Yeah, bad. That is pretty much done. I don't remember. Did you guys I don't think you guys did your budget last meeting. Yeah. 7,000 500. I'll double check. 500
marking. You guys are live. We still call to order even call order. Meeting 554. Do a roll call. So Andrea is not here. Carlos here. Daniel here. Jessica here.
Hector's not here. George not here. Jose not here. My not here. Manny know me here. Rudy here. Romy maybe. Raphael. Yes. Okay. Um, so words of business, does anyone have anything you'd add other than the
budget talk about today? All right. Order of business. So, we want the public comments. I see we have two guests. Yes. You don't have us. Um, also and Justin. Uh, we're the
transportation department. Um, hang and we uh thank you for your attention because uh we have a something that we can't wait to tell you until your next meeting. So this is it today. So we're kind of like hijacking your situation today.
Um just we want to introduce first the project that we're starting this year which is the vision zero for Miami Lakes. We're starting to study all of our transportation infrastructure from the point of view of safety and and that's going on this year already. We already got funding for it. We have a
consultant in place. We're starting to look at every angle and we're here to um um recruit you all to from your point of view as business owners and as a business and economic uh development to help us highlight the areas that need to
be studied more. Uh we're going to be doing uh walking audits. Um, we're going to be doing um bicycle audits. We're going to be doing a lot of those, but I want to make sure that we hit the right areas and you know, you all know your neighborhoods better. You all know your areas of wherever your commerce is. So
that you know, if you help us get those areas on our maps to make sure we hit them when we do our audits, that would be very helpful. So, he's going to give you some business cards. They have a little QR code that take you to a map where you can drop pins in different
areas where you can put a little comment like and it can be something like the sidewalk is not wide enough here or maybe the intersection you don't cross fast enough cross. I know 67th Avenue is sorely missing a lot of crossing. Yes. Uh area. So these are the things that
we're about to address. Put it on a big report. It it's it's a matter of changing how we discuss these things with the county with FDA with all the alphabet soup of agencies that we have to deal with for funding and for projects so that we can do safety first
and not so much maybe uh circulation first yeah premium is going to keep on going be extended it might be extending 100% yeah add more um add more freebie cards as well that's a funding issue and we are right now we are like on the money.
What What is our yearly expense on freebie right now? 400 what? $450,000 a year and and it's it's paid through PTP funds and through um a grant that we get from FDA. We're requesting the grant again for next year. So, we're
preparing that grant separately, but that is not part of the grant that we're discussing today. Uh but but yes, freebie will certainly continue and if freebie is not we will continue to have a similar service in in Yes. Go ahead. Have you been working
with the counties transportation people you know and so forth Bravo you know all those people because I know they have tremendous projects in mind you know and everything else and that's because I'm with the chamber that's why with the good man chamber so I know that they have a huge transportation committee
it's going to be also the chamber because I also need you guys support on the same exact thing so one thing that I do need the Miami Lakes Chamber or the greater Miami Uh, one of the reasons because that's division zero and I need y'all like to
help me out with a little map, but that's already ongoing. That project is already ongoing. We're also requesting funding to extend that project and to pinpoint, you know, to have an additional study that pinpoints only commercial vehicles in commercial
routes. So, freight and um and again, you know, your delivery trucks, your your industrial areas. Um, so that's the next piece of funding that we're looking for. And for that I do need a recommendation letter from y'all and from as a committee and obviously you
have to vote on it. So I'm very happy you have corn and then as individual businesses if you'd like to also submit a letter of recommendation for that funding I would really appreciate it. So that's what I'm also here to do that can't wait for the next meeting because that's a little more urgent because my
my um deadline is approaching rapidly. To meet with the Miami Lakes Chamber. Yes. Contact Ray Palasios. Yes. You Yes. You have his contact information. And Mr. Sra. Yes. I've already I've already sort of uh elbow my way into that
conversation and and I'm going to be preparing a little letter for them to Okay. to send as well. And if you need the counties information and the greater Miami chambers, it's Alice Bra. Okay. I actually have I'm I'm getting like the TPO we presented in the freight uh
transport freight transportation advisory committee last week FTAC. They love the alphabet soup in the I swear. So we presented to them last week. They they unanimously voted in favor of the recommendation. So they were very they
were very excited to help. So what do you need this recommendation letter to? Oh, I got you. Don't worry about that. So, we just need to sign it. Yeah, exactly. Vote and sign and you can all read it. It's not necessarily.
We even invented a little logo for you all cuz I didn't see a logo. So, we made one for you. Not your logo. Yeah. No, we made that. But we do have that. That's why I like there. Yeah.
And I have a a sample letter written for like individual businesses. Obviously, if you all want to have that, give me a give me a swipe and I'll I'll send that text to you so you can like amend it to your I don't I don't want you to write from scratch. That's just not fun.
Have I did your name again? Yes. Susanna Alonso. Alonso. Yes. Good question. Um does these also include let's say you know public transportation in the whole Florida is very not good right uh compared to other big
states does these also takes in consideration public transportation through inside the city so right now we're also doing the transportation master plan we're doing a lot of stuff at the same time they sound the same but they're all very different thing that
we're working on is a transportation master plan which U and it's it's all happening at the same time. That would be more addressed there. We I'm Justin and I are blessed to have to go to every meeting the county has
whenever they're discussing either public transportation um any project that they're doing, anything that has to do with anything even remotely within them adjacent areas. 186 uh anything that has to we get to go to all of those
parties and like participate, give our opinion. Sometimes they care what we think, sometimes they don't, but you know, it's it's what we do all day, right? So, yes, public transportation is a big priority for both of us because we are very much like
ignored by the county. were kind of like the ball spot where they did this this transportation smart plan and and they put the legend on top of Miami Lakes because there was nothing here. They put everything elsewhere and then they put the legend of the map of Miami Lakes
because it's like where the blank spots it is what it is. I mean it's one of those things I'm one of the things that we're trying to do as as a department and as a as a town is to change the conversation. First of all, we go to every party because we're going to be
like, you know, you're going to ignore us, but you're going to hear us. And that's one of the reasons that we show up to everything, even if it's not even our business sometimes, but we're there. Um,
but also the way that you start 100%. And and another thing is about changing the way we talk about ourselves because we keep talking about ourselves like we're a sleepy residential community which is but we end up getting ignored. Um my uh the way that we're changing the
way we talking especially with the freight um request is we're more talking about this is this is definitely an industrial area. I can tell you that we have 700 acres of industrial land that is 100% industrial. We have more than
1,200,600,600 um businesses that are industrialbased. It's a lot. So yes, you can see the cows, you can see the pretty houses, you can see all these things, but at the end of the day, we are a very serious industrial community as well. that they need a lot of public transportation. Not
just public transportation, we need understanding of our transportation system so that we make sure that we are routing trucks correctly, that we're not routing trucks through residential areas, that the things that are happening is that everything from the ports has to go through Miami links to
get to the rest of United States. We're in the middle of this and not getting favored. We don't have the right traffic. They use our roads. They use everything else. You got it. They damage our roads and everything else. We are surrounded by other industrial areas that do not have access to the
interstate system unless they come to Miami. So, we're sort of like a weird airport. People come here to get siphoned into the interstate system, but they need to come here first, which means that Exactly. We're sort of like a like a giant funnel
of activity attracting all these activity from around us that is not contributing to our tax base is is contributing to somebody else's tax base, right? And we're the ones that are paying the price in lack of infrastructure and everything. And this
this this letter is for business owners for individual business owners. Obviously, it has to be like see that it's kind of generic right now. So, it's like have room for you to say what. So I can send you the text so you can put it on your own. Right. And then that one is the the one the committee for them to
resign because obviously this committee is very important for this particular we're already getting you know and we're getting a TPO we're getting a letter from Miami day county we're getting but I'm very interested in getting local support of our businesses for our initiatives because obviously this is
who we do this for right and we need to see we need to tell the granters that are giving us the funds to do these things that this matters to the community that matters to you guys. down with jealousy. Thank you, sir. Yes, I you you email me. I'll send you
the the text of the letter. Yes. And you know, this one's the one that I hope that you all sign today. I'm going to leave it with IO and obviously you'll vote and with your budget because I know you have a lot of very important things to discuss, but this one is money for
free is what I say. Thank you. Right. Yeah. And yes, free will definitely continue because it's one of our initiatives and we're happy we're we're providing Yeah, we were the first city to do that. About we were getting numbers today. We're providing about 800 uh rights to the Palmetto
which we're working from. We started with 13 rights quarterly and now we're working on 800 every three months. So that's parts of the road. So yeah, that they're starting to walk into the meeting. Yeah. So I'm going to
leave this with she has the information. Uh again, um this I'm happy to email it so you can use the text and like make it your own. There's no this is just for for reference. Do you have a a digital to give it to
her so she can follow like Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent. We want the new business. So, talk about the budget. So,
where were we? Should we um sign this? Yeah, we need to make a decision on this. No. Okay. Because she just Yeah, just get that. We prop who who propose a vote? Did everybody had a chance have a chance to
read it? Yes. Yeah. I I think it's great. I motion that that we approve it as a committee. I second. I um How does this go again? Right. There's a motion in the floor. So motion on the floor. Um so second
from Rudy. So all in favor I All right. Cool. Passes. So what we sign this? You sign it on. We have the terminology. What was the the header of the letter, the one that Matthew just signed? Miami
Lakes uh comprehensive freight action. Right. Cool. So, now we can move on to the new business. So, the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget. So, that's what we're here for. We're
going to vote on the budget for next year and we're going to submit. So, there's no amount for this year's budget. So, we we have to come up with amounts. Correct. Yeah. This is your opportunity to request what you want council to give you next fiscal year.
I'll take this moment as a reminder. If there's any new activities you foresee adding to your um to your committee or any new expenses that you guys may have not had in the past, this is the opportunity to add it on there and make that request.
My only question is what's finally happening with local intel? because I know we got stuck with it for this year, but for next year, are we off the hook really quickly? Um, so local Intel has always been $10,000. The way the contract ends, it kind of ends in the
middle of our fiscal year, which is why right now it hasn't been fully charged. If you look at the latest budget I gave you guys maybe at your last agenda. Um, but the point is that by the end of our fiscal year, the total 10,000 gets removed because now we start a new contract. But this is kind of where we
went back and forth. So, I was explaining to Matthew that there's an opportunity tomorrow during council meeting. We spoke to staff because I know you guys felt that it was unfair to continue the contract since you guys are asking for it to be, you know, cancelled now. That's it. That we have the opportunity. And then where we were kind
of disagreeing is that well, the direction, you know, given from the committee when before the fiscal year started was you guys were essentially going to use those $10,000 for the so there's that disconnect. So EDC has the opportunity to go in front of council tomorrow to make that formal request from council asking them to terminate
that contract so that hopefully they say yes, you can go ahead and terminate it and that $2,500 that you would currently would come out of the current fiscal year, you guys would maybe have those funds to use for something else. Sorry, but that would be this fiscal year. That
is separate from this. Okay, but that's that's my question. My question is next year is local because my understanding was we voted to cancel local intel but then because of a combination of getting stuck in the middle of the term and also I think someone else in town wanted to
keep right staff wanted to keep local intel so we got stuck with it in our budget. So my question is are we still stuck with it in our budget for next year because staff wants it. Well this is where that request for next fiscal year comes in. Got it. This is where you would say zero to that marketing. The explanation is we no longer want local
intel and we want the 10,000 to go instead to whatever other line item. Okay. Um and again if if council says tomorrow that's fine. Go ahead and terminate as of right now. There's no reason why those $10,000 even if they continue at that point would even come from CNA. Okay. Cool. Yeah. It's going
to come from the town's budget regardless. So I was going to say right it might just the town wants to pay Rick right on their staff. Let them do it. That's more about they assign it to our views on this. So we can tell them to
cancel it now and then we keep that 2500 is what you're saying. Well, that's what we're trying to get direction from. I thought we couldn't just cancel it in the middle of it. Contract actually ends sometime around. Contract actually does end right like right around. There's a payment due that that will soon hit and
that's what we're trying to activate the new contract. Exactly. Oh, okay. But if we voted to for us to no longer take over it starting the next fiscal year. I don't know. Yeah, that's that's what I don't understand. But that's next fiscal year. This Yeah, but this would be the contract for the next year, right? But
it starts this fiscal year. It's just because of timing. That's why it starts. So the 2500 that at least it starts from this fiscal year would definitely have the 2500. So the the contract, my understanding is the contract starts July 1st, let's say. Yeah. Right. July
1. So the first 2500 July 1st to August or August 31st or whatever it is is in this fiscal year. The next payment the second payment falls in the next fiscal year. So what we want or what we have
discussed before my understanding is we don't want that 2500 charged to our budget and we want to use that 2500 towards I understand. I understand. No, no, I'm saying if they want to keep it, can't they just move that 2500 to a
line? I mean, they sure like to the town is what I'm saying. Like if they don't want to cancel and they want to keep it, we make it so we don't pay that 2500 even if they want to keep it the town. But that's exactly why you guys are going to council tomorrow cuz right now there is no other place to get that
money from. So it does come from your line. So if we cancel if if council's cool with you guys cancel me tomorrow that's it they no longer so let's say let's say we do vote to cancel it right and then we have we already so it is to cancel
and then let's say we you know whatever we don't do anything tomorrow and then we do pay for it then what happens you guys already have a line item set up for it next Well here's the thing come next fiscal year we still have to go off of whatever we may screw down then 10,000
if we don't get at 2500 cancel tomorrow cancel tomorrow. That's what I'm wondering. Well, not because then it's like, oh, since it's not cancelled then and we're keeping it for the town now EC's got to pay for it all. That's that's what I'm wondering because this is even if we were to continue it as staff, however that money gets moved
around is a different story, right? Wherever they allocate it. But the point is that if council tomorrow turns around whenever they decide the new budget for the new fiscal year if they decide to keep it as is we don't have any direction from cancelling then it yeah it will continue to come. Oh yeah that's
why that's what I was worried about that that's the only thing that that's why I wouldn't it doesn't make sense entirely is what I'm saying. I have one point of clarification because I think we voted to cancel this I want to say in February this year was right to now because it was in the contract. Okay. So that's
what it is. Okay. So the the reason why we're waiting till now is because of the contract. So that's it. Okay. So I mean that that that makes sense. So if we're waiting now because it's the official end of contract. So now we're trying to cut it as soon as possible. We would get $2,500 back for this fiscal year and
then you know we would eliminate you know get back in our budget 10,000 for next fiscal year. Correct. So okay for something else for something else right that's what we're here to decide today. That's something. So, we have to like No, that's what we're here today for to figure out what
that$10,000 is for. Yeah. So, I don't I don't think there's a concern that we're going to get have to eat $10,000, you know, if we're telling council that the entire committee has unanimously voted to to cancel the subscription, but Right. But but we're already about to pay for it. What we need to do is get
the the first See, the next contract starts now, right? and 2500 needs to be paid and that was in our bondage for for the current I but that's where we have to say because if not they put that 2500
say anything they put that 2500 in on us because it's in our budget. So what we want to do is say hey since we don't have the new contract that 2500 should not come out of our of our accounts and then we have the 2500 to
use in other activities unless we have nothing nothing else to spend the bucket and they'll tell them okay. Yeah. Okay. Leave it there because we don't care. Yeah. All right. Yeah sense. Is that clear? Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. So then all we got to decide now is what we
want to do with that $10,000 moving forward without local intel so we can keep it. Yeah. Okay. What we had discussed last time it was to do the marketing things to attract people to Miami. Yeah. Like like through events, through marketing, through pay campaigns, through uh advertise Miami as
a place to be which is still in the same line just marketing. Yeah. I mean I I believe in absolute worst case you know although the a good portion of that that of that that amount could be allocated to you know the other lines such as uh the networking social and trade show
conventions but I do believe you know a sizable amount worst case could always be allocated towards like what you just mentioned which is like advertising just for the for the town really you know what we should do is main street live to do that easy you know at nauseium I think we should I mean I don't know if
if we want to but I think the the business school camp is becoming quite a you know like kind of our annual event. I don't know if you want to line itemize that because right now there you have 2,000 at the end your budget is 2K you want to increase your
budget or the budget not your budget. How much money do you need? I think we should definitely increase it. Um yeah. What do you think? I think I think I think so that we can have a really good marketing campaign. you know better than I would, Matt, how much like uh you know, ads, paid ads, and for like two month two months of like good paid ads,
like what we would need to allocate to that. I would say probably like maybe like 500 bucks, 750 bucks. Like so you can do like 250 250,000. But we need to increase. I would say I would say a bit more. At least I would do Yeah, I would do three. That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't
include I mean, if we have more to play with, I'll take another grand. it'll take four so we can you know not have to be dependent on restaurants donating food and things like that. Listen to us. No, because when they allocate they say well we cannot give you four we'll give
you three but if we ask for five they can give us four right reference to the Miami leg right my main street life my understanding it was that it was 2500 per event correct around yeah around that to 300 is what she told me depends
on the band she was she was right so do we do because then we'll have let's call it 10,000 that we'll have to to do that And I only give us four. So or do one quarter. Yeah. Do one every quarter. Yeah. Right. Yeah. No. No. They the thing is that they what they wanted to
do is during the time that it doesn't rain and the weather is cool. True. You know, they don't want to do it in June or July or August or September because it's when hurricanes and and rains and then it's the start of the year through at the end of the year
quarterly. We don't have enough money. That's what I was gonna We're also going to take some for this line item. They're so and and that's what I was going to say because then we only have money on this marketing line only for those events but not actually doing
advertising for the town like attracting people to it be or I don't know like pay ads saying why come to my so like for example he says that it's between 2500 and 3,000 we can say okay we're going to allocate 6,000 from that to say two of
them are going to be on us let's say like this It's just and then we have 4,000 left. We're going to put a,000 in this one more that then we have 3,000 left and then the other 3,000 we can do towards the marketing and the other things that you know in thoughts of how we can allocate it to kind of put a
little bit in every bucket and and do more in all of these categories. the the only the only thing and it's what we haven't really able to do it and I know that it not depends only on us is that at the end we're only doing a
little bit here a little bit there and you got to take full ownership of something. No, I I wish but I didn't have enough money to do that. It's because it's different things, right? But Miami Lakes needs advertising like for real of all the things like we
already did a video. We can kind of play that out. But if we do a little here, a little there, then graham do a little bit there. Any have a a a different strategy. So, I don't mean to interrupt you guys. It's
just I really have to get to that meeting in 10 minutes. Um, but really quickly, I will add if it helps your decision- making for Main Street Live. I met with Cultural Affairs last week. They do plan on using funding to put on the concepts next year though cuz I they wanted us it was to promote it and be
you know like an additional budget. So it wouldn't rely solely on us is what yeah they're taking ownership of like putting it on like the $2,500 $3,000 that they would need to put on the event. So anything that comes out of you guys is really just extra for like marketing. Okay. So if that helps you
that makes the line item so quick. Right. But let's say let's say let's just I'm going to throw something there and see statistics. uh let's say economic development committee wants to take over the advertising of the whole
town meaning say okay we wanted to advertise of as a as a town and and all of those things and we're going to need I don't know just say $25,000 for it can we do that or I mean you guys can make the
request I'm not going to tell you yes because I I think that that kind of goes into territory of what does the communications team does, but I think you guys can work closely as to which I know is the initial um thought process that Matthew had that you were going to meet up with the team to see what it is that they can or can't do and how we can
use that funding and you know but that was again I you know I don't know much about but local intel was supposed to be that thing when they wanted to find about Miami Leaks that was the you know they go into local intel and boom that was the advertising. So, if we don't
want to do local intel because it didn't, you know, from our point of view, it didn't work out the way it was designed and you know, advertising Miami Lakes, well, we'll say, hey, we'll take that $12,000 to advertise Miami Lakes
businesses. No, to promote Miami Lakes, you know, just switch one for the other. That's the easiest way to do it, right? And and I think that's what that's what we're going to do for sure, guys. I think we all agreed last time to do. I'm saying is you want to request more.
Exactly. If we can request more to be able to do more, I don't know if it is going to get I don't know. You guys know more than that. No. Right. So, you know, it's like, okay, like give us more thing to be able to do. What we
wanted to do is really advertise Miami legs. The chamber of commerce in Miami legs is doing great job. Is attracting a lot of different cities. you know, uh the events that they're doing, the drift thing, the exercises that now that we have live thing here, uh many other new
restaurants that they have coming up, uh all the industrial thing, the transportation thing, there's a lot of to advertise, free parking, a lot of things to advertise and nobody wants to really own it. Yeah. and we can own it which because that
will actually benefit all the businesses and everything. Let's just ask for it and see if they wanted to actually do. So why did you propose to us? Well for better words let's do the first easiest
thing which is let's relocate. Let's make sure that this uh Intel whatever funds is going to go towards exactly what we need. That's number one. And then anything extra we have to you know motion a separate one for. Perfect. So but before that Romy had a request
because we already talked about that. So what's what's your the number in your in your mind? I think I think for the boot camp I think if we request 5,000 we'll probably land where we need to be. Okay. So 5,000. So, I'm going to put 5,000 under the wish list under seminars.
Under seminars, under so every everybody in agreement. Yes. Okay. Yes. Is that 5,000 addition or 5,000? 3,000. 3,000. Yeah. Then the the next thing that we do
constantly is business network socials. We have 3,000. We have 3,000. Is that enough? Okay. We do per quarter. I think there was a there was a method to that madness to So 50 quarter. Yeah, I think we can do around one to two a
quarter that we sponsor and then the chamber holds other ones in between. Is that price accurate for the chamber expo the 2020? Yeah, that's a great Yeah, that is go ahead. Yeah, that's greater Miami
Chamber of Commerce. That's right. That it sounds pretty exact. So it looks like that's it is that you're right that it's for the No. No. Wow. The labels are wrong. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce membership. And that's their yearly membership. It's
like it's exactly that the 200. So if it's that the town membership, why is it in our budget? It just ended up being that way. Okay. I'm not too sure. When I came into the EDC even before I was like that might
change where Yeah. Just just like the local intel. Yeah. What? Because the the the local chamber the right the local chamber is not in our budget but the town pays for it right. True. The business expo is paid by the town pays. It used to be in our budget now they
pay. Yeah. So the idea you guys want to just I want to be very clear. You guys want to cancel that like you don't want that to come from your committee but you guys want to continue the program. I'm just asking because this which which one of course have them pick the town. But
you that does that mean you guys want to keep those 2,000? I guess that's the question. You guys want to keep the 2,000 but you don't want to keep it be part of the reallocation that we're it could be partially a reallocation we're trying to do. But what I'm saying is you don't want EDC to be like you guys still want to essentially keep the
2020 but you don't want but you you don't want to have but not membership but it's not part of our we don't do anything on with that you know it's the town is the one that wants to be members you know. for from EDC standards, you guys don't
care whether we keep it or not. That's I want to make sure that I think there's two there's two things. So, I think the question is do we don't we don't want the 2020 coming out of our budget, but we still want to retain the $ 2020 for
something else. That's what you wouldn't be in that line any longer. But and and then I guess the other question is do you guys care if we keep greater Miami or not? Is it any I think it's a good thing. I I mean I think it's a good thing. I think it's a good thing for the town. I actually didn't even realize
that the town of Miami Lakes had a Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce membership. Who uses that is my question? I know I know Rudy does a lot. But you go on behalf of the town or you go on behalf of yourself. No, he goes Yeah. Does the town get any business from there or what? What? What is the
town? They allow I know they've promoted our events before. I know they've listed our events before. They visit our events. Okay. Personally, it doesn't bother me. When you you go on behalf of the economic
development or do you go on Don't you see me? Don't you see me always my bid and everything? Of course. I be the blasting committee and all that of the whole town. So you do you represent the town? The town. Any committee in the town? That's absolutely work like if more people found out that we had that
membership, could more people go or Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Membership. There are specific seats that you get for these events and then anything extra you have to expense. You have to expend. Right. Right. Yes. Like any chamber you get a certain amount of You're a member. You're a member of a chamber and then you pay less. You know,
like you may pay for a table, you may pay for two seats. Correct. Whatever it is. Of course. I guess that's what I'm trying to our membership. What does it include? Yes. I don't I don't think people know about that or have taken advantage of that. I propose this. If we have to keep that budget, we should know
what that $2,000 do for us and the town. So we can because if we can do more and participate more, but we need to know what what is it that it entitle us to. Absolutely. Rather than paying $2,000 and and we get nothing out of it. Yeah.
So whoever we pay that to, if they can explain to us what we're So just for the sake of because I need to submit this on your behalf, right? Like I don't have time to come back to you. I will, but I don't have time to give you that explanation for you guys to decide. So, do I keep it I'm sure I'm sure their membership thing
is online what their membership includes. Okay. For now, it's always being there. There's more details to how does anybody have a problem keeping that there? I don't have a problem keeping it there, but
we need to be able to use it as the committee members or whatever. We are going to rock. You want to give direction that if it's something that the that the committee doesn't even have like tangible benefits from then you guys don't care for it to be charged out of your per if the committee cannot partake in the membership of the town
with the the greater chamber of uh the Miami Greater Chamber of Commerce then then I we don't want to be responsible for carrying that membership out of our budget. It's also for consistency sake too like the town doesn't pay like what Rudy was saying for the local chamber like they are part of the Miami Lake but they pay but doesn't come from us. the
title. It comes from the town. So, it isn't consistent that we pay for this chamber. Sure. Yeah. I mean, but but to Isle's point, if we could utilize that membership, but we could also utilize the Miami Lakes chamber one if we need
to. Exactly. That's okay. I think technically we do. That's why we always have EDC with me and we set it up there and everything else with we want to keep it in our budget if we can use it or we want to take it out. I'm honestly indifferent. No, that's why I'm also at a point where I don't think it matters too much. But in terms of if we're
trying to increase our budget, it would probably be beneficial to take it off, I'm assuming, right? And say like, oh, this should be in the town in the first place. Yeah. And then we could move this 2020, let's say, to um I could go to the seminars and they're at 4,000. Now Romeo only needs 1,000, right? You get what
I'm saying? That's that's kind of what I was thinking. If I may ask a question, I went to the greater chamber website and the first thing they have there are like the membership fees and what are we under? Because I only see general which is the lowest one at 820 which
Oh, I see. It's not I don't think it's a Google. Okay. So, this one because I know that we're short in time. So, we're moving from the direction from what I'm listening from the committee. Yes. All in favor to remove the two 2000. Yeah, we need a motion. Yeah. So, motion to
remove the no to reallocate the $2,20 to the seminars. Cool. So, we have a second. Second. Cool. All in favor? I awesome. I And then I And then we have the motion
to increase. I motion to request $100,000. No. G $100,000. Thank you. We're marketing campaign for the town of Miami Lakes to actually do a plan of advertising Miami legs to bring
people to here. How much? 100,000. 100,000 is what you're going with. They're going to say yes or no. They're going to laugh. I mean, I think we have to be serious. It's a good idea. That's a reasonable
reason advertising to bring people to town. you have a serious budget, you know, $10,000 didn't do No, it wasn't do anything. No, I mean I myself for my office, I'm spending $100,000 this coming year on marketing, right? So, I know if we wanted to kind of make an impact, that's what at least we need
because it has to create a plan. If we're only going to do wasting the money, I agree. No, that's actually the point. We're going to waste the money because it's just Matt, you're the face. You're going to go I feel