Thank you. Good evening everyone. If I can have to take a seat and please turn off or silence your cell phones at this time. Thank you. We'd like to call the order the meeting of the South Miami City Commission today is Tuesday April 15th the time is approximately 7 p.m. Madam Clerk would you please call the roll. Yes mayor Fernandez. Hernandez. Present. Fist McCory. I'm going to be talking to you about the commission. I'm going to be talking to you about my city commission today Tuesday April 15th of time is approximately 7 p.m. Madam Clerk would you please call the roll. Yes mayor Fernandez. Present. President Cory. Yeah, President. Commissioner. Here by Commissioner Cuy. the the United States of America and the Republic for which stand one nation under God in the middle of the liberty and justice for all. Thank you, please be seated. Colleagues, I just want to set the agenda very quickly. If I can get a motion on the ad on item A, please, we can read that to the record, please. From Clark? Yes, it was the other mayor's city commission of the city of Southland Florida. I'm supporting my midday county mayor, and then go live in a please you can read that to the record please from clerk yes a resolution of the mayor city commission of the city of softwood Florida supported Miami-Dade County mayor then then get a living in cova's veto of resolution number R-370-25 and the continued practice of adding for right to the county's water supply thank you madam clerk any objection to adding the nonsense tonight's agenda I move the motion there I don't do a require motion madam clerk or let's just it as added on. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. I'd like to defer item M2. That is a discussion on the acquisition of the neighboring property. Any objection to the deferral? Well, deferred to the second meeting in June. Madam clerk, without objection, please show that item as deferred until the second meeting in June. Thank you. Okay. If I can get a motion on the approval of the minutes, please. Go ahead. I move the motion here. I'll second it. Thank you. Motion by Commissioner Coyote. And a Commissioner Boniich on the minutes of both March 31st and April 1st, correct? Yes. Thank you. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Yes. Commissioner Kaya. Yes. Commissioner Boniich. Yes. Vice Mayor Cory. Yes. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. Minutes passed. I'm mad I. If we can hear from the manager, Mr. Manager, your report, please. Madam Deputy is going to... Mayor, I don't know if you were setting the agenda in that item that I was going to pull to it now or just wait. We want to pull it and set it for another nature. We get a defer for the next meeting. We'll try to get a lot of resolution. Item five on the agenda correct. I just need to the length of the extension was a line Maybe on the media the contract. I just need to, the length of the extension was aligned with the contract. Go beyond the main day of the contract. Yeah, you had raised the issue of was that the contract project timeline and it's not, it's a contractor timeline which we have to extend anyway and I want to clean that up. So, move it to the first meeting in May then, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. item five to the first meeting in May. Shall we move by commercial one each? Sure, I'll move. Seconded by the vice mayor. the first meeting in May. So, I'm going to move by commission. Thank you. Madam Clark, again, without objection, please show that item as deferred till the first meeting in May. Thank you. Madam Managers, good evening. Your report, please. On the event side, our active adults will be celebrating Easter this Friday from 12 from 10 to 12 30 at the senior center. They're going to have food games, wellness checks and even a visit from the Easter Bunny you're all invited to attend that. The city is also going to be celebrating Arbor Day on Saturday, April 26 from 10 to 12 at Vice Mayor Robert C. Walsh Park, where the community is going to come together and plant 11 trees. I thought that was a typo, it's not. We're planting 11 trees. So it's a free family event. Everybody's welcome to attend. Where is it? Vice Mayor Robert C. Walsh Park. Behind 11 trees. 11 trees at the park. I confirmed I thought it was a typo. It's not 11 trees. We're making it happen. Update on the residential discount parking program to date, we have 407 vehicles that are registered for that program. And lastly, I'm happy to report that we have chosen a vendor to move forward with for our strategic plan. So we're working with the city attorneys on a contract for that and hopefully in the next couple weeks we'll have a timeline to share with you. That's my manager's report. Colleagues, questions of the manager. There's your guy, no. On the registration, how are we communicating that to residents beyond just social media? It's going out in our newsletter, our email blast. It went out in the residential meter that everybody received, social media, and it's also posted on our website. Okay, so it's guns, everyone's door. Yes. Okay, thank you. For the questions, see you done. Thank you for the report. Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, you're recognized for your report, please. Just an update on the litigation, the governor and the attorney general were served late last week and they have entered an appearance through special counsel, the attorney general's office. William Stafford was the attorney that entered an appearance. Okay. And what is there, deadline to respond? 40 days from the date of service. Okay. So roughly, what date is that? Roughly, we're looking at at so that would have been about April 10th so 40 days May 20th. Okay and in terms of next steps is there the will file a response and then is there a discovery or is it just decided on the response and the complaint that we're filed? How is how is the matter just positive? I don't believe that there's any need for at this at this time we don't believe there's any need for additional discovery Yeah, correct, but I don't know what the state's position will be on that Understood we'll be circling back with him to discuss that. Thank you Colleagues any questions the city attorney Okay, seeing done we will move on We'd like to open the floor at this time for public remarks if there's anyone in the audience would like'd like to address this commission on any item, please come forward at this time. Mr. Ward, why don't you kick us off, sir? You ought to find him and the equal for not having it up there on time. Could you tell him that? You know, over the years, you can imagine I've probably traveled almost every intersection in this city and I have never been able to understand why there are so many minor intersections that have traffic lights with turns on them. And I think that's great. But there's a problem. That intersection at US 1 and 62nd Avenue at the hospital has no turn. And you go there around 4.35 o'clock and there are 8 or 10 cars in that in that line to turn. And sometimes there's so many of them that the straight ahead traffic isn't able to go. They have to go inside on that turn. And when the light turns green, the first person in line will shoot across their real quick. And when the light is turning red, whoever's left right there, they'll shoot right along and do it too and you know it never has bothered me because I come north south all the time and if I'm going north from the highway it's easy to turn right at McDonald's and I just think I imagine it's probably a county intersection is that correct correct? It is, sir, but we have been speaking with FPL because one of the intersection improvements that we'd like to explore is enhancing capacity. On both sides and since you're really familiar with that section, it's got a massive trans middle line above ground that sits right at the edge of the intersection. So we have to figure out how we can absorb the cost of the relocation there, sir. But you've asked, I wanna thank you for your comments because you reminded me to ask Amanda about something else, so I'll get into that afterwards. Well, excuse me for telling you that my hearing aids are broken and they just came back yesterday and I didn't hear words you said. But anyway, I would hope that somebody would look into that and see if they could get traffic a little, moving a little smoother because when you're heading south on that 60 second avenue, it's almost impossible. It is. The other thing I wanted to mention, I wasn't at the meeting, but a friend of mine told me that there was discussion about building a 14 story building at the JRE Lee property. Is that correct? I don't know, because it's not a it's technically is within our purview. So we have not been I don't believe the manager manager has been approached with any particular plans for that site. There are rumors that we've all heard about possibly some well the reason not raised some housing for teachers that's it. I don't know the details. The reason I raised the question, I wanted you to be aware of the fact that there is an extremely tight agreement between the school ward and the Williamson property. And the Williamson family gave that property to the school ward many years ago during the segregated time so that the black kids wouldn't have to go to coconut grow for elementary school. But he gave it to them under the understanding that under no circumstances, well, that building may be used for anything else except education. And if it does, they don't go back to the family. And just about two years ago, the school board moved administrative offices in there and didn't have any students and Williamson invoked his family invoked their right and of course the school board quickly got two classrooms of children in there. Now whether their children in there now or not or whether there's been a agreement reached, I don't know, but it's something, when if you hear of anything, tell them to check into it because it gets very nasty once in a while like it did the last time. And this can be avoided if the people are responsible for this just know it ahead of time and look into it before the deep discussion starts. Thank you Mr. Warp for your comments and by the way you're looking particularly handsome today since you can't hear me. Mr. Manager actually on if I may to you to the police chief through you if it's okay on 62nd Avenue I know that we have talked about more more enforcement at that intersection. As I've thought about it, obviously, enforcement would probably exact me, me, manned enforcement would probably exacerbate the bottleneck. But so I'm going to raise a question, which is probably going to annoy my dear friend and colleague to my left, Commissioner Moniich, which is, is that an intersection worth considering actually having camera manned enforcement, so that we can actually cite people and try to change behavior, because we do have a lot of blocking of the box at the intersection that exacerbates the already difficult condition of going north to south or south and north there as well. So I don't know if we have cameras for running the red light, but I do not know if those cameras actually issue citations for people that are actually parked in the intersection before the light changes colors. And so if we can get some clarity on if the chief can address that, if he's aware. I love let the chief come up also, but I am. I really don't know if the legislation that was passed for red light camera would allow other enforcement actions as a result of that camera speeding for sure not. But I'm not sure that other traffic infractions are within the purview of that. So I'm not 100% sure. I don't know if it's a good question maybe. It's a good question maybe. Sorry. If the red light camera would be allowed to use for enforcement of other infractions outside of red light camera, I don't remember that if it does or not. No sir, outside of red light cameras, it would not. And to answer your question, if a car's already in the intersection, would it cite that car? No, it would not. There's a triggering mechanism leading up to the speed leading up to starts the triggering mechanism as to whether or not that vehicle is going to actually make the light, which starts the light to actually cycle for that enforcement. Yeah, so I mean, it's unfortunate because, you know, again, I think trying to solve the problem that Mr. Ward, I think, raised, which is an obvious one that's bothered me for a while, could file a probably further exacerbating, because I would imagine pulling over a car with a man unit is going to require us to block a travel lane, since there's really no other way there. If you get exacerbated, the question that Mr. Ward brought up and brought forward is that there are other intersections going north on US1 and we're making a left. You could potentially put a blinking yellow light, but that also causes problems too for people who think they have the right of way. And then it's still a yield even though you have a blinking yellow light. Well, I think I'd be a fan of ticketing people for blocking the box. It's honestly, it creates a lot of, I mean, I drive it all the time. You can't, I'll recognize you. It just, it makes traversing that intersection incredibly difficult and people then are going, trying to go around the cars, are going north-south to avoid the blockage and end up in geometry with oncoming cars heading south the north, which does not make for a fun experience. So, I'm going to make sure you recognize. I think that we should look a little bit at our history, because I think are talking about. I think we should maybe focus on trying to get a turning lane arrow versus adding insult to injury, which is let's keep adding ways that we can ticket people. I think if you keep adding ways to ticket people on top of the tickets that they already get for parking and the tickets that we're giving them for speeding through zones and now we're gonna give them tickets for something else and we have police officers there. There's at some point where we have to try to find the way to get it to. Maybe not happen versus be punitive to people all the time. And so I think, hey, putting a police presence there to maybe say, hey, pay attention. You might not want to get a ticket. That's my something, maybe deter behavior. But I'm not with adding more cameras to give people more tickets. Oh, we just serve, we probably can't do that. So that's fine. I understand. We got a little bit of the ambit of whatever the law is. But I do think we need to do something to deter the blocking of the box. I'm happy with the issue warnings, but at some point that doesn't go far enough to get people to stop. And I will tell you, I've gotten multiple emails from people living in my neighborhood that experience that conditionally Mr. Ward everyday and it's not it's not a fun experience particularly when you're going northbound you have someone all of a sudden pull out around a blind car and you're like head-to-head with them. I'm gonna say something that is gonna be extremely unpopular but it is reality whether we want to talk about it or not. When you close residential streets and you force traffic on 262 and 8-0 you cause bottlenecks. So closing all the streets that feed in 260 second or feed the other way or make it only go left or only go right. No there's a bunch of streets. They are on to 67. They been closed for- On to 67. If you go between 6, 2, and 6, 7, historically, those roads were open and they went systematically getting closed to help traffic. And what it did, if you look back, back in the day, they used to be- The only ones I'm aware of are 84th on 67 that's closed. But I'm saying when we close streets, we push cars to other directions. And if we look at it everywhere that this happens, like we're seeing it even on bird road where now you can't turn left anymore. You can only turn right so you can't go west. So there you go 84 and 85. So there's a different. I think it was 85 84 was open at one point was closed Ages ago. It's been closed for 30 so many years. I think Mr. Walker probably provides the history But there's also but there's no closures north of the only closure north of US one or south of US one on 62nd Is a closure, I believe just south of 64th But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's right. But that's again I don't most of the view respectfully I think most of the vehicle traffic coming through the intersection is people passing through the city not that don't live in the city. So you don't think that people that are on 6 2 trying to get across from it I'm I always say McDonald's because I am I am the person at McDonald's. I think doing finding a way or pushing towards having you know the turn is the smartest thing. Thank you Mr. Ward The the Fletcher. How do you call it? The right turn right turn. The arrow is the smartest thing we could do because that would it agree? I would agree. It's just not something that's going to provide any relief in the short term. I know, but we have to think then from term. We'll move on. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. The last thing is Mr. State Attorney, I've heard in the manager. We've heard a lot of discussion about this project at Marshall at, sorry, GRUL. We run title on the property and just see what puts your rest whether there is any sort of a deed restriction because people say that it's most useful for that purpose but I'm not sure that it was restricted or it came with any particular restriction. So if we can confirm that, that we can get the information out it would be, it would be appreciated. Okay further public remarks. I have Maddox Fernandez registered here. Mr. Fernandez. Good evening. Did you want to say anything? No, okay. We'll move on then. I also have Mr. John Edwards-Mith. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Vice Mayor, I Commission, City Administration, John Edward Smith, resident and business owner in South Miami. Let me just weigh in on 62 in U.S. 1. You should look at it from the seat of a bicyclist. Today, going across Southbound on the other side of 6'2, three cars came across after the light had changed from the green arrow. And that's because there's backup on US one, and I've said, I'm reminded by the adage that don't say anything that won't improve on silence. Would that being said you're for one, I'm going to be sending you all either by email or deliver of a personally an essay on my concerns about bike lanes, palm trees, and dromedaries. And if you wonder why it's dromedary, figure out how the camp will get formed by a committee designed to make a horse. And with that being said, I wish you all in this Judeo-Christian time, a very blessed week. Thank you. Thank you, sir, for your comments. Is there anyone else? Yes, sir, he recognized me. I'm sorry, just from an agenda item. I started doing this. It aligned in the load. But we need to defer item, Resil 3, which is a footworks item. OK. When the item was put together, it did not contemplate that police now use an off duty peace kill. The roll call. And when we use that, the party that's having an event would have to pay directly to roll call. So the item was done in a way deferring certain costs, but yet we have to clean that up and structure it a different way. The park director spoke to the representative from what works who was here. And they were amenable to letting the item come back. And we need to kind of do some work on it too. Ensure that if we're offsetting 50% of the cost, how are we gonna do that because of the mechanics? When is he vending in? June 1st. June 1st, okay, so we all look okay and she was here and director spoke to her and explain the situation so of the mechanics. When is he vending in June 1st June 1st, okay, so we have okay and she was here and a director spoke to her and explained the situation so I want it to be possible deferred the next meeting. Okay, so we'll defer to the first meeting of May any objection colleagues? No. Okay, seeing none let's show that item three as deferred to the first meeting in May. Okay, again we are in public remarks so if there's anyone here who'd like to address this commission on any topic, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one in the chamber, Madam Clerk, is there anyone online? Anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand. Seeing no one online, we will close public remarks. And we do have the honor of having our County commissioner, we'll have a lot of here with us this evening, Madam Commissioner, welcome. We'll open the floor up to you if you'd like to say a few words. Thank you, thank you very much. It's always a pleasure to be here. The beautiful city of South Miami. So two things, I came to speak on fluoride. I know that you have an item. As I've explained, I really think it's important for the municipality to take a position on this as a chair of infrastructure for five years. This item did not go through our committee process. It was brought directly to the BCC without an opportunity to hear both sides. And there were lots of misrepresentations made before the board. We were asking our municipalities to urge Danielle Lavincova, our mayor to veto. She has done that you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you's simply not what we do. The EPA did lower the amount of fluoride and water at the national level 10 years ago. So the statements made that nothing has changed as 1950 is not true. There is a court case that is asking the EPA to look at that again. And SB 700 is a state action that is being brought by the Commissioner of Agriculture who wants to prevent the counties from using fluoride. His argument is very different. He's not saying that there's a public health issue. He's saying that we no longer need to before I Florida in water. But that item has gone through the process in Tallahassee and will be voted on, which is why my first request to the Board of County Commissioners was a deferral. Until the end of the session to see if the state of Florida decided to take a position similar to that of Utah. But that being said, I am here to tell you that my immediate county water is safe. There's no public hazard. This is just a lot of politicking. And I think that it is an opportunity to set some boundaries. As a person who works directly with water and sewer, I can tell you that we have gone out of our way to meet with all our regulatory requirements, including ocean outfall, and that we will consider to do so. So that being said, I would love your support, and I'm here to answer any questions that you would have on this issue. Colleagues, any questions? You recognize? It's great to see you. Thank you for coming. This is your name, please. It's always a pleasure. Who sets the guidelines for the county? So do we get them straight from the federal government? Yes, so if the state were to do something, then we follow them versus the EPA. Well, if we're preempted from adding any chemical to the water, then it is between the state and the federal government to hash that out. Right now, the federal government has a recommendation that we add fluoride, and they that amount 10 years ago and that recommendation is based on particular studies. Those studies are being reconsidered in real time but a lot of the studies that were mentioned at the Board of County Commissioners are studies that were based on four to five times the amount of fluoride that we put in the water based on these standards. These are old studies and ones that are not looking at the amount of fluoride that we use. So if there is an issue between the state and the federal government, so be it. My other issue with this, aside that I think it's outside the scope of our government, is that it also exposes a residence of Miami-Dade County to liability. Should there be a lawsuit? And that's why one of the examples that I gave on the board was what happened in Albany, New York, where they decided to take the flu- is a residence of Miami-Dade County to liability. Should there be a lawsuit? And that's why one of the examples that I gave on the board was what happened in Albany, New York, where they decided to take the fluoride out, and then they had two class actions. 20 million dollars later, a few months ago, they decided to add the fluoride back. So it's a very expensive proposition to make political decisions this way. I would tell you that it's probably the most expensive internet reel that Miami-Dade County has ever made. Thank you very much. For the questions. Okay. You have something else you wanted to share with us? Yes. The other thing I wanted to mention is obviously it's April. So it's autism acceptance month and every year we roll out programming at the county. And we want to thank you for your support and your disability board. You really are doing amazing things. Last year we ruled out the decal. With all of our police officers, we're happy to report that the sheriff, Sheriff Rosie is implementing that. And we're actually going to be promoting that more county wide. It has been very successful, but we want more people to register and to use the decal. but this year's rollout is actually the third Saturday of every month. The Tax Collection. It has been very successful, but we want more people to register and to use the decal. But this year's rollout is actually the third Saturday of every month. The tax collector is going to open his downtown Miami office specifically for adults with disabilities to get their Florida IDs. As you all know, it's almost impossible to get an appointment to get an ID card or a driver's license. And for a lot of folks with disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, they don't have identification. So these are going to be special days just for them. We're working with all our different organizations and we're reaching out to our municipalities. If you just email our office, we'll work with the slots with the tax collector. And then this Saturday is our first one. And for three Saturdays out of the year, we're going to bring all of our resources. The Saturday is one of them where we're going to bring police, fire, the clerk of the court, the property appraisal, all of our Constitution officers, to provide all the information that they have on disabilities and programming for disabilities, everything from homestead fraud to registering to vote or assistance with voting. And then we're going to be doing it every month. So our special days are in April, July and October. And every other third Saturday, it's open for everyone who's interested. We really want everyone to get their Florida IDs. The state of Florida just changed a lot two years ago. So now you can, when you get your Florida ID, instead of having a D for disability, you can voluntarily choose to put your actual disability there. So we can say autism spectrum disorder or epilepsy or dyslexia, which for our community is a game changer. Because now you have a photo ID that actually has your disability on there. It's so important for employment, it's important for traveling. And as many of you know, now you can't travel without an ID that has the real ID. So it's important that everyone have that documentation and that's our rule out for this year. There. Yes, sir, you're recognized. I know your team has been doing a really good job with our team marketing and cross multiplying and getting the word out. So obviously you probably already doing this but make sure they communicate with us to make sure we spread the word here in the community. Secondly, I think I saw you this past Saturday at Second Saturdays. Can you give us a report on what we're doing there for Second Saturdays? Well Steve was there, he did not dance but he was there representing. I did try to dance. I will say that there was a lot of line dancing and they were not newbies and they did not need an instructor. They were very sophisticated. I felt totally punked by the entire experience. I mean, two beats in. They were line dancing. So I think there should be an amateur part of this. Obviously you guys are hosting a professional party over there. But we had a lovely time. It's always a pleasure. And I'm a big fan, so it just signed me up. I'll bring my boots and clearly I have to do some practicing on YouTube before I come down to South Miami to line dance again. I do have a question. How was that cookie from Sweetlakes? The cookie was very good. It seemed like you enjoyed it. Yes, the cookie was very good. I had two. I started with you, you know, just a chocolate chip, but then I did try the Oreo. I'm not gonna lie. I guess it came recommended for a reason. Mr. Rice mayor, you recognize me. Thank you so much for coming tonight. And I did have a question. We really appreciate all the support you provided. Obviously the sensory room that you helped us fund as well. We do have a Master Parks Plan on the agenda tonight and we are gonna be looking to incorporate more universal playground equipment. I was just wondering if there were any examples of cities that have done this well or consultants that have done this well that we might wanna take a look at. Yes, yes, and I'm happy to provide your staff with that. And we're actually trying, I'm working with the city of Corkables to see if we can get some space to do all kids included. All kids included is programming that the county does for children and adults with disabilities. So I think we've found some space. And obviously the idea is for all district seven children to come and do that. But in terms of the playground specifically, I will tell you there are two things that are very important. Number one are the adult swings, the adult swings with the harness. So important. And obviously if you can have more than one of them, that would be great, because you don't want to line for one of them. And anything that spins. So that's very open, but if it spins, it's probably going to be loved. So, and I actually did a series of videos on Instagram lately where I went to a playground, specifically to prove that point. So, but anything that I can help with, of course, I would love to. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ricebearer. Thank you for being here. Commissioner, without objection, I would like to take up the add-on item. All our. That would be great. Madam Clerk, if you can read into the record item FAA, please. It was written in the mayor's city commission of the city of South and Florida supporting Miami-Dade County mayor Daniela, the main covas video resolution number R-370-25. And the continued practice of adding for ride to the county's water supply. We have We got some questions in the commissioner. Any questions, colleagues? No? Okay. Is there a motion on the item? I move the item. Is there a second? I'll second. A motion by the vice mayor, a second by Commissioner Kaye. Any debate? Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Yes, commission kayet. Yes. Commissioner Bommie? Sorry, I wasn't ready. Yes. Vice Mayor Cory. Yes. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. I'm passing five. I'm four zero. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Commissioner. I want to just also, you're such an exceptional part. I just want to say that on the record. We're very lucky to have and I do want to thank you again. Another nice goodie in the state budget, which hopefully will remain there, is that I think through the county's offices, we've secured another $500,000 to improve our library. So hopefully that will make its way through the process and a few more dollars to help make our dream of a new South Miami library reality. So thank you again. No, my pleasure. And you guys are amazing. So thank you all for your support. Have a wonderful evening. Thank you. Take care. Thank you. Okay, colleagues, we're going to go back to presentations. Why don't we start with our employer, the quarter recognition, really met him, deputy manager. And then we'll move to the presentation on our financial report. and then we will move on to the park's master plan. Thank you. It's my pleasure to present the Certificate for Employee the Quarter for Q1 to our Communications and Marketing Manager Brandon Diaz. What? Come on. Brandon was nominated by our City's Police Department. He's worked with them very closely and as his immediate supervisor I can say that the recognition is well deserved. He's been with the city for a year and a half and has led minor initiatives such as making sure that our signature blocks were the same and that had a huge impact to major projects such as it seems like something so simple, but it makes a big difference. And huge initiatives like redeveloping our city's website. And he also took on the lead of our CIP project portal manager so he led the charge on that. He's always willing to offer help and most importantly he does make an effort to ask questions so that he understands our city operations. He's grown our social media following. I was very proud to head it at 3,000. Brandon has it at 12,000. He takes pride in promoting city events. He's always looking for innovative ways to grow our community outreach. So well, does there congratulations. Man, I mentioned before he presented with the item. I like his wife to come up because we should thank her as well. Because he this man works not only five days a week, but often many weekend days and evenings and it's with her indulgence, so thank you to her. Come on up, please. Maybe you should thank her, your slides. Thank you. Thank you. Sir Diaz, you are recognized. I think you should thank your wife. Just advice. I'm going to start there. I'm going to start by thanking my wife. Thank you. And I want to say thank you to Chief Happyeld and the South Miami Police Department for making the nomination. It's truly an honor to work with a great group of law enforcement professionals. But more importantly, the city manager, our elected officials, our deputy city manager, is truly an honor to work with such a great team. The most important part is that we all work as a team and as a unit towards our common goal. And I use this line over and over. South Miami is a diamond that hasn't been polished. Ever since I started coming to work for the city, I saw how special the city truly is, not just from our elected officials, but the community as a whole. And it's truly my honor to be able to be the person that communicates that and markets that, not just to our businesses, not just to our residents, but to the greater Miami area as a whole. So I want to say thank you to the manager's office and to everybody for the nomination. Thank you. Thank you, Brad and thank you for making up for the cry Let's take a picture You're recognized I just want to say not everybody may know this but Brandon was actually in Tallahassee Doing the whole etchone thing. And talking us up, like we were the best things since sliced bread. So even when he's not here and he's not official, he's still talking us up. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go now. Thank you. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Well, you got kind of... I'm going to go in here. I'm getting ready. Get ready. You all so. I don't know where you're. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. and it's on the online. Oh, I haven't been there. I'm looking for a phone. You can add it. Hey, man, Debbie Manager, I just want to nominate Brandon further. So, next, next one, he's got to be one profile. So, okay. Okay. Moving on, if we could have the presentation by on our certified, I guess, or CFR. Good evening. No. Okay, moving on if we could have the presentation by on our certified, I guess our CFR. Good evening. No, we're doing the counting first. Good evening. Mr. Riverall, good to see you. It is nice to see everyone. I'm here to introduce, it's the last year of our audit with CFLG, Caballero, Fierman, Yerena, and Garcia. They've been with us for six years. It's a pleasure and an honor to bring up Andrew, which will be presenting for the last time, at least for the next three to six years, our annual comprehensive financial report. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. So for the record, once again, my name is Andrew Fairman and I am a partner with Gauedo, Fairman and Ingarcia and I am the partner in charge of the city's audit. I'm going to provide a brief presentation on the city's annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year in September 30th, 2024. Now it's spoken up into your annual coverage of financial reports, broken up into various sections. There's four sections. It's the introductory section, the financial section, the statistical section, and the compliance section. I'm just going to point out a couple of things within each section. First, within the introductory section, the one thing I'd like to point out and that's on page Roman numeral 12 is the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. The city did receive this for the prior year annual Comprehensive Financial Report. It is, as everyone knows, it's a prestigious award that's provided by the government of of finance offers association. This ACFR is going to be submitted as well for the award and we do expect that it will receive it because it does meet all of the requirements. Next is the second section is going to be the financial section and the first item I'd like to point out within there is the audors report. That's on page one. That's on pages one through three. There's a few sections within there. I'm just going to paraphrase a pair of phrase a few things within there. The first section is the opinion section. It's the most important section. It talks about what we've audited as well as the opinion on the financial statements. And that states that we have audited the accompanying financial statements of the City of South Mamie, Florida, as of and for the 5th, September 3, 2024. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all my two respects, the financial position of the city as of September 3, 2024. Now that's an unmodified or a clean opinion, and it's of course the only opinion that you want on your financial statements. So clean opinion on your financial statements once again this year. The next section talks about under what standards to reform your audit, and that states that we conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and government auditing standards. Next section talks about what management's responsibilities are for the financial statements, and that states that management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements. And the last section I'm going to point out within the auditors report is what our responsibilities are as auditors, and it's there at the bottom on page one. That states that our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements is a whole are free from a tier of misstatement and to issue an auditors report that includes our opinions. We're going to stay within the financial section. That's of course the largest section within your document starting on page four and running through page 15 is the management discussion analysis and if no one reads anything else in this document you should read this and this is probably like over a hundred-page document and this is about 11 pages within the document and it talks about the year it compares current year to prior year it has summarized financial information and it provides explanations for those changes year over year, and it's written from management's perspective. It's similar to what's provided within public company financial statements. So a lot of good information in here, it's a really good executive summary, basically, what's within the document. So that's the management's discussion analysis. And right after after the management discussion analysis is the basic financial statements. That runs from pages 16 through 23. And that includes the government-wide statement of net position and statement of activities, which is basically the consolidated statements of all the funds of the city and each of the individual fund financial statements for all of the governmental funds. The only item that I like to point out here within this section is on page 18, and that's the balance sheet for your governmental funds and specifically in the first column with the general fund, which is the main operating fund of the city. And on the third line from the bottom, it says total unassigned fund balance at September 3, 2024 was approximately 12.6 million. Now moving past the financial statements on pages 24 through 44, these are the notes of the financial statements. And this includes the required disclosures that provide additional information on the city as well as the numbers that are presented within the financial statements. It's really suggested that you read the financial statements in conjunction with these, because it gives a lot of good narrative information on the financial statements as well as additional detail numerical information. So kind of dives a little deeper into the numbers again providing numerical detail as well as detailing in words as well. So that's on pages 24 through 44. Right after that, on pages 45 through 53 is the required supplementary information. This is required of the Garbonal Counting Standards Board to include this with your financial statements. It includes budgetary comparison information for some of your funds, as well as information on your pensions. The only thing that I'd like to point out within here is on page 45. And on this one page is a lot of good information because it's the budgetary comparison schedule for the general fund. So it basically shows the original adopted budget in the first column, the final amended budget, the second column, and the actual results in the third column. And it shows the variance between the final and actual results. So basically the total revenues, the final budget was approximately 24.6 million and the actual was 28.5 million. So approximately $4 million more of revenues than budgeted. And going down into the expenditures, total expenditures were approximately 24.9 million, where the actual amounts were approximately 22.2 million with a positive variance there of 2.7 million for the general fund. So again, a lot of good information just on that one page shows the results of the budget to actual in the general fund. Now we're going to move all the way to the fourth and final section of the document. That's the compliance section, and that includes the, that's on pages 91 through 101. And that includes the reports that are required under generally accepted government on these standards, the rules of the other general state of Florida, and the Federal Single Audit Act. Within these reports, I am pleased to be a report that we did not have find any significant deficiencies or mature control Nor did our test find any instances of noncompliance. That's on the financial statement side as well as on the grand side We don't have any any findings to report in the in the compliance section in the back So clean reports in the back as well You will also be received you will you would have also received with your financial with your financial statements of communications letter. It's communications those charged with governance letter that we are required to go over certain matters with you. These are all standard matters, standard communications. Two things that I like to point out within this letter is that we did not encounter any difficulties in completing and performing our audit, nor did we have any disagreements with management. Overall, I'd just like to thank Jackie Alfredo, the rest of the finance team, the rest of the city staff, as well as the city management for the cooperation assistance throughout the process. It was once again a clean audit, a smooth audit. We come in, we ask for a lot of information, then we process that information, and we ask for more information, and we ask a lot of questions, and we do that, try to do that in a way, it's not to disrupt the city's daily schedule, but the city was up to the task, and it really is a testament that we are here on time to be able to present this to you and present to you a clean report, to the hard work of the team here at the city. And I'd also like to thank you as well for your trust that you have put in my firm and in me to perform your audit all these years. We're definitely going to miss coming every year to do your audit. Hopefully on the next round we'll be able to come back in and it really has been an honor to deliver a general pleasure to be of service to the city all these years. With that, I'll leave it there. I'll open it up to any questions that you may have at this time. Thanks again for the opportunity. Thank you for the presentation. Colleagues, any questions? Seeing done? So thank you for your great work. We've enjoyed the partnership and look for it at some point to restarting it. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Okay, colleagues, moving on. If we can, Madam Clerk, if you can read, presentation item number two, please. It's comprehensive parks and recreation master plan study, Kimley Horn and associate. Through director, you recognize. Thank you, Mayor. A good evening. Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city administration. Good evening. Mayor vice mayor commissioners city administration. This evening you guys have an item before you for a 10 year comprehensive parks and recreation master plan study. Before you read that into the record, I wanted to have a brief overview of the process that's going to be presented by Kim Lee Horne. The project manager for Kim Lee Horne is Hadley Peterson and her team will provide an overview of the master plan process and what we plan to get into during that ten month process. If you have any questions or comments, we're here to answer. Thank you. Quentin mentioned, my name's Hadley Peterson. I'll be the project manager for this effort. And with me tonight is Dave Thayer. He's our joint use and facility specialist who will be a key component of this plan. So we're just gonna walk through the overall kind of approach and scope so you all really know what we're diving into. So our approach is really rooted on the idea that parks are foundational for a high quality of life, something that you have here in the city of South Miami. And so we are using Capra approach which is the commission of accreditation for parks and recreation. So we've worked with over 30 agencies around the country on this Capra accredited approach and you'll see some of your neighbors up there, Pinecress, Miami-Dade County. We've been able to work with them using this approach as well. And the approach is really rooted in community engagement. So we'll kind of talk through what that looks like, but this is a 10 month process, like Quinton mentioned. So we're really hoping to get started within the next month, looking at kind of a mid-May start, hopefully, by May 15th. And you'll see here that we iteratively will come back and talk to you. So this is our first kind of opening the dialogue with you as part of this process, but then we'll be with you. If not every month, every other month, through the rest of the 10 months, to make sure that we're really listening to our community, listening to you. If not every month, every other month, through the rest of the 10 months, to make sure that we're really listening to our community, listening to your priorities, and integrating that into this bold vision for the city of South Miami. And so this 10 month process is something that can be done with other agencies across the state as well as the country, and is really rooted in allowing time for us to do kind of the technical quantitative research but then also engaging really deeply with community. So I'm going to give it today to talk a little bit about our community engagement approach. Thank you very much. Our community engagement approach is such that we really want to make sure that we get deep and meaningful input from the citizens, not only the users, the direct users, but also the non-users. But then also we want to talk to folks in that own businesses and folks at work at the city and folks at work in the county get their input about what could make the system even better. So our approach is not only meeting with formal meetings but also informal meetings too, a lot of pop-up events. For instance, we will meet at farmers markets or a Fourth of July festival or something like that to help enhance this. And to make it noticeable and recognizable, we will apply a branding tactic to this that we'll work with a Quinnon to develop. As you can see here, we want to make sure that when people see the Parks and Rec master plan branding that they know what they're coming to talk about and understand. And these are just some pop of events or focus groups that we will incorporate as part of this event. And then also we'll gain a lot of qualitative data from that too. But we want to balance that with some quantitative things. We want to talk about the use. We want to talk about level of service and those types of things with the project. So we really want to kind of balance these type of things and make meaningful data important for the South Miami. So the engagement methods are just one way that we'll be getting kind of the inputs that make up this needs assessment. So like Dave mentioned, we'll have all the qualitative feedback from the dialogues and conversations with the community. We'll have that input from the Statistically Valid Survey that will go out to every household in South Miami giving everyone a chance to participate. But we also have on our end the more technical stuff. And so those tools in the toolbox are everything from looking at your existing plan, what's been completed, what hasn't been, what have been some of those major hurdles in actually implementing things to make sure we're counting for that this time in the process. We'll also do park and facility evaluations. So this is over 40 different measurements that we take. We visit every park and facility that you have in the city and we're rating them on their condition their access their inclusiveness for people of different abilities the sustainability all of those things will go into this kind of quality of parks assessment that we develop we also then are looking at your programs and trends so the programs from recreation side, how are those comparing to trends we're seeing in your state, in the state, in the country. And then we compare the city of South Miami against other similar size and funded agencies. Where are we following? What can we do better? Where are we beating the pack, essentially? And then also looking at the demographics analysis. So this plan is not only for the city of South Miami today but also looking you know ahead 10 years and there is you know development pressures around the city of South Miami a lot of development happening in the city. So what is this demographics looks like today? What does it look like in 10 years from now and how can we make sure that the system is meeting the needs of all those residents, workers, and people from other places within the county that might be passing through? What might we need to adjust for? Well, so look at level of service. And one way to do that is access. So how, you know, this has typically been like a walk shed. How many parks are within walking distance to you? Obviously in a city, you know, geographically, that's as small as the city of South Miami, we start to think of other things as well. How are we looking at transit as it connects to your parks and your facilities and your open spaces? What about water access? Blue Ways was a huge component of your last plan with a third of the acreage recommended was in blue ways. And that necessarily hasn't come to fruition, so what can we be thinking about now to make sure that does? How does traffic play a part in this? How does safety play a part in this? How does connecting to bicycle and pedestrian facilities? So we start to layer all those together to really look at where are your gaps in access? And how can we be thinking about this system as something that better supports the quality of life across the city. Like I mentioned, the blue ways, in your past plan, there is a lot of recommendations that kind of hinged on this access to the waterway, access to the canals. And so, Kimlee Horn, our firm, has experience working with both Miami-Dade County, as well as the water management district in really implementing these. Everything from private development to larger recreation master plans, really having those conversations about what, you know, mechanisms need to be in place for this access to be granted. So, we've worked with jurisdictions around this local to make that happen. Two of your neighbors that we've worked with, Pinecrest and Coral Gables, Pinecrest as part of their Parks and Rec Master Plan, we heard loud and clear from the community about the access to the canals and to waterways being very important. And they're now going through kind of planning additional launches, planning additional access to those waterways. Coral Gables similarly was a really critical part of their system vision and they have now nine launches planned and are into kind of their over seven miles of accessible blueways. So we're here to support that and make sure we provide the strategies for implementation in this plan for those blueways as well. So essentially we take all these different needs and priorities into account. You know needs are different than priorities. Not everything can happen all at once on day one. So we really start to sift through this information to identify what are your top five priorities as a city for your parks and recreation. and recreation. And so we look at all our different needs assessment techniques and sort them by facilities and programming and start to see what rises to the top. And that's part of what creates our long range vision. And so this is really a bold and unified vision. And so this is meant to stretch you, which places to grow, but also is going to be achievable. So we really ground that in some guiding tenants or principals you see here those guiding principals from Pinecrest. We work together with the commissioners, with the community, with other stakeholders to really make sure we have these solid and in place before we move into creating our strategic goals. So every strategic goal that we have comes along with measurable objectives alongside it. So each one of these will have a time frame. Is this a high priority in the first three years to get done? Or is this something that we'd really like to see but there's some big moves that might need to happen and start to time that out for you as well as indicating what might need additional resources than the city can provide. And as that monetary resources is that staffing, is that partnerships, is that private partnerships, and really helping you look at the how-to to make sure that this is happening. Ultimately, to give you a path that lets you maintain public investment and infrastructure. And so as part of this strategic plan, we have the capital improvements plan. So we create an individual park CIP for every park that you have, and the way that we sort out the projects are what's sustainable versus what's visionary. And sustainable projects, when we talk about those, those are things that may, you know, have already been thought of any way that need to happen or that are not likely to increase your annual operations and maintenance costs. Kind of business as usual, we need to do this to maintain our system. And visionary projects are those that are looking at enhancing or expanding or a little bit bolder, but those also come with increased O&M dollars. And so you need to have a balanced CIP when it comes to this so we sort them out We take into account the quality we take into account the priority from the community We do the cost estimation to essentially say like here's the order that you should be doing these things for each of your parks And with that we also look at a range of other strategies to make it happen. Everything from that phasing that I mentioned, getting your highest needs done first, to looking at additional revenue sources, thinking, general fund can't be everything for everyone. So what else might we do, looking at either additional revenues or how to leverage your grant matching? Cost recovery has a very sustainable way to think about this, private partnerships, working with other developers or business community or faith-based organizations, kind of what are the key pieces that will make this work. And ultimately, creating a sense of criteria so that we can balance the opportunity of what happens when something arises that wasn't in this plan But we have the criteria to help us make those data-driven decisions down in this 10-year path And then all of that gets consolidated into a nice report that will bring back to the community Remember act to commission at the end of it. So that's kind of the culmination of 10 months of work But another piece of this that's really important is the joint youth study and the work with Miami-Dade schools and the parks, which Dave will touch on. Thank you, Hadley. This first phase, the first four months, we'll focus directly on Palmer Park and its integration into the community. And we want to focus on three key items that will be important on implementing the school facilities. First we want to talk about the built environment here. So we want to make sure that we understand the existing conditions, we want to understand the roads, the connectivity, the access and making sure that it's usable. And so for instance, our project lead on this portion here in Michelle Latte, who couldn't be here, due to a family obligation. She lives three blocks away from this park, and it's very important to her. So she comes into a certain level of passion and understanding about this project, and really some really bold ideas about how to activate it and really kind of improve the programming for Palmer Park. And some of these ideas are really creating that sense of place that could be through various levels of art installations whether it's informal murals or formal installation but really something that really celebrates the culture of South Miami and really creates a you know where you are when you come to this park Advantage and then we really want to optimize the resources so that's an improved programming This is a very nice park here. It's got really nice lights and and great ball fields But when games aren't going on or schools not in session It remains little bit dormant. So find ways to improve the programming of the space and really find a way to activate it. And so, you know, to do this, a lot is gonna be coordination with the school district as well. I have personally worked on a couple joint youth facility projects with the school district of Miami-Dade. And, you a lot of reasons to do this. It creates a lot better connectivity and ingress. Egress makes it a real part of the community. You can share operations and maintenance costs. You can really activate the park, make it a really true community asset. Because parks and the schools are really the cornerstones of a great community. And hopefully this this this master plan will help put that first bit of polish on this diamond. Thank you. Yeah, so we just wanted to leave you with kind of this overall schedule understanding that this will be completed in 10 months. We're ready to hit the ground running and this this Palmer Park and Joint Use Study portion, we're really prioritizing to the front of the project to get that underway, those conversations with Miami-Dade public schools happening and really figuring out what those joint use studies might have so we can integrate that into the implementation portion of your overall system plan. Thank you, Hadley. Colleagues, questions, Mr. Craig? I want to start. Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation. I think all of us here on the commission really wanted to see this. This is something that we're looking forward to. I think it's really important for our city as we continue to grow that we incorporate the lifestyle and what we're used to and to make it best in class. I think that's something that we always wanted to try to go ahead and do. Now, the only questions I had for the previous understanding and historical references, the previous 10 year plan, I don't know if you obviously have had a chance to review it. What didn't we do? What could have we have done better? And how do we use a lot of those metrics? Like waterways, for example, I'm still a big fan of. I don't understand why we didn't do this in the previous 10 years. So I just wanted to see what we can learn from so we can kind of continue to do it not only better, but the best way we can. Do you want to? Good question, Commissioner. So the two main things that didn't happen in the last plan, the first is land acquisition. As you know, we have two developed parts, Paseo Park and Vice Mayor, Robert C. Welsh Park, were developed as part of that plan, but the master plan mentioned an East side park, some sort of land acquisition on the East side of our city that did not occur. It also mentioned. Director, the east side mean so yeah east side will be Commissioner so yeah because east so you're talking north of south north of Blue Road. North of Blue Road. Correct so that's kind of Commissioner Kaye's so that you're south of Blue Road I'm sorry I'm south of Blue Road. Okay. So that's what we're talking about, someone in the area. East of our city limits. Northeast. Okay. Somewhere there. Okay. Didn't really call for certain area or anything like that, but land acquisition. So somewhere on the Northeast end and also a long Miller Drive was another area that it had mentioned for land acquisition, although there's brewer park on Miller. So land acquisition, the other one was blueway access. We've hit some road blocks with south water management as it pertained to that Welsh Park when it was initially vision we weren't going to have a boat launch at that particular site. There's already an informal manmade boat launch in that area and part of the initial project was to have a boat launch in a docking station etc. During permitting it did not pass. So, it just didn't pass. Can I ask Bill, my question? Because that example, are the culverts really navigable? I mean, can you get under the culverts on that blue way? Because I mean, I would imagine it's going to be hard to get under sunset. And probably equally hard to get south of there as you go towards US one. So when we did the last master plan study, did we examine the feasibility of those blue way connection points and call versus an impediment to connectivity? Call versus weren't examined in the last one. Yeah, there were about three or four different locations, one near brewer, one near Welsh, and there was another area that I don't recall the top of my area head, but those were the two main items we did not successfully accomplished. Blueway access and a couple of land acquisitions and multiple areas of the city. For the questions? No, thank you. Okay. And can we share your recognize? Thank you. Commissioner, I asked my question. Okay. So I'm good. Thanks. Vice mayor. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Is it potentially within the scope of this study to identify pocket parks are very, very small pieces that we can activate. Yeah, I'll chime in there. So the answer to that is yes. So what we'll do when we're doing your parks inventory and looking at your level of service is focusing on what are some of your pocket parks or what might be, we've looked at in cases before like what might be underneath utility lines that isn't a park or what are the needs and what are the land that we do have so that not everything has to fall on acquisition so we do look at activating smaller on under utilized places and we'll work with your community to define what under utilized means but yes But yes. All right, thank you. For the questions. Yes. I imagine that Quinton will be sharing with you comments that we've gotten from the general public residents of our city, like what we heard about the park by the senior center and stuff like that, as it relates to playground equipment and all of that stuff that you are very well aware of. Yes, I'll be provided on with all information data, comments from residents including a playground at All America Park. So yes, I'll be providing with this thing. So you're going to be an unpopular man. So speaking of that one park, so I wanted to put on the radar screen in terms of acquisition opportunities. That one residence near all America Park. And so, um, make sure not to cut it. It was a spider face there. It's won't mindfully request on whatever apparatus we're considering. I think we can have a play apparatus that's natural as opposed to something off the shelf, which leads me to my main comment, which is, I don't know if this master plan anyway contemplates an aesthetic theme for our parks. So if you go to Coral Gables, you know, anywhere in Coral Gables, they have common elements that you see throughout their parks. So is not as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is as far as the federal gap is that unified feel as your elements kind of a menu of options essentially that the parks can include at them. So it's really looking at standardizing some of that to create that unified feel as you're in every single different city of Miami park. Yes ma'am, go ahead. This is more a question to you guys than then it really is to you. Do we want to leave some parks as passive parks? I mean, I don't think we want playgrounds in every single park in the city. So I think, I mean, are we in agreement when it comes to that? Or? I. Because not everybody has kids, not everybody wants to be with them, you know? Like, and then that's not a bad thing. I don't disagree. I think we should definitely have a should definitely have a mix of a mix in the inventory. Okay, so okay, so we're in agreement there. So I think that's important information for you all to have to know that's great information and we can work to kind of show best practices of an inventory mix to residents and help communicate that with residents to show kind of a strong, sustainable diversified park system has those passive parks as well as playgrounds as well as opportunities for other active recreation. I just want to ask a question about the needs assessment process because often we throw up a whole bunch of options to people. Any sort of recreational opportunities and those come with trade-offs and I'm wondering when you go through the needs assessment opportunity before you ask the public what they want, whether you'll be doing an analysis of, if we incorporate pickle here, what is the trade-off in terms of additional activation and consumption of green space? Or possibly the reduction in the level service in a competing sport. And so will that process happen before we kind of go to the public for their feedback? So it's a little bit more informed? Yeah, so that quantitative research and that level of analysis happens before we kind of take the options to the public. And then also within the Statistically Valid Survey and our different interactions with the public, we integrate kind of exactly what you're saying like the trade-offs. So we have different hands-on activities where if you put it all here, then you don't get this one. And we start to try to communicate that to build the awareness that this can't be everything. So what does it, what do we want it to be? So but the quantitative research will be done prior to that. So that all of that data goes into the community conversations. Yes, you recognize. This is more a note to us, again, than it is to y'all. We need to be super aware, and when I say we, I mean, Quintet, I mean, whoever is overseeing when we do these parks, so we don't end up with 2,000 sprinklers like we did at a Welsh park where there's like a sprinkler every two feet. We need to be super, super critical because sometimes I think we miss the mark. And also we're two square miles. Right now we're at 16 parks not counting the Girl Scouts, right? Are we counting the Girl Scouts here? I don't think that we are. Maybe? Yes, count it. 15, what's number nine? Very small. No, because here 15 is. We've got it. Number three Girl Scouts. OK, yeah, so we're a two square mile city with 16 parks. So at some point, we need to say, one, are we good? When we're talking about land acquisition and we're considering that there's so many things that we need to focus on as a city, we also need to understand from you how much is enough. Are we at enough? So that was, yeah, I know what it was my next question, which is, you know, you were slyed on level of service by jurisdiction, pretty wide range in terms of acres for 1,000 people. So what is the benchmark according to whatever national accreditation standard exists out there that we should be striving for potentially. And so some of that will also be up for conversation. You know, level of service historically has been based on acreage, but as land is more, more scarce in urban communities, we have to start thinking of really high performance public spaces. So it's not only, you know, how many acres you do have, it's like what is included in those acres? Are we meeting those needs and priorities of your residents? And so we'll work to understand if level of service should still be measured in acres here in the city that is on the table to talk about, should we be measuring it by facility or amenity type? Should we be measuring it based on the quality of the park rather than, you know, quantity? All of that is kind of on the table for discussion and the national kind of accreditation has started looking as land is more scarce than these denser urban communities that level of service may mean something different now. So we'll take all of that into account as we develop what that looks like for South Miami. Okay, but just what is there a benchmark nationally around a acreage of LOS? Yeah. Yeah, usually it's a park within a five minute walking distance. Okay. Oh, so that's the plan. And so that's why we were deficient with respect to the Kersharki section of the city in the prior. That is fire plan. Okay. That's correct. The prior the prior the prior plan bubbled certain areas in a city that were didn't have a park within a five minute walking distance. Okay. There is a thank you mayor. There is a cab you taught you know cab you until that is that area particular has a lot of holes in islands on it. So I can see why it would be difficult to acquire something of that magnitude, but maybe we can work on that. My last question is about my pet peeves, which is figuring out the joint use situation of the county across all their facilities. So I just wanted to ask, with respect to Palmer Park, at the end of months, what is the work product that we're gonna be getting? Is it a master plan for the park integrated with the joint-ease facility, or what can we expect realistically? Yeah, so there's pretty much a multi-part deliverable. We will have a concept plan for the park that takes into account the joint youth study. And so that study, if you want to talk a little bit more about what will be incorporated into that, but that will be the basis of the updated conceptual plan for the park. Sure. The joint youth study will look at both the various needs, not only the park and ex-neds, but also the schools needs. There's a heightened level of security around schools and so we need to be kind of mindful of that. But ultimately, sharing the operations of maintenance costs and sharing the activation of the park. That's kind of a thing that we've been both kind of embraced. And the result of the joint use study is going to be, what is that cost sharing when I look like? Now I have what is cost sharing? I mean, let me back up because I don't want to, again, this is my personal approach to things. We're doing it here at the University Hall. I don't want to focus on dollars first. I want to focus up what we can do by maximizing and reorganizing the bargaining terms of program. And so is that going to be a concrete deliverable in terms of the facility? Yes. Okay. And then I guess the dollars will be informed by the revised program. That way, this body is engaging in a unsustainable type of practice. And by saying sharing the, the operators' remains cost and responsibilities, that is just to understand that divisional labor between the school and the parks and the rec department. So we might not focus necessarily on the $1 and sets, but it's going to focus on that responsibility as well. So that will be the end result of the Detroit Youth Study. And if I may, it would also feature accessibility issues, how we, you know, egress, ingress from the part to the school, also looking at delineation, how do we protect the school so that we can use it during off hours, right? And last but not least, a full concept of what Palmer Park would look like in years to come. What that may be, whether that's a track and field, whether that's a turf football field, whether we move one of the diamonds to the school and entire concept, you know, that's agreed upon by the community and through your ideas, concept plan for Palmer Park along with capital outlay and how much things cost, et cetera. So everything they just said, including accessibility, the safety components and a concept plan for the future of what Palmer in the school looks like together from an outdoor standpoint. Okay, so that's by month four. That's the goal. No, that's not the goal, that's what we're gonna do. So, okay, you said it, we're doing it, so. For months, let's go. Okay, colleagues with a question. Okay, thank you for the presentation. We look forward to getting started. We'll just get you want to you want to take item four up? Okay, let's take a item four please. I'm clerk if you can read that for the record please. This item for a resolution of emergency decadmission of this area is often in Florida selecting and killing horn and associates for the development of a comprehensive parks and recreation master plan study you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. with Kim Lee Horne B. I'm going to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to manager, I'll say it publicly. I know that with this, again, not a reflection on Kim Lee Horne looking forward to working with you, but in the future, I think we need to be better about our procurement here in protecting the integrity of other submitters. We had an issue here with a respondent who put their best foot forward in the initial solicitation. We terminated that because we wanted broader participation in their submission was not protected as we could have from being accessible to the respondents placing them, I think, in a disadvantage. And so, you know, again, I've talked about it with the manager. I think the future was to be mindful of that and strive to do better. And we respectful of the fact that people put a lot of time and energy into these submittals. They're not without a cost to the respondents. And, you know, I want to make sure that we're encouraging the broadest participation by being mindful of the fact of the investment that any number of respondents make. I know that was the intention and has the intention of staff, perpetuates the department on down, but again here we did not hit the mark. I think you just need to acknowledge it. So with that said, however, perpetrator to the department on down, but again here we did not hit the mark, and I think you just need to acknowledge it. So with that said, however, I like to move the item. Is there a second? Also going to move. Okay, so I'm motion by myself to adopt a second by Commissioner Coye. Any further comments or discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Yes, commission. Yes, commission will need yes, by smell Corey. Yes, mayor for them. Yes, I don't pass the board. Thank you. And we look forward to working with you. Okay. Colleagues, anything else you'd like to take up in any particular order? If not, I'm going to go back to the discussion items and then go through the regular order. Okay. So, then clerk, we've got a discussion item. Item number one. Yes. Reestablish a press CRA. Thank you. So colleagues, very briefly, what I'm hoping we will maybe consider the manager to direct a due tonight is as we look at kind of revitalizing our town center. Obviously, I think the more options we have to finance improvements, the better off will be. We had historically had CRA. I understand there were some concerns about how dollars may have been expended. I'd like to consider the prospect of bringing one back. I think there is some support, the county for it. I think there's some stakeholder support. I've had conversations with UM, in some place in particular, UM would like to see the continued integration of the physical plan of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of would be really four things. Number one would be to make an affordable housing commitment with some dollars, right, to deal with what is a very pressing issue in our community. And then the balance really focused on infrastructure investment in three other categories. One would be to help in part, except that seated finance are streetscape enhancements that we've been talking about, accelerate the timeline for that potentially. Secondly, I think as we have looked at our zoning code, it's premised on the fact that we want to maximize the use utilization of our transit station. I would tell you that that transition was not designed to serve an urban center. It's designed to serve a parking garage. And so really reimagining how that transit station reconnects with our town center, our Somy district is absolutely critical so that it's actually accessible from the east side and points not through the parking garage or the parking garage egress. I also think that we want to weatherize it, if we can, to modernize it because it's not, if you've been a user particularly in the summer when there's rain, there's heat, there's humidity, it's not a comfortable experience to be standing on that platform, subject to wind, rain, and the elements generally. And so I think there's potentially an opportunity to enhance that amenity, to drive more throughput and more utilization to increase connectivity. That could also potentially become a mechanism for funding, a point of connection, a bridge, which I think has been a point of interest for. Some of us here on the board or improving connectivity at grade. So those are options that possibly the Sierra could allow us to explore. And then lastly, I think given what we've said as a goal for redevelopment in the same town center, we want to make sure that things happen, they happen without necessarily putting the burden entirely on projects, which has been the history here in Miami-D County. We are likely going to be challenged with, you know, sewer and sewer infrastructure going forward for this basin. I think we should plan for, give us a little mechanism of plan for how we would finance those improvements. I think this would allow the option of using a CRA versus what has been the typical process in other basins in Miami, D'Caune, which is to impose a surcharge on projects. It's not that that project will not eventually pay for the improvement, but it's the time you win the payment is delivered. You know, if you threw a base in search, ours on a project obviously adds to. Slow down the velocity of the projects and their ability to kind of get off the ground and I think we want to see. As much new development within the ambient of our plans come forward. With that, that is just a burden. So I think a CRI having that in place would allow us to facilitate expedite some projects as well. Those are my ideas. What I would want by way of directions to the manager is, when we talked about our place making study initially, there was a substantial economic development piece that we decided not to defer to invest in because we weren't sure whether that was the best use of those dollars. The consultant, however, that we selected is very familiar with developing findings of necessity. We should have to go back through that process now since we did sunset the prior CRA. What my suggestion to the manager would be would be to solicit a proposal from business flare that we've been under contract with for other work to possibly provide us with the finding of necessity and examine the feasibility of kind of reintegrating or reinstalling, reauthorizing whatever the right word is, the CRA. I think the historic boundaries are perfectly appropriate and relevant today. I think the only modification I would like to see is to bring in a couple blocks down to capture, you know, the 74 street, which I think was not in the boundary before and Mr. McKantz can correct me if I'm wrong, so that we can capture the full part of our city center. And that's the idea. I thought we'd have a discussion about it. There was an openness to it, I'd like to give the manager that direction and have him bring back a proposal that we can then maybe under the procurement threshold, hopefully. But nonetheless, I think we might want to then discuss it and I'd like to obviously discuss it further so we can give Commissioner Rodriguez the option to also weigh in since it was a priority of his as well. And Commissioner, you're recognized. I'm open to this if we are able to put in very strict guardrails on how this is going to happen. I think not necessarily here, but if you look at CRAs in general, when they don't have very specific guardrails, and I think you probably know there's better than anybody because it's your expertise. It lends itself to unsavory behavior and we're not going to be here forever but this will outlive us and I don't want to leave I don't want to leave something behind that's not going to be good for the city. So I like the ideas that you have of the items to be covered. I think, especially the material one, I make my kids get off at UM because the parking garage terrifies me. I refuse. I live in South Miami, I refuse to use that transition. So I'm with you in the whole thing. I just think the guardrails need to be very, very clearly spelled out. And we would have to then have for the discussion like I read it's usually the commission that acts as the board. And then there's like an advisory thing. So we would have to I, flesh that out a little bit, but I think, well, for lack of the right thing and mark it down, you're right. Don't get used to it. Commissioner, you're recognized. I think Commissioner Bonit was accurate. I think that there's a lot of goods and bad that can come out of an R-C-R-A. I think that will not as well-versed. We haven't had it in a while. I think you're a little bit more well-versed on this. And I think I would like to take the opportunity to figure out how we can have our brainstorming session understand pros and cons, how we can put guard, brails in place, what we really want to use it on. I'm in agreement with't know what the boundaries could be. There's a little bit of opposition, specifically from one of our commissioners just here. And I want to understand why and what are the pros and cons. And speaking into our neighbors, whether it's Miami Day for example, on 57th Avenue and sunset, and whether our neighbors are coral gables, the Miami Day side and the coral gables side, figure out what we can also get from them as well to figure out collectively how we we solve some of these problems, not just us. So I just want to sit down and really talk about it, have some people that are experts and just give us some feedback, some understanding, some guardrails and just put us in this path because I don't disagree with it. I just want to make sure to. My turn. My turn and I'd love to speak more on to it. I do think that something like this is imperative. There are very few cities like ours that have the entities that we have, that we have to maintain. The urban center, the percentage of commercial to residential communities that require this kind of funding and being on mass transit. I think we just need these tools or tools like it. So I'm very eager to explore it. Thank you. So just to and we'll have a we can have certainly have I think it's appropriate to have a longer discussion and we can not only invite the potential consultant but if you'd like to add OK, we'll touch some other folks through the FRA which is the Florida redevelopment association, potentially they can join us virtually or in person if they're free to kind of help us have some further discussion. That can be in the amnit of executive directors and other agencies that I would say are successful ones, good models. And possibly council that are familiar with these financing mechanisms. In terms of guardrails, I think it would be I'm most comfortable when the governing body acts as a Siri board. Certainly we can have a advisory board, the community kind of help inform the development of the master plan and give us feedback, but that would certainly be my priority. I think it also one of the pushback will certainly get from the county, although I've had some conversations with leadership of the county and I think there is support for the idea particularly if we limit the focus on what we are directing resources towards. And I think for the most part all the four things we mentioned are things that would be acceptable to them because in large part we're going to be addressing issues that are county issues. So they're going to see money return to critical county infrastructure as well. Well, you know, what we have to balance here is the impact to our general fund and our need to actually provide revenues for future operations. And so while we may adopt the 95% tip by contract interlocal, we can require that money be given back by the trust fund to both the city and county. So that does not have quite as large a general fund impact as it would if we just left it on its own devices. So there are ways to kind of create return revenue back to jurisdictions to meet general operating requirements. Given that this is the area that we want to grow, I think it's absolutely essential that we have those financial guard around this as well. And then, I think being very thoughtful about in the master plan, or the redevelopment plan, excuse me, to be more precise limiting the kinds of investments that we want to see dollars directed to. And I would say this, and this is a, maybe a bad word for Commissioner Boni, but also thinking about locking in future revenues through the issue of debt, because I would tell you a bond in venture is the biggest guard rail against, you know, the misuse of dollars, because those dollars that are committed to that to service that debt, right? And for directing that spending, kind of gives us probably the greatest amount of security about where those dollars do end up. So. Is that akin to a revenue bond? Yes, it's akin to a revenue bond. Now you just said. Yes, man. Oh, wow. So anyhow, again, like everything else I'd like to do, we're just trying to create some more optionality for ourselves. It's not bad for you. So I think there is, it's just another tool of toolbox that we should activate now. This is all predicated on the state not doing something irrational over the next few weeks and eliminating these eight entities altogether, which is certainly been part of the conversation, particularly in the house from what I've been watching very closely, less likely to come out of the set in the same form. But we got to keep monitoring that and talking to our friends in Tallahassee about leaving the door open for the responsible use of this economic development tool, which is probably the most powerful one of the that we have available in the statute today. So there's not that many. So that's my pitch. If you are all supportive, I'd like to give the manager direction to at least solicit a proposal for a finding of necessity from business flare. We can bring that back for discussion and I'm certainly happy to work with staff to identify a couple of resources. Give me a sense of who you'd like to have come and talk about. I can certainly invite my friend Larry spring at the City of Miami Who's their CFO and has worked very intimately with both the obni and the park west CRA CRAs through through multiple deductions for any number of priorities from port tunnels to affordable housing. Talk about that experience. But again, if you give me a flavor what you want to go out and hear from that conversation and we can do that through the, I don't know if we can do that through the clerk or not, but we can, you can mention it right now. I can certainly think about a list of experts we can bring forward and help guide that conversation at our next meeting. I'm more interested in speaking to whoever it is that controls the financial aspects. Because I think we're very clear, at least the four of us right now, we're happy with the four essential roads that you've mentioned. I think, am I right in saying that we're all comfortable with that? I so I think where we might need a lot of education is the financial. So, I'm just so I'm just so sure anything maybe. I don't know for I affirm if you've got someone who special, I think David told us specializes in this area a little bit if we could get David. I think it'd be helpful if we could discuss in terms of guardrails around both the redevelopment plan and via the interlocal. I don't think the county's going to want some guardrails as well as to where these dollars can be spent. Those would be the two places I would tell you that we would kind of memorialize what the approved expenditures could be, contractually and through the master plan, but we can certainly invite Mr. Toll's to elaborate on those points and also maybe speak to governance and options for governance and community involvement. Okay, Mr. Guys, anything else you wanted to highlight potentially? Well, I mean, look, so obviously this is coming pretty fresh. So is there a timing element to this? Is there something that we need to push this forward to for one reason or another? I mean, it seems like we're stepping on the gauss a little faster. So just want to understand, is there any implications or anything in the future that there's timing? Is timing important? Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, look, I look at the clock, I become a pumpkin in 18, 19 months. So I want to make sure that, you know, at these things I know don't happen overnight. You know, I've worked on interlocal extensions with the Cat City and County and, you know, some are still the subject of discussion for multiple years. So I think sooner we get started in terms of analyzing the options and engaging with our sister agency but we might be acceptable to them formally. The greater likelihood we have getting this thing done. So that's my big driver's just, you know, my clock is certainly gonna expire sooner than all of yours. Yes, ma'am. I say if we are in agreement of doing it, then we go. Like, no, I agree, but I also want to make sure that all of you and Commissioner Rodriguez who's not here either get a chance to vet this further and speak to professionals. So if there's a particular area that you're interested in kind of sussing out some more detail about. The financial aspect of it, the implicate like what are the pillars that we can actually invest? How does it, the investment opportunities work? You know, it just that ends it out to the dollars, you know, are we taking away from our operating revenue at all? Those are the, just- We, depending, yeah, absolutely. I'm sorry, so I just want to make sure- I've never done this before, right? This is all very new for me. And so I just really want to understand. It's a big deal for us in our city. You're well-versed and we trust what you're going to say. I just, I want to make sure I understand what we're doing here. and I just want to get fully educated on this whole process. That's all. Just thinking a lot of suggestions, maybe Larry Springs, a bit of CFO. I don't even know who that is. I want to get fully educated on this whole process. That's all. So just thinking a lot of suggestions, maybe Larry Springs, a bit of CFO. I don't even know who that is. He's the CFO of the CMI Emmy and has to interact with these agencies and supervisor that is just like I can ask him to attend. Maybe we reach out to Mr. Fernandez at the county as well, the Office of Management and Budget who is the department that supervises all this year, I used to county, both in unincorporated and incorporated areas, invite him as well to a future discussion. And maybe we... in budget who is the department that supervises all the serious to the county, both in the unincorporated and corporate areas, invite him as well to a future discussion. And maybe we put this off until maybe our workshop in the beginning of May. So we can actually do it in that five o'clock windows opposed to within the typical commission agenda timeframe. Sound reasonable? Okay, so. Would we wanna start a little earlier than five o'clock, just in case? So we don't back up into it. Yes, please. Sure. I think when we say we're gonna start at five, we always have that. Should we start at four? I say, yeah, I would feel more comfortable starting at four because then we don't feel like we have to cut everybody off all of a sudden. Madam Clerk, if you can advertise then the next commission workshop for four o'clock started to move or typical five o'clock start. And only CR rate discussion. Do we want to go through any other item? We do have the financial presentation from 13th floor. I believe in terms of a first term sheet. And we certainly can. I mean. from 13 floor, I believe in terms of a first-term sheet. We certainly can. I mean, that's the preference of the board. We have three hours. I mean, it's from 4 to 7. So we have three hours that we can work on. I think that's enough. You don't want to opinion. We'll start with, we'll start, we'll, well, let's let's notice both. And then if we can't take one, we'll set out another time. Okay. Okay. Okay. So colleagues, any objection to directing the manager to solicit a proposal for a fighting and disassisting, just so we have the information about cost and time to complete it? Okay. So Mr. Manager, if you could reach out to business flare, I think we have an contract potentially and see what they would code us for this exercise. We appreciate it. Thank you. Colleagues, thank you for the conversation. We'll move on to item one, please. This item when it was a city commission of the city of Southland Florida relating to a fiscal year 2024 2025 budget, authorizing a budget transfer of $200,000 from the police capital improvement is line item to engineering capital improvements line item. Is there a motion item one please? Is there a second? I'll second. Okay, so motion by commission guy. Second by commission one each. Spend with clerk please call the roll. Yes, commission. Call you. Yes, commission one each. Yes, by senator Cory. Yes, mayor Fernandez. If you could read item 2 zero. If you could read item two, please item two It was a American City Commission of the city is offering for the director of the city manager to modify the scope of landscape in master plan Services by Miller League and associates in to include an expansion of tree canopy coverage and residential areas of the right and city manager to commence planning trees in or near the public right away, a buddy's single family, two family and townhouse, with eventual properties and locations identified by the study. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Mr. Manager, I believe you're the sponsor. Do you want him to start the presentation? Would you like to leave us off? Oh, I can. Please go ahead. Thank you very much. So this resolution was brought forward and the idea essentially to address an issue I've been working on for a couple of years and this seems to be the probably the most successful way for us to execute it Urban deforestation Obviously a Miami-Dade County report came out and 2015 to 2020 that South Miami had lost about five acres of tree canopy over that time. So that's about an acre a year. Obviously, we know the development that occurred post 2020. That's probably even more so now. I was looking for a way to more strategically plant trees to recover our canopy. It has been a problem. We've grown our tree fund without the ability to strategically place it. Right now Miller Leg is doing a landscaping study. I spoke with them without having to increase the cost of their scope. They're willing to add essentially right of way in front of single family, multi-family homes, which is just going to be a simple extension of their looking at primary, secondary, tertiary streets. Now they're going to pretty much do everything, where they're going to give us locations where we can plant these trees. In addition to that, we have an $85,000 fee, I suppose, payment that was given to us by Baptist for the recent project that they have there that has about six months left on it prior to the expiration of that. So Miller Legg has agreed that they'd before they finished this study, they would actually identify an area where we could plant those trees. To get this project started, largely trees being planted in the right of way. The urgency on this item, I always think, you know, obviously we're losing this tree canopy every year. And I was like to think of that old adage. The best time to plant a tree is shade trees 20 years ago and today. So I would love for us to be able to kick off this project. This resolution is simply direction to the city manager, to expand Miller-like scope, which they've agreed to do for free. And then once they do identify something for us to use those funds to plant trees in the right of way. Colleagues questions? I guess Madam. It's funny because I had put no because I was like it was on gear. I couldn't understand what was written there. So if I understand what you're saying now, they are expanding their scope to include possible locations for us to plant this and you're saying use the $85,000 to procure the trees for the areas that they're going to earmark at no additional charge. Yes. Okay. Is that, if they written that anywhere that they are not like that? Well, this is direction, this is direction to the city manager to go and get that done to expand that scope. And then as they identify that area for us to use that, now this doesn't lock up that money and it doesn't increase the amount of money that we give to them. The city manager has to go to them, expand their scope, they have to agree to do it for free. And then they essentially come back to us once they've identified these areas. And as part of their master plan, they will actually have every available place for us right away in the city now to plant trees so that we're ready when funds become available either through a grant or through fees that are paid or through any kind of donation. So we'll be ready every year. We won't have to build up our tree fund. We'll know exactly where we need to plant. And then where would this money go? Am I right in understanding that it's going to disappear if we don't use it? In six months. Where does it? What happens to the $85,000? So let's see. Let's get. So, Mr. Manj, if you can address the, if we can address the, so it was a funding commitment that was made by, I think, Anchor Health and Baptist in connection with the Rehab Center on the intersection of Sunset and 60 Second. Could you explain what the commitment was in the timing as memorialized and there was in their development agreement? when the item came was discussed there was a final agreed upon dollar amount of $85,000 Before the motion before it there was a timeline condition placed on it where the commission At the time commissioner Leven had had said, I think we ought to place some time commitment that the city would actually act on this money. So the 12 months was added as a timeline to accepting the funds. So that was part of the item. We're about maybe six months from when payment was received roughly. So obviously it was something that the commission imposed on ourselves, if you will. If somehow this timeline and spending of that money may not necessarily meet that requirement, the commission can always maybe extend that, but that was the requirement. Sorry, I'm sorry, so your position that we can extend the timeline? Well, it was, it was, it was, it was closed. I mean, it was in a, at the time, so there's, so I mean, I want to be clear because it was a proffer on the part of the applicant correctness or city attorney. For the funds, but the timeline, the proffer, there's no proffer was not, The proper was a proper that was not restricted by time. No, the initial proper was not restricted. They're initial proper. They're initial. OK. So just is this memorialized? The terms of the profit were the memorialized anywhere. In writing. I don't know. I don't have the answer to that question. I'm looking for it. I don't see it. Okay made a proper by me I don't even a monetary proffer and there was some back and forth as to the amount and then I again my recollection is like yours Mr. Manage I'm not trying to I just want to understand whether in articulating the time period whether it was incorporated into their proper and it's a condition that we're bound by or condition contractually or condition that we can utilize or we modify like my colleague is suggesting. that we were going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be because we both had a recollection that there was a timeline imposed. We did not remember if it was requested by the contractor who made the proffer or the attorney on his behalf. So it was the commission who brought up the issue, a commission and Lehman brought up the issue. Well, we all imposed a timeline on the city to spend this money and there was an agreement and 12 months was, but it was not a condition that they requested the commission imposed on ourselves if you will. So it may be an unissue depending on the timeline of the process. So the subject asked that question. Yeah. One question that I wrote down three things. Timing, consent, and maintenance. So as to the timing, when will the delay, if we were to direct you to expand their? In what time are they indicated they could identify these locations? So almost like a phasing aspect what I had told the vice mayor that potentially if their work would continue that we would capture the portion. As soon as they identify areas and they have knowledge of we can begin to spend those funds in those areas while the final report is finalized and submitted. So I'm not waiting for the full report to so that would be a way to sort of accelerate but it would be informed by their their assessment and so that's some same maybe affected by the timeline but I want to make sure everybody is aware that there was that condition when the money was accepted. And if I and if I'm correct if affirm my understanding, typically with respect to installation, we seek the consent of the property owner, even though it's the wedding property, even that's installed in the right way, is that correct? The practice has been that I can't guarantee that every tree that the city has planted has received approval by that. I did a property owner I don't have that knowledge. Typically yes, there is a conversation. We ask them to assume the maintenance as well. That has been the practice that the resident assumes the maintenance. Since I've been here, I'm aware of a couple situations where the residents were aware that we were looking for locations and they did not want those trees planted there because they knew that they would have to maintain them. Okay. So I guess my question to my colleagues is and particularly the sponsor is do we want to mean that again, just to be legally we're not required to obtain consent from the property owner if it's placed within the right of way. Or are we? No, if it is placed within the right way, we are not required. Okay, because I'm assuming we're talking about our street, installing street trees in front of single family and do plugs for residential homes. Correct. In the soil area. In the soil area. So we're not required to get the consent. But we have done, I think we have done it historically to the best of our knowledge. And we, but we typically require for the consent also the year agreement to maintain. So to my colleagues, I mean, again, if we really want to do this, the way that the fastest would be to say we're just going to make a decision to locate those trees in the soil and assume the maintenance costs. If any, I mean, you know, trimming trees and, you know, and watering them while they get stabilized, Is that something that we want quantified for us or is it something that, um, we just are willing to kind of, you know, shoulder the incremental cost, whatever it may be? Just thoughts? My, my personal opinion on it is that I think that the best way to do this is that is to plan it to essentially, to essentially, obviously notice the neighborhood that it's happening, but not necessarily get the consent on it. And the only reason I would say that is that for us to be able to program this to scale, I don't think that's feasible. And I do think ultimately it lies on us responsibility wise when there aren't tree canopies on streets, when the heat index goes up, when there's flooding issues, that ultimately is our responsibility, that's our lands. So if we go around asking everybody and just constantly getting knows it, we won't be able to program this. Yes sir, recognize. Mayor, just I was just reminded that the letter that came with the check, the attorney memorialized what the commission did. And in that letter, Mr. Williams made reference to that one year condition that the commission added. So that was in the letter. That was subsequent to the commission meeting, but it was memorializing his letter to the city. I just want to correct that. Okay, so I think just both in suspenders. We should probably contact Mr right answer. I think that's a good way to get the right answer. I think that's a good way to get the right answer. I think that's a good way to get the right answer. I think that's a good way to get the right answer. I think that's a good way to get the right answer. have to decide whether we want to, I will tell you, and the manager can reaffirm this, it's have to do soar. Process has been an instructive one in terms of people having particular issues with us making modifications even to the right away, which we technically own, but they believe is an extent to their property. You know, I think I would look at this, I would look at these trees as almost part of like critical infrastructure like, you know, water and soil infrastructure, you know, and making the decision is of where it goes is one that we should not be shy to make. But I also think it's, I would say if we decide to locate it, then we should care, we should shoulder the means, obviously. If we're going to continue to ask people for their consent, then they can bear the burden of the occasional watering and maintenance that may be required. But if we're going to go ahead and make the decision to do it unilaterally, it's an obligation that we should be, you know, we should shoulder. Yes, ma'am. I see we have Surami. I wonder what is Quarrel Gablesu? They put trees everywhere. Did anybody? Surami? I mean, is that the only place that I could think of in the public right of way where there's a gazillion trees, but that was done if I'm not mistaken at the onset of the community by the master developer. So it was part of the part of the aesthetic development. Ms. Cabrera, you recognize if you want to add some color to our conversation. Very good evening. I'm with our data director. So maintenance of the swales in coral gables is the responsibility of the adjacent property owner. And the only time that the city will get involved is if the sidewalks were damaged because of a city planted tree. But otherwise, all the other maintenance of the swales was there's possibility of adjacent property owner. But the streets, the streets are in particular in single family neighborhoods. So, Rami, I'm assuming most of that was long standing existing canopy. And the city just not maintained it correct or do they? They do actually the city has a plan for maintaining the urban tree canopy and replacing it because as trees age, they had like, oh,'s some standard and I can't recall right now But there's some like urban forest you standard or something that you replace your tree So you never lose your canopy so you go through and there's like a percentage of trees that you replace when they reach a certain age Or they're sick or whatever and they would be ongoing replacements all the time in the city and that process, the city procured the consent of the aboding property owner. I don't believe they did. I could verify, but I don't think that they did. And really that I know that was ever property owners were involved to be if there were the sidewalks and the traffic circles, but for trees, I don't believe there was any consent. And with respect to the newly installed trees by the city, I was assuming the city maintained them after installation. No, so. I'm not aware that they maintained them. I know that I'm pretty sure that they were, until they were stabilized, but I think once the trees were stabilized, that was the extent of the city's involvement in the trees, but I was able to check for you. Thank you. I'm just curious, any pruning after they're installed, except that happens 10 or 12 years down the line, is it done by the city or is it done by the property? That would be some color to, I'd like to understand. Okay, colleagues, for the questions? I agree to. Mayor, I think we can ask. Okay. Okay, what's our, what's our preferences? Our motion to adopt item two? We want further discussion. How do we want to proceed? Do we want to, I don't know, I think, I feel like we're yes on one part and I think we should, I think we should, I would suggest the following, let's explain the adoptee item, I would recommend that we move to adopt the item and allow the vice mayor to make the motion if you'd like. And then I would, I think we should direct the see attorney to seek a modification to the condition to allow us more time to actually expend the dollars, don't spenders there. And then if we can get a follow-up report, maybe the manager reported the next meeting on the practice and the report. And maybe a sense of. The case. The case. The case. The case. The Yes. by the vice mayor, second by commissioner Kaye. Madam clerk, you can call the roll on item two, please. Yes, commissioner Bonneesh. Oh, I'm first this time. You know what? I hand my microphone on just in case. Yes. Yes. Vice mayor Cory. Yes. Commissioner Kaye. Yes. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. I'm in passes for it. Right. If we can read item six, please. Item 6, a resolution of the Maran City Commission of the City of Southland Florida, the Rican City Attorney to negotiate a sedimentary agreement in Rodney, Menace Down and W. Car Menace Down LLC versus Christie M. Bartolou She eats all the right men's city manage to execute the sediment agreement on behalf of the city. Thank you Madam Clerk. Colleagues, this is line of mass to have added to the agenda, as I mentioned in my last, the Commissioner of Marks, Mr. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here recreation building at Dante Fusell, in exchange what we're offering beyond getting released from litigation. Mr. Maldonstone is interested in modifying his pod to allow for some future plan urban development, which is the approval, that the master approval for the property to allow for some modest expansions of the facilities on campus. We can't contract for that approval, so there's no guarantee that we would approve it. We reserve all rights to review it in the future and vote it up or down as a body. But we will take, you know, make best efforts, I'm assuming, in the language, to facilitate the processing of that modification application. And similarly, Mr. City Attorney, we probably bring forward a companion development agreement so that his rights should the put be adopted would be guaranteed to him for a term of 30 years, which is the maximum guaranteed under the state statute. So that would be the concessions that we would be offering, which is again, our best efforts to process those two applications and exchange for him conferring the easement. Any questions? Should I turn it that I summarize that correctly? Yes. And again, if you can just clarify for the benefit of the board, the delegation here is to you to negotiate the agreement consistent with these terms. Good. And does this seem to be brought back to the board for adoption or is the manager actually, is our, we, authorize the manager to execute it upon your approval. Authorizing the manager through this. Colleagues any reluctance about that? Nope. Okay. So that I'd like to move item six. All second. Okay. So Madam Clerk, I'm most about myself a second by Commissioner Kaye. If you could call the roll, please. Yes. Commission Moniche. Yes. Vice Mayor Cory. Yes. Commission Kaye. Yes. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. Item passes for you. If you could read item the roll please. Yes, commission of Moniche. Yes. Vice Mayor Cory. Yes. Commission of Coyay. Yes. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. Item passes 4-0. If you could read item 7 please. Item 7 in the ordinance of the city commission of the city is having a forward, providing forward a more editorial on the enforcement section 3.6 W of the city's land development call or relating to residential requirements for the solar, for the vital systems. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So this is colleagues, you know, this is the second reading of the moratorium on the civil problem ordinance, any questions or staff? Yes. Okay. Yes, you've got questions. Okay. I'm gonna recognize Mr. Cairo, come back to you, give me a second one each. Sir. I just wanted to I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, that question is addressed. Would you like to, well, this is a public hearing item. Any member of the public who'd like to address this commission item seven, which is a moratorium for 180 days on our existing solar panel ordinance? Please come forward at this time. Anybody on the Zoom? Please raise your virtual hand. Okay. Seeing no one in the chamber and no one online, we will close the public hearing. Okay, Williams would like to move the item. I'd like to move the item. Okay. Motion by commission. One each. I will second the item. Madam clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Yes, commissionable. Yes, vice mayor. Yes. Yes. Commissioner Kaye. Yeah. Mayor Fernandez. Yes. I don't pass it. Adam A. In onus of. Item eight in ordinance of the city commission of the city of South and Fortam, many of the composition and procedures of the design review board. Thank you for the summary, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, any questions of staff regarding the proposed ordinance? No. So I may be sorry, Mayor. No recognized. Sorry about it. I was under the impression that we maybe I'm incorrect the way that we stated this. I thought we were saying that we wanted maximum of seven minimum with a quorum that we would be suffice. I think five having the not the ability to have, for example, landscape architect, and then five different colleagues or people that we recommend from the commission, that just seems like five's too small for the amount of design review board that we're looking for. I mean, that was my impression that we wanted seven, not five. So technical, can we expand the board's composition on second reading or are we limited by the notice? You can. You can. The original proposal was for seven members, but it was a five-member board with two alternates. Based on the comments and the discussion, we reduced it to just five members. So to keep the, the idea was to keep the core in at three Either way would. So let me let's explore that because I guess we could we could have seven members. We could have we could set the corps requirement of much lower threshold. Could we not? We could we could say no no no we had to be a majority of the board. So we either have what is the limiting factor on us setting the corps requirement at something lower than the majority of the board. The floor statute. Florida statute. Yes. Any board we create? Yes. Okay. Under 166 has to have. Yes. That's that is the that's the term. That's an interpretation by the attorney general, a longstanding interpretation. Okay. That has never been challenged. It has never been challenged. Don't start. I'm not. We get we get enough of our plate already. So it's fine. Yeah. You don't want to see someone else come on. No, no, I don't want to see anybody. Okay. Okay. So colleagues, what's your pleasure? We have it at five with a quorum of three. We can go back to five with two alternatives that would would not affect the quorum requirement, if you wanna have additional expertise. No, my recommendations to stay at seven. Okay, seven with, that would require quorum of four members, correct? That's correct. Okay. Can I offer a suggestion, or at least something for us to consider, is like the landscape, you know, is like the landscape, you know, certain parts of this, is that something we could take in-house so that it becomes part of procedure instead of part of this board. The stuff that we see that we need, we're not leaving to a board that may or may not have quorum. You know, I know that I had said before, do we want to maybe make it part of planning and there was an appetite for that because we were worried that it was going to make things longer for a planning board and I understand, but I'm trying to find ways to like not slow down the process. So I so I think just again, I haven't looked at this current version. So I apologize to my colleagues, but there was a fail safe in the event that there was not quorum for was the two consecutive meetings, Mr. City Attorney. Yeah, I believe it's true. Correct. So it goes back to the director of the development services and she can make the termination as to the adequacy of of the design in all respects including landscaping. So do we want to change it to one instead of two. So if we keep it at seven, which then makes quite often just the board meat now. Excuse me. Once a month. It was it's once a month currently. The proposal here is to go back to two. Okay. So I would say I would say rather than if they're meeting by monthly, I would say if it's if there's an application has been delayed by 30 days Then it should go back to the discretion of all the services director so that there's been two opportunities for meeting before What that's already yet. I'm not sure it's drafted that way. I apologize. Sorry. So Rango has corrected me. It's actually one meeting. If they do not have forum for one meeting, go back to the development services. Okay. Okay. You're fine with that? Okay. We'll see how that works then. Okay. But it's a seven. Oh, seven. That's seven. We have a request for seven. And we can we just for two six. Oh gosh, the price is right. Can we maybe have them keep track for, you know, three months and see how many times we fail to make warm with this to see if we have to reassess. I mean we have we have a person that runs a meeting on our behalf that goes back into, you know, development services. We can get the feedback. Yeah, that's why I'm saying can they give us a report in three months? You're requesting. I mean, requesting. Okay, so we'll give that direction to the clerk to get if you can give us Ain't running summary of the board's court and performance and before move mayor. Sorry. Yes, sir Can you give us an update Miss clerk on What we have allocated correctly any open spots any opportunities to fill up that board at seven if we at seven we have two vacancies and right now and have three expired terms as on the board. Okay. So that's something that commission needs to work on on making sure. So three expired terms those board members want to continue to serve. I think they do. Okay, so can we just put them back on the agenda? Okay. You said no. I said yeah, why not? Okay, so yeah, I mean. I think what I was just as a practice, if we have expired terms, and the board members want to continue to serve, I would just call it them for approval. And if we really don't want to point someone, we can have that discussion typically, I don't think it's been a practice here but okay that way we're not we're not unnecessarily holding up the Reappointment on a procedural item which is us requesting That'll be reappointed. Yes sir. So currently we have two open spots. Correct. Oh As those allocations are it's me isn't it? Huh? It's always me. What now you're your appointee. I'm, has an expired term. Oh, thank the Lord. No, at least it's not vacant. And, um, well, the mayor has recommended someone already for the board. The lab be sick. And so do you have another one? Then I have a recommendation as well. So you'll be the last one. Yeah. All right. There we go. Okay. We have two pending recommendations that would fill the two additional board spots like in Mr. Kaya Would like to see okay Do we want to go the last one. Yeah. Alright, there we go. Okay, so we have two pending recommendations that would fill the two additional board spots. Second Mr. Kaye. I would like to see. Okay. So do we want to go do we want to go to seven? I have. I'm fine. Other way. So okay. So so is there a motion to amend the ordinance as presented to increase. Okay, so motion to move to seven from five. Okay, second. Okay. Seeing. to increase. Okay, so motion to move to seven from five. Okay, second. Seeing the objection to the amendment will consider the adoption. So is there a motion on the amended ordinance with the public hearing my apologies? So okay, with that as discussion, is there any of the public who'd like to address this commission on item eight? Sir, good evening. I'm sorry if I'd known you were here for this item, I would have called it up sooner. No, I wasn't here for this. Okay. Love your shirt by the way. Your name and answer the record please. Wilson Fernandez. Wilson, you're shirt, come on man. I love the shirt. Go thank you. I've dealt with this issue before on the State Statute and one of the ways that we were able to be just concerning about getting quorum is that typically these boards have vacancies. And if you put a heart for quorum, you may not be able to get if you have two, then it's 80%. If there's two vacancies four out of five, so we've written in in a way that it says the majority of these standing members, meaning whatever the membership of that board is of that time, then you constitute Quorum based upon a majority, not a hard number figure. And that way you get around, if you have two vacancies, or three vacancies, you can still operate and function there. So it's just a suggestion that I've dealt with before on this statute. Thank you. Thank you. If I may ask, Mr. Hernandez, what brought you to the meeting this evening? My son had to do a Eagle Scout come to me. And while he's going to have to go bring him up after the public hearing. I think he came to an exciting. He missed the Pine Crest, but he came to the South Miami. Great. Glad to have you. And congratulations on being an Eagle Scout. No small feet. Thank you. Fantastic. OK, so colleagues, where? So we have any further public comment? Anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand. OK, seeing no one else in the chamber and no one else online will close the public hearing. OK, so I think we have the item in a posture as amended with seven members. Okay, Commissioner Coyote, you want to move the item as modified? Move the item as modified. Okay, so there's second. Okay, we'll motion by Commissioner Coyote, a second by Vice Mayor Cory. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Yes, Commissioner Coyote? Yes. Commissioner Woodney? Oh, yes. Vice Mayor Cory? Yes. Mayor Fernandez? Yes. Thank you. Colleagues committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to provide the committee to I think we're going to do it. I should put it on. Ah, put myself on the back.