everybody. This is recording. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Board of County Commissioner meeting. Today is March 3rd, 2026. And I'd like to ask everybody to please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and please remain standing afterwards. And I'm going to ask Commissioner Davis to lead us in our Pledge of Allegiance. Please remain standing. Ladies and gentlemen, it's customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community have recently passed. I'm going to ask our colleagues to go down the dais to recognize anybody and start with Commissioner Rogers. Thank you, attorney. I just wanted to acknowledge Sue Gumsberger, former commissioner. I know everyone will have something to say. But my experience, because I'm now celebrating 30 years, Mr. Mayor, I remember when in 1998, when I lost by two votes and I needed to talk to the county commissioners about hanging Chad and dimpled Chad before Al Gore, before Al Gore. He brought it to light. And when I came to the county commission, the only person that would talk to me was that commissioner, Sue Gumsberger. So I would, every time there's an anniversary, I always remember her. So may her soul rest in peace. And the only reason I was not at her event. A family member, very close, ended up in Cleveland at 6 o'clock this morning. So God spared, had you canceled meeting for Sue, but for me it was to be able to be with my family this morning. So just wanted to let her family know that. And of course, there's a fire rescue department of Sunrise is struggling with the loss of a friend. And his name is Captain Christopher Benemiro. And just wanted them to know that he lived a good life. They know that. And he's a member of the Florida fire rescue community. He was loved and cherished by many people, including his parents, Robert Bob, of course, and Joanna Clemente, his brother, Craig, his wife, Meredith, his children, Madison, Ian, and Alex. He leaves behind a legacy of service, mentorship, and brotherhood. That's how I met him during his mentorship program. So just wanted to bring that forward today. Thank you. Senator Geller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I was also at the Sue Gunsberger funeral this morning and would have a lot to say. But since I think we all will, I'm going to yield my time to Commissioner Furr, who I'm sure will be doing the keynote. Commissioner Fisher. My two mayors, you know that we were there together and with the Commissioner Furr and just at the end of the day to listen to the children and grandchildren. This is really what Sue Gunsberger was all about, but I'll yield to you. Okay. Yeah, we have just lost somebody who's been a giant in this county. We can only hope to be as effective as she was. The things that she did for this county, when you think of the ethics reform that we all go by, the Children's Services Council, all kinds of environmental issues that she championed, all of North Beach Park, that whole part, hers was a deciding vote to save all of that. She, you know, for us in Hollywood, she has been, you know, a giant. And, you know, she started off as a teacher, as a social worker, and she was tough. She was one tough politician. She knew how to get things done, but she was tough, but she always had a soft spot for those that needed her help. But I do remember one time she put me on the planning council and put me on there for a couple years. And then she thought I was going to vote the wrong way one time. She called me that morning, thank you for your service. And that was it. That was it. She said, you're gone. And so I understand, you know, if she wants to win something, yeah, just gone, you're gone. But later, I will always appreciate her calling me and asking me to take her place here. Just remember her for all she's done. The world's a better place to cause her. Obviously, I'd also express my condolences to the Gunsberger family in this difficult time. I also want to, I know you'll probably mention it later too, but I want to keep in our prayers our valiant soldiers of the American military and of the IDF who are doing yeoman's work and trying to make the world a safer place. Just to follow up from Commissioner Furrer, I'd like to just let everybody know, you know, a little more facts on Sue Gunsberger. She served the longest tenure as a county commissioner, 22 years. Her tenure tied the record for longest serving commissioner here from 1992 to 2014. She served as chair. In those days, they didn't call it mayor. They called it chair. In 1994, she served as chair in 1999 and then served as mayor in 2010. She was instrumental in the passage of the Broward County Code of Ethics and was an outspoken advocate on environmental issues. She championed human services for those in need and was one of the first commissioners to bring forward the LGBTQ protections and anti-discrimination policies. Sue Gunsberger was also a strong advocate of the arts and culture in Broward County and our prayers go out to her and her family. Lastly, again, as Commissioner Yudin said, we'd like to honor all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces, especially right now what's going on in the Middle East, and thank them for their service. And I'd like to pause for a moment of silence. Thank you. Please take your seats. Thanks for filling in all that of the force. Folks, before this meeting started, before this meeting started, you heard some, there was some music playing, and most of the time people just listen and really don't have any significance to the music. But what I'd like Mike in the back to do is for 30 seconds. Play, play the music on one of those songs, please. And then I'm going to tell you the significance of it. Mike, can you hear me in the back there? Thank you, Mike. Folks, the reason I had that music played again was because that music was written by, produced by Commissioner Beam Fur. It's an original Beam Fur production. What you don't know is the song is about the ice raids in Chicago. I'm from Chicago. Yeah. Okay. Well, great. Great. Okay. We have three proclamations today. The first one is going to be given by Commissioner Furr. Commissioner Furr, why don't you take it off? And why don't you read who needs to come down here? If these people could come and join me, please. Val Butler, Yanil Corvino, Mayor Joyce Davis, Laura Dobrzanski. I know I didn't do that good. Audrey Fesik, Shahiwa Jarrett-Gellan, Angelica Negrete, Victoria Ranger-Nunez, Catherine O'Fallon, Jacqueline Reed-Stiles, Susan Sprague, Anna Valadares, Kemba Williams, and Missy Williams. You guys would join me down. There's a little notch. We are going to be doing a proclamation for Women's History Month proclamation. And I know I grew up with strong women. My wife's a strong woman. My daughter's strong. And we are lucky in this county to have a lot of strong women. Someday we'll get a president that's a strong woman. That's what I want to see. But I'm here on behalf of Commissioner Ann Rich, who is still at the funeral at the Bureau of Service. So we're going to acknowledge these women with this proclamation. And if you could help me hand these out on those that side. Each year, the women write a report that shows us how much progress we have made, but also our defects in the ongoing quest for equality. After this meeting, I encourage everyone to take a moment to head downstairs and take a look at our Women's History Month display. Okay. Okay. Have I got one? It's like a perfect day for some of you all to be here today, too. There's a lot of issues on top of this. On the docket. On the docket that you guys are part of, I know. So perfect, perfect synchronization there. Okay. Whereas Women's History Month has been observed each month, each March since 1987, following an act of Congress designating this month to honor the vital role that women have played in shaping America's history and future, year. And whereas Women's History Month emerged from a grassroots movement that recognized the underrepresentation of women in history and the need to acknowledge their significant contributions to society. And whereas Women's History Month aims to celebrate women's achievements and acknowledge the tireless efforts of those who have fought against gender discrimination, ensuring that all women's voices and stories are heard and their achievements in various fields recognized. And whereas the theme of this year's National Women's History Month is Leading the Change, Women Shaping a Sustainable Future. And the Broward County Commission on the Status of Women recognizes 14 leaders who contribute to the social, economic, and political history of our community. And whereas this year's honorees include Mayor Joyce Davis, Val Butler, Yanil Corvino, Laura Dobransky, thank you. If I say it wrong, let's make sure I say it right. Okay. Audrey Fessick. Okay. Shahiwa Jared Galen. Okay, still good. Angelica Negri, Victoria Ranger Nunez, Catherine O'Fallon, Jacqueline Reed Stills, Susan Sprague, Anna Valadares, Kimba Williams, and Missy Williams, all of whom are leaders driving green technology, social and community resilience to build a more supportive, lasting future. And whereas Broward County takes this opportunity to recognize the countless ways that women from all walks of life have helped create the landscape and ideals of the nation and world. Now, therefore, be it proglaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates the month of March 2026 as Women's History Month in Broward County, Florida, and celebrates all the women pioneering environmental, economic, and social sustainability signed by our Mayor, Mark Bogan. Congratulations, beyond. Were any of you all seen? Okay. You're speaking on behalf there. Yes. Okay. I left my paper at the desk. It's back there in my bag. Hello, everyone, and thank you all for honoring these amazing women that are doing a wonderful job in Broward County. We thank you for choosing us, the Commission on the Status of Women, to be a pillar in the community, connecting with the women that's here. And most of all, thank you, Mayor Bogan, for, you know, having us, and also Vice Mayor McKenzie, and the beautiful ladies on the side of us for being pillars for us as well. Thank you for this day. And congratulations, ladies. Thank you. We're eating through lunch, so I apologize that we're eating through lunch here. Boy, that's a lot of cameras. President, Mr. Coucher, who are we looking at? You're the hokey pokey. You're the hokey pokey. You're the exact same time. Look at Max. Money show. Okay, we're done. Michael, get in here. Mrs. of Commission. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. She's back in. Thank you. All right. Mike, can you hear me back there? Okay. All right, we'll be adjourning the meeting now. Okay, I'm joking. What? I'm doing some music with that thing. The vice mayor is taking over. That's it. The vice mayor is taking everything over. Again? Michael, come here. All right. Right here? Right here? Right here? Right here? No, no, I was doing this. Okay. Vice mayor, we need to move on, vice mayor. It's okay. We have a quorum. Okay. Senator Geller, would you like to take it over? Mike, can you? turn up all the volume. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The first proclamation I will be doing to today will be on the Broward County Cultural Commission. And I did want to say that, as Commissioner Furr pointed out, that Commissioner Gunsberger was a longtime representative from the county to the Cultural Commission, one of many areas that she deserves recognition for. So this proclamation is requested by me. Whereas in 1976, Broward County took a bold and forward-thinking step to support creativity and public engagement by enacting its first public art ordinance, establishing one of the earliest such policies in Florida and among the earliest in the nation to integrate artistic expression into public spaces. And whereas the following year also saw the formation of the Broward Arts Council, now the Broward County Cultural Council, an organization that for decades has played a vital role in advocating for supporting and advancing the arts, culture, and creative expression throughout the county. And whereas past and present members of the Broward County Cultural Council, the Broward County Commission, Public Art and Design Committee, Cultural Division staff, and countless artists, art administrators, advocates, volunteers, and civic leaders have demonstrated an enduring commitment to support creativity, expand access to the arts, and strengthen the cultural sector for future generations. And whereas over the past five decades, arts and culture have grown into a vibrant and essential sector of Broward County civic life, enriching residents and visitors alike through world-class artistic performances, exhibitions, festivals, initiatives, and community-centered cultural experiences. And whereas public investment in Broward County's nonprofit arts and culture center generates a significant return, with approximately $9 returned for every public dollar invested. contributing an estimate of $386 million in total economic activity, and supporting more than 11,000 local jobs. And whereas arts and culture play an essential role in Broward County's quality of life, bolstering the economy and supporting tourism, drawing audiences from near and far to cultural institutions, performance venues, museums, galleries, and festivals that showcase the breadth of local talent, and cultural heritage. And whereas Broward County's rich cultural landscape is further strengthened by its diverse communities, representing a wealth of backgrounds, traditions, and artistic practices that contribute to a dynamic, inclusive, and innovative arts ecosystem. And whereas as Broward County celebrates 50 years of intentional cultural investment, we proudly reaffirm our commitment to advancing arts and culture as essential to community identity, economic vitality, educational enrichment, and an exceptional quality of life for all residents. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates 2026 as the 50th anniversary of arts and culture in Broward County, in Broward County, Florida, and encourages all residents to join in recognizing and celebrating five decades of artistic achievement, cultural enrichment, and lasting community impact. And let me say one last thing. When the governor recently announced the things that he regarded as fraud, waste, and abuse, and I will remind everybody, he didn't cite one example of alleged fraud, but waste and abuse, he included the about $10 million that we spend on cultural activities. And I will say to him, or to you, or to the audience, that that is neither waste nor abuse. It is a vital investment in our community. It helps, it helps with bring economic activity through people who come here. It helps recruit large businesses that are looking here, and it improves our quality of life. So we support this proclamation, and let me ask cultural council members to come forward. Can you get the original, and you can say something, and we'll leave your chair. Yeah, come on, come on, circle, circle this way. Who doesn't have one? And I can just do it. Okay. What? Chair, who wants to say some words? She's in there. Okay. So thank you, Senator Geller, just briefly. It's, you know, this isn't for the cultural division. It's not for me. This is for the community. Maybe this is for the arts and culture sector, many of which, many of whom are here celebrating. And as we celebrate 50 years of arts and culture, 50 years ago, this commission and others invested in a vision and in a future they might not see. And we see that with the amazing contributions of Sue Gunsberger. But people invested anyway. People showed up anyway. People committed anyway. So here's to the past 50 years. Here's to the next 50 years. Here's to 50 and? Thank you. Can I say something real quick? I can get all of it. Can I just say one thing? Hi. I'm Jody Tanner with the Broward Cultural Council. And I just want to say on the behalf of the council and the division, everyone, thank you to all our county commissioners for appointing us. We take our job seriously doing this and to promote art and culture for Broward County, for the residents and visitors alike. So thank you all for your support. We appreciate it. Thank you. Mr. Fisher. Did I pick you in a row? Nope. We'll go get a program. If we can go. Oh, I'm sorry. If I can ask you all to comment here. And get very friendly. Very friendly. Step to the right. I can. Oh, I can. I got it. I got it. Okay. And Bonnie Barnett wanted. Some of the commissioners were thanking me. Shh. I don't think it's on me. Some of the commissioners were thanking me. But I want to thank you because I know what you have done in this county and that you have made us a major arts county in the United States. Thank you. Commissioner Furr, would you want to join me for Water Matters Day? I chair the Broward County Water Advisory Board, Commissioner Furr, and Senator Rich Co-chair of the Broward County Resilience Task Force. And they're both concerned with water. We're both going to be at Water Matters Day. So I thought we should both come forward. Okay. So proclamation requested by Senator Steve Geller, Broward County. Whereas Broward County, in partnership with local governments, water management agencies, businesses, environmental organizations, and Broward schools, have demonstrated dedication to water conservation activities, projects, and education. And whereas partners and co-sponsors for the 24th annual Water Matters Day event to be held on March 14th, 2026 at Treetops Park include Broward County, the school board of Broward County, the city of Miramar, the city of Coconut Creek, the city of Fort Lauderdale, the town of Davie, the city of Hollywood, city of Oakland Park, city of Plantation, town of Southwest Ranches, Sunrise Utilities. Central Broward County, Central Broward Water Control District, Old Plantation Water Control District, South Broward Drainage District, Hazen & Sawyer PC, Corolla Engineers Inc., Renew Financial, Southeast Land and Water Management, AECOM, Arcadis, Brie Gaza, the Chappelle Group, Hunter Industries, Kimley Horn, Titan America, Filthy Organics, and the Sun Sentinel. And whereas Water Matters Day 2026 celebrates the active engagement of Broward's residents and community partners in water conservation efforts with the theme Reclaim Water, Regrow Nature. And whereas through these activities, Water Matters Day 2026 supports the environmental responsibility message we celebrate as part of the related 56th anniversary of Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Clean Air Events. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, that the Board hereby designates March 3, 2026, as Water Matters Day in Broward County, Florida. With a special thank you to the partners and sponsors of this year's Day of Family Fund and Environmental Education at Treetop Parks, Treetops Park, as we encourage Broward County residents to continue their efforts as water managers at home and at work. And let me just say, if you have not been to a Broward County Water Matters Day, how many of you here have? That's most of us. I strongly encourage you to attend. It will make you feel better about Broward County and the environment. So, who will be speaking on? Will there be anybody from the Water Matters Day speaking? We'll welcome any of our sponsors if they want to say anything. They've already. Okay. Okay, great. All right. I can just mention, we hope all of you will join us for Water Matters Day. Next week, Saturday, mark your calendars. We start at 8 a.m. and we'll be done at 1 p.m. We've got excellent trees that we're bringing in, natives and fruits, and we'll be starting with yoga at 9 a.m. at the main stage. So, we hope you'll be joining us. Thank you. Thank you. And if you all will come forward. Oh. Hey, Water Matters. Keep it up. You guys have a bit closer. I got it. Excuse me. It's starting from here. It's a large room. Yeah. Yeah. What's up? Yeah. Right here. And over here, please. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Very much. Commissioner Furr and I will certainly be there to greet you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. How are you doing? Do you got any more? No. Hold on. I've got three more. Okay. We are going to start by reading the Tuesday morning memo. Would the reading clerk please read the memo? Take it away. Broward County Board of County Commissioners, March 3rd, 2026. Tuesday, agenda memorandum. The following are submitted for your consideration. Consent items are 1 through 26. Public hearing items are 27 through 38. Regular items are 39 through 46. I request the following withdrawals or other modifications to the agenda and note the following additional information due to the passing of former County Commissioner Sue Gunsberger. The start time for the County Commission meeting has been delayed to 12 noon to enable attendance at the memorial service at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. Withdrawals. Number 24, withdrawn for further staff review. Modifications. Item 28. The Board's consideration is based upon the item as modified by additional material. Number 28A, the substitute Exhibit 3 submitted by the County Attorney's Office, which replaces Attachment 1 to Exhibit A to the resolution. Item 29A, the Board's consideration is based upon the item as modified by additional material. Number 29A, submitted by the Public Works and Environmental Services Department and Exhibit 4 included therein, which includes the alternate amendments proposed by the County Attorney's Office and replaces Exhibit A to the resolution. Item 25A, the motion. Item 45A, the motion statement is amended to read as follows. Motion to discuss flood protection. Move to consent. Item 44, be moved to consent. Additional material, regular meeting. Item number 10A, updated page 2 of Exhibit 1, amended or submitted by Finance and Administrative Services Department. Item 41A, project dashboard submitted by County Administration. Additional material, additional material, public hearing. Item 28A, replacement Exhibit 3, submitted by Office of the County Attorney. Item 29A, Exhibit 4, substitute language submitted by Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Item 30A, letter to commission regarding item 30, submitted by Nan H. Rich. Item 30B, email regarding agenda item number 30, submitted by County Administration. Thank you. We're going to see if there's any polls from the consent agenda, so I'm going to go around the dais and start with Commissioner Davis. Commissioner Dean, Vice Mayor? Three. None? None. Commissioner Perk? 16. 16. I was going to pull 16 as well. Thank you. You get a cold pull. 7 and 28. 7 and 28. 26. 28 would be tough. Commissioner Rogers? 26. Council, would you mind formulating the motion? Yes. No other polls, I assume, from the audience? Correct? No polls from the audience. So, thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda consists of items 1 through 26, less items 7, 16, 24, and 26, and added to the consent agenda is item 44. Mr. Mayor, I move approval of the consent agenda as read by the county attorney. And I second it, Mr. Mayor. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. And let's go to the first pulled item, item number 7. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I pulled that item. This is a question on nursing home reimbursements involving veterans. And I did advise county administration during my briefing that I be pulling this just for a question. This also, as I recall, involved, I need to find item 7, but this also involved housing. And my question to you, administration, is to the best of your knowledge, to what extent do we have homeless veterans that are unhoused in Broward County other than through their own choice? Because I think that all of us feel strongly that there is very little excuse for anybody that served this country for them to be homeless now, unhoused. So I told you I would ask this question, and I'm asking it now. Can you give us a response to that? Yes, Senator. So on any given day, you know, the number fluctuates. However, there are 478 homeless veterans in our listed that are in the HMIS system that we have. As you know, and I share this with you, and I know the board is very familiar with this as well, is that we work very closely with United Way and their Mission United program that is strictly and solely focused on veterans' homelessness issues. And so we work very closely with them and continue to, you know, assign and help house those that choose, like you said, choose to be housed. And again, I can't tell you the number that choose to be housed or unhoused because they don't necessarily share that. So the number I shared with you are just those that we have in our system that are marked as veterans. I do have, obviously, our Hostie Division Director, Ms. Paldino, here if you wanted to ask any specific questions about that. I did have a follow-up, which is to, again, I'm aware that some people choose not to be housed. But I feel strongly, and I'm sure I speak for the Commission, that we should not be having veterans that are unhoused, not through their own volition. And is there anything else that we can do? Is this a question of resources? Or is it just that there is a certain period of time, you know, if somebody is unhoused for a few days before we recognize that and get them into our system, you're saying it's not a question of resources. So I guess that's, it fluctuates, right? It depends on at any given moment because that snapshot changes. And we constantly are working with that veteran population as with all populations. But there are specific programs designed just for the veteran population, as well we have for seniors and families and things like that. So, you know, we have targeted events that are just for veterans. And the last one, we're actually doing another one. I don't have the date off the top of my head, but I know we're doing another one now, this year in 2026. And it'll be, obviously, it's in cooperation with the United Way. The last time we did that, we had 40 veterans that showed up for the event that were interested in additional assistance. And I think we were successful in housing 17 of them. And then through that and beyond that, we continue to help them with all the wraparound services and things, the other things that they may need. So final question, you're telling us that it's not through lack of county resources, correct? We could always use additional resources. So I'm not going to say, I mean, that we could, you know, obviously allocate a lot more resources. But I don't, I wouldn't say that the reason that there are any unhoused veterans is because of lack of resources. Mr. Mayor, I move item seven. I just want to recognize that. I would like to first recognize the vice mayor. Monica, you made a statement that when asked about the number of veterans unhoused that we can't get that or they won't give us that information. Whether or not they choose to be? No, just how many it is. So, so based on our outreach efforts, when we go out and speak, when our teams speak with the individuals that are unhoused, we have in our entire system, the documented system, we have 478 individuals that have identified as being a veteran at some point in their life. So, but, but that just means that's the universe of all the people that have ever been in that system. And so that number, as you can imagine, fluctuates as people go in and out of different statuses of, of being unhoused. So. They don't break it out? Let me ask, let me ask Ms. Paldino to come because she knows. Not now. I just want to know where that population is. What is it? Out of the 478, that's all. Of how many do not choose to be? We identify 478 unhoused veterans. So some of them have basically refused is what you're saying. Yes. What's that number? That also can be fluctuating. From one day they can say yes and the next day they say no. But do we have any numbers that fluctuate daily? Again, Ms. Paldino might have that. I just don't know that level of detail of our system. Let's circle back with it. Thank you. Okay. Senator, you want to make your motion again? Yes, Ms. Mayor. I move approval of item seven. And also, Ms. Sappero, can you get us a report to the commission to the best of your ability on that? And with that, I move item seven. I'll do. I have a motion and second item seven. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Let's go to consent on 16 pulled by Commissioner Furr. Thank you. This has to do with the implementation of a resilience plan. I wanted to bring this just for the public certification on this. Last year was about a year ago where we were presented by the Resilience Department a resilience plan, which was a landmark plan. And you're seeing it being used and copied throughout not only the United States but globally in many ways. I don't know if it's possible. Could I ask someone from the Resilience Department a couple questions? Yes. Yep. Dr. Jurado. I didn't see you at first. Good morning. Good morning, Dr. Jurado. Mel did in. It's been a year since we've had a chance to look at the plan. A major part of that plan's development was looking at economic benefits analysis, including quantification of benefits relating to flood losses, flood insurance pricing, and home values. Can you just, for the public, let them know how that plan and that all fits in together? Sure, Commissioner, Mayor, Vice Mayor. The Resilience Plan overall took a full assessment of future conditions and the likely economic implications if certain infrastructure improvements are not provided. We then evaluated strategies to address that flood risk and put together a plan and demonstrated that absent investments in the recommended infrastructure that would take place over decades, The potential exposure in the year 2070, and we could look at the conditions modeled, but the potential exposure at that time based upon the whole suite of risk probabilities was $4 billion in annual average residential losses could be incurred due to flood losses. We could, through the interventions proposed, we could, through the interventions proposed, protect $670 million in economic activity annually. We could protect $30 billion in the way of preserved property values by avoiding repetitive losses and the types of consequences that would degrade property value and protect about $1 billion in ad valorem revenues by preserving property value, which is the basis for which ad valorem brings in revenues. And so the plan itself and the plan itself and the projects here were solicited to help implement the adaptation improvements that were recommended by the plan, which include, among a whole suite of things, culvert improvements. With that, and those are big numbers for all of us to hear and for the public to hear, and for us here trying to figure out how to chip away at this, we've got from now until, you know, next decades. But is it possible to put together an implementation strategy that stretches that out and prioritizes where this county commission can do its best work with and put the resources where it's needed the most? I would say that, yes, we have a total public component of the investments that was estimated was on the order of $9 billion over this 50-year time frame. But if you just focus on the hard infrastructure, like pumps, control structure, we estimate that at a billion, and then we could take a more refined look within that. There are, you know, culverts at $40 million or $20 million, pumps at about $700 million, other salinity control structures at $300 million. There's different ways that we could package the projects, recognizing that not everything gets implemented in the same time frame. But additionally, water storage and seawalls are other aspects of the plan that are very sizable in costs that are probably going to be longer-term improvements with time. Okay. For this today, the city of Sunrise and the city of Cooper City and the city of Hollandale Beach are the lucky ones because they're getting the first of that strategy. That was $1 million and a half dollars? $1.5 million. But we ended up leveraging that to $11 million? Just over $11 million. Because of their participation and their money coming in. I say that because it seems like a lot of money for us, but that leveraging allows us to get there. I know we haven't adopted this yet. Is that correct? That's correct. Have we adopted the plan yet? We just presented the plan to the board, but it wasn't formally adopted. Is there anything that we're – there was something with a tax watch that was – what did they want to see? Well, the business community had solicited a review by tax watch, and tax watch was inquiring about a more specific strategy for implementation before finalizing an opinion on the resilience plan. Okay. And we don't have the details. We have a cross-section of projects and costs, but we didn't suppose sequencing. And there's a difference between a strategy and sequencing, and I would suggest that sequencing is challenging because we call upon projects that are ready in the community, and part of what we provided here, for example, was responsiveness to the community and their needs. Right. I mean, I think we've got support from our workshop, but something like tax watch wants to see an implementation strategy before they put their stamp of approval on it. Correct? Is that right? That is what occurred. Okay. So I think that's – I say that because that's something I think we want to think about. If we're trying to bring the private sector into this and trying to get that kind of support, we need to show that we have some kind of implementation strategy. We need to show that we're moving forward with that. And if you all can help us on that with some kind of a supplemental implementation strategy that shows tax watch what we're doing, I think it would go a long ways. Okay. With that, I make a motion. Sorry. Commissioner Fisher also. Thank you. And Commissioner Fisher basically kind of said what I was going to say, but this commission supported my $1.5 million this past budget year to kind of begin to eat at our resilience plan. So I want to thank you for the support because this really shows us, Commissioner Fisher, you took $1.2 million of the $1.5 million, and now the impact is $11.2 million. So you can see the incredible return. And so you take that billion as far as hard structure, and if we can do the same thing here on those other programs, you can see, you know, we do want to thank the three cities that jumped in and did the matching and made these projects become a reality. So now we can physically see, Doctor, what the plan said in a small way, but literally in a large way at the end of the day with the culverts and how it's going to really make a difference with our resilience. So thank you for that. Yeah, and these are the ways that, you know, we've seen flood insurance trying to creep up a little bit. I don't think everybody realizes this. You all provide all the data to FEMA, correct? Yeah, that's correct. So the model that FEMA uses to establish the flood maps that are then used to set, essentially used to set the insurance prices, are our same model. So one of the benefits that we have is that every time we are able to bring one of these capital improvements into the model, we're establishing the next round of what those maps are going to look like because we're able to show that the infrastructure improvements indeed reduce the flood elevations. That then helps inform an improved flood map from our perspective and rates in the county. And I left out one metric, which was it was estimated that if we implement the improvements as proposed that we could preserve $30 billion in the way of flood insurance coverage that otherwise couldn't be afforded because rates will continue to go up and it will become more and more difficult for residents to provide coverage. Right. Those are huge numbers. I mean, we think about trying to save money here a little bit. You're talking about $30 billion in terms of flood insurance for this county by doing these kind of projects. So first of all, thank you for putting together such a wonderful plan. And then it's up to us to kind of, and you all to help us with an implementation strategy. Please don't leave. Okay. Oh, because of later? Yeah. You want to make your motion? I'll make a motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion second on number 16. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. So let's go to number 26. Did you want her to? Please stay around. Thank you. Pulled number 26? I did, but it's her item, so if you want to go first. Okay. I agree in principle with the purpose of this. I think that it does make sense to put some, and we discussed this for a long time here on this commission, to put some of the money from affordable housing into home ownership for purposes. You know, we've discussed the importance of building generational wealth, which you can do throughout ownership, that you don't. The only concern that I have on this, and my understanding is this is just a motion, county attorney, this is just a motion to direct administration to come up with the process, correct? Yes. Which will come back to us. Yes. I'd like to see, I don't know that this is something that administration should come up with, whether it's at an affordable housing workshop or something else. I'd like to hear how the commission thinks this should be done. There's so many different ways of doing it on affordable, on home ownership. You can do shared appreciation. You can do loans that vanish one-tenth per year over ten years. There are, you know, I could tell you half a dozen or a dozen different ways, and as opposed to we can do this after administration comes up with the idea or we can have a workshop or something for us to discuss this. I remember, Commissioner Furr, you were at one point taking the lead on this. I think when I was mayor, I'd ask you to come up with something, and I don't think you ever did. No, what we actually did is we put $3 million into Habitat for Humanity. Okay. And then we started looking at trying to see if, and they built with that. So there is a model there that's already been used, and a lot of the houses that were built up in Pompano at the Habitat were used that money for it. So I will just close by saying I agree in principle with what Commissioner Rogers is doing. I just would like to see the commission more involved in how we do that, although we can do it now or later. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You want to move it? You want to speak on it? Most definitely, because I'm so excited that my colleagues have finally decided to join me in this mission. You can have ideas, but if you don't know how to count the votes, then you're in serious trouble. So when I only had one person pulling, I had to second that to make sure I could back up my own decision here. Broward County housing affordable crisis requires immediate attention, and this is what I'm seeing here this afternoon. We remain one of the most cost-burdened counties in Florida. What more can I say? It's good to know that we're moving forward this afternoon. Home ownership is a proven wealth-building tool, and we must recognize it. We do recognize it, and I'm so happy this evening, this afternoon, that we're moving forward with this. I'm a realtor, former mortgage broker. I recognize and understand this industry. I know my community also. That is why you will hear us always talking about there are other ways of being affordable here, and how do we keep those properties affordable over the 30-year period or 15-year period that we, you know, the mortgage bond issue that we had, and we got it for 30 years. Those properties need to be discussed again and keep in the affordable tool. I don't know if everybody understand what I'm saying. If it expires in 30-year and you're coming up under 30 years, we should not lose those properties from the affordable housing pool. And I'm going to ask, or by my comments, I'm hoping that the county administrator fully understand where I'm going, and that should be an item of discussion when we bring back anything to do with affordable housing. I don't know how long it will take your staff for us to hear from you so we can have a commission discussion where commissioners can add to the discussion. Don't know how long that will take, but I think it's important that we move forward, and I take this time to thank my colleagues for supporting the affordable home ownership. Affordable home ownership. No more rentals and high rise. Thank you very much. Do you want to speak? Motion to approve? Oh, sorry, Ms. Schuchel. We've got a couple people that would like to speak. Vice Mayor? I'm just going to say again, I think from day one I've been talking about the home ownership piece, and I think I've heard it from others on the day, even Commissioner Furr. We all have spoken of it, and I think this is a great proposal or motion. But what I want to see us do, Monica and Ralph, is a deeper dive. I brought to our attention early on that, and I must say, let me just say this first. Habitat, great job. Oasis of Hope, great job. Homes, Inc., great job. Fort Lauderdale CDC, if they're still doing it, great job. Minority Builders, Urban League, Habitat for Humanity, Fort Lauderdale CRE and the Economic Development Department, and Pompano Housing Authority, great job. And we've invested in all the names that I've said historically. I think some 20-plus years ago, when the housing market tanked, this vertical stuff started happening, and it caught on fire. We're doing a very good job with that. And I spoke to this when we put this lockbox that I wanted some leniency there. But I think it was 8-1. I lost that vote. But we revisited it now. So I would like for us to go back and do what we used to do. And it really impacted my district, the unincorporated areas more so than anything. And now I think you've got a project in broad view that this could possibly help make those single-family or the out parts of townhouses affordable. We traditionally here at the county, when people don't pay their taxes or lose their infield lots, it becomes our surplus properties. And this is how a lot of these properties came about. And our heart lived from here. To do that was good. And I asked a question probably two years ago, and I came back again a year ago, and I asked, what happens to the person that has that single-family lot in broad view or one of the other four unincorporated, or anywhere in the county, but these areas in particular, where we did a lot of infield housing single-family, and they were successful. I mean, even to the point where we one day talked about how many people foreclosed. I mean, it was such a minuscule amount of foreclosure because we invested, we bought down the mortgages, and the product worked. So why can't we, and it might be one or two people, it might be four or five people that have lots, that eventually if they don't cut them and they don't pay the taxes, but now they probably can't get, it's hard to get a construction loan to build a house. We use those same vendors that we use, and maybe staff can come up with this. I know Ralph has told me that we don't have money for that, but when we do this, here's another opportunity or tool to put in the toolbox. So I support the motion, but I want us to do a different dive. Sometimes we have to just reimagine ourselves. I mean, we've been doing things so good for so long, and we've forgotten about the single-family piece. I mean, Habitat came on the scene. They were doing a very good job with it. I partnered with them when I was in the city of Fort Lauderdale. I was down in Pompadour painting houses. I had some issues with some of the agreements that came from Florida Trust, but not Habitat. They're doing seven for us now, unincorporated, I think, seven or six. They're moving. Why can't we do more of those and take some of this money out of this lot box to give Ralph the money to fund these? And I want to make sure we look at the single-family lot owner that could be a homeowner. Someone left them a lot. They're paying the taxes on the lot. And if we use all the tools that we have used in the past, this could really work. So I'm all in on this one, and hopefully we can move this forward. And like anything else we do, if we don't like it, we pull it back. I don't think we need to workshop it. We workshop affordable housing so many times. I don't want to workshop it. I want to move forward. I want to do something. I want to dig in the ground. I want to build something. I don't want to workshop anything. I want to give it to staff. The staff come back and say, hey, we have all these great ideas. Let's move forward. That's my little piece. I was just going to say, I think we should be adding condos to this, because I think we don't really have that much room for single housing, single house. But I do think that the cost, when you're building a condo, you have a chance to get a lot more people ownership in there. But I'm supporting what you're doing here. I know you didn't. I'm just throwing it out there. Yes. Happy to support it. Commissioner Davis. Yes. And thank you, Commissioner Rogers, for bringing this forward. I'd like to get a lot more background. However, I'm not sure with the way our mayor conducts his commission meetings, and they're very efficient, that we might not have enough time to go into it, the depth that we need to. And maybe it would, you know, be better to have a workshop on it. I'm just saying, because when they bring it back, we might have, you know, there's a lot of ideas here to really delve into it, unless we meet one-on-one before you bring it back, so that we can each have an input. Otherwise, they're going to bring back a document, we're going to have to spend all day here going through it, and it's not the time during a commission meeting. So I don't know how you want to proceed, but we do need time to delve through, because I know you mentioned, you know, these are for maybe single-family homes, and there's other ways to also, maybe you need more money. I don't know. You see what I'm saying? And so I kind of think we need to delve deeper into it, and we might not have enough time during a regular commission meeting. That's just my thoughts. Anybody else? Mr. Mayor, just to respond to my colleague. I know, I watch a model in Miramar, right across from the whole city hall, and what was intended and what truly happened, so we can learn from each other. But I am not, you know me, I'm an advocate for senior housing. I'm an advocate for ensuring that we can harden these affordable condos in our communities. There are different things that we can look at that is homeowner-occupied, that's currently homeowner-occupied, and they're struggling. So we need to follow those properties. We need to know if they're going into foreclosure. Anything that we can use to make a decision here as to what not to do. But when I say home ownership, I truly mean any type of property that will be owner-occupied, not rentals. And I think that is where we are going with this item number 26, that it be focused strictly on home ownership and also condos that are owner-occupied also. So I am not fearful of us doing the right thing and including some condos in the proposal. And I'm looking forward to my colleagues who are going to have something to say. And we can continue this discussion because we can always go around the room, Mr. Mayor. But we know there's some time constraint here. Commissioner Fisher? Yeah, just real quick, because I talked to Mr. Stone about the mechanisms of the plan. And my understanding is that the allocation per home would be about $100,000. Qualifications and the ranking and decisions is the same process that they do now. And that the $5 million would be divided, because I wanted to make sure each district had monies available to them. So it was about $500,000 per district. It gets you about five deals. Mayor's district gets two times. $500,000 per district, so five deals per district. So we want to make sure we spread the money throughout the county and qualifying them first to make sure. So I like the plan, and I like just making sure that we obviously spread it throughout the county. Thank you, Mayor. Can I get a motion on this? He wants to do that so badly. There's actually a plan. We're going to be coming back with this. Okay. Right? I'm sorry. Commissioner Davis, did you want to say something? No, I was just saying I didn't know there was a plan in place. I thought we were going to develop one. Right. They're going to come back with a proposal, and we're going to change it if we want you to change it. Okay? It was discussed. They had to get something from you or me or someone here. It's not just staff that came up with those ideas. Okay? I just wanted to make it very clear. You got it. We work with staff. My staff and I work with your staff. Thank you. I got a move of approval. Do I got a second here? I got a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. I want to bring to everyone's attention, Senator, Commissioner, I just want to bring to some attention. on something before we proceed. So we had an item 24 on a ticket policy, and county administration withdrew this at the last minute. And I've been asking for months and months and months to get a ticket policy because it protects us. Let me say that again. A ticket policy protects us. So I was looking for a proposal so we could come back and change it, modify it, whatever we want to do. And then apparently the item was then taken off the agenda. And Monica, I don't know why I was taking off the agenda, but I put it back on, on number 46. I thought we've been talking about this forever. Council told me that this is important that we get this to protect us. What's the deal? Was it ready or not ready? I don't get it. So, Mayor, to answer your question, you know, oftentimes there may be a request from a commissioner for sufficient, wanting to have additional time to review a proposal or a policy, and that is what has happened here. I was requested to, you know, withdraw for a meeting, so to have some additional time for a commissioner to, or multiple commissioners to have sufficient time to review it. And so that was simply all I was doing, is asking, granting that as a courtesy, like we did, you know, last week, our last meeting also with Government Center, because it was a lot of information, had a lot of implications, and so that was simply it. So all I can say is whoever wants to review it, I would give that respect, but whatever you guys have, we still have to bring it back here and talk. We still, no matter who's doing this, no matter what your ideas are, we still have to come back and talk about it. If you don't want to do it now, defer it to the next meeting, but if you guys want to tell me what you want to do, we'll defer it, do that respect, and otherwise we still, no matter what happens, we still got to bring it back. Yes, Commissioner. Yeah, Mr. Mayor, so I had needed extra time. Last week I was unavailable. I was in Washington, D.C. at the NACO conference, didn't have an opportunity, and then when I had my review, which was yesterday, agenda review, I was told it was being pulled, so I would have more time. So then I didn't review it then either. So, you know, where it's good that we have staff, you know, doing policies on behalf of this commission, I would like the amount of time needed, because I, you know, hadn't seen the document and delved into the document to be able to look at what was being proposed for us as a policy for our use. So I needed that extra time. The next commission meeting, I'm sure I'll be briefed, and I'll be more comfortable going forward with a policy that's going to affect us, if you don't mind. I don't need to say any more. All I want to say is, no matter what anybody wants, let's say if you want to change it or you want to change it, we all got to come back and talk about it. So can we put it on for the next meeting, please? Yes, sir. Sorry. Didn't know that. Mayor, you're withdrawing 46 then? I'm going to withdraw it for the next meeting. I'm sorry? You're withdrawing 46 and then the item from administration, which was 24, will be put on by the next meeting. Why don't you postpone it to the next meeting? You've made it your item. So that's what I just said. Can I postpone it to the next meeting? Yes. You have the right to do that. Do I need a vote? So moved. Wait, are you saying because, I'm going to let administration put this on, okay? Administration put it on before, but I understand. I'm not. I'm going to take item 46 and I'm going to make a motion to move item 46 to the next meeting. And if there's a second, there's a second. What if administration says they don't want to put it on next time? Okay. I'll second. I have a motion and a second to move it to the next meeting. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Done. Show that done. 8-0. Thank you. Once something I understand the rules, it belongs to the board. Well, I don't want to, I didn't craft that proposal. So I don't want anybody here to think that that was my crafted proposal. I did not craft it. Okay. So let's go, we're going to skip to the delegation real quickly. I've been asked for number 39. Monica, can you tell me who, who do we need to call out? You got it. Item 39 is the delegation, Broward County residents for protecting animals and welfare. Hi there. Hello. We had a PowerPoint presentation that we provided. Great. Can you state your name and, and, uh, take it away? Good afternoon, Mayor Bogan, Vice Mayor McKenzie, and commissioners. My name is Stacey Gowalski, and I'm a resident of Broward County. I'm presenting today, along with two other members of our group, Broward County for Protecting Animals and Welfare, known as BC Paw. We also have some other members and supporters in the room. Together, we represent a large percentage of the Broward community who have concerns over the current state of animal welfare. It's clear there's a profound crisis in Broward County with countless animals suffering due to systemic neglect and inadequate resources, while shelters and rescues face severe overcrowding, limited space, and quality of care for animals. The toll on both the animals and the community is immense, and stories of preventable suffering and tragic outcomes continue to emerge. This presentation focuses on where we believe systems are broken and where the commission can lead to help fix them. It's important to first note that animal welfare is fundamentally a moral responsibility. It requires compassion and empathy from leadership and the community to ensure that animals are treated with dignity and respect. This Broward County commission can take the lead to protecting vulnerable animals who cannot speak for themselves. Broward County has acknowledged overpopulation for years, yet its spay and neuter programs remain underfunded, underrationed, and inaccessible at the scale needed. For example, SNP program eligibility requires dogs to be over 45 pounds. What about all of the others? The county's response to overcrowding is to emphasize adoption and foster, rather than the rapid expansion of preventative services. County audits have found that Broward animal care programs are not operating effectively, despite years of overpopulation. Another major area of concern is enforcement. New and promising state animal welfare laws, like Dexter's Law and Trooper's Law, are ineffective without consistent, proactive enforcement. A major obstacle to improving animal welfare in Broward County is a lack of accountability among the officials and agencies responsible. And despite clear evidence of systemic failures, there's little transparency regarding how funds are allocated, how policies are enforced, and how outcomes are measured. Rather, enforcement is complaint-driven and has high evidentiary burdens. Investigations are reactive, with limited welfare checks or routine inspections. Complaints from advocates and community members are dismissed or ignored. Reporting issues through 3-1-1, 9-1-1, Crime Stoppers, the Sheriff, or Broward Animal Control is not only confusing to the public, but has not consistently resulted in enforcement. Excuse me. Sorry. We're only allowed to do a certain amount of time. Are we having other speakers? We have two more. We have two other speakers. They each get two minutes. Do we have a copy of the PowerPoint that was supposed to be presented? I know all of you do, but is there, we sent it ahead of time to be up on the board for this. Is there any way to get that up, please? I'm sorry? Is there any way to get the PowerPoint that we submitted on time up on the screen? Good question. Who has got the PowerPoint? And if we can please pause the clock out of my time for this. Would you pause the clock, please? Thank you. You got it. Let's put it back to two minutes, please. Do we have a... I apologize for the delay. No, no, don't apologize. No, I apologize. I don't know what's going on, but we'll get that up quick. Thank you so much. Sorry. We submitted it on time to the appropriate person. It was confirmed and submitted on time to the appropriate people as well. That's right. Is there anyone working on that? I'm sorry? We're taking care of it. Just give us a moment, please. Oh, okay. Thank you. While we're waiting, I just want to let you know our county auditor is sitting right there, and I just found out there's been no audits in the recent years showing any inefficiencies or any problems in the recent years. So, you know, I think you made a comment. I don't want to get into it, but... Oh, it's okay. But, you know, our county auditor is sitting right here, and there's been no audit showing that there's problems today at our animal shelter that we operate. It's okay. We'll wait for the PowerPoint, which does include a picture of a deceased dog that I found myself as a citizen. That was reported countless times. So we'll wait for the PowerPoint. Thank you. Mayor? Yeah. I'm not sure how long it's going to take. I mean, you obviously have the option to table this if you want and to... Well, can you ask Mike or how long it's going to take? So let's go to another item. Yeah. I don't... Can he tell you? Yes? No? You... All right. Ladies, we're going to... We're going to wait until they're ready. So just please have a seat, and we'll come right back to you. How's that sound? Until we want to get the meeting moving. Thank you so much. Can I open the... Council, can I open the public hearing and then close? Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. Public hearing items today are 27 through 38. The reading clerk will open up each item, recognize any members of the public signed up to speak. Upon completion of the public comment, the item will come back today as for discussion. Let's move forward with item number 27. Open the... The public hearing is open. The public hearing on item 27 is now open. Item 27 is a motion to adopt a resolution granting a non-exclusive, restricted Port Everglades vessel bunkering service franchise to LNG Holding, Florida LLC, DBA, Sawgrass, LNG, and Power for a one-year term. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Show that... Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Next. Item 28 is a motion to adopt a resolution transmitting to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use plan text PCT 26-3 related to policies 2-36.1 and 2.36.2 regarding land use policy and public infrastructure and service decisions. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. I have a motion. Second. And Mayor, just for clarity, the approval is with the amendment. That's 28-A. Please. Thank you. Motion with the amendment. Motion to approve. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Next, please. Item 29 is a motion to adopt a resolution transmitting to designated state review agencies proposed amendments to the climate change element, the recreation and open space element, and the transportation element of the county comprehensive plan. One member of the public has signed up to speak on this item, Ashley Santoro. Ashley, are you here? Great. Come on down. Is this on? Good afternoon, commissioners, Mayor Bogan and Vice Mayor McKenzie. My name is Ashley Santoro, and I am a student of coastal marine science, resource management, and environmental justice at Arizona State University, but I am a lifelong Broward County resident, and I still reside here today. I wanted to propose to you not to move forward with the adoption of the proposed resolution for item 29, transmitting section 163.3184 of the Florida statutes, the amendment 25T3 to the climate resolutions. This is because Broward County, Florida, is one of the most ethically diverse counties in the entire state, with a diversity index usually averaging above 84.9%. Research across the globe has shown that no matter what, systemically disadvantaged individuals, usually people of color, are more likely to be affected by climate change, regardless of their economic standings as a whole. This is due in part largely to systemic barriers that many people are not afforded the same luxuries of, such as properly managed infrastructure, viable jobs, and more. Removing all language regarding these economic and systemic barriers, barring disabled populations, would not be very good for any person at all due to the bottom-up methods that most people use when restoring climate justice. Doing so would also be hindering the efforts of restoring aging infrastructure, losing the ability to create, you know, energy-efficient jobs, or even providing benefits to people who would really need them the most. Given that Broward County is also a coastal county, it is not based in reality to ignore the systemic injustices that people face because of their equitable disadvantages compared to other populations. While I recognize that this has been a greater effort of DeSantis' administration to remove any dimensions of diversity, equity, inclusion from Florida policy, it is simply not based in reality and will be doing a grave, disingenuous disservice to your constituents, many of whom rely on the services and systems in place because of the inclusion of this language in order to get by. I yield my time. Thank you. Thank you. Council? Council, can you opine on any of...? Yes. As we've discussed, it's my recommendation that the board approve this item with the amendment that is 29-A. We think the language, we've worked on the language to try to come up with something that we believe would be acceptable and balancing, given all of the potential issues that we have here, and we do recommend approval of it. Is that in conformity with the laws, or...? We believe that if we approve this, certainly, with 29-A, the additional material, that we believe we are consistent with the law. Correct. Yes. Senator Geller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. How many of the people that just applauded did not vote? Of course, I was going to say, if you didn't vote, you have no right now to be applauding. What we're doing right now is nothing that the people on this dais... Come on, guys. Hey, hey, we're going to... I will try and keep my temper, but I'm that close. Senator, if you guys can't just let whoever's speaking speak, we're going to have to have you removed. So please, just be civil to everybody. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. And my opinion, since I'm the one with the mic, is if you don't vote, then you can't complain about what happens. It is not what the people up here want. I don't think there's a person up here that supports this. But every one of us took an oath to follow the laws of the state of Florida. We didn't pass that state statute. I think we all oppose the state statute. But it is the state statute. We have to follow it now. If you don't like what's happening, vote correctly, in my opinion, which would not have been for the current administration. Senator, would it be better said that what's on the agenda right now conforms to state law? It's not... Right. That's basically it. Yes. Yes. Commissioner Furr? I think more important, what you're not going to see is a change of our climate change policy. You're going to see this county continue to go forward and be the progressive county it is, regardless of how we're having to change language to conform with state law. You're not going to see a change in how we act and the forward motion that we're doing on climate change and on resilience. This county commission is committed to that. So we are having to conform to some language. And I have asked myself to have this wordsmith over and over and over again to be as benign as possible. However, what we don't want to do is put ourselves in a position where we can't be applying for resilience grants and we just get blackballed immediately. We don't want to put ourselves in a position where we're not being able to do that. So we're doing the least amount that we have to do to be able to conform. Am I correct on that, county attorney? It's tough to answer that, Commissioner. What I will say is that there are practical issues, there are legal issues that are all wrapped up here. You mentioned grants, just for example. Right. Your statement about it's not going to change this board, this board believes in equality for sure. This board is always going to ensure that there's non-discrimination. Those things are still encapsulated fully in here. The terminology has changed to be consistent with and we believe to avoid unnecessary challenges and risk under state law. It continues to be our recommendation. I know folks up here are not happy with this, but it is our recommendation that the board approve it with 29A. Yeah. And as Senator Gettar said, there's not one person up here that's happy with this. But we're having to do it and trying to do it, like I said, as benignly as possible and still be able to keep our forward motion going on all these environmental concerns. Okay. Commissioner Davis? Yeah. Thank you. Could Attorney Myers, just for the general public, just state what is being changed, what we have now and what is being changed to, and clearly state the reasons why? Commissioner, it's my belief that we shouldn't get into details here on this. The changes are numerous. They're small terminology changes. Basically, if people can compare the existing draft and look at what's stricken through and what words were changed, we were asked by the board to go back and to see if we can modify things that we still think would put us in a strongly defensible position. We've done that. That is a clean version of it. And the reason that it's being done, essentially, is because of some of the priorities that exist right now. I'm not commenting on them, but there are priorities at the national level and at the state level. These, in particular, are at the state level. Some of these things are not crystal clear. If we didn't fully heed these and we got sued, do I believe there would be defenses? Yes, I think we would have defenses. But there's tremendous risk here, in my opinion. This is also at the end, as you know, Commissioner, of a project where we've gone through, we've looked at our ordinances and we've looked at our contracts. We're trying to be true to who we are as Broward County. Those principles are not changing in any way. But we're looking to change terminology where we can, just so we avoid unnecessary risk. That's honestly the best way that I can frame it. And it is my recommendation that you approve it as amended. But this is all public record. So, for example, when it says you strike out inequality, inequity, and injustice, it's been replaced by what? You can state it because you've already, it's written. It's public. Yeah, I'd have to do a line by line to look at the... No, I'm just saying, just in general. Yeah, it's being placed by similar notions. So, for example, in item 28, we're referred to environmental justice. It's now couched in terms of being non-discrimination. You're looking to make sure that impacts of land use decisions and other decisions are not disproportionately impacting any segment of the community. Is that environmental justice? I don't know. That's a term that is considered a loaded term right now. I believe it's non-discrimination. I believe that's constitutionally mandated. So, I don't see any risk in passing something that says non-discrimination. I believe that there is risk, not purely legal risk, but other grant risk and other risk in using different terminology. So, I'm a math guy. I'm a risk and return person. I try to manage the risk. I try to present my best recommendations to the board. It's important. My recommendation already hasn't been heeded, which is let's limit discussion on this because it is a sensitive topic. All of the discussion so far has been appropriate. I think that if we pass this, we're consistent with the law. Again, with 29A as an amendment, if we didn't pass it against my recommendation, I think we have defenses and that we would assert those defenses. But those defenses are to legal issues, not necessarily to more pragmatic and other issues that could be very costly. Principles can be costly. So, you've heard my counsel on this. Thank you for the clarification. Thank you. Can I get a motion on that? I'll move the approval. Seconded. I have a motion by Commissioner Udine, seconded by, as amended, by Commissioner Udine, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 2, 4, 6, 7, 0. We're now going to close the public hearing and we're going to go back to 39 on the animal issue. Everything now is ready. So, please, ladies, if you can come up. I respectfully ask to start at the beginning since I had inquired about the PowerPoint from the start. I just got to go by what the law is on our meetings. Counsel? Mayor, it's three minutes for the primary speaker and then two minutes for each secondary speaker and the primary speaker has already spoken for the three minutes. So, it would be the two remaining speakers, two minutes each. So, she's asking because she didn't have the PowerPoint, can she go again? For the record, the PowerPoint had been handed out to the board, so it's just displaying for the public at this point in time. I'm sorry, for the record what? The PowerPoint had been handed out to the commission for the original three-minute speakers, so it's just displaying for the public at this point in time. Okay. I'm sorry. I understand, but it's a visual presentation. It was very important. I spent several weeks on it. Hopefully, your other speakers can bring it out. We do have it here. All right. How do we click to the appropriate slide? You will need to just say next slide, please. We're going to start hers over, though. I mean, she was interrupted, so she should get her full two minutes. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah. If we could do next slide. We're going to the slide titled Keep Going. Systemic Failure is the slide we're looking for. Thank you. All right. So, thank you for giving us the time. Again, thank you. We really appreciate it. Can you state your name, please? Yes, my name is Rebecca Landerman. I run Rescue Dog Network Incorporated, a 501c3 nonprofit, helping out the tri-county area. Next slide, please. So, as we discussed, there are some gaps in the spay and neuter access enforcement and safe reporting mechanisms that are leading to a systemic breakdown. The problems facing animal welfare in Broward County are not isolated incidents, but rather symptoms of a broader systemic failure, inadequate funding, poor management, and lack of strategic planning have created an environment where animals are consistently underserved, and a failure to coordinate efforts across agencies and leverage community resources has further compounded that issue. Next slide, please. When violations do go unreported or unenforced, animals do bear the consequences, the emotional impact on staff, volunteers, and the community is profound. Next slide, please. And this is a trigger warning for the group. If you don't believe me, this is Keys. This is Keys, who I myself found deceased in a citizen's backyard after years of reporting to both animal control and the sheriff's office, had been consistently ignored, I mean, beyond many other things. We have a lot of information on that, on that PowerPoint, in your hands right now. I do apologize for the graphic photo, but we tried everything we could, and this is what brought us here. So, this is what systemic failure looks like on the screen. So, next slide, please. The response from Broward Animal Control to Keys being found rotting in the yard, tied to a lawnmower, was that, unfortunately, on the calls we went on, there was nothing that would justify us legally removing the dog, even though the field officer cannot find, saying the field officer cannot find proper shelter, yet the report stated no violations. Thank you. Please go to slide new opportunities. I'm sorry, can you please state your name, ma'am? My name is Denise Congeme. Thank you. Are you taking, you're going to continue on the slides, correct? Please, please proceed. My name is Denise Congeme, and I'm a resident of Broward County. Next slide, please. We have been in receipt of Ordinance 2026-03. We read through it carefully. While there is progression, we've identified opportunities for consideration. Next slide. Let's acknowledge some wins. Breeder requirements, more programs that promote the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats, adoption, foster care, and other initiatives that advance the welfare of animals. Next slide. Yet there is still more to be done. Spay and neuter access. What are the new programs mentioned in the Ordinance 2026-03? How are they being promoted? What is the 2026 budget compared to last year? How is funding and outreach being increased? In regards to enforcement, this was not addressed at all. What criteria defines when an officer may take action? An officer can issue a citation, a civil penalty, and may even provide a warning. But how is this information being communicated to local police departments to ensure consistent enforcement? Next slide. Broward County, for protecting animals and welfare, is making an urgent call for change, and we respectfully ask the commission to support this. Next slide. Our goal for Broward County is one that, to name a few, enforces laws consistently, tracks repeat offenders, and invests heavily in sterilization. Next slide. This commission has an opportunity and a responsibility to lead where the system has fallen short. The solutions are clear. The cost of prevention is lower than the cost of failure, and the consequences of delay are irreversible. What this moment demands is action, one that closes gaps, enforces laws, and prevents suffering before it occurs. Broward County can choose transparency, accountability, and humane leadership, and be judged by whether that choice produces a real protection. No animal's life should be lost because the system failed to show up. With respect due to time, we have included an appendix. And lastly, is there a commissioner who would be willing to sponsor this issue so that it could be placed on an upcoming agenda for discussion? We're ready to meet. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate the... Ladies, I just wanted to say that I believe this commission is very sensitive to and supportive of anything that has to do with the care of animals. Ten years ago, after I got elected, we had a lot of people come here, talk about our own animal shelter, and made all these comments, bad comments about it. But I actually had somebody from Chicago, where I'm from, quietly come in to inspect it and take pictures. And because of that, at that time, many years ago, that person who was running our animal shelter was fired, left, whatever the word is, and we've replaced until now, I believe, we've run compared to how it used to be, a really shelter with people that care. And so we'll be glad to take this up and get back to you. Thank you. Before we go to the finish the public hearing, there's one other thing I needed to bring up. Hold on one second. Let me get to the... Do you mind if I just bring up real quickly, finish up with Jennifer Gerardo so she can get back. It's number 45. Jennifer, can you please come up here real quickly? And Commissioner Rogers, I'm glad you're back. No, I need just for you to hear what I wanted to tell you guys. I think the problem with our... We have a major problem, and it's talked about too high of a level. I think it needs to be dummied down. We talk about affordable housing and our need for affordable housing. So every... And you can correct me. Here's our expert. All the neighborhoods in Broward County, when it rains, hurricanes, that water has to go somewhere, and it goes to secondary canals, right? And then the secondary canals lead into the primary canals. And the primary canals push the water out to the ocean. Those canals are over 80 years old. And when you talk about 2070, quite frankly, you told me that within 10 years, if we don't do something, neighborhoods, that people who are sitting and where we sit in, neighborhoods are going to be more flooding because our secondary canals and our primary canals don't have the necessary pumps and other types of needs. And so we keep talking about affordable housing. We need money with affordable housing. And while that item was $1 million or $11 million, that's a joke. We need $1 billion to get pumps and to get our secondary primary canals or everybody sitting in here and everybody in Broward County is going to be vulnerable to property damage. And so am I accurate or not? I think that that's a fair summary of the importance of making infrastructure investments to address the conditions. Okay. Besides seeking a couple million here and a couple million here, Senator, one minute, please. What is Broward County doing to seek hundreds of millions that will solve the problem versus $1 million or $11 million or $6 million? What are we doing today? Well, we've spent the last 15 years pursuing the primary canal improvements that are needed. You mentioned the big canals. So we've worked with the Water Management District and the Army Corps of Engineers. Let me rephrase the question. I understand you've been working on it. You said that we need over $1 billion to fix a problem. What are we doing today to seek $100 million, $200 million, $500 million, $1 billion? What are we doing today to get that money? Do we have any plan in place, whether a tax or something, you'll talk in a minute, on getting that money? Okay. Most significantly, we have a $50 million authorization with the Army Corps of Engineers that we're trying to bring that $50 million down to help support the projects while working on the primary canal system with the Army Corps. So we're $950 million short. Have you done anything? Are we doing, us as a body, staff, is anything being done right now to talk about how we're going to be getting hundreds of millions of dollars to help all the neighborhoods in Broward County? A coordinated effort is not yet underway. Period. A coordinated effort is not underway. Senator Gellar, you've been waving your hand. Go ahead. Mr. Mayor, I brought this issue to this commission at least half a dozen times. The Broward County Water Advisory Board, working with Dr. Harada, has worked on this. We are working currently in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District. Last year, Broward County, I think it was last year, put $5 million in the budget to try and get ahead of everybody else, because this is affecting all of South Florida, to try and get ahead of the other counties in getting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We are working on getting funding. Dr. Harada, you didn't mention we're working on trying to get the billion dollars in the 2026 WARDA bill, which is federal congressional appropriation. In order to do that, we need the study completed. That's what the $50 million would be paying for. So we have been working aggressively. I've testified to the South Florida Water Management District and the Army Corps at least half a dozen times. I remember that when Commissioner Fisher was mayor, he testified. Commissioner Yudin, you were with us when we testified at one point in time. And Commissioner Furr, you've been with us. So, Mr. Mayor, we have aggressively been working on this, but we don't own the canals. They're owned by the Army Corps. So we need the federal congressional authorization to get this done. And Dr. Harada will tell you, we've done more than any other county by far in the state. And we're doing everything we can. Dr. Harada, if we got hundreds of millions of dollars to fund this, do we need to first get approval from the Army Corps of Engineers? They are separate but coordinated efforts. The 1.8 bill. I'm not talking about coordinated efforts. I'm going to really keep you to a question. Do, Senator Geller said something that I don't believe is totally accurate. Do we need, if someone wrote a billion dollar check, here, go put the pumps in, go put everything in. Do we need to get permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to do that? If their primary canal infrastructure, the rest of the infrastructure is separate from the federal infrastructure. There is a difference between what is local, state, and federal. Okay. So for local, how much money do we need that doesn't involve the Army Corps of Engineers? How much money is involved to make it to where we need to get to? The countywide resilience plan referenced $8 billion separate from the 1.8. That's where I'm going, Senator. So you could sit with, let me finish. You've been working, we've been working, we've been working, we've been working, and we're working. We don't have any vision like the tunnel. Well, according to Dr. Gerardo, of where we're getting our hundreds of millions of dollars from, 50 million's a joke, 11 million's a joke, it's not going to solve a problem, and we can't wait 10 or 20 years. So you could tell all about how much you've been working and testifying and working. It doesn't, I'm all about the bottom line. Mr. Mayor, Dr. Gerardo, on the big canals, the seven big canals that drain, do we own them or does the Army Corps own them? That is the Army Corps of Engineers. So on the big canals that Commissioner Bogan is talking about. I'm talking about both, secondary and primary. Right, but the secondary are draining into the primary canals. You've heard me say this. The problem that we have is they are all but one are gravity fed. They don't have pumps. And they worked fine when inland water was here and ocean water was here. But because of sea level rise increasing, we are going to be flooded. And that's why the $50 million is for the study, for the PD&E, to get the funding, hopefully the billion dollar or whatever we need for the large canals. If we had a billion dollars today, Dr. Gerardo, could we go and install in the large canals that drain to the ocean? If we had a billion dollars, could we put them in the large canals without Army Corps approval? The projects that get installed and discharged to the primary canals are licensed through the South Florida Water Management District. Which is not the question I asked. So we don't need Army Corps approval to implement improvements in the neighborhood canals. Right, which is not the question that I asked. The question that I asked was on the large canals, the seven large ones, can we, if we had a billion dollars, could we install pumps in those to drain out to the intracoastal tomorrow without Army Corps approval? Those are not our projects or our responsibility in terms of the construction, though. What is our responsibility? Well, countywide, we don't have a direct responsibility, one could argue. What is ours with the cities? That's what I should say. We provide coordinated planning to support the overall efforts to ensure that the projects work together. With regards to the countywide plan, we could choose to do nothing and hope that all of the projects that need to get built, get built, and they get built in time. With it, by the cities? By the cities or the drainage and the water control districts that own the utility of infrastructure. Look, I had a nice conversation with you about all of this, correct? Several conversations, and the bottom line is we've got a major problem, and we need to do something more than what we're doing, okay? And that's, and here's our expert, and Senator, you could smile and laugh at what I'm saying, but unless you're telling me that Jennifer's not our expert, which I believe she is, we need to do something. So we, today, whether we talk about, do we need a half a penny sales tax? Do we need something, what do we need to get money? And that's what you tell me, correct? Am I wrong? I think that there is a necessary infusion of money to support infrastructure needed in our communities, just like anyone else regarding the flood issues that we're all dealing with today, and there's not an adequate pool of funds to support that yet. Mr. Mayor. Has there been any vision from this commission or from your staff on where that money's coming from? There is no strategic proposal on how to bring those funds to this community at this time. Okay. So, Senator Geller, whatever you want to sit here and talk about all the work you're doing, I'm not trying to put that down, but our expert is telling us that we need to come up with a strategic plan of other ways of how we're going to get money to fix this problem sooner than later, and not 50 years. Okay. Not 50 years, but something within the next less than a decade. Mr. Mayor, respectfully, there are, we're conflating different issues here, and let me address that. And again, I've been chairing the water board, water advisory board for the last eight years. This is probably the single biggest topic that we've been working on, and we have done more than any other county in the state, and it's not enough, but, you know, I've been running around like a chicken screaming, the sky is falling, the sky is falling. Actually, what I've been yelling is the water is rising, the water is rising. Let me finish here. And we have, there are two separate issues. We have sea level rise, which is a lot, which is a lot of the resilience, and we have the flooding caused by rain. The flooding caused by rain, the atmosphere, the climate in Broward County, depending on where you are, is either tropical rainforest or tropical monsoon. I don't need an education on where blood water is. I need, we need solution. I'm trying to answer, Mr. Mayor. Where are we getting money? She says we need money. Mr. Mayor, as I said, you're conflating two separate issues. One is the big canals, and the other is the general infrastructure. Secondary canals. It's not even the secondary canals, it's a sea level rise that we're trying to deal with. That's not what she's saying. The second, when it rains and hurricanes and water goes into the secondary canals, there's problems there also. Water goes into the secondary canals and floods into the primary canals. Our problem is we have to fix the primary canals. Fixing the secondary canals to drain into the primary canals. If the primary canals can't drain into the intercoastal or ocean, it doesn't do us any good. Mr. Schiffer. Thank you. Obviously, this is going to need a workshop or something. Okay. Because you're not wrong in terms of trying to figure out we do not have a plan right now for where that money comes from. You're not, and Senator Gellar's not wrong in the fact that those elements, those seven parts, are separate. But the other part, the secondary, those are things that we can be working on simultaneously. While the feds are working here that we're trying to do, the other part is the part that we need to be working on. So what I would strongly recommend is you put together a workshop that looks at potential ways of getting that infusion of money, whether it is green bonds, whether it is infrastructure, whatever it is, they need to be looked at. But we need to see a slate of possibilities. Right now, we're not going to do anything right now. Senator, again, with all due respect, I'm the first one that sat in that seat, not anybody from that water board, and brought up the word PFAS. That PFAS was never brought to this commission, and I shouldn't have been doing it, Alan Garcia or our water people or the water board. So, you know, I understand the hard work that's done, and we're meeting all the time on the water board. But, you know, according to our expert here, we do not have a strategic plan, and I don't even agree. We need to get a plan fast, according to Dr. Arato. Am I saying anything that's wrong? No. Okay. Mayor? Mayor? Yeah, and I think, Dr. Arato, obviously, we can't do this on our own, correct? Correct. So, we need all these coordinations, and when we're talking about that, I think we need to get maybe in a room and talk about it, together with Senator Geller's, obviously, expertise, your expertise, and the desire of this board, what did we want to do? Obviously, we want to do it today, and how do we ultimately get there? Mr. Peer, did you have anything to, I know you were working on this as well, so I'd just like to hear your thoughts, too. Yes, so thank you, and thank you, Dr. Arato. What I was going to share is, you know, today, during your discussion on item 16, you all just directed us to come back with an implementation strategy on the resilience plan. That's the very thing that you guys just directed us to do. So, I have my notes. We've already been coordinating to start working with the department to bring back implementation strategies on funding, and as well as the order or the sequencing of these projects. But Senator Geller says he's been bringing this up again and again and again. Why have we waited so long? So, there's a difference. So, the issue in and of itself has absolutely been worked on, and Dr. Arato has basically dedicated her entire career to this issue, and she is a national renowned expert in this. And we are absolutely number one in the state in our forward actions and what you all have done and supported. We absolutely are far ahead of every other county, and including the other two counties that we need also to be included in this conversation, and they did not allocate any funds like you all did two years ago, the $5 million that was referenced for the CNSF study. And that study has to be done in order for the federal government to authorize it. So, it's the cart before the horse. So, we have to do all of these things in sequence where the federal government will not support the plan. And if we went out and did a billion dollars worth of work, it would be in a vacuum if the other parts are not working together. So, that's the challenge that we've got, because it's the state, the feds, and us. But it's really not just us, as she said. It's all of the municipal projects. Let's plan a workshop as soon as possible. Plan a workshop. Commissioner Bogan, if I could just say two sentences. The problem here, again, is you are correct. And item 16, when you're dealing with the overall, as Dr. Harada was talking about, the $9 or $10 billion, which is primarily dealing with flooding from the ocean as a result. That is not something that I've been yelling and screaming about. I know that's a big issue. That's what I'm talking about. That's what you're talking about. What I'm talking about is what will occur sooner, as you have pointed out. That's the flooding caused by rainfall. And that can only be done by fixing the big canals, which requires the federal thing. So you are correct in what you're saying in terms of the general infrastructure. I'm correct in what I'm saying on the rainfall caused, which requires the federal action. They're just – I don't want you to conflate the two different items. Okay. So let's move on to – I'm sorry. Did you want to say something? You sure? What I'm saying is, you know, we don't have the billions and billions of dollars. And even if we did have the billions and billions of dollars, we don't have the systems in place to do this on our own as the county. It's 31 municipalities, every other water control district. In living down here a long time, everyone can talk about all the studies and whatever they want. They've built too much, so there's no spot for any of this water to run off anywhere. I don't care. You don't need to admit it there. No. So when we have a lot of different cross-competing issues, when the groups come in here and say, we need more affordable housing, we need more supply, we need to build that somewhere, and then that comes with the runoff. So I'm happy to have a workshop on this, but really the Army Corps of Engineers and the federal government and the state government are going to need to step up. So we're not going to be able to do this even partially on our own and to ask taxpayers to pay for it when we can't even give them the plan that we would have. We're trying to get something done at the port, and the Army Corps of Engineers have been holding us up for, what, 25 years? A hundred and ten years. So, I mean, it's impossible to deal with some of these agencies when this comes up. I agree with you, but when we have new development that's built, we just have to make sure it's being built in a resilient way. When the airport flooded a couple years ago, people called me and complained, how dare you expand the airport because that caused flooding. Meanwhile, it was the new expanded part that did not flood because it was built in a resiliently proper way, and it was the older things that flooded. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you. I'm going to open up the – go back and open up the public hearing. I think we're done. We're going to adjourn. No, I'm joking. Let's go to number 30. We only have one or two speakers for number 30? Okay, we've got 36 speakers for number 30. Each – come on, guys. Come on. Come on. Hey, because of the applause, we're going to all give everybody 10 seconds, okay? Let's go to number 30. Who do we call first? Your time is up. Public hearing, item 30 is now open. Item 30 is a motion to enact ordinance amending the county comprehensive plan to adopt county land use plan amendment PCNRM 24-3 to amend the environmentally sensitive land maps of the natural resource map series located in the city of Dania Beach. Forty-two members of the public have signed up to speak on this item. The first member of the – No, no. I want Commissioner Furr to open it up, please. Okay. And I'm going to ask again, please, no applause. If you're going to applause, we're going to have to remove you. I'm sorry. But please, we just don't – it's not protocol here. Please, you can wave, show your support. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. This is the item that I had asked to be deferred from a few months ago because – for a number of reasons. One, Dania Beach had not had a chance to weigh in on this. And, you know, we usually give a – we want to hear from the city where it's in, first of all. I had not had a chance to go take a look at the land. I actually had a chance to walk through it with my boots on and walked right through the mangroves and saw it for what it is. This is actually a pretty good segue given from where we just were, and you were talking about being overdeveloped on places. There's only 3% of the land west of the development line out to the Everglades that is undeveloped, and this is part of it. So this is an item that would remove this land from the environmentally sensitive land maps. Right now, it's been on that map for – I don't even know how many years, but a long time. And I knew somebody knew that answer, and I did know that. And I don't see any reason why we should remove this. We don't need to make it easier, to be honest, to develop this. There's not an easement on it, but it is part of our environmentally sensitive lands, and it does require, if we keep it on there, that it does have to go through the Army Corps of Engineers, has to go through all kind of permitting, and justifiably so. So this is – and I think at the retreat, I had let everybody see – this is where the Port Everglades drains into this area. There's probably at some point when the intermodal will be draining into this area. These mangroves are what cleans all of that before it goes into the Dania Beach Canal, which goes into the intercoastal, which goes out to the ocean. So there are lots of reasons that it may – I like all the handwaving. That's good. Much quieter, too. Thank you. There's lots of reasons for this to remain environmentally sensitive land. Today, we'll be hearing from the public. We'll be hearing from, I believe, the mayor of Dania Beach is here, Mayor Davis. Very good. And I know you all have taken a vote on this, and I'm sure you'll be speaking for your city. With that, I'm going to – let's hear from the public, but I will be encouraging this board to keep this on the environmentally sensitive land. It doesn't mean that they can't still apply for permitting. They can. But my hope is at some point there may be other possible solutions. And I had mentioned this at the retreat. I don't know if it means us requiring it. Or finding a way where they can use it for mitigation rights, where they can sell the land to those needing mitigation rights. I actually think when you look at the map and you see how the water flows through there, I don't think you want to put a kind of a bottleneck in there. I don't think it would be good for it. So with that, I know there's a lot of people speaking. To be honest, if you can just – if you hear where I'm coming from, I think there's quite a bit of support up here. You can say ditto and go a long ways. But with that, I yield back. Can I just ask the district commissioner a point of information? Sure. Because I'm not in favor of taking this off the environmental land plan easy. But my question to you is – Come on, please. Please. You said that it was marked on the map in the early 1980s? Yes. Okay. And I know – Jennifer would know that. 89. So I did some research on it, too. The applicant only bought this in 2019, so they bought this with the environmental plan in place. But you know what's unfortunate? Because NOVA owned it. Right. NOVA owned it and used it for field trips for their students to – you know, for research on mangroves. I talked to George Hanbury the other day. He said, we tried to sell it to the county, which is unfortunate. It's unfortunate that we didn't buy it then. That's my thinking. So, yes, I think the person who owns it – there are warehouses down that street. There's a lot of warehouses. This guy – well, if he's – here, he'll talk about it. But he does import-export with China. The place where he wants to build it, the problem is it extrudes further into the mangroves than all the other warehouses. All the other ones are side-by-side. This one goes – this juts out way out into it. So you're right, Commissioner Dean. It's been recent. I don't know if he thought he would just be able to – because his warehouse is right next to it, he'd be able to do that without, you know, going into the lands. Commissioner, being the district commissioner, you're opposing this, correct? Yes, I am. Okay. So just to let everybody – he's district commissioner. Anyway, let's call up – pardon me? I'm going to say, look, it appears that there's a lot of support for the commissioner, the district. I'm going to defer to the commissioner. I don't know how everybody else is. I'm saying if there's support for the commissioner's district position – I don't – I love the speakers here, but – and I don't want to – they want them to be able to speak. But at the same time, if there's support for the commissioner's position, I don't want to waste all these folks' time either. So, Council, you could – It's up to them. You could tell me the legal – can I go around and just poll everybody on how they feel on this? You can – I mean, you can find out who – Please don't clap, please. Yeah. You can – so this is a public hearing. The board obviously shouldn't decide until the comment period is over. But certainly, anyone on the dais can let you know what their position is on it. It's subject to the public hearing. In terms of the 42 people who have signed up to speak, you could ask which ones of them – Obviously, if they see that we're going to be opposed to it, they may not – they might think there's no need to say anything because we're in agreement. So let me just go real quickly. Commissioner Davis, I'm going to go around – well, I'll start with myself. I'm deferring to Commissioner Furr. He's opposed to it, so I'll be opposing it. How about yourself? Agreed. You're going to oppose it. Subject to public comment. Subject to public comment. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, I would like to hear from only the mayor of Dania Beach. If the city of Dania Beach and the county commissioner are both opposing it, I'm also – So you're not – you're not – yeah. No, I just want to hear from – just one person. Commissioner Rogers, you have a position? Okay. Vice mayor? Ditto, kiddos. Ditto. Ditto, kiddo. I'm not voting to take it off the environmental protection. So you're with Commissioner Furr. I'm not agreeing that that's why I'm doing it, but I happen to think he's right. But I'm voting to take it off. Commissioner Davis? Yeah. I am in support of Commissioner Beam Furr, but I also want to make sure that the public who has signed up to speak on their own, if they decide to go forward, can, and if they don't want to, then it's up to them. Commissioner, I'm not going to stop anybody from speaking. I'm just giving you my point of view. So just so everybody knows, we have enough votes here that will go along with Commissioner Furr, subject to you speaking. So just so you know, this item, if it was a vote right now, it would fail. It would not be approved. With that said, I hope that you guys, realizing that, will just – if you want to come up or say no, thank you, it's up to you, let's call each person's name. The first speaker is Ted Nsera, followed by Chauval Pinhus. Mr. Mayor, could I ask if we could hear from the mayor first? I agree with you. Oh, okay. Sir, we're going to hold off. We're going to get – where's the – can we get the mayor first to come on up? I'm sorry, Mayor. Mayor Joyce Davis? I apologize. Please. No problem. For the record, my name is Joyce L. Davis, mayor of the great city of Dania Beach, Broward County's first city. Thank you all for having me here today, and I will first start off by saying ditto. I want to let everyone know that I want to thank you first and foremost for being the leaders of Broward County in resiliency and sustainability. From the Stand Bypass Project to the Shoreline Protection Project, the countywide resilience plan that we heard here today, and the Southeast Regional Climate Leadership Summit, Broward County has consistently led the way and led by example. And you have been a model for every other county and – every county to follow in our state and our nation. And that leadership is why I am here today to officially reiterate the position of the city of Dania Beach. Our commission voted on October the 28th, 2025, to officially oppose the proposed land use amendment that would remove 3.5 acres of protected mangroves from the environmentally sensitive lands list in order to allow for a warehouse development at Site 97. For 36 years, these mangroves have been protected. Every subject matter expert, including your own Dr. Gerardo, every agency and resilient planning division department in Broward County, and including the Broward County Planning Council staff. These findings cited saltwater intrusion, sea level, and vulnerability – Oh, can you – can we – No, I'm going to ask you – what was your opinion on that? I will just let you know that you all – I have my speech prepared. Can we let her finish? Of course. In all honesty – Please, go ahead and finish. Okay. That's why I asked you a question. I prepared, but this is not a question of being anti-development. This is a question of being the highest and best use of these lands, and we do not believe that building a warehouse on protected mangroves is the highest and best use. Many of you, like me, have served as a mayor or an elected official prior to your seat on the county commission. You know that as a local leader, you know your communities best. As the first vice president of the Broward League of Cities and Florida League of Cities on the Board of Directors, we advocate every day for local voices to make local choices. We know our communities best. Our district commissioner knows our city best, and we want to be the leader. So, at the end of the day, my last part – Mayor, yeah, please finish. I'm being told I have to finish up. I just want us to be – I want you to stand with your experts, stand with the city of Dania Beach, and stand with your district commissioner and vote no to item 30 on this agenda today. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Please don't – That's all I needed to hear. Okay. So, everybody here certainly can – you've heard how the commissioners feel about it. There is the applicant who obviously wants us to move forward, and I'm going to see if the applicant wants to first come up and make your pitch. I think you – who's the applicant? Edwin Stacker. Edwin, do you want to come on up? You've got a tough – you've got a tough haul here. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissitors. My name is Edwin J. Stacker. I'm an attorney with Shudson-Bowen here in Fort Lauderdale, and I'm here on behalf of the property owner of Port 1850, LLC. I commend the city – the county attorney for letting the applicant speak at the public hearing. Well, you've got a right to. Let me just digress for a minute and go back to 1989. It just makes me old because I was practicing at that time with Rudin – the old Rudin McCluskey and my mentor, Don – and am I timed, by the way, limited? It must be extended, though. Okay. I didn't think I had taken that long, but in any event, this designation was a 21-acre – a series countywide – this was a 21-acre swath of mangroves, and to show you how imprecise it was, when we filed this application in November of 23, it took three iterations working with staff and GIS to even identify where it overlays on this property. But the good news is that nothing is being compromised by removing that designation, because we have to satisfy all of the necessary environmental permits – the Army Corps and the county. And so, nothing is being compromised at all. We have purchased this, as was pointed out, only six and a half years ago, after Nova Southeastern marketed the property for industrial warehouse between the airport and the seaport. The land use designation on this property since 1989 has been commerce on the county map and has been employment center on the city map. And the zoning by the city is general industrial. So why, pray tell, would a property owner purchase a parcel to build and develop it subject to environmental permits on a commercial warehouse, land use, and zone property, because there is a need for additional warehouse space in close proximity between the port and the airport, and we want to encourage you to move forward with additional development, and you balance the economic interests. We are actually preserving and enhancing the wetlands on the property with the site plan that will ultimately come back to the city. And I maybe at the end could speak again briefly, but otherwise, Tyler Chappelle from the Chappelle Group will want to be speaking on behalf of the environmental engineering, and I appreciate your time and consideration. Thank you, counsel. And, Mayor, if Mr. Stacker, if you needed another minute or so to wrap up, that's okay. I know it's your application. I didn't want to cut you off prematurely. We're just trying to get things moving along. Well, I don't feel the need to go on and on about this, except that the whole site plan, by the way, the city acted surprised. The applicant submitted a site plan in Dania Beach in November of 22, and we had a public hearing before the Planning Council in May of this past year, and there was a unanimous recommendation to approve this. You all transmitted it to the state. The state came back in September with no objections, no impacts, no concerns, and then the vervet monkeys and the environmentalists came out in droves, and here we are today. So, again, you're not compromising anything. This site is subject to environmental permits, and we believe will be permitted, otherwise it has no use. The county initially said in their report along the way that we couldn't get Platt approval unless this was removed. They've subsequently changed their position and have acknowledged that Platt approval may be obtained for this property, but it's subject to environmental permits. Thank you. Thank you, sir. We now will be having, what do we have? Yes, counsel? Yeah, Mayor, I believe Mr. Stacker mentioned, is it Mr. Chappell? Yes. I didn't know if you wanted to take anyone else who wanted to speak on behalf of the application first, and then you could perhaps poll. Is Mr. Chappell here? Mayor, commissioners, thank you. Tyler Chappell, the Chappell Group, representing the applicant. Just to be brief, we are in the process of filing applications with Army Corps and Broward County and DEP, as stated by Ed Stacker. We are in the process of placing some of the mangroves under conservation easement, which in turn give actually more protections to the mangroves than the LAPC. The LAPC actually bifurcates the property. The LAPC does not take up the whole property. It's actually in the middle of the property. It might behoove to have the LAPC consistent with the conservation easement that we're proposing, but that's at a later date. We will continue to do what we're supposed to do as far as what the agencies have requested of us, and that's to avoid and minimize, to the greatest extent, the impacts to the wetlands, as well as provide not only mitigation for the impacts that we have, but also secondary impacts to the adjacent properties. It also should be noted that none of the drainage for the property and the proposed site development will be discharged into the mangroves. It will be contained on site, as it's done in the port properties to the east and the other warehouse facilities that are directly to the west and north of this property. This property also is tidally segmented by the FPL road that's used to maintain the power lines directly adjacent and severs the direct connection tidally to this property, as well as those mangroves that are adjacent under that easement are maintained for the power lines. They're continually cut, and all of those properties that were referenced by the commissioner to the north and to the west of this property that are industrial zoned and used were also, including Border Patrol facility, were on mangroves as well and mitigated for appropriately. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay. Again, I think everyone here saw how most of the commissioners at least felt about this. You have a right to, is it two minutes? Two minutes. I'm hoping you're going to come up, say your name, and then either defer or come up, say opposed. But you have two minutes to say whatever you want. Let's start. Oh, I'm also told, if you stay in your seat and just wave, we'll know that you support Commissioner Furr's position. But it's, you're right to come on up. Let's go. Let's call the first person. Ted Insera, followed by Chaval Pinhus. Good afternoon, everybody. Ted Insera, president of the River Oak Civic Association. Thank you for your votes. Ditto. I agree with everything that was said up here. Thank you. Thank you. That was too long. Next. Chaval Pinhus. I'm Chaval Pinhus. Thank you. I kayak through those lands, and I just don't want Westlake getting ruined also. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Who's next? And why don't we say the next three people, please? Stacey Lee Sherwood. Who's after that? Followed by Philip Singleton and then Adam Roberti. Good afternoon. I'm Stacey Lee Sherwood. I live in Broward County. Ditto, obviously, to what Beam Furr has to say. I just want to remind everybody here and for anyone who has any concerns about what's going on, paving over the wetlands and mangroves in Dania Beach would be the dumbest, most ill-conceived, poorly thought-out idea ever. Why has no one ever even asked the most obvious question, why would anyone want to build where prying eyes can't see or have access to when, as we all know, there are plenty of other places that he could move into right away? This does not make Broward County more resilient, which you already mentioned just a few minutes ago. It would make it less. I would remind that Commissioner Geller had said, quote, I philosophically believe that the government that is closest to the people knows the views of the citizens better. As you just heard, Dania Beach said, no, you're shaking your head. Exactly. She would know better. Right. She would know better. This also does not support the water matters that you said you've got some workshop going on. In reality, we all know developers drape their agenda in code words like progress, jobs, and economic development, as you just heard, but the financial benefits usually go to the investors, not the public. If this goes through, it would be the voters who have to pay for your mistakes. So I'm asking all of you, vote no, do not destroy the mangroves and the wetlands you just all claimed we needed, more of, not less of. So to Commissioner Bogan, I would add that the flooding that you just mentioned would add to that. So that's the bottom line. Protect the mangroves you just said you cared about. Thank you. Next. First, Adam Roberti, followed by Joanna Davis, and then Jennifer Romage. Again, if you want to stay in your seat, hint, hint, and just wave, hint, hint. You know, we know that you'll be supporting Commissioner Furr, but if you want to come down and talk, come on down and talk. Next three people, come on, next names. Sorry. Did we call your name? Adam Roberti. Hi, my name is Adam Roberti. I was recently appointed to the county's Climate Change Task Force, and so I'm representing my own opinions and not the county's. I ditto. Thank you very much for your opinion and for your stance. And I want to just say that we are in a climate emergency. This step is not enough. We need to invest, like you're saying. So thank you for pushing for more investment in critical infrastructure. And I want to just support whatever that looks like, whether that's a half-penny tax, whatever that is. Thank you very much for what you're doing. Thank you. Who's three names, please? Phillip Singleton, Joanna Davis, Jennifer Romage. Please, come on up, guys. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, Mayor, Representative Rogers, and other members of the county commission. My name is Phillip Singleton, known as the Hip Hop Lobbyist. I'm here representing Shlomo Malal and the Port 1850 Project. I want to really clear up a lot of misinformation and misguided information that's out there from the social media activists and people here in the room today. I think the biggest thing that's really kind of thrown off is not only did my client purchase the property roughly 60 years ago, but he's been a Broward County taxpayer for the past 25 years. He's been in the city of Daniel Beach for the past 25 years as a business owner. I'm sorry, who do you represent? I represent Shlomo Malal, the applicant. The applicant? Yes. All right, thank you. I forgot where I was there. My apologies. Essentially, my client has been in this county for 25 years. He's been in the city of Daniel Beach for 25 years. There were two properties that he was going to purchase. One was west of the I-95 and the other one was actually in the city of Daniel Beach. The only reason he purchased this is because the mangroves are zone commercial and it's in the city of Daniel Beach, a city that he loves doing business in and a city that he loves collectively helping grow. The bigger issue is this has spiraled out online to very different comments. And Commissioner Furr, I just want to share this with you and other members as well. We have comments online like, we must get violent politicians do nothing. Israeli, of course, they're going to make this a little Tel Aviv. Oh, hell no. We've got the Second Amendment for a reason. Dual citizen Israeli developers don't care about human life in Gaza. What makes them think they care about Florida wildlife? I'll make sure I share this with you all. The bigger thing about it is my client was scared to actually show up today because he wanted protection. I told him I'm black. No tree huggers are going to pull up on us. I understand that. But at the same time, we also get the fact of this has been around since the 80s. It's been designated this way and there's no commercial. So while we have social media activists that are not only exposing my client's face and everything else about this project, it's really putting his safety in jeopardy not only for pushing this through but also making sure that we can get something done across the board. We've had conversations with Mayor Davis to see how we can potentially do a land swap within the city of Daniel Beach. Our preference is getting something close to the port. That's the only reason my client purchased this property in the first place is to say, how can we, if you don't mind, just representing my client here, how can we get something close to the port? For four years, the bigger issue is, okay, thank you. He's been in the fashion industry and they labeled him a developer because it's very ideal to label everybody a developer. I'm trying to be you. I need you to wrap up, please. The bigger thing is my client really wants to work with the county to do a land swap overall to see how we can develop something together. 25 years he's been in this county. 25 years he's been in the city of Daniel Beach. For 25 years he's invested and he wants to make sure that he can have something more efficient for his business. He's in the fashion industry and not a developer. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody else here representing any applicant, Mayor, perhaps, who wants to speak in favor of the applicant? Or wants to speak in favor of the applicant. Okay. We're ready to vote as soon as you guys are done speaking. So let's call up any other names that want to come up here. Yes, Councilman? Mayor, I mean, it may not help at all, but do you want to see if there's anyone here who signed up to speak, and we can confirm that, who still wants to speak? And how many people there are? Oh, you still have a bunch of them. Okay, so maybe just go through the list. Please give me three names. All three people, come on down. Joanna Davis, Jennifer Ramage, David Hanley. Come on down, guys. Take the podium. Whoever gets there first. Joanna Davis. Next. Good afternoon. I'm Jennifer Ramage, and I just wanted to point out a specific issue regarding the Florida Bonneted Bat Roasting Survey. Roasting Survey, rather. None of the trees were suitable for the roosting, and none of the cavities were observed, but this survey was done in November of 2020, and the survey itself states that it represents conditions encountered at the time of the survey, and the potential exists for the bats to colonize within the trees between now and the time of construction. So, given that this is six years, I just wanted to bring that issue before you all, and raise that concern, since a new survey would need to be done, or I would urge the council to, the commission to require a new survey be done on behalf of 1850. Thank you. Thank you. Who's next? David Hanley, then Linda Thompson-Gonzalez, and Gianna Parmer. All three, come on down if you want to come down and speak. Thank you very much. What's your name, please? Linda Thompson-Gonzalez. Thank you. Thank you. And I just want to thank all of you for your excellent leadership, the expertise we have of Dr. Gerardo. I'm proud to live, reside in Broward County. Thank you. Thank you. Who's next? Next three people. Oh, great. Come on. Say your name, please. Hello. My name is Gianna Parmer, and I am a resident of Dania Beach in Broward County. I am 26 years old, and I've lived in Dania Beach over five years. I'm here today in union with the rest of my community to oppose item 30, and I want to start with a simple question. Why are we even here? Because I understand that we're all going to vote no today, but this issue is going to come up again in the future, and I'd also like to thank you, Commissioner Beam, for carrying the torch on this issue. I really appreciate that. These wetlands are designated environmentally sensitive for a reason. They were mapped, studied, and protected because they serve a public function despite what the applicants' representatives may claim. Flood mitigation, storm buffering, ecological stability in a coastal county already under environmental strain. The only circumstance under which these protections would be removed is if private interests find the land more valuable, developed, than preserved. This is the issue that comes up time and time again. Is the land more valuable, developed, or is it more valuable, preserved? And Danians have voted again and again that the land is more valuable, preserved. That's why it's marked that way. That is the core issue before you today. If environmental protections can be lifted the moment development pressure appears, then they are not protections, but rather conditional suggestions. We live in a state facing accelerating sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, rising insurance collapse, and increasing infrastructure vulnerability. Yet instead of strengthening resilience, we are debating how to weaken it. This vote is not about a parcel of land. We are not fighting for a single acre. This vote is about whether public protections mean anything when confronted by private capital. If the designation of environmentally sensitive can be undone for private interest, then the public trust embedded in that designation is meaningless. We only have one Florida. And as it has been stated before, we are the most ecologically diverse ecosystem in the United States until it is gone. And don't leave my generation with a Florida that we cannot fix. I urge you to vote no and uphold the integrity of the protections that you were entrusted to defend. Thank you. Thank you. Who's next? Stephanie Jofi, Diana Goodman, and Sean DeRosa. Hi. State your name, please, if you don't mind. Hi. Stephanie Jofi. I honestly feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole here. To vote Joni Mitchell, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In this case, it would be a warehouse built at the expense of more than five acres of precious mangroves here in Broward County. You know, I had a whole speech prepared. I just want to say, on my small street of 15 homes, Dana Beach already spent $1.3 million to deal with serious flooding. It didn't do anything. We still have flooding. Our septic systems are backing up into our house. I mean, I know you guys all see this already. This whole meeting has been about it. How could we take free infrastructure that was provided and then talk about a $28 billion cost for an adaptation strategy to defend ourselves against climate impacts? I mean, I feel a little like I'm living in crazy land here. And I just urge you to vote no. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Furr, for everything you do. And please vote no. And thank you for voting no. Thank you, Dr. Jofi. Diana Goodman. Sean DeRosa. Nicholas Grande. Sean DeRosa. Dania Beach. I support Commissioner Furr. Thank you, Commissioner Furr. Thank you for keeping it short, Sean. Yes. Who's next? Nicholas Grande. Ashley Santoro. Victoria Olson. Hi. Can I state your name, please? Yes. Nicholas Grande, Miami-Dade County resident. I came all this way here just to speak on these lands. I thank you again for your time here. I would strongly ask you guys to reconsider what you guys are attempting to have destroyed. Acres of habitats that inhabit many of our native species, wildlands that make our state so unique and breathtaking. Doing the thing year by year as our self-glorified FWC continue to approve removal for, simply for more money in their pockets. If you allow this development to see fruition, your kids, your grandkids, must resort to learning about some or most of these animals in history books and not in real time. This is the last coastal wetland buffer that Broward County has, and there will be consequences for its removal. A small group of mangrove trees absorb four times the amount of carbon dioxide twice as fast as the average rainforest can. Mangroves naturally filter pollutants and trap sediments before they reach coral reefs and open oceans. This helps our marine ecosystems healthy and helps us fight the drastic battle we have against climate change today. The planet that we share with animals. These trees provide critical nesting grounds and foraging areas for migratory birds as well as native fish. Fish that local fisheries depend on for their businesses, and the people, of course, who depend on them will be forced to paint more. Mangroves protect their homes and day-to-day here in Florida against the devastation of hurricanes and the flooding that inevitably follows. A problem that you guys have already had within a previous article. As the amount of mangroves we have continued to diminish, the time frame of the inescapable inundation of Florida will surely hasten. Thank you, Commissioner, for speaking on behalf of these lands. Lands that deserve to remain protected for however long Florida shall remain above water. These lands should never be up for debate for sale and belong to the state and to the animals. Thank you for your time. Ashley Santora, Victoria Olsen, Gerald Payne. Hello again, Commissioners. I'm Ashley Santora. I performed a brief cost analysis benefit formula, basically posited by the University of California, San Diego, from Dr. Alberto Oropeza. Essentially, based on the amount of acreage that we presently have, 3.5 acres or 1.42 hectares, in environmental services based also on data provided by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Fish and Wildlife, this land, untouched, would provide approximately $1.3 million a year in protective environmental services. Even with the applicant's mitigation for 1.92 acres of conservation easement, it would not justify the construction of a warehouse due to its inability to fully restore that environment and also causing further habitat fragmentation. I thank you, Commissioners, in taking consideration for this, especially with Commissioner Furr, and I appreciate your time. Thank you. Victoria Olsen, Gerald Payne, Missy Williams. Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thank you for giving me the time. Please state your name. I am here representing... Please state your name. My name is Victoria Olsen. Just wanted to thank you. And I'm representing the Broward Democratic Environmental Caucus. And ditto. We are with all of you. We are against having the development done. There was one point I did want to bring up. I am a union member and a delegate. So I was speaking with my building trades department. And this is one thing that nobody's ever mentioned. They talk about economy and jobs. Well, yes, there'll be jobs to build the warehouse. After the warehouse is built, there'll be four, maybe five jobs. So is four or five jobs worth the destruction of the mangroves in protection for the rest of the county? Thank you. Thank you. Who's next? Gerald Payne, Missy Williams, Kelly Jeffries. Please state your name. Hi, my name is Gerald Payne. Thank you guys for having me. I think just like everybody else here, I had a whole speech prepared. I was really riled up. I was mad at hell driving here. I was like, man, they can't do this. Thank you for voting no. We haven't voted yet. Yeah, well, but you know. We want to vote. We do want to vote. I'll get right to it. You know. I'll get right to it. I hope we don't change our minds. And I appreciate it, but I've done all this research, and I think just the one thing I want to leave on is that mangroves, like a lot of people pointed out, act as natural flood barriers. There was a study that dropped in like October from the Santa Cruz Center of Coastal Climate Resources. It took me like an hour to say that without stuttering. So the mangroves saved like millions of dollars back in Hurricane Ian, billions in Irma. So to get rid of this would just be foolish. I'm glad you guys decided not to. And to the developer, I hope he kept the receipt, man. That's tough, man. But can't build here, dude. Sorry. You know, don't want to flood. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Who's next? Missy Williams, Kelly Jeffrey, Sabrina Brandt. Please state your name. I am Dr. Missy Williams. Good afternoon, Broad County Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners. My name is Dr. Missy Williams, and I am the woman that runs the Dany Beach Monkey Sanctuary. I have been boots on the ground since 2014 in those exact mangroves. My comments are based on long-term direct observation of these mangroves, the wildlife, and how the system actually works. The claim that this mangrove parcel is degraded due to surrounding industrial infrastructure and activity is not supported by science or actual conditions. Mangrove wetlands function as connected ecological systems. Degradation does not selectively impact one interior parcel while leaving adjacent, more exposed wetlands intact. If surrounding industrial activity were degrading wetlands here, the edge mangroves would be the first ones to show the impacts, and they do not. Wildlife has been documented throughout this mangrove system, including two species of bats. We are conducting a long-term survey, and we do anticipate documenting more species. The bats in the area use it for foraging, possible roosting, and as a movement corridor. Active wildlife use reflects intact vegetation structure and functional connectivity, conditions inconsistent with degradation. Staff further determine that the site lies entirely within a priority planning area for sea level rise, as this has been the topic of these meetings lately, and is therefore prone to flooding and saltwater intrusion. Review by Linda Sellerin finds no justification for removing it from the environmental-sensitive land map. In addition, Dr. Jennifer Dorado, Broward County's Chief Resilience Officer, confirms that this acreage lies within this priority area for sea level rise. The proposed warehouse would be directly adjacent to my wildlife sanctuary, introducing long-term disturbance from noise, lighting, human activity, trash, and construction debris into protected lands. The site also conserves as a community. We run ecological field classes. We offer community service hours for high school students, and we support hands-on learning rooted in conservation and stewardship. So I will stop right there, but thank you guys very much for supporting us. Thank you. Who do we got next? Kelly Jeffrey, Sabrina Brandt, Will Larkins. Hi, my name is Kelly. My family has lived in Dania for over 70 years, and Broward County for over 100 years. The Bryan Home History Fort Lauderdale Museum, that's our family. We have survived many hurricanes, in large part due to mangroves and protected wetlands like this. I'm not a social media activist. Social media is a tool to educate and raise awareness. No one's safety should be threatened for doing business. None of us believe that anyone's safety should be threatened for doing business. We want to send a message to all developers that we will keep showing up, and we will vote to oppose them, and please, I would ask that we investigate and introduce legislation that would protect these lands in the future, so we don't have to take time off work to be here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next. Sabrina Brandt, Will Larkins, Abby Miranda. Hey, Sabrina. Sabrina Brandt. Yeah, hello. I have different takes, I promise. Thank you for having me. My name is Sabrina Brandt. I'm a Broward County neighbor from the 8th District. I'm a consultant. I specialize in capital campaign management, and my firm focuses on economic development organizations. I've worked with chambers and EDCs in South Florida, Treasure Coast, and across the country, and while many people here are talking about the environmental implications of the decision, I wanted to make a case with a business perspective in mind. From what I've seen and learned doing feasibility studies for economic development organizations, message is clear, small business communities do not want more warehouses. Revenue from these facilities do not stay in the community. Forbes recently cited only 30% of revenue often stays in the local area, and my clients have cited 10% of the revenue. These facilities also do not create jobs that lift the community up. They are few and often low wages, and frequently with external recruitment strategies that do not benefit the local unemployed populations. Regarding the specific land, a recent study found that benefits from mangroves in the face of hurricanes, Irma and Ian, were valued at almost $5 billion. Meanwhile, millions of our state emergency funds have been spent on a detention center. This facility, of course, has its own problematic impacts on our community, but our governor, as of this morning, is now saying that we might not get the federal reimbursement back. So with millions of our PACSAIR dollars not meant for recovering small businesses and homes from disasters that we might not have, we should not be voting to remove this land that helps reduce the protection from disasters. Finally, with the protection of these lands, there's opportunity for enhanced ecotourism efforts. Florida Commerce cites that wildlife fueling alone brings $5 billion to the state and over 51,000 jobs. So please remember, this is not a vote that will hurt environmentalists and natures. It is a vote that will hurt small businesses and the local economy. So please vote wisely. Thank you, and also my condolences for your former commissioner. Thank you. Next. Will Larkins, Abby Miranda, Jack Ramirez. Hi, commissioners. My name is Will Larkins. Thank you so much for being understanding of the importance of protecting mangroves. I really appreciate it. I've been to a lot of government meetings about similar situations where elected officials are not as understanding, so I do appreciate it. I am a sustainability major at FIU, and I work as a guide at Everglades National Park. I can't really fathom that we're even debating removing the protected status of mangroves force today. But I want to let you all know, I drove here from FIU campus, and I drove up I-75 and then went west on 595, and I counted 17 massive warehouses with four lease or four sale signs along the way. In fact, according to the Miami Herald, there are currently 120.58 million acres of square feet of vacant industrial space in Broward County and 220 million acres in Miami-Dade County. There are so many reasons that this is a reckless development proposal. Mangroves obviously provide a very valuable ecosystem services. Most obvious is obviously storm protection, flood protection. According to a 2022 study by the University of California, Santa Cruz, the present value of mangroves for flood protection in Florida is estimated to be about 50 billion. So instead of putting your residents at risk with more floods or in future investing in a costly seawall that requires maintenance, please keep the natural flood protection Broward County has been so blessed to have. When making this decision, I ask you to please consider that this decision will not just affect your residents and constituents, but also all Floridians, Americans, and people all over the world. According to a 2020 study by the University of Florida, about an estimated 75% of game fish and 90% of commercial species in South Florida depend upon mangrove systems during part of their life cycle, and about 80% of the fish in the Gulf of Mexico or America, whatever you want to call it, are born in hatcheries and mangrove forests. Not to mention the fact that mangrove forests provide an incredible opportunity for recreation, and Fish and Wildlife Commission estimates that more than 10 acres of Florida's wild land is cleared every hour for development. So I'm watching this incredibly beautiful, unique place disappear very quickly, and I want my grandchildren to be able to see a lush mangrove forest. You have a heavy responsibility today. You're representing Florida, the people in here, but also the entire world. I hope you make a wise choice. Thank you so much. You know what? I want to just make sure, sir, I don't know if you were paying attention. We kind of went around the dais already, and you kind of should know how we're going to be voting already. So you guys are making these long speech arguments. I think you already know how the majority here is voting. I don't get it, but come on back. Keep making the arguments. You know how we're voting already. I know how you're voting already, and I really appreciate it, but it's more than just convincing you guys, because then we show other people in our communities that we can make an impact by showing up to county commission meetings. So it's not just about this. It's about what we do with the content afterwards. Okay, I got you. Thank you for understanding. Who's next? Abby Miranda, Jack Ramirez, Jordan Halliday. We want to vote already. Go ahead. What's your name? Hello. My name is Jack Ramirez. I'll be brief with it. I had a whole speech prepared, but I would like to just thank you guys very much for a lot of you are going to vote no on this. And I'm an environmental science student at FIU. And I've gone to a lot of meetings at Miami-Dade and Tallahassee. This is my first Broward County meeting. A lot of the meetings at Miami-Dade have been a bit pessimistic. So I just really appreciate you guys. I am a part of District 7, so you are my commissioner. Hey, I also really appreciate you for also having the opinion of no. So thank you guys for being a very helpful group of people. I've never been more proud of being a Broward County resident. Thank you. Thank you. We'll take that. We'll take that. Jordan Holliday, Sophia Leon, and Kimberly Heiss. Hello, commissioners. My name is Jordan Holliday. I'm a resident of Hollywood. I also represent the Broward Group of the Sierra Club Florida chapter. I represent 5,000 members in Broward County of who are your constituents. A number of them are tree huggers, and a number of them are black, myself included, as both. I just want to say thank you all so much for opposing, taking this off of the map. We have sent you all a letter last week. We haven't gotten any responses, so I was going to reread it for you guys. But I'm not going to do that. Thank you all so much. Thank you. We'll pay you later. Thank you. Sophia Leon, Kimberly Heiss, and Andres Lefebvre. Hi. Say your name, please. Hi. My name is Kim Heise. I live in Parkland, and I'm a local wildlife artist. Is that part of Broward County? Broward DECF, and I'm here to ask that you keep the mangroves as part of the environmentally sensitive land map. I'm sure there are other places where this could be built. People from all over Florida obviously are outraged that someone could be this close to being allowed to build a warehouse here. We would be even more alarmed if you removed it from the ESL map to just grease the gears of that. With all the hurricanes and flood issues we've had lately, greasing the gears of mangrove destruction would be the last thing that we want to do. Mangroves are some of the best hurricane and flood protection that we have, and there's a huge amount of environmental importance as well. It's also directly adjacent to the protected mangroves of Westlake Park. There's no reason why these mangroves should be protected and those should not. There is a reason they are on the environmentally sensitive lands map, so please keep it that way. Please also work to further protect this land. You've come up with some ideas I've heard. I would love to see you continue to come up with ways to protect that land and the adjacent mangroves, anything else that needs protection that doesn't have protection already. Broward County has already lost so much of its natural land. The percentage is hovering in a single digit, 3% or something like that. It's crazy. I grew up here, and the rate of destruction traumatized me and drove me to dedicate my life to conservation. We are ground zero for urban sprawl, and counties all over Florida point to us as some of the worst planning. They see us as a fate to avoid at all costs. We have to do better. Economic development does not need to come at the expense of what little habitat we have left. There are lots of places to build a warehouse. There are only so many places you can have a habitat, and that's dwindling in Florida and in Broward County. And I just want to say, there was something else I wanted to say, I can't remember. But you shouldn't be discouraging people from participating. Sorry, thank you. Andres Lefebvre, Jackson Green, and Judith Ware. Nice to meet you guys. Thank you guys for voting or going to be voting the way you are. I'd like to say thank you to Mayor Davis. I live 10 minutes from Daniel Beach, right where it's going to be proposed. It's the reason why I moved here is because I love those mangroves. I see them every single day. And I get really emotional about this, and I'm glad that we are showing our faces. So thank you. Thank you, sir. Next. Jackson Green, Judith Ware, John Jorgensen. Okay, now keep going. Maybe we can get this vote going. Do we have anybody else? We got somebody waving their hand here. Come on down. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am John Jorgensen. I represent Dr. Missy Williams. I have a sense this is going in my client's direction, so I don't have much to say. I do appreciate the commission getting involved in this. First reading, it kind of flew under the radar. And my clients also appreciate the fact that Mayor Davis got involved in the city commissioners at Daniel Beach. As you know, Dr. Missy Williams operates a habitat for vervet monkeys nearby. Monkeys in warehouses are not good neighbors. I understand from talking to Missy that vervet monkeys don't even like development. So we're developers. No disrespect to Mr. Stackers. So, again, I appreciate your attention to this matter. It's a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment. Obviously, there's plenty of evidence in the record should the commission do as they say they're going to do and deny the amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Come on down. Christopher Cavallo, Susie Bailey. Hold on one second. Say the names so people can come down. Christopher Cavallo, Susie Bailey, Ryan Hu, and Leanne Barber. Okay. State your name, ma'am. Judith Weir. I just want to... Pull the microphone down to your mouth, please. No, no. The little... There you go. I would just like to reiterate what the young man said. There are lots of industrial areas that are vacant where he could stick his warehouse. I wish Fort Lauderdale had stopped development in the city park, Snyder Park, Huey Zinga Park, adding a restaurant, Holiday Park. They're all developing in those areas. They can stick their restaurants somewhere else, but they're going into parks. So thank you for taking a stand. Thank you. Who's next? Please state your name. Hi. I'm Susie Bailey. I'm the founder and CEO of Residence Resilience. So we're a not-for-profit here in South Florida. We're all about water. I've got a few pages that I'm not going to read because I know you guys are really getting energy. But I just want to remind you this one thing. This issue is not about choosing nature over progress. It's about recognizing that Broward County, here in Broward County, nature is infrastructure. So we just have to remember that. We also hope that you won't be revisiting this. We hope that if you do vote, like you say you're going to vote, know on this that it doesn't be revisited, and that you actually maybe think about transitioning this land into possibly a sanctuary. I know you visited it, and it's a beautiful place. Again, thank you for your time, your effort, and all that you do. And I want to thank Mayor Davis also. Thank you. Who's next? Ryan Hu, Leanne Barber, Peter Odovic, and Christina Morales. State your names. Hello. My name is Ryan Shree, and I would like to talk about the next generation and a bigger problem at stake here, which is that none of us should be here today. None of us should have been here today. The ESL designation was put in place to preserve lands for future generations by our elders, by our ancestors. They had the foresight. You can take it down a little. They had the foresight to protect these lands for future generations. But there's a pattern forming here, because these commissioners voted to remove 80 acres of endangered scrub habitat from ESL protection against the recommendations of Broward County Parks and their Environmental Permitting Division. And the county natural divisions also opposed this amendment as well. These ESL removal designations came to the planning board at the same meeting when all of these commissioners elected people to this planning board. And I don't need to hear your comments about the air park removal. I have reviewed the documents. The justification was questionable. And managed to scrub is not an airport threat. The greater question that these commissioners need to address is what this ESL designation means. Is this something that we can remove for development at will? We should not have shown up today specifically because county scientists and experts have opposed all of these proposals. You have the knowledge from your own county employees. Why won't you listen? Why won't the planning board members who you selected listen? Without public pushback and amazing beam fur, this amendment would have passed without any recognition. So many of you guys build your campaigns on the future generation, on the kids. Well, guess what? Here we are today. Look in our eyes and tell us that you will commit to protecting us, not just for this vote, but for future votes as well. I'm not asking you to vote for the environment. I'm asking you to vote on your campaign promises to protect the next generation. And every single vote matters for your constituents, for our kids, for our families, and for your own. So we actually have a world that we can grow up in. Thank you. Thank you. And by the way, you said, why do you have to be here? We would have voted already and we'd be done. And so I answered that question. Who's next? Leanne Barber, Peter Odovic, and Christina Morales. Hi, I'm Leanne Barber, Broward County resident, District 8, and a Habitat steward, Broward County. I'm encouraged about the discussion about flooding in canals. I would ask you to vote no on this ordinance. But I'd also ask you to take a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach to this that isn't limited to pumping or billions of federal dollars. We know that one of our primary causes of climate change is deforestation and paving over the land. I would ask you to spend much more money on a public service campaign to enlist residents to help reforest Broward County. Water Matters is coming up in 10 days. Broward County gives away two trees per resident. This is an action that I would ask you to do much more about. Enlist the residents, please. Thank you. Next, please. Hello, everyone. My name is Chris Calvano, born and raised resident of Broward County. Hey, Chris. Thank you all for your time. Thank you, Commissioner Furr. Thank you to Mayor Davis for doing your due diligence and doing research about this whole matter. And thank you all for the way you're looking to vote on this big, you know, kind of breath of fresh air. It makes me very hopeful. You know, growing up in this county, I've seen a lot, you know, I've seen a lot get destroyed. You know, I've seen a lot go away. And, you know, none of that's ever come back. It's just, you know, I've said this before. I said this at a different commission meeting. You know, our destruction of our natural areas, you know, it's death by a thousand cuts. You know, it's never a huge thing. It's always a little here, a little there. And next thing you know, it's all gone. So I hope this sets a new precedent moving forward and, you know, we continue to preserve what we have left because the state's very special. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Who's next? Nobody. Kara Campbell, Gary Hecker. How many do we have left? That's it. Kara Campbell and Gary Hecker, the last two. Hi, I'm Kara Campbell. I live in Broad County. You asked a question, like, at least actually the applicant asked a question about why would he buy this land if he didn't think he could develop it. Well, the answer is, unfortunately, from my experience living in here for 30 years, is that all too often, boards like this, government just goes ahead and removes the designation. So that's the reason why these people do it. And the gentleman was correct. It has been death by a thousand cuts. In fact, I stopped coming to these meetings. I'm the chair of the Ecology Party of Florida. That's who I'm representing today. But on a personal note, I stopped coming to these meetings because it wasn't worth my time. It was always the developers who got what they wanted. So I just want to say that please don't let it be death by a thousand cuts continuing. We need these mangroves. We need our wild areas. And maybe I'll come to more meetings now that I think you'll do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you. Are we done? Please. We have one more. Brenda Lee. Count LaFour. Oh, I thought that was you said that. How many more names do we have? That's it. Okay. Great. Let's close. Let's see. I'm going to punish you, sir. That's okay. Maybe you'll persuade us to vote the other way. No. Worse. I'm challenging you. What's your name? First of all, I'm thanking you. My name is Brenda Lee Shalafour. First of all, I'm thanking you. Each and every one of you. And each and every one of the people that came here. The over 6,700 people who signed our petitions. And here's your challenge. Give us a solution. This doesn't solve the problem. Now, back in 1989, then Commissioner Lori Parrish made the motion that put this land on the environmentally sensitive lands list. I see you're doing the right thing by keeping it on there. But we need a solution. Put us to work on the solution. These people have been busting for months on this issue to get to you, to explain to people what this is. Put us to work. Look, give us what you want for the solution and we'll work for it. Please. And again, Mr. Mayor, thank you. My pleasure. I appreciate your, hmm, how do we say it? Bad sense of humor. Panache. Bad sense of humor. Awkward. In any event. Yeah, let's see it. Let's see it. Come on. Thank you so much. And again, we really need a solution. We don't want to be back here for this. We want to be back here for a solution. Come up with it. Very smart, brilliant people up there. Buy the land. Thank you. Let's buy it. There you go. No, you buy it. Buy it. Okay. You're talking to pro bono council. Okay. Thank you. Let's get this going. So I want to hear a close-in. So I think Commissioner Furr is going to make a motion to approve this? Nope. Nope. I am going to make a motion to deny this ordinance. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor to deny. Are we voting to not approve it? Is that, I mean, that doesn't make sense. We're just. If there's a motion to enact, make the motion to enact with a second. If there isn't for the record, I think Commissioner Furr wanted to, yes, wanted to make, have an affirmative motion passed to deny it. Okay, so we got a motion on the negative. So we have a motion and a second to vote against it. All in favor of voting against it? Aye. Any opposed? Shut up. Yes. Two, four, six. So let the record show eight to nothing voting against this and not approving it. And Mayor, no one was going to make a motion to enact, correct? I mean, no one was going to say enact it. I just want to make sure we weren't foreclosed. Everybody, we are voting against this. We're not voting to approve it. Very good. Thank you. Unless that lady wants to change her mind, but I think we're done. Okay, let's go on. We're done. Thank you. I want to thank all the public that came out. They're here. Yeah. And tag me, at Michael. Wait, that's, wait, that's, that's, wait. Can you do it? At Michael. Be sure, Dean, that's not what you said earlier about all the public coming out. Thank you all for coming out today. All right, 31, please. The public hearing on item 31 is now open. Item 31 is a motion to enact. Want to take a break? No, let's get this public hearing done. We only got two items, three items. Is it? All right. Oh, seven items. Yeah, we don't talk. Fisher, you're, you're. Okay. We got to get this meeting done. We're going to get this damn thing done. I'm. What? I'm trying. Thank you. Take care. See you later. Bye-bye. Item 31 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the count. Mayor, can the board hear Stacey now, or do we need to wait for them? I think it's quarantine now. All right, let's go. Talk loud. Item 31 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting a small-scale amendment to the county land use map, PC 24-8, located in the city of Hollywood. No member of the public has signed up to speak on that. I have a motion. I have a motion by Senator Geller, second by Commissioner Davis. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 7-0. Number 32. Public hearing on item 32 is now open. Item 32 is a motion to adopt resolution to transmit to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use plan natural resources map series, PCNRM 26-1, to update the wetlands map. One member of the public has signed up to speak on the item, and that is Ryan Hu. Ryan, come on down. Show us some theatrics. Go ahead. Well, this is actually I'm going to be much more toned down for this. There's one inaccuracy with the map that was shown at least on the page, which is it converted all of the main groves that are found in Dania Beach to pine forest, which is inaccurate, and it does not reflect what was indicated in the 2024 map. So that should probably be amended. I would also like to point out that wetlands in the west side of Weston, specifically parcels 235039, 265039, and others are owned by the South Florida Water Management District, and they are currently in the process of clearing some of those parcels of wetland for water retention treatment. And that's notable because they have begun clearing by, at the time of the survey, but they were still counted within the wetland map. So I would recommend having a note somewhere in there, noting that all of these wetlands will eventually be cleared at a point in time, because if you're using this wetland map for things such as figuring out how much wetlands you actually have in Broward County, this would be a potential issue. And yeah, that's it. Thank you. Thank you, bringing it back to the dais, do I have a motion? I have a motion by Senator Geller, second by Commissioner Rogers. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing sixth in favor, one with hands in favor, and so it's seven, oh, right? Okay. Next go to number 33. The public hearing item 33 is now open. Item 33 has two parts. The board will consider both parts at the same time, but vote on the parts separately. Part A is a motion to adopt resolution to transmit to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use map PC26-3 in the city of Fort Lauderdale. Part B is a motion to adopt resolution to transmit to designated state review agencies a proposed amendment to the county land use plan text PCT26-2 regarding the expansion of South Activity Center in the city of Fort Lauderdale. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. If we can do it separate. So Commissioner Fisher is moving both parts as part of his district, and Senator Geller's. Can we please do them separately? I'm sorry, what? Can we please do them separately, A, and then B, Commissioner Fisher? I'll move A, and I'll second A. Okay, I got a move. And Commissioner Fisher, second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor of A? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Now let's go to B, 33B. Yes, I'll move 33B. Commissioner Fisher moves 33B. Vice Mayor McKenzie seconds it. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show 33B, 8-0 passing. Let's go to 34. The public hearing on item 34 is now open. Item 34 is a motion to adopt resolution placing certain conservation land and green space sites on the Broward County Urban Wilderness Inventory. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Do I have a motion? So moved. Commissioner Furr moves it. Second? I have a second. Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Number 35. The public hearing on item 35 is now open. Item 35 is a motion to enact ordinance adopting an amendment to the county comprehensive plan text related to the water management element. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Second. Senator Geller moves approval. Vice Mayor McKenzie seconds it. All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? Aye. All in favor on 35? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0 with annoyance from Commissioner Udine. And Mayor, if Commissioners could please just vote audibly. Pardon me? If Commissioners can all just vote audibly. On 35, can we get another vote? Aye. Aye, aye, aye, aye. Any opposed? Nobody opposed? 8-0. Can I also be shown to be as affirmative on 31 and 32? Looks like. Can I be shown to be voting yes on 31 and 32? Thank you. Number 36, please. The public hearing on item 36 is now open. In notification center, notifications can be changed. No. And Nan Rich, are you talking? No, I'm just trying to get on. Nan, you're here in the room here with all of us, and we're on our public hearing right now. Okay, that's what I'm trying to get to. Why don't you mute? Well, if you can mute that, please. Thank you. Let's go to 36. The public hearing on item 36 is now open. Item 36 is a motion to adopt resolution pertaining to waste collection services amending section 38.39 of the county administrative code to prescribe a revised franchise fee rate and revised license fees for waste collection services in the open market area. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Second. Senator Geller moves motion, seconded by Commissioner Furr. All in favor? 36? Aye. All in favor, aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Unless, Nan Rich, are you on? Going on, unmute yourself. Nope. Let's keep it 8-0. And let's move on to 37. The public hearing on item 37 is now open. Item 37 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. Just move it. Move it by Senator Geller, seconded by Commissioner Furr. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. Our final public hearing item is item 38. The public hearing on item 38 is now open. Item 38 is a motion to adopt resolution pertaining to county holidays amending section 14-227 of the county administrative code. No member of the public has signed up to speak on this item. Commissioner Furr, did you want to speak? Well, it's Commissioner Davis's, and then I want to. Commissioner Davis, did you want to? Yeah, let me just say a brief statement. The year and holidays are traditionally times for family and friends to gather, making them one of the business travel times of the year. The proposed resolution would provide county employees an additional half day of personal time, personal day time, for each of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, subject to operational needs. The leave could be used as a half a day of personal leave on December 24th and on December 31st, except that the employees who are required to work on one or both of those dates to maintain operational coverage, may with supervisory approval, use accredited hours to another work day during that same fiscal year. So I would like to move this item. I think it's important. It's no different from what's happening in Miami-Dade County and other municipal cities across Broward County. So if I can make that motion in case there's any other discussion, a motion to approve. Commissioner Furr wants, go ahead. Yeah, I'm fine with this. My only concern on this is I think it comes very close to the line of us jumping into the realm of operations. And I don't think we're supposed to be there, you know. So I don't know where that line is on this, because as you know, Commissioner Davis, we hire three people. We hire our administrator, our auditor, and our county attorney. And then they're supposed to do all the operations parts. Well, the charters says. The charters says, I know. But this gets into the operation of hours, and I guess I need to know, make sure that we're not going over that line. Well, you can speak with the attorneys on this. They've fully read it. But in other cities, and I've been part of the city of Miramar, we went to a four-day workweek. This was up to the board, not up to administration. It was up to the board to do a four-day workweek. We made that decision. And this is similar. This is not going to cost anything. It's a decision that would be based on operational needs. So it would still be up to the supervisors. Others, most of them can tell you that during this time, they let their employees go anyway. This is not the most productive kind. This is just making sure that it's adopted by resolution, which other cities and counties do. It has no jurisdiction. And we're not overstepping our bounds in any way, shape, or form, as I've done in other in the city of Miramar. Yeah, I mean, I realize, like, we vote on holidays and things like that. My concern is if, let's say there was some emergency, does our administrator have the ability, and I'm asking Monica this, Monica. Ask our attorney. Or our attorney. I'm asking if there was a time during this time that we needed full staffing. This doesn't preclude that, right? That's correct. Okay, okay. That's my main. It states, and she stated it as well, that it's an operational need. So if we need some people to stay back to keep the things running, we will do that. Okay. I just want to make sure you had that flexibility, if needed, because they didn't want us to get in the operations. Yes. The way this is drafted, it's... Okay. I have... Just to have our attorney just comment, one of the comments, please. I need. Yeah. Commissioner Furrer, you were not the only one who raised that issue. With operations, we did take a look at it, and we think this is permissible, but it's a very valid point. Our charter does have an allocation of responsibility. We just don't think this violates that. So we are mindful, and we'll be looking at that for sure. Thank you. Anybody else want to speak on this? Okay. You want to move it, Commissioner Davis? Move it. Second. I have a motion with Commissioner Davis, a second from... Commissioner Udine. Vice Mayor. Okay. Commissioner Udine seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. We're not moving to the regular items, which we're going to forget 39. We already did 39. We're on number 40. You want to take number 40? Item 40 has two motions. Motion A is a motion to approve agreement between Broward County and Chenmore and Associates, Inc. for Professional Consultant Services for Airport Studies, Evaluations, and Assessments for the Broward County Aviation Department. Motion B is a motion to approve agreement between Broward County and McInery, Inc. for Professional Consultant Services for Airport Studies, Evaluations, and Assessments for the Broward County Aviation Department. No member of the public has signed up to speak on the item. Do both items, Council, have to take separately or together? You know, it's aviation, but I think we're probably okay. Just move it. Second. Move 40A and B? Yes. Go ahead. 40A, sure. Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. I have a motion from Commissioner Fisher to move 40A. Second by Commissioner Udine. All in favor of 40A? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 8-0. I have a motion by Commissioner Udine to move 40B. Second by Vice Mayor, second by Commissioner Fisher. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that 40B passing 8-0. Well, we don't need to, as far as I'm concerned, discuss 41 the dashboard, unless somebody here wants to discuss anything on here. We got to get to our workshop. So I'll pass that. Is there any way we can waive non-agenda right now? I have a hard five, and I know we have a workshop going. I don't know if anybody has something important to say, but can we waive the non-agenda to get to our workshop? Me too. But I just want to ask one question. I had asked for that one ticket policy thing to come in the end of March. I didn't realize the end of March was also the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, which some of them will be in D.C. Could we make that the first meeting in April? Unless anybody really cares. I'm planning on going the Washington, D.C. fly-in for Fort Lauderdale. So people from the Alliance, people from Visit Lauderdale. I think Commissioner Furr objected to that. I had asked for it. I made a motion to do the last meeting in March. I should be back then, because our meeting was moved Thursday. But if not, there might be people that need to see. I just want to get this done. So first meeting in April. First meeting in April is fine. First meeting in April is fine. The ticket policy thing. Yeah, first meeting in April is fine. Does anybody care? No. Okay. I just have one question, and then we can. Our attorney has sent everybody a resignation effective about six months from now. They agree with you better. And I wanted to see if our attorney can provide a process. It's my understanding that there may be several people in your office that want to take your position. Let me, and that while I think it's good we'll all be, find out who that is and we'll talk. I was wondering if you would mind if you help us develop a process to move forward on selecting the person that would be sitting in your seat. Mayor, thank you. And I did send my resignation in, and I'm not going to comment at length. Obviously, I appreciate this board very much. It's a long day, though, that we still have ahead of us. Yes, I'm happy to help the board in any way. I think in my resignation letter, I said I'd be circling back with everyone, which I will try to do this week. I will say publicly at this point, and I think I've probably said it to each of you, it is going to be my recommendation. While it's obviously the board's prerogative to do as it wishes, I think the board, the county, and the county attorney's office are best served by the next person being somebody who's within the office right now. But I will talk to you about a process. Okay. Let's go to our... Are we okay going to our... Can I say one thing? Sure. You want to go around? We'll go around. I thought we were going to... We got a hard... Now, you want to talk, you want to talk, you want to talk. So we're not... We got a commissioner that's going to be out of here at 5 o'clock. Yeah. Please make it quick. I'll just be brief. I had spoken with our county administrator to get some information on what we are doing with regards to the FIFA World Cup that's coming into South Florida. And so I hope at the next commission meeting or the one after, we can get some clarification as to our involvement, what was brought forth to the CVB by the FIFA folks, what the response has been, and moving forward, what we plan on doing. Commissioner, why don't we put an agenda item on? And I've heard a lot of criticism from the outside community about some stuff. So I'm happy. Let's get an agenda item on it. Anybody else need to talk? I need one important one. One minute. Go ahead. Okay. Address to FIFA. That's going for us. I met with some folks yesterday. Obviously, we can't talk. So I've encouraged them to talk to all of you. And then we'll come back. I'll come back as the chair with something to discuss. And we can have a discussion at that point instead of just putting the cart before the horse. And we would. But I'll make sure that they call all of you so that I don't violate the sunshine line. FIFA, yeah. Okay. Real quick. This has to do with a letter that we all received from Mayor Trantalis having to do the dated February 17th regarding the alternative to cross the new river. As you all recall, this time last year, the city asked the county to refrain from identifying a bridge system as a preferred method for crossing the new river as part of the resolution named naming the Broward Community Rail North as a locally preferred alternative. After county commission discussion, I sent the city a letter dated March 3rd, 2025, advising that although the county is a project sponsor and has the ability to unilaterally assign the bridge system as a preferred crossing alternative, we would not include such a determination in the LPA. This was done to allow the city seven months, no later than October 1st, 2025, to provide the county with a feasible and viable public-private partnership tunnel alternative. Such a viable alternative would need to include a written approval from Brightline and FECR, a formal proposal from a developer with economic terms for construction, operation, and maintenance of the tunnel, and a proposed financial plan. The reasoning for these requests was to get a clear sense. The city asked for extensions to respond until February 17th, 2026. The city's letter does not provide any of that requested information. If there are no objections as I started this process, I would like to respond to the city indicating that while they can still provide a proposal once they receive, we need to continue with our planning for a bridge system. That this does not foreclose the possibility of the city's tunnel efforts, just no longer delays our planning for it. Is that okay with everybody? Anybody? Okay. Can we go to our board right now? Okay. Mr. Mayor, one thing, after what Drew said, I was considering bringing up a motion that we not go out for a national search for the attorney and considering, you know, hire local. Well, I was going to bring up a motion, but county attorney, would it be improper without notice to bring that up? I mean, I think you can state what your prerogative is at this point. All right. Well, Mr. Mayor, at the next meeting, I'll bring it up. This meeting is officially adjourned. We're going to room 430 for a workshop. Thank you.