her down. Good evening and welcome. The March 11, 2026 City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called to order at 6.01. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. All right. Council Member Andreu. Here. Council Member Fadgen. Here. Council Member Horland. Here. Council Member Reinstein. Here. Mayor Sordle. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Thank you. Thank you very much. And tonight's opening remarks and Pledge of Allegiance will be provided by Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. If we could stand to pray. Almighty Father, we thank you for your continued and abundant blessings upon the great city, this state, this nation, and all of your people. We ask 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, wise discernment, and sound judgment upon the City Council, the Mayor, and everyone participating in this meeting. Inspire cooperation, thoughtful dialogue, respect even in disagreement, and actions that uphold justice in the common welfare. 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, caregivers, first responders, educators, and all who strengthen our community through faithful service. We hold in prayer the families and friends who are in sorrow. 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 toward comfort, renewal, and peace. Lord, 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. If we can remain standing for the pledge, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic, one nation, under God, indivisible, liberty and justice. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Fadgen. Items submitted by the Mayor. Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Whereas colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. among men and women combined. Whereas colorectal cancer is one of the few cancers that could be prevented with timely screening. Whereas colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men and second leading cause for women under age 50. Whereas Americans in rural areas are more likely to be diagnosed and die from colorectal cancer. And whereas in 2025, there were approximately 154,270 new cases. And whereas the national goal established by National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable is to increase timely colorectal cancer screening rates to 80% in every community. Now, therefore, I, Nick Sortal Mayor and City Council Plantation do hereby proclaim the month of March 2026 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. And we have a speaker. I think you were here last year and told us, but we want to hear it again. It's that you can't remind us this too much. Appreciate you being here. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and commissioners. I want to thank you all for recognizing this yet again. This truly means a lot to me. I go to school implantation, so this really is a lot. When I was eight years old, my mom was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer. It was an incredibly hard time for me as I was not entirely sure what was happening. My mom went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and I had to sacrifice much of the time that I could be spending with her at home in a hospital room with my own mother connected to wires. It's colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable diseases as when it's caught in its early stages, it can be removed very easily. However, majority of the time when it's found in its later stages, it only has a 16% chance of survival after five years. Many people think they're too young to have colorectal cancer and many families find out too late that that's not the case as we're seeing people in their late thirties, early forties getting it. My mom was only diagnosed when she was 40 and this at the time that was five, ten, sorry, ten years before the age of screening. We need better access to screening, so thank you. Can you tell us your name again? Gabriel Gaiduk. Gabriel, and we remember you being here last year and we're so glad that your mom recovered and that you're here advocating for this once again. And it's not only people in their thirties and forties, people in their twenties and late twenties are being diagnosed now. So thank you for continuing to spread the awareness and being here with us. Thank you for accepting this. And we have a department that is being honored, Procurement Professionals Day. Do we have any procurement professionals in the house? I think that's you guys. Did we have to bid on this proclamation? Did we have to bid? Okay. All right, I'm going to start reading and then we'll take a picture and you can save. Whereas public procurement profession, that's alliterative. Public procurement profession plays a significant role in the efficiency and effectiveness of both government and business and whereas procurement professionals add value to the organization by performing such functions as executing, implementing, and administering contracts for goods, services, and construction, developing strategic procurement strategies. Whereas public procurement professionals in the city plantation and in other public and private organizations have tremendous influence on economic conditions in the United States. And whereas procurement department is committed to providing high caliber strategical, logic, logistical, and operational support of all departments. And whereas the procurement department and the city plantation recognize support and practice the public procurement values and guiding principles of accountability, ethics, impartiality, professionalism, service, and transparency established by the NIGP, the Institute for Public Procurement. And whereas NIGP is programmed the month of March as procurement month, now therefore I, Nick Sorrel, Mayor, and the city council plantation do hereby proclaim the month of March 2026 as procurement month. The mic is yours, sir. Good evening, Charles Spencer, for camera director. As you all know, I'm not really a talker. My team laughs all the time about this, but this is the one month and the opportunity that we get to boast about the wonderful things that we do on behalf of the city of plantation. We're honored to do these things and to shine light on all the wonderful work that we do for city of plantation. We are held in high esteem amongst all the cities in the state of Florida to look to us for advice, and we're happy to give it. But at this moment, it's not really about me. It's about the team that's standing here today. And I'm going to ask that each of them come up and they introduce themselves and their position and what departments they represent. And even if they want to go so far as their history and how many years of service they've been here with the city of plantation. I'll start with. Good afternoon. My name is Valerie Jean-Francois. I am the procurement associate handling all administrative tasks for the department. I've joined the city last year, so almost a year. Bring it down a little. My name is Aisha Mohamed. I am the procurement agent. I have been with the city for four years, about to be four years, and I'm in charge of HR, city clerk, utilities, and building department. Good evening. My name is Sabine Malval. I recently joined the city of plantation. I've been here for a week and 43 days. And I handle fire department, police, engineering, design, and finance. I come from FDOT, Florida Department of Transportation. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Angel Medina. I am procurement agent for the purchasing department. My departments are Parks and Recreation, Public Works, PZOD, Library and Museum. Good evening, everyone. My name is Asha Edwards. I'm the assistant procurement director. I'm responsible for everything. And I've been with the city almost three years now. Thank you. And last but not least. Hello. My name is Bruce Greenberg. 1155. No, I'm sorry. I am the city courier. I've been here since May of 2013. And I'm going on my 14th year here. And I'm having a great time. So far, it was so good. Thank you. Two more things. If you don't mind. Two more things. I'm sorry. Yeah. So during this month is when we take the opportunity to educate internal users on several procurement practices, informative of legislative items, and really engage on how can we get better at what we do and what are they looking for from the department. So this year, we're doing a back to basics class. It's going to be held March 17th and March 19th of this month in this chambers. And it's going to be a game show edition. And we're going to be doing Kahoot for all those that's going to be participating. So it's going to be a fun time. And there's going to be some prizes for the first, second, and third place winners of this. But trust me, I had the opportunity of coming up with the questions. So I'm sure it's going to be quite difficult. Mr. Spencer, could you repeat those dates some time? Sure. It's March 17th and March 19th. And it's at 10 to 1130. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. Today was our cupcake day. So today we went out and we had cupcakes for everyone. We even involved design and construction team who enjoyed some cupcakes as well. And there are some in the back as well. We brought some in. We had leftovers. March 12th, we're going to fuel our morning. So I'm bringing in breakfast for the entire team. So we're going to have breakfast. We'll have an opportunity to network and talk about what's going on and just kind of have that little powwow. March 17th and 19th is the back to basics. March 23rd is sweet treats. So I'm going to have treats brought in from, I believe, Vicki's Bakeries, if I'm not mistaken. And we're going to do Vicki's Bakery. March 24th, we're going to have a slice of pie on me. So we're going to have pie on the 24th. March 25th, we're going to do a brunch and learn expo trade show at the city of Lotter Hill, partnered with the Broad County Public School Board. And then March 26th, we're going to be doing an off-site activity for team building and lunch. So we have a fun-filled month full of opportunity, engagement, and learning, and we're super excited about it. And my last comment is recently we were awarded the 2026 FAPO Award of Excellence in Public Procurement, one of 25 cities out of 411 municipalities in the state of Florida. We were lucky enough and skilled enough to be able to receive that award once again. So I'm super proud of that team, and I couldn't be happier for the work that they do. Wonderful. Now I'm ready for a picture. Thank you. There we go. Does that work? Put Bruce in front. He's going to get there anyway, right? Thank you. All right. Thank you. We're all set. Thank you. Thank you very much. And next up, Ms. Patricia O'Toole giving us an update with Parks and Rec. Good evening. You're using my formal name, too. Wrong date. We're here for the wrong date. Good evening, council members, Mayor, Mr. Ezra, a couple of upcoming events in the Parks and Recreation Department. This Saturday, one of our favorites, March 14th, is Touch a Truck at the Plantation Equestrian Center. That runs from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and we do have a horn-free hour from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Registration's also open for the Family Bike Ride and Scavenger Hunt, which will be Saturday, March 28th, kicking off from the Plantation Community Center at 9 a.m. Also, our community garage sales taking place Saturday, March 28th at Volunteer Park from 7 a.m. to noon. In the Aquatics Division, we are offering our one-on-one private swim lessons that are available now for registration. Athletics, Saturday, March 14th, and Sunday, March 15th is a bazooka soccer tournament at Central Park. And just a quick update at the request of Councilmember Reinstein. I believe you all got an email from Joe Wynn regarding the art GIS dashboard that we implemented. It is live. It did go live in May of 2024. It's an interactive map on the Parks and Rec website. You can go on there, navigate throughout the city, click on various pictures and art installations that we have added throughout the community. So it is being updated as we add more art. And Councilmember Reinstein just asked that I remind the public that it's there and it's live and being updated. Thank you, Mr. Tull. And I did say to Mr. Wynn that it was there. We continue to add art. I had a little bit of an issue that we were highlighting the softball in the paper because we didn't have anything else. But I said to him that that would be implemented. Could you give us an update? Because we hadn't spoken about it publicly. You and I had a private meeting last year about the art festival. What happened with that? The art festival, we were very excited about it. We were planning for February 21st and 22nd. We were working with a fine art vendor that was going to find us at least 60 or so artists. And right before the holidays, he contacted us. He only received 12 applicants for the art vendors. So we waited a few weeks to try to give it some more time. And he just didn't get the traction that we wanted. And we didn't want to put forth an event that wasn't spectacular, as we had hoped. So we're actually taking the funds that were allocated for that event and we're putting them towards 4th of July. We've already, since it is the country's 250th anniversary, we have Magda Love on board. She's going to be doing a community mural of some sort. We have Young at Art that's going to come out. So we're trying to just infuse some art, community art projects for 4th of July. And I think that's a great pivot. I just hope perhaps next year that we can take that in. Yes. If we don't get the artists, maybe implement some of the interactive things with the community that we had talked about. Yes. And we're going to try again for February 27th and just start planning earlier this time. Thank you for the update. You're welcome. All righty. Thanks very much. May I? Would you like Mr. O'Toole to come back? Yeah, Mr. O'Toole, if I may, just a follow-up. Is that because the difficulty that you experienced using this particular individual was going to help find the artists and the vendors and so forth, as part of the new plan, will there be more of an outreach to the public that we may already have some within our own community that we otherwise want to participate? We actually, at the recommendation of the advisory board, reached out to local artists. Shannon sent hundreds of emails to local artists to apply to become part of this festival, and we didn't hear from anybody that expressed interest. So I'm not really sure why that is. We really tried to get local artists involved, and we just didn't have the interest. So we'll certainly keep trying. And again, starting earlier, I think we'll help. And if I may add, as someone who in a previous life did art shows, it's a circuit, and the schedules fill up, and everybody plans that. So I think as a new event, it's going to take us a little while to build that traction. But if we could start with local artists, that would be great. Maybe it'll be a little smaller event. Yeah, and just one more add is that maybe we can also consider reaching out to our schools. We see in the art programs in our schools such amazing work that the students are doing, and maybe each of the schools would like to have a booth to showcase the work that's being done there. Sure. That was actually part of our plan because we had art search that just kind of culminated into this event. Wonderful. Yep. You got it. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole. Thank you, Councilmember Reinstein. This time we will adjourn at 620 the city council meeting. Ms. Thompson, you good? Yes. All right, and we will now call the city CRA meeting at 620 as well. All right. Thank you very much. Ms. Thompson, would you please call the roll? Sure. Commissioner Anderson? Here. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fadgen? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. Commissioner Sewell? Here. And city attorney Ezra? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Thompson. Commissioners, this evening we are required to appoint a chair and vice chair of the CRA. Is there any opposition to continue with the president and the president pro tem of the council? No. No opposition. Okay. Do we have a motion? Motion to continue as is currently set. I'm trying to be efficient here, Councilmember. Second. All right. Ms. Thompson, would you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fadgen? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortel? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. The CRA consent agenda consists of items 1 through 2 and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the commission wish to pull an item? Right. Mr. Conklin would like to pull item number 2. Do I have a motion on item number 1? Motion to approve item 1. Is there a second? Second. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fadgen? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortel? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Conklin, item number 2, which is for the record the expenditures and appropriations for the CRA. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and all of your families. The question I had was in the backup material week number 1, and I see that there's going to be incentive, and I was just curious who Roger Goldenberg was. So that was basically it, because when you click on the stuff, it doesn't say what it is, except that it's an award for improving the district. But maybe he owns a business, and we want to know about that so we can support that business or whatnot. So thank you. Mr. Nunnemaker? Mr. Goldengay owns a multi-tenant building in proximity to PI. I can't remember if it was a re-roof or new windows, but I'd be happy to get the backup and forward it to Mr. Conklin. Thank you very much. Thanks. Mr. Conklin, does that suffice? Thank you. Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. Do we have a motion on item number 2? Motion to approve item 2. Do we have a second? Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Okay. Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fadgen? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortel? Yes. Thank you. With that, the CRA meeting is adjourned at 923. Oh, I'm sorry. Public comment. I'm sorry, Mr. Conklin. I apologize. You did want to be called for public comment. Please come up, sir. Yes, if I may approach. Yes. Thank you very much. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I had two requests, the usual. In redeveloping the Plantation General Hospital site, I ask that you approve only a three-story building, if possible. And request number two, with a future demolition of old Plantation General Hospital and the likelihood that the redevelopment would be affordable housing, kindly consider the following. What we have seen in the current affordable housing redevelopment and plantation midtown development district is that this model is not really affordable. When using the rule of not budgeting more than 25% of take-home pay for housing in order for persons or families to financially succeed in owning a home with a 15-year fixed mortgage rate while being able to invest for their retirement or to pay for children's college and also to be charitable. The financial numbers and the backup material for the affordable housing planned in the midtown rent were as follows. If $3,325 per month is equal to 25% of families' take-home pay, a family would have to have a monthly take-home pay of $13,300 to pay the rent. That means an annual pay, take-home pay, of $159,600 a year, not affordable. If they go for the ownership in that district because of the HOA, it requires $5,185 a month. If that's equal to 25% of a take-home pay, a family's take-home pay would have to be $20,740 a month or $248,880 a year. This is the definition that's not affordable. So particularly on the east side, what's happening along State Road 7, because it's a bus corridor, we're likely going to get housing in place of the hospital. We can't afford affordable housing like this, and I yield back my time. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Conklin. Are there any other members of the public which wish to comment on this CRA? Hearing none, the CRA meeting is adjourned at 626. We'll reconvene the City Council meeting also at 626. And we will begin with public requests of the Council regarding municipal affairs. To those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you've not done so already, please do so. When you are called, please approach the podium and make sure the green light is on the microphone. You will have three minutes to make your request to Council. Please state your name and address, and please address your remarks to the Council President, not the Mayor, nor individual members of the Council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. Please use your time efficiently. If extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask for it as your time is expiring and not prior to beginning your remarks. Mr. Conklin, you're up, sir. If I may approach. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6 Court. I want to jump down to request number one in the column here. Hamas is a militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is the propaganda wing of the same. There are two sides of the same coin. CARE right now is demanding that the Texas School Board rewrite the nation's history books because basically whatever Texas buys for the school books, all the states buy. They are demanding that they rewrite the American history. So request number one is to go by the press. Request number two is related to this, that the city of Plantation also designate the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas CARE as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations that are primarily funded by, and their base is in Qatar. Now, sadly, yesterday was six months from when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And I've asked that you contact the NSU, Nova Southeast University chapter, and possibly create a liaison for our three high schools in Plantation. Question. What do 600, 536, 132, and 17 days have in common? Four assassination attempts on the life of candidate President Donald John Trump. What could be the cause of such murderous atmosphere? Two days ago, the FBI reported to Congress that from the summer of 2016 to the inauguration day of January 2025, the Obama and Biden administrations targeted Donald John Trump for four consecutive FBI-coded names of investigations for counterintelligence. In other words, he's a spy. Those were Crossfire Hurricane, Round River, which I'd never heard of until two days ago, Plasmic Echo, which I'd never heard of until two days ago, and Arctic Frost, which we've all heard, 30 seconds, 10 seconds. Gold closed today at $5,199 an ounce. Over 13 months, that has increased $2,424.50 an ounce. We are going to be going to constitutional bullion, gold bullion, and silver bullion legal tender in the state of Florida. I urge you to get on board with that because they're going to have a sandbox period. That's when they're going to discuss and learn everybody, train everybody up on the rules. Thank you. I'll yield back. Mr. Conklin? Yes. No time to yield back. We always let you have your three. It is not often that we engage in anything that, and you and I have our disagreements, but, sir, you always conduct yourself as a gentleman. We can all disagree. In and outside of this chamber, you're always a gentleman, and you're always respectful, and I know you're a man of faith. You've asked us several times to endorse Turning Point USA in our high schools, and I feel compelled tonight to address that because I, for one, will never endorse encouraging any of our high schools to do that because we just had the second incident at a college campus here in South Florida at FIU where the president was asked to resign because of racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic comments calling for violence against people of color, the gay community, women, and it's abhorrent, and it's not the first time that a chapter has been called out for that. If you recall, last year in New York, it was the same thing, and I'm not saying that every chapter... Absolutely, and that's because it's not involved with anything to do with what Turning Point USA is based on. It's become a pattern, sir, and it's unfortunate because there was a time in this country where rhetoric, hateful rhetoric like that, would have been called out immediately. People may have been expelled from their college campuses. It took a little too long. It was a week, but for that reason, and I respect you tremendously, but I will never endorse that because that type of behavior and rhetoric has no place in the city of Plantation. So we will disagree on this one. Thank you, and like I said, we can always disagree, and that's how Charlie was killed because he was addressing people that he disagreed with, and they killed him. Thank you. You'll bet my time. Are there any members of the public who would wish to speak before the council? All right, not hearing any. That will be the last call, and public requests of the council are now closed. Consent agenda consists of items 1 through 12 and may be approved with wind motion. Council members, does anyone wish to pull an item off the consent agenda? Number 7. Number 7. Anybody else? No. Any member of the public wish to pull an item off the consent agenda? Do we have a motion for items 1 through 12 minus 7? Motion to approve the consent agenda items 1 through 12 with the exception of 7. Second. Thank you. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Council member Andrean. Yes. Council member Fadgen. Yes. Council member Reinstein. Yes. Council member Anderson. Yes. Council member Horland. Yes. Item number 7 is fire station number 3, restroom renovation architectural services. Council member Anderson. Charles, this might be out of your – it's just – I'm just stunned that just to design a bathroom, not build it, just design a bathroom that already exists. They want 50 grand. How is this reasonable and customary fees? Are we really pushing back just because we get – I mean, there are – we retain Zachariah and Associates. Are they the only ones we can use because of the way – that contract that we have? No. So, obviously, we have a library of architects that are at our disposal. However, this project is a little unique because WZA is already incorporated with the project. So, having them – It should give us economies of scale because they're already there and know the building. So, with this particular project, they're actually using the pricing – and please correct me if I'm wrong, Deb – from an agreement that has – that has now expired. So, we're actually using prices for four years ago for this work. Any reasonable person would say $50,000 to design an existing bathroom is excessive. How do we not push back? And our team pushes back. I know Deb will speak more to it. He's part of the team that pushes back when these prices come in. But they do negotiate the rates based on the hour, based on the work, based on the need. And I'll let him speak more to it if he can. Good evening. Deb Machuca, project manager, administration. So, like Charles was saying, we do vet the proposals that come in from the consultants. In this scenario, particularly, the consultant is using rates from his previous contract agreement. So, it's compared to what his current rates are. But with regards to the actual proposal for this particular work, I know you guys see it – we see it maybe a little bit exorbitant. But when you consider that the buildings was built in the 80s, there's never gone on a renovation for all the underground utilities. And case in point, with the current renovations that we're currently undergoing here with this restroom and the amount of unforeseen conditions we've been encountering, I think, in our honest opinion, it's fair to say that because of the unknowns based on the year and age, and it's never been renovated since – I think it was in the 80s. Fire department can probably correct me on that. We see that this is a fair price. I don't understand how the age changes engineering. You have the same studs, same concrete, same water. There's more evaluation going on for the actual – well, the other thing we've got to consider is, typically, when a consultant gives us a proposal, they also look at the as-belts. As you may or may not know, some of the older buildings don't have as-belts. And if they do, they're not legible. They're not reliable. Again, I go back to the restaurant renovations we're currently undergoing here. So that's another reason why we see these proposals coming in the way they are for older facilities. Well, I'm lodging my complaint. I don't – I think it's just massively excessive design to design too bad – design, not even build them. So it's not against you either. No, I understand. And we're getting – and we should be thankful because we're getting a deal that it's the older rates. I'm not thankful. No, I mean, we are following, like Charles said. And that's not to you. No, I understand. So, all right, I've said I've vented enough, I guess. But thank you for your feedback. Council Member Weinstein. Yeah, I do want to follow up. And thank you, Council Member Anderson, for bringing this up. I'm curious because I wasn't going to ask until I heard you describe one of the reasons why the total amount, I'll say, is acceptable or is being presented to us. And I thought I heard you say because of the unknown, and I don't know what that means in the sense of this situation where I had always thought that when something occurs that is unexpected, that's when we get change order requests, right? That's when it is something beyond what was expected. So are you saying that the amount here is taking into consideration that they may face unexpected circumstances, that there's a certain line for the unexpected or the unknown that is being considered here? Some of their approach from the consultant's point of view is because of the age, the infrastructure, and the lack of, thereof, adequate as-builts, the pricing is reflected on that scenario, whereas it's a building from 2020, something more recent, would have better adequate as-builts. They can rely on for engineering purposes in this scenario, I only can presume that that's the reason why. Their cost is the way it's reflected now. And this is, again, based on the old rates, so they're not even charging us the current rates. So not, listen, for this, it's a small amount in the scheme of things, but I'm actually more concerned with how I hear you describe it, is that because are you, you're, I heard you say that you presume that that's why. Well, this is just based on conversation we've had with the consultants back and forth. So I can't speak with them unless they're here, but they're not currently here, so. You know, this is something, I mean, I've spoken to Chief Todd before about this restaurant, and this is a necessary renovation. This is long overdue, the problems in there that need to be fixed. We probably need the entire station renovated, but those restrooms are very, need to be, need to be done. But when I hear something being described as that- And we're not talking about just, hey, let's remove the tiles, the finishes, and put new, no, this is a full gut. And I'm not suggesting, I don't think I said a word about that it's not needed, the renovation, to the contrary, the renovation is needed. It's that when I hear, when the questions are being asked from a colleague, and then the response is that, well, because there are unknowns or because we're presuming something, that troubles me, that we don't really have enough to support where the, where this amount is coming from. That's what it sounds like to me. So I'm concerned with that. Go ahead. Go ahead. Jason, I'm a maker, CAO. I think when you look at the construction document phase, what you're seeing, and that's the biggest line item here, is the converting of the existing docks, the review of those docks. Because, as Div alluded to, we don't have a turnkey as built, so that's eating up a lot of the cost. And we share your frustration with the cost, not only regarding architects, but contractors generally. But if we want to go and see pricing elsewhere, we can't, we can't guarantee that we're going to get any better than this. And, and for that reason, I, listen, I, I feel like I don't have a choice almost on this one, because I think we need, I think we need to move forward on it. But I, I would like much better information on something like this. You know, I always worry that if, if there's something like this on a small amount, relatively, then what, you know, what are we missing on, on bigger amounts? So. Well, and you all have kind of seen it before with the CHI, when they went out of business, what we had to expend to then pay another contractor to take over those designs. Yeah, no, it's, it's a risk. There's no question. But it doesn't mean we can't do better, and we shouldn't expect more from the contractors we are using. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. I'm working with a client, a corporate client, who overly relied on their past accountant, and things weren't filed. They didn't have records. So we're making a lot of assumptions. So I'm interpreting the unknowns as not stuff that we're going to find unknown things with the designs, but the as-built stuff that can't be relied on. So we're, I think they're anticipating starting that from scratch is really what the unknown is. It's not that they don't know what's going to be involved in this project, but as an engineer or an architect, they can't rely on these, on these past designs, because they're just not good copies, or they're missing key elements to them, is what I'm hearing when I hear unknown. Correct. If you see in their actual proposal on the breakdown where they had mechanical engineering consultants, electrical engineer consultants, fire sprinkler engineer consultants, so all that adds up. It's because of these- It's getting them to their base where they can rely on some kind of substance. So I just think unknown is a bad descriptor. I do blame you for that. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Anderson. Charles, this might be back to you. I think the term construction management at risk, but I'm not sure if it applies to the renovation. Couldn't we have someone bid to do the entire thing, engineering, design, build, everything, and bid it that way because they might have their own in-house engineer who's obviously not going to charge. They're going to charge. They're already paying their own salaries, is what I'm saying. Sure. They can bid a much tighter package when they have all aspects of it, and they're guaranteed to design and build us a bathroom with X number of toilets, with ADA stall, et cetera, et cetera, and they bid that, and we get it. So to answer your first question, yes, there's two procurement models you can use. One is the CMAR, which is construction manager, whereas the other is a design, build. Both of those procurement models will not guarantee a better rate. It does not. It guarantees a quicker process because you're able to work several things right, but it does not guarantee better rates. Technically, the way we are doing it, the plantation is doing it, when we do a design, a bid, and then a build, the three-step process, which is a longer process, guarantees actually lower rates because we are putting in a competitive situation each of the individual processes. But it does take a longer process because of the steps that we're taking. Using the library that we have cuts a little bit of that in half because we don't bid individually for the architectural engineering side of it, but that's why we have rates in place, and that's why Dibb and his team looks at these proposals and negotiates the hours necessary to do the work. And I can tell you for a fact that the first proposal is not the one that you were presented with. Because I get to see those proposals as they are transitioning to the negotiated proposal presented to you today. So do they – I'm sorry, I think the – it was like a lot of pages I didn't see. Does it break down the hours? And if so, are we – even at a few hundred dollars an hour, that's a hell of a lot of hours to design a bathroom. Yes, and I don't want to speak for design and construction, but, yes, it does break down hours because that's a requirement from procurement to make sure that, one, the rates that we are receiving matches the contracts that we have in place. The design and construction team is to be responsible to make sure that the hours being quoted adheres to what they believe the work is necessary for the work to be performed. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Finally, the mayor. Just, Eric, Councilmember, I've said off the top of my head, if you charge $250 an hour, that would be for 200 hours' work. So you can figure it out accordingly, you know. I don't know what Kerry charges, but I think it's more. I'm kidding. The other thing is design-build. I am greatly in favor of design-build, like you were talking about, Councilmember Anderson. I think it's a more efficient way to do things, and I think it puts accountability with it. And so we've talked about that, and there are ways, if we can keep doing that, I would rather do that. No, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, gentlemen. It was a good discussion. I think you heard the concerns, Deb, and it seems it goes back to the age of this project and the concerns over the documentation. So thank you for that. Is there any public comment on this item? No further comment from the dais? Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Councilmember Andrean? Yes. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? No. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moving on to legislative items. Item number 13, Ordinance Amending Section 6-4.1, Special Magistrate. 6-7, Same Powers. 6-11, Fines and Liens and Claims Enforcement. And 6-14, Service of Notices of the Code of Ordinances. Mr. Ezreal? Yes. Thank you. This is a first reading of an ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida, pertaining to the subject of code enforcement, amending Section 6-4.1, Special Magistrate. 6-7, Same Powers. 6-11, Fines and Liens and Claims Enforcement. 6-14, Service of Notices of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Plantation, providing for severability, codification, conflicts, and an effective date. Very much, Mr. Ezreal. Is there a presentation on this item, or just a discussion, Mr. Nanamaker? Not really a presentation. I mean, we kind of share this across multiple departments. We outline the key highlights in the attached memo. One of the things, obviously, is the increase in the available fines. And I want to be very clear that that doesn't mean that that is what will be charged, but it gives additional latitude to the magistrates, which, given some of the issues we've been facing, I think, will be very much needed in the future. Also, more particularly, the discussion on a 40-year inspection. We've all had experience with the residents facing the impacts of those, so that will give administrative authority to relieve up to 100% of the fines and fees, but not the city costs. And we have communicated with the Chatham folks, and they are aware of the first and second reading schedule. And we hope to, assuming this does pass, we'll hit the ground running with them on the 26th. It also makes some minor updates on the, related to the special magistrate, more of a housekeeping nature. And on the fines and whatnot, I think we have not addressed that since our population has been above $50,000, so we've just about doubled that. Thank you. Before I let Councilmembers Reinstein and Andrea jump in, first, I want to thank Administration and the City Attorney's Office for moving so quickly on this. It will help the folks at Chatham tremendously. And for raising some of those fees. We've had continued, and what we want to make sure that the public's aware of, the goal is always compliance. And this is really for a lot of the repeat offenders. And when we start to talk about the vacation rentals, and I know we had a conversation, and I asked Mr. Ezra about this, there's a concern about a applicant, well, a person who's been fined coming before us, and let's say this is not a resident, that now is before the magistrate and comes into compliance. And having something in place, whether that is typically a re-offender, that those fines don't, the clock just doesn't start over again. If they leave this building and say they were not supposed to list the property, now they've re-listed the property and have not registered with the city. So I think the big concern is how do we hold those people, and it's always been our struggle, how do we hold those re-offenders, especially in those vacation rentals, accountable. So I think that's whatever we can do under the letter of the law. We do have those discussions, and it's important to note that the mayor has established a round table with code, bringing all the disciplines together, so we go through case-by-case, you know, where do we need to exercise restraint, where do we need to turn up the heat, and it's very valuable. We get input from all the departments, so it's really helped us refine our processes. Okay. So whatever we can do on that. Thank you very much. Councilmember Ryanstein. Yeah, thank you very much. So I just want to echo a couple things and then some other points. One is that I'm glad that finally we've put some more teeth into this ordinance. You know, what we've been finding is that in those situations where we wanted to put the pressure on offenders, we weren't able to because the ordinance didn't allow it. And that leads me into my other concern is that we've been very clear, I think, the council and the administration of wanting to put more pressure on the offenders, especially, you know, those repeat offenders. And the concern that I have is where the always potential situation where the magistrates that are our special magistrates that are meant to serve on behalf of the city and protect the interests of the city and to uphold our ordinances. Yet, frankly, we've been seeing so many situations where the lenience wasn't doing, wasn't putting the pressure that we felt was needed. And so in looking at this ordinance that was before us with all of the strikeouts and additions, my question is not as to what is being removed or what is being added, but it gave me a chance to look at what was already there. And so I wanted to draw the attention of our council. I don't know if anybody has the ordinance or can pull it up, but it's Section 2. It's Section 6-4.1, where Section Subsection C. And Subsection C is the one that essentially provides the authority to suspend or to remove the magistrate, and the paragraph says that a special magistrate may be suspended for cause at any time by the mayor and may be removed for cause at any time by resolution of the city council. But what struck me is that in the state that we live in, an at-will state, there was no ability to remove the magistrate without having to provide some type of cause. Cause may be enough, but then cause isn't defined here. And so I don't see any reason why a special magistrate can't be suspended by the mayors in a city like ours, where we have a strong mayor. And this seems to be one spot where there should be the authority for the mayor to be able to make a decision to move to a different magistrate with leaving or by resolution of the city council. So that still would provide the same position. But I'm troubled that it's either cause needs to be sufficiently defined so that the reason can be given that maybe it's simply that the special magistrate is not upholding the position that the administration would like them to, I mean, some type of wording, or that it's no cause is necessary. So I wanted to throw that out to the council, see their thoughts on that. Thank you. I think it's a great point. Thank you for bringing it up, Councilmember Reinstein. I'd like to hear from Mr. Nunnemaker and Mr. Ezra to make sure there's no legal conflict there that we don't immediately see. Well, I'll defer to Kerry on the legal, but from administration's perspective, I think that balances out things nicely, so we don't have any objection. I would note that also the mayor does convene the special magistrates on a periodic basis just to have a discussion not about a specific case, but general matters on kind of our philosophy. We found them to be responsive. We also have – the administration will respond if we're alerted to issues of particular concern so that we can highlight to the magistrate we don't think relief should be granted over on a particular case. And there's also the latitude that sometimes we are wrapped up in a case that maybe it shouldn't be as emotionally charged. And I can think of one case in particular where an individual bought a home that was notorious for other reasons, and since they purchased that home, there were no subsequent issues. So it turned out to work well, but there was a lot of consternation about not holding their feet to the fire when really they kind of solved a problem. So there's still, I think, room to have that latitude for the magistrate to kind of see through it a bit, if you will. And I want to thank you, because the administration has been responsive to any of our concerns when we felt that the magistrate perhaps wasn't being as firm on some of those cases. So I appreciate that. Mr. Ezra, do you feel the need to weigh in on that? Do you see any legal conflicts? Only to state on the record that there's no legal impediment to making the change requested by Council Member Reinstein. Okay. Council Member Reinstein, would you like to refine your language, and then we can see if we have a consensus on that? So, what I'd like to do is to leave it generally in terms of what I think should be refined, and then send it back to the administration and to legal to specifically refine it. I think that the language should, as such, provide that a special magistrate may be suspended or terminated by the mayor, and may be removed at any time by resolution of the City Council. So we're essentially taking out the reference to for a cause. Okay. Council Members, do we have a consensus for that? And then Council Member Andrea went – are you finished? Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Reinstein. Council Member Andrea, go ahead. I'll turn to you right now. So this was not why I initially buzzed in, but is the magistrate on any type of contract? Through an appointment, I believe we appoint them by resolution. So it's not a contract per se, and I think termination wouldn't be an issue. I don't think under the present circumstance, but we can word it more specifically here. So I'm going to play devil's advocate, and I don't necessarily agree with the language being removed, because if we had a situation where we have a strong mayor who just, for whatever reason, does not like or get along with, and it's more of a personal issue, and you have that language there, I don't think they should be able to just, at their own free will, be able to terminate the magistrate. So I think that's probably why initially that forecause was in there. So there should be some guardrails. That's why if we had an annual contract where that was visited annually by the mayor, like you said, if you have a meeting with them and discuss any concerns or everything is working out well, that's renewed. But, you know, I just wouldn't want to see that be abused. So it's a point well taken, and we've had that in the past. I didn't want to say that. Council President, if I may, just on that point, and I appreciate you bringing it up, and I should have added that in because I did think about that, and it is a concern. My only thought was that we are in a unique situation in our city where we have a strong mayor, and so there are certain positions where the mayor does get to make certain decisions without consulting or without consent of council. You know, if it was simply resolution of the city council, that would bring it before the, put everything out in the public. I would generally be okay with that too. I just, the language for cause I'm troubled by without one either defining cause clear enough or the fact that I don't think we need cause. I think that you should be able to terminate the employment of somebody if the way that they are working is not in line with the city's view of things. But I would be open to other language that would also accomplish the same purpose. I just don't want it to be so subjective. Excellent point. So what I would ask of administration is you could take this conversation, and perhaps it just remains a resolution of the city council. And say the mayor has a concern, brings it to the council because we have seen those abuses in the past, and we wouldn't want to repeat that. So, excellent points on both sides, and I think I'll trust administration and city attorney to come back with the language that meets that requirement for us. Okay. Look forward to it. Thank you. Councilmember Andre, you had something else? Well, I think Mr. Nunamaker addressed it in his opening. I was concerned that we were, of course, like you said, it has not been revisited, so I understand the increase, but I did not want that to be a starting point, whereas before, maybe it was because the dollar amount, the threshold was lower. That was always the starting point. So will that be, I guess, too, relayed to the magistrate? Like, they don't necessarily always have to start at 1,000. They still have the flexibility of up to. In both the magistrates, and I think it's very clear that they have different perspectives, but neither one of them starts on the high end unless there's a reason. Now, given that, one may go a little higher than the other, and that's just the nature of things. But, no, we relay those conversations when we get together because our goal is compliance at the end of the day. That's why, you know, the modification regarding the 40-year, we're not looking to be burdensome, unless being burdensome is what it's called for. Okay. Thank you. Does this, President Horland, since it is a legislative item, do we have to table this? Okay. It will come back with the revisions. Okay. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. On a different note, I think we've been very consistent as a council that we want to, to, um, recoup our cost, um, when we're writing these things down. So, one of the things says that it gives the mayor authority to reduce the fine up to 100%. And I would say let's, um, up to cost incurred and then have the mayor bring it before the council decide if we're going to get rid of cost incurred. Um, maybe under kind of the example used on the other item where, what if it, what if it's the mayor's neighborhood that's going through this and it's in his interest to, um, get rid of our cost incurred. Or her interest. What's that? Or her interest. Or her interest. Yes. Um. It's Women's History Month after all. So, that, that, that was my thoughts in reading this. So, look at this. It's our intent. We can, if we need to further clarify the language, but it references the fine in particular. So, it's not our intent to waive costs. Okay. It wasn't clear to me. Okay. So, if we can make it more clear. Yeah, 100% of the fine and then I think that, that had been the discussion, especially when we had Chatham coming up, that they would pay, they would pay the legal, uh, Maybe specifically say, uh, the, the costs incurred, um, would need to be brought before council for consideration. It's not a huge burden and we don't want to get into the position of subsidizing these matters and for Chatham, for example, you're looking about maybe $800 per building. No, and I agree. Um, I'm just saying that the, uh, um, I was going to add another comment, but. I think we all want to ensure that our, our city costs are covered. Right. Sure. Thank you. I appreciate the feedback. Um, any other comments on the dais? Okay. Uh, anyone from the public? Thank you. So, this is, uh, first reading. So, may we have a motion to approve with the changes that we've asked for and that'll come back to us on second reading. That was my point. I thought when they were so substantive, we needed to maybe, I don't know. I didn't, I didn't think they were that substantive, but it'll come back on second reading. Okay. Mr. Uh, as well, again, I also don't think they're overly substantive. The title will not be changing, so I'm comfortable with, um, proceeding as directed by council. Okay. Motion to approve. With, with the changes. Thank you. With the revisions. Yes. Second. All right. Ms. Thompson, would you please call the roll? Okay. Council member Andreu. Yes. Council member Fadgen. Yes. Council member Einstein. Yes. Council member Anderson. Yes. Council member Horland. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Thompson. Thank you for the excellent conversation. And again, thank you to administration for that. Quasi-judicial proceedings. Uh, the city clerk will swear on all witnesses before speaking into items, but first the city attorney will read the rules. So if you are going to be speaking on items 14 or 15, please pay attention to Mr. Ezraal. Mr. Ezraal. Uh, before I read, um, I need to request another shade session with you all. I understand that the date has been coordinated for March 25th. If for some reason it's not March 25th, it will be another night. And it's the case of Cynthia Harper versus City of Plantation, case CACE-25-008039. Thank you, Mr. Ezraal. And now with your permission, I'll read. Yes, sir. The city clerk will swear in all witnesses before speaking, please state your name and whether you have been administered an oath. Any speaker may be cross-examined. If you refuse to be cross-examined, your testimony may not be considered. Cross-examination shall be conducted in a courteous manner. The material in the city clerk's agenda packet will be made a part of the record. City staff will make the first presentation, followed by presentations from the applicant, any affected parties, and the public. The elected officials may set reasonable time limits for speakers. The hearing will then be closed and the matter decided. The city council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of a development order, resolution, or ordinance evidencing its decision. The city council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for additional research or review. Thank you, Mr. Ezraal. The first item is item 14, PP25-0040, consideration of a request for re-approval of a site plan, elevation, and landscape plan, waivers, conditional use, and a use variance approval for Chabad Daycare Center. The property is located at 10359 West Broward Boulevard in its zone B-7Q, planned commercial development. Mr. Holmes. Excuse me. Is the city clerk going to swear in all the witnesses for the quasi's? Yes, we need to do that. Thank you. City clerk will do that. Would anyone speaking please rise? If you did not hear, please rise if you're speaking on this item and also on 15. Okay. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you're about to present is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Thompson. Mr. Holmes. Okay. Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the Council for the Record. Dan Holmes, Planning, Zoning, Economic Development Director. This is application 25-0040. It is, as you probably read in your back up, a re-approval of a site plan that was previously approved. This has been going on for about 10 years now. But it is the re-approval of a site plan, elevation and landscape plan to permit a two-story, 12,844-square-foot mixed-use building. There are, as part of this, there are two zoning waivers and four landscape waivers. There's also a conditional use to allow a 4,500-square-foot daycare. And then there's a use variance to allow a 1,490-square-foot house of worship within the B-7-Q district. This is the location of the site. You can see it located along Broward Boulevard, just west of Knob Hill Road. The agent for the request is William Laystrom. The owner of the property is the Hibad Lubavitch of Plantation. The address is 10359 West Broward. The size of the parcel is a little over one acre. Underlying zoning, B-7-Q. It is an existing vacant property. The underlying land use is commercial. And the adjacent zoning districts are B-7-Q to the north and east. P-R-D-16 to the west and Broward Boulevard to the south. And this is just an aerial photo here. You can see the property located or highlighted there. And you can see the notification boundary for this was 300 feet. There were 218 notices mailed to surrounding property owners. To date, we've seen no objections with regard to the proposed request. This is just an aerial view of the site itself. And just to kind of go back and recap some of the history behind this, back in January of 2016, this was when the initial site plan, elevation, and landscape plan with six waivers associated with parking setbacks and landscape pedestrian zones were approved by the council. Initially, there was some talk at the time in January of the House of Worship. They were advised at that time that that would require a use variant. So you see several months later, they did return in October of 2016 to acquire the use variants to allow the House of Worship on the second floor. And then in December of 2016, city council approved a six-month extension to the development orders that were in place at the time. The approval extended the validity of the development approvals until July of 2017. And we, of course, had, in May of 2017, the applicant applied for building permits to construct the building. The permit was not issued and was withdrawn within December of 2018. Given the permit was not issued, all development approvals, including the zoning approvals and everything, expired. In June 2020, city council re-approved the site plan, no changes, the same exact site plan. In December of 2022, there were extensions that were granted based upon COVID, the governor's issuance at that time. And then in November of 2024, based on Hurricane Ian, there were more extensions that were granted. However, it still expired. So we're back today with a request to re-approve the site plan. I think the third time will be the charm here. Again, it's approximately one-acre parcel. It's a 12,844-square-foot, two-story building. The daycare would comprise approximately 4,501 square feet. There is proposed office spaces on the second floor. And then there's a house of worship at 1,490 square feet. And there's still a 900-square-foot space there that was proposed for a deli. There are 31 parking spaces. And I did provide some backup there that there have been previous variances, parking variances, that were granted one initially. And then when the use variance came in because the house of worship required greater, you know, waiver from the parking, that variance was extended. And these are just some floor plans of the site. This is just a sort of rendering of what the building would look like. Another picture, perspective drawing there. Again, this is the site in question. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. And just to recap, it is staff's opinion that while this has been a decade in the making, and we hope that we're going to see that built because that land has laid fallow for a long time, I think we'd all like to see it developed for the daycare, that nothing has materially changed in our code that would prevent us from being approved. That's correct. That's correct. We've reviewed everything, and we don't find any. It's still consistent with our code. Thank you. Council Member Reinstein. Yeah. I don't have any questions or comments, but I did want to make a Jennings disclosure that I have had communication with the applicant, and that won't affect my decision here today. Thank you. Any other council comments? No? Anyone from the public? Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. I'll second. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. And you'll invite us to the ribbon cutting. All right. Thank you. Good night. Good luck. Mazel tov. All right. Next up is item number 15, which is PP26-0004, consideration of a request for conditional use approval for Chow's Country Buffet. The property is located at 1823-1825 North Pine Island Road and is zoned B-2P Central Business. Mr. Holmes? Yes. Thank you. Again, application PP26-0004, as indicated, it is a request to allow a 10,000-square-foot dine-in buffet-style restaurant. Again, the property is located at 1823-1825 North Pine Island Road. You can see the location there, along North Pine Island Road, just west of West Sunrise Boulevard. The agent is Jonathan Jimenez. The address is 1823-1825 North Pine Island Road. The size of the units there is unit 1823 is approximately 6,448 square feet. Unit 1825, approximately 3,552 for a total of 10,000 square feet. Underlying zoning of the shopping center is B-2P, existing uses commercial, existing land uses commercial, adjacent zoning, PRD-3Q to the south, PRD-10Q to the west, B-2P and B-7Q to the east, and the City of Sunrise is located to the north. You can see the notification boundary here. Again, there's a 300-foot public notification boundary, and there are 121 properties noticed under that boundary. The applicant, again, 10,000 square foot dine-in facility, they're here tonight because our code requires that for restaurants exceeding 4,000 square feet, that it requires City Council approval of the conditional use. This is the layout of the shopping center. Again, you have, I don't know if this is working, but at the bottom there you'll see Sunrise, I'm sorry, Pine Island Road to the bottom of the screen there, and then to the west there you'll see West Sunrise Boulevard. So you can see the proposed location of the restaurant. This is taking the place of the former outback, Mr. Holmes? Yes, that's a portion of the outback, and I think there's even an additional bay that is included as well. Yes. And the staff did look at the analysis. We find it is consistent with the general plan for the physical development of the site and compatible with the general character of the neighborhood, considering that there are adjacent commercial and motor-related uses, and that the use should not adversely affect the general welfare residents, visitors. As indicated to date, staff has not received any written or verbal objections to this request, and staff is not aware of any concerns, issues, or other pertinent information that should affect this application. And in conclusion, we would recommend approval. The applicant is here. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. Council members, does anyone need to hear from the applicant? Any questions, discussion? Anyone from the public? Just a comment. And I'm so glad to see this plaza being revitalized. We've had a dental practice in there. I know Quest Labs is in there now. We approve the upscale laundry that's forthcoming. So it's really great that the entire plaza is having a facelift and new energy. Absolutely. Yeah, we've been working with the owner and trying to move some things along in that shopping center. I concur. We're happy to see it revitalized. Do we have a motion, Council members? Motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you. Ms. Thompson, please call the roll. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Fadgen? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations. How long do you think it'll take you to open? Serious. It's always a loaded question, Mayor. Six months, eight months? Is it currently? It's currently the permits have been submitted, and it was in review, and it got stopped because there was planning and zoning, I think, triggered a conditional use approval. I think the permitting should be maybe another 30, 60 days, and then the build-out may be 120 days, so this calendar year, hopefully in the fall. Best of luck to you. We look forward to being at ribbon-cutting as well. We encourage you to join the Chamber of Commerce, if you haven't already looked into that, the Plantation Chamber of Commerce. Yes. Okay. I appreciate the recommendation. Got it. Thank you. Thank you very much, and best of luck. Thank you. All right. Mayor, comments for the mayor? I don't have anything. Okay. Councilmember Fadgen? Thank you. I think last week I was on the phone with Chief Slagle, and my staff heard me speaking with him, and they decided to tell me that there was a homeless person passed out on the sidewalk of the plaza, so I asked him to send some officers out, which he did, and he sent out Homeless Outreach Officer Dylan Poole, and another officer, Christian Palamieri, and about 10 minutes speaking to the person, they all walked out together, and then later in the afternoon, Chief Slagle called me and said that they reached out and got a hold of the homeless person's family out of state, and the family paid for a plane ticket, and they got him to the airport, and hopefully he's on a path to not being homeless because he got reconnected with his family. So I guess I'm just sharing a story. I want to give my compliments to the two officers that came out quickly, and just to sort of let everyone know that the first thing we always try to do when we interact with our homeless people in our city is that we're trying to assist them, and you never know which time they're going to accept the help. So when you see a homeless person, if you call the non-emergency number, the police department will respond and reach out to them and try to assist them and use the limited resources we have to try to take care of it. So if you could tell them thank you, and that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen, for that. Council Member Reitstein. Yes, we'll start with the Plantation Police Department also first. I know that we were advised that Officer Ryan Doody was awarded Officer of the Month for January, but that award presentation is coming up, so I wanted to recognize him publicly. He also has been very busy, as Officer Ryan Doody and his wife Nicole recently had a healthy baby girl, and the mother and daughter are doing great, so I wanted to congratulate them publicly. I also wanted to advise the council and the public that we're working on right now a special presentation on April 22nd here at City Hall. It's likely going to be at 5 p.m., but we'll publicize it when it comes out. It will be a presentation by Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida from their Family Law and Victims of Crime Unit, and it will also really focus on our seniors and somewhat inspired by the program that Council President Horland had here for our seniors recently and the great work that Coast to Coast Legal Aid is doing, and they have their offices here in Plantation, so it really is a perfect fit to bring them here. I've already reached out to Lauderdale West, and they're going to really highlight it for their residents as well, and it will tie in with National Crime Victims' Rights Week, so perfect timing for that. Can you repeat that date, sir? Sure. April 22nd. It's a Wednesday night. No, we don't have a council meeting that night. The 22nd. We have it. The following. Council Member Reinstein, do you mind reaching out to Pete Tingem to also loop in Covenant Village? I will 100%, and I see here. Yeah, our city council meeting is the 29th, so it's the week before that. So the next thing that I wanted to bring up, I think over the years I've heard discussion of this before council, but I thought it was appropriate to bring it back up, and this is our city code prevents and restricts vehicles that are identified as commercial vehicles from parking in a residential property. And, you know, we have talked so much from this city and from this council and this administration on the issues of affordability, affordability, and most of the time we're focused on affordability as it relates to housing. And I've had residents that I've reached out that were cited because they had a commercial vehicle in their driveway, and they weren't aware of the code, and, of course, they were shocked, and, you know, they asked the very reasonable question is that, well, where am I supposed to park my commercial vehicle? And I'm sure there are lots of answers that people can give them, but I thought that it was reasonable to bring this back up and see if there's any agreement or any thoughts from council in terms of having this particular ordinance revisited. I'm not suggesting that there shouldn't be some restrictions in terms of size or in terms of equipment and tools and attachments, but, you know, some of the vehicles that we're seeing nowadays that have, I think they're described as wraps, and they become designated as a commercial vehicle once they are wrapped to represent their business. And it just seems like it flies in the face of our discussions of affordability and trying to assist our residents with work, live, and play in our city. So I would like to open it up if there's any thoughts from my colleagues. I think we should revisit it. I would be willing to do that if that's on a future upcoming agenda. I'm willing to have the discussion about it. I mean, I do have some feelings about it. I think that it can affect the integrity of a neighborhood and what it looks like. There is some preemption from state law with that, but I think that it could be worthy of the discussion. So if anyone wants to bring that forth. And that's all I'm asking at this point in time is to put it on the agenda, and if that's okay with the administration is that if we could put that on the agenda for some further discussion. I'm fine with that. Great. And with that being said, that's all I have. Thank you very much. All right. Councilmember Anderson. Not much for me. Just looking forward to public school spring break next week, President's Day and spring break, and I've got a couple days off, so. Enjoy. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you. Happy Women's History Month. Thank you to you, too. I appreciate all of the amazing women in our city, so thank you for the job that you do. Also, tomorrow, everyone is invited to join in the celebration of our Broward County Commissioner, Commissioner Rogers. We are acknowledging her 30 years of public service, so she's doing community stops in small, local businesses throughout her district tomorrow. So I will be hosting her tomorrow at Sac Passe, which is a Haitian Creole restaurant at 441 in Broward Boulevard. And she will be there right around 1230 p.m., so if you're available, please stop by and join us for lunch. And we'll have Chef Fabiola, who is looking forward to making us some delicious food tomorrow. So please join us, and if you see Commissioner Rogers, congratulate her on her 30 years. And also wishing everyone a wonderful, safe spring break. And he's not listening, but I'll just say it for the record and for the minutes. My father will be 93 on March 18th, so happy birthday, Dad. That's wonderful. Thank you for that. First, I want to thank Ms. Thompson for being with us this evening. It's lovely to have you. Thank you for running the meeting so efficiently. And with Women's History Month, I do want to thank HR for the lovely slideshow they put together, highlighting the female directors, and included Council Member Andrea in that. It was really well done, so thank you for that. Florida League of Cities, quick update. Today, the paid referendum passed the legislature, so that was something that I know a lot of people in the city were interested in. Sovereign immunity has, the Senate did raise those limits, not quite as high as the House, 300,000, 500,000. That was correct, Ms. Thompson, right? 350. The bills both don't meet yet, so we'll see what happens with that. The budget will not be done. They will be going home and taking some time with their families and coming back. And what we are hearing is that there will be a special session on property taxes, perhaps in the summer, closer to when the ballots, needs to go on the ballot. So we will stay engaged with that and continue to tell our story and what it is that we provide to the residents. Heart Month. We had the Heart Walk at Nova Southeastern on Sunday, supporting Drew Tyra, the CEO of Westside. Westside brought in well over $54,000. They're the top fundraiser, and it was great. Thank you to Council Member Reinstein and Andreu and City Attorney Ezreal and Director Montefusco and staff that came out. It really was a lovely day. Even Michelle Casado, who's very competitive in these timed runs, enjoyed the leisurely walk on a Sunday morning. So it was great. They were over 10,000 strong. So thank you, everyone, for being heart healthy and coming out and supporting that. Chief Schlegel, I'd just like to ask on the record. I know that cameras have been activated in the school zone this week, and perhaps at the end of the trial period, we could be provided either by the PD or by Red Speed. I'd be very curious to know how many warnings we're giving out and how many of them were from plantation residents. I'm just – and hopefully none of the council members or the mayor. But I just – if we have the ability to do that, I would love to be able to have an idea. Yes, Mayor. And we're also extending it a week because the spring break – the spring break week doesn't count. Did you want to weigh in on my request? And I apologize I didn't reach out to you ahead of time, Chief. Yeah, just putting it out there. No, we can do that. Okay, great. I just think – I'm sure my colleagues would be interested, too. I'd like to see what the preliminaries are on that. Of course. And hopefully we'll start to change some behavior. Yes. Thank you very much, Chief. You're welcome. Council members and city attorney and I believe administration, you may have received an invitation from me as president of the Broward Lake Cities. I'm very proud as part of my leadership initiative on Friday, the 27th, we'll be hosting a leadership summit at the Renaissance Hotel right here in Plantation. From division to dialogue, the leadership summit will – we're bringing down somebody from the Dignity Index, which kind of dovetails Councilmember Fadgen into your opening remarks this evening. As you've heard me say before, in today's world, municipal leaders are facing unprecedented challenges in governing. Public trust feels fragile. Civility is often strained. Complex policy debates are too frequently overshadowed by division, and yet the responsibility to lead with steadiness, clarity, and respect has never been greater. So this is something that I'm really excited about. It's one of my last initiatives, and I would love for you to join us for breakfast if you can and be there for that leadership summit. President Orland, did someone else send it? It came out from the League of Cities with my signature. Do you know who that person was? It would have come out from Sally Conkren or Mary Lou Tai. And there was a video attached to it, a video invitation. Okay, because I missed it. Would you like it resend? Can you, just so it's at the top? We're also extended it to the city attorneys and administration because we thought it would be, it's really about having conversations without contempt. And I think it's something that we model on this dais, and I'm just trying to get the other 30 cities in Broward to follow our lead. All of them. I'm trying. I'm trying to move the needle a little bit. Yeah, it came from Mary Lou Tai with my signature. So just click on it, and I hope that everyone will be there. Yes, Council Member Anderson. I already clicked on it and already registered. Is it free? It's free. I said free and it just seemed like I should have been paying some things. No, the league is covering this. This is part of my initiative. So I'm already in. Yes, Council Member Ryan's team. Yes, I also just remembered that Director Monica Knapp from the library asked if, I would remind everybody that the Friends of the Library author luncheon is on March 28th at Jacaranda Country Club, and everybody is encouraged to get their tickets. The ticket prices go up after March 16th. So if you haven't already gotten your ticket, please go to the city website, and you can see the Friends of the Library link there. Thank you. Thank you. And two more quick things. I'll try to get us out of here at 731. I want to thank Ms. Morris for kicking off the compost program, the pilot program. I've already filled up two buckets. It's been great. So we had a wonderful turn up. So thank you. I'm anxious to see how that goes citywide. And also I wanted to mention that the Plantation Preserve is now offering dinner on Thursday nights. My husband and daughter went last week and said it was terrific. I'm going to be there tomorrow. So I encourage everybody to go out there and support the preserve and their new shop. And finally, I want to wish everyone a happy St. Patty's Day next week. And with that, it is 731, and the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.