8.d. TR13595 - Approval of an Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property to Acquire 4949 N. State Road 7

[8.e. TR13596 - Acceptance of LOI and Authorization to Execute Contract for Sale and Purchase with Medalist Restaurant Group, LLC for City Owned Vacant Parcel, located on the North side of Commercial Boulevard, 280 feet West of NW 82nd Avenue ]

WE ARE ONE THREE FIVE NINE SIX ACCEPTANCE OF ALAOUI AND AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE CONTRACT FOR SALE METAL GROUP LLC FOR THE FAKE ID PORTAL LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD 280 WEST NORTHWEST EIGHTY SECOND AVENUE.

TO THE ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE TITLE OF THE RECORD.

THANK YOU MADAM. IRRESOLUTION CITY COMMISSIONER SEEM TO HAVE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF INTENT OTHERWISE IN NEGOTIATING THE CONTRACT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE.

WE KNOW THIS RESTAURANT GROUP LLC TO FACILITATE THE SALE AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT POINT SIX SEVEN ACRES. REAL PROBABLY NO KADO.

NO SIGN OF COMMERCIAL, BUT OF UP TO 2000 ACRE FEET WEST OF NORTHWEST SECOND AVENUE, KNOWN AS PORTION OF ABOUT THREE BLOCKS.

SEVENTH LARGEST COMMERCIAL SUBDIVISION AS PARTICULAR AS EXHIBIT A TESTER TO INCORPORATE IT IN A CONFLICT AND SELL BUILDING BLOCK FOR EFFECTIVE DATE DEVELOPMENT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MOTION THE SECOND.

SO I MOVED BACK.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISS CALLOWAY, OUR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HAS A PRESENTATION UP BEFORE US IS PRISTINE.

FOR THE RECORD, MAXINE CALHOUN, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AS MENTIONED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY IN THE TRAINLOADS BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING, IS THE PURCHASE OF PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, WHICH IS ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FEET WEST OF NORTHWEST 80 SECOND AVENUE.

AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE, THE PROPERTY IS ZONED AND MUJI AND IT'S LOCATED AGAIN ON WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

JUST SOME HISTORY ON THIS PROPERTY BECAUSE I KNOW, I KNOW IT'S VERY FAMILIAR TO YOU.

IT'S ON NOVEMBER TWENTY TEN.

THE CITY ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY AT THE TIME FOR ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

AND THEN NOVEMBER TWENTY TWENTY WE RECEIVED AN INQUIRY REGARDING THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY FROM THE BUYER'S AGENT, WHICH IS OUR S REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, UPON RECEIVING THAT INQUIRY.

AND WE WENT AHEAD AND COMMISSIONER TO APPRAISALS.

AND THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH OUR CODE.

SECTION SIX, DASH ONE FIFTY SIX TWO.

AND THOSE APPRAISALS WERE DONE BY MILLER APPRAISAL GROUP INC AND VAN'S REAL ESTATE SERVICES AND IT YIELDED FIVE.

TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND WAS THE FIRST APPRAISAL AND FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY THOUSAND.

AND SO IN MARCH ONE OF THE BUYER, WHICH IS MEGALITHS RESTAURANT GROUP SUBMITTED, SUBMITTED A LETTER OF INTENT WHICH IS IN YOUR BACKUP AND IN YOUR PACKET FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY FOR FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING A CULVERS RESTAURANT WITH DRIVE THRU SERVICE.

SO, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE PROPERTY, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WITH OCCUPY TWO PARCELS AS SEEN ON THE SLIDE, SO IT WOULD OCCUPY THE CITY OWNED PARCEL, WHICH IS POINT SIX, SEVEN ACRES, AND THEN A PRIVATELY OWNED PARCEL, WHICH IS ONE SIX NINE ACRES, WOULD BE COMBINED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE RESTAURANT THAT'S BEING PROPOSED.

THE PRIVATE AND PRIVATELY OWNED PARCEL IS CURRENTLY BEING NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT WITH A PRIVATE PROPERTY COMPANY SO THAT THE PROPOSED BUYER COULD COMBINE THE PROPERTIES.

SO I JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CULVERS RESTAURANT, THEY'RE PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED AMERICAN CASUAL FAST FOOD RESTAURANT CHAIN.

THEY OPERATE ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES WITH SEVENTY FOUR OF THOSE LOCATIONS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

THEY'RE MORE WIDELY KNOWN IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN AREAS OF FLORIDA WHERE THEY'RE COOKED TO ORDER BURGERS AND FOR FROZEN CUSTARD.

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THEIR FIRST AND ONLY BROWARD COUNTY LOCATION IS CURRENTLY IN MARGATE.

WE KNOW FROM AN ARTICLE WE READ, I THINK TODAY THAT THEY HAVE ANOTHER PROPOSED LOCATION IN CULVER CITY AND, OF COURSE, THE DESIRE TO EXPAND THEIR BRAND HERE IN THE BROWARD REGION AND OF COURSE, HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

AND THIS IS JUST AN IMAGE JUST SHOWING YOU WHAT THE LOCATIONS LOOK LIKE, THIS IS THE TOP IMAGES, THEIR LOCATION IN NEWPORT RICHEY AND THE OTHER ONE IS, OF COURSE, CLAREMONT, FLORIDA. AND SO IN TERMS OF NEXT STEPS HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY TO JUST ACCEPT BROADLY THE TERMS IN THE ILLAWARRA AND TO ASK FOR YOU TO AUTHORIZE US TO GO AHEAD AND NEGOTIATE A FORMAL PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT THAT PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT UPON NEGOTIATION, OF COURSE, AND ONCE IT'S FINALIZED, WOULD COME BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL.

JUST WANT TO TALK TO YOU BRIEFLY ABOUT SOME OF THE TERMS WE EXPECT TO HAVE INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT.

IT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH SOME OF THE TERMS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE ALAWI'S.

SO IT WOULD HAVE SOME CONDITION PRECEDENT TO CLOSE IN, SUCH AS A DEPOSIT.

THERE'S AN INSPECTION PERIOD AND APPROVAL PERIOD, AND THEN THE ENTITLEMENT OF THE PROPERTY THAT WOULD OCCUR PRIOR TO CLOSING.

ON THE PHONE TONIGHT IS ERIC PIERCE, WHO IS THE CULVERS FRANCHISEE WHO WAS ON AS WELL AS MICHAEL WEISS IS THE BUYER'S REPRESENTATIVE.

THEY'RE BOTH AVAILABLE AND ON THE CALL TONIGHT.

DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE DIRECTED TO THEM? AND THAT WAS MY PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

BEFORE WE GO TO THE COMMISSION.

CITY CLERK. IS THERE ANYONE ON THE LINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM? I DO NOT HAVE ANYBODY TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I HAVE THE VICE MAYOR AND THEN COMMISSIONER PLACKO ON DECK.

CAN WE GET SOME RENDERINGS OF SAMPLES OF SOME RENDERINGS VERSUS JUST ONE OR TWO, LIKE JUST MULTIPLE, SO THAT WE KNOW THAT IT FITS RIGHT INTO DISTRICT TWO AND COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH TAMARAC VILLAGE AND ALL THAT, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE JUST MORE THAN ONE, TWO OR THREE RENDERINGS, BUT A FEW OF THEM.

WELL, MORE THAN A FEW, I GUESS, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

YEAH, WE CAN GET YOU A FEW MORE, JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY MUCH CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE SHOWED TONIGHT.

BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS A PART OF THE ENTITLEMENT PROCESS, THE APPLICANT SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO ACCEPT THE LETTER OF INTENT AND TO AUTHORIZE US TO NEGOTIATE A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT. A PART OF THE ENTITLEMENT PROCESS INCLUDES A STIPEND APPROVAL SAID THAT WOULD COME BEFORE YOU FOR YOU TO SEE THE DESIGN, THE PLACEMENT ON THE PROPERTY, THE CONFIGURATION AND EVERYTHING ELSE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF OF THE PROPERTY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. PLACKO. YES, MAXINE, CAN YOU TELL ME, IS THE SALE OF OUR PIECE OF PROPERTY CONTINGENT ON THEM BUYING THE ONE RIGHT NEXT TO IT SO WE CAN DO THAT? THE SALE AND PURCHASE THE AUTHORIZATION THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR TONIGHT WILL ALLOW US TO NEGOTIATE A PURCHASE AND SALE.

AND AS A PART OF THAT AGREEMENT, WHICH WILL COME BACK BEFORE YOU, WE CAN DO THAT.

WE CAN ASK IT CONTINGENT ON THAT AS WELL.

SO WE CAN INCLUDE THAT. I JUST WOULD WANT TO BE SURE THAT THAT'S THE PLAN THAT WOULD HELP WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THE PIECE OF PROPERTY SO THAT IT COULD NOT BE CONSTRUCTED.

YES. AND CLOSING OFF THE PROPERTY HAPPENS AFTER IS ENTITLED.

SO THAT WOULD MEAN THEY WOULD HAVE TO SECURE THE OTHER PARTIES WILL GO THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS AND TITLE THE PROPERTY PRIOR TO CLOSING.

OK, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. I AM NOT SEEING ANY OTHER HANDS ON THIS.

I'M GOING TO ASK THIS CITY CLERK TO CALL, YEAH, COMMISSIONER PLACKO COMMISSIONER BOLTON COMMISSIONER GELIN.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. YES, AND VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, FINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW MOVING TO EIGHT F TO OUR ONE THREE FIVE NINE ZERO,

[8.f. TR13590 - Supporting Marcus Garvey Exoneration ]

ACCORDING TO MARK GARVEY.

EXONERATION CITY CLERK, PLEASE.

FOR THE RECORD, CITY ATTORNEY, I COULD SEE A RESOLUTION OF CITY COMMISSIONER CITY TO MY FLOOR TO SUPPORT THE HOUSE RESOLUTION NUMBER 148 OF THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REQUESTED EXONERATION. NO MORE DISTRIBUTION OF CONFLICTS IN EFFECT.

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I MEAN, THE SLUM OF SECOND.

THIS ITEM WAS INTRODUCED BY TWO COMMISSIONERS, BOLTON AND GELIN.

I'M GOING TO ASK FOR A LIMITED PRESENTATION, AND I'LL REMIND YOU, AS YOU ARE PRESENTING, THERE WILL BE NO ADDITIONAL NEED FOR COMMENTS AFTERWARDS UNLESS YOU'RE ASKING QUESTIONS OF WE'RE BEING ASKED QUESTIONS ON THE MATTER, PLEASE.

SO SEE. REPRESENTATION, GENTLEMEN, THERE'S NO PRESENTATION, THIS ITEM WAS REQUESTED BY MANER HAZEL ROGERS FROM THE CITY OF AUDIT LAKES.

THIS ITEM IS BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

BUT THOSE OF YOU DON'T KNOW MARCUS GARVEY, THE JAMAICAN WHO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND LED A MOVEMENT TO CONVINCE AFRICAN-AMERICANS THAT THEY WERE NOT GOING TO BE TREATED FAIRLY OR EQUALLY OR EQUITABLY HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THAT WE SHOULD GO BACK TO AFRICA LED A MOVEMENT TO TRANSITION AMERICANS, BLACK AMERICANS, TO LIBERIA IN WEST AFRICA. AND HE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN TRANSITIONING A FEW PEOPLE, A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF PEOPLE. AND THEN HE WAS ARRESTED ON SOME FRAUDULENT MAIL FRAUD OR SOME TRUMPED CHARGES THAT THEY MADE UP ARREST THEM AND DEPORTED DEPORTED HIM.

SO, OF COURSE, NOW WE LEARN THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE ALL FALSE CHARGES.

AND SO NOW THIS IS JUST AN EFFORT TO EXONERATE HIS NAME AND GIVE HIM THE CREDIT THAT HE'S DULY DESERVING AND GIVE THE RECOGNITION THAT HE DESERVES.

SO THIS IS REALLY IN SUPPORT OF THE JAMAICAN COMMUNITY.

MARCUS GARVEY, HIS FAMILY, AND MAYOR HAZEL ROGERS OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, WHO WAS ALSO A JAMAICAN WOMAN. SO SHE ASKED US TO BRING THIS ITEM BEFORE THE COMMISSION AND GET THE SUPPORT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

THANK YOU, AS THIS IS ALSO BEING INTRODUCED BY COMMISSIONER BOLTON, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH TO ASK? NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I WILL NOW ASK IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS.

OK, I'M NOT TAKING ANY COMMENTS FROM OUR AND.

CITY PARK WAS FALDERAL MAYOR GOMEZ DE COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

YES, TAMARA VILLALOBOS, YES, MR. PLACKO, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YES, HELLO.

THE PATH IS FOUR TO ONE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'RE NOW MOVING TO.

A MOTION TO RECONSIDER TIER ONE THREE FIVE EIGHT TWO APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT WITH TECH

[8.g. Motion to reconsider - TR13582 Approval of the Agreement with Techgroupone Inc. for Sunset Point Park Artistic Structure ]

GROUP ONE, INC FOR SUNSET POINT PARK ARTISTIC STRUCTURE.

FOR THE RECORD, YES, THE RESOLUTION SAID COMMISSIONER EVERY TIME I AFTER ONE RFP, NUMBER TWENTY ELEVEN, ALL UP TO TECHNIK GROUP, WANT AN IMPROVING EXECUTION, AGREED BETWEEN A TIMER TECH GROUP ONE AND ATTACH IT TO AS EXHIBIT A TO PROVIDE DESIRED GOOD SERVICE TO SUNSET HAMET ARTISTIC WORK PROJECT AT SUNSET PARK AT ELEVEN THOUSAND WEST MACNAB.

AM I AN AMOUNT OF SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY TWO DOLLARS AND NINE CENTS. OTHERWISE, INCLUSION IS TO CONTROL CONTINUOUSLY IN THE PROJECT AMOUNT OF SEVENTY SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR AND TWENTY ONE SETS FOR CONFLICTS.

SO REALLY PROVIDE FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

WE ARE GOING TO FIRST HANDLE THIS AS A G AND THIS IS COMMISSIONER GALAN'S MOTION TO RECONSIDER. COMMISSIONER GUNN.

YEAH, MOTION TO RECONSIDER.

IS THERE A SECOND FOR HIS MOTION TO RECONSIDER? YES, WE'VE GOT TWO SECONDS, BOLTON IS ON THE TABLE.

THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS SITTING DOWN TO THE CAPTAIN'S FATHER, ALL THEIR GOMEZ, THEIR VILLALOBOS.

NO, COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

YES. COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, THE MOTION PASSES FOUR TO ONE.

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AND AS CITY ATTORNEY HAS ALREADY READ THE TITLE FOR HHG INTO THE RECORD, WHICH IS PART OF

[8.h. TR13582 - Approval of the Agreement with Techgroupeone Inc. for the Sunset Point Park Artistic Structure ]

TIER ONE THREE FIVE EIGHT TWO, WE WILL NOW PROCEED TO ASK FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND OR THE ACTUAL ITEM MOTION TO APPROVE THE ITEM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. GALLOWAY. DO YOU HAVE YOUR AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS? AND THE MAYOR DELIVERED A PRESENTATION AT THE LAST MEETING, IT IS AVAILABLE SHOULD YOU DESIRE TO SEE IT AGAIN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I BELIEVE IN OUR WORKSHOP, WE JUST HAD A LITTLE REVIEW OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT AGAIN.

AND AS SUCH, I WILL NOW ASK THE CITY CLERK, ARE THERE IS THERE ANYBODY SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? I DON'T HAVE ANYONE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY HAND WAS RAISED AND THEN THE GELIN IS ON THE.

I KNOW I BROUGHT THIS UP LAST TIME AND COMMISSIONER AND GUNN SAID THAT IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO BRING THIS UP TO OUR RESIDENTS, BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT EVERY TIME WE DO AN ART PIECE, IF THE RESIDENTS IF IT'S ON A PAMPHLET, IT'S ON THE TAMRAT GRAM ANYWHERE THAT SHOULD BE NOTED AND CLEARLY THAT THEY CAN READ IT, THAT IT IS NOT A CITY TAX DOLLARS. AND EVEN THOUGH SOME PEOPLE DO SEE IT AS FEDERAL MONEY, WHICH WE ALL PAY INTO, IT IS GRANTS ALLOCATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ART, THE SAME WAY FUNDS ARE ALLOCATED TO SCIENCE, TO TO HISTORY, TO ANYTHING ELSE.

THE FUNDS ARE ALLOCATED TO THIS ART STUFF THAT WE DO NOT CONTROL.

IT COMES BEFORE US TO VOTE ON FROM THE ART COMMITTEE.

AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE LETTING THE RESIDENTS KNOW THIS IS NOT CITY TAX DOLLARS. MAYBE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, JUST ONE PERCENT OF IT FOR CONTINGENCIES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT I'M NOT CLEAR ON THAT EITHER.

WOULD YOU LIKE GALLOWAY TO CLARIFY THAT FOR YOU? NO, IT'S OK.

OK, THANK YOU.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. I WOULD LIKE THE PLANNING DIRECTOR TO CLARIFY THAT THERE IS A GRANT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS, AND IF SO, WHAT IS THE GRANT AMOUNT THAT THE CITY WILL RECEIVE? I BELIEVE YOU SAID IT WAS FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS THAT THAT'S CORRECT, COMMISSIONER THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION GRANT IS ALREADY AWARDED THE CITY FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TOWARDS THIS PROJECT.

WE EXPECT TO BRING THAT AGREEMENT TO YOU AS SOON AS IT'S SENT TO US.

SO THAT'S IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS THEY'RE RUNNING BEHIND.

WE WERE EXPECTING TO BRING THAT TO YOU BEFORE NOW, BUT THEY'RE RUNNING A BIT LATE.

WE ALSO HAVE AN APPLICATION TO THE CULTURAL FACILITIES GRANT.

WE HAVE BEEN RANKED AND WE HAVE BEEN RANKED, I BELIEVE, NUMBER TWENTY ONE.

BUT THIS IS OUT OF ABOUT 40 SOMETHING APPLICATIONS.

WE WILL KNOW IN JUNE WHETHER WE WILL BE GIVEN THE THREE AN ADDITIONAL THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TOWARDS THIS PROJECT.

AND SO IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THE PUBLIC ART FUNDS WOULD ONLY PAY SEVENTY THREE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO DOLLARS TOWARDS THIS PROJECT. OK, A QUESTION FOR THE CITY CLERK AND OR THE P.

O ARE THE MEETINGS THAT WE HOLD PUBLIC FOR THE PUBLIC.

IF I MAY, MADAM MAYOR.

YES, YES, THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE MEETINGS ARE ACTUALLY STREAMED LIVE IN THE CITY AND ON THE CITY COMMISSIONER MEETINGS PUBLIC.

YES, AND CITY MANAGER, YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WHEN I FIRST CAME ON BOARD, I SENT AN EMAIL GO OUT TO RESIDENTS ALERTING THEM THAT A MEETING IS COMING UP.

AND I BELIEVE THE CITY AND THAT.

CORRECT. I'M SORRY.

YES, IT IS COMMISSIONER.

AND DO WE ANNOUNCE THAT A MEETING IS COMING UP ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES AS WELL, INCLUDING FACEBOOK? I BELIEVE THAT WE DO COMMISSIONER, BUT I'LL DEFER TO ANY SUGGESTIONS ON. OK.

YOU'RE YOU YOU NEED TO CONFIRM WITH WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER THAT, YES, WE DO.

OK. SO FOR THE VICE MAYOR, HOW DO YOU SUGGEST THAT WE INFORM VOTERS OR RESIDENTS THAT WE HAVE A MEETING GOING ON IN PUBLIC AREN'T FUN BECAUSE IT DOES COST MONEY TO COMMUNICATE.

SO WE ARE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE.

THAT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO COMMUNICATE.

THE CITY IS DOING THAT AND HAS HAVE BEEN DOING THAT.

AND SO ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE CITY TO DO MORE IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATING WITH THE RESIDENTS? I MEAN, IF WE'RE COMMUNICATING, THEN I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, THAT'S ALL. OK.

THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS FOR ME.

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YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT THEY KNOW ABOUT THE ART FUND AND LETTING THEM KNOW IT'S NOT COMING FROM TAX DOLLARS.

IS THERE IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SUGGEST THAT WE DO? NOT YET, SIR, THANK YOU, THOUGH.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. SO THE CITY IS DOING A GOOD JOB COMMUNICATING TO RESIDENTS THAT THERE IS AN ART COMMITTEE THEY CAN SIT IN ON OUR COMMITTEE.

WE INFORM THEM THAT COMMISSIONER MEETINGS ARE COMING UP.

THE AGENDA IS PUBLICLY ADVERTISED.

SO IT IS UP TO RESIDENTS TO BE INFORMED.

A LOT OF RESIDENTS DON'T WANT TO BE INFORMED.

THEY VOTE FOR US. THEY EXPECT US TO REPRESENT THEIR INTERESTS AND THEIR ISSUES, AND WE VOTE ON THEM. AND IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEM.

AND I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT GETTING VOTER SUPPORT ON EVERY SINGLE ITEM ON THE AGENDA. ALMOST NOTHING WOULD GET PASSED.

SO THANK YOU. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.

NOW YOU CAN GO TO GUNN, PLACKO.

THANK YOU, AT THE ART COMMITTEE MEETING LAST WEEK, ONE OF THE MEMBERS CAME UP WITH A SUGGESTION BECAUSE SHE ACTUALLY DOES LISTEN TO WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY.

SO THAT MAY BE A SUGGESTION THAT WILL WORK AS WELL, ALTHOUGH I DON'T HONESTLY KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY GO TO ALL OF OUR SCULPTURES AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

I KNOW I TALK ABOUT IT, SO I THINK PEOPLE KNOW.

I KNOW. SO.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. I HAVE GONE FOR THE SECOND ROUND FOR VICE MAYOR AND THEN COMMISSIONER GELIN, THIS IS A QUESTION FOR MR. CERNECH MANAGER.

THIS IS A QUESTION THAT I GET VERY OFTEN.

WHY CAN'T WE OR WHY SHOULD WE OR HOWEVER YOU WANT TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, ALLOCATE THE FUNDS THAT WE GET FROM THE DEVELOPERS TO GO INTO OTHER MEANS OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS ART, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN ANSWER, BECAUSE THAT'S A QUESTION I DO GET ASKED A LOT. AND JUST SO WE CAN HAVE IT FOR THE RECORD.

THANK YOU. SURE.

I THINK THE SIMPLEST WAY TO ANSWER THAT ADVICE IS TO SAY THAT YOU CAN IMPOSE IMPACT FEES ON NEW DEVELOPMENT IF YOU CAN ESTABLISH A NEXUS BETWEEN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT AND THE SERVICE THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO FUND.

SO, FOR INSTANCE, PUBLIC ART IS IS GENERATED AS A AS A WAY TO ENHANCE THE COMMUNITY FROM THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT.

TRAFFIC TRAFFIC ISSUES CAN BE IMPOSED TO FUND WITH IMPACT FEES.

AS FAR AS I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, COULD COULD COULD BEAUTIFICATION BE FUNDED WITH SOME OF THOSE OTHER THINGS BE FUNDED? I THINK THAT THE ANSWER IS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO STUDY THAT TO THE LEGALITY OF IT AND THEN GET BACK TO YOU.

IF, IN FACT, THERE WAS A NEXUS BETWEEN NEW DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCED BEAUTIFICATION AND ADVISE YOU HAVE AN IMPACT FEE WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO FUND SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

ARE YOU ARE SATISFIED? GOOD, THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YES, I BELIEVE WE HAD A NAMING CONTEST OF SOME SORT FOR THE ARK AT THE NEW FIRE STATION FOR THAT DALMATIAN, AND DURING THE WORKSHOP I THINK THERE WERE SEVEN PEOPLE THAT RESPONDED. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A TOTAL OF NINE SUBMITTALS.

HOWEVER, WE HAD TO DISQUALIFY TWO.

SO ONLY SEVEN WOULD BE MOVING FORWARD FOR SELECTION TO THE PUBLIC.

ME. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WAS USED TO SECURE FEEDBACK? IF YOU DON'T MIND, I THINK I'LL DEFER TO YOUR NIECE.

SHE'S THE ONE THAT DEVELOPED THE VERY THE VERY NICE FLIER THAT WENT OUT.

AND I KNOW THAT SHE PUT A LOT OF EFFORT IN GETTING IT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO I'LL DEFER TO HER. YES.

GOOD EVENING, WE'VE HAD AN ONGOING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE THIS, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY, PROBABLY FOR THE LAST MONTH.

IT'S TARGETING FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADERS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.

SO WE'VE ALSO WORKED WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT TO CONTACT THE LOCAL SCHOOLS AND REACH OUT TO OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS TO HELP US TO REINFORCE THAT MESSAGING INTO LOCAL SCHOOLS.

SO WE HAVE GOING TO THE SCHOOLS DIRECTLY AND AND COMMUNICATE THE MESSAGE.

BUT PRIMARILY WE'VE BEEN PROMOTING IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

WE ALSO HAVE PROMOTION FOR THIS PARTICULAR CONTEST ON OUR CITY'S WEBSITE, HOME PAGE, OK? AND DESPITE THE TREMENDOUS EFFORTS, WE ONLY HAVE THE NINE SUBMITTALS, CORRECT? YES, OK.

SO, AGAIN, IT DEMONSTRATES THAT THE CITY DOES MAKE AN EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO THE

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COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THEY KNOW EVERYTHING IS PUBLIC.

AND YET WE GET VERY FEW SO FAR AS THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AS REPRESENTATIVE.

IT'S OUR JOB, OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

BUT WE CAN'T SECURE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR EVERY SINGLE ITEM ON THE AGENDA TO GET THEIR OPINION AND MAKE OUR VOTES THAT WE'RE HIRED TO VOTE ON THEIR BEHALF.

SO THAT'S MY POINT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT.

BOTH MEN KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOLS HAVE SENT OUT EMAILS BECAUSE I GET SOME OF THEM.

AND I KNOW THAT.

I KNOW FOR MYSELF.

I KNOW I SENT IT OUT AS WELL.

I'M PRETTY SURE THAT OTHERS ON THE COMMISSION HAVE SENT IT OUT TO THEIR PEOPLE AS WELL.

SO WE DO THE BEST WE CAN.

AND WE ALSO HAVE I JUST HAVE TO GIVE A LITTLE HISTORY.

WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM SINCE TWENTY FOURTEEN.

I KNOW COMMISSIONER, PLACKO AND I WERE UP IN D.C.

ONE TIME OVER THERE FOR THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES AND WE MET WITH THE NATIONAL I'M GOING TO SCREW UP THE ACRONYM BUT FOR THE ARTS AND TRYING TO GET MONEY FOR THIS AND OTHER THINGS IN OUR CITY FOR GRANTS.

AND I BELIEVE THAT'S HOW SOME OF THE MONEY CAME IN ON THE ORIGINAL FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND THIS ITEM PARTICULARLY.

YES, IT IS A BIG LIFT.

I AM HOPEFUL THAT THE THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT WILL COME THROUGH.

BUT THE CITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAYING, AS THE COMMISSION HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAYING OVER THE YEARS, WE WANT SOMETHING AT THE DESTINATION.

AND IN MY OPINION, WHILE THIS ITEM IS A LITTLE SMALLER THAN IT ORIGINALLY WAS, IT IS A DESTINATION. IT IS A WAY TO GET PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR PARKS.

IT IS A WAY TO SEE OVER TO THE EVERGLADES.

IT IS A WAY FOR KIDS TO YOUNG AND ART THROUGH OUR SCHOOLS TO BE ABLE TO COME TO THE CLASSROOMS AND SIT THERE AND DRAW AND SEE OVER TO THE EVERGLADES, ALSO SEE THE FLORA AND FAUNA STUFF THAT THAT WILL BE OUT THERE.

AND I DO THINK THAT IT IS GOING TO BE QUITE AMAZING, EVEN IN THESE SMALLER CAPACITY THAN WHICH IS REALLY THE ORIGINAL DESIGN.

AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE EFFORT THAT HAS GONE ON, I GUESS, OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS TO TRY TO GET THIS TO COME TO FRUITION.

SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SHARE MY COMMENTS AND I WILL NOW CALL THE WORLD.

SO. YES, THANK YOU, MR. BOLTON. YES, THANK YOU, MR. PLACKO. YES.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YES, YES, AND VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, NO EMOTION PASSES FOUR TO ONE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW GOING TO SEE ARE ONE THREE SIX OUT EXPENDITURES.

[8.i. TR13607 - Approval of LETF Expenditures]

CITY ATTORNEY PLANS WITH THE TITLE FOR THE RECORD, YES, IT WAS NICE TO SEE COMMISSIONER CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, ITEMIZING APPROPRIATION OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY NINE DOLLARS FOR STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRST ONE FOR PROVISIONAL FUNDING, JUST LIKE LEVENT AND CONTROVERSIAL INITIATIVE AUTHORIZED TODAY IN TERMS OF PARKS AND RECREATION ON THE AMOUNT OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY NINE FROM APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE SECOND EVENT AUTHORIZED APPROPRIATION OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY NINE FOR CONFLICTS.

ONE OFFICER WILL RUN FOR EFFECT.

TODAY IS VERY MUCH PROMOTION IN SECOND PLACE.

SO A SECOND.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS IS AN ITEM THAT WAS REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER GELIN.

ACCORDING TO THIS, DO YOU HAVE ANY PRESENTATION? I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER CAPTAIN CIRMINIELLO MAY HAVE SOME COMMENTS OR PRESENTATIONS, I'M NOT SURE. CAPTAIN, I DO NOT HAVE A PRESENTATION, BUT THIS THESE FUNDS WERE LOOKING FOR PERMISSION TO SEND TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION FIBER ONESIE, ANTICIPATING THE PURCHASE OF 50 BICYCLE HELMETS AND 50 BICYCLES FOR AT RISK CHILDREN THAT WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH LOCAL SCHOOLS.

PRINCIPALS WITH THE HELP OF COMMISSIONER, GELIN AND THE LEVEL UP GROUP.

WE ARE ENDORSING THIS FOR A CRIME PREVENTION METHOD INDOORS ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SHERIFF. THANK YOU.

AND I'D JUST LIKE TO ASK THE CITY ATTORNEY TO GIVE SOME BACKGROUND ON THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUNDS AND THE STATE LAW THAT MANDATES 25 PERCENT EXPENDITURES ANNUALLY. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.

ALL THESE FUNDS ARE BASICALLY FUNDS THAT ARE CAPTURED BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT BASICALLY I'LL CATCH IT THROUGH FORFEITURE OF ASSETS, ALL MONETARY ASSETS FROM CRIMES THAT ARE COMMITTED IN BROWARD COUNTY AND THE STATE LAW.

UNDER FLORIDA STATE LAW, THE CITY OR THE BSA IS REQUIRED TO SPEND AT LEAST 25 PERCENT

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OF THE FUNDS PER YEAR, AND THAT'S MANDATED BY STATE LAW.

AND AND GELIN, THANK YOU FOR COMMISSIONER GELIN.

THANK YOU. SO ESSENTIALLY, I WANTED TO KNOW, SINCE I'VE GOTTEN HERE, I'VE SPOKEN TO STAFF ABOUT PUTTING TOGETHER A COPS AND COMMUNITY PROGRAM OR COPS AND COMMUNITY BIKE RIDE, WHICH OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE.

AND ONCE I LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND AND ITS PURPOSE, I REALIZE THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THESE FUNDS TO NOT ONLY JUST PURCHASE BIKES FOR KIDS BECAUSE THE GOAL IS NOT TO JUST PURCHASE BIKES FOR KIDS AND THEN NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN, BUT TO CREATE A MENTORSHIP AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

AND THE GOAL IS CRIME PREVENTION, WHICH IS MANDATED BY THE STATE LAW IN TERMS OF THE PURPOSE OF THE USE OF THE FUNDS.

AND SO WHAT I'VE DONE IS I REACHED OUT TO THE PRINCIPAL OF SURROUNDING SCHOOLS WHERE TAMARAC RESIDENTS RESIDE, INCLUDING BOLTON AND SANDPIPER HIGH SCHOOL, TARABELLA HIGH SCHOOL, LAINIO MIDDLE SCHOOL CHALLENGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND TERREMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

AND BECAUSE THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUNDS ARE SEIZED FROM THE CITY OF TAMARAC, ONLY TERREMARK RESIDENTS CAN BE RECIPIENTS OF THE FUNDS.

AND SO I'VE ASKED THESE PRINCIPLES TO IDENTIFY EITHER A DISADVANTAGED YOUTH OR THOSE CLASSIFIED AS AT RISK YOUTH TO RECEIVE A FREE BICYCLE AND A FREE HELMET.

AND AS A CONDITION, THEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN A MENTORSHIP AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITH MYSELF, ALONG WITH BEING SO TO BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLICE OFFICERS AND THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT A LOT OF MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS NOW, YOU GO INTO A ROOM, YOU SIT DOWN, OFFICERS COME IN, AND IT'S IT'S NOT A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT.

SO IF YOU GET PEOPLE ON BIKES, YOU CREATE MORE OF A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT.

AND THIS GOES IN LINE WITH THE VIEW.

REMEMBER LAST YEAR WE APPROVED SOME EXPENDITURES IN OUR BUDGET TO HELP HOUSEHOLD PURCHASE A FEW BIKES SO THEY CAN BE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY MORE.

AND SO THE GOAL THAT I HAVE IN MIND IS TO GET, AGAIN, COPS AND COMMUNITY TOGETHER ON BIKES PROVIDE MENTORSHIP.

AND ALSO THIS COULD BE A RECRUITING GROUND FOR KIDS WHO MAY WANT TO BE POLICE OFFICERS.

SO INSTEAD OF PAYING ATTENTION TO ALL THE NEGATIVE NEWS THAT WE SEE IN THE PRESS, KIDS CAN ACTUALLY BE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH POLICE OFFICERS AND VIEW THEM AS REAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE WIVES AND HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND UNDERSTAND THAT NOT ALL POLICE OFFICERS ARE LIKE THOSE THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS MOST RECENTLY.

SO I REACHED OUT TO ALL THE PRINCIPALS.

THEY'RE ALL EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.

TALK TO THE SHERIFF, THE CAPTAIN AND EVERYONE ALL DOWN.

AND THEY'RE ALL IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM.

AND WE JUST NEED YOUR VOTE TO APPROVE THE FUNDS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

AND IN TERMS OF THE EXPENDITURES, AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE A BIG EVENT COMING UP AND WE'VE GONE TO SOME BIKE SHOPS TO GET THEM TO SPONSOR.

AND ONE OF THE BIKE SHOPS SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DONATE FUNDS, BUT I MAY BE I MAY BE ABLE TO DONATE HELMET'S OR DONATE A COUPLE OF BIKES.

AND SO WE MAY NOT I MEAN, MAY NOT ACTUALLY BUY 50 BIKES OR USE THE FULL AMOUNT THAT'S BEEN ALLOCATED, BUT THAT'LL BE DETERMINED OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.

AND, OF COURSE, YOU'LL BE UPDATED AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO ATTEND THE EVENT ON MAY 22ND.

GELIN VICE MAYOR. SUPER INITIATIVE, COMMISSIONER GELIN, JUST A QUICK QUESTION, JUST SO THAT I'M JUST FROM MY MY OWN THING HERE, IS THIS GOING TO HAVE PREFERENCE FOR TAMRAT CHILDREN UP TO 18 YEARS OLD, UNDER 21? IS IT JUST ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL, OR IS IT GOING TO BE MORE OF AN INITIATIVE THAT CAN GROW FROM WITHIN THE CITY INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF OUR OWN CITY? JUST A QUESTION. IT'LL BE CIRMINIELLO.

ARE YOU COMMISSIONER GUNN? I CAN'T ANSWER THAT BECAUSE WE'RE USING LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUNDS FROM THE CITY OF TAMARAC. IT CAN ONLY BENEFIT CITY OF TAMARAC AS BENEFICIARY.

SO EACH CITY HAS THEIR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND SO WE CAN EXPAND THE PROGRAM TO THOSE OTHER CITIES, BUT THEY HAVE TO ACCESS THAT CITY.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE CAN'T TAMRAT RESIDENTS CAN'T BENEFIT FROM THE CITY OF SUNRISE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUNDS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE CAN ENCOURAGE THEM TO CREATE A SISTER PROGRAM AND DO THE SAME THING.

AND SO WHAT I'VE DONE IS I'VE ASKED TARABELLA, PIPER AND BOYTE EVERYTHING TO IDENTIFY SIX STUDENTS. I ASKED MILLENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL TO IDENTIFY 12 STUDENTS AND FOR CHALLENGER AND TAMRAT ELEMENTARY TO IDENTIFY TEN STUDENTS EACH.

SO THAT TOTALS 50.

SO THEY'LL BE, YOU KNOW, KIDS THAT HAVE THE RANGE OF FIVE YEAR OLDS IN KINDERGARTEN, UP

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TO 18 WHO MAY BE A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL, THEY'LL BE INFORMED THAT THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE WHAT WE HAVE THEIR AGE AND HEIGHT BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE AN 18 YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN THE BIKE OR MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS BIKE.

AND THEN WE'RE ASKING THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN IT'S MENTORING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AS WELL.

THANK YOU. SO IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS, I WANT TO JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING, BECAUSE I.

BUT I DO THINK IT'S A GREAT INITIATIVE.

I DO UNDERSTAND, CAPTAIN, THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF FUNDS LEFT OVER FOR OTHER INITIATIVES THAT MAY BE NEEDED BY THIS OR OTHER ITEMS THAT F.

FUNDS GO TO, IF NEEDED, BY OUR CITY, IS THAT CORRECT? ABSOLUTELY. THERE ARE SOME PARAMETERS THAT WE HAVE TO GO BY ITS CRIME PREVENTION, CERTAIN NEW PROJECT FOR THE CITY.

BUT WE DO HAVE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR AND WE CAN SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS AS LONG AS IT MEETS OUR CRITERIA. ABSOLUTELY.

AND I SAID, AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE FUNDS AND THE FUNDS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN THINGS, LIKE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS THAT WANTED? WELL, I HAVE SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH THAT AND I'M SORRY, ETF FUNDS FOR SECURITY FOR THEIR PROPERTIES. IF YOU DON'T KNOW NOW, I CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU AND AT ANOTHER TIME, YEAH, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT ONE.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SPECIFICALLY? IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FUNDS AT THE TIME FOR OUR CITY WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR FAIR USE. BUT IF THEY ARE, I'M GLAD NOT NOT IN MY COMMENT IS I'M GLAD THEY'RE FOR YOU.

SO NOW I HAPPEN TO KNOW SOME RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS THAT WERE SEEKING WANTED TO SEE ONE.

AND SO I WILL SEE YOU OFF LINE ABOUT THAT AND HAVE THEM GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU SEPARATELY.

I JUST GOOD THAT THEY'RE ON AS WELL AS THE.

CHILDREN THAT ARE BEING SELECTED FROM THESE SCHOOLS.

FROM WITHIN THEM, WE HAVE KIDS THAT GO TO OUR SCHOOLS FROM OTHER CITIES, BUT THE KIDS THAT APPLY HAVE TAMARAC RESIDENTS, NOT THAT THEY GO TO SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF SAMARRA.

THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO CLARIFY.

AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENED FOR SOME OF OUR CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OTHER SCHOOLS, RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS THAT THEY HEAR ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL PROGRAM AND THE ABILITY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO APPLY AS WELL? PERHAPS NEXT YEAR I DIDN'T I DID NOT OPEN UP TO THOSE SCHOOLS.

I STUCK TO THE SCHOOLS THAT I'M FAMILIAR WITH THAT ARE ENTERING TAMARAC AND THAT I KNOW ATTEND SCHOOLS AROUND TAMARAC FOR ME TO SEND SOME KIND OF MESSAGE OUT TO ALL BROWARD COUNTY SCHOOLS OR ALL RESIDENTS IN TAMARAC, AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S A FEE FOR THAT IF I WANTED TO DO LIKE A MEAL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MOST EFFICIENT TO JUST START WITH THE SCHOOLS IN TAMARAC CHALLENGE, ELIMINATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND CHALLENGER MILLENNIAL PIPER. AND SO NEXT YEAR, IF IF THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM WAS A SUCCESS AND BSR APPROVES THE PROGRAM NEXT YEAR, THEN WE CAN LOOK AT OTHER IDEAS IN OTHER SCHOOLS.

BUT THOSE ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT I SELECTED.

OK, I WAS JUST THINKING OFF THE TOP CHARTER CHARTER, VERIZON'S CHARTER ON UNIVERSITY.

AND THERE'S A I KNOW THERE'S A SCHOOL IN NORTH LAUDERDALE WHERE A TAMARAC RESIDENT IS A PRINCIPAL. A LOT OF TAMRAT RESIDENTS GO THERE.

BUT I JUST FELT FOR THE FIRST YEAR, LET ME MAKE IT MANAGEABLE, UNCONTROLLABLE.

AND THESE SCHOOLS THAT JUST I'M THROWING IT OUT THERE BECAUSE IT IS IN TAMARAC AND IT IS A BIG SCHOOL THAT YOU GO THROUGH.

AND SO I'M PRETTY SURE THEY'D BE VERY INTERESTED IN THIS AS WELL.

AND AS TO SHOWING UP ON MAY 22ND, I THINK I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU, HAPPY TO YOUR ARM TO WALK IT, BUT I WILL LEAVE THE BIKE RIDING THROUGHOUT THE CITY TO YOU AND THE PROFESSIONALS ON IT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AT THIS AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO CALL THE.

THERE GOMEZ COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YES, VILLALOBOS, YES, BOLTON, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO, THANK YOU.

IT IS CURRENTLY NINE P.M.

WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A 15 MINUTE BREAK.

WE WILL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT NINE 15.

WE ARE NOW IN RECESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY.

IT IS CURRENTLY NINE, 15 HOURS BEFORE THE.

YES, MR. GELIN. YES, I'M HERE.

COMMISSIONER PLACKO. I'M MAYOR VILLALOBOS, AND THEY ARE GOMEZ.

STILL THERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE ARE NOW GOING TO NINE A.

[9.a. TO2464 - Amending Chapter 10 ]

OUR AUDIENCE, OF COURSE, READING AND IT IS T O TWO FOUR SIX FOUR AMENDING CHAPTER 10.

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SO THE ATTORNEY PLEASE READ THE TITLE FOR THE RECORD.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND ALSO SEE COMMISSIONER OF CAN RECOMMEND A CHAPTER TENNESSEE CODE ENTITLED LAND DEVELOPER CODE BY DOESN'T DESIGNATE THE SECOND MISSION AS A FINAL DECISION MAKER ON LAND USE.

MATTERS INCLUDE SPECIAL EXCEPTION, MAJOR SITE PLANS AND ADVANCED.

I MADE AN ARTICLE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS SECTION TEN DASH FOUR POINT THREE OFF STREET PARKING LOADING AND SECTION TEN DASH FOUR POINT TEN SIGNS.

I'M IN AN ARTICLE FIVE ADMINISTRATION SECTION TEN POINT TWO SUMMARY OF TABLE REVIEW PROCEDURES NEED TABLES DASH FIVE POINT ONE SUMMARY OF DEVELOPER REVIEW PROCEDURES AMENDING SECTION TEN.

DASH FIVE POINT THREE.

COMMON REVIEW REVIEW PROCEDURE BY TABLE TAKE FIVE POINT TO SHOW NOTICE REQUIREMENT OMITTED IN SECTION TEN DASH FIVE POINT THREE SPECIFIC REVIEW PROCEDURES PROVIDED FOR QUALIFICATION PROCESS CONFLICTS.

WELL FOR SEVERAL SOLVABILITY FOR EFFECTIVE DATE A VERY LONG TIME.

WE HAVE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IT'S ALL GOOD.

I WILL NOW ASK FOR A SECOND AND A SECOND.

READ THE FIRST. SORRY. DEBORAH COMMISSIONER PLACKO MOTION THAT SHE'S ON ME.

OK, THANK YOU. THAT'S PROBABLY WHY I AM HERE.

SO WE'VE GOT A MOTION.

AND SECOND, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS ON HAND TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

AND WE WILL GO TO.

PUBLIC COMMENTS, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? NO PUBLIC COMMENTS, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW QUOTE.

AND WILL THE COMMISSION HAVE ANY KIND OF LESSONS? I'M NOT SEEING ANY, BUT I WILL ASK.

SO I GUESS THESE ARE QUESTIONS ARE GOING TO GO TO THE CITY ATTORNEY OR I DON'T KNOW IF IT GOES TO THE ATTORNEY ON THIS CALHOUN AT THIS POINT, WHAT ARE WE DECIDING NOW? THE VOTE ON THAT? WE HAVE HAVEN'T BEEN DECIDED TO GIVE US DETAILS OF WHAT WE HAVE DELEGATED, BUT WE DELEGATED TO MAKE THIS PROCESS MORE EFFECTIVE OR MORE EFFICIENT.

WHAT WILL WE NOW BE REVIEWING? I'M GOING TO YOU KNOW, I GAVE AT LEAST COMMISSIONER MILLION.

I GAVE A SUMMARY AND DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY PAM RYAN WORK INTENSELY ON THIS MATTER.

I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO HER.

I CAN EXPLAIN, BUT I YOU KNOW, BUT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO WORKED ON IT INDIVIDUALLY.

AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO.

GOOD EVENING. CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE DID DISCUSS THIS AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING, BASICALLY THE WAY IT WAS OR IT IS RIGHT NOW, THE PLANNING BOARD IS THE FINAL DECISION MAKER FOR MAJOR SITE PLANS, SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS AND VARIANCES, AND THE COMMISSION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, THE COMMISSIONER ANY COMMISSIONER. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT THEY'VE MADE A DECISION ON, YOU NOW HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CALL IT UP AND HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT AT A COMMISSION MEETING. AND THEN YOU CAN VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO HEAR THE MATTER.

THIS ORDINANCE CHANGES THAT PROCEDURE AND NOW MAKES THE PLANNING BOARD THE RECOMMENDING BODY. SO ALL THE PLANNING BOARD WILL DO NOW IS HEAR THESE ISSUES IN A QUASI JUDICIAL PROCEEDING AND YOU WILL BE THE FINAL DECISION MAKER.

SO YOU WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO CALL UP ANY OF THESE ISSUES.

THEY WILL AUTOMATICALLY COME TO YOU AT A COMMISSION MEETING ON THE AGENDA UNDER QUASI JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. SO BASICALLY, IF WE'RE GOING TO IT'S GOING TO BE VARIANCES FOR SETBACKS ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES OR IF MR PETERS WANTS TO EXTEND HIS HAS AN ENCROACHMENT ON HIS FENCE AND HE NEEDS TO EXTEND THE FENCE SIX FEET THAT BARRIERS THAT HE'S ASKING FOR, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO SEE AS WELL.

WE'RE SEEING ALL THAT FROM SOUP TO NUTS.

THAT IS CORRECT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT OTHER CITIES IN BROWARD DO THAT HANDLE THE SAME ITEMS, HOW THEY HANDLE? I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, MOST CITIES, AS IT RELATES TO VARIANCES, MOST CITIES ALLOW A SEPARATE BOARD TO DECIDE VARIANCES AND THEY GO STRAIGHT TO COURT AS IT RELATES TO SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS AND MAJOR SITE PLANS.

I'VE SEEN IT BOTH WAYS.

SOME CITIES ALLOW THEIR PLANNING BOARDS TO BE FINAL DECISION MAKERS, AND YOU CAN ONLY

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APPEAL. I'VE NEVER SEEN A CALL UP IN MY OWN EXPERIENCE EITHER.

YOU LET THEM, THEY WILL LET YOU.

YOU WILL LET THEM APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION SO THEY MAKE THE FINAL DECISION.

AND THEN IF THE APPLICANT WANTS TO APPEAL, THEY CAN APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION.

AND THE STANDARD IS A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER ON ON THE REVIEW.

IN OTHER PLACES, THE COMMISSIONER, THE PLANNING BOARD IS THAT IS AUTOMATICALLY JUST RECOMMENDING BOARD, SO THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG WAY AS IT RELATES TO THESE IS JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WANT TO DO? SO WE HAVEN'T BEEN DOING IT WRONG.

THIS IS JUST A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT WE SHOULD BE CHANGING IT BASED ON A CONVERSATION WITH A COMMISSIONER IN THE PAST.

THAT'S NOT MY UNDERSTANDING, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE COMMISSION ASKED FOR THIS AT A COMMISSION MEETING, ASKED FOR THE CHANGES IN THE CODE, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE BEING TOLD WE HAD DONE IT WRONG AND WE WERE DOING IT WRONG FOR THIS.

WE'RE NOT DOING IT WRONG, CORRECT? NO. LET ME LET ME CORRECT THE RECORD OF WHAT THIS ORDINANCE BASICALLY IS DOING IS IS MAKING BASICALLY MAKING THE CODE MORE CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARTER PROVISION OF TWELVE POINT ZERO FIVE.

THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT THIS ORDINANCE DO WITH RESPECT TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST.

WE BASICALLY WILL LOOK AT THIS AS PROSPECTIVELY IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

BUT RIGHT NOW, MAKING THE COMMISSION AS THE FINAL DECISION MAKER IS CONSISTENT WITH TWELVE POINT FIVE LEGISLATION, WHICH I EXPLAINED I APPRECIATE.

THANK YOU. BUT I'M SOME COMMISSIONER GELIN.

I GOT THIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I SEE YOUR HAND RAISED.

I ALSO SEE YOUR COMMENT IN THE CHAT SAYING WRONG ACCORDING TO THE CHARTER.

THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO FINISH MY QUESTIONS NOW ON.

SO I HAD ORIGINALLY ASKED YOU THAT.

ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY BRIAN, WHAT DO OTHER CITIES IN BROWARD DO? HOW DID THEY HANDLE IT? ARE YOU FROM ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THAT? AND IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT, YOU NEED TO PASS IT BACK TO THE CITY ATTORNEY.

PLEASE DO SO. AND IF BOTH OF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT IN BROWARD, I AM GOING TO ASK THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, MR. HOLLOWAY, TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.

PLEASE LET ME AT MAYOR.

IN FACT, I THINK YOU HAVE A MIXED BAG IN BROWARD SUBSIDIES.

GENERALLY, YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY ON BOARD AS A RECOMMENDATION BOARD.

AS MR. CITY ATTORNEY RYAN INDICATED, SOME CITIES MAY HAVE CERTAIN MATTERS THAT THE PLANNING BOARD IS THE FINAL DECISION MAKER.

BUT IF YOU WANT US TO COME UP WITH A LIST OF WHAT ALL OF THEM HAVE, WE CAN DO THAT.

BUT YOU WILL GELIN YOU HAVE A MIXED BAG IN ALL THE COUNTIES.

IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO.

AND SO BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT YOU HAVE AND THIS IS NOT TYPICAL, YOU HAVE A CHARTER PROVISION AND THE CITY CHARTER TAMRAT THAT MOST CITIES DO NOT HAVE THAT PROVISION.

SO WHAT WE BELIEVE WE ARE DOING BY TAKING THE COMMISSIONER DIRECTION TO AMEND THE CODE TO MAKE THE CITY COMMISSION THE FINAL DECISION MAKER IS ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD AND SPEAK WITH THE CHARTER IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ALSO.

SO. BASICALLY, WE'RE READING YOUR INTERPRETATION, AND I'LL GET BACK TO THAT IN A SECOND, BECAUSE I WANTED TO JUST CLARIFY A COMMENT THAT WAS MADE AT LAST MEETING THAT THERE WAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHETHER OR NOT WE HAD ANY ANY SITE PLANS BROUGHT UP.

AND I'D LIKE TO JUST MAKE SURE IT'S ON THE RECORD THAT WE MOST CERTAINLY HAD WHAT MY HOTEL WAS MADE SURE TO COME UP, THAT THIS STORAGE UNIT ON ROCK ISLAND AND COMMERCIAL THAT WAS MADE TO CALL UP THOSE ITEMS WERE NOT MADE IN A SEPARATE REQUEST THROUGH AN EMAIL OR ANYTHING. THOSE WERE MADE AT THE COMMISSION MEETINGS THAT MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THOSE ITEMS UP.

SAME THING WITH WOODLAND'S.

IT WAS CALLED LAND USE.

THE FIRST TIME AROUND CAME OVER.

IT WAS MADE VERY CLEAR APPLICANT ACCEPTED IT AS WELL, THAT WE WERE CALLING THAT MATTER UP SO ON THE MAJOR SITE PLAN. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECORD IS CLEAR AND PEOPLE HAVE KNOWLEDGE. YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE BEFORE THAT THINGS HAVE BEEN PAID ATTENTION TO BY THIS COMMISSION AND CALLED UP THE MAJOR ITEMS. AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS COMMISSION IS FAMILIAR WITH HOW MANY SMALL VARIANCES THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE NOW BEING ASKED TO BE THE FINAL ARBITER OF IS IN READING THIS STATUTE THAT WAS PROVIDED OR SECTION 12 OF FIVE OF THE PROCESS AND PROCEDURE THERE IN SHALL BE

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SET FORTH AND UTILIZED BY THE CITY.

BUT IF THE CITY COMMISSION IS SAYING THAT FINAL APPROVAL AND IT IS.

I'M NOT GOING TO GO THAT FAR RIGHT NOW, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS, WE'VE HAD OTHER CITY ATTORNEYS INTERPRET THIS IN OUR PARTNER DIFFERENTLY OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS OR SO. SO I'M JUST CURIOUS AS TO IF YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY TO US THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IT WRONG IN THE OTHER CITY ATTORNEY'S INTERPRETATIONS HAVE BEEN WRONG.

FROM MY STANDPOINT, WHAT ARE THE THINGS WE DID WAS TO REQUEST AND RESEARCH THIS PROVISION, WE ASKED FOR ANY EXISTING OPINION ON THAT ISSUE.

WE COULDN'T FIND A LEGAL PAIN AND IN FACT, WAS THE ONE WHO REQUESTED IT.

SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE WAS EXISTING INTERPRETATION, ESPECIALLY ON THE CHILD PROVISION, ESPECIALLY, WE WOULD WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE IT.

WE DIDN'T GET ONE. I KNOW MISS CALLOWAY GAVE AN INTERPRETATION AND WE LOOKED AT IT.

AND BASED ON THAT INTERPRETATION, I FELT A NEED BECAUSE TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN, BOTH AM AND I DID, AND ALSO SEEK A SECOND OPINION TO SAY, HEY, ARE WE CORRECT? ALL WE WRONG? BECAUSE BECAUSE CHINA IS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE CITY.

AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE AS A CITY ATTORNEY THAT AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION THAT WE FOLLOW THE CHARTER. I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND MY I GUESS MY QUESTION IS THAT FOR THESE MANY YEARS, AND I'M TALKING PAST THE PAST MOST RECENT CITY ATTORNEY INTERPRETATION HAS BEEN THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IT RIGHT.

BUT NOW WE ARE BEING TOLD WE'RE DOING IT WRONG.

AND WE HAD HAD ALL THIS PUBLIC INPUT ON THIS PROCESS AND HAD PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN IT. AND NOT ONCE HAD ANY OF THE THREE YEARS, I BELIEVE IT TOOK US TO BE TOLD THAT IT IS NOW INCORRECT.

SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M HEARING YOUR RESEARCH AT THIS SHORT PERIOD OF TIME THAT YOU'RE HERE IS YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IT WRONG FOR ALL OF THIS TIME.

YOU, ME, THAT WENT ON TO SAY, MAN, THERE WAS A CHILD, A VISION, WE LOOKED AT IT, WE RESEARCHED IT INTERNALLY AND WE RESEARCHED EXTERNALLY AND WE BELIEVE WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW IS MORE CONSISTENT WITH THAT CHARTER PROVISIONS.

SO IT'S YOUR INTERPRETATION THAT THIS IS MORE CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARTER PROVISION, HOWEVER, THE WAY WE'VE BEEN DOING IT IS QUITE POSSIBLY ALSO THE PROPER WAY FOR THE CHARTER POSITION, BECAUSE THE CITY COMMISSION HAS KEPT THE OBLIGATION TO LOOK OVER WHAT COMES THROUGH THE PLANNING BOARD AS A RESPONSIBILITY TO BE THE FINAL ARBITER.

AND IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE NOTE FOR THESE PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING.

ARE THESE PLANNING AND ZONING MEETINGS TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHEN WE NEED TO CALL SOMETHING UP OR TO GET THE CONFIDENCE INTO THE BOARD THAT WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER? HOW IS THAT FULLY DESIGNATING OUR AUTHORITY WHEN WE ARE BASICALLY SAYING WE'RE OVERSEEING IT AND WE DO WISH FOR IT NOT TO COME BEFORE US BECAUSE WE'LL ACCEPT THE PROPOSAL? I MEAN. THAT'S WHERE I'M HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH THAT.

WELL, THE LANGUAGE IS PRETTY PLAYING IN THE CHARTER, WHICH BASICALLY INDICATE THAT THE COMMISSION DOES NOT HAVE A CANNOT DELEGATE THAT AUTHORITY ON THAT PLANNING ZONING MATTER.

SO PIRENNE OF THAT LANGUAGE GAVE ME OBVIOUSLY CAUSE FOR CONCERN WITH RESPECT TO WHAT OPINIONS WERE ISSUED IN THE PAST.

WE LOOK FOR WHAT WE COULD FIND.

I WANT WRITTEN OPINION.

IF YOU HAVE ONE LETTER, PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME, YOU KNOW, BUT I WANTED TO REVISE.

IT DOESN'T MAKE THE PAYMENT ON THAT ISSUE.

I WILL HAVE TO REVIEW IT, LOOK AT IT, REVISE IT, BUT I DON'T HAVE A REAL OPINION ON THAT ISSUE. I APPRECIATE MISS CALLOWAY.

WOULD YOU MIND? YOU ARE AN ATTORNEY AND YOU HAVE BEEN IN THIS FIELD FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

YOU WERE THE PROFESSIONAL WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING US YOUR OPINION, PLEASE.

WELL, I DID SEND AN EMAIL TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS WELL AS THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY OUTLINING UNDER.

UNDER WHAT I GUESS, CONDITIONS, WE ARRIVED AT THE DECISION WE DID IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN.

NOW THE LANGUAGE, AS THE CITY ATTORNEY SAYS, IS CLEAR.

IT SPEAKS TO APPLICATIONS THAT ARE STATUTORILY DRIVEN, SAYS PLANNING AND ZONING, SAID THE CITY OF TO BE ONE TO READ THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE IN THE CHARTER, WHICH INCLUDES THE TITLE,

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IF YOU WILL. SEE, IT'S IT'S REALLY DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY COMMISSION IS DOING APPLICATIONS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE STATUTE.

AND SO OUR OUR INTERPRETATION IS THAT A SIDE PLAN IS NOT A STATUTORY APPLICATION.

IT IS NOT NOWHERE IN THE STATUTE WILL USE THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

WILL YOU SEEK CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS? WILL YOU SEE THAT YOU WILL NEVER FIND THAT IN THE STATUTE? BECAUSE A SITE PLAN IS A DESIGN APPLICATION.

IT'S NOT PLANNING AND ZONING RELATED.

SO OUR OPINION WAS BASED ON THE FACT THAT THE START IS THAT THE THE CHARTER HAS A TITLE.

THE TITLE IS CLEAR THAT THE INTENT IS TO MAKE SURE YOUR OBLIGATION IS CONSISTENT WITH STATE AND SO THAT WE ARRIVED AT OUR OPINION WHEN IT WAS ISSUED IN 20.

AND I DON'T HAVE THE CHART IN FRONT OF ME, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE CAN READ THAT LANGUAGE. MISS GALLOWAY, INSTEAD, FOR US AS LAWYERS AND AS THE MAYOR INDICATED, WE WE HAD REQUESTS, ANY WRITTEN OPINION THAT WAS ISSUED BY ANY PREDECESSOR, CITY ATTORNEY ISSUE TO YOU. AND WE DIDN'T RECEIVE ONE.

AND SO AND AND BECAUSE THERE'S A LEGAL ISSUE, NOT AN ISSUE.

SO IF WE SAY THE LEGAL OPINION WITH RESPECT THAT MATTER, OBVIOUSLY, THAT WOULD HAVE CONVINCED US OF ANY PRIOR WRITTEN LEGAL PAIN IN MY INTERPRETATION WHEN WE DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY YOU EMAIL US AND BOTH PAM AND I OBVIOUSLY LOOKED AT IT AND WE VIEW YOUR EMAIL WITH RESPECT TO THAT SECTION.

AND BOTH OF US CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IS HARD TO CONSTRUE YOUR INTERPRETATION, THE PLAIN LANGUAGE OF THAT CHARTER PROVISION.

THAT'S WHAT I FELT.

AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE LEGAL OPINIONS WRITTEN ON THIS ISSUE, BECAUSE BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, AS IF YOU'RE DEALING WITH A LEGAL ISSUE AND A CHALLENGE, YOU RESPECT THAT REVISION. YOU KNOW, THE STATUTORY INTERPRETATION, THE PLAIN LANGUAGE WILL CONTROL NOT WHAT HANZ INDICATE, NOT WHAT, MAXINE, BUT THE LANGUAGE IS PRETTY PLAIN WITH RESPECT TO THAT PROVISION, IN TERMS OF DELEGATION, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE COMMISSION HAS AUTHORITY TO REVIEW. SO NEVERTHELESS, WE BELIEVE THAT THIS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY COMMISSION HAD INSTRUCTED THE OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY TO AMEND THE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS TO BASICALLY MAKE THEM THE FINAL DECISION MAKER.

SO ALL THAT CHARTER PROVISION DID WAS TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT AND ANYTHING ELSE.

IT BASICALLY CLARIFY THAT THE COMMISSION IS THE FINAL DECISION MAKER AND ALSO BASICALLY CONFIRMED THAT THERE'S A CHARTER PROVISION THAT THE COMMISSION WILL, WITH THIS PROPOSAL, WILL BE A SPIRIT AND ALSO IN COMPLIANCE WITH.

AND THAT THAT IS REALLY A POINT THAT I WANT TO ILLUMINATE.

IT WAS ONLY THROUGH THE RESEARCH OF TURNING THE SOME OF THE PLANNING PROCEDURES OVER TO THE CONVENTION THAT WE EVEN FOUND THAT SECTION OF THE CHARTER.

IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS COMMISSION ASKED OUR OFFICE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, TO CREATE AN ORDINANCE THAT GAVE YOU MORE OF THE FINAL DECISION MAKING POWER, THE ISSUE OF THE CHARTER, WHILE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT ISSUE WAS IRRELEVANT TO ME IN DRAFTING THIS ORDINANCE.

THE COMMISSION I'M NOT TELLING YOU TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THESE THINGS, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN CHARGE OF VARIANCES.

WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT THE LAST MEETING.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN CHARGE OF SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS, YOU CAN LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS.

WE CAN DEBATE THE CHARTER PROVISION LATER.

I MEAN, THAT THAT YOU ONLY GOT THE THE THE OPINION FROM THE OUTSIDE ATTORNEY YESTERDAY.

THIS ISSUE WAS ALREADY ON THE AGENDA BEFORE YOU GOT THAT THAT OPINION.

SO I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A DECISION.

YOU NEED TO MAKE IT BASED UPON WHAT IT IS YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW.

EITHER YOU WANT TO BE IN CHARGE OF IT NOW OR NOT, WE CAN STILL DEBATE THE ISSUE ABOUT THE CHARTER LATER AND BRING THAT ISSUE BACK, BECAUSE IF IT IS TRUE AND WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS, THAT YOUR CHARTER MAY TELL YOU HOW YOU NEED TO WHO YOU NEED TO GIVE FINAL DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY TO, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE MORE CHANGES IN THIS.

THAT THAT PROVISION, WHICH IS UNUSUAL, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S IN

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BROWARD AND WHAT'S IN PALM BEACH COUNTY OR WHAT'S IN MIAMI-DADE, THAT PROVISION IS NOT A USUAL A USUAL PROVISION TO HAVE IN A CHARTER.

SO YOUR SITUATION IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

BUT YOU CAN MAKE THIS DECISION ON THIS TONIGHT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO FOR IT.

WE DON'T HAVE TO GO FOR. THIS IS YOUR DECISION.

ADDITIONALLY, WE REQUESTED FROM CITY PARK OFFICE ANY MINUTE ANY DISCUSSION RELATED TO THAT CHARTER PROVISION.

SO WE WANTED TO REALLY FIND OUT WHAT WAS THE INTENT OF PURPOSE, THE MEANING OF THAT LANGUAGE. SO WE WE BASICALLY LOOKED AT EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR INTERPRETATION IS CORRECT. AND WE BELIEVE IT IS.

HOWEVER, AS AS DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY INDICATED, THE COMMISSION DIRECTED THIS OFFICE, OBVIOUSLY BASED ON THAT EXPERIENCE TO REVISE LAND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS TO ALLOW THEM TO MAKE THESE FINAL DECISION.

SO AS AS DEPUTIZING INDICATED, IS A COMMISSION DECISION.

IT'S NOT OUR DECISION. THANK YOU.

AND YOU MAY NOT FIND ANY OPINIONS ON THE RECORD BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER A NEED FOR AN OPINION THAT WHICH WAS NEVER THOUGHT OF TO BE AN ISSUE.

YOU CANNOT FIND RESEARCH ON I'M SURE YOU AGREE IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO DO THAT WHEN THERE'S BEEN NO ISSUE. THERE'S BEEN NO QUESTION IN THIS ITEM WAS THOROUGHLY LOOKED INTO FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS.

AS I SAID, WE HAD THREE YEARS OF THIS AND CIVILIAN INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY, PROBABLY EVEN MORE INTENSE THAN THE CHARTER BOARD FOR FOR ALL THE PROCESS THAT WENT INTO THIS CONVERSATION ON THE CHANGES FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING AND FOR ALL OF THE RULES FOR THE CODE. SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

AND I DON'T RECALL THAT THIS COMMISSION AS A WHATEVER.

I'LL LEAVE THAT TO LATER.

COMMISSIONER, GELIN, GO AHEAD.

AND I BELIEVE IT IS COMMISSIONER PLACKO THAT IS ON DECK.

THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A NEW CITY ATTORNEY IS TO HAVE A FRESH SET OF EYES TO LOOK AT THE WAY WE'VE BEEN DOING THINGS IN THE PAST, EXAMINE THEM AND DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE FOLLOWING OUR LAWS AND IF WE WEREN'T.

AND THERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE CITY OF TAMRAT NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CODE AND NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES.

SO IT SHOULD NOT BE HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE THAT WE WERE NOT FOLLOWING THE LAW ON THIS MATTER. AND AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IS THE PUBLIC PUBLIC, A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST.

WE HAVE LAWS ON THE BOOKS REGARDING THAT AND WE'RE NOT FOLLOWING IT.

THAT'S THAT'S PLAIN AND CLEAR REGARDING THIS PARTICULAR MATTER.

THE LANGUAGE IS CLEAR AND NOW IT CAN BE UP FOR DEBATE, BUT IT SAYS PROVISIONS OF STATE LAW APPLICABLE TO CITY PLANNING AND ZONING, THE FLORIDA STATUTES RELATING TO PLANNING AND ZONING ARE CONSIDERED APPLICABLE TO THE CITY.

AND THE PROCEDURES THEREIN SET FORTH SHALL BE UTILIZED BY SAID CITY, EXCEPT THAT THE COMMISSION SHALL NOT DELEGATE TO ANY ZONING COMMISSION FINAL APPROVING APPROVAL ON ZONING AND PLANNING MATTERS. BUT ON THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSION SHALL BE THE FINAL AUTHORITY.

SO I'M NOT A LAWYER, BUT THAT LANGUAGE IS PRETTY PLAIN.

AND WHEN IT COMES TO NOT HAVING AN ITEM IN WRITING, YOU KNOW, I'LL SUBMIT AN EMAIL ON THE RECORD TO THE CITY CLERK WHERE I EXPRESSED VARIOUS CONCERNS TO THE PRIOR CITY ATTORNEY.

I LISTED FIVE BOLTON ITEMS AND I ASKED THAT I RECEIVE A RESPONSE IN WRITING.

AND THE RESPONSE IS, GOOD EVENING.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS IN THIS EMAIL RATHER THAN DISCUSS YOUR COMMENTS OR CONCERNS IN AN EMAIL.

I WOULD MUCH RATHER MEET WITH YOU IN PERSON TO DISCUSS YOUR CONCERNS, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO MEET IN PERSON. I KNOW THE VALUE OF HAVING SOMETHING IN WRITING, SO I WANTED IT IN WRITING AND I DID NOT GET IT IN WRITING.

SO THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO PUT SOMETHING IN WRITING.

NOW, I BELIEVE THIS COMMISSION DOES WANT TO HAVE FINAL AUTHORITY BASED ON HOW WE HAVE VOTED IN THE PAST ON PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS, LAND USE, AMMU, WHATEVER THESE THINGS ARE CALLED. BASED ON THE VOTES, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN COMMISSIONER THAT HAVE NOT BEEN HAPPY WITH ITEMS RELATED TO PLANNING AND ZONING AND NOT HAPPY WITH SOME OF THE VOTES OF THE PLANNING BOARD, PEOPLE THAT DON'T COMMUNICATE WITH US ON A REGULAR BASIS.

DON'T FOLLOW UP WITH US. DON'T TALK TO US, DON'T ASK, ANSWER OR ASK QUESTIONS.

AND SO, YES, WE WANT TO HAVE FINAL SAY.

AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE FINAL SAY, YOU JUST VOTE NO ON THIS MATTER.

BUT I BELIEVE THERE ARE OTHER COMMISSIONERS THAT DO WANT TO HAVE FINAL SAYING, AND IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARTER.

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AND IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE CHARTER LANGUAGE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE COMING UP THE TIME PERIOD TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE CHARTER.

AND MAYBE THAT'S AN AREA WHERE YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES TO THE CHARTER.

AND IN ADDITION TO MAXINE AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, YOU ALSO AN ATTORNEY. SO WE'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT YOUR INTERPRETATION IS.

THANK YOU. YOU ARE MAYOR GOMEZ, YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO MISS GALLOWAY RIGHT NOW TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION AND THEN WE WILL GO TO COMMISSIONER, PLACKO.

THANK YOU, NOT IN THERE, I THINK IT WAS VERY HELPFUL THAT THE COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER GELIN READ THE ENTIRE STATEMENT INTO THE RECORD SECTION IS 12 THAT POINT OR FIVE THAT SPEAKS TO THE PROVISIONS OF STATE LAW APPLICABLE TO CITY PLANNING AND ZONING.

AND SO INSTEAD OF JUST READ IN THE LAST SENTENCE, IT IS USEFUL AND HELPFUL TO READ THE ENTIRE SECTION THAT SPEAKS TO THE APPLICABILITY OF THE STATE STATUTES RELATING TO PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS.

SO HE SPEAKS TO THOSE MATTERS THAT ARE APPLICABLE TO STATE STATUTES.

AND ONE, AGAIN, A SPECIAL EXCEPTION, A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, A SIDE PLAN ARE NOT APPLICABLE PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS THAT YOU FIND IN STATE STATUTE TO FIND A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF YOUR ZONING MAP, YOUR LAND USE MAP.

THOSE ARE PLANNING AND ZONING ITEMS THAT ARE APPLICABLE TO STATE STATUTE THAT YOU FIND IN STATE STATUTE. YOU'LL NOT FIND A SITE THAT YOU'LL NOT FIND REFERENCE TO BEHRENDT'S APPLICATION. MORE SPECIFICALLY, YOU WILL NOT FIND REFERENCE TO SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS OR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.

YOU WILL NEVER FIND THOSE.

AND SO THAT'S WHY AN OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN TO THE ATTORNEY.

AND I PREVIOUSLY THE ATTORNEY SAT DOWN, SPOKE ABOUT IT AND ARRIVED AT THAT CONCLUSION.

I DID NOT REQUEST AN OPINION BECAUSE AN OPINION WAS NOT NEEDED.

AND SO THAT'S WHY THERE IS NOTHING IN THE RECORDS IN WRITING.

THEY CAN. COMMISSIONER PLACKO.

THANK YOU. I AM NOT GOING TO DEBATE THE CHARTER, I HAVE BEEN VERY VOCAL ABOUT THIS AND I WILL BE VERY, VERY CLEAR AND VERY VOCAL.

NOW, THE PLANNING BOARD IS AND SHOULD BE AN ADVISORY BOARD.

WE AS THE CITY COMMISSION ARE THE DECISION MAKERS.

WE MAKE THE FINAL DECISION, THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS WHEN WE HAVE STORAGE FACILITIES COMING BEFORE US WITH 10 STORIES.

THAT'S A SPECIAL EXEMPTION THAT COMMISSIONER NEEDS TO BE ALLOWED TO DEAL WITH THAT.

WHEN WE HAVE HOTELS, WHEN WE HAVE OFFICE BUILDINGS, WHATEVER IT IS, WE HAVE THE BUCK STOPS HERE. WE'RE THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO ANSWER TO OUR RESIDENTS ABOUT THIS.

SO WE ARE THE FINAL DECISION MAKER.

I'M NOT TO SAY I'M NOT DEBATING THE CHARTER.

I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS.

I ASKED FOR THIS ORDINANCE.

I SUPPORT IT.

AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT IT.

THAT'S THAT'S IT IN A NUTSHELL.

THERE'S NO SENSE GOING ON AND ON ABOUT THIS.

I'VE BEEN VERY VOCAL ABOUT THIS FROM DAY ONE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I APPRECIATE AND I HAPPEN TO AGREE THESE BIG ITEMS SHOULD COME TO US AND IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US AS THE COMMISSION OR ANY ONE OF THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS OR MAYOR TO BE MAKING SURE THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO IT.

IF I MAY, MISS MAXINE SCALLOWAY, ARE THERE ANY BIG ITEMS THAT HAVE NOT COME BEFORE US OR ARE THERE ANY ONES THAT WE HAVE NOT PULLED UP THAT HAVE CAUSED ANY ISSUE THAT HAVE BEEN ANY MATTER OF CONCERN TO OUR PUBLIC, TO OUR RESIDENTS AND TO OUR BUSINESS INDUSTRY SINCE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN ON ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REZONING AND LAND USE AMENDMENT, THE ONES THAT YOU HAVE NAMED OUT, YOU HAVE CALLED OFF.

SO YOU'VE DONE THAT AT THE MEETING AND THE APPLICANT HAS AGREED TO HAVE YOU BE THE FINAL DECISION MAKER. WE HAVE PROCESS THE SITE PLAN FOR THE BUTTARS CONSTRUCTION, THE NEW WAREHOUSE THAT'S BEING CONSTRUCTED ON HIATUS AND NOT KNAB.

THAT PROJECT, THAT PROJECT DID NOT COME BEFORE YOU, NOR DID THE IMPROVEMENTS DONE FOR THE CHURCH. THAT'S ALSO ON NAVILLE.

AND THAT'S HOW IS AND NOT AND NOT.

AND THOSE ARE ALL ITEMS THAT WE RECEIVED EMAILS THE MONTH PRIOR TO BE ABLE TO REVIEW IF WE WISHED. AND THEN WE RECEIVED THE COPY AND WHAT THE STATUS OF THE VOTE AT THAT TIME, SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE MEETING, AND THAT WE COULD HAVE THEN CALLED UP IF WE WISHED.

CORRECT. SO YOUR COMMUNICATION INCLUDES THE DRC AGENDA.

IT ALSO INCLUDES THE AGENDA FOR THE PLANNING BOARD.

AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ITEMS ARE ACTED ON AT THE PLANNING BOARD, YOU'LL GET AN EMAIL WITH THE OUTCOME OF EACH ITEM.

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SO THAT EMAIL GOES OUT TYPICALLY THE DAY OF THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING, NO LATER THAN THE DAY AFTER YOU GET A SUMMARY EMAIL OF ALL THE ITEMS CONSIDERED BY THE PLANNING BOARD, HOW IT WAS VOTED. AND THAT WAS REALLY DESIGNED TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMMEDIATELY ACT ON WHATEVER ITEMS YOU SEE NECESSARY TO FOLLOW.

WE CAN'T ALWAYS GET OTHER PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ART EARLIER TODAY. SO IT'S SIMILAR TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CALL UP AND WE'VE OBVIOUSLY NOT HAD ANY ISSUE FOR IT.

AND THESE ARE ALL PUBLIC ITEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE HAD THE ABILITY TO ATTEND AND REVIEW AS WELL. SO MY BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH WHAT'S BEFORE US IS THE FACT THAT I'M NOT SURE IF THIS COMMISSION IS FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF THE SMALLER ITEMS THAT YOU WILL NOW BE ASKED TO REVIEW, SUCH AS MR. PETERS SIX FOOT VARIANCE ON HIS FENCE.

THESE ARE WE HAVE ENOUGH TROUBLE SOMETIMES GETTING TOGETHER FOR A SIMPLE WORKSHOP AND TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS THAT THESE THINGS TAKE TIME.

WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO DON'T.

WE HAD TIMES WHEN ALL THE COMMISSIONER DOESN'T STAY ON A MEETING.

ARE WE REALLY SAYING THAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT WHETHER OR NOT A RESIDENTIAL SIX FOOT SETBACK BACK OR A RESIDENTIAL SIX FOOT FENCE HAS TO BE REVIEWED BY US FOR THE FINAL DECISION MAKING? ONE THAT'S NOT ONE OF THE STATUTORY ITEMS. IS THIS COMMISSION WILLING TO PUT FORTH THE EFFORT ON THAT? I ALSO WONDER IF MAYBE THIS COMMISSION BEFORE VOTING ON THIS MATTER SHOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A NEW ONE OR ONE ON LAND USE AND ZONING MATTER.

SO WE CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A FAMILIARITY, BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF THE ITEMS ARE JUST NOT KNOWN BY ALL OF US.

THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.

VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YOU'LL GO FIRST.

YOU HAVE NOT HAD YOUR FIRST DOWN.

PLEASE PROCEED. SO I AGREE WITH EVERYONE'S PERSPECTIVE ON THIS, I THINK.

ARE WE ABLE TO REMOVE SOME OF THE STUFF THAT'S LIKE SMALL, LIKE THE MAYOR SAID PETERS SIX FOOT VARIANCE BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, LATOYA DOESN'T WANT TO FENCE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THOSE LINES, ARE WE ABLE TO JUST GRAB THAT, PUT IT TO THE SIDE AND ACTUALLY JUST FOCUS ON THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF WHAT IT MEANS? AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN BRING AN ITEM FORWARD BECAUSE IT GOES THROUGH D.R.C. PROCESS.

I MEAN, I'M THE SAME WAY I FEEL THE SAME WAY AS THE COMMISSIONER, GELIN AND COMMISSIONER PLACKO WHEN WE ULTIMATELY ARE THE END PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IT STOPS WITH US.

BUT I DO AGREE WITH THE MAYOR.

WHEN IS THAT? WHEN SHE'S SAYING THAT ALL THESE SMALL ITEMS, IF WE CAN EVEN GO THROUGH AN AGENDA UNTIL 2:00 IN THE MORNING, HOW ARE WE GOING TO GO PAST ALL THESE VARIANCES? AND THAT BECOMES AN ISSUE. SO, YOU KNOW, IN MY OPINION, I WOULD LOVE TO TABLE THIS, YOU KNOW, JUST A SUGGESTION TABLE THIS REMOVE WHAT'S GOOD, REMOVE WHAT WE DON'T WANT OR ADD WHAT WE DO WANT AND THEN PASS IT.

BUT AT THE MOMENT, I DON'T WANT TO BE LOOKING AT VARIANCES BECAUSE OF A FENCE, BECAUSE OF A PAVING OR ITEMS THAT ARE CIRMINIELLO.

SO IS THAT A MOTION TO TABLE THIS NOW? I WOULD I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE, ACTUALLY, AS I WOULD.

IS THERE A SECOND? I HEREBY PASS THE GAVEL AGAIN TO COMMISSIONER PLACKO AND I WILL SET THE MOTION. CITY CLERK WILL CALL THE VOTE PLACE COMMISSIONER, MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON. NO, GELIN, NO.

COMMISSIONER PLACKO NO.

AND VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, THE MOTION FAILED TWO TO THREE RESOLVE THEIR COMMISSIONER GELIN ON MY HANDS.

I WILL ASK MISS CALAWAY IF YOU CAN JUST GIVE A RESPONSE TO THE VICE MAYOR ABOUT THE CURRENT CODE.

HAS IT DONE WHAT HE'S ALREADY ASKED FOR? BUT BEFORE YOU TONIGHT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO AUTOMATICALLY SEE VARIANCES, SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS AND MAJOR REVISED SITEMAN, SO THOSE WOULD GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD AS A RECOMMENDATION AND THEN IT WOULD COME TO YOU AS A FINAL DECISION MAKER.

SO THE LEGISLATION THAT'S BEING PROPOSED, THAT THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS.

OK, THANK YOU BOTH VERY.

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. OK, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S I MEAN, IT'S WHATEVER IT'S WHATEVER ITEM. IT'S NOT REALLY WHATEVER ITEMS THAT THEY GIVE.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT ITEM, ACTUALLY, IN MY OPINION.

COMMISSIONER GELIN, GO AHEAD. SURE, I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF.

I THINK I THINK BOTH MAXINE AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY WOULD AGREE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU PUT 10 LAWYERS IN A ROOM, YOU MIGHT GET 10 DIFFERENT OPINIONS IN

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TERMS OF THIS INTERPRETATION.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE GEORGE FLOYD MURDER CASE, YOU GOT ATTORNEYS THAT BELIEVE THAT IT WAS MURDER. YOU HAVE AN ATTORNEY THAT BELIEVES THAT DEREK CHAUVIN WAS OK AND SHOULD WALK FREE. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS MEANS YOU CAN OWN MILITARY TANKS AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT IT SHOULD BE LIMITED.

AND SO LAWS ARE THERE FOR INTERPRETATION AND YOU CAN DEBATE ALL NIGHT.

AND SO I THINK I THINK THERE'S A CONSENSUS ON THIS, ON HOW WE WANT TO VOTE.

AND SO IN ORDER TO, YOU KNOW, NOT KEEP EVERYONE UP TILL 1:00 OR 2:00 A.M., I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE TO VOTE AND AND RESPECT THE FACT THAT DIFFERENT ATTORNEYS HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS OR DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MATTER OF LAW.

AND SO WE SHOULD JUST RESPECT THAT AND NOT DISRESPECT ANYONE OR THEIR LEGAL OPINION AND RIGHT TO VOTE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION.

SEEING THAT THERE ARE NOBODY OTHER HANDS RAISED ON THIS MATTER.

THIS IS. ITEM NINE EIGHT FOR ONE, FIRST READING TO TWO FOUR SIX FOUR, AMENDING CHAPTER 10 OF THE FIRST MOVIE IS CALLED THE FAIR AND NO.

MR. BOLTON. YES.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. YES.

MR. PLACKO. YES.

AND VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS.

YES. BOLTON PASSES FOUR TO ONE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW MOVING TO NINE THE TWO FOUR FOUR EIGHT AMENDING ORDERS,

[9.b. TO2448 - Amending Ordinance 2020-011 FY 2021 Operating and Capital Budget ]

20, 25 Y 20 21 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET CITY ATTORNEY.

PLEASE READ THE TITLES FOR THE RECORD.

YES. IN ORDER TO SEE THE COMMISSION, SEE THE TOWER MADE IN AUGUST TWENTY TWENTY ELEVEN, WHICH ADOPTED THE CITY TIME OPERATING BUDGET REVENUES AND EXPENDITURE, THE CAPITAL BUDGET AND FINANCIAL POLICY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 MARKED BY INCREASE IN THE TOTAL REVENUES.

SPRENGER BY A TOTAL OF THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVEN NO.

THIRTY THREE MILLION NINE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINE.

THAT AS DETAILED IN TERMS A YEAR.

TO SUMMARIZE THE TYPES BE PRIVATE CONFLICTS, ONE FOR SEVERAL EFFECTIVELY TODAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UNDER THE BOLTON THE SECOND.

CONSIDERING I DON'T HAVE EMOTION IN A SECOND, THIS ITEM IS ABOUT TO FILL IN TWO SECONDS SLO MO. THIS ITEM FAILS FOR A LACK OF SECOND.

OK. ALL RIGHT, WE ARE NOW MOVING.

TO 11, A ORDNANCES ON SECOND READING CAQ ORDINANCE AMENDING THE VETERANS AFFAIRS

[11.a. TO2450 - Ordinance Amending the Veterans Affairs Committee ]

COMMITTEE, SO THE ATTORNEY FOR THE TITLE OF THE RECORD IN ORDER SAID COMMISSIONER SEE TIME TIMELINE FOR AN AMENDED CHAPTER TWO OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY CODE AND TIME ADMINISTRATION. ALL OF THE THREE BOARDS COMMITTED COMMISSIONER DIVISION, A VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AMEND SECTION TWO DASH 223 GREAT GRACIAN COMPOSITION, SECTION TWO DOES TO TWENTY FIVE CHAIRMAN FOR QUALIFICATION PROVISION FOR CONFLICTS OF LIFE EFFECTIVELY.

THANK YOU MADAM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND.

SOME OF. I CAN.

THANK YOU. CITY CLERK AND PUBLIC COMMENTS.

I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

ANY DISCUSSION, PEOPLE? YES, MR. PLACKO. YES, MR. BOLTON GELIN, YES, YES, THE MOTION IS FIVE TWO ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW GOING TO GO TO.

13 BE IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK IN THE CITIES PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE ROLE.

[13.b. Discussion and possible direction regarding the Sister Cities program and Committee role ]

THIS IS THE COMMISSION DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE DIRECTION REGARDING THE CITY SELECTION IN THE SYSTEM. THIS COMMITTEE MEMBER, ALL OF ASSISTANCE TO THE CITY MANAGER, HAS A PRESENTATION FOR US.

CAN EVERYBODY SEE MY SCREEN? YES, THANK YOU.

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ALL RIGHT, SO TODAY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOUR DIRECTION REGARDING BUILDING OUR SISTER CITY PROGRAM, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A BACKGROUND THAT MOST OF YOU ARE ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH.

SINCE THE COMMISSION ADOPTED A RESOLUTION DIRECTING STAFF TO ESTABLISH THE PROGRAM, WE'VE UPDATED THE SISTER CITY ORDINANCE.

YOU'VE APPOINTED THE SISTER CITY'S COMMITTEE.

WE ALSO SOLICITED CITY COMMISSION INPUT REGARDING THIS PROGRAM.

AND TODAY WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR YOUR DIRECTION REGARDING THE PROGRAM AND THE COMMITTEE ROLE. AND ALSO, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BEST PRACTICES THAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM OUR SISTER CITY PARTNERS TO ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS TO GUIDE THE CONVERSATION.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER THEN CAROLYN ENDURO WAS HERE, THE BOARD MEMBER FROM SISTER CITY. SHE MADE A RECOMMENDATION TO REALLY START A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM, JUST START WITH ONE CITY AND BUILD ON THAT RELATIONSHIP.

AND THAT IS SOMETHING SIMILAR THAT WE HEARD FROM FROM THE CITY ATTORNEYS AND THE OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THIS PROGRAM.

ANOTHER BEST PRACTICE AND THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE RECEIVED IS TO START THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FRIENDSHIP CITY, WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS RELATIONSHIP.

BUT IT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT MAKING A LONG TERM COMMITMENT AND THEN DETERMINE WHETHER WE'RE LOOKING TO FORMALIZE THAT RELATIONSHIP INTO THE CITY OR WE'RE GOING TO LOOK FOR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, DEPENDING ON HOW BOTH CITIES THAT ARE ENGAGED IN THE FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIP FEEL.

AND THAT, AGAIN, BOTH SISTER CITIES, OUR FRIENDSHIP CITIES ARE ESTABLISHED BY A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

BUT SISTER CITIES HAVE A REQUIREMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN AT LEAST THREE EXCHANGES ANNUALLY.

FRIENDSHIP CITIES START WITH ONE EXCHANGE AND AT THIS POINT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.

SOME CITIES HAVE TRANSITIONED TO THE VIRTUAL EXCHANGE OF INSTEAD OF TRAVEL AND PERSONAL EXCHANGES. ANOTHER THING THAT WE LEARNED IS REALLY THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING ON EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS AND CONNECTIONS OF THAT IS KEY FOR THE SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.

SO IF ANY MEMBER OF A CITY COMMISSION HAS ALREADY EXISTING DELETION OF ANOTHER BORING CITY, THEY HIGHLY RECOMMEND STARTING RELATIONSHIP THAT WAY BECAUSE THAT HELPS ESTABLISH THIS INFORMAL COMMUNICATION FIRST AND GAUGE THEIR INTEREST.

WE CAN GO THROUGH THE SISTER CITIES ORGANIZATION.

THEY CAN HELP US PUT IN TOUCH WITH DIFFERENT CITIES OR GO THROUGH THE CONSULATES.

BUT IT JUST REALLY IT TAKES LONGER AND IT'S LESS ORGANIC THAN HAVING THE MEMBERS OF OR ANY MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION BUILD ON THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT YOU HAVE.

SO ONCE THE INFORMAL LINE OF COMMUNICATION IS OPEN AND WE KNOW THAT THERE IS AN INTEREST FROM A POTENTIAL FRIENDSHIP CITY, THEN THE FORMAL PROCESS BEGINS.

SO THE FIRST STEP IN THAT FORMAL PROCESS WOULD BE A LETTER SENT FROM THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC TO THE MAYOR OF THE POTENTIAL FRIENDSHIP CITY OR SISTER CITY.

FOLLOWING THAT, THERE IS A CORRESPONDENCE PHASE, WHICH MEANS BASICALLY ONGOING COMMUNICATION AND EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS AND IDENTIFYING WHAT ARE THE COMMON THEMES THAT WE HAVE TO BUILD ON AND AND HOW WE WOULD LIKE THE PROGRAM AND RELATIONSHIP TO WORK.

A LOT OF TIMES THIS PHASE KIND OF TAKES PLACE BETWEEN IF THE CITY HAS A COMMITTEE OR WHOEVER IS ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAM BETWEEN THOSE PEOPLE, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS OR PEOPLE ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAM.

THEN OBVIOUSLY ONCE ONCE BOTH CITIES HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, THEN THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT IS DEVELOPED.

AND THAT'S FOLLOWED BY THE SIGNING CEREMONY FOR THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

AS MENTIONED BEFORE, WE SOLICITED THE COMMISSION INPUT REGARDING THE POTENTIAL CITIES, AS YOU RECALL, THE RESOLUTION THAT THE COMMISSION ADOPTED DIRECTED STAFF TO LOOK FOR RELATIONSHIPS IN CERTAIN GEOGRAPHIC AREAS WHICH INCLUDE ISRAEL, CARIBBEAN, EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA.

SO WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IS SOME FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS AS A CONVERSATION STARTER IN YOUR DISCUSSIONS STARTER FOR A CITY YOU PREFERRED TO START A RELATIONSHIP WITH. ONLY ONE OF THESE CITIES, JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL, HAS BEEN MENTIONED

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TWICE BY TWO DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

SO TODAY WE'RE REALLY SEEKING YOUR DIRECTION IN TERMS OF WHICH DIRECTION YOU'D LIKE TO GO AND WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO START.

FINALLY, IN TERMS OF THE COMMITTEE ROLE, WE'RE SEEKING YOUR DIRECTION TONIGHT FOR FOR THE ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, YOUR APPOINTED TO THE COMMITTEE.

THEY'RE EXCITED, READY TO START WORKING ON IMPLEMENTING YOUR VISION FOR THE PROGRAM.

AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM.

SO SOME OF THE POTENTIAL IDEAS TO CONSIDER THE COMMITTEE'S ROLE IS ONE IS WORKING ON THOSE COMMUNICATIONS THAT WERE DISCUSSED EARLIER, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING COMMUNICATIONS WITH CITY, FRIENDSHIP CITY TO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING INTO AND RECOMMENDING PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES TO THE COMMISSION OF WHAT WE SHOULD ENGAGE IN IN TERMS OF WHAT THE SISTER CITY PROGRAM OFFERS, LOOKING INTO AND IDENTIFYING PROGRAMS AND EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES. FOR EXAMPLE, SHOULD WE ENGAGE IN SOME EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, SUCH AS THE PEN PAL PROGRAM OR SOME TECHNICAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS WITHIN THE CITIES? SO REALLY IDENTIFYING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND PROGRAMS AND FINALLY FOSTERING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN SISTER CITY ACTIVITIES.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE'VE BEEN PROMOTING THE LOCAL ARTIST COMPETITION, BUT SISTER CITIES ORGANIZATION REALLY PREFERS IF THE CITY DOES THE LOCAL COMPETITION FIRST AND THEN SUBMITS THE WINNERS. SO SO THE SISTER CITIES COMMITTEE AND TAMARA COULD ACTUALLY RUN THIS COMPETITION, HELP PICK THE WINNERS AND HELP PROMOTE THE PROGRAM, GO TO SCHOOL, ENGAGE THE STUDENTS, GO TO LITTLE WAYS AND ENGAGE THE STUDENTS.

SO. SO THESE ARE JUST SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND WITH THAT, I REALLY JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR DISCUSSION AND DIRECTION. WE'LL SABITHA GONCA.

COMMISSIONER GUNN. YEAH, YOU KNOW, I THINK.

YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, I BROUGHT THIS ITEM UP BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND HAVING DONE SOME RESEARCH ON THE SISTER CITIES WEBSITE, OBVIOUSLY THEY'VE ALL MOVED VIRTUALLY AS WELL.

SO I THINK WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROGRAM KNOWING THAT THE COST IMPACT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, ZERO, ALMOST NOTHING BECAUSE THERE'S NO TRAVEL INVOLVED.

AND ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THE SISTER CITIES PROGRAM IS THE EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS AND CULTURE FROM HERE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, WHICHEVER CITIES AND COUNTRIES THAT WE PICK. AND SO BECAUSE THERE'S MINIMAL COST IMPACT AND THINGS WILL BE DONE VIRTUALLY, I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD.

I THINK WE ALREADY STARTED AND WE TALKED ABOUT DOING FRIENDSHIP CITY AND THERE'S REALLY LITTLE ACTIVITY DONE WHEN YOU'RE A FRIENDSHIP CITY.

SO I THINK WE SHOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, ADOPT THE CITY EACH COMMISSIONER ADOPT WHATEVER CITY THEY WANT TO ADOPT. AND THEN WE GIVE DIRECTION TO THE COMMITTEE IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH SISTER CITIES TO ESTABLISH THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH WILL BE DONE VIRTUALLY AND MAKE SURE WE GET THE SCHOOLS INVOLVED AND THE KIDS INVOLVED.

AND THEN WHEN THINGS GET BACK TO NORMAL IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY LONG, THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHATEVER TRAVEL MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN TERMS OF WELCOMING PEOPLE TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC OR GOING TO TO OTHER CITIES.

AND WHEN I WENT TO THE SISTER CITIES ANNUAL MEETING IN HOUSTON A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THERE WERE SO MANY KIDS. THERE WAS IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

AND SO FOR THEM TO HAVE THAT EXPOSURE TO KIDS NOT ONLY AROUND THIS COUNTRY BUT FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, THAT'S A GREAT EXPERIENCE.

AND SO I THINK WE SHOULD CERTAINLY MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT, JUST HAVE THE COMMISSIONER IDENTIFY CITIES AND THEN MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE WE WILL BE DOING IT ELECTRONICALLY.

AND THERE, YOU KNOW, I SUSPECT AND LAURIE, YOU CAN CONFIRM THAT THEY'LL BE, YOU KNOW, VERY LITTLE EXPENSE OUTSIDE OF PAYING WHATEVER MEMBERSHIP FEE THERE IS TO SISTER CITIES.

AND WE ALREADY BECAME THE MEMBERS.

AND SO THE COMMISSION DIRECTED STAFF TO ESTABLISH THE PROGRAMS. SO THE MEMBERSHIP IS ALREADY BUDGETED AND PAID FOR.

OK, THANK YOU.

THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANKING. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER PLACKO.

THANK YOU. CAN YOU TELL ME, DOES IT COMMISSIONER TAKE A CITY OR DO WE PICK ONE OR AN ENTIRE CITY? TYPICALLY, MOST CITIES START WITH ONE CITY AS A CITY, BUT

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OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS.

BUT TYPICALLY THEY RECOMMEND STARTING WITH ONE SO THAT THE RELATIONSHIP CAN BE ESTABLISHED AND THE APPROPRIATE TIME CAN BE GIVEN TO.

JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT I'M GOOD WITH THAT, BUT IF EVERY COMMISSIONER MEMBER COMMITS TO ONGOING COMMUNICATIONS, YOU KNOW, AND YOU'RE ABLE TO TO KEEP IT GOING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO LIMIT.

I HAVE QUESTIONS IF NO ONE ELSE DOES AT THIS TIME, BECAUSE WE DID START THIS OUT AS A FRIENDSHIP. WE WERE DOING A FRIENDSHIP.

SO I'M NOT I'D LIKE YOU TO TELL US EXACTLY WHAT YOU SPENT ON A MEMBERSHIP, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE WERE SPENDING THE MONEY ON THE FRIENDSHIP MEMBERSHIP, NOT THE FULL SISTER CITIES MEMBERSHIP.

MEMBERSHIP TO THE ORGANIZATION IS THE SAME.

GUESS THAT IS JUST ONE MEMBERSHIP FEE.

AND THEN THE 11TH, WHICH ACTIVITIES WE ENGAGE IN AND WHAT WE PARTICIPATE IN AND HOW WE WORK WITH ALL POTENTIAL CITIES.

THANK YOU. SO I UNDERSTAND THE VIRTUAL WORLD AND THE TRAVEL IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. AND SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THE DESIRE TO MOVE FROM FRIENDSHIP TO STRAIGHT SISTER CITIES. BUT I ALSO STILL I'M CONCERNED BECAUSE WE GET TO EVEN PUT OUR TOE IN THE WATER TO SEE IF WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO EVEN PROCEED WITH THIS FRIENDSHIP.

AND ONE OF THE CONCERNS I HAVE AND MAYBE I DIDN'T HEAR YOU RIGHT, WAS THAT IF WE COMMIT TO THE CITIES IN TOTAL, WE NEED TO COMMIT TO CERTAIN TRAVEL.

WELL, THE WORLD IS GOING TO START OPENING UP.

DO WE HAVE AN ISSUE? DO YOU THINK WE WILL HAVE AN ISSUE? OR MAYBE WE HAVE TO FIND OUT THAT WE DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE, THAT IF WE SHOULD JUST IF IT SHOULD OPEN UP IN THE MIDDLE WHERE SOME OF US ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE COMMITMENT FOR THE TRAVEL. THE THREE ITEMS OR LOCATIONS OR TIMES TO TRAVEL THAT WE'RE ABLE TO AMEND AND COME BACK TO.

FRIENDSHIP. OR BE ABLE TO HAVE OUR COMMITMENT BE FOR THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE'RE DOING THIS, THAT IT IS UNDERSTOOD WITH SISTER CITIES THAT AT LEAST FOR ONE YEAR, POTENTIALLY TWO, WE ARE NOT COMMITTING.

THAT TRAVEL FOR THE.

STILL, TRAVEL IS NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR EXCHANGES AND SOME CITIES HAVE BEEN DOING VIRTUAL EXCHANGES. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I MAYBE WASN'T A HUNDRED PERCENT CLEAR, IT USUALLY GOES FOR CITIES TO START WITH THE FRIENDSHIP CITY AND THEN MOVE UP TO THIS CITY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

AND A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP IS CONSIDERED PRETTY PERMANENT.

SO EVEN THEY HAVE SOME REGULATIONS.

BUT THE SISTER CITIES ORGANIZATION THAT IF WE'RE PUTTING THE RELATIONSHIP ON HOLD, WE'RE GOING TO BE LISTED IN THERE DIRECTLY AS A MARITAL STATUS BECAUSE THE RELATIONSHIP IS ON HOLD AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THEY DO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN FRIENDSHIP AND SISTER CITY.

SO AT THIS TIME, AND MAYBE I DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING AS COMMITTED TO MEMORY AS SOME OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONER, THEN YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A BIT BECAUSE I SUPPORT THE FRIENDSHIP PART OF THIS AND STILL HAVE THE CONCERN ABOUT GOING TO THE COMPLETE SISTER CITIES. WHAT TRULY IS THE DIFFERENCE IF THINGS ARE BEING DONE ONLINE? WHY WOULD WE NOT STILL PROCEED AS A FRIENDSHIP TO SEE IF WE CAN CONTINUE TO GET THIS GOING? TO BUILD THE MOMENTUM IN THE CITY, I THINK IS A GREAT IDEA.

IT SOUNDS WONDERFUL THAT WE'LL GET STUDENTS INVOLVED, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT REALISTIC AS KIDS GET BACK TO SCHOOL RIGHT NOW, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF THAT THEY NEED TO WORK ON FOR THE PAST YEAR THAT THEY'VE MISSED BEING IN SCHOOL.

WE HEAR ALL ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS GOING ON.

SO I DON'T WANT TO ADD SOMETHING THAT WE ARE THEN POTENTIALLY NOT ALLOWING US THE ABILITY TO FULLY HAVE THIS BLOSSOM AND GROW INTO A PROPER MECHANISM INSTEAD OF POTENTIALLY PUTTING US FORWARD. NOT 50 AS WELL AS WE COULD IF WE STARTED OFF FRIENDSHIP.

CITY'S. LAWS ARE THERE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE PROGRAM? STILL, THE DIFFERENCES ARE BASICALLY THAT WITH THIS WITH THE SISTER CITY, WE SHOULD HAVE THREE EXCHANGES.

WITH THE FRIENDSHIP CITY, WE CAN DO ONE EXCHANGE.

AND THAT'S.

THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT OTHER THAN THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP IS MEANT TO BE A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP AND THE FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIP, IT'S MEANT TO BE THAT EXPLORATORY STAGE BEFORE ENTERING SISTER CITY.

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DELUSIONS, IF IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT TO START, IS JUST A RECOMMENDATION BASED ON OTHER CITIES EXPERIENCE THAT THE SISTER CITIES ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN.

SO IF I HEAR SOME THINGS FOR NOW, IT'S WORTH SAYING THAT WE WANT TO HAVE FIVE SISTER CITIES, EACH OF US BUSINESSES, CITY, OR ISN'T THAT THAT MEANS 15.

IF WE COMMIT TO THREE FOR EACH OF US ON A SISTER CITY OR IS IT FIVE ONE FOR EACH OF US IF WE DO FRIENDSHIP, THAT'S WHAT WAS ASKED WHEN COMMISSIONER PLACKO SAID, IS IT ONE FOR EACH OF US WANT OR IS IT GOING TO BE AS A BOLTON COMMISSIONER GUNN SAID, WE'LL PICK ONE.

SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT WE'RE REALLY PUTTING FORTH HERE.

MAY I COMMENT THAT? YEAH, SO AS I'M SURE YOU MAY REMEMBER WHEN LAURA DID HER RESEARCH INITIALLY, THERE ARE MULTIPLE CITIES THAT DO HAVE MULTIPLE SISTER CITIES RELATIONSHIPS AT THIS POINT BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY LITTLE EXCHANGES IN TERMS OF REAL TRAVEL THAT COMES AT REAL COST.

I THINK WE CAN EACH PICK A CITY AND ESTABLISH A RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRAVEL.

I PERSONALLY DON'T PLAN ON DOING ANY TRAVELING ANY TIME SOON BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

I DON'T KNOW WHO'S VACCINATED, WHO'S NOT, ESPECIALLY IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

AND SO IF THIS WERE A NORMAL NON PANDEMIC YEAR, THEN I DO THINK WE WOULD ONLY START WITH ONE CITY AND WE ALL AGREE AND TRY TO BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP.

BUT BECAUSE WE'RE IN A PANDEMIC CLIMATE AND EVERYTHING IS DONE VIRTUALLY NOW, IF WE IF WE WANT TO, WE CAN CHOOSE EACH COMMISSIONER CHOOSE A CITY AND HAVE OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS WORK AND BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.

THOSE CITIES PARTNERED WITH OUR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATE OUR SCHOOLS.

AND THE KIDS IN THOSE SCHOOLS ABOUT THE CITIES HAVE THEM START COMMITTEES AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE SCHOOLS AND GROW IT.

AND THEN WE CAN DETERMINE.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL IN 2024, THEN MAYBE WE CHOOSE ONE OF THE FIVE CITIES, CITIES WHERE THERE'S ACTUALLY SOME TRAVEL.

EITHER WE GO OVER THERE OR THEY COME OVER HERE.

BUT THERE'S NO COMMITMENT OR DEDICATION TO DOLLARS AT THIS POINT.

AND IF WE HAVE TO DO THAT IN THE FUTURE, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO VOTE ON.

BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND THE MAKEUP OF OUR CITY OF TAMARAC ALONE AND A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF I DON'T WANT TO USE I DON'T WANT TO USE THE TERM FOREIGNERS, BUT PEOPLE THAT COME FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES THAT ARE NOW IN TAMPA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH FLORIDA IN GENERAL.

AND THERE'S A NUTRITIONAL COMPANY, I FORGET THE NAME THAT'S IN TAMARAC, WHAT'S THE NAME? LAURA OR OR ECONOMICALLY BOLTON PERSON MIGHT KNOW.

THEY WERE FEATURED IN A BROAD ALLIANCE OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD ALLIANCE, A UNIFORM, BUT THEY'RE NEW CALLED NEW VISION FOR MY RIGHT.

SO SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE FROM LATIN AMERICA SOMEWHERE IN COLOMBIA, SOMETHING.

VENEZUELA, VENEZUELA, SO OBVIOUSLY NOT A PLACE TO TRAVEL TO RIGHT NOW, BUT STILL A VERY A VERY GOOD COUNTRY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF VENEZUELANS ARE IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

BUT WE CAN ACTUALLY PARTNER WITH SOME OF THE COMPANIES THAT ARE HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, WHERE PEOPLE ARE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND THEY MAY WANT TO HOST, THEY MAY WANT TO SPONSOR, BUT IT GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS.

THEY MAY HAVE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY OVER THERE.

AND WE WANT TO HELP BRING THOSE BUSINESSES HERE TO AMERICA OR TO THE U.S.

AND SO THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THERE.

OBVIOUSLY THERE'S COSTS, BUT WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITY COSTS OF NOT PURSUING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND TRYING TO BRING BUSINESS TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC OR FOSTER RELATIONSHIPS? AND SO, AGAIN, IF THERE WERE IF THIS IS A NON PANDEMIC HERE, CHOOSE ONE CITY AND WORK WITH THAT.

BUT GIVEN THAT IS A PANDEMIC AND EVERYTHING IS VIRTUAL, EVEN IF YOU JUST GO TO THE SISTER CITIES WEBSITE, EVERYTHING IS VIRTUAL.

WE CAN WE CAN CREATE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS NOW AND DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD IN TERMS OF ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES IN THE FUTURE.

AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE TRAVEL TO FIVE CITIES OR OR HOST FIVE DIFFERENT CITIES OR COUNTRIES, BUT WE MAKE AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE BUDGET NOW.

SO. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE WERE NO PANDEMIC BUT THERE WAS A FINANCIAL CRISIS, AS THERE IS NOW, I WOULD NOT SUGGEST ADOPTING FIVE CITIES BECAUSE FOR BUDGETARY REASONS, WE SHOULDN'T BE SPENDING MONEY ON TRAVEL IN FIVE CITIES.

BUT IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS AND GIVE SOMETHING NEW FOR THE STUDENTS IN OUR IN OUR COMMUNITY.

YOUR ANSWER MINE AND YOU ALSO FINISH YOUR OWN COMMENTS, IS THAT CORRECT? OK, I'M GOING TO FINISH UP AS AS.

MY CONCERN IS JUST ROLLING THIS OUT WELL AND ROLLING IT OUT RIGHT, OUR CITY ALWAYS DOES THINGS RIGHT.

YOU DO THE BEST WE CAN TO DO THINGS AND NOT HAVE TO GO.

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OH, WE SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF IT THIS WAY.

SO IT'S BEEN MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WERE HAVING WE PUT THIS BOARD TOGETHER FOR THE BOARD TO BE REVIEWING THESE ITEMS AND TO PRESENT TO US THE PROPER WAY TO ROLL THIS OUT, NOT FOR US TO TELL THEM RIGHT NOW HOW TO DO IT.

AND AS WE SAID BEFORE, WE ORIGINALLY SET THIS FOR THE CITIES.

AND SO YOUR.

COMMISSIONER GELIN, THIS IS NOT A DEBATE BETWEEN YOU AND I.

I AM ASKING LAURA, WHO IS DOING THIS? YOU CAN. SO THE CONCERN IS WHAT I HAVE AND I'M ENTITLED TO HAVE THIS CONCERN COMMISSIONER GELIN ABOUT.

IT'S GREAT IN THEORY RIGHT NOW TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING WITH FIVE OF US GOING FIVE PLACES OR VIRTUALLY AS IT IS AND PUTTING THIS OUT THERE, BUT I'M WONDERING IF WE'VE THOUGHT IT OUT WELL ENOUGH TO SEE IF THAT IS A VIABLE.

PROCESS FOR THE FUTURE AND THE SUCCESS FOR THIS.

SO MY CONCERNS, LAURA, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS? I'M STILL I'M YOU KNOW, THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA SO THAT THE CITY COMMISSION CAN CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION IN THE SUNSHINE AND GIVE STAFF DIRECTION THAT WE THEN FEEL ABOUT, WE HAD A CLEAR DIRECTION ON HOW TO PROCEED ON THIS PROGRAM.

I GUESS IN MY OPINION, WE HAD A CLEAR DECISION ON HOW TO PROCEED WITH THE PROGRAM, IT'S JUST THERE WAS A LOT OF VOICES BEING TOLD OTHERWISE TO MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY THAN IT WAS ORIGINALLY VOTED FOR.

BOTH MEN LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO END DISCUSSION AND APPROVE, AS IS LOOKING FOR A SECOND, THERE'S. NO SECOND.

DEFINITION OF WHAT IS IT? WE NEED TO DEFINE WHAT AS IS, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO DEBATE WITH YOU EITHER.

MAYOR GOMEZ, I'M JUST TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE POSITION IS.

SO SO WHAT MY POSITION IS.

EACH COMMISSIONER PICKS A CITY.

WE GIVE THAT TO THE COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE GOES TO WORK AND THEN THEY COME BACK TO US. SO, SO, SO, SO IF I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION, I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE THE COMMISSIONER E COMMISSIONER PICK A CITY AND ASSIGN OUR RESPECTIVE SISTER CITIES COMMITTEE MEMBER TO DO RESEARCH AND MOVE FORWARD AND WORK WITH LAW IN WHATEVER STAFF IN ESTABLISHING A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP.

SECOND, THAT. NOW, LAURA, I HAVE A QUESTION.

IS THERE A B FOR EACH CITY WE CHOOSE OR WE PAY THAT ONE MEMBER FEE AND THAT'S IT? AND NO, I BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE FEE.

JUST IF I MAKE COMMISSIONER, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING IS THIS THIS YEAR WITH THE VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIP, IT SOUNDS MORE LIKE AS AN EXPLORATION TO BE DETERMINED AT A LATER TIME.

SO STILL, IF WE ARE TO DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE'RE STARTING WITH THOSE CITIES, YOU KNOW, I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT WE START WITH THE SISTER AND NOT THE SISTER CITY, BUT THE FRIENDSHIP CITY. AND THEN AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, FOLLOWING THOSE VIRTUAL INTERACTIONS AND DETERMINE WHICH ONES ARE MOVING FORWARD TO THE SISTER CITY.

YEAH. CAN YOU DEFINE SISTER? I MEAN, FRIENDSHIP AND SISTER AGAIN FOR ME.

AND IT'S VERY SIMILAR, BUT THE IDEA IS THE FRIENDSHIP.

IS THIS EXPLORATION PHASE KIND OF LIKE CATALINAS THAT YOU'RE DATING BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED KIND OF THING? THEY'LL REALLY JUST.

STARTING TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEEING IF THEY'RE REALLY DEVELOPING AND REALLY GOING SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S LETS US AND THE PARTNERS THEY NEED TO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMPATIBLE AND WE HAVE A LONG TERM POTENTIAL AND AND THEN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE FRIENDSHIPS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A SPECIFIC TIMELINE TO REEVALUATE THE RELATIONSHIP.

AND TAKE A LOOK IF WE'RE LOOKING TO TURN IT INTO A SISTER CITY OR NOT, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE THE CITY COMMISSION DECISION.

SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS WE HAVE A COMMITTEE, WE PICK EACH COMMISSIONER, PICK THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMITTEE WILL ESTABLISH THAT FRIENDSHIP CITY.

AND LET ME JUST READ OFF THE WEBSITE WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SISTER CITY AND A FRIENDSHIP CITY? THE TERM SISTER CITY IN FRONT OF CITIES SOMETIMES HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS. GENERALLY SPEAKING, FRIENDSHIP CITIES ARE LESS FORMAL THAN SISTER CITIES.

IN SOME CITIES, FRIENDSHIPS CITY IS OFTEN USED AS A FIRST STAGE IN THE RELATIONSHIP.

AND AFTER IT IS STRENGTHENED AND THE PARTNERS ARE SURE THEY WANT A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP, THEY WILL BECOME SISTER CITIES.

SO MY SUGGESTION IS THAT EACH COMMISSIONER PICK A CITY.

THE APPOINTED SISTER CITY REPRESENTATIVE WILL ESTABLISH THAT FRIENDSHIP CITY RELATIONSHIP

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AND COME BACK TO US AS A COMMISSIONER AND SAY, YES, WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD AS A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP OR NO, YOU SHOULD EXPLORE ANOTHER CITY IN THIS COUNTRY OR PICK ANOTHER COUNTRY IN ANOTHER CITY. SO BASICALLY, COMMISSIONER GELIN, YOU HAVE NOW AMENDED YOUR ORIGINAL MOTION FOR IT TO BE A SISTER CITY, TO BE A FRIENDSHIP CITY ITEM, TO GO ALONG, OF COURSE, THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED.

IS THAT CORRECT? I'M NOT SURE WHAT I SAID EARLIER.

BUT I JUST THINK THAT EACH COMMISSIONER SHOULD PICK A CITY AND THEN ALLOW THE APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE TO GO TO WORK, WHATEVER THAT MEANS, STARTING AS A FRIENDSHIP TO THE SISTER. I THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO START STARTED THE FRIENDSHIP BEFORE ADOPTING.

I KNOW I'M COMFORTABLE WITH THE CITY I WANT TO CHOOSE.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, EACH PERSON CAN MOVE FORWARD THE WAY THEY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD.

OK, SO CITY PARK, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE MOTION AND TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE IT AS SISTER CITIES, IF WE NEED TO HAVE A FRANK DISCUSSION ON AMENDMENT BY COMMISSIONER GELIN AND WE NEED TO HAVE COMMISSIONER MAYOR VILLALOBOS SECOND THE AMENDED MOTION. SO PLEASE HELP.

SURE. MANAMI COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YOUR ORIGINAL MOTION WAS TO PICK A CITY AND ASSIGN THE MEMBER THAT EACH OF YOU PICK TO ESTABLISH A RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT CITY.

YOU DIDN'T CLARIFY IF IT WAS A SISTER CITY OR A FRIENDSHIP CITY.

YOU JUST SAID PICK A CITY.

OK, SO I'M FINE WITH THAT MOTION.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS, IS JUST TO PICK A CITY AND THEN WE MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE. BUT WE ALLOW THE COMMITTEE TO MOVE FORWARD, DO THE HOMEWORK, DO THE RESEARCH, AND THEN COME BACK TO US AS A SISTER CITY OR FRIENDSHIP CITY.

THEY'LL COME BACK TO US AND SAY WE SHOULD BE EITHER A FRIENDSHIP CITY OR SISTER CITY.

I THINK YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DIRECTION FROM US ON FRIENDSHIP.

WE'RE SISTER SO YOU CAN PROCEED WITH WHAT YOU NEED TO DO WITH THE MAIN ORGANIZATION.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR DIRECTION IN TERMS OF HOW WE NEED TO PROCEED WITH THE PROGRAM IN GENERAL AND WHAT WE'RE TASKING THE COMMITTEE TO DO, SO IF I'M IF I'M HEARING THIS LATEST MOTION CORRECTLY, IT KIND OF TIES IN WITH THE ORIGINAL DIRECTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION TO ASSIST EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION WOULD IDENTIFY THIS CITY.

AND THEN THE SISTER CITY COMMITTEE MEMBERS WOULD DO RESEARCH AND THEN COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION WHETHER WE SHOULD PROCEED WITH THAT CITY AND WHETHER WE SHOULD PROCEED AS A FRIENDSHIP CITY OR AS A SISTER CITY.

DID I HEAR THAT? YEAH.

OR PICK AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CITY.

SO THAT'S THE ASSIGNMENT THAT WE'RE GIVING TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

WE'VE PICKED THESE CITIES.

GO TO WORK. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU FIND IN YOUR RESEARCH.

IS IT GOOD? IS IT A GOOD MATCH OR A GOOD FIT TO THE CITY OF TAMRAT? YOU NEED MORE DIRECTION THAN THAT, OR IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH? THE PARTIZAN OF MUCH AND THEN VICE MAYOR REALLY HAS IT SECONDED PLACKO.

DO I GET TO CHOOSE MY CITY NOW? WHY NOT? WHY NOT? I COULD. FLORENCE, ITALY.

ALL RIGHT. I MEAN, THE THING IS, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.

ITALY WAS A CORPORATE HOTSPOT FOR A LONG TIME.

I KNOW, BUT I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW.

SO CAN CELEBRITIES.

SO WE HAVE FLORENCE CLAIM THAT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO ASK CITY CLERK TO CALL A RELATIVE NO OTHER DISCRETIONAL. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

GOMEZ COMMISSIONER.

GELIN. YES.

COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO YES, MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU. WELL, NOW MOVE TO SEE VISION ZERO UPDATE, MISS CALLAWAY, OUR DIRECTOR OF

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WILL BE PROVIDING A PRESENTATION.

AND WE CAN SEE YOUR SCREEN.

THANK YOU, MISS CALLOWAY.

WERE YOU ABLE TO JOIN MY MEETING LAST NIGHT? YES, I WAS COMMISSIONER, AND I'LL SPEAK TO THAT JUST A MOMENT, AS SOON AS I CAN GET THIS PRESENTATION SITUATED HERE.

LET'S SEE.

ALL RIGHT, THERE YOU GO, SO EVERYONE CAN SEE THE SLIDES.

YES, WE CAN, THANK YOU.

YES, THANK YOU, MAXINE CALLAWAY, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

FOR THE RECORD, WE JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE A QUICK UPDATE TO THE COMMISSION AS TO STEP

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STAFF HAS TAKEN SINCE THE LAST DISCUSSION ON THIS VISION ZERO INITIATIVE AND JUST OUR RECOMMENDATION IN TERMS OF HOW WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INITIATIVE.

SO A FEW THINGS WE'VE DONE SINCE THE LAST COMMISSION DISCUSSION.

WE HAVE ATTENDED THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL'S VISION ZERO INITIATIVE, AND SO WE CAN LISTEN TO A BIT ABOUT THE INFORMATION THEY HAD TO PROVIDE.

RELATIVE JACMEL CITIES CAN ACHIEVE ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES THROUGH STRATEGIC TRANSPORTATION PLANNING POLICIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT.

AND SO WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS PROCESS IS THAT THIS IS CLOSELY TIED INTO TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ON A BROADER LEVEL.

AND SO WE FELT THE TIMING OF THIS DISCUSSION WAS WAS RIGHT ON POINT AS THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIVITY PLAN.

SO IN ADDITION TO ATTENDING THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL'S VISION ZERO INITIATIVE MEETING, WE ALSO ATTENDED COMMISSIONER GELIN MEETING LAST NIGHT, FACE MEETING, WHICH WENT WELL, AND A FEW REPRESENTATIVE, ONE IN PARTICULAR FROM THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE.

IN OUR RESEARCH, WE'VE COME TO FIND OUT THAT THEY'RE THE ONLY MUNICIPALITY IN BROWARD COUNTY THAT HAS A VISION ZERO DESIGNATION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE THEY ARE RANKED NUMBER TWO IN PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES PER CAPITA AND NUMBER FIVE IN TRAFFIC FATALITIES PER CAPITA.

SO WE REALLY RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND WHY THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE WAS REALLY EAGER TO PUT THAT INITIATIVE TOGETHER, TO TRY TO SEE HOW THEY CAN ADJUST AND REALLY REDUCE THEIR FATALITIES TO ZERO.

BUT AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE TIMING IS PERFECT IN THAT THE CITY WAS AWARDED ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AS A PART OF THE SURTAX, A PROGRAM FROM THE COUNTY.

WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER THAT RFP.

AND BECAUSE THIS INITIATIVE CAME UP, A CITY COMMISSION MEETING, WE WERE ABLE TO RESTRUCTURE THAT RFP, THE SCOPE IN PARTICULAR.

AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO INSERT VISION ZERO GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES AND ASK THE CONSULTANT WHEN THEY ARE SELECTED TO ALSO MAKE STRONG STRATEGIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR VISION ZERO INITIATIVE.

WE ALSO GATHERED SOME ADDITIONAL MATERIALS FROM THE VISION ZERO NETWORK TO GUIDE THE NEXT STEPS AS WE FACILITATE THE DESIGNATION PROCESS.

AND I JUST INCLUDED THIS SLIDE BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE VISION ZERO INITIATIVE INCLUDES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF STRATEGIES THAT REALLY RELY ON A LOT OF COLLABORATION FROM THE LEADERS OF THIS COMMUNITY AND FROM DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS AND DIVERSE GROUP, BECAUSE REALLY THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR NETWORK HAVE SAFE TRAVEL FOR ALL SAFE STREETS, SAFE SPACES, SAFE VEHICLES, SAFE PEOPLE. AND SO THIS INCLUDES TRANSPORTATION, PROFESSIONAL AND POLICY MAKERS GETTING INVOLVED. IT INCLUDES US COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA CONTINUOUSLY SO WE CAN SEE THE POTENTIAL OR HOW IT IMPACTS WHETHER PROPORTIONATELY OR DISPROPORTIONATELY CERTAIN POPULATION AND PEOPLE.

AND THIS IS THE EQUITY COMPONENT OF THE VISION ZERO INITIATIVE.

IT ALSO INCLUDES PRIORITIZING EQUITY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND MANAGING SPEED TO SAFE LEVELS AND SETTING A TIMELINE TO ACHIEVE ZERO TRAFFIC DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES, WHICH BRINGS URGENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENSURING TRANSPARENCY ON PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES.

AND SO ONCE WE PUT A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN TOGETHER, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS IS ADDRESSED OVERNIGHT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT, WHETHER WE SET A GOAL FOR 10 YEARS, 15 YEARS.

BUT ULTIMATELY, OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO ACHIEVE ZERO FATALITIES, AND THAT INCLUDES ADDRESSING OUR ENTIRE INFRASTRUCTURE.

AS I SAID LAST NIGHT, COMMISSIONER GOING ON THROUGH YOUR MEETING.

SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT QUICKLY ON NEXT STEPS WHAT WE PLAN ON DOING RELATIVE TO THIS INITIATIVE. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THE TRANSPORTATION MASTERPLAN, WHICH WILL CONTAIN VISION ZERO INITIATIVES.

AND I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE THAT WE HAVE THE SIRTEX BRAND.

WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING OUT THE RFP WHERE WE CAN GET A CONSULTANT TO HELP US WITH OUR MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN.

AND THIS IS TELLING THE ENTIRE CITY, ALL THE PARTIES IN THE CITY AND STRATEGIES AND HOW TO IMPROVE OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.

AND IN SO DOING, WE ALSO WANT TO SEE HOW WE CAN REDUCE OUR FATALITIES TO ZERO.

WE'RE GOING TO ALSO DRAFT THE RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE CITY'S DESIRE TO BECOME A BRIDGE AND ZERO COMMUNITY.

THAT'S ONE OF THE STEPS THAT WE HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN IN ORDER TO GET THE ULTIMATE DESIGNATION. SO THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOU SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

AND WE WANT TO GARNER SUPPORT OF PRIVATE, PUBLIC, LOCAL, REGIONAL AND STATE AGENCIES BECAUSE WE NEED TO DEVELOP A VISION ZERO.

FORCE, AND SO THE TASK FORCE NEEDS TO INCLUDE ELECTED ELECTED OFFICIALS, SUPPORT AGENCY

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AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

SO AFTER WE BRING FORWARD THE RESOLUTION AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON PUTTING TOGETHER THAT TASK FORCE, THEN AFTER WE HAVE DONE THAT AND COMMISSIONER GELIN, IN YOUR UPDATE, YOU SPOKE ABOUT A QUESTION HERE RECOGNIZED IN THE CITY AS A VISION ZERO COMMUNITY.

SO WE WANT TO GET THESE STEPS THEN BEFORE WE HAVE THE MAYOR COMPLETE A QUESTIONNAIRE, BECAUSE WE DID GO ONLINE, LOOK AT THE QUESTIONNAIRE AND IT'S ASKING CERTAIN QUESTIONS THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED AND TAKE CERTAIN STEPS BEFORE THE MAYOR HAS BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE.

AND ULTIMATELY, WE WANT TO DEVELOP SOME STRATEGIES.

AND THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN IS SO RECOGNIZING THAT THAT'S THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE.

WE WENT AHEAD LAST FRIDAY.

WE SUBMITTED FOR PHASE TWO OR YOU NEED TO BE FUNDED.

AND SO ATTACKS INCLUDED IN THAT WAS FUNDING FOR A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN.

SO THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY ON FRIDAY.

SO THE OBJECTIVE IS ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN, USING THOSE STRATEGIES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED IN THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN, WE WOULD THEN DEVELOP A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN AND WITH FUNDING FROM SIRTEX.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO IMPLEMENT AND PRIORITIZE THE LIST OF THOSE INITIATIVES THAT COMES OUT OF THAT ACTION PLAN.

SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.

THAT'S ALL WE HAVE.

AND I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

AND OF COURSE, THIS IS SHOWING THE MAP THAT YOU SAW LAST NIGHT, COMMISSIONER, GELIN SHOWING THE VARIOUS PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES AT OUR VISION ZERO HAVE A VISION ZERO DESIGNATION JUST SHOWING THOSE LOCATIONS HERE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA THAT THAT DESIGNATION. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

THANKS, MAXINE. SO, YOU KNOW, I RECOGNIZE THAT TAMARAC IS NOT A LARGE CITY LIKE HOUSTON OR FORT LAUDERDALE OR ORLANDO, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HAD TRAFFIC FATALITIES.

AND THIS ITEM WAS BROUGHT TO ME BY SOMEONE WHO WHO EXPERIENCED THE LOSS IN HER FAMILY WHERE A HUSBAND PASSED AWAY.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TALK ABOUT IN VISION ZERO IS EQUITY, WHERE PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE WHO HAVE MOBILITY ISSUES ARE HANDICAPPED.

THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE HURT OR KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT.

AND THEN ONE OF THE THINGS THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS THE INFRASTRUCTURE, HOW THE COMMUNITY BUILDS ROADS AND SIDEWALKS AND STREETS.

SOMETIMES IT'S BUILT IN A WAY WHERE IT ENCOURAGES ACCIDENTS.

AND HER HUSBAND WAS A VETERAN WHO WAS KILLED CROSSING THE STREET TO GO TO THE VA CENTER.

AND THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS FROM BOTH SUNRISE RESIDENTS AND TAMARAC RESIDENTS THAT SAY THAT THAT THAT AREA'S A DEATH TRAP.

AND I THINK THEY ADDRESSED THAT A LITTLE BIT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.

AND MY HOPE IS THAT JUST LIKE AFTER WE PASSED JUNETEENTH, A FEW OTHER CITIES PASSED JUNETEENTH. IF WE PASSED, WE PASSED BETWEEN ZERO.

HOPEFULLY OTHER CITIES WILL ADOPT IT.

AND THEN BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE SPEAKER FROM FORT LAUDERDALE AND BROWARD COUNTY SPOKE ABOUT LAST NIGHT IS THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THESE 31 CITIES IN 31 DIFFERENT THINGS. WE ALL NEED TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE AND HAVE THE SAME VISION SO THAT AS A COUNTY, WE CAN ALL BE SAFE.

AND IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'LL JUST READ A COUPLE OF COMMENTS THAT I GOT FROM RESIDENTS WERE ON THE CALL. ONE, A LADY NAMED PENNY COLEMAN.

LAST NIGHT'S WEBCAST WAS QUITE INTERESTING.

THE ZERO POLICY IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE, BUT IT IS A GOOD POLICY.

I IMMEDIATELY STARTED THINKING OF WAYS TO DO IT.

SLOW COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD DOWN.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT BY REDUCING THE SPEED LIMIT.

YOU CAN DO IT BY PUTTING IN SPEED CAMERAS AND CAMERAS AT EVERY INTERSECTION ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD STOP LIGHTS THAT CAN BE STARTED BY PEDESTRIANS AND CRACKING DOWN ON AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS AND MORE LIGHTS THAT BRING ALL CARS TO A HALT FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS, WHICH WE DO HAVE ONE DOWN THE ROAD, WHICH I REMEMBER THERE WAS A WORKSHOP AND MY SON AND I WENT BIKE RIDING ONE DAY WITH MY WIFE AND WE HIT THAT BUTTON AND THE LIGHTS WENT UP.

AND TO MY SURPRISE, ALL THE CARS STOPPED THAT THOSE YELLOW LIGHTS.

THE SPEAKER WHO SUGGESTED WE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY CROSSROADS, WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF CYCLISTS, HAS A BACKWARDS CYCLIST LIKE ME.

DON'T TRY TO CROSS COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

IT'S JUST TOO DANGEROUS. WE NEED TO MAKE THE ROADS AND SIDEWALKS AND BIKE TRAILS SAFER FIRST SO THAT PEOPLE WILL FEEL COMFORTABLE USING THEM.

AND THEN ANOTHER COMMENT, LAST ONE, WHICH IS NOT AS LONG.

IT'S FROM A WOODLAND'S RESIDENT, JUDITH MARGOLIS, THE SUBJECT LINE.

YOU ARE TERRIFIC. THANK YOU, JUDITH.

THAT WAS THE MOST WORTHWHILE.

OUR MIKE. WHILE I MAY NOT BE AS DIRECTLY AFFECTED AS MANY, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF TRAFFIC IN AND AROUND OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, ATTENTION AND PERSPICACITY.

I THINK I SAID IT RIGHT. P R S P C A CITY Y.

YOU ARE A GEM OF A REPRESENTATIVE.

PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH THE SENSE I KNOW.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMERCIAL THERE.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. IF THERE'S NO FEEDBACK, COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.

ANYWAY, I DO THINK THAT IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM.

THAT'S WHY WE VOTED ON IT WHEN IT CAME BEFORE US THE FIRST TIME.

AND AS I SHARED WITH COMMISSIONER GELIN THE PEOPLE TO CALL FROM VISION ZERO NATIONAL.

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WHY THROUGH THE PROGRAM, AS I SERVE ON THE NATIONAL AND STATE LEAGUE OF CITIES, TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN HELP US.

GET OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR ROADWAYS BETTER, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY FOR THE MTA TO BE WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THESE DESIGN PROGRAMS, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THEIR TAX DOLLARS AS WELL.

AND SO IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE DOING, I BELIEVE, AS A GRANDER SCALE THROUGH THE COUNTY AND WITH COLLABORATION WITH CITIES.

AND I DO BELIEVE THAT OTHER CITIES WILL PROBABLY COME ON BOARD AND VISION ZERO IS SO IS COMING OUT OF THE GROUND, SO TO SPEAK, AND GROWING.

AND SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS PROCESS PROCEEDING FURTHER.

THERE'S NOTHING ELSE ON THIS MATTER.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ITEM 11, SORRY, 13 DAYS, REZVAN CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH DISCUSSION

[13.d. Caribbean Heritage Month – Discussion of proposed events and activities ]

OF THOSE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES.

MR. GREG WARNER, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION, WILL PROVIDE A PRESENTATION.

MR. WARNER. WE GET THIS UP.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR FOR THE RECORD, GREG WARNER, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. AND.

CAN YOU SEE MY SCREEN NOW? NOT YET, NO.

CAN YOU GIVE ME A HAND WITH THIS FOR SOME REASON THAT'S NOT.

IT'S HAPPENING FOR ME.

WELL, THAT YOU HAVE THAT YOU CAN PUT UP FOR ME, PLEASE.

IT'S A CULTURAL SPECIAL EVENT.

IT IS UP TO.

OK, THANK YOU.

AND MR. VICE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSIONER, WHAT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, THERE'S SOME CULTURAL SPECIAL EVENT PLANNING AND AN UPDATE ON THAT.

AND THERE'S THERE'S ALSO TWO OTHER ITEMS THAT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT TO COVER TONIGHT. AND ONE IS THE ONE TAMARAC EVENT AND THEN THE OTHER IS WAS BROUGHT UP BY THE COMMISSION TO COME BACK TO YOU ON IS THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING.

THE SERVICE OF ALCOHOL AT SOME OF OUR EVENTS, BEER AND WINE, THAT THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO TO START OUT, THE COMMISSIONER HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST AND COMMISSIONER GELIN, COMMISSIONER BOLTON ABOUT CELEBRATING CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH.

AND SO THE STAFF HAS COME UP WITH SOME SOME IDEAS AND WE WANT IT TO BE RUN BY RUN BY THE COMMISSION AND GET YOUR BUY IN FOR.

AND THE FIRST IS A CARIBBEAN FAMILY FUN DAY.

AND WE'RE PROPOSING THAT FOR JUNE 5TH AT WATER'S EDGE PARK FROM THREE TO SIX, IF YOU CAN GO FOR THE NEXT. AND THE OVERVIEW FOR THIS EVENT, AND WE FEEL THAT WHAT WATER'S EDGE IS A GREAT SPOT FOR FOR THIS EVENT, JUST BECAUSE OF THE SPLASH PAD BEING THERE WILL BE ABLE TO THEME. THERE'S A LARGE PLAYGROUND THAT THE GRASSY AREA, WE'LL BE ABLE TO BRING IN ENTERTAINMENT, BRING A CARIBBEAN HEADLINER BAND, STEEL DRUM BAND OUT STROLLING ENTERTAINERS, BALLOON ARTISTS, CARIBBEAN FOOD VENDORS WOULD HAVE KIDS GAMES, VOLLEYBALL COMPETITIONS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

AND WE FEEL THAT PARK WOULD BE GREAT.

AND THAT WOULD BE A REALLY NICE DAY TO CELEBRATE CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH EVENT ABOUT THE NEXT. AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, AND THIS IS A CONCERT ON THE GREEN AT COUNTY WEST ON FRIDAY, JUNE 11TH, COUNTY WISE GOLF CLUB.

AND ONCE THE WITH THE CLUBHOUSE OPENING AND LATER IN MID-MAY, THAT TRAILER IS GOING TO BE REMOVED. THERE'S A PERFECT SPOT FOR PEOPLE TO SIT OUTSIDE TO ENJOY THE GROWTH OF FOOD AT THE CLUBHOUSE AS WELL AS MUSIC OUT THERE.

GO TO THE NEXT. AND WITH THE CONSTANT ON THE GREEN, AGAIN, WE HAVE A CARIBBEAN BAND COLONY WEST WOULD BE OFFERING A CARIBBEAN MENU OFFER FROM FROM THE VIEW RESTAURANT, THE NEW

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RESTAURANT THERE. WE'D HAVE OPEN SEATING ON THE GREEN FOR FOUR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC COULD SIT OUT ON THE OUTSIDE PATIO AND RESERVE TABLE SEATING.

SO WHILE THEY EAT, THEY CAN ENJOY THE CONCERT AS WELL.

MAX. AND THEN ALSO TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH, ON THE TWENTY SIXTH AT THE CAPITAL AQUATIC CENTER, WE WOULD HAVE A THEME PARTY AND AT THE POOL AND SPLASH BASH.

SO CELEBRATING THAT CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF JUNE.

SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT WE WE HAVE SCHEDULED.

GO AHEAD WITH THAT. AND WITH WITH THE PARTY AT THE POOL, WE'D HAVE A DEEJAY, FOOD VENDORS GAMES, WE WOULD OFFER THREE DIFFERENT SESSIONS AND WE WOULD OFFER A PREREGISTRATION THROUGH EVENTBRITE. AND THAT THAT MAY CHANGE BASED ON SOME OF THE LATEST BROWARD COUNTY EMERGENCY ORDER. SO WE MAY BE ABLE TO OPEN UP TO MORE PEOPLE AT ONE TIME OR FOR THAT EVENT. AND THOSE EVENTS HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY POPULAR OUT AT THE COUNTY AQUATIC CENTER NEXT. AND A RECAP OF THOSE EVENTS, THE FAMILY FUN DAY CONCERT ON THE GREEN AND SPLASH BACK BASH AND THEN ALSO WITH WITH COUNTY WEST THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, THEY WOULD BE OFFERING A THEMED RESTAURANT OR THEMED RESTAURANT SPECIALS AT THE VIEW RESTAURANT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE THE WHOLE MONTH.

NEXT. IN.

AND THE ONE THING I WANTED TO GET DIRECTION FROM THE CONVENTION ON AND I KNOW WHEN CERNECH ATTITUDE PLANNING DURING BUDGET SESSIONS WITH THE COMMISSION, THE COMMISSION, WHEN COMMISSIONER BOLTON FIRST CAME ON, HE HAD HE HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST IN SOME DIFFERENT CULTURAL EVENTS, COMMISSIONER GELIN THE SAME SAME THING.

AND WE'RE KIND OF MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION.

WE HAD THE LARGER BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT.

WE'RE DOING THE CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH EVENT.

AND I KNOW THE VICE MAYOR IS HOPING THAT WE CAN HAVE A HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH EVENT, WHICH IS IN SEPTEMBER.

AND WHEN WE ORIGINALLY SPOKE ABOUT THIS AND IN BUDGETING AND AT THE TIME, DOLLAR WISE, STAFF WISE, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, WE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF OFFERING THE ONE TAMARAC FESTIVAL, WHICH IS A A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL TO COVER THE DIFFERENT CULTURES IN TAMARAC.

SO WE HAD THAT ONE EVENT EACH YEAR AND WE'VE HAD THAT FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AND FIRST YEAR GOT RAINED OUT.

SO NOT AS SUCCESSFUL, BUT THE LAST TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN PRETTY SUCCESSFUL WITH WITH A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. AGAIN, THE CONCEPT WAS TO CELEBRATE ALL CULTURES THAT MAKE UP TAMARAC.

AND AND AS I SAID, WE'VE BEEN TALKING MORE AND MORE ABOUT SOME INDIVIDUAL CULTURE CELEBRATIONS THAT WE'RE WE'RE BRINGING THOSE ON, SO REQUESTING DIRECTION AS TO WHETHER THE COMMISSION WANTS US TO CONTINUE TO OFFER A GUNN TAMARAC FESTIVAL OR PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON THESE INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUAL CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS.

GO TO THE NEXT AND I'LL FINISH UP AND THEN WE CAN WE CAN TALK ABOUT THESE IDEAS AND THE AND WHAT WAS ACTUALLY IN TWENTY TWENTY FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY ONE TAMARAC FESTIVAL STAFF HAD PROPOSED THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDING THE ABILITY TO HAVE A VENDOR COME IN AND SERVE ALCOHOL AT THE AT THE EVENT INSTEAD OF BEER AND WINE.

AND JUST TO ADD TO THE AT THE EVENT.

AND ENHANCE THE EVENT WITH THAT AT THE TIME, THE COMMISSION DID NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH DOING THAT, SO WE WE DID NOT DO THAT LAST YEAR.

BUT COMMISSIONER BOLTON HAD REQUESTED THAT WE BRING THIS BACK JUST JUST FOR DISCUSSION ON SOME OF OUR EVENTS AND WHERE IT MAY BE APPROPRIATE THAT YOU COULD GO TO THE NEXT ONE PLACE. AND JUST TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPOSED PROCEDURE FOR THAT IS THIS THE CITY WOULD BRING IN AN OUTSIDE VENDOR THAT HAS A EITHER A TEMPORARY LIQUOR LICENSE OR THEY HAVE A PERMANENT LIQUOR LICENSE TO SERVE.

THEY WOULD MEET THE CITY'S INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS, WOULD HAVE ADDITIONAL DETAIL OFFICERS.

AND SOME OF THE EXAMPLES, I THINK THE THE CULTURAL EVENTS ARE GOOD COULD BE EVENTS.

YOU HAVE MUSIC. YOU HAVE PEOPLE OUTSIDE ENJOYING DOING THE MUSIC, HAVING THE FOOD TRUCKS,

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THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

THESE ARE THE TYPES OF EVENTS THAT I SEE COULD BE ENHANCED WITH WITH THE SURPLUS OF ALCOHOL AND JUST THE WAY BLACK HISTORY MONTH, CARIBBEAN HERITAGE AND HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH OR AND OR ONE TAMARAC FESTIVAL.

AND IT'S AN ADDITIONAL OFFERING WE HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE AT ANY OF OUR EVENTS.

MANY OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN THE AREA HAVE EVENTS THAT THAT SERVE ALCOHOL.

SO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH THOSE COMPETE WITH THOSE EVENTS.

AND THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR INCREASED ATTENDANCE DUE TO THAT ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL COMPONENT FOR THE EVENT.

YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT. SO THAT THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION ON CARIBBEAN HERITAGE ONE TAMARAC AND.

SERVICE OF ALCOHOL AND SOME OF THE EVENTS TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

COMMISSIONER GO ON AS A SANTARUS.

YES, FOR THE RECORD, I ALSO REQUESTED HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH WHEN I FIRST CAME ON BOARD, SO I'M NOT JUST STARTING.

RIGHT, SORRY. YEAH, NO PROBLEM.

YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD STILL KEEP ONE TAMRAT.

I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT IN FEBRUARY DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH.

I WANT TO SAY THERE'S A THERE'S AN INTERNATIONAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL DAY AND SOME INTERNATIONAL DAY I THINK IS CELEBRATED DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.

SO I THINK IF WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE TAMARAC I SHOULD BE IN DURING A MONTH WHERE, YOU KNOW, INTERNATIONAL DAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS BEING CELEBRATED.

YOU KNOW, I'M FROM NEW YORK, SO THERE WAS ALWAYS A PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE OF CELEBRATION. SO EVERY COMMUNITY OR CULTURE, YOU KNOW, WANTS TO DO THEIR THING THE WAY THEY DO IT, YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE, THEY DO CANGEMI CONGREGATE AMONG EACH OTHER.

SO YOU HAVE A LITTLE HAITI IN MIAMI, LITTLE CUBAN MIAMI.

THERE'S SO MANY VENEZUELANS IN AND THEY CALL THAT WESTERN SWELL.

SO PEOPLE DO LIKE TO CONGREGATE AMONG EACH OTHER.

AND COMMISSIONER GOMEZ LED OFF INTO A LITTLE BIT OF A.

AND SO, YEAH, WE SHOULD CELEBRATE ONE.

TAMRAT CARIBBEAN HAS TO REMIND BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT CAN BRING OUR COMMUNITY AND DIFFERENT CULTURES TOGETHER.

AND I THINK IT'S GREAT WHEN WE DO HAVE YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IS GOING TO ATTRACT THE MOST HISPANICS, BUT THEY ALSO GOING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE THAT WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THE HISPANIC CULTURE AND LIKEWISE WITH ALL THE OTHER CELEBRATIONS.

SO I DO THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE TAKE THE TIME AND CELEBRATE THE DIFFERENT CULTURES THAT REPRESENT THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND JUST MAKE SURE WE DO IT IN A WAY OR IN A MONTH THAT IS, YOU KNOW, CULTURALLY COMPETENT.

AND REGARDING THE REGARDING THE COLONY WEST EVENTS, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE HAVE THIS CARIBBEAN FOOD, WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE CARIBBEAN PEOPLE MAKING THAT FOOD.

SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO EAT YOUR CHICKEN MADE BY AN AMERICAN VERSUS A JAMAICAN.

SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT IS CULTURALLY TO CHECK OUT THE CHEFS THAT THEY'RE HIRING TEMPORARY HIRING FOR THAT DAY.

BUT GOOD PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU. I THANK YOU.

OK, THERE'S NO ONE ELSE THAT HAS A COMMENT, I WILL JUMP IN THERE.

I THINK OUR ONE TAMARAC EVENT IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, AND IT IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS CITY IS, ONE TAMARAC AND WE HAVE WE CELEBRATE, WE HAVE KOREAN, INDIAN, CHINESE, RUSSIAN, ITALIAN. PEOPLE FROM THAILAND, WE HAVE SO MANY CULTURES IN OUR CITY, WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE SUCH A RICH HERITAGE OF PEOPLE.

SOME OF THE COMMENTS I'VE RECEIVED FROM SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS, IT FEELS THAT WE ARE ONLY.

WE'RE SEGREGATING OUT, WE'RE NO LONGER BEING ONE, WHICH IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF OUR CITY.

I HAVE NO PROBLEM CELEBRATING AND ENJOYING EVERYBODY'S CULTURE.

I, TOO, AM FROM NEW YORK AND I'M USED TO SAN GENNARO FOOD FEST.

BUT I'M PRETTY SURE THE ITALIANS ARE THE ONES WHO PUT TOGETHER THAT PARADE DOWN IN LITTLE ITALY. SAME THING FOR THE OTHER EVENTS IN THE CITY WHERE THE RESIDENTS PUT TOGETHER THAT.

THE CONCERN I HAVE HERE IS IF I DID A QUICK LOOK OF WHAT HISTORY MONTH OR SO OF ASIAN PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH IS IN MAY, WE HAVE POLISH HERITAGE MONTH, WHICH IS OCTOBER.

WE ALSO HAVE POLISH. WE HAVE ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH, WHICH SEEMS TO BE OCTOBER, AS WELL AS AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH IS NOVEMBER.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO JUST CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE LITTLE ITEMS ALL THROUGHOUT THE

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CITY BECOMES VERY EXPENSIVE.

IT BECOMES A PROBLEM FOR US TO BE ABLE TO COORDINATE THESE THINGS.

THAT'S WHY WE TALK TO STRATEGIC PLANNING ABOUT THIS.

WHEN IT FIRST CAME ABOUT AND WE DECIDED ONE TRACK WAS TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE ALL OF OUR CULTURES AND THAT WHICH MAKES US UNIQUE AND ONE AND MADE IT REALLY BIG.

AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO GROW BIG AS AS GREG HAS HEARD ME SAY, AND I BELIEVE AS THE CITY MANAGER AS WELL. ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS HOPING FOR THE LAST EVENT IS WE WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING WITH FOOD BECAUSE THROUGH OUR CULTURES, WE HAVE PASTA, WE HAVE RICE, WE HAVE POTATO.

NOT ALL OF OUR CULTURES ACTUALLY HAVE ONE OF THOSE ITEMS, BUT BE ABLE TO SHOW HOW AND A BANANA AND A PATTY AND A BLINTZ.

AND THIS ALL COMES FROM SIMILAR THINGS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF DIFFERENCE TO SHOW THAT WE ARE STILL ONE.

SO THAT'S WHY I HAVE ISSUE WITH ADDING ALL THESE OTHER LITTLE EVENTS TAKE YOU AWAY FROM OUR MAJOR EVENT TO WHERE WE ARE NOT CELEBRATING THE REST OF OUR CITY AS WELL.

SO THAT'S THAT'S KIND OF MY ISSUE FOR SOME OF THESE EVENTS.

HAVE WE DONE A SURVEY TO SEE WHO ACTUALLY ATTENDS? I KNOW WHEN WE GO WALKING AROUND SOME OF OUR EVENTS, THERE'S SUNRISE OR HOLLYWOOD THERE.

BOCA, THEY'RE MIAMI.

THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE.

SO WHEN WE'RE HAVING SOME OF THESE EVENTS, I'M CURIOUS IF WE'RE PUTTING IT OFF MORE FOR OUR RESIDENTS. AND IF THEY'RE MORE THAN NOT OUR RESIDENTS AND THE EXPENSE BECOMES TOO GREAT, MAYBE WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT SOME KIND OF DEPENDING ON HOW EXPENSIVE ALL THIS GETS. FEE FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT OUR RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE EVENTS LIKE THE AND YOU CAN SHAKE YOUR HEAD ALL YOU WANT, COMMISSIONER I'M ENTITLED TO MY OPINION AGAIN, NOT YOUR OPINION OF MINE.

SO WE HAVE THE EVENTS FOR THE POOL RIGHT AT THIS TIME BECAUSE WE'RE LIMITED TO PEOPLE AND PLANNING AS HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO DURING COVID.

WE HAVE ONE, THREE AND A FIVE WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE SIGN UP ON EVENTBRITE, IS IT ONLY FOR TAMARAC RESIDENTS SO THEY COULD BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THEIR AQUATIC CENTER FIRST, OR IS IT FOR ANYONE THE FIRST TWO PEOPLE WHO SIGN UP UP TO THE CAPACITY? IT'S BEEN THE FIRST IT'S FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE, SO WE KNOW FOR SOME OF THE OTHER EVENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING OVER COVID, IF WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN SERVING OUR RESIDENTS FOR THESE ITEMS, OR THE ONE THING I CAN SAY IS WE HAVE NOT HAD TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY WITH ANY OF OUR ANY OF OUR PREREGISTRATION EVENTS DURING COVID.

SO WE'VE NOT HAD TO TURN AWAY.

AND WE ALSO DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE BEEN SERVING OUR OWN POPULATION OR IF WE'VE BEEN USING CITY RESOURCES TO SERVE REST.

WE WE KNOW THAT MOST ARE TAMARAC RESIDENTS, BUT I DON'T HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF THAT.

I'M SORRY YOU BROKE UP A LITTLE BIT.

ARE OR ARE NOT.

I KNOW THAT THE MAJORITY ARE TAMARAC RESIDENTS, BUT I DO NOT HAVE A SPECIFIC BREAKDOWN.

OK, THAT'S FINE. THE MAJORITY IS GOOD, BUT.

ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE TO LIMIT CAPACITY DUE TO.

RESTRICTIONS, IT WOULD BE NICE IF THESE EVENTS THAT WE'RE PUTTING ON, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE PUTTING ON MANY EVENTS, THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE THE MAJORITY BE OUR OWN RESIDENTS. FOR THE ALLOWANCE OF ALCOHOL.

WHAT IS OR BECOMES OUR LIABILITY AT THIS TIME, WE DON'T SELL THE ALCOHOL, WE DON'T PROMOTE THE ALCOHOL, ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

WHAT IS OUR LIABILITY? I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT ANSWER FOR YOU, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WHEN WE EXPLORED THIS BEFORE WITH THE WITH A VENDOR COMING IN, THEY WOULD BE THE PRIMARY INSURER INSURANCE THAT WOULD BE HAVE THE LIABILITY.

BUT IN SPEAKING WITH THE PAST RISK MANAGER, WE WOULD MOST LIKELY TAKE OUT AN ADDITIONAL POLICY FOR THE EVENT TO HELP OUT WITH OUR COVERAGE.

HE SAID THERE IS AN INCREASED LIABILITY, REGARDLESS OF.

IF YOU ARE SERVING ALCOHOL, THEN I LOOK, I BELIEVE EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO HAVE A BEVERAGE CAN HAVE A BEVERAGE AND BE RESPONSIBLE.

MY CONCERN IS THAT AS A CITY BEING THE ONE TO PROMOTE BEVERAGES AT OUR CROWDED PARKS, ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE ROADS ARE NARROW OR WE HAVE ELDER POPULATIONS SURROUNDING IT, THAT IT BECOMES MORE OF A LIABILITY INSURANCE OR NO INSURANCE ON US. SO I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THAT.

AND I TRULY DON'T CARE ABOUT INCREASING OUR ATTENDANCE AT OUR WONDERFUL EVENTS TO MAKE SURE OTHER PEOPLE FROM OUR CITY ARE ATTENDING IT.

SO THOSE ARE JUST MY OPINIONS.

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YOU ASK FOR THEM. I PROVIDED THEM AND I WILL GO TO BECAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'VE GOT HANDS RAISED, COMMISSIONER, BOLTON.

VICE MAYOR IS ON DECK COMMISSIONER GOMEZ.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE JUST ONE COMMENT, I DON'T AGREE WITH THE SERVING OF ALCOHOL AT THE EVENTS.

I THINK THAT IT SHOULD REMAIN A FAMILY ORIENTED EVENT AND SERVING ALCOHOL, I THINK WOULD KIND OF DIMINISH THAT.

SO I'M NOT AGREEABLE WITH THAT POINT.

THAT WAS MY ONLY COMMENT.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, VICE MAYOR.

PLACKO COMMISSIONER BOLTON COMMENTS AND YOUR CONCERN ABOUT THE ALCOHOL, I, TOO, WOULD NOT WANT TO BE SERVING ALCOHOL, EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT DRAW PEOPLE IN, YOU KNOW, JUST FOR SAFETY PURPOSES. BUT HAVING THAT LIABILITY, I DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH IT, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S GOING TO BE A CITY EVENT.

AND BUT I DID ALSO WANT TO COMMENT ON ANOTHER EVENT.

GREG, IF YOU CAN SHARE WHAT'S HAPPENING ON MAY 29.

IF NOT, I WOULD. VICE MAYOR, IF YOU WANT TO, DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND THEN I CAN I CAN SHOW IT. SO WE HAD A RESIDENT IN MY DISTRICT THAT PROPOSED THE IDEA WITH ONE BLOOD.

AND FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ON MAY TWENTY NINTH, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING SATURDAY, SUNDAY, WHAT DO WE CALL IT, GREG? SUNDAY IS ON SATURDAY WITH TAMARAC CITY, COMMISSIONER.

YEAH. SO THIS IS TO BE ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD FOR THE VETERANS, BUT WE'LL BE DOING IT SO VETERANS COME OUT WITH YOUR FAMILIES.

IT WOULD BE A FEW HOURS MORE INFORMATION ON THAT.

I JUST WANTED TO JUMP THAT IN THERE WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EVENTS, EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU KNOW. IT IS WHAT IT IS THAT'S AT MY MY TWO CENTS ON THIS THANK YOU ADVICE, MAN COMMISSIONER GELIN. THAT'S WHAT YOUR COMMISSIONER REPORT ELVAN I SUPPORT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DRINK ALCOHOL A LOT.

AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE THESE DAYS.

THEY TAKE HUBERS, THEY TAKE THEY DRIVE WITH FRIENDS IF THE COMMISSIONER DOESN'T WANT TO AND HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT EITHER.

AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET AWAY FROM THIS NOTION THAT WE HAVE TO DO THINGS THAT BENEFIT TAMARAC RESIDENTS ONLY.

THE GOAL IS TO HAVE A GREAT EVENT.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, THERE ARE SO MANY LEADERS IN FORT LAUDERDALE NOW WHO SAID, I CAME HERE FOR SPRING BREAK AND I SAID, I'M GOING TO COME HERE AND STAY HERE TO LIVE. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS.

NONE OF THEM LIVE IN TAMARAC, BUT THEY STILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

WHEN I PLAY BASKETBALL AND THE TERREMARK LEAGUE, MAYBE I WAS ONE OF MAYBE FIVE TAMARAC RESIDENTS. EVERYBODY ELSE WAS NON RESIDENTS.

WHEN I PLAY IN CORAL SPRINGS, PEOPLE COME FROM EVERYWHERE AND VERY FEW ARE CORAL SPRINGS RESIDENTS. I USED TO GO TO THE SUNRISE FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS.

THEY HAVE GREAT BARTALI EVENTS.

THE GOAL IS TO MAKE A GREAT EVENT THAT DOES ATTRACT PEOPLE TO OUR CITY AND THEN SOME.

YOU MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS A GOOD CITY.

I WANT TO LIVE HERE. I WANT TO START MY BUSINESS HERE.

WE DON'T WANT TO JUST RESTRICT OURSELVES TO ONLY TAMANAC RESIDENTS.

THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. AND THAT'S WHY I WAS REALLY SILLY LAST COMMISSIONER MEANING WHEN PEOPLE ARE SAYING, OH, NOBODY FROM TAMARAC RESIDENT, I'M CALLING ABOUT THIS TRACK.

WHEN YOU BUILD A FACILITY, OUTSIDERS WILL COME AND OUTSIDERS MIGHT SAY, THIS IS A PLACE THAT I WANT TO LIVE. THIS IS A PLACE WHERE I WANT TO OPEN UP A BUSINESS.

SO THE GOAL IS TO MAKE YOUR CITY ATTRACTIVE TO OTHERS.

AND IF OTHER PEOPLE BENEFIT, THAT'S GREAT.

IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ONLY GO TO TOWN LIKE RESTAURANTS AND TAMARAC MALLS.

AND THAT'S NOT THE GOAL OF A CITY.

THE GOAL OF THE CITY IS TO SERVE YOUR POPULATION AND ATTRACT PEOPLE FROM OTHER CITIES AND MAKE YOUR CITY ATTRACTIVE. SO THIS NOTION OF, OH, I ONLY WANT TO SERVE TEMPORARY RESIDENTS, THAT'S A SILLY NOTION.

WELL, THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER, FOR NOT FULLY UNDERSTANDING MY COMMENTS OF WHAT I SAID IT WAS FOR THOSE ITEMS THAT WE ARE RESTRICTED ON OUR ABILITY TO ALLOW PEOPLE IN WAS MY CONCERN. AND ALSO MY CONCERN IS FOR US TO HAVE TROUBLE.

WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IN STRATEGIC PLANNING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH CAPITAL TO BE ABLE TO PUT ON OUR EVENTS, ONE THAT DIDN'T WANT US TO BE AN ISSUE WHERE WE COULDN'T AFFORD TO HAVE THEM. IF WE'RE DOING THE DANCE EVERY WEEKEND AT THE BIG CAPACITY, WHICH WE'RE DOING THEM. THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS.

AND IF THAT WAS GOING TO BECOME TOO BIG, THEN MY CONCERN WAS THAT WE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

BECAUSE I AGREE WITH YOU, WE NEED PEOPLE.

AND THAT'S WHY I LIKE THE IDEA OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AT SUNSET POINT PARK.

WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME HERE FOR A DESTINATION, HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, JUST CONCERNED ABOUT SOME OF THE WAY WE DO THINGS.

COMMISSIONER, PLACKO. THANK YOU.

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GREG, CAN YOU TELL ME? I KNOW WE'RE WE'RE STILL IN THAT UNCERTAIN STAGE, BUT WE HAVE AN EVENT COMING UP THE END OF MAY, WHICH IS SOON.

AND NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUNE 5TH.

HOW ARE WE HANDLING ALLOWING HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE COME INTO THESE EVENTS? BECAUSE INITIALLY FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY EVENT, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE A LARGER CROWD.

AND NOW THAT'S NOT THE CASE.

SO HOW WILL WE DETERMINING HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED IN? AND NOW I'M HEARING THAT YOU CAN BE OUTSIDE WITHOUT A MAP.

SO WHAT GUIDELINES ARE WE GOING TO HAVE FOR ALL OF THESE EVENTS? WE CAN NOW START THE THE MEMORIAL DAY EVENT, WE ARE WE'RE SETTING UP ADDITIONAL TENTS AND WE'RE GOING TO BE SETTING UP THE CHAIRS IN A MANNER THAT THE PEOPLE WILL BE SOCIALLY DISTANCED. SO PEOPLE THAT SIT ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO BE SOCIALLY DISTANCED.

AND DEPENDING ON THE THE CROWD THAT COMES WITH THE TENTS, SOCIALLY DISTANCE WILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE PROBABLY 100 TO 150 PEOPLE.

AND I THINK AT THIS POINT IN TIME, PEOPLE ARE STILL WHAT SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL A LITTLE BIT LEERY ABOUT COMING OUT TO THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO ATTRACT MANY MORE MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN THAT.

I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REALLY NICE NUMBER IF WE HAD ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PEOPLE AT THAT EVENT. AND IT GOES THE SAME THING FOR THE THE VIP TENT.

THERE WILL BE A TENT SET UP BEHIND THAT.

SO WE'LL HAVE ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR FOR ALL OF YOU AND OUR OUR GUEST SPEAKER AND AND THAT TYPE OF THING. BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE MASKS THAT CDC CAN RECOMMEND, ONE THING, BROWARD COUNTY CAN RECOMMEND ANOTHER THING, BUT WE CAN BE MORE RESTRICTIVE AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE MORE RESTRICTIVE AT OUR EVENTS WITH MEMORIAL DAY.

WE WILL REQUIRE PEOPLE AND WELL, WELL PUBLICIZED THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE REQUIRING MASKS WHILE YOU'RE AT THE EVENT AND WHILE YOU'RE ON THE GROUNDS THAT THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO WE WILL WE WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE THOSE TYPE OF PRECAUTIONS.

THE THE OUTDOOR EVENT WITH WATERS AND PARK.

THAT'S THAT'S THE SAME TYPE OF THING WHERE WE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH ACTIVITIES GOING ON AROUND THAT WE WILL WORK TO KEEP PEOPLE SEPARATED.

IF PEOPLE ARE SITTING DOWN FOR THE CONCERT OR STRUCTURE AT THE WAY WE DID WITH BLACK HISTORY MONTH, THE WAY WE DO IT WITH OUR MOVIES, THAT WILL HAVE BLOCKED OFF AREAS FOR FOR FAMILIES TO SIT IN THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO WE WILL CONTINUE AS THINGS ARE TODAY.

WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THOSE TYPES OF PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE AND WILL OF OUR SERVE.

PARDON? WILL IT BE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, LIKE YOU SAID, UNDER THE TENT, OK? YEAH, WE WE HAVE SOME WE'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE MAKE MAKE REQUESTS WITH SOME OF THE VETERANS GROUPS. AND WE WILL WE WILL ACCOMMODATE THOSE THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND THOSE GROUPS.

BUT OTHERWISE IT WILL BE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE.

AND I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF SERVING ALCOHOL AT ALL EVENTS.

I KNOW PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE AND THAT'S WONDERFUL, BUT WE DO HAVE CHILDREN THERE AND WE ALSO ALL KNOW THAT PEOPLE COME TO SOME OF OUR EVENTS WITH THEIR OWN ALCOHOL.

SO I HAVE SEEN THAT ONCE OR TWICE.

THANKS, GREG. THANK YOU.

SO SEEING THAT, THERE'S NO OTHER COMMENTS.

GREG, DO YOU NEED US TO GIVE YOU THIS? DETERMINATION IN FORM OF EMOTION THAT WE HAVE AT LEAST FOUR WITH THE WILLING CONSENSUS OF THE FIFTH, SAYING WE DO NOT WANT ALCOHOL, OR DO YOU NEED THIS IN EMOTION? NO, I HAVE THE I DEFINITELY HAVE THE DIRECTION ABOUT THE NO ALCOHOL, THE ONE THING I DO NEED DIRECTION ON IS WITH WITH ONE TAMARAC.

AND THIS YEAR IS KIND OF AN ANOMALY THAT WE'VE WE'VE PUSHED THE DATE BACK A COUPLE OF TIMES TRYING TO GET TO A POINT WHERE IT WOULD BE LESS RESTRICTIVE.

SO THE LAST TIME WE PUSH THAT DATE BACK, WE PUSHED IT TO SEPTEMBER.

WHICH IS ALSO HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AS TO HOW WE HOW WE DO THAT.

SO THEY'RE DOING VERY GOOD IN MONTHS, LIKE WE HAVE THREE OR FOUR CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH IN JUST COMING UP, SO MAYBE WE HAVE OUR GUNN TAMARAC.

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AND THEN INSTEAD OF HAVING THREE FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN SEPTEMBER, WE HAVE ONE EVENT FOR THAT, EVEN THOUGH IT MAY SEEM LIKE IT'S COMPETING WITH OUR BIG EVENT.

AND WE CAN WE CAN ALSO WITH WITH ONE TAMRAT, ALL THAT IN SEPTEMBER, WE CAN WHEN WE BOOKED A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT IN THAT TYPE OF THING, WE CAN LEAN TOWARDS THE HISPANIC CULTURE FOR THAT. AND IN THE PLANNING STAGES.

LOOK. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU NEED? NOPE, NOT AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. STILL LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT BATTLE OF THE BANDS EVER BEING PUT BACK ON THE CALENDAR THAT HAS BEEN WAITING TO BE PRESENTED FOR THE PAST? OH, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS, BUT I'M SURE IT'LL GET BACK ON THE CALENDAR.

AND DISCUSSIONS AND DISCUSSION SEEM TO HAVE HEARD THAT TUNE BEFORE.

BUT ANYWAY, JUST GIVING YOU A LITTLE BIT OF.

SO THANK YOU.

I'VE SEEN THAT WE DON'T MIND GOING TO GO TO VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, WHO I WILL APOLOGIZE ON THE RECORD FOR MISSING HIS REQUEST TO SPEAK AT THE BEGINNING OF 13 OF FOREGO AND LET COMMISSIONER GO AND DO HIS TWO ITEMS BEFORE I SPEAK.

ALREADY THEN THEN WE ARE GOING TO 13 E MARING CITY COMMISSIONER DIRECTION TO THE CITY

[13.e. Mayor and City Commissioner Direction to the City Manager or the City Attorney ]

MANAGER OF CITY ATTORNEY, THE FIRST ITEM IS PUBLIC RECORD DISCUSSION REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER GELIN. I AM GOING TO JUST MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS AWARE THAT THE CURRENT TIME IS 11 07.

SO AT ELEVEN TWENTY FIVE, IF I DON'T HAVE A MOTION TO EXTEND THE MEETING, THE MEETING WILL END AT ELEVEN THIRTY.

I WANT TO TABLE THIS FIRST ITEM, OK, TABLE ITEM NUMBER ONE, E 13, E ONE IS NOW TABLE.

TUBIC, 13 E TO BUDGET DISCUSSION ON BUDGET AMENDMENT PROCESS ALSO REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER GELIN. YEAH, SO.

ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS TOLD VOTERS IS THAT I BELIEVE IN TRANSPARENCY, I AM TRANSPARENT, YOU KNOW, AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, TECHNICALLY I'M A POLITICIAN, BUT I'M NOT A TYPICAL POLITICIAN BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY PLAY POLITICS OR TRY TO TALK IN FANCY TERMS OR HIDE FROM THE TRUTH.

I JUST, YOU KNOW, TELL IT LIKE IT IS.

AND, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF A NEWS REPORTER SEEING A MEMO BEFORE I RECEIVE A MEMO AND THEN ASKING ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS MEMO THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE OR DIDN'T HEAR BEFORE, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

IT'S PRETTY DISTURBING.

AND THEN TO GET A BUNCH OF EMAILS FROM RESIDENTS AFTER A FALSE NEWS REPORT IS REPORTED IS ALSO PRETTY DISTURBING.

AND, YOU KNOW, I YOU KNOW, I I DON'T HAVE ANY TRUST IN THE LEADERSHIP STAFF IN DENMARK RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE NOT ONLY WHEN WHEN A MEMO IS RELEASED AND WE'RE TOLD THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A NEWS ARTICLE, AND SINCE THEN WE DON'T EVEN GET THE MEMO, WE HAVE TO ASK FOR THE MEMO TO GET THE MEMO. SO THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT LACK OF COMMUNICATION.

IT'S DISTURBING AND IT HARMS OUR OUR REPUTATION.

AND I TAKE MY REPUTATION VERY SERIOUSLY.

YOU KNOW, I'M A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER.

I GO AFTER PRIVATE SECTOR CONTRACTS AND I GO UP THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, NOT JUST HERE LOCALLY, BUT BUT OUTSIDE.

AND I KNOW BECAUSE I KNOW I DO IT WHEN I'M DOING BUSINESS.

SOMEBODY I GOOGLED THEM. AND I DON'T WANT PEOPLE GOOGLING ME AND SEEING ARTICLES ABOUT ME TAKING TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO SPEND ON PERSONAL EXPENSES.

WHEN THAT'S NOT THE CASE, IT'S ILLEGAL.

IT'S NOT ALLOWABLE BY THE CITY AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING I WOULD DO ANYWAY.

SO IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET AMENDMENT PROCESS, YOU KNOW, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INFORMED ABOUT ANY CHANGES TO THE BUDGET A.S.A.P.

AND THAT DID NOT HAPPEN IN THIS CASE.

AND SO WHAT MY SUGGESTION IS, IF THERE'S GOING TO BE A BUDGET AMENDMENT, JUST LIKE WE POST DIFFERENT THINGS ON THE WEBSITE FOR THE PUBLIC TO CONSUME, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO POST THE BUDGET AMENDMENT MEMO ON THE WEBSITE OR SOCIAL MEDIA OR WHATEVER.

LET'S LET'S INFORM THE PUBLIC AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE ARE INFORMED WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE. WE'RE NOT SCARED OF THE PUBLIC.

THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, NINETY NINE POINT NINE PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE ELECTED OFFICIALS. YOU KNOW, THREE PEOPLE RAN FOR MAYOR AND THREE PEOPLE RAN FOR MY SEAT.

ONE PERSON RAN AGAINST GOMEZ, ONE PERSON RUNNING AGAINST PLACKO, MAYBE THIRTY FOUR, THREE THOUSAND ADULTS IN THE CITY.

NOBODY WANTS THESE POSITIONS.

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AND PART OF THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE THE CRITICISM WE GET FROM THE SUN-SENTINEL BASED ON FALSE REPORTS. SO JUST IN AN EFFORT TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE POST ANY BUDGET MEMOS TO THE WEBSITE AND SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON, NOT JUST HERE AMONG THE CITY, BUT ALSO OUTSIDERS.

AS I EXPLAINED EARLIER, WE ALREADY PUT THE AGENDA OUT, ALL THE OTHER ITEMS OUT.

VILLALOBOS MAYOR, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS IS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE WE GET COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. SO LET'S PUT THE AGENDA MEMO OUT THERE TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL.

AND THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.

AND I'LL MAKE A MOTION AFTER I HEAR FROM EVERYONE ELSE.

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. AND.

I NEED TO ASK THE CITY MANAGER, CITY CLERK.

THESE ITEMS ARE POSTED WHEN YOU GO TO THE GELIN, IS THAT, YEAH, THAT AMERICAN MIND.

LET ME JUST LET ME JUST DESCRIBE THE BUDGET PROCESS AND I'LL ASK THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO JUMP IN AS WELL.

SO WE DO TWO BUDGET AMENDMENTS A YEAR.

WE TYPICALLY DO ONE IN APRIL, WHICH WAS ON YOUR AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING, AND WE DO ONE IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER AS WE WRAP UP THE FISCAL YEAR IN PREPARATION FOR THE AUDIT.

SO WHEN WHAT THE ITEMS THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE BUDGET AMENDMENTS ARE GENERALLY ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE APPROVED DURING THE YEAR, THAT IMPACT ON THE ON THE BUDGET THAT WERE NOT INITIALLY BUDGETED FOR.

AND SO WHEN WHEN WE GO THROUGH A TYPICAL BUDGET AMENDMENT PROCESS.

THOSE ARE THE ITEMS THAT YOU SEE, AND THEY ARE TYPICALLY ITEMS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.

SO IN TERMS OF POSTING THE BUDGET AMENDMENT MEMO TO THE WEBSITE, THAT'S THAT'S DONE THROUGH THE AGENDA PROCESS.

IT'S IT'S IT'S PROVIDED FOR ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL AS A COMPONENT OF THE AGENDA.

IT CAN CERTAINLY BE POSTED SEPARATELY.

BUT THERE'S NO I MEAN, THERE'S NO MYSTERY OR MAGIC TO IT.

THERE'S NO ONGOING BUDGET AMENDMENT PROCESS.

IT HAPPENS TWICE A YEAR.

SO STILL THE BUDGET, THE BUDGET, WHAT YOU'RE WHAT YOU'RE DISCUSSING THE BUDGET AMENDMENT MEMO, YOU KNOW, IS IS IN FACT, LIKE I SAID, IT'S POSTED ON THE WEBSITE AS A COMPONENT OF THE AGENDA. IT CAN CERTAINLY BE POSTED SEPARATELY.

IT IS. IT'S JUST A RECAPITULATION OF THE ACTION THAT THE COMMISSION HAS TAKEN OVER THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR, TYPICALLY.

NOW, THERE ARE ITEMS ADDED TO THE BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR THINGS LIKE REQUESTS THAT THAT ARE MADE OF OF OF US THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.

AND I THINK IN THE CASE OF THIS BUDGET MEMO, THOSE WERE THE ITEMS THAT CAUSED SUCH ATTENTION FROM THE SUN-SENTINEL.

AND IT'S TRUE WHAT COMMISSIONER GELIN SAID, THAT THAT A DRAFT VERSION OF THE BUDGET MEMO WAS RELEASED WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION.

AND I STILL DON'T KNOW BY WHOM.

BUT BUT IT WAS IT WAS RELEASED AND IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN.

AND THAT THAT VIOLATES OUR POLICY ON PUBLIC RECORDS.

AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY HOW THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED. WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SOMEONE VIOLATING A POLICY LIKE THAT? WELL, IT DEPENDS.

YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON THE OUTCOME OF WHAT THEY DID, AND SO IT DEPENDS ON WHO THEY ARE AND IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THEIR DISCIPLINE RECORD IS, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHO THE INDIVIDUAL IS. AND SO WE'LL HAVE WE'D HAVE IT IF WE ARE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHO RELEASED THAT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO GAUGE THE IMPACT OF WHAT THEY DID.

AND WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION ABOUT WHAT KIND OF DISCIPLINE IS APPROPRIATE AND DISCIPLINE. AND YOU CAN INCLUDE ANYTHING FROM.

YOU WENT MUTE? YEAH, I SEE SOMEBODY MUTED ME DISCIPLINE CAN NOT.

OK, VICE MAYOR, DISCIPLINE, DISCIPLINE CAN INCLUDE ANYTHING FROM A VERBAL REPRIMAND TO TERMINATION, DEPENDING ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT HAS OCCURRED.

AND SO SO SO IN THIS CASE, WAS IT ONLY DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS THAT GOT THIS MEMO OR WAS IT PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS? NO, I MEAN, THE MEMO THE MEMO THAT WAS APPARENTLY IN THE HANDS OF THE SUN-SENTINEL WAS A VERY EARLY DRAFT OF THE BUDGET AMENDMENT MEMO THAT WAS CIRCULATED THROUGH THE BOARD, THROUGH OUR AGENDA SYSTEM.

AND SO AS THAT ITEM CIRCULATES THROUGH THE AGENDA SYSTEM, EVERYBODY WHO HAS A PIECE OF

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THAT, OF THAT, OF THAT FOR IT WAS AT THAT POINT, IT WAS A FOUR POINT TWO MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET AMENDMENT. SO.

YOU ARE MUTED AGAINST THE NEW MANAGER.

NOT SURE WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE BUTTONS.

OH. YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THAT MEMO CIRCULATES AND AND EVERYBODY WHO'S GOT A PIECE OF THAT SEES IT, YOU KNOW, AND HAS ACCESS TO IT, THAT'S WHY IT'S THAT'S WHY IT'S DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, WHO MAY HAVE DONE THAT IF IT WAS JUST THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR. THE ASSISTANT. AND THE BUDGET MANAGER, YOU WOULD YOU WOULD BE A LOT EASIER.

BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT OUR SYSTEM IS AND BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO LOOK AT A BUDGET AMENDMENT LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ANY NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAD ACCESS TO THAT UP AND DOWN THE LINE.

SO IT'S YOU KNOW, AS I SAID TO SOMEONE WHO ASKED FOR ANYWHERE FROM 30 TO 40 PEOPLE THAT HAD TO LOOK AT THAT AGENDA ITEM.

OH, OK.

AND SO FROM MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS, I LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU GUYS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HAVING AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR COME IN AND DETERMINE WHO WAS THE PERSON THAT RELEASED IT. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BOTHERS ME IS WHEN THE SUN-SENTINEL WROTE THEIR ARTICLE FIRST I WAS CALLED BY THE REPORTER, LISA, AND I TOLD I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT.

THEN SHE SENT ME AN EMAIL THE NEXT DAY.

AND IN WRITING, I TOLD I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT.

BUT WHEN SHE WRITES HER HER HER STORY, SHE SAYS NONE OF THE FIVE COMMISSIONERS HAVE ADMITTED REQUESTING THE LATEST PROPOSAL.

SO WHEN YOU SAY NO ONE HAS ADMITTED REQUESTING IT, THAT'S LIKE SAYING WE DID REQUEST IT.

BUT NOW WE'RE JUST NOT TELLING YOU COMMISSIONER MIGHT GELIN AND GELIN VILLALOBOS SAID THEY HAD NO INFORMATION ABOUT IT.

COMMISSIONER MARLON BOLTON DID NOT COMMENT ABOUT THE PROPOSAL AT COMMISSIONER PLACKO COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT MAKING.

MICHELLE GOMEZ, WHO OFTEN STANDS ALONE IN THE COMMISSION, SAID SHE WAS OUTRAGED.

MAYOR GOMEZ SAID SHE HAD NOT SEEN THE MARCH 28 MEMO AND DID NOT REQUEST THE BENEFIT.

SHE CALLED THE PROPOSAL SHOCKING TO BE ASKING FOR.

WE SHOULD BE HAPPY WITH WHAT WE RECEIVE AND CONTINUE TO WORK FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

I DO NOT WANT THE CITY PAYING MY HEALTH INSURANCE.

SOME PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN LUCKY TO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE.

SO MAY I GOMEZ DO YOU WANT TO JUST PAY FULLY FOR THE COST OF YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE? YOU DON'T NEED TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, BUT YOU KNOW THE IMPLICATION THERE IS.

VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS COMMISSIONER BOLTON COMMISSIONER GELIN COMMISSIONER PLACKO ALL LYING BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ADMITTING THAT WE KNEW, EVEN THOUGH CLEARLY IN WRITING, THE CITY MANAGER SAID, I DIDN'T KNOW AND I CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY DID NOT KNOW.

AND SO I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE A HARD TIME TRUSTING STAFF AND LEADERSHIP AND I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR COME IN.

I DON'T GET THAT. HE HAS TO BE A FORENSIC ANALYSIS DONE, BUT WE SHOULD FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE AND WHO IS TRYING TO TAINT THE REPUTATION OF THE CITY OF THE CITY COMMISSION.

I MEAN, ELEMENT IS BRAND NEW.

HE STILL LEARNING THE PROCESS AND IT HASN'T BEEN SIX MONTHS AND HIS NAME IS ALREADY BEING TAINTED AND HE'S BEING ACCUSED OF BEING A CRIMINAL.

IT'S NOT FAIR TO HIM. IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE CITY COMMISSION.

IT'S NOT FAIR TO ANY OF US HERE.

AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE SUN SETTING IS ONLY INTERESTED IN PROTECTING ONE PERSON.

SO I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS, FELLOW COMMISSIONERS, ON CONDUCTING AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. BEFORE WE DO, CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO EXTEND THE TIME? UNTIL WE FINISH THIS DISCUSSION AND ME BRING IT UP, JUST AN ITEM THAT I WOULD LIKE TO JUST ASK IN THE SECOND.

I'M GOING TO CALL IT.

SORRY, I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF, OBVIOUSLY.

PLEASE FOLLOW ME, MAYOR GOMEZ.

YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

YES. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, AND COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU. SO.

I KNOW THE COMMISSIONER GUNN HAS A QUESTION ON HAND, BUT THERE'S ALSO OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WISHING TO SPEAK.

SO COMMISSIONER PLACKO YOU ARE ON DECK.

OK, THANK YOU.

I'M SURE, LIKE ALL OF US, THAT ARTICLE WAS DEVASTATING WHEN YOU ARE NOT GUILTY AND YOU'RE PAINTED WITH THE BRUSH THAT SAYS YOU ARE.

I LITERALLY WENT OUT TO MY CONSTITUENTS AND SAID I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS.

I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

I DIDN'T REQUEST IT.

SO NOW I JUST HEAR THAT A BUDGET AMENDMENT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE REQUESTED.

I DID NOT REQUEST ANY OF THOSE ITEMS, MR. CERNECH, DID I REQUEST ANY OF THOSE ITEMS?

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NO, NO, YOU DID NOT.

THANK YOU. SO TO BE PAINTED WITH THE SAME BRUSH.

I DON'T KNOW WHO DID. I DON'T CARE WHO DID.

I JUST KNOW THAT I DID NOT.

AND I HAVE GUARDED MY REPUTATION SO CAREFULLY.

THROUGH MY ENTIRE LIFE.

I DO NOT DISCUSS MY PRIVATE LIFE, WHY NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT MY PRIVATE LIFE.

I AM PRIVATE AND I DO NOT EVER WANT THAT ON RECORD THAT I HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT.

I DID NOT. I WOULD NOT.

AND I COULD NOT. SO I JUST WANT THAT ON RECORD AND.

WE MAY NEVER KNOW WHO DID THIS, BUT WHOEVER THAT IS.

SHAME ON YOU. SHAME ON YOU FOR BEING DESPICABLE, BECAUSE YOU NOT ONLY DID IT TO THE FIVE OF US, YOU DID IT TO THE ENTIRE CITY, THE CITY THAT PAYS YOUR SALARY.

SO SHAME ON YOU.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER PLACKO.

COMMISSIONER BOLTON. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

MR. CERNECH, AT ANY TIME DID MAYOR GOMEZ HAVE A COPY OF THE MEMO? COMMISSIONER BOLTON, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANY OF YOU WERE PROVIDED WITH A COPY OF THE MEMO. I KNOW THAT I HAD AGENDA REVIEWS WITH SOME OF YOU AND SPOKE ABOUT IT.

BUT THE BOOK, THE BUDGET AMENDMENT, WAS REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA.

AND I WENT BACK AND LOOKED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER GELIN ASKED WHETHER THIS WAS DISCUSSED WITH HIM. AND SO I HAD TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT MY NOTES AS TO WHEN THE ITEM WAS REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA AND IT WAS REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA PRIOR TO MY AGENDA REVIEW WITH HIM, HIS AGENDA REVIEW HAPPENED TO BE THE LAST AGENDA REVIEW OF THAT CYCLE.

SO, SO, SO TO BE CLEAR, YOU DID NOT PROVIDE SO SO TO BE CLEAR, YOU YOU.

YOU DISCUSSED IT WITH WITH MAYOR GOMEZ, IT WAS DISCUSSED, YES, BUT IT WAS NOT THE MEMO WAS NOT DISTRIBUTED.

AND I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT WHEN I DO MY AGENDA REVIEWS WITH YOU, YOU GET YOU GOT THEM AND THEN THEY EMAIL TO YOU.

I PROVIDE YOU WITH THE DRAFT AGENDA, BUT WE DON'T PROVIDE YOU WITH DOCUMENTS UNTIL THE BOOKS ARE DISTRIBUTED.

YOU RECEIVE THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

OK, AND DO YOU RECALL THE LAST TIME YOU AND I HAD HAD AN AGENDA REVIEW? WE DON'T TYPICALLY HAVE A GENDER REVIEW.

YOU KNOW, I TYPICALLY CALL YOU IF I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AND YOU TYPICALLY CALL ME IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE INQUISITIVE ABOUT.

SORT OF NOT SO FOR THE RECORD OF NOT REVIEW THE AGENDA WITH YOU SINCE 2017, SEVENTEEN, WE WE DON'T TYPICALLY DO A GENDER REVIEW COMMISSIONER YET.

IF THERE IF THERE IS AN ISSUE IN MY DISTRICT OR IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS CONCERNING MY DISTRICT, YOU WOULD TYPICALLY CALL ME.

BUT CAN YOU SAY FOR THE RECORD THAT WE DO NOT DO A REVIEWS WITH EACH OTHER AND I DID NOT REVIEW THE BUDGET AMENDMENT WITH YOU? WE DON'T DO AGENDA REVIEWS COMMISSIONER.

NO, WE DON'T. AND DID DID I DID YOU REVIEW THE BUDGET AMENDMENT WITH ME? I'M NOT IN THE FORM OF THE AGENDA MEMO THAT WE ISSUED NOW.

OK, SO SO TO LISA, HARESH.

WHEN SHE ASKED WHETHER THERE ARE NOT I SAW THE AGENDA REVIEW.

I RESPONDED TO HER VIA EMAIL AND I TOLD HER I DID NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE AGENDA, TO SEE THE MEMO.

AND I CLEARLY GAVE MY COMMENT TO HER IN WRITING AND SHE RESPONDED THAT I DID NOT COMMENT.

I HAD NO COMMENT.

I SENT THE SUN-SENTINEL AND LISA HARESH AN EMAIL, YOU KNOW, ADVISING HOW DISAPPOINTED I WAS WITH HER HANDLING OF THAT.

AND OBVIOUSLY SHE HAD HER HER REBUTTAL A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.

BUT THAT'S ANOTHER POINT, YOU KNOW, SO IT IS IT IS VERY UNFAIR THAT WE ALL HAD TO DEAL WITH WITH SOMETHING THAT WAS SO PREMATURE.

AND FOR THE SUN-SENTINEL TO PRAISE THE MAYOR THAT SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT IS

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NOT VOTING ON THE ITEMS AND SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT IS NOT TRAVELING AND SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT IS NOT, YOU KNOW, SPENDING MONEY.

IT IS IT IS ALSO APPALLING.

YOU KNOW, MAYOR GOMEZ DOES NOT FIGHT FOR THE RESIDENTS OF TAMARAC.

RESIDENTS HAVE LAMENTED ABOUT THIS SEVERAL TIMES.

SHE VOTED FOR A STORAGE FACILITY SLATED TO BE CONSTRUCTED AT THE CORNER OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND ROCK ISLAND ROAD.

WHEN THEY BUILT THE BUILDING COULD BE THE TALLEST BUILDING IN EASTERN TAMRAT.

GOMEZ VOTED TO ADVANCE THE 13TH FLOOR PROJECT AND THE WETLANDS AND HAVE BUILT THIS DEVELOPMENT COULD ADD ANOTHER EIGHT HUNDRED CARS TO COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND THIS WOULD DEVASTATE THE CORRIDOR.

THE MAYOR VOTED TO ALLOW AN IRREVERSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IN CENTRAL PARK MANOR PARK AND HIDDEN TRAILS ALL NEW COMMUNITIES IN TAMARAC.

RESIDENTS THERE WHO SEE TAX BILLS TOTALING TO ALMOST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN SOME CASES HAVE APPROACHED THE MAYOR PUBLICLY FOR HER HELP, TO NO AVAIL.

SHE SUPPORTED A CHARTER SCHOOL IN KINGS POINT AND LATELY AND LATELY PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED THE NEED FOR A HIGH SCHOOL.

THE COMMISSIONER AGREED.

BUT BUT WE WERE ADAMANT THAT NO HIGH SCHOOL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BUILT IN KINGS POINT.

TAX BILLS ARE ARE ARE JUST SKYROCKETING UNDER MAYOR GOMEZ, HIS LEADERSHIP AND HER WATCH.

TAMARAC SHOPPING CENTERS HAVE BECOME GHOSTLY DURING THE TWELVE YEARS THAT SHE HAS BEEN ON THE CITY COMMISSION.

AND LET'S LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE, MAYOR GOMEZ, BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SAY THAT THAT I'M THAT I'M ATTACKING YOU.

BUT AT LEAST I. I ATTACKED YOUR RECORD.

I DO NOT GO AFTER YOUR YOUR YOUR MASK OR YOUR CHURCH OR YOUR TEMPLE.

I DO NOT GO AGAINST I DO NOT GO AFTER THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DIVORCED AND HAVE NO HUSBAND. I DO NOT GO AFTER PEOPLE'S MARRIAGES OR LACK THEREOF.

I DO NOT ATTACK THEIR FAMILY, I DO NOT ATTACK THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND I DO NOT HAVE MINIONS THAT ATTACKS YOU.

I ATTACK YOUR RECORD.

YOU HAVE A FAILED, FAILED RECORD.

AND THAT IS WHAT I WILL CONTINUE.

WE KNEW TO DO TO ATTACK YOUR RECORD BECAUSE YOU HAVE NONE.

SO SHAME ON YOU FOR SAYING THAT WE ARE DOING ALL THE TRAVELING AND TAMARAC AND YOU ARE DOING NONE WHEN YOU HAVE TRAVELED ALL OVER THE US WITH COMMISSIONER JULICH FISHERMEN, WHEN THERE WERE TRIPS THAT WE TOOK TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES AND OTHER TRIPS WHERE I SPENT LESS TIME.

BUT YOU WENT ON THOSE TRIPS TO GO SIGHTSEEING WITH JULIE FISHMAN IN WASHINGTON TO GO AND SEE ZOOS ON TAXPAYERS DOLLARS.

SHAME ON YOU. SHAME ON YOU FOR SPENDING CITY MONEY ON NOBLE TARRINGTON MAKING UP STUFF AND NOT AND NOT DONE.

SHAME ON YOU FOR SPENDING MONEY ON NOVELTY'S VOTING.

NO ON THE TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR BUDGET AT TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DISCRETIONARY FUND.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU USED THE MONEY, A PORTION THERE OF SHAME ON YOU FOR VOTING NO FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIAISONS.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU, MADAM MAYOR, YOU HIRED A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIAISON.

WHAT DOES THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIAISON DO? THEY THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT.

YOUR MAYOR'S MESSAGE THAT YOU POST ON TAMRAT, TALK TO BUILD YOUR NAME I.D.

AND TAXPAYERS DOLLARS, ALL THIS, YOU ARE BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, BUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS YOU ARE SPENDING TAXPAYERS MONEY AS IF IT IS YOUR PERSONAL PURSE.

AND THEN YOU BLAME THE CITY COMMISSION FOR FOR FOR ACTING RECKLESSLY.

SO SHAME ON YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

I WONDER WHERE YOU GOT THE MONEY TO BUY YOUR NEW AUDI THAT YOU THAT YOU PRANCE AROUND TOWN WITH. SO, MADAM MAYOR, I ATTACKED YOUR RECORD.

I TAKE YOUR RECORD.

I DO NOT ATTACK YOU PERSONALLY.

SO YOU AND YOUR MINIONS CAN EITHER BACK OFF OR CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

BUT LET ME REMIND YOU, THE TWENTY TWENTY TWO IS COMING.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH.

YES. YOU'RE SO ACCURATE.

NICK COMMISSIONER BOLTON. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, YOU ARE ACCUSING ME OF HAVING A NEW CAR WITH MY BROTHER.

YOU CAN LEAVE, YOU CAN LEAVE THE MEETING.

THIS IS NOT A REBUTTAL. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

YES, BUT AS YOU'RE NOT THIS THIS IS NOT A REBUTTAL.

AND ULTIMATELY, YOU CAN CONTINUE TO LEAD YOUR MEETING IN YOUR COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. AS YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN ON THIS MATTER, I'M GOING TO SAY MY COMMENTS ON THE MATTER AS FAR AS WANT THE CHANCE TO GO AGAIN.

THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON.

SO BASICALLY, I UNDERSTAND THE ANGUISH AND THE CONCERN THAT HAS BEEN EXPRESSED.

I DON'T CONTROL HOW OTHER PEOPLE WRITE THINGS AND LET'S BE REALISTIC, SOME OF THE STUFF THAT HAS COME OUT FROM OUR CITY ATTORNEY, THIS MEMO WAS A PUBLIC MEMO.

IT HAD ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES OF BEING ALLOWED TO BE.

PUBLISHED, IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE IT WAS BEING USED FOR A GENDER REVIEW, THAT'S WHY IT WAS REVIEWED WITH ME FIRST, BECAUSE MY AGENDA REVIEW WAS FIRST.

BUT YES, I DID NOT RECEIVE A COPY OF IT.

I DID NOT THE CITY MANAGER DID NOT GIVE ME I DIDN'T HAVE IT.

BUT MY THING THAT WAS BEING PRESENTED HERE THAT HAS ME.

A CONCERN IF WE ARE TO GO DOWN THE LINE THAT COMMISSIONER GELIN IS ASKING IS THE REALITY IS THAT IN ORDER FOR THIS ITEM TO THESE ITEMS. TO HAVE BEEN PUT THROUGH THE AGENDA PROCESS TO GET ON THE AMENDMENTS, HAD TO HAVE SOMEBODY PRESENTED TO THE CITY MANAGER.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY, BUT SOMEBODY HAD TO ASK FOR THESE ITEMS TO GO ON THERE. THE CITY MANAGER JUST DIDN'T THROW THEM ON THERE.

SO I ASKED THIS COMMISSION TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT THAT SOMEBODY OR SOMEBODIES OR PEOPLE ASKED FOR THESE ITEMS TO BE LOOKED AT AS A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

SO THAT IS A LEGITIMATE ITEM THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED.

SO YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE BAD PUBLICITY.

BUT IF YOU CONTINUE DOWN THIS ROAD, I'M PRETTY SURE THAT WHOMEVER ASKED FOR THESE ITEMS TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA, IT WILL COME OUT.

SO JUST MINDING.

YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT EMBARRASSMENT, BUT THERE'S A REASON WHY WE WERE OBVIOUSLY EMBARRASSED. AND I NEVER AND I'M NOT GOING TO DEBATE SOME OF THE MALARKEY THAT HAS BEEN.

PRESENTED ANYWAY, COMMISSIONER GELIN, THANK YOU.

I JUST, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I TAKE MY REPUTATION VERY SERIOUSLY AND I JUST WANT TO CLEAR FOR THE RECORD. SO I WAS CONTACTED BY THE REPORTER, LISA, ON APRIL 14TH, AND SHE SAID, AND I QUOTE, I KNOW WE SPOKE BY PHONE YESTERDAY ABOUT THE BUDGET AMENDMENT AND YOU SAID YOU HAD NO INFORMATION.

I WANTED TO TRY AGAIN AND ASK IF YOU HAD ANY OPINION ABOUT THE PROPOSED SPENDING ITEMS LIKE FURNITURE, HEALTH INSURANCE, RETIREMENT, ETC..

PLEASE ADVISE. I WAS AT FOUR FORTY SEVEN P.M.

AND AT SIX FIFTY THREE P.M.

I RESPONDED, LISA, I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY INFORMATION FROM THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT ANY PROPOSED AMENDMENTS OR BUDGET ITEMS. FURTHERMORE, I HAVE NOT MADE ANY REQUEST TO THE COMMISSION OR TO THE CITY MANAGER REGARDING CHANGES IN SPENDING OR THE BUDGET AS IT RELATES TO FURNITURE, HEALTH INSURANCE, RETIREMENT OR ANY OTHER BENEFITS.

BUT YET WHEN SHE WRITES THE ARTICLE, SHE SAYS THAT NEITHER OF THE FIVE COMMISSIONERS ADMITTED REQUESTING.

SO WHEN YOU SAY ADMITTING, YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, YOU DIDN'T ADMIT THAT YOU WERE GUILTY.

YOU HAVE TO ADMIT IF YOU'RE GUILTY, YOU'RE INNOCENT.

AND SO I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

THAT'S THAT'S DISHONEST REPORTING.

AND SO I WANT TO BE ABLE TO JUST READ THAT FOR THE RECORD.

AND IF WE WANT TO REALLY FIND THE TRUTH IN THIS COMMISSION, SHOULD AGREE TO HIRE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR AND GET TO THE TRUTH, BECAUSE IF WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S ON THE COMMISSION THAT IS LEAKING INFORMATION THAT SHOULD NOT BE LEAKED.

AND YES, AFTER THE CITY ATTORNEY REVIEWED IT, HE DEEMED THAT IT WAS A PUBLIC RECORD, BUT IT HAD ALREADY BEEN LEAKED TO THE MEDIA BEFOREHAND.

SO THERE'S THERE'S A FAILURE IN THE PROCESS THERE.

AND THAT NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE MAYOR HAS ONLY BEEN HERE LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AND HIS NAME IS ALREADY BEING DRAGGED IN THE MUD.

IF WE DON'T STOP THIS NOW, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BY THE TIME HE'S UP FOR REELECTION? SO MOTION TWO, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE HIGH, TO DIRECT THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO HIRE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR TO INVESTIGATE HOW WHO FROM STAFF LEAKED THIS MEMO TO THE NEWS MEDIA. I SECOND THE MOTION.

ANY DISCUSSION COMMISSIONER PLACKO YOUR HAND WAS RAISED FOR YOU TO MAKE COMMENTS.

I'M. LET ME ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THIS.

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I MEAN, THERE NEED TO BE SOME PARAMETERS OF HOW SOMEONE GOES ABOUT THIS.

I MEAN, THIS COULD BECOME A LIFETIME JOB FOR SOMEBODY VERY HONESTLY.

SO WE NEED TO SET SOME PARAMETERS TO THAT.

BUT WHAT I INITIALLY WAS GOING TO SAY WAS, YOU KNOW, I AM GOING ON RECORD.

I DID NOT AT ANY TIME ASK FOR ANY OF THOSE ITEMS TO BE PUT ON A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

NEVER DID NOT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR.

SHE'S GOING ON RECORD, I'M GOING TO RECORD TO THAT I DID NOT PUT ANY OF THOSE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. AND I WOULD SAY, LET ME PUT THIS UP FOR A VOTE FOR GOMEZ.

MOTION ON THE RECORD, I DIDN'T ASK FOR THE ITEMS EITHER, SO IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE COLORABLE. GOMEZ, NO NIGHTMARE VILLALOBOS, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES.

PICTURE BOLTON, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES, THE MOTION PASSES FOUR TO ONE.

OK, POINT OF ORDER, MADAM MAYOR.

I BELIEVE. VICE MAYOR ACTUALLY HAS A FLOOR BECAUSE THERE'S AN ITEM LEFT OVER FOR HIM, POINT OF ORDER CAN BE CALLED A MEETING.

POINT OF ORDER. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE AWARE.

GO AHEAD. OK, I JUST WANT IT TO CLARIFY COMMISSIONER GELIN MOTION THAT THIS ALSO INCLUDES MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION INVESTIGATED WHETHER THEY RELEASED A MEMOIR OR NOT.

YES, FOR SURE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT THERE WAS A BUNCH OF NODDING HEADS, FOUR OF YOU THAT VOTED YES FOR IT, FINE. I'M NOW GOING TO GO TO THE VICE MAYOR WHO HAS BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY FROM

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THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS MEETING, AND THEN I THOUGHT THAT.

SO IT'S BE SURE SHORT JUST REALLY QUICKLY.

ON. SO ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE, TWENTY TWENTY, AFTER I CAME BACK TO US.

AND ACTUALLY MADE A COMMENT, WHICH THEY RARELY DO.

THIS STATE STATUTE REQUIRES THE COUNTY, THE CITY AND STATE TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE FEASIBLE STRATEGIES TO REDUCE, MITIGATE OR ELIMINATE THE ADVERSE IMPACTS CAUSED BY LUPA BEFORE ADOPTING IT.

THEY FURTHER GO ON TO SAY THAT STAFF REPORTS, IF APPROVED, THE IMPACTED ROAD SEGMENTS WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE AT AN F LEVEL.

THIS ITEM SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO THE CITY OF TAMRAT PRIOR PRIOR TO THE COUNTY ADOPTING IT, WHICH IS NEXT WEEK.

SO THAT THE CITY, THE COUNTY AND FBI CAN DETERMINE IF THERE ARE FEASIBLE IMPROVEMENTS TO MITIGATE THE LOSS AND ROADWAYS AS REQUIRED BY FLORIDA STATUTE.

WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMISSION AND I I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO WITHDRAW THE CITY OF TAMIRA TRANSMITTAL TO BROWARD COUNTY OF LUPA 20.

THAT'S TRUE BASED UPON THE EFFORTS COMMON SHOWING L.O.

AS OF SERVICE E AND F, WHICH IS A COMPLETE FAILURE ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND ROCK ISLAND ROAD AND NO AND NO PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS FOR THOSE SEGMENTS OF ROADS UNDER LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WOULD CORRECT THE ADVERSE IMPACTS.

LOOKING FOR A SECOND. FAILURE FOR THE LACK OF SUCCESS IN THAT FOR DISCUSSION.

WE NEED WE NEED TIME TO GET TO THE MUTE BUTTON, MARY GOMEZ.

YOU GUYS ARE SO FAST WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR YOU, BUT NOT ON OTHERS WHEN YOU'RE DEBATING IT. SO, OK.

THIS ITEM IS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.

AGAIN, THIS IS THE MOST I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THE MOTION IS TO WITHDRAW THIS VIDEO CAMERA TRANSMITTAL TO BROWARD COUNTY.

THE APPLICATION FOR NEXT WEEK.

OK. THERE IS AN ITEM THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT ON HERE WITH 48 HOURS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC AND FOR AN AFFECTED PARTY OR MOTION.

AND A SECOND MATTER, I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND VICE MAYOR, BUT YOU ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE PROPER PROCEDURES THAT NEED TO BE FOLLOWED.

AND THIS IS NOT NEWS THAT THIS ITEM WAS SET FOR THE COUNTY MEETING ON TUESDAY AND IS NOW BEING BROUGHT UP.

NOT SUFFICIENT TIME FOR AN APPLICANT TO BE ON ANY OTHER AFFECTED PARTIES, SUCH AS THE

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RESIDENCE OF THE WOMAN, AND ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE ON HERE.

THIS IS THE MOST APPLICATION.

THE ATTORNEY, KATHLEEN, WHAT IS THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS OF ONE NOT GETTING THIS ON THE AGENDA, 48 HOURS NOTICE OF THE APPLICANT OR OTHER AFFECTED PARTIES TO BE HEARD FOR THE REMOVAL OF A MAJOR SITE PLAN ITEM FROM CONSIDERATION? IT'S NOT REMOVE OR MADAM.

IT'S IT'S WE'RE JUST WITHDRAWING THE APPLICATION.

THAT'S A YES.

AND IT HAS THAT EFFECT AS IT WOULD MOVE THE ITEM FROM THIS PROCESS.

AND THAT IS ON A LEGAL TIMEFRAME.

AND WE ARE NOT DOING THAT.

WITHIN 48 HOURS.

YOU CAN SHAKE YOUR HEAD. NO. AT ME ALL YOU LIKE.

CITY ATTORNEY, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, FIRST OF ALL.

THAT QUESTION WAS POSED TO ME WHILE BACK AT LEAST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

IN FACT, THIS PROJECT WAS APPROVED PRIOR TO MY APPOINTMENT AS INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY.

THEREFORE, MY FIRST QUESTION WAS TEXT MAXINE GALLOWAY THE SAME QUESTION.

AND AND MISS SCALLOWAY RESPONDED TO ME, INDICATED THAT BASICALLY THERE'S NO PROCEDURAL PROCESS IN PLACE TO WITHDRAW ALL WE SENT AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO WITHDRAW OR RESCIND WHEN THEY WOULD. YOU ARE SITTING BACK AND MAKING A DECISION THAT'S THAT'S NOT THAT.

THAT'S NOT. LET ME LET ME FINISH RIGHT NOW.

SO IN ADDITION, PLEASE GO AHEAD AND WITHDRAW.

LET ME USE THAT WORD. IF THAT'S THE WORD THAT YOU WERE DRAWN TO THE PLANNED AMENDMENT THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY GOING THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS.

SO OUR DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR BASICALLY SAID THAT'S BASICALLY NOT POSSIBLE UNDER THE CURRENT PROCESS. AND SOME LEGAL ISSUES, WHICH I ALSO RESEARCHED BASED ON COMMISSIONER GELIN COMMENTS TO ME ON THAT SAME ISSUE THAT THE VICE MAYOR RAISED.

I LOOKED AT, LOOK AT MYSELF, RESEARCH MYSELF.

I GAVE HIM A VERBAL OPINION.

I ALSO ASKED MY DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY TO ALSO RESEARCH THE ISSUE.

WE BOTH CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION THAT WITHDRAWAL OF THE PLANNING AMENDMENT WOULD WOULD BASICALLY CREATE OBVIOUSLY SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ISSUES, DUE PROCESS ISSUES AND RELATED TO THIS SPYING APPLICATION.

AND ADDITIONALLY TO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, SINCE THERE THERE SEEMS TO BE I HAVEN'T FOUND ANY ANY CASE, LAW OR LEGAL OPINION TO SUPPORT WITHDRAWAL OF THE PLANNED AMENDMENT. IN FACT, I REQUESTED INFORMATION FROM WHOEVER IS SPONSORING THIS RECOMMENDATION TO GIVE ME LEGAL OPINIONS TO SUPPORT THAT POSITION THAT THE VICE MAYOR IS STAYING TONIGHT. I HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING.

BUT AGAIN.

I WENT A STEP FURTHER TO GET A SECOND OPINION ON THIS ISSUE, BECAUSE, AGAIN, I REALIZE THERE ARE SOME LEGAL ISSUES BEING RAISED THAT I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH IN TERMS OF GIVING A LEGAL OPINION. BUT TO SATISFY, OBVIOUSLY, QUESTION THAT COMMISSIONER GELIN HAD ASKED ME, I SAID, LOOK, YOU KNOW, I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT IN MY LEGAL OPINION ON THIS ISSUE AND I CONCUR WITH IT.

WE COULD GET A THIRD OPINION IS A THIRD PARTY AND A THIRD OPINION THAT WAS ISSUED, IN FACT, BY NANCY STRAUSS, WHICH I WILL SHARE WITH THE COMMISSION, BASICALLY CONFIRM THAT THAT IS INCORRECT.

THE PROCESS OF WITHDRAWING, SENDING ITS OK, WITHDRAW OR WE SEND WHICHEVER SOMATICS.

SO THE ISSUE YOU HAVE DIFFERENT YOU WILL BE ZONING IN A PLANNED AMENDMENT APPLICATION.

AND AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMISSION REALIZE AND NOT TO PREJUDICE THE APPLICANT IN ANY WAY AND WE SHOULDN'T DO THAT TONIGHT, THEN I THINK THAT THIS APPLICANT WILL COME BACK BEFORE THE COMMISSION AND THE COMMISSION HAS THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE OR DENY.

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SO LET THE PROCESS PLAY OUT.

THE LAW BASICALLY IS IS IS ON THE SIDE OF ALLOWING THE PROCESS TO PLAY OUT.

WE RESEARCHED IT INTENSELY.

I RESEARCHED IT. AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN RAISED TO BE COMMISSIONER GELIN HAS SPOKEN TO ME ABOUT IT.

I HAVE GIVEN HIM VERBAL OPINIONS ON THIS ISSUE AND I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH THE POSITION THAT I HAVE RECOMMENDED TO HIM.

AND ALSO THE VICE MAYOR HAD ASKED ME TO SHARE THE PAIN THAT I HAD ON THIS MATTER WITH HIM, WHICH I DID. SO BASICALLY, THE SITUATION WE STILL HAVE HERE IS THERE'S AN ITEM THAT HAS JUST BEEN BROUGHT UP, WHICH IS LESS THAN 48 HOURS OCEAN.

SO IT'S THE MOTION TO WITHDRAW.

I CAN SAY NO. YOU GUYS CAN SAY YES.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TELLING PEOPLE EARLIER IN THE MEETING, THAT THEY CAN'T JUST THROW SOMETHING. NOW, THE SAME THING FOR YOU, IF THERE'S A SECOND, JUST COLORADO.

BUT I BELIEVE WE ARE CALLING THE ROLL ON SOMETHING THAT IS NOT PROPERLY BEEN PUT ON THE AGENDA THAT COULD CAUSE THIS CITY SOME ISSUES.

AND YOU CAN SAY WE'RE GOING TO REPEAL, REVERSE, ABROGATE, OVERTURN, OVERRULE ALL SOON ENOUGH. NO, NO.

I BELIEVE WE SHOULD GO VOTE FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY, NOT TO APPROVE.

OK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR DISCUSSING PURPOSES ONLY, NOT FOR APPROVAL.

COMMISSIONER GUNN. CAN YOU REPHRASE YOUR SECONDING OF YOUR MOTION? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT I UNDERSTOOD.

YOUR SECOND HAND MOTION WITHOUT THAT, THAT MY MOTION WAS NOT TO DISCUSS, MY MOTION WAS TO WITHDRAW. WE'RE YOUR SECOND CALL FOR YOUR SECOND DISCUSSION.

YOU ARE NOT HEARD COMMISSIONER OF A SECOND AND FOR DISCUSSION AND AS THE MAYOR OF GOMEZ SAID, THAT THE ITEM HAS TO BE PROPERLY PLACED ON THE AGENDA FOR FOR ANY ACTION TO BE TAKEN. SO IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO DO, THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE CITY MANAGER TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA SIX DAYS AGO.

BUT I DID WANT TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK SO WE COULD ALL HEAR YOU OUT.

SO WE GET HERE, THE CITY ATTORNEY OUT FOR THE RECORD.

AND I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE PLANNING DIRECTOR, MAXINE CALLAWAY AS WELL.

WE'LL GET AN UPDATE YOU ON DOUBLE DECKER.

I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE COMMISSIONER OF OUR PLACE.

SURE. THANK YOU.

WHICH IS THEY'LL SAY, WE'RE PUTTING ON SOMETHING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT.

BUT YOU BUY SOMETHING, YOU CAN FIRST OF ALL, WE HAD OUR NEWS OPINION HERE, SO WE NEED TO TAKE HIS LEGAL ADVICE.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.

I MEAN, LET'S BE FAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHEN THIS MEMO WAS RECEIVED BY THE CITY.

AND A COPY OF IT WENT TO FRANK ZUCKER, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE CITY'S RESPONSE WAS AT THAT POINT. THIS WAS BACK IN DECEMBER OF TWENTY TWENTY, AS I RECALL.

SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE CITY'S RESPONSE WAS.

WE'RE SITTING HERE BLAMING EVERYONE.

LET'S GET IT ALL OUT ON THE TABLE.

I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION, I'M SORRY.

MY QUESTION IS, WHAT WAS THE POLICE RESPONSE WHEN THEY WERE MADE AWARE OF OF F DOTS SUGGESTING? SOME SCALLOWAY QUESTION, I KNOW ONE THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER, BUT THIS TOPIC, THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY ONE THAT WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING AT THIS TIME ON AN ITEM THAT HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR CITY. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND IF OUR ATTORNEY SAYS WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSING IT NOW, I WILL TAKE HIS ADVICE AND I WILL SUBMIT THE LETTER THAT THE ATTORNEY PROVIDED TO ME WAS TO RESCIND. THIS SPECIFICALLY SAYS, YOU HAVE ASKED FOR MY OPINION REGARDING THE LEGAL RISK FOR THE CITY COMMISSIONERS TO RESCIND.

MY MOTION IS NOT TO RESCIND MY MOTION TO WITHDRAW THE CITY OF SAMARRA, TRANSMITTAL TO BROWARD COUNTY THAT I'M VERY DIFFERENT AND THAT'S NOT MY LEGAL POSITION, DOESN'T CHANGE ON CHANGING THE WORLD WE SEND TO WITHDRAW.

IT'S VERY DIFFERENT WORK, BUT DOES THAT'S PRETTY MUCH A LEGAL OPINION AND I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH AND.

OK, LISTEN, I'M GOOD.

I PUT UP THE MOTION TO VOTE.

IF IF IT DOESN'T GET SECOND, THAT'S FINE.

THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM. ALL OF Y'ALL ARE GOING TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOUR RESIDENTS.

THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS PUT A MOTION ON THE TABLE.

IT WAS ON A TABLE, THAT'S ALL.

LET'S GET IT TO US AND TIME FOR AN ACTUAL DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY LAST TIME YOU KNOW WHO WAS CALLED IN, SOMEONE THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON OUR CALL.

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SO SOMEONE'S LEAKING INFORMATION.

THAT'S MY PROBLEM. YES.

I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND SOME OF WHAT YOU JUST SAID, BUT WERE THERE COMMISSIONER, GELIN? DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER YOU WANTED TO? SO I JUST WANTED THE PLANNING DIRECTOR TO RESPOND TO THE WITHDRAWAL OR RESCIND, I BELIEVE THOSE WORDS MEAN THE SAME THING, VERY SIMILAR, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GET HER HER VIEW ON THE MATTER OF THE ITEM.

THIS POWER. THANK YOU, MADAM.

I CONCUR, OF COURSE, WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS YOU STATED WHEN THE INQUIRY CAME IN, HE SENT ME AN EMAIL REGARDING THE INQUIRY AND I RESPONDED AS THIS IS A LEGAL ISSUE, ONE THAT HAS TO DO WITH DUE PROCESS.

AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CITY ATTORNEY WENT AHEAD AND PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

BUT WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, I THINK IT WOULD MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF I GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THE VICE MAYOR AND PERHAPS WITH COMMISSIONER DEBORAH PLACKO, JUST TO DISCUSS THE APPLICATION A LITTLE BIT MORE AND EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TRANSMISSION TRANSMITTAL FROM THE CITY HAS BEEN MADE.

WHEN THE FIRST HEARING WAS CONDUCTED ON THE ITEM THE CITY ALREADY TRANSMITTED TO THE COUNTY, THE COUNTY APPROVED THE CITY'S TRANSMITTAL.

IT WAS SENT TO THE STATE.

THE STATUTE REQUIRES REVIEW FROM CERTAIN REVIEW AGENCIES, AND THEY ARE GIVEN 30 DAYS IN WHICH TO COMMENT ON THE APPLICATION DEAL.

IT WAS THE ONLY COMMENT THAT WE RECEIVED AND THEY PROVIDED A RECOMMENDATION ON THE COMMENT. THE WAY THAT COMMENT IS ADDRESSED IS IN THE ADOPTION PROCESS.

AND SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS NOW TO ADDRESS THE COMMENTS THE CONFERENCE PROVIDES THAT THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE OR WILL BE AVAILABLE, WHICH MEANS CAN BE FINED AS A PART OF THE APPLICATION.

AND SO THE TRANSMITTAL IS ALREADY ACCEPTED BY THE STATE.

WE'RE GOING THROUGH AN ADOPTION PROCESS NOW AND FIRST GO TO THE COUNTY AFTER THE COUNTY IS FINISHED WITH IT. THEN IT COMES TO THE CITY, THEIR ADOPTIONS.

SO OUR TIME AS LITTLE PROCESS HAS ALREADY AS ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OR THROUGH THE COUNTY, THROUGH THE STATE IS FOR THE MOST PART BEEN ADOPTED BY THE STATE.

AND NOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH A SECOND ROUND AND ADOPTION PROCESS AND ALL COMMENTS ARE ADDRESSED AS A PART OF THE ADOPTION PROCESS.

ADDITIONALLY, ABDELATIF HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY DO HAVE PLANS FOR COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IS A PART OF THEIR TWENTY TWENTY FOUR HOUR LONG RANGE PLANNING DOCUMENT.

IT IS NOT DONE BY THE NPL.

AND SO THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO SIT DOWN WITH THE VICE MAYOR AND PROBABLY EXPLAIN TO HIM A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS, BECAUSE I THINK CERTAIN STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE ON THE RECORD ARE JUST INCORRECT.

WHAT'S INCORRECT IS THAT THE LETTER THAT WE RECEIVED WAS NOT ADDRESSING F THOUGHT IT WAS REFERRING TO SOMETHING ELSE.

SO IT'S SAYING RESCINDING.

WHAT I'M REFERRING TO IS THE F DOT REPORT BY SMER.

YOU CAN PLEASE MEET WITH MISS CALLOWAY.

AND SHE GOT AWAY.

I JUST PUT A MOTION ON THE TABLE IF SOMEONE CAN SECOND IT OR NOT OR HE DIES, THAT'S FINE.

I'M JUST PUTTING THE MOTION ON THE TABLE.

JUST FOR THE RECORD, MAYOR NOT ISSUED A COMMENT WITH A SUPPORTING RECOMMENDATION.

IT WAS A COMMENT THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE ENGAGED IN.

AND SO THE CITY RESPONDS TO THAT COMMENT BY VIRTUE OF THE SECOND READING.

AND SO THE CITY INCORPORATES ITS FINDINGS AND HOW WE ADDRESS THAT COMMENT WHEN WE WHEN WE DELIBERATE ON THE ITEM.

AND SECOND READING, THAT'S HOW IT'S ADDRESSED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND BASICALLY, WE HAVE HAD ADVICE OF COUNSEL.

AND AT THIS TIME, I AM NOT HEARING A SECOND LETTER THAT IT IS ELEVEN FIFTY FOUR.

WE HAVE DONE BETTER THAN WE HAVE FOR THE PAST TWO MEETINGS.

GOOD JOB FOR YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.

GOOD NIGHT.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

Apr 28, 2021 Regular

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