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[Music] bring her off items what's up buddy how you doing how are you the Muslim at least two of them
just to set me up do you have an idea here you go breath as well hi ladies you guys ready i'll just quiet good evening good afternoon everyone regular commission meeting meeting date
Monday April 7th 2025 at 6 p.m commission Chambers 500 Southwest 109 Avenue roll call madam Clerk clerk will know the absence of Commissioner Vice thank you Madam Clerk let's please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance in Jesus name I pray dear
heavenly father thank you for granting us the gift of life the gift of service thank you for the health and safety of our family our friends thank you for the sanctity the peace and the efficiency within our city please continue to bless the greatest nation in the world the greatest military in the world the
United States military please continue to bless our police officers our firefighters our first responders and please give us the wisdom to make the important decisions for the betterment of our residents in Jesus' name I pray amen amen
amen 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 all right thank you very much um believe we have a special presentation do we
have any special presentations none thank you uh presentation of employee of the month award Mr mayor okay all right and uh we're going to do the same with the uh police okay so we're moving those to after monstresses
um reports of officers boards and committees none thank you any additions and deletions to the agenda i believe there's no additions but there was a substituted agreement on the consent agenda item A is that correct thank you Madam Clerk um petitions communications
none thank you please show the record that emone in the audience that need to sign no show no one's coming forward please also Oh sorry there is one
okay madam clerk please uh show the record that Commissioner Vicio has arrived speak now yeah just give me one second let her hand me over last week all right please state your name and address for the record please
cor Mueller uh 275 Fontton Blue Boulevard thank you last week I was able to see the the picture that came out in social media of the opening of the new pickle ball courts in Sweetwater
and to me it was a little interesting contrast to the images I've seen of pain and suffering in the Little Laber community with the forced eviction of what was
almost 900 families now down to 200 and uh from what I've heard the people that attended the opening of the pickle ball courts few of them have actually gone out to the neighborhoods and I may be wrong and talk to the people that are
in the pain and suffering of losing their homes the situation in Little Labner is the worst humanitarian crisis that this city has faced in its 23-y year history the
park today looks like a western ghost town it looks like straight out of the uh zombie apocalypse movie asbestos filled trailers are being demolished without proper permits and
um the toxic dust is covering the the people and creating illnesses the con the company that's that was contracted to do the demolitions have been using the water sources the water service of the residents and some of the
bill some of the the residents are are are facing thousand uh fines residents that remain in Little Labner are resigned to the fact that they are going to have to move out and all that they are asking for at this
point is what is fair market value for their properties $55,000 per trailer and I think that's only fair and to the builder Raul
Rodriguez who who I hope is watching these these uh these meetings i've heard a lot of his generosity his charitable foundation and I would ask him that he contribute a little bit of money to help
these people move out and to make them right the little Abner people have always trusted him they'd always paid their rent on time and they don't need to be abandoned so we're looking at a very sad situation and the leadership in this
room has got to help the Little Abner uh residents and there's there's three there's three alternatives now and I don't want to hear that the the the city attorney is saying that we can't discuss this matter we can't you know we can't uh talk about this because we need to
talk about this and the political leadership of this city that went out during the elections and knocked on those doors mr now when the little admirers Sorry to interrupt you we've already passed okay when the little is knocking on the doors yeah but we we've already surpassed the three minutes okay
so just want to invite the the commissioners to come out and and and visit the uh the trailer park thank you thank you very much all right moving over um we're going to go with the uh presentation of employee of the month award you ready yes thank you we have two
outstanding employees that have done an incredible job that better okay we have two outstanding employees that have done an incredible job uh like I said I was bringing one in for the March uh meeting and one for the
April meeting which is today i'll take the March meeting first i want to have this lady that's very special because when you go to the elderly center she actually you know they they they have a
nickname but I she gets it from her middle name her name is Maria Sorel Ramirez and they call her Soul Poke Poke she's like the soul of the whole place she's a bright sunshine that always
makes people smile and laugh and does an incredible job and I want to bring the manager of the elderly center that Annette come on up and also if we can Miss uh Stephanie Bua to
come up too and let's have uh Miss Maria Sorah Ramirez come up too [Applause]
all right come on down guys how many years 11 years working in the elderly [Applause] settings her daughter's here oh daughter
where's her daughter our family oh yeah thank you okay i don't want to cut well you don't the tall guys in the back well you guys could get in closer man step it up you got us all in here yes okay ready one two three
cheese congrats mommy thank you so much stay here stay here stay here all right there's another gentleman that is here that actually also does a great
job he came to work with us not too long ago you could join us up here yeah this gentleman um came in and uh really got given a hard task to start looking at all the grants the abilities
that we need to make sure all the te's were crossed and the eyes dotted we do not need to have any issues with any of the grants or anything that we're doing and along with another young lady uh that you also know but let me mention well the young lady is Chanel which we
all know very well and this gentleman woman that's done an outstanding job and making sure that all the special projects are also on time done properly and looked at through the wisdom of Stephanie Buka and
make sure he continues to learn so at this point I want to ask one of our youngest employees that's doing an incredible job and we're very proud of him George Barios come on up kid has a horrible attitude Mr [Laughter]
all right let's get you in here ready is it up one two three perfect be better looking thank you very much all right we have police now so the police turn the mic
all right so we're going to move on to presentation of officer of the month award good evening everyone assistant Chief of Police Frank Fernandez Sweet Water Police Department i'm here to present uh here to present
two awards the first one will be our officer of the year for the police department we take great care uh selecting this officer we take a lot into consideration this may be a little different than one would expect but I think is dear to all of our hearts and
when you save a life you impact not just the community you impact the family and you impact all those all those around you so having said that you heard this narrative earlier in the year we put him in for officer of the month but taking
the totality of the circumstances he is our officer of the year for 2024 on Thursday September 26 2024 Officer Favian Brandt was on his way home from work after completing his tour of duty at approximately 5:50 p.m
he observed the white Toyota Rav 4 with his hazard lights flashing as it ran through a steady red light officer Fabian Brandt followed the vehicle short distance until the driver stopped the vehicle stopped abruptly the driver exited the vehicle and yelled
"Help me my father is not breathing." Officer Brandt quickly dismounted his police motorcycle and tended to the elderly white male who was slumped over the front seat of the vehicle officer Fabian Brandt advised of what he had
encountered and requested assistance from Miami Day Police officer Brandon immediately removed the elderly male from the vehicle placed him on the pavement where he checked for vital signs the elderly male was not breathing he had no pulse and was not
responding to sternum rubs officer Favian Brandt began cardopulmonary resuscitation CPR and at approximately 5:53 p.m the elderly male regained a pulse and began to breathe on his own
at approximately 5:57 p.m 4 minutes later the elderly male stopped breathing again and no pulse was detected a second time officer Brandt resumed CPR shortly thereafter Miami Day police officers
arrived on the scene and began to assist followed by Miami Dade Fire Rescue who at that point took over the life-saving events following a short time later it was discovered that this elderly male was in stable condition and
recovering the the uh elderly male has suffered a major heart attack but was free of brain damage due to the quick response by officer Brand uh pushing oxygen into the brain officer Brandt's swift and immediate response definitely
prevented a more tragic result officer Brand displayed incredible and unwavering and unwavering bravery and dedication to serving the public on this day and for those reasons we recognize him today as police officer of the year
for the Sweetwater Police Department 2024 officer Brandt can you please come forward you should have been a fireman it's your family here man well family family too love your family when you go
the baby's leaving we got to leave the baby behind everybody in oh there's more [Laughter] oh these new babies look at this if you're member of the family mom i got the best shot right here
here ready one two three one more do it Alex perfect thank you that wasn't the one [Applause] you have another one he's got a basket no I don't we got to get him
mr mayor commissioners uh Sweetwater staff and guests good evening my name is Noel Gil i'm the deputy chief of police for the city of Sweetwater Police Department 500 Southwest 109th Avenue on this great day I have the great honor of presenting the officer of the month
award which is actually officers of the month award and uh here it goes the 60 the 60th presidential inauguration took place on January 20th 2025 on that date the 47th president of the United States Donald J trump was sworn into office
presidential inaugurations are designated national special security events SEIR 1 events which are the highest level of security events uh with special uh event assessment ratings
on January 18th 2025 10 members of the city of the Sweetwater Police Department traveled to Washington DC to carry out the mission of security alongside the United States Secret Service and the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department the city of Sweetwater Police
Department personnel encountered frigid weather due to a northeaster uh weather system that brought snow and freezing weather to the Washington DC area the city of Sweetwater Police Department
team was assigned a critical location to secure during the presidential during President's Trump's swearing in ceremony the City of Sweetwater Police Department personnel were on post at 400 a.m in the morning on January 20th 2025 on this day
the weather was the coldest that the Washington DC area had experienced in several years and to date the coldest presidential inauguration temperatures were in the single digits our personnel remained outdoors on post for
approximately 17 hours during a very challenging weather condition the sense of pride professionalism and the mission first mindset displayed by the men and women of the Sweetwater Police Department during this assignment was nothing short of inspirational as a
leader of this organization it gives me a sense of great pride and admiration for these exemplary unselfish and dedicated professionals for the reasons stated above I recommend the following personnel for officers of
the month for February 2025 assistant Chief Francisco Fernandez who actually brought this and by the way first time ever in the city of Sweetwater participating in the presidential [Applause]
inauguration major Adrien Messa Lieutenant Jonathan Archie Lieutenant Jesus Voit Sergeant Alberto Miranda Sergeant Jose Gomez Detective
Evangela Rodriguez Detective Elizabeth Suarez Officer Dario Risco and Officer Antonio Perez please join me up front good job And this is obviously uh very special not the usual but we wanted to do
something special that we could proudly display in a prominent area of our police department actually we're going to steal it and we're going to put it in the lobby and the entrance of the city of Sword okay up a little bit three one two three can you straighten
it out a little bit she's good man one two three you got to lower it one two three right she didn't do the up down sideway congratulations congratulations to all Mr mayor then I present this to you sir so in a prominent area
absolutely thank you good job madam great a good crew again nice great crew it has a reserve spot right here yes yeah that's protected congratulations
all right thank you very much for those presentations uh moving over to consent agenda madam clerk uh do you have a motion to consent the agenda move second been moved and second all in favor any nays thank you very much moving over to staff items
so staff item A we have an ordinance of the city of Sweetwater Commission revising the official city of Sweetwater zoning map incorporating annex land and providing for a new city boundaries amending the land development code article I general provisions sections
1.02 definitions article 2 zoning section 2.04.01 IU interim use district sections 2.05.25 25 limited expansions of university district overlay sections 2.0608 density providing for serability
for providing for codifications and providing for an effective date first reading mayor Diaz mr president this is the official uh city of Sweetwater zoning map incorporating the annex lands and providing for the city boundaries this is the amendment that we had to do
presented and moving it forward so we could get that done and make sure that everything is within the boundaries that it's very clear so we know exactly what's in the city of Sweetwater and what is elsewhere move thank you Mr mayor it's been moved the second third fourth roll call madam clerk
Commissioner Yano yes commissioner Ree yes commissioner Diaz yes commissioner Viano yes commissioner Martine yes commissioner Bayio yes president Ray yes it passes on first reading thank you Madam Clerk moving over to item B an ordinance of the city of Sweetwater
Florida granting applications to amend the city's official zoning map from interimm district GU and industrial heavy manufacturing district I2 from property identified under folio numbers 25-3935-002-067 also
25-3935-002- 0611 also 25-3935-002- 0615 also 25-3935-002- 0617 and 25-3935-3 002-0622 providing for finding the fact providing for servability providing ing
for codification and providing for an effective date first reading also Mayor Diaz as stated the same thing we are taking this uh the different uh development areas and moving the articles and making sure that the boundaries are substantial with the need of these particular properties and
that's what we're doing changing it to GU chair thank you very much go ahead Mr mayor is this is this a new area or same area we're just switching it around part of Sweetwater yes it's section two section two thank you am I correct section two section three sorry section
that's a new industrial yeah the new industry new industrial area i go ahead and move this item second second roll call madam clerk commissioner Ree yes commissioner Diaz yes commissioner Voa
yes commissioner Marti yes commissioner Bayio yes commissioner Yario yes president Ray yes it passes on first read thank you Madam Clerk moving over to C a resolution of city commission of the city of Sweetwater authorizing the mayor of the city of Sweetwater to
execute a 10-year agreement with Jolt Charge Inc for installations of EV charging stations on city property at no cost to the city providing forability providing for an effective date mayor Diaz thank you Mr president and basically as we know uh the EVs are
getting everywhere and they need electric charging stations especially uh on the street so they could get fast charges and and deal with it and they're put on a map so other people in other areas could see that at least in Sweetwater that we have some of these in private I mean excuse me in public
parking areas and this particular company after looking through several companies I know Scott you want to come up a second the research was done and this particular company that was accepted in another place uh they have given us the best deal and the equipment
I understand is free and stuff you want to go into Scott uh we're actually kind piggybacking off the competitive process that was done in New Jersey Scotch Plains New Jersey they finally signed their agreement uh we are just getting better terms instead of getting $4,000 per charger we're getting $5,000 per
charger upfront for every month you know so if it starts in July we would get 2500 and then every January we get $5,000 we're getting 35% of the charging revenue they're not getting any% of the charging revenue and these hopefully will be installed where our new parking um where our existing parking is but
with our new on the next items um uh pay by phone and park mobile um so that's will actually attract people to park there who are not necessarily wanting to just park but want to get the charging so we'll get two for one and uh they have a 10-year commitment and they'll be
installing them once we get agree on the locations and going through all the permitting process and then we'll start having the free charging three chair go ahead uh how you doing did you um Is this going to be a particular car or this is going to be These will do everything everything yes tesla and any
other Yeah universal okay and then I was going to ask you that the rate and stuff you guys don't have that available right now uh that'll be subject to the market but you know there's a couple of charging entities over in Dural and stuff so they won't be able to price themselves out of the market okay but
there will be giving about I think it's 17 uh there's a certain amount of free charging that comes with every time somebody hooks up so they get a couple of minutes free and then they get whatever they want for the for an hour or two or however long it takes them to charge their car thank you through the chair thank you go ahead um Mr rio um
yeah so these are it's five level three chargers those are the fast chargers right the big the big ones that are really really fast uh no level twos because I know Joel only does the Do we have specific locations where they're going to be or that's to be determined they have to be determined but we have an estimate like I said over by in uh
identity one here perhaps in front of the passport agency and one in front of 109 and over on 14th terrace where we have our public parking right now is where you'll find the jolt charges it has to be on city facilities right correct properties not not public okay
um and then I'm sorry not private and um so it's five and then 5,000 per charger per year so that's about 25,000 per year that we get right plus we get 35% of the charging profits that's a really good deal i'm I just got to say that's I'm very excited about this i happen to be
an EV driver myself so I know the struggle there's never enough chargers out there you got to wait charging the the car is like an all day process basically you got to find one that's available wait in line so now adding more in the city that's great i'm very excited about that and that they're fast chargers and that's a pretty good company so thank you for doing that oh
and the the advertising is that like on the screen or that's like a wrap on the charger no it's on a it's on a screen that the charger is attached to okay all right and then do you have any information about like cuz a common issue that happens with chargers is they break down a lot so I happen to go to
chargers and I'm counting on it and it's broken so when one of these goes down do you know how long it takes for them to repair we have some uh requirements in here for within 24 hours for them to come out and fix and within 48 hours and then there's penalties for them $100 a day if the charger is not fixed so it's
there's definitely incentive for them to have that working otherwise they won't be able to get their money back on the investment that they've made got it we commissioners we've skimmed every little part of this to try to get the very best that we could but this was one deal that I don't think we could pass up no the
way that the way we formulated i have a question we have Mr vanova up next thank you uh sorry Mr mayor during our meeting I didn't ask u this question because I did some uh reading after i think this is an amazing deal my question is we're doing
35% of of revenue sharing for the charge but is that 35% also include the advertising no we're getting a straight break it's the charging revenue minus the cost of the electricity nothing about the capital investment or profits or anything like that for the advertising that's all theirs but we'll
be able to look and see okay this is how much you brought in for charging revenue this is how much you paid for electricity we're not worried about you know oh we spent advertising and all this capital investment on figuring a profit ratio it's just 35% of the difference between the charging revenue and the charging cost
for understand do you have projections on what revenues may look like no idea but I think by having the park mobile and pay by phone apps and then people knowing that we have chargers here they can look on their phone and see is that
space open for the charger so it kind of gives you know even though they you don't know because the app doesn't tell you there's an EV charger if you've lived in the city and you've used it before you know okay there's a charger on a denity there's a charger over here look on my phone and see if those spaces
are open yeah and then my last question is this is a 10-year agreement yes that's that's a long time to be married to a vendor uh do we have any opt out clauses Mr mayor obviously if they breach the contract or anything but you know this is not a startup company aside
from they have a substantial operation overseas in Australia and other places that was that wasn't my question my question is do we have an opt out of a 10-year agreement because we currently have a 10-year agreement with Miami Day County uh with the garbage and a lot of people aren't necessarily happy with
that so my question is and again Mr mayor I apologize i should have brought this up during our meeting i just didn't do my my proper homework do we have an opt out of the 10-year agreement yes or no uh for breach yes and aside from breach uh we'll probably have to suffer the damages and then we'd have to
calculate that so all right thank you just a standard up out no right so that answers your question but the kind of deal that we got is a kind of deal that comes with some type of balance so I think that overall to be very clear just
Scott just said if it doesn't proceed forward the way it is we can put together attorneys and there's a way out there always is listen I think it's a great deal it sucks that we can't do some revenue sharing with the advertising that's where the money's at doing 10 years not too happy with that
but all in all I'm going to support the item hopefully uh it's not something that we regret but you know kudos to staff for for doing their due diligence we tried to go down to five and that was a deal breaker i understand i understand i get it they have they have a major um these companies are putting up a lot of
money remember some of these companies now are charging for these particular stations to the cities and especially after the state has withdrawn the support from what I understand yeah and the federal money that was not allocated locally to Miami date county that was
not already committed and under is gone some states all that money is gone and a lot of municipalities are going to find themselves or a lot of particular businesses having to buy these things because residents uh like our commissioner that need to get their cars
charged have no place to go to so this is why we went forward this and brought it to you guys and you know we we knock these things until almost they can't breathe anymore through the chair go ahead and about the the revenue um this
area is a very hot area meaning uh there's a lot of people with EVs in the area and plus we're next to the 8:30 season in the turnpike so these chargers are going to be once installed they're going to be very busy there's going to be people constantly on them and lined up so it could potentially I think be a
huge revenue source for the city so I don't think we have to worry about it not panning out it's going to be it's hard to project but it's going to be a lot every year and it's going to be more so every year than the than the year before all right do we have a motion move moved i'll second the item all in
favor any nays so it passes can you do D and E together because it's the same item just different companies same thing it's up to you all right so I I'll read them out both i'll read them out both just whatever you want let them
go quickly uh D a resolution of city commission of the city of Sweetwater authorizing the mayor to execute a three-year agreement with Park Mobile LLC for an ondemand parking transactions waving certain code provisions providing for further authority providing for serability and providing for an
effective date mayor Diaz okay uh do we have a motion on that yep do you have a question i have a question but let me you want me to tell you about the item go ahead Mr we we were looking for companies because
as some of you came up to me and basically told us about the problem with the residents with the parking and the situation in hand with some of these machines weren't working we were trying to deal with whose machines are they what are they why don't they work residents were protesting uh that it was
only one hour uh limitations minimum uh things that uh in today's world shouldn't be happening so we got around I asked Scott to revise uh what we have out there and what what we could uh find and we check with
companies that are out there providing service one of the things that I've seen is uh the majority of the areas in today's are giving options of two companies instead of one which has usually been the case because of the formats on the different type of
platforms that the phones have um whether it's Android or is iPhone uh they Apple they they sometimes work differently on these app or it's just the user whatever it is i see everywhere now that you go they have two companies
you pick which one you want to use and you actually by phone are able to get uh the desired amount of time that you will it also has a lot of uh versatility for us in many different ways uh to track to
be able to do things properly within what the park enforcement could be so Scott I think I said everything to line it up both companies if you look at their contract agree to work with each other to do the signage so that we don't have to have one two signs for the each company there'll be one sign Park Mobile
pay by phone same zone no QR codes so that we can have our money stolen by a third party it's just a number nobody can steal that number it'll be unique to Sweetwater but the signage will be produced by Park Mobile and pay by phone like it is for Miami Beach and city of
Miami now that have them joint using so you have one sign not two signs corables other places too great all right we'll have Mr vro has a question and I got you so I have two questions first our existing contract uh with whatever parking situation we have that's gone
correct we don't really have a contract we bought those machines and then they serve as Excuse me i I need to stop there because these are some of the things that happened in the past yeah that you know one of those moments and I'm getting a little tired of just
moving forward and not but I think it's time to start saying may you proceed exactly as to what happened the previous administration purchased these machines very very expensive labor intensive for maintenance and just you know 20th century technology and we're we're a
fifth of the way through the 21st century and we need people to be able to pay on their phone and be able to add time without coming back to the meter and not worry about the meter being broken because the sun isn't out today they're solar powered or something else is broken or the paper is jammed and you
got to put the paper on the de you know so it's really not customer friendly and what we're doing is customer friendly and like I said once you know the spot that has a charger if you're looking for a charger and you know that spot you can go on the city of M on the city of
Sweetwater platform and look at pay by phone and park mobile and see is that space available and go get that space and put in your charging so it's much more customer friendly resident friendly we the machine out here isn't working today and I know the one over in the
passport breaks all the time and we're losing a lot of money and they wanted us to have a a really expensive maintenance contract which just I said a few months ago we're not we're not doing that we're going to get out of that business and we're going to go to the you know the simple app that everybody else is using
has gotten rid of their parking meters thank you Scott so Mr mayor thank you thank you to staff for for addressing that issue that was a frustration of ours for many years uh the lack of efficiency in this city was very frustrating so we appreciate you doing your due diligence and having your staff
address that issue my second question is what is the revenue sharing breakdown on this new system they're both almost the same one is 2.95% and and uh 22 cents and what is 3% and 20 cents and they all charge a 35%
transaction fee so that's no matter what and that on a $10 bill that's about a penny difference between Park Mobile and pay by phone and are we going to be deploying this system in other parts of the city we're going to put it in about five locations now where we have parking
we have an opportunity without no fee for adding locations usually they want to add locations they charge us more i said you know we're really have a lot of new buildings coming up and a lot of new parking opportunities and at some point in the near future we're going to do a parking study to see where we should add new parking but we're not maxed out we
can definitely add parking and it won't cost you know we don't have to buy new meters they just give us a sign with another code for another zone thank you Scott without you to to finish a little more on that we we're looking at other areas as Scott said we're doing a study we're going to be doing a study as we do
planning for Sweetwater as we want to do some growth in the future and make sure it's stable growth and that we don't regret some of the things that could be happening but one of the things that that from the past we've learned these buildings without parking does does not work at all i think every one of you
have come to me many times and told me how bad the situation is because the residents of the city have people 10 blocks away parking in their spaces and because they don't have a place to park because everything's taken so we
understand the severity of it that's why we have uh drawn the line and said for these new developments if it's one bed it's one parking space because they have to have internal parking to be able to contend to that large amount of people
but to answer your question directly we'll be looking at every possible area that there is outside parking and public parking to be able to get revenue for the city and also make sure that people are not abusing of certain type of parking situations
give me one second you mind if I just step into so Mr mayor I wholeheartly agree you and I have had many conversations when it comes to parking and the frustrations of the students parking in front of residents homes uh the last uh two developments three developments has
abided by our regulations i've actually gone to their parking structures at 2 3 4:00 in the morning on different days and the top two floors are empty so the developers are doing exactly what we're asking but the students are just disregarding um any rule of law it's the same way as
they cross the street not even looking if if they have uh uh the ability to do so and they're looking at their phone so our problem is the students and the developers i have to admit they've really been helping us out but again I got to give kudos to you and staff every
time we bring up an issue you you address it we've uh stressed the the importance or the appetite that we have to eventually have a parking garage i know you have plans for that um this is something that's really affecting our residents and we're actually doing
something about it so I definitely want to have further conversations with you like I said in the past maybe having a color-coded parking zone like they do in Miami Beach or Coral Gables again uh out of the 34 municipalities in Miami Day County the council or the commission
asks the mayor ask the city manager to do something and they don't do it but every time we ask you to do something you come back a month two months later so thank you for that kudos to you D thank you and we'll be looking again scott has revised and we're with our
team that we have we're looking at different cities as to what they're doing and combining and looking at their best practices and and one of the things I've done is as you know I've become pretty strong in working I'm now on the board of the Florida League of Mayors
and one of the things that we do is we converse and we try to facilitate actually finding where they're doing it where something new and they're doing it in other areas that they are college towns and how are they doing
and and looking for solutions and that's something we're getting from wherever we can information and try to see how we blend it to us that's why we're moving quicker because we're listening other people's experiences and how they've done it and where they've made mistakes and hopefully we won't make those mistakes and moving forward hopefully I
answered your question no you did thank you yes sir yes sir um I have a question on the rates is this going to be a how much is going to be it's going to be a lot or the moneywise no well that we the all the fees are paid by the customer okay so then they get a
percentage on the as a merchant of record and then they charge a 35% per per transaction fee do we the city put the the how much money because that mean we're not putting any money into this at all no no i'm talking about the rate you know when you go in how much we get to set the rate yes we can set it at $2 we
can say it's $3 we can say it's $5 we can do Saturday pricing Sunday pricing and that's the beauty of this is we can use their analytics later on to see where are people parking when are they parking when is the high demand should we change our rates okay you know with that we have no information right now
because we have no idea other than how much money we're generating anything about where you know when how often these spaces are used and at what time of day so we can change the rates and we can also give discounts and flat rates for residents if we want
there's all kinds of opportunity for pricing to meet specific needs of the city that we currently do not have okay to answer that Commissioner Diaz the this is what I just said just now we're looking at other cities what they do how they deal with it and not just
here in Miami Day County but elsewhere wherever we could see that they fit kind of like the situation we have here we have a lot of residents in a particular area and we don't have the enough parking and you guys have been dealing with this for a long time now and I know that this is something that has been
very important to you this is why we try to get it out and also happen to have the option that we'll adjust accordingly uh and if it's not perfect or it's not to the point that we need to do it we'll go ahead and and move it around using their analytics to make sure it fits our
pattern great great job and then one more question mayor that I have um we we're going to keep the code enforcement the co- compliance oh absolutely okay oh yeah now they'll have they can look on their phone through the through the interface and see oh that car doesn't
have its parking you know it's expired an hour ago or it expired a half an hour ago make it easier for them and they'll be able to know yes and they'll know after a while where are the places where these people are not renewing yeah so all kinds of data will come through to give us information how to move forward
best thank you and I would I'm going to go ahead and move the item i second it second second third all in favor any nays so it passes unanimously and moving to E which is the same a a resolution of the city
commission of the city of Sweetwater authorizing the mayor to execute a three-year agreement with pay by phone Inc for an on demand parking transactions waving certain code provisions providing for a further authority providing for serillian providing for an effective date mayor Diaz move second for the same all in
favor any nays so it passes unanimously moving to F here we go nomination consideration appointment of members to the neighborhood improvement advisory board so none are we going to keep kicking this can down the road or we eliminate this thing or what so Ian Ian was not Commissioner Ian Vio was not
here that day that we spoke about that and we wanted to give him the uh the time with the mayor to see what they wanted to do on so Commissioner Vio you want to continue with the neighborhood improvement board well I I personally think that we should keep that because
there's a lot of grants that require a lot of unification and trees and parks are required to have some kind of board like that and we would miss out if we don't have that you know so I think we should proceed and by now we can appoint all new people so you know we could find some active residents that want to get
involved and put them Let me If you don't Oh sorry do I have to say everything again no you're good so just to rebut the the monitor over there mr loud and clear so just rebuting what you're saying I created the uh the economic development board and we didn't
have an appetite for that we keep kicking this can down the road uh I think it's very admirable what you're doing but we're not doing anything with it the board hasn't even met the board has been there for four years the board's never met so we're either going to kick this can down the road or we're going to go ahead and eliminate it my
vote is to eliminate it if anybody else uh if we want to put that on the agenda we just wanted to give you an opportunity to say your piece uh this is my philosophy this is my thing we don't always have to agree we always respect each other but that's what I think if anybody else wants to talk they can't
without a yield i'm I'm just looking at it from a grant writer perspective wearing the the grant writer hat i think it's an asset it's important to the city to have something like that and they haven't met because we haven't appointed any members in a while so I think if we could just appoint some some people to
it it could we can get it going you know so I know there's a I think there's a few people in the room that would be interested in in being on it you know you know what i'll go ahead and appoint my guy just to say I'll I'll reappoint uh M leo Kosio back to the neighborhood
improvement board if he would like to be on it again is he still here i don't know yeah he's still here okay yeah I'll reappoint him just just to make a little move there just cuz I think like I said I think we need it you know I've applied for a grant before in the city and we had to create a board really fast to in
order to get it and we had a predecessor to this board and that's how we were able to get that grant but we really need to get it going and maybe get them to meet at least just once or twice a year that's all I'm saying all right you anyone you have something to say we've encountered what commissioner was uh at
stating right now some of these grants are going out that we're they're really complex uh money is getting scarce i we don't have to get into this uh you guys could take this is the board's situation okay but when I don't want to have to
create boards real fast when we have uh deadlines and so on that are coming up um just want to make sure that you guys if this is something that it's your prerogative it's not ours i will handle whatever needs to be done but I suggest
if you have something monitor it change your people around do what you need to do but if it's something in place that we could use don't take it out but that's your your side of the fence okay Carmen can you do me a favor can you please send out to all the commissioners
an email of the actual um appointees right now on the on those boards and whoever needs to appoint one cuz just to make sure that they all need all we all need to appoint one so it all Okay so just letting the commissioner knows if we want to appoint
someone and by the way I'm going to talk to I know commissioner Rian has asked me about this in the past the development of you know basic business developments and stuff like that when you put a board when you ask people to join that
particular board you have to then go under sunshine and they have to fill out forms they have to disclose everything that they have so a lot of these people that are very beneficial that know their stuff don't really like to get on these boards because they don't have to they
don't like to disclo especially with what's being asked of them to disclose today to put on board so I'll be working for instance I know that commissioner has asked me about business development and stuff by the way for 20 years I did that in the county and it's important to
us do so because we do have an extremely strong business uh base here is how we move forward and do it uh where I'm looking to see if I'm going to just have a not a committee or stuff I'll be dealing with Ralph to see how we put
something together where I could have a group of business people address the city through the mayor and then it does not have to deal with sunshine if I need to have one commissioner there just to hear their response then it doesn't affect sunshine because it's one person at a time am I
correct Mr attorney yes sir yes sir if you're going to end up uh creating what would essentially be an ad hoc Hancock committee continuously changing uh group of advisors not even a committee correct that should be fine and that's that's where I want to look
so I want to hear each one of yours interest because we do need to have but I do need to have people that are could commit to actually show up and I totally agree if it's to not have people not show up and to pretend that we're going to get something out of them that's not going to work out either so that's why I
said your discretion so at the same time I'm looking to make sure that I could get the right group of advisors uh we're not the little city anymore and we need as much information as possible within
our city and we do have major major entities that re that have their home here in the city of Sweetwater now so we want to make sure that they're attended to properly too
go ahead so when Commissioner Vicio brought up the neighborhood improvement board I wanted to give you a feather in your cap you had uh a bunch of kids in the audience i said "Hey appoint my
appointee." That person never met and that was done if I'm not mistaken uh four years ago that person never sat in a meeting i gave you my vote which means the board never met now I understand grant funding excellent but the business
development committee that I that I created we're talking about in in the next 10 years in Sweetwater we're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars we're not talking about millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars we're talking about billions of
dollars being injected into our city i am not a business development guy i don't know anything about building i don't know anything about development uh I'm very limited so I wanted to bring in the professionals who are more than
willing to come and advise us just simply advise us and give counsel i think that's a lot more important than the neighborhood improvement because we're talking about some grant funding now I gave you the feather in the cap furthermore I eliminated I said I'm
going to go ahead and eliminate my business development board because you guys didn't have an appetite for it so I eliminated it so not only did I give you your neighborhood improvement I gave you my appointee i eliminated mine but you still want to keep it but we haven't met in four years i'm just looking at efficiency folks you guys can decide
what you want to do i just don't feel like we need to kick a a dead can down the road that you go Mr this is going to be really quick uh Mr mayor uh have you remember part of the
administration any grant has been not given to us because we don't have a neighborhood improvement aboard no has ever during this time it's never been denied what what just
start reason because we don't have the neighborhood we remember that a lot of the grants that were brought in was brought in at one time you know not to over and over again from this from myself that brought it in through grants that equal to a lot of money that those
grants have been used uh basically all the time but now when we're looking at new grants I know the state of Florida has actually required us to have not only a uh I I don't want to go in get into it
here I'll deal with you each one but are asking for certain scenes of the city uh to be able to have representation a board of some kind to give advice on and that is actually happening yes so really
quick it's been you've been seeing it lately that is quite of a requirement all right step up to the mic please no thank you so much no no no it's No no but let her now she said it she's got to step up yes i hate to do it from the
director of community affairs and special projects and some grants do require it yes all right thank you thank you Miss Book all right thank you very much uh we're going over to G nomination consideration appointment of the member
ad youth advisory board none another board that we have that means nothing all right going to reports uh go start with the mayor's report uh I don't know if you've been I know I saw Commissioner Diaz already went like
this uh and ready to ask that question uh were you at the uh if you gone to the Ronelli Park you've seen the cement is already being laid down in the area and I I thank this commission for being so supportive and and making sure that we're going to give the very best what
we promised the citizens of Sweet Water and they're already laying the cement all around the area which will be called the deck area okay uh we are finishing the dugout areas we're finishing and and trying to get everything down we had
some issues yes like every other construction things right now uh dealing with electricity transformers all kinds of things we've worked through them unfortunately is uh just more cost but in today's world where costs are incrementing out of
control especially in everybody's already saying prices are going up without even having an issue uh but we're working together with the companies we're trying to work through and we are very proud with the work
that's moving forward now the other thing is the scoreboard the scoreboard has been drilled uh properly and I thought where they cemented the um again please step up now that we need to
ask yeah just nod your head good evening my name is Billy Norman I'm the construction manager for the city um they did the drillings all four of the of the uh footings uh finished today they finished the formwork so we'll be
pouring first thing Wednesday morning okay the pilings that are going to go in the cement that's going down is uh on the edges i say this wrong correct 12 feet 12t on the ends and it's 15 ft the rebar on the two middle columns which is
takes up most of the load okay i'll get them to not head next time uh but anyways uh we'll learn thank you Billy you bet uh this is the the issue that we have uh the screen is mammoth it's it's going to be very big um the the steel
we've had to deal with that we've had to Well I've already gone with this with you guys but I'm telling you that uh this is moving now full strength ahead and uh we just finished uh doing the last six courts pickle ball uh they're
full every night every you know every day the weekends it was out of control i went there personally yesterday and spent some time with some of the people walking around and and talking the parents of the kids are ecstatic uh everybody's happy i'm very proud of the
work that we've done uh to get this you guys promised it so did I and it's being delivered every day now we got to look at bigger things moving forward and that's uh where we need to be smart and going out and getting the money and and
trying to continue to grow but again it's a whole new city people are noticing and it's very proud from the days that the parks were closed and nothing was going on basically uh to today having parks full and with great
systems put in place uh we should all be very proud of that because it's been a work that we've all done together to make it happen so I think that's about it thank you thank you Mr mayor moving over to commissioner's report any commissioner has something i'm uh city's uh city clerk's report I
did see was attached city attorney's report nothing approved thank you Mr attorney all right police report I did see is attached building and zoning report is attached code compliance report is attached as well public works report was attached finance report was
given if unless they have anything else you good i'll make one more announcement go ahead sure go ahead from the mayor uh we got a couple of good emails just recently this past week about 112th Avenue that well six months ago they
said they didn't have the money now they say they have the money we don't need a tip amendment it's in the plan we got a capital project soon as we by October hopefully we'll have a contract for preliminary design and engineering so So it's a done deal it's not a done deal
but they have the first 11 million and the the amount we need to finish the project is going to be available from all the developments that's happening here so yeah we we've got the preliminary money for design and engineering $2 million we'll get that done and by the time that's done we'll
have the money for the rest of the project and and by the way the county will be paying for it through impact fees it's uh we're looking at about $20 million in today's cost but also we now have to revise and look at things as we move forward uh as things balance out
with uh different prices of steel different prices of things that are moving forward but at the same time like Scott said by the way I want to thank Scott uh publicly for the hard work he does for this city it's a lot of work uh that's constant and it's to stay on top
of these things uh they tend to move a lot and disappear and we got to make sure we find them again and make sure we put them on track which is the first part and that's what we just did thanks to his leadership but uh 112 uh a lot of
entities are also looking in the area to see what we're doing uh with 112 because it's important because it's a tie in to FIU this is something you guys voted on before my time to do i'm just the mandate is something that I'm doing we didn't do like prior that they just
wouldn't do the mandates as you said earlier you mean they wouldn't show up to the meetings well I'm just saying mandates guys uh they were doing there and the mandate has been done um we're moving forward it's just that it's a lot of money and we want to do it right like
everything else we've done sounds good okay so thank you Scott one last thing Scott um you talked about the 112th Avenue But specifically are we talking about the bridge yeah this will take connect Flaggler Street to 8th Street
with a bridge with a number of turn lanes there's three or four different options for how we're going to do it but uh definitely connecting across the canal into 112th Avenue on the FIU side that's that's interesting and then just one very important piece i can't tell
you how many complaints I've received from residents about the intersection on 112 in West Flaggler that it doesn't have turning indicators so since we're going to be doing that just based on concurrency I don't know if I don't know if anybody knows any anybody in Miami
Day County anybody in in the room that knows anybody in Miami Day County I don't know um so if you could talk to whoever that authority is and let them know please if they could put a turning lane that way the residents stop complaining about it we we're as you all
know we're looking through other grants monies that we've had yeah we we will take care of that but besides that we are looking at the general area of Flaggler and other surrounding area 114 which several of you have complained
about the darkness of it the situ oh and by the way something I did not mention uh Florida Power Light has responded to the call 167 lights that uh I want to thank code enforcement that went out uh had two
people work at nighttime to make sure that we would see the lights that were not working 167 lights were out in this city street lights i thought that was all the lights we had but you know but it wasn't just the
residential area it's also Sweetwater's grown so we're talking area two and area three also so area 1 2 and three 167 lights have been out especially the area of 114 uh 7th Street Northwest and so on uh you
were right uh commissioners they were at least 10 lights in a row uh that were out in particular so they are fixing it they're addressing them and then we're going to sit down and uh look at an over
overall lighting um scheme all over the city uh that would deal with LED lighting and to make sure that that's more efficient because unfortunately the lights in the city have only been the type of lights that
consume a lot of electricity so the bills have been maintaining themselves high so the idea is to change the lighting system in the future all they're doing right now is just trying to get these lights on because of security correct and and traffic issues and everything else but in the future we
are sitting down in the very near future to determine lighting for the whole city of different types of lighting situations and try to avoid that flood type light that goes into people's houses but that puts it on the street in the area where it needs to be so just
like we've done in our parks this is something that we want to do in our streets so I want you uh to understand that that that's important too so we are addressing the lights as to the future church signals efficiency and also the
medium situation yes it's a lot more pretty to have a very nice medium uh to address the city so we're trying to find ways with engineering and so on moving forward in these grants to find a balance on that so we could do both
situations makes the city look very nice and also apply the traffic control situations thank you uh go ahead because you mentioned you mentioned grants for the the traffic situation on 112th and Flaggler uh there's two grants out right now that
you guys can benefit from the safe streets and roads for all from US DOT that just opened it's due in June i recommend going after that for maybe a citywide traffic study which can identify all the problem areas and proposed solutions and then there's a reconnecting communities grant which should be opening soon i don't think
it's open yet and that one could be used to help fund the uh connection of 112 to 8th Street that that would be a great perfect project for that by the way also uh finish up uh we are the the things that we have asked
for the state which is uh some need for the police department technology uh that we went to the state and put it through has made it in uh has also uh a area for flood control that is left in area
one 103rd court and sixth street uh to do drainage across there that is pretty intense and it is also made it along with uh some other type of controls that
we have put together and made it also to the particular budget now how comes out that's the vote that we're waiting on but uh I just wanted you to know because I know two of you were asking on that earlier actually three so that's it thank you Mr mayor
keep kicking ass mayor uh community elderly service report was attached as well and so was parks and recreations report unfinished business new business go to the order motion for adjournment all in favor any nays so it passes thank
you very much