Dubage County um is a hub of economic vitality, expansive natural spaces, high quality services and prides itself on being a place for all things.
Um that's actually weakness um politen together we nurture a safe vibrant sustainable and inclusive community with equitable opportunities that all can thrive of cultivating our past and future cultural resources. That's a long one. One of the things I
like the picture that it's snappy. Where would these be? Where would these go? I understand the mission statement on our is like a motive but where would the vision statement go? The mission statement goes with it, right? It's like a package. It's like your vision, mission, and then your core values. It's
really and then your who are you as an organization and what do you want to convey? I always like to present this as when it's new employee orientation day. What are the key things that paper? This is who we are. And it also goes with all
of the state. Yeah. And for me, the vision and the tagline kind of, you know, we we kind of hit around, you know, Homestead is where the future of South Florida lives. Enhancing the way we live.
I'd like to I'd like to, you know, I'd like to try to um attract individuals that love nature, right? Because if we're going to be um you know, betting on the fact that
we're a gateway and that we're between two national parks. Well, the people who live in the city should should love that too. They should we should want to attract people who want to spend time in the Keys and Biscane the Everglades and live here. So that's easy access to but
the people who like those types of nature environments and being one, you know, the place to get away. But you do but you don't they won't live in the city limits if we're not if we've got trash everywhere.
If we've got uh you know traffic congestion everywhere you can't drive down the road with your windows down without you know hearing you know music blasting and so it's like you have to create the lifestyle in the middle that will help bridge everyone that's whether
they're coming to visit. Yeah. because they're not going to want to go to the restaurants. If the culture in the city doesn't match the culture that we're trying to that we are gateway to these places, they're going to skip us and get some us and just go to this game. So, I think our
mission, our vision should try to develop that. Let's I think I said it right, but I think No, no, I hear the essence of what you're saying. Let's look at some of these prompt questions. So, you were just talking about where you said the city of the next state, right? Like it's this place where people come to they get
enjoyment. It's a clean place. It's vibrant. It's attractive. Emphasize on what the city over the whole state now without the national series and everything over here. We should like
with all the agricultural that we have down here, the nurseries and we should have the most beautifully landscaped cities and streets, residents streets. We don't we don't have that. We have trees cut off at the stump from 20 years ago. We have weeds. We have uh you know
there's no color. Sure. You know buildas and you look to the gated communities that have a lot of the landscaping but throughout this the public roadways we should be playing a role in making the city beautiful that way. Go ahead. I was just going to say how these are all
really good ideas. These are things that you want your community to be. how you want community to look. How can we turn that into a vision statement? Like the specific statement the vision is where what you want your city to look like, what you want your community to look like. The mission statement is like how
you get right. So what's your vision? What's the if you could be we do already have a beautifification project that we planted a lot of trees and stuff like that. So I hear beautifification. It's a beautiful place. That's part of the vision.
So, we we honor our heritage, our homestead heritage with a firm um vision to So, part of the mission too is honoring the services. Like we do that military
patriotic division. Homestead is our home. I want to be seen as the friendliest and safest city at South Dade. I claimed that everybody.
There you go. Capital of South Dade. Capital City of South D. The capital before you go to the Keys and just wait. We're gonna claim the title of the biggest of the southernmost planets. The capital of
South any other way. One of these here says uh expansive natural spaces. I mean what are what is expansive natural space that we have
maybe those first complex check that box later but location we should and if you don't have the space right you have the landscape luscious
lush hybrid. What about the notion that we heard about on the community forums from staff and think about this things to do with complete community? Is that part of the community? Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's that's that's the way to
play. Vibrant gets it sometimes, but definitely like a more action based word. Yeah. I think I have a sense of the essence of what you are trying to get with the
vision and the mission. I really do. Anything missing that you all that we have, like I said, our job is to go off being practical options for y'all. And always what happens is people take some parts of this, some parts of that.
something about being family friendly. Family oriented. Family oriented. And you talk about multigenerational. So So we want to provision business. Yes. Absolutely.
I was going to say the same thing. Business that we always trying to improve our services to help the people that we help here. pretty good about the raw material. There's a lot to go out with in
different areas. You know, we have the nature aspect and uh people in the community to be able to connect with everything that's around but also distance. And so there's yeah, a lot of different I mean this goes without having to say
diverse and you know celebrate the cultural so what I want you to know I don't like you have I have set reference to you on this usually this takes a little bit of time so I love it um the next activity we have is around the so you know your
tagline is a memorable phrase or slogan that's designed it's really for external audience part and it answers the question really what is the essence you I think you mentioned the word essence earlier. is this place. Um, and so you've talked a
lot about the essence of this place. When you think about the tagline and the branding there, you talked about the capital of South A. Are there any other kind of nuances or things you'd like to share that would help us form some tagline ideas for you? The hometown of South Florida.
Yeah. South Florida. Anything with the national parks that you want to think about from a guidance? What do you have on our study gateway? Gateway to our city.
The gateway is key. So we could be the gateway to Ash. I think you said what's another word for town? I say homestead is a homestead. Your homestead is the best place that you can be.
But if there's like another word for home a hometown, I I see it in this in the sense of saying a hometown feel like you know South Florida's hometown capitalis on that. Let us take that
right down but Florida's hometown motherland I don't really think we can work with this. Okay. If you feel good, I feel good. I feel good. And I said that was
anyways. So to the extent it helps you remember we're the second oldest city in we have in New York that connects. Um it's rare. That that place is amazing that what we
have done by people like Oh, you mean you mean the green national park? The greenway. Greenway. Is that phase one is done in the city but
not to the east west. Okay. to the eventually it's going to be done I think and it's like half of phase one because phase one also included the little structures and so I do I would love for for people who love to be outdoors this
is their place to live I go with my kids where do you start to do with the kids 12 hours like two hours complicated because they they see they stop and
they reminds me though the canal very um I think it's king super dirty again it's always like that it's until we complain you know I complain to that public so much about the
car. They put the loss in there. But people will go out of the office and go and they will like everything in the canal. All right, let's move on to core values. Oh, so our shifty gears. Um, we've got a
little material for the fish tag. Now, horizons are really got some fancy words here. Precepts I got an organization through all its life circumstances. I like to say core values is how you show up every day, right? Like how you treat people. What does that look like? What
are your expectations of how you treat one another, how you treat the community, how staff treats you, how staff treat that ethic, and it's that I've already mentioned it's that first day of employee orientation. What are the key
behaviors that you really want people to learn and show how from a proceeding look at those actions that that will be a piece of this and then we're going to do some additional as well. So because there has been some work that has occurred in the
organization I'm hoping to Ashley the manager to help me a little bit with some context I think um about some of the work that y'all have been working with staff but some local standpoint um Dorado their core values are integrity family excellent service communication
team um I like it and I always recommend some clients do this and some don't that you define what those routine uh because those words on a page about the definition people can interpret them in different ways. integrity is some of
those words that um there really needs to be some specity around what that is or what does excellent service mean but um that's their um group of core values existing um team values I think this is the work that the manager has been doing
in my radar run with the team around communicate effectively also measuring communication work as a team to achieve success be committed align align goals with customers align goals with customers, clients and then support the organization's business mission and
business strategy. Do you want to add any context to those around what this is or what this means to you? Align goals for customers. Yeah. It's like I think it's still down to working for you. Yes. Right. President first
said first approach. Okay. Capture that. So what you like about this when the align goals with customers and clients is a resident centered approach. Yes. Yeah. I mean, right. But then exactly because here I'm thinking the resident, but really I want
owner. I want to do I want to do this for the people who own property here that are stakeholders. Those have the customs business the businesses and the property owners. Of course, yes, we serve our residents, but if you have a higher percentage of tenant occupants they
don't really care to see there's perception I think residents that would be setting the criticism that we're develop right homestead and it's that um solutionoriented
problem solving I think it' be a build up of that definition like conversation we had earlier. Um, how about we start at the top? How do you feel about the communicate effective way? Is that something that you think is important before that you'd like to carry forward? I think it's ambiguous. I like the
specificity of alignments. That's for sure. Well, I think yes, but I think with the communicating effective, you know, multiple customer. Yeah, but yeah, we always say
communicate in itself. Are you communicating effectively through that that your customer is Yeah. And that is one thing that the uh data show us in the environmental scan that is doing well at the communication
piece. We did have a slight discussion about that earlier as well by making sure that the communication is clear and concise and can't be misconr that that could be part of the communicative effect piece. Similar to what was saying earlier, it's important
to sometimes bind somebody and so to communicate effectively. It's maybe a little vague on the slide. So we we want that core value then we can go further and deeper and define that more like transparency.
Absolutely. I think that's going back you really got to define what you're saying. I think there, you know, as we do our specialized streets, you know,
when you come into Mstead, you know, you have cross to that city. So visually when you're on the ground you've got that you still have that media the geographical perception of
course that have we have to be better I guess one way to also think about it is you know in the private sector different companies have their own they have a different perception they have a different image if you think pick up a Samsung phone versus an iPhone they look completely different they operate
differently the companies stand for something different Okay. What image does home want to have? A lot of visitors when they come into homestead that they see and recognize that, oh, I'm in Homestead right now. I know. I feel
it. This is where I want to live across the across the city line and say, "This is where I find." Yeah. What What about people? People feel they come in clean and vibrant, not dirty and not empty
and not a bunch of jump signs. Welcoming with a sense of her of heritage heritage. I love that. And although we're losing the
farms for it feel to be somewhere that feels more not as congested one green country is that you know after there's a big area outside the
suburbs before you That's what we want to be agree about. You're like driving the drone coming over here before you get over here. It's like you're in the country once you get until they build it
all out because eventually, you know, then how long is our how long are visions and mission statements? Yeah. kind of I I often thought in terms of separate, distinct, and unique that you you like
historically was very remote the rest of the county, but you know, getting there was, you know, clear distinction. Yeah. You know, so we're separate. We were distinct in the old days with poor agriculture.
uh we still can be with the feel that you get the positive feel that you get those visual cues that you get just like the land of Kansas for that you're now in homestead right and just our we have
our downtown those those kinds of things is it an adventure visit as Yeah. But can we how can we make that an adventure that you want to have?
So the I want to ask one question. We say that is an adventure in a negative sense or possible. Maybe it's currently a negative sense to some people, but how do we change that narrative where we have the first Tiberium in the world in
city? We have the sports complex. We have the access to not one but two national parks plus the keys. championship. Something outside perhaps using some of
these type and notative concepts and programs and events. future lives here. That's all. I love how intricate this process is, right? Uh oh. past in the future. I love
it. All right, I want to bring us back to the core values. I have one more question on core values. This notion of commitment as a word of doing what you say. Do you like that word? Yes, commitment. So like the word commitment.
And then the next slide I have is we don't have anything there that says professional conductor. we conduct ourselves professionally that be something there is that trust but I you know I think
that you know trusting and transparent notes conduct trust is there anything that I Yes I have a Yes. Any other words that you all would expect to see in the value space that
you want us to work with? And we'll work with staff on this too. This one is really nice. Kind, compassionate, but those are not the words. But whatever you can harness to. Sorry. Just really quick, one thing I
heard that I want to address is the um ability to maintain certain vision going forward in the generations to come. That's also the benefit of these mission, vision, value statements and core uh establishment core values because you create that identity that
it'll attract people who want to be part of that identity and by doing so you bring a certain type of mindset that can carry on that torch uh in future generations. So that's also the importance of some of these activities.
Can we use the word captivating in a way? There's captivating business to do. Right. The next um slide I'd like to get your reaction to is this is the existing statement. So it city of Homestead has
outstanding managers responsible at all times delivering exceptional services to the community. any sport um words that you want to make sure we know our core value. This is the first time I see this. This is not socialized.
When did this get created? Is it a longterm? Is it common for it to be a vertical? That's the first time I've seen it. we can I was just saying okay that's as common as um it didn't sound didn't sound minded
didn't sound futuristic accountability or integrity involved it was one of the reasons I said listen not administration and that has nothing to do with team if you're saying that the managers are responsible at all
times little negative, you know, I just post it as professional managers delivering exceptional services. That's just what
it's just throwing stuff. So, here's some value. Um, I hear y'all don't like that statement. Yeah. Um, this one is from Texas. This was a project I worked
on, finished a year ago. So, here are their core values. Integrity, service, visionary leadership, stewardship of resources, and still responsible. Um, so this is how they could find integrity, um, service. They're responsive and
respectful to those we serve with an attitude that everything is worth our best effort. I just really that's really nice. I I really like that one and that captures the you know kindness and compassion. Yeah. Yeah.
Um stewardship of resources. Um this community is really fascinating because it was really founded um from Mexico and the German principality where the entire German principality came over in 1840s and reestablished itself in this middle
of nowhere Mexico. And so they've got these historic generational families um and a culture that is really easy to tie to that Mexican heritage. The Mexican government granted them the land that has been who they were and then all
of a sudden Texas has exploded and they're in between Austin and San Antonio. They have all this new commerce coming. So maintaining that is really important to them. But it core value similar to what we're going to some threads of that. One of the reasons I wanted to share. However, given the age
of our community, the natural evolution of there are very few maybe three or four families left with ties to the
early days of homestead. people have died out, moved away. And I think that's probably a natural evolution that, you know, we've got a bunch of folks on the east side. We don't know, they don't care. And that's not said to me anyway.
And and it doesn't matter. So, you know, we are in a huge shift of perspective. You know, a lot of folks on the east side don't realize they're moving on what used to be born in potato fields where somebody's farm ship is
here. That's Yeah, there's very little big left back to the early days. Yeah. And that puts me in a position where as as a representative for the east side, I I have such an affinity for the the old
homestead. And so for me, I I guess I take it for granted that I know all this stuff or that I'm I'm in it with the engagement with community and the nonprofits. I'm being involved in the city, but how can I what can I teach my residents and help them engage to foster
the same love? Well, to come to and can we attract some of those people that left to come back? Is there a possibility for that or is it worth even trying to do that? engaging the folks to come to Old Homestead and take part in
what was once a very vibrant not so much about revitalizing downtown but old homestead in general. All right. Um, anything on this that prompts something that you want to add to the list of
words that you want to look at from not that I want to copy something else, but I love the service stewardship resources you want the fiscal responsibility. Is that something you the word prudence? Yeah. I would put them different priority than
they have here. Yeah. You know, I think visionary leadership and the financial responsibility are, you know, if that is someone and the fact that they not only did they say that, okay, we're anticipating the
need to our community's future, but we execute. There's a lot of stuff that we're doing that never happens or takes 20 years to happen. And so now we're I think executing making it a real reality and there's like unique heritage again
military agriculture bootlegging and moonshining um all of that you know we had distillery that was like and they were really fascinated with the history of
you know during prohibition that another from six feet to high. A lot of families had their their spills down in the underground and well known for the quality of the alcohol.
In Puerto Rico, we call people and we still have it today. In Chicago, we call them. They get it from here in the mountain. Yeah. The activity slide on this. Oh, no. Why don't you get it start?
Um I think we've talked about this. The question is what values actively capture? How you all would like the organization to carry out its mission and vision? Anything missing here similar to the mission? I feel like you get a sense of where you all want to go to. It's kind of apparent that we
don't do things but we need to division of responsibility like like we we have like decades things
that were supposed to be done years ago and it right now benefit is going to be number 22 the infrastructure like we're so behind here we go we want to look to the future
but we need to catch up what's been put on the back burner too and you know I know that we don't have the city limits u much of it like E5 still has some stream and I did the
video with Hagen we captured the tractor on on the road. I'm like 2020 I have that in one of my my social media groups, but maybe there's a way that we can bring the outside in in the sense of the bread, right? They are neighbors. And
so making sure that there's a a um direct connection to popup agricultural experiences. You know, NASCAR doesn't have to be just once a year or at the track. How come we
can bring NASCAR to a popup take pictures in Wilder Park with a race car? I don't know if it's possible, but it would be cool. It would be cool. It might bring the res it might bring east side to the west side, but then also as a east side resident parking and going through the the the traffic congestion.
Once we do have those those events, everything locks down and you're stuck for 30 minutes unless you're there an hour early. So access, ease of access to make it worth leaving the comfort of the home. getting to it. Maybe activating the trolleys. We had the host and if it's an
event like that, we need to do the trolley. Trolley, but then we had the rodeo here and here I am seeing nobody taking the trolley. The trolley were not available. And so there were loads of people walking. It was cold and they were walking in their boots and their
you know rodeo fashion and baby strollers and kids walking a mile to get from the parking that was allocated to the rodeo. So, you know, you experience that once as a parent and you say, "I'm not going back." Yeah. Everyone complains about public transportation,
but then it's so hard to get into the mindset. You go to New York and they're like, "Why would you want to walk? We can jump on this or that." Yeah. But here it's a whole another story. You have we have to change the narrative to about the public transportation and how the ease of getting to and from. So, all right.
That's all parties rolling. That's good. We've got here's here's what I want to do. I think that we are in shape with four values. Lunch is obviously here. Um our next thing that we're going to do is strategic priorities. So, I've got two
options for you as a group. Um we can walk through the instructions on the strategic priorities, talk about what they are. We start with some individual reflection and y'all can think about that while you're eating lunch or we can break for lunch now. Yeah, I need to Okay, let's go. Let me
introduce Sorry, you guys aren't going to get a lunch. It's okay. Yeah, let me introduce the strategic priorities. Go get your lunch and then you can do the individual part of the work while you're eating. Sound good? Yeah. That work for everybody?
So strategic priorities um these are really the main areas of focus right if we're thinking about the strategic plan you've got your mission vision and these are the four to six things and categories of work that we do um you want them to be broad categories it's
really best when you create categories that can live on through multiple life cycles of the strategic plan so they become institutionalized with your top institutionalized with how you organize your budget um so that's that's what we're trying to do here and this really where you're focusing to realize your
vision. So here are some examples of local government strategic parties building trust. There are a lot of local governments that really struggle with that trust thing. You all have it you have it but for some that's a really important area of focus safe and healthy
community vibrant lifestyle thriving economy economy exceptional public services. So those are some examples that are out there. other ones. Um, public safety is often a strategic focus for your local governments because of the work that you all do and the importance of that. Transportation tends
to be one. Infrastructure. Those are just some options that are out there. So, we're going to do our first individual exercise with this. So, what I want you all to do is go get your lunch and come back and write down either a parking bed, scratch, piece of
paper, um what you think are the important party areas for the city of purpose, what you would choose instead. So, that's task one. Then, I'll walk through the rest. single uh rather than small group probably just your large group way this has been flowing and see
what you all have the same what's different where we as far as make sense so I believe actually if you could help me with that right
here if it's ready Wait, no, no, that's fine. Actually, just see that right there. Yeah, I'll just so at least people can see.
which is a sign that we can get through this and we'll have working for you guys. Okay, I got one. Sometimes yeah, grab your L while you're working.
Oh, thank you so much. This has been really good. Do you think we'll be done after my daughter? Oh, yes. Here's what I want. I think we'll get some more material.
So, I'm thinking yeah, you guys have certification or black belt surgery? I do not. Yeah, I used to do that in the Air Force and you're following the playbook, you know, it really does work and
particularly with a good team like this. We have differences of opinion, but nobody's, you know, all offended that you're not agreeing with my description of blah blah blah. Sometimes we have that, but here we don't is still a rapid fire. And like
sometimes it takes a while to pull that the making these things at the basement time because you know physical fitness is a and you have to take your PT test. What was happening is you take your PT test at 6:30 but the truth wouldn't get back to work until like noon. So like here
you kill half a day for taking a 45minut PT test but I was like I had one guy walk out he was so offended. How dare you talk about my program. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it's like, oh my gosh, if you
need to if I can. Yeah. One thing that I always notic your group is that you all work very well together and it has I guess it's like an
emotional intelligence like we're we all live here. We all want to make better work together. It's kind of neat how teams have this team is really pretty strong. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That's really cool to
see relationships, you know. That's cool. Yeah. birthday. Yeah. And I said, "This is I said this big sto and that's hard to do. kitchen
staff. They put a bunch of pretend cans and food and I picked it up and I threw it in the garbage. This is after Hurricane Andrews. We can start thinking today
kind of cool that was that momentual creative and thoughtful exercise. Yeah, you all have work to do to get into it. I'm gonna go back. Yesterday was terrible. We were um I was with Swag Mother's Day little things to some
of these supplements and all of a sudden I looked up and I was like there it is. I bet it's card sound. He's like, "Very nice to meet you." I was like, "Can you believe that?" I know.
It's amazing. It's only 11 check. Okay. flavor layers with cream. I see blueberries. Yes. Oh, no. No. No. Michelle.
I said my It's fine. was there. Yeah. Are your desk also in your office and it's just like your friends This slide is the same question. I think yes.
say those wonder. which was the summer. Not Yeah. Wonder how many truly burden I'm showing my face just I'm gonna come out that way.
tell you. So page. Yes. So that one has the same is the same slide as 16. Yes. But I assume I'm thinking it is employing employee.
16 different results, right? 16 should reflect. Yeah. When it says interviews, was that employee interview? I believe so as well. Is it the community? Yes, I
will. Yeah, let's add this project last week. impact. Um, so yeah, it's getting getting a little stupid with the background information, but I look at those try to get some
and so yes. Very efficient. Very efficient. But we wanted extra room just in case the data further. So better than
yourself. I think we're good. I think I have just enough room. That's not good. I feel like last night. All right. So, I'm going to give you all the next piece of the instruction.
What I'm going to want you to do is as you're thinking of your priority areas, if you could write an example, although we figured it out, it's not
But I earlier as it follows and we have the same questions that were asked for the public. So I think it was simple.
Okay. So 90% yeah because of the number of respondents like I said 90% It's maybe Yeah. Yeah. No, do I think cities have like you know how
public has pleasure to Does anybody have probably we can get on the Google machine some research on that but I like that road when Mr. this comes back, I'm going to give your next instruction because
I'm excited about it now. And maybe something with charm, you know, charming charming place. We can take all those back. All
right. two more minutes. So the next instruction is in that middle following. So theoretically during lunch while you're eating, you're thinking about the priority areas the
city should build. So what I need you to do now and you can write as many of these as you want. There is no limit. More is better because I call that raw material, right? I need you to write in two to three words what you think the cardio is with one word per part. So if
you think I'm just going to pick a word that has come up a lot. You may not agree with this but it's come up a lot that roads to be a priority area. You just write roads. So this is all priorities. This is
priorities. If you think Oh, let's see. Curb appeal count as one word. Yep. You just write communication real big, right? If y'all understand. So, write those on there and then you'll report out and explain to us what you're talking about. We'll take notes on that
and then that would form the genesis of the priority areas and the goal statements that will go with it. So, y'all will work on that. So, priorities of what we want to see happen in the state. Yeah. The focus areas. So, those big broad categories of focus. Does that
help? Is infrastructure too broad? I know infrastructure is a great one. It's a very common party government because it's such an extensive long-term need. This these would be individually. Is that what we're going
to do? Oh yes. Where is it? And I'm just test done. So, do you want us to part with or individually? Individually.
Um, so one idea pering exercise. That's That's the one. And in fact, y'all can be flexible. We may stop a little bit. Ashley that we have them put their cards
on my wall so that I'll be on my spot dig. Do you want to move all of us over? Yeah, if not and the camera goes all the way. Yeah, I don't think I have
yet, but some rules that I maybe it'll be a good expand space a little bit, you know, tear down the wall. How many are we? As many as you would like. One word.
If you need if you need two words, that's fine. But it just needs to be a concept of a broad idea. I had a question. Yeah. Thank you. I'll be happy. Okay. the doors will probably Here's what's going to happen.
You are going to stand up. You're going to put your stickies on the wall and you're going to explain why you have it on the sticky. Lucas is going to take notes and we're going to see what y'all have the same, what's different, and a little bit. Here's what we're going to do. You
can write your ideas on the paper and then stick those out. No, because I'm going to rearrange. I'll look at that. working together. Yes. Yeah. The usually it's like half because I do
it a lot. But yeah, nice to meet Mr. Davis. All right. So, somebody wants to open. You know what? You're good. Why don't I let you go first and talk about and we'll take notes so we capture
your definition of what they are. Sure. Perfect. So, um, I kept trust and transparency out there. Um, as I mentioned before, even though they, you know, the public feels we're doing it well and that just priority sirens on folks. Um, that's on
there something customer service. It's not just about answer your phone 30 seconds, but what's the problem? How do we get to the end result and quickest and efficient way of doing it?
um various luscious outdoor spaces that will be inclusive of our biking pass um pocket parks that we've talked about in our park plan. Um and I know that we have several that we've invested in, but I don't think we
have enough in all the other um businessfriendly development services. I think it speaks for itself. um infrastructure pump 22 project we just got done need to see what else needs to
be done uh similar to that get it get into the plan quickly budgeted uh roads or road quality right so I'd like to have a city that is um beautiful to drive around and comfortable to drive
around to fix your your alignment to get to traffic congestion making sure there were pushing for relief efforts um stabilization of the roadways that's paying into the county but keeping
staying on top of them to make sure that gets done mentioned the curb appeal both private and public so our ourification that we manage on the city side but person should be on top of our commercial um build that they are
keeping up would be the way that saw it first on the site. 20 years later, the trees fall down and the storm might have been replaced now and replenishing their landscaping. An expansive, excuse me, an expansive job market, not just health
jobs. You know, we've got plenty of, you know, medical businesses, but the office jobs, the quality, the technology market, plentiful shopping and dining experiences. We have a few great
restaurants. That's about it right now. Proactive and engaging public safety approach. I think we're checking off that that box now, but making sure that um that we continue to do so. And then connectivity and engagement, a focused a focused uh historic
homestead historic homestead focused connectivity and engagement. So, like we talked about earlier, getting the what the east side to the west side and um making it easy to get there and to enjoy and to thank you for that. Any
questions? All right. Who's going next? Can I go? So I think I kind of started with the most important piece and then then I I went into the things that I just want to make sure continue. That's what my mind went. Public safety,
infrastructure, mainly roads, the congestion, the cleanliness, um our transparency of the city in general, including customer service, making sure we are as welcoming as possible. And I feel like that would
come from us continuing to be proud of our community, our history, our diversity, our focus on quality of life, um our unique charm, being neighborly and inclusive. Again, preserving history and
that environmental stewardship. Just making sure that we keep that in mind. And business needs to Yeah. to make sure that we are affecting the right businesses and allowing our residents to
work here as well. That's it. Any questions? All right. Who's going next? Well, obviously I have infrastructure that's first foremost condition and capacity.
But as we have we have projects underway to upgrade water and waste water in the downtown corridor promote growth and installation of nish businesses and
dining entertainment. the downtown corridor as identified as but we realized that you know the very unsexy expenditures for those underground
uh infrastructure projects needs to happen but it's not just just roads um me I would say attract investors as a as the place to be as you South Florida
lives here. We attract investors and it leads to the creation of night life and family activities. Not just restaurants and adult type locations, but but
potentially our urban air adventure things that you would find outside of our park system but are recreational and and familyfriendly. And of course, everyone else has identified
businessfriendly, streamlined processes. That all goes to the package of attracting industries and we're serious about doing business in homestead and clearly aesthetics curb appeal enhanced
landscaping. You know that we have nearly $9 million in federal funds about full lake entirely new streetscape on Washington sidewalks public
furniture bus stops street signs everything sidewalks I mean, four and three. And some of that comes from again being welcomed into that greater homestead area. When a lot of people
look at in terms of investigating and locating the we get lumped into some areas really drag down our statistic. So it's it's got to be that imaging room
um branding as historic historic place to be at the home of future and obviously upgrading our entire park system that keeps coming up in uh in all of our surveys that the
majority of our residents don't live on. They don't have expansive backyards for their kids to play all even even play in Davis and I are fortunate to live in the older neighborhoods where where we have that
vast majority. So really it's a expansion of our park system here. All right. Thank you very much. As you can see, I considered mine more on macro
economy scale. Uh where these guys appropriately ready to go, but I looked at it bigger. I look at stewardship as sustainability. You got to steward your money and figure out where it's going to go. And it also includes the votes we took earlier this year, uh you know,
about the electric rate and things like that. You've got to be good stewards of that stuff in order to be maintain your um your sustainability and we've all seen the nightmares from other communities that have failed to do that
courage to stand up and say we know and and they did it. And that also go not just the money coming in but you know whether how much but steward that that notion of stewardship from the bottom to the top
is very important. Uh infrastructure equals options. Right now down we have options. We have options and and others are like that. So we've got to get that shortage away. Now I have options to do
all the things that were um customer service equals quality of life and that customer service is you know not not just customer service down includes customer service down the top where you're getting the permits customer service when you call the
police ask for help or for bring something to their attention that we can all through our organization when when people can voice their concern or something as a customer and know that it's not just getting, you
know, put in a circular file where they're not blown off when they're when they're giving information. That's quality advice. This this is what this is people are paying attention to. And then um hand in hand with that as we as
we extend ourselves to the community that equals trust. They trust us. They trust this organization. And you know, God bless Siri for coming on board and all the changes we've made as a city manager office that builds a trust that says I got this problem and I
know and so going to be responsible how they help me out. So I kind of looked at it a different way. I don't totally lifted your guidance. No, it works out really well. So here's what I'm going to do now. We're going to
group the ones where yall said the same things and we're going to see kind of what it comes out. But I'm just going to go ahead and grab all the ones and I can't ask you all right now when we talk about infrastructure roads as part of infrastructure
um road traffic. Oh yeah. Can I put roads and traffic? Yes. Yes. On the left, the pinkest. Anything else? I think that's good. So, we're going to have our
infrastructure grouping right here. What other areas? student job marketing experiences. So wait a job marketing. All right. Yeah, we can do you want to leave
public business. I'm usually not one to my daughter who is 5 foot and as tall as she's gonna get would really appreciate that because sometimes they'll reach up. Um so we're mostly going by we got business
friends and development service at night. Yes. So that's a so that's a good question. Anything else that you'll see is completely around investors from the
job market. I think that's all right. So, let's talk about I see I'm gonna pick this one right here. I think quality of life and I see things like family activities, night life. Yes. Do those all go together?
What else? Maybe the pink welcoming bag. Yeah. Do you see that story? Do you see preserving history or is that separate? Is it that is separate or is it I think it's important that
it's preserving history. Oh yeah. Yeah. What about friendliness? part of um about um diverse kind of a different level but
the concept I So this one has community. Um, so right now I'm looking there's also I mean falls on the historic I thinkable child and then
family life various outdoor strength quality life. engage in public safety inclusive home because there's different diverse history
that I So image improvement would be under that. So right now we have categories around quality of life. We've got categories around infrastructure. We've got categories around business and development services.
preserving history and then this public safety. I think my question for you all environment is so there's kind of two concepts we talked about a lot that are so number one is this communication branding is that embedded in history
quality of life a piece of that work or is it sustainable and then a lot of you think communication type the customer service piece of that has fit into that right the systems. Does that feel right to you? I
love the transparency image. So, what we have left, let's see, community. I'll put that one under image one. TNC customer service call. So now what do we
see is this all the stewardship they're responsible stewardship stewardship sustainability environmental ste. So we've got the stewardship category, public safety, preserving history, branding,
communication, customer service, that category, businessfriendly infrastructure playlist, two, three, four, five, six, seven. It's a lot. It'd be nice to have shorters. What's going to happen with these? We'll work with staff to say, okay, council said it's really important
that we focus on um infrastructure. So what are the specific objectives that support improving whatever we like to be? Um, I would that environmental stewardship benefit quality of life if
you write the goal statement, right? If your goal is to have a high quality community um that builds on the national parks out, you know, I think that that nicely there if you're comfortable or you want it separate. I think it ties
in I mean quality of life obviously is a very focusing to begin with public does and that's that was going to be my next question in some communities it is like the political third rail to not have a standalone for
anything religious public safety services in other communities it's embedded into um the culture more directly And it's fine to roll it in. I think my questions about what you would do you want to stand alone. Is it
important enough around perception, safety, perception, crime, vetting machine? I think it is. Um, and then you can have a bunch of engagement type objectives and things to work on that aren't necessarily um all related to facing. There could be
things sort of on there relative to um parks and access and other in my mind the perception of ugly safety is a function of the appearance
of the community. This looks like a bad area. Yeah. The perception there. Interesting. So I think it stands along that we have to keep it focused on these things we do where ultimately public safety is full within
another section improvement public safety that category more so than when we talk about quality of life we're talking about citizen how it feels. So, we're going to put this public safety into the community. A
lot of times I hear people saying they don't want to park in the garage. Have you ever had issues though? It just doesn't. So, that's my that's my point. That's the perception. Dark, dirty, and dangerous. That's what people think.
That's what it is. That the design is so important. Um to like we so now we have our historic preservation renaming communication
customer service that category thing the um building development community jobs theme of the category I feel like that's the infrastructure that's really self-explanatory um and then quality of life uh so they
might write the things to family memory or something. This feels like it sums up what we've talked about together, but you see anything missing? Any ahas that you're looking at it like what we will do with this is we'll take it and then
has been typing over there as you've been talking about. will write a goal statement that defines the purpose of the category offline that really builds out what it is that you want to focus on and then stop
work and performance measures to say yes we're doing well oh we need to recalibrate oh we need to reinforce correct or we need to do more we need to do less so you can as far as staff is concerned I think it's really important that they also understand the public safety and the
quality of My piece has a lot to do with the communication across the city. Um PD had a new social media person who is really funny. Um I like the way they're building. So it's is getting there. Um
recycling reducing those are huge things. Um that education piece for the city. really understand what the actual points are, what our fingerprints is, our footprints is regarding trash, you know, what can we do? I think those
little things the communication piece of the helpful any other well done. I do have one thing that we run out of we always like so we like to know
what we could have done better. So now you can email it laterally um how how are we most like experience with this and I think it went really well. I think that these are all items that we passionate
about. So to be able to put it all together and I think the meeting will really help facilitate myself and the other conference probably would have just formal forum. I think you know the
the closed quarters interaction that really got us to this finishing early to beg and for good space. I think I think that's part part of what you do is burning the cats us up the
cats. Um they did say follow and capitalize. Thank you for that. And also the way that this kind of played out where we were able to kind of witness the public's interaction doing a similar
exercise already but the results of the spring it's not outside of the bounds of where our focus has already and just kind of confirms we're on the right track.
Yeah, that confirmation helpful because they get you out of the pack, right? I think this is what it now that helps make some more difficult decisions. This is what we need to do. I encourage you to just take a look at the parks
survey already. Thank you. Thank you for all basically summed up. That's all I want to say. Thank you. Closer school. Thanks for coming.