May 24, 2023 Regular

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GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING.

[CALL TO ORDER]

A LOT OF ENERGY IN THIS ROOM, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.

IT IS 931 ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 24TH.

WELCOME AND CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

MAYOR GOMEZ. GOOD MORNING, VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

GOOD MORNING. COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. GOOD MORNING.

COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.

COMMISSIONER DANIEL GOOD MORNING.

THANK YOU. IF EVERYONE WOULD PLEASE STAND, THE VICE MAYOR BOLTON WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE THEREAFTER.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.

ONE NATION, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

THANK YOU. PLEASE BE SEATED.

OH, THAT'S NOT. OKAY.

CITY ATTORNEY. DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? NO REPORT, MADAM MAYOR.

EXCELLENT. CITY MANAGER.

[2. CITY MANAGER REPORT]

YOU GOT IT. WELL, IT IS MY ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO EVERYBODY A MAN WHO PROBABLY DOESN'T NEED ANY INTRODUCTIONS BUT OUR PROPERTY APPRAISER, MARTY CARR. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. BRICK HERE.

FORGIVE ME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM MAYOR.

AND I TRULY APPRECIATE Y'ALL HAVING ME TODAY.

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE.

AND IF I'M A LITTLE WIRED, I'VE HAD FIVE CUPS OF COFFEE, TWO RED BULLS AND A DIET COKE.

SO I'M A LITTLE WIRED TODAY, BUT VERY, VERY HAPPY.

AND, YOU KNOW, BEFORE I JUST QUICKLY TALK ABOUT HOW OUR OFFICE CAN HELP THE RESIDENTS OF TAMARAC AND ALSO HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER. ONE, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE EVERYBODY THAT GOT ELECTED IN THE LAST ELECTION.

I KNOW YOU ALL WORKED SO, SO VERY HARD AND IT WAS VERY, VERY, VERY WELL DESERVED.

AND I THINK THAT'S AWESOME.

AND ALSO, I WANT TO THANK YOUR STAFF BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE WEEK THEY SEND US OVER PERMITS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN PULLED SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE GET ALL VALUE ON THE TAX ROLL.

AND I CAN TELL YOU, WE HAVE 31 WONDERFUL CITIES.

I LOVE EVERY CITY EQUALLY.

BUT TAMARAC IS SO EASY TO WORK WITH AND YOU HAVE JUST A GREAT STAFF MEMBERS AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE IT.

AND YOU'LL ALSO NOTICE AS I TALK, PROPERTY VALUES IN TAMARAC ARE CONTINUING TO RISE.

THEY'RE THEY'RE RISING SIGNIFICANTLY.

AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT ALSO IS THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL DO WHEN YOU HAVE A PLACE THAT HAS GREAT SERVICES, GREAT PARKS, AND A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.

IT INSPIRES PEOPLE TO COME LIVE THERE.

AND I CAN TELL YOU, PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE AND PAYING A LOT OF MONEY FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, FOR CONDOS, FOR TOWNHOUSES AND OTHERS.

AND BEFORE I JUST GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE OUR PROPERTY VALUES ARE RIGHT NOW AND ALSO THE TAX ROLL, THE TAXABLE VALUE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO UTILIZE AS YOU SET YOUR MILLAGE RATE TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU NEED.

I JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY TALK TO THE RESIDENTS ABOUT HOW OUR OFFICE CAN HELP THEM AT THIS TIME.

THERE ARE A FEW MAIN FUNCTIONS TO OUR OFFICE.

THE FIRST FUNCTION IS WE DETERMINE THE VALUE OF EVERY PIECE OF PROPERTY IN BROWARD COUNTY FOR TAX PURPOSES, WHETHER IT'S RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, TANGIBLE, PERSONAL PROPERTY OR CENTRALLY ASSESSED PROPERTY, WHICH ARE RAILROADS.

AND THE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE WHEN YOU PAY YOUR PROPERTY TAXES, THE AMOUNT OF TAXES YOU PAY IS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY THAT WE SET AND THE TAX RATES SET BY YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

SO THE HIGHER THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY, THE MORE TAXES PEOPLE PAY, THE LOWER THE VALUE OF PROPERTY, THE LOWER AMOUNT OF TAXES THEY PAY.

SO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE WANT TO DO IS MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT.

AND BROWARD COUNTY, AS YOU KNOW, IS AN ENORMOUS PLACE.

MORE PEOPLE LIVE HERE THAN 13 STATES, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ALL US TERRITORIES, PUERTO RICO.

AND EVEN THOUGH THE PEOPLE IN OUR OFFICE DO A VERY, VERY GOOD JOB AND THEIR ASSESSMENTS ARE VERY, VERY ACCURATE, MISTAKES CAN OCCUR.

OR MAYBE PEOPLE HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR PROPERTY THAT WE DON'T HAVE THAT COULD HELP US BRING DOWN THEIR ASSESSED VALUE, WHICH WOULD BRING DOWN THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.

AND ON FRIDAY, WE'RE GOING TO BE RELEASING THE TAXABLE VALUE AND THE MARKET VALUE TO EVERY SINGLE CITY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION, TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND OTHERS. AND RIGHT AT THAT TIME, IF ANY RESIDENT WANTS TO GO ON OUR WEBSITE AT BCPA DOT NET, THEY CAN TYPE IN THEIR NAME, THEIR ADDRESS, AND THEY CAN LOOK AT THEIR PROPERTY.

AND IF THEY HAVE ANY CONCERNS, THEY CAN CALL ME BY SEPTEMBER 18TH OF THIS YEAR.

SO WE CAN WORK ON IT WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN THEY PAY THEIR PROPERTY TAXES, THAT THEY'RE ONLY PAYING ON THEIR FAIR VALUE AND NOT TOO MUCH.

THE SECOND THING THAT WE DO IS WE GIVE TAX SAVING EXEMPTIONS TO PEOPLE THAT QUALIFY.

AND THIS IS WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT MY JOB.

AND THERE ARE A LOT OF EXEMPTIONS UNDER FLORIDA LAW THAT PEOPLE QUALIFY FOR.

IF SOMEBODY LIVES HERE IN TAMARAC AND IS THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE WHERE THEY'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE, THEY DON'T VOTE WHERE THEIR DECLARATION OF DOMICILE, WHERE THEIR CAR IS REGISTERED TO, THIS IS WHERE THEY LIVE.

THEY GET A VERY IMPORTANT EXEMPTION CALLED THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

WHAT IT DOES, IT TAKES $50,000 OF VALUE OFF THE TAX ROLL THEY NO LONGER PAY TAXES ON.

IT CAN SAVE THEM A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY EACH YEAR.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT REALLY PROTECTS THEM GOING FORWARD BECAUSE EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER, THE VALUE OF THEIR TAX GUNN CANNOT GO UP MORE THAN A MAXIMUM OF 3%.

AND THAT IS SO IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU ALL KNOW WHAT PROPERTY VALUES ARE, WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

THEY HAVE SKYROCKETED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WHEN IT COMES TO THE AMOUNT OF MONEY PEOPLE ARE PAYING FOR THEM.

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THERE ARE EXEMPTIONS FOR SENIORS, FOR VETERANS, FOR WIDOWS, FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED, FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DISABLED, CONFINED TO WHEELCHAIRS.

THERE'S LOTS OF EXEMPTIONS.

AND SO I HOPE EVERY RESIDENT OF TAMARAC GOES ON OUR WEBSITE AT BCPA, NET CLICKS ON EXEMPTIONS, AND IF THERE'S SOMETHING THEY'RE NOT GETTING, THEY CAN CONTACT ME BY SEPTEMBER 18TH SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THEY'RE APPLIED IN THEIR TAX BILL.

THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT BEFORE I TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART WHEN IT COMES TO CRACKING DOWN ON TITLE FRAUD IS REALLY WHERE PROPERTY VALUES ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC, AND THEY ARE DOING VERY, VERY WELL.

AND LET ME GIVE YOU AN IDEA.

IN 2022, IF YOU TOOK ALL THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, TOWN HOMES, COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, ALL REAL PROPERTY IN TAMARAC AND SOLD IT IN THE OPEN MARKET, YOU WOULD HAVE GOT RIGHT ABOUT $8.77 BILLION.

FAST FORWARD ONE YEAR TO RIGHT NOW, THERE'S BEEN A 16.7% INCREASE IN MARKET VALUE TO ABOUT $10.24 BILLION.

THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE.

THE TAXABLE VALUE IS THE VALUE THAT I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ON FRIDAY, AND IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE THIS VALUE.

THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SET YOUR MILITARY DOWN, WHICH WILL DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE OF TAMARAC.

AND THAT VALUE IN 2022 WAS RIGHT ABOUT $5.28 BILLION.

FAST FORWARD JUST TO THIS YEAR.

THERE'S BEEN A 10.94% INCREASE IN TAXABLE VALUE TO RIGHT ABOUT $5.859 BILLION.

AND TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, IF YOU KEEP YOUR OPERATING MILLAGE RATE THE SAME AT 7.0000, YOU'LL GET ADDITIONAL REVENUE THIS YEAR IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,043,000.

THAT'S ACTUALLY THAT MUCH MORE THAN LAST YEAR.

THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT YOU CAN USE TO PROVIDE GREAT SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE OF TAMARAC.

AND TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA THAT'S REALLY BEING DRIVEN BY TWO THINGS.

THE FIRST IS NEW TAXABLE VALUE, BASICALLY NEW CONSTRUCTION THAT'S BEEN ADDED TO THE TAX ROLL.

AND RIGHT NOW YOU'VE HAD A LOT OF VERY BIG NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE THE WOODMONT COUNTRY CLUB ADDED 49 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT ADDED $32.4 MILLION IN TAXABLE VALUE.

YOU ALSO HAD A BIG WAREHOUSE BUILD OUT ON HIATUS ROAD THAT ADDED $22.2 MILLION IN TAXABLE VALUE AND THE LARGEST ACTUALLY WAS THE TAMARACK VILLAGE APARTMENTS, WHICH ADDED ABOUT $46.4 MILLION OF VALUE.

AND THEN THERE WERE LOTS OF OTHER NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS THAT INCREASED THE VALUE THERE AS WELL.

ALSO, YOU HAVE LOTS OF NEW PEOPLE COMING IN THAT ARE PAYING TOP DOLLAR FOR PROPERTIES, AND THAT'S ALSO DRIVING UP THE VALUES.

WHAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THE VAST MAJORITY OF PROPERTY OWNERS IN TAMARACK ARE HOMESTEADED PROPERTY OWNERS AND THEIR VALUE CANNOT GO UP MORE THAN 3%.

SO THE MAJORITY OF THE INCREASE IN THE VALUE, AGAIN, IS BEING BASED ON NEW CONSTRUCTION AND NEW PEOPLE MAKING TAMARACK THEIR HOME.

THERE ARE 21,812 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK.

YOU HAVE 3091 SENIORS WHO RECEIVE A VERY IMPORTANT SENIOR EXEMPTION.

YOU HAVE 364 LONG TERM SENIORS WHO RECEIVE THAT VERY, VERY IMPORTANT EXEMPTION.

AND THIS I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR, BECAUSE NOT EVERY CITY HAS A LONG TERM SENIOR EXEMPTION, BUT I HOPE EVERY CITY FOLLOWS YOUR LEAD AND ADOPTS IT.

AND HERE'S THE WAY IT WORKS.

IF SOMEBODY IS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER MADE UNDER LAST YEAR.

RIGHT. ABOUT 35,000 BUCKS, IF THEY'VE BEEN IN THEIR HOME FOR 25 YEARS OR MORE AND THE VALUE OF THEIR HOME AT THE TIME OF THE APPLICATION WAS UNDER $250,000.

THEY'RE FULLY EXEMPT FROM THE CITY AND THE COUNTY PORTION OF THE TAX BILL.

AND THIS IS WHY THAT'S SO VERY IMPORTANT.

AS YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ONLY 364 SENIORS THAT ACTUALLY QUALIFY FOR IT.

SO IN A CITY THIS BIG, THAT'S A DROP IN THE BUCKET WHEN IT COMES TO THE LOSS OF REVENUE THAT YOU ALL ARE GETTING, IT'S VERY IT'S NOMINAL.

BUT TO THOSE SENIORS WHO STRUGGLE EVERY SINGLE DAY TO TRY TO MAKE ENDS MEET, THAT PUTS A LOT OF MONEY BACK IN THEIR POCKETS.

THEY CAN HAVE A BETTER LIFE.

I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC THAT YOU ALL ADOPTED THAT.

I APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH AND I JUST HOPE EVERY OTHER CITY FOLLOWS TAMARAC LEAD BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

YOU ALSO HAVE 2844 WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS WHO RECEIVE AN EXEMPTION.

SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT FOR THOSE FOLKS IS THE WIDOWS EXEMPTION WAS ADOPTED IN 1969 AND WAS NOT RAISED SINCE THAT TIME.

SO UNTIL LAST YEAR, IT SAVED PEOPLE ABOUT $9 IN THEIR TAXES.

THIS YEAR, THE LEGISLATURE DID THE RIGHT THING, LED BY A FEW OF OUR ACTUALLY, BROWARD COUNTY LEGISLATIVE MEMBERS FILED THE BILL AND IT'S BEEN INCREASED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

SO NOW IT'LL SAVE PEOPLE ABOUT 90 TO $100 A YEAR, WHICH IS REAL SAVINGS IN THEIR TAX, IN THEIR MONEY.

YOU ALSO HAVE WHAT I THINK IS WONDERFUL, 219 AMERICAN HERO, TOTALLY PERMANENTLY DISABLED VETERANS THAT HAVE MADE TAMARAC THEIR HOME.

THEY PAY NO PROPERTY TAXES.

AND YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TWO FIRST RESPONDERS WHO ARE TOTALLY PERMANENTLY DISABLED THAT PAY NO PROPERTY TAXES AS WELL.

THE AVERAGE SALE PRICE RIGHT NOW FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC IS $530,000, WHICH IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.

THE AVERAGE SALE PRICE FOR A CONDOMINIUM IS $195,189.

NOW, SOMETHING THAT'S VERY INTERESTING WHEN PEOPLE MOVE TO TAMARAC, A LOT OF TIMES THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE HOMESTEADED, EVEN THOUGH THE AVERAGE SALE PRICE FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME IS $530,000, THE AVERAGE ASSESSED VALUE IS ABOUT $214,000 BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN THERE FOR SO LONG.

SAME WITH CONDOMINIUMS WHERE THE AVERAGE SALE PRICE IS 195,000.

THE AVERAGE ASSESSED VALUE IS 170, 107,000, WHICH IS MUCH LESS THAN THAT JUST BECAUSE TAMARAC IS A FANTASTIC PLACE.

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TODAY IS SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART AND WE'VE BEEN AND SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN A BIG FOCUS MYSELF AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR SOME TIME NOW IN BROWARD COUNTY.

UNFORTUNATELY, SOUTH FLORIDA IS THE TITLE FRAUD CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

IT'S THE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD BECAUSE YOU HAVE CRIMINALS.

THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE. THEY WALK INTO THE RECORDING DIVISION FOR EVERY SINGLE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

THEY FILE FAKE DEEDS ON PEOPLE'S PROPERTIES AND THEY TAKE THOSE DEEDS AND THEY TRY TO EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY OR MORTGAGE, RENT OR SELL THE PROPERTY.

THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME.

AND THE REASON IT'S SO EASY FOR THEM IS THE RECORDING DIVISION FOR EVERY COUNTY HAS A MINISTERIAL DUTY.

THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT WHATEVER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THEM.

SO YOU HAVE THESE CRIMINALS, THEY WALK IN, THEY FILE A FAKE DEED AND THEY DO SOMETHING NEFARIOUS WITH IT.

AND SO THE FIRST THING WE WANTED TO DO WAS GIVE THE PEOPLE OF BROWARD COUNTY THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIGHT THE FRAUD BEFORE THE FRAUD OCCURS.

AND THE FIGHT THE FRAUD BEFORE THEIR TITLE GOT VERY CLOUDED.

AND SO TWO YEARS AGO, WE CAME UP WITH A GREAT PROGRAM CALLED OWNER ALERT.

IT'S REALLY A NOTIFICATION PROGRAM TO LET PEOPLE KNOW IF A TITLE CHANGE HAS BEEN FILED ON THEIR PROPERTY, WHETHER IT'S LEGITIMATE OR NOT.

AND HERE'S HOW PEOPLE CAN SIGN UP.

THEY CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT TYPEKIT.

THEY CLICK ON OWNER ALERT.

THEY TYPE IN THEIR NAME, THEY TYPE.

FROM THEIR ADDRESS AND THEY TYPE IN THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS.

AND IF WE HAVE THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS ALREADY ON FILE BECAUSE WE HAD IT WITH THEIR HOMESTEAD APPLICATION, THEY'RE AUTOMATICALLY VERIFIED.

IF WE DON'T, THEY HAVE TO UPLOAD THEIR FLORIDA DRIVER'S LICENSE OR FLORIDA ID.

IF THEY DON'T HAVE THAT, THEY HAVE TO UPLOAD A UTILITY BILL OR SOMETHING PROVING OWNERSHIP.

AND THEN IF ANY DOCUMENT, LEGITIMATE OR NOT, IS FILED CHANGING OWNERSHIP IN THEIR PROPERTY, THEY'LL BE NOTIFIED INSTANTANEOUSLY SO THEY CAN FIGHT THE FRAUD BEFORE THE FRAUD OCCURS. WE'VE HAD ABOUT ALMOST 200,000 BROWARD COUNTY PROPERTY OWNERS SIGN UP SO FAR AND SAY, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IS WE ACTUALLY JUST UNVEILED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO A TEXT MESSAGING COMPONENT WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET TEXT MESSAGES.

AND IN JUST TWO WEEKS, WE'VE HAD MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE SIGN UP, WHICH IS FANTASTIC.

SO MY GOAL IS TO GET EVERY PROPERTY OWNER TO SIGN UP, TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL, A TEXT MESSAGE, AND IF THEY WANT SNAIL MAIL BECAUSE IT'S THERE TO PROTECT THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET, THEIR HOME.

AND THE OTHER THING WE WANTED TO DO WAS KIND OF TAKE IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL.

YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ROLLED THIS OUT, WE STARTED GETTING CALLS FROM PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD SAY, MARTY, I GOT AN EMAIL FROM YOU FROM OWNER ALERT BASICALLY SAYING THAT TITLE WAS CHANGED TO MY PROPERTY, BUT I DIDN'T DO IT.

AND WE STARTED GETTING MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND WE REALLY REALIZED HOW BIG OF A DEAL THIS WAS TO THE PEOPLE OF BROWARD COUNTY.

AND SO I DECIDED TO COME UP WITH A NEW PROGRAM CALLED OUR CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY TEAM, AND I HAD TO GET APPROVAL FROM THE STATE.

SO I CALLED THE STATE OF FLORIDA, THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AND I SAID, LISTEN, THIS IS WHAT WE DO.

WE HAVE A BIG ISSUE DOWN HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA WHERE PEOPLE'S HOMES ARE GETTING STOLEN FROM THEM.

AND I WANT TO WORK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND BUILD CRIMINAL CASES AND PUT THESE PEOPLE IN JAIL.

AND THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE SAID THAT'S NOT REALLY SOMETHING A PROPERTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE DOES, BUT WE'LL LET YOU BE THE GUINEA PIG, GUINEA PIG FOR IT.

AND I GO, HEY, GREAT, AWESOME.

AND SO WE ACTUALLY STARTED OUR TEAM.

AND SO THE FIRST THING I DID WAS I WENT AND I MET WITH A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS THE STATE ATTORNEY OF BROWARD COUNTY, HAROLD PRYOR.

AND I GO, HAROLD, THIS IS A BIG DEAL IN BROWARD COUNTY.

I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU WOULD REALLY LOOK AT THESE AND PROSECUTE THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE PICKING ON, THEY'RE PICKING ON ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.

BUT SOMETIMES THEY PICK ON OUR MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE DEFRAUDING THEM OUT OF THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET.

AND HAROLD SAID, ABSOLUTELY, MARTY.

NOT ONLY WILL WE ENTER INTO INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT TOGETHER TO WORK TOGETHER, BUT I'LL ASSIGN AN ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY SOLELY TO WORK WITH YOU AND YOUR OFFICE AND PROSECUTE THESE PEOPLE. THEN I WENT TO MY FRIEND SHERIFF TONY, AND I GO, SHERIFF, YOU KNOW, I MET WITH HAROLD AND WE'RE GOING TO PROSECUTE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE STEALING PEOPLE'S HOMES.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT.

I DON'T HAVE INVESTIGATORY POWERS OR I CAN'T ISSUE WARRANTS.

I CAN'T DO PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVITS.

I WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH YOU ON THIS.

AND HE GOES, MARTY, THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF BROWARD COUNTY.

AND NOT ONLY WILL WE ENTER INTO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND WORK TOGETHER, BUT I'LL ASSIGN A SHERIFF'S DETECTIVE SOLELY TO WORK WITH YOU AND YOUR OFFICE SO THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO CRACK DOWN ON THIS. AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE LEADERS THAT OVERSEES THE MAN THAT WORKS IN OUR OFFICE IS YOUR WONDERFUL CHIEF COOPER WIFE, WHICH IS AWESOME.

SHE IS FANTASTIC.

AND SO THEN WE HAVE OUR OUR DIRECTOR WHO AT ONE POINT WAS HIGH IN COMMAND OF THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

WE HAVE TWO EMPLOYEES WHO ARE FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THEY'RE NOT SWORN NOW, BUT THEY HAVE SIGNIFICANT INVESTIGATORY EXPERIENCE.

WE HAVE THE SHERIFF'S DETECTIVE.

WE HAVE A FORT LAUDERDALE DETECTIVE.

WE HAVE A TOWN OF DAVIE RESERVE DETECTIVE, AND WE HAVE OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM.

AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY BUILDING CRIMINAL CASES AND HAVE BEEN PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL AND ARRESTING THEM THAT HAVE BEEN STEALING AND RIPPING OFF THE PEOPLE OF BROWARD COUNTY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

WE'VE STOPPED HUNDREDS OF FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS, RECOVERED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF STOLEN PROPERTY.

AND LET ME JUST FOR THE RESIDENTS OF TAMARAC, JUST GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES TO SHOW YOU HOW SMART THE PEOPLE ARE THAT DO THIS AND WHERE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY DID IT. ONE STORY I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE FIRST CASE WE HAD, AND THAT WOULD INVOLVE TWO WOMEN, A MARRIED COUPLE.

ONE OF THE WOMEN WORKED FOR ONE OF OUR HOSPITAL DISTRICTS.

THE OTHER ONE WORKED IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY.

THE WIFE THAT WORKED IN THE HOSPITAL DISTRICT WOULD FIND OUT WHEN PEOPLE WOULD PASS ON.

SHE WOULD THEN TAKE THEIR PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, AND GIVE IT TO HER WIFE IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY, WHO WOULD FIND OUT IF THEY HAD PROPERTY IN BROWARD COUNTY AND IF THEY HAD HEIRS HERE, IF THEY HAD PROPERTY AND NO HEIRS, THEY'D FILE FAKE DEEDS ON THE PROPERTIES.

THEY WOULD SELL THE PROPERTIES ON ZILLOW MORTGAGE, THE PROPERTIES RENT, THE PROPERTIES.

THEY PROFITED IN THE AMOUNT OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

BUT FORTUNATELY THEY WERE FOUND GUILTY RECENTLY.

AND SOMETHING I'M HAPPY ABOUT, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE A MARRIED COUPLE, THEY'RE SPENDING THEIR TIME IN DIFFERENT PRISONS, WHICH IS A GREAT THING.

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THE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS ARE VERY SMART.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE HAPPENED FROM A MAN THAT LIVED IN MIAMI DADE COUNTY.

HE DIDN'T LIVE IN BROWARD, BUT HE SOMEHOW FOUND OUT THAT AND HE HASN'T YET BEEN BEEN CONVICTED.

BUT I BELIEVE HE WILL BE HE'S BEEN ARRESTED.

HE SOMEHOW FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A SENIOR THAT WAS BEDRIDDEN, THAT OWNED A FIVE ACRE PARCEL IN SOUTHWEST RANCHES.

AND SO WHAT HE DID WAS HE FILED A FAKE CORPORATION WITH TALLAHASSEE AND HE MADE THE OFFICER AND DIRECTOR OF THAT CORPORATION, THE MAN THAT OWNED THE PROPERTY, THE SENIOR.

HE THEN FILED A FAKE DEED SAYING THE CORPORATION OWNS THE PROPERTY.

AND HE THEN MADE A FAKE ID SAYING HE WAS THAT MAN.

HE THEN WALKED INTO A MORTGAGE COMPANY IN THE CITY OF SUNRISE AND SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? I FALLEN ON SOME HARD TIMES.

THINGS HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT.

BUT I HAVE THIS ONE THING A FIVE ACRE PARCEL IN SOUTHWEST RANCHES THAT'S FREE AND CLEAR.

CAN I PLEASE HAVE A HALF $1 MILLION MORTGAGE? AND THE MORTGAGE COMPANY SAID, SURE, WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.

AND THIS IS WHERE THEY REALLY SHOULD HAVE REALIZED THAT SOMETHING WAS FISHY.

THE CLOSING FOR A HALF $1 MILLION MORTGAGE ON A FIVE ACRE PARCEL IN SOUTHWEST RANCHES TOOK PLACE AT A BURGER KING IN HIALEAH.

SO YOU HAVE YOU HAVE THE BAD GUY TRYING TO GET THE MONEY.

YOU HAVE THE MORTGAGE COMPANY NOT DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND YOU HAVE THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM, THE NOTARY AND THE NOTARY IS LOOKING AT THIS THINKING.

THIS IS BIZARRE. AND SHE GOES TO THE PERSON, CAN I PLEASE HAVE YOUR THUMBPRINT? GIVES THE THUMBPRINT. SHE THEN CALLS HER OFFICE.

WE CONTACTED THE TOWN OF DAVIE POLICE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY POLICE SOUTHWEST RANCHES.

AND WE CONTACTED THE US SECRET SERVICE BECAUSE THEY HANDLE MOST IDENTITY THEFT CASES IN AMERICA.

AND FORTUNATELY, THE MAN WAS ARRESTED.

UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS GIVEN THE FULL $500,000 MORTGAGE, SPENT ABOUT 80,000.

WE RECOVERED 420,000.

ONE OTHER EXAMPLE, BECAUSE IT HAPPENED VERY, VERY RECENTLY, THERE WAS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ALL MET EACH OTHER, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, IN JAIL.

AND I REALIZE YOU CAN GET A PRETTY GOOD EDUCATION WHEN YOU GO TO JAIL AND YOU TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT HOW TO DEFRAUD OTHER PEOPLE.

AND WHAT THEY DECIDED TO DO WAS USE THE COURT SYSTEM TO STEAL PEOPLE'S PROPERTIES AND THEY WOULD PICK ON SOME VERY VULNERABLE PEOPLE.

AND THEY HAVEN'T YET BEEN CONVICTED EITHER, BUT THEY'VE ALL BEEN ARRESTED AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN PRISON, IN JAIL RIGHT NOW.

AND WHAT THEY WOULD DO IS YOU WOULD HAVE THE RINGLEADERS AND THE RINGLEADERS WOULD FILE QUIET TITLE ACTIONS, LAWSUITS IN CIRCUIT COURT, BASICALLY SAYING THAT THIS SENIOR OR THIS PERSON, THIS BANK, WHOEVER IT IS, DIDN'T WANT THE PROPERTY ANYMORE.

AND THEN THE RETURN OF SERVICE WOULD GO TO THIS GUY'S BUDDY WHO WAS IN A MOBILE HOME IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, AND HE WOULD SAY, OH, YEAH, I REPRESENT THAT SENIOR.

I REPRESENT THAT PROPERTY OWNER OF THAT BANK.

THEY DON'T WANT THE PROPERTY ANYMORE PUT IN THIS OTHER GUY'S NAME OR HIS COMPANY'S NAME.

AND THEY STOLE RIGHT NOW ABOUT 17 HOMES THAT WE FOUND SO FAR.

WE ACTUALLY FIND MORE EVERY SINGLE DAY.

FORTUNATELY, THE THREE RINGLEADERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND THEIR BONDS ARE VERY, VERY SIGNIFICANT.

AND I THINK ONCE THEY'RE CONVICTED, I BELIEVE THEY WILL BE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT JAIL SENTENCES.

AND A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE ARE LIKELY GOING TO BE ARRESTED VERY, VERY SOON.

THOSE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES.

JUST TO LET THE PEOPLE OF TAMARAC KNOW HOW SMART THE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS ARE.

BUT WHAT'S REALLY MY DRIVING FACTOR IS I MAY HAVE MENTIONED A FIVE ACRE PARCEL IN SOUTHWEST RANCHES TO SOME HIGHER OWNED OWNED PROPERTIES.

HOWEVER, THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT THESE CRIMINALS PICK ON ARE OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.

THEY PICK ON SENIORS, THEY PICK ON LOW INCOME PEOPLE.

THEY PICK ON PEOPLE WHO OWN PROPERTY BUT MAY NOT LIVE HERE.

THEY PICK ON WHOEVER THEY THINK THEY CAN PICK ON WHERE THEY CAN BEST GET AWAY WITH IT.

AND SO FOR ME, I LIKE TO TELL THESE STORIES AND I LIKE TO TELL EVERYBODY IN TAMARA BECAUSE I HOPE EVERYBODY SIGNS UP FOR OUR OWNER ALERT PROGRAM.

IT'S YOUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE.

AND THE OTHER REASON I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THIS, I LIKE TO SCREAM ABOUT THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS BECAUSE I WANT EVERYBODY OUT THERE TO KNOW THAT IF THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT DOING THIS IN BROWARD COUNTY, THEY'RE NOT WELCOME HERE.

AND IF THEY DO, WHAT, WE'RE GOING TO PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEY DESERVE TO BE.

WITH THAT SAID, I CAN GO ON AND ON FOREVER.

LIKE I SAID, I'VE HAD FIVE CUPS OF COFFEE, TWO RED BULLS AND A DIET COKE, SO I FEEL GREAT.

BUT I JUST APPRECIATE Y'ALL Y'ALL SO MUCH.

AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE GREAT SERVICE OF EVERYBODY UP HERE.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU ALL. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME.

VERY IMPRESSIVE SPEAKING.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT YOU ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT.

YOU DO. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

AND AS A PERSON WHO HAS HAD A FEW CASES THAT HAVE HAD TO CORRECT TITLE DUE TO SOME OF THE FRAUD, I KNOW SOME OF THE STUFF HAS BEEN SENT YOUR WAY AND ALONG WITH OUR POLICE FORCE, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

THE 96 YEAR OLD RESIDENT AND HER FAMILY VERY MUCH CARES AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

BECAUSE I DO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MADE THE PROPERTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE MORE THAN JUST LET'S VALUE YOUR PROPERTY.

YOU'VE ACTUALLY VALUED EVERYBODY WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH.

THAT WAS SO NICE OF YOU. LOVE ALL THESE DETAILS BECAUSE THE CITY OF TAMARAC IS EXCELLENT AND WE DO WANT PEOPLE TO STAY AND WE WANT MORE PEOPLE TO MOVE IN.

AND WE'LL MODIFY CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE NEED TO FIX.

BUT ANYWHO, I AM NOT SEEING ANYTHING FROM MONDAY, BUT I'M SURE WE ALL SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY IS I WAS ALSO HAPPY TO SEE MY BUDDY VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, FROM NOW ON, YOU AND I ARE GOING SHOPPING TOGETHER BECAUSE I WANT TO DRESS LIKE YOU.

THAT IS THE AWESOMEST OUTFIT.

I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC.

BUT THANK YOU, MARLON, FOR YOUR GREAT SERVICE.

AND KEISHA, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, MAYOR.

MAYOR GOMEZ. YOU'RE AWESOME.

ELVIN MARIE. VERY PROUD OF YOU.

MARIE AS WELL. YOU KNOW, MARIE AND I, WE ACTUALLY MET EACH OTHER A LONG TIME AGO IN WESTON.

AND I REMEMBER AT THE WESTON DEMOCRATIC CLUB LUNCHEON AND HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION.

I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED BY YOU SINCE, AND I WAS VERY EXCITED TO SEE THAT YOU WERE ELECTED TO THIS JOB.

BUT THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, MADAM MAYOR AND EVERYBODY, HAVE A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL DAY.

THANK YOU, GUYS. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.

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AND HOW ARE YOU DOING? GOOD MORNING MYSELF.

I'VE GOT A PRESENTATION.

I'M ASSUMING THE CITY WAS GOING TO CUE IT UP.

OKAY. GOOD MORNING.

CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? OKAY. I'VE ONLY HAD ONE CUP OF COFFEE THIS MORNING, SO I'VE ONLY HAD ONE.

SO I WON'T HAVE THE ENERGY AS THE PROPERTY APPRAISER, BUT I'LL BE JUST EXCITED ABOUT WHAT I'M WHAT I'M PRESENTING THIS MORNING.

YES.

GOOD MORNING, MADAM MAYOR.

VICE MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS.

AGAIN, MY NAME IS BARNEY MCCOY.

I'M THE ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER FOR SERVICE AND STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR BROWARD COUNTY TRANSIT.

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON SOMETHING WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IN THE COUNTY.

WE WERE HERE EARLIER THIS YEAR WITH A CONSULTANT WHERE WE INTRODUCED THE PLAN TO YOU, AND WE MADE A COMMITMENT AT THAT POINT IN TIME.

I MADE A COMMITMENT AT THAT POINT IN TIME THAT WHEN THE PLAN WAS COMPLETE, WE RETURNED BACK TO THE CITY TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE.

WHAT I WANT TO DO THIS MORNING IS PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE PLAN AND TELL YOU WHERE WE ARE AS IT RELATES TO NEXT STEPS.

AS YOU'RE AWARE, IN NOVEMBER 2018, THE COUNTY PASSED A TRANSPORTATION SHELTER TAX.

AND FROM THAT PLAN, WE MADE A SERIES OF COMMITMENTS THAT WE WANTED TO DO SPECIFIC TO TRANSIT TRANSIT RELATED IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS.

THEREFORE, WE CAME INTO THE CONCEPT OF A TRANSIT SYSTEMS PLAN KNOWN AS PRIMO.

WHAT I WANT TO DO THIS MORNING TO GIVE YOU A PLAN OVERVIEW.

WE'LL TALK THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN PROGRAM RISK AND THEN MOVE ON TO SUMMARY NEXT STEPS.

AS WE STARTED THE PLAN, WE WANTED TO IDENTIFY A NETWORK OF PREMIUM TRANSIT SERVICES THAT WOULD BE CONVENIENT MODERN, ATTRACTIVE, SAFE, RELIABLE AND FREQUENT.

WE NEEDED GOALS TO PLAN ON IN TERMS OF AN ANCHOR.

SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR GOALS MATCHED OR AT LEAST MIRRORED THE GOALS FOR MATT.

THE MOBILITY ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM.

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE IMPLEMENTED EQUITABLE TRANSIT SOLUTIONS THAT REGARDLESS OF YOUR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS OR BACKGROUND, YOU HAD ACCESS TO TRANSIT SERVICES.

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN WAS SAFE, SECURE AND THAT IT WAS SUSTAINABLE.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AGAIN, COULD IMPROVE MOBILITY FOR ALL.

AND AS A TRANSIT OPERATOR, ONE OF OUR BIGGEST GOALS IS TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ABLE TO INTEGRATE AND SERVE COMMUNITIES.

LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, THOUGH, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN PROVIDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

SO WHAT DO WE GAIN AT THE END OF THE PLAN? YOU HAVE OVER 200 NEW MILES OF NEW PREMIUM, NEW PREMIUM SERVICE.

WE WILL INCREASE OUR ANNUAL RIDERSHIP BY APPROXIMATELY 23 MILLION TRIPS.

WE'LL HAVE A BUS FLEET THAT'S 100% ELECTRIFIED.

WE'LL IMPLEMENT TECHNOLOGIES KNOWN AS INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS THAT SPEAK SPECIFICALLY TO QUEUE JUMPS AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL PRIORITY.

AND AS WE ROLL THESE PROJECTS OUT ACROSS THE COUNTY IN TERMS OF WHAT WE BUILD, IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY BLENDED OR MATCHED WHAT THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIRES WERE FOR EACH MUNICIPALITY.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST DRIVERS OF THE PLANT ALSO WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDED CONNECTIVITY FOR THE THREE BIGGEST TRIP GENERATORS IN THE COUNTY.

THAT BEING THE AIRPORT, SEAPORT AND CONVENTION CENTER.

I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

IT'S A FACT IN THE TRANSIT WORLD THAT FOR EVERY BILLION DOLLARS INVESTED IN TRANSIT AND TRANSIT RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE, WE GET A RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT THAT WE CREATE ABOUT 50,000 JOBS FOR EACH BILLION DOLLARS.

THE TRANSPORTATION SURTAX IS PROJECTED TO BRING IN ABOUT $16 BILLION OVER THE NEXT 25 YEARS.

SO IF YOU DO THE MATH ON THAT, THAT MEANS WE'LL CREATE ABOUT 320, 330,000 JOBS.

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AGAIN, THE PLAN WILL BE A CATALYST FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

THE PLAN WILL ALSO PROVIDE A FOUNDATION FOR TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS A PROBLEM AS WE SIT DOWN IN THE COUNTY.

AND IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE CONSTRUCTION.

OKAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY.

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN WAS DATA DRIVEN.

SO FROM WHEN WE STARTED THE PLAN, ONE OF OUR ANALYTICAL TOOLS WAS KNOWN AS AN ISOCHRONE ANALYSIS.

AND WHAT THE ISOCHRONE ANALYSIS DOES IS IT LOOKS AT EVERY QUARTER ACROSS THE COUNTY, WE IDENTIFY TRIP GENERATORS ALONG ALONG THE QUARTER, AND THEN WE IDENTIFY TRAVEL TIMES BETWEEN THESE TRIP GENERATORS.

ONCE WE IDENTIFY THE TRIP GENERATORS, WE WENT THROUGH WHAT'S KNOWN AS THE MODELING PROCESS.

THE MODELING PROCESS ALLOWED US TO PROJECT THE RIDERSHIP.

THERE'S A DESIRE TO HAVE BOTH THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATE IN THIS PLAN.

SO WE MADE SURE THAT OUR MODELING PROCESS MET THEIR STANDARDS.

THEY HAVE A MODEL CALLED STOPS, WHICH IS AN ACRONYM FOR SIMPLIFIED TRIPS ON PROGRAMS, ON PROJECT SOFTWARE.

BUT THIS IS THE MODEL THAT WE USE TO FORECAST THE RIDERSHIP.

ONCE WE GOT PAST THAT, WE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY THE COSTS.

WE WENT AND LOOKED AT OTHER TRANSIT SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE WHO OPERATE THESE TYPES OF PREMIUM SERVICES AND LOOKED AT WHAT THEY HAD ANNUALLY AS RELATED TO OPERATING COSTS AND CAPITAL COSTS. WE ALSO REVIEWED A DATABASE THROUGH APTA, WHICH IS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION.

LASTLY, WHEN WE'VE GOT THESE TOGETHER, WE WANTED TO COME BACK AND TOUCH BASE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE SURE THEY WERE AWARE OF THE PROGRESS AND PROVIDE THE PROPOSAL PLAN TO THEM. SO YOU HAVE HERE WITH THE PHASES OF THE PROJECT DELIVERY.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE PLANNING PROCESS.

I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT ABOUT THE DESIRE TO HAVE THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATE IN THIS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECTS.

THEY'VE GOT SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO NEPA, WHICH IS A NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND A TERM KNOWN AS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL.

THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL TAKE US INTO THESE STEPS.

ONCE WE COMPLETE THAT, WE'LL GO INTO THE DESIGN PORTION OF THE PROGRAM AND THEN ON THE CONSTRUCTION.

SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE ARE THE SPECIFIC MODES OF TRANSIT THAT WERE RECOMMENDED FROM PRIMO.

FAR LEFT CORNER IDENTIFIES THE MODE.

IT THEN MOVES TO THE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.

IT MENTIONS THE GUIDEWAY, THE FREQUENCY OF SERVICE, WHICH SIMPLY MEANS IF YOU'RE STANDING AT ANY POINT ON A CORRIDOR, THIS TELLS YOU HOW FREQUENT YOU'LL SEE A BUS OR TRAIN COME THROUGH. THE NEXT SHOWS THE POTENTIAL CAPACITY PER TRIP ENDING WITH THE CAPITAL COST ESTIMATES AND THE OPERATING COST ESTIMATES.

BUT WHAT CAME OUT OF THE PLAN WAS A RECOMMENDATION FOR COMMUTER RAIL, LIGHT, RAIL, TRANSIT, BUS, RAPID TRANSIT AND A CONCEPT KNOWN AS HIGH FREQUENCY BUS.

WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS THAT ALTHOUGH COMMUTER RAIL CARRIES THE MOST CAPACITY, IT HAS THE MOST CAPACITY PER TRIP.

THE LIGHT RAIL OPTION IS ACTUALLY THE MOST EXPENSIVE.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PLAN NOW.

WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE PLAN THAT WAS RECOMMENDED FROM PRIMO.

AND WHAT THAT'S RECOMMENDED AND WHAT'S BEEN RECOMMENDED IS 11.5 MILES OF COMMUTER RAIL, 23.3 MILES OF LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT, 76 MILES OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT, AND 100 MILES OF HIGH FREQUENCY BUS.

THE FIRST PROJECT IS BROWARD COMMUTER RAIL SOUTH.

THAT'LL GET US 11.5 MILES OF COMMUTER RAIL.

THERE'LL BE THREE STATIONS IN BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND FORT LAUDERDALE.

ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP IS 1.2 MILLION OR 4.8.

ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 297 MILLION.

WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS THAT THE PROJECTED OPENING DATE IS ACTUALLY 2027.

THE NEXT PORTION OF LIGHT RAIL TAKES US TO SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT THAT ACTUALLY PREDATES ME HERE IN THE COUNTY.

IT'S THE DESIRE TO CONNECT THE AIRPORT, SEAPORT AND CONVENTION CENTER.

WHAT WE GET HERE IS THREE AND A HALF MILES OF LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT.

YOU HAVE THE THREE STATIONS.

IT WILL BE ELEVATED HERE.

WE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED THE MAINTENANCE FACILITIES, BUT THEY'LL BE PART OF THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.

AND WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS THAT I MOVED THROUGH THESE SLIDES.

THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES TO START THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT FOR THE EAST WEST CONNECTIVITY IN THE COUNTY.

THE ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP FOR THIS FIRST PIECE IS 130,000 665,000.

AGAIN, WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS A PROJECTED OPENING DATE OF 2028 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 1.25 BILLION.

AGAIN, MOVING NORTH, WE LEAVE THE CONVENTION CENTER AND HEAD UP ANDREWS.

THIS WILL TAKE US INTO DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE.

THREE MILES, THREE ADDITIONAL MILES OF LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT.

THIS WILL OPERATE AT STREET LEVEL.

AGAIN, YOU HAVE THE SAME CONCEPT AND THAT THE POTENTIAL FOR THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP FOR THIS PORTION IS 1.7 TO 2.7 MILLION.

PROJECTED OPENING DATE IS 2031, WITH AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 442 MILLION.

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THIS NEXT PIECE WILL GIVE US FOUR MILES OF LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT.

TAKE US OUT TO STATE ROAD SEVEN.

ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP IS 1.5 TO 3.3.

PROJECTED OPENING IS 2035 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT $930 MILLION.

WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE ARE THE DOTTED LINES BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE POTENTIAL FOR POSSIBLE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT INVESTMENTS.

THAT'S GOING TO NEED ADDITIONAL STUDIES THOUGH.

BUT BASED ON THE DATA THAT WE THAT WAS NOT DISCOVERED, BASED ON THE DATA THAT WAS PRESENTED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIMO PLAN, THERE INDICATORS THERE THAT AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, THESE TWO QUARTERS AT THESE TWO LOCATIONS HERE WILL QUALIFY FOR LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT.

OKAY, WE MAKE A TRANSITION NOW FROM LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT TO THE CONCEPT KNOWN AS BUS RAPID TRANSIT.

THE FIRST PROPOSED BUS RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDOR WILL BE ON OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD.

AND WHAT'S PROPOSED THERE IS AN ALIGNMENT THAT WILL RUN FROM SEAGRASS TO SAWGRASS, 15 MILES, APPROXIMATELY 16 BRANDED STATIONS.

WE WOULD LIKE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WITH FEASIBLE.

THERE WILL ALSO BE A SUPPLEMENTAL FIXED ROUTE LOCAL SERVICE, WHICH MEANS THE SERVICE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE ON OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD WILL REMAIN INTACT.

THIS WOULD JUST BE A PREMIUM OVERLAY.

THE ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP FOR THIS IS 2.4 TO 3.2 ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 226 MILLION.

WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS THAT THE PROJECTED OPENING DATE FOR THIS IS 2028.

OKAY. WE MOVE FROM HERE TO STATE ROAD SEVEN.

THIS IS THE FIRST NORTH SOUTH ALIGNMENT.

WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IS BUS RAPID TRANSIT FROM COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD SOUTH TO COUNTY LINE ROAD.

IT'LL GIVE US 15 MILES OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT.

WE'LL HAVE APPROXIMATELY 16 BRANDED STATIONS.

AGAIN, A DESIRE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WHERE FEASIBLE.

WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE AS WELL IS THAT YOU'VE GOT THE POTENTIAL FOR THE LIGHT RAIL EXTENSIONS OFF OF STATE ROAD SEVEN AT BOTH SUNRISE AND COMMERCIAL.

ANTICIPATED ANNUAL RIDERSHIP IS BETWEEN 1.6 AND 3 MILLION.

PROJECTED OPENING DATE IS 2030, WITH AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT $221 MILLION.

WHAT I WANT TO CALL OUT HERE, THOUGH, IS THE PORTION IN GREEN.

AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS, WE WENT THROUGH THE ISOCHRON ANALYSIS.

AND WHAT THE GREEN SEGMENT SIMPLY SAYS IS THAT THERE WERE INDICATORS ALONG THE CORRIDOR THAT SAID THAT IT REQUIRED IT DESERVED A HIGHER LEVEL OF TRANSIT SERVICE THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE NOW, BUT IT DID NOT YET MEET THE CRITERIA THAT WOULD TRIGGER EITHER THE LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT OR BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND TYPE OF INVESTMENTS.

MOVE TO THE NEXT LINE, WHICH IS POWER LINE ROAD BUS, RAPID TRANSIT PROPOSALS FROM BROWARD BOULEVARD NORTH TO SAMPLE TEN AND A HALF MILES, APPROXIMATELY TEN BRANDED STATIONS. AGAIN, A DESIRE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WHERE FEASIBLE.

THE LOCAL SERVICES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE NOW ALONG THIS CORRIDOR WILL STAY IN PLACE.

ANTICIPATED ANNUAL RIDERSHIP IS 1.4 TO 2.5 MILLION.

PROJECTED OPENING IS 2033 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 900 I'M SORRY, $198 MILLION.

NEXT PIECE, NOT ANOTHER NORTH SOUTH QUARTER.

THIS IS ON UNIVERSITY DRIVE.

AGAIN, SIMILAR CONCEPT OR SIMILAR METHODOLOGY FOR STATE ROAD SEVEN BUS RAPID TRANSIT IS PROPOSED FROM COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD SOUTH TO COUNTY LINE ROAD 16 MILES APPROXIMATELY 16 BRANDED STATIONS.

DESIRE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WHERE FEASIBLE ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 MILLION PROJECTED OPENING DATE OF 2035 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT $334 MILLION.

AGAIN, HERE YOU SEE THE GREEN, WHICH SHOWS THE HIGH FREQUENCY BUS CONCEPT.

AGAIN, IT'S AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT WE THAT THE QUARTER DESERVES A HIGHER LEVEL OF TRANSIT SERVICE THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE, BUT IT'S NOT QUITE YET AT THE POINT WHERE IT TRIGGERED THE NEED FOR THE LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT OR BUS RAPID TRANSIT INVESTMENTS.

OKAY. COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD PRESENTED SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES.

AND BASED ON WHAT YOU SEE HERE, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON.

THE PROPOSED ALIGNMENT WILL TAKE US FROM SEAGRASS TO SAWGRASS.

BUT THE MOST OR HEAVIEST UTILIZED PORTIONS OF THE CORRIDOR WHERE WE SAW THE BEST OPPORTUNITY WAS BETWEEN US ONE AND STATE ROAD SEVEN.

WE'VE GOT A FIVE AND A HALF MILE PIECE OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROPOSED THERE.

IT'S APPROXIMATELY TEN BRANDED STATIONS.

AGAIN, A DESIRE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WERE FEASIBLE.

AND WHAT'S KEY TO NOTE HERE IS THE PINK OVERLAY, WHICH SHOWS THE POTENTIAL FOR LIGHT RAIL EXTENSION.

YOU'VE GOT THE GREEN ANCHORING ON EITHER SIDE BETWEEN US ONE AND A1A AND STATE ROAD SEVEN, A SUNRISE.

AGAIN, JUST AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THERE'S A THERE'S A NEED, A CLEAR DEFINED NEED FOR MORE TRANSIT SERVICES THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE ON THE QUARTER, BUT NOT QUITE YET AT THE POINT WHERE IT WOULD TRIGGER THE NEED FOR THE LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT INVESTMENTS OR BUS RAPID TRANSIT ANTICIPATED ANNUAL RIDERSHIP IS BETWEEN 600 AND 900,000 PROJECTED OPENING DATE OF 2036 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT 113 MILLION.

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MOVING ALONG. SUNRISE BOULEVARD.

PROPOSE IS TO RUN SEAGRASS TO SAWGRASS 14 MILES, APPROXIMATELY 12 BRANDED STATIONS.

AGAIN, A DESIRE TO OPERATE AN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WERE FEASIBLE.

YOU SEE THE CONCEPT HERE FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR THE LIGHT RAIL EXTENSION FROM STATE ROAD SEVEN OUT TO SUNRISE.

ANTICIPATED RIDERSHIP IS 1.7 TO 2.6.

PROJECTED OPENING IS 2038 AND AN ESTIMATED INVESTMENT OF ABOUT $240 MILLION.

IMPLEMENTATION. SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THIS DONE? THIS IS THE FIVE YEAR LOOK AHEAD FOR THE COUNTY.

RIGHT NOW, WE'RE IN 2023, COMPLETING THE PRIMO STUDY.

2024 AND 2025 WILL TAKE US INTO WHAT WE CALL THE PRELAUNCH ACTIVITIES SERVICE INTEGRATION.

THERE'S A COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS ANALYSIS, WHICH IS AN OPERATIONAL PLAN, AN OPERATIONAL PLANNING TYPE STUDY THAT WE PLAN TO START ON LATER THIS SUMMER.

AND WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK AT IS OUR EXISTING LOCAL FIXED ROUTE SERVICES, COMMUNITY SHUTTLE SERVICES, LIMITED STOP SERVICES AND EXPRESS SERVICES, AND IT'S GOING TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO REDEFINE THOSE SERVICES SO THAT THEY FEED INTO THE SPINE OF PROPOSED PREMIUM INVESTMENTS FOR THE HIGH FREQUENCY CONCEPT.

WHAT WE NEED FOR THAT IS TO START THAT SERVICE IS ESSENTIALLY MORE BUSSES.

SO WE'LL START PROCURING BUSSES FOR THE HIGH FREQUENCY SERVICE I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THE STATE AND FEDERAL PROCESSES SPECIFIC TO NEPA AND PD, AND THOSE WILL START IN 2024. WE'LL START DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT IN 2024 AND 25.

AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR WORKFORCE IS READY FOR THIS TYPE OF EFFORT.

THE COUNTY HAS NOT UNDERTAKEN AN EFFORT OF THIS SIZE OR OF THIS NATURE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT TYPE OF EXPERTS ON STAFF RELATED TO SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE AND THAT THE STAFF IS SIZED TO TAKE ON THIS PROGRAM OF PROJECTS.

2026 WILL GIVE US THE FIRST LAUNCH FOR THE HIGH FREQUENCY SERVICE 2027 BY OUR COMMUTER RAIL SOUTH OPENS AND THEN 2028 OAKLAND PARK BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND THE AIRPORT SEAPORT CONVENTION CENTER OPENS.

WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE PROPOSED 15 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE.

VERTICALLY, FAR RIGHT.

I'M SORRY, THE FAR LEFT.

YOU HAVE THE QUARTERS THAT I DISCUSSED EARLIER, FOLLOWED BY THE RECOMMENDED SERVICE.

IT GIVES YOU THE SCHEDULE AND THE DURATION FOR EACH OF THE PROJECT PROVIDES THE CURRENT STATUS AND ALSO THE TARGET REVENUE SERVICE.

THESE QUARTERS ARE THE HIGH FREQUENCY SERVICE QUARTERS.

THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THEM ACROSS THE COUNTY.

STARTING IMPLEMENTATION IN 2026.

THAT TAKES US THROUGH 2029.

AGAIN, THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGING THE CONCEPT, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT THESE THESE QUARTERS WERE STUDIED AND BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY, IT IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR MORE SERVICES, BUT NOT QUITE YET AT A POINT TO WHERE WE TRIGGER A NEED FOR THE LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT AND BUS RAPID TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS.

THIS HERE IS MEANT TO SHOW RESOURCE LOADING FOR THE COUNTY, AND IT SHOWS YOU THAT OUR HEAVIEST YEARS ARE GOING TO BE IN 2027 AND 28, WHERE WE WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF EIGHT PROJECTS IN SOME FORM OF STAGE CONSTRUCTION OR SOME FORM OF STAGES OF DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, TESTING AND COMMISSIONING.

SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THERE? WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO FULLY LEVERAGE OUR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RESOURCES.

AGAIN, WE HAVE NOT UNDERTAKEN A PROJECT OF THIS MAGNITUDE OF TYPE BEFORE.

SO LEVERAGING RESOURCES.

AGAIN, IT SPEAKS TO WORKFORCE READINESS, MAKING SURE WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE ON STAFF AND THEN WHERE WE CAN'T FIND THAT ON STAFF THROUGH CONSULTING CONTRACTS, THROUGH BE THE EITHER GENERAL PLANNING CONSULTANTS OR GENERAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT CONTRACTS.

WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THINGS LIKE ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY STRATEGIES THAT MAY BE DESIGN, BUILD, OPERATE, DESIGN, BID, BUILD, OPERATE.

BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT DELIVERY STRATEGIES TO GET THESE PROJECTS MOVING FORWARD.

WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO PRODUCE FAST TRACK PROCUREMENTS TO GET THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS.

WE'RE GOING TO SEEK AND NOT JUST SEEK SECURE ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SOURCES.

AGAIN, THERE'S A DESIRE FOR BOTH THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM OF PROJECTS.

THERE'S ALSO AN EXPECTATION THAT AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EACH QUARTER, WE'LL BECOME MORE EFFICIENT.

SO THE TIME TO CONTINUE OR IMPLEMENT ONE WILL REDUCE AS WE MOVE FROM QUARTER TO QUARTER.

PROGRAM RISKS.

THE PLAN, AS I'VE LAID IT OUT, IS AGGRESSIVE.

AND THAT'S. ONE OF THE SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM MEETING WITH ALL THE CITY CITY STAFF, STAKEHOLDERS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT IT IS AGGRESSIVE.

WE CONCEDE IT IS A VERY AGGRESSIVE PLAN.

WE WANT TO BE TRANSPARENT WITH THE MUNICIPALITIES THAT WILL PRESENT THE PLAN, ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT IT WAS AGGRESSIVE, AND ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF SOME OF THE PROGRAM RISKS THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE GOING INTO THIS.

YOU'VE GOT MARKET PRICING VOLATILITY.

YOU'VE GOT SCHEDULE UNCERTAINTY AS IT RELATES TO MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT, THE RESOURCING OF EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS, CONSENSUS BUILDING.

AGAIN, WE'VE GOT A PLAN THAT'S DATA DRIVEN AND IT MAKES SENSE WHEN BASED ON DATA.

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WE'VE GOT THE FEDERAL AND STATE REVIEWS THAT WILL BE REQUIRED IF WE DESIRE THEIR FUNDING.

I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THE PROJECT DELIVERY ADOPTION.

AGAIN, THAT'S BASED ON THINGS THAT WE'VE NOT DONE BEFORE.

MAJOR THIRD PARTY AGREEMENTS, TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO BE A KEY PORTION OF THIS PLAN, WHICH MEANS WE MAY HAVE TO GO INTO AGREEMENTS WITH PRIVATE PROPERTY HOLDERS.

WE'VE GOT THE REGULATORY RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS, STATE AND FEDERAL, AND WE'VE ALSO GOT THE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS, STATE AND FEDERAL, IF WE IF WE DESIRE TO SEEK THEIR FUNDING.

PROPERTY AVAILABILITY AND ACQUISITION SPEAKS TO RIGHT OF WAY.

AGAIN, THERE'S A DESIRE TO OPERATE THESE SERVICES IN EXCLUSIVE TRANSIT LANES WHERE FEASIBLE.

WE ACKNOWLEDGE GOING IN THE DOOR THAT THERE ARE RIGHT OF WAY ISSUES ON A LOT OF THESE CORRIDORS.

AGAIN, I SPOKE TO THE WORKFORCE READINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY THAT'S MAKING SURE THAT WE'VE GOT ACCESS TO SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, BE THEY ON STAFF OR VIA CONSULTING CONTRACTS. AND LAST, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MANAGE THE PUBLIC'S EXPECTATIONS AS WE HEAD OFF INTO THIS VENTURE.

OKAY. NEXT STEPS.

WE THINK THIS PLAN WILL BE TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR THE COUNTY.

AGAIN, I'VE BEEN WITH THE COUNTY SINCE JANUARY OF 2009, AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING A LOT OF THESE PLANS AND DISCUSSIONS ACTUALLY PREDATE ME IN THE COUNTY.

WE'RE HAPPY TO BE AT A POINT, THOUGH, THAT WE'VE GOT A VISION AND NOT ONLY A VISION, BUT FUNDING TO IMPLEMENT THIS VISION.

AT THE END, YOU'LL HAVE OVER 200 MILES OF PREMIUM SERVICE BETWEEN COMMUTER RAIL, LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT, BUS, RAPID TRANSIT AND HIGH FREQUENCY BUS WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY OR NEEDED CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE MAJOR COUNTY ACTIVITY CENTERS.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE'RE GOING TO ENHANCE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT I'M SORRY, THE ECONOMIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL ALONG EACH ONE OF THESE QUARTERS.

AT THE END OF IT ALL, THOUGH, LIKE WITH THE TRANSPORTATION SURTAX, WE'RE GOING TO NEED THE HELP, SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE OF OUR MUNICIPAL PARTNERS.

SO YOU SAW A LOT OF PRETTY SLIDES THIS MORNING.

BUT THESE SLIDES COME WITH A COST.

OUR PLANNING LEVEL ESTIMATES RIGHT NOW PUT THIS PROGRAM OF PROJECTS AT A COST OF ABOUT $4.4 BILLION.

IT'S EXPECTED THAT THE TRANSPORTATION TAX WILL FUND THIS.

BOTH THE DESIRE AND NEED FOR THE FEDERAL AND STATE INVESTMENTS WILL ALSO BE NEEDED.

THAT'S WHERE WE HOPE TO LEVERAGE THE DEDICATED FUNDING SOURCE WITH THE SURTAX TO GET THESE FUNDS.

SO WHAT'S NEXT? WE BRIEFED OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE SECOND AND THIRD WEEK OF APRIL BASED ON THE SAME PRESENTATION THAT YOU'VE SEEN THIS MORNING.

WE PRESENTED THE PLAN TO THE TRANSPORTATION OVERSIGHT BOARD ON APRIL 27TH.

BETWEEN APRIL 28TH AND ACTUALLY JUNE 12TH, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE PRE ADOPTION PUBLIC OUTREACH.

AND THAT MEANS WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE CITY.

CITY STAFF AND THE PUBLIC TO PRESENT THE PLAN TO THEM AND SOLICIT THEIR FEEDBACK AND COMMENTS.

THIS PLAN WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSIONER WORKSHOP ON YESTERDAY AND THEIR QUESTIONS, A LOT OF THEIR QUESTIONS CENTERED AROUND OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE MUNICIPALITIES.

AT THIS POINT, WHO HAVE YOU MET WITH? WHO HAVE YOU SPOKEN WITH AND WHAT TYPE OF FEEDBACK HAVE YOU RECEIVED? THIS WILL END, THOUGH, ON JUNE 13TH, WHEN WE GO BACK BEFORE THE COUNTY COMMISSION AND ASK THEM TO FORMALLY ADOPT THE PLAN SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.

OKAY, THEN THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.

I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO FILL ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE AT THIS POINT.

I HAVE COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

DID YOU? AND THEN COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL, THEN. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION.

I SEE THE RIDERSHIP, THE ANNUAL RIDERSHIP PLUS OR MINUS MILLION PLUS, WHICH IS 50% DIFFERENCE.

HOW HOW DO WE HAVE THAT BIG GAP OF RIDERSHIP? IT'S BASED ON OPENING DAY PROJECTIONS AND THEN WHAT THOSE PROJECTIONS WILL BE AT THE END OF THE 30 YEAR PLAN.

OKAY. COMMISSIONER DANIEL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

UM, JUST WANTED TO ENCOURAGE THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS AS WE DO OUR VISIT AND HAVE OUR MEETINGS TO PRESENT THIS TO THE RESIDENTS BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THEY KNOW THE PLANS GOING FORWARD THAT WE HEARD.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE DENSITY, BUT THERE IS A PLAN IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THAT.

SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE SHARE THAT AS WE GO TO OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

YES. I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

WHEN YOU SAY RAPID TRANSIT FOR THE BUS PART OF IT, WHAT IS THE FREQUENCY OF THAT AND COMPARE TO WHAT IT IS NOW? THE FREQUENCY FOR BUS RAPID TRANSIT IS BASED ON PEAK VERSUS OFF PEAK.

IT'S 15 MINUTES DURING THE PEAK.

LET ME PULL THIS UP.

BUS RAPID TRANSIT OPERATES BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MINUTES DURING THE PEAK SERVICE.

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VICE MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION.

I THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES, FOR THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT YOU ASKED.

HOW WOULD YOU CALM THE FEARS OF RESIDENTS THAT WOULD SAY THAT THIS PLAN WOULD DISRUPT THE QUALITY OF LIFE? I KNOW THE IDEA IS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE, BUT SOME WOULD SAY THAT IT DISRUPTS QUALITY OF LIFE, DISRUPTS HOW TRAFFIC ALREADY FLOWS WITH.

PUTTING FORWARD COMMUTER RAILS WITH WITH WITH CARS AND BUSSES.

SOME WOULD SAY WE'RE NOT CANADA, WE'RE NOT NEW YORK.

HOW WOULD YOU ADDRESS THAT? WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW IS A PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT PLANS AT ABOUT 100,000FT AS WE START THE QUARTER BASED APPROACH.

SO WE WILL MEET WITH EVERY CITY ALONG THE QUARTER, INCLUDING THE STATE, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR NEEDS ARE ADDRESSED.

WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE'VE GOTTEN TODAY THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL CITIES WHO HAVE PROJECTS THAT THEY PLAN TO START WITH IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS ALONG SOME OF THESE QUARTERS. OUR PLAN IS NOT TO INTERRUPT YOUR PROJECTS OR TAKE FROM YOUR PROJECTS, BUT MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S NEEDS ARE MET AS THESE PROJECTS MOVE FORWARD.

BUT WE'LL COORDINATE WITH THE CITIES AND THE RESIDENTS CONSTITUENTS BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD ON ANYTHING.

AND WHAT IF RESIDENTS AND CITIES DO NOT COOPERATE? DOES THE COUNTY HAVE EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS OR ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT IT? WE'RE HOPING THAT EVERYONE WOULD SEE THE SAME VISION THAT WE HAVE AS IT RELATES TO TRANSIT AND COUNTY.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A NOTION THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS NIMBY THING WHERE NOT IN MY BACK YARD, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT TO OVERCOME THAT BY SHOWING THE BENEFITS OF TRANSIT AS IT RELATES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY OF LIFE.

YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY TO MOVE ABOUT THE COUNTY A LOT FASTER THAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.

BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THE COUNTY IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE COUNTY DOES HAVE EMINENT DOMAIN, BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN A PART OF ANY DISCUSSION I'VE BEEN TO TODAY AS TO HOW WE ROLL THESE PROJECTS OUT.

SO YOU HOPE THAT PEOPLE COOPERATE, BUT IF THEY DON'T, THEN YOU WOULD INVOKE YOUR EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS.

WHAT I WOULD SAY AGAIN IS THAT I WOULD HOPE EVERYONE WOULD SEE THE VISION THAT THE COUNTY HAS FOR TRANSIT.

VICE MAYOR. HE'S NOT ON TRIAL.

HE'S NOT ON TRIAL.

I, I REPRESENT THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND ITS RESIDENTS.

UNDERSTOOD. UNDERSTOOD.

WINK, WINK. DR.

SCHILLER. THANK YOU.

ARE YOU. HAVE YOU COMPLETED YOUR QUESTIONS? VICE MAYOR, ARE YOU STILL THINKING ABOUT WHATEVER OTHER HOT SEAT YOU WANT TO PUT MR. MCCOY ON? I WANT TO PUT HIM ON FURTHER TRIAL.

MAYOR, THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MY TURN. YES, MA'AM.

MR. MCCOY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. I ACTUALLY FIND THIS FASCINATING.

I SERVE ON THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, AND I'VE BEEN ON THE VICE MAYOR'S CONFERENCE OF THIS TRANSPORTATION AND MPO AND ALL THIS KIND OF GOOD STUFF.

SO AS YOU SAID, THAT SOME OF THIS STARTED BEFORE YOU IN 2009 AND BEFORE ME AS WELL.

I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE SOME OF THIS HOPEFULLY COMING TO FRUITION.

I KNOW YOU CAUGHT MY FACE WHEN YOU SAID THE EXPECTED DATE OF SOMETHING TO START AND IT WAS A LITTLE BIT LIKE, YEAH, OKAY.

BUT I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THE AGGRESSIVE PART OF IT DUE IN PART TO WHAT WE HEAR FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT HOW BAD THE TRAFFIC IS.

SO WHAT WHEN YOU LOOKED AT THE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD ONE, I SEE WE SEE ALL THE LITTLE DOTS WE SEE IN THE FUTURE.

SOME OF THE STUFF WHEN YOU GO UP UNIVERSITY, IT'S IN GREEN VERSUS BLUE.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING THOUGHT ABOUT, BUT WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY PLANNED YET FOR MUCH.

AT ALL. YET.

DON'T GET ME WRONG. 441 IS VERY IMPORTANT AND EVERYTHING ON THE EAST SIDE OF 441 COMMERCIAL THAT STILL AFFECTS THE CITY OF TAMARAC THROUGH 9095.

SO THAT'S GREAT. SO AT LEAST PART OF OUR CITY WILL BE CONNECTED.

WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE US NOT IN THE FUTURE, BUT IN THE NOW, AS CLOSE AS NOW AS POSSIBLE? WE COULD TAKE YOUR FEEDBACK, MAYOR, AND HAVE INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT.

THE QUESTION THAT YOU RAISED OR THE POINT THAT YOU RAISED IS A VALID QUESTION BECAUSE WE'VE HEARD THAT SAME THING AS WELL, PARTICULARLY FOR SOME OF THE CITIES OUT ON THE WESTERN AREAS OF THE COUNTY.

WHAT YOU SEE RIGHT NOW IS A PLAN THAT HAS STARTED 18 MONTHS AGO AND THE ENVIRONMENT HAS CHANGED.

AND SPECIFICALLY, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME THINGS THAT HAVE PASSED IN TALLAHASSEE THAT RELATES TO LAND USE AND HOW LAND USE IS BEING DONE IN THE COUNTY. WE THINK THAT WILL HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS.

BUT AGAIN, WHAT YOU SEE THIS MORNING IS BASED ON A PLAN THAT PREDATES THAT.

SO WHAT WE'RE TELLING THE CITIES IS THIS IS THE BASELINE THAT WE ESTABLISH NOW TO MOVE FORWARD.

NOW, THE PLAN FOUR YEARS FROM NOW MAY BE IS DIFFERENT FROM NIGHT AND DAY AS WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THIS MORNING BASED ON BASED ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE LAND USE.

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AND YES, MA'AM, WHILE IT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD TO LIVE LOCAL WHEN YOU'RE TAKING OUR LOCAL AWAY AND MAKING IT STATE BASED AND SAYING WE COULD PUT APARTMENTS IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR INDUSTRIAL PLAZA WITHOUT HAVING MUCH OF A SAY, I CAN'T REALLY SEE HOW THAT'S REALLY GOOD FOR US TO LIVE LOCAL.

BUT ANYWHO, I'M WITH YOU.

BUT THAT ADDS TO MY NEXT CONCERN ABOUT WE START THIS PLAN.

I KNOW WE'RE A FAST MOVING JET.

THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO GAIN MUCH GROUND SOMETIMES.

BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE'RE STARTING THIS PLAN? AND THEN. WE GET DERAILED.

WHAT DO WE HAVE? WILL YOU BE PUTTING STOPGAP MEASURES IN THERE AS BEST AS POSSIBLE? BECAUSE THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO DO IS START BUILDING AND THEN GET WHERE WE DON'T HAVE EITHER THE RIGHT OF WAYS.

AND I THINK TO THE VICE MAYOR'S CONCERN ABOUT TAKING YOU HAVE A LOT OF RIGHT OF WAY THAT'S ALREADY WITHIN YOUR JURISDICTION THAT YOU DON'T NEED OUR PERMISSION. YOU COULD JUST DO SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

VICE MAYOR VERSUS IT'LL BE AN EMINENT DOMAIN.

THE COUNTY IS GOING TO SAY, THIS IS OUR PROPERTY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.

THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, BUT THAT'S APPRECIATE YOU WANT OUR INPUT ON SOME OF THIS.

HE'S NOT ON TRIAL, MAYOR.

NOT ON TRIAL, EXACTLY.

HE'S HE'S TELLING US POLITELY.

HE DIDN'T TELL US. HE GOES, THIS IS OURS.

WE GOT IT. SO SAYING IT FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WAS POLITE ENOUGH NOT TO, BUT WE JUST NEED TO BE PREPARED.

SO DO YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION? BUT I'M GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION AGAIN THAT YOU KIND OF HAVEN'T ANSWERED.

WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO? OR OUR CONCURRENCY, AS YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IN SOME OF THE BLOGS OR EVEN IN THE NEWSPAPER OR EVEN FROM THIS COMMISSION MEETING, WE'VE GOT DEVELOPMENT ALL AROUND US.

SOME OF IT IS A LOT OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN.

HAS BEEN COMMENTED ABOUT IS NOT OURS.

IT'S OUR OTHER SISTER CITIES.

BUT WE SHARE SPACE.

WE SHARE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, WE SHARE SOME ROCK ISLAND, WE SHARE ALL AROUND US.

AND THEY'RE BUILDING STUFF THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD FOR YEARS, AND IT'S COMING OUT OF THE GROUND.

IF THERE IS MORE BUILDING, DOES THAT HELP US? DOES THAT HURT US? IS IT DO WE NEED TO MAKE IT BETTER OR MORE CONGESTED BEFORE IT CAN GET BETTER AND BEFORE WE CAN GET THOSE DOLLARS? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION.

IF YOU LOOK HERE ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, YOU'VE GOT THE POTENTIAL, IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CHANGING YOUR DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS SO THAT THEY ACTUALLY EXCEED WHAT WE PROJECTED OR WHAT WAS DETERMINED THAT CAME OUT OF THE SYSTEMS PLAN.

THEN IT'S A POSSIBILITY THOSE THINGS MOVE FORWARD AGAIN.

YOU KNOW, OUR EXPECTATION IS THAT SPECIFIC TO SPECIFIC TO THE AIRPORT C-FOUR SEAPORT SEAPORT CONVENTION CONNECTION, THE PIECE INTO DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE AND OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD, THOSE PIECES THAT MOVE FORWARD.

THOSE PIECES ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD DEFINITIVELY, THOUGH, BECAUSE THE THE LEVEL OF STUDY THAT HAD BEEN DONE BEFORE THEM, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN STUDIED.

THERE WAS A LOCALLY PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE THAT WAS DONE FOR THOSE AS WELL THERE IN THE MPLS LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

SO THOSE WILL MOVE FORWARD.

THE REMAINDER OF THE BALANCE OF THE PROGRAM.

AS IT RELATES TO QUARTERS YOU'VE SEEN THIS MORNING.

THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ADOPTED INTO THE MPLS LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

SO I SAY THAT TO SAY.

WE CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT THINGS BASED ON HOW YOU DEVELOP.

AGAIN, THE PLAN THAT YOU'RE SEEING THIS MORNING MAY NOT BE A VISION PLAN IN 2027 OR 28, BUT WE WOULD NOT START CONSTRUCTION IN ANY CITY FOR ANY PROJECT WHERE WE HAD NOT CIRCLED BACK WITH THE MUNICIPALITIES ALONG THAT QUARTER TO MAKE SURE WE TOUCH BASE AND SEE WHAT THEY HAD GOING ON TO MAKE SURE THEIR ENVIRONMENT HAD NOT CHANGED. SO POTENTIALLY STEPPING ON THE THIRD RAIL THAT I AM.

YOUR STUDIES ARE BASICALLY SAYING THAT AS MUCH AS WE FEEL THAT COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD FROM 441 TO THE SAWGRASS IS HIGHLY CONGESTED.

YOUR STUDIES ARE SAYING IT'S NOT CONGESTED ENOUGH IN ORDER TO GIVE US ANY ONE OF THESE GREEN LINES OR DOTTED LINES TO THE SERVICES THAT WE NEED, BECAUSE IT'S NOT AS BAD AS WE THINK IT IS, ACCORDING TO YOUR STUDIES IN A NUTSHELL.

YES, MA'AM. AND THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THAT'S NOT VALID.

WE'VE ALSO GOT A FISCAL CONSTRAINT, MAYOR.

IDEALLY, WHEN WE STARTED THIS STUDY, WE WERE LOOKING AT EVERY QUARTER FROM END TO END, GO AHEAD AND PUT THESE INVESTMENTS IN TO END.

THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT.

THOSE COSTS FAR EXCEED WHAT THE SURTAX WOULD BRING IN IN TERMS OF REVENUES ONE AND TWO, BECAUSE THERE IS A DESIRE TO HAVE THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATE IN THIS FUNDING. THERE ARE SOME FUNDING REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET.

AND AS WE MOVE INTO THE FEDERAL PROCESS IN ORDER TO COMPETE FOR THE NEW START PROGRAM OR SMALL STARS PROGRAM, WE HAVE TO KEEP THE COST PER CUSTOMER PER TRIP,

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THESE PIECES THAT YOU'VE SEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE BLUE MEET THAT THRESHOLD.

THE PIECES THAT YOU SEE IN THE GREEN WOULD TAKE THAT COST FAR ABOVE THAT, WHICH MEANS IT WOULD AUTOMATICALLY PUT US OUT OF ANY CONTINGENT CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE DOLLARS.

GOTCHA. THANK YOU.

SO JUST ON COMMENTARY, I GREW UP IN NEW YORK.

YES, MA'AM. WE HAVE SUBWAY, WE HAVE BUSSES, WE HAVE CABS, WE HAVE FEET.

WE WALK ALL OVER. WE DO ALL OVER.

AND AS MUCH AS I KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL PROBABLY COMPLAIN AS THIS GOES THROUGH IN ORDER TO GET US TO THAT NEXT STEP IN THE FUTURE, WE WILL HAVE TO.

I THINK EMBRACE THIS, REALIZE THAT WE WILL BE A MESS IN PARTS OF OUR COUNTY IN ORDER FOR US TO GET BETTER.

AND WE CAN'T GET BETTER UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

AND EVERYBODY IS SCREAMING THAT WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND HERE'S A PLAN.

SO I'M EXCITED TO SEE THIS MOVE FORWARD.

FIVE YEARS ISN'T THAT LONG ANYMORE.

ACTUALLY, YOU HAVE SOMETHING ON HERE THAT'S TWO AND THREE YEARS.

IT'S NOT THAT LONG EITHER.

YES, VERY EXCITED FOR THE OPENING OF THE ADDITIONAL LANES OFF OF THE TURNPIKE ON ROCK ISLAND.

NOT ROCK. MCNABB.

MCNABB, CYPRESS CREEK AND OAKLAND PARK.

THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT THESE PLANS ARE COMING.

AND I DO ASK THAT WE REVISIT AGAIN TO MEET WITH OUR CITY STAFF TO SEE WHAT FUTURE PLANS FOR OUR CITY IS.

MAYBE WE COULD DO A REGIONAL PARK WITH SUNRISE, LAUDERHILL AND ALSO MARGATE AND CORAL SPRINGS TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR CITIES, TO SEE HOW SOME OF OUR PLANS MAY HAVE CHANGED IN THE 18 MONTHS OR GROWN.

YES, MA'AM. SO WE CAN MAYBE TAP INTO TO SOME OF THESE CONNECTIONS, BECAUSE IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.

THEY WILL COME. YES, MA'AM.

SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. AND I'LL PASS IT BACK TO COMMISSIONER DANIEL, WHO HAS A QUESTION.

OKAY. AND I'M TOTALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH WHAT YOU JUST SAID.

ONE THING THAT IS COMING UP FOR US BECAUSE THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND WE MET WITH MPO, YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT COMMERCIAL WAS LIKE THE WORST STREET THERE IS, BUT ACTUALLY IT'S NOT EVEN ON THE STATE'S RADAR.

THE TRAFFIC IS NOT AS HIGH AS WE THINK IT IS.

HOWEVER, WE DID BRING TO THEIR ATTENTION THAT THE NEW PROJECTS THAT ARE POSSIBLY GOING UP OR THAT ARE GOING UP AND THEY SAID EVERYTHING TAKES TIME.

EVEN THE PROJECTS WE HAVE, SOME OF THE PROJECTS WE'VE BEEN IN TEN YEARS, YOU KNOW, JUST THE BACK AND FORTH.

SO IT IS ON THEIR RADAR.

LIKE THE MAYOR SAID, I KNOW MCNABB WILL HAVE AN OPENING WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.

YOU GOT OAKLAND PARK.

THAT ALONE WILL RELIEVE COMMERCIAL OF SOME TRAFFIC.

NOT ONLY THAT, I BELIEVE THIS YEAR THE MPO IS SINKING THE LIGHTS ON COMMERCIAL ON THE WEST SIDE.

THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.

SO THAT SHOULD MAKE THE TRAFFIC GO FASTER.

BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT INFORMATION WITH US TODAY.

OKAY. ONE LITTLE QUICK QUESTION.

YES, MA'AM. I PRESUME IN YOUR RAPID TRANSIT AND ANYTHING FOR THE BUSSES, THERE WILL BE DEDICATED LANES THAT WILL PULL THEM OUT OF THE CURRENT LANES THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE HIGHWAY, ON THE ROADWAYS.

THAT'S WHAT THE DESIRE IS.

YES, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

APPRECIATE ALL YOUR TIME. AND IT'S BEEN VERY ENLIGHTENING.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. TRAVEL SAFELY WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING TO NEXT.

YES. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE WILL NOW BE MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO.

SOME PROCLAMATIONS.

SO IF THE COMMISSION WOULD PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE WELL.

SO YOU THINK? THIS PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED BY JOHN DOHERTY P, OUR PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR.

HOW ARE YOU? CHINA.

TO ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL PUBLIC SERVICES PERSONNEL.

WHEREAS PUBLIC SERVICES PROFESSIONALS FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE.

WHEREAS PUBLIC SERVICE PROFESSIONALS FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE, FACILITIES AND SERVICES THAT ARE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AND TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE AND WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

AND. WHEREAS, THESE INFRASTRUCTURE, FACILITIES AND SERVICES COULD NOT BE PROVIDED WITHOUT THE DEDICATED EFFORTS OF PUBLIC WORKS PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE ENGINEERS, MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REBUILDING, IMPROVING AND PROTECTING OUR NATION'S TRANSPORTATION, WATER

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AND. WHEREAS, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOR THE CITIZENS, CIVIC LEADERS AND CHILDREN IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE OF AND TO MAINTAIN A PROGRESSIVE INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC WORKS AND PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES.

AND. WHEREAS, THE YEAR 2023 MARKS THE 63RD ANNUAL NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION, CANADIAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION. WHEREAS THIS YEAR THE THEME OF PUBLIC WORKS WEEK IS CONNECTING THE WORLD THROUGH PUBLIC WORKS.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHELLE J.

GOMEZ VERY PROUD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, ALONG WITH OUR COMMISSION, PROCLAIMED THE WEEK OF MAY 21ST THROUGH 27 2023 AS NATIONAL PUBLIC PUBLIC WORKS WEEK IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO JOIN WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION, CANADIAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND CEREMONIES DESIGNED TO PAY TRIBUTE TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICES PROFESSIONALS, ENGINEERS, MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES, AND RECOGNIZE THE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION THEY MAKE TO PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL OF YOU.

THANK. THANK YOU, MAYOR, VICE, MAYOR AND COMMISSION.

AS YOU KNOW FROM THE FOLKS HERE, THAT WE HAVE AN EXCEPTIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE STAFF THAT ARE DEDICATED TO PROVIDING ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO OUR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES EACH AND EVERY DAY. SO I THANK EVERY ONE OF MY STAFF FOR THAT.

AND BY BEHALF OF MY STAFF, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND YOUR RECOGNITION OF PUBLIC SERVICES WEEK.

THANK YOU ALL.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR OUR CITY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

FORGIVE ME ON THIS ONE.

IT'S REALLY SMALL.

DEBORAH MENDELSON. AND IF THE TEAM WANTS TO COME UP, THEY'RE WELCOME TO AS WELL.

ABOUT BY EVERYONE.

GET TO YOUR PLACES SAFELY.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. JUST GIVE US ONE MORE SECOND.

THIS PROCLAMATION WAS REQUESTED BY MYSELF, WHEREAS EVERY DAY MORE THAN 120 AMERICANS ARE KILLED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE ARE SHOT AND WOUNDED, WITH AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 17,000 GUN HOMICIDES EVERY YEAR.

SHOULD I GIVE IT A SECOND? IT'S ALL GOOD.

DID YOU SEE THIS PART? I CAN'T WORRY ABOUT.

SO I JUST. YOU ARE AFTER LABOR DAY.

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MEMORIAL DAY TO LABOR DAY.

SO YOU'RE A LITTLE EARLY. BUT THE PANTS AND SHOES.

SO YOU'RE OKAY. I THOUGHT YOU KNOW.

ALL RIGHT. TAKE TWO.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS PROCLAMATION WAS REQUESTED BY MYSELF, WHEREAS EVERY DAY, MORE THAN 120 AMERICANS ARE KILLED BY GUN VIOLENCE.

IN MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE ARE SHOT AND WOUNDED, WITH AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 17,000 GUN HOMICIDES EVERY YEAR.

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WHEREAS, IN FLORIDA, 2989 PEOPLE DIE BY GUN RELATED INCIDENTS IN AN AVERAGE OF A YEAR, WITH A RATE OF 13.3 DEATHS PER 100,000 PEOPLE, A CRISIS THAT COSTS THE STATE $40.3 BILLION EACH YEAR, OF WHICH 875.9 MILLION IS PAID BY TAXPAYERS. FLORIDA HAS THE 30TH HIGHEST RATE OF GUN DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH CITIES ACROSS THE NATION, INCLUDING TAMARAC, ARE WORKING TO END SENSELESS VIOLENCE WITH EVIDENCE BASED SOLUTIONS.

AND. WHEREAS, PROTECTING PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE IS A MAYOR'S HIGHEST RESPONSIBILITIES.

MAYORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COMMISSIONS.

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KNOW THEIR COMMUNITIES BEST AND ARE MOST FAMILIAR WITH LOCAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND HOW TO ADDRESS IT, AND ARE BEST POSITIONED TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO KEEP THEIR CITIZENS SAFE.

WHEREAS SUPPORT FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS GOES HAND IN HAND WITH KEEPING GUNS AWAY FROM PEOPLE WITH DANGEROUS HISTORIES.

AND. WHEREAS, IN JANUARY 2013, HADIYA PENDLETON WAS TRAGICALLY SHOT AND KILLED AT AGE 15 AND ON JUNE 2ND, 2023, TO RECOGNIZE THE 26TH BIRTHDAY OF HADIYA PENDLETON.

BORN ON JUNE 2ND, 1997, PEOPLE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES WILL RECOGNIZE GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AND WEAR ORANGE IN TRIBUTE TO A DAY OF PENDLETON AND THE OTHER VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE AND THE LOVED ONES OF THOSE VICTIMS. WHEREAS THE IDEA WAS INSPIRED BY A GROUP OF HADIYA'S FRIENDS WHO ASKED THEIR CLASSMATES TO COMMEMORATE HER LIFE BY WEARING ORANGE.

THEY CHOSE THIS COLOR BECAUSE HUNTERS WEAR ORANGE TO ANNOUNCE THEMSELVES TO OTHER HUNTERS WENT OUT IN THE WOODS.

AN ORANGE IS A COLOR THAT SYMBOLIZES THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE.

AND. WHEREAS, ANYONE CAN JOIN THIS CAMPAIGN BY WEARING ORANGE ON JUNE 2ND, THE FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE 2023, TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE AND HONOR THE LIVES OF GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS.

WHEREAS WE RENEW OUR COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND PLEDGE TO ALL THAT WE CAN TO KEEP FIREARMS OUT OF THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THEM AND ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP TO HELP KEEP OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES SAFE.

NOW, THEREFORE, I.

MICHELLE J. GOMEZ, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION, ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO WEAR ORANGE ON JUNE 2ND AND HELP RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PREVENT THE TRAGIC EFFECTS OF IT, HONOR THE LIVES OF GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS, AND HEREBY DECLARE IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

FRIDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2023, AS NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS DEBORAH MENDELSON AND I'M A VOLUNTEER WITH BROWARD MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MAYOR GOMEZ AND THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC ON BEHALF OF MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR ISSUING THIS PROCLAMATION, DECLARING FRIDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2023, NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY.

TODAY MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE TRAGEDY AT UVALDE.

AND ALTHOUGH AFTER THE RECENT NEWS FROM NASHVILLE, LOUISVILLE, FARMINGTON AND FRANKLY, MOST EVERYWHERE, AS MAYOR GOMEZ INDICATED, IF WE NEED A PROCLAMATION TO MAKE US AWARE OF THE GUN VIOLENCE PLAGUING OUR COUNTRY, THEN WE AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION.

THANK YOU FOR PAYING ATTENTION.

THE FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE HAS BEEN DECLARED NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE DAY IN HONOR OF HADIYA PENDLETON, AS THE MAYOR INDICATED.

WE WEAR ORANGE BECAUSE IT WAS HER FAVORITE COLOR AND BECAUSE IT'S THE COLOR THAT HUNTERS WEAR.

SO THEY WILL NOT BE PREY TO HUNTERS.

PEOPLE ARE NOT PREY.

AND WE NEED A REMINDER OF THIS.

WE KNOW WE'RE ALL SAFER WHEN FIREARMS ARE STORED, UNLOADED, LOCKED AND SEPARATE FROM AMMUNITION.

OUR BE SMART PROGRAM.

CAN I BE SMART CAMPAIGN EXPLAINS THAT GUN OWNERS DON'T NEED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN STORING ARMS SECURELY AND MAINTAINING QUICK ACCESS TO THEM. ULTIMATELY, SECURE GUN STORES PREVENTS KIDS AND OTHER AT RISK PEOPLE FROM ACCESSING GUNS.

WHEN WE PROTECT OUR MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE FROM THE DANGERS OF UNINTENTIONAL SHOOTINGS OR SELF-HARM.

THE WHOLE COMMUNITY BENEFITS.

PLEASE GO TO BE SMART KIDS.

BE SMART FOR KIDS.ORG TO LEARN MORE.

AND MAYOR GOMEZ WE WOULD WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY TO MAKE THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROGRAM MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE TO ALL THE RESIDENTS HERE. WE THANK YOU AGAIN FOR DECLARING JUNE 2ND NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

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ARCADIA.

GELIN. SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ACTUALLY HAVE SEVERAL OTHER PROCLAMATIONS.

WE WILL READ THE TITLE INTO THE RECORD FOR EVERYBODY.

AND THEY ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE TO SEE NO PLACE FOR HATE DAY PROCLAMATION.

ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH.

JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.

HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH.

THESE ARE ALL YOU CAN FIND THEM ONLINE.

AND WE ARE VERY PROUD TO PROCLAIM THESE DAYS OR MONTHS IN HONOR OF OUR CITY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ALL RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE WILL NOW GO TO OUR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION SECTION OF THE DAY.

MADAM MAYOR. OH, I'M SO SORRY.

MY APOLOGIES.

WE WILL NOT BE GOING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION JUST YET.

WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO OUR CITY MANAGER, WHO HAS A LOT TO SHARE WITH US.

SO PLEASE DO. THANK YOU.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

I DO HAVE A LENGTHY REPORT, BUT AN EXCITING ONE.

SO LET ME GET STARTED WITH THAT FIRST.

OUR ONE TAMARAC MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, WHICH WAS HELD THIS WEEKEND TO CELEBRATE THE CITY'S GREAT DIVERSITY AND KICK OFF THE CITY'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WAS A HUGE SUCCESS.

WE HAD WELL OVER 1500 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE EVENT WHERE THEY ENJOYED LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURAL PERFORMANCES, FOOD TRUCKS, A CHILDREN'S AREA AND OTHER 16TH ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES.

THE EVENING ENDED WITH A SPECTACULAR LASER SHOW.

SPECIAL THANK YOU GOES OUT TO OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT, BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE, TAMARAC, FIRE RESCUE AND ALL OF OUR OTHER EMPLOYEES WHO PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS SUCCESSFUL EVENT.

IT REALLY WAS A WELL DONE EVENT.

SO THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR THAT.

I ALSO LIKE TO CONGRATULATE OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR MEETING THE NECESSARY REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THEIR CERTIFICATE OF ACCREDITATION BY THE INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION SERVICE.

THIS ACCREDITATION DEMONSTRATES THAT OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT HAS MET THE NATIONAL STANDARDS AND HAS BEST PRACTICES IN PLACE TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE COMPETENT TO PROVIDE PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES IN MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES.

THE TAMARAC BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS THE ONLY DEPARTMENT IN BROWARD COUNTY TO RECEIVE AND EARN THIS ACCREDITATION.

WE ALSO HAVE RECEIVED NOTIFICATION THAT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED A 96% ON OUR ANNUAL CRS ISO CERTIFICATION.

WE THANK YOU TOO.

WE THANK TO OUR CHIEF BUILDING OFFICIAL, GEORGE FOLLIS AND ALL OF OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION TO THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY.

CITY OF TAMARAC IS UNDERTAKING TWO NEW, EXCITING PROJECTS.

WE'RE INVITING THE COMMUNITY AND SPECIFICALLY DISTRICT TWO RESIDENTS TO GIVE YOUR VISION A VOICE AS WE MOVE TAMARAC FORWARD.

PLEASE JOIN MAYOR MICHELLE GOMEZ AND COMMISSIONER MOORE RIGHT ON MAY 31ST AT THE TAMARAC COMMUNITY CENTER.

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TO SHARE YOUR INPUT ON THE CITY'S 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN INDICES MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN PROJECTS.

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.

COMMUNITY AND RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 4TH MAY ALSO JOIN MAYOR MICHELLE GOMEZ AND COMMISSIONER DANIEL ON JUNE 5TH AT THE WOODMONT COUNTRY CLUB, LOCATED AT 7801 NORTHWEST 88TH AVENUE FOR A PUBLIC WORKSHOP OF THE SAME AT 6:30 P.M.

FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE INPUT ON THESE EXCITING PROJECTS AND DIVISION FOR TAMARAC FUTURE.

ADDITIONAL MEETINGS WILL BE HELD IN THE MONTH OF JUNE WITH COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS AND VICE MAYOR BOLTON FOR DISTRICT THREE AND DISTRICT ONE, AND THE DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, PERSONAL MAILERS AND AT THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING.

YOU REALLY DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY THAT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY 20 YEARS TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF TAMARAC.

WE ALSO HAVE SOME OTHER EXCITING EVENTS COMING UP ON MONDAY, MAY 29TH AT 10:30 A.M., WE WILL HOLD OUR MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM.

THE CEREMONY WILL BE HELD AT THE TAMARAC COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED.

PLEASE JOIN US ON FRIDAY, JUNE 16TH, FROM 7 TO 9:30 P.M.

AT THE TAMARAC SPORTS COMPLEX TO CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH, A DAY THAT SYMBOLIZES THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THIS EVENT WILL INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY ASHANTI CULTURAL ARTS, LIVE MUSIC BY MOTOWN, MAGIC, FOOD VENDORS, KIDS AREA AND MUCH MORE. FOR ALL THESE EVENTS AND OTHER NEWS, PLEASE FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT TAMARAC.ORG FOR ALL THE EVENTS AND UPCOMING PROGRAMS. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THE ONE TAMARAC WAS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL.

SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH TO EVERYBODY IN PARK AND REC PUBLIC SERVICES AND THE WHOLE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT WHO PUT IT TOGETHER.

GOING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION NOW.

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SO GOOD. THE RULES OF THE ROAD ARE ON THE SCREEN.

AND FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE HERE, THE KEY PARTS THAT YOU'RE ALREADY AWARE OF.

THREE MINUTES. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR ADDRESS, IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE, OR AT LEAST WHERE YOU LIVE, IN THE CITY, WHERE YOU LIVE, IN THE CITY OR WHEREVER, AND SPEAK CLEARLY INTO THE MICROPHONE.

FIRST UP IS JUDY MARGOLIS.

WELL, AFTER ALL THESE ADULATORY REMARKS, I'M AFRAID I'M GOING TO BE A DOWNER.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, VICE, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

MY NAME IS JUDITH MARGOLIS.

I HAVE LIVED AT 4704 QUEEN PALM LANE FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.

THE WOODLANDS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT.

YOUR THREE TWO VOTE, REGRETTABLY, WILL DESTROY THIS UNIQUE TREASURE.

POWER CORRUPTS.

OUR DESIGNATED OFFICIALS FROM THE STATE.

THE DOT TWO LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES HAVE FAILED THE RESIDENTS OF THE WOODLANDS COMMUNITY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, THE BOTTOM BEING THE COMMISSIONERS.

THE EVIDENCE OF THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF THE PLAN TO MAKE THE GOLF COURSE A RESIDENTIAL AREA.

EVERY RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL OFFICIAL PASSED THE DECISION ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

DESPITE THEIR GUIDELINES FOR BEING FOR NOT BEING MET, THE FINAL VOTE, DESPITE OVERWHELMING NEGATIVES, CAME TO YOU.

OUR CHOICE ELECTED TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE GOOD AND IN THE INTERESTS OF US, YOUR CONSTITUENTS HERE IN TAMARAC.

POWER CORRUPTS.

ONCE AGAIN, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DISREGARDING THE EXTENSIVE GUIDELINES.

UM. CAPITULATED TO THE TO THE TO THEIR OWN PERSONAL INTERESTS.

AT LEAST THREE OF YOU.

DID I SAY SHAME ON YOU WHO VOTED TO DESTROY THE UNIQUE, THRIVING COMMUNITY? YOU IGNORED THE STATED PROBLEMS.

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POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

AND I'M SORRY THAT I AM FALTERING.

IT CAME BETTER WHEN I WAS IN MY ROOM ALONE.

THANK YOU. YOU DID VERY WELL.

THANK YOU. AND RADISH.

AND THEN KATE JOHNSON WILL BE ON DECK.

AND.

THANK YOU. I WISH MARTY KEY LEFT ME SOME OF HIS SPEED UP HERE.

I OVER THE PAST MEETINGS WE HAD SPEAKER AFTER SPEAKER SAYING THEY'RE AGAINST REPLACING THE TAMARAC FIRE DEPARTMENT.

AND NOT ONCE SPOKE AGAINST IT.

ALSO, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE'S NOTICED, BUT THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE WORD.

FROM THE COMMISSIONERS THAT SPONSORED THIS IDEA IN DEFENSE OF THIS MEETING'S NOT ONE WORD.

THAT'S BECAUSE THERE IS NO DEFENSE.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE A ROLLS ROLLS-ROYCE WITH A USED HONDA? OUR TAMARAC FIRE DEPARTMENT.

ROLLS-ROYCE PLACED FIFTH OUT OF 30 IN THE COMPETITION I SPOKE ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

BSO TO USE TIRE.

HONDA PLACED 30 OUT OF 30.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE FIFTH BEST IN THE AREA WITH THE WORST IN THE AREA? THE ONLY REASON THAT THE SPONSORS GAVE AND I THINK IT WAS MR. BOLTON OR COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. THEY WANT TO SAVE US TAXES.

WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW LITTLE THAT IS.

IF WE SAVED $1 MILLION IN IN THE COST OF A FIRE DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS A BIG SAVINGS, IF YOU HAD A 500, IF YOU HAVE A $500,000 HOUSE FOR TAX PURPOSES, YOU'RE GOING TO SAVE $8 A MONTH.

$8 A MONTH.

IF YOUR LIFE ISN'T WORTH $8 A MONTH, HERE IS THE REASON THAT THIS SITUATION WILL END UP CAUSING SOME OF US TO DIE UNNECESSARILY EACH YEAR.

THERE WERE 13,000 RESCUES BY OUR DEPARTMENT LAST YEAR.

THAT MEANS THAT BROWARD WILL HAVE 13,000 OPPORTUNITIES TO SCREW UP AS THEY DID IN TWO MAJOR COMPETITIONS. IF THEY SCREW UP JUST 1% OF THE TIME, 130 LIVES ARE GONE.

IF SOMEONE DIES GETTING INTO THE AMBULANCE BEFORE GETTING TO THE E.R., THE FAMILY WILL ALWAYS WONDER IF THAT PERSON WOULD BE ALIVE IF THE TAMARACK FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD RESCUED THEM.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT BSO FIRE IS INFERIOR.

I'M JUST SAYING THEY ARE INFERIOR TO COMPARE TO US AND EVERY FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE AREA.

AS AN ASIDE, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE CITY MANAGER OR THE MAYOR CHECK WITH OUR INSURANCE CARRIER AND SEE HOW MUCH OUR INSURANCE PREMIUMS FOR FIRE WOULD GO UP IF WE SWITCHED COMPANIES.

THANK YOU, ED AND IT'S ED RADISH.

KINGS POINT RADIO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

DR. JOHNSON. AND THEN DR.

SCHILLER WILL BE NEXT.

GOOD MORNING KATE JOHNSON MAINLAND'S FOR BELIEVE IT OR NOT I ONLY HAVE ONE ISSUE I THINK BUT I ALSO WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY PHONE.

I'M EXPECTING AN IMPORTANT PHONE CALL, SO HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T CALL THE NEXT THREE MINUTES.

GOOD MORNING.

WHILE IT IS IN FIRST READING, I WANTED TO COMMENT ON THE NOISE ORDINANCE PROPOSAL.

THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE STATES THAT NOISE IS, QUOTE, PLAINLY AUDIBLE TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE PLAYER OR OPERATORS OF THE DEVICE AND THOSE WHO ARE VOLUNTARILY LISTENING TO THE SOUND AND IS PLAINLY AUDIBLE FROM A PUBLIC STREET, THE ADJACENT LOTS NEAR THE SOURCE OR AS IT AT A DISTANCE OF 15FT OR MORE

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AND 7 A.M., MY END QUOTE.

MY QUESTION IS, DOES THIS APPLY TO DAYTIME AND OR EVENING AS WELL? LAST WEEKEND, A HOME ACROSS ACROSS THE CANAL AT FOUR HOUSES DOWN FROM US HAD A PARTY.

WE'D LISTEN TO BLARING MUSIC ALL AFTERNOON, ALL EVENING, ALL NIGHT UNTIL 130 IN THE MORNING.

WE HAVE IMPACT WINDOWS.

IT DOESN'T HELP.

THE SOUND STILL COMES INTO OUR HOME.

KEEP IN MIND, WE'RE ACROSS THE CANAL IN FOUR HOUSES DOWN.

THAT'S CERTAINLY MORE THAN 25FT.

BUT THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME OUR ACROSS THE STREET NEIGHBOR ACTUALLY WHEN HE FIRST MOVED IN, THOUGHT WE WERE THE ONES HAVING A PARTY BECAUSE IT WAS SO LOUD THAT HE HEARD IT IN HIS HOUSE.

WE ASSURED HIM IT WAS NOT US.

IT WAS THE PEOPLE BEHIND US.

WHEN WE BOUGHT A MAINLANDS, WE DID NOT EXPECT HIDDEN TRAILS TO BE SUCH AN ISSUE.

BUT BEING YOUNG FAMILIES, THEY LIKE TO PARTY AND WE OFTEN MUST LISTEN TO BLARING MUSIC ALL DAY, MANY WEEKENDS. SO I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS NOT ONLY FOR 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M., BUT CAN BE ENFORCED DURING THE DAYTIME AND EVENING AS WELL.

OF COURSE, UNDERSTANDING SPECIAL EVENTS, BUT LITERALLY THE THREE HOUSES ACROSS FROM US, EACH ONE OF THEM HAS A PARTY A DIFFERENT WEEKEND AND IT IS INSANE.

THE ONLY OTHER ISSUE I WILL BRING UP IS YES, PLEASE KEEP TAMARAC FIRE RESCUE WITH TAMARAC.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE DR.

DARCY SCHILLER, AND THEN WE HAVE MIKE T.

AND MR. T, WHEN YOU GET UP THERE, WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE OF YOUR NAME, IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE.

THANK YOU. EVEN IF IT'S JUST T.

GOOD MORNING. DARCY SCHILLER, KINGS POINT.

SATURDAY NIGHT.

TAMARAC PARK WAS EXCELLENT.

IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED.

GOOD FOOD AND THE HOUSE.

THE BOUNCE HOUSES FOR THE KIDS WERE AMPLE.

I WAS ABSOLUTELY IMPRESSED.

SO NOW LET'S MAKE THIS A LUCRATIVE DEAL.

HOW? WHEN I WENT TO ALL THE DIFFERENT ENTRANCES, THERE WAS EITHER SECURITY OR POLICE.

WHY CAN'T WE GIVE TAMARAC RESIDENTS A TICKET FOR FREE FOR THEIR FAMILY? LET THEM COME IN AND GET IT, OR SHOW ID WHEN THEY COME IN AND CHARGE EVERYBODY ELSE.

$3. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD $3 PER PERSON TO GO OUT, THAT'S REALLY SAD.

BUT IF EVEN WE HAD 100 PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER DISTRICT COME IN AND PAY $100, THAT'S $300, SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN GO TOWARD THIS WALL OF 45,000 THAT YOU'RE BRINGING UP LATER.

SO I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT.

OKAY. NEXT ISSUE.

I COMMEND ELVIN FOR MAKING HIMSELF AVAILABLE TO KINGS POINT FOR SIX HOURS A WEEK ON A TUESDAY FOR THREE HOURS AND ON ON A THURSDAY FOR SIX HOURS. AND HE'S MAKING HIMSELF AVAILABLE TO THE CONSTITUENTS TO ANSWER WHATEVER TAMARAC QUESTIONS THERE ARE.

THAT'S COMMENDABLE.

BUT THEN WHY DOES HE NEED A LIAISON? WHAT DOES HE NEED A PART TIMER FOR SIX HOURS? HOW ABOUT MAKING APPOINTMENTS DURING THOSE SIX HOURS SO THAT YOU CAN USE YOUR OTHER TIME EFFECTIVELY ADDRESSING OTHER ISSUES? AND IF I LIVED IN ANY OTHER AREA OTHER THAN KINGS POINT, I WOULD BE BALLISTIC THAT YOU'RE SHOWING FAVORITISM TO KINGS POINT.

UM. OKAY.

LET'S SEE.

ALL RIGHT. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO BRING UP WAS THE COMPREHENSIVE, UM, CITY PLANNING IN 2040, AND I PLAN TO BE AT ALL THE MEETINGS. WE'RE CONSTANTLY ADDRESSING BUDGET AS FAR AS THE CAR PERSON FROM THE BROWARD TRANSPORTATION OR WHATEVER.

I THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK A THOUSAND YEARS TO THE WORLD OF THE JETSONS AND START FLYING IN THE AIR WITH THE CARS BECAUSE THE ROADS ARE JUST SO OVER CRAMPED.

BUT SINCE THAT'S CARTOON LAND AND NOT REALITY, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC.

AND I KNOW THAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO BUILD MORE PROPERTY.

I JUST DON'T THINK RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME.

I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT IN THE FUTURE.

UM, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD BUILD SCHOOLS FOR OUR CHILDREN BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SCHOOLS IN EAST TAMARAC AND IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE TAMARAC TO HAVE ITS OWN HIGH

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LASTLY, AND I MIGHT RUN OVER BY FIVE SECONDS, SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO GIVE ME THAT GRATIS.

I COMMEND ACKNOWLEDGING DIFFERENT DIVERSITIES, BUT THERE'S ONLY 365 DAYS IN A YEAR.

THERE'S ONLY 12 MONTHS IN A YEAR.

WE MAY HAVE TO START DOING THIS HOUR BY HOUR.

ENOUGH WITH THE JEWISH HERITAGE, HERITAGE, THE HAITIAN HERITAGE, THE LATIN HERITAGE, THE JAMAICAN HERITAGE.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY DAYS OR TIMES LEFT.

WE HAVE ALL IN ONE TAMARAC.

LET'S BRING IT UP THERE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

MR. MIKE T AND PATTY LYNN.

YOU'RE ON DECK. NO CAMERAS RIGHT IN MY FACE.

HI, MY NAME IS MIKE TAYLOR.

I GO BY THE ARMED FISHERMAN ON YOUTUBE AND I HEARD ABOUT MOMS DEMAND ACTION COMING.

SO I DECIDED I WANTED TO BE HERE AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS ABOUT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, AND UNFORTUNATELY, MR. TAYLOR, IF YOU'LL TELL US YOUR LOCATION.

OH, PORT SAINT LUCIE, FLORIDA.

UM, A LOT OF THIS WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, SO ON AND SO FORTH.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE HERE IN AMERICA AND EVERY ONE OF YOU UP HERE, YOU KNOW, THESE LAW ENFORCEMENT BEHIND ME HAVE ALL SWORN AN OATH.

AND THEY SAY, I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.

WELL, THE WOMEN THAT HAVE LEFT DON'T REALIZE THAT.

AND I THINK PEOPLE HAVE LOST WHAT THAT OATH ACTUALLY REALLY MEANS.

IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE MY GUN.

I'M NOT SAYING YOU DIRECTLY, BUT I'M SAYING I CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.

AND THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR GUNS.

AND THESE WOMEN THAT HAVE LEFT ARE THE ONES PUSHING THIS TO THE POLITICIANS.

SO FOR THE POLITICIANS THAT ARE GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, GIVING THEM WHATEVER THEY GOT, I DON'T REALLY CARE WHAT'S KIND OF POINTLESS BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE TAKING AWAY YOUR RIGHTS. AND THE ONE THING I DO KNOW IS THAT POLITICIANS ARE PROTECTED BY GUNS.

MOVIE STARS ARE PROTECTED BY GUNS.

THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON.

THEY ARE PROTECTED BY A GUN.

BUT NOBODY WANTS TO PROTECT THESE KIDS WITH ANY GUNS.

WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN BROWARD COUNTY.

WON'T MENTION HIS NAME, BUT WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

YOU KNOW, WHY DON'T WE HAVE SOMEBODY SITTING OUT FRONT WITH A GUN PROTECTING OUR KIDS? THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I DO FOR MY CHILD.

I DON'T HAVE A GUN IN HERE.

OFFICERS JUST YOU KNOW, IT'S ILLEGAL TO DO THAT DURING A PUBLIC MEETING.

BUT THAT'S MY JOB, IS TO PROTECT THAT CHILD RIGHT THERE WITH A GUN.

I DON'T GET PAID FOR IT.

I DO IT BECAUSE THIS CONSTITUTION ALLOWS ME TO DO IT.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. WE ALL KNOW WHO HE IS, HAS A VERY, VERY FAMOUS QUOTE.

THOSE WHO WOULD GIVE UP ESSENTIAL LIBERTY TO PURCHASE A LITTLE TEMPORARY SAFETY DESERVE DESERVE NEITHER LIBERTY NOR SAFETY.

IF WE'RE GOING TO BE GIVING THESE LADIES THAT HAVE LEFT.

THAT THAT LITTLE BIT OF SAFETY.

THEY DON'T NOBODY DESERVES IT BECAUSE YOU'RE TAKING THEY ARE LITERALLY TRYING TO STRIP PEOPLE OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

SHE HEY, GO SIT DOWN, PLEASE.

UM, YOU KNOW, THE SECOND AMENDMENT WELL REGULATED MILITIA.

I HAD A WHOLE THING I WAS GOING TO TRY TO KIND OF GET THROUGH TO THESE LADIES.

BUT ONE OTHER THING THAT I DO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS A HEY, STOP IT.

SIT DOWN. ONE THING I DO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS A FEDERAL CASE LAW.

IT'S CALLED WARREN VERSUS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

THE POLICE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROTECT US.

I HOPE YOU ALL REALIZE THAT.

KNOW THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED IN RIGHT HERE, RIGHT IN YOUR BACKYARD, YOU KNOW? THE GUY WAS THERE. HE HAD A GUN AND DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.

I HEARD ABOUT UVALDI.

SAME THING.

NOBODY DID ANYTHING FOR 45 MINUTES.

SO JUST HONOR YOUR OATH.

THAT'S ALL I COULD ACTUALLY ASK.

YOU KNOW, KEEP UP.

I HEAR YOU TRYING TO DO GOOD THINGS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND PLEASE TRAVEL SAFELY.

I GOT A FRIEND WAITING ON ME.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

PATTY LYNN. I'LL SAVE THAT IN CASE I HAVE TIME LEFT OVER.

PATTY LIN MAINLAND'S EIGHT QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES.

I'VE GOT A BUNCH OF THEM.

I AM HOPING THAT THIS COMMISSION IS GOING TO REVISIT YOUR SECTION 1426 AND 37 PARKING ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY WHERE I LIVE. THEY'RE ALL SENIORS.

THERE ARE NO SIDEWALKS.

OUR PEOPLE WALK AND THEY'RE KIND OF WALKING 24 HOURS A DAY.

IT'S HAZARDOUS.

PARKED CARS ARE THERE.

THEY'RE WALKING AROUND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WALK IN THE STREET.

PLEASE HIRE SOME PARKING ENFORCEMENT.

IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING, LET'S START ENFORCING THE LAW AS IT STANDS.

ANOTHER QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUE.

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS EVERY NIGHT ON 61ST STREET, JUST EAST OF.

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WOW, THAT JUST WENT AWAY.

A HALF OF A RIG.

YOU KNOW THE CAB PART OF A RIG ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD? 56 TO 5800 BLOCK.

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES PARKED THERE ALL THE TIME.

OVERNIGHT. ALL THE TIME.

YOU TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE STUFF AND THE BIG STUFF TAKES CARE OF EACH OTHER, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, YOU LET OH, WELL, THE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO WIDEN THEIR DRIVEWAY, SO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKS LIKE CRAP.

THAT'S SILLY.

YOU KNOW, MAKE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE A LAW.

OBEY IT.

YOUR CONSTRUCTION, THAT THAT.

THAT WE'RE IN. EVERYBODY WANTS MORE APARTMENTS BECAUSE THERE'S A HOUSING CRISIS.

IT'S A CONUNDRUM BECAUSE SUNRISE AND LAUDERHILL ARE BUILDING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF COMMERCIAL.

IF WE DON'T BUILD, WE LOSE THE TAX MONEY AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET IT.

BUT THE ROADS ARE STILL GOING TO BE CONGESTED.

THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY.

WE CANNOT MOVE ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

I DON'T KNOW WHO SAID THERE'S LESS TRAFFIC ON COMMERCIAL THAN WE THINK THERE IS.

NO, THERE'S NOT.

NO, THERE'S NOT.

I INVITE YOU TO PLEASE SPEND THREE HOURS A DAY ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

SIT AT ROCK ISLAND AND WATCH.

SIT AT 64TH AVENUE AND WATCH.

IT TAKES YOU PROBABLY 20 MINUTES TO GO FROM 64TH AVENUE TO 441 LESS THAN A MILE.

IT'S RIDICULOUS.

WHERE ARE THE WHERE ARE THE RETAIL SHOPS, THE NICE RESTAURANTS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE WERE PROMISED IN TAMARAC VILLAGE.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO BUILD MORE BUILDINGS AND THERE'S NO AMENITIES.

WE'RE NOT KEEPING PEOPLE IN TAMARAC.

WE'RE NOT SPENDING IN TAMARAC.

THAT WAS WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN THERE.

THERE'S A HOUSING SHORTAGE, BUT WHERE'S THE INFRASTRUCTURE? WHERE WE KNOW WE NEED MORE WATER CAPABILITY, WE KNOW WE NEED MORE SEWER CAPABILITY.

WE HAVE TO GET OUR INFRASTRUCTURE BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE.

AND IN MY LAST 10S, NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT TAKING ANYBODY'S GUNS AWAY.

AND THERE IS NO RIGHT TO HAVE AN AR AK 47 OR ANY OF THOSE WEAPONS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK THAT HAS NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN UP? HELLO. HELLO. MY NAME IS CRYSTAL CRUZ AND I AM A HOMEOWNER IN THE COMMUNITY OF TUSCAN VILLAS IN TAMARAC.

IF I MAY 1ST GIVE YOU CONTEXT TO MY PRESENCE HERE TODAY.

THE PRESIDENT OF MY HOA BOARD MEMBERS FOR TUSCAN VILLAS CONDO ASSOCIATION SENT AN EMAIL NOTIFYING THE COMMUNITY OF THIS MEETING TODAY.

I ASSUMED HE WOULD BE HERE ON OUR BEHALF.

CLEARLY HE IS NOT, WHICH IS WHY I AM HERE NOW SPEAKING FOR OUR COMMUNITY PER THE PROPERTY APPRAISER MARTY KJAR.

THE PEOPLE VALUES HAVE INCREASED, THUS BEING ABLE TO MORE READILY HELP OUT THE COMMUNITY USING THIS INCREASE IN FUNDS.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW OUR COMMUNITY, TUSCAN VILLAS, WHICH IS OFF OF PROSPECT ROAD RIGHT BY CAPPARELLA PARK, WE PAY A SURCHARGE OF 25% TO THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE TO USE THEIR WATER.

SINCE THE CITY OF TAMARAC HAS NOT YET, NOT YET BUILT THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SERVICE US, OUR BUDGET, OUR HOA FOR THE COMMUNITY IS SORRY IS 144,000 THIS YEAR, WHICH MAKES UP ABOUT 25% OF OUR ANNUAL BUDGET ALONE.

THIS MEANS THAT THE SURCHARGE IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT COST FOR US.

WE WOULD LIKE FOR THE CITY OF TAMARAC TO HELP US WITH THIS CHARGE UNTIL THE CITY COMPLETES THE PROJECT TO EXTEND TO EXTEND THE INFRASTRUCTURE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

I HOPE THIS MATTER IS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION.

IT'S TAKEN UP A LOT OF OUR HOA FEES WHICH WE PAY OUR BOARD MEMBERS FROM LAST YEAR AND OUR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WERE VERY NEGLIGENT, WHICH COST US AN 88,000 UNDER BUDGET BECAUSE OF THEIR NEGLIGENCE.

SO NOW OUR COMMUNITY, WE HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR 13 YEARS AND HAVE BEEN PAYING $300 A MONTH FOR 13 YEARS.

WE HAD AN INCREASE OF ALMOST $200 MONTHLY THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THEIR NEGLIGENCE.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M HERE ON MY COMMUNITY'S BEHALF, SHAKING AND NERVOUS AND HAD TO WRITE THIS WHOLE THING DOWN TODAY BECAUSE WE NEED HELP.

AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO.

THANK YOU, MISS CRUZ. WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN TRYING TO WORK ON THAT FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

AND THE CITY MANAGER HAS AN UPDATE THAT AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

AND SO WE HAVE ALL THE PERMITS, PERMITS AND PREPARATIONS.

IT'S IN THE DESIGN PHASE.

AND, YOU KNOW, IF I HAVE TO GIVE YOU AN EXACT TIMELINE, MAYBE I CAN ASK FOR SOME HELP FROM OUR PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR, JOHN.

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IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS, YOU CAN.

HI. FOR THE RECORD, JOHN DOHERTY, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICES.

YES, WE'RE IN A DESIGN PHASE NOW.

AS YOU MENTIONED, THIS IS A COMPLEX PROJECT THAT WILL GO UP COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND IT WILL TIE INTO OUR EXISTING DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OUT EAST.

AND OUR ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO ALSO CONNECT TUSCAN VILLAS.

THE DESIGN PROCESS WILL TAKE ABOUT ANOTHER NINE MONTHS, 8 OR 9 MONTHS, AND THEN IT WILL BE ABOUT A YEAR CONSTRUCTION.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT LATE 2025 FOR TO GET YOU GUYS ESTABLISHED ON OUR SYSTEM.

OKAY. IT'S WE CAN TALK MORE AFTERWARDS, BUT IT'S BEEN A LABOR OF LOVE AND A LONG TIME COMING ON CERTAIN THINGS.

AND I KNOW THAT HERE IN 2025 IS NOT COMFORTABLE TO YOU, BUT WE COULD TALK MORE ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT AFTERWARDS.

OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU.

AND ALSO, THE VICE MAYOR IS AWARE.

THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ANYTHING THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA? SEEING NONE AND SEEING THAT IT IS 1112, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A 13 MINUTE RECESS.

WE WILL BE BACK HERE IF I COUNTED THAT CORRECTLY.

1125. ALL RIGHT.

1125. ALL RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME BACK.

IT IS 1126 AND WE ARE BACK FOR OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

[4. CONSENT AGENDA]

ALL RIGHT. COMMISSION.

I AM PULLING FOR DE.

THAT'S TR 13951.

REGARDING MICHAEL PARKER DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF AMENDMENT, WE'LL READ THAT TITLE FULLY AFTERWARDS.

SEEING THAT THERE'S NOBODY ELSE WISHING TO PULL ANYTHING.

I NEED A SECOND, PLEASE.

SECOND. THANK YOU.

I'VE GOT THE MOTION.

COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS A SECOND.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. YES.

MAYOR GOMEZ. YES.

COMMISSIONER. VILLALOBOS.

YES. COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. YES.

VICE MAYOR. BOLTON.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

THANK YOU. AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE WORKING ON A NEW WAY TO.

DO THE VOTING ORDER.

CITY CLERK MAYOR, I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T ACTUALLY STATE WHAT THE WHAT THE RESULTS OF THE MOTION WAS.

THAT MOTION PASSES FIVE TO 4 TO 0.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. CITY CLERK.

I'M SORRY. CITY ATTORNEY, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE READ THE TITLE OF 4DT13951.

[4.d TR13951 - A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, approving and authorizing artist Michael Parker design and the execution of an amendment to the agreement between the City of Tamarac and Loadwick Parker Enterprises, LLC, attached hereto as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein, to provide for a contract increase of $45,000 for a total not to exceed contract value of $145,000 to provide for the fabrication and installation of a social justice artwork at the Tamarac Village Park located at 9090 NW 57th Street, Tamarac; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing an effective date.]

ITEM FOUR D IS A RESOLUTION.

THE CITY COMMISSION AND CITY TAMARAC APPROVING AUTHORIZING ARTIST MICHAEL PARKER DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND LUDWICK PARKER ENTERPRISE, ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT A INCORPORATED HEREIN TO PROVIDE FOR A CONTRACT INCREASE OF 45,000 FOR THE TOTAL NOT TO EXCEED CONTRACT VALUE OF 145,000 TO PROVIDE FOR FABRICATION, INSTALLATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ARTWORK AT TAMARAC VILLAGE PARK LOCATED AT 99 NORTH WEST 57TH STREET, TAMARAC, FLORIDA.

PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I NEED A SECOND FOR THIS ITEM, PLEASE.

SECOND. THANK YOU.

I HAVE THE MOTION AND COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS HAS A SECOND.

THE REASON? THERE ARE A COUPLE REASONS.

I HAVE PULLED THIS ITEM.

UM. CITY ATTORNEY.

IF A PERSON SAYS THAT I WILL NOT COMPLETE MY PERFORMANCE UNTIL YOU DO SUCH A THING AS INCREASE A CONTRACT PRICE.

IS THAT CONSIDERED AN ANTICIPATORY REPUDIATION? I WILL.

OBVIOUSLY, MAYOR, IF WE HAVE A CONTRACT AND IF HE'S STATING THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO PERFORM, I THINK WE NEED TO REVIEW THAT ISSUE.

MY OFFICE REVIEW, THAT ISSUE WITH THE MANAGER AND TO SEE WHAT REMEDIES THAT WE HAVE.

YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, HE'S GIVEN US SOME YOU KNOW, IF THIS WAS GIVEN TO US VERBAL, THEN WE NEED TO CONFIRM THAT AND SEE IF HE DOES.

OBVIOUSLY A INTENT NOT TO PERFORM, THEN WE HAVE A RIGHT TO EVENTUALLY EVEN TERMINATE THE CONTRACT IF WE IF THE MANAGEMENT AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND THANK

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I KNEW YOU UNDERSTOOD AND I SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT PUBLICLY.

MY CONCERN IS THAT WE HAVE A CONTRACT.

USUALLY OUR CONTRACTS ARE VERY CLEAR TO ANYBODY WHO DOES BUSINESS WITH THE CITY THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS GET TO A DEADLINE AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT NEED TO BE MODIFIED. MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME OF IT IS FOR COST, WHICH MAKES SENSE AND SOME OF IT IS NOT NECESSARILY FOR COST.

AS A FEW PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION ALREADY KNOW, AND THE NEW COMMISSIONERS MAY NOT BE AWARE.

WHILE I LIKE THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL AS THE CONCEPT, I HAVE NOT BEEN HAPPY WITH THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL AS IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO US IN THE REALITY THAT WHEN WE SAID WE WERE DOING A SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL, IT WAS FIRST TO BE MORE LOCAL, MORE ORIGINAL TO OUR CITY VERSUS LOOKING VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT IT IS IN THE PIECE THAT MR. PARKER IS HAS DONE IN TAMPA.

AND I FELT IT NEEDED TO REFLECT MORE OF WHETHER IT'S OUR LGBTQ, OUR HANDICAPPED COMMUNITY, WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE A CHANGE AND EDIT AND INCLUDE OUR HISPANIC COMMUNITY, BUT WE DON'T HAVE OUR ASIAN COMMUNITY.

WE DON'T HAVE.

WE DON'T HAVE THAT INCLUSIVE INCLUSIVITY THAT THE CITY OF TAMARAC IS TO, WHICH WAS THE REASON BEHIND HAVING A LOCAL SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL.

AND SO I AM BRINGING THIS UP FOR THIS COMMISSION TO EITHER DISCUSS OR NOT.

IT'S JUST I'M MAKING SURE THAT MY CONCERNS ARE ON THE RECORD AGAIN ABOUT THIS.

AND IF WE HAVE SOMEBODY AS MUCH AS MR. PARKER IS A NICE GENTLEMAN AND A GOOD ARTIST, IF THE CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED HIM IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR WHICH HE NEEDS IT TO BE DONE MINUS THE EXTRA ACTUAL ITEMS FOR.

FOR THE MOST PART, YOU DID WELL.

BESIDES THE INCLUSIVITY I'M TALKING ABOUT, IF HIS CONTRACT EXTENSION IS BECAUSE HE REALLY IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH PARTS, MATERIALS, MATERIALS, THEN I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT.

BUT THE OTHER PART THAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS IS NOT MATERIALS BASED, IT IS COMPENSATION BASED.

AND. THAT PART IS NOT DUE TO ANY CHANGES BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS AGREED TO IN THE PAST.

I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE HAVING TO INCREASE EVEN THOUGH THIS IS PAID FOR BY THE PUBLIC ART FUNDS.

I GET IT. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE MINDFUL OF THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE IN THE PUBLIC ART.

SO THAT IS THE REASON WHY I AM.

ASKING US TO BE.

I WAS REMOVED FROM CONSENT FOR EITHER DISCUSSION OR POTENTIALLY IN VOTING ON IT, THE CONTRACT AND THEN BRINGING IT BACK FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION AT THE NEXT MEETING OR TABLE IT COMPLETELY TO THE NEXT MEETING WHERE THERE CAN BE FURTHER DISCUSSION TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS WITHIN A CONTRACT BASE OR ANY MORE INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE NEEDED BY THE COMMISSION. SO I OPEN THE FLOOR FOR CONVERSATION.

I SEE A LOT OF QUESTION MARKS ABOVE PEOPLE'S HEADS AND ON THEIR FACES.

CITY MANAGER DO YOU WANT TO.

MAYOR. OH, I'M SO SORRY.

VICE MAYOR COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

I SHARED MY SENTIMENTS WITH THE CITY MANAGER WHEN THE CONTRACT WAS FOR X AMOUNT, BUT IT'S INCREASING BY 45 TO 50% OF THE COST. NOT EVEN INFLATION HAS HIT THAT HIGH.

SO THAT WAS REALLY MY ONLY CONCERN.

ASIDE FROM WHAT YOU MENTIONED, IF IT'S A SOCIAL JUSTICE WALK FOR THE CITY, IT SHOULD REFLECT THAT.

BUT THAT WAS DONE WITH.

UM, BUT MY THE COST WAS MY ISSUE AND CHANGING IT.

MIDWAY PER SE.

THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER.

MADAM MAYOR, THE THE INCREASE $45,000 IS PARTLY DUE TO INFLATION AND PRICE INCREASE AND ALL OF THAT.

AND THERE'S A PORTION OF THAT IS FOR THE EXPEDITING OF THE ARTWORK TO TO HAVE IT COMPLETED IN JULY, I BELIEVE. AND APPARENTLY THE ARTIST HAS SOME OTHER PROJECTS.

IF WE JUST LEAVE IT ALONE, IT WILL NOT BE THERE UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR POTENTIALLY.

SO IT'S TWO TWO PARTS TO IT, BUT MOSTLY JUST THE ECONOMY AND THE AND THE PRICE INCREASES.

CITY MANAGER ARE.

AMPHITHEATER AND THE SPLASH PAD AND THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL.

WHILE WE WANT IT UP IN JULY, IS IT GOING TO BE ACTUALLY BE UTILIZED RIGHT AWAY OR ARE WE STILL HOLDING IT SUBJECT TO THE CONSTRUCTION THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR OUR COMMERCIAL PART OF THE PLAZA, WHICH IS A PHASE THREE? I KNOW WE THERE WAS A COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT WE HAVEN'T DONE IT YET, BUT THAT'S BEEN INTENTIONAL.

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AND THE AMPHITHEATER OF THE PARK AREA.

THE SPLASH PAD WHICH WOULD CONTAIN THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL.

BE OPEN OR IS IT STILL HELD TO WHEN WE'RE FINISHING CONSTRUCTION ON THE COMMERCIAL PARK? MADAM MAYOR IT'S INDEPENDENT OF THE COMMERCIAL PARCEL.

SO IT WILL BE IT WILL BE OPEN TO PUBLIC START UTILIZE WHEN IT'S FINISHED.

WILL IT HAVE PARKING TO BE UTILIZED FOR WHEN IT'S FINISHED? THERE'S PARKING ON THE, YOU KNOW, THE ENTIRE TAMARAC VILLAGE SIDE AND THE OUTSIDE ALONG 57.

SO WHATEVER PARKING IS ALLOCATED FOR FOR PARK TAMARAC FACILITIES IS ALREADY THERE.

YES. BUT WHEN THE THIRD PART OF THE FACILITY IS OPEN, THERE WILL BE ACTUALLY REAL PARKING.

SO WE SO WHILE SOME PEOPLE COULD GO AND PLAY IN OPEN AND BE ON THE AMPHITHEATER, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY OPEN AND READY YET.

IT'S IT'S NOT GOING TO BE COMPLETE AS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR SURE.

AND CAN THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS THERE BE.

UTILIZE WITHOUT THE ART PIECE ON.

THIS ON THE WALL BECAUSE THE WALLS.

WALLS THERE. BUT IF THE ARTWORK DOESN'T GO UP UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR, IS THAT A PROBLEM? ARTWORK IS PART OF THE ORIGINAL DESIGN, AND SO IT DOES NOT.

WHILE IT DOES NOT STOP THE PARK FROM GETTING UTILIZED, IT IS PART OF THE SITE PLAN AND THE DESIGN.

OKAY. SEEING.

THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS. WE CAN CALL THIS FOR A VOTE.

OH, WAIT, DID YOU HAVE THE VOTE IS WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED BECAUSE THERE'S NO THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE CONSENSUS TO TABLE AND DISCUSS FURTHER.

IT JUST WHICH IS FINE.

WE PUT OUR COMMENTS ON THE RECORD AND WE'LL SEE HOW THE VOTE TURNS OUT.

SO THIS IS FOR PROCEEDING WITH THE CONTRACT ADDING $45,000 NOT TO EXCEED ANOTHER 145,000 TO PROVIDE FOR FABRICATION INSTALLATION OF THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL BY JULY.

RIGHT. THERE'S A DROP DEAD DATE.

NOW THEY'RE PUTTING IN A DROP DEAD DATE.

YES. AUGUST.

NO, LATER THAN SEPTEMBER.

OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE DELIVERED THE END OF THE YEAR.

SO WE'RE ADDING.

WE'RE ADDING AN ADDITIONAL $10,000 FOR AN EXPEDITED FEE FOR SEPTEMBER ISH.

BUT FOR AUGUST, NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER, NO LATE SEPTEMBER.

IF NOT DECEMBER, IF NOT DECEMBER, YES.

AND POTENTIALLY INTO THE NEW YEAR.

OKAY. COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. YOUR LIGHT IS LIT OR ARE YOU READY TO GO? SO WE'RE AT SORRY, WE'RE AT IN 45,000 MORE TO COMPLETE IT BY AUGUST.

$35,000 IS DUE TO THE INCREASE IN MATERIALS.

SO THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO INFLATION.

$10,000 IS TO MOVE THE PROJECT AHEAD OF THE PROJECTS THAT THE ARTISTS CURRENTLY HAVE.

AND THIS IS FOR THE ARTWORK ON BY THE AMPHITHEATER.

SO IT'S THE SOCIAL I'M TRYING TO SEE.

I THINK IT WAS ALSO IN YOUR PACKET.

IT'S A SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL.

THAT WILL BE. YES, THE WALL THAT'S ADJACENT TO THE SPLASH PAD.

IT'S CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTED, BUT IT'S UNFINISHED.

OKAY, SO THAT'S NEXT TO THE SPLASH PAD.

OKAY. IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THE SPLASH.

YEAH, IT'S MAYBE A FIVE FOOT WALL OR SOMETHING THAT YOU SEE BUILT.

YEAH, I KNOW WHAT IT IS. I LIVED THERE PAST EVERY DAY.

I JUST. I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE.

THE COSTS AND THE WHY IS THERE ADDITIONAL COSTS? THE MAJORITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH INFLATION, AND WE THINK IT WAS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY TO HAVE IT MOVED UP AND FINISHED WHEN THE ENTIRE PARK IS FINISHED, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING CONSTRUCTION HAPPENING WHEN THE PARK IS POTENTIALLY OPEN.

WELL, YEAH, I AGREE WITH THAT AS WELL.

I THINK WE SHOULD COMPLETE IT WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION IS ABOUT TO FINISH.

OKAY. JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY.

VICE MAYOR, ARE YOU LIT FOR A QUESTION OR LIT FOR A VOTE? A QUESTION, MA'AM. GO AHEAD.

SO, MISS CALLOWAY.

THE THE LONGER WE WE WAIT, SO TO SPEAK, THE COST COULD GO HIGHER.

THAT'S THAT'S A POSSIBILITY.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE ISSUE.

WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS GOING ON TWO YEARS SINCE THEN.

THE ARTIST HAS TAKEN ON OTHER ASSIGNMENTS THAT HE HAS A DEADLINE TO COMPLETE.

AND IN SO DOING, I THINK IT'S IMPACTED THE TIMING, THE TIMING OF OUR PROJECT.

WE WERE PRESENTED WITH AN OPTION TO REMOVE ONE OF THE DESIGN.

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BUT WE DIDN'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE REMEDY.

AND SO WE FELT THAT JUST MOVING THE PROJECT FORWARD QUICKER WAS THE BEST OPTION.

OKAY. SO STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THIS? YES. SO WE CAN HAVE THE PARK COMPLETED.

GOT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

DO YOU KNOW IF THE ARTIST PREPARES THE MATERIALS ON SITE? HE DOES THE DESIGN ON SITE, OR DOES HE DO THE DESIGN OFF SITE? SO THESE ARE PORTRAITS THAT ARE PRETTY MUCH HUNG ON THE WALL.

IT'S FABRICATED. AND THEN HE BRINGS THEM ON SITE AND HE'S HANGING IN A WAY I CAN'T DESCRIBE THOSE PORTRAITS THAT ARE MADE OF A COMBINATION OF STEEL AND METAL MATERIAL.

MY POINT BEING IS THAT IT'S NOT BEING DONE ON SITE.

THIS COULD HAVE BEEN FABRICATED AND PREPARED.

AND DURING ALL SUCH TIME AS WE'VE HAD THE CONTRACT IN PLACE WITH HIM TO BE DOING THE WORK, WHETHER HE'S HAD NEW JOBS COME ABOUT, AND TO SIMPLY RESCHEDULE MAYBE A HANGING OF THIS AND MAYBE A FEW WEEKS TIME.

I JUST HAVE TROUBLE WHEN YOU HAVE A CONTRACT IN PLACE AND A TIME FRAME AND YOU KNOW YOUR TIMEFRAME AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR JOB IS TO THEN AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE DEALING WITH A CITY. SHE THEN FEEL THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH MATERIALS WHERE THERE WEREN'T? THIS IS WHERE MY ISSUE IS.

I APPRECIATE THAT, MAYOR. JUST FOR SOME CONTEXT, WE WERE HAVING SOME SIGNIFICANT ISSUES AS WELL WITH THE FINISHING OF THE WALL.

THE ARTIST REQUIRED THE WALL TO BE FINISHED IN A CERTAIN MATERIAL IN ORDER FOR HIM TO BE ABLE TO HANG THE PORTRAITS.

AND WE WENT THROUGH ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR OF TRYING TO FIND THE APPROPRIATE CONTRACTOR OR CONSULTANT TO HELP US WITH THE FINISHING OF THE WALL.

AND JUST RECENTLY WE WERE ABLE TO FIND THAT CONTRACTOR.

SO I THINK THE ARTIST FELT LIKE THE PROJECT MAY NOT MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE THE FINISH OF THAT WALL WAS SO DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE.

THE GM WAS UNABLE TO APPLY THAT FINISH.

AND SO IT TOOK US SOME TIME TO FIND THE APPROPRIATE CONTRACTOR TO APPLY THAT FINISH.

IT'S A SPECIFIC FINISH THAT NEEDED TO BE APPLIED TO THE WALL BEFORE ITS OWN CHOICE TO HOLD OFF ON DOING THE WORK THAT HE WAS HIRED TO DO, SUBJECT TO US HAVING THE PROPER FINISH PUT UP THERE.

DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND. I'M JUST SAYING I THINK IT JUST PRESENTED SOME UNCERTAINTY FOR THE ARTIST GIVEN.

BUT THE CONTRACT CALLS FOR HANDLING THE UNCERTAINTY AND THAT UNCERTAINTY DOESN'T INCLUDE ASKING FOR ANOTHER $45,000 FROM THE CITY.

SO AND THEN SAYING THAT WE'RE CAUSING THE PROBLEM FOR TIME.

SO THAT'S KIND OF ALSO THE THE ISSUE I'M HAVING.

WHAT ABOUT OUR SPLASH PAD? WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS, BEFORE WE'RE TOLD THAT HE CAN'T HANG THE THE WALL, WHAT'S THE STATUS OF OUR SPLASH PAD THAT HAD TO BE REDONE? THE SPLASH PAD. CONSTRUCTION IS PROGRESSING NICELY.

WE'RE NOW WAITING FOR THE RUBBERIZED SURFACE TO BE INSTALLED.

WE HAD SOME CURING TIME FOR THE CONCRETE.

WE HAD TO WAIT FOR THE CONCRETE TO CURE ENOUGH THAT WE CAN INSTALL THE THE RUBBERIZED MATERIAL ON TOP, THE SAFETY SURFACE.

AND ABOUT HOW LONG WILL THAT BE? I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE GOING IN IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS NOW.

SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO HAVING THAT FINISHED.

WE HAVE WHATEVER PROTECTIONS WE NEED TO.

STOP THE RAIN, SO TO SPEAK, FROM CAUSING ANY ISSUES THAT WILL HAVE WITH THAT AS BEST AS POSSIBLE.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY GIANT UMBRELLAS.

SORRY. SO IF THE RAIN INTERFERES, THAT WILL CREATE SOME DELAYS.

BUT THAT SURFACE GOES DOWN VERY QUICKLY AND I THINK RAIN CAN GO ON TOP OF THAT SURFACE WITHIN A DAY OR TWO.

SO THAT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE.

IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE THAT WOULD CAUSE ANY FURTHER DELAY FOR WHY THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL SHOULD BE PUT UP.

THE SPLASH PAD AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WALL ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, SO GOOD ONE HAS NO EFFECT ON THE OTHER.

NO. SO THEN THE WALL IS BASICALLY READY.

IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH. MAYOR, MAY I CORRECT THE RECORD? SO MY STAFF JUST TEXTED ME FOR ME TO CORRECT THE RECORD, TO JUST LET YOU KNOW THAT THE SANDBLASTING PORTION OF THE LETTERING AND THE FINISHING, THAT PORTION IS DONE ON SITE.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. AGAIN, NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.

WE WILL GO BACK TO.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. VICE MAYOR BOLTON? YES. COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT? YES.

GOMEZ. NO. COMMISSIONER.

VILLALOBOS. NO.

COMMISSIONER. DANIEL? YES. MOTION PASSES 3 TO 0.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO OUR REGULAR AGENDA ITEM.

[5.a TR13945 - A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, approving an Agreement between the City of Tamarac and Retail Strategies LLC for retail recruitment professional services to the City of Tamarac for a contract sum of $40,000.00 annually in an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 in total over the term of the Agreement, utilizing contract pricing, terms and conditions per the Agreement #RFP No. 22-3410-02R between the City of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida and Retail Strategies LLC effective on June 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023 with up to two (2) additional one (1) year renewal options, in the event that the Agreement is renewed by the City of Lauderdale Lakes. Such renewals shall automatically occur upon approval of renewal terms by the City of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida; but shall not extend beyond September 30, 2025; providing for the extension and renewal of the Agreement or approval of assignments and other amendments to the Agreement and expenditure of appropriated funds by the City Manager or appropriate City Officials; providing for conflicts; providing for scrivener errors, providing for severability; and providing for an effective date.]

CITY ATTORNEY. PLEASE READ THE TITLE FOR THE RECORD.

ITEM FIVE A RESOLUTION OF CITY COMMISSION AND CITY OF TAMARAC APPROVING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND WE RETAIL STRATEGIES FOR RETAIL RECRUITMENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. THE CITY OF TAMARAC FOR A CONTRACT SUM OF $40,000 ANNUALLY, AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 100,000IN TOTAL OVER THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT, UTILIZING

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RFP NUMBER 22 DASH 3410 ZERO TWO OK BETWEEN THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES AND RETAIL STRATEGIES EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 1ST, 2023 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023, WITH UP TWO ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS IN THE EVENT THAT AGREEMENT IS RENEWED BY THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, SUCH RENEWALS SHALL AUTOMATICALLY OCCUR UPON APPROVAL OF RENEWAL TERMS OF THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, BUT SHALL NOT EXTEND BEYOND SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025.

APPLYING FOR AN EXTENSION. AND WE KNEW OF THE AGREEMENT, APPROVAL OF ASSIGNMENTS AND OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE AGREEMENT AND EXPANSION OF APPROPRIATE FUNDS BY THE CITY MANAGER, APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR JUVENILES, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I'LL TAKE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

SO MOVED. SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION BY THE VICE MAYOR OF A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

I WILL NOW OPEN THIS UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENTS? SEEING. NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

WE ALSO NOW HAVE LORI FUNDERWHITE, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, WHO WILL MAKE A PRESENTATION.

AND WE HAVE SARAH BETH THOMPSON FROM RETAIL STRATEGIES, THE CONSULTANT ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, AND BOTH WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.

GREAT. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

FOR THE RECORD, LORI FUNDERWHITE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.

SO I'M PLEASED TO BRING THIS ITEM TO YOU THIS MORNING, WHICH IS A DIRECT RESULT FROM OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS WITH YOU IN FEBRUARY EARLIER THIS YEAR.

AS YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS TO REVITALIZE AND REDEVELOP OUR COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS AND PLAZA PROPERTIES.

THIS INCLUDES BOTH COMMERCIAL PROPERTY REDEVELOPMENT AND RENOVATIONS AND ALSO RECRUITING NEW RESTAURANTS AND RETAILERS TO TAMARAC.

SO DURING OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS IN FEBRUARY, AS YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION WAS IN AGREEMENT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIRING A RETAIL RECRUITING CONSULTANT IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND AMPLIFY OUR OUTREACH TO PROSPECT BUSINESSES.

AND AS SUCH, I'M HERE WITH YOU TODAY TO INTRODUCE YOU TO RETAIL STRATEGIES LLC, WHOM STAFF ARE RECOMMENDING FOR APPROVAL OF A RETAIL RECRUITMENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT.

THIS FIRM WOULD WORK ON THE CITY'S BEHALF AS AN EXTENSION OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND PROGRAM.

SO RETAIL STRATEGIES LLC IS A HIGHLY QUALIFIED RETAIL RECRUITMENT FIRM.

THEY SPECIALIZE IN REAL ESTATE AND RECRUITING STRATEGIES FOR RETAILERS AND RESTAURANTS.

THE FIRM IS BASED IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, WITH MUNICIPAL CLIENTS NATIONWIDE AND IS AN INDUSTRY LEADER IN RETAIL RECRUITMENT.

WITH MORE THAN 150 YEARS OF REAL ESTATE AND RETAIL EXPERIENCE.

JUST TO QUICKLY OVERVIEW THEIR SCOPE OF WORK.

WHAT THEY WOULD DO FOR US IS ENCOMPASS THESE SEVERAL PRIMARY AREAS.

FIRST, WOULD BE CONDUCTING COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH OF OUR RETAIL TRADE AREA, DEVELOPING TARGETED MARKETING MATERIAL FOR RETAIL AND RESTAURANT PROSPECTS.

ALSO WORKING WITH STAFF ON A THOROUGH REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AND CATALOG THE CURRENT REAL ESTATE RETAIL OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE.

ALSO, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR RETAIL AND RESTAURANT PROJECTS IN TAMARAC AND CATALOG THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RETAILERS AND RESTAURANTS.

THIRDLY, DELIVER TO THE CITY A RETAIL RECRUITMENT PLAN OF QUALIFIED RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL PROSPECTS.

IN KEEPING WITH OUR CITY'S VISION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TO PROACTIVELY RECRUIT ON OUR BEHALF.

AND THEN FOURTH, OF COURSE, WORK, AS I MENTIONED, AS AN EXTENSION OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

SO IN TERMS OF THE CONTRACT, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PIGGYBACK THE LAUDERDALE LAKES AGREEMENT WITH RETAIL STRATEGIES, WHICH WILL ALLOW TAMARAC TO CAPITALIZE ON A COMPETITIVE RFP PROCESS THAT THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES HAS ALREADY COMPLETED SO THAT TAMARAC IS ABLE TO MOVE QUICKLY FORWARD, QUICKLY WITH AN EXPERIENCED AND QUALIFIED FIRM.

AND IMPORTANTLY, WE'LL ALSO REALIZE A CONSIDERABLE COST SAVINGS OVER THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT, GIVEN THE BENEFICIAL RATE THAT LAUDERDALE LAKES WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN.

SHOULD THE COMMISSION APPROVE THIS TODAY? THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT WOULD BEGIN ON JUNE 1ST, 2023 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH OF 2025, PROVIDED THAT THE CITY OF TAMARAC ELECTS TO ANNUALLY RENEW AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS AND PROVIDED THAT THE AGREEMENT IS RENEWED ANNUALLY BY THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES.

SO OF COURSE WE WOULD BE UTILIZING THE CONTRACT PRICING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES AGREEMENT FOR AN ANNUAL CONTRACT SUM OF $40,000 IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $100,000 OVER THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT.

SO THE PROPOSAL IS IN SUPPORT OF THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT VISION AND OF COURSE, OUR STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS 2040 FOR A VIBRANT AND ECONOMICALLY RESILIENT

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SO THIS WILL ENHANCE OUR BANDWIDTH IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

SO WITH THAT, I THANK YOU WITH WITH US HERE VIRTUALLY ON MS THIS MORNING AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM RETAIL STRATEGIES, SARAH BETH THORNTON.

AND AT THIS TIME, WE ARE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER VICE MAYOR BOLTON THANK YOU AND THANK YOU, LORI, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

UM, SO I'M SEEING THAT RETAIL STRATEGIES LLC CURRENTLY WORKS FOR THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES AND THIS SAME CAPACITY.

YES. YES. YES.

OKAY. AND HOW LONG HAS THIS FIRM BEEN IN THAT CAPACITY WITH THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES? WELL, THEY RECENTLY RENEWED THEIR AGREEMENT LAST YEAR, AND BEFORE THAT, THEY WERE WORKING WITH RETAIL STRATEGIES AS WELL.

SARA-BETH. I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG BEFORE THAT.

OKAY. NO, THAT'S A SARAH, CAN YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION? ABSOLUTELY. WE ACTUALLY STARTED WORKING WITH LAUDERDALE LAKES IN 2019.

THEY WENT OUT FOR BID RETAIL STRATEGIES ONE AT THE TIME.

IT'S FOR A ONE YEAR AGREEMENT.

OF COURSE, 2020 HIT.

AND THAT WAS A VERY CHALLENGING YEAR.

WE WERE ABLE TO EXTEND THEIR AGREEMENT DURING 2020.

UH, THEY WENT OUT FOR A BID AGAIN IN 2021.

SINCE THAT WAS ONLY A ONE YEAR AGREEMENT, WE HAD SPECIAL PRIVILEGES BECAUSE OF 2020.

SO WE HAD A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT.

THEY WENT OUT FOR A BID. AGAIN, RETAIL STRATEGIES ONCE AGAIN WON.

THEY SET THAT UP FOR A FOUR YEAR AGREEMENT TO BE RENEWED ANNUALLY.

SO NOW WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE, I BELIEVE, OF 2023.

SO GOING INTO YEAR THREE LATER THIS YEAR.

OKAY. AND YOUR PRIMARY BUSINESS IS.

EXPLAIN THAT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

SO RETAIL STRATEGIES WAS BORN OUT OF A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FIRM.

WE DO HAVE OUR SISTER COMPANY THAT IS FULL SERVICE DEVELOPMENT, BROKERAGE, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, TENANT REPRESENTATION.

BUT RETAIL STRATEGIES STRICTLY WORKS WITH MUNICIPALITIES TO AID IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SPECIFICALLY RECRUITING RETAIL, RESTAURANT, HOSPITALITY, ENTERTAINMENT CONCEPTS TO OUR COMMUNITIES SO WE ACT AS THE EXTENSION OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STAFF TO RECRUIT THOSE RIGHT THE RIGHT BUSINESSES TO THE RIGHT SITES.

WE TAKE A REAL ESTATE APPROACH JUST BECAUSE THAT IS OUR BACKGROUND.

SO THAT'S OUR OUR TRUE SERVICE LINE.

OKAY. YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES SINCE 2019.

TELL US ABOUT SOME OF YOUR SUCCESSES IN THAT CITY.

WHAT BUSINESSES HAVE YOU BROUGHT TO THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES? YEAH, GREAT QUESTION.

SO WE HAVE A VERY LARGE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS IN THE WORKS.

I'M NOT ALLOWED TO RELEASE WHAT BUSINESSES ARE IN THAT DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT'S STILL NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, BUT IT IS A VERY LARGE DEVELOPMENT, ESPECIALLY FOR LAUDERDALE LAKES.

THERE IS AN AREA OF THEIR COMMUNITY THAT IS A FOOD DESERT AND THAT IS A BIG FOCUS.

SO THAT DEVELOPMENT IS ANCHORED BY A MAJOR NATIONAL GROCERY CHAIN AND IT'S COMPLETE WITH OTHER NATIONAL RETAIL CHAINS AND RESTAURANTS TO COMPLETE THAT DEVELOPMENT.

AGAIN, CAN'T RELEASE THOSE NAMES SINCE IT'S NOT QUITE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE YET.

WE ARE THINKING THAT DEVELOPMENT WILL BE LIVE OR EXCUSE ME, PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, BUT IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG, LONG TIME COMING BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A LARGE DEVELOPMENT AND BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WITHIN THEIR CITY LIMITS.

SO TAMARAC AND LAUDERDALE LAKES ARE VASTLY DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, SO YOUR PRIORITIES ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE, WHICH IS WHY OUR AGREEMENT WITH THEM IS KIND OF VAGUE SO THAT WE CAN DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THE CITY, BEST FOR YOUR PRIORITIES, ESPECIALLY AS THOSE PRIORITIES AND GOALS CHANGE. SO THAT'S WHY IT IS WRITTEN THE WAY THAT IT IS.

BUT WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OUR DEVELOPMENT IN LAUDERDALE LAKES AND WE'LL BE REALLY EXCITED ONCE WE CAN FORMALLY ANNOUNCE THAT.

WHAT OTHER CITIES DO YOU WORK WITH? OH, IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

SEVERAL LAKE CITY, HIGHLANDS COUNTY.

HENDRY COUNTY.

DADE CITY.

DAVIE LAKE WORTH, CRA.

I'M MISSING SEVERAL OTHERS, BUT WE'RE PARTNERED ABOUT 16 DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE.

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HOW MANY RESIDENTS DO WE HAVE? AND TELL ME ABOUT OUR OUR ECONOMIC STATUS WITH WITH THE RESIDENTS.

YEAH. SO TAMARAC HAS A LOT OF.

SO SORRY. DIDN'T MEAN TO DISRUPT YOU WOULD YOU WILL YOU SAY THAT LAST PART OF YOUR SENTENCE WITH A SHORT ANSWER? TELL ME HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN TAMARAC AND OUR MEDIUM INCOME? YEAH, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER OF THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT RETAILERS AREN'T NECESSARILY LOOKING AT YOUR CITY BOUNDARIES AND THE HOUSEHOLD INCOME WITHIN THAT CITY BOUNDARIES, BUT THEY ARE LOOKING AT IS YOUR TRADE AREA.

SO IN YOUR TRADE AREA, YOU GUYS HAVE WELL OVER 100,000 CONSUMERS WHO HAVE A GREAT GROWTH PERCENTAGE RATE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD INCOME IS GOING TO CHANGE BY THOSE DIFFERENT TRADE AREAS THAT WE DRAW, WHICH IS WHY WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME STUDYING THE TRADE AREAS OF YOUR COMMUNITY, NOT JUST ONE SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, BOUNDARY.

SO THERE'S A LOT THAT GOES INTO WHAT WE STUDY AND ANALYZE SO THAT WHEN WE CAN PUT FORTH THE RIGHT INFORMATION, BECAUSE EACH DIFFERENT RETAILER HAS A DIFFERENT SELECTION CRITERIA, GROCERY HAS A DIFFERENT BASED OFF OF THE DISTANCE OF THE SITE VERSUS OTHER RETAILERS THAT HAVE A MUCH LARGER TRADE AREA. SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT POINTS OF INTEREST.

SO THAT'S WHY SPEND A LOT OF TIME STUDYING THOSE DIFFERENT TRADE AREAS SO THAT WHEN WE MATCH YOU WITH THE RIGHT RETAILERS AND THE RIGHT REAL ESTATE, WHAT WE PUT IN FRONT OF THEM IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW AND HOW WE CAN SHOW THEM THAT THEY CAN MAKE A VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IN TAMARAC.

SO THE SHORT ANSWER IS YOU DON'T KNOW THE AMOUNT OF RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN TAMARAC AND YOU DO NOT KNOW THE MEDIAN INCOME FOR THE CITY.

I CAN TELL YOU IF YOU GIVE YOU ONE SECOND.

NO, PULL THAT UP.

SO SURROUNDING US IS NORTH LAUDERDALE AND LAUDERDALE LAKES AND LAUDERHILL.

SO THE TRADE AREAS WOULD INCLUDE THOSE CITIES, CORRECT? IT WOULD 100%.

SO YOU'D BE BUILDING OUT A PROJECT THAT WOULD INCLUDE THOSE CITIES.

NO. GOOD QUESTION, THOUGH.

SO ANYTHING THAT WE TRY TO BUILD.

I'M SO SORRY. GO AHEAD.

PLEASE DISREGARD. GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR RESPONSE.

PLEASE DON'T WORRY ABOUT.

OKAY. UM, SO THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION TO ASK TRUTHFULLY, BECAUSE WHILE WE ARE LOOKING AT TRADE AREAS THAT MIGHT FALL OUT OF YOUR CITY BOUNDARIES, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BUILD OR TRY TO BUILD A DEVELOPMENT OR BRING IN A DEVELOPMENT THAT IS OUTSIDE YOUR CITY BOUNDARIES.

WE'RE HERE TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THE CONSUMERS AND CONSTITUENTS OF TAMARAC.

SO IF WE FIND A SITE INSIDE OF YOUR CITY BOUNDARIES, THAT'S WHY WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT YOUR REAL ESTATE AS WELL.

WE'RE GOING TO PUT IT IN FRONT OF THE RIGHT RETAILER THAT MAKES SENSE FOR THAT DEVELOPMENT.

AND BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO MUCH DENSITY AND AND GROUPS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES AND ACROSS THE AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA, YOU'RE STRONGER TOGETHER. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE HERE TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR TAMARAC AND SO BEST FOR WHAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND YOUR CONSUMERS NEED.

SO YES, IT MIGHT FALL OUTSIDE THE TRADE AREA, MIGHT FALL OUTSIDE OF THAT CITY BOUNDARIES, BUT NO DEVELOPMENT THAT WE PUT TOGETHER WILL BE OUTSIDE OF YOUR CITY BOUNDARIES.

AND I ASK THAT QUESTION BECAUSE THE TRADE AREAS THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT INCLUDES THOSE OTHER CITIES AND YOU ARE STUDYING THE TRADE AREAS.

YOU'VE SPOKEN HOW UNIQUE TAMARAC WOULD BE, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY RESIDENTS AND THE MEDIAN INCOME OF OUR CITY IS.

SO CLEARLY YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW UNIQUE OUR CITY IS.

AND I HOPE THAT IF YOU GET THIS CONTRACT THAT YOU'D SPEND SOME TIME TO UNDERSTAND OUR CITY AND UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR RESIDENTS NEED.

JUST HOW MANY BUSINESSES DO WE HAVE IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC? DO YOU KNOW? OH, NOT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE STUDY AND SPEND THE FIRST 30 DAYS OF OUR CONTRACT REALLY STUDYING WHO THOSE BUSINESSES ARE.

WHAT IS THE RETAIL MIX? LOOKING AT RETAIL LEAKAGE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS NEEDED, WHAT'S NOT NEEDED, GRADING THOSE DIFFERENT RETAILERS AND AGAIN, WORKING WITH THE CITY STAFF TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THOSE GOALS. I'VE BEEN TO TAMARAC MANY, MANY TIMES AND HAVE ENJOYED MY VISIT EACH AND EVERY SINGLE TIME.

SO I WOULD IN MY TEAM LOOK VERY FORWARD TO SPENDING A LOT OF TIME STUDYING THOSE RETAIL SITES, STUDYING WHAT IS THE RIGHT FIT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.

YOU HAVE WORKED WITH OTHER CITIES LIKE TAMARAC.

YOU SAY YOU'VE WORKED WITH THE VAST NUMBER OF CITIES.

CAN YOU BENCHMARK US WITH ANOTHER CITY THAT YOU'VE WORKED WITH AND TELL US ABOUT THE SUCCESSES THAT YOU HAD IN THAT CITY? OH, YEAH, GREAT QUESTION.

SO ONE OF THE REPORTS THAT WE PULL ONCE WE ENTER IN AN AGREEMENT IS CALLED A PEER ANALYSIS.

IT'S MY FAVORITE REPORT.

WE PULL BASICALLY IT TAKES BASIC HOUSEHOLD INCOME, DAYTIME POPULATION DISTANCE TO A MAJOR METRO, LOOKING AT COMPANIES THAT LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO

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IT THEN GRADES THE DIFFERENT SITES.

SO WE'RE ABLE TO ANALYZE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PIECES OF INFORMATION AND WE MIGHT PULL FIVE PEER COMMUNITIES, WE MIGHT PULL TEN.

THERE IS A LOT OF COMMUNITIES THAT LOOK SIMILAR IN THAT REGION JUST BECAUSE OF THE DENSITY.

BUT AGAIN, AS YOU HAVE MENTIONED, YOU'RE VERY UNIQUE IN THE AREA.

SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THOSE OTHER UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES.

AND WE MIGHT SAY BECAUSE OF THIS SPECIFIC TYPE OF POPULATION OR THIS SPECIFIC TYPE OF GROUP OF PEOPLE, THIS IS THIS BUSINESS MIGHT BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN TAMARACK VERSUS DAVIE OR CORAL SPRINGS OR WATER HILLS OR WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

SO REALLY STUDYING THAT IS A PART OF THAT PUZZLE AND WHAT WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME STUDYING IN.

IT. TELL ME ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN OF PROBABLY A CITY THAT YOU'VE WORKED WITH BEFORE OR YOU'VE HAD SUCCESSES WITH AND THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

YOU KNOW, YOU MADE MENTION OF BASIC HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN OTHER CITIES AND YOU LOOKED AT THAT.

BUT AGAIN, YOU DID NOT LOOK AT THE BASIC HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

SO LET'S GO TO DEMOGRAPHICS.

TELL ME ABOUT THAT.

ABSOLUTELY. SO ARE WE.

CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR QUESTION ONE MORE TIME? I'M SO SORRY, MAYOR.

POINT OF ORDER FOR A SECOND.

CAN WE GIVE SARAH SOME CONTEXT SO THAT SHE CAN BENCHMARK AGAINST OTHER CITIES? BECAUSE CLEARLY SHE SARAH, IS NOT UNDERSTANDING VICE MAYOR'S QUESTION WHEN BENCHMARKING.

SO IF WE CAN GIVE SARAH SOME INFORMATION ABOUT OUR CITY, SHE CAN NOW RELATE TAMPA TO US OR JACKSONVILLE TO US.

BUT RIGHT NOW SHE'S ON A BLINDER AND IT'S BEING QUESTIONED, PRETTY MUCH BEING DRILLED.

AND IF WE CAN GIVE HER SOME CONTEXT ON ON OUR CITY BEFORE SHE CONTINUES WITH THE ANSWERS.

BUT BASICALLY, VICE MAYOR, WITH THE QUESTION MARK THAT'S ON YOUR FACE.

THE QUESTION IS, IF MISS THORNTON HAS ALREADY SAID THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE SPECIFICS DRILLED DOWN ON OUR CITY RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU'RE ASKING HER TO GIVE US COMPARISONS FOR OTHER CITIES.

SHE CAN'T DO SO IF SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE BACKDROP.

THAT'S I UNDERSTAND, MAYOR, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO AWARD A CONTRACT POSSIBLY FOR $40,000 NOT TO EXCEED $100,000 PER YEAR.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THE FIRM IS A IS A GREAT FIRM.

I'VE DONE SOME RESEARCH ON THEM NOT SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT CAPABLE.

WE ALSO HAVE A CAPABLE LEADER IN THE PERSON OF LORI FUNDERWHITE.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE IS NOT DOING THIS.

THIS JOB. WE'RE GOING TO SPEND ALMOST $100,000 MORE OUT OF CITY BUDGET WHEN WE COULD BE USING THIS TO FEED HUNGRY FAMILIES.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT TAMARAC DOES NOT NEED THIS SERVICE.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT. I'M NOT SAYING THAT TAMARAC DOES NOT NEED THIS SERVICE.

I'M SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GOING TO HIRE SOMEBODY, THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT OUR CITY AND WHO OUR CITY CITY'S RESIDENTS ARE.

IT IS NOT A DRILL DOWN.

IT IS NOT MAKING THE SPECTACLE OF HER.

I THINK THAT SHE IS A PROFESSIONAL, CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL AT THAT.

AGAIN, I'VE DONE SOME RESEARCH INTO WHO SHE IS, YOU KNOW, BUT IF SHE BID FOR THIS AGREEMENT IN THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, I DO NOT SEE WHY WE SHOULD BE USING THE PIGGYBACK MODEL OVER HERE.

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CONTRACT FOR OUR CITY.

OUR RESIDENTS HAVE ASKED FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME.

AND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN MAKE A MISTAKE ABOUT.

SINCE 2019, YOU'VE WORKED WITH THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, 2020 I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS COVID, BUT PEOPLE WERE WORKING VIRTUALLY FROM HOME.

SO YOU WERE WORKING ON PROJECTS AND PEOPLE HAD MORE TIME TO LISTEN TO YOU.

YOU STILL HAVE NOT HAD ANY IMPACTS POSITIVELY IN THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES, AND YOU'VE USED THE UMBRELLA THAT YOU CANNOT REVEAL WHO YOUR CLIENT IS.

SO REALLY AND TRULY, WE CAN'T BENCHMARK THE CITY OF LAUDERDALE LAKES AND PIGGYBACK FROM THIS CONTRACT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR. I'M GOING TO ASK FOR A POINT OF CLARIFICATION ON SOMETHING THAT FOR AND THEN WE'LL GO TO COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. THE CONTRACT IS NOT TO IS THE TERM HERE IS 4045 AND NOT TO EXCEED THROUGH THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT $100,000.

IT IS NOT 100 UP TO $100,000 PER YEAR.

IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.

THANK YOU. SO IT'S 40,000, UP TO 40,000 PER YEAR.

WE HAVE THE OPTION TO RENEW THIS ANNUALLY, AS DOES LAUDERDALE LAKES, NOT TO EXCEED 100,000.

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THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER RIGHT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SARAH.

FIRST, I'M GOING TO SAY ACTUALLY, I MET WITH A DEVELOPER AND THEY SAID THEY WERE HAVING ISSUES IN TERMS OF GETTING RETAILS AND COMMERCIAL COMPANIES TO COME TO TAMARAC.

I'M GOING TO TAKE OFF MY COMMISSIONER'S HAT AND I'M GOING TO PUT ON MY PROFESSIONAL HAT.

IN MY OTHER LIFE, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE OTHER END WITH LOOKING, BEING A FRANCHISOR.

MY FAMILY PURCHASED A FRANCHISE LAST YEAR AND I DO WANT TO SAY YOU'RE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE.

YOU HAVE THE BIG PICTURE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW FRANCHISES WORK.

SO I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU THAT I LISTENED TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

I GET THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE NUANCES.

UH, LAST WEEK, FRIDAY ITSELF, WE WERE LOOKING AT A SPOT IN MIAMI, AND THERE'S A RESTAURANT IN MIAMI CALLED BOYD.

IT'S IN LITTLE HAITI, BUT IT'S RIGHT ON THE BORDER OF THE DESIGN DISTRICT.

SO THE OWNER OF THE RESTAURANT SAID HE WENT INTO THAT PLAZA BECAUSE LITTLE HAITI WAS CHEAPER.

BUT NOW IT'S A MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANT.

AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE PLAZA, IT'S A BRAVO PLAZA.

AND WE'RE THINKING, OH, MAN, THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WHAT WE KNOW IN BROWARD.

BUT THE OWNER OF BIRD CAME FROM CALIFORNIA AND HE SAID THE SAME THING.

IT'S A SURROUNDING AREA THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN BECAUSE PEOPLE FROM THE DESIGN DISTRICT WOULD DRIVE TWO MINUTES UP TO LITTLE HAITI.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING DOES MAKE SENSE FROM THAT PURVIEW AND FROM SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN THE INDUSTRY IN TERMS OF GETTING RETAIL.

SO I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR SAYING THAT.

I DO AGREE THAT YOU HAVE TO GET MORE GRANULAR IN UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNITY AND THE UNIQUENESS OF TAMARAC, BECAUSE TAMARAC IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM A LOT OF THEIR LAKES.

SO I KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE THE WHERE THE VICE MAYOR IS COMING FROM AND FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, FROM THAT RETAIL PERSPECTIVE.

BUT OVERALL, YOUR VIEW AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING I THINK IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE OF WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SELL AND WHAT YOU'RE TELLING US OF WHAT WE NEED.

SO I JUST WANTED TO COMMEND YOU ON THAT FROM A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE BEING THAT RETAIL PERSON TRYING TO FIND A PLACE AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THE DEMOGRAPHICS WORK AND HOW THE WIDER TRADE AREA WORKS.

SO I TOTALLY AM IMPRESSED WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND I WILL SUPPORT YOU IN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS SARAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

QUICKLY, IN 2019, WHO SIGNED YOUR CONTRACT? DO YOU KNOW? YEAH, THAT WOULD BE THE MAYOR.

DO YOU KNOW WHO THE MAYOR IS? UM. OR WAS.

THE NAME IS LEFT ME.

IT'S OKAY. IT WAS.

WE WORK. IT WAS A HAZEL ROGERS, WHICH IS VICE MAYOR'S BOSS AT THE CURRENT MOMENT.

I DON'T SEE HOW HE WOULD NOT KNOW.

WHAT RETAILS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I KNOW. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY WAS THE ONE THAT PURSUED THIS CONTRACT AND NOT PURSUED BY ANY COMMISSIONERS ON THIS DAYS.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND APOLOGIZE FOR ALL THE DRILLING THAT VICE MAYOR WAS DOING ON.

YOU KNOW, IT'S FINE.

THE MAYOR DID SIGN THAT AGREEMENT.

BUT WE WORK DIRECTLY WITH VILCA, WHO IS THEIR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER DANIEL.

THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT AFTER A YEAR'S WORK WITH TAMARAC? WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? OR CAN YOU GUARANTEE SO THAT WE KNOW YOU KNOW THE 40,000 WAS GOOD USE? VERY GOOD QUESTION.

AND THAT IS SOMETHING HARD TO ANSWER BECAUSE YOU DO HAVE SPECIFIC GOALS THAT YOU ARE HOPING TO MEET WITHIN THE FIRST WEEK OF OUR PARTNERSHIP, WE DO HAVE OUR KICKOFF CALL WHERE WE BETTER UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THOSE GOALS ARE.

LORI AND I SEE ANDREW AND SEVERAL OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS AND HAVE TALKED THROUGH THE YEARS.

SO I DO KNOW RESTAURANTS, OF COURSE, IS A BIG THING.

AND OF COURSE THERE'S DIFFERENT ROADS THAT HAVE BIGGER PRIORITIES.

SO OUR TEAM WILL SPEND A LOT OF TIME WORKING WITH YOU GUYS TO BEST UNDERSTAND THOSE GOALS.

TO GUARANTEE ANYTHING WOULD BE A STRAIGHT LIE.

THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LIFE AND THERE IS A LOT THAT GOES INTO A RETAIL DEAL.

THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN.

FALL APART, AS COMMISSIONER ALREADY SAID THAT STATED.

THERE'S SO MUCH THAT CHANGES IN THE RETAIL REAL ESTATE COMMUNITY.

HOWEVER, WHAT I CAN GUARANTEE THAT WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF OUR PARTNERSHIP, YOUR NAME, YOUR SITES, YOUR COMMUNITY WILL BE PUT IN FRONT OF A MINIMUM OF 30 QUALITY RETAIL AND RESTAURANT CONCEPTS.

THOSE ARE CONCEPTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE APPROVED AND SAID, YES, WE WANT THEM IN OUR COMMUNITY AND IT'S OUR JOB TO GET THOSE SITES IN FRONT OF THOSE RETAIL DOLLARS, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER CONCEPTS TO SAY YOU CAN MAKE MONEY AND TAMARAC AND HERE'S THE SITE, HERE'S WHAT WE CAN DO.

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SORRY, CAN NO, I AGREE WITH YOU.

I'M LEARNING EVERYTHING TAKES TIME.

HOWEVER, THERE HAS TO BE SOME RESULT OF YOUR WORK.

YOU KNOW, YOU COULD KNOW NOTHING IS GUARANTEED, BUT SOME THINGS ARE ROUTINE.

SO WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT OF YOUR WORK? YES. YOU PUT IT IN FRONT OF THOSE 30 RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUT.

IN OTHER CITIES. WHEN YOU PUT IT IN FRONT OF 30, HOW MUCH DO YOU ACTUALLY GET? IT REALLY DEPENDS.

SOMETIMES, LIKE A DUNKIN DONUTS, FOR EXAMPLE, MAY NOT EVEN BE A GOOD CONCEPT FOR YOU GUYS, UNDERSTAND? BUT FOR EXAMPLE, A DUNKIN DONUTS TAKES ANYWHERE FROM NINE MONTHS TO 12 MONTHS AFTER THEY SAY, YEAH, WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS SITE.

SO THAT DOES TAKE TIME.

LARGER BOXES TAKE ANYWHERE FROM THREE, FIVE, EVEN TEN YEARS, DEPENDING WHERE THEY ARE IN THEIR PROCESS AND IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT.

A LOT OF THE TIMES WE CAN MOVE THAT IF THEY MIGHT HAVE TAMARAC ON THEIR RADAR SAYING, YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY IN OUR PLANS.

AT SOME POINT WE CAN COME IN AND SHOW THEM THE RIGHT SITE BECAUSE EVERY RETAILER KNOWS AND CAN HAVE ACCESS TO DATA ON YOUR COMMUNITY BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IS THE REAL ESTATE THAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND HOW TO WORK WITH THOSE REAL ESTATE, LOCAL REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PROPERTY OWNERS AND BROKERS.

AND SO WE'LL WORK AS A MATCHMAKER AND WORKING THROUGH THAT PROCESS TO TELL THAT RETAILER, HEY, YOU CAN MOVE THEM UP, YOU KNOW, TAMARAC UP IN YOUR PROCESS BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER.

THE CITY IS WILLING TO DO MAYBE AN INCENTIVE OR MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HELP PUT THAT ON A BIGGER PRIORITY FOR THEM.

SO IT'S ALL ABOUT PROMOTING THE RIGHT SITES TO THE RIGHT INDIVIDUALS.

SO I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH YOUR BEGINNING PRESENTATION, BUT IT DOES SOUND SIMILAR TO WHAT THE DIRECTOR DOES.

THAT'S WHY I WANTED YOU TO, LIKE, HONE IN ON SHE CANNOT DO THIS, BUT I CAN DO THAT.

YEAH, GREAT QUESTION.

AND QUICKLY JUMP IN AND SAY THIS WOULD BE ENHANCING OUR ABILITY.

THEY HAVE A TEAM OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH ME, WITH US ON YOUR BEHALF AND THE COMMUNITY'S BEHALF TO MARRY WHAT THE REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES ARE THAT WE HAVE, AS WELL AS THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE COMING IN.

SO WE'RE CATALOGING ALL OF THOSE SITE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.

AS YOU KNOW, THE FIRST PART OF THIS PROCESS IS DOING A DEEP DIVE ON WHAT ARE THE DEMOGRAPHICS, WHAT ARE THE, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH ALL OF THOSE DETAILS, THE RETAIL TRADE AREA, BECAUSE RETAILERS ARE LOOKING AT A RETAIL TRADE AREA.

THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE CITY OF TAMARAC BOUNDARIES.

THEY CARE ABOUT THE SITE THAT MEETS THEIR SPECIFIC CRITERIA.

I NEED TO BE IN A PLAZA ON AN END CAP SPACE THAT HAS A GROCERY STORE.

YOU KNOW, THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC ON WHERE THEY WANT TO GO.

SO CATALOGING THE REAL ESTATE AS WELL AS THE RETAIL TRADE AREA, THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE DEMOGRAPHICS WITHIN ONE, THREE, FIVE, TEN MILES OF THAT SITE.

AND SO WE'RE GOING AT IT FROM A RETAIL AND RESTAURANT PERSPECTIVE AND MARRYING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE HERE.

BUT IT'S ENHANCING OUR BANDWIDTH.

THAT'S HOW I STARTED. YOU COULD COMMISSIONER, RIGHT.

YOU ALSO MENTIONED YOU WORK WITH THE CITY OF DAVIE.

IS THAT DAVIE, FLORIDA? HOW LONG HOW LONG? HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN WORKING WITH DAVIE? WE JUST ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM THIS YEAR WITH THE CITY OF DAVIE.

AND YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO DO THE SAME THING AS WELL.

TRYING TO PROLIFERATE MORE RETAIL COMPANIES.

CORRECT. WHY DID DAVIE REACH OUT TO YOU GUYS? BECAUSE DAVIE SEEMED HAD A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT OVER THE PAST, I'LL SAY TEN YEARS.

I'VE SEEN TRADER JOE'S.

I'VE SEEN CRUMBL COOKIES.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF NATIONAL POPULAR FRANCHISES HAVE BEEN GOING TO DAVIE.

SO OBVIOUSLY THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING TO ATTRACT THEM.

I KNOW THEY HAVE OVER 100,000 PEOPLE AND THEY'RE CENTRALLY LOCATED.

THAT'S THAT'S A HUGE ADVANTAGE.

UM, SO I GUESS IF THEY COME TO YOU GUYS, YOU'VE, YOU'VE, YOU'VE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S DEFINITELY PROVEN.

YEAH. SO THEIR GOAL IS THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A LOT OF VACANCIES.

THEY REALLY WANTED MORE RESTAURANTS AND THEY HAVE JUST A LIMITED AMOUNT COMPARED TO WHAT THEIR CITY SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE.

SO THEY TURNED TO US AND WE'RE WORKING A LOT MORE IN THERE BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER DEVELOPMENTS HAPPENING.

THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF VACANCIES IN THE CRA.

SO THAT'S OUR SPECIFIC FOCUS FOR THE CITY OF DAVIE OR TOWN OF DAVIE.

EXCUSE ME. VICE MAYOR.

I THANK YOU, SARAH BETH, AGAIN, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

AND I ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF OUR OF MY COLLEAGUES.

CERTAINLY, I DO NOT STUDY OTHER CITIES UNLESS IT IS VITAL FOR US TO DO SO.

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AND SO WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO ASK QUESTIONS OF YOU THAT MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS KNOW THAT WE ARE PROTECTING THEM, THAT WE'RE PROTECTING THEIR FINANCES AND THAT WE'RE MAKING BEST DECISIONS FOR THE CITY.

AGAIN, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH YOUR FIRM.

I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH ON YOU.

I SPOKE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.

YOU CAME HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY DELTA ZETA SORORITY.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE YOU WOULD YOU WOULD NOT EVEN REALIZE HOW FAR BACK WE GO.

AND HOW KNOWLEDGEABLE I AM OF YOU.

SO SAY HELLO TO DAVE WHEN YOU GO HOME.

OH, AND DON'T FEEL LIKE DAVID BEING STALKED BY THE VICE MAYOR.

WELL, SWEET DAVID'S ACTUALLY IN FLORIDA RIGHT NOW.

MY HUSBAND DOES COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE STATE, SO I'LL BE HEADED TO FLORIDA TO SEE HIM ON FRIDAY, SO.

EXCELLENT. SO I WILL NOW ASK YOU A FEW THINGS AND JUST I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'VE MADE THE COMMENT THAT YOU'VE BEEN HERE.

AND PERSONALLY, I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO KNOW ALL THE THINGS LIKE ALMOST 72,000 PEOPLE IN A 12MI², BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU COULD LOOK THAT UP ANYWHERE.

AND YOU'RE YOU'VE BEEN HERE, WHICH IS BOOTS ON THE GROUND, WHICH IS, IN MY OPINION, MORE IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO TELL US AND HELP KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED AND KNOW IF YOUR SERVICES WILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT OUR CITY NEEDS VERSUS.

KNOWING CERTAIN SPECIFICS AGAIN THAT YOU CAN LOOK UP AND AFTER YOU GET THE CONTRACT, I'M PRETTY SURE YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW EVEN MORE AND MORE AND MORE ABOUT US.

SO AND I ALSO DO THINK THAT WE DO PROTECT THE POWER OF THE PURSE BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING A PIGGYBACK.

AND WE'RE DOING THIS BECAUSE ALSO, AS MUCH AS I THINK THE WORLD OF MRS FUNDERWHITE, SHE'S EXCELLENT, BUT SHE'S ONE PERSON.

WE ARE 12MI².

WE HAVE ABOUT 20 SHOPPING PLAZAS, ALL WITH DIFFERENT OWNERS, AND WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY THAT THE CITY OWNS.

SO WE DON'T HAVE A CRA.

WE NEVER CREATED A CRA AND THAT WAS BEFORE US.

SO THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WE NEED HELP.

IF YOU WERE ABLE TO HEAR SOME OF THE COMMENTS EVEN EARLIER IN TODAY'S MEETING, WE'VE BEEN HEARING THE SAME COMPLAINTS FOR AGES AND WE ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO JUST AT THE TIME IS NOW.

RIGHT. SO WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN NOW VERSUS WAITING ANY LONGER AND GET IT DONE.

AND WE NEED HELP IN GETTING IT DONE.

AND YOUR EXPERTISE IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AND WE KNOW THAT YOU WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT AND CALL ON WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR CITY. AND PERSONALLY, IF WE HAD A DUNKIN DONUTS ON EVERY CORNER, I PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE UPSET ABOUT IT BECAUSE I RUN ON DUNKIN.

BUT ANYWAY, NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD DO THAT BECAUSE NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD WANTS IT, BUT ALSO YOU'RE NOT DEALING WITH JUST US.

YOU'RE DEALING WITH SHOPPING PLAZAS.

AND I KNOW THAT I'VE MET WITH LORI AND I'VE MET WITH SOME OF THE SHOPPING PLAZA OWNERS.

SOME OF THEM WHO NEED SOME HELP MAY NOT ACCEPT IT BECAUSE THEY KNOW BETTER.

AND THAT'S ALSO WHAT YOU WILL BE DEALING WITH WHEN YOU COME.

BUT AT THE SAME TOKEN, I DID APPRECIATE THAT YOU SAID THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY ABOUT OUR MEDIAN AGE AND OUR MEDIAN INCOME ANYMORE BECAUSE WE HAVE BECOME A VERY MORE A MORE TRANSIENT SOCIETY.

IT'LL HELP BY HAVING WHAT'S AROUND US AND KNOWING THAT PEOPLE WILL DRIVE TO US.

AS COMMISSIONER RITA SAID, PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO TAKE THAT LITTLE DRIVE.

I MEAN, WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME UP FROM MIAMI TO GO TO REJOICE CAFE BECAUSE IT'S A WONDERFUL LITTLE CAFE AND SERVES GOOD FOOD, GOOD, GOOD OWNERS OF IT AND PROPRIETORS. AND SO PEOPLE WILL COME WHEN THEY GET TO KNOW.

BUT YOUR ENHANCEMENT TO US IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT, AND I APPRECIATE THAT.

THE ABILITY TO PIGGYBACK ON LAUDERDALE LAKES.

AND I'M GLAD THAT THEY HAVE CALLED ON YOU AND OUR SISTER CITIES HAVE AS WELL.

RELATIONSHIPS DO TAKE TIME AND I AM VERY EXCITED THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE.

AND IF YOU CAN'T TELL, YOU ALREADY HAVE MY SUPPORT.

SO IF THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER, EVERYBODY I THINK HAS DONE THEIR SECOND ROUND UNLESS COMMISSIONER, VILLALOBOS OR.

OKAY, LET'S CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU. MADAM MAYOR. MAYOR GOMEZ.

YES. COMMISSIONER.

VILLALOBOS. YES.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT? YES.

COMMISSIONER. DANIEL? YES. VICE MAYOR.

BOLTON. YES.

THANK YOU. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM.

LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL AS WELL.

THANK YOU. CLARIFICATION COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS HAS A CLARIFICATION.

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HE WAS HERE. WE HAD A GOOD ONE.

HE WAS HERE. BUT THEN I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

SO THEN IF THEY DON'T VOTE ON IT, THEN THEY VOTE ON THE FINAL ONE.

ON THE FINAL, YES OR NO TO PASS IT.

WHAT GIVE ME FOR MY EDUCATION.

I MEAN, RIGHT NOW, THAT ITEM FOUR D, I BELIEVE ALL THE MEMBERS WERE HERE FOR.

NO, NO, WE WERE ALL HERE FOR THE CONSENT.

CONSENT WENT FIRST FOR D, THEN OCCURRED.

WE DID NOT HAVE ALL THE MEMBERS ON THE COMMISSION.

WE TOOK THE VOTE.

YEAH. ON THE ON PULL AND ON THE PULLED ITEM WE DID NOT HAVE IN TERMS OF VOTE ON THE ITEMS SPECIFICALLY.

ALL THE MEMBERS WERE HERE.

NO. WHEN WE WERE VOTING.

I'M SORRY. YEAH.

FOR ALL FOR EVERYTHING.

BUT FOR D EVERY MEMBER WAS HERE.

YES. GOMEZ I'M SORRY FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA.

VICE MAYOR BOLTON WAS NOT IN THE ROOM FOR THE WHOLE THING.

YEAH, BUT HE WAS THERE FOR THE VOTE.

HE WAS PRESENT FOR THE ITEM FOUR D THAT WAS PULLED FROM THE AGENDA.

AND THAT'S OKAY.

WHEN? INITIALLY.

WHEN IT'S PULLED. YEAH, THAT'S PERMISSIBLE.

OKAY. YES. AND MAYOR.

POINT OF ORDER. JUST JUST IN CASE SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT THAT I HAVE A VOTING CONFLICT WHERE THE SOLID WASTE POINT OF ORDER MADAM MAYOR.

WAIT, WE'RE NOT UP TO SOLID WASTE, ARE WE? IT WAS ON CONSENT.

OKAY. BUT NOBODY JUST IN CASE SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT, IT NEEDS TO BE DONE AT THE TIME.

AND THAT'S NOT WHAT THE CONCERN IS.

CLARIFICATION JUST IN CASE SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE THERE'S NO THERE'S NO SUCH THING IN THE RULES OF WHY ARE YOU ABRIDGING MY RIGHTS TO SPEAK? BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S NOT ABRIDGING YOUR RIGHTS TO SPEAK.

VICE MAYOR. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, POINT OF ORDER IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SPECIFIC ITEM ON A RULE OF ORDER.

WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS THE GENTLEMAN POLITICAL.

THE GENTLEMAN TO YOUR LEFT HAS JUST ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION ON SOMETHING THAT'S JUST CLARIFICATION ON VOTING RULES.

MAYOR, LET'S LET'S LET'S TRY TO BE CONSISTENT BECAUSE EXCUSE ME, CITY ATTORNEY BECAUSE VOTING RULES.

NO, MAYOR, WE COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS JUST ASKED FOR A POINT OF ORDER INTO AN ITEM THAT WAS VOTED ON.

AND NO, IT WAS NOT ABOUT THE ITEM VOTED ON.

IT WAS ABOUT ITEMS VOTED ON.

AND IF SOMEBODY NEEDED TO BE PRESENT OR NOT.

AND THE RULES OF WHETHER OR NOT SOMEBODY IS HERE FOR WHEN THE MOTION IS CALLED AND THEN WHEN IT IS VOTED UPON, IT WAS A POINT OF ORDER ON RULES.

MAYOR. MAYOR, JUST TO BE CONSISTENT WITH RESPECT TO THE POINT OF ORDER, IF COMMISSIONER LAURA WAS PROVIDED WITH OPPORTUNITY TO POINT OUT OF SOMETHING THAT PREVIOUSLY WAS DISCUSSED, VOTED ON.

I BELIEVE IF IF THE ISSUE YOU RAISING THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY ITEM NOW.

SO IF THAT'S THE ISSUE THEN VICE MAYOR BOLTON CAN CAN HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ITEM THAT'S VOTED TO BE CONSISTENT. CITY ATTORNEY HE HAS A RIGHT TO ASK A QUESTION ON RULES, NOT A RIGHT TO DO COMMENTARY ON AN ITEM THAT WAS NOT BROUGHT UP OF WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS ANY.

IF YOU HAD ALLOWED ME TO FINISH MY STATEMENT, IF YOU WOULD HAVE ALLOWED ME TO FINISH MY STATEMENT.

I'M ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO FINISH MY SENTENCE.

SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TWO WRONGS? ALL RIGHT. YOU INTERRUPTED MY STATE.

I'M ALLOWED TO BECAUSE I'M VICE MAYOR.

I WAS ON A POINT OF ORDER AND YOU INTERRUPTED.

AND I ACTUALLY HADN'T. DO NOT INTERRUPT, ELVIN, BUT YOU ALWAYS INTERRUPT ME.

VICE MAYOR COMMISSIONER GROW UP.

VICE MAYOR AND MAYOR.

IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE.

IF MAYOR, IF YOU RECOGNIZE HIM, I THINK HE'D BE FINISHING SECOND.

WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.

MR. CITY ATTORNEY.

OKAY. CITY ATTORNEY.

WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT.

THE PART OF THE PROBLEM AND THE REASON WHY I'M BEING THIS WAY IS BECAUSE WE'VE DONE TOO MUCH OF THAT.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE BECAUSE ONE SPOKE, THE OTHER ONE GETS TO SPEAK.

IF THE OTHER ONE IF THEY'RE SPEAKING ON A POINT OF ORDER FOR RULES AND RESPECT, CONSISTENCY AND RESPECT IS WHAT IS BEING DONE.

CONSISTENCY AND RESPECT TO THE RULES OF ORDER THAT THIS COMMISSION HAS AGREED TO UPHOLD IS WHERE I AM GOING.

THERE WAS A QUESTION THAT WAS RAISED REGARDING A POINT OF ORDER OF RULES.

NOTHING WAS SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT FOR ANY KIND OF THING THAT MIGHT BE ON AN ITEM SPECIFICALLY, IT WAS SPECIFICALLY TO THE RULES.

SO VICE MAYOR HAS A SPECIFIC QUESTION TO THE GENERAL RULES.

HE CAN ASK THE QUESTION TO THE SPECIFIC THING FOR RULES WITHOUT COMMENTARY.

MAYOR, HE WAS BASICALLY SPEAKING ABOUT BASICALLY IF THERE IS A DISCLOSURE ISSUE, CONFLICT ISSUE.

NO, HE WAS ABOUT TO ACCUSE ME.

THAT'S WHAT MR. VILLALOBOS, PLEASE IS ABOUT TO ACCUSE ME.

COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS, PLEASE.

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THERE WAS NOT A POINT OF ORDER, WAS THERE? DID THERE NEED TO BE A DISCLOSURE ON ANY ITEM ON THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT WAS NOT RAISED? THAT WAS NOT BROUGHT UP. THERE'S NO RULE ISSUE THERE FOR CONCERN.

THIS IS BEING ELABORATED FOR NO REASON.

THE RULE THAT MY QUESTION ON RULES IS THAT IF I'M NOT IN THE ROOM AND NOT AVAILABLE TO VOTE ON AN ITEM, THEN I DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT ITEM.

HOWEVER, IF SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT, THIS IS WHERE WE GO.

IF SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT.

VICE MAYOR, I WAS NOT IN THE ROOM TO SQUIRT NOT VOTING VICE MAYOR ITEM.

THIS IS WHERE WE'RE OFF THE RAILS.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WAS BASICALLY I THINK THE CLERK AND I CORRECT THE RECORD, YOU WERE THERE TO VOTE.

YOU WERE THERE WITH RESPECT TO MOVING THE ITEM.

ATTORNEY'S ATTORNEY, WE ARE IN RECESS.

WE'LL BE BACK IN FIVE MINUTES.

OUR NEXT ITEM IS.

ON FIRST PERSONALLY. IT IS 6A202531.

[6.a TO2531 - An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending Chapter Nine “Health, Sanitation and Nuisances”, Article III “Noise”, Section 9-89 “Radios, Other Devices Casting Sounds Upon Public Places” and Section 9-95 “Enforcement” to provide for easier enforcement of, and enhanced penalties for violations of the City’s noise regulations; providing for conflicts; providing for scrivener’s errors, severability; and providing for an effective date.]

ITEM SIX A AN ORDINANCE CITY COMMISSIONER CITY TAMARAC AMENDING CHAPTER NINE HEALTH SANITATION NUISANCE.

ARTICLE THREE NOISE SECTION 9-89 RADIOS OTHER DEVICE CASTING SOUNDS UPON PUBLIC PLACES AND SECTION NINE DASH 95 ENFORCEMENT TO PROVIDE FOR EASIER ENFORCEMENT OF ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF CITY NOISE ORDINANCE REGULATIONS PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR SCRIVENER'S SEVERAL SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I WILL TAKE A MOTION IN A SECOND.

SO MOVED. SECOND.

I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER.

VILLALOBOS. A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WRIGHT.

WE DO NOT HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS AS THIS IS AN ITEM ON FIRST READING AND MS..

CALLAWAY, OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I SEE YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION.

YEAH, IT'S UP TO THE COMMISSION.

I JUST WANTED TO WALK THROUGH THE CHANGES REAL QUICK AND ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS.

IT'S ABOUT FOUR SLIDES.

PLEASE DO SO. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, JAMES.

SO, MAXINE CALLOWAY, FOR THE RECORD.

QUICKLY, THIS IS THE NOISE ORDINANCE.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM IN THE PAST.

IT CAME UP AT THE STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION AS WELL.

AND STAFF WAS DIRECTED TO BRING THIS FORWARD AS ONE OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE LEGISLATION OR ORDINANCE THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE.

A PART OF. THE DISCUSSION ALSO WILL INCLUDE AN AMENDMENT ON FIREWORKS.

THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON BRINGING FORWARD SOME PROHIBITION ON FIREWORKS, AND SO THAT WOULD BE INCLUDED AS A PART OF THIS DISCUSSION.

WE ALSO ADDED SOME PENALTY PROVISIONS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SAW AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING.

THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE SPECIAL EVENTS ORDINANCE.

AND WE'LL GO OVER THAT.

AND WE DID SOME CLEANUP AS WELL IN THE ENFORCEMENT SECTION.

SO I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH QUICKLY ON THE CHANGES.

SO AS DISCUSSED, FIREWORKS IS BEING INCLUDED.

THERE IS A SPECIFIC PROHIBITION AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THE CERTAIN TIMES THAT IT WILL BE ALLOWED.

AND SO A DEFINITION FOR WHAT CONSTITUTES FIREWORKS IS INCLUDED AS A PART OF THIS AMENDMENT.

AND SO HERE IS THE LANGUAGE RELATED TO THE PROHIBITION ON FIREWORKS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CERTAIN HOLIDAY THAT'S ALSO DESCRIBED IN FLORIDA STATUTE 701 ZERO EIGHT.

SO SPECIFICALLY, THE EXEMPTION AND THE EXCLUSION INCLUDES JANUARY 1ST, WHICH IS NEW YEAR'S DAY, JULY 4TH, WHICH IS INDEPENDENCE DAY, DECEMBER 31ST, WHICH IS NEW YEAR'S EVE. OTHERWISE, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, THERE IS A PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FIREWORKS.

IN ADDITION TO THE CLEANUP, WE MADE SOME CHANGES ON SECTION 989.

JUST TO BE SPECIFIC, THROUGHOUT THE ORDINANCE, WE ADDED AN ADJACENT LOTS AND ADDED THE STANDARD FOR MEASUREMENT.

SOME OF YOU MIGHT RECALL IN THE LAST TIME WE DISCUSSED THIS, THE STANDARD WAS 25FT.

AND WE WE WERE ASKED TO REDUCE THAT TO 15FT.

SO THROUGHOUT THE ORDINANCE, YOU WILL SEE THE CHANGE FROM 25 TO 15FT IN TERMS OF DISTANCE FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NOISE.

THIS SLIDE JUST SHOWS THE CLEAN UP THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT WHERE IT SAYS POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT WAS STRICKEN AND JUST REPLACED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN TERMS OF ENFORCEMENT. THIS LEGISLATION, OF COURSE, CAN BE ENFORCED BY CODE COMPLIANCE AS WELL AS BSL.

AND THEN FINALLY, THIS IS THE ENFORCEMENT PROVISION THAT SPEAKS SPECIFICALLY ON AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF FILING IS JUST GIVEN MORE TOOLS IN THE TOOLBOX.

THIS IS THE EXACT PROVISION THAT WE HAD INCLUDED IN THE SPECIAL EVENTS THAT INCREASES THE FINES TO $1,000 PER DAY, $5,000 PER DAY FOR REPEAT VIOLATION, AND THEN THE ABILITY TO GO UP TO $15,000 PER VIOLATION IF THAT VIOLATION IS FOUND TO BE IRREPARABLE OR REVERSIBLE IN NATURE. THOSE ARE THE CHANGES.

[02:45:02]

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER.

VILLALOBOS. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND MISS MAXINE.

THIS IS ALSO FIREWORKS FROM WALMART.

LIKE THE SMALL STUFF, RIGHT? THIS IS NOT JUST A BIG BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

YES. YEAH. THE THE DEFINITION IS VERY DESCRIPTIVE.

IT INCLUDES ANYTHING, BALLOONS THAT POP JUST AND I CAN READ IT INTO THE RECORD, BUT BECAUSE A SPARKLER IS A FIREWORK.

YEAH. ANY COMBUSTIBLE OR EXPLOSIVE COMBUSTIBLE OR SUBSTANCE OF COMBINATION OF SUBSTANCE.

SO IT'S A VERY BROAD DEFINITION.

OKAY. AND ARE WE ISSUING WARNINGS OR LETTERS TO THE RESIDENTS SAYING, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE WE WILL PASS OR WE'RE NOT PASSING? IF IT DOES PASS, WILL THE RESIDENTS BE INFORMED? IF IT DOES PASS, WE CAN WORK WITH PIO JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING THE WORD OUT THERE.

AND SO EVERYBODY IS AWARE THAT THERE IS A PROHIBITION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE THREE HOLIDAYS.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS WHICH I'M IN QUESTIONS AND ONE OF WHICH ACTUALLY A RESIDENT BROUGHT UP WAS THE PARTICULARLY PART OF.

THE CODE ON SECTION 9872.

YES, IT SAYS PARTICULARLY DURING THOSE HOURS.

YES. SO AS SHE HAS MENTIONED AND AS WE HAVE HAD COMPLAINTS FROM AND AS WE HAD PEOPLE HERE WHEN WE WERE FIRST DOING THIS, WE HAVE PEOPLE DOING THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, NICE AND LOUD FROM THEIR GARAGES.

AND IT'S BEEN AFFECTING PEOPLE IN THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, WHETHER THEY'RE RETIRED OR THEY WORK THE NIGHT SHIFT AND THEY LIKE TO SLEEP.

THEY NEED TO SLEEP DURING THE DAY.

HOW DO WE MAKE THIS WHERE IT IS UNDERSTOOD BY OUR ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OR AND PEOPLE WHO DO IT THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO ONLY BE AT 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M.? YEAH. IF THAT'S THE DESIRE OF THE COMMISSION, WE CAN MAKE THAT CHANGE.

WE CAN STRIKE THE 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M. WE CAN STRIKE THE PARTICULAR.

BUT IT IS MORE DEFINED IN THE DEFINITION IN TERMS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A NOISE.

AND THEN THERE'S THE PROVISION, GENERAL PROHIBITION, THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M. BUT WE CAN FURTHER CLARIFY IF THAT'S A DESIRE OF THE COMMISSION AND WE CAN STRIKE THAT.

I THINK THE POINT BEING IS THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE ENFORCEABLE AND NOT HAVE PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO STRADDLE THE LINE AND BECOME WHERE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS BEING AFFECTED BY THOSE WHO ARE NOT.

WHO ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO THE LOUD NOISES.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN.

WE'VE DISCUSSED IT WHEN WE'VE DISCUSSED OUR NOISE ORDINANCES, OUR PARTY ORDINANCES.

BUT THERE'S A RESPECT OF A CERTAIN LINE.

THE. ENFORCEMENT OF THIS.

SO IF I'M BLASTING MY MUSIC AND THE COPS COME OUT.

AND THEN THEY LEAVE AND THEY COME OUT AGAIN.

THEN IT GOES ON AGAIN.

I BLAST IT AGAIN.

IS THAT A SECOND VIOLATION? OR IS THAT THE SAME? IT'S THE SAME.

SO YOUR VIOLATION IS ONE WHERE NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE A VIOLATION.

SO WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION, YOU HAVE BEEN ISSUED A CITATION, YOU HAVE BEEN PAID A FEE.

IT'S A FORMAL VIOLATION.

IT'S NOT A WARNING.

SO DO I NEED THE COPS OR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL EVERY SINGLE TIME IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE CASE THAT THERE'S A NOISE? I'M VIOLATING THE RULES.

YES. SO WE'LL ISSUE A FORMAL VIOLATION.

AND FOR YOU TO BE A REPEAT VIOLATOR, IT MEANS YOU HAVE BEEN ISSUED A FORMAL VIOLATION AT LEAST ONCE IN THE PAST.

I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE ASKING ME HOW TO GET TO THE IRREPARABLE OR TO GET TO THE INCREASED FINES, ALL OF IT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THIS ONE PARTICULAR HOUSE THAT'S IN MY MIND IS THE COPS WOULD COME AND THEY WOULD GIVE AN ISSUE.

THEY'D SAY IT'S TOO LOUD OR THEY KNOW THAT THE COPS ARE ROLLING UP, THEY SEE THE VEHICLE AND THEN THEY TURN THE MUSIC OFF.

COPS ROLL AWAY, THE MUSIC GOES BACK ON.

SO WHAT'S BEING DONE IN THIS CAPACITY THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR TO HELP WITH THOSE PARTICULAR PEOPLE WHO VIOLATE THE RULES IN THAT MANNER? WE JUST HAVE TO BE MORE FIRM AND ISSUE A FORMAL VIOLATION.

SO THE COPS BEING OUT AND THAT'S A WARNING IS NOT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION.

GUNN SO WE WOULD HAVE TO ISSUE A VIOLATION.

THE PROPERTY OWNER WOULD HAVE TO RESPOND TO THAT VIOLATION AND THEN ANY SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS THERE WOULD BE CONSIDERED A REPEAT OFFENDER.

SO IF THE COPS ROLL UP, THEY GIVE ME THE VIOLATION THERE, THEY LEAVE.

I DECIDE TO BE.

IMPERTINENT AND RAISE IT UP AGAIN.

THEY COME BACK THE SAME DAY.

HAVE I JUST JUMPED FROM MY 250 TO 500 OR IS IT STILL 250 BECAUSE IT'S ALL IN THE SAME 24 HOURS? SHOULD THE RULES BE 25, 250 PER OCCURRENCE PER DAY? OR I MEAN, SHOULD WE BE DOING THIS TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE? DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH US JUST BECAUSE THE COPS ARE THERE AND YOU WOULD BEHAVE FOR 10S THAT YOU SHOULD COME BACK AND MAKE THE COPS COME BACK OUT OR CODE ENFORCEMENT COME BACK

[02:50:01]

OKAY. SO.

CAPTAIN COOPER, DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT? PLEASE. BECAUSE AT THIS TIME, THIS IS GOING TO BE MORE HEAVILY ENFORCED BY OUR BSO UNTIL WE HAVE SUCH CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO'LL BE OUT TO DO THIS, HOPEFULLY.

WELL, IF IT'S A CONSENSUS OF THE COMMISSION, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE CHANGING THE TIME AND THIS WOULD BE ANY TIME OF THE DAY.

SO, OF COURSE, CODE AND BSO TOGETHER WILL BE ABLE TO ENFORCE THAT.

BUT I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THERE IS DUE PROCESS THAT'S DUE THESE PROPERTY OWNERS.

AND SO WE CAN ISSUE A CITATION.

BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY, WHEN IT SAYS A VIOLATION, IT MEANS THAT THEN THERE'S A PROCESS.

WE ISSUE THE VIOLATION.

THEY HAVE A CERTAIN TIME FOR US TO DRAFT THIS VIOLATION.

THEY HAVE TO APPEAR BEFORE A MAGISTRATE AND THEN IT NOW COUNTS AS THE FIRST OCCURRENCE.

GOTCHA. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT THE OCCURRENCE IS.

YEAH. THANK YOU. CAPTAIN, YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY READ THE ORDINANCE.

IS THERE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR WHEN YOUR TEAM IS OUT THERE HAVING TO ENFORCE THIS TO BE INCLUDED FOR THE RECORD? CAPTAIN JEREMIAH COOPER YEAH. SO MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COMMISSION BASED ON WHAT I HEARD, BASED ON WHAT I READ PRESENTED TODAY EARLIER, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED OR AND OR TAKEN AWAY.

I BELIEVE THAT NOW I HAVE THE FULL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE VIOLATIONS OCCUR.

AS YOU'RE AWARE, IF I'M HAVING THIS CORRECT, THAT BSO DOCUMENTS THE INCIDENTS OR THE ISSUES AND THE VIOLATIONS COME FROM THE CITY, IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY.

YES. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

SURE. SO SEEING NOBODY ELSE WISHES TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS.

I WOULD LIKE THE COMMISSION TO APPROVE REMOVING THE WORD, PARTICULARLY DURING THE HOURS OF 11 TO 7 FOR SECTION.

9.872.

UM, MAYOR, THERE WAS A MOTION.

A SECOND. I WOULD ASSUME THE MAKER WOULD ADD THAT AS AMENDMENT.

SO BASICALLY BE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO THAT.

BEFORE WE DO THAT AS WELL.

MS.. MS.. CALLOWAY IS THERE ANYTHING IN ADDITION BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAVE TIME FRAMES ELSEWHERE.

I'M SEEING THE YELLING, SHOUTING, HOOTING.

YES. AND I'LL MAKE THE CHANGE THROUGH.

YES. ALL RIGHT.

SO IF YOU IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOUR MOTION IS INCLUSIVE OF EVERY PROVISION THAT LIMITS IT FROM 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M.. AND THEN THAT WOULD GO TO, I BELIEVE THE MAKER OF THE MOTION WAS COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

AND IT WAS. RIGHT.

AM I DOING COMMENTS OR DO I HAVE TO ASK THE MOTION TO BE AMENDED FIRST BEFORE WE CAN GO TO COMMENT? LET'S MAKE THE MOTION TO BE AMENDED.

SO IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION.

THE MAKER WAS YOURSELF? YES. SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER, RIGHT? YES. SO ON THE RECORD, COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS HAS SAID YES.

COMMISSIONER RIGHT.

DO YOU ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? YES, THAT'S A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

OKAY. VICE MAYOR.

I JUST WANT TO OBJECT TO THE CHANGING OF THE TIME.

I THINK THAT AS IT IS WRITTEN IS ENOUGH.

I THINK THAT IT WILL.

HAVE ENOUGH TEETH AS IT IS NOW, SO TO SPEAK.

WE CAN SEE HOW IT WORKS.

AND THEN IF IT DOES NOT WORK, WE CAN PROBABLY CHANGE IT AT A LATER TIME.

BUT I WANT TO PUBLICLY OBJECT TO THAT.

COMMISSIONER DANIEL, I AGREE WITH VICE MAYOR BOLTON BECAUSE I MEAN, NO ONE CAN HAVE NOISE THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

KIDS CAN'T PLAY.

WE CAN'T HAVE. WELL, IT SEEMED THAT WAY BECAUSE IT'S VERY INCLUSIVE.

BUT SHE READ THE DESCRIPTION, SO I THINK THE TIME IT CURRENTLY HAS IS FINE.

THANK YOU. I BELIEVE IT WAS SECTION DISTRICT ONE RESIDENTS WHO ARE COMPLAINING THE LOUDEST RIGHT NOW ABOUT THE NOISE THAT IS HAPPENING AND ACTUALLY DISTRICT FOUR, ABOUT THE NOISE THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY THAT IS NOT KIDS PLAYING.

IT IS THE EXCESSIVE LOUDNESS OF MUSIC.

[02:55:02]

I KNOW WHEN MY KIDS ARE IN THE POOL, THEY PLAY THE MUSIC BACK THERE AND ALL THAT HAPPENS AS WELL.

SO I WOULD HATE FOR THEM TO NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY MUSIC WHILE THEY'RE IN THE POOL.

UNDERSTOOD. COMMISSIONER DANIEL, IT'S A MATTER OF THAT.

THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THEIR NOISES, THEIR HOUSES ARE RATTLING, NOT FROM THE KIDS PLAYING IN THE POOL.

KNOW, THAT'S WHAT'S THE SET IN THE STATUTE.

SO JUST.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. IS THIS TO ADD A COMMENT OR IS THIS TO COMMENT AND CLARIFICATION ON? SO I THOUGHT SO WE PASSED THE MOTION WHICH HE MOVED AND I SECOND FOR FOR THE ORDINANCE THAT WAS THAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED INITIALLY. JUST TO CLARIFY.

I'M SORRY. WHAT WAS THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT? THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

CLARIFICATION IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE.

AND MR. CALHOUN.

CORRECT. THERE WAS A TIME LIMITATION FROM 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M.

RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF NOISE.

THE MAYOR HAD MOVED TO REMOVE THE TIME LIMITATION OF 11 A.M.

TO 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M. SO THAT'S BASICALLY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO REMOVE ALL TIME LIMITATION.

THAT MEANS THAT PROHIBITION CAN APPLY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

SO WE'LL REMOVE AN 11 P.M.

TO 7 A.M., CORRECT? THAT WAS THAT WAS THE PROPOSED MOTION.

THAT WAS THE PROPOSED MOTION.

THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

OKAY. OKAY. SO I AM NOT IN SUPPORT OF MOVING THE TIME THAT'S CURRENTLY IN THERE.

SO YOU'RE REMOVING YOUR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? YES. I'M NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE THE, THE REMOVING OF THE TIME THAT'S IN THE ORDINANCE.

MAYOR JUST PROCEDURALLY, THE MOTION INITIALLY WAS WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS SECOND.

AND SO I BELIEVE THE BEST PROCESS, IF COMMISSIONER RIGHT IS REMOVING IS OBJECTING TO IT.

MAYBE THE MAKER OF THE MOTION NEED TO RESCIND THE MOTION.

THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

SO PLEASE RESCIND THE THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT PRIOR TO THAT.

THIS INCLUDES FIREWORKS IN THE DAYTIME.

IS THAT COMMENTARY? POINT OF ORDER. NO, IT'S.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER.

COMMISSIONER VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

THIS IS SUBJECT MATTER.

COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER VICE MAYOR.

WE HAVE THIS.

WE HAVE TWO ITEMS LEFT.

CAN WE PLEASE.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER HERE.

AND HE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE COMMENTS.

THE VICE MAYOR SPECIFIC QUESTION WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY? YES, I KNOW. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT VICE MAYOR? OH, MY GOD.

CONTINUE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT JUST ALLOW CONTINUE.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS TOPIC AT HAND.

THERE'S A MOTION ON THE TABLE THAT HAS BEEN AMENDED THAT NEEDS TO BE EITHER VOTED UPON AND IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH BECAUSE THE SECOND HAS BEEN REMOVED. CORRECT.

SO WHETHER OR NOT THE AMENDMENT IS STILL IN THE COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS MIND IS IRRELEVANT AT THIS TIME.

AS WE'RE STILL ON THE TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION.

WE ARE STILL ON THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WE HAVE.

I AM TRYING TO GET TO MY QUESTION.

IF EVERYBODY WOULD DO THE COURTESY AND PLEASE BE QUIET AS I FINISH THE QUESTION TO THE CITY ATTORNEY GO AHEAD, MAYOR.

THANK YOU. SO PROCEDURALLY, WE STILL HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FIRST ONE THAT WAS AMENDED.

THE AMENDMENT IS OBVIOUSLY NOW NOT SECONDED.

WE CAN EITHER ASK FOR A SECOND ON IT OR WE JUST LET IT HANG AND FINISH THE DISCUSSION TILL WE THEN CAN CLARIFY IT.

CORRECT? YES, MAYOR.

IN FACT, JUST PROCEDURALLY.

YES, PLEASE. NO. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT INDICATED THAT HE OPPOSED THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND COMMISSIONER LOWE INDICATED HE WAS WILLING TO RESCIND THAT FILAMENT.

SO RIGHT NOW WE BACK TO GROUND, GROUND ZERO, GROUND ZERO TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

THE FIRST MOTION WHICH IS ON THE TABLE.

CORRECT. BECAUSE AS RESCINDED AS IS CORRECT, IT'S AS IS.

I WAS GOING TO COMMENT PRIOR TO THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

CITY ATTORNEY CITY ATTORNEY THEN SUGGESTED A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WHICH WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER RAY.

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BASICALLY, WE'RE BACK TO DISCUSSION.

WE'RE BACK TO DISCUSSION. WE'RE BACK TO DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION.

THAT IS THE ORIGINAL MOTION THAT'S ON THE FLOOR THAT IS NOT BEEN CHANGED.

SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FIREWORKS.

MY QUESTION IS FOR CLARITY PURPOSES.

THEY CAN THROW BIG BOOMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND NO ISSUES.

ON 4TH OF JULY, THE DAY AFTER, AND EVERYBODY'S OKAY WITH THAT? THAT'S I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

YES, FIREWORKS IS A PROHIBITED ACT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE THREE HOLIDAYS.

OKAY. SO.

RIGHT. SO WE CAN THROW BIG BANGS ALL DAY LONG.

NO, MISS CALLAWAY, CAN YOU.

BECAUSE THERE'S NO TIME LIMITATION ON FIREWORKS.

I DIDN'T SEE ANY TIME.

THAT IS CORRECT. SO.

SO I BELIEVE.

MISS CALLAWAY, YOUR QUESTION? FIREWORKS ARE PROHIBITED THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

THERE'S NO TIME LIMITATION ON FIREWORKS.

JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

CORRECT. EXCEPT FOR THOSE THREE DAYS.

EXCEPT THOSE THREE DAYS.

OKAY. THAT'S IT.

OKAY. SO, YES, THE ORIGINAL MOTION STANDS THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY.

SO I'M MAKING A MOTION TO PASS.

SO I'M MOVING TO MOTION.

SORRY. SECONDED.

YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN SECOND. WE'RE GOOD.

WE'RE BACK AT THE MAIN MOTION.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR ARE YOU IN CLARIFICATION OF THE MAIN MOTION FROM THE TIMEFRAME? AS COMMISSIONER DANIELS MENTIONED, YOUR FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW THE ORDINANCE TO BE ENFORCED AT ANY TIME.

IS THAT WHAT IT IS? MS. CALLAWAY NO, MISS.

MR. RIGHT. THAT'S NOT ON THE TABLE ANYMORE.

NO. NO. OKAY. SO. SO I THOUGHT WE WERE UP FOR DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT.

PART OF IT RIGHT NOW IS THE ORIGINAL MOTION TO APPROVE THIS OR AS IS.

OKAY. OKAY. MY ORIGINAL POINT AND QUESTION WAS THAT BECAUSE IT SAYS PARTICULARLY IT'S ALREADY IN THERE, THAT'S THE RULES, PARTICULARLY DURING 11 TO 7, MY CONCERN REMAINS NOT KIDS HAVING A GREAT TIME IN THE POOL BECAUSE MY NEIGHBORS HAVE A GREAT TIME IN THE POOL WITH THEIR KIDS EVERY WEEKEND AND EARLY IN THE MORNING AND LOVE HEARING THE GIGGLES.

MY NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR, HE PLAYS SOME GOOD MUSIC.

MY OTHER NEIGHBOR DOES HIS OWN MUSIC.

I HEAR IT FROM ALL ANGLES.

I DON'T CARE. IT'S REASONABLE AT A REASONABLE LEVEL.

WHAT MY CONCERN IS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY THE MUSIC IN THE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN OUR CITY THAT ARE PRIOR TO THE 11 P.M..

AND AFTER THE 7 A.M.

TO WHERE IT MAKES THE LIVING FOR THOSE RESIDENTS, THE NEIGHBORS UNPLEASANT, THEIR WINDOWS ARE SHAKING.

IT IS UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE SLEEPING IN THEIR OWN HOMES.

THEY'RE NOT GETTING THEIR REST WHETHER THEY ARE WORKING AGE OR ARE OUR SENIORS.

IT'S NOT A DIFFERENCE HERE.

THAT IS WHERE MY CONCERN IS IN BECAUSE THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN, IT SAYS PARTICULARLY WHICH THE WAY I READ IT IS IF AT 530 IN THE AFTERNOON. THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET IS JAMMIN TO WHERE MY WINDOWS ARE SHAKING.

I CAN STILL HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT OR AN OFFICER COME AND ASK THEM TO TURN IT DOWN BECAUSE IT IS VIOLATING OUR RULES, BECAUSE IT IS AT A SOURCE THAT IS SO AUDIBLE TO BE DISTURBING ANOTHER PERSON.

IN AN UNEXPECTED MANNER.

IS THAT CORRECT OR NOT? CORRECT. ANYBODY WANT TO JUMP IN AND ANSWER? SEVEN AND FEET.

15FT. THAT IS THE WAY WE INTERPRET.

THAT'S WHAT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD FROM OUR RESIDENTS WHO HAVE HAD THIS ISSUE BEFORE, THE 11 P.M.

THAT WHEN.

IT'S REALLY MORE FOR FOR THE FOR OUR BSO AT THIS TIME UNTIL WE GET.

MORE CODE IS INVOLVED HERE THAT THE COPS SAY, I'M SORRY, THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO UNTIL 11 P.M.

AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK THE MISNOMER HAS BEEN OCCURRING WAY TOO OFTEN.

AND THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET CLARIFIED, THAT IF IT IS SO OBSCENE THAT YOU'RE HEARING IT IN YOUR HOME, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE HEARING OTHER PEOPLE'S MUSIC WITHIN YOUR HOME AND NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP OR ENJOY THE QUIET ENVIRONMENT OF YOUR HOME.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET AT.

SO THE WORDS ARE HERE AND I EXPECT IT TO BE ENFORCED.

SO. CALDWELL.

SO FOR THE RECORD, MADAM CLERK, AS IS.

THAT'S CORRECT. CITY ATTORNEY.

UH, WE HAVE VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

YES. COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. YES.

COMMISSIONER. VILLALOBOS.

YES. COMMISSIONER.

MIA. GOMEZ. YES.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT? YES.

THANK YOU. MOTION PASSES.

5 TO 0. THANK YOU.

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[10.a P.A.R.O.T. - I am requesting that this body would allow any elected member of the Commission to be part of the Board of Directors which shall serve a term as indicated in section 2.06 "Term of Office" and 4.02 "Election and Term of Office"]

WE HAVE COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

TO SUMMARIZE THIS ITEM, PLEASE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

I BRING THIS ITEM DUE TO TWO BOARD MEMBERS ASKING ME TO JOIN THE PARROT AS YOU SAW ON THE BACK ON YOUR BACKUP. CITY ATTORNEY IS SAYING THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR MOU AND TO ALLOW ANY COMMISSION MEMBER TO PARTICIPATE AS A BOARD MEMBER TO THE PARROT FOUNDATION.

SO WITH THAT, I WANTED TO NOMINATE MYSELF TO BE ON THE BOARD AND ANY MEMBER THAT WISHES NOT TO BE ON THE BOARD, THAT WOULD BE THEIR OPTION TOO.

SO I JUST WOULD LIKE TO THE COMMISSION'S HELP TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE MOU TO ALLOW ANY MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION, IF THEY WISH TO BE ON THE BOARD, TO BE ON THE BOARD.

AND I BELIEVE IT WOULD JUST BE FOR ONE AT A TIME FOR THE DURATION OF THE WHAT DO YOU CALL IT, THE TERM.

COMMISSIONER VILLALOBOS.

I APPRECIATE THE DESIRE TO BE A PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION AS ONE OF THE.

PROBABLY THE ONLY MEMBER ON THIS COMMISSION WHO WAS HERE AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS CREATED.

AND I WAS VERY PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMISSION CREATING THIS.

IT WAS A GREAT IDEA.

THERE WAS A REASON FOR NOT HAVING ANYBODY ON THE COMMISSION TO SERVE AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION, TO SERVE ON THAT BODY AND A NON-VOTING MEMBER TO UNDERSTOOD, EVEN IF IT'S NON-VOTING, I DO NOT THINK THAT IT IS A GOOD.

LOOK FOR THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT WILL BE RECEIVING FUNDS FROM THE CITY, RECEIVES FUNDS FROM SPECIAL EVENTS AND THINGS THAT WE DO AND THINGS THAT WE AS A COMMISSION SUPPORT. I THINK IT WHILE IT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE, BUT IT COULD LOOK LIKE SOME IMPROPRIETIES THAT THE COMMISSION ITSELF DOESN'T NEED.

AND I WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU AND ANY OTHER REST OF THE PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION TO JUST BE A CHAMPION OF THE ORGANIZATION FROM THE OUTSIDE. YOU CAN ATTEND A MEETING, OF COURSE, BUT VERSUS BEING ON THE BOARD, I DO THINK IT COULD PRESENT A PROBLEM, AN UNNECESSARY APPEARANCE OF A PROBLEM. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND IF I CAN GET MY OTHER COLLEAGUES TO CHIME IN, I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND THAT'S ALL.

THANK YOU.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS CURRENTLY 1257.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYBODY AT 10:30 A.M.

SHARP OR EARLIER, PLEASE, AT THE TAMARAC COMMUNITY CENTER ON MEMORIAL DAY, WHICH IS MONDAY, MAY 29TH, SO WE CAN HONOR OUR VETERANS AND.

EVERYBODY WHO HAS PAID THE HIGHEST SACRIFICE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MEETING'S ADJOURNED.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.