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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning everyone and welcome to the February 24th 2025 Workshop of the
Orlando city council um council members were here for an important Workshop um years following the PSE tragedy creating a permanent Memorial to honor the 45 lives that were taken has proven to be a challenging Endeavor and in fact um we
had a foundation that failed but just a few years ago they had actually uh planned to build the memorial somewhere other than the actual pz site and in late 2023 we met with m listen to a number of the families and survivors and they expressed their very strong desire
that a lasting Memorial be located at the site on South Orange and the hurt and the pain that they shared um solidified our belief that we needed to make that Memorial happen um just over a year ago the city purchased the P site
with one gold expedite the creation of a permanent Memorial and over the past six months we've been fortunate that the members of the PTS Memorial advisory committee have helped guide that important effort by representing those who were impacted by the tragedy they
have quickly and responsibly moved the process forward um throughout a difficult emotional time they have been thoughtful they have been focused and they have uh recommended a conceptual design that you will see this morning
Commissioners please join me in thanking those committee members that are here today in the front row [Applause] also want to thank Dr Schooler and Raphael for engaging the families and the survivors Jay and Wayne for
providing their design expertise and of course the members of our city team many of who had worked in the Assistance Center back in 2016 um so I'm going to call on my chief of staff Heather Fagan to begin the update
Heather thank you mayor Dyer and good morning Commissioners as we start today's present ation I want to pause and start with a reminder of exactly why we are here today and that's the 49 angels that were tragically taken for us on that
horrific morning of June 12th 2016 as we start today's presentation I want to begin with some background on how we got to this point as mayor Dyer stated in 2023 as the one pulse Foundation was dissolving we heard directly from family members that it was their desire to have
a per Memorial on the poll site which is why the city council moved forward with purchasing that property in October of 2023 since that time since at that time the city had not been involved with the memorial planning we had to take a pause to determine the best path forward we
ultimately decided the city leading that effort was the best e was the be best path and we also committed as a city to lead the annual remembrance ceremony and continue the community 5K run as we heard that these events were important to the victim's fa families the survivors and our community as a
whole Central to the memorial process would be engaging with the family members and communicating with them and the survivors we also recognized that due to a previously failed effort there was a lot of conflict and uncertainty around the entire Memorial process due to this we felt that it was best to
engage a third party to facilitate the process moving forward so in April of last year we Eng engaged Dr Larry schooler with public participation Partners who had served is a lead facilitator on similar projects including the Virginia Beach 531 Memorial Dr Schooler brought with him to
the team rafhael montavo who has facilitated a range of public processes and a variety of cultural settings because we wanted to ensure that our Hispanic population could have a facilitation partner that spoke Spanish Dr Schooler in May started conducting focus groups that would help
and surveys which would help inform the process moving forward after gaining feedback and reviewing other Memorial processes around the country and from other tragedies we determined that a committee comprised of victims families survivors and other community members with expertise in areas of things like
design architecture mental health and the Arts would be best to lead the effort to create a conceptual design for the permanent pulse Memorial so in June of last year we launched an application process and we had more than 150 people submit to serve
on the committee we didn't know what to expect we were really really pleased to receive that many um submissions the applications were then reviewed without name or personal identifying information by a group of community leaders who had been involved with the pulse response they would then make a recommendation to
the mayor of individuals to serve on the committee I'd like to recognize those Community leaders that served on served in that role jaaya Bell with Heart of Florida United Way Reverend Dr Jose Rodriguez Joelle Morales and Jesse Aras with the um the
director of the Orlando United resiliency fund then in July of 2024 after the selection of 18 members we held our very first pulse Memorial advisory committee meeting we established that the memorial process would have four goals Gathering
feedback and engaging with the families and survivors ensuring that all engagement was available in both English and Spanish and that sessions were presented both virtually and in person recognizing that much of this population did not live here in the city I'd like to note that this was the first time
that the city held public meetings that were done completely in English and Spanish both in person and virtually we used headsets in the meeting so that the committee members could speak in the language that they were most comfortable with or switch between English and Spanish without having to wait for a translator I should note that that same
service is available at today's Workshop to go in oh the other two um goals were ensuring a transparent process that included the opportunity for input throughout every phase and then to advance the goal of selecting a conceptual design by the end of 2024 and
the completion of a permanent Memorial by the end of 2027 Donna next we'll go into a little bit why we missed our um goal of 2024 called mother nature and hurricanes um so Donna as we began this process we decided we needed somebody to
help facilitate and serve as the the liaison between the city and the memorial committee which is why we hired Donna we many of you recognize her from her previous life as the Orange County division manager of mental health and homeless services in that role Donna served and responded to the poll
shooting and was a key member of the team serving victims after the tragedy and the family assistant center and the Orlando United Assistance Center so after retiring and failing at retirement with Orange County we are thankful that she brought her expertise here to the city she will go into more detail about
the memorial process and then we'll have a presentation of the conceptual design from Way Wayne dunkleberger Chief design officer with baros and Jay Hood senior landscape architect with Catalyst design who generously volunteered their time energy and services to work with the
committee to create this conceptual design that we have today and ultimately a design control document to guide the RFP for the pulse Memorial thank you heather good morning mayor Commissioners good to see you we're going to go into a little detail
now about three phases of this process which Heather has done a great job of teeing up so one of the first things I did when I got here when I realized what we were going to do is I met with a friend of mine I've probably known for
25 years and she is a national expert on cultural and linguistic competence because we knew that was seriously important we had to bring that skill to our staff to our media um Outlet
and suppos and especially to our committee many of them don't live here many of them live other places and they don't have access to being here in person so we made sure that virtual options were made available to them and all of those options were always in
Spanish and English what we wanted to do was like the mayor said we we had some disappointed people been 8 years we hadn't moved the process to to complete a lot of you know disappointment a lot
of anger and we needed to hear that we needed to hear where people were where so we could meet them where they are so we held focus groups we held 10 of them in Spanish and in English both virtual and in person and we heard from them all
of it and we took that and listened and brought that to the process we established the opportunity for families and other community members to be engaged in this process Heather talked about transparency that's what we wanted we wanted people to have input we wanted
to hear from them not just families and survivors but our community they were invested in this they hurt because of this so we wanted to hear from we wanted to push information out to them and we wanted to hear from them so in in June like Heather said the
announcement of a memorial process of a committee was set the community members that she mentioned that that worked as what we would call consultants for us looked over a over 150 applications they poured
over those now all four of those people have pretty serious jobs and do a lot in our community in the way of advocacy and they were all involved in pults in one way or another even Joelle working at the family assistance center and helping us stand up the
OAC Dr B working at United Way and and helping facilitate services from our aeap grant that we were awarded all of those folks had skin in the game they wanted to be a part of this process they wanted to help so pouring over those
applications and coming up with 18 people who met the criteria that we set forth families survivors people who had not only a vision because they were artists or Architects or Landscape Architects but they also so had a
personal connection in some way to the event so as they came up with names we were excited that they came back with people that we could choose 18 folks from so as we contacted each one
of them and they committed their service clearly they understood that this was going to be a tough process they got it they understood it but they wanted to be the voice of our community they wanted to be the voice of those families they wanted to be the
voice of those survivors and so that 18 met all of our criteria they had a varied experience they were connected and they wanted to be a part they wanted to be the
voice this is a list of those 18 that served and many of them are here today and what I can tell you is that you can be proud of these folks that we've chosen you can be proud that they came
to this work two days a month and 4 hours of really hard conversations and hard work two consecutive days 4 hours a night from 4: to 8:00 P.M if you don't mind mayor i'
I'd like to ask them to please stand up and be recognized [Applause] now mayor all of them couldn't be here
today um some of them are watching as we speak they all have a link and um I will tell you we had planned good planning you know we plan to start in July and end in December and then kick off the
new year with an RFP and and move on as as Heather said Mother Nature had other ideas she thought we should Miss three meetings and pick back up in February but we spent that January the consultant spent that January uh Dr Schooler and
Raphael really doing some robust Outreach these folks are hard to reach it's eight years almost nine human spirit is very resilient people move on people don't want to dwell in the past they want to get on
with the grief process because it is a process people don't want to hear from us sometimes and so that was hard work but we spent the month of of January really trying hard by text by email by
phone calls and you can imagine as people move around and are not necessarily in this country they move physical addresses they they change email addresses they change phone numbers so reaching them was a difficult proposition but I can
tell you that was that was some very robust Outreach that was provided we talked about phase three being the engagement process and and that we did in in the English and the Spanish as we we spoke of all the
meetings were conducted under Sunshine everyone understood that and our legal department was right there side by side to remind us all of that uh regularly um it included live public comments at at some point one of our committee members
said you know what three minutes may not be enough in public comment so the committee working on consensus as they did agreed that we would go to five so all public comment went from three to five minutes to give
families or survivors or community members time to really Express their feelings to us their thoughts on the process and we thought that was really um pretty positive our online uh
feedback participation we wanted so much of that again to push information and to pull information in so that the same thing the committee was seeing and talking about they could too and Communications
uh put up a a platform called engage Orlando and you will see there results of some of those Outreach Methods at the very end here our engagement process in in phase three again was direct Outreach those
focus groups we talked about the phone calls the email the social media the text messages and the snail mail we even sent letters we got lots of letters back um but our general Outreach paid advertising we use news media both the
Spanish environment as well as the English environment social media newsletters we did every possible thing to outreach as much as possible in our community this is just a smattering of of what our Communications team did to
to engage our community survivors and and family members our talked about the engage Orlando uh pulz orlando.org newsletters media you know you can see how many how many times people got on
these sites and engaged with us but this is the part you just can't say enough about this is where the rubber hits the road this is where these folks decided what elements they wanted to see in their memorial the community weighed in on
similar items that the that the um committee came up with it was very clear everybody was was on the same sheet of music water is about healing water is about peace they came up with one thing after another I you're going to hear
from from Jay Hood and and Wayne dunberger in a minute but they were like a part of the committee they were active listeners they were empathetic it was like they were meant to be there all along and the hours they spent on a design that they
would take information from committee members they put it in a ey and bring it to that meeting at 4:00 in the afternoon not leave until later that evening and much later in that evening and then to do that and take the comments from the
committee go away and the next day at 4:00 be right back there with those changes not a penny was spent on this group neither one of their agencies organizations made any money off of this they were clearly Community part ERS who
cared about this project it was clear from day one they they spent time with individuals there were there were a couple individuals that the design would come up and they were like it's just isn't speaking to me and these were
people that were in the field they might have been Architects and they might have been artists so I remember Jay getting on a call spending his time wanting to hear exactly what that commit Committee Member wanted to see what is it missing
and those things have been a number of those things really generated good conversation and positive outcomes and they are in this Memorial you will see today I will have Jay and Wayne come take over you thanks Donna good morning good
morning now question is all right we'll do it this we'll do it this this order so yes it it has really been a very rewarding uh process to go through and and I feel like I've got a bunch of new friends now um because we went through
this battle together um and and I think and hopefully everybody will will see the work that's going into it and the importance of this is just I we're just very honored both of our firms are honored to have been uh part of
this uh so just quickly through the things that we're going to talk about we're going to talk a little bit about the process this idea of a design control document so what you're going to see now is really what's going to go out as part of that RFP package so we're
taking it up to this point this design control document now the hard work happens uh where that's going to go out for you know RFP and uh people are are going to make submissions on that um we'd like to have your input on this as
well because we've talked a lot with this committee we've talked a lot with the public but we haven't had a lot of direct response from you guys so again we're looking forward to your uh responses and uh and also any input and then and then we're going to talk about
um next steps so just quickly on our process this is like a 5D design process that we always talk about it starts with desire then we go through Discovery design discussion and then finally documentation so uh we kind of followed
these steps as we went through um from the standpoint of desire that's one of the most important things and one of the things that rapael and Dr schoer did early on with the committee they came up with the mission for the memorial so I
tend to try not to read uh PowerPoint slides but I'm going to read these because I think there was a lot of word smithing that went into this and and really this desire this Mission this is how we test the Design
Concepts and ideas from do they me meet all these individual pieces so uh number one Sanctuary Tranquility healing reflection and contemplation so do all the design moves do they reinforce
that um probably most importantly remembering the 49 whose lives were taken in a culturally and linguistically sensitive way recognizing their identities from multiple backgrounds and sexual orientations educating on the impact of
pulse on the community and the world love hope and acceptance resilience moving forward through adversity and then a voice for all those affected that's the survivors First Responders as well um and and
finally and and most importantly honor and celebrate the lives that were brutally taken on June 12th 2016 so so that's those are the those are the criteria that we look through so that that was the desire so from a discovery standpoint now we're into kind of
physical design things um we did a side analysis we looked at Design Elements and we measured preferences with through some exercises with the committee members so from a side analysis uh I think everybody is familiar with the site so it's you know it's one acre but
this is also not just the pulse site but also the the site that is uh you know to the West that's going to be acquired by the city uh which actually has a a a pretty important component to it that's going to help us with the uh with
parking with interpretation and those types of things um go ahead r y thank you Jay um also what we did is we um put some technology to this um um we had to prove uh that things actually do work on this site everyone understands that
Florida has a a very challenging climate especially in the summer and um as you know the date is a summer time and so we started to take our technology apply it to the site and really started to understand um what makes this site work
both from sound um which you'll see in the number two slide um really how Orange Avenue affects how you feel in that space and so we really started to mitigate that through design in addition temperature and Sun daylight hours were also important to the study so we came
back with all of these studies presented them to the uh committee got their feedback and and what we'll present is based on this technology and some of the findings that we found great um and and then we talked about Design Elements one of the exercises
that we took uh the committee through and I I I do want to stress that that these this design has really has their fingerprints on it it has been um you know we're the we're the professional designers but it really is interpreting the things that they've said the things
that they liked into it so I think we had it in a way we had the easy part um but um but it was kind of easy um was C but but but it was very engaging and there was a lot of honesty and trust
throughout which is that I think that was key and that was built through that early work before we as the designers got on board but so we we ran them through some Red Dot Green Dot exercises what you kind of see on here so um you know those are the types of things that
you're trying to get a feel for what should this place look like and those were cold down we we went over four hours eight hours I think we had 16 boards full of those sheets and so they went through a lot of uh a lot of images and and then and then we did several
iterations excuse several iterations of design back and forth and as Donna said they would come up with ideas we'd respond to it either the next day or the next month um but so essentially we start out with three Design Concepts uh
that were very uh very rough and then uh finally kind of landed up on on one of them which was this drawing that you see right there and we've got some of the other images uh that with their dots on it in terms of preferences on there as
well and then that ended us uh to what we really ended up as kind of the uh I'll say consensus conceptual design although it continued to be refined as we went through so a little bit of orientation
now how do I get the laser pointer to work on this there we go hold on I got oh fantastic thank you um so so essentially just so everybody
everybody know this is this is orange we've got um Kaye across the North and then Esther Street on the south um so essentially this is the pulse site right here and and then this is that other piece that we're uh that
we're picking up as part of the design um but essentially in terms of the overall organization of the site this outline and you'll see this throughout that is the main Memorial and that's in the footprint so we're we're
respecting the footprint of the building so that that paved area that you see right there is the footprint generally in the location of the Dance Floor there's a reflection pool um but what kind of w all of this is this what we we're calling the angel ellipse and so that's
kind of like an organizing element that takes folks from kind of the parking area and what we'll call the visitor Pavilion uh and this is there's an existing building on site that we're going to renovate and so that'll have interpretive indoor types of exhibits
and such and then this walkway which is a covered walkway kind of Embraces the entire area and we're envisioning um interpretive elements along uh this ellipse which has 49 columns on it representing the 49 lives
that were lost but either those could be inspirational quotes or we've got uh interpretive pieces that could could follow along that um and and then we've got Gardens on the outside but everything inside this is really where
kind of the main Memorial spaces are um so that's kind of the over all design and then from a documentation standpoint I already touched on that this is really about putting together this design control uh document so looking at this
in 3D this is kind of a in that design control document that RFP if you will that goes out it's going to be set up by these various zones so now we'll go into a little bit deeper detail on each of these zones starting from up here at
kind of the parking area in the visitor Pavilion working our way uh ultimately uh to the to the memorial site itself why do you want to start with this sure parking plaz and then go through the building as well yeah with the inclusion of this new site and
building um we thought it was a great opportunity to to Really allow people to park and to enter the site from um the side of the building um we also know that there are items and articles that um don't stand the test of time in the weather
we felt this would be a great building to start housing the things that were important uh to PS to the memorial and people could park on the street they can park a handicap can park in the yellow area enter the building see some history um we also have some technology that
we'll hit on a little bit later that will happen in there and explain some of the things that will go on and then also um the building itself is a standard block building with a pitched roof um we do see the ability to actually reclad that or to reinterpret
the building in a way in which respects the memorial but also tells you that you're here and so those were two important wayfinding items um before you actually walk into the pulse Memorial itself and so the visitor Brazilian zone
is what we're calling it and once again air conditioned lit uh manned um it would have various things that could happen in there we heard a lot from the committee a lot of ideas that could happen inside of there and in our design control document we would list all those
things yeah and this these bullet lists are kind of like the overall design components but we will not read all those for you today uh once again um an interpretation um based on uh on some input from the
committee um this is a a vision of what it could be um but also it is left up for the design team that that is selected to prepare this Vision yeah oh we wanted to open uh we we do want glass once you go out to the site you'll see a pretty uh heavily
blocked building but we do think it's um important that you open it up it'd be inviting you come into the space and you feel comfortable in that space yeah go for it um and then in addition to that um we did want to connect the uh walkway the
path to the Pavilion itself um to really start to lead you on the journey great so um when we move from that now get into that Survivor common the survivors common sight zone so you can see the in the graphic that's up there
that's the area inside the ellipse and adjacent to the memorial so um you know one of the things that happens out there on site today is that is that groups family members they get together to meet on site so you don't necessarily want to
be in the memorial but to have a green space that's still enclosed within that ellipse but isn't open space a a it's a a parklike space where people can have Gatherings they can sit they can contemplate but it's outside of of the
memorial itself so one of the things that we we spent some time on on the on the survivors Commons is how do we how do we actually celebrate them so adjacent to the memorial but outside of the memorial
again that Memorial site is kind of like the building so outside of that we're repres presenting that Survivor common and so there will be some kind of plaque um an area again for SE seating and contemplation outside of the memorial
proper um and then again that that nice park-like space and so we're even thinking about recycling or reusing some of the things that are out there for the temporary Memorial some of the seating elements that were placed out there now I think it's shows sustainability but it
also helps tell that history of even the pulse Memorial I also think um you added some trees in in that view to help for the shading yeah well and and there's a lot of uh actually some good trees that are there already but then we're adding
landscape as well again trying to be climatically sensitive uh because we all know that uh you know the Summers can be brutal uh uh for us as we kind of move along that angel ellipse uh one of the things that that became real important
was kind of a private Gathering area so the private Gathering area is a is a place where the family members can come like go to the side um kind of be off the path but have a place where they can kind of uh
celebrate uh and and to remember uh you know the angels that have been lost uh one of the things that I think they the committee members had seen on other uh on other memorials that they studied was a place where you could actually Place
momentos in the site and so the the little graphic on the bottom that is essentially showing that we would have 49 spots places underneath in this kind of like if you look at this wall and seating area this is a view inside of
that area that there would be like sectioned off places of that that they could put momentos of their loved ones and then that would be sealed in for perpetuity um but so it would be part part of uh part of the monument thank you Wayne Y and and again this area is
is almost Chapel likee um uh from the standpoint of bringing in that color but and and one of the tricks is that that we want this to be a private area but we also want it to have transparency from this from a safety perspective so you want to be able to to see into that area
but again a more intimate space that a small group could get together and and we did talk a lot about Safety and Security and we'll get to that too yeah yeah um the angel ellipse again we talked about that kind of that
organizing uh element that goes across the entire site one of the important things again there's 49 of those of those columns uh that start once you pass the visitor Pavilion like uh so what you'll see here these thin columns
those will be out by the parking lot those aren't the feature columns this is more of a look at those feature columns and again we think that there can be messaging interpretation on there we're actually still looking an option where it may actually be the angel's name so
there's a couple of things that we still need to resolve uh again trying to respond to the committee members uh comments so uh but again a very nice area the way these columns are arranged it provides for kind of a loued view in
so it really they kind of help screen that area off of Orange Avenue um it also baffles baffles the noise from the road as well so we thought that was really important as we work through the design yes absolutely and this on on this is the Orange Avenue Front Edge
again we saw from that side analysis that the noise really impacts that so the idea was to put some transparent glass panels along that edge does two things number one it helps a lot with the sound when we ran the uh the sound
model with these in place it really kind of helps take that sound away but it also then provides that color again the the committee I think we got beat up the first time because it everything was white there was no color so uh again so
so as it evolved as a team putting these ideas together uh we really found some very creative ways to to incorporate that the the rainbow colors into uh the memorial uh this is a night view of that angel lips again lots of opportunity for
lighting we do believe that this is going to be accessible uh 24/7 not the visitor Pavilion but there will always be access people were coming from out of town they they want to stop by it all the time so uh we think that that
nighttime effect and Ambiance is super important uh and from a security also we envision that there will be cameras out here as well uh or again for 24/7 access uh the healing garden zone this
is that zone between the totally public space uh you know on Esther and then that more private space inside the ellipse and then eventually getting into the memorial itself so so we're we're creating these zones as you as you come
in again a nice landscaped space shade trees seaing so that you can kind of be outside before you make your way in because it is kind of an emotional sequence as you are approaching the center of the of the memorial itself and and I think we even we even heard from
the committee about being able to come off the path emotionally you may need a space that you can decompress before you got on the path and we felt this was a great opportunity for that absolutely absolutely um and then uh we did want to
address Esther Street itself um and so this is kind of like the overall view so so again you can see this is that kind of that loued view so from Esther which is a more quiet street you can see in it becomes more opaque on a long Orange
Avenue but um but again this allows you to see a new streetcape a long eser uh currently there's curb cuts and a small sidewalk and so we wanted to clean that up uh along this edge with Street trees and New Street lighting so this is this
is the the look along Esther uh the other thing that uh we did by cleaning this up because there's curb cuts that are no parking zones there's uh basically controlled like 15-minute parking there today and so we do think
that um this the parking lot that we've got up by the visitor Pavilion is very small we it's primarily handicapped we'll get a couple other spaces in there probably but so most of the folks uh will be parking out here on Esther we believe so by cleaning up that
streetscape we can get uh some additional uh parallel parking that again would be time restricted to an hour or whatever the the the city operations decides um moving out to Orange
Avenue uh this is this is that look from Orange Avenue and again you can see those colored panels that that are helping attenuate the sound that are also like Pro progressing those those colors we've got kind of the what we called prism Plaza to the left right at
that corner because you got great views Northbound on Orange Avenue it really opens up it's easy to see from this side uh so we thought that that was important the pulse sign we had a lot of discussions about the pulse sign itself
and and it's just it it is not built it's already if you if you look at it closely it's already starting to deteriorate and so we're looking at replacing with that with some type of Monument uh that still has the pulse logo on it
doesn't say pulse on it uh because that was a big identifier A long orange Avenue so we wanted to take that we think that sign as it sits today though would be great in that visitor Pavilion and again that could be lit up so that all that glazing the glass that you saw
at the front it could be sitting in that area again we haven't gotten into that detail but that was one of the thoughts we had about preserving that sign which is so important uh to the folks who this this was essentially their this was their party place this is where a lot of
people uh made a lot of friends took took their loved ones so it it it's an important place in the in the community this is another look at that kind of prison Plaza uh and again this was another one of the the later things where it was like I'm not getting the
cultural uh represent representation on the plan and so one of the thoughts was to do this court of flags out on that prison Plaza and and I think it's a very strong uh identifying look for here as well because uh I think it's nine
various countries of origin for the for the folks who were uh who were taken uh so it's important to include that and I thought that was a a good way to do that this is that that look out at at night again how this presents itself at night
is extremely important um with that we'll move into the memorial site itself um there's two pages of bullets on that that that I won't read but this is kind of this is the view uh kind of from above this is
looking like if you're kind of hovering over Orange Avenue so what what I'll point out again is that is you've got this line which is essentially that is the footprint of the pulse building where it sits today um so
the comp components we have the reflection pool here we have a water wall tribute wall along this Edge so that does a couple things number one um that's one of the options for where we put the names but also it
separates the pulse Memorial from the adjacent land use which is that auto uh kind of service place so we really want to uh separate ourselves from that so this is a great way to do that because it brings people close to that edge
but again they can't see all all the stuff that's going on uh next door um and then we've also around this Center Court area very simple very clean we've got seating that's in there as well as seating on this reflection Pond it
itself um and this is one of those again a very a very collaborative space one of the committee members uh wrote out a quote for us and and and after the me meeting said this this quote was important uh to us and
it's for all those who just wanted to dance and that went out right after the post Memorial and and it really kind of like led us in a whole different design Direction you know how do you actually do this and so what we've done on the
Water Wall the the idea on that water wall was to actually have a token for each of the each of the folks uh who were taken uh but one of the thoughts is could they be shoes as representative in like a
dancing form because again the individuals this is also about moving on right and it's and and so they were at Pulse for that joyful time so are there ways that we can represent those individuals in that we've we've since said it may not be all these shoes it
may be something else that represents that individual but we're pretty confident that with the technology that we we've got right now if there's a mo a momento that you could scan that in and then cast that into a more permanent material on each of these what what all
what we'll call shelves now what what's depicted here are shoes we've said that the shoes don't want to be static like that so they could be in different kind of forms but but I think it would be very personal it also talks to that that
idea of dancing and then on each of those shelves you you can see that you would have the shoe or the other momento place for flowers the angel's name as well as a flag for their country of origin so and again we don't know what
the final design of that is going to look like but that is the idea and so that that that when you're on that wall so there's water that's running behind that and again that's got noise to it which again helps with the mitigation of the sound but also is that is that kind
of peaceful regenerative uh feeling of water um here's another view um at the at the far end is uh what we called the obisk at that at that point in time it was representing the holes that were uh
created that allow the people who were inside to get out of pulse building uh that's that's another option that we're going we we have a couple options still that are uh going on that that design piece is not fully resolved you want to say anything on it no I think you got it
all right and then here here's a look at the reflection uh reflection pool with water wall to the right and the seat wall so again a very contemplative space we've got trees on the inside of this to provide shade as well and again with the
more permanent harder shade on the outside on that Angel's ellipse uh and then this is kind of looking back kind of towards Orange Avenue of that space uh again this would be a night uh a night shot um and the reflection pool
the idea on the reflection pool is it would actually be very shallow so the water would be very close to you so if you were sitting on those walls you could you could touch that water as well so again you're very close to it um and then we were talking about kind
of that Obelisk so and again this is that working together with the committee uh people weren't comfortable with it there's a lot of discussion do we actually save a piece of the wall of the building that has those breaches in it which is represented in option three and
we could save that right in place and then option two was kind of took the idea of that Obelisk but moved it to that primary pathway that leads out to the Survivor common so people who were in the memorial would actually pass
through that Gap to the survivor's common so again you're in the memorial where where the event took place but then you passed through out to that survivors common so there's there's certainly a sense of a portal uh with
that and so those two ideas are still uh you know yet to be uh yet to be totally resolved but um that will happen as we go into the next phases here's a here's a look at that uh kind of the the portal
uh the portal idea and then this is if if we were to take that actual wall as it stands I mean we we would have to do preservation on it because it's going to be exposed to the elements but it it's it's uh something you could
do um the the on the bottom of this you can see that that the committee we didn't reach a definitive consensus um on this but uh I'll I'll add tra and mental health uh consultants and and and this was kind of
what we talked about we expressed concern about the traum traumatic effects of leaving that wall in place we we had a tour and and saw it and and again it's very emotional and jarring and so that's that's ultimately um one
of the things that does need to be uh be resolved and the design build team uh will they're going to explore uh explore that as we get towards 30% design and then that would come back to the committee so those
options um and then the Angel's names and and so what I presented was the the the water wall with the shoes uh one of the other ideas that they that the committee or some of the committee men certainly wanted us to
explore was using those 49 columns as the actual uh spot so this was the angel's name which we've gone through that so this would be an alternative for the angel's name so in my mind we would still have the water wall but we would
take the the the shoes off um and then each of these uh columns the 49 signature columns would have an individual's name there and we'd have seeding incorporated into that so again there's pluses and minus to each of
those but much like that ovalis I think that that needs to be refined uh further as we get into into the design Pro process and we did decide not to have both right so so you don't want them in both locations you want it to um be in one location it adds to the
importance of it so so the committee and all of us to decide so that's why we have options but not both correct but the water wall could still be there but with that with the phrase on it um again so it would still be an effective piece we would just take the names off the
water wall um I I think do you want to hit technology interpretation technology I know you did so uh so so um we did talk a lot about the existing pulse building and what it means and and what it means
on site um we also looked at um design ideas that were better U from us without it there and one of the ideas that we have is that you can light R scan this building um we can preserve it digitally
you can pull it up anytime you'd like on your phone or your iPad but also in The Visitor Center or the visitor area you could also U bring that up similar to Jimmy Carter's house you can see that anywhere in the world you could also see the PSE building the existing building
anywhere in the world so we thought this was a good opportunity to preserve it um and always to have it yeah and and I'll just add again it was very uh emotional I mean I think for the committee this was probably one of the hardest things is do we keep the building or do we take
the building down and so again I thought that this it it will be preserved digitally forever um Wayne did some assessment with some of his yeah Architects and it's just it's it's very difficult to keep it there the building wasn't made to stand a test of time so
to speak um you know this is a 100 200 300 year Memorial and the building that's in place is is a retail building not designed to be 2 3 400 years old without considerable preservation constantly happening I
think we also looked at other things on the site that made it um favorable for the design yeah yeah and again this is also when we talk about the technology and the interpretation it's it's really important to have that security
uh cameras in place and and also to have lighting again for that 247 uh operation of the site itself and then also event power um audio on the site as well music is an important part part of pulse so we think that having music on the site is
going to also be important long term and so that's kind of the overview of the site and the design and with that we've got a little uh little video that kind of gives you a a look at it um you know and again you can see that angel ellipse
uh that kind of encompasses the entire uh the entire Memorial area this is kind of a good view where you could see the commons as it Rel relates to that area prism Plaza and the flags um and and I should should really say Wayne and
I get the credit but each of our firms have a full team who's worked very hard on this and you also see the outline of the building that we we put in multiple colors with a tile pattern to the exact outline based on the the drawings yeah and again that's one of the things that was
suggested uh you know by I think I think Tommy I think that was your idea to put the tile mosaic around uh the footprint of the building so and then and then this is you know passing through the memorial out into the into the
commons we do think having the date uh in a prominent position again this is going to be determined based on that final uh final design of of the obisk or the or the portal we tried to capture all the important
parts in this video so you get a sense of scale and size and meaning in space um which is really important um to any Memorial so we we tried to capture this with not just the still but with the animation too and then Jay did mention this wall and
how it blocks the site behind it but it creates the backdrop for the uh location of the pulse building there is a Arbor above that to shade folks that may stand under it um to provide shading uh from the
Sun I think that's the end of the video so um but with that I think we're going to turn it back over to Heaven yeah the passing the passing of the remote we got really good of that going through okay thank you Wayne and Jay
your contributions were really incredibly impactful to this entire process so now that the committee has finished their work what's next next week we expect to release a design build RFP and typically that's about 30 days in our city process we're actually going
to release that for 90 days to allow for hopefully some additional um Outreach and to really solicit um a top-notch um design build um firm um after that we are expecting that the rankings and the contract for that will come to council this summer and
we've also committed that to the committee to stay up to date on this process so at the 30 and 60% design marks we'll be bringing the committee back together for a public update we are hopeful that on this timeline construct or design will commence um next summer and that we can
um commence construction the summer of 2026 which is the 10year mark since the tragedy with completion the second half of 2027 a cost estimate was not done as part of the conceptual design process but the committee and the designers were
aware of the city's funding commitment and considered that as they were creating designs as well as the directive to create a design that had minimal maintenance cost we know there'll be some maintenance but we wanted to minimize that maintenance cost just for ongoing operational considerations the city has committed
7.5 million for the design and construction of the memorial and we're having early conversations with other public and private partners for additional funding considerations one funding source is the state legislature there is an appropriation request being sponsored by our delegation members that
represent the poll site in the house and the Senate so representative eskamani and Senator Smith they um it's approximately $400,000 and this funding was originally appropriated by the legislature in 2019 and we are seeking the reappropriation of this money to go to the city of
Orlando this money initially went to the one pulse foundation and was returned when they um dissolved So based on these ongoing conversations mayor Dyers directed staff to put a total budget for the designed build in the RFP of $12 million for the design that you've seen
today additionally when the one pulse Foundation was dissolving they were preparing to sell the property behind the pulse site that you saw was incorporated into this design anticipating that there would be a need for that property as we built this Memorial a local businessman agreed to
purchase this doctor's office property so the city could utilize this property as it was doing the design if needed we anticipate we will bring the purchase of this property to council this summer with a the commitment of purchasing it for what the businessman purchased it from um the one pulse
Foundation I'd like to thank um we've done a lot of thank yous we haven't thanked our translators who have been with us since the very first press conference we had four at every meeting but two of them Denise and Richard were with us in every meeting they're here somewhere in the back they've been instrumental in this process I'd also
like to thank the city staff there have been so many departments that touch this project from Communications to Economic Development to public Works legal the clerk's office and Multicultural Affairs we couldn't have done this project and this process without all of those
departments working together I'd again I'd like to thank the 18 members of the memorial committee it's really hard to put into words just how powerful it was to watch this group do their work through such a difficult and emotional process they
really put their personal feelings aside and really focused on honoring the 49 victims and it was really just an honor and a privilege to be able to have the opportunity to watch them do their work and because of their commitment recognize them all again but because of their commitment I believe
that we have a meaningful Memorial design concept that will pay tribute to the 49 angels that were taken from us on June 12th and at this time we will take any questions okay thank you for that
presentation and again um I'm so pleased with the result of and where we're at and I'm pleased that we're going to be able to get this completed prior to me no longer being mayor um it's important to me in that
aspect as well uh okay thoughts comments commissioner Shen thank you mayor Dyer and um Heather I too would like to thank all the employees who were there from the very beginning when this happened when I first got here there was a group of employees who were open who were not
openly gay who were closeted because they didn't have protection and to see the change with with applying the protections for city employees to seeing City Employees leaving their desk for months to help at the assistance
center and through all this process is inspiring and I want to thank every one of you who did that because you have not been properly I don't think thanked for that and I just want to say thank you to everyone who was part of this because it wasn't just the gay employees it was
everyone across the spectrum of employees and I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and I really do feel that that's the reason why we're able to raise $32 million that directly benefited the families and the victims of this massacre and it was very very
critically important work so thank you for that um to Catalyst and Baker baros beautiful beautiful work um you know this is kind of emotional for me because this brings up a lot and again Heather thank you because I needed some space and time to heal myself I got to know 38
of the 49 families who lost someone and it was a very difficult time so thank you for the committee to taking it to the next level because in the beginning Mar D and I had to be the voice for the voiceless and then you have t found your voice and brought it forward so thank
you to every one of you who served thank you so much and Nancy for your cultural competency and for insisting on everything to be in Spanish that's that was critically important to this process so thank you for that as well for everyone who who who who you know was
was part of that um again I think it's important to emphasize that we just got this property a year ago none of us on the council you know um benefited at all from one pulse as a matter of fact they kind of messed things up for us and now
we have to move forward um again to the committee your respectful representation and caring and taking a very difficult and emotional situation and moving it forward in a way that was respectful because a lot of these conversations were not easy especially about you know
we take the building down do we leave the building all those kinds of things I know we're very emotionally fraught um I personally still struggle with this idea of leaving one of the walls because I kind of feel like this is a this is a sar in our community and we need to move forward and tear it down but you know
that's just my own feeling from having been there from you know from day one um and um I also just want to say that there should be no admission fee for this there should be no perception of any
profit for anyone because I think that's part of the horrible um things that happened at one pulse was that they wanted to make this a tourist attraction and to profit from it that was disgusting and that this needs to be a respectful free space where people can
come and and and pay tribute and respect um to the those who were lost um I like the reusing of the seating elements because those were all donated a lot of the things that what people don't realized that inim Memorial was not something one pulse Foundation paid for
that was the goodness of the community that came forward and donated so to take some of those elements I think is important because they were Community donations um and um I think that the flags of the
countries again is very very important this someone who worked with you know Latin communities ever since I work for the Department of Agriculture flags of origin are very very important to people and I think that's a very culturally competent um way to do that
um I think that we need to be sensitive with the interior and exterior views of the building um that they not be maab again with this wall I think that we need to be respectful and not um
give in to people who have a maob interest in this that needs to be respectful and decent and loving the way that we responded um to this after this happened and um again I just want to thank everyone who's been involved Donna
all of you Dr schoer oh my God the stuff you had to put up with um the anger and then and and and also um Raphael you all you had a really hard job to do because there was a lot of anger and a lot of that anger got to Ed at you and mayor Dy
and I got a lot of that too but um anger is part of the cycle of grief and you did an amazing job um navigating that so thank you for your for your work so again everyone every to every city employee to everyone who was
a part of this thank you from the bottom of my heart I've been openly gay I ran for office as an openly gay person I never thought that this would be something that I would ever ever deal within my career as a public servant um but I want to thank you for allowing our
community to deal with this in a respectful decent and loving manner thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you commissioner commissioner Stewart mayor I can't add much more of that to commissioner Shen but except to say that that I appreciate your
sensitivity to it personally and commissioner Shen appreciate your sensitivity to it as well um this is a uh challenging issue and the city comes in essentially late in the process for no challenge except that people couldn't
accomplish what they wanted to accomplish and we now we're not stuck with it um and I think that we have been um uniquely sensitive to it and I appreciate that he thank you for your leadership and those who have been involved from the very beginning thank
you for uh um your comments thank you for what you've accomplished um and uh and look forward to continuing to have you accomplish much of the work that we need to still do uh this um is not going
to be completed uh even when the construction is done uh because the healing process is a long long process and uh and our city is committed to inclusion and healing and I want to tell you how much I appreciate that from
everyone involved so I'm not going to duplicate all those that Patty said but Patty thank you very much for what you said and how you said it thank you okay I guess one final thought it looks like the way the conceptual design
was constructed that if we ever did acquire the uh whatever that side is the car detailing space next door that that could be incorporated in some fashion in the future if we needed to or had the ability
to that's head nodding yes you thought that yes mayor we could absolutely accommodate that yes in the design okay well wonderful work by everybody and we are deeply appreciative um no further comments then
we will stand adjourned as to our meeting and we do have an agenda review meeting so we'll take a two-minute break here and let people retire to the retunda that don't really want to be in the agenda review meeting [Music]
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e n all right good afternoon and welcome to the March 24th meet uh February 24th meeting of the Orlando city council um we're going to begin today's proceedings with the
invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance LED today by commissioner Stewart commissioner thank you if you your heads with me please Lord we are gathered here this afternoon to do the work of your hands we The Gather to combine our limited
wisdom and knowledge into a greater purpose of serving your city of Orlando we the gathered to voice your concerns and worries and in a time of apprehension we are gathered to draw strength from each other a strength that will guide our city
together we are gathered to seek consensus on the matters of the city and most importantly we are gathered to serve during this time lord we ask that you quiet our hearts so that we can hear from you and listen for your guidance we
are grateful for those who are gathered in this place or participating through our Electronic media and Lord we ask your contined blessing on our mayor our counsel our staff and our constituents that we seek the prosperity of our city we ask that you bless us time
together then we will leave this meeting renewed with your strength to go out and serve our great City it's in your Holy Name that I pray amen amen pledge leaders to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay Madam Clark would you call the role and make termination of a quorum please commissioner gray here commissioner Ortiz I'm here commissioner Stewart here
commissioner Sheen here interim commissioner Rose here commissioner Burns here mayor Dyer here mayor you have quum with all members present thank you madam clerk first order businesses consideration of minutes from the agenda RW and city council meeting uh February
the 10th 2025 motion by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner Rose all in favor indicate so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries okay we have no Awards presentations or recognition so we'll move right into the
mayor's update and on behalf of our city council and our city as a whole I want to send our love and condolences to the family of state senator Geraldine Thompson we've truly lost a great public servants and a civil rights icon or
leadership and advocacy were so impactful in shaping a more inclusive Orlando and in helping our city recognize and celebrate Black History not just in February but year round so Senator Thompson's dedicated service will never be forgotten if we could just
hold a moment of silence for her thank you you know every single weekend it seems like we just have so much going on in and around downtown Orlando we had a Showcase of events this weekend from Orlando City Soccer kicking
off Magic game but we had some great festivals a MERS and the wetlands Festival out at the Wetlands Park we had ballet going on at Stein Mets we had Nashville kns going on at Judson so if you couldn't find something to do this weekend you're just um not looking very
hard so it's great to have all these diverse attractions that highlight the energy and creativity and Hospitality of our community that's all I have today so hopefully you guys will follow my lead on that short um update but we will move
on the consent agenda and uh the consent agenda is a number of items that are acted upon through a single vote of council we give each of our council members an opportunity to update you on important happenings from their District as well as comment on items on the consent agenda we rotate the order that
we do that and today first up is commissioner Stewart thank you mayor and in conclusion let me say perfect commissioner sh second that's what uh mayor Langford always said I want to start with in conclusion a couple quick things thank you for your comments about
uh about Senator Thompson uh Geraldine I shared um with some notes most importantly Geraldine was my friend and was a friend to everybody in our entire community and for that I am deeply deeply grateful and our community will miss her um we had a uh couple things going on
this past weekend and you mentioned those things mayor but also we had the wetlands Festival so if you ever want to learn about how waste water is processed it was a great place to go to learn that uh it was a great time thank you Public Works staff I got a chance to go out there and visit with them I love going
out there and doing that and to uh Cole n Smith on the work of of uh A M I will tell you that I had a friend of mine who was in town and she was staying downtown and wasay downtown Saturday night and Sunday night and she um so what is going
on downtown Orlando I said it's a thing called immersed I said then you go back over just kind of walk through and see what you think and by about 10:00 I had gotten three or four photographs and wrote back this is awesome and so uh I think we've had see a lot of what's
going on with our community and I just love it a couple quick things coming up Saturday is the uh opening day of little league uh started with the Northland kuas over in the otton Park area uh it's also the 100th birthday of College Park
that we celebrating this sun this Saturday evening over at Dartmouth Park if you haven't got your tickets Please go to college park history.org or look it up on your Google um I also want to share a special
u u I'm grateful to to a special person who's since passed on her name is Grace Hagadorn Grace was came into our community background of Journalism came in about 35 years ago in College Park fell in love with the history of College
Park and was uh really um um uh the impetus behind a lot of things that we have done over there uh she passed away a few weeks ago and her celebration of life is coming up on March 9th and then get ready for the Florida League of cities action days are going to be the
24th through the 26th we'll be uh working together Tony and I will be up there walking around and trying to get people to understand the role that Cities play in our community and in following your lead mayor I've gone through the agenda I'm I'm happy to support it I have nothing more to add
thank you commissioner commissioner Shen thank you mayor Dyer just on just quickly on the agenda today uh we're having a monument that's going to be donated by Peter Duke it's a donation and we're going to be putting it over in fesal park so thanks to the fpr staff for putting some I always bring them something a little weird and a little
nutty but uh you know we're going to put something cool over in F Park um I too want to Echo the sentiments about Senator Geraldine Thompson um she was a true public servant um when we were trying to get the land for Lake Yola Park she actually drove us up to
Tallahassee we were trying to get Florida Florida forever funding and she went with us got up at 6 o'clock in the morning took us to Tallahassee got us to the front line and uh unfortunately we didn't get any money out of that but um that just goes to show you she would she was not afraid to get up early and and
go fight for funding for us and she was just a lovely person and also was you know understood that civil rights and and equity and you know diversity Equity inclusion was for everyone and she was just a wonderful human being who will be very missed by this community um I
really enjoyed imers this weekend it was wonderful I really did immerse myself in it and uh it was really cool and so magical for the kids I was on the butterfly swinging these two little girls came up and they asked if they could swing with me and I said sure we just were swinging away and these little
kids were just mesmerized because the wings changed colors and it was just amazing and it was just so cool to see that from the eyes of children and they were just really enjoying themselves and the same thing with the daytime fireworks at leiola the kids were just mesmerized and uh it's great to be able
to to see people of all ages enjoying that Cole and year and your team just really did a wonderful job and it was a a great experience over the weekend I hope we can continue to uh to support this because it was phenomenal and we loved having you know not just in downtown but also having some activities
over at Lake old park as well and that's all I have Mar thank you thank you commissioner commissioner Rose so uh I think commissioner Burns and I'll make up for y'all time down there um I also like to um Echo the sentiment and send my condolences to Senator Geraldine Thompson and her family I want to
encourage everyone I want you to continue to visit the Wellsville in her Legacy and in her honor um for those that I wanted to share her services will be at Majestic life her viewings this Thursday from 3:00 to 5:00 and her funeral services at Majestic life on Friday at 11: um
it's been a great month of black history celebrations and I want to take the time to thank Luis Martinez and U Marcia hope Goodwin for the great work that they've been doing um we've had Bank of America sponsored a gospel show at New Covenant we had the unveiling of the artists down
downstairs in the retunda and then on this Wednesday if you're available come out downtown Orlando Partnerships is going to in partnership with the credit union is going to be doing a meet theart artist from 10: to 1200 this Wednesday um I want to thank uh the parks
department for continuing to um take on the project that I requested with making sure all parks have naming uh the history of how with each Park name so this Wednesday at 10:30 meet me at mayor Dy and I at Lizzy Rogers Park would be unveiling the sign and that's going to
be the first of many um thank you for our partnership with Advent Health links American Heart Association and the fire department we now have AED equipment and all 15 of our lyx buses that are in the downtown so this is the opportunity to save
lives I want to thank uh our Orlando economic partnership for hosting a recent luncheon uh for those that don't know travel and Leisure will be our new tenants coming in downtown and we're really excited they should be here before the end of the year so it's going to be a great asset in the
community onto the agenda 3f1 um this is a great opportunity as we continue to increase affordable housing stock here in Orlando on the agenda 3 B2 I'm super excited for Camping World
Stadium construction to begin and that's all I have today mayor thank you commissioner commissioner Burns all right excuse me good afternoon mayor um fellow counsel and thank you all for being here today uh I too wanted
to express my condolences to uh Senator geraline Thompson's um family I had the pleasure of growing up in church with uh Senator Thompson so I saw early on her commitment to her family her church our community uh and and Senator Thompson
was actually the first person that I heard ever mentioned juneth uh and I was in my early 30s so I'm I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I only learned about juneth in my early 30s but through speaking with her she made me recognize how important it was
one for us to commemorate that but also celebrate and teach those behind us because again I was in my early 30s before I found out so she would be truly missed and again condolences go out to her family also as um commissioner uh
Rose mentioned uh we've had some great black uh history events uh the signature event on uh February 11th was great I'm looking forward to the meet the artist event this Wednesday uh at 10:00 a.m. also I had a chance of um participating
in the Orange County Libraries annual African-American reading uh I think this is my third or fourth year it's one of my favorite things to do and I had the uh opportunity to read grandmother's tiny house uh so I I really enjoyed uh
that time also uh opd's Chief meeting uh Chief Smith thank you for hosting uh your district 6 meeting uh we had a great attendance but one of the main things I want to say thank you for uh to the chief is that several of our residents received free uh blink cameras
they're similar to The Ring cameras uh so that was a commitment that the chief made to uh just increase the security but also increase the surveillance that we have uh in our streets so thank you chief for uh for your support in that uh effort also on Saturday I uh had the
opportunity to participate in the early learning coalitions diaper drive at the James R Smith Center uh we collected uh several thousand uh dipers that will be given out to needy uh families in our community also that same day I had a
chance to attend the Tiger Pride day uh this is an annual event celebrating the rich history of Jones High School uh this year was especially is especially significant as Jones high is celebrating 130 years of existence in Mar I know
we're celebrating 150 years of Orlando's existence and it's just uh important to recognize that of those 150 years Jones High has been influencing Orlando for 130 years of that and I do want to recognize Jones high as the oldest high
school in uh Orange County so again we're very proud of what happens at uh Jones High also I was able to represent the mayor as mayor protim at the and bring greetings to the United Negro College Fund mayor's mask ball this was the first annual event so mayor uh thank
you for allowing me to attend in your stad uh and I just want to encourage everyone to uh reach back down and give to scholarship awarding organizations like uncf uh to help our next Generation uh to have the tools and resources to uh
achieve and and pursue a higher education um also this uh on Saturday uh my office supported the West Orange chamber uh Big Orange Awards and I hear it was a a great event some upcoming events I want to ask everyone uh this
Tuesday to watch the Jones High School 130-year documentary uh special tomorrow um Tuesday February 25th uh to be on WFTV at 10:30 uh and I'd like to say thank you to DAR darene Jones from WFT
TV for taking on this incredible task and really endeavoring to um tell about the rich history of the D great Jones High so please tune in tomorrow uh evening at 10:30 also I have my SAT light hours on the 2 and 4th Wednesday
at the El Claudia Allen Center my the next office hours will be uh February 26 and again we have these office hours out in the community to make my office and myself more accessible to our constituents then mayor on the agenda uh
the first one I just like to support uh item 3a2 funding agreement for the homeless Services Network I see uh The Fearless CE president and CEO Martha R and uh uh in the crowd so thank you Martha for the great work you do and this funding will help to coordinate the
disaster preparedness and Disaster Response activities of our homeless response systems also uh item 3d2 the memorandum of agreement between the city of Orlando and ocps uh and I think this is a huge
development for uh several of our fpr programs such as our 21st Century Learning Center Grant which which requires fpr to report on certain educational data points related to the children's academic performance uh
attendance as well as uh disciplinary interventions uh and without this agreement well prior to this agreement they didn't have access to that information so it made reporting the progress of our 21st Century Learning center Grants uh a little challenging because we didn't have all the data but
also our uh My Brother's Keeper program is another program uh that will truly benefit from this uh this agreement uh because again it will allow us to truly evaluate uh this initiative uh but also uh demonstrate our return on the city's
investment so I'm I'm glad to see and I know that fpr and I'm not sure if Lisa is here I know they've been working on that for several years so uh that's a big win Lisa congratulations and then the uh the last thing I had mayor is just item 3 B2 uh the uh advisory
committee r ranking uh and authorizing the chief procurement officer to execute the contract for camping reil with Barton melow Hunt Construction and I just want to say I appreciate their commitment to uh the mwb E goals of 21
24% so they have committed to meet those goals and uh mayor that's all I have thank you thank you commissioner commissioner gr thank you mayor uh I wanted to uh remind everybody this Saturday we have our annual Spring Festival out at the vista Lakes Community think Chickasaw Trail and and
leave Vista Boulevard uh from 11: to 3 uh we'll have everything from petting zoos to bounce houses to performances by the local schools uh we've got over 70 small businesses that will be there presenting their their business Andor service so a good group it's all free uh
we've got good parking right on site so I would encourage everybody to come out this Saturday in the Vista Lakes Community and there's info on my website um on the agenda I want to talk about an item I talked about before and that's item three B5 um I'm going to vote no on that and the reason I am is because it's a
multi-million dollar contract that was not bid and I think we have an obligation to uh to everything that we do to make sure we're getting the best service at the best price and in this case without a bid uh we might be getting one of those two but not both I'm I'm just not sure because we didn't
bid it so since we're spending taxpayer dollars it seems to me anybody of this size contract should have to bid and prove their price and we did not do that so I can't support that one so I'm voting no on 3 B5 and that's all I have mayor thank you thank you commissioner commissioner
Ortiz thank you mayor let me start by give my condolences to Senator Gerald Dean Thompson our family we lost an iconic woman she really understood the pulse of our community and represented
us magnificently so on February 11th uh I had the opportunity to welcome delegates from Colombia Mexico and the Dominican Republic to City beautiful for the 2025 latan trade show this event is a powerful platform for string
strengthening International Partnerships Paving the way for a more prosperous and interconnected future uh I want to thank Miss Belinda kkar the director of the NC for leading this particular event it was an awesome event that same evening um I
had the privilege of attending the crime prevention award ceremony I wanted to congratulate um Ventura Country Club for being awarded the neighborhood watch group of the year I attended the alma International awards at the
council con of Mexico Council of Mexico with the Alma Alliance of world leaders and had the honor of obtaining an award of recognition uh so I want to I'm very thankful to that community on February 13th we proudly celebrated Vicki and
it's funny because they spell it Vicki Bakery it's supposed to be Vicki's Bakery but that's the way they brought it from Miami so we got to stick to it Vicky Baker Orlando's first anniversary marking a full year of serving the Vibrant Community of our beautiful city and District on evening of February 13th
we hosted our uh neighborhood leaders meeting at the do Shores Neighborhood Center where Chief uh sto by uh Chief Eric Smith join us to share a few remarks the meeting cover a variety of important topics including tax except municipal bonds Housing and Community
Development crime prevention economic growth and the growing challenges of homelessness i' like to extend my gratitude to our speaker Sonia cardoval Sonia here doing a great job um housing division manager from the Housing and Community Development
Department and Paul Lewis Chief planning manager from edv for taking the time to engage with our leaders on February 18th I attended Central Florida pledge with mayor buddy Dyer and commissioner Stewart we came together to celebrate um one year of the Pledge
being in existence and particular here we go let's see um the ples a commitment to our community to treat each other in a Humane fashion and respect each other and also stand out for those who are
being either abused or or taken advantage of so it's a great cause and I think we should all join um February 22nd I had the privilege of attending the 2025 uncf mayor Mar mask ball at the
kibba Royale hosted by mayor dings and mayor Dyer with commissioner Burns representing mayor Dyer this impactful fundraiser highlighted the importance of higher education raise awareness of its benefits and pro provided scholarships to Des serving Orlando students on March
4th we start our next government Academy at the training center located at 100 the Salvia way this Academy covers every aspect of government from the federal government to the local government including judicial property appraiser tax collector and a whole nine yards but
in addition to that when you graduate you get a certificate a continued education certificate from UCF with two credit hours so everybody's welcome we start on March 4th at 6:30 and with that mayor I think I move to approve the
agenda second by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner she and all in favor indicate so by saying I I those poos and so the motion carries and we will take a 30 second recess um for those of you who are just here for the consent agenda if
you would like to make your way out okay so we will come out of that recess and convene our CRA meeting 4 a is Advisory board minutes from January 22nd motion by commissioner Sheen second by commissioner Rose all in favor indicate
so by saying I I those opposed motion carries 4B is meeting minutes from the CRA January 27th motion by commissioner Stewart second by commissioner Sheen all in favor indicate so by saying I I those oppos Mion carries and 4C is up to you
David than you may commission home as you all know one of as such this home is doing about
2,739 worth of improvements our program allow them to qualify for thanks that 50% uh of those funds from the CRA uh it did go to our facade Review Committee and they recommended approval the total incentive from the CRA is
$2,869 186 and I am happy to address as any questions motion by commissioner Rose second by commissioner shei in discussion i' just like to say that that that may that the the row family I think half of their family lives in in in in the lakeola Heights neighborhood they're
wonderful people and uh glad to see this this helping regular residents who've made a commitment that the row family I think has lived there for over 50 years so I'm glad to see but we're investing back in people who' invested in downtown so thank you further discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by
saying I I I was opposed and so the motion carries further business David there's not mayor then we will re uh adjourn the CRA meeting we'll reconvene the city council meeting and we will move to hearings and there's we have a charter hearing on the purchase
agreement between the city and creative Village LLC for the sale of creative Village parcel H it's a hearing for the sale of a parcel of city-owned land valued in excess of 500,000 as required by chapter 13 section 7 of the city Charter notice of the hearing appeared
in the Orlando Sentinel on February the 16th 2025 and approval of this transaction requires a majority vote of all members of the city council the property is located in downtown Orlando within the creative Village Development site creative Village Development LLC is
the city's competitively selected Master developer of creative Village and will assign the purchase agreement to an affiliate entity named user development Inc property may be deeded to usler or a single-purpose entity formed by usler to act as the owner developer of the mixed
use project proposed for the site the parcel is approximately 1.2 acres and the purchase price is 2757 million dollar the estimated fair market value of the property is the same at this time we will hear from the
public I understand from the uh from the clerk that we have no request to speak from the public so is there a motion for approval motion by commissioner Rose second by commissioner Stewart discussion hearing none all in favor of
the motion indicate so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries okay that brings us to ordinances first read number one Madam clerk you're up ordinance number 202454 an ordinance of the city council
of the city of Orlando Florida amending the city's growth management plan to change the future land use map designation for certain land generally located north of East Concord Street East of North Mills Avenue south of Hill Crush Street and West of shine Avenue comprised of 0.75 acres of land more or
less from Office low intensity to community Activity Center in part changing the property zoning designation from low intensity office residential with the traditional City overlay to community activity center with a traditional City overlay in part providing for Amendment of the city's official future land use and Zoning Maps
providing for cability correction scers error permit disclaimer and an effective date so moved even though I hate to lose my post office motion by commissioner Sheen second by commissioner Stewart I have no requests from the public to speak on
this matter discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying I I those opposed motion carries right 13B ordinance number 202-6776 rockmont Court as described in
the Edgewater Court plat as recorded in plat book s page 992 of the public records of Orange County Florida and comprised of zero .41 acres of land more or less providing for conditions of Abandonment providing for the execution of affecting documents severability correction discrimin error and an
effective date so Move Motion by commissioner Stewart second by commissioner Rose I have no request to speak on this matter discussion among Commissioners hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I I as opposed so
the motion carries Okay C ordinance number 20257 an ordinance of the city council city of Orlando Florida amending the boundaries of the Bishop Moore plan development zoning District such land being generally located east of Edgewater Drive West of green Avenue and
north of Dow Avenue amending the special Land Development regulations and development plan providing a conforming legal description providing for cability correction of Governor's error and an effective date move second motion by commissioner Stewart second by commissioner Sheen I have no request to
speak on this matter discussion among Commissioners hearing none on favor the motion indicates so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries and 13d ordinance number 2025 d8 an ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando Florida amending chapter
two of the code of the city of Orlando entitled Administration to change certain Provisions in sections 2.44 2.59 and 2.60 regarding public meetings and providing for cability codification correction of scrier errors and an effective date move to approve second
motion by Commission burn second by commissioner shien I have no request to speak on this matter discussion among Commissioners hearing none all pay the motion indicate so by saying I I was opposed and so the motion carries that completes the uh official agenda of the
meeting Ed can you get us ready for General appearance