City Council — Apr 10, 2024

Good evening and welcome. Excuse me. The Wednesday, April 10, 2024, City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called to order at 613. Ms. Beggaroe, please call the roll. Council Member Anderson. Here. Council Member Andrean. Here. Council Member Fadgen. Here. Council Member Horland. Here. Council Member Reinstein. Here. Mayor Sortel. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Thank you. Thank you. Tonight's opening remarks and pledge allegiance will be provided by Council Member Horland. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to take a point of personal privilege with my opening remarks this evening. Mr. Rosnick, would you come up, please? I've previously brought up 10 Days of Connection, which is something I hope we'll still be able to do as a community at some point. I'm going to have you at the podium. Yes, I know. Yeah. I come bearing trophies. And I want to talk about what I feel is the importance of having open dialogues on our community. Why is that important? Because it promotes deeper connections between people by allowing for constructive dialogues that are free from bias and criticism. Ultimately, it helps us to become more tolerant and compassionate as we learn about one another's perspectives and experiences. So tonight, I would like to introduce you to one of our own. Jeff Rosnick is the Director of Development of the Art and Culture Center Hollywood, where he's also the producer of the Emmy Award winning Open Dialogues film series, which Council Member Reinstein and I attended last week. He is a plantation native and he has called the city home since 1960. He moved away twice many years ago as a restless younger man, but came to his senses and came back to plantation in 1983. Jeff is a former print journalist for the Sun Sentinel and includes Mayor Nick Sortel among his editors. And for tonight, you'll see Jeff has two trophies there. I would like for Jeff to tell you a little bit about his film, which I'm hoping to bring to plantation very soon and have the dialogue in our community. So, Jeff, please tell us a little bit about the film and why this is important. Well, thank you Council Member Horland for coming to our screening last week at the African American Research Library and Culture Center of Open Dialogues, Black Voices, Black Stories, for which I won a regional Emmy. There were 20 of us and ended up working on the film. So, three of us got a trophy. So, Open Dialogues was created in, first film was in 2020 called Stories from the LGBTQ Community. And it was really an attempt at that point to create conversation about acceptance and inclusion for our LGBTQ community. The film got in several film festivals and it was actually much better than I expected it to be. And we got funding for the Black Voices, Black Stories film, which was picked up by South Florida PBS. And that made us eligible for the Emmy Award. We have produced two films last year. One, Queer Allies, and a fourth film called Gen Queers. That's Queers with a Z, which are Generation Z coming out stories. And the idea of Open Dialogues really is to put the audience, as you can see in our film, really in tight close-up camera shots of people telling their stories very honestly and creating a space where the audience has to listen to the stories of people that have been put in marginalized spaces through no choice of their own. Yeah. Thank you so much. And so I asked Jeff to bring his Emmy tonight. He said his PAL trophy was just as important as the Emmy. So he brought that as well. So yeah, I'm not going to talk about PAL because I'll get, I'll get emotional, but I have to say, uh, we'd, I coached 17 teams, uh, commissioner Bob Horland. And, um, I went to the park earlier this year and it was, it was emotional because I realized that was the happiest times for our family. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. We're so proud of you. Congratulations on the Emmy. And I really look forward to having, uh, Open Dialogues in the City Plantation very soon. I'll follow up. Jeff, would you mind standing in front with your, maybe we can get a picture? Just stand right here and, uh, Felix, can you see it? It is his sitting. Everybody would stand. We're going to do the pledge indulgence. Alrighty. I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. Items submitted by mayor. First up, Eric's consultants has a, uh, presentation about the legislative session. This is LJ. This is not Candace Eric's. Sorry about that, ma'am. You're fine. And Candace was sorry that she couldn't make it tonight. Um, but she's going to be reaching out to everyone individually if she hasn't already yet to try to get with everyone over the interim, um, and, and look at things for next session. So to, to start it off, um, it was a bit of a disappointment with our appropriations request this year. Uh, the, the legislature did pass a $117 billion budget, um, and it, it did include full funding for the FURDAP. Uh, Florida, trying to, yeah, thank you for, for parks. Um, and that did include 200,000 going to Liberty Tree Park. Um, and representative Campbell was, was very, uh, helpful and instrumental in, in helping to advocate for full funding for FURDAP. So we do want to give him credit and say thank you to him, uh, for that advocacy. Uh, and then additionally, uh, old plantation water control district did get 500,000 as well. The budget has not yet been sent to the governor. Um, so we don't know what's going to make it out. What isn't? Um, the, the good news is the Liberty Tree funding is in the FURDAP list and, and that really never gets vetoed. Um, so that should be veto proof. Um, but the old plantation water control district, that might be vulnerable. Um, the, the budget has not yet been sent to the governor. Then, uh, to move on. So just want to start off with vacation rentals. Obviously, uh, this was always a big fight as it has been every single year. And it was a fight to the very bitter end as it has been every single year. Um, but unlike the previous years, the bill did pass, um, this year very narrowly. On, on, on asking the governor to, to veto the legislation. Um, I know his allies have been reaching out and asking for him to veto the legislation. Um, also a lot of stakeholders in the bill are asking for, for the, the legislation to be vetoed. So, um, that's our hope with, with that bill right now. But it would, uh, it would preempt your ordinance that was passed after 2011. And it would replace it with a one size fits all regulatory scheme that is, uh, prescribed by the state for the registration process. In previous iterations of the bill, it did require, um, uh, the local registration first before you applied for the state license. This is not that way, actually, though. You would actually be applying to the state license. They would then generate a unique ID number, um, that would obscure the, the actual location, um, and, um, some other things. So this, this is set up in a different way than it was the past two sessions. Um, so just to be aware of that. But there, there's a full breakdown in the final report. So you'll be able to see all the details with that. But we are, uh, again, focusing on, on asking the governor to veto that legislation. Uh, and then just to continue it on with the Senate president, um, I do want to mention their number one priorities. And, and the Senate president's was, uh, live healthy initiative, which was a major, uh, healthcare initiative that focused on workforce. It focused on innovation, um, and, uh, in funding, in funding for, for healthcare services in order to ensure that we have the workforce in place. So that was her number one priority that did pass. Um, but going along the same lines for, for, for local government bills that the Senate president was pursuing, live local 2.0, that bill also passed, uh, originally, it actually had a lot more language that was in favor of local governments. It was a glitch bill really for developers and for local governments at the same time. Um, but unfortunately, there was a, a local government that had threatened litigation earlier. Um, and then after the bill was filed to actually address their issue, they went ahead and filed the lawsuit. And so after that, the Senate president changed her tone and, and was no longer longer as willing to, to, to work with the local governments, um, on this glitch bill. So some of the provisions, um, that we liked before, uh, were not included in the final package. Uh, then, uh, also, there was a bill, local government actions, uh, that the Senate president also pursued, um, and that passed as well. And I think this one might have been the most annoying bill of the session, in my opinion, uh, in addition to vacation rentals. Uh, but this bill, as you might recall, uh, last year, SB 170 did two things. Uh, it was, uh, uh, business impact statements before you passed certain ordinances. And it also set up a process where someone can challenge your ordinance. It would put an automatic stay on that ordinance while it goes through an expedited legal, uh, process. So we negotiated a lot of exemptions in what those ordinances, uh, what it didn't apply to. And one of that, one of those exemptions was chapter 163, which was the growth management chapter. This went back and it narrowed that exemption to only apply to development orders, agreements, uh, um, and, uh, its development orders and agreements, essentially. Um, and thankfully, originally, it would have applied to both parts of the bill, which could have completely halted growth if people would be allowed to challenge a growth management ordinance and then it put an automatic stay on it, as you can imagine. Um, so thankfully, at the end, the final product, it only applies to the business impact statement. So it does mean that you'll be having to, uh, prepare more business impact statements for, for additional ordinances. That then what you do today. Then, uh, the residential permitting bill. This one was a big fight as well. Uh, we spent a lot of time negotiating this bill. Um, and at the end of the day, it, the version that passed was still a lot better than what the version, uh, the original version that was proposed and also the version that the house was holding on to really to the bitter end as well. Thankfully, we were able to get the, the Senate to hold strong on, on, on their end. Um, so it originally, it would have reduced the timeframes to a very very small, narrow timeframe, um, and things would have been automatically deemed approved. Um, with the Senate version, it only half the times for every review. Um, and my understanding is really the, the hangup on that we were kind of hoping to get a little bit better on was multifamily, uh, 50 units or, or less, um, would be, uh, 60 days. So I know some had a little bit of heartburn on that. Um, but that was one of the things that we weren't able to fix. That unfortunately was, was added as well. We really tried hard to, uh, to keep that language out or to mitigate it a little bit more. Um, and we, and we were able to negotiate a little bit. Um, but we got some concessions as well. So we were able to get rid of the back and forth, um, where they were limiting how many times we could request, uh, additional information from the applicants, et cetera. Um, we were able to get rid of that. And we also were able to get it to where building code fees could be used for technology that could help with building code enforcement. Um, so we did get a couple of concessions in that bill. Also homestead exemption. There were two proposals this year, uh, to put amendments on, uh, constitutional amendments on the ballot for 2024, uh, for homestead exemption. One of them would have doubled the homestead exemption, uh, and, and that bill did not pass. The one that did pass will do an annual CPI adjustment on the portion of 25,000. That's between 50,000 and 75,000 of assessed value. Um, so that will be going before the voters this November. Um, and that one had a much, much lower, uh, revenue impact than the other bill did. Uh, then for a couple of bills that did not pass this year, um, sovereign immunity, uh, is a, is a big one. Um, we actually, normally we, we try to work to stop that bill. Um, but this year we actually were trying to cut a deal. Um, and, and I'll explain why in a second. Uh, but this year, what they were doing was 400k, 600k up from 200, 300, which was a lot more reasonable than some of the proposals that we've seen in the past. Um, as you might recall, uh, they, they have not, uh, raised the sovereign immunity caps in over 13 years. And so the legislature has had an appetite for quite a while to raise those sovereign immunity caps. Um, so the 400, 600 wasn't so bad. They originally proposed an annual CPI adjustment, um, which gave us a little bit of heartburn. And also they allowed, uh, political subdivisions to settle above the cap without legislative action. That also caused a little bit of concern as well. Um, at the end of the day, what we were hoping to get to, and we did have leverage in the house, the house was willing to go along with us. We had a couple of powerful senators that were also willing to go along with us. Um, but at the end of the day, the Senate just didn't get the deal through. Um, but it would have been 300k, 500k with a CPI adjustment every five years capped at 3%. And so it would have increased without the legislature proposing a bill. Um, but it would have kept that increase moderate in perpetuity. The hangup was allowing subdivisions to settle above the cap. And that's where it all came down to. Um, and unfortunately, the deal did not go through. And why I say that that's a, a concerning thing is because we know that incoming leadership really wants to raise the caps and they aren't too happy with the fact that a deal hasn't been made yet. And they think that it could be a lot higher than 400k. 600k. 600k. Um, and so we are looking at a potentially big fight with that, um, in the next legislative session. Uh, and then, um, uh, well, I mean, I guess I can, I can leave it at that. I don't know. I know I'm going to go going over if you guys have any questions about anything in particular. Thank you. Uh, council member. Thank you. Um, Lauren for all of your work that you do in Tallahassee on behalf of all of us here in plantation. Just quickly, a few questions. Is there, uh, is there an actual date you can expect the governor to make a decision regarding the vetoes? Is there any type of, like, cutoff by this date where he'll make a decision regarding the short term vacation rentals? And also, can you send us the language that will be on the ballot regarding the CPI adjustment? Because I know sometimes, um, it can be confusing the way it's phrased. So I think it would help if we had that in advance and could start just sharing it, you know, with residents. So they'll know what to expect. And hopefully the, the League of Cities and other nonprofits and other organizations will put out information as well. Absolutely. And that's a great idea. Um, with the first question, it's, it's interesting. Uh, technically the governor has until July 1st to act or not act on a bill. However, the bill has to be sent to him first. They have not yet sent him the bill. Um, so when the bill gets sent to him, then there's a 14 day shot clock, uh, that he has to act by. Um, but if he doesn't take any legislative action on something by July 1st, then it, then it will go into effect. Um, so, but they have to send it to him. Because he does have veto authority. So at some point, we're going to be, we're going to be watching for it to be sent. And we'll make sure that everybody is aware, um, when that does get sent up to him. But if it doesn't, for some odd reason, it is automatically passes. Yeah. If no action is taken, then it, it is, it automatically goes into law. Okay. Um, and then my last question is, can you, I know you said it, but it, I didn't catch it. The dollar amount for Liberty Tree Park and the old plantation water district. I just wanted to, it was a 200,000 for the park and then 500,000 for the water control district. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, council member Holland. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Lauren. And I say it every year, but really the hardest working lobbying team up there. And, you know, you saw the report that Lauren, uh, emailed us a couple of days ago. I mean, it's comprehensive. Nobody knows the bills better. And when you watch, uh, the team work in Tallahassee, it's really in the relationships that you build. I think everybody saw the league of cities email praising, uh, Lauren for her work on vacation rentals. So thank you for partnering with that. Um, I wanted to ask you because there were several attacks, um, potential attacks on our revenue stream that we were concerned about this year. And one of them that failed was the local business tax, which was Repo Tana's. Do you think that that might come back or do you think that one is a dead? I do think that that could come back. I think that this legislature is going to continue to pursue, um, uh, all the different attacks on revenue sources. And, and one of the bills I failed to mention that that failed this year was also the municipal utilities bill. Um, uh, fortunately that got to a much better spot though, where we weren't as concerned about it at the end of the day. Um, but, uh, but yes, I, I, I, we, we anticipate them to continue that. I mean, there was talk this year about getting rid of property taxes and moving it to a consumption tax. Um, they're, uh, they're not at all shy about, uh, that issue and they seem like they, they want to continue that route. Yeah. And I think that's why it's important when the mayor gives his state of the city. And we have been very conservative. We've got a great finance department and we have those reserves, as you said, could be wiped out in a windstorm or two, but you have to also understand, I think it's important for the residents to know that those attacks on our revenue are probably coming. And so the city may be sitting, you know, in a comfortable position right now, but if we start to lose some of those revenue streams, that's going to further, further impact us and impact service. So. Absolutely. And, and I would also like to give you a shout out as well. Thank you so much for, for all that you do and all the advocacy work that you, that you do. Um, actually sovereign immunity, a lot of the work that councilwoman Horland did previously, um, uh, meeting with legislators in the past years on the past proposals, I think actually benefited us this year in the fight. So I want to say thank you for all of your advocacy and help pleasure to work with you. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I don't see any other questions. Oh, just one quick council member. Enjoy. Thank you, council president. Do you have the dates for the next session? Uh, the next session is going to begin in March and end in May. Uh, I don't remember right off the top of my head, the starting date, but I can email that when I email you the, um, the language for the ballot as well. I'll, I'll send you the exact dates as well. All right. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have two proclamations and the first one is for covenant living of Florida located in plantation. Uh, tingam tingam tingam. Is that his name? He's right behind me. How are you, sir? I'm glad you're here. Hey, good to see you again. So I'm, I'm going to read the proclamation and, uh, keep it going. Did you have your meeting yesterday? Oh, your meeting? Uh-oh. There was no meeting. Okay. All right. Good, good. Feel better about that. Don't ask a question. Don't know the answer to it. Uh, yeah, I'll read, I'll read the proclamation and then I'm going to give Mr. Tingam the microphone and you'll introduce everybody. Okay. Okay. Whereas covenant living of Florida located in plantation was named among America's best continuing care retirement communities in the nation, ranking third in, in the state of Florida and 18th in the U.S. and 2,000 continuing care retirement communities were considered for this ranking. Covenant living of Florida has an A minus Fitch rating, making it one of the most financially secure retirement communities in the U.S. And whereas the current property on West Broward Boulevard was purchased by the Covenant Board of Benevolence in 1977 from the Indiana Baptist Association and initially named Covenant Village of Florida. And whereas Covenant Village of Florida began in Miami as Covenant Palms and moved 70 residents to plantation in March of 1982 after a $10 million investment to upgrade the property. And whereas Covenant Village of Florida was renamed Covenant Living in 2019. And whereas Covenant Living currently serves 235 independent living residents, 37 assisted living residents, and 56 skilled nursing residents in addition to having rehab and memory care. And whereas the Covenant Living community's board of directors operate 18 communities in 11 states throughout the U.S., all communities offer independent living, rehab, memory care, assisted living and skilled nursing. Covenant living, Covenant living offers benevolent care for residents who may outlive their resources, allowing them to continue in the community. And whereas people who live in a retirement community tend to live longer active lives. The average age of residents is 80, many living well past 100. And I walked around the campus there, I don't think their average age is 80. I think it's 60. But I'm a politician. So, whereas Covenant Living of Florida is continually investing in their property, currently this includes upgrading the entrance, improving infrastructure, landscaping and lighting. And whereas the Census Bureau states more than 10 million Americans will need continuing care in the next five years. And whereas the chorus of senior voices you hear is the residents of Covenant Living in Plantation shouting, We're number one in Southeast Florida. Now, therefore, I, Nick Soto Mayor and the City Council Plantation proclaim Monday, April 8th is when we did it. We did a proclamation there as Covenant Living of Florida Day. First of all, I'd like to thank Mayor Soto and City Council. We certainly appreciate your support. I'd like to introduce the executive board members and our new executive director. On the far side over there is Carol Fenton. Raise your hand, Carol. Annalise Duncan. Barbara Schmid. Debbie Hang. Glenn Rose. Our new executive director, Karen Harris. Who, by the way, is a plantation resident. And Bill Nanowski. Again, we want to thank you for this proclamation. And we appreciate all that you do. Okay? Some day you all may live here. I've never heard a bad thing. Mr. Tingem, tell them if they want to visit. Tell them what to do if they want to visit. Call Pete. Did you see that picture, how his hard hat was sticking up over the box? I know. He's got to have a shared coat there. You need to be taller. You can cut off his hat, Felix. Okay. Put a foot ladder in the budget. Bye-bye. Next up is Fair Housing Month. Fair Housing Month? Yeah, yeah. We want everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Edlin's going to call everybody up. Yeah. We want people up here. Just calling a few businesses that came out to support tonight. And I know there are residents who are always supporting affordable housing every time there is an issue that are in the audience as well. So thank you for being here. You want me to read it? You want to read it? You can read it. Okay. Yeah. Whereas April marks the anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which sought to eliminate discrimination in housing opportunities. And whereas the ongoing struggle for dignity and housing opportunity for all is not the exclusive province of the federal government. And whereas vigorous local efforts to combat discrimination can be effective, if not more so than federal efforts. And whereas illegal barriers to end opportunity in housing, no matter how subtle, diminish the rights of all. And whereas the City of Plantation Administration and the Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Department will continue to pursue the shared goal of responsibility of providing equal housing opportunities for all men and women in our city. Now, therefore, I, Nick Soto Mayor, and the City Council of Florida, City Council of Plantation Florida, hereby proclaim the month of April 2024 as Fair Housing Month. Anything you want to say? I just want to say thank you to our city and also to our planning and zoning staff for taking affordable housing and affordable living serious and for us to be doing every little thing we can to have an impact, no matter how small. Oh, I'm Edlin Griffith, Housing Administrator in Planning and Zoning Department. Just really quick. Thank you, Mayor Soto. Thank you, City Commissioner, for recognizing April as Fair Housing Month. As an education outreach coordinator for Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence, we are HOPE Fair Housing Center, and we fight to combat housing discrimination. And it's great that the City of Plantation does recognize it and realizes how important it is to affirmatively further fair housing. So thank you. So now we have the City of Plantation Annual Investment Performance Review. Good evening, everybody. Anna Oteniano, Finance Director. Tonight we have Richard Pangeli from PFM, who is our investment advisory firm for a long time now, since 2013. So he's going to give you an update on the City's portfolio annual update. Okay. True 1231. Good evening. Thank you, as Anna said. I am Richard Pangeli with PFM Asset Management, and we will talk about the City's portfolio and performance results for the year ending December 31st, 2023. So just to kind of give an overview, performance was good for 2023. The portfolio returned 4.91 percent. It outperformed the benchmark, which was 4.27. So it outperformed by 64 basis points. We use basis points in yield in our business, but you all think of the world in terms of dollars. Your accrued earnings for the year were 3.2 million on the portfolio. So following the prior two years where we sort of were faced with this rapidly rising interest rate environment, now we're seeing the benefit of the higher interest rates in higher earnings for your portfolio. The second thing I'll comment is that the portfolio continues to be invested in very high quality investments in line with your investment policy and state statute requirements. And the portfolio remained in compliance with the policy throughout the year. And then lastly, sort of a comment on what the outlook is for the portfolio. For most of this year, we've been saying that the economy is slowing and that would likely lead the Fed to lower interest rates. However, a steady stream of data since the beginning of the year has kind of changed that view a little bit. And we'll touch on that more in a little second here. If you could jump maybe a couple more slides, one more, one more. Yeah, let's we can sort of stay there. So because the city's portfolio is really concentrated in the shorter end of the yield curve, so it's shorter term fixed income investments, we spend a lot of time really focused on the Federal Reserve and what the Fed is doing with short term interest rates. So what's driving the Fed right now? It's inflation. You know, going back to 2021, the Fed started focusing on inflation, which rose very high and then since has come down. But because of some underlying shifts in the economy, the inflation has become kind of sticky at current levels and still hasn't gotten to quite where the Fed wants it to be. Why is that important? Because the Fed will continue to keep interest rates high until it sees inflation is under control and moving very comfortably towards its target, which it made a lot of gains, a lot of moves in that direction the past couple of years of the past couple of months. It's really kind of been very, very sticky. So why is it sticky? We've seen a shift in the economy towards being more service driven in terms of what's driving economic growth. If you wind back probably about a year ago, the market projected that we'd likely see recession conditions develop, you know, at the end of last year. And then coming into this year, the market continued to think that maybe in the latter part of this year, we'd see recessionary conditions. And it's been quite the opposite. We've had a very strong labor market. The GDP numbers have come out stronger than expected. All of this is likely to delay the Fed lowering interest rates from where we are now. Coming into the year, they projected that they would lower interest rates by 0.75% this year, which would have meant lower earnings for the portfolio. The market actually thought it would be more like 1.5% by the end of the year. Now the market thinks that we might only see one or two rate cuts, which would be 0.5% lower interest rates for the year. This is probably a good thing for your earnings in your portfolio, maybe not for other things in the economy, but in terms of the outlook for earnings in the portfolio. The longer that interest rates stay at this level, the more we're likely to have the same kind of earnings in the portfolio. This year or at the end of this year, as we saw in the past year, which again, like I said, would be good for the portfolio. If you'll jump maybe a couple more slides, three or four more slides. We'll sort of focus on the performance return for the portfolio. A few more. We'll pause there. Thank you. Thank you. So this is a summary of the results for the portfolio for the past year and longer time periods. And as I mentioned at the beginning, the portfolio returned 4.91% compared to if you go back to 2020, I think the yield levels were 0.5% in that environment. So we've come quite a long way. We're at yield levels that we really haven't seen in something approaching 20 years at this point. So, you know, good performance for 2023 and the outlook for this year to the extent rates continue to stay high as they have is another year of higher earnings. So I'll pause there for questions. So even if inflation eases, do you think they would make any changes, rate changes in a presidential election year? Yes. So the expectation is right around or right before the election, the Fed wouldn't want to be seen as trying to influence things. So if they were going to lower rates, it would probably be maybe the July meeting that they lower rates and then they'd probably wait until after the election if they're going to cut rates anymore after that. Okay. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? Thank you. Okay. Thank you all. Keep those interest rates up. Yes. Mr. Goodrich, Parks and Recreation upcoming events. Good evening. Phil Goodrich, Parks and Recreation Director, Mayor, City Council. Some busy week coming up for Parks and Recreation. Today we opened up registration for the 4th of July parade. I know it sounds early, but we're trying to get everybody there. It is free and open to all. So please visit us at the website plantation.org and go to the Parks and Rec website and information is there for you to register. Businesses, individuals, communities, homeowners associations, all are welcome. Friday, April 12th, we have a senior trip to Delray, the Delray Affair. That will be leaving Jim Ward Community Center on the morning of Friday the 12th. Friday the 12th through Sunday, April 14th, the PAL Stars Baseball Tournament will be held at both Sunset Park and Central Park, bouncing back and forth between the two things. We have 92 teams scheduled for that event for PAL Travel Baseball. So very excited to have Travel Baseball hosting a tournament here in the city. Saturday the 13th and the 14th, we have the Parks and Rec Foundations having their pickleball tournament also at Central Park. If anybody would like some more information, a last-minute registration, you might be able to get in 954-439-2900. Also Saturday, April 13th, a long-standing program with the city since 1999, Relay for Life. That has been going on for a long time. It's a combination of Plantation and Sunrise. It is presented by Memorial Cancer Institute. They'll be running fun activities for the whole family, live music, entertainment, food, games, raffles, etc. Happening at Central Park from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. For years past, they used to do an overnight thing, but the way things have come, one night's plenty for everybody. So looking forward to a big crowd there. So as I said, there's three events in a row that are going to be happening at Central Park. It will be very busy out there for the rest of the weekend. April 19th, we have a tennis exhibition that will be happening at the Veltree Tennis Center. All spectators are welcome. Light refreshments will be served at the Veltree Tennis Center at 6.30 p.m. Saturday, April 20th, we're going to be having our Earth Day celebration out at Volunteer Park. Come learn all the things that we're doing, different organizations throughout the county. The farmer's market will be going on, children's activities, tree giveaways, and everything else. I have to say a special thanks to all of the agencies in the city. Police, fire, utilities, public works, everybody pitches in to make sure that we put on a good show for the public and for the community. That will be happening on the 20th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. On April 25th, we're going to be hosting a wheelchair tennis exhibition. A lot of people don't realize this, but we do have a wheelchair program that does happen at the Veltree Tennis Center. But that exhibition will be happening on April 25th at the Veltree Tennis Center at 6.30 p.m. As far as athletics goes, registration is now open for summer and fall basketball for PAL, flag football for PAL, untackled cheerleading. Adult programming, we always have ongoing registration open for softball, basketball, kickball, and flag football. Just a quick note that I want to add is I know some of you have been looking for some placer information regarding the Rock the Park series back in March. I don't think I gave you the March numbers. That was 3,900. And then this past Saturday, April 6th, it was 3,300. Against the final four. Yes. There is a lot going on everywhere. Okay. All right. Great. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to make a quick announcement. If you're here for legislative item number eight or quasi-judicial item number 12, those are going to be deferred to the next meeting. So you don't have to be here. But we want you to stay. All right. So public request of counsel regarding municipal affairs. Those who wish to speak request that you complete a speaker form. If you're not done so already, please do. Please state your name and address. And please address your remarks to the council president, not the mayor or individual members of council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. So first up is Mr. Conklin. I try rotating it. If I go first, I'd be up front. You're up front. From the back. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and your families. It's day 1489 martial law where they shut down the churches, required masks, and shot as mandated. We lost our unalienable, God-given, and individual rights. It's day 612 since the illegal FBI invasion of the Trump family home violating 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment rights. It's day 253 of the arraignment and the gag order which violated the 1st Amendment rights of the president. It's day 198 of no jury trial violating the 7th Amendment rights to our trial by jury of the president. It's day 187 of the Hamas military terrorist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, war against Israel, Israelis, Jews, and freedom-loving people. You hear a lot about what's going on in Gaza. Egypt will not open its borders to let those people out. Right now, over 100,000 Israelis are displaced from the north of Israel because of the attacks that go on daily. In a population of 9 million, if that was America with 330 million, that would be 3.6 million Americans displaced under attack and fire. It's day 56, the violation of the 8th Amendment rights of the president. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor exclusive fines, excessive fines and imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Last week, you remember during the lockdown and everything, when they finally reopened, I kept putting this up. However, 2021, 2022, last week the courts ordered the FDA to stop lying and take down everything they had in all of their publications and media about ivermectin. Because it was all a lie, they said it was a horse-paced thing. I've made my request focusing on that so that the city would begin to move and recover expenses and any injuries or deaths that may have occurred during the shot mandates. May I request a two-minute extension? Thank you. These things are going through the courts. I know that the city required it, and it was reported that 90% of 1,000 employees had taken the jab. To get back to the gold standard, as I was approaching retirement, I would request each year my annual earnings from the IRS. And I recommend everybody do that because toward the end of my years of request, they started putting little asterisks in. And kind of being OCD, I guess, I looked at the asterisks. And basically it says that any moment now, the funds that I'm supposed to get are to be reduced to 75%. Now, I can't pull up what's been going on since I retired, right? I don't have any earned. But I recommend everybody to go in and look at their recorded, reported earnings from the IRS and see if they don't still have an asterisks. Because basically it was in the late 2020s or 2030 when the stuff goes to 75%. Another reason for the gold standard. Now, I mentioned what happened last week with the courts and the lies. Next week, April 16th in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in Washington, D.C. because it's a federal district. That was 162 years ago. And I'll yield back my time. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Ms. McCormick. Good evening. Donna Marie McCormick, 1201 Northwest, 114th Avenue, Plantation Acres. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our mayor, our city council, our CAO, and our city attorney for ensuring that the city took a stance on the short-term vacation rental bill, SB 280, that if signed by the governor, would preempt the majority of the work the city has done to help control the short-term vacation rentals in our community. We appreciate the mayor's letter to Governor DeSantis requesting that he veto the bill and also the development of the social media communications to our residents requesting that they reach out to the governor in support of the veto request. I'm hopeful that Governor DeSantis will, in fact, veto the bill and that, as a city, we'll all work together to continue improving our processes so that unlicensed short-term vacation rentals in the communities will either become licensed or leave, and the remaining licensed short-term vacation rentals will learn to become good neighbors. Thank you again. Mr. Corman. Rob Corman. Rob Corman, 11095 Whitehawk Street. I hadn't intended to speak, so I'm going to be extemping this one. We just heard the state of the city, and while I don't always agree with the content of communications, I cannot fault the mayor for the commitment to communication with the citizens of Plantation, so thank you on that one. But during that presentation, there was one particular comment that was made. It had to do with the gateway compared to Broward Mall property and the property values and where, in essence, affordable housing would be most likely to go. And the reality of the Broward Mall property is that even if it is at $5 million per acre, it's going to be up to you and us and everyone else to determine the value, truly, of that piece of property. Because I do feel that, especially it being Fair Housing Month now, that there can be fair housing on that property if we work with the developers the way it was worked with the most recent high-density project that went up on Sunrise and University, which is that the developers themselves have to commit to viewing things a little bit differently. And one of the things that I would encourage you all to consider, and anybody, frankly, who is running for the office since it's a cycle, I'm not going to deny the fact this is going to be a long-term issue, is that we view the nature of fair housing and affordable housing in terms of economic diversity. Because you can't just put what you consider to be affordable housing into an area just because the land values are cheaper. If you mix the diversity within a development so that there are not in a single building studios versus three bedrooms, but rather little communities within that development parcel that are what you consider affordable housing against luxury housing against luxury rental, you can actually build a stronger community and a stronger residential block because you don't have the single economic block of diversity that you have, for example, in some place like Plantation Walk. Yes, everybody does love going out, but it is not cheap to eat there. So the people who live there, while they may like the benefit of walking across the street, they don't actually get the full benefit of that. And frankly, the city doesn't get the full benefit of that level of economic diversity. So when we're thinking about how to redevelop that Broward plot, please consider the notion of that diversity, especially in the context of the fact that it is Fair Housing Week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Wynn. I love that it's been oiled. Joe Wynn, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. So members of council, mayor, city attorney, and pretty much so you guys have received my many, many messages on road safety, on infrastructure, on addressing the challenges that we face here as a car dependent society that was built in around cars as the central mode and primary mode of getting around. That, while convenient for people, does end up becoming dangerous. I feel like we, as a community, can agree that when we talk about safety, when we talk about making a safe, comfortable, welcoming place, the number one expectation is that when you leave your home, you expect to get back. Get back. And in the past month, two people at one intersection didn't. Now, was that because of that infrastructure? Maybe. There's a potential that due to the shape of the roadway, people's eye lines are not quite ideal because they were factored. Now, obviously, I can't speak to that. We don't necessarily know. We may never know in that exact situation. However, the idea of improving roadways in a sense of road diets or bicycle pedestrian infrastructure, lane remarking, any number of things that have an effect on the speed of vehicles, the number of vehicles, and the way that drivers behave on those roadways, the way that drivers turn their heads, the way the roadways force them to behave, has a dramatic effect on safety. It is not just addressing traffic. It is not just making it more walkable. It is not essentially making it so that we can put a few fewer parking spaces in somewhere. Those are all aspects of it. But the primary motive, excuse me, the primary motivator here is safety. And that's not just safety for pedestrians. The two people that unfortunately died in car violence in one intersection in the past month were both on motor vehicles. They were both on motorcycles. They were not pedestrians in that case. As a pedestrian on the bike ride here, the driver basically almost ran into me. They were not looking. They were stopping at the light like this. And I noticed them. So I stopped in the roadway and they just, you know, crossed in front. They never even looked up the entire time. Now, there are always going to be bad drivers. Our responsibility as a city is to do all we can and work with the people who are experts in that and prioritize efforts to remove vulnerable users from the car spaces and ensure that the car spaces are designed in a way that allows for people to make poor decisions but not result in people dying. Thank you. Thank you. And a mic drop. Mr. McIntosh. Hi. Matthew McIntosh. 601 Northwest 82nd Avenue, Plantation, Florida. First, I just wanted to say a great job with the State of the City speech. I thought it was informative and nice and quick. Secondly, I just want to say I've been visiting Plantation Preserve Park, which has also been delightful. I've been walking to it from my office during my lunch break these past two weeks while the weather is still bearable before the summer heat kicks in. It seems like it has been cleaned up a bit now and the benches look new, so I do appreciate that. Of course, if it was going to be a naturally messy type of environment, please don't take that as saying not to keep it unnatural. I'm okay with stuff being messy if it's meant to be that way. The crosswalk button to cross Boulevard actually seems to work to get to the park. When I click the button, it works. And that's not, I think everyone has experienced that where sometimes it feels like it's a placebo effect, but in this case, it works. I click the button and it's like all the cars stop and I'm like, yeah, I'm doing that. Parting the red seed there, you know? So, one last thing to note, there's a northern mockingbird that hangs out on the sign of the Plantation Preserve Florida Communities Trust sign. If you like go in walking it, it's very docile for a bird. It just stays in place, so it's close enough to get a pic. I don't have a professional camera, so I don't have anything worthy of sharing, but it's perfect for a photo op. It's still the state bird, I believe, but I haven't followed the state legislation. I'm okay with the flamingo, but in the meantime, it's a good photo op opportunity. So, that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. I don't have anybody turned any slips in. Is there anybody in the chamber who would like to speak? Former Councilmember Hillier, how are you? Oh, I'm fabulous. Good. Each day gets better, I get stronger. For God, he keeps me alive, so thank you very much. Good to see you. Gee, I like him, this last person, because now I'm going to sound how weird I am. My favorite Christmas movie is Scrooged by Bill Murray. One of the last items was greedy, you get into it. I'm in a greedy mode because one of my favorite persons that I have written here is former Council President Jerry Fadgen. Jerry, in the last note that I'm handing to you all out, should add some other person, but I guess April will get it later. But it is the entire president of the 2003 where he was begging for the gymnasium for Park East. I have been an advocate since before the days of anybody having that former one inclusive would be President Fadgen. It would be that I was working with the Gateway 7 Group prior to that to ensure that I would not only be president at Plantation Acres, but help the east side get more strength and tower, and luckily I had urban political goals to help them get better, stronger, and more equity. They've made strides. The thing of today was one of my most impressive items was going to the garden plot. Council person, we did have a long conversation, and thank you very much. Collectively, whoever ushered that into, and I like your sign. I don't know if it was for your personal or for your father. I'm not supposed to ask the president, but the greedy part is to get the gymnasium built on the three parks next to the gym warden. We need to talk to the mayor. Well, I will yield to that after this presentation was to just share with you the openness of what my vision has been from in 1994, October 4, 1994. I met Doc Cannon. He grabbed me by the arm, and I did everything I could to not give him a smack in the face for grabbing me when I didn't see him grabbing me. He says, I'm going to show you here on our side that there is no land that they said you would. Well, we found the land. We've had opportunities to make the land better. Park Plantation East now is back on 42nd Avenue to help the neighborhood, and I would thank you very, Mr. Anderson, for your usher of their Class A excellent school. It's getting better, and that makes me feel good about seeing that growth. Let these children play basketball, learn how to play basketball in a covered gymnasium that I have given the lands, foxtails, to. Can I yield for one minute? Over at the American African Library and Sam Deliveau, our plants that are at Volunteer Park were also put over there. Certain politics happened within our community here. Politics, I just let it go, of which I'm still trying to get the palm trees built along the corridor of your plots, continue to the dump pile, to the tennis, and put the shade for our tennis players as well as enlarge the garden, because your last speaker was talking about tough times economically. When we're in a depression, not if we're going to be in a recession. I don't see the, I'm old enough to understand what depressions really are, that I had an entire family that taught me how to save your money. So my wife and I, because she's smarter than me, and a financial like yourself, I'm proud of her being the very first woman who's who. And she worked for Pillsbury, and worked for Burger King. She's got a good head, and I'm lucky that God let me marry with her, because I wouldn't want to bury me. Anyway, the emissence is to try to get the gymnasium opportunities, because a brand new one was just built at Devolo. There's Sunrise has tons of them, Flamingo Park as well, and they have some trees of mine nearby as well, so thank you. There's my genuine offer that I've had since 1995 when they put those trees in at Devolo Park. There you go. Not a one trick, but I can't move my leg, but that's what I am. Be careful. Simple person. If there's any questions or the conversations with the mayor, I don't know what your protocol is going to be. We heard your request. Okay. Thank you. You hear it? Yep. You're so greedy. I know. I've known you a long time. Will there be a gym? It's what your dad wanted, so you'll have the papers here. Okay. Thank you. If y'all want to read it or not, or just give it to... No, I want to see it. Sure. Dennis is coming. Here comes Danny. They each have this for one of them. Okay. That's yours. I just want to keep the ugly ones about me. They don't need that. Thank you. Thank you. My pleasure. Is there anybody else in the council chamber like to speak? Public comment? Come on up. If you can state your name and address for the record. Good evening. Good evening, everybody. My name is Hans Reiter. I live on 6321 West Brower Boulevard with my family for 33 years. I want to just quickly interject since I had a tree-city plantation years ago on the Frankville Tree. I was one of the judges and also donated a tree at that time, which is on the south side of this building. The reason why I came here is I got a court enforcement notice, which is telling me owners of property required to maintain abutting sidewalks. Regularly scrub, pressure wash, clean, treat, or otherwise maintain sidewalk in a condition that is free of mold, mildew, or other dangerous conditions or discolorations and poses a reduced risk of slipping, skidding, or sliding. I have checked Brower Boulevard from university down to where the fire station is. I haven't seen a single home where they have not, where they have pressure cleaned the sidewalk. I looked all around. I see right in this building here, I see sidewalks need to be cleaned, especially when you have large trees overhanging. Those places need to be cleaned. The police station and some major issues there too. And the plantation community church, a lot of, I mean, the list goes on, goes on. I'm questioning why am I singled out? You know? Well, I mean, am I really reading right here? I guarantee you weren't singled out. Usually when someone gets cited, there's a whole bunch of properties get cited at the same time. I will tell you that our public works for the sidewalks that we're responsible for, they're out there every single day. And actually, over the last month, coming, I drive down Brower Boulevard. My office is on 54th. I was watching every day for about three weeks, the public works pressure cleaning the sidewalks on the south side of Brower Boulevard. Maybe Chief Harrison can speak to you and tell you, you know, that other properties in the area were probably cited as well. But the ordinance is that you are responsible to maintain that. The sidewalk and code enforcement probably came around and that's why you got the notice. But, I mean, I have about 233 feet of water hose. It takes quite a long water hose. Yeah, it's going to take like a pressure cleaner. Yeah. I just have my mom's done. I mean, if I see other neighbors having their sidewalk cleaned, okay, apparently this is what it is. But I haven't seen that yet. And, I mean, I find it outrageous, especially in Brower Boulevard. I don't own that property. I don't use it. You know, why am I responsible to keep it, to keep that clean? Well, it's the city ordinance. If you'd like to speak to Chief Harrison, he's in the back. But it need to be changed. Okay. It need to be changed. All right. It's unfair for, for anybody on Brower Boulevard to scrubbing and pressure cleaning the sidewalk, which they, they don't use actually. Okay. Thank you. All right. Yes. Can I, can I ask a question? Go ahead. Councillor Reinstein. Thank you. Sir, what, what is the city ordinance that's cited? I, I'm just not, not familiar with exactly the city ordinance. Um, the section, the section is, uh, 23-124. Um, you want to write it down? Oh, go ahead. Question. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay. Um, is there anybody else in the chamber that would like to make a comment? Come on up, sir. Wolf Nelson, 420, um, North State Road 7, Plantation, Florida. I'm coming to y'all today and my colleague couldn't make it. Good evening. President and council members, um, attorney. Um, we went over the numbers that we was presented with and we end up at a higher number that we started with, with the interest rate. And, um, it was a side bar spoken about extending the years of payment. Um, we would like to look into that with you guys. And, um, so we can lower our monthly payments and open the conversation about a settlement, um, that's respectable and fair. And, um, I think that's the only reason we're here today talking. Um, I understand, Mr. Nelson. Um, you, you just made a comment about demonstrating how you're going to do business. Well, we've had six years of you demonstrating how to do business without a business tax receipt. Um, I think we really, we've stated what we're going to do. Um, you might want to look into, um, outside financing to extend the term so you can just pay off the judgment. But, um, I don't think we're willing to do any more action than what we did. We've expended a lot of resources to get to this point. We are not in the business of trying to foreclose on someone's property. We're trying to get people to maintain the integrity of their property. I think that's what we're going to do. Um, and I think that's what we're going to do. Um, and I think that's what we're going to do. And I think that's what we're going to do. Um, and I think that's what we're going to do. Um, we're going to do business. Well, we've had six years of you demonstrating how to do business without a business tax receipt. Maintain the integrity and the quality and the character of our city. And that's all this is all about. And there was a lot, I had a lot, I thought a lot about that hearing that we did with you and your partner. Um, you only took action when it was coming to an end. There was two magistrate meetings that, um, assessed these daily penalties and they accrue quickly. And that's what got us here. So, I don't think we're willing to do any more, um, action on this. We, we've done what we're going to do at this point. You're going to have to figure out how you're going to address it. All right, cool. Um, I hear you saying that that's your final thing, but at the last meeting, you, you guys spoke about extension, um, for the years of payment. I don't recall that. All right. All right. That's cool. All right. We'll, we'll reach out. Thank you for your time. Is there any other, uh, people would like to speak there in public comment? Okay. Seeing none, public requests of the council regarding municipal affairs are now closed. We're going to move into the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of items one through seven and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the council wish to pull an item? Item three, please. Item three. Um, I have one person who, uh, from the public who would like to pull item seven. Is there anybody in the chamber that would like to pull any items off the consent agenda? Can I have a motion motion to approve items? One, two, four, five, six. Second. Thank you. Miss Begaro, please call the role. Council member Anderson. Yes. Council member Horland. Yes. Council member Einstein. Yes. Council member Andreu. Yes. Council member pageant. Yes. Thank you. Council member Horland. Thank you, Mr. President. I forgot about this when we talked today, but I saw something in the contract that I thought was interesting. Mr. Goodrich, article seven, when it talks about employees of guidance may use the golf course. What I was interested in where it said that, um, in no event, and I know the reason why, may such complimentary rounds or car charges be made to city employees or officials, unless specifically approved by city resolution. Have we ever done that? Because I've never seen a resolution come before us. No, I don't believe anybody's played for free, so that's why. No, I thought it was interesting because I, we haven't seen the contract. So I wanted to ask about that. Yeah. That was the original verbiage from the very beginning of the contract. Okay. It wasn't that important, but I just, it caught my attention. Um, I just wanted to say, I see Kathy Marlowe and Louie Bartoletti here, and, um, I just want to, I'm thrilled the contracts here. I like the terms of the new contract, um, and I think you guys are doing a great job there. And I'm excited. I'm hoping that we'll find an infusion of money at some point where we can start to, um, really, I, I know that you have plans for the course and updating it. But, uh, you know, the fact that we're running, you know, doing so well over there, I think it's because of the work that all of you are doing together. And I'm really pleased to be able to, um, I want to approve the contract tonight. So, uh, I want to move forward with that. So, I just want to say thank you. Thank you. I'll, I just want to make a comment. I, I think we have a hidden gem in, in, um, Broward County with that golf course. And, uh, and, and I hope that when we look to refresh it, that we, um, you know, maintain this quality that we established. So, this is, this is kind of my pickleball argument. We're doing something right at, uh, the preserve. I want to continue doing that with pickleball as well, so. Absolutely. I can assure you both, uh, uh, guiding. And I'm a user of that course, by the way. As am I. Uh, and I can assure you that both guidance and, and the city are, are very well aware of the asset that it is. And that we're also very aware that we want to make sure that we're using good management practices to both maintain what is there. And then also as we design it to be able to even hopefully get to another level, even higher. So that's the goal. Great. Well, thank you guide. Mr. Marlowe and, uh, Mr. Goodrich. Because, uh, it really is a hidden gem. And I think we're doing a great job. Motion to approve. Second. Ms. Begro, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Uh, number seven. Mr. Conklin. Dennis Conklin. Four, five, eight, one. Northwest this court. Um, the reason I pulled this, um, I couldn't pull down the packet. The, uh, the packet crashed every time I tried to open it up online. It was, uh, item for RECOR, uh, recognition system in the gateway. My guess is it's license plate reader thing. Sorry. Right behind you. Hi, Anna. Hi, Anna. Your guess is correct, Mr. Conklin. It is for the license plate readers, the annual renewal. Thank you. And to report that when I would click on the packet for the meeting, for the, uh, council meeting, it, it crashes. I couldn't open it up. I didn't have an issue. I'm going to say it's your computer. I don't doubt it. Okay. It may be user error. I was going to say it was my skill with technology, which is at zero. But, um, I was able to open up the agenda, but not the packet. Thank you. I yield back. I will make a motion to approve. Yes. Ms. Begro, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Uh, legislative item eight. Staff is requesting deferral of the above item to the next city council meeting on April 24, 2024. Do we need to make a motion to defer it or is it? Was this advertised for public hearing for tonight? Yes. Then, uh, you can, may I just continue to ask for this item number eight and number 12. Would you like a table to a time certain? If you can do that, please. Thank you very much. So I'll make a motion to defer legislative item eight and quasi-judicial item number 12 to the April 24, 2024 meeting. Second. Ms. Begro, please call the roll. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. That's a point of order. Yes. Um, just to be clear with the city, did we need to do those separate or was it okay to do eight and 12 together? It's okay to do them together like that. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. I didn't. Oh, I'm sorry. I just understood your question. Okay. So we're at the quasi-judicial. City Attorney Ezra will please read the procedures for the quasi-judicial hearing. Yes, sir. I just understood what you're saying. The clerk will swear in all witnesses before speaking. Please state your name and whether you have been administered an oath. Any speaker may be cross-examined. If you refuse to be cross-examined, your testimony may not be considered. Cross-examination shall be conducted in a courteous manner. The material on the city clerk's agenda packet will be made a part of the record. The city staff will make the first presentation, followed by presentations from the applicant, any affected parties, and the public. The elected officials may set reasonable time limits for speakers. The hearing will then be closed and the matter decided. The city council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of a development order, resolution, or ordinance evidencing its decision. The city council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for the additional research or review. Thank you. If you're going to speak, if you can't stand, they get sworn. Ms. Beguerell, can you please swear the witnesses in? As testifying, please stand so you can be sworn in. Okay, please raise your right hand, please. Yes. No, please raise your right hand. Okay. Okay. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes. Okay. Thank you. I'll be going to present 9, 10, and 12, 9, 10, and 11 as one item. So, number 9, PP230046, consideration of a request to approve zoning and landscape waivers for Z car wash. Properties located at 551 North State Road 7 and 4101 Northwest 5th Street and Zone B-AM, Gateway Auto Mall. Item 10, PP230046, consideration of a request for conditional use. Approval for Z car wash. Properties located at 551, I'm not going to say that again. Item 11, PP23-0046, consideration of a request for site plan elevation and landscape plan approval for Z car wash. Thank you. Okay. Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the Council for the Record, Dan Holmes, Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Director. As indicated, application PP23-0046, this is a request for site plan elevation, landscape plan approval to construct a 3,998-square-foot, single-tunnel automated car wash with eight vacuum stations. It also is for conditional use approval to allow the automated car wash, which is required by the Gateway Auto Mall zoning district, and also to approve one zoning waiver and one landscape waiver as part of the request. This is the general location map for the city. So as you can see here, the property is located along the State Road 7 corridor, just north of Northwest 5th Street. And it's located at 551 North State Road 7 and 4101 Northwest 5th Street. The agent for this project is Eric Munoz. The address again, 551 and 4101. The size of the property is a little over an acre, 1.05 acres. The underlying zoning, Gateway Auto Mall. Existing use, it's vacant. There was at one time a building located on the site which was demolished a few years ago. The underlying land use is Local Activity Center. And the adjacent zoning districts to the north and east are also the Auto Mall. And the zoning districts to the south are also the city's Gateway Healthcare Services zoning district. This is an aerial photo of the property. First you can see there in purple the public notification boundary. Again, surrounding the proposed parcel to the north are auto-related uses. To the east there are some commercial uses. To the south there's a service station and legal aid of Broward County. And to the west of the parcel there's a medical office building. This is the site plan, proposed site plan for the site. You can see here the State Road 7 corridor at the bottom of the screen there. And also Northwest 5th Street. And there is an entryway here into the site ingress-egress point. And an ingress-egress off of Northwest 5th Street as well. Which I'll get into a little later. And you can see the proposed building located here. In terms of the elevations, you see here the north elevation for the project. The south elevation at the bottom of the screen there. The elevation to the east, which is what you would see if you were driving along State Road 7. And then the west elevation is what you would see if you were looking at the property from the office building to the west. Renderings of the site, again, if you were kind of driving along State Road 7 from the north. This is the vantage at which you would see the building. And this is also another rendering of the building kind of from the southwest portion of the site. Materials in terms of colors and stuff. You can see here this is the color palette that's proposed. There is like a stone veneer also proposed for the building as well. And this is the landscape plan for the site. In terms of the floor plan, first floor plan, you can see here this is basically where the cars would enter the tunnel here. And go through the automated car wash. On the first floor there's some other storage and electrical type stuff. There's an office here. And there is a little vending area located here for persons as they kind of exit the car wash. They're utilizing the vacuum system here. They can come in and utilize the vending machines. And there are some restrooms here as well for customers. Second floor is primarily just for the office uses. Again, you see some office uses there. Conference room, more office, and then there's a little terrace there. But this second floor is pretty much reserved for employees of the establishment. In terms of a traffic study, we did kind of look at this overall to kind of see how things were going to work with the queuing and how well the equipment worked to kind of move cars through. They've kind of given us some information on the system itself. The equipment production rate is approximately 110 cars per hour. So that's how many cars that they anticipate that they could move through there through that system. There was also a traffic kind of study done where we sat with the applicant as part of the development review committee report. And so as indicated, there's an entryway off of Northwest Fifth Street. And so as cars would enter the site, there would be an employee that's kind of stationed there as you would enter. And the employee here would kind of help direct persons, you know, to move through the line there. There's two machines here that where they would actually pay for the actual car wash during peak hours. There's some additional cones and things that would be placed there to also help control or shepherd the traffic through the process. Likewise, you can enter from Northwest Fifth Street and kind of come around here and enter the queuing line here, which is primarily located to the north of the property. Again, site circulation as indicated, ingress, egress off of State Road 7 and ingress, egress off of Fifth Street. We did sit as part of the development review committee because we wanted to make sure that there was adequate queuing, particularly for the traffic kind of coming off of the State Road 7 corridor to make sure that we could easily move cars off of the State Road 7 corridor and traffic was not backing into that. And so there's two lanes of traffic here. So there's a significant amount of queuing that could take place even before cars enter the tunnel. So as they kind of go through here, they enter the tunnel to get the car wash as they come out here. There are located within these parking spaces, vacuums. So if you were wishing to utilize the vacuums after your wash, you could pull into one of these spaces, utilize the vacuums that are available for the customers. There are some additional vacuums that are located here as well. So if these were already occupied, you could kind of move through and utilize the vacuums here. And then once you move through here, you could exit onto Northwest Fifth Street. So that's kind of the overall circulation that's proposed for the site. In terms of parking, the city's parking code for automated car washes is really kind of based upon most of the vacuum systems. Otherwise, most of the time, if you're just kind of pulling through, you're not really parking at all. So if you're utilizing the vacuums, that's basically the premise for the parking requirement being based upon the vacuum machines. Our code requires one space per vacuum. There are six vacuums that sort of have double access points there. And so there's 12 spaces that are required per those machines. There are two machines that only have a single vacuum. And so there are two spaces that are required. So overall, there are 14 spaces that are required for the site. The applicant is also providing five separate parking spots for their employees. And so they are actually providing 19 parking spaces, although the code requires 14 parking spaces. So they are actually providing additional parking spaces. And then there's 14 vacuum locations, five employee parking, as indicated, and two ADA parking spaces that will be proposed. As indicated, this is also a conditional use request. Staff reviewed the conditional use request, and we found that it was consistent overall with the general plan for the city, compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and character of the area. And that the proposed application would not adversely impact general welfare residents, workers within the neighborhood. Again, the application has one zoning waiver and one landscape waiver. With regard to the zoning waiver, it's from section 2785 of the code, which deals with open space. So this section of the code requires a minimum open space of 30%. The applicant is requesting to require an open space area of 27%. And this is, as a lot of properties are, along the State Road 7 corridor after all the right-of-way acquisitions that took place by FDOT. So most of the properties are pretty tight. So the applicant has done a pretty good job here with trying to meet the city's code. And with regard to the landscape waiver request, it deals with what else, landscape pedestrian zones. So it's something that we will continue to work on. With regard to landscape pedestrian zones, there are sort of three different aspects of that. One deals with the actual length of the landscape pedestrian zone, the actual width of the landscape pedestrian zone, and the number of trees that are required to be replaced within the landscape pedestrian zone. So they have, they're requesting only with regard to the south LPZ, which is located on the south side of the building that you kind of see highlighted here. The, in terms of the length, the code would require a 90-foot LPZ. They're requesting to provide a 36.71-foot LPZ. Also, with regard to the width, the landscape pedestrian zone shall be 50% of the height of the building, or 10 feet, whichever is greater. So from here, the greater portion would be 10 feet. So they're requesting to provide 3.81 width to the LPZ on the south. And then in terms of the number of trees, there's three trees that would be required there, and they're proposing to provide zero trees. That's also because, given the size of the LPZ and the location of the other equipment there, the actual shade trees would not work well in that site. And that's something that the landscape staff looked at, and we're perfectly okay with that request. Other information, community meeting. There was a community meeting held on October 26th, pursuant to the requirements of the code. There was one individual that was, that attended the meeting. In terms of citizen comments, the planning department, we did receive, I'm sorry, zero people attended the meeting. We have one citizen comment that we got that was in objection to the proposed application, which we received on Friday, February 2nd. This item did go before the Gateway Board and was reviewed by Community Redevelopment Agency. And they were all generally in favor, and they thought it was a pretty good concept for this site. And in terms of code enforcement violations, there are no violations issued on the site at this time. And then, based upon our analysis, in terms of the overall compatibility, we think that the site plan meets compatibility. It's in compliance with the comprehensive plan, and it's consistent with the land development regulations. In terms of the site development plan and sufficiency, we found that it meets that section of the code. We've done the notice for the zoning, and we've also feel that it meets the conditional use criteria and the practical difficulty waiver criteria. And based upon that, our recommendation is for approval of the site plan. I know the applicant is here if you have any questions of the applicant. Okay, thank you. Council Member Andrea. Thank you, President Fadgen. I would like to make a Jennings disclosure because I go to that property all the time. So it will not influence my vote whatsoever, but that's the street I grew up on, so I'm over there all the time. I see. I have a question about if you're on 5th and the traffic is going east, I don't think there's a turn to go in, and I don't think you can make a U-turn. So that was my only worry. Let me kind of go back to the site plan here. So if you're on 5th Street, you're saying, and you're trying to turn in here? You're trying to go into the car wash. I think, I don't know if you have that angle. Are you talking about the bottom right corner? That's State Road 7. This is State Road 7 here. So if you're going south on State Road 7, you could enter here and on 5th. No, no, no. If you're on 5th, going east. Oh, you're Daniel right there. Right there. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. Good evening, everybody. My name is Daniel. I'm the engineer and project manager. Daniel Hall. Daniel Ruiz with the ZONIM Group. I'm the engineer and project manager working on this project. So I'll be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have. In regards to the entrance through 5th Street, that's actually an existing entrance. There's a gate already in there, so we're not modifying or creating any new entrance in there. That's already as it is. So there shouldn't be any issues for the car to come in there and make the turn into the property. There is a, so if I'm traveling east on 5th, I can make a left turn in there? Yes. So if you're saying, so if you're coming from up here, right? Right. Yeah, you can absolutely turn in here. Yes. There's not a median there? No, there's no median in there. I think we may be able to pull up the Google. I trust you then. I'm pretty sure, you know, we've taken a very good amount of time reviewing it with the city engineers, with our traffic engineers, with everybody in the zoning. So I'm sure if there was something in there, you know, someone would have probably caught it. Because you have to. I think there is a median here, so that may be the one that you're probably thinking of. But from what I can recall, there is nothing here. Okay. I'll look again. Uh-huh. Another question for you. Is there any relationship between you and the, I believe it's a Chevron or Texaco? Texaco. Gas station. Is there any relationship between you and the owner? I will let the owner answer that question. Because I. No, not at all. You have to come up though to the microphone. Sorry. And if you can, uh, state your name and address. My name is Sajid Zubair and I am the owner of the property. And what's your address? Uh, 12670 Southwest 20th Street, Davie, Florida, 33325. Thank you, sir. And, uh, we have no, uh, relation with Texaco gas station. Okay. I only ask your, I loved your rendering. I think it's going to be wonderful for the area. Um, especially as we further develop the other side of fifth. Um, hopefully with the HCA and all the plans that I know Mr. Hall has for the future. So I'm excited about that. But the gas station hopefully, um, through a little peer pressure, we'll have to also, um, do some renovations. Because they need a little, a little TLC. So hopefully that will happen as a result of your beautiful project. My last, uh, comment or question. Usually we have a resident who, um, loves the trees and Ms. Bernardi is not here. So in her absence, I will ask the three trees that you are requesting be removed. Would you be willing to plant those three trees elsewhere in the city? Well, actually we're not removing any of the trees. Or not planting them. Well, if you look at the landscape plan, we're actually exceeding the number of trees that are requested by the code. It's just in that area, in the pedestrian that were not planting those trees, but they're being planted somewhere else. It's not that we're emitting those trees at all, but we're actually putting them somewhere else in the property. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. As you can probably, if you look, I, I, I don't think we actually have other renders throughout the site that show the actual, we actually took the work to render the actual trees that will be there as best as possible with our software. So if you look at some of those renders, you're going to see all the lush and, you know, nice trees that will be around the property. Thank you very much. I don't know if that was included, but thank you. I appreciate it. Council member Ronstein. Thank you. Mr. Holmes, could you speak to the phone call and the one objection that was received? In terms of what it was, you know, I don't recall what, what it was and staff usually puts the information in there. We, we get calls all the time with people just, yeah, just thinking it's a better use for the site. That's why I was at, because there was no back, there was no explanation. It was simply, as you, as you stated, it was an objection. It didn't say what the objection was. And so you don't have any further information to share. I'll make sure that's included next time. Thank you. Council member Horland. Thank you, Mr. President. I just have a quick question. To my colleague, Council member Andrea's point, I think it's going to be a welcome addition as we really, you know, upgrade that area. I had someone ask me a question. Obviously you're using the pure clean reclamation system. And someone asked me how much water it uses. And when I researched that, you can actually typically use more water washing your car at home. So that's what the figures show. You could be up to 100 gallons, which I was surprised. I don't know who's using that much water washing the car. Your car's filthy though. Yeah, my car must be. But do you know how much the percentage of clean water you're actually using or how much you're recycled? I think we have that somewhere. I was just curious. This is the first car wash. But I don't know. I don't know the exact number. It should be. I can send you. There's like a whole document that we submitted. I don't have it here with me, but I can email it to you if you like. And I tried to look up the pure clean system. Specifically, I don't think it states on there, Mr. Holmes, but about the reclamation system. Because I thought that was interesting in any resident that asks a question about that. Absolutely. I thought it was from a sustainability standpoint. Yes, and at least for us, that's definitely one of the things that we try to consider during the whole design of the project is to be as sustainable as possible. So the whole idea is not to waste more water or create a hassle for anybody. Nobody wants to use more water than is needed. So if we can have any possible way to solve that problem, we're going to include it in our project. Well, and I will say that I appreciated all of the sustainability initiatives that you put in the backup material. And also, when we're talking about the constraints that you have in that property, I think you've done a really good job. Thank you. Believe me. I had a lot of dreams with this project. We probably spent, I can't even remember how many hours trying to figure out how to make it work. You know, because as we just little background so you can understand all the process. I'm not sure if you got a chance to review, you know, the entirety of everything that we've gone through the DRC and the planning and zoning. But, you know, usually one of the things that people are concerned with these projects as a citizen myself is the traffic. So from day one, that was like my main goal is, you know, and I told the owner, you know, we have to number one goal. That's one of my questions. So how many cars can it queue? Well, actually, if you want to pull to the, let me see if we can, yes, so here. So to speak a little bit in the, you know, the site flow, how the cars are going to work. As I was saying, Mr. President, one of the main concerns for everybody with this car washes is the traffic, right? Number one, just so everybody's aware, we're also working with FDOT because it's a state road. So they're pretty, you know, they're not, they're not very lenient on their requirements. So we actually tried to have an exit wait as well in the beginning, but they didn't allow that. So that's the reason why we're only having an entryway and there's no exit towards state roads. So number one, that's already, you know, preventing from traffic going into that road. So there's only, you know, traffic going into the site and not into State Road 7. So as you can see here, the way that we propose to solve this queueing problem that usually happens in these car washes, is we needed to have a way for people to get in and get out if they wanted to get out. Because let's be honest, one thing that I hate the most is losing time being stuck in a lane. That's why we all love Chick-fil-A. Yes, exactly. That's the whole reason why everybody loves going to Chick-fil-A. Because even though you see that line is going around the building, you know you're going to be in and out within five, ten minutes. Well, most of them, most of them. I don't know, at least the ones that I've been to, they're pretty good with that. Anyways, so our goal to solve that, the way that we solved this problem was to have an entire dedicated lane where the cars would have an escape option. So that's why if you see here, when the cars come in, the queueing line is actually these two dedicated lanes here that you see in here. So when they come in, they're going to queue in this lane and this lane here. And once this fills, also keep in mind that we're going to always have a staff member here, making sure that there's no car stopping here to queue in State Roseanne. But I'm pretty confident that that's not going to happen because the cars will always have escape options. So if they come in here and they see that they have the ability to make that mental decision when they go in here, if they see that these two lanes are totally filled, right, and then they also have this queue in here, and you see it's really packed, and you say, okay, you know, do I really want to make this line? If the answer is no, then they're going to have the option to just exit through Northwest 5th Street. So there's not going to be there. Now, let's say, you know, if there's a lot of cars coming in here, they're not going to get stuck anywhere in State Road 7 because you have all of this space for the cars to come around and also, you know, queue from this area to all the way to this area up here. So there's, you know, per the city's code, we have four here, four here, and four here, so that's 12. But in reality, you can probably fit, you know, five to six cars in there, like, back to, you know, bumper to bumper. Six cars? Yeah, like, probably, like, or five, five, I think is what I calculated because I think the, or at least the distance from the city's code is a lot bigger than what the actual car lengths are, so. Well, five or six cars isn't going to back the thing up. I'm trying to ask, like, how much in the queue system looking at your cars per hour, it seems like the cars get through every two minutes. Yeah, there's usually, like, three cars that can get. I don't even know. Whatever. I think the calculation that we made was 90 cars at the top, you know. How many cars can be sitting in queue waiting to go through? And how many cars go through the machine? Well, through the machine, we have about, we can have about, what is it, like three cars, right? Three cars in. Sorry. Three cars at a time can go inside one by one. Okay. And then how many would be lined up in the queue system going through your, uh. So you're saying. I'm sorry. Like, you get on property and then, like, I'm just curious how many cars can be sitting in line before they get to the machine. Go ahead, Mr. Mayor. The question is, Chick-fil-A says, 26 cars have to be backed up before there's any problem with us getting elsewhere. Uh-huh. The question is for us, how many cars are going to fit there before there's ever a problem on the road? Is that the question? Right, because it goes along. Correct, Mayor. That's the question. Because we, you know, like you said, FDOT doesn't want you, um, spilling into the state road. Okay. So, so here's the. When do we have a problem? I think that's a good way to phrase it. Yes. So the reason, uh, the way to avoid that again, and this was. Well, I, I, I understand that. I want to know a number. About 30. Yes, about 30. I'm sorry. Please. 30? Yes, about 30 more or less. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um, Council Member Horland, I hopped in on you, but do you have anything else? Um, I have one other question. What's the sound? How far does the sound escape the property? Like the, the cleaner itself and in the vacuuming on, in the parking lot? Like who's going to hear it? Yes. So we actually have a, a, a noise study on based on the system that will be used. I was done, uh, in the property. I don't have the exact number right now, but I, I, I can email you. Okay. How far out do you think it is? Like how far do you think it will go? Uh, not beyond the property. So basically it's contained in the property line. Yes. Okay. Even the, the, the ones where they're parking in there. Yes. Yes, of course. They're all muffled. It will not be loud because, uh, it, it's really, uh, uh, you can say that it's, uh, pressure will be controlled by a machine on the air vacuum, big machine, which will be in the, in the side of the building. Okay. So it will not, uh, if, suppose, if there is no, no, not at all. Okay. That's all. If there is any, no, there is no car. So automatically it will be shut off. Okay. At that point. I understand. Okay. Thank you. Uh, council member Andrea. I'm curious if you, when you were doing your, your study and your research, is the other, um, car wash on the other side of fifth street still operational? I, I'm not sure if it's still operational, but what we know is that there, at least within the city of plantation, there's no other automated car washes. There's a, there, that's a hand wash. Like the people go and huh, within the city of plantation. I, I couldn't. Every gas station has one. Oh, I mean, yes. So like the, but we're saying this type of, yes. Yes, we do. We still have another one. Yeah. There's an uphill in and Broward Boulevard. Wait, wait. So, but yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. I was just. So the other, the other, I noticed when you're talking about, um, but it is, as you mentioned before, this needs also some TLC. It's not very well maintained. It's not really used that much, quite frankly. And it's one of those ones where, um, the individual goes through and does it. And it's not very well maintained at all. And you didn't, they had not a lot of traffic. So this would be a definitely great. Yeah. It's not, I would consider that competition for this place at all. Good. Uh, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Um, I don't see anything else from the day is, uh, from the public, Mr. Conklin. We're taking public comment for items 9, 10, and 11 at once. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I've been sworn and understand the rules. Um, I'm here to speak in support of it. It's a very difficult thing along, uh, the Gateway 7 and CRA, uh, with the takings that took place decades ago, it really knocked the daylights out of the business district there. There used to be several, uh, I would call them first class restaurants within plantation there. Um, this, this, uh, before it, it's, uh, scheduled to be a car wash. This was, uh, trying to reestablish a restaurant in its place, a seafood restaurant. It, it just wouldn't work on the site. Um, I, I wanted to point out that, uh, what was finally indicated where the median is. It's, it's at the gas station and, and not at the exit for this, uh, site. And, um, we have sort of, uh, a car wash thing. It's on Sunrise Boulevard at 47th Avenue. Uh, and it, it's the shell station, but it, sometimes it isn't working. It might have been what the description was. So, um, it would be a big help within that area. It's basically an elderly, um, population in Plantation Park East. And you're not gonna get your car clean, uh, after you reach a certain age. And it, it would be a big boon. Because right across the street from the Texaco gas station is the, uh, 7-Eleven gas station. So people can get in there and, uh, fill up and they could get their car washed at the same time. Um, that's pretty much it. Um, I really like the design of the building. And, uh, right, right now it's been a disaster because when the, uh, uh, restaurant failed, it, it stayed there. And it just went into sort of, uh, the, the neglect was amazing. And it's in the, it's in the, uh, uh, uh, auto district of the, of the gateway and the CRA. So it's, it's a, uh, it's a good fit. Okay. And I'll yield back my time. Thank you. I, I support and recommend support. Pass it. Registered. Mr. Corman. Rob Corman. I understand my, my rights. Uh, to answer your question about, because we had this on, when this came up before planning and zoning, we had a lot of the same questions. With regards to this particular one, the way it differs from the one on Knob Hill is that the one on Knob Hill you get out of your car, an attendant drives it in, it goes through the machine and then attendants do the cleaning. This one is entirely self-contained like one of the ones that you would get at the, uh, gas station, but it's that same type of clean that you get at the other one. So when we were talking about this one, some of like the, uh, the landscape pedestrian zone, shrinking that one, that area is only a vending area for people who are either walking by or they're vacuuming and they want to grab a Snickers bar. There's no actual internal space for this facility. The upstairs is all for them to use. And so when it came to how they also took that other side piece of land that is at the entrance to fifth street and kind of incorporated it from a traffic flow stand and it's the stacking of the vehicles. When we heard it and all of those questions got answered, we're like, yeah, this is going to be great for what it is. So it's really is unique within the city of plantation. I like where it's located. So I'm all for it as an individual, but I wanted to let you know that we had addressed it in planning and zoning. Great. Thank you, Mr. Corman. Mr. Hillier, were you sworn in? Negative. Can we, uh, swear them in? I need to be sworn in, please. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you were about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes, I will, as I always do. Nonetheless, my name is Lee Hillier, 1551 Northwest 115 Terrace, Plantation, Florida, 33323. Uh, prior to it, I had a corporation called Equal Access. About ADA is one of my biggest issues. One of the things, one of the items was one of the commissioners who had, or council commissioner, whatever your title is, in transit. But nonetheless, the point is, is the queuing of traffic was brought by Mr. Corman prior to myself, of which I'm concerned about the generation of the students and children along the elementary. The observes I've seen, so many people are tempted to turn off State Road 7, go down Rick Cases Road, make the left turn in front of the elementary school, turn at the light on 5th Street, and come into this facility. Of which, there is an ADA compliant at the intersection of 42nd Avenue, as well as 5th Street. My concern is a tactical, tactical lining for the visual impaired people, both elementary, the schools, as well as the pedestrian, who are a elder, older population nearby. So I'm concerned about those generations at the tower school, directly next to the elementary. That is a concern why I would have sat down, went home, and my wife is not pleased now, but politics are what politics are. However, the concern is about trying to degenerate how much traffic will occur in the future, and the behavior of people with phones. And the concept is, I go to Cleveland Clinic Hospital, and now statewide, throughout Florida, is the blinking stop signs. Many of you may or may not have seen those new stop signs. I would give a recommendation to this applicant that on-site would be in their best interest to have a blinking to get that separate element. I know it's, uh, as in, instead of putting up trees, this would be better for their in-site curb, because they've got a generator of people that are too hurried. The blinking sign may stop and slow people from getting run over. Would the applicant be willing to explore that, and if it's, if it makes sense to do it? If not? Yes, I'm just saying, as a negotiation for safety. Where's the applicant? Let's let him respond. Safety kids. Uh, yes, absolutely. Like I mentioned at the beginning. I'm sure you know what he's talking about. That, that he's, I, honestly, I don't really understand the whole idea, but we'll definitely. There's stop signs that kind of flash, and I got, I think they're, they're solar. Uh-huh. Yes. If you'd like to show me, or, you know, we can maybe, after the meeting, sit down and look at a sample or something, I'll definitely take the time to explore that, and if we can include it in the site plan. Sarah? She can give us some information. Yes. She's trying to slow down the whole city. Okay, no, that's fine, we hear you. The wind was hot. She's gonna quickly just give us a little. Good evening. Very quick. Actually, we're gonna be implementing some of these, uh, flashing stop sign on East Tropical Way, so it's gonna be a good example for others to follow. Well, if you could share that with him. Yes, so I'm gonna send him, um, uh, I was in good communication with this design team throughout the project, uh, where we started and where we ended. It's a big, um, adjustments and improvement, so I'm proud of the team. They listened to the city staff and improved their traffic circulation and came up with the traffic management plan, so I applaud them on that. Okay. Definitely, I will send him the specifications and we will go from there. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. For the proponent. Yep. I want them just safe about the kids, number, number, number, number. Yep. Um, they're gonna explore it. Samira's gonna give her, uh, give them the information and see if it, if they can implement it. Thank you. Yes. Um, I do not see any other comments or questions from the DAIS. Is there anybody in the chamber would like to make any comments regarding that? With that, I'll make a motion to approve with the request that they explore installing, but not requiring them, but heavily asking them to. Um. Second. Item nine. Correct. We're gonna vote on them individually. So, for item nine. Um, Ms. Beggarroa, please call the roll. Fajan and Reinstein. Um, Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Orland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Sparge. Um, yes. All right. Yes. tension. please call the roll. Councilmember bunyi. Councilmember. Yes. Councilmemberente Shoulder. Yes. Councilmember treff. Yes. And, a motion for item eleven. Motion to approve. Item eleven. Second. Ms. Beggarroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember. Yes. Councilmember Trude. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you for investing in us, and, uh, I think you're on the bottom of the on the floor. That place is getting ready to rock it off. Mr. Mayor, administrative update. Although you had a big update at the beginning of the meeting. I did, didn't I? Do I have anything left? I don't know. Speaking of that, a big thank you to admin, especially Laura. We went over it. We vetted slides. Everything that you saw up there was touched by more than one person, which is the way we're supposed to do it. Anything I put up anywhere is always touched by somebody else other than me. That's the policy. Anyway, that's enough of that. We met with the magistrate on Monday, just them, and we're meeting with them again tomorrow to talk about the one we talked about last week. Let me get a better report to you when we have policies, but we have some adjustments to make, and we're on it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Steve Geller was here yesterday. He asked why we hadn't passed the Geller Amendment upon our conversation. We didn't pass it because Flex was in play at the time. still working on comp plan. I talked to Danny, and Geller Amendment will probably come back to you at some time as part of a larger package, one that makes for adjustments for housing where there's more transportation. That's the point of the whole thing. Earth Day is the 20th. I don't think I'm going to be there. It's Robin's birthday, too. I like you guys, but I like Robin better. We like Robin better. Very fair. Very fair. You got your clings, and this is on tape, too, isn't it? Okay. You got your clings. If you want more, let us know. If you go to HOAs and everything, and you think there's a market and appetite for them, get with Pam, and Pam will get them to you all you want. So, that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Comments by Councilmembers. Councilmember Anderson. No comments. Thank you. Very good. Good precedent. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you. I do have a few comments. You can take this time. Thank you. We are recognizing National Library Week this week, and the theme is Ready, Set, Library. So, I wanted to take just a second to thank Ms. Monica Knapp for all of her great work with the Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library. I think we heard about the rate from the Mayor's State of the City address earlier this evening, the rate of attendees that she has, or visitors to the library. So, she does an amazing job. And if you're not a member of Friends of the Library, I'll ask you to please join. So, I'll do a shameless plug for Friends of the Library as well. Looking forward to Earth Day. I will be there on April 22nd and also relay this Saturday on the 13th. Wanted to, just to kind of circle back about the two tragedies that happened on the corner of Knob Hill and 6th. I did reach out to our County Commissioners and shared it with Mr. Nunamaker as well, because I think a turning signal would help greatly at that intersection. People, again, that's also my street that I live on now. So, I see it daily that people just don't know what to do. And they don't know what other cars are doing. And it is a recipe for disaster. So, hopefully, their engineering department was very responsive and answered quickly and said that they would also be in communication with Mrs. Shallon. So, thank you for that. I wanted to ask, I don't know if it would be for Ms. Morris or Mr. Nunamaker, but did we complete the City Stats Survey from the Florida League of Cities? Because I know it closes at the end of this month. And I just want to make sure that plantation is represented. Yeah, I forwarded to Laura and Laura did it. Okay. Right, Laura? She shook her head. Yeah. We'll confirm. Yeah, yeah. But Laura was on it. All right. Thank you for checking. Just want to make sure that we're fully represented. And then my last question is for Mr. Holmes. So, I had two questions recently from residents regarding, again, one of our favorite subjects, local business tax receipts. So, you must have been doing, your office must have been doing a big push recently because it seems like they both contacted me at the exact same time that they got a notice that they were out of compliance. Theirs had expired and they hadn't renewed. And code enforcement also sent them letters. For some, I didn't want to get into it because I didn't know the specifics. One of them had, like, late fees stacked up. I think they may have also contacted a council member Horrell and she mentioned your name. And then the other person did not. But they were both kind of in the same basket. So, I didn't quite know what was happening there. And then, one of them has already submitted everything and hasn't heard back. So, are we up to date? How long, how many people are in the queue? How long is it taking once you submit everything online? So, we are not yet up to date. There's still, and we've been, actually, I would say the IT department has been also helping us out trying to move some things because things are in very different statuses. There's some that are what we call the plan intake where they need to have that initial review. Some are in, once we just kind of tell after that initial review, people will get something that just says sort of that we've got your application. we see that you've had, you know, pretty much all the documents. It goes to another phase where we're verifying, checking, you know, on the state site and all this stuff to make sure everything is up to date. You know, that's another phase. Another phase is inspection. And another phase is that sometimes where people get denied because they didn't have everything and they don't respond and it's just sitting out there. Some of those, we're trying to, like, close out, but a lot of them are still sitting out there and it's adding to that number. So we're trying to go at this from several different angles. You're probably right. A lot of people have gotten, you know, notices because we're in there and you're kind of doing things. I am, what I'm trying to do is once we get caught up, the standard, I've been doing research and looking at other cities and, you know, I've told staff that our standard is going to be like seven to 10 days. If someone has everything in order, when they submit that through and it goes through all the processes, it should be able to be done in seven to 10 days. Okay? That's an ideal person. Okay? I can tell you that probably maybe 20, 30% might, you know, meet that. And after, renewals will be a lot easier too once you get in the process and you keep doing that. We're trying to also improve notices that we're giving to people. So typically, we've done just snail mail pretty much, notifying people. We're going to try to, if we can, and again, I have to give my hats off to John Manofusco and his team because they've been right there in the trenches with us trying to look at getting us caught up but we're looking at it and Marcus has been very helpful too. He's been over, you know, has almost been like a part of my staff. He's been right there with me. But we're looking at ways maybe to try to do email notification as well as just that, you know, and then maybe give them another notification. So I'm trying to improve because people will come in and they're like, well, some will say, I didn't get this notification and why didn't, you know. And although, it's really just kind of a courtesy thing, you have, you know, but we're trying to do a better job. But overall, we are striving for, most cities that I looked at are somewhere between 7 to 14 days. I'm trying to get to that 7 to 10 days. And I think, you know, with the staff that we have in place now that we should be able to do that. Okay. I think the software seems to be great. I'm just concerned that, like, we're sending out letters to say you have to go to the magistrate and then if we're backed up and then we're sending fines to people and if we're backed up. We're not penalizing someone if, you know, it's been sitting in there and it's really been the city's fault that it's been delayed. I'm not, you know, sending. There are other folks that are there that have, you know, we've given them, they've gone through the process, they've had ample time, they haven't appropriately responded. We're moving their stuff out of the system. We're not going to continue to hold those applications within the system. I will give you guys an update when I feel like we're at a point where we're caught up and things should be normalized from that point forward and I'll let you know when that, you know, seven to ten day window kicks in. I'll take. Thank you. I'm hoping that, you know, by the end maybe of next month we can be there. I'm pushing them to get that out. It took us a while to get, you know, the new people trained and up to par. They're kind of at that point now where they're going in there and they kind of know a little bit of, you know, what they're doing and I'm trying to rotate them doing different aspects of it as well. So, you know, as that becomes second nature to them we're speeding up as we go along. And my last comment, I promise, but it does seem very redundant because I went through the process so it seems very redundant to you're filling out that paper application that you have to upload but the information on that paper application is the exact same information as the online application. So don't you think we could like eliminate that paper one? So we're trying to do that as well. You know, and again, like I said, IT, we've looked at this process and IT's been right there with us. we're even looking at maybe something I can't say that that's in place yet or just still exploring that, that if you fill out the information online that we can take that information and auto-fill stuff that we want. So there's a lot of things that we're looking at to make the process more efficient. It's just something we haven't done in a while and while we're there we're just trying to do what we can to move things along. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes all of my comments. Thank you. Council Member Reinstein. Last week I had a chance to visit South Plantation High School during one of their track meets and I just want to say that we have some amazing Is Governor Anderson there? He always shows up. I did run cross country for South Plantation. Well, he may be at districts which are coming up which is what I wanted to mention is that South Plantation High School is going to be competing in districts and I want to wish them good luck. They have a great number of student athletes and it was very impressive to watch them in their track meet last week. I also want to mention that for those people that are interested in a Plantation Rotary Club there previously was an active one in Plantation and there's some movement right now to reestablish the Rotary Club in Plantation so keep your eyes and ears open for that and if you want contact with the people that are working on that please reach out to me and I'll be happy to share that and lastly just want to wish everybody a happy Passover to all those that are celebrating because that's coming up the message of the holiday is about redemption from slavery and now it's also about the prayers for the freedom of the hostages so I want to share that thank you thank you Councilmember Horland thank you Mr. President I do have a couple of things I'd like to talk about the sidewalk ordinance a little bit since that was brought up you know this council passed that ordinance and I do think that we did the right thing in making the responsibility of homeowners to maintain their sidewalks but I think the gentleman brought up a great point about a major roadway and I wonder if you know administration would want to take a look at that ordinance and give some consideration to those major roadways like Broward Boulevard I would venture to say that most residents don't realize that's their responsibility but also they don't really use that you know most of them are not walking out their front door and using that sidewalk so I think that's maybe something that we should consider so that just quickly since he brought that up I've got a couple of things and councilmember Andrea I'm glad you brought up the accidents on Nob Hill I did put in a public records request I don't know if you did this yet on the crash data I have not yet received it but once I do obviously council get that that might help you when you're talking to the county commission to make some changes there because I think you've all alarmed at what's happened there in the last couple of months so thank you for that initiative Mayor it was a great article I'm so glad that you highlighted our landscape department department division with Tree City USA and it was great and thank you for backing off of the bumper stickers and decals I wanted to bring up a couple of things that are going on Chief Todd and Chief Harrison are aware that I had partnered with Broward County Schools Broward Reads Hands on Broward and Conrad Sherrill Law Firm and I'd asked them they had initiated this super reader super reader initiative last year and I asked them to bring a plantation so we've been in talks for about six months and it's going to be a plantation elementary and I'm very excited about this because we all know how important it is to get students on grade level reading or surpass it so there's going to be publicity surrounding this and we will be helping Hands on Broward make additional capes each child gets a cape we're doing grades K through 5 it's 670 students and local South Florida author many of you know him Brad Meltzer is signing Conrad Sherrill Law Firm has purchased all the books each student will get a book that day grade level book and he has just signed all the books and he'll be doing a video and acknowledging what's going on in the city of Plantation so I think I'm just really excited about it and we'll be making the capes at the Plantation Police Outreach Center everybody's invited to come we'll have all the supplies and make some superhero capes for the kids and that is going to be on April 25th from 6 to 8 p.m. and then council and the fire department and police department is invited to read to the kids when we have the superhero reader day so if you'll mark your calendars for May 17th there will be an invitation that goes out 8.15 will be at Plantation Elementary and I've asked the chief to make sure the police department brings Captain America so I think it's just going to be a great way to excite the kids about reading so I really hope that everybody will be able to participate I think the mayor wanted to make a comment also I'm sure you're aware the women's club has a relationship with Plantation Elementary too they run the Tiger Bucks thing so no more bodies and whatever there is and this particularly will be about as I said the council and the mayor and our superheroes and the fire and police department and the law firm the law firm will be sending we'll be covering 27 classes so I'm very excited about the community partnership and I've gotten a lot of community and business members already to sign up to help with the cape making so I'm very excited about that and I think it'll be really nice for the students and for the city I had something else I briefly wanted to bring up I mentioned to Mr. Hall and Mr. Holmes today at Broward League of Cities meeting last week we had Robin Vegas visit with us from the business for the arts Broward and it was a really great presentation and there's a couple of things going on where they're trying to spread the cultural awareness and public art which we've been talking about and we're moving forward with so what I said to Mr. Hall and Mr. Holmes today that I think would be great if council like if she came and gave the same presentation it takes about 10 minutes but there's grant opportunities out there and how we can spread public art one of the things that's out there there's an artist that they're partnering with and they're trying to get seven to eight love walls in Broward County and I'd love to see us be one of the cities that gets that mural so if council's amenable I'd like to ask administration to put her on the agenda and then I'm going to share the information and the CRA the gateway area might be a great way place for the book it through April book it through Jason and as I said we had a brief conversation about it but that love wall might be great in the gateway so really you love it so very excited about that let me just check and make sure there was nothing else I know I had a lot utility wraps while we're talking about art public art a resident did ask me today and I know we had made a brief foray into that in the gateway I thought those could have been a little more artsy but are we looking to move forward with that it was specifically resident country club estates who was complaining about her utility box are we looking to move forward with utility wraps because I think we're one of the few cities that don't have we got it going in a lot of different ways I thought parks was part of it right and public works all right okay but are they going to look like art and not photographs okay colorful all right yes okay first of all the wraps go on traffic control boxes not all utility boxes there is a process for approval because the boxes aren't owned by Broward County okay and they do have to approve and sign off on the artwork additionally if it is on a state roadway we also have to get an FDOT permit so there is a process there I have had some conversation with public works about what that process looks like and I know that they've been looking at some potential art but how far into the process he is I don't know it's been a couple of weeks ago they do get hit they do have to be rewrapped but as I go through other municipalities I'm sure we all do and I snap pictures there's some beautiful ones out there there are and there are also not so great ones like the ones that we put in but okay sorry we're currently working with parks because they do a lot with public art as well we're gathering the graphics we're going to highlight PD FD some of the city parks we've also asked about including the art search winners of just the graphics from that including that that would be great near their respective schools that would be awesome but yes we are working on it but as Carol mentioned it is a process to go through but we're going to gather all the graphics and then present them to you fabulous and then we'll get the county or state approval as long as I can tell the resident we're working on it thank you great and if we do get this woman on the agenda what I would like to also do is invite the executive board of the chamber because what they do is try to get they help businesses get art in businesses and on the outside of businesses so I think it would be valuable for them as well thank you for the indulgence of time and I want to wish everyone a happy Passover thank you Mr. Mayor you have anything else no okay as the mayor said in his state of the city we had some promotions in the police department and I was able to make two of the swearing in ceremonies which was pretty fantastic seeing all their colleagues come out to watch them get pinned and their families there and it's just it's great to see people achieving milestones in their career and we all know Captain Rudy Brown and Deputy Chief what's his first name Chad Chad Fowler so that was fantastic second thing about the police I had a resident call me concerned about their neighbor kind of a recluse woman and they were concerned because they haven't seen her in a while so I called Chief Harrison and he sent out a sergeant and another officer doing an inspection of the property and really didn't see anything that suggested that there was anything wrong and then after talking with the postal carrier decided to do a second round of searching and called the local hospitals and she wasn't there and then I believe the sergeant or one of the officers wife works at Holy Cross and they found her there so I guess the story is let's talk to our neighbors you know they didn't know her name I found the name on the property appraiser site so let's be nicer to each other let's try to help each other but I thought that was fantastic that we went that extra step and we found her and she was okay and not our worst fears so and then with that happy Passover and it's 829 and the meeting is adjourned thank you