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Mhm. >> Mhm. >> You ready? >> Yeah. >> All right, cool. Call the meeting to order. You ready, Mr. Secretary? >> That you right now? >> Yeah. >> About the experience. >> You did a great job. Keep going. >> He's like, "You all right?" >> And I hate all of you.

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>> No, cuz I'm swamped with I don't go into work cuz I'm a teacher, but like I have like I do like IC work there, so I'm like swamped with that. I mean, if I have to, I'll do it, but I mean, it's just for this right now. I don't need to do anything after this, right? >> Cuz you don't The secretary tells them. Oh, yeah. So, this is for today's

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meeting. >> Yeah. >> Whoever wants to volunteer. >> I'll do it. I brought my laptop. I feel bad for him. >> He has work. >> Save by Ione. Ione one. >> I remember that. >> Thank you, Ione. Thank you. Okay, so we'll call the meeting to order at 5:46.

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Start off with the roll. All right, so George Alvarez. >> Present. >> Present. Letty Casmayo is present. >> Jose Llano >> Present. >> Present. >> Jessica Medina not present currently. >> Was she excused? >> Yes. Yeah, she reached out to me. She's got something personal going on.

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Let's see who's here. >> Nobody. >> Nobody? Manuel Perez >> Here. Present. >> Romy Figueroa Enor >> Here. Present. >> Carlos Padilla >> That's also excused. He told me that he was going to try to remotely connect, but

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we shall see. Daniel is is also excused. He reached out to me. Um Denise is here remote. Gabriel Fernandez is here. Right Gabriel? What's up? >> I just want to make sure that it's logged as remote for the attendance. >> I'm I'm I got it. Okay.

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>> Did Carlos get in or not? >> No. >> And then Anna B. Torres is not here. >> And she's unexcused? >> Um yeah. I didn't hear it from her. >> She told me she was coming. >> Oh, she did? >> Yeah, I'm sorry about that. >> Give her a chance. All right, cool. So, we want to orders

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of business and referrals, additions, deletions. If anybody's got anything that's currently not there that needs to be there, this is your moment. Please let us know. We can throw it out there. >> Hey. >> Anna B. Torres is here. >> So, you're not late.

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>> Anna B. Torres is not late. >> Yeah, you're fine. >> You just started. >> Totally fine. >> You weren't on time you said. >> I mean, honestly, I don't know what the chances of me being late are too. >> Yes. >> It would be >> So impossible for me to be here by 3:00. It's driving me.

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>> Same. >> I don't know. >> Sorry. >> Yeah, that's what I mean. >> That's why we don't do it. >> Yeah, but there is there something after this meeting? It'll probably be affairs, I think, right? >> So. >> I don't see it. >> I don't know. That was from when we were in the third grade. >> No, in the back it's not here. >> There's public safety. >> Public safety, yeah. That's what I was telling Carlos to

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>> But that's I mean then you would just have to change the day of the week. It's up to you. >> Okay. All right, so orders of business, anybody got anything that's not there right now? You got to kind of brief get through the focus. All right, so we'll move on to

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public comments. >> No public. >> I see no public. >> No. >> We're good? Yeah, nothing online? All right, so we'll move on to the approval of the minutes. So everybody's got their minutes here attached from the last meeting which was quite a quite a while ago.

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The only thing I have is that I was present. This is an opposite of my thing there. I know it's dangerous, but but three in a row. You know, I think I was out of town for a minute. >> It says you were present. >> Just present. >> Does it? >> Members present, George Alvarez, Matthew Guzman. >> No, but I'm on the on the back there's

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the attendance thing on the back. >> Yeah, but that's what they said in the minutes for March. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Well, that's probably >> And the thing is if you miss three excused or absent, you're out. And I'm like, but I I didn't miss that one. I was a little late. >> I don't remember me being absent twice in >> Yeah, I don't even remember being absent twice in a row either. Excused.

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But I'm not sure. I know I was absent once for sure. Yeah, that's my one revision to this. Or not even a revision, just make it known. Yeah, I think the minutes I was there is >> For which one? I can pull up the minutes. >> Probably April minutes.

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I'm not sure April minutes is one I didn't get the email. That I just couldn't put it in my calendar. But we changed it to April 8th, too. It We to be the >> Yeah, we're the third It used to be >> The third >> I don't know. >> I don't know. >> The third Tuesday of the first week there. >> Which is going to be It's not the third because that one day I showed up and

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nobody was here. >> Uh It's just the fourth Tuesday of every month. >> The fourth Tuesday? >> Yeah, yeah. It's just June was a little weird because we did it early in June and then June got Like that was our meeting was the one in early June for whatever reason. I don't remember why.

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>> Well, I was surprised I didn't get any mail in June. Okay. Okay, they finished. >> Yeah, and I don't remember missing two meetings in a row. I don't remember doing that. Well maybe >> Yeah, yeah. It was the one we tried to get the night of the >> I think I might have been the one that I had to miss two meetings.

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>> Yeah, I've missed two in a row, right? Yeah, that's why I was like, I don't remember having two in a row. I definitely missed one. I remember >> In the middle of April? >> I think it's that we had a meeting canceled, didn't we? >> Oh, is that what it was? >> We had an early meeting. We had our meeting pushed earlier to

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discuss the networking event. >> Yeah, for June, right? >> The June one. >> Yeah, that one Yeah, that one was the one we did on the 8th, which is why June which is the meeting we're looking at now, which is why I thought I was like, oh, I was present. Yeah. >> It was just May was just a regular meeting, right?

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>> Right, right. So, May, June, and then it's just been a while cuz we had it earlier. >> Yeah. >> Denisha knows. She has been at all of them. I know. I have no life, right? I don't show you like neither present or absent in the minutes. Like it just I

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don't know what you're saying. For April. >> Yeah. I don't >> Check the cameras. Check the Check the recording. >> Yeah, I will take notes on that. I'll look it when I get home and let you know. I'm going to go over it. Pretty sure that I stand behind it. >> Well, you don't show for either. You

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must say absent or present. Your name is not on there. >> You can close. Okay. All right, so last meeting was the networking social we discussed. Who can be discussed? >> You guys want to do that?

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>> Hm? No, I just I'm going to look at them real quick. So, my whole thing was just let it be known I am appearing as present. That's That's That was my uh >> The whole thing. >> My thing in there. Yeah. Okay. We'll just We'll discuss the

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networking >> Social city is the biggest thing on there. >> Okay. Does anybody have any edits, additions, comments related to the minutes? >> No, sir. >> Well, then I would like to make a motion for the minutes to be approved.

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>> Second. >> Second by Romy. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Cool. So, we'll put on the minutes. Let it be known it was approved. I'm going to get some water here. I'm just saying. All right, we'll go on to budget review. I don't see the budget attached, but the

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biggest thing with the budget that we have was the networking socials and spending that um those funds that are in there. I know originally in the minutes we discussed last time that where there was four left um with the funds in there. So, we're going to do June, July, August, and September.

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June, I don't believe we did one. July, I don't think we did one either. So, we have August and September. And then I guess that leaves us with two $500 openings that are that were for June and July. >> Second. >> Remember Remember I told you

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guys remember you guys any sponsor dollars that are not used get rolled over but any budget money does not go. So, just got you. Remember that sponsor dollars they go back. >> Got you. >> I don't remember. I think we went over it last time but just remember. >> Yeah, no worries. No worries. That's totally fine anyways. We remember we're

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pretty everything was very well partitioned and it was just getting these networking socials in in action, I guess. Just to use the funds from there. But with that in mind, I just want that to be known while we go into the

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new business, I guess, after the budget review. Since budget review, I'm just going to kind of gloss over it. I think we kind of understand where we are. We're in a pretty good spot with it. And it kind of directly connects to new business A anyways, which is the next networking social. So, since we didn't do one in June, we didn't do one in July, we kind of need to do one here in August.

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June and July were weird months anyways. It's summer. It's kind of hard months to do networking socials. That's why the chamber was kind of not really going too crazy with them either. Um but I do have a suggestion for the next one. So, August 26th, the chamber is doing one at Gaucho's.

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And I know that wasn't necessarily one of the restaurants that we kind of mentioned in the last meeting. We have it noted down here. >> August 26th? >> August 26th, yeah. Should be a Wednesday right? Okay. >> What is that again? >> 5:30. >> Okay.

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>> Yeah, it's a Wednesday. So, August 26th, 5:30. I know it's not necessarily one of the places we mentioned in the last meeting. I know the last one we mentioned Pampered Chef and all that, which is bringing it forward. But um that is what I suggest for the council. Yeah, yeah, we partner

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with the chamber. We get in there. And we at least make use of some of the funds there, you know, and help out with the chamber, help out Gaucho's to have a nice meeting there. And it'll be kind of a better time of the year, too. Later in the August, school has already started for a little bit. Hopefully,

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people are a little bit out of the vacation mindset and ready to go and push their business, you know? That's what I'm hoping. Any discussion related to that? You guys good? Everybody's >> I would love the event. I will motion for us to approve partnering up with Miami Lakes

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Chamber for the event at Gaucho's on August 26th at 5:30. >> Cool. I'll second it. >> I'll second it. >> Yeah. George will second. All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Cool. All right. So, we're good there. So, August 26th at Gaucho's, I'll let the Chamber know that we'll follow up on that and help out.

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Um I'll save the boot camp for last last round with you just so you can have all the time you need. Um so, I'm going to jump over to C real quick. So, the Best of Miami Lakes promotion remaining stickers. I know this kind of ties in a little bit with the boot camp as well. So, just real quick, is there stickers

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left, Eileen? Cuz I don't George from BB's >> I think there was. >> asking for stickers. >> Yeah, he never got any. >> The last conversation we had, there was still 200 left. >> Okay. Okay. Is it on my computer? >> I'm not sure. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then we can see, you know, if there's just a few left, we can divvy them up here. I'll take them. We'll figure it out.

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>> 100 of them holding. >> Okay. >> So, we'll do the last stickers. >> So, for the new people, what you what this is basically, you know, we do the Best of Miami Lakes, right? Previously, for the past couple years, it's kind of been the communications department that's kind of been managing that in the town. But, last year, we

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wanted to take more of an active role in in being part of it. Because the EDC, way back with Andrew, was actually the person that got that going in the first place. So, we wanted to take more of an active role like we had done before in the past before I was around and everything. So, we tried tying it in a little bit to

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the um boot camp event. Last year, it didn't really pan out 100% just cuz it wasn't didn't things didn't really align yet. We we didn't have enough time to plan it didn't really work out as well. But one of the results is once somebody wins, they get a little sticker that they can put on their door, right? That says, you know, best of Miami Lakes

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nominee or best of Miami Lakes finalist or award winner or whatever, what have you. Um so what we did last time was we divided up these stickers and we kind of went around and passed them around to the different businesses. So that's what I was in the graphic orders. Um so we'll see. We'll see what we've got left in there and then basically

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it's Oh, I didn't post it up Oh, I go there every other day. You know what I mean? That's where I get my coffee and then you can drop it off there. Sweet. So we've got two packages here. Let's see what we got. We're all good. Are all the names in here? Okay. >> Yeah. >> Good. Should be 1 2

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>> It should be in the same area. >> So each one has like around like 10 people right? So this one has 10 on its own. Open up and do it. one of these What is this? These This one has five. >> This one has

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five okay. >> Okay. So we've got one here with five. Latin America Grill, The Light Studio, South Florida ABA Early Intervention Center, Pro Logic System and JJ Gold Realty. >> That one didn't even get delivered. >> No, these ones that haven't got delivered. >> Oh, so sad. >> No, yeah, yeah.

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But we have the chance now to give it to them. Does anybody want to jump on this? >> You can change it. >> do that if you guys like. >> You're all right. All right, Denise. You know, go with this one cuz I can do the other one that has the 10. Cuz it's all streaming and stuff like that. I'm fine with going around and dropping off.

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>> Yeah, that's fine. I can I can pass by tomorrow and pick it up. >> Cool. You can just swing by the town? >> Yeah, that's fine. >> All right, cool. I'll leave this with Violet then. >> All right. And then I'll take this one. That's the 10. Yeah, it's worth 40 quests, athletic

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zone BBs. 467 Amazonia. It's all around. >> What happened? Cuz I like I delivered one of those packages last year. >> I guess we just didn't claim this one. Nobody claimed the other two packages. >> That's sad. >> Yeah. There's not going to be any user winners. >> Those are nominees. Well, I don't think we give stickers for nominees. It's

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finalists or something. >> Finalists or something. Yeah. Those are nominees or something. >> It's a little sad. We'll give them a year late. >> Yeah. Well, better late than never at least I think I guess. >> Not happening this year, people. >> No, yeah, that's right. We need to do a little bit better when it comes to

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the uh >> We're off on the right foot. >> That's my new year's resolution. >> We're doing well. >> Cool. Um cool. So, then that's what we got with the stickers. Um we'll I don't know if I can discuss a little bit what it comes to the promotion and how that's been going with the uh newspaper and all that. Um the upcoming council report.

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This is going to be prepped for August. I just wanted to put it here so everybody kind of knows about it. I'm going to write that up and I'll have it ready for our August meeting cuz we're presenting in September, right, Dial? That was what you told me. >> I said that. I'm sorry. I just wanted We're still on. No, I don't know. I put it I gave it to

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you, but I didn't >> I don't remember. I just got to figure it out since September so. >> Yeah, August 25th. >> Okay, okay. >> It's going to be fun, right? >> Yeah, let's see. I think so. That's That's when we meet, August 25th. >> So, that's fine. >> Right, what? >> We're already then. We're good.

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>> Yeah, I mean, it'll be ready then and then we just have to review it. If there's little edits, we'll do it that day. >> Yeah, that works. >> Okay, August 25th on this week? >> Yes. Yes. >> I'm just going to sign here. >> Cool. So, I have a little council report prepped and basically for the new guys, what that is is it's the just basically

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the report to the council of all the events that we have going on, everything that's been going on throughout the year, if we have any requests for the council. This is kind of our moment to do that, where it's "Hey, we need to use council for certain purposes or rooms for XYZ or hey, we have a new event that needs town approval. That's kind of

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where we'll do that. Um, the past couple times we haven't really had anything new separate because we did the boot camp. That was like our big event sort of thing. So, we haven't done anything really new other than that cuz our status quo events like the networking socials and all that don't really need the council approval for every single

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one as you guys saw. So, um, we're kind of good on that end. But, um, I'll prep it up and we'll kind of review it on the next meeting and then see if there's any additions you guys have anything else to say, oh, I really want to mention this or I really want to mention that. That's kind of our point to do that. Um, cool. So, then I'll move it over now

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to the EDC business boot camp a little bit mixed in with the Best of Miami Lakes promotion. >> Cool. >> Do you have anything for us from there? >> Yeah, just uh, get you guys up to speed. So, hopefully you guys all saw saw the first ad in the Miami Laker that came out last week. It came out really nice. Um,

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and all the links work and everything is up and running. So, registration for the boot camp is open. Um, nominations for Best Miami Lakes are open. Um, the boot camp is Friday, September 25th, 9:00 a.m. here at town hall. Um, we won't discuss it yet, but eventually like in

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the next meeting or so or the one after that I'll be asking for volunteers, which is all of us. So, we need everything. We need, you know, front door registration, volunteers for chair set ups and, you know, all that good stuff. Um, if you're planning on attending, which I hope all of you will, it's a free event and more

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than anything we just want a presence from all the committee members and to fill the room. Um, block your day from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Cuz it's a a a a a workshop from 9:00 to 12:00 um, and then the happy hour at Chala's roughly from around like 12:30 and that typically typically rounds up around

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two. Um, >> Just 9:25? >> 9:25, Friday 9:25. A- and you know, share. So, share the registration link. It's meant for businesses of any size. They do not have to be local to Miami Lakes. It's open to anybody. Um, I think we're doing a really good job of

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advertising this year, so I do expect to fill the room more than last year. Uh, the room has capacity for about 80 something chairs. Um, our goal is hopefully standing room only. That would be a great problem to have, but you know, share with friends and family. This year the theme is very

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AI driven. Um, so uh, you know, best practices for as uh, business owners using AI, how to leverage AI to uh, get your business recommended by AI, um uh like tips and tricks on marketing, and

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then our inspirational speaker is Milo, the owner of NQC. >> NQC? >> Mhm. Which Manny, by the way, can I tap you on that? I just need you to like remind our friend Milo that he's doing that cuz he hasn't responded to a single one of my emails or my phone calls. >> He's probably better at texts.

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>> Okay, great. Well, just remind him, "Hey man, I just need you to show up Friday, September 20th, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30." I don't get I mean, if he goes to the happy hour, that's a bonus. And, you know, remind him that he's inspiring the masses. So, yeah. Just remind him, just be my my handler

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for that cuz I can't get a hold of him. I So funny, I actually went to NQC, and then he was standing outside. I was like, "Perfect." And then he took a phone call. I was like, "Oh, I know." >> But, he wasn't doing a video? >> You take You take everybody's phone call except mine. Um, and I don't need his head shot or anything at this point. I just stalked

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the internet and I got it. So, if he likes it, great. If he doesn't like it, too bad. Uh, but, you know, he might want to tell like his wife that he's doing this and get people to come to share the news. >> him emails and texts? >> I I I haven't texted him. I have not texted him cuz I don't know him like that, but I've called him, I've emailed

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him nah. Uh, okay. So, that's the boot camp. And that's the >> the night I'm sorry. That That's the same thing, 9:00 to 12:30. That's when Milo's supposed to Yes. >> Uh, okay. So, that's the boot camp. Um,

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at the boot camp, we will will announcing the finalists after the first round of nominations for the best of Miami Lakes. Um so nominations are open for the best of Miami Lakes now. The first round, which is open nominations, will be open through August 31st. So

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everybody in town, the the if you talk to any business owner in Miami Lakes, big or small, nominations are open until August 31st. Um we're going to be promoting that everywhere. There's another uh there's another Laker uh ad coming out. Um and I have my time thing

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here on the board. >> It was the nicest that I did those scratch offs. They came out really nice. >> I did those forms, but I did it on the chamber >> Yeah, they came out really nice. So yes, so all your networking uh affiliations, all of that. Again, you don't have to be in Miami Lakes to vote. You do have to be a Miami Lakes business to be

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nominated. And ultimately, if people write in a business that's not in town, we're going to take that nomination We're going to remove that nomination. But the business must be in Miami Lakes, and they must be registered for a BTR license. Um so, you know, if you're a solo practitioner and you work from

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home, and you have not registered for a BTR license, if they nominate you, we're going to check that with the BTR license list, and if they're not there, they're not there, and they get taken out of nominations. Um the other thing that's important for our best of Miami Lakes, we're making a concerted effort to post, and Vanessa

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and I have filmed some content that should be going up soon. Um just to to give people like pro tips on nominations. So, it it's it's an imperfect science in the sense that it's an open like text box

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for people to type in who they're nominating. We talked at length about different ways to maybe streamline that, but realistically, nobody's going to sit down and make a list of all the businesses in town. The BTR list is overwhelming because there's a lot of businesses that are registered that are

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not brick and mortar in town. And a lot of people have legal business names that don't align with the the on the front door. So, because one of the ideas was what about dumping the BTR list onto the website, but we determined that that was going to be overwhelming because people wouldn't know what's what. Um so, people

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still write in what they're nominating. So, for that reason, we get all kinds of things. We get misspelled business names, we get people who put in Chula's, we get people who put in Chula's Mexican, we get people who put in Chula's Miami, Chula's Cocteleria, right? There's like 15 versions of the

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same business. So, when we sit down to tally the votes, you know, we do as best as we can understanding that humans are processing this to make sure that we're aligning the nominees with whatever names, you know, are in town and also that have a BTR license. Um the biggest

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thing that we're campaigning about for for voters is we created these fun little graphics that businesses can take and post on their own socials to say, "Hey customers, we want you to vote for

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us for best cup of coffee. We want you to vote for us for this." Because last year, one of the things that inadvertently happened is we have a lot of categories. So, for example, we have a best cup of coffee and we have a best breakfast, right? And a place like

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Mayers or Bebes or whatever might split the vote, right? So, I might vote for them for best cup of coffee, but he might vote for them for best breakfast. So, they're not getting the most concentration on either category and then they may have, you know, 200 people vote for them, but

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the vote is split. So, somebody else that gets more concentration on one will win, right? So, we're we're informing people of that, like, you know, it's it's it's it's not a perfect system, right? There's too many categories, and rather than cut back categories, we're putting it on the

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businesses. Hey businesses, you want to win for best cup of coffee? You tell your customers. You rally your customers and tell them, "Vote for us for this. We want to win this." So, let, you know, people know cuz we all know business owners and best man relates and some of you may may and some of them may tell

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you, "Oh, we really tried so hard last year and we didn't win." Well, your vote may have gotten split, right? So, there's these graphics now that are posted on town socials and they can go download them and they can use them to direct their own customers as to what to vote for them for. And I'm so sorry, but

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if you if you you know, if your people spread your vote across three different categories and you don't win one of them, then you don't win, right? So, those finalists will be tallied by the boot camp subcommittee. So, I have volunteered my boot camp subcommittee,

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aka Denise and I and everybody else who agreed to volunteer, that we're going to be the ones who tally up the votes for the nominees. So, so we're going to get the full Excel of all the different votes that come in and in an EDC boot camp subcommittee

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meeting, we're going to sit here and we're going to, you know, like manually assign them to the proper business names and tally up the votes to determine who are the nominees. I'll remind me, we we top we pick the top four in each in each category, the top five in each category?

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>> it's the top >> The top the top four. So, we pick the top four in each category to be nominees. And then those nominees will be like publicly announced at the boot camp on September 25th. So, we're going to

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Voting closes on August 31st. We basically have from September 1st till let's say September 15th to tally and then we're also going to extend personal invitations to those nominees to come to the boot camp so that they can have their moment in the spotlight. We're going to take a group picture, announce

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them, congratulate them, etc. Hopefully get some liquor coverage and whatnot. And then voting for the final winners. So, from those four nominees, a winner is crowned in each category. Voting for winners will open that day at the boot

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camp. So, on September September 25th, we'll be accepting votes for the finals. >> Cool. >> And those votes will run through October 1st. So, they basically have 5 days from uh from September 25th through October 1st to vote for their finals.

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The winners will be announced, I think we said October 5th, via social media. And the final Laker ad that we're going to run, which is on October 16th, will feature a congratulations to the final winners. So, all the final winners will be featured on a Laker ad sponsored by our

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budget as a congratulations right. So, we're we're trying to you know >> We're running Laker ads before that too, like leading up to that? >> Yeah. You know, we have a whole we >> We have a whole we have four Laker ads that we approved. >> And there's like following the flow of this on the 16th. >> Yep. Yep. Yep. So,

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>> Set October 15th. October 5th is the winners announced, I think. >> So, the winners are announced. We don't want to withhold the results until the Laker ad. So, the winners are going to be announced on the 5th, but the Laker ad is going to run on the 16th. And this is actually stated in the in the contest rules. Um and in some of the clips that

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uh Vanessa and I filmed, like this is part of the grand prize. You get featured on a Laker ad. >> Cool. Cool. >> Yeah. So, we're trying to attach something a little bit more tangible to it. >> Cool. Cool. >> Mhm. Um so, just so you guys know, the Laker like the timeline is as follows. So, we

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just did the July 17th issue, that was cross-promotional, go register, go vote. The August 7th issue, which is upcoming, that one is more focused on uh that one's more focused on Best of Miami Lakes. It's a reminder that nominations

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are due by August 31st, and that the finalists will be announced live at the bootcamp. August 31st, nominations close. We have an ad running on the September 4th issue, which is more bootcamp focused. So, registration reminder, um and kind

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of like uh don't miss out because we're going to announce the finalists of Best of Miami Lakes live at the event. September 25th comes, we do the bootcamp, we announce the nominees, and we reopen voting to decide the winners. October 1st, voting closes,

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and then October 5th, the winners are announced on town socials. On the October 16th Miami Laker issue, we issue a congratulations to the winners, and you know, see you at next year's bootcamp. We're going to do the bootcamp again, or whatever the case may be. So, that is the timeline. >> Where is going to be that 925? Is this

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the the one here in the >> Yep, right here. >> Yep. >> Okay, that's what I find interesting. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Um the only thing that we really need to decide on is uh I don't think I don't think we have a next meeting date for the bootcamp subcommittee.

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>> No, I don't see one in the meetings. >> Okay. So, we would need to decide on a date for that for I would say for Well, we should meet in August anyways, but we should decide on a date for August and decide on a date for early in September so we can tally

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the votes. >> What um around what time are you looking for so I can check that? >> 6:00. >> 6:00 to 7:00? >> 6:00 to 7:00 would be great. So, a meeting for August and a meeting for early September. >> I And I wanted to ask this the word

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categories uh is that something that we're going to you know, suggest some businesses around town? >> We or you go vote. You go vote for whoever you want. The nominations are open. So, you So, you go and you nominate whatever businesses you want. >> Okay. Hold on.

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>> And you can submit multiple nominations, whatever. >> Okay. Yeah, good or not. Okay. >> Yeah, yeah. And then once we're done with it all, and like our follow-up meeting, we'll discuss the categories again. We did last time, too, and see if we want to remove any, add them. >> What we really didn't get to do much this year is from the categories now. We

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can see how that works out for next year. >> I remember at the start of this, but we just ended up adding more I think is what we did. Hey, what happened? Oh, we're we're wrapping up. >> Yeah, seven days on the key. >> Uh so I guess we're going to record

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locally. >> I can stop it. >> Okay. >> I want to ask you what is the best of all the professional service? What is that supposed to >> Anything that doesn't fit in the other category. >> Because I'm looking at messed up. >> Anything that doesn't fit in the other categories.

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That's why it's other categories. >> The overarching theme. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Oh, we have I can >> Oh, speaking of other. >> So, um something that was brought up that apparently was an issue last year, which is again why we created the little templates for businesses to direct their

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buying base, right? So, for example, somebody got upset and I don't know if it was first origin or what, but somebody got upset because they were a broker and didn't get voted for best real real estate. Cuz there's a best real estate, not best realtor. There's best real estate.

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So, you know, a broker's office could fall