We're getting ready to begin. He was like to drink car, I think. So, we have it like the best day of his life. at the base.
Okay, I'm calling the meeting to order. Uh, special needs advisory board at 5:41 p.m. [Music] Um, Madame Secretary, would you like to
call the role please? It's Hold on. I have to write this down that right. Sorry, it's my first time. I have to write down that you called the meeting to order at 5:41. Oh yeah. Okay. Um roll call. Vivian
here. Yesi here. Meline. Gladim I'm here. Kimberly. And then we have two open positions. Yes. They're being sworn in on Monday. Stephanie and
Oh, wow. Okay. Business. Do we have any additions, deferrals, deletions? I have an addition. Um I wait I do I say it now or I just say I make a motion to add
um to new business um 7C um demo meet and greet. All those in favor I motion Okay. [Music]
Um, we're doing August August 20. Uh, that is sponsored and it's August August 30th. It's a Saturday.
It's a pickle ball. Uhhuh. At the jar where at the jar jars of Oh, okay. All those in favor? I Yeah.
I any other? No. Okay. So let's move on to public comments. Um do we know the people from one? Yes, we have online and we also have in person.
So we want to start with you in person and we can move on. Okay. Welcome. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Is it okay if I come? Yes. Okay. So thank you for your time. Um, I
wanted to ask the board at the recommendation of Manny Martinez um who sent me here um to consider what the inclusion area or what the options that the town can offer to our afterchool programs and our summer programs for
youth with disabilities. Um what we have found Hi. What we have found is that um Miami is very good about offering a number of after school programs. We have about 11 after school programs right now that run
throughout the year and usually there's about six summer programs that run as well and they all are able to accept some level of children with um some special abilities. Um but usually they're either very mild or very high functioning dependent.
The difficulty comes in when there is according to uh polls and statistics that are available on the census and such. There's roughly about a thousand children re residents living within Miami Lakes that have um either autism
and related disabilities but are a little bit more involved than the ones that are asperers and and very independent. Um and you have within those thousand about 500 who have emotional legal challenges. So what
happens is is that these children year after year are not able to participate in these their behaviors preclude them from participating in these programs. They are not accepted and when they are their behaviors start to act up because their the usually the programs are not
set up to handle um more elevated behaviors. They cannot participate. So this started to become more and more apparent to me. As you know I have Angel Speech Foundation. We've been a nonprofit serving the autism community for over 20 years now. Um we've held
commercial property in Miami Lakes um for for several years and um I when the summers have come especially the last two summers and I tried to place my children my my in Miami Lakes camps or
or in after school programs they were not accepted and even if some of them are able to go with their RBTs it is not they they end up not being able to stay the environment is frustrating. So, we have a population that's very underserved here and I wanted to ask the
recommendation from the board to secure to allow us a space that Angel's Reach can run a a either an afterchool program that's a little bit more than just an hour of play or fun and recreation. You have one fantastic program that I
absolutely endorse and I and I refer people to. So, I love spectrum dance. Actually, Audrey Avador started Spectrum Dance while she was at Angel's Reach. So, um it is a great program, but it only offers I believe it's once a week
uh on Saturdays. And it's great, but what do these families do Monday through Friday when their children need to do something after school and that yes, it's maybe recreational, but they need more than recreation. They need the recreation to be purposeful. Our
children need to catch up with more typically developing children. So what happens to them? Where do they go? Where do they go in the summers when their parents have to work and the families may not necessarily be able to afford some of the very expensive programs that
exist. So what we are offering or what we're proposing is to have Angel's Reach able to provide a more comprehensive program that incorporates some of the therapeutic aspects, some of the more academic aspects and recreational of
course always a very blended approach that doesn't cost the city anything. um we would actually on the contrary because we're able to uh fund ourselves either through insurance funding or through step up um scholarships even in the summer we're able to bill for this
the parents have another way of paying for this and we may be able to give to SNAB actually or to wherever the town wants give a percentage of whatever the children are are able to to bring in with their with their scholarships or their insurance or private pay. But I
really really want to have especially this summer a place where my students can go and my children can go and they and let the families know that they're going to be cared for safely and that their time is not just babysitting that their time is productive and that their
time is um compassionate and that their time is being able to allow them to improve their academic skills, their social skills, their communication, their sensory from someone that really knows that that works with them. So, I brought for all of you and I can leave it with you. Um, some information on
what research we did on Miami Lakes. It has a little bit of history about us and it has a detailed proposal of what we would like to do, the hours, what kind of Oh, you have them in black and white, but I'll leave you in color version of it.
Um, yeah. What what activities we would do. I mean, obviously, it's very customized. So, we're giving you a general overview of what some of the activities be, but we would have activities that are geared to particular small groups of children. Generally
speaking, our programs run where there is a professional, not like a high school intern. We do have those, but they're supplementary. They're there for us to teach them how to work. Mostly, it's an exposure for them. But we will have a paid professional um working with
our children usually at a two or three to one ratio and we have many oneto ones. So uh again in in you know very briefly that is a request from the board. According to Manny Martinez
um he indicated we met at the um my goodness the uh recreational center that is right the youth center. Yeah. right behind you. We met at the youth center. Um we would accommodate to whatever space. So if we have a space that that we can serve 20, fine, we serve 20. If
we have a space that we can serve 40, we set 30. It's it's it's very flexible. Um but he recommended that that I speak to you. He's very much in favor. He's he he thinks that it's something that the town needs, but he says that the way to go is to go through SNAP first. And if SNAP
makes a recommendation, then it facilitates him being able to process it with you know the the other people will have to approve it. So the council right to present you would have to present to the council and they would like a final.
And how many how many kids do you want to start? Like do you want to start small like just do like one summer camp just like maybe 10 kids? we could with whatever is is possible. Um because I wouldn't if we get 10, we'll do 10,
okay? But I wouldn't necessarily 10 because that allows that doesn't allow for us to be able to group. We're going to have some children that are lower functioning, okay? And it's difficult to pair them with older children perhaps that might be higher functioning. We always make our groupings according to
not just age but functionality. So if we have let's say 25, okay, we can it's more easy to separate the 25 into three smaller groups and it could be within the same space because we can take advantage of the fact that we're in a park. So we can have one group on the
inside while another one is on the outside and rotate them around. So I would recommend at least 25 um to begin with, which for us is small normally. I mean, we've had groups of over a hundred and we're we're prepared
for them. We have as a staff um our staff is comprised of educators, uh instructors, behavior analysts, behavior therapists, and what we call integrated therapists who are therapists, whether they're speech or occupational or behavior or whatever their specialty is,
but they're required to go through our own training protocol. It takes three to four months for these therapists and teachers. Um Well, right now with a doctoral degree, they still had to go through our training protocols. It takes three to four months for them to get trained so that they understand our
methodologies. We integrate within all of our programming, behavior, sensory integration, social relational, um, and a number of different methodologies that are not even covered by insurance, but are critical for our kids. So, that's part of our internal training program. We do that regardless of
school. Um, so we have the staff that is trained. I'm available and ready to work, which is the difficult part of it. And we have the curriculum, we have the programming, but you need the space. We Yes, we're just requesting the space.
Okay. Not for profit. Yes. 501c3. And you need this space. And did you need any funding? No. Okay. Back, but not a lot because it's very money, but I know I know how snapped
you for the T and I know that you have to pay sometimes when you do like paying with a choice when there's a cost to that and I understand that. So, we're happy to not make a donation. Very happy. But we always and it's part of what we teach our students and our
staff. You need to help who helps you. So, if we are helped, it is our policy to give back. And maybe we don't get back in the form of money. Maybe we give back in a service to the community which I absolutely love as well. I would love
to have our more functional solutions even though you may have a child with autism who can have a full conversation and my daughter was one of those. The reason for the foundation is my daughter as some of you know. So my daughter started off nonverbal completely nonverbal and today
she's 24 years old. She speaks Spanish, English, French, Japanese. Yeah. So an angel's reach started because of her. But that doesn't mean that she is ready to go work at Payway because she still manages a lot of
emotional challenges and a lot of sensory challenges. So you have someone with a 142 IQ still has a hard time holding down a a regular entry- level job. And that's that's for another day because we are developing an entrepreneurship program for young
adults with special needs that should be launching in about two months. Again, we used to have it before but but in transportation parents would transport the children themselves or many of the students or children who come to us use the special
transport services the county's uh STS services. So, we can do that or the parents, grandparents, family members drop them off and pick them. What dates would it be? I don't know if it says here, but I didn't see it. You know, I'm not sure, but we would um we
would adjust and that's probably one of the reasons why we decided we would adjust to what the location is available because that's one of the things that we discussed with Manny Martinez. said that we he would need to look at what is already going on to see which one might
be available because if we were to start something after summer, let's say that is after school, then some centers are already being used certain days of the week. So, he would have to juggle that. And for the summer as well, he would need to see which one. For the summer,
it's a little bit um our families really really need a five day a week program. We could do three, we could do two, we could do four, we could do whatever is available in like the half a day or we could do both. We normally do um 8:30 to
12 and 12 to 2:30 and then 8:30 to 2:30. And we normally also offer for those families who need it an after30 program that is less therapy intensive but um is more recreational but it's still being
overseen by therapists and teachers and instructors but it just now becomes a little bit more social at that time. So I I have a question too. Do you still have the school? We have the school, we have the clinic. So the foundation still has everything. We don't have We just
sold our property in our lives about three weeks ago. Three weeks ago. Oh, wow. Yeah. We We couldn't It was without us being able to operate from there. It's very difficult to maintain two physical locations, two properties at the same
time, especially when one of them is empty. Where's the other location? In Halia. So, we are not too far on 84th Street. We are on the street that divides Haley from Emmy Lakes. So literally from our windows we see the highway that divides Miami.
So I have a lot of family that come to Ye and they live in Miami Lakes and they're looking for a summer camp and they cannot find any. And just like you say for those those kids that they have the behavior issues, you know, even
emotional behaviors. um you know that they don't talk, they don't want to eat and you need someone to be in their presence just to you know just to make them feel good. And parents have to work too. They have to work and then they want to charge you $500 a week
but if you bring the RBT because they can't handle it but then they bring the RBT and they don't do Exactly. they they use their but this is more like something that is more dedicated to themsel like the
learning and and the basic skills and you know and then also someone they need understand them so question regarding the after school program is that while the summer program is going on or is that something that either just so I can
understand a little bit so it's separate so the summer program again you will have to tell us or or the town would have to tell us what is available, what days, what hours, and we'll accommodate. What we are requesting is a Monday through Friday for the summer from 8:00
in the morning. So, we can receive some morning care children that have to parents have to get to work earlier um until 5 5:30, but our the actual program would run 8:30 to 12 or 12 to 2:30 or a full day 8:30 to 2:30 and that would be
the summer. Apart from that, we could also run it would take us two weeks to get everything ready an afterchool program. So either after the summer, so maybe we can start small and just do a summer program and then we can revisit
it. How did it go? Is this something that we may want to offer maybe next year in the fall? That would be a 2:30 to 5:30 2 days a week, 3 days a week, 4 days a week, 5 to whatever. again we will accommodate we will we're happy to
adjust to what the the town can provide but um so we just wanted to present the options but I think the greater urgency is the summer it's around the corner families do not have a place to book their children and even the places that
are accepting RVTs over the last three years they found the difficulties because as you say if their supervisors are not on site um those RBTs do not have the preparation to really become involved and there's no one's watching them. No
one's going to tell them it. So there um I know personally of of several charter schools that are no longer as of this year accepting outside RBTs because you have 15 agencies that show up to a school with and the RBTs all that is required by the state of Florida is a
high school degree and a 40-hour course. our RBTs and have to be at least a year in college in a related field and then they have to go through a training program and then they're working on site with the BCBA
constantly there and around they know that they're not in isolation. So we also operate micro clinics inside of other schools. So right now we're um starting up a new one another one in Liberty City. they had be
right. They had an issue where they had a number of RBTs and actually the RBTs because they're constantly on their phone are not preventing behaviors that could have been avoided. And when the children escalate, they don't know what
to do. They're not they're not specialized enough. So, they contracted with us so that they're not going to have any outside RTS other than ours. and we will have a VCDA on site and we will have a need therapist on site. So
if a therapist is out we will cover it ourselves so that the children are not left unattended. So that's more and more of the trend. Two questions um number one um what age
range we can work from two to our oldest has been 43 years old. So okay so age is not a factor is not a factor however enrollment will determine because as I said we will not group a seveny old with
a 17y old course so that's why I'm saying we also we would need 25 is a good number because we could say we have so many slots for the elementary age so many slots for the middle high school age so it is not a factor and then price
I know you mentioned um step up and you mentioned insurance So, um, for someone who does, what do you do you charge them? What if someone doesn't have insurance or they don't have So, as a nonprofit, we have many different ways of helping the families. Our normal
rates for summer camp are um and we are going to hold in our in our little facility, a very small clinical one. Um, the larger building is getting remodeled, so it's not available. Um, or not all of it, but our normal rates are 145 a week.
um for full days or $90 uh for half days for for half days which is comparable to what even regular parks are running like the ones that are funded by the cities. If you go to the private um organizations you're looking at 400
500 that so our rates are usually 145 for the full days 90 for the half days. If we can build that as services through step up then the families don't pay or if maybe the we can build part of it and the family pays part of it. Um for
insurance we if the services are being provided um through insurance we have to be very clear that we can only bill insurance when it is a clinical service that is onetoone. Okay. So while most of the
children do have approved group hours, we have to meet whatever the insurance provider requires. Usually our insurance children have a certain number of hours. If they're there for seven hours, there's a certain number of hours that can be built through insurance because
it is part of the treatment plan to one. And then there's other hours that really we cannot justify as being clinical. So the parents might end up paying for two hours a day and that's usually a percentage a very small percentage of what the 145 would have been. So it
would be a fraction of the 145. Got excuse me. Full day uh 8:30 to 5. 8:30 to 2:30 with after care available 2:30 to 5:30 because here you have 8 to
2:30 and then 2:30 to 6. Oh, it could be six. I'm just saying. And then half a day, half a day would be up until 12, 8:30 to 12. Or we have an afternoon half a day. It could be 12:00 to 2:30. Some of our middle high school um
youth, they prefer to come in the afternoons. They like to sleep in and if they're a little bit more independent, they can. And then they can come in in the afternoon and work. For our middle high school um students, we usually have
two categories. Those who need more of the independent living skills, the ones who are a little bit lower functioning and they need to learn how to go shopping and how to make a grocery list and how to make sandwiches and how to care for themselves and for themselves and how to walk across the street. So,
you know, a lot of their independent abilities. And we have another group that are more functional and what we do with them is we start to develop some job readiness skills starting in middle school. So we help them to build resumes. We have mock situations where
they work and unique to us is that we have an entrepreneurship program that we've been running for years internally only for our students but we help them run their own business. What business is going to depend on their skills, their interest, if they are artist or if they
like to sew. Um, currently we have a podcasting business that is being run by our students. So, they learn camera work, they learn how to be in front of the camera, how to be behind, how to edit it. Obviously, there's adults who guide them, but um once they start
getting um ads, responsors, that money goes back to them. They get their little features depending on their behavior. They get ded for behaviors. they don't do well, they they lose 50 cents there, but um but it's their own little business. So that's what we kind
of focus more on. And with the elementary, it's more of the academic remediation, but in a very fun interactive way because we don't think they've been in school all year. We don't want them to be in school in the summer um as well. So while they
still work on literacy skills and math and computation and problem solving skills, it's more in a project based environment. So it's more about development. It's more hands-on, more project based, more digital. Um this summer we may do again what we did last
year where we were selected by uh kids jump tech to be their research partner. So this is a Russian development team. They do interactive playgrounds and we still have an associate agreement with them. So tables, floors, balls become
interactive. So we were able to take data on how does responding by throwing a ball at the wall at the right answer and the fish pops and little balloons, whatever comes out, how does that affect reading skills and math skills compared
to the more traditional way of teaching? So we may be able to do that again this summer. We're discussing with them and they'll bring in what equipment they for the younger ones that makes a world of difference. So they're still learning.
Everybody from elementary to high school has periods where we do different activities. We are um a a partner with the World Happiness Foundation which is a subset of the UN. So, we have an agreement with them and they allow us to
use their metapets. Metapets is a mindfulness activity that is designed for children, but again, they didn't have a way to get to special needs community. So, we were able to help them adapt it and it's very cute. It's they have little animals that they pick and the animals kind of tell them to breathe
a certain way and to visualize and they create a little videos that go along with each animal. So it's a mindfulness program that we use with our our our students as well. Everybody needs stress.
When is our next council? Uh the counselor can we have to present it to council? All are reporting in July. [Music] No, not a regular council meeting.
22nd regular. I think it's the 22. Yeah. July. So since this would be a program that will be done through parks and wreck. So how how would that work? What what would be the
steps? Would arsen represent it? Does she present it? I think do we present it together? How what's the next what would be like the next kind of like what you do with de Moya going before council and presenting the idea and then from there
it works into like parks and but it's presenting the idea before council and that you're in support of it and that has to be done in July. Yeah, you're scheduled to report in July. You could present it at the next council
meeting agenda. we would have to make a motion and all that, right? But it would have to be if one of the committees are not reporting to fill in their spot. Remember, you're scheduled twice a year to go before council and then there's the, you know, report that you have to
make and that has to be added to the agenda. So, I can see maybe for June, you want to like report. That's why I think we're like a little bit short on time, right, to start a summer group unless I got May 20th, right? I
can and you can present it in July for the after school portion of it. Let me ask to see if both committees are recording the main meeting. I'll get to you on that present because somebody dropped
out. Right. So I can check on if you can present in May then we can consider a summer program. If we have to wait until June or July, then you can focus the after school, which is the same thing as a summer, just less hours, right?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for addressing this need. Close to my heart. It is very, very close to my heart. Next, we're going to work on much needed.
Thank you. Thank you. So, we have some public comments on Zoom. I'm first gonna unmute Ivan. So, I just asked you to unmute Ivan. You have to unmute on your screen.
Okay. Now, it's Can you Can you catch before she leaves because our presentation is actually very similar to what she was talking about. Oh, she went that way. I think she went Yeah, she's still there. She's coming. Okay, awesome. Um, so thank you guys for
for allowing us to talk to you guys. Hi, how are you? Hi. So, we were listening to you, myself and the entire group and um we were actually thrilled because we wanted to speak to to the advisory board about something
extremely similar. Um and so I want you to hear what we're proposing because most likely um it sounds like we could all work together um towards getting um you know uh at this challenge and and sort of like addressing this need for the community. Um just as a little bit
of background I'm not here on my part role today. So I'm here um as part of a cohort that the university has. It's a program that's the emerging transformational leadership program and ETLP program um that's uh funded through the U Health side. Um and the idea for
the program is that a group of us there's six of us if I'm not mistaken. Uh and we're all here I think today. Yes. Um um we are basically we come from different areas within the field. So we all work with families that have
individuals either with disabilities or that are high risk for something. And so um we take all of our knowledge put it together as a group. In that group we come up with a project after eight months. Okay. Um we're in the process of
finalizing that project. And for us, the the need that we found was that um there's a subgroup of people specifically within a special needs population um that are not receiving therapies because of insurance, you know, under
insurance and whatnot. Um and for that group, we actually wanted to propose um an afterchool program and have a pilot within potentially um the town of Miami Lake. So we have already spoken with um the AD support office at the district
level. We identify that for instance Bob Graham has about 205 students that are ET students. Um so potentially from those 205 students there's a very high chance that we can get a nice 15 to 20 initial pilot cohort um that we can um
run um initially um as a program and see how that goes and see how the community receives it and from there decide if we want to continue that and if we want to take it into other schools. Um the idea is that through the afterchool program um the children are probably not going
to get access to individual therapies because it's not going to be a way of funding that. But we would love for them to get access to um sort of like a group therapy sort of like combination where let's say um an OT a speech and an ABA
therapist can help design programs in which they're having group um interventions that are sort of like um making up for that and that they're not able to access therapy because of the under insurance. Um the other benefit to this like Jory was mentioning is that um
if the kids can for us the way we're with visualizing it is for them to stay within the school the parents don't even have to worry about transportation number one and they can continue to work like they normally would um so that potentially we can actually also um make
sure that parents can go out um and have employment um like they would want to in order to support their family. So the idea is that on one end we will be helping those kids getting um some intervention as opposed to nothing and on the other hand we're also helping the
families so that they actually have almost like that rested of like you know my kids are taken care of in the afternoon in a meaningful way. Um now today we're not going to present to you like the whole project because we're in the process of finalizing that. Um, but
we did wanted to initially kind of go around introduce ourselves so that you guys were familiar with us and potentially we wanted to come out to the next meeting once we have our project finalized and really get into the details of like this is how we envision
visualizing this. It doesn't have to be exactly the way that we are proposing it. We want to give you a blueprint, you know, we want it to be as easy as possible for you guys to kind of take that idea and be like, okay, let's go ahead and implement. Okay. Um, one of
the things that we have um discussed about and I think Vivian talked about this briefly and you recommended that we also present this to the education board I think it was right. Yes. Yeah. So um so we are probably going to do that as well. Um because if we get buying from
them then that's going to help with making sure that we actually have access to the school as one of the sites for for an after school program. Um but that's basically it. So I'm going to let are is everyone else able to unmute themselves? Is that a possibility? So
they can introduce themselves quickly. Is it possible to unmute the rest of the peoples? Yes. I'm going to ask you first to unmute. Uh can everyone hear me? Yes. Yes. Hi.
Uh my name is Marilyn Taylor. Um, I am a secondyear doctor of occupational therapy student and I also work at Nova Southeastern University where I teach dentists how to work with kids with autism using
ABA. Thank you. Welcome. Now I'm gonna ask Unice to unmute. Good afternoon everyone. Unice Hines. I'm the director for migrant health services and outreach for community health of South Florida. Um, we also
provide our service. We're an FQC, a federal um, uh, healthc care and our services are provided to everyone whether they have insurance or not in a sliding fee scale. Thank you. [Music] Sorry.
My name is Karolina and I am um I work for the Early Learning Coalition and I have been an educator for over 20 years and I started um my career at Nova Southeastern at Bodwin
Preschool for Autism. Um, and now I'm at the coalition and providing kind of that insight and services for our team as well. So, nice to meet everyone, I believe. Hi. Yes. Good afternoon, good evening. I
am um Toshiba Mitchell. I am the program director uh for the Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services. We provide um residential and community uh services for homeless youth and their families as needed here in Miami date county to include counseling and um other
resources that they may need to be uh connected to. We serve uh DCF youth youth, DJJ youth and sins youth. Thank you. Happy to be here. [Music] question unmute. There we go. Hello. Good afternoon. My name is Ledra
Williams. I'm the program supervisor for Goodwill in Brower County. And I've been um with Goodwill for 12 years. and I've also have done counseling as
well. It's nice to meet everyone. Welcome. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So, so as you can see, we all have, you know, uh a connection uh to to our community in one way or another. Um for some of us also, we have
personal connections um to to children with disabilities. So, um this is something that we really want to to push through. It is not a requirement for for our project to be honest with you for our program, but we do want it to see a takeoff um because we feel like there's a high need specifically for that
subgroup that that we mentioned. So um if you guys really are contemplating the idea and would and would like to maybe do a pilot, we really um would love to continue this conversation um present to you guys more formally um and then also
um give you more information as to why um we should prioritize for instance um that subgroup of people that just can't get access to therapies and start there and from there kind of build on to the rest of the the the rest of the age ranges. I have any questions? Yeah.
So, um, would this be at a school like a Miami Day County public school? That's the way that we envisioned it because we felt that the transportation could become a challenge um for some of our families.
Um, you know, we have talked to other programs that do similar things. Um, and the ones that seem to be doing better are more like in-house in a school. So, that seems to be like a good strategy
for for a lot of for a lot of them. The ones that do transport to, let's say, like a parks and wrecks nearby like city of Miami Beach, um, they're funding that and it's quite expensive to do that. So unless there's other funding sources like Dory was
talking about particularly within the population that we are describing I don't know if the families are going to have access to those funding sources. These are families that don't qualify for Medicaid and they also um you know um they probably just have healthy kids or something through the marketplace and
that doesn't cover their parents. Um so that's why for us particularly we felt that it would be better to do it in And we would and it would start like one pilot program at one of our schools in Miami Lakes like elementary or K through
eight. Um we were thinking about Brahim which is a K through8 because that one has the highest population 205 students. So from there we shouldn't have any problem identifying an initial group.
So how many kids would be in the pilot? I think we were envisioning maybe 15 to 20, probably not no more than that. Um, just to make sure that, you know, um, we're able to service them efficiently. Um, and if we have to make any changes
as we go, it's a lot easier to do. Um, and the idea was to Yeah. Go ahead. Would this be for the entire school year or just a period of however many weeks? So because the purpose is to kind of
serve as the rest bit also um I think we were at the very least envisioning um like let's say the fall as a pilot and then if it works well then do it also in the spring but ideally we would do the entire year yet because we don't want to
like offer something and then be like oh glad you liked it we don't have it for you anymore you know that kind of defeats the purpose of what we're trying to do. Um if anything what we would like is for that pilot to then sort of like create this awareness that number one there's a need for this but number two
that it's very it's very feasible to implement programs like this and we should see more of them all around Ivan. Hi Ivan I have a question. How are you? There's 200 um students at Bob Graham.
There's 205 students that receive EST services. They could be in general education classrooms. They could be in self-contained classrooms, and they have any type of disability. Those are potential families that could fall within that criteria that have
disabilities, need therapies, and may not have access to Medicaid or like for 15 to 20 students. The pilot. Yeah, I think I mean we could, you know, if you guys felt like we should serve more and if we were able
to let's say um partner up with Dory um and like really if she really truly has the capacity like he was mentioning um then we can discuss if maybe we want to work with a little bit more people um but that you know that's a decision that
we can make as a group. You guys will decide you know if you feel like hey there's a bigger group that needs it. you don't want to leave people out. I'm just asking um who I know that as you know I work at a school. I know that not
everyone's going to have a lot of these programs have students bust in so a lot of them are not going to be able to stay after school unless they're a parent or somebody else can pick them up. You will not be providing transportation correct?
Well, we would do it in house at the So this would be like let's say if the students go to Bob Graham the after school will be at Bram that would be the idea right but we don't have we wouldn't have to bust them in right but I'm saying the students and like my school 80% maybe
85% of the students are busting tours they're not necessarily in Miami Lakes so I'm saying okay fine you have 20 students that you're thinking of pilot program who decides who those 20 are
I I I think initially we would do a screening to see what the financial need is and what the situation is and from there sort of determine you know which are the people that are in the most dire need you know who's really not receiving any like who's at home sitting around doing nothing no insurance no access to
therapies parents can work and probably prioritize those patients okay thank Mhm. Anything else? And just so you guys know to to be more specific um and again we'll talk a little bit more about this
when when we present formally but um on paper the way it looks is that we're targeting the families that fall between 200 to 400% poverty level above the poverty level. So those are like what they call the ALIT households.
Okay, this is your average middle, you know, um, middle class kind of family that works and has potentially even private insurance, but it doesn't really cover the therapies or they have high deductibles, high co-pays, you know, so they're kind of stuck in this middle ground. Um, that's really who we're
trying to target. I understand. I was just asking. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else? And I think it's awesome. That sounds great. I Yeah. Okay. So, if you're needed and I'd love to help in any way possible.
Yeah. So, so if you want um I'll be more than happy to connect with you outside of the meeting so we can discuss more hear more about what you guys have already done um and see how that kind of would align with what we want to do and kind of come up with a plan that's really cohesive for us to present to the
town all together. What we want is really to make you feel like, hey, the resources are there. You know, you can tap into X, Y, and Z. It's just about putting it together, making it go through, and then it just takes off. That's really what we want to do. Um,
and it sounds like we're already in the right track. You guys are very lucky to um to have Dory around because that makes that makes the job a lot easier, too. So, Ivan, what what what do you need
from us as far as like a recommendation or I think as of right now what we need is to number one connect with the education board um so that they so we can pitch it
to them see if they if they earn two have them be the ones kind of like working that out because the administration above is going to have to be okay with this. um I'm probably not going to go get an okay if I go vote myself and I ask for it. Um but if it's coming from the board um it's going to
have a lot more weight. It's going to be a community. So we have to try and present it that way. Um so that they see hey it's not just me coming with an idea. It's like hey your community saying that this is what they um and potentially that way they'll be like okay sure um we we'll run it for as a
pilot and see how it goes. Oh, who would we need? Like it would be Alonso like we have to schedule a meeting with Al or how would that work? Educational. What he's referring to is the education advisory board. Yeah. Oh, the advisory
board, not the school board. Okay. Isabella's going to send you the contact of the of the chair of the EAB. Uh yeah, I was the leazison. So I'll also like Yeah. So you can reach out to them and and
also present with them and and see what okay and we should be ready to present I think after June because that's when our project ends. So we'll have it all finalized with a white paper you know like really really formal with the datas you know uh supporting why
this is a need and then also um with the plan of like a breakdown of like this is how you will run it. is uh who you're going to train, this is going to be your partners in the community, like everything. Um so that it's something that the city can just look at it and be like, "Okay, this looks good." Or the
school board can look at it and be like, "Okay, this is great. We don't have to do any work. Go ahead and run." Well, I could I guess see how we can assist each other. Share your contact information. Y I
don't have kids. Do we have mine? Yep. You have both. No problem. Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you guys. So let me know um remind me when you guys are meeting again and then um let me know who else we can
reach out to so we can continue to spread the word about this within your community. Okay. Thank you. We will. All right. All right. Take care, guys. Thank you so much. Have a great night. Thank you. Thank you.
Here to help. Thank you. Um, everyone else on the Zoom, you're free to leave unless you have anything else to present. Um, we have one in person. Yeah, they're all I think. There we go. I'm just here to listen and learn.
Welcome. I'm in my capacity. I'm the clinical outreach provider for an ABA agency that kind of services throughout we're in 12 different states but one of the challenges we find for a lot of our kiddos is we want them to eventually be grad able to graduate into
good community resources. So I like to attend the meeting just to know like what is going on what she was talking about like that big challenge of summer camps like we run them through our clinics but then in Miami date county we don't have a clinic so where can we refer clients or even if people call us and we can't happen to take them we want
to be responsible to push them towards appropriate services so I like to show up sometimes just to know what's going on plus I miss I'm a lifelong Miami it's nice to see my city do this you look so familiar I'm everywhere and every My daughter goes to my gym like like this
is like part of you were here before and I was here before once or if maybe we you know have sequel am I over there maybe thank you and you're as well
no worries I'm glad someone else closed the door because we were I'm like yeah I couldn't hear either I probably couldn't No. Yeah. If there's noise, I can close. Come on. That's not fair. All right. So, um, there is no more.
So, let's go over the minutes. Just a reminder, it is 6:30. So, [Music] I don't know. I make a motion to approve the minutes from Oh, I thought you were going to
like say something. Uh, make a motion to approve the minutes from our April 2nd, 2025 meeting. I second. All those in favor? Hi. Okay. All right. Let's start with full
business. Okay. Autism awareness month recap. So, I know we had a lot of events. April is very busy month for us. I think um I don't know was anybody have
anything to say? Anything think about or Huh? Sorry. I saw these little bells. So, I learned that we were all like jabbing as we were walking. So, I forgot
about um I I think it like you said, April was always a busy month and I I think, you know, we did great as a board. We were able to have the resource fair. We were part of the ESX walk. Um I
don't remember what else. A bike. Oh my gosh, that was that was cool, too. Um being a part of that and I maybe next year I would love to
incorporate something like we've done other years into the town council meeting. Like I remember past years we've had um like a Miami Laker say the pledge of allegiance or like something in April's
meeting. Um I got another just to highlight. Um so I mean this I mean we did have the presentation of the demo foundation which you know was you know I
guess went well with the theme. do the proformation for like autism. Can they do it every year? Can you done it before? Can you like different foundations in Miami where you can do a programmation
of what they Yeah. Like they've done it for autism for hope for autism. That's true. Yes. But just learn to write yourself and repeat at least you know one every
year and the month of Yeah. month. But yeah next so maybe next year like we could probably talk about it at least January, February. We cannot wait till
March. Yeah. We need to make sure to be able to get the person not remember. Yeah. So, so you have to remember that next I think that's I I like both ideas. I
think they're great and and I think that's also a way to you know promote also I mean not to promote the board but what we stand for, why we're here. I think that's that's great. You guys should promote yourself. If
you're one of two in Miami dead county, right? Yeah. I Yeah, it's Coral Gables and Yeah. So, yes, please promote yourself as a [Music] community. Okay. All right. So, let's
move on. Um, fourth of July sensory room. I think that is a fantastic. Yes, we already we we've done it. What? Two years already. This would be our third year. Mary, this will be our third
year. This will be our third year. I do have the event request form to you know for the details of the sensory room if you want to start kind of filling that out. How many tables chairs are you thinking? That way you make sure that there's plenty of inventory for the
event. Volunteers. Okay. I know last year we didn't have any. Okay. And it was it was a little hard because I mean I don't know how many I know. Um cuz I I I think it's you know
necessary. I mean we don't need to have a lot but I think that we can at least get maybe like two. I think that would be you want a number. I can talk to about that. Okay. Yeah. Um, I contacted John for him to check to
see how many headphones we have already in stock. Thank you. Uh, he has not responded. Um, but we should have at least 10 or 15 that I remember. Right. But do we order some anyways? We still
have time. Or that. He's going to get back to me. He just didn't. right now. Okay. Yeah, but we still we still have next month. I I think the paper that we had was great. That that idea of putting the
paper for them to color. I think that's what we have left. We have I don't know if we have to order like any sensory toys because we did give the sensory toys to I haven't checked the inventory and see what we have. Okay. So
then for next month, yeah, that we need to see what we need to order because like the major things we are we have those lights, the mats, the bean,
bean bags, those [Music] etc. Yeah. Uh, I might possibly be out of town for Fourth of July. I'm not sure.
Can we newspaper for Miami Lakes to announce it for the 4th of July? Yeah, we should. It's always on the flyer. It's in the flyer. But can they can they do like a little post on the newspaper on Miami Lakes? Miami Laker. Yeah, Miami
Lakers. They usually do. They do. But they haven't before. But I don't think they mentioned the sensory room. Yeah, they did. They did. They didn't. In fact, it's a second annual uh sensory room with a nice turnout. Blah blah blah. Little blurb. Okay. So,
what time from what time to what time are we have are we going to have the sensory one? Do you know the times of the event yet? Probably like 12 or something. No. Don't fireworks don't start till like
Well, the fireworks start around 9:00. It's scheduled from 6:30 to 9. I was going to say it's like about 6. Yeah, I think last time we did like 6 to 10 if I'm not mistaken or 6:00 to 10:30 the most. No, not 10:30. That's what I'm
saying. I think the main the main thing is the fireworks. But that's why 10 because if the fireworks start at 9 till 9:30, we might still have people and then we clean up. I can get you more definite on my next meeting.
I mean, if everyone's gone, we leave. But if we have it, I think like when it says your time of event, we have to put like a setup time, right? Include this. Yeah. So, I would say six. Yeah. Six.
And you already requested the room, right? No, I haven't put any requests in. I said, "Please request the room." Yeah. Even though last year was like a board, it was a homeowners meeting. Okay.
I think and we were all pretty sure they weren't going to meet and they didn't. Okay. So, please reserve that room. Veterans partner calls. Yes.
Okay. Can we move on to Mayor Scall? Okay. Mayor Scalla. All right. So, I I had a meeting with the mayor and his assistant and Clarel. Um, the tentative
date of the mayor's gallant is September 27 at the hotel. Oh, okay. So, we still haven't met um to discuss one plan. Yeah. to like I
know um Clarissel got like a proposal from the hotel so but we haven't discuss it yet to see like you know what we're going to choose how much the tickets are going to be I do have
uh the um there's there's not going to be any casino I'm happy to why is it because Did you find out that it didn't raise enough money because we didn't know how
much money was coming from where? Like Yeah, it it takes up too much room. It It doesn't, you know, create any bonds. Yeah. I thought maybe last year it didn't create much, but maybe the years prior
because there were so many tables because it was like a new theme. Maybe because it was a casino theme. And it was a casino. That's another thing. There's not going to be a theme. It's going to be like a gala like black tie, fancy, you know, they want to make it
classy. Um, so there's not going to be like a theme this year. It's just going to be they're they kind of want to like focus on the 25th anniversary of the town, which is like silver jubilee.
So, I'm gonna try to work that into the decorations like silver, black, sparkly, you know, shiny stuff. So, are we allowed to decorate or they going
to um they they're still going to have fantasy? You've never I've gone to one of our galls. I have. No, but I've gone to one of the side of it. Not on the planning side of because I my understanding is it's
the mayor's office. Yeah. Is running it. That's why I had asked you is there any way someone from our board could be like part of the planning like part of the be on their board for for the gala. That way it's not a surprise. We usually have
meetings starts with Vivian and then we'll get together in little not more specifics and stuff but it's mainly done by the mayor's office right and we help right but that's
why choose the theme no theme but if we choose the decor if we choose like this year like the town it's also helping with the planning which that had gone way, you know, in the beginning they were more more involved. Yeah. On the
first Joseph or Right. So, so yeah, but yeah, once we get closer and like we make the final decisions on like where it's going to be, you know, um then, you know, we can get more
involved and you know, the meetings with the decoration with fantasy designers and and all that. And if you guys want to be involved with that, you're welcome to come. I would always go to the fantasy designers uh meetings because I love, you know, I love a theme and I
love decorating. So, yeah, every, you know, we we're definitely going to be more involved this year, especially when it comes to the hotel because last year I had nothing to we I had nothing to do with
Yeah. I didn't go to any of the meetings in the hotel. And we decorate it. Put it on the right. I know. And the food. No. So this year it
um the I think the hotel is going to end up providing the food. we're not going to do stations and all of that was just a lot of work and, you know, people are paying, you know, money and they, you
know, they want like a nice hot dinner. They don't want like little finger food, you know. So, it's a seating seating, right? And we're going to have a seating chart.
Yeah. classy. Yes, moving. I love that part. Yes, absolutely. Reminder 648. Okay, so moving on. Um, animation program update. Um, everything's going great. Everything
went great with the open house. I went to Publix. Just want to put that on the record. The Wednesday before Okay. But I went I still get credit for going public. You get credit for
um thank you for making that happen while I was on vacation. And thank you Kimberly yourself. You know how many students we have. So 12 students. Oh.
Uh-huh. A couple of repeats. Two two new ones. All the rest are admitted returning students. Check for the animation program. Okay. [Music] Where's my photo? So, is this for a
motion? go through the shirt. Is this for last semester or for this semester? The invoice that they sent I believe was for the last semester. Yeah, we have to hold on. They have to send me one.
Okay. So, they sent me a proposal for this semester. um because they want to they're having five teaching assistants this semester so that the
ratio you know there's more people to work onetoone with with the students um and to pay the instructor um so like after adding everything up for the eight classes. It's Oh, and
the licensing for the um the Tomb Boom Tomb thing that they um software that they use and t-shirts. They want to do t-shirts for all the students. So, the total request is
[Music] $4,85316. So, I make a motion to um to assign $4,853.16 for um this
semester um of the animation class. All those in favor? I I It was 4,000 what? 4, 8536 out of which programs, right? Program.
Yeah. I Okay. All right. So, we're done with that item. Uh, special needs uh safety program. Officer Aador. I'll be quick. Uh so April 5th was a neighborhood uh
bike ride. I went to and it was successful as we talked about. I went to the neighborhood improvement committee uh meeting and what they want to do is they want to keep that one for next year. And they're going to probably end up ditching everything else. They might just keep that one, but they want to
keep that one because that's awesome. Um, we had a good turnout being a good turnout and based off of that turnout we can promote it more for next year and hopefully it'll be you know just as I think that
I think if the town does like more video content to promote that that bike ride, you know, maybe like showing, you know, somebody riding like through the trees and like through the town and stuff like a little
bit like that, you know, really I think brings the people. Yeah. And and I was going to mention the bike that we saw, remember, at the walk. Yes. I think that would be really nice, too. Like to, you know, for them to see it
and we can even maybe rent, you know, one or two, I don't know. Like, yeah, that's something to for next year. The maker also put a nice picture. Yeah, I saw that. [Music]
Then uh on April 9th uh we had the autism caravan and that was from North Miami PD and we started there and went through school a few schools uh in like North Bay. Uh we went to the SFAX
stop there to take care of all of these cars. Um yeah, as fact was really good. They they were very of course they were very help and then from there Dorado and then we ended up in the South Miami. So it was an all day thing that was very
well attended. And then on April 19th was the ESFax event and um luckily uh Sister Station here was able to bring their their equipment and and we had a nice walk. So and they're walking in
support. Yes. Every year and I'm walking out. I I'll be there. Yes, that's it. That's it. It's there. No new signups. We are standing at 14.
No, 16. 17. Yay. Okay. Thank you. I would be curious to know the other municipalities that have the program how
many participants we have because I remember a few years ago um when we started the program I asked uh Penrook Pines and they had like 30 so and they're like a lot bigger than
us bigger we have 17 I That was a few years ago, so I don't know how many more they've gotten, but and now Miami date has a program. Right. The the one thing I was going to mention
is the um the video that you know the video is still pertinent and it's accurate and all that that for the town to make sure that they in April that they start putting out the video a little bit more maybe even before April
and then April or in April just start, you know, But like not just one time, you know, like putting more Yeah. you know, showcasing more and probably like in October because October is also disability awareness. So it like encompasses, you know,
so it's, you know, I think it's good to show it at the mayor's, you know. Absolutely. Yes, that would be a good idea. The video is so self-explanatory. Yeah.
Okay. So, sensory park feature update. Um, if they haven't contacted us from No, Jeremy that they should have a better idea in June. They're working on that mini parks capital. Yeah. So, to get a
better idea what they have, where the need is. So, we should have a better idea next month. All right. Perfect. So, moving on. All right. So the super car. So then do we defer this? No, that's the update. That was an
update. They just put it on the agenda again next month. Well, maybe not because it'll be early June, right? I don't know the timeline. He told me June. So we'll just keep getting updates until we get that. Yeah.
All right. So, the Super Con event that Hope Autism is doing on June 21st, they're going to have um in Mary Collins, like outside in that big hallway, they're going to have
tables set up there at Roberto Alonso. Yes, at Roberto. Sorry. I was like, "Why are they going to be in the home? Why are they not doing me in the bathroom? No, Roberto Alonzo. So, they're going to have tables set up out there for like
different activities and um like um like one's going to be like for art and and they're also going to be giving out like little goodies and stuff.
So they want us to have a table so we can you know give out our flyer um give information about the safety program and uh maybe give away some
little sensory toys, pins, whatever we have. So, I move that we do that, that we have a table. What goes on inside? I've never been to Super Con.
Well, this is the first time that they're doing it. Um, I mean, inside it's going to be like a regular party that they do with the DJ, the food, which we're sponsoring.
Um the tables will be set up like they are. The the extra thing is going to be out there where the tables are going to be set up with like different like little stations for the kids to go around and pick something up or do an
activity. Um have we made a motion yet for the food? Yes. Yeah. I'm just making a motion for us to have a table there. I said I'm gonna be there. Yeah. Yes. Because we're gonna
be right have a table at an event. It doesn't have to be like nobody anybody else. I'm not going to be in town. June 21st, right?
Yeah. I'll be attending the family cafe and then so I will be there. So I I don't know. I can't think that far away. Okay. I should be [Music] Saturday. Just a Saturday, huh? We don't
need a motion. We don't need a motion, though. It's a table. We're not paying. We're not buying a table. We're just setting up. Yeah. Okay. I track my money. I mean, you can make one if you want to, but it's not really necessary. It's
fine. It's fine. Um, that's why I asked about the money part. I mean, for the food part, you allocated 1,500 to all the Hope for autism events this year. Okay. So, moving on. And um when it gets the July order if
the should we can just Oh, no. That's June 21st. Yeah. We'll have our next meeting we have to decide what we Sorry. Yeah. But now we'll have to think of Right. June 1st. June's first. Yeah. So,
the super cut and then the birthday the same thing. Okay. So, uh the last item here is workshops. I don't know I put that on there because I wasn't sure if you know Stephanie even wanted to have a
workshop or I don't have any to bring up at this time. I do have one. So we did a a we did um it's um it's a therapy it's called mer it's for actually more health
uh kids with autism and it also for like any any neurological uh it it helps. So it's a therapy that they use a magnet and they they they they work on the on the brain on the
getting like signal from the from the brain and it helps a lot in the cognitivity and also for like emotional stress depression so many they have so many like benefit and it's a center in
adventura where they have the therapy um they also have another center I think and Cory Gables um but it's something very new but it has been approved that it does help a lot and so so to bring
them here workshop yes I so we did it for the down community it was incredible like the the the questions that the family had and and the benefit and everything and I think they were super prof professional and Um and I think it
will really help out the autism community and even you know uh he's saying you know kids with you know several policy he said also kids with depression also it does help m
therapy. So I think would be great if we can bring a workshop for the families to learn about it and um it's just more the more knowledge they have. Can you have them bring us the information at our next meeting
probably? Yes. Perfect. And what that is that they want out of the workshop. Yes. Like a proposal. You had somebody magnetic resonance. Yeah. and they do neural feedback too which they don't lose the magnet but it also looks for
like connections on the brain. Um, so it really does help and and it's as they just do an EG and then look at the brain function and what do they have to activate
the it says improve brain function by modulating neural activity and enhancing brain wave synchronization. Very great. Yes. Okay. Excellent. All right. So, moving on to new
business. We have the therapy sponsor. Yes. She So, she she hasn't been able to come back. Uh I did text her and I say, you know, maybe make another day when you can present it or even if you cannot
present it in in person, maybe she can present it in like through Zoom. So, I send her a message. All right. Um so Tom Miami Lakes 25th anniversary
event is Yes. So Tana Miami Lakes is turning 25 years old. Um they want to have a big event at Veterans Park right now. Um they're looking at
December 6 for the event with like food trucks and live music a stage fourth of July without fireworks. Yes, except they want to have fireworks.
Oh, so it's a duplicate time. All right. So, um do they have a time? Um, can we book December 6 like an all day event? Oh, like all day. Yeah, like a 4h hour event. Three to
four hour event. Oh, like all day. Yeah. So, they want to know if we want to do the sensory room the same way we do for they're going to have fireworks and event.
This is which committee? Um town. The town. It's the town itself putting on this event. Yeah. Oh, okay. Like there's an ad hoc committee. The vice chair of it. Don't ask me how. So, no. If somebody wants to be a vendor, how do
like how do they sign up to be a vendor? Um contact. I would say contact or I mean Alicia is the chair of the committee. [Music] And how do you spell that?
Huh? How do you spell that? What? A D H O C A D. Can you just spell her for me? But email is if you want to send me email, I can
forward it clear. Yeah, you can just say there's Friday edited December 6. We don't know yet. December. No, right now it's marked from Friday to Saturday. Like there's no this is going to be the day and the time. It's just like on right now. Yeah. And it's too early to
reserve like Mary calling his foreign exam. So don't worry. You know what uh what was discussed at the meeting. Um, and yes, that came off. And uh, all right.
[Music] 7C demo. Go ahead. Moving on. Uh, Demoa meet and greet. Kimberly, that's your item. Yes. So, we are we've partnered with the
Deoya Foundation um to host a meet and greet um out just outside of my store. Like I have a covered large covered area. Um so I've been trying to you know I've been working with different
organizations to you know bring awareness to um invite people. But then I decided, you know what is probably the most benefit is doing meet and greets with these organizations that people may not know much about. And I decided that
the Demo Foundation should be the first one since we are trying to work with the town and and get that passed. And if we're inviting to local residents and local business owners, then that would make headway uh
for um for hiring. Um so yeah, so we are having our first um meet and greet event on Thursday, May 22nd from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And I
uh what's the time? From 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. So the upstairs offices are closed after 5, so we won't have like the whole parking lot for ourselves. Um, we are they're going to be presenting what they do. Obviously, you
guys know what the demo foundation does, but not everybody does. Um, so I've already started inviting people and we are looking for sponsors to help cover the cost of food. Um, so I wanted to bring it to the board
to see if you guys would like to have a table or to sponsor food or or something. What time is it? 6 to9. So 100%. So, they're actually going to be bringing
um some of their partners as well. Um we're going to be selling their always be unique t-shirts. Um so, anybody that purchased the TE's, it goes directly to them. Um and also a percent of the sales at my
store will go to them um from that evening. And we even have um people coming down from, you know, coming from out of town to help support the event. we have um my Cuban culinary journey as a sponsor and she's going to be there um
selling her jams and donating as well. So, she's also an autism mom and she's very passionate about the De Mo Foundation and helping to employ. Um, like what were you thinking if we
were to sponsor food? Like how many people are you expecting? Like uh we were looking to have about 25 people. Yeah, we do that. We have and the event is free. So I've already created an event right
um link and it's a free event. We just want people to come and and to be able to listen. Of course, we want to feed and we want them to come, but to come to learn about the foundation. Yeah. And and it's something that I want to do
like it's not going to be with the De Mo Foundation every time. Like I said, the whole point is for the community to learn about these to be there like that. So we can have a little table. Yeah. I would love it. The safety program. Yeah.
So maybe some sensoring stuff. Um people I'm a little confused. I'm sorry. Just to clarification, she's presenting it as her company, right? Right. So, we're not
it's not going to be our event. It's going to be her event, right? So, she's asking for like a sponsorship, right? Yeah. What if the What if we have to do if we were to sponsor something? Does that mean we attach our name to it or Well, if it's like a food, it's like
what you do. We're going to motion for 200 to be what we do for this event. Oh, for autism or for us or like if you're doing an awareness for autism or for any any disability, we want we like to sponsor
food, we can we can do it. Uh and we just have to do a motion right for that. and what help you come up with a number like Oh, well, I was looking I mean, I've already looked through so many
catering companies and local um local bites. Um I was looking for $250 to help cover You also have a check here, Miami Lakes, which he does for the town. I don't know if you know Veronica, but she's
amazing. She is amazing. Okay. And she can just do she's awesome. She can you can just tell her like this is my budget. This is the event that I'm having. Can you do something for me? And she will make it
something really nice and it's all super women of distinction. You did the women of distinction this year and super. No, no. Women of distinction. The hotel? No. No. Here. Women of distinction. Oh, okay. It used to be at the hotel. We've been doing it in town hall
for a few years now. Okay. She's amazing. Okay. No, I haven't heard of her. I haven't met her. So, yeah, I I was looking at the Do you need her number? Yeah. I'm sending it to you. Okay, perfect. All right. So, I make a motion to allocate
$250 to uh sponsor the food at the meet and greet with De Moa Foundation. Second. All those in favor? Hi. Very exciting. I will be there. I was gonna say I need anybody that would like to
go, please. I will be there. Do I have to send you the the Oh, am I allowed to use your the the logo to put it on the Eventbrite? I'll just add that on there. The special needed back like as one of the sponsors. Yeah, I can forward that.
Okay. Yeah, that and also I'm allow I'm getting permission. I'm allowed to use it. Okay. So, I'll forward that event right to you guys when I have that. Okay. Awesome. So, next up, can can you can you text
those like just a reminder? Yeah. Like a day before that. But you're next. Like I won't show up like the Thursday before. Okay, that happened to me.
The last item is 7D, the pickle ball tournament for GPS. [Music] So, same thing. Um, so we have like different uh sponsor levels. Uh, but I
think like the the the the small one is $500 and you get to have like uh two players. So you can we can actually like if we want to one of us or like oh we like to have someone promote like
promoting the town or some of the council members would like to play and they can be there. So, for the tournament, it's an awareness for special needs and we we're gonna be doing it every every year. So, what is
it? It's um August 30th and it's uh it's from it's from 12 to 4 and it's just a tournament. So, they what they do is they play and they have
they also can have a table. We can have the the sponsor have a table that they can show what they do at the town and the and then we can actually promote the the classes, the animation, all the stuff that we doing as a as a board. We
can promote it there and it's just that that date. We didn't say one line. I'm sorry, but we never said one line either. Oh, it was um community programs was 60. It would
come out of social and that's where you usually do event. Yeah. [Music] When um where is it again? Where is it at? I think
[Music] the yards. Yeah. It's 57. 57. And it's from 12 to 4. It's where the west side is.
Yeah. that part. I think it'd be great if the unless we have any pickle ball players here. I think the town of the the the big council members the members. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was saying
that we get the sponsorship and we get two council members. But you should you should still um speak during public comment on May 20th, okay? Because so many pickle ballers are all
attending the meetings at least last. Oh my gosh, they had like 30 people go and from Halia from remember there's like a serious pickle ball. So you should to help publicize you should go Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks for that for the council member also to like see the awareness and they see the kids the kids play also. So and it's incredible because they do they they're there they enjoy it and they have with the community and so so it's
nice. Yes. Okay. So, I'm going to make a motion to um sponsor do the $500 sponsorship for the pickle ball tournament foundation
um from the um community awareness. I think it will be Yeah, this one is for specific special events. So I would say I think is what you use. So exactly. All those in favor.
So that sponsors two people. Yes. To play. And then you have a table. We have a table. Like a We could have a table. We can have a table so we can also show our programs. Our safety program. What is
this? Oh yeah. Can't think of it that far ahead. I know that's obvious problem. So when we get closer, we'll ask somebody. Yeah. Yeah. They probably would have an answer. I think Yeah, I
know. Not now, but any announcements? I I do want to say I'm I'm really happy with our council. They've gone to almost every area that we've done and not like just one or two.
We've had everyone the mayor and they haven't just like come in and gone. They've stayed there at least one email open at each event and and sometimes we've had like six like we really have
gotten a lot of support and I I just I wanted to put that out there. I think it's it's been amazing. All right. That was a big fear of mine with all the change, but I agree with a great kudos to
[Music] Oh, sorry. One announcement or question I for the uh hope for Oxford Zone talent show that happened in April. Did any of you happen to keep the receipt from Papa John pizza delivery?
I know that was a while ago, but there's like a $10 difference on what we were because Okay, that's what the $10 is. Okay, that's the painting, right? Painting. No, this one was for It was
the whole process. Yes. Oh, okay. We were just I went to it. I didn't have pizza. I was like, what are you talking about pizza? Okay. If it's the tip then that I didn't want to link up with all the John answered. Yeah, I think this is it. Like this is
blank. Oh, okay. But that's the recipe. Yeah. Wow. You still have it. Thank you. And the beginning with the twist, what happened was when they delivered Papa John's. We're all We're all set on that. You got reimbured. No, no, but I'm just No, but
I'm just saying like we bought it and then No, this one was only because there was a $10 difference and we weren't sure what happened, but Yeah. Okay. Oh, any more announcements? No more babies? No more.
I I want to say um um proud moment um as a mom of a child with special needs I have to so today at his school my mates educational center and I'll read it on Friday um it says thrilled to be part of
this collaboration with Google and MDCPS together we're meeting students evol students evolving techniques fostering academic excellence Jacobana sophomore offered the student perspective on the implementation of AI
in schools. So they had school and a marketing team that came from different places and we also had the midnight house. What I was interview um because they have something at DCPS
through the portal Gemini AI. So they're, you know, putting they're doing a video. The superintendent was also at his school. He was interviewing. [Music] So yeah, congrats.
Students that get to use AI for homework when I was in No, it's a great I mean listen, even in the workplace, it's such a great useful tool. Yeah. makes charts for you in the whole thing. That's actually what I It saves so much time. It's like if
you're not using the AI, happy Mother's Day. Mother's Day. That's right. I don't even know what day is this. I do have another information. Contact. Do you have your contact information? I'm right
in the car. I'll be right back. Um, first Wednesday of every month generally. I came yesterday. Yeah, you guys are on Thursdays. Check the website. No, I had a very nice lady who worked here was like
I'm gonna go grab my card. So, um I had the privilege of meeting with uh Miami Day County Public School Superintendent uh Dory, Dr. Dorres, um and some of his
staff. And I'm happy to say that they are working on uh some programs for adults after they age out of the school system. Um, so that it's like a huge thing that parents
have been asking for for many years. So, um, is it like um um is it like a program like or I'll let you finish. I can't even think of the question. Like a employment program. Yeah. Like what kind of
program? It's for um academic academic um some academic um like employment and skills but you know it's for the 22 and over so they can continue
um and it's like that middle population because if you're like on the higher end of the spectrum you know you where you can attend college you know or you know get a job. Um, you know, there's stuff out there for you. And if you're in the
lower end, there's also programs that you have as an option, but for that middle, uh, you know, it's tough for those adults. So, they're working on something that is
going to come soon and they're looking into starting it might like extremely lucky. So, and I saw that is the the lead of ESC, the one
that oversees all of it and in the high schools. Yeah. Okay. So, name um I think they're looking at HML because they have like a whole like
section that's not being used. They have a lot of in there and they already have an ASD program. So they would be able to because there's so many adults right now sitting at home not doing
anything and they lose, you know, they regret when they don't when they get out of their routine after so many years of going to school and then all of a sudden, you know, it's like I don't I don't know
what people think that, you know, you're like when you're 21 or 22, it's like everything is still the same and and they and it's also good because it's giving them a purpose like they're
continuing because a lot of them are just at home and then they feel like okay, what am I going to do? They start getting depressed, they start gaining weight. I mean just a whole lot of other issues that did you have a question? Yes,
but I don't know. I mean it's not directly related but I just thought of it now when when you mentioned it. Um, we did, well, I wasn't a part of it, so I still do, but two years ago, you
guys did the dating, uh, the dating, um, workshops. Somebody came to present, but we never did it. But no, didn't you guys do it two years ago? No. No. Never got done. No.
I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking maybe someone did something here at Miami legs but it wasn't us. Yeah, I think someone did something like a couple years ago. That's possible. Cuz they would like sometimes choose like a location and then they would do it. So it's like a popup type of thing. Why didn't I'm just
curious. I don't remember why why did we not do it or they're not I mean it just [Music] never and nobody ever really followed up on it. Um, I know one
could do it at the mayor's cafe, but I just never thought the ball roll cuz that's a need too. I was talking to a mom at the last town council meeting. Um, her son's an adult with autism and
you know, yeah, there's that need too. No, absolutely. Absolutely. I was I I was wondering about the are they like still around because I know
that I don't even know who the the lady that presented but she has a sister right was a young like college girl was doing [Music]
I can probably look into it cuz especially now I hate to say it but like now with love so many like I have my friend in New York. She's not even a mom and she's just like I cry every time like I you know I'm looking
and then to see if there's other shows just like it because of one show that can we adjourn the meeting and then we can discuss this afterwards. Yes. I was just saying we should maybe add it to the next one or or look into that for
another workshop for the next agenda. The next agenda also report to council since you're all going up in July to start and finish next morning. I move to adjourn the meeting at 7:30. Second. All
those in favor.