Comments and we will have a 10 minute recess at 830 city clerk roll call please Commissioner Gordon Here Commissioner newborn here Commissioner bud who here vice mayor aren't here mayor Longigan here Okay We will start with a moment of silence and then we will have Mr. Tim Smith, the president of the Dixie West Community Association leading us in the P States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation on the God, indivisible with liberty and justice. and the government is going to be able to understand one nation on the God in visible with liberty and justice. Yeah, and if everyone could please silence your cell phones. We appreciate it. And we start out tonight with a proclamation. Can I have a motion? Motion to adopt. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Noobel. Yes. Commissioner Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arn. Yes. And Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, affirms the available rights of all people, regardless of race, color, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status, and whereas the preservation and advancement of human rights form the foundation for justice, equality, and peace in our world. And whereas let this day serve as a call to action for governments, organizations, and individuals to work tirelessly to eliminate discrimination, poverty, violence, and inequality wherever they persist. Let it remind us that progress requires vigilance, solidarity, and a shared resolve to uphold the fundamental freedoms that bind humanity together. And whereas the City of Oakland Park is committed to inclusivity by welcoming all residents and visitors with the citywide placement of inclusion signs. And whereas on this day, let us not reflect on the progress made but also renew our determination to create a world where every person can live freely, express themselves fully, and fulfill the potential without fear or oppression. Now therefore, the City Commission of the City of Oakland Park, Florida by the virtue of authority vested by the charter, this year by authorize Mayor Tim Melonert and to proclaim December 10, 2024 as human rights day. In the city of Oakland Park, Florida, it encourages all citizens to join in unity to pledge to stand steadfast to the defense of human rights for today, tomorrow, and generations to come. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. And today we have Patrice Peldino, director of the Broward County Housing, Options, Solutions, and Support Division, Liddy Richards, Human Rights Specialist, and Michael Rainer, Chairman of the Broward County Human Rights Board, accepting the Proclamation, and we are asking Commissioner Gordon to present. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. How are you doing? I'm excellent. I understand. You're so nice to meet you. Nice to meet you both. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. It's an honor and a pleasure to stand here with you tonight and present this proclamation to you on behalf of human rights. Human rights is every right and in order to have those rights you have to be born a human, right? Have to be born a human being. And you automatically have those rights as a human. Let's continue to unite together and strive towards freedom, justice and equality for all. Thank you so much. On behalf of the City Commission, I am honored to present this proclamation to both of you tonight. Thank you. Would you like to have a word? Sure. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. This year's Human Rights Day theme for the International Human Rights Day is our right, our future right now. You know, we all know how important human rights are globally. In the United States, we enjoy many of them. Not a lot of other countries could only dream of. In Broward County, we have our own Human Rights Act, which mirrors a lot of the things that are already in the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Florida Civil Rights Act. And we protect race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity and expression, which the City of Oakland Park was the first to actually enact those protections in Broward County. Veteran or service member status, lawful source of income, victim of dating, domestic violence, stalking or human trafficking. And we try to do our best to make sure that in Broward County people are accepted, feel safe. And we provide these protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations. And Lydia Richards here is with the section. And the section is actually the one who does the lot of the investigative work where you could file a complaint. And we left with some palm cards with the city clerk so you can have them and if you ever want to learn more to help educate your staff on more about the Human Rights Act and with residents that sometimes call your offices. Please feel free to reach out to the county and I'm sure we can arrange for some kind of training or anything on that. So thank you again. Thank you. Okay. Commissioner? Commissioner, we're going to come down for a quick picture. Important cause. Sure. Okay, I can slide this over. Yeah, thank you. I really, really like it. I'll kind of be everybody. One, two, three, and then, one, Thank you. Yes. Okay. Moving on tonight. Are there any additions changes or deletions to the agenda? No. No, I'm here. No, nothing. Commissioner Gordon? Nothing. Thanks for me, Mayor. Thank you. Okay. We then move on since there are no changes for presentations. Mr. City Manager. Thank you very much, Mayor. I'm delighted, again this evening, to host our wonderful Volunteer Recognition Awardees. The effort that is expended by the citizens and volunteers throughout our city throughout our year are amazing examples of selflessness and commitment that make us a stronger community and a more amenable place for people to enjoy their experience of living, working and playing here in Oakland Park. So I'd like to introduce this evening our parks and Leisure Services director, Christopher Cassel, to walk us through this presentation. He is joined this evening by his ace, Steve Mateiro. First of all, and Carrie is here too. Yes, sorry. First of all, I want to say as an honor and a privilege the community. First of all, I want to say as an honor and a privilege to do what I do. The honor is being led by everybody who is sitting up here on the diaries. The privilege is to serve the community with volunteers. So tonight we're going to call up just a few of the great people who volunteer in this city who gives back so everybody can be recognized. We'll have my coworker, Ms. Kerry Mahario, say a couple of spills and we're going to fight everybody up. Our first award is going to be for our volunteer team of the year which is our Dixie West Neighborhood Association. This year they have associated actively engaged in our local businesses to contribute to a restoration of one of the city's most iconic landmarks, which is our Pioneer House. Mr. Tim Smith has been instrumental in leading the efforts to revitalize the house and enhance its charm. This year they have exceeded $100,000 of restoration toward the project as well as volunteer hours. So please come on up, Tim Smith from the Dixie West Association. Next we have our volunteer business of the year. This fiscal year, UFI, had approximately 2771 volunteer hours logged by nearly 200 volunteers who contributed to gardening, local food production, and environmental stewardship. U of I hosted seven volunteer events across Oakland Park and Browell County, County, notably for Earth Day over 50 participants who created 130 oyster ropes in collaboration with Port Everletes. Please come in up the urban farming institute. Next we have our youth volunteer of the year. Dylan Bell was an exceptional asset to the Parks and Leadership Services team, contributing an impressive 240 volunteer hours in support of our summer camp program. Throughout the season, we played a key role in ensuring the safety and enjoyment of the kids. Consistently going above and beyond to create a positive and engaging environment. Please welcome Dylan Bell. And last we do have our volunteer the year with 237 volunteer hours. As a dedicated coach to our many programs, Tamir Stumpter has become a cornerstone of youth sports, coaching basketball, flag football, baseball and soccer. Her passion, exceptional skill and a waiver in commitment to children ages 4 to 7 has left an undeniable mark on our community. Tamidra's inclusive and heartful approach not only inspires her teams, but creates a positive and uplifting atmosphere that extends far beyond the field or court. Welcome to Midra's Mumterm. And last, we also want to recognize our great commission that's just right beside our person leisure team. The City of Elkhun Park commissioners exemplify the spirit and community by dictating their time and energy to volunteer initiatives. Their efforts go beyond policymaking, reflecting a deep commitment to the well-being of residents they serve through their selfless actions. They inspire others to contribute fostering a culture of unity and shared responsibility. Thank you our commission. We're going to invite the commission down and I just want to let everybody know. We have this year, not have this year where every volunteer commitment there's been a commissioner there. And everybody you see up on his dius from the city to the city manager has participated and volunteered in this city so equity put back into the city. So thank you everybody. I I do want to just say this is just about six months ago. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here. I'm going to just say this is just about six individuals of 300 over 300 people who volunteer regularly for the City of Oakland Park for multiple projects. So again, for every one of you who participate, thank you. You may not have been up here, but you're in our hearts and you're in our minds and we know you, I want you to know you're making a huge difference in the City of Oakland Park. So thank you. You may not have been up here, but you're in our hearts and you're in our minds, and we know you, we want you to know you're making a huge difference in the city of Oakland Park. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. A. Bairn, then we have another presentation. Thank you, Mayor. We do. We have a major project about to begin here in our downtown area that is going to be undertaken by our fine neighboring city Fort Lauderdale. We're going to have a brief presentation on that and then open to any questions that you might have for them. I'll let my wonderful Public Works Director Albert Carvin introduce our guests if you would please. Yes thank you, Mayor City Commission, Albert Carvin Public Works Director. This presentation is going to be by Vincent Descano from Chenmore and Associates. He's board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors and board of directors particularly phase four of the project. So this is a design bill project with the city of Fort Lauderdale as the owner. David Madsenian's sons is a prime contractor and Chen Moore and associates is the engineer record. A little project overview. The project total is about 16,500 feet of sanitary sewer forest pain. The project was broken up into four phases, as you can see on the slide on the map. Faces one and two have been completed so far. Faces three is currently being tested and anticipated to be completed in about a month. And that brings us up to phase four, as you can see on the map, the blue line on 38th Street. Why is the city performing this project? Well, a couple of reasons. First, we're replacing aging infrastructure. These pipelines were installed around 1970 and they're almost to their useful life pregnancies. We're also increasing the redundancy in the sewer system. Right now, these pipelines are transporting about 8.5 to 18.5 million gallons of sewage per day. So they're very critical assets and we don't and we want to make sure that we're maintaining them. So the scope of the project will be replacing the sanitary force main from Dixie highway east on 38th Street up to Federal Highway, across Federal Highway into the Coral Ridge Golf Course and ending at the City's Master Re-Pump B Station. The construction methods that will be utilizing are horizontal directionally drilling, it's a trenchless methodology, and open cutting our connection points. As for restoration, all items impacted by construction will be replaced. We have a topographic survey that was performed. We'll do our pre-construction videos, make sure we know exactly what the existing conditions were. Anything damaged during construction will be replaced to match existing conditions or better. So particularly on Northeast 38th Street in the city of Oakland Parks City limits is what we're focusing on tonight. As you can see on the screen we broke this sections up to three phases or three work zones we can call them. Why we broke them up into three zones? Well I mentioned we're using horizontal directionally drilling as a method of installation. So these will have three directional drills on 38th Street. I'll explain a little bit more about what a HDD project looks like. We can zoom in on the zone two here on 38th Street. The first step would be to set up our MOT plan. We're following FDOT requirements, power county requirements, setting up detour signs, road closures, advance warning, and message boards. Once a project zone is properly barricaded off, we'll mobilize our drilling equipment in this area on the west side of 13th Avenue, we'll sail up our drill rig. The east side at 16th Avenue'll have an exit pit. What we'll do is utilize our drill rig and drill a six-inch pilot bore at a certain degree angle into the ground going to about 50 foot in depth coming back up at 16th Avenue. If you can see the screen the green line will be our alignment of our pipeline. However in this area there's no open cutting. It's all through trenchless technology. We'll continue to do multiple swab passes and large the underground bore larger and larger until it's a diameter of the pipe. Meanwhile, we'll also be fusing and staging pipe behind our exit pit. Once the bore hole is at the right diameter and ready for our pipe to be pulled in, we'll string it out the entire run above ground. At this point this is where our footprint gets at the largest and we'll have the biggest impact on the community. However this is at this point we're also working on a 24 hour work operation. Once we start this operation we need to keep going. Typically this string out in the pullback will be anywhere from 24 to 72 hours long. And that would be, that's our methodology. We'll have three of those work zones down 38th Street. So, project schedule, our current status of the project, we're securing permits, finalizing our design plans and securing material. Construction schedule, we're anticipated to begin 2025, at the beginning of 2025, on the west side of 30 A Street, working east, earth's federal highway. Construction is anticipated to be completed by September 2025. Some project contacts, here's all of our emails, City of Fort Lauderdale Project Managers, David Messini's Project Managers, Superintendents, Chenmore and Associates. You can all reach out to any of us. We can answer questions. Any concerns? We're always here for you guys. That's everything we got on our presentation and I'll open up to questions. Vice Mayor? Yeah, a couple things on here. The pits, you're gonna have how many pits, three pits? So overall we're probably gonna have, talk to the party's folks. Sorry, sorry. Six pits for the directional drills. We have some connection pits to make connections to the city of Oakland Parks, Forest Mains, Wilton Manor's Forest Mains, and a couple. So overall probably six to eight pits. Now question is, how is this going to impact people's ability to get into their houses? Yes, it will impact people, but however, we'll make sure people are able to access their properties. At certain points, we will need to string out large diameter pipeline. And certain households will be impacted, but the contractor is very helpful. And we'll make sure that people have access to their houses. Yeah, because I lived with the prospect road one you've missed done and they've laid up probably about three quarters of mile pipe or more. And all those streets were closed off and I can't see if everyone's house on 38th Street when you lay those pipes out, they're not going to be a special pocket. I mean the north side of the road I'm going to correct. Yeah, I mean once we get out there we'll fuse it we'll see which side of the road is the best least impacted of public. For example on 25th Ave and phase three the contractors utilized a parking lot and had golf carts and transported all the residents to the house. Okay. It was ductile on our pipe. No sir. We're replacing ductile on pipe with HDP and sorry we are installing some ductile on our pipe. The joints that hold together they rubber seal? Yes they have gaskets in them. Okay. So these gaskets should be good for 40-50 years? Yes sir. OK. One more thing about the availability of our rescue units to get to people's houses. The big concern is that we've got someone having a hard attack and they can't get close to the house. They can't get within the quarter mile of the house to get to the people's houses Yeah My name's Ryan Colts. I'm the general superintendent of David Mansinian sons When we deal with all this work or whatever we always leave access for emergency vehicles to where we can still pass through a vehicle in one direction or the other We always make sure that emergency vehicles anything that personal residents and stuff like that. Some driveways may be impacted but there will always be at one point or another that somebody can drive down that road. Okay so 38th Street will be accessible. Access one lane. Yes. That's my main concern. Yes. But there are thing too is that when the pipes in front of their house, they can't so much transport someone because I, you know, driving that prospect road, everybody, I live out there. There was no way you could get from one side of that pipe to the other. So the pipe will be set up on roller. So there is a way of getting under and over. Yes, not exactly simply, but yes, I do understand your concern. The other thing too, I'm concerned about, and they did this out in the prospect road. They didn't cap those pipes at night. Those pipes were wide open, so anyone could have gone down those pipes with a skateboard, with a whatever, with a HD camera on their tops. You know, I think they're doing something for YouTube. I'd like to have those pipes capped at all times when they're not being used. We could take extra precautions to be able to push. Especially the ones going down inside the ground. The ones on top of the ground, you know, not much going to happen, but I'd hate to see someone, you know, kid thinking something, it's fun to go, let's go play in the pipe. They slide down the pipe 60 feet down under the ground. Oh, let's understand. Well, we can, like I said, we can take the extra precautions and to help you along with those concerns that you have. Those my safety is my main concern with this thing. Say with us. The other thing too is how long is each section? Do you know about how each low section is going to because I want to make sure is that the whole section of 38th Street is not going to be lined up with pipe. No, the entire section won't be at one time or whatever. We'll be doing one phase at a time. So the first drill over there closest to like Dixie would be, I think that was 500. 600 feet is zone one. Zone two is probably a little over 1500 and then zone three is like 2000. Okay, so at those times we don't, during the entire duration we don't have the pipe strung out the entire duration of that. We typically string out the pipe at the time that we're getting ready to do the pullback where it'll do the impact most at those points. What do they have an auger with a GPS located underneath there? So they do what they call wireline transfer. So they put out a wire that can track the where the head is at all times. No, no, which way it's going. Yes. Yeah. And because I thought sometimes they put a GPS unit, but they use also gyroscopes. That's another method, which is it's another way that it just communicates back to a computer back on land now, Mr. Aver What are is there anticipated move to the sky building? We'll be moving to the sky building sometime in the late spring or early summer at this day They'll be done over there. They should be completed with the first phase by that time is if everything goes on. Very good. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. No problem. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor. Vice Mayor brought up some great safety points, which I totally agree with everything he said. But I just remember work being done in neighborhoods where the swell area, a mailbox or grass is removed. You know, when there's work being done and then when it's completed, their yard does not look the same. How are you all monitoring that and making sure that residents, yards remain the same as intact, the same way that it was before you came? So prior to construction, we have a third party come through and do a precon video, videotaping and marking down any preexisting conditions of everything, whether it be a crack in somebody's driveway, the station, the consideration of how their driveways look, their brick pavers, their swales, trees, mailboxes, everything is documented, and it is also submitted to the City of Fort Lauderdale. We can share that also with you guys if needed. When we do that, we do this, and at the end of the project, we go through and we review that tape and we go through and make sure that everything comes back if exactly the same if not better. Typically when we leave a neighborhood it is better than what it was in the first condition. The city of Fort Lauderdale also has a full-time consultant WSP on site doing inspections and chin more and associates will also be out there doing inspections as well. Okay and I hope if a resident does have an issue with something and they want you to come out and look that it won't be an issue. I'm only saying it's because I dealt with this before when sidewalks were placed in and the whole their whole entire swell area has been just changed. So, so well, well thank you, thank you for that. So when we do PIO and we inform the public whatever we go door to door with flyers which will have my personal contact, the project managers and my assistant project managers contact, email phone numbers, everything. So we're available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So if somebody has a problem, they can reach out to us personally. And we try to just get it mitigated as quickly as possible. And if you remove grass, you replace grass with grass, not with concrete. Yeah. So ask because I believe. Yeah, this job has no sidewalk improvements or anything along those lines or whatever. So if we're damaging somebody's sidewalk, we replace their sidewalk. If we damage the driveway, we replace the driveway. Grass gets whether it's Bahaire or Florentam, depending on what type of grass it is prior, we replace it with the same as what it was. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Too easy concerned. I talked to City Manager today and had made sure that we made our own video. So we're going to I already talked to today. I want to make sure we do proactive and we have a video of our own of the street condition of the house condition. So there's no question. No question about it. Thank you, Mike. No, for sure. Like I said, we work with the community in multiple, multiple cities and we, the have asked the summative questions that I had for you guys, great presentation. I'm looking forward to this project. It's long overdue. Infrastructure gets old and we need to replace it. It needs to be replaced, right? And I'm excited that this is what's taking place. I was a little concerned about outreach as well, but I see that the vice mayor has covered that. So that my eyes across what to eat. I like that. Thank you. We kind of cross, you know, check balance, check in balance with each other. So that's great. And the fact that you are going to go door to door, let in residents know that you will be out there working and to Commissioner new balls point. If there is an issue, you will be able to, you know, address it with the residents. But we're pleased and thank you so much. Look forward to it. So you expect to get the CO win. We're hoping to start, the finalize the job would ever hopefully by the end of September, yes. We should complete it. Awesome. Looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner and Commissioner. Yeah. Thank you. I'm gonna highlight my colleagues point Because they took all my questions That's a good thing one thing schools And even surrounding schools whether students are walking or catching the bus I will hope you contact the schoolboy let them know about the projects so they could bake some The parents can make some proper safety protocols. I will hope you'll contact the school board and know the project so they can make some, the parents can make some proper safety protocols. I don't want any child walking near this project. Yes, we coordinated with phase one and phase two of this project, which we had to deal with the schools on both phases of those, where we coordinated with the superintendents of the schools, the principals, everything. And it was a very busy time because at the phase one, when it was towards the end of the school year, and we were able to mitigate all the traffic, we were able to get the school drop offs, buses, everybody through as everybody needed to get through safely. Wonderful. And one last question on the complaints. If you receive any complaints, please forward it to us so we could be able to track it on our way. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you, Commissioner. Very much appreciate it. Just a couple of additional questions. I know you have contact information in here and I see it's actually emails. If I understood you correct, you're going to have a construction manager on site. You know what hours they're going to be on site and most important, if there's a problem after hours I don't see a telephone number. I just see email addresses. The flyers that we'll be handing out with the PIO will have cell phone numbers on it I didn't it was not the only emails we could provide you a list of emergency contact list We get sent it to Albert and you can share it with you. Okay, perfect. I actually own a home on this route and I know my husband will be all over me if there are problems. So I'll be staying quite active on this one. Real quick. Also, you had mentioned this is gonna be a 24 hour project and I'm not familiar with how this works. I know you're gonna be boring underground. So how does the vibration factor work as far as impacting a joining house? So anytime that there's a vibration factor, we put in vibration monitoring systems to where we are able to monitor the vibration to where we don't go over certain levels. And it does a full graph and it will document time a day anything that has any vibration monitoring. I'd also like to note, it's not 24 hours the entire construction duration. It's only on pullback when the pipes Strong out and where you start pulling it back in that's when we get into the 24 hours if needed Okay, perfect and then just so we understand what happens over cherry creek Under under cherry trees. So yes, we drill underneath cherry Creek. So how far down is the pipe actually going? Approximately 50 feet. 50 feet. Okay. Yeah. It's way below. Albert said originally it was going to be 30 feet. So it's now 50 feet with. Yes. It's around 45 somewhere around. Every taste. 30 feet with I was five right in the middle. 30 feet. And Albert, me, I also inquire, is this running parallel to a fresh water feed? There are water lines and sewer lines in 38th Street, but they know those conflict areas. So as they go down, they know, and when they come back up, they know where those points are. So they've taken those into account. Yes, and there'll be proper separation between all of them by health department requirements. Perfect. Perfect. Commissioner. Right. I totally trust. I'm very familiar with your companies. I know that there's going to be, to your point, some type of locating of everything on the ground before you get started. Correct. Yes, we've already currently been out there doing soft digs where we were locating things with that. We use GPR technology. We do everything we can to try to find everything that we can, prior to going. We also call it one for all the other locations for utilities. So we're able to mitigate 99% of everything. Don't get me wrong. There is times where they miss one or two. It's been a long time. And who knows how long stuff has been underground. You know, this hasn't been touched since what 1977 Yes, when the installation was done. So I just wanted to mention that point Thank you commissioner. We appreciate it and real quickly GPR's ground penetrating radar Yes, what they do is they have a Thing they will it down there and it's actually that's how they finalize stuff nowadays with ground penetrating radar. Thank you, Mayor appreciate that. And Mr. April, Commissioner, one more thing. Thank you, Commissioner Gohan for pointing it out. The A11 number, how updated is it? How far back does those records go? Because I don't want any utility lines. So A11 deals with each utility. So AT& T has their own locators. The gas company has their own, the city of Fort Lauderdale has their own Oakland park has their own. They all should have records that go back as far as as far as time can go. So if anything that's active in line, typically they know where it is. Don't get me wrong. There is times where they make mistakes. And it does cause problems, sometimes it causes a delay that we find something that wasn't anticipated. But that's why we also do the extra work by doing the GPR, which gives us a little bit more foresight to being able to see things that they may have missed. And then we do soft digs where we go out there and we dig little 8 by 8 holes to find the utilities. That way we have more accurate descriptions of depths and everything else to be able to make our designs. Perfect. Gentlemen, thank you for your presentation today. Mr. A. Bear, before we close out this issue, anything, any comments you have? Only to request that we get ample notice in advance of the 24-hour operation because with the lights and the potential noise there, the residents will want notice in advance the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the a problem. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Okay. We'll move on. Our first public hearing is a quasi-judicial hearing. Number one, Mr. City Attorney. Thank you, Mayor. All those individuals going to testify during the course of this proceeding. Please stand, raise your right hand and be sworn. The solemnly swear to the whole truth. Nothing but the truth. Yes. Please proceed. Thank you, Mr. Rebearer. Mr. Rebearer, the city have a presentation. We do, thank you Mayor. Ms. Sierra Moreiro is here this evening with us. She is our illustrious director of community development and engineering. Ms. Moreiro. Yes, good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and Commissioners. I see our Marrero Director of Engineering and Community Development. Here tonight with KCD24-04CU for the Chase Bank Drive Through Conditional Use. A little bit of background on this project. So the applicant is requesting a public hearing to consider the approval of the conditional use for the installation of a single drive through with an automatic tele machine or ATM and window is an accessory to the primary principal use of a chase bank. is at 3801 North Federal Highway. This is actually the home previously of the sea spice and mattress experts buildings that are on the north or that were on the northwest corner of Federal Highway and north these 38th Street. So the Chase Bank did go through the proper approval status. They had two neighborhood participation meetings on November 29th of 2023. Their second one taking place in June of this year. Three DRC reviews. They did go to Planning and Zoning Board back on September 9th, and they're here tonight, in front of you for the conditional use application. To give a little context to the surrounding of the land use in the zoning. This property is surround on all four sides by commercial property. City of Fort Lauderdale is on the eastern portion of the property across US1. And as far as the zoning that is a B1 community business zoning district on all four sides of this property, once again with Fort Lauderdale being on the east side across US one. So here's the site plan of the proposed Chase Bank on the left hand side of your screen. You can see the existing conditions, the buildings that were there. They were recently demolished of the two existing buildings and on the right hand side is a proposed site plan where they will continue to keep access on both the US one side the eastern portion of the property and also the southern portion of the property on northeast 38th Street. As you can tell this is a complete demolition of the current buildings with the construction of a new chase bank. So the two existing structures once demolished, they will be constructing a new 3600 approximately 3600 square foot bank. They are requesting tonight as part of their site plan approval a single lane drive through. They do have 19 parking spaces associated with this project of which two are ADA. They do have a requirement to add a bicycle rack as requested by the DRC That is to house up to seven bicycles with proper signage. They did have they actually exceed our landscape and green Green area standards, which is a 25% 33.6% and the drive-through capacity is about 35 feet for inbound stacking around six cars. So it has been the finding of staff and the planning and zoning board that the applicant has met all of the requirements for the conditional use. We have requested that they install one ground-mounted bike rack and also that they comply with any other standards of the chapter four of the land development code have approved. So staff recommends city commission conduct a public hearing to consider the request for a conditional use case CD 24-04 CU for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA to permit the installation of a single lane drive through with an automated teller machine ATM and windows and accessory to the proposed principal use at 3801 North Federal Highway with parcel identification number 4942240601. And I am available if you have any questions and we do have a representative of the applicant here. Thank you, Ms. Murrow. We appreciate that. And sir, the representative, is there anything you'd like to present tonight? Okay. At this time, we're going to open a public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on this issue and this issue will own please step up. Provide your name and your address. Thank you. Seeing none, we will close the public hearing. Let's see. Final comments from either city staff or the petitioner? Just to put on the record that in the neighborhood participation meetings there was some discussion in both meetings yet no major issues were discussed. Okay, thank you. And I'll entertain a motion at this time vice mayor. I'll make a motion to approve it for discussion. Oh, we have a second. Second. Does that motion include the conditions? Correct. The conditions of the agenda item from the DRC. Thank you. And a couple things. The curb cut on 38th Street. Is that right out only? What is I'm saying there's an island out there. There's a median that comes off we close to the end of that property. What I don't want to see cars hanging out in the westbound 38th street lane. Mm-hmm. According to the site plan, it looks like that is full access. How far is it away from the median? What are we going to say that the traffic the meeting. The traffic backs up with that east bound 38 street all the time. So there is a stop bar that is four feet away from the crosswalk with the crosswalk being six foot wide. And you know, for the meeting, I'm talking about the build the road there. six foot wide and you know for the medium to talk about the build the road there. Do you want the dimension from he's looking for the dimension he's looking for the dimension from here. I'm trying to find out how far away from the the curb cut on the 38th street is from the median center median. So this is a center median. I would assume the lane width is at least 12 feet. the I'm whipping it get the best. from which point to which point from the center line from which point to which point from the center line from the center line from the center line from the center line from the I can show the site plan. Do you see on to see on saying the median is right near the end of the property line. So at the end of the property line to the median is approximately, I think the right away is about 77 feet approximately. So half of that. So you're a little over 35 feet from the center of the median. I didn't think it would be that much. You don't have a better aerial in that. If I see a better aerial, I didn't think it would be that much. You want to have a better aerial in that. Vice mayor, we're strictly this has to do with the site plan, as opposed to the conditional use application for the ATM. I know. I know. Okay. I guess if DFC looked at it, it's okay with it. I'm just worried about traffic hanging out there. So, hanging out trying to make a left on the 38th street going east to 38th street. And hanging out in the Westbound lane. I mean, it looks like they're sufficient queuing on the way to US one, right? Okay, yes. Right. Now the ATM lane, that's only ATM only, no inside tellers. Just ATM. My other question is, how many cameras at the ATM? Yes, ma'am. Because they rob people coming out of ATMs all the time. So the state has some requirements for lighting near atm that they it's a state requirement they have to put the right lighting in there and as far as the cameras go. What they do is they wait to people get the cash out of there they come running up behind the car or the gun to their head. Yep and next thing you know they on channel seven you can't get a good view of them because there's not enough cameras there, or they're not in the right place. I would like to say that when we worked with the applicant through the development review process, I know that Chase Bank had standards because one of the things that staff had requested during DRC was to bring the building closer to the road frontage to meet our more architectural standards. As we reviewed their standards for safety purposes, they actually kept the building set back. And I don't know the exact camera count, but I will say that I know that Chase Bank themselves has a security standard. And it was a very thorough standard, and that's why we kind of kept the site plan the way that it is. There's someone you know someone to get robbed there and BSO says oh we didn't get a good look at them. You know didn't get a good picture of them. So vice mayor at this point staff you're confident that that what's being proposed security wise with the cameras is sufficient? Yes, and we do have a photo metrics plan on the file and we have all of the backup documentation is to the security measures that were taken into account. I think he was looking for how many were around that. We have a. Yeah, we don't want to do that. I want to get a good picture of the bag. I put them all over the news. It looks like they have obviously they'll have one of the ATM and then it looks at two other cameras behind that along the facade of the building. There's nothing in the lane other than the camera pointing right at the person taking the money out. Well, no, there's two other cameras along the facade of the building behind the ATM as you queue up to the ATM and there's several other cameras throughout the rest of the building on the outside. I don't want to create, because I see it all the time on the news and it happens. Nowadays, anyone going to ATMs usually take a money out. It's just a perfect place for someone to get robbed at. I like to see cameras facing the car, and then one facing the back of the car. So somewhere in another, you're going to get a good back of the car. And so, somewhere in another, you're going to get a good picture of the guy. If he's coming up from the front, you'll get a picture from the back camera. Come up in the back area picture of the front camera. Respectfully, Vice-Pierre, you don't know if their camera security is. I understand that, but I'm trying to do my best to protect the public. Can you say at this point, Vice Mayor, then your concerns are noted and so on. Mr. Moreira will follow up just to give a report back to you. But we appreciate you bringing that up. I just don't want someone to get killed. Yep. Okay, additional questions, discussion? No safety is important. And just to confirm, it's just a drive through it and a walk up for the tellers. Oh, for the ATM. I mean, yeah, ATM, sorry, they're not tellers. Yes, and the whole reason is, some people feel safer doing this from their guard and having to get out and walk up to the ATM at night. Right, I agree. Okay, but I agree I concur with Vice Mayor regarding the safety. Well, there's multiple cameras on the building and obviously Chase uses since state-of-the-art security. And on top of that, the lighting on the site, I believe, I mean, looking at the photometric levels, it seems to be substantial that the whole site is pretty well lit. And I believe there's, is there usually one right in the machine? Yes, of course. Yeah. All right. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you, Commissioner. that's okay. Uh, direct this here. Uh, in the DRC, uh, Mr Detective Howard, he put no outdoor seat, CTV camera posted on the construction site. How many cameras, if that's the construction site, are we going to I want to get a hard count of cameras, that's the construction site? Are we gonna, I wanna get a hard count of cameras. That fine. Of after this is building to that secure location, or the ATM, right? It needs to be addressed. That's all I'm saying. It needs to be addressed. Commissioner, and I agree with a lot of the discussion, I don't think they have an exact number. At this point, we're not to get that today. So we got to let Ms. Murrero follow up with us on that if you're okay with that. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Ms. Murrero. And we call the question. Call the question. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nooble. Yes. Commissioner Bahu. Yes. Vice Mayor Orange and Mayor Longan. Yes. Oh, okay. Vice Mayor Arndt and Mayor Longan. Yes. Okay, we will move on to agenda item number two, Mr. City Attorney. Thank you Mayor, ordinance on second reading by title only and ordinance city, question, city, vocal park, Florida. Approving an application by Jeremy Sherr and Stevenville, LLC for rezoning, approving an application for rezoning from our one single family residential district in our two two family residential district a TD town home district For the subject property located 1383 northeast 34th court. So we're particularly ascribed here any containing 0.738 acres more or less Providing for severability conflicts and effective date Okay, Mr. Abert do we have a presentation today? We do, thank you mayor, as you recall, at our last commission meeting, this was presented and it was passed by commission, and that's why the second reading is before you this evening. Ms. Moreiro states with us for this presentation. Ms. Sierra? Yes. Thank you, city manager. So this item is for the rezoning, Ms. Sierra? Yes. Thank you, City Manager. So this item is for the rezoning under case 23-23RZ for Stephenville's town homes for the six units and this is the item on second reading. Tonight we're here to conduct a public hearing on second reading. This is for the property that you heard at the last meeting located at 1383, North East 34th Court, they are making a request to rezone from the R1 and R2 district to the townhome district. So the request that they are making, as I stated, is a zoning map amendment. They did have two neighborhood participation meetings. I did want to state that at both meetings we had no attendees that had any questions or there were minimal comments related to the presentation during those meetings. We also had three DRC meetings in which we had no public in attendance. Planning and zoning board meeting was held in October and the first reading of this item was last commission meeting on November 20th. There was a comment made at public hearing and I just wanted to state for the record that has been verified that all notices had been proper noticed for this project and there were no rescheduled meetings based off of those hearings for the public hearings. So looking at the future land use map, we do have low medium residential on the north, south, and east side and to the west is our local activity center as part of the OP3D. And the current zoning, there is our two family residential district on the north and east portion of the property. We also have RM16 just to the south and on the west is our in town neighborhood sub area of the property. We also have RM16 just to the south and on the west is our in town neighborhood sub area of the OP 3D. And they are requesting to rezone that subject property to the town home district. So it was the findings of both the DRC and the planning and zoning board that the applicant has met all of the requirements for a rezoning. He does have compliance with all zoning standards with the TD standards, town home district standards that is consistent with the future land use designation of the surrounding area. It's compatible with that zoning and land use and it is an alignment with the comprehensive plans and policies. So to staff's recommendation, the city Commission conduct a public hearing on second reading to consider case CD 23-23RZ requesting an amendment to the City of Oakland Park, zoning map modifying the existing zoning of single family residential district R1 and two family residential district R2 to town home district TD for the subject property located at 1383, Northeast 34th Court identified by parcel numbers 4942-23031630494223031631 and 4942-23031632 and both myself and the applicant are here and available for any questions if you may have them. Thank you, Miss Mero. At this time we're going to open a public hearing, anyone wishing to speak in support of this ordinance, please step forward, state your name and your address. Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and commissioners. Jeremy Shere on behalf of the applicant. Obviously support the project. But I did want to offer a voluntary proffer based on the comments from last meeting that we will revise the HOA document to restrict short-term rentals so that it cannot be rented out for a period of less than 30 days. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. Anyone else which wishes to speak in support? And anyone who wishes to oppose speaking opposition of the project. Okay, at this time we will close the public comments and request a motion through W ordinance with the findings and the conditions and the staff final staff present report. Excuse me. Second. Okay, we move on to agenda item number three, Mr. City Attorney? Ordinance, by title only. And, ordinance, the City Commission, the City of Ocompark, Florida, amending the City's Land of Elm and Code, chapter 24, article four entitled, plan of element districts, by specifically, amending section 24, dash 55, PCC, plan, commerce, center district to provide for residential, density limitations, provide for severability conflicts and effective date. Thank you, yes, Mayor. This is another item that you heard at your previous commission meeting and so we will again turn to Miss Marrairo to refresh our memories of what was presented and then answer any questions that you might have. Miss Marrero to refresh our memories of what was presented and then answer any questions that you might have. Miss Marrero. Thank you very much. So before you is the text amendment under case CD 24-28T. This is for an amendment of chapter 24, section 2455 or PCC Plan Commerce Center District within the city's Land Development Code. This is a public hearing on second reading. Currently, this is a, so the applicant in this situation is the City of Oakland Park. It was identified that we do not have residential density limitations in our PCC districts within our code as it stands today. So staff has proposed that we establish a maximum residential density of 35 dwelling units per acre on all PCC districts or zoning and that would be for one two and three. The item was heard before planning and zoning board and was unanimously approved and then previously heard before you at the last commission meeting on November 20th. And that did pass on a vote of 5-0. So once again the proposed density, as you can see on the screen, these are all of the locations in the city at six locations that actually have this designation. And so what we're requesting is that density be assigned at a cap of 35 dwelling units per acre. Most of these, and the reason that 35 dwelling units per acre was proposed was because if we look at the surrounding densities, we have a mixed use industrial and business. So this was a transitional buffer in allowing the amount of units along with other restrictions that are restricted in the PCC district that will also control the size and location on the properties for these developments. And of those six locations currently there are a few single family residential and our single family residential district down at the bottom left of your screen that you can see that are undeveloped. And we also have the development on the rest of the sites except for the park and ride lot, which is the PCC 2 district that you density has the clear parameters it has consistent in uniform. It is an alignment. The density proposed is an alignment with the comprehensive plan supporting the diverse housing that the PCC district was intended to bring. It also protects neighborhoods by capping at that 35 dwelling units per acre so that you don't have over development, but you also foster that balance of live work within those areas by allowing enough residential density to support any mixed use, which is what the PCC district was intended to, intended for. So we do, we have determined that this is compatible and balanced growth for the City of Oakland Park. So staff recommends that the City Commission conduct a public hearing on second reading to consider KCD 24-28T, a proposed ordinance amending to chapter 24 of the City's land development code, specifically section 24-55 PCC planned Commerce Center District to incorporate a residential density limitation of 35 dwelling units per gross acre. And we're available for any questions. This time we will open public hearing anyone wishing to speak on this topic and this topic only please step up and provide your name and address. Seeing no one we'll close the public hearing and entertain a motion. We'll adopt the ordinance with the staff's finding of the agenda item. Sorry. Oh, okay. Any discussion? No, not with me. Okay. Roll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nooble. Yes. Commissioner Budhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Arntz. Yes. Yes. And moving on to agenda item number four, Mr. City Attorney. Ordinance, by the title only, an ordinance city commission, the City of Oklahoma Park, Florida. I'm ending chapter two entitled, the administration by specifically a menu section two dash three, entitled, educational assistance for employees to provide certain educational benefits for employees, provide for severability, provide for conflicts, provide for codification, and provide for an effective date. Thank you, sir. Mr. Abert, is there a presentation? There is, thank you very much mayor. This is an ordinance on second reading. So we had a presentation and a discussion at our previous commission. Subsequent to that discussion, Steven Scott, our illustrious director of human resources, and I convened to do what we could to rectify a concern that was raised. We think we found a happy medium. I hope you can agree, Mr. Scott, which you kindly walk them through our suggested change and then into the following item which is the resolution which we are asking for your consideration if this item is approved. Thank you. Excuse me, Madam Clerk. The ordinance presentation please. That's what I have. Okay. I can do this. So I'm going to just do this verbally. Since 2011, Section 2-3, as we discussed at the last meeting, is set a cap on educational assistance at $3,000 per employee per year. Any change to the maximum cap required in an ordinance amendment, which is two readings. After the discussion at the last meeting, we heard what you had to say as the city manager mentioned and we're back for second reading of the ordinance. We're just looking to streamline the process a little bit and just in the future, we would like the ability to make changes to the cap for educational assistance by resolution as opposed to by ordinance, but it still requires us to come to you, and it still requires us to set a budget at the beginning of the fiscal year. So we think that covers everybody's needs here. And if approved, I just want to point out that the next item on the agenda will be a resolution where we propose setting a new cap. And that's all I have. Excellent. Thank you, sir. We appreciate that. And at this time, we will open a public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on the subject of subject alone? Please step up, provide your name, address, and comments. Seeing none, we're going to close the public hearing. Motion out the orders. Any discussion? Call the question. Roll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Mr. Nubel. Yes. Mr. Boutou. Yes. Vice Mayor Arne. Yes. Yes. Item five. Mr. Mayor, members of the commission, is the companion item. It's a resolution by title only. A resolution of the City Commission of Seville, Clark, Florida, establishing the annual camp for educational assistance per employee, pursuant to section two dash three of the code of ordinances, Seville, Clark, and $5,000, to find for conflict, severability, and provide for an effective day. Motion to adopt any discussion. Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. I was going to second. Thank you. Any discussion? Call the question. Okay. Commissioner Gordon. Commissioner Noobl. Yes. Commissioner Badhu. Yes. Vice Mayor Orange. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. And agenda item number six. Public hearings. Hearing ordinance on first reading, Mr. City Manager. Sir, I'll introduce your ordinance by title only. If you prefer. Okay. Ornith's by title only. Ornith's to City Commission, C. Volkipark, Florida, many chapter 24 in Tidal Land of Elma, COVID-19, specifically in many section 24-day, 61-2-G entitled to repairs. Section 24-day, 65 entitled current license plates. Section 24-day, 79-A-10 entitled to repair and maintenance vehicles to require certain restrictions for repair and maintenance of vehicles to require certain restrictions for repair and maintenance of vehicles providing for severability, provide for conflicts, provide for codification and providing for an effective date. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ray Barrett, you have a presentation. Thank you, Mayor. We have two of our finest directors representing this item this evening. Miss Marrero is joined by Brad Ostra and we are interested in trying to provide clearer and more complete guidelines for individuals that do home maintenance work on their vehicles. So the presentation before you is the first reading of a code amendment that we would appreciate your consideration. Miss Marrero and Mr. Ostroff. Thank you very much. So this is for case a text amendment for case CD 24-24T mending chapter 24 section 642G repairs. 65 entitled current license the city of Oakland Park and so the proposed ordinance that is before you aims to amend the land development code to impose those restrictions on vehicle repairs and maintenance in residential areas. The proposed ordinance that is before you aims to amend the land development code to impose those restrictions on vehicle repairs and maintenance in residential areas. The proposed ordinance that is before you aims to amend the land development code to impose those restrictions on vehicle repairs and maintenance in residential areas. This item was approved unanimously at the planning and zoning board on September 9th, but as a result of conversations that have taken place at that meeting, staff went back and took a look at the requirements and reviewed some of those. So some changes were made from that discussion. And just to highlight the changes that you see before you will actually be the change of allowable time originally was proposed at two hours. It was changed to 24 hours. We did expand the coverage to include motorcycles, RVs, and campers. And we added the prohibition of auto body work and painting in all residential areas. So the proposed amendment, I just went over some of the key changes. One of the things I did wanna mention is that there are three sections of the code that are being amended in this case, if approved. And the reason that that was done is to ensure that we have proper coverage of the entire city and all of the different zoning districts within our city. And we have that cohesion between those zoning districts. So it is staff recommendation, the city commission conduct a public hearing on first reading to consider case CD24-24T, a proposed ordinance amending the city's land development code by specifically amending section 24-64-2G entitled repair section 24-65 entitled current license plates and section 24-79-810 entitled repair maintenance of vehicles to require restrictions for repair and maintenance of vehicles. And both myself and Mr. Oshchoff are available with any questions if you may have them. Thank you, Mr. Oshdoff are available with any questions if you may have them. Thank you, Mr. Murrow. At this time, we're gonna open the public hearing, anyone wishing to speak on this subject, this subject only. Please step up, provide your name, address and comments. Seeing no comments tonight, we will move on. Most do adopt. Second. Seeing no comments tonight, we will move on. Most do adopt. Second. Real quickly, thanks Brad. Did a great job, stepped in a great job. I went over to this very fine tooth comb. They did a great job with it. Perfect, thank you Vice Mayor, any additional comments? Discussion? Commissioner? I just want you to say a great job. This has been a concern in our city, these types of activities. And it's good to see that it's been addressed. Thank you both. I too want to thank you because ongoing currently, where I exist, but I do have some questions. Just for clarity, the license plate, I know at one point it was discussed that it has to be a clear open area to show that there's a license plate. So does this update include that? It does update the license plate requirement. It has to be registered and the license plate, the license must be visible. So if a car is backed up against a house or a car cover, it's placed on a car and we can't visibly see the license plate of registration. We would ask the owner to show that to us and if the owner refused or wasn't there, we would coordinate with BSO to assist us with making sure that the vehicle is license and registered. Okay. And I know there's been an increase, at least I've been getting several calls regarding campers being in the yard and people residing in them. Can you explain, I know I say expanded coverage to motorcycles, RVs, and campers. This doesn't change anything to do with the inhabitants of a camper. They have to be parked on a paved service or a hard surface. And they can take up required parking in order to be there. But they're on a case by case basis. and take up required parking in order to be there, but they're on a case by case basis. And if it's disturbing the peace and tranquility of the neighborhood, then we have to address it. We hope. Thank you. But thank you, and again, I agree with my colleagues. Great, great job. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner butto. Yeah. Thank you, Brad. Thank you for this. Just need one clarification on the boats. I have my neighbors. They have both. They've been living in the property for 40 years. Each of them, they have their boats in the front. Sometimes they do maintenance before they take it out, but it's only one boat. They don't have, it's not like a mechanic shop for boats. Well, they're just gonna have clarification. They allow to have maybe one or no more two boats there because they literally are crosses the street from one another. But when they do maintenance, they'll all change or anything like that. They eat to do it just for their private property in that vehicle. Is that correct? They can do that type of maintenance, an oil change, changing of the tire, simple light maintenance outside of an enclosed garage. But anything beyond that must be done and enclosed garage or the dwelling to be done at the house. Okay wonderful thank you. One more on the RV okay it has to be posted in the back or on the side of the property can't be in the front is that correct? It's same as for boats currently. And RV has to be on a paved surface or a hard surface. And it really shouldn't be taking up required parking. So a lot of people have it in their backyard on papers, on papers on the side of their house. But if they have it, let's say in their driveway, and now they can't park a car there, and the car is parked on the swell or in the street, then it's taking up required parking and has to be moved. Good. I do have your inspectors at hand, offices going out to the city and monitoring that. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Bernie. Thank you, Commissioner Citi Clerk. Roll call please. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Noobel. Yes. Commissioner Boutou. Yes. By Senator Arndt. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. We're not going to recess for our community redevelopment and agency meeting. Roll call. Board Member Gordon. Here. here. We're member Gordon. Here. We're member new bull. Here. We're member but who. Here. Vice chair. Here. And we will start with presentations. Mr. A. There. Thank you, board chair. I am delighted this evening that we have Ms. Naseher Herrero with us to walk us through the CRA and Economic Development Update and bring you news of the happenings in Oakland Park, Ms. Herrera. Thank you. Good evening, Sierra Board Chair, Vice Chair and Board Members. Nase Herrera, Sierra and Economic Development Director. As always, it is a pleasure for me to share updates on new businesses, projects, vibrant activities, and initiatives to support our business community. Several new businesses have joined our CRA, including PMG cleaning services, full cell marine offering marine engineering services, Marine Engineering Services, Artichore, an interior design company, Dynamite Dog Training, Better Wellness Clinic, which offers gyro-practic and physical therapy services, Thin Food Service, which represents leading manufacturers of food service equipment, furniture, and supplies. Food Service Equipment, Furniture and Supplies. And Gigi says hello, a unique jewelry store that recently opened in our downtown. Even though this business is outside of our CRA, we cannot leave aside the excitement around the reopening of my guy. I am very excited to announce that highly anticipated businesses such as Red Sea and Tripping Animals will be opening soon. So stay tuned for the great opening dates. And I'd also like to take this opportunity to provide you with an update on the build out for Voodoo Brewery. As you can see on the pictures, construction is progressing steadily. Staff from CRA and Building Services have been working closely with the contractor, the business and property owners to expedite this process. Turning to redevelopment, we are pleased to share that the releasing of residential units of the sky building has begun. For more information, please contact the leasing website or reach out to the leasing team via phone or email. Infrastructure improvements such as the West Dixie Site Streets Projects, Demonstrator Commitment to Revealization. Enhancements like road resurfacing, installation of crosswalks, planter boxes, bike racks, upgrades of drainage, show that we promote safety and accessibility while we enhance the visual appeal of the West Side of our downtown. Special event season is in full force. On November 16th, we had our last open of the year, which featured live artistic performances. And just this past weekend we had small business Saturday which was hosted by two local business owners Marisa Falls from the Wondershop and Kelsey Kern from We House in partnership with the city of Oakland Park. This event featured 60 vendors with over 3,000 people in attendance. I like to take this moment to thank Cesar Don Salas, my partner in the Sierra and Economic Development Office, our partners, our downtown business partners, our BSO and our staff from the Parks and Leisure Services and public works for their support in the planning and execution of these events. Our events are not only fun, but also a critical tool to drive food traffic to our local businesses and establish Auckland Park as a destination. For this reason, I'd like to invite you for a holiday village, which will be taking place this Friday and Saturday. And make sure you don't miss out the three lighting ceremony on Friday at 6.30. Mark your calendar for next year's OPA, which will take place on February 15th. We're calling artists and vendors to participate. An attention, Aquamperque restaurants and bars. Taste of Aquamperque is coming up in February and registrations are open. So if any business is interested in participating at any of these events, they may reach out to our special event team. We're also excited to announce our partnership with the Urban League of Rourke County for entrepreneurial training and business support to foster a more resilient business community. The Urban League of Rourke County offers a variety of programs including this small business bootcamp. The registration deadline has been extended to December 13th. We have been promoting this opportunity on all of our communication platforms and we appreciate your help in getting the word out so that our local business can take advantage of this opportunity. In the first quarter of 2025 we'll be hosting two signature government fast-track programs in partnership with the Broward County Office of Small Business and Economic Development. One is the intentional entrepreneur for aspiring entrepreneurs and the listening to your business for established businesses. Why are these partnerships important? Because they allow us to leverage established curricula and optimize resources as we continue to find ways to better support our business community. At the last downtown partners meeting, we introduced a refreshed format that add value to businesses through networking, educational content, and knowledge sharing. Participants benefited from actionable insights that Riste Sekulowski, the owner of Mandoleros, and successful restaurant tour, shared about his journey. Our guest speaker, Jane Bowling, former mayor, successful entrepreneur, and business mentor, provided an overview of the Corporate Transparency Act. And I'd like to remind all businesses, including our honorable vice chair, Ernst, that the deadline to file the beneficial ownership information is coming up and it's January 1st of next year. We have an exciting lineup of topics for 2025, so please don't miss out our January 14th Downtown Partners Meeting which will take place at Maggi's favorite and will feature guest speaker Wendy Lieber, founder of Content Bacon, and she'll be talking about how entrepreneurs can create content to market their businesses. I'd like to call attention to feature business resources, the adventure mentoring team, and career source, Broward. You may learn more about these resources and more by signing up for our business news letters and connecting with us through any of the avenues that you see on the screen. And with that, I conclude my presentation and I'm open to answer any questions you may have. us through any of the avenues that you see on the screen. And with that I conclude my presentation and I'm open to answer any questions you may have. Thank you miss her we appreciate it we'll open it up to the commission. Commissioner. Thank you mayor. You know I'm smiling being in over here at you. Director where thank you so much excuse me Oh, it's a matter of 50 year directors. He did an app-staining job with this the entrepreneurship bootcamp is necessary We do got to get it out. I know it's a trial run You know, we trying to see how the partnership is gonna go with the urban lead The message need to get out to our businesses. So I will be you'll advocate for them to try to sign up. Thank you for extending the deadline at December 13. This is going to be part of my 500 plan to create businesses and job, high paying jobs in our city at four years. And this is where it starts. Proper education, business plans, financial plan, and marketing plan. And we're going to cut this all throughout the county and bring businesses here in Oak Park, especially downtown area. So I am enthusiastic about this, and I will promote it. I'm looking at the sky building. I see, could you go back to slide five because I've been seeing my presentation about the amount rental is it for rental businesses or studio living what is the amount on there? The amounts that you'll see on the screen are for residential units only so that includes studios, one bedrooms, two bedrooms, and live work units. So we'll go back to that. Okay, thank you. Also, the career source browser, because you spend on it, I love that because they have grant money. Or that way, direct the sky could add on to that $5,000 by helping our employees go after some type of extra funding from the career source, Broward, because they do provide workforce development grant assistance. So that'll be a plus. And that's the money that they don't have to pay back. It's free money. So thank you for having that partnership with CareerSource. But that said, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner? Thank you for having that partnership with CareerSource. But that said, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Error, for that nice presentation about the businesses. And I heard on Saturday, the small business, there was yoga out in the middle of Main Street of over 20 people were there and we were at the Empire Near House mayor and I and someone told me that I just thought. I just thought that was just fantastic. They came out early in the morning just for yoga and then to see that there were over 3000 people in attendance for small business. That is awesome because we know that small businesses are the cornerstone of each city. And I just I like to hear that and thank you for what all you do. On on connecting with the businesses, helping them promote themselves. So I appreciate that and again I'm thrilled and thrilled that so many people are choosing Oakland Park for their business so thank you. Thank you Commissioner Bord. Thank you Mayor. Thank you very much. Great presentation and I want to did what Commissioner Newbold said, you're doing an excellent job. Thank you so much. They talk to me. The businesses tell me. They know you by name. Yes. So, I mean, it's a good thing because since I've served on this day, I have a person in your position. I've never heard business owners call that person by name. And so that means that your presence is, you know, you're there, your present and that certainly makes a big difference. And enhance in our businesses and their sustainability in this city. It's all about the small businesses. They are the heartbeat of this city. And I'm excited to see that Urban League is offering that training. I'm excited that we are partnering with Urban League as the commissioner said, career source, bringing these resources to our businesses is paramount. You know. We say we support our businesses, the proof is in the pudding. So thank you for all that you do. And I wanna thank all of those new businesses who have chosen Oakland Park as their place to do business. We're very grateful. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Vice Mayor. Yeah, well, I just like to say the only yoga I was doing Saturday and was picking up the remote control and deciding what college football games I was gonna watch for the rest of the afternoon. Hate for me, baby. Thanks. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Appreciate that very much. I just wanna did all what some of the commissioners said. Hey, as far as the new businesses welcome to Oakland Park. And thank you so very much for investing here. It means a lot to us. We as residents need to make sure we're supporting our local businesses. Try not to order as much off the internet. Actually order things from our local businesses. So thank you, Ms. Herrera, Mr. Gonzalez. You guys are rock stars here in Oakland Park. And as the rest of the commission was saying, I can walk into any business on Main Street and they'll say, hey, Nase was here or hey, Cesar was here. So thank you for being active. Thank you for understanding the job. Our job up here, improve the quality of life, improve the aesthetics aesthetics of the city their jobs as businesses offer great products Friendly service and smile so people come back reasonable prices and it's gonna be a win-win for all of us So again, thank you great presentation. Oh Okay Additional questions we will then move on to public comments anyone wishing to speak on this please step up provide your name and your address and you have up to four minutes. These are CRA public comments. CRA public comments. Thank you. I'm on this side. I'm on this side. Oh no. I'm good. I love this side. The podium is that a damn podium. All right. Thank you folks. We will then close public comments and the consent agenda. CRA minutes. Motion. The CRA minutes for September 4th and September 18th. Motion adopt. Say it again. Poor member Gordon. Yes. Poor member Nubal. Yes. Poor member Badhu. Yes. Vice Chair Arns. Yes. Chair Longan. Yes. And reports from the board members. Any additional comments? Commissioner. Nothing to report, thank you. Nothing just excited to see where these businesses are going to go, how they're taking off. Thank you. We got an outstanding CRE director. Thank you. Okay, and anything from our executive director? Only to add, thank you, member Puttu, for the question. The sky building is open for pre-leasing. They are as Mr. Herrier indicated looking forward to opening the residential components early next year. There are also commercial opportunities available, both in the live work as well as in the commercial bay areas which can be configured and built out in according to the specifications of a tenant. And their leasing agent is being very aggressive to try to find tenants. Some of the ideas and possibilities are very exciting. We work closely with them on a weekly basis and Brad is meeting weekly with their contractor styles and their team to ensure that they stay on track. Everybody is aware that the hurricane threw a little bit of a curve to FPNL. So the addition of that walkway that we have been so looking forward to was delayed. And as a result of that effort, that may end up pushing back a little bit the timeline. So we'll keep you posted about that. But for all of you there in the listening audience who have any interest in relocating either residentially or commercially to the sky building, they're open for business and would love to visit with you. So thank you very much for chair. Thank you and Mr. Board Attorney you close us out sir any comments? Okay motion adjourned. Okay thank you Vice Chair and we will then return to our regularly scheduled commission meeting and open it up item seven public public comments, anyone wishing to speak on any city business? Please step up, provide your name and your address and you have Good evening. Mayor Fist, Mayor Commission, Attorney, City Manager. My name is Sandra Luzano-Berry, CEO for Light of the World Clinic. And I'm just here to say thank you for your continued support, for your part in being a partner in health with Light of the World Clinic. As we continue to see so many Broward County children adults and seniors who are desperately needing care services and medications that we provide for them free of charge. So I just want to say today we are applying for the A to Nonprofit and we certainly hope that we can continue to count on your support as we have to continue to keep our county our city healthier and thriving. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. I tried to grow. I didn't work. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, commissioners. My name is Erica Hermit. I'm the president and CEO for Voices for Children of Barra County. And I just want to thank you all so much for your support last year. We serve kids in foster care and last year because of your funding. We worked with over 42 kids that reside in the city of Oakland Park and we hope that we're able to continue our partnership this year. So thank you again. Good to see you, Mayor. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Jennifer on the COO of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Broward County. We currently support 97 residents in Oakland Park. We have Biggs, we have littles, we have parents. We're seeking your support. We're asking for $10,000 to add additional mentoring programs. But we've been serving families in Broward County for 50 years, specifically in Oakland Park. And so we have not previously received funding from the City of Oakland Park, but currently today we have families and four children and four out of our five programs receiving mentoring. We have kids that are in our bigs with badges program, which pairs children with first responders, mentors who are first responders in our community here in Oakland Park. We have children in our mentoring children of promise program here in the city who are first responders in our community here in Oakland Park. We have children in our mentoring children of promise program here in the city who are impacted by incarceration, who have a mentor. We have children who are in our big inspiring scholastic success, who are receiving mentoring for academic assistance here in the city of Oakland Park today. And we have a missed one program. Big futures. We have children, we have one high school student today who has a mentor at MedPro Healthcare staffing who is being exposed to the industry of healthcare while she's in high school. And as a little in our program, she'll have access to half a million dollars in scholarships. And so today, these are the kids that are receiving mentoring in the city of Oakland Park, but we have 23 children who are waiting. We have 23 children and families who have applied to receive mentoring in the city of Oakland Park who do not currently have a mentor. And so we seek your support, your assistance, and I can see today that you are a dedicated, committed city, and I appreciate all that you do to serve the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and commissioners. I'm the CEO with the council. Good evening, Mayor and commissioners. I'm the CEO of the area of the council on aging, also known as the agency on aging in Broward County. I have with me today, Shirley Snipes and Liz Lombardou who are also here at the meeting. I want to share that. We have had a 40-year partnership with you to serve seniors in the City of Oakland Park and we're very grateful for that. Last year we were awarded $10,000 and we used that money to draw down our 10% match to draw down two federal grants. The services we provide cover everything from congregate meals to home delivered meals, caregiver training and support, legal services, home repairs, transportation, respite care, case management, information and referral health and wellness classes, assistive technology, home repairs, emergency home energy assistance, caregiver navigation, and shine counseling services where we provide Medicare counseling and Medicare enrollment information. In 2024, we provided $431,525 in services to 152 Oakland Park residents and responded through our help line to 503 calls for assistance and referral to services. We provided 6,711 hours of respite care, 77 hours of case management, 1,841 hours of respite care, 77 hours of case management, 1,841 hours of home making, 1,236 hours of personal care. It assisted 83 clients who are a Medicare long-term care screening process, provided 1,323 congregate meals, 9,460 home delivered meals, and provided 19 seniors with technology. In addition, we provided 83 hours of legal assistance and served 39 clients for our Shine Medicare counseling services. These are just some of the services we provide and I just wanted to share them with you. I want to thank you for your partnership and for supporting us to serve your residents and we were proud to be able to serve them. Thank you. Thank you. and for supporting us to serve your residents and we are proud to be able to serve them. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commission and staff. First I wanna begin by apologizing for my phone going off earlier, is totally unintentional. But I thank you for a lot of this opportunity to speak tonight on behalf of the vital work that the Early Learning Coalition of Baroque County is doing with the school readiness program. For those on the main- Can you provide your name please? I apologize. And so, Pratt III, Early Learning Coalition of Baroque County. The Early Learning Coalition of Baroque County is the state appointed administrative or early learning programs in childcare care subsidies for Brown County. We have been servicing Brown County for over 25 years, ensuring families have access to high quality childcare and education resources. The school readiness program provides subsidized child care to low and moderate income families to remain in the workforce while ensuring that their children receives the early learning opportunities they need to succeed in school and in life. The City of Oakland Park is home to 694 school red in this children and that goes across 328 households. This translated to be $2.9 million in subsidies paid directly on behalf of Oakland Park resident children just this past year. Additionally, Oakland Park is home to 20 childcare small businesses, which collectively received $5.3 million in subsidy payouts, helping to sustain jobs and stimulate the economy. Thanks to the contribution of the City of, thanks to the contributions of local municipalities like the Oakland Park City of Oakland Park ELC Broward provided support to 2,900 additional children as 15% more kids Who received services last year who otherwise when I have received it had it not been for the Screw Red in this match grant and the $10,000 donation we received from you last year. In closing, we once again want to thank you for your continued support. And we look forward to our continuing the collaboration and making a lasting impact for this great city. Thank you, sir. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioner, staff. My name is Lisa Devine and I'm the grants manager for Feeding South Florida. And I think of this opportunity to talk to you about Feeding South Florida and what we do here in South Florida. Since 1981, Feeding South Florida has been dedicated to addressing hunger and food insecurity in South Florida. We're going to the largest food banks in South Florida. We serve 25% of food and secure people in South Florida. We're one of the largest food banks in South Florida. We serve 25% of food insecure people in the state. We provide a New Jersey's food to individuals and families in the four counties that we serve, which is Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties. We are a member of Feeding America Network, and we work with over 230 partner agencies about that Quad County area, which include churches, soup, kitchens, homeless shelters, just to name a few to help distribute food. Last year alone, Phoenix South Florida distributed over 85 million pounds of food serving 1.2 million people in South Florida. These people include children, seniors, veterans, low-income populations. In addition to food distribution, we also rescue food that would otherwise be thrown out into the dumps, garbage, landfills. We also offer programs focused on nutrition education, workforce development and life skills, training, SNAP benefits, and other wraparound services, community empowerment, and long-term solutions to hunger. Through our network and services Fidium Falfa for to play a crucial role in alleviating hunger and improving the well-being of those facing food insecurity. We are asking for your support of $10,000 to support our Senior Grocery Box Program. This vital program will target low-income seniors 60 and older who live within the city of Oakland Park. This program is crucial for seniors because it helps ensure they have access to nutritious, balanced meals, especially when mobility, health issues, or limited access to transportation prevent them from shopping or cooking for themselves. Many older adults face physical, financial, or social barriers that make it difficult to maintain healthy diet and without support they may experience maltrition or food insecurity. A meal delivery program addresses these challenges by bringing meals directly to their homes, saving them time and energy while promoting better health. And additionally, these programs often provide meals tailored to seniors and dietary needs for losodium, diabetic friendly, or heart health emails. The convenience of having meals delivered also reduces isolation, which is a common theme for seniors. It often includes social check-ins. I mean, when they deliver food, they say, hey, our driver goes, hey, how are you doing? What's going on? It might be the only conversation they have throughout the day or week or the entire month. So, it offers a sense of connection. With funding, Phoenix, South Florida would be able to serve 20 seniors a month, delivering a grocery box with self-shelf stable food and produce for total 240 grocery boxes for a period of one year. Ninety per six percent of that funding goes to the grocery boxes with only four percent going to salaries for the driver. We have not been funded by the City of Oakland Park but currently Phoenix Health Board is serving 223 seniors in the City of Oakland Park with home delivered meals through other programs that we have that you guys do not fund. We currently work with three partner agencies within the St. Delimits and the last fiscal year we served over 10,500 households which correlates to over 31,000 people and distribute 420,000 plus pounds of food within your city limits. I thank you for that opportunity to talk to you tonight about Phoenix South Florida, and I hope you consider our request for funding. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next floor. Good evening. Mayor Vice Mayor and commissioners. My name is Susan Evans and I'm representing women in distress of Broward County. And I also want to say I'm a resident long term property owner here in the proud city of Oakland Park and I love everything that we're doing. So thank you. We just recently celebrated 50 years of serving Broward County. We provide a voice for our citizens who do not have a voice that's victims of domestic violence and their children. Last year with your help, you gave us $5,000. We were able to leverage that and draw down our state money that we desperately need to pay for emergency shelter, prevention, education in our schools, and with our law enforcement, healthcare professionals and other members of the community. We were able to help provide, I'm sorry, 24 a 7 crisis hotline support. We were able to provide advocacy, counseling, and therapy services. And we were also able to provide legal assistance for residents that were seeking injunctions for protection, which is the first step toward getting safety for when there are high-lift-ality cases. I want to ask for your continued support. We can't continue to do what we're doing without the support of our public partners. We do have a lot of private support, but it's mainly through our public partners. They were able to continue to provide essential services for our residents. And so I just thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commission. My name is Kevin Stamper. I'm the Vice President Development for Lutheran Services, Florida. It's not familiar with Lutheran Services. We are the largest human services nonprofit in the state of Florida. We serve one in 50 Floridians across the state. Those are the most vulnerable, those who are in the most need of help, hope, and healing. And we're really proud of the work we do, specifically here in Oakland Park because it's our longest running program. It's a shelter that's been here for 40 years, the Lippman youth shelter. And that shelter sees kids that are in the most dire situations and the most need of hope. I don't want to really talk about the program necessarily, although we have a substantial program. Our program has a 96% rate of reunification with children with their families eventually, which is very difficult to do with the work that we do. However, the program is very solid. It's a great program, but I really want to talk about hope, because that's in shorter supply. And that's the hard stuff to come by. We like to say that there's a rule of threes that you can survive for three months without shelter. to say that there's a rule of threes that you can survive for three months without shelter, you can survive for three weeks without food, you can survive for three days without water, but you can only survive for three seconds without hope. And these young people that we serve, our kids that are coming out of some of those difficult situations we've ever seen. We have children coming out of simple situations like truancy or delinquency coming from the Department of juvenile justice other places like that. We also have kids coming out of trafficking right now, specifically. I just met with a girl actually this week who was here in Oakland Park, came from an upper middle class home and she had a great growing up as far as what it would look like on the outside. She did not know that she had a wildly abusive father and the thing she saw in front of her was not love. It was an abusive relationship. And so when she entered into relationship at 14 years old, she thought she was in love. Turns out she was being trafficked by her boyfriend. She didn't know that till she came to the Lippmann youth shelter and she spent time there. She remembers there was one counselor there who would braid her hair. And she just a few weeks ago came back to the youth shelter now as an adult and she came back and she brought an army of volunteers to braid the hair of the girls that are in the shelter today. She now is a social worker herself working here in Oakland Park. So really proud of the work we've done over the last 40 years in this community and in this in this in this city specifically. You have funded us last year. We kind of came out of the shadows asking for funding again for the first time in a long time. We're grateful for what you've done. And it's physical needs. Just getting the shelter back to where it needs to be to be able to make a space as beautiful as the children we serve. So this year we're asking for more funding to continue to do that work in the shelter to get it back to where it needs to be for the children that we serve to have a future that is a future that they have the help they need and they have the healing they need but especially if they have the hope we need. Thank you. Hi, good evening. Marie Hayes. I'm with 211 Broward. I'm also a go to the next meeting. Hi, good evening. Marie Hayes. I'm with 2-1-1-broward. I'm also a resident here in Oakland Park. Mayor Lonecker knows that because I kept running him down in public. You all have an unavailable position right now. Everyone in this room that's asking for funding deserves and needs that money. I'm sitting here going oh my gosh oh my god I'm a social worker and I know that it has to be nearly impossible to make those decisions. There's a finite amount of money I understand that and I know that you all know what 2-1-1 does. I wanted to share that last year. You all have supported us for several years. We spoke to 996 unique college from Oakland Park and gave out 1,673 referrals to these organizations and others to get people linked. So someone's calling us going, I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do. And we're able to say, here's a place, let me help you get there. Let me help you link. A lot of those callers were female, 47.89%. So a lot of head of households out there, 90% had children in the household, 19% had seniors, 46.7% were living with a disability, and 8% had members in the military. So definitely hitting the needs, people out there that were calling because they were really in desperate need. The number that really shook me when I did this is there were 39 callers that called saying they wanted to die. They were calling with a need to talk to somebody about suicide. That's a 263 percent increase from the year before. And so we were there when someone called and they needed that help and they needed someone to talk to. And I thought one of our our COO sent something out this morning that sent out quotes from people that have called and I don't know that anything can tell you more about what we do than hearing from what people have said and if I could bring you phone calls I would but I can't. You're such an angel. I'm so glad I was able to speak with you today. I really do appreciate your help and kind words. Speaking to you has changed my life. This is a great resource. This is what our society needs. You've been awesome. Thank you for listening and taking the time to provide resources. Thank you for being empathetic and not judging me for my decisions. You helped me a lot. You may have saved my life. Keep doing what you're doing. Even if it's listening and emotional support, you don't know how much you've helped me. Thank you. I really appreciate your sensitivity, your genuine caring, and you're a great listener. Thank you for your time and your professionalism. I just need one person in my life like you. Someone who cares and I can vent to why can't more people be like you. Those are comments that callers have left when they can leave a message. Their comments that callers have left when they have had somebody be there when they didn't know what else to do. And sometimes there's not a resource. Sometimes there's not something that's going to pull you out of that problem, but there is kindness and concern and consideration. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we are there. Along with these other amazing organizations that are here we appreciate your support and we will continue to do what we do and we would love to have the support from you all to help us do that we do have matching funds so it does help us pull down some additional dollars. I did bring thank you me. Thank you. There's a really cool information thank you thank you anyone else good evening mayor vice mayor commissioners as you've heard hope is the thread. Thank you. Dr. Joe Oravek, CEO of NAMI of Broward County, National Alliance and Mental Illness. Hope is what we're all hoping for as we work closely with community residents. NAMI has been part of Broward County for 40 years. We're in our 40th anniversary. We're small but mighty, however, we need to be able to have that support from you all. We have not had a presence in Oakland Park. Part of my mission as CEO is to have a presence in every single municipality in Broward County. Presence matters, especially when we're talking about mental health and telling your story. I'm continuously living my own journey through mental health. I'm a single foster adoptive parent and as we are able to have and to be authentic with our voice, to be able to talk about how we need to hear from each other. It's incredibly important. And what we are asking of $10,000 is to be able to have that presence, to share our story, to have here each other share their story. Because the more that we're able to talk about it, authentically, through the lived experience it gives hope to others who remain silent. And if we have that opportunity through what you will be able to provide to us, we know that the residents of Oakland Park will be able to spread that hope in that mental health journey for success throughout their lives and through the community's lives. So thank you for your strong consideration. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, at this time we're going to close public comments and we're going to take a 10 minute recess. So we will be back at about 840. 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. 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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. Yeah. Vice Mayor. Now that everyone's refreshed, welcome back, and we will move on to the consent agenda, Mr. City Attorney. Consent agenda for the city consists of the following items. Thank you, Mike. Item A is approval of the minute for September 12th, 2024. Item nine is approval of the 10th amendment to purchase the sale agreement with Horizon, resolution by Title Only. Resolution City Commission of City of Elkhambarq, Florida, approving the authorize appropriate city officials to execute the 10th amendment to purchase the sale agreement between the City of Elkhambarq and Horizon Park, Elkhambarq LLC. Providing for conflict, providing for severability, for Civil Bill, Providing for Effective Date. Item 10 is Resolution by Title Only. Resolution and City Commission, C. Vocal Park, Florida. Approving the authorize the proper City officials that you submit the application and on the necessary documents related to the Broad County, 2026 Cultural and Art facilities, capital support grant, requesting $500,000 for the city's Centennial Park Performance Area. And further authorizing amount of $1,000 is the city's required matching funds. Providing for conflict, providing for severability and providing for an effective day. Item 11, resolution by title only. Resolution City Commission, City of Vulcan Park floor, approving authorized purchase and installation of video surveillance and card access control systems for the tenant improvements to sky building from TCS. Group utilizing Omnia contract are 192.008 in the amount of $141,440, providing an owner's contingency of $21,216, providing for budget amendment, providing for conflict, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. I'm in 12th resolution by Title Only. Resolution City Commission, C. Velkampark, Florida, approved and authorized the appropriate city officials. Dexcuted an agreement with EMS Management Consultant Sink using the pricing terms conditions to seminal county agreement for emergency transport, bill and collection management services. RFP 604347-22TKH, providing for conflict, service, and bill and effective date. Item 13 is a resolution by Title Only, a resolution city commission, seat of open park floor to approve and authorize the proper city officials. I excuse a second amendment. First we knew the green and progenitorial services, citywide for one year period with I and G clean and incorporated, providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Item 14 is a by title only. Resolution City Commission, C. Volkampark, Florida, approving authorizing the expenditure for fiscal year 2025 purchases with core and main LP and excess $25,000 up to the budgeted availability. Providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Under 15's resolution by Title Only, a resolution city commission, C Velcom Park floor, to approve and authorize appropriate city officials, dexue to work authorization with Hazen, Sawyer, PC for North E6 Avenue, pump station, and pipeline phase two for total amount not to exceed $458,514, providing for conflict, severability and effective date. Item 16 is resolution by Title Only. Resolution City Commission, C. Volkampark, Florida, Prove and Authorized, appropriate city officials, excuse to work authorization with Hazen and Sawyer PC to perform construction management services for the North Andrews Gardens pump station and pipeline improvement project for a total amount of $249,963 and approving the proposed budget amendment, providing for conflict, serviceability and effective date. Item 17 is the resolution by tunnel only. Resolution City Commission, Cable Compart for it, approving the purchase one new forward expedition from Duval Ford for use by the Fire Rescue Department, piggybacking the terms conditions of the Ford A-Share Association contract, FSA 24 VEL-DS-32, providing for conflict, serviceability and effective date, I-N-M-A-T-N-As resolution by title only. Resolution of City Commission of Seaboke Park, Florida. Approving authorized sole source purchase of generous. Genesis, extracurrication, equipment from rescue systems, unlimited LLC, in the amount of $64,975, provide for conflict, severability and effective day. That concludes the consent of agenda, Mr. Mayor for this evening. Thank you, sir. Motion adopted. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Neubold. Yes. Commissioner Budhoo. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Mayor Longagan. Yes. Okay. We will now move on to resolutions and miscellaneous. Item number 19. I'd like to make a motion to a point. Reappoint Carlos's on to the architect discipline of the unsafe structures board. Second. Any discussion real quick? I would like to myself just mention we currently have three open positions on the unsafe structures board. This is a three year term. Looks like we could use the disciplines of an attorney, an electrical. Electrical, what does that see? Engineer. Engineer or a real estate appraisers. So again, this is a three year term. We could, would appreciate anyone who is within these lines of business, give consideration. Ms. Clerk, may I ask about how often do they meet? Rare. Rare, which is once a year maybe? No, sometimes not even that. It all depends on if we have a structure fire or that a building needs to be addressed. Thank you. So my purpose of bringing it up is I just wanted people with no residents to know that we have a need for three additional people on this board. We'd like to get that board up to full staff. And again, it's a three year commitment, but it may be once a year. It may not be at all throughout a year. So if you're interested, please contact City Clerk and consider it. Thank you. Roll call. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nooble. Yes. Commissioner Butthoo. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. President Luish, by the title only, a resolution of City Commission, the CEO of Oakland Park, Florida, pointy one member of the serve on the assay structures board. Provide for conflict, severability and effective day motion adopt. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, mission new bull. Yes, mission or but who? Yes, vice mayor orange. Yes, Maryland again. Yes. Okay, and we move on to agenda item number 20. I'd like to make a motion to award the bid. ITB092624, North and his guard of a motion to award the bid. ITB 092 624, North Enders Guard, a stormwater pump station, a pipeline, improvements to the lowest responsible and the sponsor of bidder, Amitia Engineering Contractors, LLC and the amount, total amount of $1,297,370, that most important 50 cents. Okay, invite you to that. And there is a second, real quick. I think it's important for the residents to understand where we're investing and what we're investing their money in. Self you would. I'm happy to thank you mayor. The effort that we have undertaken for several years long been made. I'm happy to have you prepared. I'm happy to have you prepared. I'm happy to have you prepared. I'm happy to thank you Mayor, the effort that we have undertaken for several years long before I have been the city manager here to invest in our infrastructure and address the inclement weather situations that seem to becoming more frequent and more severe in their duration. This is another enormous undertaking of more than a million dollars invested in our infrastructure to address an area of our city that has dealt with the increase in water accumulation. And I would ask our good friend and public works director, Albert Carvin to walk us through this item if you would please serve. Yes sir. I'm going to say I see Renee has the presentation. I'm getting me a vice mayor city commission this is a presentation on the bid award for the North-Earned Andrews store-more Plumpt Stormwater Pump Station, Renee. North Ended is Plumstations located on Northeast 60th, just west of Northeast Second Street. It's a vacant lot owned by the city that we're utilizing for this underground Plumstation. It'll have a control panel. And then the ultimate discharge of the storm water will be into the FDOT draining system at I-95 and Cypress Creek Road. Go ahead. Then again, we got four bids we received on September 30th, 2024. Reviews were said, the bids were reviews by City and County staff and the engineer, Record Hayes and Sawyer. This is a project as a 100% funded through the county certax, and which also includes funding through the CI services that you just approved on the consent agenda, and includes the electrical new electrical service going to the pump stracing site. Next one. on the road to the city. I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city and I'm going to go to the city discussion? One thing since that's my area. Thank you city manager for that. Thank you so much and thank you Mr. Cobb and your team. This is well needed improvement North Andrews. I was touring that area the other day. And I saw that and that was three or after I read this, I think the item went to go view it like yes about time making some real big major improvements in North Andrews so we appreciate that and give my high regards to your staff thank you. Thank you Commissioner anything else okay Rokal Commissioner Gordon yes Mr. Nubal yes Mr. Butto yes Mr. Arndt yes Resolution by title only resolution, resolution of the City Commission. Let's see, a whole compact floor to turn in on a Michi engineering construction LLC. It's the most responsible, most responsible bidder in response to the invitation to bid 092624 North Andrews Garden stormwater pump station pipeline improvements for a total amount of 1,297,377,50, approving the proposed budget amendment providing for conflict, civil, and effective date. Thank you, sir. Motion to adopt. Motion to adopt. Motion to adopt. Say it. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Newborn. Yes. Commissioner Budhoo. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns, Mr. Mayor Longagan. Yes. All right. It is the time. Agenda item number 21, city aid to nonprofits. Mr. City Manager, do you have anything? We're happy to give a presentation. Mayor, if you'd like, Andrew Thompson is here. He is our chief financial officer and soon to be our assistant city manager so he will walk you through this item. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. I'm going to be mayor of Vice Mayor City commissioners. So this is item number 21, our city aid and on profits program. Just very briefly as part of your adoption of fiscal year 25 budget, $80,000 in funding for this program was approved. Similar to prior years, the grants were set in the amount of $10,000. The applications were released on the first day of the fiscal year, October 1st. Applicants were given a month to return those. They were due on November 1st. We received 24 applications. These applications were reviewed by staff strictly for completeness and then they were sent to an external consultancy firm, complex systems innovations group that does grant applications, grant writing, grant reviews. They used the existing criteria to score those that were provided as part of the backup for your reference and just to go over what was done last year. Last year the methodology used by the commission was that each commissioner was allowed to allocate up to $10,000 of their choice to one or more granting agencies when more than one was chosen, that 10,000 was split into $2,000, $5,000 awards. Then with that remaining bucket of $3,000, the final awards then went to the top three ranked applicants remaining, those that have not been selected by a member of the commission. So I'll leave it here on this screen. This shows the rankings 1 through 24. So our recommendation tonight is for the city commission to deliberate, make their selections, and then adopt the resolution incorporating those selections. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I appreciate it. A little history on this also. Initially, when the program was designed, we have a company that ranks the applications, as you can see, and when the program was designed, it was designed where they selected the top eight applications. And then we moved into agreeing that each commissioner would be able to designate 10,000 to one of their choice and we take the top three. I'm going to tell you, you just saw the last agenda item with dealing with flooding in million dollars and things. This is the hardest thing I do all year because each one of you deserves exactly what you're asking for Whether it's from us or somebody else or whatever. I'm just saying the need is there and we understand the need so this this is truly The hardest thing and I thank you all for what you do and for who you help and how you help them I ask our Oakland Park residents and anyone who's actually watching this program, you heard from some of the people that were here today, please, if you can donate some time, if you can donate some finances, financial support, please reach out to any of these organizations. They're doing wonderful work, both in Oakland Park and in Broward County in general. So this is a tough one. At this time, I'll open it up to commission for discussion. Thank you, Mayor. You just spoke for every last one of us. It's a, it's tough because each and every all 24 applicants deserve to get this $10,000. And I've been sitting here making decisions throughout the evening. And now we are here. Stop. That's it. Right now. Mr. Mayor. You finished? Commissioner Gordon. I am. Oh, Mr. Mayor. We have met the doctor that the top three could maybe by consensus we uh put aside the top three with the first three of the advocates and then we can't do that because if what someone wants to pick one of those then it becomes the the top the top three left automatically get it. Yeah. So someone picks number one as their their choice uh-huh. Then number two three and four get it. So someone picks number one as their choice. Then number two, three, and four get automatically funded. So you can't just say to another top three or you get funded right now. Because someone picks one of those, then it slides the whole shifts it downwards. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And real quick, Commissioner, and I do want to say also, we always have the option of picking the top eight and moving forward with that. Last year we did have somewhere, some people took their 10,000 and split up between two organizations. My understanding is the organizations are very appreciative. Sometimes they're making a plan, how to spend that $10,000. So then when they get $5,000, maybe it doesn't go according to plan, but I have no doubt whether it's $5,000 or $10,000, they're appreciative of whatever they receive. So the only thing I wanted to interject is the other option is to pick the top eight also. So I'm just putting it out there. And whatever the commission decides they want to do on I'm having. Mr. Man, let me comment on that. I have no objection to picking the top eight. I like that we were doing it right now. I like that we were doing it right now because it made you get a good example two years ago. go, uh, co honest what he got zero. Zero at 19 bottom of the barrel. Okay. So we changed it back then and co honest got approved because co honest does a lot of damn good work in the city. More work than people really realize. And obviously they're up in the top eight this year, but it's so much nicer. You can have your own one or two charities that you want to give to them. Okay, and then the top three left you got them I can get funded. It's the easiest and it gives it gives you a little like you say skin in the game. Okay, and I've always thought it like that is that I have my favorite charity and I've been donating to them ever since I've been on the commission because of one lady who used to be the director of E. Lederberg. She took me in when I was a freshman commissioner just like you in 1993 and she treated me just like I was her son and I'll never forget that forever and and with that that agency is done today is Just worlds above and and they turned that $10,000 a year in $100,000 through federal grants So that's the first thing I'd look at is when I go down all these to see what matching grants they get women in the dress Distress turns that $10,000 into $220,000. So you're not giving $10,000, you're really giving $220,000. Later in the world, when you're giving that $10,000, they turn that into $130,000. So a lot of this matching grants, it takes that money, it makes it go a lot longer and further than just $10,000. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Yep. Again, I just throw it all the options. I'll start it out. I'm going to give my selection as the area of agency just because I turned 65 this year. Don't tell anybody. Oops. Should I start dying my hair? I thought you did. Hey, who's got more hair? I'm going to go to the co-owness of Oakland Park. Thank you commissioner. Yes and mine will go to. The first call for half of Browick County. Thank you commissioner. My first just is the Daisy Foundation. Thank you commissioner. My first jest is the Daisy Foundation. Thank you sir. So one two and four get automatic. So one two and four will automatically receive. Which is. So one two and four will automatically receive which is well, oh, five one two and five Which is? Nami Nami So they automatically get the ten thousand All right, and I will take um God I hate this. Women in distress of Broward County. So you just gave them $220,000. Right, I see your clapping in the back. We have a motion. Motion to approve the the selections. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nooblom. Yes. Mr. Budhoo. Yes. Vice Mayor Orange. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Resolution by title only. Resolution of City Commission. City of Elkhapark, Florida, proving or awarding appropriate city funds to not profit organizations has identified provide for conflict, severability and effective day. Most should be adopted. Mr. Gordon? Yes. Mr. Nooblom? Yes. Mr. Noobel. Yes, Mr. Badhu. Yes. Mara Longan. Yes. Okay, we move on to agenda item number 22. Commission liaison appointments to various organizations and boards. I think there's a handout. Everyone should have received. Do you have here's wise man? I would take privilege in asking that I remain the MPO representative this year. I'll make a motion to appoint you as the MPO representative. I second, but may I make a comment? Sure. City Attorney? Yes, ma'am. Perfect. I do second that motion mayor, but I will be interested in serving the following year. Just for record. Believe me, I don't want it. You can have it in here. Oh, no. I just wanted to put that out there. I do second. Yeah. Perfect. So solution, oh, I'm sorry. put that out there. I do second. Yeah. Thank you. Perfect. So solution. Oh, I'm sorry. No, excuse me. So the previous mayor will start with the current mayor is at the same time. I'm just trying to find what we have been doing is we've been giving the mayor the privilege pretty much of MPO. And I may challenge you for that next year, depending on how successful I am this year. That's okay. You just made a commission roll this side. Yeah, but I'm ready for it. Okay. It's a little my. Okay. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Nooble. Yes. Commissioner Nooble. Yes. Commissioner Badhu. Yes. Yes. Yes. Mr. Arns? Yes. Mr. Lonic? Yes. Mr. Rastluz-Baitadou only a resolution of the City Commission of the Civil and Park Florida. Pointing to remember the City Commission to be the city's representative of the Metropolitan Planning and Organization, the Prime Minister of the Conflict, the Civil and Effective Day. Okay. What I would like to do is to put up motion. Oh, sorry. Motion to put up. Yeah. Okay. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Newbone. Yes. Commissioner Badoo. Yes. Vice Mayor Arons. Yes. Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Okay. Let's see. What I would like to do is go to see, because I think B kind of goes hand in hand with C. So C is the Broward League of Cities appointment for director first in all first alternate and second alternate Make a motion that point the mayor is the director Commissioner Gordon has a first alternate commissioner new balls of second alternate I was second that if the mayor accepts I'll accept but I just want to make sure if there's anyone else who wants to be director. I mean, OK, I'll accept that's very enough. OK, we have. Well, I'm second I I do you want to be there voting? No, actually I want to remain where I am. I want to be. Oh, okay. Okay. But if someone else is interested, commission of new balls or commission or, but I'm, I'm file of being alternate. Okay. So now let's open director. The director is open. I'll take it. Okay. Now my only concern is being so new. and we have had this discussion in prior commissions where we were a little bit nervous about that. Well, let me ask that. I'll leave it up to the commission. Hold on, let's go back. They chose Alamine. Either you can become director, whatever's left I'm fine. Okay. I don't mind either you can become director whatever's left. I'm fine. Okay, but now if you don't Don't if you don't want director and you want to be first alternate second alternate as fine I someone got to be director now my concern. I'm a tape mayor. I'm my concern is this now You're the mayor you're gonna get to go to Florida legal cities and also the US legal cities, okay, that's four conferences in the US legal cities and one in the Florida legal city. And now you're on NPO too. You kind of dominating a little bit. I've also served 10 years on the commission. Yeah, honestly, you know, we need just, you know, that's that's why I didn't accept it right away and I said to the rest of the commission. I want to offer that opportunity for others. Let me see who goes to the meetings. Yeah, but I attend the meetings. I do. I do. I attend the meetings quite often. Once we use the director. Okay. She may not have time. I'll see that's the thing. Yeah. She may not have time. We'll see that's the thing. And if we're going to commit, we have to commit to this. And that's the thing. Once I commit, I'm 100%. Do you want to? Yes or no? I'm not. I'm seriously facing a dual pressure. I'm giving it to you. She knows how to say it. She knows what she can respond to. So you did you not accept me? I will accept yes. But what I just wanted to say if he's given the opportunity. I know I understand that, but I wanted to be sure what your position was. May if I may hold on a second. The last, the previous mayor was involved. He was the director. Now you want to be director? Now, you wanna be director? Do you wanna be director? I tell you what, I'm sorry. You wanna answer that question because I was going to say something. I said that I would accept it, but I wanna make sure knowing I'm with the MPO, I did not wanna be selfish and totally other. If no one else wanted to I would be happy to be because I was the president of the league in 2018 So I understand how it works and everything that's that's kind of why so I will be the director and If you would like would you like to be first or first alternate? Yeah, director first alternate second all right I'll take I'll take second alternate. Okay. No, director first alternate second alternate. I'll take second alternate. Okay. Is that okay? No, that's fine with me. Okay. I'll make a motion to that effect. Okay. Second. Second. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Noobel. Yes. Commissioner Butthou. Yes. Vice mayor Arns. Yes. Marilyn again. Yes. Yes. It's just C. We're going to read the Resil, the Resil first. Let me get my computer here. There we go. Resilution by title only, a resolution of the City Commission C of Ocompara, Florida, pointing Aisha Gordon as its primary representative and the Tishaoubold and Fitzgerald But who as second alternate To broadleag a cities for the term 24 25 Provime a conflict severability and effective day most of the dogs second Commissioner Gordon. Yes, mission new bull. Yes, mr. Budhoo. Yes, I'm here long Gordon. Yes, Mr. Noobln. Yes, Mr. But who yes, I smell on again. Yes And we'll move take a step back up to item b then I like to point them airs the the voting The voting delegate to the annual August Legal cities second the second Mission of Gordon yes, Commissioner Noeble yes, Mr. Badhu. Yes, I smell aren't Marilon again Yes, resolution by title only resolution city commissioner Steve O'Couple Florida pointing member of the city commissioner city's voting delegate the 2025 Florida League of Cities annual conference Provide for conflict service building effective date Motion is out. Second. Okay. I was going to say give the mayor an opportunity to say yay or nay. I think he wants us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's once a year. Yeah. I think he wants us. Yeah. The mayor typically does that. Absolutely. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Commissioner Noobl. Yes. Yeah, yeah, I think you want this. Yeah, okay, the mayor typically does that Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner new bull. Yes, Commissioner bud who? Yes, vice mayor aren't yes, Marlon again. Yes and item D so we did a already yes, okay, uh D greater Fort Leiter the alliance We have three appointments that we need then I'll leave it up to the commission. Well, let me ask you a question. And I'll ask the city turn. Does it have to be a member of the commission? The reason being is that the Corporate Council has a lot to do with the business, the acumen, and when. Yeah, Nases, a member of the Partnership Council. That's what you're asking about. Okay, she's a member of the partnership council. That's what you're asking about. Okay, she's a member of the partnership. Yeah, she's on that board. Okay, because she's perfect, because that's what she needs to be involved. She's involved, okay. I just can't make the meetings. They're just during business day. I just can't make any of these meetings for them. So if anyone wants any of these speak now or forever hold your peace. I know how often do they meet? They said once, once about, I think, in the end 30. I'll be on it. I'm sorry. Do you want to be the corporate council? There's three positions. There's the corporate council, the entrepreneurship council, and the action team. So, I don't mind being the corporate council and entrepreneurship council, if you don't mind, commission and new bold and less engage new commissioner on the action team. That's a good idea. All right. I make a motion. I'll second. I'll second. I repeat that. Yes. Second. I'll second in. Okay. I make a motion to a point for the corporate council. I use commission. I use your Gordon. Entrepreneurship council. Commissional ETC. New bold and action team. Mr. Nubald, Mr. Schegorden, Unchip Renewership, Council, Commissioner Littysha Nubald, and Action Team, Commission of Fixed Jaro Badhu. Second. Commissioner Gordon. Yes. Mr. Nubald. Yes. Mr. Badhu. Vice Mayor Arndt, Mr. Marilon again. Yes. Resolution, by title only, resolution, City Commission, C-Volkpar, Florida, pointing through members of the City Commission, be the city's representative to the Greater Fort Laudale Alliance for 2025, providing for conflict, survivor of severability, and provide for effective day. Motion of doubt. Senator. Commissioner Gordon. Yes, Commissioner Newbold. Yes, Commissioner Bedou. Yes. Vice Mayor Arns. Yes. Mayor Longan. Yes. May I, please? Mayor Lonegan. Yes. Okay. We move on to reports from the City Commission who wants to start. House, I'll start. As always, just think, think a big thank you to the residents, communities, stakeholders, business owners, just for reaching out, just helping us keep the city going and giving us all your input. We appreciate that. And I also want to say how grateful I was to attend the 5000 role model excellence at North Andrews Garden Elementary School last week with principal Coutrice Thouhart. And just a little bit about the 5,000 role model. And it was initiated by the Miami-Dade County School Board in March 1993, due to relation that there is an ongoing crisis in the lives of many young males by Congresswoman Federica S. Wilson. The project's mission is to intervene in the lives of at-risk boys in order to provide them with alternatives that will lead them away from a life of crime and violence. It was initially called the 500 role model of excellence, but due to its growth and increased enrollment, it was changed to 5000 role models of excellence. And I also want to just say how Mr. Antonio Burgess is doing such a great job with this program. He's pushing this initiative all throughout Broward County. And I let him know all times that I'm there to support, although I know it's mostly male role models that need to be up there standing, tying bow ties. But I think one year I stood with Mayor Lonergan over at records and I don't think I tied a bow tie, but I was in the lineup shaking their hands. I just think that's a great initiative. And I also want to thank former mayor and commissioner Tamara James of Daniel Beach for providing me with turkeys over Thanksgiving holiday, which I was able to give to some of the residents here in Oakland Park. I was so grateful she gave me, she texted me because she has a foundation down in Daniel Beach. And she just sent me a text and said, new bowl, I have some turkeys to give you. I don't know what to do with those turkeys and I started calling residents. They were so happy to receive those turkeys and I was so glad to be able to provide them to them. And it's a big thank you to Tamara James and her organization, her foundation. And I also want to thank Mr. Tim Smith, former commissioner, Fort Lauderdale commissioner, Tim Smith for how he has pushed the pioneer house to the way to where it is today. We were there this weekend and Just ride by take a look And Noah still has a few more things that needs to be done. He just told me today that a Central AC was just donated to the house So I'm just happy how that project has come so far since it first started. So I'm glad that communication was had by our city manager and former mayor Rosenwald. So thank you for that. The house has made tremendous progress since that conversation. And I also want to say our photographer, Mr. Michael Murphy, is going to undergo surgery soon. And Kathy, I don't want to murder her name. But she's our resident here in Oakland Park. Her restaurant is over-e easy cafe of Oakland Park Boulevard She's having a fundraiser there for Michael Murphy and is tomorrow December 5th From 10 a.m. To I believe 4 p.m. every dish bought It's going to be donated towards I believe every dish bought is going to be donated towards Michael's surgery. He's going to be out of work for a while. We haven't seen him because he's been in tremendous pain. You know, he's just been just going through, but he's been sustaining. He reaches out. But if you want to support him, please, there's a go fund me page for Michael Murphy and you can also reach out to Kathy at over easy cafe to kind of help with his medical bill. So I know he's been instrumental to us. And if you want to, there's something that the community can come together and do is show support towards Michael Murphy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you commissioner. First of all I'd like to thank all the volunteers tonight. They have put in over 15,000 hours volunteer hours which has saved the city close to $50,000 this year. So thanks to them we appreciate it every little bit helps never little bit counts. The last thing I'd like to say with two things like to tell people please if you're gonna drink over the holidays don't drive. Please just call sales or or call triple A during time. They'll tell you home. It'll be the cheapest thing you ever did. And most of the times, like cells during the holiday season with the dudes, they'll tell you home for free. So it's not worth it. It's the life you save first of all. It may not be only yours, but someone else's. And there's that other person who means a lot to their family and their friends. And so I just don't want to see any incidents like that happen. And so every year I just keep pouncing on it and how to get don't drink and drive. Second thing is, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and a happy Kwanzaa. And I'll see you next year. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. It's so excited. I want to first wish everybody a Merry Christmas. I'm a Merry Christmas man. I enjoyed this season. I was born in December 19th. I'm a turn 53. I'm a sedative terrorist and I love this month. David, I tell you um it's giving It's love it's unity We all have a common goal to love each other and I'm gonna enjoy this holiday season. I want to be drinking vice mayor Bobby eating a lot Okay, I need to gain some weight. I lost some weight during this last campaign. So I got a gain some weight. But this is the time of season for everyone to come together and be grateful of the great city of Oakland Party. I'm going to thank my chief Kavanaugh and fire chief back there. And also L.T. representing BSO. I know you keep us safe all the time and hopefully you won't get any DUIs. I want everybody being safe and coming home to parties and celebrations and be festive. Okay, I'm going to thank the staff of our great city. I love the employees of Oka Park. I mean, I was one of you guys 30-something years ago and I'm marvel each and every day. Yeah, I smile to the clerk, YouTube and all the staff back there. David, you know, you're my buddy, you know. I, you know, we good. I mean, I tell you, every time I was in that podium for the four minutes, you laugh at me, vice-man, I was always wondering, is the city manager listening to me? And not until I got this podium, I saw all the stuff he had put in motion, and he said, oh, I remember you said that months ago, but I can't show any favorite Tissue. Now I know he likes me like, I bet all the youth guys, he likes me more. The big, the big question is the real big question has to be answered with the city attorney, listen, and yes, he was. Now I really do appreciate that. You brought me back when I started off at Mammy Day County years ago. And what was valuable to employees, how we all came together to serve the public and we served it with honor and distinctly honesty. And that's why I'm here because people saw that in me and they put me here and I will not not take that for granted. So that you know in Georgia's great season I'm praying for every family so you'd be safe okay in your travels commission I'm driving that bus right Thanks, Noah Thank you so much, and that's my report My seatbelt on Thank you, Mayor Thank you, I just I forgot to tell everyone Happy holidays Merry Christmas be safe enjoy your family and just be kind to one another and give if you can. Thanks. Thank you, Commissioner. Good work. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say to you, Commissioner, but who did all, we have the best employees in this stage. I had a four-point inspection done yesterday at my home and the gentleman came in and as we started to speak he says, I told him, you're in the city of Oakland Park because he thought I was in a different city. So he says, oh, my wife and I own a home in the city of Oakland Park. And we recently had some work done. And he says, I'm going to tell you, the people at Oakland Park are so nice, so courteous, and so helpful. So kudos to the building department. They were able to get the permits, get the inspections, timely. And he said that to me and I said, guess what? I'm also a commissioner and he goes, what? Oh my God, it doesn't mean anything. Okay, so happened I'm a commissioner. And but he said that before he knew who I was so you're absolutely right. We think all of our staff members we have the best staff in this county. Thanks staff for all of the presentations tonight and I also want to thank all of the applicants for coming out tonight and speaking to us. You really spoke to our conscience and to our hearts. And as I said and as the mayor said, I wish I can distribute every last 24 applicants $10,000. It's just impossible. But I want to congratulate and say, well-deserved to those who did, who were awarded. I know that you are going to make good use of that funding. And we will continue. going to make good use of that funding. And we will continue to support these great causes, whether you received a grant or not, but you are happy people in our city. And we really appreciate that. Thank you for all of your services. I want to highlight Steve Matier who's the director of our volunteer services. What a great event that we host every year for all of those volunteers who come out to volunteer, you know, for all of these great clauses in our city, whether it's packing food for the homebound seniors or cleaning the street, cleaning the waterways or whatever it is. Whatever it is, they show up and they show out and we really appreciate that they recognize the fact that this city commission is hands on. We are involved. We don't mind jumping down in the trenches and getting our hands dirty and doing what is necessary to serve our citizens. So Steve, Mathieu, great job, Chris, Gossal, great job, and thank you to all of the volunteers. So this coming Friday is holiday village and I'm not going to take, I'm not going to take this away from the mayor because I know he's going to. This is a part of this. I'll just accent what you. Okay. I just want I'm not trying to. No. Shine. Rain on your parade. Okay. I'll take the spotlight off of you. But yeah, please join us this Friday at Pestoria's Park for our annual holiday village. Come out and celebrate the festivities with us. Everyone is welcome. You can bring your children, your seniors. There would just be so much fun, great activities for everyone to enjoy. So I'm going gonna end that. That's a food too. So absolutely, commission and new bulb is in my left ear. Say, and it's free, very good. Thank you for reminding me. It is free, that's the key word, right, free. Just wanna say be safe, everyone. Continue to embrace each other. Continue to promote human rights. It's very, very important and I'm going to say this and I'm going to close. So the theme for human rights this year, which is December 10th, correct? 2024. The theme is what we should continue to do is highlight the importance of human rights, challenge negative stereotypes and misconceptions, mobilize action to strengthen the global human rights movement, encourage individuals, communities, and governments to address human rights challenges. Thank you, good night, happy holidays. Thank you, Commissioner. I also am going to did some of what the commission had said. I do want to say congratulations to all the volunteers, when the awards are word acknowledged. And thank you actually to all the volunteers, every one of you, all 300 plus of you we appreciate it. This is volunteers were giving of their time on a Saturday or a Sunday or reading to kids at a school on a weekday. Whatever you're doing we appreciate it. And this also has to do with people who are donating supplies and donating money to helping with projects such as our historic house. Your service and donations to the city are greatly appreciated. I do want to give a real special thank you to a couple of Oakland Park businesses. And this does again relate to the historic house. There are a handful of businesses that that volunteered services and supplies to repair our Oakland Park Pioneer House. Artist Frank Polanco, he did some painting for us and of the sign. John the Greek painting located here in Oakland Park actually painted the house forest free of charge, supplies and labor, our H.I. roofing located here in Oakland Park, ripped off the old roof, put the under what would you call it under layman thon, put a whole new roof on it for free. Fixy clamp and scaffolding donated a lot of the wood we needed that needed to be replaced. Asory and glass and rask enterprises. So these companies, you know, I'm just going to say they've donated if we added up, you heard tonight well over a hundred thousand dollars so far that would have been money that our taxpayers would have had to have pulled out of their pockets. So we are so thankful. Please, please consider these local businesses when you're looking for estimates and service. Take a look at our local business. Thanks to Tim Smith and Joe Price. We appreciate your leadership with the Pioneer House. There's still a lot more to do at the Pioneer House, although it's come a long way. For those of you who don't know, the house was built in the 1930s. Currently, Tim Smith and one of our volunteers, Tammy, Phi, they're looking for any type of furniture, pictures, artifacts, or maybe even local memorabilia from the 1920s and 30s that they can add as displays into the house. So if you guys know of anything, you see something and you want to make that donation to the effort, we very much appreciate it. Again, as you've heard a couple times, small business Saturday was a huge success looking forward to seeing more of those in the future. And thank you to the two businesses that actually led the effort to get that rolling and staff that supported. As Commissioner Newbold said, the 5,000 role models of excellence tie tying event, one was at Rickard's middle school and the commissioner was with me and North Andrews Gardens Elementary School. Wonderful program. The reason I bring it up again is thanks to the staff and everyone who makes that program possible. It teaches the kids, it gives them focus, teaches them right from wrong and how to exceed, succeed. So again, thank you. As the commissioner was saying, holiday village this weekend, two important times you may want to write down, 630 is our opening lighting ceremony. So if you can be there, again, we're gonna have some music from one of the local schools and the band from Northeast High School. And then Saturday evening at 530, we have what's known as the tree decorating competition awards. So what happens is Mr. City manager do you know how many people are donating trees this year? I don't but we usually get a quite a turnout for that and it's really incredible what they do with those trees really fun. So they approximately 20 to 30 groups individuals donate trees they decorate them They put some gifts under it it goes to needy families in Oakland Park once the event is over So we have our way of saying thank you to them is we judge the trees and Saturday at 5 30 if you could be there to applaud and See who wins the award for best trees. We would appreciate it Friends of the F. L. MM Gordon, there's a used book sale, Friday and Saturday from 10 to three. So if you can come and help support the library, let's see, there is a holiday tree lighting. They're calling it the Kids Pajama Party on December 10th, and it's for the Wii Wands. It's at FLM Gordon, Oakland Park Library. Again, December 10th and it's for the Wii ones. It's at FOM Gordon Oakland Park Library. Again, December 10th at 6 o'clock PM. So if you have some your kids and you want to bring them, uh, should be a great event on Saturday, December 14th at 10 a.m. We have our Oakland Park farm share hands on volunteer food packing and delivery, uh, event going on again, that that Saturday December 14th. Check out our website if you want to learn more about it and potentially come and volunteer for that. Again keep an eye on the city website for upcoming city events. We have four days left for anyone out there who's a Medicare beneficiary. We have four days left for the Medicare open enrollment, also known as the annual election period. It ends close to business or the end of day on December 7th. So the idea is that you need to make sure you're in the appropriate Medicare plan that it's meeting your financial and your physical needs. I can tell you if you have any questions or you need some non-biased assistance or guidance, you can call the Florida Shine program. Their telephone number is 1-800-963-5337 or you can find them at floridashine.org. So again, you'll be able to choose your new plan for 1-125. You can stay in the one you're in, or you can do your homework and see if there's a better plan out there that meets your needs better. And I just want to say for qualified individuals, people that make a certain amount of money or fall within certain limits, there are two financial assistance programs that help can help reduce the cost of Medicare Part B and prescription drugs. There is going to be an incoming in-person presentation on Wednesday, December 11th. If you want to attend that or if you want to learn more about the financial assistance programs that Medicare is available called 954-745-9567. This is the final commission meeting for 2024. Our wishes for a wonderful holiday season to everyone. So that's Mary Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyce Kwanzaa. A big thank you to the entire Oakland Park team, including our BSL staff and our Oakland Park Fire Rescue team. Thank you for their hard work over the past year. Wish us for a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year to everyone. As we enter 2025, as the vice mayor said, please have a happy and safe new year's eve. But if you're going to be out and about hang up the keys call ride share, use mask transit or phone a friend, but please as a vice mayor said please don't drive drunk. I'm thankful to have my designated partners up here dedicated partners up here on the desk. We're your commission and we're honored to serve you. Our contact numbers and our emails can be found out on found out on the city website and we are always happy to hear from you even if it's a problem, even if it's a compliment, whatever you got a problem, let us know. Because I really believe together we can all take Oakland Park successfully into the future. At this time, Mr. City Manager, any final end of your comments? Goodness no, after everybody's recitations, I don't think there's anything left to say. Except thank you all very much for everything that you've done this past year. I'm looking forward to 2025. I wish everybody a happy and healthy holiday season. And I'm very excited to continue our work in Oakland Park. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. City Manager the floor is all yours. I mean Mr. City Attorney. I would only echo what the City Manager said. Thank you for the opportunity and the privilege to work with you. Represent you through the past year. You are the ultimate professionals and I wish you and your families the very best during the holiday season I look forward to seeing you in January 2025 and starting with a ambitious and productive and monumental year as The meetings in this particular building are limited. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. City Attorney, and reminder that our next commission meetings, it's off Wednesday, January 15th. So we've got quite a few weeks. There are any problems. You know how to search the city website with problems. And if you ever hit a dead end, you've got five people up here. You know our telephone numbers and our email addresses reach out to us. We appreciate it. Motion adjourned. Thank you, Vice-Man.