Good evening and welcome to the April 2nd Oakland Park City Commission meeting. General public comments and public hearing comments are limited to four minutes per person per item. You'll be asked to state your name and address for for the record. A 10 minute recess will be taken at 8.30 p.m. City Clerk roll call please. Commissioner Neubull. Commissioner Badhu. Yeah. Vice Mayor Arnst. Here. Commissioner Gordon. Here. And we will some children in the audience today who might want to lead us into the pledge of allegiance. If you'll come up to the podium, please. Thank you students you. And today on our agenda, we actually had a BSO sheriff Tony was going to be here and something had occurred and he could not make it. So we have Captain Anna Amarillo quickly, BSL Captain, who's going to come up and introduce some of her team. Captain, thank you for being here. Good evening, everyone. I am here today to introduce you to some of our staff, executive staff of downtown. We have Colonel Steve Robson from the Department of Law of Forcemen and we also have our new major, Chris DiGiovanni, who some of you met at the Taste of Wilkman Park. And my colleague and my my my, my, my right hand man, Jim, I'm married as you guys know him. I'm gonna let Colonel Robson say some fjords and send us himself. Good evening, everybody. Good evening. The opportunity to come here tonight and introduce myself. I apologize for Sheriff Tony. He's under the weather today. Otherwise, he would have been here to introduce me. So, but the captain did an amazing job, so I appreciate that. A little bit about me. I've been a carnal with the Sheriff's Office for five years. This is my 29th year with the Sheriff's Office. I currently have a master's degree in public administration. I'm also a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Prior to assuming the role of the executive director of the Department of Law Enforcement, I was the executive director of our department of preparedness and response. That was everything regional services, special operations, and everything training at the Sheriff's Office. So, Colonel Holmes has decided to retire and Sheriff Tony's decision is to combine those two commands together. So I've kept my current command that I've just assumed the command of the Department of Law Enforcement as well. So now everything forward-facing at BSO was now under one command which simplifies the stream lines a lot of things and that's made. So I'm the Executive Director for Law Enforcement as I said and I'm over patrol services and he'll be getting to know me a lot more and I'll be coming to your meetings. Sir thank you very much for being here we appreciate it we appreciate everything that you and the entire team at BSO do to keep us safe. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Good evening, Mayor, Commissioner, vice mayor, and the city manager, Mr. A. I'm so glad to be here. I met some of you actually recently at your wonderful event just nearby, Jacko Park, Taste of the City. I wanted to tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Christopher DiGrovani. I'm the new major taken over the North Patrol region. When I personal note, I want to tell you that it feels like coming home when I come to Oakland Park, when I was a child, my mother used to take me to Peter Pan diner. And I cannot believe that that diner is still standing proud serving families and little kids today. But that's such a are blessing go and see that Peter Pan diner every time I drive in the Cooper said, I'm sorry into Oakland Park. I am the former Cooper City District Chief. Before I was promoted, I served there for five years, that community. And I'm so excited to take over the North region command. Again, on a personal note, my mother has been a resident for two decades in the city of Oakland Park. I'm very familiar with this community and its needs, and I'm willing on very privilege to come here to serve. On a professional note, I want to share with you that I have served in the United States Marine Corps for six and a half years. I served in two combat tours overseas and operation during freedom and operation, Iraqi freedom and I'm a combat veteran. I came back to serve my community because I wanted to continue a life of service and so I joined the Brown Sheriff's Office and I have served for over two decades in my current profession and I got to tell you that it's a it's a rewarding profession because the profession that puts people above yourself right and so I'm excited to step into this role and to help your beloved captain as she continues to further the strategic plan and the vision of this city this city is nearing very soon it's a tenio celebration and I hope that I'm still in this position to help you celebrate that I'm also excited to celebrate your youth day parade that's going to be coming up very soon and to walk in that parade. They'll learn a little bit more and they technical note what this city offers as it's very inclusive and represents all types of people which I applaud and celebrate. So thank you for the opportunity to come here and introduce myself and to serve this community and your families. Sir, thank you for being here. We very much appreciate it and everything that you do and as far that youth date celebration, you're going to be bringing some kids I assume. Can you tell us about the family a little? Actually, yeah, I'm happy to talk to you about that. So I am a father of seven. Oh, yes. Six boys and one girl. As you can imagine that girl is my princess. But yes, I typically bring my children. I don't bring them all because there's a lot to keep track of. But I will bring a couple of my children to walk in that parade and it would be a privilege to do that. Excellent. Thank you. And thank you for your service and thank you for your service again. Thank you for your service and I got to be able to catch up with you with boys. I have to be sure but thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Okay we'll move on to proclamations. Mr. Lose, go now. Second. And this is for Child Abuse Prevention Month. Mr. Nubel. Yes. Commissioner Budhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Whereas our future prosperity depends on the nurture and healthy development of our children, and our vulnerable population, currently growing and learning within our community. And whereas every child has a right to a safe, healthy, and happy childhood, where they are educationally and developmentally on track. And whereas research shows most child abuse cases are a consequence of neglect in which families or caregivers are often overwhelmed by economic and social problems without solutions, weakening their ability to sufficiently supervise their children, increasing their vulnerability to maltreatment. And whereas for far too many children, the violence, fear, and intimidation associated with physical and emotional abuse define their most formative years. The emotional scars can last a lifetime, making it hard to form healthy relationships A B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B individuals, businesses, schools, and community organizations make children a top priority and take action to support the physical, social, and emotional, and educational development of all children. Now therefore, the City Commission of the City of Oklahoma Park Florida by the Virginia Authority, vested by the charter, Dissier by Authorized Mayor Tim Longan. To reclaim the month of April 2025, his child abuse prevention month in the City of Oklahoma Park, and urges all residents to recognize this month by working together to prevent child abuse and neglect, protect children and strengthen families. Thank you. Thank you, Clerk Stroke. We appreciate that. And accepting the proclamation today is Mr. Nicholas Hassing. He is from the Broward County Children's Service Council. And I also want to share he's a new proud homeowner here in the City of Oakland Park and presenting the Proclamation is Commissioner Gordon. Right. Microphone. Yes. Stay. Good evening, everyone. April is recognized as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. a destination that has been in place since 1989-83. This month aims to raise awareness as the proclamation stated, and encourage communities to work together to prevent child abuse and neglect. Child abuse can be found in any home, rich or poor. So don't think that because of a certain economic, economic situation that child abuse exists. It can exist anywhere. Just know that you and me as citizens, we have to see it and say something. The advocates who initiated the child abuse prevention movement are change makers who refuse to accept the status quo. They fought to ensure that children's voices were heard and continue to inspire and activate both current and future child abuse prevention advocates. Let each of us take an oath to protect our most vulnerable population, our children. If we fail to protect them, then who will? The future of our civilization rests on their shoulders. And I'm passionate about this, because it's a message that has to be resonated across communities throughout our country, because it exists and it exists in places where sometimes you least expect it just keep your eyes open. Change will not come if we wait for someone else or for a more opportune time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change we seek. This quote is attributed to the 44th President, President Barack Obama. On behalf of the City Commission and the City of Oakland Park, it is both an honor and a privilege to present you, Mr. Hessein, with this proclamation. Thank you. And I'm sure you will allow to say a few words. Okay, here's the mic. Thank you Commissioner Warden. I echo all of your points. I'm appreciative to Mayor Longerman and to the entire commission for Reckoning April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Like the Commissioner I mentioned my name is Nick Hesling I'm the government affairs to the Children's Services Council. The work that we do is to promote the well-being of children across Broward County and part of that is creating safe and nurturing communities so that kids can achieve their full potential and And whether it is your city, BSO, DCF, taking on the work of child protective and investigative services, the work your city is doing a partnership with United Way, the county is doing a United Way to create affordable housing units for people so that families can stay together and have strong units. This is the work that helps to create more comfortable nurturing places for children to, again, achieve their full potential. So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. May I have a minute? Would you like to take a picture? Please. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. There will be others. Very important. You can leave that back. Commissioner Neubold? Yes. Commissioner Batu? Yes. Vice Mayor Arns? Yes. Commissioner Gordon? Yes. Mayor Longan? Yes. Whereas paralyzed veterans of America is a congressionally chartered veteran service organization founded in 1946 to ensure paralyzed veterans receive the benefits earned through their service to our nation. And whereas it is important that we honor these veterans for the great sacrifice they made for their country and praise them for the courage, determination and perseverance they demonstrate daily in facing the difficult challenges of their disabilities. And, whereas paralyzed veterans of America deliver service to all veterans free of charge, thanks to the generous support of donors and fundraising activities. And, whereas throughout the month of April, paralyzed veterans of America will highlight the unique challenges veterans with spinal cord injury or disease face and how people can get involved to help. Now therefore, the City Commission of the City of Oakland Park, Florida by the virtue of authority vested by the charter. This hereby authorize Mayor Tim Melodigan to proclaim the month of April 2025 as paralyzed veterans of America Awareness Month in the City of Oakland Park and urges all citizens to observe this month by reflecting upon the sacrifices endured by our communities, paralyzed veterans. Thank you. Thank you, Kloch. Trout. Today, accepting the proclamation is Mr. One Perez, past President Florida chapter of the paralyzed veterans of America, and presenting is Commissioner Nubal. Mr. Perez, if you could come up, there you go. Good evening, Mr. Perez. I had a short conversation with him. I live in Miami. So thank you for coming here. And it's an honor to present this proclamation to you on behalf of Oakland Park City Commission. And the city manager, Mr. David A. Bear and staff to present you with this proclamation. This is a time to honor the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of veterans living with injuries, such as spinal cord injuries, disorders, any injuries that you could just think of. It also brings attention to challenges, veterans face and highlight the critical work of the paralyzed veterans of America. That's why it is important that we must advocate to keep services that have been put in place for veterans because they are the ones. They were the ones that made sure that we were safe at night. We didn't know what was going on, but they were out there protecting our airs, protecting our borders, protecting our borders. And the last thing we could do is take the services away from them. My father was a veteran. He also benefited from the services that the VA provided. He was an amputee and had we not receive help from the VA to care for him. We don't know what we would have done. So it is an honor for me to present this to you because I take this personally and I'm gonna give you the mic so you can say something. And for all of us to support the paralyzed veterans day for this mom, let's advocate for them to make sure the services remain. Okay, let's just say your name is Juan Peruz, The best prison of the better America, on behalf of the organizations, I wanna say thank you, thank you, so it's an honor for me to receive this proclamation. And I only have to say, if you see a burden, just say thank you. Just say thank you, you know, because you see it or how do we, you know, everything that we do, you know, for everybody. So thank you. Thank you. And thank you for your services. Thank you, Mr. Pryswell. Come come down and rule to a picture with you. Come on. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. You can to get the camera. You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? You think you know that? One more, one more one more one more. Thank you. and and and and and our final proclamation for today is what for water conservation on ocean of Yes. Mr. Gordon? Yes. Marry Longings. Second. Commissioner Noobel. Yes. Commissioner Butto. Yes. Vice Mayor Arens. Yes. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Mayor Longham. Yes. Whereas water is a basic need and sustain our life and whereas the state of Florida water management districts in the City of Oakland Park are working together to increase awareness about the importance of water conservation. And whereas the Florida section of the American Water Works Association encourages public water supply, excuse me, utilities to implement cost effective outdoor irrigation programs to enhance utilities water supply at cost far below than that of alternative water supplies. And whereas April is typically a dry month, when water demands are higher and more than half of all residential water uses outdoors for long and landscape irrigation. Anoraz, it is important homeowners, landscapers, businesses, and local governments reduce their water usage in the smallest ways as minor water leaks account for nearly one trillion gallons of water wasted each year in US homes according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Now, therefore, the City Commission City of Oakland Park, Florida by the virtue authority, the resident by the charter, does hereby authorize Mayor Tim Loner to long again to proclaim the month of April 2025 as water conservation month in the City of Oakland Park, Florida and is calling upon each citizen in business to help protect our precious water resource by thinking of ways we can use water wisely. Thank you. Thank you, Clerk Schraut. I appreciate that. We have Commissioner Buddler going to be presenting the proclamation and accepting it is Molly Fertsch. Molly is our environmental sustainability coordinator here with Oakland Park and we have special visitors with us today. There were three poster contest winners for the drop savers water and that is Natalie Villator, a third grader from North Andrews Gardens Elementary. Gil, from Omana Rodriguez, a fifth grader from North Andrews Gardens Elementary, and Livya Chisick, a twelfth grader from Northeast High School. Students, come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Woo! Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you've come up? Yes. Sorry. It's hard work time. Come on up. All the kids to come on up. Thank you for this. This is so important for me. 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 right. Well, thank you for this. This is so important for me. Years ago, everybody knew I used to work with Salveys Management. And then I was at the Customer Call Center. And in the early 2000s in day county, it was a water store. We were actually finding people for having a yard, for the water going into the yard before hours and after hours because it was water that was being wasted in the community. And with the water shortage. So this is important. Browell County doesn't have this problem. Thank God we don't because we have a nice lot of green yards and it's very important to have water conservation. That is our most precious resource. We got a great team with Molly, our great director, Albert Collins. Wave your hands for everybody to treat you. He was last year or a couple of years, a year and a half ago, it was a water main break and it was in Fort Lauderdale. All right, it was contaminated and nothing to do with us, but it was in Fort Lauderdale. All right, it was contaminated. And nothing to do with us, but it's in Fort Lauderdale. But every parent, but our city is so efficient enough because we got great leadership that helps and provide the protection we need in our pipes and the water pipes in our infrastructure to prevent that. So with that said, we have this great proclamation. I'm'm gonna pass it on to you the great family with school I from No, phantoms okay no phantoms All right no phantoms gone the elementary you know we got Rickards We got northeast we got five schools and of course they have environmental programs and all right And we teach them everything they need to know about the environment but with that money would you like to say a few words? Just on behalf of the students I know they'll be grateful to receive this proclamation for winning the contest so yeah we can give them to mr. I was just going to say, I think those students enjoyed learning about water conservation and doing their artwork for the poster contest. So thank you. And this is the, we've done this for a couple of years now. It's great. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much and thank you. Oh, I appreciate it. There, to one more thing while you're up there, I'd like to let everyone know there's a little app called Ion Water. Okay? Everyone on their lives in open parks should have us on their phone and check it every single day. They'll tell you how to have leaks. And I just had a leak and one of them, because it showed me at a 1.2 gallon per hour leak, found it and one of the hose bibs was leaking so I replaced the hose bib to care of it But it shows right up there right now. It says good job. No leaks detected and it gives you a water usage So you can see how much you're using and it also if you have a leak That's a large leak that's that you don't even know about could be out of the house if you set the parameters for Expand a gallons per hour it'll come up and give you a text message as you have water leaking and you're From your somewhere on your property and I'll tell you what it saves me one time a whole bunch of money because I didn't know it's leaking My water bill is usually 45 $50 is almost through almost $400 because the leak. And so if you have a phone and you live in Oakham Park, you really ought to, it's called Ion Water. It's available in the Android store. I'm sure in the Apple Play Store. And it's very simple to put on there. All you need is your account number and you're going to get that in your water bill, everyone. And the other thing is that you'll just know what's going on with your water. So you don't get a shock and surprise like I got one day when I got a three or four dollar water bill. So it's very simple to do. And you check your mail how many times a day check this once in the morning. It's real simple. And I found the water leak fixed it and it's all done over with so that's all thank you mayor Thank you vice mayor excellent advice Okay, and at this time that are there any additions changes or deletions to the agenda no No No mayor vice or anything hold on a second I'd like to move item 22 into the consent agenda. Mr. Reiber, was there a presentation with 22? We have one ready, sir, but if it's not something that is pressing, certainly we can dispense with it. Is it standard operating procedure? It's, we've done last year we put on consent agenda. Okay, so up to the commission, you guys. I think it is the SOP standard operating procedure. Yeah. Which it sounds like it, I don't have an issue. Okay, sub to the commission. You guys. I think it is the S O P standard operating seizure. Yeah. Which it sounds like it. I don't have a mission. Okay. Concerns. You're okay. Okay. Commissioner. I'm at the X. Why are you pulling? I'm not pulling. I'm just admiring the consent agenda because it's, it's, it's, every year we do, it's, it's a lot of stuff. It's all of it's doing show with the numbers are. And really all you do is look on the agenda item and it's real simple. You read the agenda item. It's a very simple item. I think one good reason, Vice Mayor, to actually present it. And I can go either way, but it's mainly for public education. We read the agendas and we understand it in this way. But the public gets a better understanding of how we roll over. Well, they know we roll over here. I mean, it's been going on for years and years and years. And most of the times it was just, it never was a big agenda item. Okay, it was just done, it was done mysterially. Okay, so it looks like three are saying they want to put it on the consent agenda and to say no. So on the consent agenda goes. Motion to amend the agenda. Upon a query. Second. Vice mayor. Yes, sir. I had the briefing, the great debriefing on this with staff. They explain it now. If it's just for educational purposes, I'll have a meeting with the objection. But this is what we have to do each week. It's a very ministerial item. It's not of where all it's doing is putting the money where it should be because by law the budget has to be balanced. Right. Because all it does is it's taking moving money from last year to this year. That's true. That's all it's doing. It's a roll. It's a roll of it. It's a roll of it. I know it's a roll of adjustment, but it really doesn't make a difference because the money's there's no new money coming in There's no there's it's not like we got a windfall where we got this or that or your taxes are gonna be affected It's not has nothing to do with that the city manager and Assistant ACM you know they pulled out several points that I want to further discuss probably in my comments about federal funding that we got a right to check to Okay, and It was said Alan O. Is a certain just but I really thought about it the night before I say wow, you know We have to write a check $700,000 to the federal government. Okay. And, um, is your point is, is the information that commission, you know, we may want to have details, so it may not, but I don't have a check. You know, say you just tell the letter, we'll know that. Yeah. Well, I heard the two there. And mayor, I'm happy to address that inquiry during my city manager reports if you would like. Perfect, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, and roll call. Commissioner Neubull. Yes, Mr. Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arnsd. Yes. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Mendy Jen as approved. The agenda is amended. Second. Mr. Nibble. Yes. Mr. Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Motion to amend the agenda as approved the agenda is amended second Mission new bold Yes, Mr. Buttham yes, yes, yes, mission Gordon yes, Maryland again. Yes, and we move on to presentations our first one is youth day 2025 Mr. City Manager Thank you very much as you know, this is one know, this is one of our... This is one of our dress-up events, apparently. Is that Aaron John? Oh, no. You don't have a game. Oh, geez. Well, college, you're full. Now, are you using a torpedo bat now? We're delighted to have you back from vacation, Mr. Kassal, our esteemed director of parks and leisure services is joining us this evening to preview one of our classic events here in Oakland Park. Chris, if you would please. Thank you, City Manager. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners. Again, Chris Kassal, director of Parks and Leadership Services. Game on. That is our theme this year for Youth Day. So you can dress up to any game if it be a sports team, a mascot, a board game, word game, video game, anything game related. That's what our theme is this year. So those that are participating in the parade, or watching the parade, or even coming to the celebration afterwards, please dress up. We're we're theming the whole parade and ceremony to game on. So this year, our youth day is held on, it's going to be held held on Saturday April 12th. We start with the parade at 10 a.m. We're going to leave Jaco Pesto is Park, go down Dixie to 38th and end at Wembley Field. Same parade route as past years. Once the parade concludes, then we'll have the opening ceremony at the field, where we have just a schedule pack full of different entertainment. If it be magicians, dance performances, we even have some fitness classes going on. We have our sensory zone. We're bringing that back and that's been a big hit. And then we conclude the night with fireworks at 8.45 pm. That will conclude about 15 minutes of fireworks and then that wraps up the day. So right now we do have our wristbands on sale for the rides. We're selling them at $15. It's a pre-sale price. Then it goes to $20 on the day of right now we're selling amount of the library here at City Hall a Dylan Tennis Center and also North Andrew's Gardens Community Center so please if you haven't gotten your wrist bands yet please go get them they do sell quick we don't sell out but get them before they go up to $20. Also here in attendance with me today, we have our grand marshal. So this year our grand marshal is our women's girls basketball coach from Northeast High School. They made it all the way to states this year, which is very impressive. So I would like to invite Coach Hannah up here, and I am going to give him a couple items, and you can also say a few words. Great job. Woo! Great job. Woo! Great job. Woo! Great job. Woo! Great job. Woo! Great job. Woo! Hello. I'm Coach Hanna, Lawrence, and I'm Northeast High School. We had a historic season this year. That's the first time in school history. We also wanted to be a state of devil a tournament, the big a tournament. That's the first time in school history. So really... We went 28 and three as the first time in school history. We also wanted to be see that devil a tournament the big eight tournament That's the first time a school history. So we're looking to build something huge at the school All our girls above for 3.0 so I think we're on we head on the right track and thank you guys for In full, um, the silence to be a grand marsher. It means to be a grand marsher and the girls are looking forward to the parade. Congratulations. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our presentation. I'm going to take some pictures, but I'm here to answer any questions you may have. Yeah, what did you play? Where? What did you play? I was short stops on our field for who? Barry University. Yeah. I'm going to start off with the first part of the project. I'm going to start off with the first part of the project. I'm going to start off with the first part of the project. I'm going to start off with the first part of the project. I'm going to start off with the first part of the Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Just want to say congratulations to you, coach. This is your raise in the bar. And this is the first time in the history of the school. Have excellent. Keep up the great work. Thank you so much, Mrs. Cassal, it's good to see you back. Thank you. I didn't know you played, now we know. Yeah, I do. Nice. Thank you. I got one game. Is beer pong called a game? I can play it's a game. I'm going there, though. I'm going to picture with you. Yeah. Thanks, thank you. I also want to say congratulations on your team and also their grades. So that's amazing and thank you and congratulations on being the Grand Marshal. Welcome back. Game on, no Kendrick Lamar. Coach, how about the boys basketball team? What's going on with the varsity? I'm sorry, the progress. Are you coaching them? Yes, the girls. Okay. We used to be three in 28. But I went to school in Northeast. We're a lot younger. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to be student of the quarter. It's been a while and we're happy to have the student of the quarter again. Mr. City Manager. Thank you Mayor for this presentation. I'll call on Ms. Heidi Bernat, our Director of Library Services and our wonderful members of the School Advisory Board. Heidi if you would please. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioner of City Staff. It has been a while, right, since we've done this. And I am so pleased to bring back student of the Court Recognition Awards. It is really one of the most joyful tasks that we get to do here. The awards are the initiative of the City School Advisory Board and joining me tonight is Jack Donnelly, our board chair and Lou Naylor, one of our long-term board members. Each Oakland Park School is asked to choose a student who demonstrates academic success, good behavior, good attitude, effort and attendance. So a lot of things have to go right with these students for them to be standing here tonight. Elementary schools are asked to send in a fifth grader. The middle schools are asked to send in an eighth grader. And the high school is asked to send anyone. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha collective futures are going to be just fine. We are in good hands. So we have five Oakland Park schools that participated tonight and tonight we have with us. Let's just move this guy so we can put the kids over here. Alrighty. We have Shayla Raina Jimenez from Oakland Park Elementary. Congratulations. We have Ava Roar from North Andrews Gardens Elementary. We have Juan Razo from Loydestate's Elementary. We have Dylan Chinchilla with us from Rickert's Middle School. And we have Maria Forner, Ibenas from St. Marks Episcopal School located here in Oakland. Congratulations, students of the quarter. to and and and and and and the regions, the right consent of major regions, as well. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks again, Jim. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. He's always hiding. We do work in that. Okay. Thank you again to the students. Keep up the good work. We are not going to be again with our public hearings. We have a quasi judicial hearing on first reading. Mr. City Attorney. All his individuals who testified during the course of this proceeding please stand and be sworn He's only swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth Please proceed Okay, Mr. City manager you have a presentation Thank you mayor this evening presenting the application by Cypress Creek, leaseholder LLC will be Sierra Moreiro. She is our Director of Engineering and Community Development and two of her ASUS, Rick and Diego are here to assist her. Ms. Moreiro. Absolutely, and good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and CommissionersM. Moreiro, Director of Engineering and Community Development. Joining me this evening on the Oakland Park team is our planning supervisor, Rick Buckuy and our senior planner, Diego Penelosa. And we are here tonight on a quasi-judicial public hearing on first reading for the Cypress Crossing Master Plan and Flexibility Housing Unit Allocation. So a little bit of background on this project. This is a request to consider the mixed use master development plan approval for a 25,000 square foot commercial space in the PCC or planned community center zoning district, which is also in that PCC two sub districts. They are also requesting an allocation of 286 flexibility housing units to be used for the residential portion of this property. The subject property is approximately 8.4 gross acres and 6.95 net acres. It is located at the FDOT Park and Ride Lot on the southeast corner of Andrews and Cyprus Creek Road. So a little bit of background on this request as I stated, they're looking for a mix use master development plan and also 286 housing units along with six commission waivers that are required under the PCC districts as part of our land development code. The current status of their approvals is there has been three neighbourhood participation meetings that have taken place with the most recent being on March 11th, 2025. This has been seen before the DRC multiple times over the past few years. Recently they did go before the planning and zoning board on March 10th and we are here on first reading at City Commission this evening. So to give you an overview of the surrounding land uses and zoning for the future land use map it is transportation designation on both the north and east sides of the property and the south side on the west side is a commercial designation which is in the city of Fort Lauderdale. When it comes to the zoning itself, these are transportation districts on the northeast and south side with the west side being a B2 or general district within the City of Fort Lauderdale's uptown district. So the proposed project is an eight story that actually straddles the City of Fort Lauderdale. I'll give a bigger picture here in a moment. This is the site plan that you see on the Oakland Park side that's on your screen. And this is the DOT Park and Ride Lot. They are proposing an eight story mid-rise mixed-use residential building with two commercial buildings. They do have a private roadway network that does have dedicated access and they have internal infrastructure. So to kind of zoom out to show you the conditions of the site, as I said, it's on the southeast corner of Cypress Creek Road in Andrews Avenue. Right down the middle of the site, you can see in the existing conditions on the left-hand side of your screen, on the right-hand side is the proposed site plan, where you have the red dotted line, everything in greats, the left is actually on the Fort Lauderdale side of the property. Everything that you see on the right hand side in color, this is what we'll be talking about tonight is part of the applicant's application, which will be the Oakland Park site. So breaking this down, the commercial component of this project, it does have two 7500 square foot retail buildings, has surface parking lot with 76 parking spaces and the required trash and recycling enclosures along with bicycle parking and pedestrian enhancements including trellises and hardscape along the Cypress Creek portion. I did want to point out one of the waivers or there's a few waivers that will be requested as part of this application and if you look at the bottom left photo where you can see the striping along for the pathway along Cypress Creek, which is towards the bottom, that is part of the landscape waiver request and also the setback waiver for the trellisism. We'll get into those a little bit more, but I just wanted to provide a visual before we got into the waivers. As far as the Mix Use Residential section, this is going to be on the south side of the property further away from Cyprus. This is an eight story mid-rise building with 286 units. It is broken down into studio, one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom apartments. They do have a retail space in this building of just over 5,700 square feet. They have co-working spaces within the building also at just under 2800 square feet. The parking garage is calculated to have 522 spaces and it does have residential outdoor amenities for the residents. And I also wanted to zoom in a little bit on the access because this is going to be part of one of the waivers that we talk about here in the very near future. As you can see once again on the left hand of your screen that's Andrew's avenue. There's an existing signalized intersection that will remain as part of the Fort Lauderdale project. There is a, at the bottom right you'll see the Southbound I-95 ramp coming on to I-95 to go Southbounds. We also have at the top right a full access signalized intersection that is an existing intersection that is to remain. And then there will be a new right in, right out only, that will be in the center of the property dividing the Oakland Park and Fort Lauderdale side. So those are your access points in and center of the property dividing the Oakland Park and Fort Lauderdale side. So those are your access points in and out of the property. So diving a little bit into the flexibility housing unit request. So flexibility units are actually something that the county has and Broward next their comprehensive plan that allow the city, the city's the opportunity to add additional density in areas that normally do not have a density such as the commercial district or this PCC to district which is before you today So it does allow you to increase that residential density without going through a future land use map amendment and it's intended to support that mixed development and that in fill within commercial districts So the current inventory that the city has is 286 flexibility units, which is what's being requested also tonight. And so once the city falls below, according to the Broward next, 250 flexibility units, then we have the ability to apply for additional redevelopment units. We cannot do that process or take part of that process until our pool of units is under 250. So if this is approved, then the city will begin the process of applying for the redevelopment units so that we'll have those for future development. I do wanna advocate that that does not mean that if we do not have the units on the books right now while we're going through the redevelopment that does not stop development within the city. That is only the additional flexibility units when you have a commercial property like the one before you today that would need additional units because they don't have a density on our future land use map. So the six waivers that are being requested by the applicant, excuse me, the first one is the minimum site area waiver. This is actually a cleanup. The code actually does not allow, or it says that PCC districts are supposed to be 10 acres or more. The property is actually 8.497 acres. So we've asked the applicant to apply for this waiver waiver so we can have that cleaned up on our site on the city side. We have a landscape buffer waiver which is actually requesting the reduction from the 25-foot buffer along Cyprus Creek to 11.1 feet and also removing the requirement for a 3-foot berm. This actually came about in the DRC and the plan review process and trying to make a more urban context and blend the Oakland Park side with the Fort Lauderdale side. And so that was one of the waivers that they would have to apply for to be able to comply with those requests of the DRC. They also have a front setback waiver, which would be for the front yard setback along East Cypress Creek Road. This waiver sounds short that it goes down to 2.8 feet, but that's actually because the trellis that has been added to the property as part of the request through the DRC process would impede into that. And since that is a structure, they would require 2.8 foot, I'm sorry, a waiver to the 2.8 foot space. Sorry. Additionally, they have a side-set back waiver reducing from 15 feet to 11.1. This is for the architectural overhang of their building. There is a height waiver that is required as part of the PCC district in the land development code to go over the four stories to an eight story which would be from 50 feet to just over just about 89 feet high. And then the last waiver they are requesting is to have two free standing monument signs in lieu of one since they have two access points going back to the access that we described before. There's the existing signalized intersection and then there's the new access that they will be creating. They would like to have monument signs at both of those access points. So the findings, staff did find that this request was compliant with the comprehensive plan. They have met all of the requirements of the DRC and satisfied all of those comments. And the Flexible Housing Unit allocation is allowable on this property and it complies with the land development code and also with our comprehensive plan. So staff recommends that City Commission conduct a quasi judicial public hearing to consider the request by Cypress Creek leaseholder LLC for the mixed use land development master development plan allocation of 286 flexibility housing units and approval of six city commission waivers. In accordance with section 2455 and section 2472 of the city of Oakland Parks land development code for the subject property identified by parcel ID numbers. 494210460021421046002020 and 424210040020 and staff is available for any questions if you may have them. Thank you, Ms. Murrer. We appreciate that. Is the petitioner available wishing to present? Yes, they're here with a presentation. Good evening, Dr. Rhea Chalkis with the firm Locker and Chalkis, I'm Land Use and Zoning Council for Cypress Creek Least Holder. Cypress Creek Least Holder is the tenant. So the Florida Department of Transportation entered into a ground lease, 99-year ground lease with my client. There's about 80 years left on it, and they are the applicant, so they're proposing to develop this site, but FDOT will continue to own the underlying land. As Sierra mentioned, she did a very thorough presentation, and I'd like to personally thank a lot of your staff members and the city manager, city attorney for helping us through this process's been a long process and I know that the city is anxious to see something built here after all of these years. It has been really an underutilized park and ride lot. That's what it is, people park there and then they're able to take transit or walk over to the tri rail station and be able to ride. that will still take place on the property. So we're not removing those parking spaces. Those will be continued on the Fort Lauderdale side. So it's not really something that's going to be on the Oakland Park side, but it is those parking spaces are going to be recouped on the Fort Lauderdale side and the parking garage that's proposed. And I'll go ahead and walk through the plan and get into a little bit more detail on the Fort Lauderdale side just so you can understand how everything works and how everything sinks together. Because although they are in separate municipalities, they did try to incorporate and really think about how the sites can mesh together and function together as one site even though they are in separate municipalities. All right, let's see here. Okay. It's a PDF. Oh, it's a PDF, yeah. So we can go to the next slide. I think this is the... Okay, so this is the site. You can see the Fort Lauderdale side. It's the site that's kind of grayed out and outlined in blue. The site obviously in Oakland Park is the one that's highlighted in red. It is a total of 6.95 net acres, 8.49 gross acres. And when we talk about gross acreage, we talk about counting the areas in the right away to the center line of the right away. so that's what the difference is with those numbers. It is a PCC-2 zoning district designation, which allows the development that we are proposing here today. So the use, the use is proposed, the intensity of the use is proposed, the density for the residential on the site are all compliant with the PCC to zoning regulations. This was some of you may have been on the commission when this originally came back. It's been about 20 years, it's been a long time. There was a much more intense development plan for the site and the buildings straddled the municipal boundary lines, which made it a really, really complicated development to permit, because of course you had the Fort Lauderdale side, building department, and then you had the Oakland Park building department, and who was going to service the building, the one building that straddles the municipal boundary lines. Who's going to take care of who's going to take care of water So it was a really complicated Development plan The plan that we have here today is far more Streamlined and simple we know the buildings that are on the Fort Lauderdale side are going to be taken care of by Fort Lauderdale for municipal services and Oakland Park will take care of the Oakland Park side. Next slide. So this is how the overall master site plan lays out. The red line is the municipal boundary line. The Fort Lauderdale side, which is on the left hand side of that red line. It's a five-story mixed use project with park connected parking garage. So on the bottom part of the the graphic you'll see a 694 space parking garage that will have the parking for the residential units. 345 of them proposed on the Fort Lauderdale side. There's 4,519 square feet of commercial proposed on the Fort Lauderdale side and all of that parking is together with the parking ride spaces that we're displacing will be in the new parking garage that is going on the Fort Lauderdale property. In addition to that, on the very very bottom part of the parking garage you'll see an area, I brought my pointer just so I don't have to walk up here. Let's hope it works. Over here, hopefully you can see my little red cursor here. So on the bottom, you'll see an area where the bus is will pull it. And because the site right now has a bus transit stop that is a sizable bus transit stop. And so that is also something that is going to be replaced and is going to be on the Fort Lauderdale side. And all the buses, there's plenty of space for four buses at one time to be pulled into that area. And you point to it for me. Thank you. So yeah, right there. There we go. My van a white today. So those buses when they come in approach, it's a one way in. They'll pull in from Andrew's avenue and then just automatically pull into the little area there. And they have, like I said, room for those buses to park. The buses will then continue coming through that garage and then they'll exit the garage and go up to Cyprus Creek, either most likely the north east part because that's where the signalized intersection is. That's a fully intersection there that's fully signalized. if they need to go onto I-95, that ramp that is currently there now will be reconfigured and will still allow cars to go ahead and go immediately onto I-95 without, and that's not just the buses, that's all the parking or all the cars that come into the development, will be able immediately go on to I-95 from there. They also are able to come off of I-95, not in this particular location, but as you're heading northbound on I-95, when you get off the exit, there's a little area where you can do a U-turn and go underneath the bridge and it pulls you right into the parking lot. And you can, yeah, that's here. Thank you, right there. That'll bring the car right there. So the cars hardly have to go onto Cypress Creek Road, which is great. Is that it eliminates a lot of traffic that might otherwise be placed onto Cypress Creek Road and really internalizes a lot of the traffic that this development might generate. So that's the Fort Lauderdale side. Let's talk about the Oakland Park side. The Oakland Park side has 15,000 square feet of commercial up along Cypress Creek. So there's two buildings. Each one is 7,500 square feet. About half of that is planned to be restaurant space. So our site plan anticipates and takes into account that about half of that's gonna be restaurant space with some outdoor dining. So we've included some areas along Cypress Creek Road at the suggestion of your staff to really activate that area. We've provided for nice outdoor dining spaces along Oakland Park Boulevard. And sorry. Thank you. Thank you. I'm thinking about the city of Oakland Park and not the street. So the other area that we have commercial spaces in the actual mixed use building, which is eight stories in height and has a parking garage that also services that building. So you have a parking in the parking garage, there's 509 spaces in that garage, and then you have surface parking that you see up along and between those two commercial buildings along Cypress Creek Road. You also have 13 parallel parking spaces that go around the mixed use building. So it'll really feel like an urban kind of street where you have some parallel parking and then you have some travel lanes and driveways and then cars that are entering or exiting the parking garage will do so along the, I mean it's really the bottom right corner of this particular graphic. So again, access for both the Fort Lauderdale side and the Oakland Parkside will be from Cyprus Creek Road or North Andrews. The fully acc-sat, fully sign-onized intersection along Cyprus Creek Road is at the top right-hand corner. And then you have a right-in, right-out at Cyprus Creek Road, which is right down the middle of this particular graphic and then North Andrews Avenue. So there's plenty of access in areas to disperse traffic for this development. Next slide. This is just a close-up of the Oakland Park side. You can skip to the next slide. And then this is a rendering facing south. So you have I-95, obviously on the left-hand side. Cypress Creek Road. And then you can see those two out-partial buildings in the front. And then the eight-story mixed-use building located to the up-along I-95. The area that's white it out. That building there is the Fort Lauderdale side we didn't want to show it in full because these graphics are very good. And it looks like the building's already there. So we wanted you to focus on the Oakland Park side. But that is the Fort Lauderdale building and how that massing lays out. Next slide. And this is again another graphic just looking straight south. And then the next slide. This is the corner of the building as you're coming in through the middle, from Cypress Creek down the middle driveway. So this will be the main focal point of the mixed use building on the Oakland Park side. Next slide. And again, this is a view as if you're sitting in your car in that surface parking lot, you know, where the commercial buildings are. So if you're sitting there, this is the part, surface parking lot, that's the building that would be facing that area. Next slide. And then some additional renderings of the building. top right one is the interior pool deck area. Next slide. And some additional renderings of the building. The top right one is the interior pool deck area. It's located on the ground floor. It's obviously going to be very high and amenity area for the guests, or for the residents. And then the next slide is a rendering of the commercial building. And then you can forward on to the next slide. And we'll talk about the waivers that are being requested. The minimum acreage waiver is really self-explanatory. Your PCC2 zoning district says you have to have 10 acres for a PCC-2 property. We're not rezoning right now to this property. It's already PCC-2. This is really a cleanup. We're not really quite sure how it happened, but we have less than 10 acres. So this is really a cleanup item to wreck to reconcile the acreage of the site to what your code requires. Next slide. The height waiver is for eight stories where your code allows a minimum of five. And we believe that this is compatible with the area. We're right next to an 11 story office building. There is plan development across the street from from us that is at seven stories. So we're and then next door to us with the new development. It's at five stories. So we believe we're right in line as a mid rise project. And that's really what we're starting to see in the uptown area. This is the area that Fort Lauderdale has deemed or called the uptown area. And that's really what we're starting to see is more of a mid rise project. And that's exactly what this is. Next slide. setback waivers. So there's a few areas where we're requesting some setback waivers. The first area is up along Cypress Creek Road and there's a requirement that the buildings, the actual face of the buildings, be set back 25 feet. We've provided about 19 feet to one building and 21 feet to the other building and have circled those areas in yellow and then to the trellis which is located along parallel along Cypress Creek. If you've ever been to the fresh market in Fort Lauderdale on Federal Highway, they have a trellis feature that goes right up along the sidewalk. That's what this is going to look like. I mean, it's very nice. If you haven't looked at it, you've driven by it. I'm sure it's on Federal Highway, but that's really what this is. It's a trellis feature that really gives a nice appeal to a pedestrian that's walking down the street and provides that nice urban form. And then the other area that were a little deficient on the setback is down on the bottom left-hand side. There's another little yellow circle. There is a small area that we need a setback waiver on. We're required to have 15 feet from the property line there to the face of the building. We have an arcade overhang there at which the whole building is like that. It just happens that the boundary line for Fort Lauderdale comes in a little bit there. And so we just happen to be short there by about four feet. Next slide. The landscape buffer. We are requesting that the way that you wave the 25 foot strip of landscaping that's required with the three foot berm. And instead what we're proposing is the outdoor dining area. You know, we have if you're counting from our buildings to the actual travel lanes we have a 10 foot wide sidewalk planned in there landscaping the trellis feature outdoor dining and it's pretty consistent with what is happening on the Fort Lauderdale side so there'll be a nice continuous urban form a street scape along that area. And then the next slide, monument sign waivers. There are two monument signs planned were required or allowed to have one monument sign per street frontage. And since we can't count I guess I-95 as a street frontage or the ramps that lead to it, what we're proposing to do is just have two signs there, which is where the cars will be coming in and out. And so there will be one sign, monument sign located where the left retail building is and then another one at the right hand side. And there will be identical signs that will advertise the tenants that will be in those buildings. And the next slide, I think that is it. We're ready for some questions. Excited to get this project moving. We appreciate that. Thank you. We appreciate that. We are going to open our public hearing next. And anyone wishing to speak on this item and this item only, please step up, provide your name and your address in your comments Okay, seeing no one let's see any From the city any final comments before we move on yes, I just like to add that the height has been determined to be compatible with the land use in that area also. Okay. And Attorney Chuck is any final comments? Nothing. Okay, thank you. Mr. City Attorney, do you want to present the ordinance? I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. ordinance. ordinance the city commission of civil compact florida approving an application by Cypress crease leaseholder LLC for master development plan and plan to business center PC C2 Section 2455A of the Code of Orders to the City of Alcompark, to permit a 25,000 square foot commercial use and allocate 286 flexibility housing units in accordance with section 24-72 of the Code of Orders to the City of Alcompark. In approval of six City Commission waivers are property located southwest corner of East Cypress Creek Road and interstate 95 is more particularly described here and in containing 6.95 net acres and 8.4 gross acres more or less provide for severability conflicts and an effective day. Thank you Mr. City Attorney Could we have a motion followed by discussion? Motion to pass ordinance on first reading they CD 23-day 17 PC type of creed crossing massive development plan. Thank you, sir You're the second Second, okay in discussion We'd like to start off. Thank you, Miss Emerald for the presentation as well as miss. I'm sorry. Chuck, Chuck, it's sorry. The presentation did clear up some questions I had because I too wanted to know the responsibility since the properties are so close together. Who would be responsible for what? And I saw on your last slide you had which I think you're asking for a set back on because the way Fort Lauderdale curves that's cutting from the property line. So that's why because that's part of the red line. Okay. And also you also mentioned that traffic will be kind of managed or somewhat eliminated where it don't crowd cypress the streets. Will there be charging stations? Do you have any plans for charging stations yes although we're not required to have charging stations there are over 50 52 52 charging stations in the garage Thank you, Commissioner. You can stay up there. Or turning. Commissioner. You can stay up there. Attorney. Commissioner. Thank you. It's been a long time been waiting for this. Okay. I look at the signage waiver. Okay. So it will be two monumental signs, places at those My thing is I want to make sure everybody residents business Torres anybody who knows they're going to open parks. I said the fort lot inside. Yes, I'm that guy. I won't be picky All right, I'm gonna give fort lot of anything and staff and the great miss cursing over there already know what I want to do. I really want to take all the development and put in on Oak Parkside. I'm being good, but I know that can't happen. But my concern and you cleared it up with the waiver of the science, I want everybody to know the open park side Because that's what we're responsible for It's very important You fit the character Of that area It's robust. It's got a lot of energy and especially is by the transit Right line it we're gonna have come over. It's going to really increase the boost of economic activity. And after the growth of the talk of men, someone was in the whole team. It's been a long while. I've been monitoring this development. Yes, you have. Congratulations. Thank you. All for it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're ready, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mrs. Chakras, as well as things to you, Ms. Mereiro, for the presentation. I noticed you mentioned something, Ms. Chakras, in your presentation about high end. Is this considered a high end development? This is a market rate community and so what we typically see in these market rate communities are amenities that are very luxury like. So it is when I say high end,, these are going to be, have to compete with every other apartment building that is being constructed by in the uptown area on the Fort Lauderdale side. And I apologize for keeping having to keep mentioning the Fort Lauderdale side, but they have 4,000 units that they're planning, and some of those are actually getting constructed. So this property is going to have to compete with a lot of those. So the amenities, the way those buildings compete is with the amenities. So that's what I meant. Yes, ma'am. And these units are rental. Is that correct? They're slated to be rental, yes. Okay. 286 units. Correct. 500, how much parking? 509 spaces. 509 spaces. And auto spaces for your residential, is it for the residential crowd as well as your mix use you know the commercial. Yes. There is an element of commercial in there as well you mentioned a restaurant. Yes. So the retail the the surface parking lot I don't know if we can bring it back up. The surface parking lot that is located between the two out parcels, that surface parking lot has 76 parking spaces and then there's 13 parallel parking spaces along, that's the parking that's really needed for the retail. But we do have extra parking in the parking garage. Okay, so the the parallel parking is on the outspirts, sort of on the perimeter of the property. On the perimeter of the mixed use building. Mixed use building, understood. Yes. And I don't need to see it again. And you are asking for waivers to include setback. It's a bunch of things. Let me take a look at that again. Hight. Just want to look at those waivers again. Okay. It's in lieu of the 10 acres. now your acreage is 8.497. Yes. Okay. So you're asking for a waiver there. I understand the landscape buffer. The front setback. Okay. Okay, he's side set back the height. So back. Okay, these sides set back the height. So it's eight stories is what you're proposing right now. I have a question for you. Miss Marero, is this congruent with that area, the height for that area, the eight stories? So I heard someone mention four stories. What is the allocated, what's the height of the buildings in that area currently? What's in the code? So the PCC, as as you go over, it is 50 foot of height. You have to get a commission waiver. However, we have done an analysis. This is adjacent to I-95. And there's also an 11 story building adjacent to it also. So given the context of the site and its location, we have determined that this is a compatible height for the area of the city. Okay, because it's all about the competition, right, Ms. Trakis? I just wanted to clear up some items for my own edification purposes. I think I'm excited that residential is coming to our city. I will certainly hope that at some point in time we can get some more affordable housing, but I understand the nature of the beast and the competition that you all are facing. And also, you know city, we want to be competitive. We want to be attractive, especially when we're side by side with another city's development. So I think it's a good strategy. Okay, that's all I needed to know and thank you again for the presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Vice Mayor. Okay, couple of, I was in the community, but I'll ask the city to ask you who owns the property, The OT? The OT. Okay. Who's making the application for this? The Florida Department of Transportation and the Cypress Creek leaseholder, who is the leaseholder of the property. Okay. So they are the applicants, really? They are the agents of record. Yes, on the agent. But Cypress Creek leaseholder has a 99 year lease. FDOT has signed the application as provided authorization letters and and consented to the development plan that's before you. They'll be signing the plat, you know, as the owner. So they'll continue to be the owner and then Cypress Creek leaseholder is the tenant, the ground lessor. And there's, sorry about 80 years left, that leaves. Yes. Okay. You're asking, I know you're not asking for a parking variance. There was, by DRC, there was a parking reduction approved, parking waiver approved to reduce the parking requirements, but that was already approved at the DRC level. In that study, it was based on a study that we had put out. I know I saw the alternate study, but here's my concern about that, and Mr. Dury, you may want to chime in here here wouldn't we have to approve a variance we're parking or can they do that necessarily that can be handled by DRC okay my concern is you're showing you only need 372 spaces. Am I correct? 375. For the residential. Yes. My concern with that is that every one of those places got to have at least two cars. At least two cars. But we hope not because this is a transit oriented development, so I understand that. But here's the thing what happens is hoping and wishing what happens in real life for two different things. I really don't have a big problem. It's not that big of a difference. You only got a net difference of what? About 50 spaces or so. Am I correct? Yeah, but I would also like to point out is that our study revealed that there's only 375 parking spaces required, but we're providing more than that. I understand that you're providing 147 more spaces than that. Yes. you know you're you're providing the park's, but our code shows it for something like this, you're required to have XMAS space. Okay, so I'm not a big fan of these ITE manual. It's the Bible of all developers and the DOT or anyone there. And what happens there, and we have a real life, a true thing. But here, regardless of that, I don't have a problem with reduction of 50 spaces. I do have a problem with the reduction of the 50 charging, five charging stations. I know we're not allowed to require it, but I would like to see those five charging stations out in the commercial area. Because it doesn't make sense to have all the charging stations inside a garage. And without having to have some for the customers to come there and need a charger vehicle. I don't think that's a problem. We can agree to that. and those they don't have to do that. If it's not, somebody needs to come up here and tap me. This is the shoulder, bird tell me it's not. And the level three is the minimum level three is not 400 volts. It's 480 volts. 100 amp-480 volts. That's the standard for level three. And I saw there it was at 400 volts. 400 volts really technically doesn't exist because it goes in 120 volt increments As to that you are voluntary agreed so it's not an extraction you it's not an extraction city just You're doing it on your own relation. That's correct all of the the EV stations are something we have voluntarily offered. We will just simply relocate five of those that are in the garage and put them into the commercial parking. That's fine. Now the green initiatives, I saw your green initiatives. They're a little weak to say the least. The concrete, the roof, the aluminum windows, the aluminum storefront windows, exterior insulation. Okay. I'm looking to do something that has been talked about at big at these large projects and has it ever been done. City talks a good talk, but only comes time to walk in the walk. The city falls short. I'm not blaming anyone, the city commission, anyone that's staffed, anyone. But we've got another big item here, item 12, about re-upping our sustainability and green initiatives and stuff like that. I would love to see instead of putting in interior lights on the parking lot as electric as solar. And I ask you for solar panels on the roof for that. But if we're going to sit here and say, you know, we've got, we're trying to do our best to reduce our carbon footprint. And I've mentioned this before when I was out in the audience, when they were approving bliss. And I mentioned that, you know, there's going to be some, some things, something sort of that needs to happen. Because if we don't start now, when do we start if we start it? And where does it end? Where does it end? It really isn't. Well, here's what I would say to that. I don't know if we can do that simply because we're trying to make this compatible with the Fort Lauderdale side with having complementary light fixtures. I know the solar light fixtures and what those look like. But we are providing, you know, quite a bit, I think, of, I recognize you said it's. You're asking a lot of, too. I mean, I have never approved a variance asking for so much, for height variance, and you know how I feel about the flex units. We had a meeting about the flex units. I'm just, that wasn't my, you know, still on the edge of the flex units, but I just, my concern is that we have another project coming here, and I knew he said it doesn't take long to get him, but how long has Wilton Manor's been working on, Mr. Marel? Took Wilton Manor's nine months to get their redevelopment units. Yeah, okay. So I don't wanna be sitting here telling project comes in. We're gonna wait at least nine months or more to get more flexiness so you can build in our city And now when that one more question when when does the time we can apply for start? As soon as we fall under the 250 and we allocate those units we can start the application as soon the allocation on the second reading You can apply for them. We can start application, yes. Okay. I just don't want to be sitting here having a city that's not being able to redevelop stuff because we're out of flex units. Nothing, we can't get more, but we're out of them. We want to agree to it. I think we need to do our own homework. This is perhaps between first and second reading. Okay. That's a little bit more. I don't want any of you to put them with you. I want to put them on the floor. I'll sign it. Make it all even. And then you show floor. I'll tell you you're you're doing something for the environment. I mean, it mean, I've sat here and looked at it and the commission talks about it and talks about it, doesn't get done. Talks about talk doesn't get done. And it comes a point where if we're really serious about all this stuff, we have to do something. And I know it can't be that big of an expense. I mean and with the technology coming out, we're talking about, we're talking about putting solar lights in the city for street lights. Am I correct? Okay. So it's something that the sun's free here. Okay, and there's plenty of it. The last thing is I want some sort of a guarantee that the Ocompart residential component is done in a timely manner. I'm not going to say time sensitive, but in a manner. That I'll want to be sitting here for a lot of residential gets done for a lot of commercial, open park commercial and then all of a sudden the market tanks or something tanks or the building cost go up or the terrors hit in or this or that or whatever. As is how we can't build this open parkside right now. So we have a development agreement that is also included in your package that addresses the timing of the phasing if you will because the one of the benefits of the Oakland Parkside is that you don't have a massive parking garage that's going to have the the park and ride ride There are some folks that think Fort Lauderdale is actually getting the shorter into the stick With their development and that you're actually getting Better development plan with the residential and the you know larger much larger amount of commercial is Fort Lauderdale It has about 5,000 square feet of how many parking rights face of you providing about 250 That's a little high It don't use that lot I go buy it all the time. It's about it It's about it's about as you use a lot on commercial and Andrews The only thing they use that for is the goodwill Pick up so and and people and people parking some lives there parking commercial vehicles there. That's usually one of the apples. But what is the timing on the old park residential side? We have seven years to construct the project unless we come back in front of you and request an extension. The very first phase of this development has to be the internal roadway network and we have to construct that parking garage to that displaces the Brayard County Transit and the parking ride spaces that needs to be constructed first. So the Fort Lauderdale side is slated to be constructed before the Oakland Park side. But the internal roadway network that you see, the spine, if you will, the driveways and things like that are on the Oakland Park side, will be constructed during the first phase. The second phase is the commercial development that's up along Cypress Creek, and then the third phase will be the mixed use building on the Oakland Park side. So we have the development agreement seven years to construct that or our site plan is going to expire which would not be good because then our flex units, we would lose our flex units. Yeah, but that's, that's 2032. Yeah. So, as much as, you know, I don't think it's customary to request. There's provisions in your code and then we have made assurances in the development agreement that we're going to construct it per the phasing schedule. It may be constructed, the commercial and the mixed use building may be constructed at the same time. There may not be a phase two and a phase three. We don't know, we can't predict. I understand that, but here's the, I want some guarantees that this open park side is going to get done. Just for the fact that we've laid out all our flex units for, we've laid out six variances for. And I don't want to see it not get done because that's a big tax Increased for us and You know seven years a long time that's up to seven years I know but what guarantee do we have that that's gonna be because here's the thing my business I sell someone a battery that and I say, that's going to last for these 3.5 years. Oh yeah, good. What are you going to tell me is guaranteed? It goes, well, it's more than $3.5 years. So something happens is that 3.5 years, you get a free battery. I'm not looking for a specific time, but I'm looking for specific consequences if this project doesn't get built. That's my big concern because it were last on the total poll. And I've seen with our construction our $40 million bond, it's now turned into about $60 to $70 million issue. And that was 2018. Okay, so that's seven years. It's gone up by probably 70% or more. We're still not done. So building costs and stuff like that, it's going to do nothing but go up. And I just want to be stuck on the short end of this. So I'm going to vote for it at the beginning, but I just want some reassurances that we're doing green initiatives and this thing is going to get built. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. It's Mary. Appreciate your feedback. I do have a bunch of questions. So the property is owned by Florida Department of Transportation. Yes. OK. So interestingly enough, that's part of Florida, correct? Under Florida's oversight, the same state that created the Live Local Act that took away our whole rule for making decisions on how to zone things. How much afford, how many units are affordable housing in this? There is no affordable planned right now. No. Okay. I probably could not support it just because of that. A couple of the questions that the vice mayor was talking about. I completely agree we need to see solar in there. Is there any water reclamation plan for the units? No, not that I know. No water reclamation either. There's not a plan for that. Okay, in the Fort Lauderdale site, is there planned for? Is there planned plans for affordable housing? No. There is no. OK. Yeah, I can't support the plan right now. I would need to see some affordable housing built in, especially since the state owns that property and has forced us. Well, I shouldn't say forced us has taken our rights away, our home rule away requiring affordable housing to go in. And now, so a unit goes up using the live local act, we have no say so in some of the aspects of that. So it's just so bizarre that it's their property and they're not putting affordable housing on it at all. It makes no sense to me. So I can't in good conscience, well for this, I think this is a great project at face value. I love that it's transit oriented. I love that the train is right there. I love the easy end, the easy off of I95, but I would need to see some water reclamation included in it. I would need to see some affordable housing units I don't even care if it's 10% something needs to go in there. So at this point I can't support it at all Understood. Thank you Commissioner Attorney You and I have I've been beaten down that question about fortability and fortability housing. And what I received through the neighborhood participation meeting, the DRC is that because of the character of that area, there's no affordability in that area. I checked it out. the fort-lot of their side going up north on Andrews. Okay, so I raised the issue a year and a half ago. So the mayor was right, there's no affordability. And that was my initial concern. But I said I was going to support it because in that particular area, That's all that's there. These are high-end apartments up and down. And breathe. I said I was going to support it because in that particular area that's all this there These are high-end departments up and down And we in the commercial we own another commercial commissioner. You don't have to convince me So you vote your conscience and what you believe you should do. There's not a not saying right or wrong No, but you don't need to convince me. No, no, I don't, but not I agree with you actually I agree with you. Um, it isn't certain. My question would be, have you gone to the back to the F dot and have them do a clarification on can we do a live local for the ability on that. So the Live Local Act, FDOT doesn't even need to apply on the live local act. In this particular, the live local act what it says is that if you have property that's zoned commercial, industrial or mixed use and you're providing 40% of those units as affordable, you can receive administrative approval, so not even through a public hearing process, receive administrative approval of that development. And then there's other density, high things like that, benefits that you get. So it's not even a matter of FDOT having to a pine on it. That's something that is just written into Florida law. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Great. Yeah. And unfortunately attorney, the vice mayor, he slapped me on the side ahead and he said if we don't start now when are we gonna start? And we've asked for it and we've got some developments that actually did end up putting some affordable housing in and he's absolutely right. So is this another time where I go, I do love the project, I think it's great. But again, we're just turning our back on the affordable housing issue. And everyone has an opinion on it, so. And the Florida legislature has also tied the hands of local government and they have indicated that you cannot even require a developer to do affordable housing unless you're offsetting those costs somehow, whether it's building permit fees or monetary other things that offset the cost of those affordable units. So they've actually gone beyond the Live Local Act and there's a natural law separate from live local that says you can't require a developer to construct affordable without providing some sort of other incentive that offsets the cost. Okay and as I said I would like to also see solar in there and water equination I think that's really important especially you know people can only water their lawns a couple days a week and we've got problems with water down here in South Florida. So there's a number of things. You don't have a motion on the floor. We do. Yes, we do. I'm sorry, it's been so long. G. City Clerk Roll call please. Commissioner Neubel. With what my colleagues have mentioned, you're going to come back with the solar. That's what we will investigate between first and second reading. We're coming back in front of you at your next meeting for second reading. So we'll, I need to huddle up with our team to talk about the solar lights. Okay, and there's no way you can discuss affordability. I've discussed it with them already. So I'm not optimistic. I can certainly discuss it and bring it up again. But this is a discussion we've had before. OK. Well, I'll say yes based on you coming back with responses to what has been brought up. I also wanted to talk about the setback for the landscaping. just long as we're not eliminating, because we do need the green space. So we meet the open space requirements that the city has and the FAR requirements that the city has, but we are removing landscaping from the... It's a close back, Philly? We just need to do the roll call. Okay. So yes. And you've been. If you want to have discussion with council, subsequent to the meeting, yes, man, that would be the appropriate time. Okay, thank you. Commissioner Boutou. Yes. Vice Mayor Arnst. Yes. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. No. Thank you. See you two weeks. Oh right. We then move on to public comments. Anyone wishing to give any public comments please Please provide your name and your address and you have up to four minutes. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for having me. My name is Lindsay Monjolette. I live at 913 Northeast 18th Street in Fort Lauderdale. I saw the veterans getting the recognition and I'm hearing a lot about proposals for building But my concern as a peer specialist in the community right now is the homelessness and the lack of shelter for them With the HUD funding cut the homeless population with the 1365 House Bill has been exponential. I know with Covenant House, I have been made aware that there are petitions going on to reject the proposal for a new homeless shelter. And I just kind of wanted to give some statistics right now in Florida. students have about 4,955 unsheltered people right now. So this shelter would give people some stability to get back on their feet. I know with financial housing, it is very hard to find affordable housing right now. And it's not about a chronic homelessness issue. It's about finding stability once they leave a shelter and being able to find employment and job resources, which is what we are doing in the community, trying to provide for them. So I just wanted to come here today and say that we definitely think that this homeless shelter should go forward and any other hearing that you have going forward. We like to advocate for that. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Wallace Peterson, 1941 North, those 36th Street, speaking to you as a private resident tonight. This evening, I am not speaking with regard to the specific details of any issue or development we are currently facing in our city, but rather more broadly about who we are and who we wish to be as a community of open park residents. Fairly early in my career when I was struggling with what it felt like an impossible decision, it was like that first watershed moment I thought, did I major in the right thing? A mentor sat me down and she told me something that I have carried with me the rest of my life. struggling with what it felt like an impossible decision. It was like that first watershed moment when I thought, did I major in the right thing? A mentor sat me down and she told me something that I have carried with me the rest of my life. She said that if I wanted to be at peace, not just with the decisions I made, but in my walk through life in general, there was one basic formula to live by. And here is what she said. And she said, make sure that what you think and what you say and what you do are always an alignment, a very simple three-ligate stool as a ballast phrase stable on his life. said, make sure that what you think and what you say and what you do are always in alignment. A very simple three-legged stool as a ballast phrase, stable, honest life. You got all three of those legs with the same? You're good. You don't and you wobble. Put another way as the sign an allied kitchen and bathroomed earlier this year. I love those signs. It almost makes traveling, don't I, no compared bold art worth it. said, what you do has far more impact than what you say. We have been saying for several years now that things like the revitalization and redevelopment of West Oakland, part of our top priority for our city. We even codified it in our comprehensive plan. And like some of you just said just now, when are we going to start? If not when, when are we to start on that? The disparity between words and actions is perhaps the most common source of conflict with any group. Is what we're doing and the decisions we're making, what we're saying, is that reflected in what we're doing? To be clear, ensuring that what we say and what we do actually are fully aligned is not always easier simple, but at the end of the day, it provides necessary clarity and confidence when facing complex situations and difficult decisions. Decorum is not a synonym for silence. These difficult decisions and conversations, though often, usually really, are uncomfortable. They are critical components to developing honest collaborative relationships, whether in a family, a business, a place of worship, a music classroom, or a city. Speaking out when there are important things to be said is not discurdious. It is rather an absolute necessity for a well-functioning community. Silence in the face of things that should be brought into view is not acting with decorum, but rather with fear, or unconcern, or complicity. I have never been nor will I ever be discurdious. I will never call anyone named. I will never raise my voice in anger. I will never be disingenuous. But neither will I be silent. We are at an inflection point for her city. The implications of the decisions that are lying before you cannot be overstated. Where does your fidelity lie to our city charter, our code of ordinances, our comprehensive plan, or somewhere else? When you are faced with conflicting views, whose voices will matter most to you? Do you serve the desire of developers, the preferences of staff, or the needs of your constituents, your fellow city residents? As I said in my closing remarks last month, I sincerely hope that the answer is the residents of Oakland Park, your neighbors who voted for you to represent them. Thank you for your time and consideration tonight. I know you have a long night ahead of you, So I appreciate you taking the time to hear me tonight. Have a good evening. Thank you, ma'am So good evening. My name is Sandra Reyes. Adresses 601 Lions Road apartment 7108 coconut Creek, Florida and I wanted to come up here along with my colleague. We work for an organization called South Florida Wellness Network, and we are individuals at our boots on the ground. And so mayor, I am so thankful that you brought up affordable housing. We have so many shopping areas. Daniel Point was just put up. Coconut Creek has promenade. I'm not really understanding why we would want another shopping area and another apartment building. I would like to invite all of you all to come, visit our organization, and experience in afternoon with our peer specialists that are boots on the ground, that are out there on the streets, seeing the individuals that are hurting. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. Thank you, ma'am. Oh, casing there are no more. We will move on to the consent agenda, Mr. City Attorney. Yes, sir. I am 30s approval minutes February 19th, 2025. Item 4 is the Code Lean Settlement for 161 North East 38th Street. Item 5 is the Code Lean Settlement for 181 North East 51st Street. Item 6 is the Code Lean Settlement for 405 North to Xe highway. Number 7 is the Code Lean Settlement for 4664 North Andrews Avenue. Item eight is a code lean settlement for 2201 West Oakland Park Boulevard. Item nine is a code enforcement lean settlement for 47 North Andrews Avenue. Oakland Park, Florida. Item 10 is resolution by title only. Resolution of City Commission, Steve Oka-Park-Florida, approving the settlement and authorize the appropriate city officials. Exceed a code enforcement lien settlement agreement between extreme performance wheels. LLC and Steve Oka-Park provide for conflict, severability and effective date. Item 11 is resolution by title only. A resolution of city commission, Steve Oka-Park-Florida, approving and authorizing the proper city officials and to an agreement with the interactive stainless imaginary imagery ink for enhancement and illumination of a sculpture to be installed in art park and amounting on to exceed $35,000 and approving the proposed budget amendment for conflict several, several billion effective date. Item 12 is resolution by Title Only. Resolution City Commission, Steve O'Cavarque, Florida, proving authorized purchase of janitorial products from H.T. Supply Facilities Maintenance, L.T.D., piggybackant in terms of conditions, Army of Partners Contract, 16154 for maintenance repair, operating supplies, industrial supplies, related products and services to provide for conflict, serviceability and effective date item 13 is resolution by title only. Resolution City Commission, C. Volkowark, Florida, proving authorize the proper city officials, officials execute an agreement with GT Suppliesing for dumpster repair and maintenance services. Picking back in the service, West Palm Beach contract, providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Item 14 is resolution by Title Only, a resolution city commission to see the local park Florida, approving an authorizing sole source purchase of replaces parts and service as needed from a theme, fire and emergency ink, approving the expenditure authority up to the budgeted amount for our cost fixed, Fire and Emergency Inc. Approving the expenditure authority up to the budgeted amount for our fixed several billion effective date. Item 15 is resolution by Title Only. Resolution of the City Commission, C. Volkopark, Florida, approving the authorized appropriate city officials. Dexheed the second and final amendment to the agreement for a professional environmental sustainability resiliency and green initiatives Consulting services between the city of Ocompara can for consulting firms Ryan for conflict several billion effective date Item 16 is a resolution city commission see vocal park Florida approving an authorizing sole source purchase from XM water solutions USA for FLYGET, PUMPS, PART, SESS, REIS, SIRRUS, in excess of $25,000 up to budgeted availability, providing for conflict, serviceability and effective date. Item 17 is a resolution by Title Only, a resolution city commission, C. Wilke-Marc Florida, approving authorize the proper city officials, execute some end of grant application, receive funds and execute necessary documents for the Florida inland navigation district for the Florida inland navigation districts, waterway assistance program grant. For the repair and replacement of J. Dewey Hawkins boat ramp, canoe kayak launch, provide for conflict, cerebral and effective day. Item 18 is resolution for the City Commission, C. Wilkin Park, Florida, providing for authorization for the city and perfect grant application for assistance on the Florida Boating Improvement Program, providing for legislative findings and intent, providing for implementing administrative actions, providing for savings provisions, conflicts, severability and effective date. Item 19 is a resolution by Title Only. A resolution, city commission, C. Volkambark, Florida, approved a proposal from east to west development corporation and amounting that to exceed $130,000 to perform affordable housing consulting services, including data updates, regulatory assessments, strategic planning, provide for conflict, severability and effective date. Item 20 is resolution by title only. Resolution and city commission, C. Volkopark, Florida, approving and authorizing appropriate city officials to continue professional services, authorization between the city and Curry's service, a regular architects for architectural engineering services for phase two city centennial bank park in an amount not to exceed $800,000, $825, provide for conflict, cerebral and effective Serabillion Effective Day, item 22, Resolution 22A by Title Only, Resolution City Commission, Steve Hulke and Park Florida, proving the city staff's recommendation to amend the fiscal year, 2025 budget attaches, exhibit A, Provime for Conflict, Serabillion Effective Day, 22B's resolution by Title Only, resolution, city city commission to see vote from park Florida adopting the proposed compensation classification plan for conflict service bill in effective day. That concludes the consent of motion do adopt. Mr. Nubel? Yes. Mr. Budhoo? Yes. Vice-Main Arnes? Yes. Mr. Gordon? Yes. Mary Lonegan Lonegan. Yes Okay, and we'll move on to agenda item 21. Please to reappoint Robert branch Ralph Coraglia Coralia and Randy Washington to the beautification of advisory board second Roll cold mission new bull. Yes, mr. But who yes, my spain arms mission or Gordon yes, they're long again. Yes Rest loose by. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Neubon. Yes. Mr. Bedhoor. Yes. Mr. Gordon. Yes. And at this time, you are one more. I'd like to make a motion to award the bid to Honkville Bless Pool Services, A, as most responsible responsible bidder for RFP 082224, Splash Padmate, as prepare services, and on the right of the city, from officials to the executive, agreement with the Aqua pool service for both fees second Commissioner new boom. Yes, mr. Bruttenham vice mayor. Yes, Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Mayor Lonegan Yes, and at this time we'll take a ten minute break. Thank you. 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I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to to serve? Yes, sir. To conclude the agenda, we're still on item 23, resolution by Title Only. A resolution, city commission, the seat of Oak Park, Florida. Determining that, I feel bliss, pool services, zinc is the most responsive, most responsible proposal. response to RFP 08224. Splash bad maintenance repair services and authorized appropriate city officials to execute agreement with aqua bliss pool services for its proposed fees. Prime for conflict service ability and effective day. Motion adopted. Second. Mr. Newbold. Yes, Mr. Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Mr. Gordon. Yes. Mayor Longan. Yes. And we move on to agenda item 24. I'd like to make a motion to approve P.F.M. advisors as the most responsible, responsible better. Second. Mr. Newbold. Yes. Mr. Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Mr. Gordon. Yes. Mayor Longagan. Yes. Ristolution by title only a resolution city commission, civil compartment, Florida, determined the PFM financial advisors LLC is the most responsive and most responsible proposal for financial advisory services providing the proper city officials to authorize ex-cute contract for the services in which it's the TASSES, the IBD, providing for conflicts several billion effective days. Most are adopted. Second. Commissioner Noobel? Yes. Commissioner Butthou? Yes. Commissioner Gordon? Yes. Mayor Lonegan? Yes. Okay, we move on to agenda item number 25 and this was a city commission discussion that the commission gave the approval for us to discuss this and I thank you guys very much for that. And this is regarding a discussion item regarding fire assessment fee structure for nonprofits as we're currently aware of the nonprofits in the City of Oakland Park paying nothing towards the fire assessment fee. I feel very strongly that they should pay at least a certain percentage to help cover the costs of the fire fee as you're all aware it quite a, we had some discussions and concerns about the increase over the past couple years of the fire assessment fee. So there's some backup materials there that the city clerk puts together. I do know some cities do have nonprofits paying nothing. I know, I believe the city of Wilton manners if I'm not mistaken has nonprofits paying 50%. These are 25 or 50% of the fire assessment fee. You can see the list. I think if I'm not mistaken, Mr. Ebert, were there about 70 nonprofits? Mayor, I don't remember offhand, I can look up in the back. Oh, it looks like 62. 62, yes. So on the slide overview slide, it shows if we would charge 25%, how much would go towards the fire assessment fee, 50%, 75% or all 100%. So at this point,'m going to open it up for discussion. Commissioner. Thank you Mayor. Have a question. You were just talking about the number of not-for-profit organizations in the city. Is it six? Is this the list that we're looking at here that is correct and you also mentioned other cities charge a certain percentage there are some that do and others that don't and I don't have that information okay is that I would like to see what other cities are doing. We'll be happy to do the research if that's something that you feel you need in order to have a discussion about this item commissioner. It's just going to take us a little bit of time to gather that together. I don't want to prolong the mayor's concern. However, just for a reference point, I wouldn't mind seeing it. Respectfully, Mayor, what are your thoughts, sir? I mixed feelings on it and here's, I guess this is the way I look at it. It's a decision that we have to make, doesn't matter what other people do. Absolutely. So, say, and I get it, because I'm curious myself. I had wondered that myself, but it's just what do you believe? Do you believe they should not pay a fire assessment fee and not support this fire services? Or do you believe they should pay a percent? If it's that important that you need to know what other of the 31 municipalities, what are the others doing? I get it, but that would be up to you. I think this is the point that you brought up mayor is very valid and it's certainly something that we should be discussing. I agree 100% what that percentage is, I don't know. I was just interested in seeing a reference point. That's all. Let me go. Let me go. Thank you. I think this, you made this request, I think in November 23, you asked for this work to study. What it was? Yeah. And I was there at the meeting and I totally was against it. And I'm still not have to be against this. I know to double tax, we trying to double tax these not for profit and the churches. It's 40 churches there. We're not, let me fit, let me see if you speak. It's 40 churches there. Those parishioners, I meet a lot of them. All right. I've been going to a lot of churches. Some live there. They live in this city. The pay taxes already. Five times sets of the city. And the taxes, sir. Don't be property taxes. No. The church residents. I understand that. However, I'm not in the business of taxing ties and offering. You know, that's number one. I'm not going to do that. And for he raised the five sets of the fee last year, I was there. And we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we we last year. I was there and we we we we ask budget City manager do you need anything more that became with a happy medium that we raised those fire assessment fee That we won't have to do it for next couple of years. That's what I recall why I was another side of the court here. So now to come up with this, to try to get some revenues, I don't see who initiates this. I don't see the fire department requesting this, and it's totally out of order. I'm not gonna support this. Okay, that's your question. That's a lot of problem. And I'll hold off and let others speak. Mission is vice mayor. Any comments? Oh, I'll be more than half common. I see exactly what you're talking about, but I did the numbers on it. If you charge them at one quarter percent, it's one half a one percent of the fire fee. It's minimal. If you charge them at 100%, it's less than two percent of the, and when it comes down to dollars and cents, and I'm just taking wrong numbers. I'm not doing the institutional, the commercial because it would probably be less because some of these are, they're deemed as commercial on the rate, which has a completely different rate than a single E.R.U. which would be a house. So just doing the raw numbers, it drops it less than 2%. Money-wise, you take if you take a quarter if you charge a quarter of it it drops the fire fee by about two dollars if you do it by a little less than actually less than two dollars if you do the whole 100% it drops the fire fee by seven and a half dollars but if you want to save money, your fire fee, the most you can save on is close to $16. If you pay your taxes early, you get 4% discount. And I know what you're saying. You want to feel, but here's the thing. I've always thought that nonprofits, as they have a very thin margin. And now they've got another, if they have another causes of all, what are the good jobs? What are the good home budget? I have a very thin margin at home. I know. I have to do many of our residents. But everyone participating even a little bit makes a difference. Well. Because then everyone's in it together. Everyone has a little skin in the garden. How about the charge of property tax? I love that. Oh, you think property tax no I hate what's the same skin in the game because they're using the same services for the How about for police services 40 start where to stop that's the question Yeah, I wouldn't if you're gonna do all do all do all or none if they're gonna start to start if they're closing No, I'm talking I would I would not because I know there are there are thin ice to begin with and I give money to a not profit. I want to make sure that it's going to to do what I've Look that they do not do for for advertising, not for fundraising, not for putting money in a fire fee. I want to make sure 100% of my money goes to what they're doing. And there's some goes bank accounts and things like that. So, okay, I get it. I'm okay, I'm okay. It's not that it'll, if we're gonna do all, if we're gonna do one, we got to start charging for everything. We got to start charging for police services. Well, we don't have to. We can, we can want to. All I'm saying is we have a fire service and everyone should have a little skin in the game. It was a big number. I'd say yes. It's a, it's a, it's a, so pennies don't matter. So what we do up here is save pennies. Don't matter for our residents. No, you're just, you are saying you are saying it doesn't matter how little it is because it doesn't really matter. When I believe every penny counts and every little bit counts and everyone having skin in the game matters. I understand. Come here, come here, come on please. I'm listening to this. If you're going to do all the taxes, okay, if you're going to try, I'm definitely not supposed to do that, because I'm anti-holon second. I'm anti-trying to tax non-for-profit that do services in like-device men say tight margin. So do you want to tax the non-profit dollars we Issue out those $80,000 you want to tax them a fire fee? What is the data? So you mean to tell me this churches chief You get a lot of calls I'm not know you did by trying to put a fire Census for you make me no I I asked for a discussion. No, I asked for a discussion. I don't even like the discussion. Because you don't belong up in the commission. No, I asked for a discussion. No, I don't even like the discussion. Because you don't belong up in the administration. No, no, no, because it's a discussion, it's a discussion that you want to put the five department into where it needs not to be in. Okay, I take a highly offence today. Keep that five department apolitical. It seems to me it's a political agenda doing that To put out five something to be on churches on 40 churches on the 22nd of probably yeah, right 40 church I saw a big number on this list Okay, I highly offended you do taxi double taxing ties and offering where people trying to give services back in the community with their Worship, okay? And to charge a fire assessment fee, I didn't know we had a lot of hot attacks going on in the church I really in as a church where the fire department had to go out there I'm just totally against it. It shouldn't been raised because it's issue You should wait if you wasn't gonna do, put in the regular budget and try it out. And I would have definitely declined it then. It's not something that's pressing. We need to wait all our development coming line and we start talking to people with taxes, property taxes, fire sets, everything, when all our units come in line. We still develop it. Sure you have an opinion and I can respect your opinion. Thank you. Thank you, man. One more thing I want to say, here's, you know, in my business, there are a lot of my customers that they're only, a lot of them, some are living their cars. Okay, there only means of transportation to get around, get your job as a car. They have got a pot to you know what in. Okay, so I do work on the car. I keep it in a tally. They pay me a little bit when I can. And I know I'll never get the money for it. Because at some point in my life, I've got to look at myself and say, is life all about the money for me and my business or is about for doing something good for some people and that's to what I see for nonprofits It's it's it's it's about the city doing something to help I'm not saying the helpless but help the people need help and this is one way that city can do it And it's not that I agree a hundred percent you know I agree 100%. I agree everyone should have a little bit of a cool skin in the game. But it's like me, I probably have a dozen or more customers like that. I don't know how much they owe me, but I'm never going to collect it. And I don't want to collect it because long and short of it is if they don't... If I don't help them, who's gonna help them? I'm just, I might point in my life where I'm just, money is not everything to be. I need money to survive, and you need money to pay tax, I need money to this, but money's not the old thing. My concern is to help you people that can help themselves. In face may, right, get it. Don't misunderstand. We have an obligation to discuss things like this. And that's just seen by on. We all get along. No. As a consensus, we'll come up to consensus. And that's what everyone says. No, we want to keep it the way it is. That's the way it is. But I would be failing if I did not bring this conversation up. And that's the truth. And I'm bringing you my perspective on it because at the point of, where do I start when I stop? I mean, And that's the truth. And I'm bringing you my perspective on it because at the point of, where do I start when I stop? Do I tell someone, oh no, I'm not going to help you out and go take your car somewhere else and they're not going to do anything for them. You're a kind of hurting person. Not just a kind of person, but I sit there and look at people and say, I put myself in their position, what would I want if I was in that car and they were sitting there talking to me? I'd want them to help. Just like I treat people out in the audience, what would I want if I was sitting out of the audience? I want someone to treat me with respect and kindness and do what they can to help me. And that's what I've changed. My life has changed a lot since my cancer diagnosis. And there's a lot more things that are more important to life to me than that now. So, Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Vice Mayor, for what you said. Right now I just believe we're like at an uncertain time We don't know what's going to happen with the economy There's things being said people are all over the place people are afraid Most of the funding that are going to these nonprofits are Being put on hold. They're not going to get any money. And you know, I'm just saying that's that's also in addition to what vice mayor said that's going to happen. I just think right now, um, and if it's only going to save $2, $7, because and I agree, everyone should pay into that service. I understand what you're saying. I agree with what you're saying. It's an important topic to rank up, especially if you utilize this service. But at the same time right now, when you first brought it up, I guess the economy, we can say the economy was kind of stable, but right now, we just don't know, and a lot of funds are being held, and especially from these nonprofits, because you have higher ups thinking they should have found their way by now. When if they don't get the donations that they receive, they might as well just close the doors. So I mean, that's just my input. Thank you. I think everyone has said it all. I did. Oh. I'll be on the record. Thank you. Thanks Mayor. I think my colleagues have said, have said it all. it all and as I said to you before, I don't know what that looks like. Years ago, I worked for not a not-for-profit organization and every time they had to renew that budget, they have to account for every penny. And most of those pennies went towards services. There was no other money for any other discretionary. And I'm not saying fire assessment is discretionary, but they worked on a very tight budget. And I've just listened to what everyone has said. And we all, I think everyone has great points. And so do you, you know, because I noticed item came up and we all gave thumbs up because we wanted to hear what it was all about. I mentioned other cities because I really want to see exactly what does that look like? You know, when you charge, you know, these types of organizations of fee, you know, what? And also, how does it impact the bottom line? And you're right. We all share in these services. And, you know, without these services. we fall short on saving lives but you know where do you look what corner do you look in you know to get know, to have the free, the cost of the fire assessment. Yeah. These, you know, where do you look? You know, and I understand, I understand your objective. I'm just trying to. Well, it's a discussion. And, you know, I pretty much predicted where the discussion was going to go, but I still have the obligation to bring it up and for us to talk about it. Absolutely. You know, I get it. I was a child of the safety net. I had five fathers by the time I was 18. I left home when I was 17. I lived, thankfully, people let me stay in their home. So I walked it, I understand it, I understand the importance. That's part of the reason for the last 30 years I give to 18 different nonprofits. Every time I get a paycheck a certain dollar of mouth goes to 18 different organizations. That's why I do guardian out loud of my other things because I understand the importance of it. I think the difference a little bit of the difference is as individuals, what are we doing as individuals versus just taking other people who are barely living by the means and we're taking their money and we're putting it to nonprofits, are we doing the same thing ourselves? We can say that for you and for me. And I'm not saying you guys I'm just trying to say in general it's easy to take other people's money and put it to stuff. So I think it was a good conversation. We don't have to dwell anymore on it. I appreciate that we had the opportunity to talk about it. I see both sides. I see both sides. Again, I was a child of the safety net. I appreciate the safety net and I'm giving back to the safety net on a personal level. And we as a city are giving $80,000 to nonprofits. So that's another thing that runs through my head. So we in fact, in addition to the $,000, we're giving it on profits. We're giving another $236,000 to nonprofits. Am I right? So we're really giving $310,000 to nonprofits every year as a city. No, I understand. So just so we understand exactly how all this is coming out. The residents there are residents that need help there are residents living right on the means and their residents Clarence getting their prescriptions like you're saying because they can't afford them or the children So that's why we have the food program and we all volunteer and help with that So I appreciate the discussion and we can move on. Well, we appreciate you, too, Mayor. Thank you, sir. And at this time, reports from the City Commission. We'd like to start. That means fine. Commissioner. And to that mayor, so we got a great city manager. On the agenda item 19 is approved for proposal for East West Development development cooperation affordable housing services And I had a discussion with the city manager and Mr. Roseman and He's gonna make a goal to try to Have those 40 churches because I told that to the city manager. I said you you know what? I want to get to where the mayor if he joined with me and encourage these non-profit and churches that have vacant land that could be the fella Okay, and create some affordable housing in there that will bring those tax dollars in there and We could could accomplish that as a whole boy. Okay, together and say, Hey, you have skin in the game, full skin in the game. That's where I'm at, man. So I hear you, but a discussion I felt when I read it should be in this direction where all of us go together in the community saying, hey, this is the idea that we have and we can encourage that. We can do full force and I think it a commitment for Mr. Roseman that he's going to help with that. Okay, because there's a lot of resonance with this not-for-fought and churches to get into the market of of building They need an honest broker and By the city manager having a relationship with Rosemar think we're gonna get there So we gonna get to where you at I'm confidence. I'm gonna make sure my goal, okay? so Thank you for that city manager putting that in the agenda because that was important That's why you read the agenda right vice mayor and you understand Definitely and the budget too It's been a great month. Wow Thank you To having the press this this was great this even way we saw all the PSO I've been going going to PSO services for the Sheriff's Department. I went to Srinin' Ceremony without the Sheriff's Tony or with the promotional ceremony of all our deputies and all our employees with PSO. And I ran even to a lead program with my son. He was a graduate of the lead program, some of the programs. So, PFO is doing tremendous things in our community and keeping us safe. And I thank you for that. This was big. And also the five department, I love you guys because you're a backbone, you have support who goes on in the community. And I always got to echo that. I'm is going to be a fighter for you guys and ladies it means a lot to me public service and I love all the employees I just have to magnify each of over 300 employees they just make me look good and if you do in my Facebook I'm all across our county they've ratten rave about how our open park is doing from the county commissioners to city commissioners mayors of all across this county and I'm being invited to places and it's like while you from open park that's right okay so keep our heads up look to the stars we We are doing great things Yes, you're gonna get passionate up here But passing me stasire and commitment for our City to move forward because we are doing great things I'm looking forward for you thing. I got my Jordan basketball stuff. You're ready to to go yeah so I got my red going so I'll be looking for my three sons we driving the car looking good with that so that's some great stuff and I just love the city I love being the position I'm in I love my colony, I I love my city attorney. Love my city manager. Stay out. So let me be sure. Thank you know that the city is headed in the right direction. Well we all know we all went to Tyler Hasseen we left vice mayor here to hold everything down. He let me he let us he let us know how busy he was answering the calls having meetings. Give myself a raise. Oh, that's not made myself a king of open-pork too. By the way. So, thank you for that. But while we were there, but while we were there, we had a chance to talk to some of our representatives and senators about, again, things going on here, funding that they're trying to stop and also the mitigation fees. So we were able to speak with Senator Osgood. And I also received a message from her last night that I know there's conversation about taking away the CRAs. So she's on the committee and she texts me and says she's really working behind the scenes to try not to let those CRAs go. So I was grateful to get her message last night. She's really working hard. That's not the only thing she's working on. So she's a good person to connect with when it comes to things that the city's, the municipalities benefit from. I also was invited to Voices for Equity event, did not know until after I left that that's the board that our mayor is, he's a part of the board. So they had a great discussion panel there. They spoke about hate crimes, immigration as well as human rights. So that was a great event. And then shortly after that, I attended the NAACP general meeting where again, Senator Ros Osgo was there as well as Representative Darrell Campbell just given a legislative update on some of the bills since we've been there either has gone through or that they're working on. In Saturday I closed out March Women History Months with Congresswoman Shilah Sherfelliz McCormann. She had another great panel there just encouraging women to just knowing your why, stand in your purpose. It was just that the event was powerful and encouraging and it was a great event. I look forward to meeting the new students at the LGA class as well as youth day and everyone have a good night and thank you for this meeting. Thank you commissioner. I guess it's my turn. My turn. Turn. Turn. Just want to start by saying thank you staff for all that you do to keep our city moving forward. We really appreciate each and every one of you. Mr. A. Bear and all of the team that you manage, we appreciate you guys always boast about staff in our city. Just wanna say a special thank you to Jack Doran who had, I mean, he's dedicated services I mean, he's dedicated services on the planet and its own board. I just want to thank him for serving, you know, that I don't know what his tenure was, but we really appreciate the service and we will certainly miss him. I've served on city advisory boards and they are wonderful. It's a good way to understand how your city works and just kind of being a no. Also, thank you to Dr. Black for his dedicated services on the Coal Enforcement Board. We just want to say they're unwavering services to their respective boards over the years is commendable. Commission in New Bowl touched a little bit on the Browet days in Tallah had to. It definitely was a great event organized. We all stood together very strong as a team. You know, all four of us. We would just miss in one person, but that's okay. You're gonna be missing, you're gonna be missing. Stress? I can guarantee that. I truly believe that. Yep. You know, we are, we find strength in numbers. So, we, of course, as the commission had mentioned, we met with Senator Rosalind Osgood and House representatives, one of our own Mitch Rosenwald had the opportunity to sit down with him in his office in Tallahassee, also visited Representative Marie Woodson. So everyone was very open and inviting us to come and meet with them. So, what a great event. So, on last Saturday, I attended a street cleanup event at Harlem MacBride community. And I just want to thank Mrs. Steven Mathier, director of volunteer services. Did I get that right? Along with staff, Mr. Ray from James Recovery Center for having his guys out there, on the ground cleaning up that community. The Kauwanis Club, it was a great turnout and we really did a lot of cleaning out there. So really a huge thank you to everyone who came out and was a part of that event. And just want to say thank you to my colleagues and you know we have a great team up here and we appreciate I personally appreciate the synergy and how we come up here and make great decisions and still can smile at each other and look for the next day. Move on. Thank you colleagues. look forward to seeing everyone at youth Day Parade. We're looking forward to seeing our fearless gangster back there, director of Park and Rex. Mr. Chris Casal, we're looking forward to attending the Youth Day Parade. I didn't know who the grand marshal was until tonight as a matter of fact. So kudos to Northease High School team and that's it. Have a great night. Thank you. Thank you commissioner. I got two words. Go gators. Thank you vice Mayor. Okay. We got you, right? Okay. Just a reminder, BSO sponsored Shredathon Operation Medicine Cabinet is this coming Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 o'clock in the morning right in front of City Hall here and I know the captains usually there with us so if you have some paperwork that has confidential information you that shredded bring it down and they've got a bunch of machines also It's really important that operation medicine cabinets really important so if you have expired Medications instead of flushing them down your toilet or flushing them in the sink, that goes eventually into our water supply. If you put it in the trash and it goes out to the landfills, it sinks down into our water supply. So please bring any outdated medications to the event this Saturday. It would be very much appreciated. Just remember, don't flush it down the toilet and don't put it in a trash also I do know that Walgreens has some old medication bins inside the Walgreens store you can always drop stuff off there Game on looking forward to Saturday April 12th Please show up for the parade starts at 10 o'clock a.m. Looking forward to getting in the carts and us zooming around a little bit Welcome and congratulations to Voodoo Brewing on the same day as youth day. This is April 12th is the grand open ribbon cutting of Voodoo brewing Right down the block and that's at four o'clock So if you can make it, please go welcome them to the City of Oakland Park. They have a great menu. Vice Mayor? To play beer pong there. I don't think we'll win if we play him, right? No. Okay. Earth Day, Arbor Day event that's called Together We Grow. That event's It's gonna be on Tuesday, April 22nd, beginning nine o'clock AM at Lakeside Sand Preserve, Pine Sand Preserve. Molly Fertsch, our Environmental Sustainability Coordinator is leading that effort. And if you wanna learn more about that and if you have a group to volunteer that day, Molly can be reached at 954-630-4521. Again, everything that I'm going over here, go out to the city website. All this information should be out on the website also. Please plan ahead. We've got that our annual free tree giveaway coming up that Saturday, April 26th beginning at 8 o'clock AM and Mr. City Manager, I believe it's back at Chaco Pistorius' here, correct? So again, I know a lot of people get very excited about the free tree giveaway. The Oakland Park Farm Share Hands-On, South Florida partnership, our food packing and delivery, our next event is Saturday, April 26th at 10 o'clock AM, which is actually the same day as the tree giveaway. But if you're ever looking to do some volunteering, normally what would you say guys? Takes us about an hour at the most, right? 45 minutes. So feel free to come down, meet some other Oakland Parkers and feel good doing a little volunteer work. Welcome and congratulations to Toro cigars on their Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Celebration, which is gonna be Monday, May 5th. They have a ribbon cutting promptly at 1.30 pm, and Toro cigars is located at 4.91 East Commercial Boulevard. So again, their Grand Opening opening celebration is Monday, May 5th. I do want to jump on also, I know Dr. Dorn has resigned from PNZ, at least temporarily. Scott Revelli also has resigned. He's actually moving out of the city. So I do also want to say thank them both for their years of service. Let's see. I attended the National League of Cities congressional city conference. A couple of weeks ago, I met with Representative in Senator Rick Scott's office, and then I also met with newly appointed Senator Ashley Moody. What had happened was the National League of Cities got about 4,000 elected officials from around the country and they come through the Congressional City days and one of the days you're lobbying on the hill. So one day I actually they set up up meetings. And it was supposed to be a lot of, there were, I think, 1,500 elected officials from around the country signed up to meet with elected officials. So again, I met with Senator Scott Staff, he was unavailable and newly appointed Senator Ashley Moody. The National League of Cities set up an agenda on things that are happening in Washington, DC that could potentially impact the cities. And one of the things that they actually are looking at is they're looking at taxing municipal bonds, which could be a big problem for cities. So interestingly enough, when I went to Ashley Moody, Senator Moody's session, there were probably about, I'd say about 30 of us in there and she came in the room and I completely understand that she's a new senator, but she went up to the podium and she told us how God's been good to her and how she's a soccer mom and everything. And then she said, OK, got to go. Bye bye. And she headed to the door. And I said, excuse me, but can't we have a little time to express some concerns to you? And she said, no, I'm late for a meeting at which point some other elected officials said, can we have a photo with you? And she spent the next 20 minutes with photos. But she didn't have time for us. So as far as representing us, I don't think so. I don't think she's going to do a good job if she can't even take the time for us. So as far as representing us, I don't think so. I don't think she's going to do a good job if she can't even take the time to listen to us and hear what our concerns are. I also met with Representative in Representative Mosquitos's office and Lois Frankl's office. Unfortunately, last time I went about four or five years ago, Lois Franco actually was our representative. And for some reason, they signed me up with her instead of Sheila McCormick's office, Sureflos McCormick. So it was good because actually in Lois Franco's office, it was me and one other person from Fort Lauderdale were the only two people that were in there to talk. So we talked about topics about the federal funding pauses due to the executive orders and how it's impacting municipalities. We talked one of the main things that we spoke about was preserving and protecting the tax exempt municipal bonds. I think this is the way that Congress is looking to make up some money. And that would be devastating for us. I can't say I know how that's moved. Mr. City Manager, have you heard anything? Okay. I'll tell you, sir. National League of Cities are floor leases circulating the resolution. You probably will see it in the next. I do. Florida legal city is circulating a resolution opposing that legislation. So I would imagine someone's going to reach out to city. You may see it on the next agenda. Okay. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Other topics we spoke about were immigration and housing, protecting Medicare and Medicaid, protecting social security, education, freedom of speech and personal expression. So, you know, there's a lot going on right now, and unfortunately now is the time we all have to speak up. As the other commissioners were mentioning, attended Broward Days. We had a great time. We met with the two representatives they were talking about, talking about the mitigation fee and throughout conversations. We talked about also just Medicaid grants, affordable housing education. And most importantly, how telehazzy just continues to try and take away our home rule. So we'll see what happens there. I attended today actually today the Broward County Commission District for Mayor City Managers meeting. Albert Carbin joined me and it was Lamar Fisher's meeting because he is oversight of our district. He's our representative. Dr. Jennifer Gerado, the Deputy director of resilience environment department. She spoke about climate trends, our resilience challenges in Broward County and the plan for Broward County, what we need to do for the next, I think it was through 2050 or 2070. So they are, they're working and I know Albert were in good hands with Albert and the team. they also passed out a document from the Broward County Planning Council highlighting legislation that's currently being considered by the Florida legislature to make revisions to the Live Local Act. We're all familiar with the Live Local Act. They decide they're going to tell us what can go up where and we'd you know have our our home rule very limited on that. I don't have the specifics, Mr. Doudy, you by chance have any insight to that one or no? We're looking at a certain track. Okay, and would you be able to share a little bit about the changes once you know more? Yes, sir. Perfect, thank you. So I think it's just important. Our individual personal rights and our municipal rights are being stripped by the state. We're under attack by the controlling party, both in Tallahassee and Washington, and we really, really need to get involved. I also want to say I hear a lot of people will talk about regulations are bad. Well, the truth is regulations need to be in place. Effective regulations, I'm talking effective ones, aim to align private behavior with the public interest. Regulations ensure that the public can have access to safe resources. So again, as people say, oh, we're going to get rid of the Department of Education, which has regulations. We're going to get rid of that. We're going to get rid of that. Turns into a free for all and the public is now protected. So I apologize I had to bring it up, but I feel that strongly about it. And that is all I have, Mr. City Manager. Thank you, Mayor. Two quick items that I committed to my colleagues that I would mention. First are items 17 and 18. Both of them are grant applications for the ramp at J. Dewey Hawkins. We're all aware that that ramp has deteriorated over time. The estimated costs for repair and replacement are exorbitant. as high right now as perhaps $1.5 million or more because of the work that is necessitated once we undertake that effort. So those grant applications at your approval this evening on the consent agenda will be filed and will keep our fingers crossed and I'll keep you posted. But that is a significant challenge for us and we're going to do our best to try to figure out a way to address that. But the costs are really, really prohibitive at this point from our own resources. An earlier question came up about item number 22, which was the budget adjustment involving a check that we wrote to the federal government. Yes, that is accurate, and yes, it is reflected in that agenda item. And there is background to that that maybe I'm going to misstate, but I know Andrew's out there and he'll correct me tomorrow. In the early 20s, after the voters of this city resoundingly approved our bond initiative for new facilities, Andrew and I conversed over several months and decided to proactively grabbed the very low interest rates that were available at that time for municipal bonds. Those 20-year notes, $40 million worth worth loaded in two tranches, well before we actually needed the money because we're still spending the money as you know on the various Buildings that we had committed to as part of that facility effort And that was five years ago when we started borrowing that money from the bond holders We took that money because we didn't need it immediately and we did what any prudent person would do. We put it in the bank. And fortunately that has been secured perhaps unfortunately that money has also grown with the higher interest rates that are now being paid, which means effectively that we are making money off of the bondholders' costs. Because we're only paying them 2% and we're making interest of some 3% or more. And that variance is called arbitrage. it's not allowed. You cannot borrow money as a government from entities in order to make money off of it by making investments. And that's what happened here. We didn't expect that. We didn't control it. And we're very happy to turn that money over to the federal government because at least I hope they will put it to good use. Maybe they'll use it for some of our grads, J. Dewey Hawkins, who knows. But that I hope will explain that strange aberration where we very rarely have to send checks to the federal government. Fortunately, they are often tapped with giving us checks. But I like it better that way. But this didn't really cost us any money. This was money that we earned, that we were not entitled to. And so we have to follow the rules of our bond covenants. OK? Mr. Mayor, you go back to Washington. A lot of people, that's 700,000. I'll going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. I'm going to go back to Washington. to represent us and thank you Steve for being here and letting me cry on your shoulder. Thank you Mayor, that's all for me. events and all of you that we're able to represent us and thank you Steve for being here and letting me cry on your shoulder. Thank you Mayor that's all for me for this evening. Have a good year. Mr. City Attorney. Thank you Mayor and nothing to report. Motion to adjourn.