City Council - Jul 29, 2026

Good evening and welcome. The July 29, 2026 City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called to order at 6 p.m. Ms. Beggarrow, would you please call the roll? Council Member Anderson? Here. Council Member Andreu? Here. Council Member Fadgen? Here. Council Member Horland? Here. Council Member Reinstein? Here. Mayor Sortel? Here. City Attorney Ezreal? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Beggarrow. Tonight's opening remarks and Pledge of Allegiance will be provided by Council Member Fadgen. Sir? Thank you, Council President Horland. If we could stand to pray and then remain standing for the Pledge. Lord, we thank you for your continued blessings upon our great city, this state, this nation, and all your people. We ask for your blessings upon these proceedings and upon all who appear before this Council tonight as we deliberate on the important business of our city. Bestow clear thinking and wise discernment upon this City Council, the Mayor, and all gathered here, that their participation and decisions may serve this City well. Inspire cooperation and open-minded dialogue that even in disagreement we may treat one another with respect and seek what is just and good for all. We pray for peace to prevail, for suffering to be eased, and for conflicts to be resolved with justice and compassion. We honor those who give us themselves for the good of others, first responders, our city employees, educators, caregivers, and all who strengthen our community through faithful service. We hold in prayer those who are in sorrow, family and friends alike. Grant them comfort and healing in their grief. We pray for all who are suffering in body, mind, or spirit, that they may find relief, strength, and renewed hope. May health return to the sick, and may your light lead those in despair towards comfort, renewal, and peace. God, grant us the strength to meet whatever comes our way with cheerfulness, courage, patience, and tenderness, seeking in all things to honor you. For all this we ask in your holy name, amen. Another pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Fadger. I'd like to make an announcement before the mayor starts. A couple of things. If you are here for item 20 or 24, both of those items have been deferred to the August 12th meeting. This is item 20, which is the IAFF contract, and the pension item and item number 24 is for Ben Esco. So those will be on the August 12th meeting. And, Mayor, if you will, before we start, this is our first meeting back in a while, and since the City of Plantation lost a dear friend. David Lindenericks, 77 years old, died unexpectedly on July 5th. Dave was a dear friend to the City of Plantation. David started his career as a police officer in Plantation and was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police, and he served as the organization's president from 1980 to 1983. He also served at the Broward Sheriff's Office and had a direct hand in running the Department of Highway and Safety of Motor Vehicles. In the early 1980s, Dave started his own political consulting firm, Eric Consultants, with offices in Tallahassee and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which his daughter, Candace, still runs today. He shared his time between Tallahassee and Fort Lauderdale in his entire career. Tallahassee for the legislative session and Florida State football season and Fort Lauderdale for everything else, where his best friends and most of his clients were. Dave Erick's loved this city. We are fortunate to continue to have Erick's consulting as our lobbyists, and they, too, look out for us. As you know, I often go out up to Tallahassee during the legislative session, and there's nobody like the Erick's group that looks out for the City of Plantation the way they do. I was really honored last year when I was sworn in as president of the Briard League of Cities that Dave left his beloved Michigan summer home to come and see me sworn in, and it meant the world to me. I did not know Dave as long as a lot of people in this city. Everybody has a story. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot of him at his celebration of life, but I'm forever grateful for his service to the city, what he has given us with his years of service, and also for his daughter, Candace, who continues to serve so well and has become a friend to many. So I'd like to ask everyone to just take a moment of silence for our beloved Dave. Thank you very much. Mayor? And I didn't mean it to segue into that. You darn near made Candace cry, and now she's got to get up and talk. No, she does not have to do that. Oh, Laura's going to do it, okay. On behalf of the whole city and everybody in this room, I offer you a hug. If you want it, let me know, but if not, we're good. And now it's time for our state legislative recap. It's our first time back, and we enjoy getting the updates, and it helps us as a city. And tonight we have Lauren Jackson and Candace Erick with us. Is the green light on? Good evening. Good evening. I just wanted to say, you know, this city meant so much to my father, and I grew up coming into it. I just learned that this city hall was built in 1973, the year that I was born. And I'm very proud to keep the relationship that we still have today, and I want to thank everybody on the dais, and I want to thank everybody behind us and everybody who's watching, because even though my father was somewhat retired, even for those of you who knew him, in his mind he was not, but this city is where he built his family, and he built his career, and he built his practice. And he would be very proud knowing that I still represent you, obviously, and I just want to say thank you so much, and I appreciate the friendships that we've made. So thank you. Thank you. Now we'll talk about the boring stuff. Which I'll try to keep as short as possible, because I know you have a long agenda. And we had four sessions this calendar year, as everyone knows. We had the regular session. We had a special session on redistricting. We had a special session on the budget. And then we had a special session on property taxes. So just real quickly to talk about the regular session, a couple of bills that passed. We had the Plantation Acres Improvement District Local Bill, which has already been voted on by the constituents and was approved, but that obviously went through. A couple of bills that passed, there was a local government spending bill that revises timelines for when you need to post budget amendments, tentative budgets, et cetera. It also requires that the city post – and it was a much more egregious bill when it was first filed. Even though we support transparency and we support as much information going to the public as possible, it would have required all kinds of different information in a very specific format that would have required specific vendors that the city would have had a contract with. Thankfully, we were able to work out a compromise, and we want to give a shout-out to Senator Siglia for that, working with us on that. Because we were able to come up with a compromise where what it has to be is a downloadable PDF format that's searchable, so you have to have it on OCR so that people can actually find what they're looking for and certain summaries that follow local government accounting practices that are already there, but hopefully is going to still give more information to the public, but just in a much more financially reasonable way than what was originally being required in the bill. So it requires specific information in addition to the certain budget summaries. It also requires local government salaries for all employees, quarterly salaries to be posted. It requires a budget timeline to be posted, and that includes when you're going to do your budget workshops, when you're going to get the information from the property appraiser, when your agencies are going to make requests from you, from you, and all of that needs to also be posted as well. And then the final thing that it requires is a budget exercise, which requires a 10% cut from the total tentative budget, and that has to be done at least 14 days before the adoption of the final budget. And then that exercise would then be required to be posted to your website. It doesn't require those cuts to take place. It just requires that exercise to take place and then be posted to the website. And so that bill goes into effect in January. Another bill that passed was Live Local 4.0. This one was not as expansive as previous Live Local versions have been, but it did expand Live Local to county, municipal, and school board-owned properties, and it also expanded to certain religious-owned properties. They have to be at least three acres in size and have had a religious place of worship on the property that had been in existence for 10 years prior. So there are parameters on what was passed. What did not pass in that bill was ADU legislation. So the ADU bill did come back. That's the accessory dwelling unit bill that would have required for single-family zoning to have an accessory dwelling unit or to allow for accessory dwelling units in single-family zoning. That was put into the bill. And then the same sort of thing happened as the year prior where the fight was over, whether they would allow for short-term rental or not allow for short-term rental or have some kind of parameters that they would have allowed local governments to adopt on that. The Senate was amenable to allowing local governments to have more authority. The House was not. Ultimately, it was removed from the bill entirely, so that did not pass. But we do expect that issue to come up again next year along with another short-term rental issue. And I'll get into a little bit of what we kind of expect next year. But along those lines, we also had some major permitting bills that were passed as well, HB 803, also a qualified contractor bill in addition to that. And this requires registries for private contractors and private providers that can supplement city services or also limits city oversight, further limits city oversight of those services. It exempts from permitting. It raises the threshold for the exemption of permitting for work on single-family homes to 7,500. But it does put parameters on that. You can't split up the project in order to be below the threshold. It says that specifically local governments are not liable for work that is performed under that. They have to give notice that they are performing work under the exemption. And also, it exempts certain things such as HVAC, electrical, structural, different elements, as well as any work done in a flood hazard zone. It also exempts certain hurricane and flooding walls and things of that nature. It's actually a very massive, massive bill, so I don't want to take all of your time with that. There was also a bill that passed that would set a schedule for eliminating use of certain – and I can never say the word, but it has to do with firefighting foam that has PFAS in it. And it sets a schedule for that, so where basically by 2028 it is prohibited. In a certain timeline, there's a $10,000 fine if a city were to be found in violation of that. But by 2028, you would have to eliminate use of that foam unless it's an emergency and there's no other alternative available. And then a bill that passed but actually was vetoed by the governor was sovereign immunity. It would have raised the sovereign immunity caps from 200, 300 to 300 – wait, 300 – yeah, yes, 300 – yes. Sorry, where we landed. Now this is four sessions ago. In any case, the governor did veto that legislation, so that will not be going into effect. We do expect that again to return next year as well. One of the big things that we're expecting next year, and we'll go more into this when we come back before you prior to the next session, is a big growth management year. There were a lot of growth management bills this year that didn't pass and a lot of growth management battles that didn't necessarily impact us directly. However, the underlying debate did. And we expect a whole rewrite, or at least an attempt to rewrite Chapter 163, to be on the agenda for the legislative section next year. As Council Member Fajan heard me say at the NPO meeting, we kind of went into details about that. There was another bill that passed that the governor also vetoed having to do with micromobility devices. This would have set up a task force that was the sheriffs, was the cities, the counties, everyone involved to help try to regulate better scooters and e-bikes and things along those lines. Golf carts, I think, were included at one point as well. But that was also vetoed by the governor, so it did not ultimately pass. Other things that failed to make it to the finish line was the E911 consolidation. We expect some kind of version of that to come back, although it seems like there has been headway made, at least from the opposition side, this year. I know Candace was just at the Florida Sheriff's Association conference, but the issue wasn't quite brought up then, but we were expecting that to come up later as we get closer to the next session. And so we'll be able to kind of see what the plan is for the next session and be able to inform the council then what we might expect from that issue. And, yeah, with that, going into redistricting, your lines completely changed for congressional districts. I know everyone received the new maps in the email that kind of showed where the lines are. Plantation was cut in a very jagged way, so it's hard to describe in a succinct manner how the new congressional lines fall, but our congressional districts were completely revamped. So, obviously, that's going to be upcoming on the November ballot. And then going into the budget special session, they did pass a budget that was under the current year budget, and then the governor vetoed another $1.6 billion on top of that. Thankfully, we were able to get $320,000 for Cleary Boulevard, and we want to thank Senator Osgood and Representative Gottlieb for helping us with that. We also want to thank our other sponsors of our other appropriations projects because they also played a key role, you know, ultimately, in still getting things in the budget even though they didn't completely pass. It still helps us at the end of the day getting something through. So, we do want to thank our previous sponsors. And just because our contract is up for renewal later in the agenda, we do want to say that it does bring us to around $2 million since our contract was last signed, total for all the projects that we were able to get since the last contract. And then going into the special session on property taxes, I don't want to belabor the point because I know everyone's very well aware, but they did put on the ballot or something will be on the ballot. We don't know what necessarily the ballot summary will look like because it's currently under legal challenges, but there will be Amendment 3, and it proposes to raise property tax exemption up to the homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and then $250,000 in 2028. And it lowers the cap on how much an assessment can go up on other properties. I think everybody knows the details of that. But I will just say there is a lot of uncertainty of what the fate of the proposal is going to be ultimately on the ballot. The opposition campaign is now just kind of getting ramped up at the moment. And I do want to mention that I am aware that some Broward entrepreneurs are actually putting together a tool that should be live fairly soon that's actually going to drill down into the data even better for the public to understand because currently we kind of have this data that shows, oh, well, 10% of the budget is going to be cut. But that includes enterprise funds and different things like that. So it doesn't actually really show what really could be on the chopping block, what really is going to be left over, and what really the numbers are going to look like. So this tool is actually going to really drill down into the city's finances, and there will be a page for the city plantation specifically. So when that comes out, we'll be sure to share with everybody so the public is informed really on what the actual impact of this ballot amendment could be. But we also want to mention that next year we will have, obviously, a new governor, a new Senate president, a new House speaker, but they're also going to be convening the Tax and Budget Revision Commission, which meets every 20 years, just like the Constitutional Revision Commission. So they met 20 years ago. They'll be convening next year, and they're going to be coming up with proposals strictly dealing with property taxes and all tax and budget issues for the ballot in 2028. So we're going to have a very busy session next session dealing with both growth management and also watching this Tax and Budget Revision Commission to see what might get proposed on that level. Should the property tax amendment not pass, there's a possibility something very similar could come before that Tax and Budget Revision Commission, and they might support something like that. So we will be watching that very intently as well. And with that, I know I didn't cover everything, but we had a limited time. So if there's anything. Yeah, if you guys have any questions, happy to answer them. Thank you for that, Lauren. I just want to make a couple of quick comments and then see if my colleagues have any questions for you. On the property tax, as you said, there are multiple legal challenges on that ballot language right now. We'll look forward to that tool coming out. The Broward League of Cities is also putting out an Educate on 3, which is just the facts for any of the cities to use. So that will be coming out shortly as well so we can get that out to voters and everybody can make an informed decision on it. As we know, the Fire Chiefs Association has put out a letter, as have the police, saying that they're not supporting this amendment. So we're hoping that people will start to understand what the potential impacts could be. You mentioned the Growth Management Bill. So we were hearing that referred to as a single-family neighborhood killer. So I know some of the discussions around that were the proposals that did not go through last year, you know, potentially looking to really do more duplexes, triplexes, manufactured homes and neighborhoods. So is that what we're hearing that could be some components of that? Yeah, so I think what you're referring to is the starter home bill is what they were calling it, where it would have required for lots to be split up, I think, up to like eight times or something, so long as there was a sewer connection available. And that was the only, like, really requirement. And there was also a transportation-oriented development one that at one point included almost all bus stops, but then was a little bit narrowed. The Senate bill was, the House bill didn't move, so it wasn't never narrowed. And that would have been arbitrary zoning around those areas. That would have required intense density in those areas. But, yes, we're kind of expecting a whole kind of kitchen sink rewrite of Chapter 163. Part of it is because the DRIs went away. You know, we no longer have the Department of Community Affairs and all of what we used to have, and we didn't really have anything real to replace that. And so there is a real problem with Chapter 163 being outdated. But what they're looking to do is increase growth in the urban core areas, which is Broward County. So it would be, you know, yeah, looking into that. And I know you touched upon it briefly, but I think we did have indications there would potentially be a short-term rental bill. We didn't have one last year coming from Airbnb. I am expecting that. Okay, so we're expecting that. And the last thing I want to say is the E-9-1 consolidation. You have worked on that very hard on our behalf the last couple years. We've gotten it pushed aside. I know Mr. Nunnemaker came up to Tallahassee on that as well this year. So thank you so much for your efforts. I know that's been a heavy lift, as well as the appropriations. So as you said, our sponsors did get a lot of things into the budget, but I know that you also worked until the governor put away his veto pen. You work in the governor's office to get that in there. So thank you so much for that. So I'm going to turn it over. Do my colleagues have any questions for either Lauren or Candace? Just one. I want to thank you both also for the great work and the return on investment. But I know that with Amendment 3, as you stated, it's going through some legal challenges. But what is the last date where they have to come to some finality so that we can get this on the ballot? I'm not sure exactly of the last date, to be honest with you, but I don't expect it to be thrown out, though. I mean, we do expect it to be on the ballot. It would just be a change, perhaps, in the way that the ballot summary itself is worded, because the lawsuits are essentially saying that the ballot summary is misleading and the title of the amendment is misleading. And so that's what really the grounds are on. If the court agrees and believes it's misleading, it would then go to the Attorney General to craft new language. But we still expect it to be on the ballot either way. And we don't – as we're trying to, I guess, inform and have conversations with residents, it's difficult when we don't have that exact language. And as you said, I know the League of Women Voters is doing a lot of education around this also. But without the language, it just makes it a little more challenging. I agree. And just to kind of clarify a little bit, some of what the issue is is that it says it protects funding for core services, but it doesn't actually protect funding for core services. It just enumerates what local governments can and cannot spend on. So it says you can spend on public safety. It doesn't actually protect the public safety budget. So it's things like that. That's sort of the core issue. So when you get up there, you're like, oh, well, it protects core services, but it doesn't actually – you're going to see a massive cut, and that's – that you're going to – you're probably going to try your best to protect core services, but that doesn't mean it's not going to impact them. So essentially the amendment's the amendment. The amendment is not going to change, and the effects on our municipalities are not going to change. But what's very misleading is that valid language, and that's why the legal challenges have been filed, is to try to get that because it – again, it's quite misleading. So that's what they're changing. But the effects on us are going to be the same. That won't change. And I don't have the date. I had it written down, but I think it's sometime in September because I need to get the overseas ballots out to the military. I agree with you. I'm right. Somewhere around there. I was just at a meeting, and so they were talking about, you know, right after Labor Day is where you're going to be seeing a lot of this. But do know that there is a lot of groups that are starting to coordinate, and the voice has not been heard yet, and so they're vamping that up. So I think that you'll see some significant conversation and significant messages coming out towards the end of August, but definitely through September and October. So I think the education piece is going to be key. And I think it is, you know, the fact that people have to understand what this language will do, and I think that that will be clear. And when we had a conversation, I think that it was polling highest at 60. We need 60 percent right, and as it gets educated in law enforcement and others come out, I think that will go down. I know I'm kind of optimistic on that. Many people aren't. But I think that there will really be – people will pay attention to this, I think, and we have to have a loud voice in the threshold that we're allowed to. So I think that – and we'll continue to keep everybody posted on the coordinated efforts. All right. Thank you. Council Member Andre, do you have anything else? No? Anyone else? No? Thank you both for everything. Always, as I come back here and say, the relationship building that you – and the relationships you have built in Tallahassee are so beneficial to us as a municipality when we go up there. And I know you get me in offices that normally would not sit down with anybody from Broward County, so we appreciate that because I think we've been able to move the needle. And I talk about our success with the CRA bill last year with Rep. G. Lombardo, and I think that really made a difference to hear about our successes on the city of Plantation. So thank you for everything you do. So thank you all, and thank you for your kind words. Everybody have a good night. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Mayor? So next up is our favorite topic, which is people giving us money. Resilient Broward Grant Program. Jennifer Gerardo? Good evening, Dr. Gerardo. It's so good to see you. Good evening. Thank you so much, commissioners and council people and persons. And, Mayor, I apologize. You know, I noticed in the cover slide that I erroneously referred to commission, so my apologies. But I do appreciate a few moments on your agenda this evening. And I am here on behalf of the Broward County Board of County Commissioners to share a new initiative that is intended to bring financial resources to our community partners to help address flood risk. And I hope that this is not the first time that you are going to hear something of this plan. It is the Broward Resilience Plan that represents a coordinated effort involving our county commissioners or city commissioners, town and drainage and water control districts over many, many years. The final plan was released in March of last year. We've spent some time getting organized to think about how can we move from a plan and a document and an organized effort to implementation, and that's why I'm here. The entire effort was focused on flood risk reduction. We know as communities in the county we have rising seas, rainfall intensification, more pervasive, extensive, prolonged flood conditions, and there are some dramatic impacts that come with that, whether it's personal losses, economic disruptions, changes in our flood insurance, affordability. And so this is about trying to head that off through early investments in flood risk reduction so that we can enjoy the stability that comes with that. There was extensive modeling that was undertaken, dozens and dozens of scenarios. The long and short is that after looking at those scenarios, the consultant team and working with the planners, the engineers, the consultant community, et cetera, work to develop adaptation strategies designed to support organized flood risk reduction. So this was largely about moving from one-off projects that we don't know how they work individually to a strategy that presents organized, reliable, predictable flood risk reduction and those benefits. You can see that what was included in the model includes projects across all of Broward County. They are summarized in the banner on the right. Some of these are easy to identify capital projects, pumps, control structures, and culvert improvements. Others are part of long-term redevelopment strategies where we build storage into the landscape, the improvements of seawalls that will come incrementally. So not everything is assumed to be achieved overnight. The graphic on the left shows, of course, the city of plantation. Here is shown a scenario, two-foot sea level rise, 100-year rainfall event, coupled with storm surge. And because all of our systems are connected, we can see those implications across all of Broward County, including the sea level rise and storm surge, as we look at limits that exist in our systems today in our ability to move and convey water the way we would like. The left shows no adaptation. The right shows the adaptation improvements that we modeled. And between the two is the reduction in flood elevation. Red is not positive. It's not a good thing here. It's two feet or higher flood elevations. Green is less than six inches. And then you've got the areas in between. So the point being is that there are investments that can be made short and long-term that together work to deliver flood risk reduction. So that's what our board is interested in helping to facilitate because our board appreciates the majority of these investments are going to fall within municipal and water control district jurisdictions. So their initial effort has been focused on conveyance. What can we do short-term to move water better and quicker? If we do make those investments, the economic modeling that was undertaken by McKinsey shows dramatic economic savings and benefits that will be derived in our communities. If we look long-term, we're looking at potentially protecting or avoiding over $3.5 billion a year in property damage, preserving economic activity, ad valorem that comes with preservation of property values, protecting $30 billion countywide in property values, and preserving $20 billion in flood insurance affordability because we reduce risk, and that helps retain lower rates. Overall, we anticipate that there could be $9 billion needed in public investment over the coming three decades or so. That's obviously a lot of money. So we've tried to break it down into something that we can actually make tangible. And in this is about $1 billion estimated in those hard capital costs that I mentioned, pumps, culverts, and control structures. There's almost another $2 billion in pumps that are anticipated to be needed for installation behind seawalls. So the county commission, in thinking about how can we start to leverage local dollars better to deliver projects, voted outside of the budget season to allocate $20 million in reserve funds to help launch a formal grant program. This is funding in year one. The goal is to be able to come back and through subsequent years have recurrent funding so that we would have $20 million a year to leverage towards local projects. This grant program that they have approved now provides 25% in cost-share funding towards identified and eligible projects. The goal is to leverage those dollars even better across the entire program in over 15 years. Our estimate is that those $20 million a year for 15 years would deliver $1.5 billion in capital projects. That's all of those critical projects that I identified, plus about 30% of the pumps needed for the coastal regions. So we've developed formal criteria. We're preparing to launch that program. We're hoping that we will receive applications from the city of Plantation. I won't need to go through the criteria here. Your team can do that, but this information is all available on the website. I want to share that when we did model projects specific to plantation, that we had a number that fell within the jurisdictional or geographic area, and they include a number of control structures designed to drop water elevations by a foot or more. That improves your drainage and your storage capabilities. Many of these are likely within old plantation, but I also understand you've got plantation acres now, and this is a huge opportunity because there are a number of projects that fall in those jurisdictions to bring resources to critical flood protections that we've modeled and to work with the other water control district on those priorities. You can go online at resilientbroward.com, look at the individual projects, the cost estimates, the assumptions that go behind those. Those are going to be priority projects for funding, but it isn't exclusive to those projects. If you have other projects in the city that meet the same criteria, there's going to be a point system that's going to be posted. You'll be able to look at your applications, and you can kind of gear how you might be able to advance preferred and already identified priority projects. I'm available to your staff, any team members who want to have an offline conversation to explore in greater detail. Here's the schedule of the launch in early September. Our goal is to bring forward the ranked projects for our board's approval in early spring and to be so successful with leveraging dollars for great projects that we achieve renewed funding in this next year, and we would like to see a repeat process for the next 15 years. So that is the conclusion here, but again, appreciate your time, and our goal is really just to ensure broad awareness and participation and hopefully good projects here in the community. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Horato. This was a tremendous piece of work that you and the team put together. I've seen you making the beginning of these presentations for quite some time around Broward County, so I want to thank you for it. And I've got some residents in the Acres that are sitting here tonight. I'm sure they're grateful that now they are under our umbrella and we'll be hopefully applying for some of these grants. So thank you very much. Does anyone have any questions for Dr. Horato? Thank you, Robin. Appreciate it. Thank you for coming out tonight. Thank you so much. All right. Have a good evening. All right. Mayor? Didn't make it down. And I presume, Dr. Horato, that the big flood of April 2023 kind of woke us all up. That was a big bang when it came to flooding. Yeah. So it's Parks and Recreation Month. Parks and Recreation staff is here. I'll read a proclamation and Trish will say good things. I'll say some good things. All right. That's pretty easy. Holly's in the blue. Okay. Whereas Parks and Rec Month is an integral part of communities throughout the country, including Plantation. Whereas Parks promotes health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health of people. Whereas Parks and Rec encourages physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities. Whereas Parks and Rec is a leading provider of healthy meals, nutrition services, and education. Whereas Parks is essential and adaptable infrastructure that makes our communities resilient in the face of natural disasters and climate change. Whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month. And whereas the City of Plantation recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Recreation. Now, therefore, I, Nick Soto Mayor, City Council Plantation, do hereby proclaim July 2026 as Parks and Recreation Month. Thank you. So, I just wanted to say how incredibly proud I am of our team that works tirelessly to maintain our parks, provide outstanding recreational opportunities, and create memorable experience for our residents every day. I wanted to take this opportunity to share some exciting news that our department has earned three prestigious Florida Recreation and Park Association Awards that will be presented at our annual conference in Orlando at the end of August. So, our first award was Public Relations Electronic Media for our Nature Corner Magazine. Our Nature Corner Magazine was brainchild of Luz Reyes. Where is she? Luz. This is a bilingual digital publication that celebrates, shares, and expands the community's connection to nature, sustainability, wellness, and environmental stewardship. Our second award, you've probably all seen on social media, is the Public Relations for a Campaign or Initiative. And this is awarded to our Bring Back the Buzz campaign. This was launched in January as a strategic response to pollinator decline and limited public awareness, recognizing that pollinators are essential to healthy ecosystems and contribute to one out of every three bites of food we eat. The department transformed an environmental challenge and misconception into an opportunity to educate, engage, and inspire in a fun way. Our staff members also got to try out their acting chops throughout the series episodes. The final award, this is recognizing an outstanding individual, dedicated service in the parks and rec field called the Golden Shovel Award. And this is going to be awarded to Michael Ambrosio. Yes. So Mike is more than a park professional. He is dedicated to the city itself. He's actually a reflection of the city as a lifelong resident of Plantation. His love for this community is embedded in everything that he does. He's worked his way up through our department over the last 15 years and leads with humility, innovation, and a lifelong commitment to the city that he has called home. So we're very proud of Mike and the other two awards. So I just wanted to congratulate everyone that had a part in it. I know Luz, again, had a big hand in putting together all of these initiatives and campaigns and then all the other staff that had made them come to life. And we just want to thank all of you for all of your continued support, the mayor, the residents. The theme of the Parks and Rec Month is the power of parks and recreation. So we're just happy to be here and enhancing the lives of Plantation residents. So just some exciting news for us. Job well done, everybody. Oh, yeah, that wasn't me. That wasn't me. That was the other guy with the beard. It was one minute. All right, all right. Thank you, sir. Council Member Reinstein. Council Member Reinstein, you have Law Enforcement Child Month. Yes, I do. Thank you very much. It is my honor to present this tonight. And before I begin, I'd like to call up Chief Schlegel and any of our law enforcement families that would like to join us up here to receive the proclamation. You are welcome to do so as well. Or they can remain where they are, which is fine as well. So first I'd like to begin by thanking the Fraternal Order of Police for their work. It was their promotion of Law Enforcement Child Month that brought this to my attention, and I thought it was worthy to bring this to our city. Before I actually read the proclamation, you want to come right up here? You want to come up right here with me? Come here. Come here. Right up here with me. Thank you. So behind every badge is a family making sacrifices few people see. At the heart of those families are children who grow up shaped by service and sacrifice. Their lives are impacted by long shifts, many missed milestones, unpredictable schedules, and the realities of a dangerous profession. Yet, they show remarkable adaptability, courage, resilience, and pride in the badge. And we want to recognize the children in these families today. We have here tonight a proclamation in honor and in celebration of law enforcement children. Here's the proclamation. Whereas the children of the employees of our City of Plantation Police Department make unique and significant sacrifices, supporting their parents and loved ones through the unpredictable demands, long hours, and high-stress environment inherent in protecting and serving our community. And whereas these resilient children share the heavy burden of the badge and deserve the utmost respect, celebration, and unwavering support from the residents of Plantation, and whereas the safety and strength of our city benefit immensely when we actively recognize the importance of these families, ensuring that these young people know they are seen, valued, and appreciated. And whereas establishing and recognizing this dedicated month unites our local community, businesses, and municipal leaders in strengthening law enforcement families and promoting the well-being of the children behind the badge. Now, therefore, an exhortable mayor of the City of Plantation and the City Council of the City of Plantation do hereby proclaim July 2026 as Law Enforcement Child Month in the City of Plantation. And we call upon all citizens, businesses, and community organizations to recognize and celebrate the children of our local police officers and to express our deepest gratitude for their support of our law enforcement community. And with all of our deep pride and admiration for our City of Plantation Police Department and their families, here is Law Enforcement Child Month. So, thank you, Council Member Reinstein. Thank you, Council. July 2026 is actually the very first Law Enforcement Child Month. So, in a moment of full transparency, when Council Member Reinstein contacted me and said, I would like to do a proclamation on Law Enforcement Child Month, and I said, on what? But, all joking aside, it is an initiative that came about through many different organizations and the efforts of many different organizations like the National Fraternal of the Police, the National Sheriff's Association, the Gary Sinise Foundation, and it is an initiative and a program that is going to mirror what a lot of those organizations do for the children of military service members. And one of the main things they do is provide opportunities and scholarships to the children of law enforcement officers. So, you know, there's a lot of organizations that support law enforcement officers themselves and the work that we do. There's not a lot that support our children. And, you know, we signed up for this work. We signed up, you know, to be on call, to be called out in the middle of the night, to work on weekends, to work on holidays, but our children didn't sign up for that. They didn't sign up for their one or maybe both of their parents to be gone, you know, during those times. So, you know, thank you again, Council Member Reinstein, for being literally on the forefront of this initiative. And, you know, I think it's a great thing and bringing light to this very important organization and initiative. So thank you again. Thank you, Chief. Well done, Council Member Reinstein. Also, we had some others here, but it was past their bedtime. All right. Well done. There, you got another item, don't you? Service awards. Wonderful. Do you have another item in between? Yep. Well, that's it. Service awards. Okay. Service awards. It's always good to honor our employees. First up, five years, Warren Darlow, Public Works. Next up, five years, you see fire here. So, of course, there's a fire honoree, Casey Sanchez. Five years. That's a joy. Thanks, man. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. We're closed for Aspen or what? I guess. Oh. It's for everybody. Yeah. Thank you, thank you. Casey, do you want to tell us about the 9-11 stair climb coming up? Oh, sure. Space, you or them? Yeah. Okay. I guess I'll go third way off. Just make it to my microphone. And the microphone. Oh, I understand. Okay. Once a year, the Plantation Fire Department just gets with the UFC Fit Gym in Plantation, and they block off all of their stair masters for us between the hours of, I believe it's like 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. And they have us do a, contribute to the 9-11 stair climb, and we climb 110 floors as much as you can in gear on air with our air packs. And we've been doing it for about three years now. I think this will be the third year in a row that we've been doing it. We have a huge turnout every time, every year. It just keeps getting bigger. And it's one of our greatest honors to serve brothers and sisters and dedicate our 9-11 at least night to them for a couple hours. Everybody gets together. And this year, we'll be doing it the same with UFC Fit. Thank you, Casey. Thank you, Casey. I've seen Casey do it, and it is incredible to see our fire department come out on their own time to memorialize 9-11 and to fundraise. And you should come out and support them if you have the opportunity. We have a lot of fun. Aston Scorsese, what do you want? Who, you? Yes. Okay. Go ahead. I just wanted to take a moment to thank the city council, Fire Chief Todd, Chief Gabor, the entire Plantation Fire Department for the last five years of service, seven years if you count it part-time as well. It's been an honor and a privilege to serve alongside people I consider my family. We've had countless successful calls, and I'm looking forward to serving the rest of my career with everybody. Thank you for everything. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So this is a bonus for fire. Tammy Todd, Parks and Recreation. Five years. It seems longer. Thank you. You want to say anything? 30-something. No, just thank you. Okay. She'll take our picture here. You hold the pin. Do you have any family here? Would your family like to get in the photo? Come on up. Yeah. That's a good call. He was looking around. Bye, Bob. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Come here. Come here. Come here. Boom. That'll make people wonder. That's okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Five years. Fire. Frank Zingali. This guy is doing a heck of a job. He really is. People like what you do. New fire inspector. You've been at it for less than a year? Fire marshal. Fire marshal. That's so long, I don't even know, right? Oh, yes. But, yes. It's been great. Want to say anything? No, I just want to say thank you very much. It has been a short five years. I've loved every minute of it. I've been with the department for 13 years as a volunteer. So, thank you. Thank Chief Todd, Chief Gabor, and the rest of my fire family. Thank you very much. Thank you for having us tonight. Thank you for giving my daughter an award. She was very excited over that. Here we go. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And, poor Kareem, you've been waiting here since, what, 6 o'clock, 5.30? So, you're finally up. Kareem Turnquist Utilities, 20 years. Want to say anything? You good? Thank you, all. Great. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. At this time, we will recess the city council meeting and call to order the CRA. Oh, Parks is so cool. I'm so sorry. We saw you once. I thought you weren't going to come back. Apologize. You're out of practice. We always want to hear what's going on in Parks and Rec. Good evening again. A couple of upcoming events, and I'm going to plug the police department. Tuesday, August 4th, is National Night Out at Pine Island Park from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, August 7th, is our Mother-Son Tailgate Party for ages 6 through 12 at Volunteer Park. Purchase tickets online or at any community center for that dance. In our Aquatics Division, we're currently registering for our Session 6 Swim Lesson Program, and I just wanted to pause for a moment because I know Council Member Andreu inquired about our voucher programs. I do have an update. We are accepting the Swim Central swim vouchers now. We actually had several people use them for our August session, and Chris Cooksey is working on accepting two other programs, another one through the Florida Department of Health in Broward County and one through the state. Those are still in the works of us being able to accept them, but he's hoping to have them ready to go by September. So we take Swim Central now, and we're working on two other outlets to be able to provide that to the public. At our Equestrian Center, Saturday, August 8th, we have a Jump the Moon Horse Show at the Equestrian Center, and in athletics, we are registering for adult athletics, basketball, and softball, and PAL is registering for fall baseball, fall basketball, and soccer. And that's all I have for now. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole. Thank you. And now at this time, we will recess the regular City Council meeting. It is 724 and call to order the CRA meeting. Ms. Beggarro, will you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson. Here. Commissioner Andreu. Here. Commissioner Fadgen. Here. Commissioner Horland. Here. Commissioner Reinstein. Here. Commissioner Sortle. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Okay, Commissioners, the CRA consent agenda consists of three items, one through three. Does anyone wish to pull an item? All right. No one from the public? Do we have a motion? Motion to approve the CRA consent agenda items, one through three. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson. Yes. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fadgen. Yes. Commissioner Horland. Yes. Commissioner Reinstein. Yes. Commissioner Sortle. Yes. Thank you. All right. Now we'll move on to public requests of the commissioners of the CRA. Mr. Conklin, you've signed up to speak. Good evening again. Good evening. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6 Court. My request is that we give the CRA director, Hall, kudos and accolades because of the job that he's, I mean, it's really starting to come to fruition. And that's basically the request and also my standard one. When they demolish the old Plantation General Hospital, please do not allow them to go more than three stories high in the neighborhood because we already have Village Green there at three stories and what I used to call the Kingston Trio, which were the units there next to the rehabilitations. They're only two stories. So I'll give back my time. Don't go far. You're going to be first up with public comments. Thank you. All right. Anyone else wish to comment on the CRA? No? All righty. It is 727. CRA meeting is adjourned and we'll reconvene the city council meeting. All right. We will begin with public requests of the council regarding municipal affairs. For those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you've not done so already, please do so. When you're called, please approach the podium. Make sure the green light is on the microphone. You have three minutes to make your request to council. Please state your name and address and please address your remarks to the council president, not the mayor, nor individual members of the council. Please keep your remarks to the latter three minutes. Please use your time efficiently. If extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask as your time is expiring, not at the beginning. So first up, we have Mr. Conklin. On deck is Ms. Gelfand and behind her, Ms. Johnson. Jean Johnson, I have two forms for you. You wanted to speak on public comment or only on item one? Okay. So I've got Mr. Conklin and then Vicki Gelfand on deck. We'll get to you later, Ms. Johnson. And then Tim, I'm sorry I cannot read your writing. All right, so you're third up. Thank you. Mr. Conklin, go ahead. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. 210 days ago, the New York City mayor was elected, in air quotes, because I don't know if you heard, but last week it was reported by Dr. Naomi Wolf, who is a New York City voter. They don't actually know who won because they can't figure out the ballots. Apparently, there was corruption in the ballots. They were counting photocopies and stuff like that. So just an interesting point. 1,027 days ago, 10-7-23, October 7th, on a Jewish holiday, Hamas attacked Israel, and they executed 1,163 Israelis. The Holy Land Foundation was founded in 1989 in the United States of America. And that was basically a Hamas front. They swish money back and forth. They raise it here, and they give it to Hamas for terrorist organizations across the planet, not the globe. Hamas is the militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization. CARE is the propaganda wing. Back in the early 2000s, Plantation dodged a bullet with CARE. They were trying to get events in Plantation. And Dr. Levy was the president at that time, and he was able to get it to block legally. So we dodged a bullet. But Sunrise has not been so happy. They've actually had two events by CARE. CARE has been proclaimed a terrorist organization. I'm asking for my request that the city also declare CARE a terrorist organization. Let's see. Sadly, 322 days ago, Charlie Kirk, the Christian martyr, was assassinated. 142 days ago, the FBI reported that they reported to Congress that from September 2016, that's the lead up to the election that year, and the inauguration of January 2025, that the Obama and Biden administration targeted Donald J. Trump, his lawyers, associates, conservative groups, and over 1,200 supporters, with four consecutive code-named illegal activities. 90 days ago, it was reported that the Southern Poverty Law Center has actually been funding the groups from Charlottesville that everybody's blaming President Trump for, but apparently they were funding these to raise funds by having events go sideways. Can I extend? Five seconds. Okay. I asked about the mountain of money. You can use that excess, which has been building up to over $380 million, to pay off both of the pensions, the city's police officers and the city's general employees. So thank you. I will back my time. All right. Thank you very much. We'll see you back up here again. Ms. Gelfin, good evening. Good evening, council, mayor, city attorney, and Ms. April. Vicki Gelfin, 9381 Northwest 18th Place, Plantation. The first question I have is, and I don't expect an answer, what happened to the chairs that I used to be really comfortable in back there? Just saying, just saying, I mean, you know, I'm not used to a pew. I like certain things, and then there are things that I don't like. I like pizza, but I don't like sausage on it. I like hot dogs, but don't think ketchup should be on them. It's a Chicago thing. I like little kids. They're still innocent. I like living in plantation. I do not like the driver's in plantation. Do you know what this is? That means right turn. Do you know what this is? It means left turn. This is, let's, we have to stop. I'm sure there's very few people that know what that means. In 1939, they invented the rear turn signals. They were first used on a 1939 Buick, and they added the front turn signals in 1940. In the 1960s, they became standard on all cars. That's when I learned how to drive. The 1964 Thunderbird had turn signals, and they were changed to be sequential in order to distinguish them from brake lights. By 1967, turn signals were required by law to be standard equipment on all new cars. You don't pay extra for them. I know people think you must. According to research by the Society of Automotive Engineers, failing to use turn signals causes over 2 million car accidents annually in the United States. This is more than the 950,000 accidents linked to distracted driving, making signals neglect a primary factor in traffic collisions. Distractive driving, putting on your makeup or looking at your cell phone or having a conversation with the person you're traveling with. While driving at 45-plus miles an hour. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that failure to use turn signals is a leading cause of accidents, accounting for approximately 2% of all crashes. It is suggested that you use your turn signals at least 100 feet in advance. That's for lane changes and also for turns. And you can use them in parking lots, too. Please, for the sake of us all, everyone that's here, everyone that's listening, your family, use your turn signals. Those of us in other cars cannot read your minds and don't know when you're turning or changing lanes. I've been driving a long time. I use my turn signals. And I don't think I've ever had to replace a bulb in them. Don't get me started on speeding through shopping centers and stop signs now. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Gelson. Oh, seven seconds left. You got it. Okay, Tim, and then on deck is Kathy Bauer, and then after Kathy is Yona McMillan. Good evening. Hi, good evening. Apologize again. I couldn't read your last name. That's okay. I got crooked fingers. Would you state it for the record, please? Timothy Brangon, 4831 Northwest 5th Street Plantation. I'm here representing the Plantation Wildcats Tackle Football Program. My son, Connor, it's his first year, and it wasn't planned, but I'm coaching the offensive line for the team, right? They didn't have a coach, and I did it for 12 years, so I volunteered. And so I'm here because we're having trouble. We don't have access to the equipment for the kids. Since the city made the decision to cut the contract with the PAL field, we have financial shortfalls, and we don't have access to the equipment. The key was taken away from whoever had it giving us access, and we're still waiting on the school board of Broward County to say yes to let us even have the equipment at Pop Traverse Field because it's attached to the middle school. Which I understand, but we've provided, not myself, but the league has provided all the required documents and insurance. We just can't get a response from the school board. And so we've been practicing since May, and we don't have the proper equipment, to be honest with you, to teach the kids correctly. And a lot of these kids, who knows what they'd be doing if they weren't out here spending two hours a day practicing football. I mean, I know in the past the league didn't have the appropriate numbers, resident versus non-resident, to keep the funding. We're at 60% plantation residents now, which I know was significantly less before. I think that's a really great accomplishment for the league. We've got some pretty stiff financial shortfalls since the funding was cut, and we've lost the PAL facility. We have to pay $30,000 this year for the league to be able to function. The school board of Broward County is going to charge us $2,500 for every Saturday to use our home field, and then they want to charge us a rental fee to use the parking lot next door. Just that alone is $12,500 for five games. The league is actually asking us as volunteer coaches, on top of the fees that we pay for the kids out of our own pockets, on top of the equipment that we've bought, I've personally, if I could show you a video, you'd laugh, of what I constructed for my linemen to be able to learn how to block correctly, which is it's a safety issue. You know, they want us to pay $1,500 a team directly into the league because they don't have enough money to pay for all of the things that the kids need. So I'm really, I'm here asking the city council and Mayor Sordal to help us. You know, we've got to come up with all this money, and on top of it, we don't, I'm sorry, on top of that, we don't have the equipment that we need to teach and coach the kids correctly. So really, I'm asking for your help. We need the school board to respond, and we need funding. I mean, I have a number to ask for, but I don't think it's appropriate. I think it's, you know, you guys know the situation. Right, and you know one of the, and usually we don't get a back and forth, but just clarify. Yes, ma'am. I have a clarifying question, and I want to make a statement, primarily the reason that we cut it was because of the cost to the city of maintaining those fields. Yes, ma'am, I know the history. When you say equipment, you're not talking about helmets and pads, you're talking about they're blocking equipment and things like that? Is this equipment that you've purchased, that PAL purchased? I've purchased equipment for my kids that I coach on our team, but they don't have upgraded equipment. They don't have the helmets. We got equipment that was broken, that was missing pieces. The uniforms are old, which is fine. I get it. I played football 11, 12 years, and I played here in the county. You reuse uniforms, right? But the helmets need to be reconditioned, and they weren't. So my question, I thought in the beginning you said you couldn't access equipment that you have. So is that equipment that PAL purchased? I don't know if they purchased it because this is my first year with my son. But the blocking sleds, the dummies, the equipment that actually teaches them how to do their jobs and not injure their neck and their back and their limbs, we need those things, and we don't have access to them. Okay. And we've been going practicing since May, and we've had the request in since we started. Okay. Typically, we don't get a back and forth, but I know there are some questions here because you have made a request, so I'm going to allow it. The mayor would like to weigh in, and then Council Member Weinstein. Just so we all know, Mr. Brink, we spoke this morning, and I called Jeff Holness on the school board, and his aide said he'll call us back tomorrow. If nothing else, come down on the price. The price is really high. And you all know that six teams or seven in the program? We have six U through 12 U. We actually lost the 13 U team because we don't have facilities. So when you say Plantation Wildcats, it's not one team, it's a group of seven teams. Yes, that's right, and they all represent the city. We all represent the city. We're one league with six-year-olds through now. We were supposed to be through 13-year-olds, but we lost the 13 U team, the coach and the kids. Right. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Weinstein. Yes, just to follow up, and I heard the mayor said that he's already reached out to school board member Holness. I would appreciate that if you would also follow up with me and maybe the rest of council, and provide the contact of who you've already reached out to at the school board, or maybe forward us the corresponding. And you could email that, and then maybe, you know, I'd be happy to assist. I'm sure others would as well to follow up. I'd also like to follow up with you afterwards with a little more information as to the equipment locker, because I heard you say you're waiting for a key to the equipment locker. And we don't have to do it now, but in order to see if there's a way that we can assist, I just would like a little more information, but we can follow up with this. That would be fantastic. Any help that you could provide would be great. I mean, the goal is to take care of the kids. Exactly. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for coming in tonight. Can you just spell your last name for me? B-R-A-N-G-A-N. Brandon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you very much. All right. Kathy Bowers. And then again, Yona McWilliams is on deck. Good evening. Good evening. Here for two quick comments. Long-term resident, Plantation Club, 6755 West Broward Boulevard. I moved in 1996. I was a visitor to Plantation when my aunt and uncle were one of the first residents at Plantation Terrace when they were building it. My parents brought back in Plantation Place in the 80s and subsequently in Plantation Club in 1988. So I'm a long-time resident here. What I'm concerned now is speaking, just a quick comment about the proposed land use change for the marketplace that's coming up two blocks from my house. Some of you may remember long-time residents. I think there was a Frank's nursery there. It used to be the gym. So, you know, as along with the way the stores were. So the bottom line is I'm concerned about that. I just want to make a comment on behalf of myself and some of the residents that the increased traffic, I know there was going to be a traffic study done and just the overall impact of driving up and down Broward. And the second thing I'd like to just mention would be the Baptist Church and Plantation Acres, which I know is coming up probably next agenda in planning and zoning, that the neighborhood, please, keep some of its local character. Bottom line is it be consistent with what the neighborhood is. It's a lot of maybe some height that might be the impact on the traffic, the students, just a lot of other plans. And perhaps that the pastor would consider, I understand, how the building is actually going to be done to clarify. Just want to get in on the record. Thank you for all the good work you're doing. And, Ms. Bauer, just for the record, the Marketplace is coming up on the P&Z meeting at the end of August. That meeting had been rescheduled for next week. And then I believe the Plantation Baptist Church might be on our message next agenda. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. You might want to come back. Thank you. Ms. McWilliams. Good evening. Hello, Council Members, Mayor, Yelna Weiner, McWilliam, 11690, Northwest 27th Court. Heuristics has become one of my favorite new words, and I'm amazed at how it works. It's a shortcut that lets you think that you know what the other person is talking about. But, in fact, it may be very different. In this case, when the Plantation Baptist Church is calling their project a gymnasium for the existing 80 students to get them out of the sun, we all get an idea of them in our mind. And who wouldn't want that? I want that for the Plantation Baptist Church. But what they are actually building is something very different. And when you look at 39 feet and three houses deep and two and a half to three houses wide right in front of us in the block behind single-family homes and up in the sky, it's a very different thing. So we have to – it's very convenient to think we know and to agree with something because it's so much easier than really to look in detail what is in this building, what is the capacity of this building, what can it do. When you call classrooms – classrooms, they're really just rooms. You could take down the walls. They have space. Why are they asking for seven additional classrooms when they got 13,000 square feet and up to 200 students in 2019? They have classrooms. One way or other, it's space. And how is it going to be used? There's a stage. We don't talk about the stage. What will be done with a stage in a space with 400 permanent bleacher seats and flexible seating on top of it and upper buffer where people could sit on top looking down because it's like an atrium. I also want to talk about the buffer. In back, there's a 50-foot mandated buffer, and they say they're doing that. But it's actually cement, and it's going to be a service road. I don't think that's a buffer. I think a buffer needs to be real trees and a buffer, so I think we need an additional 50 feet of buffer if that's a service road behind them. It was suggested at Planning Zoning that they take the classrooms off if they need extra space, do a separate little building next to the gym and take it down. They didn't want to do that. The pastor did not want to sign a commitment of how the space would be used. He said, we're not doing anything now, but who knows in the future? And the chairman said, I understand why you don't want to tie your hands. So I'm very, very concerned about locking down. We don't want to not permit the church to use their land. Locking down what it is, how it's going to be used, what the max capacity is, because we know that at some point the max capacity will be used, whether with this pastor or someone else. Thank you very much. And, you know, that will be an agenda item. We have not seen the plans yet, but that will be coming up most likely on the next meeting. Yes, I believe so. All right. Thank you for coming out tonight. All righty. Bye-bye. I don't have any other speaker forms for public comment. So seeing no one else for you want, but you want it to be on a specific item, correct? Okay. Yeah, so I'll call you on that item. And let's clarify, do you want to speak on it only if the item is pulled, or did you want to pull the item? Okay, so then you want to pull the item. Yeah. All righty. I don't want you to ask. Okay. I think we're clear. All righty. With that, public requests of the council are closed, and we will be moving on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda tonight consists of items 1 through 16 and may be approved with one motion. Do any members of the council wish to pull an item? Yeah. Really? Wow. This is twice you guys have done this. I'm so proud. All right. We have Ms. Johnson, item 1, and Mr. Conklin has pulled item number 15. You don't want to get up and say thank you, right? Okay. Wait till we call it. I'm not going to make you. I'm not going to make you come up yet. Okay. So 1 in 15 are pulled. Motion to approve items 2 through 14 and number 16. Thanks for helping me out, Council Member Andreu. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Ms. Beggro, please call the roll. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. Ms. Johnson, would you like to come up? Come on. You're going to make your debut. Okay. She wanted us to vote on it. So does anyone like to make a motion for item number 1? Motion to approve item 1. Item number 1 for the record is ITB number 041-26, Entry Wall Sign Project at the southeast corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Northwest 118th. I have a motion. And did I have a second? Second. Okay. Ms. Beggro. So please call the roll, and then we're going to hear from Ms. Johnson. Thank you. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. You need to tell them how long you've lived here. Yeah. Okay. My name is Jean Johnson. I live at 11230 Northwest 27th Street in North Plantation Acres. We built our home in 1971, and we've been residents consistently through that time. Currently, I have become the president of the Plantation Acres Women's Club, which was formed in, I think it was 1992, whatever. This has been an ongoing project of our club to put up these pillars and walls, and we sold the, what do they call them, memory bricks that people bought at that. Okay, so this is the last one, and I'm really glad you approved it, and I just want to thank you, and at a future time, the money we've raised will be given to the city to help us set the cost, and I just wanted to thank you all. Wonderful, and thank you for stepping up as president of the Women's Club. Yeah, and I wanted that as part of the minutes. Thank you again for coming out tonight. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. All right. Item number 15, Mr. Conklin, gateway expenditures, sir. Yes. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 640. I want to comment and thank the Women's Club because back in the day, we kind of felt like the redhead, freckled stepchild in Plantation Park East, and a lot of the time you hear just Park East, but we got the entryway pillars, and I think everybody knows that it's not Park East. It's Plantation Park East, so thank you. I pulled this again, and it's sort of to reinforce my request that I made earlier about the millage rate. The gateway is spending money on water and wastewater, and this one, it's over $3,000. And as I mentioned, between the Gateway 7, which I think they just, they don't call it that anymore, but the gateway development and the CRA, there's over $10 million there, and this comes out of the extra property tax that they're paying in addition to the bedrock property tax. So I just want to call attention to this. It's one of the chief reasons why I believe that the millage rate for the gateway should be zeroed out, at least for the duration of the CRA. So I'll yield back my time, but I mean, they're spending the money on water and wastewater, for crying out loud. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Do we have a motion to approve item number 15? Motion to approve, 15. Second. All right, Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Thank you very much. Item passes. Moving on to Item 17, Administrative Discussion Items, a discussion concerning the consideration of requests to amend the permitted uses of the B-2P zoning district to allow freestanding fast food restaurants with drive-through component. We'll be presenting that. Did we just lose Mr. Alper? We're moving too quickly for him? He didn't move. Ms. Zulk, how are you? Hi. Well, I'm going to jump right in. I know this is an item that we had discussed several years back. Yes. And at the time, the council agreed that we wanted to not have blanket approvals. We wanted to evaluate those proposals on a case-by-case basis. Right. That is still my position, so I don't know how my colleagues feel. I agree. That was easy. Okay. Boy, you handled that item beautifully. Oh, we don't need you. We're done. Consensus reached as you walked in the door. Mr. Alpert, all kidding aside, the council consensus is that we want to keep it the same way as we had approved years past. We would like to evaluate those on a case-by-case basis because I think that the – right, not a blanket approval. I think the feeling is that we want to be able to control any drive-ins that come into the city. Okay? Thank you very much for that. All right. I'm moving on to item 18, legislative items, a resolution of the city of plantation relating to the provision of stormwater management utility fee. Mr. Ezra, do you need to read that one? We're not required to read resolutions. I'm happy to read it if you'd like. Oh, come on. You can go ahead and read it. Okay. A resolution of the city of plantation Florida relating to the provision of stormwater management, making findings that certain real property will be specially benefited thereby, describing the method of calculating the cost of stormwater management service against the real property that will be specially benefited thereby, approving the stormwater management utility fee for the fiscal year beginning on October 1st, 2026, directing the city administration to prepare or direct the preparation of a preliminary stormwater management utility fee assessment role based upon the methodology set forth herein, establishing a public hearing for the proposed stormwater management utility fees, and directing the provision of notice and connection therewith, providing for conflict, severability, and an effective date. Thank you, Mr. Ezra. I needed you to buy me a little time, so I appreciate that. All right. Ms. Shailan. Good evening. Samira Shailan, city engineer. What I would like to do, if you allow me tonight, is to do a briefing on the workshop and discuss the funding option prior to go into the recommendation. Thank you. So, we conducted a public workshop with council and the public on June 24, and I would like to summarize. I will not go through the operation portion of the presentation. We covered that on June 24. I will just go over some of the data analysis and the funding portion. So, the stormwater utility, which is the subject of our discussion tonight, I want to go over the methodology of our current stormwater utility. Our current stormwater utility are based on ERU methodology. It's equivalent residential unit. What does that mean? That's a measuring unit of a stormwater assessment. We have a unit for residential, commercial, and multifamily that I will be discussing with you guys. So, today, our current code defined the ERU of 4,489 square footage of impervious area of a residential unit. What does that mean? In 2012, the city of plantation conducted an analysis on all the residential units of city of plantation and found that the average impervious area of a residential unit is 4,489. Therefore, it was set as our measuring unit, or ERU. I want to just define the word impervious. It's any area that doesn't drain naturally. Roofs, pool decks, sidewalks, driveways are an example of that, as we can see in the exhibit before us. Our current methodology define the residential unit. Every single home in city of plantation is measured as one ERU, regardless of the size of that home. A small home, as described on the left of the slide, or a larger home is one ERU. Commercial properties are defined the unit measurement. We measure the impervious area of that lot, and we divide by the 4,489. We find how many ERUs, and that's the measuring unit. Multifamily is the number of units. So, as the example shown on the exhibit, there is an apartment building of 48 units. Therefore, they are assessed on 48 ERUs. Fast forward to 2026. We did an update on all the residential unit of plantation. Plantation had grown throughout the years. People improved their properties. They added pools. They changed their driveways from a single driveway to a circular driveway, which resulted in evolved the residential unit. We did a comprehensive analysis using modern technology, and we found out that the 4,489 square foot had evolved into 4,838, which is a proper progression to our city. So, on June 24, we requested council to approve an ordinance on a first reading to adapt the new ERU as 4,838, and that was passed on first reading, and on tonight's agenda, it's a second hearing, agenda item number 22. Also, we introduced the methodology of residential tiering. We discussed with council and the public that our current criteria of every single family home, regardless of the size of the home, one ERU, is not the best, fair, efficient methodology, and we introduced and we proposed the residential tiering. We proposed five tiers, which Anna had went through her presentation. Tier 1 is from 0 to 2,500 square foot, and up to Tier 5, above 10,000 square feet, with an increment of 2,500 square foot of each tiering. Tier 1 was assigned half an ERU, Tier 2, one ERU, and again, half an ERU of increment of every tier. Tier 2, and council had approved that methodology throughout the ordinance on a first reading. We also discussed with council and the public our current funding, and I just want to express that the red, ah, I'm sorry, the red line is our current funding. The blue on the graph is our current operational need, the 10-year operational need, and the yellow is our current capital need. As we can see in this exhibit, our current funding is not sufficient to sustain acceptable level of service of operation, and it doesn't even fund any of our capital need. Therefore, we analyzed the funding, so the funding, we don't have enough funding to fund sustainable operation, and we don't have money to fund capital. So we, previously, we analyzed four funding options, and council had advised us to analyze an additional funding option of $96, which I'm going to go over in this presentation. So funding option number one is to do nothing, to keep the funding option the way it is, and as you can see in the, I call it the controller, from the red to the yellow to the green, again, I refer to it during my presentation. As I discussed before, this funding option is not sustainable and does not cover even our operation, acceptable level of operation. Therefore, it's not even an option, if you will. We started analyzing, how about if we increase our funding to $7.50, which equates to $90 per ERU annually. So that will move the needle from the red, we are in the yellow now. What does that mean? That means we will sustain our operation. We're going to improve our funding, and we will improve our operation. So we're not, we discussed with you on June 24, the culverts that collapsed and the conditions of some of the culverts in the historic districts, for example, that we had to replace on emergency basis, so this funding will not be enough to sustain emergencies, and it's not enough to cover capital funding that the stormwater master plan identified. However, we analyzed what does that mean for our resident under funding option number two, which is $90 per ERU, the Tier 1 will pay $45, and Tier 5 will pay $225. We moved on to the recommended funding option by Council on June 24, $96. This funding option moved the needle even more. It is very meaningful progress to City of Plantation. However, after analyzing this funding option, it is, it supports the maintenance and the operation. However, it's still not adequate to fund our capital. And I want to emphasize, when we say it's not adequate to sustain the capital, the impact on that, that some of the project will take longer to achieve. For example, and I'm going to go over one example, we have a couple of projects that we are designing, we may not move forward with the construction on the same pace if we have the available funding, more available funding to cover the entire project. Under this funding option, Tier 1 will be paying $48 per ERU, and Tier 5 will pay $240 per ERU. We moved along in the analysis, and we analyzed a funding option of $9 per ERU, which equates to $108 annually per ERU. This funding option, again, moved the needle now from the yellow to the green. Now we have sustainable operation. We have emergency repairs, but still we don't have full capital funding to implement, fully implement the stormwater master plan. Under this funding option, Tier 1 will pay $54, and Tier 5 will pay $270. We moved along, $125, that's our preferred option or recommended option. As you can see, it checks the boxes for our operation need, our emergency, and fully implement the stormwater master plan with some assistance from grant funding and other supplemental funds. Under this option, Tier 1 will be paying $62, and Tier 5 will be paying $312. I did a matrix to discuss these options and what can be done and what cannot be done. I'm not reading the slide. It is part of the backup. I'm just going to stop one more stop at the 96 that was recommended by council and read that. It expands the inspection, rehabilitation, and selected capital project, but still insufficient to fully implement the stormwater master plan and long-term resilience initiatives. Our capital needs for FY27, which was discussed with you on the workshop and summarized in this slide, we're advancing Basin 2, and for the general public, Basin 2 is the Park East community. We're requesting $750,000 for that project in construction cost. Citywide waterway restoration plan. And the objective of this project is to survey all city waterways and create a master plan that we can go and hunt for grant funding to do dredging for an improvement of our canals based on data-driven. The results and the recommendation going to be data-driven. Basin 3 drainage improvement. I apologize. Basin 2 is the Country Club Estate. Basin 3 is the Park East community. We're requesting $750,000 for construction funding and Park East for $250,000. Plantation Park Roadway and Drainage Improvement. This community is slated for paving. If you pass by the community, the roadways are in fair condition and in need of pavement, as described in the pavement survey. However, the stormwater master plan recommended some drainage improvement. And as we discussed in the strategic planning, we look at neighborhood improvement comprehensively. Therefore, we would like to advance the drainage improvement along with the roadway improvement. And this is an example of a project. I deferred the cost of the project into two fiscal years and distributed the project into two fiscal years in order to prepare a balanced budget based on council recommendation of the $96. So the current prepared budget, operation budget, the revenue expected from $96 per ERU is 4.88, almost 4.9. Our proposed expenditure for FY27 is almost $5,000,000,4.98, which in order to balance the budget, we're pulling $105,000 from fund balance to have a balanced budget of FY27. Our recommendation for you tonight to consider is funding the stormwater, establishing the stormwater assessment fee of $10.42 per month per ERU, which equates to $125 per ERU annually, and continue to do the residential tiering with the dollar sign in front of you of each tier. I just want to go over the timeline for this process. A public workshop was conducted on June 24, and on the same meeting, we introduced the first hearing of the legislative item to amend the code and establish the new ERU and residential tiering, which passed on first hearing. Tonight, we would like to adapt the preliminary stormwater rate, and I want to emphasize over here on July 29. This is a preliminary number on September 14 is the final hearing. However, on September 14, we can go lower. We cannot go higher. So if we establish, for example, 96, and we want to reconsider that on September 14, we can consider only a lower rate at that point, not a higher rate. And that's my briefing for tonight. I'm here to answer any questions. Thank you, Ms. Shailon. If my colleagues would allow, because I was not able to be present, I was on an airplane for the last one, I'd like to go for. That's all right. Thank you very much for the presentation and for the meeting prior to my leaving. I know how much went into this. I have a couple of comments to make, and I did go back and read the minutes and listen to the very thoughtful discussion that my colleagues had when you first presented this on June 24. A couple of things. You'd heard me mention earlier when we were talking about the millage rate that I had been in several other cities, and I texted you the night I was in Oakland Park because they were doing their preliminary budget, and I was shocked to see their rate, and they were raising their rate that night. So I've got a chart here. City of Plantation, out of 23 cities, is listed currently at 22, and I know you know this. So far, it's our rate, which is 54.74. Only Parkland is lower than we are. Coconut Creek is at the high end at 326.54. Oakland Park is proposing to raise theirs to $245. Even if we went up to the 1042, that would put us roughly in the middle of the pack, which, you know, I think we need to take into consideration that when the City of Plantation implemented this, I think it was 2012, the ERUs? Yes. That the rate did not change for 10 years. Correct. And I know we'll be discussing later on why you don't want to change the ERU to CPI because it's not consumer goods that we're dealing with, but they didn't even tie it to CPI. So $30 for 10 years, that was $250 a month. And I've said before that, unfortunately, this Council, whether we're talking about stormwater or we're talking about affordable housing, for various reasons, we've been put in the position where the can had been kicked down the road and sometimes was due to fiscal constraint. The economic downturn certainly impacted this city greatly, and the funds were not there to fund these projects. But even the stormwater master plan had been proposed, and the Council had decided not to go forward with that. So this Council's had to make difficult decisions, whether it be on development projects and approving them to get more affordability or certainly with raising the fees on the stormwater. You know, I think the City of Sunrise still ties to CPI. Others don't, but they're rather high, and they're a comparable-sized city. What I want to say about this is municipal leaders must manage today's priorities while continuing to invest in long-time financial sustainability, strategic planning, and infrastructure. No one wants to raise fees. We've already talked about the impact that our residents and we ourselves are feeling. But we have services to provide. And my concern is when I look at, I think in the past two years, we've had about a million dollars we've spent on emergency breaks. Correct. My concern is I don't want to sit up here personally. I'm not speaking for my colleagues and pat myself on the back and say we saved, you know, our household a couple of dollars a year when that equates to millions. And then a future Council, or even this Council, will have to, you know, deal with situations where we have breaking infrastructure and we haven't dealt with it. I started to think about, we're looking at the projects with Country Club Estates and Park East specifically. And you heard when Dr. Harada was here, we referenced the big storm that we all, that April, that we all experienced. And I recall getting phone calls from residents in Country Club Estates and Park East neighborhood that could not get out of their homes that day to get to work. So when I look at this, I think would those residents rather pay a dollar or two or $10 or $20 more a year than lose that day of income that many of them lost because they couldn't get to work that day. So I think that we have to look at it in a broader respect. Having said that, and I know that there will continue to be a thoughtful discussion on this, my preference tonight would be to set the rate at the 1042. As you said, much like the millage rate, we have the opportunity to then lower it because I think that it's something that we still need to discuss. I know that Council, you know, struggled with that, rightfully so, because they were worried about the financial impact for the residents. But I think there's still more conversations to be had around that. And, you know, when we look at what's potentially coming down the road if Amendment 3 passes, unfortunately, a lot of the quality of life things that our residents choose to enjoy our city, parks and recreation, we've heard everything that we do with that. Those may be tough hits that we have to take. But the infrastructure of this city and providing public safety are the number one things that we have to provide for the residents. And those can't take the hits. We have to maintain the infrastructure in a 73-year-old city. So for that reason, my colleagues, I would prefer tonight to set the rate at 1042, and then when we have that second hearing, reduce it if we'd like. Thank you for your time. Councilmember Fadgen, go ahead. I warn you. Well, listen, I wasn't here for the first meeting, so I had a lot to say. I was in D.C. trying to help. Grants. Councilmember Andre and then Councilmember Reince, too. I completely understand your point of view, President Horland, but I still stand by setting it at the $96. I think I mentioned that night, you know, we can review and revisit this again next year, but such a drastic increase in one year makes me uncomfortable. So if you look at the monthly, and I understand, but to be transparent, right, we're all billed annually. So to see your bill go from $54 to $125, it's a drastic increase, and that's how everybody's going to see it on their bill. So I think to at least stay under $100 and go from $54 to $96, I didn't do the math, but still probably about 90%. Oh, the mathematician is over there doing the math for me. I have to break out my calculator. But, you know, I feel like at least we're doing this in increments. I know that, again, we cannot neglect these capital issues. They are important. I'm not stating that they're not. But I just think we have to be sensitive. You know, we're not rolling back the millage rate, and to now just increase all of our other fees, it's going to be very difficult for residents to swallow. So I stand by the 96. Thank you, Council Member Andrea. Can you allow me to respond for a second? And I'm fine with your analysis, however, I want to express what I wanted to pull the presentation one more time, and I'm going to do it in a second. Again, I expressed when we prepared the budget and we started working on the analysis and what we can do, what we cannot do, after feedback from Council and the 96, I stood by the four projects that we are proposing, and I went back, took all your feedback from the one-on-one or the public discussion, and I analyzed, okay, none of these projects are not important at this point, and I cannot say, okay, let's defer the Park East project. Let's defer the country club estate to a later date. So what the analysis showed, you have to put them on a longer span. So, for example, as I said on the slide, Plantation Park, the previous, the scenario one, if you will, at 125, I proposed a 1.2 million of construction fund in Plantation Park. That was based on 5.9 proposed budget. On 96, $96 per ERU, I need to cut 1.3 million. So in order to do that, I expanded, I elongated the project into two fiscal years, which is going to have negative impact on the roadway paving project. I just want to emphasize that, the waterway restoration also. Initially, the request of the budget was $400,000. $96 will not give us enough budget to fund the entire project. When I met with some of the council, they gave me some tips. Okay, maybe you don't do the entire city. You do half of the city on year one, then you do the other half, which, again, elongated the term of the project. What is the impact of something like that? We want to tier the city for some funding. And nowadays, the funding, you need to do the due diligence. You need to have the master plan of the waterway. Let's say we're applying for the Florida Resilience Fund. I need to have a master plan for all our waterway. And based on priorities, how many feet of muck is in our canals? And there is more into grant application than just one page of grant application that we are aware. So I just want to emphasize that we did the analysis and the impact is going to be elongating our project into multiple fiscal year, which is going to delay some of the productivity of these projects. So, Ms. Shailene, not to interrupt Ms. Councilmember Andreu, but just to be clear, we're talking about Plantation Park. So are you saying with delaying and really bifurcating that project that the residents of Plantation Park could be undergoing construction for a year to two? The paving of Plantation Park is funded by the surtax fund, and my understanding that fund will be available October 1st to us. Right. But I'm talking about the actual construction if you are paying for it. In order to do the paving, we need to do the drainage underneath the fund. If I don't have enough, I may phase the project. I may not pave the entire community. We may say, okay, the area that needs drainage improvement is going to be delayed into FY28 until we do the drainage project. So what I'm trying to explain is it's a domino effect on the project and the timeline of the productivity of the project. I need to be transparent with you on the impact of these decisions on projects and our community. And that's the information we need because there have been multiple complaints from residents who live in that area about the paving, and it's much like the water main project out in Park East that started before any of us were sitting up here and still not completed. So residents get frustrated when, and I know that you're coordinating with Public Works very well on these projects, but it could be a delay in getting these projects completed if we do it. Okay, thank you very much. Councilmember Andrea, did you have anything else on that? Okay, thank you. Councilmember Reinstein and then Councilmember Anderson. Yes, thank you very much. I appreciate your detail, and I know you've said that you want to make sure that you're transparent in terms of what can be accomplished and what our limitations are, and you've set that out very clearly. Most of this I think you also set out during the workshop, and so while I appreciate Council President Hoyland's comments tonight because you didn't have the opportunity to speak during the workshop, most of this we've discussed as well as what at the time I think was some consensus in terms of what the funding option was from the dais, and in looking at again and listening again very intently to the impact that any type of I think you said elongating out, right? So some type of delay in completing these projects, and I heard my colleague, Councilmember Andrea, looking at the math, and the mayor was thinking about it. Very simply, in looking at option one around $50 and option three is we're already jumping up to $96. It's almost 50% increase, yet we're under that $100 mark, once we go all the way up to the $125, I think it's scary, and we talk about the impact on the projects, but it's also the impact on our pockets, and I think Council President Hoyland made a comment earlier tonight about the cost of gas rising. I mean, everything's more expensive, and so, you know, my faith in you and your department is that, you know, if the decision tonight is option three, which expands inspections, allows rehabilitation, and selected capital improvements, and I'm reading from one of the tables that you provided, that you're going to select those capital improvements that are the most necessary, and you're going to do everything that you always do to make sure that our residents are safe and sound. And if we need to revisit this next year, or there needs to be some kind of emergency action, which sometimes happens, we'll take it, because that's what we do. But that being said, I do feel that for the same reasons that I stated the last time that we met on this, that option three is the best way to go. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Reinstein, Council Member Anderson, and then Council Member Fadgen. Similar comments. Probably I don't remember exactly what we all said, but I think I was leaning towards about a dollar higher than my colleagues, only because I know the pain on people's pocketbooks, but this flooding and costs for emergency repairs are astronomical. Any of our construction costs, you see me pull a lot of those, they are already high when we plan them, try to do it as an emergency. It's astronomically higher. I don't want to be like Fort Lauderdale or Dade that defers and defers and then things fail. We've got to take our medicine and do it. So I lean on slightly higher, but how often do we readdress the rates? Could we, as we phase in some of these big ones, Park East and Country Club Estates and Plantation Park, as we phase them in, could we, after three, four, five years, do we, how often do we, is it automatic to bring it back up or do we have to remember to ask you to bring them back up? No. Every year I have to bring this presentation and the rate by resolution to your attention. And we just didn't change it all for so many years. Yeah. From 2012 to 2022, the rate was flat at $25. So I respect the consensus. I'm all for it. I lean to slightly higher. I know it's a jump, but the jump is from 50 to about 100. So it's about a $50, isn't that right? I don't even remember all the numbers. 108? 108. 108. 108. I mean from the... So it's $9,800, right? 54.47 to 96. So, yes, percent-wise, it's a huge jump. We're talking one time out to dinner or whatever to fix flooding that's happening all over our city. And we've had two 100-year floods in 10 years. Two. If you allow me also one more second. I don't want to spill the bean of the community survey, which I think is going to be discussed with all of us publicly soon. Laura had forwarded the director some comments from the residential survey or the community survey. And flooding was one of the issues. Dredging the canals was specifically on the residents' minds. So as we look at the communities and the need of the communities and what their wants and needs, that was one of the items that the community had identified as we rolled the community service. I want to bring it to your attention. And I'm sure the administration is going to discuss in further detail some of these findings. Thank you, Ms. Shailon. And again, this discussion is important. I don't think anyone up here on either side of it were cognizant of the increased cost. As Councilmember Anderson said, the cost of concrete and just those emergency repairs, you can't even equate it to what we're feeling as consumers. So I think that our concerns are real, you know, while still being sensitive to what it's doing to people's pocketbooks. So Councilmember Anderson, do you have more on that? And then I'll go to the mayor. Basically, I'll yield back. Mayor, you wanted to weigh in? Thank you. Thank you. So you have to bring this up every year if we want to bring it up, right? But if you get the big amount now, does that mean you're not going to come up next year? And if so, and we approve it now, then we're saving our time later on. Well, $125 based on the analysis is going to give us enough funding to roll the city of plantation master plan, stormwater master plan with some supplemental fund with grant funding. Because just to put some logic, the dredging, it's tens of millions of dollars. It's nonsense. Because if we want to really put a dollar sign on dredging our canals, to my understanding of the last time city of plantation did dredging was 2002. So it's 24 years accumulation of sedimentation in our canals that we want to start now before it becomes a problem that we cannot pull water and pump the water. So we're trying to be ahead of the curve in rolling our master plan and our projects. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor, do you have anything else? Council member Fadgen, did you reconsider? You've never been having a lack of words. I don't want to force you into it. Well, I'm thinking of all the time we've been speaking about this tonight. We've had a workshop. You've asked us to come meet with you individually. You got a consensus from us, notwithstanding what council member Horland putting her thoughts into it, which I appreciate and I understand. I feel like we've been re-pitched tonight. And if we're going to be doing it this way, we can save a lot of time with the workshops. We've done a lot of workshops this year. Time is very valuable. So I'm a little, I would like to, if we changed our thoughts on what our consensus is, then let's, let's have that conversation. But I say, I'm ready to vote. Thank you for that. I understand your thoughts, but I think that council, again, I wasn't here, did give Ms. Shailon a directive. And I think coming back with those numbers was important so we can take a look at it, much like we do with the budget process. So I think that that was an important exercise and I appreciate the time to be able to weigh in. I've stated where I am. If there is not a consensus to go to the 125, I would like to do that just because we would have the opportunity to lower it. We would not have the chance to go back again. That would be my preference. But if we could get a consensus to at least go up to the 108 tonight, and again, understanding that we could lower it, I would appreciate that so that we could, perhaps there are other questions, and perhaps some conversations with residents in the interim who live on these canals and live in these communities that will be impacted with these projects. Now let me just clarify. This item is for voting to vote on the preliminary rate. Right. So I would like to hear the motion. Right. We would need a motion. Yeah. So I'm trying to get to see where we're at. I've heard my colleagues. I'm just trying to urge them at least if we could go up to the 108 tonight because we get another crack at it. So does anyone want to make a motion? I'm at the 108, but I don't think our colleague might. Would you like to make a motion? We can always call the vote. Okay. Well, you don't know until you try. Okay. I make a motion for 108 for the stormwater assessment. All right. I will second it. Ms. Beggaro, would you please call the roll? Councilmember Andreu? No. Councilmember Fadgen? No. Councilmember Reinstein? No. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. If you'd like to come up and comment on it. That's fine. Go ahead. Wait. Do we have to? Yeah. It's already failed. Yeah. I knew it was failed. Yeah. But do you want to comment on the – we're going to – so do we have a motion on the item? It's for 108, right? Mm-hmm. But it failed. Yeah, but it failed. It failed. So why don't you hold off one moment, Mr. Conklin, because the item failed. Okay. Do I have a motion on – let me read. I could be wrong. I thought after motion in a second then – Yes, you are correct, but it had already failed. Legislative – don't go away, Mr. Conklin. Mr. Conklin. I'll just get out of the view of the camera. That motion – that motion failed. Do – part. Do you need the vote? Yes. And the vote is – and the vote is complete. Yeah. So that was the motion – For 108. For 108. For 108. Mm-hmm. And now can we – motion for – I took – there's a – was that the – there was no motion to approve the resolution? That was the first motion? Yes. There wasn't a motion to approve this particular resolution. Resolution. Okay. So – There was a – there was a moment on the – on the right. So I will entertain a motion at – I'll make the motion to approve option three. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Conklin. This is at the 96 – is option three to current? 96. Thank you. I don't have it in front of me. It is. It's 96 dollars. I thought that the President seconded the first one, so I apologize. I did. It was my error, Mr. Conklin. I – I just want to clarify. The resolution is drafted at 96. Correct. So we're approving the resolution. Correct. I was looking for a new rate. Yes. Right. Go ahead, Mr. Conklin. Thank you, Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. It's going to sound strange for me. You heard my request that you use the rollback for the millage rate. And part of the reason is because of the windfall tax profits that's been going on. But as was mentioned during the discussion to lead to this motion, you're talking about damage that can happen that far exceeds this. Okay. So I'm for the rollback on the millage, but I'm for the 125. You have to take reality. The city budget is very nebulous and everything else like that. But I can tell you that our property went through the big one, and it went through Wilma. And we were damaged by Wilma, not the big one. And it was because the city trees in the swale, the top third of it broke off and went across our roof. And back then everybody had to have a roof, and it took us a year to get watertight again because there were no materials. I mean, it was just impossible. So you can't, you just can't not do this. And you can roll back the rate because in that great big budget, you've got a $388 million amount of money that is more than the budget for the year that I know you can find the difference. So it may sound strange, but I'm for the 125 because in Plantation Park East, we basically have, we've got the canal, this main one, C10 or C12, I forget. And then we have the ancillary one from the Turnpike. And if you all remember, when they did that one, that's what really messed up Plantation Park East because they didn't put the check valves in. Hello. So as soon as that filled up, we couldn't push the water out of Plantation Park East. And they mentioned the dredging. At 42nd Avenue, there's the second basically canal that empties into the C12 canal. And that was dredged because it was completely overgrown. And it not only had the fill that just kind of drops in and everything else, but I mean, it was like a greenhouse had grown up. I mean, there were trees and everything else like that. So this is too important to give short shrift to. Roll back the millage and go and get this fixed. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. I apologize for the error there. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion on the item? No? No. To clarify, this is to adopt that resolution? Resolution at 96. Thank you. Councilmember Andrew, you? Yes. Councilmember Patchen? No. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? No. Councilmember Horland? No. Well, Mr. Ezra, so we have a resolution before us. What happens if this resolution fails? You will not be setting your annual assessment and it will not go on the trim notice. So I am going to ask for... If no resolution passes... Right. It stays at the 50th. Correct. Correct. That's what I thought. Okay. How would you suggest we... Is that like a point of order? Yes, we... Yes, you may. So currently we have before us, and in part of the presentation, we have five options. And in listening to Councilmember Anderson, who I think I heard you suggest that option three plus a dollar beyond that, you were looking at $97. If we were to... No. That was the $9 a month. Goes to $108. Which is $108. Which is $108. So option four. Yeah. But I just... If I may, I see where you're going. Maybe make $8.50 a month rather than $9. Just somewhere in the middle, meet in the middle or something. Sure. And that's my point of order, is that can we suggest an option that has not been presented tonight? Yes, you can. You could make a motion to amend the... The rate is already in the reso at $96. You can make a motion to approve the reso as amended with a different number. Then option 3.5, so something in between option three and four. Yes, sir. Or if you... If I may, Mr. Ezraal, we could set it at the height rate and reduce it at the final hearing, correct? As Ms. Shailon has stated. Yes, you can. Because what I... We're setting the maximum as we did the millage rate, so I hate to get in a back and forth and have another resolution come before us if there may be further discussion about what that rate might be. So that's why I had asked if we could at least set it at the $125 tonight, have further conversations with residents such as Mr. Conklin. And then if Council did want to hold steady at that $96, then we would do that on the final. Hearing... Council President, if I may? Yes, sir. Hearing that you are looking at option five and there has been some support for option three, would you be supportive if we could compromise with option four for tonight? I would absolutely take option four as a compromise. I'll make a motion to approve... Wait a minute for that. Mr. Ezraal, how shall we proceed? An amended... There was a vote. I'll make a motion to approve an amended resolution utilizing option four at 108 per ERU as the calculated number. Thank you, Council Member Reinstein. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion from the public? No? Ms. Beggarow, please call the roll. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fajan? No. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Shaylan, for the presentation. Moving on to item 19, an ordinance creating a section entitled Standards for Florida Friendly Fertilizer Use on Urban Landscapes. We will be presenting that. May I read the title to this? Yes, you may. Thank you. This is a public hearing first reading of an ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida pertaining to Landscaping. Amending Article 10, Landscapes Standards by amending Section 27-251 entitled Landscape Definitions and amending Article 10, Landscaping Standards by creating Section 27-268 entitled Standards for Florida Friendly Fertilizer Use on Urban Landscapes of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Plantation, Florida, providing for severability, codification, conflicts, and an effective date. Thank you, Ms. Rosdahl. Good evening, Ms. Morris. Good evening. And it's a pleasure not to be talking about garbage. Um, though it's not as much fun as talking about freebie, I've got to be honest. Um, this is an ordinance that we had a question about at our last meeting. This is the Model Fertilizer Ordinance in the State of Florida. Your Sustainability Board has recommended adoption. Um, it is actually something that if you are in an impaired watershed, which we are, should have been adopted a number of years back. It has not been, so this would take the Model Ordinance and insert it into your code. Thank you, Ms. Morris. Will this, um, affect the way we do business at all, when it comes to Public Works or Landscaping? Public Works and Parks have both reviewed the ordinance. They're fine. And is it something that we would also push out information-wise to the public? 100%. On social media? Okay, great. Thank you very much. Uh, Councilmember Weinstein. Yeah, I want to thank you for bringing this forward. Um, I was looking back at my emails because I remember, um, I think it was about two years ago where, or a year and a half ago, where Dr. Long had, um, had brought this to my attention. And I know we discussed it back then. And I remember that, um, you had said it was a process and we were working on it. So I'm glad to finally see it before us. I don't see Dr. Long here tonight, but, uh, um, I'm sure that, um, she, as well as, uh, our advisory board will be, uh, very happy that we, we have finally put this on the agenda. So thank you very much. Yes. And we want to thank them for bringing it forward. Um, any further discussion, Councilmembers? Anyone from the public? Just thank you. Yes. Also, Ms. Morris. I appreciate you working so diligently on it. And if possible, I'll make the motion to approve. Absolutely. And do we have a second? Second. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Councilmember Andrew? Yes. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. And, um, as I stated at the beginning of the meeting, item number 20 has been deferred until August 12th. Mr. Conklin, you handed us some paperwork on that item. Would you like us to just hold onto it until the next meeting? Okay. Thank you for that, sir. All right. Item number 21 is a second reading of an ordinance of the city of Plantation, Florida, pertaining to the subject of procurement, amending chapter two of the city code of ordinances, specifically repealing and replacing Article nine contracts and paraphrasing. Mr. Ezra. Yes. This is a public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the city of Plantation, Florida, pertaining to the subject of procurement amending chapter two of city code of ordinances, specifically repealing and replacing article nine contracts and purchasing, Providing for codification severability a savings clause conflicts and an effective date Council any discussion on that second reading ocean approved. All right. Do I have a second second? All right Any discussion from the public? No. All right. Miss big girl, please call the world council member Andre you? Yes That's the member fashion. Yes council member reinstein. Yes council member Anderson. Yes member Horland. Yes Item number 22 second reading of an ordinance of the city of plantation, Florida pertaining to the subject of the stormwater Management utility fee amending chapter 9 floodplain and stormwater management mr Ezra public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the city of plantation, Florida pertaining to the subject of the stormwater management Utility fee amending chapter 9 floodplain and stormwater management article 7 entitled stormwater management utility section 9 dash 1 0 1 entitled definitions for utility to amend the definitions of equivalent residential unit and eru rate amending section 9 dash 1 0 3 Entitled stormwater management utility fee to provide that equivalent equivalent residential units and eru rate shall be established by resolution amending section 9 dash 1 0 4 entitled annual modifications and evaluations To revise annual index adjustment providing for codification severability conflicts and an effective date Thank You mr. Ezra all do we have a motion motion to approve and a second Second any discussion any from the public. No, mr. Biggerow. Please call the world council member. Andrew. Yes. Council member Fajan. Yes Council member reinstein. Yes. Council member Anderson. Yes. That's member Horland. Yes. Thank you very much Item number tweet tweet 23 is PD 25 dash 0 0 4 Second reading of an ordinance of the city council of plantation, Florida adopting a 2025 2025 2025 2025 2045 Comprehensive plan replacing the adopted comprehensive plan in its entirety In its entirety, mr. Ezra all public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the city council of plantation, Florida adopting a 2025 to 2045 Comprehensive plan replacing the adopted constant comprehensive plan in its entirety providing for the following elements of the comprehensive plan future land use transportation and mobility housing sanitary sewer potable water storm water and drainage solid waste conservation recreation and open space intergovernmental coordination capital improvements public schools facilities neighborhood design property rights and resiliency and sustainability amending the physical and digital versions of the city of plantation comprehensive plan providing for Transmittal to the state land planning agency and the Broward County Planning Council providing for conflict severability Providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict and providing an effective date. Thank you, mr. Ezra. Well, I think that's the last one Mr. Alpert before I welcome you we would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the work that mr. Holmes put into this the shame He couldn't be here with us tonight. We heard from his wife that he spent many nights and weekends working on this comprehensive plan It has been a very heavy lift and we're grateful for his efforts and for your department's efforts. So please sir. Thank you I'm Michael Albert and term director planning zoning and economic development and actually I was going to mention Mr.. Holmes spearheaded this effort and yes, he spent many a night Working hard at this getting this going so I do have some good news. I do not have a 78 slide presentation for this I'm just going to say a few words and be open for questions Perfect So purse section 163 point 3167 to of the Florida statutes The state requires each local government to maintain a comprehensive plan that complies with the Community Planning Act So the city has prepared a new 2025 to 2045 comprehensive plan to guide the future growth redevelopment infrastructure investment environmental stewardship Mobility housing economic development and public facilities over the next 20 years the plan includes two volumes the Comprehensive plan goals objectives and policies and volume two is the data inventory and analysis and of course all that's in the backup It was vetted heavily by our planning and zoning board by many members of staff The council and so forth not going to go into the details here, but this is the second reading which we proposed for adoption So the proposed comprehensive plan was developed through extensive public planning process as I said involving staff advisory board stakeholders the public and so forth in December of 2025 the City Council approved on first reading which authorized the transmittal to To the state of Florida specifically the Department of Commerce as well as South Florida Regional Planning Council and other required reviewing agencies Pursuant to the process established by the statute Department of Commerce did advise that certain proposed objectives and policies were considered more restrictive or potentially more restrictive This is a result of Senate bill 180 So we submitted our comp plan they had comments we had to Remove some of the objectives goals and policies That's listed in your backup. We work collaboratively with them To ensure consistency with that statute So subsequently they completed their review and in the letter dated May 22nd 2026 they advised that we could move forward no more comments no further comments and we may proceed with adoption and I was going to say recognizing Dan Holmes staff recommends approval. Thank you, mr Alpert. I was going to call you mr. Holmes for a moment Thank you for that Council knows that simultaneously while we were working on this the Brown County Planning Council was working on the brown next plan and because things were pending with Senate bill 180 We bifurcated the plan and only submitted part of it because was it Orlando Orange County had their plan rejected out right when they sent it up So we wanted to avoid that cities as well several other cities did as well and we did not want to go Down that same route it would be no surprise to anyone here that I do not believe that Elected officials in Tallahassee should be deciding the planning of our community the residents and the administration and council and planning professionals in our community Should decide our planning so I was not surprised but quite disappointed to see the comments that came back from Florida Commerce when it comes to tree canopies and native planting and sustainability and Integrated landscaping to prevent heat island effects and shopping plazas and we had to remove all of that Additionally this council had asked that applicants come in with the traffic study And that was pulled out also that extra traffic study due to the decisions made out of Tallahassee So I just want the public to be made aware of that a lot of work went into this and a lot of the protections we put in there for the community We were advised to take out or the plan would not have been approved So I think it's important to note that we do have a couple of residents who would like to speak tonight I'd like to turn to my colleagues first and see if they have any comments and then I'll put the residents on deck No, okay If I may In respect to what you just said about removing some of the policies the good news is that some of them are in our code our land development code So we do still have some teeth with some of these things particularly traffic studies. We do have the ability to ask for those So the landscaping we we obviously prefer native native plantings and other things I reviewed these comp these objections, but Not all of them, but many of them are within our city code of ordinances already So we do have that other layer. We have some play there. Yes. Yeah, but you just can't mandate it Okay, thank you for that mr. Opert I have signed up on this item mr. Conklin and mr. McMillan and the mr. Grosso mr. Conklin Would you like to come up and speak on this item? Dennis Conklin four five eight one Northwest six court just very quickly Mike my concerns over this because it's a really long read and I don't use the whatever they call it chat and AI Mike my concerns were drawn to future land use housing and neighborhood design basically and I think a lot of the comments might be What does this mean for? or 70th Avenue in West Broward Boulevard in a Basically residential area that winds up being you know multi-story towers and stuff like that and future land use of you know all kinds of stuff plantation isn't going to be too affected by this but throughout the state with the I guess you would say everybody's bright idea for AI is requiring data centers, but um I I I was a kid in the 50s and black and white TV You had these they were about this big and it was reel-to-reel tape Magnetic tape for computers. It filled the whole building and I hit college in 1960s and it was Fortran and the thing was that desk and punch cards You know with a little clipped uh, you know what I'm saying and the power increased I mean I was multiplied and then uh, they came up with the IBM for a desktop and then it came up with Laptops and then what was it? Steve job came up with the iPhone and each time this stuff gets more and more compact and more and more powerful and when you're You're you're heading for stuff and again plantation doesn't have this space for this, but Florida does these these data centers basically you can stop and think I Watched the budget and you're always having to renew the laptops Right, you're not going to need these great big structures. So so what is that all about? at first the Red flags were raised for water and electricity Electricity, but once those buildings aren't used what was it that got them there? They changed the land use and it wasn't just for there. It was for because they had to have a buffer zone It's basically a land grab so they're not going to be used basically probably within five to seven years But whoever it is that bought that land has got that land and it removes it from Affordability of housing so we're we're turned to surfs in in tsarist Russia or While there's kings and everything else in Europe You're a subject and not a citizen. So I yield back my time And some of those applicants are asking for water rights as well. So we need to look at the environmental impacts Thank you, mr. Conklin. Mr. McMillan and mr. Grosso. Good evening. I know those benches are very uncomfortable I had a good song break It's good to see you mr. Millen. Yeah, it's good to see y'all. All right. Let's get right to it policy 0 1 Bravo 0 1 0 8 number 12 deals with residential density When this was approved in the first reading the cap was set at 25 come back today It's at 50. So my question is why did it go from 25 to 50 for dwellings per acre? I'm gonna ask mr. Alpert. No, I'm gonna ask what which we turn to planning staff. Could you I know you don't have a slide mr. Alpert. Do you have Can you pull up the item on your yet? Mr. McMillan? Can you say it one more time slowly? You went to pick quickly Residential density thank you I'm sorry guys on questions, but sure I don't have a lot of background let us just pull it up Yes, you know, it's a big document Go back There's nothing there that you change the whole table. It's not the loop of criteria now Let me pull it up. No, I'll wait for mr. Alpert to pull it up. Okay Mr. McMillan we we we said do before that's what we're here for president Horland. Can you give us the number again? I'm sorry I didn't I will give you the is It's zero one B Zero one B as in Bravo. Yeah Zero one zero eight twelve. I'm gonna try to get it up to but it must be The transmittal there. I'm sorry. Mr. McMillan is that the table? Oh, can you see it? Okay? Okay Yeah, which was not on the original so that is for the midtown district, right? It's not city-wide that's just saying that we have a category where we did have a comprehensive plan workshop You would have to apply for a land-use plan amendment to to reach that in an area that has a different density On the current designation and I think it's that spelled out under the lupa criteria. Yes, okay So I think that's under Hold on let me go back Midtown is a district that the council previous councils Designated as an area for for growth for growth and development Yep, mr. McMillan why don't you come up to the microphone so we can hear you I think that lupa criteria is laid out in zero one a Point zero three point zero four Go ahead with your concern sir. Well my concern is is we've increased it to 50 We've operated with midtown at 25 for the last 10 years Right and and look, I'll be the first to admit I understand that it's just a number no water's edge was just approved You know they'll say that it was 22 per acre But it's really 74 per acre because they're only building on six acres, but they use 22 acres and a dashed line to Calculate it. I just don't understand why we need to go to 50 I don't understand that the purpose behind it. Is it going to help the city? I mean in In in actuality we complain about the impact of live local yet we make changes like this which would make it easier for live local to be incorporated into our city One of the few things that live local has difficulty with is density in our ordinances And as we increase it unless it's been changed I've read 102, but I'm not sure if it's been changed or not not necessarily and We've talked about live local before I mean basically if they come in and meet the density We're going to remember they can go within a mile of that proposed Project and go as high as that building with the density with the midtown and mr Alpert can explain it better as he said past councils when they approve that midtown plan and we've had several discussions about that Is that's where we're trying to have the density go because the plan for midtown was to support and I know we've had this conversation To support the business district and many of the businesses that went into that area Went into that area based upon we're going to have this village that's going to be higher density And so that's where we were heading with that you go to 50 you're now you're talking 12-story buildings You're talking you know, it doesn't you don't put a 50 per acre on a three-story building But again, it's not it's not by right and it is they would have to apply and they'd have to meet all the criteria Which is in that other policy and I'll read that out to you again that number if you want to check it They'd have to meet all the criteria in that lupa criteria. I just think that by adding this into our comprehensive plan We're making it easier I know you didn't do the rewrite. There's 31 Municipality centers our cities in Broward County and we'll be the fifth to have a 50. I'm sorry No, no, you're you're you're okay because we've taken that to have 31 to have 50 Density right and I don't know what the other 26 cities are doing, but they're not building big apartments apparently mr. Alpert did I explain it? Do you want to you you did actually explain it pretty well? It this was we had comprehensive plan workshop back in 2023 and we discussed Focusing our development efforts and redevelopment efforts on what we ended up later adopting as priority redevelopment areas So one of those is the Midtown district and the other one is the Gateway district And then potentially there are other areas that are along transit corridors such as Sunrise Boulevard so Midtown is where we want to focus that because it's not just for housing both affordable and market rate housing But it's also to help economic development to help the businesses thrive to actually reduce trips because of mixed-use projects and so forth So it was discussed several times About increasing it specifically in Midtown to 50 and so that's that's what that provision is for Councilmember Reinstein would like to weigh in if you want to ask a question. I do Thank you mr. Alpert particularly so I'm looking at I think what I had heard was that it's policy FLU 0 1 B point 0 1 0 8 and Well, I heard it was sub number 12 And I don't specifically see it states that this policy reflects Or is is is in Midtown only and maybe because it's referencing that through another policy? Can you just point that out for clarification where it says where is it because if I'm looking at the I see you have the table up But I thought the policy that was referenced Says where and I have it on page 53 of 245 of the volume 1 mr. McMillan I'm gonna I'm gonna read it one more time because I want to make sure I looked it up correctly you said FLU 0 1 B 0 1 point 0 1 point 0 8 Yeah, correct That's the table Correct. I understand the table, but I if you go to the top of the top of it where the policy is right there sure So can you point out? Where it specifies Midtown only One second mr. McMillan it I would just want to give Um mr. Alpert an opportunity And councilmember Reinstein what page are you on? I have page 53 of 245 in volume 1 page 53 of the total of 245 not the page that is referenced on the document and mr. Albert I know that when when I asked you this question previously you also told me as well midtown and And yes, but if you can locate it there just to specify no It doesn't specifically say that what what happens in this section is it lists all the Approved densities, but doesn't necessarily designate them on parcels So currently every parcel on the property has a land use designation whether it's residential commercial so forth with the residential ones There is a density so someone would have to we don't have any with 50 what that's saying is Currently you'd have to request the 50 okay Although I thought I also heard you say though that that request is only Permitted in midtown up to the 50 is that correct that was the intent of this yes Okay, so I understand that's the intent of it right where's that? specify that that category is limited to midtown So I would refer you to the lupa criteria is that was the policy that I had Mentioned and that's where it lays out the criteria For that and then you've got the future land you use map Right nations right than that, but if you go to and I just read it out loud and let me find it again So since we didn't have up to 50 before we don't have any parcels with 50 yet Until this is adopted that's not an allowable Priority land so so that policy if I may is again zero one a Point zero three point zero four and that sets out the land use plan amendment criteria Which this would be have to be a lupa? All right, great. So if I'm a council president Absolutely So the the reference to zero one a point zero three point zero four I think that council president horland mentioned I want confirmation mr Alper that that reference takes us back to the table and And to 12 residential density Which would confirm that the category that could reach a high of 50 is limited to midtown Okay, is that I mean because that's what I heard that's what I heard you ex say Right, but I don't I didn't see it in terms of the clear reference In the document and if it's there it may very well be there, but I just want to make sure that We're we're we're a hundred percent clear and everybody sees it because right that's what I heard one of the concerns from mr. McMillan was in terms of the 50 and your your comment your was limiting it to midtown and I want to make sure that that is as clear as can be in the document. Yeah Understood. I don't believe it's that I don't know if we have that actually in there honest, but we did talk about it We did change when we did the parking and zoning ordinance. We made that change as a maximum I'm not sure if it's in here So council president may I think just one more is that on that point if it's not in there right despite the fact that I heard council president Reference it right do you believe it needs to be in there in order to make sure that? Looking down in the future. Maybe it won't be you here. Maybe it won't be us here But somebody will say well, it's not clear as it's not reference because what I'm thinking of is that normally I I would think that in that section 12 It would say see another section or it would clearly reference another section so that there's no there's no question in the future If you agree with that, yes, if it's not in there, I think we should have okay that amended language so to me it sounds like that's necessary and Whatever we do tonight. I would like to make sure that that Edit is made right mr. Albert to that point wouldn't it be reflected on the future land use map the parcels what's permitted on those yes, it it currently is right with the maximum being 25 right now Right because and then again They can apply for that. Okay, right. We can make that amendment. Yes. Okay, but council president is this is second reading so Yes, we can still make a change. We can still okay make the change You can make a motion to approve it and direct staff Based upon that change the correct adding clarity to that yes Yeah, I we have a little bit of more comments on it But then we can do that absolutely mr. V millen do you have anything else on that and would that satisfy you that we make add some clear? I know you're not gonna be satisfied with the 50, but no, I can do what I can do Yeah, but it has been a three-year-long discussion Well, I'm glad at least and prior to midtown like yeah, I saw mr. Laystrom sharpening up his pencil for marketplace Policy 01 B 0 1 0 2 there is a change in the calculation of gross acreage We added a line that says include the center line of adjacent streets Into the calculation of the gross acreage used for density and my question is why did we add the addition of adjacent streets the center line of adjacent streets the right-of-ways It says this is property that the proponent doesn't own He can't build on but we're going to use it to calculate the density of what he can build That is already in the Broward County land-use plan and that is already house city of plantation has done it This is just codifying it Correct. Yes, it's a clarification. It's clarifications. It's in the county. That's the only reason. Yes, and that is how it's done You normally take the acreage and any adjacent Street halfway half of the right-of-way that's consistently how it's done throughout Broward County so and I Come to the microphone It does not state that you use the right-of-way it states the gross acreage minus What is going to be used for commercial you didn't calculate the density on the remainder? So by changing that to this now we're going to add two and a half acres and I hate going back to marketplace But this is really one that's got my guff go back to marketplace. We're adding two and a half acres Basically, I just did Google Earth To his calculations, which is equal to 70 or 65 more units bringing it from 650 to 725 or close 7 or 15 but to mr. Opert's point we've been doing that it just was not caught if the language was not codified because now We've just updated the master plan so we've been doing it that way for as long as I've been here and again to the county plan to the next plan Okay, but does that make it right? That's my question is Why why are we doing it that way? I mean the county does a lot of things that I don't agree with And I don't want to use them as our reference for everything that we do here at plantation That's that's the thing I that's it I don't want to Did you want to weigh in phrasing that differently are we beholden to follow what's in the county code? So if it's in the county code, we can't change it. Mr. McMillan. I think it's what he's saying is We can't supersede or can we I pretend to be the planning professional So like our treatment like our tree policies, for example We have to at least at least match what Broward County is doing well the nice thing about Broward County enough read right up Way too much from them Usually at the end of their paragraph so they'll add a little call to sell to it It says the city cannot does not can choose not to choose not to follow this They know better than I do. I just I just wondered if it was written in there as law or guidelines It's part of the Broward County land use plan and the cities generally follow that So a lot of the language that was in our comprehensive plan Mm-hmm the previous one that we well that we're still under until we adopt a new one Didn't wasn't explicit about these things but that in my 30-year career as a planner Yeah, every city I'm aware of but but straight up do we have to because of the Broward code? We are supposed to be consistent So the county charter has a preemption provision Yes, certain things are preempted the tree code that the county adopted They took the position that it was preempted under the county charter They gave cities the ability to adopt an ordinance if you did not adopt an ordinance by a certain time You were required to comply with the county's tree ordinance as far as this provision go It is true that most cities do Provide for the way the county does it as far as I know I Can't tell you as we sit here today if it is legally covered under the county preemption also under state law chapter 163 the city's comprehensive plan is supposed to be consistent with the county comprehensive plan Thank you mr. Aswalt councilman reinstein Thank you mr. McMillan for bringing up another interesting question I I think I heard both our city attorney and mr. Alpert use the word supposed to and my my question is that and mr. Alpert I think reasonably this may not have been something that you you were considering or thinking about in the way that it's being asked right now but my my question becomes is that if We're not required to and it's only is supposed to and if it's that even everybody else is doing it, but We've said before many times at least I've said from this day And I think others have to that that's not a reason for us to act a certain way just because everybody else is doing it I feel like I've everybody's parent probably said that one time or another right? So my question and I Would respect if you said you want some time to think about it is that Why are we doing it and if we don't do it? How does that change how we do things here right so that if we don't consider that? That that amount of extra that amount of land as part of this calculation Could that be better for us in some way? I I don't I don't know I'm the I hadn't heard this question from mr. McMillan before I hadn't thought about it before And and you may need more time to think about it, but I never Like when we say well everybody's doing it that way Unless we can explain what this is the reason why we should be doing it that way And but sometimes we don't just think about it right until somebody raises the question so do you have an answer as to a Affirmative position is why we should keep it that way or why we're doing it or do you need more time to think about it? I would need more time like the mr.. Israel said I think we need to see the preemption clauses Um to see if it's a requirement my understanding is we are required to be consistent with brown canning land use plan whether or not This issue is one of those things. I'm not entirely certain. Okay, so as a point of order. Um, I Think I I welcome from from mr.. Israel to to jump in again But I didn't hear that that it's a must I heard that we should be consistent No, I'm so I'd like to let mr.. I'm not prepared to give you a legal opinion tonight in response to that question without researching it I told you my best advice based upon certain provisions of chapter 163 in the county Charter understood so I would think that for this Question we should I'd like to hear some more research on it I'd like to hear give you an opportunity to look into it further so that You know mr.. Marlowe raised a reasonable question that we should be able to answer mr.. Alpert Given that question from councilmember Reinstein where are we on our time frame with the submittal date because we're under a Constraint to get the yes. Well, yeah, we have Once this is adopted. We have 10 days to get it to the state and what do we have? 120 from the time the original yes, so What was the date of our original approval if you have that please I want to make sure that we are the original? You mean the first reading at 120 days from me from the first from the first From well that we have the state review right may 22nd Okay, so it's 120. I thought it was shorter amount of time from that I go back. Yes, mr.. Israel. I'm sorry this this clock will start anew once this is approved, right? Yes There's a new clock or any time constraint to submit this to the state based upon the rejection letter There's no time no mean the acceptance letter. We didn't get rejected It was there were comments May 22nd yeah, so what you're saying is that we're under no time constraint I thought there was a longer time constraint from the original time that we haven't seen I haven't I haven't I don't remember You're telling me that we're okay. We're we're telling me okay, but we need to get it done We need to get it done exactly so if we were to defer this item until August 12th Would that give both of you sufficient time to yes, sir? I think we would know by tomorrow whether or not we're legally required under 163 okay I I don't want to make a motion yet because I think mr.. McMillan might have a few more points He wants to raise based on those note cards Okay, and then we've got one other council Resident who wants to come in meanwhile tell Danny Holmes he's fired Under policy 01 B 0 2 0 5 it references policy 01 B 0 1 0 9 and there is no policy 01 B 0 1 0 9 So that needs to be corrected. Do you want me to just keep going if you can just say that one more time for the record policy 0 1 B 0 2 0 5 as a reference at the very end to policy 0 1 B 0 1 0 9 and There is no 0 9 there used to be a 0 9 but in this one. I'm sure the state removed it or somebody Okay, I will check that one Hs 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 there's a reference to the letter C Zoning district That's the only reference to letter C zoning district anywhere that I can find do we know what that is Sure It's under Hs 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 it references letter C zoning district roll on if you like Yeah, I've only got one more really. I mean, I've got two but one really go ahead. It's enough We've changed to Counting units of 500 square feet or less to a 0.5 Density I'm just curious as to why that is. I mean you're not going to rent it to a 0.5 person or driving a 0.5 car So what's the point of giving a developer? You know 30 units many units and only count them as 15 Mr. Opert does that go to their application for bonus densities or why is that calculated the 0.5 to miss? No, that is an affordable housing initiative County when you spowered next also did the same change so sometimes units are micro units right smaller area and So essentially yes, it does change the number, but it's it's a it's one of the incentives that the state policy county policy to Encourage more affordable units more affordable units. Yes Anything else mr. McMillan you have another one? No, don't you're yeah, all right policy zero one alpha one seven one four Okay, you're gonna have to slow down again. It's late zero one zero one a One seven dot one four and it steals with activity centers Okay, it states that they're able to increase the density by 20% or 500 units every five years I I was under the understanding that activity centers that one of the benefits of an activity center is You cap the amount of units within the activity center like gateway We have three different activity center units are three different divisions of the activity center So would that mean that each portion every five years can increase it by 500 units or The entire activity center is only 500 units. It's the entire activity center. Oh Yes, and so right now we only have one activity center, which is our local activity center along State Road seven When that was adopted it had thresholds for the number of units and number of the amount of park space and the square footage of commercial We have talked about having an activity center for the Midtown district We don't have that designation yet But that that is another step in our comprehensive planning efforts that we would do that so right now only that's applicable and so So there would be a maximum threshold when that if that were adopted an activity center in the Midtown and it would define how many residential units and how much other square footage it would have You have to do so yes, you have the ability to modify that but that is also a land use plan amendment Text amendment so it would go through the same public hearing process as every everything else So every five years you'd have to read 20% over 500 units I don't quite understand that because if I read it and that says that every five years here you go We're gonna add 500 units or 20% to this activity center Maximum number which is the which is is what an activity center want to have the cap But if every five years we're gonna increase the cap And you really don't have a cap Right, but it is a land use amendment process. It's not just an automatic cap. You do studies you do and that type of thing Yeah, come back to the podium Okay, yeah, no, no, no I just don't I don't understand if it's a plan if you have to do it under land use and why bother putting it in there? It's gonna be a land use plan amendment because because conditions change so that's why we put the land use plan amendment process in there conditions change as the city grows I'm done. Oh, okay, you're not done because you're gonna come back because we're gonna bring the item back and we will we've notated all of your concerns and Mr. Alpert will come back with some changes and some answers for you. Okay. Thanks. Okay. President Horland Yes, do you think it would be helpful for mr. Macmillan to sit with? Mr. Alper absolutely welcome to do so if mr. Alper would like to do that and just review it Before and are we doing do we have to do a time a date certain? So does this have to come back in exactly two weeks, which I think is August the 12th? Yeah, I'm I want to we have one more public comment. I want to get mr. Grosso since he sat through the whole meeting the opportunity to do it. I Know you have some comments to make and then we will go forward with thank you. Thank you very much. I'm Richard Grosso. Good evening I live at 424 Farmington Drive with my wife for the last 30 plus years I'm I'm also a land-use attorney I do a lot of this kind of work around the state and I and I act I'm actually representing a client right now Who's maintaining a constitutional lawsuit against Senate bill 180? Lawsuit pending up in Leon County. It's a horrible law and I've got some advice about it, but But this in the live local act have become major campaign issues across the state of Florida It's a bipartisan outrage. I urge the council to keep the pressure on your our legislatures Because I expect this issue to be revisited Next next session a lot of our local delegation they voted for some of these things I don't think they quite understood the ramifications, but but I urge you to keep the pressure up I understand your your your staff exercise judgment those things that the state said might violate Senate bill 180 They kept in and I laud that that's what you should do I don't personally believe the Department of Commerce had the legal authority to invalidate anybody's comprehensive plans The statute said somebody should bring a lawsuit to try to enforce the law. They've taken upon themselves to Essentially bring those lawsuits on behalf of all sorts of landowners around the state of Florida if Senate bill 180 doesn't go away My best advice is and you do have a hundred eighty days from receipt of the state's comments to adopt your comp plan You can also ask them for an extension of time if you need it if there is anything you're doing in this comp plan a revision that's Increasing allowances beyond what's allowed today you want to be careful about that because if Senate bill 180 doesn't go away You're never gonna be able to get that back You're never gonna be able to tighten that up if you are Increasing some allowances in your comp plan, but the current code is more restrictive Be careful about changing the code to make it more liberal because again You'll never get that back unless changes get made to Senate bill 180 So and then the other advice that I would have would be since you're not allowed to more Increase you know make more burdensome or stricter changes to your comp plan You can if it's relevant and appropriate do a better job of enforcing existing comp plan language often comp plan language is fairly ambiguous Subject to interpretations and so if it requires some more zealous stronger interpretations of the existing comp plan and existing code Then that's one I think very valid reaction the Senate bill 180 So those are the thoughts I wanted to share with you I want to say one thing I do a lot of this work around the state when citizens usually get up and they ask questions They're told to shut up and sit down. You don't get to ask questions. You just get to make comment I'm proud to live in a city that did what I just saw you do today tonight to get questions answered on behalf of your citizens Thank you all very much so for being here tonight for your advice. Thank you If I may council president we should specifically thanks professor Grosso because he's still teaching whether he's in Nova law school or he's here I you gave it up, but you still are teaching us. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you for that Mr. Ezra all Table or deferral to date certain I would suggest tabling it to the time certain I would suggest tabling it to the August 12th We should have all of these issues resolved. Thank you very much So I'll make a motion to table this item to August 12 meeting to wait a second Second miss bigger second did you want to come in? Okay Councilmember Andrew yes councilmember Fadgen yes councilmember Reinstein yes councilmember Anderson yes councilmember Horland Yes, thank you miss bigger and thank you again. Mr. McMillan for your comments Moving on to cause I did additional items is there someone here for item number 27 heart court care? Yes, would you have any objection if I move that up in the agenda? Because there are several items that are are put together so you would be next up. Is that all right with you? You can get done earlier Okay All right, counsel. Do you have any? Opposition to me moving that item up first no opposition because we have a couple of items that are taken together Just again for the record item 24 has been deferred to August 26 Is that August 12th? I'm sorry. I'm looking at item 26. Okay, and late All right Could I just before you start if can you make a motion to table it to August 12th? So there's no issue. It's been advertised for today. I don't want to have we did did I not have this figure or call the roll? No, I did not I don't think there was a motion. Okay. I made the motion. Did I not get a second? We have a second. I thought we did have a second I don't think we did I thought I just didn't we call the role on the deferral not Right. Oh, you want the defer on 24 number 24. Yes, please. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm getting tired It was just announced it was I'll make a motion to defer item 24 to August 12. Thank you Yes, you're welcome You got me confused It's bigger Wait, wait, yep, okay Actually, we prefer not to be on August 12 because we haven't seen their proposal yet For Benesco? Yes, it changes. Oh, okay. Yes, so you would They asked for the 12th. They asked for that, but what would you like? But what would you like? If it's if if you're not sure again, you're either average re-advertising it or not right Right, right, right So the earliest I mean the earliest that we could do it if they got all their plans in by August 7th would be August 26th And that's really pushing it. Okay, so so most likely September so you won't just table the item. Okay Okay, so do we need we don't need a motion do we if it's going to be re-advertised you don't need a motion you're gonna advertise all right See all that and we didn't have to do it. That's all right. Okay so The city clerk will swear on all witnesses before speaking on the quasi judicial items but first the city attorney would you please read the rules? Yes, council president 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 the elected officials may set reasonable time limits for speakers the hearing will then be closed and the matter decided The city council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of a development order resolution or ordinance evidence In its decision the city council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for the additional research or review Thank you, mr. Esdol. Ms. Begaro It's it's for all the items. Yep. Ms. Begaro. Okay. Those are 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 very much. So just to reiterate we're moving item number 27 up first that is PM 26-0051 consideration of a request for conditional use approval to allow an adult daycare facility for heart court care LLC. The property is located at 840 South State Route 7 and is zoned M-PO Gateway Professional Office. Mr. Alpert. Good evening again. As you stated this is conditional use approval for a 2,000 square foot adult daycare center called hardcore care within an existing building in MPO mixed use professional office in the Gateway Zoning District. The subject site currently has a single story office building. The applicant proposes to operate an adult daycare center within that building. The services are provided to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The maximum enrollment would be 15 participants and between 4 and 5 employees. Employees. Employees. The enrollees will be picked up by a transportation vehicle and dropped off at the center each day. Services and activities consist of recreational and other activities such as life skills development, locational readiness, social interaction, and community integration. Adult daycare center use is a permitted conditional use within the MPO zoning district. So the property is located here at 840 South State Route 7. And the property is located within our local activity center. To the north is a child daycare center. To the east is a canal right-of-way and residences in the city of Fort Lauderdale. To the south is professional offices and then to the west is the frontage road and then State Route 7. 300-foot notification boundary and 50 notices were mailed to surrounding property owners. Here's a closer aerial view of it. of the property. It's that building right there with the property. It's that building right there with the star on it. showing the landscape plan for the property. This is the floor plan for the property. This is the floor plan for the property. The days and hours of operation would be Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 p.m. And it will have a dedicated drop off and pick up area with a van picking up the enrollees. And the parking area in the back as well. The parking area is located in the back as well. So the parking area is located in the back of the property. the landscape plan for the property this is the floor plan for the property the days and hours of operation would be monday to friday from 8 8 to 3 pm and it will have a dedicated drop off and pickup area with the van picking up the uh the enrollees and there's a parking area in the back as well to date planning and zoning staff has received an email and phone call from the neighboring property owner to the north objecting to the application the objection cites concerns regarding traffic circulation and potential impact on emergency evacuation and escape routes for their students at the child daycare center the engineering department has reviewed the concerns and determined that there will be no adverse impacts and also do not anticipate any issues with traffic circulation in this case the subject site does not have any reported code violations we analyze the criteria for conditional use and generally we believe this is complementary and compatible with the surrounding uses uh it would not be detrimental to the neighborhood and that being within the side of the building all activities will be inside the building and will not have outdoor activities so we feel that it meets the criteria of the conditional use and we recommend approval thank you mr alpert um that drive aisle that missville the um adjacent property owner was concerned about that's there are two lanes there one yes in each direction right so it's not just a single all right thank you very much um is there the does the applicant want to present or um council member reinstein you have a question before you proceed i just have a question whether the property owner next door is is present the one who raised the objection does anyone hear from that property okay and were you sworn in and took the oath okay great please come up and identify yourself hello i'm here representing dr civil and that's my mom she had a family emergency in connecticut sorry oh that's okay thank you um is it okay if i read yeah just identify yourself okay my name is lisa wigan okay thank you lisa please uh go ahead and read for your mom okay the address 8 30 south state road 7 which has been accommodating daycare school and aftercare program um program since 2011 both premises 830 and 840 share a narrow one lane in and out driveway between the two buildings in case of an emergency the driveway on the only in case of an emergency the driveway is the only escape route from this for the students to get to back to get back out of the building away from the traffic using the road in front in addition it it will not be risky it will not be risky it will not be risky it will not be risky if not impossible to accommodate transportation vehicles with adaptive equipments required to meet the needs of clients with special needs thank you for reading that for mom now are you referring to the clients with special needs for the adult daycare yes okay so you don't and do you know if your mom has spoken before us before no she didn't get a chance but she sent in a letter to the mayor yeah we did get the letter no because there i thought it was this property a couple of years ago where there have been concerns about an adjacent business and the drive aisle do we have that photo because again i thought there was a um i thought it was two lanes i thought it was one in each direction am i incorrect on that there are two lanes one on this property and one on the other property okay so so there's there's two lanes it's not one narrow range and so again i know that you're here for for your mom who owns the business but our um traffic engineer has taken a look at that and they don't see that it is a safety issue so they are recommending approval of the item oh no okay yes so you know our our professional staff has taken a look at the application including the police and fire department and they don't see the issue with it that one lane back and forth that lane over there and the other lane coming down which so there's two lanes there's one going towards that there's one going yes yes that's correct on that side okay so if they have that daycare facility in case of the kids running to the back because we couldn't be able to go to the front because of the traffic it would hinder if they have to um bring out their um daycare the elderly to the back so i think mr alpert perhaps we can speak i don't know if anyone's spoken to the business owner we'll have you we'll have you come up um and perhaps alleviating this but if the applicant would like to come up if the applicant would like to come up and address the concerns we'd love to hear from you please come up you can take a seat okay did you take the oath and swear in you did or not do you need to be sworn okay let's do it now 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 yeah please identify yourself both of you good evening good evening my name is rafael navarro i'm the owner of the property and um she's representing the client that's the tenant and what is your name thank you um if we see the the landscape and the property now i understand the neighbor's concern that's why exactly one of one of the things that i presented over to the current tenant that they have is um in reality we have a survey and everything when we buy the property meaning it will be it will be very um inconvenience if we were to go and get a permit to do offense because if you look at our property we are able to have a ramp round out in and out way the only ones that don't have that is them and it will be it will kind of it would further constrict the movement there it will be of more inconvenience if we were just to go and get a permit to separate the properties and then they will really have an issue because they only have one way in right i mean because right now there's a there's one lane in one lane out there's one lane for them but we have our lane where we are able to wrap around the property right so um and again for the record our planning professionals and police and engineers have looked at that and fire and said that it they don't perceive a safety issue there exactly okay thank you yes i also went ahead because i was trying to contact the owner before we got here okay um and i actually spoke with the tenants they're actually the daycare okay she was not notified of this uh meeting so she had no awareness of this meeting nowhere of the um them saying no to it okay she said she didn't mind okay it didn't uh you know affect her in any way with uh the evacuation like they're stating and she's actually leaving in a year so she's not very content with the landlord so perhaps you can have a conversation you know with no she doesn't mind at all because it doesn't affect her in evacuation like they're proposing all right well again our planning professionals are recommending approval of the item um they did not see that it was a safety issue but we wanted to hear from you we wanted to hear um from the neighbor thank you so much thank you for being here okay yes you may come back up but i want to be careful getting in the back and forth here okay if you if you have something additional to add okay please come to the microphone sure my mom did ask her if she'd like to come and she said that she would be out of town okay all right so it's not like she wasn't notified i'm glad that you could be here tonight okay thank you thank you very much all right um anything else councilmember reinstein yeah i i appreciated the testimony from from from all of them um but i i would like if mr albert could maybe use the pointer and just point out the those lanes because um i want to it sounds like um it sounds like uh what miss wiggins was presenting um was contrary to what i what i heard from mr navarro and miss hernandez in terms of their understanding of who has the right to this um the the lanes that are being discussed so can you just point out okay so part of the paved area is on the subject property and part of it is on the property to the north you see the red line dividing the properties so it's actually wide enough for two lanes in two directions the drawing that was shown in the powerpoint only shows it one because that's what was on this subject property for this conditional use and the the two lanes that you were pointing to if are those red lines dividing the properties so one lane is on one property and one lane is on the other property yes the red line is the property line divider and are those lanes going in the same direction or different directions different directions okay so at this time are are the are both property owners sharing those lanes yes and so what i what i think i heard just i want to make sure i understood it was mr navarro state that um that in order to clarify this distinction he could put up a fence but that takes a lot more effort and a lot more money to put up the fence right um and he doesn't need to put up the fence the fence would clarify what he's allowed to do and what he what he does what he's not allowed to do right that's why you have no objection correct okay understood thank you sure thank you uh do we have a motion motion approved okay is there a second second okay no further discussion um miss bigger please call the roll council member andrew yes council member fadgen yes council member reinstein yes council member anderson yes that's member horland yes thank you very much thank you for being here tonight all right moving on we have uh two items uh 25 and 26 that are related uh first up is item 25 pp 26-0024 consideration of request to approve a zoning waiver free dhl plantation pop-up store the property is located 1210 south pine island road and it's zoned b7q good evening uh lisa zelk with the planning and zoning department thank you miss zelk can i go ahead and right read 26 as well since that yeah you're standing there uh 26 is going to be pp 26-0024 again consideration to request to approve a site plan amendment for dhl plantation pop-up store same location thank you very much okay so this is an application to allow a temporary portable trailer for dhl that they're currently using for uh retail purposes and for people to drop off packages they started in and they're also asking for a site plan amendment to allow the temporary trailer for a 10 year period this started in 2021 where they um got a one-year approval during covid to allow for this what they call the pop-up trailer it's very cute it's yellow it's in the parking lot and they for each year after that until 2025 they got one-year extensions and with the caveat at the last one in 2025 that they would not be getting any more temporary extensions approved administratively so now they're before you to make it a more permanent situation because i believe they just signed a 10-year lease where their office building is located okay so the waiver is for it's a temporary trailer we don't allow temporary trailers for this type of use we use it for you know construction trailers sales trailers model homes and that type of thing and upon the issuance of a building permit so the waiver is to allow for the temporary structure on a more permanent basis so here's the location whoops there we go um right off of pine island and peters and cornerstone office park and the northeast corner of the cornerstone office park it's right here's the aerial you're looking at the um you know plantation colony to the east peters road to the north with the crossroads office park to the east or the west we've got a lake and more office park and to the south we've got baptist health so here i just kind of went through the the history of it okay here's the overall site plan showing the um how do you point oh i went back uh the green is showing the office building and the purple area is where the proposed trailer and associated customer parking are located and blow up you'll see the red area is going to be where the uh or where the trailer is currently located with the six um visitor um parking spaces in purple here are pictures of the exterior of the um pop-up trailer the one on the left is from the ring road that goes through cornerstone office park and the right is from the parking lot view and you can see on either side of the parking uh either side of the trailer they've got um these parking spaces blocked off for for safety and here are pictures of the interior okay just kind of kind of going through our our denial they don't meet any other criteria for a practical difficulty waiver however we are stating that if oh we did not get any comments no citizen comments whatsoever if um the council decides to approve this we do recommend a maximum of a two-year period where in the meantime staff can fully evaluate what this precedent excuse me precedent might happen for future other type of uses of temporary trailers such as food trucks wanting to park somewhere permanently you know that type of thing so clothing collection clothing collection trailers wanting to not have you know a yeah brick and mortar so we do recommend just a two-year maximum approval if you guys decide to go that route and in that meantime we would like them to figure out a more permanent solution whether it be inside the building or even a kiosk outside maybe outside their building in their area thank you miss so um before i turn it over to council member rheinstein uh i've seen the trail i think it was at one of the earth day events we did it's fabulous it's it's solar powered yes um but i find find this whole process a bit intellectually dishonest because um it was a temporary uh approval uh due to covid yes and it's interesting because i was reading i found a american journal of transportation article from august 11 2021 that logs the new mobile pop-up store at the dhl site and plantations it's nothing about being temporary so my concern is that this continued to go on and i think they took advantage of our good graces um on this i do worry about precedent and i mentioned the clothing collection trailer which we had a vigorous discussion about allowing that in the city so i do think it sets a precedent um that i'm not certain that i want to go down that road but i will turn it over for my colleagues and get their comments so council member rheinstein thank you very much uh first i'd like to make a jennings disclosure as um i did visit the site um on monday july 20th and um took a look there myself i will say that um according to the the window it looked like it should have been open at that time based on the operating hours and there there was nobody there um i also um did have a phone number of somebody that was um indicated to me from um from your office was there a contact and i left a message but i did not get a return phone call so i haven't had a chance to to speak to anybody but i still wanted to make the jennings disclosure of the the visit i understand what council president horland said um i you know i am concerned about um these type of temporary structures um uh ending up all over our city if we do create um a precedent um i know that we we have talked about other structures that um didn't have permission um to me this is a little different because they had temporary permission at the very least um and you know this is their property um it's a very large parking lot um and i i don't necessarily have a a problem with it being on that property but um you know it does concern me if um you know if there is a a precedent that we're setting for these to end up all all over our city thank you so could you um clarify that they don't own that property do they no no they're leasing right now let me i i i didn't necessarily mean they owned it but it's their part the parking lot is for their parking lot is for their use parking lot is for their use thank you thank you um councilman fadgett thank you uh council president horland um i remember going to that earth day event i think it was in 2021 and uh um they they talked they described it as a pop-up they never mentioned anything about a code you know a temporary covid use when we're when they were hosting us so i guess my first question regarding the cook and let me back up i'm going to make a jennings disclosure it looks like they sent us all like a dhl package to uh but i didn't read it um so um but they never mentioned a temporary use for covid what were they doing before covid in regarding to intaking packages on the property i believe the applicants here and she could they can address that but from what i remember it was inside the building and on the first floor the applicants here so okay yeah okay if the applicant can come forth and identify yourself please hi i'm making kramer with dhl um so we with the being our headquarters everybody associates a brand with our headquarters so we automatically have people come to our office on a regular basis so when covid hit the temporary we came up the concept of the temporary pop-up trailer we had tried it a little bit in the office but as our office has grown and security is a big issue in our office because it's all of our high level executives in that office so the security is everybody that comes in has to go through security screening then they have to be escorted to where their designation is okay so it just didn't make sense we couldn't have that we don't have the space in the office so we tried the concept of the pop-up trailer so you've requested i guess this this question is for staff and then i'm going to have a question um for you to answer so all of these temporary um authorizations they've all been timely um most of them except for the last one one was uh this last approval i think it was expired in may so that's yeah okay so does it say temporary on the application like it's a temporary uh does it say temporary anywhere on the application i or the approval whatever they get for the i believe it did okay yeah so we're going on five years now um you want another 10 staff is suggesting another two what has been done to seek an alternative for this temporary authorization um because of covid so we have looked at all the different options so the one option was a permanent structure on site again we don't own the property the landlord is not open to that option for us so we don't have that as i mentioned with our inside our our building um that's not option we don't have the space the security doesn't allow it the other option is to have the off-site retail location we've looked at the area the costs are anywhere from 45 000 to 50 000 a year with the revenue generated that pop up right now it doesn't support it's not feasible for us okay so those we've looked at all the options um this was the best option so we've come in here i know that they've denied the 10 years they've suggested it two years we'd be open we would prefer at least a five year to allow if that would be an option okay um i really don't feel good about 10 years i don't feel good about two years um i think it would set a bad precedent um for you know food trucks uh you know i just look at these food trucks and and think about how they affect our brick and mortar um the people have put a lot of money investing in our city and i know dhl's invest a lot of money in our city um but it's i think i think a storefront in the city would be much better in my opinion i don't i don't think i could be for um approving this even with staff recommendations the only can i say one thing the only thing with the storefront is we still have people directed people still come to our headquarters so we're gonna have to redirect everybody to a new location and for us it's not viable in the city of plantation with the cost okay thank you you're welcome thank you council member andrea thank you when is your current lease up so at the office we just recently renewed it for 10 years okay the question thank you okay thank you council member uh reinstein and then the mayor you know typically when when i hear the discussions about um food trucks or um some pop-up clothing donation place it's usually not a it's not connected to an adjacent um vendor or an adjacent um established corporation and i mean you know i i understand the concern with precedent and it may be that what would need to be done is maybe some new type of code to be drafted so that at least in my view is that there's a distinction between a standalone trailer of sorts that is unrelated unconnected to any other business or establishment within um within 10 feet to 50 feet something something different i mean we're talking about um a wonderful corporation that is in our city their headquarters is in our city i mean dhl is an international brand um you've just signed on for 10 years thank you very much i mean that's a commitment to our city um you know as i said i've been to this property um i've been there for um for events i i went there to particularly look at at this and you can't see i couldn't see it from peters road so it it it didn't um it didn't stand out as a concern for me driving past the the space um and i couldn't even really see it until i came right up into the parking lot that if you you know went in and in off of peters road and and you turn you know to the right you're not going to see it and unless you turn into that sec that that's that section um so you know that was less of a concern for me um i i do understand that um you know 10 years um you know i know it matches with your new lease um but i i do want to give i would want to give at least our our department an opportunity to maybe suggest a some new code to to deal with this issue so that we're not um faced with other requests for similar waivers who will come before us and say well you just approved it for dhl um so you know i i wouldn't i wouldn't be against the the two years if one of my colleagues um wanted um five years i i wouldn't be against that either but um i i would want to make sure that it's also with the eye to our our planning and zoning department to maybe reevaluate um how we respond to these type of requests and if i'm if i'm francisco the senior director of real estate for dhl so i'm was leading this lease renewal i just want to confirm on that line that the parking lot that we're using for the the pop-up is part of our lease so it's exclusive to dhl it's not that we're you know using some other space or some shared space okay thank you for that um the recommendations that were made by staff first they they recommended denial but if council were to approve it at the two-year lease they made recommendations to modify the trailer what's your response to that correct so some of those that we can um handle um the one is the part i believe the parking spaces that would be more up to the property that would not be up to us drive to the owner or landlord okay um mr albert and myself do you um based upon the comments coming from council member ryanstein um do you see a way to develop something in the code that if this were approved tonight on a short-term basis that you might be able to come back with some future protections yeah i think the distinction that it's it's a use that's with us accessory to the primary use on the same property makes a difference from when you compare it to like a food truck right or the clothing donation then the donation that's not related to the property thinking about it because those were those were obviously with clothing donation even a food truck they cannot or do not want to have a brick and mortar um which is much more costly but as i'm sitting here thinking okay so we you know if you have a clothing store or a restaurant in the city and they want to have a you know accessory unit outside then you know then what do we do so i think that we're going to have to be very careful if this was approved temporarily tonight um about what that language looks like and i would recommend that it be a conditional use that way council has ability to scrutinize each case okay yep all right uh council member reinstein something else no okay um i'll entertain a motion excuse me just for clarification two separate items if you could do two separate motions please i will so um the first one will be the uh item 25 which is the consideration to approve the zoning waiver for dhl i should probably then ask a a point of order in terms of distinguishing between the two um and it may be the same motion for each one but if if the motion is to um approve the the waiver um or and approve a conditional use for um two years uh and i'll also state with the understanding that um that planning and zoning that that the department is also looking at ways to revise uh this uh accessory to uh an adjacent um building um establishment in the way that we've discussed it um so you know it sounds to me that that would allow um you time to work on it and allow the dhl to come back and and hopefully comply with what the the code says so with all that understanding um which one do i need to make the motion for two years under just for clarification or is it under both i would do it i would suggest both yeah okay so um let's start with numbered with um uh item 25 for approving the zoning waiver as a conditional use for two years and and to take into consideration the discussion that was on the record tonight and subject to staff comments and the staff comments okay um i was going to second that but let's go back to the staff comments because i thought we said that there are some things they will not be able to comply with so how about they work with staff through uh some of those suggestions yeah yes i don't know if it's necessarily we aren't comply can't can't comply with it's necessarily the property like for the parking spaces that's not that would be up to the property or the owner and it's the property owner here we have there's a representative property hi have you been sworn yes please identify yourself um i'm danny and brogna we're we're the appropriate management for dhl so i'll be saying the owner thank you um we're open to suggestions you know um well you know we're presented to the ownership and okay and he asked me to be here today okay and you know being that they they signed a 10-year lease and they've been such a good tenant um they're willing for you know to uh to assist them to help them anyway uh you know and for the community being that you know there's such a large tenant um they make a big presence here in plantation all right thank you and i'm sorry if if i can continue you would be able to paint the trailer to match the building i mean right now it looks like you have it painted to match your branding so that's that's why i said i i don't know if we should um stipulate all of the staff comments so we can paint different colors we have for instance we have we have other stores say we have a white lettering for dhl we have different lettering we can do different colors i have a question for you although um with all the changes that we'd have to do the pop-up if this is a two-year conditional is there chance that we would be able to get more additional time after the two years if the code has changed or is that two years and we would not be able to be conditional and you can come back correct mr oppert right you you would be able to come back you know and in that time uh and what our intention is is that we'd be able to work out the code okay and listen i hope you understand and i think that you do that we appreciate your investment in our city and your partnership with the city yes um we just have to be careful about what we're approving and setting precedent no totally understand yeah yeah if i may yeah well um i do now want to raise another question and um councilman andre thank you for mentioning the other um modifications that were the the other staff comments because i know we didn't i was very focused on the timing and such um i don't mind the yellow i think the yellow matches your your logo and your color so um i haven't heard anybody else speak about it but i would i'd be okay with not including that um that requirement to comply with that comment um i think the yellow fits your logo and the same thing with the hiding of the wheels that's why i just i think if we just stuck to number five and maybe the um with the date the two-year date i would be good with your motion yeah i so i will revise the motion and thank you um miss beggarow for putting it up on the screen so um the motion is to approve item 25 as a two-year condition focused on comment number five only which has an expiration of july 29 2028 and an item one which i think just makes sure that you um is a ministerial correct um and and then number six would be consistent with our discussion is that um if you're seeking beyond the two years that you will come back and um be in compliance with what we have in place at that time second that's the motion on the record thank you councilmember fad we don't normally like have meetings like this it is 10 17 at night yes i'll just vote okay um miss beggarow please call the roll councilmember andrea yes councilmember fadgen no councilmember einstein yes councilmember anderson yes councilmember horland yes thank you okay um moving on to item number 26 which is the consideration of the request to approve the site plan amendment for dhl yeah unless somebody wants to word it better i apologize but um it's the same motion with the same um the same issues that have been raised on the record okay do we have a second second miss beggarow please call the roll councilmember andrea yes councilmember fadgen no council councilmember einstein yes councilmember anderson yes councilmember horland yes thank you thank you all right thank you for your patience with us tonight moving on i'm going to read these together uh 28 29 and 30 are related 28 is pp 26-007 consideration of request for a use variance approval for popeyes plantation the property is located 1851 north university drive in his own b dash 2p item 29 is consideration of request to approve a zoning waiver for popeyes plantation property is located again at 1851 north university drive and item 30 is a consideration of request to approve a site plan amendment for popeyes plantation mr albert if they did it's cold that chicken sandwich so the requests are use variance approval to allow a 4826 square foot freestanding fast food restaurant with drive-through in a b2p central business zoning district it also includes the site plan amendment because the building is remaining mr opera can i interrupt you does does anybody need the full presentation okay okay i don't need the full presentation but i do have a couple questions sure i do too so why don't i didn't mean to cut you off but i'm sure you've been speaking on enough tonight councilmember ryanstein go ahead so my question um goes in terms of the the traffic and the the fact that uh and i will preface it by saying that i've had quite a bit of discussion um with our engineering department and our director michelon and my understanding is that this particular project did not have a traffic study because it did not need a traffic study and it didn't need a traffic study um because the traffic impact evaluations and i'm reading from an email traffic impact evaluations are based on the anticipated net change in vehicle trip generation resulting from a pros proposed development and because the former um arby's that was on the property and the proposed popeyes are classified under the same category the redevelopment is not expected to generate a material increase in vehicle trips did i get that correct michelin that's very correct so um from there my concern was that while i remember the arby's being there i admittedly don't remember the drive-through being there and so while i understand that arby's and and popeyes may be comparable and it's in the same location when reading this while the the the location is the same and the category is the same um the arby's was there in the 80s and popeyes is looking to be there today and sunrise boulevard and university drive while they're the same roadways the the use of those roadways have changed and you know we previously had lots of discussion at lots of different times about about about traffic about the the grade and the rating for sunrise boulevard we talk about it being high traffic and a traffic oriented corridor and all those things and so my concern is that even though the category hasn't changed the amount of traffic that will will now emanate from the property at this time not the 80s but now um will will just um exacerbate an already um congested area um you know we've talked about it but i welcome any response to those concerns um so to answer your question which we previously discussed but publicly um i want to reiterate um and i'm going to use what i used in our discussion separately the word swap so it is a like to like use therefore the net trip generated like the use of the fast food restaurant with a drive-through is replaced with a fast food restaurant with a try a drive-through so from engineering traffic engineering perspective there is no net trips generated by the proposed application in front of us today now that doesn't mean that engineering department didn't look at the traffic we looked at the traffic circulation we looked at the pedestrian connectivity so that was analyzed through the site plan process so the circulation for example the applicant is proposing some improvement to landscape medians to improve traffic circulation which can positively impact the users of this particular use today to your point what it's changed today so rbs that was introduced to the area how many years ago today when we looked at the site plan because there is no net change of trips we did not request a traffic study i just want to mention before my tenure in uh city of plantation there was no standard process for traffic studies after i joined city of plantation with the help of our traffic consultant outside traffic consultant we created a standardization for when we we request traffic study which is published on our website and we created a methodology we said if we generate x trips on the road by the new application you're gonna study not just your area a mile from outside your area a mile radius if you generate y trips you're gonna study a larger broader area because we're gonna we're we started looking at our development not as point impact but regional impact what is the impact on the surrounding roadway around this application this particular case we did not request the traffic study because the new use is equal to the old use so mathematically did not require by the published criteria on our website a traffic study but again i want to reiterate the engineering department and the planning and fire department and all the development committee had reviewed the site and any impact the site have on the area now to council member reinstein point about the current condition of the roadway i just want to iterate that both roadways are state roadways and we are partner with fdut we're currently university and sunrise intersection is part of our mmtp we are following up on these projects as you see on our agenda and we're bringing these items to your attention now legally there is some bounds of when we're gonna request mitigation because they are not generating a new trips i cannot force impact or mitigation on uh use that doesn't generate additional trips council president may i follow up um just to be clear um mishela and i did say when we were on the phone my my question isn't with your department for not doing a traffic study um so that's not the concern um the the concern is with the that sunrise boulevard and university drive have an increased amount of traffic that will be affected even if it is a net change in the vehicle trip generation the the roadways that they'll be affecting have increased since the time that the prior business was there the prior restaurant was there so this isn't a it's not a question about you following um exactly as you're supposed to do so i i appreciate the clarification and and uh thank you no problem councilmember andrea i just was trying to understand some of the points that council member reinstein was making because if memory serves me right that arby's went out of business maybe two three years ago it hasn't been a long it's yeah it's actually july of last year okay so that's why i said when he was saying like the 80s that's when they started but it just closed down a year ago so i don't think the traffic you know um is as huge of an impact as you may be thinking that was it okay councilmember fadgen i'm just gonna add to councilmember andrea that was the comment i was going to make it closed july 2025 so it's not in it's just barely a full year and driving by it when it was an active restaurant it never pool it never like um cued onto the street it was able to cue everything it looks like they're going to re you know redo the parking lot so it's probably going to be even more efficient and uh it'll be nice to see that property get a nice facelift with the pictures that we saw so absolutely um because right now too there's a lot of thank you light in the area so i agree um is the applicant here i have a question good evening please identify yourself and you've been sworn in yes okay thank you rod torres with kimley horn i'm here on the behalf of the applicant uh thank you mr torres so i did have a question staff had rec made a recommendation about the paint color on the trim um and had made a recommendation about um bringing it closer to the coral springs uh restaurant and i took a look at that that's actually i think it was they said it was a muted gray taupe and coral springs was built i think about five years ago um when i looked at that color it's actually called swing brown um i do agree with staff that that turquoise blue um is not consistent with our planning i would like to see it whether it is a muted gray top top or or taupe or closer to that swing brown that's used in coral springs i do think that the um color palette of the coral springs is much more uh unit it's much more consistent with city of plantation standards so will that be objectionable to the applicant we'll definitely have to check with the chain um as i don't speak on that their behalf of that i would definitely speak to the applicant but can you speak on that i saw somebody raise their hand in the back good evening have you been sworn in yes please identify burrows with aw architects hi oh perfect person yes so um we had did have that discussion with the client and with uh popeyes themselves and we did make a change we had some discussions with feline as well about that we are willing to make the change we appreciate that on the uh and the new design of the buildings looks great very updated so we welcome you and as you heard there has been a lot of blight on that property last year i called the police department because we had a a full-on homeless encampment in there with furniture so we intend to fix that yeah so we're looking forward to um the investment in the community we appreciate that my last question is i don't know who can answer this but where are we on the code case on that property has that been cleared i know there's an existing code click case anybody i'm assuming it's going to be cleared before we proceed okay um so i will go ahead and i appreciate you gentlemen coming up you had another comment yeah okay i was going to make a motion but i'll turn it over council member reinstein uh just for clarification um my reference to the 80s was when i remember it first being there and um i have not seen traffic there in quite some time and so if my colleagues are saying it was there as of last year um i know that when i searched for it it said 2015 was when arby's closed so if somebody's saying that it was there last year um that that that's news to me um and um i i appreciate that um but uh okay that wasn't what i located on we've got you okay um so given the staff comments um i will make a motion uh to approve given that the code case on the property is going to be cleared up and that that that the uh trim color be changed to um either that gray or that taupe and the shutters anything else all right um so i made the motion do i have a second second miss big girl any discussion for the public none miss big girl please call the world council member andrew yes council member fadgen yes council member reinstein no council member anderson yes council member horland yes thank you very much thank you thanks for sticking with us all night all righty um moving on we don't have to vote on all of them yes yes oh yes we do it i'm so sorry that was the first one you're almost done you're almost done but don't don't leave yet don't leave it you're right we got to do 29 see we did them all together so uh 29 is a consideration or request to approve a zoning waiver make a motion to approve motion to approve all right were you were you making the motion or you're asking for i don't know what i was doing at this point miss bigger i'll please call the roll make the motion second by anderson yeah council member injury yes council member fadgen yes council member reinstein no council member anderson yes council member horland yes um the uh item number 30 which is the site plan amendment and again my comments stand i'll motion i'll make the motion to approve do i have a second second okay miss big girl please call the roll council member andrew yes council member fadgen yes council member reinstein no council member anderson yes council member horland yes thank you i'm sorry my tongue was not working all right uh does anyone have any board or committee appointments yeah you're next on my agenda um no board committee appointments and now comments by the mayor mayor um so you heard mention of a uh of a resident survey so we have the results of resident survey we would like to do a presentation the question to council is do you want to do it as part of the regular meeting on august 26th or do you want to have a 5 30 special um workshop for lack of a better term i think it'd probably be fine as agenda item unless we have a lot of quasi-judicial items at night council what do you think laura you're not anticipating protracted protracted commentary are you yeah because we're bringing in the etc will probably be 15 minutes it depends on how many questions you have we have a couple other presentations i think that we're planning the superintendent um is planning to present to you and uh and possibly american heritage students so that's i think if it's 15 minutes let's just yeah during the meeting if we can yeah i'd rather do that thank you so make sure thank you very much okay mayor anything else um just just a quick comment um we started at six and it's we're five hours in government can be painful as hell sometimes but in the end we end up with better government we'll start at five we were here we started at five oh yeah i was on central time yeah i started at six you all started at five but in the end at the end we got a better product there are a lot of important agenda items all right there so yes thank you for the comment uh advisory board reports item number 31 are transmittal uh comments by council members council member andrea would you like to go first thank you president portland uh thursday august 6th we recognize and celebrate jamaica's 64th independence day and the official theme is united in celebrating resilience i again want to thank all of the residents and my colleagues and the mayor mr nunamaker for the assistance with hurricane melissa last almost a year ago i think it was last october um we also i know it was mentioned earlier by missle too but we look forward to seeing everybody at national night out on august 4th um also everyone who completed their request for vote by mail ballots should have received them in the mail and for the primary election august 18th so you can vote by mail vote early or vote in person on the 18th and we all need to exercise our right to vote um you know for the special election that was mentioned earlier in the acres we only had a 16.5 voter turnout which is very dismal i hope we can do much better for uh these primary elections in august also this is florida's back to school sales tax holiday is going on now until august 20th in preparation for our first day of school which is monday august 10th so we want to wish all of our students teachers administrators a wonderful 26 27 school year and i know we'll all be out on the first day welcoming everybody back and taking pictures so we're looking forward to that and to our haitian brothers and sisters and residents that are facing a lot of confusion and uncertainty right now regarding their immigration status because of the termination of tps which is affecting approximately 1 million people including 350 000 haitians who have been living and working here legally since 2010. uh there are many free resources available so they should contact legal aid services of broward county or americans for immigrant justice um and i know that is a huge it's weighing heavily on several of our neighbors and i lastly i know that um the mom will probably never hear this but to the wells wansley family i just want to publicly state that i am praying for you all every day and i hope that you find the peace and justice that councilmember fadgen opened this meeting with so thank you that concludes all of my announcements thank you councilmember and anderson no comments councilmember reinstein yeah i want to first say thank you publicly to the public works department and and code for their their sidewalk patrol and their response um they're really um going above and beyond when uh when they hear about um sidewalks that are in need of uh of some tender love and care and so thank you to the thank you to all of them i want to wish congratulations to shana bright from the police department um she was the civilian employee of the quarter and if you um if you've ever walked into the police outreach center in the broward mall shana is that smiling face that greets you and um she does so much and she always really does it with um with a smile um most you know that i have monthly meetings there and she works with me to schedule it and she is always very helpful so i'm personally appreciative lastly is that i do not want to start the conversations now at this hour but um i would like if the administration would put back on um on an agenda um a discussion of the fireworks display and um future fireworks and um discussion of drones um there i've heard a number of comments about this last um fourth of july uh fourth of july celebration was wonderful um i love the fireworks but um i would like to revisit um the the cost of a drone show if not for the uh this upcoming fourth of july but uh for our 75th anniversary um which is not too far away and so i don't think it's too early to start thinking about that and um the other one is again for another discussion is that um every so often there is a resident that comes forward regarding parking of commercial vehicles in um in their driveway and um i think we've touched on it here and there um but i would like to have a discussion on that again um in in looking at and listening to some of the requests and concerns and you know we're regularly talking about um fiscal uncertainty in the economy and um you know there's a big difference between um certain commercial vehicles and other commercial vehicles and the type that um are are really passenger vehicles with some type of logo or something on it and there's uh there's uh there's statutes that define commercial vehicles and distinguish between all kinds so um i would like to have a bigger discussion on that as well i appreciate that and i'll try to be quick but i mean that's a significant issue you know it's kind of mushroomed into more than i'd originally anticipated and when i think we originally started having that conversation so we will have that i believe with the second meeting in august we've asked pz to lead a discussion on that item for a couple reasons one generally is the mayor holds code meetings on a monthly basis we talk about that just generally with commercial vehicles and the prospect of one commercial vehicle being allowed to be parked in the driveway from a perspective of exactly that you know you all bring up the impact to residents and that's a regulatory framework that does pose a burden i realize some folks are antagonistic towards commercial vehicles with the markings but a single vehicle of a certain size we would ask you all to at least have that consideration of you know to give it a thought what what would that mean if bob's electric could bring that one van home and what that might do and also freeing up some parking but the financial issue there's another issue where some commercial vehicles are just designated commercial by their size but a sprinter van with no marking can be used as a passenger vehicle but because it's maybe eight feet tall or whatever it exceeds the size so there's another one then more recently we're talking to a gentleman in the acres who has a landscaping business well he left his fence open one day it was seen and you can't have any commercial vehicles in your property even if they're shielded from view so there you've got large lot neighborhoods where it is at least from my experience these these types of five acre lots are often bought by folks who hey i've got my commercial vehicles over here they're screened from site very well maintained and if we are going to uphold the standard because currently what what he has is illegal um it's going to catch him but others and we're talking about you know 20 30 year residents and that just seems it doesn't seem like that was probably our intent um so we will bring that forward to you because all of those have significant impact i think when you talk about providing relief to residents there's a huge opportunity where you're just adjusting the regulatory framework to that point thank you for bringing that up council mayor reinstein and i know ahead of us having that uh discussion i know there are some municipalities that will even have you they allow it but you can register it and so the landscaping issue in particular if he has the vehicles back there just you know let the city know i don't want to incur more of a burden on staff but there may be ways to do that or likewise say they have an rv and the rv is going to be in front of the house you know for three days there's an online portal where you can register that and say hey it's going to be here so um i'll be happy to provide that as well as we further um the discussion along but i think that we need to address it so thank you thank you mr nunmeyer thank you very much and mr new mayor on that point um i also have quite a bit of notes in terms of the um commercial vehicle and where um i think it is a little bit over beyond what is necessary for us to protect the um the residential neighborhood so i'd be happy to continue the discussion when um you know offline as well so thank you let's remember fadja thank you uh council president um first parks at rec great job with the fourth of july festivities the parade the concert and the fireworks show um we talked at the end of the school year about having a discussion about the speed cameras and whether we'll proceed with the middle of the day of the cameras being on um i would like to request that that's on the next agenda because school starts on the 10th our next meetings the 12th um and when we have it on the agenda i would like an opportunity for people to be able to make public comment to it um so is that a possibility we can add that to the next agenda yeah we can do that and just just to let you know after that last discussion the mayor did direct that we go out and survey all the sites to make sure they're cleared and i didn't really want to get into it but that's some of the questions i have yeah we'll schedule it a lot of things have come up since we initially implemented these things you know the staffing of the review um the setbacks the are all the signs and the proper distances are the signs up the spec with the modifications that were made to them so that's what i would like to discuss absolutely hear about and then for us to make a thoughtful decision after we have that sounds good thanks so next meeting yes sir perfect thank you next thing um has the branding manual and implementation guide been issued yet or is that still in the works and i don't need to go into a big detail it's kind of a yes or no is what i'm looking for because i have a comment it is moving forward uh we plan to have it ready by the end of the fiscal year perfect we're adding to our marks i've seen even tonight i've seen more additional logos being implemented um we got to stop let's come to an agreement any kind of new kind of presentations any kind of freebie looks like it's using the new branding and we shouldn't because we don't have our implementation yet and it's it's going to be confusing to whatever they advise us on how we should implement it so um i would say i guess leave it but we don't know if that's how they want us to implement it and it's going to be incredibly important that we spent this money to implement it correctly so let's let's tap the brakes on i know we're enthusiastic i think it looks good but it needs to be implemented correctly otherwise we're wasting money um last thing what is the status of the auditor's report returning our internal control i thought at one point i thought someone told me i was going to receive a draft and i've never received anything on that you thought you're done um so they are working on it it's going to be presented at the the second meeting in august okay very good we're going to have a draft obviously before then and well a final draft from them and we'll send it to you ahead of time but then they're going to come in and do the meeting on i believe it's the 29th it's the second meeting it's whatever that yeah so it's it's coming all right good i just um i heard something and i just want to cover um all right that's all i have thank you councilmember anderson did you want to make a comment um chief schlegel regarding the the um cameras um i i i thought i i know i mentioned in a casual setting are you going to have some data on what basically what happened over the over the course of the implementation how many citations that kind of stuff um i know what it when we initially went into voting on whether we're going to implement them or not i was against it i was conflicted but i was leaning against it and because our initial survey of data came in so high of such drastic numbers of high speed speeders i said we in my mind i said we should put it in and see how it goes and it basically turned my opinion at that meeting to implement it but now i'd like the same kind of data he sent it to us in react for the full for the period that was active it was like april to the end of the school year but the full did you just send it recently because i i'm i'm days behind on my no you're talking about the actual speeding data that was presented to us i just remember i don't remember it being as comprehensive as what i'm saying i know we got the initial to implement and i know he sent us something but i don't remember being as is as comprehensive um that did it have um time of day like so we know which ones are near arrival dismissal versus middle of the day did i don't remember having as comprehensive to make an inform because i'm basically i all the different comments you're hearing from public i would want to look into the data to see what they're saying does it include the let let's let's let chief shaytel answer please chief how many out of the area yes yes okay i guess i'll i'll brush up on on i'm tired i just but you're looking for specific times is what you're asking for i'll brush up on okay thank you oh no it wasn't on so i'm sorry yes i think the last thing that i sent if it didn't come across i had like three different reports on it it was uh the demographic report it was uh by location yeah um i'm remembering i'll i'll read it again and if you have i can i can resend it or if you have any question uh specific that wasn't in there now i know uh we are required to present on council agenda at some point um you know a full report yeah on it too okay so okay appreciate it thank you thank you chief anything else okay uh with that it is 10 49 meetings adjourned