This December 2nd, 2025, I apologize for the delay. We had an extended special meeting this afternoon and we will actually continue with that conversation later in the meeting. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome to our commission meeting and thank you for being here. Every commission meeting we begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence and then we do go through the agenda. We also have presentations normally, but tonight there will be no presentations. I know you're all sad about that, but we're trying to have an abbreviated meeting so that we can get through the business of the agenda and I know tonight is Chris from San La Solis and a lot of people would like to go there tonight. So having said that, I'd like to invite Zuri Williams and Zoe Williams. Are you both here? Where are you? Over there. And is Michaela Jones here? She's not. Okay. Can you join me up at the podium? Can I ask you all to please stand? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the public which it stands, one nation, honor God, and the visible and liberty and justice for all. Wonderful. Is your mom or your daddy here? Can your family come up here? Raquel, can you see who their family is so they can come up here for a picture? Come on up here. Let me take a picture with you. Is someone from strategic communications here? Yeah. You want to take our picture? Yeah. I'm going to come and join us. Walker Elementary. Cam, come on, join us. Thank you. I have a little something for you. Thank you. Wait a minute. Don't go away. I have a little something for you. Thank you. Thank you so much for participating tonight. And Merry Christmas to you. So Zuri is nine years old and Zoe is seven and they both attend Walker Elementary School. So may I ask you all to please join me in a moment of silence? Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Vice Mayor Herbst. Commissioner Glossman. Here. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman. Here. Commissioner Sorensen. Here. Mayor Trentals. Here. So we have no agenda announcements. So would someone like to move to approve the agenda and the minutes for tonight's meeting? Move. Second. It moves and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen. Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst. Commissioner Glossman. Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman. Yes. Mayor Trentals. Yes. And tonight's agenda and the minutes from the previous meeting are now approved. Now we go to the consent agenda items. This is an opportunity for anyone who wishes to pull any item from the consent agenda. If an item is pulled from the consent agenda, it will be discussed and voted on separately. So I'll ask the commission, are there any consent agenda items which they'd like to pull? Vice Mayor? Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? None. I have none. Commissioner Glassman? None. And Commissioner Sorensen? None. None. So I'm looking at the people who've signed up to speak and it's just for questions only. Elaine Laurent and Christina Disbrough just for questions. So Mayor, I'm sorry. I made a mistake. I apologize. I didn't want to pull CP3. I apologize. Okay. Except for CP3, do I hear a motion to approve the rest of the consent agenda items? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Commissioner Glossman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trentals? Yes. And all those items are now approved. So if you hear on any of those consent agenda items, your item has now been approved. You're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting. If not, all right. So CP3 regarding the Annie Beck House renovations. Commissioner? Yes. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I want to thank city staff and also getting me all of the information that I requested on this. For those of you that might not remember, in 2008, the city was very generous and we actually moved that house to its current location in Middle River Terrace Park. Mayor, I think you remember when we watched that house make its trip because that house is going to be demolished. It's one of the oldest structures in our city and it really sits very lovingly right now in Middle River Terrace Park. That being said, this is an item to spend $146,000 on repairs that are needed in the house. In 2018, we did another lease on this because we were having a lot of serious issues in Middle River Terrace Park. There was a lot of crime. There was a shooting, a murder, and the area was really needing some sort of a change. And I think the city was very proactive. We took charge of that and we actually arranged with the Broward Trust for Historic Preservation to put a police officer in the house in the park. And there was a high demand from the police force in terms of folks really wanting to do that. It's really a lovely little house. It needed work. But ever since we did that, and that's been many years now, we've actually had a turnaround in Middle River Terrace Park, in that neighborhood, and in the adjacent areas. It's been really, really positive. That being said, I wanted to ask the city attorney because I know that we're able to revisit and look at this lease. And we are obligated to have it as a residence for law enforcement. But I don't think it necessarily addresses all of the continued maintenance over the years. Now, the city has been very generous and I think it's been needed and it's been terrific. But I'm just wondering if the trust should have a little bit more skin in the game in terms of some of the ongoing maintenance, some of the care, just so that there's a little bit of, you know, as I said, some skin in the game. Now that they're not as in dire straits as they were back in the day when we actually moved a police officer in. And I'm wondering if maybe we should just look at that restated lease, that amended lease, and perhaps just have a little bit more equal footing where the city alone is not always responsible for every single repair and every single maintenance need on the structure. That's all I'm asking. Um, well, it's, that's not really a pertinent to the item tonight. And I think it's a good question to ask. So maybe you can have a conversation with the city manager regarding that and going forward. But, you know, that's a lengthy discussion. And yes, I just wanted to raise it. I'm, I'm going to move that we approve this item. Um, but I would like us to have that conversation. I'd like us to look at the lease. Uh, and I would like now that it's been, how many, I guess it's been seven years, right? That we've been doing all of the maintenance and we've been doing, um, everything that's been needed and we do not own the house. Correct. So we can definitely explore, uh, amending the lease to somewhat equalize the maintenance obligations or to offset the existing city obligations for maintenance on the property. Who would take up the slack? The Broward trust, the owner of the house, the Broward trust for historic preservation. Sure. The owner of the house. And how much do they have in their bank account? Well, they've been having fundraisers and events. I think they're doing okay now better than they were doing in 2018 when we took over all of the responsibility. All right. Or maybe they just want to being that we're actually responsible for and have been doing everything. Maybe they give us the house. I don't know. Okay. We've been, we've been maintaining it anyway. So it's just worth looking at, I think that's all. And I'm happy to move the item. Mayor, before we move, not to prolong, but just for clarity, not familiar with the backstory with this property. When you say we moved an officer in, are we saying that we had an officer living in the home? We've had an officer living in that house in Middle River Terrace Park for seven years now. Okay. And it's worked out really well. It's really helped stabilize the park and that immediate vicinity in Middle River Terrace. So I can briefly explain. So the trust owns the home and entered into a lease agreement for the premises on which the house is located with the city. Then we amended the lease to restate it to allow for the city to lease the house back from the trust and to lease it specifically to a member of law enforcement to occupy the home as a residence. And so that's the current terms of the lease. I'm taking it. The purpose was for police presence in the area. That's expressly stated in the lease. And I think an argument can be made that that city should own that house. I mean, we put this is this $163,000, excuse me, $146,000 is just a fraction of what we put into that house. Because when the officer first moved in there, we put in a ton of money. Correct. I think at least 200,000. Yeah. So we could have rebuilt that house three times. Well, it wouldn't be the same house. I know. The item's been moved. Do I hear a second? Second. Been moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Hurst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Chantals? Yes. And that item's now approved. R1, appointment of board and committee members. Mr. Clerk, could you please read the names into the record? Yes. For the December 16th meeting, Beach Business Improvement District Advisory Committee, Alvaro Hernandez, representing the B Ocean as an alternate. Central City Redevelopment Advisory Board, Juan Carlos Guerrero, nominated by Mayor Trent Ellis. Code Enforcement Board, Donald Ray Carney III, nominated by Commissioner Glassman. Community Services Board, Wismy Sias, nominated by Commissioner Glassman. Insurance Advisory Board, Steve Botkin, nominated by Mayor Trent Ellis. And for tonight's resolution, Aviation Advisory Board, David Cooper, nominated by Commissioner Glassman. Budget Advisory Board, Anid Metellus-Thompson, nominated by Commissioner Beasley-Pittman. Central City Redevelopment Advisory Board, John Van Vlack, nominated by Commissioner Glassman. Community Services Board, Antonio Del Cal, nominated by Vice Mayor Herbst. Economic Development Advisory Board, Russ Clannette, nominated by Mayor Trentel. Jason Hughes, nominated by Commissioner Glassman. Education Advisory Board, Jose Rogero, nominated by Vice Mayor Herbst. And Public Art and Placement Advisory Board, Edison Lozada, nominated by Commissioner Sorensen. And that rounds it out. Okay, thank you. Would someone like to introduce the resolution? Introduced. Are there any amendments or modifications? There are none. Please call the roll. A resolution, City Commission, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, appointing or nominating, if applicable, Boarding Committee members, as set forth the needs a bit attached here to and made a part hereof. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Gentiles? Yes. And R1 is now approved. R2, this is a resolution setting of public hearing on December 16th, 2025, to consider the amended and restated ground lease, a new ground lease for the property known as the New River Trading Post, pursuant to Section 8.09 of the City Charter. One person signed up to speak, but just for questions only. Someone would like to introduce the resolution? Introduced. Before we vote on that, let me just make a couple comments. The new ground lease that's being recommended is going to extend the lease in such a way as to allow for a tower to be built on that site. And because of the live local law, you know, we should be very cautious about, you know, what opportunities we have as a commission to have some input as to what's built somewhere. And because the live local law has taken away a lot of that discretion from the commission, I would certainly like to know what's going to be built there before we authorize something to be built there. Because once we authorize something to be built there, they can build whatever they want. This is in a very sensitive area. It's right in the Hemershee District. It's on the Riverwalk. And I don't know, it's just a thought. I mean, I can agree to the resolution tonight, but this is just to set a public hearing. And I think that we ought to think about that before we, you know, just allow something like that to go forward. Just some thoughts we could share. So the resolution has been introduced. Anyone else have any comments or questions? I do, Mayor. And I did bring this up yesterday at my pre-agenda meeting with staff. And I want to just reiterate this because, and I agree with what you're saying, but what really caught me off guard was I read this and I realized that I really had no clue that this was actually even coming. But I agree with you. And I'm just asking staff that I please be informed of plans that are coming forward. This is in my district. And yet I shouldn't have to just read about it for the first time when I get an agenda. I know that we as a commission approved, we approved this as a commission in June of 2024. So obviously the city felt that we needed to do better than what we had already voted on. And hence we see all of these categories, key highlights of the amended and restated lease and the new long-term lease. I'm fine with that. But obviously this didn't just happen yesterday because we as a commission approved this in June of 2024. This has been prolonged. This has been taking quite a while now because that's a year and a half ago. So I actually thought that when we did this a year and a half ago that we might have seen something happen fast. But now I know why we didn't because city staff was working with the development team to come up with these changes. I would just ask for the consideration as the district commissioner to know what's going on in my district and to be told of what's happening. And if there are conversations like this going on and we're doing a restated lease, just give me the courtesy of a heads up. And I would ask that going forward if we are going to make any changes. That's all. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else have any comments or questions? Okay. There being none. The resolution has been introduced. So please call the roll. A resolution, City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, designated December 16, 2025, is the date for the City Commission to consider an amended and restated ground lease between the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and New River Trading Post Development LLC. Consider a new ground lease between the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and New River Trading Post LTD and consider any ancillary documents related to the property known as New River Trading Post generally located at 330 Southwest 2nd Street. Repeal all resolutions or parts thereof in conflict here with and provide for an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trentals? Yes. And that resolution has now been approved. R3, resolution appointing Christopher, Chris Cooper as Deputy City Manager. Is he here? Oh. Yes. He has a new suit, I think, even. Oh. Is that a new suit? That's a new suit. Would you like to introduce the resolution? Introduce. It's been introduced. All I can say is I'm so thankful that, Chris, you're part of our team, and this is an honor well-deserved, and I hope they give you a pay increase, and, you know, you really are so helpful to all of us in trying to understand things as they come through across our desks and trying to guide our city to fulfill the vision that we all share. So thank you so much for all the good work you do. But I'm voting no. No, I'm just kidding. I'm voting no. And, Mayor, we're in negotiations. We're on that pay increase. We're in negotiations. Oh, wait a minute. Uh-oh. You don't do that good of a job. Okay. So fickle. So fickle. The resolution has been introduced. Please call the roll. A resolution is City Commissioner of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, appointing Christopher Chris Cooper as Deputy City Manager of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and providing for an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trentals? Yes. Thank you. Want to say a few words, Chris? Thank you, Mayor and Commission. I'm truly honored to accept this position and be your Deputy City Manager. I really want to thank the City Manager for selecting me for this role and recommending appointment from you to serve, again, as Deputy City Manager. I'm very fortunate to be part of a great leadership team here with the City of Fort Lauderdale. It's truly a pleasure to serve alongside them and do the work that we do on behalf of our neighbors throughout the community. And again, I just really appreciate your support and for pointing to me this evening. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. R4. Resolution providing notice of the final ranking of the four shortlisted unsolicited proposals for the design, development, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a new City Hall facility decision to proceed with and the acceptance of the unsolicited proposal from the highest ranked proposer, authorizing negotiations of a proposed interim and or comprehensive agreement, starting with the highest ranked proposer of the final ranking in accordance with Section 255.065 of the Florida Statutes. I would recommend that if someone wishes to introduce a resolution, that the resolution identified number one and number two, and then after that, we can proceed with number three and number four. Mayor, I think that makes sense. I'd love to have your guidance on what your suggestion would be on this. I think that matters as mayor of the city, given a signature kind of project. So, Mayor, before you give your guidance on that, we have one resolution that will have all four ranked individuals incorporated into the resolution. Your resolution attached to this item has fill-in-the-blanks. You can entertain motions in terms of the names that you want to place in the resolution, and then we can adopt or adopt a resolution at the end of this process. Okay. So, do we ought to do it in two resolutions? No. One resolution, but, I mean, if you wanted to divide it. I would like to – I think we should divide it. It would be easier. We can entertain motions for that and then adopt a resolution at the conclusion. All right. So, in my opinion, you know, I'm looking to see how we're going to be able to come up with a building that I think, you know, befits what we're trying to create here in the city of Fort Lauderdale. And, you know, I looked at all the designs, and clearly the one that stands out is the FTL City Hall Partners. And I know it was more expensive, but I think that we can work to get the price down because we're going to shrink the size of the necessary square footage. And I know that there can be some value engineering in some of the aspects of the building. But, come on, let's do something that's going to last through the ages, something that we can be identified with and that people will respect and say, wow, look what Fort Lauderdale has done again. Think of all the great things we have done. The Can Do Commission has created so much value in both the public and private infrastructure projects that we have done in our city. You know, when you go around the country and people ask, you know, I can't believe that Fort Lauderdale is able to build such great facilities. And, you know, we stand out amongst other cities around the country as being a forward-thinking and proactive city. And a symbol of that would be the type of design that FTL City Hall Partners has proposed. And I think that, yes, it may cost a little bit more money, but I really feel that it's the right thing to do. It sets the tone for what future development should look like in Fort Lauderdale. And I think people take pride in knowing that they have such a beautiful, iconic legacy structure that they can look to every day and say, well, I'm part of the city. So my first choice is FTL City Hall Partners, and my second choice would be Balfour Beatty. Those are my two recommendations. I can't introduce the resolution, so someone will have to introduce that resolution. Okay, I'll introduce that. If I can recommend, again, that it be a motion ranking, one and two. One and two. So I'll make the motion that FTL City Partners is number one and Balfour Beatty is number two. That's my motion. I'll second that. Okay. Any further discussion or comments? I would, Mayor. I do want to just say a few things before we vote. Obviously, I can count. But I just want everyone to know, as I look around this room and I see all of these people that are involved in all four of these presentations, I'm just really so proud to be serving this community because of the work that all of you have done. It really is a testament to your talent and to your creativity and to your knowledge. As our consultant said, I think anybody really could have done this work. So what does it come down to? The mayor mentioned the architecture, the design. But for me, I also think that it's hard to find what separates the four presenters. And for me, what really mattered and what did separate was the fact that the only two numbers that really matter are the IRR bid, that dollar amount, and then also the indirect construction costs because those numbers are the numbers that people have to be held accountable for. And that really does separate the four presenters. We know that we can set this budget for whatever we want. And so, again, it really came down to just that tiny little bit of difference among the four. And then so I say to myself, well, who's done the most of these projects? The local aspect of this is important, although all four really had a piece of that. As we said today in the afternoon, our goal is really just to choose a partner. The rest will fall into place. Those details will fall into place as we move forward because we will be setting the budget. We will be setting the parameters. We will be talking about design. And as the mayor said, I think that we have to have that foresight. We're building something not just for today but for the future, for something that will be here after we're gone. I just think that we owe that to the city. We've been gaining so much positive attention, not just in our state but also in our nation and also around the world for the things that we've been accomplishing and for what we've been building and for what we've been doing with P3 projects in our city. Have we had a couple of hiccups? Of course we have. Who's perfect? What city is perfect? Who's not going to have a bump in the road? But when you look at what's happening in our city, especially with regards to P3 projects, it has really worked for us. So I just wanted to say thank you to all of you. This is not easy for me looking out at you and knowing the talent and knowing the wonderful people that you are and knowing that we can only choose one. This is a very difficult choice, but I don't think anyone should feel that they should be disappointed in any way because, as I said, this is really a tremendous representation of what we have in our city with all of you that did those presentations that basically gave us every piece of information that was asked for, the questions that were asked by each team, all of the supplemental information. This has really been going on technically with all of the workshops and all of the charrettes and the ULI and the Infrastructure Task Force and all of those 25-plus public meetings. This has been going on for almost two and a half years. So I really just want to say thank you, and I just am very proud of what I saw today. And, again, this is both very difficult, but yet at the same time really rewarding to know what has become of our city and the people that make up our city. So thank you. And that's it, Mayor. Okay. Any other comments or questions? Yes, Mayor. I've got some comments. Sure. Go ahead. So it will probably come as no surprise to anybody listening that I'm not a big fan of the direction this is going in. But, again, I obviously see where the votes are. But I do think it's important to articulate my thoughts on this. So I've never been a fan of the direction we're moving in. I've been very consistent all along in saying that I really think we should be looking at a bifurcated, distributed model. I think putting our administrative staff up on Cypress Creek and having a ceremonial city hall downtown is what really makes the most sense. It is the most cost-effective solution. It's the one that's currently in place in Tampa, Charlotte, Phoenix, Denver. It would be better for us from a resiliency perspective. It would allow for continuity of operations if we had another event like we had in the past where you have the ability to continue to operate out of multiple locations. Barring that, the second choice I would say would have been to build a new city hall adjacent to our police station and create a true government campus. I think the location is not the right location for it. The third thing I'll add to that is I don't think the P3 model makes any sense for city hall. P3 models are nothing more than delivery model, and they're typically utilized when you've got a complex structure. However, this is not. This is a very straightforward office building. They're utilized by cities that don't have access to funding. We have plenty of access to funding. We've had a triple-A bond rating. We've got a low debt capacity per capita. We've got better access to funding than almost anybody else has. We own the dirt. There's no significant risk transfer taking place here. The O&M that's been discussed, we could simply contract for O&M on this building for any one of the folks that are going to be providing the O&M component for any one of these contracts. So everything we're talking about here for a P3 makes no sense. This is a straight design build with a CM at risk with a GMP. We could do this all day long. P3s work in certain circumstances. This is not one. It's going to be more costly because P3s, by their very nature, are more costly. The developers take a higher profit on these because they're typically more complex, and that's why the P3 model is utilized. For example, when we did the water plant, it's a complex project. For a straightforward office building, it makes no sense. We do these all day long. Cities around the country, around the world, do these all day long. And they generally don't do them as a P3 delivery model because it doesn't lend itself to that. So my recommendation would be to reject all these, go out to bid for a design build with a GMP. Any one of the folks that are presented here is amply capable of delivering a product. There's no doubt about it. We've got great folks, great contractors, great architects, but I can't support the way we're going about doing the project. Thank you. Okay. Any other comments or questions? All right. There's been a motion, a resolution has been introduced, and please call the roll. I was going to, I'm going to restate the motion just to make sure I have it correct. Okay. Commissioner Sorensen made a motion to select FTL City Hall Partners as the highest ranked proposer and Balfour Beatty as the second highest ranked proposer. Correct. Okay. And, okay. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? No. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trantales? Yes. Would you like to introduce another resolution or make another motion? I'd like to hear your feedback, ma'am. Well, you know, to echo what Commissioner Glassman has said, every one of these applicants could certainly have produced a wonderful quality product in a timely fashion and, you know, within our budget. So, the other two, you know, it can be very difficult to make that decision, but I would probably choose Fort Lauderdale Civic Partners as three and Fort Lauderdale Beacon Collaborative as four. I'd like to make that motion. Do I hear a second? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trantales? Yes. Congratulations. At this time, Mayor, if you would entertain the introduction of the resolution. I can't hear you. If you would entertain the introduction of the resolution at this time. What do you mean entertain the introduction of the resolution? You want me to recite it again? No, no, no. So, you have ranked all four, but now I'd ask that the Commission adopt the resolution that's attached to the item with the blanks filled in as stated by the prior resolution. So, the resolution providing notice of the final ranking of the four unsolicited proposals are ranked as follows. FTL City Hall Partners is one. Dalford Beatty is two. Fort Lauderdale Civic Partners is three. And FTL Beacon Collaborative is four. Would someone like to introduce that resolution? Introduced. Please call the roll. So, DeWayne, the resolution just states the highest proposal, correct? In the title, correct. In the title, okay. So, in the whereas clause, we... You'll add the... Okay, correct. All right. Sorry about that. A resolution of the City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, providing notice of its decision to proceed with the unsolicited proposal submitted by Fort Lauderdale, or FTL City Hall Partners, design, development, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a new City Hall facility at 100 North Andries Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and authorizing negotiations of a proposed interim and or comprehensive agreement in accordance with Section 255.065 Florida statutes and providing for an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent Ellis? Yes. And that resolution is now approved. You're good to go. Congratulations. Now comes the hard part. Mayor, I'd just like to, again, Raquel, thank City staff and just for all their work on this. And their continued work. And their continued work. This is going to be a big effort. So thank you to all, everyone's involved. But I appreciate you bringing it to this point. Yeah. I mean, you're new to our city, but you've done a really great job at marshalling all of our opinions and assets and talents and bringing it to this point because it's been two and a half years, more than two and a half years, since we lost our city hall and we really needed to do something and move forward on it. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. Thank you, everybody. We appreciate your support. Thank you to Jacobs and PFM and to Beacon Advisory Partners. Thank you, everyone. All of them. And, Mayor and Commissioners, just know that as we go into negotiations, we are committed to trying to get us as close to the financial assumptions that we've had in place. Yeah. As possible. And we will ensure that we keep the commission apprised along the way, provide opportunities for public engagement, and, you know, negotiate in the best interest. When people came out and said, you know, there's not enough public engagement, there's plenty of time between now and when we get to the next level of this that we will always include people. But at the same time, you know, it was a hollow echo as far as I was concerned to say that we didn't engage the public enough. The public has been engaged for the last two years in trying to put together, you know, ideas. In fact, the infrastructure task force even recommended the P3 as the best approach to trying to procure the city hall. So, you know, it's not like this just came about last week over the Thanksgiving weekend. So, you know, and we'll continue to engage the public and get feedback. And I think that our staff is well-suited and well-trained to knowing how to do that. And, Mayor, just to, I believe it was a good suggestion where it was said for us to, through Stratcom, to be able to post information. That was a good idea, and I'm recommending that we move in that direction with that because however we can get it out is showing our effort to make sure our neighbors are aware. All right, moving on to PH1, a public hearing resolution designating real property located at 3100 Northeast 32nd Avenue as a brownfield area for rehabilitation and redevelopment pursuant to the state of Florida Brownfield's Redevelopment Act and setting a second public hearing for December 16th, 2025, to meet Florida state, excuse me, Florida statute requirements. Someone would like to introduce the resolution? Introduced, but I also have some comments. All right, just wait a second. No problem. The resolution has been introduced. Mayor, we also have to close the public hearing. Yeah, I'm not there yet. Okay. I know you all want to go see Santa tonight, but just give me a second. Two people have signed up to speak, but just for questions, right? Okay. So, okay, now I'll move to closed public hearing. Someone moved to closed public hearing? Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen. Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst. Commissioner Glassman. Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman. Yes. Mayor Trentiles. Yes. Public hearing on PH1 is now closed. Would someone like to introduce a resolution? Introduced. I think I already did. Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay. I didn't – I wasn't listening to you. That's all right. It's not the first time. And it won't be the last. That's okay. Okay. So now, comments. Yes, comments. Thank you. So this is very interesting. This is where the marina was just to the south of the Oakland Park Bridge on the east side of the intracoastal. You know, I just – I know that a lot of this is driven by state statute, but we need to do better as a city because this is an important issue. We're going to be basically designating this area as a brownfield area for rehabilitation so that we can redevelop this site. And people are interested in something like that. But the way the state statute is written and the way that responsibility falls on the team, it's just not working, in my opinion. The proof is in the pudding. We had zero people attend this public meeting at the Beach Community Center, zero, with no e-mails, no anything, because the only thing that was posted was a little sign on the site and something in Craigslist and an ad that you'd be hard-pressed to find in the Sun-Sentinel, and hardly anybody reads that newspaper anyway. Is Craigslist still a thing? I guess it is. I'm surprised this wasn't advertised on MySpace, but, you know, my point is that when there's something this important, there has to be a way for us to make sure that the immediate neighborhood knows about it. The Central Beach Alliance needs to know about it. I've asked buildings in the area. No one knew about this meeting at the Beach Community Center. And I just think we have to do better. We have to know, you know, what's the problem there so that the neighborhood could feel comfortable, you know, what was the contamination associated with the marina. This was the boat thing, right? Yeah, that boat storage marina. Boat storage, yeah. Yeah, marina main. It was contaminated? No, the site, the site. The site was contaminated? The building was demolished. Right. All the pigeons were let loose to bother every single building in the area. But the site itself needs environmental remediation. But so they were obligated to let, to notice that meeting as a public meeting, you know, like almost like a public participation meeting. Like typically we would do in a city, we'd send a notice out to people within 300 feet of a site. So none of that happened. And what I'm just saying is that I just think we need to do better. Well, okay. But we have, we have a public hearing set for, in two weeks. So the notice can go out a little bit better than what we did the first time. No, I'm not talking about this public notice. I'm not talking about our, this is a reading and then we'll do it again in two weeks. But I mean the actual public participation. If you look at the backup, there was, it's the community meeting to let the neighborhood know of what's happening and why this is necessary in terms of the environmental matters. And the fact that no one attended the meeting is proof of the fact that no one knew about the meeting. Okay. All right. Any other comments or questions? There being none. I'm coming, Mayor. Is this an opportunity as well to use STRATCOM for notification? Does that fall under notice of a meeting? Because I know I used to have to be in here. What is the procedure then? Yeah. I mean, we need to make the public more aware of what's going on here. So I can't speak to the costs associated with it, but they did comply, the applicant did comply with Brownfield statute in terms of providing notice and the Sun Sentinel. And the posting on the site. We can take note of that and I'm not going to speak for the city manager in terms of. Isn't the notice in the Sun Sentinel in that fine print that's on the classified section that you can't even read it? No, not this one. It's part of your packet, but it was a larger notice. Was it a larger notice? It was okay. All right. Yeah. It was actually on a page that had continuations of two articles and there was an ad for Miami Dolphins' collection of stuff. Weren't we, Raquel, exploring other ways of notifying, like moving away from the newspaper? I remember us talking about this. So, again, this is not a city obligation to provide notice. This notice is a requirement on the applicant for the Brownfield designation. Got it. So it's a little different than our development permit application. It's a quarter page. Got it. And I believe the applicant is here this evening. All right. Thanks. Put it on TikTok. Craigslist. Okay. Please call the roll. A resolution to the City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, making certain findings and designating the real property located at 3100 Northeast 32nd Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33308, folio number 494-3300-31320 as a Brownfield area pursuant to Section 376.80, 2, parence, Florida Statutes, for the purpose of rehabilitation, job creation, promoting economic redevelopment, authorizing the City of Fort Lauderdale to notify the Florida Department of Environmental Protection of said designation, providing an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent House? Yes. And PH1 is now approved. PH2, public hearing approving the Northwest Progresso, Pelagro Heights Community Redevelopment Agency amended and restated community redevelopment plan. No one to sign up to speak. Does someone like to move to close public hearing? Second. Do I hear a second? If they're moved and seconded, please call the roll on closing public hearing. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent House? Yes. The public hearing on PH2 is now closed. Someone would like to move. What would that be? Is it a motion or a resolution? It's a resolution. Resolution? Introduced. Resolution has been introduced. Please call the roll. A resolution of the City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida approving the Northwest Progresso, Flagler Heights amended and restated community redevelopment plan 2025 authorizing transmission to Broward County, Florida and providing for an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent House? Yes. And PH2 is now approved. PH3, public hearing approving the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for IOV Ventures, LLC, to operate one vehicle for higher service within the City of Fort Lauderdale. No one to sign? Speak. Someone would like to move to close public hearing? Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent House? Yes. Public hearing is now closed on PH3. Would someone like to introduce a resolution? This is a question from the City of Manic. What kind of vehicle is this? A Mercedes-Benz-Meibach. Oh, okay. Thank you. Just checking. Thank you. What? It's a rental vehicle, chauffeur, or sightseeing. That's not bad. You're getting $200 an hour, man. That's pretty good. Do you have any further comments? No, I don't. This is a motion. Someone like to move this item? Moved. Second. Second. Someone like to move and seconded? Please call the roll. He's getting punchy. So, Commissioner Sorensen, yes. I've got to get him out of here real quick. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trent House? Yes. And PH3. That was for the item, right? Yes. Moving on to OSR. These are ordinances of second reading. OSR 1, second reading ordinance amending the City of Fort Lauderdale Unified Land Development Regulations. I'm not going to read the whole thing. I'll let you do that. Someone like to introduce the ordinance? Introduced. Introduced. Please call the roll. In accordance to the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, amending the Unified Land Development Regulations of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, amending Section 47-13.20, entitled Downtown RAC Review Process and Special Regulations, amending Section 47-13.30, entitled Table of Dimensional Requirements for the SRAC District, amending Article 12, entitled Transfer Development Rights, Section 47-36.1, Tables of Dimensional Requirements for the Uptown Urban Village Zoning District to provide additional density for receiving sites utilizing the TDR program, extending the expiration date for certificates of eligibility, providing a calculation for available dwelling units at sending sites, incorporating ability to retransfer TDR units or floor area, providing for correction of scrivener's errors, severability, repeal of conflicting ordinance provisions, and an effective date. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Commissioner Glossman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trentals? Yes. And OSR 1 is now approved on second reading. OSR 2, second reading, quasi-judicial ordinance approving a rezoning from residential single-family and duplex medium-density RD-15 district to residential multifamily low-rise medium-density RM-15 district. This is on 1000 Southwest 26th Street. Anyone wishing to speak must be sworn in. And the commission will announce any site visits, communications, or expert opinions received and make them a part of the record. Vice Mayor, do you have any disclosures? What is this again? Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? No, no disclosures. I met with Heidi and her client, Commissioner Glassman? Nothing new. Nothing new. This is second reading, right? Yeah. Yeah, nothing new. Okay. Commissioner Sorensen? Meeting with Heidi. Meeting with Heidi. Okay, so no one has signed up to speak. Would someone like to move to close public hearing? Moved. Do I hear a second? Second. They're moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trantelis? Yes. So public hearing is now closed on OSR 2. Would someone like to introduce the ordinance? Introduced. The ordinance has been introduced. Please call the roll. In ordinance amending Section 47-1.6.B of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida Unified Land Development Regulations, through the revision of the official zoning map of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Schedule A revised compilation attached there to, and by reference, made a part thereof, so as to resume from residential single-family and duplex medium-density district to residential multifamily low-rise medium-density district, the north five acres of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 21, Township 50 South, Range 42 East, located north of Southwest 28th Street, west of Southwest 9th Avenue, east of Southwest 12th Terrace, and south of Southwest 26th Street, all said lands being the City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. Commissioner Sorensen? Yes. Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Mayor Trantelis? Yes. And OSR 2 is now approved on second meeting. Is there any further business in the commission? No, I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate Chris Cooper as well. I didn't get a chance earlier. Congratulations, Chris. Well-deserved. I'm looking forward to you serving as deputy city manager and all that comes with that responsibility. Yeah, we still have a conference meeting to continue with, so. Yes. All right. This meeting is now adjourned. We resume our conference meeting. I think we go to commission reports now. Vice Mayor, do you have any commission reports? Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? I'm just going to share that, as it was said last meeting, I did attend National League of Cities in Utah, Salt Lake City. It was a wonderful opportunity. The things that I gleam and I'm bringing back, I'm going to share with city manager. So if there's some things, there's some things I think we could implement and look into to see if it would be a fit for our city. Thank you to all of those nonprofits that gave turkey drives within District 3. We were truly, truly blessed with a lot of turkey drives. So I thank everybody. A lot of turkey in District 3? Yes, a lot of turkeys were given out in District 3. Thank you for the time, and that's all I'm reporting tonight. Okay. Commissioner Glassman. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Wanted to thank everybody who helped from Parks and Rec and other staff for the light-up on the beach at the Las Olas Ocean Site Park. That probably was the largest number of people I've ever seen for that event. Had to be thousands of folks there. It was a really nice event. I think the new Captain Olas looks great at Las Olas and A1A. Every time I drive by there, it's amazing how many people are just snapping photos. It's just become a spot that people love to take a picture for the holidays. November 20th, thank you to the Central Beach Alliance. I had the pleasure of addressing them that night, and also City Manager did a great job. She got to meet the membership of the Central Beach Alliance for the first time. So thank you, City Manager. That was a great meeting. A lot of good input. Thank you. November 21st, we began a new tradition on the beach in District 2 with our first-ever Marina Village tree lighting at the Bahia Mar. That, too, had maybe 1,500 people. They had carolers and an orchestra, and the Shirley was rocking, and it was a great night, beautiful night. That's the tallest tree in the city of Fort Lauderdale. I think the tallest tree, second tallest tree in Broward County. But that's a great new tradition that was begun for the holiday season. November 22nd, always, every year, I want to thank Michael Albetta from Lake Ridge. I want to thank Pastor Black, everyone involved at the Sanctuary Church on Federal Highway. We had the 10th Annual Grocery and Turkey Giveaway. Folks line up on Sunrise Boulevard like at 2 o'clock in the morning for those cars to come through. Thousands and thousands of folks, and it really is an amazing community event when you see how many businesses donate everything from not just the turkeys, but also fresh produce, baked goods, you name it, and people just pop their trunk, and away they go with everything they need for the holiday. It's a really great reminder of how blessed we are and how fortunate we are and how not everyone is as fortunate or as blessed. So to see the community come out and help those that need that help, it's really a beautiful day right before Thanksgiving every year. November 25th, we cut the ribbon on our second Cameron Mitchell restaurant in District 2 in our city. They've already done Ocean Prime at the Las Olas Marina, and now they have the Del Mar restaurant at the Aubergue Beach Residence, and that's a beautiful spot if you can get there. It's just so pretty to be there, and they really did a really good job in that restaurant. Tomorrow night, we have the Victoria Park Civic Association meeting, and congratulations. They will be celebrating tomorrow night their 100th anniversary as a neighborhood. Really nice, the Victoria Park. December 4th, the events and the parties continue, the holiday gatherings in our district. We'll have two on December 4th. We'll have the Lake Ridge Civic Association's Taste of Italy at Cafe Vico, and the Central Beach Alliance will have its holiday party at Thassos Greek Restaurant. December 5th, I'd like to remind everyone that we have the Celebration of Life for Hal Barnes at the Women's Club, and I think that's over the course of like a bunch of hours so people can get out there and pay their respects. December 8th, we are going to have the reopening of the Jimmy Everett Tennis Center. This was once a premier tennis center, not just in our state but also in the country. It fell on a little bit of hard times, but it's come back. And I look forward to having that reopening on December 8th for that facility, and we're going to get that back to the status that it used to have. The next day, December 9th, we have the groundbreaking for the Holiday Park YMCA in conjunction with Broward Health. Also that day is the Council of Fort Laurel Civic Association's holiday party held at Dickey Consulting. December 10th, it'll be a pleasure to attend the Nermy Isles Police Roll Call Lunch at 99 Isle of Palms. It's really nice when the different neighborhoods have the police roll call to say thank you to our incredible police department. I'll look forward to that as well. And then that next night, the Fort Lauderdale FOP has its holiday gathering at Tap 42. December 14th, we will have the Manoa Lighting at the La Sola Sorsion Site Park to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. Just a couple of comments. I know that in the past I've made mention of some issues we have with Airbnb owners in Victoria Park. Police are doing a bang-up job. But I will say that I'm going to request that we take a look. Hopefully, our legal department can work with code because right now we have to establish code violations that are related to the nature of these police calls that we continue to get there and what those findings are concerning the owners of the property, concerning the folks that are actually in those properties. Because I think that we need to define new parameters and we need to modify our existing ordinance when it comes to these vacation rentals. It's still out of hand. We definitely need more to be done. You know, the issue is the owners that are renting and then also helping the criminals do the behavior that they're doing. The police are definitely doing their job, but we have to have just more coordination. We need some more teeth in the ordinance because this is still an issue and we know the streets and we know the houses. Obviously, I've asked the question, can we just shut down these properties? I'm being told no. So we have to do something else to alleviate this problem in Victoria Park. Also in that neighborhood and along Las Olas Boulevard as well and Holiday Park, we've been having some issues with e-bike gangs of young kids that are definitely abusing neighbors. We've had several calls and emails from Victoria Park, people that just want to enjoy Holiday Park by Northeast 14th Avenue and also around the area of the baseball fields. But we're just seeing more of an uptick in bad behavior. So we have to just be able to pay attention to that. Also receiving from the Lake Ridge area, especially from the Villa Medici townhomes, disturbing reports about the conditions in and around that Burger King off of Sunrise Boulevard. I'm asking that we please just step up that enforcement. There's just a lot of trash, a lot of just large pieces of like just debris, mattresses, you name it. Also some very bad behavior has been noticed in that area in terms of drug behavior and selling. We have to do a better job there because right now we're getting a lot of emails from the Lake Ridge Civic Association and, as I mentioned, the Villa Medici board as well. Last, I want to say congratulations. I don't know if people are paying attention, but Inter Miami is going to the MLS Finals. That's a great accomplishment. This would be the first time that they win that cup. You know, I guess from what I'm reading, the team will relocate to Miami in April. I'm thinking that maybe we can do something, whether it's just a proclamation or bring some folks in, because they did win last week 5-1 to get to the finals. We're continuing to see sellouts of that stadium, and I just think it would be nice. You know, I think when we saw that stadium get built in record time – was that a P3? Okay. Anyway, I think that we saw an amazing sellout of that stadium on a repeated basis, and I will say that, you know, we have to just recognize the fact that we thought that they would be here for maybe a year or two. How many years has it been? Five or six? Five years. Five years. So I just think it deserves a little bit of recognition. We say thank you, and we wish them all the best when they leave our city. I know that we'll still have the training facility there. Well, they're not leaving their city. Well, I know. Well, the team – Don't say that. I mean the team will be playing in Miami. They'll be – The MLS team. Correct. They'll be – The professional play will take place in Miami, but the training will still be in Fort Lauderdale, and the administrative offices will still be in Fort Lauderdale. Correct. So they're not leaving the city. I understand. Their home games will leave the city. Yes. Okay. So they're leaving the city. So I would just say that I think that maybe we could just do some sort of recognition. It would be nice. That's all. I'm just throwing that out there. That's all. And that's it for me, Mayor. Thank you. All right. Commissioner Sorensen. Thanks, Mayor. Yeah, so on the e-bikes, Commissioner, you brought up. So, Raquel, my – the feedback I'm getting from PD is that it would be helpful to have a more clear ordinance that details some of the specifics about the type of engine so that they can have more notice and ability to regulate e-bikes. That's the feedback I'm hearing. And that's something we can work on with the city attorney's office. Do we have jurisdiction on that? Well, Florida statute outlines the engine capacity of e-bikes and classifies when an e-bike is under a certain threshold and should be treated as a bicycle versus a motor vehicle. So I'd like if you can put me in touch with whomever is requesting the ordinance so I can understand what their enforcement issues are so that we can get some clarity on that. But, yes, state statute does – And we can find where e-bikes are. We can fall under and enforce a state statute. Is that what you're saying? Correct. So I guess that's the clarification I think our office would need is what under the state statute that they're finding difficult to enforce in terms of these particular electric bikes. Okay, great. So, yeah, I'd just suggest that just if you all would reach out to the chief and chief of police to talk about this and figure out what we can be doing. Yes, we can coordinate. Okay. And I'm sorry, Ben, just to ask along with that. It's my understanding also because this is citywide. We know that this is an issue that's going on citywide. And it's my understanding also that there is something, a policy within our city where they're not allowed to chase the individuals on these e-bikes and it's becoming this cat-and-mouse type of a chase game. So if we can get some clarity on that. Well, we've had in the past some liability issues. We've had some liability issues. With the dirt bikes and the four-wheelers and everything else we've got going on. We've had some tragic events occur in chasing the motorbikes in the past that I think informed that policy. We had a death that resulted in litigation with the city over that. So we can circle back with the city manager's office and the police department to kind of talk that through. All right. And as commissioners, Herbst has said, it's not only the e-bikes. It's also all the off-road. It's everything. They're just taking over the roads. You look up and like, oh, okay. But, yes. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Not right. I completely agree. And giving comment to what you're saying is a citywide matter. And then I think once we figure out what we can do, and maybe what we have works fine, but what's the best way to monitor and enforce? And then I think it would be helpful, at least in my part of the city, just having a public education component. It's an enforcement issue, right? How can we corral these renegade bicycle clubs that maraud through our streets and create dangerous situations for people who are driving or walking or whatever? I see them all the time, and I understand how dangerous it is to try to intercept them. But at the same time, by failing to do something, the word is out there that you can get away with anything in Fort Lauderdale, and it continues to happen. So shame on us that we haven't figured out a way. That's all. We have all the laws on the books. We just need to enforce them. So, anyway, I get the same complaints. Okay. So if we can work on that. Great. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank Carl Williams and the Parks and Rec staff. So I coach our daughter, yeah, just for all their work. There's so much going on at Holiday Park right now. And just I coach our daughter's soccer teams at Holiday Park. And the staff, Carl, just fantastic. Not just working with me, but other coaches, professionalism, responsiveness for all those leagues. It's a very complex dynamic there dealing with a lot of teams and stakeholders and so forth. So just thank you for your team. Speaking of Holiday Park, when are we going to get the playground finished? You know, the kids' playground? I'm sick and tired of hearing complaints from parents. Is there a timetable? Oh, okay. Assistant seating manager. Yes, Mayor. So the solicitation for Phase 2 was closed and received, I believe, earlier this month or in November. It's going through the evaluation process now, and we plan to bring that back to commission for award in probably February. And at that point, just to set the table, there will be lead times and things like that before the equipment gets delivered. So it's still a ways away for the playground elements. Okay. Thank you. Sorry, Ben. I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, that's all good. Yeah. Go ahead, Commissioner. Okay. Great. And then the hurricane season ended November 30th. And, you know, as we all know, thankfully, we were spared this hurricane season. And I want to thank PD and FIRE because I know how much work they go into disaster preparedness, being ready, training on it, practicing, having the plan in place, all those good things. And so, thankfully, we didn't have to utilize all those plans this hurricane season. I'm just very thankful for y'all's continued work on that and keeping us safe. That's it. Thanks, Mayor. All right. Thank you. I just want to hit a couple of high points here. First of all, you mentioned Hal Barnes' Celebration of Life. What date did you have for that? I have December 10th. Am I wrong? I have December 5th. Yes. From 3 to 8 p.m. 3 to 8. Okay. So my notes are incorrect. December 5th, 3 to 8 p.m. Okay. December 5th. Okay. Very good. Thank you. And the Women's Club. Okay. Thank you. So, also that night, we have Light Up Cistrunk. And what time does that start? Six o'clock, I believe? Five o'clock. Five o'clock. And December 6th is the Winterfest Ball. Did the city buy a table to that? I believe we did, right? And do we have... Is that... Is that... I'm sorry. When you're finished, let me know. I'm sorry, Mayor. It's okay. Have all the seats been spoken for for the Winterfest Ball, the table? The city bought a table. I'm not sure, but we can check on that. Could you find out? Yes. And then we have to make sure they're going to show up? I'm being told no from the sidelines. No what? No table or no table. No table or no table. No table or no table. No table or no table. Ashley's coming. Seats are available? Don't forget, there are some people that aren't allowed to do that anymore because they have not been showing up at other past events. That's a good point. I want to know who's going to be there and how they confirmed to be there. We have some attendance violations. Wait, Ashley has... Yeah, exactly. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, we do have two open seats at the table, which I was going to offer to the city manager and the executive team first and then other city staff. Okay. But yes, we only have two seats available at this moment. Okay. Yes. All right. So did the city manager even know that there were? No. I don't believe so because all of that was happening during this meeting and she was very busy, so... Well... What's the date? Saturday night. Saturday night. Saturday night, yes. Yes. It's a wonderful event. If you can make it, try to make it. It's black tie. I'm available. Okay. Okay. December 9th. Did you mention the groundbreaking for the YMCA at Holiday Park? Okay. And also the following weekend is the Winterfest Boat Parade. And that's December 13th. It starts at 6 p.m. at downtown. And I will be a judge at that event. So it's open to everybody in the city. So it's a wonderful singular event here in our community. It's such a proud event that we help sponsor. Okay. That's it. May I add one other event, if that's all right? What's that? I just want to invite just all the commission, obviously, everyone, but especially the commission. So Friday, December 5th, 11 a.m. Friday, December 5th, 11 a.m. We're ribbon-cutting, naming Abiyaka Park, which is the park the city purchased with Park Bond dollars in Riverside Park. And we've reached out to the – so the neighborhood, obviously, is going to be there. But we also reached out to the chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe. So he's going to be there as well. So if any of you can make it, I'd love to have you there. I have it on my schedule. Oh, do you? Okay, great. Yep. Great. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. And, Mayor, one other thing. I'm sorry. You know, I'm like Colombo. One more thing. Go ahead. In regards to National League of Cities, I want everyone to know Major Steve Shefflow, he did an amazing job. He did a presentation representing our city in regards to violence and eruption and what we're doing to prevent that matter here in our city. So, claps, kudos to Steve. He did an amazing job. Great representation. And I want to thank you and commend you for waiting four hours for that vote on Saturday. You owe me. It's on record now. You owe me. I was busy. City Manager. Thank you, Mayor. So I've asked the team to look at opportunities to take our annual goal-setting meeting for the commission off-site. So we're looking at hosting it at the fort. The dates that we have in mind are February 4th or 5th, and we wanted to make sure that we had availability among the commission to select one of those dates. So it would be the morning. I'm free both days. Well, so far in advance. 4th or 5th. So we're looking at late in January, as we did for 2025, but the dates at the fort were not conducive for that. Do they have a room? Yes, there's a venue area that we would secure. Vice Mayor is not available. The commission meets on Tuesday the 3rd, right? Right. Yes. There's nothing in January that anyone can attend? Could we do it on a commission day, like in the morning, like February 3rd? We can ask the fort if there's availability on that date. We didn't imagine that you wanted to have a whole day, but... We did it today. We can... How many hours? You know, we used to take three days. Yeah, yeah. Keep it shorter. Didn't we get it down to a half a day? We got it down to... We've only seen three days. Two or three hours. Three hours. Half a day now? Yeah. So we looked at several dates in January, and we didn't have the consensus among the commission. I think we had reached out, and so we looked at those dates. But Commissioner, Vice Mayor, since you're not available, we will go back to the drawing board and try to identify another date. Well... What dates were you showing out in January? Because I don't remember hearing that. Fourth? Oh. Well, whatever they are, we couldn't get it. Oh. But the recommendation... So if we did it on the commission day, that would be 9 o'clock in the morning and ends at noon? Probably noon. Yeah. I just think that's easiest from a scheduling standpoint, because most of us... So the Thursday, I mean Tuesday the 3rd works for you? God. Tuesday's fine. I'll just be leaving on Wednesday after that. Commissioner Beasley, could I... I will align, but I would prefer another date. That's... It's a long... That's a long date. Yeah, I would prefer another date. That's a long date. That's a crazy day. I agree. Okay. We'll search for another date and let the 3rd be the fallback date. Okay. Okay. Okay. Please proceed. We have received some informal communication from InterMiami that they may want to celebrate something in the future, and so I just wanted to put that on the radar. Celebrate their leaving? Something that could happen in the future. So I just wanted to make the commission aware that we've heard of that potentiality, and if there are any actions that we would need to take or desire to take, I will keep you informed as things progress. I, too, want to thank our emergency management team for getting us through the hurricane season. So not just police and fire, but we also have several staff members who, over the course of the last several months, have done sandbag distributions, those who have responded to weather events, rain events from our public works team, our stormwater team. So all the work that they do throughout the year doesn't go unnoticed, and we're just so grateful that we didn't experience a major weather event. I also want to commend Utility Services Director Albert Carbon. On Thanksgiving Day, he was dealing with an infrastructure situation. We had several challenges last week, and he finally got to eat his pie at the end of the night, but he was dealing with a lot. So thank you so much, Albert. Thank you, Al. I think that was District 4 that was giving you some trouble. Thank you. Yes, it was District 4. District 4 thanks you. I hope you enjoyed your turkey. And pie. So I know we were very busy today, but we published six letters to the commission this morning, so I just wanted to put it on your radar. Lots of information was sent to you, so I'd love for you to review that information once you get an opportunity. Also, a week ago today, I closed on a home in District 4, and I am... Good luck with that commissioner. He never answers his phone. Yeah. And I know... I need all the help I can get. Unbelievable. Thank you. Appreciate it. Those constituent services. You can be deputy commissioner. I know I made you all aware at the time, but just for the public, I did make a commitment along with my family to fulfill the residency requirement of the position, and I just wanted to put it out there that, you know, I appreciate the support and the patience and the flexibility that you offered with my contract, and I wanted to let you know that officially I will be your new neighbor and looking forward to it, so thank you. We'll try not to call code enforcement on you. That concludes my report. Okay. And, Mr. Spence, this will be your last meeting before the... before Sherry McCartney takes her position next meeting? Yes, it will. Oh, yes, it has been. This will be my last request for an executive closed door. I know we've alluded to it at the last meeting, but I guess I don't know if we did it correctly. Pursuant to Florida Statute Section 286.0118A, I'm seeking advice on the following matter, Paula Wren versus the City of Fort Lauderdale, case number CACE25-004231, to be held on December 16th at 4.30 p.m. Does that conclude your remarks? Yes. Thank you, D. Wayne, for your service, man. Thank you. Thank you for being great. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Thank you. Well, thank you all for the opportunity to serve the city that has poured into me. I started here back in 2010 as an assistant city attorney, one, and I was able to grow here at the City of Fort Lauderdale. It's a unique story of coming in at the bottom rung of attorneys and being able to come to serve in this capacity as interim city attorney. I really appreciate the opportunity to give back to the city in this way, and I appreciate the opportunity you all gave me to do this twice. And hopefully that'll be it. But thank you again for giving me this opportunity, and I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, he's not going anywhere. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Is there any further business of the commission? There being none, the conference meeting is now concluded. And happy holidays, everybody.