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order for the special needs Advisory Board um Wednesday March 5th at 5:49 p.m. um I guess I'll go ahead and call the role since we don't have a secretary um Vivan Levy I'm
here Orana absent mine Santana here Mar schol is will not be attending um jul no longer part of the B and really
hasn't been sworn in all right soine or right share could what be secretary too that's how it was in the I don't I don't have an answer to that one yeah I
think I mean that's what we've been told before because I remember when I was or vice chair that it has to be somebody that's not currently not holding a position so that is correct I this case come up
yet fix it okay thank you yeah just your best whoever she called the meeting at 54949 whoever the next secretary
is maybe she can rewatch it everyone was I already put it here not everyone was present oh well okay one two three the on were all right so order a business does anybody have anything to
add or delete from elction for secretar but time um the other thing I have is the allocation of funds the finance department reached out that you all distribute the G
funds so I have that total amount if want to do that today soon possible your account yeah would like it but before April because it needs to be brought up in counsil
twice so would it be possible for me be a call before your April meeting possib or you don't want to discuss this today I we have quite a few things to this plus we have
guest well anything schedule a shorter meeting later in March possibly discuss that allocating the fund be AAL yeah Special call yeah okay who play by you yeah okay also we're just going to look at the number now
and not time to sit there do you have copies of the budget well right now your budget doesn't really reflect anything because we have to transfer the money into the account so just it's a we usually have we usually have a print out and then we can say we're going to put
this into this this into this like do you have the list of I have the line items yeah but not printed I yeah I can bring it printed for the special call printed we don't have that today no but I can bring it up on screen if you want yeah on sorry um I I have something
to correct on the agenda um because there's the same item sensory partk feature both on Old business and new business and really that b under new
business 7B what supposed to be um Workshop just changing new business 7B to include work no it's take out sensory Park
feature and put Workshop oh okay yeah so to make no just add Workshop as 7 C deleting 7B I don't think you can change it once the agenda is
okay it's a it's a repeat so make the motion okay so I make the motion to um delete 7B sensory part feature and add seven C
as a workshop for new business all those in favor I motion passes anybody else have anything last question sorry hope autism found shows
still April 12 yeah we should should probably discuss about that you know like what you want to do say do an event request form fly uh since that's next month already
early I mean we already voted on the food the the $1,500 for for food for each of them them yeah yeah okay we we already voted is there any
more that you're doing for the event besides food they're handling all the fire food and and you know plates pups any decorations need that yeah that's what I want to if you need anything for me to set that up perfect okay that's
all okay okay so um all right so public comments um we have some guest here um you guys have about three minutes to U make your
presentation welcome thank can I can I have your Nam my name is Christina I am the director of operations for a Florida Court the buiness development yes PA Ben Court Ben
yes ABA C yes ABA Centers of Florida we are an organization that provide um behavioral therapy to individuals with special needs mostly specific um a in Spectrum Disorder um really quick does anybody know what ABA
is app behavioral analysis okay what is it it's a like say a program where you help uh individ children with with ASB uh like like like change some habits yes
exactly so it is a um therapy that is scientifically proven to help increase positive behaviors while decreasing negative behaviors um so what makes our company different than other ABA facilities is that we have a very small limited weight list um almost no weight
list because when famines are calling for services we are checking their insurance and we are basically scheduling the evaluation observation any type of diagnostic reports um almost immediately whereas other facilities have weeks months years of waiting lists
we don't have any waiting list so we like to act quickly and fastly to get services for these um children as fast as possible possible Services can be done at home in school in the community and we do have a team of rbts which is the registered behavioral technicians
they are supervised by a bcba which is a board certified behavior analyst um and they are overseen by a Clinical Director each and every client will have an individualized treatment plan so it is unique to each client um although it's individualized we do a systemic based
approach so we like to include families caregivers grandparents maybe teachers um people in the community so we like to include as many resources for the families as much as possible um something that is also very different from our company compared to
other Ava facilities is that we are very big in the community we like to host events sponsor events um our vendors for for the Miami Marlins well sponsors for the Miami Marlins the Florida of cancer so we are always in the community and we
like to you know provide not only you know resources for our families to be able to go out into the community with their family but also to have kind of like a safe and structured system for days when there's no school um holiday break so we do um day trips we take the
clients on you know on a bus and we'll go to the museum or the zoo so we are always looking for things to do in the community um we also like to attend events as well at the company so we will go as a company set up a table um p s fires resources have family start
signing up for services right then and there um which is basically kind of why we're here today is because we would like to you know work with other resources in our community to um you know to provide more we also have sensory rooms like in the Panther
Stadium the mar stadium and in fact I just worked on in agreement with the city of Cooper City we're going to be adding two sensory ruls in each other centers the tennis center and also the community center so we also sponsor that on so we have a couple clinics down here in
South Florida we are mostly a remote team so that's why we provide a lot of services in homes schools and in the community um we don't have a physical clinic yet in day but I do know it's kind of in the works in um the Dural area there going to be penber Pines P
Pines we have tamarak we're in Tam Sweet Water we are all different areas all different you knowe as well yes you accept Medicaid um we' accept Medicaid as a secondary insurance I
believe so we are mostly um with other insurances where it could be in network out of network so depending on your insurance plan as soon as a family would call we run your you know your insurance information and they give all the details and whether it's out of pocket benefits co-pays so it's every plan is
different so it depends on the individual plan and CM PMS falls under Medicaid so it would be the same and what the private insurance %
or I'm not too much with the insurance detail that would be the whole you know the administration department so what happens a parent signs up and admission calls them up and go through all the details okay that might take about you know to get through
the insurance approv take money it's not that quick that it will move fast we have to do the observation and evaluation which get submitted to the insurance company they review it and approve or deny Services most of the time if the it is covered they will
approve it and there has to be a diagnosis um a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder so we would be able to evaluate and diagnose as well autism any ability or disorder that
um affects your behavior autism is the most common one but there are other you know um do um I'm trying to think of the name right just one opposite not defying disorder um maybe sometimes with Down Syndrome there could be certain you know
structures that who affect your behavior so any type of neurological disorder that affects behaviors your insurance will approve sometimes they depending on the insurance compan thank
you appreciate you coming for your time no thank you for joining us okay hi everybody I'm Stephanie Cruz um glad to see you again and I just submitted an appli couple minutes ago so hopefully I'll be
lucky enough to join your board um so a couple committee so I wanted to talk to you guys about a couple of things that I want to do um the big thing I want to do this year which I'm excited to talk to you about is to do an expo in September okay
so a big one something big something good quality um probably in Robert Alonzo probably on a Saturday um from 99 to 4: 9: to 5: so basically Expo of all the businesses in Miami Lakes that are
related to special needs there are a lot of families that don't know that there are a lot of resources here but they just don't know maybe they heard about them but they don't know what they do so what an opportunity to be able to have everybody come together and and showcase what they can do for the families that's
number one and then number two there would be lectures there would be lectures going on at this Expo this was very successful I got the idea from the Latin Builders organization they just in an expo so half of the the space was broken up into tables and expositions
the other half was a stage with speakers you're interested in doing that you'll go over there you're interested in doing that you go over there and it was very successful so that's what I want to do so it would be I have topics um that I can share with you I'll leave them in the middle of the table and you can kind
of give me an idea of what you guys want but what I want to provide is basically who's awesome so if you know somebody that's awesome at explaining Medicaid waivers therapy um activities anything that you guys would say well I found
somebody in their gem I really want that person to speak and that person to Showcase so that we can share the great information and then the businesses the businesses is huge um to be able to share like I know that you have your your your business and not only is it
fun but you have an amazing pause and it's great and that's an opportunity for you to Showcase you and your business and basically every you know I don't know how you said we can kind of see out of all the businesses in town what was focused on that but that would be really
great and I can reach out to them so that would be September um so to set aside a date I'm thinking right now oh so I was thinking of blocking out I'm thinking that we would have at least 100 people attend this event um I want to
bring make it also fun so maybe face painting ice cream fun you know as well so if you're not into the lectures and you're done with the Expo your kids can at least enjoy and have a b time so I'm thinking September 13th it's the second
Saturday of that month um for me to be able to block out that date at Roberto Alonzo I have to come here so I'm requesting isaba to be able to help me with that um and then we I guess you guys would have to vote on it and approve it um so that would be our big event and I want to do that event every
year that'd be something that I would want to do speci committee doing every single year getting bigger getting better sorry I just want to make sure the the mayor's Gala tentatively was the following Saturday okay oh perfect but I don't it's a tentative that they said
that they would and could I I noticed that so I don't know because we don't have the unless we do Dr Michel from hard they have a center here in my that yeah so it would be to it would be
that it's like everybody that you're thinking my there nutritionist but a good one not just somebody like I haven't my nutritionist but I don't particularly like them nothing against them but I just don't really like what they produce so if you guys know somebody maybe they're not in
Miami laks but they're amazing and they're in Miami Springs or hiot or whatever they can come you know what I mean um so that's what I want to do and then as far as little workshops I want to do two more throughout the year
potentially one in May one in July and then I have here again topics you guys tell me what like maybe an hour hour and a half it could be during lunch or we can do it in the afternoon and basically you guys tell me as a committee what do
you want to hear it could be legal um it could be family law with with this you know with State planning how do you give your inheritance to your special needs child how do you what happens if your special needs child has not been receiving child support in 10 years and
you can't find the dad usually it's the dad he'll pun to um so all those questions um I think would be an amazing Workshop um and uh potentially we could at this Expo um we can do the the
sticker stickers with the police that you guys have been working on you guys have been right there was a sticker program to safety program so I think you guys had try to do like a launch at some point but maybe this could be the
opportunity where we get such a group of people and we from you know on such day this will be the day that you guys can register I can even try to get um commissioner allow to come in I just need to know the date I tried blocking
it today on the website and there's a policy that you can only do it 90 days out but I have six mon so I rather use that time so that's kind of why I'm here for that big event and then to maybe block out two days one in May one in July for a smaller Workshop related to
topics that you guys want to hear so we're going to be discussing that in bus the workshop okay so I do I'm vent and I can't even speak I do event and marketing okay for a tech
company bed out here in my new l so I do events nonstop I was in an event today at 6:30 in the morning so um I'd love to help you if if that's something we do I think it would be besides the fact I love putting these things together personally enjoy them and then if they
come out amazing I even get more happy so it's a winwin so that's it thank you guys thank you all right I have something public since I technically can still do
comments um I know you guys are bringing it up later but I wanted to officially on the record um say that if we obviously I don't know what you guys are going to discuss about the car WRA um but I would like to put my name in the
Hat as an artist to come up with a mockup or to come up with some design um maybe that's something that you get a few different artists together like a few different Mii Lakes artists and do like a collaboration um that would be something
really cool I did a collaboration with an artist for the specialty Smiles U mural they have like two walls in their spring office um so it's no different than doing a car or a bus or anything like this and um
also for my day job I also have done not murals per se but I've designed other pieces and you know um storage racks like data racks like all pric like branded merchandized so that's something
that it's fun it's inting it's creative but obviously it's for a good cause that I would love to be a part of so if we are going to move forward the card love to creative name a public comment from someone who
couldn't make it really short and sweet uh Miami mom collective in partnership with the inclusive mama is thrilled to host a Autism Awareness Month celebration resource Fair on April 19th at the Dural yard from 10:00 a.m. to 2
p.m so there'll be activties for the kids like face painting sensory PlayStations and and more um uh adult to benefits uh vendor resources Therapy Services extracurricular activities Health Care things like that um they've
they've hosted more than 140 events and they like to you know continue doing that and encouraging families to do these experiences um so last year's event saw 300 in attendance and they're asking if you all would be interested in having a
table you can be a table vendor tables are $175 and they receive promotion across their platforms so this would be something they would need to know soon since it's next month and they're running out I don't know if you want to
discuss it is April 19 who's who's it from Miami it's Miami mom Collective and partnership with the inclusive mom I believe they might brought this up last year no I'm not part do we have
to if we're going to pass do we have to add it to the agenda then vote on it or can we just since it's public comments can we just back if you have if it's a c there's a conflict you don't necessarily have that the agenda if you can't do it it would be if you're GNA do a sponsor
then you would need to do the motion add to the agenda so you're not in booked Sol for April and that's the same but keep us in mind okay I'll tell them April is
packed okay I'll let them know thank you no no public comments okay all right so are we ready to close all the comments okay there's no all right so moving on to the approval of the minutes
directions whever we're ready um first of all um my name is misspelled three different ways so to change that on item 3 3
G what what is it yeah 3 G 6 a 6 waspe right also on also on item 6A elections that is
incorrect he elections uh second line election six hey old business what about okay uh um on the second line all toward the
end all in favor Jenia nominated as Vice Chair by meline that is correct Jia accepted yeah and then deined declined M nominated for vice Chair by Jenia Madden does not accept the
nomination I did accept it because I am Vice chair so all in favor of mine being Vice chair and then that that's it then just
send Nom jie she she okay so Chair by mine declin mine for vice Chair
by mine accept AC okay and then all in favor mine for okay Jesse if you're listening I tried oh and also on HB my name is incorrect ab
ab b b announcement oh make a motion let me know ready not ready I make a motion to accept the February 5th to any 25 minutes a second
all those in favor hi motion Pass Perfect all right so let's start with old business uh the esax flyer for the walk
um the pound um this is what I consider a beautiful Java oh this flyer to put into the gift bags for all that all the families are going to be getting so this you know uh lets us
know it's going to let the families know about the current programs that we have so let me know what you guys think and if there's anys when the S5 walk April 19 how long does it take to get the Flyers
printed I do not I can check on that but I also I need to allocate the money today right yeah yeah um do we have an idea
R how many yeah how many fers 250 500 I just printed a th ver it wasn't more than $130 it should 200 the dance class
is there's two levels so one is at 11 and the other one is at 12 here it says 11 to 12 they don't have dates for animation right no um but I'll give an update one
we don't have exact okay I want to make a motion to accept this new special needs Advisory Board programs flyer um also in addition to allocating
00500 $100 it wouldn't be more than $100 I don't know who you guys do youring with yeah it's not that much I mean I think maybe 300 just to that say yeah how many fers are do
500 um I'm thinking more yeah I think last year we had to give them 500 so a lot of people yeah I think we should do a thousand and it's going a thousand Flyers yeah we can also use them for the
resource PA this size or and like hard box paper so yeah 5 by 5 by 300 300 sorry a motion to I mean let's do 500 if we're going to a thousand no I
can pull up my invoice right now at least I do them locally at Apple printing ordered a th000 brochures and was $134 so I think 200 if you want to be save 200 I mean I don't know if you do
300 you can still get your then I say if not we can just use up to 300 you want to just make 500 make a motion to acate a board program fer with the changes
of Saturdays for the Spectrum dance therapy it's two classes one 11 112 5 by7 1,000 Flyers 5 by7 1,000 Flyers with a budget of $500 on hard
stock it to be taken out of uh marketing aware Market Community awareness yeah community um I second in
favor so if we like let's say next month uh if we need to order more it's within those or we we have to vot again let's say we only use $200 order a th000 no you can you already did the original
motion so as long as and you have your meeting yeah so you can you can like send these okay well with the cor yes the correction uh find out how long to get it okay because you still need your
animation so if that happens to get updated by then or you want to need to anoun by because they're looking to do it like all right good okay so that's that question before
jum um last year I emailed Miami day rescue for their FR is that something that I should do this year again or is that something that's already been done yeah honestly I don't know because I'm not involved in in the walk but I
mean I can reach out to the principal and see like who's doing that for them need noce like now yeah had been booked it's
Emil well the thing is I know one I think no one knew about it and then I had mentioned it and then I I it's a website and you you and then they were able to to attend no one had done it and that's what happened so if it happens again and
no one send a request not so you can check and see maybe they did it already maybe right so that's for like the helicopter he no that was four or five truck Five
Truck Yeah for us it's going to end up being our Specialties car autism car and they already requested that have no there we had two cars they um took
one out and the other one is a um it's electric oh fully electric okay so no one has a charging s and that's the they have they have one at headquarters but like I don't have a charging station in my house you know people don't have
charging station so that's the problem with getting the car I don't have charging station I mean like they should have thought about this there got to be one because freebie is also like there be somewhere AR there
in the parking garage here the parking garage that's at at veterans yeah Maric they they have them there right I believe this garage has yeah okay that's something that I
can tell them and then able to get there you have to to the car to the the it's filled but then you use it and then you might not be able to get it back so it's fully like M and fuel no
it's FC Adventure spirit and it's the only one because they figured oh okay all right so I'll let you know that so next up okay animation program
so I reached out to um Catherine from Mi day cultural Affairs um she says that they're looking into uh doing another session like in May so she doesn't have the dates yet
because she's trying to get like two classes like a level one and a level two so the returning students can be in level two and we you know start more people uh in level one so they're working on that but nothing is final yet
but you will be the first to so that's the update on that so next up is the car WRA so I wish Jesse was here because she Oh I thought it was I thought it was in the B huh I thought she had the
updates um I mean I can tell you I think you already know though so the town vehicles are older so they're planning on replacing them um since car wraps are on the price your side like around 7,000 depending um where where you go for that that they're recommending that we don't
wrap our current Vehicles because it would be a waste of funds because they're you know going to be switched out so that was basically the update I had well what was discussed at the Town council meeting was about
wrapping uh like a town vehicle because since they're going to be getting new ones um we could WRA one of those but but I don't know how long it's going to be it's obviously not like next
month or probably maybe not even this year like you know it's a long process to get the car Serv the vehicles replaced but um the the gentleman who's donating the car
WP um we reached out to him yes we reached out to him and um you know uh I'm not sure if he's as enthusiastic know word things carefully
here um about you know I mean he uh donated this or or proposed this it's going to be like it's been over a year um
so um I don't know how willing he is to go through with it um at this point so we have to reach out to him again so um Jesse reached out to him that's why I
wish he was here so she could kind of tell us exactly what he said but um my impression was that you know my opinion is
that you know there's a new Administration in town you know this was done through Manny Sid right man you know mayor Sid is no longer here so I don't you know uh I don't know
if uh he's as willing anymore like I feel like the time has passed like the that moment passed you know nothing ever came of it and you know if we want to go ahead and do this once we get the new
cars it would we would have to pay for it you know um just let's just postpone it so let's just move on on this and postpone it because how much is it 7,000 7,000 to
that was that's what you guys would need as far as sponsorship great be less because if it's less then maybe I could do it instead of less I you know if it's an amount I don't know I think a little steep but if it's 4,000 I don't know because it
also depends on the design and the size and there's so many like playing Parts in it that we don't have that yeah that's why I thought the update was this size the half a car the whole car this Dimension so you don't have an update at
all in reference to the car rack was that the council meeting or no or whatever what do you mean council meeting the council said that with the new vehicles it's possible to wrap them but we don't have those Vehicles so I don't have the typ to
you because the police car is I feel it's too complicated we don't own like the town doesn't own their their own police cars so you know not no I would I'm not supposed to talk to you guys can sh me
down at point but I I mean I could if you guys want you guys can make promotion or I can pledge you right now that and I'll find you somebody that can do the car wrapping and then the designer I can work with you we don't have I mean we can simplify we do a fundraiser we could raise of money I can
put in the bulk of it and you guys can make a motion and we can get as soon as the cars come in you will have everything done and I don't know how that works with the Robert's Rule situation but I can pledge a good Chan could change to that and we can raise
the rest and whatever my opinion table it get more information more concrete information if that's something we want to do in in the hole 7,000 could be it
could be not there's so many options that's why I thought when we saw I saw a car W update I was like okay we're gonna have it's gonna be this this this and if you want this this this this is how much is going to cost like first of all I feel like we need to know the
car yeah is it going a truck is it going to be a van is it going to be just a regular car because the design how much you cover the yeah the design the design also depends on that so until we and that information we're not going to have
for months you know until they purchase the new cars so at this point my opinion is to just like table it until we have that information and you know once we have that information then
we go to the design once we have a design then and then we go after somebody no no the council has to approve the design we can't just stick whatever the council has to approve the so there's like a lot of steps that have
to happen before we even get to the money to they come so they dep on yeah so okay so uh you know we appreciate uh
you know and hopefully in the future once we have everything together and all the approvals that this has to go through then we'll reach out or you know once we complete proposal what exactly exactly exactly and we'll consider
putting money in ourselves we have money so okay so remember the magnets too you can always do magnets and put them on and April take them off right yes and get more cars involved absolutely absolutely so all right next up special
need safety program do you have an update um you're yes I do have updates so we we don't have any more registers um but we had a
call a few days ago where a 5-year-old was found wering in our community yes um a passer by stopped um held him in his car
comfortably until the police arrived police arrived a they thought absolutely it's going to be a special child for sure because he wasn't bable he weren't able to get a name few minutes later the parents
showed up so two things one is obviously because of the type of call um I'm getting in contact with the parent I haven't had luck with it because the phone number I haven't had any way of reaching them I haven't been to the house I only called uh my next step is
to go to the house leave my information so that I can get a call back so that's where I'm at with that but the other thing that that was brought up is even if the child had been on the program he was in
veral we have seven kids that look the same in the program you know they're Hispanic descent same height same hair color who is it so I reached out to um
the town attorney with he's on a to see about a picture with the the pan so that when I sent out information to the units um to Via the email there's an actual picture attached and now we know
if it's somebody from the registry or I like that idea I and with him also it's the the legality and how we can add it to the to the packet so he'll get back to when he
comes back yeah yeah he he did um respond but he's in Europe I think so he's like I told worry you know when you come back we'll talk about it okay you have enough flyers I have enough flyers I was look at
from a chair John and that's it thank you okay so um the next one is the
neighborhood Improvement the bik the bike ride the autism bike ride anybody have any information uh it's taking off from the farmers market have we reached has any last
year okay yeah so they were collaborating with them again so I think it's more of like you show up for support you so same idea so it's on April 5th 8 uh Main Street Farmers
Market they'll have a table the registration table event break resource 11 this every we have the people V today about the yeah that's the only
thing I think we're ending so do we have like and bracelets out going get that under the uh resource the one thing is uh if the to can start putting it out yeah remed to start
ading last or this is coming that way people that very good for yeah we'll start advertising at what time is the bike ride 8
a like that's what8 that's the time the bike ride actually starts or that they're telling people toister check and then 8:30 it takes off me okay yes I'll be there so next up is the resource fair
with hearts for autism that's going to be also on April 5th um it's from 10 to but that might set up say Okay logo
soine you yeah um what I have in my profession is I don't know what they call I know I should know after 20 years the
little um in and out we have more than enough bracelets the little rubber bracelets which um but we I do not know what we have in stor okay as oppos as to um The Spinners the
digit Spinners the pins and the little bags to put the pins in who stored it for you you know I have a feeling is in John's Garage okay I gota wait for her to come back to ask her if she ever turned them
in from our last event okay from the barbecue M I know that she doesn't have room I definitely don't have have room to store it we would have to go back to Mary Collins or wherever we store their stuff right okay okay I mentioned I I have inventory
of the the um more than enough we don't need to order and I'm I believe we have more than enough of the bracelet there's still a bunch left um the only oh and the other bracelet
the pop-up bracelet we have have plenty of those the only thing other is I don't know what we have as in Spinners because I am not in possession of that box
John so to play and not enough pin I have a handful of pins left you so I would like to put in order for the little bags The Spinners there's no way of you checking
what our order was last time this was through Amazon Amazon uh yeah it should still be in there that I used to have the list um
so any ideas of any other items that we need we got bracelets got popup bracelets um what to see what John Yeah but I don't think will'll be a lot that we've used them three or four
times so I'm putting in an order for pins for sure yeah the bags of go spin blue and then those the those um Transformer yes and the round one with the cut cakes okay yeah perfect anything
else you can think of nothing else is missing from our original order and they seem to be going fine except we're not ordering any more the other stuff that's yeah that's okay
um getting it out I make a motion to buy some pins bags Spinners and other ex sensory items for our resource
fair and future events not to exceed $500 out of um I would say that may be social and Recreation social a social and
Recreation line item second allor motion passes you okay so we also need to allocate some money for the resource fa yeah the food the
decorations um know for the yeah so I make a motion to uh allocate $1,000 for all that stuff for
operations uh food plates cups Etc everything that we need for the resource Fair out of Social and Recreation lineup yes I second all those in favor I
anything else you guys can think of for that for the fair all right Miss Audrey thankfully she takes care of all the registration and and all of that for the for the vendors and we're good with that all right so
moving on Hope for Au Gala okay so who's is going as far I know right now Jesse excuse me Jesse will be attending Jesse by herself yes
myself Ethan Rivera what about um John is going yeah but this is where theable John is going so eight so John's going John is
going ran going offic so Amador oh wait a minute oh you can't make Kim it's this Friday okay I have to see what my husband schedule is he works for yes
sood what time is it at 7 o' it's said s and uh great I don't know about Francisco so John's just one then the last two will be possibly gimber go yeah if you can't go I know
there's Council one of the new council members that just no he's going um hburg hburg he wants to go but it's sold out so I know he had told my that if if
there was any cancellations that he wants to go so so is it two tickets or one I'm two it's two okay so let me see it's the hottest ticket in
town no um I'm sending it to you Ethan okay I just sent it to Kimberly thank you yeah I think we should be able to go maybe we'll be a few minutes late depending on what time he gets home but I think do but I will give you a confirmation
that way it could go to someone else to so next one is the card parent support group on March 20th I just want to make a motion to uh buy some like buy some snacks for that we don't have to do anything else
um card is doing everything so now are we just paying for it or we also picking it up arranging it and giving sending it yeah I mean I have to pick it up I mean I'm going to the event ah okay so I can take
it event watch what you mean where at the um Card office so I how much no he hasn't said that yet what are what are we providing snack we do so I moved to
alloc um $300 first snack social yeah yeah line have a second second all those in favor so all right so then we have the sensory
Park feacher update so I met with Jeremy his friend and um at the next meeting they're gonna at our our April meeting they're going to be doing a presentation of different our our yes
okay our the snap uh meeting they're going to be bringing some ideas um for uh different Parks like uh so they're doing all work for us yeah
that's they should they're the experts I don't have a part Recreation it means it goes smoother because we don't have to go can we do this can we do this can we do this where can we do this yes awesome so they're G to you know I told them
that I mean my preference would be veterans uh the park by the youth center and the one the boundless park at Optimist if we could get like
three like one feature in each three of those Parks because I feel like um those parks are already have people with special needs using because of the classes the programs we hold there right like arts
for autism after class all those kids go to the park Veterans Park the uh karate class at the youth center they all go to that Park all yes
so I figured those three are the best ones to do it in so they're going to bring you know uh I'm gonna do a presentation oh I can't wait yes and uh
I figured I don't know what what you guys think I figured really like a lot of the extra money that we have and our budget um that has carried over is from the co year yeah because we didn't spend
those 20 something thousand so um you you know obviously this is something that'll be discussed later when they but those features are around $5,000
each okay so I think that will kind of take care of a big chunk of that money that hasn't been spent and I feel like we need to spend it before and we we need to the upgrade yeah so um especially if you want to be in more
inclusive community exactly so um you know they were even talking about ribbon cutting oh so that'll be exciting so next meeting you know well they're they're going to come to our meeting and
and very excited about that um all right so new business the spee therapy sponsorship in know you said that that she she's going to come next going to come next meeting
to the presentation okay so she wants to propose uh if we can sponsor like a scholarship um maybe for group will be better because it will be like not just
only one can benefit so it will be group of kids that will benefit from her class but it's going to be more like a a functional speech language class group class and and she's going to
say how many sessions a week uh for us to sponsor those type of service for in speci she did really something really nice for like I I I do feel as a
special need Advisory Board we are that we also need to like concentrate a little bit more about giving the kids some of their needs also and I think a speech is one of the service that a lot of the kids
they do have they do have their insurance but there's a lot of kids out there that don't have insurance and parents are struggling to get this therapist and and so I think we should have like a class where everyone
can just register if they need the service and the speech therapy is one of the you know a therapy that they most need for any and if autism Down syndrome anyone with specialy needs a speech for
a long time and um and I think we definitely need to support something like that so it would be like a group therapy yes M yes and um so she did something like really very nice and unique and
what they she also does it in a farm but it's like an open space and the kids you know there and their nature were talking to the the animals and and you know making all these different you know
sounds modalities and you know like for them to really open up and and and talk and so she she's she's also very good into that you know with that kind of therapist and I think it just you know
when you go to therapy you go in a room and a kid just you know just watching the therapist and following the therapy having in an open environment and you know making it with a group it's it's
something unique and nice and more social too so so I think it we definitely need to support something like that does does she have her practice or location here my she she's a private
speech therapist she goes to she does go to G's and uh and she has a private office in
cores in the farm where she also does is in the farm uh is in Homestead but she also see kids here in Miami L like private kids in my she go pH
and but one of the things that I really like about her is that she she's not just a speech therapist she make it very functional for the kids like she finds every sing every single kidne is a
different way of approaching and so so they feel comfortable they feel like they they do want to talk to you because a lot of the information is here but how do you get it out so you have a
lot of these speech therapies where they they are like half an hour and they're just repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating to the kid no she is the hyp therapist that makes it fun make it
happen it's natural it's not about pushing or like making a it's all natural because she makes a functional for them like you know she knows the difference she knows someone with an Autism what they need she knows someone with the Down Syndrome they need more of
the you know the movement the muscle tone someone with the Cal pul she has all that experience and I believe she's one of those therapist like like Bruce uh she
said that it's hard to find she works privately because she's so sick of the the system that that she doesn't want to work for anybody anymore because she believe she can make a difference in someone's life and she's
doing in her and for with her private practice she's willing to help the kids and um and she's one of the best that I have have met my daughter is 10 years old and I know her since she was one year old
so it's the difference so making it work functional social everything just all together it's um so I told her I told her listen just come and do your
presentation shows what you can do because she said that she's not here about the money she's here with the kids so she want to make a you know like something also a package that we can help more kids right it's not a you know
she can make it you know like a group class or she can make it like individual class for if we find specific individual they really need to be more in individual than a group but we sponsor
that and that's huge because if you're making someone life you know I give for example my daughter my daughter has therapy two times a week two times a week she not enough it's not
enough she's 10 she's still you know you you you can talk to her you can understand a little bit of what she's saying but she still needs a lot the you know the moral like that you know functional like you know everything is
here but those her muscles are so weak that it's hard for her to like bring them out so she needs that so she's coming to our next meeting and yes so than you know many of the kids
that I have met even you know when they they do need speech speak and language is one of the therapies that they need the most and believe me this is going to make it someone family difference and I think us as a as a board we need to make
those difference even if we do it in one child at a time but we have to make that difference looking forward to hearing her her proposal presentation thank
you Workshop okay so yes since we were Workshop yeah 17 okay so um we we want to do some workshops together with uh Miss Cruz
here and um our first one would be the one in May is that the one that you requested one in May and one May July and September okay so
um from what I understand like what you need from us is the um the town hall right um the date and location and next no I'm asking her like
what she needs from us from the board she needs location the the location um um obviously we would be like do it together with with you we would it would be like the special needs Advisory
Board um with Law Firm um are going to be doing this uh Workshop or lecture or whatever you want to call it um what what else do
you need from us yeah well I mean reserving the room the chamber for for May and July is a big help and then being able to reserve in advance to September Robert Alonzo because I can't
do that right now without is's help and then I also um I want to know what you guys want me to talk about in the past I've had I've done about three events um and I've talked about you know
guardianship Wills trust um I can talk about that again you know I can talk also about family law like I told my sister this family law um we work those cases together but I want to know what you guys want to hear you
know as far as what what are questions that you guys have that you want answers from a legal stand the last time we did um the panel which you were part of uh about guardianship that's the bar and we're
gonna the year it wasn't with us that was with Loreno that he put that together to the Manny Lakes bar I believe the one that she wasn't it wasn't through us that was the town of Manny lakes that did that we did one with them that we
brought food and and everything we did it it was our event yeah no it was like two years ago yeah it was a while ago rehabitation Services yeah but it's been it's been
years already since we've done one in Guardians ships that was the last one um so I think were doe for another one because a lot of kids have turned or about to turn 18 yeah that you know are
probably wanting me to attend and the law there's more more people talking about it because of the law with the filing of the um the credit report credit so it's kind of getting a conversation going of okay you know who's who who's he's going to do it for
us are we that's so I think we should start with that one the m so in May you want a panel or you want a v because the M SP can put together a panel usually those panels have
different areas from criminal law to Insurance to and I can you know we can also do guardianship what we can M xar can do that in addition to these other two plus the x or I we can make the one in
May but it would be my be a collaboration could be collaboration so it could be Miami bar collaborating with the Special Needs Board and but they're also going to want to talk about other areas not just Rel
susp trust not familiar with that's what I'm saying the Mi bar and and again the Mi bar there's a lot of people involved a lot of opinions okay there's less there's I can tell
them the board here wants this and they'll be like yeah but we want that so it's going to be a little hard I remember when we had that panel the only topics were Special Needs Trust and yeah yeah okay Special Needs
Trust and and uh guardianship okay those were the only topics discussed okay well I can do that for you in May okay I can do that in May for you and we can talk about uh State planning when you have special
needs and we can talk about guardianship all I want yeah yes not the bar not the bar because just to clarify yeah okay that's usually about an hour yeah or and it'll
be whatever you guys I mean usually like um people have a lot of questions like the question leave some time at the end because yeah I did one in lunch and I had about 40 people come lunch or you
know like during the week and then I did one because people kept asking me who W in after work so I did one for about an hour and a half hour of lecture half hour was like a mingling talking people I had a bigger attendance there and people like that yeah yeah usually we do
them after work yeah okay so we do that you guys tell me in May what day you guys want and we can week okay like Thursdays are good yeah my phone me I'll be fine I'll move things around
you guys tell me what day in May you like maybe the second Thursday of May you guys like from 6 to 7:30 15 there Workshop what about the what about
May that's techically the second no's not me breaks in two weeks two weeks in March right may may right now is available what time are you thinking when if the the kids go out of
school first week of junee around June 7 6 to 730 so May 8 the whatever helpot planning you guys put the you
want me to do you want to put something together really with canva the town also uses Cana we have for our marketing like specific fonts we use but if you want to send us what you have and we can kind okay work on something different
all she you're the best to advertise it know language okay so and one live what do you guys want it's are out of school out of school in
July in July you think you this summer is kind of a tough event okay so then we can just do the workshop the the the lecture in May and then the Expo in September okay or if anything else comes
in in between we can figure out okay um so are we going to do like food that main e one so we set the date and everything now yeah big good
place we are the ones putting it on right right but you guys want to do something different or do the same thing we do or we could get it like I just oh when I when I when I did that one after in the
evening we had the T we had 50 chairs Town Hall put up to 50 chairs in the back we we rented like four high tops and then we had food towards the window but what kind of we had
um I think we have like a we work with a cater she's really good and she's not too expensive um but up to you guys obviously I'll be paying for it as well so you guys will just tell me how much if anything you
guys name k she's wonderful yeah Friday see you Friday yes see Friday um I mean usually what we get is like
public sage and and with little desserts you know cookies kind of like bigger Foods a popcorn chicken um that's usually what I try to make it a little bit
sounds good I try to make it like something like you know what did I call it last year that's I a panel's usually more elevated yeah something nice and she decorates and she makes it cute the high top she put like a little flower it's
kind of like you know get out of the house and learn but it's so we would have to get a quote from them but the thing is for how many people I usually get a quote for 35 people I've done with her like a CH cering that she doesn't charge me too much for 30 a quote of
35 I could get you an idea of how much that would be but you guys can just we can vote on it next month we got time all right right and then um we be in contact with her in reference to the CER she still have to go to you submit
the quote to you and then you get to us yeah have to do a motion yeah either way you have to do a motion if that's what you're going to do so when you see the quotes the wants to do that there'll be a Mee they
can if she can do a couple of a couple of different things yeah this and this what type of foods do you guys like not sandwich I think you should I don't know yeah that's what I
said if she can give us a couple of them then she don't ask him what do we like want no I mean just IDE she'll give you she get a budget based on the foods that she's gonna be but you pick and then we
you guys my C the catering that I did for the event that you attended oh it was nice yeah and it was Sushi and springles you know everybody I didn't e a single thing oh my go it was gone there was one Sushi and I to get it
and that's why I said not just one proposal she can give us two or three yeah this and this and this and then we can decide because I I feel I feel bad if she brings one it's a sushi and they're like oh but we're
not vegetarian or oh but that if we have two or three options we can pick well she can pick so here's my idea
if Miss Cruz is offering also to go in on the cost however Miss Cruz mentioned something about H tops and H tops and stuff I used kenzel party venil and they're very affordable high tops I don't remember
off the top of my head but I have I just did my my installation at that location and they were very affordable I got them for the French so I can give you a call on that right well we can whoever the town vendor is right now
thing and they have to become a town vendor and I'm sure the town has a vendor that that's high tops I'm sure you do um for any vendor you would want to use we would need their Certificate of Insurance and their
vendor license as the upors too yes off yeah they have to register the with the town does usually PR
Qui okay okay it's very fast okay so so do we have to make a motion just we don't put a price on it yet because we don't know what um well it sounds like you're going to inquire about some quotes so I don't
think you need a motion on okay I I didn't think so but you said need a Motions like for next meeting oh yeah okay okay um are you going to request the room December yeah yeah I got
it but where is that going to be okay I why Roberto Alo and not Mary Collins I mean that's totally up to you I'm expecting at least a 100 people I'm hoping if Mary Collins could if you guys
think that's better by all me find out about the soccer schedule and the sports schedule because if there's an event at that Park they will be parking they will be you know same with Mary Collins but at least Mary Collins you know
and yeah you're not there there's no like sports programs I mean there's not much parking but on think also have dance class I'm
sat can we put tentative Mary KH to tentative Roberto Alo excuse me right now it's signed up for Roberto Alonzo but I can make a note if you want also do right now I did detail TVD to be
announced so it's not like a final okay just how how would we who could we check that with about um Roberto Alonzo and finding out about the sports schedule because that place is a mad house or
there's soccer right maybe Parks I can see see put cont Parts yeah I think it' be Parts cuz we we're Roberto Lono is part of our parts right yeah Parts because also September it's two weeks after school
two or three weeks after school started they might not start yet they might not start yet but that's something to think about so we got check with parts usually because they might have a schedule for
extended you know July summer camp and what what is the um what are the hours you were thinking for the resource I thinking like 9 or four it could be 10 to I don't know you guys can what's
best you four of that size no smaller yeah did they last 9 to4 the thing is it's more people you don't have to necessarily be there all day the thing is we'll be we'll provide a schedule of who's going to be talking at
what time so they could pop in let's say they want to be listening going to be like a panel and different schedule times not so much a panel but let's say at 10 there's going to be somebody talking about Medicaid waiver at 12 there going to be talking about guardi ship so you can pop in and out and you
listen to what you want to but the start time like let's say the first speaker is at 10 you get in there at 9: you start you know yeah and you w know to get closer and start scheduling I can come up with a schedule soon the thing is I want to like like
the woman she was just speaking of to speak to her and and you know you know talk to her and if you know we and then she could be somebody that could be there and she could speak um maybe about three speakers and people
that you guys maybe know and have worked with you say this person is amazing you know okay so the time will be flexible for now I 9 to5 now just a general time
yeah announcements any announcements do you do you want us to um combine theal s program at this Expo something also for the decal yeah that's something Definitely Maybe a said time for people
to come in and the best person would be this doing the de what can you explain quickly what that what is that they have to register and then that that day as soon as it gets processed because
it has to get um actually you know checked out make sure everything's on application on the application and then it it goes to our Communications so through Communications after it's processed then I CH SP with
them and then I I talk to them and get them off and what are you guys verifying because if they haven't been declared incapacitated what is it that you verify no no just verify that there's enough information on the because it's all voluntary they can put whatever they want so that's that's not the part that
takes time it's getting it to Communications and communication putting it into the system so that when they call 911 it comes out on this patch that the special needs person is at that house is there a way of that day when they register they get a decal that day
so that it's more streamlined or can we streamline the process from now to September to get it so that we have like 50 people people they're ready to enroll and get their decal that day but they need to get a visit he he goes to visit you in person to meet the the
individual um it's not instant yeah you have to have to do a visit like that day he walks up to your table that wouldn't you have to go to their home we can have applications and tell them to go yeah that's that's the way we've been doing
it it's it's been working out I'm just trying to see if we can kind of and it's only yeah what happens how do you update like we're in the program how do I update my new address a just the person
reaching out so can I give you my address now after weour so you can update it okay okay so so sorry okay can they apply online and then that way from now to September that'll be ready and they
can pick up day yeah they can do that yeah well I mean if they don't want like because the thing is the the purpose of the visit is more so that the specials um applicant has um like a positive
interaction right so that's really what it's for is come to the house they see the uniforms I I I get in in our typical uniform that's be and then it's like a positive thing for for the for the person that way if they see an officer
on the street they can see it as a positive okay but these deons are put on their home right oh my God so I'm thinking is there so there is a way for them to fill out some application from now till then and then pick up their decal the day of or I'm just trying to
get it befor be so but how can the Expo kind of intertwine with that program the the Expo would be for the information of look this is what we have and if you want to sign up sign up okay I mean that's the way the applications and the application are there listen you know
application here and then let's follow up yeah you have to have on your next counil report because it is a new event new initiative that you're doing so what's next to you know over there so it's it's on that
list over there I yeah you're Su in summer yeah just to bring it up to them I'm we be meeting before any month yeah the last thing was if you're doing
a special you want try ready kind W yeah motion okay but I mean do we have the number yep you have 105,000 so you mostly use aware skill in
Socia for your main three line so it's basically so this is the amount we're breaking up not not um what we have and then what we're putting in that is the total okay so we have to decide the total not with
the new money coming in that is what you're Distributing that number okay yeah because before one time we had we this is how much we got let's break it into add it to so and so so and so and so and so right right but this is
exactly you want to try real quick on the screen what you can bring it up real quick on the screen the budget and we can I don't think we have a lot of line items yeah I can it's aware skill and social those are the main three you have
grants and needs and training you don't use them as often so I wouldn't put that much money in them so I go go bring it up bring it up I have to leave um great um think everybody do you have an extra sticker on you by any chance
because I moved so have the stick hey if you want tomorrow we can guys have a greatek Fray let us G let you know I prom Tex me the information I did okay have it on my computer you know
it's smaller listen I'll take this number and to line it up and this is the what it is this is what your account is right now so see we got aware skill social
Grant needs fining well most of them goes to most of them should go to the social skill and aware um because those are the ones you usually use especially social the total 1077 to do pennies no that's what the
that's a number that's what Finance sent me so it's they just want to know what how you want that to split up and we see um what was it before your 2024 finan
e skill aware GRS and AIDS and training so I recomm that most of your money is focused on a wear skill and SOA that's so I say put 25,000 in each one of
those and then divide the other two whatever's left switch around either yes this is just so that the money isn't be perfect as chair you can allocate 700 if you wanted to switch anything more would have to be with
councel yes okay got it you got it y you want to make the motion y to see your thing see the right R okay um in reference to our I want to make motion to allocate
$25,000 from our budget to aware Community awareness skill Community programs and
social and Recreation line items 25,000 each and then for training and grants and AIDS I want to make it $1 5,048 okay Grant and AIDS is 49 instead of no
because then we the dollar over for Grants and AIDS and training $5,450 for for for the last two for the last two so that's I'm going to repeat it so
make a motion to allocate 25,000 to community awareness community awaren community programs commun and social and Recreation and social Recreation and then for training and granted AIDS
training and granted Aid 15, I second I second all those in favor all those in favor I I motion passes okay I move to adjourn the meeting 7:34 p.m.