City Council — May 27, 2026

Good evening and welcome the May 27 2026 City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called a order at 6 0 1 p.m. Miss Beggarrow, please call the roll Council member Anderson here council member Andre you here council member Fadgen here council member Horland here council member reinstein here mayor sortle Here assistant city attorney Morgan. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Beggarrow the opening Remarks this evening and Pledge of Allegiance will be provided by council member reinstein good evening everyone Come on. You can do better. Good evening. Everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you So we have a lot on the agenda early on that has to do with our schools And so we are going to call up from plantation park elementary a whole number of students And we're going to talk to them after we do the pledge So I'm going to ask the students from plantation park elementary that are here if you can all come up to the podium Please so you can lead everybody in the pledge of allegiance So while they are making their way to the front if everybody can please rise for the pledge And mr. Noonemaker if you can make sure the green light is on and guys if you can come right up to the podium And once you are all there together all together and where do you put your hand, right? And take it away I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic from which it stands One nation under God Okay, everybody can be seated Although plantation park elementary students you can stay there So this group of students did something which we want to celebrate And that is that they went out into the community And they obtained some sponsorships from some businesses in order to support their school And you know unfortunately we all know that the schools And i'm very happy that we have a school board member here because I know that he fights for our our students and our schools as well Is that our schools don't get all the funding that they need? and way too often We need that the the parents with the help of the students and the help of the businesses in our community have to fundraise And plantation park elementary does a lot of that and they have their amazing owl walk where they raise a lot of funds And they get a lot of sponsors I participate in that owl walk just about every year and it's amazing to see The the number of parents and the number of Grandparents and the number of supporters that come out But these students were the ones that secured community sponsorships And so what i'd like to do is we're going to go one by one And you're going to get in front of the microphone You're going to tell us your name And if you know the name of the business that you brought you're going to tell us and if you don't remember I have a cheat sheet so I can help you with it. Okay So who's first who's if you can state your name? Tell us your name and tell us if you remember the business you're up first There you go. Um, my name is julian castilla in the In the name of the business. I brought to my school is jc systems Fantastic. Well great job julian Who's next julian you got to move over and let somebody else jump in my name is kaden dayringer My name is howard dayringer and the business we brought to our school Is pounder this smile Ponder this smile And did you bring another one too? Do you know if you brought a second one? No What it was sugar and icy frozen delights? You brought a second one too so round of applause for kaden and colton Okay, kaden and colton you need to move over let somebody else jump in who's next my name is giffin galley and the name of the business I um, raised money for is benny's smash burgers, right benny's back smash burgers, so And just just to be clear griffin benny's smash burgers help raise money for your school, right? so Just may just make sure you know that who's next my name is michael james And the founders law Maybe founders law pa and I think do we have uh jq basketball training yeah lending gallery we have a few we have a few businesses for you And I think also matthew helped you as well, right is that matthew right there? Okay, matthew turn around and say hi to everybody. There you go matthew and michael james together great My name is jack elliott and the business I brought to the school was college counseling services great job. Yes And jack, I think uh, I think you had had help from sam Yeah, yes, and um, and just so they get the full credit It was college consulting services, but you don't need it just yet. So you're good. Don't don't worry, right Uh, and who else do we did we get everybody there? Okay, so um There was also a number of other students Nola brought in the blow out blow out blow dry bar We had reed tokar with the tokar family chiropractic We had bonnie peach with i9 sports Penelope zamora total coverage insulation We had gavin gavin larson masters pool service Evan and avery bond crystal bond pa And I think that covers it and georgia and evie winner sunshine literacy So I think that's all so great job to all of you Council member reinstein mr. Griffin kelly was before us last as a elocution winner Yes, and just just like his brother before him So we know we know some of these students so guys you can sit down, but thank you so much for joining us I just want to I just want to finish up my my remarks by saying that We you know listen. It's one thing that we must go out and help these our schools and our students It's one thing that we must patronize we must support our local businesses But if we can bring them together and we can figure out a way for more of our businesses to support our schools More of our schools and our students to support our local businesses. It's a win-win for everybody and um, you know We we wish there was a time where we didn't need to require that But i'm so proud of these students that went out of their way to raise these funds and to show up here tonight because um, it's not just raising the funds for their school, but it's to recognize that you know that they get the benefit of supporting the businesses out in the public and And they get to see that there's a great crowd here at city hall So thank you everybody for being here tonight, and thank you to the students Thank you councilmember reinstein Mayor sordal you have a couple of items this evening Yes, first off we have a guest from the school board broward school board member adam servera representing district six He has some updates for us Welcome mr. Savera Thank you. Thank you mayor members of the council. How about those plantation park kids? Excellent excellent job by all of you going out Into the community doing some great things that benefit their wonderful wonderful school Members of the council. I want to first by thanking all of you for allowing me to appear today and give my end of the year roundup Um, we've had some ups and downs this year to say the least But on an academic note, we are finishing the year very very strong, especially here in the great city of plantation And as your district six school board member I have the distinct pledge this evening of giving you our end of the year update So i'm going to try to touch on all of our schools in the entire city of plantation starting first With the great central park elementary third grade ele proficiency We know how important those scores are we increase from 75 percent to a 79 percent of four percent increase for those kiddos We saw el a learning games increase from 66 percent to 69 Percent on the academic front So great job to central park Elementary on the beautification facilities and upgrade side of things New playgrounds. We're working ways. They're starting to come up We're going to see some very very beautiful playgrounds at central park elementary variable soon Those portables Remember those portables guys when we were all in school. Those were a mainstay. Well, now what we're getting them out of there I always thought they were a north side and I saw So two of the portables on our courts have been removed New asphalt is coming down on the on the concrete there Which of course will increase our kids outdoor spaces, which we all love and appreciate New lake elementary school some academic achievements third grade ele achievement increase from 39 percent to 63 percent Tremendous gains For me like um elementary school Overall ele their l25 gains increase from 58 percent to 74 percent doing some wonderful wonderful Things there some beautification over at mirror lake We are wrapping up the front door single point of entry walls and our front office walls with the school's mascot That face is almost complete and looking very very nice. We're also wrapping the hallways With our ace teams. We've got some magnet events at mirror lake. We received the magnet school of distinction award Also in the innovative arts students performed in three outstanding performances of matilda jr This year so excellent job by the mirror lake kids Peters lake elementary We had a phenomenal family night participation and overall parental participation involvement in peters Elementary has increased by 20 percent this year So kudos to all my parents for coming out and getting more involved third grade ele scores an increase Eight percent at peters elementary. That's phenomenal our math grade scores an increase Seven percent science grade increase 12 percent so hats off to all the teachers administrators and coaches Over at peters elementary doing some wonderful wonderful things there Plantation elementary school our third grade math has increased from 59 percent to 67 percent We've got an 83 percent proficiency in science under our additional achievement And we have celebrated our moms for mother's day with muffins for mom That was a phenomenal event for those who got to attend Forty-three fourth grade students were awarded bike helmets and locks throughout the annual plantation police bike Program for every day mix. Thank you chief. I see you there. Thank you for all of that great work by the department And we are celebrating our dads on june 4th with our donuts for that event So all the dads please come out plantation elementary Plantation park kudos to those folks again again great work in the community there, but not just doing great things in the community How about their ely proficiency increasing from 67 67 67 to 68 68 to 68 percent this year? Also overall ely proficiency increasing from 68 percent to 71 Percent and we saw gains from the bottom 25 percent Increase by over 13 percent so phenomenal job by plantation park and all of our educators and great teachers There we've got some additional Additional achievements that i'm going to try to rattle off because there's a lot of them We received a garden grant for a thousand dollars to beautify the front of the school So those of you who've been who've been there you've noticed some of the greenery there We got another grant to build a food garden where our students can learn and participate in the life cycle of plants And uh, some great field trips and some green spaces this year Teaching them how to grow first-hand fruits and vegetables that they can practice right there at the school Uh, students competed in our first annual special olympics That was a tremendous event over at plantation park And as we heard we raised over fifty thousand dollars for our owl walk fundraiser That is a tremendous tremendous accolade and congratulations to all those Kids again over at plantation park switching briefly to tropical elementary Our lowest 25 percent proficiency in grade three increased from 55 to 60 percent this year So we're seeing some gains in tropical elementary in grade four math proficiency Increased from 60 56 percent to 63 percent. So great job to the kiddos Um over there. Oh, and let's not forget The staff versus student kickball game Unfortunately this year by a hair the the staff won just by it just by a hair It was a very very close game, but good job to all those who participated Uh seminal middle school our eighth grade end of the year award ceremony may 27 May 27th. Did anybody have a chance to attend? Yes, good time. I heard good things. I saw some nice photos. So good job to the folks over there and the principal over at seminal middle Our athletic awards are the 28th at 9 45 a.m. We also have an eighth grade dance. I already missed those days. The eighth grade dance dance was on friday That's phenomenal. So congratulations to those kiddos and of course all the graduating eighth graders moving on to high school ELA proficiency at seminal middle increase from 60 percent to 66 percent Our civics proficiency increased from 70 percent to 76 percent So great job over at seminal middle school Plantation middle school We all knew the difficult decision that had to be made by the school board regarding plantation middle school And I would be remiss For not congratulating principal q for all of the great work Done over a principal excuse me at plantation middle school We are proud of all of our teachers. We are proud of all of our administrators and perhaps most importantly we are proud of all of our students um It was a tough year knowing that the decision was coming and that the ultimate decision was made a hard decision I would note But um in the end We are going to still strive to give those kids a top-notch education wherever they choose to go Within the bcps that stratosphere so big shout out to plantation middle school And to all those kids and for keeping your um your focus The grades were there the scores were there and we're really proud of those kids going through everything they needed We realize and certainly appreciate the fact that it was a it was a tough a tough year Switching to our high schools plantation high school We've got graduation coming up june 2nd at 2 p.m We are projecting another a rating plantation high school so a fantastic job Over there i'm proud to report that our 25 26 graduation rate 99 so kudos to everybody at plantation high school for the hard work We saw learning greens in ela in math. We saw proficiency increases in math in ela These kids worked their tail off This year all of our seniors in our class of 2026 met the math graduation requirements. So kudos to those kids Our math coach was accepted into the lead program. That's a great great honor Um, we have a thriving math cadet program over plantation high school They hosted the first uh district wide jeopardy style math competition in algebra and geometry Two subjects that I was awful at when I was young So those kids did a really good job that was took place over at dillard high school And um The assistant principal was accepted into the 2026 2027 Principal preparation program. So great job to a sense of to assistant principal lay on that um ESC's our ESC program had an ESC student and the student mentors were both recognized with the just Do it award which is a district-wide initiative recognize recognizing excellence in the esc programs And our fine arts. Let's not forget about our drama kids four students will participate in fau's create program, which is a free two-year Teen arts program which provides a pathway program offered directly through florida atlantic university That provides resume portfolio development exposure to creative professions mentoring and direct community involvement. So congratulations to all the kiddos who about partaking in that and of course last but not least South plantation high school proud to report we are in any school once again proficiency and learning gains increases in ELA in math a 99 percent graduation rate at south plantation high school so congratulations to everybody over there teachers our administrators and of course our great great students 1100 students earned uh industry Certifications just this school year at south plantation high school 57 students in the graduating class earned our ace diploma We love the ace program and we'll be receiving 100 percent bright future scholarship, which is a phenomenal program Glad to see us getting back put back right in the community here in the great city plantation Magnet school of excellence two years in a row a green school designation uh five years everglades champion designation recycling trailblazer um award student created and led composting project which earned of course district recognition at bcps regionals football basketball track and softball i mean talk about a powerhouse campus all these kids are covering all the bases and athletics and let's not forget We're really good at bowling really good at bowling States in bowling wrestling and of course cross country Girls lacrosse runner-up in the independent championship league hats off to the to the ladies with that DECA national competitors We had one student take home in the first place rsga the gold medallion council rsga gold merit for the state not the county for the entire state Marching band was invited to play in new orleans at the sugar bowl How cool is that? So congratulations to the marching band? Um, our jrotc competed nationally in the vex robotics program, which is a great program And of course because we love football here in the south We are receiving new artificial turf for our football field at south plantation high school So those kids are going to be able to compete at a top-notch top-notch facility. So that is my um Roundup council members in Minnesota, and I appreciate the time I'm also happy to answer any questions or any inquiries You may have thank you mr. Savera for the update, and I think we would be missed all remiss If we did not mention with all those wonderful gains by all of our schools That the acting principal and near lake elementary miss jensen has now been promoted to permanent principal there And she gets credit for some of those games absolutely 100 percent. We love our principles don't we folks? We love our principles We've got a full house, but I see councilmember fadgen would like to make a comment. So let me ring him in councilmember fadgen Thank you for the update very enthusiastic Um I have a request It has to do with one of our schools It's not one of your schools in your district But there's talks of changing the name of plantation high school And i'm requesting that you adamantly oppose that Um, that is the first high school this in this city It's 63 years old And as you mentioned it's been a rocky year With a lot of tough decisions about closing schools And there's a lot of emotion in the communities about their schools getting closed And we're not happy that plantation middle is being consolidated But the same goes for a name of a school There's 63 years of students graduates Teachers faculty staff that have a connection and a history to that school So i'm requesting when this becomes before you guys to say no And keep plantation high keep our history intact And don't rip out something that's one of the original institutions of our city That's only 10 years younger than our city Um The proposed names have a directional kind of i'm not going to use the proposed names But they have a directional kind of slant to it And i think you do that so you can identify where the school is located And if you want to change it to plantation high school academic academy for academic excellence or whatever you want it to do There's no better name than plantation high school to identify the location of it And the changing of the name is not a substantive Change the substantive change is what's happening inside that building So what the principal wants to do i'm all for and i would like her to see and i want that to be a crown jewel of the county But i'm going to say it one last time Please advocate on our behalf to keep the name of that school plantation high school And honor the people that have gone through that school as graduates and students for the last 63 years Thank you thank you councilmember badger And mr savera and i know it's not your school but i'll make one comment before i let you respond And i think because we did discuss this on the day it's in our last meeting i think one of the concerns as well is that a survey had gone out from the schools a 24-hour survey And there was no option for anyone to say we want to keep the name there were options given and so I think the community was disappointed in how that was approached so please sir Well um councilwoman i will say it wasn't just the community that was disappointed i was also disappointed and for those of you who um have watched sort of how i operate on the school board i have no qualms about letting people know when i'm disappointed and um i hear these concerns i want to thank uh councilmember fadgen for bringing it up um you are not the first person to bring this to my attention and i will tell you i don't like to propose change either and as long as i have a say and as long as i have a vote in it i will not be supporting any name with which does not include the great city of plantation there's too much history your alumni base is is phenomenal and just from of course of course just both both phenomenal institutions both phenomenal institutions but from a geographical location standpoint i agree everybody knows where plantation florida is we're one of a kind here right it's it's not like anybody's going to be confused or not know what part of the state of florida what part of south florida we're in so you will have my support uh i am not in favor of the proposed change incidentally i will also state on the record i was not in favor of of a 24-hour anything going out i don't think that's a enough time most people probably didn't even open their emails that's not equitable but we appreciate your support the mayor would like to make a comment mayor sorter yeah i am i happen to speak with downtown with administration downtown i respect that you didn't count the votes but the the votes are there to keep it plantation in 6 through 12. so um the administration indicates it's going to stay plantation they want the words plantation in the title and the word 6 through 12 in the title and okay i know you're one voting you're not going to speak for the other eight you can't put words in their mouth but there's there are a lot of people that have your sentiment on the school board well i can speak for district 6 and this district 6 board member likes plantation 6 to 12. it's going to stay that way that does everything it needs to it's going to stay that way thank you for that mayor and school board members there we appreciate your service and we appreciate you coming here and giving such a great update and i appreciate all of you have a great week thank you have a great week mayor we have more wonderful school news don't we this this is very rare we have two students who have not missed a single day of school k through 12. uh jaden and devon stevens please come on down you've had more schooling than me do you want to read this i got you i got you somebody with me mom whereas the city plantation recognizes the importance of education responsibility and perseverance in developing future leaders and whereas broward county public school's best in class attendance recognition program honors students who have maintained perfect attendance from kindergarten through 12th grade and whereas south plantation high school seniors jaden stevenson and javon stevens i'm sorry jaden stevens and javon stevens have achieved this extraordinary distinction through unwavering dedication and commitment to their education and whereas the brothers have also excelled academically as members of the top 10 graduating seniors at south plantation high everybody clap whereas jaden and javon credit their success to hard work consistency and the support of their mother age abroad belt who ensured they what was it a jewa a jewa broad belt who ensured they arrived at school prepared on time each day whereas the twins will continue their educational journey at the university of florida where they plan to study veterinary medicine and whereas their achievements serve as an inspiration to students throughout the city plantation in broward county therefore i nick sortle and the city council of plantation florida proudly recognize and commend jaden and javon for their deeds and um we have somebody here uh we're going to be joined by broward county public school district attendance coordinator chris erickson come on up your microphone is yours this is a good thing guys yes good evening mayor thank you and council members family and guests and of course jaden and javon um tonight it is my honor to again echo the uh proclamation here and honor these two students of south plantation for the incredible accomplishment of perfect attendance kindergarten through 12th grade how many of us have been at our our employer okay so this is a remarkable achievement and i know that you guys are going to continue to excel in all that you do um tonight i am excited to be able to present each of you with a generous um donation from vertical bridge um a great company here in and a proud supporter of broward county public schools um we hope that you use this gift very wisely in your education and continue to do great things as local vets we hope i think people want to know how much your checks are for oh so they have generously donated a thousand dollars to each of you a picture would be great can we can we get the family up mayor yeah mom come on up yay mom and his vertical bridge here yay so i'd like uh education advisory board members come on up and help me out here we have two teachers of the month uh the education advisory board each month picks uh teachers of the month and we have goodies for them uh we have sasha oliver peters elementary and marie gordon of seminole middle and you want to tell them what the gifts are of course i do tell them what they want yes miss oliver and miss gordon uh we're our miss gordon my daughter's current teacher and miss oliver my daughter's first grade teacher um have been awarded a 100 gift card to target thanks to plantation women's club a milky moose certificate for a small shake and a gift from a resident jen fane jen fane jen fane uh thank you to our amazing teachers for all of you for everything that you do for our children every single day um i know that it is it is a daily struggle and we appreciate it so much so thank you for everything have a wonderful summer there you go adam yeah you're right mayor we have some service awards this evening we do we've got some biggies we have some biggies let's let's go with the the big biggest one first what do you think it's one first uh we want to honor somebody for 35 years with the city and um her honor is not like the books in the library this is not overdue and um monica knapp come on down we all know how much i love to be the center of attention um mrs hoffman herself interviewed me in 1991 on super bowl sunday in her kitchen and i looked it up for people who need to know the uh new york giants played buffalo that year beat them and i walked out of there saying well i am not getting this job because she talked the whole time and i didn't answer any questions so here i am i was for a reference librarian position and here i am 35 years later doing those interviews and i let the interviewee talk um i i want to i have an incredible staff they are very passionate about the library and what they do and too many of them are here which means nobody is at the library right now i'm doing the head count um there's a lot of members of friends of the library here i could not do half the things i do without the support of that organization and i want to thank not only this administration and council but the ones previous to you because the library has the history it has in this community because of that support and we recognize that an educated electorate is so very important so thank you mrs nap mrs nap before you get everybody up for photos is there something going on at the library this weekend we are having an attic sale on saturday from 9 a.m to 2 p.m and people who love our book sale we got an extra bonus book sale day too so come out and support us and the plantation historical museum yep wonderful thank you and congratulations um you sneaked up behind me stand here stand here you want a photo director michelle i'm your neighbor i'm your neighbor i'm sure oh i'm sorry Oh my goodness, Scott Reed, 30 years. And I love it that you guys show up for each other. I think that's wonderful. So congratulations. Anything you want to say? Yeah, sure. All right. I won't keep you too long, but it's been an honor to serve the city and the residents for more than half my lifetime. I couldn't have done it without my family. Unfortunately, my kids couldn't be here. My mom and dad are here in spirit. But I have my second family here supporting me. This is my chiefs, Chief Todd, Chief Gabor, Chief Curbelo, who I look for advice all the time. They've been great leaders. And this is A-Shift. These are the hard men and women who are out there working every day on the rescues, and I couldn't do it without them. It's been a pleasure. And one last thing I want to say is how grateful I am that this city has provided for me and my family. You're not getting rid of me yet. I have a few more years left. But this will be my last pin, and it's been a pleasure. It really has. Thanks for your service. All right. Thank you. Thank you, man. Wow, we are just on a roll. 25 years. Charles Spencer, procurement. Okay. All right. Set the timer for three minutes. Thank you. So, as you all know, I'm a man of very few words. 25 years. I would be remiss if I didn't say Danny Polio's in the back, and he would say, Charles, I remember when you were knee-high to a duck, and your father still worked here, and him and I worked at Gulfstream, and he watched my kids grow up, and he watched me grow up in this city as well. My dad worked 27 years here as well. Thank you. And I have to appreciate all administration, all elected officials prior, all the managers and directors that I worked for over these 25 years. I've learned so much from all of them. It is important to take away all the good things and strive to always be evolving, and I've always taken that effort to evolve it myself and my team and everything that we do here as a city, and the city has always come first morally, ethically, and business-wise. So, I appreciate you all, and, of course, the team behind me here always. So, thank you. Thank you so much. We are rolling. 20 years. Cassie Miller, Human Resources. Husband? Husband. Make him get up here. Take a picture. Come on. He's slow. I know he's slow. Are you going to stay back? Okay. He's being shy. He wants you to have the whole stage. He is. Anything you want to say? It's been a pleasure the past 20 years. 20 years went by, and I'm excited for another 20 more. Cool. Thank you. Very happy. Remember your plan. I'll see you tomorrow. 20 years. Douglas Rebus, Public Works. Thank you. Appreciate it. I just want to say thank you to the city because it gave me the opportunity to learn, to work for the great city. Thank you for all the bosses and the people who work with me. I'm part of the craft division, so we made everything possible in the city. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Ken. And just a family. You got drafted. Appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. 20 years. Paul Smith, IT. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Want to say anything? No, not too much. It's hard to believe. 20 years ago, we walked in that door. I walked in with a co-worker, May. Unfortunately, she couldn't be here tonight. But, yeah, we've had some really challenging projects, really some struggles. But over the years, our team, our great team, our IT, we overcame. You guys have done quite well. And we're in a great place now, I think. The city's in a great place. Our IT director, great guy. He's leading as well. So I look forward to a couple more years. Not 20. But thank you. Appreciate it. Congratulations. And last, only 10 years. You know, a lot of times, 10 years is the top. And today, Victoria Medviga. I'm very happy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you to our IT director. Thank you, everyone, here on our team. And thank you all of being Team Plantation. I really appreciate and grateful to be here. Thank you. All right. President Horland, can I just thank the administration and the mayor for bringing this back? It's so important that we recognize all of the pins and recognize all of the excellent staff that we have that keeps our city going. I know President Horland always says, we don't make things right here in the city. It's the staff and the people who really make our city so wonderful. So thank you for doing this. Thank you to HR for being responsive to those concerns. It's easily the best part of the meeting. Yeah. No, it's the best. Mr. Toole, it's always tough to follow those, aren't they? Yes. Parks and Recreation update. Good evening once again. Monday, June 8th, is our first day of summer camp at all of our recreation facilities. Our aquatics division this weekend, starting on Sunday, is registration for our Level 4 swim lessons. Saturday, June 6th and 7th at the Aquatic Complex, we've got a North Palm Beach swim meet. The aquatics complex will be closed to the public and reopen on Monday, June 8th. At the Equestrian Center, Saturday, June 6th, and Sunday, June 7th, a heritage horse show from 7.30 to 5 each day. And our athletics division is registering for PAL flag football and summer basketball. And that's it. It is true, Eric. Yeah. Right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. With that, the City Council meeting is adjourned at 6.45, and the CRA meeting will commence. Ms. Beggaro, will you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson? Here. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fajan? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. Commissioner Sortel? Here. Assistant City Attorney Morgan? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Beggaro. The CRA Consent Agenda consists of items 1 through 4 this evening. Does any member of the Commission wish to pull an item? One. Okay. One. And two members of the public would like to speak on one also. Do I have a motion for items 2 through 4? Motion to approve items 2 through 4. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Thank you very much. Ms. Beggaro, please call the roll. If you want to give it to Fajan or Anderson, I think it's whatever one. Okay. Your choice. All right. Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fajan? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Commissioner Sortel? Yes. Thank you. All right. Item number one is North State Road 7 and Sunrise Boulevard Corridor Enhancement Phase 2, which is the Landscape Architectural Services. We have Ms. Shailana, our engineer, which will be coming up, and whom will be coming up. Council Member Reinstein, you're up first. Thank you. So this really isn't so much a question for engineering, and maybe it's more towards administration, or maybe just it will come out as a comment. And that is that, you know, I've made it a point that every time we've talked about some type of road servicing, enhancement, development, anything concerning our roads, that we were sure to also discuss protected bike lanes. And, you know, this is more about landscape architectural services. However, my concern in reading the backup, and there was a lot, and so if there was more in there that I missed, I will happily hear from anybody who wants to add to it, is that, you know, my concern is that when we're spending these funds on landscaping, and we are making sure that the corridor is enhanced efficiently for the landscaping, and that if we're not taking a consideration, and we're not pushing for an enhancement of the bike lanes, then we'll miss an opportunity, or we won't, when we get the next opportunity, it will be, well, now there's no longer enough space for it because we focused on the landscaping, or we focused on some other enhancements. And so, you know, I welcome, if there's any response to that in terms of ability to look into more enhancements in terms of the protected bike lanes, I've spoken about that I would love to see that the entire city of Plantation has a protected bike lane that travels around the boundaries of our city. I mean, that would be something that I would love to see. And I think it was actually Ms. Knapp who had provided some archival information that I think I brought before the council once before. It was a discussion in the 80s talking about the needs for more protected bike lanes. And obviously, we're a long way from then, yet the discussion still takes place. So, please. Good evening. Samira Shalan, the city engineer of City of Plantation. We discussed this comment previously when I presented to your attention the enhancement study. The answer to that is the bike lane is part of the Broward Safety Action Plan where the MPO is currently working with the municipalities and the other jurisdiction. 441 is owned and maintained by FDUT, by Florida Department of Transportation, and the city is in continuous coordination of any collaborative effort with the MPO or the FDUT. The intention of this project is not affecting the profile of the roadways in any shape or form. The scope of services is included in the envelope of the medians and the current landscape easement owned by the CRA. So, that's what we concentrated on the intention of this project. But there is another project funded or proposed by the Metropolitan Planning Organization, which is the Broward Safety Act, which have some bikeway component. And as the MPO will progress that project, I will assure you that your comments will be included, and we will push for the city's vision of protected bike lane as opportunities arise. That's perfect. I appreciate, then, you coming up and making those statements on the record. And I know you've been very supportive every time that it's been raised regarding the need for protected bike lanes. My concern is always the, essentially, unintended consequences, right, is that we vote on something today, but it affects something else tomorrow that we didn't plan for. And while we've talked about quite a bit the work of the MPO, and we've talked about other county programs that are focused on transportation and transportation corridors, but, you know, that being said, is that, you know, sometimes we do one thing, they do their thing, we're, and because we acted one way, it forces them to respond a different way. And so, in any event, I just want to thank you for that commitment. That makes me feel a little bit more comfortable, but, you know, my, my, my concern still is that more, more of the funds go towards the protected, protected bike lanes than they do, than they would for landscaping or anything of that need. But, um, I appreciate the work on this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Reinstein. Councilmember Fadgen, had you wanted to speak on this item? No? Okay. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you, President Horland. I just was concerned about the signage, and would that come back to us, um, at some point as you go further along? Because, of course, we just finished that branding kind of, uh, cycle that we went through, and I know in the backup documents, we saw the disconnect between what is currently there. Um, so moving forward, will we see that first? Um, the signage wasn't a fully developed part of the phase one, so to your comment, I will take your comment to heart, and as you can see, with all the engineering projects, we have been publicly facing and bringing presentation to your attention and, uh, providing sometimes alternatives and selecting publicly the best alternatives, so I will take that comment. There is part of the scope, uh, couple of public meetings, we will be presenting to, uh, the Gateway Board and to City Council on, um, some of the elements of these projects, so, uh, I will take that into consideration. Thank you. No problem. And if you could, it would be great to go to, um, I know we mentioned it earlier, some of the HOA meetings as well, so that the residents also have some buy-in. Definitely. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Councilmember Andrea. Anyone else? All right, I have Mr. Conklin and Mr. Wynn, who wanted to speak on this item. Mr. Conklin, sir? Dennis Conklin, 4581, Northwest Sixth Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and all of your families. Um, I was happy to see this, anything improvement in the Gateway 7 District, uh, which overlaps by the CRA. Um, I noticed that on the backup, if you look at this, uh, project area number two, uh, it's basically the end of the project. So, uh, uh, exit off of Sunrise Boulevard heading east, um, onto State Road 7. And when they redid that, um, they did do a Texas U-turn to go back to the west on Sunrise Boulevard, but they took away the dedicated right turn on red light lane. Um, and that really jams up Sunrise Boulevard. I don't have to tell you, Sunrise Boulevard is a mess. Um, and, uh, the rest of it is basically, um, the, uh, I don't know what you call them, but they're the little outcroppings of, uh, concrete at the, uh, uh, State Road 7 and Broward Boulevard intersections that are ahead of the traffic lanes. I don't know how safe those really are. I know it's probably to protect pedestrians, but if you've seen them, I think there's a lot more car accidents because they, they don't see them and they hit them and they've run up and over them. So I think you might want to maybe have those remote and, uh, this is about landscaping. And just wanted to let you know that, uh, the Plantation Gateway is spending 3, 400 bucks this, uh, time. You're going to approve it soon, uh, this meeting, uh, for water of the landscape and I'll yield back. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Mr. Nguyen. Good evening, Joe Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. Uh, these are off of prepared remarks, so I appreciate the comments that were shared by, uh, Councilmember Reinstein, uh, by the city engineer, uh, and, and, and also by the previous, um, resident. Uh, so I apologize if I go slightly over, but I think it is still relevant, uh, in, in the broader, uh, picture. And, and that's that landscape improvements in the gateway are obviously important and necessary. Uh, this is also, as was shared, long-term planning. So let's ensure it's most efficiently serving the city and the residents' interest. Uh, the Gateway Corridor already has a large number of pedestrian, bike, and transit users, and we should be ensuring that all planning enhances their experiences. And with enhanced transit service coming to this corridor and a repeatedly expressed desire, as was done, uh, by Councilmember Reinstein, uh, to make bicycle connectivity more appealing, uh, we need to be building for what we want to see it become in the future and not just what's there today. Uh, so let's consider, uh, as 441 is an FDOT C4 context classification, and we can go into that at another time, uh, it is allowed to have a read, a design, not posted, speed between 25 and 45. The average speed on our road is about 23 miles an hour, including waiting at lights. So we could keep travel time similar, but we do need to work with FDOT to enable the features suited for the chosen speed so it feels natural to drive it along the corridor. And additionally, following FDOT's recommendations for a C4, it may allow for trees closer to the roadway and sidewalks to be on the protected and shaded side. Uh, again, I didn't see any protected bike lanes explicitly mentioned, and this should be non-negotiable, uh, they should be added to any road projects we have in the city, as this can slowly create, uh, the comfortable, connected, and cohesive network, uh, that was shared earlier, incentivizing usage. To that point, and the idea of landscaping, places with lots of cars and asphalt, uh, can be uncomfortable, uh, not just the noise, but the heat. Uh, as an example, in Medellin, they took addressing urban heat effect to heart, planting 8,800 trees, 350,000 shrubs along 36 green corridors, and the result was that the average city temperatures dropped 2 degrees Celsius in 3 years, some streets cooled by 5 degrees Celsius. This increased cycling by 34.6% and walking by 4. And it also helped that they built 80 kilometers of new bike paths. Uh, now, a personal story is that a month ago when I was biking downtown and waiting to cross 441 at 5th, uh, the man and two kids walked by, and I heard them mention that they needed to take two separate buses to get to where they were going. Uh, this involved a lengthy walk along and a wait on 441. So, let's keep people like them who have that experience in mind when we plan this out. We want to make it look nicer for drivers, yes, and those not in cars, yes, and dream better during storms, yes, but it should primarily be to create a better and safer place for plantation residents to exist, move about, and for local businesses to thrive. And still nailed it. You nailed it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wen. Well done. Uh, Council Member Reinstein, final comment? Uh, yeah, I'm actually interested, um, I, I thought I saw Director Shailon. I thought you saw, maybe you shake your hand, or shake your head, or, or kind of comment, or wanting to comment regarding the concrete structure jutting out on Broward and 441. Um, I, I, I, any comment as to the, the engineering benefit for that or whether it's necessary? Uh, this is a pedestrian improvement that FDUTE engineering, um, department had, uh, installed. It is a chronic problem. It is, uh, getting hit, uh, constantly, continuously. We have been, uh, receiving complaints. We have been coordinating with the district. The last I heard from them, they are doing a study to study what have been implemented to see the effectiveness of it. Um, but again, this is their roadways, and we bring it to their attention all the time, as it will, uh, brought to our attention. I knew you, I knew you'd have some information on it, so thank you, thank you very much. We continuously, uh, Council Member Fajin called me several times about it. There was several, several, uh, Facebook, uh, post about it. So I'm aware of it. I'm familiar with what's happening. And every time we receive the complaint, we send it to FDUT. Maybe the next, maybe the mayor and administration, maybe we need to elevate this complaint to a higher level in FDUT and kind of have a better resolution at this point. I think that might be a good idea. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Weinstein. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. I've brought this up at NPO, requesting that they also put reflectors on the end spots and then more posts on there, which I think has been getting knocked over. But if you look at the end caps on University and Peters, there are reflectors on the curb at this. And I think that would make a difference. I'm aware of the problem, and I was turning left at 9, 30, 10 o'clock at night. It's very dark. So I think lines need to be improved. And then I think reflectors on the curbs would make a world of difference, particularly at night. So I've made that request, and I'll follow up at our next meeting on that. Yeah. And I think however we can escalate that with FDUT would be a good thing. Will do. Thank you, Director Shaylon. Council Members, any further discussion on this item? Do we have a motion? Item 1. Motion approved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Ms. Spigaro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson. Yes. Commissioner Andreou. Yes. Commissioner Fadgen. Yes. Commissioner Horland. Yes. Commissioner Reinstein. No. Commissioner Sortel. Yes. Thank you, Ms. Spigaro. Public request of the commissioners regarding the CRA. I've got Mr. Conklin and Ms. Tiffany Hudson. Mr. Conklin, would you like to come back up? Thank you. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. I'm very happy to report. I'm anxiously awaiting the opening of the new publics June the 4th, and congratulations to our CRA director. That part of town, east side of town, it was ideal prior to the taking for the widening of State Road 7. And it was so ideal that Plantation annexed it into the city. So it's nice to see the results of a lot of work that's been done on this most recent CRA director's part. So let's see. Oh, I noticed that the sidewalks on the way to Plantation Elementary School at the Landmark Towers have been ID'd for a fix because they get worse and worse, actually. And a number of the sidewalks, besides the intrusion of the routes, they're broken, a lot of the other sidewalks. So I was wondering if anybody knew the grand opening for the car wash, the automatic car wash, or not. We don't know yet. Because I got faked out because I saw a couple cars in there at the vacuum station. And I go, yippee, you know. So I'll yield back my time. We're hoping soon. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Ms. Hudson, you wanted to speak on the LPRs in the CRA? Okay, you spoke, you wrote for the CRA. If you want to speak specifically on the CRA. Okay, so I'll put you for the council meeting. Thank you. All right, any other public comment for the CRA? With that, the CRA meeting is adjourned at 7.03, and we will commence the city council meeting. Now we will begin with public requests of the council regarding municipal affairs. To those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you have not done so already, please do so. When you're called, please approach the podium and make sure the green light is on the microphone. You have three minutes to make your request to council. Please state your name and address, and please address your remarks to the council president, not the mayor, nor individual members of the council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. Please use your time efficiently. If extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask for it as your time is expiring and not prior to beginning your remarks. So I've got Mr. Conklin, and then on deck will be Ms. Hudson. And then I just want to mention we've got Ms. Von Hull, Mr. Nolan, and Ms. McWilliam for the Baptist Church. I just want to make a comment about that. You're welcome to come up and speak on it. The city council has not received the plans nor the backup material, and we will not be able to make any comments on that because it will be a quasi-judicial item, which I believe may be on the planning and zoning on Tuesday, following week. So you're welcome to go to that meeting as well and speak on that item. So Mr. Conklin, and on deck is Ms. Hudson. If I may approach. Yes, sir. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. There's three articles in the package for each of you up there. It had been mentioned before that May is Jewish Heritage Month and that they were not going to do a proclamation this year. But what's going on, even since our last city council meeting, I think there's no better fitting time than to have that proclamation made. I'm wearing my flag shirt here, tie here. We had our magnificent Memorial Day service and ceremony, and that's on the 1968 Memorial Day. I'm so old that I remember that Memorial Day is actually the 30th, so that's why I'm sort of straddling the holiday. On the request, I'm just going to focus on two. Request number one and request number two. Pray for the conversion and salvation of New York City Mayor Mondami, his wife, and his other cohorts in America. Request number two, and I don't know why, with all the stuff that's been going on for all these years, we can't get this proclamation made. City of Plantation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and CARE as foreign terrorist organizations, transnational criminal organizations that are primarily funded by and their base in operations in Qadar. So the second article that I gave in the package, some of the programs that were honoring the country's 250th anniversary of the independence. Hyman Solomon solely was financially responsible for seeing that the revolution succeeded. He not only funded the government itself, but also a number of the governmental leaders and of the revolution. He never got a dime back, and because he was captured and put on the prison ships in New York Harbor, he got tuberculosis and he died at 44. His family has requested reimbursement ever since, and it was most recently declined in the 2020s. So with that, I will yield back my time. We need to get that proclamation. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Ms. Hudson? And then on deck is Ms. Van Hooel, Ms. McWilliam, and Mr. Nolan. Hello. Tiffany Hudson, 8951 North New River Canal Road. I'm coming again to talk about the license plate reader cameras. This also has to do with the speed school zone cameras. I've seen every council meeting regarding that. I've seen the contracts. I've read through them. I'm confused about a few things, and I've been probably driving the records people nuts. So I just thought maybe I'm going to ask this question. I'm very confused who is paying for the cameras, the Axon cameras, because I'm going through the contract, and there seems to be a little bit of a gap between agreeing to use Axon and then when we're getting these cameras. And I know the next one is supposed to be in Midtown, but they're paying for that, I believe. I don't know. So I'm really confused as to who's paying for it, because I saw that Red Speed is going to pay for the cameras. Two different things? Yeah, I know they're two different things, but they're on the contract for paying for the cameras. Two different programs. So I'd be happy to have Chief Schlegel speak to you about that. Yeah, so for the record, though, I did look through the contract, and it says that Red Speed is going to cover the cameras on the contract, not the Red Speed contract. That's a whole other thing. So that was a little weird. I don't know if anybody else knows anything about it, or just the Chief can answer that question for me. So typically when you come up from public comment, you have your time to speak. We typically will not do it back and forth, so that's why it's probably more appropriate. Okay, I'll ask him. Okay. I'd also like to say for the record that I think that it's unconstitutional. I know there are several people who really like the cameras. I think that it's invasive, and I think that because we can't consent to it, and it's something that was really – I found out about it just – it was very discouraging to know that these decisions were made in the way they were, and I wasn't made aware of it, and I've been here for 13 years. But I do believe it is an invasion of privacy. I'm all for the police. I'm pro-police. I'm pro-safety. I have a 14-year-old son. I'm a single mom. Safety is important to me, but I do not believe the constant surveillance, which I believe is what's happening, is okay. I don't think it's constitutional. We have the right to privacy, both in the U.S. Constitution and the Florida Constitution, the right for the government to leave us alone. You know, if I go online and I go to a website, I have an opt-in or opt-out. If I go to the grocery store, I end up being on camera put into a database that's not even held in Florida, thousands of people have access to. I don't feel comfortable with that, and on the subject of the school speed cameras, those cameras are pointed towards the street where the school kids walk back and forth every day to school. I don't feel comfortable with that. I don't feel comfortable that they're on camera, and that is being broadcast, and it is being shared. It's being shared with thousands of people. So I do have a problem with that as well. That's a concern of mine. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, and Ms. Hudson, I'll just state again, as I did the last time that you were here, our meetings are all posted. Our agendas are public. I understand. Our meetings are public, and decisions are not made behind the scenes because we're prohibited from sunshine from doing so. Yes, I know about the sunshine law. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Von Hull, you're up next, and again, the order is Ms. McWilliam and Mr. Nolan. Good evening. Kathleen Von Hull, 11901 Northwest 24th Street, Plantation. Hi. I was going to read this, but I understand that you all don't have this in front of you yet, but there is a proposal by the Baptist Church that's in Plantation Acres to hugely grow their campus. They want to make a building that is way bigger than the building they already have. Already, we have a problem that we cannot even walk up 118th Avenue on Saturday evenings, all day Sunday, and Wednesday evenings. Now, during Christmas, as you know, anybody who's taken, including me, our kids, grandkids, to the Christmas lights, we suffer through that because it's got its purpose, but it's for one month. Well, what they're trying to do now is very shady. It's building a gymnasium, supposedly, for the 100 students they have, but it's humongous. It's going to be seen by the next streets, and it's going to increase our traffic exponentially. As it is, we cannot even walk to our gorgeous park. We have to drive there if you don't want to get hit by a car on 118th. We're never going to have sidewalks. There's only one main road in and out, and it just seems like it's not the place for it. And I'm all for church. I think you could put a mega church wherever you want, but not where you have to drive all the way through a small community in and out. And it's hundreds of cars, because I've been stalking them. And there's hundreds every Sunday and Wednesday, and now it's going to be like that whenever they can fill that stadium. That's all I wanted to say. So you'll be hearing about it, I'm sure. Thank you, Ms. Vanhoel. All right. Yona McWilliam. Good evening, Ms. McWilliam. Good evening, council members, mayor. Yona Weiner McWilliam, 11690, Northwest 27th Court. I also am speaking about the Baptist Church proposed addition. This will be, what is being proposed is so incompatible to our neighborhood and our area that it's actually very scary. I would like to, we have a lot of ordinances which should protect us, and we trust you council members to utilize those ordinances about compatibility, safety, infrastructure, lighting, noise, and quality of life. All of these will be impacted. We don't mind the church building what they actually say they need, which would be great for all of us. They are telling us they want a gymnasium for their current students to play in. And they are allowed up to 200. They have 100. But, okay. That would be, I believe the current high schools are about 10,000 to 12,000 square feet of gymnasium, and that's for 1,000 plus students. So, if they had a gymnasium, even if we're very generous, that amount, one story, not 39 feet high, which would be higher, would be seeing it way above the current single story residence. It would be built behind. I personally would be looking at that wall, which would be, you know, a concrete wall or like a big high school. The mega lights they would have to have, the police would want for safety, 29-foot poles with lights on all night. The traffic, that amount of space can house. We're asking the city to let us know how much, what is the maximum occupancy. We haven't gotten that number because we know that church will want to use the maximum occupancy. They're asking for seven additional classrooms, which could house 200 extra students. In 2019, they were 20, oh, wait, they were allowed 40 students. They went up to 100 before the city caught sight of it, and we brought them in in 2019. And at that time, they asked for 13,000 square feet, which they got, and were allowed 200 students. So what's going to happen now when they're building seven more classrooms, and they're telling us they're only going to stay with the 200 students they're allowed? You know, that amount of space is a mega facility, which could house any amount of events, like an arena. It's got a commercial kitchen in it. We really have to look at the plans. They have upstairs, gigantic game rooms. What they will plan in there, I don't know, but it's going to exceed what we can have in our neighborhood without it totally ruining our lifestyle. Personal story, I love walking down 118th North Park, the park you gave us. I would not be able to do that. I want to age in place. We just changed the house so we can live here forever. This will be endangered. We're really asking you to look very carefully at this prospect. Thank you, Ms. McGuinn, for coming out. No, no, you're fine. Mr. Nolan, good evening. Good evening. My name is John Nolan. I live in 12162 Northwest 19th Street. I live in the North Acres. I'm not within the 500 feet that they notify people about this development at the Baptist Church thing. I found out about it a couple weeks ago. It's not going to affect only them closest to that drastically, but it affects the whole Northern Acres because right now I've been on the plantation for 40 years. I've lived there in the Acres for 21 years, and I've seen it grow, and I've seen the traffic grow. I see people walking down 118th. They jog, they bike, they walk with their dogs, and now all of a sudden you're going to have more traffic, and I'm worried about the safety of the people on the street. Not only that, it's the congestion that we have. You know, we already have, it's increased drastically over the years. And even coming down here tonight, I drove down, and I had to wait five minutes to take the right-hand turn on to 118th because there were so many cars going up and down the street. So it's a concern. What I think you need to tell everybody in the Acres on the north side about this development. Just, you know, 500 feet, you get third-acre properties. You only get so many people. The whole Acres needs to look at this because it's going to affect them as well. So it's just not localized for the people who live on 27th Street or 24th Street or 26th Street. I live on 19th Street. I won't see it, but I know it's going to affect me. And so, yeah, I hope you all look at it very closely because that's a massive building to building. It's twice as big as what they have right now. And it's 37 feet tall. You're going to be able to see it three or four streets away easily. And they're taking down the trees as well. So, and that's what I like about plantation. It's, we have the trees. We plant trees everywhere. I have two, three oak trees in my yard, and I love them. And it's, that's what makes, you know, plantation so nice. And I hate to see that disappear. Okay? Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Nolan, for coming out tonight. Thank you. Good night. Before we move on, Mr. Assistant City Attorney Morgan, the status of Senate Bill 208, which has the compatibility clause in there, I don't believe that's been signed by the governor yet, as of yet. I don't know off the top. I can check. So, my question is, and I just want to put that out there, because we did, you did mention compatibility, and we often, when we have quasi-judicial items come before us, talk about compatibility. I mean, and that's something that will, if the governor does sign that, I'm not sure if that's going to have a July 1st or a January 2027 implementation effectiveness date. But, you know, something that we're all going to have to keep in mind as we evaluate some of these projects is that bill, if it is signed by the governor, we will not be able to apply compatibility with a lot of these projects. So, there will be some guidelines there. But if I'm correct, he has not signed it yet? I'm looking it up. Not important, but I just, as I heard compatibility, I thought it's something that we should pay attention to. And I know that you are, and Mr. Holmes is paying attention to it. But I also want the public to be aware of it, that those may be some of, as we talk about live local, those are other bills that are out there that will prohibit us from applying some of the same criteria that we've previously applied, because Tallahassee thinks they know how to plan our neighborhoods better than we do. So, but thank you all for speaking on that. I'm sure you'll be at the planning and zoning meeting on Tuesday. No. You can't comment by Zoom, but you can view it. You can view it. Yes. Okay. It's not viewable on Zoom. It's not viewable on Zoom? No. No. Oh, on Granicus. It streams on Granicus. It does not Zoom. Correct. Sorry. I was doing a general Zoom. Yes. It's, if you go on to our webpage, yep, where the agendas are, and it'll show you the video. Okay. Moving on. Thank you very much. I don't have anybody else signed up for public comment. All right. Moving on. We have the consent agenda, which consists of items 1 through 11 this evening. Does any member of the council wish to pull an item? None? All right. That's a first. Wow. Motion to approve, items 1 through 11. Wait, wait, wait. Okay. I don't see anybody from the public who wishes to pull an item. Now you make that. What? Mr. Conklin, you were signed up for 12 and 13, which are legislative. Okay. That's fine. Okay. So this is maybe a first. Go ahead. Motion to approve, consent agenda items 1 through 11. Second. Do we have a second? Thank you. Councilmember Andrea, Ms. Begaro? Councilmember Fajan? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. Moving on to legislative items. Item number 12 is PP-25. Let me just make sure that I read it properly. PP-25-0022, an ordinance of the city of plantation pertaining to the subject of 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. And this is the second reading. Mr. Morgan, do you need to read that summary? I do. I thought you were going to finish the whole thing for me. No, I'm going to let you do part of it. I just do the title. Okay. It's a public hearing second reading on an ordinance of the city of plantation pertaining to the subject of 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, providing finance, providing savings clause, and providing effective date. Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Council, did anyone have a comment or question on this? I have Mr. Conklin who'd like to speak. Motion to approve. Okay. Do we have a second? Okay. And Mr. Conklin, you'd like to speak on this item. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I did pull the consent agenda, but I commented on the CRA. If the city unified this into a single flex zone, then why are all and every references in this ordinance and the backup material referring to flex zone 75X, flex zone 74, and former flex zone 75? I thought that when it came up to that, it was defeated 2-3 or that it was vetoed. So I couldn't find where it was actually accepted as a unified flex zone. I read in the backup that this is going to return or remain 1,030 flexibility units within flex zone 75X. Again, I'd like to see the map of the flex zones because, as I say, I brought this up last meeting because I thought it was defeated or vetoed in the first place. So I'll yield back my time. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. I'm going to ask Mr. Holmes to come up. I don't recall the date that we passed that, the unified flex. Yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah. I don't expect you to pull that off the top of my head either. Yeah. You might have it? Yeah. Okay. But to Mr. Conklin's point in the backup material, if it's referring to those zones? I think that's just referring to the previous zones that we're collapsing them. I have to. Okay. Got it. Mayor, do you have the vote count on that for Mr. Conklin's edification? Oh, okay. I think, as a matter of fact, let me, because I think we did try to send him some information, but I'm just recalling, I need to get your email or whatever. We did not find that. At the same time, I sent the council the backup information. If I may, the date, I believe, is in the ordinance, which is December 4th, 2024. It was December 4th. Okay. Thank you for that. Ordinance number 10. Pardon me? Ordinance 2024-10-10. Councilmember Reinstein, you had something to add? Only that the proposed ordinance that is before us, I don't see that reference that is- In the ordinance. Perhaps in the backup material, Mr. Conklin? Yeah, I think you- So the backup material are exhibits. Exhibit A. So the exhibits reference prior actions. The proposed ordinance refers to the unified flex zone. Yes. Okay. Yes, Mr. Conklin. When I read the ordinance, and when I pulled the backup, it referred to those three, flex zone 75X, flex zone 74, and former flex zone 75, quote unquote. So all I'm asking for is the map with the city with the flex zones in it, because I sort of horizontally file, and I can't find, because it goes all the way back to like 1992. I'll yield back. Okay. But again, Mr. Conklin, it's not in the ordinance. So the proposed ordinance doesn't have that. And so if you're asking for a map, if we've unified everything, there are no zones remaining. So what I'm going to do, like I said, I'll follow, I'll make sure I get his contact information. I'm going to give him a call. I will show him the former zones, because the flex zone map now is just a map of the city. Just a map of the city. Right. Right. Okay. Mr. Holmes, if you can get with Mr. Conklin, I'd appreciate it. Thank you. And thank you for the clarification on the date in there. Yes, Mr. Conklin. When I clicked on the agenda at www.plantation.org, and I clicked on item 12, legislative items, that's where I got these words. It's right there. So that's what made me think that maybe I was right, and that was either vetoed or defeated. Right, I think the only thing that we're saying, Mr. Conklin, is that you're seeing that in the backup material, but we're all looking at the actual ordinance, and the actual ordinance doesn't speak to that. But I think if Mr. Holmes can send you that information, it might clarify it. Thank you, because as he mentioned, I didn't get the information he was going to give to me. Right. Okay. Thank you. If you can get with him. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. All right. I don't have anybody else signed up to speak on that item. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Beggaro, could you please call the roll? Council Member Fratchin? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Yes. Council Member Andrew. Okay. Council Member McCorland? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Item number 13 is a resolution calling for a special election to fill group four council vacancy. Mr. Morgan? Yes. We have a resolution of the City of Plantation, Florida, adopted pursuant to section 2.05, subsection C of the city charter, providing for the calling of a special election to fill the city council vacancy. And the group four seat on November 3rd, 2026 in connection with the general election, providing a qualification period for this special election, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. Thank you, Mr. Morgan. I have Mr. Conklin and Ms. Swart signed up to speak on this item. Sure. Ms. Swart, would you like to come up? He just threw you under the bus. Good evening. Carol Swart, 1621 Northwest 82nd Avenue. I'm speaking in support of this resolution. Calling a special election will give our residents the opportunity to vote. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you, Mrs. Swart. Mr. Conklin? That was it? She was very concise. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. It was concise. I thought there was a whole bunch. I guess they left. I received a message that there was going to be an appointment made, and that's why I did see earlier a bunch of people come in and they asked me about it. I didn't understand what the appointment thing was about because I thought it was strictly about the election and special election. So as long as that's what it's about, dittos to what Carol said. Okay, that was easy. Yield back. Thank you very much, Mr. Conklin. Councilmember Andrea. Thank you. Yes. I had a conversation with Mr. Noonamaker just regarding, I don't know if you had any clarification about the language per se, and if we had to call it special election, and if the supervisor is going to assess some additional fees because it's being deemed special election. No, ma'am. I was in training all day today, and I don't believe there's going to be any change with that. I'll coordinate with the city clerk, but that's the feedback we had previously. It was going to be treated as a special election. I don't think we haven't heard anything different, have we? But it's held on the day of a regular election, isn't it? It is. I mean, it imposes no additional inconvenience that we're aware of. I'm just concerned if we're going to be assessed, you know, if there'll be a bigger financial assessment because of this. Yes, ma'am. That is my understanding. I know that we'll have an additional page, and they charge us per page, but if I remember correctly, when they say special election, there were additional fees as well. And because it is the regular general election, I don't think we should have to incur additional expenses. I'd be happy to make additional inquiries and update you all the next council meeting. If you could. Thank you. And if I recall, it's just because of our charter, it is, in fact, a special election because there's a vacancy that we have to call it that. Yes, ma'am. To your point, yeah, hopefully, since, yeah, we won't call it that. So, thank you, Mr. Renanmaker. Councilmember Fadgen. So, my discussion with the city attorney was that the, I might be off by the numbers because I'm going from memory. Since we're running this election, this special election concurrent with our regular election cycle, it's 75 cents per registered voter. Whereas, if we were running a special election independent of our normal election, it would be $2.90 or $2.90. Okay. So, there is a charge to it, but I think we should advocate not to be charged for it. So, I'm in agreement with that. Okay. So, there will be an extra charge for it, which is hopefully we can mitigate that. All right. Thank you very much. Do we have a motion and a second on the item? Motion to approve. Okay. I'll second it. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Fadgen. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Sure. Yes. We're vacillating. Yeah, what if we all said no? Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andre. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to comments by the mayor. Thank you very much. Well, I was going to fill you in on Plantation High, but you've already been filled in. It seems like there's plenty of consensus for it going back and everything. I don't see how that's going to be a problem. Number two, I thought we should let people know as soon as possible. The marketplace project that was on for PNZ for June is not going to be on because the traffic report was not submitted by the applicant. So if we're planning to have people there on June 2nd, I want to tell people, let people know as soon as possible, it ain't going to be on. Mayor, can we perhaps, because there has been a lot of interest in that, maybe create, have Michelle do a Facebook post and put that on social media? Yeah, we'll share something. I think that would have been important. I wanted to wait and, yeah, confirm with everybody. Thank you. I think that'd be important. Yeah, I think it's important we let people know if they're planning. That's all. Thank you very much. Councilmember Andre. I want to congratulate again our seniors from all of our high schools. Graduation is upon us. I think Sunday we'll be at South Plantation Highs and then June 2nd, as was stated earlier, Plantation High. So congratulations to the grads, the parents, and the family members. And the last day of school is Wednesday, June 3rd, so we're wishing all the students and teachers and staff a restful and fun summer. Thank you. Councilmember Anderson. Just the same thing. I want to congratulate the grads and congratulate all the students for another successful school year. And I have an announcement. My son and his wife had a baby. I'm a first-time grandpa two weeks ago. They were both raised in Plantation, but they live up the road now, up by Melbourne Beach area. Anyway, it's a baby boy, baby Anderson boy. Congratulations. We're very happy for your family. Councilmember Reinstein. Thank you very much. A few things. So first, I wanted to thank Parks and Rec for a very meaningful Memorial Day service. It was, I really enjoyed hearing the speaker and appreciated the service, and the rain stayed away just long enough for us to get through it. That comes later, so that's on the picture. Number two is I wanted to thank Robert Feeney for the wonderful presentation at the Historical Museum. For those of you that are not aware, at our Plantation Historical Museum, they do amazing activities and presentations. And recently, so the director of the historical museum, his son, also does American Revolution reenactment. And he is an amazing scholar, and he did a whole presentation on the British redcoats and their activities, and their paraphernalia during the American Revolution. So that was fascinating. I also wanted to make mention that on May 31st at 8.30 a.m. at Volunteer Park is a rally for Reagan. It is a fundraiser that goes to support DIPG, which is a brain tumor. And for those that aren't familiar, the race went on for many years while Reagan was still alive. And she has since passed, and her family still continues it. Her dad, Mark, is a firefighter, and so if you can get out there on the 31st to support that, that would be great. The last thing that I wanted to bring up is I asked for this picture to be shown. This is one of the examples, if you look on the screen, of the speed limit photo-enforced signs that had been put up throughout our city in the areas where we are now doing photo enforcement for speeding. And I'd ask for some more information in terms of the contractual responsibility for the vendor that put these up and our ability to ask them to do a better job with the signage. This one, for example, if I was to put up something in my own home and didn't use a leveler to straighten it out, I know my wife would tell me I had to do it again. I think, you know, while we understand that there was an issue with the timing, this could be better. But probably even more importantly is that one of the things that I've been hearing from a lot of residents, and I have found it myself, is that in every location where it says speed limit photo-enforced, it doesn't indicate the speed limit. And so, if you drive on the streets where we're enforcing the speed limit with these new photo enforcement, you have to search for the indicated speed limit. So, you know, there are some locations where they have the 15 miles per hour that is the blinking one for the school zones. But if you are leaving a development that is in between that section, and you turn and you see the speed limit photo-enforced, it's a while before you actually see what the speed limit is. So, I think that if we're going to continue with this, and I have some reservations about continuing with it as it is, but if we're going to continue with it, I think that we should ask the vendor to come back out and put some better signage that indicates what the speed limit is. So, I'm going to put that out there. I've already asked. I've spoken to Mr. Noonamaker to maybe look into this a little bit further in terms of the contract and the vendor responsibilities. But I just want to make sure that everybody was aware of that concern, and maybe we'll bring it back before us again at a later time. Thank you. Councilmember Fadgen. Thank you, Council President. I was going to speak to the speed cameras as well, so I appreciate the comments that Councilmember Reinstein had brought up. My opinion on these cameras is that they might be following Florida's statue and meet, like, traffic standards. As being on this council, we've learned a lot about traffic standards from our city engineer when different developments come up. But there's right and there's wrong. And there's a lot of inadequacy, whether it might be legal and it might meet the traffic standards. But you pull – I can think of a couple examples. If you're heading south on East Tropical Way to turn right onto Peters Road, you have the speed enforcement – whatever that sign said. But you turn on the Peters and you don't – there's not a speed sign. You know, when you're turning right – when you're on 65th turning right on the Plantation Road, the speed – the normal speed, not the school zone speed, is, like, right on the corner. So, if you're safely making the turn on that road, you're never going to be looking at the speed limit when you're turning onto the road. So, I feel like there's a lot of inadequacies. And because of that inadequacies, I feel like we should suspend the middle of the day. Now, school's almost done. But I don't think that the enforcement should be done in the middle of the day. I think it should be – if we're going to continue with it, when the lights are flashing, people know – it's pretty common knowledge – that whether you can see the posted speed limit or not, the school zone is 15. And I think that is a more fair way to proceed with this program. So, that's my two cents. And since Councilmember Reinstein had made several comments about it before me, I'm going to leave it at that for now. So, just to be clear – and the Chief wasn't here, and I think this will be a discussion with the Chief, so – Chief, we should get rid of the cameras. Well – Chief, is your issue with the signing? I feel that – I feel that the signage is inadequate. And it might be okay with – per Florida statue. It might meet the traffic standards. But I think there's roads that you turn onto that it's not readily seen. And I would like to suspend the middle of the day. So, to Councilmember Reinstein's point, certain – coming out of certain drive areas, or making a turn onto a particular street, you don't think there's adequate signing? I don't think it's adequate. And I think there's a lot of confusion. I think that no one would – well, people will complain if they get hit with the ticket. But everyone knows when the light's flashing, or it's posted school zone, it says 15, and it says the time of the school zone. I mean, everyone will know that they're driving within a school zone, an active school zone. And if they get a ticket under those circumstances, that's a little bit more fair than the middle of the day. Because of the – So speeding – The inadequacies in the signage, in my opinion. So, just playing devil's advocate here, because we had this conversation when we approved the contract. And we said we would reassess it as well. Correct. It hasn't been very long. But what you're saying then – and I don't want to put words in your mouth – but just because the signing's there, it's – and I know you don't think it's okay for people to be speeding. So should they not get a ticket if they're speeding on that road? If a police officer observes some speeding, they absolutely should get a ticket. But if we are going to outsource this to RoboCop, we should make it as fair as possible. And I do not believe the middle of the day is fair. When we have a school zone or this photo-enforced speed between 7 – this is not going to be exactly accurate – but 7.15 in the morning or 7.30 in the morning to 4.40 in the afternoon, I don't find that adequate. I don't find that fair. And I'm getting more and more calls. I don't know what everybody else is getting, but I'm getting more and more calls about the $100 ticket they got in the middle of the day. I haven't got one complaint about getting a ticket during the school zone. And I think the school zone is the most critical time of the enforcement, although I'm still not for that. But I understand that I cannot get consensus on that. I've heard everyone's opinions, and I respect your opinions. But the middle of the day is a different beast. And one of the things that was said during our discussion was, well, you know, sometimes the kids will leave in the middle of the day. Well, I don't believe that they let any elementary kids leave by themselves in the middle of the day. I would be shocked if they let any middle school kids leave in the middle of the day. Now, some high school kids might leave in the middle of the day, maybe to go to BC for, you know, college courses and stuff like that. But generally, those kids are probably at a higher maturity level that we can risk that they will be able to be safe when they enter the roads and stuff. So I'm asking for us to reassess the middle of the day and suspend the enforcement of that just from the confusion of the signage. And I'm not saying that the signage is illegal. It might follow all of the rules, but there's a right and there's a wrong. And I believe that it's wrong for us to enforce that. So I know school is almost over. We can have the summer to look into it and then we can make a decision before school starts up again. But I really think that maybe we should go on a tour of all the school zones and take a look at that. It's probably a good idea to take a look and see if the signage is adequate. If you recall when we had that discussion, when that state law was passed, the legislation, I was not in favor of it. And when it was brought to the city, I wasn't. And my decision was based on the data and the speeding data. And I think that that had an impact. I'm not going to speak for everyone on our decision making when that contract came before it. So I think if we want to assess during the summer, I think that's a good idea. We need to take a look at the contract and see what we are permitted to change under that contractually. Mayor, you wanted to weigh in and Councilmember Andrea. Yes, I started working on this. First off, the law, as you all know, emanated because the Florida legislature in 2023 passed it and it had agreement from both parties that passed it. And it's a legislative thing through the state. I'm trying to find out how many cities in Florida are actually using it. I agree it's totally unfair to have the middle of the day tickets being distributed. But I talked to lobbyists and it's in the statute that we can't change it. Statute Section 316-1896, according to them, is when they passed the law, is that it had to be for the entire school day. So if we want to get it changed, appeal, something like that, that's great. But I don't think we can unilaterally change it. If he can find a way to do it, we'll pay him double, triple. Okay. But perhaps I think to the larger point, Mayor, perhaps we do need to take a look at some of those signs. Oh, the signage, hell yeah. And then we can lean on the provider to improve that signage. Oh, yeah. And perhaps our communication about it as well. Thank you. Councilmember Fadgen, do you have anything else? One more. Okay. Sorry. I wanted to thank Ms. O'Toole for meeting me out at the golf course on Friday. We took a golf cart out and we went all 18 holes. We didn't get hit by one ball. I was close once, or I was nervous once. You know, I think the greens are in great shape. I think the fairway's in good shape. The tee boxes are in need of some work. And we did talk to Ms. Marlow, and she talked about what was going on. So I'll hold judgment on those to see what they're trying to do. You know, this is the off season now. So hopefully the things that they're going to do when the course gets back in the season, the tee boxes will be in better shape. But I think we both were in agreement that some of the exterior parts of the course, you know, the roughs, you know, the landscaping, the fallen palm trees, takes away from what is actually good on the course, and it's a distraction. So I think that's really kind of a maintenance issue. And I would sort of think that if we can improve that, that would also improve the experience until we can actually have the course redone. But my main comment is thank you for your time, and I appreciate when the directors accommodate me when I make these requests. So thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Very quickly, I just wanted to thank everyone involved with Memorial Day. It was a wonderful ceremony as usual. I love seeing all of our veterans and members of the military out there with us. Solid Waste Update. While we passed it, we're still waiting on some other cities. We have until August to get that ILA passed. But in conjunction with the Solid Waste Authority, there is a take the pledge to reduce waste. They're encouraging everyone to go on and just take a pledge, residents, council members, mayor, to reduce your waste in Broward County. We did a little video and put that out there. And plantation is number one for the amount of pledges right now. So I would encourage everyone to go on to BrowardRecycles.com and take the pledge to reduce your waste and recycle better. Plantation is leading Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Sunrise, and Davies. So I like to see us number one. So let's continue that. As you know, the governor had a press conference today about property taxes, calling a special session again next week. And I think that we understand that this is going to be a give and take between the appropriations and the budget and getting something on the ballot. Pretty much his proposal today was to start at $250,000 homestead exemption and thereafter completely eliminate property taxes. Pretty much that's what it's looking like. So we'll see where they end up. We knew it was coming. So let's see what happens. And that's all I have. We'll see everybody on June 10th. Meeting is adjourned at, I lost my time, 7.50.