County Commission on 2025-12-09 10:00 AM - Dec 09, 2025

you guys ready? Let's rock and roll. You guys ready? Let's rock and roll. I don't know. Let's rock and roll. Good morning, everybody. Hey, Monica, can you? Oh, there it is. I can hear it now. Good morning, everyone. Can you grab a seat? Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Brouwer County Commission meeting today is Tuesday, December 9th, and I ask everybody to first please rise for Pledge of Allegiance and please remain standing afterwards. And in the 11 years I've been here, I've never asked, I've seen someone lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Drew Myers, why don't you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Please remain standing. It's customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community who have recently passed. So I'm going to go around and ask colleagues to identify anybody if they have anyone. Please. Good morning, everyone. Notable, Beryl Dolores Warren, also known as Unabee. Ms. Beryl passed on November 23rd. She survived by her five children, 12 grandchildren, four great-grand. She was a light of the community. She will be missed. And I just want to acknowledge Aisha Gordon from the city of Oakland Park, who asked me to mention this person from Oakland Park. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would like to recognize a special person who passed away. She lived in Weston. I attended a celebration of life for her last week. She's a beloved member of the community. Rochelle Koenig's life was a testament to love, service, and unwavering commitment to enriching the lives of others. She shared nearly 70 remarkable years of marriage with her beloved husband, Paul, and together they built a loving family and a legacy of contributions to the arts and beyond in the city she loved and all of South Florida. Her motto was helping others, and that's been a way of life for her, she said. It is important to give back to the community by developing programs, culture, activities, and needed services for many organizations which make a difference in the lives of our South Florida community. She was involved with many, many things. However, her passion was the arts, and arts development shone the brightest. She was the organizer of the Weston Philharmonic, now known as the Weston Music Society. She brought world-class enrichment programs to Weston schools, and in addition to that, as a founding member and president of the Arts Council of Greater Weston, she also created the Art Walk and the Foreign Film Series. Among her many honors, Rochelle was inducted into the Broward County Senior Hall of Fame, received the 25-year service award from the Jewish Federation of Broward County, and named one of the 100 outstanding women of Broward County for her decades of volunteer work, and was named Woman of Style and Substance by the Philharmonic Orchestra Society for her many contributions to the arts. Just would like us all to keep her and her legacy an important one in our memory. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to give my condolences to Paola Isaacs on the passing of her husband. Thank you. Let us also 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 our service. Let's pause for a moment of silence. Please take your seats. Thank you. So welcome, everybody, to the meeting today. We have our employee recognition, but before we do that, I believe we have one proclamation. It's World AIDS Day, and our Vice Mayor, Robert McKenzie, will be presenting that to Dr. Berkley of the HIV Planning Council. Good morning, and happy holidays to everyone in attendance today. It is an honor for me to come here today and do this for the third time since I've been a Broward County Commissioner, but for 30-something years, the HIV community and the awareness has been a part of my personal life. So I take this very seriously, and I'm honored today to present this proclamation in the third year as the Vice Mayor of Broward County. Requested by me, the proclamation reads, whereas World AIDS Day is recognized internationally on December 1, 2025, whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that as of the year 2023, 1.2 million people are living with HIV in the United States, and those 13% are unaware of their positive status. And whereas the 2024 Florida Department of Health Surveillance report indicates that 132,444,000 Floridians residents are living with HIV AIDS. of which 22,524, or 17% of Broward County residents, and whereas for more than 20 years, Broward County has established and maintained a continuum of community-based, high-quality medical care and support services. And whereas Broward County remains committed to implementing innovative and integrated prevention care and treatment services to end HIV epidemic. And whereas the Broward County Board of County Commissioners recognizes Ryan White Part A and ending the HIV epidemic programs, as well as community partners for their collaborative efforts to provide critical life-saving health and supportive services to more than 8,000 people living with HIV each year. Now therefore, be it proclaimed by the Broward County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the commission hereby designates December 2025 as World AIDS Awareness Month in Broward County, signed by our mayor, Mark Bogan. And on behalf of this board, I present to you the proclamation. It's all yours. And then we'll do a group pitch. Good morning, mayor, vice mayor. I just want to thank you and to the Board of Commissioners for recognizing World AIDS Day and reaffirming our shared commitment to ending the HIV epidemic. The Broward County Runway Part A planning council was established in 1992 with a clear purpose to ensure that people living with HIV have access to comprehensive, high quality care and support services. For more than three decades, the council has united community voices, individuals with HIV, health care providers, health care providers, and key stakeholders to prioritize services and allocate Ryan White funding. Through this collaboration, we help support programs that serve over 8,600 Broward residents living with HIV with an ultimate goal of achieving vital suppression and improving health outcomes. On behalf of the planning council and our colleagues at the community partnership division, we honor those we have lost, we stand with those living with HIV, and we recommit ourselves to ending the epidemic in Borough County. Once again, thank you. Thank you. That's a lot of people. Come on. Hurry up. We got a pushy mayor. Come on. How are you? How are you? How are you? Say, say, say, say, say, say, say. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Lorenzo. Lorenzo. Good job. Monica, you want me to go down from play recognition? Sure. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, would you like me to announce so people know that we're going to do the employee recognitions? So at this time, we will be doing employee recognitions, so the mayor is going to join me down at the podium. Commissioners, before we do our employee recognition, we wanted to also do something a little different today. I want to have two people come down. Commissioner Davis, would you mind, since you have not done this, would you come on down and, not Renee, Drew, I'd like you to come on down. Drew, I'm picking on you today. You know, first with the, come on down. No, no, no, no arm wrestling. This is employee recognition day. Folks, before we start, I wanted to see if I could use your vocal cords because tomorrow is Commissioner Davis' birthday, and it was our council's birthday a few days ago, so would everybody come on and join us and sing happy birthday, okay? All right, let's on three. One, two, three. Happy birthday to you, to you. Birthday, dear. Happy birthday. I didn't know it was your birthday until this morning. All right, we're going to get that cut up. Oh, boy. We've got to get that cut up. Is that the throw in his face? Okay, let's start. All right, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. No charge. Okay, employee recognition. Where are we starting? You're going to calm down? Yep. All right. So as we do each time we get to have this gathering, we're going to be celebrating today employees that have 20, 25, 30, 35, and even 40 years of service with Broward County. So, yep, so, come on. So he's just talking about how amazing it is to work here for 40 years. So 40, I'm going to start with 20 years of service from aviation. Let's welcome Gasser Doge. Can you hand that to them? You're going to shake the mayor's hand there? Yes. Yes, they all want to meet you. Every one of them. There we go. All right. So as I was just mentioning, so as I was going to mention, as you see what Gasser's doing, a tradition that we're bringing back since pre-COVID is to make sure that everyone gets a chance to go around the dais and shake hands with our commissioner. So thank you for your service. Yes, if your family wants to come, you can take a photo. Sure. Oh, so we're talking, are we talking the big family then? Everybody find out. No, okay. Holy smokes. Oh, wait. Are these the third cousins and fourth cousins? I'm joking. Come on. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I can't. It's the photo. Yeah, yeah. If your commissioner would like to join us, I think? You guys want to join us? Oh, okay, guys. Whoever's in the photo, come on in. Whoever wants visitors, pass away. Take it off. Oh, all of us? I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm on it. Take it off. Take off your hat. Yeah. Come on in. Take off your visitor, pass away. This photo. Please go on the other side. Okay, ready? Mark in here. Ready? Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. There we go. Okay. Do you have this? Max. Yes. One more right here. One more here. Thank you. All right. One more here. One more here. All right. So Gasser, congratulations. I think you set the bar pretty high. No, we're not quite done. We got a couple more here. All right. Moving on to FASD, Finance and Administrative Services, Sandra Mathis, 20 years. All right. Continuing at 20 years, libraries, Alina and Jell. What do we got to your left? To my right, Allison. Come on. How are you doing, Allison? How are you? Congratulations. Hi, congratulations. Is this for you? All right. Turn around. Let's take a photo. Quick photo. And then if you want to take off your visitor's pass, I think you've earned the right to not have a visitor pass. 20 years. There we go. Okay. Real quick. Thank you. Okay. Okay. All right. Come on. Come on. Come on. Oh. I'm a family. You also work at a library. They are. Nice. Okay. Marks. Marks. Your library. Absolutely. Okay. All right. Next one. Office of Communication Technology. Anissia Hearn. Hey, congratulations. Thank you. Tracy's going to join us for the photo. Come on, Tracy. Why don't you get in there? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. We're going to move over to Port Everglades. Robert Drayton. 20 years. Congratulations. Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Here you go. Quick picture. Thank you. Excellent. All right. Now we're moving over to Public Works and Environmental Services Department, Tanya King. There we go. We'll fix it for you there. Hold on to it. Hey, congratulations. Thank you. Phil's going to join us for the photo. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Come on. And David. Who else we got? You guys all join in there. Take off your visitor's pass. Oh, yeah. You're not a visitor. Come on. Come on in. Come on in. Yeah. I stick her on the back. There we go. There we go. Close it. Close it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Also, with Public Works and Environmental Services, is Mark Gerberding. Sorry. Mark. Mark. Come on down. I apologize. I stumbled. Gerberding is perfect. Thank you. I'm going to fall in my place. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Mayor. Mark. I'm going to use the K. That's good. Oh, me. Oh, me. That's right. Thank you. Good morning. I'm jumping. Come on in. Thank you. Come on in. All right. Come on in. Come on in. Mark. Can I come in? Come on in. Come on in. Keep coming. Give me plenty of time. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm going to go to the back. Yes, that's that's good. You go to the back. Bye, Mark. You got the dais. Oh, sure. Thank you. Come on. Go sit in the center. Huh? You want me to take a picture first? You want me to go first back? There you go. Then I want to jump in here, okay? All right, Mark. Patrick. Patrick. Mark, everybody. We're here. One, two, three. One, two, three. That's it. Yes. Right here. And good. All right, Mark. Congratulations. We're going to stay in the same department, Public Works Environmental Services. How about we ask James Singer, 20 years, to come down. Hey, James. Congrats. Where did you go? Natasha, come on. Join us. All right. Come on in right here. There you go. You have well over 20. Oh, we got more? Oh, come on in, guys. Come on. Come on. Come on, please. Visitor, pass off. Get in here. Here we go. Here we go. That's good. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. We'll stay yet again, Public Works and Environmental Services. Andrea Gibbs. I was going to say, you've been up here more than this. I've been working. All right. Excellent. Good morning. All right. Ready? Thank you. Hold on. Hold on. One more. Come on. Wait. Wait. Wait. It's not a prayer. Hold on. It's not a prayer. It's not a prayer. All right. Hold on. Here comes. Our vice mayor. Okay. There we go. Okay. She denies all my applications. Ready? Yep. Thank you. All right. Now we're moving over to 25 years. I think we know this gentleman. I've seen him running around fixing computers and whatnot. It might give you a little bit of sense of who this is. How about we ask Robert Armstrong? Wow. What a... Here you go. Congratulations. Robert's helped a lot of people, clearly. Yeah. Including me. Why don't you please? Great job. Thank you. Great job. Oh, yes. Absolutely. Come on in. Come on in. How are you doing? Excellent. Family. Let's go. My son. I'm going to get my baby. Oh, you're ready? Oh, you're ready? That bob in the middle. You want to get on this thing? Let me go by my son. All right. You want to switch? Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Get next to your baby. Come on. There we go. My boy chick. Help me. Come on. It's good. My turn. Ready? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Come on, ETS people. ETS people. The other computer folks, let's get you in here. Sorry. All right. That's all good. Come on. Yep. Yep. Let's take one more picture over here. Hello. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Squeeze in. Mayor. Squeeze in. Okay. Ready? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Staying on with 25 years of service, also in finance, administrative services, I think we know this young lady also, Angela Huggins. She helps with all retirement. For what she does, I'm surprised more people didn't cheer louder for you. Maybe they're not ready to see you. Retirement. She does all the retirement. Everybody who retires. We haven't gone to visit her yet. Here's your point. Here, here, here, here, here. Take your certificate, also. Oh, there we go. You earned that one, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Thank you. I guess you must have helped him, huh? She's great. She's good. I just go around. Okay. Okay. All right. So, we're going to jump to 20 real quick again. I think we have a person that we may have missed or came in after we started. Richard Coffey. 20 years of service. Here comes the whole family. It's wonderful. Richard. Richard is with Transportation. Yeah. How are you? I could have waited to turn around and see that. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Congratulations. Thank you. Let's get in here for a photo. Come on. Quick photo. Yeah. Good morning, Corey. Pretend you. Come on. There you go. Congratulations. Come on. How are you doing? Oh. Thank you. You've got the visitor pass. Here we go. There we go. Yeah. There we go. Get down. All right. You're good. Very good. Great. All right. Congratulations. Richard, if you wanted to go around there. Thanks. Thank you. All right. We'll jump back to 25 years, and we're going to go to Human Services. Casey Woolley. We've got some people up here that want to come in the picture. Come on. Thank you. Let's go in the back then. Let's go in the back. Let's go in the back. All right. And then you can go around the day. All right. Let me guess where you are. All right. That was a Nancy J. Cotterman shout-out. All right. So now we're going to stay in Human Services and go with Ladez Watkins. Please join us. We've got some more. We've got some more. Okay, we're going to go in the back, I think. We've got the same group. Look. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Visitor passes off. Human Services again, so if there's the same group, let's stay here. All right. Costanza Lopez, 25 years. Different group. Different section within. Thank you for your service. Thank you so much. There you go. Let's take a picture. It looks like you've got some folks over here taking photos and want to be a part of this. Yeah, come on. All right. Come on in. Come on, guys. You can take off your visitor pass. There we go. Take off your visitor pass. Oh, you've got flowers, too. Wow. Come on in. Come on in. Come on in. I'm going to be like a photobomber. Photobomber, right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. No problem. How are you? Good to see you. Make sure you get around the dais. Okay. So now we're switching back over to libraries, and we're going to ask Kenyatta Pace to join us. All right. You've got a slow job going, huh? Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Let's get in for a photo. Okay. Thank you. Yes. You're running around the dais. Excellent. Also in libraries, Lena Putser. Thank you. We're going to Parks and Rec. How about Shafina Rashid? Please join us. Central Broward. That's it. I know. I know. All right. Great. Congratulations. Come on in. Don't test me on everyone, where everyone works, but I'm remembering some. Come on in, guys. Hold on. Oh, we've got a whole bunch. All right. Oh, here it comes. Do you want to do back here? Yep. Let's go in the back. Back here. All right. So let's go in the back here. I'm going to sell one to the wall. I'm coming to you. All right. We're going to go in the back. All right. Have you going to take your business back and talk for the folks? No, we can do this to that. We can do this to that. You can do this to that. We can do this. I'm coming to you. All right. We don't have 10 commissures. All right, we're switching over to Public Works and Environmental Services, Ian Harvey. Oh, we've got another one. So I think since I consolidated the departments, I've created a monster, huh? Okay, guys, here, please, ready? All right, right here, got it. All right, we're going to stay with Public Works, Yolanda McGee. Oh, no. Hey, Yolanda, congratulations. Thank you. Here you go. You got a phone? I got a phone, take a picture for you. Yeah. Jerry? Yeah, of course. Ready? Two. All right. You. You get it? All right. All right. Oh, great. Thank you, honey. Thank you. Good. Good. I've got to send this to somebody there. All right. Congratulations. Fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. So now we're going to continue to stay with Public Works and Environmental Services. Yolanda. Yolanda. Yolanda. She's right here. No, she's right here. We'll get it to you. You are, but you may need it to get back in. All right. All right. We're going to stay with Public Works and Environmental Services. Jennifer Pazella. There we go. Come on in. Whoever's going to jump in. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Are we going to do a good one? All right. Let's go to the back. Let's go to the back. Let's go to the back. Let's go to the back. Why don't we just move the thing over here, down here. We cannot move this. Move this way a bit. Let's go to the front. Why don't we take the lady to surprise the guy behind you. Why not? There we go. Thank you. There we go. There we go. There we go. You good? You good? You good? You good? Can we go to the front? Okay. Ready? All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We're staying with Public Works. Terry Toller. Here. Congratulations. Thank you for your service. All right. All right. Quick picture. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right. So, transportation. Donald Duncan. Hey. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Let's just real quickly here. Here you go. All right. Here you go. All right. Let's take a quick photo. Here you go. Thank you. Quick photo. All right. Here you go. Ready? Excellent. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. So, we're going to try to speed this up just a little bit. We only have a handful left. But now we're moving on to 30 years of service. We've got just about four individuals of 30 years. And then we're just rounding out with two last ones. So, for 30 years of service. Libraries. Thomas. Scott. Kina. All right. Thank you. All right. Let's take a quick photo. Here we go. Thank you. All right. Also. Also. Congratulations. Also with 30 years of service in libraries. Arturo Bayudan. Your service. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Real quick. Thank you. Thank you. Here we go. Got the badge. Thank you. Sure. Real quick. Quick. Here we go. Thank you. Thank you. Go around. Go around. Thank you. All right. Continuing 30 years of service. Public Works and Environmental Services. Leon Jackson. Only four left. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is about you right now. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Your wife. Come on in. Come on in. All right. There we go. There we go. There we go. Public Works and Environmental Services. Delroy Aiken. Two more. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service. All right. We're almost there, Commission. Thank you for your indulgence in recognition of all these years of service. Come on. Let's take a quick photo. We're almost there. Commissioners. Commissioners. Commissioners. If you would just stay there. I'm just going to do the last two with 35 and 40 years. You got to be ready. We'll be right back to you for a quick photo. All right. We're almost on the homestretch here. 35 years of service to Broward County. Transportation. Chandra Rowland. We can go in the back. Back this way. Back this way. Yes. Cover to this photo. Let's go in the back. You sure? Take it together. Behind. Back here. Oh, great. All right. Awesome. Thank you so much. We're going to be on a load of social media. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you for your service. All right. Now, let's make sure everyone can give a nice big welcome and thank you for Sharander Williams' service. Human Services, 40 years. Look at this. Let's go back here. We're going to go to the back. But look at this beautiful gift you got. Look at that. Oh, wow. Thank you. Ready? Let's go back. Let's do it. Look at you. You have a lot of flowers. Look at this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're going to lower the flower for me, please, because you... Thank you. Thank you. You're going to lower the flower for me, please. Because you... This is a wide spread. Oh, sorry. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. You want it. You want it? Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You can cut in front of me at any time. I don't think I can. Where? Okay. Thanks. Ready? One, two, and three. Good move. All right. Right here. And then right here. Thank you so much. That's it? Yep. Thank you so very much to all of our employees and to the commission. What? Thank you, commissioners, very much. And thank you to all of our staff. Thank you. Oh, you're stepping in, right? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I don't use parole. I hate the stuff. You should use that Cohen. Mine is all alcohol, but Perel has this gel in it. You think would pop. You think, Alex, you guys. Thank you. Do you want to wait until we get going guys? I'll wait until we ok... For lunch. All right. Let's start we're going to start by reading the Tuesday morning memo. Would the reading clerk please read the Tuesday morning memo? And can I get some volume on this thing? Michael, back there. Broward County, Board of County Commissioners, December 9, 2025, Tuesday Agenda Memorandum. The following are submitted for your... Please continue. The following are submitted for your consideration. Consent items are 1 through 51. Public hearing items are 52 through 74. Regular items are 75 to 83. I request the following withdrawals or other modifications to the agenda and note the following additional information. Withdrawals, number 28, this item is being withdrawn for further review. Number 82, this item is being withdrawn at the sponsor's request. Other modifications. Item 19, the Board's consideration of Exhibit 1 to the item is based upon the revised Exhibit 1 submitted as additional material, number 19B, by the Purchasing Division. Item 33, the Board's consideration of the item, including the motion statements for Motion A and Motion B, are based upon the item as amended by additional material, number 33A, submitted by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item 51, Commissioner Hazel P. Rogers requests to be added as a co-sponsor. Item 61, the Board's consideration is based upon the item as modified by additional material, item 61A, which includes an amended attachment A to Exhibit 1, submitted by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item number 71, the Board's consideration is based upon the item as modified by additional material, 71A, which includes a substitute attachment 11 to Exhibit 2, submitted by the Planning Council. Scrivener's errors, item number 75, the Board's consideration of this item is based upon the item with the corrections shown on the attached page, attachment A, of Scrivener's errors. Move to consent, none. Time certain, none. Additional material, regular meeting. Item 19A, revised Exhibit 1, submitted by Purchasing Division. Item 19B, revised Exhibit 1, submitted by Purchasing Division. Item 33A, memo to the Board, including amended motion statements, submitted by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item 50A, Exhibit 1, submitted by Mayor Mark D. Bogan. Item 79A, revised Exhibit 1, submitted by County Administration. Additional material, public hearing. Item 61A, memo to the Board, included amended attachment A to Exhibit 1, submitted by Purchasing by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item 71A, substitute attachment 11 to Exhibit 2, submitted by Planning Council. Item 71B, email correspondence submitted by Planning Council. Item 71C, email correspondence submitted by Planning Council. Is that everything? Great. I'm going to go around the dais to see if we have any polls from the consent agenda. I'll start with Commissioner Rogers. Senator Geller? None. 33. None, sir. None. Great. I'll ask Council, do you want to go through it? Do we have any? Oh, I'm going to poll 51. And from the public, we have four. We have four polls? No. Item 4. Item 4. Item 4. Got it. Thank you, Mayor. So, the consent agenda today is items 1 through 51, minus the following items. Number 4 was pulled by the public. Number 28 was withdrawn. Number 34 was pulled by Commissioner Fisher. Excuse me, 33, not 34. 33 pulled by Commissioner Fisher. And number 51 pulled by the Mayor. I have a motion. Do I second? Second. I have a motion. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Let's go to the pulled items. Let's take the public number 4. Item number 4 is a motion to adopt resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, approving the fiscal year 2026 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan. Kevin, do you have a name of somebody? Yeah. Arethia Wimbley. And to Neal Brown. Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to address some of the concerns by community members. Who believe that the paratransit services should have a more customized, comprehensive safety management systems that address disabled persons' unique sense of safety, including visually impaired riders' ability to effectively communicate with drivers unrestricted by language barriers. Effective communications between riders and drivers are paramount to safety and mitigation of hazards and risk. With the possibility of contracted paratransit service drivers being offered by multiple contractors after the current RFP process, we are concerned that there are community members, including individual riders and their families' ability to access data related to safety checkpoints, compliance, vehicle GPS, or other tracking capabilities in the event of serious incidents, accidents, or medical emergencies. As well as the minutes, we would like to have access to the minutes from the BCT safety committee meetings. Now, regarding the paratransit services provided by contractors, we are concerned about the formal safety events investigation processes. I'm sorry. Community members have concerns about the data source, integrity of the data, and how complaints relative to safety are reflected in the current BCT safety plan. There are concerns that complaints reported to contractors are not accurately reported to the county's contract administrators. There are disabled riders and families who are unsure how their complaints about safety are captured and reported because they believe the actual number of complaints and concerns expressed by paratransit riders and family members are considerably higher than those reflected in the data. There are disabled community members and family members of disabled persons relying on paratransit service providers. They find it difficult to follow up after reporting complaints, which impacts their sense of safety and belonging while utilizing BCT paratransit programs, including those funded by the penny surtax. There are considerable community members who would like surety that there is effective oversight by county staff that addresses hazards and risk in the most timely manner possible for disabled riders relying on BCT. We're asking to know more about the systems that are planned or in place to reinforce communications that include disabled neighbors and their families in the loop of access to information regarding paratransit safety plans and compliance. Again, thank you for this opportunity to speak this morning. Thank you. The next speaker is Tenille Brown. Hold on. Do we need to make a motion on number four before we move forward? Motion to adopt? You can, the board sometimes does, but you can move it and have a second and then allow it or you can allow it. Do I have a motion to adopt number four, please? Second it. Pardon me? You have more public comment. You have more public comment. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know we had another public comment. Kevin, how many speakers do we have in four? Tenille Brown. Sorry, didn't know we had it. Please, come on down. Hello. Thank you for allowing me to speak before you today. My name is Tenille Brown. I would like to speak to you on behalf of the visually impaired, but those with disabilities as a whole. For many of us, transportation is a convenience, but for the visually impaired riders, transportation is freedom and it gives them a sense of safety. We have received repeated reports from visually impaired riders who are dropped off in unknown safe locations, forced to navigate traffic, or sometimes lost within parking lots. These are just some of the smaller issues. A visually impaired rider cannot simply look around for a bus or a building. They need assistance. So today I'm asking the commission to take three concrete steps, strengthening oversight and compliance, mandatory recurring trainings for drivers, not just workshops, create a rider-centered safety standard. Thank you. Thank you. Kevin, any other speakers? Number four? No other speakers. Thank you, sir. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Let's go to number 33, Commissioner Fisher. Mayor, someone from staff will look into the comments made by the public. Yes, we already have and we've been working on it. Thank you. I'm going to read this, I guess, on the record. Number 33. Item 33 has two motions. Motion A is a motion to authorize county administrator to execute a release of conservation easement for the property recorded in book 30173, page 1706 of the official records of Broward County, Florida, known as Alpha 250 North Parcel D in the city of Pompano Beach, Florida. Motion B is a motion to authorize county administrator to execute a deed of conservation easement to the South Florida Water Management District for a wetland restoration area comprising of 25 acres at Tradewinds Park in the city of Coconut Creek, Florida. No members of the public have signed up to speak on this item. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make a comment, Ms. Shapiro. First of all, for the public, this has been a 25-acre parcel on Blunt Road in Pompano Beach. It has been an issue for many years, even when I was Mayor of Pompano and then when I became on the county in 2018, staff has been feverishly working on this particular site, the Alpha 250, to ultimately replace and, you know, refocus those folks that are staying there now on the property to housing, et cetera. And this is the first step. This is a huge step to getting the conservation easement released. You know, Mr. Culler, you've been working so hard on this for me. Thank you so much. I just want the public to understand this is a long time coming, but it's finally coming and we're almost there, but this is the first step. So thank you for everybody's hard work on this and ultimately that property will be clean and cleared and what it's meant to be is an area there for Alpha 250. So just thank you so much. That's all I want to say. I'm going to move it, Mayor. Second. Motion and a second on number 33. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Number 51, I'm pulling. It was my item. I just wanted the commissioners to know that there are many senior communities that use elevators and that I've been getting reports of people that a lot of these seniors who can't walk downstairs and are immobile. The elevator companies take a week, two weeks to fix it, which is not acceptable for people who are seniors who can't get around, they're disabled. So I asked Drew to put together some type of ordinance so if seniors live in a community where there is an elevator that's out, there's things that they can do. You can use another elevator company. There's ways of getting things fixed quickly. Unfortunately, that's not happening. So hopefully, we can get an ordinance to put some pressure on elevator companies and management companies that manage the condos to make sure they understand that there will be a penalty if those elevators aren't fixed quickly. Any other? Yeah. Yeah, I would just like to agree with that. I have had several complaints, but in a particular one in Sunrise, where the elevators were out for months and you had people having cancer treatments and couldn't get downstairs. It's unacceptable that it could take so long to either get a part and if they know, and I understand some of these elevators are older, they can't get parts, but they have to figure out a way that people cannot be stuck up in their apartments on a fourth floor. So I agree that we need to make sure that we follow up on this. And Lenny has been excellent. I'd have to tell you, he gets a lot of complaints and he's very responsive to it, but I think we need to do more because we do have a lot of people that are in this situation throughout the county. Anybody else? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thanks for accepting my friendly request to be a co-sponsor on this item. I can share with you, my motto is do not take an elevator on the weekend because when you're stuck, you're stuck for a long time. All right? So I say that for years. I lived in a condo for eight years while I served in Tallahassee. I know what it is to be stuck. But I also know that we need to be more transparent, more educational. I mean the county because I learned some things also. If they, although the inspection is done, the mandatory inspection is done and we are responsible for making sure it's done, I'm also saying even if they pass the inspection, there are other things that might be a reason for not recertifying that elevator and public aren't aware. So I think we need to, in the conversation, Drew, as you put that ordinance together, we need to come up with a solution. There's no reason for us not to know that this elevator passed the inspection, but they don't get the certificate upgraded. And I wish, is Lenny, who, Lenny, are you here? We can talk about that. I don't know if I'm expressing it clearly, but there's a gap. It needs to be. I think that's a separate issue from this, but we should address that as well. It has to do with elevators and the inspection. So it's the same. If the inspection is passed, why can't they get that certification? They passed the inspection, but there are other things that's wrong, and that's the reason why they have not upgraded the certification. And I wanted to bring that to your attention of everyone here and the public, because we're thinking something is wrong when it's not wrong. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Is there any other teeth that we have other than the fine? Let's say it's broken, right? Some of these elevators that I've heard and you all have heard have been weeks, and that's the only way they can get from four, two, three, one, the whole nine. But what other teeth, when we look at this, can we look at so it's emergent when it goes out like that? Yeah. Just for the record. So I need a motion. Since it's mine, I can't make the motion. I move it. I have a motion. Second. I have a motion to second for number 51. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? I have a motion to first show that passing 8-0. We're now headed to our public hearing. Before we do the public hearing, I wanted to address two quick items. One has to do with the canvassing board. I'm supposed to read this. We need to identify our canvassing board representative for the March municipal elections, March. The county attorney informs me that the mayor is the county commissioner's representative on the canvassing board unless the mayor is unable to serve. Since I will be running, I'm unable to serve. And therefore, under our administrative code, the roll passes automatically to the vice mayor if he's unable to serve. So, vice mayor, do you want to serve on that? Or do you want to see if someone else would like to serve on the canvassing board? I would take it until the conflict of me running comes up as well, but I'll take it. Absolutely. Okay. Let's get it done. Okay. Do we need a vote on that? This is Scott Andron here. I believe you make that appointment, and I believe you also don't need a vote. You can also do the alternate. Because the vote already came on the other board appointments. So, on this particular board appointment, I think we need a special vote on that. I think this one is just your designation. Okay. Great. That's done. That's one done. I think I picked the wrong seat. Number 79, most of you were here. Some of you weren't. We called it the parking garage. I just wanted to make sure everyone knows we're now calling it the dashboard. This is for projects. If any of you want to have attached to our agenda, I'm going to be attaching this. So, if you want to have any projects that you want identified to know the status, because things get lost sometimes. The administration, us, we're involved in so many different issues. So, if you want to keep something, you know, on focus, on the agenda, if you look at what we had in the, like, for example, the old courthouse knockdown parking garage, it's been something I want to stay a status on constantly. The commission building. We've talked forever about getting a new office building, a new commission building. It kind of gets lost. And then, what, six months later, we're asking, what's the status? So, this will be on the agenda, and we'll deal with it if we want every time, or, you know, we don't have to. But, at least, it keeps us focused on what's important to each one of us. And so, it will give us the opportunity to say to the administration, hey, I'm glad we didn't forget about this. What's going on with the construction of the bubble, but whatever it is. Right. So, I want you to understand, if you want to add something to it, you can tell administration, it's, I'm going to be putting it on the agenda, calling it the dashboard, and that's it for 79. Mayor? Yeah. Can I bring you back just for one second, if you don't mind, just to the canvassing board? Sure. There was a second piece of it, if you don't mind, just to also ask if somebody can serve as an alternate, which you also don't need to vote on. You can designate, but just ask if anyone's willing to serve as the alternate. Commissioner, your dean loves serving on that canvassing board. This is for March. You want to bet? No. I'll do it as an alternate. For you, I'll do that. No, no, because there's a few meetings, so if you can't do it, we'll just, you know. Okay. Commissioner, your dean will be the alternate. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Let's go on to our agenda. I think we're going to go straight to 52. Is that right, counsel? And our public hearings. Okay. I'm going to read off my non-prepared script. Public hearing items today are items 52 through 74, with items 73 and 74 being quasi-judicial public hearings. The reading clerk will open each item and recognize any members of the public signed up to speak. Upon completion of the public comment, the item will come back to Daz for any discussion. So let's go down on 50. Let's start with 52. The public hearing on item 52 is now open. Item 52 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise to Ferravi Shipping Corporation for a new five-year term. One member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Christopher Cavallo. Okay. Do you want to have Christopher come on up and speak? Is Christopher here? Going once? Going twice? Okay. I'm going to bring it back to the... I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a motion. Second on number 52. All in favor? Aye. Any approved? Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Item 53, please. The public hearing on item 53 is now open. Item 53 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship franchise to Sunshine Shipping Inc. for a new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Item 54. The public hearing on item 54 is now open. Item 54 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise to USA Maritime Enterprises Inc. for a new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Second. I have a motion and a second. I have a motion on item 54 and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Item 55, please. The public hearing on item 55 is now open. Item 55 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise to AR Savage & Sons LLC. For a new five-year term, no member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion and a second on item 55. All in favor? Any opposed? I'm sorry? I've got three seconds. I've got Commissioner Rogers and Commissioner Rich. We've got two seconds. Okay. All in favor? Any opposed? Item 55, pass 8-0. Let's go to item 56. The public hearing on item 56 is now open. Item 56 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise to Christian Bay Shipping Company for a new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Second. Senator Geller moves approval. Second by Vice Mayor. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show item 56 passing 8-0. Vice Mayor McKenzie second that. They want me to be specific in who's moving it and who's seconding it. Okay. You got it. Those attorneys, man. Yes. 57, please. The public hearing on item 57 is now open. Item 57 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting renewal of a non-exclusive, unrestricted Port Everglades vessel sanitary wastewater removal services franchise to World Patrolling Incorporation for a new five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Second. Senator Geller moves approval. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show item 57 approved 8-0. 58, please. The public hearing on item 58 is now open. Item 58 is a motion to adopt a resolution consenting to assignment of a non-occlusive, unrestricted Port Everglades steamship agent franchise for Norton Lilly Enterprise, Inc. to Norton Lilly International USA, Inc. for the remainder of the five-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Moved by Senator Rich, seconded by Senator Rich, and Senator Geller. Okay. Item 58. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show item 58 passing 8-0. 59, please. The public hearing on item 59 is now open. Item 59 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use plan map, PC 25-5, in the city of Weston. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Moved by Senator Rich. Second. Second by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor of item 59? Aye. Any opposed? Show 59 passing 8-0. Let's go to item 60. Public hearing on item 60 is now open. Item 60 is a motion to enact ordinance amending the county comprehensive plan to adopt county land use plan amendment, PCNRM 25-1, to amend the environmentally sensitive land maps of the natural resource map series in the city of Pompano Beach. I'm going to bring it back to the dais before we move. I think we have a commissioner that would like to speak. Your mic's on. Thank you so much, Mayor. It's important just to take a couple minutes of this item because it has caused some controversy, as generally all environmentally sensitive lands do cause issues when you're dealing with development. But this particular property sits within the Pompano Beach Air Park. Ms. Dolan, can I call Ms. Dolan up? Ms. Dolan is from Pompano. She'll introduce herself just to give a quick presentation, and then I'll come back and make some additional comments. Ms. Dolan, thank you for being here. So we recently got – oh, here we go. Here we go. Is there a way for me to change them, or you guys change them? All right, go ahead to go to the next one. This is Pompano Air Park's aerial right there. You can see the tree areas, which are the areas on the environmentally sensitive lands map. Can somebody change the slide? Oh, I got you. All right, so we just recently had this corner of the air park that's outlined in blue change from open space recreation to transportation. So now the entire airfield has got a transportation land use, but before we can develop it, we have to remove the ESL restrictions from the airfield. So this is the ESL map. Years ago, these are sands, pine scrubs. They were put on this ESL map. The most important reason we have to remove this is because the air park was given to us in 1947 with deed restrictions by the FAA that be used for aviation purposes only. So we have this recent letter in your backup from the FAA that pretty much says you will remove these deed restrictions and let that part of the air park be developed for the intended purpose that is restricted by the deed. Also, all the grants that we have gotten over the years have grant assurance in them that would disallow us from having these environmentally sensitive lands on the air park. So we're pretty much being told we have to remove these restrictions from the airfield. These are just more details about the deed restrictions, where they apply and where they don't, some studies that we have done in the past that all recommend removing these ESLs from the airfield. And just a reminder that there are two sand pine scrubs in Pompano already to the north and to the west of the air park, very close. So we have worked with county staff. They're agreed to move any plants they find interesting into these preserves so that they're not lost at the air park. So these are just the basic reasons we have to do it, with the most important reason being the deed restrictions. And that concludes my presentation. I can answer any other questions. Thank you, Ms. Dolan. Just to stay right there, and also part of this process, it went to the Broward County Planning Council, which I'm honored to sit on there, and we heard this item as well. And there were some issues in the backup from our Broward County's Environmental Permitting Division, Mr. Valpano. Could you just come up real quick? I just want to ask you a quick question as well, because there was concerns that there would be no, almost in a negative recommendation for this. And we and I had talked about this, but this is important to put on the record on understanding the deed restrictions there in the FAA. So I understand the sensitivity. I'll talk about that in a minute. But, Mr. Valpano, you know, can you just opine again on what your recommendation was? Yes, sir. So essentially, when the way that process works is a little bit backwards, essentially it comes to our agency to say, hey, is this still, you know, meeting the criteria of, you know, having these environmental benefits? And so we have to say, you know, of course it does, which is why it looks like we're, you know, sort of opposing the item. But essentially, you know, we understand that in this case that essentially the city is preempted and that, you know, there are other locations and other environmental protections. And so essentially, you know, our standpoint is, yeah, it's not, you know, the lands are still there, but we're not saying that the board must preserve them. We understand that the board essentially is responding to a preemption from the FAA. Perfect, perfect. So I'll bring it to Atlanta here, but it's very important to understand because when I was mayor of Pompano Beach, we dealt with these environmental sensitive lands called the Arboretums. And they were all from, if anybody is familiar with Pompano from northeast 10th Street all the way to Copeland Road to the north along northeast 5th Avenue. And when we talk about the Arboretum, we talk about relocating the owls and the wildlife and, of course, the species that exist here today. So we actually, when I was mayor, we actually fought against developing Parcel X, which is on the southwest corner. This is on the northwest corner of the airport, on the southwest corner of 5th and 10th Street. And immediately there was a Part 16 filed, which basically means that the developer filed a lawsuit against the city. And it went through its process. And ultimately, of course, FAA stepped in and FAA ruled not in favor of the city. So the point here is there are deed restrictions. As much as we want to save these lands, these sensitive lands in Pompano, we have no choice because of the FAA. So what would be our negative impact if this did not go through in the sense of the long run? The FAA could step in and they could take at least one half of the current golf course that is there. And they could also take all other lands that are there. They could take the St. and Spurs, which is a very equestrian oasis that we have in Pompano, could take that and also take the air park away from us. And they would totally take over the air park, which we would not have any control on the land side, even though once that plane takes off, it becomes an FAA issue, not a city of Pompano issue at all. So this is what we're dealing with. And I am very, very sensitive to our sensitive lands. I'm sensitive to the air noise that our citizens deal with. But the ultimate thing is we have no choice here. The FAA is in full control, these deed restrictions. Actually, this shouldn't even be here. Back in, I think, Ms. Dolan, back in the 80s, I guess, this was actually illegal put there, these lands. And so I just wanted to set the record straight because there's been a lot of talk at the city of Pompano Beach, especially at the elected officials level, saying that we can do this and we can do that. And unfortunately, Big Brother FAA isn't totally in charge of this. And they are very specific in their air park must be developed for air park purposes and nothing else. So thank you, Mayor. And I'll move the item. Do I have a second? Second. So Commissioner Fisher is moving the item. Vice Mayor McKenzie, second the item. All in favor? Any opposed? Show item 60 passing 8-0. Item 61, please. The public hearing on item 61 is now open. Item 61 is a motion to adopt resolution transmitting to designated state agencies a proposed amendment to the water management element of the county comprehensive plan. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Senator Geller moves approval, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Let's show item 61 passing 8-0. Let's go to item 62, which we will have part A and B and vote separately on part A and B. Correct, counsel? Same time. Okay. Item 62. Can you read that, please? Item 62 has two parts. The board will consider and vote on both parts at the same time. Part A is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the general fund and the Broward Municipal Services District Fund in the amount of $58,277,489, primarily to appropriate funds for prior year commitments and to provide additional funding for programs. Part B is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the county transportation trust fund in the amount of $2,868,222 to appropriate funds for prior year commitments. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have a question for administration. County Administrator, I'm going to ask you collectively about 62, 63, 64, 65, and 66. I just, we're, since none of us realize this, we are in a little bit of a tiff with our local sheriff, and I just want to know if how much of, if any, of these funds that will come up collectively, 62, 3, 4, 5, and 6, will be going to BSO? Yes, sir. So what you referenced is the budget appeal and our response, but yes, an item, the general fund, there's $36.2 million related going to BSO in this. Thank you. Okay. Do I have a motion on item 62? Second. Senator Geller moves approval on item 62, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor, 62. Any opposed? Show item 62 passing 8-0. Item 63, please. The public hearing on item 63 is now open. Item 63 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the special revenue funds in the amount of $572,376 to appropriate funds for prior year commitments and to provide additional funding for programs. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Moved by Commissioner Fisher, seconded by Senator Geller for item 63. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Item 63 passes 8-0. Item 64, please. The public hearing on item 64 is now open. Item 64 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the capital outlay funds in the amount of $8,862,082 to appropriate funds for prior year commitments and to provide additional funding for programs. No members of the public have signed up to speak on the item. Second. Move approval by Senator Geller, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? All in favor of 64. Any opposed? Show 64 passing 8-0. 65, please. The public hearing item on number- the public hearing on item 65 is now open. Item 65 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the enterprise funds in the amount of $6,652,309, primarily to appropriate funds to prior year commitments and to provide additional funding for programs. No member of the public hearing on number- the public hearing on number- the public hearing on number- the public hearing on item 65 is now open. Second by Senator Geller. All in favor of 65? Aye. Any opposed? Show item 65 passing 8-0. 66, please. The public hearing on item 66 is now open. Item 66 is a motion to adopt budget resolutions within the internal service funds in the amount of $1,231,871, primarily to appropriate funds for prior year commitments. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Moved by Senator Rich, seconded by Commissioner Davis. All in favor of item 66. Any opposed? Show item 66 passing 8-0. 67, please. Public hearing on item 67 is now open. Item 67 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to business regulations amending sections 20-160 and 20-164 of the County Code of Ordinances in repealing Article 12 of Chapter 20 and sections 20-242 through 20-253. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Moved by Senator Rich. Second. Second by Commissioner Udine. On item 67, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Let's do 68. The public hearing on item 68 is now open. Item 68 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to battery recycling. Amending sections 14-150 through 14-153 of the County Code of Ordinances. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Mr. Mayor, there is an amendment. I move with the correction. Amendment. So before we move it, I want to ask Senator Gellar, I just got this this morning, your amendment. Is this still being postponed to March? That's the only thing that we're doing is postponing it to March. Okay, good. Because, Mr., we've been negotiating with Publix and others who wanted some changes, couldn't reach any agreement yet. But, Mr. Villalpando had indicated that they were going to do a robust campaign to the retailers before we started enforcing it. And we haven't started that because we were negotiating. So we're just extending. All we're doing is extending the enforcement date to March 1st. Commissioner Fisher? Yeah, I just, you know, one of my pet peeves is getting, you know, supplemental material on the dais, much less at 5 o'clock at night tonight before the commission meeting. Did they know, Senator Gellar, that they, does this just come at the last minute on us? And shame on the retailers for doing this. I mean, they should have told you, you know, days ago that they had this issue. I agree with you. And we were in negotiation. I had thought that we had an agreement with them. They notified us yesterday that we did not have an agreement. So we're not putting in any of the things that they wanted. But we still have to postpone the effective date for the enforcement because we haven't reached out to the retail community yet. Commissioner Fisher, I was contacted over a week ago about their being upset. They feel there's things in there that are being treated unfairly. And I was told last week, I thought this was being pushed to March. So I just wanted to confirm that this, so it wasn't as of today or yesterday about the March issue. I was told, I think I was even told in briefings that it was being pushed to March. Counsel? Yeah. And just to add my two cents, we also thought that this was agreed to. We thought that the language publics wanted was addressed. We did learn yesterday that that wasn't the case. The prior item, the thing that printed with the agenda, made substantive changes and pushed it to March. This morning, Senator Gellar asked us, because we're still trying to work the rest of that out, to instead for the board to consider 68-A, the substitute ordinance, which all it does is pushes it to March, which we think everybody wants. Okay, so I'm going to be asking for it to be moved on 68-A, not 68. Right. Okay, do I have a motion? That's my motion. It's my bill. I'll second. Approved, approved. Okay. Senator Gellar moves 68-A as amended, seconded by Vice-Marrick McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that 68-A as amended has been approved 8-0. 69, please. The public hearing item 69 is now open. Item 69 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to local occupational licensing and the Broward County Central Examining Board Restitution Trust Fund, amending various sections of Chapter 9 of the County Code of Ordinances. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Moved by Senator Rich. Seconded by Commissioner Udine. Item 69, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Item 69 passing 8-0. Item 70. The public hearing item 70 is now open. Item 70 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to ethics, amending the gift restrictions set forth in Section 1-19C1 of the County Code of Ordinances. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Will Commissioner Davis move the item, seconded by Senator Gellar, and I have BEAM's proxy on that one because if you guys remember, I have BEAM's proxy. So all in favor? Any opposed? 8 plus the proxy in favor on item 70. Let's go to item 71. Item 71 and 72 will be opened at this time, but they will be voted upon separately. Item 71 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use plan map PC-25-7 in the Broward Municipal Services District. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Item 72 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county comprehensive plan amending the county municipal services district future land use map. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to speak briefly on 71, 2, and 3, which are all a land use and a zoning change in my district. Take it away. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a proposed land use change and then a zoning change in Broadview Park. We had, oh, I don't know how many meetings on this, many, many meetings on this with the Homeowners Association, which at one point I thought was supportive of this and is no longer supportive of this. Originally, before I was elected to represent that district, they were putting in a five-story building in an area that is inappropriate for five-story buildings. Just because it's a poorer area of the community does not mean that we should be putting things in there that are inappropriate that we would not put in Cooper City where I represent or Parkland or the nicer sections that you represent. And so I immediately put a stop to what they were planning on doing, which was five stories over, I think it was around 630, 640 units, and said, no, we've got to negotiate this. Through multiple meetings, we've reduced it. Most of the units there are either, they're all single-family, duplex, triplex. They're one- and two-story with an occasional three-story. This would cap the height to three stories instead of the five stories. This is reducing the number of units from over 600 down to 474 units. We have put in a requirement, which is in here, which was drafted by Mr. Lockery, to put in a restrictive covenant on the property to assure that all of the things that we've agreed to, before we make changes to the land use and zoning, because they could always change, that the restrictive covenant is signed and is in place, reflecting the agreements that we've reached. And then the homeowners decided that they still don't like it, because they're developing an undeveloped area of trees, and they want it to remain undeveloped. You know, we've all been through this. If we're ever going to have affordable housing in Broward County, we need more housing, period. We need, there are 7,000 units per year that we need, based on our population growth of 14,000, an average family size of 2.1. We need 7,000 housing units per year built in Broward County just to keep up with population growth. If we don't do that, we're not going to be able to ever really meaningfully affect affordability. Now, I would have liked, and I've asked the developers for, have not given up, they will be building a certain number of those units as single-family homes to do a screen between the homeowners and the apartment. I am still hoping that we can get those single-family homes available for purchase to be made affordable single-family. I continue to believe it is important that we build generational wealth in Broward through the use of single-family affordable housing. I've received letters, and this will be the last thing I'm saying, Mr. Mayor. I've received letters. One issue that did concern me and made me question just briefly whether or not I would be able to support this is a letter that I received yesterday from a gentleman named Richard Cabrera, who I believe lives in Broadview Park, who had questions saying that the land was environmentally sensitive and protected and therefore we couldn't build on it. If that's the case, that would cause me to have concerns. I wrote Darby Del Sal and received a response, which is five lines, which I will now read. The site was added to a list for potential designation in 1984, pending county acquisition of the property. No portion was ever purchased, and therefore it was never designated environmentally sensitive land, not protected by Chapter 25, properties on the ESL land use map, which requires an environmental impact report. The applicant completed one as part of the application, and staff will do their own independent analysis. I've received letters about flooding, things of that nature. Before this gets final approval, it has to go through many additional steps that will require staff approval to make sure that they've dealt with flooding, to make sure that they've dealt with the environmental. They claim that there's endangered species. All of this will be addressed through our regulatory process before the county gives final approval. I try and represent my community, but I cannot continue to say to this commission, we need more housing, we need more housing, we need more housing, and then say accept in my district. So, I'm sorry, I have done my best. This project that we will be voting on is a dramatic improvement for the community over what was originally approached. But we need housing in Broward. I'm going to push it, and this is the best that we could do. And I have not yet given up, Mr. O'Reilly, on the hope of still trying to get the single-family homes to be affordable for purchase, affordable housing to help build generational wealth in that community. And I thank you for your courtesy, Mr. Mayor. Any other comments? Yes. Senator Rich? Yeah. I'm going to be supportive of this for a number of the reasons that have already been stated by Senator Geller. But I just, I want people to remember, it's not only the population growth. It's the thousands upon thousands of units that go off the market every year that are no longer affordable become market rate. So, the problem gets compounded by that. We have so many people in this community that do not have stable housing. And it's going to get worse because of what's happening with HUD and the homeless population. So, I mean, I've been listening to the people that have been working on this, you know, for months and months. And I think they have made so many changes to make it better. It's, I mean, before I agreed, it's not something I would have been comfortable supporting. But this, they have done so many things to make it a beautiful community. And I know I go everywhere to ribbon cuttings and groundbreakings for affordable housing. And affordable housing is different than people remember. It is beautiful. They are beautiful communities with all kinds of amenities and landscape. And just, they fit right into any community. So, I just, I'm going to, you know, support this. And I hope everybody will to move it along. And I certainly will be looking at it to make sure that all the promises are kept and maybe even a couple more. But, so, I'm supporting it. Thank you. Vice Mayor McKenzie. This is a project that I started when I was over in Fort Lauderdale. And it was massive. It was controversial. And upon coming here, I was relieved that Senator Geller took the lead on it. And I think we're right where we need to be, Mr. Lockery. And I support this project 100%. Anybody else? Okay. Mr. Mayor. Yes. Mr. Rogers. I want to commend my colleague here because he seemed to have been the only person that I could get to listen to the fact that we need affordable single-family homes. And because there's consideration, I am supporting my colleague. I was taught that we need to support the representatives from that community. So, we have been doing that here. And I think a great job was done. And I think the community is not complaining as they used to be. So, I believe we have hit a spot where they can, they will support this project. Thank you, Commissioner Rogers. Okay, bring it back on items, you guys ready to vote on item 71? I'm sorry, first is 71, that's 72, and then with the calls to a judicial. I got it. Correct. Do I have a, okay, Senator Geller moving approval, seconded by Senator Rich, all in favor of 71. Aye. Any opposed? Show that item 71 passes 8-0. Item 72, moving approval by Senator Geller, seconded by Senator Rich. Item 72, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show item 72 passing 8-0. The quasi-judicial public hearings, item 73 and 74, are now open. And at the same time, it will be open at the same time, but each quasi-judicial proceeding and vote will be done separately. Am I going to be, you want to take 73? Item 73 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to the rezoning of a portion of Newman's survey recorded in Plot Book 2, page 26, of the official records of Miami-Dade County in the Municipal Services District, from agricultural and utilities to one-family detached dwelling district and multifamily dwelling district. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Item 74 is a motion to enact ordinance pertaining to the rezoning of a portion of Partial A of Waste Management, Inc., Plot No. 2A, recorded in Plot Book 138, page 14, of the official records of Broward County in the Municipal Services District, from Planned United Development and Heavy Industrial District to Agricultural Disposal District. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. I'm going to turn this over to the county attorney's office to conduct the quasi-judicial proceedings. At the end of the quasi-judicial proceeding, the county attorney will say it is appropriate for the board to deliberate and turn it back over to me as mayor, and then we'll have board discussion on them. If there's not, we'll then vote. So I'd like to turn it over to the county attorney's office. Any ex parte communications regarding item 73 shall be disclosed as part of the proceeding. In addition to ex parte communication provided by Commissioner Fisher this morning, which will be provided to the clerk and Senator Geller's email and the correspondence this morning, has any other commissioner written ex parte communication regarding these items that has not been part of the record? Yes. Thank you, Madam Attorney. I have received correspondence from the following people, all of which I have read. Vicki and Gary Horton, Donna Hartog, Lois and Mike Austin, Gail Edwards, Chan Mirage, Elsa Van Ackerbrock, Rose Bickford, and, as I referred to earlier yesterday, from Richard Cabrera. In addition to that, I have had multiple meetings with both the Homeowners Association and the lobbyists, which are Robert Lockery and Ron Book for the Fort Waterdale Housing Agency and the developer. And during the time frame that you have referred to, there was one meeting in my office with Mr. Lockery and Mr. Book, which was held on August 18th, 2025. In addition, I received a text and responded to that last night from Mr. Book in reference to this item. And to the best of my recollection, because I did have many meetings, but those are the only oral communications that would have occurred during the time frame that you have referred to. It is conceivable that Mr. Book or Mr. Lockery may have spoken with me additionally since during the time period, July, but I don't recall those. Thank you, Senator. Has any other Commissioner had written or oral? Yes. I just want to, again, additional to the emails I provided you today, as far as the written communications, I've had ex-part communications with the applicants, legal counsel, just describing the property and also what they're wanting to do with it. So it was just ex-part communications that way. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Yeah. Senator Rich. Yes, thank you. Yes, to my knowledge, I have spoken. I've had phone conversations going back from the beginning of the project just, you know, to discuss what they were doing. Thank you, Senator. Mr. Lockery and Mr. Millage, I think. Thank you. My disclosure is the same from the, what was email and conversations with the lobbyists occasionally. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I think I was copied on some of the emails. I don't believe I met with them. We might have met. I might have met with Mr. Lockery a while ago, but I don't recall. Yes. Right. After the rezoning was filed. Correct. Okay. The applicant, staff, and all witnesses wishing to provide sworn testimony must be sworn. Testimony may, but is not required to be sworn. However, testimony that is not sworn is not assigned the same weight and credibility as testimony that is sworn. Attorneys licensed to practice law in the state of Florida are not required to be sworn unless they intend to present sworn testimony. Persons providing testimony should indicate whether they have been sworn. Ms. Sappero, may the board secretary swear in persons who intend to give sworn testimony on item 73 at this time. Yes. Thank you. Ms. Slater. Can you please raise your right hand? Do you solemnly swear to affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? At the conclusion of each quasi-judicial proceeding and deliberation by the board, the board may approve staff's recommendation and approve the rezoning. Alternatively, the board may determine that the applicable requirements of the land use plan and zoning code have not been met and deny the application. If the board determines that the testimony or documentary evidence or information justifies additional research or review, in order to properly determine the issue presented, section 1-332 of the code of ordinances provides that the board may continue the hearing for up to two weeks or until the next meeting of the county commission after the two-week period. Mr. DelSalle, please indicate if you have been sworn, present a brief synopsis of the nature of the application, summarize the issues, and make a recommendation on the application for item 73. Darby DelSalle, Director of Housing and Urban Planning Division, and I have been duly sworn, and my credentials and qualifications are on file with Broward County. This particular application is by the City of Fort Lauderdale in tandem with the Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority. The request is to rezone the property from A3, which is an agriculture and utility district, to RS5, which is a low-density residential, and RM16, which is a medium residential. The way that they're doing the rezoning, basically, is the R5 portion would be on Southwest 46. That would face the single-family homes that are across the street. The behind that would be where the RM16 would go. The property itself is located at 4590 Peters Road. It's basically east of 46, west of 44th, and south of Davey Boulevard. The property is approximately 39.4 acres in size. And the items that you just had before this one did successfully change the land use to this property to make the rezoning possible. So the staff report does find that, basically, this request is consistent with the newly approved land use, and it makes possible this particular development. The rezoning itself would enable about 511 units. The declaration of restrictive covenants being offered as part of the future land use map amendment actually brings it down to about 508, as was expressed by the senator. Here, it's 474 multifamily units and 34 currently being offered at market rate units, with height limitations at 35, vehicular access for the multifamily portion restricted to the 44th tear side, so that only the 46th, the southwest 46th avenue side will have access for the single-family homes, and then that layout will then be able to cement that sort of traffic pattern, if you will. And then there will be other amenities, part of that DRC that will be included in there, among them, some nature trails and the like that the rest of the community can enjoy. This item was heard by the LPA on October 8th, and they found it, as well, consistent with the land use and with the criteria for rezoning. Staff recommends approval, if you have any questions. I'm sorry, does any commissioner have questions over Mr. Dossal? Senator Geller. Mr. Dossal, I have two questions. First, both in regards to questions I've received. One is a complaint that Broward should not be giving Fort Waterdale that property. Who currently owns the property? The property owner is the city of Fort Lauderdale. Right. Okay. And secondly, I did mention and read part of a letter that you had written, because I've had numerous people comment that they think that that land is protected and that we must go through extra hoops to build on that. Could you just comment on that briefly? Sure. So the note that you had read in addresses two topics, one with regard to the wilderness designation, which did not happen. In fact, the report that goes back to 84, even it acknowledges some degradation to the site and questionable qualities. We're now 40 years on. That only added it to a list. It did not afford any particular protections to it. With that said, the property is on the land use ESL map, which then is governed by Chapter 5182, which then requires, as you go through development and permitting processes, that the site be properly evaluated and then mitigated as it goes to a redevelopment process. And as I said in that particular text or email that you had responded to, that is part of the independent review that we will do at staff. And, of course, there will be the environmental impact report that would go along with that. Thank you. Are there any additional questions of Mr. LaSalle? Mr. Lockery, you may now make a presentation, including any witnesses you may wish to call. All witnesses shall state their full name and indicate whether they have been sworn. Good morning. Good afternoon. Robert Lockery, attorney for the applicant, to the mayor, vice mayor, and to the commissioners. We agree with the staff report and the conclusions of the staff. Happy to answer any questions. I do want to say that we want to thank the district commissioner for his close attention to this matter, for working with us and letting us know the concerns of the community and allowing us to address those concerns. Thank you. Are there any questions of Mr. Lockery? Seeing none, Commissioner Davis. Yes, I did want to mention that I do recall a virtual meeting on this matter. Sorry, I thought it was not. I thought Commissioner Davis has the... Oh, I thought she was done. Are you done? Yeah, I didn't say earlier that I did now recall a virtual meeting on this matter with the applicants. Oh, you're done. Okay, I'm sorry. Senator Gallin. I was also notified by my office I received one other email from someone named Angela Clem, so I want to add her to my list. Thank you, Senator. The evidentiary portion of the quasi-judicial proceeding is now complete, and it is appropriate for the board to deliberate. Any board discussion on the item? With none, I need a motion. Senator Gellar moves it. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor of 73. Any opposed? Show 73 passing 8-0. The quasi-judicial proceeding on item 73 is concluded. We're starting proceeding on item 74. I'm, again, going to turn this over to the county attorney's office to conduct the quasi-judicial proceedings on item 74. Any ex parte communications regarding item 74 shall be disclosed as part of the proceeding. In addition to 12 emails received from Commissioner Fisher that will be made part of the record, has any commissioner had any written or oral communications regarding this matter? Ms. Sappero, I'm sorry. Mr. Mayor. Yes. I may or may not have spoken with Mr. Laistrom. I know we've discussed it at some point in time, but I don't remember what time period is this? It's post-filing of the rezoning, which was September 18th, if I'm not mistaken. I don't believe I've spoken with him during that time period, but I can't be sure. I know I have discussed it with him from time to time, but I don't think since September. Thank you, Senator. Ms. Sappero, may the board secretary swear in persons who intend to give sworn testimony on item 74 at this time. Yes. Thank you. That's nice. Can you please raise your right hand? Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. Mr. DelSalle, you were previously sworn. Can you please provide a brief synopsis of the application, summarize the issues, and make a recommendation on item 74? For the record, Darby DelSalle, director, housing and urban planning division. My professional credentials are on file with Broward County. I have been duly sworn. The applicant is Waste Management Inc. They are requesting to rezone the land from a PUD, Plan Unit Development, and M4, which is an intense industrial district, to the A6 Agricultural Disposal District. The property is at 2600, Wiles Road. The application report and exhibits are all submitted in part of the public record. The finding from the staff review is that it is consistent with the land use, and it meets the rezoning criteria. The property itself is 22.4 acres in size. It's part of a larger parcel that is used for landfills uses. Approval of this particular rezoning would expand those uses onto this particular parcel within the overall footprint of the existing site. On February 25th, the future land use map of this particular property was approved within the BMSD to make this use possible under the industrial land use category. On October 8th, the local planning agency made a recommendation of consistency with the land use plan and recommended the board approve the item. Staff recommends approval of the item if you have any questions. Does any commissioner have questions of Mr. DelSalle? Mr. Laestrom, you may now make a presentation, including any witnesses you may wish to call. All witnesses should state their full name and include whether they have been sworn. Good morning, Mayor, members of the Commission. My name is Bill Laestrom. I'm here on behalf of Waste Management, Inc. of Florida, the owner of the property and the applicant. We spent a great deal of time in February discussing this item, and my presentation today would be the same. But I would ask to just make the staff report part of the record, if it's not already, which it probably is. And with that, we're asking for your rezoning to go with the land use amendment that you approved in February to allow this expansion. As you'll recall, very quickly, in addition to a number of other agreements that we've reached, we've also since that time reached an agreement with Coconut Creek, Deerfield County, settling our disagreements between us, probably both sullen but not mutinous. But we believe now that this is an opportunity to get the rezoning done, and after that, the site plan in order to complete this process. And with that, I would ask for your support of the rezoning. And, again, I do have a presentation if you do want to hear it. I didn't think so. Does any commissioner have questions of Mr. Laster? I do. Again, just to reiterate, this was part of the litigation settlement with Coconut Creek, correct? This is part and parcel of that? And Deerfield, yes. And Deerfield. Okay, thank you. Do you have any witnesses, Mr. Laster? I don't intend to call any witnesses. If there are no further questions, the evidentiary portion of the quasi-digital proceeding is now complete, and it is appropriate for the board to deliberate. Any discussion from any commissioners? Since no one has any discussion, I'd like to just, I have a great idea. I don't know if Mr. Laster would love to agree with this, that we, instead, we amend this to affordable housing, instead of a landfill and a ski resort. A ski resort and a portable housing, you know, I guess that's not going to happen. I would, obviously, the board is going to pass this, but I just wanted to say that I've had a lot of community in Coconut Creek, as you can imagine, my district, Deerfield, my district, had a lot of interest in this, sir, and they've asked that I stay, like, get a quarterly status on this, and that I notify them on the progress of it. They just want to be kept informed, and so I hope I could be a pain to you just to find out progress and what's going on, and they want to be kept notified. We're available, and I'm in communication with the planning department for each, with each step we take, with the planning departments for Coconut Creek. And if you want to take time, you know, a couple years, please take your time. There's no rush. I just want to make sure you know that. We have a while to go. All right. With that, do I have a motion? Move. I would not be, I'm not voting for this. This is on the street, so hey, I'll move it for him. Okay. Vice Mayor McKenzie moves approval, seconded by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor? Aye. Aye. That's seven yeses. I oppose. Number one, no. Can we get that in the record louder, please? No. We thank you for your time, and as well, your staff, which has been very active on this project. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. We're done now with, we are done, Council, with the public hearing. Is that correct? Okay. So we're now going to our regular items. Seventy-five. Yep. Get up my 75. Okay. Seventy-five. Who's, do we have who we're calling up for the delegation? Come on up, and please, if you don't mind, just state. Mr. Mayor, there are three speakers listed on this. How many speakers? There are three speakers, so. Actually, just two. There's just going to be two today? Okay. So there would be a total of five minutes, three minutes for the first speaker, and two for the second. And I will defer to the second speaker. And just state your name, please. Yes, my name is Jolene Mullins. I'm vice president for programs and operations of the South Florida Hunger Coalition. And thank you so much, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the County Commission, for allowing us to be with you today. I'm here to speak on behalf of our most vulnerable county residents, and I'm representing our partner organizations, Ruben Stacey Studios for Innovation and Education, and also Save Broward. We're here to share with you the challenges with a vital service, paratransit, which is a lifeline to our physically challenged community members. As the South Florida Hunger Coalition, we began working with Blind Faith and Unity for the Blind in the area of food security, very quickly realizing that most of the food access points for food distribution at the community level are not available to people who do not drive. And so if you are sight impaired, you're not driving. And so that became a major part of our advocacy and a major important part of our support to these organizations. But as we move forward on this issue, we learn so much more on the challenges faced and the need for greater advocacy and change. I now wish to introduce Ms. Jennifer Williams to share her experience as an actual paratransit consumer. You can say that. Okay. Okay. Hello to everyone. My name is Jennifer Wilson. I am a client of the TOPS Paratransit Transportation, and I'm here today to give my concerns about some of the issues that we have as visually impaired persons that rise TOPS. I just want you to take a minute to think about if it was you as a blind person riding on a bus and if it was one of your loved ones, how you would respond or what you would do or how you would feel about some of these issues. My first issue is about safety, why we're riding on the vehicles. As we sometimes get on the bus, there's some safety issues with the rails. The rails are very loose. And when you pull up on them, sometimes they're very loose and you have to kind of like hold back. The seat belts that we're supposed to buckle in with, some of them are broken, some don't work. And as we're traveling, there's like a propane smell of the gas because they have regular gasoline and the propane tanks. And to ride around on the bus for 30 to an hour to smell that propane, that's hazardous to our health. So I'm here to address the safety issues. I was told that the drivers are supposed to do a check before they get the vehicle. I don't know if that's being done or not, but these are some of the issues that we're having. The other issue is when they pick us up and they take us to wherever we're going to, the drivers will leave us at the door and they will get back and proceed on. Well, speaking as a client, one day I was going home. I was on the bus by myself and the driver dropped me off in front of a resident. He walked me to the door and he immediately turned around and got back on the bus and pulled off. Well, when I reached to fill the door, I realized that that wasn't my house because I have a glass door and I didn't feel the glass in the middle. So I began to panic and I said, where am I? Because I'm not at my house. And I knocked on the door and a little girl came outside and I said, where am I? Thank God for cell phones because I then called my son and I says, the driver just dropped me off. He left me here. I don't know where I am. And the little girl gave me her address and my son came and got me. So that was a big issue. My husband was very upset. My son was upset and I was panicking because I didn't know where I was. That was another issue. Another issue that we're having is when we make our reservations and we have them to pick us up at an appointment time or a time that we have them to drop us off, we're not getting where we need to be on time. And that's an issue for us because if we're going to a doctor's appointment, if you don't arrive there 15 minutes after your appointment time, you have to reschedule. So that's a waste of trip and time for us. You know, just about two weeks ago, I made an appointment, an 8 o'clock pickup appointment time. They didn't pick me up until 10 o'clock. My appointment was over. When they got there, they gave me every excuse why they were on time. And what we don't like is to be lied to, just tell us the truth. That way we can make other arrangements if we have to. And it was every excuse that they gave rather than just tell us the truth about it. They didn't have a driver to come and pick me up. So, I mean, between the safety issues of the vehicle riding and the safety issues of dropping us off to the places in which we need to go, it is a concern. We're not, you know, pointing our fingers at anybody. We're not blaming anybody, but we're trying to see how we can resolve it. We're trying to see how we can work together as a team to make it happen for us and for the drivers and for the Tops community that rise Tops. All we want to do is see improvement, and we were always taught that you better your best. You know, we can say we're doing the best that we can, but we can do a little bit better than that because if we work together, we can make it happen. So we're not here to complain about what is not being done, but we're here to rectify it. We want to see a difference and an improvement because we rely on Tops to take us where we have to go. Sometimes we don't have family members to take us where we have to go, so we rely on them, but we need to be to the point where we can say, you know, we can depend upon you because we know that you're going to be there for us as we are for you. So I just thank you for giving me the opportunity to stand before you and to talk about some of the concerns that we have. And another other thing that I'm going to say before I take my seat, with complaints, if we did call in a complaint, the issue that we're having with that is once we made the complaint, they assigned us to a number, and they said within 10 days we should hear something about it, and we never do. Because when I made the complaint about being dropped off to the wrong address, they never did contact me back to say what was done and why it was happening. I just filed another complaint two weeks ago, and the only respond I got was, your complaint is valid. They didn't tell me what they did about it, what they're going to do about it, and how we can improve it. So we're just asking that we work together as a team to make it happen for us all. Thank you. Can I ask you a question, ma'am? Sure. When you were dropped off at the wrong address, did you let the company know about that? Yes, I put in a complaint. They assigned me a number. Did they ever tell you? No. So sorry. We terminated the driver. We did something with the driver. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. No response whatsoever. Okay. Is that your... Thank you so much. You are. And before we finish, I want to call up the president of the owner of... Is Transportation America here? Oh, sure. Josh, you're not the president. Oh, representative. Okay. So let me tell you. What she said, I don't know. I'll let the commissioners talk. Totally unacceptable what she said. I want to know what happened to that driver that dropped him off at the wrong place. That driver should be terminated. I mean, that's not even like a mistake. When you have somebody that's impaired like that, you can't have mistakes. And so I'd like to know what happened to the driver. I'd like to know why they can't give better responses when there's a complaint. Yeah. So I totally understand that. And we take all these things very seriously. When we saw the delegation request, we actually reached out to contact the email address. And we offered to meet with them. Prior to this, just so we could respond to whatever specifics they had were complaints. But we got a response saying they acknowledged that they got our email. But then when we offered to meet, we didn't get a follow-up. So we don't have specific responses to these specific complaints. Because we didn't know what they were. But we will certainly get back to you. Yeah. But they should know, regardless, they should know why they're not getting out substantive answers to people when they're complaining. They can answer that question right now of why people aren't getting substantive answers. We hear you. Can the gentleman come and answer that question? Commissioner Ray Gonzalez, I'm the president and CEO of the company. I will immediately investigate that. And if the driver is not terminated, he will be terminated. I'm more interested also, why are they not getting substantive answers when they put in a complaint? Well, there's a process contractually. We receive the complaints. We have a certain time period to send the answer to the complaint back. And I will review that and make sure that we are complying with the appropriate time frame. Does anybody here have any comments? Senator Rich? I'd like to know what the follow-up is with us. Do we get that complaint as well? Do our staff people get it so that we know what's going on and we can respond if they don't? So I'm going to ask Ms. Cuff-Lonergan. So, Corey, if you can explain what the process is from our side as well. Thank you. Good morning, Commissioners. First, let me say that what we heard today is absolutely unacceptable. And I'm disappointed to hear that one of our very important passengers was treated in this fashion. And we will definitely follow up on what we heard today and make sure that we put the proper processes in place to avoid a reoccurrence. What I can tell you is that we do have a complaint process. Some of that information does make its way to us. And to Paul's team who does an investigation and then will respond and they follow up on it for compliance. In this particular case, I can't speak to it because I don't know. But I will certainly follow up and get into it. Can we find out, is there a process when somebody is blind or vision impaired? Does Transportation America have special drivers that know to get out of the car, you park the vehicle and walk them to the door and make sure they're at the right location or make sure someone's home? Maybe they are at the right location and nobody's there. I'm going to say that there's no policy at this point about that. Is that correct? Corey, the gentleman's right behind you. Commissioner, all of our drivers are trained that way. And if somebody's not following the rules, we will address them accordingly. But that is our policy to walk them to the door and make sure there's somebody there at the receiving location. So they don't leave until somebody answers the door and they're at the right place, correct? That is correct. Because behind you, the ladies are shaking their head no. And so I assume she's taken many trips and she's shaking her head yes. And I assume that, has there been any times where they walk you to the door, ma'am? Yes, they walk me to the door. They don't stay for me. There's been a, I can't and I look for them because nobody is home. But the driver's already gone back to his vehicle and taken off. So, you know, just for me to put my key in the door, that way I know I'm safe and secure. But there has been times when they don't wait. They walk you up to the door, have a nice day, and they take off. They don't wait to see if there's somebody home or that you got in your home safe. Can that be corrected, sir? Yes, we've got road supervisors and we will make sure that they are looking at that. We also partner with the Lighthouse of the Blind. They're part of our training curriculum. For the visually impaired, which they used to be participate in our classroom training. Then we had a train-the-trainer and we've contacted them to come back out and do a refresher course. But yes, sir, absolutely that is possible. Okay, because, ma'am, I'm going to ask you that the next time you take trips, if there's ever a time where they don't wait until you get in there, you've got to call us. You've got to let us know. You can call my office or anybody else's office. Because, sir, I know that, you know, unfortunately, just like people who own businesses, your employees are the ones that can do great for you or not. And so I urge you to make sure that whoever is driving people who are impaired, disabled, that they take the extra time to make sure they get in and they're safe. Absolutely, Commissioner. Okay. Any other questions? Mr. Mayor? I have one. Thank you. Let's go to Commissioner Davis. Thank you. It seems to me that this is something that's been occurring. Earlier today, we had some folks talk about the same paratransit issue. So I would like for us to take more responsibility as a county, because at the end of the day, we are the ones that are going to blame, not the contracted folks. And so complaints need to be dealt with at our level as well. And we need to be reviewing that contract, because it makes us look bad. And the bottom line, we've got to take responsibility. So I'd like to make sure that the county is taking responsibility, because at the end of the day, contractors come and go. But we're here. And we have to make sure that those who are visually impaired and others are treated with respect and dignity by whoever we put in charge to do that work. And if they're not doing a good job, then they no longer have the contract to do it. And so we can't pass the buck. We have to be more proactive, making sure we're listening. The same thing we did with the taxi cabs. When you're saying that, OK, we need to make sure that there's a way that they can say they had good service, not so good service. And it gets bad. So we really need to do a better job. This is totally unacceptable on every single level. And we need to get back to this commission with what the county is doing to ensure this doesn't happen again. Before we continue, I need a motion to extend the meeting. Motion to extend. I have a motion to set. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So extend it. Let's go. Vice Mayor McKenzie. I agree with all my colleagues. But here's my issue. A gentleman, president, CEO, and... Gentlemen in the past. All involved. Everyone has come up here today and said we will do something about it. My concern is when did it happen? When did it happen? This incident. The one where you left at the wrong address. And if it's a 10-day process to respond to the complaint you put in, and it was a long time ago, how long does it take to get on this agenda, Monica, for the delegation to get on this agenda? Well, they submitted it right at the last meeting. So it wasn't that... Apparently, as I understand it, it seems like it was a long time before that. So it didn't come to us when it... Okay. So to me, it seems like something's really broken. Gentlemen? I mean, we had a long discussion on top. I think it was last year. We all went in with the issues we had. I have been sitting silently because, you know, I thought it was resolved. And I do see drivers doing some things that I don't particularly care for when I'm riding on some of the streets of Broward County. But this situation, not to respond to this date, and it happened a long time ago, is a grave concern of mine and my colleagues. So that's what I'm struggling with. You say, yeah, we're looking to it. You huddle up in the back of the room to look into it. But this was a long time ago. So your system is obviously broke when it comes to complaints. Mayor? I'm broke in. I know it's not the only one. I get that. But what I'm saying, this happened a long time ago. And we're here now talking about how we're going to respond to it. You want to show up your mic? Are we done? Hold on one second. I'm honored that our auditor actually wants to say something during this meeting. Yes, Mr. Melton. Yes, I wanted you all to know that as we speak, we have an audit in process of the paratransit system. And part of what we are looking at specifically is the complaint process and how the complaints are resolved. Any other matters? Ma'am, thank you for coming in. Please be communicative with us and stay in touch and let us know. And gentlemen, thank you for coming in, being here today. Yes. On this topic, it was from your auditor. You know this. You're comfortable now. We will get some answers. Thank you. Okay. We're moving on. Okay. That's 76. Item 76 is a motion to approve threshold increase to open-end contracts, solid waste, trash removal, and recycling services with Great Waste and Recycling Services, LLC, at Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood International Airport. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion by Senator Geller. Second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor, 76? Aye. Any opposed? Show 76 approved 8-0. Next, 77. Item 77 is a motion to approve final ranking for qualified firms for Group 2, rental car center only, request for proposals, janitorial services for terminals 1-4, AOCC and RCC at FLL. For the Aviation Department, the ranked firms are 1, Sunshine Cleaning Systems, LLC. DBA, Pritchard Industries 2, GDI Services Inc. 3, McKinsey's Cleaning Inc. 4, SFM, Janitorial Services, LLC. 5, Damall Cleaning. Yeah, I think the item is officially identified. Four members of the public have signed up to speak. The first member of the public to speak is Terry Ann McKinsey, followed by Bernie Friedman. Sorry, you said four people? Four. Four. Okay. Who's the first one? Terry Ann McKinsey. Please, come on down. Followed by Bernie Friedman. Good afternoon to you all. Yes, ma'am. Sir. Sorry. No coming down here. My phone did its own thing. So, excuse me. I'm sorry. No worries. You know what, how about I just freestyle it, because I'm speaking from my heart. I've been here before this commission exactly 282 days ago. At that time, Mayor Bogan, you were vice mayor. And I've come and expressed over 15 years how difficult it has been for a small business like myself to actually participate in the CBE program on reserve projects. Now, I have some handouts here for you, but you guys are already familiar with it. Want to get in the handouts? In the ordinance 2012-33, it clearly states that small businesses, CBE firms particularly, are supposed to compete against each other before a non-CBE firm is even considered. In my 15 years, that has not happened. Every year, it has been a continuous struggle time and time again. 15 years, guys. The act clearly states, it's a good thing I don't have my speech, because now you get the short version. The act clearly states that it's to ensure that small Broward County-based entities are provided sufficient opportunities to meaningfully participate in the award of county-funded contracts and to ensure that only the entities that meet the eligible criteria stated herein are permitted to participate in the program established by this act. Now, the county administrator or his or her designee shall develop administrative processes to fully implement the provision of this act. However, to the extent that there is any conflict, and that's what we've been having over the years, if there are any conflicts to this provision of the act and those procedures or between the provisions of the act and any provisions of the Broward County Administrative Code, the provision of this act shall control. So, as you see in the packet I provided you with, the first OESBD economic and small business development requirement clearly states the means of the program. But number one and number two, points differential and monetary differentials are not a part of the act. So, what you have in the bid is that something that's not in the act is in the solicitation. Stop or continue. It's okay. Finish up. Okay, thank you. So, what you have and what I'm trying to, what we've been facing myself over the 15 years is that what's in the act is not in this, what's written in the solicitation. Nowhere in the act, the act that if anybody in the room Googles it, goes to the ordinance 2012-33, and you click on that right now, you don't see anything mentioned about point differential. Nothing. Nothing. So, that's the first thing that I want to make mention of. And the main thing, the only thing, as a matter of fact, if this reserve was truly a reserve, we wouldn't have these obstacles over the 15 years. And please stick around because after the speakers, I'm going to address, we'll address your issue. Sure. And I want to mention one last thing. You guys are the governing board. You have the authority to look into this further. I attempted to request a motion to ask the evaluation committee to reconvene, which is an option extended to us. I don't see where it was added to the objection that I filed, but I did ask, because someone, an attorney, because you know I'm a small business and I really can't afford these bigwigs, said that you can request a reconvene. I requested a reconvene. No one addressed it. It was denied. And you guys have the authority to ask them, because they did not, in the EC evaluation meeting, they did not clearly understand. I remember one of the evaluators asked. Ma'am, I'm sorry. It's three minutes. I'm letting you go over, but everyone gets three minutes. If you stick around, as I said, we're going to address. No problem. Thank you so much. Thank you. Stick around, please. Next speaker. The next speaker is Bernie Friedman, followed by Jordine McKenzie. Thank you very much, Mayor and Commission. Bernie Friedman with Becker Lawyers. I'm also here with Laurie and Stalin. Would you start the clock, please? From Sunshine Cleaning. Anyway, with all due respect to McKenzie Cleaning, I want to really state the facts. The fact number one is that Sunshine played by the rules. The county attorney memo and all the attachments to the agenda item clearly show that this was a CBE reserve, but non-CBEs are clearly allowed to participate in a CBE reserve. In a CBE reserve, there is a point differential that is given to the CBE firm. In this particular case, according to the code, it was 5%. There's also a point differential that was given to the CBE firm, which was based on price. That was done. We played by the rules. Clearly, they got an advantage, but they didn't meet the differential. Second point, the rental car center is a very heavy trafficked facility. It has 100% terrazzo floors that are very difficult to maintain. They require wet and dry grinding, resealing, all kinds of special equipment. Five years ago, a CBE won this particular contract because it was a reserve, and Sunshine didn't win it. But during the negotiations, the CBE pulled out because they realized that they didn't have the special equipment. They didn't have the capability to basically do the job. Three, McKenzie did not meet the Broward County rules that were specifically identified in your agenda item and specifically dealt with by the purchasing director in his response and by the Broward County attorney. They required to be within 5% of Sunshine. Sunshine's points were 351 points. McKenzie's points were 296. There was a 16% differential, not even close to what the code requires, which is 5%. Four, there's a policy issue here. I remember when we debated this. The commission wanted to protect the county assets and not carte blanche give to a CBE firm these specific type assets. They had to win it based on some sort of criteria. There was a clear policy that was set when they did this. Five, during the question and answers, and if you watch the video, I encourage everyone to watch the video. Mike Nonamaker, who was the deputy airport director, Selena Saucedo, asked McKenzie about staffing levels, which were woefully inadequate because she based them on two floors. Mr. Nonamaker told her that there were three floors of the rental car center. Also, their approach to Terrazzo. Finally, questions were asked whether or not they had a full-time on-site project manager dedicated to the job, which they didn't. Six, purchasing code requires new information in order to do an objection. Again, we're playing by the rules. If you all want to change the rules later, that's fine, but these are all the rules. In order to do an objection, there has to be new information. In order to reconvene the evaluation committee, there has to be something new. As the purchasing director said in his report, there's nothing new here. Everyone knew McKenzie was a CBE and Sunshine was a non-CBE. Finally, five, seven at the end, and just two more seconds, Sunshine increased their CBE commitment in this particular job, knowing it was a CBE reserve, from the 25 percent that was required to 30 percent. They have some wonderful CBEs that they're working with. We played by the rules. It's fair. It's equitable. A 16 percent differential, and there's a policy issue here, and all the staff backup shows it. I haven't really seen what McKenzie sent around. If someone wants to give it to me, a copy, I'm happy to look at it and comment on it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Friedman. Who's next? The next speaker is Jordine McKenzie, followed by George Platt. Jordine McKenzie. Council's telling me not allowed to do that. Would you like to speak, ma'am? Do you want me to have Mr. Platt go next? Mr. Platt? Good afternoon. George Platt from LSN Partners on behalf of Sunshine Cleaning. The client I have been fortunate enough to represent for over 40 years as they have built their business here in Broward County and our very good corporate citizen have been working at the airport, believe it or not, since 1985. They do a really good job, and they do a good job because they work closely with the county, with the staff, very responsive to the specs on these contracts. Most significantly relative to this particular complaint is the fact that Sunshine has always sort of exceeded the CBE requirements. And in this case, it's sort of interesting because, you know, their CBE team consists of Dammel, which actually was one of the firms competing for the set-aside as well, but they also were a CBE on the Sunshine team. So they get a piece of this action, NAPAM and MCG janitorial. Thirty percent, as Bernie pointed out, and I'm not going to go into any of the details that Bernie did, but obviously they won this fair and square. And in this situation, you know, we ask you to adopt the staff recommendation and the recommendation of the committee. They're also, obviously, both Sunshine and its CBE subs have collective bargaining agreements with the SEIU 32BJ, and we have good labor piece in the airport, and we look forward to continuing. We're not going to hit the ground running. We are on the ground. We're going to continue running and doing the job that you hired us to do. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you, sir. Any other speakers? Ma'am, are you going to speak? No. So, okay, we're going to bring it back to the desk. I want to ask one question, and then I'll go around. Counsel, the lady that was here, the first lady that spoke, talked about we're not following the code. Can you please respond about whether everything was done legally, whether it was done by the code? Yes and yes. It was done legally. It was done pursuant to the code. The code changed in 2020, I think 2020, to put in these point differential things that Mr. Friedman referenced, and we believe everything was appropriate here, and certainly the county attorney's office thinks that what staff did here was correct. Let's go around. Commissioner Davis. Thank you. I wanted to ask staff, are they educating the small business folks as to, you said there were changes in 2020, because we have an issue where something, you know, Ms. McKenzie is saying they don't consider differential points, and now we're saying these were changed in 2020. Well, has staff pointed this out? Well, I need to hear from staff, because apparently Ms. McKenzie thought otherwise, and now the attorneys are saying this was changed in 2020. Mr. Mayor, if I may call staff. Ms. Feliciano, if you could please come to the podium. If you could share the education process with the CBS. Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners. Yes, when code amendments are passed by the Board for the Business Opportunity Act, our office immediately notifies our certified small businesses. We post it on our Business Assistance Weekly newsletter that goes to all our certified firms, and we discuss it as part of our regular workshops as well. Thank you. Thanks for that. So I'm not sure that that's enough. Especially for somebody who is doing business as actively, apparently, as Ms. McKenzie is doing, and she said she didn't know. So the outreach probably needs to be more robust, especially for people who are actively seeking contracts. Maybe a phone call, you know, maybe a direct email to that firm, instead of the blanket stuff that's being done, because you may miss that. So I would suggest that we just pay a little bit more attention to making sure that folks are educated who are in the business. A lot of small businesses don't have time to read. They don't have time to really keep up. And so I think it's the onus is on us to really make sure that they are constantly educated in ways that you may not even deem that they need to be. Just make that extra special step for them. I think that's the main contention. I'm not sure if there's something else that was mentioned here that was misunderstood. There was mention about the differential. What else was mentioned? I'm trying to think. There seem to be some educational components that were missed. And I want to make sure that they understand truly that this board is committed to making sure that everybody has an opportunity. But if there are rules and there are regulations that are being followed, then those are what we need to be following. But again, folks need to understand what those are. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Feliciano. Thank you. Anybody else with that? Do I have a motion? Commissioner Rogers. Thank you. Whenever our staff are being questioned and our policies are being questioned, that's when I have a major concern. And I don't think our staff clearly stated what the policy is, why there's a misunderstanding on the policy, what contributed to that. And I hear from the company that does have the contract at the contract at this time, that they are using some of those same businesses that did not qualify. That is good, but that is not the intent of the CBE. We are trying to get businesses to go in and do contract with the county, grow their businesses. And that's what the policy is. I think that is the intent of the change in the policy. So I'm still trying to see the county needs to step up and be clear as to what went wrong. And this is an issue that we're seeing happen in 2020. Commissioner Rogers, I asked council if anything was done wrong. I don't understand when you say what went wrong. I'd love to hear if there was something done wrong. And he said nothing was done wrong. So I'm confused. I'm confused. She's not done. Go ahead. No, I'm just saying, this business is telling us that we did not follow all of the procedures, all of the, this is what was said, right? And I believe everything my counsel says, right? Not all the time. I love Drew, but I prefer Bob. Okay? Check and verify. So I'm, I'm just saying something must, we're missing something. And I believe it from my heart. I want to take a moment to speak to my heart. Something went wrong. This business is not around for 15 years, trying, trying, and just can't make it. What is that issue? Why a business of this, you know, level can't qualify for a position, for that job. And I believe that the process, based on what I'm hearing from Becker, that they believe strongly that they followed all the guidelines there. So what's the difference between both? What is the difference between both, Drew? Okay? I know I might not be asking you specifically, but something is not clear here. And maybe I can ask the young lady to tell me specifically. I know you're watching your clock. That's why we need, you have to leave. I'm leaving in two minutes, so. And, and that's why there's workshop. We need to have more meetings because we cannot just constantly believe this is not important when we have not resolved it. Are you done? Yes, Mr. Mayor. I know you're referring to the attorney and the attorney. No, no. It's your mic. Okay, thank you. So maybe since it's my mic, what am I missing, young lady? Well, the biggest piece of the picture is that you are not comparing apples to apples. Sunshine is worth 186 million, actually billions now that they have merged with Pritchard. And CBEs are worth less than $5 million. So they'll always do a better presentation. They have a large team of lobbyists, as you see. There's no one here supporting us. Thank you. And the reserve speaks to what I'm saying. The letter that I gave you guys, the reserve, the CBE reserve that I gave you from the OESBD that I received on yesterday highlights exactly what I'm saying. You guys should read that letter. A decision really should not be made today, guys. This has been 15 years and we've patiently waited. Mr. Mayor, can I close this out? Please. I hear you. You applied. You went through the process and the process was open to CBEs and none. And at the end of the day, they won it. But if there's something that we could have done differently, we can take that and look at that as we move forward. You could make sure the CBE ordinance speaks to what purchasing is writing in the solicitation. That's what needs to be done because they are not speaking to each other now. Commissioner, we could do it. We could do it. I like your idea. We could do a workshop on it about how we can help small businesses. How we can help small businesses grow. I mean, we're happy to do a workshop. But I want to make sure Council will reiterate, has anything been done improper or against our code or against our rules? No. Okay. Any other discussion? Mr. Mayor. Can we, Steve, can we, do you need to say something? Yeah, I just had one question. The county attorney we're purchasing, my understanding is that the confusion is over the word reserve. That reserve isn't a reserve. It's a preference. And so they got a five, because they're CBE, they got a 5% preference, but their price was 16% higher. So even with the 5% preference, they didn't get that. To me, that doesn't show that there's a mistake in our ordinance or a confusion. It's the word preference, the word reserve maybe should be changed, but doesn't mean that anything wrong occurred. I'm going to call, are we done? We're done. Call the question. Do I have a motion? I moved by Senator Rich. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passed. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0. We're going to do a workshop on it, ma'am, to see how we can help small businesses. I don't know what else I can tell you. Next one is 78. Item 78 is a motion to award fixed contract to Load Bitter Ranger Construction Industries, Inc. for Taxiway A. Pavement Rehabilitation Phase 2, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for the Aviation Department. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Do I have a motion? Move. Vice Mayor McKenzie moves it. Second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 2, 4, 7, 0. Number 78 passing 7, 0. Next would be 79, the dashboard. I already told everybody here what that is. I think Senator Rich wants to add something to that. I would like to add the TOPS issue to that. So if administration would please add the TOPS issue to the dashboard, let's move on. And also thank you to our auditor for being involved with an audit. That will give us a lot of information as well. Are we done now with the regular agenda? 82. 83. You want to read 83? Item 83, motion to discuss process for selecting the county mayor and vice mayor. No member of the public has signed up. Commissioner Rogers, it's your item. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And as I stated before, this has nothing to do with the process we currently have. But I'm thinking and I'm talking and I'm being approached that maybe sometimes it's too political so we could look at another method. Okay? So what is being discussed, I can tell you, they're thinking we can look at it by district to make sure it is fair to each district here that sits on this dais that they're in a rotation as a district. You know, I think it's a great idea. Maybe next time we'll start with district one and go district two, six, three, I'm in district two. I'm in district two. So we'll start district one and go two, three, four, you know, I think that's a great idea. Don't forget you have to have an election. No matter how you cut it, it's after the election. Oh, now you're ruining it. I know, but I'm just saying, what you're doing is fine. I have no problems with it. I find no faults. But I'm saying sometimes there's changes that can be made that is more inclusive and take away the politics from all of this process. It shouldn't be political. There's a group of people that elected us to be on this dais and gave us our voices. And I don't believe my voice should be steered or directed anywhere else other than to my district. So I need to be, everyone needs to be given an opportunity to be a part. This can be discussed. I'm not making a final decision. Make a proposal, anything you want. And that's where we're going. That's where I'm going. That's what my district talks about. How does this process work? Everything is all about a process. And the one we currently have seemed to have been working, but things can change. I really think, if you don't mind me adding, the person, the commissioner that provides the biggest breakfast, like today, should stay as mayor. I mean, I think that should be really thought highly of. Who did? That was me. I love it. I think it should be impeached. Where's the ice cream? Where's the ice cream? That's coming next meeting. I'm calling for impeachment. Yeah. Okay. I got cake this meeting. But honestly, I'm good. I didn't have any raisin toast. You're getting impeached. Mark, I'm good. Mr. Mayor, I'm good. I'm just saying there's other ways we can look at this. Absolutely. And do not encourage anyone taking anything to Tallahassee without at least a local discussion, a local discussion with our delegation, a local discussion by this board. But there's nothing major that should be happening in Broward County that gets to Tallahassee before Broward County has a conversation. Absolutely. So those are just my comments. You can close the meetings now. Are we all done with our regular agenda? Well, go ahead. Did you want to say something? I want to talk about what she mentioned. And I agree with you. And I think it should go from district to district. And we may have a process now, but we know that we're the policymakers. And if we want to go by district and do it like it was done in the past when it was chairmanship, I think when the mayor became real political, I don't have a problem with that. And I think we should just work it out amongst ourselves how we do it. I don't want to be going behind my colleagues' back to say, hey, vote for me and don't vote for that. I don't want that. I just rather it happen so that it's fair. You couldn't do that. That would violate something. No, but as long as you don't – I was told if it doesn't go both ways, you can listen. That's what I was told day one when I got here from legal. Am I correct? Yes. No expressions. I've never made a call to anybody. I've never asked anybody. So – but you do get the calls. So I don't want to put it in that situation. I just want to be able to vote it up or down when it's out here that I'm voting for, you know, Monica or Bob or whomever. Just vote it instead of trying to, you know, stack the cards. And it's rotated. Everyone should have an opportunity to sit up here and represent Broward County, at least in your career. And then you may jeopardize it if it's an election year. You know, you may not make it back up here. So it keeps you honest, I think. So I don't know how we do that, but I want us to think about it and see if we can do something moving forward. Just a quick question. Yes. Wouldn't all of this have to be charter changes anyway? The charter does limit us, and in all likelihood we would need a charter change. I don't care what's proposed. Question. So if we were going to do – just since I have the floor, if we were going to do a charter change, then we really should talk about giving the voters – forget about the nine of us up here. Yeah. Giving the voters the decision to determine who they want to be the mayor and talk about electing not a strong mayor but just an elected mayor. But if we're not doing a charter change because of this, that's what I would do. Let me ask you a question. How did it get to this? Because once before, it was a rotation. How did it get back to this? Was it a charter? Was it an election? I have no idea. I don't know if it was rotation or not. I know people – I remember rotation in my short life. I don't remember rotation. Are we done with that item? It's just a little bit too political for me, so that's where I end my conversation. All right. With non-agenda, usually I never say anything in non-agenda, but I have to start it off real quickly, and then I'll go around. I'm sorry. It has to do with you guys, the port crane maintenance. We received a letter from Dan Reynolds, Broward County AFL-CAO president a few weeks ago, where he emphasized that the employees that currently maintain our cranes are highly trained and specialized labor force. It's my understanding the employees have been maintaining these cranes for many, many years and given vital importance of that function. I want to make sure that the highly trained current workforce at the port be considered in the RFP. Regardless of who wins the RFP or whatever union they may be using, at the airport, we require employee retention. However, whoever wins the RFP, if it were not the current vendor, I'd like to ask Monica to negotiate an employee retention provision into the agreement, unless we have a disagreement here on the dais, slimmer to what is included in airport contracts. And if that can't be done for whatever reason, it should be brought back to the dais. Did I read that properly? Yes, sir. We will do so. Okay. Now let's go around the dais for agenda items. I'll start with Commissioner Davis. Thank you. I'd just like to thank my staff for attending the various tree lighting events in the district. There were two in Miramar, one in Pembroke Pines, that they were able to be present at. I was away on a trade mission with Select Florida and the city of Miramar, which I'd like to thank them for stepping in when our representative was unable to accompany. Maybe because the death in her family, we will have a report from them, their staff from economic development, who will provide updates as to how our trade mission went. On the surface, we had a lot of businesses attending with us from all over the state, but in particular from South Florida. We were able to meet with various elected officials from the various provinces. I must say that Broward County does not have a presence on the African continent, and I would like to see that change, especially in the area of sister port. And hopefully we can have conversations about that. I'd like to extend holiday greetings to everyone, but I'd also like to see how the county, much like Miami-Dade and the city of Miramar, which I'm familiar with, can allow for our employees to have a half a day Christmas Eve, still keeping operations going. So it wouldn't be everybody that would be off, that would be on a rotation basis, and depending on the particular section or division, and half a day for New Year's Eve. It's something that takes place in Miami-Dade over the years. I was an employee of Miami-Dade. And whereas we kept operations running, everybody didn't take off, but there was an opportunity for folks to leave half a day Christmas Eve, other folks would stay, and then New Year's Eve, there'll be folks leaving for half a day. That's something that I would like to see that our administrator can try to work through, if it's the pleasure of the stairs, to allow for folks, not just this one time where they're giving consideration this year, but every year to be able to recognize half a day Christmas Eve and half a day New Year's Eve, if they could look into that. I'm not sure how that would work. With HR, looking at various other municipalities who do that and counties who do that and still have a staff in presence on these days as well. How is that done? Can somebody tell me? I'm looking around. I'm looking at the attorneys. I'm looking at the administrator. We can certainly look into it. I mean, if other people are doing it, then it's got to be, I'm sure it's legal. It's just a matter of trying to work it out. And I think that you stating it and asking the administrator to look into it is the right way of doing it. Okay. Thank you. And I'll take a look into that as well with our team. Thank you. That's fine. But didn't this year, we got the memo. We have the day after additionally, too. So it's an honor. Yes. This year, and Commissioner Davis said, you know, irrespective of this year, doing. Okay. Yeah. So this year, I administratively and shared that with you before sending that out to the employees. But, yeah. So we are offering both the day after Christmas and the day after New Year's Day off. So it would be two additional days off for employees. But that only happens every so many years. Correct. Not every year. So this would be every year. Yeah. No, no. It's great. I think it's a great idea. It's something definitely to look at. I mean, as an employer, it's such a tough time of year. It's great. I love it. But there's so many different moving parts. Are you done with your? I thought you were done. Yes. Sorry. Take it away. Oh, you know, a couple things. I know right now there is a tri-county delegation of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance there with Broward Palm Beach and there with Miami-Dade, the Beacon Council. They're up in the northeast trying to recruit different businesses and companies to the South Florida region. It was one of the things that we mentioned at the last meeting, which was my last meeting on the Alliance, to do this as far as a region, to bring a region up there, to bring them down. Because when a company comes down and they say they're moving to Miami, they could be in Miramar, or when they're moving to Boca, they could be in Pompano Beach. They're just using different names. But recruiting is for the entire region is, you know, it's good for them to be working together. It's important for them because a lot of these companies overlap. And I think we just saw this, I mean, last week was Art Basel, which was Miami-Dade, in the city of Miami, but there was some Broward stuff through the LeVant Center. They were there with Emerge America, and they try to do that together. You have FIFA, which is coming up. Even like the Panthers, who won the Stanley Cup, and we got so much good publicity, there'll be the outdoor game, which is one of the bigger national hockey games that came to us. But unfortunately, that's not going to be in Sunrise, that's going to be in the city of Miami, because it needs to be outdoors, but it is a Panther thing. So a lot of this stuff works together as moving parts, and I just commend the Alliance for putting the group together that are up there. They're in New York right now as we speak, probably freezing, but it's good. This Saturday night is the Winterfest boat parade, so make your plans accordingly, because I guess bridges and things shut down. Not a golf cart. I'm going to meet Mackenzie on Sistron and can drive over on the golf cart. I love it. Right at the barbershop. I love it. I'll be there. So in addition to being the greatest show on H2O, it's a tremendous amount of economic development for the area. I'm not going to mention all the holiday events other than to wish everybody a great holiday season. I just want to mention two specific ones that are coming up. The first one, or not in that order, on December 17th, the airport does their menorah lighting, which has become a very important event for the local community and the local Jewish community there. They started it in 2021. They still do it. It hasn't been the easiest thing for them to do for a lot of reasons, but they really go above and beyond, and it's very well received by the community that travels there. Believe it or not, they just made national news at the airport because there was some religious garments that were inadvertently put in the dumpster, and when they went to get it, the dumpster had already, I guess, left where it was supposed to be, and they actually had to go to the area where they dump everything, and yeah, it made national news. They found it, and it was very ... I got texts from everyone all over the country talking about this. And December 16th at noon, I mentioned this at the joint meeting that we had with our state reps, December 16th, noon, in between Coral Springs and Coconut Creek, there'll be the dedication for the Daniel Agami Bridge, which is over Sample Road. I think it's in your district, Mark, but I'll be there also because it's right by my office, and it's their friends of the family. They're a Gold Star family. Who's doing that? I guess it's the city of Coconut Creek, maybe, or ... I think maybe Christine Unchofsky and Senator Polsky, they're doing it, too. I know that ... There's some people doing it. It's happening on the 16th. Mrs. Agami, who's a Gold Star mom, is a force of nature on her own, so she's probably doing it, too. So it's noon on the 16th. And those are my comments, and I wish everybody a very happy and healthy New Year, even though I'm sure I'll see all you guys plenty of times. I'm sure. No matter how sick I am of you, I'm going to see you all the time. Senator Rich. Thanks so much. I say that a lot. I know. Okay. I just ... Monica, I don't know if you've heard ... I'm sure you have, but I just wanted to mention about the NOFO for the homeless. That's the application, the grants that we do. Okay. So they've changed ... The feds have changed it three times. This last one that came out the most recently is, I think, in the garbage now as well, because it appears, finally, there's been a lot of advocacy with congresspeople and congressmen and women and senators about this, because it hits every community, every state, all over the nation, that the national priorities have changed. The fact that they can go back retroactively and ding you for things that were in your NOFO the year before, like things that have to do with gender issues and anyway, all kinds of things. So DEI, so forth. So now, again, yesterday I heard from Patrice that it is on hold again. They are going to ... They've had enough, I guess, advocacy come in, which shows you it works, and they have now put this on hold for the time being, and it will be ... I'm not sure exactly, I don't think anybody is exactly what will be done yet, but we know that it's going to just keep the way it is for a period of time. I don't know if it will be a year. That's what people were asking for, to give them a year up in Washington to redo it and come and, you know, and then go back out to the communities. But right now, my understanding is that ours aren't up until May. So we have a little more breathing room than some. Some have January. Some states have January. But at any rate, it's good. And the one thing that is really awful are the national priorities that are in this last one were elderly, which is wonderful, and disabled, great. It left out children and families. When I looked at it, the first thing I said was, where are the children and families? They're not priorities. And the other thing is that they have decided somehow in Washington that substance abuse and mental health should not be a part of this, that they're not the factors. Well, they're the biggest factors, probably, that you could find. So the whole thing was a mess. And so good that it's now on hold. But I mean, it'll be kind of, I guess, in your lap between now and when we meet again about what, you know, what we're going to do if anything comes forward. So I just wanted to give you an opportunity. Yeah. Since you brought it up, it came up yesterday. My staff briefed me on it, and I said that my expectation is that you probably would likely bring it up today. So we are all kind of chuckling that you brought it up. But our team is well on this, and I just wanted to let short, make sure that the commission knew. And we are moving forward, and we're prepared. So we're in good shape because we have all of our documents ready. And just to let you all know that what we did here with the feeding and the food insecurity has made such a huge difference. Over $1.5 million has been raised by the two hospital districts, Cleveland Clinic, United Way, us, Children's Services Council, Community Foundation of Broward. And that money is all being distributed through primarily the two big food banks, Feeding South Florida and FarmShare, as well as to, since United Way has raised a bunch themselves, some of it is going there for their Project Lifeline. If you remember, they were feeding TSA people once a week, giving them food for the week because they weren't getting their salaries. And they're, you know, so anyway, it's amazing. I just always say about Collaboration County, this is the perfect example of what we were able to accomplish here, just like that here. So, and I just want to thank our staff again because Monica and her team and Kevin and everybody was, you know, so, you know, jumping on it right away. And then I just wanted to mention two quick things that I attended this past week or so, both good things for our community. One was the groundbreaking for ECOS Pembroke Park Affordable Housing Project, an amazing, again, with the Miami Jewish Health System. They're the ones that built the 400 unit one that's on Douglas Road. It's called Douglas Garden Residences. They just moved about two weeks ago. They moved in 200 people. 200 apartments were filled. And the other two will be in about them by the end, by probably through January, the other 200 will be done. And those are all affordable units there with the PACE program from Miami Health, Jewish Health, that is there on a permanent basis to provide health care for the people living in that. And now, they just broke ground on ECOS Pembroke Park, and that is going to be affordable housing for 150 units for seniors aged 62 and up. And this project also, it's the same people, McDowell Housing Partners and Miami Jewish Health System. And they also will be having the connection with PACE, because the residents there will be able to use the PACE health program as well. And also, the Area Agency on Aging is going to have kind of an office in there for people to be able to get, you know, things that they need, the seniors. So it's really, you know, another example of us all working together. And the second one was, for me, it's like history, because it was a ribbon cutting for the Nicholas Children's Pediatric Specialty Care Center in Davie. Some of you may not be aware, but Nicholas, it's not always been Nicholas, but it's actually been and existed 75 years. And the reason I remember is because 75 years ago, my mother was someone who ran the fundraising galas for Variety Children's Hospital in Miami, which was the original hospital before it became Miami Children's, and now, of course, Nicholas. So it was kind of when I was sitting there, and I was seeing the podium, and it said 75 years, 1950 to 2025. And to think that my mom, in like mid-50s, was running those programs, and so it's kind of a real throwback. But it's offering, they're spreading, you know, out of Miami into Broward County, and they're also going to be partnering with Broward Health, which is going to be really exceptional as well. So they have all kinds of specialists. They had 12 rooms, 12 examining rooms, and they have, it's cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, reconstructive surgery. Each room has a beautiful picture done by students at our public schools here, and the theme was for the Everglades, so it's artwork in each room by children, celebrating the beauty and the positivity of the community, and certainly of the Everglades. And it's, the motto of Nicholas is, where your child matters most. And what I say is, to me, it's where every child matters most, and that's what Nicholas Center does. So we're really proud to have them in this community, and a part of our community, and they'll be doing additional, as I said, they'll be spreading out further because of their involvement and commitment with, that's going to be taking place with Broward Health. So, those are the two. Thank you. Happy holidays to everybody. I forgot what I was going to say. Well, sorry. Even better. But no, we all do a lot, and I appreciate what each and every one of us do in the community, and I see a lot of you at events that I attend, and if you ever need me at one of those events, just let me know, and we'll make sure that we're there. I also want to wish all the employees of Broward County a safe, happy holiday, and I want to wish my colleagues the same. And I just want to say how disappointed I am today in this meeting, knowing Mayor Bogan and his attention span that I lost on the under of this meeting going over. So maybe next time you can make it up, sir. Also, I want to wish everybody a happy holiday. Just move it on. And happy new year. Thank you, Mayor. Just real quick. I was able to attend the Sand Bypass Project launch in November, which was 30 years in the making, and I just want to congratulate all the staff to Dr. Arado and Greg Myers for getting the good publicity that we had for that. It was well overdue, and at that time, Mayor Furr was with us, and we had a great time there celebrating that launch. Also, I want to congratulate Clay Pacheco. He was named the Emergency Manager Year of the Fire Associations of Broward County. So, Clay, I saw him earlier and congratulated him, too. You know, our staff continues to do great things. And then, of course, our new Human Services Department Director, this is Teresa Brown-Stubbs. So, welcome. You have an amazing team that you work with, and a great opportunity here at Broward County. I hope you're here for a long, long time, and then we can give you a 20- and 30-year certificate. I won't be here, but somebody else will be here for that. And then, once again, Monica Issemi has just been dealing with a lot of issues in District 4 and having some meetings and complex real estate transactions, and she's just to the point, stays focused, and gets it done. And so, I always say you're only as good as your team behind you, and Monica, you have an amazing team there. Otherwise, happy holidays and happy new year. We'll see each other, I'm sure, before then, but if not, I look forward to a great 2026 for Broward County. God bless. I'll be brief. I just want to say what I always say. I continue to embrace my district and engage all of our residents when I can. For me, Small Business Saturday was an awesome day. I went to a flea market in Plantation and met with businesses there. I did five different businesses on that Saturday, and I spent my own money. It was not taxpayers' dollars at all. Did they give you a discount? No discount. I didn't have any. No, I didn't want a discount. I wanted to support. It's a day that we should be supporting. Okay? So, next year, I'm challenging everyone to visit five businesses on that Small Business Saturday, and make sure you spend your own money. Thank you much. I know you've been working for us to, you know, be able to get something for free, like coffee or whatever. I don't have what you have. All right? So, we'll do that. And, of course, on the 19th, we're going to be doing our annual toy giveaway, and I see former city manager of Lauderdale Lakes, my home city. I'm glad she's here at the county. She has a special place in my heart. Okay? When I was leaving, I made sure I left you good. All right? Don't forget. Thank you, and good luck. Good luck with your endeavors here. Okay, guys? Take care of her. I'll be watching. Okay? Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Hanukkah. And Feliz Navidad. Okay? All the best for the new year. Merry Christmas. All the best for the new year. See you guys real soon. Counselor, and then I'll come up to this side. Just happy holidays, everyone. Thank you. Welcome back. Happy birthday. Thank you. And thank you for the cake. And happy birthday to Commissioner Davis. Okay. All right. Administrator, nothing good. I have some things. Would you like to do, Mr. Melton? Sure. Mr. Melton. Just happy holidays. Thank you, Mr. Melton. All right. So, I do have a few things. First of all, happy holidays for the upcoming holidays. But please make sure you have on your calendar, December 18th, we have a very big day, the hotel ribbon cutting for Omni. It's a big, long-time-awaited thing, milestone. The religious artifacts or articles that you were referencing, Commissioner, that was actually our solid waste employees. In the article, I think it erroneously said another group, but it was ours. So, I'm really proud about that. I also wanted to share a very important milestone. Port Everglades, I think you guys got an email about this, but we've broken our own records across all three core businesses, sectors, for cruise, cargo, and petroleum, for energy. It's the first time it's happened, and it happened in all three in the same year. That is enormous. So, for fiscal year 25. So, we sent something out to you all, but that's a really big milestone. I wanted to make sure that I shared that with you guys. Also, 31st year for annual holiday festival of lights at Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek. Opened nightly from 6 to 10 p.m. all the way through January 3rd. If you've not done that, please make sure you try to do that. Commissioner McKenzie, I know he stepped off the dais for a moment, but I wanted to thank him for attending our county administration's United Way Pickleball Tournament. Over at Central Broward Regional Park the other night. It was a lot of fun, and I think he's going to start playing pickleball with some of our employees on Wednesday nights. I also had on my list a thank you to Commissioner Fisher and Rogers for welcoming Tressa Stubbs, our new Deputy Director of Human Services. So, I just wanted to give you a shout-out, Tressa. Welcome aboard. It's her first week, and we're excited. And then, lastly, I wanted to share with you something important. We've been talking about the testing of the hub in Coral Springs. It's no longer necessarily a test because we're now in a different kind of phase. We're pivoting towards development more so than testing. And I just wanted to put it on the record. I know we sent out an update of the tech roadmap recently. We're going to be doing another update in the near future. But we've been really collaboratively working with Coral Springs for the last eight months, like in earnest with that. And so, we're committed to continue that joint effort moving forward for the intraoperability. And so, we'll highlight the ongoing commitment to the refreshed technology roadmap. So, I just want to make sure we put that on the record because we've been working really hard at that for a long time. Again, happy holidays to everyone. And, yes. We'll see you next year. Yes, sir. Anybody else? Renee, you got something? Thank you. Thank you. Daniel, you out there? All right, guys. Take care. Good job, dear.