um and we're going to have invocation by our one and only this pastor Pastor Joel Dean Baker of the way Holiness Outreach Ministry and then we'll do
um pledge oh the pledge I'm so sorry my mind is not here um major Paul okay I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you let us remain standing for our prayer let us pray dear heavenly father
as you have blessed this Council to assembly this night for the good of the city of North Miami we ask your blessings upon this meeting guide their thoughts and discussions continue to open their eyes of understanding as they
pursue peruse read thoroughly and examine tonight's agenda let sound decisions be rendered as this Council continue to work together in the spirit of unity and the bond of Peace we decree that everything be be
done decently and in order continue to grant them Divine wisdom knowledge and quick understanding as they collaborate we ask that each presenter be respectful let the council also be respectful for
each other other as they detail each designated item guide their discussion and decision that they may honor you and serve our shared goal that all be all
that be said or done bring glory and honor to your name amen amen thank you thank you so much Pastor really appreciate it Madame manager any addition deletion Amendment to the agenda good evening mayor we are asking
that item M be heard right um after the consent agenda m is which m is in Mary M as in Mary be heard directly after the consent agenda sure thank you thank thank you Mr um we don't need a
motion for um no okay the the agenda is set mayor you may thank you so much um and now we have we do have a couple of special presentation um as we know this is well it's a lot of different things Happ this month but very special this is
women's um history month and we're going to honor um some of the leaders in our community but we're going to start with the presentation of the um of national women History Month followed by the mayor and Council recognition of national procurement month and then the
mayor and Council OH police officer of the year and then citizen presentation by citizen independent Transportation trust um on Sir tax fun update so should we go down okay thank you
are you doing awesome it is an honor and a privilege for me to be here as part of our tradition of women um History Month in the city of North Miami which we do celebrate every other occasion but we would like to recognize some leaders in
our community um who has touched our lives in somewhat in the lives of residents in North Miami so each of us have is it two um selection or M so I would like to call my first two honores of tonight which Dr GW West our former
police um Chief is she here y gin West well not police chief I'm sorry Dr West come on and then also miss Anna coobo here thank you and now we're going to have councilman
Burns in the history of North Miami we've always been led by some very strong women they may not have been the Forefront that people recognize but we have very strong women that really help keep this city running we also have
strong women that are part of the community and some of them that are entrepreneurs and in the medical field I had the honor of recommending three young ladies for the distinction tonight
the first one is an Noel an come on up an is a 50-year resident and at one time they used to refer to her as Henry's wife
I and Henry and her were instrumental in the uh chamber and uh she helped create the uh East Enders which was the homeowners association East abis boulevards now called Arch Creek East but she's been here for 50 years putting
up uh with numerous City councils I know were your favorite but uh congratulations the next one goes to a entrepreneur in our city Shiloh gross Shiloh where are you at come on up she has operated A Flores in North
Miami called The Flower Studio on bisc Boulevard these beautiful flower arrangements that um were here are were made by her designers and uh she made a tremendous amount of the arrangements that um blessed the the mayor's uh
mother's funeral she her company was CH by many many of the people in North Miami to to do this so shil for your entrepreneurship and the next one is pretty inspiring it's Dr Linda Bach Dr
Linda Bach is a lifelong resident in this area but she became a doctor at the age of 50 she's only 55 right now no she she she became a doctor after at the age of 50
after raising her kids and very successfully and being a school teacher for a year but thought you know what I could go back to medical school and finish it so congratulations come on up Dr B you
before we call councilman Charles up I'm um and please come back for one second and yes come on back I I have to tell this story we got I I met an and Henry her
late husband I must have been it was 19 2000 1999 so he had a company a telephone fixing company and I had just started my um consulting firm in North Miami and I had a little office on 10:35
a Berta rights um building so I was there and I either Henry was there or do so ever since two since 20099 around that time I've known and and appreciate her and Henry was oh my God we love them
we Lov them so this is how far we go back in the city we remember him as you were City uh clerk this yes yes yes this was way City Clerk and that that happened to 2009 but way before we um with the
10:35 um yes so okay councilman Charles come on let me have the flags all three of them I am a teacher I can handle this what the other one even though she's not here yeah
yeah I can do this all right woo thank you three is a great number love it you see um good evening everyone um gentlemen do me a favor just
Gentlemen Just put your hands together for the women in the womb and please your put your hands together for the ones who are not here and now do it even louder for the ones that we love all the women in our life come on now come on now let's do better
let's do better the family um standing in here I just see myself in a woman um she was a fighter she left about 5 years ago and I still remember the day-to-day operation she was the king the queen of
the house at that time five of us and we didn't have a choice but to do good um can I have a bad report you got to go home straight go to church with a white clothes and come back
wider and um I see each and every one of you and to the eyes of this lady who's gone what would we be without a woman without you without your love and I just want to say thank you to each and every
one of you so when we just speak three for District 4 is like we pick everybody from the great city of North Miami and Beyond thank you very much and thank you for life put your hands together again for all those beautiful women um I got um to read the first one
she's not here viona Brown Williams um she's the lady who day in and day out into the senior program and Albert in the back will tell you she's a fighter working with them and um make sure that um she's there volunteer here whenever
needed and I feel like she is one of the great greatest asset that we have to the to the senior program because she's not that uh of a senior but still she works very very well with them and keep them together just want to say thank you
she's not here and uh next one is uh G teodor we call her m t she's an educator and more importantly she's uh resident of District 4 and you will see
her like at each and every event that we have at District 4 she's at the table helping out whenever I call she's always present and ready to W for our resident G I just want to say thank you and just don't startop right is not because of this you're just going to stop please we
need more from you thank you and uh last one on my list and I call her mom is Miss Ronnie Lopez and I I know she's here with her daughter and everything just come up uh come up with the you know family members you're welcome to come up too because uh got to
be part of the story something about this woman when we met she told me something that I'll never forget said councilman Charles please keep your head high and I say yes I'll do it and I promise and since then
we get that born and um first time that I meet my sister today and um the best thing about her story is that whenever we're doing any type of activities that has a food and everything she has a list of Resident
who cannot come and she would just drive around and make sure that these people they get food they get everything and you don't find that very often in this busy world where everybody is busy sometimes just busy typing on the cell phone doing nothing but you find people like Bonnie coming around thinking about
the other ones I we just want to say thank you thank you for who you are thank you for caring so much for others and we love you we need you to um keep me strong and my daughter um your daughter my sister now we need to work more and make sure that you call me more
often and I just want to say thank you to all the three of them and we are just going to pause for a nice picture but I want you to put your hands together for them oh no they're too heavy for me yeah thank you and I hold the one
for you want and now we're going to have Madame clerk come on for all right good evening everyone my name is Vanessa Joseph I'm the elected city clerk for the city of North Miami and this year's theme is moving forward together educating and inspiring
Generations so I was really intentional when I was thinking about who we could honor who I could personally honor uh this evening and I thought about women who not only have poured into me but have been intentional about pouring into the city of North Miami
I'd like to first start with gersa gson GG she is the owner for the past four years she's been the owner of a formal wear right here in our downtown but prior to that for about 17 or 18 years she worked at that same
company and eventually purchased the business and I think that's that's not only a testament to her ability to lead a a business but also that anyone would be so trusting of her to take over their
business it's a testament to who you are your character and your work ethic and I think you're an inspiration to all generations so we have another Mrs T Miss and this is from from marel througho
fruitstone and m t affectionately known as Mist T the other Mist te I don't know y can fight for that after has been a teacher for more than 25 years and she's a teacher at WJ Brian and when we think about educating
and inspiring our future Generations she does just that but most importantly she goes out and seeks other opportunity ities for our children to learn creating Partnerships and nurturing Partnerships with museums including our very own
Mocha Museum of Contemporary Art right here in North Miami and gives these children an opportunity to be exposed to things that they otherwise might not have had the opportunity to see and making sure that she nurtures in them creativity because it is that same
creativity that not only helps them to thrive academically but to pursue anything that they want so thank you so much Miss T so the next two are going to be so happy that they don't have to say anything cuz usually people are asked to speak they're not speaking today and
they're going to be so happy Francis Morales Francis Morales of Francis Morales Productions is also married to a North Miami business owner so by by default she's also a North Miami business owner
the owner of audio Vision Studios a historic studio right here in North Miami and what's special about Francis is that she's not only making sure that her business thrives and that the people that she knows personally Thrive but she wants to continue to deepen the
business's connections to the city of North Miami in all ways possible so every time I see Francis she's creating a new partnership with a new entity within North Miami making sure that even at the library or at the museum that kids are a part of what the studio is
doing and that the studio is a part of whatever is happening opening your doors every single time you're asked creating connections for us anytime you're asked and we're so thankful for that thank you Francis do you want to say something just
kidding so this last person is actually a genuine inspiration to me many of you know I'm an attorney and I'm a nonprofit attorney so I don't make money don't let don't let don't let this fool you don't let it fool you make it from
the city I don't make it from the city neither I get money but in any case I have watched this person and together the two of us really even throughout the pandemic have created programs to
serve the most vulnerable the least of us throughout the State of Florida but we've especially been able to work together to create programs to save people's lives essentially right here in Miami day County from from helping veterans stay in their homes on 6th
Avenue who are living in squalor to ensuring that people get access to the most basic needs that sometimes we take for granted to making sure that businesses small business
owners know what is in their paperwork and what should be in there what should be included what they should be looking out for just looking out for the interests of everyone regardless of who they are where they come from and I think it's amazing to have
people like that in your community and who are doing it not because a grant requires it not because there's money behind it but because it's the right thing to do because when we're in a community we're here for each other we have a duty to each other and it's not always easy to carry
out that Duty because it takes long hours long nights you're working weekends but when you actually love your community when you truly are a lover of people it's easy to do even when it's
challenging so thank you so much to attorney Mikel Dil for all of your hard work she's going to make a fashionable entrance so just keep clapping for her no the camera
Deborah is also president of the Haitian lers Association so if you're interested in sponsoring their Gala that's coming up please let her know thank you Madame Clerk and now we're going to have our councilwoman Mary ese Irving of District 3 thank good even evening everyone it's
it's it's a beautiful evening um I am councilwoman Mary Esme Irvin and it is with great pleasure to extend a warm welcome to all the residents and guests and and those tuning in in front of our city of North Miami regular council meeting thank you for joining us tonight
as we step into the month of March we proudly observe women's History Month a time to recognize and celebrate incredible contributions of women throughout history for the past three years vice mayor Timothy who unfortunately could not be here with us
tonight Madame Clerk and I have had the honor of hosting a special reception before the first council meeting in March to mark this important occasion as mentioned by our clerk the national theme of the women's History Month of
2025 is moving forward together women educating and inspiring Generations this theme immediately brought to mind an inspiring woman who in embodies this message a proud South Florida native Dr
Lori Bryant is a passionate educator of over 15 years of experience shaping young minds she currently served with distinction as the principal of St James Catholic Church please give her a round of applause and as she come up I'm going to
also say though vice mayor Timothy could not be here with us this evening and her and and her baby girl at home resting and recovering she sends a heartfelt reward regards and asks us to introduce her nominees as the honor the honor of
recognizing her tonight first we have Christine Shelby Christine is a current principal at Holy Cross Lutheran Church where she brings both extensive professional experience and deep commitment to community service she has worked and
volunt ER with local organizations such as children trust and has even extended her effort overseas teaching in Bolivia and volunteering at the angel place of orphanage in Haiti please join me in giving her another round of applause next we are delighted to
welcome a familiar face to North Miami Community bernardet Pierre a longtime resident of North Miami Bern bernardet is a dedicated dance teacher at Dr Michael crop senior high school and an active member of ahead the association
of Haitian Educators we probably seen her at town halls and council meeting where she continues to support and uplift Community please join me in welcoming her son as she could not be here tonight
little Andre Pierre you know and and tonight um you know I'd like to take the time to definitely honor two great women that are not here with us one of them is my mother is Simon buo and the other one is my colleague's
mother may Alex Des so I'd like to read this into the record Janita Joseph affectionately known as grandma or yah passed away peacefully on February 25th 202 5
surrounded by her loved one born January 8 1942 in akaya Haiti she was a cherished daughter at the I'm going to mess this up K and and
iani a devoted mother grandmother sister and Friends Janita was known for her kindness generosity and love for crosswords puzzle she dedicated her life to her family always working hard to provide them despite facing challenges
and health struggles in her later years she her resilience and warmth touched everyone around her she find comfort in knowing we find comfort in knowing that she is united in heaven with her parents siblings and loved one Janita enjoyed in
Janita found joy in cooking where did where did he get that from right spending time with family and tackling cross wordss puzzle she lives a she lives behind a legacy of love and will remain in our hearts forever well let the pictures
spe you know I want to take um just a moment thank you a moment of privilege to you know thank the entire North Miami Community for the past week if you have lost a mother it's hard and I didn't know how hard it was until Saturday came
but this Council this city and the residents they have shown me that the you know the heart that we do the work that we do here it doesn't go unnoticed and especially the North Miami Police Department you know thank you
thank you thank you thank you so thank you it took every bit of inch to be here tonight um but but I had to do it another colleague couldn't be here and I know we were honoring special women I didn't know nothing about my mom there
we go that's it's not cross word puzzle but this is it but I do want to say thank you thank you again um with that being said um as we know last month was Black History Month and we know that um in our country the and all these different
initiatives honoring folks has um has been under attack but right here I want to say as the mayor of North Miami we firmly believe and we will continue to honor every month as long as our mayor in this city
Hispanic Haitian Jamaican what every month we have something here and each one of us on this committee is responsible for a month and sometime it's it's intertwined with two you know June you got um gay proud month you got um different
different things that that goes on and and myself I always been attached with black history month was given to me by the staff of the city of North Miami when I first came here in 2015 and then you know um councilwoman Timothy vice mayor now you know has the other the
Spanish Heritage Month as well as Jewish um um heritage month and different different months so we will continue to celebrate and do what we do and I also want to recognize our black history committee and called the co-chair and
share because it's a lot perfect what they have done this past year it's just getting better and staff has really really gone out and done an amazing amazing amazing work and we can see the
moral of staff is there joette please co-chair joette in khid from let me tell you those two and it's an entire committee that we're going to give a certificate for them and say thank you for their work
and their um dedication to our resident to our city to everything thank you oh oh okay women work women got say something um I don't have a speech and I don't want to start crying
sorry mayor I I know how it feels I know exactly how you feel and it's not easy it's not easy but it does get better it definitely gets better and I just want to say thank you thank you for
um City staff for entrusting me and being the co-chair thank you for giving me something to look forward to um things to do to make sure that I continue moving forward um and to keep striving to to be the best thank you so
much she can hold one of one of and for the next presentation we're going to call Mayor Burns toe present the procurement month there's a lot of things going on in this month of
March and one of them is National procurement month and everything that we buy in this city has to go through the purchasing department and by rules and regulations they've got to get three bids 20 bids all kinds of uh stuff they
got to do they have to piggyback from other bids from other cities have already done the work or they have to go out and do rfps and request for proposals to buy a bag of sand um but that's that's the challenge that they have um sometimes we don't always agree
with the purchasing department and uh always saying can't you get it down a couple dollars more or less you know let's let's keep doing it um but um our purchasing director Alberto um I am not going to read the whereas and the whereas but it just says you guys do a
professional and efficient Effective Government job U whereas you know you purchases the services and all the great stuff my car is behind schedule by the way um just a um still waiting for my printer but that's a different story but
you guys do a really great job and so on behalf of the whole city council we appreciate um what you and the other professional colleagues throughout the whole country um trying to keep us uh uh in check and make sure we have all the
the necessary items that we need to to run this business and also they're responsible his office is also responsible to make sure that we buy local as much as possible and we even give local vendors for those of you who are local vendors an extra leg up an
extra 10% just so that we keep our dollars in in North Miami to help our North Miami uh businesses succeed so Alberto I'd like to present this you and your staff you can say a few words yes
I um thank you very much councilman council members uh for those of you that don't know me my name is Alberto estr I'm the purchasing director for the city of North Miami um first of all I'm somewhat uh humbled it's uh sort of hard
to follow so many special and talented women that came up here and thank you all uh for your work and your efforts um uh I'm honored and privileged to be able to serve not only the administration but
this community that we serve um although sometimes it's a little bit of a thankless job because sometimes you have to say no and uh but it is what it is right so this is the
business that that I have chosen so uh the what I would like to say is this uh the success of my office um it really rests on the staff that I have uh they are uh their effort is tireless and they
have a commitment to Public Service which nowadays seems to be under under attack but uh I'd like to just introduce him briefly and and that uh then I'll cut the speech short but if I may introduce my staff beginning with my
assistant director Missy Daniels Gra thank you uh Miss Rosa Enriquez our contract compliance manager Miss Joanne Turner Fire Miss ganisha Miller who handles
right now currently most of our peard Administration thank you gisha and and last but not least Mr uh our latest edition Mr Corey mcll just joined recently so uh thank you all and uh
thank you Council and councilman for this great honor thank you very much very than before I before I um called the officers of the year I want to say something about City staff about government in
public service and I think Mr Strada mentioned that we are under attack and yes it is a thanless job but this is the job that the path that the Lord has chosen for us and we got to do it honorably it is but we are here to do
what we do and we hope that and we are under attack um at every level and I must say we have some of the brightest and best employees right here in North Miami and of course we have some not so
that's everywhere you know I was a school teacher for 15 years you got good teachers you got bad teachers you know and the answer is for me or the council to get up and say you know what North Miami is not doing this we taking our 500 people whatever the case is because
you know what like you said it's a thankless job because the hard work making sure the trash and everything Public Works police it's a team and it's hard and I will stop it there I don't want to go too far so with that being
said we are so honored for our law enforcement professional in North Miami we have Chief you got to come up please yes let's give her up Chief shares G assistant chief Angel Rivera come on
now and the entire command staff of the North Miami Police Department um my history with the police department goes back when I was in high school and we had um Cassandra um Thomas who was
Philip Michael Thomas's wife from Miami Vice and I don't know how we got connected um and she wanted to do something with the north Miami 5 and I think this was Kevin this was in the in the 9s and something so this was in
1999 um when Cassandra Thomas from my um Miami the Miami Mi Vice but we have some of the brightest and best um police officers in the nation and it's with my
in deep honor for me to call the officer of the month for the entire year of 2024 and I'm going to start with January officer Mona Richard well I didn't want to say the first name St officer thank you February officer
Jackson did I say that correct there you go ja you're right March 2024 Becker it's not here April R rilla he's not here and oh
it's two for April also quento okay the the other okay the other one um okay for November 2024 we also have two officer Francis and officer Jackson again oh
wow and for December 2024 officer Smith you know the relationship with us and the police department on the council we appreciate everything that you do um and and I I know I said a lot we we really do um because without police
everybody need police that's what we calling first now these are officers of the Year from the the the list of the officers for the entire month there's two officers of the year um that were selected at the I
think the north iy chamber um in May 2024 officer quento and also officer caros 100 of the North High Police Department thank you thank you good evening everyone Sharice SCA chief of police I would just like to
express my sincere gratitude for this recognition and for the continued support of Mayor and Council and the entire Community um it does truly take a village and so it does US honor to recognize the great work that each of you do
each and every day but when we recognize the officer of the month we just want you to know how much we appreciate the work you do um we know that it's not easy I think someone said some of these jobs are sometimes thankless especially with the climate of law enforcement but just know that you have our complete
support we appreciate you we value you and I want you all to continue to do a great job in this community keeping these citizens safe and also to continue to make a positive impact which is our modotto so thank you and congratulations to each of you and to continue the tradition and off
assistant chief R you're going to probably help me remember I I believe last year or two years ago the officer of the year I don't know the amount because I always say if you appreciate somebody you got to show them some money show them some love what was it but but
I didn't I didn't expect a full list cuz it usually be a few so how much was it last SE 10,000 no it wasn't 5,000 no it wasn't every Bo get $200 250 250 250 in office of the M thank you thank you so much
side that would be great s oh yes yeah um oh oh it's almost 8 o00 and we I'm I'm going to call councilman Kevin burn for a moment of privilege to iead
councilman for those of you who remember uh councilman Michael Blen and his wife Esther Blen um we were informed yesterday that Esther blind had a stroke so we ask that you take a few moments through the course of your day to make
sure you tell your loved ones you love them and make sure to say an extra prir for her tonight thank you very much oh thank you so much Kevin um mayor Burns and we definitely will um with that being said I think we and I keep having
to remind you it's council member it's not okay uh we have one more presentation and um um councilwoman ask you to do it after that right yes so are we doing that yes a presentation for the citizen
Independence Transportation Trust on the ctax fund update yes thank you good evening uh Mr mayor council members uh members of the community Javier beton Court executive director of the Citizens Independent Transportation trust or CIT for short
uh we are the Quasi independent agency of Miami day County charged with overseeing your half peny sales tax for transportation it is a long presentation but I promise you I'm going to go through it very quickly I'll even skip some slides cuz uh you have more interesting things to talk about all
right is it up on the screen I don't believe it is for yes ah there we go okay so um a little over 20 years ago when the voters this community went to the polls you saw this
language on your ballot and it asked the voters if you would increase your sales tax from 6 and a half to 7% to fund a a series of projects under the umbrella of people's Transportation plan PTP uh that ballot referendum language passed and
that half penny increase uh was dedicated uh to Transportation it's important to note the last sentence in the referendum language also established our organization the CIT to oversee those funds so what o wrong way so what does the CIT
do essentially we're a watchdog uh we provide oversight over the County's use of funds they get about 80% of those funds and also the municipalities use of funds you get about 20% of the funds distributed to all the municipalities on a prata basis so larger cities get more
money smaller cities get less and uh our specific job is to monitor audit review oversee and investigate the use of funds and the implementation of the people's Transportation plan to make sure that the promises were that were made to the voters are in fact implemented um the CIT is really 15
members who are all volunteers from all walks of life one appointed by the county mayor one by the Miami dat League of cities and the other 13 by the 13 different County Commissioners uh the representative on the CIT representing this area is Omar Bradford you may know
him I believe he's a member of your community that um and by the way we have several vacancies on the Trust From Time to time so if you're interested in uh being a member of the trust if someone in the community wants to be part of the transportation discussion and solution please apply again you don't have to
have any expertise in transportation you just have to be a citizen not an elected official not running for office um you just need to be a resident of the county commissioner that appoints you and please visit our website to learn more my.gov CIT so I oversee the office of
the CIT which is the support staff uh to that group and what do we do so auditing not very exciting but it's probably one of the core functions uh of the CIT we audit the county and every single municipality on a regular basis to ensure that you're using the funds appropriately we have
conducted several audits for instance of the city of North Miami I am happy to say that we don't have any issues that uh your professional staff does an amazing job of uh spending the dollars wisely and in accordance with the law Okay so about us let's talk about
the money a half penny doesn't sound like a lot but it collects a lot over time we are now collecting approximately $400 million a year from that half penny since its Inception in 2002 we have collected nearly $5 billion so that's $5 billion that has gone into improving
transportation and mobility throughout the county okay about 2third of that has in fact gone to miid day transit both to upgrade the existing system and to uh enhance and expand the system again about 20% goes to the cities and you've
used that for transportation and Transit projects of your own less than 10% has gone to the county public works department for roadway projects uh bicycle pedestrian improvements Etc here's a snapshot of that over time basically the sales tax has grown every year except for during the recession and
the pandemic uh we can skip that one if you're interested in this by the way all this information is online if you really want to dig into the numbers we even have a 40-year performa that shows an $8 billion Transit Improvement program uh program every penny in every penny out
you know if you'd like to geek out on that stuff you can find that on our website and go to town so enough of that what people really want to know is where's the money gone right did we keep the promises and by the way we're the Watchdog we are not miday Transit so we're not spending the money we're just
making sure people spends it appropriately so if you have any issues uh with transit or or Transportation um we're happy to facilitate a discussion what the right department but we're not the ones operating maintaining or building these things so there were many
promises that were made in 2002 people remember the expansion of metro rail that was a big one right and that's the one people seem to continue to remember uh but there were also promises to improve bus service there were promises to provide Fair free transit for all seniors in Miami day County regardless
of income What's called the Golden Passport so if you're 65 and older you are eligible for free Transit you just need to go get your Golden Passport we have since expanded that to a patriot passport that's for all veterans that one is income limited so you have to be under a certain income and yes there
were major highway and roadway improvements that were also part of that original promise uh and finally Fair free Metro mover uh which is still in existence so those were the promises and by and large many of those promises have in fact been fulfilled um one of the
most important uh parts of our program is the municipal Transit program I'm going to ask Mariana price uh who our Municipal program manager to quickly go through these two slides for you good evening Mr Mayor hello good to see you again and fellow council members Marana price Municipal program manager
for the CIT uh I always like to start off by saying I have the best job because I work with each individual City and it is the joy and pleasure each day that I have to communicate with my Municipal aons uh your Public Works director carth Fiddler assistant Public Works director
Jeff gimr they're great but I have to say I absolutely love working with Steven marceles and ikia uh Johnson Preston they are great and I can always rely on them to submit their reports in a timely manner complete and beautifully done so um my role at the CIT is that I
oversee the municipal program um most municipalities have a either fixed route circulator or an on demand service or both North Miami has a fixed rout circulator in FY 23 you had 156,00
1 Riders last year in FY 24 you had 199,50 it's a 27% increase year-over-year that's amazing so great job on that um yes thank you very much and uh North Miami um spends more money
than it needs to the 20% minimum um on Transit uh as opposed to the transportation side which is more like Public Works roadway type projects so um How do I get to the next page oh I guess I'm okay that's it thank you very much
oh wow thank you Mar question yes Mr yes um did you well could you go again the writers ship numbers please it's on the next slide I'm sorry I forgot to change it to the oh it was okay um the writers ship was uh a difference of 27% you you
mentioned okay I have here 19,000 I can get back to you though um that there is a discrepancy there but it's still an in increase yes yes when did the increase happen that's it's year overy year so from
October 1 till September 30th of the next year um that's a fiscal year and you're basing it on our trolleys and our freebie um on the trolleys yes okay yes as reported by the city okay thank you quick quick question
if I if I may um I I sit on representing the city on the TBO and and one of the um issue well not really issue item that's been very very critical and I mentioned it with the TPO and trying to Champion it is the interlocal agreement
either if we do have it it's not being properly either recognized um and I don't know if I know this is not your but this is just something that's relating to Transportation um the the interlocal agreement between if
a writer is from this city trying to get to aventur um so there's not really a connection I think we added a FIU stop so if you go to n&b if you go to North Miami um you know if you go to FIU then you'll get to
n&b and then vice versa so that that's one of the things that I've been trying to Chimp in how we could either coordinate on a countywide level or the municipal but since you mentioned that um maybe I could facilitate something with e clay where the the cities are in Connected because if you don't have a
car and the freebies we don't have enough money and it's a great program to have enough freebie and the the trolley if they not connecting you're trying to get to Golden Glade and you know because of our lines and so we got to do something to kind of help out um that that process in terms of and it's it's
from hearing from Mayors from all across and we do have some interlocal agreements but either the stops are not coordinated or or something needs to happen absolutely agreed and so if you look at the municipal map you see that every city has these little squiggly lines at are routes and many of them
don't connect to each other and or don't connect to the larger County Transit System so we absolutely are encouraging cities to to partner with your surrounding cities and offering uh connected services that makes sense for the people using it right they don't if you're a rider you don't care who's
running the trolley or the transit bus you just want to get from point A to point B as seamlessly as possible so I'd like to say we don't have one transit system in Miami day County we have 34 because we have Miami day transit 33 cities Tri Rail and even now bright line all doing their own thing we all need to
work better together um so I'm happy to to be part of those discussions Mr Mayor uh I do want to move on really quickly here so we're also investing in advanced traffic management system technology these are basically smart signals every traffic signal at every intersection in the county is controlled by the county
and they're moving to Smart signals that will make you uh that will allow you to get through those intersections faster the signals will adapt to real-time situations and not just be on an an acquainted timer so that is being Advanced with our funds uh as we speak
um but the real focus of the CIT right now is Transit right we we are built out we can't expand roadways significantly anymore and yet our community continues to grow so the only way to get to help people move is by getting them out of their cars and into Transit uh which then relieves uh traffic congestion for
everybody else who can't use Transit so you know we have already invested Millions if not billions of dollars on upgrading the existing Transit System system replacing all The Fleets so that everything performs better it's clean it's safe it's wellmaintained um and we are now finally investing in uh more
expansions of the existing system um we are not necessarily uh enhancing I'm sorry we're not expanding the bus fleet but it has been significantly enhanced through a program called the better bus Network that the county implemented uh about a year or two ago um many
improvements you know better headways more frequent service there were some people who lost routes right or lost stops and so the county is tweaking that Network as they get feedback from communities like yours so if if someone is upset about something that happened
as a part of that project please contact my midday Transit they are seeking feedback and uh will hopefully uh adapt uh as needed the one expansion of Metro that did occur and that we paid for was the expansion to the airport to the mick Miami interner modal Center uh so that's
a great service that's in place today unfortunately that was the only expansion of metrial that actually took place cuz it's really difficult to do and it's really expensive and frankly a lot of investment had to be made to upgrade the existing system before the county could start to expand again uh that being said the county and the TPO
and all of its partners are committed to expanding Rapid Transit uh through a program called the smart plan the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit plan and that is essentially six corridors that are in St some stage of either construction or development or planning as we speak uh I'll go through most of
them quickly because they don't really impact you here but the South Corridor is under construction that's going to be gold standard bus Rapid Transit so if you go down past dat land towards Florida city you'll see that being built along the side that's going to start service now in July of this year which is really exciting that'll be the first
Rapid Transit quarter built since that Metro Rail expansion to the airport the beach quarter is plan is a planned Metro mover extension from downtown Miami to Miami Beach and then also from Downtown North to The Design District that's still Planning and Development the East
West Corridor this is to link where people live out west to where they largely work out east along or parallel to State Road 836 the dolphin Expressway this was going to be bus Rapid Transit on the highway the county has taken a step back and is reevaluating other
Alternatives the kendle corridor is likely going to be bus Rapid Transit as well but that project has been sheld for now the one that's probably most important to your community and the one I'm most optimistic about is the Northeast Corridor so we all know bright line runs through here bright line is
great but two things about bright line is super expensive so people can't use those on a regular basis to get to and from work or school and it doesn't have stops in between Aventura and downtown Miami so it doesn't really serve communities like yours but the tracks are there and we have a willing partner
in bright line uh who's going to allow some kind of commuter rail service on those tracks something like TR rail something that is Affordable and they will have multiple stations in between Aventura and City Miami including one here in North Miami the good news is we have committed our half
penny funds the state has committed funds and the previous uh Biden administration had committed $400 million for this we're waiting to see if the Trump Administration uh Honors that commitment and if Congress ultimately approves it I'm hopeful I'm optimistic
um the north Corridor is is a long planned uh Metro Rail extension of 27th Avenue to the our County Line because it's Metro Rail it's also the most expensive it's also frankly going to be the most difficult to achieve um but but we're certainly hopeful that it will
happen we've also invested in a lot of parking ride facilities throughout the county um we are promoting bicycle pedestrian Mobility uh what we call First Last Mile connectivity again to your point earlier we are trying to encourage the county and all the cities and all the different Transportation
agencies to connect better to One Another We're All About improving the customer experience you can build what you want but if it isn't clean safe doesn't perform well and it's not wellmaintained people aren't going to use it people want that positive customer experience so they're never going to leave their car and finally Community engagement I'm committed
committed to going uh out into the community to provide this presentation I believe that people deserve to know whether a half penny is going I'm going to leave you with two uh last slides a CIT ambassador program we launched a couple years ago basically if you're a regular Transit Rider of either the
county system or even a city system we want you to be our eyes and ears and let us know know what you're experiencing so that we can improve upon it so that the city and and myday Transit could improve upon it and so basically you sign up to be an ambassador you get access to an app you provide regular feedback on that
app you get points for that and you can exchange those points for rewards like free Uber free City bike Etc Great program please visit our website to learn more and finally a couple years ago I also launched a podcast called Mobility matters and uh We've have all sorts of elected officials agency
officials Transit writers un name Comm leaders uh to talk about mobility and all the different issues that intersect with Mobility land use Economic Development affordable housing resiliency you name it so I would invite all the officials here if you're interested in being a a guest on my
podcast please let me know I'd be happy to have you um with that I'd be happy to answer any additional questions you may have thank you Mr benor thank you thank you and you guys do a great job watching over our dollars thank you so very much
any questions no I also like to thank you very much for the presentation I'm very excited um to hear that there's an increase in our writers ship in our city and and you know thank you for the support that you've been giving to our department thank you thank you keep up
the great work again kudos to your staff and I have to say this is now like the 30th City I presented at it is by far the most welcoming the friendliest uh really was heartwarming to sit through the presentations and the wonderful spread you had outside so thank you you
have something special here uhk you thank you thank you so much um just quickly May if I may yes sir uh just say want to say thank you for uh the presentation and I just want to Echo the same um sentiment that we've been doing a great job um however when the first
launched the better bus yeah and we and nor Miami lost some rout yeah and there was a lot of outcry I called and I didn't know that we have a person in here and uh last time I spoke to uh Stevens and also we have that
conversation moving forward how we're going to try to uh bring some back we had the 35th Street bus back uh because I I had that long conversation with uh um Transportation uh manager at that time and then we're still waiting for
the one that goes to 125th street because we have a lot of people complaining about that one and also the one that goes to one used to go to 11 19th those um two out and 125th you just go right into the it's like just right in the middle of the of uh the city and
goes to uh District 4 all the way to 17th Avenue and that pass by um one of the um supermarkets and a lot of our resident they are complaining because sometime they don't have the mean uh transportation and the bus was basically
their best bet and um now we are losing that one so we can later on have that conversation and see what can be done and I know you are provided the number and and I talk to them and also stepen has been very very good at uh doing what he does uh best with transportation and
um and also I have the conversation about money that is being um put aside from uh that fund for um Street um we are facing and everything is that was that right uh the last part was about I'm was um Street um taking care of all Street taking care of old streets
streets Street streets we surfacing and everything do you have money put aside on that um Street the city has funds for that for your own local streets and the and the county has also been very active in in improving the County's roadway Network um those projects to be honest with you
at the county level are coming to an end because we want the the funds that are coming in now to be focused on Transit you know so as they complete roadway projects we're not adding more to the plan because we want the dollars directed to Transit we're we're furthest behind the county has other funds that
they can use for roadway projects but the city again you you do have the ability to use up to 80% of what you get for roadway projects resurfacing widening uh traffic calming you name it um you I think you use less than that because you're using more than you have
to on Transit which is great because we do support Transit but you have that ability yeah know thank you because um traffic coming is the big one that's the one that I was going to um refer to and and also we can okay thank you thank you very much thank you Mr B thank you all good evening good evening sir and now
we're going to move to appointment app M mam Clerk or well City the announcement it's it's such a long long night it's 8:30 all right good evening mayor council staff North Miami neighbors and guests my name
is Beverly Graham and I am presenting the following announcements on behalf of the city of North Miami attention North Miami business owners the city of North Miami is offering green rehab grants of up to $10,000 to assist businesses in improving their facilities increasing
Energy Efficiency and reducing energy costs to apply visit ww. North miami.gov economic death help shape the future of nor North Miami Parks share your ideas and priorities for our Parks and Recreation
Spaces by completing our quick survey your feedback will guide improvements in our master plan for our community to access the survey please visit ww. northiam fl.gov slm my Park plan starting March 17th through March
6th through May 16th spring into fitness with vice mayor Cassandra Timothy and taboo Fitness with a high energy Wellness experience designed to get you moving motivated and feeling your best enjoy free hit classes in the morning or evening time for more information and to
RSVP please visit D2 springin fitness. eventbrite.com join vice mayor Cassandra Timothy for the random acts of kindness initiative a month-long effort to support over 600 seniors in North Miami donations can be dropped off at North Miami city hall the police department or
the North Miami Public Library by Monday March 31st enhance your computer skills with basic to Advanced computer classes presented by vice mayor Cassandra Timothy the these free 12we classes for North Miami residents takes place at the North Miami public library and will
cover topics such as Microsoft Word Excel and more to register visit the library or call 305 891-5535 the D4 smart tutoring program offers free academic support for 7th to 12th grade students sessions take place Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays from
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Community Development join us at one of our upcoming public information workshops on March 12th at the Joe celesine Center or March 13th at the North Miami Public Library both beginning at 6:30 p.m. Shar don't miss the opportunity to share your thoughts of our public at our public hearings
scan the QR code or visit visit ww. northiam fl.gov 5year plan to take the survey today calling all businesses and entrepreneurs the city of North Miami's purchasing department presents let's procure an essential event for those
looking to do business in North Miami join us on Thursday March 13th at the Scott Galvin Community Center choose from two sessions either in the morning from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or in afternoon from 1: to 3:30 p.m. registration is free and sign up now at
procur me. bright.com vice mayor Cassandra Timothy invites residents to a district 2 town hall meeting on Thursday March 13th at 600 p.m. at the Scott Galvin Community Center the meeting will focus on upcoming Renovations at the sansi tennis
center and the sansi traffic circle for more information or to register visit 2025 d2t hall. eventbrite.com let it know 2025 is happening on Saturday March 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the North Miami public
North Miami Police Department excuse me enjoy real snow bounce houses a petting zoo music food and Frozen Refreshments it's so much fun for the whole family councilman Kevin Burns invites you to Shamrock the block on Sunday
March 16th from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Keystone park Bobby hammerfield and Joseph will Top lot this Festival festive celebration will feature traditional Irish food beverages dancing music and entertainment for all ages for more information and to register visit
Kevin stpatrick day. evite.com let's talk about everything mocha mocha and the YWCA present the life cycle Community gathering on Satur on Sunday March 16th from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. taking place on Friday March 28th from
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. you can partake in conversations at mocha with multimedia visuals artist s sen immediately following the conversation you can venture over to mocha Plaza for jazz at mocha with the live School of Music from 7:00 to 10:
p.m. vice mayor Vice chair candra Timothy will host a how- to apply workshop for the residents at Nomi affordable senior housing units the workshop will take place on Thursday March 20th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the North Miami public library for
more information visit ww. northiam c.org you are invited to the C Park North construction job fair on Friday March 21st from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the North Miami Public Library community room applicants must be 18 or older
proficient in English and have a valid governmen issued ID for more information call the north Miami public works department at 305 895 9830 join us on Saturday March 22nd for a fun and active morning at our monthly getting gear Community bike ride
registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and the starts the ride starts at at 8:30 a.m. sharp at mocha Plaza North Miami get ready for the third annual get toomi meet and greet join councilman Pierre France Charles on Saturday March 22nd from 12: to 4: p.m.
at the Clyde W Judson Jr Community Center for more information contact the mayor and Council Office at 305 895 9818 and save the date for an inspiring afternoon at the women Empower Network lunch in hosted by councilwoman and Mary
estimate Irvin and the North Miami CRA this empowering event will take place on Wednesday March 26th and from 11: to 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the FIU coven's Conference Center reserve your spot today at 2025 women empowered
lunch. eventbrite.com the north Miami Educational Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2025 scholarship program high school graduates and first year college students can apply for scholarships up to $4,000 the application is
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announcements thank you thank you thank you so very much and we are glad to move on to um appointments Madame clerk we have four appointments uh far laun to the Centennial committee by councilman
Charles Amanda kovat to the deac committee by mayor desme Marie flost Jean F to the deac committee councilman Charles Claude VES to flood plane management planning committee by councilman Burns
apologies it's five so Brian Jinx to the senior citizens Advisory Board councilman Burns move for approval second you said second second okay I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the board
appointments the motion was seconded by councilwoman estimate irvan all in favor any opposed the motion carries with a 4 Z vote thank you so much Madam clerk um with consent agenda I like to Pro item e
m m is it e no I'm sorry po e yes um if I for discussion okay and I guess I'll place it after yes thank you ma'am is that okay do do it right after consent we pull it
on consent oh first thing EXC me Mr attorney I think we have another attorney here he's ask me if we pulling the item he said we has be it could be anywhere requirements wherever you all want to or as the chair I could do what I want to do well thank you I guess
we um unless a member of the city council wishes to remove a specific item from this portion of the agenda it have a through D and F constitute the consent agenda these resolutions and and items are self-explanatory and are not expected to require additional review or
discussion these items will be recorded as individually numbered resolutions adopted unanimously by the following motion that the consent agenda comprised of tabs a through D and tab F be adopted so move
second I have a motion made by mayor Des to approve the consent agenda the motion was seconded by councilman Charles all in favor I any opposed motion carries with a 4 Z vote thank you so much Madam cler we we going to try to move real quick um I know we have a couple of
agenda we're going to look into tab M um and immediately we're going to um take tab e okay Madame manager any presentation tab m a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the inm city manager to execute a First Amendment to
agreement and Lease in substantially the attached form between the city of North Miami as landlord and Redwood CPD LLC as tenant modifying the lease terms for for the development of the vacant and undeveloped portion of the city-owned property located at 1525
Northwest 135th Street specifically identified with folio number 06- 212300 -005 providing for an effective dat and all other purposes t m thank you um
presentation uh yes mayor um as you recall uh I don't remember the date but you all uh approved the Redwood um lease this would have been uh she's according to this this was back
in um uh June of 20 uh June of 2023 when they when we executed the lease um there was an issue after we executed the lease the all the the all of the potential biders went and looked at the site um afterwards after
the uh the project was awarded um apparently there was um some entity some company went and dumped on the site um so the site was not in the condition um that the biders uh saw before they bid part of the contract um in in order for
them to take uh possession of the property one of the requirements was that the property be in the condition um that it was that was it was guaranteed to be in and that didn't take place um so we've been going back and forth with them um for all that time um but tonight
they've uh they've actually asked us to amend the lease they're going to accept the site as is um there's a couple of things that we need to clarify um in the lease so we're making amendments um one of the issues is the uh as you know there was one folio number we're going
to split the folio number originally in the lease it was my office was going to do it with the help of their attorney we're just switching that around with their attorney is going to be doing it my with us helping it and then the other two Clauses really um are about the timing of the project um because again
the uh there's different uh events that are supposed to happen and because they never took possession of property um a lot of these things didn't take place so we're amending the agreement um to to change the commencement of construction of the park improvements and construction of the phase one
improvements wait a minute so the com um commencement of the park what what is the new agreement uh it's it's the construction part starts no later than 12 months following the commencement date and then the same with the uh the commencement construction phase one
improvements no no later than 24 months following the commencement dates and again all of these were pushed back um obviously because they never took possession of the property whoa can we Define I'm sorry
um and I want to apologize before I I even begin my remarks for the entire evening I did not and this probably one out of three times since I've been up here I did not get briefed on any of these items and Madam manager did made all the attempts Al so I I am sorry so
this is the first time a lot of these items I'm you know I'm I'm hearing about it so normally would already um talk and give my opinion on some of them um I do have a little issue with the flipping of time I wish I had known to work with
with with redwood to see because I also have a schedule that I promised to the people that we would do at least a park um Improvement in there so um Redwood is there any way that even if we could um is it 12 months that we were delayed
in terms of um can we kind of shorten trying to get the project at least the park component of of the project um going so Lane 12 12 months does not we're going to say uh David B
Redwood um we have trucks scheduled to start cleaning the debris on the site and putting fence wrap with the city logos and so forth okay um within the next couple of days we've had to delay this now probably three four times just trying to get everything on the same
page thank you David I got you thank you and we have um we've closed uh we have funds available for the clean up millions of dollars that our banks are pushing us to get this going so I think once this is done you'll see over the next 10 15 days trucks there fill be removed we've met with the building CH
The Building Department chief to expedite whatever permits we need on a fast track um we think over the next two to four weeks you're going to see a lot of momentum and movement um we're going to be meeting with the parks director because we don't want to close down the entire park and we'll pick the best you
know what the people will uh want the most the first section of the park so we can get things moving because we know that everybody including us we want to make this thing uh go very quick thank you sir thank you I'm I think we good yes right so I'm hearing commencement date what what date what is the what's
the starting date and what is 12 months after so after tonight was they signed the lease well we could yeah could you clarify can you give me dates please there are no specific it's 12 months it's 12 months after the signing of the lease that so a year after they sign the
lease then that's when the park improvements will happen from the from the um possession we're going to take possession if everything get signed now we're going to take possession today and we will take the site in the condition that it's in now because of the there was some dumping that was
taking place at the site not just little dumping no no we know big mountains of fil so next march we'll see Improvement you're going to see improvements in the next two weeks I'm talking about the the park improvements correct I'll be able to give you a report in the within the next
30 days of when we could actually start the pool I have a feeling the pool's going to be the first thing that'll be the big impact for the community I'll mean with the the councilman I'll meet with everybody individually and see what what section you the city would like to see move forward we'll be able to get that in a fast
track yeah um go goad M good oh okay thank you um thank you for this item because I've been pushing for so long and um both on the city side and also U Redwood as the councilman of District 4
um as I said it over and over I've been getting tons of complaints from um residents about the fil the screen and um everything else with that um project and um I got report that was
like some misunderstanding between the RO of the city the RO of Redwood and I do believe through the meetings that you had we had about three of them uh one after the other so we come to the conclusion that uh after
tonight Redwood is in charge of the site is that clear yes sir and um there was a some back and forth about um turning the keys has that been resolved or you whether or not we have the key will relock it tomorrow but we'll meet with the Madam manager
tomorrow we'll make sure that we have keys and but again for the record it once this is passed hopefully tonight we take possession so we take possession tonight and um you will um and um and managers who will turn in the case to
Redwood and get that going is that right as they have asserted they will have possession tomorrow Keys have already been turned over but even if they don't have keys they can go ahead cut locks put new locks it's their property they will be able to do what they need to do as the tenant with that right we we will
rescure the site as we spoke councilman and you'll see trucks there we've already made payments to vendors to make sure that there's and we delayed them a few times now the trucks will be there to start moving the fill and you'll see um cutting of the grass you'll see some major improvements over the next 10 to
15 days and over the next 30 days you'll see a lot of progress including the wind screens with the city logos photos of you know and things of what renderings of what we're doing and um detailing telephone numbers of where people can get jobs and so forth no thank you very
much because I cannot wait to see that because one was a hot Thursday I had to take both the city manager and the deputy city manager out there to see exact L what I'm talking about in the site look horrible and thank you for that in in about 2 weeks so we will see
some improvement to the site yes we're going to make we're going this is something that we all want to be proud of once we take possession we're going to make we we would like the entire Council to be pride of this project all right thank you and um one of my many ask was that um I don't know exactly
what is happening for 2 years now I've been under the council as as District 4 representative um it is it has become a habit for um this project I am the last one to know exactly what is going on and
we had that conversation I just just for the record just want to make sure that I am being brief like as early as possible as far as the changes everything that has to do with redwood because it is it
is in District 4 and um if got just keep on the on the face of this Earth for tomorrow so I'm still going to be the councilman of District 4 so I need to know exactly what is happening I cannot be the last one to get the information because this is kind of
disturbing once the uh site is cleaned we're we plan to give um some kind of newsletter type with factual information to the council and also the neighborhood of uh what to expect the next part of the progress yeah you know as far as uh as the park Improvement so we said about
12 months is it after we vote on this item tonight or 12 it's going it will happen sooner but we have up to 12 months from now to start the renovations to the park but it will be sooner given
that we we vote on this item tonight yes and then is a yes vote so the 12 months start counting tonight correct today is the first day today or tomorrow would would be the first day of the of the uh of the 12 months that's correct okay
that's okay and um to that I just want to say uh please please please let's see if we can get this uh project moving because uh it is a very nice project on the concept and everything but um the residents are like kind of uh you know
fed up with everything that is happening and they haven't seen any progress and that is kind of a push back and you see the mayor is asking to see if we can even with the par if we can start the Improvement earlier earlier that that would be a great help because you know
when we make promise to resident they they just going to keep on questions all of us in here what is happening and if you think that that is not true you can um ask uh Council woman Marin for the tle address right on 125th how many
questions you get a day about this so please um see if we can uh work and see I know we have 12 months but if we can start sooner yes I think that would be of a good help for each and every one of us in here it will be sooner um we will be meeting with Park the parks director
and your office and I think before the next time I come before the council I think everybody is going to be happy in uh the community because they're going to see a lot of progress thank you David and thank you mayor for Indulgence thank you thank you so much councilman um Mr B go go ahead
councilman Mr attorney sir so my understanding is that only the dates are changing adding additional time the exterior that's the only terms that are changed in the agreement that again those are the only terms that are being
changed by this uh Amendment um and then the person who is going to do the uh the uh folial number switching that around is going to be their attorney as opposed to you yeah I mean that that that'll that not none of the project is really
contingent on any of that and my office and their attorney will work on it how does it affect the uh $50,000 for the soccer program what does it push it back another 12 months or does it forward and in terms of the rest of the agreement
the timing of the rest of of the agreements is still the same okay so what is the timing um D David your understanding of when the first $50,000 for the soccer program when is that due what is your thinking of that I
don't know if it's the soccer program or the foundation I would Foundation yeah it would be due we have the foundation open already but I would we could do it next week okay are you would you like to do that next week I think we're OB I think in
the lease there's a timeline of when we have to do it so it starts with the commencement it start with every everything starts with the commencement of police and the commencement is the execution of the police not the execution the The Possession taking the possession of the property which would
start today and it would have been much sooner but The Dumping of this mounds of a fill is what caused this uh issue thank you for bringing that up yes Mr uh Madam manager and Mr City attorney
when we were briefed on this I had asked what we're going to do to the contractor or the contractor that mistakenly dumped stuff there um what recourse is there uh because it had caused harm to the city had caused harm to this development it
caused delays um and the simple fact that oh it was just a little mistake meanwhile the guy actually probably got paid for dumping the material there a lot of material and are we just going to throw our hands up and just what are we going to do what are the what is there any recourses yeah
wait on that note and I'm glad um councilman B mentioned it if if this is this is not the that originally um dumped stuff it's my understanding and I and I could recall maybe six or seven years ago we we gave permission to a
company to come here and do you know whatever that they were doing and I remember because they were doing some work with the Department of Transportation um from from that point I I you know I didn't know what what happened on on from there but I know we gave them permission I did not know that
it was in in such condition so so if if if if any recourse whatever that needs to be done I do agree that we need to have a conversation with them but this is not something that was done illegally I don't think if if that's the same thing well again I this this happened
under the the prior Administration the prior Public Works director and the prior city manager we all dealing with it when we got when I got the call I spoke to the prior um Public Works man um director and asked how did this happened um apparently the company did
have a a an agreement with the city to dump on the site but the agreement was um at that point had been terminated um so I don't know if they had the keys I don't know I actually don't know what the details are but they they contined to dump on the site I was told
originally that the after yeah after the lease was fond I was told initially that they had gone back so I haven't done any ex any examination to see what the liability of that company is um you know obviously we can do that if by the direction of this Council you know a lot
of times it doesn't make any sense but you this is the first time um Mr Kazo I'm hearing about this issue tonight I I I I did not even know nothing um never heard of like I said the prior city manager was dealing with it uh with the prior Public Works director yeah but th
this issue when did it start though because um like I said I remember the company came and you know it it was some work that they were doing on opaka Boulevard and they asked for permission I didn't know they were paying us but I
at some point I did know there was some type of agreement but I did not even know there was any C or anything there was an agreement cuz I saw it was there was a monthly M payment that was being paid to the city that's but they kind but it terminated and then when we had the lease we noticed that there was Phil being dropped off we thought it was the
city and it was not the city it was this contractor is what happened first time yes sir well let's let me step been here for a second yes sir and prior to me coming on this Council um we designated the city
council designated a Brownfield so that you all would have the opportunity to get some State funding to help with the uh the as a designated uh Brownfield and one of my concerns in the question that I spoke about it was that are we going
to designate it to Brownfield uh just so you can get the dollar and we not get stuck with a contaminated piece of land and then my question was how could we let it get contaminated when we hired a company to monitor everything that was dumped out
there for years as they were dumping the fill out there so this would not happened but it ended up becoming a a designated Brownfield and again somewhere somewhere previous management has had dropped the ball um we paid a
company to make sure nothing contaminated got dumped there hundreds of thousands of dollars and then contaminated stuff got dumped there and that's how you guys were able to get it if I can clarify I can CL no The Fill
we do not know if it is or it is not contaminated what we do know is that there's a no further action letter from durm only on a small section of the development so when the C from what we understand when the city cleaned up the site many years ago only a no further
action letter was given to a very small piece luckily it's the piece that's closest to where we're going to start building and it's not going to delay any of our development that's the good news um all the brownsfield is doing we're not getting any money we are getting some kind of reimbursable tax credit um
that we will be able to sell off after only the work is done we were also able to attain a um a low interest interest loan from the south Florida Regional planning Council which we have all of this money available to clean the site and put in um uh site caps and things so
we were able to attain some loans and stuff like that um but the big thing is we don't know exactly to the extent of what the contamination is and that's why we needed to protect the site also um I think the Browns F anything protects the site because whether it's us or the city
the state tax credits would be available to clean it so um but it did get contaminated with something but we don't know what it is that's we don't not saying that that it was the fill that contamination I'm sorry for one second contamination is a specific word it's a
legal word there was dumping on the site I'm not it was not contam nothing to do there's no contamination has been contam when they filled the lake it's still it's from the initial contamination from way back when with the fill of the lake it's not the it's not the new msor right the the Mounds of of fill that's there
is aund of thousands of dollar problem to remove the fill we're allowed to remove the fill we've spoken to our Environmental Consultants we are doing that so we're going to comply yeah um Council memb I believe that the the last company what they had is some asphalts
and some stuff that they were doing road work on opaka Boulevard that I thought it was a short period of time um but I didn't know anything else was going on but the the word which I don't want to use regarding that property that's been years and years that had nothing to do
with you know the the you know this new we're we're going to Bear the the cost of moving the fill we're going to pay for it we're going to resolve it in a very very fast fashion now that we're taking possession of the site and we've cleared all these misunderstandings up and I think over the next 10 to 15 days
you're going to see it firsthand yes sir um good evening carth Phil Public Works director through the manager um David is correct um and I can't speak on that tonight as far as the history um but yes um he everything he mentioned is correct but the only thing I remember when I
worked here 10 years ago we as we did work concrete that sort of thing we would take it out there to the uh it used to be a lake and we would Ed um any field so it it's something that's been going on for quite some time so that's all I have to
have any other question yes so again this is the first that I'm hearing tonight that there was a company that was that had the right to come and dump so I have questions who is the company unfortunately I don't have that information I
I would need to go back and look at that I don't have that information tonight yes so I'd like that information to be provided and another thing is when did the agreement occur if the agreement occur it would have occurred through the attorney's office
yes the agreement's from many years ago the the from the the company that was doing the dumping the agreement was for many years ago the contract expired because we said if there was an agreement in place it should have been attached to the lease but it and they were just continuing to so this is my
question when did this agreement happen when did it expire Madam um Mr attorney could you answer that question please I don't have the agreement in front of me let me try to give some clarification best that I know we up here voted for it I remember maybe five
or six years ago um right before Larry Springs kind of um exit and either author was the um interum so author came in and I was a counsilman talk to me it was nothing in you know I didn't see nothing
in it because it was the a company that was doing some work on opalak Boulevard they wanted to to put their stuff there their asphalts whatever the case is that's all I knew and that's all we were told that's all but I thought it was just a specific couple of months so I didn't know anything about that and
obviously it's been years and years I don't remember I do remember the the person who I met with years years years ago um prior to it coming to the Council so I'd like to I'd like to get that in writing please who the the company was when the agreement started when did it
end and and is there a level of responsibility that they will have yeah again we'll look into it and come back with a report to the council thank you thank you so much you
done Madam um Council woman more question yes sir yes M yes public hearing is now open on the item such a long night looks great public hearing is
closed thank you thank you so much Mr burin um thank you move for approval second I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at tab M the motion was seconded by mayor desm may all in favor I any
opposed the item passes with a 4 Z vote tab e a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of of North Miami Florida approving the execution of a mutual Aid agreement in substantially the attached form between the city of North Miami Police Department and the Miami date Sheriff's Office to provide
for the North Miami Police Department's participation in the multi- agency task force providing for an effective date and all other purposes tap e this is a special privilege for um she did read it let me to read no good oh oh
yes um hi Chief how are you I pulled the item yes good evening I pulled the item um just some clarification and looking at the report um explain to us what is it that you are asking us to do okay first of all good
evening Sharice SCA chief of police 700 noreast 134th Street and for the manager yes so basically what this is is um changing the resolution that has already been in place uh sort of a mutual Aid agreement to Miami Dade
Sheriff's Office formerly Miami day Police Department so we no longer have a police department which is what the agreement was under so we are asked to change the name to myate Sheriff's Office okay what if we don't do that
what does happen Mr attorney I'm I'm just asking question I don't I'm just it's just changing the name I mean it's a different legal entity at this point so we don't have an agreement so whatever the task force governs then we're not doing it we're not a part of
it okay so my question to you um Chief now that we have a new government or because I haven't met with the chef or whatever the case is so the agreement that we have we saying we changing the um the name and I wish I have
um been briefed on the item and I already apologize on that I so so we changing the name specifically what because this new office what are they tasked in doing and in doing this I want to be crystal clear on what are the
responsibility by doing this if are we participating in any of the stuff that they are so if your question is regarding immigration enforcement I'm just asking that there but you know you you so the answer is no the North Miami
Police Department has not volunteered to participate in Immigration enforcement um while there are several agencies that have we have not well I know of two from as of yesterday there's several there I'm saying Mi day County I know two in
mi County well huh we got 34 counties 34 cities how many so I think there's a difference between the cities that are doing certain participation and then their different police departments that have also s from the 34 right okay so I know of a few um as it relates to
immigration enforcement however this particular multi- agency task force is not associated with immigration enforcement how how do we know that so we have not signed on to the immigration enforcement it's a voluntary um decision that has to be
made I have been in communication with both manager and the City attorney um we have not no I I know we have it but by signing or agreeing with this um Mr attorney would the agreement is there
any clause in the agreement by the the the Im so just so everyone understands immigration is a federal is on a federal level yes we know um so they can't force us to invol the Miami day Sheriff's Department can't force us to enforce immigration the program in question that
allows um local uh police department to participate in Immigration is a voluntary program so until we volunteer to do it or until the state makes it mandatory we're not going to be participating in any kind of immigration like ask questions please so I so I just
want to ask a question um is this change happening because we have a new Charter position now and the police um is no longer under the Miami date mayor and now there's a new Charter position is that why there's a change yes there's a change to the agreement so this agreement agement was already in
existence however because Miami day Police Department no longer exists we have to change all of our M to coincide with the new name change right because of the new Charter the sheriff's Charter position so everything now is MI day Sheriff's Office and so this is just
being reflected to show that it's the sheriff's department that is correct and that's all no nothing else has changed no letter that's it right that is it okay thank you and if I if I may um I see exactly where the mayor is War yes um because we know that immigration
enforcement is a um a federal entity that regulate all that but we have some new laws in Florida that the governor just enacted yes and um was watching the news uh saw a press conference with all
the different um Sheriff departments and um sheriffs are like ready to go yes ready to go so the going back to the same point that mayor was making um by you
know signing or putting that resolution up can we be forced I don't want to use the word coher because that's what they've been doing to U get into these things so according to what I have been advised by
legal the answer would be no um we certainly have the ability to withdraw from any sort of agreement that we have with miate County currently but this is for a multi- agency task force specifically that we've already been a part
of okay then okay thank you public hearing public hearing on the item see none Mike all
right Veronica no okay motion to approve thank you you welcome have a motion to approve so move I have a motion made by councilwoman EST Irvin to approve the
item at tab e the motion was seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed n it fails what happens item fails with a two two vote so so I'd like to talk about this
because I think this is extremely important guys I I the report M Madam mayor if you would allow me to say this is this and this is why I kept asking this is simply that the mayor and
and I wish a professional will explain this cuz I shouldn't be explaining this but um the mayor used to be the person in charge of the police department now because of the new Charter that we have now elected clerks we have elected um Sheriff it is basically saying instead
of it's it's basically whatever agreement we had with the mayor is the same that's why I asked that the language change you know we are we need to make sure this is talking about gangs this is not talking about immigration if it were I wouldn't be voting on this so I just want I I would I think that we
need to explain this I would ask that if we have brief on it that we could that we should maybe reconsider respectfully no no may I just finish thank you if I I would ask that we would reconsider um I mean I mean table it get the proper
briefing that you do need but because this is this has nothing to do with immigration or else I would not being voting for that so my counc woman decision was made in vote if you want to bring it back whatever whatever the case is no no I
understand no problem so I would like to know what are the what are the implications that this is voted on we don't know no that's what I'm asking she well she told you she told us very clearly with the attorney no no no I no no she didn't she tell us that if it failed what happens if it failed so we would just not be a part of this task
force but what I will also offer is that we have us with my day Sheriff office where we are provided resources and mutual Aid with one another so um that would be also just a consideration as it pertains to resources is there a
financial impact no none that I'm aware of just just asking um councilwoman I trust the chief and my attorney and my it has nothing to do with them this is you know mebe I I I'm not saying that we trust or not
trust sometimes we agree with our professionals and sometime we disagree so not that I just CL my position on I just want to make sure we really understand that's all well I understood very clearly thank you I just do not trust whatever else we sign there's a lot of little things CU I read some of
these stuff I'm not an attorney I'm not and I wasn't too briefed on it and I don't feel comfortable on it so that's the right that the residents had placed in me so I'm using that power so thank you Chief have a thank you tap g a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami
Florida initiating the process for Recruitment and selection for the position of the next city manager further calling for a Statewide search for qualified candidates providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab G um t g May if you allow me yes um I
would like to table this item until our next meeting thank you thank you second it that I have a motion made by councilman Charles to table the item at tab G the motion was seconded by Council woman EST mayor an all in favor I any
opposed item passes with a 4 Z vote tab h a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the inum city manager and City attorney to execute an agreement in substantially the attached form between the city of North Miami rub and Ruben Turnbull and
Associates Inc to provide professional lobbying services at a monthly cost not to exceed $7,500 weaving competitive bidding in accordance with section 7-1 120 parenthesis capital B of the north Miami code of ordinances providing for an effective date and all other purposes
this item was tabled from the February 25th council meeting tab H thank you thank you Madame clerk um thank you to the public and my um colleagues I saw the item it was placed last um the the meeting prior and
obviously that's the the meeting with my mom passed two weeks ago so it was table um but a quick historical um background on this and when I saw it was sponsored by me I thought it would it should have really been SP sponsored by the administration although I've been
leading by I have nothing to do with this this I mean when I said I don't have nothing to do with this um all of this is in reference to our um as you know we are we've been with working very very very hard with the EPA with the um
prior to the new Administration and we did have um another um advisor that was advised to us that was helping us with the process with the change of the new Administration um we were strongly
advised that we needed some extra help as we all could see in DC and it was very direct so we in order for us to get this water thing under way in any other projects I think um the the manager and I and I think the K was on the call also
and the assist um assistant city um manager we were you know spoke to the um to Mr ruin who graciously agreed to lower their price to help us out um in
terms of um to ensure that we you know navigate um and they they they did say um in terms of a success um that we were talk talked about because they they are very very pricey and we do not afford them um we don't have the amount of
money that we um that they cities are willing to pay but we did say to them that with all what's going on if if you know we are exra suff and see what we going maybe next year we could you know as a council you know do what
we do um when we were on the call so that's basically this this is to help us with um our federal um lobbying efforts in are in DC Mr yes if I may sure um
well first of all you know I I know that it was cancelled last meeting I'm asking if you can give me an opportunity to if we could table it so that I can have an opportunity to talk and furthermore I do agree with you I don't understand why this has to be sponsored like a lot I I
I I I think it's I personally think it's uncomfortable a lot there are a lot of times that at me as a council person that I bring items to City Administration the city Administration takes on why does and to me it just doesn't look good a lobbyist I don't know why that has to
be I stud that privately and I'm that public we bring items to you all the time all the time so I that's to me that just it smells bad it doesn't look good but wait wait wa wa wait wait what doesn't smell great yeah
that that an elected official is sponsoring a lobbyist no okay and this is where the the the manager it's her role Ro or his role in terms of some conversation that
should not even be having and has nothing to do with public record whatever the case is um because we are discussing it privately um publicly um I cannot communicate with you this is an item the next item that comes it's about
the the the it's about this so this is to our water plant so there's no formality whatever whatever cases the manager I was on the impression that the manager probably scheduled meetings with you all the council people with the you know with the firm that was recommended
in the private conversation that we had I feel that this Council should have known about it and this should have not even be it my and I feel that if if if you all kind of knew the importance of which I know we all know how important
this water plant is to the city this would not even be here today so I was a little bit cuz if it wasn't here I would not have um probably I would have came for for one hour and leave for the reception but that's why I'm here when I saw the um this because I just buried my
mom on Saturday I have no business being here but this is the importance of our city moving forward and I'm very very disappointed that the administration did not communicate that with elected official that this item is even here to
be discussed like this because this is is very important to the life of our city moving forward to the future and we all knew in conversations that I had with
the manager along with you know I can I communicate with Council people they should have explained and whatever that we need to do to ensure that we do what we do to prepare for the betterment of of the city for clarity this this item
was bre with every elected official twice I actually didn't even know that it was coming on this um um on this agenda I thought it was coming on the other so I didn't even um I had concerns even in my briefing so I just wanted to clarify and make sure that the re was
clear that Administration did brief with every elected official more than once on this item and why it was being presented if if I if I may when we said that this item I think that's that's a term that we use all the time you have to be careful item being mention tab let me
can can I can I finish let me finish you just read something to me up to now I have not even one piece of information about the the the firm I don't know the work that they do I don't
know which city they do this kind of work do you understand so this is not you brief you just read something to me and that's about it it's not like you brief about it I have no information I have no information whatsoever you understand this is not briefing so sitting in here the only
thing that I have in front of me is the resolution do you understand so that's that's a difference because I think we using this term a lot Council have been brief about this been brief about that but no this is not the way it should be done at least I'll have an opportunity to sit with these people and know
exactly what kind of work they do I don't know sitting in here I'm still in the darkness of everything that is happening the only good thing that is in there is that we're talking about our water infrastructure I you know I'm all for it you know I'll jump up and down
for that but I have no information I have no information about the firm and everything so that we need to have we need to have that so we need to make the difference just telling me that something is in the um on the on the agenda and briefing like a normal
wein with all the information and everything in details that is different got it just want to just want to make that clear amen awesome yes sir okay we yeah the the I agree with the mayor that it's
very important that we have the best help possible to help us venture to get grants and money and so forth for the the water plant wherever that money May lie federally or in this from the state
of Florida my question also was who is this firm how did it come to us and if this was a firm because I went and researched who they were if I was looking for money just from the state of
Florida these people have the door in Tallahassee it was presented to me or thought that this they could help us on the federal level um and maybe last year maybe four months
ago possibly but there's about only three firms that are powerhouses right now that can get a phone call from somebody in the administration in Washington DC and their name's not this one and the the
whole landscape has drastically changed in in in in Washington and it has nothing to do what your previous relationships have been with somebody it's who you can call today who you can get a call back and uh we've had some
elected officials or former elected officials from Florida now join the federal um uh Administration that have very close to ties to South Florida I think we need to look at this a little bit more because we definitely
need Federal help with the water plant and we don't know if that's going to come this way or not but I was hoping that somebody from this firm was going to council member we're going to table this item for this one and the next one
because the next item is the very important deadline that we need cuz we playing around here and I am very upset and you all right councilman but all everybody in here because these are conversations that we that what you just
mentioned just kind of attest to what councilman Charles was mentioning because a lot of those answers I believe the people that was in the meeting even prior knew all of those and um in terms of I don't know the firm
either I mean I know of the firm but we we knew how we you know and and these things in terms of this is this is serious and I've been leading this water plant thing and if this does not go through the right way I I don't even think that we could
even talk about we we a lot of things that's already been said tonight it's already putting us in Jeopardy and that's a problem um so we're going to leave it there and I'm going to ask if we could table both of those
items and move forward I mean May guys the opinion that we can pay the application fee because that's very important because it has nothing to do with this firm well well firm's not doing
this guys appliation if we don't pay the application fee then our application guys guys okay St please can can we stop we yes because yeah guys and and and these are the conversation we know how important this is this should
not happen have been coming back up here I did not need to be here the question that you had you just stated Kevin um May um Council no no no councilman I'm sorry second in it's very troubling concerning
because they should have not ever even and I know what I'm talking about every those questions should have been answered yes I because this is important if we need to have a private meeting because you there's some question that you have and I would have been on the
same you know in terms of who the firms are you know but I know there are people in this room um the manager and the assistant manager who knows in terms of that history because it seems like it probably wasn't explained in terms of the importance or how this came all
together um it was being very transparent because everybody know me in in terms of you know and you know it is what it is we're going to table um the the the item because and let me say this and I'm going to be very clear it
doesn't matter if we vote this down and pass the other one because everybody know here I came up with this thing and I've been working with the EPA so do not trying to Grant this is very very serious and I apologize to the commission
for for this conversation to be had publicly like this um but it is what it is um and we we could but we could vote it down up and down but if if I vote no on that on that particular item um you
guys will know why and I just wanted to say that and and just leave it there because I don't want to say too much because I'm a little bit uncomfortable in terms of the the communication between the the city manager and the council members and this should have never been under my name um as the
sponsored um item as the mayor I have the right and it's thing to search different and have a conversation with the city manager and it is the city manager's position and the attorney to figure out how to you know do it legally and do whatever that they need to do CU there's nothing that was done improper
or illegal whatever anybody don't anybody sit here and say they do not have recommendation on on lobbyists um and this and this and that because yes we do because even the current one that we have right now I'm the one who came in and recommended when I was a council person they came to me and Mr Kazo was
working for them so do and they are various different opinions on different lobbyist so this is not what this is about so every lobbyist what whatever whatever the case is that this is for the benefit of the city I do agree with every council person and I will feel
uncomfortable also if I did not have those question that was mentioned here answered but I I do believe we already way past um the point of maybe no return because of some of the comments that was
made here tonight and this is just a reminder this is a political body um thank you with that um and let's just um delay this Mr Mayor yes question toward the toward the city manager what is your deadline on the
application we not yet let's finish okay well he just asked to table both those items and I'm concerned that I I want to respect the mayor and Mr I just thought that you you you you were what I thought
is that somebody had recommended to you that this firm could help us you know because you have you have a network of other Mayors and cities that do water plants are like listen this firm's really great the only question and that I wanted to ask representatives of that firm if they were going to be here is I
see what you do in Florida and if I needed somebody in Florida you would be the firm if I needed somebody in and in Washington DC tell me why you're the firm that's what I would have asked them tonight and they could have said listen we could do this this and that and I
would and and they would have made their case and we would have voted our way it had nothing to do that for me that your name somehow or another was attached to it so don't don't ever don't think that but um that's a separate thing that's just a another you 100% And I agree with
councilman um FR SP Charles and also you know councilwoman ese Irving the my little frustration was I had gave the administration enough information to grief and to bring these people that's
the job of you know to bring the lobbyist firm in that's the job it's not my job I just come and make recommendations like you say this could be done because I didn't know the firm and I made it very clear and I and they knew how I came with the firm and what
we needed to do in order for us to do that so the fact that we were even having this conversation when I saw it was and when I when I heard that it was you know because I was going through a lot on on last Tuesday but I did I you know I asked someone a neighbor you know
that was paying attention what happened he told me it was delayed whatever the case is and you know I didn't think I'm like why you know it was just and I kind of felt maybe people didn't get the information that did not understand the seriousness or how this all came about
um but it this is where we are but so I'm just saying whatever that you may think this is totally we are in Jeopardy and and US losing $100,000 I'm going be very comfortable saying that it will be
throwing it away if we don't do what we needed to do and even that's not even a guarantee where we are right now I'll say it like that and leave it where we are thank you if you give oh go no I just went to motion to table no quickly give me if you allow me um just one
minute um I have like I stated I have nothing against the firm and as all of you may know when it comes to our water treatment plan I am 100% committed but
we need to have the information you let me put it that way as a kid if I have a favor mom just give me a tent on I'm not going to question now as an adult if you said that I need to take a time out going to I have to
ask you why not Veil or something else so the point is that we need to have the information we need to know exactly the kind of work that the firm is um has done before which city and we're talking about our INF infrastructure to which one that they've been working on so that
we have all the information and then we can move forward I am okay with the with everything but I need to have the information so that I can ask the prop questions and for something like that we need to have the applicant and ask question and know exactly what we're doing and where we headed so that's
that's my that's my uh point in here and um so I made a motion to table um so a motion was previously made by okay the mayor so and I second are you seconding yeah okay that motion was to table which items and that it's important Tye tab H
tab so or originally it was h and L it was H and the next item is what was said but then it seems that in conversation the mayor may have clarified tab H alone so I have the G now and actually the
next item would have been not the one he was speaking about so I would just uh um so we have a motion in a second can we call H on tap H correct Madam clerk I just want to correct my notes before I speak sure
thank you I have a motion made by councilwoman estimate Irvin to table the item at tab H the motion was seconded by councilman Charles all in favor I any opposed item passes with a 30 Z vote tab I tab I a proposed resolution of the
city council of the city of North Miami Florida urging the Florida state legislature to enact legislation to provide a public records exemption for municipal clerks and employees who perform Municipal elections work or have any part in Code Enforcement function of a city providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab ey tab ey is
not open for public comment tab I CIA Paso 13504 Northeast 23rd Place so if I'm understanding this correctly um if I want any public records city clerk's office no longer going to handle it that has nothing to do with that we just ask your question and then it'll be
answer later well I wanted to continue to city clerk's office cuz I like that office a lot they're very professional friendly I actually renewed my passport last Friday and I I walked in there very friendly helpful nice I sent my brother today he too went in there and when your
mom goes my mom with my brother she's like very friendly people there so every time I've interacted with that office they're very professional they on time to answer your questions so I think for people like me who don't know that much and others How the City Works it's great to have that office that they're very
custom are friendly so I wanted to stay that way thank you public hearing is still open public hearing is now closed um Madam city clerk would you mind explaining what the resolution is please so essentially it's a resolution asking
that the personal information of city clerks or city clerk staff be exempt from public records so things like addresses especially or more specifically be kept from public record disclosure or redacted when public records are shared uh just for the
Safety and Security of Municipal clerks who engage in election or code enforcement work thank you so much um I ready to open public hearing any discussion on the dice can I get a motion to to
move second all right I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at top I the motion was seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed the item passes with with the 30 Z vote tab J tab j a proposed resolution of the mayor and
City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving the Second Amendment to the city of North Miami citizens participation plan to update the reference to the assessment of fair housing parenthesis afh to include the analysis of impediments to fair housing parenthesis AI update of newspaper
advertising to allow for online notification expand the use of existing meetings that are open to the public to gain Consolidated plan and annual action plan public input expand meeting format to be in person virtual or both and expand meeting platforms to include existing and any
other platforms that may become available and accessible to the public providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab J thank you m s measures their presentation short presentation please thank you our director of Housing and
Social Services is here to make that presentation good evening mayor oh he's not here good evening good evening members I Bazil housing and Social Services director this item basically um there is a mandate for all federal
programs to have citizen participation uh it was established we adopted that back uh in October 2015 we amended it in 2020 to allow us to shorten certain period due to covid
now we are up for 5 years consolidate plan we need to amend a again this time to provide for hybrid meetings uh virtual meetings uh continue in person uh we having issue
with some publication I believe the clerk can help me with that some papers you know are not authorized we're not authorized to advertise with them anymore so we have to use CD platform Miami dat County platform so basically
is to offer different Avenue for to inform the citizen and for the citizen to participate thank you so much public hearing is now open Veronica Gusman 540 Northwest 127th Street I had the pleasure of attending an HOA meeting with Miss um where Miss
Bazil spoke and I think it's very important um to be able to better engage citizens or residents to provide other formats or venues for them to be able to hear and learn and um what's going on and what programs are out there so I am
all for whatever platforms are needed in order to get more citizens engaged thank you thank you Claudia pass me 13504 Northeast 23rd Place I also agree I'm one of the people that every year apply for the grant program but every year I learn something
and I'm also being on communication so whatever this department needs to make sure that all the residents aware of all the the benefits they can get from this department I support thank you public hearing is still open see none it is closed move for approval all right is
there a second second all right I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at tab J the motion was seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed item passes with a three Zer vote tab k a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida
authorizing the city manager to execute a reinstatement and First Amendment to PCS site agreement in substantially the attached form between the city of North Miami as landlord and Metro PCS Florida LLC as tenant for the cell tower site located at 776 Northeast 125th Street in
North Miami Florida providing for an effective date and all other purposes T Care thank you public hearing is now open public hearing is now open seeing none it's closed is there a motion for t k second all right call a question I
have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at tabk the motion was seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed the motion carries yes yes yes item passes with a four zero
vote lease tab l a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the submittal of a letter of interest and authorizing the inim city manager to submit an application for financial assistance from the water infrastructure finance and Innovation
act wiia program for the Nomi Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project further authorizing the payment of an application fee in the amount of $100,000 providing forign effectivity and all other purposes have L public yeah no well presentation and
then we'll do public hearing there's no presentation okay it's just is is okay so this is the so this is the item what we were discussing earlier this is for us to be able to pay our application fee to submit our with your loan we are not
submitting the application immediately but upon paying that fee it allows us to keep the window open for us to keep to submit the application the deadline to pay that fee is March 31st 2025 if we do not pay that fee we're not allowed to make our application which means we're
no longer able to seek this funding anymore for for our water plant he when the the item March 31st 2025 no time public hearing is Clos on the item
discussion move for approval second I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at have L the motion was seconded by councilwoman estate Iran all in favor any opposed item passes with a 4 Z vote um hold on hold on Madam so with with
this with that item um unfortunately we were late because of um the the rate studies that we needed to do I'm I'm assuming this is why so again we are in a charted territory mhm it's not looking
too good so I would the other item was um pushed back correct or what was the action yeah do what we got to do um so that we all will be on the same P it doesn't look like we are and and I would in in invite you and
and the city manager and then you know to make sure that the council people you know so we could have a a game plan I'll continue briefing the Council on Tab H thank you so much Madam manager yes thank you ma'am and and also uh if I may end that s line of thought um I think
about three weeks ago we said that um M manager that um black and V was going to provide the report to us that's like was like three weeks the the rate study that was like 3 weeks ago what is happening the rate study was concluded we just got those results on FR on Thursday I
believe or on Friday we are preparing internally to be able to schedule a workshop with you all to be able to share the results so that we can apprise you but we literally just got the rate studies um the results of the rate study from the consultant this past week so you have the result can can you get a
copy of it um before that yes we're comping we're compiling the information so that we can share it with you so that we're able to update the counc and make sure that you're fully abast of everything that is happening take about how long two days 3 days no it's can get it on
Friday no that's fine I'm just fishing that's fine no big deal so if not Friday we get it Monday as soon as the report is ready we will be sharing with coun there's no there's no benefit to the administration holding information from Council the the reason
why I am so eager to see uh that report is like as the mayor said it that water treatment plan is an emergency so it's like we don't have time to waste we have to move on we have to do what we got to do and know exactly
what we're going to do that's that's the only reason so uh I'll be more than happy to have it in front of me before I go in that meeting with these people because I it is it is so hard because you don't even know what kind of question to ask it's like you just sitting in here they present it to you
and then that's where you just trying to um put all the information together so that that would be nice that's that's what I'm asking thank you mayor I need your vote on T ey no Lord are you probably lobbying they just said no go
ahead item um I yes you're in favor no no oh oh wait a minute um oh it I already passed yes yes yes yes yes I'm sorry and then tab J yes okay something good right yes so both items will be recorded as
for zero votes no is gone tab n a proposed first reading ordinance of the city of North Miami Florida amending Article 4 employees retirement system ordinance number 691 and Article 5 North Miami
Police Pension Plan ordinance number 748 amending section 15- 95 parentheses 4 to permit lump sum distributions for all members of the singerman plan amending section 15-34 parentheses 5 to permit lump suum distributions for all members of the police plan providing for
inclusion in the code providing for severability providing for a repealer and providing for an effective date tap end so good evening um mayor city council for the record Laura Woodley Personnel director through the city manager um
before you tonight for first reading is a proposed amendment of The Claire singleman and the police pension ordinance this amendment will allow um retirees to elect a lumpsum payment of 100% currently our retirees can elect
only up to 99% % so that 1% stays on the book and it's an administrative burden um because the pinion um administrators have to cut a DI Minimus payment every month 105 $20 um for that 1% so we're
asking that we can amend a ordinance so that way they can elect like said retirees 100% of a lumpsum payment is open sorry public hearing is on the item thank you so much missley public hearing is closed um May yes
second um just just I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm okay with it just just um ask the same question and then I got the answer just just um just want to make sure that so this basically is not going to um affect our um that just come straight
from the um pension plan right that's correct so there should be no finan impact I do have the pension attorney with me tonight um we have ordered an actuary study um which we'll have before the second reading but there's no Financial impact These funds are already
in the pension plan it's just that like I said the retirees can only elect right now up to 99% so that 1% stays on the books and they have to like that process payments every month for that 1% this will allow them to take 100% lumpsum payment and it moves them off the books
okay all right thank you I have a question yes sir have a question um under section 15- 134 you blacklined out on number two however employees who were first who became members on or after October 2004 shall not be elig eligible
for this lump sum um is that because we we joined the state um program or or why is that so I will have the pension plan attorney um explained he has more historical context to
that good evening everyone attorney Adam levenson from the law fir clausner Kaufman Jensen levenson excellent question so long story short it's a historical artifact so back in 2004 that was before my time the plan used to allow 100% lump sums but they prohibited
it in 2004 so all we're doing is we're turning the clock back to prior to 2004 which is why in my view this is one of the easiest ordinances it's the it's the perfect ending of a night uh so uh the Actuarial report which you'll have for second reading and I I can't speak as an
actu because I'm not but we'll say it's our own money we're just paying it out all at one time as Oppo as opposed to requiring you know these small little drips over time so it's a win-win for everybody and it brings us back to pre2 2004 I hope that answers your question it does it does thank
you thank you so much I think it it's already been um moved in second um I have a motion made by councilwoman estimate Urban to approve the item at tab end the motion was seconded by by the mayor vice mayor Timothy is absent mayor dese how do you vote Yes
councilman Charles how do you vote councilman councilman Charles how do you vote Yes councilwoman estimate Irvin how do you vote Yes councilman Burns how do you vote Yes the motion carries with a 4 Z vote thank you thank you thank you thank you thank
you so much we did pretty okay guys um vice mayor you could um okay sure I'll I'll ask that we um defer the discussion um since vice mayor Cassandra Timothy is not here um so the next item would be uh regarding the north Miami stavan
bleachers um councilman Burns okay thank you I'm wanted to discuss tonight the bleacher situation that we have at North Miami Stadium however we have a uh um
meeting with the company that um I would would like to have first and then we'll come back and have that conversation with the the city council U maybe at the next meeting or the following one um but we have a um all the players are going
to be around the table to discuss this uh bleacher situation that ex has has existed for six years however since I have a a moment to for just discussing a couple things I've been out well so how about we just turn it now that you're
not discussing anymore we'll just turn it to your report so this is your report go ahead all right jump into report um before you jump into the report and and support to uh to that um item the discussion item that even though we just going to more you're talking about the
the bleachers I am 100% with you on that think got to be done mhm this is unacceptable in the great city of North Miami and it's been lingering for too long and also we have a lightning situation over there too at the at the
stadium uh it is like Peach black uh I was at the game U you know I don't exactly how the goalie was able to see what is happening because like was all all black so I think that's uh something that we need to um work on and uh and then I am willing to participate and um
appr just send them over so that I can talk to them have that conversation and see exactly how we can move because that's such a beautiful stadium and it's like a disservice to to our city when you when you all hear of all the ups and downs over the last six years about that
Stadium you'll be flabbergasted and tonight's not the night to do it let's get all the answers from the sou person but so that's it so we'll table that for another night under my coun Council report I would encourage my fellow board
members to go around to many of the parks that we have in this city Enchanted Forest it's it's embarrassing what the facilities the shape that they're in the lack of uh not
enough man labor to to do all the work that they need to do so when budget season comes up we really need to to work on that there's a there's a pavilion where the roof has collapsed I know they're out trying to get a a roofing bid um me I would have escalated
that to a emergency situ situation because that thing has been closed off for months and months and months um the facilities are are one building they're really working on and almost got it ready to go and that'll be exciting but that Park and one of the community
benefits that I had asked for was an investment into that park because of invasiv and so forth so uh species so uh hopefully we'll turn more attentions to those those Parks but the stadium I went back out there again today um it's not
just the the bleachers it's just not the uh the lighting it's it's the fencing it's just the overall everything and I don't know if it's the the fault of the administration or in administration I'm saying the council by do directing the amount the amount of money that really
needs to go into these facilities we have great great facilities and we have to take care of them and I remember a city manager 30 40 years ago said um Kevin cities can build anything they want and as big as they want but you
know what 2 3 years 5 years later you got to maintain them you got to replace the AC systems you got to paint you got to do so forth and he says that's the hard part he goes anybody can build a building he goes but it's maintaining that it's going to exist for the next 20 30 40 years so hopefully in the next
couple weeks I'll come back with a solution or an understanding of how we're going to rectify the stadium and bring it back up um the football uh ATM only has football games in the daytime there spoke with the principal again today North Miami Senior High
School doesn't use that Stadium uh anymore Northman Beach doesn't use it um and it and it's embarrassing that we've allowed it to to get that way and um I think we we can all work together to make sure that uh we bring that Stadium back to what it what it is and um I look
forward toing that I do want to remind everybody um it is Irish American Heritage Month um and for some the Irish folks out here um and um again if you missed it in the uh announcements we're having a uh pre- Irish day uh festival
at the Keystone top lot in in park um come on out from 3:00 to 7:00 there'll be some music there'll be some food there'll be some entertainment and uh it it should be a fun day and I want to take thank the city staff and so forth for uh uh doing that also um last week
we had the mocha Gala and I have to say mocha put on a very nice outstanding event and there was a surprise guest that appeared uh Deon Warwick appeared and performed which was very surprising
and for 82 years old she could still belt out the the tunes and her son was with her and he's quite talented on his own and so it was a very very pleasant very nice uh gallet that they they put on and I wish their their new board of
directors and so forth uh um much luck and um um they can count us on being supportive of mocha I know some of the staff members were able to be there and enjoy themselves and again it's one of the shining stars that we have within the city of North Miami and we should do
whatever we need to do to uh protect uh the mocha and the Legacy that it has that's all I have to right now Madam councilman thank you councilman Pier fsts all right thank you very much and um thank you um everybody for this
wonderful night and um I I had a such a long report but I am not going to go into it and I'll follow um councilman B burns into the um situation with the parks I think we probably need to start thinking on putting more money into our
Parks because um the situation is not um welcoming into some of them and even some as like not so costly as garbage Canin in those parks and I've been talking
about that for 2 years two years and um they ugly husty and um you know we we have to do to do better as I said for the bleachers at FIU um we need to move as fast as we can
and fix that because this is unacceptable um also we have um a JCC we have a I don't know exactly what's happening with the with the trailers probably they need to be replaced they cannot be fixed anymore
it's like AC is not sustaining um we need to um take a look into that uh one and I I am going to ask um Administration to bring this item as a discussion item for our next meeting
um tree triming um tree triing we you know um as everybody know that I'm a Christian and I pray a lot we've been praying we've been lucky and everything but now we need as Leaders we need to make sure
that we work in a way that not if when something happen we don't have to go back and do so much work the trees we need to train them some of them got branches all the way to people people's house and everything so we need to have a serious conversation about um our
trees the other thing is that in this season we got a lot of dead leaves from the trees they fall well into our drinks so also we need to have a plan on how to clean them up now before the raining
season because what we experience in June of last year we don't want to see anything closed like that as that in our city so those are things that we need to start working have a good plan because the hurricane season is coming we are
not going to wait until something happen God forbid for us to react so we have to plan accordingly and make sure that we have everything in place and uh work to um um give the best that we can to our resident So to that uh and manager I'm
asking that on the next um Council meetings so we have um Tre triming as a discussion item so that we know exactly I know there was a company that we um Grant a contract it was in here and nothing has been done so we need to know
exactly where we at because we have to make sure that we are take care of our trees before um you know something happened and then now we have to go back and uh work so much and explain to our resident why uh we are in
this kind of situation um just want to say um congratulation to vice mayor for the grand opening of the bridge swep and I have to tell you ladies and gentlemen uh every time I you know every time I drive by just put a
big smile on my face to see the kids are playing and then everything the am out of fun that they have this is um it's a great great great project um Council woman thank you thank you very much and then I think with that we need to add at
least one or two more to our city because the kids really really love it they love it they love it they love it so um again we just want to um keep our mayor and his family and uh and our prayers you know uh just last Saturday
it just um was the funeral of his uh lovely uh mother and a good friend a good friend of mine because this is a lady who will call me day in and day out want to have a conversation and the last conversation that we have was like two about 2 and 1 half weeks before she
passed and she was a very very good lady never stopped thinking about everybody in here hard to help and and again you know in this kind of situation after everything is said and done everybody is gone you all by yourself I was there about 5 years ago
and uh this is the time that you need all the support and prayers and everything so please keep our meor and your prayers and then the last thing I want to invite everybody next Saturday Saturday the 22nd would be at judon for our nice day of fun councilman B you
need to come some 12 from 12 to 4: so it's going to be a fun day so everybody's invited please please bring the kids I love to see all of them and then we're just going to have fun um Christine you I know you're going to be there so so please Mike don't forget about it March
22nd thank you very much and um thank you everybody and good night thank you Kevin B I forgot the an important announcement because a lot of people have been emailing me um and I don't know if the council people know that the White House and project has come to a stop um they
have stopped the sales of the condominium project um they are regrouping they are still uh in the process of demol demolishing they have an active permit and the building department is making sure that they
complete the demolition um within the time frame of their permit and that the site is uh covered or is uh closed up according to their their permit the principles met with staff and myself uh
last week to to discuss it and they are going to come back at some point in time with what their future holds for that site as you know it's very visible uh was very contentious it was a very uh um long fought approval process for that
project and they have numerous reasons of why it was not successful at this point and um but all I can tell the residents assure them that the site will be cleaned up um within the next uh two months they told us and it will be uh uh
leveled out the way um the city permits uh requires them to be um other than that we do not know what their future endeavors are are but we will keep you informed thank you thank you thank you before I do my report or anybody else
citizen forum is open 540 Northwest 127th Street um I just wanted to say two things what happened a couple of uh items ago I think was completely unprofessional um I think we continue continue to see
elected officials coming to these meetings and not being prepared I received an email five days ago saying there was a city meeting I think it's up to each and every one of you to do your homework and say okay what's going to be on the agenda and just be more prepared
because I think it's a disservice to the residents and to the the members of our community who come to these meetings you're representing us and we don't want to be here 5 hours um going back and forth I think it's something that should have been handled internally and we want to see better in the future um secondly
I want to end on a good note I want to say thank you to councilman Burns and to councilman Charles for the two meetings that I did attend um the condo law meeting and the immigration meeting I think it was very um educative I think it's great things um to see our elected
officials bring people bring professionals that can answer the questions that you guys can't answer so that the um City can be better informed the residents can be better informed um and make informed decisions about what they're going to be doing with their future thank you Claudia pass me to 135 1354
Northeast 23rd Place and yes I do agree you guys get the agenda on Thursday you have all day Friday Monday and Tuesday so Friday you should review it reach out to the Departments whever hopefully get a reply by Monday or Tuesday but it's not fair that I understand the mayor he
had a family emergency so but everybody else and it's not the first meeting several meetings you should not be saying this is the first I hear of it if it comes out on a Thursday also um being that this women's History Month I want to give kudos to several people in the city obviously all
the department heads are great especially the females but um I have a thank you that I want to say to Christine because I know that during the Thanksgiving Day Parade she was awesome she helped me and my mother get on stage also I believe um Council woman and your father was one of somebody else that was
on stage um Miss Blanco so she was very attentive to those of us on stage as well as doing her job constantly she'll disappear and come back and have bottle of waters so I'm like wow she's multitasking she's attentive to the elderly people on the stage So Christine I don't know if I ever said that to you but thank you I appreciate that uh I
mentioned it earlier today um city clerk your office her name is Taisha like I seen her face but I don't you know but she was very friendly she saw me walked in she know me by name I'm like oh how embarrassing Everybody Knows My Name cuz I'm always complaining and she was very friendly I went to the
outside um I went outside to pay my $35 fee and there was a um police officer the lady behind the glass and somebody else as I'm in line waiting to pay somebody came in said I'm new to here I need to get my utilities activated a nice voice I don't know who other the
three told him where to go somebody came in say I apply for such and such position who do I follow up with and as I'm standing there I'm like oh wow they're doing their job I'm listening so I just wanted to let you guys know you do have great staff as a gentleman said earlier there's a great staff there's a great Community here so that's why I'm
always fighting and saying these are the people you should be concerned about those of us are here fulltime thank you citizen forum is open seeing none it's closed um councilman Pier you want to say something no no quickly um thank you
very much just want to make something clear the question was not about whether or not we did our homework I think you guys take it to a different level I am going to tell you I Pier frch
councilman of District 4 even take my item to the school that I work and sit down on my lunch time and go over everything and you go in here looking at my B you'll see yellow marks all over so we do our homework but not
everything so the question was about being withed so I want to you guys to understand the difference being with on the item just on the item is just not basically you you read it to me but I have all the
information so that I can inform myself and ask question and that was the point so we don't come in here like just I'm I'm a very good student before before coming to school at a very young age I need to know
everything that is about my lesson so please don't don't don't just do it like that we do our we do our homework in here so please so it's not that we just come in here and then we just get in for no that's not the way it is so please I just want I just want to um correct it
for for the record so we do our due diligence and sit down and look at the agenda before we come in here all right it's 9:56 if we can make all the reports short please Madam city clerk hi everyone so I typically don't
respond directly and publicly to comments but thank you so much Claudia I appreciate that and I do want to say that uh Taisha and Kai not only do I get a lot of compliments about those two but it they just recently celebrated their birthday so happy birthday to both of
them and I also want to say a huge thank you to mocha the Galla was amazing I don't enjoy dressing up to go to Fancy but that was a beautiful one I had a really really great time excited to
celebrate my Irish side at your event yeah I'm by DNA I'm Irish but zero cultural connection so excited to explore that and of course it is women's history month and so for at least this
month the rest of the month let's leave behind some mem girl energy y'all know I don't like it and and let's really not only celebrate and honor each other but continue to uplift and fight for the struggles that remain to be fought for
especially when it comes to gender equity and that's it thank you see attorney report no report so I have a I have a question um based on the item that I believe is going to come on the next
meeting for uh that was tab G in reference to the search um I know that the my understanding is that in the contract whatever happens to the city manager also affects the attorney is that correct could you clarify that for
me please I'm not sure what section what are you what section are you referring to are there any res are there any correlation between the city manager's contract and the city attorney's contract uh yes the only correlation between my contract and the city manager's contract is I have a clause in
my contract that says that I will not be paid less than the city manager okay okay so i' I'd like to now what is because I know it's your contract so what's the proper term to if we'd like to renegotiate that
contract my contract correct you can renegotiate it you can terminate me you can do whatever you want I mean I don't I don't know what you mean that that Clause is in my contract correct so if you want to negotiate you can re open up renegotiations with me if
You' like okay so right so I'd like for that to be brought up in our next council meeting please you do understand there an agreement right that the city has executed which unless I agree to it it
can't be Chang so you can negotiate okay I can tell you right now that's not a clause I'm willing to renegotiate all right so we'll have that conversation and we can bring that up in the next council meeting thank you
um so um Madame City City attorney I mean I'm sorry Madame city manager I have no report this evening okay so um I'll go ahead and say
again happy women's um History Month I'd like to thank all of the people that participated in in the opening and in in the whole process for Bree tolot the community so happy I'd like to publicly thank public works i' like to publicly
thank um parks and wreck um Department I'd like to especially thank the resident of District 3 for their patients and all of the of of North Miami residents for their patient the park is now open um just have questions on when that covering the safety
covering when will that be placed a lot of residents are asking about that and they're also asking about a bathroom um for the park so regarding the covering I have been working closely with the parks director and the Public Works director we did receive proposals and now we're working on pricing so that we can
understand what it's going to cost as soon as we have that from the vendor then we'll be able to let you know an estimated time of when it can actually be put forth on the park I do know that funding has already been secured so we just need to get the cost estimate from
the vendor regarding the bathroom I need to have further conversations with staff on that because that is more than just a covering that is going to be for the bathroom have discussion and bring it back and let us know because that has been a a demand day one on on the first
one we opened up people were already asking us about a covering in the bathroom um residents were asking us you know and that's basically all just want to thank all of you for being here in person and attending and whoever is watching thank you for attending um can I have a motion to adjourn so move
second all in favor I have a motion made by councilman Charles to adjourn seconded by councilwoman estimate Irvin all in favor any opposed motion carries with a 30 vote the time is now