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dance vice mayor commissioner chernoff said I heard you um commissioner smuckler she's on she's definitely here I can hear her we yes I keep forgetting we did a
record timing I know somebody moved me but he he has a better person next to him covered on each sides okay okay everyone's on the desk vice mayor is not here but I know she's
probably oh she's coming I don't think she heard you listen everything smuckler is better you need a shirt it's better with it's better with o o' all right
so the time the time is here's our Here Comes our vice mayor the time is 6:12 um today's meeting is our uh regular commission meeting Madame clerk can you please do the roll call for our February uh 18 2025 meeting thank
you here here here pres pres present Mayor Michael Joseph present Mr Mayor you have Quorum next item on the agenda
invocation Reverend Willie May Williams from greater Gibbs Chapel African-American African Methodist Episcopal am Church please come on down thank you what either one either either one either one's fine good evening to all good evening
and before I pray I you know I was taught that you go and do what you're asked to do but I have been going through Memory Lane because I worked at janif kenned middle for 10 years and amazing I have two students in here
which you know I don't I don't say that loudly because then that makes me look old but it has been a pleasure and especially I was a home economics teacher and so one has been telling me how much he has been cooking that voice that you all heard earlier that was my
student and when I taught at JFK it was junior high so that means you know like seventh grade and that's that that does make me look old but praise the Lord I'm here and I am at greater givs uh Chapel I I've only been there maybe two months
now um I Heard the invites for black history and I'm going to do the same thing but all of the churches seem to be having something on that same Sunday but you're invited you're invited to Greater gifts on Sunday at 3:00 for a black
history worship let us pray thank you God thank you for this opportunity to come together where we have people with one purpose in
mind and if it's not one purpose in mind it should be one purpose in mind and that's for the city of North Miami Beach so now God I ask that your Holy Spirit come into this place I ask that this
meeting go father God and there are no issues that unity and love can't solve I pray now God to the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the same
God who saved the people that we read in the Bible called the Israelites I pray now God for this city of North Miami Beach oh God whatever it is that needs to be fixed within this city for we live in turbulent times
we've seen things we have never seen before we see actions and violence and all kinds of stuff God in the city that when you created it you said it was good so now come come and bless your
people give them ideas father God to stop the violence to stop the deaths to stop all of those things that are happening that ought not to be I pray that you have your way in this
meeting some folk believe that you don't mix god with politics but Lord they even voted in the Bible there was a time when they had to come together and choose people to do
certain things and so tonight we just pray that you be in this meeting yes Lord that everything is done decent and in order and we will praise your holy name because you are a good God you are an
awesome God and even though all around me may be people from different divisions from different denominations even having different beliefs and some don't even believe but whatever the situation is we
can still love yes we can love and so I pray now during this February month during this month of black history during this month of love that you enable us to work together that you enable us you demonstrated earlier in
another meeting tonight you demonstrated love where we honored each other and so Lord let that be the them in this city for the rest of this month and forever more amen this is my
prayer and I have to pray in my faith which says in the name of Jesus I offer this prayer amen amen thank you rever next up is uh number three Pledge of Allegiance we we all stand I pledge allegiance to to the flag
of the United States of America to the for stands na indivisible andice for all okay Madam clerk we are on number four
request for withdrawals affirmance and additions to the agenda mayor for the requests of commissioner Smith item 11.2 which is resolution number 20259 that is to be
withdrawn there are two applications for the Civil Service Board that will be added under appointments the first one is to appoint Lewis Hawkes to the Civil Service Board that will be item 13.2 the next is appointing Irene pellinger to the Civil Service Board and
that will be item 13.3 further request of vice mayor sue a discussion item titled Charter Review Committee will be added under um discussion and that will be item 15.3 those are the only changes that I
have which one was deleted oh the 11.4 11.2 resolution 20259 thank you okay you're welcome can you clarify what withdrawn means Madam clerk don't mind Mr Mayor go ahead
please withdrawn that will be re removed from this agenda we will not be hearing it tonight so there there's no time certain on anything it's just been withdrawn from this agenda until further notice at this time thank you okay which item was
that please 11.2 resolution 2025 d09 Street lighting repair may ask commissioner Mr Mayor 11.3 11.3 oh okay I was about to ask like why 11.3 okay so it's 11.3 I stand correcting oh so 11.2
remains 11.3 uh resolution 20258 we're goinging CH 11.3 I asked it for to okay can you just recap real quick um Madam okay so um for clarification yes please to be Ted I ask 11.3 to be Ted no to be tabled then it
have to be a vote because it's already on the agenda okay pull it please withdraw it yes thank which item please 11.3 not 11.2 no okay um mayor I have a commiss
commissioner flont thank you um well in that case um I'd like to withdraw 11.2 okay so that's tabled um can I have a request for a motion and a second to approve the agenda as as amended motion have a second move all in all in favor
say I I any oose any oppose one oppose okay so it passes next item is presentations legislative update from our great Senator Chevon D Jones is he in oh we have a someone representing
them please stand up come e poter no he is not Sheron he's not the state senator not wearing the glasses he's a little taller all right um here's some of the handouts yes I'm going give you some of
my cards as well welcome thank you all right um good evening everybody good evening uh my name is Devon vilr thank you for having me I serve as the district legislative aid for District 34 Senator Chevron Jones um on behalf of the senator um we
thank you for allowing me the opportunity to join you today uh the senator wishes he can be here um and he would like me extend his regards as he is currently in tasse for committee weeks ahead of legislative session um which is beginning soon today's updates
will serve as an opportunity to learn about the upcoming 2025 legislative session and inform you on how to get involved current session goals include um many bills that the senator is bringing forth to the legislature some
of which I will share with you today the first bill is SB 268 public records and public officers which will impact the mayor and the city commission this bill bill will create a public records exemption for various
public officers protecting the partial address and telephone numbers of the officer and their spouse as well as uh protections for their minor children as it relates to their name date of birth telephone number uh and name of their
school or daycare this bill is not meant to hinder the transparency of Florida Sunshine laws but instead it aims to bring uh the protections meant to to protect our elected officials who over the years have increasingly been subject
to threats and harms as well as to ensure we are protecting our democracy excuse me our democratic system and creating a safe space for individuals who are thinking of running for office Senate Bill 268 passed in the first of three committees this afternoon
and we are looking forward to carrying this bill across the Finish Line this session another bill that our office has filed is Senate Bill 20 four educator certificate excuse me educator C certifications and training which was filed last year but was unable to get
across the Finish Line this bill will require active shooter and mass casualty training as part of Education certification uh whether that be the traditional route or the alternate route and will also include fiveyear
recertification Senate Bill 204 is not meant for our teachers to become First Responders however it is intended to to equip our teachers with the tools and resources necessary to keep themselves and our students safe in the event of a horrific tragedy that we have become all
too familiar with among other among other legislation our Will Champion excuse me our Senator Will Champion heading into upcoming session is Senate Bill 236 the community violence task force
this bill would create a task force within the Department of Law Enforcement to review system failures and the causes of high crime rates and violence in urban core neighborhoods and communities this task force will develop recommendations for Solutions programs
services and strategies for improving inter inter agency communication between local and state governmental agencies to help facilitate the reduction of 58% of crime and violence in urban core neighborhoods and communities the last item I want to discuss as it pertains to
legislation is an array of consumer protection bills which aim to keep money in Floridian Pockets these bills have not yet been filed but I want to make sure you all had an opportunity to hear more about them first is the cancellation of Health
Club contracts this bill enhances consumer rights with health Studio Excuse me yes Health Studios other known as otherwise known as gems contracts uh by providing cancellation rights guaranteeing refunds ensuring multiple
cancellation methods and providing online cancellation for online contracts this bill provides greater flexibility and protection for consumers entering Health Studio contracts it ensures the consumers have a cooling off period to reconsider their decisions and are not
bound by contracts they no longer want we're also looking to Champion the elimination of hidden fees this bill targets receptive advertising practices that mislead consumers it prohibits businesses from engaging in misrepresenting prices misrepresenting
goods and services uh misrepresenting benefits and misrepresenting Authority this bill strengthens consumer protection by clearly defining deceptive advertising practices and providing a legal framework for enforcement it aims
to create a fairer marketplace where consumers can make informed decisions based on accurate information as far as Appropriations Governor Ronda santis recently published his proposed 2025 to 2026 budget titled focus on fiscal
responsibility the governor's focus on fiscal responsibility budget uh for fiscal year 2025 2026 totals 115.6 billion more than $3 billion lower than the current year budget of the total
115.6 billion the General Revenue portion is $50.2 billion a 3 $ 83.4 million increase over the current fiscal year 2024 2025 General Revenue budget yeah it's usually for North Bay
Village um sorry yes for North Bay Village last year we were also successfully um able to negotiate over $10 million for 22 Appropriations projects across the district unfortunately the governor vetoed 13 of
22 projects including North Bay Village Island uh Wastewater Pump Station phase three and the North Bay Village Harbor Island roadway improvements both of which were funded for $425,000 for North Miami Beach last year
we were able to successfully negotiate over $10 million excuse me same thing bye bad 10 million okay we'll take it yes hopefully we we can we can give that if we can um but yes one of them one of the projects was the uh generator
replacement for water treatment facility which uh costed $125,000 so for this year our office is sponsoring 41 Appropriations um amounting to over $25 million um and I am still reviewing quite a
few we look forward to working alongside our colleagues in the legislature to get funding for programs that address the needs of our community and as always we are available to assist your community and your constituents please do not hesitate to reach out to our office if
you have any questions comments or concerns or request for assistance I'm here to serve um and make sure that we are working collaboratively to build a stronger healthier and more prosperous Community for us all thank you thank
you next time yes Mr Mayor yeah um I'd like you to take back to the senator that uh please reconsider Senate bill to to against our water department okay um to to that point commissioner we're supposed to have a meeting coming up uh
on the 27th uh to discuss those that particular issue uh you know as some of the Commissioners that were there doing our legislative uh um briefing when we're up in tah Hasa we know how vehemently uh our our standpoint on that particular legislation we made it very
clear to the senator uh and that that resolve has not dampened what one iota so looking forward to that discussion thank you appreciate right next item since uh it
will be 5.4 fi's been pushed over 5.4 which is our first quarterly financial report Chief Financial Officer thank you honorable mayor uh Commissioners uh thank you for uh giving me the opportunity to to present the
first quarter of the city of North Miami Beach financial report um I will start by saying that uh uh it's been three months now on the job as the city's Chief Financial Officer uh one of the things I I want to have as a takeaway today is present you the financial
information but also uh get feedback from the Commissioners on what this report really presents and what does this report doesn't really present to you I kept the same format on purpose because I'm hoping that the next time we do the second quarter we can present to
you the information that's not uh currently on uh on the information on on today uh basically what the report shows is uh uh we are comparing actuals to the budget uh the the city commission
adopted a budget starting October 1st uh the actuals are through December 31st uh 20124 uh of course uh two things are happening during this period um one fiscal year is Clos closing uh the prior year and then we have a new fisc year
that is taking place uh so basically the first quarter always doesn't show uh some level of expenditures as other reports show through throughout the year so the city achieved as of December 31st uh uh uh 2024 a net favorability
meaning that the city collected revenues at a pace higher than what we spend the money and this is across all all the funds uh the next slide will show the line items by fund so about uh the total across all the funds about $20
million which means that most of the expenses are not hitting yet the first quarter for the city's uh general fund as well as the uh water fund and other fund as well as you can see in this uh chart uh you will see there is the adopted budget and
then we also have a column that shows the actuals as of December 31st the city collected a total of about $31 million uh mostly from the property tax and we have about 89% of our collect of our
Revenue collected already uh some of the Align items don't show a uh a collection of Revenue at a higher rate like the property tax as we know the majority of the property tax payers they pay up front the others is due to billing and account receivables
Etc as you can see in this chart is the same as the first chart but you can see the the main source of revenue for the city of North Miami is's property tax and and that's followed also uh to utility search charge so now let's talk about the
expenditures uh the first table shows that we collected $30 million as of December 1st December 31st 2024 as of December 31st 2024 we spent $20 million uh and again uh some of the expenditures
here are lagging of course uh the main expenditures of course what we have like for the pension that's something that we pay UPF front at the beginning of every fiscal year and and others are lagging as as I mentioned the city is going through closing the prior fiscal year and going through an audit and making
sure that the invoices from last year are recorded properly and we're also opening the new fiscal year for the new fiscal uh expans activities uh again uh this chart just is the same as the first table it just showed the magnitude of certain items we
have uh for example you see the police department at the the highest budget for the city and and and other departments uh vice versa this table shows the the nine point the the budget that the city has
adopted for salaries and of course uh there are certain ways you can present this information as far as expenditures I think for the Personnel budget we spend about 75% uh we're supposed to be 100% and most of it can be vacant position that hasn't been failed on time
Etc of course when you look at the city's budget um um the majority of it just Personnel budget and that's what you see in the first chart the capital program uh this the the city commission uh approved a $9.8
million of uh general fund money uh to be uh on the CIP budget uh as of the first quarter uh uh the actuals are not there yet but I think as you know a CIP project takes time for planning and execution of procurement and we're
hoping by the next quarter you will see some activities in this table and again uh this shows also the uh chart that the city has our major uh fund is always be the general fund uh followed of course by the water
fund Citywide expends of course the general fund is our main source of expend and also uh the the same uh analogy uh for the water fund as well salaries related uh again uh this chart is basically showing the expenditures of
personnel by department and you can see uh there are some other departments are at some sort of equity level and with our highest is the police department any questions um commissioner
Smith you gave me that look so I'm assuming you oh my look didn't do anything for you commissioner commissioner flormont I'm just joking uh Mr Mayor commissioner Smith can go first no I I appreciate your bringing it
to us I like to see how it's going as we get further into the year and that we're budgeted well where we said we would be so thank you very much thank you will you be sending us a copy of our of this uh presentation absolutely yes
thank you okay uh Madam clerk our next item is oh sorry it didn't do anything I'm sorry commissioner Flor not yet thank you Mr Mayor um I just wanted to make a request
um if at sometime within the next um 60 days we can get a um a workshop to kind of walk Commissioners and others that may be interested through the the budgeting process and how this works um
because I I believe we all need you know a 101 course because after we vote for the budget um we need to keep up with it to make sure that um you know things are going as planned so I'd like to make that request commissioner absolutely um as part of the budget calendar um that I
sent over to you all um we made the process where it's essentially year year round um staff has already started in internally um as of January so we're hoping that in March we're able to meet with you all to not only go go through
but also discuss um your individual priorities and then we can have a workshop to be able to um talk about where those priorities are and also talk about where um staff sees any type of um available Revenue that's coming in or things that we're seeing from the
legislation as well and then once we get into um June we get the first estimate for Revenue we be going back like we did last year to talk about what what the revenue means how that affects us um compared to what the priority um from
from the commission um and staff has been able to allocate so we're we're definitely doing this um and we'll be in front of the commission and to the public multiple times this year throughout the entire year I I appreciate you doing that because I know there was a request I believe last time we were doing the budget to to start
earlier uh but but in addition to that the the 101 Workshop I think is essential even before we start doing that you know anyone can take advantage of it or not it would be up to who you know whoever wants wants to but I think there should be some time set aside to do a budget 101 so that way you know we
absolutely yes we'll reach out to each of you to for um schedule all right thank you thank you so much on if I can piggyback on that through the mayor please bring to us at that budget Workshop what the CIT money can go to
how much we're spending on Consultants i' like a little breakdown before we plan the next budget where we need to spend the money based on what we're doing in the past and has it been working correct um mam commissioner I
think uh one of the reasons I kept the presentation as is is I really wanted to know from the commission what information is not really in the budget report because the financial information can be presented in different ways and the best approach for it is for the financial the financial information
shows the operation of the city uh and I think there are certain ways we can do that I think number one um through the city manager we're going to be meeting with each one of you to get some feedback about how you want the financial information presented to you uh whether contract Personnel not
personnel and the second thing I think we're gearing up for March this will be our first budget Workshop we haven't set a date yet that would be basically the commission strategic uh priorities that you want to see the next fiscal Year's money allocated too so within the next couple of days you will be hearing from
us and the city manager to set those meetings so we can get more direct feedback from you uh the way I always like to work the budget if I may is to say this is mandated must not touch money that we have to use for contracts
salaries um chemicals that we we know we can't touch how much money do we have left so we can decide where we need to put it but with the money we get that half a penny from transit I want to know how much it is and where it's going and
where can it go okay and I would also like to know really and truly a breakdown of how much we really are spending on on consultants for all this I appreciate that if you're having that Workshop that's what I'd like him to bring I just want to make sure that we're clear oh Mr May I'm sorry I thank
you for indulging us I just want to make sure that we're clear on what the request is it's a budget 101 that's open to everyone correct so that we can know what goes into a budget you know 101 that's like entry level right and then from there we work our way into all of
the details by the time we get to what the manager talking about with strategic plans and all all those things we're we're pretty well versed or uh or have had that refresher so that we can really contribute to the process so that's that's the request so if we can have
that prior to strategic planning I think that That's essential and I I'm assuming my colleagues support that I do okay thank you I I just don't understand why we would have to have a one-on-one budget 101 101 101 no no no a 101 is it
a group or is it um is it just oneon-one no it's a group setting it's aou good yes thank you cuz I don't want them to be doing one one with each of us right no if you don't need it you don't need it I mean but if you want it you I mean I me this is going to be your first budget this is going to be your first budget so
I love it yeah okay I think what he wanted to say is budget for dummies right see okay we stay positive we're going to stay positive the question was um is what is the unassigned fund balance at this point CU I know last
year we had a high carryover to um commissioner Smith's point of not knowing what's actually being expended and so forth what and to Trend with us not actually seeing a lot of the projects go online I'm assuming that right now would have a large
carryover at this rate so my question is what is the unassigned fund balance right now um um um that's a really good question I think that should be the first slide to see how the city ended the last fiscal year the only thing is that we haven't finished the audit yet so we don't have an audited amount the audit has has been taking place
currently uh we're hoping uh that within the next couple of months we will have a more of an idea what that Surplus is the unassigned fund but currently we don't have that yet and commissioner um to to also remind you um any um any budget
that was set aside for CIP projects um that no longer goes into some kind of surplus or anything that stays with the project year over year whether uh there's a PO or not so that money is encumbered um and and this past fiscal year we use funds um to fund projects
from the fund balance which is good but you know given the fact that materials are more expensive if the project is not done within this year even though the money was allocated for odds are we won't have enough to really do it since you know the market rate is high higher to commissioner um
font's point I do think the the 101 would be good because we need to know just how it works how the process works just so when we get to that process of okay what what are our priorities we know the mechanics of it so I think
that's a great idea thank you all right thank you so very much CFO Madam clerk public comment good evening everyone the mayor and commissioner of the city of North M beach has opened a meeting for public
comment at this time there is a 3 minute time limit for each speaker speaker you'll be called to the podium please state your name or the name of the organization which you are representing during public excuse me the city of North May beach request that all in
attendance exercise civility towards each other and our first signed speaker is Mr Daniel Pierre and then katley J W I am the winner I am the
first wow thank you thank you thank you tonight I am here so I look at everybody I see so far everybody looking good the flow look good so far I'm so happy your name please so anyway my name is
Daniel Pier my address is 15240 not is 10 CT okay so tonight I am here tonight
for my neighbors I am here to speak for my neighbors and my neighborhood we have a big big problem in that
neighborhood but sometime people they don't want to come in here they don't want to come in to speak so anyway I don't know about the English they don't to come in but whatever the election come in everybody
go out to choose to vote for every one of you so when it's time for us to have the service from our beautiful city sometime we never see no
one they never spend no money in that neighborhood so we've been pay tax everything so I don't know where the money is spent so tonight I'm here so to speak about the problem we got in that
neighborhood so I been coming there for a long time here to speak about the that problem the problem is still there they never do anything so almost last8 month like that I'm almost got killed in my yard almost got killed
people driving in my friend they almost coming inside the house so that that's the way they do the speed just like they drive and just like the I95 they don't care they 10 they do whatever they want to dud no respect so
I've been crying for a long time so I come in here to ask for at least for the city do something cuz we've been pay tax to make everybody happy share for everybody so we need for some speed bump
in that neighborhood we need that so at least you know you cannot wait until somebody got killed until the kid get killed so not so so I've been coming here for a long time
nothing never done so that's the reason here I'm coming here again tonight to see CU you might hear my voice thinking about that so in that money we have in the budget whatever so try to do something even we put two speed bumb I
will be we we will be happy abouts please do something for us cuz we are the one city I we hope we share the money for every neighborhood make everybody happy whatever you could do if you could do
one for that neighborhood you do one for each one that mean everybody will be happy at least we do something please thank you thank you next next speaker I just we don't interject but did anybody else here when he says one he means one police officer
for that neighborhood was that what he was referring to want to just one speed bump a police not police speed bump speed bump okay speaker good evening mayor and Commissioners my name is kley jashim and
I reside in the city of North Miami Beach uh this evening I'm here to talk a little bit about fiscal responsibility for someone who had work for financial service to keep coming here and a lot of us
who campaign the last campaign campaign on fiscal responsibility I think it is really a tragedy for us to keep spending money on
um traffic study keep paying for things then we all know if you campaign in this city you went knocking on some doors so I'm sure that a lot of us know exactly where the traffic come needs to be placed we've been right
there behind City Hall accidents happen all the time it took a lot of neighbors a lot of heord and commissioner Len Su to finally get some help for us to put a four-way stop sign right there you
leader every day you all I have told you there's a bunch of speed bumps sitting somewhere in one of those buildings that we have and the city manager or whoever is responsible have not placed them and
theyve been months and now you want to pay on 11.3 for a a professional engineering service for the study and design of traffic coming Projects please don't
waste my money okay that 31 million that you are collecting from property taxes can be used uh in the city because a lot of federal employees are losing their job maybe El
M need to come here with his doge uh uh Department in order to come and tell you all exactly where you are wasting money please stop wasting our funds on trying to get uh people to tell you exactly
where you need traffic coming they needed a new leader they are needed throughout the city uh fleeing Heights where Mr Kazan keep telling you all that people are running rampant people could
get killed so no one seems to be listening okay something need to be done please listen to the resident yes I know Phyllis that you listen I know because we we've been telling you all the same thing we know where these things need to
be placed please stop wasting our funds fiscal responsibility a lot of people are losing their jobs okay so this is not the time to be spending almost half a past half a million dollars on trying
to tell me when I can tell you when I can show you exactly where these traffic coming need to be placed thank you thank you next speaker Josh Jimmy and then Bruce lamberto okay good evening uh my name is Josh
jimy I'm here once again I was here maybe a month ago a few weeks ago um and I'm here about the removing of fluoride from the water because this this issue cannot be ignored any longer at the last meeting that I was here the
council agreed to hold a the workshop to discuss the risks of fluoridation yet the weeks have gone on and we still have no confirmed date no plan and no transparency really this delay raises serious concerns about whether the council is truly acting in
the best interest of its residents if a discussion is necessary then why delay it if fluoridation is a safe and beneficial why avoid an open conversation the residents of North Miami Beach deserve answers and action tonight
the federal government has declared chronic disease National Emergency on February 13 2025 excuse me uh the president signed an executive order declaring chronic disease a national crisis and and directing federal agencies to eliminate harmful
environmental exposures fluoride must be part of that discussion fluoride is a known environmental exposure that has never been FDA approved for ingestion the executive order mandates that Federal agency reevaluate out outdated Health policies and ensure Public Safety
if the federal government is taking action why is North Miami Beach refusing to even schedule a workshop if leaders across the country are re-evaluating fluoridation why are we falling behind delaying the workshop is negligence every day this Workshop is
delayed thousands of residents including children pregnant women and vulnerable individuals uh excuse me every day the workshop has delayed thousands of residents including children pregnant women and vulnerable individuals continue consuming floristic
acid without their consent if fluoride's safety and and necessity are still being debated why is it still in our water in Florida alone at least seven cities have already voted to remove fluoride nearly 20 communities Nationwide have ended fluoride since October other cities are
taking action why is it North Miami Beach fluoridation must be paused until the workshop occurs if this Council refuses to confirm a workshop date then fluoridation must be paused immediately the make America healthy again commission is already
investigating fluoride's risks if the federal government is scrutinizing this issue North Miami Beach should not be ignoring it continuing to flate without a workshop date sends a clear message that this council is avoiding accountability the council's
responsibility this council is elected to represent the people not bureaucratic delays not special interest and certainly not in action will this Council confirm the workshop date tonight the public deserves a straight answer if no date is confirmed then
fluoridation must be paused immediately anything less is irresponsible and a failure to protect Public Health the residents of North Miami Beach have waited long enough we are not asking we are demanding answers the time for empty promises is over I urge this Council to take immediate action confirm the
workshop date tonight and pause fluoridation until the workshop takes placek you next Bruce lamberto Eastern chores good evening mayor and councel commission um year ago I was up here on the trolley issue when there when the contract came
up a year ago uh for Renewal and I S mentioned that we should be uh maybe eliminating a few of those trolleys because there's no little to no ridership on them the one from the park and ride aventur Mall the one in eastern Shores has very little I'll Grant you
the the Highland Village and the Washington Park have ridership we need to keep at least two of the trolleys running to to qualify for the funding those two would be the perfect examples of what you want to keep but the the other three or four um that fun the the
the CIT funding for this um traffic caling is a perfect example of what you can use that funds those funds for it would pay for that doesn't have to come out of our general fund and again you're you're being accountable to the taxpayers by taking this money and not wasting it you're using for something bricks and mortar
that you're actually going to see the trolley like an Eastern Shores in the parking ride it it it helps a dozen people these traffic caling is going to help thousands of people and you're going to maybe prevent a fatality maybe serious injuries certainly property
damage accidents will be eliminated not eliminated but reduced by this traffic calming so here you want want to have an empty trolley driving back and forth between Walmart and Eastern Shores burning diesel fuel at the end of the year you have nothing to show for it use
that funding for this traffic calming I've talked to every one of you about it commissioner Smith gets it she she brings it up at every meeting and a lot of you just sit there like lumps on a log and don't say nothing don't don't don't acknowledge the fact that she's correct she's correct on this so I'm
going to ask you again please try to divert some of this funding for this uh it's going to help our budget this is money that does not impact our our budget at all it's it's and I want to call it free money but it's money given to us by the county for transportation projects and
Transportation uh almost anything qualifies for that CIT funding repaving the the streets sidewalks curban gutter drainage all can come out of the C CIT and the engineering all can come out of the CIT funding so please use that money
wisely please don't waste our general funds uh to to do these things these projects um and again we were told last a year ago that any one of the trolleys can be discontinued with a 30-day notice even with the contract there's a 30-day
notice Clause that you can cut one two three whatever you determine uh that can be cut out but I can tell you living in eastern Shores that thing rides empty most 15 seconds thank you very much next speaker Dana Smith
how yall doing today I'm coming with a positive note yeah thank you anyway yeah I'm here I'm a proud father of artism child and um I'm pretty much coming to do about artism I want to do an artism walking
concert sir please state your name for the record oh I'm sorry it's okay my name is Dana Smith for the record how you doing um mayor vice mayor Commissioners appreciate the um opportunity to tell y'all about artism artism started at um 10,000 each child
well it was 10,000 per child like can catch autism now it's down to 36 so it's a big it's a big Hazard that is going on that the urban community does not know or the Central Community does not know that it's a lot of pro um a lot of
different organizations and ABA programs that can help them and provide for them that they are free programs and I just want to get the word out because that's what I do for a living I'm a consultant I'm a promotion consultant I don't I'm pretty much the reason for Rick R Flow
Rider DJ khed pretty much all the big artist is in the inner city I'm the reason why they got big so I know how to do the promotion and marketing side now I'm learning more about the research side of artism and artism is very high high right now and I want to just get
the word out and let them know that we want to provide different services and different different things that goes on in the community just like the um has this thing called the card we have um different programs that that like artism speaks different Spectrum programs that
can help and develop these kids that's growing up with artism so I pretty much want to like propose a um about artism and I have my stuff right here just as well I'm going to be at the on the walk this weekend I have I'm one of the vendors and I'm going to be giving away
a different couple of products for free to the kids or whoever want them so I you know I got a little bit of stuff here that if you want to see it y'all can have it and pretty much this is the proposal that I'm um um I'm putting I had put together so pretty much you know
I don't be into all that long talk I'm not long-winded but I am good at what I do I've been doing it over 27 years I have my own printing company I have my own like One-Stop shop anything to do with marketing I can do it I'm a branded consultant in there just as well and
thank you for everything I'm not here for the the you know thank you all right like I said y'all can check in and look it over whatever CL dispute cler distribute thank you next speaker Jeb
hener hello my name is Jeb Hamer resident monachello um for over 20 years uh the reason why I'm here tonight since our last meeting there's been a lot of developments from our state agencies and comments that have come out uh and and
memos that City other city managers and other cities have uh have written to their City commissions uh about Florida law and Florida Administrative Code which states clearly that when this department of health comes out with a recommendation
or guidance that's who we're supposed to follow and that recommendation and guidance came out on November 22nd and now we're getting 3 months later we still don't have a
workshop um and so the issue is is that according to the Florida Administrative Code we're supposed to follow uh the regulator uh and that's why I'm asking tonight uh it's very important that we respect informed consent of our
community um as a parent uh I believe uh that it's parents have the right to set to say how they can medicate their kids as a city commission you do not have the right to practice against the Department of Health and Medicaid our
community our our par our children uh uh without their uh parents uh permission so the city of Longwood just passed last night they join a whole list of cities the majority of cities are fast um they're moving rapidly to
listen to the Surgeon General um right now birth to six months 0 mill1 milligrams recommended amount this is from the CDC and the Department of Health we're having 7 milligram in
our water right now so we are you know we are not following the administrative Florida Administrative Code the city manager in Longwood clearly stated uh that you have to as a city manager recommend as an officer and by not doing
that you are failing um our residents so immediately I'm asking the commission to because of light of floor administrative code to make a motion to pause fluoridation until the workshop we are causing a huge amount of liability to
our city our utility um we are causing a huge amount of liability and danger to the health and safety of our children our babies and we need to immediately pause floration to reduce liability the
Florida you have the Florida Department of Health behind you the Florida Department of Environmental Protection you have the Florida Department of Agriculture and consumer services that have all publicly come out and said that you will not be have any liability if you choose not to flate now the risk is
on us if we continue to flate thank you thank you next speaker that was the last sign speaker okay thank you so very much next on the agenda is announcements Madame clerk Communications sorry good evening
mayor and commission I will giveing the event list from now to the end of March the 11th heart health 5K Walkin run is this Saturday February 22nd at 9:00 a.m. at the senator Gwen Margolis Amphitheater there will be a free 3D
mogram happening at 8:00 a.m. that Saturday at the North Miami Beach discovery Library senior luncheon Friday February 28th at 11:00 a.m. at the McDonald Center Dr su's birthday Saturday March 1st at 1 p.m at the North
Miami Beach discovery library free community sumba that Wednesday March 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the ulita community center career connection with Career Source on Monday March 17th 10: a.m. at the McDonald Center City commission
meeting Tuesday March 18th at 600 p.m. here at the commission chamber bike rid in the 305 Sunday March 23rd at 9:00 a.m. here it starts at City Hall and the senior luncheon Friday March 28th at 11:00 a.m. at the McDonald Center and
that's all thank you which the next item is the one I was asking m city um commission reports commissioner shernoff good evening everybody um Mr manager have we set a date for the
fluoride Workshop no sir and we close to what what's going on we are waiting for a further direction of the commission we're waiting for um feedback from adjourning or adjacent uh municipalities that we serve for their thoughts and
opinions we are waiting for all presenters to confirm availability and we are waiting um for availability um from the from the dis and and Community all right from the dis from my standpoint please make the workshop
happen sooner than later um we need to answer what's going on and it's the right thing to do so at least and give a deadline to our sister cities that are receiving our water and tell them that they need we need an answer from them you know yesterday thank you all right
Chief Juan pania our new Chief congratulations our deputy chief steuart Nicholls congratulations they had a beautiful award ceremony naming them permanent so thank you look forward to
it and on that behalf this week four what are these Footprints from our Police Department saying they were at my house well I appreciate that and it's under your direction I'll give you credit for it um they haven't been there
in a while and I've seen the cars in the neighborhood so thank you very much yes they walk every neighborhood like they should thank you thank you all right um dolphin cancer challenge is this Saturday also with the heartwalk the same day so I will be at the cancer
thing at 7 in the morning and I will make it to the to the we're not talking to the Heart Walk at 10 10 around 10 um the commissioner Mickey Steinberg has opened
the mom and pop small business grants okay this is from February 18th until March 7th what that is is if you own a business in the commissioner's District which is North Miami Beach North Miami surf sides all different cities
you apply for this money which is free money to the business owner you we I used to sit on the mom and pop committee you give we've given three or $5,000 to each person who applies um for it and
it's for uh businesses to change your computers to uh redo your signage to do all kinds of thing there are restrictions but you got to just go for the applications you can go to the look up on Mickey Steinberg's website we'll
have it there okay also the county is doing a tenants know your rights and legal clinic on March 15th okay at 8401 Northwest 14th AV so
if you're interested I'll leave this with the city and for that good night everybody have a great weekend commissioner floron thank you madam clerk uh first of all um happy Black History Month uh to
everyone um you know we need to do our part every one of us and making sure that we preserve our nation's history and um you know one of the ways of doing that is by preserving black history and making sure that we highlight all highlight all of the contributions of um
the African diaspora here in this country um and so it was good to see um the I believe it's the Miami black is it Miami U Mr Mayor the Miami the the U Mr Mayor what was the
organiz that was here earlier um black Miami day yeah black yeah I want to make sure we get the name right Profiles In Black Miami thank you Mr Black Miami uh it's good to see Profiles In Black Miami as well too
we have um uh nadesh green who's um who's uh nadesh Charles um who's also no green okay well green Charles but um wanted wanted to make sure I highlight her and her her work because she's also
um working hard to make sure that she preserves Miami dat black history and so that's that's very important so happy Black History Month um to you all um aside from that I you know um we we have on the agenda and I just want to you
know preface my discussion on on this item I know I pulled the item on um the Consulting for street light and and uh the traffic calming uh I
pulled that I um withdrew that item um but in addition to that we do have an opportunity um commission to kind of reel in some of U some of this Consulting with item number 11.5 um and so you know I look forward
to taking a deep dive into that and kind of seeing what we're going to do to phase out um when it comes to to um to to these contracts with our water utility um being that we now have a new CIP person on board um and we're doing
we're making efforts in our CIP um uh to to to try to do a lot of things in house so I think we we have an opportunity here to to kind of forecast and see how long are we going to be uh continuing with these work orders um so that you know so that we can really have a water
department or water utility that is entirely uh under our um under our control and and that we're doing the actual work so looking forward to talking about that um and I just wanted to kind of preface my comments during discussion on that item right now so you
guys can start taking a look at it 11.5 thank you so much look forward toed meeting before you move on uh commissioner turnoff had one final thought uh one more thing Mr manager um a direction from me and I think almost all of my colleagues please remove the shading that you put on our window or
cut it in half thank you it's very important the shading the shading that they put in office you don't like it I don't like it do you like it this is very important now he we we've given
direction to the uh to the city manager I think we're all on the same page on that he's going to get on top of it that's we got top men working on it so that's a that's Indiana Jones um Madam clerk commissioner Jean thank you so much good evening everyone
I wanted to start off by echoing um the congratulations to our new um Chief and deputy chief as well as um Happy Chinese New Year and happy black history month and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the Hard Health walk um I
wanted to also mention after a briefing that we got from the national league of cities in reference to Transportation Mr manager I wanted to ask about EV charging stations you know they kind of cut the federal funding to EV charging and wanted to kind of hear what we're
what direction we're moving into does it affect us or not um I've had conversations with our manager as well about looking into short-term rental fees um for for us to implement those fees in the city that can eventually help us to you know as it relates to
revenue revenue um growing projects so I'm looking forward to hearing and you're sharing that those details with my colleagues as well as um our youth advisor board is back and we're looking for teens who want to be more engaged with the city so our parks department is
taking the lead with our youth advisory and I'm looking forward to we have about 12 teens that are currently on Board and they'll be their names will be presented before the commission but we're looking for more teens to be involved in the youth youth uh Advisory Board and many
of you may know that March is National crochet um Mar month so we're looking to do some activations with our teens in the library as well to activate them in um crafts and things that they can actually become entrepreneurs with so again let's have a great meeting and
thank you commissioner Smith thank you um first and foremost I hope everybody had a sweet Valentine's with the ones they love and if you one by yourself I hope you love yourself
enough to have a great day oh man that's so that's what they say love yourself first right yes all right so I have a few announcements and I want to piggyback on a couple things first uh for one thing I'd like to have
that meeting next week but I did not respond to a couple of the residents because I think March 5th the state is going to be voting on floride so I really was kind of going to see what kind of guide they had because
they were looking at March 11th even nobody mentioned that date that was the request I got I'm not sure I'll be in town but if we're just going to discuss it and make a commitment to wait to after March or something but I think we should
have the meeting I think the public now that it's a month later deserves that and if you come at at a workshop you come and if you don't let the public know who wants to help them okay um I
want to also piggy back on the fact that we're going to take down the um I don't know I believe in transparency and the way they put up a a shield in front of our glass people
coming in and coming out you can't see who it is and um I think when you're there alone on Saturday or Sunday it's kind of you can't see so um I spoke to a few people do they like it they don't the majority of us do not but I think
anything like that Mr manager where we're affected personally you should kind of take a poll before we spend the money so if you go in that direction I'd appreciate it and I want to piggy back on why I thank you very much for coming before us and I chased after you I
apologize to you katley that I chased after him just to find out his address his address is 10th Court they want to put that on Ninth Court nobody listened to me last month I told them that the addresses are wrong on 26th Avenue from
163rd Street to where they want to put it there's one road it doesn't even go through it's in l-shape one road one condo there let's if there's a problem on that road maybe we should have a police officer there a couple hours but
by the way I do want to congratulate our police chief I want to congratulate our Deputy but our his staff the whole the whole city of North Miami Beach I know everybody that's a police officer is envious and if they aren't they should
be that they don't work here all right so a couple quick announcements state representative Wallace Esty will be here on our February 28th luncheon he is going to bring from
Tallahassee for the seniors the elderly division is going to come and talk anybody that's interested in hearing what's going on in the state what they have to offer you must make a reservation this the room only holds a 100 people you must call the recreation
department and for that luncheon it is our favorite four-letter f word free okay so that's February 28th from 11 till 1:30 and that I think is going to be a very important talk um I also as
long as we're on our four-letter f word that's free the mamogram is coming here to the library for a free mammogram for all women from 8 to 4 on February 22nd you must call for reservation I'll give the number if you
want to play this back but you it is February 22nd from 8 to 4 heartwalk which um the library can maybe also give you the number it's going to at the library which is where the heart work's going to start is that correct
right we we the the commissioner status of women um Now where's the heart work starting at the Ampitheater at the amphitheater so the library is right there yeah so 786 3531
944 now um the heart workk when she says if I can do it anybody can do it commissioner smuckler because of her mishap with her leg I walk the the circle Saturday to see if I could actually it was a Satur Sunday I walked the circle to see if I could walk that
three miles I only saw one person I knew which I was surprised and it was Senator pizo yelling good going good going I will tell you I've been taking Advil ever since so I will be out there with my Advil and I will walk that with you
commissioner um I just want people to notice that there's so much to read Dr birthday they're going to let you make hats on March March 1st um so please look at our websites there were two events that were
so outstanding so outstanding the Black History Month that that video that they have made I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it to hear people that went to kindergarten and now
their grandchildren are there telling us how the city was formulated telling us things about not being able to cross the wall and the wall was torn down in North Ryan Beach you missed it so look today and this
will be the last thing mayor I promise today I was down there for the senior business lunch in small business lunch in they held the oldest writer from the Miami Herald she's 87
okay she spoke for probably an hour everybody begged her to not stop we wanted her to stay two days her stories her Insight it was an amazing I'm sorry it wasn't taped so
please look at it's going to cost us the same to put it on if it cost us a thousand or 5,000 it doesn't if we have 20 people I'm sad if we have 2,000 people I'll be so happy so please look at our websites please go into social
media I don't do it but I have a daughter that will and so just a 10 you won't be sorry everything that we do in North Miami Beach is above and beyond and 99.9% of them are our favorite fourl f
word free so bless you all and thank you for the extra time before we move on Madam clerk U commissioner joh had last thought Mr manager if we can get more content on channel 77 like for example the in-house team that we have could
have recorded um today's luncheon and talk more content on that channel relative to the events that we have Mr Mayor just one uh you did make a correction and I just wanted to um be mindful of that uh her name is nades
green and she is the director of community research and storytelling at the community Justice project project so I just wanted to recognize her uh correctly thank you sir commissioner smuckler good evening
everyone um I want to acknowledge um black history month and um the Chinese New Year but I also want to acknowledge and that's why we're wearing red even though it's like this little bit tiny bit right there
but um we are wearing red in honor of heart health month and to observe or honor heart health month we are having our heart health walk this Saturday but this year it's going to be a walk slash
run I am walking it not running it I didn't run before my accident so I'm certainly not going to start running now um but and we also added it from a 2.5 to a 5K and also at the Hard Health walk as
commissioner Smith said the commissioner status of women who is also uh hosting the hard Health walk is also hosting um the mamogram mobile uh actually you know used to be for women 40 to 60 but this time they're
making it for women 40 to 70 years old with no implants and no insurance you can register at 786 3531 1944 and they'll actually be there the whole day they'll be there from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. uh they'll be parked at the
library and um you know we're we're talking about all our expenses but um and and I think I briefly bought it up when we met for our Workshop but the Constitutional offices are going to be we going to get tax we're going to get
taxed on that and it's going to be about 500,000 half a million little bit more than that yeah it's going to be about half a million dollars so um you know we when we're when people start asking us to lower our millage rate we need to start look remembering that there's an
additional $500,000 um ta ta and the Department of Elections they have um and um it's an extra 2% they can and they're going to do it they they can go up yeah so but
but no almost all them basically like they give them a 2% cap but they can go they're all going to hit 2% they're not going to say oh we're going to give you half a% but I'm sorry um go on sorry no no you can continue that Madam CL right she wasn't done oh
she wasn't no not done Oh I thought you were done no I was let but I was let talking to him okay so anyhow um of course congratulations to Chief Pano and um Deputy deputy chief Nicholls and as
always um thank you to our Police Department for keeping our families our visitors and our employees safe good night well not good night cuz almost good night and and real quick Mr Mayor just because she mentioned a Chinese event I didn't mention that because I
forgot but it was also amazing all day with every kind of music and every kind of fun for the children I'm telling you those events are out there thank you commissioner schmuckler for reminding me vice mayor linu good evening everyone so
um I hope everybody had a if you celebrate Lunar New Year happy Lunar New Year it's a year of the snake um if you're celebrating Black History Month uh I acknowledge your black you know the black Heritage is very important in our in our community I also want to wish you
a happy President's Day um I know some might not like but uh but we are just respecting the office so I been in office sorn in now 70 days can you believe that um feels like two years
um yeah time flies when you're having fun okay so there are a couple of promises that I made and I still would like to accomplish them um all the Resident facing services are in progress uh I have updated myself with the city manager we have the building department
is going to go online so all the permits that you're getting would be there and ready to go probably by the end of April which is uh fantastic um and this year by the way April I know we have a lot of delays for
everything so um just to keep you excited we have that going up um this year uh our our service department is improving our customer service department thanks to our new HR Stacy hipsman she has uh done a training for
customer service we're in North Miami Beach we're going to have you'd never you'd never believe you'd be saying that that we would have excellent customer service and uh I'm looking forward to that every single day and I'm counting on it okay so um also I so 70 days have
gone by I'm still waiting for Mr Mayor to assign me to a to a board or a committee to Le it's going to come out um tomorrow tomorrow the committee SCI will go come out tomorrow tentatively schedule so okay all right well I mean that's good I
I need to pressure him on the day so that he would give it to me all right okay so then uh speaking of that I we also had a sunshine meeting my myself and the mayor he expressed his passion about septic to sewer uh I also express
my concerns about um certain residents smaller uh limited funding that would have an issue with um converting so you know you know we're going we're still working on that and I think we are going to see how we can take our city to the next level I'm also looking forward to
our next me Sunshine meeting Mr Mayor so where I can express some of my passions um so all right so U my Outreach initiative I don't know if anybody has had a chance to participate but um neighborhood voices it's a lot of fun
it's a very casual setting um last in February we've had two so one is in one was in Washington Park and the other is in the uh pck pulita and Windward area the two events
were great I got a chance to listen to what your concerns are what your issues are and of course what we hear is like safety uh there's a lot of um a lot of things like not enough lights on the street uh we hear road conditions with
potholes road conditions that are very good cause speeding so we need to put maybe we should put potholes instead of speed bumps and that way it'll slow them down as well but that'll be the faster way to slow down traffic is to put in a
bunch of potholes um anyway that's uh that's joking aside Street cleanliness is important you know we have illegal dumpings uh we have people who have pets walk their pets over and um leave their you know their pet remains and and leave
without that so I think like you know Public Works has some things has some work has a lot of work on their hands with signages and making sure that all those areas are taken care of uh garbage pickup remains to be like one of the hottest topics we um I know Coastal has
been working pretty hard in trying to get to reconcile everything I think um one of our leading um garbage com garbage Advocates is here as well so you know I mean they have been reconciling with her so if you have any issues
please email the the manager the commission you know whoever you need to get the attention of so that we can also get Coastal to help reconcile that so with that said um we have um and we've also accomplished a couple of things and I would be remissed if I didn't
recognize Nicholas Williams for helping me from the public works team and led by Zam sakona uh they had closed up a couple of um ditches that had happened from the garbage trucks digging into the swes and um causing like you know issues
with uh the streets and people walking into it and puddles and whatnot so um he got that and communicated with me from the time they identifi the property identified the you know the little ditch and then finally when it was complete so
um you know I think uh you have to we we you have to speak up let us know so that we can um move everything forward for you okay um I also wanted to Echo what the Commissioners have been
saying about the um the fluoridation workshop uh the date was set for March 11th Dr lpo is actually coming to the health committee for the county at 11 a.m. that day so if we have another
Workshop that's mirroring it in the evening that way people could attend and ask questions I think it's important it's not important whe like right now at the point at this point it's important how you would take care of yourself and how it's safe for you or unsafe for you like that is what the workshop is going
to address it's not going to address you at the end of the day you make your own decision to take care of your health but you need to make informed decisions and once you hear the workshop however you decide I would respect that but I think
like as a as a city we like Mr Hand worker mentioned we have no right to medicate anyone and finally um I hope that our our commission will you know put our stamp down on what date we want to have the workshop finally um Miami
dat county is having a career and job fair tomorrow 9 to 11 at the uh Jean Community Center in Oak Grove so if you know anybody who's looking for something to do and and has a you know wants to work in government there is something going on tomorrow thank you very much
and I look forward to our meeting today Mayor Michael Joseph commissioner John you have another a final thought quick to um commissioner Smith's Point commissioner Sue's Point are we waiting for the timeline with the state um I wanted to kind of hear from
you on our you know since we're waiting on different stakeholders to to chime in on their availability but if the state has a looming decision that may affect us how do you want to work through that I mean I'll leave that at at the
the commission's discre as to when they want to hold the the workshop and like thank you for that I will be brief with my statements um thank you um um Washington Park wers
Council St Mary's St Mary's for um missionary I got to make sure uh for um the wonderful um you know gift uh and uh recognition I appreciate you guys uh got a lot of work to do this tonight and I
look forward to being brief and to the point and sutin and working as a team moving forward because one thing the community wants to us to do is to be Collective and to be honest and to be respectful but to work as one voice moving forward together so with that as
brief as I am let's move forward to the next item thank you oh sorry all right thank you for the commissioner statw for these nice little coins I have M it's it's right here um you guys always do a bang up job last time you guys gave uh something else I forgot what it was last year was it two
years ago or a year ago something you guys did something but it you guys always do great things so Milo talk to you guys and I appreciate you guys next item consent consent do okay get my red line move to approve yes do I have a
second second Mr City attorney can you please read the titles yes sir oh and remember you have to read everything thank you yes sir Mr
Mayor agenda item 9.1 commission conference meeting minutes of January 21st 2025 agenda item 9.2 regular commission meeting minutes of January 21st 2025 agenda item
9.3 resolution number 2025-the for the purchase of automotive parts accessories and services for Citywide fleet vehicles sponsor Chief procurement officer Sharice George depar a resolution of Mayor and City Commission
of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing piggyback contract with Advanced stores Company Inc DBA Advanced Auto stores for the purchase of automotive parts and accessories in an annual estimated budgeted amount of
$60,000 authorized authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scriveners errors providing for severability subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds
and providing an effective date agenda item 9.4 resolution number r225 d22 change order for afon pumps Inc for the purchase of pumps and motors for
NMB Water Production sponsor North Miami Beach water director Hamed nickan a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing a purchase order with afon pumps Inc for the sole source purchase
of pumps and motors in an estimated budgeted amount of $ 357,96 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution subject to the budget appropriation and
availability of funds providing for conflicts providing for scriveners errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date agenda item 9.5 resolution number r225 d23 approving an agreement with Cooper
General Corporation for the purchase of radio consoles with the NMB Police Department sponsor Chief Information officer Ricardo Castillo a resolution of the mayor and the City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving a piggyback contract between
the city and Cooper General Corporation for the purchase of radio consoles and communication in a budgeted amount of $992,000 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for
conflicts providing for scriveners errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date agenda item 9.6 resolution number r operations Mr and industrial supplies for an estimated annual budgeted amount
of $350,000 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scrivener errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date agenda item
9.7 resolution number r225 d25 approving an agreement with Insight public sector for technology product and related Services sponsor Chief Information officer Ricardo Castile a resolution of the mayor and the city Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida
approving a piggyback contract between the city and insight public sector for technology products and related services in an estimated annual budgeted amount of $500,000 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for
conflicts providing for scrier errors providing for severability subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds and providing for an effective date agenda item 9.6 resolution number r225 d26 approving
an agreement with multiple vendors for the purchase of Safety Shoes sponsor Chief procurement officer Sharice George depar a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving a piggyback contract between the city and multiple
vendors for the purchase of safety shoes and boots in a total estim budgeted amount of $125,000 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scriven or errors providing for severability and
providing for an effective date agenda item 9.9 resolution number r225 d27 change order for Tropic fence for Citywide fence repairs sponsor Chief procurement officer Sharice George
depar a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing a piggyback contract between the city and Tropic fence Inc for the purchase of fence installation and maintenance services in an estimated Ann annual
budgeted amount of $80,000 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scrier errors providing for severability subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds and providing for
an effective date agenda item 9.10 resolution number r225 D28 approving a purchase order with water treatment and controls ink for the purchase of various pumps Motors Parts and Services sponsor North Miami Beach
water director Hamid nikah a resolution of the mayor and the city Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing a purchase order with the water treatment and controls Inc DBA water treatment and controls for the purchase of various pumps Motors parts
and services in an estimated budgeted amount of $68,700 .11 resolution number r225 d29 authorizing partnership with the Miami day County Office of tax collector and the clerk of of the court and com
controller of Miami day County sponsor Mayor Michael Joseph a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida authorizing partnership with the north I'm sorry partnership with the Miami day County Office of the tax collector and the
clerk of the court and com troller of Miami day County authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scriveners arrest providing for severability and providing for an effective
date agenda item 9.12 resolution number r225 D30 approv submitt of evaluation and Appraisal review e letter for the comprehensive plan as required by State Statute
sponsor community development director Zafir Ahmed a resolution of the mayor and the City Commissioner of the city of North Miami Beach Florida accepting and evaluating the appraisal review ear letter in accordance with the Section
163 3191 Florida Statutes and authorizing the transmittal of the letter to the Florida Department of Commerce providing for implementation and providing for an effective date agenda item
9.13 resolution number r225 D31 authorizing the city of North Miami Beach to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Jackson North Hospital to promote joint health and wellness initiatives and to enhance services for the community sponsor Mayor
Michael Joseph a resolution of the mayor and the city Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida authorizing the city to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Jackson North Hospital to promote joint health and wellness initiatives and enhanced
services for the community authorizing the city manager to negotiate the terms of the mou for approval by the commission authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scrivener
errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date move to approve Mr Mayor second all in favor say I I I any oppose no oppose next item
is uh oh I had a request from the city manager regarding a business tax receipt right if you want to yes sir uh thank you um we have one item uh business tax receipt um seeing that the agenda um is um going to have some
lengthy discussion on some of these items or potentially um as a courteous I don't know if there's somebody here from Dean's gold that's representing them um and if the commissioner would like if they are anybody no seeing none we can just leave
it where it stands and uh because I want to be pretty exp since you give me an opportunity like we have a bunch of appointments can I get a since can we can I get a motion to approve all the appointments motion as a whole out of out of order uh second so
wait do we need a motion to move out of order or do we or we can um that's just from a parliamentarian standpoint so I motion to move out order an item right or section in agenda then you want to vote on it so can I can I move the can I move um the appointments I make a motion
to move the appointments to the beginning all in favor say I I okay now let's motion we vote on all of them at once do I have a second second oh yes we have a second everybody favor say I I None oppos we move on so
we can crash that off than you next item is is we're so we're we're not doing Dean gold now no no it's it's because it's okay yeah no one here move to introduce ordinance number 20246 second reading abandonment and
vacation right of ways and easements this a second reading so okay do I um where's who's I'm in Mitchell yes sorry mayor uh we have assistant director of Community Development second reading so you can be
brief Please Mr Mayor yes excuse me um maybe the attorney should read the title oh yes sorry red line I'm I'm sorry madam clerk so City attorney please no worries Mr Mayor thank you agenda item 11.1 ordinance number 202
24-16 second reading abandonment and vacation right of ways and easements sponsor Community Development I'm sorry sponsor community development director Zafir Ahmed an ordinance of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida amending the city of
North Miami Beach Cole by amending chapter what is that 17 entitled streets and sidewalks by creating a new section entitled 17-7 entitled abandonment and vacation of right of ways and easements to
provide uniform procedure for abandonments and vacations of city streets alleys easements and other fee or non-fee property interest of similar character providing for codification conflict scrivener errors severability
and providing for an effective date uh and and mayor I'm sorry Mitchell before um Mitchell can can quickly go over um essentially well I'll try and then you correct me um essentially this is just putting into um policy uh what
is standard practice for the abatement of um alleyways or or public right away within the city uh to ad jining Property Owners um there were two um two things I'd like to bring to the commission for consideration that I was requested by um
your colleagues mayor um one is with regards to section and I apologize I just want to make sure I read this right for the record um in section D titled
procedures and then um number two um titled application requirements and then J as in um Jack I'm sorry um I I as an Ivan it says a request petition um
signed by owners of at least 60% of properties AB buding the portion of the RightWay proposed to be vacated um commissioner Smith has asked that we also make sure that we include a language that would say um that as part
of the petition the adjacent Property Owners be given information on potential tax adjustments and easements needed uh for utilities um to those property owners and also uh vice mayor Sue um has requested if um instead of 60% um that
would be 75% of the um abiding um Property Owners I don't believe any of those requests are substantial in nature um um but it's up to you um all for consideration um did I kind of explain he pretty much
wrapped it up but um City attorney does that change any do we regarding the the recommendations um there are changes but I don't believe any of them are so material is to require a new first
reading just for the commission's edification as long as the topic that's going to be discussed has been fairly noticed and people haven't an opportunity to participate and that there's no change that's been made that
would be very detrimental to the public that such that if they'd known about the change they would have wanted to come and speak those kind of minor adjustments are typically permitted okay um vice mayor you had a thought or oh yeah um I just wanted to say that
because there's a there's a financial burden additional burden for the residents I think that it would only be fair if more people are are in agreement with that so that's why I added the 75 thank so so I would like um the manager
to State again the what I want to make sure is the information required by the owner to do once is voted on is included in the petition before they sign I don't want people to knock on their door and they say hey we can have the alleyway
for land of our own property and they say oh my God where do I sign and then they found out later they have to get permission from the utility company etc etc so I just want all the information required to be in the to included on the petition they're signing and I agree
that it should be more a greater percentage okay uh do I have any further discussion seeing none can I get a motion to approve Mo it's a ro May I'm sorry I'm sorry I think um you will need a motion to amend and then so to amend
so do I have a motion to amend as amended my yeah my motion is to amend for 75% or greater or to sign the petition in order for it to be done and that everything that is involved in ch changing it over is done at the before
they sign the petition on the does sign second all right uh as amended as a no somebody has to make a second and then we have to second to the okay now we have to vote on it okay now we can we do um motion to approve with Amendment as amend whether
to no whether to amend whether to amend and if the amendment passes then you can vote as amended okay let's vote on that first uh aspect motion to approve the amendment second all in favor say I I okay passes next we vote on the
ordinance as amended and that's a roll call vote okay um do I have a motion to oh he going to give a presentation no man do I do I have a second on second all right Madam clerk please read Comm shof yes commissioner floron yes
commissioner Jean commissioner Smith yes commissioner smuckler yes vice mayor Sue yes Mayor Michael Joseph yes pass 60 is it raining it is yeah um so we we um oh she has yes you're right commiss
has to be recorded on it when she returns so we'll just make that notation Madam clerk now we um she has to vote on the amendment too that that she amended it no no because we no because that was um on the ordinance itself as amended she has to vote
on okay 11.2 was pulled 11.3 was pulled or t pulled right we're going to 11.4 right which is uh uh RFP of the procurement officers item please come on move to approve
second all right introduced resolution number R2 20 25-19 approving firms responding to requests of qualifications RFQ 24-26 SG recreational complex
Redevelopment project phase one attorney agenda item 11.4 resolution number r225 d19 approving firms responding to request for qualification RFQ
24-26 - SG recreational complex Redevelopment project phase one sponsor Chief procurement officer Sharice George jear a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving the qualified
shortlisted firms that responded to request for qualification RFQ 24-26 DSG recreational complex Redevelopment project Phase 1 the developers prequalification and approving their
exclusive participation in phase two of the project before the chief preum office starts I want to make this item last time uh I was the one that pulled it because you know I just want to give there was some some misunderstanding that this wasn't already been out there
that that the commission didn't put um this request out it did um I'm looking forward to what comes back this is not a final say I know this park is is is favored or seen as a as a gym to a lot of people on the community and uh in
regards to Snider Park and and uh and no I'm going to go I'm just I just I just want to add that that little bit of tibbit but I'm glad that we're finally here and have a a robust discussion on it um but before you start my commissioner John had a thought yes I remember thank you Mr Mayor there was a
a period of time when they said that the um the land was preserved or some part of some sort of PR preservation movement or what have you so I wanted to find out did we do the due diligence from the legal side to
ensure that it's not um it's it's it's um ready to be developed and there aren't any restrictions as they relate to the county and whatever designation is on that particular acreage before before when you when you're out um
commissioner John we voted oh I don't how you want to vote on the yes it's a yes M clerk it's a yes vote Yes so you noted for the last ordinance she vot she's voting yes that's what yes yes thank you notice she was joing discussion on this ordinance I was yes
so now um Chief procurement officer your show thank you but I I do want to hear the answer respond to that yeah that um thank you commissioner um we'll as part of the overview that um our procurement director will will speak
about will'll address that question um so good evening mayor commission um to to first answer that question the due diligence has been done for uh the partnering agencies uh the fdp FD um as well as some legal uh
research to determine that we can U move forward with this property in doing a development of a recreational complex we are keeping it um in the realm of being a Park and Recreation um in the same so we have authority to move forward in
that way so in that same vein what is not allowed is that something that your presentation will cover as well um no not what's not allowed because we have um the commission is opine that we are going to move forward in a Rec with the recreational complex so that's our
vision for the open space as well as some Recreation so we're not going to discuss what we can't do this is where we're going with it I I don't mean to like you know preclude the conversation but the reason I'm asking is because the second step is for firms to actually submit thought ideas and so forth so
within that context is there things that are there things that cannot be done of course so that's basically what I want to hear cuz I you know saying that it's parks and or recreational complex does that not include hotels does that not include what does that include what does
not that not include okay I mean those the questions that I have you know okay so um that information will be disseminated in the next phase of the project to all of the participants however um in the first phase of this
project we did identify what we envision the recreational complex um being um some of the the musthaves in terms of open space uh dog parks art um uh food halls or dining uh Stadium M seeding the
whole lot so that is what the vision is and so in the creativity part um firms will then reimagine that space with those points we're bringing in uh we're tying in the Spanish Monastery our transportation we're um going to tie in
somehow you know Snake Creek we want all of those things that are you know great benefits to our city tied into this this comp this project as well um and then we have uh we'll go with into some of the things that we want as a city and as a
commission some things like um a small business participation um within the build also um having small businesses work on on the site and some of those food halls and such so those are some things that we're getting to in the second phase of some of those ask or or
mus haves in the project and that will be part of whatever presentation is submitted by the selected yes so I mean it's it's to them to make it as attractive so we as a commission would choose whichever that particular developer might bring it's a P3 type of yes but there are requirements so you
know they're going to try to wow us so it can be inclusive I'm sorry um commissioner no I'm I wanted to say something I know commissioner Smith has her hand the right side is always real quickly right so I live here right I've lived here for over 30 years and my
Commissioners as well at what point do we have a say is it after the developer spends you know Millions whatever thousands to develop this or are we inclusive in this Vision because in the community as well so you know I hear
your vision as a as a staff but at what point does our input so commissioner if you remember um a year ago we held a discussion item in which that kind of vision was discussed uh the commission gave direction to staff to move forward with a a two-step process this is step
one in which would bring not only the resurface of tennis courts but repurposing the layout of the 10 10 and 10 and a half acres of the property to also include pickle ball Patel a pro
shop um a dog park um the kayak launch um and and other features in which the park would be used not just for someone to come in for 30 minutes but to maybe spend the day there m Mr manager before you start there's uh I just want to clarify one of my Commissioners a couple
of them what date specific was this brought up back in I believe it was and and the memo um that was attached to the agenda item was on there was the February I think it was 24th uh commission meeting February
2024 right Mr Mar if I could interject sure it's not the it's not the the qual the actual project that's the issue or is the methodology of how you're Gathering the feedback from us so the directive was to move forward in
soliciting you know bids or what have you but the feedback part is I think the part that we're all assuming has not been done yet right so part of that discussion we we discussed not limiting what type of
projects would come in as long as they're recreational focus and they and they met certain criterias that we wanted because we we had discussed and we had said hey they might come up with an idea that blows us away that we never thought of but if we go in saying hey we
want a 2 acre dog park located here we want this here we want that there we want that there then that's not opening up for that kind of feel so the intent is once the projects are are developed
and they're presented to the commission that now gives us an opportunity to say hey this is everything that was presented to the commission this is how we're going to move forward there's still a lot between saying this is our primary project that we want to to investigate and further negotiate
contract um details to one that gets approved it's not an overnight type thing just to to clarify and I think I I I see the thought process for my commissioner and correct me if I'm wrong now um if if it were to get approved tonight we go back to a CO of Silence
yeah yes okay so when when the projects come back are we going to get a list of those they're not going like how's that going to be done the process so they would know so so my colleagues could be edified and and see if it's going to be ranked or we're going to have like a list of them and then we're going to make a decision on each like so a
decision on that absolutely um great question so once we get all of the um the bids back in the project development seven about seven there's six um that ranking that discussion of what it is that we like and we don't like comes to
the commission um you all are essentially that evaluation um um committee right Umi that would require a special meeting um for the commission because you're going to have six presentations leading up to
that all of those projects um are going to be made available to the public um in which because once the the the bids are now in and we put that agenda public then the K of silence is removed so we're able to then have that opportunity
um and we can even be creative um in there in which if from that special meeting if you all want to say hey we want to narrow this down to three right and then have maybe a online survey in which residents can do something there's
a lot of um opportunity for that to happen but I think it's important I do think it's important but I I think what's more important is that you give us more of a space to have this inclusive dialogue imagine six people
six firms creating a Creative Vision which is great however there's certain elements that we may want to see which might give a particular firm and Edge based on their creativity where you can have aligned the vision prior so that
everybody has a fair playing field on what it should be built on so that's all I'll say I want okay commissioner U smuckler okay thank you mayor so so these six firms do they know what we can
or cannot do there um yes in terms of what we're looking for yes now um after this is approved hopefully um there before the solicitation goes out um because this is
an exclusive list we're going to meet we're going to discuss what it what our needs are for this project prior to them going back to the drawing board and doing all of their work um it's important to reiterate again what it is we want and what our asks are so they
can go back in and provide a creative project so they will know um all of the things that you know we're not looking for in terms of hotels or mix use um we've we've been pretty clear on um what our vision is and the the the firms that
have been selected are well versed in those type of projects okay because I did have someone reach reach out to me on the list and they want to do a hotel so that that wasn't in the solicitation nor was in that their response so I
haven't been made aware of that at all and we'll definitely clarify because that is not an option okay so when we're in the cone of silence we can't talk to the residents either right or that's correct silence you talk to
the procur director right of course yeah but I mean if the residents want to reach out to us telling them asking us what they want we can't talk to them but I do agree with commissioner Jean um you know we we
do I wish we could have had some Community input first before we do something and then regret it well to to your to your like to to theum this is the they're
coming up with proposals we don't necessarily have to um decide we could say you know what we want to scrap and not choose anyone right I mean it's not costing us yeah I guess I mean it's it's something that should be no no I I I I understand your standpoint I I I I
clearly get it but you know the I'm not saying this is a futile exercise and going through this process but I do know that I I would like to see the vision that you know these firms want to bring to the table I'm not saying that and I'm we're not locked in to saying this is what we're going to do of of course you know that's something we have this
question on but but at the same time they can all bring this vision and that's not what we want or the community wants and then they also spend it costs them a lot of money as well to to do all this commissioner um FL floron and and
and then commissioner turn off sorry commissioner flormont oh I I see our attorney's handed up but I and I want to just very briefly okay uh and maybe the manager can help me but if if I'm and and I'm I
don't know everything about this because it was approved before we were here but that said my understanding Mr manager is when the second phase solicitation with parameters goes out because every firm that's
responded I mean there's not a short list here the six is everyone that responded and and my understanding is that it's going to with if I heard you correctly Mr manager if I understand correctly you're not going to
recommend one you're going to pass all six to the commission is that your intent as all the projects with the direction that the commission gave Staff last year to move forward with a recreational space for development with
a community center dog park new courts and for multiple courts as well as a kayak launch um that is being proposed for all six to develop a project with those criterias um once that is brought back
probably 90 days or so uh because it is a fairly um robust uh request all six of those would come back to the commission and then the commission can either short list or pick a project at that um special meeting um and then um if we
short list then that gives us an opportunity um to do be creative and and get a a survey a poll um a contest whatever whatever it would be um with with the community they get an
opportunity to listen out it can be as creative as as however the commission wants to kind of um narrow that field down but um it's it's up to you but but my question manager it's not contemplated that you're going to
recommend one or the others sir the commission will act as the evaluation committee so in in essence if I'm and maybe this will clarify mayor I'm sorry for taking a minute but um ultimately what's contemplated regardless of
whether all six or you the commission decides to go further on three or whatever what's contemplated if I understand is really the the choice taking into account the specific proposal the choice is who is going to
be the master developer of this recreational complex is that correct the the choice takes in not only the um development the financing um and the construction and the um um operations of
the facility um as a whole so my understanding mayor and and and and commission if at the end of that iterative process the commission selects in essence looking at the proposals and
what people cont the commission will select a master developer once you have done that you're not bound by the specifics of what they proposed because
what you're doing is you're really saying who is top rank and then you're trying to negotiate with that entity exactly what you want them to do it may be what they proposed to
you or there may be some piece that somebody else had that wasn't chosen but that you just think was terrific and you could say but we want you to include this piece now if they don't want to do that and they can't be compelled and you
insist on it you can say ultimately either you know our way or we're going to move on to number two but ultimately when you SE if I'm correct in what you're contemplating when they select who the developer will be that is not
the end of negotia they're selecting who is top ranked and then you have to negotiate a contract am I correct on that Miss George sort of um so the aim like the manager said we're going to present we're going to have um special meetings so you guys can see the design
the proposals are not just based on design because we want them to design operate build finance and maintain this complex so it's not just on the pretty design so when we see the designs and they do their presentations it would be
prudent of us to at that point short list the firms as well at that point per state statute we're going to go into an interim agreement with a firm that's when we narrow down the financing a bit that's when we narrow down the nuts and
bolts what we really want from this project and at that point if we come upite plan whatever yes all all of the things you know we're weighing risk as well on both parties we're we're taking everything into consideration before we really pull the trigger on the project
we definitely have time this isn't we're going to see them and go that is not this project the state statute doesn't allow for that to be so cut and dry um thank you um so my my question was going to be along the lines of of some of what's been discussed here because I
know that the county itself has um their ordinances Etc you know we we we've kind of gone through this before um and there there were some concerns um about about that site as to you know is all of it a park is a portion of it a park and a
portion of it is not is it all one parcel one folio number I don't know um if you guys have those answers if it's all one folio it is it is all one folio um and so and in addition to that I think that there may
be some desire for a hotel the to the degree that perhaps residents may agree to section off a portion for that purpose I don't know right um but we we can't do that according to the no unless you have a vote unless
you so so is this particular property under that preservation uh uh ordinance where you can't even look at it from the perspective of uh any mixed use or any um development other than recreational it is our understanding yes with the
state we cannot with the county with with fdp can we get a memo on that please like sure can we get a memo because we just just want to make sure that it's clear where we are cuz I think that was the issue we had last time is that
everyone was clear this is what we can do and then we were you know quote unquote Off to the Races and then you know find out that there's a whole lot we couldn't do um and and at the end of the day the most important aspect the most important part of this is to make
sure that we get use by our residents um you know I was there this past weekend you know and my dog was running up and down uh you know the park and we were having a good time and there were a couple of other you know uh dog owners
that were there you know that's the Meetup spot but there's no there's there's no dog bag no uh no uh waste bags there's no walk path there's no you see what I'm saying and and so the utilization of the park is only the tennis players and those who um decide
that they want to come out there and hang out um so that's really the most important thing is to make sure that we get use out of it uh recreationally but if there's an opportunity also to combine that with what this city has been needing for so long perhaps that's
something that residents if they want to explore can make a decision on um you know but I just want to make sure because I'm reading about food concession facilities not exceeding 1500 square fet um you know um I'm reading about band stands and band shells
containing less than a thousand spectator seats athletic facilties sports Fields Arenas containing less than 3,000 seats you know I'm not sure if the people who are submitting have looked into all of that or have they believe that you know they they you
know their ideas will work for that space and since we' only we've only considered Financial um and and other um aspects of their qualifications um that gets them into round two um you know but but where are they going um with their particular
ideas that I'm not I'm not sure if any of you guys have seen yet right have you guys seen any of their IDs no no um so that's something I think that's that's critically important that they know if I may commissioner for I think what's happening is that those um firms believe
that we can make the decision about adding a hotel or whatever and we can't according to the state we we can't well I'd like to see a memo on what can be or can't be done with with respect to what you're saying um because and my my thought process was that certain things
would have to go through a referendum of some sorts but if this is preserved land similar to grenolds park right uh where you you can't do anything uh then it's good to know it would be good to know that through a memo um I'm going to I'm going to come to a close on this
particular comment Mr Mayor um because you mentioned something about um cone of silence which I think is very important this is the perfect opportunity to have some of the um the potential B the well bids here to have some of our forethought so so because the because
the May the the manager and the attorney is saying that we're the ones making the decision and so if if we're the ones making the ultimate decision then how how does that work with a cone of silence do we get to review um do we have time to review or is it only before us when it comes before us during
commission meeting we'd have to Workshop typically our cone of silence is lifted at the point that the administration makes a recommendation of some sort to the commission and it becomes the province of the commission
right so so that would mean that at that juncture we would lift a cone of silence to have those special meetings because we would be we would have presented those to you all well all six well um just yes for the special meeting special
presentation to be clear like um right now we have six yes um they're going to for them to go back into a CO science even though we're going to be the ultimate decision makers I mean do they have to go back to the co sign so they canot can they just not come up with their proposals and just submit it to us
like I'm just just when they all submitted understand when all six have submitted the manager indicated they're not going to be the ones to narrow it to three okay so once once the submission um timeline is over then we call it once it's submitted back to you within that
timeline and the the recommendation from the management from from the manager's office is simply here all of it that's what the cone of silence is that's the cone of silence and typically that will not be immed immediately when we receive
the bids because staff does have to go to make sure that the bids um are in compant okay with it so that might take a little bit but once that is done we would release that um to to everybody commissioner turn off okay what I
understand was we had an RFP that was sent out a long RFQ a long time ago a long time ago specifying all these things that Shar said which is all the parameters that somebody can make proposals what we're voting for tonight
is to approve the all of them that made a submission saying okay go forward show us what you have and I'd like to make sure that we have a short window for them to come back to us because this has been going on since the two years since
I've been back I've asked for it and I was upset with you last me cuz you wanted to whatever but that's another month that it's that it stayed behind you're incorrect commissioner I think the point is that although there
was some discussion about what would be allowed the point of the RFQ is who you're picking here is in essence a master developer to carry out what the vision so there's been some statement
from the city about what the vision would be but what they've actually submitted so far far are not proposals they've submitted their experience no no they their experience their
qualifications that's what it was for for that's why it's RF they what would make them a good f for us to do this for you but now we're going to be first telling them in a little more detail
this is the kind of project you put thinking cap on be creative but this is what our vision is and they've only been told that in really kind of in passing because otherwise you can't say well
what's your experience in doing this but it's only been what are your qualifications and the manager finding uh and the procurement officer finding they all have substantial qualifications that's why they're all
getting passed to the next level right I I understand and and that's what I'm saying is is now let's let them make proposals so we can see them and discuss them well right now the silence is lifted um we're able to they're hearing a lot of our thoughts um no once they
get it back no no then then we discuss it no no but right now it's lifted they're hearing our thoughts right now in real time but I do have I'm going to go can we make a request yeah you can you may you've made request as far as the cone of silence are we able to are we able to address that after after commissioner commission Sor um manager I
I think you you mentioned uh a possibility of an online survey can we get that started so by the time with with all due respect um commissioner there's nothing I don't have a project I
don't have a visual concept we can say we're looking for a dog Park tennis courts pigle ball Pell um a community center ask but can we ask the residents what they would like I I think we can do
that uh um on the second phase but commissioner Smith please thank you thank you cuz it's so simple simple all this conversation we're voting on people that are qualified I agree there's a ying and a Yang to what commissioner
John is saying because she's right in the fact that and what commissioner smuckler said what about the resident what about what we want what this concept is developers that are in this field
that are financially capable will submit to us maybe an idea we didn't even think of but we're not going to use him we're going to use somebody else but we like that idea let's incorporate that so I say we vote on this I say we let it ride
vote on this 90 days is fine they have to have time to sit with their team 90 days back uh I have a question wait just a second just a second and then when it comes back in the Code of Silence exactly what the mayor said if you don't
like any of them we start again but to I don't want to give them any ideas this is their field let them give us ideas if it doesn't Incorporated in what our thoughts are if it doesn't includes what the resident's thoughts are we'll go
back to the drawing board you can always ask them at the end say do this okay the other thing I want to say before it even starts and the public hates you and I've had so much wrath Mr
manager could you please before it comes to us put C curtails where on curtails need to be made because there's so much that went into years of planning with the community center that went from $13
million to $25 million without it stopping before it even came to us so that would be my wish my I'm I'm entering that wish now that it from management before it comes to us to be
the bad guys we have management to control that and I'm bringing it now because it's going to come up again and again and again and I promise you I don't have the heart for the heartwalk to walk and take four years of the public chastising us let's let's get
what we're going to do and I appreciate that time and that was my direction to the management thank you commissioner final thought um on this item um yes uh I just wanted to ask um M well M through
the mayor is there is there um is it prudent or can we uh suspend the cone of silence for a week after this or no is that is that something
that is possible I would I don't think we can because it is it's it's an ordinance and it's not only our ordinance our ordinance has to comply that's an area where Dade County creat
well and if our ordinance I mean in theory we could go back and amend our ordinance for some in some way to allow that that by the way manager has a thought 60 to 90day process because I I I guess let me let me make sure I'm
clear in oh he has a response okay yeah man so um to to the um attorney's point the coral silence takes um comes into effect when the solicitation is now advertised right and you all get that um
this is not going to be advertised tonight so there is a separate advertising for the RFP the RFP to that's what I'm saying and when when when do you plan on doing that phase phase two in in in the memo
for the advertise date would be a February March 2025 time frame so we we do have the we're in February now right we have two weeks and we have some time in in March we want to make sure that
our scope um that that goes out and everything is going to be um nailed down as as what we've talked about we'll also do a pre-proposal um um meeting um and then the solicitation essentially goes out with um hopefully receiving bids in
May okay so so a formal solicitation will be advertised it's exclusive so that means it's not going out to the world corre it's only going to this these six firms okay that will be in March so that addresses the concern that I had when with the request to con of silence is because these folks want to
talk they they they have they they want to express their you know desire for that particular parcel and we need time to to receive that information especially if I believe you said that you're going to probably give us top three uh of recommendations once the
solicitation goes out no no no that's not what he said is it all six I I all six all six all six from staff right yes sir yes all six okay okay okay so okay commissioner John ath thank you so much
all right final thought better can we get a better timeline so for example you say March right it's going to be out again so that means to commissioner forman's point in that 3- week span where you're getting it together technically the firms can reach out to whoever they want to get ideas right
correct now once those packages are in what does it look like does it look like when we get to the special meeting that's when we are now seeing these six presentations is that what it is yes because what what that it'll be the
minute when the manager he's he says he's not making a recommendation to us so we're making it so so corre things differently once the once the solicitation closes we're saying the same thing different once the solicitation closes and we do our evaluation we can the cone of silence
can be lifted once we present those to you guys we're presenting those to you and recommending that we're moving forward with them and we can present them we're scheduling the special meetings after that time okay the advantage is is this right um none of course if you're one of these competitive firms you're not going to
show your hand to everybody else when that everybody's hand will be showed on when you open it up so that's the real reason they can still interact with us but they're going to show they're going to show their hand when it come when it opens up when the bit when when the cone sign is lifted right they just have to make sure that the bids are responsive
and respons that they've if they're you know de if they're required to demonstrate for instance that they have the financial strength to carry this out and one of them doesn't do that or it looks shaky
or they they're not clear that they have the ability they might get disqualified but everybody that does what they're supposed to the recommendation will then come from the curement officer and the manager these
are all qualified proposers six of them or it might be four of them or five but everybody that does and when they send the memo this we've looked at it these all
qualify in your hands the other question is this what's the time frame between the special meeting and what you just mentioned is it could be a month it could be months after right you want it could be a month then we have a special meeting we we already have we already
have a date certain for those types of meetings this would be certainly one of them I think a timeline would be good for us to have yeah to know okay for example the bid is closed now they're going to you guys are going to review them in two weeks 3 weeks we have a
special meeting versus well it's set that when when you see what you get if it's something that you think you can review in 2 weeks you you could say get to that special meeting if you look at it and say I'm going to need a month on
this you can say set it in a month that's it's your meeting it's up to you whenever you want to have schedule it so commissioner here's the thing how it works here with the city is oh we'll have a special meeting once we can get
it together and then what happens it never happens well okay so just so we can so we can so to to answer sir um in in January the timetable that we uh provided the tentative dates um had phase two
advertising February or March um we're saying it's going to be in March um if it approves tonight uh pre um proposal meeting um that we'll have for this will essentially be in in either March or early April depending on the date that
it's actually advertised we're then by State Statute we can have a solicitation open for about 120 days I think we're recommending 90 so we're looking for May of 2025 staff will then in May of
2025 um qualify the bids that we receive and then you would receive a memo um ending the Kaa silence we're anticipating that either May or June of 2025 for you to receive that there's six these are pretty lengthy type of um um
presentations or bids that we get so it's not something that can just be done in in in a week um so that's why we are saying June um from there um we can hope to schedule and we can just use the backup June date that would for for the
commission which is the uh Thursday after the commission um or the week after um for for the special meeting in which you can have all six that would be the meeting in June if we need a second meeting uh we can then at that meeting
either table or or um select the date in July so that you all can have that in July um then if the commission narrows it down for um for review for further review or whatnot we would just take the
cues on what the commission wants at that time peray okay commissioner um well vice mayor you have one final thought and I know um commissioner turn off on I have final I have one one last thought by our commission smuck so uh vice mayor can you brief okay um so
first of all I think before the cone of silence is put in place whatever commissioner smuckler was thinking I think is a valid point that we should probably get the sound from the um the Comm Community but what I want to be clear about when the proposal
are being sent it's like you know I can imagine like the most beautiful thing right and of course it wouldn't be financially feasible so with all of the proposals are going to come in as what they had designed and the funding and
all the financials are all going to be laid out is that correct correct correct proposal all right they can come um they can come up with um for example if part of the park feature that they want to
include is to build the world's first urban largest waterfall um in the world on that property they would have to be able to show not only the design and the conceptual but the financial aspect that they can't afford to build it they can't
afford to maintain it and how that's going to be serviced on a day-to-day so all of that type of information as part of their bids would have to now if they propose that marvelous waterfall that will be the new wonder of the world but then there's no idea of how it's going
to be constructed or how it's going to be funded then that essentially to you all kind of says this person doesn't know what they're doing um so all of that whatever they want to propose however grander whether it's a $200,000
project construction build or a100 million construction build it is up to them to tell the city how they are going to fund that build it maintain it and what kind of length of um times that they would need in order to make sure that it is appropriate for that build
absolutely thank you all right so so let's just say that at some point the community comes out and says that they everybody wants um let's say like those where you can there used to be one a golf stream where you could like skateboard no not skateboard but like
ride a wave like a wave machine a wave machine's oh you want to have one of those okay no I'm just I'm just I'm just making this up for so let's just say it's everybody the residents come back and say this is what we want now the now
these firms have to go and change the PL based on what the residents want so this is why I think we need input from the residents to let the firms know what the residents want as well may I interject
on that one mayor vice mayor um I think that we should lay everything out of our requirements and what we want to all the designers now what happens is they're going to propose something give the financials and then we're going to No and then we're going to switch out no we want this one to be that this one to be
that then the financials change like what I'm trying to say is like whatever we want as a requirement that we want them to put in and is like just you know it's legal and all the due diligence is done for it like just get that in and then like whatever creative creativity
they want to put into the project they can put it in after that right but we need to discuss this with the residents as well because this this park is not just for the seven of us it's and even though we're here to speak for them but we also need to listen to
to them so I I feel that before these firms start doing things and then the residents come back and it's nothing like what these firms are are designing then the the financial burden is on them as well because it's costing them money
to to do this in the first place the architecture that's why I was saying that like before it gets advertised in March like let's get all the information that we need or if you like the advertisement to you know that's why I mentioned that like I agree with you on that
okay Mr manager commissioner Smith I just want to say two things one is I want to make Clarity on the fact that you said a golf shop and this so commercial wise is there a certain percentage that could be commercial because it has to be a recreational area
from the county so please bring that back as well because a golf pro shop might be recreational but it's definitely commercial so we have to see what provide we'll provide clarification to the commission and the second thing I want to say is understanding what
commissioner smuckler saying and vice mayor saying and even commissioner John the thing that I'm sitting here listening to what if we want this the wave machine and we want Splash Pools
but the the professionals that do this for a living have to make it feasible that that would bring enough money to sustain them so your wants may be a very big desire from the community
but it's not it's not sustainable so let's let again back to the original making a motion and let's vote on six I make the motion to vote on it that there second are six plans let them bring it back call the question we have
to voice it's a roll call all right Madam Clerk commissioner floron yes commissioner Jean yes commissioner Smith definitely yes commissioner smuckler no
no commissioner shernoff yes vice mayor Sue yes Mayor Michael Joseph yes passes 61 all right next item is business tax receipts before we get there Mr Mayor 11.5 oh
11.5 oh 11 I'm sorry 11.5 um can you read um the title um City attorney yes oh do I have a motion show move do I have a second second 11.5 I didn't have that black black and Beach I didn't I I didn't have that in my packet the black
Beach do I have to vote on it you don't have to vote on it but I mean it was there I 11.5 commissioner commission it's on the agenda yeah 11.5 um can you can you read it in um City attorney yes sir Mr Mayor uh agenda item
11.5 resolution number 20253 approving work order number five and authorizing the issuance of a notice to proceed relating to work order number five to Black andv Corporation to provide ongoing program management and
staff augmentation sponsor North Miami Beach water director Hamid nickon um Mr may may I comment on this item uh before yes thank you um so uh this particular item I did mention
during my during my comments uh earlier I think that um we we've been talking about work orders probably for the last five six years uh prior to bringing back our order utility and since then we're now on work order number five with uh
this particular firm requesting $ 2.38 7 million about half a million of that is um in case they need more money um so they won't have to come back um we we just brought on CIP a person with CIP uh
right Mr manager I think that's for also the water utility right um so thank you for doing that uh kudos to you for doing that I think that we need to kind of forecast and see how we're going to we no we did introd no we we already
introduced he just was given a pre no yes but right so um you want to allow him to to speak before you have your additional well well I'm I'm just going to make my maybe you can answer some of them while you're giving your presentation um you know but honestly
with this particular with this work order um you know I think this is our opportunity if we want to try to save some money to do it and um you know my proposal would be um
to do 60 days um on this particular item until we fully flush it out um and so but I want to hear what they have to say um thank you mayor no please please uh if I may um I I appreciate that uh commissioner floron so um Hamid will
will present the item but that is the intent and direction that commission had given to staff um is to um start winding this down and task order 5 is in in line with the 5-year work program that's
coming to a close um this has been um taken into a riew um and and I'm very proud of Hamid um in which he was taking a look at what our capabilities are and how much we can continue to bring inhouse and that is why you're seeing a
huge reduction from task order 4 um into task order 5 um this is also the last opportunity uh with a task order um as this closes um out the the CIP program um but Hamid will go into
details um with that as as we explore that but that is the absolute intent uh commissioner floron oh well I appreciate you saying that um and I'm looking forward to hearing it because I don't see it in the supporting documents um maybe I just missed something here but please director go ahead thank you
please this good evening Mr Mayor commissioner Mr Mayor I'm sorry oh you I didn't finish reading the body oh please go ahead city clerk I mean City attorney City attorney no worries and and actually that that's that's my fault I apologize go ahead so uh agenda item
11.5 resolution number 20253 to approving work order number five and authorizing the issuance of a notice to proceed relating to work order number five to Black and Beach Corporation to provide ongoing program management and staff augmentation sponsor North Miami
Beach water director Hamid nickb a resolution of the mayor and the city Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving work order number five authorizing the issuance of a notice to proceed relating to the work order number five to Black andv Corporation to provide ongoing program
management and staff augmentation in an amount not to exceed $2,387 1892 authorizing the city manager or designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this res resolution subject
to the budget appropriation and availability of funds providing for conflicts providing for scriveners errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date thank you all right so when I came in the office I there was a proposal in
my you know uh table $3.4 million from black and we La previous work order work order 4 was about four approximately $4 million so my task was clear you know you need to consider reviewing that and then quickly come up with some resolution because we need to have a
business continuity at the same time as well so I've been through the exercise of extensive negotiation with black and wi considering all our staff capacity and the status of all projects and we were able to lower it down and uh
negotiate it to uh roughly about $2.5 million and then we consider factoring on the second rank of negotiation to your point Commissioner of flormont uh consider the new CIP Department knowingly that new CIP department is
going to be fully staff maybe six months from now by the time they you know advertise some position and then become fully functional so I consider that as part of the project and program to reduce the level of effort uh provided by black and W after October by then
we're hoping that uh CIP department is going to be fully function have a good understanding about all project and also I can transfer some of the knowledge from the program to the staff and then pick up the project and handle uh the project and execution most of the effort
that you're seeing on this proposal as you can see here it's divided in three section pre-construction program management and construction management about 80% of the level of effort that you're seeing right now is towards construction so I reduce most of their
activity on pre-construction because most of us project has been designed there is no longer needed program management is going to be reduced as well so the goal is to maintain and manage and finish our project we've been through the reduction of over 60% in
compared to what's been in place in work order 5 we cut about $2 million we're going to authorize and we're asking for authorization from the commission for $1.7 million and then if if we need to expand we can authorize the change of
based off your based off the commission Direction but this is the package this is best we can do to maintain and make sure we have uh you know maintain Our obligation to the F loan as well so that's all about thank you all right commissioner read that oh sorry I can't
zoom it commissioner um I'm wearing glasses and I can't read it commissioner floron thank you thank you so much um you mentioned that you expect what what is the date that you expect that your CIP would be able to fully take over oh CIP not necessarily is going to fully
take together um reorganization of CIP programs and departments um essentially what we have done right now is we moved our Public Works CIP staff and um members um of our internal CIP program at water into essentially creating this
new organizations that's not good is not a good year to fly um and so and so um that is now being put together um we are anticipating additional hires and additional Services going in uh for additional engineers and so forth so as
those come in that starts allowing us to continue to ramp up um the CIP both for water and for um the city so um so I want to I want to um encourage you guys to have that plan back to us as
soon as possible um and I need to know whether or not that's 60 days or 90 days that you're going to have a plan to show up us exactly how we reach that October um timeline um commissioner we're not targeting October you know big portion of their level of effort is is
inspection uh construction inspection as well so we may take over the construction management aspect of some of the project that are uh in progress but we still need to maintain the day-to-day you know inspection which we don't have that capacity right away in our okay so here's here's the ask what
what and I'm sorry to um mean to cut you off here here's the um see so my responsibility up here is to make sure that we get we we get to a point where we're fully staffed right and to make sure that as much as we possibly can that n&b employees are doing the work MH
you said October yes yes that's what you said then I said okay well you know what show me how we get there then you said we're not going to be fully able to do everything in October which is which is fine if you show me how we get to the point where we are fully
our own right so whatever that date is we need to know what it is and we need to see that plan within the next days right to enti them to do that as quickly as possible which is end of the term of this contract which is five years here's end of the term of this the contract is
5 with two more renewal available so we're not asking for Renewal and we're just trying to make sure we complete all of our no that's not what he's talking about I mean I understand you're looking you're looking for the reorganizational um how the new CIP um that we've been
discussing for um from the budget aspect um we're reorganizing all of the master plan so that we can bring to you all to see how we're going to do additional funding for that as well how the organization for that department is going to look so are you able to get that in 60 days Mr manager yes sir okay
so so can we can so can we do this so 60 days is um can we do um the that amount to sustain 300,000 to sustain them for the next 60 days at that time when they will come and request the remainder of these
funds that presentation will be ready to show us how sir those those functions um are not that way right this T authorization is overseeing actual it ongoing can he
no no go ahead go explain to us how breaks down cuz you're not going to use all this money in the next 60 days so tell me in the next 60 days how much money he he wants to have a hold back to a degree correct that's what he wants commissioner um that's what I assume he wants there has to be a certain hold back and and so there's an incentive
that what he what you know as a commissioner if we were to vote for it we would get that information back at a time certain right so what would be that amount thank you Mr Mayor that would I no I understand what I'm what I'm trying to explain is as we're reorganizing we're we're essentially creating a new
Department within the city okay um and so we're moving and we're looking to hire Engineers construction managers and so forth um this task authorization is ensuring that we complete the CIP
projects that are currently ongoing right so I can bring back to you what that reorganization plan for this new Department looks like and how that's going to um function for the city as we continue to move forward but to say that
we'll have this entire department up and running with everything that we need he wants to look there's an amount and there you said it before is it what half a million dollar um 300,000 how much wait total no no no what's that extra M they have above 93,000 they don't need
that's that's an if they need it correct so if you want to hold that back until because you said you're going to have that information within 60 days once we get that information then in Ence that hold back I guess he would that we could hold yeah but we but we're still we're doing 1.7 I think we should do an we
should do a figure maybe it might not be 300,000 but it's certainly not the full 1.7 you see what I'm saying because in the next 60 days there's no way they can tell me that one moment sir in the next 60 days there's no way you can tell me that you're going to utilize 1.7 that that's not that's not going to that's
not not how it is so tell me how it is and tell me what the number is for the next 60 days on worker for they they can with nine full-time employee right now we reduced it to four only all right five only on the proposal all right so every single day they're going to be
full-time on site and report to me and the department and manage all our active projects so if I want to go with $300,000 let's say for two months right I should have ready plann you know for day 61 to pick up and roll the ball and
make sure all the project is you know successfully completed now we are transitioning and we're reducing tremendously their level of involvement and effort Pro you know in compared to the previous task order all right to make sure we successfully complete all
of our project on time and within the obligation that we have as far as you know if you Al as well so you mentioned valid point day that day 61 so I I understand and I agree with you so perhaps we give you 60 days to come back with the plan but 90-day allotment so
that you have enough time in between when you present this plan and and and and asking us for additional funds uh so that you won't have to stop immediately after that 60 day point so if you do it if you do it in that in that case it's well make the motion um yeah so the
90day allotment well make the motion okay so I make a mo how much is a 90-day Al um so the 90day hold on a sec I mean you got to do 1.7 94671 can can I say something while he's looking for I think the purpose of the
conversation you know I like to delve into it much stronger than just here mhm but the purpose of the conversation is because black and de they they oversee and they make sure the Project's being done yeah
and it's a lot of money per hour for this man and the man under him Etc and that has been a a sore in our sides because inhouse we can control it too we can do it better and so the weeding off
of it becomes imperative and to vote for the whole thing I like very much what the commissioner is suggesting that we do it in segments but but wait for a point they have a contract with us no but that's what they're trying to do is
extend the contract no we don't have to well no this is not Ral I believe you know that's why I have to read it at home this is a year five of the contract the P commiss commissioner flont do you have do you have so the number is uh is 44 48
so in in in essence uh $450,000 we can we do you want to make the motion so we can have a discussion on if that's the case Okay so I'd like to make a motion to approve 450,000 um dollars which is about 90 days um you know worth of funds for this
uh work order uh and then in 60 days for staff to come back to us with their plan to basically wean off of um of this Consulting with black and& Beach all right I second that um I can right I can I yes you can um do
we have any discussion on I have a discussion um okay so I wanted to ask about the continuity Factor like you mentioned you came in you saw the the initial work order you said okay you know what we're going to see what we can save right so
you brought it down to this number based on that the question to the manager is have you how many people have you hired for the CIP and was that in the previous budget in in the budget we have um already existing employees that are
within the public works department um that oversees CIP those employees are shifted over into um the essentially the new CIP Department okay from the water department we have um
reallocated um I think it's two or three POS positions um with regards to construction management um the um essentially the director position and the engineer I think it's an engineer one um that goes into that CIP
Department as well um as that gets built out and we're able to organize that department and we can fill any of those vacant positions I think there's currently two or three it's two engineer one and construction manager are awakens construction manager and and an engineer
one that are currently vacant that um we would do um a recruitment for um those would help um again building out that department I I never foresaw us having a 30 member Department in CIP that would
take on all design aspects that would take on all construction inspection or anything like that um but you know that's definitely a direction that the city can go in and and we would have to budget for something like that I mean but that's the I think that's the point of commissioner floron is that the
60-day plan show us a a flow of how it's going to be restructured that's also going to affect the budget the budgeting cycle for us right so creating a new department or repurposing employees I think that's something that we should also be privy to how you're how you're
restructuring that department so that we can okay we can know that that you're restructuring it from current employees instead of just not knowing because my question too is how will we know and at we spoke about that during the The
Briefing that the level of experience is there to easily phase to your point we'll still have Consultants as part of the equation but when you bring on new people they're they're not always just ready to hit the ground running so how
does that work with us really being self- sustaining I'm not seeing the picture yet she wants to know how we're going to phe in to your point to what you're you haven't numers with us or you know all these things are important and commissioner
jene that's why we come up with this plan you know to make sure we have good plan in place and consider the new hire by the time they get up to speed plus our staff are you know working hardly on all other active project that we have you may not see it on the capital but in
our operating we have RNR and there are a lot of project that are they are heavily involved and I only have one engineer to and construction manager you know wanes so we're hoping to form that new department so we can utilize it with more confidency while we're you know
progressively completing all these project and that's the goal cuz we're adding a lot of new employees new positions new in a sense of repurposing but those same people are also doing other things as well so you know how do you how how far do you stretch your team
and still be effective that's like we have not in this plan we have not added anything in water you know as as far as positions we're in fact we're transitioning to form the new CIP Department to develop that department to focus on our project so we're not adding
anything at uh we have some vacancies but we tremendously reduce the level of effort from consultant so I just want to make sure we are in the successful path not to impact any of our project to the point that uh we're getting concerned
then I have to pull my staff from other active project on operation and ask them you know we're not we're not adding additional work uh to to staff these are all staff that were already dedicated to CIP projects um commissioner smug before because vice mayor was had a one last
had a thought before because commissioner smugger has a no no go ahead go ahead please all right you're next I didn't want to NOA I wanted to ask like this actually was negotiated down from about almost $5 million to 1.7 is that correct 3.6 million previously
work for was 3.97 Million okay it was 3.97 yeah almost 4 million now down to 1.7 great job no I mean I understand certain things like for example we don't have the Manpower the or the specialty to to
be doing certain things so we couldn't I I noticed that you're weaning off a lot of you know a lot of black and be's uh expertise and you're creating that inh house okay I think that's uh something that we're all concerned about because because black and Beach is
expensive so we I'm looking at a que right now so um yeah so I I like that that we are weeding off them and um is there a way that you could trim this and make this uh even more like
inhouse as we progress we might but uh I just want to make sure we're you know uh secured and we have a good plan in place you know for the project that's why we developed the you know contingency plan in place as well in case we need to ramp it up so you're 500 Grand we I've been
through all this and I've been here for a month and a half so consider all the staff capacity experience level of experience we have what's been completed what's active so uh this is at this point this is best I could I could have
done you know man commission um and we'll make sure as part of that 60-day um I don't believe but I'll have procurement confirm I don't believe we've ever maxed out um the task authorizations that were authorized okay um commissioner commissioner sm all
right so so we actually did this when we took over the four of us here you guys weren't on the commission but the four of us here uh voted to uh bring back the the water plan to North Miami Beach to us it we gave them six we gave the city
six months and we did I believe it was in less than six months yeah so it it can be done her Killian Tas so where there's a will there's a way and you got as you mentioned uh commissioner at the time that was a right decision because you guys transition from priv save a lot
of money and and a lot project has been ex and nobody died like some people said know the world didn't end and also um the um I'm sorry I'm sorry to interrupt but what I wanted to say is that a lot of the employees actually left they didn't stay they they went with Jacobs
so it's not like all the employees stayed here and so but we still did it and I'm sorry that I interrupted okay so so so we got a we got a motion he was he was no no I know I know but just you got we you have a motion may I add to yes
okay just go ahead vice mayor not not to contradict or or to um just to add to that I think that um remember that the cause of us actually Outsourcing to begin with from my from my inquiries around town uh I found that like there
were neglected you know facilities that's a third rail it was run oh no no no no well I mean so so there has been there has been conversation about it it was done purposely uh Vic man yes yes I agree I agree Vice there was an agenda
back then no well let uh I wasn't I know you wen't I know no I'm sorry go but my point is that to say that um when we took it it back over a lot of our employees left right so there is a period of time that we have to endure but I do agree that it has been way too long that we haven't had you know the
bulk of our people in house and only maybe you know approaching black and vure or other similar companies like occasionally for those Specialties so um I think that the 60 days I think is a fair amount but I do believe that the
400,000 is too low well I I the 400,000 is actually 90 days so it allows them 60 days to come back 450 I'm sorry thank you it allows them to come back in 60 days with the uh uh required information and then so that we can vote at that
time to further extend um further extend but it gives them 90 days in total but 60 days to come back with the information so we have a motion in a second can we call the vote thank you so I'm calling the vote so wait I was going to say that can we
adjust that 450 so wait so you adjusting it that's what I'm saying I said I agree with the 60 days and the 90 so what amount what amount what do you want to I'm thinking of like I think we want to have to make a motion for what number you want and see if I mean we have a to see if he would Adit I just I just
wanted to clarify cuz your your your statement was you didn't think 60 days was enough no no I said 60 days is a good idea but I think 450 is too low but it's 90 days for 450 right correct which is even no no no but that's the amount
that's what the amount is what I'm saying the amount is too low whether it be 60 days or 90 days but if I may explain the logic behind that it's it's it's yes to come back for more approval not only that but what I'm saying is it covers the reason why he came up with that amount it fits to the timeline basically right correct that's that's
that's basically it's not it's not an arbitrary amount it's it's sticking to the SCH it was mathematical okay yes he's good at that he's good at that okay so we have a motion in a second can we all all in favor say I I I I any oppose no one oppose okay next
item could I just say something about yeah oh yes we're not done yet I I just want to say one thing to the to the staff I hope you're hearing us because this has been going on the two years that I'm on here so I just want to make
sure staff is hearing that this whole every time we see it it brings up a red flag thank you but but what you're chastising them for is this is part of a contract that came before us that's what nobody's realized I mean no
well black and Beach they have a contract with us for x amount I'm not I'm not I'm not denying they have a contract but this has always been a sour pill when it comes to Black of beach when because we we we had to deal with that for a I mean for a long I'm not disagreeing with that but we didn't
disagreeing with that's a bill that we have to pay whether you look at it or not the work hasn't been the work the work hasn't been performed that's the reason why it's negotiated and brought to us for us to approve it and and they they gave us a price am I wrong they gave us a price and now we're adjusting
the price no why why are we adjusting the price when we had a price and it wasn't enough so they're they're coming to us for a reason if they had a contract we had to pay the we they wouldn't be in front of us Jay they would be I mean commissioner chernoff they're in front of us because they need
more and the thing that is that they keep digging for more and more and more and real fast because the mayor will definitely give me the side no real fast I'm very passate just about vice mayor I just want to say we were promised and I did a no vote on a promise that we were
going to save n $7 million a year that was the promise and we had all the liability and we had all the risk and we couldn't afford to keep it up and guess what none of that was true it cost us not only did it cost us a fortune to get it back it cost us the additional $9
million and litigation so you know and and really and truly I'm sounding harsh but I have to share with staff that I love with the manager that is trying each and every way to to make sure we're all happy that this is such a thing that our antenna has to go up our antenna has
to go up because we've been burned before I will save the public of the old Woody throwing the the chocolate at the first fiance I will save that story for my third or fourth time repeating it but it wasn't about this issue it's about
all the things that happened before on the same topic that's why our ten is we hear you um commissioner mayor and vice mayor um which is why over the past two years you've seen a ramp down of those services and um the the various tasks um
you have that commitment from from from staff to to hire more and continue to bring uh various Services throughout the entire city more inous and and that's what we're doing um but absolutely thank you thank you manager next item is uh business tax receipts Dean's gold um
Community developmentor approve do I have a do I have a motion to move to approve he moved it do we have a sec okay um uh commissioner um chernoff is moving it do I have a second I second all right int uh
introduce um City attorney agenda item 12.1 I'm sorry uh agenda item 12 business tax receipts agenda item 12.1 excuse me request from Dean's gold to renew the extension of ours business tax
receipt sponsor community development director zafi Fe Amed good morning for the record Mitchell Austin read that one can you speak up uh good evening for the record Mitchell Austin Urban our uh
Community Development uh assistant director uh this item is for uh the annual extension of the uh business tax receipt for uh Dean gold they have two items which come
before you that's an extension of hours uh from 2: to 4:00 a.m. and from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. and the uh police department has provided in your packet a a list of all
of the incidents that have occurred over the past year they have no uh they provided no additional comments or recommendations regarding the extension of premises and uh or extension of hours for the premise and uh City staff
recommends approval thank you Mitchell uh mayor additionally um and and I'd like for uh deputy chief um Nicholls to to come up and talk with regards to um any police concerns over the past year but one of
the things that we also wanted to to acknowledge is um I have reached out to uh to the managing partner um or or the owner uh of Dean's gold and and then um through the police department they have
been working to increase the various cameras throughout the property um for for any issues that that may have and have been uh coming up and they have been working with our police department and we are appreciative that they've been open to that kind of partnership um
above and beyond what they've done in the past um but um DC can you kind of go through um any major concerns um over the past year with regards to um Dean's gold wait one second is there nobody hear from Dean gold no I I don't believe
so sir thank you go go ahead um sir good evening uh mayor commission manager uh the police department doesn't have any objection to uh declining the license extension for the hours there were 21 incidents last year uh most of them were an unwanted
guest burglar to a vehicle battery calls and a customer dispute over a phone but other than that it's pretty much been status quo there and we don't have an issue with it thank you you're welcome there all right do we have um any discussion on The Dan on this matter seeing none do I have a motion
to to approve you have a second second all in favor say I I any oppose passes you Danon next item oh uh I'm going to be very quick on this our Centennial is coming up I we have to I believe that we should commit
um commit um create a board um specifically for that it's going to be a year a year round event they they do this in every cities I I even seen North Miami doing theirs and CR is very involved and doing videos with each commissioner you know inviting the public to get involved on the different
aspects but I know this is you know is going to be like something that's going to be a that I don't think just the one particular board even you guys do a great job I I think oh no no no it shouldn't be our board this should be your yeah so I think that each one of us should be able to point one person to a
a centennial board they'll come up with all these ideas um they can be a lot more nuance and I think it's something we we're behind the eightball a little bit because a lot of stuff has to be contracted out way beforehand because it's going to be o over a year span this is only happens once every hundred years
and it only happens once for the first 100 years so um we have a lot of history Once In Our Lifetime Once In Our Lifetime great idea so I I just want us to you know give direction to um the city managers for us to create this board and for us to come uh a lease uh
give the parameters I don't know if you're working with the city clerk and soliciting uh letting people know that we're going to be making this selection and we can have a decision on the board members no later than um I would say uh next commission the March next next commission so so one member one person
per commissioner and are we going to specify whether that person has to have a certain ability to do this I I I don't want to limit I don't want to because I think we should put okay well I mean okay okay so I mean no no it can't be it has to be a resident of course it has to
be someone that has some type of um I mean I I I don't want to Pigeon hold anybody but I I I'll leave I I'll take whatever suggestions I just know we need it if you're going to finalize the appointments if I'm sorry the the the creation and and the
criteria at the next meeting you don't necessarily have to say that the appointments will be made at your next meeting yes I like you can say we're going to do this and this is the criteria and everybody should appoint one and just ask everybody to appoint
them it doesn't unless you want the right to approve everybody else's appointments no this I don't I I don't think that should beopt it at your next meeting and then just ask everybody to make their appointment pursuant to what
you adopt as quickly as possible we should have people who at least have some knowledge in in in party he's saying set up your criteria set up your criteria at the next and have the legislation ready for our next and set
the criteria and then once you adopt that yeah thereafter everybody makes their appointment soon as they can find somebody ad crer I know I know we are but I want to be a little and but at to to commissioner Smith's point I think there
has to be some type of Baseline I I agree I just think we need to get the ball rolling and we need to get C involved because that's going to be a big driver for this or whatever because you know our major Corridor or what have you so I'm just letting I think we need this type of legislation next at our next commission meeting and whatever
requirements that you guys feel that needs to be added please add it I think this should be a m this would be coming from staff and add your thoughts to it and then we'll vote on it but I know we need this other other cities have it Mr Mayor if I may one of they sent out a Page Letter if you read it of selecting
somebody and it's interesting because somebody that may have long-term knowledge of the city and somebody that may have a vision of the city may not be artistic enough to plan what what we
should do about that and somebody that is very artistic to make or party planner or an event planner may not have the history so that's why I think we should definitely have like some kind of
criteria as the attorney said that who we appoint because it's going to come very quickly and very Qui and there's seven of us who we appoint has the capabilities and is not a newbie look other cities have these uh I would say a
template that we can utilize just bring it bring it um before us and we have if we have to make any changes we'll make any changes so that's just the direction I want to give to the manager so so we can have that by next Commission meeting and to the City attorney mayor vice mayor okay thank you um so I think we're kind of going around it in a different
way and it would take longer I think that we should source for an events event or or eventorganizer the event organizer has consultant like a board that actually sounds against them so whoever has a vision or a history of the past or whatever is specific and special
to our city then that that's that's how I Envision a sentential committee so you're saying have pretty much put I guess put a solicitation to get an event plan an event company and then have the going to be eventually you're going to need that anyway so if you have an event
planner or an organizer who is going to plan the event then that person like gives a broad picture and then all the the advisers on the committee would plug in those essential things that make it a North Miami Beach like specific is there a budget I was just going to say Mr
manager is there a next because I was going to propose that if we are going to make the Centennial an amazing event we should cancel all other events and just make the Centennial event the event of the
year no that's not who no we can walk and you at the same time well no we we want we want to we can walk we can walk we can walk much we're going to be inviting all of our neighbors here no we we've we we've really limited I mean like there's like this month we should
have had um our Lovin we haven't had that I don't know how long a long time yeah so I mean this before you suggested it for next I know I know I know but but I but what I'm saying Mr M is this right I like the idea that the vice mayor pointed out um that we have to put a
solicitation out there for a company or whoever to to to be the the sounding board or or to you to be to be utilized as as the the main um Point person for The Advisory board that we're going to appoint so how do you envision us doing that do you want you want us to give you
direction to put out solicitation for for something that's massive and for them to come back with an RFP or an RFQ I mean or if we think that we could do it in house that's what I was going to say can our Parks events well it's not no it's not even Parks it involves comms it involves this is a
massive thing and I mean not to give Parks extra work but they are amazing at at doing exactly but if there's no other events to hold year what are they going to do anyway that's what vice mayor was saying they're so strapped that we could
we can't have Mr Man do you have a thought give us your idea please sure and please so um I I think that um ideally my recommendation um for the Centennial I don't believe it's one day I believe it's a yearlong celebration no
it is a year and my concern with having a vendor organize that is you're asking them to event plan an entire year worth of activity that's going to be in my opinion a ton of hours these are
typically hourly based type contracts whether it's $5 or $150 an hour or anything like that that type of work is going to be a lot more than than what we're assuming and and we're coming off of a conversation where we're
talking about no more Consultants which is kind of weird so my recommendation nobody's their own wedding plan my my recommendation except when we need one my my my recommendation is we have um we
we have we have staff um who has done an amazing job in multiple departments in planning um taking and leveraging snowfest Monster Bash things that we already do taking it to an extra level
if we're able to obtain seven um residential um members from the community that are more experienced and have skills with either branding event planning graphic design so it's also a working group I would like to see a
unique logo brand for our 100 year and so some of that might be hey I'm a graphic designer I I live in in the city um um I do branding for multiple artists all that is great here are a few different ideas that then they can kind
of filter that we can present that to the community we can present that to you and it's all a buildup so that come January 1st 2026 until December 31st even if we don't have an event every month it might be it might be a quarterly event to
celebrate or we're tagging on to an already existing event that we're just ratch up um um um to the next level to celebrate that 100 years I think that's the best way to do it well one and a couple of zeros
well somehow well look see that well see just a couple zeros I I know I I I know we need two things I know we do need to set up the criteria for the for this particular Bicentennial board and we also I think we're going to need some expertise on this because nobody I mean
look I can have all ideas I I could have but my wife was not going to tell me like you plan a wedding I ain't I'm not that that's how it is you know um I do have ideas um and I can chime them in you know I can attend the board meetings I say hey this is my thought or whatever but I need someone to be really focused
on this because we have a bunch of other things we got to worry about andely and that's why and that's but I still like I said I think we need a we need a wedding planner in this case and we and we need someone that's dedicated from the family that's why that can you know to point to
your point I think just like at pnz and other boards where we say hey first um first priority in in selecting a a board member is that they have this type of background and I think if if we say hey these are the backgrounds that we would like to see we have an amazing community
that are from lawyers to financial gurus to marketing gurus to event planners and that wedding planner if they are more than willing and we know that we have a willing Community to volunteer their time and to help lead such a important celebration of our city I think that we
can get that without having to do an RFP or an RFP all right so you'll come back with you you'll come back with the criteria for this particular board sure uh next commission meeting and then at that point we'll give a date certain for us to have this committee set I think I think a month will be no more than that so we should have everything wrapped up
by April at least have the board criteria set up and have um what I would like to recommend is that I give you that criteria if we're not doing a formal um appointment via VIA resolution then come March um I I can give you that recommendation in come March you can
already give a name um so we can already start yeah once we once we vote on the criteria we can just give the name we don't have to go through a resolution from uh on yeah I think that'll be I think it's perfectly fine we don't have to vote on the on the names we'll just vote on we'll just vote on Mr attorney is that okay on the criteria but we
don't have to vote on the committee okay but do we have to vote on the appointment once once once the once we vote on the criteria formalize it Ino orcy or
proposal it's really the okay so thinking ahead because we're almost finished with this subject I'd like to know what the budget is because I can't imagine if we're going to try to celebrate at every occasion the best way to celebrate is giveaways so they have
something uh you know whether it's Easter and every little rabbit has a 100 on it on his name whether it's football season and every Jersey has a 100 so I need to know a the budget and B we have to also remember when we plan things
what month are they going to be planned on because of the I know for the seniors we have to always look at the weather also also the consideration when you do come up with that plan come up with this because I know there's going to be a there would be a lot of companies that would love to sponsor some these types of events to make sure that we have a deck but just to come up with a
financial plan of what this would consist of you can come up with a with a rough draft by by by our next commission we can yeah I mean go ahead City attorney sorry go ahead make some money by having an opportun you know
trucks sales and things like that you can have vendors and sponsors as you said and you can not necessarily have to fund this mostly or even you know primarily through City General funds
because you're giving something I mean you know charge the food truck something to come out a Jew no there's a lot of like Jackson is a big um um employer in our city we have
a as your school in our in our city I can see them being involved in something this historic so coming up with a financial plan I think that um that's something that you can come up with just a rough draft for us so we know we just something guide written in stone we can
provide the the a sponsorship deck um the budget would be determined based on how many events what is it that we're going to do are we piggybacking off of what we already do on a yearly basis that will be part of the budget process um that we'll do the good thing about our Centennial is that it covers two
fiscal years yeah um because our I think our founders day is in December of 2026 yeah so that's already fiscal year exactly I'm thinking me personally I would make snowfest five times bigger than whole
founder everything but we don't we don't need to have hey we're gonna we're going to spend x amount of dollars within 30 days I think the the whole point of this group is to identify those opportunities to to maximize those efforts over two fiscal years yeah so uh you have
Direction manager I mean like you you'll come back to us next commission we don't need to vote on it next item is Charlies wait wait wait wait and one one more thing sorry sorry commiss what staff person is going to be assigned to the committee oh that's up to the m he knows what we want we'll have staff from
Communications Parks um and police us un Finance you mean her daughter Lily no the entire machine U commissioner that's what that's what I'm
saying machine the ma I want the whole machine I want a million the whole n um um so uh commissioner Smith um trolley okay so it was brought to my attention that the trolley was stopping on Miami Gardens in Miami Gardens or on Miami and
Gardens Drive West of six Avenue so and also it was brought to my attention that when it goes out of the city the liability to the city is far greater in the fact that it wouldn't be our North Miami Beach police officer if there was
an accident it would be the municipality the accident happened in so I am never going to give up on the fact that we only own five trolleys but we rent a six trolley and we use that trolley to pick up in the county to stop in the county
to go to Aventura and stop two or three places in Aventura now if you call myami Shores their trolley is not going to North Miami to pick up people and take them to Miami Shores swimming pool North
Miami is not picking up people and taking it to uh Aventura we're the only municipality that are ATT tax dollar North Miami Beach mine cuz I happen to live here my
tax dollars is paying for transportation from the county to a municipality that's not our city people have said but your residents are going to Aventura and your residents getting off the bus I
understand that but Miami Shores residents are going to the art museum in North Miami but Miami Shores is not providing them the transportation North Miami residents are going to the pool in Miami Shores but North Miami is not
providing Transportation so I again make the motion that and hope to get a second that we eliminate that trolley or they get the money from the county and the money from aventur to pay for the trolley or at least help pay for the
trolley because why because we're spending that kind of money renting a bus that goes out of our city to out of our city so I make that motion that okay yeah we both seconded so okay
discuss yeah okay so can I may I speak yes thank you okay so um to the manager the contract is up for renewal in April yeah okay so have you spoken to or are you going to be
speaking to um proel yes ma'am we have a meeting scheduled I believe it's either it's not tomorrow so it's next Wednesday for who to who speak to who Pro the owner the owner okay so I I have
set it up here and I've said it that I always thought that aventor mall should pay for but they don't and they won't they don't and they won't so um you know but I also remember that
including myself I voted against it we were supposed to have a trolley study and I we all I think it passed I think we voted all against it so I mean so it's like we we we don't do the try
study but then we don't know what we don't know how many people are are writing it because we don't do the trolley study because because if one resident has gone on at one time and only for three hours and only saw two people on it is not a
scientific study no it's not you know so I mean maybe just coincidentally that day and maybe not maybe that maybe it is always like that but without the study which I again voted against but without the study we we really don't know the
numbers we don't know how many people are writing and maybe maybe we maybe 100 people writing it a all five of them in a year you know maybe we we don't need the um you know but without we we to your point I don't want to make an
anecdotal because I know we have certain residents that feel they know pretty much everything um and I'm not saying that their passion is not warranted but at the same time like you know this is an anecdotal approach we're we're going to have a discussion on this or like the manag going to have a discussion on this
on the contract coming up relatively soon so to do it because you know like this I don't think would be proper um I know the writers ship is pretty substantial um I know our Public Works Sam can you CU sometimes people and they'll probably say that what you're saying is untrue because they don't see
it with their own eyes but just because I don't see an Adam do doesn't mean it doesn't exist but please thank you mayor just to clarify the commission never voted against the traffic uh trolley stops and the study they just tabled it the item was tabled
twice but it has regardless whether we voted against it or we tabled it we it it never happened if you want to brought up with the next we do need we do need numbers if it's not brought up by the vendor uh we need we we need a unbiased uh type of
analysis before we do something this drastic cuz like I said before we we can't be doing playing like that okay so yeah but don't we have a staff person that that surg no no but I'm saying like we should do this we have a full-time staff person no no but I'm saying like we need those numbers I mean those discussions the manager is going to have
those discussions um so so do we have a full-time staff person that we do have a trolley coordinator I believe not too long ago now we have a trolley coordinator and she does collect information I think that the information should be cross checked with an independent person who is doing the
study now I asked the manager and the manager said that he's going to find try to find funds elsewhere to to pay for the study which is $107,000 and we have tabled it since December but can I just say a few things number one is when you find money from
elsewhere it's not being used for elsewhere so it's still being Tak elsewhere as in like there's a willingness to sponsor it by any of the vendors where we get to pick the independent study but you know if I if I could say I don't walk every day but I
walk I try to walk consistently the same walk and I see the trolley all the time that I have only one time seen four people I either seen no one one or two one time I saw four so I'm not saying we
should take it away from the public I'm going to bring this up because we're paying with our tax dollars to lease out of our city to out of our city and that I want to stop but I also want look if you you bring up north Miami North Miami goes into do North Miami Char goes into
the I know it's it's a short it's a short turn into but it goes into that Publix which is technically our our neck of the woods which is on for bis G you know you know that right it's I know they have publes in their area but they still bring a it's it's spot it's spot U type of uh jurisdiction but because they
go back into North Miami they go from North Miami into the county into North miam Beach into the county it goes back into North Miami that's not a straight strip that that might be in North Miami Beach but then the next stop is the north Miami that they'd have to stop
anyway cuz cuz FIU and that whole complex is North Miami the schools North Miami a CO com uh Costco is North Miami so and the hoods and the home things is n&b yeah but North Miami the Costco and that is not a a fair thing because North
Miami Beach is on the other side of where Costco is but you have to go around probably would have to go past go you have to go around though it's not I mean they haven't opened up the roadway where it's supposed to be but but but this is that's a totally different thing this starts out of the city it ends out
of the city to the the city that brags we have the least amount of taxes in Dave County they they're getting the benefit and we have the one of the highest taxes and we're paying for it could we get real could we take care of our public tax dollars please I wanted
to chime in too you know it's very interesting how you know services are cut right we're looking at it from the federal side to the state side how all the trickle down of services to people are being cut and it's an interesting ation that we're
having to cut Services none of us take public transportation um you know we're we're not in that bracket where we have or we don't choose to some people do it just because they want to go green and and and save energy and so forth but I think it's unfair to the ridership to cut a
service especially in in the time that we're in currently yeah for us sitting up here we're so far removed from transportation from from public transportation in general but when you put yourself at the level of the public which often times we don't do we because
we can't empathize with that group because we're not part of I I didn't have transportation for a long time the reality is right now with the with the changes in better bus Network and the holistic approach to Transportation we're looking at it from a pigeonhole because we technically want those funds
to be reallocated to another division of the city be it streets so forth which I do agree that we need to find ways to increase the level of service to the to the Improvement of our student however I don't think we have to bifurcate it to the point where services
are being cut pet so to your point I understand we all want to see funds reallocated in areas where there may be a need but we're really cutting our residents Without Really knowing what's happening there from a data perspective
but commissioner Johan that is not in our city I want to give our residents why don't we it's a holistic approach no it's not in our city North Miami Beach and it's going to aventur Mii North Miami Beach is the city that's in the
center lowest taxes it's a mall well it doesn't matter avur is just a big I mean I'm not knocking aventur but I'm just it doesn't matter that's they have the lowest taxes I'm I understand what you're saying with the transportation I would love a study because for what we pay per ride we might think it's better
to give a what do they call that not voucher a v vure for them to take a cab and it's going to be cheaper out of our taxes because that's how many people ride but if they listen I agree that if
we need more that we should have more maybe more freebies maybe more whatever I I agree I'm not even talking about the five we own I'm talking about renting one to go out of the city to go out of the city does not make sense to your tax
dollar but part of your motion was to get the money from the city other cities or but the other cities won't do it nobody's nobody has gotten them to do it so alur is a is a private business right so it's a private it would be a p
a public private partnership right so that's no they stop fresh not likely to to happen we're looking for government funding to support a transportation issue I don't I wouldn't see a private entity providing you funds to service a
public need I happen to tell you that um I've spoken to a couple of the Commissioners in aventor and they won't do it why should they so it wouldn't be it wouldn't it wouldn't be their decision it would be the mall it'll be S making decision well she's just saying now that's why should a private I know
she's saying that that would that type of like analysis doesn't make any sense I'm a business owner why would I then I don't control that all these res are coming to me why would I then invest the money in that capacity you can't to say that the mall would be that would jump in to do that doesn't make any sense no but they stop at Fresh Market they stop
along the way I've seen them twice this is a thing I I I agree with you here's my the five the five should have a study without but if we continue outside the city there's so many other things commissioner Jean that are very
unfortunate that some people just don't get the benefit of that don't live in our city that I would love to support too I am so honored that the man for the autism children came before us there's so many programs that we as a as residents would love to support but we
need to support with our tax dollars our community and economic development is relative to all that we're talking about so it's it's not pitching holding the I think you're focus a lot on transportation for some reason I'm not sure but we look at the holistic
approach to a resident that lives in the city of North Miami Beach we're looking at a holistic approach okay let me make sure why I'm doing this because they are going from outside our city to outside our city on a rental that we're paying for because we don't own the bus may I
that's why I'm adamant about first of all Mr Mayor I mean Mr manager you had said that you were looking into getting advertisements for the trolley what what's the verdict on that um the the vendor is able to activate that we have a meeting on Wednesday to so what can we
so can we then table this issue so he can have this because it's coming up yeah it's coming up well I mean what what Phil has brought up is very important because I'm worried about the liability okay more than anything else trolley outside of the No No but I want to clarify that liability and wait
one more one more thing so apart from the liability there is also another issue about the last mile now from the border of where North Miami beaches to Aventura is not a mile I think it's I believe it's a little bit
more than a mile to avour mall so if we're looking to answer the question of The Last Mile it should be the last mile where the County buses drop them off and or you know if they choose to go green then they can take a mile into the into
the City and done so the issue is that there's like it's like not the last mile it's the last three miles it's the last five miles and it never ends so with the liability and the concept of the CIT money which is supposed to be The Last Mile we should stick to that intention
so that we can follow through with it in the most frugal way possible look from Houston's on the aventur mall I think it's like about a mile me being quite Frank and that's the last that's how far it is so houst is it Houston's or is it um P Houston is ours it's PF CHS so it's
PF CHS P CHS is not ours CHS is not yes it is but Houston is H so so from Houston onto the mall complex was ours Marina okay okay so uh um Mr manager I because I know there's a motion in a second I
know so so wait so I think commissioner chof misunderstood what he made a motion on no no no no unless I mean what he seconded on I seconded on Phil but we seconded it on Phyllis actually bringing this to but you said you said you thought it was something else that she
was saying no what I'm there was two parts to it well look I'm saying like I'm asking the proposer of the of the motion hear about the liability oh well look unless I'll move the second to to unless we have a I want to hear about unless we have a like anou like if if that Charlie gets an accident off of
like bis G or certain aspects of it it's going to be FHP in some cases so like at the end of the day you're saying it's going to be a like aventur police we don't necessar well I'm just saying like there's the liability approach has to be a little bit more nuanced to say the insurance that's not whoever the
reporting um no she was saying like it wouldn't be our police like that saying there's liability CU it's out of the I'm not sure what they mean by that but that being said we have a motion a second is there is can the um the person bringing the motion allow the manager to
have the meeting with the venor so he can come back to us yeah I would the meeting's not until April we're going to be pay next week okay so next week you're meeting with them to discuss what um because it's coming up it's about no but then we don't meet again till March go
ahead right we'll be discussing the advertisement um on on the trolleys and and what that can look like and how much that can generate um and we're also discussing any potential um agreement changes or anything that would uh come back to the commission for an extension
also the study please if you were going to talk about the study so can you allow him to make that can you would you be able to withdraw your your motion so he you can allow the manager to have this discussion a city clerk I'm withdrawing my motion and asking you to put the trolley discussion on the next agenda it's I thought it was always going to be
there but it is so so she pulls it next item is commissioner Sue um Charter yes I mean vice mayor Sue sorry okay Vice I'm sorry public you're paying for something outside of our city I
can't help it one more month no she add she had a walk back well okay so um so I'm adding this because like I think the charter review is coming up and we have to State statue or something right it's every 10 years right so um there's a lot of outdated
issues and a lot of ambiguity in the current Charter so when we are counting the number of days a person has been missing you know it's like it's not clear from what day to what day are we going to you know change that and alter that now I think that we should also
form a committee um but I don't how is a charter Amendment usually how does that usually take how do we set up so we we're going to have to do this yeah what is what is the normal practice that's been happening in the city each commissioner Comm is going to appoint a
resident to serve on the charter board M I believe one of our commissioners currently served before I'm waiting for the okay with um the elections Department because we have to request for a special election so so Direction I'm hearing is that we can we just like how I'm making the the Centennial can we
have the the parameters for the next commission meeting there is already a code then let's can we have that ready for so we Cano start appointing people next yes next mission when is that up wait can we accelerate that a little bit so that we next meeting we going to have
it to approve no we we already have we already have a provision it says that it does call for a resolution but the parameters of it are pretty clear okay so res things that you have to do that
you have to set by resolution the quote duties but it's very clear that whatever the committee does is a recommendation to to you the commission has the final say please remember please remember that
nothing about having that Charter Review Committee interferes with the right of any citizen to pursue a charter Amendment under our local and County and state law it is a
little because of the day County Home Rule Charter provision that's in the state constitution there has been some litigation that I've been involved in in the past where some people say no we have to follow the county procedure
because it's it's governed by home rule and some people say no no the state provision applies but that process whereby citizens can bring an amendment if they do it in a proper
way that exists and that's not trembled in any way by the fact that we have this committee we set up the committee I've done four or five of these Charter reviews for different and Rewritten two
or three Charters like opak and Al pel it's a pretty we'll bring a reso so you bring the reso next we'll bring a reso yeah the attorney just for clarification though um and and maybe I just misheard the intent of the charter is to have
recommendation on the ballot for the November 26 election not a special meeting or not a special election in 25 no no6 2026 time the clerk has been working with me on it we're moving forward on it
we'll we'll bring a res manager we have your item which is minut okay city um clerk Madam clerk um if it was closer to election time and we had the charter review it would not require special election am I correct it
could be put on the regular election that's what we're that's what we're we're going to do it'll be a during a general election that's correct she just said it would require a special election so I'm trying to clarify only if we did it sooner but that's not the contemplation and we'll
clarify that in the resolution okay I I I don't want to spend the 70,000 absolutely AB the second thing I want to say about the charter review because I've been through one and you don't and I'm cautioning you vice mayor because of
what your statement was how many things could be wrong in there if you do more than eight or 10 things that is not a good idea because the public doesn't read through them that's right they don't read through them they just do it or ignore it or what have you so we
really have to focus on what are the important things to change and I think that once he brings us the guidelines and we sit with we start whoever you get for the charter review again are you saying I don't remember the guidelines give you the requirements of
who should be sitting on there no but it's one appointment by each commissioner that's but we could try in the resolution because it says it's to be adopted and the duties are fixed in the resolution uh and let me just say
that while you're eminently correct that you can't have too many items and not lose people's attention but you you can carve out the big items for separate vote and then you can have like a casual house
cleaning that cleans up a bunch of stuff it might go down but it those are typically unless you're unethically slipping some big thing in there those are typically pretty non-controversial
like a gend you're trying to get a few things into yeah if you're just cleaning stuff up and you're not you know trying to hide something most people will vote for modernizing language so let me ask you your experience if I could City attorney do you feel that we should put
as we are going to do with our other committee we're creating for the people to be historic or at least have some history if they're going to be on the um committee to plan for the hundred do you think we should have some guidelines to
who is should be on there like an attorney or like somebody cares about the city or do you think you can have some guidelines if you want just keep in mind to use the mayor's uh analogy of a wedding planner I do that and I've done
that so I just need to be I know how to walk them through it and and there there is somebody that you know leads it the clerk has a role but the attorney you know that's something I would undertake it's a project that we undertake we meet
with everybody we uh ask them I mean there's a protocol for it that I've done in you know in North Bay Village and in Dural and and in uh eleral and opal sometimes I mean we
don't need to rewrite our whole Charter but Commissioners are certainly welcome to offer suggestions to the committee even though it's coming back to you yeah and you know it's just it's a simple we have a lot of time it's an orderly
process you know there's a few hot button issues that everybody wants to look at is there any change in the way you conduct your elections um I've had one very pointed suggestion from a
member of your August body who thinks that we are not well served by having our elections in November with a presidential election and there are certainly pros and cons to that I mean
you get bigger turnout if you do it in November of a presidential year or or a gubernatorial election if you have an election every two years but are they more Discerning voters do people pay more attention to local issues if you
have your election in May I don't know that there's an answer one way or another that's depends on what you want to do but and ultimately you will make that decision Chang it on the charter with
the understanding that P there were a lot of snowb burs and they did not here in May so there a lot of good reason commissioner this deis will make that decision regardless of the the
recommendation but by opening it up to seven people you don't particularly need people who have special expertise to do that I try not to be immodest but I got
that okay so the thing is you want people who number one well I guess number one is live in the city but number two care about the city and number three have some experience of ups and downs through the city and if they
bring that we'll bring you a product that you can dig your teeth into and say y thank you and I'm sorry um and maybe I'm I'm making this up but was maybe commissioner Smith you remember wasn't
there on the charter Review Committee weren't there some alternate members as well there were there were alternate members and I the criteria the the attorney just said which were three basic things is what I feel should be part of the selection and if when you
bring that back if you would put those three things in I would discourage alternates only for this reason you have people by and large they serve if somebody has to be replaced that's different okay because this can be a lengthy process it could go on for some
months because you have a big Charter but if somebody needs to be replaced okay but you don't want to have a constantly shifting cast of who's there and who has a voice you know because to the extent they vote on something something oh well the regular member
missed it the alternate has a different point of view oh but then the next meeting the regular member's back and says oh I don't like what the alternates voted so just just pick them and if you you know somebody needs to be
replaced the best thing is for the person and not even the best thing honestly you don't want to embarass somebody who was busy in men maybe they have a family member the commissioner who appointed them can just go to them and say hey you you
haven't been able to have the time how about stepping out so we can appoint the report Mr manager thank you for that point Mr manager you heard um heard a direction your community city manager report do you need anything specifically or it's already all in there it's all in there sir all right City attorney report
nothing wait a second you skipped 16234 that's the city that's the city manager report that's it's all in there can you do a one for the record though which one city manager report no I mean
I'd like people to know of the updates of you know the Miami Gardens claims you know the well no no no no um move to a journ no no no no no vice vice mayor brings up a point right um just if you can be um brief in regards to two issues
um she mentioned the Miami Gardens claim uh as well as a give a Washington Park update can you just give U give a brief report on just those two items um sure all the details already in the backup uh with regards to the washing um I'm sorry to
the Miami Gardens claim settlement um as of January um 31 excuse me um again uh 16439 uh notice packets had been mailed
previously um of that um they have received as of January 29th uh 2025 2,672 forms um in um in there is a from time
to time they will email us a resident who says they're part of the um the class um although it's not in the list that we've provided we verify and often so far all of those have been no they're not our customer they're our County
customer Washington Park um was much has been claimed already did you say 16,000 or 40 no 16,000 notices have gone on I don't believe any funds have been distributed as of yet okay thank you Washington
Park Washington Park um we um I have arelio um our CIP director he can give a brief brief brief update of where where the project stands I'll be brief good evening yeah that was good good good evening mayor and
commission um I'll start the ntp was issued on December 27 24 the preconstruction meeting was held the contractor initiating mobilization activities in December completing the construction of the staging area the pipe material has been purchased and delivered to the construction site the
right RightWay permit was approved and issued the contractor is currently working on the trenching and installation of the force Main and the project is on schedule thank you brief brief uh City commission reports final words anyone can I also could I have the arpa fun update as well yes okay well
I'm sorry vice mayor I didn't hear what you said arpa funds the American Rescue plan act updates good evening vice mayor and mayor commission good even um the arpa update is essentially a followup to the December 17 resolution that was approved
by you all allowing the manager to um do what was necessary to obligate the funds um by the December 31 deadline and so the attachment lists all of the uh final obligations that we've submitted to the treasury all right um go sorry VI are
there any issues with the arpa funds um to my knowledge we are still working with the treasury um as part of the submission process and we don't have any issues to report at this time okay thank you commissioner SM I'm sorry if I missed it did was it said when we're
actually going to break grounds in Washington Park like they're already working on trenching that's all what they're already working on the trenching oh they are yeah dirt's been moving oh and I can see the coming soon on the on the mesh fence and everything okay cool
uh the only comment I have is are please make adjustments on not and don't lose the money that you have put aside for the traffic calming I want to use that money for traffic calming but I want you to make adjustments where it's really pretty
good if we can only do four instead of doing nine but those four are imperative we have to do where absolutely like you have the locations we're going to vote for I also sent an email I also sent an email about that that that I
thought it wasn't so so I don't think that what the homeowners association and what was on there is exactly the same I think there's some differences to what was agreed on by the homeowners association and Eastern Shores into into what what is actually
on that so the temporary speed bumps um that were done and and is asked part of the the procedure is to get consensus uh from the adjourning um or the adjacent I don't know why I keep saying adjourning adjacent property owner
right the the property owner um and so the intent is hey this is where we want to put it even though it's not within engineering standards but it's temporary so we're going to put it here property owners have said not in front of my house no way there is an increase of
noise um when you put a speed bump because you have the ramp down and then the the picking up um of of the engine to move forward so we've been working with residents to try to make sure that where we install it we're not being asked to move it within a week of installation Mr Mayor with without
getting your WRA I just want to I want to say two things one is when you read the report that we were going to vote on you're putting speed bumps but my understanding is speed bumps cannot be put out in without a study a
professional study from the county so that was a little Discerning you're but we had a study and that's why I'm very Leary of these Consultants they wanted to put a speed bump on 100 71st and 35th
Avenue that is a dead end Street when you go down 35th Avenue if you don't slow down you're going in the canal I I believe the 175th it was on 175th not particularly on 35th um exactly again the studies have been accomplished
the role of the item that was before you was the design so that as it was approved during um budget in which we have over $50 million worth of traffic caling over the next 5 years we were only able to allocate about $3 million in this fiscal year we narrowed it down
so that all the projects is equitably distributed throughout the entire city instead of one or two neighborhoods um we were moving that forward as as our CIP into design so that we can then take that to permitting and construction hopefully within the next fiscal year uh
but we'll bring back and we can change those allocations as you wish even though that was already because a hearing which you said clearly ninth Court which doesn't seem to be as nearly as scary as 10th Court it's in the same neighborhood to keep the money
distributed but to somebody that has been up twice about his traffic same thing with ulita and so I think that I think we still can spread it out through the city just to hit the hot spots first just remember in certain areas they're under
County jurisdiction not the city so parts of 10th Court um may fall under the county make that clear when those suggestions are coming to see how feasible it is absolutely last final thought commissioner I mean vice mayor thank you no so just a little bit on the
speed bump that's um we're trying to the reason why the engineering company was also hired to do this is also so that we could follow create a protocol of how to do it so that we could be independent of the county in creating any any road structures that was there it was there
now um so with that said like that's another story but my concern is all the studies that we have spent money on already like the FIU studies the garbage study and the rate studies like I just want to see results from that and if those results are
actually can be rolled out into an action that would work for us at the next we had an just to this to your point Vice man we had a a somewhat of like an unformalized agreement that our conferences are going to be more tailored to certain things that like
presentations so we can move on I'm not I'm not saying we did was not awesome but you know I'm just just bring give it back no no no I just I just want us like it was it was a it was I I I hope you guys didn't take my my the the track being in being a dispersment to anybody
being honored I just wanted us to move along I think it was great I think the residents love that type of stuff to see us really honor the people that normally don't get honored and I just want to say that do I have a motion to adjourn so moved have a second second all the favor say I I all right
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