City Council — Jan 28, 2026

Good evening, everybody. I am Plantation Mayor Nick Sortel. This is a rare occurrence. Usually the council president calls the meeting, but the council president is absent. Well, she's here, but on Zoom. Council Member Horland, say hi. And council president pro tem Anderson is not here. He's also on Zoom. Yeah, not here physically. So lacking a president and a pro tem on the property, the two of them pick who they want to run the meeting. And I go sit over the three of you. Boy, oh, boy. This is why I don't do this often, right? How many times I screw that up? All right. I would say since Council Member Ryan seems closest to the center and closest to the gavel, we just make him the presiding officer for tonight. I'll make a motion. Unless Council Member Andrea wants to do it. I actually would, and I would be next, Rath. Okay. Normally. Well, I'll change it then. Do you want to do a roll call first? Yes. We don't know what we're doing. No, it's on me. Speak for yourself. We'll do the legislative part right. Roll call. Roll call. Council Member Anderson. I see. I saw him. He's online. Council Member Andreu. Here. Council Member Fadgen. Here. Council Member Horland. Also online. Council Member Reinstein. Here. Mayor Sortel. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Thank you. I'll change my motion to nominate Council Member Andreu, who would be next in line next year for pro tem if we keep that rotation. So that's my motion. And I'll second that. Any discussion from the public? All right. City Clerk, please call the roll. Council Member Fadgen. Yes. Council Member Reinstein. Yes. Council Member Anderson. Are you there? Okay. We'll just skip that. Council Member Andreu. Yes. Council Member Horland. You guys can't hear me? So does it pass? Are you waiting? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. So let's have a round of applause for our temporary thing. Congratulations. Thank you. No applause needed, but thank you. Good evening again. We will now call the City of Plantation City Council meeting for Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Call to order at 6.03. And first, we have our opening remarks provided by Council Member Fadgen. Thank you. If we could stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Almighty Father, we thank you for your continued and abundant blessings upon this great city, state, nation, and all of your people. We ask that you bless these proceedings and all who appear before this Council tonight as we deliberate on the important business of our city. Grant clear thinking, discernment, and sound judgment to the City Council, the Mayor, and all who will speak or serve here this evening. We pray for cooperation, listening to one another, respect for differing views and decisions that benefit all for the common good. We pray for peace, for an end to suffering, and for an end of conflict. We lift up those who stand on the front lines of service, those who heal, protect, teach, and support our daily lives with courage, compassion, and commitment. We pray for families and friends who are grieving the loss of loved ones. We pray for those among us who are suffering in body, mind, or spirit. May the sick be restored to health, and may those in despair be guided by your light to healing, hope, and peace. Lord, give us the strength we need to face everything that comes our way, cheerfully, courageously, patiently, tenderly, all of which in a matter that is pleasing to you. For all this, we ask in your holy name, amen. Now the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen. At this time, we'll have items submitted by the Mayor, starting with our Teacher of the Month for December. Council President, just a point of order. Just to be sure, did we need to also vote for a pro tem? I thought I had read that in the back of it in addition. No, sir. You do not need to. We do not. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. And I see many of our EAB members here, so I'm sure Mayor Sorda will introduce them. Yes, indeedy. Hey, we've got a big agenda here with a lot of good things happening. I would ask that the people who are honored in items A, B, and C stick around to watch the people in item E get honored, because they're going to be here clapping for you. You could stay here and clap for them if everybody would be willing to do that. Teachers of the Month, would you be willing to come on up and our Education Advisory Board? So if you're Teacher of the Month, you're here. For EAB, you're here. Do we have December and January, Mayor? December and January, Teachers of the Month. Okay. First up, I don't have your school. That school she's from. Melissa Smiley, Mirror Lake Elementary, December 2025. She likes your job. We only had one meeting in December, and it was December 3rd, so we're doing both December and January right now. Lizette Bologna, Peters Elementary, January 2026. Okay. Jesse will take that one. Okay. Kristen Becker, our Savior Lutheran. We'll take your picture and we'll hold it. Okay. We're going to take your picture with her. Okay. Okay. There we go. Who do you want next? I just did that one. I just did that one. Okay. Okay. All right. Carissa Meyer, our Savior Lutheran. I just had a lot of time. Okay. Dr. Berman. Okay. Got it. Yes. Yes, indeed. Dr. Jody Berman, South Plantation High School. Jennifer Simplicy, American Heritage School. Jennifer, not here. Okay. Jesse, I'll take that one. And last boy, we'll say your name later. Okay. Very good. All right. So these are our Teachers of the Year. Let's hear it for them. Do you want to talk to me about why we do this? And Jesse Valenzuela, the Education Advisory Board, is going to explain why we do this and how we arrived at this and why it matters in our school. Because I will tell you, this one and this one and this one and the other two up there support our schools like no other council ever does. They're there for things. They want to be there. And we encourage. So I'm very grateful for the action council puts in and the work they put in. You are too, I know. All right. It's yours. Recreation. All right. Jesse, for yours. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Jessica Valenzuela. I am the Vice Chair of the Educational Advisory Board. We want to acknowledge all of our teachers here in Plantation, whether you're a public school teacher, a private school teacher, or a charter school teacher. Or if you are a teacher at a Catholic or Jewish school, Christian school, we are very, very honored to have you here working with our children day in, day out because these are our future leaders and you are paving the way for our future. So we are indebted to you. We want to say thank you to you always. Because every month we will honor three teachers. And the reason that you're seeing more this month is because we are honoring teachers from both December and January. We want you to know that the gifts that the teachers will receive tonight are from vendors and businesses and even HOAs here in the city of Plantation. So the teachers are not only being recognized here with a proclamation from our amazing city council, but they are also receiving gifts from both the Plantation Women's Club, who is our title sponsor, if you will. But also vendors here and businesses in the city who have given gifts. If you are a business owner and you would like to honor our teachers, we take this opportunity to ask you to please reach out to the Educational Advisory Board so that we can assist you in honoring these very, very important individuals who are definitely laying the foundation for our future. So thank you to our teachers and thank you to all of our administrators and thank you to all of our administrators who I see here this evening, principals and APs alike. So thank you on behalf of the Educational Advisory Board. Did you want me to add? Our sponsors here this evening, we thank the Plantation Women's Club. We thank our Plantation Target, Milky Moose in the Broward Mall, Contour Day Spa, The Learning Connection, and Taco Craft. Thank you all so much. Yes. This, I would like you, I'm going to allow them to introduce themselves so that I don't destroy anybody's last name. So these are my colleagues from the Educational Advisory Board. If you come up in. Hi, I'm Christina Reier. Thank you. Hi, Sunny Kraski. So the point of this is our Education Advisory Board meets the first Monday of the month. And they're up here talking, but we want everybody who has ideas to come. Just because you're not on the board doesn't mean we don't want you all involved. So if you have ideas or anything, you would love to see them, right? So, yes. The other thing I read, nine-tenths of teaching is encouragement is what I heard. But who encourages? The encouragers, right? And that's you all. So well done. Thank you. Thank you. We do okay, Laura? All right. Oh. Have I seen it in? No, I think the whole, all the way. Do you see me? Yeah. No, it's Fadden and Andre's. Thank you. Beautiful. Congrats, and thank you all. Thanks for working. Thank you. Next up, we have the mayor with the 2025 Hometown Heroes. Yes. I am delighted and honored to do this, but I'd be remiss. Council Member Horland really drove this. I don't know if you're on the screen or not, Denise, but thank you for what you did, and this is a meaningful endeavor we all have now. So I'm going to call you up, and we will present you with the banner that hung along Broward Boulevard. First up, Davian Charles. Stay up here, and we'll do everybody at once. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Representing Scott Becker are parents, Ruth and Jack, attending on his behalf. Come on up, Ruth. You good? You got it. Let's him do. Representing Alan Concha are his parents. Hand me that. I'll have Jessica. She has kids, so I knew she could do that. Thank you. Thank you. Accepting for Daniel Thomas is his mother. Laura, is the applications open? Okay. So if you go to plantation.org, we have a form there. If you know a veteran who you would like to see honored by having their banner placed along Broward Boulevard, go there, fill out the form. Laura is the administrator, and yes. In part, yes. But that's what we, yeah. Okay. We got that? Okay. Edwin Shevlin and Michael McCormick. We have a daughter-wife combo here for these two. One of them is both, right? I'll do this one and then take a picture. Okay, we're good. Mark Raymer. We have your share of friends. Ronald Romer. We're good. Okay. Abner Elodore with his wife and two children. Not here. Okay. Kerwin Hurtado, back from Texas. Kia, Osmore, and family. Actually, staying in Texas is Kia, and family's here. All right. Boy, oh, boy. Mrs. Hillier here for Lee Hillier. There you are. And Jerome Helling and family. Sure, they were coming. Yeah. Just ask if they're here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. We also had John Jaslowski and Joseph Ewert on our list. I don't know if they're here. But they were also among those. All right. I'm going to step out of the way, and Michelle's going to take a picture. We all stand up and give them a round. A quick reminder, we have a Memorial Day service at Veterans Park, and we have a Veterans Day service. We want people to come. You're welcome to come. We'd like to honor our veterans, and please come out and participate in those. Next up to hand out the Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest winners is Assistant Parks and Rec Director, Shannon Ryan. Thank you. Good evening, Council and Mayor. I am Shannon Ryan with the Parks and Rec Department, and it's my pleasure tonight to hand out the awards for our annual Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest. The theme this year was Reflect on Dr. King's Life, Philosophy, and Impact. How can you continue the work of Dr. King in your own way? The essays were judged on their content, voice, creativity, grammar, and conformity to the theme. The essays were evaluated by Dr. Kamika Carey of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Pearls Foundation, and members of the Educational Advisory Board, Nelson Rose and Greg Goldstein. Are you either, any of you here tonight? Thank you. Dr. Carey can come forward. Both middle school winner and high school winner are receiving a $100 Visa gift card. I'd now like to call forward our middle school winner, Giselle Bastien from St. Gregory the Great Catholic School, and our high school winner, Gabriella Dumont from American Heritage School. One big one with a minute. Can the other members from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated come up and join the picture? We want to thank you so much for all you do in the community. I see you taking the picture, but please come and be in the picture as well. No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you would like to read the winning essays, they are already posted on the city's webpage in the Parks and Rec area, and it will be also posted on our social media accounts tomorrow. Thank you. All right. So it's a new year, but we still have service awards. I'd like to ask HR Director Paulina Ganey to come up and give us a little opening chat. All right. Mayor, good evening. Paulina Ganey, HR Director. So before the mayor honors our service awards for this month, I do want to announce that we have changed the process a little bit. There's no longer physical pins, but we do have certificates, and we will be honoring the employees at a quarterly breakfast with the available council members and the mayor and some HR staff. So it is a little bit different, but we are still going to be celebrating the employees' continued efforts and recognize their public service. So thank you very much. Sure. Our line of thinking there was, you can't eat a pin. Right. Okay. Utilities. Walter Jackson, 30 years. Yeah. That guy has battled health, challenge after health, and he loves working. So very, very proud of you, Walter. Very proud of you. Also in utilities, Joanne Williams, 20 years. Not many 29-year-olds get 20 years. Danny Polio, you look like a proud dad back there. Kyle Jones, 10 years. Utilities. Bartholomew McRae, 10 years. Utilities. He's with him. Okay. You guys don't work in the daytime? Utilities work for a lot. I know. Yeah, with those guys, if I could. I just want to say something. 70 years tonight of pins for utilities. That's impressive. Yes, it is. Five more to go. Police. Michael Gee. Five years. Want family? Yeah. Family? Yeah. Give me a order for them. I'll take a picture. Valentine's Day is coming up. I need to make a picture. Actually, that's kind of, thank you sir. That's kind of a metaphor because if you're in law enforcement, you know it takes the whole family to make that thing work, right? Jody Williams, five years. On the building. Michael Charnan, 20 years. Bernard Forges, five years. Joseph. And they call him Jojo, but his official name is Joseph Atria, 10 years. All right, real quick. Those of you who don't know, Joseph works in parks and likes to tell people about events. Follow him on social media and you get good information about what to do for the weekend. So we appreciate the work you put in, Jojo. Thank you, Mayor Sordal. At this time, we have a parks and recreation update. Perfect segue from our director, Mrs. O'Toole. Thank you. So I have a special guest with me this evening that is going to be reading the upcoming events and a little history. Staff asked if at our holiday party we could raffle off the opportunity to be director for the day. So Ms. Tierra Hampton won that honor. She's been with me all day going to various meetings. And, of course, I picked a day where there's a council meeting so I could really torture her and make her come up here and read these announcements. So I'm going to hand it over to Tierra Hampton. You should have gave her phone number to us so we could have just really put her to the day. That's true. Tierra, you may want to just wait two seconds as we have some people who are leaving the chamber. Those of you who are remaining, I ask that you would give us your attention. And those who are exiting, please do so quietly and quickly. Thank you for being here this evening. Okay, tell us what's coming up. What do you have planned? Good afternoon or good evening, everyone. My name is Tierra, Recreation Services Supervisor for the City of Plantation. So the upcoming events for recreation, we have on this Saturday, January 31st, Doggypalooza over at Happy Toes Dog Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, February 6th, we'll have our family escape room at Jim Ward Community Center from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pre-registration is required. Saturday, February 7th, we'll have our Valentine's Day trip to Key West Suites. The bus departs at 9.30 a.m. and returns at 12.30 p.m. from the Plantation Community Center. Registration is now open. Saturday, February 7th, we'll have Rock the Park. We'll have Hotter Than July there. Pine Island Park, 6 p.m. We'll have food trucks available and music begins at 7 p.m. Monday, February 16th, we'll have Kids Day Off at Volunteer Park from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. for ages 5 through 11. So make sure you sign up. For tennis, Friday, January 30th, we have our Junior League Tennis Match Play from 5 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Saturday, January 31st at the Viltree Tennis Center. We'll have the Viltree Sunrise Tennis Challenge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. At the Equestrian Center, Saturday, January 31st, we have the Heritage Dressage Horse Show from 8.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. And for athletics, we have registration now open for our PAL Spring Sports, which is baseball, basketball, and softball. Registration is open for adult athletics as well, which is for basketball, flag football, kickball, and softball. For more information, feel free to call us at 954-452-2510, or you can follow us on our socials at Plantation Parks, or you can email us at plantationparks at plantation.org. Thank you for having me. Excellent. Council members, any questions for Tiara? I feel like I have a lot of questions for you. Sorry. But you're good. Good job. Okay, thank you. I'll save them. Excellent. Mr. Hall reminded me we did not include reggae genealogy on that list, so that is also February 7th. It's at Volunteer Park this year, so please come on out and support that event as well. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole, and thank you for getting the bench ready for the next leaders in our city. We appreciate that. We are now going to recess our regular council meeting at 6.34 p.m., and I would like to call to order our CRA meeting for Wednesday, January 28th, 2026. Ms. Beggaro, are you ready? Sure. All right, Ms. Beggaro, please call the roll for our CRA meeting. Commissioner Anderson. Commissioner Andreu. Here. Commissioner Fadgen. Here. Commissioner Horland. Commissioner Reinstein. Here. Commissioner Sortel. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. The CRA consent agenda consists of four items and may be approved upon motion. Does any member of the commission wish to pull an item? I do have members of the public that would like to pull item number three, and I do have two other people who signed up, but they did not indicate what number of the agenda they would like to pull. Is there Corey Harmon? Did you want to speak to the CRA agenda? Can you hear me? Mr. Sorrell. No. City Attorney Ezra. No. Okay. Can you hear me? This is Councilmember Anderson. The CRA consent agenda consists of four items and may be approved upon motion. Does any member of the commission? Please pardon our technical difficulties there trying to figure the system out for our online attendees. I also have Natasha Alexander. Not indicate what number. So if I can have a motion. Motion to approve the CRA consent agenda with the exception of item three. Second. Ms. Begaro, can you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fadgen. Yes. Commissioner Horland. Commissioner Reinstein. Yes. Commissioner Sortle. Yes. Mr. Coughlin, you signed up for agenda item number three, the motion to receive the expenditures for the period January 9th to January 21st. Dennis Coughlin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and all of your family. I had a question about week one, the expenses. There was $700,000. Yes. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fadgen. Yes. I yield. That's the roll call, right? Please go ahead. There was expenses in number three for $700,000. Basically, they were sort of, it seemed legal to me, and I was wondering why they might not appear in number four, which did deal with legal, which was $4,400, and that was my question. Okay. Ms. Oteniano's coming to speak to that. Good evening. Anna Oteniano, finance director. The reason it's on the legal spreadsheet is because we actually transferred the funds to the legal department to pay when it was closing. So, we have to pay back the attorney for spending the $700,000. Okay. Thank you. I support the passage, number one. Thank you. Number three, excuse me. Number three. Motion. Motion to approve item three. Second. Ms. Beggarow, please call the roll. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fadgen. Yes. Commissioner Reinstein. Yes. Commissioner Sortle. Yes. Thank you. Are there any council comments for the CRA? Are there any public comments for the CRA? Mr. Cochlin? Dennis Cochlin, 4581 Northwestern Court. If you looked at Consent Agenda 1, you can see the picture and everything. And I was very much surprised because everything was always publics, publics, publics. But I noticed that there is a Ross, and kudos to Mr. Glennon Hall. What has happened here in the CRA since he's come aboard, everybody knows Star Trek and Star Wars and all that. Warp speed is what's been happening because for the years before that, we were basically still on the launching pad. And I want to thank you for getting the Ross in there because my wife goes down to the one in Davie. And, of course, that means you have to cross State Road 84 and that. You just can't get across. So thank you. I'll yield back. Thank you. Any other council comments or public comments for the CRA? The CRA meeting is now adjourned at 6.39 p.m. And we will take a brief recess, please. Thank you. We're going to take a five-minute recess and we'll resume at about 6.44. Thank you. Do we have the link somewhere? Do we have the information or do we have the Zoom information? You emailed us. Just click Zoom? She has to log in to her account. Oh. Do we want to change it now? It has to run. We haven't got to see it running. So we're here at 6 p.m. Is that the fourth one? Yeah. Let's start. How do you start the meeting? Can you do this? Check 1-2-1-2. Check 1-2-1-2. Check 1-2-1-2. Yeah, right. Test 1-2-1-2. Test 1-2-1-2. Testing. Testing 1-2-1-2. Can I get a thumbs up? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, that should be good. Do you guys see them? Okay. Yep. Let's change this. What is that? Well, if they had it in the fourth and you didn't remove yourself because you don't need to produce. Oh. Yep. Yep. Thank you for your patience. We will reconvene our regular council meeting at 6.46 p.m. At this time, we will take public requests of the council regarding municipal affairs. Those who wish to speak should have completed a request form. If you have not done so already, please do so. They are located in the back of the chamber. When you come to the microphone, make sure the green light is on and please state your name and address. And please address your comments to the chair, not to the mayor or individual members of the council. And kindly keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. We will start with Corey Harmon. Good evening. Good evening, mayor and city council. My name is Corey Harmon, and I've been a proud plantation resident for the past eight years. I've also served on the board of Plantation Wildcats. And most importantly, I'm a mom. I have two sons. One is 18 and one is 11. One who has already grown up in the program and one that is currently still in the program. I want to thank the city of Plantation for continued support you've provided to our program over the years. Plantation Tackle Wildcats, Plantation Tackle Football Wildcats have been a staple in our city for over 30 years. And it's respected far beyond our borders. I understand that the resident participation and facility costs may have been factors in the recent budget cut decisions. Our program serves about 300 kids, with approximately 120 kids being plantation residents. A lot of our other kids attend schools in the city of Plantation. So while they're not a plantation resident, a lot of them attend school in Plantation Elementary, Plantation Middle, Plantation High School. So while technically some are not residents, they are scholars of the city of Plantation. And this is the only community that they know. This is the only thing that they know. My request tonight is that the city reconsider the facility budget cuts and continue supporting the Plantation Wildcats so we can continue to provide a safe environment for our kids. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Natasha Alexander. Good evening. I'm a little shorter. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. My name is Natasha Alexander, formerly of Del Oro Apartments, 7001 Northwest 16th Street, Unit 183. But now I'm at Cooper City, 4204 Southwest 87th Terrace. Thank you for your time and service to our community. I'm here because the recent decision to end football in the football field contract with a 90-day notice has directly impacted our local Little League youth tackle football program. This decision has effectively removed a safe, organized space for our children to practice and play. These are not just games. It's structure, mentorship, physical activity, and a positive outlet for our kids. It just feels like our families and children are being pushed out without enough consideration or time to adjust. As we're swiftly learning, TikTok, Twitch, and Instagram, they're burning the children's brain cells. And outside play is critical to a child's productivity. We currently have Hall of Famer Coach Frank Gore as one of our coaches, retired NFL player Lamar Miller as one of our coaches, and we have had five college elites that just recently played in the national football game play right here at the Roy Stattman Stadium. Mark Fletcher, Javon Mallory, Jordan Lyle, Carter Davis, and Damari Brown, and many more right here at the stadium. We have had no major issues last season. We also employed plantation police for details if they were available. We do junior coach programs. We offer volunteer hours for our high school students. We've even had a national team get a proclamation here February 22, 2023. They were the number one team in the country. We respectfully ask that the city consider the decision and extend field access while a long-term solution is worked out. We're not asking for special treatment, just fairness, time, and partnership for the children who depend on this field. Thank you. Thank you. And as was stated, this really was a financial decision, but I'm sure that it will be discussed further. Mr. Coughlin? Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court, if I may approach. Twenty-eight days ago, Nicolas Maduro Moros was arrested in Venezuela, put in jail in New York City. Twenty-eight days ago, the city of New York elected its new mayor. The Holy Land Foundation was founded in 1989, and in November 2008, it was found guilty of funneling its charity funds to Hamas, and its leaders were jailed for 20 years or more. Why do I bring that up? Forty-one days ago, Minnesota, $18 billion Somali welfare fraud case since 2018 was discovered, 2,920 days ago. So I request that we pray for the conversion and salvation of the New York City mayor and each of the Minnesota Jihadi fraudsters and their politician cohorts. Infantata has started in America. I mentioned this now 638 days ago. It affected mainly the Jewish community. It's now spread across the entire country. It affects every American. Plantation dodged a bullet I've mentioned before in the early 2000s when Dr. Levy blocked CARE's attempt to hold an event here in Plantation. And I've made the request over and over again that the city of Plantation designate the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, CARE, as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations that are primarily funded by and their base in Qatar. 140 days ago, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I request the city of Plantation to liaison with the Turning Point USA chapter in Nova Southeast University. I've given you the contact information there. 558 days and 494 days ago were two attempted assassinations with President Trump. He was struck in the head once. They missed a second time, and a third time they tried to set up a sniper's nest that was defeated. 56 days ago, Governor DeSantis announced proposals for 9-point Citizens Bill of Rights and Artificial Intelligence. I request that the mayor and the administration and the city council members support the governor's proposals to include parental rights and local legal protections of the controls. Can I extend 15 seconds? Yes, Mr. Conklin. Dequest number five, that the mayor and administration please read and sign the Great Barrington Declaration. I've given you the website for it. I did it back in 2020. I gave a record of gold closing. I'm urging that the city of Plantation administration begin making preparation for the final transition for constitutional article 1, section 10, and transactional gold and silver as tender. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Thank you. I yield back. Are there any other members of the public that would wish to speak? At this time, we will close the public comments. The consent agenda this evening consists of items 1 through 17 and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the council wish to pull any items? Number three, please. And also a member of the public wanted number three. That looks like the only item. Motion to approve the consent agenda items 1 through 17 with the exception of three. Second. Ms. Biggerow, can you please call the roll? Councilmember Prattin. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Thank you. Item number three is the approval of the First Amendment to the agreement with BeFree, also doing business as freebie. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Thank you. I don't know if Mr. Nunamaker is available or if I see him on, but I don't know whether we're hearing him. Okay. My question, I just really wanted to have it confirmed for the public that the current amendment that is before us in regards to advertising has no financial impact. And before there will be any additional impact based on a change in the status of freebie, that it will come back before us again. Yes, sir. This item will have a positive revenue impact because any ad revenue will be offsetting, and we'd be happy to bring back any future route modifications. I think Ms. Morris has brought to you all before our plans to extend to particularly serve our senior populations. Absolutely. We'd love to bring that back to you all as soon as possible. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Motion to approve. Councilmember Fadgen. I guess, so this is the amendment to allow them to start doing advertising. I actually saw a car that had advertising on it, so they jumped the gun. I'm curious about when did that start, how many advertisement contracts do they have, and what are we going to do to make sure that they just didn't take the money? Ms. Freebie? I prefer it to Ms. Garbage. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm Carol Morris, Assistant City Administrator. In answer to your question, under the original agreement, it said that we could turn on advertising. So we did notify Freebie. We wanted to start selling advertising, again, as Mr. Nunamaker pointed out, because it provides a revenue source for the city to help defray the cost of the service. At this point in time, they have one executed contract. It is the car that you see outside bearing the ads. I have a copy of the contract, and we will be monitoring their bills to ensure that the appropriate 50% is credited to the city. I think my concern was them doing something that we didn't authorize them to do at this point, and now we're authorizing them to do it after this vote tonight. We did authorize them to do so. That said, once they started the process, we realized we wanted more controls on it, so we worked with Mr. Ezral to draft an amendment. Okay. So they only need an administrative authorization. Yes, sir. But because we're putting more breaks on it, that's what the government's really about. We wanted to bring it back to you, and I will tell you, in terms of coming attractions, once we get the surtax funds coming back, there will be another amendment coming back to you. That's fine. It's just a matter that, you know, we're voting on this tonight, and I saw it come out a little early. So, okay, that's all I wanted to know. Thank you. Thank you. We also have a public speaker, Mr. Conklin. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. I've spoken before about city entrance into this electronic vehicle situation, and that's a really bad call. The only reason is as far as it is right now is because the federal money is basically kicked to everybody to produce the stuff, which is not economically viable on its own. So I'm urging you to vote no for the free rides and no for any of the electrical vehicle charging stations and infrastructure that's involved. Back in the day when we had a shuttle and when we had a trolley, okay, the shuttle was canceled because it cost too much, $128,000 a year. And the trolley was shut down because there were no riders on it. Now, the trolley was basically in the midtown, and the shuttle was crosstown from east to west, and there was a north and a south route of Broward Boulevard. So if back in the day $128,000 was too expensive, even with all the inflation that I keep mentioning about with the gold and silver bullion exchange and stuff like that, $527,000 is what I'm looking at. And then when they start a senior program, it's going to go to $791,000. And it begins with just the central midtown with five vehicles, and then they plan to go to the east and to the west with two vehicles each for a total of nine vehicles. They'll probably have backup. They've already committed themselves to an app. And I just say vote no for all of this stuff. It can't be sustained without our taxpayer dollars because it wouldn't survive on its own in the market. Thank you. I'll yield back. Thank you. We have a motion. I will make the second. Ms. Begaro, can you please call the vote? Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. That will exhaust our consent agenda, and we will move into our administrative discussion items. Item number 18 is the transmittal of quarterly grant reports. Are there any questions regarding the grant reports? Hearing none, we will continue with item 19. I believe this was proffered by Council Member Fajan regarding the continuity of city of plantation governance. And I want to thank Ms. Begaro for also providing us some backup documentation with that. I'm sorry? Ms. Begaro also provided us the ordinance in a separate email. Council Member Fajan. Thank you. Thank you, Council President Andreu. So, I submitted this to be on the agenda tonight so that we can have a discussion regarding, as Council President said, the continuity of our city government in the absence of our Mayor, Council President, and President Pro Tem. As we all know, those roles have some specific duties in our Charter that it's imperative that if they have to be activated, that we have a quick and efficient process to know who's in charge in the absence of the Mayor. You know, back in the day, before cell phones, if the Mayor was leaving town or was going to have a medical procedure or for whatever reason, was not going to be able to perform their duties as defined in our Charter, they would notify the President or the President Pro Tem in case one of them, if the President wasn't available, the Pro Tem would be able to take care of it. But in today's world, with cell phones, we've kind of gotten away from a good practice of notifying the officers and the President and the President Pro Tem. So, what we're trying, what I'm trying to accomplish here is to tighten up our ordinances regarding the continuity. And examples of that would be travel if you're on a plane, you know, for those periods of time. It doesn't mean that if the Mayor is out of town, that they have to notify that. They just have to try to anticipate when they're not going to be able to be in contact. So, plane, if they're having a medical procedure where there's anesthesia involved, maybe a family medical issue requiring care-target responsibilities or other circumstances. So, we know those blackout periods that the police chief, the fire chief, the chief administrating officer, and the building official in limited circumstances, or limited, I can't think of the right word for that, but knows who they need to go to for the appropriate direction that they need. So, the proposed requirement does not require us to disclose the underlying reason. Again, that's up to the Mayor or the President or the President Pro Tem to decide if they would like to release that. It's just really just a saying that I will not be available for these periods of times, whether it's days or blocks of hours, that. And then, I want to note that this is separate from the Council's assessment of a requested excused absence from an elected. It really all has to do with the continuity. Now, a second part of this is regarding a prolonged absence of the Mayor. We'd like, at 14 days, I would like to have the Council make an assessment as to whether the car allowance should continue. And at their discretion, they make a decision whether they continue it or they suspend it until the Mayor comes back. And at 30 days, a discussion in a public forum, probably a Council meeting, whether compensation should continue. And then, on a regular basis thereafter, for the duration of whatever the absence is, whether to continue that. And I'd also like to require that, because that might be held in an administrative area of the agenda, where we don't necessarily take public comment, that public comment should be taken for those two items. And then, the last two things, that the Council considers for the interim Mayor, if the President takes over or assumes the office of the Mayor in the absence of the elected Mayor, that a discussion of compensation would be had at that 30-day mark. Now, the Charter says that you're not required to accept the position if you're the President or required to do it full-time. I think it's in the best interest of the residents of the city if a circumstance comes that the President and the President Pro Tem assumes that role in a full-time position. It provides more stable leadership in an uncertain time like that. But, you know, that can create a financial burden on the person that has to take that role. And although maybe we can financially sustain that, someone in the future in our roles might not be able to sustain that. And that should not be part of the consideration that they can't do it because they can't afford to do it. And then, the designation of the Council President of Pro Tem, if they decline, like, we want to kind of – we'd like to see if we can direct the city attorney to come up for procedures so that we can fulfill that if the President and the President Pro Tem says that they are unable to fulfill that role. So, I really just would like a discussion, hopefully give a consensus to the city attorney, who I've already discussed this several times with, if there's anything that I did not propose here that you think should be in there, and take it from there. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen. I do have one question. In reading the memorandum, I was concerned if we were to eliminate the mayor's compensation after 30 days, and this might be for Ms. Ganey, would their benefits also be impacted? Because if a mayor is out for, say, a medical reason or a family medical reason, and then their insurance or benefits would be negatively impacted, that could be problematic. Well, the 30 days isn't for the Council to actually maybe eliminate. The Council at the time could decide to continue the compensation. But to your point, I understand what you're talking about regarding the continuation of any health benefits they might be getting. Paulina Ganey, HR Director. To answer your question, we would bill the mayor for the insurance costs if the compensation were to end. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Maybe it's a question for the city attorney. If we were in that situation, and I think this is – you brought up a good point, because there's things that we might not be able to anticipate, and this could come up in the conversation. Would we be able to reduce the compensation to cover the health care if we decided that that was – First of all, I want to say that I am not your labor attorney. So, to the extent that there is a legal issue that flows over into a labor issue, I would want to reserve the opportunity to discuss it with Labor Council. My understanding is the answer to your question is no. Councilmember Reinstein. So, thank you, Councilmember Fadgen, for bringing this up. It's always good to have some discussion about an issue that's been raised and have it in the public. The – so, I want to go through some of what you've raised. So, the first is starting with the first part, notification requirements for temporary impairments or absences. I mean, to me, it sounds like just generally a common practice if you're going to be unavailable that you communicate it. I'm not really sure even reading what you've laid out here as to how many examples you would need in order to ensure that everything was fulfilled or in what circumstances because I'm thinking about the travel, right, limited availability due to air travel. Well, if – if when I travel, I always obtain Wi-Fi on the plane or I'm traveling in a – with an ability to always have access to my text messages, then in that situation, I wouldn't be – I wouldn't be – I wouldn't be – I wouldn't be unable to be contacted in an emergency situation. So, in that example, is that an exception or tell me how you're under – you're looking at this? Okay. The examples that I laid out were just examples. I don't think we defined – we don't know why the mayor, the council president, the council president pro tem would not consider themselves available. So, it's – those are just kind of examples. There could be a variety of reasons, and it ties into – it's not necessary for us to know what the underlying reason. We just need to know that there's a reason that they are not going to be able to be in contact. Counselor, may I continue? So, maybe let me – let me ask the city attorney, and I didn't ask you in advance, but for this one, as well as the designation of successor portion, do you have any examples from other municipalities or other experience as to how these are handled? Are these handled any further? Not that I could think of. It's not anything that I've dealt with. Typically, when you're dealing with a commission manager form of government, the manager reports to the commission and has certain duties and responsibilities, and there is typically an assistant or an acting. So, if somebody is – a manager is unavailable, a city manager is unavailable, they will report to the commission and identify an individual or individuals who are acting as the manager in the absence of the manager. So, thank you. I appreciate that. You know, the other – as I was reading this, in terms of the mayor, council president, and council pro tem, which obviously are elected positions that are responsible to the public. And, you know, in thinking to myself, the duty to notify of any pending impairment or absence that may limit their ability, if there's an ability to notify, right, if it's not an immediate medical emergency where there's no ability to notify because something has happened, there's no time in between that medical emergency. I think I see what your point is. So, my thought is, is that in any of these situations where it's something that is, let's say, planned, right, it's anticipated, that would be the responsibility of an elected official to take responsibility in terms of communicating with whoever they believe needs to be notified of their absence. So, I'll stop there, so I know you wanted to respond. I agree with you that the responsible thing to do if you're in the mayor's role, the president's role, the pro tem role, is to notify that you're not going to be available there if they have to go down the steps to fulfill the duties of the mayor. So, I think that this is totally about things that you can anticipate. If you're going to have outpatient surgery and you're going to be knocked out for two hours on a Friday, that the powers that be need to, you know, the directors need to know who they need to talk to if there's a situation. Now, your example that you'll have Wi-Fi on an airplane, if we have a mass casualty or a life safety issue, I don't think that's something that should be handled over a text message. So, to me, it's, or an email, to me, you know, there needs to be some guidance to say that that's not necessarily an acceptable way to say that we're going to be in contact. I think you, I kind of feel like you need to feel like you have 100% access to phones. Council President, may I continue? Please continue. So, while I would agree that, generally speaking, doing everything in person is always the better way to do it, I was using that one particularly in terms of the example for travel and limited availability. But I do think, I'm not in favor of over-regulation or additional codification when it's unnecessary. And in this circumstance, to me, that's, I'm going to say what elections are all about, right? Is that this is what, it's a duty of an elected official and their responsibilities in terms of if they're going to be unavailable and they're going to be unable to fulfill a certain role, then they need to take the steps if they have the opportunity to do so. I understand that the decisions that we made, there's going to be a public opinion and there could be a political consequence to something we do. So, I'm trying to just say, I'm just trying to give the police chief, the fire chief, the building official, the chief administrator and officer to know where they need to go instead of wasting time trying to track someone that's unavailable, that they don't know that they're available, whether they're blacked out because there's no coverage, maybe they're overseas, maybe they're on an airplane, maybe they're on a cruise ship, whatever the circumstances. Maybe they're having, like I said, a surgery and stuff. This is really to give those people who need to make quick decisions, not have to waste any minutes trying to find the person, you know, making that determination that the mayor is not available. Then you go to the president, you find out the president's not available because he wasn't notified or she wasn't notified that the mayor wasn't going to be available at a certain time and they weren't available at a certain time. And then we've got to get to the third person that's in this chain of command. It's really just for the unexpected is what this notification is about so that we don't have, so that they don't have to spend any time figuring out who to call. So do you think that a memorandum would be, would suffice? So if the mayor is going to be out for any period of time and, you know, they're not able, staff is not able, the directors are not able to reach the mayor, the mayor would notify the CAO, our chief administrative officer, as well as the president and the president pro tem. Would that be sufficient? I would like to think that everyone on this dais would make that right decision and, and, and do it at their own fruition. But the reality is, is that we, we have a strong mayor. There's a lot of responsibility that they're, that they have. And they make a requirement for them to do that so that we don't have any kind of delay in an emergency. This is all about reacting to an emergency where minutes will matter. So I would like to think that we have sufficient memorandum. No, I don't think so. I think it really needs to be defined or required, but what needs to be required that they're, that they make a, um, uh, um, well, you're saying to do a memo at their own free will or do a memo big, because of the ordinance that we're proposed or I'm proposing. I don't know if it, again, I think what I'm hearing council member Reinstein say is, I don't think we need to include it necessarily in an ordinance, but it can just be a practice. And the mayor agrees to notifying in writing the chief administrative officer, the president and the president. I'm not necessarily thinking of this council or this mayor. I'm thinking about a future council and a future mayor. Um, you know, in 2018, the council flipped over, you know, it was, there was only, I think one hangover, two hangovers and kind of, they had to kind of, um, feel, find their way and govern the way they wanted to govern. It wasn't really tied to the past, you know, they, they did it the way that they felt was the proper way, which every one of every way in the way that they decided to do was the right way. Cause we all have our own vision and there's no wrong way. Um, I'm just saying that this is something that I think that should be laid out. It should be a requirement. It's a serious situation. And, um, I, I just don't think we should be relying on someone doing the right thing. If they're not aware that they, the right thing is that they should notify council member, uh, I'm sorry. I saw president Horland with her. Can you, I wasn't done yet. So if you want to come back to me after this point, if, um, if, uh, council president, Orland wanted to talk about this particular, the first page. Absolutely. And then I'll come back to you. Council member Einstein. Thank you. I will be content to be a council member tonight. Thank you, council president. And, um, and thank you, as you know, we could not hear at the beginning of the meeting. So thank you for everybody for stepping up. Um, and, and again. I want to echo what was, uh, previously said council member Fadgen, thank you for bringing this up. I think it's a valuable discussion. Uh, you, you may recall, and I know some of you are not on the dais at the time, but when we had the explosion at the marketplace, there was only one elected official in town that weekend. It was a holiday weekend. And that was me. Um, so, you know, I do think that it's important that we have some guidelines. I'm not quite sure if that needs to be set forth in ordinance. I'm a little concerned about, um, you know, I know that council member Reinstein used the term overregulation. I just, uh, I'm a little concerned if we put too much in an ordinance, um, about potential privacy violations, um, specifically about HIPAA. I think that, um, having a public meeting and discussing compensation, while we want to be transparent about that, I, I, I'm just a little bit uncomfortable because that could possibly lead to disclosure of why the mayor, um, you know, could be out if it's potentially a, uh, health issue. Um, as to the car allowance, I look at that, um, as if a director, say a director went on a two-week vacation, we would not stop their car allowance. So, um, I, I think that that is, I think that's a little bit, um, too short a time. I think it's something that we need to evaluate, uh, on a case-by-case basis. But I understand Council Member Fadgen's concern about procedure, but I do think that this could be laid out in a policy memo. Um, I would be more comfortable. I, I, I think that it's, it's worthy of further discussion. I'll be interested to hear what everyone has to say. But I do think we need to talk to a labor attorney, uh, and see, um, because I would be very concerned about, uh, if we had a scenario with someone who was out for a serious medical issue, and we were to have public comment and say the public decided that they thought it was in the best interest of the city to, uh, and they requested that we reduce the compensation or cut the compensation. And then that person, uh, has to now deal with a medical issue and pay for that insurance, um, at a pocket, those costs. So, um, I think that there is a lot more to explore here, but at this time, I'm more comfortable with it being in a policy memo. Thank you, uh, Council President. Can I just make a quick response to that? Council Member Fadgen, then Council Member Reinstein. Quickly, uh, the, the, the days of assessment were just kind of maybe even arbitrary, but just some systematic that at some point that it needs to be considered by the council for a prolonged absence. And maybe 14 days isn't the appropriate, um, marker, but, um, it was really just at a certain point. If a mayor disappears for three months, we don't have to go into the detail to know that the mayor is not working for three months. And we're all going to be compassionate if we know that they're in the hospital, and maybe that would, uh, change the consideration as to whether continued car allowance. But, you know, whether you're on a two-week or a four-week or a 12-week, you know, world cruise or something like that, you're not driving around the city. So the car allowance is kind of low-hanging fruit. To me, the compensation is a bigger discussion. And if, if a mayor, um, had a stroke and went into a coma for six months, um, I think there needs to be a mechanism where we can, uh, discuss that and protect, uh, the, uh, the assets of the, uh, city on behalf of the residents. So, sorry. Council President Andrejo, thank you. I just wanted to follow up, um, uh, first as to the first point as to the notification requirements, um, Council Member Hoyland used the term policy memo. I think that's exactly how I see this, um, it reminded me of the memo that was produced a couple years ago in regards to campaigning on, um, on park grounds. Um, that, uh, it was an issue that some questions were raised, a memo was produced, and that memo has become the policy, and it's the policy until determined otherwise by an administration. Um, but in this regard, it seems that these notification requirements, um, could, could really be set forth in a policy memo. Um, in terms of the car allowance and in terms of the compensation, um, interesting is that I, I heard you, Council Member Fagin, say, well, maybe it's, you know, maybe it shouldn't be 14 days, maybe it should be another amount of days. Um, I looked at this as that both car allowance and compensation, um, that it's not, it shouldn't be a question of the number of days, it should be simply that at any point in time that a Council Member wanted to raise the issue of a resolution or an ordinance. Um, I believe they'd be entitled to do it at a City Council meeting, and so, you know, if those issues become, um, concerns, then again, I don't think it's necessary for a, uh, a new City Code in order to codify it. But if we just look to what is currently in, um, for example, Article 2, Section 2.03 for compensation, it says the City Council shall determine the annual compensation. So if that's going to change at any point in time, then the City Council shall bring it up and that, um, it, it can be raised. So then we're not looking at determining, well, should it be 14 days, uh, it'd be 30 days, um, whether it's compensation or car allowance. It's an issue that a Council Member is entitled to, to raise, and, um, if it's determined that either compensation or allowance should be changed, then, then so be it. Um, and that would actually be for both, uh, for A, B, N, uh, and C. Um, the, the part that's D, that is the designation of successor, um, that one, it surprises me that there's not further guidance from other municipalities. It would seem like this is something that either Robert's Rules, um, you know, some, um, uh, standardized parliamentary procedure that is being used elsewhere has encountered the continued chain of, of, um, uh, chain of, of, uh, of designation and succession. So, um, um, I, I'd like a little more research or a little more information on that one, but the other ones I think we can, we can handle, uh, through our City Council otherwise. Can I ask a question? Uh, are you referring to, uh, Council Pro Tem and, uh, President only? So, in, in the, um, D, yeah, correct, D, that said, that is, is questioning that if the President or Council Pro Tem is unable or unwilling to assume the Mayor, uh, and, um, Council Member Vagin is seeking something further beyond that. Right, but you're, you're, you're not talking about a Mayor successor, you're talking about a Council President or Pro Tem? Correct, only, only part D. Well, the, the process under the Charter is for the Council to determine who's going to assume those positions. So, presumably, you would take action by a motion or resolution to do so. So then, again, for then all, uh, A, B, C, and D, there's already a mechanism in, um, uh, there's already a mechanism in our Charter for all four of these items. I don't know if Council Member Anderson, uh, I can't see you, so if you do have anything that you would like to add to the conversation, please let us know. Council Member Horland? Yes, thanks, thank you, Council President Andreu. Um, could we simply add something to our Council Rules and Procedures about notification? Um, I, I do think that it would be appropriate if, you know, and given the example that I did, uh, with the explosion, it could be anything, um, like that, or if there's an incapacitation, somebody has to go into the hospital, God forbid, that there is a notification process and that the CAO notifies the Council President and the Council Pro Tem, um, of the absence. And then I think if Council Member Fadgen can continue to work with administration and the City Attorney on some language for a policy memo, uh, that achieves some of these goals that we've, uh, discussed tonight, I think that the notification, because I, if I remember correctly, Council Member Fadgen, that was one of the things that had concerned you, um, particularly was the notification. And then, uh, again, I do think there are procedures in place to deal with the compensation, but I, I want to be careful about that, um, just because there could be some, you know, sensitive, um, financial, um, financial, um, situations for an individual who might be going through, um, you know, a, uh, health issue. So, um, um, I think that if we have something in a policy memo for the notification and perhaps for the review of an extended absence, um, I, I don't think that it should be anything, um, before 30 days and I would even prefer 60 days. Thank you, Council President. Thank you. So, I'm hearing a consensus to, uh, continue this conversation. Um, and I think, um, via, um, a policy memorandum and consulting with our labor attorney. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for bringing up the subject and for the robust discussion. We're going to move to item 20, the stormwater master plan presentation. And is that going to be with our engineer, Ms. Shalon? Good evening, Council President, uh, Council Mayor and City Attorney, Samira Shalon, City Engineer. Um, in, uh, late 2022, City Council authorized city staff to use the ARPA fund to fund, uh, stormwater master plan. After three years of effort, uh, we're pleased to summarize the three years effort in this 10-minute presentation that we're going to present to you. With me tonight, Justin Gregory from Johns Edmonds, our, uh, consultant for the stormwater master plan. I would like to, uh, present Justin for the presentation, and we will take questions after the presentation. Justin? Good evening, Mr. Gregory. Welcome. Good evening. Thank you. Thank you, Samira. So, as Samira said, Justin Gregory with Jones Edmonds & Associates, and I was the project manager on the stormwater master plan. So, we'll try and make this take three years of work and condense it into 10 minutes. Um, just a quick overview of what goes into a stormwater master plan. Uh, it just, this pyramid is pretty helpful, so we're starting at the base, we do a lot of data collection. Just help understand how the city's structure, stormwater infrastructure is put together, um, understand we develop a digital elevation model, which gives us the flow characteristics and very high resolution across the city. Understand what your comprehensive plan is and what your goals are for drainage level of service, flood protection level of service. We then take all that information we've collected, and we start, we build a digital model of the city's stormwater system. So, that gives us that, that ability to simulate and really understand how the system performs. That information is then used to generate a, um, to complete a number of engineering analyses, where we identify where you may not be meeting your level of service, where there's areas for improvement. Um, just understanding how that system performs, and, and developing some of the key information and metrics we need to ultimately make those recommendations. So, if you look at the, at the final, the most important part is those actions. So, what sort of actions the city should take moving forward as far as, um, um, capital improvement plans go, um, programmatic improvements that you could make, where you may need to make, um, where you need to focus your efforts as far as stormwater management goes. So, I'll go through and, and, and talk about just some examples from each of those components that we worked on over the last three years. Um, data collection. So, we worked, um, with a local survey firm to do a, a very thorough survey of stormwater infrastructure across the city. So, it was more than 1,200 structures were surveyed. So, it's very precise, highly accurate, um, survey of that city infrastructure. Um, that information would then be used in future to help, really help the city understand and, um, plan for future changes to that. So, in addition to surveying of city infrastructure, we also completed a data collection, um, it was almost 20,000 structures. That is, um, that's additional city infrastructure where we had previous survey or as-built documentation. We also looked at county infrastructure, FDOT infrastructure, um, plantation acre improvement district structures, where those were, um, old plantation water control district, as, um, and even some private infrastructure. So, giving, we built what's called a geographic information system, the GIS of the stormwater. Um, so, essentially it's a digital map of the stormwater structures. And we know where that, where those structures are, their dimensions, um, their inverts. We, we just know a lot about the digital representation of the city's infrastructure. Um, and that will be the, a solid basis for the, for the city moving forward and managing stormwater infrastructure. Just understanding where it is, being able to map it. Uh, in addition to that, we also did a, a pretty innovative, um, um, imaging of the city's waterways. So, we used UAV or drones to, um, fly along the city, um, maintain waterways. And we've, um, recorded high, very high resolution images of those waterways, which allowed us to more cost effectively come in and review the condition of those at a later point. It also gives the city a great, um, baseline for the condition of your stormwater system as it is, um, today. So that in the future, if you want to come back and notice a problem, you can see how that has changed, how it has evolved. So a really useful, um, digital tool that the city now has, um, these, these high resolution images, almost like Google Street View, but of the waterway system. So once we've collected all that base information, we built this digital model. So this is, it allows us to simulate how the stormwater system works. The model was built in Stormwise, which is the most widely used stormwater modeling platform in Florida. It is used for planning studies like this. It is used for design, regulatory purposes, and just a very well-regarded stormwater model. And then that digital representation of the city has now been set up. And it really allows us to understand how the city performs, where there may be weaknesses, um, predict what flooding would look like or what inundation extents would be for various storms. Um, and once we had that set up, it's obviously, we want to have confidence in that. So an important step is that model validation. We went through and validated that two storms in 2020 and 2023. And we actually had some of our crews out there with UAVs doing some pilots during the 2023 storm. And they were able to collect some really great images that we were then validated our model against. So we can, we can be pretty confident in the model results. And so with those efforts, once we had that model in place, we were able to run what are called design storms. These are, um, synthetic storms that really, they represent, um, what we think we could be an extreme rainfall, looking at various return periods. All the way from the one in 10 year storm to the one in 500 year storm. Um, and this gives us a good understanding of how the system, how the city's, the city-wide system would respond to those various storms, um, where that inundation is likely to occur. And, um, and, um, and that is useful, it can be used for further analysis. We also looked at future storm events. So there are, um, projections of what the, the frequent, what the return period or the frequency of rainfall events, how that's going to change moving forward. And we were able to look at two scenarios, one in 2040 and one in 2070. Um, and then, and currently the city's actually doing a more detailed analysis funded by DEP of what was called a vulnerability assessment. That's leveraging the same model and looking at similar future, um, climate rainfall scenarios. So a very helpful analysis. And we were able to then look at changes in flood risk. So we can see which neighborhoods or which streets are going to be most impacted by those changes in extreme rainfall. Uh, with those model results, what we're able to do is review the projected inundation, um, and compare it to the drainage level of service or flood protection level of service that the city has outlined in your comprehensive plan. So you have goals, um, to what sort of, um, um, level of service your various streets should be providing. And we were able to do that for emergency roadways. We, we also looked and we identified and we were able to highlight key kind of roadway segments with the city may want to, it just needs to be aware that, um, when those roadway improvements perhaps happen, you can look at what we can do to improve that. Um, we also looked at culvert capacity. Um, so started, um, just trying to understand where there may be constrictions in the system, which culverts you may want to look at upsizing when it comes time to replace them. Um, just understanding how that, um, where those maybe are not meeting their ideal, um, level of service. Um, building inundation is an important item that we looked at. So we were able to estimate finished floor elevations across the city. And then we compared that to the projected flood depths from the modeling effort. Um, we identified a few homes that were at a higher flood risk now. Um, and then something to note is that moving forward with those, um, projections of rainfall risk, that that number increases in some parts of the city. So just something to be aware of, aware of moving forward with planning and stormwater improvements. Um, now one of the great uses for this model is to help quantify the benefits of projects that are being implemented. So the North Acre Improvement Project, obviously it's a great project. You added a lot of stormwater storage as part of that. And we were able to work with the city to look at the benefit of that project on inundation within that, that region of the city. So we can see during the, the 10 year in storm, we reduced, um, the inundation extents by 52 acres. So that's 52 acres less flooding of roadways, people's yards. Um, so reducing that inundation extents. And then for the 100 year that goes up to 113 acres. So a very impressive project that has a lot of benefit from a stormwater perspective to the city. Um, now starting to get into some of the more important parts of the project, identifying capital improvement projects. Um, so we work with the city to look at, um, CRP projects that would help, um, build new infrastructure, improve infrastructure. And then also looked at programmatic type projects. So what are sort of maintenance activities? Um, these would be more, um, processes that you should be performing on an annual basis. And develop, incorporate it into that program. And I've got a few examples of those. So capital improvement projects. Um, just earlier this evening, you approved for CRP3, what we had identified as CRP3. That's those zone three drainage improvements. You've approved the, the state, the design, engineering design for that. So that is starting that process of implementing that CRP. And I think, and that would be a grant funded project. You've also started making progress towards what we had identified as CRP2. So that's those zone two, um, drainage improvements. But we, we have a, a list of, um, 14 different CRP projects that we would recommend the city consider moving forward. Um, and we've provided a range of costs that we could expect. Obviously at the planning stage, we don't have the details of what, what the project would look like. But we've given a range based on similar projects completed in the state. Um, and this is just two examples. So in zone one, we had identified, um, some areas where additional swales and culverts and conveyance would really help take care of some of that localized inundation that we're seeing. Um, and then also Northwest 82nd Avenue and Cleary Boulevard. Uh, some key roadways where new storm wind infrastructure could have a big improvement in the drainage level of service or flood protection level of service of those roads. Um, so programmatic projects. As I mentioned, these are types of, um, items that you would address over a 20 year period. You would have a goal to start slowly start, to start addressing these, um, some highlights there. Um, and watercraft launching facilities. Those are important just for allow staff to safely and easily access waterways so that they can perform more frequent inspections, perform the type of maintenance and improvements that need to occur on those. Uh, also the canal dredging. So, um, what we had as CRP 19, um, going in and restoring those canals back to their original design. Um, making sure that they are providing the capacity that they, that they were intended helping the system function, um, as originally designed. Um, and also I know last year you, you had experienced a failure of a key large culvert within the city. Um, so that, that's an important programmatic is going in and inspecting those. And as they come close to the end of their service life, starting to replace those. Um, so that is another key, um, programmatic type project that we had recommended. And I've got a few examples of those. So on the canals, as we mentioned, trying to regrade, dredge those back to their original design. Making sure they have that conveyance capacity. Um, and then the head walls is something else. During our review, we identified a number of head walls. Perhaps reading, that seemed to be reaching the end of their service life. And would need to be improved and updated and bring them back up to, um, modern standards for, for head walls. Okay, so next steps. Um, I know one of my colleagues always says, we need to be the plan. We actually need to execute on what has been identified in that stormwater master plan. Um, we have identified a range of costs there as far as capital improvement projects go. Um, so that was between 50 and 90 million, um, that we would recommend the city consider spending, um, over the next 20 years or so. Um, some of those may be more urgent than others. And then programmatic projects as well. So there's, a lot of these are in addition to the current maintenance you are performing. But just really programmatic improvements and, um, expansion of, of your current stormwater. Now some of the benefits of this. Um, we've definitely experienced all the projects we've, and the clients we work through in the state. Um, proactive stormwater management is a lot more cost effective than reactive. So coming in and trying to repair, I call that that has failed, that creates a lot of disruption to the city residents. The end, the actual cost of the repair becomes a lot more expensive than if you had programmatically planned that out. And completed that and done the inspections and make, making sure that we are addressing those before they become urgent and an emergency. Um, funding sources. The city is fortunate to have a stormwater utility in place that helps pay for a lot of your current maintenance activities. Uh, we have recommended that the city perform a rate study. That's obviously important to make sure you are fairly frequently performing those rate studies and making sure that the, the revenue being generated is sufficient to cover where you want your stormwater system to be. Uh, and then, and the city I know has done a great job with grants. There are a lot of grants opportunities out there for stormwater improvements, for making our systems more resilient. Um, and I know Samira's team has done a great job of applying for those and using that as an additional source of funding to help supplement storm utility. Okay. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gregory. Do you recommend a rate study every five years? How often should you do the rate study? Um, we, uh, in City of Plantation, the stormwater utility was established in 2013. Since then, we did not do a rate study. I came before you almost every year for the last five years and we adjusted the stormwater utility based on our needs. So this year, based on the recommendation of the study, we're going to do a comprehensive rate study evaluating not just the rate itself, but the definition of the rate, the definition of the ERU as I discussed with you in the strategic planning session, uh, two weeks ago. After that, yes, it is every five years. We're going to be three to five years actually in the market where we're going to update the rate study. So this year going to be a major rate study being done and then between three to five years. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Thank you very much for the presentation. Um, uh, Director Shailen, my question for you is that now that we've seen this presentation, um, how much of this is already part of what is in what you are planning? And are we, do we, is the next step that we'll see a proposal from the department in terms of, um, how to tackle what is being recommended? Uh, you already, um, we started, uh, proactively working on some of the projects and just then highlighted some of those projects. For example, zone three, you guys approved, uh, um, design services. Uh, it is funded by a grant. So it, uh, check two boxes already discussed in the master plan. I will come before you maybe in the February meeting to discuss, uh, drainage zone two, which is the country club state. We're going to activate phase one of the design services for that, uh, particular project. The historic district, um, I emailed you about, uh, culvert replacement. So we're actively working toward, uh, the project. I didn't want to wait for three years, whatever we could done with available fund. We already started working on, uh, boat ramps. It's part of the budget that I presented to you last year. So we're actively working on it, but the recommendation of the study on yearly basis, you're going to see these project coming before you part of the budget process and the CIP. Now we need to identify priorities and funding of these projects. So one of the recommendation of the stormwater study is to keep two to three project on 60% design. Cause as we apply for grants and funding, sometimes some of the, um, recommendation for, or that requirement for these funding is shovel ready project. You need to have the design ready and apply for the construction. So we're going to be coming before you, um, to approve some of the design services, taking the recommendation of the master plan. Again, based on priorities and available funding of the stormwater utility on a yearly basis. I hope I, um, answered the question in part council president. Can I continue? Um, so maybe let me ask the question a little differently is that. So while, while I recognize that as was presented is that some of the parts were already in the process of, um, and of course, as. Some of these, you're going to bring them again back before us and piece mails, not the right word, but have you adopt, are you adopting this, um, presentation? And then we will see strategically what you will be bringing before us as we go along. Or is there another type of, um, uh, memo that you're going to be giving to us in order to break down what is being adopted in terms of the recommendations? Um, I think the right study going to set the tone for some of the priorities, because in order to implement the study, we need to understand what's our funding mechanism for these projects. I can't. So that's the next step. Yeah. Because I cannot commit, if you recall, and actually council member president, uh, tonight, uh, Andrea asked me during the budget process, um, about when we're going to see the balance between the revenue and the operation, the rate study going to set the tone of how much we can do at this time. So the stormwater utility fund is limited in its resources. And I would like to see that rate study recommendation and bring it before you, before I commit to answer that question, if you allow me. Thank you. Any additional questions? Comments? Thank you again, Mr. Gregory. And thank you, Ms. Shalon. I just want to take the opportunity before we leave to thank the stormwater staff. I invited them tonight to be here because they are a critical component of what we do. The maintenance, the proactive maintenance, um, activity is very critical. And as you all seen it, uh, uh, in 2025, we had limited flooding because of their hard work. So I want to publicly thank each one of them tonight. Thank you for the consultant of three years, hard work. Uh, as I said, 10 years at 10 minutes summary of this three years, um, maybe doesn't give it a justice, but I can assure you there was a lot of work behind the scene to get into that 10 minute presentation. And thank you for the support. Thank you. Thank you both. That will conclude our administrative discussion items. And we are going to move into our legislative items. Attorney, as well, do you need to read item number 21, the amended chapter five buildings and building regulations? Yes, I do. Thank you. This is first reading of an ordinance of the city of plantation, Florida, deleting in its entirety section five dash 39 entitled performance bond of chapter five buildings and building regulations. Article four swimming pool standards of the code of ordinances of the city of plantation providing for severability codification conflicts and an effective date. Thank you, attorney Ezra. And Mr. Holmes, is there a presentation as well? Council members do. Would you like the presentation or do you? I'm sure you've already reviewed the ordinance. If there are any questions. Madam president, I do not need the presentation. I do not need it. I don't have any questions in regards to the reading. Motion to approve. Second. Council member Anderson for the second. Ms. Beggaro, please call the roll. Council member Fajan. Yes. Council member Reinstein. Yes. Council member Anderson. I'm not sure if you got to me. The volume just went down for me. But if you asked Anderson, yes. Council member Andreu. Yes. Council member Horland. Council member Horland. Yes. Ms. Beggaro, your audio is going out. But yes. Thank you. The regular audio is good, but Ms. Beggaro's audio went down. Okay. Thank you. We have unanimously approved item number 21. And now we will go into our quasi-judicial items. We have three this evening. City Attorney Ezra, will you please read item number 22? And would you, after you read that, I will have Ms. Beggaro go ahead and swear in anyone who wishes to speak. I'm going to read in the description about the quasi-judicial proceedings. The titles of the items that you're going to consider do not need to be read. The City Clerk will swear in all witnesses before speaking. Please state your name and whether you have been administered an oath. Any speaker may be cross-examined. If you refuse to be cross-examined, your testimony may not be considered. Cross-examination shall be conducted in a courteous manner. The material in the City Clerk's agenda packet will be made a part of the record. City staff will make the first presentation, followed by presentations from the applicant, any affected parties, and the public. Elected officials may set reasonable time limits for speakers. The hearing will then be closed and the matter decided. The City Council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of a development order, resolution, or ordinance, evidencing its decision. The City Council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for additional research or review. Thank you, Attorney Ezra. Ms. Bigaro, can you please swear in anyone who wishes to testify or speak? Those testifying or speaking, 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? Thank you. Thank you. Our first item is a request to approve a waiver for Connie Chee Claw. I hope I did not butcher that. This property is located at 8000 West Broward Boulevard within the Broward Mall and is zoned for MPM Mixed Use Plantation Midtown. Mr. Holmes? Good evening. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the Council. For the record, Dan Holmes, Planning, Zoning, Economic Development Director. This is a relatively simple item. It's application PP25-0036. It is a waiver request from Section 27105 to allow an existing amusement enterprise to operate without a supervisor and staff on the premises at all time during operating hours. It's located within the Broward Mall. Most of you know the location of the Broward Mall, so I won't go into that. With regard to notifications, we were required to notify within the 500-foot boundary notification. There were 56 properties or individuals that were notified. Just a little bit of background. The applicant is already operating. You know, they did get conditional use approval to operate. However, they're coming back because our requirements are that they have an individual working there at all times. So they're coming back to really seek a waiver from that requirement of our standards. And it was approved administratively. They met the administrative approvals. At the time, they did question that, but they didn't want to delay opening. So they opened up, and now they wanted to come back and take a look at that requirement. Thank you. I do see the applicant is here. You would have to please come to the microphone. Please state your name and address for the record. Natalia Kudelina, Hollywood, 3800 Hillcrest Drive, apartment 612-33021. We're not currently open to the public yet. Okay. We got the minor development, but we're still in the process of LBTR. And the building permit was just released on Monday. So the door that I was trying to add to separate the front and the back is going to be added this week, either tomorrow or on Friday. So we're not open yet. Okay. Just to add that. When do you anticipate opening? As soon as I get the LBTR application and also the inspection done. Okay. So that all depends because the LBTR is in process a little bit over a week. So I don't really know what the process, how long does it take. Okay. Councilmember Reinstein. Thank you. Mr. Holmes, can you go back to the picture? The picture that you have of the interior, is that an actual picture of what the inside currently looks like? Yeah. Is that what you were referring to? No, I think it was page one. Okay. Or the cover page. So what I was trying to understand from what, from the backup as well as from the picture is that they were, permission was already based on the current approval is to open with a supervisor on the premises. It sounds concerning to me that there's an arcade type facility or some type of facility like this that has no supervision at all. And I understand the way that notice goes out. I'm curious as to whether or not notice was specifically received by the Broward Mall property management. They would have been within that radius. So they... Well, and the reason why I ask it specifically, because I know that as we've talked about notice over time, that it usually goes to the owners. We've talked about that it should go to the management tenants as well as the owners. But in this situation, the question is very specific as to whether the property management and not just some distant ownership received this notice. Yeah. I will... I can check to see who was notified. Typically, when there is a tenant and the landlord, the landlord is aware and looks at the application before the applicant comes in. But if they're within that boundary, they would also receive notification as well. So, and to that same point, and forgive me, I don't recall whether or not there was... I don't think we usually see the tenant contract with the mall and the tenant. And I guess I'm surprised that the mall doesn't require supervision. Would we know that based on... Is that something that you review that comes into play in terms of review of a request like this from a tenant, as to what their contract with the mall requires? No. There's... On occasion, an applicant may provide that, but we typically don't review the, you know, the agreements. So, for that reason, I think I'd like to ask the applicant whether they can... whether the owner can respond to any of that. Ms. Kudalina? Yes, Natalie Kudalina. Yes. Thank you so much. Do you need me to repeat any of those or do you understand those questions? No, I'm okay. So, the management office, they are aware of my requests and we had some conditions as to security and cameras to be in place. So, we discussed that actually before we signed the lease. And when I applied for the waiver, one of the planners requested the statement or one of the forms to be signed by the management of the mall and to be notarized. So, they should be on file because it's one of the documents that I have submitted. That's the application, right? I was saying the landlord will typically sign that. Yes. So, the landlord, yes, they signed. On behalf of the management of the mall, it has been signed off for the waiver. They are aware and it has been approved by them. And I know I heard you mention something about camera and security. Yes. I have my presentation for afterwards to cover all the points, to cover the main concern. Wonderful. So, maybe in terms of that, whatever cameras and security that you will be utilizing has either been required or approved by the property management. Yes. So, the main concern was to have cameras with no blind spots. And I have that. I have, as I wanted to present, I have about eight cameras. And I also have a professional 24-hour monitoring service. There are services that monitor your house or businesses and they report straight away to law enforcements. So, it's something that I have already. And to that point is that if there is a concern, if there's somebody who's using the arcade and whether it's a simple issue with the arcade machine or whether it's something much larger than that, is there some type of notice as to who they should contact or is there an expectation of how quickly somebody will respond? Yes. Can you comment on that? Yes. So, my QR code for technical support. Is it too loud? Thank you. For tech support is provided on all machines. There's also, so it's fully automated. You buy the card or you can pay with a credit card. There's no cash handling. There's no price giveaways. There's nothing for a personnel to do per se. It's like a vending machine. You pay. You play. You leave. Or you take a couple of pictures. For any technical issues, which is possible, it will arise, it can be done all remotely. So, I also am pretty local. So, the issues can be resolved within 24 hours. But if there's any technical issues, it's a simple resolution. It's a refund to the method of payment that the person used. And they can scan the QR code, call me directly. I answer them or if there's a designated person that I assign to take the phone calls or the messages. And then we resolve it right away. Everything, all the machines are on timers so they can be switched off if there's anything that happened and the machine is not working. It can be switched off until I'm able to come in and resolve the issue. Thank you very much. I would just say that I have some concerns. You've answered them generally. I am happy to hear that you've had full discussion with the property management. If you believe this is going to be a successful business, I hope it will be a very successful business for you. And I hope that the property management is on top of it so that it can be that successful business. So, thank you. Yes, we are very excited. And all the public is very excited. Because I've been waiting to open up a couple of months now. So, everybody keeps trying to get in. But I'm still not open. Thank you. Mayor Sortel. Thank you very much. I don't know if anybody else had a hard time picturing it, but I went to the mall. And it is right next to the movie theater. There's the place now that they used to take tickets, but that's closed. And the property, the building she moved into used to be virtual reality games. And you play the card. So, you all know where that is. So, that's where they are. Thank you. Councilmember Fadgen. What's staff recommendation? Our recommendation was for denial of this. We did have some security concerns. We did review what her concerns were. But we still felt that there are individuals that could come in. There are certain issues that could arise that an on-site person would be able to manage before you go through the other security measures. So, my opinion when we get to a motion is if we put a condition on it to assess any service calls by the police department, I don't know, six months or after one year, and then if by the opinion of the police department they find it excessive, then they would have to put someone in there. Otherwise, I feel like I understand how this thing's automated and very sophisticated in the surveillance, and she's addressed the management or the owner of the mall's concerns. So, that would be my opinion. Just have us have an assessment of it. I don't know, six months is adequate to get a sample? Okay. Or do you think it should be a year, Danny? I would say probably a year. Okay. Well, when we get to the motion, I would like that to be part of the motion, to have a 12-month assessment of any service calls. And then if the police department deems it excessive, then they would have to follow the existing. Thank you. I would support that motion, Councilmember Fadgen. I would also just want to remind my colleagues that I was more concerned over an item when we opened Amp Gym. And they did not have anybody present. And that was a 24-hour fitness center. And I was very concerned and actually did not vote in favor of it. And I did not. And it has been wildly successful. And I don't think they've had any issues or at least nothing major. So, in light of that, I think I could support this item and especially with that motion. Councilmember Horland and then I'll go to Councilmember Anderson. Thank you, Council President. Just a couple of things. And I think we all have some of the initial same concerns. So, am I correct that there's about seven or eight of these operating nationwide, Mr. Holmes? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. We're going to have the applicant answer. Yes. Okay. Natalia, Kundalina, are you talking specifically about Konichi Klaw as a franchise? Yes. Yes. I was looking at Texas, Arizona. So, I, and I'm assuming they all operate under the same model that there is that supervision there? Yes. Yes. All of the arcades are unattended. Okay. And, you know, listen, we look at this as the new technology and we've all seen these Japanese claw style machines. We've grown up with variations of them. Oftentimes, you'd see them in a mall or another location as a single unit and they are not supervised. And I understand I have some of the same security concerns. My concern is, you know, fundamentally, the claw, Japanese claw machines are set up not to be winnable. So, I would be concerned about, you know, people, you know, being taken advantage of, but I don't want to overregulate a business. If someone makes a choice to, almost like a slot machine, but keep putting money into that to try to win, then that's their decision. So, I would go with the council's recommendations tonight to put a couple of those restrictions on and I would be more comfortable approving that after we take a look at, you know, some of the potential security issues. But it seems like the applicant has addressed most of this. Thank you. Thank you, Council President. Council Member Horland. Council Member Anderson. Hi. Yes. Thanks. So, was Council Member Fagin's motion for a six-month review of any concerns or was it 12 months? One year. 12 months. Did you say 12? 12 months. One year. So, I think we should, personally think it should be six. I think we would know right away and want to jump on it right away and not wait a whole year. So, I don't know if you would be amenable. I think, like you said, all three of you, all three or four that spoke brought up all the things I would. Amp Jim, I was reluctant, but it turned out successful. This is basically like a vending machine. I think this would be fine, but I want to make sure. And Council Member Horland did bring up, what is the, it's not a slot machine, so it's not a payout rate. What is the win rate? I mean, I don't want the kids, mainly this is going to be kids and teenagers to basically throw a lot of money in and barely ever win. How do we know? How do we know? Because, you know, that could be compared to gambling, if you will. And I would want them to have some level of success. May I speak? Yes, please. So, there's regulations in Florida and Broward County for the payouts in, in regards to the price of the prices that you put and the payout. So, my machines are guaranteed to not have to exceed the payout rates. People will win because I'm myself a big enthusiast of claw machines. That's how I'm in this business. So, I know that winners make players and I want people to have fun and come back and have a good time. I have noticed that in Broward Mall specifically, there is no really fun place for teenagers to go, but I have noticed a lot of them go there for friends meetups and dates. And so, I think it would be the whole place. You've seen the pictures when I just put the machines in, but it will be very Instagrammable, as the young people say. It will be very fun and very cool and they will have a lot of fun there. And I promise they will win. I will not, I'm not trying to scam people. And it's not exactly as a slot machine because there is a level of skill involved. You have to be able to aim the claw. You have to be able to press it at the right time. And if you play well, you can win more than the payout. You can win before the payout. It's just a matter of technique. Thank you. So, Council Member Fadgen, you said your suggestion, your motion was to review at 12 months at a year. Again, I think that if it's a new thing and we want to check it out, we should look at it sooner than that to see if there's anything going on that we don't, you know. I initially said six months, but then when 12 was suggested, I started thinking about that and thinking about the full season of the mall. There'll be, you know, like if we do six months, we're not going to hit the highest time of the year for the mall. So, I think we'd want to include everything. And I think it gives them an opportunity, like if there's problems early for them to correct it on their own before we have to assess whether they need to hire someone because the whole business model is not to have an employee in there. So, I'm going to keep my motion at 12 months. I would second that. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Biggerow, please call the roll. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Einstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. And good luck. And we invite you to join the Chamber of Commerce. Thank you. Thank you. We understand. We're going to move on to item number 23, which is the consideration of a request for a site plan amendment for HCA Westside Hospital. That property is located at 8201 West Broward Boulevard and is zoned MPM, Mixed Use Plantation Midtown. Mr. Holmes? Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, this is for items 23 and 24. We'd like to do the presentation together. So, item 23 is application PP25-0032. It is a site plan modification amendment to allow a 99,000 square foot vertical expansion, basically three stories, to an existing hospital. There is one zoning waiver from Chapter 27 of the City Code that is a part of the request and that is the second item associated with it. This is located at the HCA Hospital at 8201 West Broward Boulevard. The agent is Will Laystrom. The size of the parcel is about 10 plus acres. Underlying zoning is MPM, as indicated, existing use as a hospital. Just a little background. In 2016, under application PP16-0003, the City Council approved the existing three-story building that is there now at 87,715 square foot addition to the hospital. Structurally, it was designed to allow some additional floors, and so essentially they're coming back to modify the site plan for those additional floors. And the underlying land use, community facilities, and commercial, and the surrounding zoning districts are all MPM, which is the City's Plantation Midtown District. This is the location of the property. Again, the area is characterized with surrounding mixed-use development, medical uses, and to the west there is county government services. And again, there's a 500-foot notification, and there were 26 properties that were noticed. So again, the portion of the hospital, there's a building that's located to the very southern end of the hospital that you see highlighted here. This is the entire hospital plan here. That's the building that is proposed for modification. Just to note, there are no other changes to the site or landscape plans because we're simply just building up on the site. I've kind of pointed out here, this is Broward Boulevard. Again, this is the building in question, which additional floors would be added. And elevations there. Again, no changes or materials. It's going to match what's existing. And just in terms of the analysis itself, staff did find that the proposed use is compatible with the surrounding development pattern. It's in compliance with the comprehensive plan, and it is consistent with the zoning code. And we did review it with regard to Section 2752, the practical difficulty waiver. And we found that the proposed development meets that. The waiver, again, really relates to parking based upon the uses. The required parking on the site is 1,313 stalls. The total provided is 1,269. So there's a small deficit of parking there. We did not find that that would be a significant problem in this instance. To date, staff had not received any objections. I do note that there was an e-comment that you guys received. I think it was from Joe Wynn relative to the project. There are no open code violations on the site. This did go to the Midtown Advisory Board. And the board indicated their overwhelming support for the project. And they found that it would certainly have economic benefits to the Midtown District. And based upon the above, staff does recommend approval. And as you see, the applicant is here. And is happy to answer any questions you have. Do any of my colleagues have questions? Councilmember Fadgen. No questions. I think it looks fantastic. I'm excited about the investment you're going to do in the Midtown. And when everyone else is done, I'm ready to vote. I agree. Likewise. No questions. Thank you. I cannot stand. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve. Okay. Second the motion. Thank you. I worry about career. Ms. Bigaro, please call the roll for item number 23. Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Thank you. We still have item 24. Motion to approve item 24, Madam President. Second. Thank you. It's been properly moved and seconded. Ms. Bigaro, please call the roll. Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Do you want to show them anyway to the people in the back? No. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. We are now going to take any board committee appointments. I do have one appointment for planning and zoning, the rotating member for group three. I would like to proffer Daniel Della Grange, and I think this does need for planning and zoning? Oh. It does not. No. Okay. All right. So, I believe you already have his contact information as he was the rotating member previously, Ms. Bigaro. Does anybody else have a, Mayor Sordle? You do. Thank you very much. I thought I had an, April, I thought I had an appointment to the fire board. Is that a vote? Four? We have four and they get to vote on five? You don't have a, you don't have. Fire pension. You don't have fire. It's a council and the board. Mayor doesn't have an appointment to fire board. Do we have an opening or are we full? I don't believe we have an opening. So, I can propose somebody in the council votes? She said we do not have an idea. Oh, we don't. Okay. Okay. We emailed back and forth and then the holiday hit and I forgot what happened. AHEC, Bryson Ridgeway is my rotating appointee because Maud King Bruce is my permanent appointee. And that does require a vote, correct? Yes. Okay. I'm sorry, that does require a resolution. That's correct. So, Bryson proposed a project here that you guys talked about. Michael Alpert thought he would be good, but cut your ear if I'm right. Motion to approve. Yeah. I think he'd be great. Second. Great choice, Mayor. Yes. Okay. Can you please call the roll? Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andrew. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Thank you. Any other advisory board appointments? Oh. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. I would like to nominate Tanya Field for the library board. Okay. I do not believe that needs a vote. So, we will ensure that Ms. Biggerow has her contact information. She should, and she's a retired employee, so, and I know Monica has it as well. Excellent. Anyone else for appointments? All right. Hearing none. Comments by the mayor. First off, Samira, thank you for all the work you've done in Stormwater over the years. One thing that we talked about is we are taking some action in Country Club Estates, and so we plan to have a visit for a town hall with all the employees there to communicate everything going on and clear up any thoughts and whatever. We want to just go there and show them the math. So, we're working on that. Yeah. Appreciate it. So, Owen Duke's celebration of life is 10 a.m. February 14th. So, we're writing things up, and it's going to be right there near his property. So, you all know that. That's all I got. Unfortunately, Mayor, I will not be here that weekend. So, please give them my regards. Thank you. Comments from Council Members. We'll start with Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. Tonight, I think I heard was your new title. I think we might have all gotten this email about the disappointment and the service pens not being distributed. So, if possible, I'd like to reassess whether that can continue. I would like to say I know my father was very proud of his service pens, and I've talked to some other past electeds, and they were always proud of them. And so, if possible, it would be great to bring them back. HR and I talked about that, and we are going to revisit it. Okay. Great. Thank you. I'm proud of my service pen. I am, too. I was thinking the same thing. So, thank you for bringing that up. And then, lastly, Doggypalooza, Melvin's ready to go. We just bought him a ramp because he can't really jump in the car anymore. So, he's doing ramp training and doing pretty good if you give him a pretzel. So, see you at Doggypalooza. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Reinstein. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen, for touching on the pens because that was on my list as well. I also wanted to make mention, since we received information, is that for the Plantation Police Department, Officer of the Month from November was Detective William Tai, and there's going to be an award presentation tomorrow. And then, it was also announced that Officer of the Year from 2025, who is Brian Radzawan, there's going to be an award presentation on Friday. So, I wanted to, again, just make mention of them. Yes, that's at 9 a.m. And, I wanted to also, I'm not sure, I think probably Council President Horland will mention about paid. Shake your head if that's correct. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member, Council President for tonight, Andrea, for stepping in. Thank you. Thank you. President Horland. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for stepping in tonight. As you all know, I'm taking one for the team in cold Tallahassee this week. The wind chill was 19 degrees the other morning, so it's been a little hard to get warm. But, you know, and you mentioned the pins. I've been actually proudly wearing my pin throughout the Capitol this week. So, I love the updates that HR is making to the recognition program, but I think if we're hearing from people that they'd like the pins back, I'm glad the mayor is going to revisit that with HR. So, some very positive meetings. I told Mr. Nunnemaker, I think it was about 14 meetings yesterday here in the Capitol representing the Barad League of Cities, all 31 cities, and, of course, the City of Plantation's interests first and foremost. We had – they were very productive. You know, it's fast and furious up here. We're hearing a lot of different things on property taxes. Unfortunately, Senate President Albritton, you may have seen in the news, was taken to the hospital earlier this week. He's been released, and he's taken the week off. So, nothing has really moved this week. And we're hearing from the Senate that there may not be any legislation. We know that changes, but they are going to come back for a special session. So, we're just trying to tell our story the best we can and protect those ad alarm tax dollars. Councilmember Reinstein, thank you for bringing up paid. I was able to stop by and speak to many of the representatives of the committee that was voting on that today just to drop off some information and tell them that the City of Plantation, while we don't weigh in either way on the issue, we did feel that it was important for the residents to be able to have their say at the ballot box. And that did pass unanimously this morning. And we extend our gratitude to State Representative Michael Gottlieb for carrying that bill on behalf of the Plantation Acres residents. And I just want to thank the Mayor. We had no audio. You know, I could not hear the presentation from the teachers. Dr. Jody Berman taught all three of my children at South Plantation High School. So, I was happy to see her here, there. And Mayor, thank you for stepping in on Hometown Heroes. You know, that's near and dear, close to my heart. It was wonderful to see so many veterans and their families there tonight. And I look forward to the next round. And again, thank you for everyone stepping up. And Councilmember Anderson, I hope you are feeling 100% soon. And I'll see everybody back in Plantation on Saturday. Thank you. And have a safe trip back home. And thank you for the hard work that you're doing on behalf of all of us here in Plantation. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. So, first, thank you, Councilmember Andreu, for stepping up and being president tonight. It was supposed to be me. And we had two people down. So, you got it. Thank you. Yeah, same thing. I want you to revisit the pins. I can't think it's a monetary issue. Those can't be that costly. And some veterans, especially the ones on the longer end of the scale, really cherish those years of service. And I think that's a small price to memorialize what they've done for our city. So, that's just my two cents. And that's it for me. Hopefully, I'm on the mend. And I'll be well soon. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Feel better. Thanks. I know that Councilmember Reinstein wanted to add something. It's a perfect segue because I was also going to congratulate the Plantation Chamber of Commerce on the excellent work they've been doing. We had a grand opening of a new hamburger, smash burger business today. Tomorrow, there's another grand opening of a Thai sushi restaurant. And we really are attracting such great businesses to our city. It's a wonderful place to live, work, play. And I know you wanted to add something to that. Yes, thank you. So, to that point is that if we want to keep these great businesses in our city, then we have to support them. We have to shop local. And the Greater Plantation Chamber of Commerce and the city have put out this new sticker that can be put on the front of our businesses throughout the city that says, Shop Local, Love Plantation. And it's specifically Plantation Celebrating 250 Years of America with a hashtag of WeAreStrongerTogether Plantation. So, this is what it looks like. I have a couple here in case there's anyone who is here with us in the council meeting that would like one. Otherwise, I'd say please make sure you contact either the administration or the Chamber of Commerce or you can contact me directly or I'm sure any of the council members and we'll make sure to get you one. But it's so important. If we want the businesses to stay, we have to support them. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A few other announcements that I have. Project Beauty, which is a nonprofit organization, but the person who started this nonprofit is a plantation resident, Allison Frank. And her Project Beauty holds an annual event. And it will be this Friday at the Old Davie School Historical Museum at 630. And it's all about helping our teenagers and particularly those who, well, it raises money for mental health programs. But it's really about helping empower our teens and making them see their inner beauty as well as their outer beauty. So, anybody who would like to support that event. And then Saturday, the 31st of January, we have Seminole Middle School will be holding their community garage sale. So, stop by there. I believe it's from 8 to noon on Saturday. So, you can pick up some treasures or if you'd also like your own booth to get rid of anything and purge anything that you have in your home. And Sunday, February 1st, we will begin the celebration of our month-long celebration for Black History Month. And the theme this year is a century, century of black history commemorations. So, we are celebrating progress and persistence. It's a period of reflection because there is still so much, so much, so much work to be done. So, black history is American history. And on Thursday, February 5th, our ADU workshop. So, we're looking forward to that. Mr. Holmes and Mr. Alpert, thank you for organizing that with the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. And last, I know it was said earlier, but I'll just state it again. February 7th, not only do we have Rock the Park, but we also have our Reggae Genealogy at Volunteer Park. Gates open at 4 p.m. and showtime is at 6.30. So, great live music will be happening everywhere in our city on Saturday, February 7th. So, I look forward to seeing you all. Enjoy the food trucks and lots of dancing. It is now 8.31 and I will adjourn our council meeting. Have a great evening, everyone. Thank you.