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can all go home at a reasonable time today um we're going to start off with a couple of uh of recognition specifically a proclamation followed by a certificate um you know I want to thank first of all my my fellow colleagues on the Town Council Steve herberg Ray Garcia Alex
Sanchez and council member Fernandez uh for being here um this first Proclamation is for our boy scout troop um 566 got it um I I think that the the wording of the Proclamation itself does
a phenomenal job of of describing why exactly you're getting this Proclamation so um I'll I'll let the proclamation speak for itself by reading straight from it uh so yeah absolutely come forward wasn't sure how how you wanted
to ma handle such a large crowd come on in come on come on H have them flank us Perfect all right and Sean you should be some somewhere in here I think you you deserve this uh as much so whereas scouting dates back to 1907 and exists
to Foster the citizenship physical abilities and mental aptitude of young people specifically it is the Boy Scouts of America's mission to prepare young men to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and
law whereas for over a hundred years now scouting has become one of the most successful youth programs in the United States with a long history of developing leadership skills values of citizenship and outdoor competencies in young men and now young women whereas Boy Scout
Troop 566 was founded 25 years ago as an outgrowth of Cub Scout Pack 566 and has been a significant force in shaping positive character development in the Youth of Miami Lakes establishing troop 566g to offer the blessing of scouting
to Miami Lakes girls nurturing 37 young men to Eagle Scout providing services to the town including flag retirement ceremonies and establishing and managing the town of Miami Lakes flag retirement box whereas troop 566 is the last remaining Boy Scout troop in the town of Miami
Lakes chartered to Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic church and provides continuous leadership training through fun challenges and adventure to young people ages 11 to 17 whereas the members past and present have exemplified the higher standards of professionalism integrity
and mutual support laying the foundation for sustained growth and impact in the town of Miami Lakes now therefore I Brian morera vice mayor on behalf of Joshua Diez mayor uh by virtue of the authority vested in me uh on behalf of the town of Miami Lakes on behalf of the
Town Council and 33,000 Miami Lakers do hereby Proclaim February 2025 as Boy Scout Troop 566 month in the town of Miami Lakes congratulations e thank you very much Town yes that's true thank you very much
uh uh yeah I've actually been doing scouting than the longer than the town's been around um but uh I want to say thank you very much to our town leaders uh for recognizing The Troop we've um it's been uh uh I've been with the troop off and on for 12 plus years and uh um
uh as it says that uh there there at one time there was one then there were two and then were three now there's only one Scout Troop but we're happy that our Scout Troop has grown to actually have a g troop which is a girl troop which has grown very very well um we we appreciate the cooperation with the town all the time we do a lot of flag Ceremonies for
the uh opening of baseball and football and things like that we we've done a lot of Ceremonies here and we appreciate the ability to show our civic pride with the American flag um uh retiring them properly in front of town hall I just want to say um that the the town's always been supportive I'm laughing
because my eldest son who's 28 helped lead the flag ceremony for the groundbreaking of this building and my daughter who's 25 in scouting helped lead the flag ceremony for the ribbon cutting for this building so we've been involved a very long time and we appreciate those opportunities given to
my children and all the children so they can they can feel like they're part of the town and the town's history and Heritage so and I want to say thank you to my leaders our committee chair my boss is Miss Adriana schwinghammer Mr Mendes is here uh Miss Dr Voris uh a lot of other people who aren't here but we everyone we all we all we all really
give you our gratitude and appreciation for acknowledging us thank you very much you all right guys we can head out here and we'll come back later for our flag ceron all righty we got one more this is going to be a certificate of recognition uh
for Miss Haley PTO and I'm going to let uh council member um Ray Garcia Take Charge Haley if you wanted to come up thank you vice mayor how are you Haley come on up stand right is your is a is Miss SoDo here today yes oh can you come up as
well as we can see here the the town's youth uh is are are very impressive the thing I've never seen a town have so much participation when comes you can stand next to her here so much participation when it comes to youth we can see his example of the boy Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts um our our residents I mean honestly the future is bright in Miami Lakes um so we have you've earned you've worked hard all your life and you've earned recognition but I'm going to let uh Miss SoDo speak
a little bit about you and why we're recognizing you today and I know Marissa c as well um is a b advocate for for you and um so I'd like to have Miss SoDo say a few words about this wonderful person I have next to me if you don't mind sure thank you good evening everyone again I
think Haley's a wonderful example of one of some of the amazing students that we have in this town what she's done for the town and she continues to do for her community is go above and beyond and give give her all to everything that she does she's part of two committees in the town a youth activities task force and
the education Advisory Board and she does a lot of things in both both uh boards both committees that she's a part of she's also here you go thank you um she's also the deputy director of vgm poo which Marita Costa you're all very familiar with um and she does a lot of
work with them as far as planning things like citizenship day and different um ways to engage the community so she does those things and again she does a lot through the Committees in the town so overall she's very active and we're very proud to have her and she's a great Goldman student absolutely thank you so
much thank you very much so you have quite the CV here we're not going to go through the whole thing but I'd like to go ahead and certificate of recognition to Haley PTO an acknowledgement of your remarkable contributions to the youth activities
task force and education Advisory board and the promotion of Civic engagement and Community involvement among the youth in Miami dat County from the town of Miami Lakes is proud to recognize your hard work and dedication and it's signed by our mayor mayor Josh dieas uh
February 18th 2025 congratulations Haley keep up the good work thank you I just want to say a few words I just want to thank everyone from the town I just want to thank my teacher Moto who encouraged me every day and my parents as well all the staff at Gman
and also Administration who continued to show me a perfect example of the person that I'm striving to be every day and I would also like to thank Mara Costa for also showing me a perfect example of how to lead and how to show others how to be
civically engaged and also all of my town Le aison I and Ernie Soto who have also shown me how to be connected to the town and thank you guys so much for everything get a picture e
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will start the swearing in ceremony so I'm going to kindly ask everyone to start taking your seats and please um put your electronic devices to mute again in a few minutes we will start the
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good evening ladies and gentlemen bues I'm gonna kindly ask you all to please start taking your seats so that we can proceed with a swearing in ceremony please take your seats and
silence your electronic devices thank you e e e e good evening bues we're going to start in two minutes
I just want everyone to please take your seats and silence your electronic devices mute e good evening and welcome to town hall Miami Lakes my name is Ganso I am the town
clerk the supervisor of elections and a very happy and proud resident of 23 and a half years yes I welcome you all to the swearing in of council member Alex Sanchez the viewers
at home thank you for watching us via live stream and you're welcome as well to be here we're all going to follow the program that you will find in your seats and what I'm going to ask you is to all please stand up and remain standing
through the invocation through the Pledge of Allegiance through the presentation of colors and having said that I'm going to ask the chaplain ismo Gusman from the US
Marine Corp and American Legion Post 144 to please approach the podium and start with the invocation good evening let us uh pray dear Lord As We Gather here in Miami Lakes we ask for divine kindness
wisdom for our incoming councilman Alejandro Sanchez may he serve our community with sharp Vision integrity and dedication to the well-being of all residents grant them the discernment to make decisions that will strengthen our town the courage to stand for what is
right and the compassion to hear and understand the needs of every residents may his service bring Unity progress and prosperity to the town of Miami Lakes in your precious name amen
Color Guard attention Color Guard advance halt left face please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all through through us two colard please post the flag of the
town of Miami Lakes please post the flag of the great state of Florida please post the flag of United States of America Color Guard regroup right face Color Guard Advance
halt thank you all you may be seated and thank you so before we proceed at this time I would like to recognize dignitaries that we have here tonight when I call your name just please stand up so that we can
acknowledge you we have I saw earlier state representative Tom Fabricio we have Miss Felicia Salasar she is here thank you from state representative Alex Rizzo
we have Miss Carmen Chum Mingo we have Miami Dade County Public Schools board member Roberto Alonso we have mayor Caesar MRE former mayor of the town of Miami Lakes vice mayor Nelson Rodriguez as
well former from the town of Miami Lakes and if you're a dignitarian I have not named you please let me know and stand so that we can acknowledge you I see Mr Tio casamayor here loved by everyone thank you for
always being present family and friends residents I see chairs of commit former chairs I see chairs of committee um of the town of Miami Lakes committee members and of
course your loved ones your close loved ones we thank you for being here it is a very special night um for me I always take this very personal as a supervisor of election and as a town clerk I work hand inand with the elected officials um
so in this case council member Alex Sanchez we welcome you um I just want to take a make some remarks for the public attending last month in the January council meeting January 21st he um he was confirmed the Town
Council confirmed Alex Sanchez appointment to fill the vacancy of seat four at that same moment he was so eager to start working his official duties that I swore him in tonight we're doing
the ceremonial sering in so that he can share his happiness with loved ones with his children sisters brothers family and friends so without further Ado council member Sanchez it is for me Gina and
guano a great honor to celebrate with you tonight with your loved ones you're swearing in I have known you for many years you have always been a very involved resident I've been working here 13 years and a half and I I know I remember seeing you come to town hall to
the other town hall and to this one when we finally built our beautiful building so I know you were a Committee Member of neighborhood Improvement you were a Committee Member of Veteran Affairs and at the same time you became a chair of that committee you have been a Planning
and Zoning Board member and the one that hits me the most not the most important but for me you're a decorated veteran of the United States Navy we thank you for that for your service um my father is a veteran from
the Armed Forces so again it hits home we thank you now I also want to say thank you to your family to your loved ones because in advance because he just started his political duties His official duties um for the time that
you're going to be sharing with the town manager the town attorney the town staff on behalf of your residents so without saying anything anything else please proceed to the podium and I believe Mrs Sanchez is going to have the honors to do your oath
correct so were see I see you actually I'm so sorry your right left so this isect ready okay so you're going to repeat after me I say your name I Alejandro
Sanchez a resident in the town a resident of the town of of the town of Miami Lakes of the town of Miami Lakes do hereby solemnly swear do hereby solemnly swear or affirm that I will support or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Florida and of the State of Florida and the charter of the town of Mii Lakes Florida and the Charter of the town of Miami Lake Florida thank you thank
you very much and now say some words again council member Sanchez I promise not to take up too much of your time I know it's late but I don't want to hear that you're hungry there's plenty of food
outside so honored guests family and friends thank you all for being here today on such a meaningful occasion in the story of our family's life the events of today did not happen by chance they are a result of a lifetime of experiences that have shaped me as a
father husband son brother and Veteran as a father I have come to understand the profound importance of life's moments both big and small my sons Aiden and Aline have taught me that even the smallest details can make the biggest
difference their presence in my life has strengthened my resolve to lead by example and to create a future that is worthy of the Next Generation as a husband I have learned that love is not just about the easy moments it is about perseverance
patience and unwavering commitment marriage has shown me that challenges merely are merely opportunities to grow stronger and for that I am eternally grateful to my wife Jacqueline who has been my rock and my greatest
support as a son I recognize that growth is a lifelong journey and Perfection is reserved only for God my parents Julio and Carmen Sanchez instilled in me the values that Define who I am today
Integrity hard work and the belief that serving others is a noble calling their love and guidance laid the foundation for my character and for that I am forever thankful as a brother I learned in life the value of
patience guidance and being a source of support in both good and bad times my younger brother Adrien has shown me the importance of mentorship and responsibility qualities that will serve me well as I take on the responsibility of representing our
community the essence of public service is to be there for others to guide to listen and to help just as I have done as a brother and as a veteran my time in the United States Navy instilled in me the values of Honor
courage and commitment a deep understanding of what it means to do right what is right to protect and defend the Constitution and to work tirelessly no matter the challenge at hand the ability to adapt and overcome is a lesson that I carry with me every
day and I will ser and it will serve as my guiding principle in this new role Miami Lakes is not just another town it is home it is a place I always aspired to live and raise my family in as I grew up just across the bridge in
haia it represents the very best of what a community can be a place where families flourish businesses Thrive and dreams take flight being a Miami Lakes resident is not just a title it is a privilege one that I do not take lightly
and it is my goal to ensure that every student veteran resident and business owner in this town continues to feel proud to call it home over the next two years I'm committed to working toward meaningful progress paying attention to the details that truly matter and
striving to make Miami Lakes an even greater place for generations to come this honor is not one that I take lightly it is with deepest gratitude and profound sense of Duty that I stand before you today my promise to you is simple I will lead with Integrity serve
with dedication and always keep the best interest of our residents at heart together we will continue building Miami Lakes in Miami Lakes that we can all be proud to call home thank you and may God bless the town of Miami Lakes and with that being said please
enjoy on behalf of laosa which is sponsoring the meals for tonight enjoy tacos and margaritas have fun everybody congratulations council member Sanchez with that Council come back in 10 minutes we're going to convene in 10 minutes for a regular
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e e e e good evening the time is 6:57 I'm calling the meeting of the regular the regular council meeting of the town of M LS Town Council to order uh with that Gina Madame clerk please call the role
council member for herandez present council member hburg present council member Garcia present council member Quadra Garcia president council member Sanchez
president vice mayor Mora present mayor Diez here mayor you have Quorum excellent everyone please stand for the moment of silence which will be led by council member JC Fernandez Lord thank you so much for this evening uh we ask that you bless us tonight that
uh that our decisions that we make up here are are for the benefit of the residents that everything that we that we do is for the greater good of our town and that uh that you give us wisdom and that uh our our discussions are cordial and we ask these things in Jesus
name amen please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance which will be led by Fred senra Fred please come to the podium I pledge allegion to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated Council we are now in the order of business deferrals additions of deletions uh is there a motion yes Mr Mayor M Mr vice mayor you are recognized
I'd like to have a I'd like to move for a waiver of section 7.2 of the special Rules of Order for items 14 d e h and J as well as an waiver of sections 6.10
and 7.2 of the special Rules of Order for item 14k is there a second I'll second it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say I I all oppos no you guys have it the rules are waved as to uh the items listed by the vice mayor with that
I also uh will offer my own Amendment to the order of business to move the police report 9A to right after number seven appointments uh given that uh I believe some of the information there would be helpful to some of the residents in the audience tonight Mr Mayor yes Mr vice
mayor having uh added those uh prior items to the agenda I'd like to have items 14 H and 14j considered together and I'd like to have 14k moved to after uh the police
report 14k you said yes okay 14k Mr Mayor a one second councilman okay you're recognized councilman Quadra Mr Mayor see if we can move uh uh my
item 14 uh C is in Charlie right after uh committee report so 14 C to after item 8B meaning the end of committee reports thank you okay anyone else before we incorporate this into a comprehensive motion yes I'd
like to put a motion to move 14b right after 14 C 14b to after 14 C yes okay any any other changes before I call them out one more time uh okay so I'm
going to go over it one more time item 9A will now be after item seven after appointments in other words the police report after appointments following that item 14k um by vice mayor Mora is being moved to right after the uh police report then
following the committee reports I have uh 14 C as recommended by council member Quadra which will also be followed by 14b by council member Sanchez are there any other changes yes mayor you you forgot
the 14 H and J should be considered together yes now 14 H and J should be considered together at the time the 14h comes up correct that when 14h is discussed later in the meeting so moved excellent is there a second second it's been moved and seconded all those in
favor say I I I I'll oppose no you guys have it motion carries and the uh agenda is amended with that we are now on public comments Madam clerk good evening public comments um all the comments and questions from this
attending public shall be directed to the mayor in a courtious tone and to ensure the orderly conduct and efficiency of the meeting public comments shall be limited to three minutes we also welcome public comments via zoom and remote and if you are
wishing to participate we welcome you and the only thing you need to do is please raise your hand by pressing asterisk 9 and it will allow you to speak and please if you're here for public comments approach the podium state your name and address for the
record and welcome the mic is off and please turn on the microphone thank you always have over this good evening mayor council members um the manager staff uh general public um I'm going to be quick
on this uh I already sent the the council a uh an email in regards to the item that they told me that I could come and formally get a a a former culture AFF first committee report uh approved
um basically what who basically it's just getting this event that we did back in 2005 to to bring it back and and have the the cult trair committee be the
official um you know take take the hold of the committee because right now we're doing it um with the help of of other members of uh putting together the main Street Live and also I would like to
have Tio not Tio uh Matthew oh there you are come on yeah we this is a collaboration that we discussed uh earlier in I guess since since May of last year and the the um Economic
Development Committee was nice enough to say yes we'll be part of it so um it's Logistics is trying to get um basically the V not to cost the town uh anything you know I know we have a limited budget
and uh thanks to to Matthew and uh the chamber with uh Mr Cerna here they're they're we're trying to put it together it's going to be a great event that's going to help not just the the mer Merchant on Main Street is the whole town because it's going to put our town
um on the spotlight and we have a lot of um ideas to do so uh I'll let Matthew add more to it sure I'll be quick too I can do it in less than a minute um just kind of bouncing off what Felicia said um I think this Main Street
Live I'm not sure if you guys remember it like you said back in 2005 it's one of my original great memories is dancing to Radio Disney and having fun with like the old little bands that would play back there when I was a kid so me personally it's something I really want to see come back and as the chair of the economic development committee I think
it's going to be a great Boon to the center of the town to Main Street it'll help really bring in a lot of life and bringing more events to the tenants and that's something that we've been speaking a lot with the tenants going to some of their different meetings really hearing from them and that's something that they really want is more events something to bring more foot traffic to
Main Street so I think it's going to be a great um addition something to bring back you know read addition to the town and uh I'll just close it off with saying that today is my birthday so as a gift to me I would at least appreciate you guys thinking about it so
thanks thank you guys again it's just a formality is just having the council approve it we um we had a discussion in our committee and they they're they as long as we have uh you know assessment that everything is going to be okay they
they okay with it so I appreciate that very much thank you thank you so much Council you you need to take action to approve that um tonight just to just yeah if you don't mind because I think the time time is sensitive so it'd be good just to approve it allow them to do it there's no uh Financial we'll have to
we'll have to reopen the agenda uh there but why don't we let just let the the public comments finish and then we'll we'll reopen the agenda and address good evening Town myami Lakes Council Mr Mayor Mr manager Madame Clerk and congratulations to all of you that
have been uh elected and appointed to be our representatives and that's why we're here tonight my name is Abel Fernandez uh address is 6 339 Northwest 84th Avenue proud town of Miami Lakes uh I am here at this moment uh as part of the
royal logs homeowners association board and um we are coming before you because our membership had at a recent meeting discussed with us uh continuous issues with 79th Avenue and the Bob gram uh
Elemental uh facility uh it's gotten to the point where uh it's become unbearable the the safety of the students uh the safety of our home owners the uh degradation to
our property values is uh present and uh uh through the chair uh JC is on our board and can attest to a lot of this and Angelo is also a member of of Royal Oaks and can also attest and all of you have walked in our community have seen
this we have spoken to Major Gonzalez and we are extremely uh lucky to have an individual of this caliber representing this town and working hand inand with the manager but we understand that your hands are tied we understand police's
hands are tied so we are asking you Mr Mayor as the intergovernmental person to please address the school board and we will come out in force with you so they can hear it because from a point of the
school facility they're not listening to what's happening uh with that said I'm going to introduce uh our uh homeowners association president omero Cruz that will elaborate further thank you AEL homero Cruz a515
Northwest 169 Terrace uh thank you for the opportunity Mr mayor council Town manager to clerk Mr attorney as well COA as AEL says uh and we're all aware it's unbearable the issues that we have on
79th Avenue it's been going on for years me myself I had already a couple of meetings with the school board a few times uh the director Mr Lester came in and myself and another person from the board we came up with a few Solutions on
different side plans and different ideas but uh Unfortunately they say that that was not going to work uh officer Amador was uh thank you for being there on Thursday uh the police is doing an outstanding job they can do more than what they're
doing now if you ask the school board they're going to tell you that they don't own the street that the street is owned by Miami day County or Miami Lakes so it's like who owns it how can we solve this problems in the meantime the owners is impossible they can't get out
it's like they're they're prisoners in their own homes and when they're coming back they can't come in I get pictures like almost every other week residents are frustrated myself I don't live on the east but the residents we're all residents and it doesn't matter where we
are I asked the uh uh management company to send you a letter on on behalf of the homeowners and me as the HOA president asking you to help us you and the council the next meeting will be March 19th at 11: a.m. we're planning on
making noise in the sense of the good sense and and have a good turnout have a lot of people go there and see if uh once and for all the school board can listen to us and and do something this is not something that can keep being ignored I
spoke with Alejandro today and uh he came up with an idea that he's proposing to you guys and it'll be on the next agenda hopefully to put a no left turn in there and we got to look for Avenues you know the school says that uh there there is an ordinance that the school
cannot open for this dismissal uh 10 minutes before dismissal the gates and uh and the same thing at uh in the morning but uh my kids and my my grandkids now go to Our Lady of the Lakes we have double dismissal why can't
they do the same we got to look for a solution and we're here asking you and the council to help us we cannot do this alone anymore and we're tired honestly we're tired there's a lot of people here that are going to have their three minutes and express them themselves with the frustrations and we got to do
something we got to come up together and and the school has to listen to us Mr Alonso was here today I told him he's aware of it but he's only one person too you go there and the school board says uh we have no money well guess what you're going to have to find the money you're going to have to find where you
can get the money and you need to solve this problem once and for all thank you for the time and uh help us good job good evening to all congratulations again to all I know that I've been here
before many times with this issue I've met with um major Gonzalez officer Amador I've met with the school board Mr Alonso be before you continue please remember uh your name and address for the record Gutierrez if you don't know
me no no no we we know you but again for the record we need to we need to State it 8025 Northwest 162 Street um the reason why I'm here is the reason that everybody else is here and the people that live in the east side of Roy looks know it I don't have to repeat the whole
thing it's been ongoing and you've seen me here for several years now these are the latest pictures so that you see what the residents are going through at 149 this car parks at 162 Street which is the end of my block she puts her hazards
I'm sorry if I'm blocking this she puts her Hazard leaves the car there and blocks to the school to pick up a child from 162 to 159 it's three blocks so then this was the first couple days after the Swale now there's three cars that park there so when you're going to
try to leave this my street you can't really see oncoming traffic so that's one of the issues the other issue is the sidewalk ramps that was created to keep Kids Safe is being used as a parking for
the aitos this one you can't see that much but here you can clearly see it those handrails that you put those handrails are two of them are already coming down people are backing up into them this is another one this is their
parking these are parkings contrary to traffic This Is Us trying to get into the development we can't get in if you're a resident because you're going to hit a car and this car is parked on the sidewalk so how safe it is is it for a child this is where it starts at
255 it becomes unbearable to get out you can't get out this is a crossing guard sandwiched between two cars that are parked at the sale again 121 cars already parked at the
sale and then this one I found it upsetting because last year at this time I know the council that was here before was upset because they were parking on the Swale at 170 next to the canal I think children's lives are more
important than that I think that we should do something about it I had to call the town not too long ago because a freebie in the morning just past the crossing guard maybe 20 feet from the crossing suddenly stopped and I was
behind her lifted up the the car was not on the sale it was on the street lifted the door and outw walked two children I called they said that it was 14 years of age I don't think that an eighth grader is 14 unless you've you've and both of
them you know didn't pass the grade whatever it is it's not safe for children that's primar and if a resident takes out a child they have to live with it for the rest of their life it's it's something that you should consider I wish you would go to the school board with us I wish that there there's enough
Talent everywhere to put your thinking caps together and get a solution to this thank you so much would you mind uh entering uh the photos with the clerk uh that wish she can make copies for everybody to see thank you Mr vice mayor welcome back good
evening Nelson Rodriguez 8753 Northwest 162 Terrace although I live west of uh Bob Graham K8 I experienc the traffic on Miami Lakes Drive and 79th Avenue when I'm trying to go into the shopping center the shopping center is also
getting Ed with parents about 15 years ago maybe a little bit more Miami Lakes cage Center had the same problem right before I got elected and when they became a K8 they they started to have this problem backed up on Miami Lakes Drive and uh I'm sorry
Miami Lake Way North North no Miami Lake Way South I'm sorry in 67th Avenue and so they developed two dismissals I was the PTA president of Miami Lakes KH Center and then I was a councel member here and vice mayor and begged and begged and begged for Bob
Graham to do the same thing have two dismissals okay they actually have three one for the PLC one for the elementary school and one for the K8 and Bob Graham can do exactly the same it eliminated
the traffic we had on Miami Lakes Drive I'm correction on 67th Avenue it it was murder it was bad and the parents knew it and those people came out and protested and they got they got it changed it's time for Bob Graham to change their their hours there's a
solution very simple okay and it works out just great for all the parents okay if you're if you're you have an elementary and a high schooler go around the block by the time by the time they clear 15 minutes they clear the first set of Elementary then you come back and
you pick up your middle schooler it worked fine at the Cade you can use that as an example but it's a problem and and on top of that you have parents dropping off the child on the west side of the street I encourage you to go there in the morning and watch the children Dash
their most prized possession the most prized possession I encourage you to watch the parents CH the children Dash between cars like Frogger those of you that are older The Young Ones won know what it is but it it
it's dangerous and it's time for this to change again I don't live on 79th Avenue but I do experience this traffic um on on Miami Lakes Drive so there's Solutions out there there that that I mean give it a chance we're almost done
with this school year implement it next school year okay or after spring break there's times to do this and and give it a try but you know the the School Board needs to work with it the school needs to work with you and uh and we've we've been dealing with this issue as long as
uh I was on the council we've been dealing with this issue and we've gotten nowhere so uh hopefully the Comm Community now looks like they're ready to go and fight and it and it's time for you guys to do your work so I'll leave that up to you and there's some solutions for you feel free to call me you all have my number if you need uh you know any any uh advice on on what we
did to K good evening Council staff thank you for hearing us uh my name is Lydia Hernandez I live at 7941 Northwest 166 Street Miami Lakes and there's a lot of uh people here today that wanted to be here but couldn't but there's a lot of people
that are here today regarding the same issue with the school can you please stand up anybody having to do with the school please stand up Royal Oaks and 79th Avenue and many more people wanted to come the thing is we are being held
hostage by the school we can't go in we can't go out and the we need a paradigm shift the mentality of the school the school board is H it's 20 minutes deal with it no it's not 20 minutes you saw the pictures with they're Ed 1:15 the grandparents start lining up it's a two
to three hour process I can't get in I can't get out my only access is 79th Avenue I recently had knee replacement surgery and my greatest fear is that I'm going to fall I can't get off and the and the ambulance can't get to me if somebody has an emergency they can't get in they can't get out during that time
it's not 20 minutes the paradigm shift is the school has to say the nuisance came to us we were there first we have to coexist though schools are necessary but they have to respect our rights as well 79th Avenue is not their par private parking space and the
superintendent of that section Leonard Torres we met with him and he basically said we can't control what the parents do outside the school blamed it on the police and so we have to find a solution I have many ideas but I think you're a very bright group of people and come
come up with your own Solutions and maybe we could work together to get the the school board to have a paradigm shift but this has to stop it's unbearable thank you for your time Bonnie Centron oh it should be green okay okay there you go first I just want to thank
the council uh for really listening to the constituents when they come forward it's it's so good to know that you're giving us your time and and your attention um I'm so pleased that we're getting away from the Dei things that
were being done and we're treating everyone as equally and we're not separating people into groups and I'm so glad you're going to be looking into the um underpass there on 67000 Avenue because that really needs attention but
I had just a couple of ideas that where your weight of your office might be helpful if you spoke for the citizens of of Miami Lakes no matter where they are in in Dave County
this pay by phone and this hashtags for everything is really Troublesome for people like me who don't really want to use a cell phone very much and um it's it's really getting hard so if you ever
have the occasion to speak with our commissioners and our mayor Leen Cava I know she agrees that it is a problem but maybe you can urge them to please do something positive for us there should
be more than just one way to pay pay for your parking it shouldn't always have to be pay by phone um now they have two pay by phone systems also um in general this
wouldn't help The Pedestrian situation that you were talking about with the traffic but because I'm familiar with the European system of driving roundabouts are so wonderful you
never sit there for 20 minutes Bumper to Bumper waiting for your turn to get through I'm sorry Bonnie it turned off again they're not always feasible for every intersection but if we could look into it I Know Carl Gables has a couple
of them but it really does make a difference and it keeps the traffic flowing slowly but flowing and it's it's a blessing so I think date County really should look into that maybe you can put a good word and for that type of thing
and thank you for listening good evening my name is Robert SAA I live at 7925 Northwest 162nd Street right down the street from the school uh as you hear everybody's
frustrated with that situation it's it's a school zone is kind of hard to control uh kids need to be picked up my concern is that someone's going to get hurt uh to get in you got to cross against
traffic and now you're looking out for uncoming traffic and you don't know if a kid pops out of a car or comes between two cars I mean that's the last thing we want is for an accident like that to happen and it's close because it's
happening more and more backups daily just so you guys know thank you thank you is there anyone else in Chambers that would like to speak at the podium before we go uh looking
online oh okay perfect oh EX good evening Manny Lopez uh 8435 Northwest 169 Terrace Mr Mayor councel we we're here for that I I own
two properties in one on the east and one on the west and we have the same problems and all we need is for you guys to help us see which way we can get control of this and we thank you for your service
and we hope that you can really do something for us cuz right now our hands are tied thank you so much for your time thank you anyone else in Chambers wishing to speak in person at the podium seeing none Madam clerk is there
anyone online that would like to speak uh remotely no participants online mayor okay with that public comments is now closed point of personal privilege mayor just just one second I as all of you know or many of you know I live on the east side and I'm absolutely
affected by it uh Angelo does too I think it's something that we absolutely need to do uh we need to address it you know we we've come up with different ideas at least they've been thrown around but I think the time has come that we something needs to be done so I
I'd like to call in the near future a sunshine meeting that we can all get together and and come up with some ideas I know the major has a has a good idea that's one way to alleviate traffic but whatever it is we have to do something so I agree with you and thank you all for coming
out really the chair okay thank you everybody and um uh may I did receive an email just like 20 minutes ago from Miss Maria santelises and I want to put it
for the record um her public comment written public comment is in regards she's very concerned with the golf carts the safety of the people that are driving the youth that are driving the golf carts so her public comment will be
shared after the meeting because I just received it again it's in regards to item 14g from council member Sanchez golf cart safety and she is very concerned for the Youth that are driving the golf carts in our town thank you madam clerk um for the
benefit of the public we're going to uh after appointments we're going to take up the police report during which time Schoolboard member Alonzo also will is available to address some of your concerns so uh you will hear from him uh at that time so just bear with us for another 5 minutes with that Council were
on number seven appointments uh the following individuals were appointed since the last council meeting and need no further action Sabrina Alonso and mgal Rubio Sabrina is being appointed to the youth activities task force by myself uh magali to the blasting envir
board by council member Garcia are they in in Chambers to stand up and be Rec recognized congratulations Sabrina Sabrina really magali and I saw Mall in the back there with that uh there are two individuals here that are being nominated but they
require a waiver is um is there a waiver a motion on on this or I'll move for a waiver on both uh Mr Charles H James and Miss Lola a kosan I'll second it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it
the motion carries and the waiver is granted with that then a Mr Charles H James is appointed to the veterans committee by council member Alex Sanchez and Lola a kasani to the youth activities task task force by vice mayor Brian Mora congratulations are those
individuals here in the audience as well okay uh seeing that they're not here we we'll continue moving on with that major Gonzalez the floor is your for your report good evening mayor councel and town residents um major Gonzalez your
town Commander here with the monthly police report I want to first um share a report that I've created with the residents and the council and the mayor on reference to the Bob Graham School situation obviously we've been dealing this for a long time I've uh had
personal visits with Miss Gutierrez Miss Sanchez Mr Fernandez Mr Cruz and we all trying to collaborate together to find a solution we've also met with the school in the previous years and try to and tried to um to um
present okay sorry um so I'm going to give you a little bit background about the school um so Bob gr K through 8 has noticed a significant increase in traffic since the Inception due to the school increase in capacity from a K through 8 from a k to 5 to later being a
k a 6 through 8 uh postco We've noticed that now a lot of people work from home and so they're taking their kids to school um and picking them up right so there's less buses that we've noticed and more cars
so this is also an enhanced increase in vehicle traffic that we noticed has been postco um there's also been a removal of School boundaries from my understanding I don't know if that's changed and now we have more residents that are not Town residents coming into the town from neighboring neighborhoods you could be
in haia you be from psan you could be from anywhere and come into to to B gram um they've also created three pickup Loops to address the increase in students which has led to the dispers dis I'm sorry the separation of staging
in three different locations and there the gates open at 255 for everyone um Robin how many students does the school have now 1700 1,700 that's a dismissal more or less time okay so right now we've added we
normally have in every school in the town two officers assisting with traffic Bob Graham we' we've um thrown five officers at it right now we've increased from two to five to assist so three officers man each of the school drop drop off I mean pickup areas so one is the South Loop the second one is the
north entrance Loop and then the third is the dismissal that's on the east side over on 77 Court um there's one officer the stages in the South End of 7 night to make sure that that's not being clogged affecting 154 traffic coming north and there's also another officer that get by the
guard gate of uh of Royal Oaks trying to keep the the traffic from staging on the street blocking the street before dismissal time um and then we have um another officer patrolling up and down 79 to to make sure that that's clear too and nobody's PR staging or stopping on
79 Avenue until the gates open at 2:55 once the gates open at 2:55 it's it's game time and that's where everybody's coming out of the Woodworks and they're now lining up to pick up their kids okay um so it's a large dismissal with the size of that school
so we we met with the school last week and we came up with another idea and another proposal um we met with Mr casos which is the new um assistant principal there and we did have a productive meeting they did listen to our suggestions and to share that with you now um so we want to scale back
obviously to two more officers um Sergeant soda has met with Bob Graham assistant principal Mr casano proposed a new dismissal procedure for next year and we believe this will significantly reduce the Manpower early arriving parents impact on Royal Oak residents and on local
businesses The Proposal consists of connecting the South pickup loop with the north pickup Loop via the Bus Loop now we will use where the Bus drop off the South Loop will come into the the Bus drop off and it would connect
through the parking lot into the north drop and that would be just one continuous line we could double and triple up in that bus pickup as the staging pre-staging and then they'll all come out on 7 s Court and we won't have that traffic pick up over there and we
would move the bus so it doesn't conflict with the kids in the bus on the Bus Loop to that East little Loop so they could relocate the buses so there's no danger to the children they're away from that line staging and then they would facilitate all the pre cars getting there early and nobody will be
on 79 and there will be nobody staging to the North in in Royal Oaks um this will allow the parents to stage on school property and not within Royal Oaks or the local business areas all grades will Pi picked up in the main Loop right outside of the respective
buildings parents with children in multiple grades will only have to drive one loop as opposed to two Loops that they have to do now and uh that concludes my report and uh we have a follow-up meeting with them on Thursday excellent and before um we continue on
if uh the school board member I don't know if you wanted to address anything that you've heard tonight uh thank thank you for being here good evening mayor and Council I don't know if this was a setup by Alex Sanchez on his saring in um but it's all good as you guys know
I'm not one that's afraid for a fight even though we don't need the fight because we're all residents um and um first of all it's Robert Alonzo Schoolboard member for District 4 I've been working on this since the minute I got elected um one of the first things we actually did was a a roadway
Improvement on 159 together with the town where we assisted some residents that were having some concerns with regarding the uh parents parking on the swell area um and we actually put up a barrier together with the school board as well as the town to make sure that we address that um funny enough if you drive on the weekends the residents go
over the concrete and Park in top of the grass that we put the barrier up in place there for um so at the end of the day this is we're all residents we're all people who live in this community as the major did say we do have open boundaries across our
district we don't just have people from Miami day County but we have people from Broward County coming um and it's a benefit to many families and that now they have the freedom to go to schools this happened when the capacities of our schools went drastically down this school is designed to house 2200 kids
which at its prime did have 2200 kids it currently only has 1450 kids enrolled in it right now um so it's actually below capacity I was mentioning some residents we're probably at about a 70% capacity right there now but unfortunately as the major said after covid parents have now
decided that everybody wants to drop off their kid at school um and not only do they want to drop them off one of those is my mom who goes to mam k through eight they want to be there 45 minutes before CU they want to be the first one in line and I explained to them that no matter what everybody's going to pick pick up their child and they're all
going to come out at the same time um so a lot goes around educating educating our families educating our community on when is the appropriate time to come when is the appropriate time not to come and the issues that they cause by piling up and just parking outside you're not going to get any quicker it's actually
going to make the process much slower um so the district always does as best as we can to educate families on that issue unfortunately as the major say people still don't listen they still want to come they still want to park there the town has put a lot of measures to
protect the swell areas in protecting those swell areas Now cars have nowhere to park anymore so now they're all piling up in the middle of the street but as I share with with the residents um we've met numerous times with the major with the district we are always sitting at the table willing to work
together with the town we don't control the roads but it's not putting the blame on the major um because we work together with the police officers our officer has to stay by state law inside of the school premise is protecting your children the children of our town so that officer cannot go outside and control traffic even though at times
they do help out a little bit to be able to get the cars in quicker um but as a major says we've looked at several different options um we've explored what are the best ways to do it whether it's opening the gates earlier closing the gates later um there's there's a plethora of different options that we
can do we'll continue to work on those um but the important thing is that we continue to communicate through all those I know the major has a very good relationship with their School personnel there they're the ones that run the operation um for the hearing audience and for those that are here I'm a policy maker I'm not an operational person so
we do have folks that do work on the operational side at the end of the day our priority is to keep the children safe inside that school and we need to make sure that we do that at all times so anything that we do is always going to have that as our number one priority I know that traffic is a priority for us
too as residents but we also have to look at the safety of our kids that we have inside the schools and we'll continue to do that while we work with the town to make sure that we find ways to alleviate the incoming and outgoing of cars when they come in um I will say this is a problem that's happening
across all Miami day County um I know there was a mention of AR Lakes my kids went to ARA Lakes um I sat in the 15 to 20 minute traffic of ARA Lakes dropping off my kids in the morning I still do now living on the east side when I drive out every school Miami Lakes k38 has
Barbara Gman Hala Gardens but the school we're talking about here today is Bob Graham and I know that's the important factor so I don't want to take away from that but I want everybody to understand that the problem that we're having here is something that we're seeing across the county and it's because of the change in patterns parents want to drop
off their kids at schools we see parents that live literally next door to each other that each drive off at the same time to drop off their kid at school rather than car pulling together but it's just a reality because how are you going to tell parent now that they can't drive their child to school and give them that little kiss in the forehead as
they're getting getting off the car and wishing them a good day it's important to them so it's something that we don't want to take away and restrict parents from being able to do it um but rest assured um your Schoolboard members here um I work together with uh the major I live in Miami Lakes my sister works at
Bob Graham she's a teacher there um my niece and nephew went to Bob Graham um my niece and nephew now go to miam K through 8 so my my family goes to the schools here um and they work in the schools here and we're going to continue the work with the town I look forward to working with the mayor the manager the planner who told me she was going to
join us in our meetings now too to give a little planning advice and of course uh with our Police Department that's always doing an incredible job in keeping us safe out there as well so thank you I'm always around everybody knows where to reach me um if you have any questions feel free to reach out through the chair thank you Mr Schoolboard member Mr vice mayor you're
recognized Schoolboard member Alonzo first and foremost thank you for being here uh you know I you might have been here for Alex you might have been here for for for this but in any case I think it's a testament to the leadership skills instilled In You by as far back as your father right you know your
family goes way back in Miami Lakes it it's great that you're here to listen we thank you for that um as far as some of the solutions that were mentioned by members of the public um I did hear this about dual dismissal and look Fair full disclosure I don't have kids um I don't
have to deal with this um and I don't know how that works but is that it seems like that's a solution that has a lot of support in the public has that been discussed at the Schoolboard level and what's been the reception of that so that's done on a school by school basis that school does have multiple
dismissals because there are younger kids that get out earlier um you have to look at the demographics of the families that are there and then the student population um when you have a large blend you know there's a lot of pros and cons to K through 8s um both from uh a drop off and pickup but also
academically even when it comes to sports it was a big topic that we just had last month at our Schoolboard meeting at that k38 schools don't have as many sports as a typical Middle School would have but what they do is they offer the family environment which is what a lot of the families in Miami Lakes wanted they wanted their kids to
feel as if they were almost in a private school which I can tell you Bob Graham is probably very uh close to your typical private school and that your child starts in prek and goes all the way to eth grade mom and dad a and AO love to see their eighth grader hold the
hand of their third grader and walk out a school together and get in the car because now they're safe they're not being dispersed into different dismissals so it's always kind of leveraging and working together and then you also have to think because the school and when you look at the demographics so many families have
children that are in third grade as well as in eighth grade you're now going to have double the amount of traffic possibly I'm not a traffic study person I'll leave that to the police department as well as our planners the district has very good traffic planners as well as they'll work with the town planners to talk about that and look at the demographics because sometimes something
that looks like it could be beneficial up front could end up being detrimental in that it's going to create create double the amount of traffic cuz now they're going to come out of the loop they're going to come back around when Dixie and they're going to stand right back in the same line to have to pick up another child I think that everything needs to be explored though so it might
be interesting to pull the demographics of the school see siblings see how many matched up together and then what that would cause if we were to change it because anything that we got that we do I think has to be done thoughtfully because we've been through so many different changes in the past and we've seen in different schools that we think
it's going to resolve but is it going to resolve it or is it going toate create a bigger problem and that's what I was actually sharing with the major earlier in that whatever we want to do let's just make sure we look at that it's not just we're making a change to make a change to try to make people feel as if we're doing something that's going to
fix things let's really do it in a thoughtful Manner and understanding what it is that we're going to be changing and what the impacts are going to be like as the members of the public said there's a lot of smart people up here there's a lot of attorneys um but we also need to bring in those planners that are going to be able to really analyze what the impact of those traffic
pattern changes are going to have on our school through the chair council member Garcia you're recognized thank you mayor board member Lonzo thank you so much I mean no one can speak to the issues of Miami Lakes better than a Miami Laker so we appreciate you uh a couple things you
know we're a small town we only have certain officers and the bulk of our officers are helping in the morning I know the police officers the Schoolboard officers can't leave but um now that we're going to try something different open up the gates let them enter um maybe you can uh suggest or help out
pushing allowing and while this is we're we're getting out the Kinks of this new process inside school property to have the the school board officers or maybe assign an additional temporary one while the process is working to to to get the Kinks out so they can help out while you
know inside to move the cars along since we're letting them in and also is there any way possible we can do a test run a month before school's over so so we see if it works we make the adjustments so the next year uh we know what works and doesn't work and we can start we can start with what works and you know we can make those adjustments over the
summer if that's a possibility is there anything you can do in that in that aspect definitely well to answer your first question um staff is always available internally inside of our school campus so the officer together with school staff will always be there available they're the ones that actually get the kids into the cars make sure the
cars are flowing pushing the cars through so that they don't just park there and stay there um so that is our responsibility as I always tell everybody once you come inside the gate that is the responsibility of the school and the staff and the district has uh staff it appropriately so that we can get that done outside of the fence is
where we don't have jurisdictions our officers do not have jurisdiction outside of the gate and our staff can't go outside of there either um with regards to the changing of the times um you you have to understand there's certain laws that are required and how many hours our students are sitting in the desk changing the hours for a month
could be could cause some issues from a legal standpoint on what were required um but it's something that we can definitely explore and take up to the folks that actually manage those hours and how it is that we do the dismissals and the amount of time that the students are in class CU it is a large school even though it's at, 1400 students right
now it's still a lot of students and changing all those Bell schedules could cause some issues but it's something that we can explore and something that I'm sure can be done together with our planning team and the town to see how we can kind of do some mock trials as to what those changes would be um but I
think just by looking at the data we're going to be able to also see a lot from what it is that we'll have on this missile time from them and last question um and I know things have changed but things are going back right people are starting to work less from home and uh is there anything school boards doing to
encourage busing or even walking to school I mean these kids are in seventh and eighth grade I used to ride Bike to School fifth and sixth grade pick up all my friends and you know I know it's it's another time but but our I'm a boomer and I'll admit it however I mean we spent a lot of money to fix those
sidewalks and encourage you know walking to school and and riding back to school you know I thing we can do in the educational you know social media part to get these kids to and I know the parents don't want to let go but sometimes it's a good thing to let them walk a block you know absolutely so I
I'm actually the school board's representative on the TPO which is the transportation planning Authority um and we talk a lot about creating safe Lanes I know the town has been a leader in creating these safe back uh bike paths for students to get around um but you know it's the campaign of letting
parents know that they can their kids can ride a bike to school um you know but it's not an easy one um it's one that we always advocate for we actually have a day in the year um that we talk about you know walk your child the school day um we can't get anybody to walk their kids to school that day um you know you have the weather you have
the heat you have you know the the concerns of the traffic and the the drivers that we have in Miami um I'd be concerned with my kids sometimes walking too um just because of the traffic and the way it is I mean it's a different world we live in um but to your point councilman Garcia we we should start
seeing some shifts in work schedules we're hearing a lot more companies saying that they want people to come back into the office if that starts to happen then I think we could see it because our school does offer every single school offers before school care and after school care so that means you
can drop off your child in school 30 minutes before school starts you don't have to all rush in at the same time but because nobody has to rush to work everybody goes right at the time that you have to drop off because you want to get that last extra minute at home to have breakfast or to sleep in a little
bit more um but but we could see some traffic pattern changes it's out of our control um we can't really control that um but as I was sharing with the major the other day I was C calling him while I was on the paletto because I was late to my meeting and I wanted to see if he can help open up a pathway for me to get
downtown where it takes me it literally takes me an hour and a half to get to our downtown office when I go for our Schoolboard meetings priv through the chair he just before you uh U council member Sanchez and then we'll go to
council uh aqu Quadra and uh councilman Herber would you like to uh jump in at some point yeah we'll see okay so after after council member Quadra and and you you already said something but do you want to speak no my kids walk to school oh they walk to school okay very nice we
have our poster child so there you go one or council member Sanchez Mr Alonzo first and foremost thank you for coming today it's a great honor to have you in the building and and I very much appreciate you and I go way back to the point of when we were alter Boys in santaa and haia so to the point that my
colleague Mr Garcia brought up about the kids walking to school and riding bik to school my sons went to miam Leake Skate Center and they had the privilege of of writing back to school however to the point that um that Mr um Alonzo said there's a lot of kids that come from out of the jurisdiction if there's a study
that we can do to see how many are within those and maybe through a possible recognition program through the town we can entice those children that live within a half a mile radius to a school to walk and and Bike to School um with regards to the Staggering of the
hours that is an idea that that that that I fully support and for those kids I wonder which percentage to the study that that we should do to see how many students have siblings in the school that are released at you know at the same time and leave home at the same time maybe those kids can enroll in those after school programs that you
were expressing the middle schoolers maybe leave 40 minutes or 50 minutes after the elementary school students and those students stay in those after school programs for an hour maybe be for tutoring to catch up on homework things of that nature so just to fill that Gap and that way that parent has one pickup instead of having to go and and come back around but different ideas that we
can come up with and try to to alleviate the situation for the traffic is something that I that I fully support and anything that we can do as a joint agreement with the county you know I'm more than happy to to to back but thank you for coming here tonight I promise it was it's not the intention of keeping you here for this long I'm I'm always
ready thank you thank you thank you Mr holl okay council member Garcia and then council member hburg thank you Mr Alonzo uh as they said uh for being here today um what I'd like to share is something that came to my
mind why don't we uh Mr Mayor set up a sunshine meeting and go out there personally put our feet on the ground in that school and talk uh have a meeting with Mr Alonzo and the principal uh of
the of the school and and and go there personally and see what's actually happening uh and see if we can come up with something new I know that we've we've thrown many ideas uh some of them have helped some
of them have not worked but let's go out there physically and and go out there and and and see what's actually happening I mean I have ideas the major has great ideas we have a lot of talent people here let's go out there in
person and and see what's going on I think that would be a great idea so AB absolutely the as this building is the people's house the schools belong to the residents of Miami Lakes and the council I've been there with the mayor in the past I've been there in the past with councilwoman Rano
um so happy to take any of you on a tour of the school um we can be there at this missile or arrival time um and definitely experience what it is that it feels like um and kind of see what goes on within the operations of the school always happy to host you there very good
so we'll work on that hey council member hburg thank you Mr M thank you again for being here I guess my my only question is I've been hearing we've been hearing about this for a while uh residents have been talking to this Council this one and prior for a long time I think we
have enough time now if we get action that we can get get a new plan in by next school year right there's enough time for that we can have a commitment to all of us the school board this the school to that come next school year we will have a something that should be
changed and works for us absolutely I mean if there's if there's a plan if there's something that can be done we Now's the Time to do it we still have time to work through it and really think through the ideas um but like I I said you know number one especially when we're making any changes to the patterns everybody knows I'm a
straightup person um I don't sugarcoat things um the safety of our children is number one so we will first make sure that the safety of our children with any traffic pattern changes inside of the school property are going to be our top priority and then we'll work together with that I think doing a study of the demographics of the school especially to
be able to understand what a staggered dismissal time and arrival time is going to look like is important um there's also State legislation that's going into place now that we're actually um working to try to stop which is to change this the start times so you guys might see a lot more traffic coming to your neighborhoods pretty soon because um
they're changing the high school start times to start the same time as our elementary and middle schools and that was a law that was passed by the state um so we're requesting that that be changed and not be changed and stayed the same way it is because otherwise we will have every single School in Miami
day County and throughout the state with the same start time um so you know those are those are things that we have to understand and you know we can advocate here we talk a lot about transportation we have a lot of requirements that come from the state and the federal level on our buses and where it is that we get
reimbursed and where we don't um so we always work and try to navigate as much as possible to accommodate families um but I will say that um traffic might not get better it might get worse um if the state requires us to actually enact the law that was already
passed the law was passed we're asking for more time um because you would see Barbara Gan HML and American arriving at the same time as ourc through a centers as well as our middle schools and our elementary schools but as I said at the beginning
we're here to work together I'm a resident of the Town um my sisters work at both schools the K througha and Bob Graham um so I'm always available to visit the schools I visit schools on a weekly basis I'm boots on the ground I don't govern from downtown Miami I
govern from the city of haia and the town of Miami Lakes which are the cities that I represent so happy to go to the school I've been there with the major multiple times um been there with several of you elected officials and I'm happy to go back out there and continue the brainstorm to see what's the best way that we can go in order to alleviate
this uh congestion that we have in front of the school thank you Mr School Board member as always uh for your time and and uh addressing uh our residents as well as the council and we'll be in touch soon thank you so much major Gonzalez uh to finish your report thank
you um as for the crime report uh we continue with the high visibility on midnights traffic enforcement details for the uh month of January um we've had a 60% reduction and you see in the police report of total crimes um we're
down on robbery minus one minus 9 on thefts Larson is over um Auto thefts we were down two and aggravated assaults we were down one um and also on vehicle burglaries um last January for the month
of January in 2024 we had 13 and this year in January we had five so we had a significant reduction on that too um and uh with that I open up for any questions Mr vice mayor not a a question
but just a request through the chair uh that major Gonzalez please submit the portion of earlier portion of your report relating to uh Bob Graham into uh the town manager so that it could be included as part of the record yeah I I have it it it was prepared in response
to a question the mayor asked and then I'll share with the entire Council after today and that it just be included as part of the record of this meeting anyone else in the council wishing to speak on the report through the chair I just want to thank you again for I mean the numbers speak for themselves uh amazing job that
that you do with with with the team and um it's good to see that the residents are here usually this report uh and thanks to vice mayor and and and the council that we moved it up which I think is a good idea because you get to hear uh since most of you are here in
the beginning of the meetings the incredible job that our police force are doing on on a daily basis to keep you safe so thank you again sir thank you uh major for your time and again thank you to all your officers okay next we are uh pursuing to the amended order of business we are now on
item 14k which was offered up by council member or vice mayor Mora use of council chambers for nonprofit event thank you Mr Mayor uh I'm going to have uh Mr maitz aosta uh come up to the podium if he can
just to explain this event uh just so you understand uh there's a resolution uh Town resolution 15-1 1325 which in the interpretation of the Town manager uh requires this Council to vote on approving this event I firmly
disagree uh but nonetheless I am asking the council to approve the use of council chambers for this uh nonprofit event and uh Mr MTZ and Miss PTO are going to uh briefly describe the event um and why it's great for it to be happening at our Chambers you're
recognized thank you through the chair and thank you Mr Mayor Mr vice mayor uh council members and then thank you to Mr Garcia as well for recognizing Haley earlier Marissa Costa a founder and executive director for truth and populo 15477 6 Northwest 77th Court Miami Lakes
Florida where student Le 501c3 nonprofit uh based here in Miami Lakes we do a lot of work in Miami hiia um just all of Miami County in general uh we're here today asking for permission to use the chambers on March the 18th in the morning um we've used these Chambers multiple times on multiple occasions for
many events um and this is the first time we've had to seek Council approval but that's totally okay and we're here very happy to do that the event uh we have a sponsor coming down um Etna Better Health of Florida the insurance company subsidiary of CVS uh they're
sponsoring one of our programs and they're flying down their corporate leadership to Miami to give us a check presentation so the CEO of Etna Better Health of Florida will be coming on March 18th as well as a lot of their Executives um and I think their media consultants are working on maybe getting
some media out here some elected officials um of course all of you guys would be invited uh so would just be about an hour and a half I know you guys have a council meeting that morning so we'll make sure to be out of here uh that afternoon uh we'll make sure to be out of here uh with plenty of time for
staff to set up the room however uh need be I think it's at 11:00 a.m. will probably be out by 1:00 p.m. uh we just need a space to host the CEO of Etna Florida um and their Executives thank you thank you and congratulations by the way Haley I'm sorry I missed the the presentation of the certificate but
congratulations um Mr vice mayor yeah and with that said again I think that it's a no-brainer to allow this event uh I mean the fact that they may be bringing uh highle CEO as well as potential media exposure is great for our town uh there are there's literally
no negative to this um and so with that said I will move uh to oh and I realized after the fact I didn't include the date in my actual new business item so uh March 18th which is the date of our March council meeting however uh it does not conflict uh and I already checked
with the Town Clerk and our staff there is nothing going on in town hall on that day uh so and actually as of right now there's already a hold on the town calendar uh for this event in the event that it gets approved so with that said I will move for the item to be approved
I'll second it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion on this item I just have one question council member Sanchez March 18th is a school day is this already something that has been approved by the by the the region correct I mean this is not a this is not
a school affiliated event so it yeah it's fine on our end okay okay okay with that said there being no further discussion all those in favor say I I approved no the eyes have it the motion carries congratulations Mr Mayor vice mayor
Council we are now on item 8 committee reports beginning with 8A special needs Advisory board report you are recognized you can all come up don't be shy Madam
chair good evening Council council members um Madame clerk uh town man manager Town attorney residents everybody I am the new
chair of the special needs Advisory Board um I'm back um I want to start by thanking John Roger for being our chair for the past couple of years he did a wonderful job and he will be missed um
uh I want to welcome uh one of our new members Kimberly trellis we're very happy to have her and um we have a couple of our OG's here Jesse and um
glat um just to give you a little update of what we've been up to the past six months since we last uh did a report uh we're continuing with uh the dance class with arts for autism uh that's for children
um an adults and it takes place every Saturday at 11:00 a.m. and at 12:00 p.m. at the Mary Collins Community Center I welcome you all to come visit anytime it's a lot of fun um they did perform at the Main Street Festival of Lights again
this year um we also continue to offer the contactless martial arts program at the youth center on Mondays and Wednesdays we had a success uccessful two semesters of an animation program
for adults um we're going to have a new semester uh coming up in May uh we continue to sponsor uh hope for autism's fashion show and holiday party we had our first sensory friendly
movie in the town of Miami Lakes the Garfield movie over the summer um we hosted a fall picnic for special needs families with um card at Veterans Park this year here um we also sponsored a
cooking class at GG's Playhouse uh we recently had our annual P Painting with a Twist event um and I want to thank uh councilman Sanchez and his lovely wife for coming to the event um it was a nice way of getting to know
you and I I look forward to getting to know all the new council members so for future plans um we want want to add a sensory Park feature to one of our
Parks um so we're going to be meeting with Jeremy U to go over some ideas um we're also going to be doing workshops for special needs families we're going to have our annual April
resource fair with arts for autism we will continue to support and partner with local organizations and service providers advice the town on inclusive practices for all events um we're planning on having our
4th of July sensory friendly room at Mary Collings Community Center again this year um we're also looking into doing a car wrap uh one of the Town Cars
um with some type of like inclusive message um um and um oh I already said that we expanded our uh program from Mondays and Wednesdays of the karate class if you don't have any questions
that concludes our report well thank you for your report and all the hard work that you all do so good to see so many familiar and new face um with that I'm going to turn over to my colleagues who would like to speak first may I saw council member herzberg's hand go up then we'll go to council member Mora and
then to council member Sanchez pardon vice mayor Mora thank you mayor and thank you all for for all the work you do congratulations on becoming chair again thank you um so the only question I have here is uh what's your again I don't know how far Advance
you get going on it obviously you've always been funded through the gala that's still progressing you guys go start working on um working on planning in that and you know obviously there's a a different uh Administration I know uh pre previously you worked a lot with the
mayor off mayor consist so just keeping that cuz I didn't see that here as like okay hold on I want to make sure you guys continue to do that it's a great event and obviously of course it also funds your your committee which is important absolutely we're looking forward to working with the new mayor's
office and his assistant um in planning the gala okay Mr vice mayor or or sorry sorry council member hbur you had to follow up okay uh okay Mr vice mayor and then council member Sanz first and foremost I think it's great that you have a whole Squad up here uh you know
it's it's always good to see when a chair is backed up by her members uh it's probably a testament to your leadership as well as the unified mission that is advancing special needs so thank you guys for being here um as for my comments on the report number one
how's attendance uh in your meetings um a lot of times in these reports we do get a report on attendance and I know that that's a butt an issue right now are you guys having any issues meeting Quorum or with members being absent or anything like that we're not having any issues beautiful that's great to hearet
Quorum again it's it's probably due to the unity of the mission statement of your committee so that's also a testament to the dedication of your members um as for the S the sensory Park feature I do want you to know that I am aware of the issue uh I did work a little bit with John please feel free to
reach out to me and use me as a resource on the Das side of things if anything that if there's anything that you guys need uh to that regard from us come to me I'll put it on on an agenda um and then I just just throwing this out there the car WP idea there is an item by
council member hburg um with regard to renovating some of our uh fleet vehicles and I think it would be a great thing if uh if the staff finds that it is feasible to do so and replace some of our vehicles with new vehicles to wrap
some of those vehicles in something like this uh that's all for me thank you so I was at the event and I have to say the turnout was what not what I expected from historical turnouts across town events it was a great turnout you
can tell that the kids were having fun the parents it was a good bonding experience you know between the the parents and their kids it's just an experience outside of the house so I applaud all the efforts that you're putting forward and um and to to resonate what the vice mayor said anything that that we can do to help you
we're here to help you because special needs is is often a category that is is is left you know to to you know to to The Blind Side but it's very prevalent in a lot of lives um and it's it's good to introduce an inclusive environment for special needs so I applaud you and
we're here to support you in any way that we can thank you so much I also want to thank uh officer Amador he's our honorary member oh he stepped out well it's I want on the record any other members of the council
uh council member Garcia thank you mayor um I really like this sensory Park feature um you know trying to see if we can try to get a sponsor for that uh you know Ana coming March 18th to event here so it's a good time for us to hit them up for for sponsorships or if not the
county and Grant programs through the state uh to help I know Jeremy's going to work with you with that and through our grant department uh Mr manager I think there should be some grants available for for that and I know uh councilman hburg has a an item about the
pocket Parks but uh yeah absolutely you know if we can add more sensory um amenities to all our park or not all our parket pars but certain Parks spread out you know throughout the town yeah yeah sprled throughout the town I mean that's an amazing idea and uh I know a lot of
kids are very intimidated with all the noise and and all the activities going on sometimes you just need a quiet space and yet still be able to enjoy the outdoors right so thank you so much it's a great idea thank you any other uh members of the council wishing to address the committee council member
Fernandez just again I'll I'll picking back on what my fellow council member said thank you all for serving I know that a lot of times it's a thankless job but but we appreciate it and I I was talking to you folks earlier and I I mentioned that uh that it just um
volunteering is what makes the town great so thank you that's it thank you well thank you all for your time and actually Council before we continue on to item 8B the Public Safety Committee report um I just remember that
I need to reopen a motion to reopen the order of business related to the cultural Affairs and uh Economic Development Committee sponsorship for Main Street Live is there a motion so moved second all right it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it the
agenda is open again uh with that um I would ask for their uh or rather I'm going to go ahead and move that we add as item do it toward the end because it's more ministerial uh let's say uh 14 L related to that again this
is the cultural Affairs or Main Street Live event between cultural Affairs and economic development so I'll mark Main Street Live and one second because I I it also came to my attention that there was another motion that needed to be included at some point here so we'll
make that one 14m um that would be a to light up uh Town Hall blue for Autism Awareness Month so again so my my motions unless anybody else uh has anything else to add would be 14 L which is the uh formal approval of the Main Street Live event
and 14m which is uh to light up town hall in blue in honor of Autism Awareness Month which is uh in March I'll second those April oh pardon me April so so the the for April my apologies yeah okay so for April um with
that said anyone else have something to add or okay it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say I all oppos no the have it and we now have items 14 L and 14 and with that Public Safety Committee you guys are up 8B
all right uh mayor Town Council Town management I promise uh special advisory I'm not showing off okay got the whole crew today if you all don't mind we have a special presentation uh before we give our report if um possibly I can have the council step down uh to recognize
someone today um should be fairly quick members uh please join me at the well Chambers okay where they going they're going to come right here oh nice and while they walk down we're going to this this all this event is actually
for Mr Omar Gonzalez so we love to have him come up with his lovely family yes so um Cathy Gabriel everybody come on up so we are here to recognize Omar
Omar is um not just a resident but a committed uh one at that uh he he served on our committee the Public Safety Committee for over 22 years all right
so you know we'll have to talk to Google to get you on a on a search engine but Kathy gave me all this information um you so he started in 2002 shortly after we got Incorporated um imagine at that point barely had a budget if any and uh there was monthly recognitions that were
going on for police officers and Omar would take the money out of his own pocket for these recognitions um Public Safety is not where he stopped he continued serving in the veterans uh committee well it eventually became a committee uh but he
is still today has his whole family involved even his brother that drives from all the way in Broward County to help with the veterans committee to make it a success and we know the entire Miami day County looks at us for a successful parade so this is just a
little token of the appreciation that we have this was brought up by Vice chair Nancy Rogers and I'm so glad she did you deserve this honor and we're just giving you a recognition plaque and everyone here to celebrate you thank you Omar all right we'll take a quick photo
and then noar can say a few words if you like I'm sorry let's make this very quick there all right 3 us tell us about little thank you I really appreciate it everybody and uh see you next
time short and sweet no we're good thank you Council thank you you know while you all uh uh walk back up uh just wanted to recognize uh some of the folks that make this uh committee successful actually I think lisis Lopez is actually the second
longest serving member right you are oh actually I'm sorry yeah yeah Mr paa is uh then comes Lewis but you know I'm I'm lucky to to serve with with these folks uh Mr Pena actually was is is retired from law enforcement over 25 years of service Nancy also known as Mama Nance
has been around the town for very long and known by everybody um you know John Carlo um just joined us recently he's he's extremely involved in the town uh lucky to have Lieutenant villin cencia Darwin you know from the fire department and police officer actually so he wears
two hats um and we have Johnny Torres which has been nothing but great uh to have on this committee and really teach me the ropes from being involved um in leadership so nonetheless back to business okay so yep we we can
stay absolutely thank you so um first and foremost I wanted to uh thank uh several people that make this committee uh successful and um I want to thank uh those that actually took the time out of their busy days to meet with me recently uh to teach me the ropes I just recently
uh became chair of the committee uh thanks to the support of the overwhelming um you know my members I want to thank uh Peterman clarisel Isle Isabella uh Chief vamas from the fire department uh the sheriff uh major Gonzalez who was sat with me the other
day uh for for some events Sergeant SoDo detective Nevis and the most famous police officer or Sheriff um in the town Mr Amador so nonetheless sorry Gonzo he is pretty so um but nonetheless so we um
this is our our B biannual report um as you all know and and you know some of the things that really are are needed you know for our committee is some changes with with budget now obviously we're not asking for more funds but just different
allocation of of funding so essentially you know the way the line items break out now in our budget there's only like three line items so essentially we're asking for a breakout which is presented in you all included in the agenda and you know these are events that for the most part have been uh you know we've
been part of in the past some of them are new like we we did the 911 memorial event last year annual plaques has been something that we do uh every year to recognize those from the Sheriff's Office and from the fire department um and then there's some new ideas um that
we're um asking support uh for in this allocation uh which is you know going out and representing the committee and our different um Endeavors during the year at lunchin at the Miami Lakes chamber lunchin that's been a great audience to to uh reach to the business
owners in this community and it's been growing thankfully to the casamayor and Fred SRA you know have done an exceptional job and and really building up that that that group and essentially we have some things going on um you know that we've worked on like the public uh service announcement that we did for 305
for police currently being modified to add you know some of the sheriff's logo on it uh you know we we get unfortunately or you know the the sheriff's department gets uh complaints of issues that happen that are never reported uh so we're trying to really push a 3054 police uh number I I
personally have seen a tremendous impact since we put out that PSA I've had people all across town west east that have you know really been using it uh to report the three EX examples that we've talked about in that PSA then um essentially we would like to uh create a
a budget neutral item for uh sponsorship for any type of the events that we go through um and some of the ones that you all are aware of that you most of you have attended and I thank you for your support had been coffee of a cop which obviously the uh is steered by the sheriff's department but we work in
partnership with them um you know and then there's some some new things that you know obviously we have in mind uh but before before I I get into those new things one something that also has been very welcoming from our accomplishments has been the the uh tokens uh that we've
uh the coins that we've given out the challenge coins which has been uh very well received by the folks in the Sheriff's Office and the fire department that eventually will change as well to include the sheriff's logo on there um and that's also going to be used for uh recognizing children in schools or other
folks in the town that give to their neighborhoods you know we all have our our um neighborhood uh let's call them Watchdogs that start off you know the group chat and making sure that things are being reported amongst neighbors and and those people that deserve some recognition via these challenge coins on
some of the children in school that are recognized for doing the right thing um I know that's something that's a program right now that hopefully we get to be more involved with in the future but nonetheless those are the the budget items uh we we have uh done the uh 9913
we did a uh recognition or appreciation launch better said where we went to both station 64 and station one thank you to uh Lieutenant Darwin that uh helped out with that um that um you know uh initiative to uh pretty much lunch on us uh to you know all the folks that that
give back in the police department uh so essentially um you know we we also uh did I think some of you attended the uh January lunch in at the Miami Lakes chamber where we um brought in someone from the non for-profit uh to talk about human trafficking unfortunately it's
it's a big problem here in Miami day County we leave the state in it um and that brought some awareness to that and we we look forward to doing um other campaigns like that the remainder of the year so future in in in perfect segue to discuss about you know plans that we
have for the for the rest of the year we met actually Darwin and I with um I think uh uh Chief Boline back in November and we got overwhelming support um from that shift um Chief about doing a uh copy of a firefighter which has
kind of morph now into I guess coffee of AIC and I think the mayor is going to do something like that uh tomorrow but you know I was uh pretty much uh you know told that I had to ask you all for this partnership with the fire department I mean they give so much to our community and uh we feel that this is going to
this will be an excellent opportunity to get residents out there I mean there was been some ideas of maybe doing like a coffee at the actual station um give an opportunity for the residents to see I mean station one is you know is is really you know a monument I mean it's really a great station be here so long
but station 64 is absolutely gorgeous and you know we thought that might be a great idea to actually have residents see that station uh that serves so many people not just in in Miami Lakes but those are on the expressway as well now the plans for the remainder of the year
um include uh PSAs again uh there'll be plenty we've been talking about you know some ideas and then you know we we have also I'm working with uh with major Gonzo to get U hopefully get back into the swing of things with a crime watch program I know it's very active down at
uh at headquarters to see how we can Implement that um you know uh in in our town of Miami Lakes for for different HOA areas and and in our our streets and one of the things that you know we're asking for um you know assistance with
or support for is again if you look at our budget our biggest line item goes to the police or Sheriff's Office and the fire department and um a lot of the times you know these folks are so busy they don't get to interact with our residents so we thought that it would be
a good idea um to have a car show that features uh both police or Sheriff's Office and the fire department and some of the conversations we've had with officer Amador and some of the folks in the fire department this would be like
almost like a career day at a car show so imagine a big parking lot a section will be uh broken off uh to Showcase their equipment so the bad equipment that the sheriff's office has and and obviously the fire trucks that the the fire department has and this would be a
vehicle for us to bring up more campaigns to get uh more people involved with perhaps like CPR training which is you know something that Pena has has mentioned uh to discuss uh 3054 police we're going to beat that in the head until we can anymore because people need to use it it works um you know to talk
about building the community via a neighborhood chats um and and different initiatives that you know um are going on in our town that we need help from the public and car shows draw public Roberto Alonzo board member was here earlier he does a great car show in
April this would be something that does not fear interfere with his car show this would be something that we have an idea for October um and it again will will speak of a great platform for for our town to Showcase what we spend our our hard-earned tax dollars on and uh
we're looking for your support um I now uh turn this over to the council for any questions thank you Mr Mayor Mr vice mayor Mr Andre you had some comments yeah I just want to real quick and it's something that came up at the last um chairperson's uh quarterly
meeting and and it's the idea that when uh committees have new projects that they want to pursue or projects or events or what have you that they would come to the council for approval of new projects and I and as I told the committee chairs and I think I told
Carlos when he and I met uh oneon-one is that 99 times out of 100 is going to be a rubber stamp right so long as it fits within the mission that the committee um was created for the council's going to endorse it once in a blue moon there's going to be something that they're going
to pitch that the council's not comfortable with and that's what I told them that was the purpose of this formality and really what is what it is just a formality pitch the idea get your guys to approve new ideas or new projects or uh events that they want to uh and and that's similar in the same
vein is why Felicia was asking to for that approval for the main street life thank you Mr manager on the subject of rubber stamps I'd like to move to approve the uh new event type of coffee with a medic by the Public Safety Committee I'll second I'll
second all is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it the motion carries and uh Mr chairman as a quick now that it's an approved event can you please give the
public as well as the council a quick reminder of our event where when time exactly uh of this event that we're planning okay tomorrow right um well well the event tomorrow just to provide context a a representative from mayor
Daniela LaVine kava's office who's a mam resident reached out to me and propos this this item um I went ahead and have my assistant you know let the the Le on 4 Public Safety know that we'd like to plan this this month and then we will go ahead and um you know and and would like
their collaboration a they as it turns out they were thinking of their own similar event so in terms of the event tomorrow this one's just really just between directly between myself and uh mayor Daniela line kava's office if they want to uh I'll put them in cut in touch
with Chris if they want tomorrow so that they can utilize that resource they're willing to cover the expenses and everything so it takes it off our pocketbook so um so I'm more than happy to work with them to get them in contact with Chris uh Garcia so that they can you know have that moving forward and
that way it's something off our books so perfect thank you for the clarification and then uh through the chair to the town manager do they also need an approval of this car show yes sir okay um I'd like to move to approve this IDE this uh event idea for a car show in the
fall uh to honor as you put it cops police sheriffs and firefighters um here in the town of Miami Lakes I'll second it's been moved in seconded is there a discussion very brief discussion and it's when is cars for a cure it's
usually April April okay so so fall does not interfere with that at all that was my only concern well and pardon me since I stepped out a second but um is there a cost Associated to the town with this or okay so the the actual cost of this this is why I I would like uh my report
States the sponsorship you know up you know on here because I do feel that you know this could be something that will uh be supported by sponsorship it's a great opportunity for you know many folks to to sponsor now what ends up happening here is that the budget that
you see in front of you is for this fiscal year so more than likely I will have to go back in the summertime or before this event and provide if for the next fiscal year which is October 1st what would be the cost cuz I don't have that cost right now but from what I
understand we're being supported by both departments Sheriff's and and the fire there will be a cost with some of the Command Staff that will have to come in on the weekends overtime right um so that has to be considered but then also
the other items where um it's still debatable you know what is it going to cost uh besides the OT I feel that everything else should be pretty much you know self um you know uh I guess funded because if you have vendors that
are coming in to do food a food truck or anything like that that's going to be on them you know and those will be picked those will go through a process through our committee well we approve them um so uh to answer your question I we don't have a cost at the moment okay so for myself I'm going to
be a no at this moment until we get more information a special needs Advisory Board knows you know I tend to like uh having a lot more information up front before approving new events um especially esecially when it's going to involve a new cost to the town so a so I I understand this is just the
authorization and more than likely we'll have a better discussion in the summer but then that's when I think perhaps we should take it up at least for me but I have a feeling that there might be support just to approve it anyway but just wanted to provide uh context for my vote now on the record before uh the
vote is there any other discussion uh council member hbur last word for me thank you Mr Mayor uh first I I think the event's a great idea uh especially if it's something on the weekend kids will come know my I know my son would love the fire trucks um I share the same
concern I think maybe I would say we should approve it subject to it being at zero cost uh I I don't know what type of PR budgets the fire department and Sheriff Department have this is a PR event for them this is good for them good for the town good for the
Departments I don't I again look into the cost and I agree a lot of the costs should be sponsored um I want to approve it so you guys can go go but I don't want to tell you 100% the money's going to be there cuz we just don't know it's going to be there unless you come and tell us don't worry we got
this company this company sponsoring it we're good to go then then I you're obviously I don't think you're going have an issue getting that approved if you want to profer that as an amendment I would I would amend that we approve it subject to uh the committee coming back to us uh when they
deem fit hopefully over the summer uh confirming if they need money or if it's going to be uh budget neut second it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion on the amendment through the chair was that the council member Sanchez right yeah just two questions um
site for the car show do you have a projected site as to where you would want to hold it we there's been some preliminary conversations obviously we have to figure out what the soccer um you know schedule is like Roy Oaks Park has 220 parking spaces um west side of
Miami lak has a lot of commercial buildings there's been some conversations Within the committee possibly one of those parking lots on the West Side okay um but I do um also before I go into the second question councilman we do have $2,400 which is an
appreciation lunch okay that that lunch could potentially be scrapped for the next fiscal year and be used for the car show so yes I do understand you need clarification I totally get it and you will you will get it but this is more than anything to start the process to get information and come back with more
information okay your second question and just as a suggestion because I'm very involved in the car for the C car show and I was involved in the you know in the in my latter years of the the reindeer run is fund the car show cure is a fundraising event where the funds from that car show are donated to um for
for child cancer research they fundraised through many different ways like sponsorship and things like that but also the cars that are participating have to pay to participate in the car show they just don't drive in and pull in so that's could be another funding source where you have let's say 100 cars at two $20 a
car is $2,000 that you're able to fundraise that very same day that's how you know car work here does and even for the reindeer run you have to pay to participate in the reindeer run so that is you know a a source of fundraising for you no I I appreciate it and you know again as a as a neighbor and and a
friend thank you so much I I I look forward to hearing any of your feedback because I know you all have done this before um including Town management anything that I can use for this process and planning would be greatly appreciated he is there any other discussion on the amendment itself again the amendment
being uh to approve subject to confirmation that there is no cost to the town that was the amendment through the chair council member Garcia on the amendment as far as the amendment I'm I'm going to be a no for now because I I and making it absolutely zero cost to the town I don't think we do enough for
the firefighters honestly and I think a little bit of cost I want to keep it open maybe nothing crazy but if if if we need to pitch in a little bit besides the SP we don't know how things are going to happen with sponsorship it's the first time you do it maybe you don't get the sponsors you need maybe you don't get the participation you need but
um so I'll be a no on that because I think I still I'm open to a little bit of money coming from the town not too much but if we need to because I think the firefighters deserve something like that I don't think we do enough so I'll be a note on the amendment however I'll be a yes on the the original uh the
original um item any other discussion just on the amendment seeing none Gina uh Madam clerk please call the role okay on the Amendment council member Fernandez yes council member Garcia no
council member Quadra Garcia no council member hburg yes council member Sanchez yes vice mayor morera yes mayor Diez yes the amendment passes now on the main motion and now we're back on the main
motion is there any further discussion on this uh item I believe the vice mayor wanted to close but yes just oneck manager Petman more of a comment and it goes to the uh the Mr uh chair Andres which is uh items like moving money
around within your budget we just got to make sure that before the council you bring it to the council for approval that that's something that your committee uh has taken a formal vote on and and so forth uh yes Mr manager actually it's part of our report that we want to put a budget neutral item on there for sponsorship because I I I and
something else man I'm I'm learning but um the I know I think I want to say I said that Baptist comes to the table and they want to do sponsorship for certain events at some point in the year so I would like the Public Safety Committee to be part of this conversation yeah no
that's 100% that's good I was thinking about the appreciation breakfast that if you guys want to scrap that event and then put that money towards something else that would have to be first a vote of your committee to uh make that request and then bring it to the council for approval okay all right now the budget is due in April correct for the
next fiscal year here Melissa's not here in the room but just whatever aisle or Melissa advises you yeah I'm Celine okay understood thank you Mr manager uh seeing no other members of
the council wishing to speak I'll I'll turn it over to the vice mayor to close and then we'll vote uh just briefly to say I really appreciate the amendment because that is pretty much the spirit of what I was suggesting uh so I have nothing further to add and and I'd like to call the question
so the main motion as amended yes ma'am council member hburg yes council member Quadra Garcia can you refresh me on that your mic I was uh yes can you the main motion is to approve the event of the car show
in the fall for cops for firefighters and for police officers but it goes hand in hand with the amendment that was just approved which means that they're approving the event subject to it being at zero cost and for the committee to
come back in the future to the council and to explain about it so I uh I support it okay thank you council member Fernandez yes council member Garcia yes vice mayor morera yes mayor Diez yes the
motion as amended passes than congratulations thank you everybody appreciate your support and what you and thank you all from public safety for being here for purposes of the record I am so sorry council member sanches yes oh wow thank you
wow we see how it is again but thank you all from public safety for being here have a good night with that we're now on item 14 C which was proferred by council member Quadra Garcia underpass bridge on 67 you are
recognized to introduce the item thank you Mr uh mayor Mr Mayor um I come before this Council and all my colleagues on this project that it's dear real dear close to my heart every
time I travel underneath this this B this Bypass or this underpath uh I don't know what words to use It's Just DE horrible every single
word in the dictionary so um I've given you guys a a set of picture this was actually a week after it was cleaned we have people underneath that bridge doing
all kinds of things from feces to you name it this is unacceptable when I say unacceptable un acceptable it is a health issue it is a
isort residents shouldn't have to see something like this fdot is constantly constantly coming up with
excuses they are they should be called FD excuses it's not it it shouldn't be tolerable I don't know if any of you have gone out there and seen this so if you have seen this please
let's come up with some type of solution to clean this this is our Gateway the entrance to our town um I have been talking to our manager and he's working on
it um I think that we should reach out to Tom from bro and have him move the needle on this because again fdot everything every time you talk to them
there's an excuse and I will tell you that we should not allow their excuses whether we have to clean it ourselves we have to put something uh and do a cycle that that bridge hasn't been cleaned
in four or five years so if we can throw a little money at it once a year or twice a year I don't know I mean we have we have numerous uh uh people on this on this
town that are uh very smart and have great ideas I need to see what we can do but uh please look at these pictures look at look at the columns on top of of of uh uh i' I've gone over to
areas of uh 27th Avenue where trucks travel and and and ours look 10 times worse so please let's try to come up with some type of solution to clean this the sidewalk is about 5T wide and right
now dirt and grass is encroaching on it so if you tried walking from the fire station over to McDonald's your chances are that you're going to be walking on top of grass in in dirt and not a clean sidewalk can somebody uh tell me what we could do
well I think uh what you remember that the way that things come up for discussion councilman is you have to first move the item right but for that we need to know what action you want us to take are you just seeking to have a discussion with your colleagues uh uh on what we can do or are you giving
direction for example to the manager to come back to us with some proposals yes which one that that one would be the the what you'd like to do then and you'll need to State it for yourself yes is that you want to move to direct the town manager to come back to the council with
ideas on how to beautify the 67th Avenue on the pass go ahead thank you uh Mr Mayor uh basically um I moved to U uh to have our our manager uh come up with some type of idea
to to talk to do to see how we can improve the quality of that underneath Bridge of of of 67 I'll second okay excent is there a discussion yes mayor uh I first heard uh
uh before we well pardon me U Mr manager is it something that's going to clarify the motion or seeking Clarity for yeah yes sir and and it it goes back if you remember that uh count council member Ray Garcia brought this issue to light we had a site visit with council member
Garcia uh STC Miller who is the district secretary from meot and several of her staff members uh uh Senator Renee Garcia the mayor was there uh several some of the other council members were there and we had an on-site visit and the outcome
to that was fot said they understand and they would do a one-time head-to-toe cleaning of the uh area and then they said from that point forward if you want to have something more than what they do which is as council member guad Garcia stated is not
very often right it's several years past between the time when they do these cleanings the roadway underneath there is actually a county and to the best of my knowledge I don't know of any area that the county has litter control similar to what we have so if we want to
maintain it uh and pressure wash it simil to what we do with the4 underpass at the paletto if we want to have litter control uh include that in their routes we can do that it would be at our cost
and uh Public Works director Omar Santos came before the council he got some proposals on so at least of pressure washing and so forth and uh presented it it was presented during the last budget process due to the uh budget situation
that we had it was one of the items that could not be funded uh during the last budget process so we we have a solution obviously there's a cost to it and it's so there is numbers the proposals probably have to be refreshed because they're several months old um but we
have a solution basically fot said if you guys want to do more than what we do then it would be on your dime but there is a solution it's just dollars and cents yeah and it was a yearly cost correct well it would depend on us the
proposal that uh that Mr Santos got was for every time they did it so then and I think it was I don't remember what it was it was over $10,000 so what that uh uh cost would be is every time they do it now we would decide do we want to do
it uh weekly monthly quarterly twice a year once a year what whatever that frequency is the cost doesn't change it's just however uh frequent we want to perform the uh the cleaning got it and uh turning over to my right I forgot who had their hand up first was it
councilman Garcia okay yes so we'll we'll start with the council discussion and then we'll go from there council member Garcia you're recognized thank you mayor and thank you manager and thank you councilman for bringing this up absolutely um just to dovetail what the manager was saying yeah absolutely two years ago we we went through this
process there is a cost um now the other we have an agreement for 154 right that that and that's the 154s looks pretty good uh but I I talked to the manager about that 307 27th looks better right I know the mayor
um through work with with with fot as well brought more uh um uh Landscaping to that area which was terrible um but yeah FDT definitely there's a cost to it the only thing I would ask manager is to see what is and we talked about this earlier what
is Miami Gardens doing or up up the line going east cuz they're they look a lot better than ours they're a lot cleaner they have better Landscaping do do they have an agreement with Miami Gardens or opaka or anything like that if they do maybe we can mirror what they're doing cuz obviously it's working um but yeah
it's it's been a couple years more than a couple years that um that's the ENT major entrance to our town it is it is looking at the pictures that it is not the standards of what Miami Lakes expect when they come into their town so and
the cost was the issue right the last time uh everything cost money however the entrance to our towns guys that is that's the the welcome mat so I would ask my colleagues along along with um
whatever we can do shortterm because garbage accumulates there you clean up 3 days later there's garbage everywhere there has to be a constant we our sfm whoever we use have to constantly be on that that's I think that's on us we're not we can't rely on anybody else for
cleanliness and um fdot should give us the same me you know a deal contract that they have with other towns if it exists and frankly I think we should push FD as much as possible squeeze every single a dime from them because that is their that that is their Bridge
right over the paletto um but unfortunately we're going to have to do our part as well or else that's going to remain the same for years to come and honestly it's going to cost us some money uh but we need to squeeze them as much as possible make sure we get the same deal other municipalities are getting if they are getting it if not
then we have to be a trailblazer and work something out like we do a 154 I'd also like to see more Landscaping I mean the mayor did a good job bringing some Landscaping in but if you notice the other uh 37th 47th their Landscaping is amazing compared to what we have at 67th
so um so I I I agree that we need to to move on this because it's been way too long Mr Mayor uh one more one more thing that I'd like to add wait wait hold on first and foremost if you want to add something at this juncture you you should do it as an
amendment right um but before you do that so that we're not just constantly tacking on items why don't you let everybody else uh say their piece first in case there's something else that you want to incorporate uh at that point okay good but do you want to say anything well again you just presented
the item a council member hburg vice mayor Mora and then uh M council member Fernandez and Sanchez so we'll go from right to left again from the vice mayor on so we have an item on consent calendar 10d uh that deals with our fdot
rways that we that are lands already owned by fdot but managed and maintained by us uh we pay for it they pay us a you know what do we call it a TI a tith of a
tithe thank you um uh it's it's nowhere near enough but it's some form of reimbursement and then when when I was listening to council member Garcia say about squeezing you know fdot I wholeheartedly agree and I think that the way that we do that is actually through that rebate right uh through
adding on this 67th underpass onto the list of fdot um uh managed areas that we maintain uh and get a subsequent reimbursement from fdot and then uh to
to go along with what council member Garcia was saying we squeeze as much as we can out of that reimbursement uh because it is going to be a pretty penny I do agree with council member Garcia and Quadra Garcia that it is a mess it's been a problem for a very long time uh
and that whether it be Out of Towners coming into the town of Miami Lakes and seeing it for the first time the second time or the H hundredth time uh it it is important how your town presents itself when you walk through the door uh and
for the residents it is a welcome home Matt uh and that welcome home shouldn't be these pictures that we're looking at uh so I I do wholeheartedly support the item I don't think that me suggesting that the town manager should look into
this idea of what we have existing under 10B needs to be an amendment to the main motion I don't think it needs that uh I think that the town manager can hear me out and just include it in his uh uh future proposals um but but if it does need that motion let me know and I I'll
make the amendment if necessary yeah thank you mayor I I wouldn't think that we should play or alter the one that's here on the agenda now it would be a separate one right so I appreciate your passion councilman quad Garcia yeah I this is
something that kind of aligns with what I ran with when I when I was running for this seat and um just leveling up our town unfortunately I never I can say this very seldom do I ever get off of 67th in the Palm Meadow to head
southbound so I really don't see it but the pictures are appalling they're it's it's awful so whatever it is that we have to do I I'll support the item okay all right so there's one big word a word that comes to mind jurisdiction so our jurisdiction as a
town ends on 167th the area you're proposing is just outside of that jurisdiction so instead of just going and trying to reach out to FD I think there's other um government agencies that we can also reach out to the officer of commissioner reney Garcia U
since it is a County Road um you know it's it's it's the North and southbound Lanes on 67th so as you're coming south on 67th and coming into the town you're going to see it going north you're leaving out of the town but it's still you know it's if you're not going to do half of it and leave the other way the
the other half looking as as bad as it is so it's you know it's an item that that I support but I think it's not just fdot I think the county should also play a hand in it yeah I'm going to go ahead and opine here as well and um as council member
Fernandez stated a running on beautification was part and parcel of of my platform it was a big part of of my my service to the town right when I started off in neighborhood Improvement my constant concern and council member Garcia knows this has always come down to the cost right with I think at the
time the number that keeps coming back to me and I could be wrong was that yearly at least based on the number of cleanings that we were discussing at that time was something like 70,000 a year uh in in in terms of the cost to the Baseline budget uh that we would have to be T I think it would be less I
think cuz I think it was probably in the neighborhood of about 18,000 Omar right or go ahead go ahead no no let's get let's discuss specifics that that number reason so but that's every time so it would be probably less than 80 or 70
good evening Council Omar s Public Works director so the the number that was presented was a a total of 50,000 but that included multiple uh three cycles of pressure washing essentially all the concrete surfaces except the bottom of the bridge
since dot does not allow us to to do that because of the Integrity it could damage the Integrity of the of the beams and also it included uh Mowing and pump front debris removal along the slopes if we were to only uh look at the pressure
washing not including uh overhead areas as far as the the beams and the barrier wall that's uh roughly a $5,400 per cycle cost and again this are about a year old numbers so they have to
be so again it was 15,000 per cycle right that that was the number back then that we were discussing all in is 6,000 per cycle so 6,000 per cycle and then it was depend on what we elect to pressure wash yeah so this is pressure washing
everything including bringing in uh lifts to do the 6,000 yeah per cycle what we hadent was three cycles for a year that's higher number no pal FRS no mowing no extra mowings of the slopes in the area just so the number I gave you
is just pressure washing okay and yeah I mean well look I we we'll beat it up uh in the future uh you know obviously right now we're we're still trying to find some options but again we have a bunch of mini parks that still need equipment replaced right more recently
I'm sure we also online the slides that were broken and need repair and the list goes on right a to me like every resource that we get uh should go to those Parks first and bring those up to speed before we uh tackle like this project I understand that it's a gateway
to the town but it's just not the same for me at least as4 which is a road that everybody traverses uh right day in and day out my mom and others are constantly in my ear about how uh how faded the town of Miami Lakes logo is under the bridge there um and and I think that is
just you know also another better priority area here and I drive by this all the time right um it just it doesn't have the same level of priority for me especially since a lot of the people aren't really in there for any significant amount of time compared again to those cars that are waiting to
turn left onto paletto etc etc anyway I I'm I'm going to vote uh to approve it now again the direction I think is is uh pretty clear that just for him to for the manager to continue to come back with updated numbers right and then we I'll make a final decision there but I just wanted to put it out there why I'm
a little hesitant right I think like all the money that we get should go first toward a mini parks and then go from you know on from there you know and then before I continue I've also been reliably uh informed that at the most recent uh Transportation uh planning
organization meeting uh in which commissioner Garcia sits there was an item funded or approved it's called the step study for complete streets features and it says the step study which focuses on recommendations for implementing
complete streets features along Northwest 67th Avenue West 12th Avenue from West 74th Street to Northwest 169th Street uh approaching completion we expect to finalize the study in the coming weeks and the executive director bu Eileen Bay will brief Senator Garcia
on the recommendation so in essence this study was uh a combination of both figuring out what the county can do on their end to go ahead and beautify those different entrances there but also make it more pedestrian friendly and also be able to move more cars um and that as I
understand is an outgrowth from council member Garcia's uh item when we had that meeting there under the bridge um so that's coming up um with that I think the vice mayor wanted to add or actually councilman Quadra Garcia you wanted to um uh add to your motion no I wanted to
add that uh this is a safety issue I've I've actually visualized rodents coming out of their sewer system so where are those rodents going they're going into McDonald's they can be going over to the fire station they could be going
anywhere so it is beyond uh uh Aesthetics or the facade it's safety now that we're talking but if they're coming out of the sewers we don't have responsibility for that no I understand that but just so you know what is actually going on in that area I understand but you know pressure
cleaning it for example I don't think that's really going to solve the road issues I I agree just wanted to add to it but but you did say that there was something you wanted to add on to uh your motion so I'm just you know that was it it was the the issue of the the rodents in the area understood okay and
vice mayor just a a final recommendation to the town manager while he uh assesses the possibilities is also sponsorship uh you know we we feel like we come back to that a lot but this is something that can be Tastefully done uh through it
would be a large scale uh sponsorship uh where a very small uh you know you would have something like what you have at 154th where it says Miami Lake's very large and then somewhere off in a corner it says beautification proudly provided
by and just to name one you know TD Bank whoever right and something like that could actually pretty much pay for almost this entire thing and then they're guaranteed that's going to be up there for years with their name on it I mean we we just have to be very careful because the last thing I I would want is
for us to have to take it over if the sponsorships stop at any point but but I see what you're saying yeah yeah that's why I said it as a a one-time large donation sufficient to pay for doing it uh at for a significant period of time yeah no no I get it and and again those
Ms get dirty again I get calls I get about the one 154 is a is a big proof of that with that said is there any other discussion on this item okay with that all those in favor say I I all oppos no no oh pardon me was
me just repeating what what you need to say yeah um so with that the eyes have it the motion carries congratulations council member Quadra Garcia I think that's your first item passed right or yeah so congratulations we're on 14b now proferred by council member Sanchez uh
you recognized to present the item thank you so 14b is a volunteer initiative that I I I really spearheaded during the time of of my nomination and spoke to Residents about in the town of Miami Lakes we have
a lot of events we have you know 12 committees every committee has at least one event a year where volunteers are needed over the summer a little bit more background on this over the summer my my oldest son is now in high school in order to graduate high school volunteer hours are are requirement I believe is a
minimum of 75 hours for college applications is much higher some colleges are even requiring a th000 hours to get accepted into a school over the summer I reached out to town staff to see if there were any volunteer opportunities as I was growing up there were volunteer opportunities you know in
other municipalities and parks and schools and I was told that there was nothing available this is meant for the kids for the students to give them an opportunity with the events that we already have in town to create a bridge where the Committees can say we have these Vol
these events coming up with volunteer needs which right now they're having a difficult time finding volunteers and the students so do a a basically an agreement that I I informally already have an agreement to with with the office of Robert Alonzo to say yes our
students will be able to participate it induces Civic engagement and induces Vision into what our town does I realize what my was was at 14 years or 15 years old when I started coming to town and seeing what it was and it motivated me to to you know to to one day live in the
town but Additionally the most popular event for the veterans committee is the Veterans Day Parade I hate to say it because I'm a veteran but the veterans to parade isn't as popular as it is because of the veterans it's because of the kids that are participating the marching bands the
scouts the the the the karate schools and the parents come because the kids are there so if we start getting the volunteers of the high schools and the the Junior Honor Society and the Elementary Honor Society that also have requirements for volunteer hours now the parents are going to find out so it has a ripple effect of not just Civic
engagement and getting volunteerism up and running in the town but it has a ripple effect of now our residents finding out of the res of the community events that we have like concerts in the park Fourth of July which obviously Fourth of July is already a big event because a lot of you know residents like
going on to see the the U the fireworks but the more Civic engagement that we can promote the more the residents will know what we have going on in town and not just oh I pay I pay my taxes ad the year and that's that I call it a day they get to realize what those tax funds are being used for so it's just a tip of
the iceberg this volunteer initiative with what I hope to be a really good ripple effect to Civic engagement okay so that is your motion is there a second I'll second it's been moved in seconded any discussion who who was the the primary second stepen okay so I I'll defer to
council member hburg first no I was I'm in support of the mo of the item uh that the Committees can use it I'm sure they they would be interested in it and I I like the idea of centralizing it and allowing it to be the easier it is to get involved the better it is
so okay and then uh Vice May through the chair council member Sanchez is this your first new business item it is well first of all congratulations on picking a good a good issue uh I'm in full support of the item um I I'll be the one to say it yeah it is
for the kids but it's also for our committees who are desperately in need of volunteers um you know whether it be our our countless cultural Affairs committee events our Nic events whatever the case may be or our townwide events
such as the 4th of July uh events Etc um they're they're always needed uh and I think that you bringing this as a great example of why fresh Blood on the council is always a great idea because it's frankly a simple thing uh and you just brought it up so uh congratulations
on our first item that the temperature in the room sounds seems like it's going to pass um so congratulations thank you thank you mayor well I got to hear a lot of it while um before he was appointed by by our mayor so I got to hear a lot of the
details and and you know how I felt I thought it was a great idea so I'm in full support thank you any other comments going once going twice okay all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it the motion carries congratulations council member Sanz and
the passage of your first item we are now done with 14b and now we're on the consent calendar is there uh a motion I'll move the consent calendar U moved by vice mayor Mora is second seconded by council member Sanchez all those in favor say I I I I all oppose no the eyes
have it the consent calendar is approved with that where there are no ordinances on first reading or second reading there are no resolutions and we are now on 14a fleet renewal program by council member hburg okay thank you Mr Mayor uh as you
see what I wrote in in the item this is a matter of necessity at this point uh I understand it's not popular spending money on a fleet uh or new vehicles but look at the age of our current Fleet uh they're all 17 18 years old other than
that one that's uh 12 years old from 2013 um so it's something we have to do it's not something we can continue to just oh the money's not there let's that's the first item to scrap it off it has to be done because uh I at the
recent um groundbreaking I saw one of the one of the vehicles of the director first we should not have our employees be driving these vehicles then the exterior is not growing beautifully right let's put it there and it says growing beautifully on the on the trucks
and it's not and the interior is is just growing oppositely beautiful right so it's something we need to discuss it's not something that we need to rush into but it it would be inres irresponsible of us to do nothing so my item is just
to get the town manager to start working on the cost determining what's the best way to do it do we buy do we lease do we do electric do we do hybrid all these this is going to take time to get these answers another thing I also want to discuss is right now our code
enforcement is given uh I think it's $1,000 a month for for two officers right um and they use private vehicles in our 500 each own yeah right so they get a stip in for using their own vehicles I have two problems with that
one which was brought up by the town attorney and and the managers there a little bit of liability issue there and second people are asking well where's code enforcement they're out there no one knows they're out there because they're not in a car that says code enforcement I see Miami day County Code Enforcement everywhere because they're
in their code enforcement cars and you see them so if it's cost neutral or around the same costs and I think given the type of vehicle we could probably use for code enforcement I I'm I'm confident we can get the number around $500 $1,000 a month for two vehicles I that's something else I would want to
look into it's not going to cost more money than we already spend now but I think you'll see improvements I think the residents would prefer it I think it's better for the officers to have it shows a little bit more Authority uh so that's other item so it is it it is about potentially increasing our Fleet
but not increasing the cost of the fleet so second for discussion thank you council member Garcia as the second of the motion thank you so much um just to the to the staff to the manager so um do we buy these outright in the beginning
or do we have we bought them and uh I mean we how did they come into our some of them were purchased some of them like the Crown Victoria was a police hand me down that was probably purchased for a dollar so I think there was a combination of different uh ways that we
acquired these vehicles sure and do you happen to know what the maintenance costs uh or an average of maintenance for for these vehicles now that they're older I don't know it off hand but that would be something that we would report back to you when we if this item passes today in the comprehensive report that
we come back to you would be some look at offsets for what's today's current uh Fuel and uh maintenance cost for these old rundown Vehicles versus what a new one or an electric one or whatever uh would be with an a newer option so obviously these vehicles here have
you're looking at over 100,000 120,000 miles each more than that I would think everything maybe maybe except for the top one on the council member herzberg's list there I think probably all the other ones are in the 100 plus mile range and and you look
at the the years there yeah and we've had them for they're almost 20 years old several of them but but we've had them for is did we get them besides the Crown Vic did we get the the Tacoma the the other ones at the same time 2007 the pickup trucks
were purchased when they were purchased they were brand new uh some of these other ones were so we are in the habit of of you know purchasing these vehicles and using them long term correct that's been The Habit exctly that's been The Habit so I think this is
a perfect opportunity when you do look into this this is exactly what an electric vehicle would be used for they electric vehicles besides not having the the maintenance you know 50% 60% less main actually 90% less maintenance electricity costs we can again we've
been trying to get Chargers here um but they last 3 4 500,000 Mi 600,000 Mi so not once the leases I me once the the purchase price we finish paying for them within six or seven years they're paid for and they're going to last 15 the
same time here we're not going to have those costs anymore so um looking into electric vehicles be a perfect time now because actually owning them for a long time is the best way to take advantage of the cost savings when it comes to maintenance and fuel so lease continue
if we lease every every three or four years we're going to have to continue that lease cost once we pay that lease off or that that that payment off then everything else is gravy we're saving we're saving on on monthly a monthly bill we're saving on maintenance and we're saving on electricity I mean on
fuel cost so I think the the savings over time is a perfect example of why electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle would be the the best choice here so I just want to keep that in mind yeah yeah we're going to look at all of this and present all these scenarios all the funding scenarios you know because we're
you know yes to buy one and keep it for 200,000 mil I'm not there's other other wear and tear items on it sure uh but you know then you have the large Capital outlay up front versus a lease where you can get into more replace more of these vehicles if not all of these vehicles
you know sooner right away you know with smaller upfront Capital outlays so there's a lot of Alternatives we're going to present the whole picture to you and let you guys uh make the policy decision as to which way you want to go and then we'll Implement whatever decision you guys make 100% thank you
and speaking on that note actually where are we with the vehicle Fleet conversion because that that's an older item that I had pushed through uh for the electric vehicles um well we haven't been able to purchase or acquire any new vehicles so it's been a moot point because uh as
council member hburg uh stated you know for the last several budget Cycles we start off behind the apall for a lot of different reasons on the revenue side so when you look at low hanging fruit what's the very first thing the first can we kick down the road is hey let's
not replace any vehicles you could tell my ask my staff it's a conversation we've had since I've gotten here every year we look at it if it's not the transition of the fpnl franchise fee from the county to us is this or some there's a lot of reasons why we
have always been looking for a nibble here a nibble there and this is one of the first nibbles that gets that goes right because it's low hanging fruit we just hey keep the cars for another another year so I think that's what the council member hburg wants to change pardon me how soon can we expect an
updated report then um we were hoping because next month you should have carry forward before you so we were hoping to have something to present to you in that conversation for at least you guys to have an opportunity to consider that for
our first big toe in the water our first uh test to make some kind of an an investment at that time if you decide not to at least you'll have the data to consider during the regular budget process in the summer do you have an estimate of what we're looking at in terms of uh carry forward at this time
not yet sir I I'm hoping that within the next uh couple weeks I'll have a a number to be able to give you got it okay thank you what other members of the council would like to app on this the mayor so the vice mayor's hand go up and uh council member Fernandez you as well yes sir okay so then the vice mayor then
council member Fernandez so when when uh council member herberg first brought up the item I I did want to comment although council member Garcia stole my thumbil um I I really do want to emphasize the opportunity cost I think is the proper
term on this uh of not changing uh at this age these vehicles become extremely costly to to maintain uh they break down uh they're or Worse they're just not getting repaired and they're out of service um and then we are not out there
enforcing our town code uh which then leads to other problems uh so I do want to really emphasize Mr manager uh when that report does come back uh assuming that this item is going to pass um that it really does emphasize how much what
the true cost of these vehicles the current ones are uh in terms of everything maintenance gas the gas mileage on these older cars is abysmal um so let's make sure that that's included so that maybe when we see these
price tags we understand hey well it's not like oh these cars are paid off so they're free they're not um additionally I I do you know uh uh want to point out even if there's a cost associated with this as
there like very likely will be it is a short likely a short-term pain for long-term savings as we uh switch to whether it be electric hybrid whatever the case may be lower maintenance costs Etc but also the town image we've
discussed this on this di several times I will say that the Crown Victoria and the Ford Expedition are embarrassing I'm there's no other way of describing it they are truly embarrassing when they when they pull up
somewhere um and that is something that you can't really put a price tag on it but it it is worth certain investment obviously we need to be cognizant of how we spend our taxpayers money uh and and there's a lot of things jocking for priorities as you'll see on my next item
or a few items down the list but this is something that needs to be given attention and I do look forward to the manager's report council member Fernandez thank you mayor well I'm not going to beat this up I I I think I I support the item
I God bless you I um that we all have to be cognizant of how we're going to spend our our tax money um I I think that image has is a factor when we're going to make decisions like this I I even if there's a little bit of cost to
it and we're not saying that we're going to spend a lot more but if there's if we're we're going to Bear a little more costs and have a newer Fleet I I do know to your point about uh electric vehicles I do know that one of our the the code enforcement officer that actually um
that is uh that we pay a stien for his car is actually uh a Tesla and I think that's that's a great idea if we can save money on that and if if they do last as long as I think some of the the miles that you say they do so I'll support the
item anyone else okay um with that uh all those in favor say I I oppos no the eyes have it the item passes congratulations council member hburg we're now jumping down to 14d vice mayor
Mora all righty there isn't really going to be an action item on this uh I am formally issuing a challenge to Senator Brian Aila representative Tom Fabricio Senator Renee Garcia the mayor
and all of my colleagues On This Town Council and to all of our town staff relating to the 2025 reindeer run the challenge is twofold first I challenge all of the people I previously mentioned I'm not going to rename them to participate in the 2025 reindeer run
this will allow us to lead by example not just in terms of supporting our veterans but also in promoting health and exercise second and by the way before I jump to that second point I need to get back into campaign form uh so so it'll help me uh second I
challenge all of the uh previously mentioned people uh to a fundraising challenge uh which will commence in the months leading up to the raineer run and culminate on the day of the 2025 reindeer run uh when the top three
during which the top three fundraisers will be announced during the event and awarded either some form of plaque or metal or other recognition the proceeds of the fundraising challenge will go to the veterans committee for their initiatives aside from the obvious boost and fundraising that would that this
would provide this challenge would also have the likely effect of increasing overall Runner registrations as elected officials and town staff use their respective platforms whether it be social media or just their their Word of Mouth to promote the event in an effort to win the fundraising challenge for
themselves in the coming months I will work with the veterans committee and the event uh organizers of the of the reindeer run itself the the people who do the timing uh to get the details figured out in the meantime get ready to lace up your running shoes pick out your
Santa hat or reindeer antlers and battle it out for a good cause that's the end of my item so basically uh well I'll just say it challenge accepted so there it is up um all right with that a uh well I guess
anybody else everybody in agreement that we're going to go ahead and try to raise the money and and uh participate for our health and and for our veterans guess I'll start going to the Miami Lakes run club uh runs coming up soon yeah perfect perfect what whatever gets us all there okay and sorry I meant to add this deto
I'm also going to find uh some form of a software uh where the competition would take place so that we can track hey you know uh mayor dieas has fundraised this much uh uh council member Garcia has fundraised this much uh as well as staff
uh whoever wants to participate we can actually get results on that got it okay with that said uh thank you for that challenge uh we're now on item 14e which is council member Garcia's proposal proposal to amend the special Rules of Order to move the manager and
attorney's report before the committee reports council member Garcia thank you mayor um I think today was a good example of um we moved the police report early uh as you can see there's a lot of residents here early during the council
meeting uh toward the end you know people have to go home they have they have work to do they have you know school tomorrow for their kids um I think it would be a good idea following the recommendation of the vice mayor to move the police report I think we should move all the reports to early in the meeting uh even before the committee
reports I I find it to be more useful to have as much information possible to make the uh different decisions we're going to make on on resolution ordinances or or new business items also people watching at home or here in the audience will get the benefit of finding out all this information usually it's
given at toward the end of of of the meeting residents really don't uh are not here to hear it it's very important information the staff um works very hard on developing these reports for us and uh I'd like to see a bigger audience for it so I'd like to try something
different with my colleagues uh approval and move these to uh the beginning of the of the meetings uh even before the committee reports so we have all this fresh information we can ask questions I think it'll help us out in our in our decision- making through through the rest of the of the council meeting with
the different items that's my motion I second it and have an amendment okay well uh it's been moved by council member Garcia seconded by the vice mayor who is recognized to present his Amendment uh I definitely agree with pretty much everything you said my my
one little caveat is there is one of the manager reports that can drag a bit and I don't really think that the members of the audience really care to hear it and it's the infrastructure report uh at least in its current form uh in
discussions with the town manager uh he he actually made a a recommendation that I thought was really good which is that the man the the written report remain exactly the way it is but that when he delivers it he delivers it as a
highlights kind of thing cuz right now he kind of goes down one by one on the items and it does take a while and I could easily foresee how we're going to show up at Council meetings we're going to have public comments and then you're
going to have the police report and then this report before any of these items any of our resolutions ordinances the stuff that a lot of the people show up for before any of that stuff and then then you're just going to have more amendments to the order of business
every single meeting so I do agree with the item but I I would either recommend that the public um what is it um the the infrastructure report be left in the back of the agenda or that it come up
along with everything else but be a reduced uh version that is mainly you know highlights and maybe direct questions from the council through through the is there a second remember that we need a second to to engage in discussion I'll second it uh council
member Sanchez has seconded it you are recognized to discuss the amendment again we're on the amendment only uh right now no need I fully support everything that the vice mayor just stated no need to disc council member gcio I I like the idea of making it a more of a summary but I think this I I
think one of the best reports we have is that uh is that Public Works report because man it is a list of successes I mean constant successes we I wasn't able to attend these last week's uh groundbreakings but it has been one of
the big successes in the town's history uh thanks to you mayor and and former former councils um these projects man they really show that we we listened and we're doing well so I mean highlighting these in a summary base I think is a
good idea in the beginning I think residents should know what a great job the town has done when it comes to to storm water I mean it's one of the bigest success in the history of the town so I would I would be for summarizing it yes having us you know read it before like we all do and have a
summary if we have more questions we can save it to the end of of the meeting so yeah I I'll be for that uh council member hburg did you have anything to say council member cuadra Garcia nothing to add nothing to add can can I ask a question when after the Mr manager Peter
Peterman you're recognized so then I guess what if we're going to move to before committee reports we would just take those two items manager and attorney's report and uh relocate them to before committee reports and then I would probably welcome um an amendment
to this item to reinsert police report and take it out of special presentations and reinsert it in manager's report so it's cleaner and then in special presentations we'll just have if there's a special guest from another governmental entity if we have the Auditors or something of that nature
which was the original intent of those special presentation sections point of order you're recognized to make your point point of order I I'd like to withdraw my motion and bring in a new one incorporating his okay it so shown
the uh the prior Amendment withdrawn and substituted with the comments made by the manager um is there a second you want me to State it that way yeah just to be clear for everybody it's an amendment to the main motion to bring up all of the uh manager report reports
together as one item uh did did you say before committee reports that that's what council member Garcia want Comm uh manager report and attorney's report right before committee reports and together with the police report um and for the infrastructure report to be a
summarized version we'll do yeah if I could second so okay so it's been moved and seconded uh anyone wanted to speak on the new Amendment uh uh um attorney gessi you're recognized yeah for the most part my my reports are
almost always very short or nonexistent for whatever that's worth um just tonights might be a little longer but overall they're usually very very short and hopefully they stay that way a so with that uh just a I do think
that it was a plus to move up the uh Public Safety uh report uh the the Major's report to the beginning of the meeting how I agree though with council member uh Garcia uh that the infrastructure report is actually the other report that I find the most useful for the Public's benefit I think like
reports such as the mamak Optimus club and and even the attorney's report are fine being left behind you know because most people that show up here don't take the same level of interest in in what they're discussing right when those items come up um uh and and as you
pointed out though the other part a problem that we run into when we start tinkering too much with the agenda placement is again we're going to push back the items that people are actually there for meaning our items and the resolutions almost to the back right and and and we're going to constantly have
to be you know making motions to move this item up and that item up so we might have to actually uh rethink how how the agenda is structured but um with that I'm going to support it for tonight with the with the way that the manager uh has stated and that that the vice
mayor has has has taken up again so on the amendment before I call the vote are there any other uh comments or questions on on this item yes mayor council member hburg thank you um I guess the the question I have is what are we only moving infrastructure and Public Safety
and leaving the rest behind or or is it all manager rep to my recollection is we're moving them all together but that the infrastructure report will be summarized okay perfect I just want to know and so there the attorney's report and the manag manager report will be um at the top of the meeting I supposed to
at the at the back of the meeting so with that council member Garcia since he were out do you excuse me council member Fernandez do you have any um uh anything to add to this item go okay got it okay so with that said all those in favor say I I all oppos no the eyes have it the item
passes congratulations oh the amendment pardon me now we're back on the main motion as amended um is there any further discussion on this I think we beat this up okay now again uh all those in favor say I I all oppos no guys have it now the item is is approved
congratulations uh we're now then on 14f private public partnership for Tot Lot and pocket park improvements that is council member hburg thank you Mr Mayor so again just redem what it says I'm looking to have Town staff look into the
possibility of funding some of the improvements that we all know we need with our pocket Parks especially our the pocket parks that need playground and equipment and and upgrades with uh potential sponsorships I would just ask staff to start looking into see what other municipalities do my idea would be
to reach out to local businesses even National businesses I'm sure they're they're out there and it would include some sort of plaque placement and things like that but things that are done Tastefully uh to allow us to improve our Parks without having to spend U our taxpayer dollars if if the will is there
we should take advantage of it that's my motion it's been moved by council member hburg second second by the vice mayor is there any discussion on this yes council member Sanchez you are recognized so would this be somewhat like a program that we currently have of adop a road so
for example the Y Marines have a certain stretch of my miam's drive so some like that yes Mr may my um yeah it it would be like that again for example my my my thought process goes to my kids like my kids love airplanes and trains so I
don't know bright line would come and sponsor a park and do a train type type Park and then they they'll have something it'd be a little maybe the the the equipment would be themed Tastefully it's not going to be a big bright line advertisement right I have a friend that has a very large Aviation company like maybe he would be interested things like
that and I think it improves equipment I think it we can make the the the parks more imaginary and and improves play as well and again there's a lot of parks that need some improvement and it could be something as simple as a bench there's a family that's lived on this corner for 50 years maybe they want to
donate a bench okay this is their family bench and they get a plaque thank you for donating the bench and it's something that's theirs that they can go back to uh so I think there's a lot of options and it's being creative because we all know we have a a tight budget we're onun a tight ship and we're trying to also improve services so this is a
another option of doing it I agree just like in the University of Miami every building is named after some family so okay any further debate or discussion on this item seeing none all those in favor say I I I'll oppose no the eyes have it and
the item Carri we're now on 14g golf cart safety by council member Sanchez so Miami Lakes is a town where we have the uh the right and privilege to you know to use our golf carts around town but I do feel that there's occasions where
residents don't either don't want to recognize the policies that in in the code and or they they know what they are and they just choose to ignore them too many times I see um family so it'll be you know husband and a wife driving and the the the his wife is holding an
infant In Her Arms instead of being in a seat with a seat belt or being in a car in a car safety seat so what the purpose of this item is to try to figure out an um a way through our Police Department of enforcing those they have to renew if I'm not mistaken the registration for
their golf carts every single year with the town maybe affiliating you know a test so that they're aware of the policies that are enforced just like safety restraints and and especially for the that's that's really the whole reasoning behind it there was an incident not too long ago at the corner
of our Lady the lakes with a golf cart um that was involved in a in a motor vehicle accident am I correct and yeah so just to to to make that more aware that it's still a moving vehicle it doesn't have doors it doesn't have windows so the prevalence for um for
physical harm is is is much higher so of figuring out a way to enforce these laws with their annual registration of of their golf carts to be used in the town giving them you know maybe like a 10 15 question quiz where they acknowledge and they pass it and they know that there
are policies that is just not driving a golf cart around the golf course and there seat bels that are needed and child safety restraints and things of that nature I'll second for discussion it's been moved and SEC moved by council member Sanchez uh seconded by council member Garcia council member Garcia
you're recognized in discussion thank you Council m i i I agree we're a golf cart Community now absolutely so not only do the uh owners of the golf carts have to be educated on what to do but also the the people that drive in our town have to understand we a golf cart Community now
I spoke to the manager about this earlier and I think some signage in the entrances of our town stating we are golf cart Community slow down would not only look out for golf look out for golf golf cart something like that exactly vice mayor to let people know not only they live here but they're driving
through and a lot of people just driving through 67th as a pass through will let them know hey especially run the parks and the schools because that's where the golf carts use the most uh we need those signages to say golf cart Community slow down um I know there's a cost to it but
I think there's a when they see that it'll open up their eyes a little bit to slow down and also perhaps uh you know just just it will allow the other residents I think that accident needs to be needs to be uh told to everybody that that did happen uh there is a risk in in
in using your golf cart especially when you're crossing the larger Avenues absolutely car seats and I would ask major major if you see currently if you see somebody with a baby in a golf cart not in a car seat is that a tick T you would you ticket them on that aspect of
it or how would you deal with that I've been researching it and see the issue with golf carts the seat Bel some of them don't have seat belts so they're not so that makes us makes them not street legal correct no that's not
really how it works in that sense um the street legalist it they just they don't talk too much about that about golf carts with that they talk more about like um go golf course are made for golf courses right right you see a golf course in a golf course they don't have seat belts that same golf cart now could
drive on the road it's not a lowp speed vehicle the low speed Vehicles go over 20 under 25 must be registered and insured and seat belted it's like a golf cart you see them but they're not really golf carts like they are low speed Vehicles by
state of Florida law right yeah the freebies so those have to have a VIN they have to have a they're like a car right insur they have to insure they have to have seat belts everything a car has they have to be like that but they look like go carts right through the chair I'm sorry to
interrupt I thought that our licenses for the golf carts require them to have uh CS I I thought that was the reason right I I remember proving that there's another inter related um issue at play
here which is the challenge that the Miami Dade previously police department now Miami day sheriff's office has an enforcing uh anything in our code that is over and above either a county c a county code or the state law right
because they have nothing to to put on their citation plus whoever they site has to have a venue for redress for appeal of whatever citation or whatever is being given so we were several months back in conversations with the Miami
Dade Police Department about finding a way for them to be able to enforce our code we were also in conversations with the county clerk's office about them being the Avenue for um for somebody if they were going to appeal the citation
obviously the Mii Dade Police Department was undergoing a significant transition to the Miami Dade Sheri Sheriff's Office and those conversations did not come uh come to any conclusion the same thing happened with the county uh clerk's
office they were going from a non-elected uh leader to an elected office those conversations did not conclude so now that both the Miami D sheriff's office has some Vision about where they're going as far as you know
some certainty also the same thing with the clerk's office now knows who they are what they're about what what their priorities are going to be we can re-engage with both the sheriff's office as well as the clerk's office about seeing how they can enforce our code so
we're not restricted to them only being able to enforce either county code or state law right did I say anything wrong incorrect there point so so right now your hands are tied yeah with enforcement um now the other suggestion I could have and I think you guys H it on the head when they do the yearly
inspection is have them bring their golf cart in and if they don't have a seat Bel you don't give them a permit yeahor like that I know now it's just an online application it's an online application they have to bring in I think Insurance yeah I think the the very first time they have to get them inspected or they
have to certify that they were inspected and that they complied with and the the parameters are listed on their on their for the registration yeah that's what I thought cuz i' I've hard I don't think I've seen a golf cart on the road without a u especially the new ones without without a seat Bel so we're doing that now you come in you want to
get your your golf cart registered if it doesn't have a SEO we don't approve right because that's the way it should be that's I think that's what I voted for yeah and obviously staff is not an expert because our our some of our things has to talk about properly working brakes and and
you know safety equipment we can't we don't have the expertise to test it to say is that properly working you know so we have we have them certified that they that the equipment and the parameters and we give them the list of all the things that are required in our town uh
code which goes over and above what the county code or the they s a waiver whole harmless saying hey you you certify you have these safety uh these safety things in your in your golf cart something happens is the town's not responsible correct so we have them we have them
certify that they've had their vehicle inspected and that it complies with all these different safety things that we have in our uh code that may be over and above what the county requires or the state law my only concern is is a resident not having a seat belt on he gets hit by a car he going to fly I mean
kids I mean the the biggest thing that I think that the police department can and I know that they do the problem is that they can't have an officer on every corner at every minute of every day on every street right so the the main thing that I think is probably and you guys hear the complaints cuz I hear them just
as a resident is the number one complaint that our residents complain about is seeing a golf cart drive down the street and seeing a 10-year-old driving a golf cart right so that is something that is regulated by state law about somebody has to be a certain age
they can't you know I think it's 16 or 18 so it can't be a 10-year-old driving the golf cart even if they're they have their parent right sitting right next so there are things that we can't control there are other things that's going to take some more work with conversations with the Sheriff's Office and the
clerk's office to be able to uh regulate and and enforce our town code so to add to that one the law changed um early last year um because a lot of cities and town started incorporating the roads into golf cart
roads and the state law said that a 14-year-old could drive a golf cart state law 14 14 yeah because it's it was used to used in small communities Golf Course communities where you kid could drive the golf course on a golf course you know you could drive the golf cart um but then they started legalizing them
on streets so that became a challenge I think in the State of Florida they brought some legislation to have that the law re changed so now either you're 15 with the learner permit and up you could have you could drive a golf cart in the street um 15 16 with the driver's license and anybody over 18 just has to
have an ID they don't even have to have a license they have to have a count uh government issued ID um but 15 with a learner permit you still have to be with someone in the golf cart or you're just on your own not for golf carts okay because what I think what they the the whole reason behind that was to Ed have
you educ a kid at least have some sort of driving skills know the rules of the law of the streets you know hey what to stop what to yield then you have to take the the test right to get your learner's permit so I think they kind of like Ed it a little bit um from just a 14-year-old to having a 15-year-old that
has to have a learner's permit so that way he's kind of educated at least on the rules of the road okay um and that's kind kind of the the way they they they approached it so that passed and was but the the seat belt thing still wasn't involved in that I know there's there's language in there it talks about seat
belts and all that but that really applies to low speed Vehicles not golf carts yet I think that is something maybe that could be bought up to the state to try to change that to make now golf carts have mandatory again the issue is that some of them are manufactured without because they're for
the golf courses so right that's I think that's been probably a challenge I don't know where that's met a roadblock but that's the problem they don't require there's no law that says if you're in a golf cart you have to have a child in a safety seat they don't even have seat bels so
how do you even strap them in any other members of the council wishing to speak got council member Quadra Garcia thank you Mr Mayor uh that worries me and I have them in my neighborhood uh I see them they're 10
years old speeding in golf carts I thought that uh we in order to to get a permit on your golf cart you needed to have a driver's license well the the owner remember that the permit goes to the to the cart to
the cart itself right so so we can't really talk about the individual we talk about the cart and the safety equipment it's supposed to have and so forth and those are the insurance and those are the things that we regulate with our permitting process uh but the state law already does the hard the heavy lifting
for us because it does state that who how your age right and those are things that are easy for an officer to enforce so if an officer sees a car driving down the street in their patrol uh and that person looks young it's that's probably cause for you to pull it over correct
and I know at the beginning of the year when the law changed we did do a big campaign of awareness um letting them know hey now you know your 14-year-old can drive your card so we were out on the weekends um looking for that and identifying and talking to the parents and even adult drivers say hey if you're going to let your kid Drive the law has
changed to effective January 1st now it's 15 with the Learners permit 16 you know with the license and and if you're an adult you have to have have some sort of ID you just can't walk out of your house without ID or a license on you while you're driving a golf cart through through the mayor and I'm sorry to interrupt but just to be clear though
regardless of your age regardless of whether you're registered if you're driving like an idiot that is a ticketable offense reckless driving is or careless driving is a ticketable offense oh yeah now we're talking about the rules of the road yeah of course if you you still have to follow the rules of the road no matter how many tickets
if any have been issued in the town of Miami Lakes in the last year or so involving a golf cart I'd have to research that I don't have that information that that that's I think a a key element of this is is how are reinforcing it uh and what are the best
ways to enforce it because it it is a thing in my opinion one of the things that makes this uniquely difficult to enforce is that it probably or it definitely happens primarily within the residential zones it's not necessarily
on our major roads right where your officers or your your do I call them deputies yeah yeah now now we do where your deputies we're still in the transition phase would be would be for all us yeah so it's not exactly on the main roads you know you get lucky if you
happen to catch one somewhere in Royal Oaks but then there's not a a deputy around right it would have to be that the deputies in Royal Oaks the golf cart takes a stop sign and then we have proper calls to stop them and then we would issue a citation like any other vehicle um but again you'd have to
be in the right place at the right time if they're just driving around and they driving straight in line there's no offenses being committed uh going too slow is not an offense anymore that was a joke but would you they can't we can't catch them for speeding that's for sure nonetheless uh in terms of the spirit of
the item of going uh having the town manager come back with you know maybe some proposals solutions that that's you know a no-brainer uh and I'll be supporting it council member Fernandez just real quick you asked about about how many tickets I was pulled over by
their officers on Commerce Way about 2 years ago and they and they asked this no I mean they they they wanted to see if I if I had a uh a registration and uh they let me go I didn't have a registration but you know since I've been on the council I haven't driven it
I promise right CU and then again if you didn't we couldn't cite you for that because it's a town code the registration okay well two qu two questions that I have final two questions council member Sanchez you recognized are there anybody else am I right uh okay so just council member
Sanchez to close at the state level is there a difference in their in their policies and laws between a golf cart and a low speed vehicle yes there are differences yes the difference is a low speed vehicle goes over 20 mph and less than 25 and a golf cart is uh slower
than up to 20 m per hour and does it dictate where a golf cart can and cannot be used versus a low speed vehicle can and cannot be used yes a low speed vehicle be used on any road because it's almost it's a street legal basically a golf cart um but golf carts could only go on golf cart approved roads if if a
city or or or a town adopts the road then it's allowed to be on that road if the town didn't approve the town roads to be then the golf carts cannot be on it unless it's a low speed vehicle and we identify that by having a tag got it that would be the easiest way to identify it because there is sometimes it's hard to distinct them the both and
then my final question low speed vehicle with the example that I gave at the beginning of the discussion where it's you know two adult on the front seat and one of the adults is holding an infant in their no that's different it's more like cuz it's treated more like a vehicle they have seat belts right so that you would have to you know should be a child in the front that should have
a baby seat that's more that falls under more of the vehicle seat standards of Law and seat belts yeah okay good to know thank you all right so okay with that all those in favor say I I I all oppos no the eyes have it the
item carries all right and now we are on 14h which will be taken up uh concurrently with 14j or rather will be heard concurrently with 14j vice mayor Mora thank you Mr Mayor uh so first and foremost they're these two items are
being considered jointly because they're they're kind of codependent on each other um specifically on this first one I think the first one was H yeah yes uh on this first one H uh it's regarding
funding for the town's 25th anniversary event and long story short during the last budget cycle the town voted not to fund the town's 25th anniversary in order to keep taxes low for our residents uh assuming which is an assumption at the
end of the day it could be wrong assuming that the town has carry forward funds from the prior fiscal Year's budget uh we're going to be presented with the carry forward Amendment to the current Year's annual budget I believe as the manager said at the next meeting
uh Mr manager that's our plan okay uh likely at the next meeting given that the 25th anniversary is a major Milestone that by its nature is time sensitive uh and only happens once you only get one silver anniversary uh I would like to propose to my colleagues
at the Town Council commit uh to allocating the first 25,000 or more if you guys want uh from the available carry forward funds if any uh towards the town's 25th anniversary event um as
a part and parcel of this item is what was the other one J which is J um correct yeah so so the other one is uh 14j which has to do with the Veterans Memorial uh there I am
asking for uh 20 for for the next $20,000 assuming that the first 25 is earmarked for the 25th anniversary event that the next 20 be earmarked marked for uh the the design or Andor construction
of the Veterans Memorial um a very brief background on the Veterans Memorial uh back uh in April of 2024 the veterans committee donated $10,000 to the town raised from the proceeds of the 2023 reindeer run for the purpose of
Designing and constructing a Veterans Memorial at Veterans Park uh once they finalized the accounting from the 2024 reindeer run which should have either already happened or will happen very soon uh the veterans committee intends to donate approximately an additional
$10,000 for that same purpose so for a total of 20,000 thus far however staff uh recently obtained estimates for the design of the Veterans Memorial which indicated that it would cost just for the design approximately 37,000 uh so assuming that the town has
carry forward funds um I would like to propose that uh we commit to earmarking the second uh $220,000 available from the available carry forward funds uh for the design and construction of the Veterans
Memorial uh and I did do this as a CO item just because if you don't want to support the 25th anniversary one that's fine we can still do the veterans if you don't want to do either that's also fine I'll just hate you guys forever oh I'll
second seconded by council member hburg so we'll kick it off to you in discussion thank you Mr Mayor and and and thank you vice mayor for bringing forward the item especially the the 25y year uh item I think that's really important for the town it only happens once and and that's the issue I have that only happens once that's time
sensitive where the Veterans Memorial while important is not as time sensitive so I'm not so sure that I would vote to prioritize the second amount but the first amount I am looking forward to doing and and will vote for that but I have an Amendment for you um I'm again
I'm underestimating how important I think the 25- year event is and I I hope I have uh members of the council that agree I believe we should start planning it assuming I'm confident the money's there and if this passes I'm very confident the money is there we start
planning it and when I was looking at your item I figured who should be planning this event so um speaking with the town manager I think we should create a an ad hoc committee for planning the event my idea is to bring seven chairs I already got the okay from three of them uh to be part of this
committee it would be seven chairs from the Committees that do the most amount of events cultural Affairs uh Economic Development Special Needs neighborhood Improvement elderly uh neighborhood that's five
where my missing youth activities task force and I'm missing one more uh oh veteran Veterans Affairs I going to say yeah there you go so um I spoken to three chairs who who believe it's a good idea and they would be committed to doing it obviously we need to speak to
the other chairs or maybe then go down to Vice chairs but have a committee that would work with the town and get that event rolling uh I believe the the town can give us a resolution for next meeting um so that would be my Amendment my to assuming it passes that we create
this committee that's starts in March ends in December to plan uh the 25 year event council member hburg and remember uh also a waiver of the two committee Ru maximum right so we would have to wave this may be a third committee we would
have to wave right we would have to wave a few rules two committee maximum and uh that committee would have its own executive board which the rules only allow you to be on one executive board again this is a one-time ad hoc committee it ends there there's a final point it won't be around forever but I
think that's the best group of people to create the best event possible uh just as a point of order I I don't think I ever actually put it into motion form um and it may have been interpreted as I was moving for both at the same time the first it was going to be two separate
motions regardless as a motion first so you're treating them separately I am treating them separately I just wanted them discussed together so his Amendment though I think I would ask a chair to treat we need we need to back up then uh and so council member Herber which one are you seconding I I'm seconding the
the 25 yeah year okay just want to make sure we're clear for the record on that okay so so therefore I just wanted to clarify that his Amendment wasn't you know to exclude the um the the potential for the veterans memorial it's just directly related to the 25th and we're
only talking about the 25th at the moment right yes and uh specifically well first of all is there a second to the amendment I'll second okay it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion as to the amendment itself council member Garcia I think it's a good idea I just would like to um
propose a different take on using I mean 25 is very important just like 20 was 10 was uh if I remember correctly the 20th we we added a 20 here and the yeah Co was was yeah exactly um but a different
take on this because you know this is going to be another event it's going to be expensive can we just incorporate the 25 you know uh year spirit and and the current events we're doing um you know make make each event that we do for for July everything we're doing all the events incorporate that 25 year on on
our website here here in the town in where the new Miami Lakes sign and incorporate that 25 year anniversary in all the current events we're doing and add programming to those events instead of adding an additional event and this just spitballing here guys you guys an
additional event that may cost an additional 25 because honestly to me the Veterans Memorial uh if I if I had to choose between vest Memorial and and an additional Standalone 25-year old anniversary event I would push for the memorial and uh I think there's an
opportunity to co-brand the 25 and all the events throughout the year and make that you know just like uh other events do other huge anniversaries uh at 25 everywhere we do on our logos on our events on our websites even here so that's that's another take on on on your
if I may Mr Mayor you recognized like that take but I think it's too late that's something that the town had to do last year and we didn't uh it's too late to where's the 25 I just don't see the time to do it um but it's I I I agree that that's a good idea uh unfortunately
uh for you know for correct or not correct reasons the 25 year event was not prioritized by the prior Council and that's just the way it was um but with these committees they sponsor a lot of events they will get sponsors I believe an event like this should get a big
sponsor I believe we should have a sponsor that pays $225,000 to an event like this and that's the reason to get those committees get the get someone like like Matthew kasor involved who has those connections get Felicia involved that has the list of performers it it's
going to bring all those people together it's going to run I think smoothly Mr Mayor hey uh well give me one second is there anybody else on the amendment itself yeah well no no no hold on but but just uh going up and down anything
on the amendment okay vice mayor yeah I just wanted to say that that is pretty much uh what you're saying it can actually I I wouldn't say it's not necessarily too late it might be uh sometimes government's a little slow uh and it is a December event our
anniversary is in December um but um again that's what a com uh something like that adol committee would be deciding hey do we how do we spend this these budgeted funds so so I think that that actually answers the question answers
itself anyone else on the amendment seeing none all those in favor say I I all oppose no the eyes have it the amendment is agreed to and we're back on the main item as amended strictly on the 25,000 for the 25th anniversary of the
Town any discussion on this okay well then I'll close with some discussion so um it it is a real bummer there's no no other way to put it that we weren't able to celebrate our 20th year unfortunately co uh got in the way
of that and uh so while we did have some uh events commemorating the 20 year uh 20 years of the Town being in existence it was far short of the big celebration that we had wanted at that time um I would love to definitely have a celebration this year and I'm going to
vote for this item uh now but I just I I just don't know that we need the full 25,000 to go toward the event um and you know as part of the carry forward my concern is just that you know there's again there are so many other things that we need to fund as well that are are much more pressing um so I'm going
to vote to advance it now but obviously you know with the right to reserve that I to carry forward you know we might have to move some money around and change different amounts but with that all those in favor say I I I all oppos no the eyes have it then congratulations
so now we're 14j and yeah as the second uh motion which is Germaine to the issue at hand is the having approved the the 25 uh for the 25th anniversary event I would like to move for earmarking uh the next
available $2,000 to uh the design and construction of the Veterans Memorial at Veterans Park uh that's it is there a second I'll I'll second for discussion council member Fernandez you're
recognized in discussion uh where did we get the the $20,000 as want come from the carry forward Amendment no no no I understand where the money's coming from how did you arrive at 20,000 easy uh first of all this is going to cost a pretty penny um when all is said and
done um I I think that the veterans committee possibly underestimated how much something like this was going to cost um but primarily where the 20,000 came from is as follows uh when
the uh about a year ago April of 24 they put in $10,000 they're now about to put in another $10,000 uh so they'll have as of right now on their own $20,000 uh my goal is to get them the additional $20,000 so that they're at 40
and then they have just enough to cover the 37,000 needed to get them to design once they have a design until you have a design you don't have a real cost estimate of what it's going to cost to construct the the actual structure um so
that's you know the the Baseline once we have that we know how much it's going to cost us now we can say form a more long-term uh financing plan or not financing that's not the right term um budgeting plan for
how we're going to fund the actual construction because that's I I Mr manager I don't think any numbers were ever actually thrown but we're talking about north of $100,000 for the construction of for the construction no sir we we we we don't
know yet and you're 100% right I think we need to have the design first so we can develop uh what they call an OPC an opinion of probable cost of what the the actual uh Monument will cost correct and and for the record uh this would be this
$20,000 would be a restricted line item I I guess I I don't know if it would go into the veterans committee's budget or if it would stay within our Town's budget for ear Mark for that purpose if to the extent that it would end up in their own committee budget it would be a
restricted fund strictly for this yes sir either way it's going to be restricted for this yeah any further discussion on this yeah I have a discussion Point council member Sanchez so I had the great privilege of being on the veterans committee when we
when we went through the process of creating the Veterans Memorial just as said of this town hall with the with the pentagonal base and the the V for victory on top and Veteran on top the process that we went through that was a bit different than this something that we actually did as a committee is that
we put out an RFP for aotta artists giving us ideas as to what they would like to do at the time we had a grant which I don't know if it's still in existence or not called a art in public places and we were able to fund it through that so I think we had six or seven different artists present ideas to
us and after reviewing the committee decided Well the committee pushed forward to have the one that we currently have outside and it came to the day and the elected officials at the time said yes if we can do that process where we can save the money from the design and
put out a c artist to create a memorial which is worthy of of veterans in Miami Lakes I think that would save us those $37,000 that can be allocated towards the construction of the of the project just thinking historically of of the
things that we've done in the past vice mayor through the chair to the manager um my understanding is the veterans committee has already selected a idea of a design they're they're modeling it after the American Revolutionary War Memorial in wital
Kansas very specific I think that they have a concept in mind exactly they have an idea a concept um given that that's the case is isn't what council member Sanchez saying very doable and in that situation the um what
did you call it request for what RP request for proposal the request for proposal a call to artist basically or or the call to artist is what I'm more interested in because essentially what you're doing is you're having a call to artist where you don't have to pay any of them anything you're only paying a award to the winner the to the design
plan that you end up using right so we can say hey it's going to be a $10,000 reward and then you have a bunch of designers fighting over 10 10,000 is that essentially what it is and I guess the idea is you don't have to get all the way up to
37,000 you you can you can do less well I was looking at at a council member Sanchez uh uh that's the idea right right uh so do you think that would be feasible Mr manager Omar could probably speak more
intelligently about this um but I I would venture to say if you make a call to artists embedded in their C their cost of the totality of what they're proposing is going to be design cost so I don't think you can skirt not paying
for design cost because you're going to have the development of plans it's going to require permitting it's going to be you know something like this may require electric you know electrical plans uh schedules for lighting you know there's going to be a lot of different things so I don't think you're going to skirt the
design cost by doing it in the fashion that you described I just think that they'll be embedded into the cost of whatever they're proposing it'll be yeah a total like a design build type of thing I either way as to the motion itself it doesn't change the fact that
they're going to need that money uh whether it be for design or construction uh so so it it doesn't change the the necessity of of the funds uh and so I I would love uh my colleagues report any other comments uh Quadra
Garcia council member Quadra Garcia you're recognized thank you Mr Mayor you know my key word is always going to be sponsors uh when we start talking about money uh one of the things that uh I I
hear from residents are you saving us are you going to so we're talking about things that we need money for but are we going to be bringing into the smi's uh uh
sponsors I think that that would absolutely be part of any plan uh to reduce the overall cost but I do think that when you're talking about one of these structures you can't assume that you're going to have full sponsorship for the entire thing when you're talking about
probably over $100,000 uh that you're going to need and plus to a certain extent it is already partially sponsor funded the the sponsor being the reindeer run the reindeer run proceeds uh are I guess
privately collected funds from the participants in the in the reindeer run and a portion of those proceeds go to other veteran uh committee uh events but also a large chunk of it goes to the
the the earmarking for this Veterans Memorial it's something that they they've been after for quite a while I will say uh uh the colonel Bill Perez was very very adamant about this uh and I made him a promise right when I got in
that uh I think in the past uh uh Council council member coyazo was his one of his go-to guys whenever the veterans committee needed something I told him hey I'm here I'm your guy now and you know he he took me up on that and they they're really really trying to
get this done for our veterans really I'm infor support I mean my office is shared with them so I'm in full support but uh any other council members wishing to speak council member hburg well uh with the vice mayor's item maybe this uh
this year we'll be raising a lot more money for the Run yeah yeah and I'll close again that I'm going to uh I'm going to vote for this now but I do think it's a lot of money for something that's not urgent right now uh you know speaking frankly we already have the Veterans Memorial
out front and and again $20,000 is a lot you know that we can do in terms of Park improvements and at least for this year and for the majority of my four years my summary is or my my focus will be primarily on Public Safety parks and transportation um but I'll vote to
advances now so we can see you know because we don't even know yet how much carry forward we're even talking about and uh you know when we get there later on we can have a more in-depth discussion with that all those in favor say I I all oppos no seeing none the item arries congratulations Mr vice
mayor and we now move to council member hburg for 14i resolution in support of House Bill 303 property damage caused by Limestone mining operations by representative Fabricio thank you Mr Mayor it's that time of year again to talk about
blasting even though I'm talking about it every meeting but uh this is simple uh representative Fabricio has filed a bill I'm happy to speak I mean we can talk to the details if you want now but the I'm sure you all have seen the bill it provides uh alternate a feasible uh
refuge for compensation for residents that have had damage from Limestone um you know it's not the perfect bill but representative piso has tried many different Avenues which have been denied so he's trying something different he's not going to keep trying the same thing over and over again um so we have to
give him support and that's what this resolution does and and um I would amended to also include Senator A's bill after our discussion last week so to make sure we add the the Senate bill number in his name to the resolution and that's my motion second for discussion
seconded by the vice mayor Mr vice mayor you're recognized thank you Mr Mayor uh number one 100% you know I 100% support this we have so many members of the blasting Advisory Board who are former members of the blasting Advisory board on this Council hey I just realized we're all sitting on the same side um and was that
intentional um but I I did want to uh add a a a recommendation that uh you have the instruction there for the town clerk to to send it over to the governing bodies of affected municipalities counties and our Statewide elected officials obviously
yes that should be done I just think that we shouldn't just send the resolution I think that it should be accompanied obviously by a cover letter uh and um I don't mean to give you more work but um I do think that you should be the one to draft it uh on this Das
you're Pro I mean before you showed up I I felt like I was very fresh on that issue now you showed up obviously you were one of the main architects of the bab opinion uh so you know how to write about this short sweet simple uh and
then I think that it should either be signed by the mayor only or by the mayor and the full Council the way we did back when we had the issue with the pometto hospital bankruptcy I think that that carries a ton of weight um and then
along with that there should be two versions of the letter uh one is for everyone municipalities Statewide elected officials Etc but then I think that there should be very uh um a second version of the letter that's more
detailed and uh tailored to the chairman of each of the Committees to which this bill is going to be referred both on the house and on the Senate side uh and I definitely think that mention of uh Senator Avila's bill should be included
within our resolution along with uh some minor typos that I pointed out uh during our agenda briefing so I I'll make that that you're motioning that so I'll second that okay so on the amendment uh then to the main motion is there any
discussion okay seeing none all those in favor say I I I'll oppose no the eyes have it the amendment is passed and therefore we're back on the item as amended is there any further discussion through the chair uh council member Garcia uh traditionally the last couple years I know that the um when we when we
send these um this to U just to to to approve or or to give support to Tom from breio and and our Representatives uh if it's if it's okay with you all of us uh I know we all sponsored it uh or just the entire council could can we all
of course as a council all sponsor it and and um that way it gives more weight to it as well I know we traditionally we did that the last three or four years as a point of order I do think that that has to be an amendment what that we as a point of order I do think that has to be an
amendment to to to add us all a sponsors I don't no no no okay no no that that's just uh just Madam clerk please uh ensure that the record reflects in the minutes that we are all co-sponsors of the of this item and and Mr Mar if I may uh Deputy
Town attorney is here to discuss a little bit about the language of the bill because we were pretty specific like I said the bill is not perfect but I understand the reason why the representative is doing it this way we have discussed in our past our concerns uh our constitutional concerns of what
the law looks like now and I don't want to say that this is the perfect resolution but it is a potential resolution and I'll ask the to town attorney to discuss that sure Mr attorney you're recognized um thank you Mr Mayor thank you uh council members uh this is an issue of which um since our
our last Workshop uh both Mr gessi uh Mr M and and I have been working on on coming up and we uh mentioned that we're going to be coming back to you in March uh with a complaint uh however in speaking with councilman herberg and perhaps uh we we'd love to hear your
opinion on this is uh you know we want to give the support to representative FAO uh he is trying to find a way uh to be able to provide our residents with relief uh and if part of I think supporting that is uh I think it may be
uh prudent for us just to hold back a little bit on presenting a compl I think it's uh difficult for him to be able to uh try to negotiate with his peers uh a bill that while it's not perfect it does provide at least a some
immediate relief and it provides funding for that relief uh in that bill and we also have our Senator Avila who's also uh equally trying to do the same in the Senate uh if we file a complaint now that could hamper their their efforts so I think for the moment also we don't want to show our our card all our cards
uh preemptively uh perhaps it would be best uh if if uh that's the direction that the council gives us uh to come back in in April or perhaps May once this is moving if there's no traction then obviously we'll bring it back and we'll move forward yes ma Mr vice
mayor does setting back the timeline go against our prior direction to the town attorney's office no so you don't need a motion for or or I agree with what you're saying not
necessarily giving away all our cards is an important thing here so I I rather not even discuss it much further is kind of what I'm trying to get out here no no I I just want Direction since the direction was marched to be a bring it back in April or May depending on what
happens with the supposed to come back with the exactly so so in that case he does need a motion so I I'll I'll move uh to accept the the town attorney's recommendation I'll second to postpone it to
June that's fine if that's the direction that the council wants to give okay so just to be clear then the motion is to postpone presenting any complaint until June of this year um so whatever time that you feel comfortable for us to come back with it well we got to wait for the session to end right so we can always
change it later if we want so it it was seconded by council member Fernandez uh any discussion on this particular um Amendment through the chair Council me council member Garcia of course we don't want to tip our hat or anything but uh
wouldn't the possibility of something like that sway may may may sway committees that that might happen I just I'm asking your guys' opinion on that thank I don't believe that it would I was just up there last Tuesday um you
know you got to remember again these are not people from our area right and uh you know small town like ours just comes in there like oh we're going to start throwing lawsuits around it it it could be received actually the wrong way actually you know so um and counterproductive so I think waiting
till session is over is actually better to see what what finally changed if anything and then at that point also from a moral standpoint if you will you know we have even more uh moral standing you know when we file the suit you know we tried it again we did we revised it you know we've listened you know and
still nothing and we we have to move forward makes sense I I I agree with that I I wholeheartedly agree with that let's give the legislation a chance it's a compromise it is not the best that we would want I think
he's uh representative Fabricio has been up there fighting this battle for us for a long time uh I believe he's playing chess here and I think he's he's doing what needs to be done I support the legislation if it doesn't work then
we've got all other options still on the table and we haven't acted like a bull in a china shop it's given a shot this this session and then in June if not then we'll have to regroup and figure out what we want to do uh I think I know
which way I'm going to lean with my recommendation but let's go from there all right on the amendment to the amendment and the amendment to the the amendment just be clear is this item about having the attorneys uh postpone until June um to uh present any sort of
complaint uh on that Amendment all those in favor please say I I I oppose no the eyes have it so that amendment is agreed to now on the other Amendment uh now as amended offered by the vice mayor correcting certain mistakes etc etc uh
on that is there any further discussion okay seeing none all those in favor say I I I'll oppose no the eyes have it the amendment carries uh and now we are now back on the main item as amended is there any further discussion seeing none
once again all those in favor say I I all oppos no the eyes have it the motion is agreed to and so now with that we move on to re uh newly added item 14l which is providing formal approval for
the uh Main Street Live uh concert coming up uh with that is there a motion again it's the meeting normally just just for the benefit of my colleagues typically the of the meeting does not present the motion um so that's normally why I'm deferring so moved okay moved by the vice mayor seconded by council
member Garcia any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I all oppos no item is passed now on item 14m um so moved moved by the vice mayor again for those who don't know that is uh lighting up town hall blue in honor
of Autism Awareness I'll second okay seconded by council member Sanchez one very Bri any discussion okay the vice mayor I would just like to renew my request to the town manager uh that the lights in front of town hall be replaced with
proper color changing LEDs that I thought you told me it wasn't that much as long as it's within your disc I'll we'll we'll we'll take a look at it please and if it does require you know it to come before us because it's above
your uh procurement limits let me know and I'll put an item up since we have time by the way because it's an April this is for April um we have time for me to bring this back in March uh if you need funding all right any further debate on this light change
okay seeing none all those in favor say I all oppose no guys have it motion carries and now we are on the mayor and Council memb reports Council Herber 15 a okay back to blasting um so uh just to give you an update first most
importantly the blasting Advisory Board is having a workshop type session here uh February 27th at 6:30 p.m. uh we expect a decent turnout especially not just for Miami Lakes residents but for myar PSN uh there's some new members of the board that are doing a good job
getting the word out uh I have invited I sent an email uh Alexis Martinez helped me we sent an email invite to 83 elected officials elected officials in the same towns halia hiia Gardens D dur myar and
every state rep and day every state the whole entire day delegation a few in Broward and also some representativ and senators in Lee County because Lee County has blasting issues as well uh and their blasting issues are going to get worse and worse based off what I've seen so those um invites have been sent
and go follow up I I know the mayor Cava is bringing some some representatives to to the meeting of course if you can make it please come I've spoken to representative Fabricio I believe he's traveling trying to make a point in the meeting that he can call in and speak uh
but it should be a decent event and and we should have a good turnout of residence and um I'm going to follow up with all those elected officials via phone and see especially the ones that were really affected such as jado myar I had a few meetings I had a meeting with a councilwoman come from D went very
well and of of course I'll continue to speak with other members of of of the D Council uh and then the last thing I wanted to speak about on here which is um now that we have two bills we have committee assignments uh I don't know what you guys are thinking we have day days I don't believe day days is really
a day to go talk about blasting I would I plan to and I and I it's a question to the manager how that planning works I plan on speaking to the lobbyist and picking a day I would fly out on a Tuesday evening and pick a day on a Wednesday to set up meetings and fly back Wednesday night however it needs to
be worked out to go up there and focus on this of course we can have meetings with others on our other priorities for me the focus would be on on that and not necessarily meeting with our leg our our legislators but the committee chairs and vice chairs if we can get them so I look
for your input and then uh the town manager how is there anything we need to do or just tell you hey this is these are the days we should do it yeah yeah I think if if there's consensus and this is the day we want to go uh I I I think there was discussion about uh contingent
from this Council going for day days and there's I'm sure there's sufficient funds there for another uh trip whether it be for blasting or blasting and uh right so you just give us the information and uh Alexis or uh Joshua
from the mayor's office uh will work out and we'll we'll assist every way possible to make sure now for day days we did secure Hotel uh reservation as a precaution for all seven of you um so that's something that we probably need to find out sooner better than later who
is going who's not going so we can start uh either canceling some of those reservations the whole part I was I was worried about getting you guys spots but not worried about holding it too long because those are easy easy to cancel so we just need to start narrowing down but just let us know what your plans are and
we'll make it happen I I guess my question is let's say we have a discussion a lobbyists tell us hey you know what Stephen this the March 17th's a great day to go you should go up there do we need to come back to the council or is that just something we do internally and that's it and we'll see if anyone else wants to join you can
probably do it internally but again as always since the mayor is the head of intergovermental relations it should be coordinated with my office just so at least I'm aware uh and see if I can go up with you guys right it's important that the town stay on the same message and um you know as we do that advocacy
and so a but yeah as far as like requesting a trip up there and all that and best times and all that uh at least in the past what I would do is go through Ed and and he'll set it up and Gina as well got it okay so what I'll do is I'll start looking um I'll speak I'll
ask to reach out to the lobbyist again they came back to us so basically uh they came back any any time in March should be fine um so we I'll coordinate with your office and see who else wants to join Yeah March is better usually uh the reason why the legislators
themselves from our from day County hate day days is because apparently it's always in the middle of session and that's usually when a bunch of uh budget deadlines come up so I agree with you that that uh day days is not the the best time to be having a large port
portfolio on which to uh advocate for but it it you know again March probably would be good and maybe we can get something in the books and I'll be able to go with you guys as well yeah that's that's definitely the goal that's why I wanted to talk about it now so I don't I mean I it's we're advocating so it's not
necessarily a sunshine thing anymore when we're talking about that I was just going to state that I just whispered with the town attorney I I don't believe coordinating travel it's definitely not is the sunshine but I wanted to be out of the open travel plans yeah right I want to be out out in the open we've
already discussed what how we Advocate and whatnot so just let you know that I'll definitely be looking into it and I'll reach out to you guys offices perfect thank you councilman hburg we're now on 16a Public Works infrastructure report by Mr
Santos don't be shy good evening uh in light of the recent approval of 148 I'll make this very brief brief so last week we officially cut the ribbon on two two drain project Commerce
Way and Westlakes Gardens first edition U just wanted to highlight that if there are any questions on the report ail any questions for the director okay seeing none we're on the attorney's report thank
you we II yeah we I basically gave it uh a few minutes ago the The Rock so you don't want you don't want to add anything else no I all right well there being no further uh business we are now adjourned at 10:26 p.m.