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Good evening everyone. Welcome to the record commission meeting in the city of Sweetwater. Meeting date, Monday, September 8th, 2025 at 6 p.m. Commission Chambers 500 Southwest 109 Avenue. Roll call. Madam clerk,
please stand for the invocation. Commissioner Vice, you want to lead us in the invocation? We thank you for this day and every other day. We thank you for this city and the wonderful residents of this city. We thank you for our state and our country and our president. We thank you
for for everything. And we pray that you give us clarity of mind and sound judgment. Give us wisdom and revelation to make the right and the best decisions before the city today. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen.
Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Please have a seat. Item number four, special presentation. We have any uh presentations today, Mr. Mayor? All right. No special presentations. Item number five, presentation of
employee of the month award. Mr. Mayor, deferred. Deferred. Okay. Item number six, presentation of officer of the month award. Major, state your names for the record, please.
Good evening. Hron Messa, Major Police Operations, Sweetwater Police Department. here to present officer of the month for July 2025. On June 13th, at about 4:49 p.m., during a routine business check at the Green Chicken Restaurant on 109 Avenue in
Southwest 7, Officer Serge Theanaut witnessed a male patron that appeared to be choking on his food. Without hesitation, Officer Theanot sprang into action and performed a Heimlick maneuver on the choking male. Thanks to Officer Theonaut's quick thinking and decisive
response, the male was able to expel a large food obstruction from his throat, thus allowing him to breathe and ultimately saving his life. We are proud to recognize Officer Serge Devonaut for his courageous and life-saving actions on that day. This incident highlights his dedication to serving the community
and his remarkable ability to remain calm under pressure. His swift actions not only prevented a serious medical emergency, but also reinforced the vital role that our officers play in protecting the lives of those in our community. For these reasons, it is with great pride that we recognize officer
Serge Steanot, officer of the month, July 2025. [Applause] He's already got the life-saving award pinned off. Hey, good job.
All right. Football. Congratulations officer. Thank you for what you do. Item seven, reports of officers, boards, and committees. None.
Item eight, additions and deletions to the agenda. We have one addition to the agenda. Staff item J. Can I have that, please? Oh, okay. Staff item J.
Thank you. Do we have any deletions to the agenda? Mr. Attorney, as I understand from the la the events of the local planning agency meeting, uh there may be a request to defer certain
items to a date certain. I would like to uh have Mr. Adius speak on that because he is the attorney for the proponents of those motions. Mr. Adius, uh, state your even though you did in the last meeting, state your name and address for the record. You have the floor.
Alejandra AIA, 71 Brickl Avenue, representing the applicant. Good evening, Mayor Council. Uh, we are currently still working through some of the updated development program parameters um, which impact some of the proposed language today on the comprehensive plan text. So, as such, we
would like to respectfully request a deferral of items C, D, E, and F. That allows us time to actually uh update that language. Three chair. Commissioner SD is the other floor. Yeah. Can you repeat that number again? Uh the the letter
CD and F DNF. And I believe he would like a deferral to a date certain date to a date certain of October 29th, please. All right. Do we have a motion for a date certain for October 29th to hear
items C, D, E, and F? Both. Second. Moved by Commissioner Yano, second by Commissioner Ranald. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And uh, Mr. President, the item is deferred. Yes, Mr. That would be at 6 o'clock in the evening.
Item is deferred. October 29th, 6 pm, 500 Southwest Avenue. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have any other additions or deviations to the agenda, Mr. Attorney? No, sir. Okay.
Commissioner Madi. Um, Mr. Attorney, at the previous meeting, we said 5:30. Is it going to be 6:00 now? Yeah. Well, the previous meeting was a deferral of the local planning agency. This is a deferral of city commission meeting. Copy. Understood. Thank you. Yeah, I can see how that can be
confusing. Uh, I actually had suffer from the same question. All right. Item nine, petitions, communications, and remmonstrances. We have one, two, three, four, five. We
have six individuals that choose to speak. The first individual is Mr. Sorry. Okay. Hold on. Stand by. Were you calling? I'm just watching you guys. See what you
guys are doing. Uh, calling Mr. Alejandro Martinez. Mr. Martinez, please state your name and address for the record. You have three minutes. Sorry. Hello, I'm Alejandra Martinez, 11588 Southwest 7th Street.
Uh, first I'd like to thank you guys for all being on time today and all being present. And I'm not saying that sarcastically or ironically like that was an actual concern of mine in the last meeting. And I'm glad that you guys are pushing forward and making the
effort to be here on time and all present. Uh, and I'm I'm as genuine as I could be when I say that. Thank you, Ian, for being here on time. I I didn't mean to speak to you a certain way last time, but um
I'm going to try to keep it calm because honestly, my mom's scared when I come to these things. She thinks I'm going to get whacked or something. Uh yeah. So, uh, honestly, I just want to the main thing, uh, I want to
I want to talk I want to talk about is is transparency. Um, I'm not against you guys because if I'm against you guys, I would be against this the the people that you represent and and um
it it's very important that we just have transparency. Uh there was the the item got deferred but there was a 30 minute meeting that no one would have known about if it wasn't for the fact that there was two 8 by10
papers taped onto a concrete uh uh like structure and you know and in cont you know contrasting that there was a there was a post an Instagram reel about a sketcher
store uh grand opening. And it's nothing against the brand of Sketchers. It's it's none of that, but it's just like it's it it does seem like there's something weird going on when a commissioner meeting that's 30 minutes prior to the regular commissioner
meeting isn't announced, but the Sketcher Store is. And like when I saw that video, I kind of had this idea. I think it would be amazing if once a week, one different commissioner or the mayor, if you guys went and made an Instagram reel about your favorite
sweetwater restaurant or business. Maybe getting chicharó from Laoita or getting some Colombian hot dogs from Lacolina or your favorite fritanga, you know, like or it's just like
it's it's it's coming across very uh I just want transparency. I like I'm there's not much for me to say today, but just please like make an effort to be transparent. Thank you for uh your time, Mr. uh Martinez. I will uh engage you in
something. In the last meeting, you referred to Commissioner Ian Via arriving late. I want to give you some context. Commissioner Vilio has three children and children who have special needs and there's only one vehicle in
his house. So that day I I gave you a reprieve. I let you slide because I I I am definitely a defender and I didn't want to attack you. I appreciate the fact that you came professionally and eloquently. Um, I didn't hear an apology, but I wanted you to have some
context as to why he was late that day because he has children with special needs. No, I I understand that and that's extremely honorable. My sister is an actually a a counselor for children with uh uh mental disabilities and and like you know you know any uh different
different kinds of uh handicaps and stuff like that. if that I'm not I'm not sure if that's a professional way to say it, but um yeah, I mean I could I I you know, thank you for your time, Mr. Martinez. Thank you for your time. You you should be on time, you know. Thank you, Marcus.
Uhhuh. Um I don't know if he uh if I'm reading this correctly, I see David, is it Winter? Mr. David Winter. Winker. I either have poor vision or he has poor writing. One of the two. The latter. Good evening, Mr. Winker.
Uh, say your name and address for the record. Yes. David Winker, 4720 South Leune Avenue. If I can interject here for just a moment, please. Mr. Attorney, uh, to inform the commission and to remind the mayor that Mr. Winker is the
individual repres the attorney representing the individual for suing the city. So would council commit the commissioners to be careful and um very conservative in your comments because whatever is said tonight might be used against the city in the undergoing
litigation. Thank you, Mr. Attorney. Mr. Winker, you have the floor, sir. Yes. Thank you so much. So, uh I was not going to speak tonight because I know the item got deferred and so I appreciate that. We'll be back in October. Um, I sent a letter in today to the city clerk and the city attorney
asking about the Florida state statutory mandated study about the relocation of these residents. And I was informed just to put on the record that you guys are not going to be doing that study. And I just wanted to
put on the record that we've we've requested it. We feel like you guys have a statutory to do that duty to do that prior to taking any official action. Um, and so I just wanted to put on the record that we had requested that. I had a very pleasant conversation with the attorney who said, you know, that's
subject to ongoing litigation and it is. He that is correct. So, I just wanted to put on the record that we we are requesting that study and my understanding is that the study is not going to uh take place regarding the relocation and I appreciate your time and we'll be back in October.
Thank you for your opinion, sir. I have Enriquez. Am I saying that correctly? Mr. Hello. Perfecto. If you don't mind, Mr. Winkler, I like to run my meeting the way.
Yeah, you got it. We're all deferring. Thank you very much. Do you need a translator, sir? No, I don't need it. All right. But the problem is I don't know what's happened because you'll defer the case of Mr. Winker till October. So I don't know if I can talk now or you can speak about whatever you want, sir.
Okay. We will not limit you from speaking. We are constitutionalists here. So if you want to go ahead and speak about whatever it is you want, we're here to listen. You have three minutes. State say your name and your address of the record, please. Okay. My name is Enrique Sallaya. My address is 1122
Northwest 2nd Street, Miami, Florida 33172. Well, the the the thing that I was talking about it was about the reszoning of uh of u of the live Amnner Mobile Home Park and
uh I want I was going to talk about 200 in behalf of about 250 people that we're still there and um first of all that uh as a matter of fact you ready first of all I want to thank you all of you for
having us here and uh and uh I want to assure you that we're not against any um any doing for the better of the city for any city but we are in a big
problem that uh we don't know we don't own the land but we own the trailer parks now those trailer parks are those trailer parks were from 1975 to 1980 they cannot be relocated we have tried to move them all over the places. And
there isn't any home park that can uh that can is suitable for those uh for those home parks. They're already too old. So we cannot be relocated. As simple as that. And um so we don't know where to go.
It's not that we don't want to go, just we don't we don't have a place to go because our the relocation is not for us because we cannot do it. If they want us to relocate us, it has to be either in affordable houses
or in another trailer park, but there isn't any any trailer park that will accept us with trailers to all. And there isn't any affordable houses. At least we have to sign up a paper and we have to wait for 10 years. And um
this matter has been already taken by another city council. Maybe you were not here and you know the statues. I won't read the statues of Florida about uh about uh affecting removal of mobile homeowners. But I just want to tell you
no agency or municipal, local, county or state government shall approve any application for reasoning or take any duties official action which would result in the removal of revocation of
mobile home owners residing. That's the stature that's stated there. and the and the guy who were before you in the city council, they already had an ordinance telling
that you will respect that statue which as a matter of fact for the LI owner home park owners have not been respected because we don't have any relocation. Three minutes are up. Continue, sir.
And uh that's one thing. Another thing is that we didn't get there because we're landless. Before we got there, we went to the office. We pay our fees monthly. The owners, which are many of
them, got about a million and a half dollars monthly for 50 years. They were earning that. All right, Mrs. Eliah, your time has been up, but I wanted to extend your time. Thank you, sir. And I want you to understand that we here sitting on this
dis in the city of Sweetwater uh are trying to do God's work. I know we're not here to limit anybody from speaking. We're not here to limit anybody's speech, but we are here to adhere to the law. And as much as we'd love to talk about, unfortunately, we're
very limited on what we can say because you guys decided to sue us. So it's it's very difficult for us to talk. So all I can say is thank you for your speech. You're more than welcome to come whenever you want to talk. We will never
limit you from talking. Okay. God bless you sir. Okay. Thank you sir. Thank you everybody. I have uh man I don't know if I'm okay. Bernabi Riva.
Anybody? Bernabi. How do you pronounce your name, sir? Sir, do me a favor. Sit down. Okay, sir. Mr. uh sir with a yellow shirt, if you can sit down. Really appreciate it. Thank you very much. We like to maintain the quorum here. [Music]
[Music] Okay. Uh because he's uh there is a translator. I'm going to try and give him some more time because uh we don't want something lost in translation. Please your name and your address. translate though.
Try your best. Right. I'll get the rest. Okay. Uh once again, I'm here, but this certainly won't be the last time that I'll be speaking to you. You don't have to move the mic. You can
just talk. You know, in the short time that I've been living here, um, you know, I I don't I don't feel particularly uh like speaking about myself right now. Today I'll be speaking on behalf of a very small community um that I also
consider to be my family that are present here today. From the short time that I've been living here, um, you know, I can only say that from the bottom of my heart, from my soul, what is going on here is a grave injustice.
etc. etc. To all of you here, the mayors, the commissioners, etc., including Mayor Danielle leaving Cava, I recognize that you guys have given us the community, our backs, your backs to us.
You guys utterly have no idea what we have suffered right outside. Um there's been flooding, ambulances that we've had to be subjected to. Okay. My question to you is what will you do
for our community, for those who are here that are elderly, that are disabled? I know people here that have had heart surgery, that are in Kendall right now, that are suffering and continue to suffer due to these decisions. You you can stop right there. So,
okay. Perfect. [Music] Uh, we're not trying to limit speech here. [Music] I don't let anybody speak in the meetings, any commissioners uh to speak unless unless they want to engage
specifically because of a lawsuit. [Music] I hope your situation is resolved fast, but I can't give any further comment because of pending litigation. Want to have Sonia Carbay?
Did I say that correctly? Miss Sonia Carbio, you here? Yes. Yes. Good evening, madam. Do you speak English? No. You're going to translate. No problem, sir. Great. is in 11343
Southwest 110 in the mobile home. [Music] Mobile homes. It's been decades that we've lived in the mobile home. on the part of the former owners of the
mobile home park as well as the new one. There was no indication to us in the community that they were going to reszone. This gave us the expectation that those who were living here had the stability to live there for life. We've been investing a lot of money into
our homes. Some folks uh two to three months beforehand uh had invested 170 170,000 or had sold it for 170,000. Um, we have not received any aid from the the county or the city for the
situation. There are many children and elderly that are suffering in these conditions. and this is why we ask you to say no to the zoning. Um there are many people here who have no alternatives for where to go in the case that it does pass.
We urge you to prioritize the well-being and livelihoods of those who have lived here rather than the economic interests of the developers um in the community from the zoning. Thank you for your time, ma'am. Okay.
I have is it Mario or Maria Farardo? Mario Farardo. Maria Farardo. Maria Faro. Can you state your name and address for the record?
Maria Victoria. My name is Maria Victoria. Thank you very much. I just don't want to be redundant because I know there is a legal issues going on against the city because the lawyer will be taking care of that
problem. But I want to say something now. Auda. I know your family, your parent, your father, your mother, you have a responsibility. So we do have responsibility to and
we're asking you as a family, as a human being to give us some help. You have the power. You have the authority. We need your help and we're asking you to help us because you are human being as as well as we are. So we're requesting you your help. Please
help us. Thank you ma'am. Thank you ma'am. [Music] Just to clarify as public servants here in the city, you don't have to thank us for listening to you. It's our obligation to listen to you. Um, we are
all constitutionalists here and we believe in the first amendment right of freedom of speech. So, thank you very much for your comments. You can have a seat. Uh, Madame Clerk, Mr. Attorney, colleagues on the commission, Mr. Mayor, I see no other individual wishing to
speak on public comments or I'm sorry, petitions, communications, and remmonstances. Do any commissioners wish to speak? I do. I wish to have No, sir. You can have a seat. Unless your name is here, you're not going to speak. So, please have a seat. You have plenty of time to write down. You have
plenty of time to write down your name. Uh but you you continue to be disrupted. So, please have a seat. Thank you very much. Do any colleagues, any commissioners wish to speak? Excellent. We're going to move on from item nine. We are going to take a short little recess and wait for
the room to clear and we're going to continue with the meeting. Uh item 10, consent agenda. Do I have a motion? Move. Move. Uh motion by Commissioner Yananiel, second by Commissioner Mi. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?
Items on the consent agenda pass. We have staff item A, a resolution of the mayor and commission of the city of Sweetwater adopting the tentative millage rate of the city of Sweetwater for the fiscal year commencing October 1st, 2025 and ending
September 30th, 2026 pursuant to Florida statute section 2000. 065 trim bill setting date, time and place for public hearing to adopt final millage rate for the city of Sweetwater authorizing city clerk to advertise
public hearing trim requirement. Mr. Mayor, sure attorney, you want to read the trim requirement? Yes. The this is a requirement that we uh pass every year. Essentially we are
setting the millillage at 3 be looking for the roll back. Yeah. So the mill is being set at 3.5634 which is 3 $3.56
per thousand of assessment value. The roll back rate is declared to be 3.3102 which is $3.31 per thousand of assessed property within the city. Uh the second public hearing
is to be set pursuant to section 200 uh065 of the Florida statutes to adopt the final mill rate for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026
uh to be set at the city commission chambers 500 southwest 109 Avenue, Sweetwater, Florida at 6 pm on September 22, 2025. Mr. Do any uh commissioners have any scheduling conflicts on that date?
September 22nd. September 256 p.m. September. Sorry. Sorry. You said Dece September 22nd. I'm sorry. 6 p.m. I'm reading the wrong. I'm sorry. September 22nd. 6 p.m. September 22. Any scheduling conflicts? Everybody
good? Everybody good? None. Mr. Mayor, we're good to go. I'm meeting with each one of you individually between now and then to discuss the budget, discuss the issues that you may have or not have or what you might want to see. So, at that point, I think uh uh we're good for now
and we'll set the meetings up. I will be reaching out and see what days are available for you to do. So, does each every one of you have the latest copy of the budget? Am I correct? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll accept 10 additional police positions. I really appreciate that. Um,
thought it was funny. Commissioner Seldas, mayor, this is going to stay the same, correct? No addition. We still the same, right? We're moving forward. We're moving forward. We haven't We haven't um increase or we haven't done
anything. We are the same as last year. Increase as far as millage is the same. Yep. The reason the reason I want to clarify that is because I got a couple of calls telling me that today we were going to raise the the budget. I mean, it was in social
media. I want you to know that. And it was all over the place and I got a couple of calls. That's why I want to clarify that. Miss uh Commissioner Diaz, uh if I had a dollar for everything I read on social media that uh they say I'd be a very
rich man. Uh no, that is not the case. We are a uh very straightforward. I asked the attorney to read the millillage. The millillage is the same millillage as last year. Understand? and that's what we're proposing forward. So, as far as everybody's concerned, this commission
is moving and voting this one as flat as I am proposing as the mayor of the city. Thank you, mayor, for the courage. Thank you. Thank you. Any other commissioners? All right. Item B, uh, resolution uh, Mr. Attorney, point of order. Do we need to vote on that
term requirement? Yes, you should vote. Sorry about that. I apologize. I caught myself before I moved. Do we have a motion? You should vote by roll. I'm sorry. You should vote by roll call also on this one. Just a roll call. If if we don't have any opposition, do we still need to do it? Not if you have no opposition. No.
But if that's your council roll call, do we? I think it would be the wiser idea would be a roll call. Yes, sir. Request a roll. Mr. Mayor, could I request a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Thank you. Um, any opposition from the commissioners to request a roll call on this item? Seeing none. Okay. Um, do we
have a motion to set the millillage on September 22nd, 2025 at 6 p.m.? Moved by Commissioner Jose Martine, second by Commissioner Ranald. Roll call, Madame Clerk. Yes. Yes, ma'am.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Only if I get 10 other police positions. Yes. Item B, a resolution of the mayor and commission of the city of Sweetwater adopting the tenative budget of the city of Sweetwater for the fiscal year
commencing October 1st, 2025 and ending September 30th, 2026 pursuant to Florida statute section 2000.065 065 trim bill setting date and time and place for public hearing and adopt final budget. Excuse me. For the city of Sweetwater
authorizing the clerk to advertise public hearing providing for an effective date trim requirement. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Attorney, as stated before, Mr. President, um is there anything you need to read on? Same deal.
Right. So the um again this budget sets the millage rate at 3.5634 uh which will be adopted uh pursuant to this resolution that the second uh public hearing is
u to be set under section 2000.065 of the Florida statutes to adopt the final budget for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026. uh is to be set uh in the city
commission chambers uh 500 Southwest 109 Avenue, Sweetwater, Florida at 6 PM on September 22, 2025 in the commission chambers. Do we have a motion? Moved by Commissioner Mati, seconded by
Commissioner Raldo Ray. Uh roll call, Madam Clerk. Commissioner Re. Yes, ma'am. Commissioner, yes. Commissioner Martine, yes. Commissioner, yes. Commissioner. Yes. Commissioner Daniel. Yes. President.
Yes. All right. We have deferred item C, deferred item D, deferred item E, deferred item F. We are now on item G. Correct. An ordinance of the city of Sweetwater,
Florida, amending chapter 2, article 10, division three of the city code of ordinance to make the youth advisory board an ADHC entity. Ad hoc it is entity to be constituted
by the mayor on an as needed basis. Providing for commission ratification of appointments, providing for severability, providing for codification, providing for an effective date, first reading. Commissioner Vo move. We don't need to explain that item. Moved by Commissioner by
Ray. Commissioner Ray's on a roll today. Seconded by Commissioner Yan. Roll call. Madam clerk. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you, commissioners. We've been kicking that can down the road for about eight years now. Item H, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Sweetwater authorizing creation of Miami Day County of Special Taxing
District within the city of Sweetwater for the Platted Areas identified as Upland Park, Upland East, T-24975, and Upland West T4976 for the purpose of the funding of special services including but not
limited to street lighting, providing for authority, providing for transmitt, and providing for an effective to date. Mayor Diaz. Thank you, Mr. President. And this is a special taxation district as stated at the project for Upland. It's something that uh even though this is the RTC,
they the county has requested that we present that and also vote upon it. So, this is why it's before you. Simple uh tax project. That's it. Uh just stand by, Commissioner. Uh Mr. Mayor, we had uh you and I had several
meetings today, but um I didn't see this on here. Um we've never had a special taxing district in the city of Sweetwater. Well, to the best of my knowledge, this is a special a special taxing district is considered when a certain
project needs to do a certain type of whether it's lighting or whatever. Um, when you incorporated the area of Northwest 7th Street, I think it was on the first annexation, there was a tax uh
district put in place on the lighting there already. This is used all over the county. This is something that I had questions about and I think uh Mr. Vera also had questions about, but it's normal. It's standard. They are responsible for it. We're just a pass
through and that's the process unless there's an issue. I never had one before and I've done I don't know how many of these in my prior role. No, I understand. My my issue with special taxing districts is if we give it to one, who do we limit this to? Um
this is limited to writing if I'm not mistaken. I understand. I just have my reservations on this where I'd like to have more dialogue. If you're you're not willing to have dialogue and you want to move this forward, I understand. I just have my reservations because I have a lot of questions. I've dealt with a lot of special taxing districts and there
are pros and cons. Um, and that's just that's just a conversation that I want to have with you in private. If you'll indulge me on it, I'll be happy to to have a meeting about it. I don't know how my other commissioners feel about it. You already know when I have questions. I'd like to have those questions
answered. If not, I usually vote no. Uh, Mr. President, when I we'll get to him in a second in a second. I'll make it I'll make it real simple for you. There are some taxing districts that we had in the county major problems with. Now the taxing districts that had
to deal with lighting uh we really kind of like they were very straightforward. It was the other type of specialized taxing different uh districts everything from gardening to uh security to many other issues that had many issues uh
with them. This is something so standard the one that I looked at and Mr. Shera uh brought to me and it's something that I didn't think we needed to do to be honest with you because of the RTC situation, but that's Miami date county does require it and did notify that it is in the city of Sweetwater. So, out of
respect, they put it to us so we could verify it too. So, that's why it's before you. If not, it it would have been I hear you. It just caught me by surprise. Okay, that's all I'm saying. But, I tell you it's fine on this one. State your name and address for the records room. Uh good evening uh Mr. President. It's
Jose Gonzalez with the GOC Real Estate on behalf of Terara. Um the developers of Upland Park. Address is 7700 Northwest North Kendall Drive, Sweet 604. Actually, that's the first time I say publicly here because I've haven't
had any public hearing since I moved. Um well, as the mayor was was stating, this is a requirement from the county. And the only reason you would see it come like this to you guys as as a resolution, it's because it's the RTZ. everything else within Sweetwater. The only way to create a special taxing
district is this body, right? This doesn't create the special taxing district. It only passes a resolution saying you you basically have to support it because it's for exactly that lighting. It's not a multi-purpose special taxing district that can encompass a lot of other types of infrastructure. It's only for the
lighting in the public roads. So, what it does is basically the the other roadways there have lighting. Every adjoining property owner pays for the operation, installation and operation of that in perpetuity. So that the residents don't pay for it, they pay for and then on main roads, the county pays
for it, arterial roads. So this is a requirement of the plat. That's why you read out the two plat numbers. We have no choice. We have to create it by law. If we if this body doesn't govern it, the county will still create it. So it it either way this is just procedurally they normally like to have a resolution from from the cities. That way there's
no objection. But the county is the ultimate body that determines that. And uh for the record, you actually have the biggest sexual taxing district. You have a CDD because we created it when we did Dolphin Mall. Dolphin Mall has a CDD. Well, you're talking about um
that's the one where was it Brett Houston? Yes. Yes. Yeah. I forgot about that one actually. And Beacon Lakes that you also incorporate. We have uh since the annexations took place, we have is that a CDD or is that a CRA? Beacon Lakes has a CDD and
Dolphin Mall has that because both and I want to make it abundantly clear if I have questions I I want questions answered. I don't want to be surprised during meetings. Yeah. It's not fair to the mayor. Uh the mayor's been dealing with a gazillion issues over the weekend. I probably spoken to the mayor
this weekend in a three-day period more than I have in the last two and a half years. Um I don't know if you got any sleep this weekend. And I know you've been extremely busy, but this is an item that I wasn't aware of my error because we were dealing with something completely different.
Sure. Um I'm not comfortable making a decision that's an uninformed decision. I understand what you're saying, but I've always learned trust but verify. Um this isn't first reading. No, it's not first reading. It's a
resolution. It's just it's just a resolution. You're just basically saying Sorry, that was item G. That's right. Listen, I don't feel comfortable with this. Um, you're are you saying, Mr. Mayor, are you saying that the county is requiring us to have a special tax district or is a developer requesting a
special taxing district? Let me see if I could put this. We have a dilemma when we annex the the area. We have a dilemma. Another dilemma. My own. We have a few dilemmas here.
Yes, a few dilemas. Uh we have a dilemma as far as when we took over as an annexation the uh part three as we call it section three. All right. There was something that was called the RTC that was put in
place. That RTC was voted upon during the annexation and is maintained itself. We are negotiating with the mayor of the county and also with the commission. Unfortunately, the commissioner uh hopefully will very soon be able to
re-engage with God's help and of the district and be able to analyze this issue with the RTC because code cannot really participate in the RTC. We have limitations on certain things. I don't want to get into the whole thing. I'll
sit down with each one of you if you want and we'll go over it. But due to the RTZ, there's a lot several things that we cannot do and they actually pass through the county. Either way, the county has at least the way I look at it
and if I'm wrong, uh I don't think I am. No, you're correct. That's because the county has actually respectfully acknowledged us and said we would like also resolution of the city so they understand what's actually taking place in their city. Now, do they need us? They really don't because of the RTC.
But I think out of respect a person that has an incredible project that means a lot to us in the city with 2,000 units and it's very important. Uh this is something that they do need. This is why I don't want to defer this or take long. Now uh maybe I should have gone over a
little more with you guys but I saw it as a simple thing and standard and maybe that comes from my experiences in the past that there's so many of these that take place. I would have looked at this very differently if it was if it was the other type of a special taxing districts, but this is so uh just
writing. That's all I understand. That's all it is, sir. I understand. I'm going to give you um some advice at least with me. I can't speak on behalf of my commissioners. Sure. Whenever you have an item that comes before the commission, reach out to me. Uh and and I understand you want to reach out to the mayor, but I you and I
haven't sat. Actually, I haven't spoken to the mayor. No, this is very this is a very procedural. This is not a this is not a zoning vote or anything. This is like I have to do it by law. I have no choice. I get it. I don't want you to think that I'm scolding you in any way. Trust me, I'm not. I just I don't like being caught by surprise and I hate making an
uninformed decision. I've I've spoken to the mayor about this on several occasions. I spoke to my colleagues. I've been extremely consistent in the last eight years that I've been here. Um so I'm going to do something that I've never done before. Every time I've gone against or I've said I have a problem with this, go ahead and pull it. that everybody knows
how I'm going to vote. Everybody knows I'm going to vote no, right? Everybody knows. It's not a surprise. So, I'm gonna go ahead and vote yes. I'm going to listen to you, Mr. Mayor. Um, just I'm going to take this into the game. We were very busy this weekend. We had a lot of contentious items. I'm going to
give you the yes vote, but uh I'd love to sit down with you further. Sure. Along with the mayor, I want you to explain to me in detail. Hopefully, when we do that, I don't regret my decision. Um, and uh we can move. There's a lot of pros and cons to to like you said to to special taxing districts. I'm I'm well aware business where I deal
with special tax issues all the time and they're either a godsend or it's a cancer. That's correct. Um do we have any discussion on this item? Any commissioners wish I'll second the item. We have a motion by myself, a second by Commissioner Rald Aldo Ray. All in favor say I.
Any opposed? Congratulations, sir. Thank you, sir. Sorry that I uh put you guys through that dentist chair. You guys didn't need that root canal. Uh item I, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Sweetwater approving modification to agreement with
Axon Enterprises, Inc. for provisions of additional bodywn cameras and attendant services providing for authority and providing for an effective date. Mayor Diaz and Deputy Chief Gill. Um, basically I'll have the deputy
chief come on up. But this is something that procedurally wise uh we need to do and the way it was divided and the way it was negotiated. This is uh unfortunately one vendor that has a monopoly basically on this particular product that is so needed by our
officers and we just need to address it and we're trying to make it as best as possible for us to move forward and be able to uh make sure that everything works. Unfortunately, I wish there was more companies out there that did this
particular product and that it wasn't so limited in the way it's done. But I think all in all it works. Mr. Deputy Chief, you want to take it from there? Yes, sir. Uh, good evening, Mr. Mayor, commissioners, uh, staff, and, uh, guest. My name is Noel Gil. I'm the
deputy chief of police for the city of Sweetwater, 500 Southwest, uh, 109th Avenue. I'm here uh before you today to discuss uh an amendment or a modification that we did on the existing contract of Axon uh to uh up upgrade it
by two modules uh also by 15 licenses, a couple of prolicenses that allow us to uh do um certain things like uh redactions and things of that nature. uh and also to uh redo the contract in such
a manner where it falls within our fiscal year. uh to make it a little bit easier not only on the police department but our finance department uh as well as um when we get down into the future uh be able to if we continue with Axon be
able to negotiate uh on something that gives everybody uh a better picture as to expenditures. Uh with that said, I will open it up to questions. Thank you. Uh Deputy Chief, what I have two I have several questions. What are
the two modules that were amended to the contract? So the two modules that are amended to the contract is the Axon performance. Uh one of the main features of the Axon performance is that it allows uh for us to do audits of the system on a monthly
basis where the supervisors are auditing their officers. It is randomly selected to ensure that you know we're not picking on officers. Every officer does get audited. uh but the videos that are selected uh are uh are selected at
random and uh that also helps us with uh training and also with the ability to tag um and I don't want to get it confused with the other module which is called autotagging but it also enables us to tag more readily uh any videos
that we feel that are of importance uh for for now or the future. So, uh, those are some of the highlights within the, um, Axon, uh, performance. And then the other one is the autotagging. So, now that the city of Sweetwater for the
first time ever, we'll have a CAD and, uh, and it will have and the CAD will be uh, birectional with the county's CAD, uh, the county's Motorola performance one uh, one CAD and our uh, Motorola Flex CAD. uh the autotagging what it
does is that every 12 hours whatever it is that the dispatcher puts in automatically goes into the uh video. Now you're probably asking how does this happen now? The way that it happens now is that our officers manually after
every call have to go into Axon to basically put case number, the title and all that and and other things that has caused a great amount of problems to include losing videos because they're
not properly tagged which now it'll be done uh uh automated through the CAD system. Uh so that is very important to have because you know it will definitely uh stop a lot of the errors that we are currently having uh with our system.
And the last question is what is the fiscal impact or the amended fiscal impact to because you said our current budget and then our next year's budget. So so right now we are on a five-year contract of which this will be year three, right?
um we've amended it in such a way that you know we'll we'll pay now here after October one we'll get build again so the fiscal impact is another $120,000 for the remaining three years so at about $40,000 now with that said year
the the last year which will be in fiscal year 28 if my math is correct um we will have approximately uh I think it's about another 5% or rough roughly five or 10% to cover the
the three months that we are adding to the contract at the 2024 contract rate. Right? It took us some doing. It took us a lot of talking with Axon because they didn't initially want to give us the 2024 rate. Uh a lot of
begging and pleading, but they finally came through and said, "You know what? for three months. We'll recognize that just to make your life easier, be able to follow it within the fiscal year and we'll put the three months at the 2024 rate with all the add-ons. Thank you, Deputy Chief. Any colleagues have any questions?
I will I will wait for somebody to move this item. We moved by Commissioner Bio, seconded by Commissioner Monti. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Congratulations. Thank you, Deputy Chief. Thank you, uh, Commission. And again, once again, on behalf of uh Chief Serge
Diaz, thank you for all the support that you guys give us. Mr. Mayor, you as well. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Mayor, thanks for supporting us. Um I say that faciciously, obviously. Don't ask me to spell that word. You have um item J. Item J. Exactly.
Uh a resolution of the city commission of the city of Sweet Water. Did you snicker? Is that what you did? Okay. Do you need a snicker? Uh resolution of the city commission of the city of Sweetwater authorizing the mayor to purchase vehicles for the public works department, the storm water utility and
citizens independent transportation trust functions as provided for in the fiscal year 2425 budget. Providing for authority, providing for severability, providing for an effective date. Mayor D is the other floor. We have uh some
vehicles in maintenance and we have some vehicles that uh they need to be um they're they're very old and we want to update them and if we have the funds within the budget now let's take advantage of it and and try to do it and that's where we're at. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. How much uh are we
asking for? How much are you asking for? Total I haven't got the Can you give me the figures, Scott, please? Up there. Was it 150 something like that? No. 180 85 85 180 and for 180,000 how many vehicles are you looking at? Scott, bring it up to the podium,
please. State your name for the record. Scott Mendlesburg, City of Sweetwater Finance Director. Uhhuh. Um, we have $340,000 in the budget for the four vehicles. We don't anticipate spending that much. Um, but a lot of this money, the storm water
utility and the CIT money, those are monies that we have to spend on those functions and that we have carryover and public works money is the general fund. Thank you. Uh, so I uh whenever whenever the mayor comes and asks us for funds, the mayor always puts an amount. Up to
now, he hasn't spent the total amount. I am going to request an amendment to uh add uh some money to that. Let's make it 225,000. I know um we need vehicles, especially that department. And if if you don't
want to spend it, then you don't and it'll go back into the piggy bank. Uh you oppose that, Mr. Mayor? No, I don't oppose it. We really I don't think need it. But if we analyze and understand what we have and if we could get a good deal, uh we might take
advantage of it. And again, we have to get a good deal. That makes sense because uh we just want to make sure that the equipment we have, and you're right, this equipment is especially important. Right now, I have three men that have uh stayed on to make sure of
any potential flooding that is being addressed. Pumps are working, everything else. Even though we've been through a lot of issues, our people are still working and making sure our circumstance. So, these type of vehicles are important to make sure that they don't break down. and that's what we're trying to avoid.
So, point of order, Mr. Attorney, um can I amend that amount to 225 on the language? Yes. Uh let me get to the actual language here in the in the body or
right. So, it would be uh paragraph two where it states the mayor is authorized to use $180,000 of budgeted funds. Change and 85. Um I would I would amend it to read as follows. The
mayor is authorized to use up to you said how much? 225. $225,000. Uh are you sure? 180 and then you have 85 and 85. That would exceed the 225, doesn't it? Yeah, he's just adding I think he's adding the 45 to the public works.
It's It's adding uh the public works was 180 something and I'm adding 45 an additional 45,000 to that. So, I'd like it to say a total of 225 to public works and then there's another one that's 85 or 85. Okay. Okay. So, the mayor is authorized
to use up to $225,000 budgeted of budgeted funds from public works department budget and then the rest continues as normal. Sounds good to me. Okay. Then the other thing that I would suggest for, you know, reasons that I
can't understand, I don't know if I drafted this or not, if it was drafted for me, uh, but this resolution has an extra page. It's in blank. So, I would actually ask you to amend the resolution to delete that extra blank page. Page
two of three is is in blank. Okay. So, I'm going to try this. So, my motion is to have the total amount for public works be uh 225 and then the uh original amounts as stated and amend the
final page. That is my motion. And delete delete. Delete the final page. That is my motion. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by Commissioner Vio. Roll call. Madam clerk. Number two. Uh, Commissioner Diaz has a question, I believe.
Yeah. Mr. Mayor, how many trucks are we get for Could you give me the exact amount? I I've been dealing with a lot of issues just so I don't remember the exact amount. Two for public works, one for storm water, and one for CIT. Could you hold one sec? I want to be
real clear. I am going to go out, review the trucks, look at the trucks that we're talking about. I wanna, you know, there's not a witch open list to just get whatever, you know, this is not the way I'm doing things. I want to make sure that these trucks are do need and
there's several, like the president said, that do need to be upgraded, but uh I'm not going to be looking for specialized equipment unless we need it, which brings in this the extra cost and so on. I want to make sure that we have equipment that we need. We have
equipment that's still sitting there from when it was purchased that didn't fit our our background. So, we might, and this is why I I thank the the president for adding that amount because if I could get a good deal on certain trucks and I could take advantage of it, I mean, trucks have gone down in price,
thank God. And if we could take advantage of it so we could extend a lot of life to that fleet, I will I will do so. But I I I would hate to tell you exact figure right now until I sit there and review it myself. I haven't had the
opportunity to do do so. It again, it's one of those situations that we want to double check everything. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. The plan right now is for four four, but as the mayor said, if there's some fantastic deal out there, uh, then we
know we might have to get another one. But Okay. So, what are we going to do to the trucks that we already have? We going to these are those those will be on your surplus list next year. Um some of them don't run. One of them had only goes in reverse. So, okay. I mean, listen, I got to I got to admit
and and the majority of our men and women that that work um try to work as best as they can, but there's no reason for a safety situation like that taking place. Yes. Okay. So, this is a reason why we're changing the vehicles and accepted that. Listen, I'm all for it.
It was the other amounts of other vehicles that might be on a one list that I want to make sure. Yeah, I'm all for special, you know, especially for public works. You know, they do a lot of work and it was time for them to and thank you, mayor, for doing this for them. Appreciate it. Thank you.
All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Item passes. Uh item 12, mayor's report. Um I think we're good. I'll have something better for you uh individually. I know you got a surprise
individually. I know you got a surprise for a surprise coming your way, but I going to verify everything and talk to you individually and hopefully you guys will be very happy. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Item B, commissioner's report. By the way, I'm surprised that you like
Commissioner Yano, welcome back from your trip from Alaska. You have the four animals. Thank you. And by the way, I'm sorry to interrupt you. No, it's okay. No problem. No, no, no. We did miss Commissioner Yananiel's birthday, so
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday, dear. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. I know it's unable.
We got We got to keep our day job, by the way. Yeah. Yes. I sound like a pirate. All right. Okay. to the share. I just want to announce it's an honor for me to tell all of you that about three weeks ago national headquarter civil air patrol united state force auxiliary recognized sweet
water squadron 442 since we had that name since 1998. We got it back. Yeah. All right. So we are officially Sweet Water Squadron. It's all over nationwide. Sir,
I wanna I want to thank um Commissioner Daniel. It's very special for me too because you were part of it. We're part when when the floodings and everything that was taken, those young men and women were out there helping our
police to direct traffic and everything back in the day. They earned the name and they've done so much. and for her to stay persistent and be able to climb that mountain that was so hard and come out uh victorious for her city. Thank
you so much. It means the world to all of us. Job well done. Any other commissioners would speak? No. All right. City clerk's report attached. City attorney's report. Uh nothing at present.
Nothing at present. Police report is attached. Building and zoning report is attached. Code compliance report is attached. Public works is attached. Finance department is attached.
Community and elderly services report is attached. Parks and recreation report is attached. Unfinished business. New business. Good of the order. Ajournment. Second. All in favor?
Get out of here, folks.