Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay, we will now move on to our next presentation, the road ahead, navigating jurisdiction safety and funding of roadways, Mr. City Manager. Thank you very much, Mayor. The issue of roadways, roadway ownership, roadway improvements, and oversight is a complicated one that involves many different agencies. And we are a small piece of a very large county. And the entities that we partner with, including the MPO as well as the county and their CERTAX team, have been enormously supportive to our city and our efforts to try to ensure improved safety and moveability on our streets. But because this is a somewhat complex topic, I've asked my team to pull together a presentation to look at the various aspects of this. And then we're going to zoom in on an issue that was highlighted already by our fabulous county commissioner Robert McKenzie, who's been working closely with members of our commission to try to address some additional concerns that were raised by community residents. So our team is assembled I think. I don't know which one of you is going to be brave enough to enter the lion's den first, Albert, you're up. Andrew, that throwing Andrew under the bus, very good. Our assistant city manager, Andrew Thompson, will take the lead on this item. If you would, please, sir. Thank you very much. Mr. City Manager, good evening mayor, vice mayor, city commissioners. So as David said, we're going to be talking about roads today, the road ahead, navigating jurisdiction, safety and the funding of roadways or also alternate title, everything you want to know about roadways, but we're afraid to ask. So some of the key elements that we're going to be talking about and also Mr. Carvin, Ms. Merrill, be going over is the jurisdiction and road types. We are a city, but there are many different roads that have many different owners and many different responsibilities are shared among the county, the city, and the state, and even private entities. Then we'll talk briefly about funding, how we maintain those roads, and more importantly, how we plan for those large extensive improvements, both through grants and with our partnerships with the county and other agencies. And then we'll focus a little bit on Northwest 21st Avenue. What work has been done, what work is currently planned, and what work is going to be underway very soon, and is even featured in tonight's agenda. So I'll turn things over to Mr. Carbin, our public works director. Thank you Andrew. So regarding jurisdiction and ownership, ownership responsibilities would include routine maintenance such as pier eye resurfacing and repair, potholes, traffic calming, which are speed tables or other traffic calming devices should residents petition and those get funded and funding is available. Safety related activities fall under bribery, traffic engineering, these include signage, street name signs, stop sign, stop and yield signs, striping and traffic signals. There are four roadway ownerships in Oakland Park. These are FDOT, which are the major roads, I-95 commercial, Oakland Park Boulevard. Then there's Broward County roads, which are Northeast 6th Avenue, Andrews, Prospect, Northwest 31st and Northwest 21st and then Oakland Park with all the residential roads, Florida, Northeast 38th Street and then there are private roads within the city of Oakland Park which are the don't really the gated communities most recently being developed oak tree area of Oakland Park have private roads. The type of roads, roadway classification system is used to group roads and classes based on services they provide. These classifications are by the United States Federal Highway Administration FHWA. And they define the classes whether it's our terror collector or local. We have interstates that are the highest classifications, and they're designed for long distance travel, and they've limited accessibility on and off ramps. Then you have arterials, which are the major roads that sort of through traffic and major circulation movements normally, multi-lane with signalization rather than stop signs. You have minor materials which connect cities and towns and they supplement the metropolitan highway system or the federal highway system. Then the collectors, the roads that often are mixed with signals and there's mixed signals intersections, roundabouts, traffic sources, stop signs. These roads access neighborhoods or between residential areas and commercial areas. And then again, the local streets, the lowest classification, which offers the least mobility, but they get you to your homes. level of service. This is discussed on how you pass through roads is a quantitative measure of use to transportation planning and engineering to access the operational conditions of roadways or intersection based on traffic flow, speed, travel time and other factors. The rating system is completed by FDOT in Florida in coordination with this area, the Broward MPO. The grading scales from A to F. A is considered a free flowing traffic with minimal delays, with high comfort, high driver comfort, B, slightly lower speeds, still stable flow with minimal delays as you pass through that road. C is a stable but has some restrictions of maneuverability turning moments or notice delays during per-court peak hours. This is the current rating of the Northwest 21st Avenue road which the last rating was done by FDOT in 2022. The level service D, this is approaching a very congested area and an unstable flow. Speeds are reduced. Delays are more frequent during multiple times of the day. Then E is a very unstable flow and it's near-at-capacity. This signal flies delays, a stop-and-go conditions throughout the day, and then F is the lowest rated road severe congestion, breakdown of traffic flow, heavy delays, long cues all day long and all night. This was a previous rating in Northwest 21st Avenue that was completed before during the improvements that were done to was done prior to 2022 and that new rating system. Whoops, excuse me. So, Broward County traffic engineering is the traffic engineer for all cities in Broward County and they follow the best practices whether it's FDOT design manual, the manual for uniform traffic control devices, which is the national standard for traffic engineering. And a lot of the activities they do are summarized are shown here. We do have the County traffic engineer, Rosemar War, if you have any questions specifically about that, what the traffic engineers do for the city of Ocon Park. Ocon Park's local road maintenance, the city is responsible to maintain its roadway system. We have 121 lane miles of roads that we're responsible to maintain. This list shows some of the types of maintenance. In addition, the city does maintain street lights under contract with FDOT. They pay us an annual amount to maintain the street lights on FDOT right away within the city. And then we also separate landscaping agreements with the county or FDOT for our recent right away improvement so we can beautify our city. I'm not going to pass the presentation on to Sierra to talk about the project funding. Thank you, Mr. Carbin. So I'm going to talk a little bit into how rogue construction projects are actually funded. And so a lot of our funding does come through grants that help cover those costs. Sorry. To be able to accomplish those. So grants awards, the problem that we have is typically when grants are applied for and awarded, even though they may be enough to cover the cost of the designer construction at the time of the grant application, because of the timing, it typically is not enough money to cover the full cost of that designer construction. So in those scenarios or when we don't have a grant for a roadway project what happens is we actually utilize city funding and that comes from our general funds not from the bond like the buildings do. And so that city funding is from property taxes. That's how that general fund is funded. And so that we also have one other type of way that we get improvements and that could be through developers as part of the city's requirement for an incoming developer. So I do wanna take a moment to say thank you to our partners at Broward County and the MPO, because in the past five years, when we looked at all of the numbers, they have actually covered 80% of all of our roadway project funding, and we are very grateful for that partnership with them. That grant funding does come from, like I said, MPO who does the ranking in Broward County who will fund these projects through SirTax or other programs like that. So when you are getting funding, grant funding for these projects, you can, it could be through the C-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S we apply every year, that doesn't guarantee that we will get funding for that project that we apply for. So it is on a rolling cycle. It is continuous and it is competitive with all of the other cities within the county. We also frequently apply for surtax funding and that is all cities that have to compete. Basically for 10% of the money that's collected under surtax. That is capped at about $25 million annually for the cities that can be utilized for those projects. And once again, that's also competitive and requires ranking. So adding to the, to give a bigger picture to zoom out a little bit from just the grants, when we do apply for a grant, what it looks like as far as timelines. So for Andrew's Avenue, for example, it took about five years, a little over five years, from the application that we submitted to the actual project completion. So we had a total project cost of 2.3 million with the city having to have a match, which covered $1.3 million of that project, which came from the general fund. We also have 13th Avenue. It has been in the works for almost nine years. We applied for this project back in 2017, which I'm sure you can assume the costs are 2017 when we applied for the grant. And then we're actually not going to be funded for construction until the beginning of 2026. So just to give a little context is to why we'll apply for these projects and how that timeline unveils when we do have these grant funded projects. And with that being said, I'm going to turn the presentation back over to our assistant city manager, Mr. Thompson. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Albert. Just before I move on one point I want to make, we talked a lot about grants just now. And many of those grants have a federal origin and many of them are affected by recent executive decisions in Washington. So that is one of the challenges we see going forward is that even funding sources we thought we could rely on may still be in play. And that's also part of looking what our best strategy is for moving forward for roadway improvements. So if we go back to the presentation, we'll talk a little about Northwest 21st Avenue. So this is categorized as a county collector and it is owned and definitely not for sale by Broward County. Just like how Albert described collectors, it does connect multiple jurisdictions, just in a very short range here from 21st to commercial Boulevard you know Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park and Tamrac are all right there. So the county has made very significant investments in recent years. The largest one was a project that was recently completed that was over 7..2 million to reconfigure Northwest 21st Avenue between Oakland Park Boulevard and commercial Boulevard and improve mobility and safety. And this included addition of buffer bike lanes, the replacement of the bridge over the C13 canal, new signalization, sidewalk replacement, a new signage, meetings or places to us suicide lanes. And then not featured here was also the county worked with us to provide funding for the landscaping that was installed on Northwest 21st. So again, a very significant investment there. And it has paid off. This is BSO's traffic accident data from January 22 to December of 2024. You can see that this girl is not on fire because she didn't get into an accident. Traffic accidents have gone down just 27% in just these few years. And we anticipate that they'll continue go down down because this is showing 26 to West Prospect. And we haven't talked about the area south of Oakland Park Boulevard. That is another project that is underway. And there are other safety improvements that were done recently on that corridor as part of the oak tree development by Polte. $3.13 million was expanded on doing improvements to 21st and the neighboring roads of prospect in north-west 44th and that included signal upgrades, changes to the left turnlines, westbound prospect 21st and also that linear park and just to put the magnitude of those traffic improvements. That pathway was estimated cost was only about $275,000. It was about $2 million for 21st and prospect. Almost $1 million for 44th. So those are significant costs and improvements to those west side roadways that were born by the developer to help increase safety and traffic flow mobility in that area. You'll see this item later on your consent agenda, but this is sort of part two of those improvements to Northwest 21st Avenue. This is focused primarily on the area south of Oakland Park Boulevard, about $2.6 million dollars. Glad many of those features, those improvements that were done north of Oakland Park Boulevard to the community and areas to the south. Again, that includes the irrigation sleeves, landscape mediums, Sinoos, Stripeg and Signage. But also importantly, one thing you'll see is for the whole breadth from 26th, all the way to commercial Boulevard, those continuous green surface treatments with green bike lanes that we have on prospect, that we have on power line, as I already have on Andrews, those will be added to that, or lower out. But wait, there's more. The city also has items that it is able to work on based on those issues that were identified and that includes the installation of median speed monitors that's currently in progress and Then also as part of our capital improvement program. We have grant funded improvements to veterans park a linear park along northwest 21st That includes a new lighting trail Improvements and other elements to that park. Then we also have improvements that Howard County has currently working on, and that includes bridge-striping and signage and a pedestrian crosswalk on Northwest 21st. And to provide that visual, here is the county improvements for that raised crosswalk. And that also includes a new bus turnout bay with a pad for the shelter and raised medians. And you can see that there with that mid block crossing and those rapid flashing lights. Going a little further to north over the C-3, C-13 Canal, you'll see that we also have the installation of traffic blinators there to help control that flow of traffic and to make that area safer. So that does conclude the presentation but we do have Mr. Carbin, Mr. Marrow. We also have Mr. Richard Tarnese, Mr. O'Rourke from Broward County and then we also have our own PSO district chief captain quickly available to answer any questions you have on roadways or Northwest 21st specifically. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Thompson thank you Mr. Carbin, Ms. Moreira we'll open it up to the commission now. We'd like to start us off. I'll start. Commissioner. Thank you, Mr. Carbin, the entire team by our county for being here for this presentation. I have a few questions. And so happy to hear that the south side on 21st, Avenue will soon be addressed and start the safety measures will be Implemented on that in but I know right now. We're working on the north side um, I wanted to know who owns 39th Street This next to the fire station The city owns 39th Street. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, we don't put that 39th Street in that area, correct? Yeah, half of it. Oh, okay. I didn't bring this up doing my briefing, but I thought I was thinking about it. I know as you're driving on 39th Street heading east, going towards the fire station, there's been several accidents there. And I was just wondering maybe like a flashing sign, like curve or something just to notify people. Thank you. Just a thought. I just wanted to bring that up. that up. No I appreciate it and there have been a couple of incidents at the refurbished fire station 87 that have been a little bit disturbing. That is our road so we'll take a look at it and see if there are some enhancements that we might consider in an upcoming CIP. So thank you for bringing that to our attention commissioner. Okay, and my other questions for the south side. I know I was supposed to reach out to staff and I didn't, my schedule was just busy. I wanted to just confirm that there was no slab that was going to be placed on 28th Street in 21st to prevent the residents from making the left turn which heading north on 21st towards Oakland Park. I know we spoke about that years ago. Miss Herrera. Marera sorry I get them mixed up on absolutely so. 28th Street did you say we've already made those provisions as discussed so and that project's in design we actually met with the county about that project today to make sure that we were getting ready to move that forward into construction next year. Okay. I don't know. I thought I did. I also thought about like around about just and I'm just doing stuff out probably can't even fit there around about in that area because I know that's a very congested area. So the city has very limited right away or the county has very limited right away in the roadway itself to be able to put around about in that location. So we are making all of the safety improvements that we can given the amount of right away that we do have. And if I could add mayor. Part of the challenge that we have here with the roadways and the process of receiving grant funding and as was noted earlier in the presentation south of Oakland Park Boulevard, we do have a grant. It is on your agenda this evening for the the agreement but the application specifies the improvements that are going to take place and once the award is granted you're required to stay essentially pretty much within the four corners of that now that doesn't mean that adjustments are not possible but as was noted earlier I think that that grant application was awarded to us in what 2021? That is correct. Yes, I said it was. So you're going back already four years and nothing's actually been started yet. So the world changes in four years time, traffic patterns change, the desires of the community change. Sometimes we can make adjustments, but sometimes the grant application has to control. So there will be the usual process of outreach as this project moves forward, and there will be opportunity for input. But there will be limited ability to look at large scale reconfiguration simply because the dollars were not expended for those purposes. Roundabouts are extremely expensive and they require a great deal of public right of way. So it's not available in many places that might be perceived as desirable by the community. 44th Street is a good example. We work there with the private developer, PULTY, and they had the additional land that they could allocate for that purpose. And then, of course, it was done, as you know, on their dime. So each of these projects is a little bit different, and each is confined to some extent by what was originally improved and what is actually accounted for in the allocation of the resources that have been awarded. Thank you. And I know I just discussed this earlier but it's just a thought that came to my mind I just wanted to know. I also want to thank the residents over on the south side for their patients because I know we had this meeting years ago even before I came on the commission about improving that roadway. So I truly truly want to thank them and I'm so happy to see this on our agenda. Thank you, Commissioner. Who next? Go ahead. Sure. Thank you, Mayor. I am grateful that we are discussing Northwest 21st Avenue. This has been a huge topic of concern by many, not only many in the community, but also all of us on this day as well as engage in now the county commissioner. I did mention to you Mr. ABear, in addition to having the road improvements on North North West 21st Avenue, both North and South of Oakland Park, Boulevard, but also just looking at that area in general, how some of the businesses, specifically the gas station on that corner. It needs to be addressed. Those businesses, that particular businesses, gas station, I'm sure they bring in tons of dollars. It's a centralized location. Wargreens is no longer there, you know, exactly. Where I'm speaking, we have to be a little bit more engaged as far as the upkeep of that area as well. So I'm just, you know, putting that out there publicly. We have to get you know businesses to support our efforts in improving the roadways and making sure that the beautification that we expect to see in our city is upheld. And we want all of the stakeholders, all of the partners, businesses included to be a part of these efforts. I thought in terms of Northwest 21st Avenue, What about speed tables? You know also put in that out there is that feasible. You know I was driving through downtown Fort Lauderdale just the other night through of the streets. And there are all types of speed tables, all shapes, sizes, designs. There's some right at the intersections as you're driving on these local streets. And they are the wide ones. Okay, there's some that's narrow, but what it does, it slows down traffic. So although that is a county road, one of the biggest concerns that I've heard from the public, especially those who live on that street is the speed, the amount of speed in on that street. And I know there are statistics and statistics say one thing, but sometimes reality to some people, especially when they're right there on the street, show something different. So what about putting some type of traffic, common devices? How does that work? And this is mainly for public consumptions. Sure. And I'll turn this over to my staff in just a moment. But this gets back to the definition of the various types of roads that we have. There are roads whose purpose is intended to ensure smooth and uninterrupted flow of mobility like 95. Now, I say that knowing for a while that I avoid driving at 95 for the very reason that it doesn't actually accomplish its goal. But that's a roadway that's intended to not have obstruction implemented enhancements that are going to decrease the ability to move easily from one point to another. And then as the other roadways were already defined, there are those collector roads, which, of course, we've already talked about here, and one of them is 21st Avenue. And that is intended, unlike, perhaps, I-95, but also unlike local roads, to be that median between which individuals are able to travel smoothly and with limited obstruction. And those local roads, which as Albert indicated, are primarily intended to get people to their homes, but in often a limited way because of speed control devices And that includes of course the speed limit, which is frequently much lower on local roads. This is a road that again has been indicated on multiple locations this evening and at other community events that is owned by the county. So the question that you pose, I will turn over for official response from the person that has jurisdiction over that roadway, which is Broward County. Sierra or Albert will take this first. I'll take the first thing and then Richard or Rossum can follow up on. calming is there several tools in the toolbox for traffic calming one of them is speed tables Those some of those tools that that the county are using are also traffic calming such as the lane dividers that Traffic engineering is going to put on the bridge so that will narrow the focus people on their lane not the not the oncoming lane So that channelizes the traffic. The other one is the extension of the median, it's the median that the county previous put in, but we've worked with the county on extending those medians, and then the flashing yellow, not just a crosswalk, but the flashing yellow lights, and not just the flashing yellow lights, there's gonna be a raised median in between the crosswalk and not only that the crosswalk is going to be raised. So these are different tools in the toolbox of whether that instead the common traffic calming is a speed table, a speed hump and everything. We're using those other tools to channelize traffic and then to calm traffic down by by some other some other methods to keep those those lanes appearing to be narrow and reducing the speed Richard would you like to? Yeah, Richard Tony's brow accounting highway construction engineering division So everything and mr. Carbon was saying was accurate Actually the raised crosswalk is very similar to a speed table just with a crosswalk right in between. And this is one of the first ones we're doing. This is actually the first one we're doing. So we are testing it out. Hopefully it does what we think it will do, which will slow down traffic. So we're happy to do that in your city. I'm excited to hear about it. Especially considering that the current traffic state that has changed. Correct. It went from maybe a one a to maybe I don't know a a D or whatever, hypothetically, it's changed, changed. So certainly we wanna keep up with, the change in traffic, state. Okay, so I just wanted to give you some really good news. Excellent. Yeah, no, we, we, we, we, we, we aimed to please. We have more good news. Yes, yes, no, I, I was gonna wait for him to tell him, but I'll, on his behalf, no, we, we, we, we, we aimed to please more good news. Yes, so no, I was going to wait for him to tell him, but I'll, on his behalf. Actually, he's, he's been behind us, helping us through this process and giving us what we need to to actually get it done. So we are happy to say we are starting construction next month. Excellent. So and we, it'll, within three months, it'll be all done. Yeah, it will be all done. So it is something we pushed and we thought that we can do it. And we actually came through. So we appreciate everyone's cooperation. City staff is included. Well, thank you so much. That is great news. Thank you, Commissioner McKenzie. Appreciate it. I want appreciate the all of the efforts and everyone who's been involved. They said ask and you shall receive and here we are. Thank you Thank you so much. Great news. Looking forward to the construction and the results. Yes, sir. And if that table happens to work, I have confidence that it will work. Maybe we can put that on other roads. Yes, that's that's the point. So where if it does work like we think it will, it will be looked at for other areas. Yes. Excellent. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. That's it for me. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner. Commissioner McKenzie, you come back up to the podium, please. I have a question. I'm a star with the county since we have great news. I love great news, especially from the county. Yes, sir. No, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. My first question to the county. Thank you city manager for putting the budgetary item on the agenda for the residents. Because they need to understand where the funding comes from and how we utilize it. Control. I'm former truck driver. Class ACDL. I know a lot about trucks and transportation. And I've been issued a lot of concerns about traffic safety. And BSO, you be ready because you have a question too. Because I saw on the chart, follow me. The accident is not as much in prior years, but it was a lot of concern on fatalities. How many fatalities on North F. 21st Avenue and it seemed like it's been a danger. It's been zero. Okay. Okay. But I have reverence back to differ with that scenario because it's been violent accidents on 21st. So that's public safety. It's my first priority. All right. I'm going to the funding to us where I know the chief will comment on that but funding. It's been said to me and probably others that, hey, the only thing we have to do, the city could take over the control, the NPR gave us funding to take control of those city railways, county railways, and we'll be able to handle it. But then we all know it's complicated when we have to seek funding from the county. And then we heard in this presentation, it's not guaranteed that we're going to receive, is that correct? And so I want to know what is the streamlined process that if we were to take control of it, will we guarantee funding to maintain our roleways if we have the capability? As a commission, I think I can answer that. I often tell people you want to make sure that you have as few roles as you possibly can because of the cost to maintain them. With the MPO and a regional effort, we're able to get more dollars that we wouldn't traditionally get through property taxes. And we parlay that, you see in the penny tax, but you can't afford these county streets. They're not for sale. We do a better job at maintaining them. The minute you point out what's wrong or what's needed, we put together a team. We come out, we assess it. Public safety is always number one. And when we came north, we went in for a street. And the residents pointed out, some of the concerns, they were public safety concerns. And we looked and depth at it. There was a bus that was stopping in the middle of the street. And I asked, can we be able to a bus pull out? We studied it and we came back and said, well, we can do that. We put the diverted at the hill, all right? We studied it, we did it. There were additional incidents or accidents happening at these points that were pointed out to us. We dealt with all of those and then we put the raised crosswalks is what I alluded to earlier that we're going to throw those in but that's another common device that you have. You don't want to weigh your streets down, especially your major third ways with all these common devices. But we found creative ways to comment and also keep traffic moving. They also wanted to relocate a bus bench. And as you start talking about relocating the bus bench, I said, are you sure you want to do that? You put it down there. You make it all fancy. it becomes a place where people will come, want to come and sit for longer than a 15 minute bus ride. So they said no to that. But all the other things that they said yes to, but the neighbors are watching, they know what's going on. The ESO is watching, the statistics said 27% decrease in fatalities. So what has happened since the first improvement, stole the traffic down, accidents happen all over the world. Pedestrians and vehicles. We are looking at that all the time. From a regional perspective, and Barra County is doing it every day to see what we can do to improve it. And your staff does an excellent job. You do not want to own a brown County road. Great. Could you add on to the third tax funding to as well for clarity for the public, you know, the two pot of money, the MPO, the F dot in surtax? How is that level of active that we could get funding consistently as a blade to the surtax? I think staff and your staff can answer that because at the end of the year we gave you the rules of engagement on how the cert tax dollars will be spent and you had to have showered and projects ready to go at the time that that was adopted and most cities didn't have showered and projects but even we went back and we started looking at you you know, how we can add, you know, as we move forward and we got some of the projects that were ready to go day one. We got them off the ground. As a city commissioner, I was ready to day one. I got so much stuff done because I saw those dollars come. I prepared and when they said, you got to show, I have, I have a dump truck full. So you've got to always build your peace peace and keeps make sure you're ready when there's any fund available right now we're going to have some funding on challenges but right now with property tax we still can do what we do day in and day out with people like like a city manager and people like a transportation folks they do this for a living we just said policy. And one last point to the honorable Deben there, Commissioner District for me. Thank you for those kind response because that's clarity. That's effective leadership in your communication. Would it be wise or suggestive that we know it's fought a lot of the El Tamarack in Ocampah. And that may just 21st Adam is going flowing. Is it wise to have a compact between city municipalities to apply for funding so we could solve a lot of this gridlock? I'm going to give you a recommendation. Greg Stewart at the MPO, you set some time with him and you give him some of your ideas and you'll be amazed that when he comes back when he said what you can and cannot do. I think that's the first step to getting some of these, I would call them, freshman anxieties out. Thank you, sir. Great advice. Great advice. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. to the overpot and the taste was great too. Thank you. Commissioner. Me? Oh. Commissioner McKenzie and staff, I want to thank you all how I got in contact with your office. You came out. You met with the residents. You took time out of your schedule to come and I appreciate that. So thank you for that. Any time, anywhere. They didn't believe it, but we showed up and we showed up. Perfect. But I want to thank my staff, Richard Tony's and his staff and everybody over there for their commitment to making Briar County a safer place. Thank you, Commissioner McKenzie and Vice Mayor. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. Just once a statement that you may want to start thinking about is that, you know, although they say they may not be the road comes in the general fund, a majority that comes from the gas tax. I correct? The gas tax does help support those operations, but the value of it has not necessarily supported all the operations. So that $3.2 million number, Mr. Carpenslide, less than a million dollars of that in any given year, substantially less is coming from those different gas tax buckets. And each of those buckets has various limitations on what it can or can't be used for. So, to the extent that the commission really only says the property tax rate every year to derive most of the general fund revenue, it does rely on that. Another general revenue is it can be used. The gas tax is definitely a huge of that. And one we can rely on. And one that's principally used to help support his regular resurfacing program. And just another shout out to the county that's Sirtax program. We were able to repay the substantial number of the city streets. Yeah, the parking lot, like $2 million dollars. But here's the big thing is the gas tax is drying up Reason being electric cars. They're not charged the gas tax So this is something that we've got to look forward to in the future is that there's got to be some way that those cars are charged for using our roads and the counties roads of the cities I mean states roads and This is not something that's done here at Stunttael Hasse. So we really think about you know I've seen some bills that go through there that all fail but the more electric cars you get the less gas tax you get, less gas tax you get, less maintenance you get. Now going back to the bus outs, a few commissioners we can't this is enough. When they were redoing the prospect road. I made a big deal about taking rid of the bus outs. I don't know if you know, commission or we can't enough. When they were redoing Prospect Road, I made a big deal about taking rid of the bus outs on Prospect Road from 21st Avenue east all the way to to I think it's probably 6th Avenue because there's I've lived there 40 years there's never been a bus route east 21st Avenue Prospect Road. And guess what happens But guess what happens with all those bus outs? All the truck drivers go do, they go there, and they park over the weekends. They park their rigs there. And luckily, BSO on our side has been able to effectively take care of it. On the Fort Lauderdale side, we have all these, I just I could understand why they wouldn't get the bus outs off of Prospect Road when they had a chance when they did we did Prospect Road because there was there was no bus route. There's never going to be a bus route. There's never been a bus route on there. Never been a bus route east 21st Avenue Prospect Road ever. And there isn't one now. There's one goes down 24-7, he goes west of Prospect Road, but there's nothing goes east. So... East 21st Avenue on Prospect Road ever. And there isn't one now. There's one that goes down 21st Avenue, it goes west of Prospect Road. There's nothing that goes east. So I just, you know, I just be careful when they put the bus out to make sure they're going to be used for bus out to not for parking big rings over the weekend. But yeah, this sounds like a really good project, with the raised median there. The big thing is we just got to extend those medians out for as far as we can. Is there going to be landscaping the medians? Because they were promised landscaping. Our landscaping, they've got to put our more shorter landscaping, the most most pavers in concrete will be able to add some landscaping some vertical elements But that'll be after the fact. Yeah, but I mean just like north of there. I mean it's beautiful north of there Yeah, we've just completed some more plantings out there just a lot of them. I'm gonna make sure that we have You know give this North God because, right? I mean, because it's like we were promised green bike lanes on, on a power line road and they gave us green little slots here, little slabs here and people use the bike lane there as a lane, especially when you go in South and on, on power line from, to Prospect Road, they use that right bike lane as a third lane constantly, because I get a squag home every night, and they're constantly going down there and eventually one of these days is going to be an accident there, if someone's getting killed there. And it's just such a big, I mean I know we made the commitment on the energy that we spent $155,000 to make the green bike lanes from prospect road up to energy that view. I just got to think there's got to be a way that we can get green bike lanes back on Powerline Road because it's just an accident looking for a place to happen. But yeah, the county, one last thing. Can you please, please, for 30 years now, I'm going to ask and reduce the speed limit on floor and outer road from 30 to 25. It's the only street in the neighborhood that has a speed limit 30 miles an hour. And I always hear because within, when they take the speed things, it's within the 85th percentile. So it meets the criteria. If you set the speed limit 40 miles an hour they would meet the 85% how because they would go in 40-50 miles an hour. I go there every morning and they go flying down there and what they do is they speed up. You're doing speeds to stop. Speed up, stop, speed up, stop. So sometimes I see that the speed moderate in front of me. Just saying, so down, slow down, then he give a speed going so fast. And I remember all the speed, I've looked at speed over the years when they've done studies. And some of the speeds are 89 miles an hour at night. And I know some of those are false because when they use those, when they use to use the rubber bumpers, you give a pretty accurate speed, but the problem is with the baseball, the little baseball things they got think, the problem is it depends on how big your vehicle is. That's how they measure the speed. If you have a long vehicle, it's going to measure a shorter speed, a slower speed, that if you have a short vehicle, it's going to measure of a faster speed. But it's pleased somehow or another, you know, these people, I don't know why they are having to, and I know this is not on 21st Avenue, but this is the only time we've had the county here in a while. And for the life of me, and Albert knows, I've been bitching about this for years. And Lane Walls is here we're both talking about it and it just amazes me that after 30 years now we can't get the speed limit down on the floor and out of road. It's just those people over there deserve better than that. Well if I could marry we have a project as you know coming up on floor and out of road so we'll certainly take a look at it and we'll discuss that with the county traffic engineer and see what we can do. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, City Manager. I just want to say thank you to the residents for their advocacy. We all know the wheels of progress sometimes turn very slowly. We have partners that we work with. We're very appreciative of Broward County and when we have to work with the state whoever. I, Commissioner, I also wanted to assure you that I do know that our staff works very closely with the MPO staff and we try to be shovel ready, whatever we can. the problem with being shovel ready, all cities encounter the problem, is it takes money to get shovel ready. So that causes a little bit of a delay. So I'm thrilled to death to see the enhancements that are happening on 21st, that raised crosswalk, excellent, I know we also spoke recently to make sure that the little islands have the proper reflectors around them. I heard that some people had a problem hitting the island. So I believe that was checked up on it. Like the rest of the commission, I think some of the feedback folks, we appreciate your feedback. We appreciate hearing it, what we can change. We will change what we agree, that needs to be changed. It's important to keep the communication open and just please keep in mind, we work with staff, staff works with our partners and trying initiate that change and it's not always overnight, sometimes it does take a while. So I appreciate hearing from you. As does the rest of the commission, we don't take it personal because we know how passionate you are because you're worried about quality of life. And we know that you're worried about safety. We get it. We're there too. So I just want to say thank you. And again, thank you for the presentations tonight. We we appreciate it any last questions before we move on comments Okay, we will close the presentation at this