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going to start off with uh a couple certificates of recognition uh for the first time history uh the Barbara Gman Senior High mock trial team took first place and I heard and I heard it was not close in
the Miami Dade uh mock TR District championships and they are now going to the state finals up in Orlando so we're here to number one recognize them wish them the best of luck and I think we got some goodies for you so uh that being said we are gonna actually recognize
each and every one of you one by one for this achievement you know a a team is like a chain it's as only as strong as its weakest link meaning each and every one of you play a vital role in this win as well as your coaches your mentors
everyone uh the honorable Judge Andrea wolson everyone who has supported you played a vital role in getting you this far and on continuing to get you further get you into States is there a Nationals after let's go let's go to Nationals
let's take over I want to hear Miami Lakes and Barbara G in Nationals let's get it done all right so as I call your name uh each going to be receiving a certificate of recognition from the town that's going to state that it is presented to you personally in
acknowledgement of your outstanding success and success on and contributions to the Barbara Gman Senior High High School mock trial team which led to achieving the highest cumulative points among 20 competing schools and becoming the Miami Dade County mock trial
District champion the town of Miami Lakes proudly honors your dedication to teamwork and commitment to Excellence in your Pursuits and personally as an attorney myself I know firsthand how difficult these competitions are how much of a pressure cooker they are your ability to
compete Under Pressure will pay dividends when you get to the bar when you start actually litigating so congratulations once again to each and every one of you uh as I call you up come up and and uh and grab your certificate we're going to start off with Adriana Garcia
Brenda La laor congratulations and you can stay up here if you want sorry I'm gonna be moving a little bit congratulations El elizab Isabella loada
I cannot read C congratulations Isaiah Wy it's a lot easier jayen Maldonado maranne Slattery Marcus Donaldson nicholet gavo
Sophie Rodriguez Valeria sapata Vladimir BOS he's not here yes Ming Grio and all right we already said Mr velos was not here and then of course to
the honorable Judge Andrea wolson and I think I'm missing one elianis Valdivia I'm gonna have to talk to JV we owe you a certificate thank you
here you go JV we're missing uh Elan I'm gonna hand you this one temporarily bring the trophy and let's get a picture e e before you run off too far uh Barbara
Gan oh there there she is nice see show up before you guys show up I do want to welcome the the Miami Lakes Bar Association as well as the town Foundation to join me up here uh cuz I think we have a little gift for you guys
it's our understanding that uh your expenses to get to the state competition in Orlando was approximately $4 4,652 uh and we're very happy that not only the the town Foundation but the Miami Lakes Bar Association has also
stepped up to present you with a check for $1,000 from the Miami Lakes Bar Association you have ours this show must go on uh and then from the town for $3,652 uh that way your entire trip
costs are going to be covered and you guys can go to States and worry about the competition rather than the money should should we bring them back up or yeah come back up come back up let's get a big picture e that's the actual thing
all right once again a very big round of applause for the Miami Lakes Bar Association and the Miami Lakes Town foundation for putting up the money and let's go Gators let's go get it done e e e
if you guys need uh test jurors or test uh judges I I volunteer the rest of the council Al righty by the way I don't know I it if you can raise me up just a little bit all righty we're going to move on to our
first proclamation of the of the night this is going to be a proclamation for March 2025 to be declared as coloror colorl cancer awareness month and we have this Proclamation and it reads as follows whereas cctl cancer is the
second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States among men and women combined whereas screening for colorl cancer can lead to earlier detection and save lives by allowing for the prevention and treatment of this disease whereas although coloral cancer is one
of the few cancers that can be prevented by timely screening it is estimated that only one in three people who are eligible for screening are doing so whereas a champ whereas a champion for research and prevention was lost with the passing of City a of Aventura
commissioner Michael Stern the town of Miami Lakes joins the City of Aventura in recognizing the late Aventura commissioner Michael Stern as an advocate of fight colorl cancer and their combined efforts to increase awareness and offer education on the importance of early detection and
screening of coloral cancer and whereas the town of Miami Lakes and the a Aventura City commission are both committed to using Color coloral Cancer Awareness Month to inform the public on the importance of prevention and treatment now therefore I Brian Mora on
behalf of Mayor Josh Diez by The Virtue by virtue of the authority vested in him as the mayor of town of Miami lakes and on behalf of the Town Council and 33,000 Miami Lakers do hereby Proclaim March 2025 as colorl Cancer Awareness Month in the town of Miami Lakes
we going to take a little bit of a break to get give a chance to some of the other uh people who are receiving okay perfect we got one of them here so let's go ahead and move forward that one all righty Lupe would you like to come
up here you go this one's for you oh my here you go so so this is a proclamation proclaiming uh March 20th 2025 as Lupe bruneman day uh and the proclamation reads as follows
whereas Lupe bruneman has been a dedicated healthc care professional in the town of Miami Lakes making significant contributions to the healthcare landscape through her leadership expertise and unwavering commitment to to improving the lives of others whereas Lupa bruneman has been a
leader in the managed care and HMO industry since the late 1980s bringing her extensive knowledge and experience to Miami Lakes where she has helped ensure that underserved communities receive the Vital Information and education needed to make informed healthc care decisions whereas Lupe
bruneman holds a healthcare MBA from Florida International University go Panthers and a bachelor's degree in professional business management from Nova Southeast Eastern University sure which has laid the foundation for her distinguished seven-year career as a
regional director for Advocate Health advisers where she oversees 16 insurance agencies and more than 400 health insurance brokers in South Florida and on your spare time wow geez whereas and whereas Lupa bruneman has been a
passionate advocate for the senior community in Miami Lakes sponsoring and co-sponsoring events such as the town's annual Latinos and Alzheimer's conferences as as a member of the Latino Center on aging's Advisory Board she sponsors a weekly radio show called
radio Salud and Par mayores empowering seniors with critical information guidance and re resources recources resources that's on you JB required to navigate the very complex
world of of Medicare insurance now therefore I Brian Mora on behalf of Josh Diez by virtue of the authority vested in him as the mayor of the town of Miami Lakes and on behalf of the Town Council and 33,000 Miami Lakers do hereby Proclaim March 20th 2025 as Lupe
bruneman day in the town of Miami Lakes and and and don't think you're getting off that easy do you want to say a few words well thank you very very much this is a a huge privilege for me thank you Pedro thank you to the entire town of Miami leges for allowing me the
privilege to work among your citizens um I have had the extreme plure of working with many of the seniors in this town um again like the proclamation says it's true Medicare is very complicated as Federal insurance and it
gets more and more complicated every every day and um because of my experience in working with Medicare for so many years I just absolutely love help to help people navigate through that and and get the best coverage that that we all deserve so again for me this
is a huge huge huge privilege and it's only going to make me work harder and work with with more people so thank you so so much to everyone it's a privilege thank you so much so this is from the city of haia the the the the mayor is is sending you
this 100 anniversary uh challenge coin for you thank you so much thank you we're going to take a quick break uh because it's our understanding that the next recipient of the Proclamation is on the way so we're just going to take a quick break e
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settle down where's JV at all right last but not least we have a special Proclamation for someone who has been extremely helpful to our veterans community uh I've watched it over the years as you have very zealously made
sure to always advocate for the veterans committee and Veteran causes and uh you obviously have been a driving force along with our committee when it comes to uh the veterans run that we do every year um vice mayor Moda actually has encouraged everybody to participate in the next one so looking forward to that
we've Incorporated a a couple other challenges as well both to get us all fit and also to raise you guys some additional money to help advance to cause even further but with that today is about you and so I want to begin by reading from the proclamation that we've prepared to thank you for all that
you've done proclaiming today March 18th 2025 as Judy farus Sarah day whereas it's okay go go ahead go whereas Judy farus sah has been a dedicated member of the Miami Lakes
Community serving in the Miami Lakes veterans committee for three years and contributing significantly to the town's events and activities whereas Judy farer has chaired the reindeer run for the past three years achieving remarkable success in increased participation net
proceeds and Community awareness for our veterans through Judy fara's leadership the reindeer run events have raised over 150,000 in Revenue including sponsorships with a total of 1,587 participants registered she has
secured 99% of the events sponsors from across Miami day County fostering greater awareness and support for Miami Lakes while connecting the community in recognition of our veterans whereas Judy farer has supported the Jingle Bell Jog and the Miami Lakes Food and Wine
Festival as a dedicated sponsor and Advocate utilizing Billboards across Miami day County to promote Community kindness and engagement and whereas Judy farer has contributed to the community safety and appreciation efforts including sponsoring and promoting law
enforcement appreciation month and other Civic engagements and whereas Judy farasa has demonstrated her commitment to education and community service by supporting the education Advisory Board Awards of excellence and initiative at Barbara Gman Senior High School
including collaborating with the giv Gators on various projects now therefore I Joshua dieas by virtue of the authority vested in me as the mayor of the town of Miami Lakes and on behalf of the Town Council and 33,000 Miami Lakers do hereby Proclaim March 18th 2025 as
Judy farasa day congratulations happy to do it you have any words you want to sh sure sure yeah thanks um it's a very special day and I really really appreciate this happening thank you Pedro for pushing walls and
universes and everything else um I have been so honored to serve with these veterans you have no idea um charity and and volunteerism is a wonderful thing and it makes us all feel really good but once I joined these gentlemen and ladies in this committee I learned that
everybody should have a requirement to serve with veterans because it has changed my life I love them dearly and I wish I could have served in the military with them because they are the most incredible human beings they do not stop serving they serve this community and they are just the most fantastic people
I've ever been around so I will keep going and this is I'm not even halfway where I need to be with this yet she also receiving a a medal of 100 years from the vice mayor of AIA so he will bring it to her on her
office thank you just just to be clear it's a medal uh commemorating the city's 100 year anniversary she's not 100 years she's only 25 oh Jud we still need you for phot e e
all right so we don't have any other proclamations just yet and we have 15 minutes or a little less than 15 minutes until we we start so we'll take a little break allow those that want to leave to leave and then the rest of us uh get ready for our meeting e
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online all right it is 6:30 um at this time and we're going to begin um Madame clerk please call the role council member Fernandez present council member Garcia is not present council member
Quadra Garcia present council member hburg present council member Sanchez present vice mayor morera present mayor Diez here mayor you have Quorum excellent everyone please rise for the
prayer LED today by by councilman Alex Sanchez may we all make the right determinations for our town our residents to keep Miami Lakes a safe and secure area for not just everyone in this room but every resident every mother every father every grandfather
every grandmother Aunt uncle and child in this town may we make the wise decisions to keep everyone safe and moving forward in your name we pray amen amen now for the Pledge of Allegiance led by councilman Quadra
Garcia to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stays one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you you may take your
seats Council we're now on item number five the order of business uh if you have any deferrals additions or deletions now is the time um I would like to move up um that's not formally listed on the agenda given uh when it was submitted but I'd like to move up my
item 16l to right after public comments that would be the k38 renaming request in honor of former School Board member per toar uh hman are there any other uh changes uh being proposed okay see none that is the only one is
there a motion I'll move the uh amended agenda is there a second I'll second excellent it's been moved by the vice mayor and seconded by councilman uh Sanchez a all those in favor say I I all oppose no the meeting order is a uh is
amended we are now we are now in public comments anyone wishing to speak please come forward I will now allow the town clerk to read off the rules please Madam clerk go good evening and welcome to the regular council meeting public comments will be heard now at the beginning of each
meeting and once all the public comments are heard it will be closed each speaker will be afforded three minutes and please comments and questions from this attending public as well as from the virtually a audience are directed always to the mayor in a cous Stone to ensure
the orderly conduct and efficiency of the meeting public comments will be limited to 3 minutes and we also welcome the public that is watching us remote as always you just need a working microphone a working webcam and if you
want to speak raise your hand by clicking on the reactions icon and selecting raise hand if you also want to participate via phone the only thing you need to do is raise your hand by pressing asterisk 9 and our it will
allow you to speak welcome sir I'm sorry sir on the bottom of the mic there is a button thank you we're good now yes and now name and address uh good evening mayor and council members my name is George Gana and I reside at 8 8785 Northwest 162nd
Terrace tonight I am here uh out of concern for the Royal Oaks Park uh visitors are bringing in uh their dogs to the park where dogs are not allowed uh I against it because the owners are allowing the dogs to uh basically poop in the yard in the park and not cleaning
it up it's been a problem now for some time uh it's in the grass in the walkways and uh we need enforcement um we've talked to the park staff and they're powerless completely powerless so as a suggestion I think we need more signs uh indicating at the entrances
that no dogs are allowed uh you know I use the park daily and with my kids too so anything you guys can do and let me know if I can do anything and you know we'll do it okay thank you thank you good evening
all everyone um I'm here to request the renaming of Miami Lakes Elementary or Miami Lakes K through 8 now uh to be named a pead handil um K through actually it's prek
through e uh we I I think we all know who par the was she was a board member uh in our district and um she was um the one that actually built or had built the junior high which is the uh
addition to the elementary school and uh that was done in 2010 I believe and um oh okay um Miss hatman had much to do with adding the junior high school the prek
and the prek she was a wonderful woman um well she left us a well formed educational Legacy in her 26 years as a board member and 14 times board share
she was well respected I think we all did um pea was very dedicated to the field of Education of for all young and old we have a group of students here from the senior learner class that she
actually brought up to the town of Miami Lakes uh as well as uh an SMA Group which is a high school students that do not speak Spanish I mean English and she opened up that special um SMA success
management Academy for the students so that they can advance and get their um high school diploma and go on to um advanc you know like college um she was very very dedicated and in the field of
education for everyone she also brought the Cambridge program to Miami Lakes the Cambridge program is from the University of Cambridge it's a special program for high school students I think we'll all know about the Cambridge program here um
she opened also like I said the SMA and the senior programs um we have the taii we all know am Mar Collins all those programs am Mar Collins are brought in were brought in by Peres as well and um
and it helps these seniors uh socialize and get out of the house um as well as the sewing and um and the taii taii is sewing on computers they learn in the computer classes how to uh use the email
to get in touch with loved ones that live like in other countries or other states I'll be as fast as I can I think everybody uh and um anyway she was a very special lady and I like I humbly asked and request from all of you to um
honor her You You You can conclude really quickly okay but to honor her by naming this group thank you thank you Mary all here excellent you got back up I see of them there that's excellent now Mar just
so just so that we're able to comply with the rules if you can't just please put your name and address on the record oh sorry 69 you know where I live 6980 is Silver Oak Drive Miami L I'm two blocks from this school absolutely maram
thank you for being here go ahead good evening my name is Fred Sandra and I live uh right apparently Gina's mad at you for that was a quick three minutes that's funny he's got good so I live uh 14840 breckness Place uh Miami
Lakes for the last uh in Lake Cynthia for the last 43 years um and I come to you today Mr Mayor and council members uh for you to uh think about think very
hard of the U the need that we have and and I guess I'm kind of uh talking on behalf of the kids of the town which I'm sure that some of you have had if not kids your own kids but nephews and other
relatives that have used the Optimus Park from one time or another and let me tell you um I have been a supporter of the Optimus uh baseball program for the last 15 years um and it's kind of shameful to
see the condition that the park has you look at those dogouts in the you know in the uh the baseball fields and they look like uh they don't belong in Miami Lakes so I will encourage you on behalf of the
kids of our town to do whatever you can and I know we had a bond a few years ago I think a couple years ago I voted for the bond because I think that the increase that we would have would have had uh in our property taxes was really
minimal compared to the benefits that uh that we would have shown um if that project would have come to fruition uh but I do encourage you to move whatever monies you can and I know there is some money already budgeted for you know for
improvements and to do it as fast and as quick as you can because we are we're all proud of our town we we all take you know a tremendous proud of saying that we're Miami Lakers but when it comes to Optimus to the Optimus Park we just kind of walk away because you know it is
really uh you know a shame to see the way the park is and you see other cities the way they maintain their uh baseball parks and whatever I'm sure that Jeremy will present a good program at some point in time uh to you um to with all the needs that uh that we have and all
the improvements that we have to make in the park so I encourage you to really consider uh all you can on behalf of the kids of Miami Lakes thank you so much see I beat the clock thank well done well done next speaker
please good afternoon good evening Mr Mayor vice mayor council Gina Town manager my name is William garga I've been a resident in Miami l uh for over 25 years uh our first uh uh
my address is 16721 Northwest 78th Place inside Royal Oaks my my first home was on the West Side um we put the contract there in 1998 and then we had a dream of moving into more upscale Community Royal Oaks and finally in 2011 that dream
became a reality for my family uh some of you know me uh and know I am pretty involved in the town and I'm not one to complain but I rather take action uh but I'm here today uh to express my concern about the nature of
these short-term rentals in our town of Miami Leakes uh specifically Royal o the community where I reside um so I took some notes and I want to uh just read to make sure that I don't miss any points here right so first and foremost the
nature of these short-term rentals can disrupt the sense of security and stability that families in the area value deeply uh High turnover of tenants creates an unpredictable environment which can affect both the quality of
life and the safety of the residents uh the transient nature of short-term guest often prevents establishing last relationships between neighbors okay and that is uh in turn something that diminishes the the family
oriented atmosphere the close relationships that makes these uh these communities so desirable right Additionally the potential for increased noise and traffic associated with short-term rentals could significantly
detract from a peaceful residential character of the area these properties May attract large groups leading to concerns about overcrowding parking shortages which I live on a daily basis practically as I
have one near me and disturbance during late night hours I have experience multiple times 1:00 in the morning screaming cars honking and making loud noises with this fancy engines right uh
all of which compromise the tranquility and enjoyment of family life finally the commercialization of Residential Properties through short-term rentals could lead to erosion of property values I encourage you to think about that uh families typically invest in homes with
the expectation of a stable environment the presence of short-term rentals uh properties might create a shift in neighborhood Dynamics uh I want to encourage all of you to think hard have more discussions on this uh I'm happy to support but please let's come up with
some code or legislation against this thank you thank you very much Bonnie Centron 14 770 Lewis Road I was not going to speak because I hadn't had a chance to get my notes organized I
just got a copy of the um agreement between the school board and our town for the Optimus Park is 24 pages long I just got it at 4:00 and I didn't have a chance to digest it well but I did sort
of come out with this idea um conclusion that nowhere does it say that we have to provide for all of the improvements that we came up with in that reconfiguration plan that that
sketch that has the all of the fields reconfigured the only thing we have to do according to that was we have to provide a regulation siiz High School size baseball field
so one of the fields there if it is not already regulation size has to be that according to what we agreed to and we should provide more bathrooms uh the other things are not
that we're in that grandiose plan that would cost millions of dollars there's no way we have to do that and it would be really foolish for us to be spending that kind of money it's not our field and I I read through
as I said it was quite lengthy and it's in legal Dragon so uh I will read it again but it seems like we really got a bad deal there I don't know why that was ever agreed upon with some of the
stipulations but it's there and um I would say how come the town people the population never got to vote on whether or not we wanted to do those things that were on that grandiose plan that I
really basic improvements making sure the batting cages are up to par and the dugouts that's fine but please don't think that we are obligated to do a massive overhaul of that park at our
expense because we're not according to law from what I could understand thank you thank you next speaker okay Carlos Andre 14530 dat Pine Avenue uh mayor councel Town management uh thank you for having me um starting
off with some compliments uh I I know I've been hearing some of the meetings about uh sidewalks well guess what sidewalks were place on my block not just in my block but in multiple other neighborhoods so thank you uh the other thing is I want to uh recognize uh Deputy uh baka actually from the sheriff's office which has done a great
job handling uh non-emergency calls in my neighborhood has gone uh the additional mile to make sure that uh our concerns are addressed I'm here to speak of um as a chairperson of the Public Safety Committee related to item 16f the amendment to the committee rules I urge
the Town Council to streamline um the recommended changes uh to make them rules-based with no discretion make them very simple what I'm proposing is simply to have four opportunities these two opportunities would be unexcused appes no questions asked I don't want to uh
put anybody's business on YouTube on why they're missing a meeting and two opportunities to come in Via video conferencing or telephone Now video conferencing asteris that would be whoever is uh what system is being administered from you know with the town
right now I believe we're using Zoom so that the person that is speaking from home or remotely would be going in through Zoom or calling in via the uh I believe Lees a phone now in the conference room that would be backed up by what I call the acronym par uh which
would be the secretary of the committee which is going to document who is in person who is absent or who is remote that would be a running tally for the calendar year to keep um accountable those committee members making sure that they are serving um as they should keep
in mind 12 meetings in a year if you don't have a subcommittee right that's four absences or four opportunities now to be there I also recommend to add a code of conduct when we have folks that are representing the committee they're not just representing the committee they're representing the town so they
should act accordingly um and that's something that I'm recommending to to add to the end of the committee rules which pretty much speaks to acting ethically and quarterly avoiding conflicts of interest whether apparent or actual complying with applicable laws promoting an ethical inclusive and
respectful environment and serving the public with any questions or concerns and if they don't have the answer we'll get someone that does have the answer so I think it's very important that when we wear that Polo as committee members that we are representing the town at large thank you thank you very much uh next
speaker good evening sir name and address good evening my name is Nathan padillo I live at 15549 Miami Lakeway North in celebration Point uh I'm not good at public speaking so I wrote it all out so excuse me me if i s monotonous uh it's your time to do as
you pleased with the three minutes you got thank thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak before you today I come before you to advocate for the Redevelopment of the existing underutilized tennis courts in Miami Lakes Optimus park into multiple pick ball courts to respectfully request the necessary funding to make this project a
reality as you may know pickleball is one of the fastest growing Sports in the country and Miami Lakes is no exception in fact there is a strong and growing demand for more pickleball courts in our town to demonstrate this you'll find a copy in front of you of a petition that
we have gathered of over 280 signatures in just 6 days from res from residents who are eager to see more opportunities for pickleball in our community given all small the courts are and how few people the courts can currently hold having over 280 signatures is an
impressive show of interest from a small community this petition reflects the enthusiasm and support of our residents who are passionate about this Sport and are asking asking for the town to meet this demand currently these courts are not affiliated with any league and two of the four existing tennis courts are
primarily used for pickle ball with little to no use for tennis given this it makes sense to repurpose this underutilize space into multiple pickle ball courts this will not only meet the growing demand but also maximize the use of our available space in a way that directly benefits the community
pickleball is accessible to people of all ages from children to seniors providing a fun and healthy activity that encourages physical fitness and consultant interaction and believe me when I say the seniors are some of the best people I've ever played with in addition similar projects have been successful in nearby areas such as in
PSN where underused courts were converted into pickleball courts resulting in Greater Community engagement and higher Court utilization this example serves as a great model for how we can enhance our Park and Recreation offerings here in Miami Lakes with that in mind I'm asking
the council to consider providing necessary funding to redevelop the existing tenant courts and to multiple pickle ball courts by investing in this project we will not only meet the growing demand for pickle ball but also improve the overall recreational opportunities available to our residents this would be a valuable step in
fostering a more active inclusive and connected Community I know that funding decisions require careful consideration but I believe the strong community support and the many benefits of the this re Redevelopment will bring will make this an investment worth making
together we can create a space that encourages Health wellness and for people of all ages in conclusion I urge you to consider the overwhelming support from our residents and the benefits that this freed development would bring by converting these existing tennis courts into multiple pickleball courts we can
create more opportunities for physical activity Community engagement and improve the quality of life here in Miami Leakes thank you for your time thank you very much next speaker mayor council members my name is Dian gimenez I'm a student at Barbara Gman Senior High School um this past uh March
9th I had the honor of representing not only my school but District 4 uh and Robert Alonzo at the PE toar hment 2025 Miami national college fair where I actually saw council member Sanchez with his kids and his wife so um you know uh
representing not only our our area but you know upholding the the legacy of pear tabaris was was something very impactful due to the fact that she had just passed away a couple of days before
so I just want to show my support today for uh the the resol the memorandum to rename Miami Lakes K R8 after pear tabaris hman uh Not only was she you know a fighter for postsecondary instit
tion for a lot of students which you know statistics demonstrate that students who pursue postsecondary institutions at you know at large have higher success rates throughout uh and you know the people you meet and overall
naming this school after her it's not something that she necessarily fought for but it's something that her Legacy has led not just me but all the PE a majority of the people today here in the audience to come and support that uh so what you know with that I I urge you
guys to take that into consideration uh on top on top of that I also want to talk about another thing which is the Miami Lakes Optimus Park I do see that a lot of people are coming up here to talk uh in support of new development Redevelopment Rec you know looking for
new ways of making the park better uh I just have an idea maybe we could find a middle ground why don't we just create a committee or some sort of you a committee where different groups in the in the community have an interest in the
park and if we have a specific group in the town that has a very big interest in redeveloping the park you do a fundraiser like the special needs advisory does and if they want to donate $200,000 to redevelop the park so be it if they want to find ways of making it a
little bit easier for the town to redevelop the park so be it there's a lot of ways to go about it um I know that there's already a specified fund for it but if there is an interest obviously a couple years back the bond failed with over 70% support of the town
but you know it's something that people don't beat you know continue to talk about and it's something that every day gains a little bit more of steam so just find a middle ground and find a way of doing what's best for the overall uh populace of the town so with
that thank you and uh once again it would be an honor if you guys named Miami Lakes k through eight after pear to bars thank you thank you is there another speaker in Chambers that would like to come up good evening uh Mr Mayor Town Council
Madame clerk Mr manager Town attorney my name is Abel Fernandez chapter 119 on my address I'm not here tonight representing Royal LS homeowners association as I was last month but we have some issues uh as a homeowner that I want to bring up uh you've got a total
of 18 different items on the agenda having three minutes for 18 items is pretty hard so I wanted to take a few minutes of my time to ask that you revert to allowing when each item comes up that a speaker can come up and give
their position on it if possible I know that was done before in case you don't I'll make it as brief as I can uh Mr Mr will Gara was here talking a few minutes about the short-term rental and I'm also in support of the changes you want to make a homeowners association holds the
standards of our community in order to keep them up to an aesthetic level so our property values maintain when it's a when it's a short-term rental it's hard to try to find who the owner is what they're doing cars all over the grass so I support wholeheartedly whatever
expense you need to take on monitoring I was talking to Mr Danny angel on ways that we can monitor this situation so I totally support your effort uh I'd like to talk to you a minute that I did to some of you oh first of all let me uh thank um uh
councilman Steven Herzberg for having attended our association meeting the other night he has an item up of Engagement uh we are trying to motivate individuals to participate in a smaller form of government which is our HOA uh having uh Steven hburg not only as a
neighbor but also as a council member there was able to hear I know that some of you like Mr morera and Josh and JC I speak and I hope to with with Alex Sanchez also to get you more of a of a pulse of what's happening in a smaller Dynamics than what you see as a whole
town but I I welcome that re-engagement in Pro and providing information for us to digest so the members can see the value of coming here tonight uh in respect to I thought a lot about this park issue I know I've talked to the mayor about it to some of you our
Parks do need maintenance just like our canopy does unfortunately the way that we're taxed is through an ADV valorum tax correct based on your house and a percentage some homes are 900,000 some are 1.4 million some are still valued at
300,000 or less and then you have the condos and so forth I suggest that you explore a flat service fee a flat tax uh as Brian said to me when he talked at my house kind of like a user tax right Brian uh councilman Mora I'm sorry uh
that we charge each person and we're dividing the expenses and you can back them out of your millage and each each person has a Equitable amount in the fun and play of this town and the Beautiful canopy I move to extend U well oh hold
on a a a question to the attorney um the option to go ahead and have speakers also come up item by item uh that that did we do away with that I don't know that we did well we right the manager's right we do get to do it on the public hearings
but I've never I don't I can't hear you yeah um I don't remember having done away with it well why don't you wrap up because again other speakers that didn't get a chance to speak and then we'll just then you have the gist of it I know that some
of you have more on that information I may not be here because I've got others but I do want to talk if you would grant me 30 seconds and I'll wrap it up on one thing 30 seconds to conclude okay on the um Amendment uh to town code uh under
item 16e new business that uh councilman Sanchez is bringing up so I did a little bit of research on that I caution you on that issue one is the Aesthetics of having a Pergola less than 10 feet set back there is a big aesthetic issue on
that we start looking like some of our neighbors in other towns that don't have this code number two is a fire perspective I think I can speak a little bit about that as our town manager can you have what's called Auto exposure
when a house is involved in a fire uh the possibility of radiant heat going into the attics or the eaves of the other property are increased when you diminish the distance in between homes when you put a Pergola 5 ft to a fence
line you're increasing the possibility of spreading fire from one house to another so I caution you on that on the dog issue and that's it uh keep in mind that we we need to get a hold of people that are violating picking up after
their dog taking a dog to the park if it's an ADA dog is allowed number one you don't have to have a vest on this dog I have I don't have a vest on mine number two all you can ask is two questions one is is it a service dog yes or no and number two is what does the
dog do for you you can't ask them what their disability is I caution you because putting such a broad scope on the parks with your dog is going to open you up to an adaa lawsuit so with that said think about that and let's go after
compliance of people that don't pick up after their dog thank you for your time thank you very much and uh if anyone had previously spoken that did not get the additional 36 seconds um you you can go ahead and uh and come back up for for the 30 seconds be recognized but for now next speaker Miss
Reynolds espira Reynolds 8465 MTH teras in full support about updating and reestablishing the engagement of HOAs and condo associations but all it takes and I realize that he took my thunder is
for you to attend our meetings because while to come to town hall sounds like a good idea who has the desire to cross the town with traffic the way it is today I was supposed to be here early and you saw how I arrived the other day I went to therapy my therapy started at
9:00 in the morning I left my house at 8:15 2 miles away and I was there late so if every council member rotates through the year with 11 opportunities CU we don't meet 12 times a year to go to specific meetings you get that person
to person morera was there last month and it was the liveliest meeting we've had in quite some time so um the memo written mentions that the HOA and the condo associations are the most um local form of governance in our community but
you need to realize that every time you come up with an idea you may be tampering with our governing documents we had to revise our governing documents in order to add metal roofs so I also caution with regards to the setback because we wouldn't allow it and it
would put us the community through that I mean full support of returning the rightful name to special tax in District even if the acronym was laughed at because it is the right name in full agreement of removing bike trail from
the veteran park because not only is the park overcrowded as you mentioned in your memo but also the people that live on Mont R are livid because of all of the noise produced by all of the activities that we have at that Park I am in full support of going against the
live local act bills which will cause harm to the town already harmed Enough by the overcrowding and of our streets and the overdevelopment that we're experiencing and as for travel to Tallahasse with regards to the uh blasting Advisory Board one thing that
has come up is that a lot of people when they travel the first time they're like a little lost they don't know where to stay they don't know at what time to show up they don't know exactly what to do so perhaps if you the next time that you gather come up with Lessons Learned as travelers to tahasia and what to do
maybe you can put that on the website and that would improve Communications at least for me thank you very much and thanks for listening thank you very much is there another speaker vice mayor uh okay former vice mayor Rodriguez go ahead name and
address mayor vice mayor council members Nelson Rodriguez 8753 Northwest 162 terrce um I just want to be brief and say that this is an amazing idea of naming uh Miami Lakes cage Center uh for Miss uh pear toates hatman um I was a
previous PTA president my children graduated from that school um what an honor it would be to have her name on that school um and so I encourage you all to vote for the waiver and vote for this item this is an incredible opportunity um the impact that she made
not just in in Miami lak's K8 but at HML uh at Barbara Goldman um at Miami Lakes Educational and and Bob Graham I mean she really really really made sure that the Northwest District especially our community um had every resource that we
need and it would be an amazing honor I'm also going to talk to you about the ordinance for the 25y year uh ad hoc committee I think or the resolution I think that's a fantastic idea and I encourage you um not just to to to vote that up uh but also look at the people
that have made huge impacts in this community as members of that ad hoc committee um there's a lot of people here that have made for 25 years huge impacts in this community um you know most of them they're the volunteers that are still around that are still going around and and volunteering in this town
um reach out to them they have the history they have the knowledge and I think they would make amazing committee members there um so I I I hope hardly support that and just to uh let you know that I'm glad to hear that we haven't
stopped the uh the talking to Miami D school board about the traffic at at at Bob Graham I received a call today from one of the council members and I appreciate that call I think that the the people in the town need to know that they don't just come up here and voice their opinion and it goes to waste you
guys continue to work and work on these issues dayto day and doing everything that you can get to get it done and um on my behalf it's appreciated but I want the residents to know that you continue to work day today that their voices don't go unheard and that that issue is
still alive so thank you thank you very much next speaker good evening my name is Jim Hamilton I live at 8528 Glen Karen Lane Miami Lakes 33016 uh to the Mr Mayor to the council
Town manager I'm here to support the item uh that's on the agenda to restore the funds used to balance the town's budget way back in 2023 with these funds restored and existing monies available the parks
department can start making the improvements that our Park needs for years other Town Projects have taken care at the expense of the park as we have seen over time it costs a lot more money to replace items today than 5
10 and 15 years ago the park is 53 years old and like our own homes we must spend money to keep it efficient the parks department has developed a plan based upon available
funding that over time will make these necessary improvements the Optimus Club volunteers have always supported and worked with the town whatever you provided us and we will again work and we will support this
latest Park Improvement plan thank you for your consideration on restoring the park funds thank you sir welcome good evening um my name is Christopher Norwood I live at 14844
breast Place few days few doors down from Fred simmer by the way if that address sounds familiar uh I apologize for my dress uh Jim asked me to come and I was uh doing some lawn uh work uh but I'm I'm very happy to be here uh I moved
to Miami Lakes in 1999 uh I've been here for 26 years um one of the first people I met was gym uh I was at a park I was uh my first year at law school at St Thomas University
and uh there you go uh and um I was just playing basketball he asked me to coach and um and he they needed a coach and I W up coaching basketball for the Optimus club for about six years during the summer of my first year in law school the lawyers on here know that that's not
really an opportune time to be doing anything other than that but uh that's what I did and I became the B basketball commissioner after law school I was a part of the founding of the children's trust uh I served as a public policy advocate for Youth and families for the
children's trust and later on I actually became the chair of the youth activities task force was here in this town and uh in fact I started under my chairmanship movies in the park um I'm here simply to say that there's a reason why this community
Incorporated my first election voting and that election where only 15% of the voters I think voted uh 90% over 90% voted to incorporate this town and I believe a part of that was so that we could have local control of our parts and the beauty that that provides and
the programming that provides needs our continued uh investment uh in addition I want to stand here I just heard several speakers talking about Miss hman um let me tell you what a wonderful woman I've had the opportunity to work
with her uh I chair the Miami day school board's audit and budget committee uh I've been doing that I've served on that committee for about 15 years now and she was someone who would who attended as the chairwoman of our of our school
board she attended every audit and budget committee not because she had to but because she needed to and wanted to and she was an extraordinary woman she was not just a school board member she was not just a chair of our school board that led us to an a rank District that
led us to be one of the most important districts academically in this country but she also believed in the town of Miami Lakes and so I think it's awesome that there would be some sort of recognition because I believe the school board itself is considering uh some sort of recognition at a high level uh with
that being said uh thank you very much for your time appreciate it thank you very much next speaker Alex arano Lakeland Ellen I think yes Parks need to be refurbished periodically but we also have to
consider how they're being refurbished I go through the Veterans Park two or three times a week and there has been some update on the equipment there and it's great one of the things that I thought was great
was one of the weight machines that were missing some weights were replaced they were slip on weights now now somebody has them probably at their house being used okay we need to think these things
through you cannot have slip on weights otherwise they go missing okay same thing goes for the Optimus Park you have chain link fence
as a backtop on the baseball diamonds figure out some sorry figure out some other type of material that will not rust to replace that stuff maybe vinyl
coded chain link whatever so it doesn't have to get replaced so often these are things that need to be thought through just like those slipon weights thank you very much thank you
is there another speaker excellent good evening everybody Mario Panera 8825 northw 151st Terrace uh I'm all I'm all for the uh improvements for the Optimus Park um but I'm I'm also not
for the town putting up the whole bill I think there's other Ventures that we could explore I know that the town is against uh tackle football but we do have the orange bow committee that sit in the town perhaps sitting down with them exploring that idea I also know that that there is no stadium in the
north um Public Schools pay to play at uh at football fields at mylander so that's another option that we could talk to perhaps with the uh public school for them to create a uh a stadium here but I know that uh tackle football is a big no no here in the town but something that
the council would have to decide it's not as unorganized as po it would be just Friday nights kind of thing but uh it's something to consider it shouldn't be just our bill it's everybody uses that Park as other schools use that Park The Baseballs and and other
organizations so we shouldn't fit the whole bill and like I said there's other people in the town that that will show interest as long as we try to find the Venture uh also uh uh Stephen Herz uh new uh business item the HOAs we tried that on the Nic a couple times and it's
true having one of you guys there makes a huge difference so if we could we have a list I know that Rudy could probably get that to you we could get that going update but we would love the NC would love to be part of that as well so thank you next
speaker hi I'm Lyn Matos and I live on the Upper East Side at 16340 woodwalk before I start speaking on the item that I want to talk to you about I want to just say how very proud I am of all of you and what a great job that I think
that you're doing I've been to a few Council meetings over the last years um it'll be 31 years since I moved to Miami Lake so I was here for the incorporation and watched this town grow beautifully amazingly and one of the things that
I've been very passionate about um is the Optimus Park I'm sure that surprises and shocks you that I'm here to speak about it today I know that Park very well um councilman Garcia will tell you
that we toured the park together recently and in 2022 2023 budget funds were utilized from the general fund for the Miami Lakes Optimus Park and I'm going to encourage you to refund that money back
I think it's important that that's done and the enthusiasm I was here at the last council meeting and the robust conversations that you had about the park are very encouraging to me um I remember
2005 when winess struck and the clubhouse went down and what that meant and I've watched the Optimus Club redo and rebuild and create many things in that park over the
years and it's interesting when the boundless playground was built so many people in this community were involved in that I can remember being on Main Street raising money um one day I was there 10 hours and raised
$80 which I was so excited about last weekend was the sixth year anniversary of the passing of my very dear friend Jack McCall and I still see Jack um and hear
his words and he was so inspiring to me to get involved with the and be part of that Community many of you know my story I met my first friends I've written about it I've shared that thought I have spent seven years with the Food and Wine
Festival in that Park showcasing that Park to people from all over not just our immediate Community but from distances a long way away and raised a lot of money to give back to the community and really showcased um what
that part could be and let's get it done you have the energy the enthusiasm the excitement within you to do this let's do this we've waited a
long time I can tell you I am going to take my extra 30 seconds yes exactly as as I can show you where the flooding is where the issues are and yes there are sidewalk ISS issues yes there's tree
trimming that's not going away we want the canopy the canopy creates roots that cause the issues with the roads and the sewers and the sidewalks that's ongoing that's not the same thing that's not what we're talking about here with the renovations to the park so I appreciate
you allowing me mayor the extra time and your undivided attention to my conversation I'm I'm really pleased with the work that you're doing I hope you know that I'm here to support you if there's anything I can do you can always count on me um I'm excited this is the first
time I haven't had a role in the town in a very long time on a committee or an organization and you know I'm here um please utilize me if you need me and thank you so much for your time thank you very much any other speakers in
Chambers okay excellent I see at least one more here before we'll go online hi I'm Isabella Diaz I live in Royal Oaks um it's my first time so first of all I want to start off with uh you you gave us your name but we need your
address 835 Northwest 164 Terrace M Lakes 33016 first off I want to start off thanking the officers once again we have a lot of crime going on in Royal Oaks unfortunately my house the person broke into my house we got the guy so I'm constantly giving them credit and
their detectives working hard the guys in jail we're pressing charges it's it's happening more and more in our community which is unfortunately um I'm here to request to see if it's possible the reading of the license plates um or driver's license through the guard Gates
that are through the town on through where you come in through 8C no where Bob Graham is that one so um maybe at night that's M mainly the crime the time that we get it's during the late hours early morning
hours another concern that I really have it's the traffic in the school hours um I know Mr Fernandez is aware of that as well as um Mr herbs um the traffic is really bad with the school I've done videos I've done pictures to show you guys um I got stuck there once for 9
minutes completely there's no way in and out my other concern that I have is on 82nd and 167 terrce there's a uh no left turn Monday through Friday um I come in from the Southwest Ranches from leaving my kids from school at
um St Mark so when I come back home from work or dropping them off I can't make a left turn there's no school there there's no church there's no business it's it's a public road like how they say in Royal Oaks it's a public road I'm requesting to see if maybe if I know it has to go through Miami date if
something can be triggered cuz it is hard for us I know there's officers there and I have to make a U-turn to come into my neighborhood where I'm only a block away from that street um so those are my main concerns um the guard gates at night the the safety of our neighborhood has really gone down a lot
of crime is happening um the traffic from Bob Graham and uh that's pretty much and once again I really appreciate guys what you guys do it's not an easy job from us from Royal Oaks we thank you for guarding our neighborhood constantly day and night that's it I I think I got
everything else any that's it right okay thank you 30 seconds to Mr P just a quick reminder uh Goldman is hosting uh hope for autism uh um Color Run on April 12th from uh 9 to 11:30 hopefully you know
you guys can make it out there in the town so I'll send you guys a flyer before the end of the week so thank you thank you so much uh anyone else in Chambers wishing to speak seeing none Madam clerk is there anyone online I see one speaker so
if Miss or Mr penston is attending virtual the meeting and wants to speak please unmute yourself welcome to the regular council meeting again I think so
welcome Hi how are you we hear you very well well welcome all right perfect so I'm here to speak on a new agenda item which is the renaming of 142nd Street to Jeff pennison Street I just wanted to take this time and and speak to the
councilman and uh women about Jeff penniston a little bit we date back to the 1970s uh when we built our apprenticeship we are the oldest apprenticeship in the State of Florida Miami Lakes um does have that in their backyard um not too many of you guys may
be familiar with us we're the best kept secret we always like to say but we've been around for quite a long time um we put a lot of money into uh the town we definitely try to recruit and we try to give uh young men and women uh an opportunity to uh attend a a tuition
free trade school and one of the people that's made that possible uh for over 44 years is Jeff peniston and uh he's he's worked all 44 of those years um mainly in Miami Lakes making sure that
apprentices and young men and women in Miami Lakes area were again getting you know uh an opportunity to do something great and have a career um so I see it fitting I spoke with mayor Diez and um
brought him up on some of the history of us and and how long we've been around so I just wanted to to kind of introduce myself and uh us and I hope to be more in touch with the town of Miami Lakes but I I hope more that we can give this to Jeff because he is well-deserving thank
you thank you very much uh seeing no other online public comments I'm just going to go ahead and acknowledge an email that was sent to the clerk um dated uh today March 18th it was received at 4:24 p.m. and the subject of the email deals with the short-term
rentals uh apparently also in the road LS area um so just wanted to um make that known for the record with that public comment is now closed and we are on item 16l which is the renaming uh request
that I'd like to send to the school board for the K the r Center uh but first I need a waiver of of section 7.4 of the rules of special order so moveed second it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say I I I I'll oppose no the eyes have it and the rule is waved
so I will go ahead and uh U this is pretty self-explanatory it's very quick um speaking with Miss Duman who was here earlier um you know shortly after Miss hman pass passing uh she asked that we do a special recognition I had pre previously written WR a letter of
support um to the school board to try to re rename the Miami laks Educational Center after Miss hman um unfortunately at the time uh that was not approved um but now I think is a good opportunity again to recognize her for her 26 years of service on the school board
representing not only um you know our District's many schools right which covers hiia PSN Miami Lakes Etc but also representing Miami Lakes especially you heard from Miss Doom in about all the programs that she brought brought to um to Miami Lakes not to mention the fact
that she was the one that helped increase the capacity and and the grades taught over at the K the center so with that um this is simply about sending a formal request on behalf of the town to the school board to considering uh naming the Kade Center in Miss hamman's
honor with that that is my motion I'll second thank you it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it the motion carries thank you gentlemen just as the point of
May Mr vice mayor are you going to be drafting a letter on behalf of the Town Council and then we're all signing it or how are we doing it I I think that's going to be the best way to do it I had thought about a resolution but the letter is going to be more expedient I think so yeah yeah and mayor we'll bring back a resolution just to formalize it next month in in consent but I don't
think that should stop you from being able to forward the uh letter on behalf of the council this this vote is should be sufficient legislative action excellent thank you Mr manager with that we are now on the appointments I have
here I just had it here it is a Mr Hector Rodriguez was appointed by council member Sanchez to the economic development committee he has since been sworn in I'm told is Mr Rodriguez here is he oh wait well he's not here
but congratulations to him for yeah not that one uh Hey huh oh awesome oh you should have left with that uh great great family by the way uh with that said uh we do also need to approve a waiver to allow former vice
mayor Nelson Rodriguez to serve on Planning and Zoning because he does not have one of the listed careers to specifically serve on there right the the goal was to professionalize that board make sure it's people that connect with real estate uses Architects Etc
okay uh motion is there a second second excellent uh any discuss okay seeing none all those in favor say I I oppose no the eyes have it and the rule is waved and Mr Rodriguez may be sworn in again he's is he oh there there
he is I didn't know he was still here again I think he after eight years on the council I think he has enough background with that we are now on the manager's report beginning with the police report by Major Gonzalez good evening mag Gonzalez Town Commander
here with the police report for February um so first to start off with some crime statistics um we're down for the year 71% on on the park one crimes which is includes uh domestic robberies were down
uh arson over which is theft over we're down 19 compared to last year at this time Auto thefts were're down 11 compared to last year which is a 57% reduction uh residential burglaries were down 100% we had two last year at this time we have zero for the year Zero commercial burglaries zero aggravated
assaults and zero aggravated batteries no homicides no sexual assaults and no domestic robberies so I like saying it here in wood so I could knock on it it's a little superstitious but but uh that contributes to the hard work of our our
team um we continue with the high visibility patrols especially during midnight I know we had a little little visit unexpected visit coming to Royal Oaks but we stepped everything up with our ad hoc directive patrols which is a um computer generated uh directive that we could control and and Target certain
boxes and then the officer has to go in there three times a night that they different times that the Box generates and it's all documented through GPS and everything so we could also direct patrols um due to recent you know crime or anything that occurs we did have some
good arrests um recently know we shared that with you guys and we had um last month so I'll talk about these for next month but last month we had um the little bit of a up not ups but an Amazon package theft going on where we set up a little sting on a surveillance and we
were able to one of our detectives identifi the vehicle was being used uh due to G you know information gathering on videos and stuff and we were able to apprehend the person in uh in in custody as he was attempting to do another package stuff so we closed that out we put him in jail and ever since that
happened it stopped it stopped happening so that was a good thing done by our team um we're now preparing for the uh Spring Fling coming up in uh April and also the uh autism bike ride and uh we I'm starting to add just a little more to my
report but we did uh 453 contacts traffic contacts and uh issued 278 citations 192 verbal warning and a parking tickets um and with that said I'll leave it up for uh for questions hey before I open it up to my colleagues
I just wanted to thank you again for taking the time with the manager and myself to go personally out there on Friday morning uh to the west side of town specifically 79th Cordon Avenue and and all the adjacent streets to show us how the lighting system works and how unfortunately it was messed up by the
county creating all sorts of chaos and uh and even talking about some of the improvements that you've made yourself was having the area where officer Ang Gulu was at um there were some residents uh and I I wasn't sure myself about having the vehicle there and and how it uh you know was actually taking space away but actually after being there he
asked the officer to to leave for a little bit and honestly you see how that traffic area the the the Q Lane backs up onto 154 and actually causes a backup there right that that makes traffic worse so it's really neat to see that that just that behavior of having an
officer there with the squad car uh in the lane and and telling other vehicles that you know once it's full you can't come in here you have to go around that actually uh it really does move things a lot faster uh and I was impressed by that work and again just wanted also thank you for your time with that I'm
opening it up to my colleagues anyone have questions councilman Sanchez no questions just a comment uh two weeks ago um I was out at Bob gram Educational Center just to see the situation with the traffic I was there from 2: p.m. until about 3:20 p.m. um and our officers do a great job of keep of
keeping the the traffic flowing you know and and making sure that they're not stopping the middle of the street a I'm very proud of the work that we're doing and hopefully there are is part of my research to come up with a plan to alleviate the police officer from having to be present at the school by having
different strategies with the with the school board of possibly staggering the release time so that way there's not so many cars getting there at the same time among other ideas but you know the the time that I was there it was very smooth the traffic was not that bad at no point did I even see any carage backing into
the guard gate at Royal Oaks for that period of time on that one Monday so you know I'm very happy to see that with our officers it was able to keep it flowing but you know the the ultimate goal is the same way that at 79th Court we install the traffic light to remove a police officer so they can go back on patrol is to not have our officers there
anymore so they can be patrolling and have the school accommodate the the traffic situation because we have we are in a situation that came down from Tallahasse where you know we the the school is open to anyone that wants to come to the school which is way more cars but our officers are doing a
terrific job of of of you know securing the area and making sure that traffic is not happening as bad as it was before so thank you councilman Garcia and then councilman herberg thank you mayor major again thank you so much for what you do um and I know when we've all been victim
of crime and especially when somebody burglarizes your home what I want to thank you is how you and your officers take it personal and you reach out to the residents and and and you reassure them and I just want the residents to know that when that happen we all take
it personally so I know that crime is at a historic low Miami Lakes it doesn't feel that way if it happens to you but I just want the residents to have faith in in our uh police officers and um and your staff because I know you do everything you can to make sure it
doesn't happen again so again thank you so much for taking it personal and again all all the residents when it does happen to you I totally understand it feels like but trust me when I tell you that our police officers take it personally and they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen again so
thank you so much thank you thank you council member Garcia St thank youc member uh good evening major just want to add uh I had the opportunity pleasure of of spending like four or five hours with one of your officers on a ride along in the morning through afternoon and and it really change it's a great
perspective uh but it really shows that the they're really there to care about the community and and the active policing and we also I had a very good discussion with them because it was a Traffic Unit about the Goldman issue not Goldman excuse me Bob Graham uh and the traffic Patrol there and using the
officer's resources so we're really will try to figure out how we can take some of those resources away because I much rather have them doing what we're doing in the morning for doing traffic enforcement than just you know parking enforcement basically thank you thank you council member herberg over on my left anyone want to please council
member Fern thank you again major we appreciate it um just this is the first time it's going to be announced but you're going to hear about it I just got a confirmation from the school board that we have a meeting on Friday morning to to discuss the options that we have so we're going to meet at at Bob gram I
invite all my colleagues I haven't had a chance to send the the email uh through through the the manager but certainly uh I invite all of you guys see if we can come up with with some ideas real quick I was also had the pleasure of of doing a ride along with the gentleman in the back Allan officer I don't know his last
name but Al professional I mean it was an experience that I I I was so happy to to take part of it was really cool so you guys are doing a great job thank you council member Fernandez uh council member quad share anything to
add um for my part I did want to just say I did see the email with regard to the situation with the V attempted vehicle B burglary and you know the the black magic basically done by uh detective n Nas so just on behalf of
myself and and the the council really give her you know all the commodation in the world for for putting that guy behind bars thank you I'll let him not uh and I look forward to my ride along which is tomorrow tomorrow yes tomorrow anyone else for the major thank you major thank you good evening we're on to
the public works and infrastructure report good evening Council Omar Santos po Works director so just to summarize um just want to highlight the maintenance activity on the last page actually the second page we've completed several work orders both in sidewalks
and roadway improvements I mean roadway repairs just wanted to highlight that and open it up for any questions for any other our items vice mayor Mr man i' just like to add one little tidbit of information because it was an item that has been
discussed in some of our briefings with some of you the uh the allocation of funds to uh sidewalks and the importance that that has and I just wanted to I asked Omar to compile for me the amount of money that we've invested in sidewalk
repair this current fiscal year if the uh carry forward amendment is approved in the way that we proposed it or at least the items that pertain to sidewalk repair uh will have budgeted this Council will have budgeted uh
$346,000 just in this fiscal year towards sidewalks and last year uh this Council invested 321,000 towards uh sidewalk repair so over the last this current year and last year the two fiscal years we're
allocating almost $670,000 to sidewalk repair so this Council has made it a priority and you've made the hard decision of making that investment in sidewalk repair um and it it's Pro you you can see the um the evidence of
that when you drive the town that you could see so many of the sidewalks that have been um reped here thank you Mr manager any additional comments from my colleagues see none thank you m oh sorry quad Garcia yeah
um Mr Mayor uh Mr manager I wanted to uh with Mr uh Omar here we can fix all the sidewalks that we want but until we find and start taking care of the Cure which is these roots
we're going to continue to spend money and fix sidewalks forever let's but the key is we fix the sidewalks but we don't put root barriers at least I haven't seen it so
are we aware of the root barrier program yeah Omar can you talk speak a little bit about the root barrier so when we have the opportunity to install a root be root barrier we do so the challenge comes when we're fac face with a mature
tree we're in the in between cutting a root that stabilizing the tree and can not only harm the stability or Al also harm the health of the tree since the root barrier has to go a foot to two feet down we're very close we're in that in that zone of the of the root area
that we shouldn't really be touching much so we do as much pruning as we can to maintain stability and health of the tree and we work in coordination with our parks department who has the Arbor coord Ator and the arborist so we'll consult with them if we see a challenging location that we we would
like to cut a certain amount of roots but we are in question we have a question are we going to do more harm than good so if we see an opportunity to install a root barrier we'll go ahead and do that thank you d uh are you done
no I'm confused didn't we have a root barrier program in in place but and I don't want to speak for the experts you know Omar and Jeremy the experts but the every single tree the Situation's unique right so it depends on the size of the
tree how close it is to the sidewalk how close it is to an approach for a driveway there every single scenario has to be assessed in individually and based on that when we can and depends on how close to the surface the uh the roots are if this if like Omar was saying if
the roots are are two uh you know super or U below grade then we can't put in the root barrier so they they assess every single uh situation on an individual basis and when they can they do install the root barriers do we have
an arur on staff as of yet we have access to an arur right so we have an arbor uh coordinator who handles most of the tree uh uh elements and whenever we have a tree that needs to be assessed by a certified uh
arborist then we have access to uh uh certified Arborist that we access on a case-by casee basis so we don't employ one we contract with one that we access whenever needed I would like to request a sunshine meeting Mr vice mayor
uh and have our town manager and possibly my colleagues go out and I would like to show you several things that and I'm again I don't want to say anything that affects our employees but I want want them to go out there and see
they take they took three trees of one of our neighbors and and and then pretty much ran uh asphalt on top of them and they pretty much chopped them I don't know if they chopped them with a machete or with what it was but I'd like you to come out and
take a look at them councilman here my recommendation is to reach out to our town clerk as well as our town manager and coordinate a sunshine meeting ication of your of your choice but I I think that a lot of the issues that you're bringing up right now are more in the new business item territory than
than in a report territory um but with that said Council Garcia you had something to add no I just had a quick question uh I understand the limitations of a 40 year old 50y old tree receiving a root barrier sometimes it's just not practical because again stability of the
tree health of the tree but we are putting rot barriers and all the new plantings is that correct I apologize for the new plantings I'll have to defer to our parks department to confirm that can we good evening uh mayor and Council Jeremy B director of parks mation uh yes so we
actually have an install um project that's starting tomorrow and all 22 trees are set with root barriers upon installation well when I 22 trees but all I mean the forest thing that's been happening the last three or four years at this Council even before I got here was working on I know you guys the
majority of them were Case by casee bases but as of recent and the last project that we did uh last year was also with barriers but yes they are all root barriered from here forward okay from here forward as in I can guarantee these last 22 I spoke with the vendor we insured it and then on the other ones it
was case- by case basis okay so I think that's a new business item that uh one of us could bring up because we need to either go back to trees that have not established big big Roots because then we're going to have the same problem 20 30 years from now so and I I'm I was it was my understanding we were doing that
and I'll take full responsibility for not knowing that we weren't doing that previously because I thought the new reforce the included the root barriers in the budget that was my understanding I guess I was uh mistaken in that any other comments on the uh Public
Works and infrastructure report seeing none thank you director Santos thank you all right moving on to the attorney's report um yeah uh we had one litigation case uh the panagi matter and I may not be pronouncing their name correctly uh that case has been dismissed the issue
is not over so we're still talking to them we've that uh we're also working on the overhaul on an overhaul of the procurement ordinance uh with staff and lastly I'd like to introduce uh two new members of The Firm Matthew Perez and
Melissa Fernandez uh they they will be working uh closely uh with many of you especially Matthew Melissa was a part-time receptionist at our firm uh so we believe in hiring from
within um Lorenzo you you all know was a uh started as an associate and is now a name partner in The Firm we are now up to 10 lawyers uh servicing the uh servicing the town and and our clients um and uh we're really
proud and that's my report short and sweet through the chair Mor Mar Law Group wants to be like you when it grows up yeah I was going to say you got a a regular suits uh right there 10 10 uh 10 year it's great congratulations thank you any comments on the attorney's
report from anyone seeing none we're moving on to committee reports uh distinguished guests bill perz is the mic on yeah let me do that again good evening uh vice mayor Town Council town clerk Town manager Town
attorney I'm the chairman of the veterans committee and I'm going to provide the veterans committee report I've given you a previous copy of the report um first item we're going to talk about is the budget the uh net proceeds from the reindeer run this year was $37,500
gross proceeds was $ 553,000 um for the budget I know we don't really have line items we kind of have like items it's not really like truly a line item but so we need to restore the Memorial Day item into our budget that way we can actually allocate funds cuz
we do a Memorial Day ceremony that way we can track better how we fund things um we are going to we are allocating $2,000 from our Awards section of our
budget for uh Judy Judy's tree day she already got a proclamation um I can talk about her all day long but basically let me put it this way if every time I you know I talk to her and I see how she gets her job done she reminds me of my EXO who worked
for me and anytime uh a civilian reminds a marine Colonel of a Marine lieutenant colonel that's the highest compliment I can ever give so that's the kind of person she is she uh is a fire and forget individual you just launch her and she'll just take care of the mission
and she'll exceed all expectations and she has raised over $150,000 for veterans and that's just amazing um I'd like to reestablish the grant and aid line item like again it's not a line item but it used to be on our
our budget um that way we can uh track the scholarship program we have now for the veterans families and the program we have for the American Legion Relief Fund we have for them as to initiatives and events as previously stated we had raised over 3 $
37,600 net from the race of that $188,800 will be donated to the town as part of the veterans Monument fund Veterans Park monument and all our F the veterans
committee's fundraising has donated over 28,800 the plans that the town has uh got contract for to develop the uh Monument cost about 36,000 um we are hoping that the town can chip
in 8 Grand I know you guys have it in your pockets right now as we speak don't hold out that's right I'm looking for the kushions um okay the veterans scholarship fund
this is the largest scholarship that the town of Miami Leakes gives even larger than the Graham company scholarship I'm going to keep on saying that until they start giving out more money we're going to be giving 11,000 $280 in scholarship Monies to Veterans
uh who are residents of Miami Lakes their family members to include even their grandchildren if they're a veteran who's a resident of Miami Lakes and a veteran themselves as well IMM medium family immediate family the American Legion Post we are we voted to donate
$752 to the American Legion Post our local Legion Post normally we used to donate to some national organizations like Winward and we never knew if it affected any Miami Laker I can tell you the money going to the American Legion Post helps every person who's part of that post
helps every Mii Laker we have bought food for widows of veterans who were waiting for uh the VA to start giving them their the check from their disabled or deceased husband we have helped uh veterans who have had their cars break down air conditioning breakdown pay for
bills that they didn't have the money there's a lot of veterans in need and this money goes directly back to our people right here in this town or part of our American Legion Post we plan to develop a uh website um
that's part of the town's website called Veterans of Mii lakes and basically as we start uh developing rules on dealing with our banners because uh right now we have a lot of banners and a lot of folks who may have passed away and you know we need to give it to the next Ain but we
don't want to forget them so what we want to do is establish a like a I guess a subdirectory I don't know what you call it you know something inside the website that basically allows you to pull up all the veterans of Miami Lakes and it's basically their banner and also you can click on and see if their bio so you can learn something
about them I'm trying slowly but surely to create a historical division for the town of Miami Lakes I recommend that it be part of the 25-year ad hoc committee someone start figuring out how to create a historical Division and how to do it because in about 50 years you're going
to wish You' done it all right um so all the banners no matter who it came from will be will'll live there to include all the current banners um also we'll be using uh for the
Veterans Park as you know there's several trees and several buildings that are named after folks we're using QR codes to start developing kind of a historical division as who they are why they did it and stuff like that so Judy's tree will have a QR code code so people can just click on there and see
what she has done for all the veterans Etc um and the Girl Scout Troop 902 has taken on the mission of detailing and tagging in Veterans Park all those trees and all those buildings so we can now
have kind of like an organized methodology to get the information of who's there try to get the nexin so they can give us a bio or some information if we can so we can actually develop really informative QR codes so folks know more about who these people
are um lastly I noticed in the agenda item that the uh bike path for the Veterans Park is going to be uh removed and that I concur with that but that's going to free up $298,000 I'm always following the
money it wasn't funded you just breaking my heart Town manager every party needs a pooper never mind I had a great idea and now it's gone any questions uh going starting from my left
uh councilman Sanchez and then councilman hburg and then vice mayor Colonel thank you for for everything you do you're I mean I remember when the veterans ad hoc was you know was was in its infancy and now it's become a Powerhouse committee and is is is net
zero to to Town taxpayers it makes Veterans of Miami Lakes proud as a veteran myself I'm very happy to see you know all the progress that it's been made and with you at the helm I know it's going to be you know long lasting and and very successful for a very long long time um you and I spoke um briefly
at the American Legion meeting about the the the veterans the Veterans Park Memorial that that we want to construct and I'm fully in support of that uh we're actually going to be speaking about the roll over of the carry forward fund and I know that that is of the items on there so I look forward to
helping the veterans committee and any veteran uh veteran families anyone that I can that I can help in that sense you have my full support no matter you know what thank you very much councilman thank you very much shipmate he's a
sailor thank you mayor uh chair thank you for the report uh I I agree with you about the historical aspect I mean I'm sort of like wanting to make the veterans committee now like the town historical committee too I don't know if you want to take that on but uh I do
want to ask you though because as a chair of the veterans committee the town's asked you to be part of the 25y year ad hoc committee where I mean I don't know if you're I've not been asked okay well I may being asked now yeah I mean I think you're being asked now yeah okay why not sure or or maybe you missed
the email because I think it might have gone maybe I haven't read the email so so yes the actually I was asked I did did I did I did say yes so you're right that 25 um history is go should be a part of that so that's just an idea whenever we have our first meeting I'll
make sure to stop by but I I appreciate those type of ideas that's really important for us thank you very much councilman uh Mr vice mayor and then Mr Fernandez thank you Mr chair uh I wanted to quickly ask are there any issues with
attendance or anything like that in the committee good attendance no our attendance is really really good I mean uh I cannot complain and I think with the rules changed you're proposing vice mayor there should be no issue I mean the folks in the veterans committee are super motivated uh they see that we're
an active community that does a lot of service does a lot of good um and you know we don't rest on our Laurels because there's you know we just keep on pushing to make sure that this town continues to be the most patriotic town that I can see in Miami dat County thank
you and um just keep in mind I mean obviously we're going to have a new business em today on on the committee rules assuming it does pass uh just make sure that the that the report at least just lets us know that people are attending and and you know it's just
quickly easy to see that hey everyone's complying with with attendance you know no one needs to get booted and we're good um I did also want to ask you know given that I think that the last time we talked about the funding on the veterans Monument um I think that you were telling me that I think like uh about
10,000 was going to come in from the reindeer run but looks like we got more we got 18 more um so if we're 8,000 away I just want to ask the town manager if that 36,000 number is still accurate I'm sorry vice mayor tell me
again yeah the $36,000 for the design cost on the veterans uh Memorial yeah Jeremy is he here yet I I believe that that's the number that J number hasn't changed I don't I don't believe so okay
um perfect that's what I want to know and then I do really uh like the historical division idea that that you brought up um 100% support and you know the old saying uh no good deed goes unpunished so I nominate you know I knew I was jumping on that grenade that's what I
do any other questions yeah well real quick first of all thank you thank you for the service to town thank you for the service to our country uh we appreciate it uh I would love the idea about the the history when I chair the neighborhood and committee we actually did a a history tour if if you want to
go that route I would love to to be a part of it so well I am no expert on creating a historical division except how the military does it and I'm kind of thinking the town wants it a little different so any great ideas and any good ideas will be all solicited and all
used and we'll try to see what we can come up with through the chair no but if you don't mind you're recognized thank you mayor the idea you had with the QR codes I mean honestly any historic we can have a historic plaque with the QR code and everybody can find out I figured that was a good basine that was
the best I mean that's you add to that and continue it'll be easy way to to expand that to different areas I think that's nice foundation and then we just have to basically put it somewhere in our website tag it and then we are well on our way to having pretty useful and
even kids can start using it to learn you know our our elementary school they could use their phones and learn about the history of Miami Lakes just by following that thank you very much gentlemen thank you very much lady okay thank you Mr chair we are now
uh we're there are no special presentations so we're moving to the consent calendar nothing was taken from consent is there a motion move to adopt the consent calendar moved by the Vic man is there a second I'll second moved by councilman Sanchez all those in favor say I I all
oppose no the eyes have it consent calendar is passed now we are uh ordinances on first reading 13A the budget amendment uh Mr attorney an ordinance of the town of Miami Lakes Florida amending the town's fiscal year 2024 2025 budget established
by ordinance number 24- 330 providing for expenditure of funds providing for amendments providing for conflicts authorizing the town manager to take all action necessary to implement the terms and conditions of this ordinance providing for severability and providing for an effective date
mayor excellent and this is not a public hearing because it is an ordinance of first reading correct yeah so so just for the council so with that who is asking to speak first mayor oh sorry uh Mr Peterman yeah I just want a quick explanation I know we don't normally have much debate or explanation on first
reading but I just give you the the uh reader digest version the items at the bottom of page one kind of give you a recap of where we are with fund balance the uh it attribute the 15% for the
ordinance of how much we have to leave in fund balance and then it has some items that need to be backed out leaving you with a fund balance of 1.55 n for consideration for any kind of uh reallocation what the count uh town or
the staff has done is put together a list of our recommended items to uh allocate those $1.55 n million too uh there's 28 items on our list and everything past that point that's the
end of the general fund explanation everything past that point are all of our other funds like special Revenue funds building fund impact fees Mobility fee or fund Etc so really it's just taking the um uh last year's uh balances and pushing them into this year with
with some minor adjustments for items that have already taken place so with that we'll be more than happy to answer any questions excellent well be before that uh let's get us in the proper pasture is there a motion and a second to get us into discussion I move to adopt as
provided by staff been moved by the vice mayor is there a second second seconded by councilman Fernandez we are now in discussion Mr vice mayor the way I see it um the the priorities as they list I mean for me obviously the the 25th anniversary
event is an important one for me I mean I think everyone up here just acknowledged the importance of acknowledging our history and recognizing our history um the Veterans Memorial is one that's uh very important to me as noted by the fact that I I brought it up last meeting um those that
are reinstating the mllp uh the the transfer to mop to reinstate from fiscal year uh 2223 that's frankly the largest line item in the entire um recommendations list to me it's a
no-brainer because I have stood behind uh I I stood behind this ideal back during the discussion about the senior center I stand by it now you do not take money from capital accounts to fund ongoing expenses so this is writing a
prior wrong uh this has nothing to do with the political issue uh involving the park this has nothing to do with uh the bond this has to do with writing a prior wrong with with regard to uh the mlop U capital account it should be
reinstated and then the funds that were set to be there should be utilized for that Park and I yield my time uh who would like to speak next uh councilman hburg then councilman Sanchez then councilman Garcia and we we'll go
with that order for now again herberg Sanchez and Garcia good job mayor thank you um first I'm I'm agreeing with the vice mayor on those two items especially the the first two we already discussed that we voted for that and putting back the capital uh Improvement for Optimus Park it's
something shouldn't have done I hope we never have to do something like that again I think we strive not to do that but those are no-brainers my only um I I think it this is well done my only hesitation on this I I had them I we talked about it with our agenda briefing
briefing I hate the word study in government there's some studies in here one of them is required the impact study fee study correct uh if you can just talk about the impact fee and the salary study because those are two that caught my eye but I understand there's a need
yeah the the impact fee study I believe is one that will end up getting a return on our investment and I spoke about it real uh over the top when we had our workshop for mlop about a source for potentially for future funding for mlop
currently we work under the umbrella of the County's uh impact fee ordinance and what that means is that when somebody's going to have a development that take takes place in Miami Lakes those development uh uh those developers when they file for their permits they pay
impact fees that go straight to the county the county basically for all intensive purposes all they do is they take a small administrative fee it's not very much and then quarterly we get the proceeds from those impact fees that different developers pay to the county
on our behalf currently there are three impact fees one is for uh Public Safety which this Council has directed and we have employed which is all uh used towards the build out of the LPR Network then there's two that are for uh Parks
one is for open space which is for the acquisition of new park space the problem is that the County ordinance is developed based on the needs of the county as a whole right but because the county is still growing there's a lot of
areas that they're still building out new brand new developments and they're building out west and so forth and down South we don't have that right so we don't have the luxury of a whole lot of empty land for us still to acquire for um for park space right so the second
one is for Park improvements but they're individual buckets right so when we get money from the county for our impact fees and money goes into the open space bucket we cannot use that currently for improvements on parks that we already
have so my hope and intent is for us to develop our own impact fee ordinance by doing that my hope is that we'll come out of that with instead of three impact fee categories only two one for Public
Safety and then one for parks that would give this Council the flexibility to use that either in the acquisition of new uh Parkland park space or for improvement of our existing Parks that's my intent but the very first step there it's it's
like an algorithm that has multiple steps the very first step in that entire sequence of events is to conduct this impact fee study then then it'll lead to other steps that we'll have but ultimately at the end of the day I think that we're going to end up with a better
product when we have our own impact fee ordinance with based on our needs and developed for the uh for the Imp for the needs of Miami Lakes the second one that you mentioned was the salary study since I've been here a little over 6 years we
unfortunately have lost a lot of talent to other local governments in South Florida some we've even lost talent to governments in other parts of the state some to other parts in the country right so what I My Hope Is with this and the
and the term that I put in here is probably a misnomer because it says salary study but it's it take it encompasses much more than just pay encompasses much more than just salary it'll look at holistically at our entire benefit package salaries benefits Etc
and then it'll look at it job description by job description some of our positions are uh uh transferable and they have equivalents in the private sector some of them are not some of them are unique to private or public sector but what I want to do is be able to
conduct the salary study which will tell us this job description is properly paid it's within Market this salary uh or job description is uh below market and it'll give us a detailed report they may say your entire staff is underpaid you need
to uh offer x% uh to get the entire staff up but this one needs a bigger bump based on job uh description and my hope is that we can prevent the I don't want to call it a hemorrhage at this point because we haven't lost that many but we've lost enough where I think that
this is going to be a significant thing because you know my Paradigm I came from a from an industry from a public service industry where you got on you stayed there for 25 to 30 years and you had a great career and there's there tremendous benefits to that and I'd like to create an atmosphere here that uh not
only are familial uh atmosphere that we create and that's on me that's on this Council that's on us to create that atmosphere but also you know sometimes people want to stay here but they just can't afford to they have families they will have kids especially our young Talent that's the primarily the ones
that we've lost are our young talent that we can keep for another 20 years 25 years and I'd like to be able to create a a benefit package that will help attract and keep Talent here within Miami Lakes and those are the two studies that you mentioned right and and
just briefly uh I mean I'm not make making any motions I want to discuss with you guys the only other two things that I have hesitation on is 26 renewable energy feasibility study I know that was something that was discussed previously I just want to hear more about the reasoning for that and
then it came up but the the $40,000 to Dedicated pickle ball court as well I mean those are my only hesitations everything else looks good yeah the pickle ball one is one that has been kind of mulling around and it comes it it was something that you were going to probably see even if the the the folks
here were not going to recommend it because obviously everybody knows it's an upand cominging sport even though it's been around for many many years people sometimes mistake it and think that pickle ball was just created over the last few years but it's been around for many decades um so what this proposal would be is to take one of the
tennis courts at uh mlop and uh reconfigure it with new striping new netting and everything to have for uh permanent pickle ball courts so that would still leave us with uh three tennis courts and then we'd have four
pickle ball courts in the same physical space currently we have four tennis courts and only when they configure them for pickle ball that takes out two of those tennis courts so we can double the pickle ball capacity with only having
one of the tennis courts sacrificed so when we do have our programming that we have a a tennis instructor and they go if we're playing two uh courts with pickle ball and the tennis instructor is using the other two somebody who wants to come in and play tennis doesn't have
a space so that will give us one extra open court for open player whoever comes into to play so that is the proposal for the reconfiguration of One tennis court for and that will give us four pickle ball courts next was councilman Sanchez so
reviewing the 28 items one of the questions that I forgot to ask the other day um are these set in order of priority the only two that are in priority are uh the first to because the the one who sets priorities here is this Council right I don't determine
priorities I have my own personal priorities but I don't determine it right so the only two that are in priority order are the first two because this Council took a vote with the new business items that we saw last month so the rest of them I are are in here based on uh what I believe is the general
consensus that we've had conversations sometimes oneon-one sometimes in public forums with this Council as a whole and and so they are in here based on no particular order but what I believe are important items to this Council uh some of you as a as individuals and some of
you as a whole okay then in that case I move to amend this order and move number 19 the mini Park Capital program up to position six he well just be clear as I understand it all of these are going to
be funded regardless of what but but you just want to uh you know just PRI I'll second that yeah so any discussion on that particular Amendment okay saying no um all in favor say I I I I'll oppose no eyes have it the order is
changed he councilman Garcia then councilman Fernandez thank you um again uh Mr manager thank you so much and staff I know this is going to be fun couple months uh and then you know with the budget cycle uh that comes up as well um I think again reinstating what
we took from mlop I mean that's just a no-brainer right um couple things that I I wanted to just say to my colleagues is studies are great and we need them um I'm I'm just wondering the salary study in
itself is a salary right 40,000 and I but I know your intentions are true I'm just thinking through indeed or through Linkedin uh through their I know they have different uh memberships uh I think they provide certain
reporting um real-time reporting from other municipalities same thing that kind of give you a me medium uh what are we paying what range are we at at the medium are we above or below um I was just pondering if you can just look into
existing Vehicles right now that are available that might be a lot less uh I me $40,000 again I know what you're trying to do and I agree you have to find out we'll look into it the only issue is there's so many different job classifications within our uh our lineup
of of positions in addition to that this goes much deeper than just salary and and that's the thing that the there's uh benefits and things like that it goes that far so you know even things like you know maybe recommending tuition reimbursement May that may be an
attractor to to to Young Talent right it wouldn't be for me because I'm an old man and I got my degree already under my belt but for new talent that may be something that's going attract and that those are things that this can measure and it can gauge and it can give you recommendations on things to explore 100% I agree I just think that if you
look at any current cuz you know I hire when I'm hiring I look for sometimes I look for that and most job Authority include that um tuition reimbursement element to it it includes that so a lot of this is already baked into the cake when it comes to what the what the market is doing when it comes to doing
that uh I will just ask you see if there's any other existing products that are out there which I know they are and if I find I I'll send them to you well absolutely all options out there in the market 40,000 is to me a little bit pricey on that end uh I think it could
be done the exact same goals you have for maybe you know 5 10% of that maybe maybe 5,000 maybe 10,000 but I'm just saying I think there's a lot of um uh just different options on that I just keep an open mind when ites absolutely we we'll take a look at all those
options and um the impact fee study is that a uh are you looking to look into what other municipalities are doing or are you hiring uh you're hiring a consult there's a consultant that we would hire that does this uh this is kind of like a niche within the
Consulting world and they all they do is they do these impact fee studies and again um it it's the first step in this whole process and um another step that we may have to take which is to the development of a Parks master plan uh
because there's other things the the most important thing in developing you know when you develop impact fee rates especially it has to be based on something it can't just be a number you pull out of thin air right so it has to be based on something and what this all this information will will do
is we're going to have to identify what our needs are right and that's why I say ultimately I'm hoping that the end result is going to be a single Park impact fee that will give this Council much more flexibility with how to use the money 100% since we really are built out we really don't have any to purchase
for par so absolutely that that's that was a great idea on your part uh and and this the last thing I want to say cuz I know we're we want to get through this um and I'm going to bring it up again you know be beating a dead horse I still feel we need to start funding even if it's one at a time more officers you
know I'm I'm going to say it I'm going to keep saying that every single time we go through these through these exercises um to figure out a way we can add more officers on the road and we've seen how you know officers we just saw how an officer standing there mitigating things
real time helps and if we had officers to do that and also police are our neighborhoods which as you can see they you know criminals look for uh um any any opportunity so when they know that there's something going on over here they're over here so um just just to
reminder my colleagues that's something I know you guys always have have made the priority Public Safety I think everybody here um campaign on that so just keep an eye on that uh going forward thank you thank you for your for your hard work Mr manager councilman
Fernandez I I'm I'm full support of everybody here knows that um that I support anything to do with with the the park and especially in the fact that we are actually reinstating money that is actually owed to that so I I'm okay with
all of it I do have I think I'm going to I'm going to I don't know if you answered it but regarding what what councilman hburg brought up the um the renewable energ energy feasibility study I don't know if you touch on that did did you answer that or no I I did not
yeah it was an item that uh then council member dieas brought to the table we just have not had the opportunity uh and I don't want to steal his Thunder to to fund it it's been on the kind of on the books for the last couple years since he brought it up so I'll I'll allow him to explain what the intent of that uh study
would be in short you may recall that I've been wanting to begin the process of converting some of our vehicles in our Fleet to Electric right and add charging stations across town and and and there was at one point even a discussion about converting some of our buildings to run on some alternative
type of power as a cost saving measure right like hiring uh or uh Contracting for all these vehicles and even eventually having Alternative forms of energy to to fuel say town hall or the youth center the idea there is to bring down the town's cost in the long term and so that's where it all came from but
in order to do that what town staff recommended was to do a comprehensive study to evaluate which vehicle should go first a which uh location should get a a a new um charging station first which one would be more appropriate to give us options in in more detail and
also if we were were going to at least uh convert a building to some kind of solar power or some other type of uh of alternative power the idea would be to study which one and and get us more accurate uh cost information um with respect to what it would cost to install
there how many how much in savings we can get right because we can use the FPL tool tool for example to kind of get a rough estimate um you know as part of their their special program they have you know to use facilities uh with their solar panels but it it we need a professional study to get more exact
numbers instead of just kind of extracting or just purely trusting somebody else's numbers so so that's where it comes from and so it's $440,000 but it's toward it's to get a a savings to for our taxpayers and covering multiple aspects of a renewable energy plan which is why it's more Broad in how
it's described and doesn't say study for charging stations or study for converting public buildings to Alternative power uh but that that's basically where it comes from and I hope that also answered councilman herzberg's uh IDE uh question as well um with that do you have any other questions okay let
me give cman Quadro Quadra Garcia chance to speak and then we'll go back to the vice mayor thank you uh Mr Mayor um I don't know if all of you know that one of my
um my uh when I ran one of my uh proposals to the residents was My slogan Angelo Garcia for better ideas okay I'm all about small town but
at the same time we have to have fiscal responsibility okay when I saw these 28 items today they were they they looked like Japanese to me I know they all have a meaning and
they all have somewhere something in everybody's heart because I see a lot of things of you know but let's be very careful uh when we make a decision I
know we're not making any decisions on these numbers today but let's be very careful this is a lot of money whatever we do let's make sure that but we are sure that we're making the right decisions so with that said
again uh I'm all about keeping small government but at the same time making sure that we have priorities that we set our priorities okay thank you Vice May thank you Mr Mayor uh first and foremost when I uh made my comments initially I
almost forgot that when I seconded that I'd be the first one up so I didn't have a chance to prepare myself so uh thank you for giving me the opportunity take a second crack uh very briefly I did want to recognize and thank Melissa as well as the the finance team the budget team everyone that put this together in such
a digestible format um honestly you do make our jobs a lot easier um very briefly um M Mr manager uh can you explain uh the importance uh because I think this should not be missed out on of the 68,69 for the litter the uh
amplification of the litter Cruise I'm glad you asked because I was before we closed I was going to explain that one cuz I think that's one that's important for the uh for the residents and I think for this Council many of you on this Council currently originally our normal Mo was
two litter Crews 7 days a week over the last few years when we've had some budget uh constraints we've had to change it the second half of last year similar to this year in the budget uh budget amendment we were able to fund to
increase the litter Crews to three crews all seven days of the week and I think that it was noticeable throughout the entire town the Improvement in the litter control throughout the town once again this year we had to uh start with
during our budget compilation process we had to start making some Cuts so we had to go back to a limited litter crew service at back in October 1st what we have currently is the equivalent of one and a half Crews and what I mean by that
is there's two Crews I think two Crews four days a week and three crews three days a week so what this $68,000 would do it would be to ramp the litter crew Staffing back up to three
crews 7 days a week and with that it gives us several benefits obviously it gives us more Staffing it'll give us the ability to hit all the main thorough fares where most of the litter is is done it'll give us the opportunity to go to the area of the uh underpass at 67th
Avenue and the Palmetto uh and even though that's outside the town limits it'll still be able to give us the opportunity to make sure that we catch that the Perimeter Road around the outside uh that's an area that's sometimes neglected because we don't get through there as much uh it'll give us
the opportunity to make sure those areas are maintained so you'll see the dramatic Improvement if this funding is approved by this Council thank you Mr manager um as far as the uh dedicated pickle ball courts uh there was a
question that I raised to Jeremy uh during the chamber golf tournament and I honestly I forgot the answer that he gave me um it was with regard to whether there are whether we have any existing contracts with maybe uh a a a coach that
gives lessons on the tennis courts or anything like that that would interfere with our that where if we took over one of the tennis courts and turned it into a pickle ball court would we be in breach of any obligations um yeah so as the manager alluded to essentially the way that we
would be converting the one court it's actually the one furthest west uh we would not be interfering with any of the rented courts and still providing the open space court for any residential use thank you I honestly forgot the answer you gave me um I also want to stress
something about these Courts for me and I'm not not going to speak for the mayor but you know something that that I've emphasized with Miami lak's Optimus and I think he has as well is it it is in many respects not a park for the
everyday Miami Laker uh because it's such a league oriented Park having an open play uh uh pickle ball court uh like this just drives more Miami Lakers to use our Parks so I think it is a fruitful Venture um and I do really
support this item uh as well as the fact that you know they have gotten themselves organized they have gone through the Civic engagement process of getting petitions signed uh showing up giving the public comments you know and I I do like listening to our residents
they tend to be pretty smart people um finally the mini Park Capital program uh it shows as phase two and three uh can we just confirm phase one is completed the phase one is almost done right yeah it's almost done and when I
phase two and three would be the completion of the entire cycle so there was only three phases that were originally planned we broke the park uh Parks up into three phases and so with if this funding is approved in this item here one is almost done and then two and
three would be completed with this funding and does this Capital program include a swap out replacement of most of the equipment at these Parks I think it's it's come on it's par by park it depends on the needs and one of the things that the mayor and I when we went
driving around the town one of the things that we noticed is similar to the issue at um Optimus Park which is the wellwater and the sprinkler system it's great because it keeps the grass green but it keeps all the play equipment the the the slides and all those things you
know with the stains rust stains it's not the actual item that is rusting it's the water that is staining the item so it does it doesn't deteriorate the item it just makes it look really ugly so I think Jeremy in this uh process is going to develop some ideas to see what we can
do to similar to Optimus Park to mitigate the rust stains on the equipment in the mini Parks as well as Optimus but let him explain exactly where we are with thank you Mr manager um yes so the mini Parks Improvement plan right now incorporates adding signage for the last two phases I know
Daniel Angel and uh Dr Tony Lopez actually commen this back in the day and we lost funding there for a while so the goal here was to go ahead go back and actually get the signage completed uh update benches for uniformity trash bins uh add the concrete padding necessary to have Ada access to these benches I know
on p-52 we were just at for the uh boat um signage we saw there was one one benches out there in the middle of grass it's not accessible via Ada rule so anytime we come across a park of that nature it's also adding the access to it um we all are also looking at the
playgrounds for repairs necessary in the case in which we take a cost benefit analysis and the value of Parts exceeds that of replacement we will take a look at that but right now it's simply replacing parts that are damaged these are platforms they can be the the handle rails it can be the slides which we've I
think just changed out two recently um so yeah it takes that into effect as well as adding ewf borders to any of the playgrounds that didn't have we had a long a lot of issues with the ewf over time kind of spilling out creating extensive areas versus keeping all of
that uh mulching uh into the playground which is actually very vital because that type of Ming helps with the um the rebound for kids that fall off a slide or so forth so we also added uh some of the border for that as well thank you and I have no further
comments anyone else for the second round councilman Garcia thank you mayor uh Jeremy really I'm sorry brother running yeah I I uh I forgot to add this I know that councilman Garcia
was was also asking um can we perhaps by the next a a meeting get an understanding of how much um get a number on you know on the the foresting projects that we've done over the last couple years I'm sorry the the which the reforesting projects we've done okay the
numbers in regards on the numbers regarding uh the the root barriers if they were if they were placed or not okay yeah I'll get you the amounts of of placed for the trees necessary well yeah like we've I I still see trees being planted right now like new trees get planted all the time and you're telling
me 20 something thing but again I was under the impression that every new tree got a root barrier so we prevent this problem going down the the road we started doing a few years back was looking at right tree right sale um not just the holistic approach of planting hardwood large shade one canopy trees in
every in every uh Swale we looked at it by if the tree if the Swale was appropriate for a large hardwood canopy and it had enough distance we would have do so perfect um if if if the if there was any chance that we could install R barrier within that sale we would now if
the soil itself wasn't conducive for that we would go ahead and plant smaller medium to small trees sure but any any uh any shade oak tree or or we can take a look at that yeah absolutely can you do me a favor and and figure out what's needed or for the future so we can add
to the budget uh as far as how much that would cost if we're doing it or not so we kind of have a a cost because honestly I'm I'm trying to prevent this is a a cost savings for us maybe not this Council but the next one and the next one are going to are going to come back and thank us for making sure we're
putting root barriers definitely we'll take a look at the most recent reforestation projects I just want councilman for I know he's been an advocate for that as well so I just want to make sure let's let's just let's let's nip it in the bud now and see if we can save some thank you sir okay so I'll go uh go ahead and
close out then um I'm going to be voting in support of the the car forward Amendment as it's presented um as you can see here um most of this is all parks right right and and in many cases reinstating money that we had to cut because you know in some cases we were trying to keep uh taxes artificially low
um in other cases you know and I saw it myself when I first started in the council you had people taking from the Optimus Park fund to create new projects right I think one of the speakers mentioned that before and I I never thought that was was wise or correct uh so this as Dev viem mentioned is in many
ways making that account whole and also in terms of the uh operational budget also restoring things that are essential um to make sure that the park is you know does not continue continue to further deteriorate and with the mini Parks Capital Improvement program that I
was able to restart last year it it continues that work and completes it where now we're doing phases two and three and it's part of my ongoing commitment to make sure that all our parks are improved um and again so I'm very happy to to support this it also finally has the uh renew uh renewable
energy feasibilities to which again the idea is to try to you know get tax savings uh for our taxpayers after that um so with that I'm I'm ready to go Madam clerk would you please call the role item 13A ordinance in first reading
as amended council member guad Garcia no council member hburg yes council member Sanchez yes council member Fernandez yes council member Garcia yes Vice vice
mayor Mora yes mayor Diez yes the ordinance in first reading item 138 passes excellent we are now on ordinance in second reading 14a Mr attorney an ordinance of the town of Miami Lakes Florida amending chapter 13 Article 4 division 3 titled short-term
rentals providing for inclusion into the code providing for repeal of ordinances and conflict providing for severability and providing for an effective date thank you and uh I guess Mr COA you will be presenting uh the item um I may I can
Mr Mayor uh Council uh Mr manager um so the item that you have before you is a revision uh to the short-term rental ordinance uh as you know uh one of the things that hampers our ability to really uh disallow short-term rentals in its totality although I know that that's
something that many of us would would like uh and many of our residents would uh we are preempted by Florida statute Florida statute uh provides that uh short-term rentals are something that are allowable uh in municipalities such
as ours however it does give us the ability to regulate them uh so that they do not uh cannot just act you know independently of of our ordinances uh they have to follow certain rules uh some of the key items that you're going to see in this ordinance is uh there's
an increase in the registration on the renewal fees uh there's an adding of uh fire life safety inspections uh there's a raising of fines for code violations uh there's uh implementing a stricter criteria for the suspension of vacation rentals uh and it provides also the town
manager with authority and guidelines to be able to revoke uh the um vacation rental permits uh another thing that you voted on earlier is in the consent agenda there was an item approving a particular vendor that's going to assist
our code enforcement uh Team uh to be able to identify which are those airbnbs or other short-term vacation Airbnb is not the only uh you know game in town sort of speak uh and figure out whether they are in fact have registered are
abiding by uh this uh ordinance and if not be able to suspend uh their um suspend their actions you know and take enforcement actions uh so I I I do encourage you to uh pass this uh also another thing is this did review uh was
reviewed by our Planning and Zoning Board who sits as a local planning agency of the town of Miami Lakes uh there were some suggestions that they made uh some which we were able to implement others that we were not uh one of them is um there was an idea of putting a noise box uh and there's one
particular municipality that has it uh I have some questions as to how that uh could open us up to certain and the legality of it and certain liability what it does it just Bas basically records that's records uh you know noise better word
and then reports it to the police department and the police department can can take corrective action we can definitely look into it if this board decides that it wants to incorporate that as as an option for us to look into it and come back and or uh just some blanket language that we can uh look at
U and the town can has discretion to to look into other um devices or electronic devices uh to deter uh noise um the other thing was uh with regards to a BTR from miid County miid County does not require a BTR however if they did in the
future we could also incorporate that uh into our our code of ordinances uh and those were the really the two major uh ones there were other few that we we did uh incorporate um and I'm open to any questions that you you all may have before we move to the council and
and entertain any motions this item is a public hearing therefore any members of the public wishing to speak now is the time for you to approach the well and and have an opportunity to speak on this item again this is 14a short-term rentals seeing none in Chambers going
once going twice Madam clerk anybody on uh online I will just double check I still see one individual if you're here for public comments for the ordinance in second reading please um unmute yourself that's Mr peniston he's watching for the
uh the code designation which is coming up soon okay so there's there's no one in public meeting in the public remote online excellent okay so with that public comments is now closed is there a motion I move it I'll move who who was the first one to say
they move oh councilman Garcia and then the second yeah I'll second uh councilman Fernandez all right we are now in discussion councilman Garcia thank you so much and and thank you so much for working on this I know this has been an item that a lot of residents have been complaining about for years
and they honestly they you know they they deserve for us to do something about this especially the the whole point of this was to make sure that the the the Bad actors because there are a lot of good actors I mean there are and there's there's houses that that do this
and you never get one complaint but there are continuous Bad actors so I you know the my goal is to have this to have teeth right some sort of teeth and I know we're limited by what the state regulates could you talk a little bit more in detail about the the and know you increase the fines for for Bad actors what talk about people that
continue to do this uh and create this uh nuisance for our residents what can you go a little detail on the fines and and what exactly means to the to the property owners yes if they continue to have properties that are causing issues for our residents yes through the mayor
uh councilman um you'll notice in page 284 discusses the violations uh there's a violation right now is punishable of a fine up to 250 for firsttime violation and $500 for each repeat violation um these actual violations go to as you
mentioned the the property itself um and if they are just like with any other fine uh that property owner does have the right to to appeal them if they don't then the fines are become hard after a certain period of time uh and then they do acrew interest and
penalties there was a question on the Planning and Zoning Board about having continual daily fi uh uh daily fines now the issue is is that that's not possible until the person has had a chance a due process opportunity to come and appeal them once that has terminated and they
haven't paid and they haven't corrected the violation right first this correction then the payment of the citation then that would acre daily fines and and interest um right now the way that we've uh revised our our code um it provides that a person that has a
fine on their property first of all uh and that's not corrected has only a certain amount of time to be able to make that payment and make that correction and if not they are no longer able to uh and those F will continue to acur so that mitigation that we we did
have at one point where somebody could have you know these fines and and continue being a violator and then just come into full compliance and be able to uh mitigate them and and come to maybe like one day's fine that is no longer the case that's no longer possible so that I believe is the biggest that also
uh arming U Mr Angel and his code enforcement team with the a very good software and product out there that will assist them in identifying who the violators are I think will serve the town well okay and as far as I know that these parties are happening the weekends
things like that um as far as code enforcement uh we're being made aware by complaints from residents right uh but you know how do we what are we doing to make sure that we're we're actually you know uh if
there is an issue going on that we are verifying that that that is going on I I'm I'll allow Mr Angel and and our Police Department uh to answer that but there's two separate issues one is the the code issue and here you have the actual ordinance that has to be abided by and Mr Angel and Mr Angel's team and
he's got uh folks on the ground on on the weekends as well we'll be verifying this the second part is the actual uh goes to the noise uh issue and if there is a violation of noise uh and it goes beyond um a certain you know time frame then the police department can be uh
called and and and address that particular issue sure but repeated offenders and as far as that aspect of it do we need to do something different or add something uh as far as repeated offenders with noise variances issues same house over and
over again every single week and looking for you what uh as far as the law is concerned what options do we have in that sense so the the challenge that we have is um a lot of these that we don't have a lot there's one in particular that we
have an issue with uh they LLC under LLC and every time that you get a noise complaint it's going to be a different person sure so we can't have Progressive enforcement because the last guy we told to turn the music down tomorrow it's another person so if it's a home owner
right and like it's your house and I come today and then tomorrow it's your home and I could I could you know give you a civil find citation after I told you to turn it down but the these this every day is a different person there's no homeowner there it's a renter
and it's different renters because they're airbnbs so I get that point that's the chall indivual we're not going to see the same face twice I get the indiv I guess I'm asking so many lawers up here um is there anything that holds an owner
responsible uh for their property if it continues to be used in a way that illegal activities or illegal or activities that are breaking laws continue to happen do they get besides civil is there any
anything uh available to to you know address that okay so a few things one is and and and Mr Angel just brought something to uh to my attention is that one of the other
things that they're doing conjunction in coordination with the police department is when the citations with the incident reports occur they're forwarding it to him and then the code enforcement um code enforcement officer can go out there and do the formal citation one thing that's important is to realize and
understand that there's a difference between the homestead owner you know the owner that own owns the house and and can claim homestead property and what we can do we can't really do much on a code violation but a lot of these homes that are short-term rental are not necessarily Homestead okay they're
they're rental properties by Nature so it'll get to a point and this is something that at some it it'll be a policy issue and a policy decision for for all of you to make and to give instructions to the manager and to us as as your attorneys whether at that point when the fine has become voluminous uh
what type of action you want us to take and they can include a foreclosure action in foreclosing that lean uh so yes I mean it starts by Baby Steps By by these small fines but these small fines for these Bad actors can grow very fast over a period of time and at that point
then we can take additional action uh civil which can include a foreclosure action absolutely I think that's something we definitely need to do especially for the Bad actors but you know underage drinking you know things like that drug use uh at these parties
um it's just hard for me to wrap my head around that the actual owner of the property has zero responsibility for that even though it's a business right so let's say you get there and there's drug activity underage drinking whatever it is right um it's just someone that's
not a lawyer said man you own the place that's your responsibility something bad's going on it's on you so I guess we're hitting them financially right in the pocket but if there's any way we can also hit them criminally for anything I know the laws maybe don't exist right now but I don't
know I don't know what we have to do but if someone continues to have these underage parties or parties that create crimes and they're just you know not responsible for the actions yeah obviously and I mean I don't want to speak for the major if he goes to one of these houses and there's blatant illegal
activity going on yeah yeah you're going to take action sure um I guess I'm remembering my my high school but it's just noise if it's a nuisance then it becomes a little bit more difficult one thing that Mr Angel actually just brought to my attention director Angel is that the new program the new software which you approved in consent uh also
has the ability to detect improper uh let's call it improper uh use of Homestead so somebody that is is declaring Homestead and is really it's not their Homestead and will report it to the county and will also give us that information so again when we get to that level that you want us to take that
extra legal ining suit we would have that information at our disposal yeah I just I want to thank you for doing this thank you so much I just want the M's residents to know on behalf of the entire the mayor and the whole Council and the whole staff is that we're not going to allow this to continue to happen without doing something and if we
have to put more teeth and do do a lot more to get this to stop we're going to get it to stop because it's ridiculous to to spend your life savings on your perfect home and have this neighbor every week and throw a party I mean those people are just going crazy so I thank you so much for this and I and I
would ask my colleagues to approve this and also think about adding to it as adding more teeth to it if we need to which I'm I'm sure we're going to have to in the future councilman Sanchez would it be possible for the houses that are not under home ownership that are under LLC um spec you know like the ones
that are used just your businesses they don't have any Homestead anything like that to where it's if it's a repeat offender after let's say six offenses just to give a number um that that address is unable to be a short-term
rental anymore but not just the LLC because anyone can just open up another LLC and transfer the house to another LLC and another LLC but making to the point where after an excessive amount of violations making that house that that folio number not allowed to have shortterm anymore through the mayor
councilman Sanchez I'm glad you brought up that point if you look at page 284 suspension of vacation rental that particular issue is addressed and it discusses that uh upon for example second violation the maximum occupancy vental shall be uh vacation rental shall be suspended for a period of 30 days and then 12 calendar
months uh so on and so forth um until the the vacation rental we may decide just not not to I mean the problem is we can't completely disallow it but we can continue increasing those periods of time where it's it's suspended but it would be tied to the address not to the
LLC that the house is registered to yeah it's it's tied everything is tied to the the property yes okay okay hey councilman hburg and then I saw councilman fernand's hand go up and thank you mayor um and I agree uh councilman Garcia that we probably have
to add teeth to this as we see how it goes but my biggest concern is and the biggest concern of residents typically is the noise right and that happens at 12: 1 2 in the morning do we have code out there because I I don't know if code code can't can code make a violation
just based the code has to see the violation right so they have to go in there and hear the noise so we're not going to get any violations if we don't have code out there at night I dealt with that in the city of Miami it's it's so so when they call the noise is we come obviously to enforce the ordinance
and um do in certain houses we're writing reports now um because we're doc making documentation and we're sharing that with code enforcement so if our officer Witnesses witnessed it and we share that with code enforcement it's almost like the overnight parking on the sale we write a report on that we we
forward that to code and then they take their enforcement so that's another and it's also building up like a file on on that residence through documentation long-term documentation and repeat off fences it could be just parking the cars on the street paring the side walks a lot of music littering which is all kind
of been all the previous complaints that we've gotten that come from these uh these Airbnb rentals right but but the question is you need to get a violation for this ordinance to start taking teeth does can code give a violation without actually being there and witnessing the
violation so through the mayor uh councilman herberg I I that's one of the the issues that that's one of the um new um how can I say uh new cooperation that we're creating between Cod and police so um the major goes out there realizes
that there there's a noise violation he'll go ahead and take that incident report and pass it to code now code can go ahead and issue that citation so now becomes a civil penalty does that answer your question right so the officer can basically be a witness to the violation and code can then issue the Civil
citation to the property and and so if noise is happening to these properties I mean I don't I don't care if it's a different tenant I don't care if it's different renter if you're going to the same property three times a month you got we should be code should be citing the homeowner AB absolutely that's what's going to happen okay perfect
that's that's what I want to hear perfect thank you thank you thank you mayor um as as a real estate agent as a as a huge proponent and and supporter of property owner rights you know our state legislators Unfortunately they they know they know better than we do so they've
made it a point where they know that they're going to do what they're going to do but um this is the only way that our our only method to at least control it and I'm in full support of it um if we had we could create a an ordinance that had more teeth I would support it
too but for now this is I think think is is a right step as as this ordinance develops and it's it's a living through through the mayor uh to councilman fernandz sorry for that uh as this ordinance continues to develop and we see how uh how how far we want to take some of these civil penalties and what
type of civil action we can also look at other avenues and other things that um perhaps we can just you know tighten it so it's it's this is not it is our ordinance it's going to go into our C uh our book of uh our code if you approve this tonight however that doesn't mean
that it can't be improved upon it can the vice mayor thank you Mr Mayor Mr attorney uh I just want to confirm a couple very specific wording uh things
here in the in the proposed uh Amendment to the code at 284 uh section 4 A4 um actually 4B I apologize it says that suspension restrictions an occupant
may not occupy a vacation rental during any period or suspension or should it be period of suspension through the mayor vice mayor yes you're correct it should be for suspension I just want to correct it before before we uh adopt it um because
obviously that's a very important provision that I don't want being uh ambiguous sure um and I also saw uh 4 A4 as related to violations of the town's sexual offender regulations found in section 1219 of the town code is that
saying that if someone has a short-term rental and then the person who rents it is a sexual offender then then this rule applies so basically what this is saying
is that the vacation rental would be automatically revoked if there is is a sexual offender until the police can verify that that person is no longer living there uh got it yeah okay uh so then I'll only make a very minor
amendment to uh just replace the word or with of in section uh 4 B under suspension restrictions and uh other than that I'm good with this I'll second the amendment any discussions on the
amendment all right seeing none all those in favor say I I'll oppose no guys have it the amendment uh the amendment passes it we're now back on the main item as amended we've already gone one round is are there any further comments questions um all right Madame clerk
please call the rooll ordinance 14a ordinance in second reading as amended council member hburg yes council member Sanchez yes council member Garcia yes
council member Quadra Garcia yes council member Fernandez yes vice mayor Mora yes mayor Diez yes the ordinance as amended in second reading passes thank you mayor thank you Council excellent seeing no uh
no resolutions pending for tonight's meeting we are now in uh in item 16 new business um we have a couple so I would ask us to try to uh keep our introductions of the items as quick as possible with that we are on 16a by uh councilman Quadra Garcia dog lering and
enforcement thank you Mr Mayor um Mr Mayor um I received a call from a resident the other day that um has observed a neighbor on several
occasions um bringing her bringing him or her their pet to uh to poop on their grass not intentionally
but cuz the pet doesn't know I I love dogs I mean Mr Mary you saw uh one of my boxers I'm a lover of uh of dogs uh but when a person
has a pet a dog you need to be responsible and for those of you that are out there listening to me this is serious so the lady calls me and she says my son has special
needs um my husband just bought me a brand new car for our 40th anniversary it was late afternoon and she had stepped on that big giant poop pile and she brought it into her brand new
car then her son goes out of the car goes around trying to look for where the stuff was he gets also involved with it and takes it inside the house so I'm telling you it is uh it's
very serious um but i' I've been hearing now that it's also happening over at uh at the uh Mary Collins park at the so children this is a safety this is a
health issue now children can you know can begin into so I mean I'm not an expert in this realm I have heard it in the past uh I just need to find out what we are going to do I have an idea what we're
going to do uh there's a uh a new apparatus that uh I will be bringing on the next uh that actually uh if if we allow it to put it on uh different parts of the Town it is a shiny
camera that will uh I I know it's I know it's a a tough uh object or or an item to talk about but I'm asking to see what what is going to be done uh on this cuz it's
serious is it safe to say then that your motion is to have staff come back with recommendations on what we can do to come back on this AB absolutely okay is there a second I'll second all right been seconded by councilman hburg any discussion on this particular item all right right uh seeing none all those in
favor say I I all oppos no the eyes Havoc the item passes uh we are now on 16b exploring to contract with the Miami parking authority to enforce the ordinance code uh by councilman JC
Fernandez well you guys there there we have um according to our our Police contract um of course we since we contract Miami dve County they can only site they can only ticket folks that um
that breaks an ordinance of the county and we don't have our own Police Department so this is an Avenue that we that I'm I'm hoping that we can at least explore that option that if I there's a city city of Dural actually uses them where we can um contract them to be able
to to site folks that have um commercial vehicles that Park overnight or those folks that Park in the in the s area so I just want my colleagues to um to support the item just to have staff look into the options and I I just received
um our attorney kobella just gave me the the agreement with the city of Dalal I haven't had a chance to look at it he gave it to me about a couple hours ago but I think um if we can piggyback on something like this it would it would solve a lot of our issues is there a second I'll second excellent been mov
and seconded any discussion all right hburg briefly I I guess you might not know the the answer but maybe the town attorney does with the experience with Dural I mean for me I like the idea and I just don't know the cost I I don't care if the
contractor takes the cost of the fines right the point is to just get compliance so I mean I don't know if there's even a way to say hey like whatever fines they generate they I don't know how it works what what's the cost and how does it work for dout we
understand so if if this Council decid that they want to explore this it would be for us to the manager and and myself to sit down with the Miami uh parking authority um and to discuss what that would look like um we are not and do not
have the size of the commercial area or uh the parking issues that the city of Dalal has we're much smaller municipality so I imagine that there would be probably some kind of fee for enforcement um at the same time I know that the manager has been speaking with uh our major and and the police department so I I think it would be good
for us to continue exploring that Avenue and see which one makes more sense for for the town any further further discussion all right seeing none all those in favor say I I I all oppose no the item carries we're now on
16c uh which is my item code designating Northwest 142nd Street um after Jeff peniston um I try to uh after meeting with Cody which who is Jeff's son uh we went ahead and and he sent me all sorts of interesting information about the
union that that that he represents uh which is the um I had it just here um plumbers 519 uh they've been based out of Miami Lakes since approximately 1973 and Mr peniston has been very active in that Union and a part of it for a very
long time uh so it seemed appropriate uh to co- designate that Street Northwest 142nd after uh Jeffrey de uh penniston um being that it sits right next to their Union Hall there and I think would be a nice fitting tribute not only for him but for the entire Union as well um
I went to their uh to the retirement party that they held for him it was there at the Grand Slam ballroom and it was packed so and and everybody was in complete agreement with this so I would ask that we adopt this and again this is the street right next to their Union Hall so it's not affecting any
residential streets or or anything like that with that that is my motion is there a second second it's been moved and seconded any discussion uh seeing none uh councilman Sanchez is it 142nd Street between 87th Avenue and 88th
Place no on the east side 60th Avenue to 57th Avenue got it okay east east Southeast uh Industrial Park yeah that that stretch yeah okay so it's not a residential area okay all right uh with all that a uh there being no further
questions or discussion or you do have one the road that runs alongside the cemetery yes okay yeah anybody else going once going twice sold okay so with that all those in favor say I I all
opposed no the eyes have it the item carries congratulations Cody to you and your family for uh 16 D updating and reestablishment engagement with HOA and condo associations by councilman hburg
thank you Mr Mayor you heard some residents talk about it the HOAs are uh lifeline and and being able to communicate effectively with our residents there so many HOAs and condomini associations I want to say that we used to have some sort of
meeting years ago um I would probably like to try to give that a shot and bring that back by annual but I think the most important thing in here is that I want to have we can work I I work with staff work with Nic and update our list with not just the management companies
with the actual officers of the board if they want to share their email and phone numbers and then also updated and make sure we have a list of where all when all the meetings are and we all share it so we can stop by any time it's just making sure we have that tool easily available for us so that's my
motion it's been moved is there a second second by the vice mayor um Mr vice mayor no discussion I'm in support okay anyone else wanted to speak y mayor uh Mr manager yeah just one thing I it came to my attention that the neighborhood Improvement Committee in their
resolution that established them that created them H talks about them being the the spe head or the coordinators of of that meeting but we'll work with them to make sure and then maybe we can have one and then you collectively between the council and the HOAs you guys can decide is it going to be once a year
twice a year you know whatever that's my idea do it once see if it works doesn't work don't do it again but you know at least give it a try okay and again the the court as you pointed out cuz I I was also cheer of neighborhood Improvement and that was one of the things I did notice that we were responsible for and
it's a quarterly HOA meeting we would try to make it interesting by changing up the topics we' have presenters um uh my question to you is has neighbor Improvement stopped doing that yes okay well we haven't had it so by default the answer to your question is yet okay well I think being that it's in their
founding resolution think we need to push them to actually comply with what they're required to do we we'll present it to them and just uh highlight the fact that that's in their uh their resolution and ask them to spearhead setting one of those up in conjunction
with the schedules for the council excellent yeah so I mean if they set it up then we don't need to do anything right I I don't want to create more work uh but I just let's push it okay and but for me I think and I think for all of us a very important thing for us is to get that updated list of the association
officers and the schedules of when their meetings are and and we have a list it's just updated not as frequent as you uh are are proposing right I think we update it maybe annually every couple years and what we'll do is we'll we'll do it maybe you know a couple times a
year because that way we capture I don't they may not have the same uh voting uh schedule as far as the election of new officers so we'll we'll try and do that twice a year and we do maintain a list it's just may not be 100% accurate because of that that lag in uh in
catching them so okay Mr vice mayor uh Mr manager don't don't the HOAs have to renew their BTR every year I don't know if if they all why don't we just make it to where at the time that they renew their BTR they also
remind us let us know the new board provide the new contact info that way we are regularly updating I I I think it may just be easier clarisol has a uh contact list she'll just send them all and then if we send it to somebody who's no longer the president they'll say oh no so and so is the president and then
we'll we'll update the list and then we'll just do it every six months we'll okay we'll do that update and that way we'll it'll be almost 100% accurate all right see no further discussion all those in favor say I I all oppos no the eyes have it the item
carries we are now on item 16e amendment to 13-1506 of the town code by councilman Sanchez you recognized to make your motion thank you Mr Mayor so the code the way the way that it exists right now is if your setback is 20 ft um you can only go to
50% of your setback in order to create a pra or a a gazebo now we all we all live in South Florida we all know how hot it is in the summer and we all know how much everyone in South Florida likes to enjoy the outdoors you know it's a beautiful weather it's one of the purposes that we live down here but we
also want to be able to enjoy it in a in a safe manner you know providing shade um to a point where more than just a handful of individuals can can be under that shade the way it's written right now is that at 10 feet the posts that secure the pergas or whatever Hunning
you have out there go 10 feet from the property line but there's no exclusion for the overhang that it can have but in the sense of a hurricane if someone has an overhang of let's say two to three feet it can create create a hazard where a hurricane can lift that roof because
there's nothing securing it from that point out um I would like to work with uh Town staff to see an alternative especially for for IND individuals that have you know limited space in their backyards to try to find a middle ground
uh between the 50% and you know either the property line or not going all the way to the property line for for uh for rain purposes but at least to 5et the same way that pools are for drainage purposes and things like that it wouldn't be a one-sized fits all um you
know I'm very aware that we have two different types of of properties you know single family homes zero lot zero lot homes but to try to find the solution to be able to go a little bit further and have a nicer area on the outside of their house to enjoy the summer in I understand the purpose of
this code was to a deter exterior structures that would be enclosed on all sides and would add to the square footage of the house I'm not trying to take that away it's just to have one side that would be closed when it's attached to the house and three Expos
sides and hopefully you know have a little bit more space to enjoy the weather that we have here in South Florida okay so that's your motion that is my motion to work with T it's been seconded by the vice mayor uh any discussion well I guess Mr vice
mayor uh you have first dib so no no anyone there to my right uh councilman Garcia uh oh oh sorry U Mr Mayor uh before we make any decisions on this item I would like to bring uh our expert Susana up to see if this is uh something
that this is uh uh that would be healthy for council member I just want to be clear you're not really making a decision other than council member Sanchez going and working what's that it's got to come back to you it's got to come back to you for actually as an
ordinance because it's a code change so you'd have to see it two more times and then that way Susana will have a chance to speak and sit down and confer with the council member Sanchez be able to beat it up and then when it comes back to you we'll be more than happy cuz then it's a proposal right now it's just a a
thought and now uh when it comes back to you you'll have a chance to beat it up and of course uh you'll have access to Susanna the entire time and and you can ask her any questions you might have correct even between first and second reading because it'll be a month apart you have a chance to sit down with her and you can go through it dissect it whatever you want to do and we'd be more
than happy to sit down with you do thank you Mr Man thank you Mr Mayor no further discussion for from you okay councilman Garcia thank you mayor um well I just have I do have a couple questions because just want to clarify what um you
know our our amendments are to this our town code and what HOAs have in theirs so um you see here it's it shall not exceed 350 square feet for the um for the can footage yes 300 Square F feet
right the total 350 total is what it can be or 20% of the rear yard whichever one is less what what is the current or 20% of the rear yard whichever one is less so if if the yard does not if 350 is to is more than 20% of the real yard then
is whatever that 20% is okay okay that's what it is now correct I'm not asking to change the square footage yeah for a possible solution to change the setback okay what what um repercussions
I I know this is just to to to beat it up but I just need a little a little more information changing that setback what would that imply as far as so there's always a slippery slope of allowing uh or or creating a condition where people
would be thinking that they could basically uh put a roof over their entire rear yard except for those five feet on the edge right yeah and that's where we begin to get
very um can I ask you quick question and and and this is just to to to see where I'm this is coming from do we have a lot of requests by our property owners to change the current uh town code to allow for what councilman Fernandez is is
asking for is that something that the planning board has seen a lot of variances in rear in in the last few months um and they both can attest to that that lot of canopies have been coming through uh with setbacks
reduction of the distance between the main structure and the and and the canopies there's the canopies are a big item in the plan lady are the variances being approved when they're asking for these in some cases in other cases they've been denied in other cases
they're they're been modified from what the request was and last question what happens if if it's approved by us but it's it's uh against what the HOAs have in their uh so the HOA has the right and the prerogative to have uh tighter
controls than we do but they have to enforce their own regulations we don't get to enforce they don't get to use as for enforcement they have to do their own enforcement yeah the the only problem I I find that might happen and I'm sure it has is or I've been told it
it happens that uh we approve something they go back to the HOA the HOA says sorry this is you know it happens every day they they go through planning they go through whatever and then say wait I can't do this why didn't why didn't the town tell me this because the tong cannot tell I know I know I know but that's the so I'm a little hesitant
right now to to even look into this right now cuz I think it might cause a little more confusion So I myself personally get a little more information on it so sure I'll just be a no because I just want to avoid issues that I see coming that uh like you said that it
might open a can of worms like we did with the with the U artificial turf and things like that it might open up kind of worm so that's that's why I'll be voting no that's the only reason why I'll be voting no councilman Fernandez and then councilman hburg thank you mayor um during during
my uh my serving the Planning and Zoning Board it it absolutely came up uh often um many times we would we would try to work with a homeowner but it was Case by case because it it really had to do with whether their property was unique and whether they they were suffering you
know some some kind of a hardship thank you that uh that was outside of what what the neighbors would a would be ble to enjoy so I I'm likely I mean I'll vote for this but I really I'm not comfortable with giving giving them a
shorter setback cuz here's the thing you give them give them that setback and then they're going to come before the Planning and Zoning Board and they're going to request a smaller setback so that that's where the issue is and then they're not going to have you know it's going to be roof all the way to the edge
of the property line and you know there's some issues there where the water runs it'll be running into into their neighbors yards so you know it can cause some some issues so but for the sake of exploring it I'm okay with it I I'm just not sure if uh I would vote if it came to you know before us again
councilman Harrisburg thank you mayor and I just wanted so I can be transparent I'm in the same boat as JC I'm I'm voting to get the opinion from town staff and and allow us to to look at it closer if it proceeds maybe even talk to some of the members of the Planning and Zoning Board I am very
hesitant on reducing ing setbacks period but I'm certainly willing to see if there is a need if it keeps coming before the planning zoning board then there probably might be a need right I just need to know a lot more before I would feel comfortable that's all Mr Mayor hey hold on uh one second
did you want anything uh before we close out the first round okay I'll I'll just throw in my thoughts now as well which is I I share the the hesitation by conman hburg and and Fernandez to vote to advance it though and wait to see what comes back but also because I found
not only the the sler slope argument uh to be something I I want to learn more about but also because what as um former Chief uh AEL Fernandez brought up could you know I have some questions I want to learn more about as far as any po potential fire hazards we may be creating as well but I will vote to
advance it today just to get more information and go from their councilman Quadra Garcia yeah let's study it very good um my my concern is that we we authorize it we we give them that authorization there's a Pergola and then
all of a suddenly a couple months down the road a year down the road now they have an efficient an efficiency in there so and that could happen so I uh we need to be very careful um on this
one anyone else all okay all those in favor say I I all oos oos no no um Madam clerk one no oh oh you voted no okay you know what let's make it cleaner uh Madam clerk please call the call the
RO council member Fernandez yes yes council member Garcia no council member hburg yes council member Quadra no Garcia no council
member Sanchez yes count a vice mayor morera yes mayor Diez yes the motion passes thank you we are now moving on to item 16 F that would be uh amendment to
committee Rules by vice mayor Mora all righty uh first and foremost I'd like to thank uh council member hburg uh for requesting to co-sponsor this item I do uh if I haven't a formerly done so I do accept his his request um back in the
January regular council meeting council member hburg presented an item which concerned uh amending the committee rules relating to attendance uh coincidentally I had also been working on an amendment to the committee rules uh but I chose not to raise it in January uh because I knew that we had
the quarterly committee chairs coming meeting uh coming up and I wanted to make sure that we got feedback from the committee chairs prior to taking any action um when the item came up uh you know I brought it up and we decided to I
believe table the issue um given my my uh support at that time I co-sponsored his uh and subsequently moved to table it uh now that we've had a chance to meet with the committee chairs during their quarterly uh committee chair meeting obtain their feedback um uh I
modified my original draft which I had spread on the council uh during the January meeting um and that is the version that you see attached um number one I got rid of a lot of useless references to to the neighborhood service District advisory boards that
are no longer uh in play um we added at the request of uh some of the committee uh chairs uh there was a a strong consensus in favor of allowing under certain circumstances uh remote appearance uh by the the committee
members um one of the other things that was recommended was a lot of the attendance issues would be one of the biggest reasons why attendance is so important is because if you fail to attend you
very likely uh deny that committee Corum and now they can't do business so it's not just you that's being uh uh affected it's rather the entire committee so one of the things that this uh Amendment does is actually reduce the Quorum
requirement from uh uh a majority of 50% down to a third um and that way you can easily do that um the it does remove the the requirement to be physically present in order to vote um but the bulk of the
changes come in the section 10 attendance uh in the past the rule simply said that it is a responsibility of the secretary to take minutes and accurately reflect uh or sorry um attendance uh is at all regularly scheduled meetings is the responsibility
of each Committee Member absences that are requested to be excused must be provided to the committee secretary who shall duly reflect the requested excused absence in the meeting minutes is the responsibility of the secretary to take minutes and accurately reflect attendance at all committee meetings attendance report shall be included in
the chairperson's semiannual report to the Town Council excessive absences this was basically the only regulation excessive absences may result in removal of of the Committee Member by the Town Council it basically put us into this
state of flux where no one really knew what the rule was what is excessive and then when may it result in removal and when does it not result in approv in in removal so this sought to this uh
Amendment seeks to understand that these are volunteers who are giving us their time while simultaneously understanding that while they are volunteers they they did take an oath and and they did uh decide to take on this responsibility and that they are expected to be present
at these meetings uh so it it does call for a Committee Member uh to be removed automatically in if they ACR three unexcused absences from regularly scheduled committee meetings during the
same calendar year if they ACR three consecutive absences from regularly scheduled Ed committee meetings during the same calendar year regardless of excused or unexcused and if they acrew five absences from regularly scheduled
committee meetings during the same calendar year whether they're excused unexcused consecutive non-consecutive if you miss five you're you're missing basically half the year uh and it makes no sense for you to continue um on top of that it does provide a definition for
what is an excused absence and what is not um so so absences shall be considered excused if and only if the absence was due to medical reasons the death of a committee member's immediate family member within the seven calendar
days preceding the committee meeting uh unexpected work related commitments military service due to active duty orders in the reserves National Guard or state guard or any other reason which the committee chair in their discretion
classifies as an excuse as an excused absence um once again the committee chair does have the sole discretion to classify an absence as excused or unexcused in cases of absences by the committee chair then the vice chair uh is the one that's going to have the discretion to classify an absence by the
committee chair as excused or unexcused um one important little carve out that I put here just because I don't know why but I kind of had a feeling that stuff like this might happen is nothing herein is meant to allow a committee chair a
vice chair or anyone to access protected privileged confidential or otherwise private information to ascertain whether an absence was excused or unexcused I don't know how many of you guys watched the office but I you know I was thinking of that scene from uh the office where
Dwight goes to uh Oscar's house to find out if he's actually sick or not uh we're not doing that we're not asking to violate Hippa here uh you know you either believe them or you don't that's why the chair is given the soul discretion if they don't believe him they don't believe him
um in addition to that each Committee Member is permitted to attend no more than two committee meetings including regular meetings special calls and meetings of any subcommittee that the members have volunteered for via remote appearance during any calendar year for
purposes of this subsection the term remote appearance shall be construed to mean that a Committee Member attends the meeting from somewhere other than the published meeting location by using video conference technology such as whatever the case may be Zoom uh FaceTime teams whatever uh what is the
other one Google Google meet um for for and then it sets off certain rules on remote appearances uh this largely comes just from experience in our own legal profession with zoom hearings um number one uh very important no one shall act
as a chair while they are appearing remotely so if they're not there they're not going to be the chair Vice chair who's present at the meeting would act as the chair of that meeting uh the Committee Member participating remotely is responsible for notifying the committee liaison no later than 24 hours
prior to the meeting start date uh they are responsible for coordinating with the liaison uh or other members of the committee to ensure the proper equipment is available at the published meeting location to support the remote appearance uh they have to keep their camera on and their face must remain
visible normal bathroom breakes accepted uh for the duration of of the meeting uh the Committee Member uh who's appearing remotely must be able to hear everyone in attendance in person at the meeting and everyone in in person has to be able
to hear him uh or her um also important just from our experiences in the legal field uh anyone appearing remotely has to wear a tire suitable for a public meeting uh the Committee Member who is appearing
remotely um you know is got to make sure that they don't have anything obscene or distracting in the background of their video I I don't want to see somebody taking and you know you can think whatever you think but I I even think of someone who's at Disney World and they're trying to do their meeting while
while they're at Disney World and there's fireworks going off in the background that's distracting the meeting that that's not that's not okay um the they they are allowed to mute their audio while they're not speaking uh you know but at the same time when they do unmute they need to make sure that
they're not in a noisy environment again the Disney example uh where where it's just a distraction uh when calling for a Voice vote uh the chair shall orally confirm the votes of any committee members appearing remotely uh separate from those appearing in person
and the person appearing remotely is responsible for ensuring that they have a sufficiently strong internet or data connection to facilitate clear audio uh and video transmission the town is is not responsible for any connectivity issues regardless of the cause of the issues um and then lastly just that that
it is a responsibility of the secretary to take minutes to uh which accurately reflect the uh attendance including whether it's excuse un excuse uh in person or remote uh and then this is an important point to the issue that I brought up
with uh um chairman Perez early earlier uh the attendance reports need need to be included in the committee's reports to the council that way we can get a quick bird's eye view of are there any stragglers who are slipping through the
cracks and are still in these committees despite being in violation of these rules and we can just ask them right then and there because the attendance report shows us that they should have been removed um lastly if you or a couple other
points under Section 11 uh this is intended to you know any sort of gains and ship uh number one if you are removed from a committee due to absences and you happen to be serving on two committees your removal from one committee does not affect your status on
the other committee so long as you're in compliance with the attendance rules for that one uh but while being removed from a committee doesn't preclude you from applying or joining any other committees uh as a result of your resignation or
removal if you are removed do due to absences you will be precluded for 180 days from joining this that committee the one that you were removed from uh and that's just designed to prevent people from just resigning at a convenience and then coming right back
um as for the last thing is 304 of the agenda is the creation of a code of conduct you heard uh Carlos uh talk about that earlier there was a big call from numerous chairs for there
to be a code of conduct for our committees and I think even on the Das there's been a call for that to make sure that these individuals are upholding the standards of Miami Lakes they are representing us they are wear uh wearing our our polos and our logos
on them uh so they should adhere to a code of conduct and honestly a lot of this is very self-explanatory um but just be a professional um demonstrate professionalism good maners courtesy respect consideration arrive at meetings
prepared and on time um complete action items uh on time stick to the meeting agenda stay on task and on the topic being discussed um I'm going to skip because honestly it's a lot it's a lot
uh but I did want to emphasize this part um at the towards the bottom I added very specific uh code of conduct for our chairs to make sure that they are not abusing their power and that they are being fair to all of their members um other than
that I'll I'll move it's adoption excellent is there a second I'll second it's been moved and seconded and we have discussion first of uh as the second of the motion um a councilman Herber oh wait a com go ahead mayor with your um
permission may I ask just a question to vice mayor Morena just to make sure that we do this properly section 10 that he just explained section 10 letter F When you
mention attendance reports shall include she'll be included at the semiannual report question just to make sure that we do this the right way what happens when I receive a report from the committee and they don't have the
attendance report do I still accept the report and allow them to present in the council meeting to you all or should I preclude them and say no you're not allowed to present to the council because you're in violation of section
10 letter F because you are not presenting the attendance report that is correct so I shall preclude them I'll say you lose the opportunity and well it's not that they lose the opportunity just send it back and tell them you need to amend your your committee report but if they never if they never because I'm
I'm just like you thinking of events that will happen they're ready to present their annual report but they say no the secretary couldn't take notes didn't do the minutes so I can see that happening no attendance report so it puts my office because I'm the one
receiving I just want to have clarification from you and all of you should I still allow them to present their report without the attendance report or should I say no you have to give me the attendance report for you to present to the council I'll obviously
let my uh colleagues aine but I do think we need to be a little strict so with that uh councilman hbur had seconded it so I'll go over to him first and I think I saw councilman Sanchez with his hand up as well councilman hburg thank you mayor and on on the point from from Madam clerk I I
agree it's a matter of you're not coming up until you provide us the correct report with the attendance because the attendance is vital um and thank you vice mayor for taking the time to revise the rules and and putting in the time to get everything done I know we we wanted to do this uh two questions I to you or
potentially the town attorney first can we make corm one3 I I I think it should just be 50% I think if the if the meet if if if you can't meet 50% I don't know if we can even do it first of all that's because we're I don't I don't know if it's even legal you're jumping up and
down right you can't you have to be Cor that's like a Florida statute whatever exactly so there's there's a Florida statute with regards to municipalities to the passage of ordinances and resolutions and there's uh several attorney general opinions that that uh inur to uh to committees to any
committees that are made by counties or municipalities the other part two is that aren't those executive committees made up of the actual governing body no that that's why the Committees are subject to Sunshine Law 286 and public records 119 they're subject to all the same rules that you because they are an
extension of the council um the other part too is that while virtual uh presence is great it it can't be counted towards Quorum either you have to have physical presence this was a huge issue during uh covid uh the governor suspended those
Rules by an emergency order but once that emergency order was lifted it went back into place they can they can vote but it can't be counted towards cor yeah but now whatever you approved tonight conceptually the small legal ities if if
the council would allow me to work with uh vice mayor Mora will work on it put a nice and little bow and bring it back to you as a full resolution perfect not put it on a Bo that answers that question I I I can amend right now I can make a motion to amend the the rules to to
revise them so they're sufficient to Florida law regarding the Quorum requirement and that remote uh appearance cannot count towards cor is there a second to the amendment second it's been moved and seconded any discussion on the amendment itself saying none all those in favor say I I I
all oppos no we are back on the main item as amended as as it pertains to the Quorum and uh video conferencing requirements councilman Sanchez okay so most of us on the days have come up through committees so they're very near and dear to us they you know we know how
much work are put in by the Committees but I do feel like there's some of the rules that should also be reflective of our town Charter so for example uh section 10 a I'm sorry section 10 bi I um with the three unexcused absences a I do believe that we should give the
Committees the the the same power that we do through the town Charter that if one of us misses I I forget the number of absences um the the the three absences in a year in a year the so three absences on the
council the the the elected officials the council D can actually vote that person out so I believe it should be the same way within the committee to give the Committees the power to say yes this person has missed too much we are voting them out um that's one amendment that I'd like to see additionally um with
Section 10 C4 um if I'm not mistaken there's already a law that protects military service uh for reserves National Guard as a Soldiers and Sailors Act of 1941 where their positions everything that they do is protected if they are called a away to active duty service so I think
this is that one can be possibly removed because there's already a federal law that does protect military service members in that sense um something else I would like to uh amend is the instead of in a calendar year make it a 12 month
rolling period for the three absences three absences and five absences instead of in in one calendar year just to you know to keep that because if they say this they they missed two in are we doing our calendar year October 1st through September
30th oh count January 1 through December 31 so let's say they Miss November and December but then they miss January it wouldn't they wouldn't be out because they missed two meetings in the year instead of having three consecutive in a
rolling 12-month period so those would be the things that I recommend allowing the Committees to vote members out for excess absences uh making it a instead of a calendar year making at a rolling year and completely removing um 10
C4 due to the Federal Protection that already exists in the soldiers and saders act of 1941 so are you making a motion now or or do you want to wait for when the Z comes back as an as a formal resolution I'd like to make that motion now just so that we one for the make it life easier
on the clerk uh why don't we break those down one at a time so that it's it's cleaner so which uh which amendment would you like to start with first let's let's start with Section 10 bi I where the committee would vote an individual with excess absences okay so just to
restate it then to make it clear so what you would like to do is change that provision to reflect that after three absences right yes the committee would first have the ability to decide whether to keep uh and in essence wave that rule or to uh proceed with removing or recommending removal to the appointing
council member is correctly okay is there a second on that which one here okay a I'm going to uh so his amendment is basically to change that provision there about the uh about the unexcused absences that if there are
three absences that the committee gets a chance to vote whether or not to um request that the appointing council member remove them or rather I'm sorry automatically remove them automatically remove them yeah that they they rather that they be automatically removed and that uh uh or rather in the alternative
uh to have the committee vote on whether or not to to keep them you know because maybe they determined that you know that that they're actually a good contributing member and maybe they just had a a string of bad luck you know I'm guessing that's where it comes from but yeah so just one more time I would put it as the uh the idea is to go ahead and
let the committee decide whether or not to uh kick them out on the third absence or to give them in essence another Lifeline that is the amendment and is there a second I I'll second it if I understand the it's been seconded by council member Fernandez
you're recognized to speak in discussion here here and I and I think I like where you're going with it when when I was on served on the committee it was so simple I find this and I you guys are all the attorneys and I find this so cumbersome when when I served on the committee it was you missed
three that's it you were gone I know that you we're trying to make it so we're giving more flexibility for for for our residents and those that serve on our committee which they do a great job but I think that we should take away some of the discretion from from the committee or from the chair and and the
committee itself first of I think it some some members aren't inclined to vote off their friends even if they deserve to be off so that's what I'm afraid of I think that if we just set these rules and we make them concrete and take away discretion from them it
would make it easier for them it's not that we're that I think that we're making their life easier by having those rules in place where they just it's it's done you know the rule I'm sorry that you have to go but you know that that's a rule that was set out that's the way I
look at it mayor on the amendment itself though which is to change the uh the removal policy um vice mayor Moro yeah so so I think that that goes against the spirit of a lot of things number
one the the Committees serve at the pleasure of the council we are the ultimate body responsible for these councils uh and the story uh the Committees should not be deciding we we had that situation with uh the YF not
too many months ago where where they were about to come before this Council to ask to have one of their members removed we we don't need to have that we don't need to have members voting to kick members out or as council member Fernandez just uh s suggested people may
be a little fearsome because why would I if I vote no but then the vote fails and that person is still on the committee now I got to work next to this guy who was going to hate me yeah no let the the chair is the chosen leader of the
committee they they take on that responsibility uh and they're and they're still being given very specific criteria and discretion uh and I think you're right I I liked the old rule I like the the three strikes you're out regardless of excused or unexcused it
provided zero discretion zero everything however unfortunately it resulted in a lot of good people getting kicked out of committees um so what this is is an attempt at finding a middle ground um as
far as sending it to the Committees to have a vote I just think the the concern from uh council member Fernandez uh is is extremely warranted and again unfort you know I hate to say it but the reality is there's a lot of
favorites playing in these committees and we don't want to see that any other discussion on this particular Amendment councilman Garcia through the mayor thank you um I I I just think the three
consecutive um absences that are um we're not talking about that that's on the main motion yeah we're we're still just on the amendment proposed by uh councilman Sanchez just to require
committee now would go ahead and vote whether or not to kick somebody out after the third absence my concern the only concern I have with that is if one committee let's say someone's on two committees they have the same problem and one committee decides to keep them the other decides not to keep them then
we're not being uh equal across the board when it comes to the way we handle I I feel they have a case to say hey wait a second one committee is is against me and they voted me out the other committee decided they keep me in so I think that opens a can of worms when it comes to you know the committee members saying wait a second I'm not
being treat fairly by by the committee because you have two examples of one committee saying no I we'll keep you the other committee saying no no no you're gone so that's the only uh you know just trying to save us from headaches when when it comes to that and I know that's going to happen because there's there's multiple people on multiple
committees so um that that's my my issue with having them vote anyone else on the amendment councilman cuadra Garcia um Mr Mayor thank you I think that we should uh study this book I mean it's a lot
it's pretty much a book um and we should uh you know like they said let's find some middle grounds everybody is uh gets involved in a committee uh there there's a reason I mean uh but
uh let's let's dig just this before we make a decision uh tonight no problem so uh anyone else on the amendment um a so after hearing the vice mayor's uh point I was I I you know I think I'm going to go vote against the
amendment here but um obviously there's still more time to Workshop any uh any other ideas between uh now and when we go to final approval we go to approve the resolution changing the rules um but uh what was that I have something to say okay perfect councilman Sanchez see one
of the great benefits of the style of government that we have is that we get to hear difference of opinions and you know not everyone has the same perspective on everything and due to the perspective that I didn't see I am amend I am withdrawing my Amendment on that
item the amendment is withdrawn and we are now back on on the main motion where you were going to make another amendment with respect to another uh item can you please refresh the the board's memory on what that uh Amendment will be I would like to amend uh the rules instead of
calendar year to a 12-month rotating calendar okay so everybody heard that okay um is there a second on that item second for discussion seconded by the vice mayor Mr vice mayor you're recognized my primary concern is our staff on that uh that's a nightmare to
track on a rolling basis for each individual member on a rolling basis you know that hey this one this particular person has three absences and they're still 11 months away from their rollover versus just yes it's going to suck probably for
this first year uh while it normalizes but then once it rolls over into next January yeah everyone gets reset you know and I think right now if anything we we could declare a reset here from this point right that everyone's at zero as of uh the moment that we adopted you
know just to be fair um but I really I I see it more and you know clais says here I don't know if she has an opinion on that or not but uh I think that that's more of a burden on our staff keeping track or really the secretaries of each of these committees keeping TR track of
all the absences on a rolling basis for each individual member that that's my two cents there any other discussion oh um yeah any other discussion in this amendment councilman hburg thank you mayor and I know we're spending a lot of time on this but this is important because we
are very committee rant town so we want to get this right the first time they have to come back to it uh and and vice mayor I disagree I I kept the attendance on the blasting Advisory board for three years uh I had an Excel I colorcoded it it takes 60 seconds to figure out if
someone missed I I had plenty of people on my board that did so uh I don't I really don't think it's the secretary that's their job um I I'm in favor of it because it does make sense because someone can easily miss two and then miss two and they've been out for six months
basically any other discussion then on this amendment relating to the the rolling calendar as supposed to calendar year one more look okay so why don't we go ahead and um have a recorded vote on this Madam clerk please call the RO on
the amendment so this is Amendment Three instead of reading two ab three absences during the same calendar year I believe it was M um removing the calendar year and inserting on a rolling
calendar okay on a 12 month rolling calendar on a okay on a rolling 12 month of of course okay count on a ruling basis council member Sanchez yes council member hburg yes council member Garcia
yes council member Quadra Garcia yes council member Fernandez yes vice mayor morera no mayor Diez yes the amendment number three passes excellent we're now back on the main item as amended
anything else uh any discussion on the main item or any further actually before before I leave Council San any other amendments okay perfect all right councilman Garcia um through the mayor thank you very much um still great work I want to commend both of you um for not
only meeting with the chairs of the Committees getting the feedback talking to the staff um couple things you know we're a volunteer town and we want and the majority the vast majority of residents who volunteer here are doing they're they're really
sacrificing their time to doing what they can um my the only thing I don't want to see is someone who you know is really doing well as we know being on committees there can be somebody that shows up five times a year and does more work or four times a year does more work
than someone who um goes to every single committee especially the ones that have a lot of activities um as far as wearing a tie or being presentable during during uh if they're if they're like in vacation I think if they call in I mean honestly if I was on vacation with my
kids and I know I had a meeting I I would tell my wife hey can you take care of the kids and you know I may I may be at Disney world but I'm I'm involved I'm going to be gone an hour and maybe there's a background some noise but doesn't mean that I'm you know or not wearing a tie doesn't mean that I'm not involved means I'm trying so I would be a little more relaxed with with that I
mean just uh you know that that part of it um and also three executive I mean three excuse absence in in a row and is this uh correct part B item two if it's three consecutive absence regular
schedule committee meetings that are um that are excused Oren excused they're out it's consecutive you're out see I I mean there might be some health issues right it's excused but uh let's say they have nine months of of the most
productive they don't miss they never miss they're constant but again as we get older we start getting we start getting uh more more issues with our health um so I would I would put an amendment there instead of three maybe push it to four because I know there's
issues with health that might take you out someone's been in this committee for years all of a sudden they have an health health issue they're battling something they're out for excused and then they're out but then you know I don't I don't to me that doesn't uh feel good to to me so can we push that to
four I would amend that we push that uh for uh excuse absence in a row then we can consider removing them that's four months they have time to get better council member Garcia has uh Prof or moved an amendment is there a
second I'll second that okay seconded for discussion by councilman hbur councilman harisburg um that regarding that and I just want to bring up a point because when you made that when you're making that suggestion now I'm looking at B3 and it's talking about they approve five
apps Within calendar year so there might be a change that we need to make that uh to make it consistent with the prior Amendment um I I you know I agree with the the issue that it's cons three consecutive three Onex huge AB absences in any calendar year but then it's three
consecutive regarding regardless of of why so four makes to give it a little bit of buffer uncomfortable with four Mr vice mayor yes so for for me this came directly from the committee chairs uh these recommendations and uh
uh keep in mind we added the remote appearance if there are health issues they can appear from home and by the way nothing here suggests that they got to wear a tie uh nothing here we did not Wear Ties on the blasting advisory appropriate appropriate attire it just
says appropriate attire because again you know Tire I heard I heard that that comes from okay yeah it says attire not my um yeah no that comes from unfortunate scenarios that we've encountered in our legal professions of people not wearing what they should be
wearing um so yeah no the the three consecutive is you just miss an entire quarter you just miss an entire quarter that's really the way you got to look at it uh and again a lot of this is remember like somebody up here said it
we're we're a very committee driven town that person person is messing that part up uh even if it's if it it's not uh it doesn't feel right it's it's a dedicated member of our some they can come right back they can come they they can come
back either in another committee or let sometime past six months and then they're back well Mr Mayor I have a question for vice mayor if you may cman harisburg the three so and and you're making me change my mind like discussion is good the B2 because the remote
because of the remote appearance right but then at the same time doesn't the chair have the at least for now someone moves to change it doesn't the chair have the discretion to create a well excuse ASP no B2 B2
would not apply even if the chair makes your absence excused right okay got it but you have the opportunity to be remote okay yeah twice right twice in the year and you can do it two times in a row and right okay yeah okay UND
anyone else on the amendment proferred by councilman Garcia all right so again just for clarity Madam clerk why don't we uh call the role okay so the amendment by council member Garcia which was seconded by
council member hburg if I heard correctly is amending section 10 B three because it's in regards to the excuse absences change in it from 3 to 4
10 B2 102 B B2 correct but changing it from 3 to four okay that is the amendment council member Garcia yes council member hburg yes council member
Sanchez no council member Quadra Garcia yes council member Fernandez no vice mayor morera no mayor Diez no the
amendment dice we're still on councilman uh Garcia though on the main motion do you have any other amendments or any other discussion or debate I'm fine thank you mayor no problem anyone else on the main item as amended uh trying uh that has
anything else to add I'm just councilman Fernandez I'm sorry I'm I'm going to vote no on this um on the item itself because I I just think it's too cumbersome I I wish and I and I appreciate what you guys did I really do and I think that you know the intent was
was excellent I I just think it's too cumbersome and you know if we can remove some of the discretion from from the chairs I that that's the way I would like to see it go from the chair and from the committee itself anyway anyone else all right so with
that Madame clerk P please call the role on the item uh as amended I'm so sorry mayor I was speaking with council member Sanchez I didn't hear you that that's okay we're I'm calling the roll the for a roll call Vote with respect to the
main item as amended very well me just one second okay so item 16f which was moved by count vice mayor Mora and seconded by hburg count council member hburg yes council member Sanchez
yes council member Fernandez no council member Quadra Garcia council member Garcia yes vice mayor morera yes mayor Diez yes the
motion passes item 16f thank you we are now on item 16g neighborhood service District revert to special taxing district by council member Fernandez this should be a quick one I'm I'm sure it is going to be extremely quick you guys this the name
across the county is special taxing district I won't get into why it was changed um I think that uh the fact is that special taxing district is a name it's a line item on our tax bill uh a lot of times I I hear folks come in front of us and refer to
it sometimes as neighborhood and um neighborhood service district and and or they'll start with special tax AG they'll they'll stop themselves and go to to neighborhood service District I think it just makes sense the logical thing is for us to change change it to the to the name that the entire County and the entire real estate industry
uses is there a second second moved in seconded all those in favor say I I I'll oppose no congratulations the item passes we're now on item 16h my item removal of veterans part trail from cap capital projects very simply put um I
think that saving the money that otherwise would be at for this project would go ahead and be better put toward other uses not to mention as U Miss Reynolds mentioned in her public comments and as I mentioned in my memorandum finding a place to put this just going to be incredibly challenging
especially with all the other things we want to put there from the sensory garden to a the the the Veterans Memorial so um and I think one of the the great things about that Park is that it's not for like to uh you know organized activities not that bicycling is necessarily organized but just
involves a lot of people you know driving around or riding around and I think it it just it doesn't make sense to be here any longer especially with all the other things we have to do so that would be my motion second it's been moved and seconded any discussion or debate on this just just really Qui councilman Garcia what are the rules I'm
sorry what are the rules in regards to like you know like tricycles and threey little bikes for little kids I'm not talking about adults or teenagers but like you know little kids have their little tries they have their little and they're always there I mean honestly that's that's a lot of parents take the kids to do that there and away from the
street is that still like uh I mean I see them do it all the time that's not a bicycle a bicycle is codified and statued as to what it is and just what it is that's fine they can do that as yeah that's different yeah and just to be clear this is not changing any rules
it's just simply saying that this is not going to be a project that that we continue trying to uh fund and that project was going to be expanding the existing uh um Trail or was it going to be line the it was a new tra that was going to be developed I think uh towards
the South uh Southeast Corner along the Eastern uh stretch of the park it was one that uh former council member Alvarez proposed uh two or three years ago at least maybe longer and then it was just sitting on our capital projects list but it's never been uh prioritized
or funded you mean it was going to be another Trail on the around the close to the fence area all the way around somewhere back in that area I don't know if it had fin finally been completely defined but it more or less the area back around the trees somewhere back in that area it's more like a path right is that where
okay all right I get thank you um any other discussion on this item all right all those in favor please say I I I'll oppose no the eyes have it the item carries we're now on uh item 16i uh mitigate Park overs taking pets
dogs councilman Fernandez I'm open to to hearing any ideas I I I did hear possibly erecting more signs that that we don't allow dogs the issue is apparent I I don't know what we can do I know that we don't have a park ranger on
staff we can't really enforce it but I'm hoping that I don't know if there would be a possibility with the Miami parking authority to include that as part of their their citation authorizing them to site site yeah I I think it it's similar
to council member guad Garcia's item so when we go to brainstorm and see what can be done to improve or look at the enforcement uh mechanisms we we'll we'll consider everything including any opportunities with Miami Parking Authority or anybody any other our uh
mechanism perfect so I'll leave it there is there uh second was there a motion well the motion is to to ask staff to um to look into possibly
um finding ways to to sight folks that bring dogs to our parks that don't allow for them uh seconded by the vice mayor you're recognized for discussion no no discussion necessary okay well anyone else on this item all right see none uh again just as
uh the um a former battalion chief brought up you know we we do need to make sure as you're working with staff on this that it makes an allowance for dogs that are permitted by Ada with that said um any all those in favor say I I I'll
oppose no the it have it and the uh the item passes congratulations now we're back uh to my last two items which will close us out uh item 16j approval for use of town hall as a book do uh donation location I think the the memorandum on this is uh
pretty straightforward about what it is just allowing uh this student as part of her silver and night project to place a box here for donations which then later she wants onute distribute now that is the motion second mov in seconded any discussion all right see none all those
in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it thank you um on item 16k I I move to wave section 6.10 of the special Rules of Order seconded uh mov in seconded any discussion in the waiver seeing none all those in favor say I I
all oppos no the eyes have it the rule is waved uh so this item here uh form positions for and against various Tass proposals um does stem from the fact that I wanted for the town to take a specific stand against certain uh
legislation that that's uh been proposed I'm sure some of you have heard about the latest live local laws that are being um shoved down our throats again um as well as some of the you know I guess well-intentioned but misguided um
you know pushes to completely eliminate property taxes without some mechanism to pay for our police and our fire you know where a good chunk of these these monies go so what I wanted to do was just uh um to get permission from the council by an
official act for us to take a position on some items again there there's a few live local bills but I think it's I can tell you having gone through them they're they're not good for us so you know I would like uh your blessing for us to take an official position against
all the local local or live local acts so I can write a letter to the appropriate committee chairs and legislators about that I'll start with that um again this is for us to take an official stance against all the live local bills that have been filed I'll second thank you it's been moved and
seconded is there any discussion on this particular item okay uh seeing none um all those in favor of this particular item say I I all oppose no the items have it I also wanted uh there's a there's a bill currently circulating
through the legisl as well that would legalize uh uh accessory dwelling units which I believe could be a first step toward allowing efficiencies um so I wanted to speak uh you know out about that as well and so that would be the next one I would ask for your vote on uh
that we take a a position against this bill with that um that is my motion it's been seconded by the vice mayor any discussion 321 okay seeing uh um no well there's one in particular uh by Senator G and a few others that are that are moving through that has a good shot of
passing uh and so I think it's important for our legislators to hear our position uh so with that there being no further discussion all those in favor please say I I all oppos no the eyes have it and um with respect to the property tax bills
um there's again there's a lot of bills that have been filed right and I'm not asking us to take a position on all of those especially because some of them all have different quirks and different things right and some of them might actually be good as a good compromise right between the more uh extreme
position of eliminating all property taxes and the other one which is to maybe increase for example the homestead exemption so rather my my request on this one was just for us for me to have authorization to speak out about the complete elimination of property taxes as it pertains to municipalities uh is
there a second on that one second seconded by councilman Fernandez any discussion uh seeing none all those in favor say I hi all oppos no the eyes have it and those are really the big ones that I had right now I don't know if any of you had anything else uh
obviously we already have a position on our blasting bill um and councilman hburg will give us further updates now in his report but seeing none or um do you have anything else uh just briefly uh I don't know if vice mayor wants to add anything we were up in tassy had a
lot of good meetings especially with the two most likely CFOs of the next CFOs for state of Florida uh so we're we're still trying the bills are there in committee uh but we're you know trying to get things done yeah uh council member Herber can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it was 11 formal
meetings about 10 uh what we called drop offs where we primarily spoke with the um the legislative Aid and dropped the information off uh as the member was either in a committee meeting or just out to lunch or whatever the case may be
um and like countless hallway conversations uh and most importantly I actually think is the two meetings with the most likely candidates for future CFO that is your future State Fire Marshal who has single-handed authority
to change blasting limits um and I I did want to notify uh the mayor uh that uh blaz Blaze uh blaze in Golia um indicated that he may actually be making a trip down here and uh if he does reach
out I'll obviously coordinate with uh JV in your office as uh you're the one in charge of that excellent sounds good uh with that there being no further business we are now adjourned at 10:06