Good evening and welcome to the August 7th Oakland Park City Commission meeting. Roll call please. Commissioner Gordon here Commissioner Newbold here Commissioner Arons here Vice Mayor Longan here Mayor Rose and Walden here at this point we're going to stand for a moment of silence followed by the I'll do it here. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which is sans one nation under God. This is visible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Commissioner. At this point, we're going to solidify our agenda with any additions, changes, or deletions. I'd like to take, first of all, I'd like to take item three and incorporate into item 15 because they're both of a kin. They're both the same, pretty much the same item. Like to 15a and add it to the supplemental agenda and then put it on the consent agenda. 15a is the... So you'd like to take three and... And add it to the... And a quarter into 15. Okay. And add 15a to the agenda and then put that on the consent agenda. Okay, thank you, Commissioner Ernst. And Commissioner Newbold. No changes. Okay. Commissioner Gordon. No changes at this point, Mayor. Thank you. Sure. I'm sorry. No changes at this point. Mayor. Thank you. Excuse me, Commissioner Longer or vice mayor Longerkin. No changes. Mayor, I appreciate it. Commissioner, aren't you just at just 15 a. 15 a. 15 a. Right. Yes. Not a 15. No 15. No has cannot be going there perfect thank you Okay, and I'm good and mr. Aber Nothing here mayor. Thank you very much. Okay So take an entertainer motion motion would uh bend the agenda second Commissioner Gordon yes, Mitch and new bull yes, mr. Orange vice mayor long again Yes, Mayor Rose and all motion to approve the agenda second, I'll bend to the agenda excuse me Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner new bull. Yes, Commissioner Orange. Yes, vice mayor long again. Yes, Mayor Rose and Walden. Yes So I think there's a rare meeting we do not have any proclamations, but equally as important and exciting are our presentations, particularly our first, because we have some school resource officer introductions and Mr. Abert. Thank you Mayor. It is that time of your again, much to the chagrin of many of our younger population. If I could ask the chief to come up and introduce our outstanding guests this evening, I would appreciate it. Hello, chief. Good evening. Mayor Rosenwald. Good evening. Vice Mayor Lorningan, Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner Nubal, Commissioner Arns. City Attorney, Mr. Dudy, City Manager, Mr. Abert, City Clerk, Mr. Stroke. I wanted to introduce today the two SROs for our schools in Oakland Park. And I'll keep it really short, but I'm very proud to have two guys that are very dedicated, not just to the city, but to the sheriff's office. First, I want to introduce Deputy Kareem Pity Flair. He is at Rickers Middle School and he I don't know if you guys remember him last year he was awarded for he was doing the role model correct though was it what was the name of the actual award? 5,000 role models so in addition to that he is also one of the basketball coach I'm sorry basketball coaches. I'm sorry. Basketball coaches. So I'm honored one because I'm a basketball player and I love sports and I love to have my guys involved with kids because we obviously know that the youth is gonna be our future. So taking his footsteps is deputy Ricardo Carvajal and he's going to be at the high school and a little bit of a little bit of a guy that had the worst ton of hats at the Sheriff's Office is Sergeant Hanuki. He oversees the school resource officer, he oversees traffic unit and community service aids and any complaints that we may get, if you have a tire, he'll fix a flat. So I just want to say thank you. He's a jack of all trades. So I'm just very, very proud and very happy to be here and present in this gentleman. And thank you for the opportunity. Let's give them all a hand. And let's take a moment to have some comments from the commission. Oh, don't. I'm glad to have our own SROs. I don't want safety patrols in our schools. I'm so glad that we have full-time officers in every school. I mean, I know the elementary school rotates, but I'm glad we have full-time officers, and I want to keep it that way. Kids are my 100% priority for safety. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Chief Kirk, quickly for everything that you do, your entire team. You're always out there in community. And I was so happy to see the resource officers on our agenda. So I'm so glad, and I know they're needed. So I truly appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. And thank you, Chief. Thank you, Captain. Whoever you bring before us, I know that they are phenomenal as your staff. I want to congratulate both resource officers. I've seen faces and there's a familiar face at records. Thank you so much for your care and everyone who came out to support our resource officers we just want to say thank you for all you do to keep our community safe. Chief Ditto thank you for your leadership and thank you for everything your entire team does through our SROs at the schools thank you for everything your entire team does. Through our SROs at the schools, thank you for keeping our kids safe, the staff safe in the schools and just our campuses safe for so it is so important as the rest of the commission said and we appreciate everything you do and all the extra activities you get involved with with the kids are sincere appreciation always. Thank you. Thank you so much. Sir, everybody's waiting for the cell phone because you fixed tires and I'm just going to. I want to congratulate you both and chief into the entire team here. You work with youth, middle and high school that are pivotal times in their lives. They're getting pressures from society, family, schools, obviously the social media and the internet. And we know it's so pivotal where they go, which direction they take. Middle school and high school development are so formative and you to play pivotal roles not just for safety but psychologically for them and socially for them. So I just really think this group, the two of you for the, I can't think of the right word, the menu of services or for your command that you have. These two particular positions in these two particular, John one, are imperative and are essential for our PSO and Oakland Park. So thank you so much for both of what you do. Thank you so much. Sure. Would you like to take a, Chief,'m sorry would you like a photo should we do a photo? Yeah, let's do a photo then we'll have one to send out for everybody come on folks come on up He's actually your boss She's both. That's called a chief. I was thinking that I wasn't sure. Why don't you come in? Oh no. Where are your boss? You can come in as much as you can. I don't need to get to the room. I don't need to get to the room. I'm just wondering if you're in the bathroom. That's what I'm saying. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Hello guys. You probably heard that. Hey, Chair. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Our next presentation of floor is of the Water Smart Community Designation Goat Level. Mr. Raybear. Thank you, Mayor. I am pleased now to go to our other first responder group, the Fire Rescue team, and Chief Kravannick is with us to talk to us about this fabulous new designation that we've just achieved. Chief. Thank you so much. You might remember a month or so ago when we came to you with our summertime initiative which was water safety for the community, all ages, right? And we had a nice little get together up here which was great in recognition of proclamation et cetera. Well, today the accumulation of this entire summertime program resulted in the county, Department of Health, recognizing us with a gold standard award for water safety and drowning in our city, which is amazing. And you might also remember, or you might have seen in the community, these orange rings that are around the lakes. That's a labor of love from this young lady here, Sarah Perry, and it's called Aiden's Project. And she has a little story about that also, but we put all these pieces together to bring forward to you for recognition that we received this award. So without further ado, I'm gonna bring everybody for first of all, would you like to introduce Ms. Phant. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Venice Roll with the Department of Health, Toronto Prevention Program. Good evening, everyone. I just want to read the plaque. What a smart community. Probably awarded to the City of Oakland Park for a successful completion of all of the all gold tier requirements as outlined in our Water Smart Community's initiative award for 2024. So thank you for all the hard work and dedication that you've put in to ensure that City of Oakland Park is safe for our community. Thank you. And I don't know if you're aware, but drowning is a big issue in Oakland Park. We've had three drownings this year, particularly over in the rural palm area and veterans park area. And we just had one an hour ago. Gentlemen flipped over in this kayak. So it is something that, you know, we need to be keenly aware of and focus our resources and efforts on. So with that I want to bring up Ms. Perry to talk about the life rings real quick. Sarah? Good evening, person. Thank you so much for allowing me to hear mayor vice mayor commission and chief. Thank you for inviting to aid in Perry Hero Life Ring initiative to your great city. Edens mom, two years ago my son and I were out walking our dog and we witnessed the car lose control and ultimately landed in the lake. The driver of the car when he opened the door and called out for help my son answered his call the only way he knew how by jumping in. Unfortunately we did so my son's head hit a rock he broke a neck his neck and my son died instantly. The driver of the car also died. So I've just seen as you can imagine my life has been forever changed. I knew I had to do something about it. So in my son's honor, I created the Aiden Perry Hero Life Ring initiative, and we have the life rings like you see here in your great city where my son's hero message on them as a reminder of his last most selfless act and with the hopes of preventing future drownings and preventing Good Samaritan's losing their life and they try to save the life of somebody else. So I appreciate Chief Harry's been amazing reaching out to the collaboration with your city to bring our hero life rings to the city Vokim Park and it brings me peace knowing that should be a emergency. There's something there available that a Good Samaritan can use to save a life without losing their life in the project. So thank you so much for having me here for having our reans in your great city and helping me keep the promise I made to my son to not let him be forgotten as I live his legacy and continue his works of kindness. So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just a quick comment. These are the boots on the ground. These are the ones that really did the work and it means so much to me to know that you guys did this and that we have actually had an impact in the city and preventing drowning. So thank you very much. Thank you for the recognition. Thank you so much for your participation. We have ten of these in the city already and plan on moving. So keep that in mind if you have any ideas for them to form? Chief, can you first of all get some comments in a photo? I think this is worthy. Obviously worthy. Where are these? First of all, thank you. I've seen condolences two years after. And this is a legacy of hope and life that you provide. Where are these? I think I've seen one of them, and I'm forgetting where exactly. Where are they? They are located around Veterans Park and rural Palm Park. That's two lakes at rural Palm Park. Those just, particularly areas, okay. For now. Okay, here's the disgusting thing. Somebody stole one of them at Veterans Park. I have good news. That was returned. Thank God. Yes. I don't know if they found there was no value in paunting it or they just felt guilty. But it has been returned. One day was on the hook. It was back in place. I can't say no. I someone was still a life frame for the life of me. They will try everything. But now I think we're past that and they realize that there's no value. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, I saw you on TV a couple of, I had a chair, a seven or a six. And my heart went out to you. And when I saw the life rings, I'd live on the royal public. When I saw the life ring going up over there, and I saw them over in the veterans park, I just, I knew that we were here. I had to be because I knew that was your, your initiative, that was your life goal now. And your son was a true hero. And it's, if you save one life, it's well worth. Because I know we've had probably three or four drownings in rural Palm Lake. I saw one. Three to share. Yeah. And I know there's been a couple before that and what happens is they the basketballs go in the lake they go out to the basketballs and what happens is they don't understand there's weeds down there and the weeds actually pull you down. The more you try and get up and more try and kick the more they pull you down and they pull you down and those actually were both those lakes actually one was a rock pit and the other one was a partial rock pit So they drop off really quick and the weeds pump up in and Just like your son they have rocks in there that you can't see that you can not hit your head on whatever and and it's good to have these things that just Need to let people know is that throw the ring don't go in Because that's the main thing you go in you're you're now risking two lives instead of one and the ring is What'll help save the one life so thank you very much And I really appreciate you and all you've done and all you're going to do for your son. Thank you Vice mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. Outstanding. Thank you, everyone, for bringing this program to Oakland Park. Chief of Oakland Park Fire Rescue of BSO, who look out for our residents and our visitors. So thankful. I have to say you have a very special son and you are a very special mother. So thank you for being here and sharing your story with us and making all this possible. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say thank you to everyone. I really can't tell you how this is really touching for us. Miss Perry, I did meet you. When was it last month when we did the proclamation? Yeah. And I get the opportunity to meet you again. You are phenomenal. Your son will always be a hero to us. And you continue to follow his wish and keep his legacy alive. It's going to save so many other people's lives. And we're just so grateful. We were out just recently with our captain BSO and just making people aware of water safety and what you guys are doing is just invaluable. We need this. I'm really sorry to hear about those drownings. That's not good. We just have to continue to push this effort, push this outreach and this education, so we can save lives. Thank you all so much. Thank you, Commissioner Nibble. Thank you. My heart first goes out to everyone that has lost a life or a family member due to award an incident. And thank you for continuing your son's legacy, especially here in our city. And everyone that's involved in this initiative, making sure that safety is implemented in the city. So I appreciate you all. And I'm so thankful because it is needed and my heart goes all to you Miss Perry and thank you for using that energy and making sure everybody else is safe. Thank you. In light of this and of course we have a good award from the Health Department which we appreciate. I do think with what we're discussing let's just have another Wednesday seated but just a brief moment of silence to honor and to remember. Thank you, and I think we'll take a photo. Okay. We'll take a photo. I don't know you're still here. I'm sure Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. That's right. I'm going to get that. I suppose the chief. That's good to see you guys. Yeah. You're welcome. I'm going to ask Dr. Dr. Cunha to come up and say hi real quick. His medical director contract is on the agenda tonight, but as it is on consent, there will not be occasion for him to come by and say hi to us later. And I wanted to thank him for everything that he's done to keep our team well educated and well prepared to address the unexpected occurrences of the job of being a paramedic in Oakland Park. Dr. Thank you very much. It's great to see you tonight. Mr. A. Barrett, thank you very much. It's very unexpected. I was just sitting in the back taking this all in. See everybody around here. Thank you very much. Good to see you all in. See everybody around here. Thank you very much. Good to see you all again. Yes, the fire rescue is obviously one of my passions, but taking care of everybody up here is part of my passion and as always I'm always available for any one of you in any time of need. So thank you very much and please renew my contract. Dr. Kuhna. Dr.. Kuna, while you're here, if you could just take a moment of privilege, can you just, just for public information, share, like within a 30-second summary of, people don't know that these have medical directors. Can you just 30-second summary of what, how you do a medical director? So every city that has its own EMS has a medical director and I do things such as sign off on the drugs that are used. I oversee all of their training from their ACLS and BLS. I do ride along to do quality control. I answer questions when they bring patients into the hospital so that they give better care. And I'm available for any issues as far as training and certification for rank and things like that. So every city needs one and I've been yours for 11 years now. So I'm looking forward to keeping going. Great, thank you so much. Thank you. That's got one question. Sure, Commissioner Ernst. I noticed that some brow count EMS trucks have whole blood on. Is it something that is probably more of the chief? Can you repeat what you just did? They have blood. To stop bleedouts from an accident to the hospital. So the initiative was taking by BSO and their medical director Jim Roach who came up with a policy and they actually have a truck that can be called to any incident within the county and they're strategically placed. So to have a superfluous system in our community would actually probably be kind of a waste of blood because the blood only has a certain shelf life. I know. I just's a very integrated system. I want to make sure that we were available to reap the benefits of that. And I see that. We have used it in one of the initiatives that we have brought forward in the past couple months is something called TXA, trans-exchemic acid. That's a medication that's given for bleeding. And we've actually used it successfully already within the last couple of months that we just put in place. So we try to be as cutting edge as we can. Absolutely. I just want to make sure that, because that is a major thing. You don't know, I want something to bleed out before they hit the hospital. And I really appreciate you and everything you do for the city. Thank you, I appreciate all of you. Thank you. We're going to continue this in prompt due because I've taught Commissioner Gordon how to question if anyone else on the day has Commissioner Gordon. Actually, Mayor, it's not a question. I just wanted to comment and say, thank you, Dr. Kunga. I remember during the pandemic how instrumental you were and making sure we had that pod out there and getting us through, navigating us through you know the whole COVID experience. So we so much appreciate you. Thank you so much. And what's even so special, you are always available. That speaks volumes to you and your commitment to not just the city, but just to people. And that's what is all about. Thank you. You're welcome. You're very much welcome. But I, Smith, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Dr. I just want to say thank you. I recently had my journey and I know we cross paths as I saw you in the hospital working hard to make people better. And I just want to say thank you. I know you stopped in the room and wished me well. And you are invaluable. And we appreciate the education and everything you're doing for the city of Oklahoma Park. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Longergy. Thank you, Mr. I just want to thank you, when I first met you over at the Firefighters event, you came up to me and actually introduced yourself. And we also spoke briefly about my experiences with the hospital. So I thank you. And from what I'm hearing, I'm glad that you're here. Thank you. You're welcome. We're in good shape under your leadership, Dr. Kierna. I remember even before I was on the Soclin Park Commission, speaking of the pandemic, I remember even before I was on the Soclin Park Commission, speaking of the pandemic, I had a Oakland Park community check-in and this was during COVID when it all shut down and Mr. Abert, we all certainly remember that. And I had you as a guest on giving advice, you know, it was hourly. Do you remember back in that we don't want to really remember that, although we have to learn just for any preparations for the future. And you gave us the latest updates from the CDC and really helped the community. So I think I was one of the most watched as well too. I think it was. I mean, I have to go to YouTube for the views. I have I wasn't prepared for that. Yeah, we'll see you in the top right now. I'll fight to say that. I just I just thank you. We're under great stewardship. I have to be honest with you when I went through the local government academy, which I guess we'll be having at some point next year. This is where residents learn about their government. And I remember learning about fire rescue. And I never really thought about, you know, they have medications obviously on the ambulance. I never really thought about, well, how those medications got there. You know, the right dosages and and all of that Well, that's our medical director and all the training you do so. Thank you very much and on me appreciate you Right switching gears All right. Switching gears. Mr. Abert, we have our third presentation tonight. It's our Building Services Permitting Improvement Plan. Yes, thank you very much, Mayor. This is an item that you have heard some information about. And we have presented to you some of the ideas. We wanted to bring this back in a more formal presentation so that we could outline some of our successful strategies to the public and invite them to participate in the permitting process if I could call on our director of building services and I see Greg Garcy is here this evening too. Greg I hardly ever see you. Brad if you would be so kind as to take the lead, thank you very much. Thank you. Mayor Vice Mayor, commissioners. It's an honor to be before you this evening. I want to introduce the people that are to my left and right, to my left is Pat Richardson. He is the vice assistant building official and to my right is Greg Garcy, been with the city many, many years, and he's the operations manager for permitting. I guess I have to introduce myself again on Brad Ostroth with building and community services. And tonight we're going to present building and permitting improvement plan. So to go over what we're going to talk about tonight, we're going to talk really talk about the conversion of electronic permitting, also electronic inspection scheduling, some of the trends that we've seen in permitting over the last few years, some challenges that we identified and really were identified for us and some process improvements that we spoke about. The, in February of this year, we fully implemented electronic permitting and it was huge for the department and for the city. You remember you used to have to take a permanent application and those big permits. You had to come to the building department. You had to fill out an application and you had to give up those big plans. No more, do you have to do that. Now you can go to our website on the building services, website on the city website, and you can upload your application and your plans and all associated documents right into the portal. Once you do that, you can see on the right hand side a process flow chart the green is the applicant the red is what staff does and staff will verify that you have all the right permit you're applying for the right permit you have all the right information and it will then be released. It will be electronic or we routed to up to 10 disciplines that are involved in the review process simultaneously. Before we were able to do this, this was a consecutive process. In other words, you had the plans, it went to whatever trades were involved in approving the permit, one at a time. So if it went to plumbing, plumbing reviewed it, if it needed corrections or comments, they put it on there, then it went to the next discipline. And so this took a long time and you heard some of those last commission meetings so this is a real improvement. Also in plan review so once the permits, once the plans go through then the reviewer, because they're comments, the customers go through, then the reviewer, because their comments, the customers are notified via email, that there's either corrections or that their permit is ready, they can pay online, they can download their plans or use their plans electronically, stamped and sealed online. Inspections have been improved also. They all inspections can be scheduled once you complete your work or that part of your work in your plans, you would schedule a permit, excuse me, an inspection on our website or you can phone in and schedule an inspection. If you schedule that inspection before 3 p.m. that day, in most cases, the next day an inspector will be out conducting that inspection. They will call you. They will set up a two hour window and they will come and do the inspection. They will also do the inspection electronically on a device. So it's done. There's no waiting long periods of time. It's loaded right into the portal. And you can, the applicant can follow that process in the portal. I think we covered all that. I also wanted to talk to you about some permitting trends. So we pulled permits all the way back to, sorry, all the way back to 2020., all the way back to 2020. You had about 2,400 plus permits. You saw in 2021 that rose to 3,800, and that was due to Oak Tree and Bliss coming online. Park and parcel of that. All the way to 2022, where our bond projects started coming online and O Project came online. To 2023 where the sky building permits came online and then we're estimating as you see in physically year 2024 that will have about 3783 permits. That really equates to about 300 permits plus a month. And with those permits comes all the reviews that are required and all the inspections that are required. So as well as other entities in the city, we're very busy. I came to the department in the end of January 2023 and over those days I listened. I watched. What were the processes? What did our customers have to say? How is it working and how can we improve it. And the first thing that we really noticed was in order to be successful, we had to cut the duration of the plan review. It had to be cut and therefore the electronic permitting affords us some movement on that. Enhanced communication with our customers. You're going to see ways that we do that, but it's important that they understand, you know, we understand what they're going through and they understand what our expectations are. So they can be leveled off. Ensure that the reviews and inspections are standardized to the point where however we can take subjectivity out of the process we do and all this to increase the process efficiency. So how are we going to do that? Mayor Rosenwald talked about this last commission meeting. We've implemented checklist both for inspections and reviews to standardize it to the point that we possibly can. So each discipline, each inspector and each reviewer has those checklists. Same inspector protocol. To further remove subjectivity we want the same inspector of the same discipline to do subsequent reviews if they're necessary and subsequent inspections and that way it further reduces that subjectivity. Reports to track initiatives so we can see how we're doing and looking at best practices that other cities do that we're able to glean OJT on the job training, TU credits as a matter of fact, Sierra and Nasar with me today in the audience when the public comments from the CRA occurred last commission meeting Renee was kind enough to download that excerpt for me and the entire building watched those comments and we spoke about them afterwards. Increasing communication is part of the next metric which is having meetings on large scope projects, pre-construction during construction and prior to getting your CO or your TCO. Understanding what the expectations are, getting all the right people at the table to speak about what their issues are and what expectations are. If a denial occurs in a discipline through a reviewer in inspection three times, then we want to sit down with that applicant and we want to discuss between our staff and the applicant, the customer, the owner, you know, what's occurring and how we can get this plan through the process. The Florida Building Code uses a benchmark of 30 days. A permit is measured going through the process 30 days. Our benchmark is 20 days. And I get reports every month. That tells me how well we're doing. How many permits are exceeding that? How many permits, what the percentage of permits are that made it 20 days and before and that allows us to dig deeper if we need to and see what the issue is. And then a monthly review of processes and procedures. So we talked about reducing time and how critical those review times were, the consistency of reviews, and how critical that is, streamlining our permitting process, and what we've done through electronic permitting to help us in that manner. Enhancing communication with, not only the contractor, with the owner, and with the tenant is critical. We're collecting that information up front in the portal so we can communicate with them as the process goes forward. And continuous evaluation of the process. I had an opportunity last month to attend the Downtown Partners Meeting at Black Flamingo. So a lot of things that you heard, I spoke to the owners of Black Flamingo, I spoke to many of the other business owners that were there and explained what we're doing to address some of the issues that they had. The next part of that listening process is going to be an Oakland Park business partners forum, moderated by Jane Bowling, former mayor. It'll be Tuesday, August 13th, from 839-, a code ninjas 3421 North Dixie. And that'll give business and stakeholders the opportunity to talk to us as a city and tell us how we can improve and continue that process of improvement in for us to discuss with them. So that concludes my presentation. We're here to answer any questions and thank you very much. And Mayor, before I turn this over to you, I just wanna add a couple of words. You know, we've been through an enormous time of transition during the last couple of presentations. We referenced COVID and the challenges that resulted from it several times. The reality of what happened during COVID and subsequently with the supply chain and with inflation and the challenges of just interacting in person capacity, which is what construction activity is all about. Created a myriad of challenges for our building services, team, our inspectors, and our professionals. And the elements that Brad has been able to implement, not least of which are the structure and accountability elements, but including the team that he put together under the leadership of Greg Garsey, which coordinated this enormous electronic flow of processing information, which took years, Greg. I think it took us three years from the time that we began to contemplate and develop that system. And of course, there are failures that can take place any point along that process. A plumbing contractor can have an oversight and misread a plan. And frequently what ends up happening because the contractor is somebody that the owner relies on, the city ends up taking the blame. And I'm not suggesting that we're perfect. We're certainly not. But we're here to do everything that we can to try to alleviate the stresses and the challenges that occur throughout the process of trying to expand or build a new building or a new add-on addition to your home. The fact of the matter is when you're doing construction a million things can go wrong. And when you're trying to deal with the building that was built and equipped decades ago, you don't know what you may find as you get into the weeds and start to take down the walls and start to look at the electronics or the plumbing or the H-back. And the patients that is demonstrated every day, the tolerance, the care by our team or Red Building Services is really impressive. And I want to thank you Brad and your leadership over there and your wonderful team. You guys have really done an extraordinary job when your permit volume has increased 40 and 50 percent and you certainly have not increased your staff anywhere near that amount. So for you not just to stay at pace but also to catch up and to shorten that time frame for this permit review and approval process at a time that business and construction activity was expanding exponentially is really a testament to your professionalism and I want to personally say thank you for everything that you've done. I know the process can be frustrating. We heard about that at the last commission meeting but we try every able to make those improvements as we move forward. So thank you everybody that's been involved in this. Thank you mayor and commissioners for your support during this process. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We'll start with comments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mayor and commissioners for your support during this process. Thank you, Mr. A. Mayor. We'll start with comments with our vice mayor, Lonergan. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. Mr. Ostrowski, great presentation. I appreciate all the opportunities for improvement that you've identified. I'm sure you went into end through each of the different processes and looked to see what can be improved. Just curious, Brett, are there any, as the city manager was saying, we know this can't be perfect. There are going to be problems here and there, right? Are there any pain points that you can share with us that are beyond your control that maybe it's just a good thing for people to know that something, you know, this may be a little bit of a pain point. I know I put you on the spot and I don't mean to solve it. Nothing comes to mind. That's fine. Just if there is something you know that's a pain point that you think we should know about that really is behind your controller, you're kind of finding a way out of that. Anything you can share? I will share this. As David said, you know, we've in some cases is almost doubled our work. And we have just about the same amount of people doing those jobs. So we depend upon contractors to assist us in many of the disciplines. And getting those contractors from the county and Cap and Calvin to provide us with the same people so we can live up to what I spoke to you about this evening is same inspector, same reviewer. They have other commitments. So we have to work really diligently with them to make sure I may have a structural inspector from the county that comes in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I need that person to come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, not Mondays and Wednesdays. So those schedules and the number of personnel on how they are allotted to the city is a it's a point a critical point. Excellent. No I appreciate that because I know there are things that are beyond your control and I know that you're doing your best. So I appreciate that. Also I know back in 2000 was at 13 when the city manager came on board. One of the things I asked for was extended walk-in hours. And I know one night a week, right? You're open a little bit later for walk-in? Yeah, we we did a walk-through Wednesday before my time, but I was over an ECD at the time. At this point, with our ability to do this electronically, I think you're going to see a less dependency on people having to come to the office. And that's what we're looking to do. That's what we're preparing to do as we move to the sky building. How can we make this process bring it into 21st century and make it so as we go through the process, if we need longer hours, we will make sure that those hours exist. Anything to do to get our work done in a timely manner. Okay, so do I understand then you don't have the extended hours any longer? Is that what I'm understanding? Yeah, right. I would like to interject that people have 24 hour access now to upload plans that can do it at 2am, they can do it first thing in the morning, They can do it first thing in the morning. They can do it 24 hours. They can also schedule inspections 24 hours with the new system and they can look at all the results and the results in real time of the plan review comments and all that. So I believe that alleviates a lot of the traffic into the building. Depending who you are as a person, I completely agree. I mean, I still, Mr. City Manager, I still feel that. Well, and I appreciate that. Part of the challenge, frankly, by Smaire, has been that in order to ensure that we are prepared to address the questions that are being brought forward by the applicant. We are asking them to contact us and make appointments with us. We can't assemble the entire team of every inspector to sit and be available for anybody to bring in any problem and be able to address those problems. And that's why we re-crafted the strategy from an open sort of emergency room platform to a medical office come in, make an appointment, we'll make sure that the right person is available to answer your question. If a person comes in about a pool permit and somebody else comes in about a backyard basketball court that they want to put in, you need different people available to answer those questions. And in order for us to ensure that we're going to be able to have the answer that we, that they are expecting from us, we are asking them to help us better understand what their issues and concerns are. So frankly, we found that it was a greater frustration for people to have an open-ended scenario where people can simply walk in than if we actually can be fully prepared to address their question so that they don't get frustrated by that. That uncertainty as to whether or not we're going to be able to address their issues. Okay, so and here's kind of where I'm going and you're helping me understand this and the rest of the commission so I appreciate that. So let's say I decide I want to put up a fence and I decide geez I want to talk to someone at the city. But you know what I work nine to five every day and I can't get out and I want to go meet them face to face. What are my options as a resident of Oakland Park? Can we make a meeting at five o'clock and I talk to the person who's in charge of giving me direction on putting up a fence? So my concern comes in for people who really maybe prefer that face to face connection. And I appreciate it. I get what you're saying. You can call us. You can make an appointment. But can that appointment be after five o'clock when somebody cannot, you know, I got my nine to five. I can't get in there. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm sure that we can make arrangements. Most all of the permit activity, as you know, is done by contractors. And contractors work weekday, regular hours. And they're the ones usually that are filing the permit applications. So we haven't seen this as a barrier or frustration. I haven't seen a single complaint or concern about this. But if you hear of this, we will absolutely make adjustments and ensure that we're available to assist people. We don't intend to make the process more cumbersome or more uncomfortable for people, quite the opposite, and we're finding that the procedures that we've implemented have done that just that to streamline things. Perfect. And I ask this as an education for myself, all so to understand as I speak with residents. And I have not heard of any complaints. So I'm assuming that things are going well. I haven't heard anyone saying, I can't set up a meeting or whatever. So thank you for educating me and for answering those questions and for your flexibility when our residents have a little bit of a problem getting there nine to five. And we would be flexible vice mayor Thank you vice mayor. Mr. Gordon Thank you mayor Thank you mr. Astrof mr. Is it Garcy did I get that right? Patrick Richardson. And Mr. Richardson, thank you so much for this presentation. I have sort of a background in this permit subject. You know, and sometimes Mr. Abert, you have, Mr. A. Bear, you have your right, you have contractors, and then you have people who specialize in permits. They call permit expeditors. That's all they do. That's their life. So I just want to compliment you guys on streamlining these processes and doing it so expeditiously lost my volume. So we had that meeting, you know, our last meeting and there were a lot of concerns and to see how staff has just took charge and put some processes in place. I call it a chisene. Okay. I-A-Z-E-N. Streamline in your processes and coming up with the most efficient way to get through your processes and always looking at the bottom line too because it's not just the bottom line of the city but it's the bottom line of those people who are trying to acquire a permit. So I am quite impressed by what you guys have done here. I like the electronic aspect of it. I did have a question. So if the application can be done online, they can upload whatever plans and specs and other documents, you know, they have to support that application. So let's say getting back to a little bit of what the Vice Mayor was asking. Let's say someone had a question on their application. And I know that at some point in time you will meet with the applicant, the owner, the contractor, or whoever, you know, if they are constant issues with getting that permit. So if there are questions, and I see that you're steering away from the in person contact, and you're moving more towards the electronic, you know, the online, which is great. That's the wave of the future. But what if someone needed to talk, speak to someone in the department. How does that work? So right right on the page I'm where they sign up for the portal they're their Application sign up so they can monitor things. There's our phone number 954 6300 4350 it's prominent if there's any problems gives a call and There's our phone number, 954-630-4353. It's prominent if there's any problems, gives a call, and an email address that's dedicated to just permitting and building to address issues. So either by phone or by email they can get in touch with us and we will help them in any way that we can. Sure. That's great to know because I'm one of those people who sometimes like to talk to someone. I want to talk to someone face to face. I don't want to talk to the computer. So that's good to know that you have that option in the event that someone just needs some further clarification beyond what you know they see electronically so I'm happy to hear that. Right? Our lobby is open from 730 to 430 daily so they still can come to the lobby and any inspector or plan reviewer that's available can help them. If they have direct questions. That's good to know. I like the quality control that you've put in place. The fact that you have that tracking mechanism, or you also have the same inspector, the same reviewer. That's good to know. So when someone is trying to acquire a permit, they're dealing with the same person, they're dealing with the person who's familiar with the case. So we found that that was one of the critical issues that we are working, working, constantly working on to improve that priority. Right, so I am certainly very pleased to hear that you all have been proactive and you're on top of this. And you're right, Mr. Ostroth, we have two ears. We must listen in one mouth. And I'm happy that you sat back and you listened and learned what you needed to know. and you guys proceed it with putting all of these steps in place to make it easier for our permitting process. So I commend all of you to include the city manager. Thank you, sir. So that's it for me right now. Thank you, Commissioner and Commissioner Newell. Thank you, Mr. Ostroff for the presentation, along with Mr. Richardson and Mr. Garcia. I just want to thank you, first come in, June. I know we all remember last meeting how we were flooded with pretty much various complaints. And I commend you on how you took that information and you turned it into, okay, what do we need to do? Obviously there needs to be a change and you did that. You took accountability, you received the feedback and you put it into action. And then you also implemented ways to improve the permitting process. So thank you for doing that. And I also know that dealing with one person when it comes to permitting. I don't totally understand the process, but I did have a house built and the issue was not the permitting department. It was my contractor taking forever, dragging his, he was taking forever. I actually had to fire him and get another contractor to get the house done. I was trying to set up here and think of the guy's name that I dealt with very nice. He was so, he was like, I think he felt so sorry for me. But I did everything. I had to keep the, I still kept the grass clean. I still did everything I'm supposed to do as the owner to make sure I don't get any coal violations as well as adhere to your requirements in the permitting department. So my question is, although you heard the information, but as anyone I know want to talk to you, but at least tell you the experience that they're having with their inspector or whatever, are you willing to go out and speak to them? Absolutely. I mean, that is one thing no matter where I am in the city. My door is always open. My phone is always on. As Commissioner Gordon said, listening and finding out what their issue is and how we can address that issue. You know, you spoke about contractors. That's why it was so important that we collect the information of the resident, the builder, the tenant, and communicate as we do with the contractor. So they know what is going on, and they contract their permit through the process. Right, thank you because I trust Totally, but I trusted him, but then I started receiving phone calls and notices. And I'm like, what's going on in me? I don't like to be in the Red Sea. So I made sure I did everything to get that right. And that took me firing him and getting someone else to complete the job. So again, I just thank you for how I was just looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at the community and I was looking at Well, first thing my daddy old told always told me he goes you don't learn anything by talking so Biggest thing It's the God's honest truth and I'll tell you he said my Set me in my ways few times But first off, I'd like to commend the city manager for taking ownership of this I was really impressed that you took a hundred% ownership of this and it was a heartfelt ownership. It wasn't just you really came out there and that impressed me. People don't take responsibility for things that they're in control of nowadays and it's such a sad, no-one's society. They always want to blame someone else. Well, Mr. City manager you Took it and you took it and you laid it out there and you got the you're getting the job done That's the main thing my always is What do we got to do get this get this thing fixed and it looks like we're on the way to get it fixed back to your Walk in Wednesdays used to be problem is, is that those were all paper and that we're going to digital so you don't want to go backwards in fact that then the paper has to go from one person to another to another to another. It's going to slow it down. I know those were for simple stuff like fences and stuff like that. the third thing is people back to the city manager said about about these contractors My snap on dealer Comes in every week told me to understand why his dad couldn't get a roof from it Been been weeks and water's coming in so I said send me an email the send email I sent her rob and rob and send to Brad and Brad got back to the next day. Come to find out the Rupert just put the permanent in the portal the day before. So it happens all the time and they blame it on the city. So I have proof of this. And Brad got back to me the next day. And I told him he goes, I sort of figured that and he already got the permit, they already got the refund. But yeah, you gotta be careful. Be careful who you hire. Be really careful who you hire. Make sure that their license, their license is their license, not someone else's license. Always check with the, I believe county or this state We do that also right right Up front and make sure that they have a license They do it all the time to use someone else's license They don't even know they're using they used to work for them and they're using that there's their CC number and I don't want to give us that but thank you very much. I mean, it looks like, you know, I'm not an electronic guy. I'm a little paper guy. I'm just, but it looks like this way, you're getting stuff moved along so it doesn't have to physically go from here, physically go there, physically go there, electronically at all the same time. And I know we use county inspectors for inspections. Yes sir. How you got them to go next day? I don't I don't want to know. I just all I want to know is that that was a feat in itself because it is very important to have the same inspector because different inspectors have different visions of the same project. And what one of the spectral paths, the other inspectors says, well, it's not exactly which should be by the book. And I'm saying, not that the other inspector was wrong and the inspector is right, but they can look at the code differently. And so having the same aspect is so important and how you did it I don't want to know but it's just because we used to have our own spectres years and years ago I think Greg Greg's been around here time yeah Greg that we severed our respective problems is you can't hire people nowadays. I don't know how they got enough suspected for it. And you gotta remember too, we're competing with other cities for those inspectors too. So that to me is, and I'm a feat that's just unbelievable. But I wanna thank you all for coming here. Greg, good seeing you. And Pat, I don't know if I met you before, but I know your name and I know you, Tom Schubert, all everyone over there, they do, it's a tough job. And it's a thankless job. And unfortunately, sometimes you get playing for stuff you didn't do, because it wasn't there. And so now I'm glad to see you can reach can reach the portal 24-7 365 days a year. And it'd be good to see if that the homeowner knows how to get in there and see, can see exactly what's going on here. So they know that the contractors dragging this behind that they need to get on them. So. But thank you very much. Thank you, City Manager. Again, I appreciate all you do for this city. You really impressed me this time. Thank you, Commissioner. And I'll do what everyone said. At the end of the day, a government should be responsive to its people. And this is a conversation, Mr. Abert, and through Mr. A. Bear, Mr. Ostroff, and I've had for a number of months. Some of you have been on the commission much longer than me, of course. Vice mayor and commissioner, aren't I would say since I was elected in 2020, code in permitting the top two. I don't know which one since I've been mayor permitting questions and it's the contractor sometimes. In fact, if you remember over a year ago and Mr. Johnson was here, I asked for a can we do a comparison of how quickly we turn around a variety of roofs, fence, whatever. I'm sure you're part of that, Mr. Garcia back in the day. And we actually were pretty comparable except for one item when we compared ourselves, I think Lauderdale and Tamarack and North Lauderdale. So I went up the note I gave Mr. Abe there was thanking him for this presentation and I'll say that publicly. I think you are stellar and I think when there's opportunities you I know you very well now and you want perfection is very difficult when you're managing a big bureaucracy and Governments and counties and states, but you want is perfect City is to in its operations and its machinations and its machineries and Where there's an opportunity to improve you did this we had opportunity for improvements. And I just want to thank you all, particularly Mr. Rostrov. We've talked months back, because this system actually wasn't played, that didn't just go into place since the CRA meeting. It was operational earlier this year. And Mr. Richardson, good to meet you. And Mr. Garcia, I just saw you at Pervinine just a few weeks ago, but now we're both dressed up a little more. So thank you both, you're the ones who do the day to day. I wanted to, I agree with you, Mr. Commissioner, aren't it's, you know, how lovely would it be? It's budget time coming up as we know. We've already had the budget presentation. We're voting on it in the next few months. We would love to have four plumbing technicians and three elect all at our, I don't say back in recall, but full-time for us, we can't afford it. We can't afford it. I'll tell my share of my colleagues. I will, I love seeing, I mentioned this before, Mr. Ray Barrett to all of you in the public. One of the new, I think there's two or three, I can't remember off in new positions proposed in this year. Well, one of them is a permitting. Can you just share Mr. Ostrov, what that position is? It's a permitting administrative assistant or something? Correct, we now do 40 year inspections. We hold a special magistrate for those inspections similar to what code does and special magistrate. So we needed somebody that could assist for those inspections, similar to what code does and special magistrate. So we needed somebody that could assist Pat who runs that program with getting all the notices out, making sure the minutes are right. All those things that go into running a magistrate effectively and that's what that person will be doing plus other duties. Okay, I just say plus some other duties. I like hearing that, that's what that person will be doing plus other duties. Okay, I just say plus some other duties. I like hearing that, that's good. I just had one question I have had inspections of roof and offense myself since I've even been on the commission. Did you say inspection? I know there's a portal, but did I hear you right that the inspector's actually can ins, like a plumber or an electrician can inspect things digitally? Did I hear you correctly? Or it's all in person still when they still have to physically they can just use an iPad to put that inspection into the portal. I got it. But they still have. I thought they were like through the computer looking at the electrical. I think I miss her due. That's next year, right, Commissioner? But this is gold. This is golden. I've not used this word before on the commission. This is golden. And we should be. What's next that is messaging. I said an email to the city manager a couple of weeks ago about when how we will message certainly former mayor Bolin, who's also a stellar, is speaking to some business owners who will be there with Miss Herrera and I'll be there as well next week. But Mr. Rebier, what's the, certainly when someone goes to get a roof for a fence or a pool, they're gonna just see it. But I know Miss Venzi had mentioned there'd be some messaging in general though about this. I assume to both residents and business owners. Can you talk about the idea for the messaging plan? Yes. Shannon Desnar, PIR, has been working closely with Brad and his team. We're going to do a series of outreach that will include hard copy brochures, as well as internet interfaces that make it easier for people to understand what will be expected of them and what the process entails so that before they even get involved in it, they have the scope of the entire permitting activity that will take place and what to expect as you go through it. You know, if people can be forewarned, they're forearmed. And as Brad noted, several times in his presentation, communication is the essence of success. So we're going to continue to work on that aspect. And you'll see a lot of more of that to come as we continue our outreach. The business outreach certainly began, as Brad said, with the previous presentation at the downtown partners. It will continue and be expanded next week and then will continue to try to ensure that to the extent that we are becoming aware of concerns and issues that we are proactive in addressing them. Yes, and I like that, but I put with some proactive just messaging to residents because it seems to be more of a, that's kind of 50, 50 business and residents when I hear from them, but yeah, just some proactive. There's been some great changes in the, this is what I'm talking about. There's been some great changes in the building department enhancements and here's what they are. So that will go out to residents too. Right, okay. Just since you haven't spoken much, just if you don't want to. It's my Mr. Garcia to since you're kind of in charge of this particular shop. If you'd like to say anything, you're welcome to sir. Just I wanted to say thank you for the kind words as city manager indicated. This has been a process for the past couple of years. I've been trying to implement to try to improve our productivity and efficiency and what you're seeing and what you is the improved efficiency of ability to track ability to process a lot quicker shortening the duration time, shortening the resulting keeping the ability to track permits a little better. So in the future, what you will see is a continued hopefully improvement of that. As you see, the amount of permits transition from a physical permit, which used to cause us some of the challenges to now em oil electronic, and makes it a little easier for us and the customer to track. Okay, thank you, Eddie. What else? Okay. Thank you all very much. We appreciate you and again, thank you so much Mr. A. Barer. And since I've got you Mr. A. Barer, we have our fourth and final presentation tonight on Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Update. We do. Thank you, Mayor. Another area where we are aggressively proactive and we're very pleased that we have our new sustainability coordinator in Mali, Furch. And she was prepared to give this presentation a few meetings ago when she came up with the great idea to join an organization called Keep America Beautiful. You were supportive of that effort during that commission meeting and we're really excited on the fruits of what that will bring to tell us more about that and some other ideas that she has. I want to first introduce her illustrious leader, Albert Carman, our Director of Public Works. Thank you. Mayor Vice Mayor, City Commission, David Aver, Molly Furch. Mayor Vice Mayor, City Commission and City Manager. Thank you so much for having me here tonight. It is important to reflect on the significance of environmental stewardship and sustainability in our community, so thanks again for having me. As you all know, we are a growing city and with growth comes the responsibility to ensure that our city is sustainable for future generations. This presentation is an overview of key initiatives and accomplishments, as well as ongoing projects, aimed at enhancing our environmental footprint. Did I click the wrong button? No, no. Sorry. Okay. So environmental stewardship and sustainability is a new addition to the city's strategic performance areas for fiscal year 25. I'm sure you guys are aware. By adding it as a performance area, we will be able to grow and expand our existing initiatives and start new ones. One example is being able to increase our aquatic plantings, which will enhance habitat for a variety of wildlife, reduce erosion around lakes, and provide numerous other benefits. Along with increasing aquatic plantings, we are starting a new program called Keep Oakland Park Beautiful, and I'll have more on that later in this presentation. These are current citywide initiatives and programs. These are not the only sustainable and resilient initiatives and programs we have in the city, but just some that I would like to highlight. Many of you have been a part of neighborhood clean-ups and tree plantings, and we look forward to increasing our efforts in fiscal year 25. In addition, our Row with Reusables Initiative slash campaign has had great support in the community with over 300 people taking the pledge that we started in February to choose reusable items over single use items. By choosing reusable items like utensils and cups, we decrease the amount of solid waste and litter that is in our city. Not listed up here. We do have P3 pickle ball recycling. That is free to the city and that is at City Park. And we are involved in the Broward County Waterway cleanup. And we have approached NASA to develop a heat island study for the city. Next some exciting update. We are endeavoring a new joint climate action plan with Will and Manors, the joint climate action plan 2.0. The graphic is from the original Climate Action Plan that was done in 2019, and it's set the foundation for joint action between Oakland Park and Wilton Manners. There are two overarching goals to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of Oakland Park and Wilton Manners while minimizing impacts to efficiency and cost-effective operations. So the first phase was to develop a climate action plan with broad objectives and goals and like I stated before it was completed about five years ago. The second phase where we are now is to create implementation strategies. We are now developing a separate resilience and sustainability strategy, which we are calling the Joint Climate Action Plan 2.0. This matches the two overarching goals of the original climate action plan, but with specific strategies. Finally, the third and final phases to implement these strategies. Specific strategies like education and outreach have been ongoing and will phases to implement these strategies. Specific strategies like education and outreach have been ongoing and will continue to increase increase as time goes on. The joint climate action plan 2.0 is being diligently worked on right now, I promise, and will be completed in a few short months. Stormwater Master Plan Capital Projects, So, stormwater master plan capital projects, you have definitely seen this before. I just wanted to highlight these that these are still ongoing. These 15 projects were identified in the stormwater master plan and are either being addressed currently or will be addressed to increase the sustainability and resilience of our drainage infrastructure, which we all know is important. The master plan has a large emphasis on how to address challenges of sea level rise, flooding, and surface water quality. Vulnerability Assessment Update. So we have to complete a new vulnerability assessment. In 2021, the city prepared a flooding vulnerability assessment in parallel with updating the stormwater master plan, which was addressing the city's current and future stormwater management challenges. In May of 2022, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection decided to develop a new methodology for preparation of the flooding vulnerability assessments in the state. So we have started another vulnerability assessment, which will position the city for future funding under the Florida Resilient Grant Program. And we did receive a grant of $116,000 to prepare this new flooding vulnerability assessment which is kicking off next month. Increasing green space, one of my favorites. Green space and urban urban environments improves air quality, supports biodiversity and helps regulate the climate by reducing the urban heat island effect and sequestering carbon. It also enhances stormwater management by reducing runoff and filtering pollutants. Green spaces contribute to better mental and physical health by providing areas for recreation and stress reduction. They also foster community cohesion and can boost property values. Additionally, they offer educational opportunities for learning about nature and sustainability, which we have here are community garden. More on increasing green space. So here in the city, we are prioritizing the creation of Green Space which not only enhances the public experience but also promotes community well-being and environmental resilience. $50,000 it's annually allocated to expand the city's tree canopy ensuring a greener urban landscape for future generations. The city's dedication goes far beyond just planting trees. We have 184 National Wildlife Federation certified habitats in our city and six are new of this year. Oakland Parks 25 years as a NWF National Wildlife Federation community emphasizes how we are committed to preserving biodiversity in this urban setting. Keep America beautiful or now we want to call it Keep Oakland Park Beautiful. I want to introduce you to what Keep America Beautiful is and why we have proceeded with affiliation. So Keep America Beautiful is a leading national nonprofit whose vision states that everyone has a right to live in a clean, green, and beautiful community and shares the responsibility to contribute to that vision. Keep America Beautiful was established in 1953. It provides the expertise, programs, and resources to help people and littering, improve recycling, beautify America's public spaces, and restore and support resilient communities. Thank you to you all who voted yes on submitting our application. We have successfully submitted our application to become an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Keep Florida Beautiful is the statewide affiliate of the corporation and they covered our application fee. So we didn't have to pay $1500, which is great. So that's amazing. We submitted a migration application because we already have a board that will serve as a subcommittee for Keep Oakland Park Beautiful. Migration involves using an existing board that we already have. So there's no need to create another city advisory board. Once we are full members of Keep America Beautiful, it will officially be called Keep Oakland Park Beautiful. Their annual fee is $230 to be a part. The next step we have next month is our first training and it will be in September, which I'm very excited for. The last thing about Keep America Beautiful is that it will provide us a national network of other communities that are doing similar projects, a dashboard that we can capture and track information, cost-benefit calculator, and national credibility. This is my last slide. So this is new and in the works right now, the EPA Community Change Grant Application. So the EPA through the Inflation Reduction Act Funds has two billion dollars in environmental and change justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice change challenges. Excuse me. So we are developing a joint application with the Urban League of Broward County. Here is one of the site plans. And we would love to submit an application for $20 million to increase the tree canopy and the stormwater infrastructure and create a resilient tub in the works with the Urban League of Broward County. And that's all I have for you. I hope it was good. We wanted one more now. It's terrific. Thank you, Molly. If I could me real quickly. This only scratches the surface of what Molly and her colleagues have been engaged in. Many of you have participated in a lot of these activities over the years. And we continue to expand and increase the volume of our commitment to ensuring sustainability in our community. And it takes all kinds of different facets from our stormwater through our canopy, through keeping our streets clean. That last slide you'll hear more about. It's a joint grant opportunity that is available only when a municipality or similar government agency joins with a not-for-profit or tribal community to enhance resiliency and sustainability. And later this week our environmental consultant, Ilia Azraff, is going to be down here, working with us in conjunction with the Urban League as they start planning their project down in the Southwest where many of us have seen the ravages of what happens with the challenges that come with a warming climate, especially with the profuse rainfall that we've had recently. That is a low-lying area of our city with limited drainage opportunities. And we think that the enhancements that might be brought in addition to the Urban League project, if we can obtain this funding would be a dramatic benefit to the surrounding community. So this is another example of trying to be innovative in connecting and synergizing with other entities to really exponentially increase the success of new projects in our city. I am so very grateful that Albert was able to find Ms. Furch for us, her enthusiasm and commitment to this evolving area is really exciting. She brings new ideas to the table and I expect a lot more to come and will keep you apprised of development. So thank you Mayor, thank you Commission. Thank you. We'll start off with Commissioner Newbold. Thank you Mr. Perch for that. Mr. Carmen for the presentation. You know, I'm very supportive of anything we can do to be sustainable city and resilient. I am a, I took the pledge for Roserith reusable. And I'm glad Mr. A. Bear cleared that up because that was going to be my question. So the 20 million was a grant. It's up to $20 million and if it's in conjunction with one of these outside agencies and not for profit, we think Urban League is perfectly positioned to be the agency that we partner with here. Of course, this is only a grant application. There's no guarantee and it is a sizable application and would come at the perfect time as they begin their actual planning. We anticipate that their final consideration comes to this commission within the next two months. And if you approve that project, then we can work together, moving forward, to try to really build in these strategies with some of the elements that they had already contemplated. As you well know, there's a large mangrove area down there, which has been vulnerable. And if we can build in with the proceeds from a grant such as this one, the resources that will allow us to protect it and perhaps even expand it while at the same time increasing some of the green space down there, it would really be a win-win for everybody involved. And you know, those are the kind of really exciting ideas that keep coming forward from individuals within our staff because they are excited about what's happening here. And we're looking forward to putting this application together and then letting you hear more about that before we send it off with our best wishes to the folks in DC and hope for the best for the future of our city. Thank you. And like you said, it'll hopefully it'll correct that extreme flooding that goes on there all the time because it's always flooded when it rains. And thank you for the presentation. I look forward to doing anything I can do to help. I like, again, when it's sustainable and resilience and our climate change, anything to protect our environment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Ms. Furch. That was excellent. I had just gotten started. When you finished the last slide, I enjoyed it. This is a lot of information and I am very excited about the $20 million grant city manager. Well, I believe in, listen, I believe in putting it out in the universe. Okay, once you see it, then it's just a matter of implementing the process. That's just my school of thought. So in any case, I'm excited about everything that you talked about. Clean, green, and sustainable. That was my ticket. I'm still rooting for it. You know, Mr. Carbon, I tell you, I am totally impressed by what you've done over the years, you know, sitting on the the tech committee and what advisory board is just you've brought so much back from that experience to the city and I'm just looking forward to being a part of all of this. There was something I wanted to ask you. Okay. The, um, I guess you did answer that. Okay, keep, keep America beautiful. I've heard of it. Okay, and I'm so happy you tapped into that opportunity. So, and I understand that the state paid the application fee, is that correct? The $1,500. Are there any other fees that's involved with, I think you mentioned something else involved within a part of this initiative? So, there, the only other fee is the annual fee, which is $230, which is paid directly to keep America beautiful. And then with just being an affiliate in Florida, keep Florida beautiful is the statewide affiliate and they're no higher than our affiliate but they do cover the whole state. So there are other opportunities and keep Florida beautiful has secured $15,000 for each affiliate in the state of Florida. And there are 40, 46, 47, almost affiliates in the state of Florida. So each of those affiliates will receive the DEP, Florida DEP, $15,000 grant. So not only is it only $230 annually, we will be receiving $15,000 and those funds can go in a wide range of things from pickers to pick up trash and gloves or more tree canopy for another tree give away Just things along that line. Excellent. Thank you so much. So I've been hosting street cleanups for the past few years And I would continue to do that. So my goal is to be able to have litter kits for all the residents to be able to, if you want to host a cleanup. Yes. Similar to how we can expand our adopter street. Yes. And there's an issue that as well and revive it. That's another one of my ideas. So I would love to have litter kits free for residents to be able to come and pick up under, keep Oakland Park beautiful. Perfect, sounds great. Also, I'm proud to say I'm in the process of adopting a street. Thank you so much. You guys continue this great work. It's so much needed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Arst. She knows how I feel about classic and all that stuff. I hate it. So keep up the good work. Thank you. Vice Mayor Lonergan. Thank you, Mayor Miss Fertz. Mr. Carbin. Thank you. Great presentation. All great information. Keep it coming. keep up the good work. Couple of things I was really excited to hear about, as the rest of the commission, the Keep Oakland Park beautiful program, outstanding. I'm a big fan of Woods Ziawal. If I can get one sign of Woods Ziawal, give a hoot-doll pull in somewhere in the city, I would be very appreciative. And then also in here, it says something about aquatic planting. And I know this is early on and you guys are really expanding and doing a lot of stuff. Do you have any information you can share with us yet about the aquatic planting? Or is that still in this planting thing? So we do do aquatic plantings every year in Royal Palm and veterans. Those two lakes definitely. So we just want to increase because we have found that some residents along the those areas have had problems with erosion. So if they're having problems then we are also having problems city side. So to increase the plantings is just going to expand how we handle erosion in the city. Is there any possibility of looking at aquatic plant things in Cherry Creek Park and along the corals cherry Creek way? I can look into it. I would appreciate that. Thank you. That's it, Mayor. Thank you for all your hard work. Great information. Thank you. Thank's it, Mayor. Thank you for all your hard work. Great information. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Well, Ms. Furch, I love having this. I think you've been with us about almost a year now. November 9th. Yes, I knew it was last year, not this year. I think we came to the city, well, Mayor and St. Odecoordinated are. Carvitt, Mr. Abert for recommending this position be created, which we approved obviously, obviously prior to even hired into it. I don't think money, right? This is still not too common. I don't think in smaller cities. Maybe the big cities have it, but smaller cities under 50. So I think it's very lucky to have the position, and particularly the treasure that is you. At a few substantive questions, I do want to echo what Mr. Kimconi, Mr. your Mr. Vice Mayor Lonergan said, veterans in rural palm are very important waterway systems, but I do want to promote us thinking about aquatic throughout the city. So that would be great. The mangroves. So we've mentioned mangroves wherever they are in the city. Can you just, I was thinking about the mangroves when we approved our downtown zoning a few, whatever that was, year and a half or so ago and the the middle river, the north, and the middle river where sprouts is and that's you know some mangroves there in other places. Are mangroves, does the state protect the man of the where sprouts is and that's you know some mangroves there in other places are mangroves does the state protect the mangroves is there anything the city needs to do it above and beyond. No, the state would protect it. So we don't have to have any additional protection of those. Yeah, that's through Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. Sir, just to refresh your memory, you asked us about that some months ago. We've examined that issue. It's indicated. It's managed by the state. It's delegated to the county. We've contacted the county. The county does not wish to delegate any authority to the city regarding mangroves. Right, but that was my question. If we wanted a proclamation, not a proclamation with a resolution. We had never finished that conversation, Mr. Dudy, so I wanted to just ask you for that. So thank you. Only we've ever talked about NASA here. Could you talk a little bit? There's a grant. Is it a grant application? Yeah, absolutely. A grant application did you say about this heat? NASA has a program where they employ recent graduates of any college in the US and they then cities or anyone that wants NASA information can apply for a project to do a project. And then they are given 10 weeks with those certain, I guess we would call them interns from NASA, recent graduates of schools, that they take all the information that you want. We would want a heat indexed island study done. So NASA collects all of this information top-off top-ography information every day all day, but it's not we can't access it. It's not it's not public information. It's not public knowledge so we want to get that information. So we do have a project in with NASA and I spoke with their director two weeks ago and they're working on processing all of the projects. So yeah. That's a great opportunity. Thank you. Two more. One is a question and these are kind of different but all related and then something about our joint initiative with the Walton Manor's our joint plan. So you mentioned today and I know what it is but I don't know if it's a common phrase for the public is environmental justice. Could you give a 30 second on what environmental justice means? Because I know it's been a newer term in the environmental movement over the past five, or you know better than me, that's your master's in the past five or ten years. So environmental justice or environmental equality, we have to consider that as a country, even as a state and then as a city, how impacted lower income or vulnerable communities are to climate change, which is not, climate change is affecting everybody, but it is more so affecting people that can't afford to have an air conditioner in South Florida. So climate equity and climate justice, we need to do right by people and not only focus in areas that have already had some sort of climate change knowledge. And it goes as far as educating underserved populations as well. There's a broad range of climate justice and climate equity, but that's the short. Thank you very much. I think that's a newer term for many people. So I only learned to determine myself maybe two years ago, so I appreciate that. And lastly, you know, we talk about, and it's great. We have this collaboration with note, well, manners. It's a joint plan. In fact, I don't know, three or so months ago, we approved a consultant if I recall who's working with you. And then I don't think they have your position. So they're working with. So we're directly working with Will and Manor, the Assistant City Manager, this Pamela. This is just an idea. I'll throw out there, and I don't know if it would be, if I don't know if I'm even envisioning a ceremony per se, but because we have had for, I don't even know, how long have we had the it was under your your mayor right that joint second time? I'm your resident and myself in 2018 is wanted actually kicked off 18 so you know we're at six or seven years I'm not here for a ceremony for ceremonies sakes, but we they're right there, you know Wilton manners and what if we had some sort of I don't know if it's a kickoff or but just something where There's present there's some sort of, I don't know if it's a kickoff or if it's just something where there's present, there's some sort of synergy and activity between the two cities. It's just an idea that came to me because it's great. We obviously have that and you are obviously in the consult and you're working with Miss Landy. Anyway, it's just an idea. I'm not like adamant about it. It's just an idea I had. What do you have? I would love to have a party for the 2.0. Yeah, there you go. She'd like a party. So all right, well, those are my questions. But thank you so much for the energy you bring. Commissioner. I just got one question I've been pondering. Is Albert carbon neutral? Moving on. Thank you, Miss Ferrets and Mr. Carbin, as always, an apt last name. He has an apt last name to be sure. Okay. So with that, we're going to now move to our public hearing and ordinance on the second reading. Mr. Judy. Ornus Byte, I title only an Orange City Commission. Steve O'Coupart, Florida, managed chapter 13, title of the Solid Ways, for Rime For Additional Definitions. Providing for penalties and enforcement, providing for an update to placement for collection and removal after collection, providing for the deletion of section 13-39, section 13-51, section 13-52, and section 13-61, in the entirety of each of four mentioned sections, provide for severability, conflict, codification, and effective day. Okay, thank you, and Mr. Ray Brothers, a presentation. There is, thank you very much, and we'll turn tonight to our Public Works Director, Albert Coverin, for the presentation on the second reading. Thank you, City Manager. Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor of City Commission, Albert Ciron Public Works Director. I am joined by Julie Leonard. She's she's not be a zoom. Assistant Public Works Director. This is item one on your tonight's agenda. It is a public hearing in order on second reading, updating chapter 13 of the city code regarding the Solid Waste Services. A little background that in June 2023 the city entered into an ILA in their local agreement with Briard County that included 28 other cities and municipalities in Briard County to form the solid waste disposal and recyclable materials, processing authority of Broward County. They do have a long title. This prompted the review of the city code relating to solid waste issues. Current activity. This review was conducted by two, there are two separate reviews. One was done by Kessler Associates, who is the City Solid Waste Consultant. They did a complete review of the Solid Waste Code, and the second review, which was the first review, was conducted by code and planning relating to neighborhood preservation, enhancement, and sustainability. Very quick look at our increase in solid waste costs over just over the past two years, the lowest and bulk trash being 31% or recycling costs have gone up 72%. So we also have increased cost employee costs and benefits fuel cost and vehicle replacement costs. There's a lot of minor revisions, but the substantial revisions include fees. This is fees for special pickups, dumpster costs, the rollout service, and other miscellaneous fees that are currently set and updated by ordinance, by the city commission by ordinance, that will now be updated by City Commission via resolution. We also proposing increasing our fee for special bulk trash collection. This fee was set minimum of $60 back in 2010 and is now proposed being increased to $100 for a maximum of three cubic yards. If it goes over to three cubic yards, we'll charge more. And so we're also proposing limits on our bulk trash, monthly bulk trash volumes. Currently we have unlimited bulk trash pile. We are proposing to limit that to 10 cubic yards, which is equivalent to a hind a koala or or a under civic or a toilet growl. Excuse me. Should this bulk trash limit be approved, staff will conduct outreach to all bulk trash customers and provide a courtesy notices to all those customers. Inputment of the implementation is scheduled for November 2024. The concluding stack recommends the City Commission conduct the public hearing and adopt the ordinance on second reading. Yes. I'm bail for any questions. All right. Thank you, sir. At this point, I'll open the public hearing. Any member of the public has up to four, right? Ms. Schraout, yeah, up to four minutes to speak. You could just say your name and address please. Good evening, FitzBud who 720 North East 59 Court. Excuse my attire at Daddy Dutri's to do today. Just reading on this, this is nothing minor. This is a massive, massive education program that you got to do to the residents. Okay, you're doing a whole new restructuring. I'm unlimiting it, trans pickup to now. 10 cubic yards. Okay, we see that it's an increase on the tenants from 41, 35 to 54 dollars. That's on the report That's 12.65 cents gap. So we got to make that up this I support this You know you go Normally you get a free limit maybe 20 15 cubic yards and then anything after okay, I see it's 10 cubic yards now first question I have What we going to do after Blade 2? Are we going to start having land skapers? Because in this report, I see that the land skapers must be able to take the trash. Okay. Now, if we eliminate trash pickup, I'll be going to start registering the landscape and the company to make sure they perform that task because then we say, hey, if you come and cut somebody out or cut somebody trees, and then we talk about the limb tree limbs is fine, but tree stumps, it's another scenario. With tree stumps, you got to cut up into small pieces, small pieces, five to three feet, so that hammer that arm could be able to pick up that stump in pieces. Okay, three limbs, you say, okay, three limbs is what, three feet, less than three feet long. You can pick up a three limb if you have three debris. We have these area questions we gotta ask. It's a massive education program that has to occur. This is not something little part of this interlocal agreement with the Briar County. I'm for this. This is a good thing. However, you gotta be very thorough, Mr. Cobb and City Manager, because this is going to be very brand new to the residents. Okay, very brand new. So this is good. brand new to the residents. Okay, very brand new. So, um, then this is good. And it is a financial impact. Every time I see in the end of the document, this is not going to be a financial impact. It will be for the residents. And also for the city because we're going to generate some sort of revenue. What was the five year projections of our annual tennis rate? Because if we go to start saying, hey, if you go over 10 cubic yards, okay, that means you're going to start charging our residents money for pickup per cubic yard. And please have the formula ready for what is a cubic yard. Not just a two-hour truck. You're going to have to have a training campaign for the workers who pick up to know what a cubic yard is to measure because oftentimes the citizen doesn't even know. I know I've got thousands, thousands of calls about it. We have to explain the form. So I definitely want to hear Mr. Cobb and in explanation how you're going to tell the resident what's a cubic yard and you're limited to that. Also, let me show you, 49 seconds. A legal dumping, we don't want to have unattended consequences. When you have a cap on Yard's pick up, what's going to happen with the excess waste? Either they're going to put it in the garbage container or they're going to find someplace dumping, illegally dumping. Okay, and that's going to be a problem. That's why it has to be a problem? It has to be a massive campaign on that. This is a document working progress. Yes, you can support the free. But administration has to come back to see how this is going to be. Implementation of this. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Budhu. Anyone else who wants to come back? Yes, I do. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Budhu. Anyone else would like to speak? Good evening. You guys do a lot. Do a great job. You just say your name and address, please. Sure. Who I'm representing or your name and address. Yes. Okay. It's Matt Pisoni and I'm representing All Saints Soup Kitchen. 3460 Powerline Road Oakland Park. Okay. Good. Okay. So all say it's mission. Excuse me sir. I'm sorry to interrupt. Is this pertaining to the ordinance? Excuse me. We have public comments that are separate but right now this is a public hearing solely focused on the ordinance regarding trash removal. Oh that's it. Yes, sir. Nothing else. Correct. You'll have an opportunity shortly. Okay. Got it. Sure. No problem. Thank you. Come up right after this here that we have general public comments. Sorry for the confusion. Are there any other comments relating to this particular ordinance on solid waste? There's hearing on solid waste. They're this hearing on the solid waste. Seeing that, I'm going to close the public hearing and turn it to the commission for a motion. Motion to adopt. I'd like to talk to you in a second. Okay. Commissioner Arnst. Is there a reason why we're going to resolutions that are ordinance on the fees? The philosophy of moving from ordinance settings of fees to resolutions for fees began about four years ago and the concept was to allow for us to be responsive and nimble when there are dramatic changes in the cost of our various activities. It has applied across the board everything from our fees at the Dylan Tennis Center all the way to the others and now that we are looking at this adjustment, we think that this fee should be treated in like manner. The waste assessment fee itself has a separate process, as you well know, and we go through that process when we do the budget. But this makes it consistent with the manner in which we handle other fees. And that's why the recommendation was brought forward. Okay. Second thing is, and I talked to you about this before, we're awfully cheap on our commercial rates. I mean, I'm in pop and I've got a two-year dumpster, pick up once a week, $162. I believe our two-year dumpster once a week here is around $80, $88, $88, had the price. It just, I mean, I know we have our own service and everything, but we need to look, start looking at those rates. They're just, you know, in this way way we wouldn't have to be increasing garbage rates all the time Yes, I appreciate that commissioner and that is something that we do review regularly and grapple with We've heard recently the challenges for many of our small businesses and they're the the vast majority of the commercial pickups that we have here in the city. But you are right and having the ability to change the fees as necessary through resolution will make it easier for us to make those adjustments if you deem it appropriate. Yes, it's always a balancing act and if that's something you think we should look at more carefully we're happy to do that. It was reviewed as part of our solid waste review process but we'll take another look at it if you think that that's... I mean in a popular I'm stuck with coastal now. You had waste management for them. They were about the same. They weren't any different and I know they're not disposing their garbage any different than we are. Well, that's a beauty of having our own sanitation division is that we can keep our costs in check to a large extent because we can control them. When you're looking at private contracts, you don't get the service that you do here with our team. You certainly don't get the favorability rating that we've achieved with our sanitation department. And most importantly, you don't have the immediacy of the access to it when you're dealing with emergency situations. So there are a lot of advantages that come from that. But we're happy to take a look at that again if you think that that's- Well, just for stuff when we're out to buy new garbage trucks and stuff like that, you know how I feel about taking loans out for them. This waste, I don't know, I hate wasting money on interest. I'd like to be able to get a reserve. So in case when we do need garbage trucks like this year when we need one, we don't have to take it out of reserves because all our all our vehicles this year come out of reserve it's taken out that are one it's a one-time expenditure from from our reserves and you know I don't like having to do it but this here we had to do it and I really appreciate the fact that we're buying these outright and we're not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on all these vehicles for interest just throwing the money away. So I appreciate that and and like I say our sanitation service is number one not in the county but in the state. No question. Thank you commissioner. Commissioner Svagadus asked you as our representative to the solid waste the process and authority that we just entered. You're getting a start of a job this pop that's what prompted all of this. You have a sense obviously of the other municipalities and that's where you're coming from where we need to. Yeah, and the thing is that that's why I like having control over our city services. Fire department, sanitation, obviously we have BSO now, but I'd like to be able to control what we do and we do for our residents. And I think our residents really appreciate it. It's a little things that these guys do like raking up after bulk pickup or the little old lady who can bring her card card out they bring it back in and put it on the side. This stuff there that's not their job description but they do it. And you don't get that with a private company. So I thank the, you know, Albert, you give my best to the guys over there. They're just, they're top notch. So. Thank you. Commissioner Newport. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Carbon for the presentation. And I know the fees are going to increase and the boat pickup is going to decrease, but according to my conversation with Mr. A Bear, the public will be educated, be thoroughly educated on the changes and they won't be dinged or right away. They won't get penalized right away. You're absolutely right, Commissioner. This is not a gotcha game. The reality is that our costs have exponentially increased. And the vast majority of our residents will not be impacted by this new limit, because that 10 cubic yard component should give more than enough space for bulk trash pickup for our residents. There are individuals that it will be a process of educating and we're not going to be violating anybody quickly. We're going to make this a rollout that begins with encouraging people and then it will result only at the beginning in courtesy notices. But we know too that there are repeat violators who take advantage of the unlimited bulk pickup and that's unfair to everybody else because that burden then has to shift from that individual resident to the broader community and that's what causes our increased prices as well. There are options for individuals that have additional bulk that needs to be picked up and we do that at a very reasonable cost but we simply cannot leave it open and for those individuals who are utilizing this opportunity to take advantage of the broader community service. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Horton. Thank you. One of the advantages of having those briefings, we can ask questions and we can get answers prior to our meetings and to the commissioner point, yes, there will be a period of time when there will be that educating the public and preparing the public. We're not just going to start immediately making this change or implementing this process. So there will be that outreach period. And I know that, so I'm saying that for public consumption. Yes, when we do things and when we vote on things, we try to make it good, fair, and just. We don't come running out of the gate and drop in blind signing our residents. So I think this is a good balance in act, as you said, Miss Abeer, because I have seen mounds of trash. I've witnessed that driving around in the city. So what do you do? Do you continue to do what you've always done and get the same results? Or do you make change? So thank you very much for presenting this again to the commission and we look forward to the outreach. And thank you. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor, I appreciate it. Mr. Carbon, you rock. Thank you. It's, I've had the pleasure of sitting at meetings with you throughout the county and you're always there great support giving us information and letting us know how to proceed on things Commissioner Aren't I just want to say I completely agree with you I agree with your ideas how we have to When we control things ourselves we have better control of our expenditures and our finances and we're just much better off We eliminate the middle men on certain situations. So I agree with that. One question I have Mr. A. Bear just for public awareness. So changing from ordinance to resolution, this will have no negative impact on public participation or education, correct? All of the resolutions come to the commission and they're all publicly noticed through your agenda process. This really just provides us the opportunity when and if dramatic changes occur that we're going to be able to be responsive to it. Yeah, and I think it's illogical in a smart change. I just wanted to make sure everyone is aware this does not take the public participation away from hearing what's going on and voicing their concerns about it. And then the last thing I would just say is a little bit about what Mr. Budho was speaking about earlier. And I know we said the size of a small compact car. But I know there are certain guidelines and if I'm not mistaken Mr. Carbon you can correct me or educate me. There are certain guidelines that certain things have to be cut within certain sizes for it to be hauled away like the bigger longer tree stumps and things. So is it fair to say, you know, when we talk, we have it advertised as a small car. I mean, is that like four feet deep, eight feet wide, three feet high? I mean, is there a better way of of giving a picture on what it really truly needs to look like? Yeah, thank you, Vice Mayor. The car, it's a medium-sized car, not a compact, but that was the best that you could look. There's a medium-sized car across the street or the one I drive, you can do that comparison. Some people don't see it at 10 cubic yards as 2 by two by four. What's that, that's a cubic yards, but what they don't understand what those dimensions mean, because there's so many different variables in those dimensions. And there is other things in the very about how big the, as Mr. Brothers said, how big the log it can be, how long it can be, how much diameter it can be, and all that, that's all spelled out in the code. Perfect. And you're the expert here. It was just an education on our part. Thank you for what you're doing and makes sense. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Sure. And you know, education is a theme just like with our, with our permitting earlier tonight. So this is about educating the public, educating all of us and roll out is what big bureaucracies do with what we're responding about being responsive again. But we'll have the I trust the messaging vice mayor when we when we have that Mr. Budhoo we'll talk about can it be vertical if someone's they shouldn't get rid of a grandfather clock I don't know why I'm thinking of grandfather clock. There's someone wants to dispose of two grandfather clocks or something can it either. So that messaging will go out. And I also just wanted to say, Mr. Bud, who you prompted this point earlier, this relates actually to, I'm still talking about the item on the public hearing, but something on item aid on consent is about that if people can haul, they're responsible for hauling their own bulk trash away up to power line, which I haven't done that. I've just taken some like full paint there and stuff on Saturdays. It says without limit. So may I confirm? I'm going to just confirm Mr. Carb and that's I had a made on consent, but it relates to this with messaging that we are limiting to the Toyota Corolla dimension type, but that I just want to confirm that it's unlimited if we can haul it to the site. And I guess that's an pump, I know. Yes, Mayor, that site's a copen. Just off of Powerline Road and Road, just north of Copen. It is both for electronic bulk trash and hazard materials, your paint. And they do allow for a limited bulk trash. You have to be documented that it comes from your resident. It's not a commercial person bringing that there. It's your resident. Thanks. So that's one thing that Mr. Brader did talked about is that that's what we're trying to control is the commercial people coming into Oakland Park dropping it there and we picking it up. What you cut will pick up what your contractor cuts they need to take away. Absolutely. So I just want when we educate there is this because there's on consent on there's a fee for that too. educate there is this because there's on consent on there's a fee for that too obviously for bulk and all of that bulk But that's part of the whole education campaign with this piece too If you had a comment and I'm commissioner. Yes. Thank you Mary. Appreciate it I'm just worried. Okay, so during my agenda briefing This city clerk Miss short was in there and I did notice out on our share point we had COVID guidelines yet regarding the waste drop off on there. Renee was looking into that to update the website. I know I go out there several times a year and they're very, very efficient. So if you do have something that you want to take there yourself, it is a great opportunity. I'm saying load up your car, your truck, take it out there and get rid of it right away. Electronics are recycled out there, paint, things like that are recycled out there. So please don't put those kind of things in your trash or in your bulk pickup. Make sure that those kind of items electronics and And hazardous materials are you know paint things like that. Please take that out to the power line road drop off Good reminder. Thank you. Yeah, please don't throw your paint away Commissioner arts real quickly that this thing about the tree tremors is not new. It's been in the ordinance. It's section 1317. It says it's responsibility of all fence companies, tree surgeons, tree tremors, nurseries, and landscaping collectors, lawn maintenance and individual company doing work or private property to remove from the premises all robes resulting from such work. That's been in there. That's nothing new. So it's not like we're adding this on there. This has been there and That's the problem is these tree companies come in there and they know when bulk pickup is and so they get them a better deal Because the city picks it up and and has they don't have to haul it away. So that's been like that for a while. So this is nothing new Thank you, Commissioner Gordon. Thank you. I just wanted to circle back to what Mr. Budhoo said. And I just want you to know that what you said, you, it echoed what a lot of people are concerned about. We are fortunate as commissioners to sit down and have these pre discussions with the city manager and staff and a lot of those questions get answered. So I just wanted to say your your point was well taken and thank you again for that. Okay. Okay, we'll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner Noobln. Yes. Commissioner Arons. Vice Mayor Longergan. Yes. Mayor Rosenwald. Yes. I know public comments is next, however, we're a little past our break and you do need to take a little break. 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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 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. the you ready okay welcome back we're now going to resume the commission meeting and we're going to head right to public comments public comments everyone has up to four minutes to talk about any matter relating to the city so feel free to come on up. All right. Thanks again. Sorry about last time. No worries. It's come to you. Just again, just to say that your name and address for the record. Thanks. Matt Pisoni. 3460 Powerline Road. Oakland Park Boulevard. I'm here on behalf of All Saints Soup Kitchen. So as I assume most of you know, there's been an ongoing issue. And it seems from my perspective, and I may not know everything about it. It seems unnecessary. All Saints Mission has been serving the community for 35 years and feeding those in need. In the beginning, the mayor, the City Commission and the chief of police all helped all Saints ensure that people had food. However, the atmosphere seems to have changed. It's clear that right now the city's primary objective is not to help all saints help people in need. It seems that the primary objective is to push the kitchen out. So what I'm wondering or what I'm trying to help all saints accomplish is an amicable resolution. So the actions of some of the commission, they're causing pain to the poorest of people, and they hinder a selfless organization that only tries to help. They're good members of the commission, many of whom want to help, and for those of you that fall into that category, remember that inaction is complicity. Again, why not find an amicable resolution? Oakland Park has an unsuccessful history with lawsuits, including losses to the Archdiocese of Miami, the Women and Children Refuge on Oakland Park, and the Peer Center. The precedent has been set and will likely hurt the city in a lawsuit. So I've got extensive experience with extended legal battles as I'm sure many of you do. And my experience is that everyone loses. In this case, the city of Oakland Park seems to be incurring significant legal fees for a fight that it's not likely to win. I think those dollars could be better spent to help the soup kitchen improve in whatever ways you feel that it should improve. Given the precedent that's already been set, it's not likely to win, so the longer this goes on on the more money the city spends on legal fees. So again I might be missing something but why not try to find an amicable resolution. So for those of you that oppose the soup kitchens existence and in turn oppose feeding people who are down in their luck it's likely going to cost the city millions. You've already spent from what I've seen in excess of a million dollars fighting this wonderful soup kitchen and it's likely to cost more before this is done. Not to mention the millions and damages that you may incur as well as bad press. So as you discuss the development of this beautiful city, just remember that there are those in need and I Think they could better benefit from the money that's being spent fighting the soup kitchen. So Again try to find a nambicable resolution Got a couple of quotes. I want to share in closing Mother Teresa if you can't find 100 people, sorry, if you can't feed 100 people, then just feed one. Sell a ward in this country that grows more food than any other nation on Earth. It's unthinkable that any child should go hungry. And Rosa Deloro, no child, no senior, nobody should go hungry and Rosa Deloro, no child, no senior, nobody should go hungry at night. And for those of us in government, this is a moral imperative to get it done. So do yourselves a favor, do the city a favor, settle the lawsuit, why not try to find an amicable resolution? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker for public comment. 720 720 North East 59 cord. And your name. Fitzgerald but who. OK, fits but who. Good evening evening everyone. I saw the presentation with the building services permitting improvement plan. Thank you city manager. Thank you for listening. And thank you for acting on this. It came to my attention and I boarded to the mayor mail attention several months ago in January. I decided to hold off and just observe on my own. Why? Because I had to go through the permitting process because I was doing the remodeling of my home. But I heard that concern. And it was a customer service concern, really. A communication concern. And I felt that's what I knew because of my previous experience. So I went through the process in those several months, fight man, I went through there, I waited for the contractor, he did what they had to do, submit permits. And then months later I tried, I followed up with him and then he had a, I looked online, I was able to get that information to the system from my department and then I paid a visit after I came to a DRC meeting, I just stopped by the office and it was inquired about the permit and it was a stuck. So it was a contractor issue. And then it ultimately caused a little delay with staff. So it's a communication gap. So I just went there and I called a contractor. I always thought my contractor was going on. Whereas the part of the permit and the status. And then he checked back with the city. Now, I made it that I didn't interfere with the process because I didn't want to make any type of favoritism, favoritism towards me. And that was good because I was one of those. And then we just got there. I've permanent I've custom service that they handled a permit. They made the corrects in my contract. They made the corrects and work began on my roof. It went well, Commissioner Armstrong. And then I had CAP, the COP. That's our building inspection section for the city. Recontract them out. And I had two of the inspectors, went up top of the roof and check the roof, say everything was fine, but they missing something else. So they went back to the contractor, called contractors and said, hey, you missing something. I got a concern here because I had a prior resident that had a concern and they asked us why we didn't tell them. So his experience on the previous resident said, Hey, I'm going to cover up, not cover up, but I'm going to inform the resident, Hey, you got to concern here. You need to speak to the contractor. That's what working, looking, following the building coals of South Florida, because we have to string this building coals since Andrew, and he follow up with me, you say, hey, you got to tell you contact and look at this dip on your rule. Instructural. That means I had to get another permit. So I had two spectres came in. And then so trustworthy, customer service, city manager. And they came in and say, hey, made the contract to get back up here and see what they could do if it's structural and we find out yeah it was because we try to repert relook to see if any other permits were pulled prior to the one I got it was none it was since the development of my home so with that I made the contract to go back and say hey get me a consultant to come out to see what else I need to get done. So that what I'm trying to say is the system works, it takes a while, but it works. So we just keep communicating with our residents and everything we find. And we won't have what happened last month because everybody would be in agreement. It didn't because we're doing the right thing and protecting the residents and the business on this. So I mean improvement. Thank you for this improvement plan from the staff. That's how we work well as the government. Thank you. Our next speaker. If there is one. Okay, we're going to close public comments and we come to our consent agenda. Consent agenda for the seeding item three has been moved to later item four, residential entitlement. Resolution City Commission, CEO of the Park floor, approving the authorized proper city fifths, the executor contract extension Medical Director of Services, which are on Kuna, DO for additional two-year term providing and approving the increase in cost of services to provide for conflicts that were built in effective day. Item five, resolution by Title Only. Resolution and City Commission, City of Elkhambark, Florida, approving the engagement of firm, neighbors, Ghiblin, and Nickerson, P.A., City Spawn, Disclosure Council, and authorizing the appropriate city officials, ex-future grant between the firm and city, provide for conflict, severability and effective day. Item six, the resolution by Title Only, resolution, city commission, C of open park, Florida, supporting the route to 20, 50 metropolitan transportation plan project within the city of Oakland Park, providing for conflicts every billion effective day. Item seven resolution by town only resolution city commission, city of Oakland Park, Florida. Approving and authorizing the purchase of unleaded and diesel fuel at local retail, establishment and negotiated rates using fuel purchasing cards offered by WEx Bank. Picking back in the terms of conditions, state of Florida, alternate contract, source contract, number 78, 18, 17, 01, dash 21, dash, NAS, PO, dash, ACS, the resolution number 8 resolution city city city city city city city city city city city effective date item 9's resolution by title only resolution city commission see vocal park Florida Approving and authorizing the purchase of janitorial products from HD supply piggyback in terms of conditions Of how many a partners contract 16 15 for Providing for conflict service bill and effective date item 10 resolution by title only resolution city commission see vocal park Florida Approving and authorize proper city officials X, get a second amendment to agreement with center square, DBA's, Criwolf for false alarm billing and collection services, for conflict, severability and effective date. That concludes the consent agenda. 15A. This up. Oh, I'm sorry. 15A. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Resolution by title only resolution city commission. See a vocal park floor to prove an authorized appropriate city fierce was exhumed to the utility work by highway contractor agreement to the Florida Department of Transportation for the Florida not a road sidewalk project. Providing for conflict service bill and effective date. Motion to announce. Second. Welcome. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner Nubel. Yes, Commissioner Orange. Yes, Vice Mayor Longigan. Yes, Mayor Rosenwald. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to a point reappoint Donald Wittenberg and a point Paul Burns, the code of forcing board. Let me just say the items code of enforcement board appointments. Okay, is there discussion? Roll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner Noobln. Yes. Commissioner Orange. Yes. Vice Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Mayor Rosenwald. Yes, I want to thank everyone for continuing with your service to the board. Resonation by title only. A resolution. City Commission. So you hope to park forward to point two regular members serving the co-inforcing board for high-effect server billing effective date. Motion done. Second. He's seconding. Vice mayor. Second. Local. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nubel. Yes. Commissioner Arns. Yes. Vice Mayor Lonergan. Yes, Mayor Rosenwald. Yes, item 12, School Advisory Board appointments. Motion to a point. Checked out. Lays my representative. And Commissioner Gordon. Thank you. Motion to a point. Nathan. Excuse me. They don't you don't need a motion. You just identify the individual. Thank you Nathan church church and Go ahead and appointment Okay Mr. Newborn I appoint Jacqueline Giazanti Okay, I would like to reappoint Denner first I would like to re-appoint Dan Lovfarsh, Mr. City Manager, and my appointment remains We need a motion to vote on this first. Local. This is a motion. Please. Through the names. Second. Local. So was that Commissioner Arnsd and Commissioner Newbold? Yes. Yes. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Newbold. Yes. Commissioner Arnsd by Senator Lonnigan. Yes. Yes. motion. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. Newton. Yes, Mr. commissioners. Yes, okay, moving along and we have Mr. Mareira McCummery are already. This is for an approval of a work authorization for Don Bell signs, LLC for sign fabrication construction and installation services for the installation of city entryway signs it to specified locations. And Mayor, with your approval, I'd like for Miss Marrero to be able to give one presentation that will cover both items 13 and 14 on the agenda as it applies to the same contractor. And Miss Marrero is here with us. Good without everybody okay with that? Yes. I think it's efficient, sure. Madam. Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and commissioners. Tonight I'm going to keep with the trend that we've been on with our progress, with giving you two updates. The item being won, but actually made this Montgomery make it to the front row. So we're making progress. So see the front row is progress. Look at that, Bob. You can see that in the front row. So see our borough director of We're making progress. So the first portion is going to. We have two locations for city signage, which is your item 13 and 14. The first portion is going to be our item 13, the entry way sign. You've seen the design before. We're finally bringing it to life. We have two locations that this work authorization will cover. It will be one will be at the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. We'll be in the next section of the road. item 14 which will be before you is the entry signage to the parks keeping with our theme throughout our second century and our archways going into our parks we have the Dr. Carter G Woodson Park entry sign that will be the last and final touch to our park improvements so we want to go ahead and get that started and manufactured and then we're also adding the Harlem McBride Community Garden arch to the entrance of the community garden. With that being said, I recommend that item 13 staff recommends that the City Commission adopt a resolution authorizing the proper City officials to execute a work authorization between the City and Dom Bell signs LLC for sign fabrication, construction and installation services for city entry, sign injury way signs at two specified locations at a total cost of $48,380. And item 14 staff recommends the City Commission a doctor resolution authorizing the proper city official to execute a work authorization between the city and Don Bell signs LLC for sign fabrication construction and installation services for the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Park and Harlem bride community garden projects at an amount of $55,812. With that being said, I'm available for any questions if you may have them. You should be an auctioneer that used for that very well. She says I just try to take DJs job. Should we get a motion first? Did you want a motion? Yeah, yes sir. Yeah. Well, we need a rezo. Motion, motion without the rezo. Second. Disgusting. Commissioner Ernst. Any plans on putting solar light on these entryway signs? I know it's not feasible, but wired. But with the solar, they got out there right now. It'll light because I got solar lights in my MER that last almost all night and they're just from home depot. So the entryway signs both have solar lighting at both locations. Okay, good. Very good. That makes a big difference. They need to be lit at night. So thank you. Other comments? Vice mayor. Thank you mayor appreciate it. Hey, very excited about this. Love seeing it coming. I want to water a seed that I planted a while ago. We talk about the arch signs in our parks. I really want to see them at our schools also. Thank you mayor. I like that idea. That's a good idea. Rest in the title. I'm sorry. Mayor, there's still some discussion. Commissioner, yeah. We're all going to speak. Yeah, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Just want to thank you both. I mean this is wonderful. I'm loving the signs. I do like the arch vice mayor. And I think it's it's certainly a nice enhancement for the community garden at Harlem Mac Pride and also the park. So very nice. Great job. And I think the cost and I'm sure I don't need to discuss that. You've already done your due diligence city manager. So thank you. We're excited about this. I have one question. What is the timeline for the other signage? Is there a timeline involved here? Because I know this is two other signage. This is two signs signage. This is two signs. Yes, there are two of each of these. There's two of the arches and there are two of the entry-way signs that are included here. So four total. We're hoping that we'll have the arches as available and installed as we do the construction over there at Card G. Woodson. As to the entryway signs, there's still some permitting issues that we're having to work through. And part of the entryway sign that is on the west side of town on prospect will actually need cooperation with the PULTI folks. So we're working closely with them on that as well. We're hoping though that all four of them will be completed. If we're lucky by the end of the year, if not the first quarter of 25th. Very good, thank you. Thank you, great questions. Commissioner Evel. Thank you, Ms. Pura, and your assistant director for the presentation. It's great to hear about the signage. I have a residence that is constantly asking about the entryway sign. So I'm hoping this is in the location she's requesting or at least would love to see. I'll probably send an email to staff and just have someone to follow up with her because she has been asking about signage over in that area. So thank you. I'm glad to hear about this. Thank you. Well, it's a counterpoint the west Side, the other sign that's out there. Mr. Ray Bear, this has been, I was like, my spares were talking to you as well about this. Maybe way back in 2013, so I won't, I can't beat that, but we've discussed this when I first came on in 20 or 21, so it's really wonderful to see, and I just have to say again, it's almost a year ago, I get remember six months ago, that design is incredible. If I recall, is it an architect that's a resident here? No, it works in the city. Right, it's our employee, right? So I think it's amazing. Okay, so with that, Mr. Duty. I am a 13 resident, which I title only. Resolution city commission see vote for further proven authorize appropriate city officials that could work authorization Between the city and Don Bell signs LLCs for sign fabrication construction and salation services for city entry way signs the two specified locations Provided for conflict service ability and provide for an effective day Yeah, they were just in roll call now. Yeah, roll call Commissioner Gordon. Yes, commission new bull. Yes, Mr. Orange vice mayor lawn again. Yes, mayor Rosenwald. Yes. So now we. We good to move on. Yes, sir. I'm 14. Okay, so now we're moving on item 15, right? 14. 14. 4th. 4th. I apologize, right? I second. Resonance by title and I resolution city commission, CVO, Compart for approval and authorizing the appropriate city, fiscal, second work authorization to the city in Don Bell signs LLC for sign fabrication, construction, installation for the doctor, Carter G. Woodson Park and Harlem McBride Community Garden projects. Provide for conflict, severability and effective date. We'll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Neubel. Yes. Commissioner Orange. Yes. Vice Mayor Longan. Yes. So now we come to item 15 and just for clarification. Mr. Duty, we approved moving item three from consent. Are we hearing item three and item 15 separately as item three now housed within 15? How would you? I would ask that you just considered 13 of 14 that we do item 3 and item 15 collectively But they will require separate motions that will be explained to you as we proceed so So the next step is a staff president? Well, patient or you're gonna have a presentation No, what we'd like to do is have some discussion. We're gonna present to you an update as to the progress of our efforts regarding the top three code leans that were identified to you back at the beginning of the year. And with me is Associate and our law firm, Eileen Ruiz, who has been assisting me with this project and I will ask her to present to you each of these three cases and seek your direction. Welcome, Ruiz. Thank you, Mr. Duty. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Commission and City Manager. Thank you for your time here as Mr. Duty advised. I'm here to update you on the top three code enforcement leans that were previously identified as contenders for clothes on. These are longstanding code violations with heavily accrued fines, years in the making that merit the city's attention whereby they were identified. And the city attorney went ahead, proceeded with contacting the property owners from the last city commission meeting regarding these top code enforcement leans in February. And since then, all three property owners have obtained council. They have acquired city attorney representation for their cases. So out of the three properties, one has come to a proposed settlement, whereby we are asking the city commission to approve tonight. That property is grossed in investments, also known as Trick Marine. It's a commercial property warehouse retail. So the code violations for that case had accrued since 2021 and the total fines were at $712,250. Again, once the city attorney reached out to the property owner, compliance was met within a month for the two upstanding code violations, which had accrued to up to $ property owner, Mr. Roy, was representing the property owner and the city negotiated a lean settlement of 30% of the $712,000, which amounts to $214,475, and includes the administrative fees incurred by our code department. So the City Commission, as you know, we are looking to have these code violations settled. the city attorney's office settled the total code amount lanes at the 30% but also included the administrative fees which means that the fees incurred by code enforcement don't go to waste. That's also included in the settlement amount. Mr. Rees, may I ask you a question specifically for an optional. When you said the administrative fees which includes code we also of course administrative fees are our attorney's fees. Our attorney's fees are factored into the settlement or settlement in general. For this particular settlement there were not. But we do want to make it a point to, at least include the code enforcement fees for the staff at Worksville Hardin. Making sure that this is done. Okay, go ahead. So just to give you a little bit of background on the property, it's these violations were incurred by the tenant. The property owner is now in the process of selling the property. And as soon as the city approves this settlement, if they deem it appropriate, the property will be sold. Proceeds from that property would include the payment of the settlement amount. And once the city receives those monies, the city can prepare a satisfaction of lien and have the case closed with. Really what happened after these code violations were identified is what we're seeing with this particular property is that compliance was reached within a month of contacting them and a settlement was reached. So by those standards we think that in terms of expediency, we're looking, we got what, what, what may be in the interest of the city in terms of compliance with code enforcement as well as a fair settlement amount in light of the original amount that was set. And for a property that finally came into compliance for three years, we are just looking to see if the city would approve the proposed settlement amount. And we will move to the seat. Okay. So, procedurally, are we on item, what item were you on mr. Dune? I three fifth row item of three so I'll have to emotion a second on a discussion Like to make a motion to approve the settlement Second Okay discussion. Yeah, real quickly. You remember to we're not paying orange lean fees either which is 20 20% 25% usually. My correct, somewhere around there. Yeah, depending on that sizing, and second off, two things. I'm gonna say, first of all, nice work, Mr. Dutty, just so expeditiously, the properties cleaned up up we got code compliance, which is my concern is that the it's in the compliance and They're paying the 30% we don't have orange lean fees. Yeah, we have attorney fees, but you know what that's a cost of doing business and you know what It's gonna be turned into something that's gonna make not be an ice-sort of the city and I'd like to thank you to Everyone who's involved this because this is probably the largest lean This is probably more money. We've gotten sometimes in one or two years combined in this one lean settlement So it's excellent work. I'm so glad that the City Commission I think Vice Mayor like you were the impetus for this that we know the mayor was we're all involved but I think the Vice Mayor was really passionate passionate yes and so it is about time I'm so glad to be that we've got this thing moving and I'd like to get these other two ones moving too. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Yeah, thank you, Commissioner. Appreciate that. Hey, I am thrilled. I think this is wonderful. It's the first step. I hate when we have to go to these lengths, right? We don't want to do this, but sometimes if we're forced to, we need to do what we need to do and move things along. So, great outcome. Thanks to the team, staff, Mr. City Attorney. Thank you, nice job. We appreciate it, and I look forward to, we got three coming here, and I'm looking forward to the other ones. And it's going to make a big difference for the neighborhoods around those businesses. So, great job guys. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Gordon. Thank you. Good job, city attorney. I know that it's very difficult for you to take compliments, but compliments to you, sir. This is awesome. And you too, Ms. Ru Ruiz for presenting the city manager Everyone who's been involved with this we came a long ways and it's not that we are here to make money That's not the objective the objective here is to bring people in compliance What a wonderful thing that has happened here. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Newell. Yes, thank you, city manager. City attorney, sorry, long name, my eyes. Thank you for, and thank you, Miss Ruiz. I'm glad that this is a settlement and not an actual reposition or foreclosure. So, and I'm happy that we're coming to a settlement. So thank you for all your hard work. I know being a business owner, it is hard, especially when you own your own business. So I appreciate the information you brought Ms. Ruiz and get into this settlement. It's funny how they came into compliance one month, but nevertheless we're here and thank you. Thank you. You know, when I drive by a prospect and go going east and look to the south, it's a good moment. In fact, Michael Carr and the former mayor was mayor when I first really, I had driven by it before, but I remember him talking about trick Marine here how many years ago that was. I appreciate the goal. It is about code compliance. We're not trying to make money obviously and I do thoroughly appreciate you had Mr. raises Work on this I'll support this but I just want to say because You know this is a win for us. I know it's not not the orange theory add-on But it's the the city attorney. This is not part of mr. duties retainer's retainer. This is extra money we're paying. I don't know if that's more than the orange, leaner, less willing to approve this now, but I would just ask Mr. Dudy and Mr. A. Bear as we move forward. If city attorney fees exceed what the orange, lean percentage would be, please factor them into the negotiation because we should not have to pay any more than the 20% and we may or may not I don't like that's not for me to worry about this second but please let's do that let's let it be as that's not called neutral but let it not be a bit less even though these are giant settlements for some very problematic properties. So with that, we'll do a roll call. Commissioner Archer. I would say one thing. Orange Lee and the city turn are two different horses. So don't even try and compare Orange Lee with the power of the city attorney. He's able to go to court, Orange Lee, and just writing a bunch of letters to him. So I don't want to have this to be involved in comparing one to another. It's not even compare apples, orange is compare apples to a full human yarn. Oh, absolutely. That I've been agreement with you. I'm just simply speaking fiscally only not and qualitatively there's no no comparison I was only a dollar comparison not a qualitative comparison with that we'll do a roll call. I've been called a lot but not a flame. Well would you like to hop? A flame in your you're assuming you're the flame in mignon and not the apple. With that, we're going to do a roll call please. Commissioner Gordon. Roll call. Yes, Commissioner Newbold. Commissioner Harris. Vice Mayor Longens. Yes. Mayor Rosenwald. Yes, and now Mr. Ditty, we're moving to 15. Yes, sir. It was all kidding aside, we move into a more serious discussion. Thank you for the compliments, both our office appreciated also the cooperation from the land owner and his council. That is not the case with the next two cases. We're going to outline the fact that we started negotiations, send a letter to all three property owners in February. What we're going to outline is that the next two properties have not presented a proposal for settlement. One property owner has not done anything. And the second property owner has submitted permits to rectify the properties. Both properties are not in compliance. And accordingly we are asking for action in the recommendation that will be outlined by Ms. Rees. Thank you again Mr. Dutty. So as in the spirit of coming into code compliance and pushing forward with the mission of compliance that necessarily money but at the same time moving forward with getting compliance done we are seeking a motion to commence litigation specifically for extreme performance wheels. It is a tire dealer. As Mr. Dute has previously stated, this property owner is also represented by a council and has recently applied for permits, but it's basically seven years in the making. It's not like a previous testimony that we heard earlier today whereby most people are expeditious and try what they can do to get their permits submitted and completed. This is seven years in the making. There are accrued fines totaling $1,442,500, which is the amount that is calculated up to July 25th for this property. The property owner's attorney has told us that the property owner is working diligently towards compliance. However, as stated since February, there really hasn't been much advancement. So up until June 24th, the property owner reapplied for permits. Again, this was about seven years after she was initially cited for work without permits, specifically for a driveway and fence. So once the property owners submitted and reapplied for the permits on June 24th, our building department did reply with comments that had to be addressed on July 23rd and July 13th pertaining to the fence and drive very respectively. the drafts and the drafts and the drafts and the drafts and the drafts and the fence is still not meeting certain height requirements and is a chain leak fence which is in violation of the code. So building one ahead and denied the permit on July 29th. But again, there has not been any movement since July 29th. It is seven years in the making which is why we are asking specifically for approval to commence litigation against extreme performance wheels. That make a motion adopt to initiate litigation against performance wheels, extreme performance wheels, LLC. Second. Discussion. Excuse me. Discussion. Commissioner Gordon. Discussion. Excuse me. Discussion. Commissioner Gordon. Thank you. I think this, the previous item should have set a president's of what we are going to be doing going forward. We need compliance. So thank you for bringing it to this point where we can make a decision to move forward with the litigation. I think it's time, unfortunately, but it is where we are now. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Mr. Dutie. I might add to the presentation. It is not my position as city attorney get my client the City of Oklahoma Park in court. In fact I've tried to best my ability to avoid that. But I know that these code lean issues are important to this commission. And we have reached an impasse with this property on the next part. In other words, the first one, there was a high level of cooperation. We're not seeing that with these two property owners. Hopefully we won't have to go to conclusion of a foreclosure action. But I think this is important to impress upon these property owners and other code violators that this commission is going to pursue legal remedies if necessary, if there's not reasonable efforts brought forward to comply. And that's what we're asking. In this case, there are efforts to comply, but it's taken seven years. And if there is compliance, and we get an offer, we don't have an offer. We've asked for offers. We've told them 30%. And we have not, and Council representing the program has not presented anything that I can bring to you for consideration. So we're asking to initiate the lawsuit. The process will be, we will go back, we'll put them on notice, we'll attempt to avoid the initiation of the lawsuit we can. We'll give them every opportunity to comply and give you a given offer. But now I have the authorization, I can tell them that this commission's serious. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Lonergan. Yeah, I completely agree. I think that's the approach we need to take. If it's just a matter of to talk to us, tell us, make an offer, say something. Don't leave us hanging. So you know what? You're going to be silent. Then we'll do what we have to do. Appreciate. Thank you. Commissioner, you're bold. I agree. Mr. Doody, because I'm reading here where there's overgrowth of vegetation, accumulation of tires. I'm just imagining this and imagining homeowners probably passing this every day and burden about the values of their homes. And I know everyone wants to protect the values of their homes, which is very important to me. So I agree. I agree with your position. Thank you and Commissioner Arnst. Motion speaks for itself. Mr. Abert, do you have any interest in Wayne? And you can or you don't have to. No, I think that we have received very wise counsel from our city attorney. And it has resulted in his long tenure as our legal counsel. His team has been exemplarying. And my admiration and respect for his advice to this counsel is unwavering. The man understands the dynamics. He understands your goals and objectives, and I stand firmly in his corner. I think he's giving you very sound advice. Thank you. Vice Mayor, do you have another comment? Yeah, the only other comment I wanted to mention back on April 10th, an email was sent to the entire commission from the app from Ms. Manning. And her end sentence says, there has to be someone in the city with enough common sense and compassion to help me. I have spoken to people, I know I am very active in Broward County fundraising and autism fundraising. They want me to go to the media, but I just wanna settle this and comply. I thought the city was about compliance to have a clean thriving city, not about collecting revenue. Well, the truth is, then respond to the city manager's office. I'm sorry, city attorney's office and communicate and come up with a solution. I mean, the email that we all received had an extensive background. But, you know, we are where we are now. That was one point in time. We're at a whole different point time and people can come up with different reasons, whether you want to call them excuses or whatever you want to call it. That's up to you. But I think looking at this case reasonably right now, where it sits, this is what we have to do. Thank you. I'm on board as well. Just one question I know they had applied to code and denied if there's a commencement of a lawsuit, does that mean they're gonna, they need to, that precludes them from interacting with our, I don't mean code, I'm gonna say permits. No, they can pursue, we will not interfere with their permitting process. Okay, great. I'm on board. So I think we're we have some consensus. I believe so. So roll call. Michelle. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, it's mission new bull. Commissioner aren't. Yes, vice mayor Longingan. Yes, mayor Rosenwald. Yes, thank you. Third case is very similar to this last one and I will turn it over to Eileen for her presentation, please. Thank you, Mr. Dirty. That's case is Lylane per LLC. It is a commercial property auto body shop that was actually demolished by city, by the city in 2021. This property is complied, it did come into compliance once the building was demolished. But it took five years to come into compliance. They were complied back in 2021. Because it took so long for this property owner to come into compliance, there are an accrued fines of that total to $501,100. This property owner also has retained counsel on the matter, Mr. Haller, we were in communication with him as early as today. Mr. Haller has communicated that his client is looking to comply, but like Mr. Duty has stated, it still has not given the city any proposed settlement offer and that's that's what is alarming to us So we would also like to go ahead and request that the city approve commencement on litigation specifically for Lylan per LC Okay Like a make a motion to initiate commencement of litigation against land land, land, land land, land, land, land, land, land, land for LLC. Second with discussion. Discussion. Vice Mayor Longergan. Yeah. So, Mr. Dudi, I see currently real estate taxes for the property are due for 2023, so they're not even current on their taxes. Could this end up being something where we end up through the foreclosure proceeding, like any other foreclosure. Just like a bank foreclosing on a loan or foreclosing on a lien in that amount. Okay. This property on Andrews Avenue looks awful. It's looked awful for years. If I believe right, I believe it's fenced in on the west side of the street. It's time that this gets cleaned up. You know, if it comes down to that, it'll make a nice pocket park. Just one more question real quick. What happens if they get those to a tax sale? Tax certificate sale. Tax certificate? Yeah. We can still foreclose. We just have to make the person about to get hold. Ultimately, I'm confident that we will be able to avoid having to go to a final trial, but I'll keep you posted. I think this property is potentially suitable for a settlement. That's all say at this point. Okay. Just leave a little book. With Vice Mayor's comments, if they owe to the county and you're saying a tax sale, but can the county what legal, what a county's action Trump. It's a tax collector and they, under the statute, they sell what is called the Certax certificate which then if that's not paid turns into a tax deed and that is a little Title entanglement, but it has it hasn't occurred yet, so but I will keep a close eye on it. And hopefully, again, we, as a re-editor, I want to reiterate, we're going to reach out to each of these lawyers and tell them the action and hope that that can see attention of the client and the property owner to avoid the actual filing of the lawsuit. But now I have the authority, and I can represent that the city again is serious, and we better hear from you. Thank you, Commissioner Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Duty. We have full confidence that you would pursue this, of course, as as always in the best interest of the city of the city so I say let's move forward thank you thank you Commissioner Newbold I agree move forward as you suggested on this property especially if it looks I haven't I probably saw it and probably paid an attention if it looks the way the vice mayor has said it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people are not sure if it's a lot of people is very important. Thank you. Thank you and Rolkel. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nubel. Yes. Commissioner Arns. Yes. Vice Mayor Longhann. Yes. Mayor Rosenwald. Yes. We are at item 16 reports from the City Commission. Um, you would like to begin tonight. I'll start. We've got a commissioner Gordon first and commissioner Arns. So, thank you. I'm going to Commissioner Gordon first and Commissioner Ernst. Thank you. Since we did not have the opportunity to give our reports at the last meeting, because we kind of, yeah, we went to the end exactly. So I just want to start by thanking everyone tonight for showing up the public comments, the presentations. It's just been an awesome meeting. Thank you, Mr. A. Bear, for bringing all of those items to the commission. We appreciate all of that. So I just want to mention a couple of events that I attended. Gee, it's been that long. Hmm. Okay, I, yeah, it's been a few. Well, I just want to talk about one. I'm not going to go into the details of the others. just recently we attended the ground break in ceremony for park which is the other part of Oakland and I said to the owners I mean the developers that they keep raising the bar and then they meet those expectations and they raise the bar again. So we're really excited. We're really excited that we have that type of partner in our city that's bringing these beautiful projects. I call them Class A, you know, projects. The Estella. And that's the type of project that we are certainly interested in. When you see the before and the after, it's a, it's, and I can't wait until they do the, get the top in. I guess the next that will be topping off, can't wait for that and then the CO. So certainly looking forward to that development. So I just want to rather than follow in my traditional report, I just want to say that back to school is coming up right now. And I just want to caution everyone who's out there driving to slow down in the school zones. Obey the school bus laws. We're talking about our children, our future. Avoid distractions. Come off of your phones. Pay full attention to the road because our children will be crossing those roads and we don't want our children to get hurt. We want our children to be safe. So school is coming back into session very soon. Watch out for cyclists, watch out for pedestrians. And follow cross-in guard instructions, be patient, use caution near driveways, and plagiarize in a little because I took this information from something that I read and I just wanted to reiterate these points. It's very important that we exercise caution and just be cognizant that our children are back into school. School is going to be in session very shortly. So keep our children safe. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Gordon and Commissioner Arnst. Yeah. First of all, I'd just like to say that we all went to the gay softball 30th anniversary. And I think it would be appropriate. We have the mayor of a congratulation letter from the commission. That's a great. You want to say a little more about that event? I'll say a little more. But I think that would be a great thing for them. I'm sure no one would object to it. There would be a good thing to put on the wall right next to their proclamation. Second off is, and this is something we're going to have to have discussion in the future. But as of right now, we've approved a lot of projects. Okay. First one is the marijuana place on Commercible hard It's been sitting there for how many years now? Empty Okay, I'll go more than three way more than three going up for close to five Okay, so That's one that police property other police probably the 3500 block of power line road We approved a project there and actually we gave them some flex units. Okay, so we used some reflexes. They're not used yet, but the project's there. There's another project that's just south north of 38th Street on power line road, where they're going to have the automatic garage There's a whole bunch of projects that have been improved that have and and But the problem is and I'm know there's way more than that in the city. These are the ones that I'm just remembering right now that I didn't know what we Does the Approval expire I know I'm to make a motion at a second. Does the approval expire on these at any time? I mean, I know the one on the commercial bull of art, they pull building permits. I'm sure the building permits expired. But as long as they build pooled building permits, they don't have to re-up their initial use. Pause that for one second and we'll take a motion. Motion to extend the meeting to 11 o'clock or two businesses done. Second, roll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner Newbone. Yes, Commissioner Orange. Yes, Vice Mayor Longan. Yes, Mayor Roseville. Yes. And so so they've you know, they pulled the bullet building premise. So now they don't have to, because if your conditional use will expire after certain time, you don't pull building parts, or it has to be reupped by the City Commission. We've done that quite a few times. And I just like to know, it's going to be worked on, but I don't want to have a whole bunch of, I don't know why they didn't build, I don't know why they didn't build I don't know why they didn't build the place over on power line road the other place on power line road and they're sitting out there and they're approved for certain things and I just I'd like to see those things You know go go back to what they were before. Once a movement or you want. The movement is not going to happen. They're done. They're not coming back. I mean the one we approved for the over on a, they got approved before us. I was on commission on where they have the elevator that bring your car up there. You remember that one? That was four years ago, right? Three, four years ago? Well, yeah. In Commissioner, there are certain state statutes that may apply to some of this, and we do have some code provisions. We'll get you an email before too long, certainly by next week, that outline exactly what the opportunities might be for us to take action to review them. And any obstacles there may be over a time limit. But yes, there are a number of elements that we'd have to consider. I don't disagree with you. Obviously, we've all seen the changes that have occurred with construction costs and the supply chain and a lot of other elements that may have impacted decisions by developers but none the rest will comprehensively give you an assessment of what the rules are and then you can determine how you want to proceed if you want to examine any of those. And the list of the properties. Oh sure. There's way more than I've said. We'll look at the approvals that have been received and and start to compile that. That may take us longer than a week, but we'll certainly give you the rules I would apply. I'm thinking this one on commercial bull. I was waiting for medical for medical where I want to turn in recreation marijuana. So sure in mind you since that time we have foreclosed on any additional Developments by by dispensaries that would be coming before you so yeah, I happy to look into that It's a little bit of time and we'll get back to you. Thank you commission There's a lot more I could say but I'm gonna let the brisk commission Have some You make a good point because these flux students are then hijacked and we can't use them elsewhere I hadn't thought of that and that's a very valid point. It's a very valid point. But there's legal God guidance that the mystery bearable and Mr. Judy will get to us. Thank you. Commissioner Nubel Yes, thank you again to everyone that calls and come in and express themselves and send emails Events that I've attended as well as the commission the red velvet Grand opening that was very good if anyone want comfort food That's a great restaurant to go and visit and have some great comfort food. And I had the pleasure to go see Coach Thompson and his team play. They won, I believe they wanted to play off. So that was very interesting. And then I also had a chance to go to the Oakland Park child care summer camp event last week. Was it Vice Mayor? Yeah, it was nice. It was exciting to see the children display their talents and the parents were excited. It was just a eventful. It was just so exciting from the start to the end, even when they received their back to school bookbats as we were giving them out. So that was a great event to attend. And childcare did a wonderful job in planning that and how they orchestrated everything. Commissioner, who are the characters at that event? Who's the little girl? Elmo and I don't know the other. I didn't know the other. So yes. at a fan. Who's the little and I don't know the other. I don't know the. Yes. Yeah. And I also had a chance to attend our our in culture board. Children's summer theme exhibition. It was just amazing to see the artwork that those young children presented. And they were on sale. One was for $100. By an eight year old, you would not believe this is wonderful. I believe it was award of painting. I'm not sure. Don't confirm. Don't quote me on that, but the painting was amazing. And so exact. And Commissioner Gordon already mentioned our park event. And I look forward to attending the summer block party over near my neighborhood with Urban League. So I hope to see everyone there. I look Saturday. Saturday, August 10th, starting at 11 a.m. Come out is going to be, it appears. It's going to be. It appears that it's going to be a lot of fun. I didn't just say where it's going to be at Harris. Oh, yeah. Harris Chapel over in the Lakeside community. Yes, great, great. I don't know. G will be there. Vice, Vice Mayor. Hey, thank you, Mayor, I appreciate it. There were a couple of consent agenda items. I didn't want to pull the items because I just met with staff yesterday and I didn't really give them time to pull the information that I was hoping to see, but I just wanted to mention it was basically information only. So on agenda item number seven, this was the fuel card services for WebEx and Mr. Apear. Just what I want you to know first of all that Mr. Thompson, Ms. Sherout and Ms. Love were in the meeting and they were very helpful and they always answered the questions. I know you were in transit so you couldn't join us. Thank you for reaching out to me after when you got back saying do I have any questions. Sorry I missed your call but thank you for that. I just had a little concern with the fuel card service. I know when we initially went out for the bond for the $40 million bond and I fully support us moving the new service yard where we're moving it and getting out a central park I pushed for that I advocated for that but I was under the impression we were going to have our own gas pumps and I'm not quite sure and I asked Andrew and I said when did that actually come off the agenda when did we not decide to do that so ultimately what I was looking at is, for emergency conditions, what Oakland Park gas stations can staff use? Is there a cost difference? Can they give us an annual difference between what we're paying, having our own pumps versus what we would pay using the service? And Andrew was very, very honest and upfront. He said, he said, Vice Mayor, he said, costs are constantly changing, the price of gas and everything. He said, he said, Vice Mayor, he said, costs are constantly changing the price of gas and everything. He said, potentially it might be a little bit more. He said, but he said, I could only make something up based on what I think would happen. So my basic concerns were using local gas stations, during emergency conditions, do those gas stations have generators are we as a city a priority during the emergency services Again, which stations Andrew Andrew did a good job explaining kind of that the city is currently in the process of Getting their plan in place. And Mr. Reber, I don't know if sometime in the future, when you have time, if you want me to put a discussion item for it. And I didn't want to pull it today because you weren't ready. And I didn't want to hold it up because I didn't see a reason to really hold it up either. But just a little concerns. Andrew did say there was going to be an above ground emergency fuel tank. For emergencies and I said so is that for diesel fuel or is that for vehicle fuel? He said it'll be a mick. It'll have both so you got it two different. So that did put put a lot of my concern to rest because you know we have a natural. If Debbie would have come through here and would wipe us out and we need our trucks on the streets and we need everything out there and then we're waiting for gas and stations don't have generators. I just don't want us to be in a difficult spot and I know you're on top of all this. I just wanted to hear it from you as far as what what the plan was. So that was actually agenda item number seven, which I was happy to support. Again, we spoke a little bit about agenda item number eight and that's the one where the City Clerk is going to be adjusting the website. It had listed that for the North Residential Drop-Off Center, that's a 2780 North Power Line Road in Pompano. That's where we can take our electronics, our chemicals, our bulk and we can do bulk waste and we can do a self-drop off there. And that's, I believe, is that no cost? Correct? Yep, so that's that no cost. So you got things in your garage and you can't wait for bulk to come around. Please check out the city website and it has the address out there. There's even a full number, I believe, that you can call to make sure that they're open at the time that you want to. Saturdays. Saturdays. I know the abbreviated hours were 9 to 3. I don't know if that changed or not. Okay and then for agenda item number 10 this was regarding false along billing and collections. Mr. Abyr, the only thing that I was hoping in Andrews said, he could probably get it back to us as an informational. I remember this was a hot topic back in like 13 or 14 when we first went out to find a company to bill for this. I'd be curious how many false calls annually, how many are repeat calls to give us a little flavor of what they're actually seeing to just by the service. Perfect. And those were the only things I appreciated. I just didn't want to hold up the consent agenda. And that's it tonight Mayor, thank you. Thank you. I will just wish everyone a peaceful evening and a peaceful week. I thank all of my colleagues for the great energy we have. I thank our staff, our volunteers, our residents, all that we're viewing in those who make this city one of the best cities in the country. People in Broward County are paying attention to us, people in Florida are paying attention to us, people in the United States and off and outside the country are paying attention to us. So I'm very proud to represent you for the next few months as your mayor. With that Mr. City Manager for your report. Thank you Mayor. Just quickly yes, thank you very much for the questions and we'll get you the information that you Have inquired about I want to alleviate your concerns about our emergency management plan We have two comprehensive plans vice mayor that are regularly reviewed and updated One is our emergency management plan that's called our CEMP. The other is our continuing operations plan, which allows for us to look beyond the emergency, how we're going to be able to continue our activities. The decision was made quite a while ago about the fuel depot. The challenge is, and I'm sure you're aware of this, that keeping fuel stored underground is an environmental challenge. And the cost of adding that to the new building, which was not covered by the bond, would have been really quite exorbitant. Our plan for both our emergency management and our continuing operation highlights in particular the issue of access to power. You'll remember at the last commission meeting that you approved the heightened power source at the new city hall that will allow us to continue our operations. We made a determination some time ago that it was no longer necessary. Since the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, the state has mandated that all gas stations have backup generators. So that's available after you, I'm sure you remember the experience of sitting in line for members of the public. And certainly the challenges that occurred because we were out of electrical power for such a long period of time. Here we have both the above ground fuel tanks that we will have, and as we've done in the past in various emergency situations, if it becomes a situation that we think is going to be more long-standing, the higher category, hurricanes, for example, that appear to be heading in our direction, then it is something that we would consider actually leasing full tankers of gasoline for both the regular fuel as well as the diesel to keep us working throughout and then beyond the emergency. And also there is during emergency situations a cooperative plan among cities through the county and within the state that would provide and prioritize access to fuel supplies by government entities. So I think our plan is sound there. I appreciate your inquiry about that and we're happy to get you some more information. It is absolutely vital that we as a city realize that as much as we hear the stories about how FEMA is there and the National Guard is there and the reality is we're the government closest to the people and we are the boots on the ground when people are in need. The FBI doesn't come when there's an emergency situation that involves criminal conduct. It's the local police that are there and the same holds true for fire rescue or for emergency management for public works for sanitation. We're the ones that have to be self-sufficient and we're aware of that. And I think we've got our ducks in a row where that's concerned. Steve Kravannick is our emergency manager and he does an excellent job there and I'm happy to work with you and with the commission at large to review what our plans are in the event of an emergency situation. So thank you for that very vital inquiry and please be be aware that we are mindful that that is a responsibility that is a priority for our citizens. Thank you all very much for your support at the last meeting. It was very disconcerting to hear some of the comments. We have put together a plan in place to try to be more connected to the business community, particularly small business. And we'll begin that engagement next Tuesday. And I welcome your attendance at that meeting where we hope most of the dialogue will be from the community of the small businesses to us in the hopes that we can get a lot of good ideas on how we can better assist that critical aspect of our city. And this will be, I hope, a beginning of the work that NACA has undertaken along with several other departments, including planning and zoning and building services to try to build those lines of communication and the support network that is so critical to keep our businesses afloat and vital and growing as our community continues to change. So thank you all very much this evening for your assistance and mayer for your leadership. We remain available for any additional questions and we'll get responses to the inquiries that have already come up this evening. Have a lovely evening. Thank you, sir. Mr. Judy. Yes, sir, two issues I'd like to address. First of all I'd like to thank you for the compliments. I appreciate your support and particularly I want to express my appreciation to City Manager for his compliments. It's a pleasure to work with such a professional and to be part of his team. They've just bringing you a new city in a very short period of time. The second point, and I rarely do this, but I'm going to do it tonight because I think it's warranted. I want to set the records straight with respect to the comments they were made during public comments. I want to make it clear that the city has been sued by all St. Catholic mission. We have successfully defended that lawsuit since it was filed in 2015. It has been dismissed by the court twice. They are now working on their third complaint and we have yet in that period of time to receive any offer of settlement. So it is not a question that we are generating attorney's fees pursuing all Saints Catholic mission. The city is incurring attorney's fees defending the action brought by that party. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dudy, and on that note, motion to adjourn. Is there a motion to adjourn? To adjourn. Good night, everyone.