Okay. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our regularly scheduled commission meeting um Wednesday, April 8th, 2026. The time is now 6:11. Madame clerk roll call. >> Commissioner Baz >> here. >> Commissioner Santiago >> here.
>> Mayor Taylor >> here. As we stand by invocation led by assistant city manager, Mr. Joy Ellis followed by our special led by our chief of police Dr. Robertson. Oh God, we want to thank you for this day, Lord God. They feel God will
continue to be a blessed day. Pray for each and every one of us here in attendance, Lord God. We pray for all our city leaders. Pray for our special guest commission for the commission special guest. Father God, we continue to be honoring you in everything that we do today in your precious son Jesus name. Amen.
>> Amen. algiance 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.
>> Um, madame clerk, moving on to the war and acknowledgements. Do we have any at this moment? >> We do not, Mr. Mayor. >> All right, moving on to the consent agenda. Do I have any polls, deferrals, or deletions on the consent agenda at this moment?
>> Okay. Item number six by Dr. Bass. All right. Any other? All right. Hearing none. Can I get a motion to approve the next consent agenda? >> Move it. >> Moved by Commissioner Santiago. >> Second. >> Second by Dr. Bass. Madam Clerk. >> Commissioner Santiago. >> Yes.
>> Commissioner Bass. Mayor Taylor. Yes. >> Motion passes. 30. >> Move. Um, can I get a motion to approve tonight's agenda? >> Moved by Dr. Bass. Second. >> Second by Commissioner Santiago. Madam Clerk. >> Commissioner Baz. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Santiago. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Taylor. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. 30. >> All right. Moving on to the approval of the minutes from the regular commission meeting minutes on March 25th, 2026. I entertain a motion at this moment. >> Moved by Dr. B. Second by Commissioner
Santiago. Madame Clerk, >> Commissioner Santiago, >> yes. >> Commissioner Baz, >> Mayor Taylor, >> yes. >> Motion passes 30. >> Okay. I do see that we have a report from Miami Day County as we receive our
dear friend Commissioner Raquel Regalado Miami District 7. There's no changes to it. >> Wait one second. There we go. Perfect. Um, first and foremost, thank you all so very much. It's always a pleasure to be here with
you uh in my name is Commissioner Raquel Ralato. Uh, and I proudly represent District 7, but I'm here in my capacity um, as a mom of two adult autistic children. Um, so for those of you who know me, I was a school board member for two terms when my children were
diagnosed and then I ran for a position u at the county commission. And every April and October, I really try um to focus on the work that we've been doing um and ensuring that we're being as county, we're being a pilot so that
other people could do this work in other places. Currently, my children are 22 and uh my daughter's 22 and my son actually turns 21 next week. Uh so, April is a very busy month in our family. But today, I'm here uh to
present to you the Florida the Florida Neuroincclusion Toolkit. So, I uh wrote this baby and it's uh based on the work that I've been doing uh with the county and our partners over the last uh 10 years. So I'm going to click here. It's
a website. It's a free resource. Anyone can can use it. It's actually written for policy makers. Um so that you can do this work. And the most the most valuable part of it is the appendix. So the appendix at the end includes all the legislation that I've
drafted, all the data that I used, all the outcomes, all of the reports because no one should have to reinvent the wheel. And the idea of this toolkit is that you can pick up wherever. We're going to go through it, but you can pick up wherever to do whichever part. There is no judgment as to where you start.
Uh, but there's so many communities that want to do this work. And there's all these consultants and all these people that are popping up that tell you that you have to hire them. And I'm here to tell you, you don't have to hire them. It's very easy work. It's very simple work. Um, and we can do it together. and
Miami date is your partner and I'm your partner in in doing this work. Um so the the first thing is what is neurodeiversity? I didn't make this just about autism. Uh I chose to use the term neurodeiversity because it encompasses so much more. While both of my children
are on the autism spectrum, my daughter also has ADHD. And a lot of people who are neurodeiverse have more than one neurodeiversity. Right? So we're talking about people who have dyslexia, who have autism, who have Tourette's, uh who have
Down syndrome, who have OCD. There's so many things that encompass what is neurodeiversity. And then at the middle of that spectrum, there's also people brain injury. Those are all developmental delays. And then on the other side of neurodeiversity, we have
folks that have dementia and Alzheimer's, uh which is neurological decline. And I mentioned that because a lot of the tools that we use at the county and a lot of the training is also very important to making things easier for older adults that are suffering with
dementia and Alzheimer's. And I'll explain that as we can go through it. Um so why is neuroinclusion important? Um one out of five individuals in Florida is neurodeiverse. They are part of our community. they are here and their families usually feel excluded from
everything that has to do with the public and and this is an initiative to include them. So, um Florida has led in the past and I believe that every county and city uh can do it. Here's a little bit about me and this is u the Miami date model. Um I brought my first item
as a county commissioner was a very comprehensive model that focused on training. I did not create any new systems. um everything is embedded in existing systems. This is not about creating things or creating jobs. That's not what this is about. This is about taking existing systems and tweaking
them so that they could do this work and that's what I did at the county. So I partnered with NSU card which is also your partner. So the the state of Florida is broken up into five districts. NSU card is the representative from the state to handle
all things involved with autism and autism services for Miami date and Broward. Their executive director Michaelandre is amazing and he was the one that did a lot of this training with his team. So, uh we really focused on ensuring that we weren't creating things
and then also having a feedback loop so that we can be some cartoons. um having a feedback loop so that we know that these things are working and that we're hearing from our residents as to how they work. All right. So, the first thing um that I wanted to talk to you
about was training as infrastructure. Um that's our biggest piece and I wanted to share with you some of the resources that Miami County has created that's available to everyone. So, we started by training our libraries because that was the easiest entry point. We trained all
of our library staff in Miami County. We created 50 social stories for every single one of those libraries. The bigger libraries got sensory rooms. They all got sensory kits and we started having a conversation. Our library system about hiring neurody divergent adults. They actually won an award from
the National Association for Counties. It was a national award for inclusion um two years in a row for that program. And then we went on to training our police officers, firefighters, and emergency response personnel. When we got to the
2000 training point, we launched our special needs occupant with autism decal and registration. So, this is available countywide. When you call 911, what you do is as a as a parent, you can go on the website. It's in the toolkit. You put all your information. It it asks
you if the individual is verbal, non-verbal, and what are their specific deescalation tools. What you as a parent, if you were there as a parent under normal circumstances, what would you recommend to deescalate this person? And now this this year in April, the sheriff also added your car
registration. So when you do the registration now, you could do your house, you could do your car, and you can request the decal. You can put the decal in your house, you can put the decal in your car. And this gives this gives all our trained personnel the information that there may be someone
that's neurode divergent in that home or in that vehicle. Currently we are at 4,100 um Miami date county first responders trained and we're almost finished. And we've also worked with you to train other police officers in deescalation.
Our training is an in-person training and it also allows them to physically meet autistic adults so that they can have that one-on-one interaction with them and understand what that looks like. So, this was um a huge uh project
for us and it really has we're following the data now to prove that not only is it better and safer for everyone in our community, but it's also saving us money because we're not having people bakered and we're not having people arrested unnecessarily, right? Which then creates
a negative uh situation for them. So, uh the decal is important and it's available to everyone. And then beyond uh public safety, we trained all of our transit personnel. So all of our transit personnel and all of our parks personnel
has been trained. All of our transit um folks are trained also to use the sunflower lanyard. If you've been to the airport, you've probably seen this. The airport was the first Miami day department to start using this. We provide this for free at the airport um through my office, but you can also
participate in it and become a vendor of this. And this is for all u invisible disabilities um nationally and internationally. So I was recently um at an airport in Cancun and my daughter was wearing her vineyard and we were about to stand in a very long line for the
bathroom and someone came up to us and said um does she have an invisible disability? I said yes. Uh she's autistic and they allowed us to use the family restroom as opposed to stand in the 25m minute line to use the bathroom. So TSA is also trained to recognize
this. you can sign up for TSA Cares. Um, and if you know someone in the spectrum, uh, we have an amazing program at MIA. It's called, uh, MIA Air where we do a dress rehearsal and we actually have them come to the airport with their caregivers. Uh, and we get them we they
get a boarding pass. They go through TSA. They find out about TSA Cares. They go all the way to the airport. They board the airplane. They sit in the flight. They sit in the seat. They put on their seat belt. Uh, we give them a snack. They meet the pilot. Um, and the
idea is to walk them through the experience of being in one of the most uncomfortable places for a neurody diverent person, which is an airport, right? There's so much going on. And then afterwards we show them the sensory rooms and usually we give them Chick-fil-A. You know, who doesn't love
Chick-fil-A? Um, so but the idea is to provide them with a dress rehearsal of the experience so that when they go with their families, it's not uh it's not traumatic, right? And it comes with a social story. It was also done by MSU card and it really has been such a game
changer for so many people including my family. My daughter uh did MIA Air a few years ago and it really was a wonderful, wonderful experience. And when she went back to the airport to actually take a flight, she felt like a pro, like she was going to win the airport. Uh and as a parent, it's such a different
experience from what you usually experience at the airport. So, we want everyone to also learn about MIA here. Um so, I'm going to flip through. Um this is a very easy entry point one. This is advisory boards, uh, committees
and task force. I've established these. I use the model, uh, that started about a decade ago in Cory Gables. I started at Makita Gain in South Miami, um, in different parts of my district. Um, it's just a great way to get all the parents to come together in one place. As policy
makers, you know, we have parents that come and some people may have access and some people may not have access. And different people want different things. And I have found that for our disability community, having a disability committee or a disability task force where everyone can come and kind of talk about
their needs is a great opportunity. You can also bring people from other areas to give you ideas as to what they have done and what um adjacent municipality or the county may have so that you don't have to recreate everything, right? Um so before the meeting started, we were talking about adult programming. You
know, I'm going talk a little bit more about that, but one of the things that we need in the north of the county is more adult programming and more services for adults. There's a lot concentrated in the Kendall area. There's a lot concentrated now. We're we're moving into the south. Uh but in the north, we
don't really have a lot and that's one of the things that we're hearing more and more from parents in this area. But whether it's a standing board or you join with another city to do it. So we have um Pinerest is joining with Palmetto Bay to do a task force. Um so it doesn't have to be a standing
committee. It could be uh done jointly. Then um sensory spaces and inclusive events. So this is the easiest way. If you take away one thing, this is the easiest way um to do something. Um it's so simple uh to do sensory inclusive
events. Um one of the things that I started doing was mobile sensory rooms. So we did one uh with Loud and Live. We started at the Coconut Grove um arts festival. A lot of our families would never go to an outdoor event. That sounds like the third ring of hell,
right? It's hot, it's loud, there's lots of people. Why would I take an autistic person, especially an autistic adult? Um, so we worked with them and we did a mobile sensory room for adults and it rolled out two years ago. It was a huge hit. It was then used at Winter
Wonderland. It'll be at Country Fest. It goes to all of their outdoor events. Um, and we've been working with the youth fair. The youth fair is a great example of how to scale this, right? So the Dayton County Youth Fair, we've been working with them for three years. They started with the sensory room and the
social stories. The second year we did a sensory map. And this year we did sensory hours. So this year, Saturday and Sunday, when the fair was here, um from 12 to 3:00, we turned off all the music and all the lights. And that's all you need to make it a sensory friendly
environment because the rides are already there's a lot going on. a lot of people. Uh but if between the every single ride having different music and every single ride having different, you know, um lights, it sounds like da da, you know. So if you turn those things
off, you know, even the neurotypical people were excited that the fair was a little bit calmer and easier to navigate. So um in a movie theater, for example, we recently did this in South Miami with stars. Um we just had um we
we we have a we had a movie movie play for adults and children in the spectrum. And instead of turning the lights completely off, we dim them a little bit and we turn the sound a little bit down. So that was enough to make it a sensory
friendly experience for those children and for those adults. So just look at the events that you already have and consider what could be a sensory friendly aspect to those experiences. And it's a very easy way um to do
something for neurode divergent children, adults and even the elderly. I mentioned earlier about Alzheimer's and dementia. A lot of people u think that how people get diagnosed for Alzheimer's and dementia is because they start forgetting things. Actually 83% of
adults that are diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's the first symptom that they have is sensory overload. They actually start having issues with light and sound and texture. the same way that neurode divergent children do. And that's usually the first tell that
you're having a change um in their neurodeiversity. So when you do um events and you offer sensory friendly solutions, it's also good for elderly residents um that may not be able to participate in this. Um so we have a lot of private partners that followed with
us. Uh but I'll I'll fast forward to transit. We trained all of our transit workers with Lanyard. Um, and we also have social stories for transit and Miami International. I already mentioned um that work, but mobility is so
important and having our transit workers uh recognize people who have an individual disability uh which whatever that disability may be is really important for people to feel safe uh using public spacing. Um then uh government services we started
neuroinclusive government days. So the third Saturday of every month, um, we had the t at the tax collector's office, we had neurodeiverse individuals go to get their ID. So you can get an ID in the state of Florida starting at five years. And recently the state of Florida
changed the law so that you can include any disability in that ID. >> That is life-changing for us because most neurode divergent people, you can't tell they're neurode divergent unless you have a parent there. And how do you explain to someone that they have a disability? you need a driver's license
or a Florida ID to travel. You need a real ID. So, uh we've opened up uh the tax collector's office and we're going to have him physically at our event um in April on April 25th doing this uh for this community so that everyone can have that ID. And parents, if they want to
put the disability on there, it's completely voluntary. Uh but it could really save you a lot of time and trouble if you need to identify someone's disability. it is a state recognized um you know ID. So I'll move quickly through here. April and October.
Obviously I want to thank you for flying the flag. Uh it was wonderful to have all of our municipalities fly the flag. Um first I think it just shows a tremendous amount of unity. But I can tell you as the parent of two children uh with disabilities, it made their day
to see everyone flying flags. Um, adults and children with disabilities just want to be seen like everyone else. And the fact that all these municipalities flew the flag and recognized autism acceptance really made everyone so happy and excited about the path forward.
Since 10 years ago, a lot of people couldn't even say autism and didn't want to talk about it. October is disability employment month and we roll out a lot of opportunities and different partners. because we've been working with Career Source and uh KLA and a lot of different
programming that we've created that we talk about uh during October. So my suggestion for April and October is it really is a wonderful opportunity to set goals and meet goals for the next year and talk to the community about what they would like to see in the next year.
Um so we use it in Miami date county as a marker uh employment internship and workforce access simple thing that you can do what I did is all of our employment opportunities at Miami date county I added neurodeiverse individuals and we changed the way that we um hire
so that we would not be discriminating them right so we a lot of the hiring is by actually doing the work as opposed to talking about the work um the other thing that we did is there were different initiatives that came before for us. Um, for example, um, the zero
drowning initiative that came before Miami date county, I amended that to include autistic adults. I don't know how many of you know, but um, the number one cause of death for autistic children and adults is drowning. Um, they are attracted to water because it is a sensory relief, but most of them do not
know how to swim. And now in Miami date county, it is a priority to teach them and their caregivers how to swim. And there's been money allocated for that in the zero drowning. and then also for internships inside the children's trust. So all of that is accessible to your residents. It's just a matter of getting
people that information and having them understand that those resources are available. Also, as a result of our training, a lot of our departments are now actively recruiting neurode divergent individuals. For example, our library system is now employing a lot of
uh neurode divergent individuals. Um so did our housing uh and water and sewer. So it was great to see those departments after the training feel comfortable enough um to be able to hire neurodeiverse adults. Um so this is basically you know what the toolkit is.
I'm not um you know I'm not saying that there's a be a best path forward. I'm just saying this is a work that we've done and I would really like our municipal partners um to work with us in doing this work and I'm here um available to help you through it to help
you with it uh and to answer any and all questions that you may have about the work um that we've been doing and if there's any area in particular that you would like to focus on that I can help with. All right. So, I want to say thank you commissioners for coming out and the event that we had here in front of city
hall when we flew the the autism acceptance flag. It was phenomenal. And we have a school here that focuses on children with autism. South Florida School of Excellence is one of very few schools that actually focus on kids with they're right here in historic I say
historical city hall right here in our city hall. So when it comes down to a city that believes in inclusion, you are in the right place. And that's our slogan here. We're the city of bright opportunity because everyone can shine in the city of Obalaka. So we thank you.
And I'm sure I will be calling you because we're going to need some help. But we have a lot of things that we're um putting forth in order to support um our families that deal with this. I don't want to say deal with, but you understand. >> Yes.
>> That are affected by this. I say that >> and and I know that you guys have been doing great work and that's why, you know, the toolkit is really for cities like yours that already are believers. Uh, and there's a lot of things in here like how to do social stories. Social stories are so simple. It's like such a simple thing to do. All you have to do is take some pictures with your phone
and put it into a PDF and boom, you have a social story, right? It's not complex stuff. Uh but for caregivers, it really could be the one thing that allows them to go to that event or to come to that space because now they feel like there's
some tools there. Um so it's really that that's why I think it's it's such simple work um that it pains me that people want to charge people for it. Uh so um so so so that's why I'm here. So thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner. >> They don't go yet.
>> Thank you, Commissioner. First, well, first I want to say thank you to my my colleague um uh Mayor Taylor uh for that beautiful words that you say a few seconds ago and made me feel in my
heart that we love this city. We love the great city of Opalaka and that's one of the reason that we had a school here because we love to helping people. We love to help especially children that they really need you know a hand from
us. I like to say to you our commissioner, thank you and you are very welcome. Even you're not for district one. Let me tell you 37 is welcome to the great city of Okalaka and your program is beautiful. I
want to learn you know a lot and let me tell you that when we we're going to create some kind of event soon, okay? and we're going to be together with you and everyone need the help in this
situation in Miami date county again. Yes, welcome with all my heart to the great city of Palaka. And that's one that my God is here. We teaching people that we are not toxic. We have a great city. We are people that we want to work
together with the resident and people that they live decent and they need the help that they need here in our city. >> We love you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I want to also say thank you. I have learned um in the last probably 10
minutes so much. I mean like really really learned a lot. I appreciate your your wealth of knowledge. And I just want to ask a quick question. Have you done any of these chats at schools? >> Yes. So, we do a lot of virtual um
events. So, I did one today. We do a lot of virtual education events because a lot of parents um just can't get out or something happens like the child has a crisis that day. So, it's hard to get people physically at places, but we have done some and I would be happy to do one
here at the school um and and talk about, you know, preparing them for the next phase. So, um, at 12 is when we should be having those conversations about transition. At 12 is when parents need to be having conversations about
what their inclination is. So, with we when we talk about our children and their disabilities, they also have tremendous abilities and we need as parents to hone in on those abilities so that they can find a trajectory forward and figure out what is the right placement. Right? So, so those are the
conversations that we need to be having at 12, 13, and 14. and then um allowing them to be as independent as possible. So, for example, I have two children in the spectrum who are very very different. Um it took me two years, but I trained my son to use public transportation
>> and now he uses public transportation. My daughter is not there yet, even though she's older. >> Yeah, even though she's older. Uh but she has she has other skills, you know, she has other skills and other things that she loves to do, she goes to an adult program. He's been able to go u to a community college with some support.
So, it's all about navigating what the supports are, where the programming is, and then also bringing existing programming. So, Miami date has a wonderful program called All Kids Included, which goes until 22, and it's through the cultural affairs program, and it's a wonderful art program that
really provides such a great outlet um for our, you know, um neurode divergent children, and it's it's it'll change your life. My children have been participating in all kids included for over a decade. It's every Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 and for the entire
semester Miami date county residents only pay $50. So it's I mean and it's every Saturday, right? So if you tell parents about them like hey and and we they actually provide assistance to parents while the kids are taking the art class. So they use that opportunity
to have the parents navigate the system and help them everything from IEP to parent to parent, all those types of things. So there's a lot of existing programs that we just have to bring them north and what we need is for folks to be like okay let's go let's bring it north and in the case of all kids
included it would just be to find the spot and then figure out a little bit of funding for it but I think here in the north there's such a need for that type of programming and we've seen a whole declaration of it in the south and we need to move it all over the county. Yeah.
No, thank you. >> Any other questions? >> No, we're good. Thank you, Commissioner, for coming. >> Thank you. Thank you all so much for for your time, for your support. We're going to um rearrange the really quick and go into
item to the consider um madam attorney, can you read 15. >> A resolution of the city commission of the city of Opalaka, Florida, authorizing the city manager to consider the establishment of a mini mobile community library within parks and
recreation department providing for incorporation of recitals providing for an effective date. This is sponsored by Commissioner Bass. I >> motion move it by Commissioner Santiago. second by Commissioner Bass. Mr. Bass is your item. I go ahead and let you present it.
>> Okay. >> Um I actually pulled this item because I want to give credit where credit is due. This idea came to me by one of our residents, Miss Finel. And I just want her to know that um I appreciate it. And when we first spoke about it, it was one
one library in one park. And it's going to be one library in each park. >> Yes. >> Well, prayerfully, yes. Um, at no cost to the city at all. So, all of you are listening to me as residents of Opalaka,
partners of Opalaka, we're going to need you to help us keep our library full with books for our children. So, I just wanted to give you approvals for bringing the idea to Miss do this for years.
>> She's been trying to do this for years. So, thank you. So, there are no other discussions on it. They still believe that we're working with the community. That's it. Thank you. All right. I should say this item is
sponsored by Commissioner Bass and our reseller. Go ahead. Call the question. >> Commissioner Baz. >> Commissioner Santiago. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Mayor Taylor. Yes. Motion passes. 30. >> All right. So, we're going to move on
back to our um citizen form. Madame Madame clerk, can you please state for record how to participate in citizens forum? >> City of Opalaka Commission meetings are held in person at the Opalaka Government Center, City Commission Chambers, 780
Fisherman Street, 3rd Flora, Florida. Members of the public wishing to address the commission may do so in person or virtually. Those persons wishing to participate virtually should register prior to the scheduled meeting time on the city's website at www.opalaka.gov.
When speaking before the commission, please make sure to give your full name and address for the record. There is a threeinut time limit for public comments. Please adhere to the decorum policy which is a part of the commission meeting agenda. City Commission meetings
are aired through liveream at www.youtube.com/user/c city of opa. >> All right, citizens form is open. Hi, good evening 681 Southwest 75 terrace. >> I went to high school with Commissioner Rayado. >> Oh, wow. When she was in high school,
she she was a leader. Pretty amazing. Then I became a bail bombsman. I didn't finish law, but I became a bail bombsman. And I remember one time going to arrest someone that didn't go to court and it turned out that they were neuro diverent. We didn't know
And so it really put us as bail bombs people in an impossible position trying to arrest someone that you don't know where they're coming from. So the idea of spreading the word and even training police officers to know that you might be dealing with someone with special needs is important because it could turn into a tragedy instantly. Even as a family member, you call the police
because you're having a problem at home and before you know it, you bring an officer on the scene and you know you have a dead person. It's it's, you know, no one's fault. So anyways, I wanted to bring up just number five. It's already been voted on, but on the consent agenda, the property at 1700 Service
Avenue, Service Road, I thought it was still an issue an issue. Um, what was going to be the cleanup criteria if it was going to be used for industrial or residential? If it's residential, the cleanup that needed to be done was a lot more
intense. And if it was industrial, the developer there a long time ago tried to sell it to someone that wanted to put a furniture place there and some people in the community said no, let them clean it up to be all the way residential. I don't want you to be put in the position where now because they are entering into
an agreement and they're going to start taking responsibility for the site. It's not clear that they have to residential level, not industrial. And then you get stuck with them saying, "Well, we didn't know. Imagine now we're so far and now you're stuck in that situation where you're not even allowed to vote which
way it's going to be or not. So, um I just want to bring that to your attention. Thank you. >> All right, citizen. Thank you, Mr. Coop. Thank you. Citizens forum is still open. >> Audrey Dominguez, 1147 Jen Avenue. Um, I wanted to thank Commissioner Baz
regarding the mini mobile community and also I just want to let you know if you want books and ebooks Miami D College the library donate so many books and a lot of good books for children >> because they'll put them out, spread
them out. I mean I've taken uh I mean like 20 30 books for my grandkids. So imagine they'll just put them out there. So just get someone from the library because you will have all the books you need. That's who you need
to hit libraries. Um also I wanted to just um bring something about to code enforcement if they could possibly um visit a it's a residential area um in a
corner of Sher and Kodat. Um there's a lot of cars and there's actually a truck that's literally they park in the easement but the truck that tail is always almost at the street and there's a lot of cars there and they park um
where the stop sign is at so it's not very visible. It's just maybe give them a warning or something because when you pass by there you can definitely see it. >> Thank you. That's >> all right. Citizens forum is still open.
So you just vice versa. Go ahead. >> Just get your name, your name, and your address. >> Los Santos. >> Okay. >> I own the business 22nd Court.
>> What's the address? >> Is 14735. >> Okay. >> But there's a big bay. So we are mania which is there. The reason why I'm here is they recently give us a warning to not having cars
crash and no plate on our parking which is where the shops are not in the street but in the parking actually working. So we figured out we work with auction cars which is crash cars and no plates. So we wanted to see how can we work together
and see what what can we bring as follow can we fit me and you there you know cuz right now we don't know what to do because we've been doing it for past 20 years >> we really wanted to see if we can arrange something you know the time
limit was today >> okay >> okay >> citizens form is still Good afternoon everybody. This is my first time at one of y'all meetings. >> Welcome >> and thank you. I live at 550 Jan Avenue
in Oak and I wanted to know I don't know is this the way to do it? >> Give us your name. >> Annie Alexander. >> I knew you welcome Annie. Go ahead. I'm here because in my neighborhood
y'all start laying down sidewalk and at the corner of my block y'all stop there and it was three houses was left and my house was one of them and I wanted to know why did y'all stop putting the sidewalks down and right next to me uh
Amazon owns some apartment building they have sidewalk so I was wondering why with the three houses that was left How y'all can put sidewalks in front of our house? >> Okay, we'll get your answer, Virginia. But
then >> I'm sorry. >> We got you. Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Citizens forum is still open. >> All right. Citizens form is closed. All right. So, real quick to What was your name again?
>> Michelle. All right. So, the city passed an ordinance. We worked with some business owners. This is some years back maybe two years ago and we developed uh some kind of parking part storage of um of cars. So there's an ordinance that speaks to that
and business owners came to us and we work together with them. So what we'll do is we'll get you with the manager so that you can understand how and I believe they have to have a work >> a work order placed in the window >> of the vehicle and then has to be
accessible to code enforcement and police if I'm not mistaken. But um what we would do is I'll give you this young lady right here, our chief of staff, Mrs. Ashley Walker and she will set up a meeting with you to explain
through we'll do through my office and we'll explain you the ordinance and what we're actually looking for when we see cars that are parked because that was a problem that we had. Yes. Maybe you didn't know it wasn't your problem but it was other problems and businesses complaining. So we just wanted to bring
everybody to the table at that time and that's what we all created. It's actually the business created the or the businesses did. So it's something that they created. Um, so, um, Miss Ashley, get your number and we'll go from there. All right. No problem. Thank you. And we'll set up a meeting, um, Miss Walker,
between myself, the business owners, and the manager and code enforcement. Just set up some times. Um, to Commissioner Santi, give me one second. I see you. I see you. Commissioner Dominguez. Um, yes,
ma'am. And you've heard about the books, too. A lot of libraries have books. She is absolutely right on that. Okay. Um, and Mother Annie, I know we're doing phase phases of the sidewalk. So, what we'll
do is the same young lady that went outside, I get her to get I have your number, but yes, and we'll um see where you are, where you fall in because they're doing it in phases. So, they start here, go here, start here, go here. So, we'll make sure where you are,
but eventually the whole city will have sidewalks eventually. But where you are, when you fall in on the calendar, we'll let you know that. And that's Let's actually walk out. Make sure >> she got her information. >> She did. >> Yes, >> she did. Okay.
>> Okay. All right. So, I will say this. I am Mr. >> Mark Cooper. Cooper. >> Mr. Mark Cooper. Yes. Yes, sir. We We understand. And I think the man was explaining that before to us the difference between residential and
commercial. >> No, his concern was um that we passed the item for the Kayhoga property, but I think he's he's mixing the two. That's not for the actual project that's supposed to go there. That's something that we have to do. >> Brownsville site.
>> Yes. Our laws. >> Yes. >> Okay. So with that being said, we will break quum because I do have to leave. Madam manager, I do have to leave. Um so we do not have a quorum at this moment.
So madame attorney, I think that all um everything else will carry over to the next meeting. >> Yes, sir. Everything will be deferred to the next meeting. >> All right. With that being said, I also want to say, Madam Manager, I received your report on the street lighting assessment and the sidewalk assessment.
Thank you. Um, it was very informative and very detailed. So, now we have something to, you know, take to our residents when they ask us. And with that being said, any other question? All right. Can I get a motion to adjurnn?
Move by Commissioner Dr. B. >> I'm not happy but it >> second by Commissioner Santiago. This meeting is adjourned and all items will carry over to the next regular commission meeting.