head and do a roll call followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Major Kesler Brooks of the North Miami um police department and we're going to do our in invocation by our pastor pastor Emoja definitely of Philadelphia Baptist
Church and we'll do the invocation and we'll take it from there. Madame clerk Mayor Alex here. Vice Mayor Cassandra Timothy here. Councilman Kevin Burns here. Councilwoman Marius Dearvin present. Councilman Pier French Charles present. Mayor, you have a quorum to proceed. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk.
Um, pledge. Yes, sir. If we can all stand for the pledge of allegiance. Place your hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so very, very much. and invocation. Pastor, yes, please remain standing. Yes. Let us pray.
Almighty God, we give you thanks and praise for all your mighty certain us day by day. Thank you that made us in your image exist in
community with other people. We thank you for the city of North Miami. Thank you for our elected official, the businesses, the churches, the families and the individual that make the city
the great place that it is. when the the city of Mami would be known as a watchers city, a city that uh confess Jesus as Lord, a city of peace and hope.
A city with happy homes and a city that welcomes the stranger. A city that cares for the dindi. A city that defends the innocent from evil. evil doors. I pray
for this council meeting tonight. Give the council members wisdom and guidance has their daily be on the island before them. May every decision be righteous in your in your sight for the benefits of
the city and for the for the for your glory. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Pastor Amos.
It's really appreciated. And now we're going to have Madame Manager. Um, I do would like I know we have the there's a couple of items I wanted to request if if the
folks if Hold on. I'm trying to get the Okay, I have it right here. If if we could move item the You know what? It's It's funny because Oh, okay. That's consent agenda. We
could move item Let's see. I believe it's item H that you'd like to move up. Yes, please if we can and then move move it move. Which one is this? Is that so? Taking item H first and then going to G and ref
the agenda in order. Hold on. Let's Yeah, we could do Yes. Or do we want to leave G for for last or do we want to just take it in the middle? No. No. His no excuse me, sir. I'm just saying I'm moving it for to take the BB that we
deal with. It's my question to the rest of the council. Do we want to take it first or do we want to um move it in terms of that? But right now, my proposal is just to move it right after the PBA. Correct. That's okay. Right. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um are
we mad manager? So this is rearranging G and H and then we will go from there. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Is the agenda set? Presentation. Yeah. One second. Um, please. I just got um
It's a Okay. Thank you so much, Madame Attorney. Yes, Mayor. The agenda is set and the council may proceed. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. So much. And then we And now we're going to go down for presentation followed by
city announcement. Good evening everyone. I'm Vice Mayor Cassandra Timothy. And this month of June, we commemorated Caribbean Heritage Month. And as the honorary chair of um Caribbean Heritage Month, it is my honor to recognize the committee who put
together a spectacular month of events led by Miss Arlet Blake. At this moment, oh, you can give a round of applause. You all enjoyed a lovely festivity as you guys were walking in. At this time, I would like to invite all of the committee up um to be recognized and
thank you for your hard work. Thank you for putting together this awesome commemorative month in the city of North Miami. You know, we celebrate every culture here in our city and um this month was Caribbean Heritage Month. So, give it a round of applause to the lovely committee. Now, hand these over
to our Good afternoon everyone. My name is Arlet KB Gene and I had the pleasure this year of serving as the I would say co-chair because Stephen Marcelus is also a big proud member of our committee and he's helped so much as my co-chair. I just like to take the time to
acknowledge all of my committee members. We were small but mighty um and our theme this month I think that we successfully uh made the goal right. So, thank you guys all um for all of your hard work and all of your dedication and
your time cuz I know on top of your regular jobs, this was a job. So, thank you guys a lot. Appreciate it. Thank you. So, I'll just call everyone's name really quickly. Um Taiisha Pierre
Stephanie Xenon. Thank you. Savannah Smith, Stephen Marcelus, my wonderful co-chair. Ruth Chef Sheffrier, I'm hope I'm saying that properly. Laurel Woodley, thank you so much.
Lorna Lou Pierre, Geette Spratling, Glennisha Miller, Christine Persal, Beverly Graham, Amanda Kovatch,
Arlette Blake, uh, Emmanuel Ocean, which is Sergeant Ocean, Jackie Callas, and Tiny Rodriguez. Thank you again for all of your hard work and dedication. I appreciate it.
Do you need the people at the end to come in? Who's here? Okay. Okay. And on behalf of Caribbean Heritage Month, we wanted to take a moment to honor some individuals
within the Caribbean community that have been extremely helpful to the city of North Miami and commemorating commemorating this month. Um, we have Marlin Hill Esquire, who's not here, but we'll give it to Arlette Blake on his behalf. Um, at this time, I would like to invite Inner Circle to the podium to
be recognized. They're known as the Bad Boys of Ree and it's a Jamaican band formed in 1968 by brothers Ian and Roger Lewis. They are known for their popular song like Bad Boys and Sweat Ala Song. This band has undergone lineup changes over the years
with members including Ian and Roger Lewis, Bernard Tutor Harvey Leot Hall, Trevor Skada Bonik, and Andre Phillips. And on behalf of the city of North Miami, our mayor Alex, vice mayor me, Councilman Kevin A. Burns, Councilwoman
Mary Esté Urban, and Councilwoman Pierre Fran Charles Dubai recognized that today be inner circle day in the city of North Miami. Well, good evening to everybody and uh this is a very very very nice honor seeing that we live right down the
street. So, it's like a neighborhood honor but with a lot of good feelings. So one love to everybody and hope the world can be peaceful. One love No, I'm not. Thank you.
Thank you. And next, we would like to invite Rosie Gordon Wallace to the podium to be honored as well. A visionary creator, culture strateg, and a tireless advocate for contemporary artists of the Caribbean Dispora and beyond as the founder of the Dispora Vibes Cultural
Arts Incubator, she has spent nearly three decades building an international platform rooting in experimentation, community, and cultural dialogue. And there is a lot of wherees and a lot of of of great accolades that you have done in our community. So we thank you and on
behalf of our mayor Alex, vice mayor, me, Councilman Kevin A. Burns, Councilwoman Mary Esme Irvin and Councilman Pierre Frost Charles, we do recognize you today with Rosie Gordon Wallace Day in honor of our Caribbean Heritage Month celebration. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you so
much. Thank you to my colleagues and peers at Mocha. Um, you guys have nurtured me over the years and on behalf of the black and brown artists that serve our city, I want to thank you for this opportunity and to the entire
council and and sir mayor. Thank you again and this means a lot. Lastly, my nephew Marlon Hill was not here, so I'm going to give him a big a big bad up. And it's been good. I got you.
Thank you so much. And then now we're going to have a special presentation on our North Miami Youth Council which is the brainchild of um Councilwoman Mary Estimate Irving. We have our library director who's going to do the presentation. Paul, thank you, mayor.
Uh, G, mayor, council. Uh, as the mayor mentioned, my name is Paul Bazil, the library director here at the city of North Miami. And I also have the honor of serving as the North Miami Youth Council liaison. Uh, once again, I want to like I would like to thank you, Councilwoman Mary S. Irvin, for trusting me and my leadership to g to lead the
next generation. I also like to thank Assistant City Manager uh Katya Philippo for trusting me as well. Um, it's been a journey this past year. I've learned so much, uh, dealing with the four members behind me, the youth council. Uh, I may be the youngest director in the city, but if you ask them, there's nothing
young about me. Um, they've taught me so much. I mean, it's it's so amazing the next generation, uh, where they're going. I know they're going to represent North Miami well, and I'm very proud of everything we've done. Uh, just to give you a brief background, a full youth council usually consists of eight members. Uh we started off this year
with five members, but unfortunately one of the members um could not commit to the youth council. Uh so we ended up with four. Um nevertheless, I'm very proud of the accomplishments the four youth councils, the fourth youth council members behind me uh accomplished. Um I
know that um they're going to do well. Two of them are going off to college. Um so I know they're going to continue to represent North Miami well. Um the presentation tonight is very brief. I know the mayor, you like brief presentations. Yes, sir. It's very brief. Uh they're going to discuss what
they've done in the past year. Um some requests that they have as the youth council to continue to expand um and other other details that they'll like to share with everyone here tonight. Uh with that being said, I'm going to call up to the podium youth council member Jeffrey St. Lair.
Thank you, Paul. Good evening, mayor, council members, staff, residents, and guests. My name is Jeffrey S. I have the privilege of being North Miami Youth Councilman for District 4. Thank you for allowing this opportunity to speak with you today. Tonight, North Miami Youth Council will share the progress we made
over this past year. From expanding our community outreach to building relationships with local organizations and peers across the nation, the youth council has has been hard at work laying the foundation for long-term impact. We will also provide an an up an update on
our recent efforts in leadership development and networking highlighting our initiatives in community community engagement and outline an event we launched to plan to and plan to expand. We will also respectfully prevent a funding
or funding request to support our goals and ensure that the youth council continues to thrive and serve as a resource for the youth of North Miami. We are deeply grateful for your continued support and guidance. We look forward to sharing how your investment in us is already making a difference and
how much more we can do together. Thank you. Now I would like to call my colleague call up my colleague youth mayor Kotier. Good evening. My name is Stacy Kotier and I have the honor of serving as North Miami youth mayor. One of the most impactful parts of our journey as anami
youth council is the opportunity to learn, network, and build meaningful connections through several conferences and events we've attended this year. As youth council members, we learned the importance of networking is more than just meeting people. It's about building connections, sharing knowledge, and
expanding our perspective beyond the city we represent. As young representatives of of North Miami, it's critical for us to learn not only how government functions here at home, but also how leadership operates at the regional, state, and national levels. We're proud to represent North
Miami at several events including the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference, the Haitian Ladies Network Conference, both in Washington DC, the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network Youth Caucus Summit, and the Women's History Month Celebration, which both took place right
here in Miami. At these events, we had the chance to meet elected officials, youth leaders, and change makers who shared their experience experiences and offered guidance. We exchanged contact information, participated in workshops, asked question and truly began to
understand the scope and responsibility of being of public service. Among all these experiences, the National League of Cities Conference was the most impactful. There we met peers from across the country who like us serve on youth councils in their cities. It was
inspiring to see so many young people involved in civic leadership and it gave us new ideas for programs, policies, and initiatives we can bring back to North Miami. Walked away from that conference more motivated, informed, and connected. As the youth
council, we now clearly see that networking is a vital part of our role. The relationships we build today with mentors, peers, and public servants will support our development as leaders in our ability to serve the community with vision and purpose. I now would like to call up my colleague, Youth Councilwoman
Joseph, where she will be discussing a project that the youth council worked on this year. Thank you. Thank you, Youth Council Mayor. Good evening, everyone. My name is Esther Joseph, and I am pleased here to be serving as the youth council woman for District 4.
Another key area of our work this year has been organizing initiatives. Not just attending events, but creating them. As members of the North Miami Youth Council, we've come to understand that youth related events are one of the most powerful ways we can engage with
our community, spark m sorry, spark important conversations, and address real issues that matter as for the people that we represent. This year, we were especially proud to plan and lead our very own panel discussion focused on
HaitianAmerican health, mental health. Sorry. This was this was more than just a discussion. It was a moment of connection, healing, and understanding. We heard from our professionals, elders, and community members who shared personal stories and exper experiences
that helped us understand the generational perspective around mental health, particularly in the Haitian-American community. Many of us never had the chance to hear firsthand what of what the elder generation experienced as they grew up, how they
were taught to deal with stress, trauma, or emotional struggles, and how those beliefs still shape conversations today. It was eyeopening and it reminded us how important it is to create safe spaces where youth and adults can learn from one another. Through this program, we
didn't just host an event. We created a platform for real honest dialogue. It helped us grow as leaders, deepen our empathy, and reinforce the idea that our generation has a role in playing in changing the narrative around mental health and community wellness. Moving
forward, we were committed to building more programs like this, ones that reflect the heart of our city, uplift unheard voices, and create opportunities for education, connection, and impact. Thank you. And I would like to call up Youth Mayor Stacy Couture back up to the
podium. Thank you. Thank you, Youth Councilwoman Joseph. So, what's next? Over the next few months, we'll be working collectively with our youth council leaison Paul on recruiting members, launching a digital newsletter to keep our community informed, conducting a youth-based
survey to gather input directly from our peers in North Miami, and restoring our social media pages to better connect and engage online. A new initiative we're excited to propose is partnering with nearby youth council groups like those in Myiramar and Lauell Lakes. This will
help us exchange ideas, build stronger networks, and expand the impact of youth leadership throughout the region. I now would like to call up my colleague, youth councilwoman S Moore, where she will be discussing our funding and budget requests for the youth council. Thank you.
Thank you, mayor. Good evening. My name is Clara Cam Moore and I'm the youth councilwoman of district 3. I have the honor of doing the last two slides. Most importantly, the money slide. This year, the North Miami Youth Council operated
with just four members and a budget of only $5,000. With those limited resources, we were still able to attend major conferences, organize impactful programming, and present the youth of the city of North Miami with pride. We're proud of what we
accomplished, and we were intentional with every dollar spent. However, the standard for a full youth council is eight members, and that's what we are preparing for the incoming year. With a fully active council, the financial demands will increase significantly from
travel and event participation to programming, uniforms, marketing materials, and any other miscellaneous items that may occur. We're concerned that the current $5,000 budget will no longer be adequate to support a fully functioning council.
To ensure we can improve equal opportunities, continue to create meaningful events, and represent the city youth effectively, we are respectfully requesting an increase in our annual budget to $25,000. This increase will allow us to fully
support our expanded team, continue attending highlevel conferences, and offer programs that truly serve and uplift our community. We're grateful for the support we've received so far and we hope to continue building with you to grow, lead, and
represent North Miami at the highest standard. With that being said, and before I wrap this up tonight, we have one final request that we would like to propose this evening. Two of the current youth council members, including myself, will be ending term will be ending this
summer. We are interested in one final development trip with the current youth council to New York with a list of activities that will benefit us which is displayed on the screen. As I previously mentioned, we have surpassed our current budget and this would be an additional
request for this trip to be possible. We've conducted research and as you can see on this slide, we have provided details and purpose of this trip. We really hope that you can consider this. Again, we would like to thank the entire mayor and council and city
administration for investing in us and we're here for any questions and feedback you may have. Thank you so much. Awesome. Thank you. Questions for them, but they have questions. No, Sure. Absolutely. We could take a picture.
Okay, I'll take a picture. Hey, come on up. Just you want to add something else or that was it? No, that's it. Okay. Thank you so much for your presentation. We appreciate it as you are part of the we got to go down and take a picture with you guys but as you are part of the
process. So this is it. So I would say with the request we appreciate it but the right time and this is how we do it. um that your your your representative was there obviously that's something that we could look at and request it in our budget as we are budgeting since we are teaching about good budget
management so for next year which starts in October right madam manager October 1st obviously I don't have anything if if it's presented by so there's a little process we'll Paul will work with you and show you and we'll do what we do but the right way right right now we it was not budgeted I don't think that we could
do it so in teaching you and showing you how to do good budget management. That's a good way. But definitely in a couple months we could couple days because the the months are going by like hours. So we we we should do what we do in terms of me. But if I ask my colleague if we
could go and take a picture with them and congratulation and all that you guys do, I would ask one thing. You do come and shadow us, you know, myself, the the your prospective council person, the administration, so you could get the real handle even if it's for one day because it's a lot going on in the
world. Thank you so much. May I, Mr. Mayor, please? Um, first of all, um, I would like to, um, just thank you, um, Director Paul Basil, for your leadership. I'd like to thank you, the youth, uh, mayor and council, for your leadership. Thank you for your boldness.
Thank you for what you have done. I'm very, very proud of you. Um and um and I'm and like the mayor said, we are we will be looking to support you and we are happy that you are participating in this in this process so that you
understand how um how everything goes. I want to continue to to encourage you to be leaders for your generation, for your kind, and to lift North Miami high wherever you go. So again, thank you for all of you for the great work that you're you have done and and are
continuing to do. No, I'm just gonna take a picture. Beautiful. Thank you. Can you do that on the employee when they call back? City events
slide up here. Yay. We got city events by Beverly from the communications department followed by hurricane preparedness. May floor we do. Okay. Yeah. And after prep um after May floor for hurricane preparedness, we'll
do some appointments and we'll get to the agenda. Yes. All right. Good evening, mayor, council, staff, North Miami neighbors, and guests. My name is Beverly Graham and I am presenting the following announcements on behalf of the city of North Miami.
Attention North Miami business owners. The city of North Miami is offering green rehab grants up to $10,000 to assist businesses in improving their facilities, increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy costs. To apply, visit ww.northmiami.gov/economicdev.
Vice Mayor Cassandra Timothy invites North Miami residents to join free basic to advanced computer classes every Saturday until July 12th at the North Miami Public Library. Classes are offered from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and include training in Microsoft Word,
Excel, email, and more with Creole and Spanish interpreters available on site. To register, visit the North Miami Library or call 305891-5535. Proof of North Miami residency is required. Thinking about buying your first home?
Join the first-time home buyers education workshop in Creole held every fourth Saturday of the month from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the North Miami Public Library. Learn about grants, down payment assistance, closing costs, and more. To register, call Expert Resource
Community Center at 3056527616. Let your imagination shine with North Miami Public Libraries Summer Reading Challenge. Register now at northmaffl.beanstack.com. And join us now until July 25th for a chance to win big. Winners will be announced on Saturday, July 26 from
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at our family funday and summer reading wrap-up taking place at our North Miami Public Library. It's your chance to read, win big, and color your world with fun. This summer, little ones and their caregivers can sing, dance, and play at
North Miami's public library Zubini summer session. Classes take place every Monday at 10:00 a.m. until July 28th, offering music and movement fun for children's ages 0 to 4. To register, please visit zubini.com or scan the QR code on the flyer.
Be part of shaping the future of North Miami by attending one of the upcoming LDR update sessions featuring the flavors of Nomi. The next two meeting days are Wednesday, July 9th at the Joe Celestin Community Center and Thursday, July 10th at the North Miami Public
Library. both at 6 pm. Students in grades 3 through six can dive into the world of coding every Thursday until July 31st at the North Miami Public Library. No experience is needed and laptops will be available on site. To register, please call
3058915535. Space is limited. This summer, teens can dive into fun and creativity with the North Miami Public Libraries team programs, including anime club, art workshops, gaming days, and youth empowerment camp. Activities are
taking place now and run through July. Perfect for making new friends and learning new skills. Visit northmafl.beanstock.com or call 305891-5535 for more information. Children can boost their reading
confidence in the most adorable way by reading and to therapy dogs at Wags and Tales. This heartwarming program takes place every Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at the North Miami Public Library all the way through July 29th. The excitement is non-stop at every
Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. this summer with Show Day at the North Miami Public Library. From bubble shows and magic to planetariums and DJ dance parties, each week brings a new adventure. Call 305891-5535 for more information or visit
northmiami.beanstack.com to register. Step into summer with Soulstep line dancing every Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the North Miami Public Library going on until July 30th. Learn fun line dances and bring the community together while
promoting movement, culture, and good times. Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month with NOI Nomi Library Stories. a storytelling series that honors the heart and soul of Caribbean traditions. On Wednesday, June 29th, our very own
personnel director, Laura Woodley, will be the featured reader. Story time takes place at the North Miami Library from 4 to 5:00 p.m. For more information, please visit northmafl.gov/scelebrate. Councilwoman Mary Esme Irvin invites you to the district 3 constituent days on
Thursday, June 26th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Griffin Community Center. Meet with city departments, enjoy refreshments, and pick up hurricane preparedness supplies, including cases of water. Ready to master the art of videography? Join the join us for the North Miami
Nomi Tech videography master class by Trillion Visuals, taking place on June 26th through the 27th from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the North Miami Public Library. receive hands-on training with industry standard equipment and software along with instruction and key
production techniques. To register, please visit northmiami.gov/videography. Get ready to move, sweat, and celebrate Caribbean culture at our high energy SOA and dance hall class led by Sora Kajuste. Head to the Scott Gin Community Center on Wednesday, June 26 from 6 PM
to 8:00 p.m. for an unforgettable night of rhythm and fun. Councilwoman Mary Esme Irvin invites families to a special Father's Day barbecue at Buccaneer Park on Sunday, June 29th from 4 to 7:00 p.m. Enjoy music, games, food, and giveaways as we
celebrate and the amazing fathers in our community. Are you a teen between 15 and 18 looking to make a difference in North Miami? Apply now to be part of the youth city's youth council and help advise our mayor and council. The deadline is Sunday,
August 31st by 5:00 pm. Please visit northmiami.gov/ youth council for more details. Celebrate the 4th of July with the city of North Miami at our Independence Day celebration by the Bay. Gates open at 600 p.m. and fireworks light up the sky
at 9:00 p.m. at FIU's Biscane Bay campus. Admission is free and parking is also free. On July 5th from 2 to 4 pm, join Mocha Mini Makers for a special workshop celebrating creativity, inclusion, and the remarkable legacy of Judith Scott, a
pioneering fiber artist with Down syndrome. Celebrate diversity with different is a great thing to be, and friendship bracelets. This disability awareness month, Mocha invites you to participate and join for an inspiring hands-on Sunday Stories program on July 6th from
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Mocha Pavilion. Help North Miami students prepare for the new school year by donating backpacks and school supplies now through Monday, July 28th at the North Miami Public Library. Save the date for our upcoming back to
school block party that's happening Monday, August 11th from 3 to 7:00 p.m. at the library. Don't miss out on the fun. To stay uptodate with Nomi news, events, programs, and services, log on to North Miami's official website at ww.northmiami.gov.
gov. Click connect with Nomi on the homepage to sign up for the city's newsletters. Also follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Nor Northmiami FL on X. You can follow us at Nomi News. This concludes the city announcements. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.
Good evening, mayor and council members through the manager. Thank you, Mayor Remont, chief of strategic initiatives and emergency manager. As of today, June 24th, the two the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced the first
name storm, tropical storm Andrea. The system is currently located over the central Atlantic, more than 2,000 miles from Florida and is moving away in the um away from the land. At this time, it poses no threat to our region. Our emergency management division remains at
an elevated state of readiness. All departmental hurricane preparedness plans have been reviewed and are in place and this will we will continue to receive updates and we'll push out the updates as we receive it from the national service center. We also want to emphasize that the city continues to
coordinate closely with local, county, and state emergency management partners to ensure readiness and situational awareness for all hazards, not just hurricanes. This includes communications, interoperability, sheltering coordination, and joint
operational planning. As part of this regional coordination, the city maintains mutual aid agreements with neighboring jurisdictions and our state. Following last hurricane Milton's deployment through our police department, I am pleased to report to
Mayor and council that we have successfully submitted all our mutual aid reimbursement claims and we are now waiting final approval from the state. We also encourage all residents to take advantage of this quiet period to finalize their personal preparedness
plans and for our businesses to update their emergency plans. ensure that they are all signed up for our official city alerts and that they review all evacuation and supply checklists at our website at www.northmiami.gov. Thank you for your time and for your
continued commitment to public safety and emergency preparedness. Thank you. Thank you so very much. Um may floor if I may ask um through with um the city manager are we have we done any department training and and so are we
all confident in also working with social service to make sure that our seniors have you know they are prepared as we have been in previous years. We did we did have our departmentwide tabletop exercise a few weeks ago and all departments are ready for any
emergency that comes forth and through the manager if I may answer the last point from the mayor. Um yes sir we do have the list of all our um vulnerable population that was shared to HSS and we just encourage to update that and we encourage residents to apply to call 311
or to go through our HSS to ensure that they are on that list. Yes, but we are prepared. Thank you so much. It's something that I worked on years ago and ensuring I'm glad that we are still doing that work with the Albert and the social service in terms of Thank you so much. Mayor, if I may. Yes, sir. Um
quick um question um to the manager as far as um emergency shelters. Um do we have a list of identified location just in case um something do happen? Absolutely. Um and through the manager,
the county takes um has all of those listings. Um because we take it, meaning emergency management does take every storm very uniquely and differently, and you don't know where they're going to hit, whether it's on the west coast or east side of of um um of our of our city
or the county, they activate. as we activate that, as we watch the storm within 72 hours, actually um evacuations are the first to be to be um imposed. And if that if that is imposed and cities um are also um activated or
evacuation zones and sheltering are are activated and we know it um actually those who are on the list, mayor, are the first ones to receive the call. Yes, they are the first ones to be evacuated and as we open those shelters, we make the population or residents aware of it. But it depends on the storm indeed. And
just to add to that, in our city, North Miami Senior High is the first cause of shelter. In in previous years where we had where it's usually bad in some cases, they will work with us co um coordinate very very effectively with our emergency management with the police
department and we open shelters in terms of together with the county. I I remember one year we ran out of space because when it once the county opened it, it's open to everyone. our city, our priority will be our resident, but it's it's open to first come, first serve. There was previous year where we end up
going to North Miami Middle across the street and then there's some cases we're talking about JCC in terms of if it does get to a population where we need more. So, we work in closely with the county. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, May. Thank you. Okay. Cons. Um, wait a minute. Hold on.
Wait. Appointments. Madame clerk. Thank you, mayor. We have a few appointments which I'll lump all together under one motion. So we have a resolution appointing Gio Darter to the Centennial Committee. Hector Medina to
the Centennial Committee, Emmanuel Fuimo at large to the Commission for Women, Marie Oten to the Commission for Women, Charles Erns to the Planning Commission, and Robert Besson to the Planning Commission.
Move approval. Second. I have a motion made by Councilman Burns to approve the board appointments as listed. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Estimay Irvin. All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion carries with a 5-0 vote. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Um, we have consent agenda. Unless a member of the city council wishes to remove a specific item from this portion of the agenda, tabs A through F 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 F be adopted. Move for approval. Second. I have a motion made by Councilman
Charles to approve the consent agenda tabs A through F. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Estimate Irvin. All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion carries with a 5-0 vote. Tab H. A proposed resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of
North Miami, Florida, providing for ratification of the 2024 2027 collective bargaining agreement between the city of North Miami and the South Florida Police Benevolent Association for the bargaining unit consisting of the city's police officers and sergeants authorizing the interim city manager to
sign the collective bargaining agreement on behalf of the city providing for an effective date and all other purposes. Please note that this item was tabled from the June 10 council meeting. Tab H. Thank you so much, Madam Manager. Miss Woodley, how you doing, Mr. Brad? Good
evening, everyone. Good evening, Mayor, City Council. For the record, Laura Woodley, personnel director. Through the interim city manager, we are presenting for your approval tonight a proposed collective bargaining agreement for our police officers and sergeants. Joining
me tonight is our outside labor attorney, Brett Snyder, and we are here to answer any questions you might have. Well, we we we presented um last week um and I think I had requested for me to
get it off for briefing and and I want to thank you guys. We did have the briefing and subsequently um after the briefing I met with with with the with the team and discuss um I mean I'm um that my only thing was with the briefing we're good and I and I we fully support
it. This is, I must say, a a very good step um between the police department and our men men and women in uniform in our administration and also with Brad because I know this been a couple of well I want to say it's been it's been a
long time a couple of months I don't want to say years and years but obviously this is something that is important that um from my understanding the entire the police department did vote in terms of that and they are all in support of this. This is something. But so just so the highlight of where we
are, I don't know if if if you the the CFO or you, Miss Woodley, would just let the public know just the highlight of where we are. This is our um negotiation with our police department with the PBA. Um who would be here? And I see Mr. Steman in the back. How you doing, sir?
Um in terms of I need to call you, by the way, but I will. Um um just to go over the the the highlight of of the thing and I'm sorry Brett of what happened last week. I've heard something. It wasn't you. It's the PB. I'll get with Steman but yes. Go ahead sir. All good. Good uh good evening Brett Schneider for the record. Good
evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. It's a pleasure to be here before you just briefly because I know we did go over this a little bit last time and we've briefed Mo, you know, I think all of you at this point. This is a three-year collective bargaining agreement. Uh we've been at this for a while. The agreement actually goes back uh the
beginning dates October 1, 2024 and it goes through September 30th, 2027. And just high level summary, three-year agreement, um the um we the significant piece of this for the city was an agreement regarding the uh city's
pension plan. Uh and the biggest piece to benefit the city was the PBA's agreement to allow the city to keep all uh currently alloc unallocated and all future 185 premium tax money received by the plan to offset the city's required contributions. So that is a a big
concession made by the union. In exchange uh there were uh uh cost of living adjustments of 4% in year 1, 5% in year two, 5% in year three. There were also some uh pension enhancements for those folks that are in the current 185 plan. Uh in addition, there were
some there uh we agreed to honor law enforcement appreciation day going forward as a new holiday. Uh and um we agreed to some minor increases on minimum pay for uh going to court or for getting recalled to work on a day off.
Uh, and we also agreed to recognize some additional assignments with special assignment pay, which would include the honor guard, crisis negotiations, traffic homicide, and the SWAT team. Uh, and then uh finally, we agreed to uh increase the longevity pay uh uh lump
sums received by employees hired uh on or after January 1, 2007. So, this was a a long uh drawn out negotiation, but I believe we did reach a successful conclusion. And as you said, mayor, the PBA did vote and they ratified the contract, meaning they voted in in favor
of it, the majority of them at least. And so, we're here today to just ask you to approve it. As I mentioned to most of you, because we are changing the pension plan, we will be coming back to you with a pension ordinance amendment uh in August and September. All that will do is just implement what we've agreed to
in this collective bargaining agreement on pension. And it's not anything different. It's just the next step you take to uh adopt the pension changes that were agreed to. Awesome. Thank you so very much. And without a doubt, I could say as as a as as one of the mayor in this city um and I know um former
mayor Burns would be here. It's we in we're in a different time now. And I have as one of the mayors who have spent so much time with the police department and my my appreciation for them and the work that they do not only to protect us and to protect the residents and what we
do. So between the chief gods and chief Rivera and the entire command staff and I'm always always focused on the officers who patrol. I don't really care about the command the okay too but I'm more concerned and always care. So
that's why we that tomorrow I am doing an appreciation lunchon for the entire department just to say thank you to them. I know we got some good report but they know they are with me every day. So there is not somebody if there's something I have some officer dealing with me some way and while we are on the
street if there's something some residents need something we do it. So, I really appreciate them and and and and thank you and I know um Anna Bo, I know you may be, but this was something that you pushed. I was pushing to kind of wait, but she really tell me this is something that we had to do now and and
and the work I was thinking about, we wait for a new city manager, but the work that they do and and with you, Miss Woodley, Brett, and the entire team, um Angela and everybody in terms of what we are, nothing is perfect, but this is great. Our police is good and guess what? we save some money where we are
able to afford it because there are years we would not be able to to to do that. So we are in a better place because of our good fiscal management. I know we don't we don't talk about what we do good here as often but that is one thing and I do want to say thank you to
all of my colleagues in order for us to be here to be able to do this for the officers because if we were reckless we would not do what we do. We would not have enough to do what we do. This is a a a major a couple of million dollar commitment to us, but without a doubt, we appreciate the work that they do and
thank you for the work that you guys have done. So, I move for approval. Second. Oh. Oh, yes. Public hearing is open on the item. And chief, you got to come up. We got the chief here. Also, I wanted to acknowledge former may Oh, we got two
chief. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. I I thought I saw former mayor Frank Woolen. Is he still here? Oh, he's here. Hey, Frank is here. Who else is in? No, no, no other elected officials. Okay, great. Chief, you have it. Well, Daddy, Daddy, we have I'm sorry, chief. State Rep. Daddy
Joseph, I did not Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, yes, you are here. I don't know which chief is older myself. Go ahead, Mayor Council. I've been hooked up with the North Miami Police Department since 1970 and Tom a heck of
a lot longer than me. And I got to tell you, this is the best I ever seen in a police department. These guys are topnotch. I put them up against anybody in the country. They are professional. They're led well. They have good morale.
And they go out and they run to the sound of the gunfire. Let me tell you, we're we're in a very tense situation coming up with asymmetrical warfare. And it's not going to be the National Guard or any other agency that's going to be the first responder. It's going to be
these brave men and women that put their lives on the line. As you know, mayor, you gave a speech on police memorial day. We lost three officers in the line of duty. And these people put their lives on the line every day. The social
workers, traffic engineers, doctors, lawyers, they got to make a decision in two and a quarter seconds out there. And they are not the suppressors of liberty, but the guaranteers of the Constitution. These people are our representatives out
there and right now you got the best police department I have ever seen. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you. Uh I'm Thomas Flam. I live at 840 Northeast 140 Street. I've lived
there for 66 years and uh I agree with everything that Chief Each has said and this contract is a win-win situation. It's the best thing that can happen and happen in labor negotiations
when there are no losers. the city wins, the employees win, and I know that the council is going to do the right thing, and I appreciate you for your time. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chief. Thank you so much. Um, I see Chief Gaz,
do you want to add anything before we we we close public hearing. I see Mike is coming and PBA is also coming. Um, please. Yes, go ahead, please. Hi there. Uh, Rachel Goldberg, a resident, 1330 Northeast 134th Street, North Miami 33161. Um, good evening. I rise today as
a representative of Iron Man Manners HOA in strong support of the men and women of the North Miami Police Department and urge this body to act swiftly in ratifying the 2024 to two 2027 collective bargaining agreement. This agreement, long overdue,
is not just a contract. It's a commitment to those who risk their lives daily to protect our community. Our officers have shown unwavering dedication, professionalism, and resilience through some of the most challenging times. They deserve fair wages, adequate resources, and the
stability that this agreement provides. Delays only undermine morale, and hinder North Miami. Let's stand a clear message today. We value and respect those who serve. Let's move forward today with the
approval they each have earned. Thank you. Oh, Stephan. Yeah, sure. Oh, yeah. Good evening. Shereice Scortheast 124th Street through the manager. I'd just like to say to Mayor and
Council, thank you so much for your support. Our officers go out each and every day and do a phenomenal job making public safety a priority in the city of North Miami. So again, I'd just like to thank you for your support and your consideration tonight. Thank you again. Thank you, Petman,
president of South Florida PBA. And I want to thank you, mayor, and uh commissioners for bringing this item up. Let's let's get it put to bed hopefully once and for all. Uh I want to just echo on what your your citizens are saying. Every penny that you put into public
safety will come back to you. Uh we've learned in government, we can do with a lot of things. I uh during Hurricane Andrew, I learned that I could use without water and I could do without power, but you couldn't do without public safety. And I want to thank you for supporting the men and women and look forward to seeing you tomorrow. If it's okay, I'll come by and see you
tomorrow for your uh Thank you so much. Um and I want to say to you publicly, the amazing job that you have done for the past few years with the South Florida Police um prevalence association is just phenomenal under your leadership what has happened and we truly truly
appreciate it. We're going to have a conversation. What had happened last week should have never and I'm not going to talk about it publicly, but we'll talk about it privately. But I want to say thank you and you know I love the police and we do. We I want to vote and go and take a picture down there with you before you leave. So stay there. So
public hearing is closed. Um I think I it was moved and second by Councilman Charles. Um guys, if we could vote. Madam clerk, I have a motion made by Mayor Desame to approve the item at tab H. The motive the motion was seconded by Councilman Charles. All in favor? Any opposed? Item passes with a 5-0 vote.
Thank you. And we'll go down Steman. Come back up. Ma um Madame Manager, please join us as we take a council with them. that above. All right. If you insist. Where is she? Come on. Come on.
I'm talking anybody else. Come on. We finished. Three, two, three. Awesome. Thank you so much. And the next item, Madame Clerk, tab G, a proposed resolution of the
mayor and city council of the city of North Miami, Florida, authorizing and approving the execution of an employment agreement with the city manager and substantially the attached form providing for an effective date and all other purposes. This item was tabled from the June 10 council meeting. Tab G.
Oh jeez, that's good evening again, Brett Schneider. Uh, good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council. Um, at the city attorney's request, I took the lead in working with uh Terresa Theos and her council on an employment agreement. Um, the agreement
was uh initially on your agenda at the June 10th meeting. Uh, Mr. pulled it from that agenda to make some additional revisions. Uh, the revised draft of that agreement is now before you this evening. I did want to make two clarifying points. There were two scriveners errors in here. Things that
weren't changed from the prior agreement, but should have been. The first one, you'll note that the current version of the agreement reflects in paragraph uh three and four and one paragraph later on a start date of August 4th, 2025. That is M. Theos's
proposed start date. There are still references to the prior proposed start date of July 21st, which you can disregard. So, the proposed start date under this agreement would be August 4th. And then the second uh uh point of clarification is there are provisions in
this agreement in multiple places that indicate that if Miss the is terminated or resigns that she would receive a payout for all of her acred unused uh the leave that she's acred and not yet used through the date of termination. Nothing that would would occur in the future. So those two clarifications. Um
everything else stands and obviously if you have any qu legal questions I'm happy to answer them. I know Missilus and her council are also here if you have any questions uh regarding the agreement. Okay. Um just a question. No, hold on. Um I think we have several um
questions before we go. So do so before we go do is there a presentation by Miss Merless um attorney or how do we do this in in terms of So is that where we are? Well, I can walk you through, give you an overview of the terms if that helps
on the record. Um, which I'm happy to do. Okay. So, let me just talk about what is the package. Sure. Sure. Haven't done that yet. Okay. So, um, the start date would be August 4th, 2025. Uh, and the key economic terms, uh,
starting in paragraph 4. The agreement would be for a 4-year term starting August uh 4th of 2025 uh with automatic annual renewals uh on August 4th each year thereafter. The initial starting salary in paragraph 5
is $350,000 and uh the agreement indicates that she would be eligible for uh pay increases each year thereafter of no less than 3%. That's also in paragraph 5. Paragraph six, retirement. Miss the would be
continue to be a member of the Florida retirement system in the senior management class and in addition she would receive um a contribution into her uh defined contribution account equal to 10% of her uh salary. I should add that
uh the CFO is here as well. So if you have any questions about the specific dollars associated with these items, we can bring her in to answer them. Um, she would receive an automobile allowance of $850 per month, a cell phone allowance of $250 per month. She would be eligible
for a general expense allowance of $850 a month for expenses that she incurs in connection with her job as city manager. She would participate in the city's health and dental insurance plans uh for herself and her dependent at no cost to
her. uh she would acrue in paragraph 11 three weeks of sick leave and four weeks of vacation leave and holiday leave each year but with those leave leave amounts being frontloaded each year meaning that all of the leave is put in her bank at the beginning of the year whereas if you
have an acrruel model and somebody's acrewing 12 days a year each month they acrew one day she would receive the entire acrruel each year upfront. Um there is also uh upon the commencement of her employment in addition to that leave she would receive a one-time
allocation of 96 hours of paid leave that she can use for any purpose and then for each year of her employment for the first four years who her acral of annual leave would go up by one week. So it would start at four weeks after a year she would start to acrew five weeks
then six weeks then seven weeks and then it would cap after after four years. Again, as I indicated before, upon separation, she would receive a payout of 100% of all the leave that she has accured as of the date of separation. Nothing beyond that. Um
just uh termination paragraph 16. Uh the provision in here says that if you want to terminate her, you would have to give her at least 90 days notice of your decision to terminate her. uh and then she would be entitled to have a meeting uh be after the completion of 90 days to
state why, you know, she doesn't want to be terminated, why she wouldn't be terminated. And then with respect to um what she would receive posttermination, there are clauses on page four and five that deal with that in different scenarios. So, for example, if she's terminated without cause, meaning that
she didn't do anything wrong, but you decide you want to go in a different direction. And this is in paragraph uh A1 on page four. She would receive a payment um of for all work she's completed through the date of termination, a payment for 100% of all of her acred leave, as we've discussed,
severance pay equal to 20 weeks of her base salary, as well as um the city's required contributions to her retirement account for that 20week period. Um and um and that that would be if it's
without cause, if she um there's a provision, the next provision says that if the the council reduces her salary or materially alters her job duties, she could leave and it would be treated as though it was a termination without
cause. Um termination with cause. So again, if she engages in misconduct of any kind and you fire her for cause, she would not be eligible for severance pay. She would still be paid through the date of her termination and would still receive the uh payouts for her banks uh
at 100%. Uh termination for good reason. Um if she resigns because her duties are reduced, the council breaches her agreement, uh or there's any material negative change on her salary and benefits, she would receive uh uh
severance pay equal to 16 weeks, benefits for 16 weeks, pay through her date of separation, and payouts for all acred leave. Um, and let's see. Those are pretty much the I don't think I I think those are the key material terms. Obviously, if you're
if there's nothing if there's something I didn't address that you have questions on, I'm happy to answer them. Uh, and Daddy Joseph is here as well to supplement. Thank you. Good evening, um, mayor and councel, madame manager, madame city attorney,
madame clerk. I'm here um on behalf of uh a proposed city manager and as you know the market for city managers is pretty competitive in the entire state of Florida and particularly in South Florida. Uh what you have before you as
you're aware and I want to thank each every each and every member of the council for their participation in the negotiations and sharing your concerns about the initial proposal. Uh, as you as you heard before, we pulled it last time in good faith to try to work out as many of the details as we possibly could
um and at the same time not put her in a worse situation than where she is currently because she's thankfully um well settled and employed with the county. So, in order to pull her here, uh we are trying to make sure that it's competitive, um that it's fair, and that
it makes sense in line with a lot of what we're seeing throughout the county. So this is the final product with the exception of the scriveners errors that you already heard before about the start being start date being August 4th and the one error that was replicated correctly throughout the remainder of
the contract uh that is in that one section that needs to be corrected. So I believe before you is the final work product of the consensus of as many of the concerns that we were able to take. Okay, go ahead. the word. Well, let me
just conclude. It's it's the product that we have that takes into account uh the entirety of of what you all had proposed that we were able to factor in for today. Um sure. We are going to have some questions, but I wanted to just
said we are but go ahead. Just um for our attorney, can you come forward for a moment? So, we'll go ahead and um I'm sorry, Bryant. So, we'll go ahead and and we'll have our discussion and then before we'll do a public public hearing in
terms of where we are. But before we go ahead and this is just a question on behalf of our attorney. Did you negotiate any of these terms or make suggestions of these terms, dollar amounts, exit, vacation days, anything um related to
this. This is I believe what she is proposing to us that you are not authorized to go back and negotiate or change anything on our behalf. Correct. So, so yes. Um, initially just rewinding the clock a little bit, uh, Mr. Ellis
uh, and her council produced a proposed contract. I reviewed it carefully for legal compliance, legal sufficiency to make sure there were no provisions in there that violated any state laws. You may know there's a state law that rel relates to severance pay. So, we made sure that that was complied with and any
other provision, legal provision, I made sure was complied with. Um, but in terms of negotiating what I would describe as the business terms, what her salary is, how much leave she wasn't within my purview. I wasn't directed by the council to negotiate specific terms. Uh,
what we did was we presented the legally sufficient version of her initial contract. A few of you did have some comments. Uh, as uh DIY had indicated, they did pull it. They made a few revisions from the initial draft which I I think I shared with you all the track changes version to show what was
revised. Um and then I know a few of you have had some additional comments in the last day or two that I have shared with uh uh Mr. Alyssa's council. Okay. Thank you. Is that all? Are we good? Are we ready to ask questions? No,
no, no. I'm I'm ready to in terms of where we have to open up the conversation and go where we are. So, because it it feels like I I I just got to open this and and figure out where we are. I want to before I make my my comments and kind of talk about where we are and get to the question of this
where we are tonight. I did this afternoon send you at the well I did ask the um the attorney Jennifer to get in touch with you to send you um my counter proposal in in in terms of
what what we have received. Um, did we share it with the and I know Daddy and I we were talking when we when I think you sent it and I I did send it to her again and I know it's late so I I just wanted
to be sure and before I go on and open and make comments and and get members input and ideas because this is serious. This is for the future of our city and and and and the seriousness of it. Um, we have residents on the emails and everything that we've been getting. So,
I just want to make sure um and and I'm going to ask um her legal counsel if they did receive my counter offer, which I could go into detail, but I I didn't want to do that publicly yet until because I don't know if they had a chance to review it if they sit if it's dead on arrival. If they if there's room
for us to, you know, the negotiate, this one is also good, too. Um, Representative, so I just want to be sure that we're serious. At least I'm not wasting my time and I'm gonna be very clear with the residents um because there's a lot of calls that we have
gotten. So I kind of laid down the the the fire to those who called and I said that um I did receive the the the proposal and I'll go into the historical things so everybody would know. Um so we all would be responsible for our own action as we are um here tonight. So my
question is did we receive um where we are and if we could you know answer where we are from there and then we could take it from there and I could go on and do my opening remarks. Yes ma'am. Good evening Mr. Mayor. Uh you're welcome to do your opening remarks. I
did receive at 509 p.m. uh your text message with the terms that you had concerns about. Yes. Thank you. And did you speak? So where are we? Do you know or we Well, I think we had discussed this because I had spoken to you a previous time when we pulled the item
the first time to try to work out any specific details at that time. Um the two details you had identified we worked on and we brought those in line in the new that is not madam let let me say this um rep with all due respect we had a conversation and I don't want to go
public you which I um I will what we talked about and what we discussed was not what and and and and I did say to you when we spoke I was supposed to at least you know at least reach out or I thought you would have been reaching out a little bit sooner but we all were busy
and I said I when I didn't hear from you yesterday or from Mr. Theresa's council, I thought yesterday I was going to reach out back to you but the day you know we all human things happened and then today you called me in terms of that but
subsequently before that we did not our conversation and we talked about it. Um this the primary issue you identified for me were two. Um one of them was the salary and then you had initially I have my notes and we we started to discuss it
and that was before the the other meeting so before the June meeting. Yes. Correct. Yes. Today we spoke cuz I called you. Yes. Correct. Um, even though it's my understanding that our client reached out to you a number of times and you got back to her over the
weekend um, saying or sometime last week saying you would talk to either Hans Auton or myself um, this weekend. Let's stop. Let's stop. Let's stop because there's some work. No, it was not. I'm I'm telling you and we could bring the client and I don't know if this is a
good thing as we starting this relationship. No, it it was not and we did not have multiple call. We had one. No, we we we had two separate your client though. No, no, no. Two separate calls with you and I. Yes. And then I tried called tried to call you and you
texted her back saying that you would reach out to my son. Yes. And I did and and we had our conversation. You didn't reach out to me. I called you today. No, no, no, no. I'm talking about before that. That's how we first started. Is that what we talked about? No, I called you that time as well. No, because No, I said I was going to call Hunts. No, that
is not um accurate. I called the attorney. I called Hans and Hans said he was going to a meeting and he was going to have you call me and then you did call me and we had that that conversation. So that was the first conversation that we had. You talking about in June whenever the before the last meeting and when you said in June
rep listen I'm just asking no let let me say this rep because I'm getting to the point it it's early in in in in the evening and and I let me just go and made my comments and and see where we are. Yes. Thank you. because I could tell this is not gonna land pretty well
tonight. So, and and and I want to say this with all due respect and everybody knows who I am and by now if you don't I've been up here for too long for you to know. I wanted Miss Terless to come in and work and I reached out to her. I
had heard some stuff in the community, you know, whatever. But I thought about it and I came here to the council publicly and I said that when I met with Miss the List, she she expressed to me that she's at the county and where she's at. And I said to her and that's what I
said and there's nobody in this room who would tell you and I said cuz I I I have no business to lie or anything. There might be some things that I don't recollect but as we talked about it I will if I remember we had the conversation I will. We had several conversation and she talked about her
salary and I said you know we at 279 or 278 whatever that we are right now but I said I want you to come in with the city where we are and I appreciate that and I said you know what as much as I have called and talked to a lot of residents
homeowners and I made the decision I will take the the hit and I understand because you are at 340 I believe whatever that is so it's $9,000 which is a Because when we are negotiating for a city manager, we are negotiating with
the attorney. Now, I say that with I had all the intentions and today when we spoke, Daddy um I'm sorry, Representative um Joseph, I have not talked to anyone and I didn't
think that I needed to speak to anyone. We did reached out in terms of the contract and what's what's happening. Um, I do not and I respect you and Teresa because it is your job to put in as much as you want in the contract and
whatever, but it's up to us as policy makers to review it. So, I always thought that with under the the the the thing because I've done this several time with different city manager that we're going to come here and I'm going to see where my colleagues are, but it sound like with the opening um statement
of what's going on or we we know where we where this thing going to land. and I'm not playing that game tonight. So, I'm going to tell you and that's what I ask you state rep if you if this is serious and this is very serious to the
um the thing of the city but what I what I've received and what my colleagues have received and for me to say as an elected official who been elected again I respect and and Teresa or anybody who's coming in that is their job to put
in whatever that they want the sky but it is our um as folks who ran for office who put our hand on the Bible to do what's best for the city and we talked about it. We did and I said I've been getting a lot of calls from residents about that and I need to clarify because
a lot of people assume since I publicly did say um that you know I support Miss Theres and I still do tonight that is that is absolutely has nothing to do with this. But I also say to you when we had our conversation um representative Joseph as a a state represent I said I
thought that after I had our conversation with Miss the person as the mayor of the city who kind of lead the process we could have talked about where I would have owned whatever that I say the only thing that I said to you and I restated again with Mr. I said, "It's a
lot of money with the 350, but I understand I could take a hit. I could support that, but everything else should stay in terms of the same." And you said, "Okay." And we take note. When we spoke this afternoon, you you said to me
that we had talked about the 350 and you assumed that I did not mean the other thing. So, whatever. Because when I saw the revision, I really didn't think it was a revision because I remember that we talked about the salary and everything because we could go line by line and what I sent to you because
there's no way and I don't think there's none of my colleagues on this council because it's not like okay I have three votes or whatever whatever the case is. That's not this is I really want this to be for North Miami what's best for North Miami. I am not gonna come if if we're
not here for a real negotiation and you already have the votes and I'm not wasting my time. I'm just telling you this right now. So I'm gonna ask you again, do we have an agreement in terms of and I could tell the residents what what we are seeking and any colleagues we could get things and do this the
right way. I have not reached out. I only been in touch with Jennifer. Um I asked Miss um Angela one thing to to bring to me the analysis that I got and she sent it to everyone. Um I have not had any other discussion. I had several
residents emailing and calling and I've been trying this. So I've been doing this in good faith because you know what I prayed before I got here. I said whatever that's going to happen. I let God do it because you know what? Just like you representative I put my hand on the Bible and I said I would represent
the city very well. This is not and there's nobody here who could tell me what we have here and I'm not you are supposed to represent your client just like the PBA did and we negotiate we do what we do it's up to us and and and again if I feel or I think like my
colleagues or this is already cooked in which residents already told me whatever the case is I am here to really have a good conversation if we serious or if you already have this thing I'm I'm not going to sit here and waste my waste waste my time and I want all residents
to know that I will definitely do what I do and I would leave and then you guys could do whatever that you guys need to do because this is too serious. This is for our um city, our residents and what's been happening. This is not the
um the the way and and I'm going to say go down list by list so that the the people would know and I don't think I I needed to do that. So that's what I said because when you look at the comparison of what she is asking for at a good fit. I felt like I was backstabbing away
because um everybody who's in this room would know, they know one thing about me. I'm not talking about anybody else on this desk, but every resident who would know when you see this, you would know there's no way even if I drink so and I don't even drink or smoke whatever
the case is, this would not be and and you guys know that. So that's what I say. If we want to do good faith, this is this is and and and I'm not faulting you, but how are we gonna talk about and and I don't want to go into details again. So, I'm going to ask this one thing because you guys could do whatever
you guys need to do, but I need to know when I go home tonight, I put my my head on that pillow, God is protect. I do what I need to do. This is not anybody who is any anything near a dog catcher in this city would even talk about this.
And we could go into line by line for details and you know it and whoever's coming in again once I leave and I tell residents um employees I will be here you ain't got to worry about nothing cuz I I I will be I'll fight and do what I need to and residents I'm going to tell
you why after my question because I do not have time to play and we are a time where this is serious and this and that. Yes, this is a contract that is to me is dead on arrival. However, we here we could do what we do and it did not have to be where we are.
And once I leave the the the the council who's remained, they do whatever they do. I will work and and and Miss Adambo is here. I did not vote for and she will tell you I have been professional. I've been what I do because you know what? At the end of the day, I put my hand on the
Bible and I say I will serve the people of North Miami. I want Miss Terless to come in. I do not mind. I'm going to tell you again publicly. I will fight and do what I do because I am the one who did what we do where we are with the administration to be with the money where we are. So there's nobody who's
gonna tell me they contributed to turn around our city. It's us here and we do what we do. So we have a little bit of money. We could do what we do. So I said I would when when I met with her she said the salary I said I don't have any problem. I will take a hit for that because I know our residents going to
talk because it's a lot of money you know but I said I'm okay. I would do what we do because I think we do. I thought I was being fair. I thought that I thought we all were being fair. But when I saw what I saw, I said, "You know what? I don't have time to play. Obviously, I was being fair and honest
and trying to do this the best way. But this train is going another way. I need to know when I go home tonight. I will be able to sleep well. I'm not into I have not talked to anybody. I don't need This is what I said to you, Rep or my attorney, Brett, is my plan. If if you
guys are considering this and we want to do this for whatever that we want to do, it's okay. But if if we go in and as far as opening up and and talk about this contract, I will let the residents know what's my plan and just kind of move on and let your whatever votes that you have in here, whatever that they think
they're going to do, they could do it and I'll leave because I'm not playing the game because I do not have time and people, you do not have time. So Brett, I'm going to ask you as my attorney. You gave this and she say she received that five something today. Five something. That's two hours before this meeting. So, they could have decide whatever
because obviously I don't want to publicly to go over what they asked us. You went over it very quickly, but I I don't want to do that because I would be embarrassed as an elected official to do that. It's not good for us. It's not good for anybody. So, again, I'm going to ask you if we seriously cuz I do not
have the time. Are we considering the plan that I have with I don't care? And in every single plan that Mr. asked for we giving it to her within this all all I said is we cannot afford because why she's also negotiating and
this is something when councilwoman um had mentioned something and I think this is something that we do need to talk about where the attorney and the managers get the same thing we got to keep in mind as fiscally we cannot afford this contract as being responsible as a North Miami government
so if anybody want to talk or want to talk that's up to them but as mayor I am not going to sit here. These residents who believe me, those who went and cussed me out and and said, you know what, we're going to cuss you out, but we're going to believe in what you do. If you say you're going to come back and bring Mr. Ellis here and we're going to
do the job that we do, mayor, we're going to give you the thing. So, that's why I'm saying what I said. There's a lot of people who does not trust what's happening and decision that is being made by people on this council and they rely on me. And guess what? I have one thing is that I'm not rich and I'm
nothing. And these people know I'm honest and I have my name. That's all. So that's what I said. That's the story. Anybody could believe it. They could do whatever they want. But I know they know. I know Jim. That's one of the resident who sit here who bugged me Jesus Christ day and night. And they all
and most of them are from district 10. I'm going to just going to tell you that cuz district four already know who I am. They already know how I'm going to vote. They already they don't even have to call me on item cuz guess what? And they sitting here. They could tell you, you know, they could tell you. They here every meeting. I'm not going to call out
the two names. I see my my district four um ladies. If they if if anybody told them and they said yes, Jim could tell you the mayor is not going to go for this. People already know. So again, I'm willing to work and I want her to come
in, but the 350 is where I am and she gets all her benefits. But I cannot afford and even say that I'm going to give I don't want to go down to the details again. I will reserve that because I I honestly other people may want to do that but I want to ask this because I don't want to waste any time.
It's 8:30. Are is my proposal under consideration or is this thing already cooked in for me to go because I do not have the time. Ma'am, councilwoman, I I respect you. You know that this is for the attorney. This I'm not talking to no member of the council. The attorney, Mr.
Mayor, you're talking about um making changes that we have no I don't know what you're talking about. Let me say this to you. There's nothing that you need to know based on this contract that there council woman the the the the contract that you have in front of you. There's no way as a council woman who is
voted in this city that you could even entertain it. So that's number one. If you want to do that that's that's you could do whatever you need to do tonight. I'm talking about Alex Dum who put his name out and people in this audience who call me text me and cuss me and I told them no we are doing this.
People are coming in. There's no intent. You know Mr. terrorist is coming in and I'll do what I need to do and I'm still committed to do that. But honestly tonight, if y'all want to do what y'all want to do, that's your business. I do not care. And I'm going say it again. I said seriously, 350. We can I didn't even afford what I'm telling her. What
I'm telling her that we'll give her 350. We cannot afford it, but we could make it happen because guess what? We have to give it to her. We have to give it to the city attorney. So, I already run the numbers. I already know where we are. So again, the 350 and they're ready to to fight me on the 350 because I've been getting and I said to them, please I
think this is good. She will be getting but how are we saying we giving us she's asking us for um FRS and the MSM which no managers in history have never get you get one. So I I think if she's going to get tonight we could go with the FRS because the that's the biggest
contribution. I don't want to go into this because I want to do this fairly. That's what I said. I just sent it to her to to the attorney so the attorney could send it to them. Like I said, if we I I if if if if her attorney need to tell us if we're not going to if if I'm
not going to sit here and discuss something that I know and the residents know because the idea is despite what you think all of these employees, people that are watching us on TV and all of this, we are not stupid. It's not the people who's going to vote for this who's the smartest.
Nobody everybody sees the writing on the wall. I want to do this right cuz my conscience I want to go home tonight and do what I do. However, if I do leave when I do leave, y'all do what you do and she's the manager. I will do what I need to do at work because my job is not to you guys. It's to the people that
have voted for me. I will do what I need to do and represent them the best way I can with what I had. And I want to say to them if that do happen, I'm sorry for even saying that because I did not have the the intention this was going to go like this. My intention was yes, we want Miss back. We want somebody with
experience that was here prior. Um despite on how you work with her because everybody know we didn't have the best relation, but I want her and I don't mind working with her because and I said to her, Mr. Ralis, she asked me, is there anything you need? I said, Mr. Dis, I don't need anything but for you to come in and do what you do with the
residents. That was it. I don't need nothing else from nobody. People who was here thought Rasha was my friend and this and that. I have talked to Russia three times since she left the city and she called me twice when my mom was died. That's it. I don't have friends and people who knows me very well. When
it comes to my North Miami, as much as I love my mother, she's not my friend. She's not my family. This is the business because I put my head on the damn Bible. And I'm sorry I'm using the Bible and cussing and I don't even cuss. But again, I'm passionate about this because serious for the city. I'm
willing to do what we do, but we got to do it the way where this is representative for the people of this city. I'm not going to sit here somebody going to go ahead and call this and do this. No, I did this fairly. I have not talked to anyone. I don't need to talk to anyone. I do this where we are all
coming here. There's no way you guys could say y'all read this contract. Everybody should That's why I'm saying this as the mayor and I don't know where people are because it doesn't make no sense. But it's her right and I and and I and I and I'm not faing her for doing right. But I want to see and I want to
ask my my colleagues where are we are we negotiating or are we giving the city away to whatever that we think that's all and if not I know we have a full agenda we don't need to be that's what I I was suggesting if we could put this last if you everybody was at the meeting but people already didn't even they said
no no no let's do it now. So, because I know and I already say because I prayed and God tell me if this not going the right way, you don't need to be part of this Excuse my French. No, no. This is real and I'm serious. So again, Mr. Attorney or Miss Attorney, are you
guys going to negotiate with this or you guys have it set because I do not have time? It's 8:36 and I love all you guys, but this is getting serious. Yes, ma'am. Mr. May I May I? Yes, please, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. Um, I
don't think anybody has approached this with a lack of seriousness. You say we we have not approached this with a lack of what? I'll repeat. Please repeat. I don't think Mhm. anyone has approached this with a lack of seriousness. What do you mean by that?
It's specifically because of our seriousness that we pull the item from the last agenda in June. Daddy, let me say this to you. But you asked me, so I'm I know ma'am, but let me say this and respectfully and I'm going to listen to you and and because I don't want to
get these people know how passionate I could get and and listen, we did daddy. I I do not have time and I know you don't and I honestly and I swear to you if you we being faithful, you you know you know exactly we you know
and I'm being serious. If you saying tonight that after we talked you thought that you revising this that was being serious, let me go over the term that you are proposing to us as a city and and and let the public decide
what is serious and what is not and that will be the end of that and y'all could do whatever you guys want to do. So, let's go. Did you want me to answer your question? You already did. You told me we don't take it seriously. No, you you cut me off before I could finish what I Please go ahead. I can complete what I
ma'am. Yes, please. And I apologize if I cut you off. Go ahead. I appreciate the apology. Um, you said quite a few things. Um, and I'm going to try to address the most salient points. Each of you had various concerns from the beginning of the contract, even before
we got to the initial contract in June. We've had discussions and this version the version we need we need. So, what do you what do you want? No, no, no. because I don't really too much concern about my colleague what they have and whatever cuz I don't know
what you're I all I ask but you're subject to sunshine so this is your only that's what I'm saying I don't care that's what I said I don't care what they I'm that's what I listen rep and I know you've probably seen this meetings and the residents would tell you I this is this was not supposed to go and and we don't have to go like all I ask you
is something very simple and I'm I'm going to say it again I hear you and I'm trying to answer your question answer that's all because I the item that proposed. Yes, ma'am. Is what has been published to the public both online and wherever else the city publishes their
notices. That is what we're here to vote on today with the exception of the errors that we identified with the attorney earlier. Thank you. Thank you so much. That was trying to take into the account of most of the feedback and and I'm going to stop there. But that is
the intent is not to negotiate from the deis but to address that in between last time to now and to vote on what you have before you today. That is the Thank you so much ma'am. Thank you so much. Um it's okay to the residents let me say this.
You all know me for over two dec um well more than two decades but in terms of serving here for over 10 years. I and and you all could make your own, you know, what what what you heard as as
the council for the incoming city manager and and and I said to you honestly and publicly that I thought we were doing this in a good faithful way, but you said to me that after we had our conversation and you got everything from our council people that you think and
I'm going to just say this and let them because I I we we all already know this this This is this is this is where we are and we'll take it from there. Our current our current city manager salary is and you could correct me but I know you may
have a big raise is 252 or 297. Which one do we know? Um Angela somebody 267 267. So whatever Jeff Okay. So so Miss Theilus the the contract that we
have is 350 and her current um salary is 341 at the county. Yes. Yes. I mentioned that from the beginning in terms of that and that's what I say when I mention to her when I when I work with her that's that was the reason that I said the 350
which I know and we already got some emails and stuff that was going but I said I would politically you know hey it is what it is so that's that the biggest thing that I had was the retirement the proposed the contract which FRS
contribution I paid the city's 10% into that into the the the city manager MIA MICA um account. So CMI yes yes yes ICMIA CMA um the charter officers have
always gotten 10% contribution but now that's that's both. So my proposals is only one you don't trying to get because we never done that. Secondly, the health insurance at the county she currently receives. I don't I'm not talking about sharing that. I understand. Listen, ma'am, and this is what I said. Um I I I
cannot compare the county and us as a city and and that's what I say. If I knew that if you're trying to recruit her from the county, that is the comparator. Well, that that that is good, but that's what I said. I did not know that. No, that's fine. So, since we're because Okay, rep stop. Please
stop. I'm sorry. Thank you so much. This is not a back and forth. I understand this is I'm making my statement and I'm leaving. You could have the f whatever that you want to do. This is not a back and forth. I'm not one clarification. Ma'am, you're going to run the meeting. Um you you're going to run it. No, I just had one clarification. You said the
ICMA that has never been done before. I was told that it was. Listen, I'm talking about the both. No, no, no. I'm asking the CFO because I was informed that it was the ICMA. The ICMA has is always been done. It's always been there in the city. Correct. Yes. The ICMA and the FRS. Not the FRS. Well, the F FRS
because that's our new pension plan. Correct. Correct. So, it has to be there. You can't change either or the ICMA or the FRS. I just want to clarify that. I'll refer to the city attorney. Currently, the charter officers only receive 10% contribution to the MMA
account. Neither charter officer is a participant in the city's FRS plan or the single or the singer mitten. So, correct. Okay. Yes. So that and and and again and and and I was willing when I heard that I said okay since she's coming from the county I would assume
which is more would be the FRS contribution so I know that might go there the health insurance charter offices I've always gotten which I researched and did what I needed to do um you know the proposed from from the city all insurance for reimbursement for the um eligible the city manager should
receive the same benefits as the city employees and the director she wants you know that that's that's the big thing with the health insurance, vacation, and we talked about the vacation. Um, where we are in terms of, you know, what happened and this remained the same and and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The vacation up to 80 hours of time valued notice of termination. a big thing again we we coming here nobody that this started you know it's like hey I don't know nobody who's coming in um to work for us and and where you
thinking that you you know you want to go and then if you do go we the the the contract link that requires the 30-day no notice regularly it's now for 90 days so that's that would be us against our our own interest um seven's package call
for the maximum amount of package under the Florida laws is 20 20 20 weeks, etc., etc. Um, traditionally where we are, but now you see what where where what what we are exing. The other big thing is the legal fees and and and the
fees if we fire her or something that we get to pay um you know the fees before all of these um crazy thing. That's why when we had our conversation, I didn't go into details with all of that and because I I would assume I said everything I'm okay with and this is
what I said inconsistently. I'm okay with the contracts where it was with other is these extra other things that are added. Um and when I ask um before that if these were not costing any money, I would not and I want people to know I would have no problem with it.
But we are negotiating something for her and our city attorney. So you got to double whatever that we agreed to and we got to make sure if we doubled that within in the term we have three years she had x for five when you send it back you ask for four. So you think that's a negotiation from from where we are?
That's like we talked about one thing and you just you just kept and and at that time I felt like okay maybe she just she's wasting my time. I don't I don't have time for this. So from the money side in terms of where we are and why this is a problem for me tonight um
and they could do at the 350 where we are which we don't have I think the total analysis from the package that we are would be around $400 and something thousand total that's not everything. So if you do that you're almost at 900,000 with the two folks but that's with my
current proposal of 350 and everything remain the same. It's still a big a big a big blump. And then where we go, it almost increased to almost $20 and something thousands as it as it is right now, which is almost a whole bunch of
money. And I won't even go to the to the numbers in that. So again, I want to say thank you um rep in terms of what what we do. No, no, no. commitment. Um, may um um Councilman Burns, I I I don't I
have time for for what we do. Um you all you have a wonderful day and we do and I wish the best of luck to whatever's coming cuz I don't have time. I I really don't. And I think the residents they understand they see cuz why why is it that I'm sitting here to negotiate and waste my time and this and this and that
and people will do whatever. I I don't have time for that. Sir, if you want to do that, you have a wonderful day. Mr. Wait a minute. Madam Vice Mayor, one moment. Yeah, the floor. Thank you. Um, Miss Joseph,
can you come to the podium? Would you like me to address anything or No. No. Okay. Go ahead. I'm listening. I'm going to speak on my behalf on the contract. what my um thoughts and feelings are on it as we move forward.
Um I made one suggestion a couple weeks ago to Brett and um it was politely sent back to me politely sent back to me that um the contract wasn't that much of negotiation that could could happen with
uh uh this particular contract. As far as the way I'm looking at this contract, this is just something happens to be on the city agenda that is being proposed by you that has never been dissected by us as individuals because we've never
had the chance to discuss it. We've never had an executive session. So, this is the first chance uh I'm going to get. So, I'm going to to ask you a couple questions. They shouldn't be difficult. And then a couple of the areas that I have concern. Um, do you know what her
package is going to cost the city as you all propose it? Her salary each each year starting year one. I believe that would be a question for your CFO. I can identify the specific terms that various members had issues with. And I can Your client is coming in as the city manager.
She should know in advance what her salary is going to cost the city year one. Since you don't have it, I have it. It's $68,000 $25.50. 50 cents 58 is the cost of her package with benefits and so forth
excluding $97,000 worth of annual leave, three weeks of of sick leave, four weeks of an of uh annual leave and then the 96 hours of uh upfront uh money. So her first year is going to cost the city
approximately $7 actually $798,000 is the cost to the city and our liability. So my question is um going to term number four, she asked for a 4-year
uh contract where city managers in the past have gotten a three-year contract with one-year additional uh additions each year renewable at the behest of the city council. Would you like me to address that because it's currently indefinite with the county? Okay. I'm
not I'm talking about North Miami, right? I understand. and you're recruiting here from there. I'm just asking do you want me to just listen or do you want me to address them as you go through? I want to ask questions. Okay. And to to hopefully get to No, I have a sever of them. So the question was in
term number four. It says that her contract automatically renewed. automatically renewed without any it just automatically renews where I would propose that 90 days prior to the expiration of that term that the city
council will approve to renew that contract. It just doesn't happen automatically. It needs approval from the city council. Also, as what has happened in the past, we've had three-year terms with which I think has sufficed because this is a glorified
prenup agreement. This is not about her skills. She has the skills to be the city manager. I'm not concerned. I'm not concerned about the 350,000. That's not the biggest issue I have because I know what she's making at the county and what other managers are making around around
town. What I'm concerned about is the exit p uh the the prenup when things are not going well. That's the biggest and concerns I have. So in term number four is uh I would prefer to see a three-year as opposed to a four-year and that 90
days prior to this contract expiring the city council will make a decision at that point in time whether to renew it or not and it would not be automat automatically going at the bottom of paragraph item five the annual base
salary um she wants a minimum of the 3% which I woulduggest suggest equal to whatever the general employees increase would be that that's what the manager or senior managers get. It would be the the managers that um I agree with the com
the comment that it is just a FRS or ICM. I think it's wiser to take the FRS since it's a much greater uh contribution. Going down to item number 11, sick
annual holiday leave. It is uh you want it up frontloaded. Nobody else ever gets it. But you know what? That's not a deal breaker to frontload the uh the sick and the u annual acred leave, but she's coming in at a higher number even though it was 5 weeks went to four
weeks. three weeks of sick and three weeks of vacation would be something that I believe would be um compatible um with the city and compatible with other people who work within the city. Also, um the cap of the of the nine weeks, I
would actually have it at the cap of uh seven weeks that this term would be since and then number 14, professional development. There's a clause in there um as approved by what the city annual
budget um would be. It's just highlighted as far as what the city council will approve in that annual budget. And as far as termination, she wants 90 days notice um for
termination. Our city charter and some of our other previous city managers were were never given that luxury. They were given the 30-day notice and most of the time when they were fired for uh they were suspended at that time and
then the termination kicked in 30 days later. So, as far as three months notice that you're going to be fired and that we would have to keep you around, most likely um within those three months, if we're if the council is willing to fire somebody, obviously they don't want them
working dayto-day, so they will stay home uh earning a paycheck for for three months. So, that's a concern. I like that fact that you guys corrected the uh scribbler error on the on number uh
16. As far as the termination, what um and again termination without cause on section one, no contribution to IMCA. And also in termination uh without cause
by the city section 4 um you asked that if the state statute changed um from 20 weeks an increase as far as severance package goes. I see no reason we're entering into an agreement today possibly to what the current state
statute is and if it should increase. I do not believe we have to increase it um at that time 20 weeks right now. Most likely the legislature is not about to increase severance pay for local politicians u to begin with. The getting
toward the end the termination for good reason is kind of open-ended of what that description should be. Which means that if I at a community meeting says I'm disappointed in the manager and then another council member at another
meeting says they're disappointed on the direction of the city and then another council person not even at a council meeting says that they're not happy with the manager that the manager upon themselves can claim that they are um
being terminated and it would be their decision. Um, let's go on to under general provisions. I would like the provision that the city has a right to purchase a life insurance policy on
the city manager and we will retain all funds from that policy because the payout is into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if the city manager should pass away. So, I'm sure she wouldn't should not have a problem if the city took out a life insurance policy to
protect a problem. Okay. Well, these are my suggestions. Okay. Okay. And let them finish, please. Under number 24, reimbursement for legal fees and expenses in the event that any legal
proceedings should be brought to enforce the terms of this agreement or for the city's breach of this agreement, then the city shall pay all um reasonable attorney fees and so forth, and you want us to pay her attorney fees monthly. Yet, we hadn't had been had not been
decided in a court of law whether we were wrong or she was wrong. So I would say reasonable fees as directed by the court and not on a a monthly payment. So the severance so what our situation is
on the exit package on the divorce because when we're when everything's going well it's all kumbaya but it's the divorce that's going to be the nasty part. So we would have a three months notice. Most likely the manager would get suspended. So she gets three months
of pay, full salary. Then the five month severance package, which now makes it eight months of salary. And then there's a clause in there that even though we fired you, you may think we want to keep you around for another three months at
minimum to be a transition consultant at full salary, full pay. So that's 11 months of pay to get a divorce. So that means I get I got to tell you that we're getting a divorce, wait three months, then get the divorce, and then I still
got to hang around with you after that five months for another three months. Um, a payout at today's Councilman, do you still have more questions because I want to open up public? Well, I'm trying to I'm trying to get the attention of her attorney, but I guess we have questions. Okay, I'm I'm almost done.
Okay. the severance package. If the severance package would cost us 1.4 1.140 if we fired the the city manager um with all the benefits and all the clauses
that are in this particular contract, $1,140 and that's what it would cost. annual salary of $68,000 as proposed going up to $660,000 in year four. Um I don't think we can
afford it. I would like to see Teresa come. Um but we need to uh plan the exit strategy a little bit more. Um so when the divorce does happen. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Um and if my colleagues would make Do you guys have questions for discussion now or can I
open up public hearing to allow the public to state their to give theirs. Okay. Public hearing is now open on the item. There is two mics. Public hearing is now open on the item. Good evening, Vice Mayor. Um Timothy Jim
Garrett currently 247 Britney Del Beach Florida 33446 as of January 1st 2026 116 11610 North Bayore Drive hopefully unit 2A North Miami I'm coming back home
I want to die here I'm going to come home retire and die here thank you let me get a over the managers. We hired Larry Spring in February 24, 2016 at 220.
It went a 3 to2 vote for your boss, your former boss. And we dismissed him and we gave him a fair package in January 2020 of 260. Teresa that came in and you I want to put a smile on your face. you did do a good job because you cut that deficit
down to 1.3 and then you use ARP money at 5 million and you took a capital assessment. So we posted our first budget surplus at 6.5 and she got high on a 5 vote at 252.
However, there were disagreements and we know we're okay and we're not going to hang out or dirty laundry. We did that at the last meeting and I got phone calls from friends and they said you I thought you were making this stuff up in Chicago and Palm Springs. I wasn't Russia come and I was friends with
Russa. I won't disclose that. 252 and her salary was 323. First it was a 3 to2 but when we did the contract it was unity 5-0 and I appreciate that. However, when she left it was I was only off a dollar. Remember
Jeff make Jeff makes the same and I was only off a thousand. I said Jeff was at 26 267. So since Jeff is now our oldest city attorney pass Joe Wild. So the point of this is the is the extras.
There's too much extras. Thank you sir. Thank you. Uh Alina Medina 1270 Northeast 124th Street. Uh thank you Councilman K uh Burns for your explanation of the contract. Um I think the president of the United States makes basic salary
$400,000. Um and I think this is extreme. The the the packet is is too uh rich and we cannot afford that being also that the city attorney will get the same benefit package and salary. Uh we need to look at this up and um I hope that you please
uh not go through with this and vote no. Thank you. Claudia Pasmino 13504 Northeast 23rd place. Everybody has a smartphone. People at home can go on your computers. I do not see where a city manager makes this much. I just Googled it. The average is definitely less than 200,000
a year. Um I believe the governor of the state of Florida only makes one, not even 200. So I don't understand why our city manager has to make even 200,000 a year. Um, the city of Miami Gardens, they have a total residents of 111
11,000 residents. We have 64,000 residents. Their city manager does not even make 200,000. The city as most Well, that's what I just Google. Okay. Um, so maybe he does make more, but again, we only have 64,000 residents. We
have so much need in the city. I've been to town hall meetings. A lot of residents are asking for more police officers. So, she gets $100,000 more. So does the city attorney. That's $200,000. That's like three police officers that the city could use yearly. And she gets
3% automatically regardless if she's doing a good job or not. And I do agree that I don't know if the current city employees get three um% automatically, but they should. And again, if you guys really care about your residents because you guys became council because you wanted the best for the city. We trusted
you, those that voted for you guys. Why are you doing this? Doesn't make sense. The city needs so much. There's so much you can do with the money. I do not understand why the salary has to be so high. Good evening. Randy Grace, president of Suniss Grove Neighborhood Association,
40 Northwest, 124th Street, North Miami, Florida. Um, public service fiscal responsibility. Uh, there's been conversations on both sides of this item and I can appreciate both sides. Um, in public service, fiscal responsibility is
big. People have expectations. Residents have expectations. I'm one of them. So, in this decision, uh, mayor, vice mayor, council, I encourage you to, uh, keep fiscal responsibility in mind when making this decision. Thank you.
Good evening, Arnando Areto, 11 1930 North Bashore Drive. Um there are a lot of issues that concerns on this conversation. First is um clear that this has not been real negotiation.
Second, as it has been said, no city manager in Miami Day County is making that amount of money. Uh the salary for as somebody mentioned for the governor of Florida is less than 150. even for
the president of the United States salary is $400,000 a year. Then um we may want to have the CEO of JP Morgan to run our city, but uh we just cannot
afford it. Then with all respect for Mr. Essa, she's making so much money in the county. I think she should reconsider and stay there. And we have we I understand that we have received more
than 90 uh applications and I don't know if how many people was interviewed and um I guess that there should be other good candidates that could fit that position in our budget. This is a very
expensive proposition. Uh the city is not that big. we don't have that amount of money and as I as it has been mentioned that have a triggering effect because that increase automatically we obain even um discussion about it the
salary for the um city attorney then this is not reasonable for the city of North Miami we appreciate uh Mr. a for for proposing for the job, but I think we shouldn't hire her. And I am
concerned for the the the legal counsel or the the person that is representing here apparently is our state representative. Should be a conflict there. Thank you, Mr. Hernando. Thank you. Veronica Guusman, 540 Northwest 127th
Street. I'm going to echo what Hernando was trying to say. I clearly think it's a conflict of interest that our state representative, who's supposed to be serving the best interest of our district, um, district 108, is clearly serving the best interest of Miss uh, Therelis. She resigned in early 2023.
She left as other city employees before her to go to the county. Now, that position is set to be up for elimination. So, I don't know how comfortable she exactly is there at the county. This puts the city in a better position to negotiate the terms of her contract.
Um, my question and my concern is when she left the compensation package that she got back then, um, I urge the council to go back and renegotiate the terms of this contract or start interviewing all of those other applicants. This new city manager should
not be able to receive in any circumstance upon resignation or termination a payout of quote unquote acred holiday or sick pay as the day as these days have not in all fairness been acred. she didn't earn them. If she is terminated with cause, she should not be
entitled to a severance package, which I believe has already been addressed. Um, it has already been brought to light that whatever the city manager will get paid, then the city attorney will be paid that as well. This obviously was not in the already approved budget for the fiscal year. These unplanned and quite frankly extravagant payraises are
ultimately going to come from the community, but then again, we have a $3.5 million surplus. Being fiscally responsible is putting that money back into the community and not into the pockets of the greedy. If you continue to rob from Peter to give to Paul,
eventually there will be nothing to give to Paul. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Al Dazul. I'm located at 1315 Northeast 137 Street.
Um I heard the debate. I just want to put my point of view with the with the city manager. I raised tonight a full support of we hiring Teresa Teris as your city manager and giving her the
contract she deserve. When someone has already proven they can lead through tough time, deliver result and bring stability to our city.
Why won't you bring them back? Teresa did just that. She pulled the city out of financially whole and lead the foundation progress.
She not a gamble. She's a show thing. As we want the best for our city, we have to show that we value excellent. asking her to return and clean up things up against
is a big act. If requirement, commitment, energy, sacrifice, she can do it. But leadership like like that should be respect and competency.
This is just this is not just about contract. is about setting tone that North not Miami value result, loyalty and integrity. Teresa Terrellis has all that. Let's bring her back and give her the tool and
support to keep moving us forward. Thank you. Eenaba 13350 Northeast Third Court. Mr. Dellis, while I am not putting anything against her background and her education,
was here two years ago and left without a payout with a payout without working. Now we are being asked again to rehire her under a new deal that is millions of dollars when you count all the years and the
match to the city attorney. That includes guaranteed raises without earning them irrespective of how she performs. Retirement contributions, monthly perks
nearly double what many city managers in South Florida earns. This isn't about one person. It's about broken pattern. When North Miami has an average of one city manager per year, we are almost guaranteed to have to go through that
divorce. During Mr. Ellis last tenure, the city erased a $14 million deficit. But let's be honest, it was through not through cost cutting or structural reform. It was COVID relief money and a one-time
land sale any manager in the seat would have been able to end up with that balanced budget. Meanwhile, key projects stall infrastructure deteriorated. morale from staff and the public hit new lows. Despite all this, the city
received nearly 90 applications and did not inter interview interview a single person. What is it you said when you fired Russia Kamor last year? There was no process. Where is the process here? North Miami is paying Cadillac prices
for civic results. We are about to lock ourselves into another expensive arrangements without competition, without transparency, without accountability. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Sir, good
evening. Good evening. Dree vow 14295 Northwest 7th Avenue. Uh, I'd like to urge the council that we can't engage in selective spending. We can't be pennywise and pound foolish. We
have someone who is uniquely qualified to manage the city. I don't think we should be bargain shopping. We can't compare her salary to city managers in the past who had in the past that had no experience. Teresa is
proven. In this life, you get what you pay for. We pay seven figures for festivals in this city. even paying 150,000 for one artist to perform for 20 minutes, 250,000 for lobbyists and
consultants. I urge these residents to please stop being hypocritical and having selective outrage for something that's so important. Thank you. Deb Davis, you have the four
one person. Hi. Hi everybody. Um, Councilwoman Timothy, I can't quite see you, but hi. Um, Deborah Davies, 1165 Northeast 127 Street. So, I'm going to say a few things some other people have said. I
understand that 90 people applied for the city manager job and that some of them were very highly qualified, but you did not interview any of them and instead simply offered the job to Miss Sterilus. According to gov salaries.com,
out of 42 city managers in Florida, the average city manager earns 184,000 per year. And the highest paid city manager of all in Miami Beach earns 297,000 per year. Why are you offering Miss
Theilus this outrageous salary, which is more than the other highest paid city manager in Florida? On top of this huge salary, you're offering Miss Theilus an extraordinarily generous benefits package. And I also understand that the city attorney will receive a $100,000
raise to match the salary of the new city manager. So, what are you going to do to cut back on this to balance the books and cover all these extra costs? Are you ready to give up your lavish parties, the million-dollar centennial, international
travel, and very generous expense accounts? If not, what are you asking the people of North Miami to give up? The WA water plant, um, new infrastructure for all this new development. All this money has to come from somewhere. I have heard that Miss
Sarah did a very good job balancing the books last time around, but she used CO money to do that. So that money is no longer there. What do you expect Ms. Therillus or any new city manager to do to earn this unprecedented salary and
benefits? Or are you just cutting Miss Theress in on the generous compensation packages you keep awarding yourselves so that she will share your interest in running the city this way? I hope you really know that we're all watching. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Davis. Public
hearing is now closed. Oh, last one. Oh, two more. If if if you would like to speak on this item, please come forward. There's seats up front. Thank you. Good evening, Hector Medina, 1270 Northeast, 124.
I mean, the contract I congratulate uh Mr. and Miss Joseph is a great contract for her. is that I mean it's I have never seen a better country in my life that somebody's getting and that's I take my hat out of them and you know and
that's fine. We cannot afford this. There is no way we cannot afford this whatsoever. It is uh as much as I like Mr. and I spoke with her before she left, she did a good job. you know, is uh
the city of Miami cannot afford that salary. It's it's very simple. I except for people that are not familiar with the salary range in in in in the state of Florida, particularly in South Florida, you know,
as much as the majority of your constituents are against this. So, normally people don't uh watch this here these uh meetings and normally they don't know what's going on in the city, but I can assure you I will make sure
that everybody on district three and two and as far as I can go on for learn about what you're doing here tonight. It's not that we're watching, we're going to share it. Good night. Wito Charles uh 141 150 Northwest 6
Court uh North Miami. It's very important that one thing that I noticed uh about almost everybody that speak they mentioned that Mr. Risa did a good job last time she was there. So if she did a good job last time she was there,
why not decide to pay somebody that know the job already and that did a good job back then more than $14 million co. Yes. Other but we already know that she did a good job. So we cannot afford to get other people to
interview other people yet. We we already have somebody that can do the job. It doesn't make no sense. Um, and then we pay more than $250,000 in consulting from other people. The city will save all that. So, if somebody's
qualified for the job, just make sure we get the person that can do the job to do the job instead of being, you know, cheap. That don't make no sense. Good evening, council. uh Robert Holland with offices at 3250 Northeast 1st
Avenue, Miami, Florida. Uh I've worked in and around government for over 30 years and I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly and I know how the ugly and the bad have happened and typically it's been because of very very poor leadership and an unwillingness to
invest in the right people to help run a city. Um Dr. thrillers who obviously Harvard trained lawyer uh executive experience that's just unheard of for a city manager position comes to you with
great credentials more than probably any city manager in the state of Florida. She definitely will be in the top 10 in credentials in the state of Florida if not probably even nationwide. And so when you have an opportunity to take a first round draft pick, you take
it. You can sit and complain about the numbers. The numbers are made up in the leadership. When you hire a city manager, it's not a city attorney. The city attorney deals with some of the legal matters and they have a smaller staff. A city manager manages all of the
staff. That is your head coach. That is the person that is running your operation. That is the one who has to motivate that team, has to inspire that team, has to crack a whip, has to also give rewards to that team to get people to work as a team. When you keep changing city managers,
you create an inefficient city. Businesses run from doing business with cities who don't have steady leadership. They run from you. So every time you change a city manager, someone who comes with credentials say, you know what, I don't know if I'm willing to take that
job because you guys change city managers every two years because of politics. You need to make a commitment to a city manager that's willing to stand in with you and fight to do the things that you want done and be willing to invest in that person. And when you do that, it
will cost you to bring the right people in. There are people who would do this and it will cost you way more money. Thank you, Mr. But you have a proven talent. You need to take it. Thank you, Mr. Holland. And I will take it back up here to our colleagues. Kevin B Councilman Burns, you've already spoken.
Um, Councilman Charles, do you have comments? Thank you, uh, very much, Vice Mayor. Good evening, residents. Uh, Mrs. um, Ferrellis, um, Mr. Brett has done a good job um,
working on behalf of the city and, uh, making sure that we are moving and, uh, working together. You are never gonna have everything that you desire. You have to meet halfway.
That's the law of nature. We have to work together. I do believe in selecting Mrs. Terrorist as our city manager. The mayor
has done a great job and our mayor said it and I quote that I am okay with the $350,000 because she's making about the same amount at the county
and the mayor know exactly who is coming. someone who can lead. Often time when attending HOA's meeting the question is always who's leading the
city and one of the person who spoke early they said you got what you paid for. We need to have a coach and we know we pay the coach X amount of money who is
going to lead the team and make sure that we win the championship that we uh the north the city of North Miami deserve. But not hiring a coach for $50,000 less and then who's going to
hire another coach? You're paying double. We need to understand this is a different time. This is a different city. We need strong leadership.
There is a cost for everything. Basically, what we are discussing tonight or talking about the all the grievance about the little lines, but the mayor said it. He's okay with the $350,000.
He said it and listen and bringing back Mrs. um Ferris from the county, we have everything. We have a leader. We have someone who can stand
and lead the city to the next level. understand that with the high rate of turnaround that we have in the city, anyone with his or right state of mind coming in here need to make sure that we have some
claws in there just to make sure that we okay and we can move forward. The idea is that I am not going to bring myself into the fire and if I don't see a way out that would be foolish. That's why you have certain
clause in there because it is it is life. You have to make sure that you come into a place that you know that has a high turnaround. So you're making sure that we understand. So now we have a
contract. The idea is for us to start serving the resident with the right intent and not taking the dictate from the small entrance group just right basically against everything. So now you
just go ahead and pay $250,000 for example for a city manager from anywhere and then next you're going to have to pay another $250,000 for a consultant to lead. Are you saving money?
The math and math. We have to understand and I'm going to say it again. You pay for what you get. You want true leadership. You want us to move the city forward, we have to invest in the quality
and the great leadership that would keep us afloat. We cannot keep on making the same mistake. And I know I know every time some folks every time they just talking about the past,
but the past is dead. It's time for us to talk about tomorrow the future, the city that we ought to have. And with that, Madame Vice Mayor, I'll move for approval. Um, Councilman, let me allow Councilwoman Mary Esme
Urban. Thank you. I'll second that. I'll second that, but I'd like to make um some comments on the record. First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that that took a part of this process, all of the residents that are coming to share their concern for and against. Um I um I
just want to clear some things because sometimes my colleagues speak I think some of them speak out of turn and I just want to make sure that my residents, the people that have trusted me um to vote um to support and to move for for this city. Believe it or not, I
too was very concerned about the salary. But then when I analyze some of our expense, some of our monies, like it's been mentioned several times tonight, when we had a former manager, not Anno Emanuel, that was making 250 plus, then
we had a consultant that we added to that to help out. Um, then when we have festivals that are costing us over $600,000 for three weekends, we have artists that you heard that we've paid for $150,000. And then now we're going to pretend or
we're going to make noise about paying someone a salary of $350,000 a year, you know, for the ent for 12 over 12 months. Um, like one of my colleagues said, please look at the real numbers and I and I respect your
opinions and I just want to make sure you have all the information that you're that when when you're coming here and you're I know that you're getting some information from some of us, but you need to get all of the numbers. and I appreciate your um your fiscal care because I too, believe it or not, and we
may disagree on on on what needs to be spent, but I'm very conscious and very concerned about how we spend our dollars, but please, if you're talking about $350,000, and then we are spending $500,000 for a festival. We're spending um thousands
more dollars on consultants and other things. And sometimes those consultants are needed. I don't want to um say that consultants are not needing sometime. They specialize in certain things and so we need that. Um and then more importantly, my reason to support this incoming manager is number one, she's a
resident of the city of North Miami. Number two, she's a Howard graduate. Number three, even more importantly, she's the prior city manager that a lot of you, even though you are concerned, which is fair, has stated over and over
her leadership during the pandemic. And yes, she did use Harper money, but it just shows you that in a pandemic or in a situation what what could be done when we were in fact in a deficit. And we are the North Miami. Maybe you were not realizing it, but we are one of the top
10 cities in Miami Day County. We are a large city. And so there's a lot of things that we have to do. And so and and more another thing is this city manager has the relationships with a lot of the regional um um with the county
with the state on the federal levels that we need to find those dollars to deal with the infrastructure to deal with a lot of the other things flooding and what we're dealing with. So I am very comfortable um you know making um um voting for this item tonight and here
are the reasons why and like I've stated before. So, I just want to my residents that have faith in me and for you that I know that are genu generally concerned so you can actually look at the numbers, understand the numbers and why we're spending it the way that we are. Thank you so much for my time. Thank you,
Councilwoman. And I will give my very brief remark because I know tonight has been long and I'll ask the um council to to to give her closing remarks as well. Um, Miss Teresa Thorillis. Um, I know, well, we have a a very peculiar
relationship. Um, I think when we first started, we it was a bit bumpy. Um, because I too am an a public administrator. Um, and I just kind of want to clear some things that I heard on the record today. Um, as it relates to her salary. Um, we have several city
managers in the city of Miami um, within the Miami Day County region that makes way over $300,000. some of the tune to half a million dollars um because of the quantity of work that they have to put on. And we have to realize here in our city, we're definitely at a crossroad. Um we have
huge projects that we have to lift between um we talked about speed bumps, we talked about the P3, we talked about um Northwest 7th Avenue, and there's a lot of things that are happening in this city. But Mr. The realist, I do want to take a moment to thank you publicly
because I don't think the public is aware of the work that you have done for us even when you were not our city manager because I know some folks said that you got paid and you didn't work. No, Mr. Reis is still working for North Miami up until today. If we have well
today we have 3.6 $3.68 million additional in our budget and that is thanks to Miss Theresa Therillis. We worked hand in hand to renegotiate that TIFF agreement with the CRA with um Annabbo Emanuel and we have an
additional 3.68 million in our budget today because of this individual. So when you have folks coming back to the city and they know the work, they can do the work. Um we have to give them their flowers. And I've told every single city manager, if you need to hire five
deputies, four assistant city manager, do what you need to do to get the job done. Because I understand that this work that you have to do, especially in North Miami, it is not easy. And that's why you see every administrative that has left this city has gone on to greater. They're in Orange County.
They're in the city of Miami because North Miami, believe it or not, gives you the best training, I would say, throughout the Miami Dade County. So, in order to get her back, we have to pay. And I echo the same sentiments that my colleague says um about what we where we
put our dollars to, whether it's events, whether it's, you know, traveling or whatever the case may be. If we have to spend this money, just know that you're going to see the output because you have $3.68 million in your budget today because of this woman right here. And so my question through the manager to the
CFO is, can we afford the amount that's being proposed today? No, no. She can go right there. No, you can you can go ahead. Okay. Uh through the city manager, Angela Reyes, chief financial officer. Yes, we do. We are early enough
in our budget process where we can make those accommodations through the direction of the council and the city manager. Thank you. Um, and at this time I would like to invite Miss Doy Joseph if you have closing remarks. I know there was questions um asked of you if you can now address them and then we'll vote.
I appreciate that. Um, madame acting mayor. So, there's been a lot said here today. So, I want to address it in terms of addressing some of the comments that I heard, some of the questions that I received, and then just bringing us back
to Earth. So Teresa Theilus is not just anybody and she did not come to you all. In fact the mayor stood there and said that he went
to her and the reason he went to her according to his own testimony was because he wanted stability. And the reason that most of you when I talk to you want her back is because she
did an excellent job. One of the things that I have argued for throughout my career as an attorney is for just pay. Out of law school after I clerked, one of the first things I did was litigate employment discrimination class actions
all around the United States. some of which went all the way up to the Supreme Court. Fighting for equality of opportunity and pay. In my political life, one of the things we fought for is so that people earn
enough income with dignity. Whether it's the fight for 15 that a lot of my colleagues did not want and you just want it to be fair. And somebody mentioned something about paying a Cadillac price for a Civic. Well, no. We
talking about a Mayback. And if you don't know what a Mayback is, maybe you could look it up. But this is a Rolls-Royce, not a Cadillac. She is a whole Harvard trained lawyer. She is a well seasoned public administrator and she knows what she's doing. Not only
does she know what she's doing, she's worked for this exact city. Do you know how rare that is to find somebody like that? I have served as a hiring manager. I have hired people. I have supervised people. I have served on hiring committees. I have advised people in
their hiring. And if you find a really good candidate that you've already worked with there, I can give you a handful of people that I would hire back tomorrow if I could. Teresa is one of those people. And I
believe your council knows that. And many of your residents know that. So you you yesterday's price is not today's price to quote someone. When she was here the first time I heard
references to her prior salary that's completely irrelevant because that's before she got here, right? So then that was that time. Now she is comfortable at the county. I heard somebody said
something about her position being eliminated. Funny thing is you need to have context and know what you're talking about. So she switched departments because they're fighting over her at the county because she's that good. And when she moved to her new
department, she got a raise. as somebody who's been in and around the city for a number of years, decades, sat on that deis in different council groups that I participated in, not as
the elected official but as on one of the boards. I have seen people come and go and as staff I understand and appreciate and still get triggered by the indignities
that staff has to endure listening to some things that come from the deis and I want you to understand that everybody is a person is a human being and should be treated with dignity whether they sit on that deis here or don't even show up at the meeting
everybody deserves respect And I think that needs to be reflected not just in how we communicate with people, but how we identify and value the service that they bring. It is absurd that we would even have to try to
tell you why you should give her at least what she's making at the county in terms of these other benefits. I heard a comment made about you're not getting the um other retirement benefits. I will tell you that is standard practice in a
lot of places throughout the county. I myself received that when I was in the city attorney's office at the city of North Miami Beach. It is not unusual and I regret that um some of us may be unfamiliar with that, but to the extent that that makes a difference, I'm just putting that out there. It's not
unusual. You get what you negotiate for. And I encourage people to negotiate. There are plenty of men in Miami Dade County who make way more than what she's asking for. Do the men get the same slack as the
woman? I don't know. But we're here to find that out today. She's more than worth it. And I'll just close with this. And I don't know if she even fully wants me to share this, but people often call me and ask me for
advice. Sometimes in my capacity as a lawyer, sometimes in my capacity as an elected official, sometimes in my capacity as a friend. I will be candid in telling you that I
disadvised her from taking this job specifically for the circus that I saw here today. Because if we're being professional, how you negotiate things is you negotiate them. You sit down, you have a discussion, you don't sandbag things an hour or two before the meeting
or the night before the meeting when the whole thing was postponed from June 10th to now to do that. That is quite frankly disrespectful. Thank you, Representative. At this m moment it was motion and seconded. Madam cler, I have a motion made by Councilman
Charles to approve the item at Tab G. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Esme Irvin. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Opposed. The item passes with a 3-1 vote. Tab H. Tab I. A proposed resolution of the
mayor and city council of the city of North Miami approving a housing grant award in the amount of $60,000 to be utilized toward emergency roof repairs at the property located at 21105 Exora Road. Further authorizing the interim city manager to take any and all action necessary to effectuate the necessary
repairs providing for an effective date and all other purposes. Tabai, I think this item is very self-explanatory. This is the blue tarp roof in Keystone. I know this is something that we've we've had discussions and settlements about. I know councilman, it's your it's your um
your item. I don't know if you wanted to say anything where I can just go right into public hearing. You can go into public hearing. Public hearing is now open on the item. Tab I. Public hearing is now open on the item tab I speaking for tab I. You might need to go to the other mic. I
don't know what's going on with that one. So much for all the new microphones that we just uh installed. We don't have money to fix the microphones. No, we just did. We just did. We just did.
Okay. Um, 11930, Nor Bay Shore Drive. I just have a question for the city attorney. I saw that that uh that property was intended to be foreclosed by the city for uh
violations and the case was closed last year in November last year by the court by for lack of prosecution. It seems that the hearing was open and
the city just not dismissed but I don't understand what happened and if we were trying to collect money from that property why are we are now granting money
I understand his situation I am very empathetic but is that the way to use the tax money to provide grants. And what happened with that with that case in court? Why was uh closed by lack
of prosecution? If you would like, I can speak to that for to you, Mr. Hernando. Um the item the gentleman was able to get homesteaded on his property. So when you're homesteaded, you can't foreclose the item. And it's not that we're giving him tax money. He actually qualified for some of our housing assistant funds. He
refused at the time, but now Mr. Frank Woolen now has power of attorney and can utilize those fund um to fix the roof and fix the eyesore that was in the community. Did I do a good job, Mr. City Attorney? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. So, yeah, just to answer your question.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the public hearing on tab J is closed. Yes, we Oh, one more. And it's T. Is it Jay? No. Oh, it's I Veronica Guusman, 540 Northwest 127th
Street. Um, I'm all for helping our residents and I I know that this neighbor is in in a dire situation. I just have some ongoing concerns. It's not just the roof. Clearly from the pictures, he has ongoing issues with
maintaining the property. I don't know if that has to do with his age or with his disability. Um, so my concern is giving this $60,000 and then there are other violations still happening with the property with the property. So I would hope that he is given the proper
support that he needs going forward so that he can still stay in his home. Um, otherwise we're just throwing money away at this problem when he has bigger issues. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman, did you want to comment? Thank you. Thank you so much.
Um, yeah. public hearing is now closed. Thank you everyone. Um as um our vice mayor mentioned um this has been on the books for a very long time since I've got elected. I've always been concerned as we know this is hurricane season
coming on. He is elderly 78 years old a veteran has served our country honorably. Um, and if if some of you may not know me, I'm I come from military background and I hold uh utmost respect for men and women who serve. And so so this is very concerning
and I'm just so happy. I'm praying that my colleagues would support this um you know this item because I I really feel and I've always been concerned that um this man needs the help and now that I know that Franken um has the power of
attorney um to be able to help and assist. So I I I'd like to um move to motion for us to move this item so that this man can get the help that he needs and be safe in this hurricane season coming up. Thank you. Second.
I have a motion made by Councilwoman Estimay Irvin to approve the item at tab I. The motion was seconded by Vice Mayor Timothy. All in favor? Any opposed? The item passes with a 40 vote. I think the councilman had a question for Mr.
Frank. I want to thank the members of the council for your compassion. Um, this gentleman really is uh in need and uh and the city is certainly doing the right thing. Thank you. Councilman had a
question. Frank uh or Mr. Wallen, Mayor Wallen. Um just a couple quick questions. Um this pro problem arised 18 years ago and I know you've been working with him for the last four or five years. Um and now because you have the
power of attorney, will you stay involved to see this completed because you are the only one who's been able to um guide him to be kind words guide him to
this. We have been at this point so many times before. I just want to make sure that you will you I'm asking you will you stay involved? I will come to fruition. I will absolutely stay involved. Thank you, uh, councilman. All right. Thanks. Okay.
Thank you. Tab J. 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 a first amendment to the lease agreement between the city of North Miami as landlord and the Zenith 79 LLC as tenant modifying the lease terms for the
city-owned property located between Northeast 138th Street and Northeast 139th Street and between Northeast 11th Avenue and West Dixie Highway. specifically identified with folio number 06-2219-00007-2120 providing for an effective date and all other purposes. Tab J.
One moment public hearing is open on tab J. Hi, good evening. Uh my gift to you is going to be brief. I'm Mike Busy. I'm an attorney. I represent uh Barbara uh Dabney who's making her way up here. Um
you know, Barbara is uh Barbara's own property in uh she's owned the property uh adjacent to this the uh that houses the medical clinic and and the flag store for over 30 years. So uh you know, Barbara's a 30 year over 30-year
business owner always supporting the mayor and council in the city. uh her medical the medical clinic operating on her property uh and uh her flag store has served the uh citizens of North Miami for decades. Uh I'm going to not
go back and forth with the lawyers. I'm just going to hand the clerk my letter. Barbara has two principal concerns. uh and that is setting aside what the lawyers are going to say back and forth. One is going to be that you know she and the other owners on the adjacent
property use 15 municipal parking spaces uh you know going back decades here and so you know Barbara and the other land owners they've they utilize the municipal parking spaces and they're very concerned that they have not uh been invited to participate. They had no
knowledge of this until they found out from the city this was on the agenda. So she's So two points. One, she's concerned about the lack of participation from her and other adjacent land owners who've been around for 30 years and they're very they're concerned if this goes through it's going to destroy the value of their
property or maybe make it impossible for them to operate and they like to have these concerns addressed. Yeah, I think it's fair to have her concerns addressed and after 30 years if this goes through it's not going to take away or destroy her ability to operate. Final point on a policy level. Assuming you agree with
everything uh Jeff Quazo said in his letter and disagree with everything in my letter. There's there's a policy question here and I'll end on this note. Can I just make my 30 It's 30 seconds. Just finish 10 seconds. No, please allow him to speak as he's the attorney for the applicant. Okay. If I could. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. The um two points. one, you just hired a really outstanding manager, Terresa Thorus, who is going to do a phenomenal job as manager. You might want to think about letting her take a look at this and weigh the economics and letting Teresa come in with her team and see whether or
not what her view is on this, especially since we know she's going to do a great job and have a lot of respect for her. Uh, aside from giving Teresa a chance to look at this, the final point is that when this was first put forward last month, it said that the whole purpose of this item was to put hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the city coffers. In particular, the entire stated purpose of this item was as follows, and I'll read it to you. The sale will generate $441,000 for the city's general fund with no
negative value. So this came forward with one purpose and one purpose only when it was brought up last month and that is we were we the taxpayers were promised the property would be sold to this one particular applicant and you would generate at least $441,000
which you could certainly use to offset other other expenses and that was the purpose. So what's happened now? The only purpose was to put about a half million dollars in your your coffers by selling the property to someone who said they were going to buy it. Less than 30 days later, this is morphed into the
following. You're now giving a no bid almost one century 100year lease to one person who's not going to buy the property and he may get free rent during that period of time. So what this is morphed into is the following. You're
now giving a one a a centurylong no bid lease to one particular person without soliciting bids, without putting it out to bid, without putting out a solicitation for proposals from competing people, what would benefit the taxpayers in North Miami is the
following. If the goal is to generate $400,000 or $5 or $600,000, the best way to do that is to put the property out for bid and maybe somebody like Barbara or an adjacent land owner will put a bid on it and and they'll
they'll actually buy the property and achieve the your stated purpose. If you put it out to bid, Barbara or someone else will put in a bid and they may give you the revenue you say you wanted to have or uh but right now what you're going to do is if you put out and the
question for the council would be the following. Number one, two questions to answer. What is going to be done if this goes forward to protect Barbara and the adjacent land owners and protect their ability to park and not get put out of business after 30 years? And the second
question is this. I'd ask you to answer if you could if the goal is to generate revenue in the best interest of the taxpayers. And you have two options. Vote on this tonight and approve a almost 100year no bid deal that part of which is going to
be rent free or a best case scenario you're going to get to $2,500 a month. Worst case scenario, they'll be rent it'll be rent free. Option B is is to put it out to bid or do a request a solicitation for proposals in an open
and transparent process and give the adjacent land owners and other people an opportunity to put in a bid and actually achieve the purpose of generating revenue uh when you're going to be selling uh the people's land. If you're going to sell or lease the people's land, why not put it out to bid and get
the best deal for the people instead of giving a no bid contract to one person with an uncertain future? So my my request would be at a minimum, you know, you have a new manager coming in and let her look at it. But I would ask you on behalf of Barbara to deny this application and if you want to generate
revenue, put it out to bid and let Barbara and other people submit proposals and then come back and see if you're going to get something that will have greater benefit and greater revenue producing value for the taxpayers. And uh thank you very much. I appreciate it. And thank you very much. Thank you for
listening to us. Thank you, Mr. PZY. Public hear does not close. Um Councilwoman Oh, I'm sorry. One sec. Um I think M one second please. May I? I want to speak. Oh the council open would like to speak. One second. I
know this is her item. I'm sorry sir. Still open. No public. Thank you. No public foreign is still open but she wanted a moment. According privilege. Did you want to say something? Yes please. Um so um um first of all wait. So wait wait wait wait then. Okay.
Let's continue with public. We we extended the courtesy. The reason I asked you to um allow him to speak through uh past the three minutes was because he was speaking in behalf of his client that we already received a letter. Um I'm assuming this is going to
maybe lead into litigation. Um so if you're going to allow her to speak, I think the rules go back into place that it's whatever 2 minutes, 3 minutes that you give her, but it should not be another speech. Okay. Councilman, did you want to wait till public hearing? Yes, I'll wait till public hearing
closed. Public hearing is still open on the item. Hey, how you doing? Castra P Lewis 13820 West Dixie Highway. I think you gave Mr. Pizzy enough time to speak. I I would like to be allotted time to speak. Is he the applicant? Yeah. Yes,
please. First of all, I got the lease three years ago. The parking I have never denied Barbara or anybody from parking. She's here. She could call me a liar. I've always accommodated my neighbors. I always been
fair to my neighbors. I was just at a house a month and a half ago and we were speaking about this and I said, "Hey, let's see how we could put our heads together. Whatever we could do to make sure she's okay, but you won't hear that. I've gone out
of the way, paid the insurance, make sure the place is clean. I've never asked them to give me a dollar, not one cent. I've been a great neighbor to them. Okay. The audac the audacity of me to think that I could build in North Miami. The audacity of me.
I do have one of her properties under lease currently, right? And she's been fair with me and I've been fair with her and I saw her today. I said hello, gave her a hug. This is business. It's not personal. I consider her as a friend.
I think we could sit down and we could negotiate anything. And I've always told her, Barbara, I want to make sure you're good always. Okay. So, at the end of the day, I want to be fair and I want to I
want people to be fair to me. And the whole point is I told her I have that property on the lease that she has right next door to my car wash. I said, "Barbara, guess what? I'll give you back the property. You could put you could put as much parking spaces as you want. I'll give you time. We've been talking.
We've been negotiating like neighbors. But this is not me getting a lease right now. They making it look like it's a new lease. No, I already have a lease. It's been 3 years and I've accommodated everybody during the three years. And
guess what? Only thing I'm asking for is a fair lease in order for me to build. That's the only thing I'm asking for. And I always kept my neighbors in mind. Thank you.
Eenab. I'm sorry, ma'am. She had next. Sorry. I'm sorry. Castro is correct. He has been Your name and address for the record. Barbara Dabney, uh, 13870 West Dixie Highway. Castro is correct. He's been a great
neighbor and a friend. But what's happened when I saw all that was coming um down on this last uh proposal at the 100red-year lease is I'm not going to be around for 100 years, but certainly my kids might and hopefully Castros as well, but something has to be done. When
they were talking about low-income housing being built back there and for the purpose of that land being turned over to that type of a per of purpose, um there has been no foundation of it at all. And I think we have to work together or separately or with you to
make this a viable uh property for the things the units that I have and the folios that I have as well as what Castro has and uh the city just is is against you know kind of working together and just kind of giving it all to one person is wrong.
Thank you. Eileen BABA 13350 Northeast Third Code. Um, I think I I agree with Mr. Pizzy and and the lady. Um, I do think this is not transparent
and very typical of North Miami and the way it functions and I have spoken out in the past against this type of thing already. And now you're going to have other businesses there that are using that parking lot. It is unfair. This is something where it should go out for
bid. It should be transparent and it should be available to everyone and not just handpicked and handed to one person. Public hearing is still open on the item. Public hearing is now closed. Councilwoman, thank you so much again.
Um I'd like to ask my colleagues to be supportive of of this item. Um, as you know, I've got elected here June 4th, 2019, and one of the one of my initiative has been to improve our commercial corridor, West Dixie Highway. So, anytime that something is going up
on West Dixie Highway, I'm I'm very um passionate and excited about it and want to be as supportive um as I'd like to be. Again, I'd just like to underline, you know, some facts. Um, this um Zenith um 79 already leases with us. We are
amending the terms. I'm hearing that he wants to be there rent free. That's not what the resolution here. Um it says the tenant is requesting an amendment of the lease for modifying lease for 99 years to modify the use of property um from parking and retail the purpose of
construction about 80 multiple um multif family residential um units. I'm happy to hear that um the the um the um Zenith and Barbara um are willing to have conversation. I encourage that you have
conversation, but what's in front of us right now is to approve this lease. Um this area is zone mixeduse. I'm very excited about anytime that we're dealing with um first of all improving the corridors, addressing housing um concerns or any other businesses that
will be on there, but especially housing concern. I definitely would like to be supportive of that. So, I'd like to make a motion to accept this resolution. However, I'd like to specify that I would love it um I'd love that there is
a um there's 180 days that's allowed so that you can come back and give us a plan and then within after the plan within a year to pull permits um and um and to make sure that um the lease is not assigned or sold to another party um
if there if there was um a purchase. and and for the Yeah. Right. And and and to to further negotiate some similar terms that we have with other contracts that we've done um on the east side and the
west side um of the city um with this city attorney. So I just would like to um like I said um move for approval. Council um Councilman Burns. I know there's been a Thank you. Um my question is for Oh, second. I'll second it. Thank you.
Councilman, did she get her second? Yeah. Okay. Um, for the city attorney, what are we being asked to vote on now? Are we approving a lease tonight? So, we received a term sheet from the uh
current tenant. Um, the purpose of tonight is to get your input on what that lease should include. Um, if you look inside, if you look at the uh resolution, it it gives you uh those terms are in the resolution. I've just gotten three new terms that we're going to incorporate into the contract. If
there's anything else you would like to put in, then we can do that also. Okay. Do we have to put those in right now? Because um I think this the fact that we're even listening to this tonight that is so poorly portrayed to us this
particular lease and what they want. Um first of all, the maximum amount of units there are are 60, not 80. Um, it's a mixeduse piece of property. It's not um just strictly uh uh housing. Um we I'm all
for giving them a due diligence period, but I do not want to issue in I don't think we should issue into a 99 enter into a 99-year lease till after they've done their dual d do due diligence. uh because
the lease even says that if the affordable housing which everybody gets excited about is allowed and it's not feasible he doesn't have to do that and he can go back and do whatever he wants to do um because he's got the lease on that property for uh many many years one
of the conditions which I thought was good was that the had to pull building permits within one year um but the naivity of the the fact that um with the zoning, the land use, the mixed use,
what would be required, the setbacks, um I think um it's premature to enter into an exact lease. I would feel more comfortable go comfortable giving him six months. Do all the due diligence. See what he really can't. He might get a
a rude awakening about what there's more that you can't do there than what you may think you can do there. And so that the city get doesn't get caught up. One of the other issues which is very valid on Barbara is that if there's a m municipal parking lot within 150 ft of
your business, you don't have to meet the parking requirements. The CRA spent money both for the medical center and both for the flags and banners. Um hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in that property. They will now have no parking. So when the medical
center leaves and a new tenant tries to come in, they're out of business because they won't meet the parking requirements because that city parking lot will no longer be available to that. um as far as the the upkeep of the property and
the way the way it operates now um with some of the extra storage and then um it's causing um Barbara you could possibly be getting cited soon for the outside storage in the shell of the building that you have which you lease
to the applicant here. Um and that's going to be a problem for you which is in turn going to be for him. So don't I'm don't want anybody to think that this is uh you know a perfectly run operated piece of property and there's no issues facing it. Um the
uh the u appraisals that were done one of them was totally um off the off the the mark but um it did not even include the alley and we have to find out whether we're going to sell the alley, vacate the alley where those businesses with that square footage are going to
park. I just think it's premature right this minute um to enter in. And you're saying we're not entering into the agreement. We're just talking about what we're going to put into it. Will that lease come back to us for final approval? If that's what you all want, we can do
that. I think um right now this is the the this resolution says that you're giving us the you're going to give us the the terms and you're giving us the authority to negotiate the agreement and execute it. I would I wouldn't my personal self would say that because of this property and what it means to West
Dixie Highway is that we give you the ability to negotiate, come back with the best terms and then the fi the council gives the final uh uh approval and if they have a legitimate plan, legitimate financing to come forward and they can come back in six months, they have a
free look to do what they they need to to find out and then before we commit ourselves and future councils to a 99-year lease, um let's see if they can actually pull off what they're proposing. And um I just think it's not in the the public
interest at this p at this point without having more facts. I want to be supportive of it. We need the housing. We need a lot of things, but I think it's premature until you have a chance to really negotiate with the both parties to figure out what's the best interest for them and also the best
interest uh for the city. And again, the property is not going anywhere. He has a 10-year lease, another option on another 10 years. Um, so I think um that that would be the prudent way to go and let the city manager I mean and the city
manager and the city attorney really negotiate the the ins and outs of this particular contract. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman, would you are you accepting any of his amendments? I know there was a amendment to have it come back to us. let the city attorney
uh uh negotiate but have it come back for us? No. Well, I'm the mo maker of the motion. I'm not accepting any amendment. I'd like to send it the way it is. Um as agreed, let them go negotiate with the intent for it to be 99 years with the option to purchase um
and with you heard my request for the 180 days and the um building the one-year permit. and what are the terms that you deem important enough that you could just privately but overall that's Go ahead. No to to to be clear based on
what you've asked us to do ma'am. Um so and and I think it works for both of you. It's just another way of doing it. Um this lease if it's entered into will have a requirement that he brings a viable plan to us within 180 days. It
also says that there's no assignment of the agreement. And it says that he has to have building permits within one year. If none of those are accomplished, then there will be a provision in the lease that the lease is rescended. Um, so it does exactly what you're saying. It's just that he will have a lease that that says that and gives him the
opportunity. So the 99-year lease portion will be rescended, but he still continues with the with the regular, right? I mean, and and and again, I'm not going to speak for him. I don't represent them, but typically if you've looked at all the other cases that we've done this before, um that's what the uh developers have needed to go out and get
financing. No one's going to give him financing with a piece of paper that says, "Hey, you may have a lease, you know, if if it comes back to the city council." You give him a lease, he goes out, he gets his financing, he comes back within 180 days, says, "Here's the plan." The plan can even include uh
parking for the neighbors if that's what you all want. um he's got to go through uh uh through through planning and zoning. I mean, there's a there's a whole number of times it'll be coming back to you. Um and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Um but this, you know, that's what this lease will do. Thank you. Um Councilman Charles, did you have
anything? No, no, I'm good. Okay. Thank you. It's been a motion and second. I have a motion made by Councilwoman Mayor to approve the item at Tab J. The motion was seconded by Vice Mayor Timothy. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Item passes with a 40 vote.
Tab K, a proposed resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of North Miami, Florida, authorizing the intram city manager to issue purchase orders to Mark 43, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $1,369,577.50 50s for the purchase, installation, and implementation of a computer aided
dispatch, parentheses CAD system, and cloudnative records management system parentheses RMS for the North Miami Police Department waving competitive bidding in accordance with section 7-120 parenthesis capital B of the North Miami code of Ordinances, providing foreign
effective date and all other purposes. Tab K. Tab K. Thank you. This is pretty self-explanatory. This is um new technology for our police department. I believe we all were briefed on it. I would like to open up public hearing at this moment. Public hearing is open for tab K.
Tab K. Public hearing is now closed. Move for approval. Second. I have a motion made by Councilwoman Estee Irvin to approve the item at Tab K. The motion was seconded by Councilman Charles. All in favor? Any opposed? The item passes with a 40 vote. Thank you.
Thank you, council members. I just wanted to make note and mention that Mark 43 was represented here by among several of their representatives, their founder and president. And so he was here in the event you had any question. Thank you. Thank you. And I think there were a sponsor at your the police um
Yeah. And learned a lot about Thank you. very impressed. Thank you. Citizen forum is now open. Citizen forum is now open. There's two mics. Welcome back all the way from Derry. Jim Garrett,
what's your address? 247 Britney or Delway Beach, Florida or 116 North Bayore Drive. Besides your 100th anniversary coming up and we should have Mr. Bronson. Okay. Mr. Bronson um
you know um on the committee. Mhm. We also have the 75th anniversary of the high school from 1951. Oh, interesting. We should celebrate what both. And when we do celebrate, we should do the music fest up and we should have it for
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and use different venues like here in Mocha Plaza. We should have electric G. I do like having fun. Stadium and a beach party for the Sunday afternoon.
It's the only time we celebrate a 100 anniversary and then we need to do a progressive dinner dress up in the 1920s. You don't know what Miami trolley will go around. That what not what we did down at Miami in 7 when I was at the University of Miami. We celebrated our
75th anniversary in 19 in 19 I mean 2001. Let's celebrate. Let's come together as a community. Last week, the last meeting, please don't repeat that ever again. Please. I got too many phone calls. Palm Springs, San Francisco. I
had a friend who served on the board of supervisors Chicago. I was in I I live I lived in No Park. I was on the library board for eight years. We build a new library. But don't do this again because when it does, it makes that business leader say they're not going to come here. And
remember this, NMBB stands for North Miami is better. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Garrett. And when you become a Northmind resident again, we'll appoint you to the Centennial Committee. Okay. Good evening. My um my name is Angie
Cordova, manager of the business Hernandez Studio, 1675 Northeast, 123 Row. My name is Myra Alimman and I will be here to go ahead and serve as an
interpreter for Angie. Okay. So, Miss Angie is respectfully asking the city assistant in holding the construction company accountable and ensuring that monetary compensation for the financial and personal damages residents have experienced, including damages to her personal vehicle. Miss
Cardova visited the building department yesterday to submit a formal letter outlining the incident and the ongoing issues negative negatively impacting the business. She was advised to bring the matter before the council at tonight's meeting. She is here as a small business that relies heavily on its client and is now facing significant hardship. She is
seeking both a resolution and guidance on the next steps. What's the business address again? The business address is 1675 Northeast 123rd Street. And oh, this is in front of the related project. The the Okay.
Tattoo Studio. Yeah. if you can if you can have her submit some information to the city manager's office so we can follow up um so that we can look into that because I know we passed something that stated we recently passed laws that said that if developers are having issues and causing damages that they
have to um they have to be assessed well on on that specific project um I don't know if you remember but Scout Galvin and he put it on the record that uh he wanted those businesses protected I'm not sure if we ever documented that anywhere but they they came up here and
said that they agreed to that. So if there's an issue then you know we need to look into it please. Okay if you can have her give the contact information. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. The deputy will assist. Thank you so much. Thank you. Citizen
form still open. Claudia Pasmina 13504 northeast 23rd please. Um, so earlier this evening you guys discussed about festivals and all that. For the longest time since I've been coming to this council meeting, a lot of residents have opposed to so many city events. And I
remember at one time we even discussed having very few during COVID. So for you guys to bring it or other people to bring it up saying we're being hypocritical that we want to spend money on all these festivals, we don't. We actually I remember years ago when I first started coming to this council
meeting when it was Mayor Smith Joseph's being upset saying that during Haitian Heritage Month there was eight events and I thought that was too many being that earlier that year it was women's um history month and nothing was nothing took place. So we just finished May there was a lot of events for Haitian
Heritage Month. We had a lot of events now for um Caribbean heritage month. So it's not us residents. is you guys who are proving it and are coming up with these festivals. And then I do think that it was wrong that we had Jewish American Heritage Month and we didn't have that many activities other than
that a reception. It was also mental health awareness month in May. We only had one event. So let's be more inclusive and divided equally all these events and also we're not asking for festivals these events. We actually want less. You forgot um Hispanic Heritage
Month. Exactly. I have no problem with Hispanics if they to my knowledge there's like what four or five if you guys just want to do the grand fiesta for Hispanic Heritage Month as a Hispanic Latina I have no problems with that. Thank you Miss Dillis. Good evening. I just wanted
to say thank you to all of you um to the mayor and the council for your trust. I look forward to working with you in the future. Um I know that previously we were able to work together with focus, discipline and get through difficult times. So, I'm excited that we'll be able to move the city forward um in a
stable way. And particularly, I want to say Councilman Burns, um I wasn't on the Coun, you weren't on the council when I was here before, but I plan to come with the same energy that I've had before. Um thank you all, Councilman Charles, um
for being a very strong supporter. Um Estimate Iran, you know that we have worked in the past and I'm excited to come back and work with you. And the same with uh Councilwoman Timothy. So, thank you very much. Um, and uh, in the absence of the mayor, I also thank him
and I look forward to getting to work. Thank you. Thank you. Citizen forum is now closed. Council reports. You guys have 30 seconds. No. Um, 30 seconds. Quickly, if I may, usually I'm last, so I just want to be
first so that we can get out of here. Just want to say thank you to uh, each and every one of you. Congratulations to uh um um terrorist um I know I know you are going to lead us to the next chapter. I just want to say thank you to
that. Welcome and my dear friend Brian on back say hello to you the uh honorable. I know how busy you are but thank you for your time and um just um thank you. It is um great privilege to um sit in here and um look at all my
colleagues. Um listen um basically healthy discussion is what make this business fun. Um nothing personal. We got to come in here and take care of business and of the city. It is um what we signed up for and I am um glad to be
part of that and just want to say thank you to each and every one of you and um have a wonderful night. Councilwoman, thank you so much. Good evening again. Um just want to um again thank everyone for your input in this
political process, but want to congratulate um Theresa and you know and and I also want to thank um the current um city administration for all of the hard work that they've put in and and they're not leaving yet. I know they're
still here. But I I always want to publicly um um say that and and to say that I've noticed your work. I I I I I I appreciate you very much and will continue to work with all of you still and I and I'm so very grateful for that. And again, I'll publicly say thank you
for for being our shield. U Miss um Annabal Emanuel, thank you. Thank you. I'll never stop saying thank you because it was it was rough for me personally. Thank you for being there and again looking forward to working with Teresa. So in my 30 seconds now, um you're done.
Good evening, Vice Mayor. So, um, good evening, colleagues and neighbors. I am Councilwoman, um, Mary S. May I well representing District 3, and it's both an honor and a joy to stand before you as we close Caribbean Heritage Month. Want to thank my colleague, Vice U.
Mayor Cassandra Timothy for taking the lead um for a time to reflect, to celebrate, and to reconnect. Um um in our in our nation's history, Caribbean immigrants have helped shape American experience through unyielding dedication, innovative spirits, and and
vibrant cultural expression from advancing civil rights to drive to driving economic growth. Their contributions run deep and wide across every facet of our society. So, let's not forget the richness of the Caribbean culture, its rhythm, its language, its
cuisine, its resilience, and not just a part of our heritage, but a leave and breathing force that continues to shape and shape our community today. So, just wanted to throw that two cents in. Um, I'm also very excited to um remind you about our constituent um day that we're
having this Thursday at Griffin um center where we will be focusing on on hurricane preparedness and you'll have other great departments that you can come and chat with and learn more. And then for Father's Day, a prolonged Father's Day this Sunday, um we're having a barbecue. So, we want all the
fathers to come out to barbecue with us. It's going to be fun and to fellowship with us at Buck Buccaneers Park. And if you don't know where Buccaneers Park is, it's a linear park that is between 145th Street and 144th on like 7th Avenue Northeast. So,
and and as always, I just want to um I'm reminded by the pillars of my transparency, technology, and transportation and values to drive um of our shared vision for more responsive and inclusive forward working with district 3 and all of North Miami. So, I
thank my colleagues um for your support and that's all I have to for this for tonight. Good evening. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Burns. Um several things. Want to remind everybody u who missed it that our former city
clerk Sai Bloom had passed away on June 1st. He was a the city clerk. Um he was a lawyer. He was a veteran. He was in the US Air Force. He was a JAG officer. He helped found the shake a leg uh uh program teaching disabled children how
to sail. He was a uh also the brother-in-law to former council woman Carol Keys. He was a pillar in our community and served with the distinction all the years that he was the uh city clerk. Um, also need to thank the chief of police for the North
Miami Police Department's participation in the uh Stonewall Pride in Wilton Manners. Um, the chief and also Officer Moffett. Um, we had the u pride police car up there and a contingent of residents from
the city of North Miami who participated went over very well and um that's about it for right now. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. And at this time, we'll do a quick moment of silence for that for Clerk Bloom, who passed away.
Thank you. And I know City Cler Vanessa also paid a very well tribute um on social media as well. Um I'll just like to take a moment to thank our intram team um Annabbo to John Lurfields, Katya, and the whole entire
city manager staff. One of my favorite quotes from MLK is the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moment of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at a time of challenge and controversy. And this past year has been challenging to say the least. We've
had uh cyber incidents. We had um torrential rain. We had incident after incident. And through it all, you guys stood to the test of times. It is not easy to deal with all five of us up here, but to Annabal, to John, to Katya,
thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I also like to take a moment to send farewells to Christine Carney. I see she's smiling back there, but this is our last counseling meeting with Christine as our parks director. Yes,
she is my partner in crime. We actually started together back in July 2015. And after 10 years of service, she finally gets to leave us. But it is not goodbye, it's see you later. Um because we are definitely friends and I will be
visiting soon. So I will take you up on that offer. Um but again, thank you, thank you, thank you so much to the work that you've done here in the city of North Miami. You have filled in some huge shoes. It really does start in parks and the impact that you have um
have had throughout the department from our top lots to every city events to every oh girl we'll be here forever dealing with the mayor know me fest. But Christine, we thank you. We thank you and you will surely be missed. Um
I'd like to take a moment to welcome Teresa Thorillis back to the city of North Miami. Um you are a true gem to our city. Um you you realize what you had when it's gone and I'm glad to say that we get to bring you back um refreshed from the county with all those
resources um and all those connections and I know you're definitely going to push us forward to new heights. Um, and to my colleagues up here, I know um, you know, we from time to time, you know, I I make my jokes here, but just want to thank you all as well, um, for, you
know, for getting us through this meeting and we we made it out made it out alive. Um, and last but not least, thank you to the Caribbean Heritage Month Committee, our lead, Stephen Marcelis, for putting on a beautiful celebration throughout the month of June. Look forward to seeing um, what we
do in the years to come. Madame Clerk, thank you and thank you for a wonderful month, Vice Mayor of Caribbean Heritage Month, and thank you to Arlette for her leadership in really executing a a masterful vision uh for all of those
events. Thank you so much to the intram team, to Annabo and John for your leadership in these times. and congratulations and welcome back to our city manager Teresa Theilus and of
course we look forward to the work that you'll do. I do feel uh called to talk about the fact that I think we're we're witnessing a time of really deep complexity with everything that's happening in the world. And it's in
these times that we really start to see people wake up, start to ask the the really hard questions and maybe recognize the fact that to be silent is a privilege that we have, but it's also a dangerous
one. And in these times, we really have to speak up and stand up for the things that we believe in. And we have to to not just be outraged and not just share our opinions, but we have responsibility to
act. And so whatever that issue is for you, I encourage you to really step up and and do something because in these times it's that that apathy, that lack of action that is going to further
descend us into a state where we feel powerless and we we end up realizing that had we done something things could have changed. So I just felt called to say that for whatever reason. Christine, we're gonna miss you a lot. Uh there's
another person leaving the city. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it, so I won't say their name, but what I will say is that this person was a true phenomenal asset to our community. to see how this person has been able to
interact with the community from young to not as young, participating in just about everything that we have as a city. In every event, every opportunity that
there is to connect with the community, this person has shown up and really shown out. And so to that person, we're really proud of where you're going to next. I'm extremely happy for you, but I am so sad for what this community is
going to lose. And I hope that we can find ways to keep you around. And I hope that we can find ways to to really continue to have you within our community. So, thank you for all that you've done. And they know who they are.
So, it's cool. City manager, city attorney, no report. Good evening. First of all, thank you very much to the mayor and council for the opportunity to have served the city in the interim city manager capacity.
And secondly, congratulations and welcome back, Teresa. Looking forward to seeing you here again. No further report. All righty. Motion to adjurnn. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Hey.