City Council - Aug 26, 2026

Good evening, and welcome to the City of Plantation Council meeting for April 26, 2026. The meeting is now called to order. Ms. Vegaro, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Here. Councilmember Andrew. Here. Councilmember Fadgen. Here. Councilmember Horland. Here. Councilmember Reinstein. Here. Mayor Sortel. Here. Assistant City Attorney Morgan. Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Vegaro. And tonight's opening marks will be provided by Councilmember Reinstein. Thank you, Council President. Good evening, everyone. So we gather tonight to do the work of our city. This work is grounded in our desire and in our goal to serve our residents and our visitors. It is also grounded in the truth of our shared human experience, a shared experience which teaches us that life is a fragile and a deeply valuable gift, which no matter who we are and where we come from, we all are mortal. Our end is always ahead of us, and in most cases, it never arrives at a time of our choosing. We never know when it will take us or those we love. This reality demands that we live every single day with purpose, using our limited time to make this world a better place. This morning was the end of Shiva for my wife and her brother and uncle. Shiva is the seven-day mourning period in the Jewish tradition following the passing of a first-degree relative. My father-in-law was a fairly unremarkable person in the scheme of human history, but he lived and he loved and was loved by his family. But to the people that mourn him, he was extremely important and remarkable. We also just heard this morning of the passing of a music and movie legend, Dolly Parton. We also just heard of the passing of Tim Curry, but the Rocky Horror references I thought would not go over as well. But with Dolly, I think of her song in the movie 9 to 5. Some of you are probably mouthing right now, what a way to make a living. Or maybe you are thinking of her song, Jolene, or about her Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. But probably what she was most proud of was her Imagination Library, which was a book-gifting program that mails one free, age-appropriate book every month to children from birth until they turn five years old. She started the program in 1995 to honor her father because of his inability to read and write. Any child from birth to age five can sign up regardless of family income. The program is entirely free for families. There is no charge for the books or the shipping, and enrolled children receive a new, carefully selected book in the mail each month, totaling up to 60 books if they stay in the program from birth. My father-in-law was a florist and probably sold thousands of corsages and boutonnieres and bouquets for all occasions at his stores. Many probably smiled while others cried, but each person felt something, felt emotion, or emotional because of the arrangements. We all have a mission, a role to play in our lives. Whether we know it or not, we are affecting so many others with everything we do or choose not to do. The message tonight is simple, yet not simply that you must treat every day as your last, but we must treat every day as a day that we have the power to create, to change, to decide if we will be worthy to be mourned by others. The choices we make in this City Hall are not just for the present moment, but also for decades ahead of us. Discussions and decisions, they aim at securing a thriving city for our children and our children's children and beyond. Our methods and perspectives will differ at times, but our ultimate goal remains exactly the same. If we choose to act out of love for this community, what is good and what is best for us all will always prevail. May we all work together to support this City and each other. May our thoughts and our actions be in the merit and in the honor of those we have lost and those many that have come before us. And as Dolly famously said, if you see someone without a smile, give them yours. Thank you. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, Council Member Reinstein. And now we move on to items submitted by the Mayor. Council have already asked the Mayor if we could, after Superintendent Hepburn speaks, if we can move up some of the kids and the student presentations and move Citron Cooperman and the resident survey to the back of the items for the Mayor. Does anyone have any objection to that? Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Mayor, you're up. We are grateful to have Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn visiting us with Broward County Schools update. The floor is yours, sir. Welcome, Dr. Hepburn. Thank you. Thank you for the warm welcome. You're going to do the presentation up? All right. Whilst she's bringing that presentation up, I just want to extend a sincere appreciation to all the council members, Mayor, also the citizens of the City of Plantation. Thanks for your support to our schools, to our students. It's palpable. We see the results, right? It takes a village to really do the magic that happens in the classroom. And the past three years, what you'll learn, once she gets the presentation up, we can relish in a lot of accomplishments due to the many people in this room and beyond that continue to contribute to the great things that are happening in our classrooms for our students day in and day out. So just want to extend that sincere appreciation. And Dr. Hepburn, we wouldn't happen to be the Municipal Partner of the Year, would we? Yes, you are. Absolutely. Absolutely. I've heard something like that, right? Yeah. Yeah. I've heard that. Absolutely. Let's see if we can lay down a two-pee. We'd love to. Well, thank you for the recognition, and it really is a partnership. And before you get started, I know that Councilmember Reinstein asked you, but we've had some concerns, South Plantation High School, with the theater lighting. Yes, yes. And I appreciate your responsiveness to the parents, if you just want to go on the record. Yes, absolutely. I was actually going to do that, so thanks for bringing that up. So I know some of the parents at South Plantation have emailed me, and I've responded to a few. So hopefully, I know the theater parents are a very close-knit group, so hopefully the message got to the theater parents. And so we are working on that temporary solution that they asked about while they wait on the permanent solution to be installed in November. So the facilities team is already on the ground floor working, trying to identify a solution so we can assist the theater program and make haste in doing that. Thank you. Our award-winning theater program at South Plantation High School. Yes, absolutely. And hopefully, I get invited to a couple of theatrical events. Thank you, Superintendent. I'll turn it over to you. So Mr. Sullivan, our chief of staff behind me, he's actually going to tag team with me on this presentation. So thanks for giving us the opportunity to present to you and also the public for a next-generation referendum. I want to talk about our accomplishments first, but before I do that, to make our lawyers happy, just to make sure everybody understands, we're here to educate and inform and not advocate. So hopefully, we do a good job of that. But at the end, there will be a website and also a QR code to learn more about the referendum. First, let's talk about some of the district's accomplishments. For the past three years, we've been a back-to-back-to-back, A-rated school district. The first A in a long time, about three years ago, that didn't happen for over a decade. Also, no DNF schools for the last three years. Three years ago, the first time since 1999. So a long time with DNF schools, and we're able to abolish those and continue that level of excellence year after year. Also, just this past graduating class of 2025, it's a lagging data trend, so we'll get 2026 graduation rates later on in the winter. But the highest graduation rate in 25 years of 97.5% for our traditionally-ran high schools by BCPS. We include all of our charter schools, because charter schools are under our auspice, but they have their own separate boards. And also our alternative schools, it's a 91.4% graduation rate, which is still the highest in 25 years as well. We're also number one in funding for the state of Florida for our AP, which is Advanced Placement, ACE. It's our Cambridge ACE program, IB, and also industry certification. What that means, we are offering more college courses and industry certification courses at the high school level, really exposing our kids to a high level of rigor. And they're stepping up to the plate. They're demonstrating high levels of success. And as a result, I'll talk about the money they're actually earning as a result of that. But in order to get our kids ready for that high level of rigor, they're being exposed to more high school courses at the middle school level as well. And we are also Cambridge Large District of the Year. There's only one school district across our nation that can earn that honor. And last year, we actually earned that honor as the number one Cambridge District of the Year in the nation. So we're doing amazing things. Our teachers, our school staff, our principals, assistant principals, custodians, bus drivers, you name it, the hundreds of thousands of volunteers, everybody contributes to making that happen. We don't work in isolation. It takes a strong partnership to make these things happen. As well, I always like to remind folks about the scale of Broward County Public Schools because it equals the amount of dollars that we actually garner as well. So we are the sixth largest school district in the country, second largest school district in the state. We have about 236,000 students. Our district students and operated schools are about 180,000. 325 schools and 86 of those schools are charter schools. We have about 27,000 employees. And as I mentioned about exposing our high school students to a high level of rigor, last year's graduating class earned $617 million in scholarships. It's actually over $200 million more than the class of 2025. Class of 2027, I'm looking forward to them to actually beating that number and earning more money as well. That's a lot of dollars that our students can take to live out their post-secondary dreams, be it if they're going to universities, colleges, technical colleges, and those industry certifications definitely help them hop into high-paying careers locally and beyond. As I mentioned before, triple-A rated school district. Yeah, thank you. When I first got to Briar County Public Schools, this is going into my middle, about the middle of a little bit more of my third year when I came. As you see at the bottom, we had, you know, a few A schools, B schools, a lot of C schools, and D and also F schools. But as soon as I got in and hit the ground running, we had the talent, we had the staff, and we were able to progressively eliminate all of our D and F schools and continue to raise our A and B schools and lower our C schools. As a result, we've increased our A schools by 130 percent and reduced our C schools by over 70 percent and reduced D and F schools by 100 percent and continuing to climb. These are the schools that local students here in the city of Plantation attend. As you can see, a lot of great achievements in all of our schools and continue to progress and increase achievement in all of those schools for this year. Our students are doing amazing work. If you ever have opportunity to visit the classrooms and see that the future is bright, we have very talented students in our schools and beyond who are doing amazing work, and it looks like we're going to learn more from our students a little bit later on as well too. So at this time, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Sullivan. He's going to talk about our next-generation referendum and also the ballot language and all the wonderful things that we actually do with our referendum dollars as well. Thank you. Again, John Sullivan, Chief of Staff for Brightwood Schools. Thank you for having me. So this referendum is not new. It's a renewal. The residents will be accustomed to seeing this actually in the primary, but due to state statute, it's now in the general. So they didn't see it a few weeks ago, but they will see it in the November ballot. Again, this is a renewal. We have an existing one mill. So it's not an increase in terms of a tax. The tax homeowners are used to accustomed to seeing this. It's for four years, and if it were successful or not, we would feel those effects in the 27-28 school year. The referendum generates about $358 million across all Broward schools, and that does include our charter schools. So they're also benefiting from this referendum. It funds three buckets, our teacher and staff supplements. And eligible staff is really the frontline workers, our teachers, our bus drivers, our custodian workers, our school leadership. So when you think of everyone who has an impact on students, they're really receiving those supplements. The second one is our school safety program and personnel, and the third bucket is mental health. So again, not a new millage. The initial one was back in 2018. It's always funded the same three buckets. By law, we have to go out every four years, so that's why we're coming back to the voters for them to decide. So currently, we use it to fund annually $173 million towards our teacher and staff compensation. About 390 school safety personnel are funded. We know cities participate in our SRO program. We know it's a financial burden, so we do thank the Plantation City for their partnerships and keeping our schools safe. When this referendum was first initiated back in 2018, our contribution rate was about $56,000. Today, we've reached $119,000. We can continue having those conversations if the referendum was successful. And it funds also technology aspects of school safety. So we all have safety badges now. That was funded out of the referendum. This is critical. Saves seconds when there's an emergency. Staff presses it, and law enforcement reacts. So we are able to fund safety technology, such as our panic buttons. We also fund about 224 mental health personnel across the district. So those are some of the things that we fund, and we will continue to fund if the referendum was successful. It's important to note, as it relates to supplements, the neighbors to the south and north of us also have referendums. Our employees have options where to work. So this is critical for us to ensure that we're able to not only recruit, but retain the top talent here in Broward County Schools. I just wanted to put a quick slide on the bond program versus referendum. I don't have to tell anyone up there. There's been a lot of negative press on our bond program as it relates to our facilities. We have made improvements, but the point of the slide is to really delineate the bond from the referendum. The referendum does not fund the facilities upgrades, and the bond does not fund the operational side of the house. As it relates to the referendum, the one in 2018 and 22 were all audited. They were found to, the money was spent appropriately on operations and on those three buckets. So I won't read this, but this is the official ballot language that the voters, your residents, will see on the November ballot when they're considering whether or not to support the referendum. The board has decided and voted on record. If the referendum were successful, 90% would go towards those teacher and staff bonuses or supplements, I should say, and again, 10% towards school safety and our mental health programs. The referendum is the only mechanism for the board to raise funds outside of what we get from Tallahassee. So the referendum is not unique to Broward schools. About half the districts in the state of Florida have referendums, but the board and the superintendent understand that we have to be better tax stewards of the money we do receive outside of the referendum to account for the decline in enrollment that we've experienced. So we've reduced 1,000 positions from the district level this school year, which was $54 million annual reoccurring savings and protected the classrooms by now impacting them beyond what the impact was in terms of the decline in enrollment. We restructured our health care for our employees, saving another $46 million annually and closing seven schools in the past two years. All this has generated $100 million in cost savings, but really that has only been to plug the shortfall as we continue to deal with declining enrollment. Declining enrollment is not unique to Broward schools. All the districts in the large districts in Florida are experiencing it throughout the nation, so not unique to us. So the board is reacting as quick as possible to account for that, but it still is not enough, and that's why they continue to ask the voters whether or not to support the referendum. What does this mean for the average homeowner? Again, these are averages, so depending on your assessed value, it could be more, it could be less, but we go by the average. So for the average homeowner, it's $418 a year or about $35 a month. For the average condominium owner, it's about $230 or about $19 a month. All this generates $358 million annually is our projection for that investment by the voters. So what happens if it doesn't get renewed? Again, this is the only mechanism the board has to have additional revenue outside of what we get from Tallahassee, so they would have tough decisions because we do not have $358 million in our operating budget, in our required local fund balance. So the board will have to make tough decisions. There's no way they would be able to maintain the level of services that the referendum currently funds. So again, as the soup said, there's a QR code for your residents if they want to learn more information, they can go there. And again, everything we just said is for informational purposes only and not how to vote. And of course, we're here for questions. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan and Superintendent Hepburn. And just to reiterate, this would not be a new assessment because it's already existing on that tax bill. Correct. I'm sure many of you got your property trim notices, so you'll see us there, and if this were successful, we would continue to be on that. And I'm glad you did differentiate between the referendum and the bond. And the bond, I think, was put into place prior to either one of you being with the district. Five superintendents ago. It was a long time ago. Please keep in track. Yes, because I think we were still waiting for some of those projects that were promised a long time ago, but that has nothing to do with either of you, so thank you very much. Council members, any questions for either Mr. Sullivan or the superintendent? No? Well, we thank you both for being here tonight, and again, thank you for addressing those lights at South Plantation High School. We're probably going to stick around for the kids if that's okay. Absolutely. We'd love for you, because we've got a big presentation with South Plantation High School tonight. We appreciate the opportunity to brief you, but more importantly, your residence, so thank you so much. Thank you very much for coming out tonight. Of course. Thank you. All right, and just to reiterate, we're going to move Citron Cooperman and the residence survey, which is B&C, to the bottom of the items submitted by the mayor. So, mayor, with your approval, I'd like to move to the Plantation Women's Club presentation if you'd like to do that. Yes, indeed. Come on down to Plantation Women's Club. I don't think so. I think we have a check for the police department. There's your chief. This is my favorite event right here. She's handing us a check. It's as good as it gets. The mic is yours. Thank you. As you know, the police department every year does a bike program in two of the elementary schools, Plantation Elementary and Peters. And basically, it's an incentive program for the fourth graders to enforce good behavior, good studentship, you know, all that kind of stuff. And we have been working with the police department probably, what, a dozen years now? I think it's been helping to support that. What the student gets if they complete the whole program at the end of the year is they get a bicycle, the helmet, and the lock. So I'd like to present a check for $7,100 to the chief for this year's bike program. Thank you very much. As every single year, we are proud to partner with the Women's Club. And this year, 71 bicycles and helmets and locks. So thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Council President Hoyland, do you want to go to American Heritage? They're doing a presentation, correct? Yeah. Do you want to go to? Do we have any idea how long I was going to do the Solar Night Proclamation? But if you want to do American Heritage, we can. Let's do your proclamation. All right. If the South Plantation Solar Night team can come up to the podium with me, please. This one. All right. So whereas in 2007, South Plantation High School student Daniel Myers built a solar car for his senior project, racing from Texas to New York. And whereas for the next four years, the Solar Night Program at the school flourished under the tutelage of teacher Alan Phipps, who took the team to the Texas Motor Speedway for the National Solar Car Challenge. And whereas in 2011, the team won a national title in their division and the unique designation of being the only Florida team in the competition. And that was for quite a few years. Whereas after 2015, the Solar Car Program at South Plantation had languished. Until recently, when Dr. Phipps brought the Palm Beach County 4-H Association's Tech Garage Solar Car Club to the birthplace of Solar Car Innovation of Florida, the engineering room at South Plantation High School. Whereas the Tech Garage Solar Club, now based at South Plantation, has made history by capturing its second consecutive national championship in the classic division of the Solar Car Challenge. And whereas in July, the team completed every available mile during the 2026 Tour of Texas, traveling 656.7 miles between Fort Worth to Fort Stockton. And whereas the team navigated changing terrain, weather, traffic, and elevation while carefully managing solar energy, battery capacity, and vehicle reliability. And whereas in addition to a national title, the team earned two of the Solar Car Challenge's most prestigious honors. The Renda Carter Award for Outstanding Pre-Race Team Video and Scrapbook. And the Jared Dunn Award for Displaying the Greatest Application of Information Systems. And whereas two students, Emma Boudreaux and Emily Herman, were inducted into the Order of the Solar Cell, one of the highest individual recognitions in the Solar Car Challenge, which recognizes students who consistently demonstrate exceptional leadership, technical excellence, professionalism, and service throughout the competition. Now, therefore, Nick Sortel Mayor and the City Council of Plantation, Florida, do hereby proclaim August 26, 2026, Tech Garage Solar Car Club Day, and call upon all residents to celebrate the accomplishments of these remarkable students, and ask for your support of STEM learning opportunities in all public and private schools. Unfortunately, Dr. Alan Phipps was a little under the weather. He could not be here with us tonight. But we do have Principal Alexandra Reese from South Plantation High School, and we have Magnet Coordinator, Matt Zeely. You were there when this all began, right? I was, yeah. So if you'd like to come up, Mr. Zeely, and say a couple of words, and then we'll take a photo. I'm literally going to say just a couple of words because I'd like to call up Aiden Phipps, one of the team captains here, to say a few words. But I'm going to say I'm extremely proud of, I'm going to say this is a motley group because they really are. And it's amazing that these kids came together and persevered through a lot, and the parents that supported them. It was not a 9-to-5, but a 9-to-5, then 5-to-9, and then Saturdays until whenever they were done. And I was glad to be able to bring it back to South Plantation. So kudos to these guys, and I look to see them going for a third championship this year. So I'd like to bring up Aiden Phipps. Hi, my name's Aiden Phipps. I'm actually the son of Alan Phipps, who started this all. He did this the year I was born, but first off, yes, he did leave to go to the solar car race right after I was born. But first off, I'd like to thank all of our major sponsors that helped us and ensured that we were able to do this. Starting off with Rob Cornarence and Advanced Roofing, our main signature sponsor, who has been working with Alan Phipps with this for multiple years. Next up, South Plantation High School for allowing us to work in their space. It's the Palm Beach and Broward 4-H Association, which have allowed us to create this club to begin with. The Kiwanis Club of Fort Lauderdale, Florida Power and Light, the Joseph and Karen Sutta Family Foundation, the Community Foundation of Broward, and all of our other various sponsors, who have allowed us to, and allowed me to be part of this club and community that really has come together to make me feel like we are, in total, one big family. And I'm honored to be here today. Where's Principal Reeds? Would you like to play? Do you want to grab the trophies? Yeah, why don't you guys grab the trophies? Let's get the Principal and the Superintendent in. Come on, if I fold it a ball, we're all together. Come on, guys. Aiden? Who wants to pull that? Somebody want to hold it? You're going to go hold it. You're going to hold it. You're going to hold it. You're going to hold it. It's a great watch. All right, ready, guys? Get together. Okay. Weed's a little tighter. We like to know each other. Straight down the middle. Great job, guys. Yeah. Good job. Thank you for coming out. Thanks for coming out. Thank you, Denise. Okay, yep. You got it? There you go. Thank you, ma'am. Next up, American Heritage students have an e-bike safety initiative presentation. Push your button. Make sure it turns green. Mayor's coming to help. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Today, I'll be presenting alongside three of my other members of the American Heritage Civic Engagement Club. Could you tell us who you are? Yes, we at the Civic Engagement Club promote student initiatives alongside the plantation government. We give space for students to go give speeches about policy proposals or project ideas that they wish to conduct with city officials. And we provide that comment. And what's your first name? My name is Enzo Vioniski. Nice to meet you, Enzo. Go ahead. So, honorable members of the plantation city council. So, today we wish to present to you the Safe Streets Youth Initiative, which is a partnership between the city of plantation and students here in plantation itself. So, first off, we want to explain to you why plantation has to lead in e-bike and e-moto safety initiatives. As we've seen in our city and many other cities before, we've seen that students who take one risky moment riding an e-bike or an e-moto face deadly consequences, as many public health officials and officers that we've talked to here in plantation have mentioned to us. And we at the Civic Engagement Club believe that we must partner with the city of plantation to combat this issue before it becomes even more widespread than it already is. Now, I'd like to call one of our officers here, Mason Cohen, to speak. He's the one that proposed this project in the first place. So, Mason, if you could please come up. Hello, my name is Mason Cohen. I'm the vice president of the Civic Engagement Society here at American Heritage Schools. So, when I created this proposal, I had one thought in mind. How can we reduce the risks and the deaths that kids face in our streets? Now, recently where I live in Cooper City, Florida, a kid recently passed away last year due to reckless driving on an e-bike and in other instances people were injured on e-moto's. Now, we want to create this program with three pillars in mind. So, the first pillar is the Ride Smart Plantation Awareness Campaign. It is a youth-led, digital-first approach with Instagram Reels, TikTok videos, and student-created graphics, which can really hit the root of the issue online to students. As we know, social media is a big factor of students' and teenagers' lives. And by hitting the impact of what this proposal is on those apps, on this platform, we can really ensure that the message is passed along. The core messaging will be safety and self-protection on the streets, legal and life consequences, and protecting friends and family from harm and mental distress. Now, the e-bike and motorbike safety videos will directly appeal to the teens, and they will both be distributed by our own campaign, and we hope for the city police department and city social media pages. Now, I pass it on to Enrico Zangari to continue the presentation. Hello, everyone. My name is Enrico Zangari, and I'm also an officer at our local Civic Engagement Club chapter. So, our second pillar of this initiative and project that we've just recently started working on is having student and community forums where we can actually have parents, police officers, students, and everyone just come together and talk about and discuss the issue of e-bikes and e-motors. So, as you notice, I'm mentioning e-bikes and e-motors separately, and that's one key distinction that we want to help parents and students make between the difference of an e-bike and an e-moto, as we see that many parents sometimes don't know the difference between both and end up purchasing e-motors for their kids, not knowing that these vehicles can go up to 60 miles an hour, even, in regular streets without their kids even requiring a license. So, that distinction is very important, and we also just want to make a shine light on this issue and make sure that the community is very involved. So, for pillar three, I'm going to pass this on to my partner, Damien Johnson. Good evening. My name is Damien Johnson. I am the Secretary of Government Affairs at our branch of the Community Civic Engagement Club. For our third pillar, we'd like to introduce school safety presentations, and this would be a way for students to essentially get hands-on experiences with plantation police officers, trauma responders, and student leaders alike to explain not only the differences, but the dangers of riding recklessly on e-motos and e-bikes alike in residential areas. The presentation will focus on enumeration of topics, including real-life consequences, wearing safe riding gear and behavior on residential roads, responsible decision-making and guiding against peer pressure, and presenting available community resources and alternatives that will be healthy outlets for our youth who would like to use e-bikes. I'd like to point it back now to Enzo Wujaniski. I want to thank my team members for their presentations on their pillars. So in terms of project implementation, the way we want to implement each one of our pillars and our initiative in its whole, our first phase begins now in August to early September, where we want to start creating our campaign branding and material development. We want to start scheduling and discussing with plantation public schools about setting up dates and appointments for these school presentations that we will give alongside plantation officials and officers. And we also want to start confirming the date and forum and organizing for our forum, which we are already discussing with people from the office of the Florida Attorney General to come speak. For our second phase in late September, we want to continue organizing this community forum, bringing in more members to speak. We want to start rolling out our school presentations, and we want to launch our social media campaign with plantation officials and plantation PD that will specifically target teenagers because we know that this is an issue that critically affects us and a lot of people our age. And for the third phase of our initiative, which will come more in October, we wish to host our safety forum alongside all our speakers and continue to present these safety presentations. So just a quick slide, what we need from the council itself. So we wanted to validate and bring as many people to the forum as possible in order to spread this issue and help people believe in making this change in our community. So if possible, having the attendance of as many council members as possible in this forum would be a great opportunity for us, and I think it would be of great benefit to the community here in Plantation. We would also like to confirm the support of the Plantation Police Department for these school presentations alongside us. We would like possible postage and amplification of the project on city socials, which with Plantation PD we have already had that exposure, and we wish to continue with that. And we also wish for the council itself to maybe support our initiative with the school contacts required and necessary to schedule these school presentations, which would rapidly speed up the process of making these appointments to present, and we can get this project out as quickly as possible. I think there's a slide missing. The last slide was just I wanted to thank you, all honorable members of the Plantation City Council, for having us here today. And we wanted you to know that our mission here with this initiative is to both promote student initiatives here in Plantation and to guarantee that Plantation can be a model for other cities in terms of e-bike and e-moto safety initiatives. Thank you. Great job, Enzo. Great job, Enzo, Ming, San Enrique, and Damian. Great job, and very timely. And I'll get to Councilmember Fadge in just a moment. And it's something I've been wanting to speak to our police chief about. Have you met Police Chief Schlegel? He's at the back of the room by the door. So that is going to be the most important person on your list. I know that some cities, Cooper City and Coral Springs, have had forums on this. It's incredibly important. If I may, we had a good meeting in my office with Laura and Captain Rudy Brown, and it was delegated to Captain Rudy Brown because it's related to outreach and everything. Perfect. Yeah. So I just wanted to make a couple of comments. It's that when you do create your graphics to make sure that you are showing the difference between the e-bike and the e-moto, because I think that's incredibly important, as you stated, that most parents don't realize the difference between these. I would also suggest, and the mayor can get you the contact information for State Representative Dan Daly. There was a House bill in the legislature last year that the governor just vetoed that would have created a micro-mobility safety task force, but there were also some restrictions about these type of vehicles in there, and unfortunately it was vetoed. But I think Representative Dan Daly, who used to have a part of Plantation, but now is at Coral Springs, is going to look into bringing a bill back this session. So I think it would be important that you talk to him. Perhaps he can come to the forum so the mayor can get you that information. And I'm going to turn it to Council Member Fadgen and then Council Member Einstein. Thank you, Council President Horland. Great presentation. Thank you. Very more mature than I was at your age. I'm the city's representative on the Broward MPO, and we just had a presentation on, like, the difference between the e-bikes and all that stuff. It's kind of confusing, actually. If you want to reach out to me, maybe we can arrange for you guys to present before the MPO, either next month, it might be too late for that, or the October meeting. So I don't have my city card with me. But if you want to take my contact information and drop me an email. You can come up. So I'll be happy to help you. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen. Council Member Weinstein. Yeah, I just wanted to thank you also for the presentation. It just so happens that just before starting this meeting, I received a text message from a resident with a picture of an e-bike accident that had happened right here in our city. And unfortunately, we're hearing more and more of these, not just in Plantation, but just about everywhere. And, you know, whatever we can do to educate your peers and everyone else about the need for bike safety, all kinds of bikes, right, whether it's the moto, it's the e-bike, or just bicycle riding, we should be doing it. And we've been speaking about quite a bit from our own dais about the need for safe bike lanes. And unfortunately, it goes hand in hand. We're talking with it about distracted drivers and about just the need for us all to be more aware. So, you know, what you're doing right now is part of the process of making us all safer. So thank you. Thank you very much. And when you set that date for the forum, please give us enough notice so we can put our schedules, okay? Perfect. Thank you all so much. Good night, gentlemen. Great job. Thank you. Mayor, would you like to move to teachers? Yeah, yeah. Real quick on this. The reason we met and thought this was an effective meeting is we're all parents, and we tell teens enough, and getting teens to listen to us is a challenge enough. When it's teens relating to teens, there's credibility. Right, absolutely. So appreciate y'all. Great job. Yep. Oh, Mayor, I think Mom wanted to get a picture of everybody. Can the boys come back, please? You weren't here if there's no photo. Somebody take a photo. We're going to do teachers? Yeah, let's do. Teacher awards? I'd love that. That'd be great. And also just to add, when we had our back-to-school event at Jim Ward, they had a setup there so that way they could communicate with parents and students right there. Oh, I was in the room with the books. I never got outside the theater. You didn't get out there. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. So teacher recognition. Tonight we're pleased to honor our Teachers of the Month for the previous school year. Stephanie Williams, South Plantation High. Come on down. I'm going to present, Mike. We're happy to have our Education Advisory Board member chair with us. Thank you. Very good. Shante Humphrey, Peters Elementary. Shante? Okay. No? Regina Hawkins, Our Savior Lutheran School. How are you? Hey, hey. Congratulations. And Alicia Capel, Central Park Elementary School. Is that it? Nope. I don't think so. Okay. We'd like to call up some of the representatives for the Women's Club, who's our title sponsor for this year. All right. So the big picture. Is Jessica here? Jessica, that one's way. She's going. Who this guy is here? It's Michael Tosick. He is chair of the Education Advisory Board. We meet every month. Whether you're on the board or just concerned about our schools, we want you there. 4.30 the first Monday of the month. Is that right? Come in. Give us your input on schools. Principals show up. We support the schools here, but we also have infrastructure all the way through the city that supports schools, and we want to be there for y'all. So Michael Tosick, and I've been doing this for a while now. Appreciate you. Okay. Mr. Tosick, do you have someone else from the Education Advisory Board with you this evening? Mr. Tosick. I'm Sonny Kroski, and I am also a member of the Education Advisory Board. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all you do. So, Mayor, just for the record, we have a proclamation for service dogs. We have Citroen Cooperman, we have the Resident Survey, and then Service Awards. Your call. Okay. You know, I'm always up for the service dogs. Just so people know what they received, they got a $100 gift card to Target, thanks to Plantation Women's Club, a Milky Moose Certificate for a Shake, and tickets to Florida Children's Theater Production. So, now, dog presentation. Yay. We got a handful, don't we? Kids and dogs. You got the proclamation? No, I do not. Do you have it down there? I'm going to do it. Yes. I'm coming. We'll do, we'll do, we'll do dogs here and we'll do service. You want to do service awards before the presentation? So, it's fine. Okay. Hi. Hi. How do we have this here? This is Paisley. Hi, Paisley. Come on up here with me. Paisley. Where's your dog? He didn't know. All right. Let's, we always love when the dogs come to visit us. Yes, he is. Usually, Council Member Fadgen's dog is on the dais with us. Whereas, we believe in the joyful, transformative power of the human canine bond and inclusivity of all citizens. And whereas, in the United States, more than 70 million adults and children have a disability and only 16,000 service dogs from accredited training programs exist nationwide and the need is growing. Whereas, Canine Companions is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing expertly trained service dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. And whereas, Canine Companions and their service dogs empower people with disabilities to lead life with greater independence by providing best-in-class training, ongoing follow-up services, in a deeply committed community of support. And whereas, National Service Dog Month aims to educate our community about the benefits of service dogs and the laws protecting them. And whereas, in the 250th year of our nation, the City of Plantation continues to work toward becoming an inclusive community in which all citizens and their trained service dogs are embraced. Now, therefore, in recognition of service dogs and the adults and children with disabilities in our community, Nick Silver Mayor and the City Council of Plantation, Florida, do hereby proclaim September 2026 as National Service Dog Month in the City of Plantation and call upon the residents of Plantation to join us in recognizing this important observance. Good evening, and thank you to the Mayor and the City Council of Plantation for honoring our dogs. September is National Service Dog Month, and for us, these dogs are so important. They become our independence. They give us freedom. They give our lives back. Some dogs, these dogs are used for people who can't see. They're the ears for those who can't hear. He's my strength. He's my courage. He's my comforter. These dogs are so amazing. And 51 years ago, Canine Companions was started by Gene and Charles Schultz. And people like myself cannot thank them enough for this wonderful organization that they have put together. It's not only these dogs that are the heroes. It's the trainers and the puppy raisers who train with these dogs for 16 to 18 months of their lives. And then just give them away willingly, knowing that these dogs are going to live a life of service. The goal for these dogs is to go from that little one there to this big guy right here. Some heroes wear capes. Some wear ceptoscopes. Some wear boots and baggers. For us, our heroes, they wear vests. And we appreciate and thank you all for your support. Council President, I do have a question. Yes, sir. What are the dogs' names? Gage? Okay. You all have been standing up for 45 minutes. I appreciate that. So we're going to get on to service awards. Service award attendees, five years, Glyndon Hall, planning and zoning. Glyndon is our redevelopment administrator. He oversees the growth of the Midtown area and the Gateway. And he's done a heck of a job because he started with just Gateway and he did so well, we gave him more work. Appreciate that, sir. Ten years, David Jones, planning and zoning. I think ten years calls for special words. Thank you, Mayor, esteemed council members. I feel really proud to have served the city for ten years. In fact, it will be exactly to the day, ten years and two days from now. August 28th is my day. And on top of that, I wanted to say that I am extremely grateful for the wonderful colleagues throughout the city that I get to work with on a daily basis, as well as to the opportunity to work in a community that I truly, truly care for. Thank you very much. Okay, the mayor has asked me to tell you what to do. I hope no one throws tomatoes at me. But I am one of those tree guys. I work with the landscape division. Thank you. And if you ever want to hear a speech about history of plants and trees and everything, you go back to when this land was uninhabited. Yes, indeed. It was great stuff. I heard you're okay. Oh, yeah, you know you've got to give me the money. I know. Okay. All right. Thank you. First, I'd like to thank Jason for helping me get through the Stone Age. Some of y'all will get that as you drive home. Thank you to council for supporting a lot of the ideas that I've had, that shared vision for the Gateway and for Midtown. I'd like to really thank, as David mentioned, my colleagues. I love the way how we work together, especially my folks in PD, building department, PZ, of course, and my guys in public works. And lastly, I'd like to thank my family. My kids aren't here, but my wife and my mom are here for supporting me in my wonderful, relaxing commute from Miami Beach every day. Thank you. 20 years, Marcus Hurt, IT. Have a pen. Have a picture. Well, I didn't think 20 years ago I'd be standing here 20 years from then. So, you know, I have a bunch of people to thank, Robert Castro, Mayor Armstrong, Mayor Ben Dekevick, Mayor Stoner, Mayor Sortel, and, of course, the support and the encouragement and the opportunities given to me by our current director, John Montefusco. And lastly, the people that make my job as easy as it is, my entire team here, you know, without them. They make me look good. They're just a wonderful group of people, and they make my job really easy. So I really thank everybody for the opportunity. And maybe one more. One more pen. One more pen. Congratulations. 20 years, Ricardo Chin Utilities. Hi, Council. How are you doing? I want to thank you guys. I know that you've supported us and field staff throughout the years. I want to thank the residents of the city of Plantation. I also want to thank or I want to recognize my colleagues in the field with me in the utilities department. Very hardworking, bunch of men and women. Sometimes two, three in the night we're out here putting out flowers, per se. But I want to thank all the people that I work with, and I want to thank the city for a wonderful 20 years. Thank you. So now we get to 25 years. 25 years. Quarter century. Police Chief Jeffrey Schlegel. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Council. No, so for 25 years I've been here. I walked through the door. I walked into this chamber, well, a little over 25 years ago. After I had gone down the hall, there was no swipe cards at the time, and I went to personnel. And I said, I'm here. I want to be a police officer. And they said, that's great. We're not hiring. And I said, here, fill out this postcard, and we'll mail it back to you when we are hiring. It took about six months, and here I am. For the majority of that time, for the majority of the 25 years, my wife has been with me. She's not here because it's a school night. They're home, hopefully doing homework. If you're watching, do your homework. But she's been there to push me to be better all the time. But, you know, I also don't get here without the support of everybody, and there's too many people to thank, my field training officers, my sergeants, the command staff, Chief Harrison, previous administrations here, Mayor Sordal, obviously in my current role now, and I've told you all this. But, you know, thank you for your trust and support, Mayor, Mr. Nunnemaker, and, you know, all the people in the back of this room, too, and the other departments, there's no way that we do what we do without all of the support, IT, public works, you know, everything. It is always a collaborative effort, and this city has been a blessing and a joy to work for, and it has always been a truly special place. So thank you. Twenty-five years, the aforementioned John Montefusco. Can we get Marcus and John Riley up here? He's celebrating. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's celebrating, too. Okay. One, yeah. There you go. One more. Thank you. One more. Sorry, no. Sorry to hug your time. It's all good. I don't have to think. My dog is, too. The bowler? No, she's at UCL. Oh. Come on. Okay. Wow, 25 years. I'm truly blessed to work for a great city. I want to thank the council for their guidance, and I want to thank the mayor and Jason for their leadership. Like Chief Schlegel said before, I can do this without other people, so I like my fellow directors. I like to thank them for their collaboration. I also like to thank my staff for their dedication, and you can see a lot of them are here in the crowd. Guys, take a second to stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Come on. Stand up. Stand up. As you know, they support every department in the city. So, and I want to thank my family for their love and support. Thank you very much. And also in IT 25 years, John Riley. Thank you. Mayor, city council. I want to echo a lot of what was said earlier, but I want to thank my wife. You can see me at home, I hope. Hi. She has been with me since the beginning, since I started here 25 years ago. And it was her love and support in supporting me through these trying times, through our 2008 issue that we had, sticking with me, raising two wonderful children. I'm truly blessed. I want to thank Nancy Paul, who's here today. She was the inspiration for me to stay with the city. She has been, was my boss in 2005 and up until I came over to City Hall, and I'm blessed to have her guidance and her friendship. So, thank you. And finally, I want to thank all my fellow co-workers. John Montefusco, him and I started the same day, 25 years ago. And he's been a friend, a confidant, and now my boss, and I'm very happy and proud to have you as that. Thank you. And we have one retirement. Monica Murrucci, come on down. Do you want him to come up, too, or not? Yes. It's up to you. You don't need him, really. He's my support. I have a proclamation to read. Whereas Monica was born in Miami and raised in Pines and lived in Hawaii for a few years, moving to Plantation in 1993. Whereas Monica began working for City of Plantation as a volunteer firefighter for the City of Plantation Fire Department in 1993 and hired as part of the first group of EMTs on rescue in 1996. Whereas Monica has been married to her husband, Andre, the present training chief for the City of Plantation Fire Department, whom she met at the fire department. And Monica has two children from a previous marriage, a daughter named Kaylee, 28, and a son named Brandon, 23. And they have another son named Andre Jr., who's 17, and from her current husband, Andre. A lot of Andres in there. Okay. I can't edit it. It's on a plaque. Whereas Monica was the first female SWAT medic for the Plantation Police Department. Monica is also proud to serve on the ALS competition team for a couple of years, traveling throughout Florida, competing with other fire and EMS. Monica received a promotion to lieutenant in 2013. Monica will be continuing to work as a nurse part-time and spending more time with family and traveling in her retirement. Therefore, I, Nick Soto Mayor, City Council Plantation, do hereby express our gratitude and appreciation to Monica for her dedicated service. Thank you. Brandon, please. This is my middle son, Brandon. You're not Andre. Actually, Andre's in basic training in the Army right now, so he can't be here. Okay. Do you want, oh, go ahead. All right, I'm going to make this brief. That was long enough. First, I want to thank you, Council Mayor, for the honor. I can't believe, just as Marcus said, that I'm standing here right now. It's been 29 years of service. Also then, including my volunteer time, another three and a half. I started here when I was 23. I basically grew up here. And all these people back here are my family. And I will never forget them. This has been the best career and an honor and a privilege. With all the ups and the downs and the goods and the bads, I wouldn't trade it for the world. It's been amazing. And this is the best city. I love it here. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to, we have two items left from the mayor. Sure. Come on back. Yeah, absolutely. Chief. You thought you were asking him to speak. He doesn't like that one. He'll take the vote. It's been a great, like she said, 32 years. That's a long time. Thank you very much. Okay. We're going to wait for the fire department to file out. And then we will move on to the findings and recommendations from Citroen Cooperman, the special audit engagement. So wait until everybody moves out. All right, so I'm going to do a little intro, and then I'll let them just keep going. Perfect. Keep going. Okay. We ready? Good evening, Ms. Otignano. Good evening, Anna Otignano, City Plantation Finance Director. Good evening, Mayor, Council President, Council Members, City Attorney Morgan. The next item on the agenda is a presentation of the results of a special engagement audit that was performed by external auditors, Citroen Cooperman Advisors, LLC. A little background information for the public, and for anyone who doesn't know, the Office of Internal Government, the OIG, concluded an investigation that identified certain deficiencies in the city's internal controls related to payroll processes and disposal of surplus property. Based on concerns expressed by council, the city administration engaged the services of Citroen Cooperman to perform an internal audit of the city's processes. The audit was divided into two phases. Phase one was process review and advisory, which was a review of the city's internal controls and processes related to payroll and disposal of surplus property, and that's the information that was indicated in the OIG report. Additionally, there was a phase two, which was contract oversight and management, which was a review and focus of the city's contract oversight and management practices. So, as I said, the review is over, and now tonight in council we have Mr. Michael Camacho. He is a partner with Citroen Cooperman, and also on the line we have Mr. Ben Krupa, who is a manager with Citroen Cooperman. So they're both here to, Michael is here to present, and they're both here to answer any questions you may have. Okay? Great. Thank you. Thank you. Mike. Thank you for having me today. Good evening. Welcome. Thank you. I've never followed great students, service animals and service awards, so I might have to borrow a service dog from here. But thank you for having me today. I want to first say thank you to Anna for all the coordination she had throughout the entire project. Also to Matt Thompson, Monica Perilla, Paulina Ganey, and Adriana Varga for all the help they did. Projects like this getting done successfully really take coordination for everyone, and really they gave us that the whole time. So, as Anna just said, there's two phases we're going to go over today to this project. The first phase, cautioning about the OIG report for payroll and for the assets, and then also the contract oversight part of the project as well. What we did for the – we'll start with the payroll process as well. So, really what we did for the OIG report is obviously we had to get an understanding of what the OIG report said. Management had done it. It put together recommendations that they had to meet those items that were identified, the deficiencies in their reports, so get an understanding of what those were, perform walkthroughs, and look at support for the items that were on there. And then also, based on our experience, see if there's any of the recommendations we had to continue to enhance the control environment. So, in going through and doing that, some of the things that we had seen that were changes that were put in place by the teams before we got here. First of all, from the payroll perspective, there was citywide training put in place related to ADP and how payroll time should be entered. So, they went through to restrain people how their time should be in, how they had to approve it, and then who was required to approve it after that from a supervisory perspective. There was also changes done as far as if there was ever changes done by the supervisors, what they did to document showing why the time was being changed to make sure that there was no gaps. Employees are now required to certify their own time before it's being submitted, so they have to certify that they're putting it themselves, and then it goes to their supervisor for their approval before it's done. If the supervisor has any adjustments to make for the payroll, they have to type in a why it's being changed so that it's clear, and then there's a pre- and post-approval report that's done and looked at also in the top and say someone looks at those changes to make sure that they make sense and why they would be done. Additionally, all leave requests are done automatically now. They're done systematically and online, so a person who has to put the leave request in has to go through a supervisory approval as well. All of those things, the employee time, the supervisor's time, and the leave are done systematically. So it's done through workflow. You can't edit it. It can't be sent to somebody else, and there are controls in place to make sure that those things are done properly and are completed. So from that perspective, you know, we did our walkthroughs. The controls seemed to be designed effectively and are limited re-performance of those controls. They seem to be operating effectively as well. A few recommendations that we had just from our perspective on that. First of all, from a standpoint of when there are changes made by the supervisors, having a minimum documentation requirement instead of just saying, you know, edited time to put a little more content in there so the reviewer understands why the time was changed so it's a little more clear. Also, from the standpoint of the pay codes, there's also pay codes that are done as part of the project where they have to keep their time certain times, pay codes in there. Each pay code, sometimes you have companies where there will be a pay code put in where they don't want it hit. You shouldn't see a lot of time in there, so it's very general. Sometimes you want to break those out. Other times you want to get rid of pay codes you don't want to see. So having someone take a look at those periodically and make sure that they are in line with what people have so the exception process doesn't take too long. And then finally as well, on the pre- and post-checklist, we talk about they look at pre- and post-adjustment payroll checklists. If there's any changes that are made, they are doing that process, but maybe a little more documentation in the policy about what they should be looking for as part of that process to make sure there's nothing and no exceptions that are there not met. So that's the payroll piece. Any questions on that before I move to the... Okay. Council Member Fadgen and then Council Member Andrea. Thank you, Council President Horland. Just two brief questions. So are the payroll processes for entering their time and approval, is it uniform from department to department? Yes. Yeah, it's done pretty much citywide. It's supposed to be all in the same process now. So one department doesn't do it one way, another department doesn't. All the steps are all the same. Yeah, the automation through ADP should make that consistent now. And then my second question regarding the supervisor making edits, and I think you kind of answered it, but I'm just going to ask it. They're unable to just put some frivolous response in there. They actually have to put a substantive comment as to why there was a change to it. Correct. And that was part of the recommendation related to that process. There's that pre- and post-report that is reviewed at a different supervisory level. So they want to make sure that there's enough content there so when the person reviewing it sees what the supervisor changed, it makes sense. Is there any direction to the supervisors as what kind of comments? Like in my office, I tell my people that there needs to be enough narrative in any note or comment that someone else could pick it up and understand what they're talking about is the Mendel and threshold for the documentation. Is there any kind of direction along those lines? That was exactly the comment that we had made with that. And I know Paulina has already- I can come work for you guys. There you go. Exactly. I don't want to do it again. There's a postcard you can fill out. We're not hiring right now, but we'll get back to that. But, yeah, I think Paulina has already started. All the recommendations we made, I think she's already gone through and tried to start making some of those suggestions. That's exactly what it was. There should be enough content there to make sure that the change was correct and appropriate. I appreciate you coming out and doing this engagement for us. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Councilmember Andrea? Thank you, President Horland. Thank you for this engagement as well. I have a question regarding overtime and comp time. How much of that was reported during the pay period that you actually audited? So this was not- it was in a formal financial audit that we were looking at as more of a control. It was limited testing that we did, and we really- the difference between overtime, that was not part of the scope of the project. But I'm sure Paulina might be able to answer some of that. That's not what part of our project was. And I was still- I did see you had some comp time, though, during this engagement that was noted. Yep. So how are they able to document that comp time other than just putting a note? So that would call it Ben Koopa, if you're on the line. I don't know if that is a question that he'd be able to answer. Yep. We don't hear you, though, Mr. Koopa. We need you to unmute yourself, please. Okay? No? Oh, there he is. Okay. Hold on. Let's try this. Ms. Beggarow, anything on our end? I know. Call back all those awards. Ask to unmute. Nothing yet, Mr. Koopa. Okay. It looks like he's typing maybe in a comment, since we can't hear him. But I was just curious about the OT and the comp time. And then my last question is that exceptions report, who is reviewing that? That was another question for Ben with specifics of that. Okay. Ben, nod your head if you're trying to text. Okay. If you want to take a look at your phone, he might be texting you right now. Thank you, Mr. Koopa. I am unmuted, he said. Yeah, I am. Okay. That's a good point. Yeah. If he wants to call your cell phone, we can try to talk you through the microphone. We can put it up to the mic, since he can hear us. Okay. This is a first. I'm going to put him on speaker. Okay. Go ahead, Ben. It's okay. Welcome. On my end, it says that I'm unmuted, but I guess that is not the case. So, I think the first question was related to comp time. Yes, correct. Would you like to ask the question again, Council Member Andrea? So, as far as the information that we looked at, we kind of, we kept our scope to the documentation that would, you know, support the remediation of the corrective actions from the memo. We didn't, in that way, test specific hours totals. We, you know, we looked at the prepayroll checklist, kind of looked through the different reports that they're looking at, did select one employee's time card that did have edits during the period and, you know, saw through that documentation and that ADP required a comment. But as far as looking in specific buckets of pay codes, that was not something that we had in our scope. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. And then, do you know, the second question was, the exception reports, who is responsible for reviewing those exception reports? So, my understanding there, so, I had a couple of meetings with Adriana and Paulina, HR, payroll. My understanding was that Paulina, that... President Horland, I think. Yes, I see. Ms. Ganey, would you like to come up and introduce yourself, please? Hello, Paulina Ganey, HR Director. It's actually Adriana Vargas, our payroll manager. She reviews those. Okay. Thank you. I wanted to ensure that it was someone outside of the immediate supervisor, so thank you for that. Any further questions? Ben, I'm muting you until you're called upon again. No, it's okay. Okay. All right. So, we're okay with... Councilmember Anderson, before we go to the next phase. Sure. It can be for Ms. Ganey after the presentation, I guess. Proceed. Okay, great. All right. So, then, when we were talking about the asset disposals, again, management had already put some... I don't want to mute this. Management had already put together some remediations in place for what they comments over in the OIG report. These were really around a couple of things. First of all, enhancement of the documentation, the disposal form that's being used. There was very little content in it before. Now, it's, okay, what's being disposed of, specifics of what's being disposed of, why it's being disposed of, and approvals that have to be put in there to say that it's appropriate to be disposed of. There's also... There were high-value assets, more vehicles and equipment, things like that, that in the... In the... In the prior times, they would take them to kind of scrap them for parts, pull all the parts off them, then scrap the vehicle. Now, they're going through auction... Can I interrupt one second? Yes. I'm sorry. Can we get the presentation bigger on the screen? I just don't want to go down the whole path and follow along. Sure. Okay. Just give us one moment. Yeah. Nope. There we go. Perfect. Sure. Go ahead, Mr. Kmancha. Yeah. So, yeah, so now there's... The more high-value assets just aren't... They're not pulled for parts and then scrapped that way. They're going through auctions if that's appropriate. Additionally, there was enhanced physical controls. Excuse me? Oh, yeah, I think that's all right. I have a question on that page. This page? Okay. Yes. It's a very quick question. The middle paragraph, video footage is retained for one month. That seems like a very short time. A lot of times, video footage, now that it's digital. I mean, definitely, at some point, we'll rewrite over it, depending on how much it's recording. But it usually should be a lot longer. You might not know there's a breach in something, and by the time it gets reported, the video's already gone. So, I would hope we have it longer than a month. I just... I mean, that's... Yeah, something that's definitely an option. I'm saying... I mean, that might be a question for Mr. Montefusco or someone offline. I'm not sure about that. But a month seems very short. By the time you were aware there's a problem, and by the time you put a request in for video footage, it's going to be gone. Right. Yeah, and something we could ask, and maybe Matt would know, but the amount of time that the scrap gets removed, you know, because the video cameras are really on the area where the scrap is put, you know, where they're depositing into the dumpster, make sure someone's not... There's two things. One, when someone has to dispose of something, they have to take a picture showing they're throwing it in. And then there's also the video monitoring, make sure someone's not taking it off outside of hours. So, when it's something like that, depending on the industry, now with cameras and the sophistication, the digital amount of it, it takes a lot of space. So, like, for example, banks that I do audit for, they keep it for 12 months or longer because it's of the severity of it. With this, I mean, it definitely can do more. It's just a matter of space and allocation. So, between Matt and the other person, if I can find it. But, yeah, the cameras are now up there. They're requiring digital photos. And then also, there's segregation of duties from the perspective of when something's disposed of and the scrap's going out, the funds that come back, that's getting resolved by finance versus somebody in the public works group. So, a couple of areas that we recommended for continued focus is the timing of the forms. In one of the selections that we had made, the form was actually approved after the disposal was made. So, the disposal went in, but then it was approved after the fact of when it was put into the temperature. So, really, it's saying to do it, but, yeah, obviously, you get it approved before you throw it away. And then the second thing was process clarification from the form clarification. Right now, they're being just summer paper. It really should be automated. Like we talked about payroll, the more automated something is with kind of workflows in there, it's harder to have a document get lost, et cetera. So, that was our recommendation here. Any other comments on this piece? All right. So, and I think we could jump to the last. So, that's the end of the phase, the phase one. Now, phase two is jumping to kind of, it's a little different process. This wasn't something that was on the OAG report. This was just something that with the, there was a sidewalk project that had gone over budget, and there were some questions around controls that should be in place for something like this to control it. So, we had gone in and reviewed this scenario. Now, management had already put together kind of a memo describing the situation, what had happened, and the uniqueness of the scenario. So, we had that when we came in as well. That was very helpful. But, really, from our understanding of the process is that the contract, when we go through the contract between the individuals doing the sidewalk, it was written very much like almost like someone's purchasing an item versus a service because it said, you know, invoices will be issued when the goods are received. Well, this is more of a service being received. And so, a lot of times, contracts like that are, they're written up almost like a construction-wise. Like, we will issue invoices as we proceed on a monthly basis. So, you know, one of the recommendations we talked about was trying to align the contracts, be more aligned with that so it's clearer. But, in this scenario, they were basically, every time an invoice would be submitted, they would recognize, okay, here's the cost associated with it. So, when the vendor didn't submit invoices for a few months, there was no recognition about that, that there's an expense that happened, and then, all of a sudden, they came through late, and the expenses exceeded the amount of the PO. So, in looking at this, you know, we made some recommendations here that there were some changes made. First of all, they started using a budget tracking spreadsheet that they put in place so they can start saying, here's how much was allocated to the project, and here's how much has been, how much has come in. Important in that sense, too, is if you've got an invoice, you need to be looking for what didn't come in as well. So, if you know that the project has still been going on for months, but you don't see an invoice, that should be a question that you get to ask, and that's one of the recommendations we made. Additionally, there was additional training that was put in place around this to make for what people should be watching for to know when expenses should be looked for if there's not an invoice put there. But, really, we had two suggested remediations, and there's two ways to do it. Workday is obviously being implemented by the city right now. So, pre-workday, we talked about what I said a minute ago. With these spreadsheets, make sure that you're looking at not only what's there, but what should be there based on the project. Project managers should know if activity has been happening during the month, and even though you didn't get an invoice, you probably should ask about the costs associated with it. You can track that budget to actual closely. And, additionally, making sure that the POs are more aligned, as I mentioned, with that construction-based language, not service-based language. Post-workday, it's a much simpler process because there is a supply contract management and a procure-to-pay module within there that tracks this real-time. So, as we're going through the same thing, but it's not in the spreadsheet, they should be monitoring to show, okay, we didn't get an invoice. Let's go out and find out what it should be so we can add it as an accrual. It also has automatic triggers. So, if you get within a certain percentage of the total contract value, it triggers saying, hey, you should be watching this to make sure it's there. So, really, as I talked about earlier, and then also it's like threshold alerts. For each project, you would say, when we get in 10%, we'll alert you, or 20%, we'll alert you. But it really just takes a lot more of that monitoring and automates it and really prompts the people what they need to do and takes the guesswork out of it. So, workday, I think, would be a big shot in the arm for this one. But at the end of the day, our internal controls did catch that, ultimately, before anything was paid out. Yes, yeah, correct. And now, I think, with any additions to the spreadsheet and the closer training and the monitoring to be looking for the things that aren't there, that's the most important part of this, that should at least catch it until workday is in place. Okay. Perfect. So. All right, thank you. Councilmember Anderson, did you want to speak on this item? Or do you want to wait to speak to Paulina? You had Zoom buzzed in. It's part of the whole thing, but it's not for the... Okay. Then I'm going to go to Councilmember Fadgen, and then I'll have you do the wrap-up. Okay. Thank you, Council President. So, one of your recommendations is, in these contracts, require monthly invoicing from the vendor? Correct, yeah. Was there any work done regarding, you know, when we authorized the $500,000, that left $100,000 left on the budget line item for sidewalk repairs. Was there any work about that, exceeding that authorization, exceeding the budgetary line item? Well, I believe, if I'm understanding it correctly, I believe what that was, in the sense that it exceeded the budgetary line item because of delay in the invoices, because they weren't, no one was tracking to show that the invoices were adding up during the months they were receiving them. And when it came through, it was, yeah. Okay, so we caught it because when we did overspent by a quarter of a million dollars, and then that forced the going over on the budget line item. Correct, right, so you really want it to be more of a preventive control, which is kind of what we recommended in here, is that as you're going through, someone should be looking and say, understand we didn't get an invoice this month, but we know that the project was underway. Someone should go and reach out to the vendor, what was the time spent, get that in there, even if it's temporary until the invoice comes in, something to show so that you can be monitoring budget to actual. And again, in Workday, that'll prompt you to do it automatically if it's not there, and that way you'll get the flags automatically. Is there going to be a report issued? So these are actually both the presentations that are issued. The slides are going to be the report. Correct. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Camacho, thank you for your work on this. I think the audit turned down pretty much the way that I thought it would, because I know that there were some protections already put in place after that OAG report, so we appreciate your work on that. I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Anderson. Sure. I just have a quick question I thought of through all this for Ms. Ganey. What process do we have when employees accrue comp time? How do they accrue it? How is it recorded? Is it entered anywhere, or is it tracked off the side on paper? Yep. Paulina Ganey, HR Director, it's tracked in ADP. Okay. You can put it in as time, and it'll show as a bank. And does that account for when they're, if they're, the federal designation that they're, they qualify for overtime? Yes. Will it automatically calculate the overtime? Yes, time and a half. Time and a half of comp? Yes, sir. And then they could also subtract from that the same way? Absolutely. It's a leave bank, so they can use it and enter it in their time card. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for coming out. All right. We're moving on to the last item under the mayor's, that was a big night. Which are the results of the Plantation Community Service? I know. Bring the puppies back. Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and City Council members. I'm Laura Karpovich, Assistant City Administrator for the record. With us tonight, we have Derek Harvey from EDC Institute to present our residence survey results. This is the second residence survey that we've conducted in the City of Plantations, so we do have some trends data that Derek will talk to you about. And as you're hearing this presentation, we just wanted you to know that when we're looking at these scores, we're paying very close attention to what our residents identified as the most important things to them. So it's those high-priority items, public safety infrastructure when it comes to traffic safety, to roadways, sidewalks, stormwater, as well as affordability. Those were the things that came out on top. So as we're looking at those things, obviously, we're thinking about them in context of upcoming strategic planning, as well as what may or may not happen in November with the referendum. So, again, we're paying close attention because that will be a big consideration when we're thinking about where we're putting our limited dollars that may become even more limited. So, with that, I'd like to invite Derek to present the results. Thank you. Thank you, Laura. Mayor, Council, thank you for having me back. It's always great to be down in South Florida. I'm here to present the 2026 City of Plantation Community Survey results. I'm going to get kind of past this. By now you know who we are, EDC Institute. For the 26th Plantation Community Survey, I want to talk about the perceptions and ratings, major services, public safety, city maintenance, trash services, sustainability, and communication. Since this is the second survey, we do have some trends that we can look at compared to 24 and 26. The purpose of the survey is we wanted to objectively assess city programs and services, gather input from residents so city leaders could set priorities and identify areas for improvement for the community, as well. For the methodology, the survey was done the exact same way as the first survey. It was administered by mail, phone, and online follow-ups by text, email, and social media to a random sample of residential addresses. The sample was designed to ensure the results were statistically valid and representative. We received 672 completed surveys for this survey. That gave us a margin of error of plus-minus 3.77% at the 95% level of confidence. Looking at the survey results at a glance, 87% of your respondents are rating Plantation as an excellent or good place to live. 79% are rating it as an excellent or good place to raise children. And 78% are very satisfied or satisfied with the overall quality of life in Plantation as well. Perceptions and ratings of the city remain high when compared to ETC Institute's Florida and national averages. Plantation is still performing above all the regional and national average in almost all the areas that we looked at. Overall satisfaction with city services remain strong. Plantation performed well in key areas such as fire, parks and rec, police. However, most services did see a slight decline since 24, but satisfaction did remain strong in these areas overall, and that's why the benchmarking is important. Yes, we did see declines, but overall, when you look at regional and national averages, you're still performing way above those. There were opportunities for improvement. Traffic flow, maintenance of streets and sidewalks, stormwater infrastructure and canals, affordable housing, police visibility and traffic enforcement were highlighted areas for improvement on this survey. When you looked at the distribution of responses, this is a GIS map. This is what we would use when selecting the random sample for Plantation. We would lay this over, have all the residential addresses on there, and that's what we would select the random sample from. The dots on this map are the completions for this survey. They're coded to the nearest block level to protect respondents. This is what we're monitoring on the back end, making sure we're hearing from all areas of the city. We're also monitoring race and ethnicity, the gender breakdown, the age breakdown, and make sure we're hearing from all individuals in Plantation. When looking at the perceptions and ratings, Plantation received ratings above 59% in all these areas assessed. I mentioned as a place to live, 87%, as a place to raise children, 79%, followed by as a place to visit, as a place to work, and as a place to retire, receiving extremely high ratings above 50%. The lowest-rated item was as a place where you would buy your next home. Still receiving 59% satisfaction was very impressive, but it was the lowest-rated on the slide. When looking at trends, comparing 26 to 24, four out of the six areas did see decreases from 24. However, as a place to retire and where you would buy your next home did stay on par with the 24 results as well. As we go through this, this will be a trend. We will see decreases. However, not all of these decreases are statistically significant. They fall within our margin of error that we have of that 3.77%. And then when we look at the benchmarking, this will also be a trend. Plantation is still leading the way when compared to that Florida and national average. When it comes to overall ratings, as a place to live, almost 40 points higher than both the Florida and national average. As a place to raise children, almost 30 points higher. As a place to visit, as a place to work, all higher. All the way down to as a place where you would buy your next home, which was the lowest-rated on your survey, still about 4 points higher than the Florida average, almost 10 points higher than the national average. Looking at overall perceptions, presentation received ratings above 50% in all but two areas when it comes to perceptions. The overall appearance of plantation, image of plantation, 82% satisfaction, 80% satisfaction there. Followed by the overall quality of life that I mentioned earlier at 77%. Followed by overall quality of your neighborhood, down to the overall quality of services provided by your city, still receiving over 60% satisfaction for that. The lowest-rated items were how well the city is managing growth at 33% and how well the city is planning for the future at 29%. Those are also areas where we did see our dissatisfaction numbers jump up as well at 43% and 41%. What the GIS maps allow us to do is look at how respondents answered by the average rating in the areas that you see on the map. These areas are census block groups, so they are quite small. And what you can see is the average response to the question in that area. As you can see, some areas on the survey are more satisfied than other areas in the city. Some are more neutral. And then we have a few areas that are more dissatisfied in the city as well. When looking at the major city services, more than half of the respondents were satisfied in almost all these areas assessed. Fire and EMS, parks and rec, plantation police, the library, wastewater and sanitary sewer, quality of drinking water, all the way down to maintenance and streets and sidewalks and stormwater management and flood control, receiving ratings above 60% satisfaction with these items. The two lowest-rated items when it came to major city services was the access to quality public education for children and plantation at 48%, just below that 50% cutoff, and then the flow of traffic on major roadways at 36%. And that was one area where we did see that high dissatisfaction of 43%, and I believe that was the same as the previous survey in 24 as well. When looking at the trends, most of the major services saw a decrease in the rating since 24. However, only four of the services saw statistically significant decreases since 2024. That was the plantation library, the quality of the drinking water, enforcement of local codes and ordinances, and public education for children and plantation as well. The only item that did see an increase was that flow of traffic on major roadways. It did see a 6% increase from the previous survey. It was at 30%. It's up to 36% now. And then all other services, those seeing a decline, it is within our margin of error and aren't statistically significant. When we looked at the benchmarking, plantation is still leading the way in almost all these categories when it comes to the Florida average and the national average that ETC Institute provides. Really, for the first 10 services on that screen, you're clearly leading the way. And then, really, the only item that is below both averages is the flow of traffic on major roadways, even though we did see an increase in that on the survey. When it came to priorities for investment, we designed a survey to help set these priorities. We can run it through ETC's important satisfaction analysis. We ask about overall satisfaction. That's what we just looked at on the slide. And then we ask about our residents of these services, which of them are most important for the city to emphasize over the next two years. It was no surprises that the top three services that residents wanted the city to emphasize were also the flow of traffic on major roadways, which was the number one priority in the city, had the least amount of satisfaction as well. Flow of traffic in your city streets and your community as well was this third most important. And then the maintenance of those streets was the second most important item. That quality of public education for children in plantation, if the satisfaction does keep dropping, it will jump up. I just want to point that out so it's something to keep a monitor on. When we looked at the flow of traffic on major roadways with the GIS map, once again, we can see areas that are more satisfied, neutral areas, and then we have one corridor that is more dissatisfied without knowing a lot about plantation. I can guess some of the major roadways probably run right through that area. When looking at public safety and plantation, one of the questions we asked is, in the past 12 months, do you think plantation has become more or less or stayed the same as far as being a safe place? 68% of the respondents said it stayed the same, 28% have said it's become less safe, and 4% say it's become more safe. When we looked at our 24 numbers, however, we did see a shift in 24, only 66% of respondents said it stayed the same, and 30% said it was less safe. So we are starting to see a slight shift there, and hopefully we start to see more of a shift in future surveys as well. When it came to the public safety services and overall satisfaction, response times from police, EMS, and ambulance, confidence in the fire department, and fire service personnel response times were your highest rated items, receiving very high satisfaction ratings. Visibility of police in those commercial and neighborhood areas and enforcement of local traffic laws were the lowest rated, and I believe they were the three lowest rated on the last survey as well. When we looked at the trends, once again, we did see slight decreases overall in public safety, but mostly all these ratings maintained their high ratings. None of them really jumped into the statistically significant category. A lot of them stayed on par. Enforcement of local traffic laws did see a slight increase as well. And once again, when we looked at the benchmarking, plantations leading the way in five out of the six areas assessed. Those top three response times, you're clearly leading the way, all the way down to enforcement of local traffic laws. It was the lowest rated on the survey, but you're still leading that Florida national average. When it came to the priorities for investment, running it through our important satisfaction analysis, no surprise, the three items that received the lowest satisfaction scores were also the three items that were most important to residents, and those were the three items that were a very high or high priority once we ran it through, and that's the visibility of police and commercial areas and neighborhoods, and then the enforcement of those local traffic laws. The medium priority just means that you're providing those services at the expected level from residents currently. When we looked at the visibility of police and neighborhoods, remember these saw high satisfaction rate. They were over 50% overall, so when looking at the GIS map, I wouldn't expect to see a dissatisfied area on there, but we do see areas that are more satisfied than others, and then there are neutral areas as well. When looking at city maintenance, maintenance services saw some very impressive ratings. The lowest rated items still received 49% satisfaction scores, the top ones being mowing and tree trimming along city streets, maintenance of public buildings and facilities, cleanliness of streets and public areas, condition of those major streets, and then the lowest rated one was condition of sidewalks at 49%. It also saw, oh, there we go, and then the condition of sidewalks was at 49% there. When we looked at trends, once again, maintenance services did see a decrease in the ratings. However, none of these areas were statistically significant. They fall within our margin of error, and then condition of major streets did see a slight increase. I believe when we do with a third survey, we're going to find out that the real rating probably lies in between these numbers. It's probably an average of these and the third survey, and we'll probably see that in the future. And then the same story with the benchmarking, once again, plantations leading the way in all categories or is on par with that Florida and national average that ETC Institute provides. When it came to maintenance services and high-priority items, condition of sidewalks was the number one priority. It was the most important item to residents as well, and then had the least amount of satisfaction ratings, and then followed by stormwater infrastructure, canal maintenance, and those adequacy of street lighting in your community. When we looked at the GIS map for condition of sidewalks, we can see there are dissatisfied areas, and then there are very satisfied and satisfied areas as well. Well, stormwater infrastructure, once again, is the same story. We see areas of the city that are mostly satisfied, followed by some neutral ratings, and then two areas that are more dissatisfied with stormwater infrastructure and canal maintenance. And then the adequacy of street lighting, most of the city is satisfied, and there are some neutral ratings there as well. We did ask about trash services on the survey. Overall, we looked at cost satisfaction. Are you satisfied with the current costs for solid waste services? 60% of respondents said they are, 40% said they are not. We also asked, would you pay more if your service was improved? Only 36% of respondents said they would pay more if the service was improved, with 64% saying no, they would not. And then breaking down your trash service bags versus carts, 87% of the community and respondents using bags, which is expected. And then 5% using carts, 8% saying they have dumpsters in their community that they use. What this allowed us to do is look at satisfaction between bags and carts users. When we looked at bags for trash and asked bags users how their satisfaction, only 42% said they are currently satisfied with bags for trash. 47% said they are dissatisfied with bags for trash. With recycling, we saw 47% satisfaction with bags for recycling. And then 39% dissatisfaction overall. And then finally, one of the last questions we asked bags user was if they would prefer a trash cart or if they would not. 40% of bags users said they would prefer a trash cart. 39% said they would not, which left about 21% right in the middle that said they were neutral with the question. They probably need more information on the topic. We asked the same questions for carts users. Now, this was a much smaller group of individuals and respondents. However, when we asked about carts or trash, there's 86% satisfaction, 0% dissatisfaction, and the same thing for recycling. 88% satisfaction to 0% dissatisfaction. And then we asked if they would prefer bags. 96% of carts users said they would not prefer bags. 4% said they would. When looking at sustainability, sustainability did see some high neutral ratings overall. I believe some of these items are easily explained with that. There's public transit on here. There's bicycle infrastructure. Those are items that not everybody in the community uses. However, your top rated ones was the number of trees and green spaces throughout the city. That was the lowest neutral rating on there. That's something that's easy to see for everybody. Followed by several plantations' commitment to green and sustainable practices. And water conservation programs. They did see some high neutral ratings. So I think that's an opportunity for the city to educate residents about those items, get more information out there. And then the lowest rated item on here was the availability of affordable housing. And that was the one that saw 42% dissatisfaction as well. When we looked at our priorities for investment, no surprise, the availability of affordable housing was the very high priority. When we do ask this question in other communities as well, it comes up and is also a very high priority in every community. So plantation is not alone in that item. And then the other high priority was the quality of pedestrian infrastructure. We saw sidewalks as one of the maintenance services, also tied back to this pedestrian infrastructure. When we looked at the affordable housing by GIS maps, we can see there are several areas in the city that are dissatisfied with that option. And then areas that are satisfied and neutral. When we looked at communication for plantation, there were high neutral ratings on here. I think it's an opportunity for the city to get more people to use the website, look at social media outlets. But they did still receive over 50% satisfaction. I believe we can get those neutral ratings over to the positive. It will also help with the city's efforts to keep residents informed about issues as well as the ability to provide input to council and mayors as well. With benchmarking, though, you're still leading the way when it comes to that Florida national average when it looks at communication services. And then one of the final questions we asked residents, which sources do you prefer to get information from the city? The top four was city social media, the mayor's newsletter, Plantation Now, and the city website. And then one of the last questions we asked was about tax feelings. 46% of the respondents said taxes are just right for the amount of services they're receiving. 40% said the taxes are too high. 12% said the taxes are high, but the city is providing services that are better than they expect. And then 2% said they don't pay taxes. And 0.2% said taxes are too low. So that question broke down about how we would expect it to break down. In summary, Plantation continues to remain a highly rated community. 87% of your community says it's an excellent or good place to live. 79% say it's an excellent or good place to raise children. And 78% are satisfied with the overall quality of life. Most services remained well regarded, even though we did see a softening from 24. Police, fire, EMS, parks and rec. Police all received high ratings still. Plantation is still leading the way when it's compared to the Florida national average. We saw that over and over again on the survey. We did see items that were identified as for priority, flow of traffic, maintenance of those streets, availability of affordable housing, store water infrastructure and canals, visibility of police and the local enforcement of traffic laws as well. And then continue to educate residents about communication sources, the website, social media outlets, and driving to the sources that they prefer to get information from will help the city with resident satisfaction in the future and provides an opportunity for improvement in these items. If you have any questions, I can take them now. Thank you, Mr. Harvey. Before I turn it over to my colleague, Council Member Weinstein, I want to thank you. It helps us to, I think, especially with the GIS, the inclusion of GIS maps this time really is going to help us target our engagement and our communication to certain pockets of neighborhoods. So I appreciate that. I'm looking forward to getting to strategic planning so that we can really focus in on many of the items that you brought up and see where the opportunities are for improvement. So I thank you. Council Member Weinstein. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation. I think my only question for you, Mr. Harvey, is in terms of the 672 participants, based on your education, training, experience, is that an adequate sample for us? It is. We do communities all the time. Really, when we're looking at sample sizes, we're looking at that margin of error. We had a 3.77% margin of error. To really see a significant drop in that margin of error, we would probably need to go to 1,000 completions, 1,200, almost double the sample size. And at that point, we don't really see the return on investment from the cost of doing that survey and getting that many completes. And then the margin of error only moves down about a percentage point at that point. So just a follow-up as to that, I heard you also during your presentation talk about a potential future survey and hearing what you're saying about the sample size. Is there anything that you would recommend that we need to do different in order to increase that sample size? Really, the increased sample size, increased number of completions, it all comes down to communication with residents. The more we can publicize the survey, the more completions we're going to get, the faster we're going to get completions as well. 672, when our goal was 600, is above our expected response rate at ETC Institute. When we go out, I believe we mailed almost 6,000 surveys out to the community expecting about a 10% response rate. We got more than that. But if we can publicize the survey more, we're always going to receive more responses to the survey because more people are expecting it. They receive it in the mail. They know what it is. And they're more likely to respond. But for now, you're comfortable with that number, and the results are adequate based on the number and the size. So there's no concerns there. No concerns. I would say that we do a lot of communities that do a lot less surveys for plantation size as well. We'll do 400 for other communities, and that margin of error is near 5%, which is a lot higher. And when we get to that big, it's a lot of trouble trying to see what's statistically significant or not. Thank you very much. Can I just ask Laura a question, too, please? Laura. Laura, you talked about when you first opened up in regards to bringing this back to us for further analysis and strategic planning and talking about the high-priority items. My question is that can we get, before we get to strategic planning, some summary or thoughts regarding what the administration views as those high-priority items so that we have that in advance of strategic planning? Is that possible? Sure. And in most situations, it basically lines up, right, public safety. We know and you know it's a high priority for our residents, infrastructure, affordability. Like, those are the things we, you know, they're not new to you and you've been working on them. They're just not quick fixes. But maybe, though, we could take it one step further is that we can get some thoughts from the administration as to how the administration may want to respond to some of those items so that we can be thinking about those going into strategic planning. The other part to that is that in reviewing the open-ended questions, responses, it seemed to me that there were some responses that I would consider maybe health and safety concerns. For example, a lot of the discussions and comments in regards to our parks were that we need more water fountains. And I was looking at that one and particularly pickleball, which is very popular and while, you know, it's very possible that, you know, there's sufficient bringing of their own water bottles and such, but, you know, it does make sense that we should have, you know, more accessible water fountains for our residents. So that would be something that and shade as well, some more shade structures, it would seem that while it may not be something that Parks and Rec may have on the budget necessarily, but there was a lot of comments on that and it seemed that that may be something we need to prioritize. And we passed along all those actionable comments or suggestions to the departments. We'll be meeting with the departments to look both at the comments and the scores and priorities in general, again, as we're preparing for strategic planning. Obviously, we want to prioritize the services that our residents prioritize. And I guess it will be part of the conversation as strategic planning, right? What can we prioritize based on what's most important and what's most impactful and where we can allocate the money to? I think just to that point, though, is that if the administration takes a look and sees that there may be some items that we can work on prior to getting to strategic planning, that there may be some kind of maybe quick fixes that I would consider as health and safety items. Yeah, and again, like you mentioned, some of them are immediate, right, and the departments are already addressing them, but some of those are more, you know, how urgent is it right now? Understood. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member Weinstein. Hence the stormwater fee that was just proposed. That was one of the items in the sidewalks which Public Works has been working on. So a lot of those projects are ongoing. Council Member Fadgen and the Mayor. Thank you, Council President. So in the design of your sample size, what was your targeted confidence level? Four percent was, yeah, four percent was our target. We wanted to be under four percent. Okay, so then you achieved 3.2? 3.7. 3.7. And then, so you sent out 6,000 with the hope of getting 10 percent back. You got more than 10 percent. You didn't have to do additional waves to get into, to make sure that certain demographics or certain areas of the city were properly represented. We did not this time. Like I said, we send out the 6,000. We also do social media ads in the community as well. And through our administration process, I believe we were in field for three to four weeks with surveys out. And we were still seeing online surveys come back as well with our social media ads. So this time we did not have to send any follow-ups to any geographic areas. So we're a property representative with our population? Yeah. Okay. And if I just may add to that, we were very careful, too, with the trash questions. We asked them to make sure that we oversample the cart users a little bit because, again, it's such a much smaller sample size overall. I was just really talking about the design. No, no, absolutely. But I just wanted to make sure that we pay close attention to these items. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate your work. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Pagin. Mayor? In response to Councilmember Reinstein's questions, he is correct. I've already directed parks to price out shade structures at Pickleball and water fountains. So we'll get prices to you all, and then we can decide whether we want them or not. Appreciate it. And, Mayor, I would add to that because I do believe there's a refillable water bottle station at Pickleball. I'd like to see more of those rather than the water fountains. And the other one is there is shade under the stadium-type shade, but people want shade closer to the court. So you would have to shade the benches, which means you put it into the concrete, and that's the part we want to price out. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Any other comments, questions for Mr. Harvey? Mr. Harvey, thank you. It's always nice to see you. Yeah. Thank you. All right. We're moving on to speaking of parks, parks and recreation, upcoming events. Ms. O'Toole. I thought we weren't going to get to you, right? It's late for this. Good evening. A couple of events we have coming up in parks and recreation next Tuesday, September 1st. Our teen hang time program at Jim Ward Community Center restarts for the school year. It is every Tuesday and Thursday from 3.30 to 5.30 for ages 12 through 17. Pre-registration is required. On Saturday, September 12th, we're celebrating Grandparents' Day at the Plantation Community Center from 10 to noon. Registration is currently open. It is $15 per person for ages 5 and up. And our first kids' day off is coming up at Jim Ward Community Center on Monday, September 21st. Registration is currently open. Aquatics, we're registering for Session 7 swim lessons from Sunday, August 30th through September 7th. And in athletics, PAL is registering for baseball, basketball, soccer, and our Adult Athletic Basketball League. That's all I have for now. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. So at this time, it is 8.02. We're going to adjourn the council meeting and convene the CRA meeting. Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson? Here. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fadgen? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. Commissioner Sortel? Here. Assistant City Attorney Morgan? Here. Thank you. Thank you very much. The CRA consent agenda consists of four items tonight. Does any member of the commission wish to pull an item? No. Hearing none, and we have no request from the public, that can be passed with one motion. We have a motion. Motion to approve the CRA consent agenda. Second. Okay. Thank you. Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fadgen? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortel? Yes. And it's a public request of the commissioners regarding the CRA. We have Mr. Conklin signed up to speak. Mr. Conklin, sir? Good evening. Good evening. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I was hoping to do this with the full house that we had earlier. The 917 Society is, again, for the fourth year, distributing constitutions to every eighth grader and plantation. And I and another resident have been volunteering to distribute the individual constitutions to the eighth graders. And we've identified 16 schools in plantation and two, this is why I wanted a full house, two homeschool pods. We would love people, if they know of homeschool pods, to please let us know so that we can get into the hands of their eighth graders their own personal copy. And if I may approach? Yes, you may. Thank you. Thank you, sir. You have yours with you, don't you? And I have one. Ah, but this one. It's a new one. I want you to see. This is because it's our 250th anniversary of the country. And as you know, it's been amended several times. As you know, the first 11 years, we were not under our Constitution. We were under the Articles of Confederation. And as you probably do know, the Declaration was actually, if you look at it, it's a prayer book. It recognizes God twice at the beginning of the Declaration, sort of like an invocation to prayer, and twice again at the end like a benediction to a prayer. And after 11 years of kind of hit and miss with the Articles of Confederation, they came up with the idea of, once again with the Constitution, recognizing God one more time at the beginning, kind of like an invocation to prayer, and once again at the end like a benediction to prayer. So that being out of the way, we had the school board, and they were talking about the— I'm sorry, Mr. Conker, I'm going to interrupt you for a minute because this is CRA. Did you want to speak on the CRA? Well, I do. Because I think you're going to come back up during the council meeting. I was going to kind of, because I get jammed up on the other one. Okay. I'd like to— Spread out your time? Seconds back. Okay. The school board mentioned about the enrollment, and from the graveyard, 2000, they were enrolling 271,000 students. Now they're talking about 232,000 students. So they're closing schools, it was presented. The millage rate, which was mentioned by the school board, if it may extend, didn't change, and if anybody's seen the trim notices, the millage rate didn't go down. Having done this for a long time, if the millage rate doesn't get reduced in the first reading, it doesn't get reduced in the second reading. So I just wanted to make that point clear. All right. For the— Finish up on the CRA. To the CRA, kudos to five years to Director Hall. And we're going to see that later in the judicial 18, 19, 20, and 21 items. And I'll yield back my time. No time to yield back. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. We'll see you back up during the regular meeting. All right. With that, public discussion in the CRA is closed. We will adjourn the CRA meeting at 8.07 and reconvene the City Council meeting. All right. Now we'll begin with public requests of the Council regarding municipal affairs. To those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you've not done so already, please do so. When you are called, please approach the podium and make sure the green light is on the microphone. You will have three minutes to make your request to Council. Please state your name and address, and please address your remarks to the Council President, not the mayor, nor individual members of the Council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes, and please use your time efficiently. If extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask for it as your time is expiring and not prior to beginning your remarks. So first up, we have Mr. Steve Laleski, Mr. Conklin on deck, and then Ms. Hudson. Good evening. You've been sitting here a long time. Yeah. My name is Steve Laleski. I reside at 5161 Southwest 18th Court on July 15th. First, a little bit about myself. I've been a fireman for 32 years. That's germane to this situation, that I have a strong grasp of policies and procedures and standard operating procedures to mitigate emergencies in the street. On July 15th, my daughter was pulled over by the Plantation Police Department. She called me. In a nutshell, we have a complaint. Prior to making that complaint, I went through the process of getting all the public records, body cam footage, police reports, dispatch tapes, and any ancillary documentation that went along with that, including standard operating procedures that the police officers were supposed to follow that night. I'm not here to get into the details of what actually happened on the street, but rather the lack of response from the police chief and from the mayor. The mayor, I put a request. After I got all my facts straight and all my public records done, I put a request into the mayor's office to have a meeting with the mayor and the police chief. Shortly after that, I got a phone call from the police chief, and he simply took a circle the wagons standpoint, defended his officers to a fault, had no plan of action for any kind of correction, and he admitted. He said himself, I've had several people at gunpoint that I didn't think should have been at gunpoint, and what's the big deal? What's the big deal that we pulled your daughter out of a car? And to the mayor, I've put several phone calls in, and there was no response. Pam, her voicemail doesn't work. It's absolutely, it says the call can't be processed. The mayor didn't respond to me until I called him out on Facebook, in which he said, there's some people I don't respond to, or something along those lines, and then he referred back to risk management telling him not to meet with me. So at what point does the guy that campaigns and asks everybody to vote him into this position and asks for this job meet with the people that he serves? That's my question. So you have the opportunity to speak, and this is not a back and forth. Okay. Okay, you have your three minutes. Okay. Okay. Is there any chance that I'm going to get that meeting so I can show all of my documentation to the mayor and to the police chief? I can't speak to that. Well, I'm asking the city council to see if we can step in and put some pressure on the mayor. Mr. Mayor, I mean, you had your chances to respond, and you didn't respond at all. Please, Mr. Loewski, address your comments to me, okay? I mean, it should be an embarrassment that the mayor doesn't respond. Not even a, hey, I got your message, I'm sorry I can't respond, you know, but I had to get him on Facebook to drum up a response. That should be an embarrassment. He should be ashamed of himself. Okay. All right. Thank you for coming out to speak tonight, and I'm sure that we'll be asking some questions of administration. Yeah. Thank you very much. Mr. Conklin and then Ms. Hudson. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court, if I may approach. Yes, sir. Thank you. Those are my abbreviated requests. What I'd like to talk about is, again, going to the graveyard, back under Mayor Frank Valtteri and transitioning into Mayor Ray Carroll Armstrong. The city looked at the opportunity to change from a defined benefit plan, which is failing, because they could see it on the horizon, to a defined contribution plan, 401Ks. And basically, like I said, it goes back to all the way back when Nicole Lesson was here as a reporter from the Sun Sentinel and Sean Cavanaugh. So we don't even have a reporter anymore. It's been 1,000 years since that's happened. Looking at the information that was given out for the July 29th report, you can see what's happened. And as I mentioned over and over again, you've got problems because they figure the rate of return at 6.75 and inflation at, ready for this, 2.5. Ha! You go to page 6, and in the one for July, it's almost identical numbers, $5 million. That's what you have to throw in every year to make up, to amateurize the shortfall for the General Employees Fund, which back then it listed at $51 million unfunded. And then when you get to page 9, it has a breakdown of you have 608 employees that are earning to contribute to this defined benefit plan. You've got 518 retirees and 79 others. 11 of them are retired because of disability. So you're looking at 608 active people contributing plus the city and our tax powers. And you've got 597 that are taking money out. So, again, back when you can see there right in the middle of the mayors, right, and you can see right there the faded pictures there because I don't know why the photographer had difference. That's when the city first looked at converting, and they didn't. And now we've crashed and hit the wall. So, again, this is the General Employees and the police, which they've had a 401K in the contract since 2011. It never started. The period of time that I've been reporting this, there's been three doubling periods of the S&P 500. If the city had gone to the 401Ks for its pensions instead of defined benefit plans, you would have these people with these 25 and 30 years with probably $2.5 or $5 million in their retirement. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. That's all I'm saying. Thank you very much. And I want to encourage you to look into that again. And just to recap, if anybody knows of any homeschool pods, please let me know. Thank you. I'll yield back. We've got it on the record. Thank you very much. Ms. Hudson and then Mr. Kraljik. Okay. I apologize if I mispronounced your name. You want to tell us your name, please? All right. Mr. Jonathan Kraljik, hailing from Margate, Florida. I speak tonight on my opposition of the school zone speed cameras. What's billed as a school safety measure is quite, in fact, the opposite. School zone speed cameras are only designed to catch offenders who are speeding through school zones. But who's to say speeding is the number one cause of vehicle collisions in school zones and not distracted driving? A distracted driver who would miss the school zone speed signs and flashing lights. A distracted driver would also lose focus and attention of their speed. A distracted driver can still cause a collision involving another vehicle or a school child, even while maintaining below the speed limit. Speed cameras will eventually make the city and the police department more reliant on the cameras to conduct speed enforcement in school zones, ultimately resulting in police resources being reassigned elsewhere outside of school zones. Once this is done, the school zones become more dangerous when increased distracted drivers as there's no longer a police presence to create awareness to drivers. Measures should be taken to curb distracted driving. Suggestions would be to add more signage, flashing lights, or even rumble strips in residential areas to get drivers' attention. Add feedback speed signs to show the driver's speed below the school zone speed limit to make drivers aware of their speed. And the cameras will not get speeders to slow down, as these fines arrive after the fact, as much as three to four weeks after the infraction. A police presence in school zones is affected in getting speeders to slow down in school zones, as drivers are stopped on the spot and made aware. Normally, school zone speeding tickets are doubled, with a minimum fine of $200 and three points on the driver's license. Eventually, a driver with a speeding problem will have their license suspended and no longer be able to speed through school zones, whereas the $100 civil attractions have no negative impact on a driver's record. School zone speed cameras are for one reason, and one reason only, to make money. If their purpose were to protect school children on their way to school, then why are they active all day while students are safe in class? These $100 tickets become an extra toll to those willing to pay to get where they're going faster. These tickets are intentionally set low to $100 to encourage the accused to pay and be done with it, even if not guilty. The accused are enticed to pay $100 because the time and money involved to fight the ticket is more costly, and there's no consequences. Although I live in Margate, I do drive through Plantation, as do many other non-Plantation residents. I don't want to be the next recipient of an unwanted and erroneous $100 ticket because I happen to pass through Plantation. School zone speed cameras are being thrown out in Florida courts because the internal radar or speed measuring device used in cameras required state approval. Please wrap up. Several cities in Florida have discontinued school speed zone cameras due to their inaccuracy, including Palm Bay. After red speed mixed up municipal databases and system code configurations resulting in hundreds of wrongfully issued school zone speeding tickets. And looking at your city's demographics code, it looks as though Plantation has its discrepancy. Thank you. Mr. Krause, is that it? Yes. Okay, thank you very much for coming out. Ms. Hudson, good evening. Hi. I'm on my phone today. Thank you. Tiffany Hudson, Plantation, Florida. I just wanted to make some remarks about after the last meeting that we had, which I thought was great because we got to talk about the, we got to listen to some really important questions. But I did have some, just some notes on that. So there were some questions that were asked and the chief answered most of them. I had a different take on some of them. One of the questions that was asked was, would we have to pay $400,000 if we got out of the contract with red speed? And that's not true. We would pay $435,000 if we got out of the contract with red speed. Because, of course, red speed is paying for all of the equipment that we are getting from Maxon. I still don't know why, but that's a problem because it's a lot of money. So if we decide that we don't want this program anymore, then we're stuck with the $450,000 that no one knows that we have to pay because it hasn't really been disclosed to anyone. So I just wanted to make that point. Also, we keep talking about the data that was presented to the council when red speed was awarded. I'm trying to get that from public records, exactly what the data was that everyone saw. I do know that the data that red speed had collected from the tests was not entirely accurate. There are some emails from Captain Brown to Greg Parks from red speed. There were some issues as far as he got the speed limit wrong. There was one of the tests. He actually counted more violations than there were vehicles counted. And there was another one. I actually have the copy if anyone would like to see it. So that's a little bit worrisome to me, especially since we were talking about the data. We want to make sure that that was completely corrected. So I'm still waiting on that from public records just to be sure that it was based on facts. And then what I have here, let's see. Yeah, so, okay, there's a 30-day self-test law that I just found out about that red speed is supposed to be doing. They have an annual, like, I don't know, recalibration that they're supposed to do. And I just found out that they're actually supposed to be doing it every 30 days and that it needs to be logged. I was at this last hearing for the tickets. Can I have a few more seconds? Thank you. And they were talking about the annual calibration that they do to make sure it's accurate. So I did request that from public records that red speed get us those. And I got an email back today. Red speed doesn't even have a clue what I was requesting or talking about. So I wanted to bring that up as well just so that you're aware of it. Can you wrap up in 15, 20 seconds? Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Also, I did email everyone in the council. And I've only been responded to by Councilman Fadgen and Ryan Steen and Andrea did as well. I did send a letter. I'm not sure if anyone got it. No one got my letter? No one got my letter. What? Me? No, no, not by email. Email. No one got it? Okay. I'll resend it. That's it. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. I don't have all signed up for public comment. Anyone else want to sign up from the audience? Nope. Okay. Then that officially closes public comment. We'll move on to the consent agenda, which this evening consists of items 1 through 11. I'd like to pull item 3. Does any member of the council wish to pull? 4 and 5. Okay. Hold on one moment. 4 and 5, Fadgen. Okay. Just to speak on 3 also. 1 and 4. Andrea, 1 and 4. Anybody else? Just to speak on 3 also. Okay. I heard you. Gotcha. Okay. Have any member of the public that wishes to pull from the consent agenda? Yes. Mr. Conklin has 10. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the items minus 1, 3, 4, 5, and 10? Yes. Motion to approve items 1 through 11 minus 1, 3, 4, 5, and 10. Second. Thank you very much. Ms. Beggarrow, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. Item number 1 is the 2027 City Council Meeting Calendar. Council Member Andreu? Thank you, President Horland. And thank you, Ms. Beggarrow, for putting this together and for doing it so early. I just had a question. I know Mr. Noonemaker and I discussed it. If some type of statement can be made, I don't know if this is the, or maybe for our attorney, if this is the place to make it, but that the meeting will start, the 6 o'clock meeting, the regular council meeting, will start upon the completion of, like, for instance, the budget meeting. I'm trying to avoid that lag that we keep discussing. We've already got it worked out for the budget meeting, right? So what's the resolution? Do you want to speak to it? Sure. It's kind of how we've wrapped our CRA meeting into our council meeting. So our meetings will begin with calling the council meeting to order. Then we will recess the council meeting after we do opening remarks, and then everything else will follow. Roll into the budget, the CRA, and then we'll come back to the council meeting. I don't know if you guys want to try to do workshops like that also. I think it would probably be best if we do it this way, because we've been concerned about that lag. So I think that was a great solution that you came up with. But I think our budget meeting will be a good test of it. Right. It will be, because we never know how much time will be needed. So I do appreciate you working on that. Yeah. Does that work for you, Council Member Adrienne? I just, well, I'm concerned because it seems to me that differs from what we're printing here. So if that's how we're doing it, then we're saying our council meeting is starting at six. But when we have the workshop, it's starting at five. And if you're going to call the council meeting to order at five, then the resolution is not accurate. So you'll have to adjust the resolution. But do we want to say the council meetings start at five? Or how do we? That's why. Or do you just want to leave the workshops? Or we can just leave the workshops as they are. Leave the workshops. I think the most important thing are those budget hearings and like the stormwater where we had that gap. Okay. Does that work for everybody? Okay. As long as the attorney says it works, it works. That's the most important voice. Okay. I thought just adding an additional statement that upon the completion of a workshop or budget meeting, the council meeting will resume. But I don't have the way to be able to publish it that way is the problem. Okay. Yeah. That's always been the problem with the online agenda. I can put them together. I got you. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Motion to approve item number one. Do we have a second? Second. Any public comment? All right. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. So, Council Member Einstein. Yes. Council Member Anderson. Yes. Council Member Andreu. Yes. Council Member Fadgen. Yes. Council Member Horland. Yes. Thank you so much. All right. And I pulled item number three, which is amending the parks and recreation fee schedule, Ms. O'Toole. And thank you for the conversation on the telephone about this. Of course. To make sure that you know what we're going to discuss. So, the reason that I pulled this is I do believe that we need to make sure that there is cost recovery for the programs and the services that we provide. And I don't want this to come off as performative because it's not, and it may seem like a minor number, but when we're talking about, you know, a stormwater fee, which is critical infrastructure, and we're talking about recreation, which is very important, especially for our seniors and our kids. You know, stormwater fee, I voted for, and some of these fees, what I'd like to ask you is, like, the senior aerobics and some of the kids' day camps where parents are really relying on those for their children to be somewhere safe while they're at work, if we can keep those increases flat this year, if that will not materially impact your ability to provide service. Yes, so, as we discussed on the phone and just for the rest of the council, many of these proposed fees are really just an effort to increase our cost recovery percentages. This isn't a money grab. We're not trying to make money. We're just simply trying to close that gap. So, after we spoke on the phone, we have an internal working document that kind of shows what some of these changes would yield. And in looking at some of the fees that you had asked me about, it would be just, it would be about a $5,000 difference. So, if that means perhaps cutting back a little bit for a spring break camp or the winter break camp, because I think those were some of the programs you had asked about, we could certainly work within our means if that's the consensus that. I would appreciate it, just as I said, you know, people, we've talked about it up here during the budget process, people are being faced with a lot of costs. And I look at the recreation, and not to impact you further, but if we could, especially for our seniors and our kids and our working families, be able to provide just a tiny bit of relief. Okay. I'd appreciate it. I appreciate your consideration on that. Also, I wanted to bring up PAL, and I know that we still have not resolved that contract. I have been a very big supporter and participant in PAL sports for many years. Once again this year, I did pull their financials, which were just published in June, and I will share that with the council. But I know that we don't have the ability necessarily to ask PAL to set their fees. However, when I take a look at these financials and the balances that they're carrying over, and I just, you know, want to inform my colleagues about a couple of these sports, I'm horrified that a 5013C, when I look at these balances, they could certainly be cutting registration fees for our residents. And I think that's where some savings should be coming. Conversely, and once I give you the numbers, I think that our Parks and Rec Department should be asking more of PAL to contribute. I know in the past, and I brought this up to you, when my husband was a flag football commissioner, there was a time where they had enough money that they bought a lining machine for the fields. So I think they're using our fields that we need to be able to lean on them a little bit. So just for an example, flag football brought in almost $83,000 in, well, let's see, registration fees were $77,000, and then they had sponsorships. Their expenditures were $59,000. They carried over $64,000 from last year. They've got a balance of almost $88,000 in there. And for me, that's unacceptable. You know, to carry over $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 to start the season, I think, is reasonable. Rec Baseball has $112,367 in their account. Rec Basketball, $92,000. Rec Soccer, $86,000. So I just think these numbers do not align with a volunteer organization where we are providing recreation activities for our residents and our children. I really think that whatever we can do to put a little pressure on them with this contract to start to lower some of these fees that they're charging our residents and contribute more to what you need out there. If I may speak to that for a moment. Absolutely. We have been actively working with PAL to try to come to an agreement to update that longstanding document that we have. We are proposing, I believe I mentioned it, at strategic planning an increase to the travel card membership fees that they currently pay us. Just for everyone's knowledge, they currently pay per participant a year, a resident pays $30 a year, non-residents $80 a year that the city retains to help maintain the fields. We are proposing an increase to that because they are travel sports, they play year-round, they do the most damage to our fields, and obviously we are tasked with maintaining those fields. We do retain $50 non-resident rate for our recreational sports. That also goes into that improvement fund. One thing we are going to write into the agreement is if they do want to change their fees justification as to why they want to do that. So did the cost of uniforms go up then? Right. Okay, but clearly they're carrying over this. When you're looking at that type of money, I mean obviously we understand a little bit of carryover. As I brought up to you today, back in 2009 we had serious issues, and that was dealt with, and I don't think that there's any misappropriation. Obviously they've got too much money, but as I said, a neighboring city, Cooper City, with their Optimist Club, which was run very similar to ours, they have just, I don't want our city to do this, taking over the finances. I don't think we need to do that, but I think that they really need to come to the table on this contract, and they really need to be providing some relief for the residents who use the program. Yes. So I appreciate you being receptive to that. Yes. Councilmember Fadja? Oh, Councilmember, I'm Ryan Steen, I'm sorry. Six is in. I just want to put one comment to what you said about the non-resident. You've got to buzz in. It'll be very quick. Yeah. In the assessment of the non-resident, the idea is specifically for the maintenance of the fields and the usage of the fields, correct? Yes. So I think we need to do an analysis of our maintenance budget per our household cost and make sure that it is minimally equal to that or even a premium for the non-residents to come use our fields. Agreed. So I think if that's in the process, that's great. If it's not, I would request that. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Go ahead, Councilmember Reinstein. Yes, thank you. I wanted to pull this item as well. And I wasn't going to bring up PAL, but Council President has brought up PAL, and I was going to save it for strategic planning. But I would like to see that we really get a follow-up from Parks as to what that negotiation is with PAL. What I have found over recent years is that it hasn't been as clear to me as I would like it to be in terms of what PAL is doing with those funds, particularly because anecdotally we hear, I hear regularly, that the parents and the players have had some concerns about where those funds are going. And what I'd like to see is that, you know, especially today, we were talking so much about the value of a survey. And, you know, beyond the negotiation with PAL and the PAL commissioners and the administrative side, I'd like to see a survey of the players and the parents as to whether or not they feel that they're getting the bang for the buck, so to speak. Right. Sure. So I'd like to see that. And one of the things that we've also talked about in the past is that the advertising, the use of advertising by PAL. And it's been my understanding that PAL has had the ability to sell advertising and that then the advertising goes up on our fields and especially hearing the amount of funds that are being kept and rolled over. I believe on those fields, those advertising should go through our parks and rec department unless we were looking at a situation where the charge for the players was so low that the sponsorships was making up the difference, which it doesn't seem that it is. Then I think the advertisement should be monitored and it should be handled by parks and rec department. Also, because in that vein, the advertising stays up even when PAL is not using the field. Right. So, you know, it has always seemed to me that, you know, that was something that really should be within our purview. Are you, may I, for clarification, are you inferring that the revenue generated from those banners stays with the department or just overall management? I do think it should stay with the department unless, again, going back to PAL was to state their case that they wanted to reduce the cost of playing and that that was making up the difference, but I don't think it is. Understood. Now, I want to talk about the fees and I apologize as Council President began with that she had a chance to speak to you about her thoughts on the fees. I have not had a chance to speak to you on it. But, you know, in light of the constant discussion about whether it's stormwater or there's a lot of fees that we are feeling that we must, that we must engage in, that we must require in order to upkeep and provide what our residents need. Here, though, I see that we do have a difference between resident and nonresident. I would like to see that the nonresident fee is much higher and that we either see very little increase for our residents or no increase at all. And I haven't given you an opportunity to run those numbers and show me what those would look like. But, you know, we do hear that there are times where our residents are upset that there's a cap maybe on some of the camps or that, I'm trying to think some others, but that pickleball, right, is that residents are all the time saying that there are so many nonresidents that come to use it. And now that's different because we don't have a fee for that, but where there's an opportunity to really say to our residents, you are getting the benefit of our parks. I'd like to see that, I would prefer not to see any raise on our residents. So, you know, I don't know how immediate you need to make this, to have this fee schedule approved. And again, I apologize on that, that I didn't give you an opportunity to run those numbers, but I'm not comfortable with the increase for our residents. Okay. I will speak to our, um, the fees in our tennis and aquatics division. I know that the non-resident fees are 60 to 65% higher than residents. I can't speak off the top of my head the other, the other divisions that we have, but, um, that was a conscious effort to make those, at least that percentage higher. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Councilmember Fadgen. I think it would be in the best interest of the council to actually be distributed the copy of their financial statement annually. Um, I don't know when it's issued. I'm, I'm happy that Councilmember Horland was able to obtain it. But I think, you know, it would be better for our monitoring purposes to see what's going on on an annual basis and looking at the financial. Okay. So I, I would request that when it gets issued, we get copies of it. Sure. And the thing is, it's not issued, I believe. I, I, I've had to try to get it the past two years. And I, I believe in our conversation today, it hadn't been provided to our parks and rec directorate. And that probably needs to be built into the contract. Well, that's something that needs to be, this contract. It says that we need to get copies of it. Absolutely. I'm glad that you're able to find it. Okay. Um, Councilmember Andrea. Based on the conversation, is this an item that we're going to table then and come back to so we can revisit the fee schedule? I would like to implement this October 1st. So if we need to come back, um, September, the beginning of September, we can rework it. Could you possibly try to, I mean, do you, would you have enough time to publicize those new rates? Because we don't want to catch people off guard. Sure. So, just so I'm clear. Would you prefer to take, take the comments back? We've already agreed on the, the senior and the kids and taking Councilmember Reinstein's considerations into, um, or requests into consideration. Would you be comfortable going back and adjusting some of those? We can take a look at it. Sure. Okay. Yep. I just want to make one note because I know item number four was also pulled. Um, our bus transportation services. Um, some of the proposed fees for our camps directly relate to the bus services. I believe it's a 52% increase. So. Okay. Whereas our summer camps only serve residents. We have to make up that difference somehow. Right. So, some of those expenses. And that's why I mentioned summer camps. Right. Yes. I, I understand that. My concern is cutting you too short for October 1st because we have a lot on the agenda. It would have to be the beginning of September, not later in September. Correct? Correct. Okay. Council President, if, uh, if you'll entertain the motion, then if they're, um, unless they're, unless my colleagues feel that it needs to be voted on today and hearing that there may be some time to rework it or give us some other options, I would make the motion to table this item. Date certain to September 9th. Is that going to give you enough time? We'll make it work. I don't have a choice. We'll make it work. So just so I'm clear, you're proposing there are no rate increases for resident fees, but a standard increase above that for non-resident fees. I'd like to, I'd like to see that as an option. Yes. Okay. Could I suggest maybe, um, similar to what Mrs. Shallan did and maybe have two or three options and not just one? Sure. Yep. If, again, I know it's a tight turnaround for you, but if you're able to present maybe. Sure. I have an Excel guru on my team, so we'll just plug in all kinds of numbers and see what happens. And I think the most important aspect of that is for you to show us, which I know you will, the fiscal impact to the department. Sure. Yep. And I want to be very cautious, and that's why I only proposed a few cuts, um, understanding what's potentially looming with Amendment 3. Okay. So, um, I'm not in favor of tabling, but we'll go ahead and call the vote. We have a motion and a second, correct? I don't know if we got a second. Did you get a second? But I'll second. Did you second? I'll second. Yeah, I thought you second. Okay. Did you want to speak on this, Council Member Henderson? I just saw one more fee very quickly that I – I liked all the discussion, and I agree we should be tabling it. But the – can you hear me very well? The pickleball court rental for the pro is 15, and then you're proposing to not change it, but if it's – it says pickleball court rental hourly, you were proposing to go from 15 to 40. Does that mean if a resident wants to rent it, it's 40? And if a pro wants to rent it – I believe that's more for outside tournaments that might want to come in and reserve the court. But I can get clarification on that for you. It just says pickleball description. Okay. Maybe that's – maybe the title should be events. Okay. Okay. I'll clarify that. Thank you. Okay. We have a motion and a second to table. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Horland? No. So that item will come back before September 9th. Thank you, Ms. Atul. You might as well stay there. Item No. 4, as you mentioned, is WB No. 054-26, Bus Transportation Services Term Contract, pulled by Council Member Fadgen and then Council Member Andreu. Thank you, Council. Council Member Fadgen? Thank you, Council President. I'm looking at the scope of work, page 20, transportation buses. They strike – all vehicles must be no, and then they strike less than 72 passengers, and then they write in, we will do – I guess they're trying to – what they're trying to write, we will do our very best to accommodate you. And then number one underneath there, a minimum of – they cross out five buses must be available for use at any time. I mean, that's just fundamental to this agreement. Do we see that? I would honestly have to defer. I don't know if Mr. Spencer is here. Mr. Spencer is on. Yes, I am. I apologize for my surroundings. It's okay. I am trying to listen, but my – the area I'm in is a little noisy, so I apologize. It's fine. That's all right. Good evening. Charles Spencer, Procurement Director. Yes, we did see those strike-throughs within their proposal. We attempted to solicit this twice. The first time it rendered zero results. This is the second round. It does not seem that there is much competition in this market space for what we are requiring from such a small component. So, it wasn't missed. It's almost as if we are kind of compromising what we would normally ask for these types of – Okay. I hear you. We basically have an agreement for them to provide services with us, but they're going to do the best they can, but they can't necessarily commit to giving us the capacity that we're requesting. And we may or may not have the buses. So, if we're available, we're going to service you. If we're not available, you're on your own. That's what I'm reading with this – these strike-throughs. So, I really do not think we can proceed with this until we get some kind of commitment to what's agreeable to us, maybe a smaller bus. Am I interpreting it right when it says all – we're saying that we need a 72-person bus with that first element of it. Is that correct, Charles? Yes, that's correct. So, we need to come to some agreement what they're going to offer us. And if it's not acceptable, then we're going to have to go out a third time. And then for them to say that we're not going to offer a minimum of anything is totally unacceptable. So, they're not – they're just basically telling us, okay, we're going to do it for you, but maybe not. So, I don't think we can proceed with this until we talk to them about these two elements. I mean, it's fundamental to everything of this service. Go ahead, Mr. Spencer. Yeah, I apologize. Yeah, I apologize. We will bring them to the table and see if we can get them to commit to something a little bit more substantial, something that we can hold them accountable for. We'll get them around the table and see if we can – and we'll work with the department, obviously, because they have needs that they have to meet. And we want to make sure that their needs are satisfied contractually. And if we cannot come to some compromise that we feel confident about, then I agree we need to go back out for a third time. And I believe, Ms. O'Toole, we have the timing to do that now because the summer camp season is over. Am I accurate? We typically use buses for our winter break and spring break, so we do have a little bit of time before those take place. And I just want to speak to experience with this company. We have used them for the last several years without issue, but I understand contractually. I don't have any doubt that we're going to – I don't believe we're going to have a problem. But, hey, sorry. You know, so I appreciate what you said, Mr. Spencer. I can't vote for this until we have some kind of commitment of what they're willing to guarantee that they're going to be able to offer us. Okay, Councilmember Andreu and then Anderson. Thank you. So, Ms. O'Toole and Mr. Spencer, would it be possible to – because they are a local business, I was very happy to see that. And I want to – as you mentioned, they've provided good service. I want to continue working with them. So, could we approve this tonight but still go out? And I always believe in having additional competition and alternates. So, could you go back out and get another one or two alternates? So, in the event you needed, you know, five, six buses and they could only provide three, then you could use that alternate and even possibly a second alternate. Would that be something that you would be able to facilitate, Mr. Spencer? Absolutely. The concern would be historically has not rendered a positive competitive result when it comes to this type of transportation just because it's so isolated within the Parks Department. But we're willing to put our best foot forward and seek additional competition for this service. I think if you left it out a little bit longer – I believe this was only two weeks, correct? Maybe if you did at least 30 days. And I do have a few that I could share with you that we use in the school district that might be willing to also submit a bid. I most certainly will appreciate any contacts to these types of services that I can get. I will say that our services are a little unique because of the recording system that we require. A lot of bus services have that equipment on board and that makes the service a little bit more unique. But I'm happy to take that information and to reach out to them. Okay. I'm sorry, what needs to be on board? Reporting system. Recording or reporting? Mr. Spencer, recording or reporting system? Recording. Recording. Okay. For safety, I'm assuming? Yes, ma'am. Without safety. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So, my thoughts were along the same lines as my colleague. I work for the school district. I was a principal for many years. And the school board puts out to bid. And many companies are on it. And the principals can literally open the menu up. And all are pre-set prices. You don't have to negotiate with them. You can flip through all the companies. They show all their different bus sizes and prices and the amount, the cost per hour. So, why can't we just do a piggyback? Why do we have to do this whole thing if we've done – I always hear about piggybacks. Why don't we just – they already do that for 30 years at least they've had it. They've got tons of buses. Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach access to several buses. I haven't looked lately because I haven't been in that role. But I think what Mr. Spencer is saying is it's very – our requirements with the recording inside the bus is very niche. Is that correct? So they might have added that because they've added to school buses everything in the last six to eight years. Most every bus we buy has cameras. So I would assume the charter buses also have that. We might even have that in the bid. I just haven't looked in a while. Or we can add that. So what does it entail either simply contacting the ones in the school board bid like Ms. Andreu is suggesting, and then we just add that criteria. Or can we do a piggyback with additional criteria? Mr. Spencer. So I apologize. My audio is a little choppy, but I did hear why aren't we looking at piggybacking. I will say we attempted a few years ago to contact the Broad County School Board because we thought we were able to access some villages in the school buses during the summertime. We figured that would be a great resource for us. But as Ms. O'Toole will probably state, again, it's the kind of niche requirement of the recording system and some of the securities that we have in place on what we are being provided today. Maybe, perhaps, we need to take another look at that scope and see if we can realign somehow to be more in the – realign ourselves with what other agencies are doing to be more competitive in the market. That is something I can talk to Director O'Toole about and work it from that perspective. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Fadgen and then Council Member Einstein. Just a really quick follow-up. If we had multiple bidders on this, would their bid be responsive by them crossing that information off? No, not necessarily responsive because if we received the bid that adhered to everything that we're asking for, we would be presenting that bidder before you instead of – what we have today. Okay. You would have addressed it before it got to us? Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Council Member Einstein. So, my question is based on everything that's been raised and the concerns being raised with this contract. And I think Ms. O'Toole said that the transportation service itself isn't needed until a future camp. Correct. Since we did the last one. But does it make sense to table this and look at the piggyback option or to ask them to clarify what they're able to provide as opposed to the scratch offs or their edits to the contract? Because it's – you know, I don't know what my colleagues will do, but if it doesn't pass tonight, then you're going to go back to the starting board anyway. But – so, would you want to see it tabled or if it potentially doesn't pass, bring it back as a new item? The chairman wouldn't have a problem with tabling the item and doing some additional researches with our brother and sister cities around, finding out what they're doing, as well as bringing them back to the table and seeing if we can come up with a more secure compromise on their contract accountability and then bringing that before you all. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Spencer. Council President, will you entertain the motion? I will. Motion to table item four. Do we have a second? Do we have a second for tabling the item? I thought so, too, but I'm not getting a second. Yes, second. Okay. Ms. Biggerow, please call the roll. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andrew? No. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Horland? No. With that, you're tabled. Sorry. You were calculating. I know. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Spencer. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole. Item number five is agreement number 065-22. Continuing Consulting Engineering Services for Wastewater and Water Utilities Engineering and Sanitary Disciplines. Amendment number four. Councilmember Fadgen, you pulled this item. Thank you, Council President. Reading this, it said the CPIU South Index was trending at 4% for the 2025-2026 recording period. And we negotiated a 7% increase, so we're going to do 7% in year one and 7% in year two? No, sir. That 7% is going to initiate from September 1st all the way through the expiration of that amendment. So it's one 7% to take us through the, take us to completion of that agreement. So two years. Yes, sir. See, but the index is at 4%, and we're going to give them a 7% increase in year one and pay them a premium for the first year, and then continue and pay them the 7%. I really think that it should be 3.5% increase in year one, followed by another 3.5% increase. And the example I'm going to show you is what we're going to do is if the, if we're increasing off $100 per hour, year one, it's going to be $107. And if we use one hour in year one and one hour in year two, that's $214. If we do 3.5%, it increases the first year's rate, the 103.5, and in year two, it's going to increase it to 107.12. And using that same example, one hour in year one and one hour in year two, that's $210.62. So I'm not for paying on this premium in year one. I think that we should be splitting this negotiated rate to 3.5 and 3.5. This is, you know, it costs us more money to pay on that way. We have no concerns with that scenario. We were trying to be more efficient. I'm trying to save money. No, I understand. Yes, absolutely. Yes, absolutely. We're trying to be more efficient as well as obviously we don't know what the index is going to be. So you're absolutely right because the index could show a 2.5 or 3% when we come back before you for the 2027 year. We can go back. We can readjust that amendment and do the amendment just for the 3.5 position and then do another renewal increase at that time. I'm okay negotiating 3.5 and 3.5. I'm not okay doing 7% for two years. Okay. So you want an increase certain for year one and increase certain for year two so we're not paying 7% a premium for this year carried over to the next year. I completely understand. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Do you want to speak to it, Mr. Polio? Good evening. Is the mic on, Mr. Polio? It is now. I didn't think I needed it. I just did want to point out the first two years where we had seen of this contract where we had seen some of the higher indexes that were occurring at the time, there was a 0% increase. So when this was averaged out and we had discussions with procurement, we were looking at those numbers and averaged out over a five-year, even with a total of a 14% increase over the five years, we averaged out about a 2.8% cost per year. I understand what you're saying, but my experience with my clients is if I decide not to raise them at a market rate, I don't get to make it up later, you know. So you're basically saying, okay, they did us a favor, but they didn't do us a favor because now they're going to catch it up. So I still have the same position that I went 3.5 and 3.5. I have no problem with your position. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any comment from the public on that? All right. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve with the 3.5 for each of the two years. I'll second. All right. Ms. Bickrow, please call the roll. Who is that second? Lewis. Oh, thanks. Lewis? It's just Lewis. Councilmember Einstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you for joining us, Mr. Spencer. I'll make sure I'll address them. Thank you very much. Item number 10 is the Gateway Expenditures and Appropriations. Mr. Conklin, you pulled this item, sir? Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Six Court. If you look at the expenditures, again, I request that you zero out the millage rate for the Gateway, and they still pay the everyday cost of the millage rate for property in the city. $2,884 for water and wastewater. I mean, come on. I owe you back. Thank you very much. Do we have a motion on item number 10? Motion to approve. All right. I'll second it. Ms. Bickrow, please call the roll. Councilmember Einstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to administrative discussion items. Item number 12 is the City of Plantation Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment Presentation. Good evening. Samira Shalan, City Engineer. And I have with me today representatives from Kim Lee Horn and Associates, our consultant for the Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment we have met, and Giselle, they're going to help me with the presentation tonight. Just a brief, the city received a $112,000 grant from Florida Department of Environmental Protection to conduct a vulnerability assessment. And why the vulnerability assessment is important? Because in 2021, the governor had established Florida Resilience Program, not only to strengthen community's resiliency, but also to allow community to tap into the Florida Resilience Fund. And with our efforts that we have been doing in the last five years by concluding the Stormwater Master Plan and now the vulnerability assessment, we will be in much better position to tap into this huge funding that can be available for major stormwater improvement projects and hardening projects. With that said, I will introduce Matt and Giselle to start the presentation. All right. Thank you, Ms. Shalan, and thank you council members for taking the time to listen to our presentation on this. We're just wrapping up this vulnerability study. I think we got a good summary of it. So again, my name is Matt Brosman. I'm a civil engineering consultant with Kimley Horn & Associates. I'm also proudly working and living in City of Plantation. So I'm a resident and happy to be presenting to you all on this today. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to my colleague, Giselle. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, council members. And thank you, Samira. So just to give you an agenda of what we're going to discuss today, Samira kind of covered already what the Resilient Florida program is, but I'll kind of just touch on that a little bit again, and then I'll discuss the tasks that went into the vulnerability assessment. And then finally, if there's time for discussion or any questions, we can certainly address those. So Samira did a great job covering what the Resilient Florida program is. But the key part of this is that with this vulnerability assessment being completed, the door is now open for implementation funding. And we know that the city recently completed their stormwater master plan and there's been a series of drainage analysis that have been done. So this is a great opportunity for funding those projects. So what is a vulnerability assessment? The goal of this is to understand the critical assets that are owned or maintained by the city and that are regionally significant to the city and understand how it is affected by current and future flooding conditions. So this could be by sea level rise or rainfall intensification. And then by identifying the risks that are posed to these assets from these scenarios, we can better plan for a more resilient future. So what are the benefits? By looking at the scenarios, we can see which assets are vulnerable in each. We can then identify adaptation strategies that can be implemented to these assets. So this could be raising the finished floor. This could be lift station improvements and so on. And then once these strategies have been identified and which assets they can be implemented for, we can now start applying for grants and then again have a more resilient future. So this is kind of the roadmap for this project. The first part was really understanding the context of the city. And we had discussions with different members of departments from utilities, public works, engineering, parks, and so on. So we really wanted to get a clear picture of what the problem areas were and really have a clear line of communication with them throughout this project. We then started the vulnerability assessment, and this is really the bulk of the analysis. So this is what we call the exposure and sensitivity, and I'll kind of discuss that later on. And then with the completed VA is the implementation. Now, the task that went into this vulnerability assessment first was collecting background data. So this was GIS data of all the critical assets within the city. This was also flood-related information as well as topographic information. We then used this to conduct our exposure and sensitivity analysis and then compiling this into a final report. And then throughout this project, we had meetings with our steering committee and a public presentation as well. And then there is a local mitigation strategy task, but FDEP found that this was not necessary for this project. Now, once all the assets were collected, we laid them out onto a GIS map. So these are all the critical assets that are defined by FDEP. So this ranges from transportation assets, evacuation routes, critical infrastructure like pump stations, water conveyance systems, and community facilities like the fire station, city hall, as well as natural, cultural, and historical resources. So all the parks, all the lakes, ponds, canals, and so on. We then collected the flood scenario-related information. So we looked at rainfall-induced flooding, tidal flooding, in current and future conditions. So we considered sea level rise and rainfall intensification for the years 2050 and 2080. And all these scenarios were defined by FDEP statutes. So we were in the clear with them. Now for the modeling portion for the analysis, we did use the city's stormwater master plan model. So we built off of this to create the future conditions. And this is the program we used called Stormwise and the scenarios that we ran. So we looked at 20 scenarios and we laid out a series of maps highlighting the flood depths throughout the city, as well as the critical assets that were exposed in each scenario. And this example is for the 100-year 72-hour event with a 2080 projection. We then took this a step further and did a sensitivity analysis. So we assigned a risk level to each asset based on their critical elevation and the flood depth that was experienced for each scenario. So this critical elevation could be the finished floor of a building. It could be the elevation of a control panel for a lift station. We worked closely with the city to really make sure we had these critical elevations defined. So once we had the report complete and compiled, we had some key takeaways. We saw that ones that were repeatedly at risk in high and medium were the critical infrastructure, such as pump stations, water utility conveyance systems. And we also laid it out on a map of all the assets by their risk level. So again, some takeaways. We saw that parks mostly experienced flooding, but this kind of makes sense based on their topographic elevation. We saw that pump stations and water conveyance systems were also repeatedly at risk. But we also saw that overall the city facilities remained resilient. With a couple that we, after modeling them and having discussions with the city, we kind of touched those up. So now with this report complete, again, it opens the door to implementation funding. So I can hand it over to Samira. Any questions or discussion? Excellent. Thank you so much for your time. All right. And we're moving on to item number 13 with this commercial vehicle parking discussion. Mr. Alpert. I apologize. I need to log in so I can get the presentation. That's all right. Go ahead. Jason Unemaker, CAO. While Michael's getting that prepared, I'll just tee things up. The mayor's got a running monthly dialogue with code enforcement. And one of the items that consistently comes up is commercial vehicles. So as we listen to discussion about affordability, we thought one opportunity might be in relation to consideration of a single commercial vehicle appropriately parked with certain size constraints. It's something y'all might consider allowing that use that's currently prohibited in the city. Along with that, there's several other items that have come up. One of them was a van that has no commercial markings and except for its size would not be considered a commercial vehicle. It's a sprinter van. So it's one of those white vans. I'm sure you're all very familiar with that. And I don't think in this day and age it's that uncommon to use such a vehicle as even a pedestrian vehicle. I'm sorry. Thank you. A non-commercial vehicle. Oh, in this case it is used as a commercial vehicle. There are no markings on it to denote it as such. The third issue that came up was an enforcement in the acres. It came to our attention that a gentleman has a very nicely manicured area where he holds his landscaping equipment. But lo and behold, one day he left his gate open. And while code was responding to another issue, they noticed this and that is by definition not allowed. And we want to get that addressed or at least have you all consider it because that situation is not isolated. And so if we're going to go down that path in the acres, we want to make sure you all are on board. But if not, then we need to reconsider and address how we might modify the code to accommodate that in our larger lot areas that actually accommodate that use. And particularly in the case of the acres, might have a long history of those uses. And with that, I'll turn it over to Michael. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, council. Mayor, city attorney, city clerk. Michael Albert, interim director of planning, zoning, and economic development. As Mr. Nunnemaker said, we have been meeting on a monthly basis with the mayor and several departments to discuss various code enforcement issues. And this has been a discussion for quite some time now. I'm actually just reiterating a lot of what was in the memo that was in your backup and just highlighting some of the issues that you may want to consider if the guidance is to amend the code. And just a couple of graphics to give you some examples. So on July 29th, Councilman Reinstein requested that staff look at the city code vis-a-vis the parking of commercial vehicles on residential properties. Consequently, the council directed staff to bring forward this issue as a discussion issue of tonight's agenda. Just in general, Chapter 25, Article 2, Division 2, Stopping Standing and Parking of the Code governs the parking regulations of all types of motor vehicles. Specifically within there is Section 25-49.5, Parking of Automobiles in Residential Zoning Districts, which provides parking standards for automobiles within residential districts. Generally speaking, though, such motor vehicles are permitted to be parked within dedicated driveways, within a garage or carport, or a permitted accessory building in a designated paved parking space for the community as part of an approved site plan, or in the rear or side yard provided it meets specific zoning districts' setback requirements and is screened from view from the adjacent streets. Such motor vehicles are not permitted to be parked within the streets well, within or adjacent to property that is zoned for and or used for residential purposes. The only exception being a temporary guest parking situation, which is outlined in Section 25.49.5 and C, respectively. In this section, the term automobile includes passenger vans and pickup trucks that are less than one ton in gross vehicle weight. For context, this section of the code also defines outdoor automobile storage in subsection D as keeping two or more vehicles on the exterior of the property, that is outside of a garage carport, etc., that are not consistently and routinely used on a weekly basis by family members. So that's also not permitted. Subsection 25.43.C talks about specifically parking of commercial vehicles and buses. I'm not going to read all this, but it's in your backup, but for the public. These are the subsections of that portion of the code as to what the standards are for commercial vehicles today. And a lot of that's similar to what I just mentioned before. Subsection D does not permit parking commercial vehicles or buses within all residential districts, whether or not the property includes an occupied building or whether it's just a vacant property with a residential zoning designation. Or in the streets, alleyways, parkways, abutting the property unless parked within a completely enclosed garage or completely within the confines of a carport or within an accessory building that is permitted in the subject district. The only exceptions being the following construction related vehicles during normal working hours, routine deliveries, a vehicle that is temporarily disabled for up to four hours, and vehicles owned by federal, state, county, or municipal government used for law enforcement or fire safety purposes. The graphic showing different sizes of commercial trucks. And then, of course, the typical F-350, I believe that is. And then the Stringer vehicle. And then what a vehicle may look like with ladders or pertinences or racks and so forth. And then the issue of vehicles having signage on the exterior of the vehicle. So some issues to consider with respect to this include the vehicle placement on the lot, the vehicle size including height and weight, the type of vehicle, number of vehicles permitted, whether the vehicle has any external appurtenances such as ladders and equipment as I showed previously, whether the vehicle has any external signage or advertising, whether there are any legal implications, or whether there are any public safety implications. So that's to open up the discussion. Open discussion. Okay. I'm going to turn to Councilmember Reinstein, and then we'll open up to the Council. Thank you very much for bringing this to us. As I had said back in July, and we had actually talked about it even prior to that, prior to bringing it to Council, is that this is something I think that there are a lot of residents who have been asking for this. And as was talked about at the last meeting, or the July meeting, that some of these vehicles, you know, if we look at particularly, and when we talk about the vehicle size, and I was looking at one of the backup documents that I think is information from Davey, talks about class one and class two. Although I know that in one of your slides it included class three. But class one and class two, where these would be exceptions, such that those sized commercial vehicles could be on residential lots, maybe parked or stored on a lot within a residential, they describe it as residential zoning district. But they add in, and what's interesting is that as long as the commercial vehicle is regularly used by a resident of the lot on which the vehicle is located, and so that seemed to also limit the number of vehicles permitted, because it had to be a resident of the lot. And I think there was another suggested language that it limited anyway to no more than two, which I wouldn't be against that as well. And there was specific language in one of these examples that it must be parked on a paved surface within the front or side yard of a lot, in order to ensure that we're not violating our swale parking requirements or restrictions. And there was language that the parking or storage of these non-commercial vehicles that are used for personal or recreational purposes, that they're registered. I don't know, how have you seen that there's some type of registration in other cities? Have you encountered that? Cooper City, if you don't mind. Cooper City has had a registration process for, I believe they're using it for commercial vehicles, but also for RVs and boats, and so that was something that I was going to talk about when we get there. And I don't know if that's something that we want to entertain. Yeah, if there's a process that registration makes sense for some limited type of exception, although I think the goal with this modification is to make life easier for our residents, particularly when the vehicles are otherwise, I'm going to say, normal regular vehicles that we are seeing in the neighborhoods or that we're seeing in our communities. We're not talking about big buses. We're not talking about food trucks parked in front of a neighborhood. We're not talking about trailers. These are just little bigger-sized vans, so to speak, right? And I will say that I don't have a concern with the external appurtenances or even the external signage. These are necessary for our residents to sustain their businesses, as long as we have some other exceptions in place so that they're applying with other rules and restrictions that we already have existing. So thank you for bringing this. I think it will benefit our residents greatly who are needing every help they can in this economy. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Reinstein. Don't go away. Before I turn it over to Councilmember Fadgen, Ms. Robinson, welcome. Would you like to introduce yourself? Good evening. I'm Shaquilla Robinson, Code Enforcement Manager. Thank you for being here. I'd like to ask you a question because I understand why Councilmember Reinstein asked for this to be brought forward because we do want to reduce some of the impact of the cost on people. But, you know, my concerns are it's a slippery slope. And I, in my eight years, I've never personally had anyone complain to me that they couldn't park their commercial vehicle. But you know I've contacted you on several occasions when people have contacted me and they didn't necessarily want to report, you know, what was happening in their neighborhood, that they were upset that those commercial vehicles were being there. So I'd like to get your perspective from the code. From your department's perspective, how do you feel this could either help or hurt? You know, I don't want you to make a broad proclamation about the neighborhoods, but would it certainly help your code enforcement officers make it easier, more difficult? Yes. Actually, it would definitely help our team not have to chase after commercial vehicles day and night. Because, as we know, the ones that are coming in later in the evening, they think we're gone, and sometimes we are. The complainants have to reach out to a road patrol instead, and then those police reports are sent in the end to us, and we're still going to have to follow up on the commercial vehicles. It's wasting valuable law enforcement time. Right. So for my perspective and for my team's perspective, someone having a van that has a ladder rack is not harmful. But, of course, we know that there are residents that would not be okay with this. Right. And it could still be banned and prohibited by an HOA. So if you have covenants with an HOA, they could still prohibit it. Right. So would you object to a registration program? Now, my understanding, and I don't have the details of Cooper City, but I believe it's done through their Acela. And, you know, as I had a conversation with Mr. Alpert, I think our goal is we don't want to put more work on you. I do think it's something that needs to be run through code and not planning and zoning. That if there is a simple way for residents to go through Acela and say, listen, it could be even an RV or boat. I'm going to have an RV in front of my house for two days that I'm cleaning or a boat that I'm in and be able to put that in to alert your officers to know that it's going to be there. But likewise, I'm concerned about having two vehicles, commercial vehicles. But if there's one, you know, if they say it's, you know, Jack's Plumbing is going to be there, but now we're starting to see other vehicles that might be stored there, then at least you would know what you were dealing with. So would you be adverse to that? I would be okay with limiting the number of commercial vehicles to the property. Okay. I don't know that a registration is necessarily going to help. Okay. That people are, one, going to register. And a lot of times what my inspectors do is that when they're driving through a neighborhood and they see a commercial vehicle, they're searching to see if there's local business tax receipt associated with that business. Right. So we're already coming after people multiple ways. Okay. So I don't know if registering the vehicle addition is needed. Okay. That's a fair response. I do think, to Mr. Nunnmaker's point, that we also need to take a look at those commercial vehicles, especially the landscaping out in the acres where they're behind the fenced area. Right. That currently is prohibited, but then we need to be able to allow that in those areas. And I'm the one as opposed to those. I have a difference of opinion about larger vehicles and, you know, dump trucks. I'd like to, well, we don't want dump trucks back there. Right. I'd love to hear from you about that. The landscape companies, you know, I am okay with the trailer. A trailer. A trailer. But, you know, you're talking about, you're seeing people coming out, pulling out their backyard with a landscape truck. Okay. And, you know, I've seen the landscape truck hidden in the backyard in areas that didn't even know that the yard was that big. So if we limited it to trailers, you would be okay with that? I would limit it to trailers. Okay. Just your regular passenger vehicles with the exception of having, you know, a higher top. Right. A van is fine. Those are okay. Again, as I said earlier, it's slippery slope. Yes. I want to be able to afford people some relief, but I am concerned about lowering our standards in the city. When we talk about the RVs, too, many cities are having the issues where people are hooking up to electricity and people are living in those RVs. Right. So I think we've got to be cognizant of that as well. Yes. We have that issue as well. The only other thing I would add, too, is that they could, if the council was open to it, to park their commercial vehicle in their side yard. Just like how we have everyone screen their boats and their RVs now, they could park one vehicle back there. They obviously wouldn't be required to have paved parking as it is right now for parking in the backyard. But that is another option. Screen it. Okay. Thank you for that. I'm going to turn it over to Councilmember Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. I think we need to be very careful with this, particularly with the storage of vehicles and construction equipment in the backyard. I know I'm kind of dealing with a problem in the East Acre Cypress Road area. And I've had code go out there. They can't put eyes on it. And none of the residents want to put themselves out there because, you know, but he's not a good actor. It turns into a construction site with idling diesel vehicles parked on the street. I actually was walking the area for a personal reason a couple weekends ago and middle of a Saturday afternoon. It was crazy. So regarding commercial vehicles in the front, I mean, certainly nothing more than that first class, nothing bigger than a sprinter vehicle. Actually, it was in the neighborhood. There's a tractor, well, I don't know, a semi truck. You don't realize how big those things are until they're next to a house. It's as big as the house. And it's parked on the grass. And it's just a mess. And so we've got to be very careful with that. And then I don't know what to feel about, like, commercial messaging, you know, the markings of these commercial vehicles in residential neighborhoods. You know, it's noise. And, you know, it is a residential neighborhood. And, you know, I work with small businesses, so I understand how hard it is. But it's also, you know, you leave work to decompress. And seeing, like, commercial vehicles and their markings doesn't help you decompress. So I think we need to be very thoughtful about it. But I feel very strongly about loosening up any regulation about storing things beyond, you know, like, one commercial vehicle shielded similar to what we would do with a boat or an RV. How about a landscape trailer? How do you feel about that? Well, like, one vehicle, one kind of trailer. Okay. One type of. The person I'm talking about has multiple. Has multiple. Okay. You know, those are very big lots out there, so. All right. I think that's fair. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you. In terms of signage as well, I agree with my colleagues that, you know, if we limit it to one vehicle in the first class and it's behind some type of fence gate. But I'm still concerned about signage because now people are wrapping the entire vehicle. It's not just the signage that was displayed earlier. So, again, that can be very, I think, Councilmember Fadget said loud. But so what are we going to do in terms of signage? What's your recommendation? So signage is kind of a hit or miss type of issue because you have people who have regular passenger vehicles that have their entire car wrapped. And those are still commercial vehicles for us. So you're talking about those vehicles. You're talking about a taxi. You know, how. Right. It just kind of is. I get it being a slippery slope. But I think the intention behind this is for people who have, you know, a regular van or a sprinter van that are trying to go out and just do a job for the day. Maybe they don't need to have signage on it to be able. Or generally right now we have them cover their signage with magnets once they bring it home. So they can still do that but maybe leave the ladder racks because, you know, who is that really going to offend? So there's that option. But the ones that are wrapped completely, I mean, we had a property where the sprinter van has five different magnets covering all the wrapping. So he complied. Yeah. You can't see the signage. But is that the intention? Mr. Alpert, have you seen any other ordinances in the cities that you compared to where they limited the size of the signage? No. Just either signage or no signage. Okay. All right. Anything else, Councilmember Andrea? Councilmember Anderson? Do you want to weigh in? I guess I do. You guys all expressed it. I worry about lowering our standards and the wheels coming up. I know we need to give some relief to people. I totally respect working people that have to make a living. But I worry if you already see a decent amount of it now, just wait until it's allowed and we might see it all over the place, just commercial vehicles everywhere. I have no problem with behind a fence. So just like a boat, camper, that's totally fine to me. No big dump trucks. But I worry about a lot of signage and commercial vehicles in the driveway. I think that lowers our standards. So I think, Mr. Alpert, if you take the comments into consideration, if you want to work with Ms. Robinson and bring something back for further discussion. Is that fair? Yes. Okay. All right. We appreciate both of your time for that. Thank you. All right. We're moving on to legislative items. Item number 14, which is IAFF deferred retirement option plan drop extension for five to seven years. Mr. Morgan, would you like to read that? Yes, ma'am. It's a request to approve a resolution proving the form and content of an amendment to the city plantation general employees deferred retirement option plan drop, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing an effective date. Do we have a motion? 10-1-20-25. I'm sorry. Thank you. Sure. Councilmember Fajan. I don't think it's really a big deal on these items. But I would request that the projections, when there's multiple changes being made, like for item 14, the unfunded liability is decreasing from 77.4 to .2, and then 15-77.4 to .3. And then the last one has no effect on the unfunded liability. But when we're trying to make multiple changes in one night, I think that we should have a consolidated analysis of it. Do you understand what I'm saying? I appreciate the feedback. We went back and forth. And I don't think it's an issue with this one because it's so minor individually. But I take your point, and when we were working with the labor attorney, they suggested they individually be done because they're freestanding ordinances. And I'm not questioning that. In the future, we'll roll that up so you see the three. The cumulative effect. And then the aggregate. Okay. That's my only comment. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Mr. Conklin, did you want to comment on each one individually or all together? Okay. Do we have a motion to approve this item, number 14? Motion to approve item 14. All right. I'll second it. Mr. Conklin, if you'd like to come up and comment on it. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Six Court. I was interested to see that the backup material is basically based off of the July 29th report with figures almost exactly. And I asked you that you would hold on to them because it was supposed to come back. It never did. But for 14, looking at page six, I think they can project the report for 14, right? 14, 15, and 16, they're basically all off of July 29th, agenda item 20. It's all very similar. What happens, excuse me, what happens from the 29th to tonight's agenda item 14? The line on page six, because it's double printed, the second page six matches with the page six of the original. The unfunded liability mortgage payment, okay, it goes from $5 million bucks a year to $6.6 million bucks a year. That's to basically cover up this mess. Okay, that's what created. Page seven for the original was $51 million dollars unfunded liability. For 14, it goes to $64.7 million dollars unfunded liability. So basically that's like $13 million dollars more. And the date was they were using basically coincides with the first column of these pages, but they're not going to project it. What, as I've tried to explain, ownership versus IOUs. This, all these moving parts, the OPBM, other post-employment benefits, the drop, the defined benefit pension plan, all that is, it's just a plain mess. The only place they exist is in governments, because you get to tax us, or the feds, they get to print Federal Reserve notes. Everybody else has shifted to defined contribution plans, which are ownership. And I've explained to you that, let me see here, one of these has, I've included information on how you can educate the entire city employee and administration staff that gets these defined benefit plans and all the scrambled eggs with them. Mr. Conklin, did you want to specifically address the drop, which is this item? Yeah, the drop is one of the mess of a defined benefit plan. And you basically, what's happening now, you can see because in the report for the defined benefit plan, it increased from just last month's report, there would be $51 million, right, unfunded liability to the general employees fund. The drop plan shows it's going to be $64.7 million. So, that's basically, I'll address the elders. That's why I asked if you wanted to speak to them all at once. Okay, thank you, sir. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Hart? Yes. Thank you very much. Item number 15, Tier Command IAFF, Establishment and Pension Tier for Eligible Fire Rescue Command Personnel. Mr. Morgan? An ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida, amending Chapter 18, Pensions and Retirements of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Plantation by amending Section 18-17 Definitions and Terms, Section 18-21 Member Contributions, Section 18-7 Retirement Days, Section 18-28 Normal Retirement Benefits, Section 18-30 Early Retirement Benefits, Section 18-30.1 Supplemental Benefits, Section, and Section 18-30.2 Monthly Supplemental Benefits, Providing for Cervorability, Providing for Codification, Providing for Complex and Providing for an Effective Date, 10-1-2026. Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Okay, Mr. Conklin, you signed up to speak on this. This is about the establishment of the pension tier for the Eligible Fire Rescue Command personnel. Please keep your comments to that. And again, if they would project a thing, but they're not going to project it. The repeat of the same figure for unfunded liability from 14 to 15, okay, page 7, 64 and a quarter million bucks, okay? From 50, from 64 to 64, it maintains, okay? The information that I was looking for that I gave you for the July 29th, it was supposed to come right back and you said that you would hold it. This is the education that you can, everybody's afraid of things that they don't know. I'm from the Appalachian region of New York State, right? We only had banks, savings and loans, which went defunct in the 80s, and insurance companies. So that's the only thing I knew about money. I didn't know anything about investments. I only knew about IOUs, right? I give bank, they give me interest. I give insurance company money, they give me annuity and I get whatever, right? Savings and loans, same thing. You have to, and Mayor Veltry, and at the transition with Mayor Armstrong, she was serving on the council when Mayor Veltry was there. And Councilman Lee Hillier, Ron Jacobs, Edwards, and Merrill. They all saw this coming because they could see things started going goofy, right, in 2000. They saw it happening just before 2000. And it was minor. This is 91, 92. They were nervous there. That's like 2 million, 3 million bucks. You're talking 64 million bucks. I'll yield back my time, but you've got the information that I gave you. You said you were going to hold on to it. We do. I do. And I'll yield back my time. Thank you, Mr. Tom. This is critical because the taxpayers are on the hook for this, and the employees are loaded down with IOUs. And here's the point again. Had they been in a defined contribution plan, 401Ks, and then afterwards Roth 401Ks, they're likely, if you look at page 9, the average annual was 28,400 bucks a year. That's in these reports. They would have had basically $2 million. Do you know what that works out? Even if you take their goofy 6% that they're saying for these plans, that comes out to $135,000. In other words, they never exhaust their ownership, and their family gets to keep it. I rest my case, and I yield back my time. Thank you, Mr. Compton. Thank you for allowing me to extend my remarks. Thank you. Councilmember Andrea? Thank you. Is the effective date October 1, 2026? Mr. Morgan, that's the correct effective date? They do the calculation at the last measurement date, which was October 1, 2025. So it's not the effective date. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. What is the effective date? I think the question is for Mr. Nanamaker. As soon as we do it. The eligibility will be for the two ordinances that are specific to IFF will be the contract date of 10-125. For the command tier, that will be 10-126. That's perspective. And just as a reminder, the command tier is extending that benefit into the non-bargaining unit. So I know it's a little confusing, but we put them all together because that was part of the overall conversation about how that coverage would continue, the same pension, if you will, for those members. And I do want to state that that comes with the increased contribution, and that is why there isn't that substantial impact, because we are sensitive to the impacts of these types of changes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. So no other public comment? We have a motion, and do we have a motion? Not yet. No, we don't have a motion. Can I get a motion on this item? I thought I did, too. I did. No. Not on this one. It didn't? Okay. No. That was the last one. I'll make a motion to approve item number 15. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Thank you, Ms. Fegaro. Please call the roll. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Fagin? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. Item number 16, IAFF, Pension Plan Cessation of Contributions Upon Attainment of Maximum Benefit. Mr. Morgan? Thank you. Public hearing, first reading of an ordinance of plantation Florida pertaining to the subject of retirement. Amending the general employer retirement system by amending Part 1, Chapter 18, Article 2, Division 1, Section 1822, Succession of Contributions, Providing for Severability, Providing for Codification, Providing for Conflicts, Providing an Effect of Date 10-1-2025. Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Do we have a motion on this? Let's start with that first. No council comment? I'll make a motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Mr. Conklin, did you want to comment again? No. Thank you very much. Seeing no one else signed up, is there any council discussion on this? May I? Yes, you may. Very quick question. My mic is not picking up all tonight. This one has an effectivity date of 10-1-25. Correct. That one's correct. There are two items that are retro to 25 and the one that's perspective. Right. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Beggro, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member of the City Council of Plantation, Florida, adopting a 20-25-2045 Comprehensive Plan, replacing the adopted Comprehensive Plan in its entirety. Mr. Morgan? I thought you were going to continue. No. Public hearing. Second reading of an ordinance of the City Council of Plantation, Florida, adopting a 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan, replacing the adopted Comprehensive Plan in its entirety, entirety providing for the following elements of the comprehensive plan future land use transportation and mobility housing sanitary sewer portable water stormwater and drainage solid waste conservation recreation and open space and the governmental coordination capital improvements public school facilities neighborhood design property rights and resiliency and sustainability amending the physical and digital versions of the city of plantation comprehensive plan providing for a transmittal to the state land planning agency in the bar County Planning Council providing for conflict providing for separately providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict and provide an effective date thank you see I was trying to save you for having to do the whole thing got to thank you mr. Morgan I'm just like to stay say before you start mr. Alpert we did receive a couple of emails from residents requesting we defer that item several of you I responded to I am not in favor deferring this item and I want to explain why no we've been in this process since 2023 it's not since 2025 we've had a lot of public workshops on this I'm hoping that your questions will be answered tonight by staff and some of you mentioned substantive substantive changes that were made between the first and second reading mr. j. McMillan brought up some questions that I think added clarity to the plan and mr. Alpert and miss Elk have addressed those some of the other changes were made at the recommendation of the state when we submitted our plan for approval so for various reasons which mr. Alpert will explain tonight I'm not in favor of deferring this item so mr. Alpert go ahead please good evening again Michael Alpert in term director of planning zoning and economic development I wanted to discuss the process and timeline for this comprehensive plan so the minimum state required process for the adoption of a comprehensive plan is as follows consideration first consideration by the city's designated local planning agency which at a duly advertised public hearing which in our case is called the planning and zoning board this board makes recommendations to the local governing body which in our case is the city council as adoption is required to be by an ordinance entails two separately advertised public hearings by city council unlike other ordinances however this process requires a transmittal hearing at the first reading where the council authorizes the plan to be reviewed by the Florida State Department of Commerce as well as several other state and regional agencies before the city council before the city may conduct a second reading of the ordinance so some of the previous items first and second reading oftentimes are back-to-back or maybe a month apart this is not that kind of ordinance the plan undergoes review by these agencies and is neither either approved to move forward or is pending comments that need to be addressed by the municipality once the Department of Commerce authorizes the city to move forward to adoption then a second reading known as the adoption hearing occurs the second reading is then advertised and the item is added to the city council agenda this is the typical process that local governments go through normally this process takes anywhere from one to five years to complete and it includes a large amount of data collection from reputable sources and actually the state has adopted some statutes that now govern the types of sources you can use for your data early on in the process however the plantation city council requested that a slightly different process take place this was a more inclusive process involving more opportunities for the public to weigh in on the plan before it came before the council for consideration the city council authorized the city to hire a consultant firm in 2022 the consultant conducted much of the data collection and analysis and the initial development of goals objectives and policies the city council conducted a comprehensive planning and land-use workshop on October 26 2023 in order to discuss big picture concepts and the future direction of the city this meeting was open to the public staff was then directed to proceed with developing the plan but to obtain feedback from several appointed boards and committees before finalizing the draft language for the goals objectives and policies so staff conducted comprehensive planning roundtable public workshops with individual boards and committees on the following dates with the Midtown Advisory Board on May 18th 2023 this is a daytime meeting the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee on June 1st 2023 this is an evening meeting plantation gateway advisory board on June 21st 2023 this is a daytime meeting sustainability and resiliency board June 12th 2023 this is an evening meeting the development review committee which is a staff technical committee June 27 2023 this is a daytime meeting and on the same date the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board but that's an evening meeting and then finally the planning and zoning board on July 11th 2023 which is also an evening meeting meeting subsequently many of the board and committee members were invited to participate in another advertised workshop slash public hearing with the City Council presiding on August 3rd 2023 with staff and led by our consultant Trans Systems the feedback from this final roundtable led to the October 26 2023 planning and land use workshop that I mentioned previously in addition the city adopted a few amendments ahead of the schedule as prescribed by the state or as directed by the City Council this included on August 23rd 2023 the City adopted evaluation and appraisal report known as ear based amendments by ordinance 2023-012 for the property rights element the public schools facility element and the capital improvements element following hearings at the Planning and Zoning Board on May 2nd and by the City Council on May 24th 2023 another amendment that preceded this comp plan was occurred on October 23rd 2024 where the City adopted a unified flex zone to consolidate the City's pool of flexibility and redevelopment units that preserved residential neighborhoods as well as other amendments to the future land use element and this again following hearings at Planning and Zoning Board on December 5th 2023 at City Council for first reading on August 7th 2020. 24 once the first draft was completed staff conducted another workshop with the Planning and Zoning Board at another advertised public hearing on May 20th 2025 that focused primarily on land use and zoning issues the Planning and Zoning Board conducted a publicly advertised special meeting on November 18th 2025 and recommended approval of the comprehensive plan and Plantation City Council recommended approval at first reading authorizing transmittal on December 3rd 2025 the plan was transmitted to the Florida Department of Commerce in January of 2026 the state has an expedited review time frame in which to comment communicate to the city any comments questions and concerns I I do want to note that Senate bill 180 was signed into law by Governor DeSantis and became effective on July 1st 2025 which mandated that any policies adapted by a local government could not be deemed to be more burdensome than the existing plans goals objectives and policies consequently the city had to remove or amend some policies in order to obtain approval from the state this process took a few months to complete that approval to move forward per the letter from Florida Commerce occurred on May 22nd 2026 allowing the city to proceed with the final adoption phase within 180 days the Plantation City Council conducted a public hearing on July 29 2026 but voted to table the item in order to address certain concerns and questions raised by a few residents so the adoption hearing the state required long range so what is a comprehensive plan the state required long range policy document guiding physical economic and social development for the next 10 to 20 years establishes a vision with goals objectives and policies supported by data and analysis at the July 29 the City Council meeting several issues and questions were raised and the prep this presentation will answer and go over those changes so there was a question about policy from the future land use elements policy 01 B dot 0108 and this had to do with the density of 25 dwelling units per acre raising it to 50 dwelling units per acre staff mentioned that it was really designated for our priority development areas in the midtown district and in the midtown district and in the midtown district and in the gateway district however it wasn't clear clear in the documents that were before you so we have now clarified that we added language to to talk about that we've also added language to the table on the residential land use which basically says that that 50 units per acre would be for gateway or for midtown there are also a few other references that Ms. Zelk and I worked through that still said the word commercial when now the land use that still said the word commercial when now the land use is a consolidated land use of industrial and commercial is now called commerce per the Broward County land use plan so we had to do a little fixing of those and again here's that and see the other statement about the 50 units per acre again for the midtown and the gateway districts and those are shown in maps 1-2 and 1-3 in the data inventory and analysis volume of the comprehensive plan there was another thing that was pointed out regarding a policy that was incorrectly doesn't appear in the document this has been corrected and now the references show the correct policy number again similar in another part another policy had the similar issue missing the proper word for commerce and also the reference to the 50 units per gross acre this is another thing regarding C district that's a vestige of a previous comprehensive plan from I don't know how many decades ago we've corrected that language it was inadvertently deleted and then finally on in the housing element on page 3-7 the C zoning districts it's really residential commercial and we've added mixed use zoning district that because we're seeing that type of development pattern happen more often now there was a question about micro units and counting them if there these are units that are less than 500 square feet how do they count towards density it's basically half a density half a unit and that's generally a tool for as an affordable housing incentive which was explained last month there was a question about activity center density increases where it allows us to increase the density by 20% every five years just wanted to clarify that that is a formal land use plan amendment process with a full public hearing access so it's not something that can be done with the motion of a resolution or anything like that that that is that is a full process that the city would have to undertake and that would not be specific to one parcel it would be specific to a whole geographic area covered by that activity center just to show where these priority redevelopment areas are we're familiar with the location of Midtown south of Cleary Boulevard between Pine Island Road and University Drive and north of the highway the area near State Road 7 called the Gateway District and also some areas along Sunrise Boulevard that are shaded in red those are what we deemed in that from that workshop back in 2023 thank you Mr. Oppert folks we're going to ask you to take your conversations outside if you could please because we can hear it up here thank you priority but it's been a very long and public process so thank you there were a couple of particular questions that arose that I'm sure the residents have asked to will ask Mr. Alpert and you will address right now I'm going to turn it over to Councilmember Faj I just have one question about the procedure here are we on a deadline to adopt yes what's the deadline 180 days from when the state gave us that so where are we in that more than halfway so we're 90 days into it yeah so if we tabled it we and pushed it to the next meeting to give the residents an opportunity to review this final draft that will not significantly hurt us there are other implications for example the utilities department has been trying to finalize the process for the consumptive use permit we've been in touch with the South Florida Water Management District they know that we so when's our next meeting September 9th yes Danny is that going to significantly affect us if we if we decide to table this just so that residents can have an opportunity to look this over one last time good evening Danny polio utilities director we've been in conversation with them on a monthly basis this was actually due in March it's it's a permit that's due every five years we have a really good working relationship with South Florida Water Management and we actually started our conversations with them last year we finished our reports back in November of last year and we were working with them they were reviewing our documents to our our water plan as our consultant completed them we completed them last year in anticipation of the March due date I know time is of the essence but if we delayed it 14 more days is that going to be detrimental to what you have to get done with the permit I don't plan on going out for a loan or receiving a grant in the next 14 days and that's what this prevents us to do it does not allow it doesn't we're not eligible to borrow money as long as we're not in compliance with that rule so it won't significantly hold us back from what you have to it will take another phone call to South Florida Water Management they're expecting it to pass tonight and then that's okay so how would they respond to that I guess I'm trying to it's a little late in the crystal balls a little dim right now irritated with us pardon me are they getting irritated with us they were surprised at the last two requests because we had a shirt and we've been working with Dan most of last year knowing that this was coming I could ask the question I can't guarantee I mean we have to make the decision tonight and I don't know what the consensus is I know it's been a very long very public process I don't necessarily agree that we need to delay it but I know there's been a request of it so I'm kind of concerned about you know I don't want to keep asking to for more time for something you need to get done so I don't know if there's a consensus to I know what your opinion is I want to I gave my opinion and I and I really think it speaks to the way we do business I think that we've been very receptive to as evidenced by our last council meeting to public comments my question would be if you delay it again so five more residents come to you and say I haven't had a chance to look at the I'm not saying you I'm just saying five you know I haven't had a chance to look at it are we going to continue to delay this when this has been a process for for three years actually a little bit longer but what I'm hoping is that as I said in the beginning that the residents will get up that have their questions I asked that question right off the get go is that if we're going to table it to the next meeting I don't want to take public comment at this point you know we spent a lot of time into this so I don't necessarily feel it's necessary at this point it's been an extremely open process it has a lot of very public forums but also don't want the residents to feel like we're pushing something through and you know there's perception and there's reality and unfortunately perception is much more important than reality sure but I don't think three years is pushing something through but to your point I'm hoping that the questions that were specifically answered can be addressed by mr. Alpert we worked very diligently this council administration and planning and zoning to ensure that those to ensure that those residential areas were protected and the density was going into midtown so what I'd like to do is thank you Mr. Polio I'd like to turn to council member Einstein then I'd like to get some of the comments from the residents so I've already sought for a two to be table tonight and and I think I may have moved for this the last time I'm not sure if it was me or a colleague I agree with everything that Council President Horland has said in terms of the concerns regarding pushing something like this off further when the timeline is is was exhaustive the opportunities were exhaustive but that being said is that I know I I know I asked mr. Alpert previously before the meeting regarding whether or not a delay was was an option and and I know there's no question that mr. Alpert responded that that it was not preferred and what I'm also hearing tonight is that while we may not refer a delay and we may have all of the you know the dates to show that every opportunity was granted and and provided and discussion and if anything our last meeting was was so exhaustive in terms of us responding to residents being here you know we we have a situation where maybe that caused some people to perk up and say I we need to look at it. and you know I'm not suggesting I want that to be our precedent but what I've also heard from you mr. Alpert is that a there there is additional time there's additional wiggle room there's additional time that we could grant in order to allow for for further commentary. I do hope before I have to make that vote that that the residents who are here tonight they want to speak up on it will will will raise those questions that they have now maybe we can answer them have them answered now and maybe we won't we won't need to get to that. Thank you. Well I'm gonna make I'm gonna make a motion to approve and ask for a second so that we can have the discussion and the residents can that have signed up to speak. I'm just saying if there's a consensus to table it I don't really want to take public comment tonight. I mean my my the emails that I receive requesting the tabling is that they want time to review it's not a matter of having public discussion on it it's about them reading a very large document that they haven't had access to that's what I'm interpreting. So I'll just for consensus purposes I'm willing to table it I don't. Okay and I'm gonna state again that I did not receive an overwhelming amount of emails I received two emails that I responded to today. So I think that this council is going to be very careful and as I said I think we've been very responsive to the residents especially this group of residents who we've worked very hard with to make sure the density. To make sure the density and I don't want to argue with you about it what I'm saying is I want to be very careful about how we do business up here. And so if you know two more residents reach out in the after we schedule it again are we going to continue to delay this. I think that it. I know what my opinion. It's not an over it's but I think that we have an obligation to have staff address those specific concerns. There are very few people that are going to get through that entire document they have very specific concerns. I think that the request of tabling it is for people not to ask questions but to review the document to be better able to ask questions. That's what I've interpreted emails. And you know it's you know this is a 20 year document. I don't think it hasn't been a thoughtful process. It has been a thoughtful process. It's been a three year process. And all I'm asking for let's just go down the line and see if there's a consensus to table it because I don't think it's worthwhile to take public comment before people have a time. Now if I'm the only one that wants to table it I am willing to go forward with whatever you have to say and vote on it. I just want to remind you that September is budget hearings as well. I understand. Okay. Councilmember Andreu. I would like to go ahead and proceed with public comment and I'm prepared to vote tonight. Thank you. So there's a motion on the floor to approve and do I take that as a second so we can proceed with public comment? Second. Okay. Thank you very much. I'm going to call up Mr. McMillan. Colleen McDonald is second. Lizette Hampton and then Lori Bernardi. Mr. McMillan as you're coming up I want to thank you for the points that you raised because I think what became apparent to us as well we're used to looking at it and planning staff is used to looking at the document. Some clarity was needed in some of the reference points to make it more clear to the public. So I appreciate you bringing up those points. Okay. I'll try to be much faster than last time. Okay. Thanks. The first one is ordinance 01B0108 which is the 50 units per acre. If we are going to try to follow the county and mimic what they designate, then I think it's important to realize that the Broward Municipal Service District Part 2, which is the land use and community planning for unincorporated land controlled by Broward County, has a max density of 25. If you approve 50, they're going to put 130 per acre wherever you'd go as a bonus density. I think what we have now is 25. I think it's a reasonable amount and I think, you know, if you compare it to Parkland's 10 per acre, it's better than that. I mean, so I think that we should look at that and consider going back to 25. Under 01B0102, it deals with density considering the center line of an adjacent right-of-way street and calculating the gross acreage is still included in the policy. The wording is not in the city's current comprehensive plan. It is not in the Broward County land use plan. Our existing wording matches the county wording. Staff says that the city's language may be more restrictive but not more lenient than the county's policy. I believe that adding gross acreage to the density calculation is more lenient and therefore should be removed. And that's current policy 176, which states that gross acreage means total number of acres in an area, including acreage used for roads, lakes, roadways within the permitted area. And we've added, including to the center line of adjacent, dedicated street right-of-ways, which I don't think should be included. And then we also have, in Volume 2, a lot of descriptions for transit-oriented areas. We have transit-oriented corridor, key transit corridor, major transit corridors. Important arterial corridors, transit-oriented communities, transit-oriented districts, transit-oriented developments, transit-oriented land patterns, and transit-oriented design. It seems like we could consolidate some of these terms. Lastly, we talked about how this got to where we are. If you go back to the first P&Z meeting, what Dan Holmes brought to them and showed is completely different from what we have today. What you had in the first reading is completely different from what we had today. So to say that we had a lot of time to look at this document is not really true. So, and as we explained at the last meeting, some of that has to do with SB 180. And as I told you, the Planning Council, our Planning Council, which I sit on, we also had to bifurcate that plan because of the overreach of the state legislature. So those changes that were made are not necessarily things that we can change because of the state preemption. Unfortunately, SB 180 runs out next October, a year from now. We'll see. There's some very powerful developers behind it. Thank you, Mr. McMillan. Can I ask Mr. McMillan a question? Sure. Mr. McMillan, Jennifer Andreo, Council Member Andreo would like to ask you a question. I'm sorry. Your very first statement, I believe, was in response to the 50 dwelling units maximum. And you were referring to the 50 dwelling units in the Gateway and in Midtown. Yes. And your recommendation is to reduce that to 25. Leave it at 25. It's at 25 now. To leave it at 25. Right. Which is what the county has for the unincorporated areas. So it's not like we're going beyond the county. Now the county for every other municipality and city says, no, no, go to 50. But our land, we're going to use 25. So, Mr. Alpert, why was the recommendation to go to 50? We talked about this with the density in Midtown and the priority redevelopment areas, correct? Yes. It was also part of the Midtown plan. Right. Which was heard by. We did talk about it in Midtown. I don't remember discussing it necessarily for Gateway. But, and, well, I'll leave that comment for when that project comes before us. But, okay. The reason I know when I met with you and with Mr. Holmes before his departure, the comment was made that it will still have to be come before the council. So even though we go up to 50, as I think even you stated, Mr. Miller, right? So none of these will still be automatic approvals. They still have to come before the council. They'll still go to PNC. They'll still follow our process. Correct. So just having that 50 unit, dwelling units per acre in there, it's not an automatic approval. And I think maybe, that was the impression I got from some residents. They think that having this in our comp plan is going to make it automatically be approved. But that's the base now. Okay. The base was 25. Now you're making the base 50. We go up from there. I understand. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Alpert, did you want to address any of the other points that Mr. McMillan made? Was there anything additional to what you had presented in the slide? The language about how we measured the density as a gross measurement, that's been in our existing code. It's not something we came up with for this new code, new comprehensive plan, excuse me. That's in our existing code. That's the way it's done throughout the different cities within Broward County. Lisa? Lisa Zilk, hi. We're looking at the existing comprehensive plan policy 1.7.6. It has been in our comprehensive plan since 1994. The language that it was using is actually more lenient than what Broward County allows. So Broward County only allows to the middle line of the roadway. They do not allow waterways at all. So you had to take that out. So since our comp plan has had a more lenient language, we have been forced to utilize the Broward County's comprehensive plan in their language and how they calculate gross density. So what we did is we corrected the 1994 language to be consistent with what is practiced now and what is legally in the Broward County land use plan. Does that clarify it a little bit? Yeah. I was clear on that. I think that we had discussed that previously. Okay. So he's correct. It's in practice. Right. Well, the Broward County has two separate land use plans. I kind of want to clarify that as well. They've got one for their unincorporated Broward County lands, which they have control over. Then they have the base map for the entire county that the cities have to adhere to. So yes, you're referring to the one that's for unincorporated Broward County lands, but they also have one for Broward County total. For this item, I am referring to next Broward County, which is the land use for the cities. Okay. And that one does not state what you're saying. I don't have the document in front of me. It's right here in front of you. Okay. This is the density calculation out of that document and it does not have this statement anywhere within it. In fact, the wording is exactly what we have now. I've looked at Broward next also. I'm not familiar with this one, so I would have to go back and look. Are there issues to address Mr. McMillan's comments? So the increase to 50 dwelling units per acre is something that was in the midtown plan in the 2016 midtown plan. It was in other plans previously. It was talked about at our workshop in 2023. And the idea was to refocus where the development was going to be in the priority redevelopment areas. It wasn't going to affect areas outside of that. Right. That was our attempt to protect the residential areas. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Mr. McMillan, you're good? Okay. Thank you. So I'd like to go ahead and proceed. We've got a couple more comment cards. Colleen McDonald, Lizette Hampton, and then Lori Bernardi. Good evening. Hello. Hi. We're having Colleen McDonald, 9171 Northwest 13th Street. I have a general comment statement. I am not looking to ask questions this evening. I have not personally had time to digest it. While I understand you've provided opportunity over the last couple of years. I do think there has been drastic changes in our city with respect to population, traffic, crime. Overall, that would affect numbers that would have been run in 2023. So revisiting this again from what I saw historically once in 2025. I know residents have been involved with several other priority items where maybe the comprehensive plan was not available for us to view in that level of depth. So I am requesting for, you know, that additional two week timeframe just to gather any questions or any comments. You know, I think residents would appreciate that, especially since we just went through an election in July when you held the last meeting regarding it, as well as early election. You know, we had the paid issue that we were dealing with. So I just think there's just been so many items. And I'll say it was summertime. So I completely missed, you know, a July city council meeting. But I think we've all our residents really genuinely care about the city. And I know you all do as well and keeping our city green and understanding what that impact looks like to us when we make a plan that is so far out as far as, you know, two decades. You know, I definitely don't want to see an increase in traffic or crime in our city because we've increased the dwellings significantly and substantially. So with that being said, I just want the opportunity to kind of try to digest the 500 plus pages in there. And again, we do appreciate, you know, all the opportunities that have been provided previously. But I think seeing, you know, especially tonight with the surveys that were provided to residents and some of the special items that require attention, we want to make sure that all of those are encompassed within this comprehensive plan that we're not locked into. And then also, you know, what modifications look like moving forward. So, you know, if we do pass this plan while each item, you know, as far as in the future gets brought up to city council again for vote and city comment, kind of what that modification process looks like going forward. And that's all. Okay. Thank you. Ms. Hampton and then Ms. Bernardi. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight. Ms. Hampton, is your microphone on? Yeah, I'll pull it down. There you go. Sure. Two years ago, and again this year, the City of Plantation invested in a survey to get feedback from the residents on their vision for plantation for the adoption and for, you know, for adoption of future, you know, future plants. In 2024, the top priority was traffic and high density. In 2026, traffic continues to be the main priority. And they go hand in hand. Traffic and density go hand in hand. So, you have the opportunity tonight. This document is mammoth. There were changes. And not only were there changes. There is, you know, we understood this to be that and this is different. So, even in the information that you have received from the staff, there seems to be conflict. Please table this tonight. Give us the opportunity to look through it. This is, this is huge. It will impact, it will impact our present and the future of the City of Plantation. With, with great power comes a lot of responsibility. And you're responsible for making accurate decisions. You're, you, you, you should have accurate information to make accurate decision. And knowing that you're going to impact not only, not only our present, but our future. I am speaking as a resident of Plantation. My area is not affected. I am speaking as a very concerned resident of Plantation. You know, with the rise of seawater, the flood, the hurricanes getting worse, et cetera. We need to protect our environment, environment. We need more green areas. We need, we need to manage density. And there has to be, there has to be a better way than to jump from 25 to 50. Whatever changes in the county, in the city, et cetera. Please consider this request. Thank you very much. Thank you. Ms. Bernardi. And on deck, Ms. Bernardi after you. It's Mr. Bernadine, Mr. Wiggin, and Ms. Bentley. Lori Bernardi, 11681 Northwest 6th Street. Good evening. So I wrote a little something and it wasn't going to be any questions. It was going to be to ask for a postponement. But my first thing is what's a delay and who likes the delay? None of us like a delay, but it happens. So, and then the other thing was, is the emails. Emails. I don't personally write you guys emails except I think maybe once because I'm normally sitting out here and I figure if I'm in town, the only time you don't see me is if I'm out of town or I'm sick or something. Because I'd rather come in in person and listen to what's going on in our city, not just what's going on in my neighborhood. I'm part of plantation, so I'm part of all of plantation as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if something's going on in midtown on the other minus little piece of plantation. It's still my city and I'm concerned about it. We're here as a group. We come as a group. And when we saw this, we tried to read the pages. We tried to like break it up, but it was just too soon too much. We've been here listening to this for all these years. But tonight there was two beautiful presentations that I learned new things that I didn't even see when I started to try to read these 500 pages. And yes, we would like the time as a group to digest this. And we may come in and say we don't have any comments because now we understand it and let it go through. We're not asking for months. We're just asking maybe to the next meeting or whatever to, you know, to be able to have the time to digest this. But it is our city. And even tonight, this gentleman brought up this thing about measuring from the middle of the street again. And I didn't learn about that until I was here. I think it was either the last meeting or the meeting before when he brought it up. And there's a question about it tonight. That's a major question. If people start measuring from the middle of the street, they get even more places to build on our land that they haven't done before. And, you know, if I wanted to, like we said before, if I wanted to live where there's all high rises, I would be living downtown Fort Lauderdale, not in my city of plantation. And so I truly hope that you think and consider it, consider postponing and just like giving us time to read all the information. I came in town and when I heard Donick sent out the email and said, look at the packet that came with tonight's, you know, what's going to be going on at city council. I was like, oh my God, because usually she'll tell us like, look at these pages or whatever. But when she was like, look at this page, look at that page. And then they were like, no, you got to read more than just those pages to understand it. It was too much. It really was. And these presentations tonight, they were beautiful, but they had information that's changed. And when things change, you need to take the time to read it to know what's going on. So thank you, as always, for your time. Thank you, Ms. Bernardi. Mr. Berndon, Mr. Wiggin, and then Ms. Bentley, please. Good evening. Good evening. Hi. John Berndon. Excuse me, I've got some back pain going on. Hopefully my phone doesn't die. I haven't had time to read it myself. And when you talk about the public as ample time, I don't know if you guys sent out flyers. I don't remember getting one directly to me, personally, individually. These public workshops that you've done with the boards, potentially, like Paha has not been very good at, like Plantation Acres Homeowners Association, you might be familiar, has not been very good at community outreach. They don't send out personal flyers. They don't contact us individually. So I had really not heard about the Comprehensive Plan. When you think about a city, the Comprehensive Plan might be one of the single most important documents you guys have. And for you guys to not, I might be asking, but have you guys sent out to all the residents, letting them know to go to this, the workshops? Because if you've done a lot of public outreach, I would think that you would have actually made sure that everybody knows. And with my back pain and certain things, if you've had road signs, I may not have been able to keep up with all of that. So as far as public outreach goes, I applaud you guys for the work you've done. It sounds like a lot of effort, and it sounds like good effort. I just haven't had the time to read it myself. And so with that being said, this is a very important plan. It's going to happen for the next 20 years, and I'd like to start it off with a good start as opposed to not even being able to read it and just getting this information tonight. So I'll give you guys back your time. Thank you for coming back again. Mr. Wiggin, Ms. Bentley, and after that is Mr. Ramator. How are you doing? Gordon Wiggin, 1040 West Tropic Way. Is the document 500 pages now? Because I saw 246. Albert? There are two volumes. One is, half of it is goals, objectives, and policies. The other volume is data and analysis. So that's how I just learned that right now. So I didn't see that. That is a lot of information, and from what I read on the first part, the density is big. I don't know if you guys have driven through pines during school hours or rush hour, but that city is so dense, it's hard to get through. So this needs to stay at 25. I agree with that. And I also echo the sentiment of tabling it for a couple of weeks, let people look at it, digest it a little bit. I think we can do that as a city. I mean, you guys work for us. We work for you. We try and help you guys. You guys try and help us. But I think our communication on this one probably wasn't the best, because I don't know how many people sent emails or anything, but I don't think enough people know about this. And I'll also go off the survey a little bit. The survey, 670 people, that seems like a small, I mean, I don't know how they ratio that, but it just didn't seem like a good enough ratio for a survey. But if the guy says that the numbers go up higher, it doesn't matter, because the numbers stay the same. So anyway, on for tabling this, and I think that's it. Thank you, Mr. Wiggin. Thank you. All right. Again, Bentley, Rahmatour, and then Gutierrez. Good evening. My name is Lisa Bentley. I'm at 1660 Southwest 72nd Avenue. And I agree about benching this. We just found out about it. You say that it's been around since 2023. We have no clue. We haven't gotten anything to, like, notifications about it. So I feel like we have been not given enough time. You might think that you've had enough time. But I don't think a lot of people that I have talked to within the last 10 days, they're, like, in shock. And I know that you think that we're getting the material, but we're not. If we had gotten the material, we would be at all of those meetings. And we're not. And, like you said, it started in 2023 when you opened up the meetings. Well, people were still dealing with COVID. People were still getting through that. So you may say that we're all knowing that, but our residents are very busy. We have children. We have elderly parents we're taking care of. We have a lot going on in our lives. Now, from that survey, which we just learned today, the area that they were saying that we're unsatisfied is where I live. I live right on Peters Road. We're going to be affected by this. A lot. By the density. It already takes us five traffic lights to go from Peters to turn left to go into Davy. Five traffic lights to just turn that we have to go through and wait and wait. And that's not even at the busiest times of the day. That's even, it's either when the schools are getting out or when we have rush hour traffic in the morning and at night. Now you're going to put 50, I don't know the exact wording from 25 to 50. To me, that is even more making the density even worse. We're already being affected right now. I can't imagine 20 years of this getting worse and worse. So I think that benching this and letting more people know about it would probably be the best solution. I know that you guys think that you have gotten out the message, but you haven't. We're now finding out. Within the last 10 days, we have put out a petition from the previous zoning thing. We've already got almost 600 signatures against that. For the zoning on the 70th, where Big Lots is. 10 days. 600. If that survey is 600 people, that's telling you that it's almost 100%. But people are not agreeing on that. So the more people find out about this midtown, I think that a lot of communities don't know. So I appreciate your time and thank you very much. Thank you for coming out tonight. Ms. Ramatour and then Mr. Gutierrez. I just want to bring up this one thing that each one of you, when you campaigned, you said your first priority was to listen to the residents. Apparently, you should be worried about getting the information out to the residents first and see what they feel. Not worried about the deadlines, Broward County or state, whatever it is that you are worried about. You should be, all of you, should make sure somehow most of the residents know what is going on in the city. And something this huge, I have been involved pretty recently. And when I go on and I talk to people, I hear that if you go online, there are people complaining right and left about how much they are unhappy with what you guys are doing, with what the city is doing. We voted for you guys. We voted for you guys. You guys are our voice. We trusted in you all and we hoping that you will be our voice and you will stand in front of the county, in front of the state or whoever it is. We don't want to come here and fight you guys that we don't agree with this. We don't want to agree with this. We want to feel very confident that whatever decisions you guys will make is going to be for the good of the people of the residents. So, yes, it is very important that you table this. You make sure that the residents here know what this is about. They understand. Most people don't even understand when you talk about housing, affordable housing. You talk to them, they're going to think, oh, yeah, I don't afford my house. The mortgage is too high or this. They don't know what it is. It is your responsibility to make sure that the people know. They are in the know. They depend on you guys. So that's all I have to say and I think you should really consider it. Thank you for coming out. Alex Gutierrez, come up to the microphone, please. Good evening. Good evening. Alex Gutierrez, 1941 Southwest 74 Terrace, New Orleans Villas area. I went home in the middle of this meeting, took this picture. When I bought my house in 2012, all you saw was trees. Our emblem from Plantation is a tree. What do you see? Two towers. That's what you see from my backyard. Do I want more buildings? I would have stayed in New York. I would have moved to Las Olas. I went to school. My kids went to school with Mr. Anderson. Best principal we've ever had. Love the man. Yeah. Please now applaud him. But you guys got to do the right thing. When I moved in 2012, those two towers weren't there. I bought my house where I bought it because all I saw when I sat in my pool was trees. When I went in my front yard was trees. When I drove down my street was trees. Now I see buildings. We don't need any more buildings. What is the purpose of bringing and enlarging the amount of apartments that we have in plantation? We have no need. Do you need the tax dollars? Or are you taking paybacks from land developers? I'm sorry, but it's in everybody's back mind. I've been here since 2012. Not once have I heard anything about increasing from 25 to 50. Just like everyone else here. You know how I found out? Facebook. One of the members here's page where they put it down. So this needs to be a no. And at the very least, it needs to be a pass. Plantation. The grass is greener. We don't need cement. Thank you, Mr. Gutierrez. Mr. Alpert, please no applauding and reaction for the chamber. Mr. Alpert, would you mind coming out, please? Let's clarify one more time with the 50 DUU, which is on the Midtown plan, which is posted online. And just for everyone's notification or information, we don't send out notifications on our meetings. Everything's posted online. What I would suggest for all residents to do is to sign up for our email alerts for any one of our meetings. This way you can get the agendas in advance. That has been on our website for quite some time. So would you just briefly address the Midtown plan and the density that's been set forth by council administration before any of us are up here? So the city hired a consultant to develop the Midtown plan, which the last update was in 2016. And the recommendations were if we wanted to see maximum economic development, if we wanted to address housing issues and so forth, Midtown is the area to do that. And they recommended density of 50 units per acre so that it would encourage more mixed use development, more consolidated people living closer together rather than spread out and sprawling. Right. And so that's what we talked about at our workshop in 2023, focusing in these particular areas. Again, keeping that density in the Midtown area per the plan and not expanding it into the residential areas. Would you say you've heard comments tonight about the substantive changes? The changes that were made, were those primarily due to state legislation? Yes. Okay. And actually, compared to our existing plan, the existing comprehensive plan that we've had in place, it's not drastically different. We were trying to clarify things with better worded language. We addressed all the elements. We added an element about sustainability that wasn't there before. We added an element about property rights, which was mandated by the state. Essentially, it's not a drastically different plan from what we have now. We believe it's a better plan overall with the wording, with the policies, new policies. Things changed since the last time we adopted a plan. Demographics changed. Technology changes. All these types of things. This discussion is more than just about future land use. There's several elements, and I encourage the residents to read all of the elements. There's storm water. There's sanitary sewer. There's conservation. All types of things. Sure. Plantation, yes. Plantation is a tree city. We care a lot about our landscaping. Our landscaping code is very strict compared to a lot of other cities, and you can see that with our tree canopy. A lot of people move here because it's a tree city. That's not going away. We are not changing our codes to decrease that. Compact development patterns are better than sprawling development patterns in that sense because you can use less area that you have to pave over. People are closer together. They have closer distances than further distances. So that's the future of, frankly, the way the world is going. And with all that, we are still intending to preserve the neighborhoods that have already been established, single family and multi-family. Which is the work that we've done, and I appreciate that clarity. And so, sorry. Go ahead. And so the major changes between the first reading in November, excuse me, in December till this reading last month were forced upon us by the state. We had to remove certain policies because they were deemed to be stricter. Which is what Broward County has had to do with their comp plan as well as other cities have done. And those changes were made because, as we stated at the last meeting, counties like, I think it's actually Orlando, city of Ocoee, submitted their plans without adhering to the state mandates, the new preemptions, and their plans were rejected. So I just wanted to be really clear on that about the Midtown and our efforts to protect the residential areas. And Live Local comes into play as well because there are potentially properties in this city that could be redeveloped in accordance with Live Local where we would, the public would not have any say and the city council would not have any say. It would be approved administratively. And I think that some people in the room may not be aware of that. So I want to bring that up. I'm going to take one more comment from Councilmember Fadgen and then hopefully we can move on. Thank you, Council President. You're welcome. Interim Director Alpert just encouraged the residents to read all the elements. And that's really all they're requesting is an opportunity to read this document. I think it's in the best interest of the residents in the city to just give them 14 days to read it, have one thoughtful public comment on the 9th. I know we're busy on the 9th, but I think this is also important. So I'm making one final request to get consensus of the Council whether to table it or not. I think it's just for nothing else, we're full transparency that everybody feels that they've had their full opportunity to review this document. Okay. We have a motion and a second to approve on the table. Can I point a clarification, Council President? Sure. So, Councilmember Fadgen, so was that a motion to table that would take precedent over the- Well, you're looking for consensus first. There's already a motion, so I can't make a motion to table. I'm requesting just to go down the line. If you don't think it's necessary, that's fine. I respect that. Council President Horland, I respect your opinion. If there's a consensus of three or more to table it, I would like to amend the motion to a tabling so they have their opportunity to speak. If I'm the minority, I can live with that. Then point of order to our attorney. Does a- Yes. Yes. So, the question was that if Councilmember Fadgen wished to make a motion to table, that would take precedent over a pending motion on the item. So, we don't have to rescind the- But you have to make a motion. Okay. I'll make a motion to table the- what do we call this? What's this vote? The adoption, right? Yes. I will make a motion to table the adoption hearing to the September 9th meeting so that the residents have the opportunity that they're requesting to read the full document. And at the encouragement of the interim director to read all of the elements of the document. Second. City Attorney Morgan, we had a first and a second on the- I understand it. ...table, and you're saying that that overrides? The motion to table according to Robert's rules. The motion to table. Okay. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Vagin. Yes. Councilmember Horland. No. Okay. Moving on to quasi-judicial proceedings. The city's clerk will swear on all witnesses before speaking. And Mr. Morgan, would you like to read the rules, please? This is for items 18, 19, 20, and 21. Yes, ma'am. As you stated, the city clerk will swear on all witnesses before speaking. Please state your name and whether you've 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 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 be closed and the matter decided. The city council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of development order, resolution, or ordinance evidencing the decision. The city council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for additional research or review. Citizens who wish to speak on the item must provide in-person comments. There will be no Zoom comments. Madam Clerk. Those of you speaking on this, please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes. Thank you. Mr. McMillan will not speak on 20. He will not speak on 20? Okay. Council members, do you need the presentation on this project? No. I don't know where- What about the other one? Council member Fadgen went. You want the presentation? Okay. I'll go quick. Brief presentation? Thank you, Ms. Zell. Okay. Sure. Let me just read. Item 18 is PP26-002. Consideration and request for site plan elevation and landscape plan approval for Ravencroft Holdings 2 apartments. The property is located at 4043-4049 Peters Road and is zoned M-AC Gateway Artisan Commerce District. Ms. Zell. Madam Councilperson. Yes. The city attorney for the applicant just to point of order. Mr. Beiner. Yes. 18 and 19 are really companion items because the waiver goes with them. Yes. I would have no objection if you wanted to do 19, assuming the city attorney agrees. If you would read 19 in, we could combine the presentations on those and then do separate votes. With you doing one presentation. I can read 19 into the record. It's also PP26-002. Consideration and request to approve a landscape waiver for Ravencroft Holdings 2 apartments. The properties are located 4043-4049 Peters Road and zoned M-AC Gateway Artisan Commerce District. Okay. Ms. Zell. So this, sorry, Lisa Zell, Planning and Zoning Department. Here's a rendering. This PP26-0002. Okay. The consideration for a site plan for a three-story, 15-unit multifamily building with one landscape waiver for the landscape pedestrian zone. They are applying for the Live Local under the Live Local Act and the only reason why they're here is because they have the waiver with the site plan. Okay. And it's 100% affordable at 120% AMI. Okay. Location is right in the corner where the red star is. Here's the survey. Platt zoning district. All the surrounding properties are M-A-C. It's approximately 0.6 acres. Here we go. Here's the zoning map with the buffer. 106 notices went out. Here's the property, street view. We have, you can see in the rear, there's a small house that's about 750 square feet. Here's the front west and then the front east, which we have a better picture of here. Okay. Here's the conceptual site plan. We put the site data up there to let you guys know that they are meeting all the other site data requirements. It's just another view. And then here is it superimposed on the aerial. And with this, the site plan on the left is this project. And they have a companion project, which you'll be hearing about next. And kind of showing, we wanted to show how they kind of interconnect right here. This is right here, sod, reinforced sod for the fire access. Okay. Elevations. That's the south elevation facing Peters. And here's the material board. And then we have the renderings. So this is looking, left is looking southeast. This is looking directly, I mean, looking northeast. Here is the south elevation facing Peters. Just a couple other views. Here's the landscape plan and floor plans. If you guys want to go through that. Parking analysis. We have the pedestrian circulation. As you can see, there's existing sidewalks out there, two, three existing bus stops. The one waiver is for the landscape pedestrian zone along the south of the building. They are required to have 18 feet, 19 inches. And they are providing two feet to five feet. And their one area where there's two feet is right here. Okay. The applicant held a meeting at Jim Ward Community Center on July 8th. They went to the Gateway Advisory Board. They went to the AAC committee. To date, we have had no comments. I haven't received any emails or phone calls or anything like that. Staff analysis, we find it compatible with the surrounding area. It's compliant with this comp plan. And it is consistent with the zoning code requirements. So we are recommending approval. Thank you. May I ask Mr. Feiner a question? Welcome. Sure. Welcome. Thank you, Madam Chair. Just for the record, I guess we'll do it just to make it official. Rob Feiner. I'm an attorney with Cochran Feiner 1133 Southeast 4th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Thank you. Nice to see you back in chamber. Thank you. I had a question in reading the agreement. Was there a reason that it did not read up to 120% of AMI and just as 120% of AMI? No, but my interpretation of the agreement is we are the affordable, and when I say affordable for the public, it's workforce housing is what the 120% is. Sometimes people hear affordable in members of the public and they get the wrong impression. This is workforce. My understanding of the agreement is, and the way it was written by your CRA attorney, city attorney, is it can be lower than the 120, but it can't exceed the 120. Okay. That will be subject to market. And just for a couple of things, I know, Madam Chair, you are at the Gateway 7 committee and everything, but just for the rest of the board members, we worked on taking this property down in conjunction with the CRA. That's one of the reasons it was partially subsidized with money from the CRA to do this because the purchase price was so high and we're getting rid of those other noxious uses. The POMS is very much in favor of this project, who's our neighbor, because they're hoping we'll get rid of some of the graffiti and some of the other elements that are going on near this area impacting them. And we wanted to point out that as part of what we did in the deal with the CRA that was adopted by this council as the CRA approving that, is we said that six months before this project comes online, and I want to say this so the members of the public know as well, we will be giving your first responders within the city of plantation as well as the nurses and whomever at the POM an opportunity to rent this project first so we'll go to people who are working in the city or providing services in the city. And we appreciate that. And I don't want to speak for my colleagues, but I think we're all thrilled that those remaining homes be taken down and we'll have a beautiful new project there. I was just concerned about the language because it's typically up to 120 percent, and that's why I want to ensure, as I've expressed to staff, you know, we've done, this council's done a great job of approving some of these, you know, affordable attainable projects, but the 120 percent just doesn't really make a difference in a lot of people's lives, so I'd like to see. So what it does is the most current numbers for the 120 is it's about 2,200 a month. The difference is if we went down to 80, just so you know, like say all the 15 units went to 80, that's an $80,000 difference in revenue, and there are no tax incentives for ad valorem property for this property or anything else like that. So I don't know where it's going to play out to be. We can certainly go lower. We can't go higher. Okay. Perfect. And I appreciate the clarification on that. Thank you very much. I've got two comments or questions. Councilmember Fadgen and then Andreo. Thank you, Council President. My question is just really for clarity. On the memo, page 4 of 25, Economic Development, it says, the protected status of affordable housing for 15 years will be provided opportunity for city plantation workforce. And then in the letter of intent from Mr. Feiner, it says that 30 years. The declaration says 30 years. That's what was required. So the memo is incorrect? Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Andrea. Can you explain the landscaping weight? Why the two inches? Is it a space issue or the two feet? Yeah, the two feet. It has to do with where the traffic can circulate and how we have to get traffic and the number of parking in as well. There's FPL power lines on the, what would be the southern portion of the property. That impacted the design where we couldn't move the building up to that. So we had to move the building back and then we had to create room for a fire truck circulation. As you saw from staff, I was actually going to go one more. Sorry. Technology. It's late. Okay. Anyway, there's an adjacent project to this. That. Yeah. There you go. Thank you, Michael. It's not me. There's an adjacent project to this. You can sort of see it at the end right there where the, where we're having the cross-axis for fire rescue and police that they requested that during the site plan during the DRC process. That impacted the design of the buildings as well. So what it meant is we couldn't pack the front portion of the building full of the landscape we wanted to because we needed to keep the requisite spacing for two foot, two way traffic as well as for fire truck circulation. So that's why. That's why the landscape pedestrian waiver. We still meet the number of specimen trees. We still meet the number of shrubs. We still meet the number of pervious area and everything else like that. I'm hovering over my right shoulder is Terry Runyon. He's a project architect. Did you want to add anything about that? Yes. Come up here. Say your name. Say whether you've been sworn and you can go add. My name's Terry Runyon. 14125 Northwest 80th Terrace. Who are you with? With DTI Architects. And are you a registered architect? Yes, I am. And have you been sworn? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Actually, when you have the diagram up there for the two feet, the only change in the distance between there and the edge of the building is actually where the handicap parking is at because the handicap parking is required to be the 18 feet versus the where we could reduce it and have a two foot overhang. But the face of the building does not actually come out any more on this facade. So in other words, it goes to two feet instead of the five feet because of the handicap parking? Yes? Just say yes or no? Yes. Okay. It just seems like I'm trying to envision it. And so maybe I'm not. But it seems like you're going like the same exact, I'm assuming this is a straight line, and you're going to go from five feet to two and back to five. So I'm trying to... The rendering might help a little bit better. Go ahead and stand up for the most funny place. But where you have the two feet, that's not where the handicap space is. Unless it's looking at it from the balconies because the balconies overhang. The two feet is really... It's an area of landscaping where there are not going to be any trees. What the landscape pedestrian waiver, the zone is, as I'm sure you're well aware. It's so you don't have the building followed by the sea of parking and the landscaping there. You want to have some greenery in there. We are still putting the greenery there. We've kept most of it at five feet except for that one little area where we had to. And because of the way the configuration of the building and everything, it had to go down to two feet in that just one small little area. We can... If you go back, it's not the majority. So it is five feet. If there is going to be grass in that area, we needed to make sure people could circulate and enter the building as well from the parking lot to get through there. So that's why it was done. Okay. So was that just it where the overhang was? That's the two feet. Yeah, that's just the two feet. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. It's a very constricted space. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments, council members? I'll entertain a motion on item 18 and then we can take public comment. Mr. Conklin would like to speak on this item. Motion to approve item 18. We have a second? With staff comments? Yes. Oh, okay. I didn't hear you say that. I'm sorry. You are correct. Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Pending staff comments. Okay. We have a motion. Pending staff comments. Do we have a second? I'll second. Mr. Conklin, would you like to comment on this item, sir? Very quickly. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I've been sworn in. I understand the rules. This is what I was commenting about in the public request for the CRA for kudos, right, for Director Hall. My memory might be a little bit foggy, but they should have a before picture of this place because if my memory is right, this is a ratty old trailer park mobile and knocked off the wheels sort of type thing. There you go. No, no, no. You're missing the ratty old trailer park thing. I'm just saying. And I just wanted to say the only way this could have been better is if it was ownership, which, you know, that's the ideal American dream. But we do have ownership down the street. Or we approve that one. So those townhomes are coming in. So I yield back my time and urge support. Are you coming back up on item 20? I'm coming back up on 20. Okay. Thanks, Mr. Conklin. Or I can say dittos. I'll say dittos. Okay. And I'll yield my time. All right. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Can you please call the roll? Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andre. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. And I'll entertain a motion number 19 related to that. Motion to approve. I'll second. Pending staff comments. Boy, he stopped tonight. In addition. In addition. With. Per staff comments. With. Per. We get it. I just want to make sure that's. Okay. I'll second it. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. All right. Moving on to item 20 and 21. Same item number, which is PP 26-003. I'll read them both. Consideration of a request for a site plane elevation and landscape approval for Ravencroft apartments. The property is located 4031 Peters Road and is zoned M-AC Gateway Artisan Commercial Commerce District. Item 21 is a consideration of a request to approve two landscape waivers for Ravencroft apartments. Ms. Silk. Okay. Are we also needing this presentation? Do we need the presentation? If you don't need the presentation, we're good. It's just the other side. Yep. Okay. Very similar. There's 24 units. The only difference is they're only doing 20% affordable housing. On that one. That's it. Okay. There's a consensus we don't need. All right. We don't need the presentation, but Mr. Conklin, you would like to comment, sir? And the only thing I will say on this is your affordable housing committee and everything on this one, the trim levels on this unit and the unit companion are exactly the same, and the trim levels in the affordable units are exactly the same. You won't be able to tell the workforce housing units from the non- It looks like a companion. Right. They'll just be companion units. I just wanted to state that for the record so everyone was aware of that as well. Thank you, Mr. Feiner. All right. I'll entertain a motion on item 20. Motion to approve. Okay. I'll second. Pending. You better. Oh, look. He's not there. Per all of the comments and discussion. And the offense does agree with staff. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Feiner. I'm sorry. Do we? You made the motion. I second. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Item 21. Do we have a motion? Oh, no. Mr. Morgan has everyone afraid, so I'll make the motion to approve, including staff comments. Second. Thank you. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. I have no comments. Okay. Advisory report is transmittal. Comments from Councilmembers. I'll start with Councilmember Andrea tonight. Thank you, President Horland. Just want to, it's the end of it, but still want to acknowledge, we've had such late meetings, that this was August, National Black Business Month, and I did not do a proclamation this month, but I encourage everyone to patronize a local black business. And unfortunately, we lost one, just spoons. Wow. We're gaining one, I hear, sizzle, so we look forward to welcoming them to the City of Plantation. And the HERS, Honoring Women with Island Space Museum, will be taking place this Saturday, August 29th, and it will be at Tamarack Community Center from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Councilmember Anderson. No comments. Thank you. Our last meeting also ran late, but I do want to again state my position that the decision to move the Purple Heart signs, which was done on or the day after National Purple Heart Day, was a mistake. That I again ask the administration to bring those signs back to our entryway. I appreciate that they've been moved to our parks, but I think that the right place was at the entryway. I also again will share my position that the photo enforcement signs do not belong at our entryways. I think they are too far from the actual speed zones and whether, regardless of my feelings about the enforcement zones themselves, those signs do not belong at our entryway. I want to also remind everyone that on Sunday, August 30th at 5 p.m. at Parker, is the Aiden Perry movie documentary. Some people will recall Ms. Perry has been with us on many occasions at our pool for water safety. She was at Central Park when we had the life preservers installed there. And so there's a free movie actually that is being done. It's a documentary regarding her son and those efforts. And then I want to acknowledge that today is Women's Equality Day. And in 1920 is when the 19th Amendment went into law granting women the right to vote. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Reinstein. Council Member Fajon. Thank you, Council President Horland. I attended the speed camera magistrate meeting last week with Council Member Reinstein, who was there during a very difficult day for his family. So some of my observations with it is that, you know, there were back-to-back tickets, you know, like from Peters Elementary, the Muir Lake, where they immediately got a ticket. And I spoke with Chief, and I guess I was told that there was already a discussion about eliminating the second ticket if that continues. There was an instance with one of the people that the time stamp, it doesn't appear that the time stamp on the notice of violation notates the seconds. So in a zone like Muir Lake and Peters, you could drive in there, drive into one, get the ticket, drive into the next one, get into the ticket, and basically look like you're getting a ticket all at the same time. Unfortunately, it didn't go well for them. I don't think the people who were in there really knew how to defend themselves properly. One of them that got the back-to-back tickets, the magistrate got rid of the administrative fee on one of them, so they only had to pay the administrative fee on one of the two tickets. But the other person didn't get the benefit of that, and I think maybe bad luck, they had to go before that person that actually put themselves unknowingly in a better position to eliminate part of the fee. So my overall impression of the magistrate hearing goes back to my comments that I made at the last meeting is that the signage is completely inadequate, particularly when the lights aren't flashing. So as Councilmember Ryan Seen just stated, I would like the speed camera enforcement signage removed from the entrances to our city, reinstate the Purple Heart City signs as he's requested. I'm making that request as well. I would like us to go through all these zones, and I would like us to review all the signage to make sure it meets all regulation, all state requirements, all height, all setback, all distances between signs. I think we have a significant signage problem, and it is not fair to people who are getting, particularly when the lights are not flashing, the signage is proper when it's flashing because it's only a third of the notice of violations are occurring when the lights are flashing. That says that people know they're in a school zone. The rest of the day, they do not know they're in the school zone, and I really would like us to address that and send Red Speed a bill because I don't think they properly reviewed the sign. I don't think they're the signage is following state statute and FDOT standards. So that would be my request, and that's all I have to say. Thank you very much. With that, council meetings adjourned at 1116.