City Council — May 13, 2026

Good evening and welcome. The May 13, 2026 City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called to order at 6 p.m. Ms. Beggarrow, please call the roll. Council Member Anderson. Council Member Andreu. Here. Council Member Fadgen. Here. Council Member Horland. Here. Council Member Reinstein. Here. Mayor Sortel. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Thank you, Ms. Beggarrow. I have the honor of providing tonight's opening remarks. Today at the Plantation Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, we celebrated the Teachers of the Year for the public and private schools in the City of Plantation. They say that teaching is not just a profession, but a calling. Today, we honored those who answered that call. Teachers are the mentors, guides, and heroes who light the path to a brighter future. For the long hours, the patience, and the passion they invest in every student every single day, they are often underpaid and undervalued. Except, they often live on in the hearts and minds of their students for decades to come. For where would any of us in this room be without the educators who helped to shape our lives? So, when you see a teacher, an educator, pastor, president, please give them your thanks. And now, if you stand up and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. And now, we turn to items submitted by the Mayor, Mayor Sortel. Thank you very much. We had a special guest scheduled. Abby, Abby here yet? Our tax collector? She's here? All right. Come on down. Want me to walk her in? Okay. Okay, you want to go on? We'll skip. Council Member Andreu, would you like to present the Proclamation for Haitians? Yes, that's my question. Heritage Month? Are they there? Here? See our general counsel of, our council general of, no, I do see our general counsel. So, our council general for Haiti, he is not here yet. Are we going to move on? Yes. If we do have another one. Mayor, you want to do mental health awareness? Mental health awareness month? All right. You're up, Mayor. Somebody here for the proclamation? Yes. For our mental health, let's move on, right? You're a good looking guy. Anything I say after that's going to be wrong. All right. So, whereas NAMI's Broward mission is to enhance awareness and provide programs in Broward County that support a world-class system for the treatment and recovery of individuals facing mental health challenges, NAMI Broward delivers support, education, and advocacy to nurture better understanding, coping strategies, and positive outcomes for people and their families navigating the complexities of mental health. And whereas mental health conditions are treatable, health concerns that are widespread and manageable, and whereas comprehensive health care encompasses mental health care, which must be accessible to all individuals, irrespective of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, values, and cultural beliefs, and whereas the breadth of the mental health crisis affecting both children and adults is profound, so one in five adults will encounter a mental health challenge in any given year, half of all mental health conditions begin by age 14, and 75 percent by 24 years old. And whereas half of the children and adults living with mental health challenges never receive transformative treatment due to barriers to care and stigma, the resilience and recovery journey of individuals diagnosed with a mental health condition should be celebrated rather than stigmatized, and whereas mental health challenges are not criminal issues, and nonetheless individuals with mental health diagnoses are disproportionately represented in jails and prisons, and whereas individuals experiencing mental health challenges are capable of leading meaningful lives and contributing significantly to society, communities aid those with mental health challenges by ensuring access to quality care and appropriate supports, and whereas NAMI Broward County designates the month of May as Mental Health Awareness Month to promote mental health awareness to inspire those living with mental health challenges to seek support and to be uplifted by our message, you are not alone. Now, therefore, I, next sort of Mayor, City Council Plantation, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Mental Health Awareness Month. Appreciate y'all. Do you want to talk? Yes. You want to talk? Sure. Good. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and the City Council and the people of Plantation. We are actually NAMI Broward, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is actually your home nonprofit. We live right here in Plantation, as you know. We're serving the people of Broward County with free services for support, education, and advocacy to reduce the stigma and all of the things that you mentioned here because mental illness is indiscriminate. It doesn't matter your socioeconomic status, your race, creed, color, et cetera. At the end of the day, people and families need our support, and that's exactly what NAMI is here for. So thank you so much for the recognition and the proclamation, and we're here to serve. Give us the web page for NAMI. NAMI.org is the national website, and the affiliate is NAMIbroward.org right here in Broward County. We're here to serve. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Yes. You're right. Good call. Love it. I'll give you my email. Thank you very much. Definitely. Mayor, would you like to introduce Ms. Ajay? She's at the back of the room. Oh, okay. So I am delighted to introduce our tax collector, Abby Ajay, who has worked hard to do outreach rather than sit in her own office. She gets out and goes everywhere at the library once a month. We have help with everything. And so as part of outreach, she's willing to come here and give us updates and give us opportunities on how we can do things a little bit better. Thank you, Mayor. Welcome, Ms. Ajay. Thank you. So nice to see you in plantation. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. So I want to first say thank you to the council, the mayor, and councilwoman Jennifer Andreu. Thank you so much for the invitation. So I'm happy to be here this evening to share information about our office because I think it's so critical being a brand new office that our residents and the council have a solid understanding of what we do and how we help residents across the board. So my name is Abby Adria, I am your newly elected tax collector, as of a year ago. Maybe not so new anymore, right? So our office came about because of Amendment 10, which mandated all Florida counties to have an elected tax collector. So we took office January 7th. We're an independent, standalone, constitutional office, and we do not get our budget from the county or from the state. Our role is to collect property taxes. And to date, we've collected close to $7 billion on behalf of residents of our county and about 557 districts that we collect for across the board. Now, the oversight of our office is provided by the Florida Department of Revenue, and our funding comes simply from a small commission that we charge for the collection activities across the board. So I want to get into some of the services we render. While property tax is the primary focus of what we do, we're also mandated by state to provide some services across the board that relates to motor vehicles and driver's license. So during our first year, one of the things that we noticed is that in Broward County, there's five driver's license offices that are being administered by the state currently that we're eagerly looking forward to taking over by the end of the summer because they just don't work. So the first thing that we discovered, just going through an assessment of the offices and what needs to be done to make it work for our residents, was the fact that appointments were being stolen. So when people go on the state website, they're able to hijack appointments, which means our residents are not able to get the appointment they need for services. So we work closely with our legislature and passed HB 961 that made it illegal to sell appointments, market, or attempt to sell appointments all across the state of Florida. So it's a second-degree misdemeanor if you sell appointments in the state of Florida. We didn't stop there because we felt we needed another layer, a protective layer for our residents in Broward County. We also work with the Broward Commission to pass an ordinance that makes it also illegal on the local level with consequences of $250 fee per offense. And the second offense is $500, and for each one thereafter is $500. So that was the primary problem that we identified with the driver's license system that we immediately took care of. So some of the other things that we're working on is locations, right? We realized rather quickly that we have a capacity issue. Broward County is the second-largest county in the state and the third in the country. And Front Beach County is the third in the state. They have nine offices. We have just two. So in order to increase capacity right away, we put some things into place. And some of those things include putting a kiosk in a grocery store across the county. We've done 10 of them. One of them is right here in Plantation. And close to 7,000 of your residents have used that kiosk. And we're looking to put in another one shortly. In addition to that, we are looking at that brick and mortar building. We've procured space in the city of Sunrise that will house our main processing center. We send out about a million bills a year. So it takes a lot to get through that, a big operational unit to take care of that. So along those lines, we work with your elected official, your state elected officials, to bring mobile units for driver's license services to your location. So when there's a need, we get a call from the state, your local state rep. And we coordinate the mobile unit to come out and provide services to your residents. And we've done tons of those across the county. As a matter of fact, I believe it were about 100 of those across the county. In addition to that, we added presence in your city halls. We're up to 20 city halls across the county to make sure that when residents come to city hall, if they need any services, all they need to do is just walk over to our table and get the service they need. So we're very excited about the opportunity to continue to serve the residents of Broward County. And we're moving forward with that brick and mortar. Hopefully, we'll be open by the end of year. And by the end of summer, we'll be taking over driver's license, which is the main problem that most of our residents have. In the city of Plantation, again, we're looking to add another kiosk and 10 more across the state. We are procuring our own dash vehicle, mobile units, so we'll have three of them servicing Broward County. So where there's a need, they reach out to us, or we reach out to them that we're present. We're able to accommodate a large number of people with those mobile driver's license units. These are state-mandated services that they have to have, and we feel the obligation to provide them efficiently and quickly. We're working very hard on modernization, which is not symbolic with government agencies. So we're working to modernize everything. We have an appointment system now in place that, similar to what you have at restaurants, when you go to a restaurant and you put your phone number down, when your table is ready, they text you. So we'll be able to do that. And that also will prevent that fraud where people are able to make multiple appointments. So this helps us in controlling customer flow and making sure that when residents come into our location, they're able to receive the service they need quickly and efficiently. We also have customer service assessment that every single employee of the task collector's office must go through, through, including myself, to make sure if there's any deficiencies, that we fix them, and that anybody, any of our residents walking into our office get the same level of service from every single person in the office. So I appreciate the opportunity to come out and speak about these things that are happening in our office and for our residents to make sure that they understand that we are the tax collector, not to be confused with the property appraiser. And in addition to that, there are payment plans that they can participate in. Our website has been modernized to make it easier to use. We've done a refresh. You can literally make a payment in two minutes. You can use your credit card, PayPal. You can also use Apple Pay. And shortly, we will be adding cryptocurrency. PayPal is unique because they can actually spread that payment over 12 months. And this is really informative information that we want to give out because of our property taxes issue. Now, we also have been advocating and providing a lot of information to our legislature and the Statehouse regarding property taxes, the issue with property taxes. They started off with eight really, really different, unique ideas, some of them very extreme. And we're of the opinion that, yes, our residents do need relief. But again, the cities need that revenue to function. So we're hoping for a middle-of-the-road solution that gives a little bit of relief to our residents and also make sure that, you know, all our cities across the board, they're not bankrupt because of, you know, the relief that's needed by our local governments. I know year to date we've remitted about $87.3 million to your city in collection, in property taxes that we've collected. And we'll continue to work with you as we move forward. So thank you for the opportunity. And I don't know if you have any questions. I'm happy to answer them. Ms. Ajay, I have a couple. Thank you so much. And thank you, Council Member Andreu, for the invitation. It's excellent and wonderful to see you here. We appreciate all the efforts to streamline the process. So some of the things that you mentioned, have you been able to eliminate some of those long lines that we previously had seen outside the buildings? Or are we at least making a dent in that with some of the things you put in place? So we're making a dent because the local driver's license offices are not working. They're administered by the state. And just the fact that we have those mobile units, we've been able to take some of those customers that would normally go to those locations to procure services. Pembroke Pines is well-known. Pembroke Pines is a $3,000 square foot facility. She's trying to serve over 200,000 people between Pembroke Pines, Miramar, and Hollywood. So we've done those kind of mobile units at Century Village, Kings Point, senior centers, where they don't have to physically go into their office. Part of the transition also is us hiring a lot of people. We have 150 employees. Pine Beach has over 400. So when we take over those locations, we will staff up significantly. We've got a couple of job trips coming up, specifically for Spirit Airline employees to help take as many of them as we can. Training is provided. They don't have to have prior experience. So we feel that, you know, by doing that, we're helping out in terms of taking those customers. So because we have additional staff members, we've placed them in those driver's license offices to help them manage that process, even though we haven't officially taken them over. And we have seen some of the change. We've gotten positive feedback on some of those offices because we have my staff on ground trying to help out and providing that additional help that they need. Great. Before I turn it over to Council Member Andreu, I want to thank you for the flow events. Those have been terrific. And for the kiosk, I believe at least two of us up here had contacted our CRA coordinator. We have a new Publix opening on 441, hopefully within the next month. Do you happen to know if that second kiosk will be located in that Publix? Yes. We have that on the list, and they should be rolling out shortly. We've approved the list of locations for the next 10 installments of kiosk. That's fabulous news. Thank you. I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Andreu, if she has a question. Yes. I want to thank you because I don't think a lot of people realize that your office has only been in existence for about a year and a half. And so the work that you've done in the past 18 months has been phenomenal. So kudos to you, and I see several of your staff members in the back. Really great work. I think our first kiosk, to President Horland's point, was at the Publix at Peterson University. Correct. And so I know that people have been, like you said, over 7,000 people have been taking advantage of that. So that's been great, and we appreciate your visibility here in the city and look forward to continuing to work with you. And lastly, I know you said that you're having a job fair. I saw that, I believe, on social media advertised. I would ask you, too, to not forget about the over 300 people that were released also, what will be as of June 30th, from the school board of Broward County as well. So in addition to the Spirit Airlines staff, we have several staff members from the district school board that also are looking for employment opportunities. Yeah, we actually did have a job fair a couple of weeks ago. We got some of those folks. We got about 175 people that came to the job fair to apply. You know, so some of those school board members were there. Yes. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Ajayi. I don't see any other questions. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you for having me. Don't be a stranger to a plantation. Okay. Bye-bye. Great. Are you ready with your pocket mesh? I still will. Oh, please. Go ahead. Sure. Bye. Didn't know we have a video. In 2025, Broward County entered a new chapter. With the launch of the new tax collector's office, under the leadership of the Honorable Abby Ajayi, the transition delivered refreshed branding, modernized materials, and a clear commitment to continuity, improvement, and public service. In just one year, that commitment became action. Your tax collector took charge, creating career opportunities, modernizing services, and working with lawmakers to ensure fair and equitable access. We built a strong foundation rooted in stewardship and accountability. That foundation brought real conveniences to the community, such as easy taxable events, self-service kiosks, and our express lane service, designed to all save time and meet people where they are. We showed up. More than 150 community events, the partnerships across Broward, and continued compliance with Florida state statutes matters. Over $7 billion of revenue was collected to support schools, law enforcement, and essential public services. We were just getting started. With new driver's license services launching this summer, and expanded modern service locations ahead, our vision continues. One year down, many more to go. Serving with excellence. Thank you. Great video. Great. Councilmember Ajayi, you're up. Thank you so much, President Horland. And I still don't see, I know it was raining. I don't know if, I still don't see Council General here. Oh, he is here. Council General, welcome to City of Plantation, Council General Cyril. And, you know, this is why education is so important, because, again, Haiti gained their independence from France back January 1st, 1804, becoming the first independent black republic, and the only state established through a successful slave revolt. And that's why we have to be reminded all the time of our history and continue to teach it. So, I will ask the Council General to join me here at the podium for the proclamation. The proclamation reads as follows. Whereas Haiti holds a significant place in the history of the Americas and is recognized as the first independent black republic in the world, and whereas Haitian Heritage Month is a nationally recognized month celebrated in May every year and provides an opportunity to celebrate the rich culture, history, and contributions of the Haitian community, both within Haiti and throughout the global diaspora. And whereas the people of Haiti have demonstrated resilience, creativity, a profound sense of identity that has enriched the cultural tapestry of our society through art, music, literature, and culinary traditions. And whereas this month fosters awareness and appreciation of the Haitian struggle for freedom and justice, as well as the ongoing contributions of Haitian Americans in the fields, in all fields, such as education, business, science, and public service. And whereas the observance of Haitian Heritage Month encourages dialogue, understanding, and respect, let me repeat that, and respect among diverse cultures and communities. Now, therefore, Mayor Nick Sordal and our City Council of Plantation, Florida, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Haitian Heritage Month. Thank you. Thank you for waiting. Mr. Mayor, Honorable Commissioners, members of the City's Council, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is an honor for me to speak on behalf of the Consul General of the Republic of Haiti in Miami, Mr. Ivryk de Liam Cyril, at this proclamation ceremony organized by the City of Plantation. This distinction recognizes the Consulate's services and achievements which result from a close partnership with the authorities of this welcoming city. The Consulate General warmly thanks the City of Plantation for this mark of distinction toward our institution and for recognizing the Haitian community. This tribute reflects the local authorities' clear understanding of the essential contribution members of the Haitian community make to the economic, cultural, and social life of Florida, and more specifically the City of Plantation, and more specifically the City of Plantation. For several decades, the Haitian people have demonstrated, through their dedication and intelligence, their ability to transform and develop the communities where they settle. Through its diversity and dynamism, our community enriches the region in a lasting way. The Consulate welcomes this honor with enthusiasm, viewing it to strengthen the bonds of friendship and cooperation between our two institutions. I extend my greetings to those present, particularly the community leaders and institutional partners who work daily to bring our citizens closer to local authorities. On behalf of the Consul General, I once again extend my most sincere thanks to the representative of the City of Plantation for this heartfelt tribute to the Republic of Haiti. May this proclamation further strengthen the bonds of friendship that so happily unite the Haitian community and the City of Plantation. Thank you. And thank you to Ms. Ruiz for helping to organize this. Does the Council want to stand? Council. One more, Michelle. Thank you. Thank you for bearing in the rain. Come on over here. Thank you so much. All right. Next up, we have Parks and Recreation Updates by Director Trish O'Toole. Good evening, Ms. O'Toole. Good evening, Council. A couple of events shortlist tonight. But this Saturday, May 16th, we're celebrating a national initiative, which is Kids to Parks Day. It's a day where we're inviting the community to come out, play, explore, and connect with our parks. This will be held at Dyke Park from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. In our aquatics division, we've got a swim meet this coming weekend, the 15th through Saturday, the 16th. Pool 1 will be closed to the public starting on Friday at noon and will reopen on Sunday, May 17th at 8 a.m. But Pool 2 will remain open to the public for the weekend. And in our athletics division, we have PAO registrations open for flag football and summer basketball. That's all I have for now. Thank you. Council Member Weinstein has a question. Yes, sir. Good evening. Good evening. I just wanted to follow up with you. I saw a question asked by a resident in regards to PAL tackle football. They were following up. I know we previously have discussed that the field that they previously used, which was the school board's field, that we're no longer leasing. And we talked about that they were looking for additional fields to use. It's my understanding that there are some fields that they may be utilizing now. Can you comment on that? Sure. So they reached out to us for some fields for their preconditioning workouts. So not football activities, just, you know, getting in shape for the season. They'll be using Seminole Park for the month of May. They did get us the appropriate insurance documents that I know Council President Horland asked about at the last meeting. They are paying for the fields as if they're an outside entity. We would charge any external entity. And that's only, I believe, the month of May until they'll move to the PAL park property. I believe they're still working out the details with the school board. Council President, can I follow up? So just in terms of the month of May, so I'm not aware in terms of what other sports are utilizing those fields or may want to be utilizing those fields. Is that the softball field or is that enter into the outfield of where the softball would be practicing? It's not the softball fields. It's the property between the softball fields and the actual middle school, that open grass field that's actually on the school board property. So no interference whatsoever with the fields used by the softball? No, sir. Understood. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole. At this time, it's 631. We'll adjourn the City Council meeting and call the CRA meeting to order. Ms. Bigrow, let me know when you're ready and please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson is out. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fajan? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. Commissioner Sortel? Here. City Attorney Ezra? Here. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Bigrow. 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? Hearing none, any member of the public? All right. May I have a motion, please? Motion to approve the CRA consent agenda. Second. Okay. Ms. Bigrow, please call the roll. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fajan? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Commissioner Sortel? Yes. Thank you, Ms. Bigrow. Mr. Conklin, I see you coming up. You wanted to comment on the CRA agenda? Sir? Welcome. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and all of your families. My public request is kind of usual, that when you reconstruct on the site of the old Plantation General Hospital, that you would kindly limit the height to three stories. The neighbor is Village Green Condos, and I used to call them the Kingston Trio, which are two stories next to them. So that's my request. I'm very happy to see that the Publix is going to be opening on the 4th of June. Any idea when the Ross is going to open? So I can tell my wife. And last but not least, hat tip to Mr. Glendon Hall, the CRA director. I mean, fantastic. I wish he was here from the start in 2000. And I'll yield back my time. Thank you very much, Mr. Conklin. Any other member of the public wish to comment on items regarding the CRA? All right. With that, we will adjourn the CRA meeting. At 634, reconvene the City Council meeting. And now we'll move right into public requests of the Council regarding municipal affairs. To those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you have 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, and if extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask as your time is expiring and not prior to that. Are there any members of the public? I think, Mr. Conklin, you have filled out a form. Okay. Well, that needs to happen quickly. Mr. Conklin, did you want to come back up on public request? I'm just looking at consent agenda. Okay. If I may approach. Yes, sir. Thank you. I hope I gave you the right package. One hundred nine years ago today, May 13th, 1917, during World War I, during which 20 million lives were lost, the Blessed Mary appeared in Fatima, Portugal, to three shepherd children for the first of three meetings. And she, at that time, asked them to spread the word to everyone to reform their lives, do penance for their sins. And Mary predicted the devastation of World War II. That war lost between 40 and 50 million people. And the threat that was created by the coming 1917 autumn Russian communist revolution. Request number one, pray for the conversion and salvation of New York City's mayor and each of his cohorts. Request number two, the city of Plantation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and CARE as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations that are primarily funded by and in their base at Qatar. Request three, the city of Plantation to liaison with Plantation High School, South Plantation High School, an American Heritage Upper School, to communicate with the Nova Southeast University chapter of Turning Point USA. And for the purpose of maybe interfacing to begin what I did not know until after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that they actually had high school chapters. Request number five, the mayor and administration and the city council members read and sign the Great Barrington Declaration. It's found at www.gbdeclaration.org. Anyone can do it. I did it back in 2020 at the onset of the COVID mess. Request six, Plantation divest the $97.4 million in U.S. treasuries. With those proceeds, completely fund the $55.3 million unfunded, chronically endangered general employees fund and create a defined contribution pension fund with each employee fully funded. Request seven, that the city of Plantation Administration and city council begin making preparations for the city fully exercise city's rights under July 1, 2026, state of Florida's making gold and silver coin tender and payment of debts under the Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States of America, paying particular attention to the statute's sandbox period, which kind of explains the rules. What I'd like to spend the rest of my time with, if I may extend 30 seconds. 30 seconds? 15 seconds. At the last council meeting, I discussed the general employees fund. I have for you presented the police fund because, as you know, you happen to be on the board. Tomorrow is the police pension board, and they are also very critically often underfunded. So I yield back my time, and thank you for allowing me to extend my remarks. Thank you very much, Mr. Conklin. Are there any other public requests of the council on public affairs? All right. Now we're closing public comments. We are moving on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of items 1 through 15 this evening and may be approved with one motion. I have consent item number 3 has been pulled by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 residents. Does any member... I would like to pull that as well. Okay, so Council Member Fadgen has 3. Any member of the council wish to pull an item? I'd like to speak on 3 and also on 2, please. You're pulling 2. Council Member Andrea, anything? Okay. All right. May I have a motion for the remaining items? Motion to approve the consent agenda items 1 through 15 with the exception of 2 and 3? Yes. Do we have a second? Thank you. Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Council Member Andrea, you? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. All right. Item number 2 is a resolution of the City of Plantation accepting a Safe Streets for All grant. Council Member Reinstein. So really my primary question is are we discussing the options that are set forth in 2 or are we just approving the grant? Well, it looks like Ms. Morris is coming up on number 2. I will also say that according to the backup and the pictures that were shown, I love the protected bike lanes. That's something that I've spoken about extensively from the Council and been very clear that how important bike lanes are to be added into our city and bikeability of our city. And that the only way those have any real worth is if they're protected. So in that vein, what we're seeing in the resolution in terms of the backup and the options, are we, again, just approving the grant or are we discussing the options as well? At this point, we are just approving, moving ahead with executing the documents to receive the grant. We have been awarded, but now we need to execute the grant agreement. And if it passes and we show our support for the grant and pass the resolution, what do you expect in terms of timing for bringing it back before us? Or can I confirm that it will be brought back before us to discuss those options? These are the options that were included in the grant application. Again, we have been awarded, so there will be some decision-making, but those are the projects we are looking at implementing. They are demonstration projects. Again, this is a demonstration grant. So the idea is that these improvements are built as quick-build formats so that we can, I'm going to say, sort of try on the improvements, ensure that they meet our goals in terms of traffic safety and such. If they do, and the council so wishes, their next phase would be to move forward into a full-fledged construction grant application. So let me then maybe ask the question differently, is that it appeared to me that in the backup that there were options that were being presented. And so if there were two options, are those options coming back before us in order for this council to show our support for which option? Again, it is the three projects, but yes, we can bring them back as we get closer to moving forward, because there is money in the grant for design services. Perfect. I'd just like to make sure that it does come before us so that there were some distinguishable options that I viewed in the backup, particularly in terms of on Cleary and the type of roundabout or the location of some of those devices. And I just would like to make sure that we're able to provide some further input on it. Okay. Thank you. Anything else on that item? That's it for me. Thank you. Any other comments on item number two? No one from the public? Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion on item two, please. And do we have a second? Second. Ms. Beggarro, please call the roll. Councilmember Inderu? Yes. Councilmember Fajan? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you. Item number three is a resolution approving a third amendment to the agreement with Be Free LLC, doing business as freebie, Councilmember Fajan, and then Reinstein, and then we'll go to the public. Thank you, Council President Horland. I appreciate – it seemed like there was added clarity to the memo for this amendment. There was 17,348 rides, 21,721 passengers, 1,200 unique riders, which I calculated to be a cost of $255 per rider. Our cost per ride is $17.68. So my first question regarding this is, is there a target cost per ride? There is not one spelled out in our agreement or our metrics. If you look at cost per rides, one example or one similar thing that you could look at is community shuttles that are operating in Broward County. If you look at community shuttles that are funded through the county, across the county, and I believe there's – forgive me, I don't remember the number. I want to say eight different cities that are operating community shuttles. For the community shuttles, per Broward County, their average cost per ride is $7.87. Now, as I say that, I kind of want to walk you back a minute. When we first went into freebie, a part of the reasoning for moving into freebie was the fact that we are – we have more mobility, we have more ability to pivot, we have more ability to make changes. If we went into community shuttles, you would have had to construct infrastructure for those stops. We did not have funding for that infrastructure. That's not really what I'm talking about, and I understand that, and I see that the cost per ride for a community shuttle is $7.87 per ride. I'm just asking, is there a metric based on their other territories that they have that is an ideal target? Because the way I'm looking at it is sort of like you drive it down to a certain cost per ride, but then your time per wait increases, which means you have to increase your cost because you've got to add cars to cover the demand. So we might not know the answer now. I think – I would like to start seeing some metrics about what our monthly cost per ride is. Is it being driven down? Okay. I want to like to know what our average wait time is. I want comparables to monitor this because the other thing is, and this might be an impossible ask, you know, what is the economic benefit of it? You know, so are we picking somebody up from Lauderdale West? I see a lot of our Lauderdale West neighbors here. Not right now. And then are they spending $500 at Padrinos? Just to give you a little framework. Okay. Our goal has been to keep our wait times under 10 minutes, and right now we're nine minutes and change. Our initial cost – Before you go on, can I just ask you? So does that mean we're approaching the point where we don't have enough vehicles on our fleet or at nine minutes if we – I'm going to say no because that wait time has been pretty steady over the last six months. So it's always been around just under 10 minutes? It's generally stayed around nine minutes. But if it goes to 12 minutes, that would be an indication that the demand – we don't have enough supply for the demand. Potentially. Okay. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Again, it's a little bit of a cause and effect relationship. Right now we have a rider satisfaction of about 4.91 on a scale of five. As those wait times extend, I'm going to imagine that rider satisfaction rating might move in the other direction. So there's a bandwidth there that becomes a tolerance of both users and the council for what you're willing to accept. In terms of cost per ride, when we started this system last year, and remember we started in July, we were looking at about $28 per ride. We are now down to about $13.77 per ride. So we are making progress. Part of our challenge is that the Midtown District is somewhat small and somewhat confined. So the hope is that by expanding it, we start to drive more business into that district as well as drive more business to other businesses in the city. Okay. As for measuring that, there is probably a way to do that, but I'm not sure what it is. I was thinking about how we could measure it. So I think we should put some time in to figure out if there was a way we could measure the economic benefit of it because, you know, we know what the cost is. And, you know, if the benefit's $5 and the cost is $15, that's not going to be justified. But if the benefit's $100 and the cost is $15, that's a different scenario. I appreciate the inclusion of Covenant Living and also including Central Park. Should have even thought, you know, they're right next to each other. Yeah. You know, I know my mom goes to Central Park and likes to use the pool. So that's, I think that's great to be able to add that to the service area. Certainly going to the northern border within the confines of the Pine Island University. So now we're just including all of the entire east side of the city. Yes, sir. Okay. So I guess my question regarding that is we're paying for it via surtax and we're paying for it via Midtown. I don't believe we spoke to the board regarding how they felt about us expanding that. I would think that maybe they would be on board. We have talked to the board about expansion in the past. We have not talked to them about the current expansion proposal because you all needed to determine that's what you, I mean, I hope you're agreeable. I think we tried to follow your directions. Well, I was saying, let's include the palms. I thought that was important for the adult living facility. I think we want to, I would like to make sure that we're keeping an eye on where is it going? Because if Midtown is funding it because they pay an additional millage than the regular millage, I want to make sure that they're getting the primary benefit of it, that people are actually going to Midtown using that service. And I just wanted to make sure we included, you know, as opposed to if they're all going to be going to Gateway, then we've got to really think about how much are they funding? Is that fair to their budget? And I think I had one last question. I'm going to interrupt quickly. Yeah, go ahead. We have roughly from the time you guys approved this until we start to get to operations about 60 days. So during that time, we can work with Freebie to carve out and establish some metrics to determine where people are going so that we can carve out a way to report back on that. So with this amendment, I think this is my final question. We're adding three vehicles to the fleet. Up to three. We're adding up to three. So they'll add them as we need them, and then we'll pay for them as they feel that they need to go online. Yeah, we pay a flat hourly rate for vehicles. We currently have three vehicles. We probably will look at going live with two and then potentially add a third if we need it. As you have already said, it's sort of hard to project what usage is until you actually get into the market. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Before I turn it over to Councilmember Andrea, I would think two things. I do recall you bringing this to the Midtown Board, and they were pleased that they would have more ridership coming into the business district. And I think the other thing when we're looking at reducing that cost per ride, we're also providing a service, especially to our senior population that may not drive and may need to get to doctor's appointments and such. You had me just pulling that, don't we? I did. I'm sorry. You did not write. So if you want to go ahead and then, Councilmember Andrea, thank you. Thank you very much, Council President. Thank you, Councilmember Fadgen, for some of your questions. And I asked for the map to be pulled up because I really wanted to just make it clear for the residents, some of what I think Councilmember Fadgen mentioned. And if you were to look in our backup, and this is for the residents' benefit, is that the proposed expansion would make service available to the city's east, north, and southern boundaries. To the west, the boundary would be Pine Island Road, with the exception of a carve-out between Broward and Cleary Boulevard, where the boundary would be Central Park Drive. So I just want to make clear is that what we're looking at on the map is that the entirety of the blue section and the entirety of the purple section will now be part of the freebie expansion. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Okay. And one of the last things I think that you said, Ms. Morris, in response to Councilmember Fadgen, was in terms of the tracking of the requests. And what I'd like to know is that I think most of the questions have been on tracking the requests that are being fulfilled. My question is that can we also track the requests that cannot be fulfilled? So to the extent that people may be requesting to the west in the green section, which is not currently part of the expansion, I would like to know that number, if any, of people who say, you know, are calling up because they're not sure of the map and they're asking for use of the freebie, and maybe then they're being told by, you know, whoever is the dispatch that they can't respond because it's not part of our map. You know, that will give us some sense of need for future discussion. We can, again, have that conversation about how we can best track that. Very good. Thank you. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you, President Horland. Councilmember Reinstein, but most, it's my understanding that most people use the app. So I don't know if that will be a data point that can be captured. I mean, I'm sure Ms. Morris will ask. But, you know, if you go and it's just not available, I don't think. To that point, I appreciate it because I haven't used the app yet. So if maybe there will be another way that we can add to the app then. Maybe there's something that we can do because I think that would be an untapped data point is to determine if in leaving out half the city because we think that half is not going to need it to that extent. And there's no question, I think you mentioned it, Councilmember Fadgen, is that I've received lots of feedback from our public, particularly Lauderdale West, asking, you know, to confirm that it's going to reach that. But, you know, more than just anecdotally reaching out to us, if there's some way to track it via the app or some other means, I think it would be helpful. We can have some conversation about how to do that. But now I'm going to do a sales job. Apologies. I'm not real good at sales. But if you haven't downloaded the app, download the app. One of the nice benefits for businesses in the district serviced is that they can have a page, basically, on there and talk about their business. And if they want to offer a special discount or something to users who use Freebee to get to them, they have the ability to do that. And that is free to them. Which is a great segue to my next question or comment, because we're also offsetting the cost with advertising via wrapping these vehicles. And two of the three, if I'm not mistaken, are wrapped. Only one? Okay. The Padrino one is wrapped. Okay. But to Councilmember Fadgen's point, if we do add additional vehicles, then that will also help offset the price of those. Ideally, starting to expand the district a little will expand the people that we can market to as potential advertisers and maybe get us some additional advertising on those vehicles to help depraise some costs. Again, we're not talking about it tonight. We're talking about, you know, continuing the Midtown funding and looking at some surtax funding. But depending upon how this all plays out, we do have other options available to us long run if we want to look at sort of supplementing funding. We could always consider a surcharge or something along those lines. Because I think that, obviously, we have a lot of public speakers coming up, but I think that's one of the concerns is about the funding. And I spoke to Mr. Noonamaker and also Mr. Hall, and I thought that the gateway was also going to contribute now that we're going out east. I know, Councilmember Fadgen, that was a concern, and we want to make sure that, you know, we're treating everybody fairly. So if Midtown is doing their portion, we want to make sure that the gateway is as well. Good evening, Jason. Noonamaker, CAO. We do have this expansion covered by surtax dollars. In the future, depending on the availability of those funds, we could seek support from either the CRA or gateway. And as we discussed, my recommendation would be to use the CRA funds. But then we need to make sure that gateway could be supportive and would be amenable to taking that on. But I think the sweet spot here is they're going to have a few years of experience, assuming the program keeps moving forward, to evaluate the benefit to them. So take a whole way forward, for example, like see, are we getting any bang for this buck, and act accordingly. But we do have some additional mechanisms we can push. Thank you. And I'm sorry I misspoke. You did tell me CRA and I wrote gateway. But thank you for correcting that. And my last question is, and maybe we're not there yet, but in terms of the advertisement and the wrapping of the vehicles, have we spoken to the members of the plantation chamber? I know Councilmember President Horland said we were all together at a wonderful luncheon this afternoon to celebrate our teachers. Many new businesses have joined this month, and I'm sure would be eager to do some advertising. We can certainly reach out again. Freebie is a member of the chamber. They do attend the meetings, so I'm sure that they would be happy to reach out. Similarly, if you recall last year when the chamber did their, what is it, their wine and food event, we had just launched Freebie, and they reached out to us to sort of partner on that event to help get the word out. Right, and I know they were giving rides, and so people are becoming more aware, and obviously that's why we're seeing the uptick in the ridership. But I don't think people are aware that there's an opportunity to advertise. So if we could just maybe market that advertising piece a little bit more. Thank you. Okay. Duly noted. And we do need to take Frame Pepe Pizza off the ass. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. We can make that happen, too. All right. Any other questions for Ms. Morris? All right. We have some public speakers. We've got Mr. Conklin, and then on deck, Mr. Del Risco and Ms. Sword, in that order. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6 Court. Thank you for the mail. Yeah, very good to have that so people can see what we're talking about. I'm not in favor of this basically because it uses electric vehicles, and the, I don't know, I guess it's Earth Day people from the 1960s are trying to force everybody into electric vehicles. But we can't produce enough electricity for all of this stuff, and it's not economically feasible. It would never stand on its own in the free market. It's only surviving barely because the federal government is covering the cost for rebates and stuff like that. The car companies are losing almost $8,000 a vehicle that they produce on these things. When the county went to transition some of their vehicles into electric, I can remember, it was within six months, the company went bankrupt. And I can remember one time coming to the, I think it was City Hall, it might have been St. Gregory's, from my home in Plantation Park East. And I'm driving along westward in Broward Boulevard, and here's a bus, and here's a guy running an extension cord to one of the resident homes. I'm thinking, do they even have that kind of a power to do that? But basically, I'm against this B-free because of the fact that it's electric vehicles. And back when we had the city shuttles and the trolley in the central district, the trolley was, the city shuttles were east to west, all the way out to Commodore Drive, all the way to State Road 7. And the city pulled the plug on that because it costs $128,000 a year. And I'm looking at the numbers that they gave. Their target numbers is $7.87 cost per ride. And the actual cost so far for nine months has been $17.68 a ride. So, in previous meetings, when they put up the backup, they were looking to extend this also to senior citizens. This design wasn't a concept that now we're talking about. And the total cost then, when it was going to go to senior citizens all over the city, not regular everybody, was $700,000 a year. But in nine months, you're already at $306,000. So, I yield back my time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Conklin, Mr. Bill DelRisco. Good evening, sir. Please state your name and address. Bill DelRisco, 1024 Northwest 88th Avenue. Well, I am here to show my support for these freebie rides. I think it's a win-win situation for both the community and the businesses around us. Our community is a senior citizen community. And they're hesitant to go out into the businesses for drinks or eating or whatever in the late hours. I believe that this will facilitate their going to the businesses, increasing the business. And, therefore, I'm putting my full support into the freebie ride. Thank you for taking the time to come out tonight. Thank you. Thank you for letting me speak. Next up is Ms. Carol Sword. And on deck is Mr. Hal Spector. Good evening, Ms. Sword. Good evening. Carol Sword, 1621 Northwest 82nd Avenue. I'm here to express my support for the freebie service. The expansion will include Waterdale West. And as a resident, of course, we appreciate that. If approved, the service will broaden the horizons of our residents who are limited by the lack of transportation. The proposed expansion could greatly benefit our community by providing our residents with additional transportation options for shopping, dining, entertainment, et cetera. Many of our seniors cannot afford the private transportation. But if they had this free service, hopefully they will use it and they will spend their money with these businesses in Midtown and hopefully in Gateway. And that will help support not only our community, but our businesses, all of us. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Sword. And we included City Hall, so you can come visit us on freebie. And don't forget our post office is on the way. That's right. Thanks for coming out. Mr. Spector and after Mr. Spector, Marie Habst-Franco. I'm sorry, I can't read your writing. Good evening, Mr. Spector. Good evening. I'm Al Spector, 1266 Northwest, 82nd Avenue and Plantation. As a senior, I can tell you that people like myself are stuck at home without this kind of transportation at a reasonable cost. Candidly, I don't understand why there's any hesitancy on this. It provides service to the seniors who can spend their money right here, not go up to Sunrise or out to Davie. Stay right here and spend your money here with our tax-paying business people. That's it. Great. Thank you, Mr. Spector. Thank you very much. We appreciate your support. We really, really appreciate it. Thank you. Marie Habst-Franco. Well, I'm sorry. Well, you're going to come up and tell me your name because I couldn't read your writing. It's okay. My name is Marie Habst-Franco. Franco. My address is 8532 Northwest 12 Court, and I live in Lauderdale West. And I became aware in the last year of the many people who can't get out, they can't go places. I didn't realize how many women who depend on their driving husbands, whose husbands have passed, now they can't go places. And also our veterans are there, too. And the need is just going to keep increasing as time goes on for them. So please keep them in mind when you think about this. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see you. And finally, but last but not least, Christy Woods, Lauderdale West Board. Good to see you. Christy Woods, 8642 Northwest 10th Court in Lauderdale West. As a member of the board and vice president on the board, I can tell you that ever since this started, the board has been hearing from the residents as to, and the mayor knows this, when are we going to get it in Lauderdale West? I look at it from the standpoint of some of our other residents have communicated things. But for older people, we're over 55. Some of our residents in their 80s, even 90s, that need transportation. And one factor is a safety factor. And when they are able to get into a vehicle that has the city of Plantation attached to it, a driver that has been checked out, so to speak, there is a real safety factor that is involved that they would be comfortable with being able to do this, whether it's going to a doctor or whether they meet their friends for lunch or whatever. So I'm looking at it from that aspect, plus the opportunity for many of our residents to get out when they normally would not get out otherwise. So I really encourage a positive outcome on this because our residents are looking forward to it, and I feel that they would use it very much. So thank you. Thank you. Christy, before you walk away, I might suggest at one of your meetings that we be able to get some volunteers. Summer is coming. I'm sure we can get some teenagers or college students maybe to come to one of your meetings at Lauderdale West and show people how to use the app, if that would be helpful. Oh, that would be wonderful. That would be wonderful. Yeah, we can arrange that. And I just want to say that this council and administration, we were excited when we first implemented the pilot program for freebie, but all of us up here are unanimous that our next expansion, we wanted to cover our over 55 communities. So I think we're terribly excited about this as well. Thank you. We appreciate it very much. And I'll be in touch regarding your suggestion. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other comments on item number three? Can I just add to your great suggestion? Also, when whoever be the volunteers that come out to do that presentation, incorporate a safety piece in there as well, because, you know, sharing your location, maybe not going alone, just some of those other features, too, because this might be very new to a lot of the riders in our over 55 communities. I'm sure we can speak to Ms. Morris and Freebie about that and get some tips on that as well. All right. Any other further discussion? No? Do we have a motion on this item? Motion to approve. Second. All right. Ms. Beggarow, please call the roll. Councilmember Andrew? Yes. Councilmember Fajan? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Item passes. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming out and speaking on that item. All right. Now we're moving on to administrative discussion items. Item number 16 is the branding and marketing discussion. Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Last time we were here talking about our branding and marketing project, you saw some options for the logo and the tagline, as well as employee feedback on those options. And you expressed desire for us to go out and get the input from the community, the business community, the resident community. So we did that, and we actually got a very, very good response rate. We were very happy with that. So conceptual communications, our consultant is here to present those results to you, and hopefully we can zero in on the option that we'll be going for, so we can move on to the next phase that I'm personally very much looking forward to, which is the development of our branding guides and all the templates that really will help us to standardize and professionalize our looks. Ladies? Good evening, ladies. Good evening. Could you please introduce yourselves for everyone? Yes. My name is Haley Nicoletto with Conceptual Communications, and I'm joined by my colleague, Keisha Eugene. We're very excited to be here. As Laura mentioned, last time we met with you all, we reviewed the staff feedback to the logo and tagline options, at which time you all directed us to continue the process and get the same feedback, the votes from your residents and business owners. So that's what we have for you tonight. And just as a quick refresher, these were the three logo options that were included in the survey. So top left is that refreshed option of your existing logo. It's just applied best practices to it, so elongating the tree trunk, the colors are a little crisper, adding in the words city of, and aligning things a little bit more. And then, of course, we have our two complete departure options. The tagline options that were included are your existing one, the grass is greener, where life takes root. Sorry, your existing, and then your three new ones, where life takes root, strong roots, high standards, and perfectly centered, naturally set apart. So at this time, I'd like to pass it over to Keisha to talk through the methodology and the results. Thank you. Good evening again. I'm going to share some of the feedback that we received from the residents and the business owners. So at your direction, after we met with you in March, we went back and launched on April 8, 2026. And we also, again, thank you for the invitation to go out to the chamber and the direction to do that because we did receive good feedback from the business owners there. And in order to increase participation as well among the residents, we launched a paid advertisement for $500, which was launched on April 15th. And then we closed the surveys on April 24th. And so what we got back was over 2,000 responses from the resident, 2,334, to be specific, for the tagline options, and then 1,983 responses for the logo options. And then from the business owners, we received 141 responses for the tagline options, and then 135 for the logo options. And these are the results. Among the responses from the residents, 52% chose the refreshed logo as their first choice. And then there was a split between the newer options. And for the tagline, the residents who responded, 52% selected the grass is greener as their first choice. And then there was a split between the newer options. And then for your business survey results, 56% of the business owners who responded selected the city of Flint, the refreshed logo as their first choice, and then split between the newer options. And then again, for your tagline, the first choice, there was 43% who responded as the grass is greener as their first choice, and then a split between the newer choices. And then you will see, Haley is going to give you a refresher on the data from the city staff survey. It aligns. You'll see that in the numbers. Haley? Okay, so I think we're all seeing a trend here. Amongst your staff, 50% chose the refreshed option, and then the other 50% split amongst the two new options for the logo. And for the tagline, that same 56%, which is crazy that it's so close. 56% chose the grass is greener, and then the remainder was split between the three new options. So last time we met, you also asked to see a few different versions of that refreshed look. So that top left is what was previously shown to you all. And then option two is the same look, but the city of is just larger font and bolded. And then I know that you requested shifting the placement of the wording city of, so that's what you'll see on the bottom in option three. And then option four is that shifted placement, and then the larger and bolder font for your consideration. So at this time, we have two strategic paths forward for your consideration. Option A, you all could choose to go for the refreshed logo and maintain your current tagline. And we'll move into that phased implementation plan, as well as the brand standards and the elements and templates. Or, if you so chose, we could go with a new logo and a new tagline selected by you all. And then, again, we'll move into that implementation plan and the brand elements. And lastly, I did just want to go through the timeline for wrap-up for this project. So from May to July, we'll be in our development phase. With whatever option that you all choose to go with, we'll be developing the brand guidelines, templates, manuals, receiving staff input and feedback, working through those. And then August through September is wrap-up and close-out of the project. So it's creating that roll-out plan of whichever option you all go with. We'll be conducting our staff training and turning over the creative brief for a 12-month activation for you all to be able to roll out these items. And that's all we have for you tonight. So any questions? Haley, can you go back and just put the logos up, please, the refresh? Thank you. Okay. I'm going to jump in before I turn it over to Council Member Fadgen. First of all, thank you. I think it gives us comfort up here that you went out and we got further feedback. We saw where this was trending. But I think all of us, I heard a consensus on this day. It's that we wanted more feedback from the residents and from the business community. So I'm satisfied with that. Thank you. I'm going to weigh in, as I did the last time. I still like option number one from a design standpoint. I think it's aligned. I know some of my colleagues wanted to see the city of a little larger. I still think it's a little bit off alignment with the L. So I'm going to weigh in there. And that's all I have to say on that. And I'll turn it over to Council Member Fadgen, because I know he has an opinion on that one, too. I never have any opinions. Never. Well, first of all, thank you for your work. I'm happy that we took that extra step about assessing the logo and the tagline, because sometimes you don't know what you have until you see what else is out there. And I think the grass is greener. And I like that the surveys, you know, the residents, whether the first or second choice was 85.13%. The businesses, first and second choice combined was 88%. And the staff, first and second choice combined was 84%. So I think that's a really good consensus that we have a good logo. Still very positive for the tagline, not nearly as high. But none of the other taglines really, really grabbed me. My opinion, because I did make a comment about where the city of was sitting on, I actually like the option, too. It, I don't know, it doesn't, it feels better for me. So my preference would be option, too, not to be argumentative with Council Member Horland, because, you know, I don't want to get in a fight with her, because she'll just win. But, and then the, and then option A with the, with the current tagline. And so with the branding manual, it's also going to incorporate an implementation, I don't know the right word. Yes. Because I think some departments are going to be more involved to implement than other departments. So that's all going to be assessed. Yes. Okay, so I like option one, or option two, and option A. Thank you, Council Member Fadgen. Council Member Reinstein. Yeah, thank you, thank you very much. Maybe put my, my mediator hat on, um, is between option one and option two. So, for option one, I do like the placement of the, the city of, but I actually would like it bolded. So that if we took a little from option two, and, uh, and, and, uh, the, the basis for option one, but bolded city of, um, I think it would be a good balance between the two. Thank you. You got it. I will second that motion that he didn't make. The motion he didn't make. That's a good compromise. Compromise. Yeah. All right. Council Member Fadgen, are you happy with that compromise? Can you live with that? Yeah. Okay, I think that's a, a, a good, uh, compromise. Any other comments from the dance? All right. So 1A. Thank you. 1A. 1A. The bolding of the city, but I'd still like to see that alignment in place. Um, again, Council Member Fadgen said it, but thank you so much for your work. I think I'm most excited for the branding guidelines, uh, to get in, in, put in, put in place. So, um, again, thank you. It's been a pleasure working with you, and I know we'll see you back here. Awesome. So, thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. All right. Next up is grant reporting, copies of the quarterly reports. Um, assuming, did anyone have any questions on that? That's just transmittal? None? All right. We'll move right on to legislative items. Item 18. Uh, let's get to, um, sorry, I just lost my train of thought for one moment. Uh, number 18 is PP25-0022, an ordinance of the city of plantation pertaining to the subject and comprehensive planning, recapturing a portion of the previously approved 206 flexibility units and 306 affordable housing density bonus units approved by ordinance number 2025-003. Mr. Ezra, do you need to read anything with that? I could read the remainder of what is left, providing findings, providing a savings clause, and providing an effective date, therefore. Um, and that would be the entire title of the ordinance. Okay. Thank you very much. Between what you said and I said. Um, council members, does anyone need the presentation on this? Motion to approve. Okay. Second. Any public comment? Mr. Conklin, are you coming up on this item? Yes, sir. Yes, Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. Um, back in the day, the, uh, the city used to have individual flex zones throughout the city. I live, have, be in flex zone 73, neighborhood east of the turnpike. Um, I think it went all the way out to the acres. I think it was 68. You know, I can't find the flex zone map of the city. I've searched all the different search, uh, engines and can't find the, uh, thing. Used to have it regularly available. Um, but this is, uh, I had a couple questions. Um, I believe that this is located in the consolidated flex zone 75, which used to be flex zone 74 and flex zone 75. Now, um, one of the reasons I moved in the plantation in flex zone 73, neighborhood east of the turnpike, because there was no more flexibility. Now, what is flexibility? That means the potential to have, uh, residential housing units, whether it be single family, uh, townhouses, high, high, uh, uh, story residential, whatever. Um, the city used up all the flexibility in, I think it was 74. And, uh, they wanted to still build high rises, so they merged 74 and 75 together. So, uh, I think this is where we're talking about, does anybody know? It is. Okay. Thank you, Dan. Dan. Well, it's not what we're talking about. It's not the same area. So, um, anyways, what I want to know is how much, or what is the number now of remaining flexibility units in flex zone 75? 75, that's what I want to know, because they're talking about restoring a certain number, a couple of hundreds, 385. Mr. Holmes, would you like to answer that question? So, to answer that question, there is no longer a flex zone 75. The city, the reason you don't see a map anymore is because the entire city is a flex zone. Okay? So, that's what unified flex means. I never thought that they unified the whole city. No. I thought it was just the two, and I thought that failed. Unifying all under one? It's all unified. Oh, my bloody oath. All under one, and there are new rules as to how flex can be utilized. He doesn't have to explain it further. Okay. If I may. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. How many flexibility units are now left in the city? Let me send that to you. I'll make a note to send that out to you. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. I apologize, because I did not know that successfully passed. I thought it was defeated. No. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Look out old flex zone 73 neighborhood east of the turnpike. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Any other comments on this item? All right. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Spigaro, please call the roll. Council Member Andreu. Yes. Council Member Fadgen. Yes. Council Member Einstein. Yes. Council Member Horland. Yes. Thank you very much. Now we'll move into quasi-judicial proceedings. The city clerk will swear on all witnesses before speaking on item 18. Mr. City Attorney, will you please read the roll? 19, you're right. Thank you for the correction. Yes. This is for quasi-judicial proceedings. The city clerk will swear on 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. The city staff will make the first presentation, followed by presentations from the applicant, any affected parties, and the public. The elected officials may set reasonable time limits for speakers. The hearing will then be closed and the matter decided. The city council's decision will be delineated in its motion and rendered in writing by way of a development order, resolution, or ordinance evidencing its decision. The city council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for additional research or review. Thank you, Mr. Ezraal. Item 19 is PM26-0025, consideration of a request for conditional use approval and a parking reduction for OPS hitting development. The property is located at 6761 West Sunrise Boulevard, number 10, and is zoned ILP, Light Industrial. We do have two members of the public signed up, so I think we should go ahead with the presentation. Mr. Holmes, please. Do we swear in? Yes, yes, and swear in. Those speaking on this item, please stand up so you can be sworn in. Raise your right hand. Okay. 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? I do. Okay. Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the council. For the record, Dan Holmes, planning and zoning director. I'm going to wait for the clerk to put up the presentation. Okay. As indicated, this is application PM26-0025. It is a request for conditional use approval to allow a 1,500-square-foot indoor recreational center in the city's ILP, which is a light industrial zoning district. As part of this request, there is one waiver associated with the request. This is the location map for the city. Property is located at 6761 West Sunrise Boulevard, and it's located within Bay 10 on that property. The owner is Vanini, Inc. The agent is Nabonisar Martinez. I think I pronounced that correctly. The size of the parcel is about 2.18 acres. And, again, ILP is the zoning and existing uses and office warehouse. This is the aerial map that kind of shows where the property is located, and generally within that area, north, south, and east, or other warehouse uses, and to the west of the site is Sunrise Boulevard and in single-family homes. Just some background. The site is developed as a one-story building. It consists of about 32,000 square feet and has 21 individual bays within the site. Again, the applicant is requesting to occupy one of the bays, which is 1,500 square feet. And the indoor recreational use establishment is a permitted conditional use within the ILP district. This was initially what could have been approved as an administrative item, but it was requested to come to the council. And I know that there were some people that indicated that they were opposed to the application. This sort of gives you just the site plan. Again, to the west of the site is West Sunrise Boulevard, and to the east is northwest 14th Street. You kind of see how the bays are kind of laid out on the site. There are, again, 21 bays, and then you can see over here are the uses that kind of correspond to the bays there. I will point out that the parking is to the west of the building. There are 25 parking spaces, and then also to the east of the building there are 25 parking spaces comprising a total of 50 parking spaces. And this is the building itself, and these are just some pictures just to give you a feel for what the building looks like. You'll notice that every bay has its individual garage door there, other photos there. And then this is just a site plan of the bay that the owner would be in if approved. Again, the bay is about 1,500 square feet. What they're proposing to do within there is to put up an inflatable batting cage inside. And then you see that this is the entrance right here, right on the end, sort of like an end unit. There's restrooms here, and then there's some welcome area here and some office area that you see located there. The days of operation, as indicated in the report, would be Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. One of the things that the applicant is indicating that we did take into consideration when evaluating this use is that the instruction would be one-on-one instructions and are by appointment only. So you'd have the owner there and then the individual that's receiving the instruction. So it would not just be open to the public for people to just come. It's by appointment only. This is the parking table. Again, there are some different type of uses that are located in there. Our parking code sort of has a parking standard or ratio for each type of use, and that's just basically what this table is indicating. There are approximately 11 bays that would fall under this manufacturing and production use, and they would require 17 spaces. Likewise, industrial services production use is 8 and would require 24 spaces. And then the indoor recreational use would require a total of 15 spaces, which is 56 spaces. Now, as indicated, there are only 50 spaces on the property. And again, because we tally parking spaces per use, when this use came in, it has a slightly higher requirement than some of the other uses, so it changed the parking requirement for the entire site, requiring 56 spaces as opposed to the 50 spaces that are on site there. There is, under our new code that we adopted, there is a new reduction that gives properties that are located in proximity to a bus stop, 1,000 feet, a 5% reduction. So with that 5% reduction, it would bring the required parking to 53 spaces. And so because the applicant's use would sort of increase the required parking, a parking waiver was required as a part of this use, so they're requesting a parking waiver of 5% to take the parking down to 50 spaces, which is actually the number of spaces that exist on the property to date. Again, just the waiver is from Section 27123, which I kind of went through the table with you, but would require the 56 parking spaces. We did look at the analysis based upon the conditional use criteria, and based upon that, we thought that in evaluating the use, that the proposed use would not have any significant impact. Again, it was one-on-one instruction, so it would not really require a large demand on the parking. That was one of the primary things that we did take a look at. And then because the use, again, would not have any adverse impacts on the overall operation of the property in terms of noise or would not require outside use of anything, and so staff's recommendation based upon that evaluation was for approval of the use. Now, as I indicated, there were some individuals that had indicated that they were in opposition to the proposed use. They were citing parking. I'm not, you know, we think that this use is probably one of the uses that's going to require the least amount of parking on the site, but we did provide the backup in terms of what their concerns were. And we did note that one of the bays, Bays 13, has a posted violation notice from the fire department due to lack of access during the annual fire inspection, and so we're going to have to follow up on that request. And then in terms of parking at the warehouse, there is, they have an agreement in place amongst all the unit owners that they're each given two spaces to each bay, which we actually think that, although we're not a party to that, that this use would actually be consistent with the agreement that's in place. And so based upon that, our recommendation was for approval. Mr. Holmes, I'm going to turn to Council, Council Member Andreu. Thank you, President Horland. I would like to make a Jennings disclosure. I did receive that email from one of the owners who indicated that this contradicts, I believe, what their lease has. So when the other business owners in the property sign their lease, they're being given a set amount of spaces? Yes, they have, they have, they're like an association, so they have their own documents. And because there are 50 spaces, they've determined that each bay gets two parking spaces. So this particular business will get two as well? They have, too, under that agreement. As indicated, based upon our parking requirement, it would require slightly more than two spaces. But, again, as we evaluate it based upon the nature of the use, again, it's a conditional use, so we'd like to look at exactly how they propose to operate since it's one-on-one instruction. And based upon our discussions with the applicant, we don't think that they would demand more than two spaces, basically, based upon the nature of the proposed use. Okay. I'll be curious to see what the speaker's concerns are, because they're also vacant bays. There are some vacant bays. And I've been to the property as well. It will not affect my vote. But I've never seen, at least at the times I've gone, where there's no parking available. And they're also closed on Sundays. And Sundays it's very quiet, it seems. Correct. And the other thing we did look at with regard to parking is that the hours of operation here also will largely be in the afternoon hours as well, when you tend to have less of a parking demand by some of the other uses that operate more on a 9-to-5 sort of basis. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. Thank you, President Horland. Thank you, Council Member Andrea. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President Horland. Regarding the association rules, we don't generally get involved in that. We're just concerned that they have the parking. And then whatever internal rules that they have, that's really up to them. That's correct. We will leave that up to the association to enforce their own rules. Can you go back to the parking table? So they fall under the indoor commercial recreation? That's correct. So what's the other indoor commercial recreation? If I'm interpreting this right, you're saying that there's two businesses in there. One will be them, and then what's the other one that's recreational? Yes, it was the jiu-jitsu. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Oh, so there's three in there. Yeah. I will note, too, that we are – there are some that are operating without business tax. So as we started to dig into this – So what are you doing first thing tomorrow? So, well, not first thing tomorrow. It's already been done, actually. All right. Good answer. Good answer. So that's the four bays that are operating without required city approval. Okay. And we've cited them already. Yes. So from that standpoint, we said that there's no outstanding violations except for that fire. Are we assessing them since it's a condo, a business condo system, that it's standalone for the violations, or do we have to look at the entire property? Well, we're looking at each individual business with regard to the business taxes. It's their responsibility for each individual business to come in. But typically, like, we might not approve these waivers if there's violations. Do we set aside that there's violations because there's businesses not operating – the business tax receipt, we don't assess that in our – I don't follow the question. I'm sorry. I'm trying to frame my question so it makes sense. You want to add clarity to it? Yeah, if I may. So the two that right now don't have the business tax license and the number 13 that does not have the inspector access, are those owned by the same as the applicant for this item? I know that. And the reason why I'm asking that is because I think what I heard Councilmember Fagin asking is that – and we've talked about this with other applications is that it's tough to approve someone for X if that same request or that applicant for X is in violation in Y and Z, right? Yeah. And you know what? I don't have the list of – I'm not sure whether the owner of – because there's an owner that has about 13, I think it is, BAYS. I don't know if this is one of them or not. Is it the applicants here that maybe would be able to answer that question? Yes. I don't know, Councilmember Fagin, if that was in line with the concern. Well, I was just saying, like, we know we – I thought the backup said there was no violations, but there are violations because there's businesses running in there without a business tax receipt, and then we don't have access for the fire inspection. Right. So does that stop them, or do we look at them independently? We look at them independently as one of the BAYs. That's really all I wanted to know. Okay. I got a couple more questions. Can I just ask Councilmember Fagin a question to your point? Because I understand looking at them independently unless it's the same ownership. Yeah. I agree with that. Right. How many BAYs do you own? Hang on one moment, Mr. Ezraal. I just pulled up the property appraisers' website. That's what he's doing. There are multiple folio numbers at that address. The applicant, as I understand it, is Vanini, Inc. Correct. And according to the property appraiser, Vanini, Inc. owns multiple units at that location. I could give you the unit number. It says unit number 10, unit numbers 2, 20, 21, and then unit number 6, and then unit number 8 and 9. But not 13 were the, yeah. Number 13 is owned by somebody else other than Vanini. Okay. What about the business tax license? Right? That was the other portion of that. Are any of those that are, if I may, Councilmember Fagin, are any of those that are not up to date with their business tax license, are any of those the numbers that were just mentioned? Is Vanini the landlord, you mean, of any of the renters in those spaces? Correct. Do you know which bays do not have the LBTRs? Some of the, it appears from the list. One of them was the Jiu-Jitsu, let's see. That's not a Vanini property, Jiu-Jitsu. It is not. That's 18. Hold on. I think I do, I may have a, let me go to another. Jiu-Jitsu is owned by that occupant. Let me go to another. I think I actually did ask staff to take a look at that. There we go. Let's be active. Yes, so the bay number five, bay number nine, which is Vanini furniture, and the T-shirts, bay 14 and 18. Those were the ones that did not. Now, some of them, we are going out to, we have to verify whether they were still in operation or not, because sometimes they'd go out of business and they're gone and they still show. But it's fair to say, based on that, there is one Vanini property that does not have, BTR is closed, so we'll need that addressed. So the question, I guess, maybe it's for the city attorney. Do we have to separate that from our decision or do we incorporate that in our decision? These are separate units with separate ownership based upon a condominium form of ownership. So, again, my recommendation. So even though they own multiple units and one of them doesn't have an active valid business tax receipt, we should look at that separately and not put that in part of our consideration? That would be my recommendation. Okay, and that's what I thought. I just wanted to get clarity on that. This is a quick question for the applicant, and then I'll, if you can come on up. It's an easy one. And I'll make a Jennings disclosure. Identify yourself and say that you were sworn in and understand the rules. My name is Nobunasar Martinez. I understand the rules. Okay. Are we going to, you're not going to be playing music. No. You get in there, you're going to do your work. Yeah. You're going to get them out there and get the next student in there, right? Yes, sir. It's not going to turn into a nightclub and you're going to be blasting the heck out of your neighbors in there, right? It's hourly lessons. You're never going to hear from the guy in the uniform there on the aisle there, right? No, no, no, sir. I'm going to be talking a lot so I can have a lot of space. You're not going to be using music as part of the work. No, no, no. Okay. All right. That's all I have for you. And then I'll make a Jennings disclosure because I believe I got that email as well and it won't affect my decision. That's all I have. Thank you. Council Member Reinstein. Yes, thank you. And I'll also make the same Jennings disclosure and it won't affect my decision. Since you're still standing here, just for some also clarity is that when it's described as one-on-one use only and since I wasn't 100% sure based on what I saw in the backup, is there only space for one-on-one at a time or can you have one-on-one with one instructor and one-on-one with another instructor? So it's always one-on-one, but it's multiple sets. Yes. I'm the owner and only operator of the business. So my clients will be only working with me at a time hourly. So no money. Yeah. So based on – and I appreciate the clarity. So based on that, if you're driving a car and you're parking in one spot, there may be somebody who has dropped off or there may be somebody who is parking in the other spot because they are your student. Yes. Do you expect any other employees? Do you plan to have any other people working there other than you being present and the student? Nobody else. We don't do any group activities and I've worked – I've done this work before and it's private. Usually it's hourly lessons, but also they take approximately 45 minutes. So there's a nice transition from customer to customer. So, yeah, it will be only myself and the client. That's it. And one last just in terms of understanding the parking use is that are you – is your clientele mostly young students, high school students? Are they adults, college age? I mean, would they be driving even? Yeah. Yeah. Some high school clients and college players obviously are able to drive. But it's pretty much going to be a mix from six-year-olds to college players. And I was only asking in terms of, you know, at a certain age in high school, if they're not driving yet, they're going to be dropped off and they're not even going to use the second parking spot. Exactly. But otherwise you have – two parking spots would be the most that you would use. There's no reason that you would expect that there would be any other use of additional parking spots beyond the need for two. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Martinez, I just have a quick question. First, I want to make a statement because there's been – I'll make the Jennings disclosure. I did not correspond with the individuals who sent the emails, but I did receive them and it will not affect my vote. There seemed to be a lot of misperception about the parking. And I think, again, to repeat, your hours are a little bit different than some of the businesses there. There are a couple of businesses there that are actually closed on Saturday. Exactly. So you won't impact that. I would be more concerned if I was an owner there or renting a space with the jujitsu place and the gym. I'm assuming that there are more than one person showing up at a time there. I just had a question. There was a question in one of the emails raised about the ceiling. So the inflatable batting cage, is that four sides? Is the ceiling also inflatable? Yeah. It raises up, but it gets up to 10 feet. Okay. But the unit ceiling is 25 feet. Okay. So everything's inflatable. Exactly. So I think some of the concern I had seen in one of the emails is that balls might be hitting that ceiling. It's all covered and netted. Okay. Perfect. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions from the dais? All right. We have two members of the public. I've got Mr. Ken Salo and then Mr. Conklin, who wanted to comment on this item. Mr. Salo? Good evening, sir. Sure. Just identify yourself. My name is. You were sworn in, right? Yes. Kenneth Salo. I was really grateful to see the presentation of what it is because that's new to me also. So there's some favorable things in there that are a little less scary, but there's still a couple of challenges and maybe a couple of corrections about perceptions from the dais as well. I'm going to do a quick intro and then I'll probably just speak extemporaneously at this point. So I am a property owner at this location for 25 years. My occupational license and tax certificate are located at this address. My business is located in plantation since 1989. I'm also the president of the board of directors at this Pelican Park 67-61 Association, and I never want to deprive anybody from making a living. I've said it to you for 25 years, and I'll say it to you. If you get through, God bless, it looked cool, but I got a couple of concerns, so I want to address that stuff. And if not, you'll do fine, I'm sure, somewhere. It's a neat thing. A couple of clarifications. The idea that we have two parking spaces is not just, you know, we were given that. It's deeded to every owner. We have constantly had parking issues for 25 years that I've been there. There's never not been a year or a week or a month where there's not a parking challenge, whether it's vehicles that can't park because there's just not enough parking anyway. They park sideways. They block things, block the road. I have a couple of photos, if you like, that went last week, just random, took some photos of two, just two. I only did it because I didn't feel like going around the back. Of both handicapped spots, both are being abused. People parking it that shouldn't. There's a rug company that uses it to clean rugs in. Any day of the week, go by there. We have lots of violations for parking. Check the record. We have them all the time. Aside from that parking issue, which should be a thing all by itself, however, starting with just the way that the presentation was written, you know, the form that went out, the PM26, you're talking about a single-use occupant, notwithstanding the ownership of however many. But you're talking about altering the entire property. Now, loosely speaking, maybe he could park in a spot. Maybe his guy can park in a spot. That would be great if it worked out that way in real life. Real life is a little different. I have two spots. My neighbor has two spots. Everybody has two spots. It's a questionable thing. So if you choose to allow that, and it seems a little less radical than I might have imagined myself, you're affecting a whole community for one unit. That's the decision you're going to make. So think about that. No all due respect in mind. It's not about 53 versus 50 or a property this big. It's one occupant to alter everything from one corner of the thing. Everything else I have to say probably doesn't matter as much. So, you know, and I – thanks for the time, and I'm here to answer anything else you want to – I also question that it's even allowable. I'm going to give you another minute. Okay. Since you're a business owner. I also – and I defer to the gentleman that made the presentation that it's even allowed as a usage. I'm no expert on the usage, but I looked up the table, the ILP, table 101. There are – there's amusement enterprise, bowling alley, golf driving range. These are all disallowed. They are equally radical, not radical. To me, they're the same function. I don't think this is as harmful as I thought it might be. It's really just going to come down to the reality of parking. And if you think it's just okay to say, yeah, two, three more spots, what the heck, it's not going to be a good thing. And I hope he does great, and I don't mean to be a buzzkill for him or anybody. So, you know, I just have to defer to you guys to make the call, obviously. Okay. Mr. Taylor, I think just to correct a couple of things, because the emails we were receiving were about parking. Yeah. If this was open just to the public, I wouldn't share your concern. But if the applicant's telling us it's going to be himself and one person as they come for an appointment, I would be much more concerned about the jujitsu place and the gym that are on the property rather than this type of operator. Sorry, I agree with everything you said for all the reasons you said it. And I think he seems like if that's the way it works, I'd say great. I would go to bat for him, no pun intended, but it's a really good pun, with my neighbors who are also concerned. Right. So what I will say is that you were all sworn in. The applicant was sworn in, and he stated, you know, he took an oath tonight that that is how the business is going to operate. Yeah. So that's how we have to consider that. Okay. Listen, I appreciate you hearing that. And I think it's a little, like I say, a little less radical than I might have imagined. But it's a real thing to just say, sure. So how the presentation was written for this hearing, 53 versus 50 and 5 percent, and you reiterated, which I think is really a dangerous way to look at it, especially if it's a precedent for the future or it alters the community. He comes, he goes, and now what? We put in anything else and we're just allowed to park more cars there? Because you decide to allow whatever function to occur. You get the idea. And let me explain that. So it's just conditional. Our approval tonight is conditional upon his application. Right. I mean, it won't affect future use. So we do take that into consideration. Yeah, I think that's decent. Okay. But we appreciate you taking the time to come out tonight. Thank you. And likewise for you guys. I know this is you'd rather be home having dinner or watching something. It's what we do. Yeah, it is what you do. Thanks. Okay. Thanks. Thank you so much for coming out. Did you want to ask Mr. Seller? Mr. Conklin, you're up on deck, please. I was thinking when we make the motion, can we just add the condition that it won't be open to the public? It'll just be open by appointment only. That way you could tell the appointment that there can't be more than one car for your spots. And it seems like we really got to get in gear to get after the Jitches, because they're really ruining the community. So that's all I wanted to add. No problem. Thank you very much. Mr. Conklin, you wanted to speak on this item, sir. I apologize. I had a computer crash while I was swearing in, so I do swear to tell the truth. I understand the rules. Dennis Conklin, 458, 1 Northwest 6th Court. Technology, I'm no good. Sworn? I don't think that qualifies. God bless you. Wait. Hold on, Mr. Conklin. You have to be sworn. Yes, sir. Do you swear or affirm that the event is here about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do so swear. Thank you. When I looked at the material, I was very excited because I'm a failed baseball player. I only got as far as Babe Ruth's league. My brother was very good, and he was a catcher. What I was attracted to was one-on-one, two spaces. What does that mean, an instructor and the person that's doing it, right? So it's either going to be a driver or a parent driving somebody. No problem. And number two, inflatable batting cage. I mean, you want to talk about protection? Just think of a bounce house for your kids. And most of the batting cages, if you've ever seen them, they're netted. And it basically contains foul balls and fair balls and all of that stuff. So that was really the four things. I wish they had it when I was a kid. One-on-one instruction, two parking spaces, and an inflatable batting cage. So I'm in full support of this. And welcome, Plantation. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Seeing no other discussion on the dais, no members of the public, do we have a motion? Motion to approve with staff recommendations in the condition that it won't be open to the public. It will just be by appointment only. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Ms. Spigaro, please call the roll. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Einstein? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. Moving on to board and committee appointments. We had an adjustment from the previous meeting. Mayor, you had appointed Mr. Ron Ema to unsafe structures, but your appointee is still valid. But so it was suggested that we appoint, if it is the will of the council, to appoint Ron Ema as the joint appointment. So does anyone have any objection to that? All right. And then we do have a joint appointment for sustainability. We did have an application from Mr. Blake Moselle, who is a longtime plantation resident, former PAL coach. He is a beekeeper, which I think, a master beekeeper from the University of Florida, which I think really dovetails beautifully into our pollinator program that we are launching with Parks and Rec. So unless anyone has another appointee, I'd like to see us make that for the joint appointment. Oh, perfect. Thank you. Okay. So Ron Ema will be the joint appointment to unsafe structures and Mr. Blake Moselle for sustainability. And we still need a group one appointment for sustainability. Is that it? Okay. And with unsafe structures, now that we've made the joint appointment, do we still need the group one or five, possibly? Okay. There was one that came in today that was highly qualified. I did try to reach her, Ms. Hippolito. That came in very late, but I was unsuccessful in reaching her. Who? Who he? Who he? She was pointing at me. She was pointing at me. I felt it. I got it. Thank you. Council Member Ryan Steen. I'm still holding off on it. I saw those two that just came in, and I'd like to reach out to the two before I make the appointment. Okay. So we're good? Yeah. All right. Anybody else? No other appointments? All right. Wonderful. Then we'll move on. Mayor? Thank you very much. As we all know, at the end of this month, there is a League of Cities event. Please let Pam know if you're going or not so we can get that down on paper and we can start. Yeah, that needs to be reported to the League by Friday. Yeah. And the ad needs to be done as well. Exactly. Any ideas for the ad? Seriously, I could use a different picture. Are you using a group picture or my headshot? You're the president. I don't know. Yeah. The regular headshot would be fine. We're working on it. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving along, we've been working on budget for the past couple weeks. And Ms. Otaniano has outdone herself with her knowledge of every little detail. What's that? What are you thinking about? Do you want to try that pronunciation again? Anna, you'll take it. We're teasing you, Mary. You'll take it, whatever. Look, we're going through things and we'll go through an item deep down and she'll say, well, we appropriated this from here and the money came from here and the law is this and this. It was brilliant. I can't keep up with her, you know, but that ain't saying much for me. Number two and more importantly, supervisor training kicked off today. Yay. And the teacher, I think, is fantastic who was there. Laura, me, a couple more, Trish, and yeah, five or six of us. It was interactive. We talked about things. The instructor is very knowledgeable about city government, city situations, and those kind of things. So I'm really, really excited for what we're doing. I think it's badly needed. So that's all I got. Hey, Elmson member Andreu. Thank you, President Horland. I know earlier Mayor Sertle already did a proclamation for mental health awareness week and month, but I just wanted to also, in addition to NAMI, we also have 2-1-1 available. It's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every single day of the year to get support and resources for our community. So just can't ever plug 2-1-1 enough. And it's also National Police Week. So I want to thank Chief Shagel and the entire force. We honor your courage, sacrifices, and dedication. And so please extend that to all of the law enforcement officers. And I just saw this evening, I didn't get to read it because we were here, but I know that Mayor Sertle put out something in his newsletter about Plantation High School. I did try to reach Principal Robinson earlier today. Did not get her. But I will make sure that I contact her regarding the possible name change of the school. I know that she was proffering Central Broward Collegiate Academy or Central Broward Academy. Very nice names. However, as alumni, I am not in agreement with changing the name. I am hoping that it will stay Plantation High 612. I was actually with a group of alumni informally because I'm just very close to my classmates still. So a group of us were together for Cinco de Mayo. And out of the six, there was only one in favor of the name change. The others felt very strongly that they would like to see Plantation 612. And that's what they did with Dillard when Dillard went through the similar change. Can I follow up on that real quick? How did you know about it just from the e-mail we sent you earlier? Or was there any external source that informed you of it? Only you. I know that you. That's why I wanted to push it out today so people know that it's going down. I don't think they did a good job informing the public of what was going down. Correct. It seems like it was only internal. Whatever platform we had to get it out, wanted to get it out. And I knew that there's that sentiment. Right. So I don't know if it was shared with any alumni of the school. It seems like they did speak to students, right, and parents that are there currently. But I don't think any engagement was made with them. And to be clear, that's not my vote. No. And it's not our decision, right? This is the school board ultimately. But if you do have an opinion, I hope that you will talk to your school board members as well as the principal and let that opinion be known. But, again, I love the idea of emphasizing the academic rigor that they want to do there with dual enrollment, ACE, all of those courses and offerings. But I just disagree with the name change. So hopefully we'll continue that conversation. Also, Mr. Holmes, when you send that follow-up to Mr. Conklin about the citywide number of flexions, can you just copy all of us when you share that number? That concludes all of my comments. Thank you so much, President Horland. Thank you, Councilmember Andreu, and I'm so glad that you weighed in on that. I thought it was very important. As an alumni of the school, I am in agreement with you. Mayor, thank you, because the only way I knew about it was when you shared it. So I think that, you know, that's a school that we've all supported in our community. Both schools now rolled into one, and I would hate to see them lose their plantation identity. So, okay, Councilmember Reinstein. Yes, thank you very much, Council President Horland. Councilmember Andreu mentioned Mental Health Month and mentioned a few hotlines. I want to just add 988, which is the suicide and crisis lifeline that we have here. And it's so important that people know that that hotline is available for those that need it. Also want to extend my congratulations to our Council President, who is the outgoing president of the Brower League of Cities, for a couple more weeks. And so we appreciate her not only leading our council, but leading the Brower League and representing all of us very well in that position. We've also had in our city two recent installations. The Friends of the Library Board were recently installed, and Plantation Historical Society Board, their new board, was recently installed. So I want to make sure to wish them all congratulations. And I would be remiss if I did not also recognize that my dad, who lives out of town, is here today. So thank you to my dad for being present. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll proclaim him tonight over dinner. Thank you. And it's so good to see you. There were too many people sitting in front of you. I couldn't see you tonight. So welcome, Mr. Reinstein. Councilmember Fajan. Thank you. Councilmember Andreo hit all my points tonight. I was not happy when I got the email from the mayor talking about the rebranding of the school, because my thoughts were, it's performative. So now they're saying that we're going to have rigorous pursuit of academic success with dual enrollment. And, you know, they're setting aside 63 years of students and alumni. So, and I think the date's wrong in your email. I think you said the 17th, which I think is Sunday. Is it Monday that they're going to do it? No, I'm trying to confirm when it would go to the school board. I was told it was at a workshop. I was told a date, but now I've called Wholeness's office and there is no date. There is no time yet exactly when it will go to the school board. Well, yeah, you're right about that. If there's time, I would like to have a resolution saying that we are not in support of this. You know, there's so much emotion in talking about closings of school. So taking a name off this school, I would, I'm not happy about this. So I hope this, we can stop this. I hope that they listen to us. I spoke to a school board member Wholeness and Hickson today at the luncheon, telling them that I'm not for this. And I've called school board member Severa to say we are not for this and make sure it doesn't happen. Unacceptable. And they just plop it on us. Okay. The other thing that you went to is the police week. So we're honoring the law enforcement officers that have lost their lives in the line of duty. We're internally grateful for them. And I would like to express my gratitude to our police officers. We put their safety at risk every day, protect our community, their dedication, courage, commitment. Do not go unnoticed. And we're grateful for their service. And they always make us proud. So thank you. That's all I have. Thank you very much. Very briefly, thank you for approving this ILA for the Solid Waste Authority on Consent agenda tonight. Yesterday we had four approvals. I was in Dania Beach and Cooper City last night. It's on Tamarack's agenda tonight. So we're moving along. So hopefully we'll have another update for you in a couple of weeks. And I want to take a moment of personal privilege to try to get through that. Just thank everybody for the kindness you've showed me and my family. Each one of you up here reached out to me and Mr. Nunmaker, director, staff, with my mom's passing 10 days ago. So I want to thank you for that. The calls, texts, e-mails, flowers, donations to the Best Friends organization, her memory really meant a lot. So I continue to say how grateful I am for all of you. So thank you for that. Memorial Day, Monday the 25th. We look forward to seeing everybody at Veterans Park. And with that, it's 8-10 and the meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.