City Council — May 8, 2024

Good evening and welcome. The Wednesday, May 8th, 2024, City of Plantation City Council meeting is now called to order at 6.10 p.m. City Clerk Beggaro, please call the roll. Council Member Anderson? Here. Council Member Andreu? Here. Council Member Horland? Here. Council Member Reinstein? Here. Mayor Fadgen? Here. City Attorney Ezra? Here. Thank you very much. And I want to turn it over to City Attorney Ezra, who has some remarks to make. Thank you very much, Council President. I received an email from Mayor Sordal that I would like to paraphrase into the record in accordance with Ordinance 2023-017, which is codified at Section 2-30 of the City Code. I did not attend the City Council meeting of April 24, 2024, because I was hospitalized and on medical leave. Until further notification while I am on medical leave, please confirm my absences from City Council meetings are recorded as excused." End quote. Thank you. Thank you, City Attorney. Thank you. Mayor, anything further on that? Nope. Okay. We'll now turn it to opening remarks and Pledge of Allegiance will be provided by Council Member Anderson. Good evening, everybody. There's two big occasions this week, and I want to kind of meld them together. So I just want to recognize our teacher-educator appreciation and, of course, Mother's Day this weekend. So the first one is a quick quote. The home is the child's first school. The parent is the child's first teacher. And reading is the child's first subject. And that's a quote from Barbara Bush. And if you think about it, really, from the very beginning, our mothers are the first teacher starting in the womb to birth and beyond. Mothers teach the child about unconditional love and trust. Yes, I know fathers play a big role, and your day is coming in June. But this is about Mother's Day right now. Your special days later. So I want to read a quick poem about, it's called The Star Polisher by Leah Becks. I have a great job in the universe of occupations. What do I do? I'm a star polisher. It's an important job. If you want to know how important, just go out at night and look at all the stars twinkling and sparkling. You see, I'm a teacher or educator. The stars are my children in my class. My job is to take them in, whatever shape they come in, and whatever shine, and buff them, and send them out to take their places as bright little twinkling beacons in the sky. They come into my room in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they're bent, sometimes they're tarnished, sometimes they're dirty or crinkly or broken. Some stars are cuddly and soft and sweet, and some stars are prickly and thorny. As I buff and polish and train and teach my little stars, I tell them that the world cannot do without them. I tell them they can do anything they set their minds to do. I tell them they can be the brightest, shiniest stars in the sky, and the world will be a better place because of them. Each night I look at the sky and I'm reminded of the very important job and awesome responsibility. I go and get my soft buffing cloth and my bottle of polish in preparation for tomorrow and for my class of little stars. So to all of you stars out there, that's literally all of you. You all had a mother and you all were students, so we're all stars. All of you stars out there, thank the star polishers, which are your mothers, your first teacher, and our teachers and educators. Happy Mother's Day and happy teacher's appreciation. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Next we have items submitted by the Mayor. Okay. We're going to shift some of these items. So first up will be Jewish American Heritage, Council President Reinstein. Thank you very much. This proclamation is in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month. I'll read from the proclamation in a moment and tell a little bit of the history of this month and the history of Jews escaping persecution from the Inquisition and settling in what is now the United States of America. I want to invite up a few people to accept this proclamation tonight. First, I invite up Plantation Resident Linda Myers from the American Jewish Committee to receive the proclamation. The American Jewish Committee has as its mission to enhance the well-being of the Jewish people in Israel and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world, if you'll join me. Second, I want to invite up Plantation Resident, Rabbi Cheryl Jacobs from Ramat Shalom, Beth Israel, located right here in Plantation. And finally, we're very fortunate to also have with us tonight representing the Consulate General of Israel in Miami, Director of Hispanic and Interfaith Affairs, Gabriel Barrettas. So if you'll join me for the proclamation. In addition to recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month, the proclamation is also in celebration of the anniversary of the Jewish State of Israel declaring its independence from British rule on May 14, 1948. This proclamation combines these two celebrations because while we are celebrating Jewish life in the United States, we see people who hate Jews and who hate the existence of a Jewish state are preventing Jews from walking to their classes on what used to be our storied institutions of higher learning. While in Israel, they are still fighting for their lives to defend the very existence of the Jewish state. So this is an opportunity to join with our Jewish community in Plantation and Israeli friends and tell them they are safe here and we are not afraid to proclaim these things tonight. So I'm going to read from the proclamation and then I will present a proclamation to each of you and give you a moment to say a few words. Whereas the city of Plantation wishes to recognize Jewish American Heritage Month and the 76th anniversary of the state of Israel's independence. Whereas in the month of May, since proclaimed on April 20, 2006 by President George W. Bush, the United States has observed Jewish American Heritage Month. And whereas the land of Israel, the birthplace of the Jewish people, was proclaimed as the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948 by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, which was following the expiration of the British mandate under the League of Nations and after the United Nations General Assembly voted on November 29, 1947 on the partition plan, adopted by 33 votes to 13 with 10 abstentions, wherein the Yeshuv, the Jewish side, accepted the United Nations plan and the Arab side rejected the establishment of two states and the Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt and Saudi Arabia attacked the Jewish community. Whereas the United States observes Jewish American Heritage Month annually each May to encourage all Americans to learn more about Jewish contributions to our nation's great history and pay tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped shape American history, culture, and society. Whereas the friendship of the American people has played a critical role in supporting the state of Israel, since U.S. President Harry Truman was the very first world leader to officially recognize Israel as the Jewish state on May 14, 1948, only 11 minutes after its creation. Whereas the Jewish community and plantation has established various synagogues and places of worship and learning and other communal organizations in plantation in Broward County. Whereas with anti-Semitism on the rise in our country, shootings at synagogues, and right now on college campuses across the United States, where we see Jewish students are being assaulted and prevented from attending classes, Jewish American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate our Jewish community and show our support for our Jewish community and plantation in the fight against anti-Semitism and hate. Whereas at the same time as recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month, we're also recognizing and celebrating Israel's Independence Day, because we see that anti-Israel hate on our campuses around the country has shown itself in all too many cases as just a front and cover for anti-Semitism. And whereas at a time when anti-Semitic attitudes are being not just normalized but amplified, Jewish American Heritage Month reminds us of the Jewish American story fueled by faith, resilience, and hope. This is also the American story. Whereas the most effective way to counter the increase in anti-Semitic actions is for communities like ours to say we will not accept such hate in our city, and we believe there is no place for hate anywhere in the United States. Whereas through celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in our city, we learn about and honor the richness of the diversity of the residents and visitors to plantation, and through recognizing and celebrating Israel's Independence Day, we proclaim our support for our ally Israel. Now, therefore, Mayor Tim Fadgen and the City Council Plantation do hereby proclaim the month of May 2024 is Jewish American Heritage Month in the City of Plantation, and we do hereby recognize and celebrate May 14th as the 76th anniversary of the State of Israel's Independence, and we call upon the residents of Plantation to join us in this important observance and celebration. Thank you. I want to thank Plantation City Council for doing this, and it means a great deal to us, and I'm going to just say personally that I'm a native Floridian. I was born here, but I lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I raised my family there, and we were members of Tree of Life, and my husband was the executive director of Tree of Life for 23 years. So this isn't theoretical. This isn't just what you're saying in the news. You're looking in front of you, someone who knew all 11 victims and the ramifications of an act like that. And I just want to thank you for doing this, both personally and professionally. I also want to invite everybody here to join us on May 20th at the David Posnack JCC for a summit on anti-Semitism featuring Debbie Wasserman Schultz, our CEO, former Congressman Ted Deutch, and Judge Roy Altman as the speaker. And we look forward to seeing you. Thank you. On behalf of my husband, Rabbi Andrew Jacobs, on behalf of our synagogue, Ramat Shalem, Beth Israel, and truly on behalf of the synagogues in Plantation, I can't thank you, Councilman, and all of you, because never once have we doubted your support of the Jewish community in Plantation. I also want to take the opportunity to thank Chief Harrison and the men and women of the Plantation Police Department who are continuously not only driving by our synagogue providing extra details, but also driving by our house to make sure that we are safe in our home. There can be no question that since October 7th, our community has been forever changed. We are grieving. We want our hostages to come home, our friends and our family who are still in captivity. And on top of it all, our children aren't safe on college campuses, and we're being told to hide any symbols that we have that we are of the Jewish faith. It's unacceptable. It's running rampant. It's getting out of control. And we just observed Yom HaShoah, the anniversary of the Holocaust. And we say never again, but is that true? You are taking a step and showing us that at least here at home where the education begins, that's true. We know that this is a safe haven. We know that we will always be protected. And we can't thank you and the residents of Plantation enough for the gift that you have given us, which is security in our own home. So thank you. I'm Yisrael Chai. May the people of Israel live and thrive. Good afternoon. Buenas tardes. Shalom. We are very honored, actually, to receive this proclamation. And we feel as soon as we arrive, the friendship that you have, the environment, and the well-educated people you have here. And we're talking about education. It's not about having a college degree, because you can see in our top universities that who are graduating, the level of ignorance is as long as the same like the teachers who are teaching, some of them who are teaching here. So education, as you said, as the mother, the home education, teaching your children to love, to have friends, to admire, to grow, to study. That's a secret. So as soon as I arrived, I was talking to one of your representatives, and actually I felt immediately, what you're doing. You are leaders who care, and the responsibility you have in your hands is huge. So I'm very happy representing Israel, and to thank you for what you're doing, because from you, you know, the rest of the community can learn and find the right path. And thank you for being in the right side of the story. I'm not talking about Israel. The right side of the story, but immediately is the side of the state of Israel. So thank you very much. So what I can say, thank you for everything. Just as we spoke about going to church and going to Sinaos and pray to God, I would like to say that, please, for us to be safe in every environment, in the United States and in Israel, and God bless the state of Israel, United States of America, and any peaceful country in the world, to be objective. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. See you soon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next, we're going to do Building Safety Month. All right. We're all here. We're all here. Whereas, the city of Plantation recognizes that modern building codes and ordinances help to ensure that our homes, workplaces, and gathering spots are safely constructed and secure, keeping the power on and our city strong, our lives moving forward. And whereas, our confidence in the resilience of these buildings is achieved through the devotion of vigilant guardians, building safety and fire prevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, tradespeople, laborers, and others in the construction industry. And whereas, mission, mission, mission possible, the theme for the building safety month 2024 encourages us all to raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local, global scale. And whereas, and whereas each year in observance of building safety month, people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience, and economic investment at a home in our community, and to acknowledge the essential services, service provided to all of us by our local building and fire prevention departments in protecting lives and property. Now, therefore, I, the mayor, and the city council of Plantation Florida do hereby proclaim May 2024 as building safety month in the city of Plantation. While there are few things more proudly American than do-it-yourself renovations, I exhort to make sure your work is in line with local requirements. And I urge everyone to support our local code enforcement inspectors and give them the respect and thanks they deserve for keeping us safe. Tell everyone to get a permit. Thank you, council, for the recognition. Well deserved for my staff. I'd like to recognize the incredible staff that I have at the building department and all the other departments that are involved with the permitting and code enforcement process. They all do an amazing job, and without them, none of this would be possible. So, thank you again. Thank you. You don't have to. I know, that was so easy. The next one, I'm not sure if we have anybody from, do you see them? NAMI? Is anybody here from NAMI? We'll defer that one to the next meeting. And then the last one we have is the surprise one, and she's probably not going to like it, but Council Member Horland will come up and present the proclamation. That's the reason it's not. She writes the agenda, right. Come on, we want everyone to know how important you are to the city in your office. So, whereas the Office of the Municipal Clerk, a time-honored and vital part of local government, exists throughout the world, and whereas the Office of the Municipal Clerk is the oldest among public servants, and whereas the Office of the Municipal Clerk provides a professional link between the citizens, the local governing bodies, and agencies of government at all other levels. Whereas Municipal Clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality, rendering equal service to all, and whereas the Municipal Clerk serves as the information center on functions of local government and community, and whereas Municipal Clerks continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the Office of the Municipal Clerk through participation in education programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, provincial, county, and international professional organizations. And whereas it is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the Office of the Municipal Clerk, and whereas the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, IIMC, initiated Municipal Clerks Week 55 years ago, and it is now endorsed by all its members throughout the United States, Canada, and in 15 countries. And whereas in 1984 and in 1994, Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton respectively signed proclamations officially declaring Municipal Clerks Week the first full week of May, and recognizing the essential role Municipal Clerks play in local government. Now, therefore, Tim Fadgen, Mayor, and the City Council of Plantation do hereby recognize the week of May 5th to 11th, 2024, as Municipal Clerks Week in the City of Plantation, and call upon the residents of Plantation to extend their appreciation to our Municipal Clerk, April Begaro, and her entire staff for the vital services they perform and their exemplary dedication to our community. Municipal Clerks, yay! Thank you. And now you have to take a picture. And now you want to say a few words? Oh, we want to do that. Yes. Sure, sure. This is the first one I've gotten in 11 years. Aww. 11 years, and so it was very surprising. So on behalf of my staff, thank you very much. I'm sorry we're on the agenda, but we're not going to surprise you. You want to stand in the middle? He's so bossy tonight. You want to stand in the middle? No, I'll look in the middle. In the middle, in the middle. In the middle. We all love April. Everyone, they're tippy-toes. Yeah, smile. Thanks, Michelle. There you go. Go back to work. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. That's all we have. Thank you. And now, Ms. Tricia O'Toole, Parks and Recreation, upcoming events. Good evening, Council Members, City Attorney. A couple of events for the Parks and Recreation Department. First, a quick note to any local businesses or groups that would be interested in participating in the Independence Day Parade. Registration is currently open, and it's free to participate. More information is on our website at plantation.org. This Friday, registration opens for our Father's Day event at the Plantation Community Center, Rockin' with Dads. The actual event is June 14th from 6 to 8 p.m. Pre-registration is required. Sunday, May 12th, we've got the Mother's Day Buffet at the Plantation Preserve Golf Course. Reservations are also required. Thursday, May 16th, we've got a senior prom for those ages 55 and up, which is a tropical evening with live music, dinner, and dancing. That will be held at the Jim Ward Community Center from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, we've got Kids to Parks Day, which is a free event for anyone that is interested in attending. It's music, activities, games, and more. That will be held at Seminole Park at 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Our tennis center is hosting two tournaments currently. The ITF tournament is going on now until Sunday the 12th, and next weekend, May 18th and 19th, the USTA Level 6 Junior Tennis Tournament. Aquatics, we've got a couple classes starting Sunday, May 5th. Our swim lessons begin. Actually, the registration opens for our summer lessons, which will run Monday through Thursday for two weeks. And Friday, May 17th through Sunday, May 19th, we've got a lifeguard course. The cost is $235 for residents, $275 for non-residents. You have to be at least 15 years old. And with that, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, we have public requests of counsel regarding municipal affairs. Those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you have not done so already, please do so. Please state your name and address, and please address your remarks to the council president, not the mayor or individual members of the council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. 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. I'll call up first. We have Carlton and Chassidy Fordham. Afternoon. I'm Carlton. This is my wife, Chassidy. We just purchased the home on 11900 Tower Drive. We just purchased that property, and we have a lot of problems with that property. For some reason, we purchased the property. We didn't know the previous owners. We came in. We bought the property, and it's been horrendous. Like, the neighbors are really tough on us. It's like the city, we have a lot of problems with getting permits done. Like, it seems like every day somebody's riding by our house, taking pictures. They're sending things into the city. We're getting all these letters in the mail. I think my wife even got a call from the mayor's office saying that we owe them $60,000 or something like that. And I just want to put on the record that we just purchased the home. So I guess the previous people that lived there were kind of bad. We don't know them. But I guess we're getting a repercussion because the people that previously lived there, we just wanted to stop. Like, you know, we just came into the neighborhood. We're peaceful. My wife's a doctor. I'm accounting. We just want to purchase a home and live peaceful in plantation. That's it. We don't want no problems. And it seems like it's becoming a lot of problems. It's hard for us to get a permit. It's hard for us to get things done. I saw the letter the other day saying that our gate was messed up. As I arrived in the neighborhood, everybody's gate's messed up. But we just had our gate redone, painted. They sent letters in saying that we were doing a legal remodeling in the house. None of that stuff is true. And then we called the city and asked them, who's making all these reports on this? They never give us no name or nothing like that. So we just want to make sure that we're safe in our house because right now, me and my family don't feel safe in our house. Thank you for coming to the council meeting tonight. Is there something, Mayor? Jason, who should talk to them? How are you doing, sir? Jason, Anamaker, CAO. I did send a letter to the Forthams to advise them of the outstanding lien and to encourage them to handle that expeditiously, given the history of the property. I had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Fortham about that. And she had indicated that they're making moves to address the construction that generated that lien. And I told her, from the city's perspective, we'll treat them as new owners. But that because of the history of the property, it was under some scrutiny. So the quicker that that issue got resolved, I was assuming that they would probably come in for a lien reduction. And so that the representations that were made at the special magistrate meeting, to make sure that those were followed, which, from what we can tell so far, they have been, would be in everybody's best interest. I did talk to the building department. I understand they're trying to work through that issue. So at this point, at least from an administration's perspective, we feel like they're working in good faith to ameliorate the issues. So at this point, that's all we have to report. So basically, we just want them to be on a path to rectify the situation that was generated by the previous owner. And then we're probably going to be very amenable to reducing this lien. Exactly. And I just wanted to underscore that the quicker it was done, it just aids in that effort. Okay. Every time. We'll come up to the speaker. It seems like every time we go to the city, we do exactly what they tell us to do, then something else happens. So it's like we can't get the situation rectified. We've been going through the situation now probably about three or four months, and it's not our issue. The owners that own the property kind of abandon us. We can't get in contact. We never really knew them. We knew them through a mutual friend. So now it's kind of hard to contact them to get things done. So we're kind of picking up somebody else's burdens that we had nothing to do with. But it's costing us extra money, which we don't have no problem because we want to stay in our house. We want to be at peace. But understand, it wasn't our burden. We were the people that were purchasing the house. We're not the sellers. So all these things that occurred prior to us getting the property, we're picking it up. And we're getting the bad end of the stick because I guess those people were bad people. But we're not bad people. So, Mr. Fortham, let me just say that I don't think anybody here or the city is claiming you're bad people. And I think that when you purchased the home, you did purchase it with the baggage that it came with. And so I think those are some of the issues that you may be dealing with now. If you have some further questions and you need some further explanations, I'm sure that Mr. Nunamaker will help to further explain that. And as matters come up, if you need to come back before the council, then please do so. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. Mr. Conklin? If I may approach. May. Thank you. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Six Court. Heavenly hosts protect you and your family. It's day 1517 since martial law shut down our churches. Mask and shop mandates went into effect and a loss of our unalienable God-given rights, which are individually given. Last month, I mentioned that the courts forced the government to declare that they were lying about ivermectin. This month, I'm happy to report that it's been discovered through the records that the CDC hid, starting April 2021, the injury and death caused by the shot. You can go to Epoch Times and look it up. You can go to Epoch Times and look it up. They've got the documents. It's day 640 since the illegal FBI invasion of the Trump family house. And as we know now, the judge that obtained all the documents has discovered that there was a criminal conspiracy between the White House, the DOJ, the FBI, and the archives of the United States of America against President Trump. It's day 281 since the arraignment and gag order and removal of First Amendment rights of free speech to the president. It's day 226 of the no jury summary judgment trial, which violated the Seventh Amendment rights of President Trump, requiring a jury of our peers. It is day 215 of the Hamas military terrorist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization war against Israel, Israelis, Jews, and freedom-loving people. It's day 84 since the violation of President Trump's Eighth Amendment rights of excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. And it is now day 22 of the nationwide college jihad, which is organized and coordinated through the BoyCat app. And it actually started 22 days before that throughout the world. I request that the city get on board with these lawsuits and recover any damages for injuries or deaths caused by the mandates of shots of the jab. I request that the city support Governor DeSantis' call to fire the professor. May I extend two minutes, please? Go ahead, finish up, please. To support Governor DeSantis' request to fire professors and delinquent disenrollment of the students that were in the riots of the jihad. And this is a new one. Arrest any communist Chinese and other foreign agents which have been identified through facial recognition. You can, again, go to dailyclout.io. You can find all this stuff out by way of Epoch Times. And I also encourage you to go to brownstone.org. And I've requested many times that you sign the Great Barrington Declaration, which would prevent any intrusion upon our rights to our own body to refuse medical treatment. And thank you. I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Any other requests to speak from the public? Any other requests from the chambers? Mr. Wynn? Sorry, Mr. Wynn. I only had you down for one and six. Oh, that's no problem. Joe Wynn, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. See, now that I got the order set up, I got this. I really wanted to speak just a compliment, a good thing, for a change. And then I'll shift over into life story things. Won't be able to, probably won't be able to stay for the whole duration. So I've shared some comments with the council digitally as well. I wanted to share that we all love that mural, the artwork at Central Park. I had the pleasure of noticing that recently there are now benches set up to view that artwork, but not just benches. They're benches underneath shade, but that shade is created by recycled wind turbines. And I'd say recycled, it really should be upcycled because you actually can't recycle those. They typically just end up in landfills. So this is a really creative and exciting use of it. And in speaking with some park employees who are working on it, I learned that there are also going to be artwork painted onto those. So that is fabulous. I don't know what's going to be done as far as plantings and native life there. I would encourage native plantings to essentially replicate the environment that's on the wall to be visible on the ground as well. So you go, oh, that bird, that flower, that butterfly, all those things can also be available there. So that kind of thing, I think we need more and more of. On the same note of shade, today was a hot day. And I did bike here. I would not normally have biked here in this kind of weather, but that's for the last minute. For this, on the way here, I know we've spoken a lot about the idea that walkability, bikeability comes from comfort, safety, and proximity. And just an interesting note that along the ride today, it was hot. Today, no joke. It's a hot day. However, when I was passing by the Remy and the Manor where there's sidewalks directly alongside the buildings, well shaded, lots of tree cover, it felt like it was 10 degrees cooler. It might have actually been 10 degrees cooler. So that's the kind of design that we want to be endorsing and looking for when we're evaluating developer projects and things, because that's what creates an environment where people are out. And you know what? There were a lot of people out all over the place, even though it was relatively hot. And I know even in the next coming days, it's going to be even hotter. And I'm sure they will still continue to be up. The last comment is on the idea of why I had to bicycle here today, even though it was hot. And that is that I was in my car, unusual, and I got rear-ended on 441. Thankfully, I'm okay. The other driver's okay. Unfortunately, they're unlicensed and all those other issues. Unfortunate. But it really brings back the idea that there's no safe area on our roadways, even if you're in a vehicle, because they stated they couldn't see me. In my car, I have a little car, but they couldn't see me. If I were a person on a bike, so we just need to keep that concept in mind whenever we're doing any sort of work and implementation, that the idea of people and the idea of cars, as much as we can separate them, that's our goal at all times. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Nguyen. Last call for public requests of the council regarding municipal affairs. Hearing none, we'll now move to the public requests of council are now closed, and we'll now move to the consent agenda. Consent agenda consists of items 1 through 12 and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the council wish to pull an item? Item 1. Item 1. 1 and 8. Any others? I also have from the public items 1 and 6. Any other from the public wish to be pulled? Is there a motion for items? Motion to approve 2 through 5, 7, 9 through 12. Is there a second? I have a second. Council Member Horland with a second. City Clerk Beggro, please call the roll. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Reincey? Yes. Thank you. We'll then begin with item number 1, Council Member Horland. Thank you, Mr. President. Ms. Shailon, somebody from the public already pulled it, so you're going to have to get up anyway. Can I pause the questions? Sure. We prepared the presentation for you tonight. So let's play the presentation and then we can take any questions. April? Before April puts the presentation, I want to introduce to you and recognize Mr. Leonard Donville. Mr. Donville joined our plantation team in 2022 and recently was promoted to the assistant city engineer. So even though I'm going to present to you today, but Mr. Donville actually does all the heavy lifting in this program and I want to just give him the credit on that. Go ahead, Director. Thank you. So tonight we're going to present to you an update on the traffic calming program. I don't know how to do this. Turn it on. Turn it on. It's on the side. The agenda tonight, we're going to have an overview of the neighborhood traffic calming program. We're going to talk about some completed projects and some current projects that we're working on and then we're going to go over some or the proposed amendment to the program. So in 2004, the city established the neighborhood traffic management partnership program and the program outlined an extensive process for staff to follow in order to establish traffic calming procedures within the city right away. The process is outlined in front of us, which start by a resident request application and the application need to be supported by 60% of the resident within the study area, followed by data collection and analysis. Then we move into what we call a phase one of the program, which include education and enforcement. And in that, in 2004, that actually education and enforcement is one year span. Then if the problem still persists, then they move to conceptual plan, followed by a petition with a minimum 67% of the resident within the study area. And finally, the project implementation and evaluation. Fast forward to 2022, the city evaluated the 2004 and in an effort to simplify the program, we followed similar process. However, the application, we removed, I want to go backwards, we removed the two stops in the application process because it was cumbersome. And we simplified the process to require only 10 signatures support with the application or the homeowners association approval, followed by the data collection and analysis, the conceptual plan, then the implementation and the evaluation. Since then, the city engineering department received several applications. For the sake of today's presentation, we're going to go over two particular applications on Northwest 118th Avenue and East Tropical Way. We received an application, which is presented in front of us, 418th Avenue. The application was signed by the Homeowners Association and actually by the president of the Homeowners Association. The application was supported by 55 signatures of residents. The engineering department outline in this map the affected area and we map the signatures. And I know that previously this came as a question. So if you see the yellow dots within the purple parameter, those are the signatures that were counted toward this application. So today's policy required 10 signatures. The affected resident or properties within this application was 863 and we received 26 signatures. Therefore, we deemed the application complete and we moved to the next process, which is the data collection and analysis. Our current program requires a traffic study to support the installation, if we go to the installation. And there's thresholds of seven miles per hour over the posted speed limit and 500 vehicles per day to be present in order to move the application forward. This is the results of the traffic study that was conducted for this application. If I can bring your attention to location number five, the speed at that location was 45 mile per hour on a 25 mile per hour posted speed limit. There is an apparent excessive speeding and cut through 118. So we contacted the traffic division of the police department and we requested some monitoring, education and enforcement on the corridor until the engineering department design and implement traffic calming. This is north of sunrise. This is north of sunrise. The study also revealed excessive speeding location number 10 is 41 mile per hour and all the location 11th location met the requirement of the policy. We pulled the traffic crash data. So the five year crash data, there was 78 crashes, seven of them with injuries and 16 with potential energy and 83% of the crashes were in daytime, only 17 at nighttime. We also worked with the traffic division to run a report on the citation. So within one year, there was 214 citation on that corridor. Therefore, the analysis revealed there is a problem 118. We moved the application into the next step, which is the conceptual plan. We proposed six speed cushions in addition to revamping the roundabouts in the existing roundabout with pavement marking and signage. At this time, we meet with the traffic calming committee, which compromise of administration, planning and zoning, engineering, public works, fire and the police department. And we discussed the project and it was well received and moved forward. We moved into the next step of the program, which is the actual installation. As you can see over here, those are pictures of the actual project that's done. And now it's the assessment of the project. The project was deemed complete in February. We received feedback from the community, as you can see in this slide. And I'm going to go to the next slide, then go back to this slide quickly. Eight of the 11th locations showed reduction in speed between three and five mile per hour. However, three locations showed actually increase in speed, which is interesting. So we contacted the police department and now we're going to focus our effort on that stretch of the roadways. So there will be more education and enforcement and reassessment in several months. I'm going to go over quickly the East Tropical Way application, similar process. The only difference there is already exists or similar because 118 had roundabouts. This location have center medians, but people were speeding in between the center median. That's what the application that we received stated. The application was supported by the Homeowners Association and signatures of the resident. Similar to the previous exercise, in this particular corridor, 73 affected properties. We received 12 signatures. Again, the current policy required 10. So we moved the application forward into the traffic study. The traffic study, again, the posted speed is 25 mile per hour. It shows 37, 39 mile per hour. So it met the parameter for extra traffic calming measures. Similar exercise. We run the crash report. It wasn't as extensive as 118, but we still have crashes. And there was not much citation on that corridor to report. We moved into the design at this particular location. When we met with the committee, radar signs was a more appropriate traffic calming measure for this particular corridor. So we proposed two radar signs and illuminated stop signs at intersection to bring the attention of the driver to stop at stop signs. And this is a picture of the actual implementation. We just recently installed these radar signs. Since it was recent, we did not run the analysis on the evaluation. We will give it more time to work, and then we will report back on this project. After implementing these two projects, we received feedback from council, from the community. So we went back into our current policy, and we reviewed the policy, and we're proposing the following amendment. Number one, we added provisions. There is some corridors that we don't have homeowners association. There is a need because there is excessive speeding and cut through. So we added a provision to reserve the city the right to add or remove traffic calming measured on city-owned public right-of-way. If that's the case, we waived the petition requirement, or we proposed to waive the petition requirement. However, we are proposing a public meeting to inform the public of the proposal at that corridor if it happens. Number two, we're proposing an amendment to the current policy to increase the petition requirement from or revise the petition requirement from the 10 residents to 65% of the affected residents to sign the petition. Also, we received several requests of removal of traffic calming. Neither the 2004 or the 2022 policy recognized or provided provisions or process for removal. So we're proposing to add these provisions and map the process for the removal process, which is kind of mimicking the installation process. And there will be no removal for convenience. I just want to add the 65%. Where did we come up with the 65%? Number one, I want to remind council and the public of the 2004 policy, which required originally 60% and 67%. So we kind of felt that's an appropriate number and representation of the community. We also ran a report on what other policies in Broward County and we felt 65% is in line with every other policy in Broward County. If the amendment passed today, let's take a corridor like 118 in order for that corridor to proceed, then 561 of the 863 affected property need to sign the petition to move the petition forward. So in summary, the amendment focus on revising the petition requirement to require 65% of the residents within the study area to sign a petition and added a removal process to the current policy. And that concludes the presentation. Thank you very much. Council Member Horland, did you want to continue? Yes. Just a brief question. Thank you, Mr. President. Ms. Shailon, thank you for the detailed update and for the analysis. I think it's terrific that we're going to be able to modify that policy after we've seen how that's worked. We had discussed during the MMTP meetings, and I've already asked you the question, but I wanted it for the public because there had been a resident who had complained about the noise that those speed humps create in the neighborhood in front of their homes. So what I wanted to ask you about was the temporary chicanes. So we've talked about roundabouts and chicanes, and we know that when we looked at the MMTP project, we could utilize the temporary structures. Is there a reason with our traffic calming other than expenditures why we would not try in certain areas the temporary chicanes? Yes. So the intention of the traffic calming policy is to provide quick and neighborhood participation program. Therefore, the focus is speed cushion and radar sign. With chicanes or any other measures, you need engineering, you need it's more expensive, it requires survey, it requires time. So the focus of this traffic calming policy is to provide a quick resolution to a speeding problem. You will see in the next few council meetings we are working with administration on providing some more CIP, some implementation of the MMTP. Council had brought to our attention and to administration attention that what is the status of MMTP. Actually, there is one item on the agenda today. It's not chicken, but it's more a road diet and some roundabouts. So we're going to be implementing those. It's just not within this policy. This policy is more simplified. It's for residential communities. It's cushions and speed radars, which showed effective measure to reduce the speeding. 118 showed three locations of increased speeding, but we will be working on that. Okay. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you. Councilman Andrei, you had also requested this be pulled. Thank you, President Reinstein. I want to commend you and your staff for an excellent job. The criteria I thought was very clear and transparent for the residents to understand the process. I'd like to see something similar when we talk about lean reductions. So I thought that the way you laid out the criteria was excellent. I do want to just go back a few slides. And I'm sorry, I don't know what number two. Yes, to the comparison to other the percentage, the 65% versus. Okay. So I didn't obvious. I thought that 51 was approval was very fair. I think that the 65 is very high. And sometimes it's just challenging to get, and we've all said I think this before, to get people to come out to a meeting, to get signatures, answer their doorbells now. And so they might be supportive, but just maybe not, you know, engaged enough to sign a petition, but they could still be in support of having some traffic calming. Understood. And that's actually why we added that provision to reserve the city the right to install speed traffic calming measures. Because if we did a traffic study and we know an area of safety, the city have the right to install speed cushions. We will do a public meeting, we will invite the public, and that's where the kind of, we obtained the petition. We obtained the support from the community, hopefully, in that public meeting. So that will help the public, number one, educate the public about the process, and number two, obtain the support. So you don't want to consider lowering that number, that percentage? As you can see, all other policies, they are, the majority is 67 to 70%. Okay. Just have one city 51. I mean, it's drastic, though, from the 10. And actually, the one city is a smaller city, have special characteristics, that city, they have a downtown kind of look. But the majority of similar cities characteristics to us, like City of Sunrise or Coconut Creek or Coral Springs, have 67%. So I would recommend keeping it at 65%. Okay. My recommendation is 51, but we'll agree to disagree. And then the only other comment I wanted you to maybe consider was, I don't know if it happens with this committee necessarily, but most committees usually do an odd number. And I think your committee has six. So I'm sure he'll be so excited. But I was recommending the director of utilities to also join your committee. And I know he would just love to be on yet one more with his colleagues. But I don't know if it's really an issue if you ever need, you know, if you had some type of kind of tiebreaker. And that's usually why we do an odd number. You know, for time, I didn't go over a lot of logistics, what we do during the design and the conceptual plan. The plans are sent to the utilities department, to the fire department, after even the committee seeing the conceptual plan. When we develop the actual construction plan, they are sent throughout. But you're invited. Okay. Okay. I knew that he had to be, Mr. Polio had to be a part of it. But again, I just wasn't sure, you know, if you ever need that odd number in your makeup. Actually, I just want to add one of, we work with developers on traffic impact to their development. One of the development that council had approved recently is Plantation Point. And one of the staff conditions is to pay toward some speed cushions on Marcano Boulevard. We actually just received that check yesterday, and we are in the process of implementing the installation of these traffic calming measures. We sent the plans to the utilities department, and they provided us comment, which is going to revise the design plans. So they are involved in the process. But again, Danny, welcome to our committee. Thank you. Councilman Anderson. Hi. I didn't catch this before, but maybe it's because it's the way it's written, the PowerPoint versus what I read on the backup material. You talk about percent of residents, but then it seems like you calculated per household. Mm-hmm. And it's two different things. And you really, people are going to go to the details. And if we're, you know, three people live in a house, that's three residents, but it's one household. So which way are we counting it? Household. So one resident gets one vote. But you stated, so that's what I'm saying, what you said, signatures required affected properties. Affected properties. But then you're saying 561 signatures. Well, if there's 10 people in one house, that's one property, but that's 10 signatures. And that's why we have the dots and the map. Everyone gets one signature. I just, again, it could be fine in the backup, and it could just be the PowerPoint. I'm just splitting the hairs because people will later on split hairs. So is it per household? And then what, so let me keep on splitting hairs then. What if within the household there's multiple people vote? How do you count that household? Well, what if it's split? What if husband and wife disagree? I mean, like, you gotta, this is, and I also agree with, you don't have to answer all that. I want you to take that consideration though. Well, we continuously look at the implementation, and we always can come back. I've done all these kind of votes, and I've done controversial things through time. And I'll tell you, when, like, Jacarino Lakes, it's got 1,000, around 1,100 homes. You cannot even get, you cannot ever come even near, well, there's Joe Valley right there. It's really difficult, even with a controversial topic, to get even 50%. It's, you just have apathy, or people are fear in the unknown, or they know enough, and they don't, they don't know enough to vote, but they want it, so they just don't. They care, but they don't, they don't know enough, so they just stay out of it. No speed humps for them. I mean, so like that, like purple area, the people right along that red line are gonna, you would think they would vote, but you're, the bigger area you capture, the harder it is to get to your 65%. Actually, let me explain, explain specifically in this 118, the purple area. In the acres, you have a lot of cul-de-sacs, and you have multiple streets that go east and west from Old Hiatus all the way to Flamingo. So the purple area depicted everybody that have to use 118. Oh, they have to? Yeah, so we split the roads of the ones who's going east and west in the middle, but as you can see, the line jogs around, because those are the cul-de-sacs. So that's why we deemed them affected properties, because they have no choice but to use it. They have no choice. Okay, well that's fair. They have no other way. But so you're saying it's households, it's 65% of households affected. Correct. Not signatures, so just. Okay, understood. Okay. Point taken. But I, that is a high bar. It is. But what your answer back was, just to reiterate what you said back to her, you're saying then, if we feel there's enough need, and there's been enough support, but they didn't reach the threshold, and there's just a ground swell. So it would be our decision, maybe a little opposition, but a massive four, but we didn't reach 65, but then it would be our decision is what you're saying. Correct. And if there is any application that we feel a need to bring it to the public and bring it to your attention, definitely we will work with the mayor and administration and put it on the agenda and to be discussed. Okay. Thank you. I'm good. Before I get to the public on number one, any other comments from Council? Mr. Nguyen? Linda Carr on deck. Thank you. Joe Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace, and don't let that address fool you because I grew up there. So unless there are other plantation acres residents here, I probably have more experience with that roadway and the adjoining areas than almost anybody else, given at least 30 years worth there in some fashion. I was on one of the roadways that does connect to Old Flamingo, but essentially you're still going to be using 118th because it's the most direct route and Old Flamingo has old speed tables on them. So it's not like you're beating anything in any fashion. So what I want to do is, is there a way to go to the slide that has the speeds prior and then? So important to note on that roadway, the first off, I want to just make clear, this as I had shared with the council, this needs to be thought of as the quick build step one, not the last step in roadway improvements and roadway safety. This, this can't be the end of the game. It's fine if this is one piece, but it can't be the end. And chicanes and other strategies need to be considered forward from that. Now, if you look at all those speeds, it's very clear this was a roadway designed for 40 miles an hour. It was until about eight, you'd have to tell me exactly. It was a 30 mile per hour when it was constructed. It was changed to 25 with no infrastructure adjustments whatsoever. They just put a new sign up. That doesn't change behaviors. Infrastructure changes behaviors. The circles slowed people down in a section, but what you find both on 118th and on the roadways, the side roadways to that, is that people hard accelerate between the bumps because that's what those people do. And those people need infrastructure consistently to slow them down. Otherwise, they will speed. And sometimes, the fact of giving a chance to slow down, gives them an opportunity to punch it. I, I don't even know why people think that way, but it's, it's a, you know, rah, rah, cargo, fast, make noise. Cool. Now, I do want to say that I appreciate the idea of having a removal process because, and I, I was able to locate it once I was hearing it. Back in 2018, my dad actually was part of a petition to remove the bumps on one of those streets, on their street. And I mean, I have it here. I could actually share it with you. And I, I just want to, if I could, read just a small portion of it. If it takes a couple extra seconds, is that all right? No. Okay. No, just go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mr. Wynn. So, as, as we have aged, we have incurred various health issues, specifically my wife, with serious RA, which has made us more sensitive to the up and down forces, caused by those traffic calming devices, even at very low speeds. Living at the west end of the street, we have to incur four jolts each way, coming and going. They endure, they purchase the larger car, still endure pain. And speaking with other neighbors, we found others who are seriously affected as well. I'm not going to name names. They've suffered down, others have suffered damage to their vehicle from this. And another one, the bump causes her husband who is confined to a wheelchair pain. This is also true for a neighbor to the south who resides on 5th Street. When your home is only accessible by these devices, you and your family are negatively impacted. Every neighbor I've spoken to has told me that friends and family are relieved that the bumps are gone. This was while the roads were being repaved and painted. Interestingly, as we've personally experienced, fewer friends and family willing to visit since the bumps were installed. Repaved streets are now beautiful and smooth, and it's been a wonderful three-month hiatus, pun probably not intended, from those painful jolts. Surprisingly, as I work from home, I have noticed there have been much fewer speeders after the removal of the speed bumps. And then it goes on to discuss petitions and whatnot. So basically, the idea being this is a good first step, but we need to keep in mind that though these strategies might slow people down in some fashion, it also creates undesirable behaviors. And it is the weakest and cheapest and most basic of infrastructure to actually inspire change and behavioral change. And those numbers, as well as the ones on the next slide, prove that this street, bumps or not, is a 40-mile-per-hour street, period. And we need to consider the bigger changes to make that possible because, again, Acres has no sidewalks. And as a result, this is an area that people are exposed to outside the vehicle. So I just want you all to keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wayne. Linda Carr and Jen Fane on deck. Good evening, Mayor Fagan and esteemed City Council members. I totally second everything that he said. And we're really happy for what you've done with the change with the traffic calming. And we'd really like the resolution to be back to the 65 percent because that's what it was in 2004, which I didn't know, which was nice to know. And, yeah, it's really hard to get people to answer the door. But when you start talking to them, you really get what you're feeling. And when I did the door-to-door, pretty much 75 percent of who I knocked on the door was against the speed bumps. The other 25 percent were like, well, I don't like them, but I can live with them. We recognize that the challenging position you're in tasked with striking a balance between ensuring everybody's safety and also addressing our unique needs for comfort, right? And we realize a lot of complexities surrounding the issue of speeding. And if there was a simple solution to speeding, none of these discussions or actions would be necessary. Okay. And, again, it's important that no resident feel unwelcome or uncomfortable upon returning home. And your responsiveness to our concerns shows that you're dedicated to having a community where everybody feels valued and secure. So we really would like going back to the 65 percent. And a little sidebar. You call them cushions, but there's nothing cushiony about these. They've got angles on the side. And everybody's got a different wheel base. So two cars in the same household aren't even feeling the speed bumps the same because of that. And, yeah, we'd like more stop signs and radar signs. We're cool with that, cool with roundabouts and anything else. But the speed bumps, like you said, as we get older, they're really painful. And, oh, and I had one question. On the homes that are affected, it doesn't seem you included the ones along Flamingo Road, but they still need 1-18th to get to them also, to their homes. Go ahead, Ms. Shailen. We split the roads that goes all the way from Old Hiatus to Flamingo in the middle because we assume some of these homes have quick access to Flamingo directly on Flamingo. And the ones closer to 112, they will go directly on 112. Ms. Carr, if you can get back to the microphone and direct your comments towards the council. Yeah. No, just put that one slide back up. I want to see. Yeah. See? Way back up the top. The purple line goes, the purple line at the top, what street is that on the top? 120? Flamingo. Right. But we have, we go up to Flamingo and anybody on 118th has to go, anybody off close to Flamingo has to go down on 118th. But you cut that off in the number of affected homes. Ms. Carr, please conclude. Okay. I'm done. I just want to thank you guys for your attentiveness to the whole issue of the speed bumps. And you've been really wonderful. And you're dedicated and I really love it. And I just want to thank you. I know it's a really hard issue. Thank you very much. Okay. Ms. Fain. Jennifer Fain, 11831 Northwest 9th Street. I live smack in the middle of this. I have RA. I have pain. I go over these speed bumps all the time. I don't, I have, we have five cars in our household. I don't, I slow down. I go over it. It slows me down. I'm a fast driver. These, these have slowed me down. I mean, not that I was doing 40, but, but I, I really commend Michelle on for everything that she has done. I am a little bit confused when I did look at this to understand the boundaries. So if let's say a resident comes to you and says, we have speeding problems. At that point, do you sit down with them and figure out where the parameter, where the, the lines are and then they go for it? Um, actually, Leo does that. So Leo actually manages the program, um, mainly like that logistics of the program. Once we receive the application, he will look at the map, the affected area map. He will present the applicant with the affected area map. And that's how the signatures, uh, or the household identified. And again, we learned from the, uh, the implementation of this program and we improved. Okay. So, so what is in place right now for tropical, for, for these two areas? Are they gonna, is something gonna change? Okay. So that's moving forward. All right. So that's grandfathered in. Ms. Fain, if you can just direct your comments forward. Oh, I'm sorry. Thanks. Um, the other question is, and I think that you did, you did, you guys did touch on it. So without having residents come to the city and say there's a problem, just having, you know, police, looking at police tickets and crashes is, is enough. I hope for you guys to, because we had a lot of accidents on 118th, especially near sunrise. And it was getting, you know, monotonous just hearing about all these crashes and wondering when is someone gonna step in. And no one did until we said, can we have someone look at it? So I hope that that will be taken into consideration. Thank you. Good night. Thank you, Ms. Fain. Any other comments on agenda item number one? Hearing none, do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Councilmember Anderson for the second. City Clerk, if you please call the roll. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andrew? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Thank you, Council. I just want to end by thanking Public Works staff. They are responsible for the installation of all these traffic calmings. So, Matt, from me and Leo, please thank your staff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, we have item number six. Mr. Nguyen, is he still present? He pulled it? Mr. Nguyen had pulled it. Calling Mr. Nguyen. Last call from Mr. Nguyen. Any council members, I don't believe any council members wanted to pull number six. Do we have a motion on six? Motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Any other comments from the public on item six? Hearing none, City Clerk Begaro, please call the roll. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. Next, we have pulled by Councilmember Andreu, item eight. My apologies, Ms. Begaro. I usually will send you my corrections via email, and I just missed that deadline to do this, and it was already published, but there just is a typo in the council comments. Under, it says, Councilmember Andreu asked Mr. Holmes, asked about. Just take that second, asked about, if you can delete that, please. That was it. Motion to approve as amended. Second. City Clerk Begaro, please call the roll. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. We now are up to legislative item number 13. City Attorney, will you please read the summary? Yes, sir. There is no requirement to read. I'm happy to read the reso. It's a resolution, not an ordinance. Okay. There will be a subsequent ordinance following adoption of this resolution. Okay. So, do we have a presentation for item 13? Okay. So, as you're preparing that, it's a resolution of the City Council of the City of Plantation Florida, imposing a temporary moratorium on processing, approval, or issuance of building permits, engineering permits, or development orders for any retail, office, or business uses within the City's Midtown District, PP24-0015. Just give me a moment while that comes up. Yeah. Do we wish to forego the presentation? Well, it's, yeah. I'm just kidding. It's true. I actually did the presentation last night. But first, to kind of start out, like the City Attorney said, what's before you right now is really just a resolution, which will be followed by an ordinance to implement the moratorium that staff is proposing. The resolution, pursuant to the provisions within our code, the resolution kind of implements what we call, like, a zoning in progress. So, there are provisions in our code which enable kind of a temporary hold while a moratorium ordinance is kind of going through the process because it has to go to, as you know, an ordinance to the planning and zoning boards. It's a planning-related matter, and then onto the council, which takes two readings. Sometimes what happens when local governments kind of move to do moratoriums, there are a lot of property owners within the affected area that will try to kind of run in and try to, you know, submit an application so that they're outside of that period. So, this sort of just implements a temporary kind of hold on everything until the ordinance is put into place. So, that's kind of what we're looking at with regard to the resolution tonight. Staff will bring the ordinance subsequent meeting. As indicated, it did go to the planning and zoning board. At last night's meeting, it was approved at the planning and zoning board. And so, we will place that item on the next agenda for your actions. So, that's sort of what I was explaining to the planning and zoning board, sort of the difference between the zoning in progress and the moratorium. And the moratorium would really be the ordinance that would come your way. So, the next question, I guess, we have that people are asking is, why is the moratorium kind of being proposed at this particular point in time? And staff is recommending the moratorium for several reasons. First, as you know, we're in the process of implementing a 2040 comprehensive plan. That comprehensive plan, that comprehensive plan, it kind of identifies a new vision for the city. And one of the things that, as part of that new vision, there are some changes that we probably will be looking at to implement in the central midtown area. In particular, the property kind of involving the mall and maybe even some of the surrounding properties. And so, we're kind of concerned that we want to try to make sure that the mall property, some of those surrounding properties, we regard as a very, very important piece of real estate within the city. And we want to make sure that we don't have some development that's proposed that will be very inconsistent with that new vision. So, this is kind of just placing a hold on things until we get an opportunity to finalize that plan and then subsequently make some changes to the land development regulations, which will be consistent with that plan. Secondly, as you know, one of the issues that kind of comes up as we do the development within the midtown is that we have impacts to our water, sewer, infrastructure, what have you. We're still kind of talking some things over with the utilities department in terms of what approach we're going to take. We'll have a clear vision of some of the, I guess, the ultimate density intensity that will be proposed. And it will give us some time to kind of talk some of those things out as well and try to identify what our recommendations will be as developers come in with regard to that item as well. And then finally, the mall is also because of the fact that they are the properties for sale at this particular point. We're getting numerous calls about people just asking, hey, what's your vision for this or what have you. And so all of these things kind of colliding at one point is in talking with the administration, I kind of said, hey, let's kind of put a moratorium on this until we have some additional time to really talk about this and look at the direction that we want to take for this property. And so we did receive the directive from administration to move forward with that item and we're basically following up on that directive. So what are the proposed boundaries of the moratorium? Again, the primary focus has been on the mall property, but we're kind of looking at that entire central area. So just as a precautionary measure, we even looked at some properties around the mall area. So the boundary right now would be Broward Boulevard to the north, to the west, the old plantation water control district canal. It's located to the east, southwest 6th Street to the south, and South Pine Island Road to the west. So that's what we're proposing. And again, what we're kind of looking at is as part of the emerging 2040 comprehensive plan is kind of looking at that as the central midtown village, so to speak. So that's the boundary that we're proposing at this time. Another question a lot of people have is how long will the moratorium be in place? So we're recommending about 180 days. By the time it makes its way and kind of goes through two readings with the council that will probably take us to December, you know, you know, and that will give us some time to comprehensive plan. We anticipate trying to bring that to the council sometime in September. So it gives us some time to kind of work some of these issues out. The comp plan should be finalized. We have a clear vision, and then we can move on to kind of work on some of the land development regulation changes that will be required to actually implement that vision. And so we're looking at 180 days. What type of development will be impacted by the moratorium? It just says with most moratoriums, new building permits, and also any new engineering or utility permits and development orders for properties within the defined area that are not already approved. So anything new that's coming in that's developing, new development, what have you. Some items would not be affected by it, which would be like local business tax receipts or administratively approved zoning permits, like for signage and other really small areas that would not really impact that. So it would be exempted from the moratorium. Now, the process to amend the code, as indicated, is found in Section 2740 through the land development regulations, which basically says that code can be amended through a number of avenues. It's something that could be recommended by the planning and zoning department or through the chief administrative officer or by the council. The council can direct staff to look at that as well. Likewise, a private property owner could also come to the city, petition the city to amend the code as well. So pursuant to Section 2743, this application is being submitted by staff in accordance with this section of the code. In terms of public notice requirements, we have followed the public notice requirements that are required in Section 2741 of the code and as required by Section 166.041 of the Florida Statutes. So we are consistent with that. So in summary, what we're proposing here as directed from administration is to implement a moratorium on the sort of central midtown area. And our recommendation would be to kind of move this forward again. Temporary moratorium action is being accomplished through an ordinance in order to amend the original ordinance. Tonight you have the resolution, which kind of does the zoning in progress to enable us to get to the to the to the ordinance. And again, as I indicated, this item did go to the May 7th planning and zoning board meeting, which was held last night. They unanimously voted to to move it forward. And so we're recommending approval of this item. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. Councilmember Andrea. Just two questions. So I know that to the north, Broward Boulevard is the boundary there. But there are several enhancements being made to some of those properties, those businesses that the commercial properties there. So how many do you already have in queue? Because you said those would continue moving. And then I'm just anticipating that there might be one or two others, though, because that whole corridor is is kind of which is wonderful. Right. It's being remodeled. It's being upgraded. So I would I fully support the moratorium. But at the same time, just want to be cognizant of some of those buildings that typically we're trying to be cognizant of that, too. Typically, it is not uncommon sometimes if an applicant is coming in and is proposing, you know, some type of development activity that the council can kind of take a look at it and determine if they feel that what they're proposing would pretty much be consistent and not inconsistent. And that the council can kind of look at that and determine if they would, you know, enable that that development. So the moratorium wouldn't prevent you from still bringing from an item like that? From at least bringing it to you to consider whether you wish that item to move forward. Perfect. Thank you. Councilmember Anderson. Just a quick question. The PNZ, what was the vote last night? It was approved. Was it was it was it unanimous? It was unanimous. That's what I thought. Thank you. Any other questions? Any motion to approve? Second. Any public comment? Hearing none. City Clerk Beggaro, please call the roll. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Let me try that again. Hold on. That's a column that was wonked up. Sorry, guys. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. That was still wonky. Let's try it again. Councilmember Horland. Third time, yes. I know, right? My columns are just crazy. Sorry. Councilmember Horland. What time? I know. Third time's right. Councilmember Anderson. Okay. Yes. Can we have the proclamation back? I know. I'm sorry. Columns. Columns are important. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Now we're good. Are you sure? Yes. Sure, for sure, for sure. We're now up to quasi-judicial items. City Attorney Ezra will please read the procedures for the quasi-judicial hearing. Yes, sir. The City Clerk will swear in all witnesses before speaking. Please state your name and whether you have been administered an oath. Any speaker may be cross-examined. If you refuse to be cross-examined, your testimony may not be considered. Cross-examination shall be conducted in a courteous manner. The material in the City Clerk's agenda packet will be made a part of the record. 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. City Council may also decide to continue the matter to a designated time to allow for additional research or review. Thank you very much. We are up to quasi-judicial item 14, and we're going to swear them in first. All right. Those participating that need to be sworn on, please stand and raise your right hand. And I think there are some speakers that – anybody speaking on this? Anyone speaking on item 14 or 15? Yeah. Those where you guys were planning on speaking also, right? On items 15 as well. Yep. Quasi-judicial. 14 and 15. Yep. Yep. Stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? All right. Thank you. Mr. Albert, item 14. Good evening, Council. Mayor, City Attorney, City Clerk, Michael Albert, Assistant Director. The applicant has two requests. An amendment to Ordinance Number 1329, which established permitted conditional uses in the B7Q District for this property, to modify the commercial uses permitted conditionally on the development of Jacaranda Parcel 345, specifically the maximum area allocated for medical-related professionals, and secondly, a zoning waiver from City Code Chapter 27. The property is located at the southeast corner of Pine Island Road and Sunrise Boulevard. It's actually one parcel to the south. It's about 4.8 acres and B7Q zoning. The existing use is a three-story office building, approximately 80,000 square feet. To the north is the vacant Wells Fargo property. To the east is the canal and then multifamily residential. To the west is North Pine Island Road and Jacaranda Lakes, and to the south is Lardot West Community. In 1985, the property was approved under planned commercial development parking standards. As part of this approval, medical uses were capped at 25% of the building. The site has been granted several administrative parking waivers exceeding the 25% cap. Currently, about 40% of the building has medical uses. The applicant wishes to increase that to 50%. And the parking study that was conducted supports the increase. So this is the general site plan. I know it's a little hard to read, but generally there is a surplus of parking spaces on the property at any given time. Parking counts taken over a five-day period, which was in September of 2022. And then another parking study that was conducted in August of 2023 over a 10-day period. And parking lot is generally approximately half full at peak times a lot of the time. So part two is the waiver from Section 2792A6E1, which requires offices for doctors, dentists, podiatrists, and related professionals not to exceed 25% of the gross building area. And the request is to change that to 50%. So the existing parking provided is 321. Required parking per the 25% medical would be 348. That's a difference of 27 spaces. However, there were some administrative parking waivers approved in the past. The proposed condition of 50%, which would be about 40,000 square feet up the building, would require 301 spaces. And there's 321 provided, which would be an overage of 20 spaces. If approved, allowing 50% medical use calculated at one per 250 creates a surplus of 20 parking spaces. But even despite the code, the reality is that that parking lot is generally not full. So in summary, the proposed waiver will be consistent with the general plan. We feel it's compatible with the general character of the neighborhood. Proposed waiver should not adversely affect the general welfare of residents, visitors, and workers to the area. 108 notices were mailed out within the 300-foot zoning boundary. To date, we have not received any objections. There aren't any violations on the property at this time. So based on this, staff recommends approval. Subject to conditions noted in the backup. Thank you, Mr. Alpert. Councilmember Mardrayo. Thank you, President Reincey. I'd like to make a Jennings disclosure. It will not impact my vote. I go to that building, that office, regularly. So just wanted to make that. Also, that's it. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry. I would like also, I think you didn't mention it, but if I remember correctly, there was a staff comment about them coming into compliance with ADA. And I have seen that, you know, there are a lot of seniors who go to this site and it's not very accessible. So I would like for them to bring that into ADA compliance. Thank you. Thank you. Another discussion from Council. Any comments from the public? Hearing none, do we have a motion? Excuse me. Yep. This is an ordinance, so I do need to read the title. Please. Thank you. Go ahead. This is an ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida, pertaining to conditional uses, amending ordinance number 1329 to modify commercial uses permitted conditionally on the development of Jacaranda parcel 345, providing for future amendments to the conditional uses by resolution, providing for severability, conflicts, and an effective date. Great. Thank you, City Attorney. Any other comments from the public? Hearing none, do we have a motion? Motion to approve based upon staff's comments and taking into consideration Councilmember Andreu's comments about ADA compliance. Do we have a second? Second. City Clerk Bregorough, please call the roll. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Yes. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andreu? Yes. Councilmember Reinstein? Yes. We have quasi-judicial item number 15, consideration of a request for conditional use approval for STAT Enterprises, LLC. Property is located at 10187 Cleary Boulevard, Suite number 103, and Zone B2P. Do we have a presentation? Can we do, Mr. Chair? Again, Dan Holmes, Planning, Zoning, Economic Development Director. This is application PP24-0008. It is a request by STAT Enterprises for conditional use approval to allow approximately 88 square foot internet gun sales office known as STAT Enterprises LLC within an existing dental office located within an existing building in the B2P Central Business Zoning District. I'm just to orient you to location. The property is located at 10187 Cleary Boulevard, Suite 103. The agent for this application is Dr. Ernie Soto. The site that the property sits on is about .66 acres. It is existing commercial use and it is within the commercial land use category. In terms of the zoning, the zoning of the property is B2P and all of the surrounding properties also have the B2P zoning district. This kind of gives you an aerial map of the area. So the building in question is kind of located right here. And this is the building that the entire use is located within. This is the Promenade Shopping Center that you see that's kind of located to the north here. To the south, this was a recently approved PDQ fast food restaurant. And to the east again is the Promenade Shopping Center. And to the west is another little office building that's also located within the Promenade Shopping Center. This kind of gives you a little more detailed aerial photo of the property. And you can kind of see it's kind of nestled here in the middle of the Promenade Shopping Center. The applicant again is, as I said, there's currently a dental office in suite 103. And the applicant is proposing to use a portion of the existing dental office, 88 square feet, to conduct the sales here. The applicant has indicated that the way the operation would work is that one would go onto the internet, would actually access their internet site, purchase whatever weapon that they wish to purchase. It would be shipped to this location. Once the item were to come into the location, the purchaser would be notified to come by, pick it up, and there would be paperwork and other things that the purchaser would have to go through. And then they would be issued their product. So that's kind of how the applicant has indicated that the operation would work. Staff has reviewed this. Just some information I want to give you also that's in your backup. This, although it was not fully licensed as it was supposed to be at the time, has kind of been operating in this fashion for a while. I think ATF, as we understand it, actually it came in and as they were kind of looking at going through some of their regulatory procedures, they did request the applicant as to whether they had approval from the city for the use. And I was discovered at that time, and so the applicant is now coming in to get the appropriate approvals that are required from the city. And again, under the city code, this use within the B2P zoning district is a conditional use. So it requires conditional use approval. Now you'll notice that it's 88 square feet under our code. It is something that could be approved administratively because pursuant to the administrative provisions, it meets that threshold in terms of square footage to be approved administratively by myself, planning and zoning director. Kind of because of the nature of the business, and I figured it could, you know, could be some controversy associated with it. I thought it prudent to bring it to the council so there could be a public hearing that if anyone had any objections to it, that those things could be talked about and kind of brought into the public forum. And so that's why we're here. We have generally looked at it. We think that as opposed to a gun store, which there's lots of inventory or what have you, the way they're proposing to operate could be consistent overall within that B2P district and within the plaza. And so based upon our surrounding development patterns, we think that it would be compatible. We do find that it would be in compliance with the comprehensive plan. And it's, you know, it's met the sufficiency of site plan. The building is there. There's, you know, there's nothing that's out of compliance in terms of the building itself. It's met the, we've gone through the zoning notice measures and we found that it generally meets the conditional use criteria. Now you'll notice in your backup, I just wanted to point out that this was a mistake that should not have been in here, that it does indicate that it meets the practical difficulty. There's no waiver as a part of this. It's something that was missed at the time that this was put together. So I've just kind of crossed that out. So based upon the above, staff is recommending approval of the proposed use. I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have relative to the item. I think that the applicant is here as well for the item. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. Councilmember Hortland. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Holmes, thank you for the presentation. Actually, my questions are for the applicant, but I do not believe he was sworn. So Dr. Soto would like to come up and be sworn. City Clerk, if you can please swear in Dr. Soto. Sure. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Soto. Thank you for being here tonight. I just have a couple questions for you, if you don't mind. Sure. I see you incorporated STAT Enterprise in 2016, according SunBiz. When did you first apply for the federal firearms license? 2016 as well. 2016. Yes. You listed the 10187 Clery as the principal place of business. So am I to assume that you have been operating since 2016, selling the firearms? Yes. Initially, when I obtained the FFL, the federal license, I was understanding that since I already have a business tax permit, I would operate under that. Broward County is different, so I do have a Broward County tax certificate. Right. But I was under, and when all the information was presented to the ATF, they didn't raise any concerns other than, okay, you're already operating a business here, city plantation, so, you know, it will qualify. And that's when the license was approved. Okay. You can understand why I was confused about that, because you've been operating your dental office for nearly 30 years, and you had your license. Right. So completely different business. Right. I do see you applied for the Broward County license December 2nd on 2023, and the plantation LBTR on January 5th. Right. Okay. There were a few inconsistencies for me in the backup material, because we've heard that they're internet sales. I could not find an internet site. I don't know how that's advertised. Then in the backup, I think it was your letter that said that you also sell word of mouth. Yeah. So my business model has always been word of mouth. Okay. I, four years ago, decided, or five years ago, decided not to open up an internet site, because I wanted to know who I was transferring the weapons to. So it was an intentional, you know, I don't want to have that, because I don't want to send a gun to Washington State, or something like that. But this doesn't operate like a gun store. There's no inventory, there's no signage, there's no, there's nothing like that. It's really only friend, family, word of mouth, strictly word of mouth. So again, it was being presented to us as internet sales. That's why I was a little confused about that, because that's how it was presented on the backup material. And the reason for that, just to understand, is because you are allowed to do internet sales. Sure. But that's not how you're operating. No. Had you considered selling from your home, if you're just selling to family and friends? Yeah. So the issue with that is, once you run the business out of your house, you give your right of privacy. So the business, I already gave the right of privacy. The Department of Health can come in at any time, inspect my business. The DA can come in, and I do anesthesia. So they can come in any time. So I have really no privacy in my office. So that's why it's done that way. I don't want to give the right of privacy in my home. And you do sedation dentistry? Yes. And no concern about selling guns when you have narcotics in the building? That would be, to the client? Mm-hmm. That would be disallowed. You can't sell any guns, transfer any guns to anybody under the influence of anything. Since anyone from the public can check license holders, which I had done, and just out of curiosity to see how many people held the license in the city of Plantation, I would have no way of knowing, if someone holds a license, whether or not they have inventory. So there were several people that are selling guns out of their home. I don't know what their inventory is. So my question would be, and I think that the residents in the surrounding area and in the shopping center have a right to assume, well, they have a right to know if someone's selling guns, I think, in the area, because they don't know if you have inventory or not. So the assumption could be, if I looked up, if I was a criminal, looked up a license holder and said, you know what, maybe that's a business I want to target because they may have inventory. I think that's something that residents, again, and business holders in the area should be aware of. Especially when we have a preschool, an elementary school, and a Chabad in that area. And we just talked about the rise to anti-Semitism. So do you see where there might be some concerns with that? I do. But the ATF came in and inspected the location, and they approved it as such. Okay. So part of, you know, what we do here in the city council, and because it's a conditional use, we have to look at the what-ifs. And, you know, for me, personally, I support the Second Amendment. I think that everybody has a right to bear arms and can tell that, for me, it doesn't feel consistent. With that shopping center and the surrounding area. So I did feel that it was a bit odd for me when I saw this agenda item that you would be selling firearms out of your dental office. So I have a discomfort with it. For those reasons and the questions I've asked you tonight, I cannot approve this item based on my concerns. Because I do feel it's inconsistent with that shopping center. I understand. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Soto. Thank you. Councilmember Aranjayo. Thank you. I think Councilmember Horland addressed many of my same concerns. My question is for Mr. Holmes. The 300-feet notice, was that sent out for this? Yes, there is a notification requirement. Because, again, unfortunately, I wasn't able to look up the state statutes, but I don't know the exact. And maybe Ms. Morris probably knows it or I don't want to put her on the spot. But this absolutely is not harmonious with the surrounding neighborhood and development when there is a daycare that has to be less than 300 feet. And so I don't feel a level of comfort that those parents could have been informed that this was happening in close proximity to those young children. And I know that you said that they're only picking up that you didn't have the ammunition. But, I mean, if somebody has ammunition on their person or in their car, Councilmember Horland said it best, the what ifs are very alarming to me and I cannot support this item. And again, she said it, Central Park Elementary, feet away, the daycare, a few, I mean, the daycare is steps away. And then also you have the synagogue there. And the fact that you've been operating for eight years without the city's approval and knowledge is also disconcerting. But that wasn't an intentional, you know, issue at all, at all. As a matter of fact, when I got the license, I assumed, you know, that because I was operating a business there and the ATF thought the same thing too. Because in the original application, obviously, the only business license was my business. But did you have a local business tax receipt under this business as STAT Enterprises? No. No, I did not. So then you had to know that you needed a local business tax receipt for STAT. But again, you know, it was when the ATF came in my office, it's okay, well, you have a business license. They did not say where's your business license for STAT. Correct. Not ATF, but for the city of Plantation. I understand. I was not aware. It was not an intentional omission on my part. Okay. But that still doesn't excuse it. No excuse. No excuse. Okay. That's why I'm here. Thank you. Councilmember Anderson. My two previous colleagues covered most of what I was thinking. Danny, maybe you can answer this. Do we have any licensed gun shops in Plantation? I think we do. I know around our perimeter, but I can't remember. I mean, like, I've lived my whole life. I can't think of one. Yeah, well, there are pawn shops, but I thought there was one gun shop, too, in the city. I have to. And then do you know, okay, so, okay, at least I know that's not one right in my face and didn't think of it. Do you know of any other applicants in a similar situation have gotten a conditional use waiver for a similar type of thing in the city? I do not. I do not. So this is very unique. In terms of the internet capacity and then the dental, yeah, this is extremely unique. And, I mean, it's, by the face of it, it's unique. And I am a supporter of the Second Amendment, but I just have reservations for the area. My kids went to daycare there. I mean, they're through college and everything, but I just, you have a daycare. You have restaurants right there, the Chabad. What was the other? Oh, you also have another dental office which can confuse people. They could go in the wrong dental office and demand their gun or vice versa. I just, I am, I'm uneasy, I'm uneasy with this. And it's nothing against the Second Amendment. It's the location and not meeting, the use doesn't seem like it fits the character of what should be there. Thank you. My colleagues have raised a number of concerns that are my concerns as well. And I want to first, before I get to Dr. Soda, I want to ask Mr. Holmes, can you go back to the map of the location, please? Because we've had this discussion regarding other matters and the 300 feet, the notice requirement. And I will say that when we've had the discussion regarding the notice requirement, I wanted it further out. I wanted it to at least 1,000. And so we've had this discussion. And the purple boundary that we're looking at, is that what you're raising as 300 feet? Yes. Okay. So would it be correct that just outside the boundary to the northwest is the Chabad, is the house of worship? It is outside your purple boundary, is that correct? Yes. It touches it so they would have been notified. It does touch there. Okay. Can you tell me then who it was sent to and whether or not you know if anybody received it there? We will send it. We generally use the property appraiser's information. So whatever information and address, mailing address information that is identified for that parcel, that's where it would have been sent. I do not know if, I don't recall that we got that returned to us. So I would assume that it was received. And just to follow up on that one particular location, while I know you're saying based on this picture that it looks like it's touching it, do you actually have a list that identifies that Chabad was notified? I don't have the list with me. I can get you the list of parcels. Because this is a big concern, again, as has been raised before, is that sometimes these notices go to the owners of the property and not the tenants. And so while Chabad would be the owner of that property, that daycare center that is just to the right of the picture underneath the purple line, I don't know if they're the owner or if they're the tenant. I know that Broadway Bagels, that is just over in that area as well, they previously had an issue where they aren't the owner. They're a tenant. And so they weren't getting information that the owner was getting and they were having difficulty with communication. So I raised this concern because, you know, the sale of firearms close to a house of worship, close to a preschool and outside of that purple boundary, we know Central Park Elementary School. And frankly, I live very close to that as well. And my kids enjoy going to Pliable, which is right in there, and we go to public shopping centers. So, you know, my concern isn't so much that, Dr. Soto, that you would not take every precaution as possible. It's the other people that may figure out we're now on the record. They're now hearing that you're selling firearms there. You've been actually selling them for eight years there. But now this is all public, which you're doing the right thing by coming before us. But it's very concerning. And just so I know there's been no sales whatsoever since I found out this information. So there has not been any activity at all. How many sales, if you're aware, have you had in the past eight years from that location? 35? Not a lot. Again, it's a word of mouth business. There's no advertising. There's no, everything's got to be, you run the background check on this client. It's not, you know, it's not, I'm not selling to Rambo or something like that. And while I understand your request is very specific, can you meet them at another location for the sale? Other than you didn't want to do it at your home, I understand. But if you're, if you're, if it doesn't pass today, will you still be able to continue your sales but meeting at another location? I would have to transfer the business to another location, completely move the business. And a few more questions. In, while you've been standing here, when you were asked the question about inventory, I wrote down that you said no, that you have no inventory. Right. However, in, in the letter of intent that was provided to us, it says the business will have no significant inventory, which would suggest that there would be some inventory, just not a lot. So what happens if somebody orders, you know, a handgun while they're, before they come in, there's going to be inventory. That gun, it's going to be an inventory. You know what I mean? So it's, it's, it's going to be sitting there. So your, your, so your reference to no significant inventory is that on the day of sale, that would be the only time that you would be bringing that firearm onto the premises for the purpose of exchange. Right. Or until the sale is actually made. And, and the only place that I can transfer is at that location. I cannot say, oh, okay, well, I'll take my laptop to Davey and I'll transfer over there. The ATF says the only, you can answer, only transfer that weapon at that location. All right. And is there any type of duty to advise, um, your, your patients that, um, that a, a, a section of the business, um, section of the property would be used for the sale of firearms? Not that I'm aware. And, and I'm, I'm not aware of whether there is either, um, you know, one of the things that, um, occurred to me is whether as a, um, as a medical professional, whether as there's a, some type of requirement as, um, as a, as a physician, as a dentist to notify patients of this. No, because that's a, a separate, you know, business. And, and, and you have to turn on a council member. I really, all of this happened out of my, uh, ignorance, you know, the ATF comes, you go through an elaborate process to get that license. They inspect the property, they, you know, do the background checks on all that. They issue you the license. I was not aware, you know, of, of this specific, you know, issue. No, thank you. And I wasn't trying to hide. I wasn't trying to operate undercover. It was just ignorance. I don't do a lot of sales. I don't do a lot of sales. We appreciate that you're here before us. Yeah. So we appreciate that, that since, um, you're telling us that since you learned about it, that you've come before us. Um, another question. And I don't do a lot of sales or anything like, so it's not, this is just like a little hobby. You know, it's not, you know, it's not, it's not a business for me. Um, in terms of shipping, you, you said that the firearms would be shipped to the location. Is that correct? Yeah. And in terms of, and I, I don't know the answer, so it's not a rhetorical question, right? In terms of having a firearm shipped to your, your, your dental office, to this location. Um, if, uh, if, is, is a signature required to receive it? Yeah. So anybody, any, any licensed gun dealer throughout the country can ship anything via UPS, um, postal service or FedEx. It, it no different than sending a box of cookies, you know, so. And that's what I was thinking because I, I, I can tell you personally, I recently had, um, an item that was supposed to be, a signature required by UPS and they, they left it on my, um, in front of my door that they didn't require the signature. And, um, and I contact UPS very upset with them, but, um, these mistakes happen. And, um, you know, that also concerns me that it's, it's not you obtaining them and bringing them to the location, but they are going to be shipped there. Um, and, um, again, we're, we're, we're on the public record now, so now people may be looking for that. And, and just so you know, that's how all gun stores get their, get their weapons. It's just shipped. It's, there's nothing special. They don't have to come on a, on a Brinks truck or anything like that. They just send it on the, you know, and that's a way to listen for it. Which doesn't mean that it's the safest way to do things here in plantation. It's not. I agree. Yeah. Thank you. Um, I think, uh, the mayor. Thank you. Dr. Soto. Um, what is the inspection entail from the ATF? So, uh, the original, um, process that they come in and they interview, they interview the facilities. They look at, uh, front doors, back doors, access, uh, alarms and, and, and that. So are there requirements for security, um, like, like alarm security, um, gun safes? Yes. All, and all the, all the requirements were met. So there's no gun safe. But they require it. Yes, they do require it. Okay. Um, when you're processing, what's entailed with the processing of a, of the gun when you have your customer, when you receive the gun and they. So we run a, uh, a background check. That means we have a, a website. A federally mandated gun, uh, background check. Yes. Yes. And if you don't, and say you pass out the, the mandatory, um, you know, uh, check. If the client has a concealed weapon permit, they get to take that gun the same day. So you still, like if they don't have it, they have to wait, I forget how many. Five days. They have to wait five days. In Broward County. Yes. So they come in, they do the paperwork. Conceal weapons permit, then they have to wait five days. So they come twice to you. Correct. Receive that gun. Correct. If you have a concealed weapons permit, you do the paperwork and they can leave with the gun. Correct. Okay. Um, I have an office. I've never had FedEx, UPS, any of the shipping companies leave something at the door when we weren't there. They always take it with it. Have you ever had any, not specific to your gun, but maybe to your dental practice, um, has UPS, FedEx, Amazon, whoever you're ordering from, any courier service, have they ever left anything at your door when the door was locked? No, they never do. Do you ever, um, have your neighbors collect, um, your shipments? Like the, uh, put a sign on the window, UPS, please, um, deliver this to my neighbor, um, office? No, I never do. Okay. Um, I'm a CPA. So when I hear inventory, when you're receiving something, it's already been sold. Is that correct? Correct. So that's not inventory. That's someone's, um, purchase. Yeah, it's just, uh, the ATF considers inventory until you transfer. Well, I understand. It's just a package. There's items in there. Correct. And you said 35 sales over eight years? Correct. So, I mean, like in your, um, in your, uh, uh, what's the intention letter? Is that what's called, Danny? Yeah. I, I think you said one to five. So that, that sounds like even less than one to five, you know, um, it's one every several months and stuff. Um, it's 88 square feet, so it's certainly not an armory. Um, out of the, it's 7% of his, his location. Um, I would say with concealed weapon permit and constitutional carry, there's more guns in public's parking lot than there's ever going to be guns at any one time in your office. Would you, you think that's a? Without a doubt. Without a doubt. I think people would be surprised who's legally carrying. And then I want to put a point to this that we're regulating a lawful, um, service. So, you personally can't receive a gun, um, through the mail. It has to go through, uh, a federal firearms licensee. And it has to be received by a federal firearms licensee. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. So, and there's a couple of things there. We're dealing with someone who wants to do lawful. And going through the federal process, a lot of people don't like to go through that federal process because they don't want to be on the radar and stuff like that. And there's other avenues for people, maybe legal and illegal, that don't have to go through the federal process. But these are people who are friends, family, word of mouth, that someone's, um, referring you, saying that this is an upstanding person. You're not going to have a problem with them. I think you're looking for a level of, because obviously you have a day job and you don't want this messing up your day job. You're, you're very. Correct. Okay. Um, I'm concerned about looking at the staff backup and we, and all the conditions have been met and there's no ammo. There's no accessories. It's specific to somebody, someone ordering it, the staff recommendation. Yes. I think we're going down a bad path. Um, because I don't see where we're hanging our hat to, um, say no to this request. Um, city attorney Ezra, is there any, are we going down a bad path with this based on, um, the council's comments saying that they don't feel comfortable supporting this? I don't know how to answer that question about bad path, but I, I just want to remind everybody that there is a statute 790.33, which does preempt significantly the purchase, sale, transfer, taxation, et cetera, relative to firearms and ammunition. There is an exception, uh, which this application does fall under for purposes of consideration. When the exception, I'm going to read it from the statute, uh, subsection for a, the section does not prohibit zoning ordinances that encompass firearm businesses along with other businesses, except that zoning ordinances that are designed for the purpose of restricting or prohibiting the sale, purchase, transfer, or manufacturer of firearms or ammunitions as a method of regulating. Firearms or ammunitions are in conflict with this subsection and are prohibited. So what we're dealing with the way, when I looked at the, uh, city code, um, our, uh, code section lists multiple uses within this zoning district as conditional. So this is part of the zoning process, um, by which this application is being processed for this particular business, just like any other business that is listed as a conditional use would be processed and considered. Is this considered rezoning? It's not a rezoning. Because it's an acceptable, but it has to be conditional. Correct. It's listed as a conditional use in the particular zoning district along with other listed conditional uses within this zoning district. And I guess when I say going down a bad path, I'm talking about the statute. Are we putting ourselves in peril because there's significant penalties as an elected, are we heading down that path or do you feel? I can't speculate what might happen as a result of a negative ruling. Again, um, there are significant penalty provisions. Um, again, it, but are we delving into that? And I know you, you, you, you can't, you're not, you're saying that you can't speculate on that. So ultimately that would be a decision for a court or a governor to make whether or not any individual member or city council as a group is violating the preemption provisions of the statute. I'm not aware of governor taking action against anybody, uh, uh, under this statute. I'm not aware of any cases that have held that a particular zoning ordinance is in conflict. Okay. Um, thank you. Council President. Councilmember Roiland. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, how many employees do you have? Dr. Soto? At the dental office. In which? Oh, I have, um, nine employees. And do they ever receive packages? No. You don't have supplies shipped to the dental office and you're the only one who accepts? Technically, when it comes to stat, I'm the only one that can receive that package. Okay. Um, and I was a little confused about, you said that when ATF originally came in and you were awarded the license, the original license and they did the inspection and everything. And they, and they looked and saw that you had a business tax license with the city of plantation under the dental office. But now I'm being, I'm hearing from, um, Mr. Holmes that the reason you're before us tonight is because ATF flagged this. Well, we have inspections, yearly inspections. Right. So at this inspection that came up, it's never come up before. So it didn't come up in the original inspection, but it came up this time. Correct. Um, okay. I, I still stand by and I think that there are reasons why we have, uh, conditional use, uh, in the city of plantation. I still say this, it's inconsistent. Uh, I don't want to prevent anyone from running a business, but as you said, this is more of a hobby. Um, I, I'm a little uncomfortable with you. I want to take you at your word that you said this was unintentional, but you've been a businessman for 30 years, uh, and a responsible businessman in the city, uh, plantation for very long. Yeah. I just have to wonder why a license wasn't applied for before now. So, um, not comfortable with the inconsistencies in some of the information you provided. Again, it wasn't intentional. It was just, you know, I was not told you need to have a license, a separate license for that. The ATF didn't bring it up. There was no, uh, it was really ignorance. Okay. It was not intentional. Thank you. Council member. Enjoy. Attorney Ezra. I have a question for you, please. I'm glad you referred to that statute. And I was also looking at 790.115, which talks about no school or daycare being within a thousand feet, because that's really, um, my angst here. Uh, you know, we've already experienced tragedy in Broward County. And I just, there, there's no way I could approve this with that daycare within feet and steps. And I would want to see actual letters that went out to those parents that they could attend this meeting tonight or a community meeting that they would be okay with this. But just so you know, the ATF looked at all this and they were perfectly comfortable issuing the license. So it's not, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying I was going by federal law, you know, and they gave me the license. So. I understand. And again, the people that I sell, this is not like, you know, like Joe Blokov's in the office. Only somebody that gets approved by the state of Florida gets the weapon. So I don't make the approval the state of Florida does. I understand. And the federal government said you can, you can selling guns from there. I have not approved a liquor store, right? So I wouldn't want a liquor store being within feet of children. So if you think you don't want a liquor store being within a thousand feet, I absolutely wouldn't feel comfortable with having any type of weapons for sale within a thousand feet of children with the daycare within an elementary school. I understand your feeling. I was just going by the ATF, but the federal government told me, yes, you can do this. So that's all I'm saying. Thank you. And next one's me. And just to clarify is that that if if this conditional use was not was not permitted today, it won't prevent you from maintaining your own personal collection of firearms. No. In any way. Correct. That's correct. And as I voiced, I'm very concerned with with the notice. I'm very concerned with this fitting in with with the surrounding environment. And so I'm troubled by this conditional use. I wanted to ask one other question. And this was in regards to something that the mayor asked you regarding the the time period of your initial background check is five days and then you wait another five days. Is that how does that work? No. So five days from the approval from the state. So what the background check. So what point does a does the person call you as the sale at this point of sale and say we want to purchase it and you are bringing it to the you would be bringing it to the location. Like how does what's the timing work because the way I understood it is that if the person comes to you that first time to to pick it up and then says that and then there they don't have the concealed weapons permit. Then then there's five days have to pass before they have to come back. Correct. Okay. So what so the firearm would then wait there for five days until the person returns. That's correct. Okay. So just to be clear then is that you know that we were questioning how to define inventory and you clarified that how you determine inventory. But even in a even in a broader definition of inventory it's sitting there for five days before it is before it would be sold and turned over to properly you know permitted you know background check purchaser. Yes. Okay. Okay. I don't have any further questions. Council member Andrea. I'm sorry. This is for Mr. Holmes. I'm going back to the local business tax receipt. I have an issue with this as well. So I spoke to a resident and I mentioned it I think two weeks ago or four weeks ago who has a dog walking business and did not renew her local business tax receipt and has accumulated daily fines. And now we have a business owner who has not had a tax a local business tax receipt for eight years. There's not one fine. Where is the equity in that. If our code I don't know how under our code I can you know assess a penalty to him. If the code permitted that I would assess the penalty. We might need to rethink that then as we're working on revising codes. Yes. We did put a similar provision in the vacation rental ordinance. But when I look at the fees I mean we will charge when we process business tax receipts we charge according to the fee schedule. So I but I understand the question and I understand the point. Thank you. Thank you. We also have some comments from the public. If Dr. Soto if you want to you can be seated for a moment. Dr. Holmes you can sit down and we'll sorry Mr. Holmes I've given you a doctorate there. First up. But Miss Tanya Reed Tracy Merlin on deck. Good evening. I'm a little bit nervous about this quasi judicial. I've made many comments in front of city council before. Mr. I'll just stop you for one moment. Can you just confirm that you were sworn in please. Yes. I was. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. And we got to go put the clock back. Go ahead. Okay. My name is Tanya Reed and I am a resident of plantation at 9833 Northwest Fifth Court. My family and I have lived here in the beautiful and safe city of plantation for over 27 years. I consider myself an informed citizen of the city and keep up with local happenings. I also get the agenda emailed to me. I love that feature by the way. I also volunteer in various organizations, one of which was a gun violence prevention group. So I'm attuned to gun safety issues. Which brings me to why I am here. I was informed through word of mouth about a petition from a business here in our community, as we've just heard, in Plantation Promenade, which it's .6 miles away from our house. Imagine my surprise when I saw in the city agenda a petition for a small business to extend their license to sell guns from their dental office. Stat Enterprises LLC owned by Dr. Soto would like to sell guns online and have his clients pick them up at his dental office. Again, I ask the same question. Have his clients been informed of this intention? This office is located in an extremely busy plaza, frequented by our most vulnerable, our children. Directly across the street is a preschool, a pediatric dentist, a martial arts studio, and a Huntington Learning Center. I visited all these places, by the way. And I did ask them if they received a letter of intent. And not one person told me they did. So again, it could have gone to the building owner. That happens, as we know. In a further distance, but within, you know, reasonable amount, I guess more than 1,000 feet, is Central Park Elementary School and two Jewish places of worship. One of them, the Chabad, is right on that border, of course. I visited a few of these businesses, again, as a concerned citizen, to inform them what was being proposed. The remarks were of surprise and shock that this was possible. There were concerns of safety for their businesses and clients. I asked the petitioner if he was here today, will there be extra security at the office? Because I and many other community members are concerned about safety. He says that there would be no signage and all sales would be by word of mouth. Word of mouth is a very powerful marketing tool, and it can be good or bad. Word of mouth can make or break a business, but it can also spread to the wrong people. People intent on mischief. Possibly there could be someone that finds out that there is a dentist selling guns out of his office. They may not know the name of the dentist or the correct address, so that puts the other dental offices around the plaza at risk. I will relay to you a situation that outlines what I just said about the power of word of mouth. I visited many businesses to inform them of the potentially dangerous situation. May I finish? Thank you. I did not say Dr. Soto's name while I was speaking with a worker at a business, when I said a dentist in your area wants to sell guns from their office. A client overheard me and went into the dentist next door, not Dr. Soto's, and asked them if they were the ones selling guns at their office, and they were visibly upset as relayed to me by an office worker. The office workers also did not care to be involved in this as well. An illustration of the power of word of mouth. Now imagine if someone hears this and is intent on robbing said office. There are three dentists in the near vicinity, one in three. I don't like those odds. Do you? I asked the dais and the distinguished council members in the act and Mayor Fajan to consider the safety risks associated with this petition for an extension on the business owned by Dr. Ernie Soto to sell online weapons in this location. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you, Ms. Reed. Ms. Marlin, followed by Jessica Valantuela. Good evening, Mayor, council members. My name is Tracy Merlin. I live at 9876 Northwest Second Street Plantation. I've been a resident here for 25 years. In addition to being a resident of plantation, I am a public school teacher for 25 years. In addition to that, in my spare time, I have been an activist, and I have been a former state commissioner for the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. We have to zoom out here for a moment. Teachers are spending time every single month practicing lockdown drills because of firearms falling into the wrong hands. And I understand that that's not exactly what this is about, but that's where I connect. Because I heard words coming from Dr. DeSoto as unintentional, not on purpose. I didn't realize those words should not be communicated when it comes to firearm sales, whether it's by word of mouth or whether it's by an online sale. People who are purchasing firearms, of course, need to have deliberate background checks and all the things that go into place. But I have to share with you that I'm also the granddaughter of a dentist. My grandfather did something remarkable out of his dental office. He practiced dentistry, which is what Dr. DeSoto should be continuing to do. I was mortified when I learned that he has no intention of telling his clients, his patients, that he will not be providing firearm sales through that office. There is a great deal of ignorance about what is happening and has led to tremendous dangerous situations, as some of the council members have mentioned as well. As a second grade teacher, I can tell you there are some things that are just not good ideas. Providing my children with sharp scissors and having them run around is just not a good idea. Regardless of what the precedent is, you just have to go with common sense sometimes. I was in a dental office in that plaza yesterday with my daughter while she was getting her braces rewired. The idea that somebody could walk in thinking that they were either going to be in an establishment that was providing gun sales or being able to possibly get a hold of a gun in the same plaza that I was in yesterday with my daughter is terrifying. The fact that there's the daycare so close by, there is no way on this earth that those parents know that this situation is on tonight's agenda. I can say that as a teacher of 25 years. Because parents get upset if you mark something incorrect on a paper. They will be at your door the next morning. There is no way those parents know that this is taking place. And that blindness is not a level of confidence that plantation needs to be providing. We need to make sure that we are keeping this community safe. It is an unbelievable city with a great plaza who's not excited about PDQ. But if you think people are going to go there after this happens, we haven't, we haven't crossed that bridge yet. But this is not the right choice for plantation. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Merlin. Ms. Valenzuela. Good evening. And I would like to also say thank you to Ms. Merlin. I'm also a granddaughter of a dentist and a great granddaughter of a rabbi. Ms. Valenzuela, can you confirm that you were sworn in? I was sworn in. Great. Thank you. Please continue. Thank you. I ask you, esteemed council members and Mayor Fadgen, tonight to recognize that the leading cause of death in children in America is death by gun violence. In the Publix at Plantation Promenade, which is seven minutes walking distance from my home where I'm raising my 12-year-old. Where Mr. Soto intends to sell one to five guns a month, which is what I've ascertained from the backup materials. And I'd like to paint the picture of that busy intersection, with Central Park Elementary School sitting prominently at the southwest corner, as well as multiple businesses catering to children, including Huntington Learning Center, Art Paper Scissors, Martial Arts Academy, and this plaza also boasts multiple family and pediatric dentistry and orthodontic practices. As a long-time plantation resident and as a parent and an advocate and an activist, when I see this come into my city council's agenda, I first pictured the plaza and the scores of children every week lining the sidewalks and businesses nearby. My next step was clearing my schedule to protect our children and our community, and I hope you do the same tonight. Does this council want to grant one to five opportunities every month for a gun buyer to walk into a business and purchase a gun from the back room of a family dental office? One that sits among schools' after-school programs, tutoring centers, preschools, daycares, banks, and two Jewish places of worship? If council were to approve this request, a dangerous precedent would be set. What will stop any other firearms dealers from opening in our city? It wasn't only reading through the backup items that brought me here today. It was the outcry of other concerned residents in our city. That's how word of mouth works. Word of mouth brought me here tonight, and word of mouth is a powerful marketing tool. I've run a successful word of mouth business for almost 25 years. If approved, I imagine that word of mouth will also be the way news travels that our city and our children and families, that this city that we currently feel safe in has a new gun dealer at the back room of a family dental office. One where you can set an appointment with the doctor to obtain a gun that you purchased online. You know the plaza, the one in between our beloved public elementary school, two conservative Jewish temples, a couple of preschools, a martial arts academy, an arts and crafts studio, and less than a mile from three different city parks. Let's create the city that we want for our children in the future. I'd like to leave you now with a reminder that firearms contributed to the death of more children ages 1 to 17 in this country than any other type of injury or illness. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Valenzuela. Any further comments from the public? Any further comments from Council? Is there a motion on item 15? Motion to deny. Second. Point of order, City Attorney? Do we need a motion if we're denying it or simply no motion at all? There should be action taken on this item. It is a quasi-judicial item, so I would suggest for purposes of creating a record that there be action taken rather than no action taken. Thank you very much. City Clerk, it's been moved and seconded. Please call the roll. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andreu? Yes. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, we have comments by the Mayor. Thank you, Council President Reinstein. At the last meeting, we had a presentation by businesses for Arts of Broward. Mayor, is your microphone on? It's on. Just, now we can hear you. There you go. Thank you. You awake? Starting over. Last week, we had a, that mic picks up my voice better. I might come here tomorrow after my meetings and unplug it. Last week, we had a, or last meeting, we had a meeting, a presentation from businesses for the Arts of Broward. Um, we've identified a place for the mural. Uh, they're excited about it. It's going to be at the, well, we've still got some work to do, but, um, uh, possibly at the Park East Trailhead Park. Hopefully, maybe soon to be Kingsley Smith Park. So, uh, so that's exciting, because when does government work that fast? New sheriff in town. Just kidding. Just kidding. Um, ton of budget meetings. Um, so it's definitely a different perspective for me. I don't think we get our books usually until, I don't know, when do we get them? August. Yeah. So it's exhausting and unexpected to, uh, be in these meetings, but it feels like we've gone through almost half of the, uh, department. So, uh, busy, busy days, and, um, we're continuing the initiatives of Mayor Swartle. Um, and those are the budgets that are being presented to me in those meetings. And, um, as you would expect, and as you have experienced, have been thoughtful and, um, tough decisions are being made. And, um, um, the process has been, been very, very enlightening. And, and, um, I think what everyone would expect. So, um, tomorrow. Now, I don't want to get everybody really excited about this, but Saratage is taking bids to, uh, um, for someone to purchase that property. Um, we actually had someone come in and do, who's going to make a bid. And, and I don't want to give them any details, but I think it, it's in line with the, um, vision that we have for the Broward Mall. And I think we had another call from another bidder. And I think what they had in mind was something that would be in line with what we'd want to see happening with the Broward Mall. So that, that's, that's really exciting. Um, had the mayor, uh, the mayor's, uh, interfaith prayer breakfast. That's one of my favorite events. And, uh, they had over 220 people there. So it was out, uh, the attendance was outstanding and, uh, that was, uh, awesome. And then last Friday, the lock, uh, last, uh, rock the park of the season. Great job. The parks and rec, it was a great season. Then, um, the numbers were outstanding and, uh, and it's just growing and growing. It's fantastic with the community coming out and, uh, um, being entertained together and, and enjoying the, our community. And then the last thing is happy Mother's Day. So thank you. And the rock, the park's a good place to celebrate your birthday. Happy birthday, John. Should we sing? Councilmember Anderson. Just reiterate, reiterate my comments. Happy Mother's Day. Happy teacher appreciation. And yes, rock the park. Great. All of the above. And, um, and interfaith breakfast. So ditto. Thank you. Councilmember Andrew. Thank you, President Reinstein. So I'm going to go in a different direction. Um, I've been having a conversation with administration regarding bench ads. So I wanted to work with the drug impaired driving prevention campaign, which I'm sure many of you are familiar with the ad council, which is sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And so, um, in lieu of what we have been discussing, traffic concerns, distracted drivers, and I've noticed so many of our benches, um, needing ads. They've been blank, right? And then I also recently had seen some, because I know we have some rules regarding, you know, we don't do any campaigning and we have some very strict rules about these bench ads. But then I've also recently seen some where, uh, we do have, um, Mayor Sortel and doing a lot of outreach and promoting the website and the newsletter. So I always want to come here before my colleagues as well as the community before just going out and doing any of my own initiatives. But this is something I wanted to bring to the council, see if we had support for it. I already have purchased a bench ad as part of Relay for Life. I won that bench ad raffle, so I thought of, so I thought of this would be a great way to, um, you know, advertise something I personally believe in and I'm sure, you know, there's a lot of support for that. Uh, we don't want anybody obviously driving impaired. So, uh, I wanted to see if, you know, we had a consensus about it. How do we want to move forward? Um, there's a lot of blank, empty bench ads, benches in our city. So if you'd like a consensus, I think it's a great idea. And since you mentioned the bet, but the bench bench ads, I know that they, the company gives us a certain amount of benches that the city can advertise on. Um, I'm glad you brought that up because we've talked about branding in the city. Um, I don't think anybody's face should be on the best bench unless they are a realtor buying a best bench. But I think with the city, I just think that we should be putting the city brand out there and not advertising, um, any one individual that goes for all of us, that goes for the mayor. So I think that we need to be very consistent in the city messaging, but I love the public awareness messaging. And I think if it's something that, um, you want to bring, bring forward and maybe there's some other, um, avenues you want to look at that administration could approve. But, um, I would absolutely agree in that. I think it's a good use of the best benches. Um, just to be clear, so you don't want a picture of all of us on the bench ad. Is that what you were just, I do not want that. I adore you all, but no. May I? Yeah, please. Are you talking about the, the bench ads that are already designed to have the ad and they're just blank right now? The ones that are allocated for ads? They're not blank, but they say call to, they want you to purchase, right? Their marketing because a lot of them, I don't have an exact number, but a lot of them are looking for, So are we with, do you know if we're within our allotment? Yeah. I, you'd have to check. I, I definitely, if you want consensus, I definitely support it, but I don't know what that arrangement is and it would, deserves looking into. And if we're with, if we're under allotment, we should utilize it for a good cause, certainly. And if we're not, and they're not using it, maybe we should ask for more. When they're, when they're, when they're not at capacity, we should maybe exceed, we should, we should utilize that excess capacity. So, so yeah. Council Member Andreu, maybe we can ask the administration to get back to us with some more information as to what our relationship is with the bench ads, what's available. And once we have more information, maybe we can go from there. Mayor. Perfect. Thank you. Mayor. You on that? Thank you. Thank you for that input. And a question. For clarity, Jason's on it. A question for, I believe it may be for Ms. Morris. I just wanted to know, and you might not have it yet, but I think we have two different, if I, and correct me if I'm wrong, two different surveys going. So we have a public access survey, and then we also have a community survey. And one is the one that, in essence, we're paying the consultant for, the third party vendor for, and then one we're doing ourselves on like SurveyMonkey. Is that accurate? Or Laura? Or both of you. Or both? The ADA access survey, which is on SurveyMonkey, is still out there. The consultant survey is out there, and the public access survey is out there on SurveyMonkey. Okay. We are in the process of reining in the ADA survey so that we can tabulate results and give you some direction as to how to proceed. Okay. Because that was my concern. Because I mentioned it before. It's, it's, it's a bit survey overload, survey fatigue. I, I come, exactly. I, I know I completed one, and it, it was very lengthy, and I was also concerned that it wasn't anonymous. So I'm very curious to see, because at the end of the survey, it asked me for all of, you know, my address. I don't know if it said name, I don't remember, but definitely my address had to be in there. And I know we want plantation residents, but I also thought we wanted some anonymity if people are going to really give us, you know, true feedback. So, again, just some concerns that I voiced previously and kind of readdressing. Thank you for those comments. We do have the community survey out. It's actually wrapping up. We already received the number of responses that the consultant is supposed to get per their contract. They are going to take a look at the representation from those surveys to see if they need to do additional sampling to make sure that all the demographics, all the areas of the city are represented. But we are wrapping that, that up. They're just waiting for the surveys that have been mailed to, to roll in. So that's concluding soon. And for, in terms of the survey monkey, we just wanted to make sure that if any of the residents felt that they have not received the survey, because obviously this is based on a statistically significant sample, that we still provide opportunities to share just general feedback, that we can supplement the survey results with, you know, with just general comments from the public. But you're not going to mix those two? No, they're not going to be mixed. But again, if we're getting survey results and we get some scores in some area that are maybe lower or maybe higher, and the comments that come in from Survey Monkey tell us some, like, little areas where maybe we can improve, we can use that as a qualitative data to supplement the comments that we get from the survey, just in addition to. Okay, thank you. And then just a few other announcements. So May 13th, Friends of the Library will have their installation of officers and the presentation of the annual gift. I won't be able to attend. Unfortunately, it will be at 10.30 a.m. But I will do a plug, a shameless plug. It's also time to renew our memberships. So if you're not a friend of the library, I encourage you to join. Wonderful to have our own library right here in the city. I also want to thank Ms. Morris, I think, or Laura, or both, for organizing the City of Plantation sponsored legislative update scheduled for June 27th at 6 p.m. I spoke to Rep Campbell and I'm looking forward to that meeting. And then May is Haitian Heritage Month. We want to celebrate the rich culture, art, food, and history of all of our Haitian residents and also bring awareness to May being Haitian Heritage Month. And as we mentioned earlier, Mental Health Awareness Month, and we'll bring that proclamation back at our next meeting. That concludes all of my comments. Thank you. President Reinstein. Thank you, Councilmember Andreo. And I'm going to let Councilmember Horland go last because I think there may be some dress up involved. But so first I wanted to mention, I know that Councilmember Anderson mentioned teacher appreciation. And I want to thank the Plantation Chamber of Commerce for their wonderful luncheon today. that was honoring our teachers of the year and our educators of the year. And I had a chance to say a few words there. And as having spent four years teaching at a small private school, middle school, and high school, and knowing how hard they work, and knowing how much time and energy and effort teachers put into their work, they should be appreciated. Much more than just today, but it was nice to be able to honor them today at that luncheon. Happy Mother's Day coming up. Because I have the opportunity, I will say Happy Mother's Day in advance to my mom, to my mother-in-law, and to my wife. And I wanted to mention, we talked about during the proclamation that it's Israel's Independence Day, their 76th birthday celebration, and I want to make sure that the public was aware that at the David Posnack JCC, which is actually the one in Davie, on Sunday, May 19th, they're having a big 76-year celebration. And the public is invited to RSVP and register for that. Also, I think we all probably got it, but, and I didn't have a chance to reach out to the building department myself, but a letter of commendation came, came in, maybe, I don't know if everybody got it, but it was a letter of commendation for Mr. Wayne Wilson. And I thought that it was wonderful that this, the Whites group decided to reach out on their own and just, and throw some nice words to Mr. Wilson. It said that, in dealing with Mr. Wilson, I learned to appreciate his sincere attitude and the positive projection of the image of the building official, the department, and the city of Plantation. So, wanted to publicly share that, because that was nice. And, and lastly, I had mentioned to Mr. Neunemaker in advance that I had gotten a request to get an update on, on Dyke Auditorium. Apparently that we actually have some organizations that are interested in returning to Dyke, and that also store some of the records and supplies in Dyke. And so they are, are eager to return there. So if Mr. Neunemaker, if we can get an update on that, please. Good evening again. Unfortunately, probably not an update they would like to hear. So we have plans that are being submitted for a dry run for the roof over the next couple of weeks. Once we get those back, we'll go out to bid. And then we're probably looking at six months soup to nuts before we get that, the roof replaced. We have at least two renovations that are going to display staff coming up. In the, in the shorter term, Central Park multi-purpose building, we're looking to do an interior renovation there, both on the first and second floor. Longer term, we're, as you all know, we're working on development services building. So as the annex finishes up, engineering staff will be moving into that building. We will be redeveloping both the first and second floor. That's a longer term project. But both of those projects are going to display staff. So in conversations with Parks and Rec, I think, and we agree that it would probably be best to keep that facility offline while we're using it for that purpose instead of moving in and moving out. That said, we'll try to make accommodations for, I understand there's some storage issues and if there are meeting space issues. We'll try to sharpen those timelines, but some of them are just contingent upon planning issues. Like we're finalizing the plans for the multi-purpose building. And I feel like we're almost done with the plans at the development services building. But that is a much more complex project, displacing more people. So even Daiki is not going to facilitate all of that. So we're going to have to evaluate, once we have the annex, what might that accommodate? What can we accommodate in this building? So there will be a lot of moving parts with that. So maybe just in summary of all of that, because that was a lot of information and I appreciate it, is that just to bring back to the residents with a conservative estimate, when can we tell some of these organizations that they may be able to utilize Daiki again? I think we're looking at probably a couple of years. Okay. So what I'd like to do is get with CAP projects, kind of put a better timeline on that, or a more definitive timeline. But in the meantime, work on the storage aspect and the meeting aspect, you know, since they've been displaced. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Council Member Moreland. Thank you, Mr. President. Again, I want to wish everybody a happy Teacher Appreciation Week. Last week, Council Member Reinstein, Mayor Fadgen, and I attended the town hall at Dillard High School. I did request that in this reimagining they not forget Plantation Middle and Plantation High School, and to please reach out to the city and the elected officials and have that conversation. Next week, if anybody is interested, Plantation High School, 5 o'clock. The Broward School Board will be holding their workshop there where they'll be receiving information from all of these town halls and absorbing that. Not yet making decisions, but working on that. So 5 o'clock, Plantation High School if you're interested. And you may be wondering why we have CAPES behind us. Dun, dun, dun. So you've heard me talk about May 17th and the Super Reader Day of Plantation High School. I'm very excited about this. We did have our CAPES making event, which I spoke about at the last meeting. You have to use a drawstring, Mr. President. We have 17 readers from the City of Plantation, our heroes from the fire and police department, are joining us. We have a couple of other departments, including finance and the council. And I found that my colleagues have hidden talents. So Council President Reinstein makes a great CAPES and Councilmember Andreu made these for us. So we'll be reading to the CAPES. Oh, you're putting on the mask. Do you recognize me? You can model your CAPES. So thank you, Councilmember Andreu, for our CAPES. See, that would be a great picture of Michelle. So I just want to wish everybody. Oh, look, Lucy wants to get a picture. Okay, hold on. Come on. I'll stand up. Yeah. Oh, come on, Mr. Mayor. I packed up already. I want to go home. Are we walking? Can you get it? Yeah? So thank you for indulging us. It's going to be a really fun day for the kids and getting them on grade level. So thank you. And again, happy Mother's Day to everyone. Thank you. No further business at 8.59. This meeting is adjourned.