##VIDEO ID:EojSrvdK3RQ## oh for for spe for got all than why right I we yes so you're allowed that's know it's getting closer he you h what h EX I all sh you h and so for B I you're all h thir she St is for you very I look look at wa w really I don't think just sign any e we're going over I me hist that's it's so it's so fun is Wonder all e we f some I for say I that's last point I kind of it's good morning everyone welcome to the city of Miami Commission meeting November 21 2024 we are we going to begin our presentation ceremony mayor Francis Suarez is joining me along with my two colleagues commissioner gabella and commissioner Damen Paro and I have a quorum now which is what I was waiting for so thank you for your patience good morning Mr Mayor how are you today I understand we have some special recognitions today thank you madam chair we're going to start today with um a special recognition which is the key to the city of Miami for a person who comes from a distinguished family in our community the Mellow have shaped Miami Skyline in fact there's it's they're arguably I just telling them this arguably Miami's single largest taxpayer we have to check that but they pay $30 million annually in taxes and I think we can clap for that and I I think for me what's more special is two things one is this is a generational business that's going from one generation to another and a family business and I think that's really significant and the second thing that I think is probably the most significant thing about the family from my perspective is that they do Workforce and in some cases affordable housing at Market without subsidy which is something that almost no one has ever been able to accomplish in this community they do it because they've frankly made good Investments over a long period of time they believed in the city when nobody else did when nobody else believed in certain areas in certain neighborhoods of the city they double down and because they double down then many many many many years ago they reaping the rewards today and then they do a lot of things inhouse internally they are their own Architects they're their own Engineers uh for many many years they they design value design their projects in a way that keeps the cost down so that at the end of the day they can lease their units and uh again I I I think they're a model for the way uh developers should develop they do some luxury but the the vast majority of the stuff that they've done is what I would call what many call Noah which is naturally ACC occurring affordable housing units or affordable housing units that are not subsidized which again means that you have to just be very very good at what you do very very sh so without further Ado I'd like to call Carlos up and if you want your family to come up as well where is for when I was uh elected in 2009 the total value of all properties in the city was 40 billion today 7 years later it's 100 billion it's 150% increase in seven years and they have been a very big part of that comp gracias for brokers h Grand Miami city manag okay perfecto see toia Persona toio no Miami the Miami oh Miami gracias back can okay she I know well we still got we still got you know they talk about um the diversity of this city and the city really is a it's really a global City and every day it's becoming more so a global City and one of of the many nationalities that's growing in our community is the Albanian population in our city and so today uh I'm able to Proclaim that on November 18th 1912 the Albanian National Assembly which was led at the time by a Visionary Ishmael Kali proclaimed the independence of Albania making the beginning of a new era for its people and forever shaping the course of its history as a Sovereign Nation this day deserves a powerful reminder of the courage resilience and sacrifice made by generations of albanians some of which have come here to our great City and so it gives me great joy to recognize and celebrate November 28th which will be in a week from today as Albanian Independence Day here in the city of Miami mayor Suarez dear Commissioners attendees on behalf of myself as the honorary Cil of Albania to Florida the former ambassador of Kosovo to 32 Latin American countries and all of the Albanian Americans that reside here and call home this beautiful city that we love so much we are honored that you have considered to recognize this for us and we are so happy to partake and bring a part of our diversity to this big cultural impact Floral City that we love and call home thank you so much us and now I believe my colleague commissioner Damen Paro has some recognitions wow are you yes was a whole ch going should I bring out what order are you going oh it's going to be Cowboy freedom and then uh rebuild okay Cowboy Freedom re yeah there's space now everything good just check it she yes you I don't know where reing should I not do rebuilding no you could do it just ask for them and then um let e hey good morning everyone my name is Damen Paro and I'm the District Two commissioner here at city of Miami and I have some folks I'd like to recognize the first one is Orlando mandes popularly known as the Cuban cowboy he's become a shining example of the power of cultural Fusion blending Cuban Heritage with his contemporary country music and he creates a unique and authentic sound that resonates deeply with diverse communities he grew up in South Florida cuban-american family Mendes Grew From a childhood dreamer to a celebrated artist in the country music genre which exemplifies his determination and deep passion for storytelling he was on Season 22 of the voice and I understand that all the chairs turned dur during that during that competition and he could always always connects profoundly with his listeners Mendes's unique Journey reflects his identity and his Heritage weaving personal narratives with pride in his Latin roots and proves that music of any genre can originate from the unlikeliest of places as long as it's authentic I started following him on Instagram a while back and every time I would see him I'm like wow this is fantastic the music was a representation that I personally had never seen and I couldn't be more proud of someone young someone who is representing a piece of Miami and our Legacy in the global World stage so thank you so much I'm I'm I'm going to ask you of course say a few words but before that would you do a couple of little lines that you could sing for us absolutely we'll we'll do a little singing here in the city of Miami this is the song that kind of uh made me known to a lot of Miami and a lot of the Cuban American community and Beyond it's called motherland it goes like this and sure I ain't never been there I ain't never touched that sand but it's where my family came from and it makes me who I am this deep rooted connection at times I don't understand but as I'm sitting here right now I'll tell you man there's only 90 miles and a cigar in my hand between me and the motherland thank you so much commissioner I am so proud of you we we are all so proud of you I thought you could share just two minutes he only started singing 2 years ago or something which is crazy right but maybe you could just share a couple of words I know family means a lot to you and everybody's been super supportive man it's been incredible commissioner mayor thank you thank you all so much um I'm a Miami boy through and through born in Westchester here in the 305 and wed and um man just growing up in this city around so much culture and diversity and then finding country music and being able to grow up with that as well um and then being able to do country my way the Miami way has kind of been special for me obviously is my family here my mom my dad my brother which mean everything to me and also the people who came before them my AOS who sacrificed so much to come to this country and give me a chance to uh pursue a dream like this and so this is an honor a pleasure and a privilege I only started doing this at the pandemic I learned how to play guitar and started writing my songs and now two years ago moved to Nashville and um have been doing it over there representing the 305 over there so I love you Miami thank you so much commissioner mayor the rest of the crew appreciate you guys like crazy than next we'd like to uh acknowledge and recognize the Cuban Freedom March which is actually a movement it's dedicated to promoting Freedom human rights and democracy for the Cuban people mainly amplifying their voices of Cuban citizens who yearn for a future free from oppression censorship and economic hardship you would think that everyone knows what happens in Cuba you would think that people understand that there is no freedom of speech or freedom of assembly that there is economic distress that there's hardship but lots of people don't know that and when you live in Cuba you can't get your voice outside of Cuba you need people to do that for you there was a time in this country where certainly in my generation our parents would say oh nobody's going to care about Cuba you know like all they care about is their girlfriend and their job and all this well that is so not true Cuba Freedom March is a Young Generation they are vibrant they are amplifying the voices of people in Cuba they are carrying on that torch in a very different proactive and meaningful way through their campaigns and their work and I have been very proud to March along their side and place like DC New York and Miami so Alan coyaso who is the head in the the main representative of Cuba Freedom March if you could say a few words and Senator katut Florida state senator who's also here in support thank you commissioner and um well uh thank you for what you do thank you to the mayor um who when we did our march here in Miami lended the entire support you have marched with us uh before you were commissioner because as as many causes as you care for this is one that you've always cared about um cuan Freedom Marsh is the story of a new generation of young Cuban Americans like myself I was born in Cuba I left on a boat with my mom when I was 8 years old and I remember July 11th when we were watching on TV and it was on the news and I said what can we do and I called my dear friend Alexis who kud who's a senator now um but I called her and I said what can we do and we said let's go to DC let's March let's do something but then of course we know that there's ups and downs in every movement and sometimes people forget now it's not in the news anymore but we've made the important choice with Cuban Freedom Mars to bring and continue to bring younger people um and to educate them in a meaningful way about what is continuing to happen so I want to say thank you all thank you commissioner um and to my team my q and freedom March team that a lot of them are not here because of work commitments um you've met all of them commissioner um they are young vibrant people uh across the aisle on political spectrums and that's what it's about it's about bringing people together and God willing one day very soon we will have a thank you spe our last recognition our last recognition from District 2 is Rebuilding Together Miami Dade this organization has been around for 30 years 1992 it started with right after Hurricane Andrew I can't speak to how important their work is in our community they have preserved homeownership and revitalized communities by providing free free services to vulnerable homeowners I went door to-door often through Coconut Grove especially when I was campaigning and there were so many homes that were fixed or helped by Rebuilding Together Miami day we don't have enough of these organizations we all know we have an affordability crisis in the city of Miami I think we also have a a people to people people helping people crisis and I I couldn't think of a better organization that exemplifies this work Martinez Pini and and the entire group from the bottom of our heart we we appreciate you and maybe you all could just say a few words thank you thank you so much commissioner Paro Commissioners mayor um we are very very honored on behalf of Rebuilding Together Miami my team my board and the communities that we served this is such an important recognition as commissioner PARTA said we've been around for 30 years and for 30 years we've been fighting for safe healthy accessible and affordable housing for all we provide free repairs to low-income homeowners because we believe that safe and affordable housing is a human right for everyone uh I really want to thank commissioner Paro it's been an amazing in Champion for our organization and the West Grove Little Bahamas Community which is one of the communities where we' been doing so much work over the past few years so this is such a honor for us and for the communities we represent thank you for the bottom of our heart thank you guys I'll be right back I also wanted to mention because I know there was a a statistic that that uh really caught my eye and it was 1,300 homes have been re rehabilitated by you guys and you've added a market value of $20 million to the community through their work so again can't thank you enough and uh this is for all of you and for all your hard work at this time we we are going to recognize someone very special to us it's their birthday whose birthday is it it's our fire chief's birthday and we like to celebrate these milestones in our life it is the wealth that money cannot buy happy birthday Happ CH bir congratulations on another spin around the Sun a successful spin around the Sun I believe we have what's a birthday without cake no make a wish thank you so much I feel so blessed um I don't know what to say but I think on your birthdays you look back at all the blessings you have and I'm I'm so so grateful to have a loving family and then H be able to come to work and work with so many great people I think I've done nothing in my life to deserve so many blessings but thank you so much and thank you all happy birthday make a wish ready everyone happy birthday to you happy birthday to you Happ happy birthday dear Chief happy birthday to you and many more I my birthday on Election Day you your birthday and at this time we are going to open our meeting in prayer and we have today Pastor Adams who will be blessing us with prayer today okay okay good morning good morning let's bow our heads for prayer father we thank you for this day we thank you for life we thank you for health we thank you for strength we pray now that as these council members symble to do your will we pray that you would give them wisdom insight and understanding in all that you've tased their hands to do now we pray that the peace of God will rest Rule and abide in this in this environment it is in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you Pastor and pledge of allegiance to the flag 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this meeting can be viewed live on miam TV miamigov.com the city's Facebook page the city's Twitter page and the city's YouTube channel and Comcast channel 77 the broadcast will also have closed captioning thank you madam chair thank you Mr city clerk thank you chair the procedures for individuals who providing Tes be sworn in for Planning and Zoning items and any quasi judicial items on today's City commission agenda will be as follows the members of City staff or any other individuals required to be sworn in who are currently president City Hall will be sworn in by me the city clerk immediately after I finished explaining these procedures those individuals who are appearing remotely may be sworn in now or at any time prior to the individual providing testimony for planning zoning items and or quaz additional items Commissioners are you comfortable with all the notice Provisions set forth in these uniform rules procedures we have established for this meeting yes chair May administer the oath please thank you chair good morning ladies and gentlemen if you'll be speaking in any of today's Planning and Zoning items the pz items made please have you stand and raise your right hand do you solemnly swear or affm that the testimony you're about to give it today's hearing is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and your response is thank you chair thank you Mr city manager do you have any items on this agenda that will be withdrawn or deferred good good morning Madam chair woman uh Mr City attorney Commissioners Mr city clerk uh following items are to be deferred and or withdrawn um pz1 to be indefinitely deferred pz2 to be indefinitely deferred pz3 to be deferred to February 27th pz8 to be deferred to December 12th pz1 16 to be deferred to February 27th and pz 17 to be deferred to February 27th that concludes the items thank you Mr city manager I will now ask my colleagues if they have any items before us that they would like to withdraw or defer yeah I'm going to I'm going to defer the R15 which one R 15 until when uh next meeting the very next meeting which will be December yeah December we'll revisit it again Todd December apologies chair December 12 December 12 yes December 12 okay re5 commissioner Reyes do you have any items Vice chair do you have any items you would like to withdraw or defer not at this point I might defer one uh or ask to defer one later but not at at this point uh in time okay at seeing and my apologies chair just for the record commissioner R will be co-sponsoring um re9 and I need to read a brief statement of director pc1 and2 pursuant to section 62-22 of the city code and definitely deferred action initiated by the city will cost City mail noticing advertising and posting of properties as applicable thank you chair thank you may I have a motion to set the agenda motion I have a motion and a second all in favor all right the agenda has been set and at this time I will open the floor for public comment anyone who wishes to speak on behalf of items that are before us on this agenda please step forward good morning good morning Madam chair and Commissioners my name is Rick Madan I live at 2900 Northeast 7th Avenue in Miami I am the President of the biscane neighborhoods Association and we represent over 15,000 residents in Edgewater I'm here today to sound the alarm on a dangerous precedence that ordinance pz4 sets this ordinance rushed through the approval process sens to undermine the city's commitment to open Democratic governance and the reservation of our precious green spaces here are just a few of the alarming consequences of pz4 pz4 was intentionally rush through the approval process aiming for a quick passage without proper scrutiny PAB unanimously rejected pz4 11 to0 highlighting its flaws and the potential for abuse pz4 grants excessive power to the Commissioners allowing you to make significant changes to Parks without public input or warrant the removal of the warrant requirements opens the door to corruption and potential misuse of public spaces the people should have a say in decisions affecting their parts and the warrant process should remain in place to ensure accountability and transparency this seems to be legislation that is searching for a problem please cons reconsider it and then quickly on pc19 I would suggest if you can defer that item so we can study it further I would appreciate it thank you so much commissioners thank you good morning good morning honorable City commission breetty B managing director of the Miami River commission with offices located at 1407 Northwest 7th Street on pz 14 and 15 at a public Miami River commission meeting iness morero prz Holland and Knight presented the subject land use and Zoning amendments for 1990 Northwest 27th Avenue the Miami River commission recommends approval Happy Thanksgiving thank you good morning good morning my name is Dr Jeffrey Dorfman I live at Paramount Bay I am Treasurer and on the board of directors of biscane neighborhoods Association we represent 15,000 residents in Edgewater and Midtown BNA opposes pzs 4 five 6 and 19 I would like to ask specifically Mr Coro and Miss King to explain here and now while you support pz4 that gives you rights above residents to make local decisions about our parks in addition I would like Mr Coro and Miss King to explain here and now why a federal forensic investigation should not be initiated into the City of Miami finances thank you good morning good morning Commissioners uh my name is Carl Roberts I reside at 3629 Grand Avenue and I'd like to start off by thanking commissioner Paro for his commitment to keeping the West Village vibrant and speak to the approval of the funding for the depth of the V pool uh he's been an Champion for us all along to keep the pool at its original depth you know it is not the residents who requested this shallowness but it was something that uh that was decided by the city and it is important that the children of the West Village be afforded the same opportunity to learn how to dive and swim and race in a pool that's deep enough to do that and the the original pool was 11 ft and they reduced it to 5T taking away not only the diving board but the racing blocks and we should not have to send our children to other schools and other parks to learn these valuable lessons in terms of the sports that is afforded them so I request that you approve the funding to deepen the pool at this time thank you thank you good morning good morning good morning Cecilia Stewart 1899 offest first Court I've given some photographs for your viewing pleasure this is a time of thankfulness and gratitude on behalf of the Overtown neighborhood for environmental health and safety thank you to all Commissioners and the city Administration for your expeditious trimming of the overgrown trees on North Miami Avenue special thanks to Parks operations coordinator Mr Andrew Holmes for reporting and voicing our initial requests Commendation to the city of Miami Parks operations for a superb job the appendex highlights pictures allowing the craftsmanship of the workers to be seen I pray God's richest blessings upon each of them now on behalf of the Overtown neighbors for environmental health and safety thank you to The Honorable commissioner Manolo Rees for sponsoring a welcome turkey giveaway in our community thanks to all the city Miami Commissioners and the omon CRA for supporting this event special thanks to the honorable commissioner Christine King for her onsite presence and Leadership thanks to the greater Israel Primitive Baptist Church for being good neighbors and providing a place to hold the event it was a huge success the turkey giveaway help the Overtown Community by supporting us and contributing to our Health and Welfare it is good for the community to know that people care about our well-being during these crucial times may God bless each of you thank you Miss Stuart good morning good morning commissioner good morning Madam chair and commission and my commissioner Daman Paro I'm here to urge you to bring forward the funding for veric Park I am so pleased after so many years and so many times here that we have a commissioner that hear us and heard us we thank you for that effort that Yan's effort to get what we want I feel well representative by your leadership and I want the commission to follow through and make it happen thank you all thank you good morning happy holidays to all of you we can say that now I want wanted to just bring to everyone's attention regarding the gym equipment at the park that everybody's fighting over and wasting time here today I think making uh a healthy commitment to the residents which will improve property value we should go ahead and put the gym equipment there going forward what I'd like to see the entire commission do is have more Town Hall meetings because Xavier Suarez would have Town Hall meetings and that would prevent people from coming here and complaining so I would like all of you to reach out Miss King did a fabulous job at Town Halls when she first became commissioner I would like all of you to reach out and do those Town Halls together with your constituents okay secondly the property that has the graffiti I think the politicking in the news is ridiculous I think it falls on the job of the City attorney and the city manager to create fines that are so huge for developers that they will not dump in our waterways that they will will not do that graffiti because they know it's going to hit them in the pocket you hit them in the pocket it will not happen that graffiti does not increase property values and I am asking the City attorney to get with this commission and create fines so high that they will never think about this and happy holidays to you all and thank you for your service thank you good morning good morning everyone my name is Vanessa Ki I'm a resident and president of the board of directors of gallery art at 333 Northeast 24th Street in Edgewater as a longtime resident of Edgewater I've had the privilege of watching our neighborhood grow and evolve over the years but with this growth comes the steady loss of green spaces and the increased strain on our communities infrastructure these changes directly impact the quality of life for everyone who calls Edgewater home and I'm here today to express my concern about resolution pz4 parks and recreational spaces are more than just patches of land they are the heart of a neighborhood they provide places for children to play spaces for neighborhoods to connect and a refuge for all in the midst of an ever expanding Urban landscape green spaces cool our streets reduce flooding and improve the mental and physical health of our community losing them would leave Edgewater less resilient yet if this resolution passes it will remove one of the most vital elements of responsible urban planning and that is public input as residents we are the ones who experience the daily realities of living in Edgewater we know the challenges of overcrowding failing infrastructure and the growing need for balance between development and Community well-being our voices must be part of the decision-making process when it comes to the future of our Parks public spaces and cultural venues decisions about public spaces should never be made without the people who rely on them this resolution would set a dangerous president allowing decisions to be made without accountability or transparency if parks are repurpose expanded into or altered without Community Insight the very soul of our neighborhood will be at risk we need safeguards that prioritize the voices of the people who live here and ensure that our parks and green spaces are protected for generations to come I urge all of you to stand with residents of Edgewater voting against resolution pz4 protecting our Parks means protecting the future of our neighborhood we deserve a t a seat at the table and a meaningful role in shaping the community we love thank you and I want to thank commissioner Paro for all of the wonderful things you have done so far please help us with this thank you thank you good morning John doson 4205 lenux Drive kogut Grove you guys have one thing it's pretty easy to do today and I think we have to thank commissioner Paro that's approved the funding for veric Park it's long overdue they're going to get the pool they want I've been to the Town Halls on that it's a it should be an easy yes really should be on pz4 five and six I oppose those sometimes I think Miami sees a chunk of green and things would look a lot better if it had a bunch of concrete on it but uh I think we need to have PE public input into our Parts it's a big part of our lives so I went to a Planning and Zoning meeting it was unanimous to oppose those to get it's not do that so let's not approve those items thank you thank you good morning good morning Commissioners um Andy Parish um 3940 Main Highway I'm a member of I'm the vice chair of the Planning and Zoning Board but I'm only speaking for myself I can't speak for them without authorization um I feel like it's Groundhog Day sometimes though pz4 the parks uh things come before the PAB twice each time we spent well over an hour maybe two hours um by the way each of you has members appointed members as you know on that PAB Bo so it's not just the Grove it's not just downtown it's every one of your districts each time it's been unanimous and not because of just the the the gym equipment it's because the parks belong to the people and that's on the record many the parks belong to the people and they should at least have have a say in what goes into them so like I say it's keeps coming back and coming back and coming back the other thing is the pool in veric park 22 years ago there was a week-long charet in veric park where the community was as it was hosted by the University of Miami what do you want to see in your community and they produced a booklet I mean a major booklet through um that showed what they wanted in their Community almost none of that has been implemented by the city it's been sometimes they call it the land the time forgot the pool is just one part of that the pool has been empty for a long time before it was for a community pool they had a diving board even they could do U it had deep water and now it's been proposed after all this time to to reduce the uh to reduce the depth so they can't have do competitive even competitive swimming so I'm just asking you for once commission let this city do what's right by the West Gro which is now your little Bahamas they deserve it they went a long time it was a weekl long charet a lot of the people in this room were at the charet nothing happened according to very little anyway according to that shet thank you very much thank you good morning good good morning Debbie Dolson 4205 Linux Drive cun Grove excuse me I I also would like you to approve the funding for the the pool at veric Park kids are growing up without the ability to have swimming lessons to learn how to swim to enjoy that old people like me would love to have that open so we can do water aerobics there and everybody in between so please please fund the the uh ver Park Pool uh pc4 five and six I'd like to there's there's current litigation involved in there and I feel like the court should be deciding that and this whole thing should be deferred until indefinitely until that's resolved if not um I really would like to again remind you that PAB uh unanimously recommended Denial on on these issues and um you as our commissioners we vote for you and we elect you because you're you're our voice you should be listening to us not silencing Us by um the the conditions um of warrants appeals are slowly being made impossible they're they're now so um expensive that it's difficult for any Resident to make any kind of appeal and this just serves to completely remove it the ability to appeal um so please don't allow that and I am very opposed to pc4 5 and six thank you thank you good morning good morning I'm Dr Rick Holton reside at 3350 Hibiscus Street good morning uh distinguished Commissioners Damon Paro City attorney and to all those that can hear my voice I'm here to speak on behalf of the preservation on behalf of the veric park pool project that's being spearheaded by commissioner Paro let me just give you a brief uh historical factor which is very important I just gave you my address 3350 hibiscus which is only a half a block away from veric pool I've been in kogen Grove for 72 years at that same location a bit of History my uncle his name was shorty Holton he ran Grand Avenue Park back in the 60s and at that time we had two things that I vividly remember one was a baseball team and the other one was a swimming team and that swimming team worked out at viic Park Pool I say today that I can remember the Wilborn Jerry Gardner I can remember cookie man who was 5 years of age when we would bring him out at competitions at De pool and we as a community felt like we had something cookie man would get up on the high diving board and do monkey flips but now you're talking about four or five feet and I don't think the peacocks will enjoy that so I asked I ask says this is the Magic City we have a way of finding money when we need it let's find some money and let's support this commissioner on this project thank you thank you thank you thank you good morning good morning after that I wanted to yell Hallelujah Nathan Nathan klin 3132 Day Avenue Coconut Grove pz4 is a bad idea let me repeat that for the people in the audience most of whom I believe agree with me pz4 is a bad idea if you agree with that shake your hand pz4 is another attempt to disenfranchise the residents of the city of Miami as a member of Scenic Miami a board member of Scenic Florida and a member of Scenic America I've absolutely been talking about saving trees and against Billboards visual pollution it just gets worse but at least we've had a little say that we could get up in front of pcab and make our wishes known now you want to take that ability away from us you want to make us absolutely mute when you want to do things in parks that are just inappropriate there should absolutely be no LEDs in the city of Miami properties especially in our Parks it's the area where we can go and just enjoy nature so if you are are like myself against pc4 raise your hand and let our commissioners know thank you good morning good morning reita Samuels Dixon previous uh Village Council representative and Community Advocate I'm here in reference to veric park I grew up learning to swim over at veric Park and it was a park that uh provided a wholesome environment for our families when I go over to Hadley Park I see a beautiful olympic size swimming pool which allows everyone to have access so I'm asking that you approve the funds that are necessary to provide the sustainability of veric pool's Park so that we all can utilize it at the depths that we are accustomed to secondly is in reference to um Bristol Park I am so glad that the funding has been provided for the community service building there the park is one aspect of it the building is another and we had Mrs price uh Mrs Pace who was the first uh assistant supervisor in the city of Miami for parks and I am suggesting that that building be named after after her her picture is actually inside of the building the park should be named after miss umer and the building should be named in reference to uh Miss pce and lastly pz4 I'm not for blank signs all over the place parks are places where we should go and be able to relax so I'm asking that you either defer it or drop it to the ground just Let It Go Away thank you thank you good morning morning evangelos fix 3400 Pan American Drive I'm here to speak specifically about pz4 uh Parks belong to the people and specifically to our children and their children concentrated decision- making power in the hands of one or two people ensures that eventually parks are going to be up for grabs uh without the firewall a proper review including warrant and public comment Parks will slowly disappear and I encourage you Commissioners consider sending pz4 back to the first reading as dictated by code and then kill it you have the opportunity to go on record as guarantee that our Parks will never be for sale thank you thank you good morning good morning Commissioners Elvis Cruz 631 Northeast 57 Street for pz 10 and 11 the myo Bay up zoning please know the application is legally deficient because it does not explain how the existing zoning is inappropriate probably because the existing zoning is appropriate also this property is more than three times larger than the legal maximum lot size I ask you do not allow any waivers nor allow 64th Terrace to be given to the developer item pz9 the up zoning of the chalks area on Watson Island please know your settlement agreement does not require you to approve this up zoning I urge you to vote it down it makes no sense to allow the building of a 20-story hotel when they only have 20 years left on their lease veric pool yes the old pool should have been maintained please maintain the new one lastly pz4 please vote down the proposal to eliminate warrants for Park facilities warrants were purposely included in Miami 21 to serve as checks and balances to give the public a measure of oversight and recourse and at this time I'd ask I'd like to ask everyone here who is opposed to this item to please raise your hand and be recognized and Mr city clerk could you kindly count the number of raised hands for the public record I will just say there are a number of people who raised their hands and may I also ask anybody who's here in favor of elimin ating the warrants to raise your hand for the record not a single hand has been raised in favor of pz4 thank you thank you good morning good morning good morning thank you for allowing me to come and speak in front of you my name is Melissa Morgan Peto and I reside at 888 biscane Boulevard that is directly across the street from Maurice Ray Park Museum Park I'm here to speak against the movement for the parks uh at this particular point I think that Parks as all of the others have said are for our families in specific uh instances I would like to speak as a sidebar on Maurice fet park at this point I do not believe that the gym which is very costly is necessary uh all of the buildings within at least A4 mile to a half mile all have their own gyms where people use those gyms it is good uh to be able to walk around the park but not necessarily to have a very expensive gym plac there however in place of the gym I would support the addition of a children's playground there are many many young families moving into downtown Miami in all of the new buildings being constructed currently there are no Parks available for children children's play things like you see at Legion Park there's nothing south of Adrian Arch Center until you get to to bisane um Park uh down near Flagler Street and that's quite far for uh families to go to so I would say please eliminate the gym but put in a very nice Children's Park thank you very much thank you and I would also like to say I'm a retired Senior High School principal with the Miami day County Public Schools and a professor in graduate school at the University and I've actually had this discussion with my graduate students all of whom believe that this is the right way to go that is to remove and put something for the children thank you very much thank you good morning good morning Sarah Berliner 2951 Catalina Street in Coconut Grove um I'm here uh only speaking on behalf of myself but I'm the founder of the vote like a mother campaign um which is a nationwide campaign asking parents to use um politics uh to use uh Parenthood as a lens for politics um the families in Coconut Grove really deserve at this point long overdue uh a pool that meets their needs and I think uh a deeper pool it just couldn't be clearer um I'm I guess not surprised but uh dismayed that it's taken this long um but uh commissioner Paro I want to recognize your leadership um I can tell that you actually listen to your constituents even just in this meeting it's clear that you're engaged and you're hearing what people are saying and that's very refreshing um in the city of Miami so um I just want to encourage all of you to do the same listen to what the people need um and uh give these children the opportunity to learn skills that otherwise they either wouldn't learn or would have to travel a very long way to learn and I mean this is Miami we're all about the water kids need to learn to swim they need to learn how to use that skill in productive ways in their future years so I think it's incredibly important to vote Yes on 20 and 21 um and while I'm here I do want to also Express uh that I would ask you to vote no on four thank you thank you good morning morning um I'm speaking about fr5 the noise ordinance of Windwood being brought up my name is Julie Rickles I'm the beverage director and bar manager of Gramps and Winwood uh first I wanted to thank the city of Miami and chairwoman Kristen King for protecting the food and beverage industry for so long we are as it stands Winwood's oldest bar we are one of Miami's last remaining venues that supports live music and local artists when over the pandemic we were first mandated to use sound decel readers we installed them right away all of our managers on duty have them on them to this day with their watches to ensure that we stay within the legal limits I I know that there is sometimes a stigma with uh nightlife that we don't care as much about our profession or we are in it just for the party but that is not true I have around 80 employees most of us and my team have worked for the company upwards 5 to 10 years we're very passionate about our jobs to the point that Gramps is more than just that it's part of our identity our hope is to continue providing not only a unique destination for tourists and the new residents but to keep Miami's artistic beautiful heart thriving for those of us who have loved to in the city always thank you good morning good morning thank you for the opportunity chairwoman King and Commissioners my name is Lucas Hernandez a homeowner at 1944 Southwest 21st Avenue I love being a resident of District 3 uh We've uh in the shenoa neighborhood association have counted on the support of commissioner Reyes and now commissioner Coro and I'm specifically talking about re1 and support of re11 uh the underline is a a beautiful asset that myself and my family enjoy we get to walk through the sort of the neighborhood of shenendoa on a daily basis seeing the beautiful Shan andoa Park that commissioner Reyes and you all supported but also the underline now where we have over half of the five miles available every day I walk and see people across from the city of Miami enjoying mixing which makes our city more resilient more connected and stronger uh walking from Shan andoa and District 3 all the way through to the different districts shows me the beauty of our city especially during this holiday season you just start to see the activity and the beauty of our community coming together with the weather and walking longer distances makes ourselves more healthy but also our community healthier which I think allows us to continue to be a world-class City so I just wanted to speak in support of R11 and thank you all for continued support of the underline so thank you thank you good morning good morning esteemed Commissioners and community members my name is Benjamin Gordon and I'm a resident ofed water homeowner and local business owner today I'm here to voice my strong opposition to pz4 pz4 represents a direct attack on our rights as Citizens to have oversight on the use of our public lands Commissioners do a difficult and often frustrating public service and I can understand the temptation to reduce obstacles standing in the way of progress however this is not the way to do it the nature of your office requires individuals with vision and fortitude it takes to convince and guide communities like ours forward even under opposition bringing together opinions synthesiz and compromise that's part of the job last year in Edgewater we received a Master Plan update to Margaret Pace Park and the community was not pleased with many of the designs the plan seemed to be written by people who really didn't understand our needs and we spoke out I organized a petition that reached almost a th000 signatures and the feedback was heard through the proper channels last night commissioner parto and uh director Chris Evans hosted a wonderful Community Workshop revealing a newly revised plan incorporating our feedback the process represents a victory not for one opinion or the other but for the simple fact that our community Voice Was Heard and the city is working with us on the right path forward now at that meeting I learned about this hearing on pz4 and I was outraged by the implications of this proposal since we learned about pz4 last night and shared their petition with our petition we've had over a 100 new signatures since 1 p.m. last night to 8:00 a.m. this morning it's almost at a thousand should pb4 be allowed to pass this process of commentary feedback and compromise will be removed from our Civic Powers this is disenfranchising our rights to have a say in our government thank uh the people in this room are voters we are watching and we will hold you accountable to your decisions thank you thank you good morning good morning Claudia rousel 10 Museum park downtown I'm here to speak I'm here to speak against pc4 the last time I checked the US Florida and even Miami we're not a dictatorship in our country we value checks and balances I understand life for the ruling class would be so much easier without those checks and balances after all voters are pesky M&M as you made clear to us I understand the temptation to rule by decree having met a dictator on the planet who gave it up voluntarily I'm a member on the condo board and boy at times I wish alone I could decide furthermore the timing for PCA is interesting my community is wondering if it has to do with the unlawful installation of a gym at Ferry Park and commissioner carolo is looking for a way out of the mess he himself created no to PC four thank you good morning good morning I'm Davey Frankle a resident of Coconut Grove at 3615 palow Avenue I'm also a new appointed member of The Village Council um there seems to be a bunch of items regarding Community voice and being heard on the agenda today and I'd like to speak to a few of them uh first I would like to commend commissioner Paro for his amazing Outreach to our community and putting a priority on hearing Community Voices um I first would like to support re20 and the funding of veric pool uh I would like to point out that the original plan for the pool did not take into account the community wishes and therefore the revisions and the additional funding is the result of that inability to listen to the residents not some change of heart that went into revising the plan so I urge you to please respect the community wishes and support the additional funding um I'm also here to speak against pz4 uh it's a direct usurpation of the rights of the people and their voices to be heard and uh I was at the paap meeting where it was unanimously rejected and I uh was interested when Vice chair Andy Parish asked the city representative who on the commission actually wrote the words for the the New Order and the city representative could not say who actually put forth the wording so I thought I'd take a moment now I'm sorry that commissioner gabella just left because I was going to ask for a show of hands for those people that were involved in the writing of the legislation so nobody but perhaps uh commissioner gabella um anyway I'd like to point out that public parks are public they're for the people of the people and this legislation would go forward towards renaming them commissioner Parks thank you good morning good morning my name is ryal Martin I live at 6201 Southwest 61 Street I am formerly of coconut Gro and I'm now second vice president of the homeowners and Tennis Association in Coconut Grove and I also chare Grace which is Grove rights and community equity in Coconut Grove I'm here to support the funding of vck park pool it's a pool that I learned to swim I trained as a firefighter at that at that pool I've I've trained and taught people how to swim at that pool and and I think that that pool was great and it served us for 60 years I think it would be a horen to put a pool there that we can't use for another 60 years I support what commissioner Paro has led us to believe is a is is a pool that will be very serving of our community and I think it ought to be funded I also oppose um the the the was it pz4 that takes power from the people power to the people we need to consult people in making these kind of decisions thank you thank you please no clapping good morning good morning hi my name is Kelly FY I live at 23 biscan in Edgewater um I'm here to speak to pz4 last night I attended a productive community-driven meeting regarding Margaret Pace Park this meeting was in response to a petition and public feedback given on the previous Park planning under a previous commissioner our feedback Was Heard and there are now multiple meetings and surveys in place to gather input from the public this is how these matters should be handled today I'm here to ask the Commissioners to do the right thing and say no to pz4 I find it ridiculous that we need to fight for this and that some of our commissioners would put forward an initiative that takes away the voice of the public the very people they represent and are in service to this not only removes the voice of the people but removes accountability in checks and balances in the current process as residents taxpayers and those who elect our commissioners our families and us use these Parks daily it only makes sense that we have a say in what goes into our public parks the City Commissioner should not be able to make these decisions by right without any requirement to consult the public thank you please vote no on pz4 thank you good morning morning good morning I'm Linda Williams I reside at 3523 Charles Avenue here in Coconut Grove 3133 I'm a native born and reared 71 years I'm a community advocate first vice chair homeowners and tenants Coconut Grove Village West homeowners and tenants Association and I'm chair the community advisory committee I'm here to respond to re21 the ver Park Pool you heard Mr Holton reference a swim team some years ago I swam on that swim team can't do it now but look for That Others May um the cost of the pool has been an issue we the community didn't have anything to do with that cost when you delay projects through bureaucracy changes that are made in the dark of the night and don't communicate with the community that advocated what it wanted this will happen so a year later doesn't bother us we've waited 10 years for this construction commissioner Paro it didn't begin on your watch but we are hopeful prayerful that it will end on your watch please support the commission and vote we are watching we are listening and we are very hopeful thank you thank you good morning Nancy Lee 2901 South bore Drive I really believe commissioner Ray I wanted to especially talk to you I was very happy with your vote against putting that stupid Amendment or proposition on the ballot that was so poorly wrot a word Ed and I commissioner gabella should have deferred it someone should have deferred it it was ridiculous because it was an end run around commissioner parto who I metad at I'm especially metad at Joe carolo for infecting all of you with these stupid things to our Parks we don't want all this junk in our Parks you had bad taste and someone should tell you that we don't want all these like plastic things in our Parks we want some green we need green you're putting up all this stuff in Coconut Grove on Grand Avenue and I I just don't know what's going on with Christina King because she used to be good but she's being infected by you you must have some kind of virus and I just really hate what's going on here and that you get me out of bed all cranky to come here and here I am I don't want this for I don't want junk in the park I like the pool because the people want the pool people will tell you what they want don't don't do stuff for us we don't want you doing it and I'm mad at my gatekeeper friend over here because I can never talk to my brothers because their wives are Gatekeepers and keep me on the phone for an hour and he's got gate Gatekeepers so I'm not talking to my own commissioner thank you good morning good morning good morning Kimberly Davis 6410 Southwest 58th Place co-founder and president of the Coconut Grove Optimus Club founder of Coconut Grove Cowboys NFL FLAG Football League board member of viic Park committee born and raised in Coconut Grove one neighborhood one migan as you can see the Grove is here two to articulate my feelings in a manner that all can understand historical historical you hear it so often the true meaning has been watered down very similar to how the depth of the pool at veric has been watered down a pool that has historically been 10 ft imagine a room with big beautiful pictures showing you a promising future but failing to plainly identify to the untrained eye that 10 feet would change to 5T miraculously who in this community asks for a five foot difference is our question still no answers but thank God our commissioner parau was listening our community needs a pool for families which includes teens teens who would not understand how to properly use diving blocks in five feet mothers like me who want their children to learn the basics of yes water polo because why can't they parents who want their children to have a little Bahamas swim team that competes in Little Bahamas yes because why can't they the West Grove is so used to being told that we're outsourced or distracted you don't need that here you can go there don't worry about getting it they can you can share theirs oh that'll take more time baby we've been waiting more than 10 years imagine how long this poem would be if I was told you have time some things just have to be defined a 5ot lap pool is not justified we need our additional two feet thank you good morning good morning um and the the Cowboys were national champions CU we recognized them I didn't forget good morning good morning my name is Anna Maria Torres I live at 3517 Crystal View Court Miami um first of all I want to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today also I want to thank Mr Paro for following through with the outreach program uh you're doing an amazing job and I really appreciate it and thank you to all of you to come here to be heard today it is very important that this what democracy is like looks like the parks are extremely important for the people it gives a genuine connection to Nature people have many reasons of why they come to the parks I cannot call it like the holy moment to engage in Gams with friends and family after a hard day working they can come with their children to enjoy play ball with them or just to walk with them they practice yoga meditations Park are for communities and people should be should have a voice and a vote before the government makes changes and dictate what they have to be done with them so I am against pc4 thank you thank you thank you good morning good morning my name is Kevin Sanchez 46 is n9th core uh I to talk on I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm here can you state your name again sir I apologize we couldn't hear you you can state your name again Kevin Sanchez 46 9th core uh I'm here to talk on pc4 I think residents should have a voice in decision that impact their neighborhoods and you all saw that pc4 is not what people want thank you thank you you good morning good morning Madame chairwoman Mr Vice chairman Commissioners my name is Mark Burton I'm the attorney who represents several of the pl of in the litigation over the gym equipment at Maurice Bay Park I've spoken on pzs what are today pzs 5 and six a handful of times the jurisdictional reasons why this commission cannot reconsider that appeal it's been briefed in previous written correspondence uh before this commission so I'm going to talk a little bit about pz4 uh first of all a lot of people have spoken more eloquent than I ever could about how it will affect their lives the city's residents lives to have their input their ability to speak and to have the appeal uh uh uh remedy uh and and they can do better than I can so I'm going to speak about a legal aspect this was passed on first reading before it was ever presented to the PAB that violates Miami 21 section 7.1.2 g States and I quote in the relevant language upon receiving of the findings and recommendations regarding code amendments by the planning zoning and appeals board the city commission shall hold at least two advertised public hearings on the proposed code amendments cannot pass it on first reading before it goes to the PAB and actually there were two PAB meetings on this it was the third the first time had it not been the second reading would have taken place within N9 days of the first reading with the PAB in the middle this is being done in an expedited way only because of the PAB deferring at a meeting has it had the time for people to learn about it and come in oppose it uh so I would urge that it be struck down today if it is passed it must be done so on first reading thank you thank you good morning good morning uh my name is Patrice gesp Smith 1800 Southwest 1 Avenue is my address Miami 33129 and I do have a letter from the friends of the underlying founder Meg Daly she unfortunately cannot be here this morning morning because we have a board meeting at this very moment um so I'll be giving this to the clerk but just real high level uh we want to thank you first of all for this partnership with the city of Miami we thank each of these Commissioners who have supported us from day one we opened more than three years ago and since then we saw more than 1.5 million visitors in our first phase alone and this year now that we're up to 2.6 miles we are experiencing more we project more than 2 million visitors and we have done an analysis based on zip codes more than 75% of those visitors are City of Miami so we're very proud of this partnership and we feel that this is together we're serving the city of Miami creating new jobs creating free programming more than uh 200 free programs every year and supporting 150 nonprofits so we really feel fortunate that this partnership has grown and it will continue continue to grow when those five miles in the city of Miami are completed by 2026 thank you thank you good morning back to back um Anthony escara I'm here representing commissioner Regalado she apologizes for not being able to make it today we had a planning and zoning board meeting today as well um similar to your last speaker we would like to also thank uh the commission for their partnership with the county and the underline as you all know uh the underline is a Action project for the commissioner and uh we're here to support uh your change your budget change thank you very much for your time thank you good morning hi good morning my name is danela I am a resident and Community manager at Gallery Art 333 Northeast 24th Street and I am here to speak about pc4 I'm against as a mother I'm against pc4 I think that we should have a say on what takes place in our community in our Parks I love taking my kids to the park I'm able to meet new residents I feel like that's the only place where they can escape the daytoday the everything that's going on in schools around this world that's the place where I can hear laughter I can hear the air they're away from Electronics they can enjoy a nice peaceful Park so please I want to once again reiterate I am against peace 4 thank you thank you good morning good morning my name is manri Alonso I am an owner in the Park West area of downtown Miami I come here in opposition to pz4 surprise right but I beg your Indulgence um three elements must be present for laws to be just there must be a compelling need for the law the law must be the only way to fulfill that need and it must be surgical the restrictions must be absolute minimum required to fulfill that need I understand a compelling need for government efficiency but completely excluding public oversight is in my opinion an overly broad solution that silences the very voices you seek to serve and in doing so El eliminates a crucial check to unbridled power it is counterintuitive and antithesis to a fre Society it is through consideration of opposing views that the best argument emerges and how the most desirable outcomes are achieved disallowing public engagement on these matters silence is the most important voice in any debate the people for after all it is the public that you hope to serve wouldn't it help to know how they wish to be served this is why I respectfully beg you to please keep the voice of the people in the debate and vote against pz4 I completely appreciate you commissioner Reyes you commissioner caroo you commissioner King you commissioner gabella and you commissioner Paro I appreciate the time and effort you put forth trying to help our city and I thank you for the opportunity to address you all directly thank you thank you good morning good morning Grant Stern 425 Northeast 22nd Street I come here today to thank the commission for bringing up this terrible item pc4 and having passed it illegally because without your actions earlier you wouldn't have galvanized the hundreds of people that are here today the many speakers that oppose pz4 you wouldn't have proven that the commissioner who told the Miami Herald you wouldn't have proven him wrong when he said that it affected only a minority of the citizens look at the minority today in this room the minority is people who want the city to pass pz4 and have an unlimited authority to do anything they want in our parks that is the actual minority in fact it was something similar to this a dozen years ago that Drew me further into coming down to City Hall and speaking with the commission and speaking with the PAB in that case the city proposed to remove all of the design standards from Midtown to make it easier for Walmart to locate there and when I said hey the city is about to wipe out all of the law that we made to protect us as Citizens hundreds of people showed up at the Planning and Zoning Board they deferred it because of the city and then they came back two weeks later and the Planning and Zoning Board then just like now voted unanimously that we should not use the nuclear option to wipe out all the safeguards that the city put in place to give residents a say in how their city is run and so I stand here today asking that the city vote against pz 4 5 and six and I also want to give support to commissioner paro's plan with the veric pool we need to make sure that our Public Works serve all of the public and they serve them equally and fully and that the people's voices are heard in this commission and I want to thank you for your time thank you good morning good morning I plea for the reasonableness of this commission today here we are again wasting taxpayers and City resources over a silly gym worse this Commission Now is on the cusp of a asking its citizen to just trust us just trust us I think not as you can see from the turnout at the last Pat board here today A th sign on a petition I'm not alone in that concern just last night I was told at a public meeting on Margaret Pace Park master plan the city parks department attempted to insert or wreck A twostory administrative office building in the middle of the park by this right that I believe this legislation would allow that to be done without a single uh citizen to be able to speak against it not surprisingly that building fits into the exception this legislation provides for lastly none of this would have even occurred and unfortunately I wouldn't have met many of you if the man Bayfront Park management trust simply followed the warrant system you're trying to eliminate here today there would be no gym to remove why let me say it again there would be no gym to remove because construction began before the appeal was even filed worse it continued after the appeal was affirmed this is literally like just in the face of its citizens truly just poking them in the eye anyway thank you for your time we appreciate your thoughtfulness and reasonableness on this matter chair I'm sorry sir can I have your name for the record sir just your name for the record I've been here so often I figured is Steve Smith 900 bis gang Bay thank thank you sir good morning good morning good good morning everyone um my name is Risa Fernandez I am 992 Northwest V street I'm in District 3 um I'm here ironically on on a couple of um items um I came over here to really um bring my input um to you you as Commissioners I know that you all represent different districts but as a whole body you guys make decisions that affect all residents of the city including the taxpayers the business and the visitors so it's your responsibility to listen even if were not in your District um as a native born resident of this city I was born at Mercy Hospital in front of the beautiful biscan Bay um in the backdrop up to viscaya Gardens right um I live in a neighborhood where um I grew up in Parks shenandoa Parks I went there as a toddler to the daycare that used to sit at the shanor park that we don't no longer have so I am a product of public spaces and parks of this city and I urge you guys to oppose four five and six as community input is an important process to our investments as a city as a whole our reflection of our input as community members is important and is a reflection of our city government then I also want to urge you to support any funding for the underline under re1 um that would bring um funding to the underline as I am a user I write my bike from my from Little Havana all the way through the river all the way to the underline to The Grove and then I get here and I have veric Park residents here and to me veric park is a beautiful space and we would like to you for all of you to support the investments into local parks our department of parks department should be lifted up as we are a alltime space thank you for the outdoors thank you good morning good morning Nicole desiderio 900 bis game Bay I am here in opposition of pz4 pz5 and pz6 if you see the video I happened to be at the meeting last night for the Margaret Pace Park master plan that was revealed and I think I almost cried when I was there because apparently Joe thought I was the only one who cared about the parks and I was the only one who was coming down here to speak but look at the hundreds of people in this room and this is how it should be done there should be public Outreach you should be listening to the citizens you should be taking their opinions into account and if you pass pz4 that won't happen the reason why meetings like this are held is because people know they have to now go and obtain a warrant and if you hold these meetings ahead of time and you get the citizens on your side you won't have issues when you obtain your warrant that warrant process is in place for a reason so please do not pass pz4 I ask you also if you have time during your lunch break before this item comes up this afternoon to watch some pieces of the PAB meeting they voted against this legislation unanimously 11 to0 I also ask you to not reconsider pz5 it's an item from 6 months ago there is pending litigation on it it was a leading referendum question and you should let the courts decide on that regarding the pool I didn't know about this item until today but it seems like the People Want it funded so if that's what they want I support that and anyone who is here about pz4 but didn't plan to speak I encourage you to please stand up and say something to have your voice heard thank you thank you good morning good morning members of the commission fernandi I reside in the South Grove I'm echoing the consensus opinion of the rest of the residents who have come out this morning speaking out in opposition against pz4 it is unfortunate that many of us continue to have to come out here as this government or at least some members of this government continue to weaponize this city against its residents and its voters we saw that with the pension issue recently ly But alls well that ends well and as long as you end up doing the right thing we can continue to progress as a city so I would ask commissioner Reyes commissioner Paro commissioner gabella and commissioner King to please listen to the unanimous Judgment of the PAB board which in unanimity said that this was something that they didn't want and all of the residents have come not a single person has come out here to speak in favor of pz4 there's another item on the agenda today it has to do with the police Chiefs um in addition to the anxiety and the concern and the dysfunction that has defined this city recently one thing that has worked good news has been the police Chiefs we've had three outstanding police Chiefs in a row Chief George Kina Chief art oo and now Chief Manny Morales who we have seen crime rates murder rates at historic lows clearance rates at 91% we ask that you support also the police Chiefs that are doing the best job in the history of the city in protecting us residents I wish you all and your families a Happy Thanksgiving and I trust you especially commissioner gabella who you did yourself and all of us a good service last week to do it again do the right thing for the residents as I know you will and have thank you Commissioners thank you thank you my condolences to you and MSNBC and the recent elections good morning good morning my name is Shelby Barlo I reside at 30 Southwest First Street I'm here to speak against pz4 and ask you to vote against it I want to Echo the sentiments that have already been shared here and also add that right now you are leaders at a time where faith in democracy and our institutions in America are at an all-time low so I'd like to ask you to do the right thing and vote in the interests of the people that you represent thank you thank you good morning good morning Laura o 50 bcan Boulevard in Miami um I am against pz4 um pz4 takes away the rights of the citizens to have a say in how their Community Civic spaces will be developed it would give sole control to three people on the city commission to decide the fate of our Parks without any checks and balances including from PAB this is ill advised it's procedurally flawed it's bad policy and should be summarily rejected please be part of the solution and vote no on pz4 thank you thank you good morning hi uh my name is Maria Gonzalez and I live at 436 Northeast 77 Street Road in Miami uh District 5 commissioner king um and I'm here against uh and for you to you opposing pc4 pc5 and PC pc6 I'm also uh here in reference to pz10 the up zoning on Northeast 64th uh better known as uh Northeast 64th and Northeast uh 64th Street and Terrace so and the pool as well if you would please just listen to the people that's what you're here to do and we appreciate uh if you would uh do that and I'll be listening to the meeting later on thank you thank you good morning it's not a good morning we are here peeved and with purpose you guys have the nerve trying to take our Parks away there's man-made and there's God made we're God made in fact and and apparently you respect God take a look at the emblem behind your heads what does it say In God We Trust do you really trust God you are disrespecting him and he's listening he's in this room right now when you go Outdoors to enjoy the sunshine do you want to enjoy it amongst Concrete in a city the park is a refuge we go there almost gasping for air to return to Nature there's a song about this they paved paradise to P put up a parking lot they took all the trees and put them them in a tree Museum it sounds ridiculous but that's what we're doing they literally paved paradise to put up that outdoor M outdoor gym the point of working out outside is to be outside there are outdoor activities such as running walking throwing a frisbee playing soccer if you want to use machines does it matter that you're outside the outdoor gym and Marice Fay Park is disturbing because it makes no sense can you imagine man without Central Park Frederick Olstead in the late 1800s was considered Innovative in his time for preserving and cod designing New York City's Parks mindful design respect for nature what would Mr Olstead do with our Parks give them an inch they'll take a mile they grabbed one little inch of our park we must stop them from taking it over why is everyone picking on downtown leave us alone I don't want to come here and defend the downtown neighbors Alliance whatever happened with ripping down the illegal 10 story LED sign thank you 95% of American households consider Dodge their family members thank you dog SP backwards is God thank you and if I can have the speaker's name I'm sorry ma'am may we have your name for the record Brit and you've got all of my information over there thank you no good morning morning Anthony vinu 3325 Charles Avenue I think commissioner Coro a minute ago mentioned the last election and no matter how you feel about the last election I think something that's clear is that residents citizens your constituents want elected officials who listen to them and respond to their needs and today is obviously two really important issues we've heard about him so many times as a resident of Village West I really want to commend commissioner Paro for listening to his community a community that's been not listening to for way too long and it's crazy that the village that the veric pool was redeveloped to be too low we really appreciate your work and I hope you all support his work today to make sure veric park has a pool that's appropriate for the community and also just encourage you again to vote no obviously on pz4 residents want their elected officials to represent them to hear them and so thank you thank you good morning morning my name is Sam CAA um 60th southw was 13th uh Street 33130 District 3 um I'm just here to again Echo everybody again with pz4 um I think I've noticed um the general gist of everything kind of seems more so that the commission board doesn't feel like the rules or um the regard that we should be holding them uh as Commissioners and their Duty I think they have been um just disregarding uh their role as an intermediary between the people and the city um again commissioner Paro is doing a great job I'm kind of spearheading all of this uh and I think everybody should look to this commissioner as an example as to how to be an interm an intermediary between uh for the people between the city and the people um again I think everybody's made great points uh regarding um the preservation it's insane to me as a young person that uh a lot of these older people have had to come out and explain the history and the importance regarding these parks and regarding these uh places and what it means to the people um and again I just urge you as Commissioners to really listen these are real people here your neighbors not only your constituents but these are you uh as a citizen yourself so thank you thank you good morning thank you Commissioners for allowing me to come and stand before you and all those that works here at the um the city of Miami my name is Chaplain Young I'm 500 uh Northwest 2 Avenue uh I am a chaplain here in Miami Dave County I go into to your prisons and jails and talk to your inmates excuse me that want to get their life turned around but they need help I know a lot of us just think that okay you commit commed a crime you just need to just you know we they don't want to deal with them I want to deal with I have been deal with him for over 30 years trying to help men and women get their life right and get their life uh going in the right direction and there are a lot of them that really really want to turn their life around they really want their life to be a blessing to their Community but they need your help they coming out of the prisons and jail remind you all the jails and the court system is located in the city of Miami so they are your residents that really they can't be here because of their situation but I come in their stad to say that we need to chair a board we need to put together a group we need to put together a study group for those that are coming out of your prisons and jails that really want your help that really need for you to uh give them that hand up Society has really demonized it has really uh put down all of the inmates but there are a population of inmates that really want to stop doing selling drugs doing drugs doing crime in our neighborhood but they need your help they need call me I will come free of charge to help teach train to help whatever you to get this situation turned around thank you God bless good morning good morning KY hay 3645 Franklin Avenue AKA to Back Street Coconut Grove uh that coffee must be good up there tea yeah tea it's tea iink I need some of that tea after you finish all right I just wanted to uh make reference to ver Park you know I learned how to swim at ver Park uh I was thrown into the deep end that was 10 feet okay if it was 5 feet I wouldn't be able to swim today all right thank thank you good morning hi good morning my name is Sonia Merchant and I live in 900 biscan Boulevard um I'm here in opposition to pz4 5 and six I am convinced that the Commissioners want to do their jobs of supporting honoring and representing the people who elected you and that's why I think that there's no doubt in my mind that every single one of you will vote no to pz4 because that is strangling the voices and suppressing potentially the opinions of the people who voted you in pz 5 and six have to be a no because you're setting a terrible precedent of revisiting issues over and over that have been thoughtfully decided so please I hope you live up to what we have all elected you to do and what I believe is your truest honorable intention thank you thank you good morning good morning Madam chair commissioner Paro Commissioners Joseph King 3651 Charles Avenue Coconut Grove Florida I'm here to speak on ph7 uh the collaborative Development Corporation is a not for-profit organization whose mission is to coordinate and execute neighborhood revitalization program expand community housing availability increase culture tourism business employment opportunities to Little Bahamas and West Coconut Grove Mrs Gibson was one of the original board members at the CDC and she and I worked together at thma Gibson Health Initiative beginning in 2012 I'm used to riding shotgun with here her at these meetings the CDC is working with local land owners and development groups who plan to build up Little Bahamas and make it such a community these developments will generally have retail components and work housing and CDC has planned to work with them their anchor tenants as well as City of Miami families to assess assist link educate and train these participants with a goal of increased job skills improve wages and the opportunity to work in retail spaces uh with improved wages locally and hopefully live to work in connection with these housing projects congresswoman Frederica Wilson has committed funding and these blocks of dollars start coming into Little Bahamas for culture tourism and ultimately honoring the legacy of Bahamian African-American and all those who are among the first settlers of City of Miami we expect to retain as many families as possible so they can also be part of the growth and not priced out as Mrs Gibson has moved off all boards with the exception of Felman Gibson Health Initiative I've partnered with Monty trainer and CDC he now allows me to ride shotgun with him a couple of you may have heard of Monty some of you may have dined at his Monty's restaurant or even driven down Monty trainer way Monty has moved his office from The cocon Grove Art Festival and he is now my officemate at 3644 Grand Avenue he's made his commitment to help bring lasting Equitable change to Little Bahamas Community bring attention and support in a spotlight on this project thank you good morning good morning everyone thank you for being here today my name is man I'm at 9440 Fountain Blue Boulevard I wanted to say that I'm against the item pz4 if anybody's listening God this mon Trina 3556 hold on hold on one second oh I'm sorry I'm sorry excuse me I want hi everyone I'm glad you're here this morning good morning I want to say I'm against the item pz4 I would like to know why you want to give away our perks what's in it for you can you hear me what are you going to gain we're all going to become billionaires Just Between Us what are you going to gain for giving away our Parks I don't know if you saw the footage of a young boy elementary school he doesn't have PE the only way he can get outside and enjoy the so he's able to play soccer in the park what's he going to do without the parks I'm sure we all have lovely homes with luscious foliage you can probably walk outside your back door relax in the breeze in the sun with beautiful foliage that's green space we all need our Green Space we would like ours too so please please I'm begging you to save our our Parks thank you thank you good morning Monty good morning you ready happy late birthday mon 3556 fa a girl Festival is never been the same yes since you're not leading it that's right what happened mon you shoot list I got this way you got a lot of patience to sit here all day long and listen I mean it's it's a this is about the third or fourth time I've been here in the last 2 months and I've never seen such a parade of people and where do you find them all I mean everybody's got issues but anyway uh Christine you made a promise you weren't going to cut me off I'm not going to cut you off anyway what U I made a commitment to West Grove and I made the this commitment years ago uh actually it was in the uh in the 80s when I first made the the uh the commitment to do what I could in West Grove and uh hire do the hiring training remember that's where I first met Joe King when uh judge Peterson I had some uh some uh time to serve with the government so I did it over West Grove with the training program and uh it worked out pretty well and and ever since then I've been working with the with the West Grove and miss miss Gibson has been a sty one in the Art Festival I think she's with us about 30 some years in the art festival and uh and now her Joe King's uh wife is on our board she's just our past chairman of the board so we've always had a connection between the art festival and the uh in the West Grove but anyway we had a meeting about 3 years ago and Fred rer came down from Washington and made a pledge to us and changed the name it was uh what's up there a CL I thought that I thought was something was going to happen the clock anyway she pledged to us um uh about 11.2 million to be used in West Grove to form an entertainment District a living district and and uh it it should have happened we should have had zoning coming in from the the Gable side down Grand Avenue that's how we should get into Coconut Grove rather than going down 37th and 27th and so I think this is an opportunity where we can we can uh it's a very modest budget we're asking for for the first year for the 49,000 to get it started and uh if you'll notice what's happening over there now with Peter gard and and Grant Savage the project that they just finished it's fantastic and I think that's um more of the things to come in the West Grove and if we uh with the collaborative if we can if we can just push through with this at this particular juncture I think you'll see some big changes in West Ro and I know that U at obagel was nice to see you the other night at the day League of cities to see the city of Miami participate there that's nice and you can carry some of our water over there it's nice it's nice to have the our cities involved and uh hopefully you'll you'll see what we're seeing in the Grove West Grove with Fred rer and miss miss Gibson and Miss Barton Joe King and all the effort that's going in over there now a lot of money being spent a lot of lot of lot of land being swapped around but it's in a positive way I think at this particular juncture anyway I want to thank you for yesterday I had an opportunity to get out of the county and U they uh they welcomed me and I had a chance I didn't get a chance to speak this long but uh anyway it was fun and I was represented the city of MI in some way I think and I always feel like I'm representing the city of Miami and coconut grob and I certainly love um our our city commission and what the our city manage and what we do for the city and monola we have a good Gator up here you know anyway Joe and we do looking forward to New Year's Eve and Christine you're you're a princess thank you very much and I like our parau oh we get over here we get our district too and now Miguel used to hang out at Monty so that's nice anyway thank you very much for putting up with me and uh hopefully I'll be out of this this uh Contraption here before long I just got some passage to do some uh some uh uh work on my back that will help this uh along the way but anyway thank you for everything it's always great to be here and it's great to see how much patience you have and I'm glad you don't have the clock today thank you very much thank you always a pleasure seeing you Madame share at Monty you have fun Friday with uh downtown Miami hopefully I'll be down there I'm I'm looking forward to it anytime you you enjoy the music my Horizon but thanks thanks for everyone all the best good morning ma'am good morning good morning Rose P 2455 South Bay Shore Drive um I had to come because we know you we know each and every one of you we are so proud I am so proud of what you have done for the City of Miami I don't think there's been a more exciting time to live in the city of Miami than now um and yet at the same time I was a bit confused when I saw on pz4 that Planning and Zoning had advocated against it and yet it still went through unanimously I think it was a 15th of October on the first reading I urge you to seriously consider the impact that you're going to have in the city of Miami we are such an example to other cities that are in the same growth mode to not include the voices of those you represent as you are doing right now is just unconscionable you were elected we believe in you we know you're doing a terrific job and I urge you to reconsider that and take into account those you serve who actually in all sincerity believe in what you're doing thank you very much thank you good morning Ernesto Gua 155 sir can you get a little closer to the we Cana 5 pH uh 509 good morning uh chairwoman and Commissioners there reason that I'm here is because a few years uh few years two two days ago I was invited to participate in a press conference to take place in downtown Miami to talk about two issues that my community that are represent briol area are concerned as a miamian because actually I do represent my Association basically in our kashman area that we represent downtown is not my neighborhood Brickle is not dtown and dtown is not Bri all of know you knows Bri homor Association I was invited there I didn't know who was attending that press conference I didn't have to I'm a free person and I spoke about two issues number one about the building that is misrepresenting the city of Miami full of uh insecure full of um graffiti as you are aware um commissioner Rees and the second issue was about that the fact that was a referendum approved by this commission it was placed in the ballot we went to the polls and we voted about removing the fences around the equipment of the park those two issues the sitting commissioner called me the day after questioning my Integrity my leadership in this community and making an allegation that I make a request for his resignation that is totally untrue that is totally inaccurate after that conversation thank you that's the problem that we don't have enough time but after that conversation thank you sir if you allow me for a minute if after that conversation I I I let went to and to the radio station and that is unethical that is very une thank how do I follow that up I don't I know I know I know good morning or actually good afternoon James Torres president of DNA I kind of helped you out with something on pz um 4 32 are against one person is for cuz I kind of did the little stick thing that you know normally do just kind of keeping you honest the issue that I have with pz4 is the issue that it includes LED billboard language in there I've been to several of the Commissioners to addressing this including at the PAB meeting that that language should be removed because on Civic spaces there could be led Billboards implemented in there and that's an issue so it's in there trust me right so I also want to give history with the time that I have left here on something why are we here again as it relates to the gym equipment and these conversations that we keep going back and forth over and over like someone stated earlier today Groundhog's Day Groundhog Day literally started when our commissioner District 2 Damen Paro decided to go on vacation and could have recalled the question when he came back and we would not have had Mr CYO the smart Fox on the group here and did the question on the gym no one wants to talk about the reality of that that I had a commissioner that was not available to recall the question you miss chairwoman also pointed that out in several commission meetings that District 2 could have called the question that's why we're in this mess in terms of spending tax dollars legal issues that certain community members are involved so whatever decision is made here today I hope it is the final decision on this item but as you move forward on this again I'm going to be very clear the LED billboard verbage should not be included in Civic veres as well because it should not be there we already have enough Billboards throughout this entire city thank you thank you good morning chair Commissioners uh good to see you all uh I know it's been a long day so I'll keep it short and regards to pz4 and the whole park situation honestly I'm not opposed to any gym equipment in fact I love gym equipment but I do believe that it's important to have public input when we're doing talking about local parks I also want to commend you to continue to support the local parks continue to get public input and in fact see we can invest in ways to enable the community to be able to engage more directly in giving public comment some kind of like interactive GIS tool so we can sort of track what people really think not everybody can show up to these meetings it's very hard to show up to these meetings um so uh uh that is that is my my only input you know just please facilitate Community engagement and Community input into our public assets thank you so much thank you seeing no one else for public comment the public comment period is now closed if I may I would like to ask my colleagues if we can take a couple of items out of turn um I have re9 which requires a 4 F vote it is a street co- designation for Hall of Famer Nat Moore motion his family is here I'd like to recognize them thank you for coming so if I could have a motion in a second Madam chair I'm I'm co-sponsoring that and commissioner Reyes is co-sponsoring I'm my fellow Gator if you could put me as a co-sponsor too Mr clerk all of us me too yeah I just want to say one thing I was a kid when they when uh that Moore was in the perfect season with Larry Z and all those other guys in the stadium so I wasn't a kid I was in the orange bow watching it well the best stadium that we ever had in Miami the orange wall I had the privilege of going school with n Moore when he was at UF University of Florida and uh every time I see him and I talk to him I reminded of a chant that we used to every time that we went to a game at home uh the whole stadium was chanting one two 3 4 give the vote to Nat Mo and that at at that at it was all the years that he played in Florida I mean he was such a great individual a very humble and and magnificent athlete it's a great great human being let me tell you both of the last Super Bowls that the Dolphins went to I was in the uh plane um so I got to know uh a lot of them that zanka many any of the others that were there um certainly coach uh Chula and Joe Robie um that was a great man uh he didn't need government to build a stadium for him he wanted did it himself um so those those were great uh great years uh we had the undefeated season um probably will never see anything like that ever again so uh I'm I'm very proud that uh we're going to be doing this for for Nat um that today Madam chair uh if I may ask once we do this uh I I'd like to if we can just touch upon briefly uh on some of the things that were set sure you know I've been very patient like you have yes so I have a motion in a second all in favor motion carries unanimously thank you is is anyone here for re18 any family members here for re18 okay well let's take this up anyway re 18 may I have a motion move second I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries unanimously thank you now let's go back to the top of our agenda what time is it uh it's 12 so it's 12 we have two CRA meetings we so would we like to break and take the CRA meetings and then the rest of the agenda okay so at this time the city of Miami commission meeting will be in recess we will have our Southeast Overtown Park West CRA commission meeting and then we will go into the Omni c meeting and after those meetings we will recess for lunch and our lunch will be 2 hours from the last meeting what city of Miami commission meeting for November 21 2024 is now in recess thank you everyone thank you for your advocacy I two hours after chair when we come back I yeah e e e e e e everyone at this time good afternoon I'm going to call to order the southeast Overtown Park West CRA meeting for October November 21 2024 do these two and get out where where are my ribs Mr mcnight I'm working on them I'm working on them yeah man you okay so um Mr executive director good morning well good afternoon everyone uh we have nine nine proposed items attorney Brown will read those into the record the first item is a resolution authorizing C to accept the CMI reimbursed am of $317,000 for expenses incurred during the amendment of The Redevelopment plan pursuant to resolution cra - R1 17-11 adopted on February 27th 2017 the second item is a resolution authorizing C to adopt the C of Miami's order of business and rules of procedure outlined in Chapter 2 Article 2 Section 2-33 subsection o to provide for automatic attes of board meetings when cancelled or not held due to lack of quum or other emergency item number three is a resolution resending resolution C C- 24-65 and authorized exor to execute a lease agreement substanti inform attach exhibit a for approximately 1,000 sare ft of commercial space at 249 Northwest 6th Street Suite 108 Miami Florida 33136 for a 10year initial term at a total base round of $20,000 annually with a 5% annual increase after the first year and an estimated cost of construction at 428 , 39163 uh item number four is a 4 fths item a resolution resending CR A- 23-21 and by a 45th vote ratifying approv and confirming the executive director recommendation and finding exhibit a that competitive negotiation methods and procedures are not practical or advantageous waving the requirements of competitive sealed bidding and further approving a grant request in the amount of $5 million not to exceed $5 million to support the development of Mama Hattie's house an Associated soft cost in the amount not to exceed $500,000 of the grant item number five is a resolution accepting the selection committee's recommendation for top rank proposal call Rock St Agnes partnership LLC to develop affordable housing for residents on a I got to wait to Mr M queen stop coughing in my ear on point C Acres assemblage of continuous land pars within the historic Overtown neighborhood item number six is a forfeits item this is a non- tiff funded item a resolution by four fit vote ratifying approving confirming the exective recommendation fing a competitive negotiation method procedures not practical or advantageous waving the requirements of competitive seal bidding and further approving a grant request in the amount not to exceed $668,000 to support girl power rocks Inc and providing Youth Development through the summer steem program and work force training program for youth residents within the Development Area item number seven is a forfeits item a resolution by forfeits V ratifying approving and confirming the executive director recommendation finding that competitive negotiation method and procedures is Not Practical orages waving the requirements of competitive seal bidding and further approving a grant request in the amount of $10,000 to support Miami Urban contemporary experiences LLC for a so basil event uh on December 2024 this is also a non-ff item item number eight is a resolution by for fits ratifying confirming the executive director's recommendation and finding exhibit a that competitive negotiation methods and procedures are not practical or advantageous waving requirements of competitive seal bidding and further approving a grant request in amount ntic C 199,000 0.70 support infrastructure assistance at the urban Overtown outdoor entertainment Gateway and venue space item number nine is a resolution authorized exective or his designity to negotiate and execute an amendment to the 2016 inter local agreement in order to incorporate in local amendments to the Tri Rail agreement between the county the Tri Rail and the CRA at this time we'll open the floor for public comments good more good afternoon good afternoon good afternoon um I am Brian holstead I'm owner at tone Park Plaza n I'm here to talk about the ongoing construction at Town Park and uh the problems that we are facing over there sir I'm sorry yes Town Park is not not on the agenda this is for you to speak on the items that are before us okay the C is in charge of the construction can I speak on that that that's not on our agenda today today you can make a meeting with the executive director or the deputy director to address your concerns but that is not before us today so the topic that is before us is um what exactly all of the resolutions that were just read into the record okay and um I'm going to I'm going to ask staff to meet with you so they could explain that and then we can address your can I have my moment on the floor to speak I mean I'm already sir sir and I am not trying to not give you your moment to speak but it's not on this agenda what you are speaking about is not on this agenda there's no action we can take for what you want to speak about yes I want to hear your concerns um the executive director can address you Mr McQueen excuse me for a minute sir if you will give me a minute once the meeting is done I'll sit and talk with you okay well I feel that I I'm I'm I I mean I'm already here can I just say what I want to say about you know what's happening at Town Park and the fact that we are not we have been like more than six years sir I'm going to allow you to although I have said to you multiple times that issue is not before us it's not fair to the staff to have you come thank you let me just let me just go ahead thank you so much Madam chair for the record uh I'd like the board to know that uh there's a pending lawsuit surrounding this matter and I would further act that we move ciously because there is a pinning lawsuit that uh okay well I am under the impression that buildings 1 through four have been completed and the residents are moving back in that is correct M and building 17 should be within UH 60 days I think that should be completed they they're they're finalizing that building also okay good morning morning I'm sorry sir your turn I'm sorry it's okay all right uh ad mad uh 1990 Northwest fourth Court Apartment 11 and uh I'd like to speak on the first item of the agenda and ha Contracting has constantly be getting contracts from the CRA and it doesn't make any sense to me that they continue to be able to do that because every single time they get a contract they go over budget and then the CRA continues to give them contracts is there a way you can Blacklist them as a contractor because there they shouldn't be continue to be rewarded for these kinds of performance issues with more contracts and so that's the primary thing that I want to address because it's happening in multiple communities also at Town Park Plaza North also at the Town Park Village and it just it seems like the CRA doesn't actually want to take the kind of measures that they can take in order to actually address these problems and these over budget problems and the slow progress of the construction years so I would just really like to see the CRA take action on this problem okay so one that wasn't on the agenda same issue with the gentleman before and two the contractor was selected by the Town Park Association not I would like to St for the record that that is not true that that is not true the contract states that it is with the association but the thing is that the checks are made by the CRA the checks are made are money never goes through the treasury of the pleas please don't speak over me one I don't mind you having your say no one however please tell the truth that CRA did not select the contractor the association did the CRA is paying the grant that allowed the contractor to come and rehabilitate the units there private private home ownership units and if I had my say I would not have done it the way that it was done but I inherited it and we are trying to make sure that everyone is moved back into their unit and had I had my way I would not have rehabilitated units for investors okay I I would agree with you on that one and the association not the CRA selected the contractor I understand that there have been issues however just know that the association not the CRA chose the association so thank you for your advocacy ma'am good afternoon good afternoon um commissioner king and the um Board of Commissioners my name is thema Campbell and I'm the CEO for girl power rocks and here also on behalf of Mama Hattie's house and I wanted to say I'm here in support of items four and six and to say thank you very much sir sir before you leave hello sir please because he got up and said something I want to be fair have have your two minutes thank you very much um on the subject of um the problem that we're facing for the i' I've been outside of my unit now since 2020 um I was told I I I own a town park I don't live there right I was told that the and my units were was in a fantastic position I did not need a grant but every everybody had to um give up their unit for this um uh renovation that was to take place it should have only been 400 Days according to the contract um between the CRA and the association that is 2020 we are now in um I mean that is 2019 we're now in the end of 2024 I've been paying taxes I've been paying HOA fees and um I I have I do not have access to my unit in Miami in Florida in this year 202 before and um the CRA is basically in charge of as he said of the construction because I can tell you for a fact the contractor does not answer you were just speaking with the president the cont of the association the contractor does not answer to the president the contractor answers and is paid by the CRA on paper it shows that the the the association is in charge but the association is not in charge the association does not control the contractors they did not hire the contractor they did not chose them so this whole thing is going on with the CRA in charge of the whole situation and you're also said you made a comment to him that the CRA did um you also make a comment to him that um you do not you do not do things for investors and I can tell you for a fact the CRA is the biggest investor in town park because they hone the most units they're the biggest beneficiary of the loan that was given for the renovation they own 26 units those units must go back to the to the tenant I have suffered Financial loss and nobody is there to compensate me they're like oh you're investor the biggest investor is the CRA because they own all the units they influence all the elections with all their votes sir and choose the board thank you sir and that should not be taking place sir thank you and you said you're not an owner you're an investor I'm an owner there I'm an owner okay you live there that's your home I do not live there I see okay thank you but I own there thank you at this time um are there any items up for discussion I'm sorry chair I'm just going to officially close the public hearing please yes public hearing is officially closed if I may have a motion for inquire on number three Mr mcnight at the risk of uh not ever getting rips again um I don't want to I don't want to be a sore thumb but um I I don't want to uh appeared ignorant either so I need for you to uh explain this to me me uh and whatever firm this is they're leasing 1,000 square ft from us correct yes that would be we would be the the tenant pursuant to the development agreement of community benefit agreement we're the tenant or or are we leasing it out we're the we're the tenant we're going to sublease it so okay so we're going to sublease it yes sir now it's a 10-year lease right correct and they're paying 20,000 out correct that 20,000 is not coming to us is going to whomever we're releasing the property from correct correct and who's paying the 428,000 plus 39163 maximum in expenditure to upgrade uh the property the C is well I'm I'm trying to figure out um it's the CRA space that we are trying to make available for a small business minority owned business when they but uh the the problem that I'm having here here is that if you add up the 10 years the small business is going to pay 200,000 plus I see a 5% um kicker I don't know if that's only the first year of every year is it every year or the first year 5% kicko will be each each year each year okay um that might get closer even though he on bottom line is that we're doing this cuz we want to get out of their property cor correct no well the original contract between the CRA and the developers of block 55 called for some spaces to be set aside for small minority businesses right and and but those those businesses also have to be supported in building out the spaces cuz they couldn't they couldn't afford to build out the spaces in those in those properties and so this is our attempt to support uh a small Min a small business uh a young man who's you know has continued to you know you know we're trying to support businesses that normally would not be a be able to to be in spaces such well H how much are they putting into this or are we financing everything for them well what percent are they putting into this CU if someone doesn't have any any gain into a business you know it's really easy to just walk away from it then yeah I think you're talking about skin in the game they have skin in the game this is what we're trying to do is to not lose overt in Overtown and to encourage minority businesses it is a we hope that this business will be a successful business it is a um it's a rapidly growing industry and I believe that at some point in the future this business it is my prayer that they will be able to pay market rate rents we we hope that uh they all will as particular if we putting so much money down payment for a business but my question is how much are they investing in this well first of all commissioner it's important to understand that the actual tenant has not been selected we're putting this money aside because our estimates are and this is how much would it would cost to build out that space based on our conversations with the developers of block 55 so huge amount I mean I know that everything has gone up in price but it's only 1,000 square ft but but and also it's important to understand that that's up to that amount that you know you're you're correct and I was going to say that it's up to that up to that amount but it's such a raw space there's no there's no infrastructure in that space no bathroom no nothing it's just that a square even with the AC ducks I believe it's nothing it's just it's a gray box it's just a box absolute gray box commissioner commissioner Reyes Okay I uh I agree with you uh Madame share and that has been one of my main concerns that we will lose Overtown in Overtown and uh I will I have been know an advocate not from out now years back um business creation and business retention in the um Southeast Overtown area that uh residents of Overtown they will take the I mean they will have the opportunity to set the business in those areas where they are going to uh prosper and and the business is going to be owned by overtime residents or by somebody that look like an overtime resident that's that is have been my my my uh I mean I I have been my my discussion all the time man Mr McQueen you know that I had been all all the time asking for that business creation and business retention now you said and to the question of commissioner uh Kyu that how much has the uh business owner or the potential business owner how much have they invested what is they their part of the deal well until we make the selection of the actual owner we can't determine anybody huh yeah you don't have anybody that's no no that mean but I want to clarify that your base I mean your selection of the of the owner is going to require some contribution contribution and and that will have to come to and see if uh we will agree with it or no that is correct okay sir so I vot in the point that I want to be clear on we shouldn't be financing anybody 100% to go into business I agree commissioner I agree with you wholeheartedly on that we think that any business that comes over town particular even the small or large businesses we should not be supporting 100% everybody has to put something in bring something to the table in order to occupy spaces that we control all right so again if there's no further discussion may I have a motion for our Madam chair items one two and nine need to be modified to include the cover memo okay that's it so then I just uh yes go ahead so I just wanted to make one observation I agree that you got to have some skin in the game you know that that's my my thing but I also understand the problem that you have over time that there's not a lot of people with the means to to start a business but my last question I'm I'm I'm going to vote for this but my last question is uh how do you know what the build up is if you don't know what what the business well like we just said I'm just curious no no no the buildout really is about having a space that can be open to the there's no bathroom there's no air conditioning it's there is a floor and there's a ceiling and that's basically what they are turning over to us and we this is just an estimate of what it will cost to build out and that's why it's important that you realize that we're saying it's up to this amount we won't spend any more than that from our could be less it could be less it could be less and remember also as the Comm as commissioner Coro refer they have to put something in there okay thank you so they have to have they have to have a capital contribution of their own whoever is selected okay okay that's good I'm good so if may I have a motion CH my apologies so the 1 through n has already been moved by commissioner re second by commissioner Coro and 1 12 and9 only the backup documents need to be substituted there's no substantive Amendment okay my my uh my uh uh endorsement of caro was about the rips I was I was talking about the rips I second it that I think that we should pass a resolution that we will I will I mean we will kick Mr McQueen from the from the city hall unless he comes in with rips well if I remember part of the uh deal when he got hired was that he also be the part-time barbecued uh Chef I will uh I will address your concerns in the immediate now so I have a motion in a second all in favor all motion carries unanimously thank you everyone thank thank you for attending the southeast Overtown Park West CRA meeting and now we will jump into the Omni come back do the AV after lunch yeah after lunch 12 is past 12:30 it's going to be short hopefully I don't know and it only three commission never know there's no four fits for the omnus it's a simple majority so it's a simp it it's whatever you guys want um I I'd rather I'd rather we do it right now real yeah let's get and then we we will deal with the the uh the okay chair we're ready go all right so yep commissioner good afternoon everyone I'm calling to order the November 21st 2024 Omni meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes from September 7th 2024 om meeting second all those in favor I I Madam executive director please briefly read the agenda item resolution number one into the record good morning Commissioners um item number one is uh termination of a lease agreement and a release of all claims in a form acceptable to the general Council between the Omni CR and 1401 Group LLC and this is a firehouse um restaurant that is on the ground floor of our office building thank you the public comment period is now open for resolution number one I got a I got the little and I'm going to be careful how I please maneuver okay but I I I just should I Che let me oh I'm sorry no no no no worries um public comment period is still open is there anyone wishing to comment seeing no further public comment on resolution number one the public comment period is now closed discussion commissioner okay continuing so yeah so it it just bothers me uh like you guys know the history that's been going on with this it bothers me because I'm not going to mention the gent's M but it's been it's come to my attention that uh there's a gentleman somebody in question here when they made this deal that this gentleman had a problem in Mexico okay and then had another problem in Spain and then comes over here and this happens and that bothers me you know and and I'm forward to get this done like I expressed to you guys when when you came to me you know and I'm in agreement to get this done and over with but it bothers me that stuff like this goes on okay where we don't vet people and we we we do this kind of situation you know we get into this kind of situation where we're you know uh and I and I heard what uh Kevin Jones and and so but you know I'm reluctantly going along okay to to get this thing over and done with but the the way this came about in the last I believe 8 or n years we shouldn't be doing business like this you know this is a disaster this is a complete you know and utter disaster for you know for accountability for the fiduciary duty we have uh here in this commission and and I'll leave it at that thank you commissioner Reyes yes I uh I totally agree with uh we have we really know how to pick them not only this case see what happened in Watson Island and we have been picking people that we have not beted and it the same thing when we are hire some people are come from old places we don't bet them we must vet every investor that come to the city of Miami and we would really need to do a a for investigation of their finances their ability of capability of of of doing the business of paying for what they promis they're going to be paid and if they have if they have previous previous lawsuit for not complying or not being able to do what they were going to do I totally agree we must do something about that and I'm asking you guys that are now in in in in charge of the uh of the C before you grant any funds or any project to anybody please do a thorough betting process because we really know how to pick him and we always in trouble because of that you see and thank you thank you g for bringing that up welcome sir commissioner cor did you want to say something I I do uh I know that this is something that was inherited uh from from the past I was brief I have no uh alternative but to believe what I was told when I was brief I have no other basis to go on and that's the reason that I'm going to be voting on this from what I've been told but this is a rotten deal um now having said that and I'm glad and I appreciate that you um gave me uh a personal rundown on this because if it would chest would have been sprung on me here I would have had to have voted no I didn't didn't know anything about it then um yesterday or should I say yeah yesterday at 3:35 p.m. I got an email from the Omni CRA at 3:35 p.m. an email from the abne CR subject today Margaret Pace Park master plan updates meeting at 6: p.m. now most people like us have their days plan uh they don't there's no way that in two and 1 half hours time less than two and a half hours time we're going to be able to adjust our previous commitments to Russia somewhere I I would hope that in the future uh as Vice chairman of the omn uh the people that work there will inform me in a timely basis yes commissioner we will um last but not least I'm a little confused why the omn CR is sending this out uh are we looking to spend money there uh in the whatever master plan um comes into the future or or not for the Margaret Pace Park um based on discussions that I've had with the city of Miami parks department not at this moment in the past the CRA has contributed to the park um before okay so why was the amn ra that involve in um this uh Community workshop on Pace Park if we're not putting any monies into it I'm just I'm just curious okay so um the Miami Women's Club was a CRA project it was a joint project between the CRA and the Miami Women's Club and we are authorized to have six Community meetings at the at the Women's Club um anything having to do with planning and Community meetings within the boundaries of the CRA or things that the CRA can support and if you know we wanted to see if we could get more feedback from the community about what they would like to see not just at the park but also other areas and it was a perfect opport opportunity for us to have an information session and gather information from the residents to see what they would like to see so we did a survey of the people that came into the room we asked questions um and we interacted so it was an opportunity for us to get information as well and the Women's Club uh the address that uh you so stated um it's not in Overtown correct no it's not in Overtown but it is within the boundaries of the Omni course right by the Water by the water yes I know very well where it's at um now how many blocks is Margaret Pace Park approximately from the beginning of Maurice Fay Park I am not entirely sure that would be a question for the City of Miami um parks department but I'm not entirely sure it's not too far though EX both within the Omni it well they yeah they're both within the Omni C but I just wanted to see if uh you will recollect uh the parks director do do you know how many blocks Margaret Pace Park is from the beginning of um Fay Park no sir I can get you that information um I know it's in between you know the 395 project it starts it's just a few blocks uh certainly no more more than five blocks uh if that if you got a better count than I uh do uh commissioner parter please by but I me speak up do we have a motion for resolution number one well I'll make a motion for you absolutely you're a second I said I would second uh but uh the the point that I'm making is that this master plan that's being discussed there Margaret pce Park this is truly a community park neighborhood park uh this is a neighborhood park the neighborhood park that uh the people across from Fay Park have in their neighborhoods that's part of their neighborhoods as their neighborhood park that's all that I have to say on that thank you we have a motion we have a second all those in favor motion carries unanimously thank you thank you everyone for being here today this meeting is now jined thank you the city of Miami Commission meeting for November 21 2024 will resume at 3:00 3:00 for 15 minutes 3:00 thank you --------- ##VIDEO ID:A3Wq0NvUke4## [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] 1 2024 the meeting is now in session I am joined by my colleagues commissioner Damen Paro commissioner Miguel anel [Music] gabella Vice chair Joe coroo and we are going to wait a second for commissioner Reyes just give him a a couple of minutes to come out J I TR for e for for for e e e for e e e e e e e for for e I know we were waiting on you okay let's rock and roll the consent agenda is before us gentlemen are there any items on the consent agenda that you would like to discuss seeing none may I have a motion for CA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 and ca7 would be as amended motion second I have a motion and a second all in favor motion carries unanimously our pH items are there any items on the pH agenda that you would like to pull for discussion no anyone pH items ph6 being a 4 fifths and ph7 being a 4 fths may I have a motion for pH 1 2 3 4 5 6 and seven motion second I have a motion wait hands up Vice chair has a question I I think I've answered this before I think when there's a Specialized Service and you don't have enough people to bid it's perfectly acceptable for procurement to be waved it's not what I think it's when there's no pool there's not enough of a pool I appreciate your service ph5 will be as amended do I have a motion mtion motion and a second yep all in favor I motion carries unanimously our resolutions we have several mitigations so I'm going to leave the mitigations out are there any items other than the mitigations that you would like to pull for discussion on the re items R and chair just for the record commissioner Rees will be co-sponsoring re20 okay R 16 will be pulled I would also like to co-sponsor um ar20 okay can we go over there re20 he's wants to pull re 20 and 21 re 20 and 21 and what else and uh 16 R 16 all the District Two items okay 16 okay they're on leave it off no they're on the mics are on are you it's re 16 has been pulled and re 20 and 21 um that will leave re1 re9 10 11 12 13 14 and 17 may I have a motion sorry sorry hold on Todd so uh chair for re1 re1 will be amended um pursuant to substitution memo dated November 19th 2024 additionally for re1 the official election results and an official cert certificate of the county camping board for referendum for referendum questions will be submitted into the recor backup documents um re11 will be amended pursuant to a substitution memo dated November 15 2024 and re1 14 uh needs to be amended to include Miami dat County Commission resolution number r-100 d24 and the 13th whereare has Clause thank you chair thank thank you sorry can you just repeat the re again re1 and then re re1 as amended right and then it will jump down to r 9 10 11 as amended 12 13 um Mr city clerk I would like to be shown as a sponsor of re13 and R14 and then re 177 okay I have a motion in a second all in favor I I'm sorry chair who is the Mover and the seconder second and now we'll move on to our first mitigation re2 good afternoon Madame chairwoman Commissioners um Robert tantos laor co- compliance director good afternoon good afternoon Mr director re2 is a mitigation of a property property located at 3301 Northwest 1 Avenue Unit 108 respondent is Midtown Miami realy number 4 LLC violation number CE 2021 0246 the violations are for construction work without permits and failure to obtain a electrical permit electrical sign permit uh noov issued on September 29th 2021 adjudicated on February 3rd 2022 the violation ran for 727 days uring a total of 181,000 however support evidence by way of the ibuild uh database reflects that um the Affidavit of the compliance was met earlier but earlier by way of uh apartment and if so the number of days is 600 days acre a total of 150,000 I understand respondent AC crewing a total of 150,000 respondent is offering 15,000 which equivalent to 10% I will accept that do I have a motion a motion second all in favor I thank you thank you re3 is the mitigation of a property located at 301 Northwest 25th Street respondent is benas Inc code case CE 2021 01121 the violation are as follows unlawfully establishing and new use without prior approval construction work performed without permits parking lot not in conforming to off street parking requirements failure to register a vacant lot failure to maintain lot in Clean safe condition graffiti failure to obtain certificate of use and failure to obtain business tax receipt the notice of violation was issued on May 20th 21 adjudicated on October 133 20 21 uh violation was complied on September 13 2023 running for 705 days acre a total of $75,000 respondent is offering $52,500 I understand and I as I met with each of you uh the the input from the uh attorneys was that the tenant had leased the property and ran the all these issues without their knowledge and I am going to use to council so he can elaborate Madame chairwoman um commissioner David Haber of habber law 251 Northwest 23rd Street Miami um my client Bea La is here with us um we had a bad tenant and the Tenant was running a parking lot my client was in Guyana at the time that's where she was living um she has other properties here in the city City of Miami she's a good corporate citizen she's owned this property since 2003 never had a violation prior to this tenant um many of the uh parade of horribles involved failing to maintain a clean lot graffiti um she was assured that the tenant was going to pull permits to run a parking lot get the proper approvals uh the tenant lied to her um she finally was able to throw the tenant out uh in in June of 23 2023 she took over the property and within 3 months cleared all violations um so we've offered uh this amount of money which is a significant amount of money and she apologizes for the uh problems that have been caused Madam chair can you race your cup so that we could see what it says on it Gana Starbucks is now do you have any proof that you're tenant uh was from Guana my my client is from Guana she'll swear under oath if everyone want to make sure you didn't see her cup and I I saw her cing your feet but but the but the reality is she was in time such that is such a coincidence everyone knows I say it all the time I'm the first gese woman to be elected to the city of Miami I was born in Georgetown and my parents immigrated to this country I was educated in the US um it is a coincidence that Starbucks is now in Guyana and I have a Guyanese cup for Starbucks so those of you who may think I have a conflict of interest I do not and I'm very proud to have been born in Guyana uh now I I do understand where you have bad tenants I too was a landlord of a business center and the eviction process and not knowing our our Code Department our legislation we are trying to address Bad actors where it falls on the landlord so I am um agreeable to the offer it is a substantial amount it just Falls a little shy of the required 10% that I usually go for but because of the tenant and I believe staff made this recommendation and they believe it's reasonable both our assistant City attorney and the director of code are nodding their head so I want to say that for the record so thank you what is the amount that it's 52,500 52,500 I'll make the motion I have a motion in a second all in favor motion carries unan thank you so much as a minut and chair I'm sorry sir could you provide your name again for the record my apologies David Haber of Haber law thank you re4 re4 Madame chairwoman is a mitigation of a property located at 2511 Northwest Second Avenue respondent is cjl Winwood LLC case number CE 201701 3154 uh the violations in qu in question are for construction work without permits no certificate of use and no business tax receipt notice of violation issu issued on July 20th 2017 adjudication dated on February 6 2020 affidavit compliance issued on August 7 2024 violation ran for 1,643 days acre a total of 410,000 respondent is offering 57,000 which is just as Mion below 14% I will accept that offer do I have a motion all in favor all right motion carries thank you thank you very much as amended as amended good seeing you counselor okay fair enough re5 re5 is complicated re5 is a bit complicated it is five cases in four properties the uh respondent is the estate of Manuel Ishmael case 1 1190 Northwest 55th Street CE 2017 0203 64 the violations are for construction debris uh and debris and the lot Madame chairwoman would you like me to read all the four cases into all the five cases with the multiple Lots into the record or would you like me to put it collectively individually I believe that we should do it individually okay so I I'll continue this notice of violation was issued on December 6th 2017 adjudicated on April 5th 2018 compli the violation ran for 2,42 days uring a total of 51,500 I'm going to read through them all and then I'll provide my synopsis case number two the property address is 11 1180 Northwest 55th Street the case number is 000063 496 violations is for failure to register a lot noov issued on SE on September 12th 2023 adjudicated on January 4th 2024 complied on SE September 25th 2024 violation ran for 260 days acur a total of $65,000 case three AB budding property at 1170 Northwest 55th Street violation is for failure to maintain lot an noov issued on May 9th 2022 um yeah I have a blank here adjudicated on July 7th 2022 complied on September 21st 21st 2024 violation ran for 795 days the total amount of the lean is 397,000 63483 violation is for failure to register lot noov issued on September 12 2023 adjudicated in January 4th 2024 violation run for 261 days acre a total of 62,200 and case number five the property address is 1176 Northwest 55th Street case number 0000 63490 violation is for failure to register lot noov issued on on SE September 12 2023 adjudicated on April 5th 2024 complied on September 9th 2024 running for 245 days acre a total of 61,2 collectively the fines are at 1 milon 96,500 I'm going to yield to coun councel who will well I'm going to yield to Legal division Chief Rachel D good afternoon good afternoon Rachel dly officer the City attorney um when this case was filed obviously a quiet title action was filed and I started reviewing it it was it sort of became like an onion that you keep peeling it on all these layers keep uh coming across as you may know dealing with Estates uh I contacted Council we spoke at length I can honestly say that um what I learned through my own investigation and and it probably took me knowing our system very well a good two to three days just of my time only to figure out what the violations were on all of the different things what ended up occurring was was um the uh now owner's brother passing away uh in 2018 I believe um there ended up being a fight with the estate with an ex-wife and a a niece and and it didn't go well um once somebody was able to become the executive which was the brother they did attempt of which you know um we do have evidence of that to the property appraiser to in fact please change the address here so we can get notices um the owner now the brother uh is not somebody who owns land uh he doesn't you know he has a house so he's not used to this these are four consecutive empty lots that are sitting together so some violations were prior to the death of the brother and a couple of them were after the fact you'll notice the couple that were after the fact ran for very short periods of time maybe 6 months or 9 months because once they got the address fixed he was able to get the notice prior to that the notice was going to a I believe the um deceased brother's wife or ex-wife something like that so she wasn't helping anybody um with what was going on and that's basically the situation they found them in so they have a a large uh amount of fines that were running uh most of them are consistent the fa to maintain they also had these are the pum there must have been 20 to 25 tickets pre 2018 that we found that had to be paid uh Mr Hiller has worked very diligently and actually has paid them all and then even after I spent three days myself going through system I understand the director actually found two more I believe that still tickets that still need to be paid um was there there wasn't another pum was there no okay just making sure uh and so at that point I called him and he said we will take care of those tickets um but we're still here so they have already spent several more than a few thousand dollars on tickets uh because they were occurring interest since I believe some 2011 2012 uh and so I'll let them go forward with the offer on two of the cases which are um the older ones uh that date back to I want to say um prior to his ownership they're offering the 4,250 and there are the other cases the three other cases where they're offering $500 each it is on the Lower Side obviously 10,000 sort of $10,000 up against you know a million seems like a drop but quite quite an extensive drop but it is an unusual situation to review with the states which can be very difficult for family members who try to take control of them after you have a death uh in the family but I'll to Mr Hiller good afternoon good afternoon Madam chair Commissioners yeah this is one of those I guess we saying here in Miami roongo um the the first case that the gentleman referred to was 2018 that was after the owner passed away uh he was uh gentleman had diabetes he was on dialysis in 2017 and he passed away on March 31st 2018 so I think they were having his funeral the day that first hearing took place in April of 2018 um shortly after he passed on April 17th of 2018 was the estate was opened and a month later an adversarial proceeding started in the probate matter and Mr ishma Manuel's brother and his personal representative has been involved in that uh a state dispute since 2018 and it's still going on I didn't have a chance to discuss that with uh City attorney but it's still been going on hundreds of thousand thousands of dollars have been dissipated from the estate because of infighting within the family if anyone's had any of those um so that's where we are as far as the the fines tickets that have been paid to date uh I have the receipts here I'm sure you don't want to see them but we we wired in $31,000 to pay all those tickets that had to be taken care of before we could appear at this hearing um and you know there there were ex a lot of extenda circumstances like like was said the notices were being sent some notices the first two notices went to the ex-wife um who obviously wasn't assisting in the process and the other property she got in the divorce the property was sold in 2016 to a third party we're assuming they probably threw out the notices so on those cases no actual notice was received by the estate Mr ishma went to the property appraisers office uh in person to change the address and they said well your brother needs to be here in person to change the address and he said my brother can't be here in person he's deceased and the response was well that's too bad um that's not the way it's supposed to work he went there with the court papers showing that he was appointed the personal representative had he been receiving notices of these violations because some of these were cured long ago because he was doing his best to maintain he's not a sophisticated commercial property owner he was doing his best to maintain these properties and he didn't know there was a violation so he didn't know to call the inspector to come inspect and say hey I cleaned up you know there was because there vacant Lots as said what happens here in Miami often third parties like to dump their trash dump their bulk waste their construction trash on your property if you don't have it uh concealed so you know after the settlement we're actually close to a settlement I'm not involved in the probate I don't do probate but they are close to a settlement and it's pending resolution of these matters here um like I said this you know a million dollars in fines would basically Wipe Out the estate I think you have enough information I don't want to belabor it but that's why after paying the 31,000 that's why the offer was so low because this has been a disaster thank you Mr director do you have anything else I I'll say that um for quite some time now the property has been well maintained and well kept so we clearly that's our goal right to have compliance that's it and I do understand the difficulties with probate I have practiced probate law and I have I have firsthand knowledge of the infighting with the families and how it could drag out so I'm inclined to accept the offer if I may get a motion I have a motion yes second and a second all in favor motion carries thank you mad chair Commissioners thank you madam chairwoman re6 is a mitigation of a property located 3436 North Miami Avenue case number CE 20212 2336 the notice of violations are for operating without certificate of use and business tax receipt noov issued on October 27 2021 adjudicated on December 8th 2021 the violation ran for 760 days acre a total of $380,000 respondent is offering $199,000 good afternoon jao Bosa from barad and Bosa this is a mixed deal building with four units the tenant on Whose door the notice was posted called my client um they managed his property their first-time offenders they immediately solved the problem with the tenant who was no longer operating the business 3 days after they did not realize that the noce dealt with all four units the other tenants were also operating a business that did not have a BTR and so you'll see in the correspondence as of October 2023 they're asking why is the violation still open we had dealt with that back in the day they didn't realize it was a hearing um in fact I believe that that it was posted on the door of that same tenant and the Tenant believed it was resolved and never called them to let them know um this was during covid time so it was um a difficult situation for them um to deal with the matter and so they are here asking for mitigation this the first time offenders and there really was confusion about the situation with the four units they thought they had solved the problem and weren't really aware that it was a problem that was occurring mam City attorney just that um I I don't have anything to say to say to that just the the 19,000 would be 5% of the 380,000 just a leave Mr director so one of the things that very proud of that uh this last Tuesday we effectively had the B Voyage of the new mitigation schedule um this will be 5% and I'm going to say on the record that uh at that body we would not take anything less than 10% so I will reiterate that it's up to the board but I think 19,000 is rather low and his argument about they thought the issue they didn't know that the issue spread to the other three tenants is so let me say this Madam chairwoman there's a lot of challenges for code and we have lots of areas that we need to improve but one of which that we do well is notice we provide notice well very well certified and post the properties and I you know I stand by all the cases that come forth because we make sure the te's are crossed and eyes are dotted service we take that seriously so when somebody says oh we didn't get it uh I'll challenge that maybe you chose not to read it but service is absolutely happen well he didn't say that they didn't get service what he said was they addressed the issue for the one unit and they thought that the violation was for just that one unit and yeah I don't think we can know what was in their mind the notice itself said that you know the businesses had issues if they were confused that of course that could happen I mean I I wouldn't I don't think we would sit here and deny to you that somebody could look at it and it could say the businesses all need to have their cus and btrs and maybe they thought everybody else was covered and just the one wasn't so um and I don't know that they even knew to contact the um inspector when they got the CU and the BTR finally to finalize it it wasn't until later that they came back and said oh hey we already did that and then were're told you have these other ones you needed to get as well and then they completed it so if back then at the time they had contacted which as you know we've been here enough some people just don't realize that one one hand of of the city doesn't go and say oh you had the violation let me let code know for you that that that's done so that confusion does happen I think in that instance we can do a better job because internally we should have the ability once it's cleared in one Department that it goes over to the next it's really unfair to the to the lay person to manage our system I understand for the 10% so I'm going to ask you sir to um go to S % 7% can I have a moment with my clients who are here present is that okay yes it'll be just a moment yes thank you madam chair that don't work I'm going to ask for 10% so for the record Madam chair that would be 26,600 okay Madame chairwoman my clients will except 7% if that were do may I have a motion motion I have a motion in a second all in favor thank you conratulations amended good negotiated as amended thank you but I would like to stress with staff I do think that is unfair if you clear your violation and you think it's cleared but you don't know that you have to go to another department internally we should be able to come up with a mechanism that that will trigger the next Department we should be able to communicate with our departments and we have a department that comes up with apps and or we can have someone come and do it for us but we should be able to to this was fixed here therefore it clears it here be able to speak Mr manager let's start to work on that because a lot of the mitigations that come before us I have seen where they cleared the violations and wasn't aware that they had to take an additional step to contact another city Department I just don't think that's fair so Madame chairwoman Mr manager if I may we are actually working on that with building and having a mirror uh cross referencing one another's departments and that's work in progress we're working with it on the building department on that good job okay okay we are on re re7 s re7 the property address is 1877 Southwest 7 Street respondent is VQ Everglades homes LLC the violation is CE 201800 6612 the violations in questions are for obstruction and blockage of public rway and and parking storage of inoperable Vehicles notice of violation was issued on April 5th 2018 adjudicated on April 4th 2019 a year later complied on April 4th 2024 violation ran for 1,826 days AC crewing a total of 46,500 I understand the offer from respondent is 17,500 and also before I yield to Rachel I believe the uh violation was uh corrected by way of demolition so this is District three this is me yes District this three this is District three this is District district three yes still it still is uh what's the amount of the lean that they owes so it was actually complied January 20th of uh 2023 when the uh they the structure was demolished and that permit was finalized um so it wasn't called in until April 4th but it's actually was for 386 days which brought it to $346,500 of that they're offering $177,500 was 1,386 days you said 386 days it's 1,386 days right 1,386 days oh sorry 1,000 it got cut off on my sorry 1,300 let me say this uh Mr Vice chair and I haven't had the the opportunity to meet with councel not in this case but um I think of importance is um this property had lots of issues we have lots of complaints and addition to this we have 15 other cases um and so since this was already adjudicated we don't open a new case for the same violation but it clearly was a challenge so as uh legal division Chief said you know with the corrected amount is 346,000 and they're offer in 17,500 which is 5% I uh I could not recommend that I uh accept your recommendation uh what are some of the violations that they have I'm sorry sir some of the violations that they had so this one specifically was for obstruction and blockage of the public rway and parking and storage of inoperable Vehicles that's what this one it's for it's a rental property then I gather I'm sorry it was a rental property yes correct multi family obstruction of R obstruction they were probably blocking the sidewalk that's what that is and then parking and storage of inoperable Vehicles you like to hear from any anything else that uh they had uh they had the the structure was an unsafe structure case and so it ended up being demolished to take care of the unsafe structure violation it wasn't worth repairing it versus what would have to happen so it was a rundown property I believe on this one the owner it took a long time to remove the tenants uh from it they were pretty adamant about staying and so some of them had Vehicles without tags that weren't working and that's what was all over the property so this particular case the code case dealt with that issue there was an uh on the side an unsafe structure case uh but the structure ended up being demolished good afternoon Sebastian Haram on behalf of the the property owner my client bought this property in 2016 uh with the hopes of fixing it with hopes of improving it shortly thereafter it became an unsafe structure so and he had to deal with the tenants who were essentially created the violation for which we're here today during this time my client realized that he was going to be able to fix it because his structural issues were significant uh he tried as much as he could but eventually the property was demolished and he didn't object to it he didn't you know put any fight so right now we're trying to clear it up it's a vacant lot it's right behind it is 18th at 7th Street so you know right behind 8th Street off of 17th Avenue and that's why our offer is 5% the violation here was cost essentially by tenants leaving a band the vehicles and evicting all the tenants took a significant amount of time which other business in front of in back of them in a street it's picture that just uh which one so that's the the Pres and this is on the other side of pres sorry can I interject for a minute here I'm sorry can I just real quick go ahead 1877 Southwest um 7th Street right is that correct I had a t right seven street thank you so right now it's a vacant lot yeah no no I just selfless y yeah does uh your client own any other properties in the city of Miami he does how many more a couple I don't I don't have an exact number have you found out if he's got problems and others sir um the respondent VQ Everglades has been before this body before several times I I can't tell you right now if this is the third or fourth case that this respondent we present it for you so the answer is yes they own other other properties well I'm definitely not going with 5% but now that you told me that uh he's been a violator in other cases um this is exactly what I've been talking about before is one thing where you deal with someone that is first time um comparing to someone that has been buying properties and this has been going on if my vice chair um one of the things that we've done is paid attention specifically to recurring and repeat violations this case before you is a 2018 case so that's why it doesn't doesn't have a repeat or recurring otherwise if it was happening would happen today it would it would be a much higher pum this a repeat in this case and uh he's got a history of this um if I may commissioner CIO since been working with my client I've been working a lot with Rachel at the city Miami's office and I've been we've been clearing off all the issues with all the properties I this is one of the last ones but my client's been paying all his fines and essentially assuming responsibility for the issues with the properties but since then we've essentially been able to clear a number of issues with his properties uh r on behalf of the office City attorney that is correct um when I started so I guess almost almost 10 years ago at the city um I I did get to know not his client but the name of the company just because it had a lot of things he wasn't really paying attention to it however in the last I want to say 3 to four years uh that is correct he has been working extremely hard I believe his son is an engineer or an architect um they have been fixing everything up they've been paying all Their fines bringing all the properties into compliance I can't say say that for the most part um that that that part's been very good so it started very on a very bad track record and they have certainly um moved to try to have a a better track record and to do everything that needs to be done uh with their unsafe structures getting back getting the plans in getting those things reviewed but he does have multiple properties in the city that did have issues and like I said I think we're this is the tail end but yes the owner has other companies that have had other properties that have had violations true but he's done better recently um there's no doubt and with the assistance of his attorney he has he has improved greatly 1,826 days that's always five years um raal I'll take uh your last statement to be good for 5% less than what I was thinking about but um I'm not going to go less than 20% this is the habitual offender it's uh you know it's numerous years that this point there the the problem with this type of violation is it's it's difficult to comply with because the many you remove vehicles the tenants keep leaving more abandoned vehicles so even if you try to cure it and with due to respect commissioner Rees I heard your comments it is a long amount of time but it's a violation that is very hard to resolve the minute you remove one there's another vehicle that shows up so you try to cure it and just kind I used to live around there you see I grew up in that neighborhood and I still have friends and families and all that I know the area like the the back of my hand and that has been going on for a while you see I know the building I can tell you where exactly what it was and it was before I even came to work at the city of Miami when I was a kid it was always a mess tell you this is the empty lot across the street now it's empty uh from the presedent parking lot correct correct on the back yeah okay now it's empty yeah now it's empty um I I'm not going to go lower than 20% of this but it's up to the body um this uh that area I'm very familiar with uh I saw what was going on there through the past years and frankly it was hurting the neighborhood yeah now it's a clear lot uh but all the years that he wasn't cleared and then other properties that he had problems with and frankly I think uh you're getting up pretty good uh here I understand I would like to propose a 15% Well you certainly could propose that I could propose 22% I was going to go with 25 but Rachel save you five do I have a motion a motion second all in favor I motion carries and and for the record that amount will be 69,3 that is 20% of the 346 500 69,3 R re8 another mitigation thank you Madame chairwoman last mitigation um re8 is uh there's two properties same respondent respondent is wind Park North LLC there are two properties first property is 182 Northwest 34 Street case number 0000 39683 violation is for construction work without permits and failure to maintain lot noov was issued on February 22nd 2023 adjudicated on May 4th 2023 complied on April 11th 24 violation ran for 342 days acre a total of 85,500 the second property is 3327 Northwest 2 Avenue case number is 0000 39685 violation is for construction work without permits no issued on February 22nd 2023 adjudicated on May 4th 2023 complied on April 22nd 2024 violation R for 34 42 days collectively both violations have ured a total of 26,500 I understand the respondent has increased the offer or their their offer to $12,500 that's 5% I'm sorry which district is this so originally in my notes it said one but it's five you yes me again yes Madam chairwoman okay good good afternoon Rach on behalf of the office City attorney the offer is $6,250 per case is that correct for each case that is correct good afternoon afteron or he Goodman from gunster uh 600 Brickle Avenue S 3500 um I do believe that Mr Santos alorna got the amount of the collective fines incorrect it's not 25600 about 156,000 collectively no it's um I'm going to add them up no the collective amount I apologize it is 256 yes sorry y yes U so Madame chair woman distinguished uh Commissioners this client is part of a group of uh companies that have 11 projects going on right now within Windwood nor uh these people are transforming the neighborhood for the better they're doing Cutting Edge work which will result in 1,400 new housing units 400 of which of which are going to be Workforce uh units what the violations are for are for demolition without a permit and admittedly while they were these structures were demolished without a permit at the time there were it was done so for two reasons number one there was life safety issues these were unsafe structures that had squatters and hoodlums in them and they had to act quickly they had to remove them this was at a great cost to them and at the same time given the amount of work going on you had multiple contractors doing work so you have a situation where one hand was not talking to the other Madam chair sir I see our assistant City attorney shaking her head no and I see some folks from Windwood shaking their head no I I don't know about shaking my head no raach when we have of the office of the City attorney yes it was a very a very dangerous situation they were actually demolishing the structures without permits they didn't have the proper security there the city wasn't aware of it they hadn't it's just not a good situation you understand with squatters I think we all can understand those things and somebody you know obviously got a little too gung-ho and started doing things they shouldn't have done so so that's that's why they were cited um they I don't I'm not don't believe they had unsafe structure cases at the time um but they were they were um squatter properties but yes they were cited because they actually started to demolish these buildings without permits was this a very dangerous situation and this 12,500 represents what percent I had it here and I uh it's 5% 4.9% not even five Madame chairwoman I I see the look that you're giving me but if we were going under the new ordinance uh we would be entitled to mitigate down to $155,000 on on this issue now I want to remind the commission it would be it would be $155,000 each case sir you are not helping yourself each you're not giving me any space you just said under the new ordinance it would be $115,000 but it's $155,000 per case that would be $30,000 not helping yourself and that is a serious violation you can't just go and demolish property without a permit you just you Madame chairwoman also on their defense so let me also again very pleased with the that we have the new ordinance place if we were to treat it as a vacant lot aside from the fact that they started the demolition without permit but if it was treated as as a a vacant lot uh it would be 7,500 per each of the violations that would be 15,000 at a minimum at a minimum I'll take 15,000 I think that would be fair under the circumstances Mr director uh fo 15,000 7,000 500 I think that is extremely Fair that's fine thank you thank you may I have a motion second all in favor motion carries as amended thank you m chairwoman have a good day that shall conclude the resolutions we are now oh no I'm sorry we have re 20 and re21 and 16 as well and 16 did I miss 16 that's correct I did miss 16 I'm sorry R 16 for discussion yes 16 um you're moving $2 million that had been allocated to Casa Valentina Inc to another firm this is still the same people with Casa Valentina involved and doing this project or to my understanding it is not but I'd like the city manager and Community Development to respond uh good afternoon Commissioners yes the new developer is DFI Monday and they will be assuming the loan to develop property there okay well I don't understand what happened we gave it to cassle Valentina there were such uh an Applause the pillars of the community were here everybody was barning you know I love you you love me we're a happy family and all of a sudden boom I see the rugs pulled uh from under CA Valentina and we get uh Moody here what what gifts you know explain to me please yeah Kasa Valentina contacted us and said they would not be able to move forward with the project uh there was a discussion between them and dfim Mooney and then we had the housing commercial loan committee uh review the project and U for the Assumption of the loan this is not a switch and bait is it sorry this is not a switch and bait no sir no who is this smoody Development Corporation and what guarantees do we have first of all what is their experience what is their background yeah they develop guarantees that we have that they're going to accomplish this yeah they developed over 200 properties and we have the developer here if they want to 200 properties where hello my name is Amanda desna hello commissioner Coro how are you hello other commissioners um DFI Monday is a special purpose uh LLC that is formed to help the city and cassa Valentina uh write the steering on this project when cassa Valentina originally contemplated their project they thought that they were going to be able to assemble land on Munday Street in order to build 50 units to help their cost unfortunately that assemblage was not possible they were not able to move the project forward forward and so between our relationship with Castle Valentina and also the city of Miami we were able to restructure this deal in order to deliver eight 1,320 square foot affordable units DFI Monday is owned by dragonfly Investments dragonfly Investments owns over 500 million square feet of commercial and Industrial real estate up and down the Eastern Seaboard has developed over 200 affordable units units throughout the State of Florida and continues to actively grow I'm currently overseeing a 400,000 ft² Industrial Park build in Port St Lucy we are also the development partner for Greater St Paul we have 197 units in site plan approval we're also building various commercial retail centers we are well positioned and excited to deliver this project to Mundy Street we received loan loan uh committee approval and also unanimous approval the last time I was in commission for this project can I ask that can can IIM a little bit more time then you could come in and I'll come back I have my questions yeah um what type of work could be done in the city of Miami dragonfly or me personally well Monday dragonfly whatever so in the city of Miami we have developed various real estate assets many in the mimo District um we have the Stardust Hotel we have the river in we are working with the city of Miami right now and with Greater St Paul to adaptively renovate 10 of their units that are offline for affordable housing who Greater St Paul am Church okay um personally I have worked in Miami since 2010 have built or repositioned over 50 different types of real estate assets we are well capitalized and well experienced well I've heard uh a lot of experience the commercial side but very little on the residential affordable side now in this part of Miami how much do you anticipate that each unit is going to cost you to build our all-in project budget is 2.2 million um we are using some incredibly uh interesting building practices in order to keep our costs down your your whole budget is 2.2 yes and what is the total of the units that we're building here eight eight no more than eight just eight eight they are T they're T4 Lots so I can only do four units on each I will point out that on 30 173 Munday is a little bit more of a challenging building site because there is a coral rock house so we will not be able to demolish that Coral Rock house we will adaptively reuse it have it become the lobby for the four units behind okay so your cost to build there is how much again 2 million what 22 22 that's your total cost yes and that com comes to uh a little more than well eight it comes to not quite 280 mhm excuse me 265 a unit uh no more of that 275 more or less a unit uh in cost and you believe you could what size are these going to be about 1320 Square F feet each 3173 Monday may end up being unfortunately a little smaller because of where the Coral Rock House sits and I have to set everything back Surly bill for that M um that amount even in today's market but what I don't understand is we're giving you basically enough to build all eight affordable houses I'm sorry I didn't hear you we're giving you enough to build all eight of affordable houses you're only putting in out of pocket about 200,000 no sir um CA Valentina used almost 1.1 million in acquiring these two lots there's about 900,000 left in the arpa bucket and then we will be putting in equity and also using intercredit Bank to finance the rest of the project okay so let's start from scratch make sure I understand the numbers out of the 2 million we gave already there's only about 900,000 left M so actually CA Valentina used 1.1 I think I heard to buy the Lots mhm okay um how big are these slots about 5,000 7500 that area 5300 I want to say huh about 5,300 I want to say each yeah they're not contiguous okay so they they're smaller than than I anticipated somewhat uh in Coconut Grove U you know 1.1 for both of them and that part of the growth might be uh might be all right in today's uh cost in fact it might even be low U for 1.1 you got 900,000 left so what happens if we don't approve this transferred to you what do we get them lots back or not I believe that would be a legal question but I believe the city would be in the position of having to foreclose on a nonprofit and would then owe the monies back to the federal treasury well is that correct uh Mr City attorney or not not if we move ahead and that is correct yeah that is essentially correct unless we could find another person to step in like we did here but also we have an issue of time because I believe that the clock runs out on the arpa funding on December 31st of this year and you're going to finish all that by December 31st this year I need to finish the contracts I the contract I need to be in contract by December 31st of this year in order for the city to be in a protected position then according to the car's act I have until the end of 2026 to have all of the funds dispersed are you uh what do you anticipate in selling these units for we will not be selling them we'll be renting them at a blended 80% Ami uh dragonfly is not a merchant Builder we buy and we hold and we hold and we hold for generation so the sales exit is not something that we are contemplating I I'll give it to you now okay uh this is quite interesting because I I uh I was uh one of the supporters of Kasa Valentina I visited them and I spent some time with them and uh my understanding that those buildings I the can valtina was going to build to maintain their the operations that they had that they ass set people that that they are in need particularly young people and uh they provide them with with housing and all and everything they need and they go to school and and they start working and all of that I mean to try to guide them and go back to the society and now this is a different that's that was the reason that those funds were allocated to ca Valentina but now you come with a different project and your project it is Affordable and uh Kasa Valentina the affordability for Casa Valentina is totally different than yours you see because when you say when you claim that it this is going to be 80% Blended I don't know what you mean by Blended okay okay 80% blended it is let me uh do a rough calculation here you see you be able to it's about $880,000 the Ami and at 80% is $64,000 that you can rent this you can rent this and almost at market rate rent is going to be that's right no that's right I mean yeah the R it's going to be almost a b the uh Ami now is close to 80% $80,000 you see $880,000 than 80 is 64,000 30% of that it's you can charge $119,000 a year okay $119,000 a year it is you divide by 12 and the rent it is a little bit over what C Valentina was charging mm you see it is totally different uh U operation and I don't know personally I don't know if we should do that because this funds were allocated for an operation that is totally different than the ones that you going to have unless you lower the uh the uh the Amite to 60 maybe on 40 but uh that was what Kasa valentinas was working with because if not what we're doing is now we are funding a different this is a different project than KAS Valentina and those funds were given to KAS Valentina for that particular project I understand that but C valentina's original proposal is not viable well it's not viable I think it is are we as a commission we should decide what do we do with those funds you see if we if we hold on a second if if we could accept that or not because I uh uh I don't know I don't like I don't like uh the idea that now we are going to be financing something different than what it was uh the F were a lot different huh a lot different a lot different those funds were allocated to those araund where allocated to you see what I mean and and and I and I have great respect for Casa valantina and I supported them and I've been there a couple of times and you've been working closely with Casa Valentina in order to but then if you're closely working closely with Casa Valentina are you going you going to provide the same type the housing at the same rate and continue the operation of Casa Valentina as they do or you going to go higher no we will go higher and you see that's that's that's my that's my problem in a blended 80% Amic see some units at 60 some units at 50 some units at 70 so that the Blended average across the property how many how many apartments you going to have eight you're going to have eight how many are going to be at 80 I believe two two and then then 260 and then 240 and blending that you have an average an average of of 80 but the thing is the kastina it didn't have a blended amitina the the funds where were very specific what they were doing you see I don't to start with I am not an attorney but I don't think that's this is legal what what's the average what was your I'm sorry what what's your average the blend the Blended average is 80% 80% that's why the uh the number that I gave you now 80 60 40 now here's what gets me in this and besides you know know uh we uh were given the koola Casa Valentina Casa Valentina and you know this was the the new uh Wonder kid on the block now why does this come to us today this could not have happen just overnight I'm sure that we had to have known the cast ofan was not going through with this some time ago so now Casa valantina worked its deal with this group and we're here just to kind of rubber stamp whatever Kasa balentina worked out with them whatever money they're giving Kasa Valentina to take this deal because I guarantee you Kasa Valentina is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart we they are not getting any money out of this deal they're not getting and we also brought this to Commission in September and we unanimously passed well this this is not what I fully understand ma'am I'm sorry uh why if this is transpiring for so long w we briefed exactly and what was going on here I didn't hear your question commissioner why if this is going on for so long why weren we briefed as to what was happened with Kasa Valentina in this project so that I'm not hearing that you know uh we're a month and days away from December where we would lose these funds uh I can't speak to whatever briefings have previously taken place I do know that there were previous meetings about it um and due to our timing we really don't have a whole lot of time to to find another developer hasood one I'm saying why why weren't we given the facts so the city could have vetted other people and we didn't have a situation where we have someone that I don't think you Ved sufficiently uh and is C of an antina that's bringing them to us I mean if this is the private sector we won't be doing business like that so why are we doing it just because we're the city and we're supposed to be up here rubber stamping everything so then the great Tavo if you go with those pillars of the community and their project wonders they can say what a good guy you are if now they sck the uh the dogs on you all the time City I just want to refer to the city manager a minute excuse me I'm not done here okay I thought you were no I'm not and you haven't gone through the chair that's the second mistake she was busy uh no she's not busy she got two ears that gu gave her um Mr City attorney this think this is more up your alley what has happened here that we're seeing ourselves in this situation today and what can we do to save that money uh if we decide not to go this rout um let me have um Mr Alan from our office who specializes in these type of things um but I will tell you that it's it is as described and um jav could explain the timelines and what the consequences are please um yes jav Alban division Chief uh real estate and transactions um so yes we do have a deadline that we must obligate the funds by December 31st 2024 which is why we would need to enter into an agreement with DFI Munday to make sure that we obligate the remaining the remaining funds right which is I believe around uh 900,000 if I around there um because the other funds have already been used to purchase the land so uh um we can spend it by December 31st 2026 but it has to be obligated by December 31st um you know this is one option where they have come forward they will take over the project provide eight affordable units um as described and that's one of the options we can do the other option is um as stated you know we take back the money or the remaining funds we obligated somewhere else at 900,000 uh in arpa or convert it to a revenue replacement um and then take back the properties right we'd have to foreclose on the properties and take the properties back okay so that was going I'm short and we take the property that was bought with those funds yeah we would take those properties allocate property and we will and allocate the 900,000 somewhere else that's right yes and that be done yeah that that would be that would be an option do I'm sure we got to have other projects that we could could allocate the money somewhere else I certainly have been in my district I'm sure that commissioner GIS got him in his hisory for commissioner King for commissioner Reyes I know that commissioner part is somewhat Limited in his district but he still might have a project or two there that he could use it in uh it it just really bothers me that you know we roll the red carpet for Valentin uh and you know now we got to switch and bait something totally different than we were told and it's like hey you got to do it or else those two lots the only thing that I'll say uh even if they're on the smaller side in 5,300 um they got to be worth more than the 1.1 today wouldn't you agree commissioner uh parter um I believe commissioner gab through I believe commissioner gabella wanted to make a statement and then our district commissioner will speak no what I wanted to ask is so we're at the blend is 80% average now okay what was it with G Valentina because I I'm behind the curve here what was it originally with C Valentina the the Ami the difference I don't have the exact amount of what was it he's got it man of the original deal the original deal witha Valentina I don't I don't have the original with me you guys have the original it's but we would have to we would have to either rent or sell them below 80% of area median income uh right home 80% of area median income was the maximum that we could have used for the U income levels of the tenants or home buyers if it was a home buyer project okay I just want to say this is D2 allocated arpa funds we have been working closely with the development team we were fully briefed all the backup documents were there it came before commission it passed everybody supported it this is our discretion in our district the community is looking forward to the development the community is looking forward to these units they've been very much engaged and we should respect this process the arpa fund and the District 2 commissioner and the work that has already been done Mr assistant City attorney uh yeah through the chair thank you so much um I just wanted to mention about the Amis um when the arpa funds were originally allocated to us there was no guidance on affordable housing and then eventually the treasury released guidance that guidance had much lower Ami I believe it was around 60% Ami um and then if you use other Federal funding sources you can match that Federal funding source right so that's why we were at 80% Ami I believe around that time um in June of this year they updated it so now you can do up to 120% Ami so that's I think that's also um a change there that the regulations have been amended to allow for greater Ami correction we have well those are for the uh I'm not talking about uh uh affordable but I'm saying that we have a a resolution that we only accept on Workforce 100% And I in the the city of Miami now I my my only concern is that uh we change the the uh I mean the objective of of of that allocation you see from Casa Valentina to a private SE uh company a private company that it is they now they want to charge 80% it said blended 80 60 or 8760 and all of that I will agree if we could do that and leave 80 out of the question 80 is $1,600 and KAS Valentina the uh the the uh the uh business model for them was for homeless homeless youth you see homeless youth not for renters and that's what they did the uh the uh the amount was allocated for them to increase the capacity of accepting more youth that were in the street treat and guide them into going back to society you see which is this is a totally different business concept that the one that we approve and I I I was one of the main supporters or that you remember that I was one of the main supporters because the program is fantastic you see well that's why we all jumped on board that's right that's why everybody jumped on board and this is this is my only concern now if the big concern if if if you're going to rent this because the funds were not given to I mean for for uh uh renting $1,600 per room you see it was uh it was minimum minimum about 20 or 30% am and they were um uh uh homeless if you change your for your business Concept in order to be similar to Casa Valentina I don't have any problems but doing it in a just like a private sector that you are going to uh uh be charging $1,600 to uh for a for one bedroom you see it is I mean I I cannot go along with that they're they're not not one bedrooms they're three bedroom unit three bedroom so it's $1600 for a family for family Madam chair for family but now you have family now it is not homeless it's it's a different Contex I understand that but if cassa Valentina was unable to deliver what they P you and they are asking for a way out of this the situation to not be foreclosed upon and there's a development partner that's willing to invest and work alongside the city in Kaza Valentina to get them out of their trouble why should they be foreclosed upon what I personally and and this is uh first time that I hear all of this all this this Chang I will hang I need more information and and what is going on and more information about you guys and I and I want to know what are you going to do how much you going to charge you're going to charge this is going to be our families it's going to one one bed I mean four bedroom families three three bedroom what's What's the total the total square footage is 1,320 Ft three bedroom two B units okay commissioner I have I have the rent schedule in front yes so for her uh 60% of uh median income the rent will be $1,770 a month uh for 65% it'll be $1,975 per month month uh 70% of Ami would be 265 per month 75% would be 2213 a minute wait a minute sir how come you are increasing the uh rent while you are decreasing the the uh the percentage of the Ami do does doesn't go well no the rent is going up as the Ami goes what the rent is increasing as the Ami has increased that's what she said an 80% the blend the the uh the rent increases as the Ami decreases no no no the more the more they make the more rent they can pay so the 80% of area median income has a higher rent than those that are at 60 I know that I know that but therefore if uh 60% Ami the the uh the uh the uh uh individual or the family that has 60% Ami uh should pay less rent than the family the has an 80% Ami I mean according to my math that I'm sorry that is commission that is exactly what they have the 60% are paying less how much are they paying they're paying $1,770 a month versus an 80% at 2361 a month and 80% is 266 2361 that's more than 8% that's more 80% according to H and according to my knowledge of my but if you have the Ami is around $80,000 right 79 something the county which would shouldn't be using but it's around 79,000 yes let's round it up $80,000 80% of $80,000 is $64,000 and according to hard you cannot charge more than 30% of it and 30% of it it when you that it's going to be around $119,000 you divide it by 12 is600 yeah I mean and I don't know what if that's the rent schedule it doesn't Comm commissioner if I may just to keep in mind the these are these are based on family income because these are multi these are three-bedroom units so the the the rents are going to logically be higher because the median income although it says family unit the Mii is based on family income correct and he's saying a family income that's 80% okay he going to pay 2,300 but a family income that makes 808 $80,000 that family income you see should be paying you you be paying $1,900 I mean $1600 commissioner if I may um I want more information about this so I I hear what commissioner Reyes is saying that he needs more information I can tell you that in my briefing that I was not briefed that this item was replacing Casa Valentina I checked with my staff in case you know and that that was not mentioned in my briefing I just want to make that clear because if they if you had said this is a replacement for what we voted on for Casta Valentina that would have raised some alarm with me and I see that commissioner Reyes has a lot of questions and I don't think this is the place where we should hash all of that out I will support the district commissioner's recommendation but I don't have all of the information because commissioner I wasn't I wasn't briefed on um in totality what this item was about I understand um we were and we knew that uh so I I don't know where the you know where the breakdown was for the record if I just want you to repeat the Ami breakdown in the project for the record in this moment yes is 60 70 and 80% Blended Amis and we are using the Miami Dade County 20204 published area media income rental charts I think I think okay and for and for us a key here was that Kasa Valentina was a failing proposition and they were able to find mind a solid partner with a great track record and amazing reputation who I totally believe isn't making a penny out of this to step in and serve the community and be able to provide these units so absolutely we are in favor of it that's why we're using our arpa allocation and and I'd like to see this pass because of the timeliness and the need for us to be able commissioner gabella would like to say something if I my gentlemen so to to get it straight we have a combination here of uh eight units they're all three bedrooms right I suppose and we have 1770 $1 1917 265 and 2213 you know what I'm going to go with you because it's your district and I think and this is also the the neighborhood here you know is is up and coming I believe and I think uh you know that that we should support Now Grant and I hear what you're saying down there I I understand what you're saying down there you know but I also understand the time constraints and the reputable I mean I'm my vote is I need to ask one uh other question maybe there'll be a followup I'm having a hard time in sunbus Florida finding out the owners that appear managers of uh this Corporation here um that we have before us here can somebody help me to see if maybe it's my phone that the state don't want to ring up the right companies to me m is um you have the name here in this item let's see could could you just disclose who the owners of the uh of the part what I want is not for her to disclose here what we're being told is that it's a corporation I believe uh the the name of it um well DFI Monday so DFI or df1 no DFI mondy LLC holy owned by dragonfly Investments LLC who was owned by iring weiselberger and Jason who who are the principles ma'am Irving weiselberger and Jason Moran Sergio rocks neew Sergio Sergio Rock's nephew okay Madam chair can we have a motion no I I want to find the corporation i' like to make that motion um before I we're still in discussion but you can make the motion motion do I have a second second we have a motion in a second we're still in discussion question you you were saying ma' is DF I correct commission we could find it now commissioner the information she just referenced is correct we just looked it up well I still can't uh and dragonfly which is the the holy own principle what did you run DFI Monday exactly what's here can you bring and we ran and then we also ran dragonfly which is the principal well it's under df5 Monday so dragonfly doesn't mean anything to me right now but there it's wholly owned by fly so we looked up say can you show me the DFI Monday cuz this is not coming up for me dragonly was is a Florida Corporation is it a Florida Corporation the I'm trying to find on some over here should be in the backup of the item well I I see it now they found it for me and it's always something that I like to do in particularly when it appears as a new company I want to see that it it is registered and who it's registered to um but I have a motion in a second see right you see uh I have been an advocate of real affordable housing real affordable housing and I don't see I'm in my opinion $2,300 a month is Affordable I don't think it's affordable you see it's because you have a family you see a problem that we have with the county is that uh the uh it's hard the the table that they have as the number of people increase no matter that they are children number of people increase in the apartment the rent increases you see and that goes beyond what the earnings of the people are the uh the uh the renters are you see and that is not affordable $2,300 a month for three bedro apartment which is very very small in my book it is not affordable it is not it is not I I will voting for this it will be going against my principle what I I have been advocating all the time if we going if we going to afford I mean that that area there they need affordable housing if we are going to do affordable housing let them work on their numbers and come back with some rents that they are affordable you see regardless because everybody hides be be behind the uh the uh the table the uh the hot table and I had remember when uh this the uh uh housing director came here I I told him that I me a I said what we are doing with what is called affordable it is not affordable for Miami it's not affordable if we we're going to use the Ami of the county which is 80 80 000 go in the neighborhood and and get the the uh the Ami of the whole city of Miami it is not 80% you see I mean we are not doing a favor or we are not providing with a real affordable housing to our residents and that is my problem that is my problem and I I'm sorry this part but but I am I I'm consistent I am very consistent and I'm going to keep on working until we get some sort of of real affordability for the people that that in the city of Miami the resident of City of Miami they can hardly afford an apartment this doesn't mean that they cannot rent at $23,000 I mean 2300 yes they maybe they could rent it but they will be using probably 40 50% of the income in rent they will be rent stress that goes even against the economy because that is less money that they can use to purchase all the thing you see I can with this how many square feet is the average 1,320 square F feet and is the three bedrooms are what size more or less believe they're uh 10 by9 so you must those are small bedrooms you must have a larger more than me code you must well I know that I'm I'm not questioning that but there are small bedrooms which means that if you're almost 1,400 Square ft you must have a larger uh living room dining room with kitchen how many bedrooms uh I bathrooms two two um I mean look our our approach to affordable housing is that I think we stand around a lot and we talk about affordable housing I get some great shining Beacon that's over there across the sea and that one day we're going to get it and one day we're going to get there and what we fail to do is reach over the bow of our boat and help some of the bodies that are floating right beside us we can talk about how great it's going to be and how many units we're going to build and then we can't even deliver eight small units that I can get built inside a year and get eight families in the West Grove ma'am I am trying to help ma'am let let me say this to you um I'm I'm trying to put the best face in this that I can uh this is totally different than what we originally had approved uh I think that's been made clear U at the same time you know I I've seen you pretty competitive you're upset that we just don't approve it and no I'm not upset and and and I'm sorry maybe that's what you were told would happen or you think would have happened or you think should happen but this uh it's part of the problem with all the trillions of billions of dollars that are fed government gate that it's going to be my kids and grandkids that are going to be paying for it uh and we're throwing it away like there don't tomorrow and then the Chinese are going to have us for lunch but outside of that uh I I am going to say this that 1,400 Square fet um 2300 while it's not affordable and we're in agreed with commissioner Reyes it's Workforce housing um it's a the kind of uh more affordable for this part of the city not for the people that live in the west Gro uh but it's more affordable uh of a an amount of people that wanted to live in this area of Miami uh are going to be able to afford they're not going to get too many other deals uh that are in that range uh out in the market however my opinion uh the buds were built too small your living room dining room was bigger than it should have been um I could have designed for you a a two bedroom uh 800 square ft that you could even put a a third bedroom small that had bigger bedrooms than those and had a reasonable living room dining room and and kitchen but that's you know neither here or there that's 2/3 of what you built but you got three bedrooms uh and that means they're going to have bigger Living Spaces uh in dining areas uh by having smaller rooms this is what I would suggest that I would do if you won my vote today uh I I would want um just that 2300 it's not affordable not affordable uh but I know what things go in the grow I'm not blind uh and I you know I'm not the kind of guy that uh hold uh rightous like some do um and if a colleague has this in his district um we were supported here the difference is what we discuss you we approved something that we thought we were getting kids up the street and it's all been changed and frankly I don't know who said with whom who cut what deal what happened here uh what I'd like for the city to give me what other options do we have uh for the remaining $900,000 to be spent before the end of the year versus this and just keeping the land if we for closer and then so I I think the best the only real alternative option is to take the money obviously if you were looking at an option Beyond this one and take it as Revenue loss because there's no way we're going to find a project within one meeting to to allate this to Madam Sher because it has because it has to be vetted through the housing alone committee I mean I have solution I have solution M hold on commissioner Reyes yes you see when uh I was right you see I have analyed the biggest problem that I found out that uh that I uh uh I have with with this table this table increases the rent increases as the number of people comes in that is if two people that are making $40,000 each which is very good salary in the city of Miami and if they come in and they try to rent at at 80% okay once they have they that's 80% it's $80,000 and they could afford it that's fine with 16,000 16 I mean one 1,600 ,700 if they have two kids if they have two children the rent increases tremendously it doesn't matter that they are in elementary school you see and this is my problem with this table now I'm going to I'm going to ask for this I'm going to ask for a covenant that the children will not be counted according to this table you don't count the children when you are determining how much they're going to pay you see if it is a couple that had does have those CH I mean two children you just treat them as a couple and that's it what both of them are making because you are including even if it is a newborn it is not it is included as part of the income of uh I mean increases that increases the rent you see if you if I can get that you see it will have my boat because what I I I will not accept and I will not accept that according to this table that I don't know who thought about it and it comes from Washington it's not done here you see and it's based on 79400 M Ami which is not the Ami of the city of Miami Liberty City alap in all those areas and we are are our hands are tied by that okay if it is possible to restrict this table that children are not counting unless they are Income earning you see then I will be voting favor commissioner Cabella okay uh question number one so you you said you're you're you're atup you're 177 1970 you're at an average of 80% you said that one of them uh it rents for $1600 for a three bedroom right all right he he has the perform in front I'm so sorry I don't have it with me how much how much would yes yeah so she has uh the 60% of area meting income at 1770 right a month combination the 65 at 197 but Victor Victor give the Victor give them the number of units at each other in eight units eight units at 1770 two two at 1770 2 at 1970 two 206 no that's not the that's not the breakdown so we have we have one unit at 1770 that's at 60% of Ami okay we have one unit at 65% of Ami that's at 197.50 okay we have one unit at 70% of Ami that's at 265 we have two units at 75% of Ami which is at 2213 per month and three units at 80% of Ami which is 2361 per month okay they're all three beds if you would take the average of all these eight that would that dollar amount would be $1600 a month is that correct you take all the eight the average what's he just give me the average average is probably closer to 2,000 if you do I mean I'm not looking at it but just in the math it's probably closer to $2,200 and what's the going rate for a regular four three-bedroom what's the going rate do you know there for you know the same thing market rate I I wouldn't top my head I mean we could probably look into it you know I'm trying to determine here you know what what we're offering compar what the real AFF exactly what the value is and you know I've seen wor steals really after this this thing that we sld it for 2.1 that's a bad deal like mon said we sure know how to pick them you know so so that's why I'm asking the question so so do you have that answer or no market rate the average is 2157 per month 2157 versus what at market rate what what would market rate you know you know I got a family I want to move into that neighborhood I'm going to pay market rate what would it be roughly you got it about $3 a square foot I'm sorry about $3 a square foot $3 a square foot that's multiplied by what 1300 it's 4 4,000 a month that's what I was about to say 4,000 okay so the value is that there's almost $2,000 discounted from these units that's that's the value right and we're putting we already got 2.1 invested 1.1 for the two lots is that correct and 900k we have sitting in liquid somewhere is that correct yes okay and now we're going to pledge how much is think 2 mil I think is it 2 mil yeah 2 mil 2 mil so we got 4.1 as this is the same 2 mil there's not we're we're not adding any more money we're not adding any money no no the money was already allocated reallocated all we're doing is swapping out one one company for another and the scope of the project is changing that's what I'm talking about the scope of the project and Victor when you went you you were uh uh I mean dictating the amount that was paid at every single uh Ami 65% or whatever you kept on increasing the rent because you were increasing the number of people in the apartments right because that's that's what the table says the the table that I have the rent was increasing because of the income income had incre the income because you are you are estimating that it's going to be about 4 people that going to have income in the apartment but it doesn't that doesn't it's doesn't sense here the age of the of of the people that are in the apartment it what it says is the number of people as the number of people in the apartment increases their rent increases no I have it here no commissioner the Ami in increases the the the apartments are all three-bedroom apartments but some are 60% Ami two are 60 two are and two are 80 m madame shair but the the ones at once at 80% according to him is paying $1600 a month no no how much is are they paying 17 the ones at 80% Ami are at 2,361 that's the rent that's that's the one month and then the one at 60% the one at 60 is $1,770 a month maximum okay then uh I uh I I wasn't following you or you were your order was out of out of work and uh but okay there is another thing that is it is it is if you going to follow the table and they they can do it and they can do it it is if the uh the uh I mean the as the number of people that are living in the apartment increases the rent increases according to this table if you're going to guide Yourself by this table you can increase the rent even at 60% Ami because the number of people are counted and what I'm asking is that the number of children that they are not income earners will not be counted okay they they will not no but not we need a covenant on that because they that table would say no well no that that's not correct commissioner Reyes children do not the only folks that count as income earners are folks that earn income not children that that are not employed um I believe our CFO wants to say I I believe our CFO wants to say something yes but let me say I'm reading from the table is says income limit by number of persons in household it doesn't specify if there are Income earners and I want to specify that they are Income earners because the table doesn't say income earners and this is this is the official table of H that most people use let's hear from the CFO uh Larry spring uh Chief Financial Officer through the chair commissioner with regards to these units the Restriction that is being applied is you have all three bedrooms and the Restriction is a income restriction it's not speaking to the number of dwellers that's what's in our deal it your okay okay I'm talking about I'm so that's an answer specific to this deal but your answer I'll address her yes HUD tables HUD puts out income limitations that are two that are couple of things income and household size yes if you have a larger household HUD allows for there to be a larger rent in uh a rent uh maximum and that's what you're looking at on the chart however this deal is strictly set by it's three bedrooms two baths and only set by the I want that in writing that best table because she she she she brought the table up you see and I want this table to be used so that table is the federal government I know that table we cannot and I want to address that question we cannot just change the requirements those are federal requirements and if we're getting Federal money that is the the guidelines that we must then you and you and I have talked about this in the past absolutely absolutely and and and I and you and I agree that this table is wrong and and we well it does this a table is wrong our the city of Miami's medium income is less than that of the county absolutely for certain and even less in certain areas around the city we we we fully agree with you on that um myself Victor we've actually had this conversation 100 times with the chairwoman about working through different scenarios on how we leverage all of our Tools in order to to end this to end this conversation the rent limit is based on S income on income only not size not oh not income not a number of people in the bedrooms right not not not a number of people in the a number of people only only an income it's going to be 60% it's going to be 70% and 80% bedroom size and the income limit so the these are all three bedrooms and we set 60 there's okay there the units range from 60% Ami to 80% okay okay I have a motion and a second all in favor okay and Mr city manager in the future if there's a way to explain these more thoroughly in briefings it would be incredibly appreciated I mean typically in briefings what happens and I mean you've all been part of briefings right we go through each agenda item we do an a general overview because if we went in that kind of level of detail for every item briefings would take six hours so we go we do sort of a brief overview and in the end in some cases you know your individual staffs will review the agendas a deeper and then come up with additional questions if necessary in this particular case somehow there was a disconnect relative to that this was a transfer right um in terms of the the applicant or whatever in terms of the allocation who the allocation was being made too um but this obviously went to the housing and Loan commission as well they Ved it as well so I mean this had a pretty lengthy process in terms of the vetting process thank you I agree with commissioner Paro because again for the record in my briefing I was not told that this was a transfer from Casa Valentino Casa Valentina to this entity I was I wasn't either I I thought that it was Comm something else my iies chair I just for the record I have the vote is 41 with commissioner C voting no is that correct sir correct understood okay now we will take up our E20 that was asked for discussion R 20 and 21 and 21 if I may I'd like to start um Legion Park I'm sorry not Legion Park but Charles Hadley Park also has an olympic size swimming pool and the issue has come up that the diving board has been taken away you cannot have we we can't train Olympic swimmers cuz we might have some Olympic swimmers in the city of Miami maybe some want to do the diving competition without the diving board many people who came to speak today on behalf of this item spoke of the depth of the pool as as well as the diving boards I would like to see the diving boards replaced at Charles Hadley Park so I I'll speak as someone who 30 years ago worked in a pool that had a diving well by the way which was eventually removed because of the liability involved um I can't speak to the National Trend but um from a from a liability perspective um diving boards have been across the board eliminated at most public facilities because of the liability involved um unless you have a training facility specific to diving which typically that's where um diving occurs um I wouldn't recommend as your city manager to have a diving board at a pool because there's a tremendous amount of liability involved in that that's my recommendation I mean we could set up a we could eventually talk about doing a facility that specifically would would um would cater to that I I don't have an issue with that but if you have a public pool that has open swim and everything involved a diving board is a very risky proposition yes it is Madame shair commissioner Rees yes I uh I agree that it is about time that we this pool is built uh you know how I feel about Park and about pools you see built I know the city in my district we built a a an Olympics high school and R now in another Park we build a pool uh I believe that uh the uh the uh uh uh residents deserve you see a a bigger pool and uh I'm all for it but I have a little problem and my problem is the pocket item the contractor is that okay that's my problem the contractor that uh has been picked which is uh RDC you see RDC was the same contractor that built the pool in shanor and because of negligence that couple of fires started Electric electrical fire started the city had to work on it the city had to pay for it we asked for them to reimburse uh I mean uh pay for that those uh uh uh uh events that were their fault and they haven't pay us if this is going to be the contractor I will respectfully ask that we place a limit that we they don't get this contract unless they paid for what they did and that is my my only problem Mr city manager with the contractor that you are a a employing for uh berck pool I agree I agree in the size and I am very enthusiastic about the pool and all of that but we want we want the city of Miami makeo okay we we'll address that understand that this contractor has been in place since 2022 on this project um which precedes I mean the award of this contract precedes any of the issues we had at Chenoa cuz this this Pro actually has been in construction for almost 2 and A2 years okay um partially because it was paused to readdress this issue of the scope so unfortunately the contractor has been on this job for a considerable amount of time which predates the issues we have with J sir uh if I may add I gave you a directive a directive to do and use all means for the city to recoup the money that was spent and nothing has been done okay and nothing happens done you see what I'm trying to protect is the interest of the city of Miami here okay and I don't know how we're going to do that but this contractor that has been already picked owes the city of Miami money and you have not done anything to collect it and I want to know what can we do legally Mr City attorney we will work with the administration as far as determining what that amount of money is and then you know do whatever um the instruction was to take any and all means to collect and make it right and we'll do that so and to finish I will co-sponsor that pool uh I co co-sponsor because uh the the resident thank you deserts it okay but this guy has to pay the city I have a couple of questions on this chair commissioner go ahead um let me see when the manager is done over there Mr manager Mr manager there's almost 3,250 ,000 extra dollars uh that has to be allocated where's the money coming from there's between both re20 and r21 there's almost 3,250 th000 extra dollar where is the money coming from the extra money is being allocated from The District's impact fee dollars which was part of the adopted budget um for the capital plans which was on September I believe 7 when you say impact fees impact fees from where from Parks impact fees okay everybody in an annual basis all the district gets an allocation of the park impact fees for their District he's using his District's portion for the park well if that's the case then that's fine but what is my portion what is the portion for the rest of us this fiscal year they were all equal I'm trying to remember I believe it was about 4.7 million but I can double check that that went to each district okay all right do I have yeah let me double check the numbers and I'll verify do I have a motion I'll make the motion I have a motion in a second second I'm sorry is that motion for R 20 and 21 yes together yes I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries unanimously Mr City attorney would you please read the emergency ordinance title for the record yes Madam chair EM1 an emergency ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 36 section 36-4 of the code of the city of Miami Florida as amended titled noise operation of radios phonographs or other sound making devices bands orchestras and musicians generally and chapter 36 section 36 6-5 of the code of the city of Miami Florida is amended titled noise same hours of operation of jukeboxes radios Etc exemption for events on city-owned property relaxation to create a pilot program for the Windwood neighborhood revitalization District 1 nrd1 using decibel reading with a base DBC of 68 creating scaled violations and requiring openair venue noise attenuation devices containing a sever ility clause and providing for an effective date do I have a motion motion I have a second I have a motion in a second all in favor motion carries unanimously Mr City attorney would you please read the title into the record again Yes again yes Madam chair EM1 and emergency ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 36 section 36-4 of the code of the city of Miami Florida is amended titled noise operation of radios photographs or other sound making devices bands orchestras and musicians generally and chapter 36 section 36-5 of the code of the city of Miami Florida as amended titled noise same hours of operation of Juke boxes radios Etc exemption for events on city-owned property relaxation to create a pilot program for the Winwood neighborhood revitalization District 1 nrd1 using decal readings with a base DBC of 68 creating scaled violations and requiring required open air venue noise attenuation devices containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date May I have a motion so moved I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries unanimously Mr City attorney would you please read the second reading ordinances titles for the record yes Madam chair sr1 sr1 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 35 article 7 section 35- 254 of the code of the city of Miami Florida is amended city code titled motor vehicles and transportation motor vehicles and traffic Transportation trust fund SL trust fund payments more particularly by amending section 35- 254c of the city code to establish a purchase price of parking spaces payable into the transportation trust fund containing a severability clause and providing for an immediate effective date sr2 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 40 Article 4 division 3 of the code of the city of Miami Florida as amended city code titled Personnel pension and retirement plan City of Miami General employees and sanitation employees retirement trust more particularly by amending section 40241 of the city code titled definitions to define the rule of 80 and clarify the applicability of certain provisions and section 40- 255 of the city code titled benefits pursuant to resolution number r24 d147 adopted April 25th 2024 to include a two and 2 and a half% and 3% multiplier for those hired on or after October 1 2010 based on the Miami General employees American Federation of state county and Municipal Employees local 1907 collective bargaining agreement for October 1 2023 through September 30 2026 and to update the city code to comply with earlier ratifications of collective bargaining agreements and city code amendments specifically resolution number R1 0364 adopted on September 15 2011 resolution number R 24-13 adopted January 22nd 2024 ordinance number 13203 adopted September 2720 resolution number R 22340 adopted September 13 20122 and resolution number R 22423 adopted October 27 2022 containing everybody Clause providing for an immediate effective date gentlemen are there any of the second read ordinances that you would like to pull for discussion if uh you could give us take your time couple minutes we've lost commissioner Reyes I'd like to make sure he's okay with these items I understand uh we are on our second reading ordinances sr1 and sr2 would you like to pull any for discussion no ma'am anyone may I have a motion Mo I have a motion in a second all in favor motion carries unanimously Mr City attorney would you read the first reading ordinances title for the record yes Madam chair first reading ordinance is fr1 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 2 Article 4 of the code of the city of Miami Florida is amended city code titled Administration departments to be consistent with current practices and departmental updates by amending Division 9 titled community and economic development department to be titled Housing and Community Development further amending division 13 titled Reserve to add section 2-5 26 to 2528 thereby establishing the Department of Economic Innovation and development further amending division 14 titled personnel management department to be titled Human Resources further amending division 16 titled Miami office of sustainable initiatives to be titled resilience and sustainability containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date fr2 in ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 62 article 6 section 62-22 of the code of the city City of Miami Florida is amended city code titled Planning and Zoning zoning and planning fees schedule of fees to allow the fee schedule to be adopted by resolution of the city commission containing a separability clause and providing for an effective date fr3 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 62 Article 4 of the code of the city Miami Florida is amended city code titled Planning and Zoning notice generally more particularly by amending section 62-20 of the city code titled same types to provide for clarification regarding required mail and courtesy notifications containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date fr4 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending chapter 35 of the code of the city Miami Florida is amended city code titled motor vehicles and traffic including but not limited to section 35-1 titled definitions defining curb loading zones Freight or commercial curb loading zone parking enforcement specialist and smart loading Zone section 35-4 titled hitchhiking revising the language to account for current Day ride hailing Services section 3510 titled parking for certain purposes prohibited adding language concerning loading zones and enforcement specialist adding section 3511 titled immobilization booting of Motor Vehicles removing section 35-16 three titled failure to appear and pay fine within prescribed time as this language is currently obsolete removing section 35-1 164 titled penalty for violations of division as this language is currently obsolete adding section 35-65 titled invoice and citations by mail section 35191 titled on street parking meters and monthly on Street permit program revising language concerning loading zones section 35192 titled Municipal parking garages adding language concerning the Public Health Trust parking facility section 35-19 3 titled Municipal off street parking lots adding the Marine M Stadium site and providing for the addition of new parking lots via resolution of the board of the Department of the off street parking also known as the Miami parking authority MPA and article 8 titled private parking lots updating the language in accordance with current statutory requirements containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date and finally F fr5 which will be withdrawn fr5 has been deferred it should be with drawn considering that EM1 was adopted okay so we don't need to take that up but chair just for the record it's still in place so a motion to withdraw the item from the agenda would be required I have a motion in the second all in favor I thank motion carries unanimously are there any of the FR items that you would like to pull for discussion 1 two three or four seeing none may I have a motion a second second all in favor motion carries unanimously Mr city clerk are there any board appointments yes thank you chair bc11 finance committee uh the city manager will be reappointing Erica Pascal may I have a motion move I have a motion in a second all in favor I motion carries that concludes supp boort and committees thank you chair thank you Madam chair I've got a pocket item U this is on the uh as a uh a petition uh I think you have a copy of white yes sir Mr City attorney would you please read the pocket item in for the the title for the record yes Madam chair pocket item um a resolution of the climate Okay this would be a resolution of the city of Miami um urging the city of Miami pursuant to a resolution of the climate resist resiliance committee to pass a resolution urging midate County to postpone the decision on the location of the new waste to energy incinerator to allow more time for public engagement and solutions um and directing transmittal yeah what I'm concern I'm sorry just real quick what I'm concerned about is uh the the second uh number two that urges the uh the city to request County to conduct a detailed cost analysis for all 34 municipalities affected I I need to open the floor for public comment if there's anyone here that would like to speak on behalf of this item good afternoon almost evening Steven Lightner 11312 Street Bay Harbor Islands thank you for considering this um I am the conservation chair for the Miami Sierra Club and we're thoroughly engaged in the counties and cities handling a municipal solid waste and its impact on our planet and uh our understanding is the county is barreling forward they are in the process of selecting a zerow waste consultant which should dramatically change their approach to how they handle Municipal solid waste and and and how they do will affect the city's engagement and the city's cost and their residents cost for where the waste how the waste is handled and where it is is trucked to thank you thank you come on good afternoon good afternoon Sylvio um I'm presenting today as economics lead for the climate resilience committee I wanted to uh present this resolution uh because as was mentioned the count is moving forward with the waste energy incinerator there's a big waste issue that we have in the city and in the county um currently the different options that are under consideration for the county would have different implications to us H especially moving and relocating where the incinerator would be there is no direct understanding to how much it would increase the cost to the city in terms of time Fuel and ultimately dollar amount so we're asking uh the committee um has has has been asking uh yourselves to please consider this resolution so that we can ask the county uh to to incorporate this end master plan so that we have a better understanding of of the implication on the cost to the city of Miami uh so if there's any questions or anything too I'd be happy to to answer them thank you so much thank you second wait I have to close the public comment seeing no one else for public comment I'd like to also be seen as a sponsor for this item I'd like to also be added yeah all of us I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries unanimous thank you you I'd like to take the pz items up before we go to the discussion items if that's okay with you guys okay Mr City attorney would you please read the titles of the py items into the record yes Madam chair a py items still up for consideration ation starting with pz4 in ordinance of the Miami city commission amending ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida as amended Mii 21 code specifically by amending chapter by amending Article 4 table three of the Mii 21 code titled standards and and and tables building function uses to permit Recreational facility uses and Community facility uses in CS Civic space transect zones by right and to amend article 10 specifically section 10.1.5 titled General requirements and table 15 titled specific sign design standard C to allow for certain illuminated signs in CS Civic space transect Zone by W making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date um a substitution memo was submitted to the commissions um and the a different item was considered by the um planning Advisory board so let me read the title of the proposed substituted amendment to pz4 which is an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida has amended Miami 21 code specifically by amending Article 4 table three of the Miami 21 code titled standards and tables building function uses to permit Recreational facility uses and certain Community facility uses in CS Civic space transic zones by right making findings containing a severability clause and providing for for an effective date pz5 a resolution of no I'm sorry pz5 pz6 pz9 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending the zoning atlas of ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida is amended by changing the zoning classification from CS Civic space transic Zone to t612 Urban core transic Zone open for the Southwest portion of the property generally located at 980 MacArthur Causeway Mii Florida more particularly described an exhibit a attached to Incorporated making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date pz10 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending ordinance number 10544 as amended the future land use map of the Miami comprehensive neighborhood plan pursuant to small scale Amendment procedure subject to Section 163 3187 Florida Statutes by changing the future land use designation from medium density multif family residential to restricted commercial for the property is generally located at 625 645 675 685 650 640 630 and 626 Northeast 64 Terrace and 63 635 645 655 669 and 685 Northeast 64 Street and from restricted commercial and medium density multif family residential to restricted commercial where the property is located at 610 Northeast 64 Terrace and 62 629 Northeast 64 Street Miami Florida as more particularly described an exhibit a attached and Incorporated making findings and providing for an effective date pz1 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending the zoning atlas of ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida is amended Miami 21 code by changing the zoning class from t5r urban center transac Zone restricted to t68 l urban core transa Zone limited for the property is generally located at 625 645 675 685 650 640 630 and 626 Northeast 64 Terrace and 635 645 655 669 and 685 Northeast 64 Street and from t5r urban center transic Zone restricted and T680 Urban core transex Zone open to t68 l urban core transex Zone limited and T680 Urban core transect Zone open for the property located at 610 Northeast 64 Terrace and from t5r urban center transac Zone restricted and T680 Urban core transc Zone open to t68 l urban core transex Zone limited for the property generally located at 629 Northeast 64 Street Miami Florida more particularly described priv and exhibit a attached and Incorporated further recommending to the city commission acceptance of the voluntarily proferred Covenant attached and Incorporated exhibit B making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date and just as a note to the city clerk the Covenant has been updated on pz11 so there'll be a substitution pz2 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending ordinance number 1 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida is amended Miami 21 code more specifically by amending Article 1 Section 1.2 titled definitions definition of terms in article 7 titled procedures and non-conformities to provide for a byright administrative site plan review aspr process and a simplified building permit review process for Approved aspr exception variance warrant and waiver applications providing for tolling of zoning approvals during pendency of certain litigation placing the 2-year time limitation and optimal one-year extension for obtaining building permits or certificate of use for an exception variance warrant waiver or aspr with a three-year time limitation with no administrative exceptions extensions rather revising phased project requirements as to approval by planning director and to reduce property size limitations clarifying previously adopted floor plate length and area waiver prohibitions providing for applicability to Prior applications and approv approvals making findings and Technical changes containing a severability clause and providing for an immediate effective date pz13 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending the zoning atlas of ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida is amended Miami 21 code by changing the zoning classification from T6 24ao Urban core transex Zone open to t624 Bo o Urban core transic Zone open for the properties generally located at 1317 North Miami Avenue and 1353 North Miami Avenue Miami Florida as more particularly described in exhibit a attached to Incorporated making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date pz 14 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending ordinance number 10544 as amended the future land use map of the Miami comprehensive neighborhood plan pursuant to smallscale Amendment procedures subject to 163 3187 Florida Statutes by changing the future land use designation from light industrial to restricted commercial of the acridge described here in of real property at 1990 Northwest 27 Avenue Miami Florida as more particularly described in exhibit a attached and Incorporated making findings containing a separability clause and providing for an effective date pz5 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending the zoning atlas of ordinance number 13114 the zoning in ordinance of the city of Miami Florida as amended Miami 21 code by changing the zoning classification from D1 workplace District transect zone to t612 Urban core transect Zone open of the property generally located at 1990 Northwest 27 Avenue Miami Florida more particularly described in exhibit a attached and Incorporated making findings containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date pz8 an ordinance of the Miami city commission amending ordinance number 1 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida as amended Miami 21 code specifically by amending article 7 titled procedures and non-conformities to harmonize the public notice requirements for Planning and Zoning matters to the language found in chapter 62 of the code of the city of Miami Florida as amended article four titled Planning and Zoning notice generally making findings containing severability clause and providing for effective date and finally pz19 an ordinance of the Miami city commission with attachments amending ordinance number 13114 the zoning ordinance of the city of Miami Florida as amended Miami 21 code by amending article three titled General to zon section 3.4 titled density and intensity calculations to clarify density standards in certain Transit cor Transit corridors and by amending article 3 titled General to Zone section 3.14 titled public benefits program in Article 5 titled specific to zones illustration 5.5 titled General Urban Transit zones to allow bonus Building height within specified Transit corridors and transic zones in exchange for affordable Workforce housing containing a severability clause and providing for an effective date they resolutions and do not need a title red you're welcome sir does that complete that completes the pz items gentlemen are there any of the pz items that you would like to pull for discussion pz4 pz4 I'd also like to pull out pz19 pz19 anything else five and six as well now that if we're doing four yeah four five and six any other items to be pulled for discussion uh-huh okay commissioner Coro any items other than the ones that were pulled four five and six okay um so at this time if I may have a motion to pass pz7 pz9 pz 10 11 12 13 14 15 and 18 motion and again just to stay for the record pz1 will be as amended I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries unanimously now we will go to pz4 for discussion commissioner Paro thank you listen it's been a long day I know we're all very very tired so I'm going to ask a big favor of my colleagues and that is try to follow me as I'm connecting the dots here and what I'm about to say this is very important to us because it's our district and we get the emails we get the calls we get this is something that will not go away from our office or from this Commission because the residents of downtown are Furious what are they Furious about it started before my term about a year ago they go and they use Maurice fet Park on a daily basis they walk their dogs they play Frisbee they enjoy Green Space space that is what what they would like to keep and in fact if you look at city of Miami Park master plan the number one highest priority is Green Space and public space in park they see a gym a circular gym has been placed in the park their buildings have gyms they didn't ask for the gym and this was kind of like the straw that broke the camels back because there had been a series of things where they felt their input was simply not not even taken into consideration in any form so they came here they used the warrant process they went to PAB they wanted PAB 7 to1 PAB supported their point of view to get rid of the gym they came before commission we voted on the side we voted three to two to remove the gym that was the order to this day that's never been done I want to take a second though and I want to put the ballot Chris if you could just because I want I want people to see why they're so Furious and why they're so upset because they feel that their government has been in some ways weaponized against them they feel that that putting a ballot question like the one that I'm about to up up hopefully while he's putting it up I'm going to read it and and then when it comes up uh hopefully okay is it small oh that's okay so behind us we can see it on our screen I I think it's not the same but oh there we go if you read the ballot question it's keeping installed outdoor gym equipment at Maurice aay Park shall the city of Miami keep already installed outdoor gym equipment like in many of our parks at the city park located at 1075 bisc Boulevard also known as Marine saer Park to enhance recreational facilities and promote Community Health and Fitness for all of our residents downtown residents and the people that came here this morning to speak didn't see themselves they're like wait a minute what happened to our this doesn't talk that the residents doesn't speak to the fact that the residents didn't want that equipment they had never wanted it and they had protested it and fought really hard cuz if you think about it these folks have been coming to us time and time again for over a year what's important about this question are two things the plaintiffs hired attorneys they sued on this question they sued on the the legality of this kind of question being too vague but they also sued because because the state has a law that says a referendum cannot supersede a warrant and now we're here asking to eliminate warrants which would tip the scale on their lawsuit the residents are asking us don't tip the scale against us let the courts decide this issue and and they they deserve that they've worked really hard and they're very passionate and another problem here has feedback you see what happens is this park Maurice R Park doesn't fall into a city I I didn't even really understand this it doesn't fall into the City of Miami master plan so for example the video we saw this morning of Margaret Pace Park and the wonderful Community engagement there is no process that requires Maurice Fay Park to go through any of that it's not part of this plan in fact the only plan that addresses Maurice Ray Park is a 2008 plan that does not include outdoor gym equipment in fact in these priorities in the master plan there is no outdoor gym equipment there's an indoor gym equipment as a low medium priority eliminating warrants doing that across the board for the entire city is is just getting rid of a fail safe that the residents feel protects them and was put in place to who avoid situations just like this I mean we have a great Parks director we have a great City Administration our parks department does a wonderful job of soliciting feedback but what if that were to change what if that changed what if they had a situation like what just happened at Maurice Fay it would no longer have the ability to appeal or even get notice and someone which which they feel that that not only has commissional cor not listen to them they feel he's berated them he's insulted them he's bullied them and I mean I have there emails or Story I mean people show up and have said this here at public comment so it's a strained it's a difficult relationship I'd like to ask the City attorney if there's any way possible to mediate or apply best efforts because it is ridiculous that this is before us and it is ridiculous that this is you know risen uh to this level and there is a valid point about streamlining the process for these things but we're nowhere near there we you know just to get rid of this outright would be really reckless in many ways for the residents of the city so I mean they are the taxpayers you know this is public land we report to them so what I'd ask you to do is please you know if you're not going to deny this defer it but this should not be passed I believe the City attorney wants to yes make a statement I may have a surprising suggestion but my recommendation based on number one this is here on second reading um there have there have been some arguments made that the Miami 21 code requires uh two readings after going to PAB uh not withstanding the city commission's precedent for perhaps more than 5 years or so where um the city has allowed items to go first reading then PAB then to Second reading um I'm sorry I didn't hear you could you say that again I didn't hear you oh I'm sorry I was just saying notwithstanding the precedent that over fiveyear precedent that the city commission has in permitting items to go to uh be heard here first reading then go to PAB in between and then uh hear the second reading which is the posture of this item um some arguments have been made that um that doesn't follow the charter or I'm sorry the city code um I could argue with you that in fact it does comply and there's a waiver of time limitations in um this section as well but in light of the fact that this item is postured in a litigation uh format and that to me is really the only weakness on pz4 my recommendation is that we reset this item pz4 to a first reading again and then bring it back on December 12th as a second reading item and perhaps in between first reading and second second second reading um some discussions could be made as far as if there is any resolution I will say it'll be challenging because this is really you know it's a it's gym equipment or no gym equipment so um but we're always willing to discuss um so my recommendation would be to reset it and I also have to mention the the other reason I wanted to reset it is because substitution um we have offered a substitution when the item went initially to City commission some of you were concerned with the signage and it created confusion as to will there be another Pam sign in all city parks and stuff like that so planning department decided that in order to allay those concerns and and not hinder this piece of legislation that they will come back with a separate piece of legislation to um um look at the the on-site signage for city parks so this the substitution removes the sign changes in my me in this item and also it will um in addition what this amendment does is there um you want to explain it probably better than I yes Madam chair so the substitution uh would also require the community facilities uh for libraries and for museums to be by warrant um originally it was all uh changing by right uh so those facilities with for Community facilities would be by warrant for libraries and for museums and so in light of those changes we think it would be appropriate to reset it to a first reading have a vote today and then um we'll resolve it on December 12th just go back to PAB no it would not have to go back to PAB it has been to PAB even with the substitution even it went to PAB with the substitution with this language so so it's in play there's no more hindrances or or pitfalls for this item Mr city clerk would I need a motion to accept the city attorney's recommendation to reset this P4 as first reading well it would be a motion to pass this item on first reading as amended pursuant to the substitution memo dated November 15 I wouldn't be in favor of passing any of this to be clear I understand prop for a motion to pass the city attorney's recommendation so I have a motion do I have a second second I have a motion in a second any further discussion yes I quite don't understand what U what you just said maybe because I'm not an attorney but uh I'm going to give you my CLE I mean 10 cents of what I think about the warrant and uh the uh problem with the warant I have worked in about 11 Parks 11 parks in my district that are have been redone that built from scratch and rebuil and in every single one of them I have problems with warrant every single one of them and the problem is that you need a warrant for everything even the naming of the park and the process the process delays the residents to enjoy the park close to five months close to five months if we are going to revisit this we have to revisit in a way that the the the uh the process is expedited when there is City Works or city city projects expedited because it is ridiculous that when you have to move a tree that the tree is in the middle of where the playground is going to be you need a warrant and 5 months delay that that is ridiculous and there is my that's my problem I don't want to take the warant uh ability of of of people ability to come and and express their opinion but I want to expedite those jobs that are going to benefit the community you see and the warning process will be totally totally revamped and and done in a way that it will be expedited I I have one question for staff Mr director the warrant removing the warrant requirement does that take the residents's voice away in determining what happens in our Parks I know for my district I have Community meetings for everything we've had Community meetings for what would happen in Legion Park I've had several Community meetings with respect to our planning for Legion Park and other parks in my district I'm not in favor of silencing the community I heard a lot of public comments today that in taking this action it would remove or um it would take away the Public's ability to speak on what happens in their park I don't believe that to be true but I want to hear on the record yes uh Madam chair uh thank you um so right I I I think uh from a planning perspective their their voice begins at the beginning of the process in the early stages of of planning and programming and working with staff on that design of the park the warrants come in at the end of the process and the warrants only require the abing property owners to be notified we know very well that our Parks serve a much greater population than just the abing property owners but those would be the only ones that would have the right to appeal the process and the appeal process is not necessarily the voice of the community in our opinion can I hold on hold on I have another question because it was said that um exercise equipment is not in the park master plan and this this issue I have gone back and forth about it I have checked with staff um and I have checked with our Parks director because one of the things is exercise equipment is not in the Parks master plan is exercise equipment in our Parks master plan um thank you madam chair Chris Evans Parks and Recreation director it mentions um the top priorities for residents it mentions outdoor Fitness and then another part portion of the master plan it mentions ideal uh amenities that are in each type of uh Park whether it be a mini Park neighborhood park and Community Park exercise equipment has been listed as an ideal feature of uh an ideal Park that we would design and our Parks master plan the master plan is created with community input yes ma'am we've had 36,000 um inputs into the the residents input into the through a statistically valid survey of all residents in City of Miami okay one more I have one more for me I don't know about my colleagues but again I'm going to say I am not clear what we do with the 80% of our electorate who voted to to keep the gym equipment in the park I do not understand we have residents that are coming they don't want this gym equipment in the park but 80% of our electorate including the residents of District 2 voted in favor of it I may be swayed to change my mind had residents in District 2 voted against it the question is not misleading to me to me the question question is not misleading as well as commissioner Paro I know that you because you are engaged with your constituency the ballot question was explained to your dist if your District had voted against it I would take a different position but District 2 residents voted in favor of the gym equipment I met a couple of residents from your District that live down Town one nice gentleman I met while I was Voting at the government center and he said I love it I love the gym equipment and he lives right there across the street so what I am trying to accomplish now through advice of councel and staff is the best way to to honor the voters that's that's what I'm trying to accomplish I think commissioner gabella wanted to say something yeah I I I I wanted to make that point also that to me the way it was explained when I asked this what does the warrant entail and what what you said to me was David that the warrant is basically the the abing property the nearest property owners in front of that Park are the ones actually that have the say but be behind that and and around those guys are you know don't have a say so you know and when I see all these people here I heard them but I I am in agreement with with with the chairwoman you know U and I heard your argument by the way and and and I voted with you in the beginning you know I voted in your favor but then when you know when the referendum came and 80% of you know of the district in fact voted for this I have to ask myself the the same question here you know and then here's the thing in in in I believe your part that's a that's a regional part that that's what I believe okay and then here's the thing you got four or five buildings in front of that Park but to the South you don't have anything to the South you have the I think the Intercontinental all the way to to the South what do you have to the north you have the the frost and the and the and the Pam and and then to the uh to the east you got nothing you got the park so the only people in my view okay that that come here and and tell us oh we are the we everybody here no they're not everybody here you know and I respect what they have to say I respect what they have to say I'm respecting what you have to say it's your area but here's the thing you know to me that doesn't equate the 100% the 80% the rest of the 80% of the voters that you know look for good or bad the referendum was put to the voters the voters approved at 80% and I think this overrides I think you know 80% of the whole District in fact overrides the abiding property owners that have that that the makeup is four or five buildings I I mean the mathod is simple even though they come down here in numbers that doesn't mean you know you got people working you got people that can't spend all day here you know that because they show up and and you always see the regulars here also you know with all due respect you know it's everybody's right to come here you know but what about the rest of the 80% that already voted this is my problem you know and and look for me I want to put this to bed because I think and somebody said here that that was on the the opposing side that doesn't want the Jimmy Quint they said We've been wasting time and and it's true we've been wa wasting tax pay how many meetings after the referendum have we had here I love I lost count now we're going to do it one more time we're going to do it one more time you know and then to spend another 3 hours with with the same thing we already know you know what I mean and listen I don't mean to offend anybody that's against the gym equipment it's their opinion and I respect it but I think enough is enough you know and and and I I I just in good faith I cannot vote honestly speaking to to take now the gym equipment away after the 80% have have spoken that that's where I'm at with all due respect and those are my for five cents and I I leave with Madam chair I commissioner Rees would like to speak yes uh uh this there's a lawsuit there's a lawsuit against I mean I don't know that it's it is uh trying to uh determine if we have the the referendum has the power over uh uh I mean the decision of of uh of a warrant there's a lawsuit that's going to be decided you see see my opinion is that uh people spoke let's wait until the lawsuit what see what happened and if we are going I I don't agree on doing away totally with the warant process let's wait until theu it is sold at the uh and I mean at the court and put this item to rest until the judge going to decide because the judge is going to have the last word you see you understand what I'm saying the the judge is is going to have the last word if the judge sides with the people that voted which I believe is it's going to happen or if decide with the warrant process that it is needed as I stated before I believe that the warrants should be maintained in a certain way but have to be tweaked it has to be expedited and and it cannot be used as a weapon you see against any any uh uh development that we're going to do particular the city city city project so my suggestion is let's defer this thing until the judge decides Madam chair hold on I'm just going to say I don't agree with that because I see our City attorney waving his hand saying no um on that and that could be two years from now and I don't think that would be fair to the residents I heard this going to be heard in me Madam Church on the calendar hold on what I wanted to clarify was that the current action is an election question whether the ballot question was appropriate whether the ballot uh question should be overturned if the judge rules that the ballot question was fine we still have not resolved whether or not the park can open correct so that would just be additional delay to resolve that additional portion of this correct um and so yeah but why don't we open it up and and wait until the judge decides hold on hold on commissioner Coro wants to speak thank you Madame chair uh you've seen that I politely have let everybody else speak um let me begin from the top I made quick notes on what commissioner Paro said and now I hear from commissioner Reyes uh and may I remind everybody that we voted for this 5 at the last uh Commission Miss meeting now let me address the issue of the lawsuit this is the biggest fraud put upon this city this lawsuit this lawsuit was instigated pushed and told to the people that were going to join it as plaintiffs that Mr paru stated to them that he was going to create a political action committee to pay for not to worry about the funding of it he pushed for this lawsuit he funded this lawsuit and I'm going to deal with that lawsuit much more in detail com December so we could have a big ho ho ho but this is the man that's created all this he stands back like I had nothing to do with this it's the people the residents well he talks like he's living in a different city the residents the residents well he wants democracy to be for a small minority not democracy for a large majority it was 8020 that voted to keep the gym equipment there but beyond that we remember how many times before the election he says that all the residents were opposed all the residents in downtown were opposed to it and we saw the results right across the street it won to keep the gym by huge majorities including in the famous 900 building they didn't even have a majority or even close to it in those buildings they lost him by huge amounts huge amounts so this is saw a complete story May is one I think the Judge wanted to hear this and who knows when it'll be heard and how long it'll be in the meantime 80% of the people of Miami are being told that it doesn't matter what their opinion is the commissioner Paro started by saying that I do not want to listen to the residence on the contrary the one that doesn't want to listen to the residence is him him he talks about weaponizing government the only person that has weaponized government up here and certainly in this issue it's Mr paron and he's done it in so many ways that we have never seen in this day in the history of this city and we will deal with that also in December oh ho ho he says that uh I belittle the residents I didn't belittle anyone because I stud the truth that there's a handful of residents there that don't want that Park to be used by Hispanics Like Me by blacks they want it all to themselves they think because they have money they're entitled to that park for themselves this is not belan this is Stadium fact when but I if we want to talk about [Music] beling when the wife of the sculpture one of the top five in the world he mened that a that came that they were installing for this city that we headed here for a year 15 beautiful statues all through that Park that never happened before but it was the pring Board of bam Park that was able to accomplish it and there were tens of thousands of people that came to see it but in that first day one of those residents that he claims have been belittle one to the wife of Mr he men AA to insult her the woman started crying she didn't know why this man was lashing at her and assed her he wanted to know how much of his taxpayers monies were being spent in putting the sculptures there and how much has Joe coru gotten when a few days later he found out just how famous the sculpture was he went back to her the woman was petrified of him and he tells her why did you go to Joe coroy to bring the sculptures why did you go to hor Paris instead so this is not about what we have done for this part this a personal vandetta by a small group it started with one of his predecessors and he's weaponized them even more so before my wife by some of these people if we're going to be talking about Bel Lan they've accused her in emails and more that in the docks and cat sculpture Gardens in walkway where we spent under $900,000 to do 57 sculptures go to the county and I don't know if there's uh any single sculpture that the county gets done for less than half a million to a million dollars we got 57 done for not even $900,000 but these people had the ocity to accuse my wife that she was getting money out of it that there were contracts given by the city of Miami By The Bay from in part trust to her and her company to get money from that the poor woman all she's done is work for the city for free not for one darn Penny and this son of a gun with his little smirk has the ocity to talk about me belittling anyone when I don't think anyone would have blamed me if I would have blasted that son of a gun that ly son of a gun making those statements our employees the same small group of people handful insult them every day if they hear them speak Spanish it's just screaming at them speak English their whole Joy when they wake up in the morning is walking through the park to see if there's anything they could complain about that's wrong he said that we avoided informing the residents uh about an outdoor gy in Maurice foret Park when we had have shown here that is an a Rous lie a year and a half before this outdoor gym equipment was even installed there was an article in Miami today that gets put in every single building and they're online on top of that the local Tableau doesn't put their paper in every single building in fact you hardly find that anywhere somebody wants to buy it but Miami today had an article that in two different places of the article had me talking about what we're we're looking as a board because I'm only one of nine to do INF foray Park and even bison uh Bon Park and he talked twice about the installment of the outdoor gym equipment the board just didn't decide on his own that we're going to do this it was people that were coming to us that asked for suggested it residents of Miami like the ones that voted 80% forward I myself besides the article that I just mentioned and that cannot be a race or question because his there is proof and including the chairman of the Downtown Association uh which I showed here uh in one of my old text messages was the one that text me the article originally so I could see it he read it others read it I met with the then presidents of the four buildings across the street and they were informed about what was coming and that we were looking because the requests we were made for the outdoor gym equipment frankly uh one of the things that we would have wanted to do before anything else was a playground but a playground takes more area and the way that partk was left for us we can't put a playground until the area is level and you have drainage because if it rains too much those areas get full of water and flooded and the warm process uh getting surveys it's taking forever now I just in meet with the four presidents of the buildings across the street the DNA had a meeting across Bayfront Park in in the main building there I went there and I spoke to probably a hundred people or so so and I talked about the outdoor gym equipment there also this is a year a year and a half before this was installed if the B Park Board would have had anyone in numbers coming to us saying that he want this we would have listened when we met our meetings are advertised just like the meetings here at City Hall no one came to object to it when we hear the objections that's when the gym is going up the first time we heard any objections Mr uh Paro talked about a plan in 2008 well I don't know what plan he's talking about but if he's trying to insinuate of a master plan there's never been a master plan that has been approved by any past commissions of the city uh un foray Park not one you know maybe the form of democracy the in transparency that Mr partu wants is the the one that he's been playing with this commission to take up so much more of our time in meeting after meeting but maybe he's got a point we could save millions of dollars in not having future elections in the city of Miami we could just see who brings 20 30 40 people here show your hands and that said That's How we'll have elections we'll save millions of dollars by but he knows well ches he's done in the past that the group of 31 that was counted here today for the most part most of those people is this Core group of campaign supporters many of them are the same ones you see time and time again these people just didn't come because they decided to get up that morning for the most part they came because Mr par and his office have been working them to come and come and you notice that most of them spoke not in one issue they spoke in two that's what he asked them to do but two issues he had an interest then so if you think that I'm going to be impressed by 31 people frankly sir I'm much more more impressed by 80% of the vote of thousands of people that voted for this and if I would have had 80% if I would have had even 51% 50+ one that would have said no that he won the gym equipment I would have accepted it because that's democracy that's how it works but to come after you spent thousands of dollars with the help of your ally that you go to to see how they could smear me smear the trust attack us see what stories could be put in in the morning to give you some win in your back to come after an election after you spent weeks and weeks trying to make this into a referendum against me well this had nothing to to do with me I was one vote within that board to approve this and now after you lose you're not happy with the wording well the wording is so simple a child can understand it and now after everything we got through we got to wait you know the courts with the lawsuit that you're the one that instigated you're the one that raised money for by way uh how many of you uh know security guards that have such an interest such an interest in the Ador gym equipment especially when they don't make much especially when even the address they put in the political action committee for the security guard shows they live in a very humble Place how many of you know a security guard that could afford to give $22,000 from his own pocket not somebody that put it in his pocket so he could give it inste to a political action committee and this is what uh what happened here but look this has got to the point that because he could never be Rong he's always going to blame somebody else he cried that he wasn't here how can we vote upon this well we all know that one of our main responsibilities is to be here in commission meetings and we know I had the time when commission meetings are going to be held and unless it's something that it has to do with our health a family member's Health we have to be here that takes priority over anything else but now Mr party he wasn't here of course the local Tablo won't touch that Especial in today's story why he wasn't here because he wanted to get a year of vision and party for three days in Sweden well that's great he's a party animal but then don't cry because you weren't here don't cry because you came back and I guess you were still jetl for all those weeks and you didn't do what you were supposed to do you bring it back to where we hearing now PARTA you got in the attack on me every which way you're trying to destroy me and anyone that you can to see if by destroying other people and defaming other people you could scratch me but I'm looking you right in the face and I see finally the smirk went away uh I'm not where you used to but you could defame you could attack and I'm going to sit back and take it I have sit back and try to behave as professionally as I can with you but your game Stu here today any way you want it I'm going to give it to you 10f here iide to here any radio program any tv anywhere you want you're the biggest fraud that's hit this city in the biggest faith and we'll deal with that in December Mr parter Madam chair commissioner Paro yeah I do have the citation for the 2008 City approved the master plan with a 46 million budget and by 2010 the park was ready for construction be happy to share that with you um people may come and sometimes talk about District 2 items jointly because may I finish may I finish because I allow there no master I would like to finish on he thinks he could get away finish hold on let him finish and then we can ask for the citation if thank you so so the issue here was and maybe part of the issue is the process that was followed putting an article in a newspaper and expecting it to get to people or thinking that you had that's a big difference to the way the city of Miami does their Outreach and the way they run it and maybe that's why there was such a division to begin with OR such a lack of connection the issue about out Madam chair when you read the question and it makes sense to you the reason that there were people that were so upset and the reason that there were PLS was because for some people who read that question they had no idea of anything of anything that had happened before of that the residents in downtown did not want that gym equipment it is not the same thing to have a resident in flag Miami ha Alia morning side wherever Coconut Grove weigh in on morning side park that really don't use the park every day maybe they go there for an assembly or a protest but they're not the people walking their dogs playing frisbee I ride through there all the time especially on Sundays and Saturdays you can tell the people that are in that Park are from the buildings it's visible every time we use the words Regional Park and we don't acknowledge a neighborhood we're kind of slamming them they don't they they feel like nobody is included including them no one is is speaking to them and I get from how from a planning perspective uh staff may feel a certain way let me ask you with Morningside Park what would you consider the abing properties uh a morning site is quite a large Park uh you know there's many abing properties uh the single family residentials right that is correct okay so but I I also want to clarify that in those areas that do have registered uh associations they would also receive those representative would receive notification as well so associations would also receive the notice that's correct okay so my point in saying that is that when everything fails let's say when the city process fails when someone hasn't included people that's when the warrant applies you meant you made mention like we're not taking away anybody's voice we actually are taking away people's voices at the worst possible time when they need it when they have a really big objection morning side I guarantee you if you put a gym equipment like that in morning side all hell would break loose without a lot of community outreach same with peacock Park I mean that's just the nature of our districts and what we have done really from the beginning is try to represent that and that's all um the the city filed a motion to dismissed this lawsuit that motion was denied I am totally willing to live with the outcome of the lawsuit whatever happens happens but I do feel the residents have earned the ability to see it through and we should allow that to be seen through thank you mam chair brief again Mr Paro talks like a piece in another city Never Never Land talks about the residents that inform form the residents didn't you look at the vote in your District didn't you look at the vot across the street in those precincts you lost hugely so where's these residents that you claim that a majority of them are against the gym equipment or are you trying to say that they're all ignorant fools that they can't read something and that they get fooled so easily no they don't you're trying to Stu the sun with your finger and you can't do that because the votes are there you just can't accept heav lost you have this group that think that they're intitled and they keep coming back with the same thing you keep calling them to come come back to see if they could intimidate us just like when you called last meeting that we had your buddy Little Billy and uh Mr uh amandy so they could come and attack the chairwoman because you were upset because she answered you correctly after you attacked her uh in one of your little Instagram stuff and you bring them again and you think you're going to intimidate with that and I'm telling you mister you were so run and you reached your limitations Madam chair I just don't really know what to say cuz it's somewhere else may I well maybe you could maybe you want to attack Miguel phoh again hold on a second you want to talk about Miguel farell come on you want to attack him again you accused him I don't know how many so far anything you want to accuse him of now feel so I could tell you why you've attacked Miguel pharaoh and everybody can know may I provide a brief comment sir no you spoke at public comment this isn't a quasi judicious judicial issue you spoke at public comment thank you thank you madam chairwoman thank you call the vote M chair so I have a motion in a second all in I'm sorry I I'm sorry sorry cuz I left it off where where somebody was a party animal hang on AE okay I had to go to the bathroom hang on AE where we at what are we doing we are voting on pz4 okay it's going to with the substitution no LED signs in Parks or city facilities that is taken out Civic spaces and this will be reset for first reading so so we're deferring we're not no we're not deferring it we're voting on it as first reading as amended first reading is that what you want that's my recomendation Madam chair that's what your yes one point of clarification we are voting this on first reading yes and between first reading and second reading we are going to determine what we're going to do with the the uh the uh uh uh the process no sir uh uh you are saying that because you want to slow the process up you won the 31 votes if oh yes yes this is what's going on here no no I'm I'm listen you know do you know what you're making decisions in every darn meeting not based upon what's best for the city what's best upon Mr Ray is he wants to be mayor it doesn't matter if I want to be mayor or not I want to clarify let me tell you let me tell you this sir sir I am stop it I am for opening up the let use our inside voice and wait what's going to happen I said it before I mean this gentleman he tends to attack everybody I understand commissioner re just you're wrong okay let's not let's use our inside voices let's use our inside voices and point of clarification point of clarification I want to know what we are voting on we have he knows who we're voting upon I don't know man okay wants to keep stoling okay commissioner Coro please please please uh point of clarification for commissioner Reyes and then commissioner Paro would like to say something else okay but let's not I understand I understand we're very passionate but we don't have to yell at each other please okay okay buddy okay goe gentlemen gentlemen gentle please please okay City attorney I think commissioner Reyes has a question what are we voting on Sir so all we're voting on now is pz4 which was previously scheduled as a second reading we are making it back to First reading so we're going to vote on first reading on pz4 which is the modified version of the ordinance that allows recreational facilities by right it removes the language regarding the signs out of that amending ordinance it allows Community facilities by right except for libraries and museums which will still require a warrant my question is are you include be including the uh signs and uh and and uh you're going to revisit the signs signs and all of that okay that will come back as a separate ordinance later during that Vote or whatever are we uh agreeing what because I believe that people spoke and I told you 100 times people spoke are we opening up the the uh the uh the uh the gym right and and as people decide and just wait until what's happening in court yeah because that's that is my proposal has to come back for second reading it it has to come back back for second reading for second reading and then we can talk about that we can talk about what people because I believe in democracy yes and I believe that people spoke they mind but they are recourses that the residents have and they are using their resources but the speak people spoke about opening the part yeah okay a small minority financed by Mr part I I'm I'm not talking about that you see I'm not going against you in this but you leave whatever you want okay commissioner commissioner re commissioner Reyes commissioner commissioner Paro would you like to say something else I just wanted to further clarify that I do think it's important to streamline the process and I think there's an opportunity where there's already existing equipment to maybe look at that and not needing warrants for that uh I I don't know but I think it it's important for us to get this right and I think we should put in the time before the next meeting I have a motion and second all in favor I I motion carries five 5 Z the vote no no no no so I have commissioner Reyes and commissioner Coro no I'm sorry commissioner Rees you voted no correct no I didn't vote you voted 5 Z yes 5 Z everybody voted in favor commissioner Cayo commissioner Paro you as what 5 Z unanimous yes as amended okay um may I have a motion to defer pz five and six motion um if we could deal with it already uh well that's the recommendation of the no if we could deal with it already if we could deal with it already because this goes hand inand with the other pz4 makes pz6 moot so you may want to defer pc5 no it it does not pc4 does not make pc5 uh or or six uh uh mute there're two different motions Al together Mr City attorney no hold on let me let me hear from the city attorney right that was his recommendation I think there is um as you've heard there is if pz4 were to be adopted on December 12th I think then um there would be no need to reconsider and or Grant the appeal via pz5 pz6 however if you wanted to adopt pz5 and pz6 as like a belt and suspenders approach you could do that my concern with that is well I have other legal concerns but my suggestion would be to U Move it to the 12th okay um and then we'll address that with it with a let let me be very specific we were supposed to have voted in this numerous times yes sir and it gu change change change today it was supposed the day to be the day that we voted up or down um I went ahead with your suggestion uh of going with this vote for the first reading and SEC this supposed to have been the second reading yes sir I want to head with that but I don't want to come here on the 12th uh and then we get another story right this has to come to a head you can laugh at the people of Miami that voted 80% on this you can't tell me that democracy is based only in what you want not in what it is and I'm not going to hear the crap any longer that everybody everybody's against us everybody all the residents what you been hearing from this man my God what city is he in maybe he's still in shock I don't know but 80% of miamians voted for this after he raised money thousands of dollars held a campaign had an editori from our local tabloid had that local program where he thinks it's going to scare some of us and boy oh boy why until we start talking about who owns that radio station and how they do it in Venezuela that they don't want to do it here but anything else that you have that will prevent us from not deciding this unless this commission wants to defer it again on the 12 there should be no more impediment I thank you for indulging my super conservative approach on this item I just wanted to make I respect you as a City attorney George than even though I was the only one here that didn't vote for you but I think you know why but I respect you and your experience as a City attorney so Madame chair I will indulge the city attorney's request to defer both items for the next meeting December 12th so I have a motion in a second a motion yes in a second all in favor I PC five and six are deferred until December 12th the last item to be taken up is pz19 that's one of yours it but yeah commission Paro yeah Madam chair the only reason I held that out is because we had several you know we do a call before the agenda we go through with people that want to participate we had several people ask us about it and I was able to look at the map but I was left with a feeling of not really understanding as much so this is actually this is actually what our community wanted um I don't see the attorneys here but pc19 when it goes for second reading and passes if it passes will eliminate the need to upzone it's going to keep the zoning flat for the development and gives the density that they needed and that's the only reason why the up Zone was being requested but our planning director can confirm that for you yes thank you madam chair so uh pz19 uh this is an amendment to Mi 21 uh to allow additional bonus height uh for t5o uh and the underlying density in T5 along specific Transit corridors uh so what that means is that we've identified that there are density levels uh within our Transit corridors that are not being fully tapped into uh because T5 right now allows 65 dwelling it's an acre uh this amendment would allow the t50 to tap into higher density levels uh to allow for those developments to work out um and then also to allow for bonus height so long as an affordable housing Workforce housing component is provided um and that's broken down into uh for the first bonus floor uh 10% of those units I'm sorry 5% of those units have to be provided at 100% Ami uh and then if you're going to go an additional uh uh the additional two bonus floors additional 5% of those units have to be at 80% Ami and this this uh is also included in the mimo District that is correct but the mimo overlay is still applies as per chapter 23 at the 35t height limit so they can they were concerned about the geographies on the transit corridors so but this is a first reading item so we can I can kind of take that up uh with the folks that have the concerns we can work with them absolutely thank you thank you madam chair I have a motion and a second all in favor I motion carries and chair so that's pz19 as uh amended to include pcab uh meeting information and the PAB vote in the fifth where as Clause correct and we have future legislation that I just need to say we have future legislation and di1 and two I know I'm going back to that so we have two discussion items lost income to the city with let me try to be brief uh mam chair okay um I don't think we're going to be loosing that much more if I save this one for and defer to the next meeting so I defer D1 to the next meeting motion what are we doing again to defer discussion item item one D1 D1 and D2 or just D1 D1 December 12th I have a motion second all in favor I I Mr manager is the police chief here if he could ask him to come please Chief who are you thank you for being here good evening Manny Morales chief of police good evening Chief um Chief and this is good that we deal with it now because you might need to come back with what I'm going to be asking of you um when for the next meeting how many boats do we have in the Marine Patrol as of today that are usable boats in Marine Patrol sir yeah usable for patrol so right now we have 11 boats in Marine Patrol um and Personnel we have one Lieutenant two sergeants and 14 officers right now and 14 offic you got 17 and Personnel Al together yes sir Marine Patrol how many of those 11 boats are you using can we use what can how many are actually being used so at 11 boats I want to say two are shallow so we don't use them all the time uh and then we have okay so you really have nine cuz the other two are shallow well they're special purpose so we only use them in that's why I said that like Blue Lagoon and the other locations the ones that we get the most used are the three latest ones that we got with the assistance of the the grand depan uh department and fine uh which are the safety boats uh which one is a We Bought With uasi Money uh which is a swap boat but we use for Marine Patrol because we have swap Personnel on it and then we have two of the safe boats that we use those are the ones that get the most use um out of those nine do you have one now that you don't have sufficient Personnel you fill it you put out there the way that we rotate it and the amount of personnel that we have sir I can only have at a maximum uh maybe three or four being used at the same time is that is that the question that you're asking yes okay so I can use a maximum of four out a give in actuality you're not going to have four I don't think at the same time unless a special Advent or something not on a 24-hour basis at the same time two or three so at probably three at the same time okay cuz that's two officers for both just for safety since you're out there on the water talking about kind of here is what I I'd like to know from you and the manager here so we're going through the manager yes sir miam me River as you know you've been around for a long time it's a critical part uh of our Commerce in the city of traffic going through there we have a lot lot of restaurants down in the river that people like to go to uh we're getting a lot more traffic than in the past now that I have the majority of Brickle in my district I have been getting a lot of requests for Marine Patrol to be there neighbors are complaining that at night you're getting all those party boats that are coming into late hours of the night they can't sleep um others are speeding through there I think there's four of us they share uh the Miami River commissioner Gaba commissioner King myself and a little bit at the entrance commissioner partu I I don't believe direct Rec me from Ron I don't think commissioner re has any yeah thank you now what can we do chief to be able to include uh another Patrol boat and if it's money I'll get you the money you got the boat but for additional police officers if it's money that I'll get you right here today uh but I don't know if you have enough people train or people that you could pull to be train and Marine Patrol right away so it's not going to do us any good if you got a boat but you don't have the people to put in there immediately so what I want you to come back and the 12 with is what plan can you present to us to increase in particular at night right at the entrance of the river you know I don't care who it is uh the many they see a Miami Patrol boat out there Miami Police Patrol boat they have a different attitude I think you know it uh what can you come up with and I'm again going through the manager that you can present uh a stronger plan of action in patrolling that River in particular the entrance at night so that the residents could have some peace and quiet uh and and frankly uh I've seen him myself the speeding is getting out of handti in the wakes uh and there's just a lot of activity a lot more than we've ever had Chief so commissioner I I I hear loud and clear one of the things I was synonymous with what you're stating is during the budget hearings a lot of our community came up and when they're voicing their concerns one of the concerns was the patrolling of the river so as of September 25th we added two additional bodies to Marine Patrol there was 12 before September 25th we added the two ones those two bodies that we added on September 25th are exclusively assigned to the river and they work Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays from 5:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. exclusively on the river unless there's an emergency call outside in the bay where they need to respond so they've had a little bit more impact I can get you some updated stats of what they've been doing there what can we do to bring that 7 days so week uh so and at the same time have one that's more or less station I mean you're not going to have them there 24/7 because something might happen down the river and you wouldn't be able to send them but in particular nighttime they could be stationed towards the front and being a sort of a Marine Patrol Crow guard so that people know that they can't come through there speeding that the party boats can be blasted where you could hear him you know for a mile away uh what can we do to give our residents a little more Assurance uh a little more peace uh on that and if the question is more Personnel I don't know if you could pull two more from somewhere else uh to have them in there um what what I'm asking you Chief through the manager if we can come up with some some plan that we're going to have that might mean a second boat one at the tip um second boat uh in the Miami River uh towards the the entrance of it so that we could step a lot of this before they go in to the rest of the the river so commissioner we can definitely take a look at uh in sting a boat eventually ideally what we would want is a 24/7 Patrol one on the bay and one on the river now the difficulty of the river like you mentioned is not only um it takes the length of time that takes so if I have the boat in the bay and I have a call inside the river it takes me about 25 to 30 minutes just to get in there cuz there's a a no wake zone right right so one of the things we're looking at is to look for a viable position where we can station a boat somewhere along the river I'll be giv several locations chief that uh we could use that I'll be happy to uh give you so that your people can look at it uh see if uh it's satisfactory for your needs um but again I'm willing to give you whatever assistance you need even if it's going to come from my own district office uh budget uh if you need two more officers uh for when I hear you're okay in boats but if you need another boat we'll find another boat thank you commissioner I appreciate it we're scheduled to get two more as the bodies that are now in the field training program hit I believe is March of 2025 uh that will be adding two more to Marine Patrol that could supplement what we already have on the river to give me a little more robust coverage and I will I will update the plan and I'll I'll present it back the commission can I I got some question commissioner Paro um wanted to make a statement Chief I just wanted to thank you um you helped us a lot with Marine Patrol you know we're trying to get our own little rapid response boat Patrol so you've been great and I just want to commend you and please keep doing what you're doing still there waiting for you guys what you guys are ready it's making a big difference for the district thank you you got it sir appreciate commissioner Cabella yeah so so what I want to ask you let's go through the schedule again you got two boats you got 11 in total nine that you use two are on standby two two are special purpose so two of them are for like shallow water so we wouldn't put them in the bay we would put them at uh Blue Lagoon yeah those are the ones that used to go fishing little Shadow Flats like a flats boat yeah like a flat boat but but then what you have is out of the nine you have four to three at the same time correct we we could not we don't have the Personnel to put more than four at the same time unless we go all hands yeah four * 2 that's that's eight correct right okay and the the four that you have let's 10 you have four where where exactly are they from like like from 27th half to to where so it depends so the ones that you're talking about that you keep on the river because you're not going to dispatch them to go out and you're also not going to dispatch one from you know on the bay to come in because you're wasting time so the one that's commissioner the one that's dedicated to the river on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday right from 5p to 3A that one's on the river so it could be anywhere from the mouth of the river and Brickle all the way to 27 Avenue past a little bit of 27 Avenue Bridge so it could could be anywhere in there it handling calls for service or any requests that they have or the officers do have the discretion to enforce in the areas where they know from their experience patrolling the river where there might be an issue and and that's that's all hours of the day you know shifts that's that's just the one that's there from Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday from 5p to 3A I'm sorry from what 5:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. that's an exclusive River Patrol the other 7 days of the week that we have and the earlier hours we got boats that are sharing so we'll have one or two boats that are sharing if it's a weekend usually we have a lot of traffic in Marine Patrol in Marine Stadium we'll have some traffic close to Bayside so the officers kind of handle and they rotate those areas of concerns that we receive through either you know Commissioners relaying their complaints or residents that have called and and relayed or call for 911 assistance so I'm sorry go ahead sir I apologize no no problem just want to real quick out of the four out of the four you've got one out on the bay right and the three others are inside the river yes on those on those hours and when it's not like before 5:00 p.m. there could be a boat answering calls on the River on the bay okay um just one question is that us only on the river or do we also have FWC uh what Coast Guard do we have any any other assets out there Bes besides yourself at those times so we have I'm trying to learn here you know an idea what going on it's it's uh it's a little bit uh kind of random so on the bay we share with the county that helps out a little bit more on the port side for the Port of Miami but they do help out outside on the maritime areas where the jurisdiction falls into the county Waters uh the Florida Wildlife Commission helps us out as well they have jurisdiction Statewide but the majority of the individuals uh that Patrol the river is the city of Miami that's our main responsibility the county does help out every once in a while that we're sending us to augment our our numbers that we're sending us some assistance during the weekends uh on Friday and Saturday earlier in the in the day they kind of I got to check with them to see if they're still providing that assistance because they were sending me a weekly report but the area Chief kind of retired so the Count's going through a little bit of change so I I'll get that information but we we work very closely together the city the county and the uh the state with the FC thank you madam Shar Rees yes uh although I don't have any part of the river I have received a lot of complaints particularly from uh residents around the river that illegal Charters they come and they pick up a group of people and then they go out and they and they come back with with all the noise and all of that and they are a ton of illegal charters in in going on in the river are you doing something about it are you trying to uh stop them and and check if they have a license or whatever so because no they have there are people that their business their main business and they're making a lot of money is using their votes and illegally charged into a group that will come and they will pick him up along the rer Pro sometimes next to an apartment building so commissioner that that that's a great question that's one of the the the complaints that we received quite often uh right along the river the main point of uh embarcation for illegal Chargers we've noticed is limus Park Li park right on in that City Dock on 18th Street also we've done some operations there we've arrested some illegal Chargers so that's one of the points of interest so when the Patrol is on the river they take a look at that when they see individuals that are getting in there that are being picked up usually gets dropped off by uh by right share and they jump on the boat uh but we've seen him other places we know we had him north of the Venetian in that just south of Margaret Park uh so we do pay attention to them we do specialized operations sometimes we do undercover where some of our uh undercover offers would post as clients and try to get a charter and then we'll have Marine Patrol stop them uh but it's not only the charters we also do we had a a combined operation with code enforcement or Code Compliance where we went after the big illuminated LEDs that were on the bay right off of uh downtown Bayside and and going into the mouth of the river in Brick key and also the jet skis one of the big locations where we have is Margaret Pace Park where they go and they pick up and they furry uh riders for the jky so we're working all those all those complaints we're kind of lumping them into one and that's one of the priorities for Marine Patrol also I want to offer any help that you need and I'm willing to cooperate as much as I can and in order to for you to get the proper Personnel to uh keep our River and and B safe thank you commissioner I appreciate that the chief to be clear what we're talking about is one boat inside the river one right at the entrance uh of the river station so two on the river I know there's some interest to to perhaps some our state leg don't take away those three leave those three in the river room if you need two more officers you I'm giving you the ticket so you get the laundry and get him uniforms uh and all the equipment you need and you could put him uh in service okay know what it sir I appreciate thank you sir thank you okay nothing else this concludes the city of Miami Commission meeting for November 21st 2024 Happy Thanksgiving everyone I will see you we will see you here in December good night everyone good night [Music]