[{'content and time': {'timestamp': (2066.56, 2205.14), 'text': " in preparation for this project. And so this will have a playground in Pavilion, a basketball court, tennis and pickleball court, and lighting and landscaping. We do anticipate that it will be about four months after the closing on the property is when the construction will begin, so that should be some time in about early 2026. I do wanna mention there's quite a few projects that you're gonna hear are coming in late 25, early 26 in this area, so obviously, you know, we're going to stagger the city's projects, the appropriately to be able to minimize impacts to the community. Existing Fire Station 20 is another grand awarded project where we will be doing a complete hardening of the existing building. This is a door window replacement, roof replacement, and generator replacement. It's currently in the design phase. This is fully grant funded, and we anticipate starting towards the end of the year, not early next year. So City Centennial Park Phase 2, this is actually in design. We're working with our two consultants that we have on board. And so this is going to be our two parking lots. We're going to add some parking backs. And you know, we took a lot of parking away. We're going to add our performance platform, which is going to have stormwater detention system underneath that have that outdoor seating area and then we'll have our different walking trails and butterfly garden and those conceptuals will start to come forward to commission in the near future. So new fire station 20 a little different than the old ones I know I touched on the hardening of existing fire station 20 so new fire station 20 we actually had a neighborhood participation meeting last night for the development that's coming forward and so we do anticipate this is located on the southeast corner of Powerline and Prospect Road this is a public private partnership opportunity with CUBESmart developer to have our new fire station constructed as part of that development. So that is underway. If this is to come to fruition, then the existing fire station 20 will still remain for fire-administered operations per the at least agreement with Broward County. But that hardening is still going to be used to house our"}, 'keyword': 'Public private partnership'}, {'content and time': {'timestamp': (3323.96, 3685.44), 'text': " Think one they ran into and I was just wondering is there any plans to put like a flashing sign or anything there or the way is being reconstructed you know I don't know why there's so many accidents happening there. At this time I can say for the both for the phase one was the hardening we were only looking at the building proper and I'm not aware of any plans of adding any changes to the roadway but I'll defer to the city manager. No, I think that the question really is Albert's we can certainly take a look at that road and assess things there is already a fencing a barricade there to protect the building itself. I have been a couple of incidents as you are aware, but we can certainly look at signage again because that generally would be something that we would turn to the county to do some traffic engineering with us on. And if they are comfortable adding some additional signage, we certainly can undertake that. It's not a major undertaking, so it wouldn't fall into the CIP per se. But we'll see what we can do. Happy to try to improve safety on that street and every other street that we have in the city. Right. There have been incidents that are troublesome and we do our best to both facilitate the movement of vehicles safely and also to protect life and property. But we'll certainly focus on that area and bring you back report, right Albert? Thank you. I was just, I know this beautiful building is going to be here eventually and just want to make sure we secure it for us. And I believe that's all I have. So those were the only reason I was gonna put item 6 and 15. Another mention. Thank you, Commissioner. We appreciate that. Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor. Back in 2022, I was in LGA, local government academy. And that's when I first met. Back then, I think she was assistant director, Sierra Moreno. And I told the former director, I say, after the presentation, the LGA city manager, I told the former director, I say, listen, you let Sierra speak, okay? You just do your thing, technical study, but you let Sierra speak. Because when I, you know me, you know, hey, I used to be a county employee, and I know leadership is communication with what I say all the time. And I knew we had a diamond in a rough in you. Because when that bond would pass, you know 60, 35%, 65, 35. I voted for it. I supported it because I knew coming out my man cave. I said, hey, this is going to be good for the city, back in the tech. And then so I said, but when C.L. or the director sent the director back then, it imported me. We're going to get to a community center in college, I mean, in North Andrews. I said, oh, she's been watching me with my public comments. And I said, okay, she's out in the community. She's not just a technical director. She's out in the community, she live in the community, and she saw in all areas of the city what needs to be improved. And the team, her city manager's team, my good friend and I have a rest, yes. We used to work at Day County years ago. And of course the wisdom of the city manager bringing along here the open park. and she's been awesome securing the $70 million. And it's a testament of the leadership. That's why all this thing is going to do out there hold 344 employees that we have. It's a testament. I'm overwhelmed. This is great stuff. It needs to be put out by our PIO mayor to put out this information. So the residents can see what's going on throughout the city. Okay, this is real stuff. I'm glad I see the West side getting a whole lot of love, by the way. You know, security cameras and they're getting even a bridge on C Canal 13 that device mayor could just walk across canal and no worry about the alligators in there. And he'll be safe. I'm like man, again, all this stuff here. We're sorry. But I'm happy for you getting new development. I'm happy. And so the message needs to get out. And of course, we get a new downtown now see the happy face of back there of our chief chief risk taker in Oakland Park, Mr. Nourish Shashani. And we get we moving to a city hall. All with $40 million and $70 million in grant money and we still got money left over. That's good. Physical planning. Yes, YouTube, Assistant City Attorney, City Manager, Mr. Thompson, thank you, sir. Your team, up and down. My name is A. I want more. I said, I see the fire station. I like that fire station 20, and we have neighborhood participation meeting. Hopefully everybody can get a chance to listen to it but everybody liked the idea of upgrading fire station 20 and with a public private partnership. I love that. So I said myself hey what about fire station on the east side? I'm gonna put it out there. Can we get something on the east side chief to service all the residents on the east side. I could take care of the mayor and the east side up until you know federal. That'll be great. You know we can have you the emergency management of fire station do a public private partnership. You know we got stuff going on. Whatever money we have left over just want to cover the whole area."}, 'keyword': 'Public private partnership'}, {'content and time': {'timestamp': (3323.96, 3685.44), 'text': " Think one they ran into and I was just wondering is there any plans to put like a flashing sign or anything there or the way is being reconstructed you know I don't know why there's so many accidents happening there. At this time I can say for the both for the phase one was the hardening we were only looking at the building proper and I'm not aware of any plans of adding any changes to the roadway but I'll defer to the city manager. No, I think that the question really is Albert's we can certainly take a look at that road and assess things there is already a fencing a barricade there to protect the building itself. I have been a couple of incidents as you are aware, but we can certainly look at signage again because that generally would be something that we would turn to the county to do some traffic engineering with us on. And if they are comfortable adding some additional signage, we certainly can undertake that. It's not a major undertaking, so it wouldn't fall into the CIP per se. But we'll see what we can do. Happy to try to improve safety on that street and every other street that we have in the city. Right. There have been incidents that are troublesome and we do our best to both facilitate the movement of vehicles safely and also to protect life and property. But we'll certainly focus on that area and bring you back report, right Albert? Thank you. I was just, I know this beautiful building is going to be here eventually and just want to make sure we secure it for us. And I believe that's all I have. So those were the only reason I was gonna put item 6 and 15. Another mention. Thank you, Commissioner. We appreciate that. Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor. Back in 2022, I was in LGA, local government academy. And that's when I first met. Back then, I think she was assistant director, Sierra Moreno. And I told the former director, I say, after the presentation, the LGA city manager, I told the former director, I say, listen, you let Sierra speak, okay? You just do your thing, technical study, but you let Sierra speak. Because when I, you know me, you know, hey, I used to be a county employee, and I know leadership is communication with what I say all the time. And I knew we had a diamond in a rough in you. Because when that bond would pass, you know 60, 35%, 65, 35. I voted for it. I supported it because I knew coming out my man cave. I said, hey, this is going to be good for the city, back in the tech. And then so I said, but when C.L. or the director sent the director back then, it imported me. We're going to get to a community center in college, I mean, in North Andrews. I said, oh, she's been watching me with my public comments. And I said, okay, she's out in the community. She's not just a technical director. She's out in the community, she live in the community, and she saw in all areas of the city what needs to be improved. And the team, her city manager's team, my good friend and I have a rest, yes. We used to work at Day County years ago. And of course the wisdom of the city manager bringing along here the open park. and she's been awesome securing the $70 million. And it's a testament of the leadership. That's why all this thing is going to do out there hold 344 employees that we have. It's a testament. I'm overwhelmed. This is great stuff. It needs to be put out by our PIO mayor to put out this information. So the residents can see what's going on throughout the city. Okay, this is real stuff. I'm glad I see the West side getting a whole lot of love, by the way. You know, security cameras and they're getting even a bridge on C Canal 13 that device mayor could just walk across canal and no worry about the alligators in there. And he'll be safe. I'm like man, again, all this stuff here. We're sorry. But I'm happy for you getting new development. I'm happy. And so the message needs to get out. And of course, we get a new downtown now see the happy face of back there of our chief chief risk taker in Oakland Park, Mr. Nourish Shashani. And we get we moving to a city hall. All with $40 million and $70 million in grant money and we still got money left over. That's good. Physical planning. Yes, YouTube, Assistant City Attorney, City Manager, Mr. Thompson, thank you, sir. Your team, up and down. My name is A. I want more. I said, I see the fire station. I like that fire station 20, and we have neighborhood participation meeting. Hopefully everybody can get a chance to listen to it but everybody liked the idea of upgrading fire station 20 and with a public private partnership. I love that. So I said myself hey what about fire station on the east side? I'm gonna put it out there. Can we get something on the east side chief to service all the residents on the east side. I could take care of the mayor and the east side up until you know federal. That'll be great. You know we can have you the emergency management of fire station do a public private partnership. You know we got stuff going on. Whatever money we have left over just want to cover the whole area."}, 'keyword': 'Public private partnership'}, {'content and time': {'timestamp': (5762.44, 6346.14), 'text': " Ordinance is in through to the city budget and that both Tim or Tim, Heather and I are Trevor and I are bailing for our same questions. City Manager. Thank you, Albert. And Mayor, if I could please just a couple of comments. This is a preview. This is not an action item tonight. And the report has not been finalized, so it is not attached to your agenda. We hope to have that completed over the next couple of weeks and we will present it to you as soon as it is available. But we did not want a scenario in which you didn't have an understanding of the exercise that we are engaged in right now and have some anticipation of what the likelihood is with the recommendation that we will be brought forward. So we're happy to hear any of your ideas. I think we're going to have a little bit of a conversation with you. the recommendation that will be brought forward. So we're happy to hear any of your ideas, your questions, comments, and then at some point in the future we will take those under consideration and factor that in to the formal proposal and recommendation that we bring to you. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Mr. Rebier, thank you Mr Carbon, Mr. Hall, and Mr. McCarthy. I'll open it up to the commission. Vice Mayor. I got a question for Trevor. What do you anticipate the pass through is going to be for the new prospect cleaning water treatment plan? Because it's going to be, I know it's a private entity doing that with a public partnership with Fort Lauderdale. And I can't imagine that they're not going to be raising our water rates because of that. Trevor, would be right if I jumped in for that one. Yeah, please. Thanks. One thing I'd want to settle a little better. What I'd like to note is that we are within a certain customer class for Fort Lauderdale. And as they go through various changes to their infrastructure, including that potential public private partnership, they do their own rate studies. Because we are within a specific bulk user, a really master meter, right? Albert, customer class, they need to go through the same process. We go through where they allocate those costs based on that class. We do have a specific agreement with them that has terms and that includes the surcharge that they were loving that we had capped at 12.5% instead of the statutory 25%. But when we look at what they're going to end up charging us, it is still a question mark because they will look at all of their own customer classes and they will apportion those costs responsibly. And that's also a point where we is one of the few master-meter customers along with Wilton Manners and a few other jurisdictions. We do meet with them regularly with their water advisory board. We are involved with their rate studies. And we would just like last time make sure that to the extent we have the ability that we are looking at that report we are chiming in and we are providing your comments and feedback to ensure that we're not subsidizing activity but we are only paying for our appropriate costs. And what I think all good. One of the challenges with this rate study and why it's taking multiple starts and stops to get here is that because we purchase our water from Fort Lauderdale and our processing from Fort Lauderdale and Brown County, these long-term projections are a challenge because they change their rate structure based on their own needs and their own challenges and we need to accommodate that. So the City of Andrews is very accurate and this is just a recommendation. There are a lot of cost factors, but I believe about 62 to 65 percent of the entire water and wastewater fund goes strictly to those purchases. So even small changes to any of those rates dramatically affect our bottom line, which is why those recommendations are ultimately just a road map that very well might change. We might be on Google Maps and rerouted to Fort Lauderdale does something that reflects our bottom line, but it is something we'll continue to look into and monitor. Albert, do you have anything to add? I just got to believe that it's because it's a private entity running that place there for profit company. And so I have a feeling that in the near future, the rate study we're going to be approving here shortly will have to be adjusted for that. Or would that be just a pass through? That would be part of the pass through adjustment. And I will say that the pass through adjustment also, in addition to the CPI inflation adjustment, it does look at our overall operating costs. So if we go through an I and I program that reduces those sewer processing costs, we're not by default keeping those savings to ourselves. That's also adjusting that rate structure because our operating expense, that huge percentage that's the sewer processing goes down. So when we are making these investments, particularly the I and I, that has a very high rate of return, that will help us mitigate some of those cost increases. But you're 100% correct. It's a for-profit, even if the public private partnership. I will say that given some of the history of prior administrations for a lot of deal transferring some of their funding to the general fund we are used to that motive and we have worked for with them to find something stable for our own water service area customers. And with the I and I with sea levels rising now we're gonna have higher ground water levels and you know this year we've got we're in a sort of a drought but for the most part we've been in excess rainfall which means higher ground water levels which means we need to be as aggressive as possible on the I and I inflow infiltration because that is just money going right down the toilet. 100% accurate. Literally and figuratively and I'm glad that we've been able to work out and get some grants for I and I and collaboration with Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manners. Is that right, Albert? That's correct. 3P. I'm sorry. And if I could add to what Andrew has explicated, I want to note vice mayor that several years ago we renegotiated our water agreement and in that agreement we have the ability to terminate it upon notice. We have explored the alternative of looking at being provided the same resources through the county and at some point in the future should that become necessary. We certainly can and re-up those plans. When we did initially look at that possibility, the cost of that connection was prohibitive, but that may be something that we may want to revisit in the future and certainly the impact of the new treatment of the new water supply plant will potentially move us in that direction. As a codicill to the water scenario, I would also like to add that recently Albert has been successful in getting an audit to be undertaken of the wastewater system as well. And Fort Lauderdale is working on that currently. I'm regularly in touch with the Assistant City Manager there who was acting City Manager when we were able to encourage the undertaking of that audit and we anticipate that that will be available to us in the near future and that too will be insightful to help us understand where we are and what we should estimate in our future as far as costs and opportunities. So I assure you that your team is on this. We're keeping an eye and I think we have off-ramps if we need them. So thank you for the question. Yeah and I just don't want them holding us hostage with the wastewater not being allowed to move forward to any big projects because, you know, like I say, low-mire was redone probably 15-20 years ago and all the bonds were pledged for that. And I think the D base is the only base that goes to Barrow County. We may have to think about we're rounding some of the Barrow County. Absolutely, and the fact of the matter is that, they say they have no problem of proving developments in their city. And yet, when Wilton Manners or Oakland Park come forward, it becomes this tug of war. And it's a challenge, and that's why this is a large user group scenario. We think we have rights and we will enforce those rights if they become necessary. Right now we have the cooperation of the administration in fourth Lauderdale and I appreciate that partnership but we'll keep you posted about it. Albert knows that system better than anybody having run it. I agree. I agree. So we've got a bad with the institutional knowledge to take them on. So knowledge absolutely. So thank you for the questions Mayor. I'm sorry to interrupt. Thank you to the manager. Thank you Mayor. I'm happy that you brought up that alternative because we do have water being supplied to the city from the county. I'm not too sure what we just heard tonight. I want to thank you, Mr. Carbin. Thank you for the presentation."}, 'keyword': 'Public private partnership'}, {'content and time': {'timestamp': (5762.44, 6346.14), 'text': " Ordinance is in through to the city budget and that both Tim or Tim, Heather and I are Trevor and I are bailing for our same questions. City Manager. Thank you, Albert. And Mayor, if I could please just a couple of comments. This is a preview. This is not an action item tonight. And the report has not been finalized, so it is not attached to your agenda. We hope to have that completed over the next couple of weeks and we will present it to you as soon as it is available. But we did not want a scenario in which you didn't have an understanding of the exercise that we are engaged in right now and have some anticipation of what the likelihood is with the recommendation that we will be brought forward. So we're happy to hear any of your ideas. I think we're going to have a little bit of a conversation with you. the recommendation that will be brought forward. So we're happy to hear any of your ideas, your questions, comments, and then at some point in the future we will take those under consideration and factor that in to the formal proposal and recommendation that we bring to you. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Mr. Rebier, thank you Mr Carbon, Mr. Hall, and Mr. McCarthy. I'll open it up to the commission. Vice Mayor. I got a question for Trevor. What do you anticipate the pass through is going to be for the new prospect cleaning water treatment plan? Because it's going to be, I know it's a private entity doing that with a public partnership with Fort Lauderdale. And I can't imagine that they're not going to be raising our water rates because of that. Trevor, would be right if I jumped in for that one. Yeah, please. Thanks. One thing I'd want to settle a little better. What I'd like to note is that we are within a certain customer class for Fort Lauderdale. And as they go through various changes to their infrastructure, including that potential public private partnership, they do their own rate studies. Because we are within a specific bulk user, a really master meter, right? Albert, customer class, they need to go through the same process. We go through where they allocate those costs based on that class. We do have a specific agreement with them that has terms and that includes the surcharge that they were loving that we had capped at 12.5% instead of the statutory 25%. But when we look at what they're going to end up charging us, it is still a question mark because they will look at all of their own customer classes and they will apportion those costs responsibly. And that's also a point where we is one of the few master-meter customers along with Wilton Manners and a few other jurisdictions. We do meet with them regularly with their water advisory board. We are involved with their rate studies. And we would just like last time make sure that to the extent we have the ability that we are looking at that report we are chiming in and we are providing your comments and feedback to ensure that we're not subsidizing activity but we are only paying for our appropriate costs. And what I think all good. One of the challenges with this rate study and why it's taking multiple starts and stops to get here is that because we purchase our water from Fort Lauderdale and our processing from Fort Lauderdale and Brown County, these long-term projections are a challenge because they change their rate structure based on their own needs and their own challenges and we need to accommodate that. So the City of Andrews is very accurate and this is just a recommendation. There are a lot of cost factors, but I believe about 62 to 65 percent of the entire water and wastewater fund goes strictly to those purchases. So even small changes to any of those rates dramatically affect our bottom line, which is why those recommendations are ultimately just a road map that very well might change. We might be on Google Maps and rerouted to Fort Lauderdale does something that reflects our bottom line, but it is something we'll continue to look into and monitor. Albert, do you have anything to add? I just got to believe that it's because it's a private entity running that place there for profit company. And so I have a feeling that in the near future, the rate study we're going to be approving here shortly will have to be adjusted for that. Or would that be just a pass through? That would be part of the pass through adjustment. And I will say that the pass through adjustment also, in addition to the CPI inflation adjustment, it does look at our overall operating costs. So if we go through an I and I program that reduces those sewer processing costs, we're not by default keeping those savings to ourselves. That's also adjusting that rate structure because our operating expense, that huge percentage that's the sewer processing goes down. So when we are making these investments, particularly the I and I, that has a very high rate of return, that will help us mitigate some of those cost increases. But you're 100% correct. It's a for-profit, even if the public private partnership. I will say that given some of the history of prior administrations for a lot of deal transferring some of their funding to the general fund we are used to that motive and we have worked for with them to find something stable for our own water service area customers. And with the I and I with sea levels rising now we're gonna have higher ground water levels and you know this year we've got we're in a sort of a drought but for the most part we've been in excess rainfall which means higher ground water levels which means we need to be as aggressive as possible on the I and I inflow infiltration because that is just money going right down the toilet. 100% accurate. Literally and figuratively and I'm glad that we've been able to work out and get some grants for I and I and collaboration with Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manners. Is that right, Albert? That's correct. 3P. I'm sorry. And if I could add to what Andrew has explicated, I want to note vice mayor that several years ago we renegotiated our water agreement and in that agreement we have the ability to terminate it upon notice. We have explored the alternative of looking at being provided the same resources through the county and at some point in the future should that become necessary. We certainly can and re-up those plans. When we did initially look at that possibility, the cost of that connection was prohibitive, but that may be something that we may want to revisit in the future and certainly the impact of the new treatment of the new water supply plant will potentially move us in that direction. As a codicill to the water scenario, I would also like to add that recently Albert has been successful in getting an audit to be undertaken of the wastewater system as well. And Fort Lauderdale is working on that currently. I'm regularly in touch with the Assistant City Manager there who was acting City Manager when we were able to encourage the undertaking of that audit and we anticipate that that will be available to us in the near future and that too will be insightful to help us understand where we are and what we should estimate in our future as far as costs and opportunities. So I assure you that your team is on this. We're keeping an eye and I think we have off-ramps if we need them. So thank you for the question. Yeah and I just don't want them holding us hostage with the wastewater not being allowed to move forward to any big projects because, you know, like I say, low-mire was redone probably 15-20 years ago and all the bonds were pledged for that. And I think the D base is the only base that goes to Barrow County. We may have to think about we're rounding some of the Barrow County. Absolutely, and the fact of the matter is that, they say they have no problem of proving developments in their city. And yet, when Wilton Manners or Oakland Park come forward, it becomes this tug of war. And it's a challenge, and that's why this is a large user group scenario. We think we have rights and we will enforce those rights if they become necessary. Right now we have the cooperation of the administration in fourth Lauderdale and I appreciate that partnership but we'll keep you posted about it. Albert knows that system better than anybody having run it. I agree. I agree. So we've got a bad with the institutional knowledge to take them on. So knowledge absolutely. So thank you for the questions Mayor. I'm sorry to interrupt. Thank you to the manager. Thank you Mayor. I'm happy that you brought up that alternative because we do have water being supplied to the city from the county. I'm not too sure what we just heard tonight. I want to thank you, Mr. Carbin. Thank you for the presentation."}, 'keyword': 'Public private partnership'}]