Good evening everyone and welcome to the February 19th City Commission meeting. There will be a 10 minute recess taken at 8.30. City Clerk roll call please. Vice Mayor Arnst. Here. Commissioner Gordon is absent. Commissioner Newbold here commissioner but who here? Maryland again here Tonight we will begin with a moment of silence and then we have resident Ocompac resident Tim Smith is gonna lead to be the flag of the United States of America to provide for which to spend one day under God, invisible, who will never be done as well. And Mr. Abear we have a proclamation tonight. Thank you if I could ask you please mayor to ask for a motion to publish motion to adopt second Vice mayor Arnst. Yes. Commissioner Newborn. Yes. Commissioner Butto. Yes. Mayor Longan. Yes. Second Vice mayor arnsed yes commissioner newborn. Yes commissioner but who yes mayor long again yes Whereas the city of Ockham Park has experienced severe weather in the past in the form of extreme rainfall or Tropical system events resulting in flooding which is caused damage in flood losses to homes and businesses in all areas whether they are high risk special flood hazard areas or low to moderate risk flood zones. And whereas the City Vocal Park is a voluntary participant in the National Flood Insurance Program that provides residents with the opportunity to protect themselves against flood loss to the purchase of flood insurance at reduced insurance premiums as well as setting higher regulatory standards to reduce the flood risk and potential flood damage to their property. And whereas the City of Ocum Park has an NIPF community rating system, class six, which allows our residents and businesses to receive up to 20% discount on their flood insurance. And whereas public education and awareness of potential weather hazards and methods of protection are critical to the health, safety, and welfare of residents, the Florida Flood Plan Manager's Association have declared the week of March 3rd through the 9th, 2025 as flood awareness week to promote awareness and increase knowledge of flood risk, the availability of flood insurance, flood protection methods, how to prepare for emergencies. Now therefore the City Commission of the City of Oakland Park, Florida by the virtue of the authority vested by the charter, hereby authorizes Mayor Tim Lonergan to proclaim the week of March 3rd to March 9th, 2025 as flood awareness week in the City of Oakland Park and further encourages the citizens to increase their knowledge of how to protect themselves and their property from flooding. Thank you. Thank you, City Clerk, Charlotte. At this time, Andrew Thompson is going to come up and Commissioner Newbold is going to present the proclamation. Good evening everyone on behalf of the commission. the good evening everyone on behalf of the commission it's an honor to present you with this flood awareness proclamation um like the city clerk has mentioned how rain weather you know when it comes down and when we have or to mental downpours, we cannot predict the water in the street. However, we can do everything we can as residents, as neighbors, to make sure debris and we implement green spaces in our yards and grass to absorb the water and to make sure our swells are clean. So, and look out for each other because we do have elderly throughout the community and we just want to make sure that they are safe. And if you turn down the street that has plenty water, don't go through it. Don't assume that it's okay because you never know what's down there. So,'m going to present you with this parking motion. Would you like to say a few words? Just very briefly. I'm accepting this on behalf of Public Work Structure Albert Carben because I a person who also has the same haircut as him. But I do want to thank everyone in public works. Flooding is a major issue. It's a major component of the public works department, our storm-modern division. So I do appreciate all the effort that's been done over the years as a resident from the Bidpack projects starting in 2010 to the storm-modern master plan that was recently adopted by commissioners currently underway. Oakland Park has done a great deal through its public work department and its engineering department to help mitigate those risks of floods. And as a resident, I have greatly appreciated it. Thank you. Thank you both. Thank you both. Is that your first official action as Assistant City manager now? No, no. Woo. Woo. Part this day down. Okay. Do we have any additions, changes or deletions to the agenda tonight? Not here. No. No. No. Okay. So our first item today is presentation. I'll come park moving, moving the city on the move. Mr. Aetherther. Thank you mayor. As you all know, we have been engaged in a massive undertaking to renovate and also build new buildings for our city staff. And we've had a wonderful opportunity to welcome the Fire Rescue Administration as well as the Firefighters and paramedics to their new building at station 9 and Just last week we opened the new public works building in the north part of our city So personnel have been moving from one location to another location and now where you've got the challenge of moving both City Hall and Municipal Building employees to the Sky Building, which we are engaged in building out right now. And then shortly thereafter we'll be moving the library to a renovated Collins building at City Centennial Park to walk you through all of that activity and ensure that people are aware of what we are going to be focused on primarily over the next several months. I am going to call on Miss Sierra Marrero who is our community development and engineering director to guide us through our process here and to answer any questions that the commission might have. Miss Marrero. Yes and good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor and commissioners and our Assistant City Attorney. Sierra Marrero director of engineering and community development joining me tonight is Charlene Montgomery Assistant Director of Engineering and Community Development. Joining me tonight is Charlene Montgomery, Assistant Director of Engineering and Community Development. And we are here to give you a little sneak peek as to what we're working on to move the city on the move. So back in 2018, when we originally implemented the bonds, I just wanted to remind you of those goals of the facility improvements that were put in place. It was to maintain continuity of city services, maximize value and utilize resources judiciously, optimize opportunities and remain consistent with the strategic vision and image of the city of Oakland Park. So a little bit of the creating opportunities that we've been working on in the background. On the left-hand side of your screen, you can see that that is the home of the new city Centennial Park was originally home to the Public Works facility, which we had our ribbon cutting ceremony last week. So the public works folks are moving off of that location along with their move out of the Park Place building. We have Fire Station 9 opened up late last year and they have been relocated to the new facility, freeing up that valuable real estate for that five acre of park lands that we're working on. On the right hand of the screen you can see the area where we're going to have the horizon project. And as we work through this presentation I I'll give you a little bit more detail, but this will be where we free up this site to move the city hall, current city hall, staff across the street to the new sky building. We're relocating the existing, what we have as far as basketball courts, tennis courts, playgrounds, and pavilion to the new site of Greenleaf Park. So we don't lose any of those amenities. And then we have the move of the library who will be relocating to the new city Centennial Park. So just a high level snapshot of where we stand with the facilities improvements. We have everything that you see here and red inclusive of the municipal building or 5399 buildings, city Centennial Park Phase One or at the Andrews Gardens. All of those have been completed. Anything that you see in yellow is underway, and then future projects is in green. And just so you can see a little closer of what's remaining, we have the Collins Rehabilitation, which is currently under construction, Public Works Facility, which was recently completed. Sky Building under construction, our new Fire Station 20, City Centennial park phase two, which is in design, and then that remaining balance of the city centennial park site. So what does moving the city on the move look like? Well, it's a lot more than just moving individuals and staff. So currently we are working on the operations and the strategic movement of relocating about 300 budgeted positions within the city, which also means there's approximately 300 pieces of equipment and furniture that move with them. That includes Internet and network, operational systems, vehicles, phones and computers. So it's more than just relocating a body. It's relocating everything associated with them and their positions. So, we are very excited to announce that the Community Enhancement Team has actually already been relocated to the 250 building. You can see they have their nice new digs at the bottom right-hand corner. You can see them enjoying their new conference space. And so they have completely moved the operations and administration and the Urban Farming Institute has a space in that location also. Our new North Andrew's Gardens Community Center this the construction has been completed and Park staff has relocated partially to that building and that's our active adult staff and activities and the volunteer division. New Fire Station 9 allowed us to relocate individuals from the existing Fire Station 9 operations. We have Fire Administration that came from existing Fire Station 87 and then we also have our fire inspectors which came from that municipal building or that 5399 building all of which were moved to Be housed in the new fire station nine that is on the east side of Stevens field And public works complex as like stated before this was our ribbon cutting ceremony that we had last week and so all of the administration and the streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance. The streets, facilities and parks maintenance are all in the process of relocating from their current building at the City Centennial Park site and then also that park place building and so that is being completed but the building is complete and open. Which leaves the biggest move of them all, everybody else. So we have when open parks, when the sky building is completed, we will be moving staff and operations from the city hall, from this current building, inclusive of our chambers, and also individuals from the 5399 or municipal building, and they will all be relocated to the sky. So once we are all relocated, you'll have city commission, chambers, city clerk, utility building, the building and permitting division will be relocated, engineering and planning, finance and procurement, HR and IT, the city manager's office, parks administration who who's not at another facility, and our CRA and Economic Development Departments. Also underway is the Collins renovations. This is going to be the new home for library operations so that we can make room as stated before to allow that space for the Horizon Project. So we will relocate the staff operations from the existing library and to the new Collins building, one second instruction is complete. And it will also have some area for the Parks Athletic Staff to have their operations. And also moving not just the people, but the parks of the developer of the horizon project will be constructing a new green leaf park. This is actually currently in construction. We just started the demolition of the former Omega Church site to make room for the contractor to come in and do their construction, but they are currently under design. And then as mentioned before, we're part of the public works operations is currently housed that they're relocating from is the park place building and I just wanted to remind the commission that we did actually do a rehabilitation on that building. I want to say about 2020-2021. And so once they're done relocating, we will have childcare staff, special event staff, and recreational staff move into that location as a swing space. Or it was used as a swing space for public works. So with that being said, we are available for any questions if you may have them. Perfect. Thank you, Ms. Moreira. I'll open it up to the commission at this time. Ms. Mayor. Commissioner. I want to thank you for that presentation, updating not only the commission, but public on the move with the rest of the employee. so I know it's a lot of work ahead and I know everybody's going to be patient and I've been through a move before in a job so I just know how it is I just pray for them but thank you for the presentation. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you. Mayor. City manager David Heybear. I want to commend you and your outstanding staff. I've been through one of this before. 20 years ago, and Solid Ways had to move with the administrative office from Durral to the Dr. Martin Luther King building on 62nd Street in 27th Avenue. All right. It was back then and it was seen as it was three departments. Solid Ways, it was transit and corrections. But we only had to move the administrative staff to separate floors. You move in ten departments in this city. So I'm intoniously in building infrastructure. That's impressive. I know I traveled around the city. I see what's going on. So yes, the residents are patient. They understand what's going on. And it's our job, my job, and others here to effectively communicate their residents. We're going to be there. We're going to get there soon, but it does take time. Thank you to the staff. See, Eric, I say I was speaking with the mayor of Pembroke Pines the other day and he has a $230 million bond he's trying to get approved for Pembroke Pines. And he laughed. He just leave left just that. I said, well, you know what? You don't have city manager like me, mine's and a remote, great promoter who has credibility are esteemly director, Sidness Sear, Marino. She was there advocating for that, informing the residents why what we was doing. I remember I was at the LGA this mayor three two years ago and she was listening and she pointed me out and say we're gonna get this in the community center in college and it was done that was credibility that's part of your leadership so I'm gonna say thank you to all the employees being patient the residents and to you because I know you're getting a lot of great hairs over this. I see you working hard each and every day but you're doing the job and whatever I could do to assist let me know. Thank you so much. Thank you Commissioner Vice Mayor. Just a little wonder if we're going to use good Greek moving disorders or super herb moveers. It's going to be a big job and and they, that's why we haven't really been putting too much on the table right now, because it's going to take a couple of months to get all the stuff moved over. And I wasn't really forward with the beginning, but I'm all on board right now. So good job, good job. Keep it going to work. Thank you, Vice Mayor, appreciate that. So this process actually did begin some 10 years ago. The residents did determine and they supported a bond and it was so desperately needed. Our facilities were in really bad shape. So the poll rolls, sometimes it rolls a little slower, sometimes it picks up speed. It's quite an undertaking. We understand the flexibility needed during this difficult time as far as making sure all the pieces match and everything gets back together. So appreciate your efforts and your team's efforts and it's a big city to run and we understand that so this is something even more than just your normal running of the city. This is this is a lot so we understand the stress and the pressure that the team is under and we appreciate we appreciate that very much. Thank you Mayor and commissioners. As in any process in government There are unforeseen challenges. The administration in Washington right now has provided some cues that perhaps some of the grants that had previously been awarded may not be fulfilled. We don't know for sure what that means right now and what the implications are going to be but we're monitoring it. At the same time locally because of the storms at the end of 2024, FBNL has been delayed in getting some of the undergrounding that is necessary at the sky building. In fact, it has delayed some of the activities over there for as long as 46 months. And that's certainly putting a burden on everybody because it means our initial plan to move in over there in April or May is going to be delayed, which unfortunately may have implications for the horizon project. Because at the same time that we are being delayed over there, We want to try everything we can to avoid delaying their ability to move forward with the purchase and sale and then begin the construction here at City Hall. So we still have a number of moving pieces and some uncertainty as to when exactly some of these moves are going to take place. And then outstanding after that will be the question of what do we do with the resource of the municipal building. Of course, as we've noted, BSO will continue to use that facility. But one half of that facility will now be available for us to reconsider what its purpose might be once we have vacated personnel from there and moved them over to the city wall So there are still decisions that need to be made. There are still opportunities before us as well as challenges and we'll continue to keep you up to date with what we find out definitively and with God's blessings and your support will make this happen for our citizens. Thank you, Mr. Reaver. As you said, we're really hoping that some of those grants, they don't change their mind and not provide the grants that were promised to us ahead of time. I have to say, and I think it needs to be said, in the past 10 years, staff has applied for and received about $60 million worth of grants to supplement every project in the city. I think it's fair to say without that $60 million, a lot of this would not have been done. A lot. There's no question about that, Mayor. We started with $40 million and that was more than enough money in 2018,-pandemic. But as we all know the escalating costs of materials of construction and most of all the explosion of interest rates has have really been formidable challenges. We've already expended on our building effort more than $60 million and that delta between $40 million and $60 million has come primarily from grant opportunities. And we still have work to do and grants that have been awarded. If those grants that have been awarded our clawed back, then we're going to have to recalibrate and figure out some less costly solutions for our citizens. But we made commitments and we have fulfilled the commitments thus far and I have every confidence that we will use creative problem solving to fulfill the remaining commitments that we made to our citizens. And I assure you we're going to do our damnedest to do that. Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that Commissioner on that city manager. I want I'm going to meet with our city lobbyists on Friday, okay? So probably later you could get With a list of grant funding that we normally apply for because we're gonna make a push to try to make sure we're able to salvage them. Because the new administration is cutting through in there. So we need to maintain that flexibility. Okay, so we're going to advocate for those. Yeah, I appreciate that, Commissioner. Thank you very much for the offer. We have compiled the list of grants that we're monitoring. And I certainly understand and appreciate that with the bloated government processes in DC, that it was long past time to take a look at where money is flowing from, and whether or not it is being appropriately utilized. And sometimes when you do that, when you have to make decisions in grand scales, sometimes the little folks get hurt without the intent there. And we appreciate that offer. The lobbyist, Russ Klanette, has been phenomenal and our partners at the county, state and federal level have really worked hard on our behalf. We're just going to have to monitor and watch where we're at and hope for the best here. But thank you for the offer and we'll take you up on that. Thank you. Thank you both. Okay. At this time, we are going to recess for our CRA meeting. Roll call City Clerk. or vice chair aren'ts. Here. Or remember new bold here. Or remember. Thank you. VICE chair. Arnst. Here. VICE member. Newbold. Here. VICE member. Badhu. Here. Chair Lonegan. Here. Oh, okay. In mystery bear, we have a presentation today. We do. Thank you very much, Mayor. Our CRA Director Miss Nases Herrera is here to give us an update on the activities of her department and some of the Evolution of our business community since last we talked with you about this and then we will be more than happy and To entertain any questions that you might have Miss Herrera Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Good evening, Sierra Board Chair, Vice Chair, and Board Members. Nesa Herrera, Sierra, and Economic Development Director. As always, I am excited to share the latest updates on our Sierra efforts of business developments and upcoming projects. The past few months have been busy, and there's a lot of positive momentum in the city of Ocum Park. So let's dive in. We have welcomed several new businesses into our community, including IMC roofing, offering residential and commercial solutions for the roofing needs of our city and residents. MDR finishes corp, which offers high quality finishes and renovations, good electric solutions, which offers electric solutions. Novidadis, Don Francisco, experienced the retail options on North Andrews Avenue. And InterTech, which is a growing tech solution based company. We also celebrated several business-growing openings in anniversaries. Last month, Maggie's favorite celebrated their second anniversary in the city of Hoclumpur. On January 25, Dreyu's Caribbean Creole, Cuisine and Barr expanded the seat down restaurant options of the Westside of our city. Shripping animals and sea moths organics also celebrated their grand opening this month. And very exciting news. The long awaited Ethiopian restaurant Red Sea here in the heart of our culinary artist district, will be celebrating their grand opening this Saturday at 5 p.m. So please join us as we celebrate this occasion with the business owner. And Voodoo Brewery is getting close to opening its doors. The business owner communicated that they're planning to celebrate their red opening on March 15th. So once we have confirmation on the date and all the details will be sharing more information with you. So RedC, let me just go back and make a point here. RedC and Voodoo Brewery combine brewing 45 new jobs to our community. Solidifying Auckland Parks as a new hope of as a new hub of business growth and innovation. Auckland Parks commitment to building a second century is reflected in the completion of public facilities such as the new public works complex for which we celebrated the ribbon cutting last week. This new facility will be the home of the new public works operations and administration and will enhance our services to our community, including our emergency operations and public works. Join us tomorrow at 3.30 as we celebrate the reopening of the Dr. Karajji Woodson Park. Some of the improvements on the park include the new basketball court, community garden with 13 raised beds, a rubberized playground surface, outdoor fitness equipment, and upgraded landscaping. And I'd like to take this opportunity to provide you with an update on our efforts to revitalize corridors within our Syria boundaries, specifically on North Andrews Avenue. In January of last year, this commission expanded the Business and Sensitive Program in an effort to spur private investment in areas adjacent to the qualified census tract and as you can see, this area adjacent to the Sierra boundaries. What we're currently doing is to identify the available properties for lease and for sale in the area. So we can connect them with prospective buyers and tenants that support the needs of the community. Through our business visitations, we're also actively promoting the VIP grant to properties that may benefit from it. So, we're doing the same with our ongoing outreach to property owners. The business visitations also allow us to build a relationship and strengthen a relationship with the businesses in this area. So we can understand what challenges they face and we can connect them with our local resources or our economic development partners such as career source, OACF South Florida and the Urban League of our County. To mention a few. Our economic development efforts are also supported by the proactive co-inforcement throughout the corridor. In the month of February 12 properties were issued notices of violations. Out of these 12 properties eight were coming to compliance before the hearing. So another way for us to strengthen our relationship with our business community and our stakeholders is through our business partners meeting. At the January 14th, the attendees agreed to change the name of this meeting from downtown partners meeting to business partner meetings to make it more inclusive and to reinforce open park commitments to support all businesses across Oakland Park. On February 11th we hosted the school partnership breakfast where we brought together business owners and school principals. This was an opportunity to explore partnerships, networking opportunities between the schools, mentoring opportunities and internships that could support the development of our students and the needs of our business community. Mark your calendars for the next business partners meeting, which will be held at Project Rock on North Andrews Avenue. And it's tax season, so our guest speaker will be Karina Padilla from Engineer Tax Services. She will be sharing tax strategies and incentives for businesses. Other business meetings that I encourage businesses to take advantage of is the technical assistance Fridays offered by the Broward County Office of Small Business and Economic Development and the Allen B. Levan NSU Broward Center for Innovation. CRA staff is planning to participate as an exhibitor on May 9th at the Broward and beyond business conference. So this is an opportunity to connect with other businesses looking to expand and opening their doors in Oakland Park. And for us to share information about resources and opportunities within the city. Businesses interested in attending this free conference are encouraged to get more information on the event-bright page of this event. And the City of Hocom Park in partnership with the Abrawa County Office of Small Business and Economic Development will be offering two entrepreneurial training sessions in the month of March and April. One of them will be the intentional entrepreneur, which will take place on March 24th at the Career Source Broward facility on West Ocuampark, I don't know, comparable to the word. And the listening to your business session will take place on April 21st. I jack up a third-spark community center, and this one would be geared towards more established business owners. Our special events bring people into our community and support our local businesses. So we thank you all who attended the February 7th Seoul Festival, the Jacoba Sturios Park and Opal this past Saturday was truly a wonderful event. So we encourage you to join us next time on May 17th for Opa. And if you haven't bought your ticket to Taseo Fokwon Park, I encourage you to do so because tickets are selling fast, we're currently at 585 tickets sold. And this is one of our biggest events in the city, will be held on February 28th at Jacob Astorist Park. And it usually features over 30 vendors. So this is an event you do not want to miss. And mark your calendars for our annual Dancing Industry on March 24th. If any business is interested in participating at any of these events, please contact the Niela Skoneys from the special event team. And last week I had the opportunity to meet with the staff of the OAC of South Florida. An organization that specializes on workforce education, training, and career development, as part of our goal to strengthen our relationship with our partners in order to leverage our resources. So I encourage businesses in our community and residents to take advantage of the programs that they offer by attending one of their open house sessions to learn more about the training programs in warehouse logistics, food service management, contracting opportunities, and information technology. Also we encourage our students that may be interested in pursuing a STEM career to participate in the STEM Fest on Saturday, February 22. With that, I conclude my presentation and invite you to connect with us through any of the resources and platforms on the screen. And I'm hoping to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Ms. Herrera. There's a lot of great information and you obviously are busy, so thank you. I'm gonna open it up to the commission at this time. Yeah, Commissioner, I'll go first. Thank you. David city manager, Mr. Rera director of the CRA. Thank you. You are listening to the needs of our residents. It's up to us, everybody in the audience to get the word out. We have been open. You just have to get you there to get active in our CRA, in our business resources that's out there. It's plentiful. And thank you. You are listening. Addivates to the career, entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, internship. You bring your old parties to the table. I know because I've been out there in the community. Maybe by waving about what you're doing in our CRA. And it's limited. We do not like other CRAs. We don't have any tiff. Everything is budget driven. So we have to utilize the ingenuity of how to promote open park. And they are coming. They are here. People want to come to our city. It's just I just keep after raise the issue, I'm with the entire city to feel the energy that we have in. And I know you working on the Andrews corridor, to get businesses out there, Powerline is a struggle. Okay, it's right outside our CRA. I do want to focus on the West side. and I do want to work with you and identifying lots, especially on 31st, right? I ever knew that, you know, in that flea market, in that area, I really want to develop it. And I was going to get done because I've been making some calls and I'm going to give it to city manager. You know, make it pop. You saw that food desert pretty soon at the re activate a quintess to try to come and do some work on the West side, but it didn't come through. But I told the person I'm here now and I'm going to realize my team members on board to help promote the website and get things done. So that's gonna be a challenge, but we're gonna get it done, okay, we will. So thank you, I'm looking forward to those conversations with you, city manager and you, Miss Herrera, okay, but thank you. We are booming in our city without say, already, in a limited, and also want to make sure we can shake some trees in the county. I'm going to work with you with our commissioners, adventurous service, open park. They gave, I monitor what's going on in the city of Davey, they just gave me some funding for their CERI, though they're tough but they got it. So I think, you know, there's still a part of funding that's available that we can access it and show them that hey, we could do more. Just take the leap of faith and trust or comply because we're regenerating the atmosphere of innovation here. So with that, thank you so much. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, board member. Board member? Yes, thank you, ma'am. Board member, sorry. Okay. Chair, thank you, Miss Herrera, for the report. And talk about live, working, play throughout the city of Oakland Park. They're definitely doing, or if they're not, they will be doing it over here on the east side because the two businesses that you mentioned brought in jobs and I'm looking forward to that happening on the west side. And I know it's coming. We just did the, because we have the red velvet restaurant that's over there as well as the Haitian restaurant. Joe helped me make us very nice restaurant the decor you have it on here, right? I think that slide. Yeah. Yeah. Slide three. Very nice restaurant. So we still have some work to do on the website, but again again, an amazing job in the businesses that are coming here. I'm glad when it starts filtering over onto the West. So thank you again. And when I visit restaurants, well, businesses, they're always telling me about either you or Mr. C, Gonzales, how they love working with you all, how you come in and you spend time with them. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Abert. Thank you, board member, vice chair. Well, I just like to know what she said, but thanks to you and Cesar to just an absolute phenomenal job So pass my best long to him because You guys go out and beat the bushes and you're doing what you know needs to be done and no you can count those 45 jobs As in 500 jobs, so get that out of your mind right now. I Know what you were thinking about. There's 45 already. There was before you got out here. I know what you're thinking. He hasn't no idea what we're talking about. That's it. Thank you, Vice Chair, appreciate it. You know, I just want to say welcome to the new businesses and seriously thank you for investing in Oakland Park. We obviously want all of our businesses to succeed for the long term, not just to come you know and not make it most important as a community, we need to support our local mom and pop businesses. I think as over the years that divide has widened from the halves and halves knots. Fewer people I think are spending their money out in restaurants and doing things and we really have to help to make sure that our businesses are going to survive. Every time I meet with a business owner, I let them know that we on the commission what we do is we invest in our communities and we want to improve our corridors. We want to green up our city, we want to make it more walkable. And I say, it's a it's a true partnership. The true partnership is you need to provide a good service. People got to feel welcome coming into your business. You got to have a good product whether that's you know, food and a restaurant or whatever. And you got to have a reasonable price to bring them in. So it truly is. The city really does want a good partnership with all of our businesses, and it takes both of us to make it happen. So I think over the years, we have become more of a destination than a drive-through city. We've got a long way to go yet, but I think we're making a good effort to get there. And again, there's a big difference between investing in our, in, in greening up our boulevards and making it more walkable We then have to convince the investors to buy these properties and to move in and I know as as the commit the board members Talked about a little bit Every time we meet with the developer about a project no matter where that project is in the city of Oakland Park, we express there's a food desert on Oakland Park Boulevard on our west side of the street. We express that there's opportunity for power line road to have more businesses. There's more opportunity for Andrews Avenue. So it is a true effort. I can let you know that we are consistently advocating for this city and slowly but surely that ball is moving. Keep in mind, we have partners here that we rely on and that we have to count on the state for state roads, the county for county roads. FPNL is a partner when there's street lights out. I couldn't tell you how many time staff has to contact FPNL and say, you know, we've got this row of street lights here and some of them are out. We need it to replace. Each of the different partners have their own speed shall I say, Mr. Abert, and priorities and especially taken to account to were one of 31 cities. So whether it's the county, whether it's F P N L or whether it's the state in our area, they're dealing with 31 different municipalities and staff, I know staff does the best that they can to try and make change. So again, as far as this presentation goes, excellent job. I know you're busy every time I speak with a new business that comes in town, the owner. They always express good words on how you and Cesar are doing a great job. And slowly but surely I think we're making a difference. Thank you. OK, Okay folks at this time we're going to open up for public comments. This is just relating to the CRA. It's not our general public comments. So anyone wishing to speak about the CRA business please step up. There I have some comments a few of them are about the CRA and a few of them are about something else. Yes, Kim Smith, 1015 Northeast 39th Street, just a stone's throw from here. We trust that you'll never do try that. Yeah, Mr. Smith, so can we ask that you talk about the CRA stuff on this and then come back up during the regular? Are you able to separate them? Maybe. I'll give it a quick try. I wanted to congratulate you guys on the public works building. I was there and it was a tremendous showing of people the building is just spectacular. But mostly I wanted to bring it up because at the very end David Abert spoke about the city of Oakland Park. And I listened to a lot of city managers in my day and a lot of bureaucrats and you really meant what you were saying. and I can see it like well and out of you about how you're so proud that you're building this city with still a small town feel, but it's on the move. So I wanna tell you that that affected me when you made those comments, and usually I just, I'm not, but thank you for that, and I really appreciate that. The Pioneer House is probably not in the CRA. I was going to give you a quick update. The lights in the culinary district, you mentioned, people reporting lights. I've been walking there a lot lately and a lot of those municipal lights, you know, the black ones with the nice globe, a lot of them are out and maybe it has to do with something going on. But you'll run into a stretcher four of them in the street is dark, and I think you need to fix that. Wanted to say that Dancing in the Streets coming up, we saw that on there. I have been talking to the events people and looks like hopefully my old man band is to be able to play for it Sunday's at five we're oldies and goldies and I when I look at y'all some of y'all will know the music and I thought I just mentioned that after being at that public works opening now I can probably ask our city manager to come up and sing a few tunes Oh, I get a chance to give you an update on the Pioneer House. I'll do that in a few minutes. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Next speaker, please. Okay, at this time we'll close the CRA public comments and we have a consent agenda. Proof of the CRA minutes, October 16th, 2024, December 4th, 2024. Most of us have proof. Second. Vice Chair Arnst. Yes. We're member Nubal. Yes. We're member Butto. Yes. Chair Lonegan. Yes. Oh, OK. Real quick, I do want to say sir, I do very much apologies. I forgot to introduce our Assistant City Attorney, Mr. Sean Schwartz. Thank you for being here today sir, we appreciate it. Okay, and we will then move on to reports from board members. Would like to start us off? Well, I'll have to go first. Ladies first. Thank you. Just, the city really moving. And I know it's a lot. And I just want everyone that has spoke up and spoke out to know that we've heard you. And we're working on it. But again, like I said, we're coming up on the east side of Oakland Park and pretty soon I just see the west side will be there it's coming thank you. Thank you Board member. I just want to definitely say thank you to the staff for Miss A. Bear and Public Works Department. It is gorgeous. It is as beautiful. I was proud to be there to cut that ribbon then. It just took me years back to my service and how mononized that public work facility is. And we have all I lean departments there. And I would see for Grand Tour. And it was awesome. So it's within the CRE too. Kinda. Storta, I think it is. Ha ha ha ha. Architect in the CRE. There you go. But no, thank you so much. The businesses are active. Out walk, I spoke to several businesses, or as a director, they are enthusiastic of what we're doing. And they want to vest, they ready to get to other areas and want to even rent from the sky building in other areas. Maybe they'll pricey but hey, at least it's good, they want to try. Okay, that means they want to be here. Uh, thank you to back to whoever in season. But thank you. You are really, I know your shoes are wet out right now because you are hitting the pavement. And I appreciate that so much. Thank you. That's all, man. Thank you, Barbara. Vice chair. Well, if you missed the city manager singing at the things the public works, you probably missed the one-time deal if you weren't a soul-fest. That was all of us up there saying on the stage, that's probably going to be a first and last time. Well, for me, maybe. But it was nice. It was a great, great time. We had a good time. And Skito's things come along. Love them. Thank you, Vice Chair. And I just also just wanted to say a great job on the presentation today. Slowly, but surely things move along throughout the city vocal park. And please support our local businesses, as Ms. Herrera said, Red C's grand opening ribbon cutting Saturday at five if we can fill that street in front with people coming to support the new business. Joseph the owner was very excited when he was out there the other day. And then we have four owners if I'm not mistaken of a vooo Brewing. I believe it's four owners and they are of Indian Heritage and they're going to have some great Indian food on their menu in addition to burgers and chicken and things like that. So Oakland Park is diverse just the way that we want it to be and please their grand opening is March 15th. Put it on the calendar. Please help support our local businesses. Thank you. Okay and any reports from the executive director today? Nothing further. Thank you, board chair. Okay. At this time we will close the CRA meeting and we'll re adjourn to the City Commission meeting and We will open up with public comments anyone wishing to provide any comments regarding any city business Please step up to the podium Provide your name and your address and you have up to four minutes. Thank you Wallace Petersen 1941 Northwest 36th Street. Good evening all. Due to my concerns surrounding the progress of the shelter proposal for Oakland Park Boulevard, I feel it is necessary to speak publicly tonight. I assure you that my comments are in no way an indictment of any individual staff member or officials. On September 23rd last year, our weekly update listed only one of the two upcoming neighborhood meetings, this have been a clock meeting for an Eastside Town Home development. The 630 meeting regarding the proposed shelter facility was not included in this update. After reaching out to you, a correction was sent out on the 25th, two days later, less than a week prior to the meeting. During the October 1st meeting, one of the last speakers asked the applicant about the status of the property. Their response was that they are in due diligence. As a follow-up, this beacuse that the applicant had consulted with staff and if so, what the outcome was. And they replied that they had and they had begun the purchase process because of a positive response from the city and an assumed approval. That was their words. The opening slide at each neighborhood meeting states, quote, the information this meeting does not reflect the opinion, the support or the approval of the City of Oakland Park. On December 2nd, the lobbyist approval of the city of Oakland Park. On December 2nd, the lobbyist for this proposal called me to state she would be holding a second neighborhood meeting and asked if her neighborhood would participate. I replied that we would. She assured me she would inform me of the meeting. A meeting apparently was held. We never received notice. On February 13th, while checking my email before heading to our public works, it was great by the way. Grand opening, I discovered an email notification of an 8 item DRC meeting, including this proposal that was scheduled at the same time as this huge city white event. The time stamp indicates that email was sent out around midnight. I forward this to you all, and then I high-tailed it to the DRC, meaning where the applicant was lobbyist greeted me and feigned no knowledge of the lack of notification for the second meeting. the four other people who had come to speak about the proposal rebutted her and also confirmed that they had received no notice. At 1006, well into the public comments of the meeting text notification was sent out and the agenda was posted just the day before in February 12th. Florida government and the Sunshine Manual states that reasonable notice of meetings must be given quote. They must always include date time meeting location and agenda and there is no precise definition of reasonable, but seven days is the accepted minimum except for emergency. So it feels like maybe we didn't quite meet those sunshine laws there. Chapter 24, article 12 of our own chapter, our own code of ordinances states prior to the consideration of a site development plan. The applicant shall have posted on the subject property. Assigned provided by the city placed by the applicant notifying the public of the project name case number and project description. The sign shall be posted within two business days of application submission. Subsection C says provides a notarized affidavit indicating that the applicant has placed the signs on the property subsection D, failure to submit this affidavit or maintain the signs shall prohibit. Consideration of the application at the DRC, these regulations. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. The applicant stated at the DRC meeting that they were anxious to expedite this proposal. Given the lack of transparency, whether intentional or not, one is unfortunately left with the impression that there is a desire for this process to take place with minimal public input. I think we maybe have some transparency issues. People can no longer give public comments here unless they are able to attend in person, even though we often use Zoom. And at our neighborhood participation meetings, even though it would be simple to get cameras turned on, but names displayed, we don't do so. So I can't see, I don't know who, I know there was a commissioner on that last meeting about on Paralyne Road, but I don't know what it was. Combine this with the circumstances like the ones I've just described, and it creates doubt and suspicion. We must keep the quality of life for all residents, your voters, all of us, as... Combine this with the circumstances like the ones I've just described and it creates doubt and suspicion We must keep the quality of life for all residents your voters all of us as top of mind our guiding Principles are North Star in all of our decision-making and I think that starts with honest communication and Complete transparency. Thank you for your consideration tonight and your continued service to the city of Hucleham Park Thank you, your consideration tonight and your continued service to the city of Hucland Park Thank you, ma next person My name is William Barcia. I live at 1880 Northwest 36th Street Street, N Oakland Park. I'm a new resident here, I think, reasonably. I moved in in 2020, when I moved in. My wife found love at the house, and we bought it. I'm very happy to be a resident here in Oakland Park. One of the things I've learned in my business career is, I think it was eloquently said, it's transparency. I travel to some very dangerous parts of the world. I go to South America. I got to get in bulletproof cars. So when I get on meetings, I'm on lots of virtual meetings with people. People see my face. I want to see the people that are presenting to me. Having a presentation when nobody gets to see, how do I know you're not on your cell phone? How do I know you're listening to me? I have no idea. I don't even know who I'm talking to. In the case of the Covenant House, I think where we're really at is, and again, I'll go back to my business acronym is, we're in out is, and again, I'll go back to my business acronym is, we're in a place in West Oakland Park. I look at the sheet over there, and I see all these great things in East Oakland Park. I hear promises about West Oakland Park, but I've been there five years, I've really seen anything. I don't think the people so much are so negative to the covenant house is that it's not giving us anything. It's like, okay, you're getting... I don't think the people so much are so negative to the covenant house is that It's not giving us anything. It's like okay. We're getting you're getting something, but we get nothing There is it's it's a very one-sided situation right now you want covenant house I'm not saying we'd be happy with it But if there was four things that we got and you got covenant house, well, it's a negotiation Right now there is no negotiation. There's promises. I understand that, but that's all we have is promises. My last thing to say is we all know the issues of 21st Avenue when we need to go there. I walk across to this beautiful little park across from my house every day and I can't tell you how upsetting it is to find garbage every day on the street and in the park. Whenever the socioeconomic makeup of the people they can't seem to put it in a garbage can. And I've been there five years. And I haven't seen any additional garbage cans. I don't see any changes and I don't see any signs. So if we can't solve the little things about just people putting garbage in a garbage can, all these other things and all these great plans, to me, the small things get you to the big things. The big things don't take care of the small things. And we haven't solved anything. I mean, respectful, I can't say it's for sure, but you have a waterworks area there. And about once a month, I think some of the people go out there and every time I have to take their Starbucks coffee and throw it away. I mean we're not sending a good example for people when we can't even throw garbage. If we don't have signs there's no people smoke pot there. People do whatever they want. I mean Mitch one of the neighbors me we have condoms there. It's a park. So if you want to make pretty trails and want to do all these great things, let's just start with garbage cans and signs and try to build up just a few things to make it positive. And again, I'm all in to say let's negotiate and let's have things that work both ways, but the Covenant House doesn't add anything to us. And I'm a little disappointed that I was on that first meeting. I didn't get any notification of the second meeting. How does something get approved without even, and if we have nothing out there, and I think Ms. Newbold said at Food Desert, where are these young people gonna go? Where are they gonna go? There's nothing, there's no place to go on the west side. So where is it going to come? It's all moving into the park. And why do we think if the park doesn't support the socio-economic problems we have now, why do we think these other people or younger people or whoever a percentage of those are only going to make it worse? Where is the west side? And why will people want to invest in the West Side when we don't have anything Telling somebody hey, why don't you move next to Needed a shelter for young people that's needed Who's gonna want that business? What restaurant or what really good places? Oh, let's move there We're not we're not sorry folks East Side of what you're I lift up all the things on the Side. I didn't see it very little on the West Side. Thank you, sir. Hi, I'm Mike Crigo, 1940, Northwest 33rd Court. So I'm just going to pick up where my two prior neighbors left off. So I just kind of jump right in. So I just think that the city officials have responsibility to enforce current zoning. And when the time comes to remap or rezone, then consider what zoning is needed for the covenant house to change and prevent the perception of reality of bad behavior by city officials. Because that's kind of what's out there. From the DRC meeting recently, I overheard dialogue between the Covenant House reps and the city officials that originally the plans were submitted as residential and recently switched to institutional based on the guidance from the city. Yet clearly majority of the property will be transient residential. And listening to the BSO officer at the DRC, questioning the reps of the Covenant House, many topics were brought up around stretching BSO resources further than what BSO currently struggles to respond to now across our county. One being the process in which the Coffin House said homeless teens are checked in, the process was made out to be very strict and on point until the topic of exceptions came up. One being domestic violence situation, one being human trafficking. It would seem to me that this would be pretty much cover all any and all walk-in exceptions, being homeless teens have a high percentage of domestic violence in home, at home and or on the street. And Florida is in the top three for human trafficking. So I guess let's be transparent and say most cases, walk-ins are all welcome. Being it would be the right thing to do, and always an exception. At the DRC, Lordeering was a topic of concern for several reasons. What the neighborhood is currently dealing with at the intersection of Northwest 21st and Oakland Park Boulevard, at the Home Depot parking lot, at the vacant Walgreens, at Veteran Park, Veterans Park in 21st Avenue to mention a few, which brings me to the Covenant House reps response at the DRC. Quote, we have a half mile no lordering policy, but cannot control when a homeless last troubled young adult wants to leave, quote unquote. And with this, many of the cases I'm sure they experience will leave us in our neighborhood. Leave us in our neighborhood, a half mile east, right at Northwest 21st Avenue, the entry to my neighborhood. Veterans Park, the post office parking lot, the vacant Walgreens, the Burger King and KFC parking lot, which all have current, Lordering and homeless issues that are not addressed by the city. I'm sure the city knows of a school and or daycare across the street from this location and a second one at Northwest 21st Avenue in Oakland Park. Is there not a distance requirement when zoning is involved? And it is the city's commission's right to approve a conditional use for something like this that is not part of our current zoning laws. I wonder if you have children attending and would you allow homeless and young adults to reside on the thorough way as busy as seven and eight lanes of very busy traffic in Oakland Park Boulevard not to mention the speeding through this section of Oakland Park to beat the lights or get to 95. Is there not a safety issue also here for those that reside at the Covenant House? Where is a traffic study for this conditional use? They brought the building over a year ago, presented follow up material last week at this DRC meeting down to architectural plans and business plans, et cetera. But yet to post the required scientists within the required timeline, prominently on the property to make our neighborhood aware and to have a voice and yet nothing. The CEO spoke up at the DRC stating she was offered to do walkthroughs for anyone interested or concerned that us as neighbors had hurtful things to say without knowing what they and who they are, They are. So then why not be very transparent for the first, the very first community meeting prior to buying the property with the presentation with a video walk through, community engagement, graph spreadsheets so they can show their intake, lack of troubling issues, testimonials from young adults, success stories as well as those not so successful. Why? I'm guessing this process would not have gotten as far as it has. You want to be part of our community in which you want to reside as trans-ead residents than honesty and 100% transparency as a must. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Good evening. Kevin Loud 1921 Northwest 36th Street. These days I'm told I must embrace joy whenever I can. Because of the city of Oakland Park, I found joy. There are now trees planted in the Northwest 21st Avenue Medians between Oakland Park Boulevard and the bridge that crosses the middle river. My joy is so strong and satisfying that I decided to ignore that it took years of conversations between myself, neighbors, with city officials to get these trees planted. For me, these trees represent a fresh start for the Northwest 21st Avenue corridor and for the city's west side. Joy, though, can be very short-lived. Like many of my neighbors, I also learned about this second meeting. I was a participant in the first meeting for the Covenant House. I heard nothing about the second meeting. And what struck me about it is that myself, my neighbors, we've had so many conversations with city officials about the needs of the West Side. Sue, we've talked about it here tonight already. Supermarkets, restaurants, everything. Not once did anyone mention a shelter for the homeless. I understand it's the applicant's responsibility to notify us for a second meeting. That didn't happen. And whether it's an honest oversight, it still feels disappointing and the little icky. And before I'm confused with NIMBYism, let's be clear. It's not so much as not in my backyard, but why always in my backyard? Previously, I've mentioned the conversations we've had with the city officials about the needs on the west side. And I do believe you have heard us, because a lot of the issues that we have brought up are now in the comprehensive plans for Northwest 21st Avenue and the West Side. We talk about it here just tonight. And they also like to think that our conversations have sparked a preliminary step for a city study to look at factors impacting West Side growth. And these findings were recently presented at another meeting. The O'Connor Park West Side, key factors, high volume of absentee landlords, lack of participation or engagement, the fact that Okenpark Boulevard has considered a high traffic corridor, which presents its own list of negative consequences, small businesses failing to thrive, an over a bunch of fast food restaurants, gas stations, car dealerships, less walkability, congestion, and an increased risk of vacancies. As a retired social worker, to me, it is a disservice to the clients of Covenant House, as well as the surrounding neighbors, to place a homeless shelter in an area where there is stagnant development happening right now. They would be better serviced here in downtown on Main Street in walking distance to services at City Hall to the library before it gets relocated. There's more services here when the train station is built. We have a transportation hub for residents of a shelter to go back and forth to jobs and meetings and whatever has to happen in their lives. But I know that will not happen. Because a homeless shelter doesn't fit into this city's vision for the downtown area. And that word vision is one I've used over and over again since I purchased my home here more than 30 years ago. Just what is the city's vision for itself as a whole? What is the vision for the West Side? It seems to me that each time we have one, the city strays away from it. And the whole situation reminds me of the broken window syndrome. To paraphrase, the theory suggests that visible signs of disorder and neglect in a neighborhood, like a broken window left unrepaired, can encourage further deterioration. Right now, the West Side is open parks broken window. And on that note, I'm going to go grab some joy from the trees of Northwest 21st Avenue. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Oh. Hi. I'm so short. I'm very used to holding. You can hold it. I think I will. Thank you. Jennifer McKenna-Winebaum, 1981 Northwest 33rd Court. I didn't know if I could be here because I'm so new. But I have a lot of neighbors here. I've only been in the area for just over a year. And it's funny because I came from many years in Atlanta and almost 30 before I came here. And I lived on the west side there too. So I find that very interesting because when I moved in there, it needed a lot of work. When I left there, it was a very robust, bustling, beautiful walkable area. And I share a vision for what that could be on the west side here. So I don't wanna come here and complain because I have a very big kind of motto that I have to bring a solution. I can't just bring a problem, right? And so I've thought long and hard before I came here. I have heard everything that they've said, I agree with wholeheartedly. In my one year here, I have seen a lot of things that damage the beauty of the park and the area that I think are completely reprobble. So I thought long and hard about what my solution would be and here's what I'm going to say to you. 20 years ago, well I've been a consultant and a facilitator, I've done lots of things, local, national, international. But 20 years ago, which actually wasn't the beginning of my career, that shows how old I am, I worked with a group called Midtown Alliance. And I don't know if you're familiar with them or not. But they turned Midtown, Atlanta, from a prostitution drug ring into one of the most sought after urban areas. It's absolutely a squizz. And I worked with them at the time that they did a blueprint for that and what they did to bring the community together. So if ever it is helpful for me to donate a conversation so I can share with you what I've learned or whatever, I am more than happy to provide any insight if you find it valuable at all. I really did not want to come here just to complain. I wanted to offer something. I appreciate all the work that you're doing. I do think there's more to do on the West side, most definitely. And I concur with all the details that have been said here. And I think is going to share some of the traffic concerns on top of everything else you've heard. I do hope you'll really hear them out and take it all very seriously. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. I guess I won't play. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Chairman. You're named. I'm Mitch Lieberman, a 19-40 Northwest 35th Street. I won't touch too much on my 21st Avenue, I'll bring that up at a later time, but I just want to express my feelings towards the Covenant House. I'm going to be doing this for the next two weeks. I'm going to be doing this for the next two weeks. I'm going to be doing this for the next two weeks. I'm going to be doing this for the next two weeks. I'm going to be doing this for the next two weeks. I'm going to be on the west side in the 27, 28 years that I've been there. Nothing but conditional uses. We have, it's not a marijuana distributor, dispensary, but it's a head shop, massage parlors, gas stations. To bring into the covenant house with with a conditional use again. How is this going to attract any of the businesses that want to come out in our direction? And without that, I'll keep it short and brief. But as you've heard from my other neighbors, we've never had a notice from the, about the second meeting that was coming up. So as far as me and everybody else, we oppose this. We hope you listen to what we had to say about it. And I'll kept it under four minutes. Thank you, sir. I don't want to break it. Hi guys, how are you? Nice to meet you. I'm Jim Joseph-Fovitch, 1948, Northwest 33rd Court. I've lived there for approximately 25 years. It's pleasure to be in front of all of you. And thank you for the truth. Whoever is responsible for it, they look wonderful. The whole avenue looks good and the entrance to our Soviet division. I wanted to say that first off. I don't want to be negative either. So bear with me, I'm not good at speaking. If I get a little passionate or a little negative, please forgive me. We were at the DRC meeting last week. I find about it out about it on next story at 11 o'clock at night. It was never posted, never agenda. And I wound up taking time off. We'll work to go there at 10 o'clock. Covenant House had eight to nine people representing them. And we only had four or five people with our scraps of paper we're trying to talk to the DRC. The city, or not the city, I'm sorry, the attorney for Covenant House at the end of it all kind of spoke down to me for saying what I had to say saying that their place was not a homeless shelter. They were anything but a homeless shelter. And then the other lady that was running it did the same thing. I just wanted to say the untruth she told me I went on to the Covenant House website. I have it here if you guys would like to see it. It says Covenant House Florida provides a safe haven for at risk and youth experiencing homelessness by providing shelter 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So it is a homeless shelter and I was told right to my face that it wasn't, which I didn't appreciate that. It also says sorry I'm nervous, girl. Many use often face mental health challenges, depression and drug addiction. That is also right on the website. So they're going to build another building that in houses and comees, so many transient residences in that area. I actually had my nephew in the car when I approached on 21st Avenue right by Kentucky for I check on him at the lightest, long light you go to turn. I've had a homeless lady that had plastic bags on her feet and her breasts almost falling out. And I knock on her window and scare the crap out of my little nephew. I can't imagine, and that's not being handled what it is right now with the park, and with other things I can't imagine. I'm not saying it's not a good mission, it is a good mission, but it's not in a good area. I've talked to businesses in the area, I've talked to many, many neighbors that will be showing up at the actual agenda meeting that are very much against it. It's a good mission, but in the wrong location. I know Funky Buddha has the warehouses behind that are leasing. It could go on that type of location. Park Lane, where the city I believe owns a big piece of property of a Park Lane and power line. It could go on that, be donated to them. It could be sold to them in different locations. I'm not sure they're the greatest locations, but it's not on the west side. And thank you all for stating tonight that the west side was a major agenda for you to improve. How this is an improvement is beyond me. Not, you know, I am for the mission, but not for the location. Oh and the DRC meeting also I'm sorry already said There was no posting no genos and notifications. I don't know oh and the at the DRC meeting to make it real quick They said that they wanted to fast track it through the DRC said there was no promises But they would try to fast track it through. I don't know who's responsible. Who is trying if it's not transparent, who's trying to make it not transparent. I hope it's not true that no one's trying to do that. But it seems like it is they shouldn't be working for our city where they should be voted out and all fine standing. If you I don't know who is who is this or if it is. So to that note, thank you for making the West Side of Priority for us and that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. Good evening, Mayor of Ice Bayer and members of the commission. My name is Eric Peterson. I live in 1941 Northwest 36th Street, Nockland Park. I have concerns as I do my neighbors here over how the city is handled, the proposal by Covenant House Florida to open a homeless shelter at 2080 in West Oakland Park Boulevard. This project has been underway for months. Covenant House obtained a title insurance quote on July 16th, which means that a purchase deal is close at hand. Their lobbyist registered with the city on July 18th, and the city must have been aware that this project would be controversial and would justifiably attract attention from nearby residents and businesses. But today I'm extremely concerned about how the details of this proposal are being hidden from public view. I have several very recent examples of this. First, city staff send out, as you know, summary updates of planned activities each week via email, which includes notices of neighborhood participation meetings for new projects. The applicant scheduled such a meeting for October 1st. This meeting was not included in the weekly update by the city on September 23rd, even though another neighborhood participation meeting for the exact same day was included in that email. I attended their neighborhood meeting and the concerns voiced by the public as you've heard were overwhelmingly negative. I discovered later that the applicant had already held a second neighborhood meeting that I was not invited nor any of the neighbors that I speak with regularly who were present for the first meeting. I do not know what was discussed there but it sure seems like the applicant might have been incentivized to cherry pick participants, seeking comments only from those inclined to offer positive responses. Next, the city DRC met on February 13th, and this proposal was on its agenda, but the agenda was posted online only one day in advance. An email notification went out less than 12 hours in advance, and text message alerts of the meeting were received after the meeting had already begun. Our government and the Sunshine Guidelines say that reasonable notice of public meeting should generally be given seven days in advance and on that basis alone, DRC should have tabled the discussion until reasonable notice could be given. Lastly, the city recorded the applicant submission on January 25th. Our code requires the city to provide the applicant with a sign that must be posted visibly on the property within two days of that submission. The sign must remain in place until after the DRC is completed as work. Without the sign or code prohibits the DRC from reviewing that proposal, I drive this road way nearly every day and I have never been nor is there currently such a sign on the property. So where is that sign and why was this application allowed to have been reviewed by the DRC? As individual incidents, these could all be attributed to simple carelessness, but when taken together they suggest a systematic attempt to meet the barest minimum of requirements while keeping a controversial project as far away from public scrutiny as possible. Frankly, I do not understand why the applicant has any plans for this property. In April 23, the applicant leased property from the city of Fort Lauderdale for a term of 50 years for the sum total cost of $1. The property is centrally located and broward is nearly three times the size of the property in Oakland Park and sits on a much safer street. If they already have a larger safer property, essentially for free, why are they even considering locating their shelter here in Oakland Park? The applicant wants to get approval for this project quickly as you just heard, but that desire for speed cannot come at the expense of the public's right to know about these details and to participate in that discussion. We're not asking for the problems associated with homelessness to disappear. We are simply asking for responsible placement. But most of all we the citizens of Oakland Park expect to be afforded our right to fully participate in this process. Thank you all for your service. Thank you for being here. Thank you for hearing me and thank you for your consideration on this matter. Thank you, sir. Thank you Mayor. Commissioners Tim Smith, 1015 North East 39th Street. I'm going to give you a quick update on the Pioneer House, but believe it or not, I got to make a comment about the Covenant House because as a city commissioner in Fort Lauderdale, I represented the Fort Lauderdale Beach that housed the Covenant House. At the same time, I represented the area where the Homeless Assistance Center on Sunrise Boulevard was. So I had this really keen insight in how these people run these homeless centers. The hack is run perfectly. You cannot come in there if you're high. When you get in there, you have a counselor that brings you in a room and helps you dress. They take you to a dentist. They see if you need mental health, then they go into the jobs and the job training. Then you have to be in by six at night. And you can't leave. If you do leave, you can't come back. That's the way to run a homeless center for folks that are troubled. And if you ever want to go and look at that place do it. Covenant house totally different. It was on the Fort Lauderdale Beach. Now these are the troubled people, but they're young. They haven't even figured it out yet. Most of them either had drug or alcohol problems. They were abused by older folks, sexually abused. They were allowed to just walk out of the covenant house any time they wanted. In the middle of the night, whatever, and come back. And I had some meetings with the folks that ran that. And I said, how can you let these people wander around the streets? They're being picked up by adults and abused. They said, well, we're not a jail. I said, you know, you say you're here to help these folks. All you're doing is facilitating more abuse on them. And I could never crack them. The people on the beach were furious. It never seemed to be solved the whole time that I was a city commissioner. So if they're gonna go in your city, you can't, you know, I'm always offended when people say put it somewhere in the city, but not here. So you can't put it anywhere unless you get some concrete assurances that their rules are not what they were in Fort Latterdale or you will all end up regretting it because your phones will blow up all the time. Maybe they've changed their operating procedures? I don't know, but it was a miserable situation in Fort Latterdale Beach. Thank you. So real quickly, the Pioneer House, you guys have given a lot of kudos to the folks at work to bring that back from a near obscurity. And I appreciate that. I want to give you the last couple of little updates. I want to thank the mayor because he was supportive in finding a company, Kaufman-Len, to agree to build the handicap ramp into the thing. And they're going to do it at no cost. And that allows the building to be used for something. Everything else is done. There are some little problems with the electrical outlets in the house. Need to be rewired. And I've had trouble with the electrical company that I thought I had. So I made needs from help with that. But after that, and when the ramp gets built, and they're figuring out how to best to do it, now you got a, probably the oldest house in Oakland Park restored, and it's listed as the only, the oldest notable house in the city. And it's the coolest house ever. I got a picture of theKai in 1950 on the wall that just shows a big empty lot in the MyKai. So my suggestion, and hope, and I'm gonna make this ask, is that you figure out with maybe a group of citizens, some of your history people and such. How you should use that going forward. I know you got tons on your plate. I certainly would sit on a blue ribbon committee. Oh, I suppose they committee in Oakland Park. A task force or something. But you got a great little facility to do something with it. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Smith. Appreciate your leadership helping with the house. Leading on that. Kevin Loud 1921 Northwest 36th Street. Now I'm talking as a member of the historic preservation advisory board. Nice to meet you. Did you already speak? Yeah, you can. Sir, you already spoke. You can't speak again. I can't speak again. You can't speak twice. Wow. Thank you for your work. It was for you. Absolutely. Oh. Anyone else? I know. Okay. At this time we'll close public comment. Oh. Step up sir. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Good evening mayor. Vice mayor and commission. Pete Lavazoli. 3959 Northwest 19th Avenue. Hope them park. I will take a moment to acknowledge that what I'm here to speak about seems to pale in comparison to the very significant and weighty issues that I'm hearing being discussed about Covenant House and about the West Side of Oakland Park. So there's a lot going on. And so as I spoke about two weeks ago about the Juicy jogging park, it does seem trivial in many ways compared to what I've been hearing. However, I will say that physical fitness equates to mental health for so many people. And myself as a longtime distance runner, a marathon runner, in the jogging park next to Wag Park, the Juxty Hard Park Horse jogging park on North East 6th Avenue. I spent years doing long training runs in that park for marathons up to 20 miles of training runs in that park for years. And it's impossible for me to imagine attempting that. Now, with this state of the path in the jogging park, as it currently is constructed. Now, I do especially want to commend the two people that I spoke with today about this, beginning with Ms. Montgomery and engineering. And I spoke with her and then I spoke with Julie Leonard both today and I would like to thank both of them for their responsiveness and their attentiveness to my concerns on this. I went for a walk this morning in the Stunson nature trail, which is in my neighborhood of Royal Palm. And what I noticed thinking about this is that the path that winds through the Stunson nature trail is an exceptional path with a material that's perfect for exercise for walking and running. And I found out that that path is constructed of coquina, which I know is very stable and it's also more expensive. I seem to have come to the point now where I'm no longer concerned with trying to figure out how we got to where we are in Juicy Park. Probably it was the contractors who were working on the path that said let's just put the rice rock down. It doesn't matter. We are where we are. What I would like to look forward to our discussions about the next phase of the park that Ms. Leonard informed me will be coming up so that if nothing else with the jogging path even if it's just a simple matter of taking away these layers of this soft unstable rice rock I think that that would be a good step to make the path more conducive to running. It's called a jogging park and I don't see it as a jogging park now. I will say again that when you go by the park, and I drive by there at least a couple of times a day, you see people walking, you don't see people running there anymore because it's not a good path for running. So I thank, again, Ms. Montgomery and Ms. Leonard for their attentiveness to this. And I thank you for your time and I look forward to The future on this. Thank you. Thank you, sir Anyone else Okay at this time we'll close public comments and move on to the consent agenda Pro Approval of the minutes, January 15, 2025, item three, resolution of the City Commission of City of Ocampal, Florida. Proving and authorizing the appropriate City of Officials to execute a stipulation and settlement agreement between Oakland 95 LLC and the City of Ocampal, providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Item four, resolution of the City Commission of City of Ocampal, Florida. approving and authorizing the proper city officials to execute the fourth amendment to agreement for youth rides and attractions between the city of Oakland Park and big big fun ink. Provided for conflict severability and effective day. Item 5 resolution of the city commission of city of Oakland Park, Florida approving and authorizing the proper city officials to execute a road easement agreement, Granting perpetual access to Broward County for the massed arms signal with the city's right of way located at Park Lane East in northeast 3rd Avenue as shown on the road easement agreement providing for conflict severability and effective date. Item 6, a resolution of city commission to city of Elkhambarq, Florida proving the purchase of two Meridian archer trailer kit and archer 1200 mobile barrier systems from Meridian Rapid Defense Group, sales LLC for 241,587 cents, piggybacking GSA contract, 47 QSWA 19D001F, providing for conflict severability and effecture date. Item 7, Resolution of City Commission of City Vocal Barc Florida, approving the purchase of two replacement vans from Bowsard Ford, piggybacking the Florida Sheriff's Association contract, FSA 24-VEL 32-0, and approving the proposed budget amendment, providing for conflict, severability, and effective date. Item eight, a resolution of the City Commission of City of Ocarabakh, Florida, expressing support for the Broward Commuter Rail North Project from the proposed South Fort Lauderdale Station as part of the Breyer Community Real South project to the Palm Beach County line. Acknowledging potential station locations in Dierfield Beach, Palm Pino Beach, Oakland Park and Fort Lauderdale. Acknowledging the City of Oakland Park commitment to the project to enhance mobility in the Southeast Florida region, providing for conflict severability and effective date. item 9, a resolution of's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and the state's service, and approving the proposed budget amendment providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Motion is up. Second. Vice Mayor Arns. Commissioner Neubold. Yes. Commissioner Budhoo. Yes. Mayor Longan. Yes. Okay. We will move on to resolutions in Miss Alainius, item 10. Resolution City Commission of City of Oakland Park, Florida, approving and authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the parking long-term maintenance and construction agreements with the rise in a vocal park LLC for the redevelopment of the downtown properties, providing for conflict, severability and effective date. In mystery, we have a presentation tonight. We do, thank you very much Mayor, and I'm pleased this evening to let you know that our partner in this project, El Fonseo Coste, is also with us, and he will be available to answer any questions along with our consultant, René Miller, who will guide us through this presentation. Good evening, Miss Miller. Good evening, a city manager. Thank you very much. Good evening mayor and city commission. I am before you this evening to discuss the horizon of Oakland Park development. I'm hoping that my screen is populated in the control room as well. Yes. Okay. Thank you so much. Um, this evening, and before you this evening to discuss a series of agreements associated with the Horizon and Vocal and Park developments under the conditions of the purchase and sale agreement or the Horizon development, the city and the developer must enter into an agreement for the parking facilities as well as long-term maintenance and construction agreements for the redevelopment of various aspects of the downtown properties, namely the Wunerf Greenleaf Park, the pocket park open Space and Legacy Stree within the development. And in addition to that, we will be discussing tonight while under a separate agenda item but included in this presentation, the fourth amendment to the development agreement between the city and horizon of Oakland Park LLC. As you know, the city staff and the developer have been working quite closely over the last few months regarding this project. And during the negotiation of these required agreements, the developer shared with the city that certain challenges for us to consider as we were developing the documents that are before you see the evening. One of those challenges was the rising cost associated with operation and maintenance of an effective parking garage facility. The other issue was the concern that potential supply chain or other complications may result in construction delays associated with Greenleaf Park, and how would we collectively handle those requests for potential construction delays. Both of those issues are addressed in the documents that we'll speak about this evening. Starting with the parking facilities agreement, the parking facility agreement formalizes the arrangement between the developer and the city regarding the construction and the management of the parking facility as well as access to public parking. In this agreement, the developer's responsibility is to construct and maintain public access to 105, 195 public parking spaces and those parking spaces are both within the parking facility along the city's rights of way and within an adjacent surface parking lot. The developer is also within this agreement has the option to be able to charge for public parking spaces in the garage and or the surface lot and those parking spaces are less than the total number at 195. The total parking spaces that have a potential for being a fee for payment is 158 spaces. The illustration that you see before you represents the overall development program. And as you'll see highlighted in yellow throughout the city's rights of way, you can see the public parking spaces that exist along the roadway, as well as on the surface parking lot that's to the east side of the development. You can also see on the right the reserved public parking spaces on the first and second floor of the parking structure. As we move on to the construction and long term maintenance agreement. these agreements formalize the arrangement between the developer and the city regarding the construction and long-term maintenance responsibilities for the WONORF, Greenleaf Park, and the Pocket Park, Dog Park and Legacy Tree. With respect to the WUNERF, the developer's responsibility is to design and construct that space, as well as be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of those amenities that exist both within the city's rights of way and within their private property. In terms of the open space and when I refer to that, I mean the pocket park, dark park, and the preservation tree. It's the developer's responsibility to construct that amenity, but also to maintain that space with public access in perpetuity and to maintain and preserve the legacy tree. Regarding Greenleaf Park, the developer is also responsible to design and construct the Greenleaf Park on city owned property. With respect to the city's responsibilities, for the Wunarf, it is our responsibility. As I said previously, the developer will do the day-to-day repair and maintenance, but as it relates to long-term capital replacements that are planned and future structural repairs, that will be the city's responsibility and with respected Greenleaf Park once the developer is complete with construction that will be turned over to the city at which time the city will maintain and operate the completed park and perpetuity. And finally is the fourth amendment to the development agreement. As we discussed, there are several provisions that had to be addressed within the agreement and those provisions necessitated some changes to the initial development agreement. And those two key provisions are shown before you and they relate to first the Green Leaf Park. As I stated before, there needed to be a provision under which the developer could make a request to the city. Should they encounter any delays with the delivery timeline for Green Leaf Park? And the amendment that before you that's before you allows two 30-day extensions for the completion of the park. In addition to that, there is a new provision that will allow for the developer to have the option to collect a parking fee for the 158 spaces that I previously mentioned with certain conditions. And those conditions are detailed in the parking facilities and maintenance agreement. The staff recommendation is that the City Commission adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the city manager to execute the parking long term maintenance and construction agreements with horizon of Oakland Park LLC for the redevelopment of the downtown properties. and that the City Commission adopted resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute the fourth amendment to the development agreement with Horizon Open Park LLC for the redevelopment of downtown properties. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you Miss Miller, we appreciate that. Mr. Costa, thank you for being here with us tonight we appreciate that. At this time I'm going to open it up for a discussion with the commission. We'd like to start. I'll start. I have a question I did not Miss Abert ask these questions during our briefing but and if it cannot be answered at this time, that'll be fine. And thank you, Miss Miller, for that presentation. I did not ask the hundred and there's a total of 195 spaces, which 153 they're given to be able to charge. Is this in addition to residential parking? That is correct. This is public available to the public at large. They have a separate group of parking spaces that are allocated for the residential component. Okay. And just say most they have an overflow of people coming to patronize the restaurants then we have events going on. There are no more parking spaces. Are there additional is there additional parking around? Well we'll have our area. The main street will still have public parking spaces. And as we have during our events, opened up some of our vacant lots for additional parking. And we've been encouraging the rideshare opportunities for a lot of good reasons, not least of which, because it's more convenient and accessible today. And then when we have large scale events, we even have shuttles to more remote areas. So we have a very cooperative partnership here with the Valcon team. I don't think that there are gonna be challenges within this agreement. There is the option of the city to utilize the parking spaces that are available in their development for public purposes to have access to them free of charge for several days a year should we choose to exercise that clause. The biggest challenge here really is the unpredictability of what will happen with parking needs once that commuter rail begins operation and stops here in Oakland Park. You just in your consent resolutions, you just passed your support again for that effort. We anticipate that that is going to take place at some point in the future. Probably after this development opens, but we want to provide the opportunity to recognize that what we don't want to have here is that commuter rail passengers are going to take up all of our public parking spaces. And so by ensuring that there's some degree of a charge for public parking within the auspices of the developer here because it is their building. We don't own that building, it's their building. Then that gives them the flexibility to assess whether or not they're truly making the parking spaces available for their commercial customers because they will have mixed use in their building as well as for our small businesses in the downtown. You've seen in a lot of locations. I'm sure as I have that many public arigas to help support shorter term parking two or three hours will give lower no-cost parking to those individuals that are clients of local businesses. And that would be an option then that would be available to ensure that somebody is not coming here at 6.30 or 7 in the morning, parking and then spending the day down in Miami and thus depriving one of our businesses' customers from the opportunity to have public parking here in the downtown. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Vice Mayor. But that's only for the first two years. It'll be two hours of free parking, my correct. And after that, they can charge. What the average of the parking areas that are most can take, right by the train stations that are around, my correct? Yes, that is correct. Okay, correct. So here's the thing that gets me is just what you were talking about. The train station is realistically, I'm looking at a 2030. And honestly, I don't see that train station coming into 2030. The building probably won't get done. My. Alfonso Costa, one town center road, Boko Vertone, Floridah Vertone, Florida 3 3 4 8 6. Thank you all very much for for having us this this evening. To answer your question, the delivery expectation date is quarter first quarter of 2028. That's the thing to say what they're doing things to have decide what they're doing with the tunnel or the place. I'm sorry for that. That's for our that's for talking about the horizon for the I'm talking about the train station for the train to be coming stopping there I think you're probably pretty accurate 2031 two years within so so that two years would probably fall within the time frame of the train station now let me ask you a question. Would it really hurt if we didn't start charging until the train is in operation? You know, and I'm not going in definitely. I'm, you know, stretching out maybe another year or two. You know, it's something that definitely have thought about and internalized. The only thing is that it's really uncertain as to Exactly as discussed today and in the past as to when the train station will actually come and so Understanding the costs associated with we operate many garages anomaly in South Florida, but you know in particular Miami and Plantation but also throughout the country and what're seeing, especially as it relates to insurance costs, it's becoming really quite a burden. And so, speaking with staff and members of the city team, we felt like this was a good kind of meeting of the minds in terms of timing and expectations. So the only reason I'm saying is just what the city manager said he doesn't want someone coming you know park at six o'clock in the morning taking the train in Miami but that won't happen to we have a train station. Right. Am I correct? Yeah, I think it would obviously be more aggressive in terms of frequency once the train stations opens but you'd be surprised a lot of our mixed use projects where we do have structured covered parking where people tend to take advantage if there is not in fact the ability to ensure that there is a changing of cars coming in and out of a garage space. The other thing I was going to ask, are there going to be charging stations inside the? We are required charging stations per code as it relates to the residential spaces, not technically for the commercial, nor for the public spaces. So as of now, there's currently not plans to have electrical vehicle chargers. I'm saying you might want to think about doing something where if someone takes the train down there, they pay a different rate for a charging parking spot than a regular parking spot. They can charge a car all day, get back here and they're ready to rock and roll and you're making more money because you're charging for the it's definitely a great suggestion and we're going to be submitting our 100% CD drawings, construction document drawings in the month of May per the timeline that we've previously agreed to with the city it's not addressed in this development agreement because we are on track in terms of our timing of milestones, but I think it's a well-received suggestion and again a creative to the project. It's a premium parking. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, but I just like say, I don't know if it doesn't, you don't want to go out more than two years. I'm still okay with that. I was just thinking, you know, I don't want to go out more than two years. That's fine. I'm still okay with that. I was just thinking, I don't want to say, you know, the train station is not here five years after you open, you know, maybe a year or so after instead of two years, maybe three years, that's all. And just for the fact that it will get more people downtown to be patronizing our downtown restaurants and businesses. And if I could mayor and you're absolutely right and I think what happens within this agreement now is that that flexibility is built in that two years of commitment by them at a minimum that doesn't mean that they end it it necessarily. It'll be at the discretion. Because remember, they've got businesses they want to support within their own building who are going to be paying leasing. And it may well be that they want to make sure that that is extended. But this agreement, as it's crafted, will leave that flexibility built in. Okay. The last thing we want to do is chill the ability for people to frequent. Right. This makes use. Put down for downtown events. The parking fee will be waived. My correct. There's a limitation of 15 requests by the city per year. Right. So we'd have to assess whether or not it makes sense and ensure that it's going to be something that's going to be effective. We don't wanna create chaos situations by having free parking either because there's no way for us to necessarily guarantee that the people that are accessing it are also attending one of our events. So again, this builds in the flexibility for us to sit together with the developer and work through some of these challenges because we don't really know what we don't know right now and we want to have the options available. And in those circumstances, you know, we could work with the city to say, OK, the city has the chance to, you know, distribute first come, first serve, 158 passes that allows those individuals to frequent the garage at no cost during those events in order to have some you know October is a big one Obviously, yeah sure absolutely, but we charge even for October fest parking, right? We have our own Parking management team when we have the West Side. So my point is that we'd work carefully with them to assess the situation and make appropriate determinations based on the event, the size of the event, the timing of the event, etc. Fortunately, many of the people once the train starts operating will be utilizing it during weekdays, right? for work and things of that nature. Many of our events are later in the evenings or on the weekend. So I think there's a lot of flexibility built in here, which is what we were trying to achieve. No, will there be an attendant on duty or whatever? That was one of the reasons why this was actually suggested by the City Commission, both current and former City Commissioners during the while we were simultaneously going through the DRC process when I came before you during previous DA and PSA amendments was the fact that it was heavily suggested to have monitoring and security protocols throughout the garage and so that obviously contributes to the enhanced cost. So yes, Commissioner, vice mayor. That's very good. I have no problem with, you know, charge of a parking. We have increased security and I understand 100% you're getting key people, you know, getting broken into claims, you know, against the insurance. And his private property and so, right, again, from an insurance standpoint, and also not asking more from city police and county police, you know, something that we're responsible for. But, you know, as a part of that, it is more costly. Yeah, sure, it kills me on a business every day. So, I understand that 100%. But yeah, I think this is a very good compromise. I'm glad to see that what cities work through. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Good questions. Good comments. Trisha. Thank you. Thank you. County Vice Mayor Commissioner Nobel. Thank you. Did have you made any feasibility studies yet on the access of how many people will once operational when the horizons get built, and you've got downtown created as a great foot traffic for local businesses and your foot traffic and how much people will attend. So that parks, so you get a rough estimate with school. Now, because my my main theme is I don't want all residents coming downtown and they have to get charton get a ticket okay and not knowing and you know oftentimes they're going to see a big new downtown new city hall with services and they want to collide and spend time but then they got a cold mean go out a little one They then to get caught into worry about parking and how much to have to stay there before they want to get found I don't need fines to our residents while they come downtown and service our businesses That's why so has any type of visibility study so if I could mayor address that because This parking structured parking that is being referenced here by Mr. Costa is separate and apart from the public parking that is in the downtown. We would not have the authority to go into that private parking and find people. That would be the authority of the developer to make a determination how to handle vehicles that are there that have not moved for a period of time and things of that nature. You will continue to have complete authority over all public parking spaces in the downtown. So when and if the time comes for us to discuss charging for parking or alternatively limiting the amount of time that people can park on our roadways, that's something that falls completely within the discretion of the commission. And right now we don't ticket people per se in the downtown. We leave that fairly flexible and open from time to time. We have to tow people, but we do not enforce any parking rules per se as far as the amount of time. We do have some no overnight parking in many of our locations. But that will ultimately be a decision that rests with this body, not with the developer. And Commissioner Boutier, thank you for your question. We haven't done an official foot traffic study as it relates to the project, but to answer your question, one thing that we did agree to with the city was in terms of regulating the timing of being able to park is restricting overnight parking from the hours of 1am to 5am so that those who do want to frequent businesses the later hours they can still do so, but that they're also not sitting there parking overnight. And we felt as if the 5am hour was appropriate in terms of individuals who do want to start their day early and frequent the downtown area starting at 501 AM that the ability to engage in public parking within our building structure was was appropriate. So that was also something that's included within these documents as well. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, David. Also as as it relates to you mentioned, Vice Mayor, Tenet, or are you going to be heavy with technology license readers? As it relates to some time in the punching, they hit that ticket, they put the money in the machine and say, hey, I started time ticket ten o'clock. Right? License plate number and then they come out two hours. You may get the first two hours of free. Then after that you get bill charged. So you got a person there to collect or you can have technology there. So what's your plan? So right now we're leaning towards a ticketing system. We've found with the license readers, which we have at our Miami World Center project. Downtown Miami that oftentimes consumers or visitors or guests can find the the ticketless license reader programming to be a little bit it deceptive in terms of visitors and guests understanding, OK, if I have a ticketed stamp, I understand exactly how long I've been there and they have it in their pocket. And so when they are frequent near by establishments, they have in their mind, OK, I've been parking there for that long. And it's a little bit more tangible in terms of their understanding of that. So we're currently planning on having actual physical tickets. Okay. Good. I thought you were going to have them place it on the dashboard or they could carry it around to make sure they know the time to go back. They would carry it around with that. They would carry it around. Okay. What would be- Or they can leave it on the dash. You know, it's their ability to whenever they, the exit the garage to pay. So whether they keep it in the car with them, um, that's, that's of their own volition. Great. Uh, Mr. Cunner, continue. When would they get where if they isn't the garage and it's there for 10 hours or 11 hours, would you tow the vehicle out the garage? No, the only instance whereby someone would be towed is if they're violating a rule of the garage or if they're there parked within the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. overnight. Okay. And those rules would be stipulated via signage throughout the garage as well as to what those towing preconditions would be. A wonderful. Great. And we're responsible for hiring the towing company as well and being responsible for that. That is not a responsibility of the city. And that's also stipulated within the document. Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Maria. Thank you, Commissioner. Appreciate that. Mr. Costa, we appreciate your investment in Oakland Park. I think having a good partner with us is going to guarantee a better future for the city. I think, Mr. Costa, we appreciate your investment in Oakland Park. I think having a good partner with us is going to guarantee a better future for the city. I think Mr. A. Barron is team, they understand the commission's desires, our expectations, and the needs of our residents. And I appreciate Mr. A. Barron, Mr. Costa, that you guys are sitting down together and thinking this out reasonably and finding the best approach forward. So looking forward to hearing more updates as they come along. Any additional last questions before we move forward? Thank you, Mr. President. I just have one. I noticed when you mentioned you don't know if they attended events or not. It's just what just the consideration validating the ticket. So when they return, they would know that. I love that idea. It's a great idea. And the vice mayor had alluded to something similar, I think, when he was mentioning it. And it's certainly something like I say, we'll sit down and talk to Mr. Costa and his team about. But I think that's an excellent concept for us to work off of. Thank you. No, thank you. Thank you. On behalf of the Falcone Group and Coffin Lentine, we appreciate all these questions and comments. No, I like that question. Those 15 events, right? And you know, you mentioned October 1st, we got a large amount of those 15 events that we have annually at Jack O and I'm quite sure it will be Explosion for our residents to come downtown will they get a validated ticket if they were to park as a horizon? Yes, I think that's what we were We were referencing is that for those very events whether you know it would be completely at the discretion of the city as to how they would want to handle it. But we would work handing, handing love with them to, to effectuate whether it's a, a prevalidated ticket and they're distributed on a first come for a serve basis. But I'm sure that the city and the staff that do such a phenomenal job, especially during these events, would be more than- That would be great, we'll appreciate it, because we'll have that overflow for parking. And people, well, President, it will go into your building. So I just make that communication, that'll be great. In those circumstances, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. And also, for people to remember, in the future, it looks like it's still on the plans for local transit bus, correct? Yeah, our community shuttle is still on the plans. Our community shuttle still on plans to deliver people to the events. We have, we have leased. You guys are aware we lease Cherry Park every year and there's always possibility. Huge parking lot over by Cherry Creek Park. We can always transition people, take them via bus from there to here. So there are options out there. There's ways to work around these issues with parking and I think we're on the right track. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Thank you Mr. Cruz. Thank you. Second. Vice Mayor Arntz. Yes. Commissioner Newbold. Yes. Commissioner Budhoo. Yes. Mayor Longan. Yes. Mr. A. Bear I'm going to ask for a quick five minute meeting. I know we have one more issue on here. I don't want to rush anything and unfortunately I have to use the restroom and then we have our reports from the commission. 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I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. I'm going to go to the next door. There, that's five minutes. You're good. Okay. We will now move on to agenda item number 11. Resolution of the City Commission to City of Ocampark, Florida, approving and authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the fourth amendment to development agreement between Horizon Ocampark, LLC and the City of Ocampark providing for conflicts, severability and effective date. Most of the adopt. Second. Perfect. Again, Mr. Abert, do you have a presentation? We incorporated the presentation for number 11 in the presentation that was previously given by Miss Miller that I'm not Any discussion and here comes the commission. No discussion no commissioner face mayor anything no thank you. Okay, and we have a motion and a second roll call Vice Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Commissioner Newbold. Yes. Commissioner Budhoo. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. All right we will move on to reports from the Commission and guys how you do apologize I did not realize it was going to be that quick. So I told you to give me the Yeah, well, I'll take care of it. The meaning we've done before, the meaning we've done before you get back for the bathroom break. I just didn't want to miss anything. Okay, who wants to start us off tonight? I'm sorry. Perfect, thanks, Commissioner. I first want to thank everyone that had comments and to say especially about your neighborhood because it's important and it's good to have your voices heard it helps with a lot it allows us to hear about what's going on in the community so I just want to say thank you for everyone that call, email, and come in. So thank you. And I also just want to reiterate, I know it was already said how great of a time we had the public works grant opening. It was just fantastic. The building is beautiful. Well thought out plan. We're gonna have a emergency operation center there That's going to keep us informed whenever there's a storm So I thought that was I I mean I just walked through the entire facility and it was very very enlightening Well and well thought out. So Fess was a bless, a blast. I know some of my colleagues wasn't too happy with singing, but we got through it. We sung the Negro National Anthem and it was, they did. So yes and everyone sang along everyone stood up everyone was involved and the reason why I chose that song is because our last last year several participants came up and asked why don't we sing or why didn't we sing the song so they they were very intuned and they engaged. So we had a wonderful time at Solfest. And the sea moss grand opening was really good. There were so many people there. I said that I would go back so I can speak one on one and get some information because there's products there that I would like to use. And also Art Walk was, it has come a long way. Art Walk was fantastic, right? Miss Aurora? A lot of people. And everyone just had a wonderful time. And then also I was invited to Harris Chapel this Sunday at 10.30 and everyone's welcome to come. They'll be celebrating or be an individual be acknowledged for National Caregivers Day. I was a caregiver and it's very important. Mr. A., I talked to you about being a caregiver. That's like an entire another job and it's important. It's needed. And I love doing I would do it all over again. So and I'm also looking forward to the grant opening on tomorrow at Dr. Cardigee Woodson and also the Red Sea Restaurant Grant opening. So if you all are not busy, come on out and join us and as we celebrate these brand openings, thank you. Oh, this other real quick. Commissioner Gordon, we miss you. Get back soon. We love you. Bye. Thank you very much. Commissioner Gordon yeah we praying for you and there's no thing that we could do. I want to thank our firefighters and our BSO deputies. Thank you so much. It was a great ceremony earlier this evening. Glad I made it. I got back I mentioned you preserve and save our community at laws, life and property. Thank you for your service BSO and fire You'll be here and for me do the city manager's office No, I'm a new gardens Association or more association with Definitely commend you always and they look forward to working with you even more Thank you. I I had some great events. I went and took a tour commission of the area agency on aging of Bauer County. CEO Charlotte Teller. She's awesome. She's in an authentic operation. Mayor. And for our seniors for the disabled, caregiving. That's what they do and they run the very tight operations. You give me an hour and a half tour of the facility. I met with all the staff. I definitely want to bring the information back to our residents, especially our active adults and our North Andrew Gardens Community Center. So, I say the manager, I'm looking forward to you, but would you just have to get that to our overall community? Thank you. How the great, I had a great community leader from ICNA, Relief, it's a humanitarian organization that wanted to that Was referred to by Howard health to go donate to Oakland Park light of clinic and of course I made that correct Connection and we were able to get some medical need to supplies there right there and TheU was, they took that big truck, they came down and dropped off diapers for kids, saving diapers for adults, mass medical equipment, and one for a collaborative effort with predestination so new morphicist Voluntary time to care for the underserved community as it relates to healthcare so that that's Great work that we do And it's being recognized all throughout the county. So That's a great collaboration in the making Dr. G Dr this Dr. Carter G. Woodton Park, I'm looking forward to the celebration tomorrow. I think we'll ask some kids there too. Yeah, I'm going to ask some kids. Looking forward to that. And it will be a great celebration. I'm looking forward to see all the employees out there, the staff and the community out there because it's been working. It's been in the making to redevelop that part because they have some historical relevance. I mean, when I was knocking on doors in that community, first thing we wanted to talk about was the park and make it safe. So it's real. the Parkinson's, it's social element of safety in the community. And I know BSO is going to make sure that maintain safety in that park with a residence and we as a commission will do so too as well. So we, and I'm glad I was once in the other side advocating for that park. and you know, city commissioners you staff just listen to the residents. And I commend you. That's the best thing this government does. We listen to the residents. Tonight we heard the residents from the West side. We're listening to you. Continue emailing us. Come down on that podium. That podium is magic. When you come down and you speak your mind for four minutes, you petition your government. It's powerful. I know about it, right? Vice-man. You can't. You keep doing that on that side of the microphone. You may get up here on this side. So it's powerful. We are listening, but we have to do our due diligence as commissioners and we will. All right. But we're going to protect our parties in our community. Whatever the decisions are made, they'll be made with careful thought based on Father Statue and law. Okay, so we will do always the right thing. With that said, thank you. Pray for Commissioner Gordon, okay, and I'll pass it back to you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Gordon, you are in our thoughts tonight. We miss you. It's a busy afternoon. Today at the Oakland Park Elementary School, they had the Black History Art Gallery opening. It was a celebration of the African culture. The kids were great. They had some fun. There was music and dance and art. And that rolled then right into our Oakland Park Fire Rescue batch, painting right before the commission meeting today. We have four brand new firefighters here in the city of Oakland Park, and there was a promotion also. So the exciting time for the Oakland Park Fire Rescue team. Let's see. I do wanna give a shout out like the rest of my team up here. Thought the Oakland Park Public Works ribbon cutting, staff did a great job. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate. We had a lot of residents there. And Mr. A. Berry, I gotta tell your team, thank you also for inviting and including the businesses. They had their booth set up and they were just as excited to be there and you know what, it lets staff and all the public know what their products are like, what they serve and it really was great. So thank you to your team and everyone who made that possible. Let's see. And also just thank you to Nasa Cesar and specifically also including Mr. William Braimer of Art Fusion galleries for the outstanding Oakland Park Art Walk this past Saturday. It really it really was a wonderful time and the even the our new businesses that are coming to Oakland Park right they were there to meet the people and you know advertise that they're gonna be opening soon so that was really great. Oakland Park, hands on South Florida and farm share food packing and distribution event is this Saturday at 10 o'clock. Again if you're interested in volunteering some time go out to the Oakland Park website to learn more. Let's see and also coming up March 1st which is not far away is Broward County's 48th annual Waterway cleanup. We actually if you're in Oakland Park and you want to participate in that you can go out to their website and you can sign up and the Oakland Park teams are meeting at the Hock landing boat ramp 2960 Northeast 12th Avenue at 8th. I believe it's 830 in the morning or 9 o'clock in the morning. That's where we check in and then all the different teams go out to their respective areas that they're going to be cleaning up the waterways. So again, Markier calendars, that's March 1st, the morning of Saturday, March 1st. We also have Dancing in the streets coming up March 14th, that's 6 to 10 o'clock PM, that's a Friday night. Markier calendars and then going out way into the future, something is our BSO Shredathon Operation Medicine Cabinet. Thank you Chief. That's actually going to be held Saturday April 5th from 10 to 1 o'clock right here in front of City Hall. So you got those private documents you need to shred or you have old medications that you need to get rid of. Please don't flush those down the toilet. Please don't put them in your trash because they end up in our landfills, soaks down into our water supply. So please take advantage of the Operation Medicine Cabinet also while they do the Shredathon. I think that is all I have and Mr. City Manager to you. All right. Thank you, Mayor. and thank you all for your comments regarding the wonderful team that I am so grateful to lead. The Covenant House application is some ways from arriving at your consideration. There have clearly been some snafu's Miss Marrera and her team are going to be re-examining how things unfolded. And if we need to take remedial action, we will do so. I am sure that we can receive the cooperation of the development team there. And everybody understands that if the community feels that they have not had an opportunity to participate, that it is in everybody's best interest, not least of which the developers to ensure that we can recalibrate and be more inclusive. and I apologize if staff did in any way participate in the appearance of a lack of transparency or inclusivity, that's far from what we actually stand for. It is true that sometimes with the volume of work that we do, that things fall through the cracks. And if that happened here, then we're going to rectify it. So we'll get on that first thing in the morning and we'll get back to you with the report on what happened here and how we think it best to move forward with it. So my apologies to all of those who have had an expression of concern about that. And I assure you that we'll do what we can to try to rectify it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Mr. Assistant City Attorney, we are thankful, heavy here. Thank you for keeping us on the right track. And any words? Nothing new to report, but thanks for having me and giving my boss the night off on his birthday. Oh. I asked him if there was something. When he called me to say he wouldn't be here, he said, is it a special day or something? And he said, no, I just want the day off. Mr. Tyre, we have the master here. Mayor. Mayor. Oh, real quick before we adjourn, commissioner Nubal. I forgot to mention, I too want to give my thoughts to Commissioner Gordon and my love goes out to her. And also this cleanup crew, and it was on my list to mention Mr. A. Bear. We were out Saturday, a crew, residents came and they volunteered. And I want to give a special thanks. I don't remember all their names. I meant to write them down. But one was Mr. Omar, Mr. Ma- Owen Mar and Miss Tammy. Five. This faith. OK, face. I thought I had it right. You were actually this five. She doesn't want me to be taming face. Oh, good. And also, thanks to Carrie Mahado, that city staff that came out, we picked up over eight bags of trash. And I'm just hoping to work with community enhancements so we can get that side of the neighborhood and they side cleaned up. And also Ms. Carlene Gouffin, she was out there too. So and others, I just truly wanna thank them because they did not leave until the trash was picked up. Thank you. Sean, anyway, great job. Appreciate it. Someone here. Have a good night. Motion adjourned.