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--------- Please. Everyone, we're going to start in about a minute. If you can take your seats, please. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. >> [cough] >> All right. Good afternoon everyone. Is there an echo?

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>> It's new mics. Okay. It's very loud. It's It's good. Okay. Good afternoon everyone. It is 1:33. Calling the meeting to order. Mauricio. Thank you, >> Commissioner Joseph. Present. >> Commissioner Lama >> here. >> Vice Mayor Viscara.

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>> Mayor Setchin >> here. >> For the record, Commissioner Cit is unable to attend today. So, we have quum. >> Okay. Do we want to make changes then to the agenda right now? >> Yes, we are making a few changes to the agenda. Item 3A is being deferred.

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>> Good afternoon, everyone. >> What is that? >> That was you. It was a delay. Okay. Excuse me. So 3A is being deferred um as well as items 4 A, 4 B, 4 C, 4 D,

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and 4 E and 4 F. >> Okay. All right. Public comments. >> Yes. So just to remind uh the commission and and the members of the public and the audience that we now have public comments during workshops, whereas we

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normally didn't have it before. However, it is a little different from the public comment section that we have normally during the 6:30 meeting. Uh the comments during the workshop are limited only to those items that are listed on the agenda today and um we are still

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following the same rules of procedures where each speaker is limited to three minutes per item. Um, please make sure that you fill out your public speaker cards which are located in the back table if anyone desires to talk on any item that's listed on the agenda. With

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that, we can >> for clarification. It's three minutes total, not per item. >> Three minutes total, excuse me. Yes. Three minutes total. >> All right, let's move on to 3B, please. >> So 3B is a special presentation for promotional ceremony for police

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officers. Okay. So, we're also deferring 3B >> for 6:30. >> Oh, moving to the end. Excuse me. >> To the end. >> To the end of the meeting. Yes. >> Okay. Why don't you go with the next item then? >> Okay. So, we're going to also skip 3C for now and we're going to go with uh

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3D, which is a presentation on the art contest award winners. >> All right. Commissioner Joseph. >> Okay. So, um, this year, uh, where we, uh, usually had had the students from Edel Cup K through 8 would paint on the

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RK wall across from the school. Uh, that was not available this year. And the students did their own um, paintings which were displayed. And, um, there were awards given by Mayor

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Edeto as he uh, regularly does each year. uh last month and I had asked and the uh commission agreed to have the uh paintings exhibited in our uh city hall lobby for a mo one one month period for

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the month of July. And I would like to um recognize Gentry Buddha, Amelia Sur, Sorretv, Ariana.

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This is a tough one. You I feel like President Trump. You Zieva and Yaraslav Vo Voyovich. Do they happen to be here today?

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Everyone, >> four students. >> Are there four students here? >> One student. >> One student. >> Only one student out of the out of the four. >> All right. And you are >> Yaro.

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>> Yaros. >> Okay. >> I have Yaruslav. I only have >> Well, >> all right. So, we're going to give you this, but we're going to have to give you a new one because this has your name misspelled. Um, why don't we why don't you come up and we'll take a picture with you.

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>> Yes. >> Thank you for showing up. Okay, >> congratulations. Thank you, Commissioner Joseph, for recognizes students. Okay, next item. >> Next item, we are now going to enter into discussion items. We're going to

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skip down. Yes, we're going to move that to the end. >> So 4G is a discussion item regarding the cone of silence. All right. And this item is discussion by Commissioner Joseph. Please go ahead.

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>> Let me just get to it. Let's see. Which one is this? >> The cone of silence. That's your item. >> Oh, cone of silence. Okay. Yes. So, um it's come to my attention that the um

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the city departments that are doing um uh purchases, I believe that they're not um no one can be up on every item regarding

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uh purchasing and the city has a wide variety of items that we purchase And I believe that having the closed bidding and all and for commissioners or anyone else in city administration that

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knows about certain items um should be able to see what the bidding is, what the numbers are prior to, uh the bid going out and and as the bids come in. Also the idea that we're

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telling uh vendors how much we want to put towards a project and then asking them to come back with numbers is totally absurd. I don't think that works in any industry like that. And I've been

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hearing that the city is doing this on so many items and projects and we're just losing hundreds of thousands of dollars uh according to that process and I would like to see it end and part of that is doing away with the code of sil

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silence to make it a more open process. >> Okay. So your suggestion is that um the commission and anyone else that feels that they have expertise in a particular field should be conversing >> contribute >> directly with the procurement

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department. >> Correct. >> As they please. >> Yes. >> So anyone would start contacting Genesis and her team if they feel like they have an expertise. >> What do you mean anyone? >> You said the commission and anyone >> authority in in city authority. >> What's how are you defining city

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authority? Well, commissioners, city manager, assistant city manager, um if there happens to be another department, uh such as uh public works that might be aware of the item that's being purchased

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and if they may have some input, I think that's a good procedure and much better than what we're doing now. >> Okay. So if I can get clarification please from the city attorney how this process uh is supposed to work >> I mean you as elected officials can

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always inquire regarding u procurements that are coming before you through the manager and if the manager sees fit through staff. The cone of silence really is directed for communications between you and vendors.

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uh cones and silence have been sort of been born of necessity because of entanglements, interference, influence and things of that sort which is why all except well I think everybody in Miami day county follows the cone of silence cuz we don't have our own cone of

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silence. We follow Miami day counties. back in 1998, you had passed your own code of ethics and in 2002 you had opted out of the uh county's cone of silence, but in 2022 um you were informed, I don't recall

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how, but that we were the only jurisdiction in Miami date county that did not follow the con of silence. So the city commission repealed the opt out and you opt back in to the con of silence in 2020. >> That turned out to have been an error. Well, again, this is the and that's up

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for you to decide, but again, the cones of silence are born of necessity. Um, it creates a very convoluted process if you are able to speak to vendors. Um, because there's an inequality of exposure and information which leads to

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bid protests. It leads to interference where you have procurement, possibly public works or another department negotiating with a vendor and then you as elected officials step in. >> I never said negotiate with the vendor. >> That's what the cone of silence is.

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>> Well, I understand >> there's no cone of silence. If you if you want to get information regarding particular procurement, that is available through the city manager and staff. Maybe it would be hold on a second, Commissioner Joseph, if we can so that we're all talking about the same

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thing yet the actual definition of what cone of silence means so that we are discussing the same thing because there might be a misunderstanding as to what it is Commissioner Joseph is looking to do. No, >> you're looking to provide what you consider your expertise to the procurement department. Correct. Not

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directly to the vendor >> and and >> not not only me. I don't know everything about everything. I I know about certain things and I know how to investigate where maybe Yeah. We have so many examples. We have examples of when we

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were uh getting boat lifts and you know the the person in procurement. >> No, no, no. I what I mean for clarification, you're not looking to speak directly to vendors. You're asking to Okay. >> Absolutely not. That's what the cone of silence, right? That's I think what why we need that definition. Apart from that, what you're talking about is you

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as a legislative person elected cannot negotiate and or interfere. No, but you you >> you're okay. >> What you're suggesting is interacting through the process. So your procurement process is a closed process for a reason

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because and that's best practices throughout all governmental public procurement. the elected officials can't get involved in the procurement process because ultimately you're the final decision makers. So to the extent that >> to be able to verify that the person in

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procurement is doing the best for the city >> that's the city manager >> best for the residents well >> city manager >> okay well there have been instances where uh someone is dropping the ball then which >> and you know and just a clarification again you all can do what you want but

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the cone of silence aspect is a county directive through the ethics uh code 2-11.1 one uh subsection T I believe um which and it's very long and it's it's convoluted but it's really to for to

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foreclose communications for vendors that are bidding or once a procurement is put out >> Commissioner Joseph can you let them can you let the attorney finish please >> themselves Commissioner Joseph >> bidding on a project >> Commissioner Joseph could we do one at a time please

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>> they can switch off and say oh I'll take this one this time and you take That's that's called collusion and they have to swear to anti- if somebody does that that's extremely against the law. >> Okay. >> There's bidrigging. There's all kinds of things and that's why >> Right. So let's be naive and say that

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that never happens. >> Well, we're not to our knowledge again if somebody is out there committing a crime. We don't necessarily know about that and there's no way for us to foreclose that. >> They have to sign affidavit a slew of affidavit regarding anti-olusion and all

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these types of things. That's public procurement as it stands. I mean, if somebody's going to commit fraud on you, they're going to commit fraud on you, unfortunately. But the cone of silence itself deals with prevention of vendors courting you to try to get an advantage

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in the bidding process where they're going to be selected versus another vendor. And that's what that pretty much forecloses. So it closes the system out of interference and influence to the extent that you want more information about um procurements that may be going

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out once the city manager through staff can give you all the information that you can. >> Let me let me just clarify for for for the public and for myself so I understand that I understand it correctly. So, for instance, uh way back when when we were bidding out the Tony Roma site to various vendors and

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restaurant tours, I had throughout that process, because it was a lengthy process, had residents who were interested potentially in opening up a restaurant or had restaurants say to me things like, "Well, why didn't you let me know? You know, I'm interested." And can you tell me more about what it is

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you all are looking for? My response was, "I'm not part of this process. You need to deal directly with the city manager. I cannot guide you and I'm not going to meet with you to discuss that. Is that what we're talking about as far as a cone of silence part of >> So that that that deals with when you're issuing >> ethical

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>> when you're issuing your procurement >> whether it's an RFP, RFQ, whichever else. >> Every governmental entity has avenues to put that out. So we use Demandstar. There's uh a few other companies and there's always word of mouth. We also blast out through social media and so on

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and so forth. And we put the RFQ, RFP, whichever out in these huge databases with thousands of vendors that can respond uh or show interest, ask questions and so on and so forth. >> Are those databases open to anyone or only registered vendors? Do you know?

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>> Well, they have to register with those particular and and actually procurement does a pretty good job of a few times a year. I think they put on a >> workshop or seminar for residents to teach them how to do business with the city. So there's there's ways to do that and if anybody ever has any questions about that, they can contact procurement

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and they'll be told exactly how to do it. >> Okay. >> But um >> All right. So walk me through it. So we put out uh a request for a proposal and uh at some point and I'm talking about after the p fact at some point that was closed down.

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>> Once you put out the RFP, the cone of silence comes in. So the vendors can't call start calling you and say, "Hey, I'm the best product. Don't worry about these other people." Right? So you want to avoid all of that. So that happens once you put the the procurement >> and any vendors that have submitted an

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RFP know that. >> Yes, they're told and it's documents. >> If they go to uh contact any of the commissioners, what happens? >> They're disqualified automatically. Okay. So that may be the reason why people stopped calling me. >> Yeah.

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>> Okay. And then prior to even the RFQ going out to to Commissioner Joseph's point, we look at subject matter expertise. So for example, if we're going to put something else that deals with public works, we're dealing with engineers, we're dealing with architectures, we have consultants to the extent that we need uh additional

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information on um just like you go to the subject matter experts. It's not I don't want to single her out, but it's not Genesis or Anastasia making the sole call on that. The scope of it's the same thing with me as an attorney. I draft the contracts. I'm the scrivener, but I'm not coming up with the scopes of

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work on how to build a bridge. I don't know how to build a bridge. >> I don't know the first thing about it. So you rely on the subject matter expertise to provide you that information. That's the same information that's provided uh for the RFQS, the RFPs depending on how they are because at times you're going to put something

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out that's more general expecting those vendors to come back with the specificity that you're looking for. Um so it really depends on the procurement but the cone of silence really deals with the inability for communications between vendors not just the elected

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officials but also I mean there's certain individuals they can obviously they can speak with the procurement staff there's a process where they can ask questions and so on and those answers those questions are actually published to all the biders so that everybody's on the equal footing. All right. So, from the city manager's point

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of view, can you please clarify as well because I think that um it's pretty clear why we would not be involved in those kind of conversations. >> Yeah. If you allow uh your influence, then we would be choosing vendors that

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you like. That's not how it works in public purchasing. There's no issues here. I have full confidence in our procurement department. They've won awards for following policies and procedures when including any of our

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vendors that purchase. What happens is a lot of vendors want to participate but they don't follow the rules. So they don't have insurance, background checks, all of the we also require checking their financial um

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I guess or ability to be able to do the work that they perform. So there's no issues here. there's no problems. In fact, we've saved money and ensured the uh ensured that everything that we're

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following follows governmental standards. So, we haven't gone outside of that process. Over these past many years, you've seen a lot of other cities that have problems with their procurement or we don't have any of that here. >> Okay. >> So,

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>> all right. I'd like to hear from uh Commission. So, so question now going to Commissioner Joseph's um inquiry, can he as an elected official talk to the city manager or talk to

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maybe have a meeting with let's say the building department if we're getting some sort of we have a bid out there for Tony Rome and inquire about what has been presented, what the conversations have been, can he do that? You could make inquiries of staff through the

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manager and if the manager decides to have the his staff there as well to provide you. You can always make inquiries. You just cannot direct or suggest that they do something because it's kind of hard when you have a commit an elected official come to you and say,

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"Hey, I think we should do this." >> Even though it's not a do this, you feel compelled to do that. So you that's where and it's in your charter where you can always make inquiries but um you just have to be in the procurement process you just have to be careful with

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it because a lot of it it's not necessarily confidential but some aspects of it are until you get to a certain point. So it's information that you get but you're certainly able to get that information from uh from staff [snorts] and through the city manager. >> Yeah. So so okay. So let's say in that

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process of inquiries we realize that let's say some of the vendors that we had been analyzing perhaps don't are not good you know um what would happen in that situation I mean >> wait wait wait I just want clarification

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who's we >> no no let's say Jerry's meeting with with um >> with Stan and some other staff >> let's talk about how it works now not about what might be >> No cuz I want to know h how much you could ask questions because you wanted

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to know >> cuz you're you know I I don't want like I I want the public to understand the process. Okay. And I also want to understand that I think that we as elected officials we could go walk into the city manager's office and say I want

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to have a meeting. Let's talk about these this bid process. Right. I have some questions. I think we're free to do that. Correct. >> We do that. And so, for example, back to one of the situations when we were dealing with the docks where the commissioner wanted to make sure there

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certain type of stainless steel bolt was being used. >> Mhm. >> You can certainly do that. You can you can ask for the scope of work. So, an RFP goes out, you can look at the RFP and or the RFQ, whatever it is, look at the scope of work and say, you know what, Stan, uh, I think we really need to make sure that they use these kinds

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of bolts. And that's something that can be updated. >> Yeah. As long as the process isn't finished, >> it's something that can you can communicate that all day long. >> Yeah. Is is that what you're looking for? >> No. Also, we have a problem where

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the the city manager is coming to us to acknowledge and approve funding for something that then goes out for bid. So, the vendors already know the amount that's been procured. So then we're

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asking them to give us their best bid on something that they know has already been procure, you know, an amount that's already been offered to the commission. So in that regard also, we're paying more than we should be on a lot of

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things. >> I want to let the city manager answer that, please. >> Yeah, that's incorrect. Um, it's impossible for us to not have something approved in terms of a budget amount for us to go and bid something out. If you want to leave it completely

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open-ended, then we could have, for example, holiday lights that cost $10 million. So, exactly. It seems laughable, but that's what you're suggesting in the in the reverse. So, we have to have a budget that establishes

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the amount. Certainly anyone can look at our budget. It's a public process. It's approved by you. But that is the basis for us bidding. If I'm bidding holiday lights and I don't put some sort of a range in it, some people may bid, some

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people may not bid, or we could get some outlandish numbers. That's what keeps the process true. And it all gets approved by you from start to finish. to Commissioner Lama's question. Yes, we're happy to answer any question

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that you have, but this has happened in the past where you've brought a vendor, not you specifically, you've brought a vendor to me and said, "I want to use this person." What I then do is put them in contact with our procurement director. They have to be part of the

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process. We don't just use any vendor. We have to put it out to bid as is our process. And then the best responsible bidder is awarded the contract based on the process which involves the subject

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matter experts from the city or outside count council plus our legal counsel and committees that help weigh in and evaluate the process. All of which are documented, recorded and open to the

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public to a certain extent. If I if I may may or also just because I prepare the and I review all the RFPs, RFQS for legal sufficiency. >> Providing a budget is really the exception and I think the most recent one is the holiday lights. You know, we

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we sort of have to meter that in because as the city manager says, you can get the gambit. You know, you can go the millions and millions versus 10,000. Um, [clears throat] but if we're procuring, let's say when we did the showers at Samson >> Park,

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>> we put it out there. We need three showers put in. >> Give us your best shot. And then we get that back in. >> You did not put I'm sorry to interrupt. You did not put a an amount or you >> typically say, you know, uh, for $50,000, what can you do for us? That's not typical. And I think the only

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example I can think of from recent and I've been here three and a half years is the holiday lights because there we have a strict budget and that can really go all over the place. But if you're procuring something uh or service repairing what they're doing to the

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garage now you know you're you're we need pressure washing and sealing of our garage. You don't tell them I have $5 million for that >> and they'll come back and they tell us and then sometimes there's great disparity between vendors and that makes it easier but you also have to look at qualifications and so on and so forth.

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So I think the question was do we put an amount when we put a bid out and you and you stated that the only exception or one of the few exceptions was the holiday lights >> in my memor I mean obviously procurement and and management may have other examples but typically we don't say

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please do this for us for this amount or less. >> Mhm. >> We do have just a little point of clarification but we have budgeted that amount. So that's what I was referring to when I said they could see if they want to go into the budget. Yeah. >> In the in the example that the city

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attorney gave for the showers, they can look at our individual bud budget line items and see that we've allocated a certain amount of funds to redo the bathrooms at Samson in that example. Okay. >> Um, vice mayor is on the phone. I want to give her an opportunity if she wanted

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to ask any questions. Vice Mayor, she's still there. is >> Jennifer. >> Hello. >> Yeah. Do you have any questions? Are you able to hear us? >> Uh yeah, it's it's difficult and I'm

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following actually as best I can with the uh subtitles. Anyway, the um the um cone of silence is I remember when we uh um opted out and

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um it was basically us joining everybody else like we we were behind the times on that and it serves a purpose. Uh I'm not interested in in changing anything. um you know it's it prevents that it

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can't guarantee uh per perfection but it prevents the uh you know shadiness and uh you know we don't want to go back to the wild west where if you're somebody's friend you

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have a better chance of getting a contract like this is meant to like put everybody on equal footing and that's uh the way it should be on merit and mutually. Uh so, uh removing the

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cone of silence, I think, is a step back. So, um I'm not in favor of of touching it. >> Okay. All right. Um Commissioner Lama, are you uh in favor or are you um of of changing the

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>> No, I like to keep I like to keep the cone of silence. I think that we could still obviously go to the city manager and you know have a meeting with the city manager to inquire about you know some of the companies that are bidding um look at the information. I do recall

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when we didn't have the cone of silence. We're about to vote for something and and vendors were calling me and um yeah I don't think that's the proper way to go about things. I think Jerry that you still have the ability to talk to Stan and to staff. You know, you request a

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meeting, you could talk to them and you could give him, you know, your your opinion. Um, I think it's like like the city attorney stated, it is for us not to be speaking to vendors. Um, you know, we don't want

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>> I've never just I I've never taken those calls. >> Yeah. Yeah, because I think the cone of silence was implemented when around the time you came in. >> Yeah. >> And uh I I did Yeah. They would call me. They would call me and and and I I kind of felt uncomfortable to be honest.

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>> It was in my second year. >> Yeah. >> Voting pack in. >> Yeah. Yeah. So I Yeah. It's it it makes it an an awkward and uncomfortable uh you know moment when when these vendors call you and you're about to vote for something and Yeah. I would refer him to

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to to staff. I'm like, listen, talk to staff, but still, you know, some of these vendors, you know, or you know, you want to you don't want to be rude, but yeah, it's uncomfortable. >> Well, look, I know we go to um

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conventions sometimes and we have people from freebie and these other vendors. they they come up to you and I mean we've had commissioners present freebie to us and I know I was approached by

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freebie several times and uh you know >> and it's going to happen. You refer them to >> others as well. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But um I I never really uh let them address me to the point where they think I might,

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you know, present anything to uh have them be above anyone else. >> But I get your point. If you say, "Listen, you know, vendor A has got this product that's faulty or I don't think it's the proper product," I think you could meet with city staff and ask them

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and, you know, have a conversation with them. And just a caveat, mayor, because it's the the cone of silence is the the the ordinance is long and it's got a lot of exceptions. So when we say talk to staff, I just want to be careful and I can forward you the cone of silence.

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>> So for example, >> if they're going to be on the selection committee or evaluation committee, you can't talk to them. >> U there's certain staff you won't be able to talk to. You can always talk to procurement. You can always talk to the manager. If there's somebody else you need to talk to, we need to check to make sure they don't fall within

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depending on what the procurement is. Okay? So, I don't want to think that you can talk to anybody. >> The point is that we could have a conversation with with the manager and perhaps someone else from procurement or something, >> right? So, there's designated folks that that can let me uh just give the manager the

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final word so we can move on because I think >> Mayor, I just wanted to add one more thing. Whenever our purchasing director releases a solicit a solicitation to bid, we do a city-wide email and we also copy you on that so you that you're aware of it and anybody that wants to

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participate is welcome to. >> Thank you. Okay. >> I just have one other question. >> Sure. So in the procurement process when there's a certain item that's looking to be purchased is there research done to be sure that the product that we're

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looking to purchase is the most upto-date and you know sometimes there's I know when I've ever gone to buy a laptop I'm always buying the best on the market that's going to last me you know

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or the chip that's just coming out so that I have this laptop is going to be useful to me for several years where you know if you go in and just buy any laptop from BJ's or any other vendor Best Buy

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they have they could have a model there that's two years old and you would never know it or a chip that's two years old. So, I just want to be sure that there's some process with procurement that they're researching. We're not we're not

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ever ending up with a product that is not the top of the line and that we're thinking ahead several years as to this product is is going to be above and beyond even several years from now.

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in dealing with the contracts and and with procurement directly every day. Um to use your example for computers, you know, we have Derek who's our IT director who's extremely knowledgeable in that area. So certainly if there's going to be a procurement for purchasing

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computers, uh procurement staff, purchasing staff works with again the subject matter experts in the city or if we don't have subject matter experts in the city, we go to a consultant that we have. But certainly uh staff isn't just

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saying, "Oh, we need a computer, so let's just go to Best Buy and get the best deal." That it's just not how it works. >> Okay. Okay. All right. >> But wait, just one more. One more and we need to move on because the discussion item is already done. >> So just we have actually on the agenda today. So, I'm just for as an example,

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and I'm trying to have this not happen again in this city where we had when when it came to doing a contract regarding the undergrounding in Golden Shores, whoever was around at that time was not forward thinking enough to think

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ahead as to what might be the internet um product that was going underground at the time. in in 2026. Okay. So, but copper has been obsolete for many

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years now and still the contract how how it was written was that any whatever was on the light on on the polls was to go underground which was a a technical error in the contract at that

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time and I've been yelling about it for months and months and months. Okay. And that's my main point to be sure that we don't make that mistake again ever. >> But that's not a procurement issue. So there's two things there. One, it's it's

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not a procurement issue because we don't that's not something the city's purchasing. So the product that's being put there, that's an undergrounding project where we are undergrounding the existing lines. We don't regulate the the public services commission. >> Forward thinking.

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>> It's not it's not a procurement. We didn't purchase anything. So that has nothing to do with procurement. That's a completely separate issue that you can deal with, you know, with the prior manager potentially. But we don't really control and we discussed it last meeting exactly what utilities can go under there because we

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don't have >> looking to get that tentacle regarding the utilities. I'm just this is an example and that is a utility. >> The example is to for our procurement department to be forwardthinking >> but procurement has any product that's purchased. That's what I would like to

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see. >> We didn't purchase that product, so procurement had no involvement in that. >> That's okay, that's my point. >> All right, let's move on. I just want to say for the record that our procurement department and our staff have done an excellent job. No one is doing anything.

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I'm saying it for the record. Um, our IT department, I believe that Derek is a graduate of MIT. Um, so >> no one can know everything about everything. >> But about computers, I feel confident that he knows. So let's move on to the next item, please.

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>> I made my point. >> Thank you. >> Mayor, commissioners, we're going to go back now to special presentations 3C, the proclamation presented for parks and recreation month. I'll read the proclamation and then if the commission can come downstairs to

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>> How many people do we have? A lot. >> The whole department. >> So maybe we'll just stay up here and Okay. [laughter] >> Go ahead. You want me to read it first or do you want to do your introduction? >> Uh, you you can read it first cuz then I'll play the video after. >> Okay. So, the proclamation reads, "Whereas parks and recreation is an

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integral part of communities throughout this country, including the city of Sunny Al Beach, and whereas parks and recreation promotes health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health for people who live near parks. Whereas parks and recreation promotes time spent in nature, which positively impacts

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mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being and alleviating illnesses such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. Whereas parks and recreation encourages physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails,

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swimming pools, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. Whereas parks and recreation is a leading provider of healthy meals, nutrition services and education. And whereas parks and recreation programming and education activities such as out of

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school time programming, youth sports and environmental education are critical to childhood development. Whereas parks and recreation increases a community's economic prosperity through increased property values, expansion of local tax base, increased tourism, the attraction

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and retention of businesses and crime reduction. Whereas parks and recreation is fundamental to the environmental well-being of our community. Whereas parks and recreation is essential and adaptable infrastructure that makes our communities resilient in the face of

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natural disasters and climate change. And whereas parks and Excuse me. Whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors. Whereas

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the US House of Representatives has designated July as parks and recreation month whereas the city wishes to recognize the benefits derived from parks and recreation resources. >> Thank you, Mauricio. Honorable mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city staff.

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Um, it's July. It's park and recreation month. Each July, we celebrate park and recreation prof professionals and how they improve the lives of tens of millions of people, making a lasting impact communities across the country. Park and recreation programs are essential to community health and

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well-being and help cultivate lifelong friendships, memories, and family bonds that people can hold dear decades later. This year's theme, the power of, celebrates how parks and recreation brings us together through the power of

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play, nature, belonging, and the people of our community. So, if you would humor me for a moment, we have some highlights of our past year of the city of Sunny Beach and culture and community services department activities, programs, and the power of

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Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> And that's just a small piece of what we've done for you for the past year. So, I'd like to thank my staff that's behind me and then of all of you for your continued support. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Sign off, man. [applause]

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>> Everyone can come up. We'll we'll take a picture from this side. >> All right. [snorts] >> Thank you everyone. Appreciate your hard work. >> You can't do those activ there's too many of them.

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>> Yeah, there's a lot. I mean, there's not too many of you. You know what I mean? There's just the right amount. >> We appreciate your hard work. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] >> [applause] >> All right. Thank you. And I'm sure that

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that video could have probably been like an hour long and still would not have been enough. Um, okay. I understand that uh one of the other students is here, so I'd like to be able to recognize her. Yars love left.

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>> Yes, he left. >> Okay. >> Amelia. Amelia, you have her there. I don't I have Ariana. >> Sorry, Ariana. You Ariana? Hi. Yes. >> Okay. Do you want to come up? Are you alone or are you your mom? Okay. Do you

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want to come up? We'll take a picture. >> Okay. [applause] Congratulations, Ariana. All right. Um, now we are to PD or not yet? >> No, we are going to move that um off the agenda.

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>> All right. So, now we're on item 4 I. Mayor, if I may, um, that officer is working midnight shift, so he comes in at six o'clock. So, we're going to have a little presentation with the commission in the fourth floor conference room at 6. >> At 6. Okay, perfect. That's

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>> sounds great. Thank you. Okay. >> Okay. So, now going back to discussion items. Uh, just to know for the record again, 4 H is being deferred. >> 4 I is a discussion regarding the Golden Shores undergrounding project update.

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>> Okay. believe that's the city manager. Uh honorable mayor commission. Um so at the June meeting the item for AM electric was

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did not move forward. It didn't get a second so it didn't move forward. Um for that reason the project is completely on hold. Mhm. >> We can't do anything further, which means power lines will not come down. Within the last couple of weeks, they've

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had at least two outages. Um may or may not be related, but um we need to come to a solution as to if we're going to we need some direction. Do we want to um go with our second bidder, which is

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twice as much cost hourly? Actually, a little bit more than twice. um bring back AM in some way or defer the Golden Shores undergrounding project for 6 months to a year. >> Okay, that sounds like a horrible idea.

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Um deferring that project is a nightmare, especially during hurricane season. >> Yes. >> Um I know that specifically Commissioner Joseph and I live in that neighborhood and uh I know I personally, I'm sure he did as well, experience the outage in the middle of the summer. is probably

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one of the worst things that could happen when the AC and everything else is off. So, um I am in support of moving the item forward, but let's hear from the rest of the commission. Commissioner Joseph. >> Yes. So, is it back on the agenda for this evening?

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>> It is not because we since nothing happened. you have the three-month um deferral, but when we looked at our second bidder, which is our next choice, uh the hourly rate for IM is $43 an hour compared to $120 an hour for our second

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bidder. So, I met with the city attorney to see if there was any way possible to bring it forward tonight. >> And is it is it possible? >> Yeah. So, your option would be to agree to uh add it on. Okay. >> An add-on tonight. And then you would

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have to cuz you can suspend that rule for the 3 months, but you're going to need uh a supermajority. You're going to need four vote who I'm sorry. You're going to need a super majority of those present. So if for example, if it was here, I'd need all three of you.

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>> Right. But we're not voting right now. >> No. No. Exactly. I'm talking tonight. >> Tonight. Okay. So I I'm I'm in favor of adding it back on. Commissioner Jose >> in favor as well. >> Commissioner Lama, >> I'm in favor. Yes. Vice Mayor. >> Me, too.

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>> Okay. So, it sounds like we probably will have our super majority. So, please move it to tonight. >> Yes. >> All right. Um, now we're to 4J. >> Yes. 4J is a discussion regarding the internet service for Golden Shores neighborhood. >> Okay. This is Commissioner Joseph. This

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is your item? >> No, this is city manager's item, actually. >> Oh, okay. Oh, it's not it's not my item. >> It's on as your item. >> Well, at the last meeting, Commissioner Joseph, you requested that we discuss at

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this meeting what the options were for Golden Shores. So, we invited both AT&T and Breezeline. >> Okay. >> To explain that AT&T unfortunately was not available, but we do have a representative here from Breezeline. >> Um, if you could please come up and

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describe what services you're providing to the community. So, I just I just want to um understand AT&T was offered to be here and they rejected the offer. >> They said they were not available. >> Not available.

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>> They did send some information but it's it's marketing materials that were >> Okay. >> So, knowing so AT&T knowing that Breezeline was going to be here, >> yes, >> they didn't show up. >> That is correct. >> I just want to make that clear. >> Understood. >> Okay. Thank you.

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>> All right. Hi. Hey, how are you? Uh, if you can just give us your name and address for the record is that's our process. >> You can give the address of of the business. >> Thank you, mayor, vice mayor, council members. Um, I'm Lars Lafus from Breezeline. I'm the general manager for

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Florida for Breezeline. Um, we are very proud and very thankful to be able to serve Sunny Isles. Um and we have invested tremendous amounts of money to both we've completed all the underground work in Golden Shores as well as Sunny

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Isles multi-phase project. Um we've actually invested uh additional funds to uh create some new technology that's never been deployed in southern Florida uh in Golden Shores actually. Uh and it's basically bringing fiber across the

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street from your home. Right. >> Okay. So we actually today we we are able to offer multi- gig services you know two gig or more uh to many of the areas in in Sunny Isles and in Golden Shores we have gig symmetrical services

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as well as 2.5 gig services available. So this is very recent um in fact it's so recent that I brought our board of directors to uh demonstrate it last week uh in Golden Shores. a very proud moment for us in Florida as Breezeline and very

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proud moment for our company. Um we're again very grateful to be able to serve this area. >> Thank you. Okay. Uh do you have any questions, Commissioner Jose? >> Well, I just like to say that um I have in Golden Shores, I've been through

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AT&T. I've been through AT&T satellite. I've been through um Breezeline. Um, I've had frustration with both services. Um, and I actually was going to cancel my Breezeline service the

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other day and I took in T-Mobile wifi out of frustration because I had no dependable Wi-Fi at my house, which uh if you were to check my Breezeline account, uh there's a numerous months

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and months and months of calling uh with terrible service. Um actually I they I was put on the pilot program which um not out of my asking. I just happened to

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see on Saturday there was a uh service rep going door too in Golden Shores and he was across the street at my neighbor Sheila's house who wasn't home and I spoke with him and he said he was going

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around to uh hopefully to connect new s a new type of ser a hybrid service that they had to homes homes that did not have resine currently. So I said, "Well,

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that's funny because I was just I just took in uh T-Mobile Wi-Fi out of frustration and I was calling on Monday to cancel my breeze line." And they said, "Oh, don't do that, but as a new customer, we can connect you to our

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hybrid service." I said, 'Well, not to do anything for me specially, but if you're willing to try and I'm, you know, willing to be out of frustration to have any better service than I have now, um,

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if you're willing to connect me, I'm going to say exactly what I uh notice and recognize as to the difference in my service. and uh they connected me yesterday and I have to say out in the street which is not what I have in my

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house but I saw that out in the street there was 2.5 gigs um of service in my house I had 560 because I have copper from the street to my house and inside my house

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>> yeah we did look at that commissioner Joseph you have eero uh Wi-Fi uh in your house and we deliver the gig symmetrical to your modem and it's just Wi-Fi by nature whether it's AT&T or us or anybody else. It does degrade signal but

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we absolutely wanted to provide you with the absolute best service. >> So now I'm looking to somehow bring fiber from inside my house to outside if that's possible. >> Is that we have we have fiber right outside your house and that's how we deliver the service.

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>> Right. But to bring the fiber into my house to my terminal, >> the last few feet are copper. Yeah. >> No, but to replace the copper with fiber. Is that possible for people? >> Is it possible? It is possible. It's I don't think it's necessary because we

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provide a service that is absolutely as good as fiber and fiber to the home, I should say. >> Well, I would certainly >> have fiber right outside your home. >> If there's something I could do to have 2.6 6 gigs inside my house. >> Again, you would need the equipment to

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do so. And we can deliver 2.5 gig into inside your house. >> Mhm. >> It's it's dependent on your Wi-Fi. It's dependent on your devices and how fast for iPhones for instance 400 megabits per second. They don't pass 2.5 gig. So, it's just matter. We will absolutely

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maximize what you need right >> to do your business. >> Okay. But if I were to bring fiber to the street from my house, have a contractor bring fiber from my garage to the street that would give me a a higher amount of

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gigs or no? >> Not necessarily. >> So that's not worth the effort. >> No, we again we stand by our service. We have multi- gig services throughout Sunny Sunny Isles. You get gig symmetrical or 2.5 gig to your home. We

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can deliver that now. We're very confident in that and we appreciate the ability to deliver that now having invested so much money to serve this area. >> Yes. >> Okay. Let me let me see if there's any other questions. Commissioner Llama, do you have any questions? >> Yeah. Question for you. So, how does it

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work with the high-rise buildings? I live in the Winston Towers. I don't know if you're familiar. 174 Street, you have seven towers there. How does it work? Is it the same setup where you have fiber and then copper going into the actual structure?

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It depends, right? It it absolutely depends. Um I can't speak to that building. Do you want to speak to that building? Okay. >> This is Danny Ortiz. He's our director of field operations. >> Hi, Danny. >> So, hi. Pleasure meeting you. Um Winsel Tower is a little bit different. Uh Windsor Tower is considered a bulk

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account, which means the actual building, the actual HOA, um does a contract with the company to provide a specific service. >> Okay. Just for that building in particular. Mhm. >> Um, if I'm not mistaken, Ward tower is actually a pond >> a what network?

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>> A G pond network. >> Okay. >> Which means that it is FTP fiber to the >> fiber to the unit. Okay. >> But to answer uh uh Commissioner Joseph's question, um, we can provide the same speed that we do in his network

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versus what we do in your network. What's going to make the difference is what you own in your home that allows you to reach >> that that speed. For example, the aeros system that you have is a Wi-Fi uh five system which can only go to a specific

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amount. >> I see >> through the Wi-Fi. >> So, I can upgrade that system. I can >> Yes. But if you would grab a computer and connect your computer straight to the modem, you will be able to get the speeds that we're >> right. Okay. >> It all depends on the system that you >> Vice Mayor, do you have any questions? >> No, but please speak into the mic. They

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can't hear you in the back. Sorry. Thank you. >> Just a little Yeah. Thank you. >> You also offer extend. >> She stepped away. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> You offer your own extenders as well? >> We do. >> We do. >> Yeah. And by the way, we're very proud

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to also carry this channel on our TV service. Uh we had some pings like, "Hey, good luck tonight." >> All right. Actually, the city does not have the correct channel indicated. If you could just let them know what channel that is >> so they can have it on their website.

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Gotcha. >> Because they have currently they have the wrong channel. >> All right. So, this was a nice little commercial for >> Brea. We do. Correct. >> Uh, all right. >> Honestly, we've we get this a great place. This is a beautiful city, by the

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way. I'm, >> you know, come from many other states. Um, and I've been with Breezeline for eight months as the general manager. Uh, I can tell you we have an amazing team. Uh, I I love working here and we're going to continue to get better and better and better every day.

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>> Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to to come. Thank you. Okay. >> I would just like to say one >> one more thing. >> Yes. I have been uh for for over two years trying to get the best service in Golden Shores for internet. And two

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years ago, myself and Senator Piso contacted AT&T when we noticed that on their website, they had clearly stated that copper was obsolete for internet service. We contacted them and they promised us

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that they would be bringing fiber into Golden Shores and to the state they still have not. And I uh there I believe they're not being here today is an indication that they're not looking to move forward in the best interest of

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Golden Shores residents. >> Okay. Just want to clarify that's the u not the opinion of the city. It's one commissioner. So I want to be careful that we're not >> well >> saying anything about someone that's not here. >> Okay. So but I know firsthand what I get it and thank you for bringing this item.

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>> All right. So with no other items, we're adjourning until 6:30. Thank you everyone. >> So come back down. You ready? Starting in five, four, three, two, up.

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And for this one, we're going to do a little bit of a challenge. If you can go to your left, have your left arm down, hold it, or if you want a challenge, can go like this and scoop underneath. Okay,

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switch. Same thing. Okay, hold it for five more seconds. Okay, bring it back to the middle. Okay, 30 second water break. you need to freshen up or use the bathroom, go

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ahead. After we when we come back, we'll go on to our technique. Okay, 15 more seconds. Okay, start walking back. Okay, and just a little disclaimer. Um, necessarily even if you may not notice

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that there's a lot of actual volleyball in it, like I mentioned earlier, working out. So some of the stuff we're doing we need to do in volleyball especially what we did with the blocking the jumping that is very required when it comes to

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blocking. So um even the clock that diving importantly is another key feature in volleyball. So learning how to do that is very important because again you do not want to land on these. These

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are very important in this right here. Why you don't stop you fall? Okay. So, technique, technique, technique, technique. It's very important. Wrong technique can either not give you the right results or

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you may hurt yourself in the process, which we do not want. So, the right technique is good. So, in volleyball, we have passing. So for my returners that already know, you should already know how to pass and

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how you should be how your stand is. For people who've never done volleyball before, it's real easy. It's as if you're just what we did at the beginning with the clock is just like that. You're low. Should never see you like this. This, no, you're low. You're ready to

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go. Like just in case you ever have to go to the floor, you don't have to worry about being up here and going down. You're already here. you go straight to it. So, you're low. Okay? And you I don't know if you guys can see, but my right foot is slightly in front of my

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left foot. It's not like this. It's slightly. Okay? Okay. So, you're here. You're low. Okay? And it's not I don't want to say it's like using the bathroom cuz it's not cuz you're a little bit

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more lower with that, you know? At least here you're midway. Okay? So, I'm here. Okay, I'm ready to go. And then from here, you go straight into your your arm work. So, here you take a C, take other

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C, cover it like this, and then close it. Okay, your little little, you know, fingers right here shouldn't be out. So, you want to make sure they're covered and that this is tight. So if you can have

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mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, whoever as how. So you see how it looks as if it's like a credit card swiper. You want to have them come and swipe in between your arms to see if it's tighten cuz this cannot come apart

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when you're passing a ball. This right here is very important when it comes to passing because without this that like let's say it's like this or it's like this it this determines the way the ball goes. So depending on how this is that's

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how the ball's going to go. Even my footwork that determines where the ball is going to go because if I'm facing like this trying to pass the ball and I need to pass the ball right here is not necessarily going to go that way. Yes. For my more advanced people, you can

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probably angle it, but we always want to try to pass the ball midline. So, this is my midline. Always want to try to pass the ball here. So, I'm ready. Okay. Go straight into my arms. And I'm ready to pass this ball. Okay.

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So, mom, dad, if you can come and try to swipe through it. You should not be able to swipe through. It should be very This should be so like together and strong that you're not even able to get all the way down to here. Okay. So, I'm low and I'm

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ready. Okay. Boom. And so, just how we did the jumping with the right foot and then the left foot, there's also shuffling for volleyball. So, here. Boom. Okay. And you see how I go. Boom.

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Let's walk it back. I'm here. Boom. And I'm low. Okay. I'm not standing up like no low. I'm ready to go. So

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the right foot slightly in front. It's just like more of a standing neutral position. But depending on where you are, depending on where you are on the court, your left foot may have to be in front depending on the angle. That's something later on we'll get into another video. But just in case you're

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wondering like, "Oh, well, Coach Ro said." So, just to clarify, sometimes your left foot does have to be in front depending on the angle and where you want the ball to go. So, for right now, we're just going to have our right foot slightly in front. So, I'm ready. Boom.

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Okay. And you're always low. You're ready to go. That's why you're ready. And that's why you're low and ready to go in case you have to go to shuffle. Okay? Because let's say you're standing up, you need to go to the right. Like you see the difference how it took me

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longer to get there when I'm standing up. I'm low. Boom. Okay. Standing up. It's not the same. And then again, never want to cross your feet front or behind. Okay? It's a shuffle. So I'm

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ready to go. Boom. Okay. And in case you ever do have to run, you're low and ready. Like you know how you see people when they're running, they start off low and they get up and they start. So you're low and you're ready. So you don't have to worry about

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necessarily not making it there. You're low and ready. Boom. Okay. So setting another key important thing. We're not going to spend much time on it, but just key features of it.

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So you want to have like a triangle. So you see this triangle? Just make a triangle with your hands. And then you're going to put it on your forehead. Not directly on, but near it. Okay. Okay. So

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boom. Turn. Right foot in front. Triangle. You don't have to necessarily make it, but at least have where you your parent, mom or dad could come and draw. It looks like a triangle. So here you're set up.

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Just push it straight out and set up. Okay, triangle here. And we will try with the ball just so you guys get an understanding of the technique. Now hitting for my people, um, anybody can do

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hitting. So, if somebody your friend told you, "Oh, no, you can't hit it because you're short or don't worry. It's it's better to know every technique for each thing because you never know when you may need it in regards to volleyball."

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So, here hitting. So, we call a bow and arrow. So, even as if you're shooting an arrow like you see how that So, the only difference is now boom boom. So, I'm

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hitting in the end. This is how you need to look. This left this left arm. Even though it may not look like it's doing much cuz depending on if you're lefty or righty, that differs because your left arm may be your dominant hand where you actually hit with it. But in the case of

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me, I'm righty. And I will demonstrate for lefty. Righty. Boom. This is determining where you want that ball to go. This is like your So, you know how GPS Oh, let's think. Yeah, GPS. So, there's an arrow that tells you north,

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south, east, or west. So, think of it like that. This is your arrow telling you where you're going to hit that ball direction. Okay? So, don't ever have your arm down like this and trying to hit. You still need this arm up. So, I'm here. Bow and arrow. Boom. Okay. And for

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my lefties, same thing. Just opposite bow and arrow. So boom. Okay. So bow and arrow. Boom. Okay. And make sure your fingertips your fingers

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aren't okay. It should never never look like this. Okay? It needs to be open. Okay? As if it's natural. And this is something you can do without a ball. You can do at any time you're just walking. Let's say you're just walking. Just practice your bow and arrow. Boom. Okay,

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make sure you're actually like this. Okay, so that's technique for passing, setting, and hitting. So remember passing, you want to always be low and ready to go. So I'm low, then I'm ready

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to go. Try not to have your arms just together just yet because you never know where the ball's going to go and then you don't want to be like this and trying to go. So, you're gonna boom, get there and then platform. Okay, let's do it again. Low. Ready. Boom.

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Right. Boom. Okay. Setting. Want to have a triangle over your forehead. Going to push that ball. Okay. And you for setting, you want to when it comes to push, think of it as

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like a hot potato. the ball's here because you don't want to necessarily have the ball too much here and then because it be considered a carry or a double. So you want to make sure once that ball touches you're pushing it. Okay? And then hitting bow and arrow.

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Always remember bow and arrow. Okay? Don't worry necessarily about power. It's all about technique. Okay? So bow and arrow. Boom. Okay? And it's the same thing for serving. Okay? serving, same

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thing. So, just to show you, so I'm hitting that ball. I have my bow and arrow. Serving, same thing. So, make sure your technique is always good. Okay. Um 15 second break just to relax, breathe,

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quick like quick sip just in case you need one and wipe down. Okay. And next will be our actual volleyball fun part. Okay. So, and bring it back.

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Okay. Now, volleyball. So, all the technique that we did, you try to want to use it to pass this ball. Okay. Um later on, we'll get into more other it's a fun challenge at the end where it's called Scooby-Doo. I'll go

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into more details when we get to that part. But passing, you're low and ready. Have your ball. If you can, if you have somebody to toss the ball to, that'll be great. If you don't, it's okay. You have yourself. You can pass it up. Self pass.

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Okay? You can always do that. That's something necessarily you can do on your own. You don't have to necessarily require. So, you can go out and just say, "Mom, dad, whoever you stay with that, I'm just going to pass to myself." Okay? And if you do not have a ball, don't worry about the passing. You work

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on technique. Okay? So, I'm here. I'm low. I have my ball. Right? Make sure that right foot slightly in front and you're low. Boom. Ball. Okay. Just toss and catch. Toss and catch. So, that catch, that toss is not actual good

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toss. You want to try to keep the ball in front of you. So, toss, catch. Okay. So I'm toss and I'm ready. Okay, that passing. So passing should always be here. Okay,

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so never here. Should always be here. So we're just going to do some self passing for a minute or two. Um, so you guys can start. I'm going to keep talking about passing. So make sure that you're passing this ball here, okay? It

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shouldn't be here because this necessarily doesn't it may make the ball go another angle or another way. So here is more predictable. So I'm here and I'm going okay.

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Okay. Look like that. Okay. So do that. Um now we're going to move on. You can keep doing that as I'm talking. The next one, same thing. Just a little bit of a challenge. So you kind of have two types of passing. You can either pass slow or

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high. And what I mean by that, I mean like to yourself, not it's different when you play with six other well, five other people, but when you're to yourself, work on actually passing low and high. It's all about ball control. It's very important. So I'm here and I'm

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low. I'm ready to go. Boom. Low, high, low, high, low, high. Okay, you see it's not the same. Um, if you can try to always practice low and high. It's not necessarily for It's just basic ball

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control. Basic ball control. That's very important. So again, low, high. So I'm here. I'm low. I'm ready. Toss. Low, high, low, high.

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Go high. Go high. Okay. So that's one way. Boom. Moving on. So next one. This is more setting and passing. So all I want to see is you passing and then

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setting the ball. But don't set it out. Set it back to your like in your area. So let me demonstrate. I'm here. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. So, I don't know if you guys noticed I double pass. I'm tall. So,

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make sure you're act you're passing the ball high enough for you to actually set. So, of what not to do when you're my height passing like not good. So, I want to make sure I pass that ball high enough

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including you. You guys pass high enough so you can get underneath that ball and set. Okay. So I'm low. Pass, set, pass, set, pass, set. Okay. So do like five of

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those. Ball control. Very important. You need it. If anything, always want to work on your ball control. That is very, very, very important. So now we're going to add a little bit challenge.

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So it's called Scooby-Doo. So this for my kids who are watching, you're probably going to love this cuz we tell you guys not to go one hand. Now you can go one hand. So for this it'll be just you're keeping the ball alive. When I mean by live, I mean like up in

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the air. So anything goes. And for my new people who've never done volleyball, you're allowed to touch this ball with any part of your body. So let's say the ball bounces off your head. It counts as a touch. Don't just think, "Oh, it touched my head." It doesn't count. No,

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it counts. Foot, knee, thigh, it counts. So in this case, when you're doing Scooby-Doo, even when you're playing that ball, so in volleyball, just a quick quicker, you're not touch the ball three times. So if

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that ball hits me on the head, my teammates, you cannot touch it till after somebody else touches it. But my teammates, that counts as a first touch. So they need to either use those other two touches to get the ball over. That includes the third touch. Third touch has to go over. So Scooby-Doo. So I'm

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here. I'm low. Even tip it. Okay. One hand. One hand. Boom. Pass. Okay. Slow. One hand.

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I'm keeping that ball up. Control with this. It's all about control. So for the one hand, you want to make sure it contacts here. Never never here. Here you have more control with this area. Okay. So you do some

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Scooby-Doo for a little bit, a minute just to get the hang of it. You can add your knees to it. So pass. Boom. Boom. Pass. One hand. Okay.

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Now, next thing we're going to work on some setting. If you can, um, it'll be easier if you can have somebody try to catch the ball when you set, it'll be helpful. But if not, just have it like a target that you can. Or just practice

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setting up. So I'm here. Toss my ball. Set. Let it bounce. I go back. Toss. Trying to go set. Okay. So, make sure that ball is high. You do not want to set that ball here.

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Okay. Make sure it actually gets out. Okay. So, I'm here pushing. Okay. So, just practice of that or just like volleyball, we have the self pass. You also have yourself set. So, I'm here

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triangle pushing. You can add the pass. Okay. And whenever you feel that, let's say like I'm doing this and like the ball's just going all over, you're allowed to stop, reset, and start again. Okay? So, let's say I'm

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going to do pass, pass, set, pass, set, pass, set, set, pass. You add whatever combination you want to do, you can do. So now we have something that's called pepper.

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So just something um you can pepper with yourself. Just you can't hit to yourself. Um if you do, I would love to see that. But if you can try to use either a wall, um another if somebody else in your

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family that knows how to play volleyball, that's good. Or just have them catch the ball and you hit it to them. So, for right now, we're gonna pass, set, tip, pass, set, tip. Okay?

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And that tip, it's like a tap. Okay? Just so it comes back. Normally, you actually hit, but because in case some of you that aren't allowed to be like outside, you're in a confined space like myself, you just tip the ball back to

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you. Okay? or if you have a wall actually swing but a control swing it's like a almost like a rope. So it should look like that. Okay. So always remember it's all about

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control. Um for some of you that know um as like I hit hard. I did not start like that. You have to work on technique and control. Okay. So again,

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pass set two. Pass set two. Pass set two. Pass set two. Okay. So, it's something you can do or and if you have somebody else, they

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can toss you the ball first and your guys actually pepper where it's you pass, they set and then you hit to them and that's it's a regular pepper. But if not, pass set to yourself and you can tip to them or you can hit to them and just tell them catch the ball and toss

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it back to you. So, even with the hitting and pepper control, so let's say for example, this is my person. I'm not going to hit the ball hard. I want to make sure that it's controlled to them. Boom. Like so where it goes to them. Okay.

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So make sure it's like that. Don't actually try to kill them. So just make sure it's all about control, ball control, even setting with control and hitting control. Okay. So now hitting just to get a basics of hitting. So bow

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and arrow like this. Okay. And you need to you need to hear that. Okay? Like that means I'm actually making good contact with that ball. Okay? So I'm here. Okay. Making good contact. Okay. So

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Okay. Like cuz this determines a lot. This is good. This sound [applause] means that you contacted that ball. Good. Cuz this you can't hit like this. Little French fries. So this. No. This. Yes. So I'm here. Boom. Bow and

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arrow. Toss. Catch. Okay. So just pause like five second. Why do you think I caught that ball here? Just I know you guys we can't hear each other, but just in case say it out loud. You may like just have an idea. So this is my highest

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point of contact. Okay. So let's say I'm hitting. I don't want to catch the ball way down here. That's too low. So high contact. Bow and arrow. I toss catching high contact. You want to go for that ball. Okay. And then this.

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That's going to make good contact. So I'm here. Boom. Boom. just working on contact. Okay. And this right here, I'm actually

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following through. But don't This is just to get good contact with the ball and actually hear how it should sound. Okay. So, let's just couple more things. So,

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pass, set, tip, pass, bring it back. set tip. Okay, so now I'm going to add a little trick to it. Now let's try a roll. So a roll shot is more like a tot. And let it go

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off like this. Okay, just to add something. Pass, set, roll. Pass, set, roll. Pass, set, roll. Okay.

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So, now a little bit footwork and then we're going to wrap it up. So, footwork for hitting. It's the opposite if you are a lefty. So, I'm a righty. This is how I look for a righty. I'll do it for my lefties after. So, boom.

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Right, left, jump. Okay. Walk it back. Right, left, jump. Okay. Lefty. It'll be the opposite. Left, right, jump. Okay.

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Left, right, jump. Okay. Back for my righties. Right, left, jump. Okay. Right, left, jump. Okay. And arms, they need to go back and

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then come forward. So your arms. So don't think just because your arms are here. You actually need to use them because this brings the momentum for you to jump. Okay. So just to walk it slow. Boom. Boom. Boom. You explode.

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Okay. Few more. Right, left, jump. So say it in your head. Right, left, jump. Right, left, jump. From my lefties, left, right, jump. left, right, jump.

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Okay, so these are just some key things you can do at home. Everything that was that I went over is something that's very it adds to volleyball. Don't just worry about, oh, no, I need to work on passing. I don't need to work on the working out part. You do because in

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order for you to keep movement, you got to work on your you're here. you hear your clock especially and learning how to dive. So technique is very crucial. And so just to wrap it up, remember

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passing. You're low. You're ready to go. Platform. This is my platform. Very important. Cannot pass the ball. So just to demonstrate. So after I pass, look. Hold.

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Okay. So, make sure you're doing that and not It's not good. So, pass and hold. Okay. Setting triangle. Okay. Make sure you see that. And you're pushing. Okay.

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Hitting bow and arrow. Always remember that. Bow and arrow. Okay. And blocking. You're just jumping like make sure you actually you're ready. You're locked and loaded. And you go up. Okay. And so just a quick little, you know, cool down

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stretch. So shoulders, them up. Okay. Boom. Okay. Do this. Okay. Switch. Okay.

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Again, right arm try to touch that shoulder that um your back and then you're pulling. Okay, switch. Okay, shake it out. Right leg up

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and then just a little for my if you can try to add just see where your balance is at just for you know. Okay. Boom. Hold. Reach out if you can.

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Shake it. Okay. To the right. to the left, middle. Okay, bring it up. Okay, shake it out. Touch your toes. Okay, shake it out. Okay, thank you. Again,

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this is just stuff you can do at home. Does not require much. Just a ball, water, towel. This will also, if you had, again, if you didn't have if you had family members or friends that weren't able to tune in right now, this will be on the

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social media, including the YouTube channel. So, you can always go back and look if you need ideas. and we hope to have more of these videos so you get another idea of other stuff to do in regards to volleyball. Thank you. Make sure you guys are staying safe and look

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front desk services offered in the gymnasium. Senator Gwen Margolas Park located at 17815 North Bay Road. [music] Our soccer field hours of operation are daily from 8:00

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a.m. to 8:00 p.m. except when in use for city [music] programs. Our Senator Gwen Margolas Park playground [music] is open daily except for Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday's playground

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hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Bonezone Dog Park at Senator Gwen Margolas Park is open daily except for Wednesdays from 7:30 [music] a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Wednesday's hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Samson Oceanfront Park located at 17425 Collins Avenue is open daily from sunrise to sunset.

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The restrooms at Samson Oceanfront Park are open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Town Center Park located at [music] 172000 Collins Avenue is open daily except for

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Wednesdays [music] from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Town Center Park hours on Wednesdays are from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway Park, located at 151 [music]

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Sunny Isles Boulevard, is open daily except for Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway Park hours of operations on Wednesdays are from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with gates

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reopening [music] at 5:30 p.m. for Gateway Market. Gateway Park hours of operations on Thursdays will be from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway Center located at 151 Sunny

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Isles Boulevard is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. [music] to 4:00 p.m. Your Sunny Isles Beach resident ID card is your all access pass to Gateway Center.

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Show your valid card at the reception desk for entry. Pier Park and the Newport Fishing Pier located at 16501 Collins Avenue is open daily except for

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Tuesdays and Fridays from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Pier Park [music] and the Newport Fishing Pier on Tuesdays and Fridays is from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

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Intra Coastal Parks located at 16100 Collins Avenue are open daily from sunrise to sunset. The Inter Coastal Parks Playground is open daily except for Thursdays from

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8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. And the Inter Coastal Parks Playground [music] hours on Thursdays are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Visit sibl.net/parks net/parks

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for all park rules, guidelines, amenities, and hours. Sunny Isles Beach Ocean Rescue would like to remind you wheelchairs are available to our beach patrons.

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Wheelchairs for beach patrons are free, easy to push even on the soft sand of our beaches, and available 7 days a week during the Sunny Isles Beach Ocean Rescue operating hours. Beach patrons

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can request a wheelchair from any lifeguard tower. Please have your driver's license or your Sunny Isles Beach resident ID card available. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music]

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[music] [music] >> Hi everyone, Sergeant Hernandez here with the Sunny Isles Beach Police [music] Department. I want to share some important updates about motorized scooter regulations in our city. The city commission recently approved [music] a new ordinance to help keep our

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roads and sidewalks safer for everyone. [music] Here's what's changing. First, riders must now be 16 years or older to use a [music] motorized scooter in Sunny Isles Beach. Second, anyone riding a scooter will be required to [music] carry a governmentissued ID. And

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finally, violations come with fines. $250 for the first offense and $500 for any after that. We'll be focusing on education for the next couple of months, but starting June 1st, our officers along with our code enforcement officers

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will begin issuing citations. Let's work together to keep our roads [music] and sidewalks safe for everyone. Heat. Heat. [music] The drone is the first responder program here in the city of Sunny Islands Beach [music] is the first contracted nonBA

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autonomous drone dock setup in the state of Florida. This [music] new Skyio X10 dock in conjunction with Axon Air has provided us an opportunity and the citizens of Sunny [music] Isles Beach a tremendous benefit. This is a game-changing piece of technology and

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[music] enters us into a new era of public safety and protecting our citizens. We are able to respond [music] to calls for service, emergencies, traffic crashes, missing people, drowning victims much quicker than we ever could have. being an extra set of

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[music] eyes, they can be there in literally seconds. 20 seconds of launching the drone, [music] it is up in the air and on its way and will provide that extra layer of security and [music] make our response time so much quicker. When the dispatcher receives a call, the

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drone pilot [music] officer is already in the real-time crime center with the dispatchers. From the time they hear the call, they're already inputting the address into the system. They then [music] initiate the launch sequence that goes within approximately a 20- second process which sends the signal to the dock which is on the roof. The

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actually slides [music] back open. The drone does a quick self test. It launches itself in the air, orients itself, and then starts to fly to the call that we've dispatched it to. [music] With its technology, it's able to navigate around obstacles, get there

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the most expeditious route that it [music] can, and bring itself back when it's ready. I believe the drone will benefit the entire city, whether it's our residents, our visitors, [music] our police officers. This is a tremendous technological advancement and piece of

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equipment and truly exemplifies the motto of the [music] city of Sunny Isles Beach, which is the height of living. Adventure begins [music] at Sunny Isles Beach, a city like no other. Spanning just 1.78 [music] square miles, this charming city boasts

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not one or two, but 11 public parks. With nearly [music] 22,000 residents, our parks are within walking distance for everyone. Whether you're into baseball, soccer, joining your friends at yoga, [music] spending time on the playgrounds, or just soaking up the sun,

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there's something for everyone. Sunny Isles [music] Beach caters to every age with a variety of events and programs. Did we mention that [music] one of our parks comes with a breathtaking ocean view? Here you can bask in the beauty of the coast, connecting with [music]

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nature in a way that's truly special. Sunny Isles Beach, where adventure, community, and natural beauty come together to [music] create a unique city that we're proud to call home. Hello, Sunny Als Beach. I'm here at the Gateway Park pedestrian [music] bridge where important upgrades have been

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completed on both elevators thanks to the support of our city commission. The elevators now feature new glass doors [music] for a cleaner look and added safety. Inside, new security cameras are monitored around the clock through our Kings 3 system called Mosaic 1. This advanced technology can alert personnel if someone falls or needs help. And

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[music] riders can also press the call button inside the elevator to reach assistance immediately. Getting around the city [music] just got safer and easier. The city of Sunny Isles [music] Beach is proud to announce that our building department has earned accreditation from the International Accreditation Service,

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one of the [music] highest recognitions in the industry. The IAS assessment team visited our city for a comprehensive multi-day evaluation. [music] They conducted interviews, reviewed documents, and toured our facilities, verifying that our building department meets the [music] highest standards in customer service and building safety.

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Earning accreditation is a tremendous milestone for our billing department. It reflects our team's commitment to [music] professionalism, consistency, and public safety. We are just the 31st I accredited building department in [music] the nation. >> The assessment team highlighted our department's quality service standards

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from daily interactions at permitting windows to on-site inspections [music] throughout the city. Behind the scenes, the process required implementing a comprehensive quality management system, defining service [music] goals and establishing methods for auditing permits to ensure those goals are consistently met.

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>> I am proud to congratulate [music] our entire team on this important achievement. This accreditation is a testament to the hard work and expertise of [music] our staff. It can only be earned by meeting the rigorous standards set forth by the IAS. Thank you to everyone who contributed [music] to the success and continues to make Sunny

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Isles Beach a special place to live and work. >> [music] [music] >> We've been here 26 [music] years and just seeing the growth and all of the jubilation for you know the enthusiasm of the the growing of this [music] city has been really a wonderful

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experience you know just seeing all the it was a party you know so how can you [music] not enjoy the party [music] I'm happy for the city that they made 29 years it's a very good celebration and the dancing and singing were amazing.

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[music] [music] [music] He [music] >> [music] [music] >> I like it. It's a good place, a social gathering basically. It's good to find your friends, [music] meet new people obviously, and like just

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walk. It's It's like really entertaining. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hi, I'm Chief [music] Eddie Santiago with the Sunny Al Beach Police Department. Our police department and ocean rescue division are proud to share we have been designated [music] a

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certified autism center by the international board of credentiing and continuing education standards. This designation means that [music] at least 80% of our officers and staff are trained, certified and equipped to assist, support, and communicate [music]

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with autistic and sensory sensitive members of our community. For years, our department has shown a proactive [music] commitment to serving individuals with autism and sensory sensitivities through our autism outreach program. Becoming a certified autism center is about making

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sure every person [music] who interacts with our officers feels understood, respected, and safe. This strengthens trust [music] in our community and helps our officers respond with greater awareness, patience, and professionalism. Because effective [music] policing starts with

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understanding the people we serve. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hey, hey, hey. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] it. What do you

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Heat. Heat. [music] behind. Hey Heat. Heat. N. [music] >> [music] >> Come on. We >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

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[music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Hello, Sunny Isles Beach. Hurricane season is here and now is the time to prepare. Sunny Isles Beach is in

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evacuation zone B. If a category 2 hurricane or stronger threatens our area, you may be ordered to evacuate due to risk of storm surge. As part of your hurricane preparedness kit, have a 3 to 7day supply of water, non-p perishable food, medications, flashlight,

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batteries, and a first aid kit. If anyone in your household may need medical assistance or evacuation transportation, register now at miamiday.gov/hurricane. If you live in a condo or apartment, secure all your items on your balcony so they do not become dangerous to

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projectiles in a storm. And store important documents and valuables in a safe place. For single family homes, inspect and test your shutters, check your roof, trim trees away from structures, and clear debris from your yard and storm drains. Sign up for City of Sunny Isles Beach Pacific emergency

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notifications at sibfl.gov/siv alert to get updates before, during, and after the storm. Stay safe, Sunny Isle Beach. Hello, Sunny Al Beach. I'm here at the North Bay Road Pedestrian Bridge where you may notice some new improvements. The bridge has been repaired and

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enhanced with new ADA compliant surface and updated safety ballards. A new green stripe lane on the bridge ramps is reserved for scooter riders and bicyclists. When entering the bridge, [music] please keep to the east side,

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remaining safely separated from pedestrians. This ensures a safer [music] experience for everyone. As we enjoy these enhancements together, we kindly ask for your help in keeping the bridge clean and safe. Please dispose of

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gum [music] and trash properly and be mindful when walking pets so we can continue to take pride [music] in this beautiful public space. These upgrades are part of our ongoing commitment to keep pedestrians safe and make our city accessible to all.

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Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> The city of Sunny Isles Beach will observe the following park hours.

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Heritage Park located at 1 192000 [music] Collins Avenue is open daily except for Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 [music] p.m. Friday's hours are 12:00 p.m. to

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9:00 p.m. Golden Shores Park located at 2011 [music] 191st Terrace is open daily except for Tuesdays from 8:30 a.m. to sunset.

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Tuesday hours are from 12:00 p.m. to sunset. Pelican Community Park located [music] at 18115 North Bay Road. Hours of operation are [music] Monday through Friday from 8:30

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a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with

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front desk services offered in the gymnasium. Senator Gwen Margolas Park located at 17815 North Bay Road. [music] Our soccer field hours of operation are daily from 8:00

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a.m. to 8:00 p.m. except when in use for city [music] programs. Our Senator Gwen Margolus Park playground is open daily except for Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 [music] p.m. Wednesday's playground

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hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Bonezone Dog Park at [music] Senator Gwen Margolas Park is open daily except for Wednesdays from 7:30 [music] a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Wednesday's hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Samson Oceanfront Park located at 17425 Collins Avenue is open daily from sunrise to sunset.

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The restrooms [music] at Samson Oceanfront Park are open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Town Center Park located at 172000 Collins Avenue is open daily except

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[music] for Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Town Center Park hours on Wednesdays are from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway Park, located at 151 Sunny

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[music] Isles Boulevard, is open daily except for Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 [music] a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway Park hours of operations on Wednesdays are from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with

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gates reopening at 5:30 p.m. for Gateway Market. Gateway Park hours of operations on Thursdays will be from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gateway [music] Center located at 151

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Sunny Isles Boulevard is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 [music] p.m. Your Sunny Isles Beach resident ID card is your all access pass to Gateway

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Center. Show your valid card at the reception desk for entry. Pier Park and the Newport Fishing Pier located at 16501 Collins Avenue is open daily except for

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Tuesdays and Fridays from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Pier Park and the Newport Fishing Pier on Tuesdays and Fridays is from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

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Intra Coastal Parks located at 161000 Collins Avenue are open daily from sunrise to [music] sunset. The Inter Coastal Parks Playground is open daily except for Thursdays [music]

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from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. And the Inter Coastal Parks Playground hours on Thursdays are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Visit sibl.net/parks net/parks

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for all park rules, guidelines, amenities, and hours. [music] Sunny Isles Beach Ocean Rescue would like to remind you wheelchairs are available to our beach patrons.

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Wheelchairs for beach patrons are free, easy to push even on the soft sand of our beaches, and available 7 days a week during the Sunny Isles Beach Ocean Rescue operating hours. Beach patrons

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can request a wheelchair from any lifeguard tower. Please have your driver's license or your Sunny Isles Beach resident ID card available. Heat. [music] Heat.

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>> [music] >> Hi everyone, Sergeant Hernandez here with the Sunny Isles Beach Police [music] Department. I want to share some important updates about motorized scooter regulations in our city. The city commission recently approved a new ordinance to help keep our roads and sidewalks safer for everyone. [music]

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Here's what's changing. First, riders must now be 16 years or older to use a [music] motorized scooter in Sunny Isles Beach. Second, anyone riding a scooter will be required to [music] carry a governmentissued ID. And finally, violations come with fines, $250 for the

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first offense and $500 for any after that. We'll be focusing on education for the next couple of months, [music] but starting June 1st, our officers along with our code enforcement officers will begin issuing citations. Let's work together to keep our roads [music] and

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sidewalks safe for everyone. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> The drone is the first responder program here in the city of Sunny Isles Beach is the first contracted non-BA drone dock setup in the state of Florida. This

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[music] new Skyio X10 dock in conjunction with Axon Air has provided us an opportunity in the citizens of Sunny [music] Isles Beach a tremendous benefit. This is a gamechanging piece of technology and [music] enters us into a new era of public safety and protecting

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our citizens. We are able to respond to calls for service, [music] emergencies, traffic crashes, missing people, drowning victims much quicker than we ever could have. Being an extra set of eyes, they can be there in literally [music] seconds. 20 seconds of launching

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the drone, it is up in the air and on its way and will provide that [music] extra layer of security and make our response time so much quicker. When the dispatcher receives a call, the [music] drone pilot officer is already in the real-time crime center with the

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dispatchers. From the time they hear the call, they're already inputting the address into the system. [music] They then initiate the launch sequence that goes within approximately a 20 second process which sends the signal to the dock which is on the roof. The actually slides back open. The drone does a quick

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self [music] test. It launches itself in the air, orients itself, and then starts to fly to the call that we've dispatched [music] it to. With its technology, it's able to navigate around obstacles, get there the most expeditious route that it can, and [music] bring itself back when

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it's ready. I believe the drone will benefit the entire city, whether it's our residents, our visitors, [music] our police officers. This is a tremendous technological advancement and piece of equipment and truly exemplifies the motto of the [music] city of Sunny Isles

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Beach, which is the height of living. Adventure begins [music] at Sunny Isles Beach, a city like no other. Spanning just 1.78 square miles, this charming city boasts not one or two, [music] but 11 public parks. With nearly 22,000

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residents, our parks are within walking distance for everyone. Whether you're into baseball, [music] soccer, joining your friends at yoga, spending time on the playgrounds, or just soaking up the sun, there's something for everyone. Sunny Isles [music] Beach caters to

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every age with a variety of events and programs. Did we mention that one of our parks comes with a breathtaking ocean view? Here you [music] can bask in the beauty of the coast, connecting with nature in a way that's truly special. Sunny Isles [music] Beach, where

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adventure, community, and natural beauty come together to create a unique city that we're proud [music] to call home. Hello, Sunny Als Beach. I'm here at the Gateway [music] Park pedestrian bridge where important upgrades have been completed on both elevators thanks to the support of our city commission. The

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elevators now feature new glass doors [music] for a cleaner look and added safety. Inside, new security cameras are monitored around the clock through our Kings 3 system [music] called Mosaic 1. This advanced technology can alert personnel if someone falls or needs help. [music] And riders can also press the call button inside the elevator to

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reach assistance immediately. Getting around the city [music] just got safer and easier. [music] The city of Sunny Isles [music] Beach is proud to announce that our building department has earned accreditation from the International Accreditation Service, one of the highest recognitions in the

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industry. The IAS assessment team visited our city for a comprehensive [music] multi-day evaluation. They conducted interviews, reviewed documents, and toured our facilities, verifying that our building department meets the [music] highest standards in customer service and building safety. Earning accreditation is a tremendous milestone

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for our billing department. It reflects our team's commitment [music] to professionalism, consistency, and public safety. We are just the 31st I accredited building department in [music] the nation. >> The assessment team highlighted our department's quality service standards from daily interactions at permitting [music] windows to on-site inspections

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throughout the city. Behind the scenes, the process required implementing a comprehensive [music] quality management system, defining service goals and establishing methods for auditing permits to ensure those goals are consistently [music] met. >> I am proud to congratulate our entire team on this important achievement. This

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accreditation is a testament to the [music] hard work and expertise of our staff. It can only be earned by meeting the rigorous standards set forth by the IAS. Thank you to everyone [music] who contributed to the success and continues to make Sunny Isles Beach a special place to live and work. >> [music]

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[music] >> We've been here 26 years and just seeing the growth and all of the jubilation for you know the enthusiasm of the the growing of this city has been really [music] wonderful experience you know just seeing all the it's a party you

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know so how can you not enjoy the [music] party [music] I'm happy for the city that they made 29 years [music] it's a very good celebration and the dancing and singing were amazing. [music] [music] [music]

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[music] >> [music] >> I like it is it's a good place, a social gathering basically. It's good to find your friends, meet new people obviously, [music] and like just walk. It's it's like really entertaining.

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[music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hi, I'm Chief Eddie Santiago with the Sunny Als Beach Police Department. Our police department [music] and ocean rescue division are proud to share we have been designated a certified autism center by the international board of

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credentiing [music] and continuing education standards. This designation means that at least 80% of our officers and staff are trained, certified, and equipped to assist, support, [music] and communicate with autistic and sensory sensitive members of our community. For

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years, [music] our department has shown a proactive commitment to serving individuals with autism and sensory sensitivities through our autism [music] outreach program. Becoming a certified autism center is about making sure every person [music] who interacts with our officers feels understood, respected,

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and safe. It strengthens [music] trust in our community and helps our officers respond with greater awareness, patience, and [music] professionalism because effective policing starts with understanding the people we serve. >> [music] [music]

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[music] >> Heat. [music] [music] Hey, Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music]

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Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

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Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Hello, Sunny Isles Beach. Hurricane season is here and now is the time to prepare. Sunny Isles Beach is in evacuation zone B. If a category 2 hurricane or stronger threatens our

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area, you may be ordered to evacuate due to risk of storm surge. As part of your hurricane preparedness kit, have a 3 to seven day supply of water, non-p perishable food, medications, flashlight, batteries, and a first aid kit. If anyone in your household may

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need medical assistance or evacuation transportation, register now at miamiday.gov/hurricane. If you live in a condo or apartment, secure all your items on your balcony so they do not become dangerous to projectiles in a storm, and store important documents and valuables in a

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safe place. For single family homes, inspect and test your shutters, check your roof, trim trees away from structures, and clear debris from your yard and storm [music] drains. Sign up for City of Sunny Isles Beach Pacific emergency notifications at sibfl.gov/si

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alert to get updates before, during, and after the storm. Stay safe, Sunny Isles Beach. Hello, Sunny Al Beach. I'm here at [music] the North Bay Road Pedestrian Bridge where you may notice some new improvements. The bridge has been repaired and enhanced with new ADA

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[music] compliant surface and updated safety ballers. A new green stripe [music] lane on the bridge ramps is reserved for scooter riders and bicyclists. When entering [music] the bridge, please keep to the east side, remaining safely

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separated from pedestrians. This ensures a safer [music] experience for everyone. As we enjoy these enhancements together, we kindly ask for your help in keeping the bridge clean and safe. Please dispose of gum and trash properly and be

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mindful when walking pets so we can continue to take pride in this beautiful public space. These upgrades are part [music] of our ongoing commitment to keep pedestrians safe and make our city accessible to all. [music]

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Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> the city of Sunny Isles Beach will observe the following park hours.

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Heritage Park located [music] at 1 192000 Collins Avenue is open daily except [music] for Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Friday's hours are 12:00 p.m.

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to 9:00 p.m. Golden Shores [music] Park located at 2011 191st Terrace is open daily except for Tuesdays from 8:30 a.m. to sunset.

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Tuesday hours are from 12:00 p.m. to sunset. Pelican Community Park located at 18115 North Bay Road. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to

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9:00 p.m. [music] All >> [music] [music] >> right, good day. Uh, my name is Randy George. I'm one of the coaches here at Pelican Community Park. One of the basketball coaches here at Pelican Community Park. And today, um, I'm just

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going to be showing you guys some drills that you can do at home um, while we, you know, while you have a basketball and stuff. So, you know, all we doing is you're going to do some b some some basic ball handling drills. And to start, all we're going to do is just,

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you know, just getting some shooting drills in. So, but at the same time, we're not using the rim. So, all we doing is we working on a release point as well as just, you know, just just getting a feel for the ball. Okay. So, what we're going to do to start, okay, so we're just going to haul the ball.

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You know, we're just getting some shots up. So basically, we just, you know, throwing the ball over our head, just getting some good rotation, getting them good spin on the ball and just working on a, you know, working on a release, you know. So, you're just tossing it up,

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catching the back, you know, just working on some good release. You know, this with this drill, you can do it from a standing position as well as a seated position. So, now I'm just going to demonstrate from a seated position. Okay. So, we here and we're just tossing

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it over our head and catching it. Just getting some good rotation, good spin on the ball. Okay. At the same time, we're just working on our follow through for our shot. Okay. So, just getting some good spin on the ball. Good rotation. We're just following through guard. Uh

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we got our guard guide hand up on the ball. You know, we just releasing, you know, just working on that rotation for our shot. Follow through. Just getting that good follow through.

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Okay, job. So, now we're going to work on some just getting a feel of the ball. So, all we doing now, okay, we just have the ball here in front of our face and then we just passing it. We're just passing it from a fingertip to fingertip, left hand to right hand.

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Okay, just passing it back and forth. Just getting feel of the ball. Just getting a good feel for the ball. Okay, we can do this for about 20 seconds. Then we take it up over our heads. And we do the same thing. Okay, just getting the feel of the ball. Just

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passing it from fingertip to fingertip. Okay, now we bring it back down. Now with this one, we can go up. Keep it up a little bit. and just bring it back down. Up over our heads again and bring it back down. Go up again one

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more time and bring it back down. Okay. All that is doing is just we just getting a feel for the ball from now. Okay. At at on this next drill, what we're going to do, we're going to start some ball handling. Okay. So, what we're going to do is we just stand tall and we just pounding the ball. Okay. What we

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try to do is just, you know, keep the ball shoulder height. Okay. Okay, don't let it go over your head like this. Okay, just keep your shoulder height. Just get a good rhythm. Get a good feel for the ball. Keep your fingers spread. Okay, you always try to keep your fingers spread on the ball. Okay, don't

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let it hit you in your palms. Okay, you try to hit try to keep it on your fingertips. Okay, so you pound it here. Maybe you pound it for about 15 20 seconds. Okay, now you go knee height now. Okay, now the same thing. Now this time you put your guard hand up. Okay,

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you got to protect the ball while you dribble. You got to protect the ball so nobody won't steal it. Okay, so we prepare. We just pounding it. About 20 seconds. Back straight. You can You're not hunched over like this. Back

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straight. Head up. Protecting the ball. Okay, you can go a little lower about ankle height now. I'm just pounding it. Okay, just pound it. Protect it. Okay, now we can switch over to the other side. So, you just stand straight up and just pounding. Just

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getting a good feel for the ball. Okay? Just pounding. Keep your fingers spread. Okay? Don't let it hit you in your palms. Just keep your fingers spread. Okay? Now, we can go down about knee height. Right? Hand up. Hand up. Okay. Back

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straight. Not hunched over. And we just pounding it. We can go a little lower now. Go a little lower to our ankle height. Okay. ankle height. All right, good job. [snorts] Okay, on this next one we got crossovers. So,

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we're going to do the same thing. This time, okay, we a little wider. We got a little wider stance. So, we're just keeping it low. Just back and forth. Keeping it low. Just crossovers. Balls below my knees. Okay, it's not high.

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It's below my knees. Okay, again, back straight. Okay, you're not hunched over. Back straight, head up, and you're just pounding it left and right. Just pound it left and right. Okay, again, good job. Okay, now this

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time we're going to do the same thing. Just in and out. It's just one hand. Okay, so we're here. You can put your right hand behind you just like this. You're just going in and out to the front. Okay, see how my body is moving? Have a good rhythm on my dribble. Okay,

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just in and out. my one hand just in and out. Okay, now we can switch it up and do the same thing with your left hand. Just back and forth now. Same thing, back and forth. Just pounding it. Just pounding

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it back and forth. There's a lot of different variations of these dribbles that we can do. Okay, right now we're just trying to work on the basics. Okay, now we can switch. Same thing. Left and right. Okay. Just

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in and out. Just in and out. Just like this. Okay. Then we can switch it back to front. Now back to front. Same thing. Keep your hands spread. Okay. Fingertips on the ball and you just pounding it

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back and forth. Okay. Good job. So now with this dribble, okay, is it there's a different there's there's a lot of different things as I said we can do with our dribble. Okay, we can add different combinations to our dribbles. So now we're just going to do crossovers in

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between the legs. Okay, so here we go. There you go. Okay, then we can switch sides. Same thing. Okay. Sorry, we missed that one. There you go. Okay, now this time we're going to do it a little bit a [snorts] little bit more.

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We're going to add another combination to this one. Okay, so we here. Cross over between the legs. Round the back. Cross over between the legs. Round back. Okay, cross over between the legs. Round back. Okay, good job. Now, we're

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going to do it again. Okay, so there's, like I said, there's different combinations that we can do with our dribble as we get advanced. Okay, we can add stuff to it. We can do it on the move, but right now we just stationary, just working on our ball handling stationary. Okay, so we're just here.

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Okay, just like this. Just going between our legs, just working. The objective is to keep it low. Okay, keep it low. Keep your dribbles low and protect it. Okay, keep it low and

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protect it. There's a lot of different things that you can do with your dribble. You can add different different uh combinations to your dribbles. Okay, there you go. Good job. Okay, so again, like I said,

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there's a lot of different things that you can do to to advance your dribble, okay? It takes a lot of work, but at the same time, once you're working, you get better. Okay, good job. >> [music] [music] [music]

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>> All right. Once [snorts] again, this is coach Randy. Uh, now with this time with this uh segment, this this going to be, you know, we're using two balls this time. So, this is the second segment segment of drills that we going to be use. This using this time is going to be with two balls. Okay. Okay. So, this is

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going to be a little bit more advanced than the first than the first segment that we just did with the one ball. Okay. So, now here we go. So, we just pounding both balls at the same time. Okay. Going to keep our head up. Okay.

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Same rules apply. Fingertips. Okay. Don't let it hit you in your palms. And you're just dribbling with control. Controlling it. Okay. So you can pound it up. Okay, now your car's down a little bit. Okay,

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same rules apply. Back straight and you just pound it. Okay, so this time you can go a little lower. Okay, this time you can go a little lower. This time you can go left and right. Okay, front to back. Front to back this

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time. front to back. This time you can move to the to the right. Move to the left, right, and left. You can pound one harder.

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There you go. Pound one softer at the same time. Then you can switch. Okay, keep it going. Good job. Okay, you can take you can take one hand off. Just hand on one and

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the other one. Release one. We're going between the legs and the other one. And you're just counting it. Okay. Just getting that good work in. Try to keep your head up. Okay. You're just pounding it just left and right.

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Give a good feel for the ball. back and forth. Okay, here. Cross over. Switch it over. Okay, you can lunge. Come on. Lunge with the other foot. There you go. Just

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getting some good work. Switching it out. Back and forth. Just back and forth. Switching it out. Okay, getting that good work in. Pound it. Pound it both. And you can alternate. You can also alternate. Just keeping it

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going low. Keep it low. Bring it up high. Getting a good feel of the ball. Okay, good job. I hope you enjoy these drills. Good job. >> [music] [music]

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[music] >> Hi everyone. Sergeant Hernandez here with the Sunny Alles Beach Police Department. I want to share some important updates [music] about motorized scooter regulations in our city. The city commission recently approved a [music] new ordinance to help keep our roads and sidewalks safer for

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everyone. Here's what's changing. First, riders must [music] now be 16 years or older to use a motorized scooter in Sunny Isles Beach. Second, anyone riding [music] a scooter will be required to carry a governmentissued ID. And finally, violations come with fines.

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$250 for the first offense and $500 for any after that. We'll be focusing on education for the next couple of months, but starting June [music] 1st, our officers along with our code enforcement officers will begin issuing citations. Let's work together to keep our roads

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and sidewalks [music] safe for everyone. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> The drone is the first responder program here in the city of Sunny Islands Beach is the first contracted non-BA drone

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dock setup in the state of Florida. This new [music] Skyio X10 dock in conjunction with Axon Air has provided us an opportunity in the citizens of Sunny Isles Beach a tremendous [music] benefit. This is a game-changing piece of technology and enters us into a new

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era [music] of public safety and protecting our citizens. We are able to respond to [music] calls for service, emergencies, traffic crashes, missing people, [music] drowning victims much quicker than we ever could have. being an extra set of eyes, they can be there

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[music] in literally seconds. A 20 seconds of launching the drone, it is up in the air and on its way and will provide that extra layer of security and make [music] our response time so much quicker. When the dispatcher receives a call, the drone pilot officer is already

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in the real-time crime center with the dispatchers. [music] From the time they hear the call, they're already inputting the address into the system. They then initiate the launch sequence that goes within approximately a 20- second process which sends the signal to the dock which is on the roof. The actually

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slides back open. The drone does a quick self test. It launches itself in the air, orients itself, and then starts to fly [music] to the call that we've dispatched it to. With its technology, it's able to navigate around obstacles, get there the most expeditious [music]

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route that it can, and bring itself back when it's ready. I believe the drone will benefit the entire city, whether it's our residents, our visitors, our police [music] officers. This is a tremendous technological advancement and piece of equipment and truly exemplifies

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the motto of the city of Sunny [music] Isles Beach, which is the height of living. Adventure [music] begins at Sunny Isles Beach, a city like no other. Spanning just 1.78 square miles, this charming city boasts [music] not one or two, but

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11 public parks. With nearly 22,000 residents, our parks are within walking distance for everyone. [music] Whether you're into baseball, soccer, joining your friends at yoga, spending time on the playgrounds, [music] or just soaking up the sun, there's something

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for everyone. Sunny Isles Beach caters to every age with a variety of events and programs. Did we mention that one [music] of our parks comes with a breathtaking ocean view? Here you can bask in the beauty of the coast, connecting with nature [music] in a way

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that's truly special. Sunny Isles Beach, where adventure, community, and natural beauty come together to create a unique city that [music] we're proud to call home. Hello, Sunny Als Beach. I'm here at [music] the Gateway Park pedestrian bridge where important upgrades have

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been completed on both elevators thanks to the support of our city commission. The elevators now feature new glass [music] doors for a cleaner look and added safety. Inside, new security cameras are monitored around the clock through our Kings [music] 3 system called Mosaic 1. This advanced technology can alert personnel if someone falls or needs help. And riders

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can also press the call button [music] inside the elevator to reach assistance immediately. Getting around the city just got safer and easier. The city of Sunny Isles [music] Beach is proud to announce that our building department has earned accreditation from the International Accreditation Service,

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one of the highest recognitions in the industry. The IAS assessment team visited [music] our city for a comprehensive multi-day evaluation. They conducted interviews, reviewed documents, and toured our facilities, verifying [music] that our building department meets the highest standards in customer service and building safety.

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Earning accreditation is a tremendous [music] milestone for our building department. It reflects our team's commitment to professionalism, consistency, and public [music] safety. We are just the 31st IS accredited building department in the nation. >> The assessment [music] team highlighted our department's quality service standards from daily interactions at

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permitting windows to on-site [music] inspections throughout the city. Behind the scenes, the process required implementing a comprehensive [music] quality management system, defining service goals and establishing methods for auditing permits [music] to ensure those goals are consistently met.

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>> I am proud to congratulate our entire team on this important achievement. This accreditation is a testament to the hard work and expertise [music] of our staff. It can only be earned by meeting the rigorous standards set forth by the IAS. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success and continues to make Sunny Isles Beach [music] a special place to

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live and work. >> [music] [music] >> We've been here 26 years and just seeing the [music] growth and all of the jubilation for you know the enthusiasm of the the growing of this city has been really wonderful experience you know

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just seeing [music] all the it's a party you know so how can you not enjoy the party [music] I'm happy for the city that they made 29 years [music] it's a very good celebration and the dancing and singing were amazing. [music]

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[music] [music] He [music] >> [music] >> I like it is it's a good place social gathering basically. It's good to find your friends, meet new people obviously [music] and like just walk. It's it's

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like really entertaining. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hi, I'm Chief Eddie Santiago with the Sunny Als Beach Police Department. Our police [music] department and ocean rescue division are proud to share we have been designated a certified autism

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center by the international board [music] of credentiing and continuing education standards. This designation means that at [music] least 80% of our officers and staff are trained, certified and equipped to assist, [music] support and communicate with autistic and sensory sensitive members

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of our community. For years, our department has shown a proactive [music] commitment to serving individuals with autism and sensory sensitivities through our autism outreach program. Becoming a certified autism [music] center is about making sure every person who interacts with our officers feels understood,

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respected, and [music] safe. It strengthens trust in our community and helps our officers respond with greater awareness, patience, and professionalism. Because effective policing [music] starts with understanding the people we serve. >> [music]

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[music] >> Hey, [music] hey, hey. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey, Heat. [music] >> [music] >> feeling when you're done. Heat.

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[music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Come on. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Hello, Sunny Isles Beach. Hurricane season is here and now is the time to prepare. Sunny Isles Beach is an evacuation zone B. If a category 2 hurricane or stronger threatens our area, you may be ordered to evacuate due

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to risk of storm surge. As part of your hurricane preparedness kit, have a 3 to seven day supply of water, non-p perishable food, medications, flashlight, batteries, and a first aid kit. If anyone in your household may need medical assistance or evacuation

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transportation, register now at miamiday.gov/hurricane. If you live in a condo or apartment, secure all your items.

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Yeah. [clears throat] >> Okay. Good evening everyone. Hello. >> It is 6:32. Calling the meeting to order. Maurice >> Commissioner Joseph >> present. >> Commissioner Styverson >> here. >> Commissioner Lama >> here. >> Vice Mayor Viscara >> here. >> Mayor Session

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>> here. >> All members present. Ma'am. >> Great. Thank you. If you could all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation

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under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Please be seated. >> We have an invocation from Rabbi Baron. >> Welcome. >> Hello. Good evening everyone. It's good to see you.

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>> Hello. Dear God, master of the universe, we stand humbled before you this evening and we recognize all of your blessings that you have bestowed upon us. We're mindful of the fact that you have blessed the city with wonderful

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leadership, direction, dedication, and guiding spirit which has resulted in the many successful achievements over the years. We recognize that we are gathered before you this evening in pursuit of fulfilling your wishes as you, dear God, empowered humanity with seven basic

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universal laws after the great flood of Noah. These laws are once again reaffirmed by Moses at Mount Si to be taught to all of humanity. Universal laws that provide a framework of law and order and justice which will allow

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humanity to settle the earth in a civilized manner. We recognize that we have been entrusted by the citizens of Sunny Isles Beach to perform this sacred duty. Almighty God, please provide us with the consciousness

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to constantly be aware of your presence so that we are consistent to our mandate. Please grant us the courage, strength, wisdom, intuition, sensitivity, and the patience necessary to succeed so that we leave a leg legacy

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of having a positive impact upon society for many generations to come. Protect our police force, our servicemen and women serving domestically and overseas in the name of freedom and democracy. Please give them the peace of mind, insight, and intuition to be successful.

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Please guide our city staff to make the right decisions with honesty, integrity, and knowledge for all of our citizens into the future. And may they continue to serve as positive role models for our beautiful community. May everyone gathered here tonight and all the residents of Sunny Als Beach be granted

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with good health, peace of mind, and prosperity. And let us say, amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Rabbi. you. So, the first item on tonight's agenda is the approval of minutes of the June Commission meeting. >> I'll take a motion, please.

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>> Motion. >> Second. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. We'll now go into the mayor's opening message. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We appreciate your attendance and [snorts] thank you for joining us tonight. Before

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we begin, there are a few important reminders regarding conduct during our Please ensure all electronic devices are turned off or set to silent mode to maintain the integrity of our proceedings. Mutual respect is the

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foundation of productive discussions. We ask that everyone remain silent and attentive when someone is addressing the commission. Clapping, applauding, heckling, or any verbal outbursts either in support or opposition of the speaker

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are strictly prohibited. Any individual wishing to address the commission must fill out a public speaker card and submit it to the city clerk before the relevant item is announced. Each speaker is granted a maximum of three minutes. Should you exceed this time, the chair

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will notify you to conclude your remarks. Speak directly to the agenda's points. Remain concise and avoid redundancy. Should an individual speak without the chair's permission or continue speaking after a warning, they may be escorted out of the chambers. It

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is essential to avoid making impertinent slanderous remarks or becoming boisterous while addressing the commission. Such behavior may lead to being barred from future commission appearances unless the majority of the commission members present vote otherwise.

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The presiding officer may disallow signs or placards in the commission chamber. Please exit the chamber quietly and without disruption. The goal of our meetings is to facilitate public input and participation. However, disruptive or disorderly

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conduct hinders our collective objective. Individuals who want to speak on an item on the agenda are asked to fill out a public speakers card and give it to the city clerk before the item is called. Speakers are asked to speak to the issues, make comments concise and to

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the point, and refrain from making duplicate comments. All speakers will be limited to one threeinut comment per item. If you exceed the threeminut allotment, the chair will advise you to finish your comment. If you speak out of turn without permission from the chair

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and or you do not speaking after one warning, you will be escorted out of chambers. In order to maintain orderly conduct and or proper decorum at these meetings, anyone who interferes with the orderly process of the meetings after a warning

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may be removed from the meeting and may be barred from further appearance before the city commission as permitted in S286, 0114, FS, and SS74-5 and 74-21

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of the city's code of ordinances. Any necessary removal will be made at the direction of the mayor and will be carried out by law enforcement or a designated sergeant-at-arms. It is essential that attendees adhere to these rules of procedure to ensure productive

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meetings that serve both the public and the city commission. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. >> Okay, before we get to the order of business, I just want to welcome everyone. It's always nice to have a full crowd here. So, thank you for for

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coming. For the regulars, hi. Um, and for those that are here for the first time, welcome. I hope you come often. Make it a regular. >> Please just, >> we have rules of decorum here. So, we speak one at a time. If you wish to

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speak and then change your mind, that's okay. Just fill out a public speaker card now and then you could change your mind later and just say, I I I don't I don't want to speak any longer. Uh but once the item is closed and public comment is closed, I will not be

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allowing public speakers. So uh you can go ahead and do that now. I'll I'll give you additional time if you need to. Also, if you need to have a conversation, please take it outside. The acoustics in this room provide for us to hear all of your conversations, even if you're whispering. So please um

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if you need to speak to someone, go outside. And um welcome. Thank you. Okay, mayor, we have uh two changes to tonight's agenda. Item 9G has been revised, which is a establishing the city's proposed advalorum tax millage

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rate and we have added on item 9I which is a resolution approving a fifth amendment with IM electric. Both amendments or both changes to the agenda are located in the back. >> Okay, so both the agenda and the changes to the agenda are in the back. It

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doesn't change any of the item numbers except for the addition of the last one. >> No, it does not. >> And then the change for the mill is it is a date change. >> It's just the date. Yes. >> Okay. All right. Please go ahead. >> Just a approval. A motion to approve. >> I need a motion, please. >> Yes. I'll make a motion.

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>> I need a second. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> I All right. Please go on to um >> ordinance. >> So, ordinance for first reading 6A is an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Sunny Al Beach amending

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ordinance number 2025-635 approving budget amendment number BA2526-03 to the city's operating and capital improvement budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. authorizing the city manager to do all things necessary to

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implement the terms and conditions of this ordinance provided for an effective date. >> Okay, Mr. City Manager, >> Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the commission. This item is a budget amendment in the amount of 2,987568 to the citywide security project to

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support public safety initiatives, including the expansion of our drone program, installation of CCTV cameras at bus stops, and implementation of the realtime crime center, the hyperwall

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system. Okay, thank you. Do we have public speakers? >> Okay, >> Ken Percy. [clears throat] >> Hi, Ken. Just as a reminder, I know you've been here before, but for everyone else, your name and address for

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the record, and you will have three minutes once the clock starts. >> Good evening. My name is Ken Percy, 200 Sunny Als Boulevard. I just wanted to speak on the budget overall and the >> Ken, would you speak into the mic, please? >> I just wanted to speak on the budget

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overall and the uh line item for $175 million of um of new debt. Um last year the city manager >> and let me just interrupt you. This is this is uh a very specific item that we're talking about. >> Yeah, I read it as as this item.

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>> This is the safety one. >> Yeah. Is this further down the list? I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? >> You're speaking about the budget. We're not voting on the budget. >> Yeah. This is the an amendment to this fiscal year's budget. Not fiscal year. >> Exactly. >> This fiscal year. >> Yes.

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>> Not next fiscal year. This fiscal year. You're speaking about next fiscal year. >> Okay. >> This is for this one that's ending in the end of September. >> Okay. Then this is not relevant. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> No other speakers.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Um, I'll take questions from the commission. Anyone have any questions or comments? All right. Um, >> I I do have a question though. >> Go ahead, Commissioner Tuisant. >> Yeah. Why are we What's going [clears throat] to be happen with the

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emergency pedestrian bridge? Not pedestrian emergency bridge because it's apparently being completely defunded with this. And as of it is right now in our budget book, it has high priority.

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It was supposed to be uh done by September this year. I know it depends a lot on the FPL, but uh if we [clears throat] proceed with this, we are completely basically cancelling the project. >> Is that to the city manager?

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>> Yeah, it would director, but she's not here. So I guess >> Mr. manager. >> We're still waiting for FPNL. We've been waiting a number of years. So, this allocates us money, but we will have money planned for the next budget year for the same thing,

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>> which is No, no, I understand this is not adding or subtracting from the final number. It's just shuffling. And what I don't understand, I would like to have the clarification is why are we deciding to completely defund a program that was

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supposed to be high priority? uh that we still need to do that we have an easement with selling house for it. We could be getting that from any other account like let's say for example land acquisition that we have still $4 million there. So um this is the thing about the budget that you always makes

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me uncomfortable that we are just shuffling numbers uh between lines um like there is no consequence in this specific case. We are completely defunding the program if we take this money. And by the way, I am completely for the uh drone program and anything

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else that have to be with safety and security. But I think this amendment uh the way it is written and the way we are defunding certain other programs um doesn't I don't think we have enough information or for uh to vote on this at

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this point. >> Okay. Thank you. Mayor, can I ask the deputy city manager? >> Of course. >> Um, just to refresh your memory at the budget workshop a couple weeks ago, two weeks ago today, um, it was the consensus at that meeting to remove the

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emergency pedestrian bridge from the budget because you said the CIP because you said we've been carrying it for all these years without any success. So, we were directed at that meeting consensus to remove it. So that was in our one of the changes that would be coming forth

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in the final budget. >> Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Llama. >> Uh what was the last communication from FPL regarding this? >> They have had um numerous staff changes and currently they have no one assigned to that project.

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>> Well, right now it's a big question. >> It is a big question mark. Yes. >> Okay. Okay. They have no design. They have no plan. >> Um, when our consultant left, they were still reworking a new plan. >> And that person is now gone. Not just our consultant,

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the person that was working on their project. >> Is there anyone else we could talk to? >> We've we've spoken to several people. Right now, their priorities are the Golden Shores undergrounding and some other projects in the city to finish. Actually, still the Collins Avenue

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undergrounding is still incomplete. Um and those are their priorities right now. >> Yeah. Okay. Uh I mean it's take getting taken off from this budget 2526 but it's still going to be I mean the

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the next year's budget is fast approaching so it's it's going to be there. No, based on the budget workshop, >> the direction that we heard was to remove it because we've been carrying it and once we finally have a plan with FPL, we would bring it back.

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>> Okay. So the question is let's say in November of next year november of this year next next year's budget we have someone from FPL we will have to have a budget amendment or can we pull that million dollars from another

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account or from the general fund or what what how can we >> if we were fortunate enough to have a solution in this November um the design alone would probably take at least a year

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design and permitting. >> Yeah. >> Um at which time then we can propose it in the following year's budget. >> So we're looking at 2829 [clears throat] >> most likely. Yes. >> In addition, we have no idea what that would even cost at this point. The

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>> Wait, hold on a second, please. >> I'm trying to understand the situation. The funding that has been carried in there for the last five or more years, six years, is what was left in the project. There was never an estimate of how much that would actually have cost

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to have done. >> So there was never that million dollars is not like an updated estimate. It is not. It is literally just the amount of funding that was left that has been carried over year after year, which is why I understand

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someone suggested that we remove it because we keep carrying it without getting the work done. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And we don't have a solution to that on the horizon. >> Yeah. To be honest with you, I'm I'm not too worried about the M. I mean, I'm more concerned with the FPL side of this

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equation and not them not getting back to us. So, okay. >> No. All right. Uh, once one second, Commissioner Joseph, just for for since we do have an audience, what we're talking about is we had a budget workshop and one of the things that we came to consensus about was any items

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that have been on the books for years that have not been started to take them off the books so that it doesn't look like an inflated budget. So, Commissioner Joseph, you have the floor. >> Yes. But, okay, the budget issue is one thing, but pursuing we need squeaky

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wheel. We need a squeaky wheel to get FPL going. We can't just let let it ride and because they're happy to go do other projects and not complete our projects. It's the same thing like I've been yelling about internet and Golden Shores

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and today we had a great workshop which is going to solve issues for residents. We need we need someone. It's not me. I'm not in authority. Someone in the city manager's office, assistant city

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manager to pursue FPL and not let them off the hook. >> Okay, Mr. City Manager, >> I don't have anything to add. We've been in discussions with FPNL for years. There's nothing further for us to do. >> All right. Vice Mayor, did you want to add anything? All right. I have some

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questions for clarification. As far as the bus stops, we talked about this during the agenda review. It was the 22 of the bus stops were going to get TV um cameras. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, that means that whomever is at

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the bus stop at that time is going to be seen live from the police department and we keep that footage for 30 days as far as I understand. >> That is correct. >> All right. And then this also includes the camera at the pier. >> No, the camera at the pier is funded through your general operating. Okay.

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>> It's a separate item. >> All right. This is also for the real time crime center in the police department. >> All right, perfect. And then what's the timing on this once this gets approved? >> Well, this requires a second meeting. >> Um and then after that at the same meeting in August, if it gets approved,

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we'll bring uh the contract for the bus stop cameras and the Realtime Crime Center at that time. >> So, if I did the math, we would could we can anticipate having cameras at the bus stop in November. Yes. Novemberish. Okay.

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>> I have a question. >> Um, Commissioner Stew, I think, had something. >> No, no, you can go first. >> Go ahead. >> So, the connecting of cameras to the bus stops, is that a similar situation to connecting cameras to our elevators,

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which took forever, or no, that's >> a simpler issue. >> Completely different. >> Okay. So, this is a much more quick process. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Commissioner Johnson, you have something. >> Yeah. Um, in the budget right now, we have over $34 million in appropriations,

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but they were not used at all last year or until this year. Like again, we are shuffling between accounts because those allocations are not uh money that we have or spend at all. So that was part

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of my conversations about the budget that we need to make sure that the numbers had to make sense. We have a budget of $240 million or so when we are just bringing to the bank around 70 plus

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million dollars. So everything else in this zip which is the capital improvement program plan um is just like a big wish list and that's the thing that is a little bit uncomfortable about being shuffling right now. We could take

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that money instead of completely cancelling a program that we are going to have to do at some point because for all we know FPL can come tomorrow and say yeah I'm ready. So right now we have no idea and we do have an ement with a property of Sony that give us a specific

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area to be doing and putting that kind of u all that electric uh construction that needs to be done there. So we are right now working on the budget doing the budget. This I think takes the budget conversation to another level. It

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has to be more serious. Uh I know that that money those contracts they need to come to us as soon as possible. uh only for that I'm okay with what is necessary to make it happen but we need to take the budget process more serious. It's

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not just about changing numbers from here to there that they don't even have a real source of revenue attached to it. >> Okay. Thank you. Um I'll take a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I need a second. >> I'll second.

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>> Commissioner Lama. >> Yes. Commissioner Styverson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Vascaro, >> yes. >> Commissioner Joseph, >> yes. >> Mayor Spetchin, >> yes. >> The ordinance is approved on first reading. Second reading is scheduled for August.

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>> Okay. Ordinance for second reading. 8A is an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Sunny Al Beach, Florida, amending chapter 256 of the code of ordinances of the city of Sunnyal speech. Article 5, section 256-37

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entitled definitions, rules, and regulations for operation. section 233-8 entitled penalties for offenses and section 256-39 entitled enforcement to create and provide regulations for the use of electric bicycles within the city's

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jurisdiction providing for repealer servability codification and an effective date and this is second and final reading >> okay Mr. City manager, is this you? >> Mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission, this is the second reading of our revised ebike ordinance.

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>> Okay. Thank you. And for the public, just so you understand, we have um made changes to first the uh scooters. So, anyone under 16 is not allowed to ride an electric scooter. And now we've made changes to the ebikes um as well in the

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interest of uh safety obviously. Uh do we have any public speakers? Yes. >> Okay. >> David Virgil. >> Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and commission. My name is David Virgil. My address is 17500 North Bay Road, Sawis Beach. I believe that the passage of

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this ordinance along with the scooter ordinance that was passed earlier this year are essential to improve pedestrian safety in the city. By banning electric bikes from sidewalks, it will help uh prevent serious accidents from occurring and that will improve the quality of

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life of everyone here in the city. So that's why I'm for the passage of this ordinance. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other speakers? >> No other speakers, ma'am. >> All right. Um public comment is closed. If I can just get some clarification, are we going to have the same sort of

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education period with this ordinance >> or is it immediate? >> Yes. So 60 days >> already started. >> No. Um 30 days. >> 30 days from today. >> Yes ma'am. >> So >> August August 16th I believe is the day in which uh citations would be issued

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>> warnings and then after that >> citations >> citations are 250. >> Yes ma'am. >> And then the second citation >> 500. >> 500. Okay. Right. >> Are there any questions from the commission? >> No. >> Take a motion please. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second.

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Okay, thank you. >> Mauricio, >> Commissioner Cyson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Viscaro, >> yes. >> Commissioner Joseph, >> yes. >> Commissioner Lama, >> yes. >> Mayor Fetchin, >> yes. >> The ordinance is adopted. All

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>> right. Now, on to resolutions. 9A is a resolution approving a use and occupancy agreement and addendum there too with the Florida Department of Transportation for public parking and other public purposes on parcel number 7756 located at 500 Sunny Boulevard.

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>> Honorable mayor, vice mayor, commission, um these are the items that were deferred from last month because we were missing exhibit B. Exhibit B has been included in both of these items for clarification. Um the first item 9A parcel 7756

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is what our original agreement with FDOT was which is both paid for public parking and a green open space. Um it is FDOT's desire to separate out what is a revenue generating parcel from a

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nonrevenue generating parcel. So the open green space will now be 7756. The public parking will now be what is item B, which is parcel number 3129. That parcel will also include the ramp

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area, the under ramp area that is to the east of the existing paid, >> which is currently grass. >> It's currently gravel. >> Okay. Well, yes. 3129. >> I meant it's not gravel, right? >> It's nothing right now. It was a storage area for our Collins Avenue

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undergrounding street lighting project. there's still some remnants of that there that we have to remove. Um if at a later date the commission so desires, the ability is built into these agreements to either um subleasase

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the portion of 7756 and also to build out the more parking in 3129. So exhibit B's shows what it could be. Exhibit A is showing what's existing. >> Okay. Thank you. Do we have public speakers?

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>> We do. >> Okay. >> Alexander Ker. >> Good evening, Mayor, commissioners. Nice to see you all. Thank you for gathering here tonight. speaking in the support of this much needed additional parking capacity for the community at large. I

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know last month it was called the rabbi's parking. It's not the rabbi's parking. It's a parking for all residents under the bridge and um I think our city is growing, continues to grow, thank God. And I think we all know that we are in a need of more parking

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citywide. and I hope is not that significant. Few spots that we will add this is seemingly but it was it will alleviate the current need and I think everybody will benefit from it. The congregation of course that I represent,

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the restaurant next door, the marina next door, all of the vendors that come to 400 Sunny Isles because they do not park, they choose not to park at the valet at 400. So if anything this is will continue this will continue to generate additional revenue to the city

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to the FDA and it will alleviate the much much needed uh problem that we have and I hope in the future um and I continue to speak about it with FDA and with some people even in Tallahassee that hopefully we'll find more creative

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ways to create even more parking in this part of the city and hopefully citywide. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. 403 point. Thank you. >> Ellen Dustan, >> is it Ellen? >> Yeah, she just said no.

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>> Oh, all right. >> Felix Sukovski. >> And again, I just want to remind you all I do and we all very very much appreciate you all being here, but please no clapping. Thank you. All right. Your name and address for the record, please. Uh, Felix Suhavitzki

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living 18625 Atlantic board signals just down the street. Thank you for opportunity to speak. Um, I'm going to read it because I'm afraid to stumble. It's a bit of emotional issue to me. So, be

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patient with me. Okay. So, [clears throat] this is something I wrote. Uh, house of worship is more than a building. It's a refuge for lonely, source of hope for struggling, place of healing for grieving, and a center for

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community and families. Throughout history, societies have been judged not only by how they treated the powerful, but how they treated those seeking spiritual comfort, guidance, and connection with God.

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Providing adequate parking for a place of worship is not [clears throat] merely a matter of convenience. It's a matter of access. Every parking space represents a person who may be coming to pray for a sick

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child, mourn for a loved one, celebrate wedding, seek forgiveness, simply find a place in a troubled world. [clears throat] When access of worship is restricted, burden falls heavily and on elderly on elderly,

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the [clears throat] disabled, parents with young children and those who whose faith was already challenged by otherwise difficult difficulties. [clears throat] History provides provides us with a powerful examples [clears throat] of both benefits of

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support religious gatherings, places and the [clears throat] consequences of obstructing them. Throughout centuries, striving community grew around houses of worship, [clears throat] temples and welcoming welcoming people

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openly removing barriers to participants. [clears throat] Those institutions became centers of charity, education, social support, moral guidance. [clears throat] They fed hungry, sheltered, vulnerable,

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united people across economic, social divisions. >> [clears throat] >> Conversely, history also records darker periods [clears throat] when authorities imposed obstacles on religious practice, whether

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it's through restrictive laws, inaccessible locations, executive burdens, deliberate limitations and gatherings. There is always often isolation, division, and hardship. Communities weakened

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when people are prevented from from assembling [clears throat] freely on the worship fellowship mutual support. Denial of practical access to worship has frequently been remembered as a stain on the otherwise

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prosperous societies. Just a minute please >> just finish your your thought please. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Uh [clears throat] the parking shortage may seem like insignificant when viewed on the paper but is in the real world impact is

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profound. Senior citizen who cannot walk a long distance may miss service entirely. Family with a small children may stop attending. Disabled veteran may find participation impossible over time. individuals individual obstacles

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accumulate reducing attendance weakening communities bonds uh dismissing positive role faith institutions play in society places of worship

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generate benefits far beyond uh their own congregations. >> Thank you or thank you times up. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No other speakers. >> Okay. I'll take comments or questions from the commission. >> No. >> None. >> No question.

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>> I'll take a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Next item. >> 9B is a resolution approving a use and occupancy agreement and addendum there too with the Florida Department of Transportation for parcel number 3129

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located at 500 Suns Boulevard. >> Go ahead. That was the second part of Okay. Do we have any public speakers? >> We do, but I'm not sure if if I call your name, just let us know if you wish to speak.

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>> Alexander Keller. Good. >> Okay. >> Okay, that's it. >> That's it. All right. Uh any questions from the commission? >> Okay. I um I I know that uh the rabbi's

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uh synagogue, he has uh rentals from the city at gateway on the uh rooftop. Um, I was questioning whether there are any other spots that are available to increase the number of spots that the

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rabbi could could lease as additional parking. >> Are you asking the city manager? >> I'm asking the city manager. Yes. >> Can you in gateway? Are there additional parking spaces >> at gateway? Yes. Are there additional spots that can be leased?

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We've had discussions with the rabbi and are working with them to find any available parking in the area. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. I'll take a motion. >> Motion. >> Need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I.

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>> Okay. Item passes. Uh 9C. >> 9. [snorts] >> We're going to go on. If if you all want to stay, please go ahead and stay. But I think the item that you all came for is done. But please stay if you want to. I'm not This is going to be an a very

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interesting meeting. [laughter] >> I shouldn't have said anything. >> Thank you. >> Please come more often. >> I'll just give it a >> nice Give it a minute to >> All right. Uh thank you. >> Thank you everyone.

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Right. Okay. All right. Thank you. 9C, please. >> 9C is a resolution approving an agreement with Millennium Products to install surveillance and security equipment at Pier Park.

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>> All right, Mr. City Manager, >> Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the commission. This is a the installation of a long range camera at Pier Park that the police department is requesting and goes in handinhand with our citywide

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security. >> Okay. >> No speakers. >> No speakers. All right. I'll take questions from the commission or comments. >> No question. >> I'll take a motion. >> I have a question. What does the funding comes from the general fund

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and not from for future funds or anything else? >> Um, it was in the current fiscal year's capital outlay request that you approved last budget cycle. >> So, it's already appropriated there. >> Yes. >> So, we had

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>> in the capital outlay in the police department's general fund. >> And I also have the question, why don't we invite the the companies that are going to be awarded this contracts which and he's going to come to the next contract as

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well to just come here and at least be present in case that we have any questions about the product because for example I'm I'm okay with this and I will make a motion to approve it. Uh like I said safety and security is always and I believe and I hope it will

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continue always being our priority. But we have here $30,000 for the product more or less and $30,000 for installation more or less. Uh it is very interesting that we are paying almost the same amount for the product that for

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the installation. So I would rather have here one representative of the company to uh be able to answer certain questions unless it is so predetermined that we are going to be voting yes for it that they don't even believe that

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they have to be here because once it's in the book and is a recommendation is a yes by default. So I think it's a little bit offensive not to have a representative of the company who's going to be awarded this kind of money even present here.

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>> Okay. Are you making a motion? >> All right. I need a second. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> Okay. Next item, please. >> But that was a question >> actually before we go to the next item. >> Okay. Can you clarify your question again?

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>> Yes. Why don't we make the people that is going to be awarded this or these a request of a requirement to come here to be answering questions that we may or may not have before we are awarding this kind of contracts to them. That should

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be at least a courtesy because if any person is going to be getting awarded millions of dollars, the least thing they can or they should be doing is being here and presenting their faces >> on an ongoing basis. Unless, like I said, it's so predetermined that this is

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going to be a just by default and we are just sitting down here to rubber stamp whatever is in this book uh because there is um chance the people that is not even reading the agenda uh that they don't even have the need to come here. That's what I'm saying. It is offensive

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not to have a representative of a company who's being awarded a [clears throat] contract that is coming from the people's money because this is not our money. This is taxpayers money and we don't have anyone from that company sitting here at least saying I

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have a good product. I want to be your client. Please approve this contract. >> No need. >> Okay. Your your um offense is noted. >> No question. That's I asked a question. >> I'm not finished. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So to the deputy manager and and perhaps

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maybe it's to the attorney. What is our normal process when we are approving contracts? Is it typical to have vendors come in front of a commission to be grilled about the items on the contract that's being submitted or the proposal?

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>> I mean, depends on the jurisdiction, depends on the contract, it depends on the procurement. Uh to have every single contractor that you're entering into contracts with the period meetings is probably unrealistic. I haven't seen that.

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>> Depending on the contract, obviously, if >> if you're contracting with Waste Management for, you know, $50 million or uh you have a contract that's going to be substantial in that type of thing, especially if it's been uh put out to

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bid. It's not unusual to have those contractors here, but um to require every contract person to be here, that that would be pretty over. Okay. So, just one second. I just want to get clarification. So, Commissioner Stuison, your question is noted. Did you ask the

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manager this question and he did not answer it? Is that why you want the vendor here? >> Question before. >> It's just it's being the practice of not having the contractors in here that or the vendors in here. I remember when I was just elected, we used to have many

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of those vendors here. uh and they will just sit down there in case that we need to ask them certain questions that it has disappeared during your administration and I don't think that's best practices so I think this should be changing >> okay thank you [clears throat] I don't make any sort of changes by myself here

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we we vote as a body but go ahead commissioner Joseph >> and I if I may just add that I mean I answered it just based on my travels in government but it's not a legal question obviously if you want them here they can be here but you can ask them >> right but >> it's not a legal But to the point of uh

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the suggestion that some people are not reading the agenda book, if you are reading the agenda book, you do have an opportunity to ask those questions before the meeting and if there is a need to request a vendor to be here during the meeting. That is something that I don't think that the manager's

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office would be against if this was something that was the consensus of the commission. Is that correct, Mr. City Manager? >> Yes, correct. I mean, we have a we have a workshop prior to the meeting and the typical course of business for me is I

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rely on our department directors uh who are the subject matter experts and I require them to fully vet the items and in this case it would be the chief of the police. I've met with the chief, the deputy chief, uh, city attorney and city

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manager, I'm sorry, deputy city manager, city attorney, and we've vetted the items for us to have every vendor here uh, in the evening, it >> we would have to extend our meeting every time, which if that's the will of

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the commission, >> but it's not efficient or effective. But if during the agenda review if a member of the commission felt strongly that they wanted a me the vendor here for the commission meeting and there was consensus would that be possible?

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>> Yes. >> Do we need a consensus for that? Because for example the I'm going to bring the same uh comment twice more during this agenda. So um I don't think we need a consensus for that if we want to have the vendor present to

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ask them certain questions. >> I agree. I think one commissioner's questioning should be enough. >> It would be a policy decision of the board as a group. So I don't take direction from one of you versus you all

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as a body. So if >> that's not the way it's written in your contract by the way. >> Then that's how I directed. Okay. >> I don't I we're getting off topic. No, I understand that's I just want to add mayor, one more thing. I want to add one more thing. >> You all are welcome to vote yes or no

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for the item. >> Okay. >> So, if you feel that there's more information needed, you're welcome to vote no. >> If we delay these items, then it's going to affect in this case our our public safety protocol, which the commission has given me as a direction. So, I'd

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recommend against that. >> Okay. Thank you. We're going to move on. >> Okay. No, I have one one. Uh, >> could we stick to the items on the agenda? >> I'm sticking to the um the question regarding whether we should be able to question vendors. >> Okay. But that's [snorts] not in the agenda.

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>> Well, I understand, but that came up and it requires uh a fuller understanding. I remember we had we were replacing turf at Pelican and we had a vendor come up and I had questioned the uh chemical composition

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of the material and he told us one thing it turned out to be incorrect and they then changed materials or he said that during COVID the material was changed that they were supplying to us. I never actually ended up getting a fair

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resolution as to what the composition was, but that turf ended up being installed. In any event, >> okay, thank you. Uh, next item, Mauricio >> 90D is a resolution approving an agreement with Axon Enterprises.

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>> We didn't voted. We did. >> We voted. [clears throat] Yes, we did. >> We did. >> We voted. >> There was a motion by Commissioner Cyverson and seconded by Commissioner Joseph. >> No. >> Yes. Okay. >> 90D is a resolution approving an agreement with Axon Enterprises for the purchase, deployment, training,

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software, licensing, maintenance, and support of a drone as a first responder to fixedwing drone system utilizing the Skyio F10 platform. >> City manager, >> mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission, this is a fixedwing drone

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for the police department. We have had great success with our drone program. This is cutting edge technology. I've had numerous meetings with the police chief, deputy chief, city attorney, deputy city manager,

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confirming that this is a uh something we definitely recommend. >> Okay. And just for clarification, would these drones also be able to drop those uh life vests? Those the same kind of drones? Just before we get to public comment,

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>> these >> these are different. >> Okay, we'll get to it then. >> Which does free up the other ones, too, cuz right now we're only using one for the water rescue. >> For the water. All right. Do we have public speakers? >> Yes, ma'am. Steven Hirs. >> Steven Hirs 17201 Collins. Good evening.

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>> If you could just be close to the microphone, please. Thank you. >> The um drone is a first responder program. um is the 21st century of what the old police helicopters used to be. Um the

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safety that it will provide our city is um almost invaluable. It'll provide safety for our police officers, our fire department, all first service uh responders.

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It will be available for any type of incidents out on the beach or out on the ocean if necessary. And I did a little calculation which I find very informative. If um an

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emergency call were to come in at the furthest southern border of our city upon since it's an autonomous uh vehicle, it could be launched and it

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would take approximately 72 seconds to get from the roof of this building to our city limit. And of course, it would be less the closer it would be. it would immediately be able to broadcast video

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to our police officers um and see what the situation is and if it's something that is possibly unfounded, be able to give a slowdown that put our responding officers that have nightmares

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going up and down Collins Avenue when the traffic is, you know, this time of the year if it was like this all the time we we'd be great, but it's not. So, uh, I just support this 100% and I think

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that the, uh, value that it gives needs to really be publicized to our residents so they really understand the ability that this type of u fixedwing drone and

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it can stay stationary for I I forget the statist the the time but substantially longer than the ones we have. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Any other speakers? >> Yes. Vitali Falovich.

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>> My name is Fakovich. 9280 Southwest 167 Bay, Florida. One of the things is that the big issue that we have in the United States right now is the officer safety. We have officers getting shot for no reason. They're getting shot because they're wearing a badge. They weren't

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getting shot because they decided to leave their family to protect somebody else. This thing will prevent for officers getting hurt. I think it's a really great idea for us to have that equipment. As a visitor here, I think I spend more time in San Beach than I

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spend in Pomemeta Bay. And I think that's a great idea and I ask that you approve that. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No other speakers. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, I'll take any questions from the commission. >> No, I I just want to get clarification.

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This goes This is the one that we discussed that the agenda review is going 90 miles an hour, up to 90 miles an hour. >> And if once this is approved, how long will it take for us to get this drone? >> This is a future purchase. We're looking

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at 2028 before it's actually marketable. Be anytime before that. So, can you clarify why we'd be voting on it right now then? >> Um, because it is in high demand and the sooner you get your name on the list, the sooner you will have access to this

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equipment. Otherwise, you're going to be >> a couple years down the road. >> Do we lock in the cost? >> Yes. You're also saving $900,000. >> Okay. And so, but let's just I'm going to play devil's advocate. in 28 uh for

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future commissions if they choose not to purchase this. That could still happen. >> Yes. >> Or no, because you're saying we're locked in. So, you're locking in the price, but there is a clause section 16.2, I believe, in the master service

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agreement that allows you to um terminate the contract if this current if the current commission does not appropriate the funds. >> Okay. Thank you. It's a question. We can step out of line. like we're getting in line and later we can step out of line. Yes. Okay. >> I have one question.

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>> Go ahead, Commissioner Joseph. >> So, this um model that we're purchasing now for 1.8 million in 2026, but is not being delivered till 2028. How many revisions will this company

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have gone through before we actually receive the model? >> I believe we are in line to be one of the first 10 to get it. So it's not like they have a model now that we're not getting. They are still working on

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producing the model for sale which will occur. We will be >> within the top 10 to receive. >> I understand. But drone technology these days is advancing so fast. >> Correct. >> That we're buying a model in 2026

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>> that it could be out it's outdated maybe next week. You're buy you're buying the model when it's ready. So, it will be the most cutting edge at that moment. >> We're buying the 2028 model

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>> and it's also two. I just want to clear up for the record. >> Um, are you done? >> I have a question. Um, >> I sent a memo through the city manager this morning to be shared with the commission. Was my memo shared with the commission about this specific item? Uh,

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no commissioner, it wasn't shared with them. We didn't receive it in time. We had some things to do in the morning that I didn't get a chance to to forward it, but I will forward it to them this evening. >> Okay. It was really important to be sure when I send it. Um, otherwise I will have make copies here and give it to

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them right now, you know. So, that was the idea for them to see it before because again, I'm going to make a motion for this item. I'm totally in favor of the item. However, um I did read the all the documents in the package and for example, as far as what

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I understand, I'm not a lawyer. Um the price seems that it's provisional. The product is under development, is not being developed just yet. Um the delivery date is not guarantee. Um

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the data has to be shared with them. is one of the terms on the contract and the terms of the contract are has to be locked to whatever the terms of their own contract it is and their terms and conditions and it was a website like a

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URL that will take you to which is means it can change. So um I went a little bit deep into this because I especially the the price tag um I had a conversation also with the body chief about that [snorts] today and like I said I am in

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support of this however the same question that I had or comment I had before we don't even have a representative of the company being here to be able to answer those questions for like I said we are approving right now $1.8 eight plus million dollars for a

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future commission that is going to be here in 2028 for a product that doesn't exist yet that is development with a price that is not a fix. So it's a lot of if so um I understand we want to be in line the quote is valid until

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December. So this is maybe we sense some kind of urgency to get into the la the list right now. However, we could have better qu better answers if we have a representative of the company here. But like I said before, $2 million and

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nobody even had the courtesy of being here to answer questions. But I do approve or I I will make a motion to approve this item. >> Okay. Before I take your motion, Commissioner Lama, do you have anything to add? >> No. >> Okay. I need a second for Commissioner. >> Second. >> All right. All in favor?

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>> I. >> All right. Next item, please. 9E is a resolution approving a second amendment to the agreement with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as a primary awardee to provide fleet maintenance and repair services to group one vehicles.

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[clears throat] Mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission. This is our second amendment with Goodyear Tire and Rubber and they provide fleet maintenance to our fleet vehicles, oil changes, um change of

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tires, batteries, things like that. >> Okay. Thank you, Mara. Do we have any public speakers? >> No speakers, ma'am. >> You sure? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Um go ahead, Commissioner Joseph. Just want to uh make a note that

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when we buy a set of tires, the purchase the person that's at the at Goodyear um they know how to look for the um the uh year number on the tires so that we know we're getting fresh tires.

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>> Yes. Okay. That was not an unexpected answer. >> Okay. Do you have any other questions? >> No. >> All right. I'll take a motion. >> Um, I just wanted to to one clarification. There are no more

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renewals after this one. Correct. So, next time it has to be bed again. [clears throat] Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to put that on the record. Okay. So, next time has to go out and in bed. Okay.

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>> Yes. I just want that commitment. >> Okay, there's no more questions. I'll take a motion. >> Motion second. >> All in favor? I. >> Next item, please. >> 9F is a resolution allowing the mayor

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and commissioners at each elected officials sole choice and option to enroll and participate in and receive the same insurance benefits as is available to city's regular employees. >> Okay. Mr. City Manager, >> mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission. We discussed this at the

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last meeting and you provided direction that we should come back with maintaining status quo and that's it. This is how it currently exists. It's been this way for some time. We could not find any documentation

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formally having a resolution or formalizing it. So this will formalize your existing benefits being the same as the city employees. >> Okay. So formalizing what's already in in place. >> All right. Yes. Are there any public speakers? Mauricio,

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>> there is. Dana Goldman. >> Okay. >> Dana Goldman 308 Island Drive, Sunny Als Beach, Florida 33160. just want to express my support for this which is essentially a cotification of existing and long-standing practice. I

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would have obviously preferred for this to be more expansive but I understand the will of the current commission um to have this. So I'm in support of this resolution. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other speakers? >> No ma'am. >> All right. Are there any questions from the commission? I'll take a motion. >> Motion.

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>> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. 9G, please. 9G is a resolution establishing the city of Sunny Alis Beach proposed advalorum tax mill levy rate at 1.6514 mills per $1,000 of taxable assessed

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value which is equal to the roll back rate of 1.6514 mills for fiscal year 2026 2027. >> Mr. City manager, >> mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission. This establishes our

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proposed adorum tax millage rate at 1.6514 mills per thousand and is the same as the roll back rate. As you know, for the past many years, we have essentially lowered taxes. I'd like

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to point out that our city has the lowest taxes in all of Date and Broward County as well. >> And Monroe. >> And Monroe. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any public speakers? >> We do. Steven Hirs.

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>> Hi, >> Stephen Hirs. 17201 Collins. Last year, um, I spoke a couple times, uh, before this body regarding the implementation of performance-based budgeting for our city. Excuse me.

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[clears throat] Uh, newly adopted Florida Senate Bill 4F establishes minimum millage rates that cities may impose unless a supermajority commission vote of 2/3 or unanimous depending on

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the percentage of the raise approve or through public referendum. Additionally, for next year's budget, cities must conduct public workshops and perform 10% budget reduction exercises

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and must be fully transparent to the voters, which may further reduce revenue. This makes the adoption of performance-based budgeting more important than ever as millage rate limitations in addition to the possible

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homestead exemption. if amendment three passes in November will be a direct impact on our city. A traditional line item budget tells us how much money each department spends. A performance-based budget tells the

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taxpayers what they're receiving in return. It identifies the purpose of each program, the services being delivered, the measurable results expected, the cost of proactively producing those results, and whether those results are actually being

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achieved. When expenses exceed revenues, a city without performance information is often forced to make broad across the board reductions. For example, a 5% reduction applied equally to every department may sound

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fair, but it is completely against solid public policy. It treats an essential and effective program the same way as a lower priority or poorly performing program. A performance-based budget allows the commission to distinguish

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between essential services, successful programs, unperforming programs, and discretionary programs. Reductions may be identified that do not impact the residents safety, quality of life, and financial

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interests. The city may have less flexibility to raise revenue in the future. It must therefore develop a better method for deciding where every tax dollar produces the greatest value. A performance-based budget gives the

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commission and city manager that method and provides a transparent, measurable, and defensible basis making difficult budget decisions when reductions become necessary. The new millage rate therefore should be viewed

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not only as a tax limitation. It should be viewed as a mandate for better fiscal budgeting. I suggest consideration of performance-based budgeting be adopted during the ongoing preparation of our 2026 27 budget. This will place us in a

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better planning position to address any future reductions that our city may face in the coming year. Thank you for allowing me to speak. >> Thank you. Any other speakers? >> No other speakers. >> All right. I'll take comments or questions from the commission.

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>> Mayor, I'm sorry if I may interrupt really quickly and I can add something to the city manager's introduction. This item, if you recall, was revised at the beginning of the meeting and it's just to change the dates of the first and second hearings, which will be on the 8th and the 15th, respectively. Both at

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5:30. >> Both at 5:30. >> September. >> September. Yes. >> Okay. Questions from the commission? >> No. >> I'll take a motion. >> Motion. >> Need a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Next item, please. >> I'm a no.

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>> What? You're a no. >> I'm a no. >> Okay. Please note that >> noted for the record. >> Okay. >> 9H is a resolution approving the issuance of a proclamation proclaiming the month of September 2026 as hunger action month in the city of Sunnyel

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speech authorizing the mayor to issue the proclamation. >> Um Mercury, will you read the proclamation please? >> Um one second. And just uh for the record, this proclamation request came to all of us and we are all um

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co-sponsors on this for hunger month, hunger action month. >> The proclamation reads, "Whereas since 1981, Feeding South Florida has worked to address hunger and food insecurity in the city of San Beach by providing our community with immediate access to

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nutritious food and other vital resources and support. And whereas in South Florida, approximately 1 million individuals face hunger. And whereas Feeding South Florida leads hunger and poverty advocacy efforts in our community while transforming lives through innovative programming and

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education that provides economic growth and overall well-being. Whereas the city is therefore committed to supporting feeding South Florida so that together we can achieve a hunger-free South Florida. >> Thank you. Do we have any public speakers? >> No, ma'am. >> All right. Um and and for anyone in the

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audience who are watching this this is uh very serious for many people in our community. Uh if you are experiencing um any issues getting food, we have the St. Vincent Depal Society that's with uh adjacent to Mary Magdalene Church that provides food. They have a pantry. I

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believe they're open on Tuesdays and you can also um contact the um kosher kitchen which also has food and uh Mary Magdalene also has kosher items as well. Um, so do are there any comments from the commission? >> No. >> I'll take a motion, please. >> Motion.

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>> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. 9 I. >> 9 I is a resolution approving a fifth amendment to the agreement with IM Electric for street lighting, preventive maintenance, and as needed electrical services.

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>> Okay. Mr. City Manager, >> mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission. This item came up last month and I think there was we got off topic. Therefore, item was not heard.

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>> Move your microphone. >> Okay. Go ahead. So the unintended consequences of not approving the item caused the work that we were doing in Golden Shores regarding the undergrounding to stop. So in our conversations with FPNL

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and we heard some of this early in the meeting, we don't want them to leave the site. It would further delay our undergrounding. So we're recommending approval and for to move forward. And we need to

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Oh, okay. And that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any public speakers? >> No, ma'am. >> All right. I'll take any comments or questions from the commission. >> All right. I'll take a >> I do I do have comments. >> Go ahead. >> This is the fifth amendment. This

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contract was originally for $120,000. Now it's 1.2. That's a,000% more that it was contracted for. So at what point a contract um another amendment doesn't just become a new procurement. We are

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now beating this and I'm going to say the numbers again. Originally a year ago it was a I'm sorry January 2024 two years ago we contract this for 120,000. Right now with this new amendment it's going to 120

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to$129,000 over 1,000%. Like I said, um no being nobody's being allowed to compete for this. We are basically giving it to somebody who just gave us a contract originally for one small portion of the

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total that we're giving. And that's my problem right now. We should be doing a new bet for this contract and I just giving it to the same person over and over again and that same person or that company is not even here to clarify nothing. I being against not bidding for

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this contract, so I'm totally a no for this. >> Okay. Thank you. Mr. City Managers, just for the record, could you please expand on the the change in the contract? I see in the whereas clauses, there is some level of detail every time that we made

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an amendment to the contract because the scope changed. But can you clarify for this vote what is included in the scope, please? >> Yes. So, I'll ask a deputy city manager to fill in, please. Um there's actually been several projects that were brought before you.

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Um we did we have continued to use this vendor because we did go out to bid. Their hourly rates were $43 an hour opposed to the second lowest bidder at $120 per hour. So to use and we actually did try to contract with the second

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lowest bidder um and they refused to sign our contract as a second. So, we have had this primary contractor. >> Okay. >> Since then, we added the um all the lights change out at Heritage Park. We had to the big ticket item was um

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completing our uh closing our contract with the previous um contractor for the Golden Shores Undergrounding. That's the big ticket item. Um and to go out to bid would have delayed that project at least another six months. >> All right. Thank you. Are there any other questions from the commission?

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>> I have a question. >> Wait one second. Let Commissioner Joseph go and then you can go. >> So I'd like to ask um regarding the Golden Shores project, who is responsible now for removing the old light poles. >> FPL removes the light poles. >> That's FPL. >> Yes.

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>> So that's we have to they'll get around to it whenever they can. Is that it? >> They will not do it until all homes are connected. >> Okay. So we have one house that has an issue that I'd like to address tonight.

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That's um Galina. You know, you're going to tell me it's >> Mayor's lawsuit involved. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Commissioner Joseph, >> I wouldn't discuss it because she's there's a long history to it, but she's hired council. So, it's between council at this point,

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>> so we really shouldn't discuss it. >> All right, Commissioner Joseph. >> But this one house is holding up the entire project then. Correct. >> We can't discuss it. >> Okay. Well, we can discuss the fact whether >> the project can't be completed and we

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can't move forward to have other things done until the city settles on this issue that I'm >> mayor >> aware of. Excuse me. >> Let the city >> I'm working with council currently to resolve the situation. In fact, she contacted me today and I I have to wait

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to respond to her knowing what was going to happen this evening because we couldn't move forward because we had no funding, >> right? So, um, I'm working with council to try to resolve it and, uh, hopefully that will come to a resolution quickly. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. And it's to the city's best

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interest in the city's best interest to settle this because from what I know of it, we're not in the right. >> Okay. >> Mayor, I'm sorry, Mayor. I'm sorry. We can't. That's that's incorrect. That's categorically false.

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>> Right. So, first of all, the dispute only deals with the methodology of how the wires will actually be connected. There's uh >> Okay. Um >> I know I know, but >> All right. H how about >> I just need to make clear that

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>> please go ahead and then we'll >> city is >> I'll just leave it at the fact that that's an incorrect statement. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Um Commissioner Stuerson, if we could just uh Yes. If you want to add something that's not related to that. No, it's not

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related. So since November 2023 when we awarded this contract which it was for preventive maintenance service nobody like there is now the contractor that want to give us a price on entering

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a contract per hour with us. This almost three years. So this is the only company that is looking forward to provide electrical service to the city. >> That's exactly what kind of of that's I

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I want clarification about that. >> What what's the question? >> Okay. Since November 2023, >> according to what I just heard, other companies have been also uh provided opportunity to give us a price or

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entering a contract with us. Nobody else has any intention or interest in being an electrical contractor for the city. >> Okay. >> The city issued bid number 23-11-01 for street lighting prevent preventative maintenance and as needed electrical

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services. Great. We awarded that contract. We um when we awarded that contract, we had a primary and a secondary. The secondary was R&D Electric. They never signed our contract because they did not want to be second. Their prices were

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more, but we wanted to enter into an agreement with them so we'd have a backup just in case. Since that time, we have not pursued other bids because we had an ongoing contract. They do good work. very reasonably priced compared to the other

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bids which is the formal process to get pricing. So we have not tried to procure anyone else. >> Okay. To my point. So that was November 2023. So if we have only as a reference the second price uh we should be going

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to bit right now because we this is the fifth amendment and now this contract has spiral out of control and we are basing this on a second company that by all means could have even have any kind of agreement with the first one not to

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be part of and not to be uh signing. So that's the point. So please do not bring more amendments to this contract and just beat again. And if they're the best one with the best price, they're going to win again and we're going to continue working with them. But now there is

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maybe several other companies that'll be interested. That's what I'm saying. This process the way we are doing it is wrong and we should not be continue doing it this way. >> If I can get clarification please. If we were to stop this and not have >> if we were to bid this out, what would

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happen with the current work that's that is uh planned for Golden Shores? >> Um FPL would >> would leave for now until we got our act together and then we would have to wait for them to come back. >> And how long is the is the bidding

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process approximately let's say for the next amendment if there's another amendment? Um, at a minimum, you know, on average 3 to four months, 3 months if you rush it, um, 4 months is realistic. And this amount being asked for, the

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intention is that it covers everything through the term, the final term of this contract in which we will be going back out to bid. >> And when is this contract up? >> You approved it for an initial three-year period, and you approved it also with a two-year extension. >> Okay. Okay. So, we're at three years right now

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>> at our at our option. >> So, you you all approve that time frame. >> Got it. All right. Thank you. >> The approval was $120,000. Now, it's 1.2 millions. And to the process about how long it takes that contract originally,

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the bid was in November 1st, 2023. And this contract was signed in January 18, 2024. So, it only took three months if we rush like we said. So we can start right now doing the bid for the electrical for the next year and I'll be

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waiting when we have an emergency. >> Okay. >> And then just for the record though, the amendments that came to you for the added increase you all approved, >> right? No, I'm looking at the whereas clauses we approved each amendment. Correct. Um, >> no. I voted for against it before.

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>> Right. As a body we approved it. Thank you. Uh, I'll take a motion if there are no questions. Motion >> second. >> All in favor? >> I commissioner a no. >> Um all right. Now we are on to citizens

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forum. Do we have any public speakers? >> We do. Latali >> Falovich. >> My name is Pakovich. 938 Southwest 167 Pal Bay Florida. One of the things as coming here as a visitor to the city, you can always tell about how the

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administration is and I noticed the officers other employees affects how the administration is and I think that because of the election this year, I think this is one of the greatest administration as a visitor

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here to come in here a lot that I notice it the great job by a city manager, deputy city manager. here and you hear him talk, you can tell how great job they're doing. That comes from our mayor. Comes the administration comes from the mayor and he goes down. You see

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amazing police chief. You don't see that in a lot of cities in South Florida. This is the greatest city. And when you go in today in November, the citizen of the city, I wish I could vote in the city. I really honestly I think I wish I could vote. when you go in this year,

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we're look at what you were city administration done. And you guys, the commissioners, you should be proud of yourself. And madame mayor, I know you never say how good you are or bad you are. You do a great job and people should know and know that cuz you never

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give yourself attention. Thank you. >> Thank you for always always coming up and saying something positive. Appreciate it. Any other public speakers? Yes. Stanislas of Freriedman. >> Okay. Your name and address for the record. >> Good evening, commissioners. Good

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evening, city workers. Stennis Freedman, 209 Island Drive, San Beach, Florida, 33160. I would like to bring to your attention that the mayor candidate. Can I name the mayor candidate? Donna Goldman.

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>> No, no, no. Sir, sir, sir. Can we just keep it to city business? The the city is the city that's not city business and everything is is >> my apology. My apology. Okay. >> One of the mayor candidates >> we that's not city business. >> Okay. Somebody make the event on a city

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property. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> I did contact private event. Yes. >> Private event. Well, private event. That's I was told by the city, by the city attorney, by the city manager, by the staff. Okay. It was advertise

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advertise that the city birthday. Okay, I am the citizen. I live here for almost 32 years before the Sanal become the incorporated. Okay, I would like to come. So I asked for the request and I was been denied by the uh campaign

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manager of that person say you know you're not welcome down there. So next time when somebody doing event on a city property please make sure when they advertise they don't advertise at the city birthday. Okay. Thank you, Jerry. You do an excellent job. Love you.

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>> Please just address everything to me. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> You do an excellent job. >> Thank you. Any other speakers? >> Martin Chadock. >> Your name and address for the record. >> My name is Martin Chadock. I live at 100

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Kings Point Drive, Sunny Alice Beach. Um Madame Mayor, commissioners, thank you for, you know, for everything that you do. I really appreciate everything. Um, just a quick question just about FPL because you brought that up and wouldn't

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like being in government, wouldn't there be a contact that just just handles government where there's relations where you can get things done? Is is that an option? >> We can speak to you after the meeting. >> Okay. Then my other question is, and

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again pertains to FBO, is like if they're not doing their job, can't they be fined? >> Thank you. That's >> okay. That's my opinion. Thank you very much. >> I would love that. But [laughter] anyone else? >> No other speakers. >> All right, with that meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone for coming.

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