Jan 29, 2026 Regular

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APPRECIATE IF EVERYONE WILL PUT YOUR PHONES ON SILENT OR VIBRATE.

THAT WOULD BE GREAT. GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO OUR JANUARY 29TH MEETING.

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THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

MAYOR GOMEZ. GOOD MORNING. VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

GOOD MORNING. COMMISSIONER RYAN. GOOD MORNING.

COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. GOOD MORNING. COMMISSIONER DANIEL. GOOD MORNING.

THANK YOU. EXCELLENT. IF EVERYONE WOULD PLEASE STAND.

COMMISSIONER MOREY WRIGHT, WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE THEREAFTER.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

THANK YOU. PLEASE BE SEATED. CITY ATTORNEY, YOUR REPORT.

NO REPORT, MADAM MAYOR. ALL RIGHTY, THEN IF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD JOIN ME IN THE WELL, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS.

[2. CITY MANAGER REPORT]

SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLANS.

ALL RIGHTY THEN. THIS PROCLAMATION WAS REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER KRYSTAL PATTERSON, AND SHE IS GOING TO READ AND PRESENT THIS TO SIMONE HANDY, FOUNDER OF ACTS OF LOVE. RIGHT BEHIND YOU. RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

THANK YOU. SIMONE, ARE YOU HERE? WE DON'T BITE.

IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE. ALL RIGHT. ARE YOU HERE BY YOURSELF? WOULD YOU GUYS LIKE TO JOIN HER? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME JOIN HER IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO.

ALL RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD MORNING. IT IS A PLEASURE TO SEE ALL OF YOU THIS MORNING. I AM PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PROCLAIM THIS PROCLAMATION ON ACTS OF LOVE. ACTS OF LOVE CORPORATION. AND WHEREAS IT IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED ON COMPASSION AND SERVICE DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES FACING SOCIO ECONOMIC HARDSHIP. AND WHEREAS, THE ORGANIZATION CARRIES OUT ITS MISSION THROUGH PROGRAMS AND PROVIDES FOOD SECURITY, EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, MENTORSHIP, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING FINANCIAL AID, ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES, AND ACCESS TO SHELTER DURING TIMES OF CRISIS.

ACTS OF LOVE CORPORATION ADDRESSES A BROAD RANGE OF COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH INITIATIVES SUCH AS YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY PROGRAMS, MATERNAL AND INFANT CARE SUPPORT, CELEBRATORY.

CELEBRATORY? OKAY. GIFT PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, FOOD STABILITY RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES, AND POSITIVE PARENTING AND LIFE SKILLS GUIDANCE FOR CAREGIVERS. AND THE ORGANIZATION'S HARVEST OF LOVE PROGRAM PROVIDES FOOD ITEMS AND MEAL SUPPORT TO FAMILIES IN NEED DURING THE THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS SEASON, ENSURING HOUSEHOLDS EXPERIENCE STABILITY AND CARE DURING TIMES TRADITIONALLY CENTERED ON TOGETHERNESS.

AND WHEREAS THROUGHOUT, THROUGH ITS GIFTS OF LOVE PROGRAM, ACTS OF LOVE CORPORATION PROVIDES BIRTHDAY AND HOLIDAY GIFTS TO CHILDREN IN NEED, WORKING CLOSELY WITH ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL COUNSELORS TO IDENTIFY STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WHO WOULD BENEFIT MOST FROM THESE MEANINGFUL GESTURES OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOPE.

TO DATE, ACTS OF LOVE CORPORATION HAS SERVED 575 INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING 525 RECIPIENTS WHO RECEIVED FOOD, BAGS AND GIFTS, AND 50 CHILDREN WHO RECEIVE GIFTS.

DEMONSTRATING MEANINGFUL IMPACT THROUGH COMPASSIONATE AND COMMUNITY DRIVEN SERVICE.

ACTS OF LOVE EXEMPLIFIES THE POWER OF COMMUNITY BASED SERVICE, SHOWING HOW ACTS OF KINDNESS CONTRIBUTE TO STRONGER AND MORE SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, KRYSTAL PATTERSON, ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION, PROUDLY RECOGNIZE AND COMMEND ACTIVE LOVE CORPORATION FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING SERVICE, LEADERSHIP, AND DEDICATION TO OUR COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.

NOW, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT THE CITY EXTENDS ITS DEEPEST APPRECIATION TO ACTS OF LOVE CORPORATION FOR THEIR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO CHANGING LIVES.

ONE MEAL, ONE RESOURCE, ONE MOMENT OF HOPE, AND ONE ACT OF LOVE AT A TIME.

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A PROUD RESIDENT OF DISTRICT THREE. I HOPE I LEARNED OF HER THROUGH ANOTHER RESIDENT, HER NEIGHBOR, WHO REACHED OUT TO ME DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AND SAID THAT SHE WAS LOOKING TO BE ABLE TO DONATE 50 GIFTS.

AND SO MY TEAM AND I WERE ABLE TO QUICKLY ASSEMBLE A TOY DRIVE RIGHT HERE IN THE ATRIUM.

WE SERVE SEVERAL STUDENTS OR KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DAY THAT WERE UNDERSERVED, AND IT WAS REALLY AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH YOU.

I HOPE THAT THIS IS MEANINGFUL TO YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION, AND I HOPE THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE ORGANIZATION BECOME FAMILIAR WITH HER ORGANIZATION. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU.

FIRSTLY, I'D LIKE TO THANK COMMISSIONER KRYSTAL PATTERSON FOR THIS PROCLAMATION.

WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO IN THE COMMUNITY AND ALL OF YOU WHO WORK SO HARD TO ENSURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAFE FOR US.

ACTS OF LOVE CORP IS GOING TO BE HERE TO ASSIST FAMILIES IN NEED FOR YEARS TO COME.

WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE WHO VISITS OUR, DONATE AND DONATE ON OUR WEBSITE.

IT'S WWW.ACTSOFLOVECORP.ORG. THANK YOU. AND BY THE WAY, THERE'S A CHECK ATTACHED. OH WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DONATION.

RIGHT OVER HERE. OH.

SO NOW I WANT TO GIVE YOU THIS. I'VE TRIED BEFORE AND I'VE GOTTEN SO YOU CAN HAVE THE REAL STUFF.

OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I'M TRYING TO GET. ALL RIGHT. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM ABOVE, THIS PROCLAMATION IS REQUESTED BY MYSELF. AND IT IS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.

AND BEFORE RABBI RAMI PAVOLOTZKY, RABBI DANIELLA SZUSTER, CANTOR JENNA KRAMAROW, MARILYN LEVIN, PRESIDENT OF THE SYNAGOGUE OF TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA´ARAY TZEDEK, AND ERICA BOULDIN, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COME DOWN. I JUST WANT TO READ ONE QUICK THING.

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A RESIDENT. I AM NOT THE MOST TECH SAVVY PERSON ON THIS DAIS.

IF YOU CAN'T TELL. AND SHE'S A TEACHER WHO TEACHES HOLOCAUST EDUCATION.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS SHE EXPRESSES THAT THE MOST CHALLENGING ITEMS ARE, IN HISTORY ARE THE ONES THAT WE DON'T TEACH AND WE DON'T REMEMBER.

THINGS ARE THAT ARE NOT EASY AND IT IS NOT COMFORTABLE, BUT IT IS VERY NECESSARY TO COMBAT HATRED, IGNORANCE, AND REPETITION. OH, GOD. MICHELLE.

WHAT AM I NOT DOING? I HAVE NO SENSITIVITY IN THESE HANDS.

I'M COLD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT TIME, I'M PRINTING.

OKAY. SO FOR IF HATRED AND IGNORANCE WERE POISON, EDUCATION IS THE CURE AND FORGETTING MEANS REPEATING HISTORY. SO OUR MEMORY IS OUR SHIELD.

SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE EVERY DAY TO REMEMBER WE NEED TO COMBAT HATRED OF ALL FORMS. I DIDN'T DO THIS WELL, SO FORGET ABOUT IT. I'LL PUT IT IN AN EMAIL.

ALL RIGHT. IT IS MY PLEASURE TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION AND PRESENT IT TO RABBIS, OUR CLERGY, AND OUR PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA´ARAY TZEDEK, BUT THIS GOES OUT TO EVERYBODY.

WHEREAS JANUARY 27TH IS RECOGNIZED AS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY, AS DESIGNATED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, COMMEMORATING THE 81ST ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, THE LARGEST NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP.

AND WHEREAS ON THIS DAY WE REMEMBER AND HONOR THE 6 MILLION JEWISH VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST, AS WELL AS MILLIONS OF OTHER INNOCENT NON-JEWISH VICTIMS, INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, POLITICAL DISSIDENTS, ROMA, LGBTQ+ INDIVIDUALS AND OTHERS TARGETED FOR PERSECUTION AND EXTERMINATION.

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AND WHEREAS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY STANDS AS A SOLEMN REMINDER OF THE DANGERS OF HATRED, BIGOTRY AND ANTISEMITISM, EMPHASIZING THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, RELIGIONS AND ACTION TO ENSURE SUCH ATROCITIES ARE NEVER REPEATED.

AND WHEREAS OUR CITY REAFFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT TO HUMAN DIGNITY, TOLERANCE AND MUTUAL RESPECT WHILE STANDING FIRMLY AGAINST ALL FORMS OF HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION. WHEREAS IT IS OUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY TO PRESERVE THE LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST AS A CORNERSTONE OF OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY, AND TO HONOR THE RESILIENCE AND COURAGE OF OUR SURVIVORS WHO REBUILT THEIR LIVES AND COMMUNITIES.

TODAY AND EVERY DAY WE COMMIT TO PRESERVING THEIR STORIES.

AND NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHELLE J. GOMEZ, VERY PROUD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COMMISSION, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM JANUARY 27TH, 2026, IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. SO TWO DAYS AGO, ON JANUARY 27TH, WE ORGANIZED AT TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA´ARAY TZEDEK, OUR THIRD ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE, INTERNATIONAL REMEMBRANCE DAY.

AND WE DESIGNED THIS PROGRAM AS AN INTERFAITH PROGRAM.

WE HAD, FOR EXAMPLE, TWO DAYS AGO, FOUR PASTORS, REPRESENTING FOUR DIFFERENT HOUSES OF WORSHIP WITH THEIR CONGREGANTS COMING TO OUR SYNAGOGUE. AND IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO HAVE THIS ANNUAL COMMEMORATION BECAUSE WE TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST SHOULD WE LEARN, OF COURSE, BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE, BUT MAINLY BY THE WHOLE WORLD.

IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE LEARN THE LESSONS OF THE PAST SO WE DON'T REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST.

SO THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THIS PROCLAMATION.

WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU. THANK YOU. I KNOW.

YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEAK. COME ON IN FOR A PHOTO.

IT'S DEFINITELY POSSIBLE. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HOW WAS THE QUESTION? YOU DID IT. YOU'RE GOOD.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.

WELCOME TO CITY OF TAMARAC. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE AND CONGRATULATE OUR EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE RECENTLY REACHED CITY SERVICE MILESTONES.

EACH YEAR OF SERVICE REPRESENTS NOT ONLY TIME INVESTED, BUT ALSO THE MEANINGFUL IMPACT YOU MADE THROUGH YOUR WORK, YOUR COLLABORATION, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE.

EMPLOYEES BEING RECOGNIZED WILL RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE, ALONG WITH A MONETARY AWARD IN AN AMOUNT COMMENSURATE WITH THEIR YEARS OF SERVICE.

WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR PRESENCE ON THE TEAM AND PROUD TO CELEBRATE THIS ANNIVERSARY WITH YOU.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED SUCCESS WE WILL ACHIEVE TOGETHER.

SO LET ME INVITE MELISSA TAYLOR. [APPLAUSE]. FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE.

YEAH. ALEJANDRO FUENTES. FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC, FIVE YEARS.

AND WE HAVE NICHOLAS GARCIA.

DANE HINKLE, CODE ENFORCEMENT FOR TEN YEARS OF SERVICE.

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EARL AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT HIM IN A LITTLE BIT MORE.

OLIVER HEWITT.

ANOTHER 20 YEARS JORGE "MARTI" MARTINEZ.

THE RESPONSIBLE PERSON FOR OUR EXCELLENT WATER QUALITY.

MR. ANTHONY LICATA. 20 YEARS.

LISETTE CRUZ. 20 YEARS. ON HER BEHALF. PAULA.

AND MICHELLE FONTANEZ BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

25 YEARS. AND THE GENTLEMAN THAT KEEPS US ON THE ROAD, IMRAN KAHN.

IMRAN KEEPS GETTING YOUNGER. PLEASE JOIN ME IN THANKING OUR COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR SERVICE.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS.

OH! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHO HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CERTIFICATES.

IF YOU WOULD PLEASE GO OUTSIDE AND TAKE A PHOTO. GREG IS WAITING FOR YOU OUT IN THE FROZEN TUNDRA.

AND THE REST OF YOU CAN STAY. YOU KEEP US NICE AND WARM WHEN YOU'RE HERE.

IF YOU'RE NOT STAYING. HAVE A GREAT DAY, BE SAFE.

SO AS UNFORTUNATELY, YOU SEE THE ROOM CLEARING OUT.

THESE WONDERFUL EMPLOYEES, FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THEY HAVE TO GET TO WORK. I WAS BEING TOLD, YOU CAN'T HEAR ME. THAT'S OKAY. CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT FOR US? I DO, MADAM MAYOR. UNLESS YOU WANT TO. JUST WAIT A FEW SECONDS.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING AGAIN. THOSE OF YOU STAYING IN THE CHAMBER, PLEASE SETTLE DOWN.

ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A THREE SECOND RECESS. RECESS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IF YOU'RE NOT STAYING, WE APPRECIATE IF YOU WOULD PLEASE. RODNEY TAKE IT OUT. I WAS TRYING TO DO THAT.

I HEAR YOU. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. GOOD MORNING AGAIN, EVERYONE.

I'M PROUD TO REPORT THAT THE CITY OF TAMARAC WATER IS SAFE.

THE CITY OF TAMARAC REGULARLY MONITORS ITS DRINKING WATER TO ENSURE IT MEETS ALL STATE AND FEDERAL PUBLIC HEALTH STANDARDS THROUGH ONGOING MONITORING UNDER THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT. THE PUBLIC UTILITIES OR PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS CONFIRMED THERE ARE NO LEAD OR GALVANIZED SERVICE LINES REQUIRING

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THIS REVIEW WAS COMPLETED WITH SUPPORT FROM TRINNEX, USING A STATE APPROVED STATISTICAL METHOD, AND REPORTED TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND THE EPA.

THESE FINDINGS CONFIRM TAMARAC'S DRINKING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE CONTINUES TO BE SAFE, RELIABLE AND COMPLIANT.

SPEAKING OF PUBLIC SERVICES, AS WE BEGIN OUR SEARCH FOR CANDIDATES FOR OUR PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR POSITION, I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE EARL HENRY, WHO WILL BE SERVING AS INTERIM PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR.

I WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT EARL. HE'S BEEN WITH US A NUMBER OF YEARS.

HE'S AN ACCOMPLISHED ENGINEER WITH A GREAT DEAL OF EXPERIENCE FROM PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR.

AND SO WE APPRECIATE HIM TAKING ON THIS, THIS CHALLENGE DURING THIS TRANSITION PERIOD.

SIMILARLY IF RODNEY IS HERE, MR. RODNEY SIMS, A LONG TERM, ALMOST 30 YEARS, IF NOT MORE EMPLOYEE OF CITY OF TAMARAC, WHO IS EXTREMELY FAMILIAR WITH EVERY ELEMENT OF THE CITY'S PUBLIC WORKS INFRASTRUCTURE.

IS, WILL BE SERVING AS THE ASSISTANT PUBLIC SERVICES DIRECTOR.

AND WE APPRECIATE EARL AND RODNEY FOR STEPPING INTO THESE ROLES AND FOR SUPPORTING THE CITY SERVICES DURING THIS TRANSITION.

THIS WEEK, CITY LEADERSHIP MET WITH STATE LEGISLATORS TO ADVOCATE FOR FUNDING FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS.

PRIORITIES INCLUDED WATER MAIN AND FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE PURCHASE OF AN AERIAL LADDER FIRE TRUCK TO SUPPORT EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

THESE EFFORTS REFLECT OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO KEEPING TAMARAC SAFE, RESILIENT AND PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE.

I WANT TO MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AS WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR A GREAT PLACE TO DINE IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

CALHOUN, THE WEST WELCOMES NEW EXECUTIVE CHEF WILLIAM CRACKEL TO THE VIEW RESTAURANT.

A CORDON BLEU TRAINED CHEF WITH A BACKGROUND IN ITALIAN, AMERICAN AND FARM TO TABLE CUISINE.

THIS NEW CHEF WILL BE SURE TO ELEVATE YOUR DINING EXPERIENCE.

LOOK OUT FOR A NEW AND IMPROVED MENU, WHICH DEBUTS IN EARLY FEBRUARY, BUT I BELIEVE HE IS ALSO RUNNING SOME SPECIALS FROM THE MENU STARTING THIS WEEK.

THE VIEW ALSO OFFERS LARGE SPACES FOR PRIVATE EVENTS AND VENUES, DAILY HAPPY HOUR, LIVE MUSIC, TWICE A WEEK, GAMES, KARAOKE AND MUCH MORE. PLEASE COME BY AND SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES AND EXPERIENCE THE UPDATED MENU AND ATMOSPHERE AT THE VIEW.

IT'S A GREAT PLACE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH. OUR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ONE TAMARAC EVENT RETURNS WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM HEADLINERS INCLUDING KEVIN LYTTLE, ALONG WITH FAMILY FRIENDLY EXPERIENCES SUCH AS A KIDS ZONE, A LASER LIGHT SHOW, FOOD TRUCKS, AND A CULTURAL EXHIBIT SHOWCASE.

THIS IS A FREE, FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.

THERE WILL BE NO ON SITE PARKING. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR SHUTTLE BUS SCHEDULES AND PICK UP LOCATIONS.

THAT QR CODE WILL GET YOU ALL THE INFORMATION AS WELL AS THE CITY'S CALENDAR, BUT WE WILL HAVE SHUTTLE BUSSES FROM CITY HALL, FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ONE OTHER LOCATION.

A FULL OF CITY AND COMMISSION INITIATIVES CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE OR BY SCANNING THE QR CODE, AS I ENCOURAGE EVERY SINGLE TIME. PLEASE USE THE CITY'S EXTENSIVE CALENDAR TO PLAN FOR YOUR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

AND NEXT COMMISSION MEETING WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 2026 AT 7 P.M..

A RECEPTION HONORING OUR BLACK HISTORY MONTH NOMINEES WILL TAKE PLACE PRIOR TO THE MEETING.

PLEASE JOIN US AT 6 P.M. IN THE ATRIUM FOR REFRESHMENTS AND FOOD.

THANK YOU. AND THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT, MADAM MAYOR.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL NOW GO TO OUR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

[3. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ]

AND THEY'RE VERY SIMPLE. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM, STATE YOUR NAME, STATE YOUR ADDRESS.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOUR ADDRESS, AT LEAST THE CITY WHERE YOU LIVE AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES OF YOUR OWN, NOT TO SHARE WITH ANYBODY AND THE AUDIENCE, ASK IF YOU'RE HAPPY WITH WHAT SOMEBODY SAYS.

YOU COULD DO HAPPY HANDS. IF YOU'RE NOT TOO HAPPY, YOU COULD KIND OF GO LIKE THIS.

BUT WE DON'T JEER, CHEER OR ANYTHING OF THE LIKE FROM THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO BE INTIMIDATED AND THEY SHOULD FEEL FREE TO SPEAK THEIR MINDS.

AND SOME PEOPLE EVEN SING, SO YOU'RE WELCOME TO DO THAT TOO, IF YOU WISH.

SO STARTING ON THE LIST, WE HAVE EILEEN MICHAELSON, AND THEN ON DECK WE HAVE MARK GOGGIN.

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VICE MAYOR. COMMISSIONERS EILEEN MICHAELSON, 4809 WOODLANDS BOULEVARD, TAMARAC.

I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE RECENTLY I LEARNED THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN ISSUING BUILDING PERMITS TO PROPERTIES IN SECTION FOUR IN THE WOODLANDS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED BY OUR ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE.

IT SEEMS THAT THIS IS AN EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE.

IN ORDER TO GET A PERMIT FROM THE CITY, SOMEONE HAS TO ASK, FILL OUT A PERMIT APPLICATION.

YOU ONLY NEED TO ADD ONE LINE TO THAT APPLICATION THAT SAYS, IS THE PROPERTY LOCATED IN AN AREA WHERE IT IS PART OF A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OR CONDO ASSOCIATION. AND IF PEOPLE CHECK YES OR WRITE YES ON THE LINE, THEN BUILDING STAFF WOULD KNOW THEY NEED APPROVAL FROM THAT ASSOCIATION AND TELL THEM THEY HAVE TO GET APPROVAL.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHILE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE TO THE EXTERIOR PROPERTY OR THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOME HAVE IMPROVED THE PROPERTY NONETHELESS. SECTION PARAGRAPH 12 OF OUR DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE FOR ANY CHANGE TO THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE OR THE LAND SURROUNDING IT.

SO I'D RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU ADD THAT ONE LINE TO YOUR BUILDING PERMITS, BECAUSE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE ASSOCIATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

THANK YOU. AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOMETHING OR HAD SOMETHING ON THERE, BUT WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.

MARK IS COMING UP. AND MADAM MAYOR, ON THAT POINT, CAN I HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY JUST COMMENT ON THAT IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S LEGAL OR NOT? CITY ATTORNEY, THE QUESTION TO YOU IS IF IT'S LEGAL FOR THERE TO BE A LINE ON THE FORM, SAYING THAT SUBJECT TO YOUR ASSOCIATION'S APPROVAL.

MADAM MAYOR, COMMISSIONER I LET ME RESEARCH THAT BECAUSE IT DEPENDS.

I KNOW IN CONDOS OBVIOUSLY THEY BYLAWS ARE MORE RESTRICTIVE.

AND GENERALLY, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME MODIFICATION TO YOUR CONDO UNITS, YOU GENERALLY NEED THAT CONDO ASSOCIATION IN THE CITY WOULD WORK WITH THE CONDO ASSOCIATION WITH THAT. BUT IN GENERAL, HOA TERRITORIES ARE HOMEOWNERS SINGLE FAMILY.

SOMETIME BECAUSE OF HOA MAY HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE HOMEOWNER.

NOT REALLY PERSONAL ISSUES. AND FROM MY EXPERIENCE, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT CASE ON THE FACTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING INTO THIS. I CALL IT BATTLE BETWEEN HOA HOMEOWNERS TO RESTRICT A HOMEOWNER BASED ON THE HOA ISSUE. MIGHT I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT IT FURTHER, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GIVE A LEGAL OPINION WITHOUT LOOKING AT THAT ISSUE.

AND. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND I JUST WANT ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE FROM STAFF.

SO THROUGH THE MANAGER, CHAIR, IF YOU WOULD PERMIT IF MISS CALLAWAY COULD JUST GIVE AN OPINION AS WELL, FROM STAFF'S PERSPECTIVE, I KNOW THAT SHE IS THE FORMER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR HER OR IF IT'S THE BUILDING OFFICIAL.

BUT WHOEVER THE MANAGER ASSIGNS TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION FROM STAFF'S PERSPECTIVE.

MADAM MAYOR, IT'S BEST PRACTICE IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

SO I WOULD INVITE DECODE TO COME IN AND DISCUSS OUR PRACTICE IN TERMS OF HOA RULES IN IMPLEMENTATION.

DIKO ALEXANDER, ASSISTANT BUILDING OFFICIAL. BASED ON OUR PERMITTING SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

THE ASSOCIATION APPROVAL DOES NOT PREVENT US FROM ISSUING A PERMIT, UNLESS THE ASSOCIATION HAS AN ORDINANCE WITH THE CITY SPECIFICALLY SAYING THAT ALL PERMITS NEED ASSOCIATION APPROVAL.

THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CANNOT ISSUE A PERMIT TO SOMEONE AS LONG AS A CONTRACTOR SLASH HOMEOWNER COMES WITH A PERMIT APPLICATION AND IT'S ELIGIBLE, IT MEETS ALL THE CRITERIA.

WE HAVE TO ISSUE THE PERMIT BASED ON FLORIDA LAW.

SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT IF THE CITY PASSES AN ORDINANCE SAYING THAT WE NOW REQUIRE THE INPUT OF THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION.

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ONLY THEN? YES, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE ARE SOME ASSOCIATION PRESENTLY THAT REQUIRES THAT.

SO WHEN IT COMES TO US AND IT GOES TO ZONING DEPARTMENT, ZONING HAS THAT INFORMATION.

AND IF THEY DON'T HAVE THAT ASSOCIATION APPROVAL, THEN THEY DENY THE PERMIT AND THEN WE DENY THE FINAL PERMIT.

OKAY. I THINK MAYBE IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY ATTORNEY AND YOURSELF TO SIT DOWN WITH MISS MICHELSON TO TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE, TO SEE HOW BEST YOU CAN RESOLVE IT.

AND IF IT IS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE STAFF TO BRING AN ORDINANCE, I'D CERTAINLY WANT TO SPONSOR THAT ORDINANCE. BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SEE THAT THERE'S A DISCONNECT BETWEEN OUR COMMUNITY AND CITY.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT ALL IS IN SYNC.

YES. BASED ON BROWARD COUNTY RULES AND APPEALS, CHAPTER ONE, THERE ARE CERTAIN CRITERIAS THAT HAS TO BE MET.

ONCE THOSE CRITERIA IS MET FOR A PERMIT, BY LAW, WE HAVE TO ISSUE IT.

WE CANNOT DENY IT UNLESS THE CITY HAS AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE THAT SAYS THIS IS REQUIRED ALSO.

OKAY, SO THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT ORDINANCE IF IT IS.

YEAH. OUR RESEARCH DEEMED SO AFTER YOUR RESEARCH.

AND COMMISSIONER BOLTON. CONSENSUS BY THE COMMISSION TO DIRECT THE CITY ATTORNEY, SO MAYBE WE CAN GET CONSENSUS FROM THE COMMISSION IN ORDER TO DIRECT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DRAFT THE ORDINANCE. I CAN'T ASK HIM FOR AN ORDINANCE YET BECAUSE HE HAS NOT DONE HIS RESEARCH.

SO I'M SAYING AFTER HE HAS DONE HIS RESEARCH AND MET WITH STAFF, I'D LOVE TO SPONSOR THAT ORDINANCE IF IT IS THAT HE FEELS THAT IT'S NECESSARY. SO WE'RE NOT AT THAT STAGE? YEAH. WE WORKED TOGETHER WITH BUILDING AND MANAGING OFFICE TO COME UP WITH THE RESEARCH AND EVENTUALLY COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION. BUT THE DIFFERENCE JUST WHEN YOU KNOW, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, CONDOS, YOU KNOW, A NEIGHBORING CONDO CAN IMPACT THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY STANDPOINT.

THAT'S WHY MOST CITIES, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, REQUIRE CONDO OWNERS TO GET THE HOA APPROVAL LETTER BEFORE THEY COME IN FOR A BUILDING PERMIT.

SO SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, CITIES HAVE TREATED THEM DIFFERENTLY.

BUT WE'RE LUCKY IF WE COULD PASS IF THE LAW ALLOWS.

WHAT THE BUILDING OFFICIAL INDICATED, ASSISTANT BUILDING OFFICIAL.

OKAY. THAT'S RIGHT, CITY ATTORNEY. ONCE IT'S A CONDO, WE HAVE TO GET THE HOMEOWNERS APPROVAL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO ALSO KEEPING IN MIND IT'S THE QUEST RIGHT NOW IS JUST WHAT WE USED TO HAVE ON THE FORUM.

IF YOU'RE HOME IS IN A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OR CONDO ASSOCIATION, THIS IS SUBJECT TO YOUR RULES THERE, CHECK. AND THAT'S WHAT IT IS. AND THEY'VE ALSO MADE US PROVIDE SOME OF US WHO HAVE HAD TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, HAVE HAD TO PROVIDE THE EMAIL OR THE LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATION TO THE CITY IN ORDER TO GET OUR APPROVAL.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SOME CONSISTENCY IN WHATEVER WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING IN OUR RULES. NEXT IS MARK GOGGIN, AND PATTY LYNN IS ON DECK. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA? MEZA, MEZA. ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO THEN. GOOD MORNING, MARK GOGGIN, TAMARAC, LAKE SOUTH.

AND VICE MAYOR. THERE IS, I THINK, ON AT LEAST ON THE PAST PERMIT THERE WAS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A LOT OF THE CONTRACTORS COME TO OUR ASSOCIATION ASKING FOR THE OK FORM THAT WE HAVE REQUIRED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO THEY TOLD US THAT WE HAD TO BE CHECKED OFF AND EVERYTHING, SO.

BUT I WANT TO GO BACK TO LAST WEEK, LAST MEETING AND THE MEETINGS BEFORE WHEN I TALKED ABOUT TAMARAC BE KIND.

PART OF THE MEETING WAS GOOD AND SIGN AND KIND TO EVERYBODY.

BUT TOWARDS THE END IT GOT OUT OF HAND. AND AGAIN, UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY ATTORNEY DIDN'T ACT PER HIS REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE LAW THAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO HELP CONTROL THE MEETING AND MAKE SURE COMMISSIONERS DO NOT COMMENT AND CRITICIZE OTHER COMMISSIONERS OR THE PUBLIC AT THE MEETING. WE NEED THAT TO BE MAINTAINED SO THAT WE HAVE GOOD MEETINGS.

AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU, BUT A LOT OF US WHO KNOW PEOPLE IN OTHER CITIES LAUGH WHEN THEY SEE THAT YOU'RE FROM TAMARAC, AND THEY SAY THEY WATCH SOME OF YOUR VIDEOS. THEY CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT GOES ON AT THESE MEETINGS.

WE NEED TO CONTROL THAT AND MAKE SURE IT'S COMPROMISED.

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SO THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE ABSTAINED FROM THE VOTE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. PATTI LYNN AND THEN KATE, I COULDN'T TELL IF YOU WERE COMING UP OR NOT.

OKAY. YOU'RE ON DECK. GOOD MORNING, PATTY LYNN.

MAINLANDS 8, TAMARAC. HAPPY NEW YEAR AGAIN! I REALLY WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL NEW YEAR IN THE COMMISSION AND IN THE PUBLIC. ALAS, THE LAST MEETING SHOWED THAT THAT WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE THIS CITY.

I HOPE THAT THAT ALL OF YOU GUYS UP THERE COMMISSIONER, MAYOR KNOW THAT THEY ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE YOU LOOK GOOD.

THE STAFF OR EMPLOYEES, ALSO. THEY WORK VERY HARD, THEY'RE VERY GOOD TO US, THE RESIDENTS, ALL OF THEM ARE. AS A COMMISSION, YOU SHOULD BE EXTENDING THE EMPLOYEES AND STAFF MEMBERS, AT LEAST THE COMMON COURTESY OF RECOGNIZING THEM AS A NORMAL HUMAN BEING.

THEY'RE NOT THERE TO BE INTIMIDATED. THEY'RE NOT THERE TO BE THREATENED. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MAKING DISPARAGING REMARKS ABOUT THE STAFF.

IT IS TOTALLY DISGUSTING. YOU SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE CITY.

YOU SHOULD BE WITH YOUR ACE GAME UP HERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S, IF THERE'S A PROBLEM, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE BLASTED OUT.

AND AT A MEETING, EMBARRASSING THE. I MEAN, I WAS EMBARRASSED FOR THE STAFF.

I WAS EMBARRASSED FOR THE EMPLOYEES. STOP IT, STOP IT! GROW UP. ACT YOUR AGE. ACT. YOU KNOW, RISE TO THE POSITION THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO.

THE LACK OF PREPARATION. I KNOW YOU GET A BIG, THICK NOTEBOOK.

IT TAKES ME A COUPLE OF DAYS TO GO THROUGH THAT.

THEY DON'T PAY ME TO GO THROUGH IT. I'M DOING IT BECAUSE I WANT TO BE INFORMED.

WE'RE PAYING YOU. THE QUESTIONS THAT COME UP AT THE MEETING INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BACK OF MATERIAL.

IF YOU HAD A QUESTION, YOU WOULD HAVE CONTACTED THE CITY MANAGER OR MONICA OR ANYBODY ELSE TO, I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. THAT'S WHY YOU GET THIS STUFF EARLY.

THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO ASK ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS WHEN YOU HAVE 15 MILLION PAGES OF BACKUP MATERIAL.

I'M ASKING IF YOU WOULD PLEASE COMMISSION. BE NICE TO PEOPLE, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

THESE PEOPLE MAKE YOU LOOK GOOD. AND SOME OF YOU, THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB OF MAKING YOU LOOK GOOD BECAUSE YOU REALLY DON'T DESERVE IT.

THANK YOU. KATE JOHNSON. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA? SEEING NONE AFTER KATE JOHNSON PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE CLOSED? KATE JOHNSON. MAINLANDS 4. GOOD MORNING. I JUST LAST NIGHT FINISHED WATCHING THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING, WHICH I WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND. I HAVE TO SAY, I WAS APPALLED.

I WAS APPALLED. I'M GOING TO ECHO WHAT THE OTHERS SAID.

WITH THE WAY STAFF WERE TREATED, WITH THE WAY GUESTS WERE TREATED, WITH THE WAY EACH OTHER WAS TREATED.

SO I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S. I CAN'T ASSUME ANYTHING.

SO I THOUGHT I'D READ YOU A FEW DEFINITIONS. RESPECT TO FEEL OR SHOW DEFERENTIAL REGARD FOR ANOTHER PERSON.

TO AVOID INTERFERING WITH OR INTRUDING UPON ANOTHER PERSON.

BULLY. A NOISY, BLUSTERING FELLOW, MORE INSOLENT THAN COURAGEOUS, WHO THREATENS, INTIMIDATES, OR BADGERS. PEOPLE WHO ARE SMALLER OR WEAKER THAN HE IS AN INSOLENT, TYRANNICAL FELLOW.

A PERSON WHO IS CRUEL TO OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE WEAKER OR HAVE LESS POWER.

KINDNESS. A TYPE OF BEHAVIOR MARKED BY ACTS OF GENEROSITY, CONSIDERATION OR CONCERN FOR OTHERS.

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AN ACT OF INTIMIDATING A WEAKER PERSON TO DO SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY SUCH REPEATED COERCION.

PERSISTENT ACTS INTENDED TO MAKE LIFE UNPLEASANT FOR ANOTHER PERSON AND PARLIAMENTARIAN A PARLIAMENTARIAN SERVES AS AN EXPERT IN PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES, GUIDING MEETINGS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE FAIRNESS AND ORDER.

THIS ROLE INVOLVES UPHOLDING ESTABLISHED RULES AND CUSTOMS THAT GOVERN DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES, FACILITATING PRODUCTIVE DISCUSSIONS AND DECISION MAKING.

SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CONTINUE TO NOT BE SHOWN.

AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS BODY WHO IS ELECTED, THREE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, HAVE NOT EVEN LOOKED UP FROM THEIR PHONES FOR THE ENTIRE TIME THAT I'VE WATCHED PEOPLE SPEAKING UP HERE.

TELL ME HOW THAT IS SHOWING YOUR RESIDENTS RESPECT.

TELL ME HOW THAT IS SHOWING KINDNESS. SHOW ME HOW THAT IS DOING WHAT YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO TO LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE IT ISN'T.

IT DOESN'T AND IT'S NOT. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO COMMISSION REPORTS.

[4. COMMISSION REPORTS]

JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A NEXUS TO YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOMEBODY THAT IS A PASTOR OF A CHURCH THAT MAYBE SERVES ON THE BOARD OF AN ORGANIZATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT BOTH ORGANIZATIONS ARE THE SAME.

SO IT JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW, YOU KNOW, UNINFORMED SOME PEOPLE ARE.

AND, YOU KNOW, AS COMMISSIONERS SOMETIMES AND MOST TIMES, AND I HOPE ALL THE TIME WE HAVE THE QUESTIONS TO THE ANSWERS THAT WE ARE, WE HAVE THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE ASKING.

HOWEVER, WE ASK THE QUESTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE PUBLIC MAY BE MISINFORMED OR GIVEN WRONG INFORMATION BY PERHAPS SOMEBODY ON THE DAIS, OR THEY DON'T READ THE INFORMATION, OR THEY DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE INFORMATION.

SO WHEN WE ARE ASKING QUESTIONS, IT'S NOT THAT WE DO NOT KNOW.

IT IS MORE THAT WE WANT TO ASK THE QUESTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS.

AND THEN IF YOU DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS, THEN, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS OR STAFF SOMETIMES WILL SAY WHY IS IT THAT YOU DID NOT QUESTION THAT THAT ITEM OR CALL OUT SOMETHING? SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A DAMN IF YOU DO.

DAMN IF YOU DON'T. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT IS SO FRUSTRATING TO SEE, YOU KNOW, SOME SITUATIONS THAT ARE DOUBLE STANDARD.

I WAS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND I BELIEVE STEWART WEBSTER AND KATE JOHNSON AND PATTI LYNN AND ALL OF THEM WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE. AND STEWART WEBSTER MADE A COMMENT VERY DISPARAGING ABOUT MISS CALLAWAY.

CAN WE TRY WITHOUT THE NAMES, PLEASE? THIS IS A STATEMENT OF FACT.

SO YOU COULD DO WITHOUT THE NAMES. IT IS. IT IS A STATEMENT OF FACT. SO I CAN CALL NAMES WHEN IT'S A STATEMENT OF FACT.

WE'RE NOT DISPARAGING ANYONE. I'M JUST REITERATING AND REVIEWING A SITUATION.

SO-CALLED HEARSAY. AND STEWART WEBSTER WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE AND MEAN TO MISS CALLAWAY.

AND NONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO THIS MIC SPOKE ABOUT THE INJUSTICE THAT HAPPENED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

SO IT SEEMS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY DISAGREES WITH ANOTHER PERSON OR CALLS OUT ANOTHER PERSON, YOU KNOW. THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE OF THE PERSON THAT IS CALLING OUT THE PERSON.

YOU KNOW, IT IS RIGHT THAT STAFF DOES MOST OF THE WORK HERE.

BUT THE COMMISSIONERS ARE THE ONES STANDING ON THE STREET SIDE BEGGING FOR VOTES.

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RIGHT, CITY MANAGER? YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, MISS CALLAWAY IS A CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL AND IS ALWAYS ON HER A-GAME. YOU KNOW, SO FOR SOMEBODY TO THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT I DON'T RESPECT HER WORK.

IT IS JUST BEYOND SOMETHING THAT'S NOT TRUE. SO, MISS CALLAWAY, YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, AND I CARE ABOUT YOU, AND I LOVE YOUR WORK. AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE WORLD DOES NOT HAVE TO KNOW THAT.

BUT I THINK TODAY I CHOOSE TO TELL THE WORLD THAT THAT YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON AND THAT YOU OUTPUT WONDERFUL WORK.

SO, YOU KNOW, REALLY AND TRULY, I COULD GO INTO THE DEFINITION OF A NARCISSIST AND A MANIPULATOR, BUT I'LL SAVE THAT FOR ANOTHER TIME. CONTINUE TO READ YOUR PAPER.

COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, DISTRICT TWO. NO REPORT, MADAM MAYOR.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER PATTERSON, DISTRICT THREE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I WANT TO, BEFORE I GET STARTED REQUEST THAT WE JUST TAKE A MOMENT OF SILENCE.

THERE IS A RESIDENT IN GRANVILLE, SANDY COGAN, EXCUSE ME, WHO RECENTLY PASSED.

AND IF YOU WOULD JUST GIVE A COUPLE MOMENTS OF YOUR TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE HER.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. ON A BRIGHTER NOTE LEELOO NESTA, MY VERY FABULOUS RESIDENT THAT WE CELEBRATED ON LAST YEAR DURING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, I BELIEVE LAST YEAR, SHE TURNED 108 ON JANUARY 6TH.

SHE TURNED 109, SO I WANTED TO CELEBRATE HER LIFE AGAIN.

AS YOU GUYS MIGHT UNDERSTAND, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY 109 IS INCREDIBLE AND, YOU KNOW, EVERY DAY IS PRECIOUS IN HER WORLD.

AND SO I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HER AND HER FAMILY.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, ON THE 17TH OF JANUARY, WE HAD OUR KICKOFF RIDE FOR MILES COMMUNITY EVENT AT THE TAMARAC SPORTS COMPLEX, WHICH I MUST SAY WAS SUPER AMAZING. I FEEL LIKE THAT TERM IS USED OVERLY WAY TOO FREQUENTLY.

BUT ANYHOW, IT WAS SUPER AMAZING AND SO I WANTED TO TAKE JUST A COUPLE MOMENTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE A FEW PEOPLE.

FIRST OF ALL, MY TEAM WHO MADE THAT HAPPEN. IT WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING, BUT IT WAS SUCCESSFUL NONETHELESS.

IT WAS EXTREMELY EXCITING FOR ALL OF THE PARTICIPANTS.

AND SO AGAIN, THANK YOU GUYS. KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED MAKE THAT POSSIBLE.

I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE VICE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR BOLTON, FOR COMING OUT AND SUPPORTING THE EVENT AND PARTICIPATING FROM START TO FINISH.

SO GOOD JOB OUT THERE. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE COMMISSIONER DANIEL FOR STOPPING BY.

COMMISSIONER JOSH SIMMONS FROM THE CITY OF CORAL SPRINGS FOR STOPPING BY.

I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CHIEF AND BSO TEAM FOR MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS WERE AVAILABLE AND GREAT COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN THAT ENDEAVOR, SO I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMITMENT. CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY, AND ALL OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT CAME OUT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT COMMUNITY RIDE. WE MUST HAVE HAD, AT LEAST, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE 30 OR 40 RIDERS.

WE DID ABOUT 5 OR 6 MILES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

IT WAS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. THE WEATHER COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER.

AND SO IF YOU MISSED IT, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS.

WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK OUT THE THIRD THURSDAY.

EXCUSE ME. THIRD SATURDAY OF SATURDAY, THIRD SATURDAY OF FEBRUARY.

AND EVERY THIRD SATURDAY THEREAFTER UNTIL THE SUMMER.

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK IN THE SUMMER. SO I INVITE YOU TO COME OUT ON FEBRUARY 21ST AT 8 A.M.

THAT AT THE COMPLEX. JOIN US. PLEASE GRAB A BIKE.

MAKE THIS A PART OF YOUR ROUTINE. IT'S REALLY LEISURELY.

IT'S A GREAT EXERCISE. GREAT WORKOUT. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU GUYS THERE.

GREAT WAY TO YOU KNOW, BE IN COMMUNITY. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU GUYS FOR MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

THIS SATURDAY WE HAVE OUR NEW YEAR, NEW HOME WORKSHOP.

SO I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PARTNER WITH A COUPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, A REALTOR, MORTGAGE BROKER, AND A COUPLE OF OTHER HOME EXPERTS. WE'RE GOING TO PUT ON A FIRST TIME HOMEBUYER SEMINAR AT THE TAMARAC COMMUNITY CENTER.

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WE STILL HAVE SPACE AVAILABLE. IT'S GOING TO BE FROM 12 TO 3 P.M.

AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. DISTRICT 4, DOCTOR KICIA DANIEL COMMISSIONER.

CAN I GET MY ORDER ON THAT ONE? OKAY. IT DOESN'T MATTER.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. SO GOOD TO SEE EVERYONE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR. IF I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU BEFORE, I'VE SAID IT BEFORE.

ON THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, WE WILL CONTINUE OUR MONTHLY BI WEEKLY CHEW AND CHAT POP UP.

IT WILL BE AT EDGEWATER PARK. SO PLEASE COME OUT.

IF YOU'RE A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT FOUR, PLEASE COME OUT. WE'LL HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT.

I WILL BE THERE TO ADDRESS ANY CONCERNS YOU MIGHT HAVE, OR ANY THINGS YOU WANT TO SHARE.

THAT THE CITY IS DOING GOOD, BUT WE WILL BE THERE FROM 330 TO APPROXIMATELY 536 IF IT DOESN'T GET TOO COLD.

BUT DEFINITELY WE'LL BE THERE UNTIL 530. SO PLEASE COME OUT AT WATER'S EDGE PARK ON FEBRUARY 1ST, SUNDAY. GET IN STEP, LET ME TELL YOU, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO START ANOTHER CLASS IN THE MORNING BECAUSE IT'S BEEN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL.

OUR WAITING LIST IS APPROXIMATELY 38 TO 40. ANY GIVEN WEEK, THAT IS AMAZING, AND ESPECIALLY FOR SOMEBODY LIKE ME WHO DOESN'T WORK OUT QUITE AS OFTEN AS MY COLLEAGUES. BUT PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU COME OUT TO OUR GET IN STEP, IT'S, OUR NEXT ONE WILL BE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH AT 6:30 AT TAMARAC COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND SAVE THE DATE. MARCH 6TH THROUGH THE SEVENTH IS OUR ANNUAL WOMEN'S GALA.

THIS YEAR WE'LL HAVE A SNEAKER BALL NOMINEE. NOMINATIONS WILL BE OPEN FEBRUARY 1ST.

SO IF THERE'S ANY WOMAN YOU KNOW THAT HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR THE CITY OF TAMARAC, WHETHER SHE LIVES IN TAMARAC OR NOT, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU NOMINATE THIS PERSON. ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT'S LIVING IN THE CITY THAT HAVE DONE SUCH AMAZING THINGS AND NO ONE HAS TRULY CELEBRATED HER WORTH, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU NOMINATE HER.

YOU COULD SIMPLY SEND ME AN EMAIL OR LOOK OUT FOR THE LINK FOR THE NOMINATION.

WE'LL ALSO BE HAVING DURING THAT TIME WORKSHOPS, WORKSHOPS ON HOW TO USE AI TO LAUNCH BUSINESS, HOW TO USE AI TO AUTOMATE YOUR BUSINESS, AND WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON GETTING A WORKSHOP HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH AMAZON.

SO IF YOU WANT TO PARTNER WITH AMAZON, THIS MIGHT BE THE TRAINING FOR YOU AS WELL.

ON APRIL 18TH, WE'LL HAVE OUR YOUTH SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUTH AGES EIGHT THROUGH 18.

SO LOOK OUT FOR THOSE TOPICS AND DISCUSSION AND REGISTRATION.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WANT TO CONGRATULATE FOOTBALL TECH ALL STARS? THEY RENTED THE FIELDS FROM US A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO FOR A FOOTBALL GAME, AND IT WAS JUST VERY NICE TO SEE THE COACHES WORKING WITH THEIR TEAMS, TEACHING THEM THE VALUE OF SPORTSMANSHIP ALONG WITH WINNING, BUT KEEPING COMPETITION ON THE FIELD AND REMEMBERING.

ONCE YOU WIN, WE GO BACK TO WE'RE FRIENDS. AND THEY DID A GREAT, GREAT JOB ON THAT.

IT WAS A PLEASURE TO HAVE BROWARD HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION HERE IN OUR CITY.

THEY ARE COMMITTED TO EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY, OUR YOUTH AND OUR ADULTS.

THE ISSUES WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE FACT THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO THE SIGNS, WHETHER ONLINE, SOCIAL MEDIA, GAMING. AND CHILD EXPLOITATION.

SO WE REALLY DO NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT ARE SUBLIMINALLY SENT TO EVEN US AS ADULTS.

AND JUST IMAGINE HOW. IT CAN GET TO OUR CHILDREN, HOW SUSCEPTIBLE THEY CAN BE.

SO PLEASE, LET'S JUST KEEP IN MIND ON THAT FOR OUR CHILDREN BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

SPEAKING OF OUR KIDS, THERE WAS A WONDERFUL RIBBON CUTTING GRAND OPENING OF BLUEBIRD KIDS HEALTH AT THE MIDWAY SHOPPING PLAZA, AND I'LL JUST READ YOU THEIR MISSION. AT BLUEBIRD KIDS HEALTH, THEY BELIEVE THAT EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO THRIVE PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND SOCIALLY. THEY'RE HERE TO MAKE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY HEALTHCARE EASIER, FASTER, AND MORE EQUITABLE FOR FAMILIES. AND THAT'S FOR FAMILIES OF ALL AGES.

AND WHETHER THE KIDS ARE ON MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SPECIAL NEEDS.

THEY HAVE A WONDERFUL TEAM OF DOCTORS AND A VERY WARM AND KIND NURSING AND SUPPORT STAFF.

SO PLEASE TAKE A YOURSELF OVER THERE OR YOUR FAMILY OVER THERE IF YOU NEED.

IT'S AT 7613 NORTH WEST 57TH STREET IN MIDWAY PLAZA.

NOW, WHILE I KNOW THIS SATURDAY IS SUPPOSED TO BE A LITTLE COLD AND MIGHT GET A LITTLE RAINY, STILL HOPE THAT YOU'LL COME OUT TO OUR LIBERTY TREE DEDICATION FROM 10:30 TO 11:30.

WE DO HAVE TENTS. WE WILL BE GIVING OUT LITTLE HAND WARMERS BECAUSE WE WERE NOT ABLE TO GET THE HEATERS IN TIME.

BUT OUR USA TURNS 250 THIS YEAR, AND SO IT'S KICKING OFF THE EVENT WITH THE SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION,

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IT'S A LIVE OAK TREE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE PATRIOTS AND VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED, THOSE WHO ARE SERVING, AND THOSE WHO WILL BE OUR FUTURE DEFENDERS FOR FIGHTING AND KEEPING ONE OF THE GREATEST GIFTS WE HAVE, IF NOT ONE OF THE GREATEST GIFTS WE HAVE, WHICH IS OUR FREEDOM.

AND SO IT'S JUST A MINDFUL DEDICATION TO THEM.

AND THE MIAMIANS WILL BE SINGING AND THERE'LL BE SOME LIGHT NOURISHMENT THERE.

ON FEBRUARY 2ND, IT'S A MONDAY AT 630. COME FOR THE FREE MOVE WITH MAYOR CLASS AS WE DO A LITTLE ZUMBA.

THIS TIME WILL BE ZUMBA. AND THEN THE SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH WE HAVE OUR 5K CLUB AND YOU CAN RUN.

YOU CAN WALK. WE'RE AT DEPTFORD PARK STARTS AT SEVEN.

WE DO SOME STRETCHING. WE WALK OR RUN AT OUR OWN PACE AND THEN WE STRETCH SOME MORE AND THERE'S SOME NICE FELLOWSHIP RIGHT AFTERWARDS.

SO THAT'S EVERY SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH.

AND SINCE THAT'S ALSO VALENTINE'S DAY, WHAT BETTER WAY TO BURN OFF SOME CALORIES BEFORE YOU EAT A LOT OF CHOCOLATE, RIGHT? SO JOIN US FOR THAT. AND THEN THESE CLASSES THAT YOU HEAR FROM THE COMMISSION THAT WE'RE DOING, THESE ARE IN ADDITION TO THE WONDERFUL PROGRAMING THAT OUR OWN CITY ALREADY PUTS FORTH.

OUR PARK AND REC TEAM DOES A GREAT JOB AND WE HAVE VARIOUS ATHLETIC PROGRAMS. WE HAVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR EVERYONE. SO CHECK OUT OUR PROGRAM, CHECK OUT THROUGH THE CITY WHAT WE'VE GOT.

AND DO KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY HERE IN THE CITY.

WE JUST ADD A LITTLE BIT OF OUR OWN FLAVOR ON SOME OF THE ONES THAT WE'RE DOING.

AND WHILE I KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER PATTERSON HAS NOW SET HER BE KIND BICYCLE RIDING AT 08:00 ON SATURDAY THE 21ST, WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THAT, GO HOME, SHOWER, DON'T SHOWER. SEE IF WE CARE. YOU'RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE. JOIN COMMISSIONER WRIGHT AND I AT 10 TO 1 AT TAMARAC PARK. WE HAVE OUR ANNUAL PET EXPO WHERE YOU CAN COME ADOPT THEIR ADOPTABLE CATS, BIRDS AND DOGS. AND WE HAVE A LITTLE AREA FOR PET PARADE, AN OPEN LEASH AREA.

YOU CAN BRING YOUR PETS JUST WHILE YOU'RE WALKING THEM AROUND.

PLEASE KEEP THEM ON A LEASH. THERE'S SOME PET PRODUCTS.

THERE IS PET CPR BEING DONE BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, AND THERE ARE SOME OUTFITS THAT YOU CAN PUT ON YOUR PETS AS WELL.

IT'S A GREAT NIGHT OR A GREAT AFTERNOON. AND BROWARD COUNTY WILL BE HAVING A VACCINE, MICROCHIPPING AND REGISTRATION PROGRAM THERE.

WE'RE WORKING ON SOME OF THE FINER DETAILS. WE'LL GET THOSE TO YOU AT THE NEXT MEETING, BUT PLEASE COME OUT TO TAMARAC PARK AT 10 TO 1 WITH YOUR LOVE BUG AND WE WILL SEE YOU THERE WHERE YOU CAN ADOPT YOUR NEXT FUR BABY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

[5.a. TR14022 -A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida approving and authorizing the deviation from Section 2-76 of the City of Tamarac Code of Ordinances entitled "Lien Reduction and Abatement Procedures", specifically Section 2-76 (4) (e), to review for consideration relief to reduce the lien accrual amounts on the property located at 3100-3224 West Commercial Blvd and 3102 NW 50 Street, owned by YDB Three Lakes; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing an effective date. ]

I'D LIKE A SECOND TO MY MOTION. SECOND. I HAVE A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WRIGHT TO MY MOTION BEING NO CHANGES ON THE AGENDA.

MISS ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, MONICA. MADAM MAYOR.

I'VE ALREADY CALLED THE ROLL. I HAVE A QUESTION.

I'VE ALREADY CALLED THE ROLL. THE LAST TIME I DID THIS, I GOT JUMPED ON. GO AHEAD, VICE MAYOR. CAN I HAVE AN EXPLANATION ON 5.A? I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO PULL IT. IF I NEED TO PULL IT THEN I WILL.

BUT I JUST NEED AN EXPLANATION. FURTHER EXPLANATION ON THAT.

MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR. SO THIS ITEM WAS BEFORE YOU, I BELIEVE LAST YEAR, THIS PLAZA CAME IN REQUESTING SELLING THE EXISTING VIOLATIONS AND THE LIEN AMOUNTS ON THE ON THE PLAZA AT THAT TIME THEY WERE MAKING SOME, SOME PLANS FOR SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PLAZA AND THE COMMISSIONS ADVICE AT THAT TIME WAS TO GO BACK, MAKE SOME PROGRESS, REMOVE SOME OF THESE VIOLATIONS OR REPAIR OR RESOLVE SOME OF THESE VIOLATIONS AND THEN COME BACK TO US.

AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY. SO THE PLAZA HAS BEEN MAKING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FACADE. THEY REPLACE, THE ROOF.

THEY REPLACE, THEY'RE MAKING MAJOR CHANGES TO THE FACADE.

THEY'RE MAKING MAJOR CHANGES. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PARKING LOT, LANDSCAPE, PERIMETER LANDSCAPING.

AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU'RE AWARE OF NEW TENANTS COMING INTO THE PLAZA.

SO MAKING THIS PLAZA REALLY, REALLY COME ALIVE SINCE THAT TIME.

SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM CLOSELY IN THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PLAZA.

AND SO NOW THEY'RE BEFORE YOU TO REQUEST THAT SETTLEMENT AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THEIR OPERATIONS.

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AND I BELIEVE VICE MAYOR DANIEL AT THE TIME HAD VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED IT.

I BELIEVE THE OPPOSITION WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PLAZA AT THAT TIME AND ASKING FOR SETTLEMENT ON LIENS.

AND THAT'S WHY THE ADVICE OR THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION WAS, YOU KNOW, BRING THE IMPROVEMENTS, MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN COME BACK TO US FOR LIEN SETTLEMENT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME MANAGER, YOU KNOW. POINT OF CLARIFICATION FOR A MOMENT.

THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE NO DISCUSSION. HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU START GETTING PRICKLY.

THERE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DISCUSSION ON A CONSENT ITEM.

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO CALL THE ROLL. IF THERE'S GOING TO BE DISCUSSION ON THIS.

THE TITLE NEEDS TO BE READ INTO THE RECORD AND IT NEEDS TO BE PULLED.

NOW, CONSIDERING IT IS ALSO THE ONLY ITEM ON CONSENT, THEN LET'S JUST DO THIS PROPERLY BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY APPEARING, BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT COMMISSIONER DANIEL NOW WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

LET'S DO THIS PROPERLY BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO PULL AN ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA WHEN IT'S THE ONLY ITEM, NOT CONSENT. CORRECT, BUT YOU HAVE TO READ THE ITEM ON THE AGENDA IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE DISCUSSION.

CONSENT AGENDAS DO NOT HAVE DISCUSSION. COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

LET'S, IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DISCUSSION, LET'S PULL THE ITEM.

OKAY. AND DO YOU WANT TO PULL ITEM. ARE YOU PULLING THE ITEM? I PULL THE ITEM. CITY ATTORNEY PLEASE READ TR14022 FOR THE RECORD.

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF CITY OF TAMARAC APPROVING AND AUTHORIZE A DEVIATION FROM SECTION 2-76 OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC CODE OF ORDINANCE "LIEN REDUCTION AND ABATEMENT PROCEDURES", SPECIFICALLY SECTION 2-76, TO REVIEW FOR CONSIDERATION RELIEF TO REDUCE THE LIEN ACTUAL AMOUNTS ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3100-3224 WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE MOTION AND THE SECOND.

MOVE IT. STILL CARRY. SECOND. SECOND. IT'S ALREADY MOTIONED AND SECOND, IT STILL CARRIES.

PLEASE PROCEED WITH YOUR COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION.

CLERK, PLEASE. OKAY, SO I THINK I HAVE A GOOD MEMORY.

WE HAD, YOU KNOW, MAJOR DISCUSSIONS ON THIS. THE COMMISSION WAS WAS NOT IN SYNC WITH THIS.

I ALSO HEARD COMMISSIONER PATTERSON SAY THAT IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO BE GIVING OR DISHING OUT MONEY, WHETHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ESPECIALLY TO THESE SORT OF BUSINESSES.

WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT SHAKER VILLAGE AND REDUCING LIENS THE COMMUNITY WENT IN UPROAR.

UPROAR. WHILE THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WERE CONSIDERING DOING.

THE COMMUNITY SPOKE OUT AGAINST IT THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE GIVING REDUCING LIENS FOR ANYBODY.

SO WHY ARE WE GOING TO REDUCE LIENS FOR A BUSINESS? SO I'M GOING TO VOTE NO ON THIS. I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS RIGHT.

SURE. THEY'RE FIXING THEIR PLAZA, BUT IT IS. IT'S A BUSINESS, AND THAT'S THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS.

YOU FIX YOUR PLAZA. YOU GET NEW TENANTS, AND YOU PAY FOR THE UPGRADES.

CITY SHOULD NOT BE PAYING FOR PLAZAS UPGRADE.

ABSOLUTELY NOT. COMMISSIONER DANIEL. THANKS, I WASN'T PLANNING TO SPEAK, BUT I WAS GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH THE ATTORNEY THIS MORNING REGARDING THIS BECAUSE I WAS AWARE OF THAT.

SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. ASKING HIM HOW COME IT REACHED OUT, WE DIDN'T GET ANY UPDATES, BECAUSE NOW WE'VE BEEN DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH HAVING OUR PLAZA UPDATE UP UPDATED.

LIKE IF YOU DRIVE AROUND, YOU'VE SEEN THE IMPROVEMENT TO STOP THAT AND GO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS.

I THINK THE RESIDENTS WILL BE UPSET. I WOULD BE UPSET.

SO I KNOW I WAS TALKING WITH THE ATTORNEY EARLIER AND HE SAID, WELL, THEY HAVE DONE IMPROVEMENT, BUT WHAT IMPROVEMENTS? I DON'T KNOW. ALL RIGHT.

SO COMMISSIONER, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF IMAGES, PRESENTATIONS THAT, THAT WE CAN, I'M GOING TO INVITE DIKO ALEXANDER TO SHOW US. BUT I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE PURPOSE.

I DON'T, I SHOULDN'T SAY THIS, BUT THE PURPOSE OF THE LIEN PROCESS IS COMPLIANCE.

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SO THIS PLAZA IS MAKING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS THROUGH THE PERMITTING PROCESS.

AND YOU KNOW, DAILY IMPROVEMENTS THAT, THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM.

AND SO THEY'RE COMPLYING WITH THE VIOLATIONS AND BRING THE PLAZA INTO COMPLIANCE STATUS.

AND SO IT WORKED THE LIEN PROCESS WORKED. AND AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE BUSINESS OPERATIONS OF THIS PLAZA.

IT'S A CRITICAL ELEMENT IN THE CITY TO HAVE OUR BUSINESSES OPERATE IN AND BRING THE ACTIVITY, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE REVENUES TO THE CITY.

AND WHEN WE HAVE THE CERTIFICATE OF USE PROGRAM THAT'S RELATED TO THE CODE VIOLATIONS, IT HINDERS THEIR OPERATIONS.

AND SO IF THEY'RE COMPLYING, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALSO COOPERATING WITH THE BUSINESS TO CONTINUE THEIR BUSINESSES IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC. I UNDERSTAND THAT I'M INTERESTED IN SEEING EXACTLY WHAT THEY'VE DONE BECAUSE FOR YEARS THEY'VE DONE NOTHING.

ABSOLUTELY. SO ARE WE SAYING YOU COULD JUST GET AWAY WITH DOING NOTHING ONCE YOU DO IT, WE TAKE AWAY THE LIEN.

NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. SO WE WOULDN'T TAKE AWAY THE LIENS WITHOUT ANY PROGRESS, SO.

YEAH, ARE WE DOING THAT FOR RESIDENTS HOMES? WE DO.

THAT'S. SO RESIDENTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT IF YOU HAVE A LIEN AND YOU COMPLY, THE LIEN GOES AWAY.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY THE MONEY. CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PROCESSES THOSE.

I MEAN, LET'S BE CLEAR. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS.

I KNOW IT'S NOT TRUE. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING. SOMEBODY SAID I THINK IT WAS KKK.

KATE SAID THAT. BE CAREFUL. THE QUESTION YOU ASKED SOMEBODY WAS SAYING THAT.

I JUST WANT TO CLEAR THE RECORD, COMMISSIONER DANIELS.

LIENS ARE NEGOTIATED WITH OBVIOUSLY CITY MANAGER THROUGH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND CODE.

THEY MAKE THE BUSINESS CALL WITH RESPECT TO THE MONETARY AMOUNT.

THERE'S A FORMULA THAT THEY USE. WE BASICALLY WORK OUT AGREEMENT.

OBVIOUSLY, IF THE LIEN IS RECORDED, WE WOULD FILE APPROPRIATE COMPLIANCE AGREEMENT, BUT THE NUMBERS WORK THROUGH CITY MANAGER, THROUGH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF WHAT PERCENTAGE IS SETTLED AND DEPENDS ON COMPLIANCE, ALSO HELPS A HOMEOWNER IN TERMS OF THE. I'M JUST SAYING, IF WE'RE DOING THIS FOR THE BUSINESS, IT SHOULD ALSO BE APPLICABLE TO THE RESIDENTS, RIGHT? IF WE'RE GIVEN THIS TYPE OF BREAK TO A BUSINESS.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THE OUTCOME TO KNOW THAT, OH, HE DESERVED TO EVEN BE CONSIDERED.

BUT WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, BECAUSE WHAT I DON'T WANT IS THAT WE REVERT BACK TO WHERE HOW THE PLAZA'S USED TO LOOK.

I MEAN, I HAVEN'T BEEN INTO WINN-DIXIE OR ANY PLACES LATELY TO SEE IF THERE'S IMPROVEMENTS.

THERE'S NO MORE WINN-DIXIE, RIGHT? WELL, THERE GOES THAT.

THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING. YEAH. SO I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE, SO I DON'T KNOW.

I CAN TELL YOU, MAYBE COMMISSIONER BOLTON COULD MORE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE WORKING WITH STAFF.

I CAN TELL YOU FROM A RESIDENT STANDPOINT, I BELIEVE THEY THEY'VE BEEN VERY LENIENT, ESPECIALLY ON COMPLIANCE ISSUES.

THE NUMBERS HAVEN'T BEEN THAT HIGH. BECAUSE IF THE RESIDENTS SHOW THEY HAVE COMPLIED, USUALLY IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT FINE THAT THEY PAY.

AND THAT'S THE HISTORY I HAVE SEEN WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND MANAGEMENT.

OKAY. POINT OF ORDER. CITY CITY ATTORNEY, WE MUST CORRECT THE RECORD ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LIENS BEING WIPED OUT FOR RESIDENTS.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT TRUE. WHEN WHEN MY CHURCH WAS BUYING A PROPERTY IN SHAKER VILLAGE, THE CHURCH HAD TO PAY THE CITY ALL OF THE LIENS SUBJECT TO THAT PROPERTY BEFORE THE CHURCH COULD EVEN CLOSE ON THE PROPERTY.

AND THERE'S THERE'S NO AGREEMENT GIVING A DISCOUNT TO A COMMUNITY THAT REALLY WANTS HELP.

THERE'S NO DISCOUNT. THERE'S AN AGREEMENT THAT WHEN YOU SELL A PROPERTY.

YEAH. YOU THE THE PERSON THAT IS BUYING THE PROPERTY HAS TO PAY THE LIENS, BUT THERE'S NO THERE'S NO DISCOUNT.

SO WHY IS IT THAT WE'RE GIVING THIS COMPANY THIS BUSINESS? THIS THIS AGREEMENT? NOW, I'M NOT AGAINST I'M NOT AGAINST, YOU KNOW, THE PROGRAM ITSELF, BUT DO A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM THAT

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ONE BUSINESS GETTING THIS TYPE OF BENEFIT WHEN WE HAVE NOT LOOKED ON THE WHOLE CITY OVERALL.

CREATE A PROGRAM, CREATE A PROGRAM FOR THE ENTIRE CITY FOR RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, AND ALL OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE ARE IN THIS PREDICAMENT. CREATE THAT THAT THAT PROGRAM, BRING IT TO THE CITY COMMISSION.

LET'S VOTE ON IT AS A UNIFIED THING. BUT TO SINGLE OUT THIS BUSINESS, TO GIVE THEM A BREAK, TO GIVE THEM A HOOK UP. CROP. COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER BOLTON VICE CHAIR BOLTON.

THANK YOU. YOUR POINT'S BEEN MADE BACK TO COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. I WANTED TO HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. IT'S YOUR VIEW.

THAT POINT OF CLARIFICATION THAT WAS MADE IS DONE.

YOU'RE. YOU'RE BACK. GO AHEAD. COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER, ASSISTANT BUILDING OFFICIAL, IF I MAY INTERRUPT FOR A SECOND, WOULD YOU ALSO DISCUSS THE THE THE PROCESS WE FOLLOW FOR LIEN SETTLEMENTS ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES EVERY SINGLE DAY AND HOW WE WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO NEGOTIATE TO SETTLE THEM FOR A FRACTURE OF OF FRACTION OF THE ACTUAL LIEN AMOUNTS.

YES. COMMISSIONER TO CLARIFY A POINT WHERE THE CITY SETTLE LIENS WITH RESIDENTS IS WHAT HAPPENED IS ONCE THE PROPERTY, THE VIOLATION AND THE PROPERTY IS ACTIVE, WE CANNOT SETTLE THE THE LIENS ON THE PROPERTY.

SO WHAT WE DO IS IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUY THAT PROPERTY, WE GIVE A STIFF AGREEMENT, RIGHT.

AND THAT STEP AGREEMENT TELLS THE NEW OWNER THAT YOU ARE BUYING THE PROPERTY WITH A VIOLATION, WITH A LIEN, AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE OF TAKING CARE OF THAT LIEN WITHIN 120 DAYS.

I THINK IT IS IN IN OBTAINING THAT PROPERTY. THAT'S THAT'S THE PROCESS WE HAVE IF THE VIOLATION IS STILL ON THE PROPERTY. HOWEVER, IF THE VIOLATION IS TAKEN CARE OF ON THE PROPERTY, THEN WE DO A LEAN REDUCTION.

WE MITIGATE THE LIEN AND WE ALLOW WE COME TO A SETTLEMENT.

NORMALLY WE START AT 10% IF OF THE LEAN VALUE.

IF THE RESIDENT SAYS THEY CAN'T DO 10%, WE GO DOWN TO 5%.

AND BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE RESIDENT, WE WILL WE WILL REDUCE IT FURTHER AND THEN WE TAKE IT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, DO UP THE AGREEMENT AND THEY PAY THE LIEN SETTLEMENT AND WE TAKE THE LIEN OFF.

THAT'S ONLY IF THE VIOLATION IS CURED ON THE PROPERTY.

THE PROPERTY IS VIOLATION FREE. HOWEVER, ON ON THIS BUSINESS, NOW, ALL THE VIOLATION HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF.

BUT THE LIENS IS STILL THERE. SO THIS ITEM IS TO REALLY ACCEPT THE RE THE, THE LIEN REDUCTION AMOUNT THAT BECAUSE THE, THE PROPERTY OWNER IS DOING BEAUTIFICATION AND UPGRADE TO THE PROPERTY.

SO THE PROPERTY OWNER WANTS A TRADE OFF BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY ARE GOING TO SPEND IN A UPGRADING THE THE PLAZA. RIGHT. THEY WANTED A TRADE OFF WITH THE LIEN SETTLEMENT AMOUNT, WHICH WE ORIGINALLY GAVE THEM A SETTLEMENT AMOUNT OF 580 SOMETHING THOUSAND DOLLARS.

RIGHT. THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AMOUNT.

HOWEVER, THE PROPERTY OWNER COUNTER THAT COUNTER THAT OFFER WITH $100,000, PLUS ANOTHER $100,000 FOR BEAUTIFICATION OF THE PLAZA.

THAT'S WHAT WAS BROUGHT TO YOU. ON FEBRUARY 28TH, 2024, WHERE IT WAS VOTED FOR 4 TO 1 ON IT TO TABLE THE THE ITEM AND BRING IT BACK TO COMMISSION AT A LATER DATE.

RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHY IT'S BACK BEFORE YOU WITH ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY ARE DOING NOW TO SHOW YOU TO SEE IF YOU WILL MAKE A DECISION WHETHER TO ACCEPT THE $100,000 REDUCTION OR NOT. POINT OF CLARIFICATION.

YOU'RE MOVING FROM $145,700. FOR ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO THINK THAT WE DON'T READ THE BACKUP.

$4,145,700. AND YOUR YOUR. YOU'RE TELLING US THAT WE SHOULD GIVE $100,000? SO SO THE $100,000 FROM $4 MILLION. OKAY, THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION WILL BEGIN.

YOU DON'T NEED TO BE ALL. ALL. YEAH. PONTIFICATING.

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I WANT TO GO BACK INTO ORDER. WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO A PRESENTATION BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SHOULD BE DONE RIGHT NOW TO.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENTS.

AND THEN I KNOW THAT. BUT I NEED COMMISSIONER DANIEL, YOU YOU WANTED A PRESENTATION.

YOU WANTED TO SEE MORE. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.

YOU HAD ABOUT TWO MINUTES LEFT ON YOUR FIVE MINUTES.

WE'RE CUTTING YOU IN HALF RIGHT NOW. YOU'LL GO BACK TO IT. AND THEN COMMISSIONER PATTERSON, I DO SEE YOU WANT TO SPEAK, BUT LET'S GET THE TRAIN BACK ON THE TRACK BEFORE PEOPLE ARE GETTING ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY.

PLEASE GO ON WITH A PRESENTATION. SO? SO THIS IS THE VIOLATION.

HISTORY. AS OF NOVEMBER 15TH, 2023, THE PROPERTY VIOLATED MULTIPLE CITY ORDINANCE, RIGHT? WHICH GENERATED VIOLATION IN LEAN IN LEAN AMOUNTS.

AS OF NOVEMBER 2ND, 2028, THE CITY ISSUED A SETTLEMENT LETTER, WHICH IS EXHIBIT A OCCURRED FINES AT THE TIME $4,000,145, AND FOR $4,145,700. THE CITY ISSUED A SETTLEMENT LETTER FOR THAT LIEN AMOUNT OF $570,000 TO THE PROPERTY OWNER, PLUS THE RELEASE OF LIEN FEES, WHICH IS $15,252 PLUS THE STIPULATED AGREEMENT FEE OF $492 IN NOVEMBER 8TH. ON NOVEMBER 8TH, 2018, THE OWNER OF THE PLAZA RESPONDED AND WITH A COUNTEROFFER. ON MAY 16TH, 2019, THE CITY ATTORNEY.

THE THEN CITY ATTORNEY. THANK YOU. THE THEN CITY ATTORNEY SENT A A LETTER TO THE HOME OWNER OF FORECLOSURE NOTICE BECAUSE THE HOME, THE PROPERTY OWNER FAILED TO CORRECT THE VIOLATION AT THE TIME.

YES, YES, I HAVE THE IMAGES. YES, I HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION.

I'LL SHOW YOU THE IMAGES. I'M JUST GIVING YOU THE HISTORY.

THE MAGISTRATE. THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE PROCEEDING WAS ON SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2020, WHERE THE STAFF REQUESTED FORECLOSURE AUTHORIZATION TO FORECLOSE ON THE PROPERTY. ALL RIGHT.

AND THAT'S ON EXHIBIT F AND G. AT THE TIME, THERE WERE 30 LIENS IDENTIFIED.

AS A SUBSEQUENT OFFER SUBMITTED BY THE PROPERTY OWNER ON JULY 7TH, 2023, WITH A SETTLEMENT OF $100,000, PLUS THE 15,252 RELEASE OF LEGAL FEES, THE 492 STIPULATED AGREEMENT AND 100,000 IN PROPERTY BEAUTIFICATION. AT THAT TIME, THERE WERE 33 TOTAL LIENS.

21 WERE BUILDING LIENS AND 12 WERE CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS.

AND THERE WERE SIX OPEN PERMITS ACTIVE AND FOUR LINEAR AND FOUR LEAN CASES OCCURRED AFTER THE FORECLOSURE REQUEST.

ALSO ON THAT PROPERTY THERE IS A CITY. THERE WERE THE THE BOSTON MARKET, WHICH IS NOW CITIBANK, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT LATER AND SHOW YOU IMAGES.

SO AS OF PRESENT, AS OF TODAY, THERE IS 33 LIENS NOW IN COMPLIANCE WITH FINES ON IT.

RIGHT. THREE ACTIVE OPEN LIENS, FIVE OPEN PERMITS AND ONE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE CASE THAT HASN'T OCCURRED.

ANY LIENS OR ANYTHING ON IT? AND THE CITIBANK PROPERTY HAS FIVE OPEN PERMITS, BUT THAT'S JUST FOR SIGNS.

SO THAT HAS NO VIOLATION ON IT. AND IT HAS ONE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE CASE ON IT.

SO THE OCCURRED FINES AS OF TODAY. SO WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT THE 4 MILLION WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY THE ADJUSTED FINES IS ACTUALLY $925, WHICH $2,795,875 IS BUILDING AND CODE ENFORCEMENT IS $982,050. SO THE RECOMMENDED SETTLEMENT IS 100,000, PLUS THE RELEASE FEES OF 16,000 236,482 PER LINE BY 33, AND STIPULATED AGREEMENT OF

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THIS IS A LANDSCAPING PLAN WHERE HE PLANS TO DO PLANT TREES AND UPGRADE THE CAR PARK, SITE LIGHTING AND ALL THE GOOD STUFF TO MAKE IT LOOK REALLY NICE. THESE ARE THE PLANS THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO US IN THE PERMIT. I'LL JUST GO THROUGH IT FAST. THE NEXT SLIDE AND I'LL BRING UP THE NEXT SLIDE.

NOW WITH THE IMPROVEMENT THAT IS ALREADY BEEN MADE WITH THE PICTURES AND ALL THAT.

YEAH. NOT NOT THIS ONE. THE OTHER ONE. SORRY.

THE LAST ONE.

OKAY. SO PRESENTLY AT THE SITE NOW THIS IS THE ONGOING WORKS THAT IS TAKING PLACE AT THE PLAZA RIGHT NOW. WINN-DIXIE, IS THERE NO MORE? IT WAS TAKEN OVER BY FESTIVAL SUPERMARKET WHICH GOT THEIR SEAL ON.

THEIR SEAL WAS ISSUED. ON AUGUST 29TH, 2025. SO AS.

AS OF THE OCTOBER 8TH, 2025 FESTIVAL SUPERMARKET IS NOW TAKING OVER THAT SPACE WHERE WINN-DIXIE OCCUPIES, AND THEY HAVE DONE A LOT OF UPGRADE AND UPKEEP TO THE, THE THE SITE. ALSO THERE IS CITIBANK, WHICH TOOK OVER THE BOSTON MARKET THAT THEY GOT THEIR CEO ON JUNE 18TH, 2025. SO THERE IS TWO NEW BUSINESSES IN THAT PLAZA AS WE SPEAK, THAT HAS TAKEN OVER FROM BOSTON MARKET AND WINN-DIXIE. SO THESE ARE SOME IMAGES OF THE ONGOING WORK THAT IS GOING ON AT THE SITE PRESENTLY. THIS IS HOW IT'S GOING TO LOOK WHEN IT'S FINISHED. THE FRONT ELEVATION. THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS RIGHT NOW.

OKAY, SO THIS IS HOW THIS IS THE RENDERING JOIN HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO LOOK WHEN IT'S COMPLETED.

I COULD SAY RIGHT NOW THAT THEY HAVE THE FACADE PERMIT ACTIVE.

THAT'S PERMIT NUMBER 24 1628. THAT WAS APPROVED ON DECEMBER 15TH, 2025.

AND IT'S ONGOING RIGHT NOW. THEY ALSO APPLIED FOR THE SEAL COATING PERMIT 25 TO 0 ZERO ONE.

THAT'S IN REVIEW RIGHT NOW BY THE DEPARTMENT.

WE DIDN'T ISSUE IT YET. AND ALSO WE HAVE ISSUED THE ROOFING PERMIT TO DO OVER THE MANSARD ROOF AND THE FLAT ROOF PERMIT 25 2608 THAT WAS APPROVED ON AUGUST 6TH, 2025.

SO I COULD SAFELY SAY THAT THE WORK IS ONGOING.

THERE IS A CONTRACT AMOUNT THAT THE PLAZA OWNER HAD SIGNED WITH A CONTRACTOR IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,285,000, IN WHICH THE PLAZA OWNER ALREADY PAID IN, IN THE AMOUNT OF $550,000 ALREADY TO THE CONTRACTOR

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THE SETTLEMENT AMOUNT RECOMMENDED IS $100,000.

IT'S UP TO THE COMMISSION TO DECIDE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

POINT OF CLARIFICATION. FROM THAT, YOU CAN ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.

POINT OF IT'S NOT A QUESTION. IT'S A POINT OF CLARIFICATION.

I WAS AT THE CITIBANK OPENING, AND I ASKED CITIBANK SPECIFICALLY IF THEY DID THE UPGRADES THEMSELVES TO THE OUTPARCEL, AND THEY SAID, YES, THAT'S IRRELEVANT. NO, IT IS NOT IRRELEVANT BECAUSE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE MAKING THIS PRESENTATION AS IF THE PLAZA OWNERS COMMENTS DURING YOUR NEXT TIME WE'RE GOING BACK IN LINE.

NO, IT IS A POINT OF CLARIFICATION TO THE TO THE PRESENTATION.

YOU COULD DO THAT DURING YOUR OWN. THIS WAS PRESENTED.

DO NOT TURN OFF MY MIC. THIS WAS PRESENTED AS IF CITIBANK WAS.

THIS WAS SOMETHING. THIS WAS PRESENTED AS IF CITIBANK WAS WAS GIVEN SOME CONSIDERATIONS FROM THIS PLAZA OWNER. THERE ARE OUTSIDE BUSINESS THAT DID THEIR OWN UPGRADES TO THE OUTPARCEL.

THIS COMPANY DID NOT GIVE CITIBANK A HANDOUT.

SO DON'T PUT CITIBANK IN THIS TO SAY, OH, LOOK AT YOUR BANK.

THIS IS NOT MAYOR COMMISSIONER BOLTON ASKS. HE CAN ASK HIS QUESTIONS DURING HIS NEXT TWO MINUTE PERIOD THAT HE HAS RIGHT NOW.

WE'RE NO JUMPING IN ORDER. HE BROUGHT UP CITIBANK.

YES. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HE COULD TAKE A NOTE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE DOES AND WRITE IT DOWN.

WE'RE DONE. AND POINT OF CLARIFICATION. WE'RE NOW OPENING.

WE ARE NOW OPENING THIS MATTER FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

IS THERE TWO MINUTES? WE'RE GOING TO DO I SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO YOUR TWO MINUTES BACK IN LINE.

I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING IT AFTER HIM BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO GO IN THE PROPER ORDER.

WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS. THEN US SPEAK.

SO YOU WILL HAVE YOUR TWO MINUTES AFTER PUBLIC COMMENTS GOES.

AND THEN COMMISSIONER PATTERSON HAS BEEN WAITING.

SHE WILL HAVE HER FIVE MINUTES UNLESS SHE TAKES HER FULL SEVEN.

AND THEN COMMISSIONER BOLTON VICE MAYOR BOLTON WILL HAVE HIS TWO.

IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? OKAY. I'VE GOT MR. GOGGIN, AND THEN. ADAM ANDERSON WILL BE NEXT.

YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. SAME RULES AND REGULATIONS AS IF THIS WAS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, PLEASE.

MARK GOGGIN, TAMARAC LAKE SOUTH, A NEIGHBOR OF THE PLAZA.

I HAVING LIVED THERE 2526 YEARS NEXT TO HIM. I'VE SEEN ALREADY A DRASTIC CHANGE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, TO THE PLAZA. WE HAD THE MAJOR FIRE, PROBABLY ABOUT 4 OR 5 YEARS AT THE FAMILY DOLLAR AFTER SOMEBODY WALKED IN THE STORE, SPILLED GASOLINE AND DROPPED A CIGARETTE. SINCE THEN, I'VE SPOKEN EVERY TIME, BECAUSE WHEN I GO THERE, THE OWNERS OF THE NEW CHINA RESTAURANT, THE MANAGER AT FAMILY DOLLAR, THEY ARE HAPPY WITH THE PLANS AND THE REMAKE THAT'S GOING ON.

YOU CAN NOTICE IT. THE FAMILY DOLLAR, THE FACADE ABOVE IT AT THE ROOF EDGE HAS ACTUALLY EXPANDED THE LENGTH OF THAT.

THE INSIDE OF A COUPLE OF THOSE STORES HAVE BEEN DONE AFTER THE FIRE IN THOSE TWO STORES, THE CITIBANK, YES, TOOK OVER THE BOSTON MARKET. AND OF COURSE, THEY HAD TO DO CHANGES TO THE BUILDING TO MAKE IT TO THEIR NEEDS FOR THEIR NEEDS.

THEY HAD TO DO AWAY WITH THE KITCHEN AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THEY USED THE OLD DRIVE UP WINDOW AS A PLACE FOR OUTSIDE ATM.

SO THOSE IMPROVEMENTS ARE NORMAL FOR A BANK TO MAKE.

SO I ENCOURAGE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP THIS PLAZA, AS OWNERS OF DIFFERENT BUSINESSES IN THERE, ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT'S GOING ON AND NEIGHBORS ARE HAPPY AT THE CHANGES.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. ANDERSON, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. HOW ARE YOU, DAMON? JUST AS FAR AS CITIBANK IS CONCERNED. NAME O ADAM ANDERSON, PROPERTY MANAGER.

THROUGH LINKS. JUST TO SPEAK FOR ONE SECOND ABOUT CITIBANK.

I UNDERSTAND THAT SURVEYS. MAYOR MADE COMMENTS THAT WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE, BECAUSE IF YOU READ OUR CONTRACT, YOU DON'T SEE HOW MUCH FREE TIME WE GAVE THEM.

YOU DON'T SEE WHAT A DISCOUNT WE GAVE THEM IN ORDER TO COME.

YOU DON'T SEE WHAT WE HAVE TO DO TO GET THEM TO THE PLAZA AND AND THE SACRIFICES THE LANDLORD DID TO BRING THEM.

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AND I CAN SHOW YOU HOW MANY YEARS WE GAVE THEM FREE RENT.

BUT REALLY WHAT I CAME TO SPEAK ABOUT IS I'M NOT HERE TO ASK THE CITY TO HAVE MERCY.

WHAT WE ARE, I WANT TO SHOW BECAUSE THIS IS ON EVERYBODY'S PAPER.

I UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY BIG, AND THIS HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO BEFORE I CAME IN.

BUT IF YOU TAKE A LOOK FOR A SECOND. $485,000 OF A LIEN BECAUSE A TENANT DIDN'T CLOSE THEIR AC PERMIT.

334,000 OF EILEEN. LET'S GO TO THIS ONE. ALSO AC DUCTS, 400 $312,000. A TENANT FORGOT TO CLOSE THE PERMIT FOR THEIR SHUTTERS.

MILLIONS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BECAUSE A TENANT IS NOT LIFE SAFETY.

THIS IS NOT THE ONLY SHOPPING CENTER. AND IT'S NOT THE ONLY TOWN THAT I MANAGE FOR THIS GROUP, BUT THE YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NON-LIFE SAFETY.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF LIEN.

BECAUSE THE TENANT PUT A BANNER OUTSIDE THEIR STORE TO ADVERTISE THEIR BUSINESS WITHOUT A PERMIT.

I CAN SHOW YOU 216,000 FOR THAT NOW. YES. THIS IS GOING ON IN A LONG TIME.

AND ALL I CAME TO WHEN I ORIGINALLY CAME BACK, THEN EVEN THE CITY MAYOR.

I'M SORRY. EVEN THE CITY ATTORNEY BACK THEN SAYS.

AND EVEN THE MAGISTER, WHEN I SAT WITH THE MAGISTER THE FIRST TIME AROUND, HE SAYS YES, EVENTUALLY, IF IT COMES TO ME, THESE NUMBERS ARE OUTRAGEOUS.

I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL YOU PUT IT INTO COMPLIANCE.

AND THAT'S WHEN I CAME AND I STARTED DOING ALL THIS WORK.

THEN I CAME TO THE CITY, CAME TO ME. I HAVE THE EMAILS, SCOTT.

HE WAS HE WAS THE HEAD AT THAT POINT. ADAM I ALL FOR $500 PER VIOLATION BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE FEE OF THE VIOLATION WAS AT THE TIME.

HE SAYS, LISTEN, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE. BUT THE MAIN THING WE WANT FROM YOU GUYS IS FOR YOU TO FIX UP THIS PLAZA.

THAT'S WHY WE'RE COMING TO YOU WITH THESE LIENS.

NOT BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO HAVE TO GO SPEND THIS TYPE OF MONEY.

THE IDEA, AND I DO HAVE THE EMAIL I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE WITH EVERYBODY.

COME TO US MORE. YOU ARE THE NUMBER ONE CORNER IN TAMARAC, 3100 WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

BRING US A NICE CENTER. OF COURSE, WE'RE NOT HERE TO BANKRUPT YOUR PEOPLE FOR THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY.

THAT'S NOT WHAT THE IDEA IS. SO WE WENT AND I CAME TO THE MEETING AND I SAID, LET'S DO 100, $150,000 UPGRADE. SORRY, THAT WAS OUR THREE MINUTES.

OH, SO I CAN'T GO PAST THIS. NO, SORRY. BECAUSE ACTUALLY, THIS ISN'T NORMALLY A PRESENTATION TIME.

SO MAYBE YOUR COLLEAGUE WOULD LIKE TO TO SAY SOME MORE WORDS.

TRY YOUR NAME, PLEASE. YEAH. WENDY. ALBERT. I AM ADAM ANDERSON, ASSISTANT.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU ALSO LIKE THE CURRENT WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE PLAZA, BECAUSE IT WASN'T LIKE IN THE IN THE SCREEN, BUT BASICALLY, YES, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD WITH THE TENANTS, WITH THE MANAGEMENT TO IMPROVE AND TO HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL PLAZA FOR YOU GUYS AND FOR THE CITY OF TAMARAC. SO BASICALLY, YEAH, WHAT THEY WANT IS LIKE IF YOU CAN GIVE HIM ACCEPT HIS OFFER, THAT'S THE MAIN THEME. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP WORKING, KEEP IMPROVING THE PLAZA.

I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SHOW YOU THIS. I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING THEM.

YEAH. OKAY. IF WE JUST IF YOU WOULD PLEASE STOP THE TIME FOR A SECOND AND THEN.

PASS THE. IT'LL GO TO THE CITY CLERK IF YOU WOULD.

BECAUSE I PROMISE I DROVE BY A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND IT LOOKED THE EXACT SAME WAY TO ME.

I DIDN'T GO INSIDE. I LIKED THE WINGS PLACE, BUT I'M SCARED TO EAT IN THERE.

THERE WAS STUFF ALL IN THE ROOF, LIKE WATER STAINS ALL OVER.

IT WAS NASTY. THE RULES OF THE HOUSE IS THAT YOU DON'T SPEAK FROM THE AUDIENCE.

YOU SPEAK AT THE MIC AND YOU HAD YOUR THREE MINUTES. OKAY.

SO, YES. WOULD YOU WANT TO JUST GIVE THEM A MINUTE TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE PASSING AROUND? YEAH.

THE VIDEO IS JUST WALKING AROUND. IT'S TOO LONG.

THAT'S THE VIDEO. YOU DON'T HAVE IT.

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SHE'S GOING TO MAKE JAMES PLAY. PLEASE PROCEED.

YEAH. SO BASICALLY, THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN THE PLAZA.

AND I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU, LIKE, WITH PHOTOS.

AND IF YOU GO, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT THEY'RE WORKING EVERY SINGLE DAY WITH TOO MANY PEOPLE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? I WISH I COULD SAY YES, BUT I CAN'T. I'M SORRY.

WE'VE GOT KATE JOHNSON COMING TO THE MIC AND THEN I'VE PATTY LYNN NEXT.

IS THIS YOUR PROBLEM? KATE JOHNSON, MAINLAND'S FOUR.

I REMEMBER SITTING AT THAT LAST MEETING WHEN THIS WAS DISCUSSED LAST YEAR.

AND BASICALLY THE COMMISSIONER SAY COMMISSION DECIDING THEY NEED TO DO SOMETHING BEFORE WE DISCUSS THE LIENS.

AND NOW, ACCORDING TO THE CITY, 33 OF THE LIENS HAVE BEEN CURED.

RIGHT? SO THAT SHOULDN'T HOLD THIS UP BECAUSE THE PAINT IS STILL THE SAME.

DOESN'T MEAN THAT RENOVATIONS AREN'T HAPPENING.

AND AS ANYONE WHO'S DONE RENOVATIONS KNOWS, THE FACADE WOULD BE THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO FIX ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS BEFORE YOU WANT TO DO THE FACADE. THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.

I DID READ THE BACKUP MATERIALS ON THIS, AND SO I DID UNDERSTAND THE AMOUNT OF LIENS THAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE AND WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.

SURPRISED THAT EVERYONE DIDN'T KNOW THAT ALREADY, BUT BRINGING UP SHAKER VILLAGE, THERE WAS OVER $3 MILLION IN LIENS ON SHAKER VILLAGE, WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS A CORPORATION THAT IS NOT A HOMEOWNER.

THAT IS A CORPORATION. SO THE CITY, BECAUSE THEY WERE PURCHASING THAT LAND, DECIDED TO WIPE OUT THAT $3 MILLION PLUS IN LIENS AGAINST THAT SPECIFIC PROPERTY THAT THE CITY BOUGHT.

WHEN SOMEONE BRINGS UP THAT THE PUBLIC WAS OUTRAGED, THE PUBLIC WAS OUTRAGED AT THE WHOLE THING, NOT JUST WIPING OUT THE LIENS. SO IT'S OKAY. AND WE DON'T SAY ANYTHING AS A COMMISSION WHEN WE WIPE $3 MILLION OFF OF ONE BUSINESS. BUT HERE'S A BUSINESS WHO'S GOING TO PAY 216 PLUS THOUSAND, AND WE'RE NOT OKAY WITH THAT. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ONE? THE STANDARD PRACTICE THAT THE CITY DOES. BE CONSISTENT.

AND NUMBER TWO, HOW DOES THAT MAKE US BUSINESS FRIENDLY? BECAUSE THE GOAL OF LIENS AS WE KNOW CODE ENFORCEMENT, WHEN THEY GIVE US A LETTER AND WE DON'T FIX IT AND WE GET LEANED, IT'S TO BRING YOU IN COMPLIANCE. THE SAME WITH OUR HOA.

WHEN WE PUT A A FINE ON A HOMEOWNER, IT'S TO BRING THEM IN COMPLIANCE.

THAT IS THE GOAL. SO IF THEY ARE IN COMPLIANCE, YES, THERE'S MORE TO DO.

BUT SHOULDN'T WE BE HELPING THEM DO IT? BECAUSE HOW MANY BUSINESSES? I GO BY THAT PLAZA ALL THE TIME. I HATE THE COLOR.

I'M GOING TO BE SO GLAD TO SEE A NEW COLOR BUT BE BENEFICIAL TO BUSINESSES.

THANK YOU. AND PATTY LYNN IS CHANGING HER MIND.

ALL RIGHT. NO ONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. COMMISSIONER, DANIEL.

RESUME YOUR THREE. YOUR TWO MINUTES, PLEASE. THANK YOU.

I'M GLAD YOU'RE UPDATING THE PLAZA. THAT'S WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE.

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I WISH I COULD COME TO THE CITY AND SAY, HEY, I NEED A NEW ROOF.

I UPDATED GIVE ME CREDIT. IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT.

UNLESS IT DOES. NEVER TRIED. SO THAT'S MY CONCERN.

YES. I THINK YOU SHOULD GET A BREAK FOR DOING IT.

HOWEVER, THAT BIG OF A BREAK. I'M NOT CERTAIN ABOUT THAT.

BECAUSE YOU ARE A BUSINESS. AND WAS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY WHETHER YOUR TENANTS HAD OPEN PERMITS THAT THEY DIDN'T CLOSE.

IT'S STILL YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. JUST LIKE MY RESPONSIBILITY IS MY RESPONSIBILITY.

AND WHEN I FALL SHORT, I'M CONSTANTLY PAYING PENALTY.

AND NO ONE IS TELLING ME, OH, KEISHA, YOU GET A BREAK.

I HAVEN'T GOTTEN A BREAK. I DON'T THINK MY RESIDENTS HAVE GOTTEN ANY BREAKS.

SO I'M CONFUSED AS TO THESE ONE SIDED STORIES THAT CONSTANTLY COME TO THE PODIUM.

NEXT THING IS THIS HOW CAN WE TRUST YOU TO CONTINUE THE WORK BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT IN OVER A DECADE, EVEN WITH THE LIENS BEING PLACED ON YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

AND I KNOW TENANTS AT THAT PLAZA. THAT'S HOW COME I EVEN GOT INVOLVED.

THEY COMPLAIN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE IN A NASTY PLACE.

THEY WANT THEY WANT A CHEAPER RENT. YES, BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO BE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET CLIENTS.

YOUR CLIENTS STOP COMING. SO YOU KNOW HOW HOW DO HOW CAN WE BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAINTAIN THIS? YEAH. PLEASE DON'T ASK HIM DIRECT QUESTIONS. SO HE'S NOT.

I'M SPEAKING. I'M NOT ASKING ANYONE. QUESTION.

PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT ME BECAUSE I DON'T INTERRUPT YOU. YOU ASK NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED.

THEREFORE, I'VE BEEN. LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I'VE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH THE ATTORNEY BECAUSE I HAVE SOME THEM CONCERNS.

I TRUST STAFF, BUT I STILL HAVE CONCERNS THAT THIS IS NOT RIGHT.

SOMETHING ABOUT IT IS STILL NOT RIGHT. MADAM MAYOR, I JUST WANT TO REEMPHASIZE THIS IS NOT THE FIRST ABATEMENT PROCESS IN THE CITY.

THIS IS CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION. HIS STAFF RECOMMENDATION.

THE COMMISSION HAS THE RIGHT TO APPROVE IT, REJECT IT, MODIFY IT.

I JUST WANT TO. AND THERE'S FACTORS IN OUR CODE COMPLIANCE.

OBVIOUSLY, THE AMOUNT IS AN ISSUE, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AND THE COMMISSION CAN EITHER AGREE WITH IT, MODIFY IT, OR REJECT IT. OKAY.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. THANK YOU.

MAYOR. SO, MANAGER, I THINK WE BRIEFED ABOUT THIS ITEM.

AND I ASKED A COUPLE QUESTIONS BECAUSE, I MEAN, TYPICALLY IT IS STANDARD FOR THERE TO BE A MITIGATION PROCESS THAT'S UNIVERSAL.

EVERYONE DOES IT. YOU KNOW, WHAT HAVE YOU. MY QUESTION WAS, WHY IS THIS EVEN ON THE AGENDA? THIS OBVIOUSLY PREDATES ME, SO I NEEDED TO KIND OF FAMILIARIZE MYSELF WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE.

WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT OUR CODE IS THE REASON WHY THEY'RE BEFORE THE COMMISSION AND THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE THAT I BELIEVE THIS COMMISSION ADOPTED BACK, I BELIEVE, ON MAY 27TH, 2015. IS THAT A LIEN THAT THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HAS AUTHORIZED THE CITY TO INITIATE FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS, TO ENFORCE OR LIEN THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF PENDING LITIGATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND PROPERTY OWNER? VIOLATORS SHALL NOT BE REDUCED OR ABATED. THAT IS OUR CURRENT.

THAT'S THE LAW HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC THAT THE COMMISSION AT IN 2015, AT WHATEVER, FOR WHATEVER REASON, DECIDED WAS NECESSARY. SO THE REASON WHY THEY'RE BEFORE US IS NOT BECAUSE THIS IS LIKE SOME ANOMALY THAT WE, YOU KNOW, REDUCE FINES OR MITIGATE FINES. IT'S BECAUSE OUR CODE, OUR LAW SAYS THAT THEY WERE SUBJECT TO FORECLOSURE BY THE CITY, AND AS SUCH, THEY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR FINE ABATEMENT OR ABATEMENT.

IS THAT CORRECT? I BELIEVE IT'S CORRECT TO A POINT, BUT BUT I THINK THE PURPOSE OF THE CODE IS THAT ONCE YOU HAVE SUCH ACTION INITIATED AGAINST THE BUSINESS, I SEE ANY EXCEPTIONS.

MR. MANAGER, LET ME ASK THE ATTORNEY. I'M SORRY, MR. ATTORNEY, CAN YOU CLARIFY? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THIS IS. I MEAN, OUR LAWS ARE QUITE PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

I DON'T SEE ANY EXCEPTIONS. AND I'LL ARGUE THE SAME CASE ON ANOTHER ITEM ON THIS AGENDA LATER.

BUT THERE'S A PERIOD AFTER IT SAYS SHALL NOT BE REDUCED OR ABATED.

PERIOD. ARE THERE ANY EXCEPTIONS? WHICH SECTION? I GOT THE CODE IN FRONT OF ME. I BELIEVE THAT REFERS TO THE STAFF'S EXACTLY.

IT'S STAFF'S ABILITY TO EVADE IS NOT. THEIR ITEM IS BEFORE THE COMMISSION.

LET ME LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR BECAUSE THIS IS SECTION 276, SUBSECTION

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AND IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. AND LISTEN I CAN READ IT SAYS LIMITATION OF LEAN SETTLEMENT.

SPECIAL MAGISTRATE ABATEMENT AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE CHAPTER 162, CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS RUN IN FAVOR OF THE CITY COMMISSION.

THE CITY COMMISSION HAS DETERMINED THAT THE FOLLOWING LIENS MAY NOT BE SETTLED OR ABATED UNLESS CERTAIN CONDITIONS ARE MET.

PLEASE DON'T FORGET THAT I DID CODE ENFORCEMENT FOR MANY YEARS, A LIEN THAT THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HAS AUTHORIZED THE CITY TO INITIATE FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS TO ENFORCE OR LIEN THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF PENDING LITIGATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND PROPERTY OWNER.

VIOLATOR SHALL NOT BE REDUCED OR ABATED. PERIOD.

IS THERE ANY. THAT'S WHY THE TITLE OF THE ITEM SAYS DEVIATION FROM SECTION TWO, DASH 76.

IT'S AN EXCEPTION. IT'S A VARIANCE. SO IS IT THAT THE STAFF'S AUTHORITY, BECAUSE I HEARD THE MAYOR SAY THAT IT'S STAFF'S AUTHORITY, UNLESS THAT SUCH ACTION IS TAKEN. AND ONCE THAT ACTION, THAT KIND OF ACTION IS TAKEN, THEN IT BECOMES THAT SECTION TWO DASH, LET ME ADD TO I FROM INTERPRETATION AND FROM LEAN NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE THROUGHOUT WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER. EVEN WHEN A SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HAS ISSUED A FORECLOSURE, THE CITY CAN BASICALLY NEGOTIATE UNTIL A SETTLEMENT IS MADE.

LITIGATION DOESN'T STOP NEGOTIATION. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THE PROCESS IF THE AMOUNT REACHES A CERTAIN THRESHOLD, CITY MANAGER AND STAFF DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE THE FINAL AMOUNT ANYMORE.

THAT'S THE IMPORTANT ISSUE. THAT'S WHY IT'S BEFORE THIS COMMISSION.

BUT LITIGATION DOESN'T STOP THE CITY FROM NEGOTIATING THE SETTLEMENT.

EVEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE IN LITIGATION, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO WORK OUT A SOLUTION IF YOU CAN.

SO THAT LANGUAGE I DON'T BELIEVE, FORECLOSE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE PROPERTY OWNER.

OKAY. BECAUSE. BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THIS LANGUAGE IS NOT VALID.

I'M SAYING THIS LANGUAGE DOES NOT FORECLOSE THE CITY FROM WORKING OUT A RESOLUTION ON LIENS.

I RECOGNIZE THAT BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THE COMMISSION CAN OVERRULE IT.

BUT I'M ASKING IF THIS LANGUAGE IS VALID. I MEAN, DID THE CITY COMMISSION ADOPT A POLICY? I'M JUST ASKING A SIMPLE QUESTION. DID THE COMMISSION ADOPT A POLICY THAT THAT PRECLUDES THIS, THIS APPLICANT FROM THE FROM. BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW WHY.

BECAUSE AT SOME POINT THE COMMISSION DID NOT SEE THIS AS FEASIBLE.

AND WE OFTENTIMES REFERENCED THE PRIOR COMMISSIONS.

AND IN THIS CASE WE WANT TO AVOID PRIOR COMMISSIONS.

SO I'M GOING TO I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO I WANT TO KNOW WHY A PAST COMMISSION DID NOT SEE THIS AS FEASIBLE.

AS FEASIBLE. YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY WITH RESPECT TO THIS CODE.

BUT AGAIN FROM READING IT AND READING IT, EVEN AS STRICTLY, I DON'T THINK IT'S FORECLOSED ANY NEGOTIATION WITH A PROPERTY OWNER. YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK SO.

COMMISSIONER, IF I MAY. SO THE NORMAL PROCESS, DAY TO DAY PROCESS WITH LEAN MITIGATION IS THAT THE BUILDING OFFICIAL AND HIS STAFF, OR THE CODE MANAGER AND HER STAFF WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE A SETTLEMENT AMOUNT.

IN THIS CASE, WHAT HAPPENED IS THIS WENT TO SPECIAL MAGISTRATE AND FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING WAS INITIATED.

ONCE THAT HAPPENS, WE HAVE THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT OR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT HAS NO MORE AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE ANYTHING. IT HAS TO BE DONE BY THE COMMISSION.

THAT'S WHY THE ITEM CAME BEFORE THE COMMISSION.

IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT THERE'S A POLICY ON THE BOOKS THAT SAYS THAT YOU HAVE TO.

YES. SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR HERE.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF THE TIME THINGS GET REALLY SKEWED AND CONVOLUTED IN CONVERSATION.

LET'S BE VERY CLEAR, BECAUSE I ASKED THESE QUESTIONS IN THE, IN THE, IN THE BRIEFING, AND I DIDN'T GET THIS POLICY.

AND HAD I HAD THE POLICY, WE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE CONVERSATION OFF THE DAIS.

BUT NOW THAT I HAD TO READ THE BACKUP AND GET THIS INFORMATION, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE.

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IT'S LOOKED THE WAY THAT IT'S LOOKED. I LIVED IN LAUDERDALE LAKES FOR A WHILE.

THAT PLAZA HAS ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THAT. IT'S.

YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE IT'S DEPLORABLE. I DON'T THINK IT'S ESTHETICALLY PLEASING.

BUT AS A PROPONENT OF REDEVELOPMENT AND SOMEONE THAT THINKS THAT THERE'S VALUE TO BE ADDED TO OUR COMMUNITY WHEN WE REVITALIZE, I UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE HERE. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT VERY PLAIN THAT THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE BOOKS THAT SAYS THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN ENTERTAINING IN THE PAST. LET'S MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR.

I NOW, ON THE FLIP SIDE, HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS YOU GUYS ARE DATING.

THERE'S A LOT OF DATE REFERENCES HERE. 2020 YOU GUYS.

THE MAGISTRATE ORDERED A FORECLOSURE. THREE YEARS LATER, NOTHING HAPPENED.

NOTHING HAPPENED IN THREE YEARS. HOW COME NO ONE WENT TO FORECLOSURE? AND THEN THREE YEARS LATER, JULY 7TH, 2023, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A REQUEST BY THE PROPERTY OWNER TO MITIGATE AGAIN.

WHY DID THE CITY NOT PURSUE WHAT IT NEEDED TO PURSUE PURSUANT TO THE ORDER OF THE MAGISTRATE? RIGHT. SO THERE IS QUESTIONS THAT LOOM AROUND.

I'LL TAKE THE OTHER TWO MINUTES, PLEASE. THAT LOOM AROUND THIS WHOLE SITUATION RIGHT NOW, THE BACKUP SAYS THAT THERE IS A REQUEST, A REQUEST TO MITIGATE. BUT WHAT IS THE CITY'S RECOMMENDATION? I MEAN, LOOK, THE REALITY IS, IS I AGREE, $100,000 IS.

LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION. DID THE CITY GIVE ANY DOLLARS TO HELPING MITIGATE THIS, THIS PROJECT? NO, NO. AND THERE WERE NO DOLLARS GIVEN TO REMEDIATE CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS? NO. OH, I MEAN THIS THIS LIEN SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL IS, IS ALL INCLUSIVE, INCLUDING CODE ENFORCEMENT AND BUILDING CODE ENFORCEMENT. NO, I MEAN, OF THE DOLLARS THAT THE CITY MAKES AVAILABLE TO SHOPPING PLAZAS TO FIX UP OR ADDRESS CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS, THOSE. THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY OF THOSE? NO THEY DIDN'T. OKAY.

SO HOW DID YOU GUYS ARRIVE AT $100,000? AND I'M NOT EVEN CLEAR BECAUSE THE BACKUP SAYS $100,000 PLUS THE REQUIRED RELEASE FEES.

YES. SO IF I MAY. YES. THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME PROPOSAL FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME IN 24. WHEN THEY APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMISSION FOR, FOR THIS LEAN SETTLEMENT.

AND NOW THAT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS WE USE THE SAME AMOUNT.

BUT WHAT WAS THE COST TO THE CITY? OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN ENFORCING CODE ENFORCEMENT, PROCESSING FORECLOSURES. WHAT'S BEEN THE COST TO THE CITY? DID THE CITY TAKE ANY INITIATIVE TO PUT. IS THERE A FORMULA? WHAT FORMULA WAS USED FOR US TO ARRIVE HERE, OR ARE THEY JUST SAYING HERE? WE DON'T THINK THAT THESE FINES ARE VALID NECESSARILY ANYMORE FOR VARIOUS REASONS.

HERE'S $100,000. MAKE IT GO AWAY. WE DON'T HAVE A FORMULA FOR, FOR FOR THIS.

AND I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, CITY'S RECOVERY OF, OF MAINTENANCE COSTS OR BECAUSE, I MEAN, THOSE ARE TAXPAYER DOLLARS, ALL OF THE, ALL OF THE TIME SPENT TO GO OUT THERE, CHECK LANES, PROCESS LANES. GO TO SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, PAY A MAGISTRATE.

YOU KNOW, THERE ARE FEES ASSOCIATED WITH THERE ARE COSTS TO THE CITY.

I DON'T KNOW IF THE FORECLOSURE HAD STARTED. WHAT ARE THE COSTS TO THE CITY FOR THE FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS? I DON'T I'M NOT PREPARED TO BE ABLE TO VOTE ON THIS BECAUSE I'M NOT.

I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. I UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE HERE.

I UNDERSTAND YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LET'S NEGOTIATE PROCESS.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT.

BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED IS FAIR.

MADAM MAYOR, IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO OFFER A DIFFERENT OR MAYBE ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THIS.

WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM THAT OFFERS SHOPPING PLAZAS IN THE CITY, UP TO $500,000 TO TO TO REMODEL THEIR FACADE AND IMPROVE THEIR PLAZAS.

AND SO THIS IS CITY'S GRANT MONEY. IT'S GIVEN AWAY TO THOSE PLAZAS THAT QUALIFY FOR THOSE KINDS OF SERVICES.

AND THE WHOLE PURPOSE BEHIND THAT IS ECONOMIC VITALITY.

AND THEN WE RECOGNIZE THE THE PLAZAS, SHOPPING PLAZAS IN THE CITY AS THE ECONOMIC ENGINE OF THE, THE, THE COMMUNITIES. AND SO THE $100,000 IS IS SOMEWHAT OF A SYMBOLIC NUMBER IN TERMS OF CLEARING THE RECORD FOR THIS BUSINESS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES THAT IT DOES TO THE COMMUNITY.

[01:55:04]

WE'RE WE'RE LOOKING FOR COMPLIANCE AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS PLAZA IS VITAL AND AND, IN BUSY AND ACTIVE AND BRINGS THE THE REVENUES THAT WE EXPECT FROM THESE BUSINESSES INTO THE COMMUNITY.

SO. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

LET ME TAKE THE PLANE BACK UP TO THE 30,000 FOOT LEVEL.

OKAY. SO WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS A FEW DAYS AGO, I MESSAGED SOMEONE WHO OWNED PLAZAS IN FOUR DIFFERENT CITIES IN BROWARD COUNTY, AND THEY SAID TO ME, THE INDUSTRY NORM, SEDIMENT NUMBERS BETWEEN 10 AND 15%.

THAT'S THAT'S USUALLY THE NORM. YES. SO WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR NUMBERS, 4.1 MILLION, YOU INITIALLY OFFERED THE INITIALLY OFFERED 570.

YES. THAT IS ACTUALLY 14% OF THE ACTUAL NUMBER WITHIN THE INDUSTRY NORMS. THEN YOU SAID IT WAS REDUCED TO 3 MILLION AND NOW WE'RE AT 100 K, SO 100 KEY WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE LESS THAN 5% OF, OF THE 3 MILLION. SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU GUYS GOT THAT GOT.

AND THAT'S GOT GO HOW YOU WENT FROM 14 TO LESS THAN 5%.

SO COMMISSIONER, WE TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE CONTRACT AMOUNT THAT THE PLAZA OWNER IS GOING TO SPEND ON THE UPGRADE.

YEAH, WE TOOK THAT IN THAT $1.2 MILLION INTO CONSIDERATION.

THAT'S HOW IT CAME DOWN TO THE $100,000. SO THE 4 MILLION SEEM HUGE, BUT THE INDUSTRY NORM IS USUALLY PEOPLE ONLY GET 10 OR 15%.

SO IN ACTUALITY, IT'S NOT THE 4 MILLION. YOU'RE HOVERING AROUND 7 TO 800 K, REALISTICALLY OF WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET FROM THE OWNER.

YES, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHAT I HEARD. SOMEONE WHO OWNS COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES IN DIFFERENT CITIES.

SO BASICALLY THAT'S THE NUMBER WE'RE PLAYING WITH. AND I WASN'T AFRAID WHEN I, WHEN I SAW THAT SPECIFIC NUMBER GOING TO THE NEXT QUESTION, I DRIVE BY THIS PLAZA LIKE ONCE A WEEK BECAUSE I DRIVE THAT WAY TO VISIT MY FATHER IN LAUDERDALE.

I'M SEEING SOME IMPROVEMENT. BUT WHAT I'M SEEING IS TREND IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

MIDWAY PLAZA SOLD FOR 36 MILLION FROM A LOCAL PERSON TO A PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM.

TOWN SQUARE SOLD FOR 22 MILLION. I HAPPENED TO MEET THE OWNERS OF BLUEBIRDS LAST NIGHT AT THE SAME PLAZA OF MIDWAY.

MIDWAY CENTER AND BLUE. BLUE BLUE. BLUEBIRD. SORRY.

AS A COMPANY HAS RAISED ABOUT $50 MILLION. TAMARAC WAS THE THIRD PLACE THAT THEY PICKED.

THE CO HAPPENS TO BE A HARVARD GRAD. THEY FLYING FROM BOSTON.

VERY WELL CONNECTED IN SILICON VALLEY. SAID HE PICKED TAMARAC BECAUSE THAT'S THE SORT OF TAMARAC WAS A PLACE ON THE MOVE, THE RENAISSANCE THAT'S HAPPENED IN THE CITY. SO I THINK THIS PLAZA OWNER IS INCENTIVIZED TO IMPROVE THAT PLAZA BECAUSE IN THE REAL ESTATE TREND, OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT TAMARAC. SO WHILE IT MIGHT HAVE ISSUES OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS HAVING LOCAL OWNERS, THE TREND IS THAT MORE AND MORE PRIVATE EQUITY COMPANIES ARE INVESTING IN THESE PLAZAS BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING RETURNS.

SO THE REASON I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR IT, I'M STILL GOING TO SUPPORT IT. I SEE WHERE THE TRENDS ARE GOING.

I SEE WHAT WE'RE GETTING. THE REASON PEOPLE ELECTED US IS THAT WE HAVE VISION.

YES. WHEN COMMISSIONER BOLTON CAME TO DISTRICT ONE, IT WAS A STEPCHILD.

WHEN YOU BUY TIME, HE LEAVES. WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN THERE, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SHAKER VILLAGE, A BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY CENTER. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE CAPORELLA PARK.

AND I THINK IF HE WANTS TO SORT OF SOLIDIFY THAT VISION, HE WOULD WANT TO SEE A MODERN AND INCENTIVIZED THREE LAKES PLAZA, BECAUSE I THINK THAT PART OF THE COMMUNITY, THIS PLAZA IS THE LAST EYESORE.

AND I THINK WITH THESE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING, I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE WEEDS. I UNDERSTAND ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES CONCERNED.

THAT'S THEIR JOB. WE ALL BRING DIFFERENT VIEWS.

BUT I SEE THE TREND ON WHERE THESE PLAZAS ARE GOING AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.

AND I THINK EVENTUALLY IF WE LET THEM LET THIS HAPPEN, LET THEM GET BETTER TENANTS.

EVENTUALLY THE OWNERS WOULD SELL AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE WELL CAPITALIZED INVESTORS.

WHAT WE'VE SEEN WITH MIDWAY AND TOWNSQUARE, AND I THINK IT WOULD LEAD US IN A DIRECTION WHERE WE WANT TO GO.

AND WHEN ALL OF US LEAVE HERE, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, MAN, WHEN THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE CAME HERE, LOOK HOW TAMARAC CHANGED. LOOK, THE RENAISSANCE OF TAMARAC.

AND I THINK THIS PLAZA, THIS SPECIFIC PLAZA, THAT'S THE LAST THING IN THE GREAT LEGACY OF COMMISSIONER BOLTON.

AND ONCE THIS PLAZA IS TAKEN CARE OF, I THINK WE WE WE WOULD HAVE A CITY THAT LOOKS MODERNIZED.

SO I'M IN FAVOR OF IT. I DON'T LIKE THE NUMBER.

IF WE CAN GET A LITTLE HIGHER AMOUNT BECAUSE IT'S BENEATH THE INDUSTRY AVERAGE 10 TO 15, WELL BELOW FIVE.

I'M, I'M, I'M I'M OKAY WITH THE HUNT. THE HUNT, THE 200.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S A LITTLE OUT OF WHAT COMMERCIAL PLAZAS USUALLY SETTLE FOR.

BUT I'M FINE WITH VOTING FOR IT, ESPECIALLY AFTER MEETING THE SHOP ONE PLAZA OWNERS LAST NIGHT AND THE BLUEBIRD PEOPLE,

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MEETING. VICE MAYOR. YOU HAVE YOUR TWO MINUTES.

FIRSTLY, I'M NOT SAYING THAT I'M AGAINST PLAZA'S FIXING.

LET'S BE CLEAR. I'M ALSO ADVOCATING FOR RESIDENTS WHO COME TO THE MAGISTRATE AND BEG AND THE MAGISTRATE SAY NO.

AND COMMISSIONERS. ESPECIALLY YOU. COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. YOU'RE OUT OF TOUCH BECAUSE RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT TWO COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR LIENS ALL THE TIME AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE.

AND SO HERE WE HAVE BUSINESSES COMING BEFORE US, THIS BUSINESS ASKING US TO APPROVE $100,000.

THAT'S A SLAP IN THE FACE. IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS IN LAUDERDALE LAKES, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME THING GOING ON.

BUT, BUT BUT HEAR ME, THEY'RE NOT GIVING $100,000 OFF OF A 3 MILLION OR $4 MILLION FINE.

ABSOLUTELY NOT. THE THE THE STANDARD FOR RESIDENTS IS 10%.

BUSINESSES SHOULD BE HIGHER. YOU'RE NOT GETTING $100,000.

THAT'S A SLAP IN THE FACE. I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT $100,000.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THEIR ITEM TO GIVE THEM A BREAK.

THEY DESERVE A BREAK. BUT THAT'S THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS.

YEAH. I WANT TO SEE THE CORRIDOR LOOK GOOD. IF WE DON'T MAKE A DEAL TODAY, THEY STILL HAVE TO FIX THE PLAZA.

SO? SO LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT. YOU STILL HAVE TO FIX THE PLAZA.

AND YOU DON'T. YOU GET FORECLOSED ON. SIMPLE.

BUT TO COME HERE AND ASK FOR $100,000 IS ABSURD.

STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION ON THE CITY COMMISSION DRIVEN PROCESS SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE TO PUT A RECOMMENDATION IN THERE, BECAUSE YOU'RE DEVIATING FROM THE STAFF'S REQUIREMENTS.

THIS IS NOT A STAFF REQUIREMENT, SO DON'T GIVE US A RECOMMENDATION. THIS IS OUR PROCESS.

SO IF YOU WANT TO START AT 15% SURE. BUT IF THAT'S NOT THE NUMBER, AT LEAST 15%, I'M VOTING NO. SO YOU CAN BE MR. BUSINESS AND NOT BE A FOR THE RESONANCE.

BUT 15% IS WHERE I'M STARTING. COMMISSIONER. TO YOUR POINT WITH THE RESIDENTS COMPLAINING ABOUT LEAN, AS I SAID BEFORE, UNLESS THEY DON'T CLEAR THE VIOLATION AND THE PROPERTY, WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO TO MITIGATE THE LIENS.

MOST OF THEM WHO ARE COMPLAINING IS BECAUSE THAT THEY VIOLATION ON THEIR PROPERTY IS STILL ACTIVE ONLY WHEN BECAUSE TIMES ARE HARD AND THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT. YES, BUT BUT IN ORDER FOR US TO SETTLE A LIEN, THE VIOLATION MUST BE CURED.

THERE'S NOTHING IN THE LAW THAT WILL TELL US WE COULD SETTLE A LIEN.

UNLESS THAT VIOLATION WHICH THE LIEN STEM FOR.

UNLESS THAT IS NOT CURED, WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE LEAN.

HOWEVER, WHEN THEY COME TO US, AS I SAY, SOMETIMES WE STAND.

IF THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT, WE GO DOWN TO, YOU KNOW, A SETTLEMENT AMOUNT WITH THEM.

SO IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A 10% RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD.

WE START AT 10%, BUT WE HAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

YES. YES, SIR. AND THAT I'M YOU CALLED MY NAME AND I'M RESPONDING TO YOU.

YES. THAT IS FOR RESIDENTS. YOU CAN YOU CAN NEGOTIATE WITH RESIDENTS ALL YOU WANT.

GO DOWN TO 0.5%. RESIDENTS ARE THE ONES WE SHOULD BE TAKING CARE OF PERFECTLY.

BUT A BUSINESS WHO IS MAKING MONEY AND A BUSINESS WHO IS FIXING THEIR PLAZA THAT COULD SELL FOR TRIPLE THE AMOUNT.

ABSOLUTELY NOT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION. YOU'RE DONE.

READY? DO YOU HAVE ANY? ARE YOU GOING AGAIN? GO AHEAD.

NO. OKAY. FIRST OF ALL, HOMEOWNERS EXAMPLE $2.8 MILLION.

MY NEIGHBOR RIGHT NEXT DOOR. CITY SETTLED IT FOR EIGHT.

$80,000. RESIDENTS GET TAKEN CARE OF. TWO ASSOCIATIONS FOR HOMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE BUYING AND SELLING PROPERTY FOR $492 PER LIEN RELEASE, CORRECT? YEAH, 492. THAT'S AFTER THINGS ARE IN COMPLIANCE.

STIPULATED, YEAH. RIGHT. WE DO THINGS FOR RESIDENTS.

AND THIS IS THE SAME THING BEING ASKED FOR BUSINESSES. HOW MUCH ARE THE HARD COSTS ON THIS? ARE THE HARD COSTS TO THE CITY. SO BASICALLY THE 15,000 SOMETHING DOLLARS WILL BE THE COST FOR THE CITY, RIGHT, TO TO RELEASE THE LIENS. YES. SO THE HARD COST TO RELEASE THE LIENS, EVERYTHING THAT THE CITY HAS PUT OUT, TIME, ENERGY, MONEY AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF IS 15,000, 15,000 SOMETHING.

WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT MONEY ON TOP OF IT. YES.

FOR 92 TIMES 33. YES. ON TOP OF IT, $100,000.

YES. TOTAL NUMBER. SO IF YOU DO THE

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YEAH. $116,236. ALL RIGHT. SO ALL THIS OTHER MONEY IS JUST INTEREST, CORRECT? YES. FROM THE LIENS. YES. WELL, NOT NOT INTEREST.

SORRY. OKAY. IT'S INTEREST. IT'S NOT HARD COST TO THE CITY.

IT'S $100. FINE. IT'S BASICALLY A REDUCTION OF FINE THAT OBVIOUSLY THIS COMMISSION IS EITHER GOING TO ACCEPT, MODIFY OR REJECT. OKAY. IT'S NOT INTEREST. WE WOULDN'T CALL IT INTEREST.

ACCRUE DAILY PENALTIES OF $250 A DAY. IT'S NOT GOING TO SOMEBODY'S HARD TIME.

CORRECT? IT'S $250 A DAY. AND THE ONLY REASON WHY IT'S ACCRUING IS BECAUSE A DAY PASSED, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. SO IT'S NOT A HARD COST. OUR THING SAYS THAT IT COMES BACK TO US BECAUSE OF A SUBJECT OF A PENDING LITIGATION. THIS SHOULDN'T BE BEFORE US. BECAUSE THE LAST I CHECKED, THERE'S ACTUALLY NO PENDING LITIGATION.

AND THE REFERRAL TO THE FROM THE MAGISTRATE TO FORECLOSURE HAPPENED EIGHT YEARS AGO.

RIGHT. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON THIS PROPERTY HAS LONG RUN.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER PLAZAS AND BUSINESS OWNERS AND RESIDENTS THAT COME BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE, AND IT IS DISCUSSED THERE. AND IT DOESN'T COME HERE FOR POLITICS OR ANY KIND OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES THAT WE SEEM TO BE WANTING TO IMPOSE ON A PROPERTY OWNER THAT HAS A CONTRACT FOR OVER $1.2 MILLION TO INVEST IN THIS PLAZA.

SO THERE WAS A QUESTION ASKED SAYING, WELL, HOW DO WE KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO PROCEED IF WE WAIVE THE LIENS HERE VERY EASILY? THEY'RE UNDER A CONTRACT. THEY'RE GOING TO GET SUED IF THEY DON'T COMPLETE THEIR CONTRACT.

CORRECT? YES. IT JUST SEEMS THAT INSTEAD OF BEING BUSINESS FRIENDLY, WE BRING PEOPLE HERE. WE DID IT WITH THE LAST PLAZA OWNER, ONE THAT WAS REFERENCED A LITTLE BIT AGO, AND WE TRY TO HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE AND WE MAKE IT WHERE WHY SHOULD THEY EVEN WANT TO KEEP A PROPERTY IN TAMARAC AND BUILD IT UP AND MAKE IT NICE? THEY'RE TRYING TO RELIEVE THE SINS OF THE FATHER, SO TO SPEAK.

AND IF WE BOUGHT A PROPERTY THAT HAD SOMETHING ON THERE, WE WOULD BE UP, DOWN AND SIDEWAYS ON THE SAME THING.

THEY BROUGHT THE PROPERTY INTO COMPLIANCE. THEY'VE SPENT OVER 500 AND SOMETHING THOUSAND ALREADY. THEY PLAN ON SPENDING ANOTHER $101 MILLION.

THE CITY STAFF THAT WE RELY ON SEEMS TO BE WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT.

AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, IT SEEMS IT'S NOT CONVENIENT TO RELY ON CITY STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION OF THIS $116,000 AND THE RELEASE OF LEON, SO WE COULD LET THIS PLAZA OWNER UTILIZE THE MONEY TO CONTINUE FIXING IT UP, AND EVEN MAYBE EVEN ADD MORE MONEY INTO FIXING UP THE PLAZA IF IT WASN'T BEING HIT WITH PUNITIVE DAMAGES BY US. SO IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT YOU'RE BEFORE US IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT WE ARE NOT EVEN RECOGNIZING THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE.

PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT PERCENTAGES HERE AND THERE, IF STAFF HAS MADE THIS RECOMMENDATION TO US AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE GOOD IMPROVEMENT BECAUSE SOME OF US WENT TO FESTIVAL SUPERMARKET, SAW THE CHANGES THAT ARE GOING ON THERE, AND THEY'RE SEEING THE GOOD BUSINESSES YOU'RE BRINGING IN AND THEY'RE PUTTING MONEY IN INVESTING IN OUR CITY AS WELL.

SO WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING TO SPEND MONEY IN OUR PLAZAS AND IN OUR CITIES AND THEN SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY AROUND IT, WHY ARE WE BEING SO NEGATIVE AND NOT JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHAT? CONCESSION CONSENT AGENDA, MOVE ON? BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S 1140.

DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WE'VE BEEN SPENDING OUR TIME ON THIS? YOU PROBABLY DO NOW ANYWAY.

CALL THE QUESTION, PLEASE. YOU'VE HAD YOUR. YOU'VE HAD YOUR SEVEN.

WE'RE DONE. CALL THE QUESTION. OKAY, SO I MADE A RECOMMENDATION OF 15%.

THE THE CITY ATTORNEY, THE THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID THAT WE HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY SAYS THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY.

THEN SAY NO. THEN YOU CAN VOTE NO. WE HAVE THE OPTION TO REJECT, MODIFY, OR APPROVE.

CORRECT. OKAY. SO THEN AFTER THIS MOTION IS DONE, YOU CAN THEN PUT A MODIFICATION MAKE A FRIENDLY A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

LET LET LET THE HE CAN MODIFY THE MOTION IF NECESSARY.

MAYOR WE HAVE DONE THAT. GO AHEAD. YES WE HAVE.

GO AHEAD. CITY CLERK, CAN YOU TELL ME WHO THE SECOND FOR THE MOTION WAS? COMMISSIONER RIGHT. OKAY. CALL THE QUESTION. I'LL JUST VOTE NO.

YES, BECAUSE I'M THE ONE WHO DID THE MOTION. SO.

NO, I MOTIONED IT AND I MOTIONED THE SECOND FOR 15.

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I DID. CORRECT. WE. DID CARRY OVER FROM. OKAY.

WE CAN LET IT DIE AND COME BACK. CORRECT. OKAY.

CALLING THE QUESTION COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. NO.

MAYOR. GOMEZ. YES, COMMISSIONER. DANIEL. NO. VICE MAYOR.

BOLTON. NO. COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. YES. MOTION FAILS.

3 TO 2. NOW, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YOU WISH TO PUT A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

SO BRINGING BACK THE THE MOTION, I'D LIKE TO OFFER THAT WE COUNTER THIS AT 15% GIVING A NUMBER.

IT WOULD BE $566,000. SO MOVED. SECOND.

CITY CLERK, CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER RAY.

YES. VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES. COMMISSIONER. DANIEL.

YES. MAYOR. GOMEZ. NO. COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON.

YES. MOTION PASSES 4 TO 1. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS 1143.

WE WILL BE TAKING A RECESS UNTIL NOON.

WE'RE NOW GOING TO OUR REGULAR AGENDA. IT'S SIX A TR 14365 CITY ATTORNEY,

[6.a. TR14365 -A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, directing the City Manager or designee to establish donation guidelines for non-profit entities that have received monetary donations in an amount exceeding two hundred ]

ITEM 6AA RESOLUTION. CITY COMMISSION, CITY OF TAMARAC DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER DESIGNEE.

ESTABLISH DONATION GUIDELINES FOR NONPROFIT ENTITIES THAT HAVE RECEIVED MONETARY DONATION AMOUNT EXCEEDING $250,000 FROM FROM THE YEAR 1998 TO PRESENT, PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. I'LL TAKE A MOTION AND A SECOND. SO MOVED.

I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. I HAVE A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER DANIEL. CITY ATTORNEY IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THIS ITEM IS NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO MAKE A COMMENT? SAME RULES APPLY. OKAY, BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW THE LIGHT'S NOT WORKING HERE.

OKAY. THAT'S WHY I WENT OVER, I COULDN'T SEE.

THANKS. OKAY. KATE JOHNSON, MAINLAND'S FOR THIS ITEM OBVIOUSLY HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF THE CONTROVERSY OVER CHARITABLE DONATIONS LATELY. AND ACTUALLY, I THINK IT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA.

EXCEPT WHY ARE WE ONE? WHY ARE WE GOING BACK TO 1998 NOT MOVING FORWARD? WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING FORWARD AS A CITY.

NUMBER TWO, WHY ONLY THESE CHARITIES? EVERY CHARITY SHOULD BE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES TO GET MONEY. ARE THEY A THEY RECOGNIZE CHARITY IN THE STATE.

ARE THEY RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE IN ORDER TO RAISE FUNDS? THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT THAN BEING REGISTERED WITH THE STATE AS A CHARITY.

THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL APPLICATION FOR THAT. HAVE HAVE THEY DONE THAT? DO THEY HAVE THAT? IF NOT, THEY SHOULD NOT BE GETTING MONEY.

DO THEY SERVE TAMARAC? I KNOW I HAVE LOOKED AT A LOT OF THE DONATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO CHARITIES, AND MANY OF THEM ARE NOT IN TAMARAC. THEY ARE IN OTHER CITIES.

HOW DO THEY SERVE OUR RESIDENTS? DO THEY SERVE OUR RESIDENTS? HOW MANY RESIDENTS DO THEY SERVE? I KNOW, I AS I SAID, I WATCHED THE COMMISSION MEETING AND THERE WAS THIS WHOLE THEY NEED TO DO A CONTRACT.

THEY NEED TO SHOW US DELIVERABLES. GREAT. DO THAT WITH EVERY CHARITY, NOT JUST THE BIG ONES, WHICH, BY THE WAY, YOU VOTED NOT TO REQUIRE THEM TO DO FOR THE $74,000 EACH THAT THEY'RE GETTING THIS TIME.

BUT LET'S WAIT TILL NEXT TIME. WHY ARE THEY AFRAID TO SHOW US THAT THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN THAT $75,000 TO

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LET'S PUT IN A STANDARD PRACTICE FOR ALL CHARITIES, NOT JUST ONES THAT GET $250,000 FROM 1998. LET'S START TODAY WITH REQUIRING IT OF EVERY CHARITY TO SEE WHERE OUR MONEY IS GOING.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. PATTY.

PATTY. LYNN. MAINLY, I WANT TO REINFORCE WHAT KATE HAS SAID, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WAS CALLED KKK KATE BEFORE.

THAT SOUNDED VERY RACIST TO ME AND VERY SCARY.

BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT. IT'S IT'S OUT IN THE ATMOSPHERE NOW.

EVERY CHARITY, EVERY CHARITY, EVERY AMOUNT NEEDS TO SHOW THAT THEY'RE THEY'RE HELPING TAMARAC PEOPLE.

AND IT'S OUR MONEY. WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE LAST CASE, AND AND THERE'S NO EQUITY THERE BECAUSE THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY CHANGE, YOU CHANGE THE AMOUNT.

BUT YET THE CORPORATION THAT RUNS SHAKER VILLAGE DIDN'T EVEN PAY THE HARD COST TO THE CITY.

SO I GUESS LET'S BE FAIR. IF WE'RE GOING TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE CITY TAXPAYERS, LET'S SEE WHERE IT GOES AND MAKE SURE IT GOES TO TAMARAC RESIDENTS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING THERE'S NO ONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

I'M LOOKING AT MY LIFE FOR ANYBODY ON THE COMMISSION WISHING TO SPEAK. SO I'LL START.

I DON'T KNOW THE LEGALITY, CITY ATTORNEY, ABOUT GIVING PEOPLE MONEY AND THEN YEARS LATER SAYING, NOW YOU NEED TO GIVE US MATRIX. HELLO? MAYOR CITY IS THE DONOR AND THE GRANT, AND THEY CAN AS A MATTER OF POLICY REQUEST.

OTHER. ENTITIES THAT HAVE RECEIVED MONEY TO PROVIDE THEM WITH METRICS.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I DON'T I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN OUR CODE THAT PRECLUDE THAT OR ANYTHING IN THE LAW THAT PRECLUDE THAT, BUT THERE'S NO OBLIGATION FOR AN ENTITY TO HAVE TO FOLLOW IT AFTER YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN THE MONEY. AGAIN, IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE CITY, I WOULD ASSUME THEY ARE VOLUNTARILY COMPLY. SO THAT'S FORWARD GOING.

NO, IT'S BASED ON A TIME FRAME AND AN AMOUNT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU RECEIVE OVER 250 AND THAT'S A TRIGGER POINT. THAT'S ALSO A LANGUAGE QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED WHEN IT'S DRAWN UP.

THE CHARITIES THAT ARE IN QUESTION RIGHT NOW HAVE NOT RECEIVED 250 PER SE.

YOU'RE SAYING IF YOU'VE RECEIVED A DONATION. YOUR DONATIONS HAVE CUMULATIVELY EQUAL TO 50.

SO WORDS MATTER. SO YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE THAT CORRECTED.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT IT SAID IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED 250 FROM THE YEAR 1998 TO PRESENT.

SO IT CLEARLY GAVE A TIME FRAME. NO, I CAN PARSE THAT ONE WITH YOU A LATER TIME.

THAT JUST DOESN'T. IT SAYS IN A YEAR, ANYTIME TO THE PRESENT.

I'VE NOT GOTTEN $250, $250,000 IN ANY ONE OF THOSE YEARS.

NO, YOU'RE ASKING FOR A CUMULATIVELY. SO YOU MAY WANT TO JUST MODIFY THE LANGUAGE IF WE'RE GOING TO GO FORWARD WITH SOME KIND OF RESOLUTION.

IT'S NOT ASKING FOR A YEAR. 256 AND A CUMULATIVE CUMULATIVE FROM 1998 TO PRESENT.

AGAIN, I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER SEMANTICS WITH YOU.

I'M MAKING A RECOMMENDATION IF YOU WANT TO HAVE LESS FIGHT FROM CERTAIN THINGS.

I RAN A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOR FIVE YEARS, AND WE DID CHARITY WORK.

AND WHAT WE DID IS WE HAD PEOPLE PRESENT GRANTS TO US, WHICH WE KNEW WHAT THE MONEY WAS GOING FOR.

AND THEREFORE, WHEN WE GAVE THEM THE MONEY, THE MATRIX WERE ALREADY IN THERE.

WE USED TO DO THAT A LONG TIME AGO. WE HAD IT LINE OUT, OUT FOR FAMILY CENTRAL.

AND I BELIEVE IT WAS ALSO HCRC, WHICH SOMEWHERE IN OUR RECORDS WE HAVE THESE THINGS.

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SO ALSO MAKE SURE IF IT'S THE $3,000 THAT WE GIVE OUT OF OUR.

WELL, NOW GOT BUMPED UP TO EIGHT FOR THE YEAR.

THOSE CHARITIES INCLUDED ARE ALL THOSE LITTLE CHARITIES INCLUDED.

ARE YOU GIVING YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OURS AS WELL? OR IS THIS WHAT. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT AGAIN? AGAIN? THE TRIGGER POINTS ARE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF YEARS.

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED 250,000, THAT WAS BASED ON OBVIOUSLY DISCUSSION THAT THIS THIS BODY HAD AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, THE MOST RECENT MEETING THAT THESE TWO TRIGGER POINTS WOULD BE THE THE BASELINE FOR CHARITIES TO PROVIDE METRICS AND BE REQUIRED TO HAVE A CONTRACT ALSO. SO IF SMALLER CHARITIES HAVEN'T REACHED THOSE TRIGGER POINTS THAT WOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE SUCH INFORMATION.

SO MY QUESTION GOES BACK TO IS IT THE MONEY THAT THE CITY OF TAMARAC GIVES OUT, OR DOES IT INCLUDE ANY ON THE LIST OF THE 3000 THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT SINCE, WHENEVER IT STARTED BY THE CITY? TALKING ABOUT THE INITIATIVE? FUNDS THAT ARE SEPARATE DONATION FUNDS.

THE DONATION FUNDS? CORRECT. I DON'T BELIEVE IT.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW THAT WAS IN THE THE SEPARATE DONATION THAT THE COMMISSION HAS DISCRETION TO GIVE THAT WITHOUT COMMISSION APPROVAL IS.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S SUBJECT TO THIS REQUIREMENT. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED.

CLARIFICATION. OKAY. IT IS THE CITY DOLLARS THAT ARE GIVEN OUT IN A BUDGET FROM THE CITY.

THOSE THOSE SET ASIDE THAT EACH COMMISSION GIVE TO A FAVORITE CHARITY OR WHO'S ON THE LIST IS REALLY UP TO THE COMMISSION DISCRETION. OKAY. COMMISSIONER OR ELECTED OFFICIAL? MAYOR. DISCRETION TO. THANK YOU. OKAY. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH MATRIX.

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT BEING RETRO AT THIS POINT.

I BELIEVE THAT IT SHOULD BE. IF THE CITY IS GIVING A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, THEN THEY ALL SHOULD BE SAYING WHAT THEY'RE USING IT FOR. IF I'M GIVING IT TO AN ORGANIZATION AND I KNOW THAT IT TELLS ME THAT THEY NEED IT FOR RENT, THEY NEED IT FOR OPERATIONS, THEY NEED IT FOR THIS.

THAT'S WHAT I NEED TO SEE IF IT'S GOING TO FIVE.

CHARITY FUNCTIONS. THAT'S WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE.

IT NEEDS TO BE A GRANT PROPOSAL. WE HAVE A WONDERFUL GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR HERE IN OUR CITY.

SHE SHOULD BE CREATING A GRANT ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAM THAT ANYBODY WHO WANTS MONEY FROM THE CITY SHOULD BE APPLYING FOR.

THEN IT GETS DETERMINED. AND THEN DURING THAT PROCESS, WHEN THEY GET THE MONEY AT THE END OF THE YEAR BEFORE APPLYING FOR THE NEXT ONE, THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE THE DOCUMENTATION SHOWING WHERE THEY USE THE MONEY.

AND I DO AGREE THAT IT SHOULD SHOW TAMARAC BENEFITING TAMARAC RESIDENTS BUSINESSES BENEFITING MORE THAN IT BEING A MAJORITY OF SOMEWHERE ELSE. COMMISSIONER RIGHT. I THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

QUESTION. CITY MANAGER WHICH CHARITIES OTHER THAN OBVIOUSLY HCRC THEY'VE BEEN AROUND SINCE 1998 OR IN TERMS OF RECEIVING MONEY, AND THEY CAME IN FRONT OF US LAST COMMISSION MEETING. SO WE KNOW THAT OBVIOUSLY AT THIS THRESHOLD AND THEY DID PROVIDE THEIR DATA AND ALL THE INFORMATION, WHICH IS WHY WE SUPPORTED THEM. OTHER THAN HCRC, WHICH, WHICH OTHER CHARITIES WOULD BE AT THIS LEVEL? TAMARAC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ONLY. TAMARAC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

CORRECT? TAMARAC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE NEW NAME TAMARAC NORTH LAUDERDALE CHAMBER.

TAMARAC NORTH LAUDERDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND HOW MUCH I THINK HOW MUCH DID WE GIVE THEM ANNUALLY? ABOUT 20 25,000, 25,000. IN THE MOST RECENT YEARS, THAT THAT AMOUNT HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS.

UP AND DOWN. OKAY. SO IF WE TOOK 250 CUMULATIVELY AND I DON'T THINK MY REMEMBER, MY COLLEAGUES WERE OPEN TO DOING IT BASED ON AN ANNUAL NUMBER, LIKE SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE GIVE MORE THAN 50,000 ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

I DON'T RECALL HAVING THAT DISCUSSION, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I'LL BE OPEN TO.

BUT 250 CUMULATIVELY, HCRC, WHICH IS FROM THE FIRST DISCUSSION WHEN THIS CAME UP THEY'VE BROUGHT THEIR METRIC AND THEIR WAY OVER THAT NUMBER AND OTHER ONES, TAMARAC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND OBVIOUSLY, IF WE GIVE THE COMMISSION DONATIONS, IF WE STAY FOR 20 YEARS, IF SOMEONE IS HERE FOR 20 YEARS AT THREE GRAND PER YEAR, THAT STILL DOESN'T HIT THE 250 THRESHOLD.

SO IF WE GIVE TO THE SAME CHARITY FOR ENTIRE TENURE, WHETHER SOMEONE IS COMMISSIONER FOR 12 YEARS AND BECOME MAYOR,

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NO. IF SOMEONE IS A COMMISSION, WAS IT 12 AND 812 AND 1224? SO 24 TIMES THREE, IT STILL DOESN'T GIVE YOU 250 IN THE COMMISSION DONATIONS.

SO YEAH, I WOULD SUPPORT IT GOING FORWARD BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW THAT IT'S ONLY TWO CHARITIES THAT THAT WILL BE RETROACTIVE.

I WOULD, I WOULD BE IN SUPPORT OF IT IF, IF WE CAN DO IT GOING FORWARD AS OPPOSED TO 1998, HCRC ALREADY CAME. THEY ALREADY SHOWED THEIR METRICS.

I THINK THE CHAMBER, THAT'S THE ONLY OTHER CHARITY, BUT I MYSELF WOULD BE IN SUPPORT OF IT FROM GOING FORWARD.

NOT HAVING THE 1998 IN THERE. SO IS THAT YOUR REQUEST AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO COMMISSIONER PATTERSON AND COMMISSIONER DANIEL IN TERMS OF MAKING THE CHANGES? LET'S JUST MAKE IT GOING FORWARD AS OPPOSED TO RETROACTIVE, BECAUSE WHEN WE HAD THE INITIAL DISCUSSION, IT WAS A DARK.

WE KNOW THAT THEY WERE OVER THE THRESHOLD. AND THEY'VE CAME WITH THEIR DATA.

THEY'RE GOING TO COME WITH THAT DATA EVERY YEAR. THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT REQUIRES. I THINK THE CHAMBER GOING FORWARD, THAT'S THE ONLY OTHER CHARITY THAT'S RECEIVED MONEY. IF WE, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING IN THE COMMUNITY.

SO IF YOU GUYS ARE OPEN TO DOING IT GOING FORWARD AS OPPOSED TO FROM 1998.

I'M GOING TO ASK A POINT OF CLARIFICATION IF I WOULD, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND.

COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. SINCE WE DON'T GIVE $250,000 IN A LUMP SUM AT ANY ONE TIME, THEN NO ONE'S GOING TO BE PART OF THE THE MATRIX OF DOING A GRANT. I WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO AMEND YOUR FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND JUST SAY ANY ENTITY GETTING OVER $25,000 OR MORE, MAYBE $15,000 OR MORE PER YEAR FROM THE CITY, HAS TO APPLY FOR IT THROUGH A PROCESS.

SO THIS WAY, ANYBODY GETTING $15,000 OR MORE OUT OF CITY FUNDS HAS TO.

HAVE PROOF OF WHERE WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING TO GO TO.

SO START IT FROM THE BEGINNING AND GO FRESH. DOES THAT WORK? COMMISSIONER. RIGHT BEFORE WE ASK COMMISSIONER PATTERSON AND COMMISSIONER DANIEL. SO ANYONE GETTING 15,000 OR MORE ANNUAL BASIS? YES. MAKE THEM APPLY FOR THE MONEY. DO NOT DO AN APPLICATION.

PERIOD. EVERYBODY KNOWS WHEN THE GRANT BUDGET IS SO BEFORE JUNE WHEN WE START TALKING MONEY.

HAVE A GRANT OUT THERE TO THESE CHARITIES AND SAY THESE ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF WHAT WE WISH YOU TO TO SHOW US.

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL. IT GETS REVIEWED. IF IT'S REVIEWED AND IT SHOWS THAT THEY HIT THE MARK FOR IT, THEN THE CITY COMMISSION IS ASKED IF IT WILL GRANT THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, AND IF IT DOES, THEN THEY GET THE MONEY THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

I THINK IF WE IT NEEDS TO BE EQUITABLE, WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW THAT THE CITY OF TAMARAC IS USING MONEY WISELY.

WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW THAT THE MONEY IS BEING USED FOR OUR POPULATION, THEN 15,000.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT TEN, I JUST THINK IT NEEDS TO BE.

A LOW ENOUGH NUMBER, BUT NOT TOO HIGH BECAUSE A $3,000 WOULD BE TOO MUCH PAPERWORK FOR STAFF AND EVERYONE.

YEAH, I THINK, I THINK 3000, I THINK 15. YOU KNOW, FOR A SMALL ORGANIZATION, IT'S A BUREAUCRACY AS WELL.

I THINK THAT I'LL BE OPEN TO A NUMBER THAT'S A LITTLE HIGHER.

IN TERMS OF THE BUREAUCRACY, I THINK 25 OR 30 IS A NUMBER THAT I WILL SUPPORT.

AND YOU CAN ASK COMMISSIONER PATTERSON AND COMMISSIONER DANIEL IF THEY ACCEPT YOUR FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

YEAH. MADAM MAYOR, I JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT THESE NUMBERS WERE BASED ON A CONSENSUS REACHED AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING.

SO, YEAH, IT WASN'T IT WASN'T ME THAT CAME UP WITH IT.

WE'RE NOT SAYING IT WAS, BUT AS YOU SAID, IT WAS CONSENSUS.

AND IT'S NOW A DISCUSSION AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER, ARE YOU MAKING YOUR ASK? YEAH, I'M MAKING MY ASK, COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. I MEAN, I'M NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT AN AMENDMENT TO THE TO THE MOTION BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON THE ITEM. FIRST OF ALL, I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE.

SO, COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR FIVE MINUTES? YES, I'M COMPLETED WITH MY FIVE MINUTES. YES.

OKAY. COMMISSIONER PATTERSON I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE REFRAME THE CONVERSATION WE GOT HERE BECAUSE WHAT WAS PRESENTED WAS THAT THERE WERE CHARITIES THAT WERE RECEIVING DONATIONS DATING BACK TO 98, THAT THE CITY COMMISSION HAD NOT NECESSARILY HAD ANY WAY IN BUY

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WHAT I BELIEVE I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY DATING BACK OR RETRO.

NO ONE'S ASKING ANYONE TO GO RETRO AND PROVIDE METRICS FROM 98, SO I'M NOT CLEAR WHAT YOU GUYS MEAN WHEN YOU SAY YOU DON'T WANT TO RETRO IT.

I BELIEVE THAT THIS LANGUAGE IS VERY CLEAR IN THAT EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY ONCE ADOPTED.

ANYONE THAT HAS BEEN IN RECEIPT OF $250,000 FROM THIS ORGANIZATION IS BEING ASKED TO SUPPLY US WITH METRICS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE IT FOR THE NEXT YEAR. THAT'S SIMPLE. THIS IS SIMPLE.

WE'RE OVERCOMPLICATING SOMETHING THAT'S QUITE SIMPLE.

ADDITIONALLY, THIS REMEDIES SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE ALSO UNCOVERED, WHICH WAS SIMPLY THAT PEOPLE WERE BEING GIVEN DONATIONS THROUGH A BUDGET PROCESS. WE ALL KNOW, AND I'VE HEARD A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS COME TO THE PODIUM OVER THE YEARS AND ARGUE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY IN THE BUDGET. AS A CITY COMMISSIONER, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE ENTIRE BUDGET BOOK.

IT'S PLACED ON MY DESK AFTER THE BUDGET HAS PASSED.

SO UNFORTUNATELY, WE UNCOVER THE WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE PAST IN THE CITY THROUGH JUST GENERAL CONVERSATIONS, SOMETIMES AS A WAY TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF THE DOLLARS THAT THE CITY HAS DONATED.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT A GRANT, IT'S A DONATION. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE WE'RE YOU KNOW, THIS IS SIMPLE.

I, I DON'T I'M NOT INTERESTED IN AMENDING THE MOTION.

I THINK THAT IT'S IT'S QUITE CLEAR ANYONE THAT HAS ALREADY RECEIVED OVER $250,000 IS BEING ASKED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, AS WE PURSUE THIS INCOMING BUDGET YEAR TO PROVIDE METRICS AND AN ASK.

SIMPLE. GRANT DONATION. EITHER WAY, DONATION IS JUST. WE GIVE IT BECAUSE WE GIVE IT. GRANT HAS A DIFFERENT DEFINITION.

I THINK GETTING A GRANT MAKES IT MORE, RESTRICTIVE AND AUTHENTICATED.

BUT ANYWAY, WE TALK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE MONEY IS GOING TO GO TO YET.

WE JUST PUT ANOTHER CHARITY DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS.

THAT WAS A SLIDE IN AT THE END OF THE MEETING.

THERE WAS TWO OF THEM ON THERE AND JUST SAID, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM SOME MONEY. AND WE ADDED IT IN AND I WAS TOLD IT WAS COMING BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION FOR US TO DETERMINE IT. BUT THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN DISTRIBUTED, I BELIEVE, TO THESE TWO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT DID NOT TELL US WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE THE $25,000 TO. SO MORE OR LESS, WE'RE SAYING IF IN THE PAST WE'VE GIVEN YOU ALL THIS MONEY, NOW YOU'VE GOT TO TELL US WHAT YOU'RE USING IT FOR, BUT IN THE FUTURE, WE GOT TO WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE ANOTHER TEN YEARS OF GIVING YOU $25,000 BEFORE THIS WILL APPLY. I THINK THAT'S RIDICULOUS IN MY OPINION.

AND I THINK THAT IT DOES SHOW A LACK OF TRUE CONCERN ABOUT GIVING OUT THE MONEY IN THE TRANSPARENCY THAT WE THROW OUT THERE. AND I DO KNOW THAT BUDGET BOOKS THEY'RE THEY'RE THICK.

THEY'RE NOT FUN. BUT THEY ARE GIVEN TO US WITH A PRE AND THEN THEY'RE GIVEN TO US WHEN IT'S FINALIZED.

I THINK THAT IT'S A MATTER OF. ANYWAY, I THINK THAT IF WE'RE GOING FORWARD AND THAT'S WHAT THE PURPOSE IS TO SEE IF SOMEBODY IS GOING TO RECEIVE MONEY. I THINK THAT THAT ANY ENTITY NEEDS TO GIVE US A PRELIMINARY WITH THEIR ASK AND TELL US WHAT THEY'RE USING THE MONEY FOR, BUT I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD WAIT UNTIL THEY FINALLY GET $250,000 TO THEN SAY, OH, WHAT DID YOU USE THE MONEY FOR? I WANT TO KNOW IT NOW.

YOU WANT MONEY OUT OF US OVER THE TUNE OF 25,000 OVER THE TUNE OF $15,000.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SPENDING THE MONEY ON NOW THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO SUPPORT.

ANYWAY. CALL THE QUESTION. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER RIGHT.

NO. MAYOR. GOMEZ. NO. COMMISSIONER. DANIEL. YES.

VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES. COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON.

YES. MOTION PASSES 3 TO 2. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE NOW AT 6BTR14366.

[6.b. TR14366 -A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, approving a Tenant Improvement/ Interior Buildout Grant Agreement between the City of Tamarac and A Touch Of Serling LLC, for a reimbursement amount not to exceed $48,636.07; for the interior buildout and improvement of an 1,842 square foot commercial space located at 8142 N. University Drive; providing for reimbursement of eligible expenses in accordance with grant guidelines; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

[6.c. TR14367 -A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, approving a Tenant Improvement/ Interior Buildout Grant Agreement between the City of Tamarac and Xaymaca Coffee Traders, Lie D/B/A Origins Cafe, attached hereto as Exhibit "1", for a reimbursement amount not to exceed $100,000; for the interior buildout and improvement of an 1,040 square foot commercial space located at 6805 W. Commercial Boulevard,; providing for reimbursement of eligible expenses in accordance with the grant guidelines; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

CITY COMMISSIONER, CITY OF TAMARAC APPROVAL. TENANT IMPROVEMENT. INTERIOR. BUILD OUT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND A TOUCH OF SERLING, LLC FOR REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 48,000 636,000 AND ZERO $0.07 FOR THE INTERIOR BUILD OUT IMPROVEMENT OF 1800 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL SPACE LOCATED AT 8142 NORTH UNIVERSITY DRIVE, PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I'LL TAKE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

MOVE IT. SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION BY BOLTON. I HAVE A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. THANK YOU. GOMEZ FINE BY ME. KENNETH LOPEZ, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR,

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GOOD AFTERNOON. MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, CITY COMMISSION.

HAPPY NEW YEAR. IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK HERE PRESENTING.

AND I'M VERY EXCITED THIS AFTERNOON TO BE PRESENTING TWO PROJECTS THAT WILL GO BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION FOR GRANT APPROVAL FOR UNDER THE TENANT IMPROVEMENT SLASH INTERIOR BUILD OUT.

GRANT AS YOU KNOW, THIS GRANT PROGRAM WAS APPROVED LAST YEAR ON JUNE 6TH OF 2025.

I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO HOLD A MOMENT. I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE THE PRESENTATION FOR BOTH. SO WE'LL DO A SEPARATE MOTION.

BUT IN THE INTERIM, FOR RIGHT NOW, I WOULD LIKE THE CITY ATTORNEY TO READ SIX C TR 14367.

FOR THE RECORD, I AM 6CA RESOLUTION OF CITY COMMISSIONER CITY TAMARAC APPROVAL OF TEN IMPROVEMENT.

INTERIOR BUILDOUT GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TAMARAC AND ZBA MOCHA COFFEE TRADERS, LLC DOING BUSINESS AS ORIGINS CAFE ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT ONE FOR A REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $100,000 FOR THE INTERIOR BUILDOUT AND IMPROVEMENT OF A 1440 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL SPACE LOCATED AT 6805 WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU. PLEASE PROCEED.

YES. OF COURSE. THANK YOU. AS YOU KNOW, THE TENANT IMPROVEMENT SLASH INTERIOR BUILDOUT GRANT WAS APPROVED LAST YEAR ON JUNE 25TH, 2025, WITH AN APPROVED BUDGET OF $1,150,000. THIS GRANT PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO ATTRACT NEW BUSINESSES TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC BY PROVIDING A REIMBURSEMENT FOR INTERIOR BUILDOUT COSTS, INTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS, AND A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ITEMS AS WELL.

TODAY'S PRESENTATION WILL DIVE INTO TWO PROJECTS THAT ARE APPLYING FOR.

THIS GRANT WILL GO OVER SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.

WE'LL GO OVER THE BUDGET AND TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT THOSE ARE.

THESE TWO APPLICANTS HAVE GONE THROUGH OUR REVIEW PROCESS, AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS WELL.

SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE. BEFORE I BEGIN, I WANTED TO JUST TOUCH ON SOME OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE GRANT TO PROVIDE THE CITY COMMISSION AS WELL AS THE AUDIENCE, A REFRESHER ON THE PROGRAM.

THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT BASED GRANT WITH A MAXIMUM AWARD AMOUNT OF 100,000.

THE ELIGIBLE EXPENSES INCLUDE INTERIOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, SIGNAGE AND A REIMBURSEMENT OF UP TO 25% OF ONE MONTH'S COMMERCIAL RENT IF THE TENANT APPLIES FOR THAT.

THIS IS FOR NEW BUSINESSES LOOKING TO ESTABLISH THEIR OPERATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

SO THIS PROGRAM WORKS AS AN ATTRACTOR, WHICH ALLOWS TAMARAC TO REMAIN COMPETITIVE AMONG THE OTHER CITIES.

IF APPROVED, CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BEGIN WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF GRANT APPROVAL, AND THE PROJECT SHOULD BE COMPLETED WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF RECEIVING THAT GRANT APPROVAL.

DUE TO THIS PROGRAM BEING A REIMBURSEMENT BASED GRANT, NO GRANT FUNDS WILL BE DISBURSED TO THE APPLICANT UNTIL THEY ARE ABLE TO SHOW THAT THE PROJECT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. ALL PERMITS HAVE BEEN CLOSED OUT.

INSPECTIONS HAVE BEEN PASSED AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS AND LICENSES NEEDED TO OPERATE LEGALLY WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THESE APPLICANTS HAVE GONE THROUGH A REVIEW PROCESS.

THAT REVIEW PROCESS INCLUDES THEM SUBMITTING THEIR APPLICATION, THEIR APPLICATION BEING REVIEWED BY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, MAKING SURE THAT THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION IS VETTED AND THEY HAVE MET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROGRAM GUIDELINES.

APART FROM THAT, THEY ARE SCHEDULED TO GO BEFORE THE GRANT REVIEW COMMITTEE, WHICH IS MADE UP OF OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICE, OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND OUR PLANNING AND ZONING DIVISION, WHICH THEY THEN TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PROJECT, PROVIDE COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK, AND THE TENANT ADDRESSES THEM.

SO OUR GRANT REVIEW COMMITTEE HAS DECIDED TO RECOMMEND THESE TWO APPLICANTS TO GO BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION THIS AFTERNOON TO SEEK APPROVAL.

AND THIS IS THE LAST STEP IN THE PROCESS, BECAUSE THE PROJECT CAN ONLY BE APPROVED IF THE CITY COMMISSION DEEMS IT SO.

ALL RIGHT. SO LET'S START WITH OUR FIRST APPLICANT.

STERLING JUST IS THE OWNER OF A TOUCH OF STERLING.

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AND SHE IS ALSO PLANNING TO DO WIG INSTALLATIONS AND BRAIDING SERVICES AS WELL.

SHE IS SHE IS PLANNING TO OPEN UP HER BUSINESS AT 8142 NORTH UNIVERSITY DRIVE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE PLAZA, WITH THE ALL COUNTY MUSIC BUSINESS AS WELL. THIS SPACE IS 1842FT², AND SHE IS REQUESTING A TOTAL OF $48,636.07 THAT WILL GO TOWARDS THE INTERIOR BUILD OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPACE, EXTERIOR SIGNAGE, RETAIL FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, ELECTRICAL IMPROVEMENTS AND A REIMBURSEMENT OF UP TO 25% OF ONE MONTH'S COMMERCIAL RENT.

WE LOOK A LITTLE BIT TOWARDS THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT.

WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT AND WHAT DO THEY PLAN TO DO TO IMPACT THE COMMUNITY AS THEY MOVE IN? I TOUCH OF STERLING PLANS TO START OFF BY CREATING TWO AND A HALF JOBS WITH TWO BRAIDERS AND ONE PART TIME CASHIER, WITH PLANS TO EXPAND EMPLOYMENT AS THE BUSINESS GROWS.

THE IMAGE ON THE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER SHOWS EXACTLY WHERE THE PROPOSED BUSINESS IS PLANNING TO GO.

THIS IS OFF OF UNIVERSITY DRIVE RIGHT BEFORE 82ND AVENUE.

AS YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGE TO THE RIGHT, THE ABOVE IMAGE SHOWS THE EXISTING SITE LAYOUT.

THE BOXES AT THE VERY TOP ARE OFFICE SPACES. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, JUST BY LOOKING AT THE LAYOUT, IT'S NOT REALLY SET UP FOR BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGE RIGHT BELOW IT, YOU CAN SEE THAT SEVERAL OF THOSE BOXES ARE MISSING.

THE NEW SITE PLAN OR THE NEW SITE LAYOUT SHOWS A DEDICATED SHOWROOM AREA, STORAGE SPACE, OFFICE SPACE, AND EMPLOYEE LOUNGE. A RELOCATED KITCHENETTE AND THE ADDITION OF AN ADA ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM.

THERE'S GOING TO BE NO CHANGES TO THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT, SO IT'LL REMAIN THE SAME IN SIZE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE ARE PHOTOS OF THE INTERIOR LAYOUT.

YOU CAN SEE THE LONG HALLWAY FOLLOWED BY ADDITIONAL OFFICES.

AND YOU KNOW, JUST LOOKING AT IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE VIBES.

SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE, WE CAN SEE SOME OF THE IMAGES OF THE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, BECAUSE IT'S HARD FOR SOME OF OUR BUSINESSES TO SHOW EXACTLY WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

SO WE WE'VE ASKED THEM TO PROVIDE JUST IMAGES OF WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO BUY, WHAT TO PURCHASE, WHAT'S GOING TO GO INSIDE THIS SPACE TO REALLY SET IT APART.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, SHE'S PLANNING TO PURCHASE SHELVING, SIGNAGE, DISPLAY CASES, WIRE SHELVING, ALL THE COMPONENTS NEEDED TO REALLY CONTINUE TO OPERATE AND PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS TO THE COMMUNITY.

IF WE LOOK CLOSER AT THE PROJECT BUDGET, WE CAN SEE HOW WE CAME UP TO THAT $48,636.07 THRESHOLD.

WELL, NOT THRESHOLD, BUT AMOUNT. THE PROJECT SCOPE CONSISTS OF THE INTERIOR BUILD OUT AND CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WAS PROVIDED AS A QUOTE THROUGH THEIR GENERAL CONTRACTOR, WHICH COMES OUT TO $23,397.

THE EXTERIOR SIGNAGE, FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION COMES OUT TO $6,848.

RETAIL FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT. AS WE SAW IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, IT'S GOING TO COME OUT TO A TOTAL OF $11,338.69.

ELECTRICAL IMPROVEMENTS COME OUT TO $1,400, AND 25% OF ONE MONTH OF HER COMMERCIAL RENT WILL COME OUT TO $652.38, GIVING HER A TOTAL ELIGIBLE PROJECT COSTS AND REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT OF $48,636.07.

THIS IS THE AMOUNT THAT SHE IS REQUESTING. THE AMOUNT WILL NOT GO ABOVE THIS EVEN IF SHE COMES OUT WITH ADDITIONAL COSTS. WHATEVER IS APPROVED IS WHAT SHE WILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN.

THERE WERE SOME EXPENSES THAT WERE EXCLUDED FROM THIS TABLE DUE TO THEM BEING EITHER INELIGIBLE OR PERHAPS THEY STARTED PRIOR TO APPLYING FOR THE GRANT.

THESE ARE SOME CONCEPTUAL IMAGES OF THE PROPOSED INTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS.

AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER, YOU CAN SEE A TOUCH OF SERLING'S LOGO, WHICH IS IMPORTANT FOR THE THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT SHE PLANS TO OFFER A SMOOTH TOUCH TO ALL YOUR BEAUTY NEEDS.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S GOING TO BE STATIONS FOR BRAIDING AND WIG INSTALLATIONS AND DEDICATED SHOWROOM FOR PRODUCTS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THIS ISN'T A DIRECT 1 TO 1 LOOK OF HOW IT'S GOING TO LOOK, BUT IT'S JUST A PROPOSED IMAGE TO KIND OF ILLUSTRATE THE FEEL OF THE SPACE AND THE AND WE TRIED REALLY HARD TO INCLUDE SOME OF THE INTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS, SUCH AS THE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, LIKE THE TYPE OF FLOORING, THE COLOR OF FLOORING THAT SHE'S GOING TO USE, THE TYPES OF DISPLAY CASES AND CHECKOUT

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I'LL OPEN UP THE FLOOR FOR ANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS PROJECT.

GO TO THE PUBLIC FIRST AND THEN SURE. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK TO YOU. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW OPEN.

ANYBODY WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. NOT SEEING ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE DAIS.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU. ARE WE VOTING ON BOTH OR JUST ONE? OKAY. VICE MAYOR. YES. COMMISSIONER PATTERSON.

YES. MAYOR. GOMEZ. YES. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. YES.

COMMISSIONER DANIEL. YES. THANK YOU. MOTION PASSES FOR UNANIMOUSLY.

SO THE TITLE HAS ALREADY BEEN READ INTO THE RECORD.

I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND ON 60. MOVE IT. SECOND.

OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOLTON. I HAVE A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER DANIEL.

THANK YOU. GOMEZ. SO PLEASE PROCEED WITH YOUR PRESENTATION.

YES. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT APPLICANT IS DAVID LEVY, WHO JOINS US THIS AFTERNOON.

HE IS THE PROUD OWNER OF JAMAICA COFFEE TRADERS.

I'M SORRY. THERE'S A TYPO RIGHT THERE. IT'S BUGGING ME NOW, BUT I APOLOGIZE, DAVID.

JAMAICA COFFEE TRADERS ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS ORIGINS CAFE.

THE TYPE OF BUSINESS IS A SPECIALTY CAFE, COFFEE SHOP AND A MICRO ROASTERY.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, AS DAVID PLANS TO HAVE AN OPERATION WHERE HE ROASTS THE BEANS AND ACTUALLY CREATES THE BLENDS, WHICH IS VERY UNIQUE TO THE SPACE. THIS THIS BUSINESS WILL BE LOCATED AT 6805 WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, ALSO KNOWN AS THE PLAZA, WITH THE CHOW TIME RESTAURANT.

AND THEY ARE REQUESTING OR THEY ARE MOVING INTO A 1040 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL SPACE.

AND THEY'RE REQUESTING A GRANT AMOUNT OF $100,000 TO BE ISSUED AS A REIMBURSEMENT AT THE END OF THE PROJECT.

THIS IS GOING TO GO TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION AND BUILD OUT OF THE SPACE MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, FLOORING, LIGHTING, CAFE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, INTERIOR SIGNAGE, AND ALSO A REIMBURSEMENT OF THE 25% OF THEIR COMMERCIAL RENT. SO THEY'RE PLANNING TO GET THE BALL ROLLING WITH A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS.

BUT NOT ONLY THAT, THEY'RE PLANNING TO START OFF STRONG WITH HIRING FIVE EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING BARISTAS, CAFÉ STAFF, OPERATIONS, ETC.. IF YOU CAN SEE ON THE IMAGE ON THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER, THE BUSINESS IS LOCATED RIGHT OFF OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND TO THE RIGHT OF NORTHWEST 70TH AVENUE. THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, WHICH INCLUDES A DEDICATED CUSTOMER CAFÉ AND SEATING AREA.

BACK OF HOUSE ROASTING, PACKAGING AND STORAGE SPACE.

SERVICE COUNTER AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION AREA.

OFFICE AND UTILITY SUPPORT SERVICE SPACES AND AN ADA COMPLIANT RESTROOM.

THESE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF THE INTERIOR OF THE SPACE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, IT NEEDS A LOT OF WORK AS IT'S NOT RESEMBLING QUITE A COFFEE SHOP YET.

AND CERTAINLY IT'S HARD TO SEE THE VISION, BUT DAVID WAS ABLE TO DO IT.

HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THE VISION BEHIND THIS. AND AS WE GO OVER SOME OF THESE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT THAT HE'S PLANNING TO PURCHASE AND PUT INTO THE SPACE, WE'LL GET A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT THAT VISION LOOKS LIKE.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE TOP IS JUST A FRACTION OF THE AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT, FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES THAT HE'S PLANNING TO PUT INTO THIS PLACE.

SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT ESPRESSO MACHINES, COFFEE MACHINES, DISPLAY CASES, FURNITURE, SIGNAGE, LIGHTING, SHELVING, TABLES, FLOORING, WALLS VERY ROBUST IMPROVEMENTS IN TERMS OF THE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT. AS WE LOOK AT THE BUDGET, WE CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE WE GET THIS BREAKDOWN AND WE COME UP TO THE FIGURE THAT WE ARRIVED AT. FIRST OF ALL, THE INTERIOR, INTERIOR BUILDOUT AND CONSTRUCTION CONSISTS OF THE STRUCTURAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, MECHANICAL AND FLOORING COMPONENTS, WHICH EQUAL OUT TO 72,400 THE CAFE EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES COME OUT TO $1,176. THE FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT THAT ARE CONSIST OF THE TABLES, CHAIRS, THE BAR SEAT AND THE SHELVING COUNTERS COME OUT TO $11,839.69, AND INTERIOR SIGNAGE AND FIXED LIGHTING COMES OUT TO $4,346 AND THE ELIGIBLE COMMERCIAL RENT REIMBURSEMENT, THAT 25% COMES OUT TO $625.

THE TOTAL ELIGIBLE PROJECT COST ACTUALLY EXCEEDS THE 100,000 $130,387 OF ELIGIBLE IMPROVEMENTS,

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THERE WERE SOME, QUITE A FEW, ACTUALLY, ITEMS THAT WERE EXCLUDED FROM THIS TABLE BECAUSE WHETHER THEY WERE DECORATIVE, WHETHER THEY WERE JUST DIDN'T FALL UNDER THE ELIGIBLE LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS.

BUT IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT EVEN ABOVE THIS $130,000 IS GOING INTO THE SPACE TO REALLY MAKE IT LOOK AND FEEL A PLACE THAT'S REALLY SPECIAL. IF WE LOOK AT THE CONCEPTUAL IMAGES OF THE PROPOSED INTERIOR LAYOUT, IT LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE INTERIOR PHOTOS WE SAW EARLIER.

AS YOU CAN SEE, APART FROM SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT, THE FURNITURE, THE FIXTURES THAT WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, YOU CAN SEE ART ON THE WALLS AND ON THE CEILINGS AND JUST A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPACE WITH REFRIGERATION AREAS FOR ROASTING THE COFFEE BEANS.

THIS IS TRULY A UNIQUE BUSINESS THAT'S BEING ATTRACTED TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

AND IT'S GOING TO PROVIDE QUITE A BIT OF VALUE TO OUR COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO COME, A LOCAL BUSINESS THAT PEOPLE CAN KIND OF SIT DOWN AND SIP THEIR COFFEE, DO THEIR HOMEWORK, AND ENJOY. I'LL OPEN IT UP TO PUBLIC COMMENTS AND ANSWER QUESTIONS.

ANYBODY? AUDIENCE WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW OPEN.

SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. NOT SEEING ANYBODY WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER DANIEL.

YES, COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON. YES, COMMISSIONER.

RYAN. YES, MAYOR. GOMEZ. YES. VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

YES. THANK YOU. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. EXCELLENT.

TWO GREAT NEW BUSINESSES. VERY, VERY EXCITED.

ON THAT NOTE, THOUGH, I WAS ADVISED THAT. NO, NO.

YOU'RE GOOD. WE WILL BE TAKING A BREAK UNTIL 105.

WHERE? MRS. BUSINESS DONE. GREETINGS, EVERYBODY. IT IS 105 AND WE ARE RESUMING OUR COMMISSION MEETING.

WE ARE GOING TO START WITH BACK WITH ITEM

[7.a. TO2616 -An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending Chapter 10, Article 4, of the Land Development Code of the City of Tamarac, Florida, entitled "Development and Design Standards"; amending Section 10-4.10, entitled "Signs"; specifically amending Section 10-4.10(L), entitled "Prohibited Signs", to remove the prohibition on electronic message center signs; and amending Section 10-4.1 0(D), entitled "General Sign Requirements", to allow the installation of electronic message center signs for nonresidential uses located in the R-3, MU-N, MU-C, MU-G, NC, BP, 1-2, PF, and RC zoning districts along designated major arterial roadways, subject to special exception approval by the city commission; providing for codification; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

YES. ITEM SEVEN A AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF CITY OF TAMARAC.

AMENDING CHAPTER TEN, ARTICLE FOUR OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, ENTITLED DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN AMENDED SECTION TEN DASH 4.10 ENTITLED SIGNS SPECIFICALLY AMENDED SECTION TEN DASH 4.10 L ENTITLED PROHIBIT SIGNS TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION ON ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER SIGNS AMENDING CHAPTER SECTION TEN DASH 4.10 D, ENTITLED GENERAL REQUIREMENTS TO ALLOW THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC MESSAGE SIGNS FOR NONRESIDENTIAL USES LOCATED IN ALL THREE DISTRICT, MUN DISTRICT, EMBASSY DISTRICT, MUG DISTRICT, AND C DISTRICT, B-P DISTRICT INDUSTRIAL TWO DISTRICT, DISTRICT AND OK ZONING DISTRICTS PROVIDING FOR FACULTY. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE MAHIR MANSOOR WHO WILL BE GIVING US A PRESENTATION ASSISTANCE.

SO MOVED. DIRECTOR. TRUE. SO MOVE. NOT REALLY.

I'M WAITING FOR OUR DIRECTOR TO. WE GOT A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER.

VICE MAYOR BOLTON. WE GOT A COMMISSION SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WRIGHT.

I'M SURE YOU COULD DO THE PRESENTATION. SO DO YOU WANT ME TO START? IT'S REALLY MY MY ITEM, BUT LET'S GO WITH IT.

YES. PLEASE PROCEED.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM MAYOR. VICE MAYOR, CITY COMMISSIONERS.

MY NAME IS MANSOOR. I'M THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

WE BRING TO YOU AN ITEM LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.

AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER SIGNS, WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY PROHIBITED IN THE CITY AND WILL GO OVER THE DEFINITION.

LTC. SECTION TEN FOR TEN PROHIBITS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTERS.

MCS IN THE CITY. THEY EXIST TODAY. THEY EXIST ONLY ON MUNICIPALLY OWNED SITES.

CITY HALL, PARKS, ETC. EXISTS ON SMALL SCALE WITH GAS STATION LIKE FOR PRICING ONLY, AND THE PROPOSAL TO ADD THE MC TO THE LIST OF ALLOWABLE SIGNAGE TYPES AS AN ECONOMIC ATTRACTOR. ADVERTISEMENTS AND BUSINESS ATTRACTION.

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AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE CURRENTLY IN PLACE, WE CAN GO OVER IT AGAIN.

WE'VE PRESENTED THIS THE CITY OF TAMARAC ZONING MAP, AND THIS IS WHERE WE INTEND TO BRING THEM.

SO THEY WILL NOT ONLY BE IN SPECIFIC ZONING DISTRICTS, BUT ALONG SPECIFIC MAJOR ROADWAYS ONLY.

AND IT'S THE MUNN MUCK AND MUG ARE MAINLY ON COMMERCIAL UNIVERSITY, A LITTLE BIT ON MCNAB.

AND THOSE ARE THE PROPOSED ARTERIAL ROADWAYS THAT WE ARE BRINGING THE PERMITTING THE NEW SIGNAGE, ELECTRONIC SIGNAGE AS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION AS OF NOW, AS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

AND THIS IS FOR YOU TO TO DELIBERATE ON. SO WE HAVE TO DO THE TAX AMENDMENTS.

WE HAVE TO CHANGE A FEW THINGS WE JUST ENUMERATING HERE BECAUSE AS YOU SEE, ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTERS AND ELECTRONIC TIME TEMPERATURE DISPLAYS, WE SCRATCH THAT OUT. THEY WERE UNDER THE PROHIBITED SIGNS.

SO THEY ARE NOW ARE ADDING THEM. AND IT JUST HOUSEKEEPING WHAT FOLLOWS.

BUT HERE IS WHERE WE ADDED THE TEXT FOR THEM.

SO IT'S TIME PERMITTING IN NONRESIDENTIAL MIXED USE SPECIAL PURPOSE AND CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE ALLOWED TO IN ALL NONRESIDENTIAL, MIXED USE AND SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICTS, AS WELL AS LIMITED USE SPECIFIC SIGNAGE ASSOCIATED WITH COMMERCIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL USES IN THE R-3 ZONING DISTRICT, SUBJECT TO THE LISTED STANDARDS.

THIS IS ALREADY EXISTED IN THE CODE, SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER WHAT WE'VE ADDED.

ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER, LLC SHALL BE PERMITTED IN THE R3 MUD AND MUCK THAT WE JUST MENTIONED THAT BEFORE, AND THIS IS AGAIN THE MAJOR ROADWAYS WHERE THEY WILL BE ADDED.

AND THIS WILL GO FURTHER INTO THE SPECIFICS OF THE INSTALLATION, THE ORIENTATION, THE NUMBER OF SIGNS PERMITTED, WHICH WILL BE ONE THE ORIENTATION, WE MAKE SURE THAT IT'S THE PRINCIPAL USE OF THE PROPERTY.

THE SIGN MAY NOT DISPLAY MESSAGES THAT WOULD BE REASONABLY CONSIDERED LEWD, OFFENSIVE, DANGEROUS, OR INJURIOUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE.

IN NO INSTANCE SHALL THEY MAY BE FACING A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL STREET OR RESIDENCE FOR SINGLE STANDALONE MCS MAY BE INSTALLED THE PRIMARY FRONTAGE OF THE FACILITY.

IF THEY HAVE TWO TWO FRONTAGES, THEY HAVE TO SELECT ONE, SO THEY CANNOT HAVE TWO OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME.

SETBACKS IS FOLLOWING THE SAME SETBACKS WE HAVE FOR MONUMENT SCIENCE.

TEN. MINIMUM OF TEN FEET FROM THE PROPERTY FRONTAGE.

DISTANCE. SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS 150FT FROM ANOTHER EMC.

NO. EMC SHALL BE WITHIN 150FT OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY UNLESS SEPARATED BY MAJOR ARTERIAL ROADWAY.

AND THE DESIGN GUIDELINES GO ABOUT. IT HAS A MAXIMUM THREE LINES OF COPY.

SHALL NOT DISPLAY IMAGES OR CHARACTERS THAT INTERFERE WITH NORMAL TRAFFIC.

BRIGHTNESS OF THE MC IS CONTROLLED AND THE LIGHT SHOULD NOT EXCEED 0.3FT.

CANDLE ABOVE AMBIENT LIGHT SHALL NOT DISPLAY LIGHT THAT IS IN INTENSITY OR GLARE, OR IMPAIR THE VISION OF DRIVERS.

THE MC SHALL NOT CHANGE MORE THAN ONCE EVERY 30S AND AGAIN WE'VE WE'VE GOT ALL THESE GUIDELINES FROM OTHER CITIES.

IT'S NOT WHAT WE DID NOT INVENT THEM. THAT'S WHAT OTHER CITIES USE FOR GUIDELINES, AND THAT'S WHAT BEST PRACTICES ARE WHEN WE WANT TO BRING SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

THERE ARE CITIES NOT AROUND US THAT HAVE ANIMATIONS.

WE DID NOT INCLUDE ANIMATION. WE KEPT ANIMATIONS OUT OF IT.

SO NO ANIMATION, VIDEO SCROLLING, FLASHING OR APPEARANCE OF MOVEMENT IS PERMITTED.

NO AUDITORY MESSAGE OR MECHANICAL SOUND. EMC MUST BE DESIGNED TO PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS SO IT CANNOT BE HACKED.

THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE THAT WITHIN SO NOBODY CAN HACK IT AND DISPLAY WHATEVER MESSAGES THEY HAVE THERE.

IF THE EMC MALFUNCTION OR FAILS, IT SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY GO INTO SLEEP MODE.

IT CANNOT DISPLAY ANY MESSAGE OR STATIC MESSAGE.

STATIC, NOTHING ON IT. SO KENT WILL CONTINUE.

PLEASE. THANK YOU. MY APOLOGIES. YOU DID A GREAT JOB, KENT.

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I ACTUALLY HAVE A SUMMARY COMING UP IN THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO, AS MEJIA HAD SUMMARIZED, IT'S LIMITED TO NONRESIDENTIAL USES.

GO BACK TO THE OTHER ONE. LET'S FINISH GOING THROUGH THIS, PLEASE.

OKAY. SO I GUESS WE LEFT OFF HERE. SO NO MALFUNCTIONS ON CALL CONTACT PERSON.

THE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTERS SHALL NOT HAVE ANY RESEMBLING OR WARNING INFORMATION.

SHOULD BE LANDSCAPED. THE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SIGN SHALL NOT EXCEED SIX FEET IN HEIGHT, SEVEN FEET IN WIDTH, AND IN R-3 MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS, WHICH IS ON THE MAJOR CORRIDORS AND NOT TO EXCEED SIX FOOT SEVEN FEET IN NONRESIDENTIAL USES, LESS THAN 64,999FT², WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH OUR MARQUEE SIGNAGE NOW. AND IF YOUR DEVELOPMENT IS OVER 65,000FT², THEN IT CAN GO EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT NOT TO EXCEED AND NINE FEET IN WIDTH, SIMILAR TO WHAT OUR MARQUEE SIGNAGES ARE. AND THE DISPLAY AREA OF THE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER CANNOT EXCEED 50% OF THE SQUARE FEET OF THAT MONUMENT SIGN. SO THIS WAS JUST A SUMMARIZATION OF WHAT'S IN THE CODE AS WELL.

AS MENTIONED, NO ANIMATIONS, THREE LINES OF TEXT ONLY LIMITED TO, YOU KNOW, NO BRIGHTNESS TO AFFECT TRANSPORTATION.

THE SIZES ARE LISTED AND LANDSCAPING WOULD BE REQUIRED AS WELL.

INITIALLY WE'RE PROPOSING IT WITH A SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

THE PROCESS AS WELL. AND THERE ARE SOME IMAGES THERE THAT ARE AROUND ADJACENT CITIES AS WELL.

IT'S CONSISTENT WITH OUR FUTURE LAND USE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND OUR STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN, AND IT PROVIDES AN ECONOMIC TOOL FOR BUSINESS ATTRACTION AND FOOT TRAFFIC TO BUSINESSES AND DEVELOPMENTS.

IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE TEXT AMENDMENT REVIEW STANDARDS IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. AS FOR CONSISTENCY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, NO CONFLICTS WITH OTHER AREAS OF THE CODE. IT'S CONSISTENT WITH, YOU KNOW, CHANGING CONDITIONS AND EVER EVOLVING PARTS OF OUR CODE TO MAKE IT UPDATED.

AS TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES, IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE ZONING DISTRICTS AS IT JUST PROVIDES THIS MEANS OF ADVERTISEMENT.

IT'S LOCAL LOGICAL AND ORDERLY, AND IT HAS NO SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS TO NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

AS MENTIONED, IT WENT BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD. IT WAS APPROVED FOUR ZERO IN THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY.

AND NOW IT'S BEFORE CITY COMMISSION FOR FIRST READING. I'LL BE AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. THIS ITEM IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. THANK YOU. MAYOR. THROUGH THE MANAGER.

MR.. I'M SORRY, THE LAST NAME LEAH KENT. OKAY.

KENT. KENT. KENT. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER. ALL RIGHT. A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL OPINION, IS PERMITTING THIS USE BY RIGHT.

PERHAPS WITH GUARDRAILS A WORSE APPROACH THAN WHAT'S CURRENTLY BEING PROPOSED, WHICH IN THIS CASE IS PERMITTING OR PROHIBITING, EXCEPT BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION, IT CAN BE PERMITTED BY.

RIGHT. SO THE WAY WE LOOKED AT WHEN WE DID OUR ANALYSIS ON ADJACENT CITIES, SOME CITIES HAVE IT PERMITTED BY RIGHT WITH USE SPECIFIED.

SOME CITIES HAVE IT SPECIAL EXCEPTION THE WAY WE DEVELOP THE ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT, WE'VE PUT IN A LOT OF GUARDRAILS IN THERE, A LOT OF SPECIFICITY. SO IT CAN BE PERMITTED BY RIGHT AND STILL MEET THE INTENT OF WHAT A SPECIAL EXCEPTION, WHAT THE COMMISSION WOULD LOOK FOR. SO IT HAS ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW, REGULATIONS IN THERE.

SO IT CAN BE PERMITTED BY. RIGHT. OKAY. SO RIGHT NOW WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED IS GUARDRAILS AND A SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

RIGHT. IN CASE YOU THE COMMISSION WANTED TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, PURVIEW OF LOOKING AT THE CONTENT OR THE DESIGN OF THE SIGN, BUT THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN IN THE CODE, IT ALREADY PROVIDES FOR THAT AT AN ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AS WELL.

UNDERSTOOD. BUT I MEAN, IN YOUR PROFESSION, YOU JUST GOT HERE. SO I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN YOUR, JUST YOUR GENERAL PERSPECTIVE.

DOES THIS KIND OF DOES THIS SUPPORT PRO-BUSINESS? DOES THIS MAKE IT EASIER FOR BUSINESSES TO COME INTO OUR CITY TO DO BUSINESS FOR SOMETHING SPECIFIC, SOMETHING LIKE A MESSAGE BOARD? IS YOUR OPINION THAT THIS IS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IN TERMS OF HOW WE MODERNIZE OUR CODE? ABSOLUTELY. SO I'VE SEEN IT IN CITIES LIKE FORT LAUDERDALE, POMPANO BEACH, ORLANDO.

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I'VE SEEN A SIGN WHERE MCDONALD'S SAID THE MCRIB IS BACK, SO THEY CAN DO CERTAIN MESSAGES TO BRING FOOT TRAFFIC INTO THEIR BUSINESS.

WE DID AN ANALYSIS THAT SHOWS THAT THERE CAN BE AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS REVENUE AND FOOT TRAFFIC 15 TO 150%.

SO IT DEFINITELY IS A BENEFIT OF HAVING THAT MESSAGE THERE.

YES. NO NO NO. MY QUESTION ISN'T NECESSARILY IS IT BENEFICIAL FOR US TO ALLOW FOR MESSAGE BOARDS? MY QUESTION IS THE APPROACH THAT WE'RE TAKING TO MODERNIZE THE CODE OR UPDATE THE CODE.

THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY A PROHIBITED USE. WE ARE SAYING NOW YOU GUYS ARE PROPOSING THAT WE PERMIT THE USE EXCEPT BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

SO IF SOMEONE WANTS A MESSAGE BOARD ANYONE EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WANTS A MESSAGE BOARD IN THE CITY, THEY WOULD STILL NEED TO COME AND GET A SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

BUT ISN'T IT TRUE THAT A SPECIAL EXCEPTION TYPICALLY WOULD BE USED IN CASES THAT ARE KIND OF UNCERTAIN IN NATURE, BECAUSE TO ME, WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'VE GOT GUARDRAILS.

IT'S UNIVERSALLY USED. WHY WOULD WE WHY WOULD WE CREATE A OR WHY WOULD WHY WOULD I SUPPORT.

AND I'M ASKING THIS JUST FROM YOUR PLANNING PERSPECTIVE, WHY WOULD WE APPROACH AND WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT A LAW THAT MAKES IT MORE RESTRICTIVE FOR BUSINESSES TO BE ABLE TO COME IF THEY NEED A MESSAGE BOARD? WHY WOULD THIS? I MEAN, THE GUARDRAILS ARE THERE.

WHY DO THEY NEED AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL EXCEPTION? WHAT MAKES THIS UNIQUE? THIS IS NOT A UNIQUE USE IN NATURE.

IF WE'RE GOING TO ALLOW IT, WHY DO WE NEED TO DO IT THIS WAY? UNDERSTOOD. IF I CAN ANSWER TWO PARTS IF I'M UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY.

SO MY FIRST OPINION, AS IT'S LIKE A TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX FOR BUSINESSES TO HAVE AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER SIGN.

SO OUR CODE CURRENTLY PROHIBITS IT. IT COULD BE A LITTLE DATED.

WE'RE SEEING THAT THE INDUSTRY IS IMPROVING ON THE MESSAGE TYPES, THE SIGN TYPES.

SOME CITIES ARE UPDATING THEIR CODE TO STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE GROWING BUSINESSES AND ATTRACTING BUSINESSES.

AND WHEN PEOPLE YOU KNOW PASS BY AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC, THEY CAN SEE THAT DISPLAY THERE.

I KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT CALVARY FORT LAUDERDALE, THEY HAVE THE SERVICE TIMES RIGHT THERE ON MCNABB BEFORE, I MEAN, CYPRESS, BEFORE IT TURNS TO MCNABB IN FORT LAUDERDALE, THEY'RE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE THAT.

SO THE REASON FOR THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION OR THAT FIRST APPROACH, WHICH IF THE COMMISSION WANTED TO HAVE IT BY RIGHT.

THAT ALLOWS FOR ADDITIONAL REVIEW, WHICH ISN'T NECESSARILY NECESSARY.

IT'S HAVING A MONUMENT SIGN DOES NOT REQUIRE A SPECIAL EXCEPTION NOW.

SO JUST ADDING THAT ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER IS JUST ADDITIONAL COMPONENT TO THAT.

SO THAT COULD BE BY RIGHT. IT COULD BE CONSISTENT WITH MONUMENT SIGNS NOW.

SO IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE THERE. WE JUST DID IT FOR OUR FIRST APPROACH BECAUSE IT'S SO NEW TO THE CODE FOR US BECAUSE IT'S PROHIBITED.

WE WERE PROPOSING THAT ADDITIONAL LAYER WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY NECESSARY.

SO I THINK NOW YOU'RE KIND OF IN TUNE WITH KIND OF WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT AND WHETHER IF IT WAS PROHIBITED, THE CITY HAS THEM ON ALL OF OUR PROPERTIES. SO WE HAVEN'T NECESSARILY DONE THE BEST JOB OF FOLLOWING OUR OWN RULES, BUT EITHER WHICH WAY OR THE OTHER. I SAW THAT YOU GUYS PROVIDED A CHART OF WHATEVER RESEARCH THAT WAS DONE THAT WASN'T IN THE BACKUP.

I'M INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHO ELSE REQUIRES A SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR MESSAGE BOARD SIGN.

GO TO THAT SLIDE.

SO THIS IS THE REVIEW HERE. SO SOME CITIES IN THIS ANALYSIS DO NOT ALLOW IT.

SOME PROHIBIT IT FOR SPECIAL EXCEPTION. IT WAS LET ME SEE HERE I HAD IT WRITTEN DOWN IN MY NOTES HERE.

I BELIEVE IT IS. IT LOOKS LIKE ALL THE ONES THAT SAY PERMITTED ARE PERMITTED BY RIGHT.

I DON'T SEE ANYONE THAT'S REQUIRING A SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR THIS.

DOES CULVER'S HAVE A SPECIAL EXCEPTION? I WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK.

THAT'S MARGATE. MARGATE IS PERMITTED, BUT IT'S BY USE.

I REMEMBER, AND THEN THAT'S BY RIGHT. I REMEMBER WE LOOKED AT MARGATE.

THAT WAS BY RIGHT BY USE. I'LL HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK IF ANY OF THE PERMITTED USE TABLE HERE WAS SPECIAL EXCEPTION.

I DON'T RECALL HEARING THAT WHEN I WAS TALKING WITH STAFF.

YEAH, I'M INCLINED NOT TO SUPPORT THE WAY THIS LEGISLATION IS DRAFTED.

I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO NEED FOR US TO REGULATE MESSAGE BOARD SIGNS ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.

PERSONALLY WE TALKED A LOT TODAY ABOUT BEING BUSINESS FRIENDLY.

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WE USE THAT LOOSELY ON THE DAYS WHEN IT'S FAVORABLE FOR OUR ARGUMENTS.

BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT JUST CAME AND WERE GRANTED $100,000 BUILD OUT, WE JUST GAVE THEM MONEY, BUT THEN THEY WOULD NEED TO STILL COME BACK. MORE DOLLARS SPENT, MORE RESOURCES IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PUT A MESSAGE BOARD SIGN IN FRONT IN FRONT OF IT. AND FRANKLY, BASED ON WHAT I CAN SEE, THE ZONING YOU KNOW, THE AREAS IN WHICH WE ARE MODIFYING OR PERMITTING THE USE ARE ALL FOR THE MOST PART. WHAT ARE THESE COMMERCIAL? I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH MU. WHAT IS MU MUNICIPAL? MIXED USE. MIXED USE? MIXED USE. OKAY, SO I MEAN, I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS FAIRLY SIMPLE IN NATURE.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ANY UNIQUE YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING UNIQUE ABOUT A MESSAGE BOARD SIGN.

AND I THINK THAT IF UNLESS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER A ZONING OR ZONING AREA THAT MAYBE WE WANT TO RULE OUT, OR MAYBE THERE IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS THAT YOU GUYS KIND OF EVALUATE THEM.

BUT I DON'T SEE THE NEED TO BE ABLE TO APPROACH OUR CODE OR TO CONTINUE TO APPROACH MODIFYING OUR POLICY IN THIS MANNER.

WE WE SHOULD BE PRO-BUSINESS. IT SHOULD COST BUSINESSES LESS TO COME INTO OUR CITY.

AND THIS CREATES MORE OF A BURDEN FINANCIALLY FOR FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO COME IN, SPECIFICALLY SMALL BUSINESSES, FRANCHISES AND WHAT HAVE YOU. SO I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS ONE TODAY.

THANK YOU. KEN, IF YOU DON'T MIND OR TITLE, I APOLOGIZE. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.

WELL, THAT SCREEN THAT YOU HAD PERMITTED, NOT PERMITTED.

IT'S VERY QUICK POP UP ON THERE. IT'S NOT IN OUR BOOK FOR THE BACKUP.

CAN YOU SUMMARIZE THE CITIES THAT ARE PROHIBITING IT AND THOSE THAT ARE ALLOWING IT? BECAUSE ALL I HEAR IS POMPANO BEACH, FORT LAUDERDALE AND DEERFIELD.

IN CERTAIN AREAS WHICH ARE MUCH BIGGER AND NOT NECESSARILY AROUND US.

SO, SO IN SUMMARY, WHEN WE DID THE ANALYSIS, WE LOOKED AT SEVERAL OTHER CITIES, YOU KNOW, MARKETING AND PARTICULARLY AND THEN SOME CITIES REQUIRE ALLOWED IT, SOME PROHIBIT IT, SOME ALLOWED IT WITH CERTAIN USES SPECIFIED. SO FORT LAUDERDALE FOR EXAMPLE, DOES ALLOW IT.

AS I MENTIONED IN THE EXAMPLE WITH THE CALVARY CHURCH, MARGATE DOES ALLOW IT AND IS SPECIFIED BY THE USE UNINCORPORATED BROWARD COUNTY DOES ALLOW IT. AND THEN WE HAVE ALLOWED IT IN THE CITY, BUT TO A VERY LIMITED EXTENT WITH GAS STATIONS.

SO MOST GAS STATIONS HAVE THE DIGITAL PRICES ON THEIR, ON THEIR BOARD.

MY CONCERN WITH THIS IS A GENERAL CONCERN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT 100 OR 3 LINES OF TEXT IS.

RIGHT. AND WHAT THE FONT AND ALL THAT KIND OF GOOD STUFF.

WE HAD AN ISSUE IN THE CITY YEARS AGO WITH REGULAR BILLBOARD SIGNS THAT WENT UP THAT HAD CONTENT ON IT, THAT HAD CERTAIN PEOPLE VERY UNHAPPY. WHAT REGULATIONS DO WE HAVE HERE TO PREVENT A BUSINESS OWNER OR ACTUALLY YOU HAVE AN EVEN RESIDENTIAL OF CREATING SOMETHING, AND WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL OF CONTENT.

SO BY NOT HAVING THIS ALLOWABLE, PROBABLY LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER CITIES THAT DON'T ALLOW IT, AVOID THE ISSUE OF CONTENT REGULATION. SO WE HAVE SOME SAFEGUARDS IN THERE.

SO IF THIS WERE TO COME IN, YOU KNOW, VIA A PERMIT OR JUST AN APPLICATION IN GENERAL, WE WOULD LOOK AT THE CONTENT OF THE THE MS MS SIGN. SO WE HAVE GUARDRAILS OF ANY LEWD OR OBJECTIONABLE OR ADULT MATERIAL.

I'M GONNA STOP YOU ON THAT. LOU DOES OBVIOUSLY ONE THING DEFINABLE OBJECTION MATERIAL IS SUBJECTIVE.

THAT'S THE PROBLEM. AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT I'M GOING TO PUT THIS ON MY DAY ON MY MONUMENT SIGN TODAY.

BUT I DON'T HAVE TO ASK YOUR PERMISSION FOR TOMORROW. I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO ASK YOU PERMISSION FOR 10S AFTER YOU GIVE ME APPROVAL.

WHAT HAPPENS THEN? SO WITH DIGITAL MESSAGE SIGNS THAT THERE INSTANTANEOUSLY CAN BE CHANGED.

SO IF A, YOU KNOW, A CODE OFFICER WERE TO BE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD OR ANYONE WERE TO INSPECT THE MESSAGE AND MIGHT HAVE CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE OR MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL, WE CAN ASK THE OWNER TO MODIFY THAT CONTENT.

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AND IF THEY'RE IN VIOLATION OF OUR CODE, WE CAN CITE THESE OWNERS.

SO THERE'S YOU KNOW, RESTRICTIONS YOU CAN PUT IN TO MAKE SURE OBSCENITY AND DIFFERENT.

OKAY. I'M GOING TO CUT YOU OFF ON THAT ONE. JUST BECAUSE WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT OBSCENITY.

IT'S A THE SITUATION WAS THERE'S ONE BELIEF AND I'LL JUST PUT IT OUT.

THERE WAS A PRO-LIFE VERSUS A PRO-CHOICE SITUATION GOING ON.

BATTLE OF SIGNS. OH, IF WE CAN'T TELL A BUSINESS OWNER THAT IF WE CAN'T REGULATE THAT CONTENT, IT MAY NOT BE BUSINESS SPECIFIC, BUT IT IS FOR CERTAIN BUSINESSES, RIGHT? SO I'M PUTTING THESE COMMENTS OUT THERE JUST KNOWING WHAT THE CITY HAD A PROBLEM BEFORE I WAS ON THE COMMISSION, I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. JUST LETTING YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THREE LINES OF COPY MEAN.

WELL, I THINK THAT BUSINESS OWNER IS OBVIOUSLY WANT TO OFFEND CERTAIN CUSTOMERS, BUT I THINK MOST BUSINESSES WILL BE CONSISTENT WITH, THEY WHAT THEY SELL AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY CAN OBVIOUSLY PUT POLITICAL MESSAGES ON THEIR THESE SIGNS, BUT THAT'S RARE IN MY YEAH, IT WOULD BE. IT WOULD BE LIMITED TO WHAT THEY'RE SELLING AND NOT.

YOU DON'T HAVE THAT WORDING IN HERE. I THINK I DO.

LET ME DOUBLE CHECK HERE. APOLOGIES. WELL, ACTUALLY, YOU SORRY.

JUST. THE WORDING COULD BE RELATED TO THE ORIENTATION OF THE PROPERTY BEING USED. THINK ABOUT IT.

IT SAYS NUMBER ONE BE ORIENTATION ONE. EMC SHALL CONTAIN BUSINESS ORIENTED COPY RELATIVE TO THE OPERATION OF THE PRINCIPAL USE.

THINK ABOUT THE EXAMPLE I JUST GAVE YOU, AND THINK ABOUT THE EXAMPLE YOU'VE GIVEN US OF A LOCATION THAT'S CONTENT ORIENTED WITH THE USE OF THAT BUSINESS.

CORRECT? CORRECT. OKAY. I'M GLAD THE ATTORNEY, IF YOU WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING.

OH, NO. I'M I'M, I MEAN, I STATED MY POSITION, YOU KNOW COMMERCIAL SIGNS, COMMERCIAL.

YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE ABSOLUTE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, SO REGULATION CAN BE IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE IT REFLECTS OBVIOUSLY CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY STANDARDS.

SO YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T SEEN TOO MANY BUSINESSES WHO STRAY FROM THAT, IN MY EXPERIENCE.

I THINK I'VE MADE MY POINT FOR ANYBODY WHO IS LISTENING TO IT.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU. MAYOR.

MAYOR. GOMEZ. NO. VICE MAYOR BOLTON. WE'RE ON SEVEN A.

NO. COMMISSIONER PATTERSON, ARE YOU SHOCKED TO AGREE WITH ME? COMMISSIONER RAY. NO. COMMISSIONER. DANIEL. NO! NO! MOTION FAILS. 5 TO 0. MOVING TO SEVEN. B TO 262 FOR CITY ATTORNEY.

[7.b. TO2624 -An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending Chapter 6, entitled "Finance and Taxation," Article V, entitled "Tamarac Procurement Code" of the Code of Ordinances to update the solicitation approval and expenditure thresholds to in excess of $100,000 for City Commission, up to $100,000 for the City Manager, and up to $50,000 for the Procurement and Contracts Manager; providing for severability; providing for conflicts; providing for codification; and providing for an effective date.]

I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND. MOVE IT. SECOND.

MOTION BY BOLTON. SECOND BY COMMISSIONER PATTERSON.

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CAN WE AT LEAST JUST SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY? WE'RE NOT GOING TO SING TO YOU, CHRISTINE, BUT ON THREE, LET'S WATCH. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ONE, TWO THREE. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.

WELL, WE SAID WE WEREN'T GOING TO SING. WE WEREN'T GOING TO. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FOLLOW. SO THANK YOU.

I AM NOW GOING TO OPEN THIS ITEM FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NOBODY WISHING TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

THIS ITEM IS NOW UP FOR DISCUSSION BY THE CITY COMMISSION.

WELL, I'LL MAKE MY COMMENTS. I HAVE NO PROBLEM FOR THE INCREASE BEING LIMITED TO EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.

FOR PUBLIC SERVICES, FOR FIREFIGHTERS, ANYTHING TO THE LIKE OF THOSE NEEDS.

I WOULD LIMIT THAT INCREASE, BUT JUST TO INCREASE, IT'S SUBJECT TO INCREASE.

IF FOR ANYTHING ELSE I'M NOT FOR. COMMISSIONER.

RIGHT. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. IN LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS AS WELL, YOU GUYS GIVE US A BREAKDOWN FOR THE CITIES AND WANT TO TAKE AN AVERAGE.

THE AVERAGE IS ACTUALLY 60,000. WHEN I TAKE ALL THE CITIES BASED ON THEIR THRESHOLDS AND DIVIDE IT BY THE AMOUNT OF CITIES.

SO WE'RE RIGHT IN LINE WITH THAT. ALSO, THE CITY OF WESTON.

I KNOW WESTON DOESN'T REALLY HAVE STAFF. IT'S A CONTRACTOR RUN GOVERNMENT.

SO I CAN TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE THEIR THRESHOLD AT 150, BECAUSE IT'S ONLY LIKE NINE PEOPLE THAT WORKS IN THE CITY AND EVERYTHING IS OUTSOURCED.

AND ALL THE STUFF THAT'S HAPPENED WITH DOGE AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, I THINK HAVING IT AT THIS NUMBER PUTS MORE OF THE RESPONSIBILITY, RESPONSIBILITY ON US AS A COMMISSION. NOTHING AGAINST YOU, CITY MANAGER.

I THINK YOU'RE EXTRAORDINARY PERSON. I THINK YOU'RE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. YOU'VE DONE AN AMAZING JOB.

IT'S JUST THAT THE ERA THAT WE LIVE IN, IN TERMS OF PEOPLE SCRUTINIZING AND I THINK HAVING A LOWER NUMBER, IT GIVES US ADDITIONAL EYES TO LOOK AT SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT WE, YOU KNOW, MIGHT NOT SEE IN DETAILS.

SO I LIKE I LIKE IT WHERE IT'S AT AT THE 65. I THINK THAT'S A DECENT NUMBER.

JUST EMPIRICALLY LOOKING AT OTHER CITIES. WE'RE RIGHT IN LINE WITH THAT NUMBER.

I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND COSTS, INFLATION, THAT TYPE OF STUFF.

WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXPENSIVE.

IT CREATES MORE EFFICIENCY IN TERMS OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY.

I LIKE THE PART WHERE IT CREATES MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINORITY BUSINESSES.

I THINK NOT HAVING A PROCUREMENT AND PROCUREMENT PROCESS SO STRINGENT ALLOW MINORITY BUSINESSES TO APPLY AND, YOU KNOW, SUCCEED IN DIFFERENT CONTRACTS AND STUFF.

BUT AGAIN, I JUST KNOW THE ERA THAT WE LIVE IN, IN TERMS OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M, I'M STILL IN FAVOR OF KEEPING IT AS IS.

THANKS. THANK YOU. SEEING NO OTHER COMMISSIONER, VICE MAYOR BOLTON.

OKAY. WHEN IT SAYS 100,000 FOR CITY COMMISSION, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT BASICALLY MEANS THAT ANYTHING ABOVE THIS THRESHOLD HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION.

OKAY. BECAUSE IT SAYS 100,000 FOR COMMISSION, UP TO 100,000 FOR CITY MANAGER AND UP TO 50,000 FOR PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS MANAGER. SO I DON'T THERE'S LIKE DIFFERENT ONES.

YEAH. THE THE CODE, THE CODE HAD THOSE I CALL IT DIFFERENT LOWER THRESHOLD FOR EACH OF THE COMMISSION MANAGER AND THE CONTRACT MANAGER. ALL WE DID WAS CHANGE THOSE THRESHOLD NUMBERS FOR EACH CATEGORY.

OKAY, SO IT JUST SIMPLY SAYS VICE MAYOR ABOVE $100,000.

IT COMMISSIONS AUTHORITY UP TO 100,000. IT'S THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORITY.

OKAY. AND THE WHAT WHAT WAS THE PROCUREMENT MANAGER'S AUTHORITY? IT WAS, WHAT, 30,035, I GUESS I SEE NOW IT'S 50 OR PROPOSED TO BE 50. SO OKAY, WHAT DOES CATEGORY 12345 MEAN? LET'S SEE.

CATEGORY 120 20,000. CATEGORY TWO. SO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, DO YOU THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OUR FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR GIVE US A PRESENTATION ON THIS ITEM BEFORE BEFORE WE DO THAT? MADAM MAYOR WHEN WE ORIGINALLY CRAFTED THE PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE SOME SOME YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A REFERENCE TO A STATE STATUTE AND STATE SPENDING GUIDELINES.

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BUT SINCE THEN THE STATE DID NOT MAKE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THAT TO, TO THEIR LEVELS.

AND WE DID PROVIDE THE THE BACKUP FOR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

HOWEVER, THIS IS COMPLETELY BASED ON OUR NEEDS AND TAMARAC YOU KNOW, OPERATING CONDITIONS.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SITUATIONS IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES IS THE MOST AFFECTED PARTY OUT OF THE $65,000 LIMIT. AND I ALREADY HAVE EMERGENCY EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY.

SO THAT THAT THAT REALLY IS NOT A CONCERN. THIS IS FOR ROUTINE EXPENDITURE.

AND EVERYTHING IS CHANGED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

SIX YEARS SINCE THE PANDEMIC, THE NUMBERS HAVE JUST YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY CHANGED.

AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE SPEED THAT WE DO BUSINESS.

IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC. OKAY, SO GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF, LIKE ONE OF THE SITUATIONS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES AND FIRE.

SO IN PUBLIC SERVICES, ONE OF THE MOST OFTEN USED SERVICE IS, IS TASKS, WHICH MEANS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LIST OF, OF PROVIDERS IN THE CONSULTING BUSINESS ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF SPECIALTY SERVICES.

AND WE IDENTIFY A NUMBER OF FIRMS EVERY SO MANY YEARS, AND THEN WE ROTATE BETWEEN THEM BASED ON THEIR PRICING AND SEQUENCING.

AND SO IF, FOR EXAMPLE, WE JUST LOOKED AT THE THE DESIGN SERVICES FOR COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD, FOR HOLIDAY LIGHTING, THE DESIGN SERVICE WAS $2,000.

AND SO WE HAD TO CREATE AN ITEM TO COME BACK, COME TO THE COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL.

IT'S A ROUTINE SERVICE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ASKED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, BUT YET WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.

JUST ONE EXAMPLE. MOST RECENTLY. OKAY. I JUST I JUST TOOK A PAUSE BECAUSE THE THE LAST MEETING I MADE REFERENCE TO THE CITY BEING IN VIOLATION BECAUSE WE WERE PAYING OUT MORE THAN $65,000 TO A CHARITY.

SO IS THAT THE PRECURSOR TO THIS, OR IS THAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT THIS FROM FROM BEFORE? YEAH, IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT GENERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, JUST LIKE THE EXAMPLE THAT I GAVE YOU, THE DESIGN SERVICES AND OTHER SERVICES THAT WE NEED IN PUBLIC SERVICES.

FIRE DEPARTMENT OFTEN REQUIRES EQUIPMENT, MEDICATION, OTHER SUPPLIES THAT THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, OVER 6 TO $5000. AND SO BUT FOR INSTANCE, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE PAY FOR, I DON'T NECESSARILY LIKE I THINK SOME OF THE THINGS ARE OVERPRICED.

SO HOW HOW HOW DO WE. HOW DO WE CHECK TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS THAT WE'RE NOT PAYING FOR THINGS OVERPRICED. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.

I CRINGE WHEN I SEE THE NUMBERS AND THEY THEY KEEP GOING UP.

AND UNFORTUNATELY IT'S JUST YOU KNOW, WE DO A COUPLE THINGS.

I I COUNT ON OUR PROCUREMENT STAFF. I COUNT ON OUR PUBLIC SERVICES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE THEY BRING SUCH ITEMS. BUT WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER SERVICE.

IT'S CALLED GOV SPEND, WHICH YOU KNOW, YOU PLUG IN THE TYPE OF SERVICE OR MATERIAL OR GOODS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND IT TELLS YOU THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES OR NATIONAL YOU KNOW WHO PAID WHAT FOR SIMILAR.

NOT EXACTLY THE SAME THING, MAYBE, BUT SIMILAR SERVICES.

AND WE ALSO UTILIZE NEGOTIATED CONTRACTS, COMPARATIVELY NEGOTIATED CONTRACTS IN THE PROCUREMENT OF OUR GOODS AND SERVICES AS WELL, WHICH SPEEDS UP THE PROCESS. BUT NEVERTHELESS, WE STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE THE AGENDA PROCESS AND GO THROUGH THIS APPROVAL TIME

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SO IF IF THE CITY MANAGER'S THRESHOLD WOULD BE MOVED TO $100,000, I JUST DON'T SEE WHY WE WE HAD TO PUT IN EXCESS OF 100,000 FOR COMMISSION AND THEN UP TO 100,000 FOR CITY MANAGER.

IT YOU KNOW, IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE WANT MORE AUTHORITY TO SPEND MONEY.

IS THAT WHAT THIS IS OR OR. NO, IT'S JUST FOLLOWING THE SAME FORMAT THAT WAS IN THE COMMISSION.

THE ORDINANCE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED YOU KNOW IT IS KNOWN BY OPERATION OF LAW.

ANYTHING ABOVE THE CITY MANAGER THRESHOLD HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION.

OKAY. SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU ARE SAYING, HEY, MEMBER OF THE CITY COMMISSION, YOU CAN GO OUT AND SPEND 100 UP TO $100,000 PER ITEM.

THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT IS. NO, NO IT'S NOT. IT'S JUST JUST IT'S JUST A CODIFICATION OF SOME NUMBERS THAT'S BEEN CHANGED.

AND, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUSLY WHEN THE MANAGER MANAGER CURRENTLY, I MEAN, THE MANAGER THRESHOLD IS 65 AND ANYTHING ABOVE 65, HE HAS TO GET COMMISSION APPROVAL.

OKAY. DO YOU THINK THAT THIS WOULD WOULD HELP GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY WITH THE LEVEL OF THE AMOUNT OF ITEMS THAT WOULD COME BEFORE THE COMMISSION TO SHORTEN THE AGENDA? AND THAT'S THE INTENTION.

BUT MORE SO TO TO ACTUALLY HELP SPEED UP OR EXPEDITE THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SHY AWAY. I MEAN, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SHY AWAY FROM BRINGING ITEMS IN FRONT OF THE COMMISSION.

IT'S JUST ADDS ANOTHER LENGTH OF TIME TO THE PROCESS.

SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO YOU KNOW, ACT MORE DILIGENTLY OR MORE EXPEDITIOUSLY.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE RAISED THESE THRESHOLDS? WHEN WAS THE TIME? I'M SORRY. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE RAISED THE THRESHOLD? WELL, THIS THIS ORDINANCE IS AT LEAST, WHAT, TEN YEARS OLD, IF NOT LONGER? CHRISTINE. YES, BUT I CAN'T RECALL IF WE HAD A PRETTY SUCCESSFUL.

OKAY. I THINK THE FINANCE DIRECTOR KNOWS BETTER FROM.

TALK FROM THE MIC. I DIDN'T HEAR YOUR FINANCE DIRECTOR.

WHAT DID YOU SAY? WE CHRISTINE CAJUSTE THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES. WE HAD UPDATED THE CODE SOME TEN YEARS AGO.

I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT DATE WITH ME TO START USING THE THE STATE CATEGORY THREE.

BUT AT THE TIME I DON'T RECALL WHAT THE THRESHOLD WAS.

I BELIEVE WE INCREASED IT, BUT IT WAS A SMALL INCREASE TO THE 65,000.

OKAY. COULD WE DO A QUICK SEARCH? YES. THIS INFORMATIVE.

IT WAS 2012. OKAY. AND IN 2012, WE MOVED FROM WHAT NUMBER? TO TO TO 65. IT WAS A VERY MINUSCULE AMOUNT. IT WAS JUST A COUPLE I THINK IT WAS 60.

WE MOVED FROM 60 TO 65. OKAY. IT WAS A VERY SMALL AMOUNT.

A VERY SMALL AMOUNT. YEAH.

AND THEN. SO IF IN 2012, WE MOVED FROM 6 TO 6, 6 TO 5.

WHY IS THERE A BIG JUMP FROM SIX TO 5 TO 100? WHY DIDN'T WE GO FROM SIX TO 5 TO 70? AGAIN? RECLAIMING MY TIME? SURE. SINCE I INITIATED THIS THIS THIS CHANGE OR UPDATE.

VICE MAYOR JUST SIMPLY BASED ON THE FEEDBACK FROM THE FROM THE STAFF AND FROM THE PAST EXPERIENCES THAT THAT EXAMPLE THAT I GAVE YOU IS IS IS A GOOD ONE. $82,000 FOR DESIGN SERVICES.

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OKAY. AND CITY ATTORNEY, YOU YOU LOOKED AT THIS OR DID THIS EXIST BEFORE? PREDATE YOU? I BELIEVE FROM WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER OFFICE.

THE THE FORMER PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR HAD INITIALLY WITH MANAGEMENT WITHOUT DRAFTED, YOU KNOW A PROPOSAL RELATING TO THIS ISSUE. WHEN YOU SAY FORMER BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY.

LET ME. STEVE. STEVE. YEAH, YEAH, HE WAS HERE.

HE STARTED IN WHAT, LAST YEAR? IN THE SUMMER.

SO THEY RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE. IT WAS ALREADY.

AND ALL I DID WAS TALKING TO THE MANAGER. I REVIEWED WHAT STEVE HAS DONE AND AND IT WAS MODIFIED SLIGHTLY BY THE CURRENT PROCUREMENT MANAGER. AND SO THE WORK, THE RESEARCH AND THE WORK HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.

OKAY. SO THEN IT WAS HIS IDEA. I'D JUST LIKE TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS.

WELL, I ASSUME IT CAME FROM THE MANAGEMENT. AND STEVE JUST DRAFT WHAT HE HAD TO DRIVE.

GOT IT. OKAY, THANKS. CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. YES, COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. YES, MAYOR. GOMEZ. NO. VICE MAYOR. BOLTON.

YES. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. NO. MOTION PASSES 3 TO 2.

THANK YOU. WE'RE NOW GOING TO EIGHT. A22620.

[8.a. TO2620 - An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, adopting a Small Scale Local Land Use Plan Amendment to the City of Tamarac's Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map in accordance with chapter 163, specifically Section 163.3187 of the Florida State Statutes, for said lands situated, lying, and being in Broward County, Florida, and located on The Common, north of W Commercial Boulevard shown in Exhibit "A" at Canterbury Lane, and more particularly described in the legal description shown in Exhibit "B" attached hereto, to change the future land use of approximately 2.64 gross acres of land from "Medium Residential" to "recreation" to facilitate the development of the proposed East Side Community Park and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 1-LUA-25) authorizing transmittal of the Small Scale Land Use Map Amendment to the Broward County Planning Council for recertification of the City of Tamarac Future Land Use Map; providing for amendment to the land use plan to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

CITY OF TAMARAC ADOPTING SMALL SCALE LOCAL LAND USE PLAN.

AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF TAMPA. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 163 FLORIDA STATUTES, THE COMMON LAND SITUATED LINE BEING IN BROWARD COUNTY, LOCATED ON THE COMMON NORTH OF WEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.

SHAUN EXHIBIT A AS CANTERBURY LANE, AND MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIBING THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION SHOWING EXHIBIT B TO CHANGE THE FUTURE.

LAND USE APPROXIMATELY 2.64 GROSS ACRES OF LAND FROM MEDIUM RESIDENTIAL TO RECREATIONAL FACILITY.

DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSED EAST SIDE COMMUNITY PARK AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL OF THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT TO BROWARD COUNTY PLANNING COUNCIL FOR CERTIFICATION OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC WHICH LAND USE MAP PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND, PLEASE. MOVE IT.

SECOND. KENT WELLER, OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.

I WILL NOW OPEN THIS ITEM FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

ANYBODY WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION.

IS THAT A DISCUSSION? YOU HAVE A QUESTION, COMMISSIONER. VICE MAYOR BOLTON RIJINO, PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION.

MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES. COMMISSIONER.

RICE. YES. COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON. YES. COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. YES. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. THANK YOU.

WE'RE NOW GOING TO OUR QUASI JUDICIAL HEARINGS.

WE HAVE. ACTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO. SORRY, TWO SECOND READINGS, BUT THEY'RE QUASI JUDICIAL SO NINE A AND NINE B AND IN GENERAL, THE QUASI JUDICIAL RULES ARE THE SAME, CORRECT.

CITY ATTORNEY. SO FOR ALSO TEN A AND TEN B, SO AT THIS TIME THE CITY ATTORNEY WILL BE READING THE QUASI JUDICIAL RULES, AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK TO TITLES. THANK YOU MAYOR.

ALL PERSONS TESTIFYING BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION MUST BE SWORN IN.

WITH REGARD TO THE QUASI JUDICIAL ITEMS BEING CONSIDERED ON AGENDA, THE PETITIONER INFECTED PERSON SHALL BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT EVIDENCE AND WITNESSES AND CROSS-EXAMINE WITNESSES. ALL EVIDENCE RELIED UPON BY REASONABLE, PRUDENT PERSON SHALL BE ADMISSIBLE.

EVIDENCE WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE IN THE COURT OF LAW. HEARSAY EVIDENCE MAY BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPLEMENTING EXPLAIN OTHER EVIDENCE, BUT SHOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT ITSELF BY ITSELF TO SUPPORT A FINDING.

STATEMENTS OF ATTORNEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ONLY AS ARGUMENT, NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS TESTIMONY.

THE CITY COMMISSION SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REFUSE TO HEAR ANY TESTIMONY WHICH IS IRRELEVANT. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE MAY BE PRESENTED IN THE FORM OF A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL,

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ALL PARTIES SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CROSS-EXAMINE WITNESSES. QUESTION PARTIES ABOUT THE EVIDENCE.

THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION SHOULD BE AS FOLLOWS.

PETITIONER A PETITION REPRESENTING WILL PRESENT FIRST.

STAFF WILL THEN GIVE A PRESENTATION AS NEEDED.

AFFECTED PARTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY.

PERSONS WHO ARE IN SUPPORT OR IN OPPOSITION CAN PROVIDE TESTIMONY OR STATEMENTS.

PARTIES WILL THEN BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS GIVEN PRIOR TO CLOSING STATEMENTS.

FINALLY, CITY COMMISSION SHALL DELIBERATE ON THE APPLICATION.

RIGHT NOW I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THE CITY COMMISSION HAS ANY EX-PARTE COMMUNICATION RELATING TO THESE MATTERS.

ACTUALLY, ASK PARTY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NEEDED FOR THE QUASI JUDICIAL HEARING.

ORDINANCE. IN ITS FALL ORDINANCE. BUT YOU WANT TO GO ONE BY ONE.

IT'LL BE EASIER. YEAH. WHEN YOU. WHEN. THAT'S FINE.

LET'S DO ONE BY ONE, BECAUSE THAT'S FINE. I KNOW FOR RECORD KEEPING PURPOSES.

YEAH, YOU CAN YOU CAN DO IT NOW. SO. ALL RIGHT BUT WE WILL HAVE ALL TESTIFYING GO AT ONE TIME.

CITY CLERK, ANYBODY WHO'S GOING TO BE TESTIFYING IN ANY OF THESE FOUR ITEMS, PLEASE STAND, AND THE CITY CLERK WILL SWEAR YOU IN. ALL THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BE SPEAKING ON ITEMS NINE.

OTHER THAN STAFF. OTHER THAN STAFF. YES, NINE A, NINE B, TEN A AND TEN B, PLEASE STAND.

RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. REPEAT AFTER ME. I SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH.

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU. THEY HAVE BEEN SWORN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. ALL HOUSEKEEPING DONE.

CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ 98026219A ORDINANCE.

[9.a. TO2621 - An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, Amending the Official Zoning Map of the City of Tamarac referenced in Section 102.1 (B) of Chapter 10 of the City of Tamarac Code of Ordinances for approximately 2.53 acres of land situated, lying, and being in Broward County, Florida, and legally described in Exhibit "A", from the current R-3 (Multi-Family Residential) zoning classification to the proposed RC (Recreation) zoning classification, for the subject property located on the common, north of W Commercial Boulevard shown in Exhibit "B" at Canterbury Lane to allow for the proposed East Side Community Park and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 7-Z-25); providing for amendment to the official zoning map to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

FROM THE CURRENT ALL THREE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATIONS.

THE PROPOSED RC RECREATION ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE COMMON NORTHWEST COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AT CANTERBURY LANE TO ALLOW THE PROPOSED EAST SIDE COMMUNITY PARK PROVIDE CONSISTENT LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF CITY OF TAMARAC.

PROVIDES FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND. MOVE IT SECOND.

CONSUELO, OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, STILL REMAINS AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. I WILL NOW OPEN THIS ITEM FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS. IS THERE ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS AT THIS TIME? SEEING NONE. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. SEEING NO REQUESTS FOR DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES, COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON.

YES, MAYOR. GOMEZ. YES, COMMISSIONER. DANIEL.

YES, COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. YES. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE AT 9B22622. CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE TITLE FOR THE RECORD.

[9.b. TO2622 - An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, Amending the Official Zoning Map of the City of Tamarac referenced in Section 102.1 (B) of Chapter 10 of the City of Tamarac Code of Ordinances for approximately 1.06 acres of land situated, lying, and being in Broward County, Florida, and legally described in Exhibit "A", from the current NC (Neighborhood Commercial) zoning classification to the proposed RC (Recreation) zoning classification, for the subject property located on the southwest corner of W Prospect Road (NW 53 Street) and W Prospect Road, shown in Exhibit "B", at 2400 NW 53 Street to allow for an overflow parking lot for the adjacent Caporella Park and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 6-Z-25); providing for amendment to the Official Zoning Map to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF CITY OF TAMARAC. REFERENCE SECTION TEN, DASH 2.1 OF CHAPTER TEN OF CITY CODE OF ORDINANCE.

APPROXIMATELY 1.6 ACRES OF LAND SITUATED, LYING AND BEING IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA FROM THE CURRENT NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION TO THE PROPOSED RECREATION ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.

LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WEST PROSPECT ROAD, NORTHWEST 53RD STREET AND WEST PROSPECT ROAD.

SHOWN IN EXHIBIT B AT 2400 NORTHWEST THIRD STREET, TO ALLOW FOR AN OVERFLOW PARKING LOT FOR THE ADJACENT CAR PARK AND PROVIDE CONSISTENT C WITH LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M SORRY. WE HAVE JESSE LOPEZ FROM WAYPOINT CONTRACTING AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.

I'LL OPEN. NOPE. I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND.

SO MOVED. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE HAVE YOU AVAILABLE AND PUBLIC COMMENTS.

ANYBODY WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS. SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

NO DISCUSSION BY THE COMMISSION. CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER RAY.

YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. COMMISSIONER DANIEL. YES.

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WE'LL SEE. YES. SORRY. THANK YOU. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0.

THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW GOING TO OUR QUASI JUDICIAL HEARINGS.

[10.a. TR14355 -A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, granting Site Plan approval (major) with conditions to allow for the development of the subject property, legally described in Exhibit "A", to permit the construction of an overflow parking lot for Caporella Park containing a total of sixty-nine (69) parking spaces located on the southwest corner of W Prospect Road (NW 53 Street) and W Prospect Road shown in Exhibit "B" at 2400 NW 53 Street (Case No. 3-SP-25); providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ]

ITEM TEN A RESOLUTION. CITY COMMISSIONER CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA.

GRANT SITE PLAN APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS TO ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED LEGALLY.

DESCRIBING EXHIBIT A TO PERMIT THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVERFLOW PARKING LOT FOR CAPITAL PARK CONTAINING A TOTAL OF 69 PARKING SPACES, LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WEST PROSPECT ROAD AND WEST PROSPECT ROAD, AND EXHIBIT B AT 2400 NORTHWEST 5050 THIRD STREET. PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. AS THIS IS AN ITEM FOR THE CITY. WE HAD NO QUASI-JUDICIAL COMMUNICATIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE DISCLOSED LAST TIME. CITY ATTORNEY? YOU WISH TO DO THEM NOW? NO. RIGHT. OKAY. VICE MAYOR, HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO ANYBODY? I MEAN, IT'S WE WERE AT A MEETING. I MEAN, IT'S A CITY ITEM ON THE CABRILLO PARK THING.

YEAH. WE WERE. I WENT TO THE MEETING. SO WHOEVER WAS AT THE MEETING.

YEAH, SURE. YEAH. COMMISSIONER DANIEL. NO, I WAS AT THE WAYPOINT MEETING.

I'VE BEEN AT THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, SO. YES, I WAS AT THE WAYPOINT MEETING AS WELL.

NO. OKAY, SO DISCLOSURES ARE DONE. ON. MOTION AND SECOND, PLEASE.

MOVE IT. SECOND. ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC? SEEING NONE. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. IS THAT FOR COMMENTS? VICE MAYOR? YES. WAYPOINT HERE. OH, OKAY. COOL.

YOU'RE JUST. YOU'RE DRESSED NICELY. I THOUGHT YOU WERE STAFF. IT'S FINE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME DOWN. OH. THE STORY. GOOD.

VERY NICELY DRESSED, I APPRECIATE YOU. MY QUESTION IS, WAS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION BY STAFF REGARDING REGULATING THE USE OF THE PARKING LOT? BECAUSE IT'S NOT ONE THAT'S GOING TO BE, DAWN TO DUSK.

THERE WAS NO FENCING GOING TO BE INCLUDED AND FOR NEEDS OF THE CITY, AND I HAD ASKED IF THERE WAS GOING TO BE ANY CHANGE.

MAYOR UPON FURTHER CONSIDERATION, THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES THAT THAT PURSUED US TOWARDS PUTTING A FENCE AND A GATE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE COMPLICATIONS WITH VEHICLES BEING LEFT OVERNIGHT AND NOT REMOVED.

THE NEXT MORNING WHEN WE HAVE EVENTS HAPPENING AT THE PARK AND YOU KNOW, SO NUMBER OF CHALLENGES.

SO WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF WHICH WILL BE BEFORE YOU DURING THE SITE PLAN.

ALRIGHTY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CITY CLERK. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER DANIEL. YES, COMMISSIONER.

RAY? YES. VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES, MAYOR. GOMEZ.

YES. COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON. YES. THANK YOU.

MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW AT TEN B TB 0102.

[10.b. TBO102 - Order Granting/Denying Special Exception approval for Scooter's Coffee-Tamarac, to allow for a drive-through restaurant in the MU-C (Mixed Use Corridor) zoning district, pursuant to the Tamarac Code of Ordinances at 8201 N. Pine Island Road, Tamarac, Florida. ]

ITEM TEN B ORDER GRANTING OR DENYING SPECIAL EXCEPTION APPROVAL FOR SCOOTERS.

COFFEY TAMARAC. TO ALLOW DRIVE THRU RESTAURANTS IN THE MUCK OR MIXED USE CORRIDOR ZONING DISTRICT PURSUANT TO TAMARAC CODE OF ORDINANCE AT 8201 NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD, TAMARAC, FLORIDA.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WILL NOW ASK FOR DISCLOSURES, STARTING WITH COMMISSIONER PATTERSON.

NONE. NONE I BELIEVE I RECEIVED AN EMAIL, DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO ACTUALLY READ THROUGH IT AND RESPOND.

SO THAT'S ABOUT MY DISCLOSURE. COMMISSIONER DANIEL.

VICE MAYOR. NONE. NO. OKAY, THERE WE GO. NOW, I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND, PLEASE.

MOVE IT. SECOND. ALEX STAPP OF LINFIELD. ALEX STAPP, LINFIELD.

OH, I NEED A MOTION. OH, WE GOT THAT ALREADY.

I AM GETTING SO TIRED AT THIS POINT. ALEX STAPP LINFIELD OF HUNTER AND JANICE WILL DELIVER A PRESENTATION AND IS AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.

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WE'RE THE CIVIL ENGINEERS FOR THE PROPOSED SCOOTER'S COFFEE SHOP PROJECT.

WE'RE HERE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION FOR OUR SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS SUBMITTAL AS REQUIRED BY THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.

SO TO GIVE SOME BACKGROUND ON THE EXISTING SITE LOCATION AND AND THE BUILDING ITSELF.

IT IS AN OUT PARCEL OF THE COMMUNITY COMMON SHOPPING CENTER, FORMERLY THE TAMARAC TOWN SQUARE.

THE SURROUNDING LAND USE AND LAND USE FOR THE BUILDING IS COMMERCIAL.

IT IS ZONED MIXED USE CORRIDOR. THE EXISTING BUILDING SPECIFICALLY THAT THE SCOOTERS WILL BE GOING INTO ON THE RIGHT.

ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN THERE. THERE'S CURRENTLY TWO TENANT SPACES.

THERE'S A DENTAL OFFICE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHICH IS PROPOSED TO REMAIN.

AND THEN THE NORTH SIDE IS CURRENTLY VACANT AND WAS FORMERLY A 7-ELEVEN CONVENIENCE STORE.

AND IT IS PROPOSED TO DIVIDE THAT INTO TWO SEPARATE SPACES, ONE BEING THE SCOOTERS DRIVE THROUGH COFFEE SHOP AND ANOTHER BEING A FUTURE TENANT SPACE.

SO THE SITE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED TO INCORPORATE THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE INCLUDE SOME MINOR PAVEMENT WORK AND STRIPING MODIFICATIONS TO ALLOW FOR THAT FOR THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE TO COME UP FLUSH WITH THE BUILDING AND THEN TO RELOCATE PARKING STALLS TO ACCOMMODATE THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE.

ADDITIONALLY, THERE WILL BE ADDED SIGNAGE AND STRIPING TO CLEARLY DIRECT PATRONS AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.

AND THEN THERE WILL ALSO BE STILL BE REUSE OF THE EXISTING DRIVEWAYS VIA AN EXISTING CROSS PARKING AND ACCESS EASEMENT THROUGHOUT THE CENTER.

SO NO NEW DRIVEWAYS OR OR ADDED DRIVE AISLES WILL BE NEEDED TO ALLOW VEHICLES TO ACCESS THE SITE.

THEY'LL BE REUSING THE EXISTING AREAS IN THE WITHIN THE SHOPPING CENTER ITSELF.

NOW, NOW, AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR DESIGN FOR THE SITE WAS THE VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND HOW THEY WOULD CIRCULATE THE SITE WITH THE ADDED DRIVE THROUGH LANE. AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT WILL BE REUSING A MAJORITY OF THE EXISTING DRIVEWAYS AND ACCESS DRIVES.

THE MAJOR CHANGE HERE IS THAT ON THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE BUILDING.

THERE IS CURRENTLY EXISTING TWO WAY TRAFFIC FLOW WILL BE REDIRECTING THAT TRAFFIC TO BE ONE WAY TRAFFIC FLOW IN A COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTION WITH THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE, WHICH WILL SIMPLIFY THE TRAFFIC FLOW IN THE AREA TO REDUCE ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS.

THERE'S ALSO EXISTING AND NEW PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS ACROSS THE DRIVE AISLES TO SAFELY ALLOW PEDESTRIANS TO CROSS THOSE DRIVE AISLES AS THE CARS ARE COMING THROUGH, AND A NEW SIDEWALK WILL BE ADDED ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING, WHERE THE SCOOTER'S DOOR WILL BE FOR FOR EMPLOYEES AND DELIVERY CENTER. THERE WILL BE A SIDEWALK THERE AS WELL, WHICH WILL TIE INTO THE EXISTING SIDEWALKS ON THE WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING AS WELL, SO IT ALL TIES IN TOGETHER SO YOU CAN FULLY CIRCULATE THE BUILDING.

NOW WITH THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE, THERE ARE WE'VE WE'VE WORKED WITH THE CITY AND THE CITY'S TRAFFIC ENGINEER AND THE THE CURRENT DESIGN FOR OUR DRIVE THROUGH LANE MEETS THE CITY OF TAMARAC.

STACKING REQUIREMENTS OF EIGHT EIGHT STACKING STALLS WITHIN THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE, INCLUDING FOUR STACKING STALLS FROM THE PICKUP WINDOW TO THE MENU BOARD, AND THEN AN ADDITIONAL FOUR STACKING STALLS FROM THE MENU BOARD TO THE END OF THE THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE.

NOW, WE'VE ALSO WORKED WITH THE CITY AND AND HAVE INCORPORATED ADDITIONAL DRIVE THROUGH IMPACT MITIGATION MEASURES TO PREVENT ANY EXCESSIVE STACKING IF A PEAK EVENT WERE TO OCCUR. THE FIRST MEASURE IS THEY WILL INCORPORATE TWO PULL FORWARD STALLS, AS HAS BEEN SEEN WITH SIMILAR FAST FOOD DEVELOPMENTS SUCH AS MCDONALD'S IN THE PAST. RECENTLY THESE ALLOW FOR. THESE ARE DEDICATED PARKING STALLS FOR BARISTAS TO DIRECT PATRONS TO WAIT AT IF THERE IS A LARGER ORDER, OR THE ORDER IS TAKING TOO LONG, AND THEN THAT WILL ALLOW THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE TO KEEP MOVING WITH THOSE ORDERS WHILE THAT PATRON IS WAITING FOR THEIR FOR THEIR ORDER, AND TO ACCESS THAT TO ACT FOR THE BARISTAS TO QUICKLY REACH THAT THOSE PARKING STALLS.

THERE WILL THERE WILL ALSO BE A WALKOUT DOOR PICK UP WINDOW COMBINATION TO BE UTILIZED.

SO TRADITIONALLY, MOST DRIVE THROUGH OPERATIONS INCLUDE JUST A STANDARD PICKUP WINDOW THAT OPENS AROUND CHEST HEIGHT AND THE THE PERSON CAN REACH OUT TO DELIVER THE ORDER.

THIS WILL. THIS WILL HAVE THE OPTION TO OPEN AS A FULL SLIDING DOOR.

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IT'S ABOUT, I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT 2 OR 3FT WIDE, WHICH WILL PROVIDE SOME SPACE FOR THEM TO STEP OUT AND WALK DOWN THE LINE TO DELIVER THOSE ORDERS. AND FINALLY, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING WILL ALSO BE ADDING A CONCRETE WALKING PATH ALONG THE DRIVE.

DRIVE THROUGH QUEUE LANE. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR BARISTAS TO COLLECT ORDERS EARLIER, PRIOR TO PRIOR TO THE PATRON REACHING THE MENU BOARD, WHICH WILL ALLOW MORE TIME FOR THE FOR THE ORDER TO BE PREPARED PRIOR TO REACHING THE PICKUP WINDOW.

AS PART OF OUR REVIEW WITH THE CITY, WE REQUIRE TO, WE ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.

THIS INCLUDED COLLECTING EXISTING VEHICULAR EXISTING VOLUMES ALONG NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD AND THE MAIN DRIVEWAY OF THE COMMUNITY COMMON SHOPPING CENTER, AND WE ALSO PERFORMED A TRIP GENERATION ANALYSIS FOR THE SITE FOR THE SCOOTER'S COFFEE SHOP.

THE FIRST STEP WE COMPARED THE SCOOTER'S COFFEE SHOP ANTICIPATED TRIP GENERATIONS TO TRIP GENERATIONS FOR A 7-ELEVEN CONVENIENCE STORE.

AS YOU CAN SEE ON THAT ON THE TABLE THERE. THERE IS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS TRIPS ANTICIPATED TO BE GENERATED TO THE COFFEE SHOP THAN A CONVENIENCE STORE.

FOR INSTANCE, IN THE AMP HOURS, THE 7-ELEVEN WOULD BE ANTICIPATED TO HAVE 171 TRIPS, WHEREAS THE SCOOTERS WOULD ONLY BE ANTICIPATED TO HAVE 38 TRIPS FOR AN OVERALL REDUCTION IN 133 TRIPS. SO THIS IS A LOT SMALLER OF A TRAFFIC GENERATOR THAN THE CONVENIENCE STORE WOULD BE.

AND THEN SIMILARLY FOR THE PM, PEAK HOUR 135 TRIPS WOULD BE ANTICIPATED FOR THE 7-ELEVEN, AND ONLY 14 WOULD BE ANTICIPATED FOR THE SCOOTERS FOR AN OVERALL REDUCTION OF 121. NOW, WITH THIS DATA, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO INCORPORATE IT INTO A TRAFFIC MODELING SOFTWARE TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD WITH THAT MAIN COMMUNITY COMMONS DRIVEWAY.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LARGEST INCREASE IN ANY TURNING MOVEMENT AT THAT INTERSECTION WITH THE SCOOTER'S COFFEE SHOP ADDED WAS ONLY 0.5 SECONDS, AND THAT IS IN THE AM PEAK HOUR FOR LEFT TURN.

LEFT HAND TURNS. EXITING THE DRIVEWAY. SO NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD IS NOT.

NOT AFFECTED SIGNIFICANTLY. ADDITIONALLY, AN IMPORTANT NOTE IS THAT THE.

LEVEL OF SERVICE, WHICH IS A METRIC USED TO USE TO SORT OF REFERENCE THE SERVICEABILITY OF A LANE OR AN INTERSECTION.

THAT LEVEL OF SERVICE DOES NOT INCREASE FOR ANY TURNING MOVEMENTS IN EITHER THE AM OR PM PEAK HOUR.

SO TO QUICKLY SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS AND FINDINGS OF THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, THE LARGEST DELAY TO ANY TRAFFIC MOVEMENT IS ONLY 0.5 SECONDS, WITH THE WITH THAT BEING THE EASTBOUND LEFT TURN DURING THE AM PEAK HOUR.

SO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SCOOTERS SHOULD NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT MOTORISTS AT THE AT THE INTERSECTION TRAFFIC GENERATED BY THE SCOOTERS SHOULD BE CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN THE PREVIOUS 711 CONVENIENCE STORE, AND THESE SMALL ADDED DELAYS ARE ALSO A RESULT, AS BECAUSE PER THE IT TRIP GENERATION MANUAL, APPROXIMATELY 90% TO 98% OF THE TRAFFIC GENERATED TO THE SCOOTER SITE IS LIKELY TO BE CLASSIFIED AS PASS BY TRAFFIC, MEANING THOSE VEHICLES ARE ALREADY ON THE ROADWAY NETWORK.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE GOING TO A COFFEE SHOP, THEY'RE MOST LIKELY STOPPING AS PART OF THEIR DAILY COMMUTE.

THEY WERE ALREADY ON THE ROADWAY TO BEGIN WITH. AND THEY'RE THEY'RE GOING TO THE SITE NOW BECAUSE IT'S IN A CONVENIENT LOCATION ON THEIR DAILY COMMUTE.

SO IT'S NOT ANTICIPATED TO BRING MUCH NEW TRAFFIC AND TRIPS ONTO PINE ISLAND ROAD.

SO AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, THERE, THERE WAS DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR THE FOR THE VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC CIRCULATING AND GOING THROUGH THE SITE. THERE WILL BE A COMBINATION OF BOTH THE EXISTING AND THEN NEWLY PROPOSED SIGNAGE AND STRIPING THROUGHOUT THE.

THE COMMUNITY COMMONS PARKING LOT CURRENTLY HAS MANY DIRECTIONAL SIGNS.

STOP SIGNS DO NOT ENTER SIGNS DIRECTING VEHICULAR TRAFFIC THROUGH THE PARKING LOT, AND IN ADDITION WE WILL BE ADDING, WHERE NECESSARY, NEW DO NOT ENTER AND STOP SIGNS AS WELL AS STOP BARS.

DO NOT ENTER STRIPING DIRECTIONAL ARROWS TO HELP DIRECT VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.

ALSO, THERE ARE EXISTING STRIPED CROSSWALKS, SIDEWALK CONNECTIONS, AND ADA RAMPS TO ALLOW PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC AROUND AND THROUGH THE

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NOW WE UNDERSTAND THERE'S ALSO A UNIQUE SITUATION BEING DRIVE THRU ONLY.

MOST PEOPLE SEE A NEW BUSINESS OPEN UP AND THEY WANT TO WALK UP TO IT, SEE IF THERE'S TO PLACE AN ORDER, GET A COFFEE OR SOMETHING. BUT AND SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THIS, THAT THERE, THAT IT WON'T BE. SO THE OWNERS, FRANCHISEES HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER AS WELL AS THE CITY TO INCORPORATE THESE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT MEASURES TO INFORM THE PUBLIC, SOME OF THOSE BEING A TEMPORARY DRIVE THRU ONLY BANNER NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE SHOPPING CENTER. SO AS PEOPLE DRIVE IN, THEY'RE ABLE TO SEE THAT IT IS DRIVE THRU ONLY SERVICE.

THERE WILL BE PERMANENT DRIVE THRU ONLY, NO WALK UP SERVICE SIGNAGE POSTED ON THE WINDOWS AND DOORS AROUND THIS SPACE AS WELL.

SO IF SOMEONE WERE TO WALK UP, THEY THEN SEE AND ARE NOTIFIED THEN THAT IT THAT THEY CAN'T WALK UP AND PLACE AN ORDER.

ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S THE STANDARD DRIVE THRU SIGNAGE AND DRIVE THRU ONLY DIRECTIONAL ARROWS AND STRIPING THROUGHOUT THE SITE TO DIRECT AND POINT PEOPLE TO WHERE THE DRIVE THRU LANE IS SO THEY CAN PLACE AN ORDER. ADDITIONALLY, STAFF WILL BE TRAINED TO INFORM PATRONS WHEN WHEN THEY DELIVER AN ORDER, THEY'LL REMIND THE PATRONS THAT IT IS DRIVE THRU ONLY SERVICE AS WELL TO HELP GET THAT WORD OUT TO TO EVERYBODY THAT IS DRIVE THRU ONLY.

AND THEN FINALLY THERE ARE. THE OWNERS ARE ALSO WORKING ON LOCAL PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS, ADVERTISEMENTS AND MAILING CAMPAIGNS TO FURTHER REINFORCE THE DRIVE THRU ONLY SERVICE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC. OKAY. AND JUST TO GIVE YOU ALL AN IDEA OF WHAT THE WHAT THE BUILDING WILL LOOK LIKE, HERE'S THE PROPOSED BUILDING ELEVATIONS. SO ON THE TOP OF THE SCREEN IS THE EAST ELEVATION.

THAT'S THE THE BUILDING FACE. FACING NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD, WHERE THE DRIVE THROUGH STACKING IS.

AND THE MENU BOARD. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE DENTIST OFFICE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED AND AND WILL REMAIN ON THE RIGHT SIDE WILL BE WHERE THE SCOOTERS DOOR IS FOR EMPLOYEES AND DELIVERIES TO ACCESS.

AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN IS THE NORTH ELEVATION.

SO THAT'S FACING TOWARDS THAT MAIN DRIVEWAY WHERE THE PICKUP WINDOW AND WALKOUT DOOR WILL BE.

SO JUST RIGHT OF CENTER IS WHERE THAT THAT WALKOUT DOOR IS FOR REFERENCE.

AND IT DOES SHOW THAT THE OTHER TWO BUILDING FACES WILL BE UNTOUCHED.

NO MODIFICATIONS WILL BE MADE AS A RESULT OF THE SCOOTERS ON THE SOUTH.

THAT SOUTH ELEVATION IS FOR THE DENTIST OFFICE AND THEN THE WEST ELEVATION WHICH IS FACING BACK INTO THE THE CENTER.

MOSTLY HAS THAT SORT OF THE ELECTRICAL BOXES AND EVERYTHING.

BUT THOSE WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED. LET ME GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT AND THE OPERATIONS FOR THE SCOOTERS.

THE SCOOTERS PLANS TO HIRE APPROXIMATELY 20 EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING BARISTAS, MANAGERS AND OTHER POSITIONS.

BUSINESS HOURS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 5 A.M. TO 8 P.M.

ON THE WEEKDAYS, AND THEN 6 A.M. TO 8 P.M. ON THE WEEKENDS, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

SO PEOPLE CAN MADE FOR CONVENIENCE SO PEOPLE CAN COME AS THEY'RE JUST STARTING THE DAY OR WANT TO END THEIR DAY WITH A CUP OF COFFEE, THEY'RE ABLE TO STOP BY. THERE'S SCOOTERS TEAM HAS ALSO WORKED WITH THEIR DISTRIBUTION TEAM, AND THEY'VE CONFIRMED THAT ONLY ONE DELIVERY PER WEEK WILL BE REQUIRED.

AND IT HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE STORE OPENING.

SO THAT WAY THE TRUCK IS IN AND OUT BEFORE THE SHOPPING CENTER REALLY STARTS UP.

THAT WILL HAPPEN VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, SO THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY CONFLICTS THERE.

WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO WASTE MANAGEMENT, THE TRASH COLLECTION SERVICE, AND THEY'VE CONFIRMED THAT THE EXISTING DUMPSTER AT THAT BUILDING CAN SERVICE THE SITE.

AND THEY'VE CONFIRMED THAT THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO WORK FOR FOR THEM.

AND THEN FINALLY WITH WITH THE OUR OWNERS HAVE THE OWNERS HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE OWNERS OF THE DENTAL OFFICE AND HAS SHARED THE SITE PLAN WITH THEM? THEY'VE CONFIRMED THAT THE DENTAL OFFICE HAS NOT MENTIONED ANY CONCERNS OR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THE THE SITE PLAN, THE INCORPORATION OF THE DRIVE THROUGH LANE. ADDITIONALLY, WITH WE ANALYZED THE THE HOURS OF THE DENTAL OFFICE AND THE THE PEAK HOURS FOR A SCOOTER'S COFFEE SHOP IS TYPICALLY 6 A.M. TO 8 A.M., WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVING THEIR MORNING COMMUTE TO WORK AND THE DENTAL OFFICE OPENS LATER THAN THAT BETWEEN 8 TO 10 A.M., AND IT'S ALSO CLOSED ON THE WEEKENDS.

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OH, EXCUSE ME. AND JUST GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THE OF THE TIMING FOR THE SCOOTERS OPENING.

THEY'RE ANTICIPATING CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN IN MAY 2026 AND THE STORE TO OPEN IN AUGUST OF 2026.

SO THESE ARE THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION REVIEW STANDARDS FOR THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ARTICLE FIVE, SECTION TEN 5.4-G-4. THESE WERE. THESE WERE REQUIRED TO BE MET AS PART OF THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION REVIEW.

IT'S STATE THAT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. WILL COMPLY WITH THE APPLICABLE ZONING, DISTRICT USE AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS OF THIS CODE, WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTING NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY CHARACTER.

THE PROPERTIES WITHIN THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL BE DESIRABLE FOR PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NOT INJURIOUS OR OTHERWISE DETRIMENTAL TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

SAFETY AND WELFARE WILL MINIMIZE ADVERSE EFFECTS INCLUDING NOISE, LIGHT, DUST, OR OTHER POTENTIAL NUISANCES ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PRACTICABLE. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE ADEQUATE PROVISIONS FOR SAFE AND CONVENIENT VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC MOVEMENT TO, FROM, AND THROUGH THE SITE THAT MINIMIZES TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN THE PUBLIC STREETS.

THE SITE AREA IS SUFFICIENT, APPROPRIATE, AND ADEQUATE FOR THE USE, AND ANY REASONABLE ANTICIPATED EXPANSION OF THE USE.

SPECIAL EXCEPTION SHALL ONLY REMAIN VALID DURING THE PERIOD OF WHICH THE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND BUSINESS LICENSE REMAIN ACTIVE.

SPECIAL EXCEPTION IS TRANSFERABLE ADMINISTRATIVELY PURSUANT TO COMPLIANCE WITH CITY CODES.

SUBMITTING DOCUMENTATION AND PAYMENT OF FEES ONLY AFTER THE PREVIOUS CONDITION HAS BEEN MET, AND ANY PREEXISTING CODE VIOLATION SHALL BE SATISFIED BEFORE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED FOR THE PROPOSED USE.

AND TO SUMMARIZE SOME OF THOSE JUSTIFICATIONS REGARDING THOSE REVIEW STANDARDS.

THE DRIVE THRU LANE WILL BE IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE CITY'S STACKING REQUIREMENTS AND INCLUDES ADDITIONAL DRIVE THRU STACKING MITIGATION MEASURES.

DRIVE THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU LANE AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS ARE ALL DESIGNED TO TO MINIMIZE TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

THE DEVELOPMENT WILL REUSE EXISTING UTILITY SERVICES AND BUILDING AND SITE IMPROVEMENTS.

SO NO, NOT MUCH EXPANSION IS REQUIRED AS PART OF THE AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT.

THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED SITE IMPROVEMENTS WILL ENHANCE AND PRIORITIZE VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

THE USE COMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTING NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY CHARACTER OF NEARBY PROPERTIES.

WITH IT BEING IN THE SHOPPING CENTER, IT IS YOU KNOW, IN LINE WITH THE COMMERCIAL RETAIL NATURE OF THE DEVELOPMENT.

NO FUTURE EXPANSION IS REQUIRED FOR THE SCOOTERS.

AND FINALLY, BASED ON THE RESULTS, THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, THE TRAFFIC TO BE GENERATED BY THE SCOOTERS SHOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THE PRIOR 7-ELEVEN CONVENIENCE STORE, WITH 90% TO 98% OF THE SCOOTERS TRIPS TO BE PASSED BY TRAFFIC, MEANING THOSE VEHICLES ARE ALREADY ON THE ROADWAY NETWORK. AND WE'RE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELL. ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS? PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN AT THIS TIME. SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

COMMISSIONER PATTERSON. THANK YOU. MAYOR. CAN YOU TELL ME, ARE YOU THE.

ARE YOU THE APPLICANT OWNER, OR ARE YOU THE ENGINEER? WE ARE THE CIVIL ENGINEERS. YOU'RE THE CIVIL ENGINEER.

IS THE APPLICANT HERE? THEY WERE EARLIER, BUT THEY HAD TO STEP OUT, UNFORTUNATELY.

GOT IT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, SO I FIRST OF ALL, I AM THRILLED TO SEE A BUSINESS, OR RATHER, A A I GUESS WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER, I GUESS, A VACANT, BLIGHTED BUILDING STRUCTURE FOR MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW, AT LEAST FIVE YEARS YOU KNOW, BEING CONSIDERED FOR SOME TYPE OF REVITALIZATION.

SO WHEN I LEARNED ABOUT THIS LAST THURSDAY, I YOU KNOW, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, MUSIC TO MY EARS.

AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION TODAY AROUND BUSINESS AND ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

BUT IN ADDITION TO BEING PRO-BUSINESS, I'M ALSO PRO COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IS IMPORTANT.

YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE BEEN HERE WHEN I GAVE A PROCLAMATION THIS MORNING TO A NONPROFIT IN MY DISTRICT FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY.

I THINK IT'S REALLY GREAT PRACTICE. BEST PRACTICE TO YOU KNOW, WHEN, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SENSITIVE MATTERS LIKE LAND USE CHANGES AND THINGS THAT DO YOU KNOW, NECESSARILY ARE NECESSARY FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION IN THIS CASE.

I MEAN, THERE ARE SOME INHERENT, UNCERTAIN IMPACTS THAT THE DRIVE THROUGH COULD POTENTIALLY PRESENT THAT, YOU KNOW I UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO THE APPLICANTS.

I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING BEYOND WHAT WAS PRESENTED TODAY.

AND THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE THAT I DON'T BELIEVE ARE ISOLATED TO THE

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IF NOT, YOU KNOW, REALLY, WE SHOULD HAVE SPENT SOME TIME TOGETHER KIND OF JUST TALKING THROUGH, I THINK, WHAT WAS WHAT'S COMING BECAUSE THERE'S A DEVELOPMENT THAT'S COMING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. I'M NOT SURE WHY WE WOULD HAVE ANALYZED OR WHY TRAFFIC WOULD HAVE ANALYZED.

IT'S STACKING ANALYSIS AGAINST A 7-ELEVEN THAT WAS HERE 100 YEARS AGO.

WE'VE GOT SIMILAR USES NEARBY. THERE'S A WHAT'S THE OTHER DRIVE THROUGH? ONE AROUND THE CORNER. CALLIE COFFEY. I FREQUENT THERE.

WE, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE ANALYZED TRAFFIC IMPACTS TO JUST SIMILAR USES AND EVEN POTENTIAL UPCOMING DEVELOPMENTS.

I'VE GOT QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE OPERATION HOURS OR 5 A.M..

I'M CURIOUS TO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S QUESTIONS THAT I, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO KNOW AS A FRANCHISEE.

AS A FRANCHISEE. YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO OPERATIONAL ISSUES THAT MIGHT ARISE.

WHO'S GOING TO ADDRESS THAT? IS IT THE OWNERS? IS IT THE IS IT THE FRANCHISE? SO THERE'S JUST A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS. AND YOU KNOW, DID YOU GUYS DO ANY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT? I'VE GOT A NUMBER OF CALLS ABOUT THIS PROJECT.

PEOPLE ARE ASKING ME QUESTIONS THAT UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T ANSWER.

I BELIEVE THAT THEY EMAILED ME ON FRIDAY AFTER I MET WITH THE MANAGER, AND I UNFORTUNATELY HAD THE FLU FROM FRIDAY TILL TUESDAY.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I WHILE I DID HAVE TIME TO READ MY MATERIALS, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO HAVE A MEETING.

SO YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WHILE I GENERALLY GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS ENDEAVORS, I DO THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT I DID TAKE THE TIME TO RESEARCH THEM AS WELL.

I SAW I SAW A WEDDING STORY ONLINE THAT I THOUGHT WAS QUITE BEAUTIFUL, BUT I DID ALSO, I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING ELSE THAT THEY HAD DONE.

SO I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF THE CAPACITY AND WHAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING OVER THERE.

WHILE AGAIN, I'M GENERALLY INCLINED TO SUPPORT.

TODAY I'M GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT ME IN JUST DEFERRING THIS FOR A BIT.

AND I THINK SOME SOME ADDITIONAL I WOULD LOVE TO GO OUT TO THE SITE, THE, THE SITES THAT WERE PRESENTED TODAY, THE SKETCHES, THEY WERE DIFFICULT TO READ AND UNDERSTAND.

I WANT TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S COMING TO MY DISTRICT. I'M QUITE EVERYONE KNOWS I'M PRETTY ACTIVE IN MY DISTRICT.

I'M QUITE ENGAGED, AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PARTNERSHIP WOULD BE BETTER POSITIONED IF WE WERE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TALK THROUGH WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND HOW I CAN BE OF SUPPORT. COMMISSIONER PATTERSON, ARE YOU DOING A MOTION TO TABLE TO A TIME CERTAIN? YES. PLEASE PUT YOUR MOTION.

MOTION TO TABLE TO A TIME CERTAIN SO IT CAN BE CALLED BACK IF YOU DON'T.

WELL, YEAH. MOTION TO TABLE TIME. CERTAIN. AND I'D ASK FOR MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THAT.

WELL TIME WOULD BE THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING OR GIVE A, GIVE A GIVE A I DON'T WANT TO I MEAN IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO THEM.

SO I MEAN I DON'T KNOW, FOR NOTICE PURPOSES TO AVOID THE RE ADVERTISEMENT.

IN TERMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL NOTICE, THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING WOULD BE WELL, I'LL GIVE IT A MONTH.

SO WHAT WOULD BE ONE? I'LL GIVE IT AT LEAST THROUGH.

I MEAN, PERHAPS THEY REACH OUT PRIOR TO THEN, BUT WHAT'S THE ONE AFTER THE NEXT MEETING? SO FEBRUARY 28TH MEETING. YOU SAID TWO MEETINGS, SO I'M ASKING TO TRY TO GIVE A DATE.

FEBRUARY 11TH. RIGHT. THE NEXT ONE IS FEBRUARY 11TH. BUT SHE SAID TWO MEETINGS. SO IF TWO WEEKS MIGHT NOT BE SUFFICIENT TIME.

25 IS FEBRUARY 25TH. YEAH, YEAH. SO SO MOTION TO TABLE THROUGH THROUGH.

I MEAN, PERHAPS WE HEAR IT BEFORE THEN, BUT THROUGH AT LEAST THE 25TH, FEBRUARY 25TH.

COMING BACK TO US ON FEBRUARY 25TH. RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. I SECOND.

OKAY. I SECOND IT. CALL THE QUESTION. THERE'S NO DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION TO TABLE.

THANK YOU. MAYOR. GOMEZ. YES, COMMISSIONER. YES, COMMISSIONER.

DANIEL. YES, COMMISSIONER. PATTERSON. YES. VICE MAYOR.

BOLTON. YES. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. OKAY. THIS ITEM WILL COME BACK BEFORE US FOR THE FEBRUARY 25TH MEETING. AND UNTIL. AND DURING THAT TIME OBVIOUSLY, YOU ARE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, BUT PROBABLY ALL OF US WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH A REPRESENTATIVE.

YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND NEXT TIME, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION.

OKAY, GOOD. YOU MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT PRESENTATION.

ANYWHO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW GOING TO OTHER PUBLIC ART PROJECTS.

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COME ON DOWN HERE. OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND I BELIEVE GEORGE GADSON ARE OUR GENTLEMAN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING FOR THE DAY.

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UNFORTUNATELY, GEORGE HAS TO LEAVE. WE ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, AND. YEAH, BUT IT WAS BECAUSE MY PRESENTATION, WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT, IS GOING TO BE LONG.

I HAVE 52 SLIDES AND I'M GOING TO GO AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.

SO IT WAS PUT TOWARD THE END. WE HAVE THREE PROJECTS COMING UP.

OKAY. SO HEARING RUMBLING AND DEALING WITH ART AND US, IF WE'VE EVER LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT US, THIS IS NOT AN ITEM WITH 52 SLIDES AT THIS TIME.

SO WOULD IT HAVE ANY CONTRACTUAL ISSUES IF WE DELAYED THIS? I'D LOVE TO SAY NO. YOU'D LIKE TO SAY NO? I'D LIKE TO SAY NO.

WELL, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY NO, AND IT IS ACTUALLY NO, THEN I'M GOING TO PUT A MOTION TO TABLE THIS BABY UNTIL FEBRUARY 11TH.

I'VE GOT A SECOND. CITY CLERK, CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT. YES, COMMISSIONER.

PATTERSON. YES, COMMISSIONER. DANIEL. YES. MAYOR.

GOMEZ. YES. VICE MAYOR BOLTON. YES. THANK YOU.

MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IT IS 230.

ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR DAY. STAY WARM. AND AGAIN.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CHRISTINE CAJUSTE. BYE. WE'RE ADJOURNED.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.