##VIDEO ID:XySvqHwaNes## councilwoman Timothy here councilman Charles pres Mary of a to pro thank you so much Madam clerk we're going to have the Pledge of Allegiance by Major kesla Brook of the north Mar Police Department followed by invocation by one of my favorite pastor Pastor jelan Baker of the way of holding this Outreach Ministry and then we'll take it from there please join me in a pledge of allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please remain standing a prosperous glorious Happy New Year to each and everyone let us pray father we thank you for bringing us into a new year we thank you for the elected mayor and the council as a whole we ask you father to Grant your guidance your wisdom and your knowledge as the council deliberates tonight's agenda unite their hearts father to continue to work in the best interest of our magnificent City grant them the ability to listen with Open Hearts considering all perspectives and making decision that will serve the best interest of North Miami your promise to the counsel father is that if they will acknowledge you you will direct their PA paths we declare that everything tonight will be done decently and in order and every aspect of this goverment body will honor you in your righteous name we pray amen indeed thank you so much Pastor Waker um order of business Madam manager any addition to the agenda deltion Amendment or deferrals yes good afternoon um good evening mayor on number nine the two discussion items are being asked to be pulled tonight you said number nine yes so request petitions and Communications the discussion items that are listed are being requested to be pulled for tonight's agenda you is that it additionally there is an uh a request for an add-on by councilman Burns yes what is the add-on it's the uh appointments um they're fully in order oh for a board appointments would we need um a vote for it to be add on Mr attorney uh yes mayor um according to section 2-17 of the uh code ordinance you need a super majority actually yeah four affirmative votes okay no problem so and were they all um vetted yes they happen okay thank you I I have a question why weren't they put on the agenda and why are they're being add added on now what time were they submitted were they submitted a timely fashion okay no they well again when an add-on is bought to the council it's because it wasn't bought by the um deadline and so the council has under the code the authority to authorize putting it on the agenda um I guess the the clerk and I can go into what happened but um councilman U Burns explained to me uh yesterday afternoon that he had that there were individuals who had applied um and who had been vetted um by the clerk who had uh for whatever reason the email didn't was never sent to our office to prepare the resolutions um so we never prepared the resolutions I spoke to the the clerk um the assistant clerk um they went back looked through their files and whatever names they gave us today or yesterday we worked on it today prepared the items today you know my my advice to councilman Burns was to wait till the 28th but you know he has the right to bring it to uh to the council as an add-on and you have the right to either accept it or deny it there was a bit of May I Dre the mayor um just the miscommunications on our part um the people applied online they're volunteering they were vetted most of them are reappointments to the same boards um and boards are lacking quorums um the miscommunication was sending the information up to the city uh man uh city attorney's office for these uh resolution step um they got that resolved so all the resolutions are in order all the vetting is in order um these people like to volunteer and get on to the board starting as soon as tomorrow night so it's just uh trying to add it on if they have to wait another week to volunteer and do some of the community work so be it but I would appreciate if we could get them appointed all right Mr um mayor burn um thank you it we do yes I'm sorry I just had one thing um because I know there's some that are district one and there are some that are reappointed to at large some of those I do have questions for um so I don't know what we want to do but so if if I may I I will not be supportive of this not because I don't agree with that and I said this in the last time we need to change the process if we're going to change the process where we can in a meeting just add on committee I have no issue with that but um you know I guess people don't want to get into details it seems like it wasn't submitted in the timely fashion and I don't want this to be a presedent where we're doing this so I will not be um supporting this um tonight not because again Kevin you know I we spoke about well we spoke publicly about this that you know I I think that we should at any time be able to support put appoint a board member but that's not our process now so if it didn't meet the deadline I'd like it to be just added on to the January 28th um C can I uh any any um Council no no no I just um quickly uh I I just don't see why washing to those um boards we are going to go to to the stet process I got a list of names um and I submitted them about what about a week or so ago and I'm just waiting to go to the proper vetting process so that we do things in order and um taking care of business of the city so I don't I don't see I don't mind I don't have anything any problem whatsoever against the names that I'm seeing in here but the fact of the matter we need to uh you know follow the prop procedure and doing those um appointments okay with that being said as as chair of of of the of this body um we we have a lot of important issues to discuss and I do not think that adding this or just getting folks on we have a lot to do guys and and I I did not even expect this little back and forth on some names on people who wants to volunteer on our boards we don't even have the folks whatever the case is yes the processes wasn't followed the the clerk acknowledged the attorney we move on we are here to resolve and work with the residents and do what we got to do this you know we just trying to get this to move on whatever the case is um I understand but when you start the process two weeks ago to appoint somebody now you have to vet them then they got to go up to the city attorney's office to write a resolution um it gets cumbersome and you can actually miss out on appointing people whether these people get appointed tonight or two weeks from now isn't going to make a big difference but don't complain when a committee or a board can't meet because they can't meet Quorum and these aren't people that are strangers these are trying to mooch a chairman mooch a vice chairman these are people that you all know that have been doing this work and so if Bo of adjustment and whatever do May fine it can happen hon no no no honestly I Mr Mayor EXC just one point of privilege um councilman Burns um I know you are this is the second time you refer to um councilmen bur and mayor bur so it's not it's Council so now it's councils just um just wanted to uhy that hard to to Break um again to to move on we have a a full agenda we up and down vote and just move on forward it is what it is and we and we move forward um I just kind of I think mayor if I may clarify City attorney to in order to add this on it's a four fifth votes that's requested yes yes ma'am okay so but has has that always been in the past yes Charter I just want to just put on record what my issues are like I have no issues with your district one appointments but for Charter boards where there are at large appointments that the whole Council has to be comfortable with um with the downtown action committee with the Personnel Board just want to make sure that um I want to make sure Personnel doesn't say well that one is district one just want to make sure those are actual District one's appointments I don't have issues with those but those that are at Large LGE um I would like to um I I just would like to make sure that there weren't others that applied that didn't get a chance as well all right thank you so much um M Madam clerk um let's get a a vote you don't have to bother voting I'll just withdraw it we'll put it on the next meeting okay all right so the motion is withdrawn thank you next we are we going to get to special presentation we got our quarterly budgeted budget and finance report and then City event followed by so is number seven mayor ma'am if I may uh could we still make the appointments that we're ready to proceed today I was just going to ask that yeah so I guess we're not okay so that was the appointment okay that that makes sense so Mr attorney is are we set yes mayor the agenda is set you may proceed thank you so much okay Madam Reyes you're up Happy New Year thank you I I see my name is Angela Reyes I am the Chief Financial Officer and through the um interim city manager this is the third and fourth quarter Finance report on the record these are unaudited numbers for now but this is how we approximately ended our year in the third quarter we had an accumulation of $27.7 million of amended to the budget more than 50% of that were due to PO rollovers which are encumbered projects already from prior years and in the fourth quarter we had an accumulation of $8.5 million amended to the budget and that was due to our CRA bonds and our po rollovers here we can see an overview of our third quarter key revenue streams and expense allocations by fund type we have our general fund that came in at 64% a little under what we um wanted to shoot for we have the Enterprise fund that came at 40% and our special Revenue funds that came in at 37% this is an addition to the revenue streams and expenditures by fund type we have our half Center tax at 37% our debts at 177% and our capital projects at 133% and internal services at 62% in the fourth quarter our fund type our general fund fund type came in at at 98% and an accumulation of all the fund types came in at 62% our Enterprise fund came in at 57% special Revenue funds came in at 32% our half cent fund tax came in at 53% our debts were 100% which is great we were able to pay all of those our capital projects came in at 16% and our internal services at 82% and here's our third quarter general fund breakdown of Revenue and expenditures by categories as you can see our taxes came in over the amount at 18% and we had a total accumulation on at the third quarter at 71% for revenues in our expenditure category we came in at 64% our fourth quarter general fund revenue and expenses by car category breakdown in the fourth quarter our property taxes came in at 109% and an accumulation of 98% of General funds and our expenditure categories came in at 98% here we have a third quarter general fund break balance breakdown by the department at the third quarter our at the third quarter our general fund breakdown by Department came in at 64% and in the fourth quarter everyone came in at 98% by department now this is our cash balances for third and fourth quarter in the third quarter we did well but then the Cyber attack came and then at the fourth quarter we ended at at a negative 15% and this was due to the Cyber attack when we were not able to Bill and collect cash we were down for quite a bit I think four to six weeks there so we did come in in a -15.6 million here here we have the balance tracking over time and even though I would say I'm happy to say that we had this negative accumulation of $15 million we do we still came in about 25% higher than last year in our cash revenues our cash balances this slide goes over the factor the contributing factors of our net overall uh cash and in the third quarter we had a net operating overall ra decrease of $992,000 I'm sorry 99200 th000 and in the fourth quarter is when we really feel the dip in August and September for those two months that we were dealing with the uh cyber incident just giving you a few minutes to review it and that is it for my presentation thank you thank you um I do have one question for you but I'll open it up to council members I do go ahead Council woman thank you mayor um my first question how are we doing with collectibles in terms of the delinquent condo units and I remember we're going after them for the 15 Milli for the 15 million that was outstanding so it was actually $1 million that was outstanding and we're um doing pretty good still we did come over approximately $4 million higher than the prior year so you'll see our receivables decrease substantially this year so our collection efforts are working okay thank you for that um in terms of arpa I see that we still have 152,000 left I I thought we had like a timeline on when we were supposed to utilize all of arpa funding so this is not left y this is the okay that money is now gone that money is now gone just want to make sure just want to make sure you should be sending no money back to the federal government correct and then my last question was um non-departmental was at 157% um yeah yeah so that was um where we purchased the Scott Galvin center from the the account comes from that non- departmental okay thank you no problem awesome anyone else go ahead councilman good afternoon Madam C and thank you for uh that report I just want to point quickly um just for um our next uh Finance report I would really really appreciate it if I could get this document a little early so that I can dive into it because you know numbers are very sensitive so that at least we have an idea of what we are going to uh look into and doubt it help us to um shape the better the conversation so uh just want to thank you for this uh report and and I think uh there is hope uh my first question will be um mhm do we have a dollar amount of the loss that um we take due to due to the Cyber attack so that is a spreadsheet that we it's in we're continuously working on with risk so that we can go ahead and collect what we lost so there is a revenue loss but we're still trying to quantify it with our lawyers and stuff so I don't have that number yet finalized all right thank you so but that what that did wipe out systems and such so yes and that should be first coming right yes okay um my other question when it come to utility building yes I I think um talking to a lot of Resident I think we are still like uh under the effect of the Cyber attack would that be a good assessment yes so um with all transparency we are manually reading meters manually inputting that data into Eden because the Cyber attack completely wiped out the software that Utility Billing uses for the handhelds and to import data into the software so we are currently we were at 90 days behind during the Cyber attack now we're at 60 days and I just received a report that we are looking to be caught up um within the next 30 60 days so we are looking to have actual uh information out to the public soon just to keep everyone a breast of what's Happening we're not doing any turn offs because of this so um and we'll work with you guys to see how we can mitigate these collections yeah yeah um because the reason why I asked you know the Cyber attack happened in um August right yes um we were crippled for about a month and then slowly we started backing up but now we in January and then still a lot of Resident have not received the utility bill correct so we what we were crippled Utility Billing was crippled for 3 months we were just be um able to start building again in November so that is why you're seeing such late utility bills going out Mar so um you know I just want to bring it up so that we can probably see exactly what we need to do in that aspect because we are losing Revenue every day by um delaying um those um Utility Billing yes but that's a that's we we can have the discussion on how we can mitigate those losses all right thank you very much thank you very vice mayor thank you thank you again for your presentation happy New Year thank you um question on the fourth quarter General funding review and expense by category yes the Mis miscellaneous Revenue that that's up by 266 per could you explain that so that is uh due to Grants and contributions so we have collectively if you look at that's the same amount in the third quarter too 2.4 it went up to 2.3 so we got another 300,000 so that's onetime revenues that we receive so these are mainly grants grants and onetime revenues and revenues okay MH okay is that it Vice man okay great my question is real simple um I know that looking at the revenue for um the uh the property taxes so I know it went up so that that's a good thing yes the difference between about I guess almost $2 million in the the different quarters I guess um amended so what is at at the 109 what does that obviously it's over 100 so how much money is that and so that normally the reason you see that uptick is because at the end of the year we get late payments from people who haven't paid their taxes and then they start to trickle in towards the end that's where you see the up take so okay awesome thank you thank you so much go ahead just looking at the sorry just looking at the third quarter general fund expensive by expenses by Department to the fourth quarter we see that a big jump in the third quarter we're at 64% yeah and then uh in the fourth quarter we at 98% that what explained that uh big jump between on the third and the fourth quarter that and the fourth quarter is when you get your last minute request to close out the year and people start to start you know making moves on their invoices and paying things and that's where you see the jump not to mention that we purchased the Scott galin Center in the fourth quarter okay which is the main reason why you see such a big jump from last year okay thank you no problem this yes go ahead sir um so this four quarters General fund expenditures everything that here is pretty much year end corre yes yes okay um out of uh and I and I'm not making a comment don't need a story back but of all those departments it seems like uh the building department and so forth are doing really really well with uh revenues and so forth and issuing permits and bringing that money but uh the only Department I see that went over their budget is the mayor and Council it's not for the discussion or questions now but definitely in the future i' like to see why that's happening thank you well let's I I want to get into that now I'll table that one okay okay um with that being said Thank you thank you so much thank you very much we shall continue City announcement is it Miss Smith or unia somebody okay Savannah Smith is coming with our city announcement good evening mayor council staff North Mii 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to date with Nomi news events and programs and services log on to North Miami's official website at www.north miami.gov click connect with n me on the homepage to sign up for the city's newsletters also follow us on Facebook and Instagram at North MFL on XF follow at Nomi news this concludes my city announcements thank you thank you oh thank you so much Miss Smith and now we are ready to get started Madame oh madame clerk so for appointments we have appointments to the following boards so appointing oido Deon to the flood plane management committee Claudia pasino to the Parks and Recreation Commission and Kenneth E to the Planning Commission is there a motion so move second I have a motion made by vice mayor estimate Irving to approve the board appointments as listed the motion was seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed the motion carries with a 5- z vote consent agenda unless a member of the city council wishes to remove a specific item from this portion of the agenda tabs a through e constitute the consent agenda these resolutions 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 e be adopted move for approval second I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the consent agenda the motion was seconded by mayor Des all in favor I any opposed the motion carries with a 5- z vote thank you so very much item um tab no tab f 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 man manager further calling for a Statewide and or Nationwide search for qualified candidates providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab thank you so much um I am a little surprised at the um thing but let's go to the maker of the motion councilman Burns what's going on let's start um we've had an acting city manager for the last Almost 6 months I believe it's time for us to either uh do a search and get a permanent manager and and move forward all this does is lets us uh move forward to start the search process which will take several months the process that we've used in the past is engaging a uh Head Hunter firm probably some that we have used in the past but our city is in limbo with interim individuals um throughout the ranks of the administration and I believe it's time for us to uh move forward to um pick a per city manager in the future whether it's the current one or if it's one we haven't seen or interviewed yet I know that the previous city manager was fired because some people didn't like the process that they just appeared and there wasn't a search I'm proposing we start a search to move the city forward to to get a permanent individual in that position whether it be the current person there or whatever the search reveals and I just want to know where we're at and we go from there mayor can I please thank you as the chair and the mayor of this city when I saw this um item which I don't have any issue with the item but I'm not in supportive of it because of the nature of it councilman Burns um normally that this would have been and any of us council members is under the charter um can obviously entitled to bring this but as the head of the city we usually have a discussion about it and we would decide on where to go I would had you know appreciate that respect for me as the mayor if that was the intent of the board whatever the case is which I would respect but to have an item you know like that and because this is the the the venue for us to discuss and plan and decide how we're moving the city forward um and I'm just saying that just for anyone so I really I you know I don't have any issue with it but I think that it should have been a discussion and then we could have decide as as a body on you know obviously yes it's been 6 months um we we we we we we are aware um of where where we got to go yes we do have to get a permanent um city manager and I think maybe we could you know that could be a discussion and we could talk about and I do agree it should be a national search and all and all in all in all fairness in terms of what's Happening um but I think it should at least all of us working together um you know hey this this the idea councilman um you know councilman Pier Charles had um an item a discussion item on whatever whatever the cases which was very appreciative what and I don't know what what what the item were were and there's methods or mechanism that we could do to promote at least working together in of one city because we are together and it could have been a sunshine meeting um and I would not prefer you know the sunshine I think the discussion um would have been the the appropriate path so with that being said I'm just one vote so it could go either way in terms of of that but I would have to appreciate a discussion of the process and we could you know discuss hey let's move on next meeting let's put it on let's do this let's do I do like National search and everything that that is in the resolution but that that was my only when I saw that I'm like well I think I am still the mayor of the city I think you know so it with with that being with that being said that that's just my per um position on on the particular item and we could revisit it and yes I will be putting something you know in the future on on us discussing the process and procedure on on on moving forward with that and and and everything you you have on your agenda I'll be we'll be part of our discussion in terms of that mayor May if I may I think go ahead counc is there is there is there anything that stops us right now from having a discussion on it's it's very simple it's not that difficult we either going to do a search for a manager or we're not and we'll move on but we're in limbo in this city and just we're going to discuss having a manager we know we need a manager how do you want to do the search you want to do a state search the national search very simple do we hire a firm don't hire firm so all I'm just saying is that to have a meeting to have a discussion about having a discussion we're here now it's on the agenda full public say listen let's this is what we want to do it's mayor burn it's not going to work out like that and and I'm going to be very real okay no no everybody know I'm very I'm very honest and open I sorry don't give me one second privilege again for the just for the record for the give me one second guys guys guys guys guys please may mayor we need to fix that I know you probably have to write it down we just keep on saying mayor Burns it's councilman Burns I'm just going to fix it every um go ahead thank you councilman for um sponsoring this item I actually was going to list it on the agenda as a discussion like we normally would have um to and I as a discussion so that we can see what what the colleagues felt about it because this is something that we all do um I actually wanted us to take a page from the CRA book that we did last time when we were looking for a CRA director that we review the job description I don't know if you guys had opportunity to review it but I did and the advertisement um the job description is missing I think some information it doesn't include years of you know Municipal experience which I think is key you don't want to just have anybody applying um because that that's what happened last time where we put out a job for the CRA director we had people applying for McDonald's because we forgot to list certain aspects in the do job description so I think we have to review the job description and the advertisement um and I also noticed that some of the qualif ifications I would like to see a little bit more um in terms of the qualification that we're requesting for a city manager and the last thing is the salary um I believe it's the same salary that we've been posting since 2016 when Larry spring was the city manager um I think we have some directors making that amount in our police well I'm not saying police chief but I just know that there's some people that are close to that salary so we just want to make sure that we're being competitive so these are things that I will you know like support in making sure that these things are listed and you want to congratulate our inim staff um for holding down the fort for the past seven months we had rain events we've had um flooding incidents and we're still here so that's a true Testament to the administration that we have in place now we're not in limbo the city is moving forward so thank you all righty um anyone else on the matter yeah uh mayor just want to say um thank you uh I am um in line with um exactly what the mayor said I think for an item such as the search for a city manager we can just go um and um not at least um bring it over to uh to the mayor it's like it's like the mayor just um worked in here and then get get hit with this is like U you work out of the building and and uh there's a hurricane so you get hit so um I think um the mayor is correct with that and we need to to do better as a as a b uh the city manager is the head of state in here the city manager is basically doing all the heavy lifting with all the Departments and everything so we have to make sure that we have a process that is appealing to very very good um candidate and before I move on I just want to say um thank you to our um entm staff I just don't want to use uh that words uh we are in Lambo we are not we are not we are working as a city they've been tested we tested tested again are they perfect the answer is no is there anybody that is perfect out there the answer is also no so as a city we have to be very supportive of our um um staff and especially the management and it is an entm city manager that we have an ENT Administration and we know exactly how we get there but that is fine but the city is moving forward residents are receiving their Services garbage are being picked up sideworks are being repaired the swell slowly but surely are being taken care of we are moving forward as a city yes we do need to call for permanent city manager and that is okay but I think the process we need to work a little bit more into it and also we we need to start getting into the business of um appealing to our um local um individuals toout Miami County even B County we should put a process in place that we can appeal to uh some good folks and even the staff that we have in here have a fa classes they can uh the entrance demand you can even apply and everything so we have um in front of us some um qualified and make sure that we as a city um have the best city manager that can keep us moving forward and um to me uh before we start with a national and you know Statewide and everything we should um advertise it in all our local journals like theam help looking into our local um candidates because it cost a lot lot CA the city a lot to move someone from California to Miami and then you have to pay and all this so we probably find good qualifying candidates here in Miami or even Bard County uh so in a case like that when we have everything in place we can uh look into even um advertise it with the Miami League of cities B League of cities and do something attract our locals because we cannot just uh move with a process like uh like we just want to do things just because so we need to sit down and look at the city it is about not about me or about anyone of us in here it's about the city of nor Miami because the decision that we make today will affect the city for years to come so I think we need to have a process that is more appealing to our locals that is more in in line with what the city needs now and as um Council woman um C said it so the money issue so all these should be in place so that we the city of North Miami stop being the training ground for all the cities for other mun municipalities because what basically what we've been doing is just train them and then next they move on to other cities so we need to work and have a plan that will not only attract very good candidates but also we can hold them in here so that we can keep moving the city forward thank you councilman vice mayor anything um sure um so my my sentiments are very similar to a lot of what has been stated I think as a subject as touchy as this I think it is you'll find better Synergy amongst us as colleagues if we start a discussion so that we can have our all of our input on on what we'd like to how we'd like to um see the process um go forward um you know I can say that where I'm in agreeance with um portions of this is that everyone knows that I think the the the search is important um you know I I said National search but in in hearing the conversation I'm I'm okay with um a local search or U or uh or yeah a local search or a state search um to make to make um to make the process go by because it's important that whoever comes or whoever remains understands the the the community and how and there's a and and how we function [Music] um and so um I would I I personally would like to give it a little bit more thought then than plan on well would like to give it a little bit more thought before we dive into this I you know let's I I would say let's table it to another time um have have discussions with Administration um no it's us you mean M Mr Mayor I I I would be happy to schedule at the next meeting a uh discussion item about the city manager at the next uh at the next manager before before I go on before I go on I and this is important for me to say I'm sorry I was interrupted I I really really really want to thank the Administration here and I mean that sincerely because they came in in a time where they were hit left and right so I just want to I don't want this talk and and I could even I'm imagining being in their shoes what they're feeling so I just want to thank the the city Administration and all of our employees but I know we're talking about Administration now and want to tell you me speak from my bottom of my heart that I really appreciate you now obviously we had to make a decision on permanency at some point and I and and I and and and another thing I don't like about this it's it's I don't think that we weren't thinking about it we were going to an election process everyone knows that when you go to you let the election process go by so that you can come in and make the decisions the the proper decision that needs to be had so this is not a subject matter that I mean I guess you councilman Burns just ran to to it's been on my mind you know to make a a determination of what we're going to do with Administration but I don't want I didn't want anyone I personally don't want anyone to think that I wasn't thinking about you know the future of no everyone everyone is I think the mayor said you were going to sponsor it at the next and that that was that was the the intent and and I think everyone um obviously you guys have um I do not have the same sentiment you guys have about the the administration but that's that's beyond beyond the point we're not here for that and that's not the the nature of the item yes you are absolutely right vice mayor I think we all understand we have a in Trump we support because we one city we do what we do and and we move on at some point soon I don't know when we will have to um address it and and I was and that was in spirit of that councilman um um Burns is not necessarily like I said I think if we um if we push your your resolution down and we could come and talk about it and see what we like I I like the national I I think we want the best the best could be from anywhere it could be down the street could be from anywhere we want the best in North Miami there's a lot of elements to it but I think you know us making a decision the the last and you let let me say something here let me something can I just finalize this one thing before and typically what is important about the discussion we usually have a discussion and then they go back and they get get we we talk about the language before we bring it out you V everything out all out so that you know but just bringing this and say vote on this I'm I'm not one one second I I can read the room and this city manager knows that I have I'm very supportive communicated with the the city staff uh since I've been here now and very supportive of them and um but there has to be a sense of uh finality or permanency I have no issues with what I've been the work I've been doing with this particular uh anybody in any Department uh since I've been back here that going forward if we bring an item back as a discussion item at the very near future either the next council meeting or the following one have a a discussion then the city attorney's office and Personnel could put those the that item together and we can bring the resolution back I thought the resolution gave us the ability to move forward come back and say listen this is who we want to hire as a a head hunter um we're we decided we're going to we want to it's best to do a Statewide but let's uh let's schedule at your con you all's convenience if it's going to be at the council meeting on the 28th or the the meeting first meeting in in uh February u i I'm game for that and but let's keep this thing going and just not be in limbo even though everybody's working we have to have a sense of of of permanency and so people can make long-term decisions about their careers it may be P based upon who decision city manager department heads may say no might not say it depends on what it is so there's not just us taking our time to to to do this and we have to do it thoroughly because we should have some pretty good language we've been going through a lot of city managers in the last eight years or so so we should be able to come up what the best what the salary should be absolutely because we got to be competitive and so I'm not rushing to anything but we're now having a great discussion and I think this is very helpful Among Us because we can't talk outside of this room with each other so it's bringing some some discussion uh I hope that the city manager will uh uh put this item at a at a meeting whether it's at the next one or the may I said I will I will direct the city manager at some point to for us to have the discussion I welcome the resolution and all the input but and you've been a mayor and you've been on the on the D for the past I I cannot even count see Scott not here I miss him so so much to say how many City bagers I've been through it's been a lot and and we know we whatever the process is and we know what the charter um you know we all have our duty and we all could do what we do no one said you know Council woman Timothy or Council M Charles or anybody could bring it up but it's a sense of us working together what we usually do is a discussion anybody could bring the discussion and we talked about because that that might be something I like and we all agree that we need a permanent city manager we're not I don't think yeah I think of yes I think that's exactly I think that's what it isk you just figure out the timeline you thank you so much quick question that goes to our um C umney Mr attorney in case like that how do we move we have a resolution on the floor so uh motion I'm asking where do we Goan really have to it's really up to councilman Burns yeah it's it's the I'm willing to work with my colleague that there's a commitment to have a discussion in the near future Mr Mayor on the council agenda I I I know you well I take you your word and but we have to answer these people out here in the audience and they want to know when we're having a permanent thing and I agree and I and I and I appre appreciate ask me and I'll let no no I appreciate my colleague and if you say there's going to be a you you want to uh ask the uh even though any yeah that you want to ask the city manager to put on the agenda for a discussion I I'm 100% before you and uh let's let's keep the city moving forward and um so Mr City attorney I I'm fine with uh withdrawing it at this time okay so we don't need to open public hearing it's Mr attorney he's withdrawing the motion can we go to the next item so there's no vote tonight no okay so then yeah you can move on to the next item thank you so that's it okay so we can speak not now the item it's it's it's been postponed um yeah we don't yeah it's nothing right he draw it so how about I don't know if I'll get support for this move to postpone it to the second meeting in March no no mayor Burns I think we're getting a little bit no what do you mean of course no mayor Burns listen we have to have okay but listen we listen hold on hold on hold on we we not we're not going to go through this guys I had said very clearly that I will um you know we talked about we we few minutes ago that I will get get a date and and we'll discuss it and move forward postpone it but I just can't say postpone it for without a date no you had said you are rining so do you want to postpone that's a different thing we'll we'll we'll withdraw it right now just no no no no no I'm saying whatever you would to do so we'll just withdraw it in this way we don't have to B thank you so much next item Madam clerk tab g a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida providing for the six-month rotation of the vice mayor from among the council members in accordance with Section 13 of the city of North Miami Charter in lie of the appointment system currently in place and further providing for the assignment and designation of vice mayor in the following order District 2 District 4 District 1 and District 3 providing for an effective date and all other purposes have Che thank you so much for the top again May Burns as the maker you have the floor I just uh had been used to it for for 50 years of moving it around and gives all the colleagues a a chance to uh hold a gavel occasionally um or to every every council person that I ever knew was always a vice mayor and when they went out of town to the league of cities whever they're all vice mayor it just to me makes a lot of sense to to uh rotate it it it's a very ceremonial position it's it's it's it's uh you know you take the gavel when the mayor has to step out or incapacitated but I just think oh Jesus no no offense and it goes way I got you no it's not you it's it's anym and it's just it's just the way it is that that that you could have kept out of it you rotated among the the the colleagues for six months it automatic it there's no personalities or no nothing about it it just rotated no we we I I I actually you know I'm um when when we had this I remember um a couple years ago I had made the motion to to move the the rotation from 6 month I would for a year just because I've seen you know just just give the person a year and that's what we had before um if that would be the you know you know I was supp to be vice mayor twice that's what I'm saying but but you'll get one you'll get one one year instead of so maybe I need my two years back we're claiming my time we're claiming my time no but but but with that being said I don't know I am in supportive of the year um you know and we could say the reason I said the reason I went to 6 months because that's what it had been tradtionally for for 50 years no Chang I know then you changed it but then it gave the chance join somebody's term they both the the the council person had the chance to be vice mayor twice within their four-year term and that was the ability and and you might have somebody that it's up for Less two years and if it wasn't going to District 2 now then and and if it was you know you pass it on today anyway just 6 months that's what was for 50 years if you wanted a year it's a year if it's it's whatever the colleagues want okay um I mean that that's my that that that's my me what I want like I know but you're not getting two years you're not getting two years so um you know I would prefer the the year um just because when I was vice mayor it was in terms of when we were changing it and and I think everyone had agreed um I would move it the way it is and then if you want to amend it so so you got to read the room we trying to help I'm trying to you you so um yes yes councilman councilman Charles go ahead you have not opened to no no you don't no you not yet are you have any comments no no um no comment um quickly uh just want to question the rational behind the change we have a process in place no no no there's no process there's no process um because when I look at it I see it is by appointment I think it started in 20 2021 no no no the council basically it is by uh vote of the of the majority that's go ahead is this a question so so the last time we had an election of a vice mayor um I think the motion was made to try to limit the the the time frame and that was never amended so the vice mayor was elected as vice mayor with no term limit so she Remains the vice mayor until you change the process creat process that's what I that's what I I remember so so maybe act vice mayor what VI May well I am I'm I'm I'm I'm walking now I'm go ahead coun no no in that case um I think just like uh we appoint um resident the board as you know the vice mayor we can have a majority board uh vote in here the and exactly that's why I'm trying so so now for that because the way I see the motion the resolution in here just also dictate how we go from um District I think dist District 2 and one and everything so that so that that I just don't get it okay so is that by a v this this is a resolution that's sponsored by councilman Bur written the way councilman burn asked us to write written and the next District would be District Two then District Four then district one let me ask this that let me ask it seems like maybe District 4 may may want to skip it um no no when it comes to District 4 so maybe he might want to skip don't skip like I said I would like my two years I know I know but you're not getting I'm trying to get you an additional six months here and I'm not even but my my my point is that I still is that still going to be up to a vote Yes yes we we will be a voting that's that's my point so look at if you look at the resolution Mr Mayor the resolution basically dictates how how we move even so no but but no we still had to vote when when when it was it has always been like that um you know since I came I think the only change that we did was the the length of it and then we remove the the rotation so that's why it used to be on a rotation six-month rotation um and you're right I was it was it was six Monon rotation automatically no personalities that if you you you voted somebody else in that it wasn't because you didn't like the other person it was just a rotation and one meeting you pass on to the next one it was rotation and I just thought it worked great for 657 years and nobody it was it's not it's like a nonissue but it's it's an issue it is an issue I never voted on a on a a vice mayor um you all were were were temporary I don't know if U the the councilman got to vote for the vice and again it's it's not a personality driven it is a just a policy you rotate it there's nothing wrong with Cassandra being I mean Council woman being a a vice mayor for 6 months with them as a rotation it's it's not like uh you know it's we it's it's explained we get it vice mayor go ahead no i' just like to propose that we table it for the next meeting no no no no we we we let's v on it yeah let's we're going to address it if it's not going to vote because we can't keep moving moving forward and do I I am still trying to figure out and and I don't mind because it won't hurt me for six month or a year I was just saying that the year but I don't know it the way it it's it's going so it the doesn't matter so if we get a motion we move it if it's not we move on because we have a full agenda we got people waiting and we talk about open to the public yes I know so public hearing is open on the we have the motion on the floor first or no no no no after that yes and there's I'd like to clarify because the vice mayor did say that she wanted to make a motion to table the item so you're withdrawing I'm withdrawing my motion thank you Claudia pasino 13504 Northeast 23rd Place I support this especially the six months cuz mayor let's say you're mayor for two years there's four Council so six months vice mayor six months vice mayor 6 months vice mayor six months vice mayor that's two years that your colleagues can be vice mayor while you're a mayor and then when this goes forward I ask that I know in the past when um before I think it was Madame Clerk or the other clerk will say vice mayor just keep it as Council when you're here at the meetings cuz aot I think you no but okay yeah those more people but again we did vote for a mayor and district one Council District Two District three District Four not a vice mayor good evening uh Veronica Gman 540 Northwest 127th Street I am also all for this um as a resident who wants to see a more united Council I think doing the rotation would be fair it would give each council member um an opportunity to fill those shoes if need be and and to learn that um and it would show the residents you know that the the council is working together and that we are trying to move forward as a more united um North Miami thank you thank you Miss Deborah how are you Happy New Year happy New Year everybody nice to see you um Deborah Davies 1165 noreast 127 7th Street I in full support of this resolution the vice mayor position should absolutely be a position that rotates between the elected officials of the four districts of our city with little fuss no ceremony and no extra money spent we do not elect a vice mayor and this position is simply a way to cover the mayor when they are absent or no absent is Deborah okay this is how this position has functioned in the past I don't really understand how or why this was changed so let's restore the normal procedure on this especially now that we finally have a full Council of elected offic you know elected members rather than a semi- elected semi- appointed city council I hope you will all vote to do the right thing as we work to restore democracy in our city thank you very much and I hope you really think about this and vote the right way uh good evening ernando Marto 11 1930 uh nor vure Drive um I am in support of that um resolution I think is will be healthy and helpful for the uh City to have that position rotated automatically every 6 months I think uh in the two years ter for the major that we that was elected um I think uh the the other four Cil members will have the opportunity to uh be acting as Vice Mayors on a rotating basis automatically every 6 months then I am in full support I think again this is they will be helpful and healthy for the city thank you thank you so much um seeing okay you coming um mayor yes ma'am I just wanted to check if Mr Jinx did you want to speak at the you could speak at the mic yeah you can go to the mic go ahead Virginia Gilmore 16 35 Northwest 120th Street North Miami I am in favor and full support of the rotation of the vice mayor position as stated we need a healthy we need a healthy um Commissioners and I'm sorry we need the support each one needs to know what in details of the mayor's job thank you thank you so much ma'am Brian Chen 860 Northeast 122nd Street uh I'd like to voice my opinion that I am in favor of this um first a belated happy New Year and belated congratulations to our elected officials councilman Burns mayor councilman Charles up there uh let's go back to the old school uh six months is good I'd like to see councilman Charles be our vice mayor I'd like to see my representative from District 2 Mr Burns on a six-month rotating basis uh would be a a very nice thing so please consider that and thank you for your time thank you thank you so much item is closed mayor I just wanted to let you know that there was a an email that was submitted to the off that we stop that yeah I and I wasn't going to read it I was just letting you know that an email was sent and it's going to be added to the record okay thank you thank you thank you so much just um oh yeah that's what I was thank you so much um would like to acknowledge um mayor benim is in the back joining us I didn't know I had to add did you bring us some food mayor and also mayor um Pierre who's a regular here thank you guys and welcome thank you so very much okay it seems like we um have our discussion the item is closed and it's 8:13 I've been trying to get out here early um can we get a I would move approval okay see if we can get a second I I I'll second it okay I have a motion made by well that that that's what I'm saying um I I would prefer the amendment but again I'm I'm with you know the the what whatever you know we we we we okay with you know the the going back the old way is the year going back way way way back is the the six months so either way I don't really have an issue um with it but that that was my thought what the maker of the of the motion I I don't really I I just get I the reason the 6 months it just gives an opportunity as one of the speakers said that all your colleagues get to to Shadow you I don't want to say shadow you but in they have to hold the gvv and and learn the process and so forth so that's so let me ask this though um I'm trying to remedy one of the questions that Council um Timothy was saying if you say no oh for me no no from if I I know I'm joking up here but like on honesty right I'm technically four years in and I haven't been vice mayor I know it's ceremonial no no no it's it's it's not on but I'm just saying like if we're going to change it like you don't change it where it affects one person significantly so for me I can't support the item as it thing okay then you we don't have the support with with the item so it let's let's V absolutely if you want to do an amendment for a year make the amendment support you see we have the support Mr B you got to read the room but let's let's call the vote and see Madam clerk so just to clarify councilman Burns do you accept the amendment for I don't think there's there's a May proposed it he's talking about it but he hasn't proposed it if he proposed it I would support it but he hasn't proposed it I have motion made by councilman Burns to approve the item at tab G the motion was seconded by mayor desel all in favor I any opposed no item fails with a 2 three vote okay thank you now we could have done that like two minutes we just spent five minutes on on on this next item tab h a proposed resolution of the city council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the appointment of councilman Kevin a Burns to the risk management committee pursuant to section 2- 293 of the code of ordinances providing for an effective date and other purposes tab H tab H uh tab H mayor Burns yes apparently there hasn't been a uh council person on the risk management um in many many many years uh but the uh code or ordinances call for a current council member and or mayor and or a former elected official to be on the risk management and since I was on risk management for 4 years and it's been vacated for many many many years um I'm volunteering my time to to be on it awesome I have I don't see any other council members any issue um quickly um on that on top H um so for that item I would like to have more um information and um at least get some uh background knowledge of uh the um risk management are they in Lambo that we need to uh come and rescue them or is it um working normally and everything so I you get you get it let's just join kind of move on yeah cuz we we we we we don't have time for this it's going to be all night can you no I'm not let's put it up and down okay because um the policy says we we're all talking about rules and procedures up here tonight okay so the rules and procedures is it says the ordinance says you will have a council member on the board whoever it is it is but we need to have somebody on that board or a former elected official um uh they're they're moving along but they need the uh voice of the council former former two but a lot of them don't usually want to have to come in once a month to talk about wants it the back he ran out may it bee too that's you but um just um seriously I would like to um get some um backround knowledge and understand uh you know some count can I finish Mr please hurry Mr no no Mr M nowadays please hurry because every time I try to uh speak somebody just cut me off so we no no no no councilman that has not happened here no so well my point is that may I would like to be uh appointed to that board too so so that's why I want to have more information so that you know um I I have no problem to be um if you like to be on that board I'll I will vote to point you to it right now tonight uh guys we we are trying to the work of the folks and it's getting ridiculous and and and and I'm like up and down um you wanted it's your item make a motion let's vote it no no I was I see that I already read the room so I I don't have time to waste these people time or my time so I I was asking him to redraw it or to do whatever but he say he want to up and down just to see all right mayor let me let me just I'll just make a motion to um table D okay no problem okay second thank you Madame clerk I have a motion made by councilman Charles to table the item at tab H the motion was seconded by councilwoman Timothy all in favor I I any opposed motion carries with a 5 vot thank you so much item I tab I tab I a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the city of North Miami's housing and Social Services Department to utilize the pre-qualified list of contractors established by the north Miami community redevelopment agency nmc under request for qualifications number 56-23 24 North Miami CRA housing Rehabilitation construction program in accordance with Section 7167 of the city's code of ordinances further authorizing the inm city manager and City attorney to negotiate and execute agreements for the provision of St of stated services with the selected contractors for an initial term of 3 years with two options to renew for additional one-year terms providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab I thank you so much mrr uh good evening uh Mr Mayor uh council members Alberto estrade purchasing director uh through the manager uh the item before you is quite simply a request from staff for your approval of the uh proposed piggyback if you will of the north Miami C's uh pre-qualified list of contractors for use by the city's housing and Social Services Department as reflected in my report on November 26 of last year 2024 the north Miami CRA board of directors approved their list of contractors which is referenced on the second page of the report uh this is a list for their housing rehabilitation program uh the city's housing department would simply like to supplement their own current list of contractors by adopting the uh North Miami cra's list uh here with me in support of the item is the city's uh housing and Social Services Department director Miss Albert Brazil and if you have any question regarding this item and our request uh be glad to take them thank you so much um public hand is open on the item see none come public hearing is closed on the item motion to move I don't uh discuss yes um just like um my position has not changed from last time since it is a piggy bag from uh from the C uh I still feel strongly that we need to um find a way to attract um local vendors um I know everybody tell you know everybody will tell me that uh we don't have them uh but what I also know if you guys recall uh when Pat decided to uh have a championship team in Miami they didn't stand Miami said you know okay they just went out out of their comfort zone and find the players who could make up that team so I still strongly believe we need to go out there and put um you know open it up so that we can attract canot tell me in the city of North Miami we cannot find some qualified P some people uh to do the wolf you understand so we need um to start attracting in our local uh vendors and make sure that we are opening up uh a little bit so my um our 4 the item but uh my recommendation is that uh Madame director so we at least um advertise or open it up find a way to um attract some some Locos because we need to uh keep those um dollars in of Miami um through the manager uh councilman Charles your comments have not fallen in their fears uh in fact um we're working with the housing and Social Services director their contracts are expiring this year so we will be working with her and putting out a solicitation and that's what we're going to be doing to invite you know as many of the local contractors and local vendors uh obviously who are qualified uh to participate in that solicitation so that will be happening this year and again with the support and collaboration from Miss Albert pil who is right there good evening mayor and council members to the manager Miss councilman Charles actually we have our own pool of pre-qualified contractor the issue we are having we have a list of 18 people that we selected back in 2020 who are still working with us but I will say 60% of it is unresponsive so I found myself with seven active contractor for 17 project so this create a delay so what we're doing with this um item is to add more contractor so I can have those project happening completed within the fiscal year but basically my contract uh end in December 2025th we will bring you an item around October to renew our pool of contractor bring your solicitation all right thank you um um I I understand your position but also you f my concerns usually that's how we do it like I said we have our own pool that we did the way you want it like we advertise it people apply what I'm doing right now is to bring more um contractor to allow us to complete our projects on time okay mayor if I may is there any way to leave the pool open or do you have the close in Well uh councilwoman that's again what we plan to do is this year um is to put out a solicitation to add and to augment that pool that uh that she currently has because because it is expiring this year MH and that's what we intend to do and we'll will aggressively pursue no that's my thing cuz like if I remember when this item came before it's at the CRA and I asked you to just accept all of the contractors because I knew we had a backlog with the CRA and the city was backlogged as well and we know what's happening with contractors you'll start and then you won't hear from the workers and now the project is delayed so my thing is one can we keep the contractor open like the pool open and two um I know there was I don't know if we put in the budget this year Madam manager for a member of the I said local preference office to your point um councilman but maybe instead of a office maybe it's just a person and that's their job is to create our list of local preference you know whether you know those different categories but it's it is something that we've been talking about in the CRA for some time to see how can we create this local preference pool or person or contract or whomever that can be in charge of going out and making sure that we get local vendors for um especially for our development when we say that 15% local preference and none of them can find 50% in the city so that was to kind of REM me that so so can we leave it open is that a yes or no or maybe so oh it's it's currently open manager they're currently open again Mr attorney I'm I'm sorry to cut him off I'm sorry Alberto um the problem is you you're required to do um solicitations for certain things including this right so you had solicitation through the CRA so we're piggybacking off on our own off our own solicitation you had a solicitation that bought us the seven people that she's talking about if you're opening it up and leaving that open then you're not having a solicitation how are you selecting those additional individuals I mean that would be I mean you're just randomly picking people which would be against the law so it's I think this is a solution that they came up with until we have an opportunity to put the solution um solicitation in the manner that you're asking to do it right now got yeah and then basic and basically that that was next year right next scho year October October the item will come to you the PO uh I think the new contract will take effect in January 2026 okay got Mr Mayor um Mr burn burn okay um going along with what my my colleague um said that the fact out of these 10 new applicants that we were going to piggyback with one is a local vendor you disqualified one of the other ones so we have eight that you're recommending to supplement your your seven that you already have of these it looks like the scoring was up to the most you could get was 300 the top scorer got 280 as a score the second was 269 then 249 245 if it wasn't for the 10% local vendor preference one of our vendors would have been in the 190s 100 points below the the top individual I'm going to go along with this but we and I like my colleague said got to do a better job of going out there and getting local vendors some people don't want to do they can do the work but they're scared of doing work for the city they're scared of doing work for the county because they don't understand the process they don't know the all they know is red tape red tape uh for me as a vendor so we have to do a better educ job educating on those um solicitations and I agree with the councilwoman that once this one is closed out you should like start reopening it now especially if you're going to start uh trying to bring it back to us and October you let it be open for five six months and see what you get let us reach out to companies that we've seen or haven't seen or people in the audience wants to tell somebody listen they're they're they're making a list it's for next year let's do it but um I know you want to get yourself done but I'll take quality over quantity as far as these workers and I hope that there's accountability of how they each one of these individuals perform and that they get the job done correctly ly and they're not doing the the cost overrides and so forth and I know you managed that you've done a really tight tight job keeping your your your program going but um let's let's get a a solid team you're going to get it here but there's some if times were different there' be some companies here I would be rejecting it's just because they don't cut the Buster and and and I'm not naming names but you know we can do better but we're we're trying to get some homes completed but but I I just hope that there's accountability either through your department or the housing that really watches what the uh uh these these vendors do and and again you guys are doing a great job you got more work to give which is a great position to be in than you have the the workers thank you thank you any any any other comment before we open it to Public public okay seeing none public hearing is open on the item okay public hearing is closed on the item um and I know Miss Miss Bazil we over the over the years since we had the social service housing this has been an issue and mayor BRS to your point in terms of um the that extra check to make sure verification I think it was a couple years ago we had talked about a process because we were receiving some complaints regarding some of the properties that were being done and some of the contract s but we we always trying to you know work and do what we do but I there was at some point and I know Alber you probably remember this um where we talked about a a process where it would be after the the project was done where we have the the evaluation the evaluation from an outsider is that still going on or did we kind of leave that out of the process no M um through the manager Mr Mayor the process that you have a resolution about that you you guys voted a resolution about that so once the project what my question to you you remember the conversation that we talked about is that is that part that's the res you guys voted a resolution the housing inspector who go out and do the inspection white the scope at the time of completion of the project he is the one administering the survey to the resident and assess the U contractor concern yeah that was my concern we have talked about that we need to change that yes because it can't be the same person so it needs to be another individual or another a third party that goes and and and that does not have these these residents they you know I would get the call and I would let let let let you guys know of some of them and some we had to had real hard talk with the contractor saying you cannot go and and this is the type of service that you provide um for our city and and things that would be 10,000 they they they Charing us 40,000 so we expected to be at the top quality in terms of that so Madam manager when we meet next streek that's going to be the top thing that we do that we do get that day get somebody or whatever um you know we could get someone in outside consultant it could be somebody from the community to you know monitor all of the and I think we need to go back a year to to have that person go and talk to these individuals that got service from us because a lot of the issues and we were getting them from the the election when we were walking around people were saying that we've done some work and and either half of the wall wasn't good or or this it's issues and we need to get to the bottom of it and we need to make sure that it's it's running properly and it cannot be us doing our own checking it's not that I don't trust y'all but it can it's not going to be it's not going to work like that so it is currently being done by a third party Mr May no but you say that the inspector works for us no this is a contractor um let me explain myself we have our housing inspector which is Staff okay we have a company Who provided us of housing inspection services oh okay so that's okay okay never mind you thank you so much okay so we we good on that point so there is that going on thank you so much I'm seeing none with the item I for appr second second I I have a motion made by councilman Charles to approve the item at tab I the motion was seconded by mayor Des on in favor I any opposed the item passes with a 5- z vote T J thank t k tab J Mr attorney I'm sorry madam clerk can we take all of the three since they are related so that we could move on um with with these three Madam thank you Madam C they all related well they're all different I mean the mayor can propose it and if everyone agrees you can do it but if not then you take IND it doesn't matter to me but so you're talking about the lobbying contracts right yeah yeah yeah yeah that's what I would say I'll support it yeah go ahead Madam CL okay so I'll read them all together and then we'll vote once for tab j a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the inim city manager and City attorney to execute an agreement for Professional Services between the city of North Miami and the southern group of Florida Inc to provide the city with governmental Affairs and lobbying services at a monthly cost not to exceed $667 waving competitive bidding in accordance with Section 7120 parentheses capital B of the north Miami code of ordinances and providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab j t k a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the interim city manager and City attorney to negotiate and execute an agreement between the city of North Miami and Becker and poov PA to provide for the continuation of federal lobbying services at a monthly cost not to exceed $667 waving competitive bidding in accordance with section 7-12 0 parentheses capital B of the north Miami code of ordinances providing for an effective date and all other purposes tabk tab l a proposed resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida authorizing the inim city manager and City attorney to execute an agreement for Professional Services between the city of North Miami and Ronald lbook PA to provide for the coordination of the city's legislative relations and lobbying requirements at a monthly cost not to exceed $ 6,670 waving competitive bidding in accordance with s section 7-1 120 parentheses capital B of the north Miami code of ordinances and providing for an effective date and all other purposes so again this will just be uh one motion for tabs JK and out so move thank you so much may um we got let open up oh yeah I'm sorry open let's open it up for public hearing and then we'll have discussion up here public hearing see none oh yes all of the tabs which is um tab help me out Vice J J and L uh see none it's closed okay discussion um anyone with questions we moved on second already call the question is it is it no I think question um umad just a quick question is the Becker group here I them here Mr R is by problem yeah I just if you can come up just have a quick question good evening name and address for the record sure uh par Williams I reside at excuse me the address of the of the firm is can you hear me yeah 1275 K Street northwest in uh uh Washington DC um I thank you and all the firms that are that that helped the city uh get our fund Ing and state and so forth I understand there's a new Administration coming in in Washington in a couple weeks no no no since since you're our federal lobbyist um is there something you think that we should be aware of or is it still too early yet of how new administrations always affect local governments and what we should look out for and when you may want to come back and say hey guys I need to talk to you yeah and so the plan is certainly to come back to you sometime within the next 2 to 3 weeks or so by that time we should have all the guidance on Appropriations from the house in the Senate but most importantly we should have some guidance from the administration about how they're going to do things our expectation is going to be there's going to be some fundamental changes and how they focus on things um gone will be discussion about disadvantage communities instead there'll be conversations about job creation um infrastructure money is not not going to get cut it's just not how you talk about getting infrastructure funds is going to be the important thing um just hearkening back to uh one of the the uh really really nice proposals that the team put together uh most recently on digital Equity um having read that thing from cover to cover it is a brilliant piece of work and I think we've gotten um some really good support from our Congressional Delegation because of that a piece like that on a couple of occasions we miss we mentioned dealing with uh communities that have been disadvantaged there going to be small tweaks in the language that will'll have to adhere to to make sure that we're staying in lock step the other thing that's going to be important over the next four years and I'll actually change that over the next uh year not a whole heck of bl's going to change it's hard to kind of build a budget that has not yet even been pass it's hard to build in these things to a new budget so three years out or a year out rather and for that that next three years um we'll need to make sure that we draw a really really tight Nexus between what we're doing here and the federal uh uh Focus uh in government there's been a little bit of flexibility over the last little bit because you had a Democrat Administration while you had a republican Congress they tried to find a middle um my belief and my colleagues belief is it's going to tilt a lot more to this is federal this is not um so we'll have to get a lot more clever about some of the things that we do that are quality of life issues right um we've done been very successful uh with our food pantry with our senior center um those are things that I think we're going to have a little bit more problem with over the next little bit go ahead um over the next little bit we'll have to find grants and those kinds of things uh for those and we'll be able to do that um we got those through a marketing uh the earmarking process uh so I expect those are the kind of things that we'll have to be more clever about as we move forward um a lot of will depend too on on the five of you the more unanimity the more uh togetherness we have on the things that we propose to the federal government the better off we are um they'll be looking to they they want to be bulletproof when it comes down to it they want to say that we funded this project on behalf of congresswoman Wilson or either of our Senators um and it had community support and support of the the locals and the whole nine uh and so that's how things will change a little bit we'll just have to craft things slightly differently this isn't the first time you know we've done this every four years there's always some tweak and how it's done even when the administration stays the same there's always some tweak in the focus uh and so our group has been purpose built to weather the storm with any Administration change we opened up our shop 12 years ago myself and my colleague Omar Franco he worked for the uh uh Congressman Diaz Bart who's now on Transportation infrastructure I worked for Congressman Kendrick Meek we've known each other for a thousand years we decided to get together and open up the shop our idea was we don't operate as one person um we operate as a group and so everybody we're 14 strong now everybody that's come on has fit a puzzle piece and it's not just Republican Democrat it's you know we have folks that are are strong in infrastructure we have folks who have worked in the administration folks who' have been senior leaders um in in in Congress and the idea was to be able to weather any storm administratively um on our team right now we've got two folks who worked in the uh the first Trump Administration they were both invited down to maril Lago to be vetted for positions in this Administration we talk them down better to have them with us and having friends inside and and you know that's to the benefit of you and the rest of our clients uh so we feel pretty good about things okay um I learned a long time ago I started this job uh in this business is working for Ken Jenny in the Florida Senate what seems like well back when my hair was black and you know straight over and one of the things he told me was my job was not politics my job was policy he'd handle the politics and I've kept that in my head through working for them through working in Congress and since we've been out my job is not politics my job is policy my job is substance my job is getting you what you need and between me and my 13 colleagues we fig that stuff out well thank you very much that's a great answer and comforting and again uh hopefully with your your our your guidance while we're in Washington we say the right words not what you do sometimes it's how you say it you know so absolutely exactly okay thank you thank you Mr William but I must clarify yes sir the appropriation because I don't like to take credit but I work hard that was my money with Congress Wilson yes and then got sitting right there and in fact I already begged and and and so we appreciate the work that all of our lobers through especially you and what we do but that was direct my efforts and there will be more coming this cycle unless you you have some information we need CU we need 200 million from for our water so we're going to be I'm going be in DC um next week so I need some meetings with key folks with the the the head of the the the new man that he got from New York going to be over EPA um the congresswoman whatever um so those folks so we'll be talking in terms of what we do but thank you so much and thank you for what we do thank you um let's call for a vote Madam clerk I have a motion made by vice mayor as May to approve the items at tabs J K and L the motion was seconded by councilman Charles all in favor I any opposed the item passes with a 5 Z vote thank you thank you thank you thank you please be advised that the following item on the agenda are Quasi judicial in nature if you wish to speak in favor of object to or comment on an item please complete a public speaker card indicating the agenda item number on which you would like to comment you must be sworn before addressing the city council and you may be subject to cross-examination if you refuse to submit to cross-examination the city council will not consider your comments in its final deliberation please also disclose any expart Communications you may have had with any members of the city council City Council Members must do the same so if you wish to speak on any of the items at tabs m n o or P you can pick up a public speaker card by the door at the entrance of the chambers someone earlier gave me a compliment on the new design thank you so much worked very hard tab m a proposed quasi judicial resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving an application for a conditional use permit in substantially the attached form for a proposed development consisting of of a 10-story 35 unit residential building with 48 parking spaces on 0. 3841 acre parentheses 16733 ft parcel of real property located at 13132 Northeast 9th Avenue and 895 noreast 131st Street identified with Miami dat County folio number 06229 0494 and 0622 29- 049 -39 in accordance with article 3 division 4 sections 3-42 through 3-47 Article 4 division 2 sections 4-22 section 4203 parentheses capital A and section 4-25 and Article 4 division 3 section 4305 of the city of North Miami code of ordinances chapter 29 entitled Land Development regulations providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab m thank you so much ah I love Debbie you know why Debbie May hold on one second M commissioner you know why Debbie because Debbie keep it sweet and short keep it short go ahead councel I spoke with the applicant outside and I stated that I was trying to get a meeting with them so they agreed that we can table this item and so I have that meeting and we're able to talk to the resident that abst their property um to address their concern okay this is which time the first um okay perfect thank you so much to um do we need to make a motion do we need to make a motion or the attorney is it a date certain Madam move to until we have that meeting so probably I don't want to give a date certain but we deferring the item okay [Music] um okay I have a motion made by by councilwoman Timothy to defer the item at tab M the motion is there a second I'll second that yes the motion was seconded by vice mayor as the mayor vvin all in favor I any opposed motion carries with a 4 Z vote thank you T tab n a proposed quasi judicial resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving a site plan for a commercial project and substantially the attached form for a proposed six-story self storage facility of approximately 243,000 Square ft of floor area 900 ft of office space and 38 parking spaces to replace an existing one story self storage facility of approximately 46,4 Square ft on 2.61 Acres of real property located at 1905 noreast 146 Street and specifically identified with Miami dat County folio numbers 06- 2221 02210 in accordance with Article 2 Division 7 section 2-71 and article 3 division 2 sections 3-24 through 3206 and article 3 division 3 section 3-32 of the city of North Miami code of ordinances chapter 29 entitled Land Development regulations providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab n thank you Miss love good evening Mr Mayor and Council uh for the record Debbie Love development services director and uh before you is as the um Madame clerk read this is a request for site plan approval for a replacement of an existing uh public storage facility as you can see it's located at 1905 Northeast 146th Street uh it's about a little over 2 and A2 acres in size uh again it has a currently it's developed with a on story uh storage facility um the parcel is zoned M1 industrial so it is up into the northern section of the city in that Industrial District we have up there it's also within the sdod overlay so technically if they wanted to develop a mixed juice project through a cup they could do that however for this particular application the applicant is not requesting any residential uses strictly the development of an a larger storage facility just to make a couple of minor Corrections it is actually a five-story storage facility uh with 240 3,000 approximately they're about square foot of storage area 900 square ft of office space and 34 parking spaces not 38 again as I said it's replacing the existing storage facility uh the new storage facility will be uh lead certified as our code requires they're going to have enhanced uh Landscaping the applicant is uh going to be speaking to tonight um the applicant's representative about how they are going to install even more Landscaping as you all know that area is pretty well not has very little Landscaping up there in that section so they're going to do some enhanced landscaping and as we always require enhanced storm water management because there's a lot of cement and Asphalt in that area DRC did approve it the beginning of the year on the second um they do have some certain conditions including the installation of a 6ot wide sidewalk along Northeast 146 and along the 20th Avenue um frontages um again lead certification needs to be provided all the utilities need to be underground um CTR some of the typical things that we always talk about you can see the others that are in my staff report but these are the highlighted ones including a couple of visuals from the applicant with that as the mayor is often fond of saying short and sweet the applicant is here with a brief presentation and I'm going to help pull that up for them while while miss love is you know pulling that up um any party communication with with the applicants I don't even know who's the applicant so who are are they so I want to be sure um Miss love yes sir they they're actually the name of the project is public storage uh they have an LLC um let me get to that tab sir apologies councilwoman the property owner is PS storage one Inc is the name of the applicant thank you Mr councilman um I called the uh the attorney because I had a question on their landscaping and storm water uh just for clarification because it wasn't clearing the report to me and uh that was it we didn't talk about the uh the facility at itself it's just a landscaping question thank you but so you reach out to them yeah I reach out to them councilman Charles um so we on top and yeah no VI May no expor I haven't either um they may they may come back back Miss love it would be very well as far as for me and you know how I am on these things and and I'm not make you know at least a respect if they're going to do something nor City at least come and talk to us staff does not run the city so as far as me tonight you know they could do whatever because I don't even know and the next thing I know people will be calling me and and and you know I I respond to all my stuff so I I I okay no no no no let it's up to them if they would like to table it and and and do a formal at least introduce that's fine if they want to talk that it is what it is but it's they did a presentation um I think they're going to come up to the podium you want to come yeah mayor uh for the record my name is Carter sorry before you speak you know um I'll go ahead and make the motion that you know we table this item until the next meeting well let's let do less less all I guess if they already here they could let them introduce yeah yes yes go ahead sir so I will draw my motion for the record my name is Carter McDow at bills and sunberg my partner Brian Adler is here with and has really been working on this application we apologize that we've not spoken to you um the it got scheduled a little bit fast a little bit without our knowledge otherwise we would have been coming to see you um I think for us and we're hoping that you will at least hear it um it's a replacement of a self storage with Self Storage it's not a new use it's not a change of use it's the same use on a property that is an industrially zoned area adjoining a fairly significant cement concrete plant um and so I think there was probably some underestimation of the need to come talk and I apologize for that I don't mean us I just think that the the the engineers and others working on the project kind of assumed since it was a per permitted use um and it was the same use that they probably didn't need to talk to anybody but we're happy to have conversations and I'm going to defer to my colleague Brian who just spoke to our client uh good evening Mr Mayor vice mayor members of the council um we would like to present this evening if if you're willing and Okay so let me go back one okay so my name is Brian Adler Law Offices at bills and sunberg joined by car Carter McDow my colleague on behalf of Public Storage the owner of the property is a is Spa it's PS Florida 1 Inc so this is owned by Public Storage it is an existing public storage facility and and as Mr mcdal noted it is going to be what is being proposed is replacing an existing and Antiquated type of facility with a newer more modern facility um this is the location of the facil facility it currently contains essentially five of the old garage style rollup um cell storage facilities that under your code you require internal access to self storage facilities this type of facility is not even permitted today under the code um as Miss love noticed noted it's about 2 and 1 12 acres it is zoned M1 the M1 District does permit self storage facilities as of right um under the code and again this shows you the existing addition what you can see is there's a total of five trees on 146 Street one is a very flimsy palm and some four smaller trees what is being proposed is essentially a five-story building and I'm just going to go right to the Landscaping um the old building and the old style of buildings really Define the streets with a wall of of just a single wall of of of facility and really very little Landscaping um we this is our original landscape plan that we that we have that we presented what we're seeking to do and this is the new enhanced landscape plan that we're profer so you've got five very small trees lining 146 Street what we're looking to do is enhance even over and above what was submitted on the original plan so our plan that was submitted has about um um 35% more open space than is required under the code it has about three and a half times the number of shrubs the trees that we we were meeting the code for the trees but what we're doing now is we're we're replacing some of the trees The mcgomery Palms are going to be replaced with Royal Palms uh one each of the two mcgomery Palms that are being removed are going to be replaced with three Royal Palms so you'll now have 15 Royal Palms on 146 Street the button Woods that were on the corners and so the Royal Palms are are reflected in the in the aqua color uh or the greenish color the bluish color are now going to be Gumbo Limbo trees defining the street there's going to be additional palms and unders story so under the trees rather than putting Under The Palms that are going to be there there's going to be additional trees and Shrubbery increased Shrubbery about 50% and there's going to be additional Landscaping in front of the public storage facade in the front um what we're doing is we're taking an existing facility and creating additional capacity for storage without the need for utilizing additional land in the city so it it leaves the addition the land in the city freed for additional um development and it's reutilizing this site currently again there are five trees we're going to have 24 trees now lining one 146th Street um and we're also conditioning that all the trees will be at least 14 ft at the time of planting where 12T is required um so we do have full recommendation of Staff approval we did want since Patrick har is here from Public Storage we did want to have the opportunity to present I understand the statement Mr Mayor um so what we'd like to do is is based on this and again it is permitted as a right we do consider this a significant upgrade and much more in line with what's permitted in the code so we we do request your support we understand that um you know you have some concerns so we'd like to at least have the opportunity to present and and give you the opportunity to to respond so awesome thank you thank you so much Madam clerk did you have any um one other one other thing I would add and forgive me for tag teaming a little bit here problem Carter McDow again the existing facility doesn't meet current your zoning code but it also doesn't meet FEMA regulations there garage doors at grade level and this facility will be much more resilient will meet FEMA requirements which obviously it needs to but it will be much more sustainable and resilient and much more appropriate to today's world and with that we'll be quiet and yes sir answer your questions thank you thank you so much sir um before we go to the day public um well there's no um no one signed up to speak on the item mayor Burns go ahead is your District um yes it is in my district but it is in the city of North Miami and that's the most important thing but the fact that they're coming in and going to take a non-conforming building that we don't would never allow to even be built today and upgrading it and and spending all this money it's in a desolate I don't want to say desolated but it's in a poor facilities that are kept in that area the cement plant next door and the other stuff around there um thank you for doing it I'm not a fan of uh storage spaces whatsoever but you're already taking an eyesore of an existing facility outdated and I believe it's climate control from the information I said which we don't have any around here that are climate control and um I would be supportive of of this going forward um we're not talking about a a condominium we're not talking about uh impeding on the next door neighbors or anything like that it's warehouses on top of warehouses on top of a a cement factory so I don't think there's a whole lot of issues that we have to be concerned about as far as upsetting our our neighbors I appreciate you guys reinvesting in North Miami and I and I did make the comment uh and you guys responded quickly about the fact that landscape looked a little yeah you met the code but the fact that quickly you responded to do much more um and uh I appreciated that and we're trying to bring that you can be a M1 District but you don't have to look horrible we can have really nice M1 district and uh I would like to to for us to to move it forward if it's if it's possible okay thank you so much I'm mayor Burns um seeing that well we don't have any public um person signed up for it um may I hear a motion to approve I would move approval a second I have a motion made by councilman Burns to approve the item at tab n the motion was seconded by councilman Charles all in favor no it's a it's a resolution you have to call the vote sorry onaz Ain is it a resolution oh it's a resolution oh it was onaz okay unless you want me to do the RO no no okay so all in favor I I any opposed nay the item passes with a 41 vote thank you very much for your time we appreciate it tab o a proposed quasi judicial resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving a site plan for a residential project in substantially the attached form for a proposed mix use development consisting of an 11 story 240 unit residential building with 19,95 ft of ground level commercial space and 364 parking spaces on three Parcels of real property located at 12830 Northeast 6th Avenue 12840 Northeast 6th Avenue and 575 Northeast 127th Street specifically identified with Miami dat County folio numbers 06223 0-24 0330 06223 0- 02434 and 0 62230 024 d310 in total L 2.74 acres in accordance with Article 2 Division 7 section 2-71 and article 3 division 2 sections 3-24 through sections 3 d206 and article 3 division 3 section 3-32 of the city of North Miami code of ordinances chapter 29 entitled Land Development regulations providing for an effective date and all other purposes tab o thank you once again for the record Debbie Love development services department director uh as the mayor as Madam clerk read it is a site plan approval for a residential um project you all saw this before uh at the cup uh it is uh the location as you can see up on the screen is uh on 6th Avenue and also on Northeast 127th Street uh there are three Parcels in total of a little less than 2 and a half acres it's currently developed with a private school a church and a single family residence um the part some of the parcels are that's multiple Zoning for these Parcels R2 C3 it's also within the former nro on the PCD on the future land use it's low density residential CBC the nro former nro along with the PCD and in the nro and this is important because as you approved for the cup this was one of the projects that was uh in the pipeline um prior to the nro being removed so they are vested you all had approved them under the cup back in July via resolution 2024 r109 to for this project this project has now come back for you for site plan approval as a reminder the project is uh as again what you saw at cup it's essentially the same 11 story 240 unit residential mixed juice building um with 19,95 square ft of retail space uh that does have a great Frontage for Activation of the street um there are fabulous canopies for shade it is welld designed staff is is very supportive of this project it's certified Green Building and it does have those typical enhanced storm water requirements as well as 100% Flor to Native vegetation as required under the cup the DRC approved it on one2 um of this year to the some of the conditions again as you can see this is the frontage you'll see that they have to maintain a 10ft wide sidewalk along Northeast 6 and the 6ot along Northeast 127th Street undergrounding all the utilities uh lead certified or NA national equivalent certification they do have some low impact development activity commitments that they made at the cup that have been incorporated into the site plan uh one of the conditions that they will have to unify the parcels um again this is from the DRC approval and with that that is the end of my presentation I believe the applicant is here to make a brief presentation for you as well let me pull up their PowerPoint thank you de good evening Mr Mayor vice mayor council members Ethan wman with Greenberg Char 333 Southeast 2 Avenue uh at the mayor's request we'll move through this very quickly this is the second time you are seeing this project um so as Debbie discussed we went for Planning Commission gave a recommendation of approval in the summer of last year this body approved this conditional use permit allocating the density and certain massing to the site in July we went for technical review through DRC that was completed and now it's presenting before you all for final site plan approval just to rephrase reframe where we are we're on 6th Avenue um this is a true mixed use area directly across our street as a Publix there are several commercial Venues restaurant Banks and other retail options surrounding us our Northwest neighbor is a mosque our Southwest neighbor has an approval for a multif family housing project and in the middle of the block to our West starts low-scale single family home so we're truly surrounded by various uses of this project in context is very appropriate um and we have Transit options both trolley and County Transit right at our doorstep on the property line these are just some examples of what's around us so high level excuse me I lost my voice a little bit ago uh residential units we have 240 units where 243 is allowed so we're under our Max density we have about 20,000 Square ft of ground floor commercial activation which is extremely important in your zoning code um and as Debbie has impressed upon this this body many times that's you need that to have strong pedestrian activation we want large sidewalks and we want an active Frontage uh we're at 103 ft where 110 ft is allowed so we're under our Max height and one of the biggest uh uh uh features of this project is we have 29% open space where 20% is required that's because we have an approximately 10,000 ft Park uh almost a single folio of our property is being used as a public park uh and for a project of this size you don't really see that that often and of course we satisfy our parking requirements um one of the questions you all typically ask is what's the unit mix so we're ones and twos but heavily rated weighted towards the two-bedroom units we have about 62% two bedroom so whether they're family-sized units or work from home units uh the target um clientele is is the two-bedroom option Debbie already showed uh some of the renderings here there's a lot of information on the slide but the point here is we have two vehicular access points on our northeast corner and our southwest corner so we distribute traffic uh but internally uh you can access any part of the project through either driveway and then in between the two driveways which are really the book ends of our project is full Activation so ground fler Lobby and retail space running the entire length and if I if we were to zoom in you could see the large sidewalk space being provided both on our East and our South this is an example of our sidewalk you see the massive with a family um can walk down the sidewalk comfortably while there's still activation and use uh at the retail frontages this is to show the seex very early on in the design we recognize to our West is a lower scale residential community and so what we've done is pushed the entire Tower we have a three- floor Podium and then our the rest of that goes up to to the 103 ft is pushed all the way East away from the residential Community the lower scale residential community so we have anywhere from 80 to 120 feet setback at this location it's a very large setback where only 25 ft is required from the West so what makes this project special or different it's really our community benefits package uh first I'll show you the park so it's about 10,000 Square ft um we are responsible for insurance and maintenance uh we will have lighting benches uh and a significant amount of landscaping it's a passive Park you could sit and enjoy the outdoors uh one of the comments that came up in our uh our public Outreach was it's currently not shown as fenced in and so what do we do if we have security concerns down the line so um what we would suggest is that we reserve the right um to install security fence if needed so typically when you have a um Waterfront or other access you restrict it at nighttime so there's not a lot of use in the par park at night we didn't show it in the plans but I think it was a good suggestion that we have the ability in the future if there are security concerns we can gate it with appropriate restrictions through staff this is an example of what that looks like in a rendered form local Source hiring this is my client's second project um they just had a groundbreaking a few blocks away uh we target a minimum 10% of local Source hiring sky the limit um our community liaison specialist is is has always said we can have the jobs available we have to have qualified applicants so what we do is we have a website open and we try and help applicants make sure they have the appropriate licensing and and insurance and other sub requirements so that when they apply for the jobs they can qualify um Andre has done a good job educating the community at both Community meetings we've offered resources on how to help the local Subs be eligible for these jobs uh last but certainly not least this is a live local project not for zoning purposes we we opted to go through the public hearing process this is again my client's second project they know how important it is to go to the community and present the project before you all but we are taking advantage of the tax benefits uh under the live local act application to do that my client is is targeting around 80 to 90% of the units in this building will be income restricted so that's Workforce housing up to 120% Ami uh this is one of the largest numbers I've seen on a private applicant of private development usually we're used to seeing in the 10 to 20% range and this is up to 80 to 90 is where we're targeting to land what does this mean practically our one-bedrooms and I know the the vice mayor this is something always important to you on every project we bring forward um the one bedrooms are targeted in the $2,100 range depending on the size of the unit and the two bedrooms will be in the $2,600 range depending again on the square footage of the unit for brand new construction uh lastly economic benefits this is all in your package but um a significant amount of Revenue source for the for the city in terms of permit and imp fact fees as well as job creation so as as promised that's that's the full presentation I'd like to reserve some time for rebuttal and of course we're happy to answer any questions you may have all right thank you so much and we have one card Miss Veronica Gusman please come forward and after that that'll be the end of public hearing we'll go Madam clerk here Veronica Gusman 540 Northwest 127th Street um I honestly don't know how I missed this item because I would have spoke on it um before my only I just have three concerns the building next to it is only two stories and I feel like 10 stories is or 11 stories is a little bit aggressive diagonally it's three stories um I feel like for the area it's too much West 60 Highway going Southbound was closed off so now all the traffic will be forced to go down Northeast 6th Avenue um I appreciate the the public park um that is a nice benefit but I just wish that going forward like we do try to um build to scale to the neighborhood so that we are not encroaching on our fellow residents and neighbors thank you thank you so much Miss Gman and Mr attorney we are tonight we are doing what exactly so that the public will understand well this project's already been approved so all you're doing is uh site site plan just the site plan thank you so much sir with that being said um I move for approval I'll second it but I'd like to sure oh it's your District yes thank you so thank you so much for the presentation um you're saying the Ami is up to 120 so how low will you go it's up to residents are eligible for these benit up to 120% of Ami so I thought it was going to be my understanding was like 70% in I no of of the units we're we're restricting we're going to restrict about 80 to 90% of our units so call it 180200 units in the project will be income restricted up to 120% Ami okay and then the community benefits so so just so the public understands we're not getting any tax dollars from this because you you joing to live local you just decided to come in front of us with the administrative not to wave your administrative rights and come in front of us correct we came to present the project yes so for the community benefits outside of the park what is the community benefit that you I think prop a public profer of serious income restrictions is the the affordability requirements of the project it's not it's not a market rate project we have about 80 to 90% of our units are income restricted that's a very large percentage typically when you come for let's say CRA funds there's a 10% to 20% uh profer or ask this is a humongous increase from that from that profer and how long will the tax um credit 30 years uh the to qualify I believe it's a 30-year requirement to be eligible for those tax benefits all right uh that's it thank you so much for the and um so may if I make um quickly just want to drop a few words in here um looking at this uh uh development I just want to comment the the staff and also for full disclosure Mr may I met uh with the applicant yes uh and um looking at it uh it is a project it is a nice project and something that will Elevate Northwest 6 Aven I think is a great step forward toward our new uh downtown and um that is in District three and um and I hope um this project will be somewhere on Northwest 7th Avenue and uh you know that would be uh somewhere nor do we have something like and again looking at it um give them credit uh under the leave local act they did not have to come before us but they just want to make sure that they work with the city council and then move with the city and I um say thank you for that looking at the project it is not a box it is not dump it's a real structure that bring buauty and they are not asking for C do so um it is something that we should applaud and I just want to say thank you just going to add a few words into it thank you so much um Madam um I think it's been called and mve by hang have to say go ahead um coun um councilman burn um uh I met with the principles and with Mr Pierre for them to explain the project because this was already approved Pro prior to I uh coming on the dis but they did come and explain to me what they had proposed what they had been approved and uh one the thank you for addressing in the future and maybe it's something we need to look at when we ask people to have open space and it's really nice and and and important but it's sometimes 5 years 10 years down the line if it becomes a nuisance to our Police Department or so forth um the applicants should always have the ability uh to come back and and say listen we try to keep it open but we're having a problem with break-ins or what whatever the case may be no matter where where the Project's being built but uh uh I got to concur with the the councilman about the fact that you're coming in here and and and building such a nice project on Northeast 6 Avenue and you went through the tedious process of uh our process and that you guys are here today so thank you indeed thank you so much mam cler I one second I apologize I need to um disclose um had exper communication with um your client that is correct um Madam um I don't met but I know I did attend the groundbreaking and he discussed it briefly that this I don't think that count the ground and and I know we probably talk months or not sometime months nothing in recent in terms of that at least within the couple of months about the project but it is uh I I didn't support it the first time but after I see this and all that this is very very nice and thank you so much um in terms of that thank you Madame clerk we ready I have a motion made by mayor Des to approve the item at tab o the motion was seconded by vice mayor EST irin all in favor I any opposed the item passes with a 5- vote thank you all have a good night tap p a proposed quasi judicial resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving a site plan for a residential project yeah it was you anything Mr is that okay that you been just voting yeah item yeah it okay so we vote um it's not the Quasi that makes that that decides whether okay it's not the qu whether it's quasi or not that dictates that it's whether it's an ordinance or not oh okay I always thought was I think this the first time I'm learning we learned something okay all right thank you I propos quasa judicial resolution of the mayor and City Council of the city of North Miami Florida approving a site plan for a residential project and substantially the attached form for a development consisting of a 72 of a 22 excuse me 2117 ft residential building with 267 units and 422 parking spaces on one parcel of real property located at 120000 North Bayshore Drive specifically identified with Miami date County folio number 0622 28- 049 00001 and totaling approximately 4.23 Acres with 2.67 acres of non-submerged land in accordance with Article 2 Division 7 section 2-71 and article 3 division 2 sections 3-24 through Section 3206 and article 3 division 3 section 3-32 of the city of North Miami code of ordinances chapter 29 entitled Land Development regulations providing for an effective date and all other purposes tapy yes sir again for the record Debbie Love development services again this is another project that came before you for a condition use permit and is now back for site plan approval it is uh located 12,000 North Bayshore Drive uh as you saw that um the buildable area the total area is 4.23 Acres but the buildable area is only 2.67 which is what the density is calculated on uh the current uses is multif family condominium um and that is in the BZ and in the Bay Shore Zone on the future land use map uh it is under the bz it's currently 115 ft in height and 100 dwelling units per acre um with the cup because we did pass the you all did pass an ordinance amending the bz to allow um a bonus height of2 feet uh up to you know and this pro project is 112 feet but you allowed additional height through a conditional use permit in the ordinance that you all previously adopted they came back before you with a cup um for a bonus height of 112 ft to allow a 217 ft Residential Building my apologies uh the project is a 217 ft building with 267 residential units with 422 structural parking spaces it uh again it does have uh benches and Landscaping and a new pedestrian experience it does have Waterfront access all of which you saw at the cup that was approved by you earlier um they are now coming back to you for the site plan and incorporating all of those things in the cup and comments that the DRC had when they reviewed it on the 2nd of January there was a busy meeting on the January so in addition to the sidewalks The Wider sidewalks uh and lead certification uh one critical piece of this is that prior to the issuance of the building permit the traffic study must be approved by Miami D County and the city's transportation department the county has approved them to move forward um but prior to building permit they would have to have their traffic study approved by both the city's Transportation um uh Department as well as Miami Dade County with that that is the end of my very short presentation and the applicant is here with their presentation and to answer any additional questions you may have thank you so much Mr gasan I hope your presentation is not all night okay please miss love bring it up there you go Mr good evening happy New Year Patrick Assan of Holland night with offices at 701 brick Avenue I'm joined this evening by my colleagues Alexandria San Romain and mut I'm also joined by the um owner of 12,000 property owner uh Ian Bruce ier as well as uh William Wallace ivth um and I wanted to First say that I'm going to be very brief um as part of this presentation I anticipate that to the extent needed uh I'll reserve a lot of my time for rebuttal uh but the core aspect of this site is that uh as you all saw as part of the conditional use permit uh We've obtained um uh approval for uh 267 units and for the 217 ft in height with respect to this project uh we're not seeking any variances as part of this project it all of your code requirements at the city next slide please and we're currently at a at a stage in this process where we're finally at the end this is probably our fifth time before this Council I've become um very used to seeing your wonderful faces and I'm appreciative of uh the fact that we've been able to to get to this stage but this has been the consummation of a very long process as I think uh all of the members on this board on the council are very well aware of uh since we've been in this process for about um 14 months and so we wanted to be thankful and thank the council for this opportunity to be here so I'm not going to take up too much of your time next slide you know where the property is located south side of bay um of Northeast 123rd Street East side of Bay Drive next slide you know where the where the property uh has been um what where the increase in height occurred which is in the area south of uh Northeast 123rd Street East side of Bas Road drive next slide uh as part of this project we're planting 138 trees over 1,380 clubs uh and providing over 23% of open space when we're only required to provide 15% open space next slide you see the street Scapes and your familiar with the street skate improvements that we're making as part of the project next slide uh and you see the beautiful uh enhancement that we're making from an aesthetic Viewpoint uh from the East side and the bay with respect to this project next slide uh you already know and I'm just going to go through these very quickly because we had a very long and robust conversation regarding these you know about the portion of the project that we're providing to the public on the North End uh and the increase in the seaw wall next slide you know about the aspect of that Community uh benefit with respect to that northern northern portion being provided to the public next slide you know about the $1 million that we've committed to as part of the community benefits package for affordable housing and Workforce housing next slide you know about the freeb contribution next slide you know about the community Youth Development next slide you know about the Joseph leson and Scott galin Center next slide enhancements that we're doing respect to providing youth youth and Senior Services you know about the improvements that we're contemplating on making with respect to the uh Parks um at Leman Park in particular and we've had already discussions with the park director and recognizing that the type of improvements that we're going to need to make are going to need to be uh Park improvements that are going to be also adopted and approved by the Parks Commission of course in association with this Council so I want to make sure I I I noted that next slide U of course it's going to have to have Green Building certification next slide uh and we're increasing of course the storm water management which we all went through in detail next slide um there's a significant uh impact fees that were providing it's only estimated at 1.32 million but I think at the last meeting uh this Council increased the impact fees so we anticipate that the that number is actually going to go up substantially given uh the uh staggered rate that the uh Council has adopted next slide you know about the job enhancement next slide and you know that over a 20-year period this one project will provide 100 over $100 million to the city from this one project so next slide over $11 million annually will be in total taxes to the city uh and the county and Miami day County School boards and it's anticipated that the residence of this project that will be paying between $1.4 million and $3.7 million as part of this project will um create an annual direct spend of about $36.4 million on this project and with that I would like to reserve my time for ble thank you for your accommodation uh and thank you for your time mayor councel thank you thank you so much um Mr attorney real quick before we open up because we do have a couple of um speakers for the item explain what are we doing tonight let's be very very clear thank you I was going to I was going to speak on this um so tonight this project again all of these projects are are site are site plan um so they've already approved Mr attorney hold on um I Madame clerk are these new folks guys I will make an exception this time but please if if we had already this was already closed um in in terms of that but go ahead I'm sorry Mr attorney go ahead um so this is site plan uh there's you've already approved the project so there's no you're not discussing height or whether the project can be approved or not approved basically the project is approved and you're looking at uh at the site um the other thing I want to say is that the cup has been appealed um and that's an ongoing lawsuit so I'm not going to discuss uh the merits of that case um but just understand that if this is approved tonight the there's a condition um that they're they're not drawing any building permits or getting any building permits until that case is over um and the Court decide so we want to make make it clear we're just moving forward but it'll be sitting there until the court uh makes its final decision okay thank you so much but before we go to public comments I do have um something to say in reference to to this particular item and and I'm not very pleased with you know the the the statement couple months ago this item came up and I did my due diligent as I usually do and met with the community in in terms of the item and they said to me at that time whatever that was going on etc etc and I treated every project the same and the the folks when I met they were somewhere opposed whatever whatever the case is so it was up on me when this item was coming the initial item I did not support it I was the only one up here who did not and there was people out in the community spreading lies and spreading misc conscrew and just saying position that oh you know the mayor did this this and that and I was the only one who did not and there was nobody that was here that was against this project when it was important to do except for one person Mr um HTO was here that night and I was the Lone person that voted against it subsequently a couple weeks later the item came back up it it was already passed with my support in terms of the item and it's very very clear because there's one thing I have no reason to lie if I'm not going to support something I don't owe anybody nothing I say I ain't doing it and I will tell the community why and people know over the last 10 years that's how I am and that's how I will always remain but when people out there do not give me the opportunity or listen to people spreading lies and misinformation that you could go online and find the real the real truth about my record or about anything it's very very disturbing however the item came up again when the item came up again and my position was hey whatever the community want that's what I'm for you know that that has always been my position and that will always remain my position during that night and and Mr robberto you could you could attest to that the the folks that was here in this room that was against the project they all kind of they all majority I'll say when you know the word all but 90% And we have the tape supported the project and I'm like well it where are the people that was against it whatever whatever the case is it if I'm here as a representative of the of the people and I said I will do what by by What the residents said if majority of them had came up that that would have been my position but regardless what was my position the main vote on this particular item no one was here I don't know how I missed the the the memo and and and you know I got to give it whatever the case is but that was the record and on the second vote when the the folks came back out they said I think the word that they use was smart attorney what whatever the case is it was just residence after residence and I said okay well I don't have no no no say whatever the case is in fact the applicants didn't even speak to me um before before the vote you know so in terms of I say I have to do what's right for the community obviously the community want the project I am very supportive of this particular action but what I'm saying tonight what are doing this is something that passed when when it was important for whoever needed to be here the resident didn't show up when they did show up most of them changed their vote now the people who's on the other side of of of of the equation I understand I would understand the um their their say but obviously their Outreach whatever that needed to happen but if you're going to say something you need to be honest and clear about it and that's all I'm saying about my record cuz I I am always going to tell you if I'm going to vote something and I'm not going to go and tell the developers something and tell you something I don't do that because I don't have no reason to do that so tonight I am in support of this project but I have the project was already passed the in terms of the height and I was totally against that and I made it very very clear but I had no support from um s Susi at that time no support So when the Community came I supported the project because that's what the people that was here majority of the people said they wanted and we have the tape and that's the fact in terms of that now we could talk about other things moving forward but that's my position in terms of that I just needed to clarify that but we do have a um a quite few list of folks in the order in which I have received it from the clerk I will call out the resident but again I think the attorney stated that this is the the the site plan approval this the hype whatever that you guys are against that that that ship left long time ago and no one was here to say anything know except probably one person um in in the in the room and a few Tanya i t I'm sorry again with the last name you have two that's fine Alexander bat rakos I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing it wrong and Andreas bedo so um even sir please I call Tanya and then Alexander is Tanya here may I speak mayor no sir no no sir please I I'm trying huh I I presented poet of attorney for them that's why I am here for can I just address this no no hold on Mr attorney sir I I'm being very polite I I understand your whatever um I call Miss T is Miss here is Miss T here okay Miss alexand is Miss Alexandra here okay now sir you have the floor mayor no I'm not Andrea uh mayor I I presented power of attorneys I was told by the deputy attorney that I could speak on behalf of others as an agent if I have a PO of attorney for that reason I am presenting you for the previous two people that you call the po of attorney that I received from Alesa Alexandra and from Tanya then then I um okay uh I asked you to consider that uh request thank you sir if it's if it's legal I will if it's not is it legal okay thank you let me explain so it's on the record U Mr beretto came to me early just as you just said that the deputy City attorney gave him some uh uh gave him an opinion that he could bring a power of attorney and speak on behalf of others one Jennifer would never do that um because I'm the attorney that handles these uh meetings I spoke when he said that I went outside you saw me get up I walked and I asked Jennifer what Jennifer says is that Mr beretto sits on the board of adjustment and in the board of adjustment if you are an applicant and you don't wish to speak you can fill out a power of attorney and have someone speak on your behalf he never had a conversation according to Jennifer who I obviously trust never had a conversation about this particular meeting he's taking it out of context and believing that somehow or another he can bring a p a power of attorney and speak for I'm as our attorney that's never not the case if you all as side and and I will tell you this there have been situations where councils have said Hey listen in order to streamline the meeting anyone for the event for the item pick one person anyone against pick one person have those two people speak and you can do it that way but the idea that a power of attorney gives you that right it does not I got you thank you so much with that with with that being said I want to get out of here so I would urge my colle colag to consider now let me let me say this though would everybody here you be speaking for everyone if if um there are other people here are okay there are more people here so see this yeah that's the that's the so okay the only thing is to the extent that it goes on I understand the attorney's uh statement I would just object on the record to the extent that he's going to may be making representations on behalf of other people not being a licensed attorney that's that's my own statement thank okay Lord got okay I I don't need to be an attorney to represent others um you do hear I guess that settled that matter okay Mr robera please um state so I was trying to go with you um but obviously there's people who saying that they they don't want they want to speak for themselves but go ahead okay just to clarify can I speak on behalf of the other only on my behalf okay thank you then um I'm sorry for the misunderstanding um Mr Mayor Nando Barto for the record 11 193 mayor Towers um as you know uh this item um this condition use permit is is in litigation is in court because there were a lot of irregularities during the process and it the the the applicant has tried a lot of uh circumvent uh the the process and do a lot of misrepresentation I am and I'm afraid that you were Mis misled uh Mr Mayor in the previous meeting on November 26 because if you see the the the the tape and the transcript that was transmitted to the court there were seven people opposing that uh uh to the um to this uh to this project and the people that was in favor was the people that live in marer Bay which have an financial interest on on let me finish Mr May okay uh which uh they have financial interest because they want to sell the property to the developer and they are not impacted Community the other people that came came here for the first time this is the 12 meeting about this item this is 12 12 meetings the the the people that came here on November 26 were not here before talking against or oppos you can check all the records uh but they came here from other part of the city from South sanusi gated community and they were offered uh that that they will receive a gate and a video cameras if they came to support but they are not part of the impacted Community they were not even included in the notification because they were not even part of the 500 nobody in that meeting from the 500 radios that was here to support the project then I think that was and that was before Thanksgiving then people has been here and has met with you Mr Mayor several times opposing do you know that they oppose uh sir thank you thank you so much you thank you thank you you may have a seat um mayor I'm sorry because it's been thrown around a couple of times again since we're in litigation I want to make it clear um that the the vote that was taken on all these items were based on competent substantial evidence they were not based on the number of people in the room it was not based on who for or against the item thank you okay Robert may may I find finish 30 seconds to finish no no no no no no sir you're done Miss Guzman please Veronica Guzman and Then followed by Robert um tski good evening Veronica Gusman 540 North Northwest 127th Street I have actually been up here three times opposing this item um the at the last meeting one person stood up and basically asked you know how many people are four and 30 people stood up um I was always under the impression that it was Wo is me 46 people at Mariners Bay and you know they can't afford these assessments and this and this and that of the 46 more than half of those unit owners are second homes six of them are owned by corporations or llc's so these people can afford to be either to sell the property or sell the condo or um pay these assessments I feel like the city of North Miami is once again bailing out people um and the other people in the community are going to be impacted I don't live anywhere near South Bayshore Drive but ernando is my neighbor if it affects my neighbor it affects me and the traffic that's going to be impacted the other resid within that community that are going to be impacted yes flooding is a problem but all we talk about our impact fees and this tax revenue that's coming in and the rest of the of the community doesn't see that the rest of North Miami doesn't see where these tax dollars are going and how they are truly benefiting the community thank you thank you thank you thank you okay we have Robert and theni that's how how how how are you Happy New Year then Claudia know and then Ken Kenny each Chief each hey Hal happy New Year welcome Mr Burns councilman bur no I'm not no I'm not doing this Sor okay uh first of all regarding Mariner Bay I get their situation I understand it I didn't know about what this woman just said about part part of them being uh not residents but I do feel a little bit like the developers are holding you guys hostage and them hostage well if we can't get 22 floors we really can't do this it's kind of like a it's either a project that's is good for the community or it's not I I walked the other day around seven projects that are on this on their way that's going south thisis game Boulevard 12 fth Street without even going east this is without these projects we don't even know what traffic's conest session is going to be like um have you guys even driven come in the area and seen what it's like to live here and drive around you know I I I just thought I think you guys need to take a drive at different times of day see what we're getting into if you're going to allow the construction and not impose a moratorium because of what I'm saying I think you should at least keep the old code so we don't suffer for what's going to happen um also I think that the uh the majority of the voters and working people many of them don't even know about these meetings I think in a sense the meetings are a little bit of a a rig they bring in outside people outside the neighborhood with scripts uh they some of them don't even speak very well you could tell they're reading off of script and uh I I there was also the questionable recusal of councilwoman timoth who was against the project suddenly someone in her family got hired you you you you think do the math uh um and I also think that the majority of people in the community not everybody goes to these meetings the majority is the people screaming and understandably the uh uh Marina bed but you guys represent the majority of the community thank you thank you thank you thank you right Claudia Claudia Paso 13504 Northeast 23rd Place I oppose it as you know and he's right you represent the majority of us I've always from day one said here and I I feel like you're stepping over a $1100 Bill to pick up a shiny um Penny it's less than 1% of the community they're not full-time residents and you're ignoring the majority of us so I oppose it the majority of the CBA thing benefits that building not the rest of the community Chief happy New Year mayor tell me when please happy New Year go ahead okay you go Mr Mayor I know you a lot of years you don't have to Justify Your Existence you're an honest decent man and you don't lie that's right okay that's why you got reelected so let's stop the nonsense here this is a good project it's 48 ft higher than majorka Towers which is 169 ft I don't talk from a script I lived in this city since 1972 I walked this city yes I see the traffic but I see the traffic in North Mii Beach I see the traffic in Bay Harbor down in Bickle it's here what what are we going to do Barry put our heads in the sand and say oh we don't develop in North Miami so we won't get traffic that's a lot of nonsense this is a good project we need the tax dollars this is going to bring people into the city with disposable income to break to improve our infrastructure okay to pay our salaries and let's on on top of that it's going to keep our businesses going we need people with disposable income and this is the ideal place for the this project I seen this project come before us on the Planning Commission and I am all in favor of it you know we have other highrises around the city baywinds on sansi Boulevard over in exoro we have projects 135th Street we have highrises this nothing wrong with this project in fact you go to North Miami Beach you see 30 40 story buildings up there so I I you know this not oh this is like deja vu don't have Home Depot don't have this don't have that we're going backwards we can't go backwards ladies and gentlemen this is 2025 this is not 1974 we have to move forward and we need these projects if we're going to continue to grow we're talking about a water plant out there how are we going to pay with Monopoly money you need this I you know and I hear well I got a script I don't have a script thank you thank you thank you Chief um my like I said after we you know got the stuff from the clerk that would be it but what I'm saying guys and and I was someone who was opposed to the project again because we looked at the substance whatever whatever the cases of the project but what you just said um and I think what Miss gusen clearly mentioned um in terms of you know the way this this vote went down I I think the the I don't know how the the activism and I we had had this discussion Mr albera in terms of whatever that you do um with the activism and the thing is I was on the losing side so when when it mattered for people to come here in terms of the hype that was the the vote that was the important part when they changed the entire vote of the corridor so now that already passed I was not on the winning side and then the community did not even recognize that hey you know what the mayor I understand the mayor trying to do but he's on the losing side when you're on the losing side of of something that you cannot change you work with what and when they came back I like what they I said okay this is good obviously there was nothing at that time that we could do like right now this is a site plan approval M Mr Mayor U Mr B let me so again that that that's all I I'm I'm I'm saying they that right now we are looking at a site plan approval and we are still talking about the the big vote happened with the hyp when I was against it and and that was the and that that's what that was the fundamental thing that I was opposed because if they didn't get the the um the height then none of this would have never happened now they have the hide anywhere in the city so so what do you want me to do as a mayor so anytime they come up with with something that pass I said oh I'm not we cannot do that because majority of the council voted for them to do that so now they coming I don't think they even going up to 230 30 whatever that they they allow so they actually doing us a favor and and it's it's bad and and again I was against it and when it was important we didn't come in in terms of what we do so we're going to move real quick in in terms of where we are Laura Thompson followed by M mam clerk I think I'm gonna let you um and I'm sorry as as a teacher I do have a bad handw writing myself stevenh um shelfie and then Lanna um Lanna kazlowski and Max Carney and then Adam Coen in that order please go ahead ready yes ma'am okay good evening everyone I'm Laura Thompson 12,000 North Bay Shore Drive um I'm in support of this project and I want to start by saying I'm a first responder and I work directly for and within this community and I'm asking you to approve the project because this neighborhood desperately needs new development and fresh energy to rid of crime my property has been burglarized twice as well as the park and in 2023 over the holidays one of our neighbors was robbed at gunpoint in our parking lot we need money for police and Public Safety the funds will directly serve everyone in the community and provide a positive impact I think that we can all agree and that we all desperately need pragmatic and constructive change the reality is transformation requires money the funds from this project that the city is offering can provide that opportunity for us we all want to feel safe in our neighborhood and approving the project is a step toward this thank you thank you Steve thank you your honor just to be brief we I ask that you please approve the site plan has submited thank you thank you sir hi Max Carney 12,000 North bashore drive again I'll keep it quick but um I I certainly support this project I think the funds will do wonderful things for our community um you know contrary to belief I I am a full-time resident Mariners Bay and and a lot of my friends are and you know the reason a lot of them don't come to these meetings sometimes is because they can't get babysitters um but you know I'm concerned about the white Lincoln Navigator going 60 M actually there's two of them now um going speed bumps traffic cming like this is what these funds will provide within our neighborhood and that's why I support it thank you thank you sir good evening mayor vice mayor council members Lanna kazlowski with shuin Law Group I am here this evening on behalf of mariners Bay Condominium Association um here once again to lend our support to the project and to thank staff thank the council for moving this forward um doing your part to help us avoid any delays as you know and I've said this multiple times time really is the enemy to the 46 unit owners full-time unit owners at Mariners Bay uh the council has an opportunity tonight to not just approve a remarkable project but be part of a solution for at least one of the Aging condominium buildings that are in your jurisdiction I don't want to belabor the point I know it's getting late I think you all are familiar with the headlines at this point you know what's going on condo unit owners can't afford the cost associated with the recertification here I just want to impress upon you that the financial pressure is particularly acute because you only have 46 unit owners and when you break down those costs it's just extravagant you're talking close to $200,000 per unit owner it would make no sense for us to move forward and spend that kind of money and thankfully Continuum has offered an alternative solution through this Redevelopment plan so we are asking you to be part of the solution tonight and approve the site plan thank you good evening Adam Cohen 12,000 North Bayshore Drive got my script here I'm I'm here in support of this project as as you're all aware the situation at Mariners Bay is on the brink of absolute financial disaster not not only is there a looming financial crisis but also 46 families have been living the past three years without knowing what the future holds I can't tell you what that kind of stress has has has done to us it's it's been crushing Not only would you be alleviating us from this disast disastrous situation but you'll also be replacing Mariners Bay with an outstanding project this will be the new face of North Miami from the East something for our city to be proud of a city that I hope to start a family in and remain living in for years to come if all that wasn't enough to support this project then surely the immense increase in tax revenue would be I'm at these meetings all the time and we talk about our budget shortfalls and the need to tighten up because we don't have the money this is a great opportunity to bring Millions to our city the project is a true win-win and I hope you all approve it tonight thank you thank thank you so much in the last two speakers are Sean F fiddle and then Terence seagull I'm sorry if I mispronounced any name close enough thanks uh Sean friell 1035 Northeast 133rd Street who do you represent is it me and my neighbors we don't want more traffic parking water sewer issues or greedy developers who wouldn't dare live here we're watching The American Dream dwindle with every single family home you destroy this was quite evident in the last election cycle Channel 10 the candidates will be managing new development versus overdevelopment both have contributed to damaging floods Miami Harold we need to transform the overdevelopment to Smart growth New Times referring to a reelected uh member of this Council he highlights the successful residents at Nomi development which received $16 million to create 38 affordable units that's our tax money and I would have bought 38 houses instead so really we're just making developers more money and affordable and affordability goes out the window let's honor and respect our neighbors and our neighborhood instead respectfully you all have failed to read the room thank you um final speaker yes I'm teren seagull 1955 Northeast 117th Road from s suie I've been on the board of s and I've been at quite a few meetings and uh really in favor of the project and hoping that it will improve the parks for our my kids that are enjoying growing up in North Miami and we love North Miami we wanted to keep growing and just wanted to give my support to the Continuum which is also the Continuum south of fifth in South Beach which created South South Beach south of fifth to what it is today and um in in support of continuing thank you sir all right all righty then thank you so very much um rebuttal mayor I'll be very very brief in my rebuttal uh I'll just take one point from one of the speakers uh and I think in this instance this Council uh has turned uh and approved a smart development a development that's providing million in affordable Workforce housing a development that's providing for public open space on the project a development that's providing $100 million directly to the city over a 20-year time frame and development that has committed scholarships Youth and Senior programs to this community is the type of development this city should be improving in addition this Council has approved the development that is taking into account and addressing some of the storm water issues that exist in the very role that everybody has been talking about so this is the type of process and the Paradigm by which this Council should operate and then the final thing I will say is that nothing has been said tonight to be able to demonstrate that we don't have the substantial competent evidence or that we don't meet the factors of your code for the site plan approval and because of that uh we believe that it is entirely appropriate uh to approve this application thank you so much for your time and I'm here to answer any questions that you may have thank you all right thank you so much um Pedro um Council discussion we want to start over here there yes oh yeah yeah uh jum uh I I don't really have a question per se but I just want to say this I think uh like uh Chief each um said it it is time for us to understand that in the 2025 we just look around and see what is happening us end of mind Miami we need to uh keep the moving the city forward looking at this project that will give us a chance to have a high class High ends condos and just right there in front of our water there's no better place for us to build something nice looking at the other side will be able to look nice when people on the other side Sunny aisle looking at us they will see something nice that would be a gateway to our city and uh let's face it this is uh one chance of a lifetime that we have for us to our project when we go up there we can um look at um Jeff Basil's backyard and Tom BR and all these good people because listen as a city we have to look forward into into greatness and I do believe this project basically that's what we have um speaking to some of my resident in District 4 they are in support of that project and they said although they might not be able to uh you know afford the units because of the price and everything but what does this project going to bring to um district for some dollar money that we can work on our on our swells beautification sidewalks maintenance tree triming um traffic um cing devices and all even um bring uh money to our senior to to our senior programs and I see it part of the package that they offered so it is yeah it is a it is a when this project is not only a nice project for the great city of North Miami but it is a win when for uh Us in Miami County because we have to Showcase what we can do also as a city we cannot just limit ourself to just small um you know two units um two stories and everything yes but we are in 2025 just look around look atent North Miami Beach they all have done it so we are a city just like them so that's all I want to say and I just want to say thank you to you guys for bringing that high class development to our city and then uh let's keep moving forward we we need more projects like that in the great city of North Miami thank you vice mayor anything thank you for the presentation again uh um thank you in particular for the the dedication for the affordable housing as I always say we are mandated as a council to make sure that we're providing housing and opportunities for the residents here in particular just wanted to clarify I I saw a dollar amount for affordable housing I didn't see a dollar amount for transportation which is um I know that said right right but I just want to make to to quantify that yeah so the the specific dollar amount is um not specifically specified in the community benefits package is something that we're going to work out as we go through what we specified in the community benefits package as part of the cup process was was the $1 million for the affordable Workforce housing and the other items are items that we're going to curate uh as we work through the the process okay so I just want to keep in mind especially I know you've heard about the traffic which I'm still waiting for I know we'll deal with the traffic study but one of the the the the um the items or what I like about our city is the Trolley system that we have the freebie that we offer and so your contribution to that especially adding two or three more freebie where people don't necessarily have to take their vehicles but just um to take the the the north Miami Uber service or the freebie service that I'm calling that we have so I just want to make sure that they're they're that you're communicating with staff and get the appropriate I'd like to see two or three or four vehicles in that area so just just to just to be more specific okay so whatever that cost um is and to take that cost away from us um so so other than that um there's an item that I won't bring up that I would love to see but um so I'm you know I'm just ready to approve this project okay mayor bur this your councilman councilman I'm it's going to take me a while because I I have to call Mayor pier and be me but you'll get to me I just go with the title you can call me Alex I can get as long as you don't take off my paycheck I'm good I always tell the as they uh call you yes they do um I wasn't here when the CU was U approved thank you say that again please okay it was it was approved so we're dealing with what we have today I have a couple questions um about the uh project um and and a couple statements and a reminder um just to remind the applicant that when you talk about doing something at Leman park it is a city of North Miami Park understand you all will participate with the council and um our Parks Commission on what we think needs to be in Leman Park as opposed to you and we appreciate the money that you're going to to put in there just want to put that on the record the tax dollars are are very important to this city it's makes what's everything runs what's it what how the city operates and so it's our responsibility to make sure we generate the best new tax dollars and a and a a wise and a carrying way and something that's going to benefit uh the community so there's nothing wrong with raising tax dollars from new development this project's already approved so now we're on the site plan and you have pretty much gone over 100 times of all the things that you're doing onsite and offsite one of the things um I want to ask you if the litigation was not there was not there what would be your next step going to get certain approvals but it's a condominium for sale project do you have to wait to break ground till you hit a certain number of pre-sales going forward or are you guys able to start your permitting process and so forth as your your pre-sales uh do do to that process the ladder okay so you're able to to move forward and don't have to wait to uh that is correct so we so we can start the site work permit stuff at the beginning that's correct okay and if the litigation wasn't here how quick are you all going to um in theory close on the Mariner's Bay I I know that uh one of the reasons why we've been pushing this item uh so fast was that had had it not been in place we probably would have uh closed on it sometime uh we would have closed on it in early January we would have moved on this this would be done thank you for that appreciate it um and I um just wanted to disclose that I have met with opponents of the uh of this project they called me up and and I've spoken to them I've also Rec recently spoke to no not you on this project it was uh somebody representing the project just gaining information because the approvals was already done I just needed uh information on on some of the the project itself but I spoke to somebody related to your your entities or to uh to make uh to answer my my questions and so I just wanted to make sure uh I uh conveyed that but I also met with several people that were opposed it so want to put that out there on the record and have to say something if I thought that your project or other projects in that area were damaging the building next door that I thought it was going to harm the value of the mayorca Tower and it was being built to their detriment I might not support this project the fact is once you get your approval if you do get it tonight the value of their building and their units are going to go quite High much higher for sure I'm a real estate broker with one of the most luxurious firms in the world if I was a unit owner next door I'd be doing dancing the Jake because oh my gosh my value of my three 400 $500,000 unit is going to when a developer comes to buy my 75y old building or year old building we're not getting $600,000 I'm now getting a million $1.5 million per unit I don't think anybody should begrudged the sellers and owners of mariners Bay because they're going to make money off of their investment and they move on as opposed to the hardship that throughout the State of Florida condominium owners are having it's nothing unique to Mariners Bay it's all over South Florida and what we're doing now that developers are coming in and building something new I would never be Grudge the the unit owners for for making some money off it instead of just selling it Marketplace good for you you're moving on the developer is going to build a nice project and and making some um Community benefits thing and again the owners of meor tower are going to if they choose to at some point in time time will benefit from the fact that your project and some other ones that might come down the Al it's not going to be a detriment I would say that if somebody is in the the mayorca Tower or all upset that you're not going that you're all are building your building I assure you there's plenty of Realtors out there that will take your listing to help you sell it to move on at today's market rate I I I assure you that they're there because they're going to wait to whether it's 5 years or 10 years or 15 years that somebody's going to come along and take down that aging building um because it's a it's a it's a it's difficult uh to maintain a building where they they get old so because I don't see a direct harm to the value of the building next door unlike building a 10 story building on top of somebody's single family home 25 ft away that's a harm this I I don't see it it's Prime City own uh city land I mean Prime waterfront Land that we have and um we need to take advantage of that and again um I uh don't have much of a right to refuse the the uh the site plan and you've done everything or the applicant has done everything that the city has has asked of them and it's time to put the the residents in that that area um or owners at rest and and move this forward thank you mayor burn and lastly before we take the the this vote um I I think you started out accurately the again and to the folks who are opposed to the project I was with you but you lost me when misinformation was getting out including tonight and it's not right because you know better I don't know about anybody but I know about me and I'm going tell you if you don't I come here I try to do the best that I can for the residence of North Miami I met with Mya Tower very painful met with my bay listen to them went home and prayed on this and this and that fundamentally it had nothing to do and I said it when I met with folks with you know folks had issues problem I did the best that I could as a representative for the people of North Miami and fundamentally I had an issue with the height which kind of brought us here and that had always remained that I want to thank Miss gmann for reminding me because I didn't remember the number but that is correct which had nothing to do with my decision that night but when I said I'm a representative of the people and you have 40 people who live there who come and support an an item after it had already the it was already done in terms of the the second meeting when when they came forward and no seven folks you you you recalled and then whatever the room is the 35 so fundamentally my issue was the which was already passed and I was the Lone vote instead of the folks that I was with saying oh you know what Mr Mayor thank you I understand it's hard what do we do now because if you know one thing about me I've been here for 10 years and everybody know one thing I take care of the people the seniors in my pantry you don't hear nothing in that proposal then people didn't even meet with me I didn't get nothing whatever benefit whatever whatever that was not my case cuz if if that was you would have seen the pantry you would have seen this no F and all these things that's important to me in there I did not even negotiate I haven't even met with these people for I I can't even tell you how many months but I listened to the residents and when it was important again and until those people out there making the lies the community didn't show whatever the cases however they did smart whatever that they did that was the vote and you are asking me as a representative of the entire city after it's already done there's nothing I could do I was one person they are here on a permanent use on how this thing looked again I already I didn't get no benefit whatever whatever the case is so now it's a beautiful project and it was a beautiful project what I saw and I have even I'm like why why why would I be opposing to something when majority of the people that was very clear said they were in supporting it I was upset well sir again and and and sir and I'm not going to address you directly but that you said it's seven people it was like and and that was not even my my base on on on on opposing the project because the height again and that's the real the real reason how we got here and until we accurately say that I'm going to have a problem with those people out there spreading those lives that is a beautiful project I wish I had more input but I was out with y'all on the other and so I didn't have any input in terms of what I would like to see etc etc it's a beautiful project so why would I just not support it because of you know but again we do what we do um and I think I've said enough more than my attorney would have a love for me to say but I'm going to say what I got to say period move for approval thank you I have a motion made by vice mayor EST mayin to approve the item at tabp the motion was seconded by councilman Charles on in favor I I any opposed the item passes with a 4 Z vote thank you mayor thank you Vice May thank you members of the [Music] council citizen forum is open yes sir yes sir I'm sorry oh okay thank you um Mr Mar we really appreciate all your efforts and we um I I think what you said is accurate but your intentions are real but this is what happened on September 24th when the text Amendment passed there was an issue with the recusal that was somehow irregular that is what the court has to decide about the super minority then the the conditional use permit was approved based on a question text Amendment and that's part of the that's part of the Court uh claim and and that will be decided by the court then when when you say that there is nothing else that we can do yes if the text amendment was wrong then the conditional use permit that was use it for that more than that the the the reason why uh Miss Cassandra is not here today is because she say that because all these conditional use perit and things are related with the text amendment that was passed on September 24 then she will continue to recuse uh but that recusal well is is uh also um under consideration by the court the the other thing is tax are coming the the project if is 70% only money is coming it doesn't need to be uh 24 fls in order to bring money it's not Monopoly is not a monopoly money even if it's 70% of the height is still good money that is coming to the city we are not opposed to the new buildings we are just opposed to the two big oversized projects and that's what we are saying now related to the detriment yes we will have a detriment in myor let me explain why uh has nobody has proof that the the the old structure of mayorca is not going to suffer with the new constructions thank you for your time thank you Alex is leaving too okay Claudia pasino 13504 Northeast 23rd Place We Are One Community but as you can see the majority of the people left you can see the majority of them left they don't really care about the rest of North Miami and that's what gets me upset that you guys are voting in their favor and they're claiming that they love the community that all this stuff um okay do they know that one of the reasons why the police department is not funded Wells because you guys gave yourselves a big raise you guys overspent as we heard in the beginning of the meeting I mean if they really cared about you know making sure the police department was funded they will be here at these um Council meetings and other meetings but they don't in regards to one Community I don't we're getting off on the wrong foot one Community but why do we need set light offices I do understand that one Community we all should come to City Hall another thing um yes I do agree you guys need to discuss stuff before coming to the agenda but it was not discussed when Rasha got fired so now proposing to have um permanent city manager has to be discussed beforehand but getting somebody fired who was doing a great job was not need to be discussed beforehand what else um there are several things I wanted to bring up trying to see what else um so so was about Russia was something else about one Community I can't remember I'll bring it up at the next meeting thank you Veronica gusang 540 Northwest 127th Street um case in point two of the people that uh came up in support of this project one of them it was their second resident anybody saying you know one 120 North bore drive people are going to assume that you are a primary resident unit owner um being a second resident you are not a registered voter in the C in the city of North Miami and I feel like they have more say so developers have more say so in what happens in the city than the actual residents who vote for um the council I just hope I mean what's done is done moving forward that you guys do put yourselves in our shoes if this was happening in your front yard or in your backyard would you still approve this project you know again we're just opposing aggressive development we know we need the tax dollars we know need the revenue we want to see that Revenue be put to good use to benefit the whole Community not just one specific area thank you open for yes it is citizen Forum correct uh Brian Jinx 860 Northeast 122nd Street uh North Miami I just want to revisit where we started off tonight about the shock of the city council hearing about going for a national search on a city manager the citizens in North Miami are actually a little shocked that this process wasn't put in place months ago and for me to sit here and hear Council say they need to do more research on the job of the city manager and the job duties and the salary shocking that the city manager has been gone seven months and we're having this conversation now if you don't know the details of a city manager and the function how can you fire a city manager what function did she not perform or what job Duty did she do wrong or broke the law everybody up there who voted to fire her has not given a public statement on why they supported her firing at all you know when I have a mayor at 10 years in office who's a pretty much lifelong politician here and say that he's shocked by this being put onto the agenda tonight I'm shocked I'm shocked that he has sat here and he's left tonight not out of respect for the residents to listen to what we have to say that he hasn't even been advocating to go for a city manager 2025 let's move forward I've heard this six or seven times tonight well let's move forward are you afraid of getting an outsider to come in are are you really do you think an outsider is going to do this city wrong the only people whove really done this city wrong are the same cast of characters that we rotate through here don't be afraid do our citizens have special needs that everybody else in America doesn't we're an immigrant Community I'm an immigrant everybody in this room came from somewhere I'm going to Pivot here real quick to the next subject going back to this project and the water plant that we have not discussed please note if that work thank you for your time thank you for your I still had 5 Seconds there thank you for your time citizen for Mr Len seeing none citizen forum is closed okay um I'll do this backward um city manager in report just very quickly to welcome everybody back to the new year of 2025 and looking forward to a very productive year additionally we just wanted to congratulate the North Miami Police Department and a recent press release we did note that there was a historic crime reduction in the city where there was 100% reduction in homes Ides 13% reduction in overall crime and 41% decrease in violent crime so we definitely want to make note of that tonight thank you City attorney any report no report Vice thank you madam clerk in a report happy New Year everyone uh Mar Martin Luther King Day is coming up and I have been reflecting on this a lot and I just in the context of everything that's happening in the world and right here at home I just think it's important that this year we do something new and instead of just slapping on powerful quotes from Dr King onto our social media I think this is the year that we really need to ask ourselves if we are radically fighting for compassion and fairness Justice and Humanity on behalf of all people or if we're okay with just just allowing his legacy to be one where it's superficial and not genuinely rooted in the principles for which he died and so I just ask everyone to really think about what you stand for what you fight for and whether you actually realize that our shared Humanity calls upon each and every single one of us to continue to fight for the liberation of all people and justice for our all people and that's it thank you um councilman Kevin burn and Report just want to comment I want to make sure that I welcome the fors and against on any item I think it's healthy I think it keeps the residents it keeps the people doing business in the city on their toes it keeps the council members in check because we need to hear not just yes yes yes we need to hear the no no no and we need to balance that and that's what you elected us to do to balance it the best we think that we we can don't ever think that Kevin burns doesn't like the fact that you get up and and and voice your concern for against the particular project for or against the project that I might be supporting and you know what what you might not support this one but you might support the next one and don't ever let get frustrated not to continue and uh make your voices heard because little by little your voices change you influence us um I've uh in the last three weeks um had the chance to work closely with the city manager um I put the City attorney the building department asking questions and questions in DET details and just getting caught up on a lot of the this a lot of things are going on um put a lot of stress on the city clerk's office today trying to get some stuff done um that they did and uh I don't mean to but uh they they pulled it off her staff knows what they're doing and they pushed through passports and everything else there so there's some really amazing departments that and doing a lot of amazing work in this city but so underst staffed so underfunded so so many needs that our community needs that you all want and we just have to identify the dollars and so forth and so we got a lot of time up here a lot of time to move things along and and and and look for a better City and want you to continue to help guide us to guide this city forward both as an employee both as a resident both as a business owner we all have an invested interest in North Miami whether it's your career whether it's your home or whether it's your livelihood we want to hear it I want to hear it and I believe my colleagues want to hear it and uh I I just appreciate it and I want to thank all the staff that have uh helped me um accommodated my my questions and needs and uh you know uh going forward so I uh I appreciate that that's all I have to say thank you thank you councilman Pier F thank you U vice mayor and um just just want to say a Happy New Year to um each and everyone in here including our residents who are um watching us online see uh Mike uh mcder is on the back just want to say Happy New Year Chief each uh Happy New Year you know uh all um these good people just want to see uh thank you uh once again to uh Administration uh it've been working uh very hard um to make sure that the city stay up flat and keep on moving just want to say thank you to uh City attorney who's been working and I know we don't see we don't do that very often uh he's been working the his um office been working like behind the scene and make sure that we stay in part with our um legal uh within the within the city we are a city of many we are a city of Plenty we are in here and this body we ow the yes and we also ow the no if you're going to question my no for 100 times you need to question my yes for 100 times 100 time so understand that we are not going to be yes all the time in here and that's how the system work so we need to understand the same way that you have a voice but we also have a voice you can come in here and um you know say what do you felt like someone talk about a raise I didn't get at raise I didn't vote for raise so all of these you know we need to understand this is the this is the way the system work you always going to have your point I am going to have mine I'll see it my way you'll see it your way you are not going to scare the hell out of me that's not what this is all about so we need to be a little bit more respectful of each other I know I'm not right all the time but whenever that happen I just stay within my limits and then respect everybody so please this is a job that we are doing and we have all of you and then when we sit in here we are taking this seriously um we do our research we do our do um diligence we don't just come in here and um you know close our eyes and move on this is a city this is the great city of North Miami the city has to keep on moving forward and um to our nor Miami PD I know we have not say it very often but I just want to say thank you thank you to each and every one of you I see um assistant chief um R is in the back um just want to say thank you for keeping us safe you guys been working day in and the out we have a a very good police force in North Miami professional close to our resident you don't get that everywhere just want to say thank you and uh I was looking the report for the city of North Miami and also for District 4 all have to say just keep up the great work um we here safely we are moving with our communities I remember when I just came there was that Sigma about nor 7 AV it is not safe it is unsafe it is not safe but to look at the report and how the north Miami P keep it down and I just want to say thank you and then keep up the great work um you are our heroes and um just keep the city Safe Keep Us Safe and our resident will be very happy and you you know uh we here 100% behind you and without that good police force that we have would claim that people will come and keep on building you just want to come in here and build if you look at that last project just right by the bay I'll be our gate the Gateway of our city and just because they know that we are safe in here and you guys are doing what you're supposed to do I just want to put it on the record and just say thank you to each and every one of you and thank you thank you well that's uh my report for tonight Madame Vice thank you um you know I just want to piggy back off of um councilman Pier FR Charles and reference to our Police Department I always say that we have the best every time I get a chance to honor you publicly I do again thank you I I I I really thank you for your service and what you do for the community um happy New Year everyone um hope you have a prosperous new year um want to also thank all the people that participated and that were present um in the sub jimu celebration that we had this year um want to thank you Madame clerk for being present and all of you some of you that were in the room that were present it was one of our best um this year looking forward to um next year want to wish everyone a Happy Martha Luther King and and take the time out to do to do good for your community do some service work on that day um councilman um Kevin Burns I think this is probably your last welcome but welcome again this is our first real official meeting um um but thank you and welcome on board looking forward to working with you all and with all that said can I get a motion to adjourn so move second I have a motion to adjourn Me by councilman Charles seconded by councilman Burns all in favor I any opposed motion carries with a 30 vote the time is now 10:36 p.m. good night everyone