City Council — Nov 8, 2023

Good evening and welcome to the City of Plantation Council meeting for Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. Our meeting is now called to order. City Clerk, please call the roll. Council Member Anderson. Here. Council Member Andreu. Here. Council Member Fajon. Here. Council Member Horland. Here. Council Member Weinstein. Here. Mayor Sortle. Here. City Attorney Ezra. Here. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Beggarrow. Tonight's opening remarks and Pledge of Allegiance will be provided by Council Member Weinstein. Thank you very much. And before we begin, we soon will be observing Veterans Day. And I want to first thank JROTC Instructor Major Hankins for your service. He's in the back here. If we can give him a round of applause, please. And we'll thank you, Major Hankins, for your service and all of our veterans for the protections they afford us. We honor and thank you. And now I'll ask if everybody will rise for the procession of colors. Join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated, everyone. So we're very fortunate this morning, this evening, excuse me, to have the JROTC cadets from South Plantation High School. We have cadet First Lieutenant Dorothy Etienne. Yes. And I'm going to ask that each of you introduce yourself, tell us what your rank is, and please let us know why you joined the JROTC. I'm cadet First Lieutenant Dorothy Etienne. I'm a left four. The reason why I joined JROTC is because it taught me discipline and the real meaning of teamwork. Beautiful. Thank you. Hello. I am cadet Fremontine Paul. I am a private, and the reason I joined ROTC is to become a better person and have better teamwork for future references. Thank you. Wonderful. Hello. I'm private Josiah Mathias. The reason I joined ROTC is to learn better leadership skills. Thank you. Good evening. I am cadet private Peyton Petratis, and I joined JROTC to become a better person and better contribute to my society. Thank you. Hello. My name is Cadence Russell. I'm a private, and I joined JROTC to become prepared for the real world. Fantastic. Can we give a round of applause to all of them? Thank you for joining us tonight. Left face. March. So as they're leaving, I'll just give a little bit more information. The Paladin Battalion was established at South Plantation in 1997. In recent years, the program has an average enrollment of 190 cadets. The program also has four extracurricular teams, drill competition team, color guard, robotics team, and a JROTC academic and leadership bowl team. The drill team and color guard competition team have qualified for the state championship for the past two years. And the robotics team has qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championship to compete in the JROTC national championship for the past two years. And you had the opportunity to meet Major Hankins, who was introduced earlier. And we have Staff First Sergeant King, who is not here today. But they have a total combined of 53 years of military service to the program. So we thank them all for their service. So now I'd like to make some remarks separate from the introduction of the South Plantation High School, JROTC. Typically, the opening remarks time is used for prayers or poems or other announcements that council members have. I'm going to share some of what's on my mind and share some history with everybody. In one 24-hour period last week, the hashtag, HitlerWasRight, was posted over 20,000 times on social media. There are chants around our country for time to finish what Hitler started and gassed the Jews. And Jewish students are being taunted, harassed, and forced to hide in locked libraries as angry crowds seek them out. Maybe some of you are familiar with the quote from the Spanish philosopher, George Santayana. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The next question is whether anybody is familiar with the word Kristallnacht. Well, tomorrow is the 85th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, also known in German as Kristallnacht or Pogromnacht. The event that it refers to was an attack on the Jewish community in Germany. And the name refers to all of the glass of homes, businesses, and synagogues which were destroyed. The attack started on November 9th and ran through to November 10th in 1938. This was the first public action by the Nazis, an organized attack on the Jews of Germany, which the Nazis said was spontaneous, which was followed by blaming the Jews of Germany for the destruction of their own property. The Nazis then ordered the Jewish community to pay a tax, to pay for the cleanup, of which was then followed by a series of anti-Jewish laws and edicts. It was after this event that 30,000 Jews were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. This was the start of the massive arrest of Jews just because they were Jews. This moment in time, 85 years ago, is when some historians point to that because of the lack of response from the world to this event, Hitler pushed ahead and believed he would not be stopped with the rest of his plan to make Germany and Europe Judenrein, which means free of Jews. This was 85 years ago, yet it feels like today for many Jews. For this reason, I want to take the time to thank everyone in our great city for standing with the Jewish community and the call to bring the hostages home. I also want to publicly thank the city of Lauderhill for a prayer vigil that they held last week, which Councilmember Horland and I attended, with rabbis and Christian religious leaders that showed their support for Israel and prayed for the return of the hostages. We are now on 32 days, approaching 33 days since the kidnapping by the Hamas terrorists of about 245 people. Babies as young as nine months old were kidnapped, taken hostage with children, women, elderly, and disabled. We may have turned the clocks back this past weekend, but we will not turn the clocks back to 1938. I ask that everybody who is so inclined, please continue your prayers for the return of the hostages, your prayers for the safety of all of Israel, and all of the innocents being used as human shields in Gaza, and pray for the safety of our very own plantation firefighter, Aston Bright, who, if you are not aware, he is over in Israel right now volunteering with Israel's National Fire Service and making us all proud. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilmember Reinstein. Items submitted by the mayor. Our first proclamation is for Diwali Day, and I see we have a beautiful- Councilmember Reinstein has graciously agreed to read it, and I can go down there and stand, because that's what I do best. And I would be remiss if I did not also acknowledge one of our school board members that is present with us tonight, a school board member, Brenda Pham. Thank you so much for being here. I actually do have a copy to read, just in case. And I'll ask if Farida Rajkumar, as well as anybody who's with you from the community, if you want to come up and join us for the proclamation reading. Everybody's in a treat for a show-and-tell tonight. We have a wonderful community, so let me start this proclamation. It's a wonderful opportunity to welcome our Hindu community. The proclamation is as such. Whereas our Hindu community, and over one billion celebrants worldwide, reverently observe the festival of Diwali, the festival of lights, symbolizing the victory of Dharma and good over evil, knowledge over ignorance. And whereas Diwali is one of the most celebrated festivals of great significance to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists. And whereas Diwali falls on Sunday, November 12th this year, in accordance with the lunar calendar, and brings together families, friends, and communities here in the United States and around the globe in goodwill, peace, and a shared sense of renewal. And whereas the U.S. Congress officially passed unanimous resolutions since 2007, recognizing the religious and historical significance of Diwali. And whereas celebrants renew their commitment to upholding values of truth and restraint through their thoughts, words, and actions. And whereas Diwali is a time for Dana, charitable giving, and Seva, selfless service, by bringing light in the form of wisdom, knowledge, nourishment, and shelter, in order to alleviate the tangible forms of suffering, such as hunger, disease, and poverty. And whereas the holiday of Diwali signifies a special time of peace and serenity, with the hope of building bridges of understanding, and tearing down barriers of intolerance. And whereas Diwali is celebrated by many Hindus as the time Krishna is believed to have protected his devotees from severe storms, by lifting a hill called Kvartan, under which they all took shelter. And honor this day as the first day of the new year, and celebrate by exchanging gifts and showing gratitude for all they have in their life. And whereas Diwali is a festival of lights, during which celebrants light dias, small oil lamps, place them around the home and pray for knowledge, peace, and universal well-being. And whereas for Sikhs, Diwali is celebrated as the day that the Sikhs founder, Sikh guru, or revered teacher, Guru Hargabind, was released from captivity. And whereas for Jains, Diwali marks the anniversary of the attainment of moksha, or liberation, by Mahavira, the last of the Tirtankas, the great teacher of Jain Dharma, at the end of his life in 527 BCE. And whereas for Buddhists, especially Nuwar Buddhists, Diwali is commemorated as Ashok, Vijay Dharashami, where Emperor Ashok embraced Buddhism as his faith. And whereas the City of Plantation proudly expresses its deepest respect for Indian Americans and South Asian Americans throughout the world and here in our community, and recognize the contributions of all Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, active in all aspects of our vibrant economy and civic society. And whereas the City of Plantation hereby recognizes the religious and historical significance of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, and Diwali's message of tolerance, compassion, and the victory of good over evil, which resonates with the American spirit. Now, therefore, Mayor Nick Sortal and the City Council of Plantation hereby recognizes Sunday, November 12, 2023, as Diwali Day in the City of Plantation. And we call upon the residents of Plantation to join us in recognizing this important observance. Before I say my words of gratitude, I would actually like to call up one of an esteemed student in our community to recite a universal prayer for peace with everything going on in the world right now. It's really important that we acknowledge that what we pray for with everyone is peace in the world. Amog, would you kindly join us? This is Amog Barnwall. He is the youngest member of Networking for Hindu Professionals. He is a scholar and a student that really serves the community in all aspects. You can think of it. He's only 17 years old. He actually just won the Association for Fundraising Professionals of Broward County Fundraiser of the Year a few days ago. He raised, Amog raised over $180,000 for Relay for Life. He's worked with Joshua's heart since he was six years old. And I get teary just being there to watch him, you know, knowing that he's a ray of light in the world for us. Amog. The Supreme Being, Consciousness, that permeates the three planes, physical, mental and spiritual. That which is self-effulgent and luminous as the sun, adorable and worthy of our prayer. I meditate upon thee. May thou illuminate our intellect. May there be peace within our body. May there be peace within our mind. May there be peace within our soul. And as you can see, we have a little table set up here. This would be a typical table or offering table that's set up in every Hindu home. It's a small semblance of what we have today represented on the table is the God that removes obstacles from our path or Lord Ganesha. And Mother Lachmi, as we're celebrating Diwali, is the mother goddess that welcomes into all blessings of wealth and happiness and everything else we pray for in our lives. And so when you look at these symbols today, just like those who are of other faiths, they are symbols for us. Just like some people have the cross or the Hamza or the Star of David. These are symbols for us as Hindus that help us every day to remember the qualities that we strive for in this life. And so we have a small symbol of that. And I would like to call a few members, esteemed members and respected elders in our community to say, to come and at least light the first candle. We're not allowed to light anything in the halls. Thanks to Priya's husband. Where is he? He's a firefighter. By the way, Priya's husband's a firefighter with the city. And we're so proud to have someone from our community in that, in service to us as well. So if I can please have Jitubai or Jitendra Patel, he's a resident of Plantation for over the last 35 years and an esteemed leader in our community at one of the most recognized temples, the BAPS temples here. So he's going to light one of those for us. Tawariji, Dr. Ram Tawariji, is also, he serves in the city of Pembroke Pines, however, very committed to the city of Plantation. He's not a resident, but serves in many capacities as well in leading us in our community. Prem Mipuri, who went to school in Plantation, is here today because we brought him back home. And he's a business owner, an entrepreneur in the community as well. If we could also have Yitasha, if you would like to join us. Her children, Plantation residents, her children go to school here as well, if she can join us to come up as well. And Mrs. or Mr. Barnwall, Moog's parents, you've gifted us your son, if one of you could join us as well. And Dr. Kasuma, Dr. Shashi Kasuma, is a plastic surgeon who had a practice in Plantation just recently, and also an esteemed leader in our community. And I believe that, Sir Roge, if you would like to join us as well, you're more than welcome to do so. So they're going to light each one of these. And normally what we would do is we would light these lamps because, as Lewis said, Diwali represents light over darkness, good over evil. And so when we light these earthen lamps, today there are these little plastic candles. But when we light them, it's a symbol of the light in each one of us sharing the light within every human being that we see. And that light is what's universal and is what binds us together. So think of the sun as maybe a symbol that carries that light and it dispels its energy onto each one of us on this earth. And so it makes us all equal. And so what we share in lighting these lamps is also for us to be bearers of the light, to share those things that are most divine, most pure in this world. And if each of you can light one of those and maybe Councilman Reinstead, if you can join them. And Mayor, if you can join them since you're here, I'll let the rest of you sit on the dais. But light those and then maybe you can stand here and we'll just put our hands together for a moment. And the prayer that Amog recites is normally a prayer that we would start our evening with and say so much more. And of course, we normally give gifts to one another. We dress up. We have our houses decorated as its finest. We have art called Rangoli that's done on the floors of our home to welcome our guests. We offer flowers. So if anybody wants to offer a flower as well, we'll offer flowers to Mother Lachmi. And of course, we do sweets. No Indian home is a good home without good food and good sweets. So we normally would offer sweets as well. So we did bring an offering of sweets today for everyone to partake in as well. That's fine by us. And if anybody else wants to join, Louis, did you get one? Thank you all. I figure I would use this opportunity just to share a little bit. Because on the 12th, the city is going to get a lot of calls. And the firefighters are going to probably get a lot of calls that their neighbors' houses are on fire or there's a lot of lights. So I thought I'd share this opportunity to educate a little bit. When you do see your Hindu neighbors lighting up festively and fireworks and these lamps, they're not doing anything strange. We are just celebrating our way of life. And it would be nice if you go over. Or they probably would invite you to come over and celebrate them. So for us, it's always educating so that we can create understanding, not tolerance, but understanding for one another in embracing each other's way of life. And I just want to say something about the city of Plantation really quick. Probably just my post today. You know, and I would say this even if I didn't live in the city for 28 years and my children didn't go to school here. And these council members did not take care of our city the way they have. Because I feel like when I drive down, I leave my home. It's in such good, trusted hands every day. And my post this morning, I wrote, the city of Plantation is an incredible place to call home. And for those of you who live here, I'm sure you can attest to that. This historical, quaint, yet modern gem in South Florida is a place where diversity, inclusion, respect, and humanity burst at its four corners. And so if you go down Broad Boulevard this way, you see Jamaican places. If you go down Broad Boulevard that way, you see Italian restaurants. If you go down, you know, it's at every corner there's such diversity in our city. We are a true community in that sense. An amalgamation of humans from all corners of the earth who support each other in our endeavors. This is the second year that our outstanding city council will be celebrating and acknowledging Diwali for its Hindu residents. And council member Denise Horland is the one who started this last year when she approached us. And we're so grateful that you did that. So thank you so much. This proclamation speaks volumes about our leaders, our presence as a Hindu community, and our advocacy work for visibility. Thank you, council member Louis Reinstein, for not only just doing this today, but being there for our community in all capacities, for sponsoring this year's proclamation. Thank you to Mayor Nick Sortel for your leadership, especially in times of crisis as we just recently experienced, and the entire council for befriending our Hindu community. This is very special to us, not because we are a small population that needs acknowledgement, but we are a population that contributes to everything that the city has to offer. And we are a thriving population within the city. And for each member that's sitting here, I know this they feel in their heart. I'm probably speaking for a lot of them that we need to see this happen more. And more importantly, I know that one day my dream will come true when I see an edifice of a Hindu temple line the streets of Plantation someday. So thank you, thank you so much again. Prem, if I could have you come up. Good evening, everyone. My name is Prem Mirpuri, and it's such an honor to be here. It's such a wonderful presentation, the proclamation that has been given to us. So thank you to the entire council. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you to the wonderful people of Plantation, to the community here. As Farida said, this is a very special city for me. I went to middle school here. I went to high school here. Plantation high. Go, Colonels. Yeah. So, you know, it holds really wonderful memories for me. And, you know, as Farida touched on, the fact that we have such a diverse community here. The city here welcomes, you know, all different types of people. We want to leave a little memory of our Indian Hindu community here by a little memento. We have a little Ganesha over here to present, you know, for you, for the city here, to present City Hall. And it will be a reminder of our community over here, please. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing your light with all of us this evening. And to Councilmember Reinstein for the Diwali Day proclamation. And thank you all for joining us. Mayor Sordal, we have Family Court Month proclamation, or Councilmember Reinstein? No, I'm good. I got one more. You've heard a lot from me. But this one I'm going to call up, please, Allie Kessler. This is the Family Court Awareness Month proclamation. And it came out of sadness. And we're thankful that through Allie Kessler that how many people this is going to help going forward. Proclamation reads, whereas in 2021, Grayson Kessler, a four-year-old who was shot and killed by his biological father during an approved, unsupervised court visit, despite his father's history and abusive behavior, and his mother, Allie Kessler, is pleased to protect Grayson. And whereas to help honor Grayson Kessler and the estimated 58,000 children annually that are at risk due to being ordered into unsupervised visitation with an abusive parent by state courts, a national coalition of organizations have designated November as National Family Court Awareness Month. And whereas the mission of the Family Court Awareness Month Committee and One Mom's Battle is fueled by the desire for awareness and change in the family court system while honoring the lives of 800-plus children who have been reported as being murdered in the United States by separating or divorcing parents, where at least 110 cases the courts had heard direct pleas to intervene. And whereas Family Court Awareness Month will increase awareness on the importance of education and training on family violence, childhood trauma, and post-separation abuse for all professionals working within the family court system. And whereas the mission at the Family Court Awareness Month Committee is to educate judges and other family court professionals on the empirical data and research that is currently available, such research is a critical component to making decisions that are truly in the best interest of children. This research includes the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, Saunders Study, the Meyers Study, Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Abuse Allegations, and the Santa Clara Law Study. Now, therefore, Nick Sortle, the Mayor, and the City Council, proclaim the month of November 2023 as Family Court Awareness Month in the City of Plantation, and we encourage all residents to support our efforts to prevent the harm of children in the hands of family members, and to honor and value the lives of children. Thank you all for having me here again to accept this proclamation on behalf of the entire coalition behind it. This is the third year that the City of Plantation and cities around the nation are declaring November as Family Court Awareness Month. I stand here tonight not only as a volunteer with the committee and founder of Grayson's Choice.org, but as a mom who lost her four-and-a-half-year-old son due to domestic violence that could have been prevented if the family courts just listened. Despite years of evidence, they denied my domestic violence injunction for protection, as well as the emergency pickup order when Grayson was missing. Our children's lives are literally dependent on the courts becoming educated and trained properly on domestic violence issues, especially when there are no physical scars. Our mission, as Councilman Reinstein shared for Family Court Awareness Month, is to shed light on to what really is going on in the family courts, which is one of the most powerful branches of our judiciary system. Our goal is to open the lines of communication on the empirical research and the data that is not utilized by any judges. I'm grateful to the City of Plantation for joining this list of over 300 cities, counties, and states that have proclaimed November as Family Court Awareness Month. Thank you for standing with us to recognize the importance of a court system that prioritizes child safety. I'm sure you are all aware that this July, we successfully passed Grayson's Law in Florida, a legacy that my sweet Grayson will help carry to help other families and children have a fighting chance. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. I always say I'm a New Yorker, but I've actually lived in Plantation for over 30 years, so I'm actually more a Floridian, and I thank you for all of your support. Thank you for your advocacy and your courage. Thank you. And we have the Women's Club Sponsorship Check Presentation from PwC. I am Michelle Moskowitz, the fourth vice president of the Plantation Women's Club, in charge of community improvement projects. This is Nancy DeZilba, who is our president, and many of the ladies who are up here are also past presidents. It's nice to be back at the council meetings to present these checks. During COVID, I delivered the checks, six feet apart, of course, to Parks and Rec, to the police department, and to the fire department. In 2024, it is our 75th anniversary, our Diamond Jubilee. Since 1949, we have been supporting our community, and that was five years before it was Plantation. To date this year, we have given over $40,000 to Plantation. We sponsor most of Parks and Rec's events. We sponsor the fire department golf tournament. We sponsored the police department bike program, with 35 bikes, locks, and helmets, to fourth graders, and the July 4th parade. And we have more to get out. We have four checks for Parks and Rec to be sponsors for Trunk or Treat that's already passed. The Rock the Park program this year, we are a gold sponsor. For the title sponsorship for Light Up City Hall, which is coming in December. And also for the holiday parade, in two weeks, we are a title sponsor. We are... Oh, the wrong one can fill. She's going to make sure it gets back to the office, huh? Yes, she would. Thank you. Thank you. We're glad to do it. Chief Harrison, if you'd come up. We have a check for the police department for $6,239 for a decompression room. Most people probably don't know what that is, so we'd like the chief to explain what a decompression room is and how it will be used at the department. Good evening, council members. A decompression room is a new concept in mental health and well-being for our first responders. This room will be conducive to help with stress relief from whatever they may encounter through the day, whether it's a drowning, a traffic fatality, a suicide. This will give not only our police officers, but our dispatchers, our service aides, all of our first responders, an opportunity to go in there and reduce that stress that you get on a call. The gracious donation that the Women's Club is giving us, we'll be able to put that room together, all the furnishings. And, again, the Women's Club has been there for us for decades, and I cannot thank you ladies enough for all the support that you've given us. So thank you very much. You can go in the middle. Okay. I'd like to call up Chief Todd from the fire department. The Women's Club is presenting the fire department $14,000 for a thermal imaging drone. And if the chief would like to explain what that does. Sure. Okay. We asked for a thermal imaging drone because we can't use any drone unless it's made from America. They won't let us use anything. We have two drones right now, but we can't use them because they're made from China. So we can only use American-made drones. And the Women's Club has been gracious enough to give us the donation to buy that. And it's a thermal imaging. So if we can go over a house and we can see people inside where they are so it makes it easier for us to go rescue. And I just want to echo what Chief Harrison said. But the Women's Club has been here for a long time. And they've been a big supporter of us, Police Department, Parks and Rec, the city. But really a great supporter of ours. And we've gotten a lot of those. You see some of the stuff we have. We parade it down the street, down Broward in the parade. And any one of our events, you'll see it. They've been, I can't thank them enough for all they've done for us. So thank you. Thank you very much. We're going to take this $8,000 check. Joel says I have to hold it up. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, PwC, on behalf of everything that you do for our city. You all are the best. We had an extra one that wasn't on the agenda, but it's something I've been looking forward to. I really want to recognize in front of council, the CERT program, Community Emergency Response Team, citizens prepared and trained to support their communities during major incidents. That's what you all have done. You have trained and prepared. Started off with 10 members. Intent is to help support the fire department. And you've trained everywhere. 20 members, we are now up to the roster. You see them at Rock the Park, Fall Festival, Scottish Fest, and the city's event planning team. So when it comes to planning, they are involved. And I am going to give the mic to Mr. Joel. Sure, for the moment. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We'll make this real quick and easy. We have, I'm going to run a short video that actually was produced to promote all the CERT teams across Broward County. This video was actually aired a couple weeks ago during first responder night at a Panther game. And this kind of tells the whole story of what CERT's all about. Emergencies happen often with little or no warning. Emergencies happen often with little or no warning. Are the 1.9 million residents of Broward County prepared for such an event? Recent history has shown first responders can become quickly overwhelmed. During these major emergencies, responses may be delayed hours or up to several days. Who's there to help within those first few minutes? Who's trained to intervene in a crisis until professional help arrives? This is where your Community Emergency Response Team, CERT, comes in. The Community Emergency Response Team, CERT program educates volunteers on disaster preparedness for the hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills. Volunteers will learn basic emergency management, fire suppression, medical operations, search and rescue operations, hazmat, terrorism, and structured leadership. Advanced classes are available after basic training. Are you ready to be part of something special? Are you ready to assist your community during a crisis? CERT members are an integral part of our community and offer great assistance during emergencies, large and small, essentially becoming a force multiplier. Force multipliers are persons educated in doing some of the work of professionals, first responders, as you learned earlier in the segment. In essence, they are able to care for and act on large event incidents. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a CERT member, please scan the QR code to reach out to your local CERT team or use the email address to begin your journey. Your community depends on you. We need you. Here are the communities that offer the program in Broward County. And now I'd like to bring up the members of the team. So as the mayor said, as they come up here, as the mayor said, we started off with 10 members and we did something really unique. And we started this program during COVID. So that was a challenge unto itself. But we're now reached our limit of 20 members, all of which are very active. And not only do they go through the basic 24 hours of training that was mentioned in the video, but our people go through a little bit more. They do CPR and stop the bleed. They do hazmat awareness. They do infectious disease awareness, vehicle operations, crowd management, and firefighter rehab. So there's a lot of training that goes on when you become a plantation CERT member. And as I said, we started out, or as the mayor said, we started out as a program to help support the fire department. And Councilwoman Horland was one of our original members as well. That has grown tremendously to where these folks have become a support mechanism for the entire city of plantation. They're out there doing a variety of different support functions for things like Rock the Park, the Fall Festival, the Scottish Festival. Pretty much every major event we've had, we've had a team out there providing a myriad of support services. Most recently, we've added a couple of other things to it. We have, because of the firefighter rehab training that we do, we have added a response activation program when a major incident occurs in the city that's going to require an extended period of time, excessive use of firefighter or police officer manpower where rehab is needed. The team is actually dispatched. They come out and they work with the rescues and they work with the county canteen to provide rehabilitation services as well as accountability and other functions to keep everybody safe. So we've really, and that's not in the FEMA curriculum. That's something that we've added on our own with the blessing of Chief Todd. So this team has really grown and has moved beyond the parameters of what we know is CERT. They also do, they train in rapid impact assessment. When a storm passes, they get out in their communities and they do an assessment of the damage. That helps us report that damage quicker to the county so we can get things moving as far as rescue efforts go. We also deploy two major incidents. One of our own, Angel DeJesus, who you saw on the video, deployed up to the panhandle for Hurricane Adalia as part of a CERT team. So as I said, we're really engaged in the community. I want to take a minute to just introduce some of the key members to you. We have our, what's that? Introduce them all. All right, introduce them all. I'll get to them all. So we'll start with our team leader, Steve Refkin. Our deputy team leader, Mike Scott. Got a fan club. Our secretary, whose name you heard just a few minutes ago, Nancy DeZoba. Operations coordinator who couldn't be here tonight, Eugene Fasano. Logistics coordinator, Hank Van Balen. Training coordinator, Georgianne Miller in the back there. And our membership and recruitment coordinator, whose name you also heard a few minutes ago, Michelle Moskowitz. You also introduced Angel, Joe Rankin, Marie Lugo, Cheryl Adihe. I've got to get that right. And Janet Kibbins in the back. So, again, this is our team. Steve, would you like to come up for a moment? Mayor, council members, Chief Todd, distinguished guests and honored attendees. The mission of the Plantation Cert Team is to serve the people of Plantation through a two-fold approach. First is education to provide the residents, congregants, workers, the necessary tools to prepare themselves, their families, and their neighborhood for emergencies. And second is through operations to serve the community by assuming responsibilities for designated tasks, both planned and unplanned emergency situations, with the goal of maximizing the availability of the first responders. I did want to take a moment to say that if it wasn't for the tireless commitment and dedication of Deputy Chief Joel Gordon, who is retiring, that we would not have been able to accomplish all of those specific goals. Thank you very much for all of your guidance. Well, as Steve said, since I'm backing out of here, turning those responsibilities over, Program Manager, to Battalion Chief Will Bacon. Steve, come on up. And membership is open to anyone in the city who'd like to get involved. We'd love to have you. So what we've done is when we designed the team, we wanted to make sure that it was going to work well and be proficient. And we didn't want to overextend ourselves. So we set a membership limit of 20. We're happy to say we're at that point right now. But we're always looking for new applications and people, you know, come and go like anything else. So always looking. So once again, ladies and gentlemen, it's been an honor and a pleasure to be part of this group, incredible group of dedicated people. Ladies and gentlemen, your CERT team. Madam President, may I add a comment before the pictures are taken? And I've said this publicly before the last time CERT was in this room. And this started with a conversation, Chief Todd, before you actually became chief. And we said, why can't we have a CERT team in the city of Plantation? Other people do it. And, you know, you heard Deputy Chief Gordon say it. But with the support of Chief Todd, every time I turned around, the team was being given something else and some other resource. Deputy Chief Gordon, this is the last time you'll be here with this group. But what you've done is amazing. I couldn't continue because they got too busy. I can stop a bleed. I can perform CPR and use a fire extinguisher. But you can hear all the things they're doing. And I'm just so proud of what this fire department and the CERT team has done. And I want to thank both of you for giving this gift to the city. So thank you. Thank you again, Deputy Chief Gordon and all of our CERT team members for your volunteerism. At this time, Mr. Goodrich, if you can give us the Parks and Recreation update. Good evening. And before CERT leaves, I do want to just say a special thank you to those guys because they are at so many of our events. And they do need to grow because we keep growing in events. So they do a fantastic job. And when you talk about fall festival, we had a lot of lost kids. And it's really nice to have a group of people out there with a very coordinated effort to make sure that everything goes along smoothly. So that was very good. Before I get to what's coming up, I do want to briefly talk about what did happen today at Plantation Central Park. We hosted an event called Paychecks for Patriots from Career Source Broward. There was a job fair at Central Park, and they packed the gymnasium, the lobby, and the hallways. They did a fantastic job there. And these are veteran family employers that are offering jobs to people in Broward County. And I'd like to say a special thank you to our human resources department that also participated, as obviously we're very veteran-friendly as here in the city of Plantation. They were also joined by over 70 other employers throughout Broward County. So we're very happy to see that at Central Park today. So with that, I'm going to move on to the very next thing is, obviously, we have Veterans Day this Saturday at Veterans Park. That service will begin at 9.30 a.m. Join elected officials and local dignitaries as we honor our veterans. We will be streaming it live on Facebook, but we'll be there at the park at 9.30 a.m. for the start of that service. Friday the 17th, we'll be hosting a movie in the park. We'll be showing Super Mario Brothers at Volunteer Park. I'm going to request that folks do not bring their dogs to events. We've been making a very conscious effort this year. We all understand that people have pets, and we don't have anything against dogs. But there's just some places that you just don't want to have an incident happen, and these are the types of events we don't want to have those things happen. So come out and enjoy the dog park and some of the other dog-friendly events, but this one, we'd like you to leave them home. Saturday, November 18th, it's a Wonderful Life in Plantation holiday parade. That will begin at 9 a.m. sharp from 46th Avenue and Broward Boulevard. We'll go all the way down and conclude right here at the front steps of City Hall. Please come out and join, wear your festive holiday wear. We're looking forward to it. I can't tell you how many we've done, but I know it's been a lot. So Thursday, November 23rd, we will be hosting a Thanksgiving lunch for anybody who's looking for a place to have that over at the Plantation Preserve and Golf Course. It will run from 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. There's reservations are required. We have a one-and-a-half-hour seating limit, so there's two sessions that they'll run there. Adults are $44.95, $6.10 is $19.50, and $5.00 and under is free. If you want to get any more information, you can call us at 954-585-5030. Tuesday, November 28th, we have our senior trip to Delray to the Yuletide Street Fair, a night of holiday festivities, and checking out the 100-foot Christmas tree that they're in Delray. A bus will be leaving Jim Ward Community Center at 5 p.m. and returning at 9 p.m. Registration opens this Monday, November 13th, and the cost is $5 per person. Any information needed for that, 954-585-2344. We also have our big event coming up in the city, the annual Thanksgiving soccer tournament. We host, I think, close to 400 or 500 teams every year, so it's a very busy weekend. That will be at Pine Island Park, Central Park, Sunset Park, and PAL Stadium. So a busy weekend ahead of us there. We do have registration is open for spring baseball, basketball, and softball. For any more information on those things, you can call us at 954-452-2508. Thank you. Mr. Goodrich, before you leave the podium, I know you're not leaving yet, but do you have a number of how many attendees we had at the Trunk or Treat? I do. I want to say I gave you a packet. There was some information there. I did give you the placer information for Trunk or Treat, the concert, and Fall Festival. Oh, thank you. So you have all that information there. 4,300. 4,300, thank you. One was 42, one was 43, so that's why. Oh, okay. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. To your entire team, it was amazing. And we are working with the organization that does those reports for us, and we're trying to get something a little more customized just for our events. Thank you. That takes us to the public request of the council regarding municipal affairs. Those who wish to speak should have completed a request form. If you have not done so, please do so. They are in the back of the room or here at the side of the podium. You can give those to the clerk, Ms. Begaro. When you come to the microphone, I will ask you to please state your name and address, and please address your remarks to the president, not to the mayor or individual members of the council. Keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes. And I have signed up. Mr. Dennis Coughlin. If I may approach Dennis Coughlin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Coast Court. Heavenly hosts protect you. It's day 1,335 of martial law. As you know, the national emergency was canceled, but the health emergency has not been canceled. We're under DOD and the Department of Homeland Security. It's day 458 since the illegal invasion of the Trump family home, violating his fourth, fifth, and sixth amendment rights. It's 99 days since the arraignment of President Trump, violating his First Amendment rights to free speech. It's 44 days since New York started violating President Trump's Seventh Amendment rights to have a jury trial. And it's 33 days, as was already mentioned, since Hamas terrorist atrocities upon Israelis and Israel, which are still going on. If you look over here, the fourth and fifth row from the right, after the failed World Trade Center bombing in 94, I started to say, what the dickening is going on? So I found Robert Spencer's jihadwatch.org, and I plugged in to what was going on. And at that time, I also met Joe Kaufman, and Dr. Bob Levy was up there, and a bunch of the fourth and fifth row. I learned about CARE. Now, I'm a World War II generation baby-born baby, right? And CARE was the organization that created all the goodwill and supplied Europe after World War II. So CARE came along, and that's the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That's a.k.a. Hamas in America, a terrorist organization, a.k.a. Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization in America. We learned that CARE was trying to have an event back in the 2000s and 2010s implantation. And we used to meet with Joe Kaufman, Americans Against Hate, and we filled up several of the pews with our members of the organization. And thanks to the crafting by Attorney Lunny and Dr. Bob Levy, we were able to block CARE, a.k.a. Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Organization, from holding the event implantation. However, they had infiltrated into the campus area in Davie, and they were at the intersection of College Avenue and Nova Drive, and they used to have their little, we pick up the litter here, because what they do is they go in and they target for indoctrination that age group. In other words, my kids' age groups. They've been at this forever. So I didn't know that the Councilman was going to mention in his remarks, so I just wanted to say that I had planned this before because I was in New York State last City Council, and I couldn't comment. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. So I would like to give back my time. I was up there, and I met with all these doctors, and I urge you, because now you may know one of the commandments is, thou shalt not commit adultery. The shot has been adulterated, and that's the way to get to the courts and recover any cost to our medical organization. Thank you. I need you to wrap it up now, sir. Thank you. I'll yield back my time. Mr. Nguyen. Good evening. Joe Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. Now, you guys pretty much all know what I stand for when I come up here. Typically, I'm usually talking about a pretty regular concept, roadways. I am a member of Better Streets Broward. We try to think outside the F-150. And you also know that I regularly ride around the area. My bicycle is outside here because I do try to ride over here and ride anywhere I can to avoid being another car on the road, to avoid being more traffic. And I understand that really in this area, the only people who ride their bikes besides like Sunday morning road cyclists who are hammering it at 35 miles an hour, I'll never be able to do that, are basically the stupid or the desperate. And I'm probably part of that former. And it's because it's just, it's not that safe to actually get places. Now, the reason why I came up here to comment, and I typically don't, I'll have other things to say, is that I was particularly upset today. I was standing at the corner, the university and the entrance to very appropriately named center, the walk, as I was waiting to cross university, which is notoriously not a great road for anything. And there were two women crossing the other side on the walk signal. They were crossing across, making clear effort to be visible and exist in a place. And they nearly got absolutely slammed by a car making a left turn who probably should have been looking closer. Yes. But the way the intersection is designed, as so many are designed, they could almost be forgiven for not noticing them at all. The woman did have to jump completely out of the way to not get run over the car, didn't even swerve, didn't even slow down. Good driver? Probably not. But that happens way too often. I almost witnessed another one of our traffic fatalities right in front of me on the way here as another vulnerable road user. That doesn't make me feel great. Now, there are solutions to these things. Are they easy? Are they cheap? No. But there are protected intersections. There's something called the Dutch protected intersection. And then there's the Copenhagen. And there's others in this country as well, used in Southern California in some areas. We need to be looking at implementing those at any intersections that we know people are using. And at a place called The Walk, for it to be almost deadly to get into it or out of it, that should be just unacceptable. And we really need to do the best we can in every project, in any effort, to prioritize people over everything else and not cars. Thank you. I yield back my one second. Thank you. Those are all of the police. Ms. Bush? Cynthia Bush, 700 Southwest 78th Avenue, Plantation, 33324. I wanted to come here today because I just wanted to revisit my conversation with the board or with the council from a few weeks ago about the parks and certain conditions that exist at certain of our nature trails. I was very happy to be at Volunteer Park today to see that one of the board blocks has been repaired. And there were several families there that were enjoying it and enjoying walking out into the middle of the lake and exclaiming, oh, isn't it so nice that the boardwalk has been repaired? We've really missed it. It's been really, really great. So I'm looking forward, hopefully, to the next boardwalk, hopefully being the long boardwalk being replaced soon. So that is wonderful to hear. But again, I'm going to raise a concern about the Plantation Linear Trail, the Plantation Preserve Linear Trail that I walk frequently. It did appear that one of the bridges has been power washed. It does still need some repair. But in addition, I walked there earlier this week. It seemed that there had been the use of some sort of herbicide on plants in the trail, which I was concerned about considering that this park was originally built with Audubon certification and the golf course is Audubon certified. I frequently see bird watchers there every single day that I'm ever there usually. And this was a fairly large amount of herbicide along the side of the small lake that borders the driving range and then also along the trail in different areas. And I was just wanted to know if we could address this at some point, what is the policy in the city plantation with respect to the use of herbicide, particularly in our waterways? And the waterway in the Plantation Preserve was specifically designed to filter out water as it entered into our canals. And I actually watched the meeting from two weeks ago where we had the conversation about the canal in Royal Palma States that needs to be dredged and has contamination. And I lived on one of those canals for 20 years, so I know how important it is. So it was just upsetting to see it and to not know exactly what was going on. And I did attempt to call the city before I came here today, but I didn't get a call back. So I just wanted to put that out there because I do feel we need a policy. And, you know, landscaping in our environment, our natural environment is super important, I think, to making sure the plantation maintains its property values and is a place that people want to live. So thank you. Thank you. I know that Mr. Goodrich has an answer. Good evening. I'll get in touch with her and get her my information so she can contact me directly since the preserve does fall under us. We put out for bid, I'm sure you probably know this, that we had a contractor that was not performing their services. And yes, we are Audubon certified. We are through FCT, through the state, as well certified as an agency and as a property. We have to go through quarterly monitoring by a third-party vendor, which is Miller Leg, an environmental group. And so there are both good and bad plants out there. There's invasives. And there's a constant methodology of monitoring it and then attacking the stuff that is the not good plant material. And that is the spring that we had that recently happened. Because the last contractor was not performing their services, it grew exponentially from there. So there is going to be a big cutback to what it's supposed to be. There is guidelines from every agency. There's very detailed reports that are put together. And we understand everything that has to be done. And there's monitoring of both the contractor as well as the city's monitored as well. So those things are ongoing. And I believe the bid itself had about 200 pages of specs that went along with that, that met all of the guidelines, both state and federal. So we're very well aware of it. And we are working on it. And yes, this first kill-off will look a little harsh. But it's just to get it back to where it should have always been maintained. And it just got out of hand. Thank you. So it's killing the invasive plants and areas. And bringing it back to the design that it's originally done for, yes. Thank you so much for the explanation. And please feel free to share your contact information with Cynthia Bush. Absolutely. Those are all of the public requests for the council that we have. Is there anybody else? I'm sorry? Go ahead, Mayor Sordal. I didn't know if you wanted me to flag you. Cynthia Bush, who did you call? And unreturned calls are a thing of mine. Did you call Parks and Rec? Or, okay, you and Phil will work it out. Phil, find out the case that happened and let's know and let's fix it so that we can get calls returned. Okay, all right, no more questions. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, that will now close our public comments. I do want to let the public know that we have a revision to the agenda and we are pulling our quasi-judicial items. Those are items 20 and 21. So those will not be discussed. They will be discussed at a later date. So our consent agenda this evening consists of 14 items and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the council wish to pull an item? Item 13, please. Council Member Anderson? Item 16. It's 1 through 14. It is, it is. I'm sorry. Anything else? I have 13 from Reinstein. And then I have, from the public, I have item 6. Sir, what item would you like to discuss? Oh, in the back of the room, I think that Mr. Wynn is grabbing you a copy. And if there's an item you'd like to address, please complete the card. That's also found in the back of the room. And I would also just like to take this opportunity. I see representation from Commissioner Rogers here with us this evening. Thank you for being here as well. Good evening. That's Commissioner Hazel Rogers with Broward County. Thank you. So I have item 13 and item 6. Motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of items 6 and 13. Second. It's been properly moved and seconded. Ms. Beggaroe, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Item number 6 is about removing the brick pavers from the crosswalk and replacing with asphalt. And I have Mr. Dennis Conklin. Good evening. Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest Sixth Court. The reason I had this pulled was I live in Park East and one of the areas that was first to give way with the bricks was at the park entrance or the trailway park of Kingsley Smith and Northwest 56th Avenue, which I would like to see named with Fifth Street, Ronald Reagan Way. If people are going to do brick laying and stuff like that, particularly with traffic and heavy vehicles because you get the heaviest there, we have 18-wheelers that come through Park East. I don't know why. You really have to get the Dutch or somebody like that to do the paving. And I was glad to see that they were taking them out and going with the asphalt. Now, about the same time that Plantation put in the bricks, right across the bridge, the C-12 Canal, and right on up 47th Avenue, Water Hill did their intersections with their crosswalks in asphalt. I don't know what the chemical was for it. They remained pristine and, I mean, brand new as if they were brand new put in this afternoon. And if we can, I'd love to see if you want to keep that pattern for crosswalks in the city. I hope that you can look into that product. But I'm glad they're getting rid of bricks. It does create a danger. The ones that were installed in Plantation, anyway. Thank you. I yield back my time. Thank you. It was on page one of the one through eight backup material with the map. Thank you. Thank you. I also have Joe Nguyen. As he said, in the Dutch fashion, we see the whole world have been thousands of years old, and you can still convey it on them. The way that we tend to do them now, especially to include vehicles, traffic, heating, cooling, vehicles, sun, mainly UV just melting in the sand going away, all those things, it becomes no point for anybody. And especially for accessible use, and that bicycle, four-wheel-chair stroller, those things extremely hard on that note. It's one of the things I consult. Member Andreu for feedback on the repair sidewalk and the Gatoronde area as well. But on the sense of bricks or surfaces, they do add one thing, which is character. They add a sense of place. And replacing them with just standard crosswalk asphalt that could be seen on a university or a 441 or any which way, it's not the place. I know that plantation has a sense of brick in their history and whatnot, and the patterning is great. It provides that whole unit, that town concept. That's all great. I do encourage you that if we do remove it, which if it is a movement hazard, we should, it be replaced with something that equally provides some degree of character. Obviously, durability, sustainability as well, and access for all, but also visibility and a sense that you go, oh, I am somewhere unique, I am somewhere special now, as opposed to, oh, it's another white line that I can completely ignore, drive my car up, right up to the edge of it because that's what people do. So, just in looking on the brakes that are out of whack, the concept of brakes as a surface is good. So whatever we replace it with, let's make sure that it's something that is part of this character and part of this thing. Set a stage for people who want to enter it by foot or wheel, and also create an awareness when you're driving that you are in a place and there may be other people around to be aware of. Maybe look out something on the phone, take your foot off the cellar. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion on item number six? Motion to approve. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, Ms. Bigaro, please call the roll. Council Member Einstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. That takes us to item number 13, which is the Midtown and the expenditures and appropriations for the Midtown area. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Don't normally pull these with questions, although in the Midtown expenditure, there's an $1,800 expenditure for the Plantation Chamber of Commerce. And I understand that we support the Chamber of Commerce, but I pulled it because just the other day while attending an Educational Advisory Board meeting, the Educational Advisory Board made a motion requesting that the City Council inquire as to whether the schools can receive some type of membership from the Chamber of Commerce. And I thought that this was a good opportunity to bring this up. I will say that I reached out to Mr. Nunamaker and to the Chamber in order to find out what their thoughts were on it. And rightfully so, their response was, well, that they're business and they're concerned about opening up the door to other nonprofits requesting complimentary memberships. And I just thought that, one, I'd like to know whether or not we have other, this is the Midtown Development District with an $1,800 membership. So I'd like to know from the administration what other departments or if the City, what funds come from the City to the Chamber. And I would like to see that we encourage the Chamber to either do something with the schools that is more inviting to the schools who maybe can't afford a membership or maybe encourages businesses to team up with schools. And maybe that there are certain businesses that can help the schools afford the membership. And since this was on the agenda as an expenditure, I just thought it was a good opportunity because the EAB asked for the City Council to become aware of their request. What is that $1,800? It's for a sponsorship in the Chamber book that's published annually. So it's not a membership? Yes, sir. And so to the Council Member's question, the Preserve and Gateway also had sponsorships. So those were... To clarify, it's an advertisement. We buy an ad in the book for visibility for those things. So that's important. So then I'll ask the clarifying question. Right, so are we also paying for memberships and sponsorships separate? Can you just give me a whole overview as to how we... We have a general sponsorship that includes, say, the monthly luncheons. I know all of you at one point or another have attended those. Then we've got unique one-off events, 70th anniversary, a good example of that. And those may come up at various times in the year. And so you had requested earlier, and I'm working on compiling kind of a list of what we have on an annual basis. As far as the school board participation, I did notice today when we were at the meeting, there are a couple of schools that are members. So there are some schools that have a membership. Certainly the school board has a fairly substantial budget. So they certainly have an ability to participate. And I think Ms. Edwards responded about... I think it... Well, actually, Mr. Newman, just to differentiate the school board versus the schools. I mean, unfortunately, the schools are underfunded directly to the schools. I mean, we know how hard the PTAs and the PTOs have to raise funds in order to do anything there. We know how the teachers are having to fund for their own supplies. And, I mean, we can argue that the school board doesn't do enough. And... I'm just going off the tax bill. Yeah. No, and I understand. I just want to see whether or not as how much money the city is putting towards the chamber. And I would just like to see that we encourage the chamber to encourage its members to assist the schools further. And I'll just add is that, you know, the chamber does a wonderful thing with Teacher of the Year. And it's a wonderful lunch. It's a wonderful program. Even if it was just focused on inviting more teachers to that, we know that it's expensive to attend multiple luncheons. And, you know, the... Again, it was our educational advisory board that asked that this be brought to the attention of the council. So that's its purpose. Thank you. Council Member Horland. Thank you, Madam President. I don't want to talk too long on this, but since it was brought up, my recollection with the chamber, and we have that in our budget book every year, basically what we fund, was years ago when I believe there was an economic development position in the city of Plantation that was cut. And the funds were then shared with the chamber, feeling at that point that the chamber could best facilitate a lot of that. So I think we've gone through this for the last five years with the budget and really delineating everything that the chamber does. I guess my question is, having been on both sides of this with the schools and the EAB, to what benefit would it be for the schools? Because you mentioned the teacher appreciation luncheon. It's difficult, and I think you would agree, for the staff to get to those luncheons. The chamber does do a great job, and the teachers and the staff do not pay for their ticket. I think it would be difficult for anybody else to go. To your point, we all looked at the booklet today, and I think Central Park Elementary and Plantation High School are chamber members. I don't see them at events, so I don't know what the benefit to the schools would be. If it is asking the chamber to do a better job of perhaps getting the businesses involved with the schools, I think that's something that we can do. Because we have to remember, this is a partnership. We don't dictate to the chamber, but it's a partnership. So I think that that's something that we can take on ourselves, or through the EAB, is begin a dialogue with the chamber about how can we better partner the businesses with the schools. And I think that would be more appropriate rather than us, in my opinion, funding schools who may or may not take advantage of that chamber membership. Madam Chair, if I may? Please. Just to, I'm not suggesting that our city should fund it necessarily. The Educational Advisory Board is looking for ways for the schools that they're meeting with and that are coming to them about trying to build more relationships with businesses in the community. And I think that one of their suggestions was that they'd love to, they'd love some assistance from the chamber. And I can say specifically, one of the schools, Mirror Lake Elementary School, which does an amazing job internally with their own teachers. They spend a lot of money internally to support their teachers. But they reached out and asked, said that they were, they'd love to be more involved with the chamber, but it wasn't in their budget. And, you know, if there was a way to assist them, whether it was the city assisting them or maybe it was just the chamber directly finding a way. So I think it's a conversation I just would like us to further so that we can assist our schools more. And if I may, Council Member Reinstein, I think just a good starting point might be the light up the fountains event and perhaps asking the chamber if they could provide a table for a school that might want it and just start there. And so they could get some visibility in the community. Wonderful. Thank you. Council Member Fadgen. Thank you. Council Member Horland said some of the things I was going to bring up. I try to attend the monthly luncheons on a regular basis. And I did notice Plantation High was a 35-year member this month. And they don't come. It's an expensive lunch when you really get down to it. It's 26 bucks. You know, Council Member Andrea or Council Member Anderson would probably be able to speak better to this. But they're busy. They got things to do. I don't know what we spend has anything to do with this. I do feel it's a very slippery slope. I don't feel comfortable pushing the chamber to do something. I don't think I have a problem with EAB reached out to the chamber to see if there's something that could be done. But I'm not even sure how many public schools we have. Ten. And then there's private schools. And then there's non-profit organizations. It just, it's a slippery slope that I really don't think we should get involved in. I think that annual, the teacher recognition is a great event and they put a lot of resources in it and the bags they give are substantive. But I understand getting involved, but I think that's more maybe along the line to see what the chamber can do to say what can you do to get our kids involved with possible kind of internships or stuff like along those lines as opposed to going to a luncheon or having a membership. I don't know. That's, the complimentary thing, they're trying to accomplish something. Those events are expensive and, you know, they have overhead. So I'm not really, I don't think we really should try to compel them to offer these complimentary memberships. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Sordle. Thank you very much, Council President Andreu. I agree that our relationship with the chamber is not beyond being vetted. We should stop and see where are we spinning this, where are we spinning that and take a look at it. And I'm all for that. Number two, we do have 10 seats at every lunch. I love that we show up. I love that people in the city, people who are residents and business owners know that we're here and that they know these people here are there and that raises our awareness and they know as a city we're there for them. That said, how would you all feel if of our 10 seats, maybe I use two every month to bring people from the schools, like Marlon Velez, bring her there, sit her at our table, walk her around, introduce her to people, because the whole idea of going there is to build relationships and connections. and that is being underused in many ways between schools and businesses right now. We've got to get better at that. I think that's a great idea. And they need to step up. You know, the businesses need to know what's out there and school people need to know what's there. We'll work the room. Wonderful. And that's the kind of thinking that I was hoping we would be able to come together on the council. So thank you, Mary. Is it good with that? Yes. So you may not get a seat sometime. I'll give up for Mr. Lee's anytime. And that's what I would think. And I understand that. I'm with you. Okay. Council Member Anderson, did you want to chime in? Well, I think Mr. Nunmaker said, you don't need to come up. He just said that we could speak to it. And I'm not taking a side on it, but I just want to, because I was, I sat on chamber, probably went to seven out of the 10 months of the school year. I went almost every month religiously. And I was, my school was a member for 17 plus years that I was there, plus many more. So it hurts me that you just said that we're not a tropical. Tropical is not a member. You're not there anymore. I know. But it was a different time back then. That's where we went to get our business partners. But now the business partners, people know that they can go to schools and they can partner. So it became less, and we now have social media and we have the parent link. So I didn't need to go there anymore to, I no longer really ever went to get mentors or business partners because I always had them. I went there because I was a community member and I just wanted to network and build the image of the school and relationships. But I never needed the chamber anymore for business partners or mentors because I, but I also built great relationships so it kind of starts to build, self-fulfill. Where else did I want to say? Mr. Nomek just said the school, the school, Broward County Schools has a huge budget but schools get almost nothing at all that can't be spent on the day school educating the child. We don't, we don't get funds. That's why you need PTA because you can't even buy pizza for a pizza party. The PTA has to. We get like $100 a year to, if I, if the principal needed to go to the teacher year luncheon to buy that ticket and the teacher's spouse ticket and that pretty much blows your $100 a year and you have, and the chamber memberships 170 or 175 so they don't have enough to join. I usually forget the PTA to join, to join on behalf of us and I literally had that idea and you buzzed right before me saying we've got 10 seats, why not start to rotate around or just make it a standing thing, email the mayor if, if you want to go to any and just for those reasons that I was just saying, they don't need to go all the time but just to go and show that schools are always there and build those relationships I think that was great but Nick gets to get the credit for that so you beat me too. Anyway, that's just my perspective of having all those things on it and yes, we, it's nothing wrong with looking at, you know, time goes on. I do know they do provide economic development for us but we have, Galen for that, right? Did I just get, Glendon. Glendon, I knew what I said. That's my parents' old friends and my parents' old friends used to work with my parents at Piper. Anyway, that's my many cents all the way around on that. Council Member Reinstein? No further questions on that. I do have one question. Mr. Noonanmaker, when these items are brought before us for the payment in this particular case, did the Midtown Advisory Board, did they weigh in, did they approve that purchase of the advertisement when, okay, I think that's just an important aspect to make sure that they're aware and in agreement with it and maybe even see the ad and have something to offer in terms of the advertisement. Okay, thank you so much. Sir, would you like to speak to this item? Please. And then if after you're done, if you can complete one of the cards and give it to Ms. Bigara. I'm sorry, can you, I was going to say, can you please say your name and your address? And your name was Gary. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. Thank you for joining us. Councilmember Anderson? I forgot one more point I wanted to make. Also, as time evolved as a principal, it's very difficult. Schools are way more complex than 20 years ago. And also, with safety and security, you want to be at your building. So it's hard to get out. It's hard to get out. You don't want to get out very often. It needs to be for a really good reason to get out. So times have just changed where you can pick up the phone, it could do a team's call. So it's just the schools being physically present is, it used to be, you know, I'd say at least half the schools were there most of the time. And now it's down to hardly any. So it's just times have changed. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion for item number 13? Motion to approve. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, Ms. Bigaro, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Thank you. That takes us to our legislative items. Item number 15 is a resolution approving the release of certain drainage and stormwater easement. Attorney Ezra? Yes, Council President. We do not need to read the title of the resolution. Any questions, comments? Hearing none. Oh, did you? Okay. We got somebody? No. Motion to approve. Second. Any comments regarding item 15? Hearing none, Ms. Bigaro, please call the roll. Council Member Reinstein? Yes. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Fajan? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Thank you. Item 16 is an ordinance creating tobacco-free zones in city parks. Do you need to read the ordinance? Attorney Ezra? Thank you. This is first reading of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Plantation, Florida. I'm sorry, is your microphone on, Attorney Ezra? The green light is on. Hello? Go ahead. I'll start over. An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Plantation, Florida, amending Article 11, Ancillary Public Services, Division 4, Parks and Playgrounds of the City Code of Ordinances by creating Section 2-374 entitled The Designation of Tobacco-Free Zones in Parks, Providing for Conflicts, Severability, and an effective date. Thank you. Council Member Anderson? And my mic wasn't on, so I have to do this from memory. I have no problem with restricting it, but it just says it's giving us the right to do it at high traffic areas. I'm doing, again, from memory, like dugouts, concession stands, main events. What I worry about is I don't want sign pollution everywhere, and who's going to judge if there's not a sign that we're making it temporary. So it's kind of like the devil in the details. Overall, I certainly agree with it. It's the details of implementation. I assume maybe we'd put signs at the entrance to park and maybe list those things, but are we going to put signs all the way around Central Park at every dugout and all that? I just don't want sign pollution because I don't see a lot of people smoking to begin with, so I don't want to now create 100 signs for one smoker. Sign, sign, everywhere is signed. Thank you for that feedback. If the ordinance is approved, we will have the implementation meeting with all departments involved and we'll take that into... Yeah, so this is just passing the ability and then we'll iron out the details? Correct. Okay. Council Member Horley. Thank you, Council Member Andreu. I just wanted to thank City Attorney Ezra, Parks and Rec, and Administration for taking the draft ordinance that was submitted and really making it fit the city. Just a little background, the Municipal Administration Committee that I sat on for Florida League of Cities worked for six years to get this into legislation and there was a former city manager, just retired, Mark Ryan, who this was his thing and when we finally got it passed two sessions ago, if you remember, there was a carve-out for cigars because one of the legislators owns the cigar bar but it was, you know, I remember being on the PAL fields with the kids and people were out there smoking but even worse than that, the kids were playing on the fields with cigarette butts out there. We've got a beautiful new turf field, a lot of events out of Pine Island so I know the onus is going to be on the Parks and Rec staff to enforce this but I really appreciate Mr. Goodrich working so closely with the administration on this and I agree that hopefully there will be an education, perhaps something on social media, letting people know that this will be taking place and one of the carve-outs in the, one of the stipulations in the legislation is there has to be a designated, you know, area that people can smoke so if that lessens your concern at all but thank you again to everybody who brought this vote. Council Member Reinstein. Yeah, I wanted to add is that in reading through the draft of this ordinance it is extremely well detailed, not regarding signs but regarding the opportunities that people have to be warned and advised and appeals process and in reading it it gives our residents every opportunity to abide by this ordinance and this was one of the first ordinances that I think I suggested along with others when I got on council because I had a number of residents who were using the parks with their children and while frankly I had not seen that as a problem with my own children all you need is one child to be affected by it and not be able to enjoy it and if we can do something to make our parks even better for our kids and our residents then it's a good idea so thank you. Thank you. I fully support it as well. I think it's a long time coming. I know our colleagues out east had done something similar with the beaches so I was glad to see that we are now implementing this hopefully after the passage tonight at our parks. I know we had a community member who wanted to speak as well. Joe Nguyen. Joe Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. This time the mic is actually on. I also completely agree with this. I share the perspective on it. It is a long time coming. I agree with Councilmember Anderson and Horland's perspectives on that both on the sign pollution as well as the potential for just litter which is actually extremely toxic as well so we just don't want it there at all. In the sense of the signage I agree with the idea that we do not want no smoking here, no smoking here, no smoking here because then it one it's just annoying and two it creates the perception that anywhere you can't immediately see a sign there is actually smoking. It creates the perception that it's valid and less declined. So on addition to that we also need to make sure that we're not putting too many no no no no no's around the parks. We want to create a welcoming environment not a here's all the things you cannot do. This may be a great opportunity to take that one sign park rule sign that we have and just update it because I know we have the no dogs in the park signs that are separate from it and then we have the no fishing signs which are separate from it. So this would just be a no smoking which is again separate. Really we could just standardize it and have it in one welcoming thing that's probably not necessary to wait for the entire remodel of the parks to do that. So I think that this is a good opportunity to come back around to that once again. I support it. Thank you again. Thank you. And I see Laura taking lots of notes so I think she is capturing all of these sentiments. I did not have you signed up for this item but would you like to speak Mr. Coughlin? Thank you. I didn't sign up because I figured it would pass without any discussion but I'm of a generation that as I mentioned baby boomers so the parents of World War II they went through the Depression and World War II and they used to stick the cigarettes in the packs with my dad's and other veterans kits you know routinely and I was around when we got cable because I'm in a valley in Appalachia so you don't get TV signals but we got cable and they used to advertise with doctors on television that you know this is okay and I mean so I'm glad that they're doing this now as a result of them coming forward with actual science there was a court case and tobacco companies were sued and Florida now because I still watch some television they have ads for Floridians that they can plug into the money that Florida got to show them how to get off of cigarette and tobacco smoking so maybe you can incorporate that in the science too and I'll yield back my time thank you Mayor Sordal real quick also credit to Trish O'Toole who really helped flip the mindset from no smoking to tobacco free zones so good play by her too is there a motion I'll make the motion second any further discussion seeing none Ms. Biggerow please call the roll Council Member Reinstein yes Council Member Anderson yes Council Member Fadgen yes Council Member Horland yes Council Member Andre yes item number 17 is an ordinance adopting the official seal of the city of plantation Attorney Ezra this is public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the city of plantation Florida creating section 1-16 of the code of ordinances adopting an official municipal seal of the city of plantation providing for conflict severability codification and an effective date thank you any discussion from the council hearing none we do have one public community member Mr. Conklin wants to speak to item number 17 Dennis Conklin 4581 Northwest 6 Court just very quickly again I wasn't here for the last council meeting and this topic was brought up and I think from my poor eyes and from my poor hearing that you're going to amend the seal to include an extra T is that what I understood and Councilman Reinstein was kind enough to respond to my text in Latin unfortunately I was up I was up I was up in New York and it was for a 50th anniversary of me finishing being a cadet in their time and becoming an officer so high school where I took four years of Latin and it was even four years beyond that unfortunately I gave it back right but I'd like to as long as my eyes and ears were correct and you have added the T a lot of my time in the merchant marine they didn't have the satellites and everything as a matter of fact they were just getting them up when I retired everything was shortwave and if you were English speaking you'd listen to the Beeb the BBC and every afternoon Greenwich Mean Time at four o'clock they played Everything Stops for Tea and so it's a very good song it's from a movie but I didn't know if I could play it here so I'll yield back my time I support the action to correct the Latin and Dominus Vobiscum God be with you Thank you Mr. Coughlin Is there a motion? Motion to approve Any further discussion? Hearing none Ms. Biggerow please call the roll Council Member Reinstein? Yes Council Member Anderson? Yes Council Member Fadgen? Yes Council Member Horland? Yes Council Member Andreu? Yes Item number 18 is an ordinance creating section 2-3 of the code of ordinances pertaining to the procedures for filling a vacancy in office Attorney Ezra? Yes Council President this is public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the City of Plantation Florida creating section 2-3 of the code of ordinances vacancy and candidacy for member of the City Council or Mayor providing for codification severability conflicts and an effective date Council Member Fadgen? So I just want to re-ask the question this is just to make sure that we get in line with the charter the revised charter well there was a provision in the charter that provided for this it was removed as part of the code rewrite there is a statute that requires us to adopt this by either charter or ordinance but it's reflective of that discussion that we had it's reflective of the discussion and it's consistent with the vacancy provisions for special elections that we had okay motion to approve before we take a vote I do have Mr. Conklin you wanted to speak about this item as well Dennis Conklin 458 I forgot that I put this in because I didn't circle it did I read right that this allows the council to designate a temporary council to fill a vacancy to see if it's outside of the bounds of the supervisor of elections is that right or not I'm not sure if I read that right I believe it was based on timing yeah on timing that's not this ordinance this ordinance is number 18 deals with the situation when during qualifying for an upcoming election is it 19 then I apologize you might be on 19 that's why oh gosh I put the wrong one down thank you I apologize yield back okay any further discussion on 18 hearing none Ms. Beggarow please call the roll Council Member Reinstein yes Council Member Anderson yes Council Member Fadgen yes Council Member Horland yes Council Member Andreu yes item number 19 is an ordinance amending the code of ordinances pertaining to procedures for council city council members in mayor absences attorney Ezra this is a public hearing second reading of an ordinance of the city of plantation florida amending chapter 2 art administration article 3 boards commission and committee division 1 generally by creating section 2 dash 30 of the code of ordinances of the city of plantation pertaining to procedures for city council member and mayoral absences creating a vacancy providing for conflict severability codification and an effective date thank you council member Fadgen same question it's reflective of our discussion we had when we were discussing the charter yes sir motion to approve second mr. conklin did you want to speak to this item once again apologies dennis conklin 4581 northwest this court this is the one that i had that's why i jumped up when 18 was called they didn't realize i circled these are props they don't really work and i apologize thank you attorney Ezra so does this as i read it mean that the council gets to appoint a temporary council person in order to complete i guess quorums and stuff like that while according to supervisor elections timelines is that right may i respond please attorney Ezra so excuse me this ordinance is consistent with prior discussions of the council when they were updating the charter and the discussions pertain to defining absences under the charter the charter always provided for vacating office in the event more than a certain number of consecutive meetings were missed this ordinance defines what is an excused absence that's all this ordinance does the charter itself does deal with vacancies so if this ordinance were implemented and i we've had discussions at the council whether or not a council the council as a governing body has the authority to remove one of its own members but assuming they do and a vacancy is created then the charter provision dealing with the vacancy would apply okay so upon removal then they can appoint temporarily that's correct that question though i think what attorney israel is just clarifying that's in the charter it's not in this that's before us today but that language is in the charter that was approved and this is in the alignment as was mentioned exactly thank you thank you thank you i believe it's already been moved and seconded any further discussion hearing none mr. bigorell please call the roll councilmember reinstein yes councilmember anderson yes councilmember pageant yes councilmember horland yes councilmember andreou yes as was stated earlier items 20 and 21 have been tabled to a later date and that takes us to our administrative update mayor sordle thank you very much council president andreou we went on a field trip today mr. nudamaker and i did scouting out parks and looking at pickleball possibilities there's nothing to immediately report just the idea that we're looking at it thinking about it and trying to move one step closer and telling y'all we're working on it so take that as it may may i yeah was it in our city or other cities our city within our city yeah just floating kicking around ideas and so my point is that we've heard that this is important to y'all and it's an issue and we're trying to find some solutions but they don't happen like that y'all know that big prairie event next thursday as you know the interfaith will be at seventh day of venice this time ahac banquet countywide oh ods lds yes thank you thank you 7pm thursday yes um affordable housing countywide had a um a dinner and plantation got two awards actually they lauded us for uh affordable housing and things we've done which i kind of find interesting because i don't feel like we've done much you know i have this frustration as an elective that i want things to go quick what's that okay i'll take the hit but and uh and maggie was uh especially lauded uh for her activism countywide yeah yeah yeah she's a star there's a lot of good people in that committee i love that committee um uh light up city halls the second as you all know and um that's it thank you mayor sordle at this time we'll go with the comments by council members and we'll start with council member reinstein i just want to say a great job by parks and rec for the fall festival um it's always a lot of fun it's packed um last uh what was it about a week ago already um but uh that was great and uh the historical society pioneer day which was uh held at volunteer park um great job by all of our our staff and our pioneers um peggy tingle was was honored and wanted to acknowledge that i also wanted to make sure that everybody knew that after the diwali proclamation they left some candy here for everybody this is not for me this is for whoever wants it so yeah there you go you're still there but thank you very much it's for share with everybody thank you council member fadgen um pine island is pineland park was very very busy trunk or treat rock the park fireman's barbecue got to go to all of them great job i love how we're utilizing that park and uh i think uh it's just gonna grow from there i uh snuck into the library they started their move so i went there yesterday and uh they gave me a tour of what's going on over there and then moving in and then i went over the dikey and they told me how they're packing it up so i think they're i think they're hoping within five weeks to be done with that move but um that's exciting that that's coming and then saturday is the veterans day ceremony at veterans park what time is that is that 9 a.m 9 30 9 30 okay and then uh two weeks the parade and um i'm looking forward to that and that's all i have if i may after 9 30 is a 12 15 ford's garage ribbon cutting and car show did we send you that or not yes we sent you okay thank you so much mayor sordle council member anderson the three things he just said i was i did not get to go to the fall festival i was out of town but rock the park was great volunteer firefighter barbecue was great um and the pine island fields a lot of people it was there because rock the park is a lot more generational i brought my parents there a lot of them it was their first time seeing the park done and they were just commenting how how nice it was it was it was neat a lot a lot of you know 70 80 year olds was the first time seeing it so it was nice council member horley thank you madam president i've got a couple of updates um and a few things i want to bring up to you um since we last met i had a broward league cities board meeting and i mentioned to mr nunamaker mr holmes today that um one of the discussions and piggybacking on the terrific planning workshop that we had with staff um is that two weeks ago now we talked a lot about the live local act and what the word is coming from league of cities and we're told to back down a little bit um until senate senator senator pasodomo um is gone that there will probably most likely not be a glitch bill this year so we were hoping that maybe they would be able to claw back some of those unintended consequences um what the league is really concerned about and as we go forward approving projects with that live local act some applicants are using it you're seeing that in miami beach right now with the cleveland or hotel uh they're coming in with with a sledgehammer basically and basically threatening the cities and they're really concerned especially with smaller cities you know you saw with mmg where we're able to you know kind of negotiate and get that 20% affordable housing then we get the improvements for utilities and for traffic and and pedestrian um improvements but if they come in under live local it's 30 years no property taxes and we don't get any of those improvements and what they're worried about especially some of the smaller cities and the burden is going to be on the city for all of those infrastructure needs so um we'll see how it plays out but i want to let you know that's kind of the early word on the street one other thing that came out of that meeting um carol um and matt thompson had been we had talked about the recycling uh conference that the south florida regional and planning council had done a couple of weeks ago and florida department of environmental protection was there and they've come out with a whole campaign that they've created uh for social media on recycling and it's really kind of rethinking it recommitting and before we get any kind of agreement with the south uh the solid waste um authority that's newly been created in broward what the league would like to do is get all the cities on board we can take those graphics and put our logo on them and really just try to get our community to think about recycling again um and think about it in a new a new way and and really renew the commitment so i'll talk to carol about that and see if we can you know get something going on that this way everybody's thinking the same way um since we'll be moving that way with the solid waste authority anyway where you've got most of the 31 cities on board we're going to start with the same message so i think that's a really positive step it's really about um you know reducing what we're putting out there um council member ryanstein mentioned the lauder hill interfaith event that was really wonderful and we told them we were really proud to stand by them as their neighbors that night i wanted to bring up something very quickly um i spoke to mr goodrich about if you remember a couple years ago and it may have been before the pandemic with veterans day coming we talked about perhaps we introduced the idea about the hometown hero banners many cities up north do it but now coral springs has introduced it and it was something that i wanted to bring back to the council um had spoken to mr goodrich about it it really would be something that public works would have to hang the banners but if it was something that our city would like to do i'd love to explore that and how we can offer that to veterans in our city so i don't know if the council has an appetite for that or if you need more information about what that looks like i think that's a great idea i would i would like to see a cost estimate maybe but well so council madam madam president um the first time that i brought it uh through council coral springs is providing the banners for free um when i first presented it a couple years ago a lot of cities what they do is a nominal fee that pays for the banner so really it's our cost is the labor some cities leave it up for a year i like what coral springs is doing they rotate it every three or four months and then the families come in and they get their banner presented to them at city hall so i think there's a lot of things that we could explore but i would just i wanted to bring it forth with veterans day coming i think you know this city is so special and i think we talked about community going to that interface it's just another way to bring the community together around something very important which is our veterans so we saw it today i think uh they had over 400 attendees at that job fair today and over a hundred employers so um we definitely i think have the appetite for it i would love to pursue it um i again just worry about the cost but other than that council member fadgen um i guess is is that infrastructure still there for the banners yes okay i i haven't looked up i guess so i'm too dangerous to look up so but um the other thing that you can we can do to honor our veterans is that you can reach out the parks and rec and you can if you're a veteran or have a family member as a veteran you can buy a plaque to be put on our veterans wall and i i would like to see if we could possibly make it more apparent possibly on the website um saying hey you can be recognized and uh and i forward that application off to several veterans and i think they're looking to do it so my thinking was that broward boulevard is major thoroughfare in our city it's not just our residents passing through and i thought what a wonderful message as you're driving down that street to be able to see those banners so um so uh if that's a consensus then what i'd like to do is send something to administration and if we could start exploring it mayor sortle you had chimed in i was going to give you a request that you put something in writing and put the details down so you read my mind yeah that would really help me a lot thank you everybody example and this way we could start to explore it and and decide with it because i think you have to be very specific with the criteria yeah um and so i've got some great examples of that so thank you everybody that would help me a lot okay great uh related to that look um i don't love our banners and our lights they're getting older and everything um i didn't get it done enough this year to get it to reformat all this i would just say it's on the table yeah it's on the table of how we're going to redo it for broward with light whether we do lights or banners or whatever so if you got input give it this will be something we're going to be talking about you guys jason you didn't know that yet but are you referring to the holidays like holiday holiday banners look old some people have requested holiday lights instead of banners um there's all kinds of options so um by this time next year uh it's going to be better thank you um i think everyone mentioned most of the comments that i wanted to make i do want to thank mr thompson uh for the fixing the sidewalk um uh mr win gave me credit but it's it's mr thompson and his great team out there and i think lots of times they're working behind the scenes and we don't give them enough credit for the things that they're doing so thank you i want you to know that i i started a new tradition if you will where i just mayor sirtle talks about it all the time that we get really excited when we see uh various workers from the city so now i just kind of stop my car sometimes safely safely i pull over and i acknowledge them and i'm walking around with little five dollar gift cards so taking selfies with them but i want them to feel appreciated because i think lots of times they're out there working and they don't necessarily get that acknowledgement so just one of my new initiatives that i've taken on uh i don't know if it was mentioned earlier but not your mama's craft fair is also saturday the 11th uh so that's happening as well i believe at volunteer park you may have mentioned it i missed it and i just want to wish everyone a very happy thanksgiving november 23rd and we won't be meeting i think this is our three week kind of right uh before we we meet again we got two left the 29th and the sixth and then they're back to back right right so we'll see everybody then but have a wonderful thanksgiving and we'll see everybody at the holiday parade just one one thing i park east homeowners association asked to mention that uh the uh home of the month um this was for october and we we didn't get to at the last meeting but uh roxroy and nicole ashley were awarded the uh park east uh hoa homeowner of the month so we said we'd congratulate them publicly i think they've already done the november one so you're gonna have to say the november i said i'd say it out loud so there you go thank you council member ryanstein it is now nine oh sorry oh that clock is wrong if that's somebody needs to fix that one it's eight eight fifteen the meeting is adjourned thank you