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Oh, good morning. >> All right, we're going to go ahead and get started, guys. If everyone could take their seats. It is 6:32 p.m. Thursday, July 16th. Uh we're going to go ahead and get started with this uh quarterly town council workshop on the special taxing

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districts. I know um Councilman Cuadra Garcia is I believe in the parking lot on his way in. He'll he'll be able to come in while we're addressing uh the um the roll call and the pledge of allegiance. So he should get here soon. But in the meantime, I wanted to go ahead and get started so that we're on time. Uh so with that, uh I call this

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meeting to order at 6:32 p.m. And uh everyone please rise briefly for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. >> And if you don't mind stay standing for a brief invocation by Councilman Garcia, >> please rise, bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the privilege of gathering today to serve our

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community. Grant this council the wisdom to make sound decisions, the humility to listen to one another, and the courage to act for the common good. Guide our discussions, and bless our efforts. Amen. >> Thank you, Councilman Garcia. Everyone,

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you may be seated, and we'll go ahead and get a roll call in just as a note of our attendance. Uh, >> me, >> Council Member Hburg, >> here. Council member Garcia, >> present.

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>> Council member Cuadra Garcia. Council member Sanchez, >> present. >> Vice Mayor Mora, >> present. >> And just for the record, Council Member Fernandez, Mayor Diegas are absent. >> You have quorum. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. And obviously,

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yes, we do have quorum. However, this is a town council workshop, so we don't really need a quorum, and we're not really engaging in any actual business. Um, but that being said, I'm going to go ahead and skip the order of business as it probably shouldn't be there and open up the floor to any public comments from uh those here in chambers. Uh, followed

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by which I will see if there's anyone for online public comment. Anyone here wishing to give public comments, please approach >> just approach approach the podium. State your name and address for um the record. And as well, I just want to let everyone

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know, I don't see anyone participating online, although I believe there was a gentleman who was trying to log in, but if I see the person, I'll state it for the record. As of right now, there are no participants online. I do want to

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take this moment to acknowledge two written public comments received, I want to say, a few days ago. One is from Miss Bony Cron, public comments regarding special taxing district and I think she sent them as

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well to the elected officials but as well I have them here and uh public comment from Boris Mr. Boris Foster as well titled public comment for special taxing district.

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believe Miss Hope Reol's also reached out via email including these two but those are the written public comments received and again looking at my screen I don't see anyone wishing to

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participate but please the only thing you need to do is um always log in raise your hand by clicking reactions icon raise your hand and it will allow you to speak on this meeting. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. And just for the

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benefit of those in the audience, uh I'll say in Spanish at the uh suggestion of Councilman Garcia, which I think is a good idea. All righty. Seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and close public comments uh at this time and we will move into item five, topics for discussion, starting

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with the updates on fish stocking completed at Lake Hilda and Lake Patricia. Take it away, Mr. Giannis. >> Good evening, Vice Mayor and Council. Uh John Yiannis, special projects manager for the parks department. Um starting

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with fish stocking, we completed uh fish stocking at Lake Patricia and Lake Hilda on June 5th. Uh, Solitude Lake Management stocked uh, 338 bass at 2 to3 in per bass. Um, the total

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was 676 uh, fish in total uh, between the two lakes. Uh, I did go ahead and um, provide you guys with some images uh, for you to see of the uh, fish being

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stocked. Um, and then I'll just jump into uh summer treatment cycle since we're on the topic of lakes. Uh, we have increased summer treatment uh summer uh water treatment cycles um in both lakes

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uh from twice a week uh I'm sorry from twice a month to three times uh in one month uh from June through September. And this is consistent with prior years. We're looking to um you know combat algae growth especially during the

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summer times that it gets as the climate gets warmer it gets uh we see more algae increase during that time. So that hence the reason why we've increased it to three cycles. Any uh questions on uh lakes. >> Any questions? Uh Councilman Garcia.

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>> Thank you Vice Mayor. A quick question to you about the stocking of the [clears throat] of the bass of the fish. I know they're very especially at that size they're very um sensitive to temperature. I know it's been warmer than usual. Um the

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timing of of temperature and stocking the lake is was that taken into consideration because I know if it's way too hot or way too cold they they don't survive as as much. Is that something that we take into consideration or is that um just throw them in there and see what happens?

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The ideal time is usually uh April March their fish stock. >> However, uh there has to be uh availability of the fish. >> Yeah, of course. >> Um so they were um just had reached the point of enough growth to go ahead and

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and and uh and fish stock. >> I appreciate that. Thank you, >> Councilman Sanchez. >> Yeah, and basically to piggyback off of Councilman Garcia's question, I I mean the fisher are pretty small. Um, how long can it take for them to grow to full size from the moment that they were

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put into the lake to reach maturity? >> That's a great question. I'll have to get back to you on that. >> Okay. And does S the Solitude Lake Management, do they guarantee that the fish will survive in this temperature? >> Yes. Yeah. They they they they expect that uh you know, obviously whenever you

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do fish stocking, it's survival of the fittest. So, not all of them are going to survive. Um, >> but I mean it in the sense like of what Councilman Garcia just brought up that if it's too hot, we might start seeing some belly of fish. >> No, you know, while it's still hotter and and um they it's still ideal for

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fish stocking, especially Titan bass. Yeah. >> Um it's still, you know, they're they're meant for for these type of uh >> temperatures >> temperatures. So, they're they're they're fine. >> Okay, good to know. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman Sanchez. Um I was going to ask the same question. And I

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just want to know when I can start fishing them out. Um, actually, I will ask, are they largemouth bass, small mouth, peacocks? What are we talking about? >> They're titan bass. Um, yeah, I'm not really sure if that's large or small. I'll have to get back to you on that, but I know that I know the the the

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breed. And then um I did want to just to clarify um the when you refer to the cycles each month that's when just so residents understand what we're referring to. That's when we see the gentleman on the boat going along the edge of each lake spraying, right?

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>> Spraying. He's doing more than just spraying, but yeah, he he goes out there. >> Yeah, he's testing as well, right? >> Correct. Lake testing, everything. Um he goes out typically uh typical months is is uh twice a month. Uh during the summer months we increase it to three.

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>> And then in reference to the guarantee by by uh solitude uh that's just there's a um acceptable level of death within those 338 per lake. As long as they stay within that, we're fine. Right. >> Correct. which and and I'll just say

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what I've seen. It's been a little bit around a month and a half since they were put in. They're they're now, you know, because you could see how big they are in this picture. They're they're now about this big because I see them all over my my dock. Uh I'm I'm on Lake Hilda. Um so yeah, could work on this.

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>> I will get back to you on on the the how long it takes for them to grow a full size. >> Anyone else uh questions on this item? Uh, seeing none, we can we can go ahead and move on to uh the resident access credentials. And just for the record, we

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we covered uh five A and B together. Uh fish stocking completed as well as the lake maintenance cycles. We covered those together. So, we're moving on to 5 AC, which is resident access credentials, decals, and clickers/smart passes. >> Yeah. So, I just wanted to provide you

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all with an update. Um seeing as we have uh recently added decals to our list of credentials for um for our residents um before you you have uh some numbers to go off of of since the start of the of

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the fis of the fiscal year October uh we've had five 56 uh smart passes um issued um 63 uh clickers issued to Royal Oaks East

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um 69 issued to Royok West. Um and as far as decals, we had our our free decal program that took place. Uh during that time, we had 638 uh decals issued at no charge during the

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free decal distribution program. Uh since then, we've had 48 additional ones issued. So for the total is 686. uh that um 638 uh makes up for 29% roughly 29% of of

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the entire um households within Royokes East and Roy uh section one combined. So I'd say you know a third close to a third of of community has has picked up their decals.

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Um we have uh inventory on hand. We have uh remaining 2,314 decals. So, I would venture to guess that we're we're going to be good on that for for a while. Uh we also have uh currently 312 um cards uh for smart

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passes. Uh prior to my time, there was an order for for new a large order of um smart passes very similar to what we did with the decals. and that has lasted us uh you know five years at this point. So um I'd

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venture to say we're going to have we're going to be good on smart passes for unless we change systems which I don't foresee us needing to uh we should be good in that in that aspect. And then uh we have 77 clickers in inventory right now as well. So

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>> any questions on this item? Go ahead Councilman Garcia. >> Thank you Vice Mayor. Uh quick question. Um, as far as participation, picking up these decals and everything, where do you see us um improving communications? Are we using the television screens that

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we were donated to let them know, hey, remind you to pick up your decals? What are we doing to to continue to come and get it? You know, come and get We have you. There's a We're trying to do this for their for their benefit, and we want them to come and get it. And I know it's difficult to to reach out. what what

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what are you doing to continue to reach out to residents that haven't gotten theirs? So annually when we send out our annual budget uh letters, in this case this year we did postcards or annual budget postcard letting everyone know of their assessment rates. Uh there is a um

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a um QR code on that assessment rate postcard that would lead you to the website that has tons of information on clickers um passes. No worries.

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Go ahead. You can take it, [laughter] >> Vice Mayor. >> I guess Go ahead. >> Just I just let you and I'm sorry to interrupt, but I thought you were going to take a a pause. Let the record reflect that we do have now a participant online. So, if you want to

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um reopen public comments, it's Mr. Abel Fernandez. He was having issues and texting me that he was trying to get in. So, now I see that hand up. he wishes to participate whenever you give him permission to. >> Sounds good. Um I did

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>> finish this question. Yeah. Uh >> is there anything we can do as far as using our communications department to continue to send, you know, our Facebook [clears throat] page, Instagram page is, you know, a constant weekly, bi-weekly reminder to get them to come pick up

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their uh or with the QR code to get them to come pick it up. >> We've never done it weekly or bi-weekly as far as sending it out. We have we do do social media posts every once in a while to let everyone know, especially during the free decal program. We did go ahead and push that on social media. Um,

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as I mentioned, we do put it as far as our budget uh letter or postcard. Sure. It's uh tied to that. It's also on our website. So, anybody that goes to the special taxing district website, it'll immediately they'll immediately see it. It is on the TV the television monitor

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at uh Roy Oaks East on 79 Dav. It is one of the um I guess marketing parts of it. It does, you know, mention, hey, um you know, if you do you need a de do you need a clicker or do you need a decal? It pops up and it gives them a QR code

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that they could um grab right there right then and there to take them to the um application. And you said only 30 29% of people have picked up uh or have picked up the the new decals or what's the percentage? 29% >> 29% 49 >> 29

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>> 29. So there's there's a good uh I I would suggest until we get to flip it maybe when 60% have gotten there. 66 have gotten it. Um until we get there, can we put more campaigns on our on our websites and our and Facebook page and Instagram page just to encourage

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participation? Uh can you work with them to see if there's an additional cost or not? or maybe it's just just you know re re repost it every couple weeks until we get to that 66 70% of participation that was during the free decal program.

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>> So now there is a cost to it. It's $5 per decal. Um, >> sure. >> The reality is that, um, going forward it's not going to be based on households

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because the free decal program was you could only pick up two per household. So, for free. It's going to be hard to track exactly that we're at, you know, 40% or 50% of households. Um, I'm sure I could do it. I I I'd have to figure it out, but um, I'm sure we could find a

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way to to to track that going forward. what it is now to increase participation is is I guess what my my point would be >> all I'm trying to say is that >> at the end of the day now it's open up to everyone so so the same house code couldn't get more >> okay

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>> decals the two original ones >> well thank you for your efforts >> you councilman Horsesburg >> thank you vice mayor it's not about the decals but it's about notice um when or maybe it's a question for the clerk or for you When do you send out the

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postcard to be sent out? Like how does that process work? The reason I say my postcard was was postmarked July 8th. It's 7 days before the meeting, eight days before the meeting. >> Yeah. My department doesn't take care of that. I think it's an answer for JP. >> I mean, why why I handle I handle that.

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And the reason I sent it as so close is because I want to make sure, especially for a workshop, I want to make sure that it's close enough to the actual date to get people to stay in their mind. Um,

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there is no set date for a workshop, you know. Uh, really it it's supposed to be 48 hours prior, but I'm sending out a flyer. I'm not uh we're not posting we are posting it on on the the Laker as well.

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>> That's what I am responsible for and I think >> it posted on not this issue the third. I always try to do two weeks before or four weeks if the budget allows. >> Right. I that I do >> I have I mean the postcard is not not a requirement. That's something we're

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doing extra. the the requirement is is putting out something >> like we do on the Miami Laker or on the website which we both >> with plenty of time just an added uh >> correct >> way of getting try to get people to come to the workshop

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>> right I I mean I just want to know if that was intentional because if it's postmarked the 8th I'm getting it on 11th usually I mean the post office isn't that great right so that's that's the only issue I see there but I I mean maybe we should think about it even if that's even needed the the the postcards. That mean people that many

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people are coming. Maybe we just do it once and say we're going to have four. Here's the QR code. I mean, that's something we can discuss at a council meeting. Save a little bit money on the postcards because I don't know if they're needed anymore. I I don't know if it's worth it. We've tried it for over a year now, right? Yeah. And and I

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think we've discussed in the past, you know, the the part of the monitors going forward would be to replace any sort of uh sendouts except for the the only thing that's required to be sent out is a budget letter or in this case a postcard letting you know of your

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assessment rate. >> And so that is a required and there is a timeline for that. You have to send it within a certain period of the second >> um the second uh vote. So that has a a

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written by Florida statute. Other than that, um, >> right? So that that's what that's just in my head just to, you know, think out loud is maybe we just make that the statutoily required notices, make it a little bit more robust and say, "Hey, by

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the way, we have quarterly meetings in town hall. Check the town calendar. Maybe we can save a little bit about I I don't know. I don't know what your opinion is. I don't think the postcards are are worthwhile anymore. I don't think they're working at the end of the day. So, it's just something to think about. That's all.

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>> Part of the assessment rate when we provided you the budget did have as part of it um um funding for postcards in the mail for these meetings. It's up to you as the council to decide if you guys

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want to keep that or remove it or if you want to use those postcards instead of for these meetings, use it for other things like you had mentioned potentially providing those as marketing material to say, "Hey, come get a clicker." We could send that out once a

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year instead of uh part of instead of being for this, it would be, "Hey, pick up your clickers or your your smart passes or whatever." So that's that's up to you guys as the council how you want to handle that. >> Thank you. Um Councilman Sanchez, >> most of the special testing districts,

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if not all, have HOAs. Have we tried to communicate to the residents through the HOAs that these clickers and decals are available for them to come to town hall and pick up? That's question one. Question two, is it only during business hours that the residents can come pick up the clickers and decals and smart

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passes? to answer question two first. Yes, it is only during um uh office hours that they can come pick up the clickers. >> Okay. >> Um from 9:00 to 5:00 uh Monday through Friday uh they are able to pick up the clickers. They go through the

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application process once they're approved. They can come and pick it up. >> Okay. >> Um they can make the payment online or they can make it in person uh by providing a check written out to the town of Miami Lakes. Okay. For the amount that it's that's due. >> How about question one? your question

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one. Can you repeat it one more time? >> Sure. Most of the special testing districts have HOAs, if not all of them have HOAs. It have you tried to through the HOAs, reach out to the residents because they have a bit more communication with the residents to let them know we have these decals. We have that, you know, it's basically a a sun

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path to get through the gate. They don't have to stop, wait, and then have the gate open through them to filter it out to the residents of those special testing districts. >> In the past, absolutely we have uh especially with the clickers and decals. Okay. I notified uh their Royal Oaks uh

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special taxing um HOA, I'm sorry. >> Uh of the uh clickers to to let um their residents know. >> Okay. >> Of course, the HOA at Roy Oaks is only half of the community. So, only half of them are receiving it. Um, I have worked

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with uh the uh going back to when there was advisory boards, we worked with the uh Miami Lake section one um uh HOAs, the seven of them um regarding the smart passes. >> Um I could go ahead and try reaching out once again, maybe do that on an annual

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basis. I could do a better job of of on an annual basis just reaching out and seeing if they could pass it along. >> Exactly. So yeah, that's definitely something that we could look into, >> especially if the HOA is even if you get 50%. You know, the power of the grapevine is is very strong. And if you see neighbors that are not part of HOA

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and they see the decals, they'll ask those neighbors, hey, what's that decal for? What's it for? So I think that that would be a a strong methodology to get the word out that the decals do exist. And maybe we can do at the events that we do around town. What's the next event that we're doing? Is it the is that

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Nightmare on Montrose? No. the yeah just any big event where the community comes out if through maybe the NIC which is which is kind of their mission statement to work with the special taxing districts and the HOA maybe they can set up a tent where people can apply for their decals at

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that time because Monday through Friday 9 to5 is very limited especially you know with the working environment and those being the usual working hours but maybe feeding it through the NIC to get it out to the residents at those types of community related events. Yeah, it's definitely something I could uh

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communicate with uh with their liaison and see if that's something that we could work on going forward. The the decals are only for uh Royal Oaks. Um yeah, it's not for the other >> uh uh special taxing districts, but we could uh we could work to see how that

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we can make that work, >> right? No, but even the smart passers for section one, >> they can find out there that that's available to them. >> Absolutely. Uh uh what we've kind of tried to do is not bundle them together but make it easy easy one one system as opposed to having three different systems.

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>> Exactly. >> So yeah. >> Yeah. Right. Thanks. >> Thank you very much. Um did you have more on the monitor stuff or or did you need to >> mentioned it yet? >> No, he I mean he mentioned it kind of responding to uh Councilman Garcia, but

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I don't know if there was more on that. You say in here second monitor on hand awaits council feedback. So what feedback >> Yeah. >> are you looking for? >> Sorry, I know that we we went into the questions, but there was somebody that was looking that had raised their hand.

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Do do we want to go back to them? >> Okay. Well, um, my plan was to get past this item and item E, gate arm damage, just cuz, uh, I I I know the gentleman online is in Royal Oaks. So, I kind of just figured let's get through these and then that's a good clean break finish

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with like the the specific ones cuz then F and G is kind of more generalized things rather than specific issues. Um, and that's a good little clean break area where I'm opening public comments again cuz I'd seen one individual come into chambers and then the one that came

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uh online. Perfect. >> Understood. I I just wanted to uh >> Yeah, sorry. And I and thank you for reminding me. I meant to actually say that. >> So, uh, regarding the guard house monitors, uh, the first monitor was installed at Roy East, uh, the guard house on 79th A. Um, I, um, it's been

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installed for a couple months now. Uh, so wanted to just bring it up in this meeting to see if you guys had any feedback, anything else. We do have a second monitor that's that we have already received from SFM um that I I have waiting, but I didn't want to go

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ahead and start installing it until we've had this opportunity to go over it and discuss it further. >> I have a question about it, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Vice Mayor, >> go ahead, Councilman Sanchez. >> So, I remember seeing the first image of it. The TV was inside of a glass case,

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but it also had I, for lack of a better term, pool noodles inside. Is that still the case? And if so, why are those in there? >> No, that that's that was a one day thing. Uh, it was removed immediately. >> Uh, it was looking to cover up the uh

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the cords on the side. >> We're still working to see how we go ahead and proceed with covering it up. For now, it's you could you could see the cords if you look inside. >> Okay. Um but uh but yeah, I was just uh trying to figure out a uh cost-effective

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way to to temporarily cover up the cords. >> Okay. >> And it was removed after that. It was actually removed same day. So >> Okay. And have you received any feedback about the screens and the information provided on them? Positive, negative? >> I've received overall positive feedback. The one feedback that I've received is

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during the day it's hard to see. That location in general is hard because of >> the sun, >> the glare. >> It's the one location that is facing the sun directly. >> Not you're not going to have that issue on 167th or

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>> uh 162nd. It's really that one that that that gets hit the worst. Um, so one thing that I've I've looked into is seeing if we could get an awning to cover it, but that's again that's why I bring it to your attention to see what

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what suggestions or feedback you have as the council to see how you'd like to proceed on that. >> In in terms of the second one, where where we should go with that one? >> Yeah. So I was thinking I I I I can um

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you know this does require installation. So it is going to be installed by the handyman. There is a cost to it. >> Um right now the most feasible uh place to install it would be 167th which is also on Royal Oaks East or installing it on Miami Lake section 1. Uh I could also

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install it in Loman but given the conversations that we're having >> regarding the guard house. >> Yeah. The reason Roy Oaks uh section one would not work is because we did have to um install a new AC unit at one of the

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guardouses. So that's budgetarily wise it's not uh good to to go ahead and do that. So there is a one cost which is the the handyman installing the uh >> Okay. >> Yeah. And look we know more or less when we can expect the third and the fourth

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etc. like what what's the timing on getting these? >> SFM is in in is providing it on a they've to this point they've been providing it like every two months or so. Um they from what our original

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conversation was before the end of the fiscal year we'll have all of them. Um and so I will follow up with them to confirm you know if if we could get uh the additional ones uh ASAP. Um, but as we had talked about from the beginning

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was we got to put one to test it out, see how it goes, and then so far it sounds like everybody's on board, everybody's positive feedback. So, um, as long as you guys are comfortable with it, I can go ahead and and start installing the the remaining ones.

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>> I mean, just to be clear that they were free. So, I don't know. >> Monitors are free. other than the actual act of installing them like you know which obviously you need to hire handyman for that but like the fact that they were themselves free but uh I did want to just get my two cents in on that uh as far as I'm

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concerned I do think uh Miami Lake section one is the better one uh option because number one Roy looks east already has one um either way I do think as they come in you know let let's try to make it one of the

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a different security district each time. Uh, so, you know, I think that's just the fairest way of doing it. Uh, but also the reason I think section one specifically is it is the largest of of all the the the special taxing districts. So, there's more chances of

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people seeing what's on the monitors. And again, uh, you know, uh, maybe they don't see the notice or they toss the notice in the mail, but they'll they'll have that there. So, I think we get the most bang for our buck at section one. Anyone else on this item? Seeing none,

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we can go ahead and move on to just the gate arm uh damage reimbursements and then to public comment again. So uh gate arm damage reimbursements uh we've sent out letters uh to responsible parties who have hit the gate arms uh

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over the last fiscal year since October. We sent out several letters uh and uh basically um those parties have 30 days uh to reimburse the town before we escalate. Um so we would be sending out

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a second letter and then from there we could um go after their insurance. >> Great. Um couple questions for me. I don't know if you guys have but um how many of those are pending right now?

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So the total is 23 reimbursement cases. >> Um six letters have already been sent out and we have the rest uh pending to be sent out before the end of the month. >> When are these from like how how long

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ago is the one that's the longest time from now? >> Uh start of the fiscal year. >> So some some of these 23 are from as far away as September or >> October. >> October. >> October 1st. October uh of 2025. >> I don't have the exact date for you.

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>> What exactly has taken this long to get him out? >> Well, one, I was out for an extended period of time. Um and uh two, it's just, you know, uh catching up on on some of them, and now now is when we've

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had to we've been able to have the time to go ahead and send them out. But I agree, we should be sending them out more closely uh with >> Yeah, obviously as contemporaneously as possible. Yeah. Um you go to send them out within 60 to 90 days. >> I mean, personally speaking, if if it

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were me, uh I would be personally a little upset if I'm just trying to put myself in the shoes of those residents, right? like if I um if I hit one of these things and then like 9 months later I get is when I get the the

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notice, you know, I I get it. You know, you you cause the damage, you got to pay it obviously, but it's just the the optics of coming at them nearly a year later. But, um that was one question. The other question I guess is also how many are

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pending, but in terms of per special taxing district, who's who's getting broken the most? You know, which ones are the problem childs? It's kind of even across the board. The one that I would say has the least, I

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can tell you without a doubt, is Miami Lake section one, the visitor lane. You said that's the least >> the least. >> That is interesting. >> Does my mate section one have a a speed

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hump in front of that one? >> That is correct. >> Yes. >> Right. Okay. We we've discussed that that there's a purpose of that and that's interesting. >> Okay. One other Go ahead. >> I I wanted to make a suggestion. And I I did uh run this by uh my superior before

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presenting it to you, but the funding that we get from the gate arm reimbursements, one thing that we can consider is turning around and using that to purchase speed humps for each location. that will dramatically lower the

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the risk of CRA hitting the gates and it will be a cost savings overall because ultimately the truth is we could go after every sing every single person um that hits a gate arm but the chances of

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us actually getting reimbursed for all of them are is not it's not going to happen. It's not going to be 100%. Um, uh, if we get 40 to 50, it that's that's probably a good number of what we're going to foresee to have. You know,

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these are, uh, ultimately the, um, the letters that we're sending out are for fees, invoices of 130 to$180, $190. uh you you got to take into account

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what's the cost benefit of uh going to for through your insurance time all of that to to do that. So I think realistically if we could turn around and take those funds that we do get and

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use them to improve our s our our that's that's a win because that'll lower it down the road. >> Quick question on that. Um, another kind of like division of the statistic is would you say that there's

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more polls getting hit on entrances or on exits? I feel like exits people are coming a little quick because they know it's going to open automatically and then they might inadvertently strike it. Or in the case of Miami Lake section one, if there's a car in front of you on the stop sign, sometimes people get

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caught in the middle and might hit it. I don't know. So, which one would you say is more, entrances or exits? I would actually say it's the resident lanes, >> the the resident gates, the resident entrance gates. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Because they're especially Roy Oaks on

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the Royal Oak side, the 79th, people are flying through there and it's based on you pressing a button and if you don't press the button on time or if you're going too fast, you will hit the gate. And that's what I've seen happens uh far more often. >> Okay. And then the related question is

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the speed bump at section one. If I if my memory serves me, if it's there today, uh it's it's one of like the rubber plastic bolt-in ones or is it not? It's like one of the very simple ones. We're not talking about asphalt speed bumps, right? >> Correct. It's commercial grade, but it's

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it's a simple >> Those are very cheap. >> Simple, affordable. I believe if I if my memory serves me right, I think the cost of it was somewhere around $600 for that. >> Not including the insulation, which I would say is maybe another $80. Wouldn't something like that, given that it's

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directly related to the infrastructure of the guard house structure and how it works, be something that can come out of one of the the accounts existing in the budget? >> Absolutely. >> Okay, good to know. Um, that that's for

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a later item. Um, all right. So, anything else on the gate arm reimbursements? Uh, is it on the gate arm reimbursements? >> No. >> No, >> it's on the speed hump. >> On the speed hump. Okay. Yeah. But basically, you know, there's an old saying that in

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Spanish, I don't know how to translate it to English. Can somebody help me? So, we're going to do a one time. Why don't we do a one time? So, if these inexpensive speed humps are cuz I've seen them, you put

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them in a year later they're destroyed. Why are we not using the uh the ones that are made are asphalt and we get more for our for our money? I think that would be a question for you the council to to make that decision. Uh

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you know what you would like to to see installed there. Uh that I would say that there's some things that you have to take into consideration. Number one is those lanes are meant to Can you hear me? Okay. Okay. Um,

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one thing that you need to consider is that those lanes need to be um, uh, run run through by emergency vehicles. So, it has to be it can't be something that's going to stop them completely in their tracks when they're

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when they're driving to an emergency. Um, that was one of the conversations way back when when the first one was installed at Miami Lake section one. Um uh the other thing you got to consider is the cost of putting asphalt. Uh it's going to be more costly probably to

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install uh asphalt ones. It it may uh last longer, but I will tell you that the one that we've installed at Miami Lake section 1 was installed uh roughly 3 years ago and it's still in great condition. >> Yeah. You remember they're they're approaching the gate arm anyway. So

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they're going like two miles an hour already. like they're they're already slowed down because of the the gate. So So it's not like those speed bumps there are getting abused with cars going 30 miles an hour over them. Um anything else on on this item? Uh so on that that

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closes item 5e. Um as I said before, I'm going to go ahead and reopen public comments to those first here uh physically in the audience and then those online. Uh I know that some people strolled in a little after the meeting. Uh so anyone who'd like to speak in

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public comment, especially now after having heard some of these things, even if you were here before, uh please feel free to do so now. >> Yes, you need to approach the podium and welcome. Just state your name and address for the record. Oh,

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>> you you okay? Leg asleep. >> Thank you, sir. Can you give me the street one more time? East Tune. How many speed bumps were there before? But they never put these they never put

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them back in. So they put a sign when you turn right says they put a speed limit sign says 25 miles an hour. We have a lot of little kids. I have four granddaughters >> and they're outside and these people are

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going, you know, 40, 50, 60 miles an hour down that street on East Trune. >> Okay. >> So I we never had a problem with fire rescue getting through there. And those were asphalt like the gentleman brought up. It wasn't the uh

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It wasn't the other one. >> So, that might have been even in the cost you guys uh got the bid. That might even be in there already to put them back. >> It would. Um, thank you for your comment first of all for letting us know. Either way, that's going to get funded not

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through a special taxing budget, but but rather through our general uh um building funds, like from the general town funds uh as part of uh the the project that was done there. That was probably part of a drainage project, I assume. Yeah. >> Yeah, it was a drainage.

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>> So, so, so as part of that, >> but that was all repaved and they >> So, so we've written down the the street east circle um two speed bumps to the right after um Turnberry. >> Do you know of any others? I know you're here. >> I know that project was finished soon.

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>> Okay. >> Yeah, West TR I don't think was done. Yeah, there's you you can reach out to us and let us know cuz I I know that that project was completed not super long ago. So So um I'll let the manager know and make sure that that gets put on the list so that it gets the speed once again. >> And the other thing the gentleman

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brought up about the uh homeowners or about the um the the decals in Lloman, what happens is you put a sign right there at the guardgate and it says come January you better have your decal. You better pay for your decals. They pay

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everybody pays $40 and after January 1st, what happens is the guard delays you going in. So what happens is he comes around and he takes your license tag. Now that's annoying if you're a

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homeowner because you got to wait and you're thinking, "Okay, I'm not just driving in there. I live there." So it kind of forces them to go ahead and pay for it. And then you have to list who which cars are in that household. So

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you don't just give out four or five decals and then other people that don't live there in Royal Oaks can come in. So you kind of tie it into the actual uh folks that live there and whatever car you have to put the car down, year,

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make, model, and so forth. But I can tell you that's worked for us in lockman. We got a 100% participation. I hear 40 50%. If you have guard gates, which you do right in Royal Oaks, that should be at 100%. By February or March,

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are you you do it October? You do October to October or you do it in January? The new decals. >> The decals we we did it as a one-time uh we purchase decals for >> ours is every year. What we do is we change the color. So we collect quite a

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bit of money. >> I'll just also add I think that that's a Llman specific thing because again lock >> this is a suggestion. >> Yeah and Lman has like the blessing uh of it has a single HOA that governs the entire special taxing district. Every

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other special taxing district doesn't have that. They'll either have multiple HOAs within a single special taxing district and they don't always agree on everything. >> Okay. And then you have others like Royal Oaks where the special taxing district or the HOA doesn't cover the

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entire special taxing district. It's only a part of it. So it's a little bit complicated on on that side. >> Okay. >> Ron Ron. >> So Ron actually we uh or I took what you guys did in the H in lock lmen and try

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to mirror that for Royal Oak. So, we actually use the same vendor for for the decals as well. And and so, yeah, I spoke with Patrick before to kind of get an idea. One of the things that we had uh um taken to council was doing it on a

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on a yearly basis, >> but that's budgeting um you know, that that would cost budgeting every year for us. So, we decided on a one time uh but yeah, >> and then what happens is we actually have somebody that delivers to your house.

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>> So, you have it in your mailbox. After you pay, you leave it with the guard. Your check for $40. It's made out to Lockman Association. $40 goes, they collect that goes to one person that works with

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>> Don't ever let them tell you that HOAs have no benefits. >> Huh? Don't ever let them tell you HOAs don't have it and benefits because that that's a huge >> one person and then that person gets some kids to deliver them to the in everybody's mailbox. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. You're welcome.

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>> Appreciate it. And uh wake up your leg. >> Anyone else in chambers uh wishing to speak having heard what what was brought up? Uh seeing none, Madam Clerk, can you see if uh uh we still have I think Mr. Fernandez online and yes, any others?

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help desk, please. Um, there we go. I We see you, Mr. Fernandez. Welcome. >> Welcome. Um, Mr. Vice Mayor, town council, uh, town clerk, thank you for allowing me to speak. Abel Fernandez, chapter 119. Uh, this is exactly the part that I want to, uh, hear about,

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vice mayor. So, thank you for actually this process of speaking on the items and then introducing public comments later. I think uh a lot of questions could be answered by hearing the comments that were provided. So let me speak a little bit about u the speed

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bumps and I'm glad you clarified it. Uh that should not be a cost borne by the u individual special taxing district. There was a uh I think a process that that a few years ago was brought forth

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and uh approved by the town council to install the speed bumps throughout the town uh in specific areas such as restricted lanes and there's a county ordinance on that. Uh there needs to be a traffic study. uh there needs to be a

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petition for that area with a 75% approval rating uh for the speed bump. So, I'd like for you to look at that uh more in depth. And uh Mr. Jiannis had brought up that the money that is

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collected from the uh gate arm uh recovery be used for these speed bumps. And I wholeheartedly disagree with that. Uh I'm glad you brought up of how many gates have been hit and when is the

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oldest time. Uh it was disheartening to hear that there was no factual numbers other than himming and high and uh approximates but the turnaround time on collecting on a

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uh gate arm that was damaged should should be pretty quick. uh 45 days. Uh as you mentioned, now getting a bill 9 10 months later isn't appropriate. Um if Mr. Jianz was out of pocket, uh are the

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special taxing districts going to be reimbursed for the time that he was out from his job since that is part of the contract monitoring that we're charged at special taxing districts. I I think that's something to look at. Uh, in

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regard to you see your chamber there and I'm the only one online unfortunately. I think that's the bigger issue, Vice Mayor, is to find out why folks aren't participating in the town government. And some people would say, well, they're

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happy. I I I don't think that's true. I it's either a communication issue or they've given up. Those are the only two avenues that I think that's happened. And I and I think that uh with your leadership, vice mayor, I've seen you do it before and also with uh uh with uh

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through you to uh through the chair to Stephen Hburg. Uh those are the folks and I heard Ray Garcia also mentioning it. Uh communication with the folks out here is what's important. And uh

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we don't know about it. You know, it's it's folks like me that are chapter 119. I don't I don't get a notice and there's no sign at the guard gate to tell me that there's a meeting going on. So

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that's something to ponder why folks aren't here. In respect to the contract monitoring cost, I saw that you're coming up with an amount that from this last meeting on first reading with a 4.5% amount budgeted uh for a cost. I I

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believe that contract monitoring is contract monitoring. If we were to add in all of the con all of the special taxing districts together for the cost of their contracts and divided it by the amount of HOAs, we would come up with a

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flat monitoring contract for each HOA. Uh it it shouldn't be different. And this has nothing to do with indirect cost or nothing to do with the cost of the guard uh duties or the guard cost

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for employment or even the structures. I'm talking about contract monitoring. That 4.5% charge shouldn't occur. We should all be paying the same regardless of what taxing district we're we're in because it's contract monitoring and the

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amount comes to over $110,000 right now plus the indirect cost is you know I I know that Mr. Giannis probably deserves that or more. But is that the only job he does or does he do other jobs such as the emergency management

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director for the town? So, I I ask you to really look at this cost. Uh I don't think you've had your second reading on it yet. I was out of town. Uh but I appreciate for you to look at those things. And uh and as far as

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communicating with with the HOA to for the sticker coordination, understand that the management company that oversees Royal Oaks, every time they click send email, they're charging us as an association a $50 charge.

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and and that's a problem. So, I look for other ways uh maybe uh uh you can speak with uh your communications department to to get the notification out there. Uh maybe it's one of those lighted signs that that

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tell you to slow down or so is a message and it could flash on there the picking up of your decals. Anyway, thank you for your time. I appreciate what everybody's doing. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Fernandez. And as far as the the just to answer his question about the the budget process, the only

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thing that we've done, correct me if I'm wrong, is set the cap rate, which is the maximum possible rate that they could be charged. We could still come down from there. And the budget itself has not yet been set. That's later. >> The assessment rate is set. >> The assessment rate is set. That's not even a cap rate. We can't come down.

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>> Correct. That isn't that assessment rate is set. Now, the budget itself you can move around >> how you deem fit. So if we wanted to change that, we we we can during the budget process and then but it would then maybe go to savings through the the

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contingency reserve or something like that and then applied as savings the the following year or something like that. >> Correct. >> Okay, understood. Uh but either way, like today we're not really addressing the the budgetary items other than obviously within all of our items, we're thinking about budget and and how to how

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to most efficiently use it. Um is there anyone else online, Madam Clerk? Yes. And I want to welcome Miss Sophia Lorenzo. I don't believe she wants to speak, but I see her picture and I know she's a participant. So, welcome. And

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that's it. >> Okay. And uh while I give Miss Lorenzo a second to see if she does want to speak, uh I did just want to say that uh when Mr. Fernandez uh mentioned the $50 per email by the HOA. Our turn clerk our town clerk jumped up like way too

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excitedly as though, you know, if if she charged 50 bucks per email, we would be rich. We would not have a budget problem. [laughter] >> I I just want to make a comment on that. Um I I did speak with the property management group GRS uh about a year ago

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about about exactly that and they did assure me that the any emails that they send on behalf of the town to provide our emails to provide more information to the residents they were going to do it uh free on on behalf of of of the of the residents so that to provide more

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information. I don't know if that's continuing. Um, but I just so that you know that we did have that conversation and they did assure me that it would be free for those >> understood. Obviously, they're they're a private entity and they're free to do as as they deem fit. Uh, I was just making a joke that that would be a great way to

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to have more in the budget. Um, all right. With that, um, if Miss Lorenzo didn't want to speak, uh, we'll go ahead and move forward with the agenda. We are on item 5F, codifying STD ordinances from county uh service modernization options.

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So, um okay, I I'm I'm reading it backwards. I apologize. So, codification of the district operating ordinances. All six uh districts still operate under the original Miami date county uh operating ordinances.

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uh chapter 38 of the town code references it but it's not codified. So all six county citations have been sourced and verified and all and um a council member uh council agenda has been drafted. Um, we are going to be

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presenting you uh with the first um um reading in the August um regular council meeting to finally do what we've needed to do for a while, which is codify the ordinances into the town code. >> So, just to be clear, they are word for

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word replicas of the originals. >> Word for word replicas. No no change to to them. We're just codifying it into the town code. It's something that we've >> needed to do for a long time. >> Perfect. Any questions on that item, >> Councilman? I mean, I was under the

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impression that the county had given us all the full powers. >> They did. We we uh operate the special taxing districts. However, the the they're still governed under their original county ordinance. So, it's not

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part of our code or our code of ordinances. Uh so what he's saying is hey let's simply replicate the the original one uh so that it's part of our code. Um I I do understand a lot of residents sometimes have difficulty locating it even though we have it on our on our town website which is a great

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uh feature. But it's just a matter of bringing it under our umbrella properly. But yes, we do operate our our special taxing districts. >> Right now if you go to the book of ordinances the the entire code you will not find in our town code. you will not

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find those six ordinances because they don't exist there. They exist under the county. What we would be doing is adding those to our book. So, anytime anybody looks through the county uh the town's ordinances, you will find it there

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>> and that and that's a a great idea and uh it should have been done sooner and I actually am ashamed that I didn't bring that up sooner. Um, anything else on on this item or any other questions? Council member. >> Yes, Vice Mayor. Just a quick question. Um, as far as codifying that, are we

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required to codify word for word to have it? We have to follow exactly word for word. We can't make it bespoke to our I mean, following that, but make any changes because again, we're a unique. We've had time to see the difference between what the county does and what we do. Anything

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we can do as a body to make it more bespoke to the needs of Miami Lakes instead of just a county. I know we have to codify in our ordinance which is of course a good idea. We can't tweak it in any way. We can't make it special for us. I mean there are certain things that we found over the you know couple

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decades we have some unique needs as well. I mean is there anything >> we can do? I'll go ahead and just tell you. So the issue is any modification uh the the trigger point for the the full-fledged formal process of amendment

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is very very thin. Meaning it's very easy to trigger the need for a formal amendment process. Uh so anything like what you're referring to outside of like if the Miami Dade County version says uh Miami Lakes section one a special taxing

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district of Miami date county. I could see how that could easily be changed with a special taxing district of the town of Miami Lakes. That I see. So, so I I would say that that's okay. Um I would still reference that the original might might have said something else,

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you know, but changing it, you're right, we we have different needs and and and wants and all those things, but that has to go to the residents of the special taxing district for them to vote on and decide. I so I've had discussions that was, you know, that was my item. I've had discussions with the town attorney.

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I think once we codify it, right, it's the first step. I I personally I think we can look at it and and see what we're allowed to change and what not. Once you're codified, it's our or it is our ordinance and we got to follow what the ordinance says. Uh so that's something that the town attorney is looking into.

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This is just step one. Once we get past step one, then I think your your idea is something that we would we should have the town attorney review and determine what we can't and can't do. Um, so but the only way we can even think about what you want to do, which I I tend to

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agree with, is by doing this first. Right. >> Right. That's the only way. So, I I I I think we should take it safe and codify it just like it is, which I'm sure I assume that's what they'll bring to us in August and then we can start digging into it because I'm I I think you and I are on the same page of seeing what we

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can do or maybe we can't. That's up to the town. >> I definitely agree that you're right. Uh I I actually said that and I take it back that if it currently says a a special taxing district of Miami date county, we should have it now say a special taxing district of the town of Miami Lakes. We shouldn't do that. It it

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should say a special it should say the wrong thing. It should say of Miami date county and then when it becomes our ordinance we can then do a simple modification that won't trigger the formal amendment process because it's just cleaning it up. Um, however, I

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think that what you're referring to, I I don't know if you're laying out specifics on on what those town specific needs are, but most likely don't don't forget there was there's an ordinance passed when I first came in uh

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that it's like a very hair light trigger that that almost any change that you want to make to that ordinance is going to trigger the formal amendment process, which will require in case of lock moment, you know, they did it with their their HOA, you know, submitted their

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their letter of intent and whatnot. Uh, or in the case of the others, they'll go through a petition process and then eventually they'll they'll get to actually vote on it. Um, like I said, to avoid that process, I I I intentionally made it very difficult.

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>> I I know and I do plan potentially. I don't know. I haven't thought and and and the next thing here, service monetization. And I assume you don't have too much for us right now. Um, based off what comes back here, I think we might want to look at your ordinance

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and maybe not make it so tight, modify that, and then see. I don't know what the town attorney's position is on once we codify our own ordinance, what we can and can't do. I really don't. I have I haven't looked at it into it at all. So, I think it's just it's a discussion, but we got to do the first thing. And I I

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don't know what they're going to bring to us in August. Maybe you're right. Maybe it just has to be exact copy that makes the most sense. uh they just bring it in and then we can dig and see what we can and can't do. But correct, your ordinance is very tight. Uh and and it's meant to be that.

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So that's another discuss that's another discussion we'll we'll have to have to see if we want to change some things or not. >> Perfect. Any other comments on this um on that? Any Did you actually have an answer on what you were going to discuss

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as far as service modernization options? I was uh just simply going to say that in response uh in response to the item 16A from the past uh town council the June uh regular council meeting uh we're

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kind of gathering information and and uh identifying uh different options. Um and I think this would be something to bring back after uh the codification process. um what gives us enough time to kind of thoroughly review all our options and

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then present something to you at at a future uh regular council meeting. Ju I'm sorry and just to just to say one more thing the different things that we've looked at to this point are um technology first automation for the full

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thing um hybrid automation with reduced staffing and then uh the last one which is augmented traditional staffing with additional with uh offduty police. So those are the different options that we're looking at to to this point.

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>> And just to be clear, we are referring to the actual guard and replacing them with either technology first or something like the the screen with like the the virtual guard and is that what we're referring to? >> Yeah. And and given that this is a workshop, that's why I kind of

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>> Yeah, it's okay to bring it up. >> So it's a open dialogue conversation as to because I know that's an item that you presented. So, if there's any additional conversations on it that we could discuss how you want to what you want to see and and things like that.

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>> I I I think you're on point to to me in my head. I think there's a definite opportunity. At the end of the day, the the biggest cost is to human beings, right? It's the staffing by far. Uh so if there's a way to reduce it but provide great service based off the rough figures I've done you could you

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could reduce you can get rid of the guards but also add add uh law enforcement at night. Right. So and that's some that's a I mean we I just want options and once there's options we go out to the community and see if they're even into it what we need to do if we would have to have votes to change

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things like that. There's a this is a going to be a long process to even consider it in my opinion, but I do want to know the options. And the residents I speak to, I they don't care about the guards. I don't know if you see her the same. If I when I I've spoken to a

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handful when I told them, "Well, would you rather have an offduty police officer, Miami date police officer, roving our neighborhood from 10 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. and not have guards and just automate it?" Most of them say yes. They would rather have that. I mean, it's funny. Actually, I woke up last night. My kids woke up. Had a nightmare at 4:30

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in the morning outside my outside my window. I saw uh my uh an officer, you know, just patrolling nice and slow with the lights on. It was great. It's awesome seeing that. So, if we have the opportunity to provide that to neighborhoods, they have to pay for it. I think we might get a lot of um a lot

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of positive feedback on that. But that that's my that's my idea. And there's a lot of technology, but out there, too. But at the end of the day, it's a public street. So, it's just the gates will go up and down. snap the plate instead of having a person snap the plate. Right.

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So it it but I see this as a very long process to determine if we're going to make any changes. >> So I I'll just kind of say Oh, go ahead. Uh come up to the podium. That's why I like the workshop setting.

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>> Patrick uh Patrick Cuckle 15860 West Preswick Place right here in Miami Lakes. Thank you guys uh for allowing me to interrupt. So I hear this and you kind of know what I've been fighting for for the last couple of years. What what timeline are you thinking on

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this so that uh on on looking at automation options and hopefully staff will come back to us >> I don't know by well hopefully sta I mean we're talking about codifying so that's August September. So hopefully staff comes back

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to us around October with with options and cost and things like that. So it's I mean obviously it's it's something that if it ever happens would be following fiscal year like so it's going to take time. >> Yeah. >> Um and I would need feedback from the communities especially such as Loman.

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They have their own HOA >> and I'm not bringing it up for objection. You you help me with uh what's going on with trying to move forward our guard house. It kind of would change the game. um that take. Yeah, that's why I'm asking and interrupting. So, >> I think by sometime this year, late this

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year, we should have a good idea on options and cost, right? And then we can start discussing what we're allowed to do and can't do. Loman's in a different situation because you have a lot more flexibility based off the ordinance. So, there's something you say, "Oh, my residents are all for it." I would love to hear about it. >> Okay.

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>> Thank you. >> As the councilman said, it's um it's up to the the individual. Now, we've already budgeted for >> for the uh the guard house and things like that. So, I mean, again, it's up to your community what they what they would like. So, each individual community might want different things.

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>> No, I get it. >> But as the councilman said, options >> if we have options, we give we present the options to to the residents. If there's opportunity to save money there, opportunity to raise the level of service with an actual police officer. Again, the whole the whole reason uh

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we're here is to present the options to to the residents. Oh, appreciate that. Of course. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. And uh I'll just kind of answer Patrick's point, but also at the same time give my my I guess two cents on what's been discussed here. Um you

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know, the the the ordinance, the amendment ordinance was made restrictive because these districts for the most part are set and forget, right? It's a very simple concept. we we put a guard there and that's what we want. We're

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going to pay for that. It shouldn't really change too much. It's it's not rocket science. Um and and going beyond and then it became a danger and and we saw that danger with some [snorts] past councils in starting to expand the role of of these uh special taxing districts.

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Uh, for example, when when the um the license plate reader cameras were paid for out of a special taxing district just because it was placed essentially adjacent to or on the border of a special taxing district, right? And and that's not something within the special

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taxing district's uh uh ordinance. Um the ordinances for the most part, as far as I can tell, all call for a man guard house. So, in order to go to an unmanned guard house, you would require it would absolutely trigger that that um

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amendment process. To be crystal clear, I absolutely think that these guardouses in 2026 are better served with a virtual guard. I I I think you two both articulated it. I don't live in a security district, so I just listen to

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what you guys say, what the residents say, but also my own experience. You know, I drive into section one every single morning and those guards, they're a physical presence. Sure. But I mean, now recently in in the summer, they're not almost not even a physical presence

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because they're putting their umbrella out and I don't even see her. Uh she because she's blocked by her umbrella, which I understand because it it's hot. Uh it's summer. Um but I did just want to make it absolutely clear it would have to go through the amendment process

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though. Not even the exception, but the the one that doesn't have to go through a painstaking process happens to be Lachlman. Once again, the only if if you want more modern things, you want to get rid of the guard, you just got to send us a letter on behalf of the HOA and that kicks off the process just like

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with the renovation of the guard house. It's a lot easier for you guys. Uh, so you guys make that decision as an HOA and and you know, send it over to to JP and and we'll we'll start working on it pretty much right away. >> No, no, that that at the end of the day,

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how the system changes is wholly up to you guys. Wholly up to you guys. Um, any other comments on on this point? All right. Can >> Did we cover item G? >> Was this part of that? >> No. >> No. Okay. C

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>> can I just make one um >> Go ahead. >> Suggestion when discussing this. We're focused on the guard house and and uh adding technology to the guard house. A lot of the locations have uh barriers.

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Uh, Royal Oaks, for example, has barriers on on other roads that are um locations that technology could probably be added to. I think of, and I I think I brought this up in in a past workshop, but Northwest 83rd Place in Royal Oak

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Section 1 is a a point of entry. It's a B the street is is blocked off, but the sidewalks are not. And so, what's happened is some uh Yeah. People have taken their cars, gone in there, gone through those gates, and robbed those ho

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those homes that live near north live near the uh the barrier gate. Um we've spoken with PD about it. PD is on alert of that and things have gotten better of in in those locations, but it's still a

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area that is for the most part not fully watched 247 like the guardouses. So, that's something to consider. Maybe when we talk about technology, adding cameras to the the the barrier gates, things of that nature. If we're going to look at technology,

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it it shouldn't just stop at the the gate arms. >> Yeah, I I would agree. But again, like like everything else, it's it's not in the ordinance. It would need to It's up to the residents. You know, we we don't um supersede their public opinion. Uh

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and if they say yes, I'm all for it. I agree. I I definitely think that that makes complete sense. If you have an unmanned gate through which it's an obvious security flaw, uh then then you should repair that flaw with with the cameras that can be viewed from the

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guard house. Uh that that that I think makes complete sense, but as long as the residents agree. Um anything else on this item? >> Yes. >> Go ahead. >> The AI, if you put a robot there with a dog, he doesn't go to sleep and he doesn't need to go to the restroom. So

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consider that. >> Are you trying to buy one of uh Elon Musk's Tesla robots? >> I'm I'm sure that fits our budget. Um go ahead with item 5G. >> Um so we're going to be presenting to you at the upcoming uh regular council

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meeting on the 21st. um an amendment to the existing ordinance chapter 38 um basically defining a capital improvement. Currently, it's not defined in the ordinance what a capital improvement uh is and this is being

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brought up specifically because right now we're going through our first capital improvement with uh with Lach Lman. So we want to make sure that we define it properly and and and have it uh codified in the ordinance going forward so that the process is the same

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going forward. Um so uh we're looking at uh like I said presenting that to you at the upcoming uh council meeting. Just wanted to >> Is there already a draft? >> It's already been drafted. Yes, >> it's in the agenda. Okay, good. Um, aside from that, so that's coming now in

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in June for first reading. >> Uh, July. Yes. >> Sorry. July. >> Yeah. >> For for first reading. Okay, perfect. Any comments or questions on that? >> No. Any other items? >> Do me a favor and feed the fish so that they grow faster.

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>> I'll work on that. >> Other than that, seeing no other business, I am going to adjourn this meeting at 7:46 p.m. Have a great day, everyone.