recess and have our CRA meeting. Wait for Miss Herrera to come up with bits. Hi, Miss Herrera. Herrera, excuse me. Combining my railroad and Herrera. Miss Herrera. Miss Raul, can we have roll call? Remember new bull here. Remember, aren't vice chair, Longan here in chair, Rosemollum here. Board member Arntz, Vice Chair Lonegan, and Chair Rosenwald. Here. All right. So our first presentation or only presentation is the CRA update for this month and Mr. Herrera. I'm sorry, Mr. A. Bear. Through Mr. Herrera. Good evening, sir, a board chair, Vice Chair and Board Members. Nesa Herrera, Syrian Economic Development Director for the City of Oakland Park. Over the next few minutes, I will provide you with an update on businesses, events, initiatives within our CRA. I'm just going to reach for the clicker if you. Several businesses continue to invest in Oakland Park. Fundolero Stakiria, a Mexican restaurant with locations in downtown Fort Lauderdale and El Doral. Gigi says hello at jewelry store that's coming soon to Main Street. B&C Smash Burgers is open. Blick Art Materials will locate it from Fort Lauderdale and will be celebrating its great opening on October 18th. I-95 Motor Sports specializes on automotive customization and P Variety is a beauty salon. Lattitude windows offers impact windows and doors. And while we regret to inform you that the oasis has closed we're excited to announce that the Dal-based brewery tripping animals has taken over this space and will be opening their first tap room in a proured. Last month, we celebrated the grand opening of Reflow, the Wellness Center within the CrossFit Soulflow in Oakland Park. We also celebrated the three-year anniversary of Rebel Wine Bar. In addition to Blick Art, Camille's the Italian restaurant on Dixie Highway will be celebrating its grand opening on October 21st. In terms of the redevelopment projects, we are excited to announce that the skybuilding developers have secured metabolic, an industry leading strength and crossfit gym. Also, FPL has been working on 38th Street to accommodate the installation for the skywalk. With respect to hoop, the development team is close to finalizing the design and construction plans for permitting. Improvement projects are not only limited to downtown. We are proud to have recently completed the Safe Routes to School projects which added sidewalks around the Lloyd State's elementary. Also, the landscape and irrigation improvements on prospect road are on their way, currently at 25% completion and moving east along the median. This special event season is picking up. Last month we celebrated the Hispanic Heritage Month with Latin Fest. We also celebrated October Fest earlier this month with over 6,000 attendees that had an opportunity to enjoy German music, food and the famous Daugson Dash. Looking ahead, join us this Saturday at the Oakland Park Small Business Expo on Main Street from 2 to 6 p.m. Mark your calendars for the Halloween Bash on October 25th at Wimbledy Field, the November 16th Oakland Park Art Walk and the annual holiday village on December 6th and 7th. Businesses are encouraged to participate in these events and they can contact the special event staff. Now, understanding that one of the challenges, one of the biggest challenges that the businesses in the downtown phase is the lack of food traffic, the city is launching, defined it in Oakland Park Culinary Arts District initiative. The objective is to capitalize on the critical mass that's generated by the special events in downtown and convert these event goers into patrons of the culinary arts district. In addition to the interactive map, this initiative is supported by social media promotion, flyers, posters, and announcements at special events. CRA staff continues its feedback seeking efforts by hosting events such as the August 13th business partners listening session. We also participated at the August 29th Urban League of our County Small Business Mixer, which was hosted at Spice and Vibe in Oakland Park in honor of a black business month. At the September 10th Downtown Partners Meeting, we provided an overview of available local and regional business resources that are compiled in this business resources guide, which you receive the copy with information about each of those programs. Staff also attended the FRLA reverse hotel and restaurant showcase last month. And we encourage our businesses to participate in the upcoming Oakland Park of Business Association networking event at AquaChamps on October 23rd. Please register for the Florida International of Trade and Cultural Expo that's scheduled to take place on October 23rd and 24th at the Convention Center. Mark your calendars for the next downtown partners meeting on November 12th. As you can see, we have increased by half an hour the duration of this meeting to allow for networking and collaboration based on the feedback that we received at the last listening session. We want to take this opportunity to remind you of the available resources through the Economic Development Office, which include the 101 Consultations with the Economic Development Staff, the Business Sighting Improve improvement grants through the Business and Sensitive Program, the LEAF local Facebook page which connects businesses with residents, allowing them to post announcements and deals. We recently completed the update of this step-by-step guide to opening a business in Oakland Park. And we also want to remind you that we have a building and permitting frequently asked questions page available on the city's website. Other resources offered by partner organizations are the self-paced entrepreneurship development programs offered by government foundation FastTrack. We're working with the Rauer County Office of Small Business and Economic Development to host two live sessions next year. So once we have finalized these details, we'll be sharing more information. Other resources include free consultations, free business consultations, by the Florida Small Business Development Center and SCORE. All these resources and the ones that you see on the screen, including these marketing opportunities can be found on the guide. To learn more about upcoming meetings, events, projects, and how to get involved with the community, we encourage our businesses to sign up for the citywide business and CRA email blasts. And before I conclude this presentation, I want to thank you all for supporting the fiscal year 25 CRA budget, which allow us to continue to look for strategies to better support our business community. And we continue to encourage our businesses to connect with us by seeking assistance and providing feedback through any of the channels that you see on this screen. And with that, I conclude my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. The momentum continues. Thank you so much, Ms. Herrera. Mr. Newbold. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, yes. I just want to really thank you how you've gone in and just really, I mean, boots on the ground right with the small businesses. Excellent job. Thank you for what you're doing. Thank you for this presentation and finding all sorts of resources for our small businesses. And keep it in touch with them because as they reach out to me and I send the information to you you you're very responsive you and Mr. Gonzalez so thank you. Thank you vice mayor. Thank you mayor yes I have to did all that thank you Nesa you do a great job appreciate you reaching out to us when there are opportunities for Rubin cuttings and grand openings. We love to support the new business. I want to just say welcome to all of our new businesses and thanks for investing here in Oakland Park. I had the pleasure of stopping last weekend at Tellum Tacos. I don't know if we ever announce them in the past. They're at 52 at 50 52 Dixie highway across from North Ridge shopping center. Ivan and his wife Demaris and their daughter Demaris excellent food. So if you haven't given it a try, excellent excellent. Beary Attacos for sure. I tried them last week. So thank you for all you do and thank you to the businesses that are investing here in the OP. Thank you vice mayor commissioner or a board member or vice chair. Well, I'll say. Classius. I know her then. You're on a roll. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Nayside the resource guides, the concierge that you're continuing. I think it was developed by your predecessor, but you're really beefing that up. It's amazing. Speaking of beef, I did go to Libera. Is it Libera? Burgers, right? Yeah, Libera. I went there Saturday, last Saturday, I think, so that was terrific. I had two questions. Well, actually I'll just ask my questions now. We also have reports from board members. For the small business expo that's coming up, if I recall, this is our, please tell me, or Mr. Raybear, this is our second one. Am I right? We did one two springs ago was small There's also a health and wellness component to it I'm just wondering Not sure who to ask either of you is that something wellness is a course nurse strategic plan and we have it in many other Ways what what I liked about the inaugural one from two years ago was there were some health screenings done there. And I didn't know if that was something that would be integrated. I think that was a creative way to do it. I think there's maybe other ways that we can maybe offer health screenings. But before you were while you were not here, that happened two springs ago. So I just didn't know if that was something programmatically to maybe the next explode into great health. There was at a separate piece, some sort of health piece, we're not a public health agency, but some sort of health screening piece to the public. So does there ever have a lot of the president of the Oakland Park Small Business Association is the one leading the efforts of recruiting the vendors for this event. At this time, I cannot say with certainty what kind of vendors we're going to have and whether we're going to have the screen of vendors, but that's something that I can follow up with you on and provide in you with that response. However, I do know that she has reached out to health-related businesses to participate in this fair. Okay, great. Just that sort of, again, we're not a public health agency, but I'd like aside from Mr. A. Barrett, you know, wellness activities for recreation, of course, for our employees, you know, that piece to the public. And I thought that was a creative way that I guess it was Mr. Castell, I'm forgetting to put, of course, data that two springs ago, but that's available to see. I'm so just willing to bring that up. I'll save my other two questions for the next item, but anyone else? All right, thank you so much. Now we do move to reports from board members. Excuse me. Oh, I apologize. Public comments, I'm sorry, public. At this time, you just public comments. The members of the public could like to speak from to four minutes. You have, you can speak on CRA business, please. Public comments in the CRA. First, Fisher 37. Yeah, 3741. Sorry. A lot of addresses today. 3741. Northeast 13th Avenue. So basically I've had a conversation when they said before and quite a few folks on the West Side of town and also our downtown business partners that we're discussing. And I just wanna throw this back out there in luring or starting a farmers market within the downtown and maybe Royal Palm Park as an area as well to entice grocery stores that are restaurants that it is possible and sustainable to open a grocery store restaurant on the west side of town and also create that help create that foot traffic regularly within the downtown that our businesses like the Wander shop or Rebel Wine Bar or some of the other ones there can have an opportunity to have more guests come through their doors and create a little more walkability within our downtown and have a chance to bring them back as customers. If you look around Pompo Beach for Lauderdale, not a lot of farmers markets in this area, compared to comparatively speaking to the West Coast of Florida. So I think if you just took the businesses, the vegetable and fruit and grocery store businesses within our open park area, we have quite a few and invited them to a farmer's market, maybe once a month on a Saturday and make it go back and forth between the west side and downtown, I think that could really just start some quality foot traffic and bring a business to the area. So just something for contemplation I hope. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Fisher. Thank you, Mr. Fisher. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Fitzgerald Bud, who fits Bud, at 720 North East 59 Court. I just had one is comment on I saw on the slide the development that occurred on 41st Street North West 41st Street That's of course that's on the same side with Lord the State's elementary and Thank you commissioner Arns from porting out your engineering prowess because It's the drain that sidewalk was developed, right? And I was there the day, actually, nice drain on the school side, but on the other side of the street, across the street, they have no drains, and it's causing flooding. I had five residents, I spoke to, say, this is an issue. Okay, now it's away from sidewalk is on the 12 area. So it's in the cross between the city owns it and the maintenance of the resident. So I saw right there and I have a picture I'll send it to management to city officials. I think the old park should try to generate a grant, whether the CRA or the budget to repair that site, because yes, you had flooding and a nice sidewalk on the lower the state's elementary side, but then that causes where all the water goes on the resident side and causes flooding that go in crutches close to their property. So that's a correction that needs to be made so another evaluation must be done. A public works department to see if we could get some grand funding to prepare that long side on 44th Street North West 44th Street right across street from the Lord of the State Elementary. One more point. Thank you Miss Herrera. The business assistant program is it's moving along really well. We did have a line-out and budget of course for the entrepreneurship academy and I'm looking forward to implementing that especially in November after November. We're going to focus on, I want to create 500 new jobs in the city. I want to expand it, where it covers not only the west side, but it encroaches to downtown area. And these jobs could be great high paying jobs or startup businesses. But we could expand, now expand revenue based of the city, and now be able to enhance our economic downtown sector upcoming mayor All right, so I'm rich you're on that so I'm looking forward to working with everybody to get that accomplished Thank you so much for your time Thank you, mr. But who? Any other comments? Okay, now we'll move on to reports from the board members. Board member Arnst has nothing. Board member, I mentioned it before. Vice Chair. No, because I've got two things. Board member, Newborn. Pretty much what I said earlier. How Miss Herrera has been boots on the ground Connecting with the small businesses and finding ways to improve help improve so I've said it before and I want to just thank her again. Thank you. Thank you board member new board I got a great job. I had two questions one so my first question is if you've seen any difference in businesses with any feedback since we've instituted the new permitting, I don't know if you have done the survey, I know that, but again, a totally or anything of people known the old and now see the new and... Well, with the online permitting, we have her positive feedback in seeing that the review process now takes less time. Also, we have been monitoring the applications as well and guiding them through the systems so that way they know how they can submit the applications or connecting them with the right person, the right staff members at the building department to finalize those applications. Just thank you, Mr. Ostroff, Ms. Love and Mr. Ray Barrow for you're getting that piece to be really working really well. So thank you, that's great. Yeah, they were, excuse me, by the Mayor, sorry, they didn't mean to interrupt you, but I just wanted to thank my colleagues here in Marbaro and Brad Ostruff, because we work closely together and ensuring that we make changes to the system or assist our applicants or business applicants and grow and going through the process. Great, thank you. To Ms. Brewer, I didn't name her then, thanks. My other question was, you saw me talking to Mr. Reiber, I talked to him before the meeting too. So here's another example where we're going to take an item on consent and ask a question now, because I just talked to the city manager, and he suggested this way versus pulling it. Item 26 on the consent, but this links to the CRA, is a resolution approving Basically to who who is excellent. I'm gonna support this for name-illers consulting group for For request for qualifications, but very specifically on the backup to everybody and where I'm heading to is When we have Miss Miller who's an outstanding consultant, it's not about her, I'm gonna vote yes for it. It's about the catchment area. Because we have on item 26, it really focuses on, it's articulated CRA and culinary. It does have a little bit on and other city-wide areas as directed by Mr. A bear. I don't really have to go to the back up. It's just I mean, if you want to, it's actually page last time. I'll be doing this guys page 1305. You'll miss this or not. H 1305 says the city of Oakland Park invites qualified respondents to submit a statement of qualifications. This is the point. The invite service is related to citywide comprehensive economic development strategies. When you go down to the two pages later, it really narrows in on CRA and culinary. It does have one little item on page. 13.0 7 under studies which would include what I'm getting that is what I wanted to talk about the West side real quick, Mr. A bear said that's okay to Mr. Judy to talk about the Economic development in general when we're talking about the CRA other city analysis plans and studies is assigned by the city manager my question to my colleagues here is And we put this on consent, but I Trust mr. Abert obviously I trust you sir to you know part of the direction of the commission Okay, I know we're on the CRA board but on the commission is to also have some real focus on the west side. And Miss Miller herself has actually, you know, led that. My question to you on her, we had Mr. Avers busing to bring it up here during the CRA, are we, it's not articulated anything about the west side. And Miss Miller, again, she's wonderful and I'll vote for this item. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. I'm not going to be able to answer your question. will authorize the negotiation of contract. That issue can be addressed in terms of the contract. Okay, perfect. So Mr. A. Bear, then that will come forward later. If this is a great basis, vote it on. I'm sorry, the next step will be a contract. Sure, this is only the ranking. Right, so I just say to my future commissioners, wherever you are seated in this room, or not in this room, you'll be my commissioners wherever you are seated in this room or not in this room. You'll be my commissioners that I'll I just would like you to when you were when that contract comes I believe we'll also yes to this tonight. Just please in your individual meetings with Mr. A. Bear have highlighted and I think this was really just frankly a it was just an accidental oversight. Let's really, if we're talking about west side and putting that attention onto west side, you can all disagree if you think I'm going too much on it. Let's articulate west side, because all it really says in here is CRA and Culinary. What do you think of that place, Chichar? Respectfully, it's a little late because the horse has already out of the barn. We've already issued that I'm sorry. Please. Chair. Respectfully a little late because the horse is already out of the barn. We've already issued that and this is a response to that request. But I think your comments have been well received and we're going to address those in the contract as I emphasize earlier. Okay. So I would just ask you all the board members also surfaced commissioners and whoever's seated in the November to just please consider this for the contract item. So that was it. No more page 1505 for me. You've got a break until one of the new commissioners does that. Okay. Thank you all. We will close. Oh, actually, uh, Executive Director A. Barrett, do you have any comments? I have nothing additional this evening. Thank you, board chair. All right. We will go join the CRE meeting.