County Commission Meeting - May 26, 2026

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This is the Broward County Commission meeting. Today is May 26th. Welcome to our meeting. I'd like to ask you both to please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and please stay standing once we're done. And I'd like to ask somebody that has worked so hard for us all the time that stands there, Rene Harrod, our Deputy County Attorney, to lead us in our pledge. Can you please remain standing? Folks, it's customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community who have recently passed. I'm going to go around the dais to see, start with Commissioner Rogers. Oh, Commissioner Rogers. Mr. Davis. I always go. Commissioner Udine. Commissioner Fisher. I won't joke around. Commissioner Fisher. So I just want to recognize again, I said it in our workshop, but Mayor Trotsky's mother passed away. He's the mayor of Deerfield Beach. So please keep Trotsky family in your prayers. And then one of our own, Joe Morris's father passed away, Michael Morris. So please keep Joe and his family in your prayers. We love you, brother. Thanks. Let us all also honor all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve our armed forces both here and abroad and thank them for their service. I'd like to pause for a moment of silence. Thank you. Please take your seats. Today, our breakfast and music was provided by Senator Rich. I'm inverting everyone's name today. And we've got three proclamations. Let's go quickly to it. The first one is a proclamation for the Caribbean American Heritage Month. And it's going to be presented by Commissioner Rogers. Are you as well? And Commissioner Davis. You ready? Let's rock and roll. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, colleagues. Good morning, everyone. All right. Now I know you're behind me. Thank you very much. You got my back and those that are listening in on that virtual website or web pages that we do have. I'm honored and privileged as a daughter of the soil of the Caribbean from Jamaica to always read the proclamation. I can tell you I was very, very active with the Greater Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and the Institute of Caribbean Studies in all the work we did to get this declaration done in Washington. So whereas the month of June is recognized nationally as National Caribbean American, okay, my colleague believe the people representing us today should be standing right now, not when I call them up. So we do have Kaleeb Thompson from the, she's the executive director of Island Space Caribbean Museum, Sharon McLennan, president of the Lauder Hill Chamber of Commerce and representing Juliet Spann, representing Dr. Ephraim Martin, CEO and founder of International Reggae and World Music Awards, Irama. And we have Elizabeth Liz Burns, founder and president of unique creations by Liz, event marketing production and planning company for over 20 years. Okay, am I surrounded? Are we surrounded? Very good. Caribbean Heritage Month established nationally in 2006. This observance honors the millions of Americans whose roots trace to the Caribbean islands and recognizes the lasting impact Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have made in shape in the nation's social, economic, political, and cultural landscape. And whereas Caribbean Americans have distinguished themselves as leaders in business, education, health care, public service, athletics, and the arts, while strengthening communities through their dedication, resilience, and commitment to family and service. Whereas Caribbean culture has enriched American society through its vibrant traditions, music, cuisine, literature, and festivals, promoting cultural understanding and unity among diverse communities. And whereas despite economic hardships, political instability, and natural disasters affecting many Caribbean nations, Caribbean people continue to demonstrate perseverance, optimism, and an unwavering spirit that inspires generations in pursuit of opportunity and excellence. And whereas National Caribbean American Heritage Month serves as an opportunity to recognize and celebrate their achievements, cultural pride, enduring legacy of Caribbean Americans who have contributions and contributions contributed continue to strengthen our nation. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners that the Board hereby designate the, the, the, the, okay, of May, okay, that's why I'm confused, the month of June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month, and encourages all residents to join in celebrating the history, culture, and invaluable contributions of Caribbean America in Broward County, and throughout the United States of America. And at this time, I will start with Kalib Thompson, Island Space, Caribbean Music, and culture, and everything Caribbean in that museum, you have to, colleagues, I'm hosting a tour of the museum, and I'm, I am charging and asking everyone to join me, you will have a good time. I will take this one minute to thank Commissioner Rogers and Commissioner Davis, our two Jamaican champions on the Broward County Cultural Division. I am grateful to you recognizing this month when we celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of the Caribbean community. Island Space Caribbean Museum is the only pan-Caribbean heritage museum in the world. It is located in the heart of Broward County, in the city of Plantation at the Broward Mall. We invite everyone to come and visit and celebrate the rich culture that we live and enjoy every day here. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're very good. You're obedient. Okay. And then Sharon McLennon, a dear friend. If you need toys for the kids in Christmas, just come to her house, and you can select the toys that you need. But she's also a professional realtor, property manager, and at this time, she's the president representing the city of Lauder Hill Chamber of Commerce. One minute. Thirty seconds. Good morning, everyone, and thank you, Commissioner Rogers and Commissioner Davis, for this honor. I am truly just honored for the opportunity to stand in front of you and to recognize our Caribbean heritage and our Caribbean roots. No, I do not have toys at my house all the time, only at Christmas time, so please don't roll up expecting toys at any other time. I'm proud to represent the Lauder Hill Chamber of Commerce and the work that we're doing to make sure that Caribbean communities are continually included in the economic growth and be a part of the economic engine of Broward County. Thank you so much. And I'll have Elizabeth Lisburn say a few words. Good morning, everyone. Thank you to Commissioner Rogers, Commissioner Davis, the entire Broward County Commission, and the mayor, of course. Elizabeth Lisburn is a marketing, planning, production company. She's the president, that's me, owner, founder, president of the company for 20-plus years. And 16 years ago, we started celebrating Caribbean American Heritage Month, because at that time, there was hardly anything happening in June for Caribbean Heritage Month. So we have been doing that for 16 years. We also produced a Caribbean magazine, which features the Caribbean islands, its people, its food, and culture. Culture is very important in this community and in the whole world, actually. 12 years ago, we started the Unique Human Culture Awards. This event recognizes people in our community who makes a difference. And it is our duty to give back to our community. We can't always take, but we can give. We share the love. This year, we have 13 honorees. Commissioner Davis is one of them. And we have 12 more. And they have a place in my heart. They do a lot of work for the community in medical, health care, you name it. And they're not being honored. And they come from different islands. It's not just about our island, Jamaica. We have Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, and many others. And so we acknowledge that on June 28th, the grand finale for Caribbean Heritage Month will be happening in Tamarack, my place of choice this year. So you're all invited to come on out and celebrate with us. Thank you so much. And the longest international event throughout the world by Dr. Ephraim Martin, Julia Spence. You'll be accepting on behalf of Doc. And thank you for being here. Thank you. Thank you so much. We have your one minute also. Okay. I will obey. Yes. Thank you so much. I accept this award on behalf of the one and only and the great Dr. Ephraim Martin. He has established since 1982 Martin's International Foundation. It is a nonprofit 501c3 organization and international reggae and world music awards. As you know, I-Rama has been running for over 43 years. So we are very proud and happy about what we are doing and uniting nations through music and culture. So thank you very much. We accept this award on behalf of Dr. Ephraim Martin. Thank you. Thank you. One photo op. It's better. It's better. It's better. Thanks. Oh. Thanks. Good call. Thank you. Thanks for calling. Thanks for calling. Okay. Let's start here first. Yeah. Right here. Right here. Our next proclamation will be presented by Commissioner Davis. Dr. Gerda Williams Appreciation Day Mental Health Month. All right. So welcome, Dr. Williams. Whereas May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of the mental wellness needs for individuals and families throughout Rowan County. Whereas mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and trauma-related challenges affect millions of Americans each year and can impact people of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. And whereas compassionate, accessible, evidence-based mental health care encompassing psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, medication management, therapeutic support, holistic and holistic wellness approaches is essential to helping people lead healthy, productive, and fulfilling lives. And whereas Dr. Gerda Williams, a highly respected psychiatric psychiatric nurse practitioner and healthcare leader with more than 30 years of distinguished service, holds a doctor of nursing practice degree and is board certified as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, providing comprehensive care to children, adolescents, adults, and families across Broward County and South Florida. And whereas Dr. Williams has demonstrated unwavering commitment through clinical excellence, community responsiveness, and outreach, including health fairs, education screenings, and resources that advance mental health awareness. And whereas her leadership was evident during COVID-19 pandemic, where she delivered critical support to families facing anxiety, grief, and trauma, and through humanitarian efforts in Jamaica following the devastating hurricane, providing mental health care and recovery assistance to affected communities. And whereas beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Williams serves as a trusted advocate, mentor, and leader who has worked tirelessly to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, strengthen community-based systems of care, and promote mental wellness. Now therefore be proclaimed by the Broward County Board, by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, that the board hereby designates May 2026 as Mental Health Awareness Month, and Tuesday, May 26, 2026, as Dr. Gerda Williams Appreciation Day in Broward County, Florida. Excellent. Thank you so much for all your work. Say a few words. It is both a privilege and an honor to be honored for what I do daily. I have been in Broward County since 1992, providing mental health services and other community wellness services. I've worked at Florida Medical as a part of DCF Children's Program, admitting those who are in need, treating them, and returning them to the community. As we know, awareness is not enough for our mental health challenges. It needs systematic approaches by all the stakeholders and providers, educators, because in Broward County, one in five adults at this time are affected by some form of mental health. And we are not talking about those who are persistently mentally ill. We are talking about those moving around us in our daily movement. So as we recognize Mental Health Month, please look around us. Know those who are not using all mind, body, spirit, and soul connection. Thank you, and we look forward to mental health awareness and treatment. Thanks. Trying to work here. Okay. More mental health. Thank you. Our next proclamation will be given by Senator Nan Rich regarding the Fire Rescue Appreciation Medal of Valor. Okay. Good morning, everyone. This is really a privilege this morning to be able to present this proclamation and this award, this medal, which I believe Senator Geller was the helper to create this medal. So we thank you. This is a special presentation for some very heroic work that went on in our community just a couple of weeks ago. I think a couple of weeks ago now. So we have asked Chief Todd Drazen to come. He is the BSO Rescue Western District Fire Rescue and was obviously the one on call during the extreme fire and devastation that took place out in the Everglades. And I also wanted Clint Bridges and his wife, Courtney, to be here. They are, Clint is the CEO, I guess you'd call it, of Everglades Holiday Park, and that fire came right up to the edge of Holiday Park. And luckily, they did not have a lot of damage there. A lot of damage could have been done, but fortunately it wasn't because of all the people that were involved in this. And Clint and I were on the phone throughout the event, and he just could not say enough about Chief Drazen. And I could say that, too, because I've known him for probably almost 30 years. He's been in Weston, always taking care of the people. So it's an honor for me today, particularly, to present this proclamation. Whereas, on May 10, 2026, Broward Sheriff's Office Rescue Personnel responded to a significant brush fire in the area of Max Fish Camp, located at 18599 Chrome Avenue, which threatened nearby homes, businesses, and environmentally sensitive areas within the Everglades. And whereas, on May 11, 2026, BSO Fire Rescue Personnel again responded to the continuation of that brush fire now threatening Everglades Holiday Park, located at 21940 Griffin Road. And whereas, over this two-day period, firefighters and equipment assigned to BSO Stations 17, 21, 32, 55, 81, and 106 worked under difficult and hazardous conditions to protect life and property. In addition, Air Rescue 85 provided aerial firefighting assistance, utilizing Bambi Bucket Water Drops, in support of containment and structure protection efforts. Whereas, through coordinated firefighting operations, protective measures, and teamwork among ground and aviation personnel, there was no loss of life, and no structures were damaged or destroyed during either incident. And whereas, these incidents demonstrated the professionalism, the dedication, and the commitment of the men and women of the Broward Sheriff's Office Department of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services in safeguarding the residents, businesses, and natural resources of Broward County, Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates Tuesday, May 26, 2026, as Fire Rescue Appreciation Day throughout Broward County, and presents the Broward Sheriff's Office Fire Rescue Division of Weston and West Broward with the Broward County Commission's Medal of Valor in honor of the heroic action taken to extinguish the brush fires. First, you get this. You can hang it up wherever you want when you think. Thank you. And this as well. And before Chief Drazen speaks, I would just like to let Clint say a few words about what he went through. Thank you, man. I guess to stay in format, thank you, Bogan Mark, Mayor. It's good to see you, Commission. First and foremost, I'd like to thank God for putting his hand on Everglades Holiday Park and for sending Todd and BSO Fire Rescue to protect it. It's clear from the photos that without them, the fire would have been a catastrophic event for our staff and animals. I'd also like to thank my wife for her efforts and assistance. Plus, I don't like to sleep on the couch. Senator Rich, as always, was there for us, showing us once again what true leadership looks like. Not only was she checking in with us, but she also made sure that we had everything that we needed. When things go sideways, you find out who the real team players are. I couldn't be prouder of our team at Everglades Holiday Park. They handled the situation in professionalism and efficiency. We couldn't do it without them. Thank you, everyone, for your thoughts and prayers. We will continue to be a voice for all the animals in the Everglades and hope our conservation efforts will keep them safe as possible. Thank you very much, Todd. We greatly appreciate it. Mayor, Commissioner, Senator, Staff, thank you so much for this recognition. As you heard in the proclamation, this is not one man or one person's team's effort. This was a combination of multiple stations throughout Broward County, from Weston, from our special operations stations, from our air rescue abilities for the Bambi Drops, to coordinate this effort to put out the fire or to contain it or to protect the environments around it. I'm honored to stand here for all of the people that were out there those days to do all the work. I have the honor of just being able to sit behind the desk. Most of the time, they were the ones that really deserved this honor. So on behalf of the sheriff, Dr. Gregory Toney, Fire Chief Timothy Keefe, Mr. Deckard, City Manager of the City of Weston, and all the men and women of the Broward Sheriff's Office, thank you so much for the honor. Can we highlight the medal more? Okay, let's go. Okay, Max, before you do that. Okay. I already see the email. You need all the things that are going to have. Okay. Excuse me, Max. One, two, three. Last one. All right. God bless you. You know what, I want to, before we go into the consent agenda, I want to confirm something about the proclamations. An issue came up. I want to confirm two things. One is three per meeting, and I'd like people who are either four against it to please give me your opinions. And then I've got some feedback maybe one per commission or per meeting. But Commissioner Rogers, would you want to start? Or do you want me to go around? Current status, I've been told, is three per meeting. We have voted on three per meeting. Okay. Is there anybody that would like to discuss? Yeah. Yes. Put on your mic. Okay. None of them are working. Mine works. Mine's working. Now it won't go off. This is the best thing since 12 years. I can shut them up. I can absolutely shut them up. I love it. Well, I mean, now it won't go off. So, I mean. Go ahead. Go ahead, Lamar. The mic is not. Now I'm just working. Okay, great. Okay. Yeah, I remember when Senator Geller was mayor and then I was mayor, we had this reconfirmation that it would only be three proclamations per meeting. It also was like, for instance, my office has tried to get proclamations on and we were told that, hey, there's already three there from other commissioners. So, it's got to be some policy too where every commissioner is not shut out and has the opportunity to get proclamations, right? And so, there's got to be some kind of a policy or something that we can have equally opportunities here and not let a commissioner or commissioners kind of dominate the proclamation thing. I'm not saying that we don't do that. It's just that I've been turned down two or three times to say, hey, we've got too many and you've got to wait next meeting or whenever it is. And that, by the way, the next meeting, that proclamation doesn't really exist anymore because of that. So, again, we had this discussion, Senator. Remember, when you were mayor, it was three, but at least let's give all commissioners an opportunity rather than just dominating the proclamations every Tuesday. Thank you. I'm just doing what I'm being told to do. Yes. It's your breath. No, no. You killed it with your breath. Senator and Mr. Mayor. Yes. We just checked. There was a recent update, and apparently the mics here aren't working. They have to control it from the back. So, whoever's speaking, if you just raise your hand and they'll turn it on. That's our $8 billion corporate sound system. Go ahead, Senator. Apologies to the county attorney. Okay, good. I agree with everything Lamar said. Again, we have voted repeatedly to cap it at three because sometimes we don't start, we spend the first hour on proclamations. So, we capped it at three. I also like your idea of one per commissioner. There was a something that if the mayor could authorize a fourth, if it was something, for example, if there was a earthquake in Florida, not going to happen, and it happened two days before the commission meeting, and we needed to do something. So, only the mayor would have discretion, but only if something unexpected had come up immediately before. I think we should keep that policy and go with your suggestion on one per commissioner. Same what? Be specific. I agree. You agree with what? Everything that Lamar and I both said. Three. And. Okay. Today's one. I agree that it should be three per meeting. I thought we did that two meetings ago. And, yes, one per commissioner. And my past experiences have been that you have one speaker at the mic so that, you know, we can get to our business here, not to take anything away from the proclamations or the integrity of what we were presenting that day. So, that's just what I'm accustomed to, and I agree. Okay? Mr. Mayor, I agree with the vice mayor on the, you know, limiting the number of speakers. Having, you know, five or six takes too much time. Well, I can't control what you guys do down there, okay? As long as everybody here understands the sentiment. Senator Rich? I agree with what's been said. Okay. Thank you. The three per commission meeting is one thing, but when you say that every commissioner should have an opportunity, how are you going to do that? Well, I could do it. So, let's say. By month or? Let's say Commissioner Udine, Senator Rich, and the vice mayor have had proclamations in this meeting, and the next meeting they have proclamations, but you wanted one. Well, you know, I'll say, hey, you haven't had one, or I haven't had one, or, you know, I'll. You'll make that determination. Yeah, but so we're not only doing three limit, but we're doing one per commissioner, per meeting. Correct. So, you or you, no one can have more than one per meeting. Okay. That's. And allow mayor to us to be fair. In other words, like you said, I need one, and I haven't had my proclamation in three months. I want to be able to have one and be booted out because there's somebody who's already stepped in front. Also, Mr. Mayor, is there a timetable that you have to submit that proclamation by? No, just submit it to, what happens is submit it to whoever the mayor is, our office, whoever the mayor is, and then once we say yes, there's room for it, then we give it to Kim to write it up. There is a submission deadline. It's in the administrative code because they also have to go through legal review or they're supposed to go through legal review. What we can do is we will send that out to everybody so they have it, and then if anybody on the board, I think it has to get to us seven, five business days to us. It goes to public communications to Kimberly, then it gets to us, I think it's, I thought I read seven, but five business days before, okay. Thank you, Councilor. Mayor, can we just put this in a policy so we can have it, everybody can have it? There's no question about it. So I can put it in agenda item next meeting. We can take this as direction, so what we'll do is we'll send you a copy of the current code, and over the summer, we will enhance it with the things you've said today. Thank you. Okay? Sadie? Next meeting for this. You know, we haven't, Mayor. We haven't. No, but we're changing it, too. We just took that as the board's direction. We'll change it. We'll draft it. Yeah, you'll do it. Great. All right. Fantastic. Okay. Also, before we get to the Tuesday morning memo, real quickly, Commissioner Furr was going to get something off the agenda, which is wonderful. So do you want to take item 73 real quickly? Do I have to open up the meeting? Probably. Yeah. Go ahead and open up the meeting. I'm going to open up this public hearing. And go straight before. Fine. Tuesday morning memo. Let's go. Power County Board of County Commissioners, May 26, 2026, Tuesday, and the memorandum. The following are submitted for your consideration. Consent items are 1 through 60. Public hearing items are 61 through 73. Regular items are 74 to 87. I request the following withdrawals and other modifications to the agenda and note the following additional information. Withdrawals item 36, withdrawn from further review. Other modifications. Item 31, the board's consideration is based on the item as modified by additional material number 31A, submitted by the Public Works and Environmental Services Department, including replacement Exhibit 1. Item 38, the board's consideration of motion A is inclusive of additional material number 38A, which is the proposed lease submitted by the Housing, Urban Planning, and Real Property Division. Item 48, Commissioner Hazel P. Rogers requests to be a sponsor of this item. Item 66, the board's consideration of this item shall be pursuant to a quasi-judicial proceeding. Item 81, Commissioner Alexander P. Davis requests to be added as a co-sponsor of this item. Scrivener's errors. Item 6, 21, 22, 43, 61, 62. The board's consideration of these items is based upon the item with the corrections shown on the attached page, attachment A of Scrivener's errors. Additional material. Item 1B, board appointment. Item 28A, proposed ordinance submitted by county attorney's office. Item 31A, memo to the board and replacement Exhibit 1, submitted by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item 38A, memo to the board and substitute Exhibit 1, submitted by Housing and Urban Planning Division. Items 65A and B, interested party correspondences submitted by Planning Council. Item 72A, proposed amendments to ordinance vice, submitted by Commissioner Alexander P. Davis. Item 48, 84A, excuse me, updated project dashboard submitted by county administration. Okay, with that said, I'm going to open up the public hearing today, an item just number 73. And so let the reading clerk please read just item number 73 and recognize any members of the public signed up to speak. Our final public hearing item is item 73. The public hearing on item 73 is now open. Item 73 is a motion to approve or approve with modifications to County Planning Council's land use plan. Formal interpretation related to 1301 South Ocean Drive and the City of Hollywood. Four members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. How many? Four, sir. But Council, if he's going to defer it, then we don't have public speaking, correct? Correct. Okay. Commissioner Furr, I'm recognizing Commissioner Furr. Thank you very much. First, I'd like to recognize Commissioner Hernandez in the audience. And I don't know if there's any other commissioners from Hollywood. No? Sure. Okay. City managers here. Ray Lynn Story. Glad to see you guys. Last Wednesday, the Hollywood City Commission voted to use the Live Local Act to move along a project, the 1301 project. That kind of makes this a little bit of a moot point. So what I'm going to do is make a motion to continue this item until after July 1st, which is a point where Live Local would go into effect, assuming it goes into effect. And I think that's the right thing to do. In the meantime, I would like to ask that we do an environmental review of 1301. And I've talked to the city manager on this. And the reason is for the benefits of citizens, developers, everybody, so they know what the, you know, what the concerns are of that area, because this is a priority planning area that is in the county. So we have a lot of expertise here. And I think it makes sense for us to use that for everybody's benefit. I think it's the responsibility of the county to do that. We have already done a cursory one. So it's really more of an update of this. This was done in April of 2023. So I think if we could do an update on that, that would be helpful for the city. And the other part is our library is located there. We have a library there. And I don't think we have had any discussion as to what that means and how we reimagine that library at that spot. And I don't think we've been any, there have been any discussions at all with the city or the developer as to what that, how that would be, come into play. So with that, I would like to make a motion to defer this to the first meeting after July 1st, August 20th. Thank you. I have a motion of a second. I have a question. Okay, I have a motion and a second. Yes, Senator Geller. Quick question. Yeah. Since I can't speak with you off the day, I know, I know. reason I'm doing this now. Right. My understanding is that the revised live local has a lot more units than the original proposal that the city was looking at. It does. Are you aware, and if so, could you take a role in that, in seeing whether or not the original proposal, which was for a lot less units that the developer had proposed and that the city had adopted, if that would still be on the table, which I think would be better for the city than the much larger live local. I can look at that. I can look at that. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Second. I have a motion from Commissioner Furr, second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So show that deferred to the first meeting that we come back from summer break. So take 73 off our public hearing. We're done with 73. Back. I'm now adjourning the public hearing and going back to our regular meeting. I'd like to go around the dais to see if there's any polls. Start with Commissioner Rogers. None. 28 and 49 for brief discussion. Commissioner Fisher. No polls. Council, do you want to, oh, any polls from the public? None. Great. Council, do you want to frame the motion, please? Yes, Mayor. The consent agenda today consists of items 1 through 60 minus the following items. Item 8, a poll for an abstention. Item 36 was withdrawn. And items 48 and 49 were polled for comment by Senator Gillick. Mr. Mayor, a move of consent agenda is right by the county attorney. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. Let's go to, let's go to item 8. Senator Rich. Item 8 is a motion to approve first amendment to contract between area-wide council on aging of Broward County, Inc. and Broward County increasing the contract amount. No member of the public is signed to speak on the item. Okay. Yes. I serve on the board of the area-wide council on aging, which would be financially impacted if item 8 is approved. I do not receive any compensation for serving on this board and therefore have no actual statutory voting conflict. However, to avoid the appearance of a conflict, I am abstaining on item 8 and ask that this be reflected in the minutes. Do I have a motion on number 8, please? Second. I have a motion and a second on number 8. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0 with one abstention. Senator Rich abstaining. Let's go to number 48. I think that's... Who's that? Item 48 is a motion to direct county administrator to implement an affordable homeowner purchase assistance program funded from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund budget and allocating $500,000 for each of the nine commission districts and the Broward Municipal Service District. No member of the public can sign up to speak on the item. I'm sorry, no members, correct? Right. Okay. I can't hear you, ma'am. Correct. Senator Gellar, you pulled it? Yes, sir. I have some brief comments on that. Number one, I am concerned about whether or not we can and should be giving money to the cities. I agree and Commissioner McKenzie and I represent the BMSD and I have to tell you that is the only part of the county that we have primary responsibility for and I do think that we should be giving more as Commissioner McKenzie, Vice Mayor McKenzie frequently says, we should be giving more to the BMSD because we are the only government that they have. Now, I appreciate we're splitting it 10 ways, but I would like to see more in the future going to the BMSD because we are the primary government there. I agree with what Commissioner Yudin has previously said. As far as I can tell, a lot of this will be going to the 80 to 120 percent and the market is to a degree curing that. I think we need to be looking more at the low income and the very low as opposed to just the market rate. And the final, again, I am concerned that we're starting to get falkenized with dividing money among all nine commission districts, which is better than all going to one, but we are a county government should be giving to areas of greatest need. And the last thing I want everybody to know on the home ownership portion here that the way we're doing it now, according to my discussion with Mr. Stone, is if they sell in under 15 years, that they have to return the entire amount that they received. If it's more than 15 years, they get to keep everything. And I would suggest that we would be better off with a graduated plan, something, you know, after five years, you lose 10 percent a year or something like that. I just don't think that an all or nothing based on 15 years is the best way we should be doing it. Having made those remarks, I would now move approval of the item. Well, are you making a suggestion? I don't think we can make changes right now or a tennis. But I do have concerns that I've raised. I'll go along with it for this time. But I think that we need on all future items to be looking at more money to the BMSD, not a 15-year bright line on the home ownership, which I think home ownership is very important. Got it. Got it. Commissioner Rogers. I would ditto some of the comments my colleague made, but I wanted to emphasize that I appreciate the fact that we're looking to home ownership purchased. Absolutely. Okay? We all agree. And so I'm saying voices do make a difference. And I understand what you're saying. You know, 15 years and paying back all of it. So what was the benefits? We're not doing that with the rentals and the developers. Okay? So I don't see why we are going to be focusing. But aren't the rentals different? Were the rentals, the home ownership, that person gets equity in the property versus the rentals? We're taking it back. When they sell it, you're taking back whatever equity they got. We don't know. That's why I like what Attorney, Senator Steve is saying. We need to look into those items. But I'm also saying purchase assistance is the greatest thing we could do here as a county. And I'm glad my voice was heard. Thank you, Steve. Absolutely. So we'll make a motion. Does anybody else want to talk on this item? Commissioner Davis? Thank you. I do believe that this should be a countywide effort. We are county commissioners. And not every city has the amount of money needed to really support the demand. And so whereas some cities may have some money, that goes very, very quickly. And I believe just as with the housing trust money, it's for everywhere in the county, whether you want to build in South County, North, or Mid. This also should be a program that is countywide. And it shouldn't be just restricted to the BMSD. I do believe they should be included. But again, there's so much needed out there in terms of help and housing assistance that we would be remiss if we did not reach out and help all who need to be helped, regardless of where they live in Broward County, because we are, after all, Broward County commissioners. Thank you. Yes. Commissioner Furr. Thank you. My only concern on this is when it gets broken down by district, and you have $500,000 a district, because that's kind of like that. If you are trying to do homeownership condos, it's going to make it hard to do, because $500,000 isn't going to cut it. And I actually think, given the price to build single family right now, this isn't going to go very far. Whereas if we were doing it with condo, it would go much, much, much farther. I want our money to go further. And I also feel that if this is their starting home, and it's a condo, they are going to be able to generate equity there. They're going to be able to, you know. And to your point, Senator Geller, if there was a graduated thing after maybe five years, they'd say, you know what, I'm ready to get out of this condo, and I'm ready to go buy a house. Then that would be possible. So I don't know how to do this, because I'm not sure how this came about. I don't feel the need that it has to be by district. I'm not feeling that, you know, or by BMSD. I really just want to find the best projects. I want to find the best way for as many people to be able to get into a condo and to be able to own it as we can possibly do. And doing that by allowing this to go across districts. There are some districts that don't, you know, don't need it. You know, and there's some districts that a ton of it's already being built. My district, a ton of affordable housing is already being built. There's still room for more. But I'm afraid that this money is just not going to go as far as I'd like it to go. Nor is it going to go, you know, nor will it allow for multifamily condos, multifamily units to be able to be built. Yes. Let's say, I did not say everything has to be single family. We have townhomes. Okay? We have condos, as it's being said. That came from someplace else. My instinct is not single family homes. Townhomes can do it. Condos can do it. All right? Yep. So, and of course, where the needs are. Certain cities don't need this as a priority. So when one commissioner asks for something and we don't want to do it, we come up with these crazy methods of trying to please everyone to get the vote when we're not looking out for Broward County and areas that need us. When we were doing the parks, we look at areas that did not have a regional park and we focus in those communities. That's why there's a regional park where I live. Okay? So let's get back to just doing the right thing and stop counting the votes. I think Senator Geller moved approval. Do I have a second? I second. Second. Better to get something than nothing. Sorry. As a point of information, and thank you, I just wanted to clarify. You're not right, you guys. Okay. Got it. Thank you. My understanding is, is just for the benefit of the conversation here, that most of the purchase assistance that we do is for condos. Oh, it is? It is. And Ralph was, I didn't want to belabor it, but I wanted to put that on the record. Okay. I have a motion and a second. All in favor, this is number 48. As it stands today, right here, Mayor? Yes, as it stands here. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. Senator Geller, you had number 49 you pulled? Yes, Mr. Mayor, I just had a question. Is this the item from the flood money? No. Okay. In that case, I move approval. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a motion and a second to number 49. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. Next, just to, we have some, presentation will be next, but not next. I want to do just number 76 to get them, you know, because we have some people here that wanted to get out of here early. Numbers. So, would the reading clerk read number 76? Item 76 is a motion to approve third amendment to agreement between Broward County and Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc., increasing the agreement's maximum funding amount to fund eviction prevention services for individuals and families at imminent risk of homelessness. One member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Who's that? You want to have that member come on up? Yeah. Two for the price of one, huh? Yes. Deborah Kapowski. Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners. Deborah Kapowski, I'm Executive Director at Legal Aid of Broward. Thank you for inviting us to make a presentation this morning on our homeless prevention project. And I have attorney Serge Benjamin here with me who runs the program and is going to give you a brief presentation. Thank you so much. Hold on. I'm not looking for a presentation right now. I did put this from consent to regular because I had a question that bothered me. I have two questions, actually. First question, when you file a lawsuit on behalf of an individual for whatever wrong that happened to them and then the defendant decides they want to settle, are you always asking for your attorney's fees to be paid back? No. Or are you at all ever asking for your attorney's fees? No, we never get attorney's fees from the clients. I didn't say from the client. From the defendant, are you asking from the defendant to pay your attorney's fees back before you settle the case? It would depend. Not all the time. Most of the time, no. We've been able to settle the cases for the client. And if it doesn't look like we can settle it with attorney's fees, we don't. But the only time we request attorney's fees is if it's by statute or contract. So our general rule is no attorney's fees. So I had an incident in Palm Beach where I'm aware that the defendant wanted to settle. The defendant did wrongful conduct. They wanted to settle. But the case couldn't settle because the legal aid in Palm Beach County said, no, we want our attorney's fees or we're not settling. And that really bothered me. Because here you're here to advocate for your client and get an accomplishment for your client, not to hold up a case to get attorney's fees. And so I didn't know if you are sticklers and you do that as well. Obviously, you only get attorney's fees for statute or contract. I know that. I've been a lawyer for 43 years. But I wanted to know if are there cases that are held up by your office where the defendant wants to settle, but because they won't pay attorney's fees, the case doesn't get settled. No, and actually on this program, Mr. Mayor, we don't ask for the fees. We actually help them pay their fees with our rental assistance monies. I'm not just talking about this program. No, I understand. But I wanted to make it clear that in this program we don't. Okay, great. That makes me happy. Second thing is I also, I think we spoke on the phone. I was really upset to learn when we were giving you original money to pass through to coast to coast that there was a 15% fee in the contract, which I don't feel, I had a kind of a discussion with Senator Rich because there is so-called administrative fees. I didn't really think there were any administrative duties to pass on money to coast to coast. And I just didn't find that we're trying to help the community. So we're giving money to you. We're trying to help the community giving money coast to coast. And if we designate a dollar to coast to coast, I want that full dollar to go to coast to coast. And it's unfortunate now that we have to give it directly to them because so we can avoid a fee by you guys taking a percentage of that. And I know you may not have in this contract, but I just want you to be aware that if you need money, that's why you should come to us. But I don't want, I don't like the idea of double dipping where you're taking money meant for somebody else. You're taking a percentage. And that's the thing that bothers me. And I understand your position, Your Honor. And as we discussed on the phone, the contract clearly called for us to take 15%. I understand. You're right. You're right. And we did all the administrative work. What administrative work is there? Well, you have to do all the invoicing, all the reporting. So coast to coast doesn't do any of that? No, we did it all. All they do is they give us how many people they served that month. So how are we giving money now to coast to coast if they can't do their own accounting? So now they'll do their own reports. They're doing their own now. Administrative fee. Yes, sir. I appreciate your time. And I appreciate your time. I'd like to move it. I can't move it for consent. Do you want to move it? I would just like to take a few minutes since they're here. This program is so amazing, and I'll just give them a few minutes to just explain a little bit of what they do because it's just an outstanding program in our community and saves so many people from becoming homeless, and it costs us $47,000 for a homeless person rather than being able to keep people from being evicted and keep them in their homes. So if you could just very briefly, could you just talk a little bit about it? Okay, and before Surge starts, just to your point, Commissioner, it costs us an average of $1,100 per person instead of $47,000. So when we give them that rental assistance money, we're saving $47,000. Thank you, Surge. I got two minutes for you. I got a long agenda. Two minutes is a lot of time, and I appreciate it. Great. Shoot away. The HPP was founded a while back with Bob Manning and Legal Aid of Broward County. The vision was to help people in trouble before they wind up falling off the cliff through an eviction process. It started that way with our system, and then it mushroomed into many more partners working with us. We now have county working with us. We have child services councils working with us. We have the City of Sunrise working with us. And as of June 1st, 2026, we will also have the Community Foundation for Broward joining us in this endeavor. Basically, what we do is we assess individuals in trouble before an eviction comes in or at the moment where the eviction actually comes in. We evaluate the individuals to determine whether or not they are financially stable. If they are financially stable, meaning that they can actually take care of their monthly expenses under normal circumstances. Part of the problem is there is an instance that occurred. That instance typically causes a downfall in the flow of expenses within the house. So causes such as a health issue occurring within the family, a temporary loss of job within the family, a death in the family that occurs. In our community, that's deadly. I didn't mean to have a pump there. And major vehicular repair often causes difficulty with our families. So when they find themselves in serious trouble, they use their rent money to take care of the particular problem. Major car repair in a place where conversation is not so hard, transportation is difficult. So legal aid looks at the client, determines whether or not we can assist. If we can, we assist the client, either with private funds, either with Broward County referral, or with including legal assistance through the court. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Before we go to vote, I just want to say we really believe at least how valuable your service is to the community and appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So moved. Senator Rich moves it. I have a second by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Thank you. Thank you. Do we now have a quick-how long is this- Make that 9-0. County Administrator, how long is this present? We can make it as fast as you'd like, five minutes or less. Do you want me to introduce it? Because I don't think anybody knows what's coming. Okay. As everybody here on the dais knows, our county is involved in hundreds of projects going on at any given time. I'm reading some notes here. To track some of the most important projects, I actually asked the county administrator and admin to put together a dashboard, kind of like if you're at the airport and you see everything going on. So all of our projects, major projects, will be listed, who's assigned to it, the project, the status. So if you have a project and you don't want it to get lost in the shuffle and you want to make sure that they stay on top of it and have timelines for everything and follow where it is, this is what's being introduced. Your IT department, I assume, put this together? Innovation team. Innovation put this together. And so, Monica, I appreciate you and your team and Kevin listening to me about this for a long time. Appreciate it. And let's do a quick presentation so everybody here knows how we can use this. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mr. McChesney. He's going to want you to identify yourself, introduce yourself, and we're going to put it up on the screen so everyone can see. Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners. As you heard, the project dashboard that you see in front of you is designed to be relatively intuitive, user-friendly, and interactive to provide you information in real time. What I'm going to do briefly is orient you to just how this works and how you can utilize it. It's a link that we'll send to each of you and your staff so that you have that available. Just orienting you to the dashboard, it's slightly large just for viewing. The first thing you'll note at the very top is an overall report refresh date, just letting you know the last time that that report was updated overall. So, for instance, this was this morning. And then you've got a search function that you see here at the top where you can either do a drop-down to review. You can scroll through. There's 164 projects currently listed. Or you can go in and you can just type in a keyword. So, is that live, by the way? Yes. Yes, sir. How about the parking garage you're supposed to be doing at the courthouse? They're supposed to be doing a parking garage. How would I find that? So, you could type in a couple of things. You could type in courthouse or you could type in parking garage. And where would that be? And then, let's see, it's this one. It's the top one. And so, once you type it in, it will bring up, you select that actual item. And so, you see a project name. You see what commission district it's in. An anticipated completion date by quarter. So, and then a very brief, most recent action update. A status as to whether it's on time or delayed or complete. The department that owns that as well as the department director's name. And when you highlight that item to the far right, you'll see a detailed project description that will give you more information about it. And then a detailed action update. And that can have as much information as is required. So, these are being updated in reverse chronological order. So, you can review the most recent update. And then the very last thing you'll know all the way at the bottom, there's an as of latest update. So, you'll know when that specific item has been updated. If there happens to be a web link to a web page, that will appear here as well. Okay. Just to confirm. So, every project that we may have interest in is live. You never have to say what's going on with a project. What's the status of a project? Your staff, Monica, is going to be updating this as things are moving along. This is not my dashboard that we're attached to the, we don't need that anymore. To the, this is hundreds of projects that you're including with what we're doing. And, and, and, and, yeah. That's two? Not at the moment, but we can. This was the demo. And we wanted to make sure that it has basically what you guys are looking for. I think it should be available to the public, to us, to everybody. We absolutely can. Again, this was our unveiling of it. And wanted to make sure. Just so you know, Mr. Mayor, what you just suggested about the, the attached parking or dashboard that you have on the agenda. Those projects, I think there's 11 of them. They're in here also. It also includes some things that we know are high priority that might not have necessarily been on that dashboard. So, as you know, there's over 160. It'll grow. Our idea is to every two weeks at a minimum. Our department directors will go in and refresh. Of course, if something happens before that two-week mark, they'll go in and update it. But at a minimum, it'll be every two weeks. And then also, as an example, you'll see, it'll be like the, what you said, Mayor Bogan, like the dashboard at the airport. It'll be like green, yellow, red. You know, if it's on time, a delay, or in trouble, so to speak, very delayed. Right now, all of these projects are in good shape. You'll have a couple of them that say completed, because when we were doing the update, we actually have had some completions that have happened, some of those. And our idea with those projects is after about six months, we could do it, we could purge them earlier, and then they'll be in the background. But that way, you'll only have active kind of projects. So it's incumbent upon all the commissioners here, if you have a project that you want admin involved in, you tell Monica, Kevin, we'll tell you guys about, hey, please put this on the dashboard. And that way, you're going to do updates and follow up on that. That's correct. Great. Yes. That's great that they're all green. And could I just see where this has us on, for example, the government center, the multimodal, some of the more complicated ones. Could you call up just the government center? Sure. What the complicated ones look like. So that one will say in progress. And then if you click, Phil has clicked on it, so on the right, it'll tell you where we are, what phase we're in, pre-planning, and the actions that you guys have taken to date. And where we are with, like, the demolition and the permits and all of that stuff. Thank you. No. Let's go. Thank you. Got to do one in 100. One in 100. So if that's, Mayor, we have some others we'd like to go through. But if you don't want to, we don't need to go any further. It's up to you on the time. I think it's perfect. I don't know if you guys have suggestions, but I think it's great. Great job by the end of the day. Okay. Thank you, Tim. I have a project management list in my district with my staff. I can't keep them. So each staff, whatever they're working on for me, that's the projects. And I have my master list, and I go through it. I don't know how Monica and her team does what they do. So I'm glad for this process that you're implementing. It works. It worked for me. Is that good? I think it's great. Thank you, Phil. Thank you. And we're happy to do individual demos if anyone would like to spend more time with them as well. Thank you, Mr. McChesney. Well done to you and your team and to all of our departments, because everyone's hands-on on this. Thank you. Okay. All right. We've gone through the consent agenda. We've knocked out the three polls. Pardon me? Public hearing? Okay. We'll do the public hearing. Where is... Sadie, you have my public hearing stuff? She disappears on me. She just likes to disappear. What? What is... You just... Okay. We're opening the public hearing items today. Our items 61 through 72 now. The reading clerk will open up each item, recognize any members of the public signed up to speak. Upon completion of the public comment, the item will come back to the dais for any discussion and for the vote. Take it away. The public hearing on item 61 is now open. This is the first of two required public hearings. No action on the motion will be taken at today's meeting. The second public hearing will be held on June 9th, 2026. Item 61 is a motion to approve third amendment to marine terminal lease and operating agreement between Broward County and Crowley Liner Services, Inc., effective on April 30th, 2026, to redefine the premises, exercise the first five-year option term, extending the agreement through April 30th, 2031, and update other provisions. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Senator Geller moves. No vote. Okay, we're going to number 62. The public hearing on item 62 is now open. Item 62 is a motion to adopt resolution granting renewal of the non-exclusive unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise to Sun Terminals, Inc. for a new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion by Senator Geller. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. The public hearing on item 63 is now open. Item 63 has two parts. The board will consider both parts at the same time but vote on the parts separately. Part A is a motion to enact ordinance amending the county comprehensive plan to adopt county land use plan map amendment PC-26-3 in the city of Fort Lauderdale. Part B is a motion to enact ordinance adopting the county land use plan text amendment PC-26-2 in the city of Fort Lauderdale. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. So for item 63-A, do I have a motion? Moved by Commissioner Fisher, second by Senator Geller. All in favor of 63-A? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Item 63-B, do I have a motion? Yep. Commissioner Fisher moves it, seconded by Senator Geller. 63-B, all in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. 64, please. The public hearing on item 64 is now open. Item 64 is a motion to enact ordinance amending the county comprehensive plan to adopt county land use plan amendment PC-NRM-26-1 to update the wetlands map of the natural resource map series. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Moved by Senator Geller. Seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor of 64. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Number 65, please. The public hearing on item 65 is now open. Item 65 is a motion to adopt resolution to transmit to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use plan map PC-26-4 in the city of Margate. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Moved by Senator Geller. Seconded by Commissioner Udine. All in favor of 65? All in favor of 65? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. 66, please. Per the Tuesday morning memo, item 66 is a quasi-judicial public hearing. The quasi-judicial public hearing on item 66 is now open. Item 66 has two parts. The board will consider both parts at the same time but vote on the parts separately. Part A is a motion to adopt resolution making certain findings and allocating 1.13 acres of industrial to commercial flexibility in accordance with the county land use plan and county comprehensive plan municipal services district land use and community planning element. Part B is a motion to adopt resolution approving site plan application 02-SP-25 to permit the development of a commercial self-storage facility on property located within the Broward Municipal Services District. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. I'm going to first talk about item 66A. Do I have a motion for that? Senator Geller moves 66A. Second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor of 66A? Mayor, this is quasi-judicial. So we have to conduct a quasi-judicial proceeding. Oh. Okay. So I'm going to close the, first close the meeting, the public hearing, no? It's a quasi-judicial proceeding now. Okay. Tell me what's, what do you need me to do? Okay. I will, um. You're taking over? Yes, I will. Great. I'm, I am handing off to counsel. Yeah. Hand off. You got it. Any ex parte communications regarding these items shall be disclosed as part of the proceeding. If any commissioner has had any ex parte communication regarding this item that has not been made part of the record, please submit it into the record at this time. If any commissioner has had any oral ex parte communication, please disclose it and the general nature at this time. The county commissioner will accept personal testimony related to item 66. The applicant, staff, and all witnesses wishing to provide testimony must be sworn. Testimony may, but is not required to be sworn. However, testimony that is not sworn is not assigned the same weight and credibility as testimony that is sworn. Attorneys licensed to practice law in the state of Florida are not required to be sworn unless they intend to provide sworn testimony. Persons providing testimony should indicate whether they have been sworn. Ms. Sappero, may the board secretary swear in persons who intend to give sworn testimony at this time. To give us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Can I interrogate them? Where were you January 1st? At the conclusion of the quasi-judicial proceeding and deliberation by the board, the board may approve staff's recommendation and approve the site plan and flex unit allocation. Alternatively, the board may determine that the applicable requirements of the land use plan and zoning code have not been met and deny the application. If the board determines that testamentary or documentary evidence or information justifies additional research or review, they may probably determine, pursuant to Section 1332, to continue this proceeding. Mr. DelSalle, please indicate if you have been sworn and present a brief synopsis of the nature of the application, summarize the issues, and make a recommendation on the application. It's still morning, right? Good morning, everybody. Darby DelSalle, Director of Housing and Urban Planning Division. And, yeah, we don't get to do too many quasi-judicials here. For the record, I have been duly sworn my credentials are on file with the county. This particular item – oh, and by the way, the staff report is officially submitted in. So this particular item does come with two parts. It is a site plan that is within the BMSD. It is a three-story self-storage facility right there on 27th Avenue. This particular project, it has a C-1 zoning, which would allow this particular use. But the underlying land use is industrial. And one of the unique elements of the BMSD land use is you can use something called a commercial flex because the self-storage facility in and of itself would be considered a commercial use, not an industrial use. So that's the main reason why we brought this item for you today, so that you would not only be contemplating what this commercial flex would do, but what you're actually going to be anticipating to have built within the BMSD property. So I think I pretty much covered all of it. So, again, the structure itself is not terribly large. It's about 41,000 square feet overall. It's three stories. It's 35 feet in total height, which would be more or less the maximum height you could build a single-family home within any area of the BMSD. Outside of that, you know, staff did find that the site plan in and of itself does comply with all aspects of the Chapter 39, which is your zoning code, provided that you allocate this particular flex allocation. So if you have any questions of me, I'll be more than happy to take them. Are there any questions of Mr. DelSalle? Yes. Do you have a recommendation? I'm sorry? You didn't give your recommendation. Oh, we're supporting the audience. Yes, absolutely. Hope Calhoun is here representing the applicant. Ms. Calhoun, if you wish, you may make a presentation, include any witnesses you wish to call. And by the way, thank you for that unheard of speech. She doesn't need to be sworn. No worries. Good morning. Hope Calhoun, a land use counsel on behalf of the applicant. I agree with staff's report, and I'm happy to answer any questions unless you'd like to hear something more from me. Thank you. Did you meet with your district commissioner on this item? I did. I did, sir. Not sir. So you had oral communications, correct? I did, and I just want to speak to the item itself. I so often affectionately talk about the BMSD and this stretch for property. Darby and staff have been working to invite or get some interest in this area. It's the same place where mental health, homelessness, prostitution every day. I think this warehouse, although I wouldn't ordinarily say this is a project I favor, and Ms. Calhoun has heard this time and time again, but it is a good project because we sat down and we looked at how it would activate that corridor. And we did a lot of landscaping and things that are complemented, and if you activate these blighted spaces, it'll help with some of the vagrancy and loitering that we deal with now. So we welcome it. We vetted it through the community, and it's a good project. So that's why I'm supported, and that's one that my colleagues know that I'm in full support of the project. But I want more back there, more. We'll work on it. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, it's all yours. Okay. So we're voting on 66A separately or together with A and B? Separately? Separately. Separately. Okay. I have a motion for 66A. So moved. I got it. Commission. Vice Mayor McKenzie moves it. Yes. Second by Commissioner Furr. All in favor of 66A. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Do I have a motion on 66B? I will move B. Vice Mayor McKenzie moves 66B. Second by Commissioner Furr. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Are we done with the quasi-judicial? Okay. We're going to the next one is 67. Now open. Item 67 has two parts. The Board will consider and vote on both parts at the same time. Part A is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the General Fund and the Broward Municipal Services District Fund in the amount of $140,031,298 to primarily adjust the fund balances and other budgeted revenues and to appropriate funds for other commitments. Part B is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the county transportation trust funds in the amount of $23,974,050 to primarily adjust the fund balances and other budgeted revenues and to appropriate funds for other commitments. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Second. So I have a motion for 67A and B at the same time. I have a motion by Senator Gellar. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. 68. The public hearing on item 68 is now open. Item 68 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the special revenue funds in the amount of $405,579,920 to primarily adjust the fund balances and other budgeted revenues and appropriate funds to reserves and other commitments. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion. Move approval on number 68 by Senator Gellar. Second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor of number 68. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. 69, please. The public hearing on item 69 is now open. Item 69 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the capital funds in the amount of $285,872,912 to primarily adjust fund balances and other budgeted revenues and appropriate funds to reserves and other project commitments. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion. Move approval by Senator Gellar. Do I have a second? Second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor of number 69. I need to hear from everybody. All in favor of 69. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing in a singing tone 8-0. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. I didn't know what you were voting on back then. You have to sing. You know, my hearing is very bad. Do you want to make sure there was a 9-0 vote on the past three? You've got to sing a tune. Past three. All right. Number 70. Please read. The public hearing on item 70 is now open. Item 70 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the enterprise funds in the amount of $178,370,229, primarily to adjust the fund balances and other budgeted revenues and to appropriate funds to reserves and other commitments. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Move to the approval by Senator Gellar on number 70. Second by? I will second it. Vice Mayor McKenzie singing along. All in favor of 70? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Great. 71, please. The public hearing on item 71 is now open. Item 71 has two parts. The board will consider and vote on both parts at the same time. Part A is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the debt service funds in the amount of $9,700,441, primarily to adjust fund balances and other budgeted revenues to appropriate funds to reserves and other commitments. Part B is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the internal service funds in the amount of $21,967,302, primarily to adjust fund balances and other budgeted revenues and to appropriate funds to reserves and other commitments. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Move approval of parts A and part B. Senator Gellar's move of approval of parts A and B of 71, seconded by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor of 71 A and B? Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Item 72, please. The public hearing on item 72 is now open. Item 72 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to the Broward Regional Emergency Medical Services EMS Council, amending Section 15-74 of the County Code of Ordinances relating to County Commissioner of Representation on the EMS Council. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Mr. Mayor, what is the difference between items 72 and 87, which appear to be identical? Mayor. Keep. Do you want me to answer? Yes, sir. 87, assuming 72 passes, would be the item that actually nominates and appoints who the alternate member would be. Thank you. Okay. Number 72, do I have a motion? There is. Sorry, Mr. Mayor, there is an amendment to that. I'm sorry? Does that come now? There is a 72. We're on number 72. I need a motion to move it. Can I ask a question about 72A? Sure, absolutely. Does that come after? I'm sorry, which one number? 72A. There is no A. Mayor, so Commissioner Davis submitted an amendment. The amendment was timely submitted and was part of the compendium of additional materials. My fault. It came out on Friday, but for some reason it didn't get individually distributed until today. So 72A is an amendment to 72. I just, give me 60 seconds. So this is amending, this is amendment. So, attorney, I just want to make sure I got me reading this right. Subsection A1 looks the same. Two looks the same. Three, Mayor should nominate one Broward County Commissioner as a member and one Broward County alternate, right? That's why we decided the alternate commissioners shall only be counted toward a quorum. Yes. Unless Commissioner Davis would prefer to explain it. Okay, so the way the item is drafted, I'm talking about 72 that printed with the agenda. The alternate member does not participate in debate, does not vote, and is not counted towards a quorum unless the primary member is absent. So if the primary member is absent, the alternate then takes that place? In full. Okay. But if the primary member is not absent, what Commissioner Davis is proposing is, again, they wouldn't be able to vote. Sorry, so let's, Senator Geller is the primary member. If Senator Geller is there, Commissioner Davis is saying, okay, I understand that Senator Geller will vote. I won't. Senator Geller counts towards a quorum. I don't, but I would like to participate in debate. So that's the change is to permit the alternate to participate in debate. Okay, so in my 12 years, just so you guys can do what you want, the alternate, you take the full place of Senator Geller if he's not there. But if he is there, you wouldn't, the alternate is not there and wouldn't have any rights. But that's, you want to change that? That's not the case in the Solid Waste Authority. The alternate is able to have discussion. Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah, so there's, there's no, go ahead, go ahead, Commissioner. Commissioner, your mic, they are working now. Thank you. It's never come up. It's not in the bylaws. So it's been kind of an informal allowing for alternates to speak on occasion. We haven't actually written that into the bylaws. And a couple of distinctions also. Obviously, the Solid Waste Authority is in our board. It's, it's, those rules, right, it's its own authority, basically, right? So it's not a county board. And then secondly, as I understand it, because I couldn't even find the bylaws online, frankly. They might not be on there. I just couldn't find them. But it's, I think the alternates are from other cities in some instances. So some of the concern with, with having an alternate also debate would be present if they were both members of the same body, but wouldn't be present if they were members of different cities, for example. Question for the county. Yeah, Senator Gellar, this is, you've been made the, what is the word? Designee. The designee. I would have concerns with the amendment, but let me ask county attorney, county attorney, what is, I know that we can do it any way we want, but what is common and customary? Is there any standard, normal, norm that we have? And if so, can you describe it? I can't describe a norm that we have, because I actually went through some of the boards and I didn't see where it was expressly addressed. I think that the general rule is that an alternate does not debate, but there are instances where alternates do debate. The clearest thing is that it's within the power of whoever is creating the advisory board to make this decision. I will tell you, this is a very large board. I think it's 38 members or maybe 39 members. So, you know, if you've alternates debate, you're adding to it. One of the other, you know, issues with alternates debating that I would be concerned about is, you know, if there's an inconsistency in positions. I mean, the alternate is supposed to represent this board and present positions and then communicate back. So, you know, there are some reasons to not have an alternate debate, but an alternate, in some instances, does debate, and I'm sure there's value added in those cases as well. And can I just add, Mr. Mayor? Sure. The whole reason why this even came up to the board was something that I brought before the board that I would like to consider that we have somebody on this board. Previously, there was no one on the board, and it's something that I brought up, so I think I should be able to weigh in. The last commission meeting, when somebody was appointed, you asked if the two of us wanted to be appointed. I took myself out and said I'll remain an alternate. So now that I'm an alternate, I think it would be great for somebody to hear my perspective. Don't look at me. You guys make it. Yes. Mayor, wouldn't it be up to the EMS Council to make this decision versus us? Well, we can put it in our rules because we create the council. It is a Broward County Council. Right. So we can make now if we didn't have something in there. So, for example, if the alternate were not expressly permitted to participate in debate, the chair of the EMS Council could still recognize people to ask questions or things of that nature, but they just wouldn't have the right to engage in debate. So would this also go on with all of our other boards that we've created and would we now somehow be obligated to have our alternates create debate as well? I'm just trying to think if we open up Pandora's box on our other boards and committees with our alternate members. I think it does. I mean, I think it obviously pushes in that direction or creates an example of that. And I'm not saying that there are no examples. I haven't been through the 70 or 80 boards that we have. I know that the general rule is the alternate doesn't debate, but there are exceptions to the rule. One more. In the case of the senator, if he had a position and another commissioner had another position, obviously that would create conflict to some extent. I mean, ultimately, the senator, if he's there, would vote in what he thought was best, correct? Yes. And, you know, theoretically, inconsistent positions could negate whatever influence, you know, our board has on that board. Sure. It doesn't have to be. Sorry, Mr. Mayor. Yep. Just because somebody enters discussion doesn't have to be opposite to what the primary is saying. The person just wants to be able to enter the discussion. Okay. Senator Gallagher? As Commissioner Davis has pointed out at our last several meetings, we do disagree philosophically on a number of issues. And I suspect that we not cancel each other out, which is what I would suspect would occur if we're each debating. So I would, you had, I like your original language, Mr. Mayor. You put in that language for a reason. Well, council drafted it, so I won't. Okay. Okay. That's a reason. Yeah. So I would prefer that we not adopt the amendment, but I will do whatever, of course, the board does. Yes. Just to clarify, what if the language is said the alternate commissioner may attend the EMS council and may participate in discussion, whether or not the member is present at the discretion of the chair of the board? I mean, if someone's going from the two people are going and they're sitting there and the chair wants to hear from them and that person wants to speak, there's only one vote. Only the current member votes on it. But what's the big deal? Yeah. So my understanding of just general procedural rules is the chair could always recognize even a non-member, you know, to speak or to ask questions. So I don't think it's necessary to enable whoever the alternate is, which I presume it would be Commissioner Davis just because of this conversation. But she wouldn't be able to debate as a matter of right. That's the difference. The chair would have to recognize her to participate. And, Mayor, there's just so you know, so Commissioner Davis, I think, has informally moved the amendment. And so just procedurally, when you're done with discussing it, you would want to see if there's a second on the amendment, vote on that, and then vote on the main item. Well, we should first do that and then talk afterwards. So, all right, so I'm going to, Commissioner Davis, I assume you're moving your amendment, correct? Yes. And so is there a second? Second. So I have a motion and a second on the amendment, and is there discussion, other discussion on it? I don't see what, I really don't see what the big deal is. It was her idea initially, and then we got into the position that we had two people being selected or chosen to represent that board. We never had anybody from this board on that. Yeah, we used to have Chip Lamar. Well, but it somehow got off. After one chip left. And it leads me to back to what I asked Drew a couple years ago about all of these boards that we have. I think we have too many boards, and I wanted to sift through them to see if we can get rid of some of these boards. But all of a sudden, this board became a beacon for attention. And I don't see the, it's no different to us sitting up here, just being able to have input without, if I was running a meeting, I would not often acknowledge someone else who's not in that room that can participate in a debate. So, I don't have a problem with it, and I don't see what the problem is. I'm going to ask Council one question, and then I'll recognize Commissioner Furr. Or, let's say we pass this. If the chair does not want to hear from an alternate, can a chair shut down an alternate? No, I mean, if, well, if the alternate's out of order, but if the rule says, we would establish the rule. If the rule says that an alternate can participate in debate. So, what Commissioner Udine was doing was giving the chair the authority? Yeah. Not if you pass this, the chair wouldn't have the authority. The chair will always have the authority to recognize anybody to speak. So, if they know that the alternate's there, and the alternate says, I have a question, or I'd like to say something, the chair can recognize them. But, on this dais, everybody has the right to speak. That's a difference. Unfortunately. You recognize them. Commissioner Furr. Thank you. I think one of the things we have to recognize is when we are on a board, we are not representing just us. It's not our individual point of view. We are representing the collective. And I think most often, at least any boards I've been on, I've wanted to come back to the board and hear kind of where everybody is on things. And then that is the commission's perspective. I would venture to say this might undermine that. Because you would start to have competing agendas. And then I don't know if the rest of the board knows what the county's position is. I do think if there are competing thoughts on EMS and things like that, those ideas should come here collectively. We say, this is kind of where we're at. And then you present it. Otherwise, I mean, I know when you've spoken to the Southwest, I think they've done it in deference because you're there. But, and we don't always agree on stuff, but it's, you know, generally we do. But I think when we, when we're put on a board, that's our job to represent everybody, all of us, all nine of us. And I think that's the better way to go. Can I just add one thing? You know, I was first, I was first opposed to this. And then I felt like as long as he's voting and you're not voting, what's the big deal? You're talking about voting. But then I, then what Commissioner Furr is saying is, is that what happens if Senator Gellar says A and you're saying B, or you say A and he says B, we're supposed to be representing the board's consensus. And so that, now it kind of throws that in, you know, that's, that's a good point. Maybe, maybe, what if, what if the discussion is in support of what you're saying? You know, I don't know if that's possible, but you certainly don't want to have two commissioners on a board saying the opposite thing. Well, we say the opposite here. That's okay. Pardon me? We're on the board and we don't always agree here. No, but like if you're, if you're the designee, you're there representing all of us. So if you believe A personally, but the board believes B, we're going to expect that you would argue B. Well, we're going to argue the board. Yeah. If we all, if we, if we all determine here what the board says, then I'm not going to go and say something that the board doesn't agree with. Of course. Neither should C. Right. Of course. So we're all on the same page. None of us are not, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're intelligent enough. So what she said, if the board is for something, we're not going to go against the board. Right. So what you're saying is that your discussion would be, if you're both representing the board, your discussion would be aligned. So nobody's saying you're going to go there to debate against or for something. We're just making those assumptions. I just want to have the ability if I'm there to speak. Right. I got it. I'm making it simple for me. Everybody else is on a different level. So currently you have a delegate and you have an alternate. Right. The alternate, like I'm an alternate, I think is the value adjustment board. I don't go to all the meetings, but I know I can. I know I can go to the meetings. And if I have something to say, I think I would petition the chair to be recognized. Okay. And you're telling me the chair would offer that consideration. The VAB is, yeah. So what is different? You're the alternate. You attend the meeting. You have something to say. You're able to say it. The full board should be able to discuss it. And the chair and the alternate might differ, but you want consideration of the full board. That's what you're saying. The board, what will come back to the commission is the position of the board, not the position of the delegate or the alternate. Wouldn't you think the position of the board is what would be presented to this body? What is different? I'm still not understanding because the alternates can go and allow to speak and the board should make the decision. Got it. Commissioner Furr? Yeah. The benefit of having an alternate there, and there is a benefit there, to be able to consult with whoever is speaking. And there may be a, you know, because let's say Commissioner Davis is there, she might be able to bring to you a thought. But there should only be one person speaking that, in my opinion, because that's who's speaking for the board. So there's definitely benefit to being there. But I think the better way is to have a consult, ability to consult while you're there. And then you all may, between you, the two, you may say this is something that needs to go back to the commission. Not a, yeah, not a sidebar. Yeah. Okay. Is everybody done? Do you want to come give this to a vote? On the amendment, I'm going to go by a show of hands. How many are in favor? One, three. How many against? It's tied. And so are you. You know, wait, I had to go to the bathroom. I don't feel good. Wow. It's no big deal. So you get the big bucks. I'm going to split the baby. That's a, that's a, I think that the alternate should be able to attend, should be able to consult. We should have one person, we should have one voice for us. You're right, Commissioner Rogers, I've been on the VAB forever, right? And I'll share it with the vice mayor. And all the time, though, when we had before you an alternate, the alternate would say, hey, this is an issue, would you bring it up? And so I would bring it up. So I think, and I'm thinking of all the appointees that we've had over 12 years, correct me if I'm wrong, counsel, but the person appoint is the one that speaks. I'm speaking on behalf right now as mayor. The vice mayor is not speaking. I'm speaking. But if he has an issue, you'll talk about it. Can you give me the gab while I have an issue? There you go. I'd like to maybe, I would prefer, instead of being a deciding vote, to defer to, I could check what the EMS council is doing. Otherwise, I think there should be one voice. That's what I think, there should be one voice. As Commissioner Furst said, I think there should be one voice. If you two are going to be aligned, it doesn't make sense to me why you need another person saying the same thing. So unless you want to defer this amendment, and what I would do until the next meeting is just talk to the EMS council. Is there any other people doing this? If there are, I'm for it. If there's not, I'm against it. But if you don't want to defer it, I'm going to say there only should be one person speaking. I'm going to leave up to Commissioner Davis whether she wants to defer the amendment to the next meeting. That way, I would check with the EMS, see if there's anybody else doing this. If there's other alternates doing this, then she should be able to, as long as it's consistent. If there's not, then it should, you know, that's the way I believe. So you're just going to check with the EMS council? I want to know, if there's nobody else doing that, then I would say no. On the EMS council, there is nobody there now. Pardon me? There's nobody on the EMS council now, except one person. There's 30-something people on there, right? No, I mean, like, as an alternate. Like, you're going to ask me if they've ever had an alternate, or are you going to check different boards? So there's no other alternates out of all the other people there? Let me just verify with Adam for one second, but I believe that's correct. Okay, you know what? I think there should be one voice. That's my vote. The answer is no. To the main item? Yep. Okay. Okay, so I have a motion on number 72, as the original, without the amendment. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Two, three. Show that passing. Six, three. That was the final public hearing item. The public hearing portion of the meeting is now closed. 73 is done. The public hearing is now finished, correct? Yes, sir. What does it say, 1301? Pardon me? That was the address of the item. Okay, so we're done. Now we're going to our regular agenda, correct? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. 74. Reading Clark. Item 74 has two motions. Motion A is a motion to approve estimated change order number five to the agreement between Broward County and Magnum Construction Management, LLC, for exit roadway improvements at Broward County's Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. Motion B is a motion to approve increase to the unforeseen conditions and owner-requested changes allowance account. No members of the public assign to speak on the item. Do I have a motion on number 74? Motion by Senator Geller. Second by Senator Geller. Motion by Commissioner Udine. Second by Commissioner Furr. All in favor of 74? Aye. Any opposed? Show 74 passing unanimously. Number 75? Item 75 is a motion to approve sixth amendment to the agreement between Broward County and Sunshine Cleaning Systems, LLC, for janitorial services for the Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the Airport Operations Control Center. No members of the public assign to speak on this item. Second. Senator Geller. Move 75. Second by Commissioner Udine. All in favor of number 75? Aye. Any opposed? Show 75 passing unanimously. Next would be number 77. Item 77 has two motions. Motion A is a motion to discuss revised administrative action plan for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Grant Funds and provide direction regarding funding allocations. Motion B is a motion to approve revised action plan based on the direction provided in motion A. No members of the public assign to speak on this item. I'm sorry, are we just doing A by itself or A and B? Okay. Motion to discuss. I'll discuss. Go ahead. Mr. Burr. This is the one where with the disaster relief, correct? Okay. This has to do with the flood back in 24? 23. 23. Yeah. And there were certain parts of the county that were largely affected. This disaster relief, to my thinking, should be going to those areas. And it's not just my district. It goes outside of my district. It goes to a couple of different districts. When I think they first decided to look at this, they kind of went mainly for affordable housing, which I understand. You know, I think we've been all of it. But none of that looks at the cause of why we had so much flooding, which is why I brought this up earlier that this needs to be, there's some infrastructure here that needs to be seriously looked at. There were neighborhoods that were really walloped in Fort Lauderdale, in Dania, in Hollywood. I think in Davie, but I'm not positive. There was a map that our staff had put together, but they only did it with regard to some intersections that were affected. And they didn't go into some of the poor areas of the LMI areas that really you need to look at that needed some of that infrastructure support. So my request here was to ask our staff to really go look at those areas, go look at those areas that needed this the most, and make sure that we are providing the infrastructure that is so needed so that that won't happen again. And then, depending on how much, you know, what kind of capital that takes, whatever money is left over from that, then go into affordable housing. But don't build on areas that don't have that infrastructure to support it. That's not that I don't think that's smart. You know, you don't want to be building on a place that's going to flood again. So my recommendation in here was to try to, for our staff to take a good look at the LMI areas, low to moderate income areas, that were largely affected here, remap this, do overlays, and then see where, see what the other part of this is. Those cities that were affected, it can only go to, if I'm not mistaken, and I probably need help Kevin, you might know this, but it can only go to those projects that are already on the books funded, or no. I may be confusing our resilient project with this. Okay, so never mind on that. Let's just, what I think needs to happen is it needs to have that overlay of LMI with whatever capital projects those cities think is necessary. And then after that, whatever is left over to go to affordable housing. Senator Gellar. Thank you. I have a couple of questions and a comment. First, I agree with Commissioner Furr. A concern that I have, and this is a question to staff, is this was disaster recovery money. It would seem to me that disaster recovery money should go first, not towards building additional affordable housing throughout the county, but rather the disaster recovery and, more importantly, mitigation to prevent future disasters there. So a question that I have first of staff is, does HUD have any preference on the money? And if we take money that is designed for disaster recovery and are spending it on affordable housing in areas that were not affected by the disaster, does that have any potential impact on future funding from HUD, or is it possible that they will say, well, hey, we gave you money last time to spend on disaster recovery. You spent it on other things, affordable housing in other areas, and therefore we're not as likely going to fund it. I don't think I have any areas in my district that were deeply damaged. So I may be speaking against my district, but I'm a county commissioner, not a district commissioner, and I think it would be better for the county to follow what Commissioner Furr is saying. So administration, what is the HUD view on this? So I'm going to ask Mr. Vialpondo to come and discuss this. What I will tell you is plan A that you guys had before you at the last commission meeting had already received the HUD approval, and it did have that component in it. But Lenny, please elaborate. Essentially, I think the confusing part is that it says disaster recovery in the funding type, but this is HUD funding. So it's actually a housing first appropriation, and there's other types of money that can be given out for more of the infrastructure type. So this prioritizes the replacement of affordable housing that's presumed lost as a result of a disaster, and so when we originally did the studies, which we were required to do in order to figure out where the money needed to be spent, those projects were identified and then have been approved by HUD. So to answer your question, it's sort of targeted towards building affordable housing, and HUD approved the allocation, as Administrator Sapero pointed out in Plan A, if you will. Subsequent to that, the board had discussion about perhaps directing the money for the other two eligible strategies, or they actually, you guys mostly talked about infrastructure, but then during the briefings, economic revitalization was brought up. So it essentially has, you know, three main bubbles. Affordable housing, I think, is the easiest one to spend. They're most generous in how you can spend the money on affordable housing because they don't limit it to certain areas, and the nexus is less restringent. So it's actually easiest to spend on affordable housing, and your original allocation primarily emphasizes that because we do have a short period of time to spend the money. We've got to do it by 2031. We've got to get HUD's approval to spend the money, and then, of course, we have to submit and get reimbursement and have it verified. For infrastructure, it's a little bit more difficult to spend because it has to have a nexus between the infrastructure that you're building and the actual disaster area, and then it's even more stringent for economic revitalization, which was brought up, and we may have to do some additional studies to try to convince HUD that there is a nexus for that in order to bring that third element in. So if you look at your three sort of proposals in there, A was what you've already approved and HUD has approved. B is what staff did at the request of the board at the last meeting, and that Commissioner Furr alludes to, which is we looked at the low-income areas and the nexus between where the storm occurred and low-income areas, because it has to be low-income and storm damaged. And in that plan B, you'll notice that staff recommended we could theoretically increase the infrastructure allocation from $3 million to $6 million. We have reached out to some of the cities that do have the nexus between low-income and damage, and so we think we've identified enough projects to spend the $6 million, so if the board went that route, we would propose to reallocate monies like plan B. And then because it was brought up about economic revitalization, we went back and had some conversations with HUD, they said perhaps a $500,000 allocation to that may be supported if we did some additional documentation and identified that it could be used, and that's where item C is in that plan. And then the board could say A, B, C, or any combination of all of those categories, we're happy to bring it to HUD and see if we can get their approval, but that's the basis upon which those recommendations were made. No, don't go anywhere. Come back. Follow-up question. We have had discussions here on home ownership and the creation of generational wealth. Is there money, or if not, could we use some of this money, I think we already are, for home repair? There are a lot of people. I've represented some very poor areas during my time, and I know there's a lot of people whose homes basically fall into disrepair, and they end up either losing them or they're condemned, and that wealth disappears. And I would like to see additional money going towards the home repair, again, possibly with the same thing that we had discussed over if you stay in the home for a certain number of years, that gradually is forgiven. But that's another way of creating generational wealth. Can you comment on that, please? Yes, so there is $3 million in Plan A and Plan B and Plan C for home repair, and the board could tell us to try to tweak that, and we could go to HUD and see if we can get more approved for that category. But there is a $3 million set aside for that purpose in there. And my last question, I don't know if this is to you or to Mr. DelSalle, on the issue of the 70 units, I think that's a, Mr. DelSalle, on if we are putting money towards hypothetically 50 or 60 units, do we get the same, and these are rental, I believe, do we get the same amount of bang for the buck that we do on our larger number of units? We usually get a better return on larger projects. We do the smaller projects, and we typically limit the awards on those to a lesser amount just because they're not as expensive to run. And by the way, through our Housing Finance Authority, we do have about five projects that are in the hopper that are in that 70 and under threshold. But oftentimes you see a lot of the larger projects come through just because we tend to get more out of those projects on a dollar basis. It's not universal across all projects, but generally. I don't have any objection to the under 70. Wait, don't go. I don't have any objection to the under 70 if you determine that they make sense. Is there a reason that- No, you said that was your last question before. Yeah, but he didn't give me the answer, a full answer. Is there any reason that you think that we have to mandate under 70 if we can build less unit per dollar on the under 70? Again, if you determine that, as you said, there's five right now that we could do those, is there a reason that you know of that we should set aside a mandate for five million for under 70? Sure. Sure. So when we think a lot of the projects that we do, particularly some of the bigger ones, they're focused in a lot of the downtown areas where we can achieve greater densities. But there are properties out there, and you know, by way of example, we have one coming out of the ground now in the BMSD where you're going to have limitations on lot size, where you're going to have, you know, you're not going to build structured parking, right, which is a huge expense. So you're going to have greater constraints on some of these developments, and oftentimes they're going to be under this sort of 70 threshold. So there are projects out there that we can take a look at that would meet that. But you can do that now without the mandate, right? Without the mandate that we set aside. So the current set aside on one of the very first columns, the 12.5 billion, I believe it is, that's for the 70 and overs, right? And under the original proposal, under the A proposal, that second category, which was roughly about 4.8 million, it was labeled as multifamily repair, but that actually was a category that would have included the under-70 projects. And so when you see iterations in Plan B and Plan C, we just simply adjust the labeling to make sure that it's clearer. Okay. I would hope, Mr. Mayor, that whoever is proposing the under-70 can explain why. Maybe I can be convinced right now I haven't heard any reasons. Let me just say this. Wait, wait, wait. My mic is on. Commissioner Froese. Oh, he wanted a question answered about the under-70s. He probably could answer it too in this district. All right. I'm good. Okay. You're recognizing me? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I'm going to start with the second category. I'm calling it the second category that deals with the 70 and under, because I am representing the other areas, larger areas. They're good right now. They're covered all the time. So which disaster are we, are we specific to any disaster? Then I can narrow it down to knowing what areas were impacted by that disaster specific. Go ahead. It's with the mayor. It's the area of- April of 2023 was the disaster. What's the name of that one? It was April of 2023. It wasn't a name storm. It was just a huge thousand-year flood. It was a ramp, the 26 inches on- The thousand-year flood we're talking about. We got money that fast for that. Usually it takes forever to get your refund in cities. You know that, right? And it was mainly Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Hollywood. Okay. That solves that problem for me. But I'm saying we have an aging infrastructure, and we consider- All the time we think infrastructure is underground. That's not where it is. It's above ground also. So housing, those is important. And that's why I will always say, certain cities does not- We are landlocked. Certain areas are landlocked. You can only go vertical. You can't spread. That's why multifamily is always going to be the best for that community. And we cannot leave them out of it. They are not going to be able to do large projects. Do you mind if I call Ralph Stone to come up, and Senator Rich was wanting to help, maybe help explain some stuff? Okay. Well, I'm glad you had the speaker come up and explain it before we all start talking, because I think after your speech, Mr. No, dear Pando, it was clearer. After your presentation, it made it a lot clearer for all of us. It gave over your mouth. But we are being rushed most of the time. We miss things. All right? So thank you for the clarification, because it needs to be clear whether or not it was hurricane-related or it was just flood, that 1,000-a-year type of flood. We understand where that was. We can point to the disaster, and we can move forward by mediating those problems and those areas before we start doing other things, is what I'm trying to say. Take care of those who were impacted, know what the reason was, why it was impacted, and try and solve those problems. And I'll continue the conversation after Mr. Stone speaks. Senator Rich, thank you. Next. Go ahead, Senator Rich. I wanted Ralph to come up, because, I mean, there are a lot of projects that are moving forward that are lower than 70, and I wanted him to just give an update on what's going on there and why it's important to have this category. Sure. Two things. By way of example, this year, when we put out the RFA for the large projects, we got 12, 1,500 units. We only had enough funding to do half of those. So if we had more funding, we would do more of those projects, because those are the ones that are really hitting the 60% AMI and lower, which is the half of the workforce in Broward County that doesn't have housing. We migrated toward the lower than 70-unit projects after a number of years, because when we have the three major grants, the Home Block Grant and SHIP, and we split it 15 ways with the other entitlement cities, there's nothing left for the small projects. It's as simple as that. So this was an opportunity when we had a little more funding in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to kind of service those smaller projects. It was that easy. Question? No. Mr. Snow. I just, Ralph said it. I mean, there's just, there's a tremendous need for all of it, but we're trying to accomplish things on all aspects. Depending on this discussion. Can I speak as well? Yes. Mr. Davis. Thank you. So the under 70 units, by the way, for the housing projects, you have areas already that you've identified in the county that would benefit from the housing money, correct? And where are these areas? They're all over, right? And everybody's district has an area. Yes, they are all over the place. We have two in particular that we're actually beginning to focus again in the BMSD in particular. So that's why, you know, firsthand I know that there are opportunities are out there, and I don't believe that the BMSD is uniquely positioned in that regard. Exactly. So it's not just Hollywood. It's not just Daniel Beach. The smaller projects can be found that were, floods were affecting all across the county. And so this under 70 units is very critical, especially when we're talking about some of these projects that could be in the BMSD and also in some of the church properties. Everybody kind of have monstrosities all over the place. Some people, even in the city of Miramar, that 70 and under was able to create, help create several townhouses for sale, 67 of them. And they benefited from the 70 and under allocation. So to dismiss 70 and under for just larger projects on the east side would be a mistake. That's why it should be mandated. Okay. Anybody else that I cannot see? Commissioner Rogers, I think you're done. I don't see anybody else. Other than Steve. He's on my side. Senator Geller, I'm sorry. Okay, Commissioner Davis, one of the issues was I've never, since you and I can't speak off here, I have never heard previously the reason for the under 70. I'm not philosophically opposed to them. I just had not heard a reason. Mr. Stone, do you believe then that we need to, the set aside to ensure that we do the under 70 and you think that those are and you recommend that? I think there's demand for the under 70 and that would be valuable if we did some of that. Mr. Mayor, I withdraw my objection. I've just never heard the reason. Now that I have, it makes sense. Hold on. Senator Rich and then Commissioner Furr. So my question is, are we getting to the point where we're trying to decide on which plan we're looking at? Because I have one plan, C, which I do not think that this should be a part of how we're spending this money. Then A, B, or C? It's A, B, or C. Somebody's... It's got A, B, and C. I'm just saying... Yeah, we'll be voting on one of the, see if we can get consensus on one of them. I want to make a point about C. that, as we just heard about the over 70, under 70, the needs, you know, for all of that. I don't think that this money, given what Commissioner Furr said about, you know, we're supposed to be using it for, basically, that this mitigation of business properties fits into this category. And I just, I would not like to approve that map because, I mean, that plan, C, because I don't think that that's appropriate. Commissioner Furr? Okay, thank you. Yeah, and I have no problem with the 70. I never have a problem with that. I do agree that Section C, I don't think HUD will approve it. I don't think, because they're talking about doing signs for businesses, I don't think that's going to fall under the rational nexus for disaster relief. But the, what I did want to ask Lenny, and this is what you and I had discussed before, was that you were going to be able to go to the cities, both Dania, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and find out, you know, what projects they had infrastructure-wise that they felt that were on the table, whatever they needed. And I haven't had a chance to see that list. I have not, I've not had a chance to talk to either of those city, any of those city managers yet. And I wanted to have this meeting first. Yes, so essentially... And the other part is to see the overlay of where, one, the concentration of all the flooding was, what the infrastructure was there, as well as our own traffic and engineering. Because this is also, when we look at our own airport and how that got flooded right there, all the, we, we, I know we did a lot of research after that and trying to figure out where did all that water go? Or why didn't it go there? You know, why did, why wasn't it? And that, that's part of what, that's part of what we have to figure out here. Because that's our main, one of our main assets. And it didn't, it didn't drain. And so that's, that's something we got to be thinking about while we're doing this. That's a major infrastructure area. That's, we got to take care of that. So all of those things, you know, I want to make sure that we're doing before we get to the housing part. I think the idea of doing the home repair is absolutely essential. I said, I know you said 3 million, but I, but I will tell you, I know of so many families that didn't have the insurance, poor families that never got to repair their houses, never got to do it. And, and, and the cost would probably be a lot. And these are in the low to moderate income areas. I would say increase that if you could, huh? Well, I'm definitely in favor of B, but I didn't think that there was an, I was concerned. Can we bring this to a landing? Sure. Is someone going to be moving one of them? I'd like to move plan B. Can I speak? Can I, hold on one sec. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think I still have the floor. What? Okay. You should first still have the floor. Okay. My, my concern with B and I like B is better. It's better than what it was. My concern was that it wasn't, we didn't prioritize enough toward either home repair or toward infrastructure. That was my only concern. I don't think C belongs in here because I don't think HUD would, would do it. I'm fine with, I liked the way you were heading with that. I'm just not sure if it was enough there and I don't know how much flexibility we have later. That's all. Okay. I got one more. I'm going to recognize Commissioner Davis and then someone's going to make a motion. We already moved. All right. Hold on. Commissioner Davis, when someone makes a motion for B, do I have a second? I seconded him. Okay. I have a motion and a second for B. Now it's discussed. Commissioner Davis. Could I ask for some clarification on C because there's suggestions that that's not part of the plan. You can't do that. What are, what are the real considerations for economic development help? So economic revitalization is an eligible activity under this grant. It's housing, infrastructure, and economic revitalization. When we originally did the studies, we didn't submit for that category based on conversations that we had during briefings that was brought up. There is a number of economic revitalization activities. There's business assistance, workforce development, commercial infrastructure, small business support, real property improvements, and economic development services. The issue is, is we just have to do some studies and submit to HUD that there's a nexus between those activities and the damage and that those businesses were not otherwise compensated some other way. So there's work to be done. But if the board were to direct us to go down that road, we would have those conversations with HUD, submit that material, and then see if it got approved at the funding level that the board tells us to ask for. And what was the funding level? So in Plan C, it's $500,000. And we did talk preliminarily with HUD about the order of magnitude, and they seem to think that that would be a decent number if we were to go down that road. Okay. So just to clarify, it's $500,000, and it does qualify. And staff would look to see where these businesses were affected and could qualify under the plan. So just to dismiss C, which includes everything from B and including C, I think would be a mistake for businesses. So if I can get a motion for C, it will treat... You want to amend the current motion to accept C? To include economic development. Okay. The $500,000. So she's making an amendment to move us from B to C. Do I have a second on that? I'll second. Okay. So I have a second on C. Are we voting a council on C first? And just to... Can we just reiterate what C is exactly? We've gone over this again and again. Well, what is... Some people don't seem to know what it is. I just want to make sure. C includes everything. Is there anybody here that needs clarification? C is everything in B as well as C, correct? Everything in B including C. Changes the numbers. Not A. Right. So essentially, if I could explain A, B, and C just very quickly. Can I just... One question. Does C take out $500,000 for the under 70? Yes. C creates $500,000 by taking it from another category to create the business category. So it all adds up to the same amount in A, B, and C. Right. It's just B adds more infrastructure money. It doubles it from $3 million to $6 million. That's what B makes the change from A. And then if you move to C, then one of the housing categories goes down by $500,000 to create the economic category. And just so I can clarify again, Mayor, before we continue. These things, staff through staff, they can be changed as... Because once it's approved, you can change the amounts based on need, correct? So essentially, every time we want to change the amounts that are allocated, we do have to go back before HUD. What we have in the motion is that if during the conversation with HUD, for example, if the board were to approve C, let's just use that as an example, and we were to go to HUD and say, look, we did all this data, and they said, you know what? We're not going to approve you allocating $500,000 to businesses. If they were to say that to us, then the motion is written so that Monica could make the adjustments that might be necessary to either reduce that amount or change it to go, let's say, back to B in order to ensure that we have a plan that HUD would approve. We know they approved A. We're asking you, do you want us to try to get them to approve B? Do you want us to try to get them to approve C? With the idea being that somewhere in there, we may end up back towards B if they won't approve economic. We don't know if they will or won't. We've talked to them about it. We have to give them data and more studies and info in order to make that an eligible activity for us to be reimbursed for this particular storm, so there's some work to be done there, and it would allow us to make those tweaks as we go through that process with HUD so that we don't have to keep coming back to you because, remember, we are in a time crunch here to spend this money by 2031. Thank you. Senator Ridge, please. I just would like to remind everybody how long it's taken us to get the HUD money this year approved. We've gone through three iterations of all kinds of things up in the federal government, and I don't think since we have something that's approved, and the only thing we're basically doing is putting a title to these two with the others. It's the same thing that you basically submitted. I think we should go with that and not start going with the business. I don't support the business anyway for this particular thing, but I don't think we should send this back to HUD again and have to go through that process again. Okay, so let's take a vote. Right now, the motion is for a C. I never had a comment. Thank you. It's a motion for C. Did you want to make that? No, my comment is we're picking this apart. HUD's going to make the determination whether or not this qualifies, right? So what's the big deal? Let's just put it out there. HUD says no. The money goes back in the pot. HUD says yes, then we accommodate it. And when you all did this and when we all did this, some people weren't here to even give their input. You're going to see changes as people come and go. So this is just another identified issue in a district is the way I look at it. And like Lenny said, depending on that business, they may have already have a claim out there and it doesn't qualify. So I don't think it warrants this much debate and attention. Just put it out there. She would have said that an hour ago. But I didn't get a chance. We have people that take all the time. My good friend down to my left. But I don't think it's that big of an issue. HUD's going to decide it is all I'm saying. We have a motion for number C, for letter C. I'm going to call a vote. All in favor, raise your hands. I got three that fails. Now let's go to, now should we go to motion B? Yes, Mayor. So just for clarity, because there's a part A and part B to the motion, you're voting on part B. So it's a motion to approve the revised action plan, now based upon plan B. B. Show of hands for B. One, two, three, four, five, six. That passes. We're done. We're done. Show it passing, B passing. Is there anybody against B right now? Anybody against it? I'll make it unanimous. Is there a vote for anybody against it? Okay, we'll show it be voting 9-0. I need an extension for the meeting. I have a motion to move the meeting, extend the meeting. Do you have a second? Second. I have a motion to second. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that we'll extend the meeting until 12 midnight tonight. 12 midnight, that's it. Let's move on. Let's get this thing going. Done. Next is number, what's our next number, 78? 78 comes out for 70, sir. Item 78 is a motion to discuss potential changes to the Cultural Division's Arts and Cultural Festival and Special Event Sponsorship Program guidelines to obtain board direction as to its interest in permitting county commissioners and their offices to apply for funding of events through the program. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Before we go on, we brought in some sandwiches. Can I bring them? Can we have them brought out to the dais? Is that okay? We do it in 430. Let's do it here. Can you have the sandwiches brought out to here? Okay, we're at number 78. Does somebody want to? I just wanted to ask, Kevin's going to check with the captioner in the back. They may need a break in about 15, 20 minutes just for 5 or 10 minutes. Okay, you guys in the back, keep it going. We're still working. Let's go. 78. We're on number 78. Yeah, but your half an hour is an hour and a half. I mean a real half hour. I'm 15 minutes, but someone should be able to... Okay, all right. Do you guys want to come back at 1 o'clock sharp? Yeah. All right, we're going to adjourn the meeting, recess the meeting until 1 o'clock, and then come right back. I don't want to come back either. Medicaid services, waiver-related hospital exemptions, and to expand the authorized use of assessment proceeds for additional Medicaid supplemental payment programs, including CMS-authorized managed care quality incentive programs. No members of the public can sign up to speak on the item. Do I have a motion, Senator Gellar? Senator Gellar moves it. Do I have a second, Commissioner Fisher? I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 6-2-0. I'm sorry, 2-4-6-7. Nobody told me. I didn't realize. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Suhail Shabra? I'm sorry. You want to come up a second? This gentleman is the attorney that's been working on this item. And so, that's it. I know. That's right. I wouldn't talk, sir. Just wanted to introduce him. Thank you. Through the mayor. Thank you so much. We appreciate the help. Thank you, Commissioner. Okay. Have a great day. Thank you. There you go. Next. Sorry. Sorry. Number. We're going to number 80. Please. Item 80 is a motion to authorize County Minister to negotiate and execute agreements and take all actions necessary to acquire the property located at 1721-1731 Radiant Drive, Dania Beach, Florida, 33004. And the building located at 700 Meridian Drive, Dania Beach, Florida, 33004. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Mayor, this is my item that I had asked to have this on this agenda. I'm going to ask that we roll this to the next meeting. I wanted to put this on this agenda because I wasn't sure of the timing that we were going to have with the bankruptcy court. But I know they just let our county attorney's office in the data room if they need to. Our county administration, this is not at their fault. They are working overtime looking at this, trying to put this together. But it requires a little bit of back room and back office and material that we don't have yet. And I'm also going to add for some of the people that may not even think this is a good idea to look at it, nothing that we're doing here is slowing down anything in the government center east. That property has to be remediated. We're just going to defer this. Thank you. Okay. We're going to defer number 80. We're deferring number 80 to the next meeting. Great. Can you administration show number 80? I only had another mention. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Udine. Thank you. Thank you. Number 78. Number 78. Reading clerk, number 78. Item 78 is a motion to discuss potential changes to the Cultural Division's Arts and Cultural Festival and Special Event Sponsorship Program guidelines to obtain board direction as to its interest in permitting county commissioners and their offices to apply for funding of events through the program. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Okay. Whose item? I can open the item. Pardon me? I can speak to the item. Okay. Please. Okay. So back in April 14th commission meeting, we had a conversation here about the Cultural Division's Art and Cultural Festival Special Event Sponsorship Program. And there were, there was a lot of conversation by the board. You all gave us feedback and told me to come back again and bring an item that reflected the feedback that you guys provided. So what you have before you is that. It is reflective of, there's five different kind of areas that I'll just cover. Um, it is reflective of that each commission district, uh, would be allocated 25,000 each from the, from fiscal, each fiscal year from the total allocated funds for that program. Right now it's a million dollars, um, in the, in the program for, in the cultural division, um, that each, uh, and by the way, just to, to let you know, this would be pretty much prospectively, um, because this calendar, this fiscal year already, the dollars have been fully allocated, um, but that would be moving, um, prospectively. The second, um, bullet that I wanted to cover, um, is also in the agenda item. So you can see that district events are eligible events, um, as defined in that, um, program sponsorship, um, guidelines, which is covered in exhibit one. There's no change to that. That's already the program that exists today as it's defined for eligible events. Um, and, and it's, it states that they, those, um, events that substantially benefit Broward County, um, and as determined, uh, by the applying commissioner. Um, the third bullet is that district events are subject to the established and approved program guidelines, including the application process, the, um, applicable review criteria, the budget submission, the panel review process, legal review, and fully executed funding agreement in a form approved by the county attorney's office. Um, and the last two bullets, uh, uh, cover, uh, the program proposed is that district events as referred to in this section, um, must be approved by that, um, commissioner or their office that's applying for that, um, uh, for that event or events. And lastly, that the funds resulting from an approved district event, uh, do not apply toward a municipality's total potential funds in a given sponsorship cycle. And I'll explain that last bullet a little bit, just to clarify. So currently the program, you guys had some conversations earlier. We did make an amendment to the program that reflected that, um, each city could apply for up to $50,000, um, within this program. Now, let's just say, you know, city A already reached their $50,000, um, limit. Then if a commissioner wanted to submit a request for an event, and it happened to be also in that city A, that they could go and get that, if, if it went through the process and it got approved through the review panels and all that, then that city could in fact get up to $75,000. It wouldn't count against their 50. So again, um, that is, that's reflective of the, the direction. Sorry, can you repeat that? Uh, I didn't fully understand. All right. So let me pick one of your cities. Let, let me sit, let me, let me pick one of the cities you represent then as an example. Let's say the city of Cooper city had already applied for their $50,000 and had received it because they went through the process and they got all the review, uh, went to the review panel and got approval for $50,000. Now you, that's from the million. Now that's correct. So, but if you also wanted to identify a program or a project that was also in Davie, um, then and it wouldn't count or Cooper, did I say Cooper city? Sorry, Cooper city. Um, then, then they could also receive that if they got approval through that process. Um, also, I believe, uh, it's not expressly stated here, but it didn't, wouldn't necessarily have to be in your district. It could be, you wanted to support something in Pompano or wherever, somewhere outside of your district. That's, that's the explanation. Um, any comments you want to take, move it. What do you want to do? I have a, I have a motion, uh, by place mayor, second by commissioner Rogers council. Did you want to say something? I just wanted to ask one thing to just get a clarification because I thought I I'll be, I may, I promise I'll be fast. Yeah. Uh, all right. Well, hopefully it's bad minor value at least then. Uh, so Monica, you said it's subject to the review process, but you also said that money's being allocated $25,000 to each district. So my only question, and I don't know the answer, but it might help you in deciding it, or maybe it's irrelevant, uh, is would a commissioner project automatically be entitled to that 25,000 if they were eligible, if they're eligible and they pass legal review. So let's say they were scored, it's a hundred point scale. They were scored a 60 going through the process, but there were other projects that went through the normal process that were scored in 90 with the commissioners project that gets scored 60, but is eligible and is legal get the $25,000 displacing a project that would score a 90. So I'm going to ask Mr. Dunlap, uh, to come up and, and describe the process that the application process, cause it's kind of a rolling process as I understand it. And it would just need the 90 days in advance of whatever the event is to go through the process. But Mr. Dunlap. Yeah. Thank you. Uh, good morning. Uh, currently as the process, uh, stands, we start the fiscal year with the bank account full. We intake applications and once we run out of money, then we don't have any more money. So this would follow the normal process and we would do the, we would do this, uh, we would do the same. So Phil, could you please describe maybe what, what Drew was asking about the, the scoring, if you will? How does that work? Uh, we have a review panel that's made up of cultural division staff, visit Lauderdale staff, a member of our cultural, cultural council. An application comes in, uh, they review it independently. Each, each, um, review panelist reviews it independently for the, and, uh, makes a score according to the criteria. They come together, they discuss. And if I have, as a result of a panel meeting, which meets once a month, a full list of everything that is being recommended for funding. So I won't say regardless of the score because, uh, there is a, a threshold, but anything that the panel is saying this passes muster and as the scores are average, then we would fund that chunk of it and it would take that amount out of the total. So the only way we get into that scenario is when we start getting to less money in the pot and decisions have to be made. So, so my only question, yeah, my only question is you're, you're now at your last $50,000 or $25,000 and it's either going to go to project X that goes through the normal process that gets scored up here or to a commissioner project that gets scored here. And this is just to apply it because this is just a motion to discuss and then Monica is going to implement this. So would there be a, a set aside where that $25,000 would go to the commissioner project that's scored down here, but is eligible and is legal, or is it going to be competitive and it has to be the highest ranked project? And there's no right or wrong answer. I'm just. Can I, can I speak to that? Sure. Are you done? So, um, the way I, the way I understood it is that this would have been allocation for the, each commission district. And so if it's a million and a million, 225,000, whatever it is, it doesn't cut into the million that's already assigned for, you know, every other city or every other entity, nonprofit who's already applied. And this is a separate set aside that if it passes the muster, that money would be used. If it doesn't, it wouldn't be used. That's not what the. Commissioner Furr is next. I'm going to go in order. Commissioner Furr? I guess first. Did you get an answer to your question? He did not. Bill? Not really. I was interested in that. And then I have a question. Bill, they're saying you're not answering the question. Come on. Uh, thank you. Um, I, I think, you know, to commissioner Davis's point, uh, as proposed, this is a set aside from the existing program. So there would be a chunk of money that was set aside that while evaluated by the same criteria will come out of that chunk. Uh, but it does as proposed come out of the million dollars, uh, total. Bill, when we, when, I guess it was two or three years ago, we had decided to kind of change the way we did these things. Um, in other words, so that it would go to, so that there's a little bit more, um, response to, to various communities. Correct. How was that working? Was that working fairly well? Uh, how is the current program working? Uh, we think it's, uh, been working very well. I mean, we're, I don't know how far through the fiscal year, but we've been out of money since, you know, for a month. Yeah. So the, the total program is currently, it's exhausted. Yeah. Okay. So what money, if we were to do this, so now some of those programs are going to have less money. Uh, this is going to take money away from some of that, correct? Well, this is, this is allocated from the existing program. So what, so where do you, what programs do you feel like this will replace? I don't think I can answer that because it's, there's one chunk of money that all the sponsorship applications come into and it all comes out of the same pot. This is for next year. I know, I know, I know. I know we're exhausted entirely for this year. Yeah. So this is exact. Uh, my, my question, Monica is on some of this is would each office be implementing this? How, how do we, how do we make sure we're not the ones doing the administering? So, no, so that's, and I apologize if I did not articulate that, um, sufficiently, but no, this would be administered through the cultural division, just like all of the applications that come in. Um, the, the, the only thing I guess then would it be that each commission district would have, uh, 25,000 set aside, if you will, from that million dollars that's there today. Um, well, in perspective, uh, and, and then they would just go through the, the applications. Like if you wanted an app, let's put an application for an event or events, it would go and it would just be submitted just like any other event would go through the process. Okay. Um, I will say this, um, there was, uh, the way this was drafted because of the conversation, it was going to come from with the one million, within the $1 million. There was a budget request that, um, Commissioner Davis, um, uh, submitted that you guys all saw, um, at the last budget workshop that was for, um, the same exact item, 225, and Commissioner Davis, correct me if I'm wrong, um, that would be above the $1 million. Is that correct? You're, yeah. So, so I think that would be, there's two separate issues. Then it's the item, um, as the program to be administered and then the additional budget request, um, they, they could, you know, both be approved or they, one could go, one could not. And, and so if there's, you know, the will of the board. Okay. Well, last question for Phil, for artist awards, um, how much are we actually put, putting out for individual artists throughout the County? I know there's like a lot. That's a separate pot of money that doesn't, that's not related to, to this. How much, how much do we, how much do we fund that? Uh, I believe in the budget lines, $333,000 is what's in the budget, but we also get a $50,000, um, grant from the Community Foundation of Broward that we use to match for our artist innovation grant. Okay. And have you felt like that was fairly sufficient? Yeah. Okay. All right. Senator Rich and then Senator Geller. Okay. So I am somewhat confused. Um, so if we have an effective program, uh, which it appears we do currently allocating money out to all the cities and anybody and people who apply and who qualify, um, and we're already out of money in May for this year. And the year is not over until October 1st. So if we, if, if that's the case, I don't really understand why we're not just giving additional money to be used in this process that Phil has, that seems to work extremely well. And it works all across the County instead of us getting involved in this and somehow arbitrarily saying you have this, this money has to go here. This money has to go there. This is a County wide program, this cultural program. So I don't know if I'm misunderstanding the, the, the numbers here, but it appears to me that that's the case. We're out of money in, in this program now and we could use more money, but we didn't give him more money, but we're willing to give $25,000 to each of us. You know, I, I, I just, I'm, I guess I can't support this. Senator Geller. Question first for either Phil or Monica. Um, the way I read this, it basically, is it up to each district commissioner to determine where the money goes? It's not, I think I see Phil nodding his head, but maybe that's just a reflex. Um, the, um, is it, I think the way I've read this cause sometimes it says each commission district sometimes says each commission district. commissioner, you know, is it, am I correct that each commissioner will determine in their district or in another district where that $25,000 would go? Who could apply for it? They, so the way this is drafted is that the commissioner or their staff, that office would be able to apply for a set of events or event that would get up to the $25,000, but they would be the ones that would be approving it that from their own desire to have that, but it still would have to go through the process. So let's say you wanted to fund, you know, support an event, but it went through the process and the process yielded that it was not, you know, within the parameters and the requirements of the program, then that process would yield. And the commissioner would have to ask for a different project. That's correct. Okay. I have been, and I think Senator Rich and I and some of the others have been fairly consistent on this, that we think it's a bad idea for commissioners to be, to have pots of money that they spend in their district at their discretion. I just think it leads to all sorts of problems and I would not be supportive. Anybody else before we vote? Commissioner Davis. And so, um, I know, uh, the question was, well, if it's working, why are you changing anything or adding to it? Well, because not everybody goes through the same process. Somebody may come to me as opposed to going to Phil and maybe by the time they get there, that pot of money is over and you have this pot. And so there's people in my district who know me, they do events, cultural events as it stands today, and they will come to me and say, oh, we'd like support on this project. No different than what Senator Nan Rich had said, that when an entity came to her, she did a letter in support of the entity to get the funding, which at that time was available. So, uh, that's no different than saying, well, maybe they go there and it's not available, that funding is finished and you have funding that you can now say, this person came to me, they didn't get it through here because the funding was finished or they weren't, you know, there was other projects, but I still have my pot that I can say, you know what? I have this additional money. You didn't get through here because somehow it was closed off. You can come and apply through me and I can determine. So each district and maybe your district is different and you, and maybe it's not because they came to you and asked you for a letter and I'm sure that helped push them up in the rank, but every district has a different lived experience, a different way that their folks communicate. I don't know about your district, Commissioner Fisher or anybody else's, how they operate. They may operate different from mine, but from what I've been saying and three, one third of this commission, just as how Senator Getter said, he's been opposed one third, at least consistently has been for it. And that one third happens to be folks who think the way that we think and how they do business culturally may be different than how they do business in other areas of the county. I represent a very diverse district, mainly black and brown, and there are differences. They feel comfortable to approach me. And so all we're asking is, just as how I don't know your lived experience, I know mine. And this will help in the lived experience that I know. And at least we expect each other to respect each other's culture, respect each other's districts to understand that they may be totally different from yours, and their needs may be different, and how they approach things may be different. Instead of just be close-minded and not look at how districts differ. Anybody else? Someone want to move the item? It's a motion to discuss, Mayor. Motion to discuss. Okay. Nobody else? We're moving on. My mic is on. Discuss. Did you want to ask anybody else? Please. Commissioner Rogers. Thank you. And I'll be brief. But this topic is not new, because you know from I got here, I felt that all of the activities that the cultural division was doing, my district and neighboring in Central Brown, we would have to get in our cars, find transportation to go to those events in other areas of the county. Certainly, certain areas were never considered to host any major, even minor, county-named event. Don't tell me about my library, okay? I'm not talking that, right? So I was talking that language, that there's a difference here. And supporting events outside of the norm is very, very important. And I asked at that time for $50,000, and I got it, because my colleagues supported it at the time. It wasn't easy, but we got it. And then I came back with cricket, and I'm saying international events coming into Broward County, it would be good to have something in the pot so we can do what we're doing. And we did with cricket, and we did with other sports, major events, and we're doing with soccer, World Cup, you know, those type of events. We need to put something aside, not only for the communities that, you know, that have been doing it and we're accustomed to hosting. Other areas would like to feel some of those events also. So it has to be a set aside. It has to be recognized as there's a need. Broward County is changing. One time it's older, then one time it's young, and one time it's diverse culturally or spiritually. But there are different things that we do. And we would like to tell this diverse new community that, yes, they can sit at the table, not just taxation and no representation. Sometimes they need some of the money, and that's why we're asking, and we're not asking for it to go through a different approval process. We are ready for it to go through the current process that it has to go through. But we would like to know some of the money is going into our districts. And yes, I have five cities, so I would say in my head, don't come to me if it's over 5,000, because I want every city in my district to taste the fact that I respect and there's diversity and there are different activities. So mine could be divided into 5, 5, 25, 25,000. Anyway, it doesn't matter. As long as you're doing it through the cultural division, because they have a process that works, and we don't want to be called on anything, but we should be able to sign off on some of those projects that would not get a play or a face or anyone supporting it if we weren't there to advocate. Trust me, it's that simple. You wouldn't be at the table if we weren't there to put it on the table. Mr. Fisher? Yeah, just, first of all, Phil, it would probably be, maybe it's in the backup, I didn't see it, but on the million dollars we did this year, can we just have a list of those projects and where that money went to so we can get an idea of where those monies went this year for the million dollars? I think we can just get a list of those, because what I'm seeing is this 2, 25 would be really deducted from the million this coming next year's budget for these monies, correct? It wouldn't be in addition, so we'd be out of the million, so we're now down to, what, 775, I guess, allocation on the regular basis that we're doing now. If the board, to answer your question, Commissioner, if the board had decided to also, to maintain that same million dollars for next year, if they, if you all decide and give direction to support the additional 2, 25, then it would be 1 million, 200. Because Commissioner Davis said something about, we would have additional monies, each commissioner would have additional monies, it's not additional monies, we're just taking away from that million, and from my understanding. Again, it depends on the budget, right? Whatever you guys had. And even though, say, I recommend that Larder by Seed, I recommend $20,000 for one of their events, it still goes through you, Phil, right? And you could say yes, or you could say no, based on the criteria, right? So, but it goes back to my original comment was, and just for, it was this FYI, is, I want, I don't want to put Phil's committee in a position that if they turn down a commissioner's request, is there going to be, not retribution, but look down, frown upon. I don't want that, I don't want to put staff in that position, Monica, at the end of the day, it goes back to what, what the attorney was saying was, if one was here at 90 and mine was at 65, are you going to give my 65 versus the 90? It just becomes very, very, very convoluted in a sense of, I don't understand, I think it's great going through your department, but I just don't want you to feel, Phil, that you have to approve my project because it's a commissioner. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay, thank you. But that, that was not, sorry, Mr. Mayor, that was not. Excuse me, Commissioner Udine's next. Okay, I'm just, I was just going to respond to that particular point. Let's just go in order. Commissioner Udine? I think Phil does a good job with the million dollars. I don't think we should be giving any money to the cities. The cities should do their own thing. We're the county government. The cities should spend their own money. They're sophisticated enough to do it. These are cultural events that we're doing within certain county commissioner geographical locations, as I understand it. I've seen these lists before. You've sent them to me. Stacey Ritter sent them to me. I know that they're in all set, all nine county commission districts. There's plenty. Maybe to satisfy if people don't understand how to get the money, hold some of the money back in the original allocation till mid-year and then release a second tranche. But I think you do a good job. I think this is now, we've spent hours and hours and hours and days over $25,000, which everybody gets anyway. If a city comes to me, if one of my cities comes to me, I tell them, get it from your city. We're the county government. We're not spending 31 municipalities where we're supposed to send the money. They have their own taxing power. They're all sophisticated. They all know it. If it's a nonprofit within my city, I send them to Phil or I send them to Monica, and that's what I do. So I support keeping things the way that they are. If there's more budget allocation that needs to be put in there, let's talk about it during the budget process if he's running out of money. But it's happening and it's work. Commissioner Davis. I recall that there was an issue saying if there should be a discrepancy where it wouldn't be able to fill. So that's where the administrator comes in. Wasn't that considered? Currently, if there is a project that goes through, I don't get involved in that at all. But if it is approved that commissioners can apply, then if there's like an appeal or something, if there's a request that does not get supported, and then the commissioner would then appeal to me and I would review the project. Okay, so I just want to confirm as we get off this, there's been no consensus on changing anything, correct? Let's go to the next one. Next one is, sorry. Next one. You don't want to skip. I'm going to go to number 82. Item 82 is a motion to direct county attorney's office in coordination with county administration to draft a resolution amending the Broward County Administrative Code to create a Broward County Sister Cities and International Partnerships Advisory Board for future consideration by the Board of County Commissioners. No member of the public has signed to speak on the item. Commissioner Davis, I want to speak on this unless you want to start first. So for a couple of years, I've been trying to get the Sister City Program off the ground. We actually signed an agreement with the international organization, and I'm really opposed to this because this is my area. This is the thing that I've been involved with, and I kind of feel like you're stepping in my lane with a, you know, I'm going on my first Sister City thing this year. Actually, today, tonight. I'm leaving first tonight. And I don't understand why you would be bringing for a, if we were doing 20 cities and maybe we need advice and we need to get consulting on maybe what better way to go and maybe, I get it. We haven't signed one agreement, except we'll be signing it next week, which I'll be doing it. And this is an area that I've kind of been assigned to. And I don't understand, I'm opposed to it. I hope everybody, I'm going to ask you to vote against it. And I don't know where it's coming from, but I don't see the need for it. I don't see why we would want to do more bureaucracy for it. I don't see how it would help at this time. And so I'm asking my commissioners to vote against it. Yeah, I wouldn't take it personal, Mayor. This is not, it's not about personal, but it's nothing to do with whether who bought it or not. I'm just trying to enhance. This is the way I feel. I'm a commissioner. I've been elected. I can bring things. You can not agree with them or you can agree with them. I'm just bringing a different perspective. This is the first time it's been brought to the county. It so happens that in Miramar, we already have a sister city board. So I'm doing it from my, again, lived experience. And it only enhances what you're trying to do. But if you don't feel that you need a board and other cities have them, including, you know, Fort Lauderdale, including Miramar, including Miami-Dade and others, to just help take some of the burden off of staff who has to then do all the coordination and vetting, just like other boards. You know, we don't do everything in the county. We have boards to give us advice. People who want to volunteer, who want to put in their two cents, and it comes before you, and you make the final decision. So that's all I'm saying. It was nothing to do with, you know, it's your area or my area. It's our area. Everybody's interested in that. I agree. And the board, we have a board right here. This is the board I want to come to. This is the board I want to get permission from. This is the board. That's how I feel. This is the board that I'm dealing with. And just like Fitzy, we don't have a board for Fitzy. I mean, maybe we need, I mean, Fitzy, if anything, you would think, you know, hey, you need a board. No. You're on the, you and I. It would be nice to have a board for that, too. I don't, I'm not into making bigger government for just, you know, I'm not, that's not me. So anyway, you brought a motion to direct. You said your piece. I've said my piece. You're the one that can move it, so. All right. So let me just try to read what I kind of had here. Sure. This is a motion to direct. Draft a resolution creating a Broward County Sister Cities International Partnerships Advisory Board. The County Office of Economic and Small-Based Development administers the Sister City Program, and they've established the guidelines. Cities like Fort Lauderdale operate Sister City Program to the greater Fort Lauderdale Sister Cities International, which is actually a 501c3. They made recommendations to the board. Merama has an active advisory board that makes recommendations also on potential partnerships. Miami-Dade has maintained a Sister City Program, which is administered through the International Trade Consortium. This proposed advisory board would advise the commission on recommendations or new sister cities, sister city selection criteria, international partnerships, culture and education exchange, intergovernmental cooperation. And this, again, when I spoke with staff, they didn't seem to think it would take anything away from what they generally do now. It would only enhance what they do for my conversations with them and provide less burdensome stuff on staff, and they would collaborate with the board, who would then bring it back to this board to make the final decision. That's all. It's nothing new. It's something that's been done on sister cities around, I'm sure, around the country. And that was my thought process in making it a little easier on staff. Are you moving it? Yeah, I'd like to move the item. Okay, I have a motion for numbers, I'm sorry, 82. Do I have a second? No second. Okay. I guess that fails. We'll be going on to number 81. Item 81 is a motion to direct county attorney's office to draft an ordinance amending chapter 22 and a half of the Bower County Code of Ordinances relating to vehicle age requirements for taxi cabs. One member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Remy Seuss. You want to come on up, sir? I'm sorry. You want to introduce the item, Commissioner? Thank you. Commissioner, your mic. Okay, thank you very much. And I would like to, at this time, recognize that we have in the audience Broward Taxi Association, President Seuss, and Vice President Billiard. But all I'm asking of my colleagues today, right now, is for us to support in granting a one-year extension. We don't have to go to just a one-year extension for the vehicle age compliance deadline. If we remember, I just want to stop there for now. I don't want to debate. I'm just asking for one-year extension. And if we can discuss that, we, you know. Make a motion for one year. Yes. My motion is for one-year extension of the ordinance that we just. I'll second it. So I have a motion, a second, and then, Councilor, did you say you want to? Yeah, I just wanted to just to point out that basically what you're saying right now will dictate to us how we draft it. This is a motion to direct. We'd be bringing back whatever you determine at the next meeting. Okay? I have a motion, a second. Yes. And I'm inclined to support that, but I just have a question first. Without the amendment, what is the effective date? When would the cab drivers be required to comply? And so this would extend that date for one year. I believe it's July 30th. I'm sorry, June 30th of this year for cabs that are approaching 15 years of age. Yes. And this would just be a one-year extension? Yes. One-year extension, yes. Does, and last question, does Mr. Villalpando have any recommendation? Mr. Villalpando. It's a policy decision for the board. We did not have this age limit prior to the amendment last year, so it's something easy for us to do. It would not be an issue at all. Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to say something? I was just going to say, we were pushing, because of the IPW, to get most of this done. IPW is gone. That's why, yeah, and we survived. And we can survive one more year. I have a motion to second. Let's call for a vote. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. Mr. Mayor? 9-0. You had a public speaker who may be. Oh. He's going to withdraw. Sorry, sir, did you want to still come up now that you got your votes? Don't change our minds. Be careful. But can I ask the group? I would leave as soon as possible. I said to this group, and I said to them, something is missing. There's no ladies in that. I know. I know. Right. I agree. I was ready. And appropriately so. And appropriately so. Why? Because they have newer cars. Yeah. I think that was a bet. Okay. We actually get some humor here. Number 83. Hold on. Let me get the 83. Item 83 is a motion to direct county attorney's office in coordination with county administration to draft a resolution amending the Broward County Administrative Code to create a Broward County Youth Commission for future consideration by the Board of County Commissioners. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Okay. Who's 83 is? Commissioner Davis, do you want to introduce this? Yes. So, currently there is no advisory board from the youth perspective at the county level. And there are such boards and municipalities who give quite a good advice for my youth as to youth programming and things that they would like to see in their communities. The youth commission would function solely as an advisory board on issues affecting young people across Broward County and promote civic participation and leadership development. Similar board has been established in Miami-Dade. It's a youth commission and it provides students from each district to basically be on the board and make recommendations to the commission that affect the young residents. I would love for this commission to allow staff, and it would come under the Human Services Division, to do the research in coming up with criteria for the board and administer it similar to what has been seen in other areas of the country. Initially, I put in for a budget request just to make sure there's some seed money there, but that's for a different time. But for now, it's basically to create the board and bring it back to this commission. Senator Rich is next, and then we'll go down to you. Yes. Yeah. I certainly, I can understand, you know, the idea of what you're looking at, Commissioner. But I feel, first of all, a board like this takes an incredible amount of staff work. I can use as an example what goes on in the city of Weston. They have, which I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago when they had their graduation, it's a year-long program, and the kids learn about county government, and they participate. And it's a phenomenal way of getting young people interested in it. But I could see possibly using some of our current boards and having a young person as a member of those boards. Like, for instance, I think about the Children's Services Board. It would not be a bad idea to have a young person, you know, there to come back and, you know, come back and even report. But I think that a whole board like this takes an incredible amount of time. And it's, I think it's really, at this point, the school board, for instance, they have representation, and appropriately so. I could even see climate change, for instance. We have a lot of climate change programs where we could have an advisory, a young person on the advisory boards. But, again, I just do not see that at this point, and it will take time and it will take money to do something like this. And we have problems sometimes even filling our regular boards right now. Our staff goes through a lot of, just a lot of time and effort to get people. So I'm feeling like maybe there is a middle way here where we could do this through other boards that we have already, where a youth would be interested in learning or has an interest in that particular topic. Commissioner Davis, I am fully open-minded on this. I obviously want to see what the draft comes back from. But there is one concern that I would have as you're doing drafting here or as you're working with staff on drafting, which is expense. I know that in Dade County, for example, I don't know how many members there are on the, is it like one or two per commission district or three or something like that. But if we're looking here at 20 members on the Youth Council, which is an arbitrary and capricious number, I would want to make sure that they're all meeting locally. I know in Dade they travel to D.C., all of them on county expense. They travel to Tallahassee, all of them on county expense. You have to have chaperones because they're typically high school students. The amount of money involved in this, if you're talking about sending 25 or 30 people to D.C. once a year and to Tallahassee once a year, in addition to the staff, you're talking about a lot of money. If what you're discussing is having them like some of the leadership Miramar or leadership Broward, where they'll come to the county, they'll come to the courts, they'll come. If it's all local things and there's not a very substantial expense, I would be much more inclined to be supportive. If there is a substantial expense, you know, 25 or 30 people traveling to D.C. and to Tallahassee once a year, I'd be far less likely to be supportive of it. So I just, as you're drafting, I wanted to point that out. Mr. Mayor, thank you. I had to ask my colleague to allow me to be a primary co-sponsor with her on this item, and I pulled back. And I want to take us back on a journey when I asked for this body to be having some kind of communication, once a year or twice a year meeting with the Broward County School Board, because we're dealing with children. I don't know if you all remember that. I can't see us operating here at the county, and we never have a conversation with our school board. And we have the same population that we're serving. They just carve out the children. But we still have to deal with the parents. We're still dealing with homelessness. They're doing all of the same things we're doing, but we never have conversation. Do we know how many vacant properties the school board owns that we could be using and having conversation around housing? You might be doing it staff, but it wasn't directed by this body, and we get no information. Just a lot of things we could be doing. And that joint school board membership school board, that committee, could be inclusive of the partnership between the Broward County School and the county to fill those board slots and all that. But I think it's a good idea. I just want you to know we need to include our young people. We're training them. I understand the expense because I, too, when I was in Tallahassee, I did not see young people from Broward County in Tallahassee. So I reached out to the Kiwanis Club because I know they were a youth program. And I have it now wherein our children are going to Tallahassee. Cities are now engaged in doing that. So we might not have to do it, county, because the cities are already doing that. But it doesn't mean we can't throw some funding sometime to assist on, just like we do anything else. So my colleague will allow me to support her bill. Yes. If you're a full sponsor for the record, I'll appreciate it. Thank you. Commissioner Furr. Thank you. I think I just got back from the school board's Broward Education Foundation when they had all the schools there, all the student government presidents and everything. What a smart bunch of kids. It's a great group of kids. And it may be just a group that we may want to, if you might want to think about this, is they're already organized. You've got all the high schools there. They're already there, ready to go. We might could go to them and be asking them, what are you interested in? What are you concerned with? It's a great group. They do have, they pick two every year, and they actually serve on the, with the school board there. Just as a thought, I think it's kind of ready-made. We also have a youth climate group that, you know, we had, I think we had a couple thousand kids that spoke. I can't remember what school we were at, but a couple, and they, you know, had a bunch of different breakouts, great ideas, and, you know, tons of energy. So I think there's, I think there's room for something like this. I think, and I think there's some ways to maybe pull it together fairly quickly with those groups that are, with those areas and groups that are already established. So maybe just kind of think of that, think about that. Anybody else? Yes, Commissioner Udine. We did this a little bit in Parkland, too. I like the idea of the youth advisory concept. I don't know how it works out, but I'd be supportive of seeing something. I mean, we have a lot of boards. I'm sure we could find one or two of them to sunset in exchange, change it for this board. And I like it because they bring a different perspective to things. You're building a new park. It's not the worst thing in the world to ask the young people what they want to see in that new park. I mean, it doesn't mean we're going to agree with all of it, but it gets another set of eyes to look at. So I think there's a way to do this. I don't support, you know, flying them to D.C. or flying them to Tallahassee. I don't think we do that with any of our, really, with our boards that I know of. But I like the concept in general of getting different perspectives. And I also believe it should be rotated throughout the county, do the meetings at the different libraries, so at least not everyone has to travel down here. But I like the idea. Anybody else? Okay. Someone want to move it? I'd like to move the item. Commissioner Davis moves it. Second by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Last on our list, right? That's the last item. If you're not doing 84, you've already done that dashboard? I'm not going to do it. We now, the dashboard will now be this big monster thing that the administration did. My dashboard doesn't need to be involved anymore. So you're onto just the last item here. The last item is number 87. This is, A, will be done separately. A motion to discuss, I got it reading. A motion to discuss, Mayor's nomination of the county commission to serve as an alternate member of the Broward Regional Emergency Medical Services Council. I recommended Commissioner Davis. Can I get a second on that? You, this is for you to discuss to see who you want to nominate. We already discussed this. Right, but so if she's willing to do it, no one else wants to do it, then you move on to Part B. Yes. Mr. Davis. Is anybody else interested? I mean... Mr. Davis, you are the... It sounds like so much fun. You can't vote, you can't talk, you can't do anything. You know, it's like just there. No, she can actually vote and talk if he doesn't show up. Right. Are you trying to say he has nothing better to do? Are you trying to say that Senator Gellar has nothing better to do? So in his absence, I'll go, but I'll have my own points of view. It might not coincide with Commissioner Gellar's. Commissioner Gellar should not have a point of view. Well, I mean, he's going there with a point of view. He's representing all of us. Well, I'm doing the same thing. Right. But I'm just saying, he said we don't align. So I just want to make sure... You're the alternate. As the alternate, we're good. Okay, so we're going to vote on Part B. Motion to appoint County Commissioner nominated by the Mayor to serve as an alternate member of the Broward Regional Emergency Medical Services Council. Does somebody move that, please, because I'm not allowed to move it. So moved. I have Commissioner Furr moves it, seconded by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor? Aye. Aye, aye, aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the pass is 9-0. We're now on to Commissioner Report. Commissioner Reports. Commissioner Reports. Are we going to start with... I always go left to... Generally, I go left to right. You want me to go right to left? Okay. Commissioner Davis. Thank you. Just a couple of events that are coming up. Of course, we have the Port Everglades Career Fair Expo. That's tomorrow between 9 and 1 at the Broward County Convention Center. To register is PortEverglades.net slash career-fair. Hope to see everyone there. And if you're looking for a career change or a job, this is the place that you would go. In addition, there is a public information meeting on the Sheridan Street Bridge in the district. That's Tuesday, June 2nd at the Hollywood Branch Library, 2600 Hollywood Boulevard. And we'll be talking about the upcoming project for the Sheridan Street Bridge. That's going to begin at 6 o'clock. And then on June 20th at the Miramar Pineland Park, there will be a drive-through food distribution between 10 to 1. And to sign up, you would go to BrowardFarmShareJune.eventbrite.com. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Dean. Well, I just have one comment. I'm not going to be skipped, so I want to make sure I get this comment in. Please. IPW 2026 was in Broward County. I just want to compliment county administration and the Visit Lauderdale team. I was down there a couple of the days that they had it. I went through the convention center. I went to the closing event. I didn't see you. Yeah, I was there many times. Not only that, they did it a little bit different. They had over 5,000 attendees there. So it overflowed, obviously, out of the Omni Hotel, which is taxpayers own the Omni Hotel. But taxpayers crushed it that week at the Omni Hotel. It hit all the other hotels in the area. They did it so that most of the time these events ended by, like, 7 o'clock at night, even when they did the parties and this and that, which was different than what they've done at most other places, so that the people and the attendees could go out and they hit all the restaurants. They were at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. There were, like, 3,500 people that day. I really – I forgot to do it, but I'd like to take their agenda and have somebody add that as additional material to my commissioner comments so they could be in the record so that we have something in the record of what that agenda looked like and where they were all in Broward County because we made a big investment on behalf of taxpayers, and I think it's paying off. And we had people come here and said Broward County needed to show off when we did this. I think we really did. I sat in on some of the meetings. Visit Lauderdale had, like, 35 or 36 different sub-booths within the Visit Lauderdale. Pompano was there. Many of the hotels were there. They were crushing it with meetings. I think next year they go to New Orleans, and it was just amazing to see what they had going on there. So if you can attach some of the backup for my commissioner comments, I'll leave it to you to figure out so you could attach the best stuff. I trust your judgment sometimes, and we'll go from there. Post it and tag. No, I trust your judgment. Post it on there. Yeah, okay. But I just want – I mean, I'm kind of making light of it, but the Visit Lauderdale team knocked it out of the park. For Broward County. And the return on investment is going to be huge. Check at Michael Udian on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter. Senator Richards. Okay. All right. Well, mine is not as glamorous, I guess, as that, but it's pretty important. Don't hate it. Pretty important. No, I love it. You've got to step your game in. Yeah. No. Well, one of the things I want to mention is the groundbreaking of Lofts on Six, which is another wonderful affordable housing development, 90 units for seniors in Fault Lauderdale's historic district. And this was made possible with the support of nearly $3.5 million in financing from Broward County, support from the city of Fault Lauderdale, and tax credits from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. And the development is a partnership between the Pantry of Broward, which has been serving people for a long time, but now they've joined with Green Mills Group, which is, I can remind you, the one who built 7 on 7th and who will be building Aspire 1650, which is another affordable housing for formerly homeless people. So they're really a great group, and they are working with them. They broke ground. The units will all be affordable, and you heard this morning the area where we need it most, below 60% of area median income. And it's really critical to be serving the needs of our seniors at that level who struggle to get by. And thankfully, these 90 households, Lofts on Six, will represent the opportunity for these seniors to age with dignity in the community that they call home. Additionally, this new state-of-the-art facility will serve as the operating facility for the Pantry of Broward. So you'll have the Pantry there and the affordable housing. And it's very interesting. I don't know how many of you know, but the CEO is Maureen Luna. She is Fran Esposito's daughter. Oh, really? Yes, yes. And, yeah, it is awesome. And so she's got Fran working on working for her, too. Right, right. And so it's a really wonderful collaboration, and it's very exciting. And the other thing I want to mention is the annual EPIC Awards. These are awards that are given by – it's hosted by Mental Health America of Southeast Florida and the Florida Institute of Suicide Prevention, and EPIC stands for Exceptional People Impacting the Community, and every year they give out awards to honorees who have been serving in the mental health and behavioral health arena in our community. And I want to specifically recognize one of these – one of the honorees this year is Danica Mambi, who is the managing director and administrator for Broward Behavioral Health Coalition, who I've had the pleasure of working with for many years. I also was asked to give a special presentation to the outgoing BBHC CEO, Sylvia Quintana. Many of you know her. Sylvia, I've, you know, worked with her for many years, and she is our one and only CEO, actually, for all the time since – she is amazing, right? She'll be retiring after 15 years in tireless service to this community in mental health. She's built a compassionate, comprehensive, and responsive behavioral health system for Broward County residents, and she's not only highly respected here in Broward County, but she is throughout the whole behavioral health field in the state of Florida. It's kind of a bittersweet moment, but she's leaving the agency really very – in a very strong – with a strong and capable team and an amazing provider network, over 50 providers that we support and fund, and an organizational culture that will be a lasting legacy to her. I'm going to give the gavel over – I'm going to give the gavel over to our Honorable Vice Mayor. I have to leave for the airport. If China takes over Taiwan, or my plane goes down, it's been great working with you guys. And you'll have a great mayor right here. There you go. We need a report from you before you leave. Safe travels, Mayor. Go get him, Bogut. There'll be an international incident. I know. There'll be headlines. I can only imagine. Only have one thing today. We are – the Facilities Amendment for the Solid Waste Authority has passed half of the cities now. Still got a long ways to go. We've got a lot of big cities to go. But it's getting – it's halfway there. It's halfway there. I – Well, it's not there yet. Wait until it's there. Then say that. The – I wanted to go to the IPW. I've been having to go out to every city. And it's – that sounded like it was great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kudos to everybody in Fizz at Lauderdale for all the work they did because it made our whole area shine. They did a great job. Thank you. Permission granted. Thank you, my colleague. Thank you very, very much. Okay. I – I'm going to be brief. I just want to brag on myself. I continue to engage and listen to District 9 residents. So when I speak, I'm not speaking for Hazel Rogers. I'm speaking for everyone in my district, Hazelie Rogers. That's for Steve, Senator Geller. I want to thank the FTC team and OESBD for their efforts in making sure the program that we advance was educational, but it was also well attended. And whenever you do something, you want to make sure the right people are in the place that can benefit from it. So to my staff and everyone, Lauderdale, thank you for allowing us to use your space. Again, always thankful to Corrie. I know we know she's a blessing to all of us and what she does and what she brings to this space. And I'm looking forward to talking about a program we have been working on. When I say the application came from a 20-pager to a four-page application and you don't have to go physically visit your doctor when you have doctors coming to your home and you have doctors, you know, the one you talk to over the phone or on TV, telehealth. You got it. You can do all these things. We were still requiring folks to have physical visits to their doctors. So that has been changed or will be advanced for our consideration. Okay. Lastly, I know not last because I have some things that I wrote. I see lots of activities happening around the World Cup and I'm looking forward to Broward County benefiting and our residents who pay taxes, gas tax and all these taxes benefit from what they're paying. So looking forward to June 7th in my district, the city of Lauderdale. I will be sending you an email of the flyer that went out that has been circulated so you know we were ready and we are ready to represent well. I am excited about the $5 million for fiscal year 26 to implement an affordable housing, a purchase assistance program. I just had to say that again because I, you know, I had to look at my colleagues sometimes and say, God, home ownership option helps. You understand the return on investment might be different, but it impacts human lives and we have to think about the people that have to work hard and get less now because everything else we do costs them more money. All right. That's my Jamaican accent just came through right there. I'm excited about the voices, about low income and that 70% is critical because certain cities we are landlocked so we can't go sprawling out in fancy one acre, two acre properties and one house anymore. All right. So we need to look at, we can't do that here. So the 70 is going to be our norm real soon because we're totally built out. Okay. Your voice is low. Okay. I'm asking for the areas that benefit from the million dollars that we'll have in cultural. I see, where is he? He's not here. Okay. He will hear about it. I would like to see where those dollars are being spent, what communities are benefiting from those dollars. Not, you know, I want to know because I don't see it in the areas that I'm concerned about. And we penalize condo boards for not collecting money, not taking care of the building, but we did not educate them. All right. And then we have cities who have neglected from using their code enforcement to bring properties into compliance, but we are willing to help them. But my seniors who live in condos that was subject to a board that, they were even foreign nationals. I love you, foreign nationals. But they were majority members on these boards. Shouldn't have been allowed. I advocated for that in Tallahassee. It went nowhere. So, I'm just saying, think about our condos. They can be that affordable housing pool in certain communities based on their costs, although it's rising. But we can find some creative ways if we instruct staff so that we can help those condos with those 10-year inspections and those 20-year mandatory 30 and 50. Where are those money coming from? These are seniors that are required. These are housing already before us that we can help. And you might be buying some condos soon. And that's why I'm saying those banks are ready to do 19, what that was, 80. I don't know what's in there, Tallahassee. You know when we have that downflow. That's me doing it real fast. Okay. I did good? You understood everything I said, didn't you? Thank you. Thank you. We'll go to Commissioner Gellar next. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sir, I would appreciate it if you did not speak out of time. Thank you. You all know I do town meetings in every city in my district twice a year. I just did my Davie town meeting. Last week I went down to the Columbian Consulate in Coral Gables to receive an award from the Consul General for my work in assisting Hispanics in Broward in general and Columbians in Broward in particular. It's a nice play. I also attended the IPW, magnificent Stacey. Great job. I went to the Alliance luncheon, which we all went to, and I think that was great. The last thing I wanted to say is, unless there is six people that object, I'm going to ask for a motion to direct the county attorney. You all may not be aware, but under county code, anytime we raise money for anybody, any candidate, we are required to report that. The problem, and I know most of us don't, I do, but the problem is if you sign an endorsement card, generally, they don't all have the same language, but generally that says, and I authorize my name to be used, that could be interpreted, according to a county attorney, as authorizing that you are fundraising for them, because if they do a fundraising letter and list their endorsements, that could be. I can't keep track of all the people I've endorsed, and I'm sure that a lot of you all can't, and I know that all of us are not reporting anybody that we've signed all endorsements for, so what I'm asking is a motion to direct and to skip the public hearing, go straight to the public hearing, so that before we adjourn, because all of the fundraising from the primaries is going to be over the summer before we're back, so all it will do is say that just signing an endorsement card does not count as fundraising. If you actually are making calls and say, please raise money for John Smith, that still has to be reported, unless anybody wants to change that, I'm okay with that, too. I think it's unconstitutional, but I just want to make sure that the mere act of signing an endorsement card does not count, and that's what I'm asking for the motion to direct, unless people are objecting. Hold on a second. County attorney, can you go panel this because, is this necessary? I think it's helpful clarification. I think it will just make it clearer and result in less likelihood of an inadvertent violation. Okay. I contact county ethics. I just need it from him on the record, not you. I know you're a legal eagle, but just for our own protection. So, unless, actually at this point, unless he objects himself, I think we're... Steve, do you object to yourself? Okay. Any questions for yourself? Yes, multiple. Do not. Commissioner Fisher, can you wrap it up for the both of us, please? Thank you, Vice Mayor. We appreciate you waiting until the last. I appreciate that. In all seriousness... And speak on behalf, Pam. Corey? I'm yielding my time to you, too, so to wrap it up for us. Corey, congratulations to your BCT mechanic team. They competed at the International Bus Rodeo, and they... David, is it, Cerruti, and Michael Karubi, and John Ramator. Did they do that pretty good? Long-term employees, obviously, in a great competition. Despite them being their first appearance at the international event, the team delivered exceptional performance. They achieved a perfect score in the Cummins Drive Tech competition, and ranked among the top three teams for time in the Cummins Drive Tech heat. That means that, like, this is like the Olympics, like, they really scored and got their medals. So, Corey, great job in your leadership, and tell the team that we so appreciate them representing Broward County Transit, okay? Other good news, semi-good news, I guess, is the budget came out today for the state legislator, and the budget does have, right now, $60 million in for rail transit, which we have been fighting for SFRTA with FDOT. So, it's not... I want to thank Candace Eriks for her dedication in Tallahassee, and Diane, our current CEO, really just being persistent and getting to the right years. So, God willing, that will pass. As you all know, Senators and Senators, that has to go through the process, but... and getting signed, but that was great news that we were just really hanging by a thread there. Kevin, and I want to thank you for your...and your entire team for the encampment on Blunt Road. It's been a long road. As Swift Mudd did give us our grant, our conservation easement issue that we dealt with, so the team has been automatically replacing any people in homes or whatever, and getting that property cleaned up. That's been years in the coming, so I just want to thank you for all your efforts in staying diligent on that. City of Lighthouse Point did a reopening of their library. That is their own library, not Broward County Library. It's amazing. If you need to get up and see a nice little city like that, having their own library and what they mean to them. Again, Kevin and Issemi, thank you for being at Harbordale Civic Association a few weeks ago. Southeast 17th Street Causeway has caused some heartburn for a lot of people in that immediate air traffic, especially when we have conventions and cruises and so forth, and then the bridge, et cetera, and obviously BSO, thank you for your efforts, and the city of Fort Bordale. So it's been a team effort. They're meeting once a month, trying to come up with strategic ideas, but we had a meeting with the Harbordale Association. I think, Monica, we had probably, I don't know, nine folks come from the county, including Issemi and Kevin. They took their time and effort. Issemi did an amazing job when it came to presenting a PowerPoint presentation, really kind of answered all the questions before we got to them, right? And so just continue, just have an amazing team. Just want to thank you for that. And I think that is it that I have today. Other than congratulations to Deputy Daniel Cutlass for being named BSO Officer of the Year. He's kind of special to me because he's kind of grew up in my house, and to get Officer of the Year is really an important thing to me. And then Brian Portier, Woody Portier's son, got BSO Firefighter of the Year. So both hometown Pompano folks. Pompano's on a roll, huh? Yeah, man. God bless. Thank you. Oh, Mary Hall celebrating their 40 years. Remember that? That's the SOE. So thank you, Mary Hall. Again, another Pompano gal. Thank you, sir. You're doing well, sir. We appreciate your service. If there's no more business, I would like to call for adjournment. I'll see if there's any more. I got a couple of things, if you didn't mind. If there's anything else. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Vice Mayor, Mayor, right? Only the plane goes down. No, no. That's what he said. No, sir. Let's not. He said it. So I just wanted to thank you all for your continued support of the team. Obviously, you know, they work really hard to make sure we're putting the policy into motion that you guys set. So thank you for your continued support. IPW was, in fact, an outstanding show of the region, and that was a giant lift. So thank you for your support and those dollars and that effort. And certainly to Stacey and the team, they really did an outstanding job. So thank you for that. I did want to also reiterate, you know, I know Commissioner Davis had talked about the career fair tomorrow. I wanted to share with you all that we have over 1,750, 1,750 people to date have signed up for that. So that's going to be pretty significant. I'm very excited about that. And also, I don't believe there is. Kevin, do you know anything else about that, that perspective? My understanding is that there is, throughout the day, from 9 to 1 or 2, they're going to have different events in an auditorium format that deal with different aspects of it. There's a lot of kickoff. There's not necessarily, I don't believe there's, no, there's no, like, official kickoff. Thank you. Yep. There, BCT is actually offering some free bus service as well to folks to come there. It, from a career source, Broward, from the North, Central, and South locations, Miramar Town Center, and Lotter Hill Transit Center to help get people there as well. So I wanted to make sure I shared that with you all and for the public to understand that. And lastly, I want to add to that, Commissioner Davis, that commercial, I think, really brought light to it. I think it goes back to what we talk about, Brandon Broward County. We need to be more involved in a lot of these things. Even tomorrow, a kickoff would be great for all of us to be there, kick it off. Those are the type of things I would like to see moving forward. I think your efforts in that area really boost the attendance. That's what I think. Thank you, Mr. Rice-Mair. And lastly, I wanted to recognize two of the commissioners on this dais that are still here right now. Commissioner Davis was recently recognized by Legacy Magazine, and we wanted to congratulate her as one of the most prominent and influential black women in business and industry. And that was the, I hope you guys got to see that recognition. And then also, Senator Rich was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Broward Partnership for the Homeless. So I wanted to congratulate both of you publicly. Thank you. Fantastic. Mr. Milton, you got anything? I know you don't. Okay. With that, you good? Anybody from the audience? Airport, seaport, PSO? Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Thank you.