e e e e e e okay Madam clerk manager manager
all right we're waiting for the clerk where's hello hello e e we're about to start okay [Music] good evening everyone and we're about to start our city commission uh meeting for
uh Tuesday March 18th uh Madam clerk can you please do the roll call please here we can't hear you there's something wrong with [Music] microphones mic's not working for the
okay mine is working for some reason okay no there there should be somebody back there they were they went there that that's that's working right now I think you just tapped it testing yeah yeah go
ahead commissioner shof again here commissioner floron here commissioner ja here commissioner Smith commissioner smuckler present vice mayor Lin Su here Mayor Michael Joseph I
am here you have corm sir okay next item is invocation and I do see a pastor in the audience um Pastor bascos would you mind coming on up uh doing a uh invocation for us Mrs BK good evening everyone good evening
let us pray Heavenly Father we come before your presence giving you all the honor and Glory I pay I pray for our mayor and his family I pray for the Commissioners and their staff I ask you Lord grant them wisdom Health
favor and Grace I pray for every woman in this city give them the strength and show your love through every season in life let your will be done in this city and let your power and love shine over
us in your name we pray amen amen amen amen next is Pledge of Allegiance please everyone stand I to the flag of the United States of America and to this for it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you next item is item number four request for withdrawals affirmance and additions uh Madam clerk testing perfect
seriously mayor yes forther request request of vice mayor Len Sue an added item titled UMC free clinic will be added under legislation and that will now be item 11.4 at the request of commissioner
Smith discussion items regarding City Communication that will be item 15.6 and the other item is called Texas U-turn and that will be item 15.7 okay those are the only changes we
have uh next item mayor yes you would want to make a motion to yes do I have a motion um on the agenda motion motion to accept Okay second did you hear me
say uh okay uh yes so we're going to vote on the on the agenda as amended all in favor say I I I all right passes um unanimously next is uh next is presentation 5.1 our um former mayor Thomas Regal now Property
Appraiser for the Great County of Mi County Commissioner funa [Applause] SM is it [Music] on no yes thank you good evening mayor
Commissioners city manager City attorney and city clerk residents uh my name is Tomas regalad and uh I like you was a commissioner for 12 years in the city of Miami and then a
mayor of the city on two terms uh some people thought that I was going to retire but uh you know I guess nobody does but uh but uh on uh November 5th I
an a group of people ran for five new uh constitutional positions in the charter of the State of Florida and Miami day County one of them was uh the sheriff uh the tax collector the supervisor of elections uh The Collector of the court
and of course the property appraisal so I'm here to offer the services of the new uh property appraisal office uh of Miami day County uh we are an independent entity although we function
uh with the county but we want to work with all uh the municipalities uh in our area in fact uh this is uh my first uh uh presentation uh before a body like
you uh but I will be uh going to different cities throughout the county uh to tell you uh the service that we have uh what can we do for your residents uh and what can you do for us
in terms of information uh we need information I found that sometimes uh things uh cannot be uh filed or uh get ready uh to for archive and documented
uh because we don't have enough inform about sunning changes uh uh and other plotting issues uh in the different municipalities and that sometimes create a problem in terms of value uh so I'm
here to tell you that we would like to work with you Mr manager Mr Mayor Commissioners uh I have found that so many people in this great County do not have information about benefits uh that
they have in terms of having a home we have uh 483,000 uh homes with the homestead exemption in Miami day County and most of them don't know the widow's exception
the veterans exception uh the early residents exception and they're paying more money I I know that it's uh sometimes it's good for government but uh the people are not using their
benefit so we are uh creating uh a calendar of uh uh Outreach uh visits to municipalities and we want to join you when you have uh an important event in
the city you know like uh fair or something that would bring your residents we will bring our team with the computer uh we can even solve problems uh onside
here uh one thing that we are starting next week is that we will have uh a mobile uh team that will go to the homes of people with a special needs uh anyone
uh with special needs that cannot uh mobilize uh to go to one of our offices uh to feel papers or to bring documents we will go to them and uh uh we we feel
that by helping uh one family a day or one person uh a day uh we are doing uh the work that the people of Miami day County uh order us uh to do so I'm here
uh to tell you that we're ready to work with North Miami Beach uh this is a beautiful city and a thriving City and uh anything that you need uh please um just
a phone call away thank you so much thank you I have a question before you go I have one question to the mayor so do you have somebody without it being a fair where you might have a table and a booth do you have somebody at the tax
department that I'm the Lea's on for the appraisal the property appraisal absolutely well I was the reason I said taxes because you hit upon a very important part I am in the Leon for seniors and there's a 100 people that come once a month and they probably can
have a reduction of their taxes disability or age do you have somebody that we can maybe schedule come and speak for absolutely absolutely okay I I will arange tomorrow morning tomorrow morning tomorrow no tomorrow morning is just the board that's the board at 9:30
no I on a Friday afternoon no no but uh but really this is what we want to do yeah this is and and if if you guys uh decide uh we can have AAS uh with our
office so we can assign a person that can be Elation with your office but we can bring people with knowledge about exemption all exemption in fact uh we are launching a campaign uh to inform uh
the the the members of the community that have uh business uh and Industry uh about the the the different taxing that we have for by stay statue for property
tangible property and some people don't know they may have a restaurant or something or or a market some people don't know that they can have an assumtion of $25,000 and not pay taxes on tangible
poty so yes uh we we are we're willing to bring we'll bring our equ the only thing we need uh is is uh internet connection and we'll bring people uh
we'll organize that and we'll bring people who can answer not only answer but look at their property and uh fill the forms that are necessary to uh for
them in fact I want uh March 1st was the deadline uh to fill uh the homestad exemption for this year uh taxing year uh according to the state of Statute I have the authority to extend it so I
have extended uh the filling period to September by extraordinary circumstances I mean if if a person was traveling was in the hospital couldn't make it uh so we will uh fill the homestead exemption
and and be part of the taxing year uh 2025 as our Economic Development Group grows I would like you to also think of coming to them about the businesses I appreciate that all of it that's something I didn't even know right right
I I mean one of the thing that we have seen with the seni years is commissioner that when they create a trust it could be a mess it could be something that they could lose their homet exemption
just because they omit one name uh so so this this Council they don't need an attorney I'm sorry Mr attorney they don't need an attorney uh we'll we'll we'll bring the people with the expertise and maybe we can help some
people much appreciated much um we have a um commissioner flormont and then we have a one last comment for our our City attorney so commissioner flormont thank you this is a comment and also a um a point of personal privilege I just wanted to say um uh Mr Mayor
Meritus that it is a pleasure to have you here in the city of North Miami Beach you are legendary um your contributions to Miami day County the city of Miami is greatly appreciated and um when we found out you were in the room everyone was is trying to figure
out where is he where is he so they can say hi and shake your hand because we appreciate your service to this community thank you so much thank you so muchan and then um City attorney thank you so much I wanted to Echo those sentiments as well and I wanted to ask in reference to a lot of the changes
happening with the state um we do need just Ed a lot of education so a lot of the material that comes from your office will it be in multiple languages perhaps yes it is uh it is in English his Spanish and old awesome thank you so much yes the
attorney thank you mayor and I I apologize for asking for a point to Personal Privilege as well but I have to Echo what commissioner Furon said and just say how wonderful it is to see an old friend like the the
legendary property appraiser uh just someone not that and I you know one of the things I'm charged with doing is trying to help our commission be sure that we're just right
on point when it comes to all the ethical obligations that we have and so I say to you if you want to know how to do it look at Mr regalato and his career of not
only doing everything right but serving the public um in office and out of office and let me say as somebody who counts himself among those whose eyes have been
opened by this gentleman and a few colleagues including one we lost last weekend um he's also a patriot and he's somebody who has done more for the cause of freedom than most
of us will ever even have the opport Unity to do and he's been consistent and I urge that to everybody in the room consistency and and honor and dedication
I I just it warms my heart to see you doing this and I I I'm sorry but I I had to say it thank you nice to see you I I just I just want to say thank you my friend thank you and one last point from
our commissioner Fortuna smuckler so I I hope the mayor doesn't get mad at me for saying this but um back there when we were there the mayor said to me Tomas Regal is here he's a legend so no I and I don't want to take too much of smoke
because last I think this this week or last week they were talking about naming uh the courthouse stto and they were talking about the former County Clerk and they talk about the Legends attached to that and the respect attached to that so having fought against
discrimination and and and the county clerk as well as fighting for the environment the community and to your credit um U mayor you've always been someone of a lion uh and someone of an elder Statesman in your most purest form not just from you but from your daughter
as well so it tells that the Rego name stretches far and wide in this community so I just want to add those points so go ahead and he has two two sons as well that are oh as as well and um I thank you so much for being here um I thank
you for being a friend a friend of gei as well so that means so much to me and um you know I something made me Google you today and um I did not know and I'm going to call you up one day because I want to talk about it that you're you're
pedang yes I did not know that so I want to hear all about it some other time so but thank you for serving the city of Miami and now thank you for serving us all of us and and one thing that a lot of people don't know as well and um you
know this you could do this by yourself but not everybody has the knowhow that you can actually hire a company that will help you reduce your taxes and you usually just pay like a a 40% or 50% depending on the contract 40 or 50% of
of of what got back of the value yeah of the value so if you got back $5,000 you pay 2500 2,000 depend depending on on the contract of the fee so there there is ways of of saving money if and and and just because you hire them doesn't
mean that you will get money back but if you hire them you don't have to pay anything unless you get money back right and and by the way you can do it by yourself you just pay $15 and uh when we bring uh uh our
technical people we can we can tell you the process of the value adjustment board which is in dependent of the property appraisal independent from the county these are magistrates uh that you bring uh your case and they say well
your property uh is not value as it should be they overvalue your property so they reduce and by reducing the valuee they reduce uh the taxes that that person uh pay so it it's a myriad
of of of things uh that we can Council the the the res excuse me is that done on a daily like you can do that daily or is that like one time a year no actually uh actually not daily
but uh it's I95 is a problem you know but but whenever you guys have an event that you feel that you're going to bring your residents or for instance uh this
this uh uh Thursday we are going to Miami Lakes and if we and we said that dat about three months ago so we were able to send like 3,000 letters to Miami
Lakes uh owners uh advising them of the meeting that we have in City Hall uh to us revise their cases or uh give them information so whenever you decide uh we
can we have to plan it uh with it and uh with our team but uh we can we can be here actually I would recommend commissioner a in August we send 1 million letters
with the trim uh which is what is expected that you pay in taxes then September you and all the taxing municipalities set the millage and then the tax collector
will send in November uh so I would I would I would promise you that uh when we send that million letters uh a lot of people will be coming here commissioner mayor you know look what I got yeah
what's going on uh so so yes but we can do we can do events uh throughout the year I would I I I I would suggest uh to do something in July or uh because
August you are in vacation I I assume uh July or or also well we should it's it's very interesting about appraisals being in real estate for 45 years people start
screaming how know how much their taxes are and I always ask them will you sell your house for what they're praising it for and nobody has said yes yet no one but you know you know what portability is an issue because many people are
hostages of their own homestead exemption I went to Talahi and try uh to raise the portability which is the money you can take to other new house to seven uh to 750 is half a million now so to
750 if that is the case and and and by the way the legislature is not doing what we went told uh anything on this session because they wait for next year to put in the ballot something about property taxes we don't know what
it is but uh portability is a good idea that some some people in tahi like it very important you can't buy a house when they come from a luxury home for 500,000 absolutely commission thank you mayor thank you thank thank
[Applause] you next item on the agenda is 5.2 parking services for North May Beach uh Victor Rosario presentation how you doing record
mayor May yes um just uh thank you mayor uh vice mayor and Commissioners just to introduce Victor um some time ago the commission wanted us to take a look at potential um um parking and uh paying spots within the public parking space we took an approach um and reached out to
Miami parking authority which has conducted a study and come up with a plan should the commission uh deem it acceptable I want to thank Victor and his staff who've put in a considerable amount of time thought process and I've met with staff um and on top of that
they did that free of charge for the city um so thank you very much Victor all right park so I understand you're gonna be brief and concise so let's let's see the presentation sounds good can you see it or there it is y okay good evening
everybody so my my name is actually Angel Diaz I'm the the director of operations for the miam parking authority Victor is right there in the audience he's the one that prepared everything I just wanted for clarity so you know who I am and um just an FYI I also born and raised in North May beach
went to Gren Park JFK class of 89 at North Mi Beach Senior High School just putting that in there so go light on me so real quick um my parking authority we were established through State legislation in 1965 which allows us the ability to
enforce and manage other municipalities throughout the State of Florida um our mission is basically to provide you know Community First um we go by we try to go byy a brand that's that's what we go by so Community First and um also um just
protecting our brand throughout the locations that we manage um our vision our vision is to try to manage and provide parking throughout South Florida so we were trying to grow um as we as we can throughout this uh State of Florida south
Florida what we do so we manage um 47,000 parking spaces um throughout all all our locations two municipalities 14 garages 68 lots and um some other locations as
well hey I'm trying to trying to see this sorry so qualifications and experience so some of the areas that we managed so we manag man the Miami day County um Parks we also managed the Miami Marlins
um Jackson Memorial Hospital some lots for Miami day college and we also implemented the city of the rils parking program for them which we currently manage um we've been doing that for two years now okay making an impact so the approach
that we uh would take if this opportunity was available to us would be um an ambassador approach first um which our parking enforcement would basically ask as act as ambassadors um they will Patrol the areas they will meet with the community talk to the community advise
them of where they can cannot park um give them directions to different locations Allen Park um ulita things where where people might need directions to get to um the other thing that the enforcement officers do is they provide a sense of security so they're driving in a city vehicle um they have the logo
they have the yellow light strobing while they're patrolling they have license play recognition cameras and they also have body cameras which they wear as well for protection so that just adds a level of security to the residents as they're patrolling the area um throughout the
city this just a picture of what our vehicle would look like it has the M parking authority logo and the city of North Miami Beach logo as well so that people can understand that it's the parking authority that's that's doing the parking for the city this is our Command Center so we
have a 247 Command Center that handles any kind of complaints uh block driveway uh double parking um any other resident complaints or concerns that might come up so we handle that 247 through our Command Center uh in the downtown
office other services we provide so for example we do event parking we have the freebie services that we do in in the city of Miami um we have maintenance and Porter Services as well and then we have the mystery shopper program which is basically they we have a third party that shops us
make sure that we're doing our job right and then they score us on that and that helps us kind of manage the staff and make sure they're doing their job correctly outside of what the supervisors do today this is just a picture of some of our enforcement team So the plan is a phase in approach
basically it's a marketing uh community outreach U meet with the constituents meet with the merchants meet with the c any business Improvement districts and just explain what the program is what it can do um uh to help uh benefit the city
um and then we would educate the public with our ambassadors um they would Patrol the areas explain to them how the parking program might work and just kind of give them an an uh advice that hey don't you know don't forget to to pay or Park don't park in the loading zone or don't block a hop fire hydren things
along that nature is what they would do um courtesy citation Flyers that's something that we did in the city of dado where we basically for 90 days we gave courtesy citations just letting the people know hey you cannot double Park you cannot block a fire hydrant and just
kind of give them the education purpose Education First so that they understand that you know you can't do that in the future because eventually it become into it'll become a citation um if they continue to do that so that's that's the main thing that the courtesy citations and flyers do and then finally
eventually if the program rolls out then based on the city's recommendation at at the point that you feel comfortable we we can start enforcing when needed so there's a two-phase plan which is a on street parking which is the area in red I'm sorry the area in green
majority is along 164 street that's where we noticed it has the most um commercial property commercial parking so that's the area that we recommended should be um regulated to create more turnover so the businesses can have you know different cars um parking on the
street and being able to so so new people can see the businesses at one now when they park there um the red area is a residential area so that would be phase two if the city desires or needs uh to regulate or help better manageing the residential area that will be uh the
phase two plan this is quick uh enforcement schedule uh 7:00 am. to 10: p.m. is the areas that time that we notice would need enforcement this is our um recommendation it can be scaled down to whatever the city requires it does not
have to be you know these hours exactly but this is kind of where we saw the most use of the parking and then this is a quick snapshot of the revenue forecast um over the five years so it's about $364 the first year and then it it
escalates year year over-ear so these are the startup costs the biggest cost we have is the uh the labor which is the enforcement again that can be based on what the city needs if we need to lower the enforcement then then that that price will drop and then there's Miss misscellaneous expensive
which is uh just equipment uh Fuel and the uh management of the of the um Financial uh system as well the credit card fees regardless if you're The Merchant of record or we The Merchant of record that's the average fee for credit cards um which is
basically what we pay in all our location that we manage and then the uh it will be a 20% manage management fee overnet so community community and public engagement um so like I mentioned we have a Grassroots engagement where we
meet with the public we're the ones that we will be the face of the city we'll meet with everybody talk to them um do media outreach and um also boots on the ground we have a crisis management team with uh fact sheets on all the issues that anybody
might have throughout the the city to help you know mitigate and help with the enforcement uh roll out and then one thing that we're big on we like to give back to the community so we're involved with uh different organizations throughout the city of Miami just to give back uh spend time we
did the Lotus house we do Ronald McDonald House every year and a couple of other um nonprofit organizations that's it I went as quick as I could so to answer any question that's perfect let me go to for the Comm I commissioner
Smith no well I um I have unfortunately every place we go we pay for parking Miami Beach Sunny Isles I had for a long time known that there's a ying and a Yang
because a lot of our property where we own where they park it involves businesses and we don't want to hurt them the people won't come there to shop so is there great is there a period that you escalate how
much it costs so that at the beginning it's less expensive so so great question um so what we're trying to do here is create turnover at those businesses so a lot of times through our through our I'm not saying North May beach but what we've noticed is that a lot of of times
the merchants and the business do not have parking because the cars are parked there for a long periods of time throughout the day and a lot of times it's sometimes employees that work close by so they'll take up that space and then the merchants and the business do not get the turnover that they desire so what this does it creates a turnover so
there's more space available where the businesses are so people can visit the restaurants and things like that um and then that could be scaled the the the the charge or the rate can be scaled based on the city's City's request and then also the the enforcement does not
happen until the city's comfortable with with um with enforcement of the space but basically it'll be a phase in approach that's how we would handle it um Citywide I don't know if that answer and I have been to municipality Sunny Al
for instance you can buy an annual oh that's weird card that you can put in your or an annual sticker for your car that you can park at their CH parking places where they charge but it's free because you're a resident so
do would these numbers of profits and amount also allow for residents to have uh a discount at some of the places or or an annual fee and then they can park so so the way we've done it in the two cities
which is D in City of Miami is the residents get a a heavily discounted rate so quick example Miami is $324 $325 cents an hour yeah I need them to fix hey if you can go to the next Mike over there on the other
side I don't know where the cordless is is this better yes thank you thank you thank you all right so the city of North of city of Miami the hourly rate is $325 on street and the residents pay a140 an hour so that's what the
commission asked for that specifically um city of dado they get a 50% um price on the on the hourly rate so they pay 50% less for all the residents and the the idea for that is that everybody that visits the city that's not a resident they'll pay the regular rate and then
all the residents will get a discounted rate but again that is that is based on on the commission and what what they feel is is a fair rate um for the residents to pay for the hourly parking thank you commissioner formont uh thank you for your
presentation um you know when I think parking I I also think red light cameras um because you know that's a huge complaint in the city um but you know I understand the revenue driver I understand the compliance driver um especially when we have police officers
that we are sometimes taking up their time to um uh for people who are parking on the canal uh and so if we can not have if we don't have to use our police officers to do that our PD we can use another organization to do that that's
great but with the numbers I'm looking at you would have to of course have a plan to have revenues over and above whatever that cost would be for the program um for the program to make sense at least not not the revenue share but I'm talking about the minimum cost of I
think it was 150,000 correct um when I'm looking at Dural I'm looking at city of Miami those are completely different uh municipalities than us I would love to see a city center here I would love to see West Dixie Highway and other areas
booming with business so that we can have the issue of people not being able to park um and and having to wait to park cuz when I'm in downtown Miami that is my issue but when I'm in North Miami Beach what I'm seeing is that we need more traffic here as far as businesses
that are struggling that need more people to come and actually patronize businesses so um I'd like to see a little bit more in-depth of a study I hear what you're saying but I'm I'm I'm not certain that business is having issues of not enough parking time is uh
is what is our problem here um and so the enforcement of people blocking driveways parking in front of uh fire hydrants and those types of things I'd like to see more along those lines how that would be a revenue driver for the city and also a compliance driver as
well um so I can further make a decision on this matter but thank you for your presentation okay understood it commissioner SM and um I just wanted to actually say thank you for doing this for our city because because as I understand this is at no cost to us
correct and um I I really want to thank you for for taking the time to do this no thank you okay um that being said thank you so very much and looking forward to what the staff comes up with after get hearing some of our comments
on the day thank you thank you very much absolutely Mr Mayor yes I I just want to say to the to the manager and to your company we would definitely have to if this came into implementation into utilizing it for the city we would
definitely have to make sure it works for the businesses I feel the same way that we can't scare away one or two customers we don't have enough so we definitely have to implement it in a way that it won't hurt the businesses too
okay thank you thank you thank you next item is presentations 5.3 5.4 to see if we can bring both of them at the same time uh FIU Dr hard Frank and georan Perez Dr Ned Mary and georan Perez Metropolitan
Center that one would be that yes we're having issues with that mic so mayor Mr manager uh thank you so much um as we um have the esteemed doctor Frank um I'm sorry man your legacy
at FIU I mean it's it's just going to follow you um this is a presentation of the uh combined efforts with regards to the additional study as well of the economic development and so Dr Frank I know is is leading the presentation on the Strategic priorities that that we
did um as well as um Dr Murray on on the economic development um I I've said this before I think going through this process getting Community feedback looking at all the demographical information and and relying on the expertise that we have locally here in
FIU it helps us structure a compass for the city on how to where what direction we need to be moving on and then how we we do that so I just wanted to to to bring that up and and thank Dr Frank for and his entire team for really going
through this and and taking a serious look of how we can make North Miami Beach better thank you thank you doc pause up all right yes no no pause up we're all here
believe me FIU is here pause turn it around T I love Fu notice okay PA up all right I love FIU too but say no you he's the panther he's the panther okay we all have by the way commissioner is it time for your therapy
session definitely definitely that's an inside joke that's inside thank you very much uh I'm I'm glad to see you I think this is our third our third visit with you and uh yes I'd like to extend a thanks to my colleagues and um I'd like
to send very very deep appreciation to you the Commissioners to the senior managers and to the residents because this would not be possible without your input and without your cooperation this was very much a collegial and
collaborative project and I I send it's it's been a labor of love and thank you for facilitating it with your cooperation it's it's I'm hoping that this is a living document not something that collects dust that it is a foundation for moving forward and I know
speaking with city manager Diaz that you're already using it and have already taken actions in the budget to kind of tied together this effort so thank you um we did not do a business plan this is
a strategic plan this was done intentionally at a 20 to 30,000 foot level uh it's not up to Howard Frank and the Metropolitan Center to tell you you should do Road Road Project a before uh
traffic signalization b or that you need signage here over there that is something for you to do you have the expertise to do it and we are not going to presume that we know that intimate knowledge that's a business plan we
think you can do that very well and very capably we were aiming for something bigger uh a strategic look at where uh you should go and what your vision is and um again we're hoping if if we had gotten that specific I'm not sure it
would have been a living document because I think this is something that is going to guide you from years for years to come uh how did we arrive at what we uh propose well a lot we did an inra uh an in-depth demographic
assessment we did 20 interviews with the Commissioners with the senior managers and uh including newly elected vice mayor Sue we we we uh interviewed you we had surveys of nearly 500 nearly
500 residents we had three stakeholder roundtables two Town Hall meetings and we developed uh key performance indicators as models for you so this document was was grounded in a lot of um
research it was not something we did kind of synthetically it was was done with um a lot of input and thank you of course again Commissioners who participated it was really insightful um what are the big themes
the three biggies well uh some of you um might remember it was a while ago that uh Ford used to say that quality is job one uh I would say that for the city of North Miami Beach job one is
infrastructure the the the the Deep resounding message from all that we have gathered is a city that really needs to address longstanding infrastructure needs and that's everything from signage delineating neighborhoods to uh build
rebuilding or extending expanding your library that you take such enormous pride in um a second thing is improving your decision-making processes particularly in the areas of community and economic development and the third overarching theme is
developing um a language of performance metrics so that you as Commissioners the senior managers and the residents have a way of communicating where you are and what progress you're making towards where you're going and what the return
on investment is for Citizens for their taxpayer dollars so going from those three big themes and and and going bit further we we drilled down to what we call the eight pillars these are the things that we feel you
should be building the plan on um obviously a pillar is what provides support and we felt that these are the things to aim for number one again I don't know what you call it we proposed North City you know North Miami Beach
240 but a Capital Improvements plan to refurbish your infrastructure uh all the evidence the surveys the stakeholders there was a belief that it is long in the tooth it needs work and that goes from small things to big
things uh it is part of your branding and it ties in with what my colleagues uh did on the economic development front and it also ties in with what is going to make North Miami Beach more economically and environmentally resilient number two you
are facing some large um Planning and Zoning decisions are the ratables that you will get from those decisions and the subsequent building will they add enough tax base to cover the costs that you
will incur as a result you need to address those questions and I would say these are things that are not these are this is not a new technology uh these have been done for ages I remember as a much younger person
doing these with Broward County over 40 years ago so this is something that you need to put into your decision calculus number three is a structural change and it ties in with the second one um the importance of
tying planning zoning Economic Development together and to a again a Department of community and economic development they're small and midsize cities that do that but the point is these things aren't separate from one another and an integrated model keeps
your eye on the prize of long-term quality of life and how you build it the fourth striking a balance between a city where the residents especially those who are longterm have enormous love for this place they love it here and they love
having a city that has a deep sense of neighborhood feel how do you maintain that um how do you maintain that sense while addressing shortcomings with cultural amenities the type of
businesses the type of residents and the lack of value added employment opportunities you're not Aventura you're not Miami you're not Fort Lauderdale what are you you have to address that and that is an economic development question
five um you need to take North Miami Beach into the 21st century with public management and that means having a performance measurement system where you know what you're doing in terms of
quality of service provided quantity of service provided and how that ties in with general cost Effectiveness I think again 40 years ago this would have been something extremely Advanced and something almost foreign in this day and
age it is a common place in public management and I Look to FIU as a place that until seven years ago eight years ago we were pretty much a line item budget you had so many students this is how much the state funded you well those
days are long gone now we have to pay attention to how much students are earning we have to pay attention to how quickly they get through FIU we have to pay attention to whether they're going on to graduate school we have to pay attention to whether they're going into stem it's not just simply how many worm
bodies are at f F IU it's how it's what they do once they graduate and what they're what they're doing along the way and how quickly FIU kind of hatches them so I think you as a city and certainly the the center we we we do this it's
time to get into the 21st century with performance measurement and developing matters that Ma measures that matter for you as decision makers on budget for the managers and for the residents it has to be a common language something that all
three parties all three stakeholders um address the next pillar something which came out loudly and clearly in our interviews in our surveys um in our stakeholder meetings
is a concern for Education within the city there was a feeling that um the schools needed to be better obviously you aren't the school board but that means that uh it's time to engage Miami
Dade public schools and see if they can perhaps improve the product and I'm reminded of a lunch I had 20 years ago with Charles Dodge the city manager and penro Pines who said he had no real interest in being a superintendent of
schools he had enough on his plate being a city manager well lo and behold they created their own charter schools because the citizens said it was time to get better I don't have an exact solution but it is clearly an issue that
many of your residents and businesses feel very strongly about Municipal Code Enforcement this is one where reality and in and perception may or may not be in sync but clearly this perception is that it needs it
needs work um there's perceptions that perhaps um equals are not being treated equally that people in similar situations do not get the same enforcement and that from a procedural standpoint is important um code
enforcement relates to quality of life without good enforcement you have a tough time maintaining your quality of life and it is it is an essential part of your Economic Development um this is an area that needs work and my own interpretation of
data may also be that this perception May in part be uh related to the infrastructure issues that some residents May conflate or confuse code enforcement with an infrastructure that needs work you may be tapping
that pillar eight you aren't going to go anywhere without having a Workforce to get you there and our discussions with um managers it's clear that you have a problem which by the way I could say
afflicts almost all public organizations is the attraction and retention of people and I don't have to tell you uh but sadly attracting people into government in our era is not always very easy in fact it's downright difficult um
and the other issue that you're dealing with is that people don't stay on the job very long in this country the average duration last year was 3.9 years I had a discussion with your city manager and you know it we talked about it he's right we're becoming more gig
oriented people aren't staying at jobs for years and decades they're staying relatively shortly so that means you folks have to develop a Workforce plan a strategic plan for your Workforce in which you uh accept much like the
military a sizable chunk of your Workforce is not going to be around for more than so to speak one or two enlistments you may have some lifers who you have to keep and make sure that you maintain and attract them and keep them but you're also going to have turnover
how do you build that type of a Workforce and you have to address that as a city uh so my final thoughts or our final thoughts and I speak on behalf of uh the Triumph frit and my other colleagues
here well it's time to get moving you need a working group that addresses these pillars and and you have your uh you have a group but you give them firm di guidelines when to get
started and how you're going to develop an implementation plan and it should be a plan not only that you are engaged with but the managers are engaged with and your residents are engaged with because it should be a unifying a
unifying document a call to action and on that note I say thank you okay so we can because I U thank you for that and and I'm just trying to um before we start is it how related to the economic development because we we just
saw the Strategic plan but how related is to the economic plan can we have that presentation and then have the a discussion I think I think that they are I think that they are very related because I think you are dealing like any
City you have to deal with your economic base okay so I think that's that's important it gives you the ratables it attracts and maintains businesses and people so I I think they so yeah the economics right here so we're going to have that discussion and then we'll
we'll bring it up I let your manager make the call I don't want to I will let the manager run the meeting I think right is is it is it is it fine so we can have the economic yes so economic um presentation since it's it relates and then we'll have a disc I would like to
ask a question if you can do one quick question because if you have just because we're we're goingon to be able to come back to them I'm just I just want pass well this will be for both of them okay so my question is on number four where people want upgraded shopping and yet they want to
keep the hometown feel and the community they have I've been trying to get in some major stores but they look at the demographics and the affordability before they come and plant their money in in so how how do you make those two
mesh to give both of you Economic Development Improvement and to make make what you just said make sense commissioner you know you had your your FIU Alum manager had the wisdom to reach out to FIU and the Metro Center and I
think we have the expertise on hand and the gentleman standing a few feet from me to give you the answer we we understand that I I think that is a core concern and that is why I think these two studies are clearly complimentary
everybody's yelling get a Trader Joe's get a Trader Jo no that's and I've been wanting that for a long time by the you have to get behind me no I'm just saying that's something we need cuz we got fresh market we got hood and but Trader Joe's if we had it we'll be yeah that'll be a game changer the chickf and
everything else and and that that's the thing though but they do their due diligence I've gone to their main office and I not their main office but when I was in Georgia and and that's where number four we're talking about number four because that's the thing we
understand the home feel but how do we make the home feel also mesh with the people that own the businesses that want to invest understood and I I think your question is a wonderful segue to the economic development presentation and so
I I think that you you you're that's the tie that BS I think your question relates very directly ly to where we are heading because I I I think that's a central issue so I'm going to pretend this is a relay race and pass the Baton
to my colleague Dr Ned Murray he's a baseball player but we'll pretend he's thank you thank you um doc please come on up and uh do your presentation thank you thank you Howard uh Mr Mayor Comm Commissioners City attorney city clerk
city manager staff um good evening I'll answer that question first because I think it's it might be relevant before I even get into my my my presentation I'll give you a really good example 20 years ago we did the plan for Midtown and and Windwood back then you
all remember there was nothing there was train track yeah and it was a it was a uh it was a uh container facility for for the boats the ships that were coming in um everyone back then in the community said we don't have the typ the
chain retailers that we would love to have in our neighborh we have to travel a distance from Little Haiti or from Winwood or from Edge Water to to any of these stores within a year after that plan was done well I enough said right
so it can be done that was more of a challenge than what we're talking about tonight okay but it takes a it takes a strategic plan at the municipal level and it takes an economic development strategic plan in combination to do that so I think we have a city here that's
ready to do that and accomplish that very in very short order so with that um do I have a presentation I'm gonna um I'm gonna go fairly quickly and but but you know having heard the presentation that Dr
Frank just did and and I think some of the line of questioning um I'm going to move on and get to the really key points but but going back let me just say once again that um your city had real foresight in
combining a municipal strategic plan with an economic development strategic plan cities just don't do that and I've been in government myself I used to be a planning and development director for many years up north um to have them done together like this is the way it's supposed to be done um because the
economic development strategic plan should inform the the municipal strategic plan and the municipal strategic plan should really obviously reflect the the the economic development plan so they're complimentary but they're also really integrated and and
and and it's really important that you did them together because one without the other makes it CH more challenging so so with that you know I go back to stated purpose when you all started this and and I give the city manager and staff uh Chief of Staff malen so much
credit in helping to guide this process from from the beginning uh along with the department heads and and a newly formed Economic Development commission I get to meet you commissioner uh Smith that night you you you've got so much in place already and and we we saw that
early on because we work in dozens and dozens of municipalities as you know throughout South Florida um and we don't see that we don't see that level of leadership and and and and follow through and guidance that that we that we got U from the city so so when we say
the stated purpose is to you know to do a plan that's going to provide these this placemaking types of opportunities and and creating a more resilient economy for the city we we have a we have a strong sense that you have that commitment leadership already in place
to be able to do that because otherwise these are just words that that are often put forward um the documents themselves I I have made several presentations particularly to the department heads and to the newly formed not too long ago just before the holidays on the
competitive assessment that's report one that's that's the data analytics that provides the foundation for for the Strategic plan but it was also providing a lot of the data back and forth to the folks who were doing the municipal plan so the two the two plans were speaking to one another throughout the planning
process so that that was really great and and then the economic development strategic plan which is what I'm going to focus on tonight is a result of all that analysis um and also a lot of the input that we received from from uh department heads and and other leaders
in the community um when we did the economic uh development uh competitive assessment segment of the plan um we we we obviously found challenges and we and we found opportunities and some of the
challenges that we found uh um along with the the you know theow both indicators that are so critical uh when we did the benchmarking element of of the plan is that there was
a real focus on on the population of of of the city um and not only in terms of its its growth but in terms of its its character and and what we found was in looking at a bit of a deeper dive into
your population and and and your economics is that we found that one of the most important things that any City could have is a strong Labor Force and and you have one of the higher labor force participation rates of any of the Benchmark cities that we looked at and there's a lot of reasons for that we
which we can talk about which but you probably already know the second point was one that really we really marveled at but then having been out into the city having met folks including at different meetings the fact that you have a 26.7% growth rate uh of young
professionals 25 to 20 24 uh with bachelor's degrees that far exceeds any of the Benchmark c um so you're not growing real fast overall in terms of your population but where you are growing I can tell you Miami dat as a
whole is losing that population I think you know that particularly the 20 to 29 age group and here you are you're growing that but a lot of it's already here and I saw one of the earlier presentations tonight of of some of your young Talent that's
that has grown up in the city and stayed here and it's that generational aspect that we have we don't see very often in Miami Data South Florida so some really rich findings here uh we also found that even though you don't have a critical
mass of advanced Industries and and and cluster uh types of uh industries that that we would typically like to see they're here you you do have a representation of them and that's really important I'll touch upon that in a second um because you are part of a
larger economy there's no municipality or no County for that matter that's that's economically alone we we we always part of a larger economy whether it's a county economy or or uh Regional economy here like here in South Florida
um okay so then we go to the challenges and here's where we find issues some of which are very common within throughout Miami Day in South florid that first one that inflow employment inflow outflow flow analysis um obviously there's a lot of
folks that as they said in the labor force but most of them are leaving each day and and leaving the city for their jobs um in fact you have less than a thousand that actually live and work here uh but that's not uncommon in any city in in South Florida
uh that's why we the highways the way they are in the morning and and evening with everybody commuting uh so that's one of the things that we need to address right is how how can we create more employment opportunities for the residents to live and work here in the city uh your median wage and educational containment levels are less than than
most of the Benchmark cities uh your future Economic Development will need to be mainly focused on Redevelopment now this ties into what Dr Frank just talked about as well you don't have much land uh but you have real redevelop opportunities and we want to be able to
focus in on them uh as part of the plan and and then as far as housing prices you're less obviously than the county as a whole you're about 30% Less in terms of median sales price than the county as a whole but they are getting up there and rents are getting up there and and
that's an area where um what we've seen over the last three years in particular because we do a lot of work in the are of housing as well throughout South Florida and and the Gulf Coast is that communities that have a fair um uh
portion of more affordable housing or accessible housing uh are more competitive because you you need those workers and one of the Reason by the way my Miami dat is losing a lot of his population is because of housing cost and that's also happening in Palm Beach
and and Broward as well um okay let's just just quickly went through some of those Benchmark U characteristics I highlighted the city uh right there and you can see once again the the concerns we have of course would be the median income uh which is
which is less than than your benchmark communities but once again it's that labor force participation rate and that that young professional growth rate that where you really stand out and and if there's two areas that if as an economic development person that I want to see
it's those two uh we we we can handle some of the other things uh but that's we have an opportunity when it comes to Economic Development that's the in uh employment inflow outflow um uh analysis that I
just referred to you can see just the the small number of workers that live and work in the city and the amounts that actually leave each day and then those who come in and take the jobs particularly in retail and and those types of jobs um so we we want to work
on that um because that that's really what economic development is all about right creating economic opportunities for our res our working residents and families right so that's going to be a focus so we we we understand that and as I said earlier this is not uncommon in
South Florida in fact most cities uh experien this we did a study in West Kendall not too long ago for West Kendall Baptist hospital we found out that a football stadium leaves in the morning and a football stadium comes in to take the jobs there
but how do you change that how do you change that your how do you change that you have to create jobs where people live and and obviously a lot of people yeah yeah no those don't how many people just stay here
that's right work work and live here yeah so we we're gonna that's why we're doing a plan right is to be able to address that um quickly through the numbers here uh I don't want to spend a lot of time this was all in the competitive assessment which was the original report
I just wanted to share with you that when it comes to the advanced industry sectors which are those critical sectors that provide the best paying jobs and where where where there's the most growth um North Miami Beach you don't have a a critical mass once again you don't have a lot of employment uh in
those Industries but but you have them you have a representation of them and you are part of this larer economy of Miami day so we can work with that' be one thing if if you had nothing or or if you didn't have any kind of uh opportunities in terms of maybe
Redevelopment in this case but you do have them and so we compare you with the county and you can see that you line up pretty much the county also has if you know uh Target Industries the beacon Council one Community one goal many years ago did did that plan and then it
did an update I think in 2012 um they're looking at some key sectors as well and it's somewhat of an overlap between the Advanced IND industry sector and the targeted Industries uh and and once again what we're seeing here just in terms of Miami
Beach North Miami Beach is is a representation now you don't have a lot of employment or a lot of businesses within those Industries but you do have that critical representation particularly in the health care area and the healthc care in uh sector is probably the most important one to have
anywhere in Florida because that's where most of the growth is occurring but we'd like to see some diversification and some of these other sectors uh so we uh we want to be able to put together a plan that could attract those Industries but also retain and expand the ones that
we already have here that that that that could help with that diversification as well um so when we get to the economic development goals which were created as a result of of of the competitive Advantage uh
analysis we we want to focus in on um yeah we want to focus in on creating that more Diversified that more resilient economy and so that's going to be the primary goal is how do we expand upon that existing economic base that
you have that has some representation within the advanced Industries and the targeted Industries but but not enough and where where can we grow uh so that's going to be a real important aspect of that um the other thing is which comes up all the time and came up as part of
the municipal strategic planning process is the whole idea of placemaking the identity of North Miami Beach we we heard this all the time we've heard it from everybody that that we talk to during the process um who are we and and
we need to Define our boundaries but we also need to in in doing so create an identity and and and really get um um a brand out there in terms of who who North Miami Beach is and and and that starts with the physical in corp
corporate limits of the city uh third we have to create a an architecture and and uh and streetscape kind of designs that we can use to address some of the pro issues that was just talked about relative to not only infrastructure but code enforcement and a lot of these
other issues that were brought up in the in the previous uh discussion um and then we need to address these live work and these Workforce Development types of issues that that Dr Frank talked about as well um continuing on with those we want
to be able to address um the regulatory issues there are some regulatory issues for the most part your zoning and land use is pretty good but there are some issues in terms of your mixed use that we need to talk about we need to talk about a positive uh Community Economic Development approach which is going to
be critical for small businesses and to create a lot of those opportunities that we need and to provide those um those uh uh those entrepreneurial types of environments that we need to create in the community to address a lot of that outflow of of employees we need to be
able to uh once again focus on the targeted in advanced Industries and we also need to capitalize on on a lot of the untapped assets that we do have in place including our strategic location which is so critical um just showing the map real soon one of the first things you notice
when we look at the your map your Z and your land use map is how little red and and and purple you have because those are obviously your red is is your commercial but your purple are your are you industrial or your mixed use districts in the ligh in the lighter purple but we have to work within that
framework but ideally we we we have a lot of that zoning and land use already in place for the areas that need to have this Redevelopment to occur so so it's not like we're going to have to make any drastic recommendations in that regard so what are the strategies well
we want to focus on uh number one how do we expand the economic uh base of of of the city through through Creer diversification that we talked about number two we want to be able to um identify um the competitiveness of the
of the city relative to placemaking what are what are the types of placemaking opportunities that we can that we can put in place so we we provided a lot of those opportunities within the plan itself focus on small business growth of course that's going to be really key uh in terms of um placemaking but it's also
going to be key in terms of a lot of the opportunities that we need to create that entrepreneurial environment and keep the jobs here and create the opportunities here in the city um we need to focus on formalized and targeted Workforce Development um Dr Frank talked
about that there is a difference between more generalized or generic form of Workforce Development versus a more formalized targeted one which means you're really focusing on specific sectors with uh specific skill sets and and that's what we want to be able to
focus on and and you bring you bring that to the people that's really critical that these types of uh initiatives really are align with where people actually live and not have to be able to travel distances for their Workforce Development training number six adopt a multi-point marketing
program that's going to be a real key aspect of your Economic Development implementation which we're going to get to in a second and then we need to focus on economic development enhancement areas this ties into placemaking but it also ties into where where does this Redevelopment really occur we we can't
be everywhere but incrementally it can happen and that's what we want to focus on are the are the incremental areas so the three that we talked about um are the the North Miami Beach Boulevard at the B Gateway where both with the
corporate limits of the city of both of the North and the South uh sides of the uh of the corridor uh obviously the 19th AV stretch from from the boulevard all the way up to the northern boundary critical area we need to be able to
accentuate that provide some real placemaking along that and then then lastly is is your Innovation District uh which is really going to be key for not in terms of a Gateway but also in terms of the fact that you do have industrial properties there that would be ideal for
redevelopment um just quickly the first um this is the Gateway uh on on the boulevard as we talked about we saw that area right there as being really uh a
really critical area because you have ownership obviously of the properties on both sides in terms of uh businesses that are here located within the city but you also have the beginning of a lot of your existing Street Scapes in terms of your your your line your medians that
have trees and and some grass it's it's a it's a logical place to begin to create that Gateway from the from the West moving moving to the East and we need to be thinking in terms of how that gets done uh Gateway improvements are
done in cities all over South Florida we we give you some examples in the plan and what that require of course is some conversations with fdot to begin with but then the property owners that on both sides of the street because typically this is like a public private
type of thing so um that's going to create some real opportunities to to address that placemaking issue and also um address that identity crisis so to speak that that the city has had for some time in terms of its corporate
boundaries um and once again as we begin to look at your land use you can see the land use is in place and along with your zoning to be able to do a lot of that along that Corridor and as we move down towards 19th uh 19th Street we can also see that
there's opportuni within that along that quarter at that key location that that particular node uh at the entrance of 19th and and the boulevard it's going to be critical obviously there's been some plan developments there that apparently have not gone forward but that's going
to be a key location a key NE a key Nexus point that that we need to be able to address uh to be able to attract um visitors but also to be able to connect the the uh the corridor the commercial Corridor to the business
district and and and obviously the City Center District so once again this gets back to infrastructure that Dr Frank talked about but it also gets in gets into Redevelopment that we need to focus on uh on the North End we we focused on
that as well you can see once again we there's a opportunity up there to do some small scale um Business Development uh you have a key location there it's a really nice entry point into the city from the north and as you look again at
the zoning and land use you can see a lot of zoning and land use relative to mixed use and and small business that would allow for that that to occur so two critical nodes along the 19th Street
Avenue uh Corridor I should say that that would uh that would be really um um real opportunities for redevelopment but also for Small Business Development as well and then lastly is the Innovation District uh what we see there and you
can see by the photos that we included it's that southern Gateway entrance uh I believe it's 157th um that is really an important location you can just see by the photos there that that Gateway is really is really not um something that
that you can really point to if you were driving or or looking at the city relative to North Miami and once again we need to differentiate that because we're going if this is going to be our Innovation district and you have a lot of the industrial properties in place we need
to let people know that you're entering our Innovation district and and so that qu that key intersection that node is going to be critical for that um and and once again there's there's your zoning and land use uh you know all the colors that you want to see
uh so obviously that's not a problem the problem is really being able to Target this location do some of this public infrastructure streetscape improvements Gateway improvements and begin talking and working with local businesses who who may also be tenants there but also
prospective tenants and that gets into the most important probably aspect of of the plan and that's how we're going to implement it uh from a management perspective um e iomic development these days just doesn't get done unless you have newly formed public private
Partnerships that that really haven't been in place before um but working with the city staff your New Economic Development commission working with institutions working with businesses working with corporations working with
these targeted industries that we focused on um that those types of Partnerships are going to be critical because it doesn't get done by the the city alone and and it doesn't get done by the private sector alone but there are real opportunities here especially
now that you have an EDC and you have a staff in place that can work and uh with with institutions work with corporations and and small businesses to be able to provide this um the stakeholder communication so critical and once again
you need the management staff to do that this this is this requires ongoing communication um and that's really where implementation takes place I can tell you based upon the plans we have done over the years when you have an economic development staff who can communicate
the fact that they have a strategic plan and they have can post it on their website and they can create a dashboard or whatever it may be to promote that it really makes a difference it really makes a difference when you're starting to talk to businesses whether they be here in the city or ones that you're
trying to bring in to to complement your economic base and then the third is the marketing and uh strategy which is going to be so critical but once again you need that Economic Development staff and you need obviously the the EDC that you
now have in place that that'll be really you know an outstanding group to be able to provide a lot of that marketing ability last but not least um as uh Dr Frank mentioned relative to the municipal uh strategic plan we also have
to have a um a a plan for dealing with the the metrics the performance metrics that are that are so necessary in Economic Development this once again could be a dashboard this could be something that that the city staff could use and the EDC could use all those data
points that that that address a lot of the issues that we we already talked about uh both from a benchmarking standpoint and from the industry analytical standpoint all of those could be done by the staff you don't have to rehire to do that you can do that uh in
sta but once again you have to have that management team in place to be able to do that and it's with those performance metrics complementing the other metrics with your with your Municipal strategic plan you should have the management capacity to be able to implement both
plans uh quite effectively so with that that's a quick one thank you thank you doc I we have some questions and thoughts uh we're going to try to keep it as brief as possible because we have a pretty packed agenda going down so I'm going to start with uh Jay uh
commissioner J Jay chernoff and now I'm going to go down the line thank thank you very much for your presentation um it gives us all a lot to think of but the biggest concern I have is is that you mentioned the 167th 163rd Corridor
that has us has the county has do and for years and years we've tried to do something with that how do we you know handle that monster that's a well it's it's a great question and um what I've always said in working with various cities is you as a city even though it
may be a state road or County Road or Federal Highway you have to take ownership of that road as much as you can and and and some cities have done that fairly effectively but it but what's going to help you is you have now have a plan you you share this plan with
your with fot you share this plan with with property owners uh in in that location that we that that we highlighted and begin those discussions that that this is something we need to do we need to define the boundaries the corporate boundaries of North Miami
Beach once and for all and we're going to do that with with with a a functional Gateway that that's clearly um that clearly marks the the the entrance into our city and uh a key location so it it it's it is hard work I I know that but
it can be done thank you vice mayor thank you for your presentation um I was wondering is there anything in here that needs resoning um you have mixed use zoning as you know
um in in all the key locations that we're talking about I guess the question is and this came up um in our conversations that in in certain areas just south of here
your mixed use the densities that that that that are part of your mixed use zoning may need to be adjusted um they they haven't they haven't worked right but for various reasons but
um that's something that I think the city's planning department um working with citizens working with owners you need to have those discussions um it can be done we're not talking down zoning here I mean we're
not talking that's that's when we have an issue right when you're talking any kind of down zoning or any kind of a taking type of question relative to zoning we're talking you already have a mixed juuse zoning in place with fairly with with density so it's it's just
really a question of adjusting those to make them more workable and uh and once again what helps you is you have a plan you have a plan where you're trying to accomplish certain goals and objectives and that makes a big big difference even if it has to be
contested in some way commission thank you thank you so much for the presentation and your time um the question that I had was based on all that we need to do what are some lwh hanging fruits that she would advise that we can do to kind kind of get things
started um well the low hanging the lowest of the hanging fruit of course and I realize it is a challenge but we we need to begin these physical improvements street street cap streetcape type improvements to to
create this the gateways that that we pointed to uh or the nodes that we pointed to th those should be Focus areas the other areas and and that's really a mult there's there's a number of layers here Workforce Development the Partnerships we talked about your your
Economic Development staff and EDC can go to town with these right away and those and those are going to be absolutely critical yeah commission [Music] smuckler so you were here before and you
heard the the parking demonstration um when you see I I to me when I go somewhere parking is a big thing yes that there is parking one and whether I have to pay for it or not so um I'm just
curious how if we start charging for parking if this affects how it affects us in your opinion how it affects us well it it depends on the location obviously there are some areas where where parking demand is um it's going to
require um some level of uh fee um but on the other hand I can think of a number of cities and you probably know that them that are very welcoming in that regard uh particularly areas where you want people to be able to get out of their cars and walk around it it ties
into placemaking once again that you're welcoming people provides some opportunities for free parking um so I think it's a combination of both but it comes down to what are you trying to accomplish here now like I said if we're talking placemaking we're trying to get
people active in certain areas we want to redevelop areas we want to be thinking about parking uh some forms of parking structures or or or open parking space uh areas that that can accommodate um
either free parking or or certainly at at reduced rates um other areas you know like I said it's a demand Supply issue and you're just going to have to do that but but I think some thought should really go into that I think that should come once again that should emanate from
your plans not not just from some from from from parking into people who make a living out of this stuff uh because they'll you know they'll obviously go the route of of paying for parking because that's where they get their revenues as well so so I I think it's a
blend but it comes down to what's your vision what are you trying to accomplish here and what's it going to take to get people to come here and and and be able to park their car and get out of the cars and and and enjoy downtown and the down in the various districts of of
North Miami Beach okay thank you commissioner floron thank you for your presentation both the Strategic plan and the economic development plan um there's just so much to be said that we really can't get into it all tonight
I I'm just um very happy that we have a starting point um because this will help us to develop further conversations um when when I'm looking at other cities that I drive through and I envy to a certain degree
um what what I see really is the openness to the private sector that that's what I see the openness to the private sector and also what I'm realizing is that people in administrative roles um in government don't necessarily
view things the same way as people and administrative roles in the in the private sector so with all du respect to our city manager I'm going to use his title for instance um when I look at our city manager I look at him as a CEO um but most people within government the government space may not look at him as
a CEO they may look at him as uh more of a nonprofit leader or more of a um uh a public sector leader when when the reality is it's all about return on investment it's all about minimizing costs it's all about efficiencies it's
all about uh C uh uh Capital Improvement kpis all of the same things that you're seeing in in in the private sector that's that's what happens here um except the revenue sources are different um but and also the private sector moves much
faster and I think that's really where you start to separate the the two um but I but I think because of the mobility of the private sector and how fast it moves that's really what we need to start um you know changing our city figuring out what industry makes sense in North Miami
Beach what location makes sense for that industry and how are we going to attract those people to come here so if it's for jobs okay well what industry makes more sense in North Miami Beach we all we all say that we need a hotel which is you know that's that's something that we
know we need we know if we bring that in that might be a couple hundred employees that's going to be Revenue um but is that the only industry I see we have a lot of Health Care so from the um from home health to we have a hospital here in the city is it is it is it the
Sciences is it is it um is that what we need is it Sim um and and so when we imagine properties that we own that are excess if you want to call it that or that are Surplus properties how are we then collaborating
with the stem world to to to offer them spaces that they can come and create incubators and things like that and start building an industry specifically for North Miami Beach that we can call our own Miami uh myamar did it um you have major corporations obviously their
landscape is much different than than we have here uh but Miramar did you're talking about Penbrook Pines uh doc did you mention Penbrook Pines so the other day I'm driving uh in that area and they have a whole education Village um a library school I mean it's
Acres of just education okay so what what is it that we're going to do and how fast can we do it um so I like commissioner John said we need to figure out what is the low hanging fruit um that we can do now while preparing for some for something much
bigger but uh the bottom line is we need to we need to move at at the pace of the private sector in order to get things done and so that's what I'm looking forward to you helping us do with our management team here is move much faster um than we have been it's a great point because I just just follow up on that
it's a great point it's such a great point that he has a comment because because because the economic development strategic plan component is a business plan not it's not like the municipal plan that's that's your government plan but this is is a business plan and when
you talk about the private sector and the private Public Partnerships that need to be put in place that's all about business and so yeah and I I am the the co liazon to Economic Development so I'm glad to be back on that board with my
colleague commissioner uh Smith so um you know I'm looking forward to some of those conversations uh and having those conversations but I just don't see honestly our city manager being the person to to to to to to move something like this why because he has so much on
his plate I I'm just trying to figure out how do we restructure in a way where we can achieve some of those goals while giving our manager the opportunity to do his job to me I think that's what a lot of managers have issues with is that we want them to solve all the crises we
want them to worry about HR and um we want them to worry about PD we want them to you know um be the intermediate and and mediate between cities that are having issues when it comes to the water utility um uh residents with constituents issues we want him to do
all of that and then at the same time we want him to imagine a reimagine in MB and tell us what that looks like so I I I really the structure to me is just as important as the goal because they have way too much on their plate um to to
reimagine it and be is it is is is this how do we restructure who do we put in position to focus on those things on a daily basis so that we can actually make strides in that area that's what I want the answer to if you have it right now yeah well absolutely I mean one of
the key elements of the Strategic plan is your management capacity so you need to put that in place you absolutely have to put that in place so you have to you have to have individuals within Economic Development Department also Staffing the
EDC who who have um that capacity but but also have that authority to be able to have these conversations with the private sector you you cannot do Economic Development without a strong Economic Development Department we've seen this in every city we've worked
with and the two and Dural and Co GES are two examples um I can point to some others Deerfield Beach they all have Economic Development departments and they're all doing very well providing for those that that particular uh professional type of uh communication
with the private sector working on behalf of the city manager and and the commissioner but absolutely credal the EDC needs that the EDC alone as volunteers cannot do this but with the appropriate Economic Development professionals on board they can do that
thank you um commissioner Smith thank you so much I find this whole subject so fascinating I find it fascinating and I find it very disappointing in how it works because ideas 19th Avenue if you've ever been to
Mobi that is the a mini Mobi from Miami Gardens Drive the whole way up each one of those homes with the parking in the front with the each one one could be a card show a card store one could be a resta you know sandwich ice cream parlor
Christmas parlor I have said that for the last 10 years no one listens um I think when you talk about a gateway Hanford Boulevard right now has lights
and has um a wonderful job from the library with knitting and knitting became a very very important Art Exhibit for North Miami Beach in the fact that they did blocks and blocks of wrapping tree trunks I
took somebody down that block driving them home that hadn't been there and they said what is this gorgeous it's all in the eyes and more than the mind so I want to ask shouldn't we which I have tried also to do do
something color look at 1100 Northeast 163 that building with the CRA help did an amazing job of painting the front and it's an eye stopper so we have to yes Implement changes no question about it
but we have to first catch their eye so that they're behind it so that the residents are behind it whether it be with a color everything look at Coral Gables that has the regulations about their roofs and the regulations about the colors they can use and those kind
of things have to be implemented not just talked about that's the problem you just keep talking and we're not implementing um one of the other things I want to or and you can even do it with Landscaping but one of the other things I want to say is where where is the
Gateway we are so you go down to Highland Village and then you come to North Miami and then you come to the county and that's a little area out and then you go over to ois and then you go to nobody even knows a pck is here
behind a fence and Sky Lake half of it's us and then you go to Eastern Shores so we have to have a common thing a common something uh color theme something so look at what happened to Disney World
just think of the mouse just think of the ears and look at what you have that's number one and that that can help Drive economics but we have an area that is so underused on West Dixie Highway and 151st that is an area that could be very
quickly expanded when you talk about um areas what could have been done on Hanford Boulevard when we had recession 10 years ago I said go into every one of those condos on the first floor and buy them out and start businesses there so
when you make that the focal point Hanford Boulevard what are they seeing a church a strip store Condominiums what what are you giving them on on your main drag so we really have to figure out what we're going to do 163rd Street
where are we going to bring people um we were having a Chinese and a an Asian whole Market that I thought was going to drive people and the economics tanked and that thought tanked and I just think
we need to really focus on an image we need to focus on what are we doing mayor we need to focus on focus on what we're doing and we need to because you had me last I know everybody's bored but I this
is for that and plus there's other that's Vice May has a thought I want to tell you it's okay I'm excited I'm excited now my only question I have is with all the information and all the excitement teach me how to get it implemented I like to get it started
Economic Development the the people that are excited aren't the aren't the decision makers how do I get to the decision makers and the implementation of making a change we can just do with color you know um gold beach has arches
to go in it's public roads but they have arches so I went to the in that I went to his office out W in actually in halia that um was the architect for those arches the problem is the county owns
the south side when you come off of the brand new Expressway that they're building in billions of dollars we could have an arch welcome to North Miami Beach on your way to the ocean but the County owns outside so is that something
else that you can present the plan and ask them to cooperate to put it those areou that's the brto the burrito um archers right the artist talk about I'm talking about the archers in Golden Beach when you go through yeah but the artist that did that no no that was an
architect years ago an architect designed those arches but I did show him and where we have to have because there's so much you know coming down that's also large trucks and men and he said it absolutely can be done the problem is we only own half if we could
get the right of the county from those 10 blocks from Northwest Second and Northeast eth if we could just get that I I agree um fighting again for the um for them to let us Annex we saw what happened that's a
whole other discussion but but but does that come under the same do you feel that could become under the same umbrella as trying to get a different municipalities with the roads to cooperate to get the county to cooperate a big arch I mean just something like
that yeah well if the the node that we that we select identified you own your corporate limits are on both sides that that yeah so that's and and and it always doesn't have to be exactly
in in in a certain location relative to your corporate boundaries you you'll see gate Gateway sometimes I just put where you want to emphasize um that you are now in the city of North Miami Beach if you've been
up to Del recently as you come off at 95 have you seen it they these huge sculptures now on both sides of the road as as a Gateway Arch basically take a look at that so it can be done in a lot of different ways it
doesn't have to be at any one particular location but it has to be at a critical location getting back to your point what you see what you visualize and that location you own what should I say the Corp the corporate limits on North and South Side so you you can do that a good
example as the then I make a motion I make a motion we Implement that immediately do I get a second do I get an unanimous vote the thing is about that just real quick Mr Mayor is that if we not going to be inviting inviting so
people come then corporations won't come cuz they won't have people uh businesses won't come because there won't be people we have to make it inviting to come to the city and then reel in some people that when they get here they'll have a
place to stop and shop and visit thank you um what last Point vice mayor thank you um thank you for again um so I propose that we should set up a a a workshop a multiple workshops where we
could get in and and and this is just for us to discuss like what we see as our vision as a a as a commission and that way we could also bring in all the Committees that we have these valuable committees that everybody is dedicating their time on right so we could bring
them in have a conversation maybe perhaps invite um invite both of you back to also help us guide what date I'll be there no no um I think we we what was that program that we did I know current staff wasn't some of you well
some of you weren't here that it it was a Saturday or something like that where we all got together a retreat it was a retreat right I've never been to a retreat I've well not it wasn't a it wasn't a retreat it wasn't it was we were talking about the Strategic plan um
it on the fourth floor we had a retreat with we did have a retreat so my point in bringing this up is because we've had branding done ages ago we've had a lot of you know a lot of plans created and we did a lot of studies I just want to
see us like really take action and like really do something especially now that we have the Centennial coming up oh no that I mean that's going to be a big event no that's a big event but if we also unveil this new plan that we have for the city for you know the next 100
years like I mean it would be exciting even more exciting Mr Mayor what happened to the benches I'm just asking I'm just I'm just a this is what this is the C the CRA the benches I don't care who put them in
we still don't have them I would like that's why I'm making my motion for my Arch I'm sorry it's an inside thing they get it that again how how is the arch going to look that's that's my point you know what I mean if we don't um get together and say you want an arch that
looks like Golden Beach or she's m she's not expecting to get them so Mr manager uh you heard the the presentation please look up the the selmic what was it what was that what was that thing that we did it was we did a we did do a um mad Madam clerk what was what was it called again
it's a strategic plan in which you all get together and have um a um essentially uh what we ended up having here like a town hall um and we inter interviewed each of you individually it's typically called The Retreat um where you spend either half a day or an
entire day like on a Saturday where you have that conversation we're trying to actively put something together um as we start discussing especially the budget and how it impacts so we're trying to coordinate something like that similar um but for the um strategic plan um
implementation as well as the economic plan uh we're looking because staff took to heart the commission's comments in um when we first uh the the last update that they were here um and it was we just don't want something that's going to sit on the Shelf we want to be able
to move forward forward with something and so staff is looking at those additional steps engaging more here specifically on the economic plan um the economic Advisory Board um engaging the the Greater Miami chamber engaging the beacon Council looking at how we are
structured internally so that we are moving this needle forward it's too vital for the community all right to that point never Retreat always Advance yes Retreat pardon me never Retreat always Advance that's why you call it that being now the retreat I went to I
went to two and one of them was for two days we came for two days and you put your ideas and they put stickers on the room Etc I remember that you were there that was during um no I'm talking about I remember the the way that was set up that that half that Saturday or that we
went but what I find is it really it gives you insight into what your other Commissioners are thinking without spending all the Public's time and to get back to you know to when you come back out in the public to tell them what your priorities are I agree may I Mr and
it puts everybody on the same I I like Mr may I like the workshop idea but in not in that sense this this commission needs and deserves a day or two where we can go over this brainstorm on a lot of different things we got to we should
call it a retreat it can be here it can be somewhere else whoever wants to appear they can but it will be amongst us first I think that makes sense we're somewhere where the public can come well Mr Mr manager you have you see you see the consensus let's move forward uh next
item is uh wait so we're having it this Friday no we're next it next item is uh public comment well thank you thank you thank you you pause up pause up PA up PA pleasure thank you so much thank Youk
Madam clerk item uh um six public comic good evening everyone the mayor and commission of the city of North North Miami Beach has opened the for for public comment at this time there is a 3 minute time limit for each speaker please state your name or the name of the organization which you are
representing the mayor and commission of the city of North P Beach recognizes the importance of Civility the city of North R Beach request that all in attendance to exercise civility towards each other at all times and our first two signed speakers are Eugene M Premier and then
Gary Nelson the mayor is not here good good evening mayor and council members my name is I'm the community Le Exon for CG Betto High School located on 16 c150
nauy 17 Avenue the reason I'm here tonight to void the voice of our children sorry the microphone doesn't [Music] work and I'm going to say again good evening and my name
isier I'm the community Le on for CG Betto high school and I thank you all for the opportunity to speak tonight I'm here to voice the voice of my children the students we
heard um we might not have soon the we call it free bees if it I don't know if it's true but the reason why I'm here when student come to you they said mommmy you know don't have the opportunity to come to the school most we have more than 50
student who use that the try to come to the school before the try our attendance was a mess I'm here and I hope the other the high school not Miami Beach was as well if we can use that opportunity I
think the other High School use it too and therefore this is the reason I'm here tonight to let you know the student they are scared because they don't have the money money the reason why if you give them a bus pass it's too close to the school for
them to catch the bus the the regular public buses and also is too far away from home for them to walk from the school to the houses and free B we call it or Charly is the best we have right now and I
hope you think about it and talk about our children because they need their education as well excuse me one second yes sir are you talking about freebie the trolley or the trolley which one or both one that's a car sometime some of them use the
Charlie some of them use the freebie okay thank you yes and thank you it was a pleasure to be with you tonight and I learn a lot and I've been blessed night thank you you
next speaker Gary [Music] Nelson thank you uh thank you Mr Mayor Mr vice mayor and uh the Commissioners I want to speak about the trolley and the freebie to um
from Washington Park and U sir please state your name for the record Gary Nelson thank you I didn't Oh I thought I did okay Gary Nelson I'm Gary Nelson from Washington par I uh wanted to speak about the freebie because there's a lot of people in Washington Park that do use the freebie
and the trolley there's a few um women her name one of them is nam uh Cynthia King she has been paralyzed she's in a wheelchair and she use freebie every day so I was hoping that you could take in consideration and not eliminate this
source of transportation for North Miami Beach please and I have one more issue that I want to speak about the construction that's going on in North Miami Beach Washington Park particular CU I'm from there I've been
there 62 years but due to my behavior with the law I've been in a lot of trouble but now I I have stopped uh committing crimes and stuff like that I just got I got out in 2017 from I went
in in 19 in in I went in in uh 19 uh 98 to prison and I got out in 2017 I went to federal prison for selling drugs I was a criminal I was a Terrorizer in North Miami Beach
now I'm I stopped I want to be a prod productive citizen in North Miami Beach thank right so what I'm asking you with the construction if you can I don't want to say influence but with the contractors could you please
speak to them or help out with with us the guys who are who are trying to be productive citizens as like myself criminal type guys we I would like an opportunity to work I want to work and do the construction that's going on
North Miami Beach I'm a resident of here I've been in my whole life I've been terrible and I'm ashamed of it I've cleaned myself up I don't do nothing no more I love the police you know a lot of guys like me we say F the police but now
I don't do that I don't disrespect the police I don't disrespect anybody I just want to be a productive citizen that's all and I'm asking you to please if you can I not influence him but speak to the contractors that us the citizens in
North Miami Beach all citizens not just criminal element type guys to get work in North Miami Beach because they do this um in Miami Gardens and Overtown in Liberty City in Miami Beach as well you know I'm
just asking for an opportunity I don't want to I'm not going to but I want an opportunity to have a pretty good paying job and I I'll surely show you all that I'm not we're not anymore into that I want to be a productive
citizen and uh and that's all I have to say I just want to you know thank everybody and congratulations Mr mayor Miss and you know and all y'all I thank you you know y'all doing a great job the police time I love you guys man okay
thank you thank you thank you for coming up um thank you thank you thank you um Madam uh Madam clerk pointed P privilege by commissioner on real quick thank you so much I know Mr manager that was one of the conversations we had about having
um Southern do um a job fair at Washington Park I know they were here for the for this week and they have over 100 positions open so I'm hoping that we can move forward with that yes absolutely commissioner we'll ask to
have the um the job fair for them um at Washington Park itself what Mr manager Mr Mayor yes uh commissioner J turn off another Point person um Mr manager is where are they getting the rumor that we're getting rid of freebie
to be completely honest yeah probably the discussion items and the content bringing up of terminating the trolleys yeah that's why um and I'll say one thing I know that you know this is going to come a little bit of a sideways um I don't know if we do this but it's something I've
been TR I was just reminded of this about the concept of banning the Box uh in regards to our applications um because in some applications it says that will you you know ask about your criminal history in that sense I don't know where we are I know that's an HR question um if you can
come back with some some cons you know staff's recommendation and how impactful it might be to Bringing more individuals to apply uh if that was you know implemented as a as a uh Citywide policy in regards to who we hire and how we
hire so I just want you to at least bring bring that back I I know we have a more like a second chance Second Chance type of thing it's called it's a concept called ban the Box B the B the B okay so next uh next Personal Privilege please yes thank you M
Smith thank this thank you for coming up I appreciate you both for coming up but to let me know about the trolley and the bus the the freebie we are not getting rid of Washington Park we at least I'm
not I am not getting rid of it what I want to do is condense it it's never going to go away that's that's really the only means of transportation for many people we're trying to consolidate the one that we pay for that doesn't stop in North Miami
Beach it comes from County to aventur that's a one I'm talking about it's your tax dollars if you want to keep it up he's shaking his head cuz it does stop here but it also goes through Miami Gardens it also goes to the county and it's also we only own five and we have
six we're never touching yours for you for the job every s every time we come up every time we come up here with a new construction site the first words out of our mouth is to please ask the
developers to think of the residence of North Miami Beach for employment first and so we we would never forget you thank you thank you commissioner uh commissioner Smith but demanding and and making a mandatory two different things that's something that we have to have a
real discussion on so just um making a request don't mean that you got to do it that being said Madam clerk next speaker Josh Jimmy good evening I'm Josh jamy it's uh thank you Commissioners and every being here um I want to first start by commending the fluide town hall that we
had on March 11th for its strong turnout including Florida Surgeon General Dr Joseph lpo and researcher Dr Ashley Malon uh proving this is a pressing concern for our community but discussion isn't enough we need action tonight continuing to add floristic acid to our
water despite mounting evidence exposes North Miami Beach to Serious liability especially given our unique water supply challenges here's why in September 2024 judge Edward Chen ruled that fluide at 0.7 milligrams per liter poses an
unreasonable risk to Children's neurodevelopment this Federal Court decision from Michael ket's lawsuit against the EPA labels fluoride a neurotoxin and Demands a safety reassessment ignoring this invites costly legal battles the burden now
shifts to floration supporters to prove safety with the court ruling n uh the national toxicology program findings linking fluoride to IQ loss in children and expert warnings from Dr Malin continuing without evidence is indefensible we must pause until risks
are fully assessed let's address our liability headon on negligence the ntp confirms fluoride at drinking water levels lowers IQ and a federal judge affirms this unreasonable risk without action lawsuits are
inevitable leaving us defenseless next Barto Florida just yesterday voted to continue fluoridation despite risks and now faces legal action North Miami Beach must not repeat this mistake and finally fluoridation lacks
FDA approval for ingestion forcing it on residents without consent opens us to further lawsuits with this ruling science and legal risks I urge you to act to pause fluoridation immediately to protect our children commission uh commission an
independent review of the evidence and shield our city from liability some argue dental benefits justify this but neurotoxicity risks outweigh that when safety is unproven in action is a legal and moral failure act tonight to
safeguard North Miami Beach I'm open to to any questions and and thank you next thank you next speak thank for attending liven Jean and then cat Le joim all right good evening good evening everyone good
evening thank you I'm so glad to be tonight my name Le Jin like just say I'm here for same question free B and the I would like to know guys what time the try Clos in the night
time because in the night time I drive in my carot people on the street is raining they wet in the morning time when they go to work they run in the free the Char P to 167 163rd never go to
177 178 180 and 180 Drive I I is Drive Lot people go inside close to Jackson North go to Sixth Avenue take a bus they terrible walking running the street to C on the
bus I want to know um you guys if you can add more Charlie and free on this area that's a question I have more question to say but tonight not enough a lot of people want to say something but I reserve a more question for the next
time I the May that's the uler area right M yeah but inside I say inside 178 177 close to Jackson not Miami no free boss thisa well he's talking about the
street the mayor will shoot me well wait wa wait because we're going to no no we're not we're going to have a discussion later on on this issue because it is a discussion item however we do hear your thoughts and we appreci if you have any if you have no additional comments um what issue are
people driving an e Drive go to Jackson to work on Jackson not and the street I live on 29 years in this area they never rebuild the street and the lot bounce the car they bounce to the car one day a big accident last year uh 2024 almost
seven cars um um break down the front window on the trees hanger to the street people go to work and driving fast but I want people driving slowly in this area a lot of people move this area and lot of kid in
this area and the street need to be repair well we have the public we have the Public Works director here um Public Works director you can hear me commment public director he not here no well we uh we'll
have our our assistant city manager to get in touch with you and see what what we can do in those areas but we will have a discussion regarding Charley um later on tonight thank you I hope so Mr Michael thank you so much thank you thank you Mr G thank you for next speaker thank
you good evening everyone my name is kle jash um again about the trolley and the freebie commissioner Smith it's because you keep bringing it up the past few meetings that's why everyone's a little afraid
that something's going to happen to their freeb Charlie the people on 12 Avenue are elderly ever since Miami D has decided to switch their bus system they have removed the bus benches and they're unable to take the bus they
removed the bus and no now they have to rely on the trolley and so if something should happen to the trolley they would have a problem um the Charlie more or less their Hub is a new leader and yes the Charlie goes
from their Hub inside Jackson North and through the back and then most of us have to take it in front of the community center so even I take the Charley the freebie I have not uh because it's so difficult at times for you to get on there I have people in
Washington Park calling me again about the Charley so maybe the people in eastern Shores don't need the Charley but that's fine but the rest of the city as a half people who live right here in the government center who take the Charlie for them to go and wash their
clothes you know whenever they need to go to the um uh uh to do things go to Walmart the trolley is it so whoever doesn't want it that's their situation but the rest of us do and I think Mr uh
Jean was speaking about what I've been talking about for months now we have all these things sitting in these warehouses where they can curve the situation that's going on right there in
East Drive people are flying from 6th Avenue to Jackson Hospital and there's no stopping them now on North Avenue North Miami Avenue that's where they go from north to south and in the morning
if you are about to go take the highway on 169 you cannot cross and they literally flying there okay so we are having a situation so if you have those speed pumps which again I have proven to
you all they're sitting right there you have them why not place them are you waiting for someone to get hurt one of our children to get hurt because I have mentioned it to when Sam zamic Corner was there he he's aware of it so I'm
hoping that you put someone in charge that know what they're doing because there's no reason for the city to be spending money buying things that are not being utilized so thank you for having me oh and also Harbor day is coming okay in order
for the city to stay a Tre City USA we must celebrate Harbor day so as much as you all didn't put funding for there you have to think about it if you want to stay a Tre City USA so we expect you next month April 26th for you all to
come at the library and celebrate with us thank you thank you Mr manager wait wait um uh I will bring that up uh vice mayor you have a point of person Personal Privilege thank you I just wanted to ask um have your potholes on Second Avenue
been no they have not have not I have holes on Northeast Second Avenue and that's why I call commissioner flormont a few days ago and left him a voice message yesterday oh okay okay I need for you to put on your
tennis shoes and come and meet me and you leer walk in you leader so I can show you exactly where all those part Let's do let's do that Mr manager put on your tennis shoes me you and Miss joen we're going to go ahead and walk that area no
shortcuts cuz our cut trying to Heart Walk trying to take okay so no I just wanted um Wanted the manager to be present to uh the potholes that haven't yet been uh and and um before we go to the next speaker um Mr manager like the
the question I have um that was brought up is I I thought we have money for Rober a that's beautific it's not there no there's no money for H day we um I will I I have a meral discussion hopefully we get to it there's a couple issues I I will bring up and that we've
always had it always always had it so I understand police officers mayor no no no I and I'll bring it up um during that discussion next speaker please I don't want to no no no I understand thank you thank you next speaker before you before
before darthy andari sorry if I mispronounced it a message of personal privilege be while he's got his tenis issues on Mr manager while you have your ten issues on could you please also um see where we need the speed bumps no
next is Dorothy here ever wibbly and then David zapen Mr zapen you're up back pay for backpay that was then this is now but thank you you see we do listen to you though
yes we do okay hit it my name is David zapen I sell mechanical watches and accessories at zapen tech.com some of you know me for my brief run for city mayor in 2023 I bring freshly picked flowers on behalf
of women's History Month like I used to bring to my recently departed grandmother who taught here for 40 years she lived from the Roaring 20s into the covid crisis sadly I have little more than an hour of audio of her memories as
the Generation X version of Dennis Prager only not I offer a history lesson about missing lessons Charlie Chris certified me in history others did in social studies General middle science Earth space science Elementary integrated middle computer science and
media specialist if only I had a certified ship or a graduate degree instead of passing the Jeopardy exam twice you may have trouble finding the following in government websites Laura Bridgeman whose name has no e was an old
woman when she met young Helen Keller who in turn learned from an Sullivan better known as The Miracle Worker and Alabama state quarter has Braille in honor of Helen you might have heard the name May Jameson from her Cameo as a Star Trek character and a namesake more
recently this real life first black female astronaut came after Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut 1981 well after our Russian and Soviet Rivals sent up her predecessor Valentina
Tereshkova in 1963 except the Mercury 13 women had been space ready by 1961 some of whom cheered Sally on site below I have a list of the 1995 survivors
Christa McCulla the doomed school teacher of 1986 had the bad luck of flying the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 a mistake repeated to execute another seven heroes in January 2002 on the Colombia shuttle M days
after I read about a new recruitment effort for school teachers like myself kalpana Chara and Lauren Clark joined her as fallen heroes the six trip8 Army Major charity Adams she finished World
War II as a lieutenant colonel being the first highest being the highest ranked black woman there sorted and sent backlogs of mail to the mostly white male troops final example in June 1944 a unit
of 63 black Army Nurse Corps nurses came to the 168th station Hospital in Warrington treasure Britain 15 back to my connection sadly GI benefits for housing and education skewed towards
white men like my grandfather not others like Air Force veteran and Veteran talker Randy Rose despite six years in service and that's your women's history lesson thank you thank you next speaker Dana Smith and then Hubert
du how y'all doing today my name is Daniel Smith what's up Commissioners mayor vice mayor attorneys management I was and that's shout out to my grandma y'all know that's my grandma right there Miss Smith is my grandma yes
sir no but honesty the last time I came here I I the last time I came here I um got with um Jackson hospital and they seen my qualities and my special cares that I know how to do and my research and my resources they joined me and
helping them doing they um doing they um they helping them out with doing stuff for them for um Jackson Hospital I like to thank y'all for that and I am um I Heard y'all was talking about media and social media and marketing that's what I
do for a living I'm a marketing consultant all I have to do is do my homewor and based on what y'all got going on and what I was listening to it's pretty much that y'all just need to get a structure and a plan to get the outer city to come into the inner city I
have a NB I have a NBA on the streets of Miami like seriously I know Miami like all my life this all I did all my life I'm from Miami so I'm good and going out in the streets and getting the word out and getting to but I have to get the homework done first I need to know the
area I need to map it out I need to know how many stores I like how he broke down all the breakdown sheets I need all of that to compile with my te team and my staff cuz I do have a Grilla marketing team I do have a marketing team period I got everything y'all thinking of I am a
printer I can print anything y'all want I can do everything everything y'all see in here that's that's printed I can do it so I'm I'm very very skillful on what I do I just over 56 years I'm 56 years old so I know how to put a plan together
and I'm listening to what y'all talking about and I love what Miss Smith was talking about it's it's visual first then structure because if I see something looking old like the way stuff look old these days you're not going to go there when you have a sophisticated
or somebody have a mall that's looking professional than your mall and that's how people is these days everybody want to be bougie these days everybody I don't care who it is they the oldfashioned everybody they on boug everybody want to see the shine the
glory this that and that's what I was understanding what she was saying you know and that's what they need honestly that's what they looking for because you know old fashion is out now it's a new future it's a new wave we going into The Fifth Dimension so it's a whole another
dimension that we going into and that's another bracket I don't even want to talk about but I'm just telling y'all we we need from what I understand and what I've seen I understand what y'all need so if y'all need me to come in and all I do need do do my homework on what I seen
and the planning and I can help y'all out because I am I do have a MBA trust me thank you thank you Huber du my grandson good evening mayor and commission so tonight I'm very happy
because I hope what I saw tonight from on the bot of your heart sorry 53 not 178 my name is I said that I didn't hear you yeah like I said uh what I saw tonight
on the D then I hope you found from the bottom of your heart because I saw Unity because not Miami Beach is a diversity I'm happy tonight but tonight I have to make a suggestion about uh the city manager because I have a lot of comp
from from my neighborhood and then when they come to the water department customer and then they have a lot of problem and then the communication so we need to find out to find a way because I know my people they have a lot of my people they doesn't know how to
speak how to explain their problem so now I'm here I'm the voice of my people so now thinking about that to see how you can resolve make a better uh customer service to water department thank you Diane d and then Daniel Pier
come on relax hi good evening I okay excuse me Diane dy I live in Sun West I was hearing some of the um comments tonight is that better oh okay um I know
with parking they said you want to start charging for parking and setting it up I don't understand where it could be it sounds like you Commercial Art um part of 163rd Street there's little buildings be behind some of them there's parking I
think it would be a hindrance for The Bu you know the the businesses that are there to have their people charge for parking and also I thought on 100 what 70 Hanah boulev
which was not which was a dismal product which was supposed to renovate the city didn't happen so there's parking along there but there's also residential and Commercial how is that trying to work I
know the properties that they're building or have been approved to build don't have as many parking spaces as they would have residents if they were 100% full where would you suggest these people
Park um we don't have adequate land that I can I can vision and I've lived in the city for over 50 years um also I don't I I just don't get the feeling that the people that are coming
to speak to us about economic issues understand the boundaries of the city because a lot of biscane Boulevard they're talking about is not in North Miami Beach how can you target just portions of what is you have say here's
North Miami Beach oh this is yellow now we're not in North Miami Beach and then oh blue we're back um there's several areas like that um when they talk about more commercial the mall at 163rd Street's been sold as I understand what
are they going to be building and can we charge for parking there I presume that's their own private property there's no the only schools that are in North Miami Beach are um
grel and I can't remember the other one is on 18th Avenue S oh Sable P okay so but we don't have the the schools that are there are North Miami Beach Senior and North Miami Beach uh
junior right and they have they do have the stem program there so I mean that's something to talk about about but I don't see where you're going to have all the parking available and I don't see um the infrastructure of putting in
parking for all the businesses that are here thank you I interject really quickly about parking um I just wanted to check in with the manager did we ever revise our plans for condos like parking spaces per
room I remember this conversation being we voted on we voted on it oh you did yes I think it was before she but yeah we did that was part of the before you were yeah before okay so was it was increased um yeah my understanding yeah
okay I had it that it wasn't done yet okay to much I I we had a disc I don't want to um the point but yeah I know just but if you can get clarification for uh the vice I appreciate I we don't I don't want to missp um Mr Pierre um
sorry please go you okay thank you no problem I am home no problem you could talk long you could talk all right so far tonight I am here tonight for something here tonight anyway my name is Daniel beer my address
is 1524 Nore court so reason I'm here tonight I coming here to to to say something about the neighbor my neighborhood again something have to be
done so the situation is the sidewalk we have this sidewalk for the people to work for the kid to play thing like that so what I see
now we cannot even walk the kid cannot do anything at the sidewalk do the car pack everywhere in the sidewalk something have to be done so
every I'm coming here to talking about that neighborhood so far nothing never done nothing so I would like to know why so it cannot be like that so the sidewalk is for the people to walk it's
not for the people to pack the car pack the truck they pack anywhere they want that's that's like is out control something have to be done we need help is it a specific time they pack any time day and night they don't care the people
don't care they P anytime but but when's it the worst at night night day anything where now you go now you see you you in the beat okay um uh we we have the chief we
also have the um C city manager to so we need help so I'm coming here for the reason I'm coming here we need help all right thank you thank you so far I see everybody in the seat looking good
that's the way I want to see everybody to be all right thank you Mr thank you thank you looking good too next speaker Mark Judy or D sorry okay relax where is
it good evening Mr Mayor and the council my name is Mark n I'm a radio and TV host for the Asian Caribbean community and I also the president of the haian media this evening I'm here on behalf of the haian American histo historical society
that's the organization that built the Asian management that help the battle of the Revolution a war for United States to gain their freedom we having our 17 annual event
every year last year we had it in North Miami and than for commissioner McKenzie and D had help but this year we want to have it here in north city of North Miami Beach and uh it's a historical event it's a multicultural event and uh it's the
first time we have it here and it's been pretty much everywhere in the State of Florida and that organization also fought with Congress for 10 years before we finally built that monument in Sav
Georgia and we don't want to lose that uh traditions and we want to keep it alive and I'm here on behalf of uh the chairwoman that could not be here and request uh some type of T sponsorship and invite all of you to be part of this
great event and uh commissioner Mackenzie or already knows what this organization has done and if you can help as far as funding and be part of this event we'll be more than happy and especially you Mr
Mayor this going to be good for the city because because it's not a Haitian thing it's a multicultural because the Haitians are always the first that's came and have fighting this battle in October 9
779 now we have our independence because of us so we asking for your support your title sponsorship whatever can be done in a special invitation to you guys thank you thank you so much thank
you speak and I think uh M uh uh Mar uh marene Marlene has the information already okay thank you so much thank you mayor that was the last sign someone's coming up good evening everyone my name is
mabarak aan um you know you bring iic planners in here and think that the city would be better but we are labeled as the second most corrupt city second most corrupt
city in dat County so putting lipstick on pig that's not going to change you have to change within your heart um at the Pinnacle of the strategic planning we were labeled as the second most corrupt city and that
has not changed because I remember when commissioner SM was telling me Oh no we're not that anymore one of our boys almost went to jail so the um again consent decree we do not have a consent
decree to change from septic to sewer that was a false narrative the mayor and you commissioner smuckler was pushing it's not and I have you on tape I have you on video don't even quarrel and um I'm going to no I am going to answer it because I'm not
pushing it okay if you want to made a mistake and said it but I'm not pushing it so don't ever put words in my word in my mouth and we weren't the second we were the third and that was in 2017 or 2018 um continue speaker thank you if
you want to spend money we have all the pipes to replace that is Eastern Shores where you live had the pipes replaced but not the rest of the customers and they it it was
$6 million and it changed to $15 million and uh our vice mayor Lin Su she was up at um talahasse fighting for our water
plant uh we are going to be losing $125,000 Mr Mayor under your leadership from Miami 2,000 122,000 customers 122,000 customers from Miami
Gardens will not be paying their sear charge because they figure that because our water plant is in their City they should only pay what we are paying here well the thing is I heard the city manager and he was not given the facts
of how much debts we have and we have to pay through our taxes I brief them up and I I hope he is prepared to go back again and and most of you should be going back with those facts I alone can't do it I was awakened
the 11th hour to come up with these things we've had an Enterprise the Enterprise fund was from since 2011 until 2022 and then he revived it in 2024 we have spent $ 38 million from that Enterprise fund to fix
water plant then we spend from 2002 to 2008 we spent um over $100 million for the water plant expansion we we increased it in size and in capacity the list is is long but um you
know we're over a quarter billion dollars in debt just taking care of that water plant and for Miami Garden people to the the the leaders to come and say that they should only be paying what we
are paying you know what we my taxes they need to pay that as well too because um we're having in our property taxes that portion that we have to pay for the water plant expansion thank you Mr Kazan that that they have to cover as
well thank you Mr gazan I can I can go on a little bit more but thank you Mr gazan thank you very much for having me thank you okay uh madam clerk we are on to announcements hopefully we can keep it brief mayor you're closing public
comment yes I'm closing public comment I am moving on to item number seven announcements and I again I preface to my colleagues we can keep it brief Madam clerk if you want to move forward with announcements that'll be Jennifer hi good good evening mayor and commission
I'll make this brief we have Farm share tomorrow Thursday March 20th starts at 9:00 a.m. here at the Kevin or Sims Aquatic Center tomorrow as well we have Tulia prenta mues at the North Miami Beach Library at 7:00 p.m. we have bike ride in the 305
this Sunday March 23rd at 9:00 a.m. registration starts at 8:00 a.m. and it starts here at City Hall we have our third annual n&b Water charity Golf Classic on Friday March 28th at 11:00 a.m. at the Miami Shores Country Club
senior lunch in Friday March 28th at 11:00 a.m. margorie and William McDonald center youth College Tour there'll be two of those the first one will be Monday March 31st at 8:00 a.m. here at City Hall we have sensory history time
during Autism Awareness Month Saturday April 5th at 1: p.m. at the North Miami Beach Library 29th annual Florida tour the force that begins Monday April 7th to Friday April 11th at the North Miami Beach Police Department we have National
Library week celebration starts Monday April 7th to Friday April 11th at the North Miami Beach Library we have our next Farm share drive-thru distribution Thursday April 17th at 9:00 a.m. at the ulita Park Community Center our second installment of the youth College Tour
that'll be Friday April 18th at 8:00 a.m. at City Hall we have Heritage day with voters Council of n&b that will be Saturday April 19th time and location to be announced Jazz appreciation month will be celebrated Friday April 25th
time to be announced and north and that will be at the North Miami Beach discovery Library the 8th Annual NM the North Miami Beach Police Department pal and charity Golf Classic Friday April 25th at 7:00 a.m. at the Miami Shores Country
Club Arbor Day tree giveaway Saturday April 26 9:00 a.m. at the senator Gwen margol Amphitheater the international Delo that will be Monday April 25th 28th at 10:30 a.m. till 7:00 so I'll be all day at the North Miami Beach library and
then family Story Time Wednesday April 30th at 6:30 at the North Miami Beach Library thank you thank you next item is commissioner reports Mr Mayor could you straighten out about Arbor Day it's on here we are having it or we're not having it no no it's oh it's on no no
it's on it's on it's just that I want to have like I have a mayoral discussion that it's on the agenda after you guys after the discussion items you have no I'm going to bring it up before we leave I promise you that cuz I did not know that um we didn't have everything I did not know that so that being we don't have funds how are we having it that's my question no we do have funds we just
need additional funding from from my understand right um so we'll have the discussion um commission but if we can keep the the the meeting moving along and we have commission reports coming up next if we can be very brief and and moving this along would be well appreciated Madam clerk commissioner
shernoff good evening everybody I am proud and honored to celebrate women's history month so congratulate every woman you know about a wonderful month um bike 305 is coming up on Sunday it
starts at 8:00 a.m. registration and 9:00 a.m. is going to ride and the level of riding is remedial so anybody can do it it's not far and it's not at a fast pace so my colleagues are all welcome um
to come and it's a great event that we have um Farm share is this Thursday at Victory Park Pool so please 9:00 a.m. um any families that need some food uh Farm share does a wonderful job of providing
a lot of supplies for anybody who we don't discriminate against being a North Miami Beach resident or County resident or a Fort Lauderdale resident you're all welcome all right I have a community engagement Forum on the 27th that's when
I go to a community and give my time from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the ulita center it will be this time so please if anybody has any questions call Bernice and the Council Office all right Monday April 7th is tour to Forest
registration okay that is the police department's annual event that they do for the fallen officers families so it's very important that if you can't ride and you can't go please make a donation would love it and it goes to the
families so we thank them for doing that and that is it good night commissioner floron thank you so much uh Madam city clerk um I'm glad that we had a a great start to our meeting as far as the
Strategic plan and the economic development plan and I uh trust that the city manager's office will schedule our Retreat as soon as possible um in addition to that um I had the opportunity to meet with our CFO so that
was a great meeting um and I learned that he's from Morocco so uh that that is one of my favorite places so um yeah so that was a good meeting and it's it provided some insight as to um you know where our city uh can go and I'm excited
about uh some of the team members that that we have on board including uh Stacy hipsman um you got to give you a shout out our water plant director uh give you a shout out as well all of our team I I think we're coming together we we we just need to to to Really uh move at
lightning speed to get things done um aside from that um I just want to say I wish that we have an expedient meeting I see the mayor has his gavel in his hand um I don't I don't know how much time so I'm going to bring this to a close and
look forward to an expedient meeting thank you Mr Mayor commissioner Jean record timing good evening everyone thank you so much for having me tonight and all of our commission um I wanted to start off by thanking everyone for my birthday wishes
I celebrated a birthday this past week and so did our uh our City attorney as well so all the March babies um I also wanted to send a special thank you to the economic development team uh HR and in Parks and
Recreation for doing such an amazing job with our career and um job fair we we had over 300 plus people who attended and it was such an amazing success so thank you to parks and all the all the Departments that um played a part in um
the success I wanted to also wish happy women's History Month to all my fellow Commissioners and all the women out there who um do such a great job city clerk um a chief of staff thank you so much to all the women who lead in our
various departments and I also wanted to mention I have a few questions for our city manager we had approved some bus shelters a few um months ago um maybe a year or so ago but maybe two or years or
two or plus um so I wanted to kind of get a status update on those bus shelters and also I know we have anou as it relates to our speed bumps so those locations that um residents have been
harpen on would love to get an update I had a chance to visit um the University of Miami school of medicine and one of the things that the dean there spoke about is operational excellence and I want I had a conversation with our
manager about that the fact that our operations have a lot of gaps and those gaps funnel into lack of services or not the expedient services that our residents should should get and so I want to kind of implore my
fellow Commissioners to look into operational gaps we're policy makers we are not here to um operate the day-to-day of the city however there are
gaps that are equating into frustrations for us and so our deliverables are not being delivered so we want not only operational sufficiency efficiencies but operational
excellence because we're not here just to be here we're here to actually have results so I want to commend the staff but I do want to also highlight the fact that there are gaps and when we have these cyclical
conversations that year after year things are not getting done it's because of these gaps and so I just want to highlight that I've had my conversations with the manager and I think from a structural perspective we have too many gaps within
our divisions we have a high turnover there's things that the commission is not privy to but I want us to actually take the bull by the horns and really take a deeper dive into what's going on with our city thank you um Mr Mayor may
I may I um just in a brief second to commissioner Jean's Point um you know one of the one of the reasons that I mentioned some of the staff members is because in in the conversations they're they're looking for those gaps which I'm that's what I'm excited about is that
some of these people are actually looking for the issues um they're not painting a Rosy picture they're saying this is where we're failing this is where we have issues and if we can find those issues like you said commissioner then we can begin to really address them
and and so I think their honesty really to me is the most important thing um they're not sugar cating it they're just letting us know what it is and we have some high skill level people here and and I think that's important I read a quote the other day that in in essence it's good when you're in a leadership position to have people that are better
than you that know more than you in their particular Silo because that will help you to lead better overall so I think we have some of those people on board and I'm excited about that just wanted to piggy I'm excited about that too and I I want to commend the staff
through the ma through the mayor however we're not we're only here for a season in a time and so in in the right ecclesiastics chapter 3 but what we have to also do is have deliverables so I love Rosy pictures
that's why I'm wearing pink tonight however just like the Arbor Day we would never had known that there was a gap there etc etc etc so when does it stop or when does it start so to that point mad M
CL commissioner Smith thank you thank you for giving me more thank you and thank you commissioner for giving me more time sure no problem uh first and foremost before I even start I'm not taking away the trolleys I'm not
taking away the trolleys I'm trying to find out why we're paying for trolley when it goes to a city that has very low millage rate why they're not cooperating why we're not doing it as a share on the freebie issue we're getting
more freebies Mr manager I'd like to know when they're coming I saw the freebie man at the career day and I would like to know when they're coming again and that was going to be in December but we're waiting for the money and we're waiting for Tallahassee and then you know the way it works sometimes
in North Miami Beach no offense just don't take offense to this but the way it really works and I tell people you have to call twice a day and they'll get tired of your call and they'll do something so we should do that with Tallahassee if we're for money let's just call twice a day and let's get the
money uh if that's the problem with the freebies I want to mention real quick that 159th Street from the county and this is important for the residents is going to be widened and they're going to do it on two phases from Northeast 6th Avenue to
West Dixie Highway and from Northwest 2 Avenue to noreast 6 um there is a meeting at biscane Gardens that is the um it comes on Thursdays I
think it's the first Thursday of the month and they're bringing somebody up from the county to talk about it I think because it infects our residents losing their parking space what just you came and talked about and thank you so much
um they're losing their parking places they too will be parking on the sidewalk so we should be aware and we should be ready for that and then and let all of our residents will be affected no as well as the traffic um we don't have the
calming devices back on the agenda the problem with the calming devices wasn't that we don't want them we want more of them I don't think anybody on the commission wants less calming devices I think we want more the problem was the location where they're going to be this
is the second time he's coming up explaining about the issues in hist Street and we keep hearing from ulita what's going on there so we there's two right there that we could be voting on now and installing tomorrow morning so
please let's bring that back let's go ahead and start to install them whatever it takes um that may be one of your Gap places commissioner thank you for bringing it up I want to also congratulate all of our honores we have
unbelievable women D County itself self has a woman mayor we have unbelievable young people we have unbelievable givers in this community everybody should be 100% um not Honor on only honoring those
but honoring all the women that you know I feel bad that the meeting started late it did start late but we because it was this month to honor women we had over 15 I think honores and I just think that we
could have probably had 15,000 if we really stopped and look at the women in our city um I want to tell you the career day was extremely successful not just successful extremely successful you had to find room to stand and walk and
that we have a lot of events a lot of events take advantage of them she read off two full pages of what's coming up but it is definitely going to be the
senior luncheon on the fourth Friday of every month if you don't register they're going to implement that you can't come in or you'll be served last we had a table that didn't get fed they didn't get fed because we had over 30
people that didn't register and came and sat down so you must register you must find out what our activities are because look at what's going on in our Liv library look what's going on there and when you go there it's not a group of 20
people it's a group of 200 people taking pictures at everything enjoying the music enjoying the dancing enjoying the camaraderie take advantage um I also want to say that on a sad note I've been to a lot of
funerals this past month a lot of funerals representing the city giving out proclamations to the fam and if you don't appreciate and love and hug those that you know and love you're
going to be the loser because one of the women were very young and it happened very suddenly and to watch her foreg grown children come in I can just tell you please I I think I've been to six in one month so that was important for me
to tell you and before I get um the cane pulled on me let me just say that I'm going to be walking at bike 305 so if anybody wants to walk with me I will be doing it I do walk a little on the faster side I I'll try and
um I also want to say on a happy note congratulations to our astronauts for coming back home safely yay to that and Mr Mayor I want to thank you for putting up with me but know that I'm
doing the people's business for the people we all are next well I am especially commission smuckler okay so I'm going to actually maybe ride the bike 305 let's see if if I can if I can
um if I can get my act together and and my my uh my guts together and my um anyhow so uh first of all I want to not only just can sell celebrate um
commissioner Smith commissioner Jean and vice mayor sue for women's history month but also our directors that are women we have ad Dania Hernandez from our library from our amazing Library we have Sharice George from
procurement we have Stacy hipsman from HR and Andre Bernard from our clerk's office am I missing any other directors oh our chief of staff Marlene mon who who am I
missing oh Jennifer from I said Marlene Jen from Caren Caren from the oh okay Cene too that's right so and that's it I think I have everybody so we celebrate
you and we thank you for all your hard work um let's see and then there's the birthdays of D commissioner Jean and our attorney Joe Geller happy birthday birthday but you know what in just a few weeks and he's somewhere around is Jay
chernoff's birthday so happy Birthday Jay he didn't hear us he would have been yelling thank you also um you know I the other day I was driving um was driving westbound on 163rd and I was looking at
that um it's like a mural where has all the names of the of the different neighborhoods of the Cities that was done the FPL substation and um not today or tomorrow but sooner rather than later it's going to need to be
retouched so I'm not and I'm not sure if that's something we want to do but um it's it it's it's fading it's beginning to fade so that's something we're going to have to be talking about you think we need a water feature that's old joke Happy Birthday J I agree with you happy Birthday Jay
thank you you're welcome go ahead it's okay yeah but I mean it's something that eventually we're going to have to bring up but yes so also so let's see where am I to the family of Lincoln Diaz Bellard um our sympathies to him he was such an
amazing person and such a a fighter against um the communism in Cuba and I thank him so much for that and about that gentleman who was here before that article but us being a corrupt city was
from n no 2018 it was almost 7 years ago in July that's like so old news and it was from the Miami New Times like look at the source and um and it actually mentioned all 34
cities in it all 34 cities were mentioned in Miami day County I was just looking at it right now um and yes the uh the mayor and I did talk about um a consent decree and I I was actually told
that by a previous previous previous manager that we had a descent consens the county has it um however we're strongly recommended to move there's other issues okay so so but you and I are not we always had it no we're not
pling to uh to UHA we've always had it yeah so so so so go okay so I I don't to lose track with yeah I just want clarify we're not like plotting to to convert the city and so on and so forth and then
the last thing that um I think I have here on my oh no second to last thing is and I only want to say it because um Sharice is here I'm not sure if she's going to be here towards the end um and um Andre had put that um commissioner
Smith wanted um item 15.7 as a Texas furn but I think we're in a cone of silence yeah we are so we can't discuss it if we are right no I don't I don't I mean it it is it is Alit
so that so I just wanted with the project no but come up I'm sorry I apologize I just don't we shouldn't I don't want to I was going to mention I was like wait a minute I good evening um in depth with the project no but you
know talk about the basics you know that it's out on the street in the time frame and stuff that those are Basics that we can discuss okay okay okay all right so good we've got that clear and um by the time of our
next meeting it'll already be Passover so have you Passover to P up yes to to those who celebrate vice mayor okay um good evening everyone uh Happy women's History Month I wanted to
recognize a staff but you know commissioner smuckler stole the scene there so I'll just uh give it to her there um uh it's been a month of a lot of activities going on so um I wanted to thank the staff a lot because we had an
emergency event because of the bis family um tribute we had a a little a little Candlelight um event and then we had just about 200 people show up I want to thank the community I want you to know that we're here to support you um
You Know You're Beautiful yeah I mean it was it for me it was very touching and I'm very happy that it really got to fill a void for a lot of our residents who are dealing with the um the uh the loss of the the loss of life the
murdering of hostages in captivity um I also wanted to mention that um I'm excited about um our our you know our studies from FIU we have I had an event here in the city it was hosted co-hosted
with the North American economic Herald which brought in a lot of indust a lot of food and beverage and Hospitality uh they the delegate was brought over by the US Embassy in Beijing um they're looking to invest they came here to visit North Miami
Beach and they like it so this is great news for us that means that we're going to have that possibility of all this investment that we're putting in we just have to make sure that we set the ground and make it fertile so that when they plant the seed it'll grow um the other
thing that I want to thank um commissioner turnoff for co-hosting of fluide town hall um I'm still having a little bit of a problem uploading the video but I really hope that um the residents and everybody will watch it and make your own decision on what you
want to do regarding our potable water that is coming out of your faucet okay do you want to continue to drink that do you want to add a filter until we decide I know that Miami dat county has um uh is rescheduling that bill their bill is
to to remove or the addition of fluoride until April 1st so we'll be staying tuned in into that one um then the next thing is um I want you guys to all know that I am looking for ways to bring down the cost of living for our residents
okay so there's a couple of things that I have attended in the past in this past month there was the blue water ways with the Miami day League of cities led by I believe uh mayor Nickerson and um the mayor of North Bay
Village mayor Mitchell and um from Miami Springs and um so it's called Blue waterways so basically like there was you know the it's about how do we mitigate flood what do we deal how do we deal with storm water and so on so forth and looking at Solutions in a in a
bigger picture and maybe a collaborative effort so I really like that um we also had a meeting with the Department of energy at the water plant uh we're looking for Grants and we're looking for funding supporting and also loans so um so to give our infrastructure a big
boost as you could see in the FIU report we need a big boost in our infrastructure um I also was in Tallahassee as uh Kazan had mentioned and I want to thank the the residents and the staff um both Mario um Hamid uh
actually week and also got that and also Kazan himself Bruce lamberto the chair of pu we all got together like phone calls all day on Sunday just to make sure that I get all the points and the issues right about our water plant and
how much what we have invested right I have some key points and maybe if you would like to help us that this fight is not quite lost yet all right we need to write to our Senators write to our state representatives I was very fortunate I
think that our Representatives have been very fair they have met given me time when I was up there I met up with several of them that were on the committee I spoke with them and they were very um very empathetic to our situation and yet of course like you
know with a compelling argument from them we have not had enough time to um to really share with um with them about why it is that we have the search charge so right now we have P they have passed that bill through three committees it's
going on the floor of the house next and if we can all get together and write an email or call our state representative or all of our Representatives because on the floor it's 12 of them you could uh send out a mass email on that and um we
could possibly um maybe steer them in a way that like lets them allows them to see what our expenses are um teamwork I I think this is very crucial like what I realized was it was staff it was residents it was people with knowledge
and we all got together and you know pulled our brains together so we have a lot of things coming up we've got the Centennial we've got um we've got our a lot of things that that you know we have in the pipeline here and we want to make sure that um we all work as a team okay
um I'm excited about the free clinic I'm going to be talking about today so stay tuned and I just want to quickly um um commissioner smuck you had yeah thank you um Mr Mayor I I just also want to acknowledge two things um the hard
Health walk which was a a tremendous success thank you to all six of you for being there for being part of it thank you for to to parks and wreck thank you to public works thank you to PD thank you to everyone for for making it like I
think the probably the most successful or the most attended one yet and once again thank you to our Police Department for taking care of all of us always thank you our residents our families our our employees thank you so much for for
um for putting your lives on the line for us even though you made it longer well you didn't have to do it all the way though we did okay well that's good Mayor Michael Joseph I'm be an
example uh two things um I went to National League of cities last week uh was able to meet a lot of stakeholders a lot of um was able to meet with the offices of Rick Scott um you know in essence of what type of resources like we could bring down um could be having some follow-up
conversations because you know even though it might seem that government is just you know not as conducive um right now there are some ways we can make some inroads um in a bipartisan way so I'm I'm I'm happy that I was able to make these additional connections reinforce
these connections that we've um always you know been able to really pull on um from our from our federal Partners um I I did meet up with the offices of uh congresswoman federa Wilson but during that whole time it was that whole budget issue and if it was going to pass but I
I I was able to meet a lot of individuals but they were pretty occupied on that main issue and I have um some meetings set up uh in the near future to follow up next and uh issu is as you well know we have um this particular bill um pertaining to our water PL I ask all you all of my members
on this commission to have a united front reach out to the city manager schedule some time to go up there this is uh important uh uh we need to fight as a united front push because at the end of the day we're responsible for it one of the speakers pointed out that you
know that it'll be a loss under my Administration no it'll be a loss for all of us if that's if that were to happen and we've been able to to uh present certain arguments and and put our positions but we have to be very present and remain present so please reach out to the manager schedule some
time to go up there work this out and give them our side of a story because you know we we've have we have not had an opportunity to do so we've let other people speak for us but they need to see our faces so I just I ask you all to do that that being said Madam clerk next
item consent agenda move to approve move to introduce okay um attorney attorney item 9.1 um commission conference meeting
minutes of February 18 2025 item 9.2 regular commission meeting minutes of February 18 2025 item 9.3 resolution number r225 d33 approving an agreement with multiple vendors for the purchase of police uniforms and accessories introduced by the
procurement director uh Sherice George deusa a resolution of the mayor and City Commission in the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing a piggyback contract between the city and multiple vendors for police uniforms and accessories for an estimated annual budgeted amount not to exceed
$60,000 authorizing the city manager are designated to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for screen errors providing for severability and providing for an effective date item 9.4 resolution number r225 d34 approving an
agreement with cap government Inc for plans review inspection and Professional Services introduced by the building official Danny Ozuna a resolution to the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving a piggyback contract between the city and
cap government Inc for plans review inspection and Professional Services in an estimated annual amount annual budgeted amount not to exceed $60,000 authorizing the city manager designated do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for
conflicts providing for sceners errors providing for severability uh subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds and providing for an effective date item 9.5 resolution number r225 d35 approving task order for the coral group
for professional Engineering Services brought by the community development director uh zafer Ahmed a resolution the mayor and City Commission in the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving a task order for professional Engineering Services for the Northeast Corridor station area master plan development in
an amount not to exceed $145,000 with the Corino group under the continuing Services agreement for professional consulting services and authorizing city manager or designated to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution preventing for conflicts and subject to the budget
appropriation and availability of funds and providing for an effective date item 9.6 resolution number r approval to apply for the Florida Inland navigation District Finn or finded grant for the purchase of a new Marine Patrol vessel for the NMB Police Department
brought by the chief of police Juan panas a resolution to the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida authorizing the city manager to apply for Grant assistance under the Florida England navigation District waterways assistance program to acquire a Marine Patrol vessel providing
for incorporation of recitals and providing for an effective date item 9.7 resolution number r 2025-the the city manager to sign Milton Litman Park 4f di Minimus finding letter for the Department of Transportation
brought by the community development director zafer Ahmed a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of North Miami Beach Florida for authorizing the city manager to sign the Milton lman Park 4f to Minimus finding for Florida Department of Transportation
F project development and environmental PDN study for the I95 corridor from south of State Road 860 Miami Gardens Drive to north of the Brower County Line Financial project ID number
414962 1-22 d01 providing for findings of confirming expiration and limitation of approval providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date that is your consent agenda Mr M move to approve consent agenda I have a second second all in favor
I pass unanimous next item move to introduce ordinance number 20251 first reading Second City attorney mayor uh item 11.1 ordinance number 20
25-01 amending section CH 9 entitled offenses and miscellaneous Provisions by amending section 9-35 entitled camping prohibited to provide a uniform procedure for identifying camping and police department enforcement of the camping prohibition
providing for codification conflict scriveners ER severability and providing for an effective date good evening mayor commission vice mayor Chief so uh this was a a bill that was passed by the state um the house and the Senate back in
October 1st 2024 is basically just giving law enforcement uh Direction and the authority to arrest those that are considered camping which is homelessness um obviously uh as a police department we'll give these individuals the opportunity to take them to a shelter if
they refuse to receive that type of help then we have the authority to arrest and also in addition to that it allows residents and business owners to now legally sue the city if we don't enforce that so it's a it's because state law is to catch 22 basically correct so that's
why I have um philosophical disagreements with this but as a given my position and and given the the the the potential liability to our residents I you know issue is pretty clear um um commissioner spith do you have any thoughts wait and it is the first reading and so I have to open it up for
public comment do we have any public comment in regards to this particular ordinance saying none I I close it um and come back to the day do I have any um thoughts from the Commissioners on this issue no the only thing um I had a
question on is on number f it says any personal property that was inventoried and stored by the city police department for uh those that are transferred to shelter should we add what happens to it
after after the 60 days of the date of the inventory shall be deemed abandoned and disposed of according to FS chapter 705 so is that destroyed so normally we set it for Destruction any property that's abandoned or we just no longer
house in our property asking should we make it clear maybe the attorney should we can add that to our policy I mean I'm just it's it's it's first reading so if you want to add that on there and now it doesn't really have to be in the ordinance if the policy states that then that's sufficiently clear okay I just
want to I don't want anybody to come back after that either and say okay okay so it's on the record do so do I have a motion so Mo motion second we have a motion and second all in favor oh is a roll call or is it it's
a roll call okay please Madam commissioner shernoff yes commissioner floron yes commissioner Jean yes commissioner Smith yes commissioner smuckler yes vice mayor Su yes Mayor Michael Joseph yes passes 70 all right
thank you move to introduce resolution number R 225-3802 resolution number r225 d38 approving a change order with lowest North American of Alabama Inc for the Furnishing delivery discharge of quick
liim uh brought by the water director Hamid nickan a resolution to the mayor and City Commission in the city of North Miami Beach Florida proving an authorizing a change order to the contract with lowest North America of Alabama Inc increasing the contract by an amount not to exceed
$297,000 authorizing the city manager or designated to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts providing for scribers errors providing for severability subject to the budget uh Appropriations and availability of funds and providing for an effective
date so this is a change order we're asking for um an additional $297 annually this will bring it to the previously approved um annual budget amount of uh 1397 million uh we came to
commission back in 2023 for $1.1 million annually and we have used uh more than than that last year we averaged um over $1.3 million uh in the uh delivery and discharge of lime
softening so we're asking to go to the previously approved budget amount all right bringing back before the commission do I have any any discussion do I have a motion in a second to approve second all in favor say I I any oppose not oppos pass unit next item
move to introduce resolution number R 20 25-39 uh item 114 resolution number r-20 wait did I skip 113 sorry item 113 resolution number r225 d39 approving Award of
it- 24-39 DSG rowat transmission Mains and Wells brought by the water director Hamid nickan a resolution of the mayor and City Commission in the city of North Miami Beach Florida approving and authorizing the award of invitation to bid number it B-24 039 DSG rowat
transmission mans Wells to Southern underground Industries Inc in a total not to exceed amount of 5,287 717 authorizing the city manager designate to execute an agreement with the lowest responsive and responsible bidder authorizing the city manager or
designate to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution and subject to the B budget appropriation and availability of funds and providing for an effective date okay um we did a solicitation a 60-day solicitation for this water construction
project um while we were evaluating the project um the water department um their CIP team as well as the E the engineer Rec of record um did evaluation to look at the use of uh one of the wells that
were on the scope of work um we decided to remove those Wells from the scope of work and go back to the respon vits for a best and final offer we did that and these offers they're in uh in the memo but the the offer that we're
recommending for award does include uh a 10% contingency that is within budget um it is important that we take a look at this contingency now it is not a must h a must use but we do need to look at it now because we are facing issues with
lead times and equipment and possible tariffs and so folks are all up in arms so we want to make sure that we have this approval up front in the event that we need to use it move to approve do we have any discuss
on okay no we don't Mr Mayor second I just want to ask that still have I just want to ask the attorney something City attorney that um under under the explanation the sentence it says funding for water related
management support services has been secured through wiia funding and water revenue bonds series 2020-a shouldn't that be added can we add that somewhere in the actual vote that that's where the money came from in
the resolution well it says it's subject to budget appropriation and availability of funds so I don't know that it has to be in the reso oh sorry uh it it's it's in there that it's subject to that I don't know that we have to specify it where it's in
the backup but if you would be more comfortable I mean there's certainly no reason that we can't do I'm only more comfortable because I when I I ran 15 years ago somebody asked me to get the resolutions and the resolution there doesn't tell you what that appropriation
funds is it doesn't tell you we we can certainly inter lineate into the existing resolution that we could put that language if you would prefer that it's in the resolution I would so we have a we have a motion second you I
guess but proced right we do this it's an amendment and Amendment that's correct does the second accept the amendment can you restate the amendment for the record yes the the commissioner would like the
source of the funds that were using to be included in the resolution and because it's a $5 million project I just like it yes there's no reason that we can't or shouldn't do that to approve as amended as amended and the second second
so now we call can we call a vote on the issue you can just do a quick Voice vote on the amendment on the amendment I recall we would vote on the amendment and then approve as you well that's what I'm saying you have to have a Voice vote on the amendment to approve
the amendment once it's amended you can vote on the item as amended so as that's exactly correct so now we're going to vote on the item as amended no no sir you need to do to add addition sorry you need to do just a quick V voice vote the maker and second of the motion have
accepted the amendment as friendly but you should still just ask all in favor of the amendment so you can do the amendment procedure all in favor of the Amendments signify by saying I I I not oppos now we move on to the now you have
an amended resolution in front of you that inter lineat into what was there I make a motion with it amended with the amendment it was already made second yeah but it wasn't made with the motion with the amend no but you you have a you had a motion in
front of you you have now amended so what's in front of you is the amended motion with that language added now the only thing that you don't need to make a motion because there is one but if there
was more discussion you could make a motion to move the question to End discussion but if you've already exhausted discussion you don't need to do that you just need to ask the clerk to call the vote well it's it's a Voice
vote right so it's a resolution it can be by as amended signify by saying I I I passy move on to the next item is move to ince resolution 11.4 r25 D40 May that's your
item okay it was just the one added the attorney needs to read it did you have second do I have a motion do I have a second on I'm sorry you want commissioner turn off move yes I and and um commissioner oh there was a second okay item 11.4 resolution number r225
D40 memorandum of understanding with UMC free clinic a resolution of the mayor and City Commission in the city of North Miami Beach Florida authorizing City to enter into a memorandum of understanding mou with um UMC free clinic to promote joint health and wellness initiatives and enhanced services for the community
while authorizing the city manager to negotiate the terms of the for approval by the city commission authorizing the city manager designated 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 sponsored by vice mayor
ly Sue who I guess speaks next uh yes vice mayor um I I motion to approve oh no that doesn't work that way okay all right um so so the UMC free
clinic has has actually been around as uhi free clinic for a while now for about 20 years and they have recently opened up the UMC free clinic several years ago and um I have invited they have a mobile unit that I wanted to invite them to come and um serve our
residents usually they serve residents without they only ask for your name um if you don't have insurance if you don't have any um you know any funding to take care of your health um they they do that all for free and um and we I visited their site with
their their free clinic with um the the manager and um the chief of staff so uh they have agreed to start uh bringing their mobile unit over in April so I'm open to any questions if anybody has any so wait first so first it's free to the
people they have they have drugs and prescription drugs and whatnot that the doctors May prescribe they also give those out for free okay and um it costs us nothing just a space for them to park their mobile unit for
now if we gain in popularity or I mean you know if people the demand grows then we could possibly look for something else that is a little more permanent in the city but as for now we only have the mobile unit it has two exam rooms and they're going to start in April okay um
no location yet maybe I think manager said we wanted to you know maybe some people might not want others to know that you know they're coming to this clinic so we might kind of park behind city hall or well to because
I I I've there's another um and I it's funny enough when I I I saw the the added on a couple of day couple of nights ago and I'm for this I'm for this item because I I was uh approached by another company can they don't do the they don't do the the prescribing they
just do the testing and they do have these mobile clinics they they go through Medicare Medicaid and Medicare if you don't have um if if you're Indigent in that sense and they will do certain things at cost so anything that can add additional resources to our residents um they you know a lot of
these um companies just want places to to um to to park their vehicles because they do have state funding they have St they have state grants so just whatever we can um I do have an initiative through um Jackson I want to do like a a
certain uh week out of the months called like Health week so residents would have not just you know the mobile clinic that you mentioned but a screening from the cancer bus uh something tied to to Jackson or any other or Etna whoever if they're providing any services so we can
have like a like a like a designated week out of the month that residents hey if I want to get some I because there's a company that would do dental work too at at no cost at all right I'm bringing the dental well there you go we could that'll be part of the be the health we
could U um they came that's a well it's free or maybe a tiny portion of what you pay somebody that went to the clinic cuz it is free and it's established in Miami if you can't pay for your dental work but um she came and she said it cost her
$250 and we and she felt terrible except that the bill was 2,000 see and it only cost her 250 so I I want to have a design a week I I've been talking with with with senior staff about that that's why I wanted to start off with with Jackson as being the uh the Vanguard and really pushing this through but I would
like you know you guys to add to that Health Week to make it a real initiative and really having people say on this week in North May beach I I can get certain healthc care done at at at a free or even reduced cost and that's as you pointed out that's one example $200
to from 2,000 that's a that's a massive difference they're working on the May the the I hate to be the negative one we do have a hospital in our community called Jackson no no well Jackson would how does this affect them
because if it and you know if they don't like it it's hurting them well see the thing is this um we got to be careful of that no no no I mean uh we're trying to bring more accessibility to our residents right that's that's the main thing and we have clinics all over the place now the thing is that I'm not and
Jack and I'm asking Jack to be a partner and they would be a partner you know um so the more options the better because what if we can't get that particular um provider that particular week we still have these other providers that would be there that be the healthc care week or health for for our residents so
commissioner Z thank you I think it's a great initiative but I also would say from um strategic perspective all the different M us that we have Hanah Jackson this new one we have to find a way to kind of bridge these in a in a sense that the efforts are not
duplicated but also from a communication standpoint that um the residents are able to also get that information and whether or not from the um to through through the mayor to the manager as it relates to to location because if you
have an influx of people coming for example the library has a partnership with FIU neighborhood they also do something similar so I think the communication needs to be bridged but also from a safety perspective um you
know is there going to be police there what would be the best venue as it relates to parking so I think those are nuances that we need to also consider we are policy makers we provide the guidance to our to our staff knowing that we've already presented this and
and and these aspects and let them execute it so we we've um so I don't want to cut off because I I want to move forward with your with your um a motion so I want to add onang hang on I question okay so and then I'll add it
the okay Comm so I I don't have a i a commissioner Su vice mayor so I I I applaud you for bringing this forward but what I'm not understanding is why we're making this a resolution because like for example right because for and
and and for example um about two two or three years ago like almost monthly I had a AMR Mobile coming it it came to every every neighborhood except um for one because there just wasn't the bus wouldn't fit there um you know there was
a m gr Mobile coming but we never did resolution we just had had I mean all I had to do is basically it was another manager at the time but all I basically just said to the manager is it okay can we do a mogr mobile so and so date and
so and so time so that's it I mean I I I think it's a great idea I just I'm not sure why we're doing it a resolution then like I I do I well I'm I'm doing it now through the commission on status of women but we had a mamogram mobile at
the Hard Health walk walk and hopefully at the library in October for breast cancer month we're going to have another mamogram mobile but I mean I'm not asking for resolution for that so I'm I'm not understanding why it needs to be a resolution and also um just so you'll
know at the mamogram mobiles we we've never um maybe the first time a long time ago but we've never really had um police there so I'm concerned that just to make I want to clarify that if we're going to do police now we're adding
costs to our city so but but again I I mean um also FIU goes to the library we have Hannah we don't have resolutions for all this so I'm not sure I I don't I don't want to speak for the vice mayor but sometime well it comes to the to this making a statement as a commission
having a full-fledged support not to say that no you didn't have support with the breast cancer awareness bus you know I think that's a value ad the diaper bus right all that um this just adds an additional uh emphasis uh it's not necessarily needed it's not and we are I
mean you can you can have discussions with a manager if it's good for residence he had and he has certain thresholds he can meet but I understand why you want to make it a statement as a collective cying it yeah she just codifying it that say you don't necessarily need it and I'm not trying to set up a stand I'm not going to I'm not telling you not to do it I'm just trying to figure out why you want
exactly so okay so um exactly this the reason why we're having this discussion is why I created the resolution because like you know now we know that we have dental coming we have Jackson North then we and Hannah and we can we can all coordinate and talk in public about all
these initiatives that we're doing so we can create it and make it more whole so um that's exactly why I'm doing this resolution it's just to also I want to know what um you know like now I know what the mayor has planned and then like now we're thinking about like having a weekly health month I mean this is
wonderful right I this is all sparking a discussion so that we can we can move this generate Economic Development yeah and and also all get behind it um that's that's the reason and I'm not saying like we didn't get behind your mammogram I also have another sub reason because I
have been texted by a lot of residents asking me is this going to cost the city anything and I want to make sure that I express myself that first of all you don't even have to have Medicaid you don't have to have Medicare this is like people who have zero Insurance have no
coverage of any kind you can go to this Clinic just give your name and last name they check you out and then they give you the drugs and also they have Specialists who volunteer for this clinic on a regular basis so occasionally they'll have cardiologists
come in they'll have oncologists come in you know and um you know so on and so forth so so all of this is like you know in a in a system that I am hoping I'm relying on our manager to work out that's we're going to do so we can you know get all these uh initiatives
together so I moved to no wait I think McKenzie wanted to say something right commissioner McKenzie did floron yes commissioner floron thank you oh you're you're speaking a question well I mean you know it's it's it's a very relatively short agenda here um
but um the this I mean I understand the whole con conversation about resolution versus not having a resolution it's neither here nor there for me one of the things that I think is important is when we start talking about if this goes well something permanent I think that's
really where we need to start thinking because we've been down this road before with other organizations where the city didn't want to get involved in having clinics on site what the liability looks like who's going to be uh providing the services so I think that's something
that need to be mindful of number two um when it comes to Jackson and how this affects Jackson I think that if if if if the the mission of healthc care providers is to make sure that everyone is is is doing well yeah they're not it goes with their mission um in addition
to that this is outpatient yeah this is outpatient so this is your primary care services outpatient while Jackson is more they make their money mostly North I think they're mostly impatient uh correct correct so there you know there could be collaborative efforts but this
is the primary care which is very important because a lot of people don't have access to Primary Care prevent preventive uh health services so I'm I'm fully in support of this but I do want to see more collaboration because we do have Hannah here and um you know they're
nurses Nurse Practitioners and they're ready to serve they they're in a building here and so we can make we can utilize that space more and to really build presence for our um as mayor puts it Indigent population um an underserved
population all right do I have a motion I have a question my life I have a second but but you can have you can have a I'm sorry we have a motion a second but um commissioner Smith I also I'm thrilled that something like this comes to our city but I thought that's what Hannah does I thought if you couldn't
didn't have insurance or couldn't afford it you could go walk into that building so I can respond to that um um H Hannah is a group of nurses for those who don't know Haitian American Nurses Association that are established here and they they have a Litany of projects that they work
on um one of them is to have some communication with Jackson if people don't know once they leave Jackson how to use their medication or uh they need just further advice they can always call and reach out um you know I I think that there are some gaps that we need to fill
when it comes to um to to all programming related to Wellness in the city but isn't it free or it is it is free yeah but um I mean the more the Mary to be honest with you the you know so that's why the communication is so important because there's there's nine
to five right so if if Hannah can occupy the space two three days and then someone else can utilize it another day we just need we just need coordination coordination coordination so I have a motion in a second do we have all in favor say I I all right congratulations
on vice mayor passing her first resolution yay that's our first one that's our first one yes you should yeah yeah next uh next item on the agenda Madam clerk celebrate after this yes congratulations yeah vice mayor item is 5 15.1 FIFA
World Cup 2026 we discussion items mayor oh yes uh discussion items FIFA that is U mayor introduce do we introduce discussion no do we I don't know it's just a discussion item yes disc vice mayor that's your discussion item yes um
going be brief because we have you know we oh really so historically whenever whenever big events like this come right like um the World Cup the Super Bowl the whatever else uh that people play like
tennis whatever um there's always a lot of funding involved currently I know that our PD has already been briefed on the you know for the Hard Rock stadium and I know that our water department is also supporting this this whole you know
the whole FIFA 2026 now with the resources being spent I think that we should H look for an opportunity to get some funding for some of our infrastructure or police or you know whatnot and I I believe that um like um
commissioner smuckler also knows about this because the uh I think the chair is Elina Hudak yes Hudak and Beach right and there is a you know there's a lot of um I think in order to to get some funding we would have to probably get on
a committee or something like one of us has to send a representative I'm not entirely clear about that one but um that's my understanding I just know FIFA's and cor I've been to the building so they just they had one tonight they had one tonight yeah I mean I think commission County Commissioner basen had
an event tonight talking about how you know that is possible so um I've just seen that right now it's this is gonna happen all over Canada All Over America GNA be gonna be it's gonna be gigant it's going to be huge it's going to be huge it's huge and I hear that this is
actually the largest I mean the more most participants all World Cups in the past so this is uh basically something that I wanted us to explore and maybe discuss what what we see as possible and if you anybody has had experience about
it I'd love to hear about that too uh uh commissioner thank you I think it's a great um thought I know the I went to um g in Miami had a um a panel about this and so they're having conversations
throughout the county on how municipalities can take part I know one of the things that I've been um advocating for is for our soccer program to be part of some of the initiatives that are going to come for you for youth soccer but I do think that we need to
also par with our commissioner our commission our County Commissioners like commissioner ban potentially commissioner Steinberg who may be more connected to what the FIFA committee is doing currently so the meeting happened tonight in Old Grove maybe we need to
invite the the board chair to come to North miam reach and see how we can maybe you know and have those dialogues exactly Mr Mayor just wanted to state to um all of the commission that we did have staff attend um notes will be
prepared and shared with you all oh great additionally I'm sorry um vice mayor I'm sorry to interrupt additionally we have reached out to uh Miss Hudak um to establish a one-on-one meeting with her in her office thank you yes I know you you did mention that for
me to have a one1 with her thank you so much all right and I and I just want to say that about 10 minutes ago I I put my head down and and and commissioner flormont asked me if something was was wrong I'm like no I wanted to like bang my head and I was so upset because at at
the at the best practice conference for the memory day County League of cities FIFA was there at the end and they were giving out the FIFA scarves and I had one and I wanted to wear it during during this discussion and I left it at home and I'm like was so mad at myself right now but um but remj County League
of cities did um have the best at the best practice conference so I'm sure also through REM day County leag of cities at through the league through the league through oh yeah we'll we'll be doing stuff well one thing it's so close to North Mii Beach we could actually put them in our
hotel if we had one what hotel well we can all open our homes up as all the ones that we approved and then get built but you know one point that I think is very pertinent of this conversation is we have to prepare be
prepared the chief has to be prepared with traffic we have to be prepared with the ru rules and regulations there will be people here to party and we're just very close to where all this is happening and I think we have to be very cognitive what we have
to do to prepare we can't decide the week before no what are we going to do so I have some ideas that I want to run by you and and I don't want this prep preparation to go to waste you know I did bullet I mean I have had uh been advised and given bullet points that
were so wonderful so there's um you know we could join the The Host committee um we could look into Transportation perhaps it's something that we could do with our trolley yeah as well so the Comm mayor in the county no um vice
mayor U has a thought May so the The Trolley company that we currently use also provides service at the Hard Rock stadium yeah exactly so it's there's a lot of synergy there yeah but okay so so to your bullet points right yes
um the bullet points the the pull the pull the pulling points that you have is there a way because I would assume you you're looking for some type of um consensus and I guess uh giving that to management staff right I I don't know if
it needs a a resolution but is is no I don't I mean maybe it does need a resolution I don't know but I just wanted to to say your ideas okay yeah to give your the possibilities that that have been created for me here so I wanted to share that with you so we have like Transportation Public Safety
commissioner um commissioner um smuckler as well as commissioner fla I would like to see a copy of that so you can distribute sure you can email it to me the okay okay great great great do can I go through them now no no if you if you can go quickly I mean the the titles and
and I'm we're gonna We yeah yes cool okay cuz it's not midnight doesn't mean we want to wait till midnight exact I understand okay so um coordinate transportation and Parking Solutions right park and ride um shuttle sites uh we have you know we could benefit from
maybe state or federal transportations uh grants grants um we could host fan events like viewing parties on 19th or something like that if there was a big game nearby uh we could have fan zones
we could also adopt a team I don't know how we would fight over that that would be that would be a big problem real big problem I know right because like it depends it depends on who makes it too so you know that's a that's another thing but um we could leverage on tourism uh we could promote we could get
our we could get our businesses our local businesses ready for this you know preparation for World Cup um we could secure some local projects about like you know like some tourism development grants maybe we might be able to get a
hotel um I don't know if um a year we could attract a team based Camp U we have mishan Park maybe they could you know do some uh do some training here yeah practices here we could um and like
I said like promote we could collaborate with maybe the North Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and see if they would like to you know like pitch in to do something to promote the the businesses in our area now I think the the key thing is probably joining like the host
committee or something like that to be a part of it but that's something that I can talk to if anybody else no no I mean like through through the I mean I think the consisten is that we need to be more involved um I'll be happy to give time to that the St Knows Mr manager I
definitely would I think I think we all want to be more involved and if you can come up with a strategy for us to be really plugged in um you heard some of the ideas this um the vice mayor is going to send send it over I can send over the please uh take that consensus
and run with it next item wait a minute yes but I I I just want to credit um I just want to credit Tariq and and and Hamid like I've consulted a lot with them and um they were giving me some good ideas cool um commiss Smith I just feel that if the city takes a soccer
ball in our colors and just has a little slogan slogan kicking kicking forward to prepare for the or for soccer or whatever kicking forward and then we get that so we can put it on Windows and they're on board for economic
development that would be good I'd appreciate that um when is the World Cup next year no no but when umm the summer June June okay it's going to happen dur our Centennial so we got to go big or go
home um commissioner Jean thank you Mr Mayor I wanted to get an update about the youth soccer program where are we with that any updates the one over at um the school gone there was another one that proposed
the program here uh Mr Mayor commissioner through through the mayor um so we're talking about the uh the program with with Pat yes I've met with him a couple of times he uh he's assured me that he'd be sending me uh the copy of their
insurance and a signed agreement um so we're still uh pending those items um but I'll reach back out to him tomorrow but uh uh I've talked to Pat a few times and we're we're waiting on um some items from from that group thank you before we
move to this point like one good idea might be us to be considered a central location for media we don't necessar have to do like soccer but we could be a staging area because of the where're where we're located a lot of these guys are going to be staying over in Sunny Al anyways instead of them driving all the way down to Miami all the way across we
can be like because we have this we have the theater here um we could just be just that staging area and that could just give we have a lot of possibilities yeah we have a lot we're back to discussing it I'm sorry next back no no no next no no no next the kick it Forward was great maybe we could present
a pitch deck for North Miami Beach that encompasses these ideas to them next is um um request question about the soccer um I spoke to him and he said we're coming soon uh okay I I'd like to request that you know we we lay out this plan as
quickly as possible I mean of course after I meet with um with with HUD no the consensus is there yeah so I mean like let's let's get a move on this one so we can maybe take advantage of some of some of the funds that we possibly can get did you selfa appoint yourself the soccer uh soccer SOC the socc I
don't even know how to play so well why not mayor 15.2 Mr city manager thank you mayor um last month um I had um was requested to bring as uh together as to what the task for for uh
task force for the Centennial would look like um the memo was distributed on um early February in which uh we would have one appointee from each of the um mayor and commission uh the purpose of the appointee would be either a resident um
or long-term like business um um owner or someone who's operating in a b business long term we do we have several businesses that that have been here for decades and decades and and they also provide value um it's meant to be a
working group and the working group um would assist even with uh their experience and their skills in the actual branding event planning and graphic design and and so forth um so we want to make sure that those who are appointed have a passion for Community
engagement and um a knowledge of North Miami Beach's history again has the experience and skills in branding event planning and and uh graphic design strong organizational and collaborative um abilities and the ability to contribute Hands-On in the planning and executive and and executing the
executive um executive I don't know why I keep saying executive and executing the Centennial activities so um we ask um that the members be able to provide ideas for the events activities and Legacy projects collaborate with local businesses organizations and secure
sponsorships and partners provide an input on branding marketing visual elements and Centennial promotions assist in engaging the broader Community to engage uh encourage participation and work alongside you all the city commission and staff to align efforts
with the city's Vision uh and actively contribute to the coordination and design aspects of the Centennial um um initiatives it's not meant to be a policy board but a working group um um so far I've received one
recommendation um which is uh for former commissioner Barbara Kramer uh to be part of the working group um I have not received um any other recommendations to date Mr Mayor yes my my appointee is Sally
Heyman oh well we um so so I so now that we know the parameters we'll be submitting our names I thought we were going to announce it here I'm sorry Mr manager well you you have you you have have to pick another person were submitting it here no no I mean no we can submit I mean we'll submit we'll the
directions to given we know the parameters each one of us will submit our names and we'll not we'll have the full announcement and by next our next meeting we need this to be moving sooner rather later we want to have I do feel like we need a wedding planner to be quite Frank to assist yeah and remember
it's it's a working group so we want we one of one of the other cities in in a similar type of working group uh the group themselves took on in designing a new um marketing logo for the city um
and that came about they had a few different options they came about they went to the commission commission absolutely loved it it was created thought of design and then implemented by the residents themselves so we want a working group of people who have the skill set that can go into the planning
go into into this not just hey we want to have a an amazing event and then kind of leaves it all no no no I I think I just want to have a date certain for the for for this group to meet um and hopefully within the next 30 days they can do that we have two names already
I'm pretty sure we can submit names as soon as possible so just so these people can meet so we can get the show on a row because this is coming very quickly and I don't want us to just be you know caught with our pants down so thank you so very much on that discussion item you have our you you have consensus right
and we'll move forward to the next uh do you think next month you could start to tell us like what the schedule's going to be for a meeting so we can tell our appointees or you're going to reach out to them how's that going to work once I have uh once we staff has the names we can reach out directly to them
and schedule the the meetings that works all right next item 15.3 vice mayor uh let me can I comment on the last I mean by when will all the Commissioners appoint their appointees I'm going to do it's said March March meeting
I will I I'll have it by the end I will have it um I I mean I'm sure I can get by the end of this week maybe Lord willing I'm gonna do my best if not if not uh if not sooner if I don't but I'm gonna sooner is good just I want this to
move forward more than you know because I like I said I know this is a it's huge it's it's a huge event it's a lot of things are going to be happening next year FIFA being one of them or what have you and I just don't want us to be c one I see North Miami planning and I'm I don't want to be caught off guard or
just seem like we're not doing the best we can especially given the fact of how big this is for us and um you know really um putting our best foot forward so and can I just say one thing M Mr manager you know there's when you think about it there's so many people celebrating Centennial Hallendale
Hollywood all all these people are celebrating so whatever we're going to order or whatever we're going to do we we need to do now think about it and then do it so that we there will be materials left and staff has time ET ET all right and we we also need to check
with the other cities so that we don't do it at the same time that there's no conflicting events yeah but if we can do but if we can do it bigger and better let's do it no I'm just saying that coordinate so we're not cannibalizing each other's audience right I mean I I want to go to some of the other ones as
well I agree look there's do ours last make it better because I want to move I want to move the but one thing I and I think you were there commissioner smuckler and um uh commissioner Smith wasn't there because I think she had something and she she she was kicking herself when Golden Beach did there oh
there it was their N I would never kick myself I was with our honoring our police that's not this was five six years ago five six years ago they it was like what 75 years or something that was like and they did not I know that look I know they they have a lot of money over there was out of town yeah yeah but th
those guys yeah that was that was that was impressive that was yeah they they when they opened their building the same thing they don't ever but then again it comes down to resources I mean Aventure 2o does amazing things North Miami does amazing
things but we have to be within limits of what our community can handle we don't want to go into any kind of negative for this no no understood understood but but reasonably I mean like Aventura probably has one event the entire year and so they pour all their
you know their resources into it right but you know the thing is that just quick I don't want to go on to events but I was sitting here when we said no events except don't forget the heartwalk except don't forget aror day except don't forget what about bringing back the you
know no um Valentine's Day party I mean we say no but I didn't get that's why I asked if like in 2026 if we can just moratorium everything and just have one Centennial and go we did moror everything and then we kep
yeah no I mean I like really for real like they'll cancel everything and just have one for real we had a vote on it we voted like this year is we there was no money in the budget we had no like we have not had that many events compared to last year I mean we're begging money to do Arbor for God's sakes so that
being said let's go to our next item it okay so um this came out of the the meeting with the Department of energy when I was attending our you know I realize like what um there's a lot of shortfall in in North Miami Beach we're a lot behind in terms of the times uh
there's a lot of things that like for example like our our city hall right we have air conditioning two modes like cold or hot so we don't really have the modes that are in between we can't adjust the temperature um this actually
tells me that like that air conditioning is is way old and and this is not I'm not coming here to tell you like I I'm to yeah no kidding no that's the reason so when we're talking about when we're
talking about energy and sustainability we're looking at everything as a whole and the city as a whole I know the manager put up an idea that I really like which is you know if we change all our street lights to solar yeah right that's like something that's on the books like it's it's moving in that
direction so if we could look to create something like here's an example I have from my Beach it's a their sustainability plan um I I think you guys can probably download this from their you share that Madam
clerk okay so um so there's like an like energy economic zones like there's different there's different things like maybe we can look into certain vehicles that we use in our in our city that are not as demanding like for example
maybe maybe some police cars that are used for certain things are electrical and some are not you know what I mean like and then we also no okay that's a little too much um but there's many you know many electrical cars that we can we can think about we're we're looking at
like maybe trying to make and to be carbon neutral maybe try to look at um how we can create Parks spaces like Washington Park is that is that a energy efficient yeah you know no perfect
that's you know that's the problem is that some of the things you're talking about we have to spend money to save money and no exactly and I I of course want to save money and of course I want to save energy but we may not have that money to to do all this so that's part of the problem and the other thing is
I'm going to suggest that um next time you have like things like that that maybe you can um give them to the clerk in advance so she can give it to us and we have it um so we can see it also as you're talking yes ma'am absolutely no
today is a is an exception because I just got back from tallas last night so I didn't have a chance to uh to to distribute this uh this documentation I definitely will have it be sent to everyone about this but what I'm saying is when we're looking to to make it more
energy efficient sustainability we're talking about you know seaw walls like what are other countries using what are other places using how is it more efficient and effective like we should look at everything as a whole our streets our lights our you know signs
are everything that's that that could possibly be um looked at there's a lot of things that that I see like having lived overseas and being to several countries I see that there's a lot of things that we could do like our seaw walls are Roofing right like roofs like
I lived in the same house for 25 years never changed my roof in Thailand and we have monsoons all the the time so I you know I think that there's something that we can do with that um also the new homes the you know the the the building
codes the all the things that we need to do but this is um this can look like another committee that we set up possibly um that is a little more I I don't I don't know
how this is going to look I'm just I'm I'm throwing this idea out at you because I think that if we bring North Miami Beach up to date when we are looking for Grants and loans and bonds or whatever it is I think we would have a good rating and it would fall into the
future we're looking at what North Miami Beach would be like in like you know 20 years from now 10 years from now so that we could you know stay I think we're right now we're kind of like behind the times so if we bring that up to speed I
think that would be really great okay okay so and how this looks is um after we share this I guess like we could look into possibly what what what would be Mr manager what do you see as the next step I haven't sent this to him either
so he's like what I mean I I mean now now you I mean I think you you want to have more of an action aspect maybe like uh I don't say it's a resolution but you want to you want to have a very proactive approach or at least put that through policy
uh I don't necessarily think you know I think you can have that conversation with magic because there is certain aspects that will be beneficial in certain programs by just doing what you're suggesting that would make sense for him to to make those calls and then bring forward to us on a policy standpoint because you're passionate
about this issue um and you know pointing out pointing out aspects of really executing parts of it you know you can do that what happened in the discussion and him making a decision saying okay you don't necessarily have to say you know I a committee or in that sense I'm not saying that that's not where you want to leave I yeah I'm
saying those I you should have the conversation with them that's what I'm saying okay perfect all right Mario we have to next no I have discussion I'm giving him a lot of homework I have discussion on this item I didn't know what the item was but Mr manager we have
uh electric stations for your car and they're not working and they haven't worked for two years could we have that fixed whenever FPL can actually finish their construction and activate them we'll be glad to do that we are constantly on FPL um to be able to
ensure that they do it um they've had to change vendors I think multiple times and um we are ensuring that they're meeting all the Florida building code to activate those charging stations but can we can we do something like a date certain or something can we I mean
they're sitting no we don't have control of that man I know but why can't we what do do it ourselves get on them you know I mean I two years is a long time to say we're waiting for them I understand we have to wait for them a lot of things
yeah we are from polls to undergrounding there m and and now they always want to ask so we could put the energy into what she's saying and then to have it depend on other people and then to have no followup is also something I don't think
I mean FPL is one aspect but there's different programs that are separate apart from FPL that I think the discussion might present itself so that being said let's go to your item um oh can I add a little something I'm so sorry okay so the way that I see this
whole you know sustainability energy thing is is more also like a like a representative from every group like water plant power you know like public works and Community Development we should all have like a representative on
like in this discussion together because somehow we have all these different departments that kind of don't have a link and everybody's doing their own thing and then I also see that there there's a disconnect for me well no I mean you're setting up you're setting up
a policy that then you need input from the different departments correct so the discussion has to start with him and then that's right okay so with that said right okay great we'll talk about the rest next item trolley commissioner Smith
try oh the trolley I'm bringing it up again and please everybody out there dispel this whole rumor that we're getting rid of the trolley we're not getting rid of the trolley we need the trolley there are dependant for the education for the children going to
school for people going to work I think the trolley needs a little bit of adjustment I'm speaking from experience a I've ridden the trolley B I walk every day in my neighborhood I watch that trolley go down the street and down the next street and down the next street
over and over and over with no one or one person on it so maybe regulation of hours and otherwise if we had the money I think we should have the trolley eight days a week I think we should have 10 trolleys but I sit up here hearing how
we have no money we have no money I hear how potholes aren't being repaired and the same money for the trolley could be used for the potholes so again again this trolley the six one that we rent
that goes from County to aventur that's where the adjustment needs to be made help from one of the one of the other users is definitely my first choice and I have to sorry go ahead vice vice mayor
thank you Mr Mayor um so I I remember the last time we we had this meeting I also asked the manager what would be what's what's going on with the trolley study and um the other thing is um so actually
three things so cra funding North Miami uses it for their trolley in CRA number two um it's the advertisements on the trolley and the freebies well so so we're using the freebie in the CRA yeah yeah well the thing is like you U to and
this is what I said that this particular utilizing the CRA we did and we just we passed our policy today as well on top of that um that that discussion or using some of those resources to towards that needs to happen in the C and I'm surprised it has it so can we put I mean
the C director is not here but I will be making a recomendation that it's brought up just because we need to offset some of those costs so yes so so so I understand that we understand the the and and and I say once we have that discussion and figure out what those what those dollars can be done because I
understand that the trolley move and freebie moves from within the CRA and see how we can track it then I think we have a more we'll have a more thought out way of really moving forward so so Mr Mayor I spoke with um Claudia Miro and from freebie I believe she um she
did say that they can track to the mile how many miles was run inside the CRA if we give them no I would assume they could I would assume they could I mean um and and the thing is like if we wanted to design a trolley that would connect all the trolleys we could have it run in the CRA Zone if we wanted to
it but we needed to get a stud to offset the cost correct so maybe One Trolley could be paid by CRA if it's running over across back and forth but that being said let's have the discussion in the CRA we have let's let's do that first okay C and and and I'll bring that on the next C okay let's bring it all
right mayor mayor the to Phyllis Phyllis the trolley is coming up next month for their contract before us so I think they heard loud and clear that we're discussing and Hope they'll have an answer to what we're saying and Mr Man
they're doing it uh they're The Trolley company itself is going to do a survey of what's going on with the trolley and the ridership the thing that's important is all this discussion comes from over and over and over hearing there's no
money for Arbor Day well no no see me wait no wait wait wait I just heard sitting here I just heard sitting here that the Arbor Day is going on but they need money what so I just we have to recognize where does it go and how does
it go I got a big complaint this week a very and I sent the pictures I hope it was taken care of right away of a sidewalk that was this this far up broken from the other sidewalk I got the picture those are things that the same money does with the trolley so I just
want to I want us to really make it be the way it should be the way you're talking about electricity let's be efficient the way we're talking about what needs to be done in the city let's be efficient with this trolley it runs from so early in the morning to 7:30 at
night the the thing that's important about that is if you have to go to the dentist or the doctor or the lawyer or the bank they're not open at 7:30 at night you have to find another way for transportation but the stores are I mean so the problem is is that how many
people are going to the dentist or the do I mean the grocery store at 7:30 at night where the trolley's going to take them so I'm just saying let's be efficient with it let's be serious it's not it's not something to be mean it's just to be efficient with the trolley
the the cost of what it cost and what it produces let's just be efficient and especially when it goes to a city that has the lowest millage rate commissioner uh SM you have the final so we move on thank you the um the manager met with
the trolley people last month um did did is there anything other than what was said already here you have to add anything to that I'll be happy to give an update if the commissioner wants me to I would like an upate yeah oh okay um
I met with uh the contractor um he has hired on his staff a Transit planner um who formally or recently had retired from the county um they're going to be looking at um the various um routes um
and seeking improvements um I've made some suggestions to try to get headways uh to trying to bring it down to 45 minutes as much as possible um as well as reducing the length of the route um the misnomer on the trolleys is that um
this only goes to people to go shopping and the whole purpose is to interconnect the county region Transit service which is why you go to a parking ride and their bus stops and connected to places of interest where people work as well as
go to school as well as shop as well as other points of interest in the area now um we could have had a efficient recommendation that showed how to make these improvements over a year ago when
staff recommended doing a professional study that would have made that information based on scientific data as opposed to a knee-jerk reaction that had not occurred we are now going to try to get at least from the vendor perspective what they feel is
going to be the most efficient route they are also going to be per um putting together a proposal um for the commission to consider next month that not only improves the routes according to them but also updating our Fleet we own five of the six they are all past
their price crime they are all past their life cycle they're all basically falling apart we need new trolleys we need new buses we don't have the funds for that because everything is a priority but nothing is a priority so they're going to be providing an
opportunity for you all to look at and consider as to improving service improving level of service improving the routes shortening the routes and making it more efficient all right we're looking forward to that discussion as Mr Mayor I just want to correct one thing perhaps the manager didn't hear me when
I said we use them to go to school we use them to go to work uh I didn't say that we only use them for shopping I just want to make sure I think it's clear all right next I have a comment about um commissioner Smith uh the trolley is really not designed for
school buses I don't to replace school bus it's not I mean no it's not but it could be used but what I'm saying is if we have enough um student ridership right so the latest thing that I've done was I wrote to the school board to to
ask about if we can get yeah right here Mr Schoolboard is sitting right here um he doubles up as a City attorney um so I wrote him an email and I mapped out the two schools ATM and you know the other school that from Highland Village
it is just below like 1.8 and 1.7 miles away and I'm asking if they would be able to do that seeing that biscane is a very hight trffic Road right highspeed traffic Road and also that street that goes into it like going towards FIU it's
not safe to walk no look and also with the construction they usually have a little shortcut that they take and that shortcut is also not safe so we're looking into I I mean if there are you know like kids that are riding the the
like was it Washington Park or no no no no there's there's there's kids riding I've I've seen them cross um some of them can't wait that long they I see him walking past Target and everything else um so believe me that the need is there yes so but to to your point I'm glad
that you reached out to the school board hopefully you'll get some information back from our school board member and can we go to our next item which is um 10 5.5 are we I'm not done with the trolley yet oh okay yes you are no no no vice mayor I mean no no no no no I want
to know I want to know like what what was the conclusion about the advertisements on the trolleys and then also so the trolleys that are outdated like what are we going I mean that's what's going that's what's going to be presented the the they're going to come and present they didn't talk about the advertisement and here's my my my stick
with a study right so um we we're giving a lighter to the arsonist like they are going to come and tell us that this is going to work and if it doesn't work how long will it take and when when will that when will that come about he's that's what's going to come back are they going to present next month is it
next month it's next month yes okay good all right I don't want to wait another 24 weeks for any study no we're not going to wait 24 weeks next item 5.5 um commissioner um okay thank you um before I bring this item up I just want to um
thank um our um HR directors um Stacy hipsman um since I've been on this uh commissioner I have been pushing and pushing and pushing to bring back the Civil Service Board um it's well about a
year or two ago they we well yes but but then we we we got people on board but there was never any meetings being held there there has not been any meetings held so um um Miss hipsman has um formed
the new board again is going to be holding a workshop with them not with us with them soon so that they can understand their service their duties and civil service board will be back and running again thank you so much I really
appreciate it thank you 15.5 no 15.5 T tables fees for City events so at the Hard Health walk we um supplied tables to vendors some vendors were selling and
some vendors were um um uh uh health related um I did request and and whenever ever my committees is do an event and there's a vendor I do request like for the back to school I I request that the vendors give um a pencil an
eraser you know something school related at the Hard Health walk I request that they give something school related but the the the point is that um and some uh are selling items as well so and I'm not even sure they're giving anything away but the point to this to me wanting to
do this at the Hard Health walk um first of all there was a few vendors that didn't show up and these tables chairs and Tents cost us money MH to rent um I now these people that didn't show
up will no longer be invited to come again but the point being is that I just feel that especially for vendors that are are are are charging for if they're selling something or um or or unless
it's a let's say it's a it's a for-profit business that's just there to advertise may not necessarily be get not selling anything but it's there to advertise I feel that we need to charge and not for profit but just for the cost
of tents tables and chairs and I wanted to discuss this with my fellow Commissioners and hope that did you charge this year no we didn't charge but I think we need to start charging because I think if you charge a minimal fee they will show up that that in
itself I mean ESP especially if there're I mean there's some people that may not be selling something but they may be advertising something and um and I feel bad because then we have people who are who are doing good I'm just going to give Hannah for example they're they're
they had a booth and they're giving they're doing blood pressure and stuff like that and I appreciate that and I wouldn't want to charge them or FIU was there and they were doing good but then there's people who are there for profit or to advertise something and I just
feel that we shouldn't be giving these tents tables and fees uh uh chairs for free when it's costing us you do you want to do like a penalty if you don't no I want to charge in the first place whether they show up or not I want to charge the
minimum if it's costing us $20 then I want to charge $20 I don't want to make profit I don't want us to be making profit I just feel that we need to start charging um tense tables what's happening with bike 305 how's that coming um what be um Andy is bike
305 are we charging for booth no because we're I'm bringing this forward now this is the first time that this the first time is been brought up no no we used to charge like when we had years ago we charged so I don't know I don't know okay uh how many tables and chairs did
you have uh you had a lot of vendor spaces yeah there a lot um Ian is here maybe he can answer that but yeah but bike 305 is similar to to the heartwalk the people people that are coming are the bike shop who's doing the repairs
for all the bikes so you can't charge him for a table or you know a booth cuz he's doing bringing his people out there to do all the repairs for everybody right but he's he's doing something the Count's coming Sue from the county is coming so you going to charge the county for a table when how many how many
tables they have how many T we have like like 20 maybe okay so say you had 20 I'm sorry yeah we had 27 tables 27 I think it's a good idea for the minimum that it costs us right and 40 chairs i' say so 60 chairs
unless waved depending on the situation depending on the situation unless wave right right I'm thinking I'm thinking it seems like there's there's a lot of different scenarios that can lead to different like desires as far as charging why why wouldn't that be something that we leave up to the
committee like m Multicultural yeah I mean I'm sorry not Multicultural um yeah multic um no it was a commission on the status of women for but like do you have a whose committee does bik 305 who does we don't have a committee you don't have a committee is it Parks it's Parks right
yeah it's Parks so then I jesus who Parks Ian no I know he's I know he's whose committee is park that's uh that's commissioner Jon's committee yeah that's commissioner J's committee yeah why wouldn't that why could we leave something like that up to the committee I leave it up to the Committees I mean and I don't think we could charge for
everything like career day we're happy to have people come with businesses to offer their time to offer jobs I don't think the career day we could charge you'll have a a business that'll come that's going to try to advertise like a technical school or something to to get
students to come in so now this technical school is advertising their business they have a table they're advertising their business they're not doing anything for you really they're advertising so you come in and pay them and now they're getting a free table I think the minimum charge would charge
them the most I don't think may I yes Vice may we have a we we kind of have a policy about um all the events where we would give facilities to um to nonprofits so if it was like a 501c3 then you know we wouldn't charge and then if they wasn't then we would char
No but the the the no I know these events I mean no the idea that um that commissioner flont pointed out should be I think it really should be left to the committee to be quite Frank I mean outside of the the events um you
know snowfest or Monster Mash that's when I see like hund like but even even even at snowfest and Monster Mash you have um people selling things and now we're giving them a free table to sell something right and we're not getting anything in return for the snowfest do
we charge and once I meant snowfest actually I think you charge for nonprofit you don't charge nonprofits so for for snowfest we uh we hire a vendor that does all the coordinating for the food trucks and the um and the ones that come in the tents so they they pay they yeah they go through through that
vending service so so yeah but we're we're we're paying a vendor they're coming in and we're still and we're still we're paying for the tables or the vendors paying no the the vendor handles all the coordinations so they would handle how many um tables and everything else would be put we we're getting we're
paying for it yes right so we're paying a vendor we're paying for tables and they're selling and making so we we can I mean up to the the commission but we can definitely um at your discretion or uh you leave it to to Parks depending on
a 501c3 or depending on what the actual vendor is we can um I'd rather it be clear uh from from you all but we can uh you know charge what it cost uh us to actually rent um and uh use those uh
amenities the tables chairs ever it is unless waved the north correct the North miy Beach Chamber charges for their big event when they have it in there they charge per table well one thing well since you bring up the chamber like there's a lot of those chamber events
happen Aventura or that or like other places so I'm not saying that I don't I don't support it and I always support the chamber I'm just saying like there's certain things you can pick on I understand the the standpoint of what commissioner Smucker's pointing on but I also know there has to be some Tye of of
accountability uh Even in our major events so the consensus would be like to to to show us the fee schedule come up with a fee schedule and a lot in in the policy in regards to the way the waiver if if if need be depending on the situation uh we can hear you Mr may I
can give you uh maybe like a a fee kind of schedule that can be adaptable because uh you know those uh uh tables chairs whatever rents they they may change over time and we go after the lowest bid um so we can you know kind of give you some type of pricing but you know with the stipulation depending on
you know what the city is being charged uh for the lowest vendor all right that's fine I have a question and um I just want to is this a staff issue as far as are you guys having a difficult time with this with with yeah
staff as Parks and Rec this is something I'm she had she had no show she had a couple of Nosh shows I well it started with I've actually been kind of saying to my group for a while that we really should be charging for these tables because it's It's upsetting
to me that we're paying for for other people to make profit so um the no shows I think was just uh the knife and the whatever and um so I just I the no shows are not going to
ever show up again because we're not gonna yeah you they're they're not invited but but the point is that I just don't feel that especially people who are either advertising or selling um are are doing it on our on our dime they're
using our table our our chairs and our on our tents and we're paying for it and staff setting it up and staff setting it up and and and and bringing it back down and I don't know if they I guess it's delivered but um but like even like that
if there's a technical school or a business school that's a career fair they're still making profit because if if one person signs up to their school they just made a few thousand doll but it cost us you know maybe
$50 every time this happens and so it's a few schools so I I I can understand that you want our committees to do it and I'm okay with that um I don't know about the other committees if the other members but but then we have something like
snowfest um where that's not no one's committee that's Park and wreck so we should also so give them Direction no I think it's a good idea for you to bring back a policy come back with a policy um at one last Point commissioner Z thank you I think it's a great concept to U
for us to try to um add to our special events policy to amend it to reflect some kind of sliding scale or tiered Scale based on the the size of the business or if it's nonprofit but I do agree that um I saw pompo beach for
example had a parade and everyone that participated in the parade had to pay a fee to participate so I do think we need to add to amend our special events policy so that tables and Tents do have some sort of fee and also kind of
determine what where that fee will go will it go towards the operations at parks and rec or will it be more like an economic development driver for the city as whole I mean I I'm I'm I like your idea but I mean what I'm saying is if it costs $50 we charge 50 I'm not saying to
charge more than that but if you want if you guys want to do more than that you know don't don't limit it let them come back to a policy I wouldn't all right yeah NE next next item you got the consensus uh next item is Texas urn
which is as I was pointed out um no we're going to 15.6 what is what's 15.6 City oh sorry Communications commissioner okay so um brought this up because I got an email from um one of
the residents that she had a problem and she sent a letter explaining it but no one responded so she um went to the city in person and she waited and waited and the supervisor
never came did come out um so that's my third message I got about commity communication from the city to the residents that they can't get anybody on the phone that they can't get the department so I was just wondering if we
can tighten that up if we can maybe make sure that when you call the for a doctor's appointment you can push number five if you want to speak to somebody I would like that each department would have that ability that somebody could if
they wanted to talk to a person that a person would answer that the communication from the city to the residents instead of having an angry person over they're angry because they're calling sometimes because they're angry instead of getting them more angry I think we could nip it in
the butt if we just had somebody say thank you for calling I'll take your name and number and hopefully somebody will get back to them within 48 business hours can we tighten that up that's what I really want to do and and even the
inter intercommunication between of us sometimes I find out that you're having something that I want to attend to but it's tonight and I didn't know about it and so I wasn't prepared to go so just even the communication between us can we
just tighten that up a little okay all right uh uh next item is 15.7 Texas U-turn commissioner Smith that wasn't it no no that was oh my God
Communications I could have sworn you said Texas did but then and corrected okay got it okay I just want to look I I know you want to have this discussion I still feel that I still want would like to um well
if you shouldn't discuss it then can we can we have the can we table the discussion till after just because of the sensitive issue can she send an email to a resident that wants to know yes of course like I mean she she's the procurement director so like whatever if you connect them to I'm she will answer
why don't why don't I connect you yes connect okay know the public information for the project yeah we're good okay thank you I don't want to have any issues with that yeah perfect uh next item is city manager report it's all in there
right no we were we were yes we just did that no just don't we are um item 16 city manager report there the reports are there right city manager um if you want to do a quick uh
um because I want to get to the um mayal discussion because Arbor there is there and one other item that I want to discuss so if you want to go through um real quick 16 sure um yes we we do have um everything in writing outside of that I just wanted to kind of just um um just
update on a couple things that were mentioned um earlier tonight and over the past several weeks uh first and foremost thank you to everyone um that had the opportunity um in the middle of the day which is not easy for any of you cuz I know that you are all very busy
and and and often working um but we're able to join us with uh the department of energy coming down that has been a process that over the past two years we've been building a relationship um with that department so that they can see what we're doing with the water department and the various initiatives
throughout the city um we've received very very good feedback um obviously Federal and their budget and and how that all works is is um is constantly changing right now um but uh we still have that open line of communication and
they're they've even pointed out some grants that we are working on uh so that we can apply um so it it is a very productive um opportunity that we had there and we'll continue to build those relationships um as many of you know and and the commission and the public knows
um House Bill 11 um and um Senate Bill 202 um continue to move forward yesterday House Bill 11 um thank you vice mayor sue for traveling to Tallahasse to advocate for the city
um the the bill has gone through um the third committee will be going to the floor I don't have a calendar date for that unfortunately these are scenarios where we sometimes find out the day before or the Friday before um and so we try to scramble as quick as we can it's
why we have a team who is there every week um during session um the although we have had um several minor wins uh what I would say um on this um we've made a lot of
inroad this is a effort that when the item did not pass last year that week they had people essentially already working on this year's bill um I have come to learn that there have been tours that the representatives have driven
around Miami Gardens and so this is a very concerted effort something that's very important um there's there's a lot that has been said um a lot that has been come very personal um to the commission and to the staff here um we
continue since I have come on to North Miami Beach um I have from day one to today and continue to fight for our City and for our residents and for our utility um I have always been open honest and transparent from the day um
that we started um I have offered multiple Alternatives um and for the most part those have been shot down um we continue to look for manager maner thank you it's not about me I I
appreciate it I I really do the sentiment it's not about me this is something that you all have been working on and fighting for for for many years and I'm just continuing that that direction that you all have have given and I think and I thank each and every one of you for for that effort but you've done it with such Vigor so we
appreciate that and we're gonna continue with yes absolutely um as um the the other two items that I I just wanted to to touch on um commissioner Jean has had asked with regards to the bus shelter
I'm going to get you more details on that I know that we have installed maybe two or three already one was over by 8th Avenue and 163rd it was like a double double shelter um but I I'll get you I I I remember one of the last conversations
was the design concern because it wasn't as see- through and there was a safety concern that was brought up but I'll get you more details out where where all of the shelters were installed and if something stalled then I'll bring it back to to the commission for April and lastly with regards to the speed hump uh
we have installed in two areas uh throughout the city uh staff is trying to work with um the adjacent homeowners um as to making sure that they're going to be okay with it because when you install these it's not just a speed bump that slows down traffic it also creates
a lot more noise you have cars that slow down and then ramp back up um for us when you're driving inside the car you don't necessarily hear that but it becomes a much louder and much more frequent especially when we're trying to get these busy streets so staff is
working with homeowners to try to coordinate that so that we can put it in places that we won't be asked two days later to take it out um quick question Mr through de mayor um the for sanitation who do we reach out to in
housee so um we we have on an inim basis we have Nick Williams um who has um continued to work with Coastal um and under the guid um um guiding ship of Ken as well both of them has been tackling
the the issues um I do believe we have had much less complaints um coming there there she is much less complaints and and it's because they've taken on a very a personal approach to this to to work those things out um and they've been
doing a good job with that um Nick is on an inim basis we do have that uh position advertised and I believe interviews are trying to be scheduled so we can make that um final determination and and to keep that position permanent all right vice mayor then commissioner
Smith vice mayor thank you um I I just wanted to comment a little bit I think that um there's there's a I think our water issue is very deep meaning like we've had a long history of things that have happened to our water plant and um when we are you know presenting all this
stuff I think that um presenting certain things that are factual is important so I don't know you know I mean they there there were a couple of questions that were posed to the manager if you listen to they were talking about like where did all the search charges go right the
SE charges actually came into the general fund re in recent times because of the bills that weren't paid for example no we have a we have a lot of no we have some no so so what I'm trying to say is I I don't know the whole story here but but wait hang on there's
there's a reason I don't want to cut you off but um I noticed that over the couple of meetings we've been having a lot of conversations that usually take place in um in executive sessions on the de and I
just want mindful so what I'm saying is my point to say this is that there's a lot of things that are going on in this in the in in the about regarding our water plant and when like the manager has to go present something he is like you know newer than me right I mean I've
been around when people are yelling about monthly billing so but you're in PU no I I was also on pu so I definitely you know have more dep that was one of the main reasons I said but I I understand no but you know what I'm saying right so I know a lot I mean as
much as I know and and the updated portion right but you know when we are testifying in front of the Committees I would like us all to be equipped with the same information I I I I think um and we need to you know maybe have some
kind of workshop on that to to to commissioner flor's point we got to be very prepared we all have um have made commitments to go up there and to um advocate for the best interest of our city and we will do so all I'm saying is the information that we have we need to
work as a team and get our narrative aligned our talking points ready to go I mean but we have been working as a team we were working we have we have but understand like what well I I I honestly had to do research from scratch okay when I went up there to speak cuz nobody else but I mean you should have called
the manager had talk to had people talk to you no I did I I actually called she had a crash she had a crash course basically I had a crash course in the day okay but but you also been here since November like it's well I didn't know that we have
12789 customers in Miami Gardens well that being said um and I didn't know that we have 72 thou 7239 customers in North Miami Beach so that is paying for 12,000 and I don't know if any of you knew that knew this
before well so I'm not saying I'm not what I'm what I'm asking us to do is I think we need to collaborate get our information straight so that when we go speak up there we're powerful and we're clear about what it is that is costing but but vice mayor Sue you're right we
have to know these numbers when we go there and speak but if I'm not going to go there and speak I don't need to know that it's 12,360 I can if someone says to me oh it's it's 11,000 whatever I don't have to be exact but if I'm going to go there and speak yes I need that crash course but if I'm not going to go
there and speak with none of us if we're not going to you needed it and you got it and that's great but if we're not going to go there and speak we don't have to have the exact numbers for everything wait vice mayor vice mayor vice mayor you got I very heated there no way no no no no no no vice mayor
understand understand understand what commissioner Flor and I'm I'm aining on that issue so let's we understand what needs to be done the manag understands that that that um that consensus let's move forward that being said I have a question this is bothering me um
Commissioners and thank you for going and thank you for taking theion commissioner Smith final point on this so so I can I have Mr manager I have two questions please number one I know you and staff have worked diligently on this for weeks I'm very appreciative and on
outside of the city people that were at that meeting called me to tell me what an amazing job you did so I appreciate that and I called you personally to tell you my question is what are the other cities with water
plans doing I was on the Pu for 5 years as well are they up there fighting for their city as well number one and number two do you have you and your staff are you Gathering up some backup options for us so that we won't be behind the
eightball I know you said you were but but let's to to before before you answer those before you before you don't answer I I won't be answering the second I'll I'll talk to you off off the the second one I just want you to answer yes um I'll talk tood Das um the bill is
written in a way that um according to the Spencer it's only affecting us Mr Mayor um moving moving forward literally every conversation that we've had about this issue even the most minute details have been had in executive session all
right that being said let's wait the problem is that Min who hasn't had an she hasn't even had an executive session at all so we someone up so she can have the experience Mr attorney um City
attorney so we will have we we through the through the if we can have it because like I said we've I I I'm I'm pretty well educated I I think you need some more um for the for the for the for the people for the people on this commission that are going to be going up there
please make sure they're well educated and what needs to be um on the issues so we can be well prepared man and understand we are all we are all elected officials we do know how to talk we do know how to convince we convince people to vote Us in these are other
elected officials that are up there that're going to be making a decision sometimes they don't I mean at the end of the day they deal with a lot of issues our job is to Advocate that's it we just got to do our best job doing that so if we do our if we put our U best foot forward we're going to be
successful but going back and forth and going on strategy and showing our plays are not going to help us Mr Mayor I also want to tell you that everybody has a different style I envy the way you talk I always Envy the way my fellow Commissioners talk I wish I
had that ability everybody does it different no matter what if I had the figures in my head I might not use that so but you have a very different you have a you have a style that's very no no no no as to your credit you wouldn't be here if you didn't get convinced enough people to believe in your
consensus to that you could that you could be elected in so we all have this Talent we just got to use it so back to my original request was I think we need to create teams and teamwork within the commission and the manager and the
directors and everybody else keep to the sunshine keep it to the sunshine we're not voting on itot S lab negotiations I don't I don't think we this this issue I even think tonight I concur completely with my fellow
commissioner this issue we shouldn't be discussing it that being said can now let's move on to the next item which is um City attorney report do we have anything to report we're working hard and doing SW all right next item City I would I would hope that you guys can allow um have you
said all your reports Mr Mayor yes um PD and yeah Mr Mayor go to your no no no I want to can you do a quick update regarding to Washington Park real quick please would you like the full presentation or no I just want to quick
because the report is in the is in our agenda so it's there so we'll just do a quick report because I want toer and one other issue so brief please sure uh contractor uh continues working on the Force main trenching and um can you can you please describe your name and title
for um I'm sorry um aelio carat CIP director all right uh so the contractor continues working on the Force main trenching and pipe installation uh the project is approximately 30% completed and uh Force main and uh installation is
about 65% completed uh the contractor uh completed doing the uh Lime Rock and asphal restoration on a section of 14th Avenue and 160 Street and we are working with a contractor to do periodic maintenance uh on water uh uh placing
water and sweeping uh during during the project for dust control so that's my quick report thank you um if we can forgo commission City reports so I can go to my mayor discussion real quick yes all right all right so one thing is
Arbor Day um we are there's a shortfall let me explain aror day we have in the budget $5500 okay that's paying for the trees to Mario's credit his staff has
said okay who's paying for police to during the giveaway so there's no problems or and we've never been questioned by that and then they said we needed $15 some some fee and we don't have the extra money what is the amount what is the total um I don't know the
numbers friendly knows the numbers have you gotten any sponsors it's AR it's no for Arbor Day no we don't have so um guys it's $840 Mr Mr Mayor I believe um what was been going around was $800 for police
services and I believe that's already been worked out okay do not communicated commissioner turn off next time that happens like I did for the hard Health walk try to find sponsors Lowe's or Home Depot okay thank
you that that being said all right so and then and you can even give more trees away cuz you'll have more money okay we always pay for the police yeah it was always rolled in no no I'm ask the manager bring that was all you had that was that was your no I have one
more thing I hav minute okay we have till 12:00 you're just trying to get us out early so you can say you did it we just please here you know what yeah you know what part of me wants to say that but at the same time no no but we I would let commissioner Smith to your
point no I just want to I want to know typically I'm sorry Mr Mayor um very important issue no Phyllis is talking oh I'm sorry Phyllis I didn't I thought she was done because he put his head down commissioner
Smith typically in the budgets um events when they're planned um police and staff presence isn't included in that budget committees or whatever the um the the planning department does they just use the full allocation which in the budget so over the past year we've been talking
about actually accounting for the hard cost uh which is also part of the uh policy that was adopted by the commission those hard costs are the Staffing the rentals the police presence um and so that is um where the the
difference has been lately so like for the heartwalk or for the bike 305 or for any event we do if the money's $10,000 the hard costs are taken before you do anything out of that out of the 10,000 that's why you never had to come back and say we didn't have why
are you saying not necessarily because this is the first time we've actually had to really budget for that yeah this is the first time this ever happened before we never did that no I think I did I think I did it last year you did it yeah yeah for the hard Health walk last last year okay sorry Speak sorry
last year at the Hard Health walk we did it it was a policy it wasn't a policy though I think it was because we adopted the policy you just recently adopted the policy we have been we have been no we have been trying to to to you my
committee money sure that's very important what you just said and thank you for clarifying so whoever's having an event before they even plan their event what they're going to do they have to find out what the hard coughs are for how much money's been elot so you'll know with your commission that's part of
policy yeah a certain amount of days before so they can see the feasibility yeah that's what it always does yeah but I'm just glad that we were able to fix the AR day issue the other issue I have U which is part of the mayor discussion is something regards to us and how we are and I brought this up to the manager
because of an issue that that I saw happen uh regarding regarding the sergeant in-arms issue and um there were certain events um that we were party to go to that I feel that Sergeant arms are warranted
and I spoke to the manager I said hey is there and the chief is here and I brought this issue to him because I was trying to get something where it's like a part-time basis retired officers and one of the issues were the the the bargaining uh uh agreement and how that would be impacted and um I even went to
the to to Flo and the union Say Hey I just want this the bare minimum for certain events that on a part-time basis this not has to be like full-time whatsoever two officers at most that would be there for certain security measures because you know I've seen certain things happen I mean like like I
said I want to go too much in detail what happened to me um even even outside of the stuff that happens in regards to like recent occurrences um uh um regarding past issues right yeah but Mr Mayor it was in
regards to no no what I'm saying past employee no no but that's just one that's one aspect of it all what I'm saying is that there like I feel that um you know certain certain events certain events and and depending
on the policy of the manager that would drafted up or whatever at a at a cost at a at a at a at at nothing compared to what was done in the past part-time can be utilized and and City chief um um Chief if you can speak to that conversation because like I said we I
before you Mo it's a new world and like I like I said I don't want to speak too much on what happened but I really feel that we need certain um certain protections and I'm telling you it's really real out there and and I just want and I and I spoke and like I spoken with the chief I spoken with the city U
manager on this issue and I just want us to understand that for the bare minimum that we should have some aspect when it comes to these certain places that we have to attend um that there is some type of like uh um assurances of our own safety and our own uh participation in
these events you know that we shouldn't be relying on City staff in in certain capacities but I I just think that you know other cities have it if if it's managed well it can be done well and and um Chief if you can go o cuz I know it's 11:25 so please sure so um in regards to
the sergeant at- arms we've had many discussions uh particularly with the Union recently um as you know right now our current Staffing level does not allow for us to uh because of that issue you know allow two officers or three officers to be dedicated to the sergeant and- arms program so with that being
said you know there's issues with part having part-timers with the Union uh those positions should go to full-time officers that we currently have on staff uh so basically the union is saying that uh they're okay if we run the program as we've currently been doing uh in the
past but obviously that I would need a budget for that uh that would cost money now we don't need uh and speaking with them we don't need U say six officers to attend an event most right so it's a span of control for us to effectively provide
good security for for the commissioner the mayor commission we would need at least you know six officers on standby standby right so for example if one or two Commissioners go to an event I would assign one officer two to four off two to four Commissioners go to an event I
would sign two officers and so on So based on that I would need to know more or less how many events per year uh would you all be attending and then I can get it's not just those because there's certain things that happen on a fly um there's certain uh let's say
here's here's an example I'm not saying this is where it happened like we we we are invited to participate in in certain programs that are dealing with resident specific issues right and I don't want to name those specific issues but we do get these invites that are on the Fly within I might say and if it's possible
right and it's available no different than how you have officers say you know what if there's an event let me put my name down so if I get called or whatever because that's what you so you do have officers that put their name out for certain events like snowfest or whatever off duty events say hey just put put leave my name in the pool if I get
called I get called or whatever right yes um um so something to that some something like that similar to like if like an event does come about that you know a commissioner could or or anybody on this commission can say hey I want to do XYZ is that available if it's not
it's not but at the same time I want to have at least an option into that capacity because like I said it is a it's a very different world right now and this is not about luxury this is about safety more than anything else and
I want people to understand that um and I don't want to play with anybody's safety on this commission that's all asking for them to come back with a policy I want I want to come back with a Poss I want I want something to be um well okay I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm
sorry to interrupt but I I don't want him to come back with a policy unless we all agree that he should or shouldn't okay no no I I you know and and I and I just want to say that we this is this could open a big can of worms and you
know also Define event because I sometimes have events seven nights a week sometimes three days a week and um you know so does commissioner Smith and I don't think any city of look if it's a city event we usually have officers
there we're going to have officers there that no no but not so are you saying we're going to have a sergeon arms to take us to a city event or to take us no no no I'm saying anything anything at within our city like to me but if I need to go to a City Event
there's going to be an officer there no I'm not asking for that no I'm saying like stuff outside of our city but that's the thing sometimes I have outside of our city I have every single night of the week outside of our city and so does commissioner Smith and and and you know so many and and and
sometimes it's not even in the same places so now what if all seven of us have some something to do and and also and more importantly and and I'm I yes I'm not going to even want to talk about the cost but I don't even know if we have
the officers to do this I mean I I want our officers protecting and and this is what I make clear this is not about any officers on duty we're not taking officers off the road that was made very clear we're not taking any officers off the road these are officers either part-time or I would
hope retired that just have the ability to do it if need be that they would be put themselves in the pool no officer we we're under staff to begin with okay but I'm I'm very concerned about this event because I think all of us could easily have events four four of us could have
events in one night and and how do you divide two officers into four different events but I I I want to hear from everybody because I don't want I I have I have no issues and I and I'll go down the line I am not for it okay I have a I
have a comment to make um I think there are issues that are sensitive um and that that have discretionary context so you know we when when one of us doesn't feel safe there were measures
taken and I've been harassed many times uh I've had to do incident reports many times but I think one person's safety is is is is everyone's safety absolutely So to that degree I've I've gone to other
cities and been harassed so this is a conversation that we need to have yet yes if something happens to one of us um we all should be protected and I feel like there shouldn't be an an isolated incident that says okay now it's
Justified but when somebody else makes mention of something now it's not so I mean that's something that we should also talk through as well all right I mean I'll I'll talk I don't care I'll say it I mean there was there I'm not saying this there was the the police department let me finish for a second
and you can ask uh the chief because I saying I don't think I need this I don't think I need this I don't think I need commissioner smokler this is not it's not something that it's not ger to you because I've had issues I know but what I'm trying to say is I'm not saying that because it was for me it was okay but
for someone else it's not because you can ask the chief because I kept on saying to him I don't think we really need this I don't think we really ask him he's right there but here's here's a good point that I here's a good point that I want us to kind of and analyze so we don't make this personal
the chief can also speak to from the federal level to the state level to the local level threats so that doesn't have to make it P personal or germine to anyone's particular situation right I have situations we all may have had
situations but when we're talking about threat levels and viable threats the chief of police can also speak to that so I I don't want you to feel like this is targeted towards no but I just I just want to make sure that it's understood that because because I had a threat and
then now we've all had something now it's not it's not because it's you know because Happ to me but now it's okay for no one else to do it I'm it's not like that I never I just want to guys guys um Mr Mayor Mr Mayor um and
and I think I think we also need to do the mayor a favor and govern ourselves you know when we're having these kind of conversations um because to me this is something that's a sensitive topic obviously we can see that up here right
I I I want to leave it up to this I I think um if if I may offer um um a suggestion I think that perhaps each um commissioner and the mayor should speak with staff and provide their opinions and allow staff to come up with
something that makes sense and then present that to us and then we can make a decision but if there isn't a consensus then we just wasted staff time no what I'm saying is speak to individually each person could speak to staff about their concerns right and
then staff can take that and come up with something that's comprehensive that we can discuss right now we're discussing not we're discussing there's nothing that we're discussing um that is Doc that is on paper we're just having a general discussion and that discussion
is kind of morphing into something question should be whether we want a a chief of staff or whether we don't a chief of staff not I'm sorry I think I think the discussion that the mayor I think that Sergeant
Sergeant AR no no let let me wa wa wa here here here it is chief chief city city city this is about safety Chief city manager right I I want to see the most coste effective plan right possible
in running a a barebones um Sergeant artist program that could be presented and to see if that could be some an option that the commission can come to a consensus to agree on I just wanted to bring put that out there just like no different than how a policy um
discussion was brought up by a vice mayor because certain things happen right I don't want to like I said this is public and certain things have happened to me certain things happen to other Commissioners and it's not anybody's fault let me just make that very clear right but it is a different
new it is a different world out here and safety is Paramount people might make jokes about it talk about cost or whatever but if something would ever happen I don't want to have a what a could have Shoulda type of situation and I think one of the one one of the points that you brought up Mr Mayor was about
cost the same way we're having conversations that certain events we need to reimburse for certain things is the same way we can have that conversation commissioner smuckler brought up that there may be several events going on what is the rate for an off-duty officer is it going to come out of your contingency versus is going to
be covered generally by funds that that that that the that the you know the the the city has these are conversations that can take place so that if you have an event where you feel that you might need um you know some uh police presence maybe it comes out of your contingency that way everyone is is a little bit
more okay with the conversation of the cost for an off-duty officer but those are the things that need to be hashed out that 113 I said I I I if however you however you can work out the discussion with the Union I rather I rather use officers that are off duty that that are
just volunteering for this and part-timers because like I know there's part I know there's retired officers that would just love to have an opportunity to do this or whatever that's all I'm asking I'm not I'm we're underst staff anyways we're not pulling any officers off the off the beat that was never my my my my didn't he just say
that retired officers can't do it no no no that's not what he that's not what he said didn't you say that so it would have to be discussion with the the it's the union that that would allow it they could and the thing is is that they I feel that they would given the circumstances that we don't have enough staff levels to do it that's what I'm saying I think the union
would allow that so if the union would allow officers that would love to do this at a reduced cost why not Mr Mayor could you clarify that you think the union would allow it know no no when I had a discussion with them I I I called the union rep I said hey uh I called the
union rep said look um this is this is this is a specific topic I have um one of the reasons when this was brought up not too long ago um that they said the cost would be this high and he explained to me why he threw that cost number out right he says well I mean they didn't
really explain the way I said could you imagine getting a w or at least from you guys allowing this to happen if there are officers that are part-time or or um or retired that could participate say yeah we could have the discussion and I just would like to have that discussion to see what those possibilities are they
I feel they would do it I honestly feel that they would do it and I and that but I want that to come back after the chief and the manager has a discussion to see if that's possible that could that could be that that would reduce the cost substantially and give other officers that are just kind of like what that
would want to have an opportunity to you know participate an opportunity to participate not any officers that are part of our active duty currently but are either part-time or retired and that's subject to the union saying exact yes or no but you know here's the question I have that listening to you
and seeing a strong desire that you feel the need for this what I have a question is I cuz we had some Two Gentlemen with us at one of the where you were honored which I was proud to see um and you know
they stood the whole time but sometimes we go to an event and you don't stay you only you're only there for half an hour and the rest some other others stay for three hours or four hours
so and I don't feel I don't feel having one person there would be protective I feel like yes we are in a different world for sure for sure and we're involved in very different very
important situations that we're in right now whether the Haitians and and people are you know deported back to their country whether the Israelis are being bombed whether we're we go to these things that are very volle and they're
but having somebody stand right there is that a protection that could save you that would make you feel protected so there's that element of the very big fear I certainly understand it there's also the element of going to uh an
affair like you know that the senator did last weekend for abused children to have somebody stay there for five hours or 4 hours or two hours I I'm trying because is there minimum and you only want to stay for two no I just want I
just want to the polic I just want to have the I just want to see what what they can think of and have that come back so cuz I want I want to support your need but I I'm not seeing how the need works I I want to understand how it
would work because we all know you can go to Publix and have something we all know that the protection how how how would it even work if you're on the dance floor and I'm at the dinner table and they're protecting us for something I mean I'm just saying how would it work
there's a police officer and and she wants to go home and I want to stay you know well that's what I was saying because many time and you know I just I want to understand it and I also want to understand how does the time work cuz
some things are an hour away I I know that yeah some things you have to drive it take took 45 minutes to get the Hard Rock so does that start with the police officer leaving his house you have a minimum of 4 hours and you only stay an
hour or you have you've booked them for four hours and you you including the driving time it was 5 and a half hour I just wanted you to give me more of a concept how it's going to work and and I'm asking for I gu the chief would help yeah I think the chief is going to help I think management is going to help on
that I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel I I can tell you one thing my husband would say I vote Yes twice cuz he always says to me be safe be safe be safe but you know sa is a funny thing in this world I mean we don't know we I
don't know they walk us to a car at night I want to comment I have one important comment you have done a remarkable job a remarkable job training your staff because when they walk me to the car they look in the back seat
before they even open that door I I get chills thinking about it so like I said uh because I I don't want I well they figure you can I would hope they check Jay um commission Char that being said I you you heard the the the the the
conversation Chief please have the conversation um please find out would be the most cost effective policy and just present it to us at the next commission meeting that's all now I'm going to go to last commission item which is uh 2020 20 item 21 adj well 2020 uh will be our
uh next mission meeting will be Tuesday a I I promise to time it's memo that we received from the water director yes we all received it yes and we we're not taking any action on it can we are we
going to do something can it it can be brought up at a um At a next discussion as a discussion item you're yeah it's gonna yeah that's what I'm saying it goes to pu like
from the Pu they had a meeting on it it was this past okay so you guys I just wna I'm sorry Commissioners and mayor I just W to you present to the fact that no
no Vice I don't understand why we can't mention this because no no no no no no no vice mayor it's it's it's it's public record no no no nothing is saying it's a public record what I'm saying Vice man is that this this this was brought up during the Pu I understand how passionate you are and tackling it could
be well it could be detrimental it could be detrimental and and microphone [Music] please um I I want to see what actions we could take have you had a discussion with the manager at all regarding those actions or the or the head of the water
department or or of the no I've spoken to the head of the water department I'm also going to talk to him but I mean I'm just bringing this up because I think that it's worth discussing yes it's it all I'm saying is to make to make you feel
better no it's it's a cost of doing business it has to be done the water department has to figure out how to pay for it all right so that being said I all you know um and I'm I want to close uh I want to close uh and I'm
going to go to our next uh um okay item 20 is uh regular next regular commission meeting is Tuesday April 15th tax day uh 2025 and before we adjourn I know that we have a lot of things uh April 15th tax day isn't it
tax day yes tax day um um we all love that day um that being said I I want you guys to be cogntive we're in a very good we're in an honor System I know we want to honor a lot we had a very packed conference today so I just want everybody to be mindful of that that's
all I I have no problem with honoring anybody just be mindful of how many items are put on there that being said can I have a motion to adjourn wait wait wait wait because you you brought that up Mr manager I would like you to bring back that policy that you brought forward
before Lynn never saw it um on what we said about proclamations and certificates and everything but wait wait wa that wasn't no no the the the the discussion that we have that's not what I was talking about the discussion that we had was and she was here that we
can be very cognitive of um the commission conference and limiting as much as we can of what's on the commission conference now in regards to the um to how we honor I've been very I feel that we've been you know
everybody's adults here everybody knows what they can and cannot do I want to leave everybody to have the freedom to do what they want to do so just I'm just saying like for the next commission conference can we be mindful because we had like a a list just we had 15 so
that's all so I want us to leave good and happy we're all adults you guys can honor whoever you want to honor let's just move forward we all and understand that we represent the city as a whole and individually that being said can I have a motion to adjourn so all right thank you have a blessed
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