So we have one presentation tonight. It's our annual update to the city's sustainability and climate change initiatives. So Mr. Aver. Thank you Mayor and I am absolutely delighted this evening to turn this over to our Public Works Director, Albert Carvin, who is the great good fortune of introducing you to one of our new additions here in the city, who will assist you in giving this presentation. Mr. Carbon, if you would please. Thank you, City Manager. Albert Carbon Public Works Director. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor of City Commission and City Manager. It's my privilege today to present the annual sustainability and resiliency update. I'm going to talk about a few slides, but I'm going to let Molly Fertz or new sustainability coronary to take the lead on the presentation, highlighting ongoing efforts and achievements in this critical area. Molly. Thank you, Albert Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commission, and City Manager. My name is Molly, as Albert said, and I'm the new environmental sustainability coordinator. I started with the city in November and I'm looking forward to implementing new sustainability strategies and making a positive impact in the city. We have a few updated items. One of them being that the city is now members of two directors networks, FSDN and SSDN. These are valuable networks that connect local government professionals throughout Florida and the South Eastern United States to accelerate and scale the use of sustainability best practices in the state and the region. I would also like to highlight that the city is recertified through the National Wildlife Federation as a community wildlife habitat. This is a long list of ongoing, completed, and new initiatives. We like to keep a running record of all that has been accomplished and highlight ongoing sustainability initiatives. I would like to highlight a couple. The P3 cares pickleball recycling program was just launched last month in city park. Stunt and nature trail was nominated for the Nature's Gate Broward Emerald Award. And we are now sponsors of a large Broward County event Water Matters Day. the city has received the funds are critical to improving water management and ensuring the resiliency of Oakland Park. I would like to highlight that the city was awarded $116,000 through the Resilient Florida grant program to update the existing vulnerability assessment. The city faces increased threats from the impacts of title events and severe storms caused by changes in the climate. The vulnerability assessment will be updated to meet current requirements and provide more effective planning preparation and response capabilities also allowing open park to apply for more federal funding through various grant programs. This past year we witnessed a significant uptick in the climate activities with 20 named storms placing at the fourth busiest storm of season since 1950. business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business, business through a Briard County Resilient Environmental Division. This tool is a commitment to engage the public and the community in resiliency efforts, allowing the public to continue directly to uploading photographs and information on funding insulates and incidents, excuse me, and enriching the database for enhanced response techniques. and enriching the database for enhanced response techniques. On the rainfall data, we've had, it was a very wet season. It was the second highest, excuse me, next slide. There you go, rainfall summary. So it's the second-wettest since 1996. We had two major incidents. We had the one in April. For Lauderdale International Airport recorded over 28 inches of rain, which is the third highest rainfall event in the United kind of the United States. And then again in April, and in that April storm, Ocom Park received nine inches of rain during that same event. And then in November, Oakham Park received another significant rainfall where we had seven inches over a 36-hour period. For annual totals, you can see Briar County average, 86.5, but in Oakham Park we had 90 inches of rain in 2023. Our community development department updated our city code relating to sustainability needs in 2023. These are the five areas that have been updated. Next, I want to speak about two networks that are important for moving the city forward. The Southeast Sustainability Director's Network provides sustainability personnel access to unique insights on funding availability and invaluable networking opportunities. Over to the right, Iqliis is a global network working with more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development. Iqlis influences sustainability policy and drives local action for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient, and circular development. The graph shows where we should be with our CO2 emissions by three different percentage reductions as the years pass. The blue line shows an increase in CO2 emissions as time passes if we do nothing to reduce our emissions. Our goal is to reduce emissions in buildings and facilities, vehicle fleet, and employee commute. The Broward County Risk Assessment and Resolency Plan, it's in its vital stages. It's been almost a two and a half year effort. They've completed their sea level rise modeling, temperature analysis with heat map maps. I'm going to talk about it in more detail on the next slide. They reviewed the vulnerable populations and assess those in relation to climate risks. And then they've just completed the economic impacts. And this is a very important of the comprehensive analysis that will be overlaid in these climate models to how the economic impacts of each areas of those vulnerable population and other significant climate change activities. Ungoing tasks include that adaptation strategies to evaluate that cost benefit analysis for what we can do for our initial approaches. And then a future condition visualization, this is going to show what a 360 degree view if you overlay one of those future improvements and how that benefits the region, the area as a whole. And then they're going to develop a platform that they, but that all citizens can access and be able to look at those same type of models. It's a very interactive model. The current model has a viewer that you're able to view six different panels showing 20, that you can pick of any 26 different layers that goes from current to condition to the conditions in 2070 with maximum sea level rise and total inundation. So it's a very powerful tool right now. And then the final completion is expected to be sometime this summer. And then again on that model and our heat islands, the most pronounced heat islands in Browark County are found in the eastern regions, especially around Ocom Park, associated with I-95 and I-595. These trans exhibit the highest average temperature, summer temperatures. Highlighted areas in Ocom Park, you can see a black outlined area all over the county, but specifically in Ocom Park. This represents communities where the urbanie, island temperature increases more than two degrees Fahrenheit than adjacent areas. And is coupled with an average capital income below 200% of the federal poverty level. And then you go into the white area, the white area includes those numbers plus also the significant portion of populations that are most vulnerable to vulnerable age groups, those under 14 and those over 65. So you can see how this model shows you specifically where the most vulnerable population are impacted by these heat lines, these heat islands that are increasing due to climate change. And then Broward County alongside Ocompark City staff have actively monitored the growth of these heat lines, the efforts are-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e- The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan was updated after 10 years, and by signing that, the Climate Action Pludge, we reaffirmed our shared commitment to a regionally collaborative approach to achieving climate adaptation and mitigation objectives. And then the COP28, the conference of the parties was held in Dubai in late 2023. COP serves as an annual platform under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. And where members convened to evaluate the progress and strategy of global climate change. For this event, first time, the event was expanded to participants to include local agencies alongside the national representatives, recognizing the critical role local agencies alongside the national representatives, recognizing the critical role local agencies, municipalities and counties, climate change. For Broward County, we were represented by three different individuals. Dr. Jennifer Rada, who's been before this commission, who's the Broward County Sustainability Director, who's a key figure in Broward County Sustainability Director, who's a key figure in Broward County and National International Climate Resiliency Efforts, and then County Commissioner Bean Fur, representing the political commitment to sustainability, and then Ilya Azarov, who's one of our sustainability consultants, who's been before this commission also, was there in Dubai, highlighting the collaboration between Broward County and external experts in shaping government strategies. And then this is my last slide. I wanted to give a really short update about the efforts that's pivotal to Oakham Park and broader South Florida region and addressing critical flood control and water management needs. In June 2023, the South Florida water management district and the US Army Corps of Engineers finalized the scope and schedule for the study, the re-study for the Central and South Florida flood control system update. This is the 1950 era flood control project that includes Lake Okeechobee and all the gate structures operated by the core and the South Florida wire management district. These challenges include a new core engineering guideline mandate that requires engineering costs as part of the study that has increased the cost of the study from the neighborhood to $17 million to over $60 million. And then with that increase call, this study has stalled, depending further action by the core in Congress to address these escalating costs. So Molly and I, to regularly attend meetings that go over these and other items that were included in our presentation. This include the Water Advisory Board, the Water Advisory Board Technical Advisory Committee, the Regional Climate, the Broward County Climate Change Task Force, and then the South Florida Water Management District Climate, quarterly climate forum that will be held next Wednesday. So Molly, you want to wrap it up. So up for 2024, I'm happy to say that we are applying to become a Keep America beautiful affiliate. This will include many new initiatives under four pillars. The pillars are end littering, improve recycling, beautify public spaces and support resilient communities. Keep Oakland Park beautiful. We'll be the name of the program and the umbrella that many sustainable initiatives fall under. We also have the Welcome Our Wildlife program that is launching soon, which supports biodiversity and habitat of native species. Lastly, for the first time the Public Works Department will be at Taste of Oaken Park this Friday. Please come and check out our Roll with Reusables Initiative and sign the pledge. And we are