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[Music] sorry good evening everyone good evening uh welcome to the South Miami city commission Tuesday February 18th 2025 uh the mayor and city manager are still in a meeting that was happening prior to this one and asked me to get
the meeting started so that we could move through but they'll be joining us shortly um we'll go ahead and uh start off with the roll call please yes VI mayor Cory uh present commissioner Bon here commissioner Cay here commissioner
Rodriguez here you have a qu thank you and uh if I could ask everyone to just please uh silence their phones um uh ahead of the meeting all right great um so now we'll stand uh for a moment of silence and then commissioner Rodriguez if you could
say the Pledge that would be great commission Rodriguez flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all yeah this one's that's fine then yeah I'll go ahead and do it all right um why don't we go ahead and go into the presentations uh tonight we have
a proclamation for colorl Cancer Awareness Month um I'll go ahead and uh read this Proclamation into the record U Madame city clerk no no one's here to receive this tonight right no she's not here all right we'll go ahead and I'll just read this into the record then a proclamation colorl cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer death in the United States among men and women combined and cctl cancer is one of the few cancers that can be prevented with timely screening but one in three eligible Americans are not up to date in screening and chorl cancer is estimated
to be the number one cancer killer for those ages 20 to 49 by 2030 and screening uh colonoscopy rates have still not returned to preco 19 levels and the national goal established by the
National colorl Cancer Round Table is to strive to increase timely colorl cancer screening rates to 80% % in every Community for all Americans eligible for screening and the city of South Miami
would like to recognize the Late City of Aventura commissioner Michael Stern as an advocate of fight coloral cancer and their combined efforts to increase awareness and offer education on the importance of early Direction in
screening of colorl cancer and observing a coloral Cancer Awareness Month during the month of March would provide a special opportunity to increase awareness and offer education on the importance of early detection in
screening of coloral cancer now therefore I vice mayor Corey along with my colleagues of the city commission uh commissioner Lisa bonich Steve Cay and Danny Rodriguez do hereby
Pro Proclaim March 2025 as coloral Cancer Awareness Month all right so uh moving through that uh Madame city clerk oh sorry we do have an add-on item
that I would like to defer it was a proclamation for Dr uh uh mayor Dr Anna price uh her family couldn't be here to receive that we wanted to uh name yesterday as uh Dr Anna price day it is her birthday and she recently passed
away but we're going to wait until a future meeting when her family can receive uh the proclamation so uh that is an add-on that I need to defer is there still a process associated with that or no it's not added onto the agenda okay perfect I saw Dr Price's son is online so I just want to make sure he
was aware oh okay yeah yeah yeah I apologize we'll we'll we're trying to push this for a later date so we can present it so um all right so uh moving on uh if we could have the approval the minutes for uh February 4th
2025 I'll move the motion I'll second all right great commissioner cayen yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner bonish yes Vice Cory yes minutes pass 4 zero thank you very much and uh uh city
manager do we have a report today yes we do vice mayor so metr connect powered by via is officially launching in South Miami February 7th it'll be replacing our current provider freebie so all um residents should have received a flyer in their inbox um in
the mail specifically how to register um information about the program that you can find on our City website um and we're going to have an informational session with our active adults in the senior center we're going to have a couple of those so the first one is February 26 at 10: a.m. and we're excited to launch that program on the
event side we have SOI artsfest is presented by rotary Foundation of South Miami that's happening this weekend Saturday Saturday and Sunday on Sunset Drive from US1 to Red Road um another update for you guys on the residential discount parking program since the program launched we now have 310
registrations so it's definitely gaining traction and people are becoming aware that that program is available for them lastly on the manager's report I just want to introduce our two new hires we have Erica verie uh she was hired as the city's grants administrator she brings a strong background in research and
writing she has a PhD from UC Davis we have gas he was hired as the city's administrative services coordinator he has a background in campaign management policy research he's worked with elected officials at both uh state and local level so we're excited to have them both on our team for all the work that we're
going to do and they're here if you have any questions that wraps up the manager's report Wonder thank you and I I just wanted to welcome you and then I'll open the floor to any questions that um the commission might have for the city manager just so you know I did not get it in the
mail so in case somebody else says they did not I have not gotten it yeah yeah just to add to that is there a landing page or something on the website that shows what what the Via and the somic connect and all that stuff's going
to look like so we can start linking I know there was a lot of chatter on Facebook and and Instagram so we just wanted to make sure that we distribute the the information appropriately yeah we have a full landing page on the city website it has the hours how the service works specifically how it serves South
Miami okay um so that's all available on the website perfect thank you uh thank you very much and uh City attorneys do you guys have a report for us today hi good evening vice mayor Commissioners no report today all right thank you no news is good news from the
lawyers thank you um all right so we'll move on to public remarks um actually so it doesn't seem like there's a lot of folks signed up here if if if you do want to sign up for public remarks um is there a sheet in the back right now for okay there is a sheet in the back if
you'd like to sign up for public remarks um right here I have uh Michael Williams how are we gonna wait though come yeah you had to come to the is there oh yeah you have to come to the I'm so sorry do we have the sign up there
too hello everybody hello so what I want to ask you guys what is your definition of a city of a pleasant living what is your definition behind this Podium you you you you you what is
your Miss KRA knows what it is cuz she grew up here but what is your definition of a city of a pleasure live in I really want to know your definition um I can't ask the officer because they're new here just getting here but I just want to hear you guys
what's your thoughts of a city um sorry the format is typically that that you just uh uh speak with us and then afterward we can answer any of the questions that you have the reason why so the reason why I asked
this question because I've been a resident here for a 33 years um nothing about this city right now has been a pleasure to live um the PO the police force is out of control they don't have any funny for
kids to do anything any activities no nothing they're scribing down the programs trying to take housing away this is not not a city of a pleasure living that's the title that we have that's what most people think that this place is but it's turning into a
nightmare and it definitely needs to take a turn because we've been here a very long time we've been here a very long time and these problems that we're facing a lot of these problems can be turned around with the proper management the proper leadership because especially
with this Police Department I don't know what type of leadership that is coming in people neighborhoods telling them they have to go on in the house telling elderly people they have a curfew they don't come into y'all neighborhoods because y'all don't live in our neighborhoods y'all live on the back streets where y'all can live in Sal but
y'all live on the outskirts of Sal manami y'all don't live in the town houses or Hood where we grew up at as a child I had a wonderful childhood now this is a nightmare something has got to be done about this this is ridiculous and it's not here to point
any figures but things need to change things need to change like you have V videos going around of police arresting people snatching people pulling people over for no reason and that should not be allowed cuz everybody is a human being
just because you wear a bash does not mean that you have more power than the next person it's not right and it's not fair and somebody needs to say something and take a stand because this is ridiculous you guys never would have thought you saw all of these people in this room but that's why they're here because city of
South Miami needs to become a city of a pleasure living once again because there nothing Pleasant to live in this city you as an attorney you're going to be fighting a lot of battles and a lot of lawsuits sweetheart if your police department does not get under control
you can sit not you can sit calmly now because you're not facing any now but in the near future I'm here to tell you a person who deals with a lot of lawyers and a lot of attorneys and a lot of police officers you are going to be fighting a lot of cases against your Police Department because it is ridiculous and when you ask them why
they do it they look at at you especially prime example I'm so glad he's in the room this one right here he tells you you know what type of neighborhood you live in what are you saying what type of neighborhood do I live in because according to y'all this is a city of a pleasure living
love so I'm not understanding somebody has to tell me what's going on because me and all the rest of these residents these elderly people can't even sit on their porch anymore the police come around run them oh you have to go in the house you're going to be you going to arrest a 70y old
person sure we we are we we're having the the event this weekend you can't even everybody standing around nobody's being violent they come oh you have to go on the house it's 8:00 you telling adults they have to go in the house at 8:00 nobody's
committing no violence no nothing and then they even go in further is even follow us to the club that we were in to come in to scrip us out of the club like what are y'all doing what type of power do y'all think y'all have helicopters y'all different police
forces the Patty wagons when has sth Mani ever been about that sir sir um thank you for your comments um I'm sure there are other people who like to speak so I'd like to give them the opportunity you can take your time okay so hold on a sec hold on hold on I got
to get from up here these people don't like what I'm saying sir sir sir sir sir sir that's not excuse me please EXC excuse me excuse me just just look everyone's going to get their say who wants to speak we've never denied anyone the opportunity to speak here I'm not
going to about to start doing that so we just need to have some order okay so we can all get our comments heard we just had a we just had a nice meeting with folks who were impact in Lee Park we're going to continue this conversation I'm certainly not not hiding my cell phone is on the city's website you want to text or call me about any concerns you
can do that anytime so if you're going to seed your time all I need you to do is raise your hand if we can have someone actually put your name name down if you wants to speak for 25 minutes we'll give him 25 minutes but I have to keep some order so whoever is going to run this time and gentlemen I'm starting to know your name sir please Micha
Williams I'll take my seat Mr William May thank you Mr Williams and please in the future no clapping what we do is if you want to support the comments we just ask you to wave your hands again just trying to keep some deor thank you so much is there any I have Mr Lee Jacobs is there anyone
else who wants to speak only have I'm surprised I only have two names on this list so okay there's one back there if we can circuit if we can circulate the list please and get it up to me I'd appreciate it okay Mr Lee Jacobs you're recognized and
yeah good evening thank you for listening to me I came here to talk about uh something that's important is about uh drainage problem on on Mango Terrace that
was mishandled I'm afraid but I see that you're having much bigger problems than that and I'd like to speak to that because I had I was really good friends with a man named Richard Ren who lived on 64th Terrace and I saw what he was
how he was treated as a black man and it was terrible and disgusting and very mean but just what was this sir if I can ask h when was this well he died in 2023 so it was before that
okay I so it's something is systemic we're all all us white people have it in us because that's the way we were raised we think that we own the place and I'm uh I'm glad that everyone's here I appreciate it I'm so happy to see that
everyone's here I'm sorry that whatever happened happened and I'd like to see changes happen here and the little thing that I had uh brought up was about
uh a house that was built that's causing flooding and I asked for uh evidence of complaints before the house was built the flooding is just in front of it they're going to fix it by plowing up
two houses on each side and in front of it and across from it so it's obvious that the flooding is caused by that house unless there were complaints about the house flooding before that and uh the thing that it really bothers me is it cost us
$143,000 which is peanuts to you I know but to taxpayers it's a big chunk of money that we're subsidizing the building of that house without our uh our our substandard planning either
that or the house was legally done in some way I'm not saying that it is but if our planning is off we need to fix it and the price that we all have to pay is $143,000 to figure it out so I wrote all of you and asked you to contact me and
none of you did that's not true sir I contacted you we spoke about this again today that's right so yes be accurate Mr May for your and you arranged for me to meet with the I did new Public Works guy I did that and did too the the the B bottom line is
I met with the new Public Works director he says he wants to get the job done fix this flooding they'll fix it but how did it happen it's on Mango Terrace where there's mango trees they don't plant in a swamp so there's good drainage
there uh find out what happened and fix it thank you thank you Mr Jacobs through the mayor yes sir Mr Jacobs Mr Jacobs right before you leave so you contacted us and and you emailed us I emailed you back we spoke and then I emailed you on
Monday the report and I mailed you and I and I emailed you also the complaints that have been filed and the in and and the investigations that were done in 2023 and in 2024 of the drainage that I got at some point up to seven inches on
to but I I I did send you if that's so I didn't see it yeah I I replied back to you I and you have the full report there and that was before the construction of the home that the 2023 I don't know when the home started right 2022 is when it started okay so we we'll get some more followup information Mr Jacobs thank you
so much okay okay okay I've got are we sure I only have one two three four five six seven names is only seven people want to speak to this evening we can if can you please add
your name to the list so I can call you out so let's start with ra Buckner followed by kwanda dpri please if you can't name an address for the record please thank you good evening welcome hi my name is Shel TR Buckner I want to speak on the event
that the thing that happened on Saturday I was the one that was arrested when I was inside my complex okay so this report it says on the listed date
February 15 2025 they have 8 o00 but it was like 8 all going on 8:30 I was in my phone on the listed date and time I was working an event Unity Festival when the
event was over a crowd of a few hundred people had gathered in the streets blocking the roads playing music on speakers and drinking alcoholic beverages and public roads parks and sidewalks when approach and asked to
leave the area the crowd became verbally aggressive and irritated that they were being asked to leave the crowd refused to leave and argued with officers the crowd was continuously asked to leave for multiple hours and
additional units from mdso were requested along with an air unit and a van for from cor Gables PD as well officers from Prim Crest PD while in the parking lot of Lee Park
Condominiums in front of 65 6954 Southwest 68th Street opposite Buckner's home at 6113 Southwest 69th Street an area an area
where South Miami PD has trespass authorization we encountered a large crowd gathered in the parking lot of Lee Park causing a disturbance a sign was posted stating all Miami D and South Miami police officers are authorized
representatives to advise any persons to leave the premises failure to vacate the premises after being instructed may result in an arrest for trespassing after warning after multiple warnings to leave
the area and dispersed the crowd continued to refuse with no other option left and arrest was made under the following circumstances throughout my interaction with Buckner she had slurred speech stumbled
when walking and had a strong order of alcohol admitted off of her and her breath when speaking first of all I was not drunk I was talking perfectly clear like
this and they was behind me talking to me they asked me I don't what's the Poli what's the officer name the one that came up and walked up to me m m whatever I don't know her
name she asked me do I live here I said yes I do live here she said go home I say I am home put your hands behind your back so I said no so I start to walk off I'm walking
off getting away from them she grabbed me and I snatched back and all the police officers just jumped on me and just started trying to put my hands behind my back for one I was not drunk slur speech or staggering if I did
have a slur because my tooth is loose and when I went when they brought me to the station they never asked they never told me the reason they arrested me they never Read Me My Rights they just took me down brought me
to the station tried to ask me my name yes I gave them a false name because you didn't never you never told me the reason why you arrested me what I'm telling you my name for and you don't and I don't even know what I'm being arrested for after that after that I gave them my
first name everyone everyone please I'm giving her extra time I want to hear her story gave them my birth name please keep your voices down thank you sorry to interrupt you yeah after that I gave them my birth name what I was born with shria Jana
Smith I gave them my data births and my social I guess my father called to see what was going on with me and that's how they got my name but all of this I don't know like is tell me something something
like if I'm in my complex and ain't nothing going on it was no fussing no fighting no no nothing people was just out they they was ran inside the gate so all of us is inside the gate why would they come inside the gate to tell me to go in the house why
do I have to go in the house so I'm not trying not to answer your question I don't have the answers we met with your we and I'll just share this to for the public okay we met with the leadership of your board a few minutes ago myself the manager uh our police chief we're we're going to complete an investigation we're going to
sit down and meet with your board give them an accounting and then we'll meet with the community thereafter to kind of share what we understand happened and and again hear from everyone on this issue until we have a resolution yeah and then once I arrested me and took me
to the van and my daughter got my purse off the floor she was you you know and they they grabbed her like get away like y'all arresting her mother how y'all expect her to act she was
crying asking them to let me go and they just snatched her up like she don't even want to be around police officers anymore she don't want to see them understand something needs to be done seriously they were being nasty from the
junk and it's not right thank you for your comments miss quander dpri good evening IIs um my name is p PRI 6105 Southwest 69
Street I've been a resident of the city of South Miami since 1977 I worked at the high school for over 20 years help plan parades after school
care worked on the park half this room it's my students or my parents I am a part of the planning committee for the event that took place on Saturday after the event I stay I was the last one to leave
the park to make sure everything was clear I walked back over to the complex I watched how the officers organized to shut us in and then demanded that we left we went inside of the complex they
told us to go home they told us to get off the sidewalk I stated that I'm in the gate of my home okay what do you want me to do they left I guess to attend to whatever was going on up the street they came
back that's when this young lady got arrested we why are you entering a private property thank you for meeting with us we appreciate the for meetings that we could get to the bottom of what
happened here but those officers that were out there that day we don't know them they don't know us we grew up where we had Community we had relationships with officers they walked through they
throw footballs with our kids our kids ran through there terrified with their hands up saying I thought you're supposed to protect and serve I have a 15y old son that looks
like a grown man and I had an officer going back and forth with him because she don't know us we have to bridge that gap between our communities to where our officers know who's supposed to be in
our gates and who's not supposed to be in there we were treated like animals for at least two hours we were treated like animals they left they came back and still treated us like animals we have to do something about
that so I appreciate your time I don't know where the chief went I appreciate his time and look forward to how we can bridge that Gap thank you for meeting with me earlier and thank you for your comments absolutely Michelle Reen I believe is next followed
by Julius tumer sure thank you uh Julius tumer good evening and again just your name and address of the record thank you sir my name is Julius T and I grew up in this community all my life I just want to say
uh y'all say America was great how can America be great when it was always one-sided it was never divided where everybody could come together and Conquer everything together today as I stand here at this
Podium since we've been standing on our feet as black men and women we've been going through Hill and God created this Earth for all of us to share together so why is we pushed away from enjoying
life I don't understand it our kids can't even play y'all run them off the par the par supposed to be there for the kids to play anytime they want to to stay out of trouble y'all bought a million dollar clock out there what y'all bought for
the kids in the community for the kids to stay out of trouble for the kids to start picking up guns and killing people if y'all don't do that how y'all going to stop the crimes y'all got to stop buying million dollar clocks St buy a million dollar computer
labs for the kids can stay out of the streets I'm done thank you for your comment sir shant Wells Shante Wells okay thank you so want to make sure she's coming good evening good evening again your name and address for the record
please Shante well 6102 Southwest 68th Street I have at least four members of my fellow residents here in South Miami who have seated their time and they can do so by simply standing thank you thank you all right I shouldn't e there 12 minutes but I do
want to make sure that I'm very thorough and clear for what I am asking for um because I am definitely uh disturbed by what I witnessed this is not heay this is eyewitness account because I was there I wish I was there for the whole
of it however I want to formally ask this entire commission along with the city manager on record to launch an official investigation into what happened
specifically at Lee Park Condominiums complex I'll repeat myself I want to ask you to thoroughly investigate the incident that happened with the South Miami Police Department
as it pertains to the residents of Le Park Condominiums secondly I've been back now since I want to say what was Labor Day weekend and the pulse of this city is
different there's a uh unrest and hostility that has been simmering and it started some time ago and I don't think it's just by happen stance that we are having things happen with the park
because I've been having issues for quite some time now with your Parks and Recreation director and he knows exactly who I am and I've been someone who's been committed to doing things for young people in this community to help ensure
that we don't have certain things going on and I've been dealt with with nothing but embarrassing behaviors for me to book the park and not get what was paid for do you realize that I didn't even get an apolog ology we were trying to put books in the hood instead of guns
having actual positive Gatherings of young people but instead of getting some support you know what we got when he heard us on the radio getting positive press for this city he went out of his way and had his workers they couldn't show up to open a building on time they
couldn't show up to provide and make sure that the bathrooms were open but he showed up to make sure that it wasn't past a certain amount we're talking about giving out books you can't have that type of hostility when it comes down to children and
community service it's it's it's connected and the reason why I understand this because I live right there I can see the park from where I live I live right there I understand the significance of Marshall
Williamson's Park the area the complex the entire Community listen I'm a 1977 Edition I take this city very seriously this thing is bigger than just the event what happened we should all hang our heads over it was egregious it was
something that you would see on Mississippi Burning literally for me to get off the highway and drive down the street I was near the middle school and I saw Choppers for me to see a helicopter to have an 86 year old neighbor have a
light flashed in her face the Devil is a Lie we don't treat our seniors that way to have a mother a wife those children were traumatized to to be home when you're in those Gates you're home South Miami PD does not get to dictate who can
use the amenities win we've always had a great working relationship this hostility has to go this this lack of cooperation for positive things with this Parks and Recreation Department it has to go that's why I wanted to make sure I showed up here drove 84 miles
from West Palm Beach to from work to make sure I got this on record I want to make sure sure that we have the community officers I have yet at least since I've been back I've not seen them coming through they used to walk through the community they would play with the kids I want my granddaughter to have a
positive experience with this city with our Police Department we don't need to be at War we I felt like we used to be a Beacon of Hope This is the city of pleasant living we have to return back to that we cannot do that if we are
divided we cannot do that if we're violating people's Fourth Amendment rights we can't do that and I understand you have a new generation of employees that are coming in but this this is deeper than training we cannot
disrespect there's one of our elders who was disrespected who's in the back of this room right now not on my watch not on my watch I'm asking every single member of this commission to make sure that you do your due diligence to ensure
that that this investigation happens and not only that we need a town hall meeting and after you find I know your findings is going to show you exactly how egregious some of the the the young cops their behaviors were towards our citizens and our residents we want an
apology those senior citizens they deserve an apology that wife deserves an apology so I came to ask you to launch that investigation officially I also want an apology for that books in the hood event
that was just beyond embarrassing I brought orphans orphans who couldn't use the bathroom do you understand how humiliating that was that was an embarrassment for this city and it's completely uncalled for
especially with the sacrifices that I have personally made for this city no matter when I've moved away I still stay true and and continue to collect get donations to do whatever I can to make my city a better place this is the city of pleasant living not the city of
hostility this is something that Dr King wants all of us to remember listen Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere the time is always right to do what's right and I say Mr Parks and Recreation director do what's
right I say to this commission and Mr Mayor I appreciate the meeting let's do what's right by our senior in this community Mr new police chief pleasure to meet you welcome to our city let's do what's right let's get this investigation train or retrain whoever needs to be trained and let's get this
thing back to where it was we are a Beacon of Hope in this country not one of Despair thank you for your time thank you Miss [Applause] walls I have Kimberly Davis next Kimberly Davis
again your name and address of the record welcome good evening and thank you my name again is Kimberly Davis I have something to read very quickly so I will not go over my time public comment may seem to be scarce however the voice of the community is felt in numbers here
tonight we cannot pretend that we do not see the issue social media is beyond powerful videos have circulated and with social media they will continue to circulate and the hope is that this issue will be set will be rectified and
not hushed the hope is that the incident from this weekend will not happen again the city of South Miami needs to focus on when it is appropriate to use resources and what resources will be used we used to have officers as they said and even in other neighborhoods
that walked around and got to know their Community instead now we have officers who seem to come in and try to intimidate their Community when should Patty wagons be called in when should helicopters be used when should other municipalities be called in this past
weekend was supposed to be an opportunity for the community to come together the community was able to do so however the police were not able to get on one Accord we use this opportunity to show that there is still Community here however the police department
decided to use an opportunity to show that they are very much forceful they still have the power but how can we build community while tearing down the foundation because Lee Condominiums is the foundation of South Miami Police mandating adults to get in their homes
while at their homes is very ironic how will the city Rectify this issue the officers from this weekend need to understand that a peaceful crowd is not the equivalent of a crowd that's a threats moreover your inability to
adjust to the foundation of this community is detrimental not to Le not to Le Condominiums but is detrimental to the city of South Miami who up there is going to stand up for the people that are here and let's
not pretend I don't care if it was only two people listed there their voices are loud and clear thank you for your comments um Rea Ker he Madam clerk is there anyone else who's
registered if you'd like to register please there's a signup sheet right here in the corner if you could just come up and add your name please just want to make sure I don't miss anyone you recognized ma'am afternoon good evening Mr Danny good afternoon um I just want to share a little story um I've been in the city of
South Miami connections here over Le Park 50 years I was 2 years old when my mom moved me there she's almost 90 um I took her out to the event which was a tug War but she went and she
shared with me what a great time she had it was beautiful she was out dancing moving her hands even met Mr Rodriguez out there um I'm going to take it back a little bit when we first drove up the
parking was very difficult I stopped and spoke to a couple of the officers so I get the climate of what happened on the par um because the officers were very very disrespectful I asked simple question
where can I park without getting a ticket the answer was we're not ticking today we're Towing I said you're towing today on a day like this yeah we're Towing and I I I Pro I don't know your officers are not
here but I don't forget a face I saw Mr and I'm I'm sorry to keep saying your name but I kind of got a connection with you when you came and knocked on my mom door when you want to get um before the election but no it's I'm G have a good
story in the end about him I don't forget a face so your officer that said that to me his face is here um the other officer the female with the tattoo I'm pretty sure I'm going to remember her they thought it was funny about the toe
but I didn't think it was funny so what I did I got a niece to come and get my mom out of the car I was going to park all the way back to Lee Park and walk back but instead my niece was able to talk to the other the third one when they said that to me he put his head
down so I knew what they were saying to me he didn't agree so we got a couple of good officers you guys I'm G Point them out so with all that being said um I'm I'mma move forward she had a
wonderful time she said she's so so happy she came out there the atmosphere were beautiful the people came together I don't live in South M I took a flight here all the way from Texas just to come to this event because I wanted to see my people I wanted to see some people I
haven't seen in years we had a beautiful time but the ending later that night I was having a good time with my friends and we're being ushered like cattle ushered so I'm
upset I'm upset very very upset I have my 80 89 year old mom still living in the city everybody knows her I know this whole room probably know her she's been here since birth she loved this city she
does I can't take a bull if and get out of here this is sad this is sad so the Gap that she's saying we need to bridge we need to bridge it today it's not that serious it's not that ser serious Chief come
on it's not that serious I have a son here that I left so you guys come on these people we we we're people we love this city I I'll be back I've been gone about nine years but I see I need to come
back be back Mr Danny I took a liking to you I talked to you out there my sister got a got a picture with you I'mma share it with you I didn't know she took a picture your son is beautiful the same
way that you guys love your kids we love ours yes so think about your kids tonight when you think about yours and kiss them and hug them think about ours this I'm I'm I'm
mad I I've been praying my mom been wanting me back she's been wanting me back I'll be back thank you for your [Applause] comments got Yan James next y Yanni my
apologies Yanni James thank you please come forward welcome hello how are you good so I want to basically touch base on Saturday's event and I don't I'm not trying to come off disrespectful but I'm I'm upset
because for the simple fact that even before the party event to Saturday you have residents who stay in Le par condominium sitting on the creek watching their kids play want to hang out with their kids and want to make sure their kids are safe and then you
have officers come up to to them antagonizing them I want to speak his name I want to say Vargas what he does he come and he he antagonize everyone and he want to ask questions about something that doesn't even matter like oh why are you on a
creep what you mean I'm on a creek cuz I'm watching my kids and I want to bring it back to Saturday's event your officers was very very very disrespectful um respect is due to a dog you give you give respect you earn
respect I know for me if someone disrespect me I'm going to return that favor and I'm going to disrespect them as well um so as I was sitting on the creek just minding my business everyone having a good time I know for a fact everyone's
feeling good no one's want to go no one's want to go home right then and there you have a officer come up to me and told me to get the F off the bench and go to F home my instant reaction who you talking to you don't talk to me like that
because I'm not your child I'm a 31 year old woman so what you tell me is what I'm going to give back to you and do you you threaten me with you want to arrest me arrest me then because you have no liable reason to arrest me because I'm having a good time don't talk to me like
that and that's with everyone that's around me like everyone is in there everyone in the town house later that day is having a good time just relaxing chilling with their family so you're coming up to us being very aggressive
and if you come up to me and grab me my is reaction is to turn around and like like don't grab me because I don't know who grabbing me so for you to rush someone and it's straight men it's not women all the women are in the back you
should let you should let women handle her and even if then she didn't do nothing wrong so why is she being arrested for something that you as her a question and she answer the question she stays here so who are you to tell me I have to go in the house but I stay
here like something has to be done like this is this is beyond disrespectful this is beyond embarrassing and as a community as a community we're we can't and we will not stand for it like something has to be done with sop Police Department this is
not the definition of pleasant living it's not because they're their job is to protect and serve they're not protecting us and they're not serving us all they doing to provide and disrespect they trying to arrest us for something that we were not really doing for
real so as a as a commissioner the board whatever y'all want to call yourself we need to come together and we and something has to be done because and something has to be done for Vargas because Vargas has to be stopped
well can I can I ask if I can I'll give you some more time question the manager I mean I I want to understand do we have a formal complaint process if people want to file a complaint against an officer we do have yes that ability correct yes do so so if I get if I get just to the manager rest the chief maybe to for the record if there if there or
officer specifically that you can identify if you think acted improperly then I would ask you to file a complaint because you know yes okay and the if we can just kind of keep the chamber quiet please again the chief is here sure he's
got the staff here they can point you and if you don't know how to do that we can certainly get you that information again I I appreciate everyone coming because you're helping to hold us accountable so we can hold our our employees accountable that's absolutely important that's how this is supposed to work but the other part of accountability is
unfortunately sometimes complaints are warranted and they the only way we get to the bottom of the facts is if they're filed and we can investigate them so again that is your right as a citizen to file a complaint against an officer if you think they were disrespectful and acted outside the law or we just you know failing to show you the common
courtesy you deserve as a citizen so I'm sorry continue to close yes and I want to bring up one more thing I don't know off about the officer about her name but I know her about her face she jumped in my boyfriend face and told him what she's going to do to him you a woman he's not going to touch you but you have
no right jumping in his face like something has to be done like it you're not going to tell him what you're going to do to him it's not right and it's it's it's not going to happen understood and we and again I think I help us help you by again as I said file
a complaint that's thank you Mr John Anderson good evening I'm so happy all y fa should have been going a long time not just now this started years ago when he first talk about
getting Mr Anderson Mr Anderson you can Mr Anderson we should yeah Mr ason good evening if you want to repeat that just so the folks who are listening at home can hear it as well I want to see me there you go I want to
see me we want you know when they see me good hi everybody good evening sir uh to the Commissioners my name is John Anderson I live at 597 Southwest 6th Avenue I got a lot of complaints
too uh first of all I like for the City commissioners to get with the county we got a divided part in here with the city with the with the county and the city certain things the city cannot do
because of the county property and we've been having problems with that area I don't know how many of y'all know it but we've been having problems with the area body part of part of so we have a problem in the county
can't do anything about come to now I'm being honest with you m Mr if you want to speak to the crowd I I take no offense if you want to speak to the crowd as well I want to speak to y'all too that's fine but okay that's why I want everybody see you do you do you when you want to speak to them just turn around and speak into the microphone so
everybody else can hear you too okay now we had a big problem we had a fire in my backyard about 2 months ago uh I don't know whose company it is that was putting the new wi and so folks going through the streets putting the
new wi and doing do new electrician stuff there was a big F started in my backyard about 2:00 in the morning the fir trucks and the fir was there all this noise was going on
the five minutes took about two hours to get the five cuz every time they thought was coming back up but when we look around to ask what who could good what can be done we got to go to the county
but it was in South Miami on the on the line so we looking for some Acca inspect a police somebody come by and let spect the place to see what's going on what cusing the fire and nobody come here today and find out what caused him the fight but we have an
idea who start to find how the SP got started but you know people not going to tell the truth they going to tell Li before to tell the truth and most people like to hear a li before to hear the truth too you know that too right okay that's one accident now we got people over in this
County department they got a little prop few little properties they can run the street like they want to run the street streets put uh garbage cans in the middle of the street block the street off people got to wait on them to do what they got to do but that's in the county
department so we can't do nothing about it because what the county property so the city sou mama can't do anything about it so what we do so we come I'm coming to the Commissioners that you all get strong
have a big heart a big mind and a big head go down to that kind of place and the coat and Swang to them that they need to H get that area straightened out because this probably been going on for years I've been here 1973 and that's been going on for years
Mr before you before you leave Mr rander are you familiar with this issue okay can we get someone to speak to him yeah man you should know about that yeah got the dividing part in here Mr Anders can you speak to the deputy manager or or someone on on our team
just so we can get the details well he know about it okay he work for the city John John do you know about this issue yeah he know about the little body part we got in here that part of the county part of the city I'm right or wrong and y'all can't do some things about it because it belongs to the county I'm
right it wrong okay so we need we need some help in we need some help ins sou Miami Mr Anderson what can you um sorry Mr ree can you come to the microphone I know you love doing that so so Mr Anderson he's he's now he's going to get upset with me cuz I'm going to make him speak on the
microphone so Mr Reese he loves speaking on the microphone you okay I hope you do all right I'm about to ra I'm about to my voice John John again what's what's the issue just so I out out of curiosity no
on the microphone please sorry sir good evening no some of his property backs uh the county property so that's what he's complaining about you know the condition of the county property uh faces the backside of his property as far as a fire I'll get the
information no but what what was what's I'm sorry is it just they're not maintaining the county property is that the issue Mr Anderson before you go I want to get I want to get you some help so I'll get all the information from okay if you could just let us know so we can I'll get all the information thank you
appreciate it okay I don't know Gloria Brown I'm next on the list Miss Brown Gloria Brown still here she left okay moving on to Londa
Williams Miss Williams good evening if there's anyone else who like to register we still have a list do we not please add your name and we'll call you up thank you all good good evening to members of the deas and mayor Fernandez my name is Londa Williams I
live at 6477 7 Southwest 60th Avenue I actually came here tonight cuz I was going to talk to you guys about the mango lot uh because you guys are changing the designation and that's happening a lot and I'm a little concerned about that but I think it's going to be an item um that you have on
the agenda this evening so I'll speak to it then no ma'am the uh the mango lot that we what we did recently was uh I know you said you couldn't rece you didn't meet Quorum for the um the review board and then I I it was on the agenda for this even evening's meeting no I
think so no ma'am we have nothing on the mangle lot you talking about the mangle Lots near the dollar store yes Marshall Williamson what we did last meeting was we designated a portion of it as a public to be a public park in honor of marsh Williamson no no our first African-American mayor Anna price oh
Anna price Dr Price Dr Price unfortunately our condolences to her family since she just passed away this weekend so oh I didn't know that I'm Sor sorry to hear that okay all right so back to the issue at hand um I know most of you I've talked to you uh I don't come here as an adversary but I do think
that the a lot of things that were said today were very true one of the things I think that we've had a flux of change of people in the community like all of Miami has have a lot of people leaving not new people coming in um but I don't want to just make it appear that the African-American Community is just
centered in leap park or in HUD homes you know there is a whole Dark Side um what we call the dark side past 64th Street um where black Americans came very early on in this um uh the um incorporation of the city that added to
the city I don't know if you know that we became a a tree City and All-American City because of a young African-American teen that wrote a story about this city so a lot of our designations that we have are from the collective and one thing I can speak to is the um
unfortunately I've had experiences myself with even calling um the police officers and the aggression that's shown um there is a tall heavy set man I don't know what his name is but I would know him by face that last year when we had this event I didn't attend this year but last year when we had it he was pretty
aggressive like at 8:00 when the event ended just for people leaving and this was including people that were walking home so the conversation about interaction amongst the group I think definitely needs to happen we used to also have boards community relations boards and so forth that we were able to
have people so that we knew and also just a discussion of what the protocol is when we're having events you know we have lots of defense throughout the city where we section off parts of the city maybe the conversation needs to be the spill out and what we tend to do because African-Americans we like to gather
together and our way of gathering is usually outside it is a cultural thing and so we want to make sure that just like we respect all other cultures ours are respected we are loud we like to play loud music and it may be for a time and we will move along and there may be a desirable amongst the group but overall it's not that and as a former
resident of Lee Park I will say that our community has never been one of those communities that required the level of Engagement and maybe the police I Know Chief Landa that was here prior to he was familiar with that he we didn't have that before so I want to get back to a time where we do feel safe here my
daughter does participate in things at the park but there are things that need to be enhanced because we used to have a family plan where people could used the park now we feel like at times that we're not even welcome there I mean I'm going to go because that's just who I am I'm I'm one of those strong-minded strong willed individuals so I'll make a
way for myself but for my my community it's very important for me to see those things um so there's other topics I would love to engage you guys in a different way and thank you all for listening thank you for your [Applause] comments I I have no more
names again if you'd like to sign up we have sign in shits please add your name happy to hear from all of you thank you I'll put this back out there okay uh Deon Russell Deion my apologies thank you my name is Dion Russell I am a
former resident of Lee Park Condominiums it was part of a condomini Association now it used to be called Le Park tow houses everybody knows me from 6000 that's one of my nicknames I'm coming
because I came to the event Saturday and I saw people that I haven't seen in 15 and 20 years I moved away and I often come back as you can see here and I have another shirt on up under here I work in South Miami at a school West laboratory
Elementary I work with the children the majority of the children at the school are not of my color they're white Hispanic and a few African-American children what I've seen in my community is that there are fewer
faces that look like ours like you just heard a story about the city of pleasant living and I'm leaning in close so you understand clearly it was us that wrote an essay that won that Pleasant living title for South Miami it was majority of
us that were living here and we start to see others come in and enjoy the pleasant living that we don't get to enjoy anymore I was sto just driving one of my cars a while back just driving minding my own
business thank goodness nothing happened to me as you can see my lovely locks they're blonde right now they were black and they were up in a ponytail like guys usually throw their hair up just to Leisure and throw them up in relax but they thought I was a guy driving a
stolen vehicle that's what I was told you can see I'm a female although I have a deep voice I am a female you can see me just like I can see you so when he came to my window he
was shocked that I was a female we love to wear different styles different hair different we are and as Kendrick Lamar uh kri said basically they not like us you'll never meet another kind of people that's like us
like she say we're loud we like our music we like to have a good time we don't go out to destroy peace we're just having a good time but it seems like we can have a good time in peace there like she said a bridge that
needs to happen that's needed to close this Gap we don't have that community base with the officers I don't know any of the officers that I saw on the numerous of videos that circula I don't know none of you except for the one that grew up in South Miami
kedra so we need to find a way to bridge that Gap and to all of you the issues the concerns the problems that all of you have suffered file your
complaints that investigation will be launched rights that have been violated make sure you contact an attorney thank you for your time hi thank you for your [Applause] comments sorry I cannot read the first
name but the last name is farmer oh no no it's okay I tell you what tell you how y'all doing good evening good good I'm going to tell you something I was born and raised right here I just need your name and address for the sou Miami okay and I'm going to tell you something what I saw Saturday
ma'am just just name and address for the record my apologies all right well thank you from address 597 one software 61st qut you know got that big old um partment right over there that's where I used to live I was there and your name please and your full name please Donna farmer you just read my full name Donna
farmer d o n n a f r m r all right how y'all doing today all right I don't know any one of you except for this young lady right here all right and I decided to come here today and it's a great thing I think the universe put me here because I had to do a little work over
here I was here Saturday I was so mad I don't get mad I don't have time to be getting mad I'm I vibrate entirely too high okay but let me tell you what I saw now the event that was um taking place it was great it was great to see
everybody everybody got along however immediately after it ended I must say your police officers and none of them are none of our colors they're very rude disrespectful and they do do not care
about how they treat the citizens now the problem is police are here to protect and serve okay but what I saw was intimidation and harassment all right now I'm sitting here there's
absolutely nothing going on everyone is enjoying themselves and before you know you got a line of policemen not only were they being rude to people but they were pushing people as a matter of fact they push a pregnant young lady okay and when they pushed her they all
of a sudden made a event about somebody was pushing them and they had helicopters now I think I think it cost about $10,000 for a helicopter nothing happened nothing happened and what I did see as well because there was nothing happening they
couldn't get nothing out of the people because we were not here for that we were here to enjoy each other and see each other and have a reunion okay and as they were telling people to get off the sidewalk to leave and to go home number one everybody almost everybody
out there are adults and if I tell you to go home go home Danny Rodriguez go home get out your seat and go home yeah okay doesn't that sound and ridiculous one thing I definitely know you know in order to get
respect you got to give some respect okay okay and I do think it's very important number one because a lot of people don't know you and the only time we know you is when we come down here to have a relationship with the people that you're representing because you guys work for us okay you work for us and we want to
see some action and what we want to see is you come and get with the community also your officers if they don't want to be in this neighborhood and if they can't treat everybody right now especially my people they canadad and go
on their side go treat their people like that because I can promise you there's nobody in your neighborhood telling you to get off the sidewalk now is it there's nobody in your neighborhood telling you to go home now is it okay so either these policemen treat my people
with respect or find another job or another location because we not having it we're tired of it and we've been really sitting here being real nice and that's one our problem cuz we all say that's all right well it's not all right and we should have been came down here
long time ago from the time they cooked us hamburger when they built that first building right there across from the post office I'm just telling you and it really I'm I'm really I don't get mad it's just too much I don't usually get in my feeling either but some things
definitely have to be said and this is and there's one let me tell you the little officer I know the the car he was driving the the okay he was in 20001 that's the vehicle he was driving all right now number one I definitely
know there is a law if you ask the officer for their badge number they must provided that is a felony but you got a little smart guy named Bravo little Baldhead guy I don't know his name you know how I got his
name I called your dispatch and immediately after I called your dispatch guess what happened 20 more police came not only 21 police came Metro day came now why are y'all wasting these people
time because I'mma tell you there was no there was no assault there were nobody being rude everybody was enjoying themselves and oh but you know they have to call for they got to make it look like something if nothing happened and they messed up just say you messed up
you that's all they had to do okay but how will we get back and how we going to pay for that $10,000 helicopter they had rid around here rid around here rid around here and you know what Metro told me I asked Metro what what happened you know what they told me I don't know they just called us out here and said they
need backup that is ridiculous that's a waste of taxpayer money and we can do other things with that but matter of fact that $10,000 we could use it for training additional training for your officers okay the little ladies you got the little ladies you got is unnecessary
you know yeah we you you know sometime us ladies we get in a certain place and we C and we got to you know first of all a woman can never beat a man and if you're a policeman you act like it cuz number one when she told that young man what she was going to do to him that's a threat all right she
should have been arrested all right she needs to be reprimanded all your all your policemen that were involved with this y y y'all should really look into it because it's ridiculous again we to do that we need your help yeah we got we got video file
a complaint we got videos you do know we follow the complaint and send in the video I mean I asked for some video of other folks today that's right I plan on not only we we're going to file complains but we're going to um make sure this go viral we're also going to find us a good lawyer that can represent this young lady that they arrested number one not only did it not mirander
but she did not all they asked her was do you live in this neighborhood she said yes I live here and now they get your hand behind my back boy I tell you what does that happen in your neighborhood I and you know what's what's terrible and what's so hurtful it's like we grew here we grew up here
all right and and and and you know there are people put in this position you know to represent us however you don't have a relationship with us so it's very hard to have a represent someone if you don't relate to them or have a relationship with them or try to get a relationship
and it's important to know who you're representing why you're representing them not just for them to vote for you okay okay and I just think you guys you know to have a better you know um relationship with your your the people
you're representing because you guys representing us okay like um how can I represent you and I don't know nothing about you so I think it's very important that you go out and meet the people all right and what I don't like also is I
see that everything is like you're trying to push our people out all right now I'm going tell you I was very dishearted when I noticed that the programs all in the park were no longer available for the people of the
neighborhood and I tell you what when I was in hey when I was in second grade they said they was going to get a pool oh we got that pool right now y'all but we can't get in it what is that about I'm just saying I'm just saying all I'm telling you okay you guys
definitely want to look at the video cuz it's going to go viral okay on how your people were treating our people in our place this is ours and and um my uncle Marsh he actually you know bought a lot of these places you know the mango fields and
everything as well and a lot of the property also has been sold I tell you what I'm going tell you growing up we had plenty of food to eat we didn't even have to go on the store we had mangoes we had star fruit we had you know Candy Apples we had
everything sea great trees everything but however I just would like you guys number one um your policemen they need to either treat out people like they would treat their
mother and their children and their wife all right unless they're beating them and treating them mistreating them don't come here doing that at all I thank you guys for your time thank you for your comments all right thank you
[Applause] apolog I cannot make out the first name uh McKinnon is the last name shanton thank you shanon McKinnon good evening good evening I'm shaking a little bit I'll Circle back to why I'm shaking in just a second but I just want to remind
everyone up here everyone back here as well that it is still black history month so the reason I'm shaking is because the officer sitting here to my left is actually a part of the reason I don't trust the South Miami Police Department I don't believe anything that
they say and I don't believe that any of you will follow up on any complaint that has been submitted by anyone in this room I submitted a complaint upon on multiple officers actually because of how my case was handled I was assaulted my name is listed as victim there's no
way I was being stalked and harassed by the police officers as if I was the suspect I submitted a complaint to IIA IIA never even called my my phone I had to go to the state attorney's office just to get them to stop following me every time I left my parking lot what
did I do wrong no one could tell me I distinctly remember giving him a sheet of paper with at least a good essay giving him my statement and when I came to City Hall to get a copy of my police report there was barely a
paragraph So if we can talk about having an actual meeting and sitting down and voicing our concerns we I know you guys feel like we kind of bombarding your meeting tonight we did we took it over just a little bit because we're fed up we are I am shaking and the only reason I can stand here and actually speak these words is because of the people
behind me because I'll I'll be honest with you I'm not afraid of a lot of things but every time he shows up I back away slowly and I hope to God he doesn't see me and have me in his sight that is all thank you thank you
for your comments is there anyone else who's registered to speak let me let me Miss bucker if I can let everyone go through the list I'll recognize you at the end okay let me just call two more names and I'll recognize you okay thank you James MCC yes
okay ma'am come forward I also let you guys know you too that your officers harassed our kids they were playing in the in in the what we call the skating ring and they came and told them go in the house or you going to get
arrest ma'am ma'am ma'am you're welcome to speak please we just canot have an helpers you like to come up next you're you're recognized okay please before you get arrested they weren't doing nothing but playing like they do every day they came up after the what happened
to me they came walking through harassing the kids and we don't like that thank you for your comments ma'am did you want to add something you're welcome to come forward okay sorry Miss Williams I had you next on the list go ahead hello
everybody I'm I stay in the town houses I've been here all my life nowhere else but Saturday was really really good I'm not going to knock it we had a good time in South
Miami but after the fact was crazy nonsense and I'm cool with some of the officers I'm not even going to lie some of them I talk to I even had to pull them to the side hey what's going on y'all running other way what's going on oh it's over everybody have to leave
okay we understand that we F to leave he said okay we give you a minute y'all leave next thing you know we walk around we walk down to the other side they follow us there we walk down to the other side they follow us in the back Ro then they ran us all the way back to the
town houses and I was standing with my sister the whole time they followed us from the back from South Miami Market all the way to the back street from the back street by all the way back to the town to stand in front of the gate we literally stand
there to watch them stand there for a second to see what they was going to do cuz everybody y'all said going the house everybody went where they stayed but guess what she wasn't the only person outside we wasn't the only person when we walked in the gate the whole town houses was outside we just had an event
so that's that was pretty good cuz we got the old people out we barely see them half of the time a lot of them came out we had a good time with our old and and young people and just the Young Generation officers I've been here all
my life and near officer ain't never talked to me or treat me like that and told me she'll take off her badge if she would have took that badge off only God knows what was going to happen only God I promise you to God that's only that's the only thing that was going to
happen like y y'all is they are harassing us y'all harassing our kids and mind me my kids are big kids they not they not they not they just returned teenagers they just big as these
kids are big they 14 15 13 all of them you got the police walking behind them they toing in the police but y'all still go in the house go in the house and I'm telling them let's keep it PG let's keep it PG thank you they needed to keep it PG I know I know I hey
everyone hey see how keep itg I understand hey ma'am I'm going to give you more time guys just because people are disrespectful we should not return disrespect okay hey I I I'm going to get to some comments at the end once I hear
from everyone we they disrespect let let's let's let's keep it come on we got to do better with these offic these young ones they getting besid I seen one of the he's one of the thece black one matter I probably seen like four or five
times he told our boys that play for sck mam grego s m suck why you work for us why do you work for S if we suck so much I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry y'all know what I had
a good time listen Miss Williams thank Youk thank you for your comments and thank you for making us laugh kid yeah let the kids yeah let the kids you know let the kids see what we see we got it thank you for your comment when I was coming up it was none of that I
promise you we played in the skating ring we did everything we had to do on the par they had so much stuff they had everything for us when we was growing up and now that my kids and I've been here I would not leave siami I don't care what they say I'm not leaving s I'm in a
new buildings now that's how bad I'm not we want you to stay so thank you you get what I'm saying but you guys got to welcome us y' can't that understood we can't go nowhere this us we don't want you go anywhere all our life so the officers we really got to do
better with the officers and with the kids you get I'm saying how y'all want the kids to respect y'all if y'all not respecting them kids and nowadays the kids are rude they going to give you the same thing you get them they not backing down back then we knew not to cuss the
police out cuz you know we had our mama the mama knew the police this person knew that person but that's not how it is now everybody is new coming in city of s Miami and we don't know them and they don't know us they don't know our kids they don't know anything about us
but what they should do is try to get to know us try to know the kids if y'all walk through that's fine we don't care about that you know what I'm saying if y'all going to protect and serve do your job but if you going to harass us and do other things that y'all know that's not
right and just because you got that bad don't mean anything they taking that badge and they running with it and it's not right for us that been here all our life I never seen no officers like that and that's coming back from the old officers never in my life seen no
nothing like that I promise you the way them officers took my sister and slamed her on that car she was doing nothing we was walking we finally made it back to the gate he followed us there understood he follows us there I'm like we made it hey I look back I said I know you ain't follow us he said said yeah I'm makeing
sure you get home I said we made it that's when my words to the officer well we made it you can leave now and they all gathered right there and they stand and they waited they waited for something to happen they made it happen not us they made it happen and it's on
camera everywhere and a lot of people got it on film and I know she feel very disrespected that happened in front of my niece my nephew all of that she went to grab her mother you had the police officer grabbing her I said wait wait
wait wait wait she's a minor wait be a grabber ma'am I appreciate the comments that was really rude I appreciate the comments we we are looking into be here for y'all y'all just got to support us too we are looking into it we will look into it as was requested do it we going to be looking for it to be done we going
come back now you're welcome back anytime okay Mr M and all right I can't follow that that one listen um James MCC 6210 Southwest 63rd terrrace I just want to say that um it's good to see everybody here um I've
been talking for I don't know over 20 years about getting people here um to address your the decisions and this is where the decisions are made so I'm just happy to see y'all here now um I'm not going to pick it back because everything
has been said about what has happened but you're going about it the right way with the documentation in the film so let's just follow through with this my thing is that when we leave here um what are we going to do all right so we're going to follow
through with meetings and try to make sure this does not happen again so let's do this right um I want to talk about um an opportunity to get people an opportunity to come back to South Miami uh since we don't have too much land to
uh to do we we will possibly have some town homes in the future uh for people to come back to purchase but the best opportunity to get people back will be phase two of somi par now the process for this s this county is not is not
quite as Fair as we would like it okay and this is where we need participation like we have it here for people like my friend that just got through speaking she's staying at the a new place back in the back you stand at
a new place told we got it in we can get some more people in that want to come back to South Miami now how do we do this we meet every Wednesday I want y'all to listen to me in the back now guys quiet please every Wednesday at 6:
p.m. at the senior citizens cafeteria we have a county organized meeting not City County so we are address the things that is County related that's going to affect every third Wednesday the start
six no every third Wednesday six o'clock in fact we're going to meet tomorrow we have to start this process now because they're going to break ground maybe in a year or so from now you have to get your credit ready and we have to address the uh we're going against the lottery
system that they're having and the way that we are selected now we have fa because we have uh people that we know on the diets and in the county that can work with us to get people back because
if we don't have if people are study leaving South Miami we don't have too much to fight for that means the athletic program goes and everything else goes so we need people here and just for the record it's it's black history and the reason we got
that um all city award is not because of of the people that that did that they did it at that time the reason we have this city is because in 1912 Mr Marshall Williamson came here when the town was called lockin and it wasn't the city of South Miami that's the fact the city became
the city in 1928 and that became the city and the only reason we have folks that look like us here is Mr Marsh Williams and the folks in that era that made it possible for us so again if you guys want want to follow up
on this every third Wednesday we have an organized meeting by County staff that we can go and get you guys ready to continue the fight I love to see people here on short notice and I wish you can come here again and other meetings so we
can do things in a in a proper manner third Wednesday Mr Comm guys we if if if we if we want to speak please come to the microphone we'll give you a chance to speak but third Wednesday 6: p.m. South miam Senor
citizen building the cafeteria section downstairs thank you very much sir and what what we would try to do is try to post it here in the um at the city okay I have next on the list uh no Mr PR give me a second so I would like
to say something um in response to that before I moved out of South can I can I I will recognize you I just have other people who signed up I'll add you back to the list if you'll let me call them up I'll bring you up afterwards can thank you
yeah one one minute yes okay I have a Britney no last name on the list who just signed up recently please come forward if you can give us your name and address for the record please thank you good evening hi good evening my name is Britney mckin I'm
6401 Southwest 62nd court so um I didn't go to the event only because um have a a fear of stuff like this you know what I'm saying and um the moment that I heard it happen the
first thing I thought of this is why I don't go to stuff like this but um you guys have the what is it like the SOI type of thing that you try to do on uh Saturday second Saturdays yes okay it would never happen you want to know why because I told you before you worried
about Sunset you know you worried about Soul me you worried about the RS which I keep telling you you guys have the most beautiful worlds anywhere like anywhere and I've traveled quite a lot um I told you Mr Argus focus on the community the kids
did I not I think four of y'all came and knocked on my door and spoke to me personally so just like how you want those votes and you want us to you know cuz I actually go vote every time even on the little stuff I go vote you know whether I get friends to go with me or
not but I actually go so I told you don't worry about that across the street worry about what's right here did I not I said you know that that right there is nice you're never going to rebuild Sunset Place or get the revenue back in Sunset Place if
you don't start with the community center and the kids you're the new Chief right you should be a damn shame of yourself I would be ashame a shame did you hear what I said I don't like going outside because of stuff like this
a shame what is it 2025 2025 right not 1965 or 1935 2025 I'mma say it again Sunset is important but until you get your community to it was us who was going to
Sunset it was I they was giving me my family was giving me money to go to Forever 21 Gap like it's us we are what's going to bring back your revenue and Sunset Place so if we can't be outside till 8:00 you think we want to go to somi do you think we want to go to
somi and we can't go outside and right outside our door these people told these officers excuse me your officers of the law told them to go in the house at 8:00 the party don't start jumping until
8:00 you get what I'm saying like excuse my language but come on we we hear you I I was one of the ones that voted for that school that's on the corner by the pool I I voted for that I actually was like yeah you know the kids don't have to walk the Lin or the kids don't have to walk the S Mii Elementary ain't
nobody in s go to that school so that was the first bad vote I made y'all please don't make me regret voting Lisa all y'all please don't make me regret this cuz I I me I can't speak for them me I bubbled don't make me regret it
don't worry about cross the street you body about you really need to worry about right here Mr police officer please fix it and fix it fast cuz everybody if I was in leadership everybody had to be sat down like children they said they was cussing at
them that's crazy thank you for your comments okay I have a Robert McWilliams Mr McWilliams and then we'll recognize mrpr and the gentleman for second time Robert MC Williams 6163 Southwest 69th Street um I'm actually a part of the board and I could tell you that the
board is totally upset board Le Park U what happened to this young lady um we we we requesting that you guys Dro charges on all the charges on her because they're they're Petty charges and they they we we seen what happen on camera Al so you're going to do your own investigation matter of fact we
recommend that you on your part of your investigation should be talking to this young lady and also talking to the people in our community and talking to the board U we seen what happen you guys go ahead and do yall thing some people need to be fired forget about the training fire some of these people you can't you can't train some of these
people you can't train bad people just going to be bad people you know get rid of them and we don't want and um like I said we we're here we we I know you said you're going to come talk to us and things like that so we looking forward to it um the other members of the board
are also in here and we just let you know that totally upset we're not going to stand for it and um and something needs to be done thank you sir and drop the charges for these young lady also thank you sir Mr PR you recognized I just wanted to speak on the
the housing so um 2016 when they built the Family Dollar we came up here and we fought for that not to be built um I even suggested that you put homes since you want to keep us in the martial
Community put homes there let us become homeowners on those steps I was sold a m p that's gentrification we can't have that it wasn't you guys but that tone
was set for me to move to take my money to pan my family tax dollars built this city why do I have to go to pan to build my home for my family that's all I wanted to say about the the town homes that he mentioned
would be built we don't need Town Homes we have that we need family homes single family home thank you for your comments okay sir this is my last statement and I am
leaving so mayor and City attorney have y'all sat here and listened to these complaints have y'all really sat here and listen to these complaints before this night ends and before this thing is over I need to hear
a statement from the chief of police because your whole meeting you did not accomplish anything in your meeting but the complaints about the police department that's embarrassing the whole meeting has been about the police department and it has showed you how
this is not a city of a pleasant living this is a city of a nightmare so before this meeting is over I have got We the People I have to hear from the chief of police I have to hear from him because all the complaints is about his
officers and then another problem you have is that you have the sergeants backing up this messed up stuff that they officers do That's why nothing can get done you have a young lady that came up here and say she put a complaint and that an officer
a grown man is following her when has that ever been acceptable that is a shame it's not acceptable like you said you can stand outside your house as late as you want you're a grown man you pay your bills
you come you work you make a paycheck nobody can tell you to go in the house so why do we have to go in the house and that conclude what I want to say I just really want to hear what the chief of police have to say about this meeting because the whole meeting has been about
his officers not about development not about housing not about programs for kids but about his officers and ma'am I hope you sat here and took notes of what these people have been saying because honey
you going to need to get your books in order because you're going to have a lot of Suits coming your way and it's crazy because you don't even have to do that if these officers get it together that's the complaint the officers sir sir thanks for the comments
I do you want to add anything else or no I just need to I want to make a statement if everyone's done speaking but I I I think if you got before going to recognize people right here sorry what what's that I'm sorry
whatever go where y record at man cuz y'all police is do this too I'm sorry so again is there anyone who's not spoken would like to speak you have a question please come to the come to the microphone if we can take
any conversations outside sir Let's Take It Outside afterwards okay shant well 6102 Southwest 68th Street I forgot to also in addition to the request that I made earlier is I am concerned with our
businesses I did receive also in addition to all of that that was going on there was a young lady that had uh booked a birthday part party with our one of our local South Miami businesses and these same officers went into this
un not initiated by the owner of the establishment and again you pay for a private birthday party in a business and they were forced just as they did within our inside the gates so I really do want you guys to launch are you speaking
about the Hooka Lounge is that yes okay I want you guys to at least make sure that you also address that specific business own just so that they know like we're not a city that is you know I I just think we need to keep as many businesses as we can in the city and I want you guys to include that in the
investigation thank you m walls okay any further comments if you've not spoken no further comments we're going to close public remarks oh sorry M re and you were on the list really please pleas come forward
Michelle just on the record please thank you 6420 Southwest 57th Court um I was going to have some things to say but I see that all my the community has really spoken their presence has spoken um I'd
like to say that the event was well we thank you for the support that you did for the event unfortunately like you said after the event it just went straight down um I just just like to tell the people in the community as well
we also have to give an account of what going on in the community we can't just wait until this happen I don't want I love each and every one of you all for coming here and voicing your concerns and your good place because they are they're legitimate they should not have
been done mayor they should not have been done Chief there are some things that we have to do it has taken us so long to build a relation relationship and relationships aren't built overnight M it takes some time after
Saturday we have stepped 50 yards back as far as I'm concerned so it's a lot of work that we have to do on both parts of the of the fence we have to be there to support each other we have to do what we need to do and unfortunately like the young lady there I don't know how much
the $110,000 helicopter cost but the thing about it is those things to me was unnecessary I had people calling me at my house because they know that I am a part of the of the planning board they know that I'm also there in the community to help out whatever way they
they see so the people were very devastated some of the with their kids they were hurt disappointed and like you said with the function apparently we have to re um do some things because even though we started at
we started at 1 and ended at 6 it has to be something after because there are adults that are there that they want to continue to be just like she said it is a reunion it was a reunion and there are people that have come out of town people that may not out of the state out of the c um town but they're there to
fellowship with their friends so therefore 6 o'clock we hardly have our kids inside at 6 so I think we need to regroup this thing and see if we can spread it later if the park Monday through Friday can open till 9: or 8 maybe we can do that but there has to be
something done but I think that we all have to become on one Accord we have to recognize what is happening it is not good for the city this is supposed to be a city of pleasant living and like they said Pleasant living for who um and I'm
not trying to cause any problems but if you go on the other side there are places that they can go and sit down congregate eat sleep what do we have here I know we need hous Michelle I'll say this I mean that's your home as well right no no no you should all and I want
to say this you should all feel welcome to go across the street and fre in all those restaurants heyy hold on a second hold on a second hold on a second I I know that that look I'm hearing what you're saying loud and clear so did you want to add something because no no no but I'm not saying it in a negative way
got it but if we have an event or something of this magnitude that we had we should not have to go across the streets abolutely we should be able to have something in our neighborhood and our communities not even just for the event but for all time just like they explained about their children places
for their children teen centers something there has to be a little spot somewhere where they can be safe and they can go out to do but I just want to say to the community don't let this um situation cause you to come to the to
the um City Hall City Hall meetings are every second first and second first first and third first and third of the um month you don't have to come into the city hall they have zoom you can get on Zoom so we need also participation from
the community not when there's only a problem but we need your communication when things are happening because once the vote is gone there's nothing else that you can do it so I just thank you all I thank each and every one of you all for taking your time to come out here but there has to be some things
changed and some things done thank you thank you Mr Reen okay so have no one else registered okay anyone else like who has not spoken would like to speak if not we will close uh the public remarks Madam city clerk is there anyone
online who'd like to address Us in public remarks anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand who would like to speak no okay seeing no one will close public remarks I just want to make a very brief statement I mean
um this is by far the saddest moment for me serving as mayor I'm personally embarrassed I I I know I I'm not here to say who's wrong and who's right but we do have a system failure of this many people are coming out here and saying that something did not go well on Saturday I will tell you that to a
person on this stus we supported the event because we understand the importance of the month we just recognized at the prior meeting some of our important history in the African African-American Community by designating a park in honor of someone that we were going to hopefully issue a
uh resolution in honor given that she just passed uh a couple days ago um it does not does not Escape I think any of us I think I speak for all of us uh just how just how poorly this moment reflects on our city and so for me it's
particularly sad when we set out to do something to help create Community right bring us together create some unity and the opposite happened at the end of an event after a very a great event because I was there at 5:30 6:30 passed by twice to kind of put an eye on things before I
went to a a personal engagement communic a with the organizers everything was going apparently swimmingly it's a sad moment when we find ourselves here and so I understand the anger I feel it too I'm I'm embarrassed I'm angry I don't know who's wrong and who's right but what I do know and I I'm going to
apologize because our failure my failure as the mayor was in not figuring out a way to keep people engaged organized into something positive at the end of the event we had this happen last year we dealt with it with more police resources clearly that
was not the answer right you know uh what we need to do is figure out how to Michelle's point we need to figure out how we work with the organizers to create a space for people who want to continue to get together right do it on private property some other location or
with a public permit to organize but in some way that's structured and positive as opposed to just sending itone out their way so we're going to work between now today and next year to make sure we do something to get this end of event process right we figured out event I think it's been a great Community event
a great opportunity for people to reconnect with the best of South Miami and we'll figure out the back end and as to as I said privately to the folks from Lee Park who are here we're going to we're going to do our due diligence right we're going to understand what happened we we are I think we have a
very good Department that does I saw not withstanding a lot of the bad that we were talking about I saw a lot of good in the videos there were a lot of moments of deescalation one-on-one with officers there were okay there was a lot of stuff that stuff that I'm not proud of but there's a lot of stuff that was positive right we're going to do our
homework because we can always improve right one of the things we need to work on I think as a department is managing larger events it's not something we do often right and so I think there's room for improvement I think there's room for more dialogue personally I'm available to all of you I know as all of us are
again I don't hide from people my cell phone is on the city's website if you have a complaint about an officer we're here to be responsive to you I think as a board we are very responsive we take our our our job here very seriously uh I I you know the comments
about your kids for me resonated more than anything else you know I I I'm to the saddest part today is my my son just had his first lacrosse game in high school I left here early to come to this meeting right those are moments your moments on Saturday with your family you
never get back right so whether whether whether someone acted inappropriately on our side or the other side that moment was ruined for everyone the memory of that moment was was ruined for everyone right and so I understand the gravity we understand the gravity of the situation I know our manager I know our police
chief take this very seriously and we're going to do our damnedest to get it fixed right and restore the trust I think that we have rightfully built with all of you over time right and so that's our commitment as a board to all of you uh I look forward to coming out to Lee Park and meeting with the with the association board I look forward to then
having a community meeting we're going to talk about what happened right uh what our relationship is going forward cuz is that's something we need to understand to make sure we're clear about the lines of communication and responsibilities we're going to do it all cuz we can and because working
together I know we'll get it done okay um colleagues anyone want to add anything before we move on with the rest of our agenda thank you okay yes you may you're recognized commissioner Rodriguez I I don't want to add a lot more than I agree with everything the
the mayor said I was at the event on Saturday I thought it was a great I was there with my son I saw many of you there we talked we ate um it's unfortunate that the ending was like that because in my experience it was it
was a great event and my son had a good time and again you know we're going to do our homework and you know being part of the community as Miss farmer you said that we need to be out there in the community my son plays at Gibson I coach at Gibson I'm in your community all the
time as the mayor is I'm accessible anytime Mr MC calls me all the time whenever you need anything please you know we're all available for you so don't hold back um as the mayor said we're a pretty responsive board and we're here because
ultimately this is one Community there's not two communities or three communities in this city we're one community so that's it um look I think I think the end of the event is where we got to do our work ma'
so we're 100% on the same page uh commissioner Corey sorry vice mayor Cory you recognized thank you I just wanted to uh thank everybody for coming I I really appreciate it when I started getting calls and hearing the news about what
happened and seeing the videos I think all of us just are our hearts sunk and I just I was waiting for tonight I wanted this opportunity for us to connect again and for us to learn more so that we could do better I think uh trust is something that's hard to build and is
easily broken I think it's something that we all really really want to work on uh to reconnect as a community in a city I think we've done a lot on this board and I've done a lot in my six years of service to the city to try and bring our communities together so I I
just look forward to continuing to do that like Michelle said this is a setback but I do think that this is something we could take an opportunity now to re-engage and move forward so I just wanted to again thank everybody for coming and and sharing um and hopefully we can start to uh bring the temperature
down ease the pain a little bit and and start moving forward again together thank you thank you foring we're going to get on with the rest of the order of business you're welcome to stay um if you'd like if you'd like to leave okay we're going to let's take a let's
take a f minute recess and we'll uh reconvene thank you e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e e folks so we can take our seats please so
we can restart the meeting colleagues if you can join me on the days please thank you missing to where is he oh he's right there okay we're going to call the meeting back to order ifone please be
seated did we approve the minutes okay reports I don't know we have someone online that has their hand raised I don't know what and we did the reports city manager report okay got it we've closed public remarks presentations thank you um
someone has gone there I guess he came after public remarks Mr Jackson would you like to say something any un if so we'll uh unmute you and recognize you you're unmuted um Donald Jackson
hello Mr Jackson are you still on if so please unmute yourself okay we're going to move on um M cler if you can read resolution one please yes item one a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of South SP approving a multi-year
agreement with inviso Solutions Inc for strategic strategic planning and performance management software and Professional Services to enhance Capital project tracking reporting and transparency and amount not to exceed $13,500 in fiscal year 2025 and provided
for an annual subscription amount of 9,785 in fiscal year 26 2026 and authorizing an annual 5% increase every fiscal year there after for the remaining years 3 through 5 authorizing the city manager to
negotiate and execute an agreement for the software and services thank you Mr manager do you want to give us a quick overview on this item yeah mayor thank you uh we uh have been evaluating uh software solutions for the ability to automate our um CIP
Capital Improvements projects tracking and Reporting right now it's a manual process and we want the ability to be able to update the reports real time provide uh dashboards and reports to to this commission and the community so after reviewing five different uh quotes
and uh entities and software Solutions this is a recommended solution that we want to bring on board it's a multi-year agreement that's why it's before you uh with a firste cost of 135 and then each year thereafter um starts second year starts at 9,785 with an increase of 5% per year um
so this would be in agreement for for five years um with this particular vendor named invisio thank you Mr maner colleagues any questions seeing none well this is a public hearing item if there's any member of the public who' like to address this Commission on item one
please come forward at this time seeing No One in the Chamber Madam clerk is there anyone online who'd like to address resolution one anyone online would like to address item one please raise your virtual hand no seeing no one uh the public
hearing is closed uh colleagues any any comments seeing none can I get a motion to adopt resolution one moot move the motion a motion by commissioner Rodriguez and a second by vice mayor Cory Madam clerk if you can call the role please yes commissioner bonish yes
commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner C yes vice mayor Cory yes mayor Fernandez yes ID pass 5 great if you could read uh ordinance number two please ordinance two in ordinance of the mayor and City Commission of the city of South Florida amending the composition and procedures of the design review
board thank you uh Madam City attorney can you give us a quick overview just for the benefit of the public uh yes mayor so this matter was advertised for this evening however this does need to go to the Planning and Zoning Board as a Land Development regulation unfortunately the board did not meet as
scheduled on February 11th so we're recommending that you defer this item to a date certain do we need to take action or is it considered automatically deferred given the them you should just move to defer have a motion to defer item to please move the motion to is there a second second a motion by commissioner Rodriguez and second by
vice mayor Cory Madam clerk please call the role yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner C yes commissioner Bon yes Vice Cory yes mayor Fernandez yes item was deferred any other items that we want to defer at this time before I are we commission Kai are we moving item
four no I think we're going to defer it a motion for the attorneys I think it's not ready so get a motion to defer item four then I'll move the motion to is there a second second a motion by commissioner Kai second by the vice mayor without objection we'll just consider item four deferred sorry if I may is that to a particular
date I was going to ask is that a date certain yes a date certain to not advertise again March 4th or 18th I'm I'm okay either day to the will of the attorneys really my understanding was something was ready yeah staff and
and the attorneys need let's move it to March 18th March okay without objection show it to her to March 18th okay uh item three we ready to go okay Madam clerk if you can read item three please item three in ordinance of
the mayor City Commission of the city of Soph Flor amending section 20- 4.8 nonconforming uses and structures of article four other regulations of the Land Development code to revise regulations relating to non-conforming structures or
uses thank you uh Madam C attorney again short overview please yes um mayor this item has been looked at at quite in quite some depth it's gone to the Planning and Zoning Board they made recommendations the report is before you at the last meeting
on February 4th you unanimously approved it on first reading there's been no changes since then and for second reading staff none okay this is a public hearing item uh any member of the public who'd like to address us with respect to ordinance number three on tonight's
agenda please come forward at this time Miss Williams good evening Le 6477 Southwest 6th Avenue I just had a question because I'm seeing a lot of um requests for non-conforming um and particularly in that area um that
we're speaking of where marshan Williamson is there is um subjects coming up for Town Homes to that lot we are kind of built out and there's very little open and green space and the more they nonconform it seems like it becomes
more of the Topography of that area and more of the standard versus let the rule less than the rule so I would like to see the con non-conforming Lots be limited in neighborhoods that they have had a certain number I don't know what that looks like so M William just to clarify this does not affect lot
configurations okay this reflect uh is with regard to non-conforming structures okay or uses so if there's a home for example that today has existed for a long time and would is encroaches on the standard setback right they would be able to rebuild it as it exists okay so
it does not affect a lot or lot sizes okay then that must be another item there's some there's like four different structures that I think it's it's speaking to are you ref are you referring to the new town homes across from Mount Olive correct okay those those were those were approved pursu to
a an ordinance that was adopted probably the town homes right across the Mount Olive they're the new structures they they were for sale recently yeah we um and there's some more on the agenda it seems like there's some other lots that are are not too far in that same
area that are are coming up for that as well public heing this is the unity of title so we we released a Unity of title uh with respect to those was it the same Lots we were talking about I believe so I believe so yeah so we released a unit title to allow them to build them
consistent with the um original requests with respect to the subdivided Lots you he the that owner had agreed to put some Lots together to make them larger and this Commission uh voted in in I think the majority of the commission voted to
release that Unity allowed to be built as they are platted that's my recollection of the item I believe so man' and what meeting was that six months ago I think yeah I I voted against the item which is the only reason I remember it okay but uh yeah if we were noticed for that I mean I don't
remember yes I believe that there would have been noticed because it was a modif modification to recorded Unity of title correct I believe so mayor yes but but by male we notice because I don't remember receiving anything for meeting for why don't we do this we can we can give you those details offline and uh
happy to get happy to get okay okay all right and then just just a rule I just want to just you know one thing I will say that we're not really receiving the certified mail we used to receive when we get those changes I'm getting like things handed in my doorway or on the stairs or and prior to that you know we
always got a certified letter especially if we were within a certain um radius from the affected area we we haven't changed our notice requirements so they should be should be the same process if it's not happening or you SE an application please let us know yeah definitely not happening okay okay all
right yes I I think it's worth noting that the this one in particular that we're talking about I I sometimes have a hard time understanding when they're saying all these things and so for me it makes more sense when you say what do you have today and what's coming next um with
these in particular if I'm not mistaken and somebody can correct me if I'm wrong these are lots that were kind of like when they're changing the zoning code they were falling in like no category so their duplexes now like the ones on 64th Street their duplexes now so they're
being re you know they're being renamed so then the non-conforming lots are town home instead of duplex right so that's what you're seeing here if I'm not mistaken there LS did you want to add something and like two other things so those are just ones that more than anything they're like not in they're
just renaming so that it fits one I was actually really speaking to the most was the one that initially the permissions prior to any of you being on board was were saying that they were going to make past the park and then it was still for some OD reason it went through the planning board they made a recommendation they brought it to the de
I think at the time there was a which which L is that I'm sorry mangot they were they were making that passive I actually have a record from the previous planning report that said that and then um it was still zon for multi-use and
then now it's being zoned for town homes so I'm trying to figure out what so that so that the I think I think the to to speak to that item our last at our last meeting we set aside I think not less than 8,000 square feet of that lot which is at the northeast corner okay at 60th
and 64th Terrace uh to honor Reverend Dr Anna Price Right make that a park uh the balance we have to decide what we want to do with it uh we have been informed
that there was at one point a uh plan on the part of the C to actually put those lots in Services affordable housing so that's you know the the thing was though that you're right that used to be what they call the Marshall Apartments but that was taken over when they decided they were going to do Madison Square and
they built both of those and that that was supposed to put those 80 units of housing back uh the only thing I'm saying is that we have a lot of added cubic feet of concrete and we have a heat issue and we have a now I even see some flooding where they built a new um
somi Park on that street we never had that before I don't want it to become an issue of of not being able to have enough Green Space or or or tree cover and so forth I know people think that's a moot thing but it's super important when we don't have a lot of that in that area I understand that it's under rehab
I get it there's a lot of different spaces that we have to we're building up I get it but we still have to balance you know we always had a concurrency plan so I just ask that that be considered appreciate the comment thank you okay may if I may u Madam clerk did you read the ordinance title for the
record I just yes I missed it okay thank you okay um anyone else would like to address the this Commission on item number three on tonight's agenda seeing no one in the audience is there anyone online Madam Clark anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand no okay seeing
no one else we will close the public hearing on item three colleagues any comments see none can I entertain a motion here I'll move the motion to adopt yes sir okay is there a second second so a motion by commissioner uh gaay a second by vice mayor Corey Adam
clerk if you can call the role please yes commissioner Cay yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner Bon yes vice mayor Cory yes mayor Fernandez yes IEM passes 5 Z unless I'm mistaken we have no further business before
us discussion any commission discussion items I do yes sir commissioner Cory sorry vice mayor Cory I'll I'll be brief but in my uh last monthly um unhoused Outreach meeting um we got some really
interesting news uh in the last census uh the number came back at at six chronically homeless individuals in in the city which is the lowest number that I've seen since we started um we also this year we've already uh put someone into permanent Supportive Housing uh
they VA so that helped speed the process up a little bit um so uh I'm really seeing a lot of great progress there and I and I might be asking them to come to commission kind of to present um how the Outreach is going um uh soon but I just thought I would share that with
everybody thank you for the comments I just I just want to um since I was late first thank you guys for getting started without me and uh dispatching with some business and and secondly just wanted to express my condolences publicly to um Hollis and uh
Dr Price's family on her passing uh it's been a tough month for us here in South Miami and we've lost um two pillars of our community so our help goes out to the family as well as our prayers and um we look forward to uh honoring her and the not to dist future when we
inaugurate the new park so yes ma'am I I think it would be good for us as a whole to understand timing wise the things that we've put into action when they're going to happen
because I think we send this out into the universe or at least I do I send things out into the universe like let's name the street after Gail and then I'm like when are we naming the street after Gail because in my brain it should be named after Gail tomorrow yeah but
that's not how the world works so I would love to understand and I don't need an answer now if we could get an email or something that tells us hey this is what's going to happen so that we're aware and if someone asks us we can share that information because I
think that kind of stuff is important it's important to people it should be important to us it absolutely you're right we've I've gotten a couple messages over the weekend after the news broke and people asking if we had were going to honor her and was happy to report that we did next question is well when's the event we've got lots of folks
who' like to come and participate so yeah we'll definitely get some communication out so folks are aware I think it's just a matter of finding what the right dates are for both both recognizing Miss Williams and and Dr Price I know if there's a you know Dr Price's birthday was the 17th
uh you know maybe there's an upcoming date for either or both that we should uh use as a a marker to kind of try to Target getting done and I think to the manager if you can give us a sense on you know we have to do some homework on our own with respect to the park as to how much we're going to set aside and what we're going to do with the balance
of it so we know we're we can give staff some directions of what they're working with but maybe at least you know a timeline on some basic signage uh you know uh both in terms of the RightWay RightWay naming and also the park probably appropriate to get here in the
short term yeah because what what I would hate to see and the you know the wheels of government turn slowly not so much here but in general they do and I'm like we have no idea what Gil Alexander's family is planning or when
they will be here or what is going on but if I apologize call her Williams I'm not sure why but it's yes it's Alexander and but but the but you're but I think it's important for us to reach out to Corey and her family and find out when they next will be here so we can actually and and identify a date and do
they you know does whatever we need to do match up to when they're going to be here correct yes yeah okay so Mr manager if you can help us with that we'd appreciate it and just that's why I have this in a that resolution to the county the the county is working on it okay yeah for the street name not the par but
the street name I send those resolutions to the county for their approval first okay and how long does that typically take to get I this the next question from the vice mayor sorry the former vice mayor and now commissioner and our clerk is uh I think un Shore so we'll get some we'll get some color on
that as well okay thank you okay sir follow up when someone comments from the mango Lots I I remember that we did a Unity of title for that particular lot yet the folio still seems like it's parcellated in four different folios so I wasn't sure clear maybe we can find
that out what happened with folio I I don't know we did a Unity I thought we did we we had a plat that we I think abandoned very early on in our tenure here I wasn't sure that we did abandon I thought we moved forward on that I thought we had so we can get some clarification on that there was a Unity
right see I mean so Madam City attorney if we can get us a sense of what the current disposition of the land is whether it's unified whether it's there's a tenative plot that's been active or has been abandoned and kind of maybe put that your next report we'd appreciate it thank yes we will do thank you thank you and then the manager his
report on the timing on the improvements okay further comments colleagues okay uh thank you all it's been a rough day but uh better days ahead We Stand adjourned to oh look at this