All right. Good morning, everybody. If everybody could have a seat, we're going to get started. We waited. We waited. Okay. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. If everybody could have their seat. Romney, have a seat. Take a seat, Romney. All right. It's great to be here today. Good morning, everyone. This is the Broward County Board of County Commissioners meeting of Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. And if you would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And today, I would like to ask Norm Foster if he would be willing to start us off on the Pledge of Allegiance. This is his. He has guided us through the budgets for the last nine years. He will be retiring at the end of the month. And we just want to give us a give a big thank you to all you've done, Norm. Thank you. Please don't do it. I know. You got it? Yeah. He hasn't done it before. Reject his resignation. You can do it up here. There you go. He's going to talk. All right. Pleasure to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you, Norm. If you'd please remain standing. I'm sorry. It's customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community who have recently passed. Colleagues, do you have anyone you'd like to recognize? Commissioner Davis. Commissioner McKenzie. I don't have him. Amen. Commissioner Fisher. I'm going to say the same. Senator Rich. Yes, I do today. Okay. I want to remember David Schachter. Any of you don't know him? Some of you do here. If you don't, I hope you'll know him a little better when I get finished with this. He was a Holocaust survivor who passed away last week at the age of 96. When you know his history in surviving Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, you realize the amazing, amazing accomplishments of this incredible man. I had the privilege of knowing him for approximately 50 years. He was born in 1929 in Slovakia. In 1940, his father was taken by the government and never seen again. He was taken on a train to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother and two sisters who did not survive. He worked at Auschwitz with his brother for two years. In 1943, when he was 13, he and his brother were transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his brother fell ill and was killed by the Nazis. David escaped when a train he was being transported on was bombed by the U.S. Air Force. After recovery in a hospital, he returned home, but he was met with anti-Semitism and had to flee to Prague, where he ended up in an orphanage. He lost 105 relatives in the Holocaust. He was able to obtain a coveted visa to America in 1950 and ended up in Colorado with the Handler family, founders of Mattel. He moved to San Francisco, where he graduated from UCLA with a degree in industrial engineering. He and his wife moved to Miami, to Miami Beach, in 1956. He became a local and a national hero and a champion for Holocaust survivors. Truth and fairness from public officials, institutions who refused to do justice to Holocaust survivors and their families. He had resilience, compassion, and an unshakable faith in the human spirit. He founded the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA and became its president. In 1989, he established the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach with several other philanthropists. The memorial served as a beacon of Holocaust education with thousands of people visiting it every year. But the most important thing David did for over 50 years was speaking to children. He called them kinder, which is Yiddish for children. He told them things he wanted. He wanted them to know who they are. He wanted them to know what happened to our people and to become his mouthpiece when I'm here no longer. I think he'll have his wish. There were 50 of these young children at his funeral. On April 30th, just three weeks before his surgery, he went to Washington at the request of Senator Rick Scott and testified at the Senate Committee on Aging. This is at 96. People usually are allotted five minutes. David spoke for 17 minutes about the Holocaust survivors and anti-Semitism. David's son, Neal, told me that Senator Scott heard about David's passing. When he did, he called Neal to express his profound condolences. And he told Neal that he was donating his salary this year to the museum in Tampa, the Holocaust Museum, in David's memory. David lived a life that mattered, one of conscience and courage. He is survived by his wife, Sidney, his daughter, Lisa, his son, Neal, and his wife, Amy, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His legacy will continue forever. May his memory be a blessing. Thank you. I just echo what Commissioner McKenzie said. And we should all take time and do better as a society. And let's get off social media a little bit and hug our families and get back into the real world. Senator Gellar. I was going to say something similar and still will. I, to be honest, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk prior to his assassination. But, folks, this is just getting, you know, it's not getting, it's gone way too far. We've had Democrats, we've had Republicans, liberals, conservatives that have been killed or that there have been attempted assassinations. And this, this, we've got to stop this. People that we disagree with politically are not our enemies that are supposed to be exterminated. We have got to stop this. Commissioner Rogers. If I echo anything, it would be what Steve Keller just said, because I would have mentioned that at night, when you're in your bed, you were killed. Okay. Not, you know. So that's where I'm at. Yes. Peace on earth, goodwill to all the men. Thank you. I'll just say amen to all these comments. Let us honor all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces, both here and abroad, and thank them for their service. And let's take a moment of silence. Thank you. Please take your seats. We need a little longer one than normal. I want to welcome everyone to the meeting today. We have a long day today, starting with four proclamations and our agenda. We have a final budget hearing at 501. That should be quite the discussion, and I hope folks in the audience can stick around for that. The music today was selected by myself. I thought since it's budget day, having, doing, you can't always get what you want, might be appropriate, followed by, you can't buy love. You can't buy me love. So with that, we're going to, like I said, we have four proclamations today. We're going to start off with the, the first one is for Workforce Development Month. This was a longstanding tradition started by Commissioner Ryan, and I will be presenting this proclamation to Carol Hilton, who is the CEO of CareerSource Broward, along with Jim Ryan, the chair of the Workforce Development Board, and if you all would please make your way to the podium. I'll join you. Yeah. The ones who do all the work. And the ones who do all the work. Great group right here. Great group. Like I said, this was a longstanding tradition of Tim Ryan's, who was on there for many years and did a great job. I'm still learning. I'm now the appoint, I've been appointed to that, but I'm learning my way and trying to follow in his footsteps. I know that every commissioner's had a chance to work with CareerSource, and we're lucky. You guys have done just an outstanding job. I mean, you can look at our unemployment rate. You look at all the things that are available to anybody in this county. If anybody needs a job in this county, this is where you go. This is, if you need, if you need, want to change careers, whatever. I remember going when it was called CETA. Oh, yeah. I know, that goes a long ways back. Yeah, a long ways back. But back in 74, 75, when I was a sophomore in college, I needed summer employment. I went there, and they had a job for a carpenter, carpenter apprentice. I got the nickname Woody Woodpecker because it took me so long. Those guys were hitting like one, two, and I'd be like tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. So I had Woody Woodpecker for the summer, but that was okay. So with that, let me read the proclamation, and then I'm going to turn it over to you to go forward. Okay. Whereas it has long been recognized that workforce development plays a critical role in contributing to the economic health, development, growth, and prosperity of our community, and whereas in recognition of the role of CareerSource Broward in delivering quality workforce development services since 1973, when you were manpower back then. Manpower. Oh, I remember that. Under the guidance of CareerSource Broward Consortium of local elected officials, and whereas in appreciation of CareerSource Broward's dedicated professionals, all these guys behind me, who assist hundreds of Broward County residents and businesses year after year in good times, recessionary times, and during times of disasters, by connecting our residents to jobs and a variety of workforce services, and whereas in acknowledgement of CareerSource Broward's outreach and collaboration with local government, chambers of commerce, economic development, employer associations, organized labor, community-based organizations, public and private educational institutions, to assure access to workforce services, and whereas through CareerSource Broward's partnerships with education, resource investments continue to be available to teach people new skills, helping them to increase their self-sufficiency while meeting the needs of employers, and whereas by working with employers to increase their bottom line through recruitment, job fairs, and subsidized work-based training activities, now therefore be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates September 2025 as Workforce Development Month in Broward County, Florida, in recognition of CareerSource Broward for its achievements of delivering workforce services to businesses, employers, residents, and citizens of our county, signed by me on the 16th. And thank you again for everything you do, and let me turn it over to you for this. On behalf of our Board, Council of Elected Officials and Staff, thank you, Mayor Beamfer, also, as you indicated, a member of our council, and the Broward County Commission for this proclamation and for your unwavering commitment to CareerSource Broward and the people of Broward County. National Workforce Development Month, September, highlights the important contributions of local workforce development boards. Now, I'm joined by some of our staff members because I wanted you to see the people behind, some of the people behind the success. We have three centers and administrative buildings, so I couldn't bring everyone. This year, we were recognized by the Sun Sentinel as a top places to work. That is a recognition by the people, by the staff, how they feel about how they work together and the work that they do and their commitment. We have consistently met and exceeded all our federal performance measures that are attached to finding people jobs, penetrating employers, businesses, and helping them to grow. We are an A-rated board, and I wanted you to know that. We're not just finding people jobs. We are helping them to create a brighter future. We're taking them from homelessness to house. When you give someone a future and the ability to be able to work and enjoy the luxuries that others have, you're helping not just them but their children and those that come. Now, last week, we attended the State Workforce Summit in Orlando. Now, we took home to Broward the Florida Chair's Lighthouse Award, which recognizes the staff that works behind the scenes to make the Broward Workforce Board a successful one. Kasha Kossak, right here, our adult program administrator, won that state award. So I just want you to know. And our regional workforce champion of the year was Kathy Romulus. But wait, there's more. Each year, the state also recognizes a workforce partner. This year, the recipient for this award exemplifies the meaning of champion for workforce collaboration. I am honored to share with the commission that the 2025 State Workforce Partner Award went to your very own and our very own Broward County Administrator, Monica Shapiro. Could you join me now? If you could just engage, allow me just a few more minutes while Monica is coming. I want to share with you just a snippet of the work that we have done, that she has done, that together you have allowed us to happen, to be able to move Broward forward. If you could show the video. 2,500 people have pre-registered for the CareerSource Broward's second annual State of the Workforce Job Fair. And we're here today, and it seems like even more have showed up. So we have our brochure. We're heading inside to see what all the excitement is about. I went and I did my lap around a couple of times. It's exciting. We see so many different people, all ages, races, genders, here to find jobs or just connect with employers. Tell me about the opportunities available today. Broward County is a tech hub. It is a hospitality hub. It is a hub for many industries. So Broward County's growth is unlimited. And with the work that CareerSource Broward is doing, there is going to be unlimited opportunity in the future of the workforce. CareerSource Broward's Summer Youth Employment Program prepares our region's emerging workforce for a rewarding professional future. CareerSource Broward's eight-week dynamic initiative provides students with employment experiences in different industries that are closely related to their career choices. Computer skills, phone skills, greeting customers, everything that I've done here that I can definitely take to the future with me. These enriching employment experiences, populated across 230 South Florida work sites, are directly matched with youth interests, resulting in an enjoyable and fulfilling work experience for both employers and youth employees. By developing career-oriented youth, CareerSource Broward's Summer Youth Employment Program is boosting Broward's economy by increasing the number of local young talent who are prepared to successfully enter the workforce. Thank you for funding the Summer Youth Employment Program. Together with additional funding, we put 1,200 kids in an eight-work work experience this summer. And we started a virtual timesheet, which makes it a lot easier. And we teach children about financial strength and how to be able to budget. And we were able to do that because of Monica and because of the commission. The videos you saw of the convention center, we received the convention center in kind, which made it possible for us to be able to hold the event. You saw the busing. The busing, I said, Monica, wouldn't it be nice if we could have a tailored bus, bus routes through the highest unemployed zip codes, free of charge? She said, yes. And over 400 people rode the bus. And I think one of the staff members, one of your staff members rode, and then I'll be quiet. He saw the person in the morning looking very pensive and, you know, unsure of herself. And he saw her in the afternoon. And he introduced himself. And she said, thank you so much when she found out who he was. Because of you, I got a job. I've been unemployed for three months. I have a car, but I couldn't afford to put gas in the car. So the work that you do, Monica, and the commission is simply amazing. So with this, I'll give it to you. It says, in recognition and appreciation of your commitment and dedication to Florida's Workforce Network. Thank you. November 7th is our Paychecks for Patriots job fair. Monica has agreed so graciously to allow us to do the bus routing there. I would invite all of you to come. It's a time where we get to give back to our veterans and make sure that they are also gainfully employed. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This month is the National Hispanic Heritage Month. And we do have a proclamation today from Commissioner Rogers and myself. Commissioner Rogers, would you care to introduce your guest? Of course, Gloria Francesca. Thank you, Mr. Lady. Y también mi nombre es Steve Geller. Yo soy el solo comiso dado en Condado Broward que habla español. Condado Broward es más de 30 apresenta hispana. Y yo creo que es importante para la cultura hispana y también necesitamos tratar de traer negocios y trabajos hispana a Condado Broward. Tenemos un grupo de diversos líderes hispanos aquí este día. We have a very blue ribbon committee group of guests here today. Y también mi español no es tan bueno que aparece porque solamente usa palabras que yo sé. So let me introduce and call up our following guests. Dr. Daniela Vázquez, the Consul General from the Dominican Republic. Adriana Torres-Sanchez, Director, Instituto Cultural México y Saúl de México. Ruth Martínez-Soni, Directora de Marconi Fundación and Mexican Consulate. Cassia Cardoso, Brazil Univision. Rechling Rivera, a DEA agent. Catalina Calix, a radio personality with Sirius SX. Dr. Thiago Quirós from Brazil. Dr. Juan Ospina, the Cultural Council of Colombia. Diego Mauricio Grisales Gallegos, the mayor of Guarane, Colombia. Miguel Ignacio Mendoza-Donti, a.k.a. Nacho, a famous singer. Soyura Fas, Leader in Education. Hernán Cardona Atáje, the Chief of Security from Guarane. Hatzel Vela, who we all know from NBC and Telemundo. Marcela Quejani, Construction. And I would also ask, I believe there's a young Cuban woman who is the county administrator of Broward County, Monica Cepero, and we will take turns reading. Whereas National Hispanic Heritage Month takes place from September 15th to October 15th in the United States, honoring Hispanic and Latino Americans, and whereas the 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month theme is Collective Heritage, Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future. The theme encapsulates the spirit of innovation, resilience, and unity that define the Hispanic experience, and whereas each year Americans celebrate the histories, culture, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. And whereas the observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period starting on September 15th and ending on October 15th. It was enacted into law on August 17th, 1988. And... Whereas the day of September 15th is significant because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence day on September 16th, September 18th respectively. And whereas today 62.1 million people, or 18.9% of the American population, are of Hispanic or Latino origin, and... And whereas Broward County, Florida, with a population of approximately 1.9 million residents, is a richly diverse county, with 31.5% of its population being Hispanic and... Whereas Hispanics have had the profound and positive influence in our country and Broward County through their strong commitment to family, faith, hard work, and service. They have enhanced and shaped their natural character with centuries-old traditions that reflect the multi-ethnic and cultural customs of their community. And... You'll finish. Whereas be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioner of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates September 15th, 2025 through October 15th, 2025, as Hispanic Heritage Month in Broward County, Florida. And I've always said that immigrants to this country and their children are the hardest working people we have in this country, whether it was Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Mexicans, now people from South America and the Caribbean. Somebody that has the get-up-and-go, or the old-fashioned word, gumption, to leave their home country and come here, will work two jobs. We'll do whatever is necessary to make sure that their children have a better life than they do. And we're really thrilled to have you here. Also today, we have... Are you Edward? Okay. Also today, we have Edward Mejia, Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Sheila Scherfless-McCormick, and you have a presentation. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Mayor, commissioners, and residents. My name is Edward Mejia, and I serve as a district outreach manager for Congresswoman Sheila Scherfless-McCormick, who proudly represents Florida's 20th Congressional District in Central and North Broward in Palm Beach County. She is the first Haitian-American Democrat elected to the United States Congress, and she's deeply committed to celebrating diversity that makes our community strong. As a Dominican-American, it is a special honor for me to join you today during Hispanic Heritage Month. This celebration reminds us of the richness of Hispanic culture and the extraordinary contributions of so many leaders who strive in Broward County and inspire across generations. On behalf of Congresswoman Sheila Scherfless-McCormick, I'm proud to share that she has entered a statement into the official congressional record honoring each of today's honorees by name, and their leadership, service, and cultural contributions are now part of the permanent history of the United States Congress. Each honoree will receive a copy of this recognition as a lasting tribute to the impact. Thank you, commissioners, for uplifting Hispanic voices and for allowing us to share in this moment. It is a privilege to honor these remarkable individuals and to celebrate the spirit of community that brings us all together. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Here, you take yours. I'll take mine. Start from that side. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Miguel, do you want to do a picture? Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And if I can ask every one of you, when they're done getting their proclamations from Senor Mejia to come forward so we can all take a picture together. Okay. Thank you. I'll send my news when I get on the news. Come stand right in front. Right on the floor, please. Yeah, I'm going to be in front. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Commissioner Robinson. What should we say? Shane Robinson. No. No. Okay. Cheese. Come on. Everybody get very friendly and get close. Okay. So how about we tell them where to go? Yeah. I used to people tell you. That was loud. I didn't have to go back there. You're going to go back about ten feet. You're going to have to go back, you're going to have to go back about 10 feet. Yeah, but then everybody's holding the middle. Two shoulders, can you do it right? Okay, sorry. Este lado, miren para acá. Este lado, this side. There's a denture. Thank you all. Thank you all. Thank you. I know you should have really. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, our next proclamation. Commissioner Fisher, you are on deck. If we could do this back there real quick. Thank you. That's all right. Go ahead. Let me get out of the picture. Did you see that we got your name in there? At some point we got to start charging rent and we got to take our commission chair. Thank you all again for being here today. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you all again for being here today. Appreciate it. With that we're going to go to our next proclamation. If you guys, if everybody could go. You're welcome. I know. You're welcome. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Our next proclamation is going to be presented by Commissioner Fisher. And it is in celebration of our proclamation for Bob Becker Appreciation Day. Thank you, Bear. We're going to wait a minute for folks to clear out a little bit. Because these proclamations are very important when we talk about giving homage to folks that deserve recognition. I'm privileged, Mayor, to provide two proclamations today. The first one is very, very special. They're both special. But this is something that can be recognized by one of our residents. And Bob will ask you to come over here. We have Bob and Suzanne Becker with us today. And I'd like to read this proclamation of the record. And it says, On July the 9th, 2025, the 80-year-old Bob Becker of Fort Lauderdale completed the Badwater 135 ultramarathon in 45 hours and 6 seconds, making him the oldest finisher to ever complete the event. Man. Triathlon. Inspiring. And whereas known as the world's toughest foot race, the Badwater 135 covers 135 miles from the Badwater Basin in Death Valley, 280 feet below sea level, to Whitney Portal, which sits at an elevation of over 8,300 feet, and runners must navigate three mountain ranges along the way with temperatures reaching above 120 degrees. Whereas in his early life, which is not too long ago, Bob ran the mile competitively in high school and only jogged on occasion to stay in shape until 2001. At the age of 57, he was invited by friends to run a marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. Whereas a few years after his first marathon, someone mentioned about doing an ultramarathon, a race longer than 26.2 miles that often take multiple days to complete. And at the age of 60, Bob ran the first ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert in Morocco. Whereas over the years, Bob has ran all over the world. One of his favorite races was in 2016 when he ran in southwest China, near the same area his late father, Mickey, fought Japanese soldiers while serving the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. And his longest race was in 2019 when he ran 230 miles in 74 hours to break a millage record at an ultramarathon in Manchester, Tennessee. Whereas to train for the ultramarathons, Bob created ways to make up for South Florida's flat terrain by running the 17th Street Causeway bridge, pulling an SUV tire for added drag, using a stairmaster in a gym, or running steps in buildings. Whereas Bob's love for running has led him to co-create the Keys 100, running from Key Largo to Key West, for which he serves as the race director in the Daytona 100, which both introduced ultramarathon running to literally thousands of athletes in Florida and beyond. Whereas Bob is not officially retired from running, thank goodness, but for now he enjoys spending time with his lovely wife, Suzanne, who's with us today. Now, therefore, it be proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners that the Board hereby designates Tuesday, September the 16th, 2025, as Bob Becker Day, Appreciation Day here in Broward County, signed by our Mayor Beanford. Congratulations, Bob. Thank you. I am honored and humbled and thank you, Commissioner, and all of you for this honor. I really appreciate it. Badwater 135 isn't a household word, but it's been called and been known as the world's toughest foot race for a long time, and that's always an argument. What's a tougher race? It's hard to know, but it's a very, very difficult race. And one that I had done three times when I, by the time I turned 75, and remembered that in 2010, a Brit named Jack Dines came over and ran it, and he became the oldest finisher the last year that you had 60 hours to complete the race. He finished in 59 hours and 13 minutes. So when I turned 75, I thought, you know, maybe I should give this a shot. Maybe there's a way of becoming the oldest finisher, but I would have to do it at least 12 hours faster to make it legit. So three years ago, I actually was allowed into the race. There are only 100 slots. You have to apply and be invited. And I finished the race, but I finished 17 minutes and 27 seconds over the cutoff, so it didn't count. And since then, I had been saying, well, maybe I've had my shot. But long story short, I applied again this year. The stars aligned, and I was able to complete the race in 45 hours. Wow. And it was both exhilarating and exhausting. So you asked me a while ago if I'm still doing this stuff. And in addition to running, as you mentioned, I'm also the race director, having created the Keys 100. It's a 100-mile race from Key Largo to Key West, and a similar race from Jacksonville Beach down to Ponce Inlet, just south of Daytona. And in my spare time, I've also been hired by the Miccosukee Tribe to create an ultramarathon for them, which we did last year, and next March will be our second year. So I keep pretty busy. My wife keeps an eye on me, but all this activity keeps me out of trouble, and I'm really glad to be here, and I really appreciate the honors. Let's take a picture. And I'm going to ask Renee to join us because Renee, of course, is our county and one of our county attorneys, and she is an avid, avid marathon runner. So she's going to come up and join us in the picture. Let's take a picture, folks. Come on. Sir, what would you charge for a blood transfusion? Sir, you're a Democrat. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, dear. Thank you, dear. Thank you. What are you doing now? Feedback. I was tired just hearing it. proclamation is, again, by Commissioner Fisher, for Rogers, Morrison, Ziegler, LLL Appreciation Day. Commissioner Fisher. All right. Can we have them all come up? All right. Mayor, commissioners, we talk about pioneers, we talk about history of Broward County, and my family's been fortunate to be some of the pioneers, but when you talk about this family and this law firm, this is truly folks that really made an impact in Broward County, Florida. So I am so honored and privileged to present this incredible proclamation to this law firm and personally to folks who I've known all my life. So it goes as follows. Whereas the law firm of Rogers, Morrison, Ziegler, LLP is being recognized as Broward County's oldest law firm. The law firm began in 1925 and has been built on a tradition of perseverance and excellence. Whereas in 1925, Dwight L. Rogers, Sr. and John E. Morris, Sr. founded the law firm that it is today. Both men were South Georgia residents, law school classmates in Broward County beckoned them separately by the lamb boom that was going on at the same time. They remain here even after the 1925 hurricane and economic collapse that followed because they saw something in the area that others did not see. The area's immense potential. Whereas in 1928, both men supported George W. Tedder, Sr. for Broward County's oldest circuit judgeship. Tedder won, but the incumbent Vincent C. Giblin would not step down. Eventually, Giblin surrendered the bench and Tedder took office. Rogers and Morris often joked that if Giblin had remained on the bench, they would have had to leave town. Thereby, the long history of Rogers, Morris, and Ziegler law firm would not exist today in Broward County. Whereas this bit of political activity started their civic involvement for themselves for subsequently future generations. Dwight Rogers, Sr. served in the Florida House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives. We can thank Dwight Rogers, Sr. for being the father, listen to this, folks, and author of the Florida Homestead Exemption Act. Whereas Dwight Rogers, Jr. and John Morris, Jr. joined the firm after serving World War II and carried on the tradition of their fathers. They were longtime friends, classmates, and fraternity brothers. John Morris, Jr. served as an admissible judge and the attorney for Broward County School Board. Dwight Rogers, Jr. was responsible for shutting down the infamous illegal gambling casino, the Colonial Inn. Anybody remember that? And during his time as assistant state attorney from 1948 to 1952. Whereas the generation is served by Romney Rogers, son of Dwight, Jr., and he follows his civic involvement, serving as commissioner for the city of Fort Lauderdale from 2009 to 2018. Furthermore, in 2012, Romney C. Rogers, Jr. joined the firm as the fourth generation to practice, known as CAM, with Rogers, Morris, and Ziegler LLP. Whereas the law firm of Rogers, Morris, and Ziegler LLP has served numerous individuals, businesses, and communities in Broward County with their efforts best interests in mind. The generations of this law firm has helped mold Broward County to what it is today. Back to 1925, when the founding partners saw the area immense potential, and we extend our thanks to the partners and staff for this 100-year-old Broward County law firm. Now, therefore, be proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners that the board hereby designates Tuesday, September 16, 2025, as Rogers, Morris, and Ziegler LLP Appreciation Day here in Broward County, Florida. And we extend our congratulations to its 100th anniversary, signed by Mayor Bean for Romney. What a legacy. What a legacy from everybody. God bless you. God bless you. I'm going to let you have a little few words, if you would, sir. Sure. All right? Maybe Ken's going to. All right. Well, Mayor and Commissioners, thank you for this honor. Obviously, this is something that you only do once. You only turn 100 once, right? And we're having such a good time, I think we're going to do it again next year. But in 1925, when my grandfather came down here, this was a bustling town. I've got pictures of more Model Ts on Andrews Avenue and people on the waterfront than you've ever seen. And it still is a bustling community. And we thank you all for keeping it that way. We know that community service is a real service. And we know that it's important. And I've had the privilege of meeting many of you, knowing some of you intimately, serving with some of you, Commissioner McKenzie for many years on the city commission. And that is important. And we know that's important. Giving back to community is important. This is the team that believes in that too. And we wouldn't be anywhere without the team. You know, we don't race marathons. But I can tell you, everybody here races to the office every day. And they serve our clients. And they do a great job at doing that. So thank you again. I know my Spanish is weak, but I do know the name Gracias. So I'll throw that in. And if I knew that we could have gotten more people in and we would hire more to bring, to make the picture bigger. But thank you. We won't take any more time. I know you've got good business to take care of. Thank you, Commissioner. Appreciate it. Thank you, Romney. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Hold that. Right here. Here. One more. Hold up. Okay. Romney and group. Thank you. Congratulations. Thanks for all the great work you all have done. Thank you. That's quite a, that's quite a legacy right there. Hey, Romney has a bridge. He has a pier. Okay. With that, I'm going to, for a point of privilege, turn this over to Vice Mayor Bogan for a moment. Two quick things, Mayor. First of all, I had a little incident two weeks ago, and I wanted to really publicly thank Tracy Jackson for his help. So Tracy, wherever you are here, thank you so much. You're a good man. Despite what everyone says, I think you're a good man. And so thank you, Tracy. Thank you. Thank you so much. And secondly, with many of the commissioners, I'm sure we all know that yesterday was Monica's birthday. So on behalf of the commission, we have a cake for you. And we want to give you a cake so we can eat while we're actually here today. I don't know where Ron is, but Ron Lichtman is supposed to. Oh, there's Ronnie. And so we got a cake here for you. Yeah. It's your, your commission has given you a cake to enjoy. And, uh, and, uh, and that's, uh, I don't think we're seeing an happy birthday. Yeah. Pretty bad. Huh? Happy birthday. Happy birthday. That's it, Mayor. Okay. No singing. Okay. Okay. With that, we're going to start by reading the Tuesdays. Pass it around. Yeah. Just pass it around. That'd be perfect. Uh, we're going to start by reading the Tuesday morning memo. Uh, would the reading clerk please read the memo. The Tuesday agenda memorandum. The following are submitted for your consideration. Consent items are one through 42. Public hearing items are 43 through 62. Regular items are 63 through 74. I request the following withdrawals and other modifications to the agenda and note the following additional information. Withdrawals none. Other modifications. Item 50. The board's consideration of this item is based upon the item as modified by the changes in exhibit one, shown in additional material number 50 dash a submitted by the county attorney's office. Scrivener's errors. Items number 11, 26, 61, 62. The board's consideration of these items are based upon the items with their corrections shown on the attached page of Scrivener's errors. Move to consent. Items number 64, 65, 68, 72, and 74 be moved to consent. Move to regular. Item number 41 be moved to regular. Please note items 69, 70, and 71 will be considered concurrently. Time certain none. Additional material. Item number 1a board appointment. Item number 41a amendment to exhibit one state legislative and executive program submitted by senator nanrich. Item number 41 dash b amendment to exhibit one state legislative and executive program submitted by mayor beam for item number 50 a proposed changes to exhibit one resolution submitted by the county attorney's office. Item number 50 dash b email and attachment from sandra vezi einhorn submitted by senator nanrich. Item number 59a memo to the board and staff report submitted by resilient environment department. Thank you. Are there any pools from the consent agenda? We'll start from this side. Commissioner Davis. Mackenzie. None. Commissioner Fisher. Senator Rich. 73 for an abstention. 73. Vice Mayor Bogan. Any polls? I just want to make a comment on 64, 65, 68, and 74 when they come up. So I'll do it all together. It'll be quick. I'm sure the public's polling. Say it again. 64. Senator Geller. 23. Commissioner Rogers. No. Okay. From the public? We have 64, 65, 68, 69, 73, and 74. Okay. Okay. If the county attorney would make that clear to us. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda for today consists of items 1 through 42, less the following items. Item 23 was pulled and item 41 has been moved to regular as well. And then added to the consent agenda is item 72. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to pass. We have a motion by Vice Mayor Bogan and a second by Commissioner McKenzie. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. With that, we will go to item 23, Commissioner. Thank you. I'll be extremely brief on this, Mr. Mayor. This is just a motion to publish the notice of public hearing. I would just, before this comes back to us, I'm hoping somebody will explain why we're doing this to reduce the amount of insurance for Senator Rich. Okay, good. This is the item 23, which would be reducing the amount of insurance required for private transit of students on the schools. Not schools. Buses transporting between 9 and 20 people. So I'm not objecting to this being on the agenda. I'm just saying that before we vote on this, I'm hoping somebody will explain why we'll be doing it. Okay. I'd move the item 23. Okay. Any other discussion on this, Commissioner Dean? No, I was going to second it, but I... Okay. And I wanted to... I did want to comment. Commissioner Davis, do you want to speak to this? Yeah, just briefly. I know that this is going to come back before us, since this is an item that I sponsored, but generally it's just to align with what state requirements are and what our counties to the south and to the north are doing, which is similar, and not to overburden small businesses. And so we can get into that later, but again, it's to align with state law and also to align with what's happening in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, on which we were much higher. Thanks. Thank you, Commissioner Davis. And I think the one thing I was interested in, and I haven't gotten the information yet, is what the differential would be on those costs, because I haven't seen those yet. If we can get that before that comes back, that would be good. Okay. We have a motion and a second on this. All those in favor? Any opposed? That passes unanimously. With that, we'll go to item 64. And let me, let me, Chris, I think you were asking to speak on four items. Okay. What I'm going to do instead is have you speak for 10 minutes on all of them at once. Is that okay? That gives you 10 minutes? Okay. That's when you're signed up for more than, sorry. So we're going to give you 10 minutes. Are you on, did you sign up for 64? What items did Chris sign up for? Yes. 64, 65, 68, 69, and 73 and 74. Okay. All right. With that, is there anyone else signed up for the public? There are three more that are signed up for 64. Okay. So we will do, we'll take item 64 and we'll start with the, the, go ahead. If you'll read who's next. Item 64 is a motion to direct the county attorney's office to draft an agreement to provide funding to coast to coast legal aid of South Florida Inc. in the total, in the total amount of any district one excess budgeted funds account funds for fiscal year 2025, approximately 50,000 to fund services to help seniors avoid eviction and authorized county administrator to execute the agreement and to take all necessary administrative and budgetary actions to implement the same. The first speaker is Melanie Danielson, followed by Jeff Hiddleman. And actually, let me, let me ask before we do this, Commissioner, Senator, would you like to speak to this before? Would you like to hear a public comment? This is your item. Okay. Just making sure. Okay. If we could go read the names again. I'm sorry. Okay. Melanie Danielson, followed by Jeff Hiddleman. I am a staff attorney at Coast to Coast Legal Aid, working to prevent seniors from being evicted. I'd like to share a story about the critical work that we do. In this case, this case involves a low-income Gulf War veteran that came to us frustrated with a large corporate property management company, repeatedly charged him incorrect rent, even threatening eviction based on these accounting errors. After months of inaction, our demand letter finally put the necessary pressure on management to resolve the matter, allowing our senior veteran to keep his home his housing voucher, and ultimately regain his peace of mind. My position is directly funded by your support. After serving three years in Cambodia in the Peace Corps, I wanted to come back to serve the community that I grew up in. During the first six months of this county-funded position, I have been able to help 27 seniors successfully keeping most seniors in their home. Thank you for enabling me to fight for our Broward County seniors. Thank you. Jeff Hiddleman, followed by Lisa G. Goldberg. Thank you for helping us keep seniors in their homes. A couple months ago, we got a call from an elderly tenant in his 90s, just been served with an eviction case. He was scared, didn't know where he'd go or what to do. Through your support, we were able to work with the landlord, find a solution that kept him in his home. Since the start of this year, Coast to Coast Legal Aid has helped nearly 500 seniors facing eviction. We're able to keep a senior in their home. It's more than just the roof over their head, right? Protects their health, their ties to our community, and their peace of mind. Landlords like it too, because our program resolves problems, keeps their rent current, and avoids all the costs of eviction. Thank you for again showing how Broward County supports our seniors. And as Mayor Rich said, former Mayor Rich said, in the state of the county, help them continue aging with dignity. Thank you. Lisa Goldberg followed by Chris Nelson. Good morning. I'm Lisa Goldberg. I'm the Executive Director of Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida. And I want to thank each and every one of you for your support of our program. We have over 50 staff members. We've been voted a top workplace for over eight years. And those 50 staff members represented over 6,000 people in Broward County last year in fighting human trafficking, fighting domestic violence, ensuring that community health and economic advocacy serve the folks in Broward County. And what we're appreciative of today is your support of our seniors. We do so many, we represent our seniors in so many different ways. And Jeff and Melanie did a great job in explaining how we help them age in place. So thank you for your support. Thank you. Thank you. And Chris Nelson. Chris? And Mayor? Yes. Just want to confirm you had mentioned it, but I want to make sure there were no items that are missing. So Mr. Nelson is speaking to 64, 65, 68, 69, 73, and 74. And Mr. Nelson, you've signed up for no other items? Correct. Thank you. The floor is yours. Chris? Okay. Thank you very much, Commissioners, Mayor. I just want to say first, thank you to Commissioner Geller for that great tribute moment of silence for the great Charlie Kirk and just how traumatizing it was all watching that public execution on social media. And that kind of violence has no place in political discourse. I love that we can get up here, we can disagree, but it never comes to violence like that. We should all be able to live safe. So I want to say thank you for that. Thank you for those remarks. Now I get to be the bad guy because who wants to come up and argue that we shouldn't give some money to help a veteran stay in his place. But the fact of the matter is, is there are also veterans who are suffering under the crushing weight of these property taxes that have been going up and up and up. And you see, we saw Governor DeSantis bring this up. So our CFO, Blazing Golia, he was up in Orlando yesterday, calling out a lot of waste that was going on in Canada. The fact of the matter is, is the, um, the population has in Broward County has only increased up to the population has only increased by about 93,000 people, right? No, but just about, about, um, 1,100 people, 5.78% increase from 2019 through today, while the budget has ballooned 61.8% that's, it's gone from 4.82 billion in 2019 to 7.8 billion. Now, yet we hear that we can't cut any tax. We can't go, we can't lower the millage rate. Now, here's where it gets to, to all these items, because I'm going to show you some areas where we can cut and it doesn't, um, it's not fun to cut. There's lots of good, solid, uh, charities and different, um, causes out there to give money to. Uh, but the desire to cut needs to, uh, it needs to be there and it's just not there. And we're seeing some giveaways here. We're seeing a, uh, $50,000 to, uh, Coast, uh, Coast Legal Aid, which it sounds like they do wonderful work, but at a time where the political climate is we need to bring down property taxes, is it prudent to be giving away $200,000 basically to Coast to Coast Legal Aid, to, uh, uh, I'm speaking on number 65, to the Zeta Chi Fraternity. Um, I'm sure they do wonderful things as well, but, uh, is this a time where we need to be giving money to this? Um, also there's money to, uh, um, to go to a, on a, to send two commissioners on a trip to South Africa. I mean, I'm sure there are great trade, uh, opportunities for Broward County in South Africa, but at a time like this where we could see the CFO show up here at any minute, um, and I've, I've informed them about these things and, uh, and, and talk about the, the waste in Broward County and, and point out that is this the time where we could say, look, we're taking this seriously. We know property taxes are going to go to the ballot, very likely to get 60% and property taxes could go away. And the reason why we're in this political climate is because the, the, the crushing weight of property taxes coming down the middle class. I talked to a guy, he's a veteran. He owns four parcels of land in Broward County. He has to cut a check to you guys for $110,000 a year for the, um, for, for the, uh, ability to live on his own property that he's paid off. He's having to pay rent to the government every year to, for his own property. Now is that he doesn't really own that property that he's a veteran too. So, um, the middle class and retirees have been, uh, living under this, this burden of, uh, of these crushing property taxes for some time. And, you know, we hear about affordable housing, Oh, affordable housing. Um, and, uh, we need to take all this money and put it into affordable housing, but you never hear, uh, commissioner rich or anybody here up here, or really maybe commissioner Udine talk about people who are in their thirties, forties in the middle class who both husband and wife have to work every day. Cause you really have to have two incomes to live here. And, uh, that, and the, the way that property taxes are crushing them because that's affordable housing to cutting the millage rate, cutting property taxes that that makes housing more affordable for people like me. And where do people like me fit in? Where do people like the gentleman I speak to fit in? Um, because you never hear anybody consider people who are in the middle class who are working and paying these massive, uh, property taxes. Um, and, and you got some pretty big salaries up here on this section. You've got, uh, the county administrator making almost half a million dollars a year. You've got, I mean, it's gotten to a point where, where are we going to go? Are we going to have a county administrator in five years making a million dollars a year? I mean, I mean, and then, and then it's going to be, Oh, Chris, well, we need to have that, uh, amount to get, to get, to be competitive, but there really wasn't any nationwide search for one. It was just somebody that was promoted from inside and happy birthday, Monica. But, um, you know, there's some, see some cake going around there. We should have saying happy birthday. I mean, these, I, I get it. You're up there. This is not something that people up here want to say. That's why I'm saying it, but you're elected to make some hard decisions. I say, we don't do the legal aid. We don't do the money to the fraternities. There was, uh, there's another item up here, um, that gives money to the, um, oh boy, you got, uh, $15,000 going to coast to coast. So that they must be doing a lot of work because they seem to be, I mean, they seem to be getting a lot of money here. Um, you got $12,500 for Island Space Caribbean Museum. You know, I'm sure that this Island Space Caribbean Museum is probably a great place, but at the, at a time where we are looking to cut back and where this is coming down to the state is taking action on this. Should we be spending money on things like this? Or should we be, um, saying, uh, we're going to take this seriously and we're going to cut now this afternoon, we're going to have another budget hearing. Uh, thank you, Commissioner Udine for having the guts to say we need to cut the millage rate. And I believe there was three of you up here, the commissioner McKinsey and was one other. It's actually, uh, was it Fisher, right? Where is he? Um, oh, there you are. What's up? So, uh, so thank you to those three who, um, who took that stand. And, um, I'm hoping we get some more people on board this afternoon because, uh, with a 60% increase in budget and with a, uh, with only a, uh, what did I say? 8% increase in, um, I want to get my numbers right because Commissioner Geller will definitely point it out if I don't get my numbers right with a, um, 5.7% increase of, uh, of population. There is room to cut. Okay. Um, I get it. The sheriff's office takes up a large amount of this and that's another conversation too. There needs to be some oversight with the sheriff's office. Really? Um, we need the ability to audit him. Um, but, uh, uh, there absolutely absolutely can cut and return back to, uh, the spending levels of 2019 because we did it back then and the county didn't, the world wasn't falling apart then, but now we, now since 2020, we've kind of increased this spending level and then said, we have to keep it there and we can't cut, we can't go back. That's simply not true. Now, the last thing I want to talk about is, um, the item about the Broward Addiction Recovery Center. As I've given my personal testimony before, I have gone through the Broward Addiction Recovery Center for Alcohol and, uh, I credit that facility for saving my life. Um, it's somewhere I went when I was down, I was out and, uh, in a very, very bad place in my life and the staff there, the nurses there are fantastic. They're doing fantastic work. Um, um, geez, pretty soon it'll be a year sober for me. So I'm very happy about that. You don't have to clap for me because I'm just doing what I should have been doing anyway. But I'll tell you this, the work that the Broward Addiction Recovery Center does is great. And that's one of the most wonderful things. I don't want to be all negative up here. That's one of the most wonderful things that Broward County funds. And that's an archetype that should be used all across the state and the country for helping people, um, to get back on their feet. Because usually when you're at the bottom of the barrel, you have no money left. So you have to, to go into a place like that in the facility. There's amazing. I would recommend though, putting out more, um, advertising for it, um, possibly radio benches. So people really know, um, what the Broward Addiction Recovery Center does. If you would like a recorded testimonial, I would be happy to, uh, give you one. So thanks for listening to me for 10 minutes, commissioners, mayor, everybody. And I will see you back, uh, here at five o'clock. Okay. Thank you, Chris. All right. Thank you. With that, uh, we're going to just do, um, I'm 64 right now. Uh, Senator Rich, do you want to speak on this? Okay. Yes, I do. Okay. So first I want to thank, um, Lisa and Jack and Melanie for being here today. Uh, the work that you do is incredible. And, um, um, I have to say, um, that, um, you know, uh, Chris mentioned, it's not fun to, to, to cut seniors. Well, it isn't. And we're not going to do that because we are making such progress with the work that you are doing. Um, so I want to just say that this item is, um, the item that remains in my budget, office funds. And I have a policy personally that I only give it to, uh, things that are, need more funding within our regular budget, our regular county budget. I don't give it outside. I don't give it to anybody else, even though I could give it to a lot of nonprofits. I believe that it is money that came from our budget and it should go back in. But my, we get to choose, uh, what we do with that. And, uh, I, um, I have to say that, uh, I couldn't be prouder of taking this $50,000 and giving it to a program that has in a short period of time, our, our seniors, our coast to coast program with legal aid for seniors done so much for so many seniors. Um, and unfortunately, um, well, fortunately the money that we had for, for legal aid of Broward was, was not one-time money. The money that we had last year was one-time money for coast to coast legal aid, $500,000. It took a while to get the contract passed through and that was difficult. But, uh, but now we're, we're going to be negotiating directly with coast to coast and this is directed, um, to, uh, to them. So there is a, um, it is, uh, uh, as I said, rollover, there's a rollover of 200,000 that was not, it was underutilized because of the, these, um, the fact that the contract didn't get signed immediately. Um, so we really need, I, I had hoped we would put more than 500,000 this year because of what they're doing. But, uh, we're trying to get back up to, to that. And, um, so part of helping to do that is to take the 50,000 that I have left in my office account and dedicate it to, uh, to fund services, uh, for, uh, to help seniors, um, avoid restriction, avoid eviction, um, through the coast to coast legal aid program. So, and I make the motion to pass. We have a motion and a second. Yes. Um, commissioner Udine followed by vice mayor. Um, so I planned on bringing this up at 501, but it's, I wanted to make sure that I spoke about this now and, and, and like, uh, Mr. Nelson had mentioned. So last meeting we had, uh, Commissioner McKenzie, Commissioner Fisher, myself, and I remember from the workshop, Commissioner Bogan said he was aboard with making a modest millage cut reduction. I commend the three of them for that. I think it's the right thing to do. And we'll talk about that obviously again at 501. Um, and, and I guess Drew or Renee can explain state law. If there's not six people, a millage rate doesn't get passed. So if the four of us hold tight together, we can bring some relief to Broward County, but that's a story for later on tonight. What I will say is on item 64, 65, 68 and 74. And these are my comments on these. Um, to me, when the board collectively wrestles with not being able to give even a modest millage rate reduction, um, and then I just think it sends the wrong must message to take dollars that are budgeted for our office accounts that are budgeted to do what we are supposed to do internally with our offices, that if we don't use, get swept back into the reserves, like commissioner Geller, rightfully speaks about to then not sweep those back into reserves and not give a modest millage reduction, I think sends the absolute worst message right now. There needs to be a millage cut. So what I would say is, I think we should make items 64, 65, 68 and 74, all conditional upon, give the money if you want to do it, but conditional upon a 501, us lowering the millage rate for next year. I don't care what it is, but even a modest amount lowers it. So I think we should have 64, 65, 68 and 74 pass conditionally upon us lowering the millage rate tonight. And if we don't, then these items shouldn't pass. Vice Mayor Bogan. Mr. Nelson, I, uh, I, you know, I think you made some good points, really did. Um, I think, uh, when you are sitting in our seat, you need to look at who is really the most vulnerable in society and who needs it. And there's a lot of vulnerable people and vulnerable groups, but certainly the ones that are in district two, and maybe in, uh, obviously in other districts are seniors. And as everyone here knows, um, seniors who move down here are mostly on fixed incomes and seniors who move down here are hoping that their fixed incomes and their savings can pay their bills. And, um, it's not just looking at the millage rate. I think we need to look at a totality of things. First of all, our state has a, um, insurance company called citizens. And nothing has been done that I'm aware of by the state to reduce insurance rates because it can happen if citizens set the tone. But more importantly is many of these seniors are now required by state legislature law to fully fund reserves at all the condos and homeowner associations in Florida. That means thousands and thousands of dollars of assessments, special assessments are done because where they didn't have to fully fund reserves, now it's being required to fully fund them in a short period of time, which a lot of these seniors don't have the money or need more time. And so I find right now seniors more vulnerable than ever before, not to mention health care costs and medication costs and grocery costs and everything else going up. And that's why really having a roof over your head and be having a place to stay is very important. And protecting seniors in this small little way of what coast to coast does, I think is important. And certainly it could be swept back into reserves, but I think you're helping a vulnerable group that needs help now. And that's why I'm going to support, um, um, Commissioner Rich. And that's why I did a small amount myself. Thank you. Anyone else? Commissioner Rogers. Thanks mayor. And let me join my colleagues in saying thank you Senator for funding, no matter how small it is, because you had that right to choose who you would like to give to. The county cannot take care of everyone. And we have different needs in different communities. And by allowing us to be able to use our excess funds, and I want to share with you, for me, I worked with one less staffer. And I have a very busy district. So when I tell you I use my community to help me to do a lot of things in my district, this is a way I can say I can't afford to pay them, but I can support the programs that they are doing, that the county, and as much as you have funding, you don't have funding for everyone or everything that needs it. So when we are able to use those funds in our communities to help our nonprofits, I think we should be allowed to do that, because we made sacrifice by not using all of the money, because we know this was a way that we would be able to support other groups in our community. I'm glad I didn't wait for two years to fund and be that voice and face for Coast to Coast, coming into Broward County. I knew you would rock. I knew you would help my seniors, and you have done so. So I say thank you and continue to do that good work. All right, we couldn't pay you what you're worth and value, but we know you receive that blessing when you help a senior. So continue to do what you're doing. So that's my comment as it relates to the funding that I have. I worked without a staffer, and when I realized what I could do and how I could help my district, I was working harder to save those funds for a day like today. So looking forward to your support. Senator Geller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I agree with Senator Rich and with Commissioner Udine. Senator Geller. This year is a little different. I, in the past, have given some excess funds to Feeding South Florida, which we honored recently. And so I do think that it is appropriate when commissioners have excess funds. You know, I've typically in past years only given to county agencies after that, you know, the animal shelter, things like that, things that are already funded by the county. This year, because of the current fiscal issues, I chose to just return my excess funds to the county to grow the reserves. But I think that's an individual decision that each county commissioner should be able to make and should be able to prioritize. And that's the way it's been done in the past. And I don't think the commission has a stronger advocate for seniors than Senator Rich. And I fully understand her position. And it's one that, in my view, she gets to be making. And because of that, and Commissioner McKenzie, you get to make that decision as well. And so I'm supporting, I will be voting in favor of giving the commissioners the discretion on how to be spending their excess funds. You know, again, all of us have different views this year and in particular, but I think that has to be left up to the discretion of each commissioner. And so I will be supporting the, was it four or five items? Four. Okay, I'll be supporting those four items. Okay. Anyone else? Just one clarification too that I wanted, because Mr. Nelson talked about this individual cutting a check for $110,000 to the county. Just want to reiterate again that only 25 cents of every dollar goes to the county. The rest of the dollars goes to the city, the school boards, and so forth, that actually have higher millage rates than we do. So just for the record. Thank you. Anyone else? Um, for myself, uh, for the past 10 years, I've always, um, turned the money back into the account because I do feel, and this is personal, uh, that whenever we speak as a board and when, and those decisions, when we allocate money, it has to be approved by all of us. Um, there's no one, there's a candy bike, no one can go rogue on stuff. And for, and for that reason, I've always felt office accounts should go back into that. I've always voted. And so I hope no one takes it personal because I've done it for 10 years. Uh, but I always vote against this because I do think it should be going back. I think every, everyone's, um, what they're, what they're putting forward are all good things, all great things. And, and, you know, they've all been vetted from my understanding, which is good. Um, my, but from my point, I'm not, I will be, will not be voting for that. Um, I know, I know. And, and, and, and I mean, what I would like to see is those things be put forth in the budget ahead of time and say, we want this and this and this so we can vote and discuss it collectively. That's the way I, my person, I think it should be done, but that's just me. So with that, we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor. Any opposed opposed. Okay. That passes seven, two. Um, we will go to a similar item, um, which I think is 68. Yes. I'm going to take these kind of in, I'm going a little out of order on this, but I'm trying to kind of be a little follow suit here. 68, um, Vice Mayor Bogan. We have a motion, a motion and a second. Any discussion? It's the same item. Same item. All those in favor. Any opposed? Opposed. Opposed. Seven, two. Very rude. With that, we go to, I know, um, the next one like this was, yeah, there is 65. Yes. Item 65 and I miss, Commissioner McKenzie, is that yours? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh, Commissioner McKenzie, um, motions for 65. We have a second. We have a second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Opposed. That's seven, two. Um, the last item like that was 74, I think. Is that right? Yes. Yes. Item 74, um, Commissioner Rogers. Did you want to speak to it at all or just want to make a motion? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't get a chance to hear you. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Opposed. Okay. So that passes seven to two. Okay. With that, let's go back to item 41, which is our legislative program. And I will pass this over to County Administrator. Item 41 is a motion to approve 2026 Broward County State Legislative and Executive Program and to authorize staff to make any necessary technical or typographical changes. No members of the public have signed up to speak. Sure. Vice Mayor Bogie. Yeah. I just want to clarify something, uh, that came before everybody. So when someone pays their tax bill, we, the county, get 25% of that. So I want to make sure, that's what you were saying, Commissioner. So I want to make sure that's clear that when someone pays a dollar on their real estate taxes, that only the county gets 25 cents of that. 75% goes to cities or wherever else. We do not get the dollar. I just want to make sure we go clear that up. Yes. I'd like to be shown as a co-sponsor of Senator Rich's, uh, amendment on item number 41. Okay. Let's, let's go. We have, we have a program there, but there's two. Senator Rich and myself, um, have some amendments on this. So Senator Rich, go ahead. Okay. So I have an amendment here, um, which deals with the, um, the vaccine issue, which we discussed last time, which I discussed last time when we were, we were meeting. And, um, uh, instead of doing a resolution, I felt it was important to put it in the legislative program so that our lobbyists could be part of helping us to get the message out that this county opposes amendments, um, to state laws that eliminate or reduce current statutorily required student immunizations and support amendments to state laws that add immunizations that are currently required by the, um, rule of the Department of Health. And I want to just say that, um, we had a discussion last time and I was correct. Uh, there are seven, um, seven immunizations that are in statute. And they have been there since 2002. And they would require the governor and, uh, Latipo to, uh, go to the legislature to have any of those removed. Those are, um, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, rubella, uh, which is measles. I mean, I'm sorry, rubella, pertussis, which is mumps and tetanus. And then we have four who that are in, they've been included in, in all of the, the, the usual things that we do with the ones that are in statute. But they are for that, but would need to actually be put into the statute, um, so that the, the Department of Health could not arbitrarily remove them. And, um, those are hepatitis, uh, varicella, which is chickenpox, um, and, uh, influenza type B and pneumococcal, uh, conjugate. So those, that, so this, this would accomplish, we, that we would recommend and we would ask that our lobbyists, this is part of our legislative program, again, to oppose amendments to state law that eliminate or reduce currently statutorily required student immunizations and support amendments to state laws that add immunizations that are currently required by the rule of, uh, uh, uh, Department of Health. And you're making a motion to that effect. Do we have a second? We have a second. Uh, any discussion on this? I just want to make a comment. Um, I'm going to oppose this and it didn't mean that I don't want to have children immunized. The current political climate and what is going on and this is coming from Tallahassee. And, um, I don't want to be on record saying I oppose something. If we say we recommend or we suggest or something like that, as in your next item, you're advocating for it, uh, is a softer, uh, ask, but I don't want to oppose anything because, you know, I don't know the outcomes in Tallahassee and how they, they deal with, um, opposing something or things of this nature. We all know this is important. I mean, not one person, even those that, that have changed the laws. Uh, but that's their, that's their rhetoric. That's their platform. And I just rather not, you know, can I, can I ask the maker of the motion if, if you might want to put it into a, into. I think she feels strongly about it. I think she should change it. No, no, I would not. I think you keep it just the way you want it. I'm not willing to jeopardize the health of our children. People die when the children die and then they bring it and bring home diseases to their families, to immunosuppressed people. This is the whole medical community in this state. All of our, our pediatric society, the AMA, everybody is coming out against, exactly for what I have written here. And, and I'm, I, I'm not willing, you know, to change that. I mean, we need, we need to speak out on this. This, this is, you know. I was just going to, I didn't know if there was a way of putting it into a, no advocacy, into an advocacy statement. There's not. Okay. We, we have a motion and a second to add this to the, um, legislative agenda. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That passes 8 to 1. Um, I have a, uh, amendment on this. There was kind of a generic, um, request here that was, that it currently reads multimodal funding advocate advocate for recurring funding for multimodal transportation options, including rail and public transportation. I think it's important that we make a distinct, a distinction between the SFRT requests that we're doing and the, uh, new starts requests we're making. They are coming out of entirely, totally different buckets of money. They need to be, you know, they are, they are all, both of those are, are getting support from multiple, from counties. I was on a call with, um, Miami-Dade and with, uh, Commissioner Higgins down there with regard to the, um, commuter rail. And they were, and along with Beacon Council and Broward Workshop. They're all on board of, of putting, of advocating for this. Likewise, with the SFRTA, my understanding, and Lamar, if you want to speak to this, um, there, everyone is on board on trying to find a way to keep tri-rail going. And all three, you know, with CEFTEC that I'm on, all three counties are, you know, fully engaged on this. So I think there's a, you know, you've got, you've got a South Florida Regional Planning Council engaged on that. You got SFRTA engaged. Um, so I think it's important that we distinguish this. Distinguish? Distinguish this? Sounded funny for a minute. Um, and make, and, and let our lobbyists know we need them to go full tilt on all, on both of these as much as they can. Commissioner Fisher. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. And just, again, I want to thank everybody for passing, uh, resolution number 72 on our agenda because that mirrors now that Miami-Dade and Broward and Palm Beach are now, uh, collectively, uh, in sync. I know Ms. Shapiro and her team has been working diligently with the other, uh, counties, uh, trying to figure out the specific funding for tri-rail. And I had thought that I had had this already in there, but, uh, through my conversations with Mr. Cassini, but obviously it was not there. So I want to thank the mayor for getting it in there. So I was a little bit upset this morning when I got this additional material. At the end of the day, I thought it was in there because I'm representing the SFRTA. But needless to say, we're a team here. So we need to make sure it moves forward. But again, I, I think, uh, Ms. Shapiro and her team are working diligently with those other folks. So hopefully we can come up with a solution. But ultimately, the state of Florida needs to step up and they need to continue to fund tri-rail as they always have done. Without a doubt, it's black and white. So I just want to put that on the record. Thank you. Any other? Yeah. Senator Gillard. Last week, the, um, South Florida Regional Planning Council held our transit-oriented development conference where Commissioner Fisher was one of our speakers. And, um, you know, if we're going to have affordable housing, we need more housing units. Best place to put them is at the transit car stations. So I agree completely. We, we had a, by the way, sellout conference. You had to be turning people away. Um, great conference. I agree with everything you said, Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Fisher. And view this as an affordable housing issue, uh, because the second highest expense after actual rent for, uh, most people is transit, transportation. So TOD resolves that. We need tri-rail. Yeah, I think for, you know, we, obviously our highest priority for the last few years has been affordable housing. Um, and over 50% of our citizens are cost burdened. That goes up to 67% when you take into consideration transportation. That's, that's two thirds of the people in this county cost burdened on, on, you know, on a couple levels. So, um, with that, thank you. I'll move them in. We have a motion and a second, um, for a, uh, slight change on the multimodal funding, the reading of that. All those in favor? Any opposed? That passes unanimously. With that, and with, uh, with, uh, I'll entertain a motion taking those two amendments to them. Senator Geller, we have a motion by Senator Geller, second by Senator Rich. The full item as amended, you're saying there. The full item as amended. I knew there was a way to say that. Thank you. How does that affect my vote? If, uh, you're, you're shown as opposed to 41A, you're in favor of, uh, 41B, but on the whole item, if you vote yes, then you're voting on it, inclusive of both of those amendments. If you vote no, then you're just voting against it. We can't do them separate? It's, it's, uh, I'm asking the attorney a question. Go ahead. Go ahead. You, you now have to vote on the whole item. Uh, but, and, but you can explain, but you can also, after your vote, if you'd like to, you have the opportunity to explain your vote under our rules. Uh, but I think the basis for any objection, I think, would be clear. I'll just sit out for clarification or lack thereof. I'll just sit it out. Okay. Meaning, but I gave you how I've, yeah, how I support. So, okay. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Right. Okay. All those in favor. Any opposed? No. Okay. We have eight to one on that on item 41. Okay. Let's go to item 71 commissioner Rogers. We're going to, I'm going to take these a little out of order because I think it makes sense. Uh, you've brought an, an interesting item here, uh, to, yeah, I'm, I'm going to that, that's, uh, yeah, I'll wait on this one. This is a motion to discuss process for informing all members of the Broward County board of county commissioners about conferences, trade missions, and other opportunities to represent and promote Broward County. Um, so commissioner Rogers, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I, there were two incidents and that's what really prompted me to bring this out. Right. I believe that, um, we need to share information and I'm not just talking legislatively and I did talk to Monica and I think she has something in mind to address my concern as it relates to if someone comes to the convention center to use the facility there and it's international. They're bringing in folks and heads in bed will happen, but yet we don't know. So I think there needs to be, when they make contact at the convention center, somehow there should be something clicking to say, oh, this is different than a normal person using the facility. So we need to welcome them to Broward County. We need to do what we can do as a protocol to make sure everyone is aware that this group is coming in from Honduras. So I take a Spanish country, for example, and they're coming in, bringing delegation and they want to do business here in Broward County, but they just came in, rent the convention center, book their hotels, nobody knows. And I think we missed an opportunity there to brag on Broward County and I felt that if the convention center staff somehow there was something that triggered, there's more to this than someone renting hotel rooms or just showing up. I'm just saying there needs to be a connection. Somehow that should have gotten to Stacy and Monica, so they know we have delegates, we have visitors, prime ministers, ministers, all of that here, but no one knew. Question. Senator Gallo. Commissioner Rogers, are you referring then item 71 is for inbound only when we have international conferences or other things that are coming to Broward County that the commissioners should know about so that we can appropriately have delegations of commissioners to welcome them. You're talking about only when people are coming here, not about when two commissioners going to other locations. Is that correct? That could be incorporated, but right now that was my focus when I started, I wanted us not to miss an opportunity to welcome folks who are visiting our county. We have a lot to brag on and we need to monitor our heads in beds, our butts in taxis, whatever it is, a little bit more because we know. Okay, to follow up, I think that's what you're saying is a good idea, but it may go a step further. I've always felt that it's, and Drew in reference to any gift or ticket or other issue, I've always felt that commissioners, if there is important, I remember a couple years ago at a boat show we had, I think it was the Prime Minister of Monaco or somebody from Monaco, and I know we had a number of commissioners that were there, and I've always thought that appropriate. I know that, just as another example, I'm the general counsel of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States, which is a group of legislators from across the country. If they're coming into town, or if the conference of black legislators are coming into town, or something like that, I think it's appropriate that the commissioners should know about these items. I don't know if that's all through the CVB, but we should know so that we can send delegations from the commission to welcome them, and if that's what Commissioner Rogers' motion is, I think it's a great idea. This is just a motion to discuss today. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor. In that case, I agree that it's a good idea that we should be knowing about incoming delegations of notables so that the county commission, if appropriate, I know I've been asked sometimes to come and welcome and give remarks to groups that have come in, and I think it's a good idea and all the commissioners should know about it. Okay. Mr. McKenzie. I think I understand now. So you're just asking that when a dignitary of wherever that comes to this county, just be welcome like everyone under the sun. Okay. Okay. I think the communication piece is key. Yes. Because I think all of us really, I know some of us go more than others, but there should be some information bank that we can see this stuff and make our calendars accordingly. Okay. That's kind of your point. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Anything else you want to discuss on this? Well, no. I know Drew and everyone, Monica, got it from I mentioned it. She said she know there's a way to fix this. Okay. Good. I just wanted to share. Okay. All right. With that, I was thinking it was more on protocols and stuff. So I'm going to, I thought it was a little bit more related to the next. Okay. But because of that, I'm going to go back now to public hearing, and then I'll save the other two for the end. 43, if the reading clerk would go. The public hearing on item 43 is now open. Item 43 is a motion to adopt resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive unrestricted Port Everglades vessel state. Second is this motion to adopt the board and parcel of the entire commercial bunkering services franchise. This is the new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak. Move it. Okay. We have a motion by Vice Mayor Bogan and a second by Commissioner McKenzie. That is correct. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Item 44. The public hearing on item 44 is now open. Item 44 is a motion to adopt resolution granting renewal of a exclusive unrestricted port everglades steamship agent services franchise to united steve doring of america inc for a new five-year term no member of the public has signed up to speak we have a motion from vice mayor bogan and a second from senator geller all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously item 45 the public hearing on item 45 is now open item 45 is a motion to adopt resolution pertaining to port everglades tariff number 12 amending section 42.25 of the county administrative code regarding tariff rates and requirements for various activities at port everglades no members of the public have signed up to speak we have a motion from senator geller and a second from commissioner mckenzie i'll take it all those in favor any opposed passes unanimously item 46 the public hearing on item 46 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 october 7th 2025. item 46 is a motion to approve sixth amendment to the lease agreement between broward county and the south florida wildlife center inc for a 4.11 acre parcel of land located at 3200 southwest fourth fourth avenue fort lauderdale florida extending the lease term to december 31st 2026 with up to three additional one-year renewal options no members of the public have shined up signed up to speak okay so no action needs to be taken on this but i just want to say i am so thankful for this one that that you know we've been working hard to get that up a home for the uh south florida wildlife center this is actually on airport property the airport feels like that property is needed and southwest ranches is is that in your you want to say something i do okay and and i talked i did see the mayor the other day and he was he said his commission is thrilled to have that and can't wait to try to figure out how to where to put it and how to how to pay for it actually um yeah mayor bright shoes would have been here today but i told him i didn't think it was necessary we're going to be fine uh i am very excited about this the city the town of southwest ranches is very excited about it and it's really a perfect place uh uh to to to to put this wonderful uh program uh new center and the property actually it's taken quite some time because it took several years to get it through the school board and it because it is on school board property and the the new property um is procured in partnership with the town of southwest ranches and the broward county school board and it allows the organization to move forward with their plans to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and expand its program uh construction is expected to be begin in 2026 and um uh they are already the the wildlife center of the folks are have been raising money in preparation for this and um they will obviously be moving towards a full campaign but it's it is a you know just a very exciting uh program and it's it's an eight acre property in southwest ranches and it's just as i said perfect for the hospital and the wildlife care campus yep so okay great they do great work if anybody wants to take a take a visit or volunteer you can volunteer great with that we go to item 47 the public hearing on item 47 is now open item 47 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use plan map pc 25-2 within the city of pompano beach no members of the public have signed up to speak the public hearing on item 48 is now open item 48 is a motion to adopt resolution to transmit to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use plan natural resource map series pc nrm 25-1 to amend the environmentally sensitive lands map within the city of pompano beach no member of the public have signed up to speak so i'll move it mayor thank you tag team back again okay uh motion by commissioner fisher second by uh commissioner mckenzie all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously item 49 the public hearing on item 49 is now open item 49 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use plan map pc 25-3 within the city of plantation no members of the public have signed up to speak okay i'll entertain a motion so move we have a motion from senator rich second by commissioner mckenzie all those in favor any opposed the passage united united i need everybody speaking yeah just good practice for tonight if that's that's possible i was hearing i heard commissioner mckenzie okay all those in favor speak up show me uh approving uh voting uh approving the ones i missed okay um and mayor say uh maybe for commissioner rogers as well she wants to be asked if she would like to be shown as voting in favor of the one side okay let's find out 47 48 commissioner rogers do you want to be shown voting in favor of the public hearing items where you're absent okay of course of course okay so please add add those two to the voice of approval uh with that we go to 49 do we just do for uh number if we we could just have an audible vote on oh yeah audible all those in favor of 49 perfect any opposed much better much better but it sounds better it sounds like harmony there yeah item 50. the public hearing on item 50 is now open item 50 is a motion to adopt resolution amending article 5 of the administrative rules document broward next regarding in lieu payments for affordable housing no members of the public have signed up to speak move it got a motion by by vice mayor bogan and a second commissioner mckenzie all those in favor any opposed any opposed that passes unanimously item 51 public hearing on item 51 is now open item 51 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use plan map pc 25-4 within the city of plantation no members of the public have signed up to speak move it we have a motion from vice mayor mogan bogan and a second commissioner mckenzie all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously that passes unanimously item 52 the public hearing on item 52 is now open item 52 is a motion to adopt resolution designating the searcy house villa providence as a historic resource no members of the public have signed up to speak we have a motion from vice mayor bogan and a second from commissioner udine all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously um item 53 move it the public hearing on item 53 is now open item 53 is a motion to adopt resolution designating the historic historic hollandale schoolhouse as a historic resource no members of the public have signed up to speak i do go ahead then yeah i do i do thank you well actually good uh moved by senator geller second by vice mayor bogan um all those in favor any opposed okay very good that passes unanimously 54 the public hearing on item 54 is now open item 54 is a motion to adopt resolution amending section 38.18 of the county administrative code to prescribe a revised schedule of retail water and wastewater services rates fees and charges no members of the public have signed up to speak we have a motion from senator geller a second by commissioner udine all those in favor any opposed okay do you really want to oppose that okay eight to one um i'm 55 the public carry on item 55 is now open item 55 is a motion to adopt resolution amending section 38.19 of the county administrative code to prescribe a revised schedule of wastewater large user rates no members of the public have signed up to speak we have a motion from vice mayor bogan and second by uh commissioner udine all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously item 56 the public carry on item 56 is now open item 56 is a motion to adopt a resolution amending section 38.20 of the county administrative code to prescribe a revised schedule of wastewater large user rates no members of the public have signed up to speak we have we have a motion by vice mayor bogan a second by senator geller all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously with that we go to 57 public hearing on item 57 is now open item 57 is a motion to approve broward county transportation department's fiscal year 2026 transit capital program of projects no members of the public have signed up to speak okay so how do we approve this when we haven't doesn't this affect our evolve our budget so i don't understand um to me that looks like it would involve our budget 57 sorry to wake you up so county administrator yeah thank you so commissioners um item 57 is just their the the capital program that is part of the budgets we have to annually um list the pro the programs and all the projects and we do this um that can actually change um based on the budget adoption and what whatever else we we are working on but this is something that we have to put on every year and we list them out and they get amended as as there's amendments to the program it's just something that publicly we have to um list separately so this is detailing the projects without the assignment of these of the cost yeah no it's not a detail you're approving the projects for the fiscal year 20 you're approving the program of the capital program oh i see you're just approving the projects that it's the actual program of all the projects and those individual projects with the funding will be part of the budget we have a motion uh by vice mayor bogan and seconded by commissioner rogers i know you you've kind of snuck into it all those in favor aye any opposed that passes unanimously item 58 public hearing on item 58 is now open item 58 is a motion to approve re-establishment of sunday transit service on hillsborough boulevard route 48 no members of the public have signed up to speak move it my district okay vice mayor wrote a motion to approve by vice mayor bogan and a second by commissioner fisher all those in favor any opposed that passes unanimously that passes unanimously item 59 public hearing on item 59 is now open item 59 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to zoning creating and amending various sections of chapter 39 of the county code of ordinances regarding synthetic turf procedures for certified recovery residents and condominium and cooperative associations no members of the public have signed up to speak move it we have a motion by uh commissioner fisher second by vice mayor bogan all those in favor aye any any opposed that passes unanimously item 60. the public hearing on items that was unanimous a lot of head nodding going on here uh item 60 please the public hearing on item 60 is now open item 60 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to tax certificate sales repealing section 31 and a half dash four of the county code of ordinances no members of the public have signed up to speak move it we have a motion by vice mayor bogan and a second by second commissioner udin all those in favor in harmony aye aye aye aye aye all those in favor all those in favor i said in favor i know but it was so scattered i did it again all those in favor aye aye any opposed that passes you yeah i heard her say aye aye okay i'm i'm trying county attorney i'm trying that passes unanimously i know all right with that we are going to go back to you got 61 and two 61 and two oh you're right i'm sorry thank you uh that's what your vice mayor item 61 the meeting of the governing board of water control district number four is now open item 61 is a motion to approve reappointment of jill sarver to the water control district number four advisory board for a two-year term from september 9th 2025 through september 8th 2027 no members of the public have signed up to speak steve you agree with that you're on the water water water board yes do you want to make a motion motion by senator geller second by second vice mayor bogan all those in favor aye speak up aye all those uh opposed that passes unanimously 62 our uh the meeting of the governing board of water control district number four is now closed our final public hearing item is item 62 the public hearing on item 62 is now open the meeting of the kokomar water control district is now open item 62 is a motion to approve reappointment of randall blanchett to the kokomar water control district advisory board for a two-year term from september 9th 2025 through september 8th 2027 no members of the public have signed up to speak move it second motion by vice mayor bogan seconded by senator geller all those in favor aye much better any opposed that passes unanimously but you nod you nod loudly you nod very loudly you want me to leave off on my yep okay with that we are going to go to i think the only thing we have left is 68 and 69 69 69 oh 63 63 is the shade oh oh yeah so so yes 60 69 70 and 73 okay okay 73 at the beginning to have an extent abstention so let's do that one let's do let's do 73 and get it out of the way okay um you want to read your we're gonna we're gonna do 73 take care of that go ahead okay um so i serve on the board of borrowed behavioral health coalition which will be impacted financially if item 73 passes i do not receive any compensation for serving on this board and i therefore have no actual statutory conflict however to avoid the appearance of a conflict i'm abstaining on item 73 and ask that this be reflected in the minutes okay someone would someone like to make it make a motion move it no it's mine you can second it motion by commissioner mckenzie second by rogers by commissioner rogers all those in favor aye any opposed thank you very much that passes unanimously um with one do we do the oh with with one abstention thank you um do i do i need to do the shade meeting last because we go into a shade meeting actually legally you just hold it you don't even need to announce it or anything else say we go into room 430 so once we're done with okay so i'll do that last yeah okay okay just checking just checking um okay with that we will go to item 68 8 no 69 69 vice mayor bogan okay uh i got i got a bunch of things to talk about with 69 uh but vice vice mayor mayor no no thank you let me do that this is different actually let me let me say something first on this um as mayor we are allowed to or we're invited to trade missions in this case um i cannot go um i'm being i have been invited to speak in london at the same time um so i can't go to this so i asked vice mayor bogan if he was uh interested in going and uh vice mayor bogan was interested in going at the time and i'll from there i'll go i'll hand it over to you but mayor may i just ask are you in the monday night memo you reflect that you were opening uh 69 and 70 together are you opening both items together or just 69 um we could well let's just do 69 first okay thank you so i'd like to talk to uh commissioners about a couple things one has to do with protocol which the mayor just mentioned two has to do with fitzy and um three just my own uh comment and then i'll stop talking um so when i so when i got here in 2014 when i was elected late 2014 beam and i were here and there was a protocol the mayor went the vice mayor went the former mayor went and then by seniority i didn't travel anywhere from 2014 until 2019 was the first time i went anywhere and only went to canada two years ago because the mayor couldn't go um it was a seniority it was a it was a protocol and we've lived by that and i think it it's deservedly so um i want to also mention since i couldn't talk directly to commissioner davis now prior to her becoming on the board beforehand i had the opportunity to speak with her and she asked me this is before she was a commissioner so there wasn't any issue in sunshine so she asked me that she was interested in getting involved with fitzy and i so i told her uh please whatever you want to do my interest is sister cities and i wanted to be inclusive i wanted to be welcoming and um and um maybe there was a misunderstanding because on on the sheet here it says that she's the point person and um i didn't appoint i don't have the authority mayor to appoint anybody um but um i again i believe in being inclusive and welcoming and anybody wants to get involved should get involved my interest was sister cities maybe you need to understand what sister cities is sister cities is where you go and travel and do trade missions that's sister cities where you're going and trying to cut a some type of business deal where you can bring business back to broward county so this south africa thing actually is a sister city type of event and um and so i'm hoping a couple things one that this board recognizes and will keep the same protocol number two i agree with uh not only with mr nelson said but i think in this budget times two commissioners should not go i think it sends a bad message and if i was commissioner davis i'm going to speak for you you can tell me i'm wrong later if i was commissioner davis i'd be thinking sure commissioner bogan that's the only one should go because you're going to be the mayor or hopefully be the mayor and and and that thought because of that thought i'm going to withdraw i'm not going to want to i'm not going to go i will withdraw my name from going on this trip because i don't want it to look like oh you want the protocol because you're next in line so i'm going to withdraw my name but i think the person that goes should be in a protocol and go by that and if it ends up being commissioner davis great but it should be a protocol that we all should live with so that when you or you or you become mayor or you become vice mayor that protocol will be there for you as well and and and so um i'm withdrawing my name from 69 i think only one person should go i went to canada on a mission the mayor couldn't go i don't need another commissioner standing there with me to talk to companies i if there was another commissioner it's a waste of money i know other cities send lots of people i personally believe it's a waste of money because when i went on the mission to canada everywhere i went i didn't need a second person there with me and and so especially what's going on now with budgets and rising money and everything that's going on i think we need to send a message to the community only if only one person should be going and it's not going to be me so i'll take it there and so i'm withdrawing number 69 and i'm hoping that we can uh first all agree and address the protocol issue and come to an agreement on that and then go to commissioner davis's issue by doing a protocol thank you mayor senator gill thank you um i agree with what commissioner bogan has said um i will comment i've been on the commission for nine years um i've never gone anywhere on county dime outside of other than florida association of counties meetings i'm sorry steve i just want to make sure i went to australia met with some people there county didn't pay a penny for it even though i was going to australia i took some guy out met him for a couple hours took him out didn't seek any reimbursement from the county so i want to make sure i put that i think other than florida association of counties meetings which meet in really exotic locations like orlando tampa um gainesville um yeah um i've never traveled but um i think i always thought that we had a written protocol apparently it's an oesbd protocol as opposed to a something that's been adopted by the county county administration is that correct mr mayor yes okay through the chair sorry um so we have been operating under this the guidance that has been given to us verbally from the commission there was not any formal adoption of a policy by the commission um we had translated that into a document it was actually attached um to um as an exhibit on item number uh on commissioner rogers item number 71 um and that was i believe you know just as additional information for um discussion of of protocol in general but um what i will share is that um you know we've not had any questions um from the commission to formally adopt it or request to formally adopt it but if you all choose to do so that would you know kind of memorialize it if you will or however else you guys vote on to change it um we're happy to implement whatever the will of the board is so um you know however you guys want to proceed okay so i would at the appropriate this is this a motion to discuss no this is this was a motion to approve okay um i would at the appropriate time which could be i guess post agenda on agenda i i would think that we should adopt what has been our protocol for many years as our formal protocol um so that there are of course what i don't want to see is disputes among commissioners i want to go no i want to go that would be very counterproductive to this commission so i i think that the protocol that we've been following should be what is uh ends up being adopted and for the record although i'm fairly senior here i'm not putting my name in i'm not planning and going i'm just saying i think that this should be our protocol uh and commissioner bogan in reference to uh fitzy i remember you stood up at a commission meeting and said you know um commissioner wholeness is leaving is it okay with everybody if i kind of take over at that and we all kind of mumble you know hey you want to you know take it uh but you know if i i don't understand exactly what status fits he has right to the extent if it is official i think that whoever's heading that should be appointed by the mayor it's not but now and it's not by stat all the mayor mayoral appointments are by statutory or statutory they've been put in by ordinance is that how that works the basically anything that's an appointment to an official board is covered by uh by ordinance or resolution so it's either done by the mayor or it's done by everybody on the board fitzy's an event it's not right it's not an event so it came up a different way and uh so there's sort of been a de facto point person right whereas like broward league of cities we all vote together on that um on the solid waste i was voted i was voted for that and so there's the only reason i'm bringing this up is i this board has been astonishingly harmonious we've all seen commissions where they're fighting with each other we've never had those well i shouldn't say we've never but during the time i've been on the commission we've never had those fights who was well that was because of that stupid stuff that no um yeah but yeah but yeah okay um so i'm just i would like us to continue to be a harmonious group so to the extent that if the if i don't know what extent we have fitzy as a okay as an official um organization or not you know i don't know whether this is something that the mayor should appoint or whether the commission should just take you know a consensus or whatever but i just want to make sure that we're all staying friendly and harmonious and i do think that um and i can bring it up in non-agent is it necessary for me to bring it up or non-agenda or would this be sufficient to say that i'd like you to come up with an ordinance which basically just enacts what oesbd or what we've already are our actual practice that we've had for so many years and because and it is published i was actually going to bring back something that dealt with some norms that that are right now it's shared understanding um but they're on but they're unwritten you're welcome but right now everyone if you're a new person so when there's a process and a procedure yeah patient you know right um well i will i will yield to the mayor then um uh it's my view that we should again in order to make sure everybody stays one great big happy family right you know good fences make good neighbors uh but i will yield to whatever the mayor should decide in his remarks okay commissioner eugene i think that um oh i'm sorry one other thing and i but i agree with commissioner bogan on sending one person okay i think for international overseas travel we should only send one person ever because i don't think you can get around the sunshine law i know people can do it but i just think that there's major sunshine issues if we send two people from the same elected body but that's not really what i'm talking about because i think on this one we're probably only going to send one person it sounds like anyway my the protocol i've worked very closely with paula and sandy at the time and now maribel on the on what they do at the oesb they actually are very good at this whole process on inbound trade missions and outbound trade missions and their protocol follows the way that we the the unwritten rule of what we've done here i i do agree with what what commissioner uh rogers said sometimes people don't understand i didn't understand when i first got aboard and i remember tim ryan got mad at me because i said not in a friendly way not in a bad way he was joking around with me yeah he was like he wouldn't even remember but i didn't take it personal and even though it cost me two years i'm being mayor but that's in a story for another day um but it's all um but i'm good with it it's fine it worked out fine because i got post covet i didn't get stuck in covet so i will say um outbound trade missions really require more of our professional staff with us just as a figurehead and i i and i saw this firsthand with dealing with l al airlines when they came in and we brought them to broward county and then i was mayor at the time but by the time it really actually happened i think lamar was mayor it's we have the way that our system works we don't have a an elected mayor and it's just a it's it's we're more staff reliant on these type of trade type of things i think it's important not only for the missions but we've used that you know there was something at the airport one time and whoever was the mayor couldn't go whoever was the vice mayor couldn't go i was the immediate past mayor so they asked me to speak even though there was another commissioner there who didn't speak um and it just it's more seamless than becoming one of those commissions where nine people speak at every event there's got to be some kind of procedure i'm okay with the process with codifying it however you want um but you know different we all get invited and we all run in different lanes and we're all here collectively to promote broward county i go down to dade county for a lot of events i'll grab kim moreau or i'll grab paula or somebody and i'll bring them down to you know the boring tunnel comp conference or the bitcoin conference or whatever it may be and we've done that and if somebody else wants to go they can go the last week was a sister city's dinner for the brazilian business council and it was pouring rain out no one wanted to go they said you dean you have to go i drove 45 minutes from parkland far in the rain and it was really great maribel was there we had a good time so there should be a process i'm okay with everyone i don't want to go to south africa for not that i don't want to go to south i'd love to but i'm not flying four day you know to do the whole thing um and i do think it's important though in some of these for there to be a representative from broward county at some of these so i don't blanketly say we shouldn't be doing any of this stuff but we should do it in a fiscally prudent way um you know i i just think that's the way to do it okay discussion commissioner davis yeah i i have an item but just to comment on the i need to extend the meeting first hold on i need a motion motion by senator galler second by commissioner mckenzie to extend the meeting to till we finish all these items 10 minutes i'm abandoning it 10 minutes can you do it in 10 we can do we go we could try we got another meeting to go to i know okay all right okay okay 10 minutes till 12 45 we'll see we may have to extend again we'll see okay yeah thank all those in favor aye opposed that passes commissioner davis certainly um and you know i'd like to yes i did just oh yeah just to mention um me and vice mayor uh bogan had a discussion but we also spoke about this at a commission meeting maybe you don't recall it was non-agenda so it wasn't just you and i everybody was here and that was brought up about fitzy and you mentioned that you really want to do the sister city portion and i mentioned that i would love to work with staff on this fitzy 10th year anniversary and there was no objection to that on this board so um and i've been working closely to make sure that this is one of the best that we have and um and i recognize that sister cities there are missions specifically for sister cities as well and there are missions for trade i i know um there is a delegation for a mission to taiwan a leadership delegation which is not even a trade mission it's a leadership delegation that is coming out of tallahassee and and so the what what i say is that there are various types of missions and i did look at what um was written uh by uh monica's group and there was an opportunity for a commissioner to bring an agenda item uh in terms of travel and so that's what i did uh and and again i don't want to if you want me to talk about mine or wait you only have 10 minutes so right so are you withdrawing yours correct so long as it's i think yes i want to do it but it should be done in a protocol i think and i'm not telling you what to do but i'm hoping that you will go around the dais based on the protocol and say do you want to go do you want to go do you want to go based on that and then end up with the person that is going to go and and and that would uh also address her issue and she's absolutely right i did we did talk a non-agenda but you know i was just getting over just like you've had without i've had uh got over a surgery last year and so you know i'm i i believe that if five of us want to get involved in fitzy then we're all involved we're all the co-leads want to call the words but if i could just stress one thing whether it's called a trade mission sister city mission uh international business there's a protocol there's a protocol regardless and i think that's what we need to follow is a protocol and i'm hoping you will uh okay with yeah so i didn't finish i was just asking if you want me to continue or wait let me let me ask uh county administrator on this i guess what we kind of need to do is figure out well actually let's ask i'm gonna ask you guys because i i did i can't go he's not going normally it would i my understanding and this is where this is where it does get a little easy is it would probably go to the former commissioner i mean former mayor right and there's kind of and then seniority because this is the end of november assuming he's oh yeah that's why oh no no no no okay so it what what i my understanding is it usually goes just just write down the list of former mayors am i is it is that everybody's understanding on this i mean the oesbd item says it's seniority after the first three mayor vice mayor immediate past mayor and then then tenure on the commission is the way that's written okay so with that um i'm not going you're not going you're the past mayor you're not going and then it goes by seniority and you guys said you're not going you're not going then it goes to you okay you're not going you're not going it's going down to two okay i'll make a motion to send commissioner davis and board representative second well before you do that let's bring up the item first okay um do you want to you want to go ahead and bring up the item item item 70 yes okay so item 70 we'll go straight to item 70 69 has been um withdrawn item 70 is a motion to approve international travel on behalf of brower county board of county commissioners to south africa the motion statement on this is something i think we have to look at only because i i don't think it's a your normal motion statement uh so i let me ask the county attorney on this i think mayor the motion statement is just the the first part of it right i think the other you know again it's the rest of it probably shouldn't travel on the agenda right as part of a motion statement but i think it's appropriate as part of an agenda report uh and part of debate but not part of the motion statement so i would truncate it and just vote on the motion to approve part that ends in broward businesses and why and why is that not why should how should that travel well it's part of this well well there's i mean in the in the agenda report itself at least so it does talk about uh commissioner davis's activities with fitzy uh you know it's part of the debate process so it's it's it's perfectly legitimate to to raise verbally or to put into the agenda report itself it just shouldn't be part of the motion statement and that's what prints with with this document that you get that's normally 10 to 25 or 30 pages right so it only has the actual action that's being asked for in a concise manner uh not not a sort of a justification for it what's that um are you are you putting it forward or i was gonna let her put it forward i know commissioner davis what am i doing at this point talk uh i would just make your motion to approve international your read your motion but the first paragraph um motion to approve international travel on behalf of broward county board of county commissioners to south africa from november 29 2025 to december 6 2025 to participate in select florida's export sales mission for the purpose of promoting business cultural and trade opportunities for powered businesses okay do we have a second for that can we have a second motion in a second do you want to add anything else i think you got i think you're yes i appreciate that thank you okay okay all those in favor any opposed okay have a good trip thank you um with that we have oh i'll bring him commissioner roger i'm sorry are we still going to format have a process that is clear and understood even if we're adopting what um send in that maribel and all of them is doing i think it needs to be adopted by this committee yeah i think i think what needs we probably need to take a look at some norms and just make sure we're all on board that that was an interesting we have never had to kind of go through that um and it's good and it's good for all of us it means we're all on the same page mr mayor i was because we're astonishing but you said you were going to so i didn't what's that i had earlier said that i was going to ask county administration or county attorneys to draft that as an ordinance but i withdrew that because you said you were going to bring it up so if you're going to bring it up i'm not if you're not bringing it up i am i am going to bring it back okay i just want to make sure that we're going to move ahead with the protocol because i think that's what everybody is saying yes okay okay yeah yeah i appreciate what you just said but it was said several times that there is no protocol it's an assumption so it's not it's not is that yeah there is there's something osed has it in there we need right that has not been adopted okay a protocol for the which we're going to it's going to mirror i think everybody's saying it'll mirror that okay okay okay um is there anything so now we have the shade meeting okay yes go ahead you know i just want to clarify fitzy if i know obviously you know commissioner davis uh certainly wants to be involved i want to be involved anybody else wants to get involved great well then uh you know i just so we're all involved and uh you know i just want to you know um i don't know what else uh you know i just didn't want to have we didn't have titles and stuff but well yeah and that's falling a little bit i think it's falling a little in between the cracks because there's not a there's not one it's an event it's not a uh it's different it's got a different category all all together um so we kind of need to figure out we're all representatives we're all we're all part of that or it's like an event by yeah any anything that like that we're it's all of us we're all it represents all we we're representing all of it i am looking for the shade meeting mr mayor before you move up yes commissioner rogers today not today oh okay okay right i was just really kind of joking it is it kind of works it kind of works might have to do that again mr mayor yes in talking to staff okay i did mention that i would like for a brochure that would have some information on the foreign trade zones that we have here that when the commissioner goes to africa she'll take that with her all right thank you that's a good idea i think we should also require take southwest airlines to africa i want to make sure you take that airline okay with that we uh we're going to go to non-agenda anything else did i miss anything okay good um commissioner rogers non-agenda oh dear last please let me get my hand i think the other side you want so start with the other side commissioner davis go ahead i'm going to forego in the essence of time okay commissioner mckenzie i know i'm going to forego time so i have plenty of time to see what i want to say this time but um i've been getting um emails and calls and monica and i've been working um uh with some of the folks that call uh in reference to the the homeless situation and they're only homing in on right here at the bus depot and when the folks called me i immediately went to monica and it's not just a homeless problem right here we have a homeless problem in broward county i think this commission has acknowledged that i think we're pouring tons and tons of money every time and talent into it uh but the folks that reached out to us we're concerned about their their investments uh here i think the whole broward county uh is an investment in how we move forward uh um outside of what we already do um i think there was a couple of times monica when cory came and said she was already a few months back um um doing some initiatives there at the bus depot to to um handle some of those issues and they wanted to bring in bso which bso has no authority over that over that terminal if i'm not correct if i'm correct um but fort lauderdale city manager uh monica's team uh i think uh one of the commissioners over there myself i'm gonna sit down and really talk about how that looks and move forward but i want to just share it with you all i'm sure you got copied uh on the emails but it's not just there it's it's all over and what i don't want to happen is we push folks from the depot and it ends up in someone's backyard so i just wanted to share with you as we move forward we bring more information uh as to how this is going to uh uh pan out because remember seven years ago eight years ago i sat when they were over here at the library i was on the city side and then the county put up a gate for a construction project which i haven't seen completed yet but you know the city played everybody played chess i really yeah you can but this is i'm serious about the homeless just as much as anybody else up here is and if we're going to do it you know we got to also look at who's not at um 707 who's not at the heck who's not in one of our programs getting help how do we deal with the real problems that we see each and every day on our street homelessness mental health and addiction we have tons of institutions tons of bricks and brick and mortar but this issue that we see each one of us when we drive into this place on tuesdays or mondays whatever days you come in it stares you right in the face so that's what i will be um sitting over there uh chatting with uh the folks at the table to see if we really can come up with an idea or solution and i know it's tough because we're not the only ones dealing with this but i thought it appropriate today just to bring it to your attention as we move forward very good commissioner fisher yeah real quick mayor just wanted to um congratulate again uh our first uh black firefighter woodjoe portier we dedicated a fire station to him in pompola beach station 52 so it's really nice to honor him and and why he's still here living and he was able to his family to be here and so also did the grand opening for the broward health and resource hub at blanchely high school really really successful there and then a grand opening this past saturday at the hive black box theater at the ally cultural center this is all in pompano but what really they built this little box they call it but based about 70 people could sit there for theater for spoken word and for dance it's just really a nice venue for cultural arts and lastly obviously wishing my uh fringe of the jewish faith uh happy rosh hashanah you'll be celebrating next week so god bless senator rich thank you um i i just um want to respond to something uh commissioner mckenzie because um i have to say and i think monica that maybe uh patrice monica i think that we should have patrice make a presentation to the commission at a next commission meeting about the what we are doing for homeless in this community because we are doing so much beyond what we used to do um as a matter of fact we're just getting ready to have our next uh landlord appreciation breakfast we already have 130 plus uh responses to it we keep getting landlords that are willing to help us with apartments um and i just think it's kind of you know really important that that's uh out there for everybody and i want to remind everybody that when we when we we we joined with what lauderdale ourselves it was over a six month it was united way it was all across this community to eliminate the encampment at uh outside the library it was over six months that we all worked and when we did it that that was there i know okay but i i'm just reminding you that we had everybody there from the hospital district to the to the animal care because there were there were animals dogs in you know in the encampment and we we had everybody and we ended up placing everybody now i i i just i just remind everybody because more and more we have been working together and i'm very proud of that as chair of the coc we have many many more cities now that are involved with helping out with homeless it's not just called lauderdale you know it's pompano it's hollywood it's it's many of the cities we had a um a a an event in in the city of hollywood to bring people together and it was very interesting at that event because even the there were a lot of providers that were showing you know their their programs and the providers didn't know about other providers so they learned from each other what other opportunities there were in the county that where they could refer people so i think it's um it's communication maybe more um and letting people know what we are doing in broward county um and then i i just want to mention that i i had spoken at a uh at the uh 911 event at pembroke pines at their beautiful memorial out in pembroke pembroke pines across from the city hall and um uh it was it was just a deeply moving event um all of the law enforcement and firefighters first responders that were there um and you know obviously we talked about the the the 9 11 event itself and the attacks and how they changed the world um but i i i did want to just say that you know we started out with the beginning about what recently happened here with the assassination and um i want to say that i had looked up for my remarks all the the the um it had just happened the day before so all the past presidents made um remarks quotes that were that were out there and the one that was so amazing to me and and really hit the mark was actually the one by george w bush and he had been president obviously during 9 11 and went through you know all of all of that and um uh but what he talked about was how we all need to come together and that um that you know the democracy depends on all of us and that it's not about political parties it's about all of us as americans and i thought that that was a beautiful statement and really says exactly the direction that we need to be going in this country thank you vice mayor you know it's very easy to be critical when you have such a big government like this and there's so many moving parts but i really have been involved in a lot of things and i really want to thank monica you and your staff have really been so helpful and i don't think it's said enough and i appreciate all the time you and your staff have helped on the projects that i've been that have been important to me and um and uh so i want to just say thank you and you've got great staff and just really appreciate it thank you um yeah i echo what commissioner bogan said and i i just point out that i went to the 9 11 event with commissioner davis and commissioner rogers at the airport i like to go there because of the airport's involvement with that and really it was so moving and it was so well done and they always do and a great job in remembering there's always a big turnout from joe's here from port everglades and all the first responders so um our staff does do an excellent job in the things that they do but i really want to thank our hard-working men and women that pay all of us the property taxpayers in broward county because they're the ones that are paying all this money that's providing yeah 25 to the broward that's providing the um the ability for us to make the largest funding uh in public safety history in broward county we've never sent more dollars in public safety ever than what we're going to do this year the largest the largest funding of affordable housing in brower county taxpayers are paying these houses we've never spent more money ever than what we spent this year and what we'll spend in the upcoming budget it's not our money up here we sometimes get the accolades it's their money down there and i've said before they're happy to pay but they don't want to become they don't want to have to then use the service because they force themselves into affordable housing or homelessness so we should thank the taxpayers and remember that and i know at 501 tonight uh at least four commissioners are going to remember that and it takes six to pass a budget so i'm hoping that if four people hold tight um either we'll either we'll reduce the midge millage rate or i think drew will explain by state law we'll go back to the rollback rate which i do not want to see happen because i believe that if you have to go back to the rollback rate it will start a cascading event we should modestly lower tonight i'm pushing for it and with that i wish everybody a happy and healthy new year that celebrates okay how do you really feel senator gillard i like listening to my friend commissioner yudin um i uh as i mentioned briefly uh we had our southward regional planning council conference if you have not attended our conferences you really need to we've had them on the silver tsunami we've had them on first and last mile uh transportation this one was on transit oriented development we've had them on garbage recycling etc um i i all of these are available on tape i would encourage everybody to watch them would like to thank uh commissioner fisher for attending and speaking on our panel and again wish all of my um uh fellow congregants of the jewish faith a happy um uh a healthy and prayerful uh new year and uh and our day of atonement but i think that we'll have another commission meeting before then if not i wish all of our jewish members a easy fast and a prayerful and meaningful high holiday period commissioner rogers thank you mr mayor i'm going to start with the 9 11 event that we attended at the port and i'm telling you i only heard about it i did not know about it all right so what happened i don't know all right but then when you're in that space and it's all about what happened on 9 11 and you see all of our men and women in uniform representing and also remembering that we would be running in the opposite direction and they're running towards putting their lives on the line for all of us so i said no this event is awesome but it's hidden why not our cameras in days of technology i don't see why we could not be showing it at the airport live at that time i don't think we need to remove it from the space because it was the airport that you know they had to fly out of somewhere so for me broad county is doing it the right way by hosting it at our port but i think we can share the information at the port i don't know if security would say no but i'm just saying while i was waiting to check my luggage or to do different things voila we're celebrating and people would know what is going on and be a part of it so i'm just thinking it's the perfect place perfect leadership group and it was good to have the policy makers at the event we believe that we're the face of broward county and our staffs they're awesome but at some point in time we need to remember that you know if something goes wrong we're going to be blamed yeah i think i think that makes some sense i know when they had the honor flight going out i actually made a special recording just so they would hear it on that one day okay you know and that same kind of thing and and everybody who is in the airport you would hear it same time so i think you're what you're saying is to bring more attention to it when it's happening however we can that's what you're saying thank you and she's not done okay i thought she was okay no i just wanted to just let you know for that airport event you went to the 911 so he was supposed to speak he couldn't speak he called me i said okay i'll do it i came out of the hospital so i felt bad i couldn't do it and then i talked to commissioner yudin saying hey can you tomorrow or whatever he said he was going and so he took it so just how you understand how that that flew how the flow went no i do now i do but then i didn't but it's good as long as there's a policy that we understand okay i'm just i was just going by bogan bogan bogan we got it i screwed up i screwed up again that's my life okay we're keeping okay um let's talk about we're going into our discussion around housing i would still want to go on record saying affordable can be town homes affordable housing can be smaller homes but everything going into rental apartments high density rental apartment i understand what we're trying to achieve which will never solve that problem in my lifetime or yours all right but i'm saying home ownership wealth and opportunities from home ownership keep that in mind it's very very important i agree with so i was going to ask you i might still do it ask for five million dollars of that 27 million to be dedicated towards affordable housing but for home ownership opportunities so that will be my spiel okay on later okay thank you that could be brought up tonight okay see you guys later okay um real quick i had a chance to go to the grand reopening of the hollandale library which was great yeah a lot of people had been wanting to get there for a while hollywood's not there yet that's got a ways to go i know i know but it was uh it was wonderful the friends of the library were there um monica's whole team was there is great and uh place looks wonderful so that'll be great um last monday the solid waste authority accepted the master plan it has not been adopted yet until we see the financial framework but it is getting very close um there is going to be a as you know we're doing the convention center headquarters hotel openings right around the corner the omni is hosting a hiring event on september 30th to get it all you know to get everybody up to speed on that and ready to go and finally we have a final budget hearing at 501 p we do don't leave me hanging don't leave me hanging don't leave me hanging and then okay and lastly well we got three more hold on i know you are bob county administrator i have a couple very quick things i just want to say thank you to all of you um the the recognition that um that we talked about this morning for workforce i'm sorry i forgot one thing go go of course okay with regard to fitzy now i think that it's coming up on october 22nd 23rd 22nd what would it be okay if this if there's if there's um flyers and stuff going out i think we should all be on those flyers so showing of course right of course i mean it should it shouldn't be just you i agree or anybody else i agree this is a this is a county event it should be everybody that's just what i think i i because i think it'd be off of it okay yeah i mean i think it's a county program okay are you okay with that you okay with that everybody okay we're all representatives yeah yeah okay okay i'm sorry go ahead so yeah i just wanted to to thank the commission because that recognition while it was given to me it is because of the support and the work that you all do and the appropriations of the programs that you all support i just want to make clear of that and thank you um for always supporting um the initiatives of our team to support the workforce and the partnership we've got in the community um i'll save the rest for later thank you very much right now we're going to go to room 30 he's got a quick little blurb he needs to say county attorney okay uh this do i adjourn and then say we're going there you can i'll just read this yes sir does this meeting is adjourned so the board can attend an executive session relative collective to collective bargaining pursuant to section 447.605 florida statutes the closed portion of the meeting will be in room 4 30. commission will resume meeting at 5 0 1 pm today in these chambers for the second and final budget hearing okay 4 30. vote that we approved this i paid for it this is such thank you