City Council - Oct 21, 2026

Good evening and welcome to the October 21st, 2026 City of Plantation Council meeting. The meeting is now called to order at 6.01 p.m. Ms. Beggarrow, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Here. Councilmember Andrew. Here. Councilmember Fajan. Here. Councilmember Horland. Here. Councilmember Einstein. 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 Councilmember Einstein. Sir. Thank you, Council President Horland. Good evening, everyone. So, when I was elected to this position to serve our residents and our city four years ago, I had to sit down with my family to tell them to ignore the noise, ignore the personal attacks. It was a personal family discussion to discuss what we had just went through during the campaign and what this meant for us as a family. They, of course, said, Dad, we don't need to have this discussion. We all have thick skin. Yet, we talked anyway about the verbal attacks that we heard against us and against others through the campaign. We talked about being in the public eye and we talked about the extra level of scrutiny when you run for public office. We then and we still regularly talk about being in this for the right reasons and that always telling the truth and acting and speaking with integrity is the only way. However, thick skin or not, no person who dedicates themselves to public service should be faced with some of the truly gross and disgusting personal attacks that can be seen out there. And without question, there is no place for violence or even threats of violence. Open up the news, national news, just this week and read about suspicious letters and former candidates arrested for threatening or threatening those that support an opponent. My thoughts tonight are to share some things I've been thinking about and to possibly serve as a reminder to many. There is no question that we up here and on other commissions and at other levels of government, we are elected to serve the people. We are not elected by all the people we serve, but we serve all the people when elected. I won't go on forever and the intent is not to lecture here and these comments are not aimed at anyone in the seats in front of us or at anyone specifically anywhere at all, but it is to remind those that are not happy with us or our decisions, feel free to vote for someone else to serve in our place and of course campaign against us. But remember, we are your neighbors. We have families, parents, siblings, children, and despite our better advice, they often read what you are writing about us. When you accuse us of being corrupt, taking bribes or such with no basis at all, or you attack our very personal weaknesses, or you claim we hate our city, all with no relevance or no evidence that would make it beyond your social media post. So many are comfortable typing such hate and untruths from their keyboard. So I say to my colleagues at all levels of government that are being attacked, be true to yourself and your faith and the truth will prevail. The great stoic philosopher Epictetus noted, other people's opinions belong to them, not to you. Letting someone else's view of you dictate your inner peace means that you have handed them the keys to your mind. This is because the chief task in life is knowing what is in our control and what is out of our control. And I say to the public, remember your faith or at the very least, remember that we are all created in God's image and show some compassion. Attack the issues all day, every day, but we would be a better world, a better society and definitely a better city of plantation with less negativity and less personal attacks and more love and more grace for each other. And I hope to that we can all agree. Thank you. With that, before, thank you very much. With that, I'd like to ask, we have a lot of children here, a lot of students that are contest winners. If you are a student and you are a contest winner and you're here for that reason, come up to the podium so you can lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please. If everyone could please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Once all the students get to that spot, looks like we got everybody there. Put your hand over your hearts. 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. Thank you very much. You can be seated. Thank you to all the students who helped lead us in the Pledge, impromptu, and Councilmember Weinstein, thank you for your comments tonight. Much appreciated. Mayor, if you will, before you start, I'm going to turn it over to Councilmember Andreu for a couple of moments. Thank you so much. Member Andreu. Thank you, President Horland. I didn't know that Councilmember Weinstein was going to make those opening statements. Very fitting. I, too, wanted to just make a public statement because I'm sure many of you have seen the recent headlines and social media posts. As a public servant, I have always believed that integrity, accountability, fairness, and respect for due process are fundamental principles of good government. Again, many of you are aware of the recent developments concerning my employment with the School Board of Broward County. I want to briefly acknowledge those developments while making it clear that I will not discuss the specific allegations, evidence, or legal issues associated with the matter in this forum or online. I strongly disagree with the decision to terminate my employment with the district, and I intend to exercise my legal rights through the appropriate administrative and legal processes. Those proceedings are pending, and I believe they should be allowed to proceed without unnecessary public commentary from me. For three decades, I have dedicated my professional life to public education and to public service. That commitment has always been grounded in faith, integrity, professionalism, and a genuine desire to serve, to serve others. I remain very proud of my record of service, and I remain committed to the same principles that have guided me throughout my career. I also want to reassure the residents of Plantation that my commitment to this city and my responsibilities as an elected council member remain unchanged. I am still focused on our future. I will continue to serve our community with the dedication, professionalism, and independence that residents deserve. I ask only that ongoing legal processes be respected and conclusions be based on a fair and complete consideration of facts and evidence. Facts still matter in 2026. I look forward to continuing the work I was elected to do on behalf of the people of Plantation. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Andrea. Mayor, you have a lot of awards tonight. The floor is yours, sir. We have a lot of awards. The first one is to Louis Reinstein for Cutest Pledge of Allegiance. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my goodness. So we're going to do service awards first here. Five years, Angel Morales, Parks and Recreation. You got all these people here for you? Pretty good. Sorry, we're going to take pictures. I know. I'll send it to you. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Five years, Max Stevenson, Police. Thank you, sir. Five years, Xavier Mioque, Police. Ten years, Steven Bunting, Fire. Two. Fifteen years, Carlos Silva, Public Works. Carlita. Thank you, guys. Appreciate you guys. Twenty years, Erica Sanford, Police. Only seems like ten, right? Get a picture with your family. Thank you. Thank you. There you go. There you go. There you go. Twenty-five years, Susan DeLore, Planning and Zoning and Economic Development. I know you did. You're going to talk? Yes, please. Good. You know, I started here 25 years ago, and I know I started at ten. As a public relations and communications specialist, I did not realize there were going to be all these people. Oh. I started 25 years ago as a public relations and communications specialist. I did that for about seven years, and then they came to me and said, hey, you want to be the mayor's assistant? Vanessa, the secretary at the time, wanted to leave, and I said, do I have a choice? And they said, no. And I said, I would love to. So I – so for – we'll only be talking about what kind of an increase I got. I got to do both jobs, and it was the best job I ever had. I worked for Ray Carroll Armstrong, Diane Veltri-Bendekovic. I was mentored by Dan Keefe. I learned so much and had so much fun. You have no idea. So I did that for about 12 or 13 years, and then they came to me and said, you know, do I want to go to planning and zoning? I said, do I have a choice? They said no. So I was a little worried, but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. I got to work side by side with one of my best friends. I worked for an amazing director. I watched these incredibly talented people, you know, go to work every day and do their job. And I feel like being over there, I had a little bit to do with the way, the direction of the city over the last seven years. And that – oh, and I got my master's degree. So I had the opportunity to do that too. So something I've been wanting to do for a long time. So, you know, everything worked out. The point of all this – what is the point? The point of all this is that you never know what little surprises life will throw your way. And despite some of the hesitation at each juncture in my career, every one of them, those little surprises were the best thing that ever, ever happened to me. I am so happy to be standing here before you now for 25 years. I've worked with amazing people. I've gotten – made lifelong friends. And I'm so thankful for the 25 years I've spent here. So thank you. Glasses off. 25 years. Teresa Echevarra. Fire. Sure. Anybody who wants to be in a picture with her, come on. Harry and Steve. Your pen. Oh, thank you. Thank you, everyone. No. Oh, okay. Sorry, I'm going to get between you guys. There you go. Thank you, everyone. And last service award for this category, 25 years, Joseph Borenstein. Fire. Are you good? I'm good. We have the volunteer pins. Do you want me to do them? No? Okay. Yeah, we have – now our volunteer firefighters have their awards. And once again, I always love it when you guys show up for each other. You're one of the more cohesive units that I've ever seen. And when stuff gets real when you're out there, I know you've got each other. And that's a great feeling. It's a great feeling for all of us in the city to have that feeling. So, yeah. Five years, Carlos Colon. Nope. Okay. Five years, Jean-Pierre Lemire. Five years, Corey Petrano. Appreciate you. A lot of work to put in. Thank you, sir. Thank you. You got it, Ashton? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. You're cooking. Ten years, Debra Perez. You got a whoop. Nobody else got a whoop. Okay. Thank you. You want to say anything? My camera? Yeah, do your photo. Yes, absolutely. This is your Christmas card photo. Okay. One more. Carrie and Terry. Carrie and Terry. The reason I'm here. Really? The reason I'm here. Tell the story. Tell the story. Yes. Carrie's my bestest friend. And I remember ten years ago, she said, why don't you join the fire department? I was like, oh, God, I don't know. And here I am. And I'm also a teacher at Central Park Elementary. So that's why I think I got a couple extra. Thank you. I remember your pen. Thank you so much. Thank you. Fifteen years, Caitlin Murphens. Anything you want? Yeah. Where's he again? He's not a fan of Sparky. Oh. I'll protect her. Oh, it's okay. Oh, okay. Okay. Come here. It's okay. Come on. I've got it. T.T. T.T. T.T. Come on. There we go. There you go. He's not a fan of Sparky. Is that what it is? You know, she's not a fan of Sparky is what it was. Okay. I've never been scared of inflatables, but that's just how I roll. Richard Zalewski, 20 years. Go ahead. They're coming. They're coming. Family? Family? What's up? Really? He's using some chat. Oh, it's all family. I heard you. You're good. Thank you. He's doing it. He's doing it. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. You're good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. And just so you know, Mr. Zalewski's son is our chaplain. 25 years, Henry Bernard IV. You good? Yeah, you want to sing? You good? No, I'm good. Ah. Three to go. Here's James Wade. That's a lot of work. That's a lot of calls. Can we get out on the phone? Come on. Cameron, come here. Come on. Yes, I can. That's okay. I need to balance it out. Keep respecting. I don't know I'm looking. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 30 years, Alex Newmark. Thank you. Wait, wait, wait. Come on. I'll be wrong with my daughter. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And the last one. The finale. Eddie Contreras. 35 years. Taking on his behalf. All right. Fire takes over. Awards. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, members of the Fire Department, and guests. Good evening. On behalf of Chief Todd, Chief Gabor, and the Plantation Fire Department, I want to thank the Mayor and the City Council for the opportunity to host our annual Marty Trahue Art and Literature Contest once again. That's all I have. At this time, I'd like to call up the Town Chief, Will Bacon, and Caitlin Murfin to do a presentation. And Sparky. So, the Marty Trahue Art and Literature Contest is broken up into several subcategories, and that's how we're going to go as the evening flows through. First of all, thank you to everyone who came tonight. Fire Department family, residents and visitors, our honored council folks up here. Mr. Mayor, thank you all for being here tonight and allowing us this opportunity to honor these students and their efforts. In the art category, for the division kindergarten through third grade, third place, from our Savior Lutheran, Rebecca Crosby. Thank you. Second place, art category, K through three grades, Simona Serafinas, American Heritage, third grade. And in first place, forgive me, Juliana Padravechi, Central Park, third grade, Mrs. Castillo. Keeping it in the art category, in the fourth and fifth grade division, third place, Berenice Rodriguez, Peters Road Elementary, fifth grade, Mrs. Brockman. Second place, Shir Kadosh, Imagine Charter, fourth grade, Mr. Rittingham. And in first place, grades four and five, Delilah Magris, Central Park, fourth grade, Mr. Vailu. What's your name? Avery. Avery, yeah. Accepting for Delilah is her friend, Avery. The support of a true friend. They come up to accept your awards when you're not here. All right, moving on to literature. Grades K through three, third place, Gabriella Seiden. Central Park, third grade, Ms. Castillo. Second place, Literature K through three, Elsa Toscano, Our Savior Lutheran, third grade, Mrs. Filio. And in first place, Literature K through three, Nathaniel Jimeranes, Central Park, third grade, Mrs. Vatten. Right here. Right here. Right here. There we go. Literature category, grades four and five, third place, Luciano Porro. Tropical Elementary, fourth grade. Second place, Literature, fourth and fifth grades, Kendall McCray, Peters Elementary, fifth grade, Mrs. Brockman. First place, Literature Category, grades four and five, Layla Williams, Tropical Elementary, fourth grade, Mrs. Marsh. Okay. In the digital category, second place, I believe she was just up, Avery Danvers, Central Park, fourth grade, Mr. Valu. Avery's commitment to friendship was honored with a later on win in the category. First place, Digital, Lucas White, Central Park, fourth grade, Mr. Valu. At this time, we'd like to recognize some honorees of the fire department in a different direction. Each year, we have members of the fire department nominate a member of the year and a business of the year. The member of the year obviously displays those qualities we seek in our members and as our residents of plantation that they are committed wholly to the cause of being a part of our fire department, protecting the lives of our citizens and preserving their property. The business of the year, we seek support in a different way. Maybe they make us smarter business-wise. They help us understand financial decisions that we need to make that make us better stewards of the fiduciary responsibilities that we're entrusted with. Along that line, our business of the year is Digitech EMS Billing. At this time, I'd like to have Senior Vice President of Client Relations and Sales, Daryl Hartung, and Plantation Resident, and Assistant Director of Cost Recovery Solutions, Zach Corradino, come up. Digitech has been instrumental in helping us understand what costs can be recovered through various government programs and returned directly to the department. Those costs have helped us purchase equipment and apparatus at no additional cost to the taxpayers. So we are super grateful for their wisdom and their guidance in those areas for us. Secondly, our Plantation Fire Department Member of the Year, and I'd like to read from their letter. Station 2 is proud to nominate Shawna Russell for its Member of the Year. Shawna consistently goes above and beyond for both Station 2 and the department wherever she has the opportunity. Her dedication, generosity, and willingness to give her time have made a great impact on our station and its members. Each year, Shawna takes the lead in preparing and cooking amazing grilled chicken, ask Chief Todd, they add parenthetically, for the Station 2 barbecue following the city parades in July and November. She also dedicates a significant amount of her personal time to preparing pork for our annual barbecue. Her food has become something everyone looks forward to, and I'll testify to that, and has received countless compliments and praise throughout the years. Shawna's contributions extend well beyond our station barbecues as manager of the Miami Grill located at Broward and 441. She has continually supported Station 2 in the department by providing excellent meals to all of our staff meetings, association meetings, and other department functions. Her generosity and continued support of our members are greatly appreciated and certainly do not go unnoticed. I would like to further add that Shawna, while raising her son and caring for a family member, put both of those young men into our fire cadet program here. Those young men graduated high school last year, and now they are both in college up in South Carolina, I believe on the track and field team up there at their college university. So Shawna has excelled in this life in a variety of different ways, and it is our pleasure to call her forward and receive her award in front of you all. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, Council members, that concludes our portion of this ceremony tonight. Thank you, Battalion Chief Bacon. Thank you. Before you run away, is the fire department doing anything early November? Hmm. Let me see. Oh, yes. We have our annual barbecue that will be going on November 1st. That's a Sunday over in the park next to Station 4, Pine Island Park. It will be occurring from 12 to 5 p.m. Lots of great food, lots of great entertainment, lots of great areas to have some great interactions with some other of your plantation residents, have a good time, and get to know some of your friendly firefighters at the same time. So Sunday, November 1st, 12 to 5, Pine Island Park. And how can folks purchase tickets for that? Go to our website, plantationfire.com. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Okay. We're going to give the fire department time to file out before we turn to the parks and recreation. Thank you for coming to our principals, and thank you to the families and the students. Before we turn to parks and recreation, we'll give everyone time to file out. All right. If we could get somebody in the back to close those lobby doors, please, the big doors. Mr. Polio, it might be you, your closest. Give it one minute. One moment, Ms. O'Toole. Can we get that last lobby door closed, please? The double door? Anybody? The single double door? Thank you. Ms. O'Toole, I want it to be quiet as a pin drop for you. Thank you so much. I'm getting used to clearing the rooms. No. All right. Welcome, Ms. O'Toole, for the parks and recreation update. Thank you. Lots of events coming up in parks and recreation. Thank you all that showed up to our fall festival. We had a great turnout. And we are turning now to the Saturday, October 24th, our Trunk or Treat event at Pine Island Park from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. That is similar to last year for plantation residents only. Saturday, the 24th through Sunday, the 25th, Plantation Historical Society is hosting the 57th annual Broward County Plant Affair at Volunteer Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, November 6th is our first Rock the Park concert of the season with Pump. They are a pop rock party band at Pine Island Park. The music begins at 7 p.m. In our Aquatics Division new event, this Saturday we're hosting a floating pumpkin patch from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Tickets are on sale now. Friday, October 30th through the 31st, we're hosting the Central Park Series swim meet at the pool in our tennis division. Wednesday, October 30th, we're hosting a Halloween kids tournament for ages 6 through 13. Saturday, the 31st through November 2nd, a USTA Level 5 Junior Championship tournament. In our Equestrian Center, Sunday the 25th, the Plantation Acre Saddle Club from 8.30 to 2.30. Sunday the 1st, South Florida Dressage Association show from 8 to 2.30. Our Athletics Division Friday, October 30th, we're hosting the Wicked Bread 5K at Central Park. The race begins at 6.30 p.m. That's right. And starting Monday, November 2nd, we're starting registration for PAL Spring Sports, which are baseball, basketball, and softball. Thank you, May. Thank you, Ms. O'Toole. And I want to remind everyone that at those first two Rock the Park concerts, we will be collecting non-perishable food items. And that will be benefiting the We Care Pantry and Harvest Drive this year. So thank you again from Parks and Rec for allowing us to partner on that. All righty. So at this time, we are going to recess the City Council meeting. It is 6.44 and call to order the CRA meeting. Ms. Beggaro, will you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson. Here. Commissioner Andreu. Here. Commissioner Fajan. Here. Commissioner Horland. Here. Commissioner Reinstein. Here. Here. Thank you. Thank you very much. The CRA consent agenda consists of three items tonight, one through three. Do we have a motion or any item to be pulled? Motion to approve the consent agenda for the CRA. Thank you. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Ms. Beggaro, please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson. Yes. Commissioner Andreu. Yes. Commissioner Fajan. Yes. Commissioner Reinstein. Yes. Commissioner Sortel. Yes. Any public requests of the CRA commission? Okay. Hearing none, we will now reconvene the City Council meeting, adjourn the CRA meeting at 6.44, and the City Council meeting will commence. As notated on the agenda, I just want to point out that item 18, which is the second and final reading of the Comprehensive Plan, has been deferred to November 18th, so if you're here for that item and wanted to speak on it, particularly that it will be deferred until November 18th. At this time, we will begin with public requests of the Council regarding municipal affairs. To those who wish to speak, we request that you complete a speaker form. If you have not done so already, please do so. When you are called, please approach the podium and make sure the green light is on the microphone. You will have three minutes to make your request to the Council. Please state your name and address, and address your remarks to the Council President, not the Mayor, nor individual members of the Council. Please keep your remarks to the allotted three minutes, and please use your time efficiently. If extra time will be needed to conclude your remarks, please ask for it as your time is expiring, not prior to beginning your remarks. So first up, we have Robert Long, Jerry Thomas on deck, and then Vicki Gelfin. Good evening. Good. How are you this evening? You go after the fire department. Everybody is really good right there. They're a tough act to follow. Yeah, it's tough. I'm coming today. Good evening. I'm coming today. My name is Robert Long. I live at 1160 Northwest 95th Avenue, Plantation, Florida, Jacarenda Lakes. I've been in Jacarenda for the last 13 years. I've been in Plantation for probably 30 some years. And then the other night, I just happened to get a warning on my car for parking on the swell, and I also got a warning for parking over the sidewalk. Not on the sidewalk, just the bumper. I have forms here. I have paper. I give it to the clerk. You guys can go through it, the warnings. But I also had an email I sent to you guys last week. I have over 100 signatures just in the last couple days of having the same problems. If you could, you can just quickly just see how I got to park. I got Jenga in the morning at 5 o'clock trying to figure out which way to put my cars. But anyway, after talking with everyone, there's a lot of people that have the same issue with parking on the swell or not parking on the swell or having four wheels on the road, two wheels off the road, two wheels on the swell. I'm not condoning to park in the road. I think that's an emergency problem. But I'm also trying to figure out where in Jacarenda Lakes, I think these houses were built in the 80s. People might have only had two cars back in the day. Now we have two kids, grandparents, mother-in-laws. Some people have one person at their house. Some people have multiple people at their house. I've been to some that had parties that did have eight cars. I thought it was a party, but no, that's how many people lived there at the house, right? Nephews, nieces, grandparents, mom and dad, kids. I'm trying to look at my time. Is this my time right here? All right, so initially I'll have 30 seconds. So we got, you know, all these, you know, not only are residents getting it or getting warnings or citations, but so were workers, maintenance workers, daycare. I knew a person has a special needs kid. Their nurse happened to get a citation. Some are warnings and some are citations. All I was told was the warnings could turn into citations later. So now every morning when I wake up, do I have to pay another bill? I love plantation. Never had a problem. Never had a problem with Jacarenda Lakes. I don't think this is an issue either. I was just trying to see if you guys could change the ordinance or change something for neighborhoods around plantation, not just Jacarenda Lakes, but specifically Jacarenda Lakes because I live there. But that's all I have. Don't run away, Mr. Long. Thank you for coming tonight. We understand the constrictions that you have there and others have had. You understand also why we have the ordinance and many cities do not parking this well. The mayor has directed administration to look at impossible solutions. It's probably going to take some time and some money if council approves that. But if you'd like some further information, our chief administrator officer, Jason Nunnemaker, is here, and he'd be happy to talk to you in the lobby. I would appreciate it. One other thing. Is there a way that this can kind of stop before the citations? I would ask Mr. Lundnemaker if you go out to the lobby and then he can address that with you. Okay? Thanks for coming tonight. Thanks, guys. Have a good evening. Bye-bye. Council, may I? Yes, Mr. Mayor. Just he did send it to the police and we've gotten some from police. So my point is that you've begun the process. You started asking the questions already and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I know Deputy Chief Council spoke to you. My point is I want to compliment you. You've gone about it the right way. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Long. Right. Good evening, Ms. Thomas. Hi. How are you? I'm Jerry Thomas. I live at 7200 Northwest Seventh Court. I lived in Plantation for 56 years. I've been here a long time. I'm representing my neighbors that live on Seventh Court. We have an abandoned house. It's been abandoned. It'll be three years this November when Mr. Yawn passed away. The house needs to be condemned. It is hurting the whole neighborhood. House values are definitely going to be going down. It is also a health issue. We have two young children next door. We have several senior citizens like myself. There are vermin running around all in the garage. The garage is filled with all kinds of trash. The outside of the house is an absolute disgrace. There are at least ten summons on the door that go off with the... Of course, they disappear when it's windy. And then even today, another summons was put up, okay? And nobody's doing anything. And, you know, this is like ridiculous because it's been going on for too long. And it's scary just to go by the house. There was a tarp on the house. Half of it is off now. It's on the ground. And it looks like something from Halloween right now. And the grass is, it's about a foot high now. There's also signs, caution. So nobody will walk on that side of the street because you can see the rats running through. I've had two rats in my attic. And I think it's because of that. Okay. And you said that the owner had passed away? It'll be three years this November. So I'm assuming there may be some inheritance. So it all came out this summer and looked at the house. And I don't think any of you would want to live in this on our street anymore. So what I'm going to do, Ms. Thomas, is I see our building official, Ms. Harbert, stood up in the back. So I'm going to ask you to speak to her out in the lobby. Okay. And then we can find out because I just got this information. I can't look up yet whether or not there are any code violations. I'm assuming that there are. It's a lot. And then we can also find out if it's in the process for being an unsafe structure, if you declared an unsafe structure. Okay. So Ms. Carmen Holberts at the back for you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks so much. All right. We have next up, we have Vicki Gelfen, Tiffany Hudson, and then Jo Wynn. Ms. Gelfen? Good evening. Good evening. Vicki Gelfen, 9381 Northwest 18th Place. Good evening. Mr. Ezra, Mayor, Council, City Clerk. I'm old school and I type out what I have to say. I don't have a tablet and I don't do it on my phone. I'm a Florida resident for 53 plus years and I've been a resident of Plantation for over 40 years and I chose the city to live in. When I moved to Florida, I saw several places in Broward County to be a resident of and Plantation won hands down. Not to say there have been bumps in the road. The council will verify that I also fight for what I believe in and have appeared before this dais many times. I'm a little disappointed with residents that feel that the council is forcing them to do things that they are against. Growth is to be expected as the population all over the country is increasing, not just here. I think our police department is top notch and the fire department is in the same category. The people on the council are looking out for all of us when they do a 20 year plan. I won't be here in 20 years because that makes me 100 then. Geez. Okay. And there are a lot of others in this chamber that won't be here either. For residents to speak poorly about the city and what they do for us, they don't have a clue. Sit in on council meetings and listen. Not just to what the complaint you have against them this minute, but how the city works. No, I'm not a city employee, but I have many friends who are employed by the city and I see the loyalty they have. Why else would they be giving out 20, 30 and 40 year pins? I'm not a numbers person. If so, I would have become a real estate agent instead of a travel agent. The commissions are exponentially higher in real estate. The city has to balance a budget and keep up the good work they do. I'd like the finance department to work out a budget for me. Talk to her later. This is not a rah rah for the team. There are things I'm against, but I find out about them before I get up to speak. Eight years ago, I was asked to go to a fundraiser for one of those on the dais. I gave him a $50 check and that's the last check I wrote to a person running for office until this year. So I did not buy my way into the city. No one can and no one should. I asked my fellow plantation residents that before you speak against what is going on, find out all the data you can and then speak intelligently to those involved. Everyone on that dais will take your calls and also return your emails. They are our representatives and they do what they can to make this city run smoothly. If you don't like what's going on, try living in another city in the county and see how amenable they are to residents smearing them and telling them that they don't know what's going on. Not a pretty picture. Taxes go up everywhere. Ten seconds. Not just in plantation. Gas prices are sky high. Groceries are expensive. In my industry, a round trip airline ticket to New York used to be around $200 to $250. Today, with two weeks plus notice, that $250 ticket is now over $400. And don't forget to pay for your seat and your bag. That brings it to around $500. So everything is getting higher in cost. I heard someone at the last council meeting saying that we need a fire department that is not volunteer. I asked the chief and he told me that we are in the same response category for departments that are paid. Get your facts and figures straight before you accuse people of things. I am against cameras and against speeders. Also those that refuse to use their turn signals. But I'm patient. I'm a very big believer in karma. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Delfin. Ms. Tiffany Hudson, please no applause. Tiffany Hudson, Joe Wynn, and Richard Cabrera. Good evening. Hi. Tiffany Hudson, Plantation. So here we are. What I've been saying all along and what many of us consider common sense has now been confirmed by a federal judge. On October 1st, 2026, United States District Judge Sarah E. Hill serving in Tulsa, Oklahoma issued a significant ruling involving warrantless searches of historical automated license plate recognition records. Judge Hill was nominated by President Joe Biden, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and appointed to a lifetime position on the federal bench. In the United States v. Kyle, Judge Hill found that law enforcement used two automated license plate recognition systems, Flock and Vehicle Manager, to search a driver's historical movements and investigators assessed more than 50 location records spanning an entire month and covering multiple states. Judge Hill concluded that this search violated the driver's reasonable expectation of privacy in her movements. Because the search was conducted without a warrant or probable cause, she ruled that it violated the Fourth Amendment. She described the technology as indiscriminate mass surveillance and ordered the evidence obtained after that search suppressed under the doctrine of fruit of the poisonous tree. This ruling is important, but I believe it is only the beginning. We will likely see many more cases involving automated license plate readers, historical location data, and mass surveillance make their way through the courts, and eventually up to the United States Supreme Court. I am confident that future rulings will further validate what I have been saying all along. People do not surrender their constitutional right to privacy simply because technology makes it possible to track their movements. Once ago, I sent an official letter to every Plantation City Council member, the mayor, and the city attorney. In that letter, I clearly stated that I do not consent to mass surveillance. I asked the city to stop recording my license plate in any manner and to stop tracking my movements. So I will be very interested to see what happens when this type of surveillance is ultimately established as unconstitutional. If these practices are found to violate my rights, then the rights of all of us in Plantation may have been violated on a daily basis. What responsibility will the city have then and what remedies will be available to residents? Speaking of unconstitutional, let's talk about Red Speed. On September 22nd, Panama City terminated Red Speed. The police chief told the city, we have lost confidence in Red Speed. Commissioners also voted unanimously to remove the camera ordinance. The city will be pursuing other options that will be much more beneficial to our children and actually keep them safe as opposed to ticketing people to death and pocketing all the money. Meanwhile, Karen Plantation, the October 22nd special magistrate hearing for the speed zone violations were canceled. I'm so confused as to why that is. And as far as the purple heart signs, we're still waiting for them to be returned. There's been no explanation for this extremely heartless decision made with no citizen in mind. We also need a deadline for when the signs are going to be returned and to know whether this screw up is going to cost the taxpayers more money. That's all I have. Thank you very much. Joe Nguyen, Richard Cabrera, and then Lisa Bentley. Good evening, Mr. Nguyen. Good evening. Been a little bit. Figured to be a little efficient. We'll go with the notes on here. Joe Nguyen, 944 Northwest 92nd Terrace. First off, the new playground over here that I rode by on the way is looking fantastic. I'm really excited for that to come in and families to really be able to enjoy that. People of all abilities and ages, that'll be great. If you see a red bike next to it and somebody's swinging along, that might be me. On the way here, I'd once again pass somebody crossing at 91st and Cleary in the area that we could use that mid-block treatment as well of returning from here from these chambers on Monday. Somebody else as well. So whenever we're able to, mid-block treatment on that would be fabulous. I just had some quick thoughts on the comprehensive plan process. We've had plenty of time to review. This is loud. Over the past few years, it's been a topic of discussion. I'm going to stand a little back. It's been a topic of discussion at perhaps about a dozen public meetings. Our Sustainability Board has reviewed it at least twice, plus a few with Planning and Zoning as well as the Affordable Housing Action Committee. These cover wide-ranging expertise and priorities, and the public is of course welcome to attend any of these. While some people continue to ask for delays, to ask for continued delays, multiple months have already passed. Plus, it's just unreasonable delay further. If there are real errors discovered, we can change them at any time, as we do with the current one. Additionally, the claims being made regarding maximum heights, they're not items for the comp plan. Those are code issues, and you often hear those on the dais as developers come in for projects. It's probably no surprise to you that I disagree with the policy objections brought up. If we want to continue delivering great services, facilitate well-paid jobs, and grow responsibly, then the development positions it had were the best path towards that, as they ended direct new development within Midtown, Gateway, and Ontario corridors. Of course, with the reversion from 50 units per acre, there's not really any substantive change anymore. It's much the same plan, just updating infrastructure and policy goals to align with modern needs, priorities, as well as state policies. All to say, when it does arrive on the agenda for second reading, I encourage you to pass it at that night. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wynn, coming out tonight. Mr. Richard Cabrera, then Lisa Bentley, then Mamta Ramatour. Hello, Mr. Cabrera. Good evening. How's everybody tonight? Good. Nice to see you. 1881 Southwest 52nd Avenue. And I wanted to come and speak to you about the comp plan. And more specifically, you know, I had spoken, I think, a couple of weeks ago, but there was a gentleman that came in, Mr. Corman, and spoke about it. I understand he's a teacher, you know, and he's on the board to, you know, formulate the comp plan. The comp plan is flawed. And, you know, I've only looked at stormwater and the transportation, and I haven't gotten into transportation yet because I don't have recent numbers. But the stormwater aspect of it speaks in superlatives, but it really doesn't outline anything. It does mention retention. Retention for all of you. I emailed you a map of the old plantation water control district, which reflects all of the water areas in blue. Okay? And when you look at that map, and I'm going to send it to all of you. Okay? Everything developed before the early 70s. There was zero lakes. Zero. Everything after, such as my neighborhood, Plantation Harbor, you know, we have, I think it's a 13-acre lake. Folks, if you don't have a lake in the development, there's no place for the water to go. Okay? Exfiltration trench is not going to cut it. And so what we did is with a comp plan drainage element or stormwater element that doesn't address fixing the problems, we're leaving it, I don't know, to the stormwater master plan that we're going to raise $10 million in taxes. And the program is increase pipe sizes and pave the roads. It doesn't talk at all about retention. Okay? Which is what's needed. The marketplace redevelopment, and I'll leave this, and it reflects a groundwater level of zero. Right across the street is the canal owned by old plantation water control district. In their manual, the water level, the wet season water table is four, not zero. Those drainage counts for that redevelopment are flawed. They're going to, you know, flood the streets, flood the lakes of Newport to the west. And so Mr. Corman, you know, said, you know, all they found is mistakes. I understand. You folks are in a tough job. You don't have a background in engineering. And consequently, you're faced with making decisions about things you don't fully understand. You have to rely on others. You need to appoint technical people to these boards. Mr. Corman, nice guy. He's not a technical person. He's a high school teacher. He's no longer, he's an airline pilot. He's a what? He's an airline pilot. He's an airline, okay. So, and my only point is there's a lot of people in the community that are willing to step up and serve. Mr. Cabrera, if you could just wrap up. Okay. I see you just sent the email to us at about a quarter to six tonight, so we'll make sure. Yeah, I was, I've been working. Okay. That's okay. Have you reached out to our city engineer at all? No, not specifically about this. Okay. But, you know, she hired a consultant. And I put a public orchestra request in. The way the documents were provided to me was really not meeting Florida statutes. And I could not really look at what the consultant did for $1.2 million. And so I'll call any one of you and coordinate with you. But all I'm trying to do, I think Mr. Reincean said it best, we're all in this together. We've got to pull together and we've got to set goals, appropriate goals. And, you know, I've been here since 1990. I'm not going to be here in 20 years. Probably I'll be long gone. But let's try to improve it the best we can. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Mr. Carrere, what I'm going to do is I'm going to respond to your email and I'll put you in contact with Ms. Chealon, our engineer. Okay? Thank you. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Uh, Lisa Bentley, Mamta Ramatur, and then third, we have Paula Meyer. I'll take it. Thank you. Hello. My name is Lisa Bentley. I'm a plantation resident. Uh, we found 209 errors in the comprehensive plan. I sent you guys that email earlier this morning. Okay. Uh, if you look on this paper, I've categorized them. We have found 14 potentially conflicts with the Florida law, 44 internal inconsistencies, 37 math and data errors, and only 15 typos. There's others. Um, I have also, uh, read the plan and I understand the comprehensive plan. And I started to look at the city's development and their approval numbers. And I compared that to the population growth projected in the comp plan. And what I found was very alarming. We are proving more development than your own comprehensive plan has planned for. And if you look on my next page, that will show you the actual approved growth versus the plan projected population. And the plan projects that in three years, you have 2,025 new residents, but you have approved 2,131 apartments. And if you take two people per apartment, you're looking at 4,262 residents in three years. Comparing that to that 2,025 plan that the plan is projecting, that's 2.1 times the population growth. I'm not even looking at the Shalimar North or Gateway or even plantation marketplace. When I do include those numbers, it's three times the comp plan preparation. Um, so I don't know if anyone is really paying attention to that. Uh, and I've raised concerns before about having an annual cap in the comp plan so that our roads, water, our sewer, our drainage, and schools can keep up with the pace of the population growth. Uh, you're right now approving that at two to three times that rate right now. And without a cap in that comp plan, this scenario is going to keep going on over and over again for our future. So I started to investigate. I looked at edge water in 2005. They had to pause their development because they had severe flooding and stormwater issues. Brooksville and Wildwood in central Florida. They had to freeze their, their plan in 2024 because their growth was out, was out running their sores and their roads. Um, the state has just passed a law, a new law in 2025 that is actually, um, limiting your comp plan to be paused. So then a cap in this plan really matters right now. Uh, I have, I feel like even if you were to fix this 209 errors, I want to still be able to have the opportunity to review that. Uh, I, I have lost a lot of trust in finding those errors and also on the development that's going on. So I do hope that you'll give us an extended amount of time. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Bentley. Mamta Ramatur, Paula Meyer and Gordon Wiggin. Good evening. Good evening. Mamta Ramatur, um, plantation resident. I'm going to read this time. This plan should never have gone through expedited review. Tonight's agenda title says it replaces the adopted comprehensive plan. It's in entirety. Your January 12, 2026 letter to the state says the same under section 163.3191. A plan update like this gets the fuller state coordinated review with more time for the public. The city chose the faster track for a complete rewrite. The rush shows residents with no consultants found 209 errors. We gave you the first 29 on October 1st and 5th and the rest of the 209 this morning. The plan was reposted on October 6th without a single correction. Volume one caps density at 50 units per acre, while volume two calls for a minimum of 50. Midtown is marked reserved. The city's own website says the comp plan must identify the growth demands needed to support future development. This one uses 2020 COVID traffic counts, has no fire and EMS assessment. And the city's own budget says the first stormwater master plan is complete, but this comp plan still says it's currently developing one. The plan was never updated with the city's own drainage study. You cannot plan for 50 units per acre without knowing whether our roads, drainage, and first responders can handle it. Residents also do not know this plan exists. I ran two petitions at the same time about 1,700 residents signed against the marketplace project, but only 300 signed on the comp plan because most people do not know what a comprehensive plan is. Please reach them with the utility bills letter, zone meetings, and posts on local groups like I have emailed every one of you. Today's memo says the hearing moved in response to residents' requests to give the public adequate time. But November 18 is the state's final day, 180th day. Moving the hearing to the last day adds no time whatsoever. So I am asking on record today, is staff correcting the plan? When will residents see the corrected version? Will the city send it for the full state coordinate review as it should? And once it's corrected, how will residents have time to review it if it comes out just before November 18th? The Broward Planning Council and Commissioner Galler both told me this decision is yours, the city council members. Please vote to send Florida Commerce a written request for the 180-day extension before November 18th. It cost the city nothing, and it gives staff time to fix the plan and residents time to review it. Thank you. Thank you. Paula Meyer, Gordon Wiggin, and then Randy. I'm sorry I can't read your last name, but it's about parking. Hello, Ms. Meyer. How are you this evening? How are you? My name is Paula Meyer. I am a Florida native and a plantation native. Been here 63 years. Yes, I'm telling you my age. I am really concerned about the growth that we have going on and what we plan on doing. My parents moved here. There was two roads in and out of Broward and Broward Boulevard. There was nothing past university. I get it. Growth happens. But we can't outgrow what we have to sustain us to get where we need to go. We don't have the roads to go back and forth without sitting in line for 30 minutes to get to 84 and get to 595. It's Saturday night on 7 o'clock at night. I sat in bumper to bumper traffic on Pine Island Road. I grew up for 36 years of my married life on Pine Island. There was nothing there. Now, sitting in traffic on a Saturday night? That's insane. This is a suburb. This is not the city. The suburbs are supposed to be quieter. They're supposed to be less populated. They're supposed to have less traffic. They're supposed to have less large buildings. We don't need this massive plan. And I'm actually glad because you're all looking at me. Because before, none of you guys even cared. You're not looking at them. You're not paying attention. You don't care what they say. And quite frankly, all those errors, this gentleman should be catching. Because he's getting paid by the hour for that plan. Ms. Meyer, please direct your comments to the Council President. I am. Here. Well, he's part of it if he's sitting here. But if you're speaking right now, you speak to the Council President, please. Okay. Don't direct your comments to anyone else on the desk. Well, he heard it. And that's what I believe. Because he does get paid by the hour to do the comp plan. So, I just think you guys really need to look at this. You need to decide if we want to be like Pembroke Pines. Because Pembroke Pines can't get out of Pembroke Pines for over an hour to get to the beach. Because they have no roadways. And that's what they did after Andrew. Excuse me. They developed so fast, they couldn't keep up with their infrastructure. And everybody hates being out there now. But they can't go anywhere else. Because they're locked into their housing. Just like all of us. So, please, take into consideration what you are doing. What you're going to do for the future, I'll be dead. Doesn't matter to me. But it matters to the people who are here. Please. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Meyer, for coming out. Gordon Wiggin, Randy, and then Percy. Sorry, again, can't read the writing there. Good evening, Mr. Wiggin. Good evening. How are you doing, Council Members, Mayor? I can echo that about Pembroke Pines. It's very, very packed. And we don't want to pack plantation. All right. So, I am going to read something real quick. Then if I have time, I'll talk about the gateway meeting that we attended last Wednesday. All right. I'll just speak briefly on an issue that touches the heart of the public trust in plantation. The relationship between this council and developers and the lobbyists who represent them. Developers do play an essential role in the city's growth. They bring investment, jobs, and the projects that shape the neighborhoods. Lobbyists, in turn, are paid to advocate for those interests. That is their job. But your job is very different. Your ethical duty is clear. You are stewards of the public interest, not for private profit. Florida's ethics laws, the city's own code of conduct, and simple good governance are all that require you. Disclose conflicts and relationships properly and fully. Avoid even the appearance of favoritism. Based decisions on the comprehensive plan, zoning codes, and the long-term welfare of the residents. Not on campaign support, personal friendships, or private meetings. When the lobbyists and developers have greater access or influence than ordinary citizens, public confidence erodes. Residents notice when decisions seem predetermined or when the extra city reserves and public resources appear to benefit a few at the expense of many. I urge you to tighten, or I'm sorry, I urge you to strengthen your transparency, publish meetings with calendars, with developers, lobbyists, require clear disclosures, and ensure every major project is judged solely on its merits under the law. Plantation deserves a counsel that is not only honest, but is seen to be honest. That is your ethical duty. So that's what we want you guys to do. And when we went to this gateway meeting last Wednesday, there's a two-acre plot of land on 441, and you want to put 200 units in there without parking involved. And we actually talked to one of the business owners that was there, and he said, oh, if somebody parks in front of my business, I'm going to tell them. So we've got to figure out how to build better where people can park their cars at least. 200 units in a 200-acre area is just, we're stuffing people in here, and we have to get control of that. So we're urging you guys, please, proceed with caution with the building. That's all. Thank you, Mr. Ogan. Excuse me. Randy, Percy, and then John Farqua. Good evening. I'm Randy Noti. I'm a plantation. Okay, I couldn't read it. I'm sorry, Randy. That's okay. Good evening. I'm a plantation resident for over 20 years. I live in Jacaranda. You do me a favor. Pull the mic down, then we can hear you. There. I live in Jacaranda Lakes. Okay. I walked in here and heard Mr. Reinstein talking, and so I decided I wanted to speak because he was talking about the grace we should give each other and our neighbors. I'm here to talk about the parking in Jacaranda Lakes. We are neighbors. We don't complain to each other about when you have a party, you want to use my yard. I want to use yours. I need your driveway. It's okay. You make a little noise. It's okay. I think that that's what it's all about. We want to be comfortable in our neighborhood. We want to have a good life in our neighborhood. We want to be friends with each other, and we want to have family and friends come over. If you don't let us park there, we have no guest parking. What is the solution to this situation? That's the only reason I'm here. Because I want my kids to visit me. I want my grandkids to visit me. I want my friends to visit me comfortably and not worry that somebody's going to get a ticket. We've been there forever. We've never had this issue. We park and we're happy with each other. If somebody in the neighborhood complains, it's not all of us, and we don't need the rules and the codes and the tickets to make us a better neighborhood. We just need to have grace on each other and be kind to each other and be friendly with each other and make life in this place easy. We need to have a nice, easy life here with grace on all of us and friendship, and we don't need anything else. So I ask you for a good solution for us so that we can calmly live amongst our friends and be happy. That's all we're here for. So that would be very helpful. Thank you. And I don't know if you heard when Mr. Long was here, but the mayor has instructed administration to take a look at it. It's probably going to take some time and some money because there are reasons why people cannot park on the swales. And the issue is repeated parking on the swales, not if you have guests over, you know, certainly. So I don't have to worry that my guests are going to be ticketed? They hopefully, they won't be. They usually just get a warning if it's, you know, someone's there. But what I'm saying is that Mr. Nonamaker, our Chief Administrative Officer, spoke to Mr. Long outside, who came and spoke before us this evening, and the mayor has asked them to take a look at it and see what possible solutions we can find. So I should talk with him? No, I think let administration work through what some of the ideas are, and then we'll see where we can go from there. What's my next step as a resident? Your next step is to trust that administration is going to work with staff. It's going to be working with engineering staff and our GIS and take a look at the swales in Jacaranda Lakes and to see where we would be impacting it and what we could do with possible parking. Okay. Thank you. All right. But we've got your e-mail address. So we'll – yes, mayor, go ahead. Can you and I have a visit? Yes, absolutely. Either e-mail me or whatever. My Pam sets it up. She's my scheduler. And I want to talk – I want to hear from you about some things. That would be wonderful. Thank you. Yeah, I'd appreciate that. Okay. Thank you for coming out tonight. So it's Percy – and I'm sorry I can't read your writing – John Farquah and Natalie Lynch Walsh. I'm sorry. You're going to tell me your last name. It's all right. Percy Arani. Arani. Okay. Good evening, Mr. Arani. How are you? Very well. Good evening. I have never been to a council meeting. Well, welcome. And – wow. Okay. So just state your name again for the record and your address, please. Percy Arani. I am a resident of Quaterain 4, and that's what I'm here about. Okay. Folks, this is a Hail Mary. So if you're familiar with properties between Quaterain 4 and Quaterain 3, we have a walkway between our two communities. And there's a strip of nine beautiful – I would assume they're city trees – oak trees? Not city trees, but that's our – what do they call that? Well, yeah. I know you all don't get involved, but here's the thing. I'm going to plead with you. This is a Hail Mary. These trees – take a walk by. It's a beautiful walkway. They are literally – when I tell you they're overextended, I mean, I'm thankful there was no hurricane this year. Because one of them is going to topple over. My thing is this. I understand we – you all don't get involved with HOAs. What I'm going to request, if anybody can help me, I just need someone to say, here's a letter. Hey, this is a tree that's part of the city. Can you guys maintain it? Can you guys maintain it? Because, again, they are supposed to maintain it, from what I understand, every year, year and a half? It's been two and a half years. So, again, the beautification of our city, I don't know how much leeway you all have with this. I know you may not, but this – like I said, it's a Hail Mary. Please? Mr. Ronnie, have you attended the HOA meeting? Okay, so it's the master. Right. It's the master association. And you cannot get into – we actually – well, I'm going to file a complaint. We were never given the link to have the – they just had the master meeting three weeks ago. Never got a link to it. I sent – I don't want to name the property management company, but I've sent them the letter saying, hey, this is not the agenda. Can you please do it? The reason why I'm here, I've been at this now for eight months because I wanted this to get done before hurricane season began. Here we are after the fact. So, I don't know what leeway you all can have. Okay. I'm going to – the mayor would like to weigh in, and then we'll see what we can do. Mayor? Hang with me here. Mr. Alpert, with this fall under landscaping, it could endily come and visit and issue – I don't have another word. Help me out here. You know what I mean. Yes, we could take a look at it. Okay. Yeah. So, he'll – he's in planning and zoning. We have a landscape division. Landscape handles items on private property. And italy's your guy. I've actually reached out to them eight months ago and actually told me to go to a council meeting and see who we are. Okay. Mr. Ronnie, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take your email address off of here, and I'm going to make sure that Mr. Alpert has your email and the mayor and your phone number. Okay. And Mr. Alpert will supervise Mr. Brown. Yeah. Can I just say something to residents real quick? No. Come talk – you can say it here. You can speak to them, but it has to come through me. Okay. One of the things about the cameras I heard – we got one right there on Cleary, and I know there's a sign – my neighbor just got a ticket. Okay. Listen, I'm fair. I said to that person, so were you speeding? Yeah. But it wasn't during school zone. But I went to go see it. So you have a sign now that says 645 to 230. Like – so I'm like, you were doing 50, dude. His biggest problem was this. It's his wife's car. He could not take it – you've got to go through hurdles. It's just an FYI. You have to go through hurdles to get your name in front of the magistrate if you want to take it to court. That was my only thing. Okay. I've been here for 27 years. I came from North Miami Beach. I will die here. We're glad you're here. Thanks, Mr. Ronnie. And we don't want anyone dying. Well, I mean, pass away peacefully. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Farquhar. Immediately. Mr. Farquhar and then Natalie Lynch-Walsh. Good evening. How are you this evening? Good. Good. Thank you. My name is John Farquhar. I live at 400 West Tropical Way and Plantation. The reason I came to speak tonight is I got my first semi-official notice today from the city about – I don't know whether it was about the marketplace plan or whether it was about the comp plan. And I did speak on the marketplace plan at the zoning planning and zoning meeting, which unfortunately they recommended approval of it, which is a horrible plan. But I think that it also relates to the comp plan. The comp plan should not allow that to happen in that area of the city, which is a low-density, primarily single-family residential neighborhood. Anything that's going to be a high-density development shouldn't be there. It's just not appropriate for that area of the city, and the land-use plan should make that clear, that certain areas of the city – I understand between University and Pine Island and some other places – are designated as high-density. This – I've been here for 40 years. I bought a single-family home here, low-density, looked at low-density. The shopping center there is not a wonderful shopping center, but it serves the local people around the neighborhood. It serves the neighborhood. What we're talking about replacing it with – and the land-use plan doesn't set up specific heights and all that stuff, but it does set up how dense and what type of development is appropriate for an area. And the land-use plan should basically make this project moot, and the land-use plan needs to be changed to do that. I've never been notified of a land-use plan. I'm sure there's been advertisements in the paper and stuff, but I get a bill from the city for utilities every month. I get everything else, but I don't get any notice of this. The only thing I got today – my wife was out with tree people looking through stuff, and there was a notice that had apparently been stuck in our door that she found that had blown away that – that's the only notice we've got. I've been to a prior meeting because of a person in the homeowners association who did notify us, although there has not been any real effort for us to see versions of the land-use plan. It hasn't been easily available to residents. And the same in the marketplace thing. There's not enough planning on either of these things, and this clearly is a project that the land-use plan should make it clear that this is not the appropriate type project for this neighborhood, for this community. It's maybe appropriate for some other parts of plantation, but not for the area where it's being put. Thank you. Thank you for coming out tonight. All right. The last form I have here is – you have one more? Okay. Natalie Lynch-Walsh. Good evening. Good evening. Natalie Lynch-Walsh, Jack Randall Lakes, and I echo the parking concerns for sure. So, normally, I'm going over BCPS affairs with a fine-toothed comb, but I did pivot at the crack of dawn this morning to download and read all the files. I don't know about drainage and density and heights, but I do know about Florida Statute 163.31777, the public schools interlocal agreement. And this comprehensive plan seems to have left out a couple of key details from that statute. But before I get to that, I do support the 180-day extension. I freely admit that I don't usually have the bandwidth to pay attention to what's all happening in the city, but I only just started realizing you guys were doing one recently, and that should not be the case. I'm signed up for all kinds of alerts, but that I did not seem to be getting one about. So, usually, you have a vision before you have a plan. I moved to plantation in 1998, and when I close my eyes, I can assure you that I'm never picturing high-rises. And I don't picture them on Broward Boulevard. I don't picture them on Sunrise and Pine Island, because that's not why people move to plantation. What we don't have here, and has been an issue, is retail, where to shop. I don't shop in plantation. I have to go down to the tower shops or to Sawgrass. We don't have what Davie and Sunrise have in plantation. There's been an under-emphasis on shopping, retail, and that sort of thing. I am concerned about the 2020 population data, because it's 2026, and a lot has happened between 2020 and now. And I'm concerned that the growth that's being cited as the reason for needing all of these units is outdated. And at odds with what Brad Schools is telling you is going on. You know, lower birth rates, less people, people can't afford to live here, and all of that. So, I would think that you'd want to have updated data driving the next 25 years, because it's outdated. However, the statute that's left out, and there's kind of like sort of what I call a passive approach to schools. Brad Schools is doing redefining without a master plan. So, relying and sitting there saying, we'll just go along with whatever they put into the five-year plan. Yes, I saw some references to strengthening the public schools and this, that, and the other. Goal 12A, you're supposed to as part of the interlocal agreement. The interlocal agreement has to address, and by the way, I cannot get the interlocal agreement files out of the district, like the last report that they did in April. A process by which each local government and district school board agree and base their plans on consistent projections of amount, type, and distribution of population growth and student enrollment. I'm just trying to read the two things, yes. And the other one, participation by affected local governments and the district school board in the process of evaluating potential school closures, significant renovations to existing schools, and new school site selection before land acquisition. There's a lot of reference to new school site selection in here, but nothing about the things that are actually happening, which is significant renovations or need to happen, and potential school closures. Plantation Middle is listed in here, and it no longer exists as of, I think, this year. So, I do have some concerns. I support the 180 days, and I hope you guys will vote to extend it. Measure twice, cut once. Thank you. Thank you very much. Amanda Sparts. Good evening. Hi. I'm Amanda Sparts at 1781 Southwest 67 Terrace. First off, thank you. You are a lot nicer than the other city councils that mocked us at some points. I just started reading into this. My biggest fear is the live local loophole. I mean, y'all can say it's only right there in Midtown. But if you go to 50, there's nothing stopping it. You can't promise us that. And so, I'd really like you to look into that. That's my biggest fear. If it was only there and nobody else could take that loophole, go for it. But I plan on living in my house a very long time. I'm hoping to not have to deal with so much traffic as I grow older. And one thing is I've brought up traffic. And they're like, oh, we're looking into it. We're having studies. We're having studies. We're having studies. We're having studies. Well, nothing has changed. And now we're just packing in more. Even since some of you guys have made it to council, we've made more. I don't even know what happened on Pine Island if that got approved on Peters between University and Pine Island. I mean, we just keep building and we're not doing anything about traffic. And the loophole. I mean, that's got to be the biggest thing in this whole conversation is that loophole. So, that's it. Okay. Thanks for coming out tonight. Alrighty. Not seeing any more forms. Public comment is now concluded. And now we'll move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of items one through 14 and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of council wish to pull an item this evening? Three. Imagine. Anyone else? It was three. Okay. Anderson. And Ms. Hudson has asked to pull item one or two. Any other members of the public wish to pull an item? No? Okay. Do we have a motion to approve items four through 14? Motion to approve items four through 14. Alright. Do we have a second? Second. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Thank you. Item number one is the Plantation Preserve Golf Course Improvements Phase 2, Landscape Architectural Services. Ms. Hudson pulled this. Is Ms. Hudson here? I did see them leave. Okay. Pardon me? I saw them both leave. She left. Okay. I guess she didn't want to speak on that item. Motion to approve. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Councilmember Horland. Yes. Item number two is Plantation Preserve Clubhouse Renovations Architectural Services. Same thing. Motion to approve. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson. Yes. Councilmember Andreu. Yes. Councilmember Fajan. Yes. Councilmember Reinstein. Yes. Number three, pulled by Councilmember Fajan, is WB number 054-26, Bus Transportation Services. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify. So it looks like you had a new agreement that I think it had like a red header on it that said negotiated. I don't remember. Do you remember what was on top of it? Yes. So then later on, the other package, that was just showing us what the original thing was because it had the striking of the five buses and we'll do the best we can? That's correct. So the negotiated one is the one that superseded that? Yes, sir. Okay. I just want to make sure that I read it properly, that I understood what I was looking at. So that's really the only question I had. I don't know if someone else had a question? Okay. Then I won't make a motion. Councilmember Anderson. Thank you, Councilmember Fajan. Councilmember Anderson. Charles, on the backup material, where it's got the amount with the table, it just says, number one, single hourly rate per bus to provide bus transportation services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this WB. It had $110 per hour crossed out. Then it says $100 per hour, three hours. Yes. It says minimum number of hours per trip. But then the very next line says minimum number of hours per trip may not exceed four. That's what we submitted as a bidding item. So when they were submitting, they can do less than four. So they couldn't go beyond four. This contractor said, no, we'll do it at three. Minimum three and then minimum four. Yes. The minimum three was a blank line at one point, and they can insert what their minimum was. We were indicating to the contract during our bidding cycle that they could not exceed four hours of a minimum. They said… And they responded with the three. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. Not clear because it's… No, I understand. The blank document and then they filled in the three. That's correct. As a response. Yes, sir. Understood. Thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? No comments from the public on that item? All right. Do we have a motion? Thank you. Do we have a second? Second. Ms. Figueroa, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andrejner? Yes. Councilmember Fajan? Yes. Councilmember Einstein? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you very much. All right. That is it for the consent agenda, and we will be moving on to administrative discussion items. And this is purely a discussion. There will be no public comment on discussion on Amendment 3. Mr. Nunnemaker, the floor is yours, sir. Council President, as they set up the presentation, can we just confirm the date in January of our strategic plan meeting? I believe it is. I have it as January 12th. I believe it is. January 12th. Okay. Correct. It's January 12th. I know that there were a few dates being proposed. Yes. That's what I have. Okay. That's what I announced at a town hall last night. Okay. So, Mayor Sordo, you can confirm that. Okay. Thank you. I saw Laura. Thank you. And for the listening public, it's January 12th, 2027 at Volunteer Park, right? All day. Strategic planning starting at 8.30 a.m. So, the public is welcome to attend. But there is no public comment. Yes. Good evening, everybody. Jason Nunnemaker, CAO. The elephant in the room. So, with Amendment 3, at the outset, I want to say that administration's been very cautious not to be overly dramatic about this. While it does pose some pretty substantial impacts to the city if passed, frankly, we'll just have to deal with them. And the message we've been trying to push out is that we're going to protect our core services. And that's going to be something ultimately for us to engage in as strategic planning comes up is to continue to identify what those core services are and then grapple with what that means for other services in the city. The purpose of this presentation is to kind of stimulate y'all for what we hope to be a lively conversation for strategic planning and also inform the public at a 30,000-foot level at the fiscal impact this will have on the city. And one of the things that's interesting, it's not the first time the city's had to grapple with these issues. There have been statutory amendments before, we've had recessions before, and we've responded to those. But we also need to take heed from that history to see what the consequences of those actions have been because, to some extent, we're still reckoning with those actions that we took by way of deferred maintenance, lower FTEs in some areas. And that's impacting the city. I also want to point out these scenarios I'm going to present, it's creative. You know, what could happen, some potential possibilities. We want to give y'all something to chew on. Also later, I'll specifically talk about Parks and Recreation because it's the third-largest general fund department that, from the state's perspective, is not a core service, which, from the perspective of a plantation resident, I have to think would be a little bit odd. Because if you think about the residents that talked to you, why you probably lived here, what is at the core of why you would be in plantation? What did we just go through the branding exercise? What was it about? What did it wind up being? Green? Trees? So our park system, our physical infrastructure is of paramount importance to the identity of the city, why people are here, the value that this city has experienced over the past few years, and why it will be considered a premium city into the future. And then also to figure out what makes it, what else makes it a premium city, and what do you want to hold on to in that regard. So with that, y'all had struggles before. We've had Amendment 1. We've had the recession of 08. And y'all remember, previous to that, the run-up in property values. And with every action, there's a reaction. So we've seen that before. The fiscal impact back then was not as severe. But over the course of time, it has left us wanting on the infrastructure side. And we've never fully recovered. Y'all are in the shade sessions when we're talking about the various sidewalk issues we have. Our parks have various levels of disrepair. Sunset Park's a good example of that. And we're still grappling with it. So what would Amendment 3 change? Now, it does a number of things. But for our purposes, we want to focus on just three of them. One, eligible homestead owners, those that have been here more than five years, they will get an increase in the homestead exemption of $150,000 and $250,000, respectively. Now, it doesn't just affect homesteaded folks. It also affects non-homesteaded folks. So it reduces the potential value increase for non-homesteaded properties from 10% to 5%. So that's a reduction in future revenue for the city. The other thing, it identifies areas of spending that will be interesting when we discuss a little bit later because, to me, the legislature is telegraphing a certain intent potentially. And we need to be mindful that even if Amendment 3 doesn't pass, there's probably some things we're going to struggle with in the future with the legislature. And also, we still have, at least from my perspective, a deficit in infrastructure spending. I would use roads as an example. You've seen what we face on the stormwater side. So it's something we grapple with. And even in our departments, if you consider a core outside of utilities but for fire, for police, we've added some essential elements over just the past couple of years that are really essential. So you've got body cams. That's no small expenditure. And with every action like that, we incur additional expenses. Our public record requests have gone through the roof. That's engendered the need for more staff. And I don't say that to indicate that the body cams were a mistake. I think they've been a wonderful addition. I think the PD is very thankful for them. I think the public is very thankful for them. But it is a fiscal impact that will be going on in perpetuity. On the fire side, we've got infrastructure we've bought, insurance we've put in place, and things that, you know, from administration's perspective, should have always been there. But now we've kind of filled out those services. Sorry, hold on. I feel like I missed one. All right. Just as a reminder, how is the general fund funded? Fifty-three percent is based on property taxes. Now, 22 percent, I'm sorry, homestead exposure, about 41 percent of the municipal levy. I'm sorry, about 22 percent of the total general fund levy is due to homestead property. And so what that means is if the legislature ultimately removed all of it, it would be a severe impact for the city. So where does the money go? Now, this you've all seen before. Police, number one. Fire, EMS, number two. And number three, parks and rec, even before public works. So you can see a tremendous impact there. And we'll get into basically three scenarios of how it could be impacted, parks and rec, that is. So annual revenue loss in first year is about just under 13 million dollars. And each of you all have been through multiple budget processes at this point. And so you're all aware of the struggle we go through when we have conversations about what to cut, what not to cut. And to take an additional 13 million dollars a year, you can see how that would be a tremendous burden. But then year two, you add about 24 million. So the total of approximately 36 million. But there's a flip side to the equation. I don't want to just present what's the loss to the city. What's the gain to the resident? Yes, sir. Yeah, that would be the net after year two. And then it continues to grow over time because, again, there's a reduction in value moving forward. But there's also a benefit to the residents. Now, for BCPA, they provided some figures. And again, these are estimates. So everybody needs to do their due diligence to see how they would be individually impacted. But the analysis they gave, between $1,200 and $2,700 on average for City of Plantation residents. But one thing we have is we have a lot of long-term homestead properties in the city. So what that means is you've got a lot of people who have a locked-in value that if there's any revenue enhancements that are achieved outside of a millage rate, it's going to be a direct pass-through to them. So they're going to feel that directly. So it's possible that could even eclipse what their savings would be. So for our modeling base, it just shows the total general fund of 158. We did net out the resource recovery. That's basically solid waste services. But unfortunately, even though it's a pass-through, we still eat a number of costs associated with that. We've got recyclables we currently pay for. We also have the household hazard, thank you, household hazardous waste. Yeah, Carol told me it said HAF, but I didn't listen to her. H-H-W. And so currently it was about $500,000 that we're losing on that. So as part of our current negotiations, we'll try to contain that. But I just want to bring that to your attention. It's not 100% pass-through at this point. So our adjusted base is 151. Police and fire EMS account for almost $80 million of that. And so all of the general funding, general fund spending is about $73 million. All right. So now as far as the scenarios go, this is the 30,000 foot impact on a percentage basis. So what if we did a proportional response? In other words, every general fund department has to turn their budget down proportionally. Now I don't think that's a likely scenario, but I just wanted to show it here. First year, each department would have to go down about 8%. Second year, 15.7%. What if we limit PD and fire to 5%? Now the reason I chose 5% is on the police side, while we can lower the budget more than 5%, statutorily there can be certain measures pulled that would enable that to be challenged. So I just thought, let's apply that to both PD and fire just to see what it does. But also recognizing this city is very much dedicated to public safety. Every budget, it's emphasized. If you look at the unique nature of public safety in the city of Plantation, it's very obviously that's one of the things that makes this city unique and attractive to individuals. So if we do that limitation, the impact of the balance of departments becomes 12% and 27% respectively. Now again, if you think about that in the context of the past budgets you all have gone through, think about the impact to the individual departments. And again, that's applied equally across those departments. All those departments don't carry equal weight. And I don't say that to diminish the impact of a particular department, but if we're candid about it, if you have to make a choice, you're not going to rank them all the same. Okay, so what could you do? Now, this is for illustrative purposes. This is not a recommendation right now. But when I look across what other cities have done, the triggers they've already pulled, and that's where I should say this city is very well positioned to navigate this issue. We have a low debt burden. We haven't pulled a lot of triggers that cities have already been through. They're already maxed out. We don't have a utility tax on water. We don't have a fire fee. That's what you would consider low-hanging fruit in this regard. But like I said earlier, the impact, you'll have long-term homestead folks come before you and mention their taxes. Well, while they might get some minor relief on the one side with the expanded homestead, these measures penetrate right through, so everybody would experience it. Again, in theory, if they were employed. But you can see the offset. So in the initial year, it's about a half percent reduction for the balance of the departments. But still, second year, about a 15% cut, which is not insubstantial. And that's, again, our full replacement benchmark. You're looking at $12 million and $23 million, respectively. So proportional reductions. This just shows the raw numbers, PD, fire EMS, and the balance of the departments. But it's been years since we operated a PD at $48 million. So it's almost inconceivable to have that type of rollback. Now, for purposes of this presentation, we consider just the whole department. So that includes code. It includes CSAs. So are those services part and parcel of the PD? Well, while code may not be, it is a quality of life issue. The CSAs, if you're going to cut CSAs, that's going to lead to issues with response time, how we handle accidents. So there's a corresponding impact. Okay. So if we do the limitation, well, about $4 million out of public safety, but then $8.7 to $20 million from the balance of the departments. Now, with the utility tax and a fire fee, that would cut that down to, again, about a half a percent in year one, 15% in year two. Now, as far as a fire assessment, the revenue of $6 million, I used an 80% figure. That's very conservative. You could probably get much closer to 100% cost recovery. But, again, this being speculative, how would you all consider that? Would you be amenable to it? So I didn't want to overstate the impact. And you also have the option when you implement those anywhere between zero and 100% cost recovery. You can go up to 100% cost recovery. What you cannot do is cover EMS expense. It has to be fire only, and it has to be predicated to the exposure. It has to be data-driven, very much like an impact fee, or think of a stormwater methodology, if you will. Utility tax is much simpler. It's just an ordinance. It is a tax on water only, up to 10%. You don't have to do 10%. But, again, that is something that's going to lay on top of the water bill, and everybody receiving that water bill will feel that. All right. So parks and rec in scenario one. And, again, this is proportional. First year, $1.7 million. Second year, $3.2 million. And, again, this is just a proportional response. And when we go through parks and recreation, each one of y'all, when we sit together, y'all are going line by line through the budget. I know the public doesn't really see that because we hash that out in one-on-one meetings. Sometimes that translates into the public hearings we have. Particular lines will come up. But I just want to say that for the record that y'all do go line by line. And I say that because in no discussion has it come up with regard to parks and rec. Hey, where can we take $3 or $4 or $5 million out of here? Typically the discussion is, can we get some more shade shelters? Because that is a huge need, a huge desire of the public. Can we have more connectivity in the parks? Can we address the broken concrete? Can we have ADA-accessible features? Can we have more water fountains? There's just a variety of asks. And I don't say that as a negative. I think we've got such a wonderful footprint, physical footprint. It lends itself to people wanting more and more of that amenity. So this is just on a proportional. So if we hold them police and fire that is harmless or to 5%, the impact swells. And again, this is Parks and Rec, our third largest general fund department, looking at a $2.5 and $5.6 million cut. So I would invite you all to think about the last budget process we went through, where you're thinking about the items you'd like to see in the budget, things that we already significantly cut capital each year, and what this may do moving forward. And here we take the edge off a little bit. You know, if you do some revenue enhancement, where does that get you? And again, it largely relieves the first year. Second year is going to be a little more difficult, obviously. Now, we do have some constraints on spending contractual and recurring costs, mandatory regulatory requirements, and that runs across the board. I would consider Live Local, to some extent, an unfunded mandate. If you look at impact fees, we have unfunded mandates there because we can't pass full cost recovery to development. So we do the best we can. We have a new impact fee study, but that's one area where we can't get it all back. Inflation, replacement needs. You know, Plantation has been very good at basically running systems into the ground. And I don't mean that in a bad way, but a couple of examples with that are phone system. We've got an aged-out phone system that's close to end of life. We will use it as long as we can. We spend, maintenance-wise, about $20,000 a year. That is a sweet, sweet deal. We will ride it as long as we can, but that will end at some point. And when it does, when we can't get replacement parts off eBay, we'll be spending $20,000 a month minimum. That's just painful. So we've got a very good IT shop. As we've transitioned by force from on-prem to subscription-as-a-service, all that winds up being an annual cost. So it's just an incredible imposition of cost that we're struggling with. So those are just a couple of areas. Departmental independence. I think we've done a very good job at getting departments to work together. They really support each other. And the reliance that one department has on another, whether it's the fire department that's leaning on engineering to engineer a new parking lot, whether it's PD that's calling public works out at 2 a.m., there's a lot of interrelationships there that folks depend on. Engineering is not just engineering, but it's also supervising stormwater. So every department has some credibility, has an interrelationship with other departments. I mentioned cybersecurity and technology, but one of the things, it's gotten incredibly expensive to try to ward off the bad actors, so much so that we asked the IT director to switch to a 10-year capital plan because it's gotten to that level of expense. And so we want to make sure you all see that coming down the pike. How do we keep bad actors outside of the city's network? How do we protect our customer information? It is a constant challenge. And with AI, the sophistication of the attacks we get just ramp up. I can't tell you the number of times I get an email from, it could be, Councilmember Tim Fadgen, can you redirect my paycheck? I put it over here. And it looks good. It looks real good. Or other inquiries. Options to reduce. Obviously, we do have triggers we can pull. But I want to state at the outset that we're not a thick organization. And one of the things that's going to happen in strategic planning, it's a requirement as part of the recent legislature to do a 10% cut, to demonstrate what that looks like. You don't have to do it, but you have to present it. And very quickly, as you see by department, okay, we'll get through travel. We'll get through this and that. And very quickly, you'll be into staff. And I think what you'll see is you're into staff that matter. I've looked at some other organizations where they have multiple levels of management that we don't have here. We never have had here. And I think that's something y'all should be proud of because it's fairly lean. But that's what makes, you know, reduction and force all the more painful. It's an option. It's something we'll look at. You know, pension reform is something we can take another look at. We're looking at some different scenarios. Do we do a tier three? What does that look like? We can bring out some options on that. A reduction in hours. What does that look like? Again, we can save some money, but that also means less availability. Consolidation. That probably has some of the most promise. Is there some overlap we can address? That's something we're exploring. Privatization. Where does that make sense? We can look at that. But then there's an issue of capacity. And one of the things I was struck by when I first started, a couple months after I started, we had the marketplace explosion. And the thing that amazed me was the resources we were able to deploy. And I was scratching my head when the mayor asked me to go to the site. And Parks and Rec is there. Public Works is there. And I'm thinking, Parks and Rec, what are they doing here? But they were there to support. They were setting up tables. They were providing water. They were part of the team that was responding. Same with Public Works. Same with Public Works. It was an all-hands-on-deck situation. The same thing you see in storm prep, storm recovery. If anything happens in this city, everybody pulls together and you have a wealth of resources that are at the ready. If we privatize some of those services, that's not necessarily the case. It doesn't mean we can't consider it. It just means we have to be cautious about how we do it. Public-private partnerships. This is probably another great opportunity, depending on how you all feel about it. If you look at things like the tennis center, indoor recreation, there's probably some unique partnerships. We've had some inquiries already from folks that would be interested. But it's something the city hasn't done before. And probably the most difficult aspect of this is the recession of 2008, things like that. We eased into those issues. This one, we're going to have to respond very quickly. And so if you listen to the discussion, say, on growth, imagine trying to force-feed a whole new concept very quickly. It's something we have to be careful about. We want to make sure that people are supportive, that are going to see the benefit. It's not something that I would see us doing just at the drop of a hat. I mean, we really need to think about what we're doing with that. Cost allocation is another one y'all have grappled with recently in regard to stormwater. You already saw some public pushback on that. But that is always an option. Because we have legitimate, for example, stormwater aspects that could be put on a non-advalorem basis through stormwater that's currently on the public works side. But again, that is passing through directly to the resident. Resident doesn't matter about homesteading. And then finally, service elimination. And that's where, again, part of this presentation is to prompt y'all to think about what you can do without. If you think about the panoply of services we offer, I hate to say it this way, but what's least important to you? What's least important to the residents? And I think they'll struggle with an answer because my impression of plantation is that those wraparound services, kind of the holistic soup to nut city, is what they really like about the city. So it's just one of those things that's a conversation we're going to have to have. Revenue enhancements, obviously we've got the millage rate. If we try to deal with losses of revenue through the millage, we always run the risk of raising the ire of the legislature. It doesn't mean we can't do it, but the threshold to raise the millage is going to be increased. So that makes it a little bit tougher. Non-advalorem assessments, obviously y'all are experienced with that. We can utilize those in a number of different areas. It's not just isolated to stormwater. It can be used for roads. It can be used for sidewalks, any number of things. We discussed the utility tax, subsidy reduction. I invite y'all to recall our discussion about the parks and rec fees. I think we moved a couple percent. And I'm not being critical, but just to show that it's difficult every time you do that. Well, what about this segment of the population? What about this segment of the population? Those discussions become that much harder. The CRA sunset. While it makes me sad in a lot of ways, this is one area of sunshine. That transfer that's currently about $2.4 or $2.5 million will end in 2030. So that then will be the domain of the general fund and can be allocated as y'all see fit. Now, it also means that we won't get that support from the county, their TIF. But that's actually not a bad thing because we've been successful in the Gateway, very proud of what we've been able to do there. Glenn's been killing it. I think y'all have had some directed investment that have paid off very well. And so that's why we're very anxious to do as much as we can by 2030. The other issue, the bond. So our bond sunsets in 2037. You know, one of the things that we hope to do is to learn from the past implementation in a couple ways. Number one, the effects of the previous recession gutted staff that would have monitored the bond implementation. So much of that was put on the back of the previous city engineer. And there was not adequate staffing to make it happen. Previous mayor, I think she did what she could to try to get that staffing together. But that is suboptimal to try to do that when the thing is already here. The other aspect is when we went into that, we were just doing design. And so when you're just doing the design, the pricing might not be accurate. You know, it's open to preferencing what a previous director may have wanted. Well, now we're going to switch that. So as part of the strategic planning process, we're going to encourage you to think about what you might want to do if there's a new bond issue in 2037 or thereafter. And then the process of how we would do it. I would recommend we make sure those projects are fully vetted, that they're fully designed, that there's buy-in. So when you go to do that, you know exactly what you're getting. And you know it's had a 360, basically. So we're not doing a $700,000 bay in Fire Station 2 that turns into a $5 million renovation. Because that's what we've been faced with. We really need to take a holistic look and make sure we don't get surprised with those costs. As I mentioned before, to think about what is a premium community. And one of the things that we want to validate at strategic planning is our assumptions. And just speaking for myself, my assumption is we want a municipal PD. We want a freestanding independent dispatch, volunteer fire, municipal EMS. Those have been part and parcel of the city. If that's not the case, then we need to know that. Community assets. Again, parks. I don't see us recommending the sale of land. Earlier a speaker was talking about schools. And it was interesting. Senator Geller was holding his get-together earlier today for lunch. And there was a lot of discussion about schools and lamenting the fact that these sales, once you do that, you get rid of the school property. If trends reverse, well, then what? I mean, most of y'all, I know some of y'all were in the education community. Most of y'all are familiar with the struggle that everybody went through, 04, 05, 06. We were cobbling together all sorts of agreements throughout the state. How can we come up with capacity? Developers were paying for schools, for portables. So that could happen again. The only difference being is that the land could be eaten up. So likewise with parks and rec, the fabric of the city is really intertwined with the physical infrastructure of parks in the city. So it would seem like a travesty if that was lost. And, you know, as far as financial discipline, we want to make sure that we're not funding ongoing issues with fund balance. If there's a plan, if there's a dedicated transition plan to get to a certain point, that's all good. But we can't lean on fund balance in perpetuity, obviously. Now, the state has its idea of what the core is, and they listed it very specifically. Now, education, that's been exempted, so I just listed it because they had it. But public safety, natural resources, debt, retirement obligations. They mentioned public works more broadly as conceived of utilities, stormwater, roads. Those are what the state considers core. But interestingly, as this effort was migrating, a lot of people were concerned because at one point they were not going to allow expenditures beyond those for ad valorem tax dollars. And at somewhat the last minute, this section allowed the council to approve expenditures. But then they also put, except those prohibited by general law, which again, I could be paranoid, but it leads me to believe that they're anticipating further restrictions. So it'll be interesting to see what that looks like. But we have to reconcile the statutory authority with the city's vision, and that's going to be our task moving forward. So once November 3rd happens, that's when we'll have to develop a real plan. So for us, the next steps are going to be strategic planning, and that's why we wanted to kind of stimulate the discussion on that. We've tried to be level-headed about it. The administration has been pushing staff for quite some time now to think about how we might be able to address these various issues that will be coming up. I think the 10% analysis will help you all see how quickly we get into the bone of various departments. And what I would urge you all to do, if this passes, you will need to decide what priorities are. Because I think the worst thing we could do is everything less well. And if we preserve our infrastructure capacity, we can always build back up again. But I think if we sacrifice infrastructure again like we did before, it's going to put the city in a perilous state. Legislative advocacy. I think one of the things that was missing during this previous session, and maybe there just wasn't an opportunity for it, is some other ideas. It seemed like this thing was a cram down. What else is there? How can we tap into everybody that wants to come here and say hi to Mickey? Just other ideas. So that's something we'll chew on through legislative advocacy. But yeah, it's going to be an interesting ride. So that's basically where we end. So I know it's a very broad overview, but I wanted to give you all a sense on a percentage basis the impact. I think looking at Parks and Rec, I know everybody in here is very supportive of Parks and Recreation, both on a program basis, but also the infrastructure to the physical nature of our park system, and that that's not something you all want to see decline. So I'm hoping that at least gave a better sense of the magnitude of the impact we'll be facing, and then it gets a little bit bigger thereafter. Oh, I have a lot to say on this. I'm going to start and then turn it over to Councilmember Fadgen. I'm going to start where you ended, because I think it's important for the public. And I've been, over the last six to eight weeks, giving – last night I was invited to Lauderdale West. I'd already spoken to their board meeting, and I've been out there educating, because we cannot tell people, and I would not tell people how to vote for this, but voters need to understand the potential impacts. And at our Florida League of Cities board meetings, you know, we say, while the city of Plantation may be able to weather this better than others, it is a great existential threat. I think the greatest to the municipalities, the 411 municipalities in the state of Florida, and there are fiscally constrained cities and counties that will, you know, not be able to stand on their own. So what I want to start with at the end there is, to your point, and we've been presenting different options up there in Tallahassee. If relief was really the goal, and I wrote down a couple of things, there were responsible paths forward, they could have suspended the gas tax. Targeted exemptions, homestead exemptions – we were asking for that, make it easier for first-time home buyers, more senior exemptions, income-based relief, state revenue replacement mechanisms, greater local fiscal flexibility. These options all require modeling, transportation, transparency, and deliberation. But the legislature did not do that. What we were hoping is they were going to wait for February with the Tax and Budget Reform Commission, which is mandated in the Constitution to meet every 20 years. So I think, you know, this is very much like you're remodeling a house and you take out the support beams without putting something up before the house collapses. So having said that, when you look at the economic downturn the city of Plantation went through before any of us were sitting up here, and, you know, it took a long time to recover from that, and that was $2.54 million. When we're looking at a $13 million hit the first year and $24 million the next year, I think when we go through this, people need to understand, yes, what we're going to prioritize, but it is definitely going to affect the quality of life that people have come to expect in this city. And I want everyone to have a real understanding of that. I still maintain that, and I brought this up in strategic planning last year, no matter what happens with this, if it fails in November, you're right. We still need to look at what happens in February. There are members of the legislature who firmly believe that ad valorem taxes should go away. And the other thing that's important to remember about Amendment 3, when you change the Constitution, it's there in perpetuity. It's not coming back out. And no one's really talking about what happens in year 3 or 4, because that could be a full elimination. And you did touch upon that, and what's that going to look like for the city? So I am going to suggest again that we hold charrettes throughout the city. I think we have to do things a little differently, and I think you've heard some of that with some of the comments you heard tonight. And go out to folks and say, what are you willing to give up in the city? Because we also, you know, I think back to, I think the mayor and Councilmember Anderson, we were the ones that were there when the Park Master Plan first came out. And we went to Central Park, and we had the public come in and talk about what their priorities were and what they wanted to see. So I think that's something that we're going to have to do no matter what. And I know I brought up to you, Mr. Nunnamaker, but Coral Springs started that process of the 10% several months ago. And they only got to 4.58% before services were starting to be impacted. So I think we need to have clear eyes going forward. Yes, we'll be able to weather it a little bit better that first year than some other cities. But the impacts will be great, and the city will look a little different. So I'll turn it over to Councilmember Fudge. Thank you, Council President Horland. Can we put the slides back up and go to slide 7? And then while we're doing that, I looked in the budget under the future landscape where it started discussing the potential effect of this amendment. And the potential impact on the city of Plantation. We had an estimate from the Brown County property appraiser. He said about $20.5 million. And then it seemed like we got some more solid information from the Florida Revenue Estimating Conference. And the numbers that they came up and the numbers that I've been utilizing talking with residents. Oh, and by the way, this is a very good presentation. I appreciate it. You added some clarity to some things that we're wondering about. I wish we were able to do this sooner. But thank you for the presentation. So based off that Florida Revenue Estimating Conference subsequent. Sorry, I read too much. Florida Revenue Estimating Conference. Fiscal year 27-28. We all know these numbers. 12.7 million. The following year, 23.9 million. Followed by 25.5. Followed by 27.2. Followed by 28.8. Now, looking at your slide 7, if we can go to slide 7. Yeah, I'll see is the 2 at the bottom. I'm not seeing the slide number. Just keep going. It's like the seventh slide. Almost there. There we go. So you're saying the combined two-year revenue loss is $36 million. So that means that in the five fiscal years that was included in our fiscal year 26-27 budget, we are looking at $118 million, $100 million loss. The math is wrong. Your $23 million is wrong. That is not the loss for fiscal year 29. If you have a financial statement, and you have a company that loses $8 million, and then the following year they lose $9 million, well, the following year it's not a $17 million loss. It's a $17 million loss. But cumulatively, it's $17 million is the loss. You double-dipped, and it's even in your footnote here where it says the year 2 adds $11.1 million to the amount we're going to lose because of the next step up in the homestead exemption. Year 1, we got $12 million worth of cuts. Year 2, we don't have that $12 million worth of cuts because that's already been done. We have an additional $11 million. So then the future years because of the – they're going to tie it to – I don't remember the future – they're going to tie it to CPI, I guess. It will be a $1.6 million loss, followed by a $1.7 million loss, followed by a $1.6 million loss. So that last fiscal year, 2031-32, where it says $28.8 million, that is the cumulative effect of all of the losses over that five-year period. So that's significant, absolutely. But I think we're just looking at it wrong. And this is just one variable of it, you know, the loss of the tax revenue. The other variable of – is that we're not considering property appreciation. Now, property appreciation is not guaranteed. You know, 08, 09, we hit crisis times, and there were some very difficult times. I remember my father, you know, stressing over all that stuff. And then there's the other thing about construction approved and in progress. And I looked up some of the projects that went online over the last several years, like the Windsor 335. In 2020, it was on the books at $93,000. And then we're at $116,000. And then in 2022, it's on the books at $1.4 million. So there are some things that are under construction that will come online. The Ellsworth, they – it was on the books – the tax – property tax from the Ellsworth was $98,000 in 2023. In 2024, they sold it for $133 million. And now it's – the property tax is $1.29 million in 2024. And it was $2 million in 2025. Looking at the publics on Clery, before they did that renovation where they closed it for about a year, property taxes was like $613,000, $648,000, $642,000. Then it was closed for about a year during 2022. And the property taxes for that property dropped to $482,000. And then when they reopened, it jumped up to $697,000. Then it was $689,000. And in 2025, it was $726,000. And then I looked at the Broward and 441 publics, which isn't really assessed yet. Sure. So we don't even have that impact. And I'm just saying that this is going to be crushed a little bit. You know, it's not going to be as – it's going to be significant. But I don't think we're looking at it right when we don't look into these other assumptions and such. Just to say that, you know, compare it to the baseline of the current fiscal year, I don't think that gives us a proper projection. So the $36 million, it's not $12 million plus $23 million, because the $12 million is already in the $23 million. The first – the combined two-year revenue loss will be $23,853, and $849. So that's what's the kind of things that we're sort of like – I'm playing in my head with the property appreciation. Do we have some kind of historical number that we can utilize in our projections for what our non-homesteaded property values go up year over year? Or is it just so volatile? It just depends on – and I know that we're going to – it's going to be capped at 5 percent instead of 10 percent. Right. So that's another assumption that we need. There's just a bunch of variables more than just losing the property base. Well, the cap doesn't undermine your point about the increase in valuation from, say, if I'm not talking about raw land, redevelopment of a shopping center. And, look, I'm always happy to go back and check my math. But what I didn't want to do is have a rosy assumption about the impact of development, particularly given the conversation. Well, this math is just wrong. It's just – it's not rosy. I'm just saying it's just not accurate. No, but about thinking that we're going to develop our way out of the decline. And I'm not suggesting that, but there's been – I can think of two or three things that – one, two – I can think of four things that have been approved. And generally, it takes about five years before they get online. So that's going to be right at the end of this period. And you're – and that makes it valid because, you know, you brought up the sunsetting of the CRA, where that money will start going into the general fund. So I know it's four or five years, and there's going to be some very tough times in the next three or four years. But I think some of this is going to be recovered as the property does, assuming that the legislature doesn't go further with next year's budget and tax reform conference. So these are just the things I was thinking about. But, yeah, it's not $36 million for the first two years. And I think that's all I have for now. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for that, Council Member Fadgen. If I'm not mistaken, those numbers were verified by the state as well. But, you know, I'll – the last thing I'm going to say is Florida's tax system works. The state collects the sales tax and ad valorem taxes historically because we do not have a state income tax have been a stable revenue source for municipalities. And I certainly – and I'm not saying that you're implying this, but don't want to develop our way out of this. And I know you're not implying that, but I certainly – that would not be an option for me. I also want everyone to realize that – and I have a slide that I present when I do these presentations. There's only one major group in the entire state of Florida that is supporting this, and that's the Florida realtors. And I have a whole slide of all the groups that are against this, and I think it's interesting that the realtors are the only ones that are backing this, and they're putting $26 million into advertising for this. So when current Senate President Albritton came out yesterday and said that he's against it and, you know, you've got the sheriff's organization – and this is not a Republican or Democrat or independent issue. This is something that affects nonprofits, our mosquito control district, libraries. It affects a lot of sectors. And I don't think that the potential implications for the entire state of Florida were really thought out and hoping that we'll have another shot at this. But I appreciate the presentation tonight because I think that we need to open our eyes and see what is potentially on the horizon. Whether or not this bounces, I think that we're going to get potentially hit with the next legislative session again. So I thank you, Mr. Nunnamaker. I know you put a lot of work into that. So do we have any other questions, Councilmembers, comments? So just one question. Yes, Councilmember Andre. So regardless of the vote for November 3rd, we are going to still – each department is going to still look at what a 10 percent reduction in their department would look like. Yes, ma'am, and that would be part of our budget process moving forward because that's now a requirement. But are we doing that at strategic planning in January or we're waiting until we start the budget cycle? We're not waiting. And our thought is to give you that insight as soon as possible so it gives you something more to chew on. So we've actually been meeting with departments now to talk about that because we want you all to see it as soon as possible. So can you – I don't know if that was your plan – to do a one-on-one similar to what we do during the budget cycle and meet with us one-on-one with a new binder, if you will, so that we can go through that department by department, line item by line item? We absolutely could in advance of strategic planning just so you kind of hit the ground running. No issue with that at all. That would be helpful. Thank you. So we have anticipated doing it both at strategic planning and then during our normal budgeting process coming up or subsequent to that. And I do want to say that we had entertained the idea of an analysis that showed the revenue thrown off by various levels of development. development. And frankly, we resisted the urge because what we didn't want to do was to put y'all in a position where we were pressuring y'all to make development decisions based on tax revenue versus compatibility with the city. And that's not to take away from the point that future revenues will increase as part of development, but are they going to increase efficiently to cover the loss? We'll see. And I appreciate that because I don't, you know, I know my eight years on council, I've never made a decision on development based on the tax revenue. I know we had a discussion during the budget hearing. Mayor Judy Paul went on the record saying that, you know, she pushed for a millage rate reduction because of all the development they've had in, and she's said that to Channel 10 because of all the development they've had in Davie. And I don't think anybody sitting up here wants to be in that position because it's certainly not why we would use that as a criteria to approve a project. But I do want to make sure that y'all think about the core assumptions and that I'm not off on that as far as having our municipal services regarding PD, fire, EMS and dispatch, because to me that seems like a core, but it comes with a cost. But I think the other thing you can see, and it was discussed a little bit earlier today, and y'all have certainly seen it in the papers, it's worth it for the control. When y'all have issues, we're able to be very responsive. We had a shade session earlier where, frankly, I'm proud of how we were able to respond to a given situation that was potentially and will actually so impactful to quality of life in the city. And if we didn't have all those tools at our disposal, I don't think we could have done that. And I think we've been successful with that particular issue and more broadly. And I'll go on the record of saying that would be a priority for me, is maintaining our own PD and fire and our dispatch. And that just came up at League of Cities as we're looking at legislative priorities. And that E911 bill that we've been fighting the consolidation the last couple of years, and that may end up being a legislative priority, because the chiefs are very concerned about what that would mean. And I think that City of Coral Springs and City of Plantation are very fortunate that we have the response times we do because we have that control. And I think when you look in Broward County, what's going on with the Sheriff's Office currently with the county, being able to have that control and have our people in our city is of vital importance. And I think the residents deserve that. So that would be a priority for me. I appreciate it. And I think everyone agrees. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Nightmaker. We look forward to strategic planning in January. Thanks. All right. Moving on. We're going to move to legislative items. Item 16 is an ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the City Code of Ordinances, creating Section 2-164, Disposition of Surplus Tangible Personal Property. Mr. Ezreal. Yes. This is the first reading of an ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida, amending Chapter 2 of the City Code of Ordinances, entitled Administration, Article 6, entitled City Property, by creating Section 2-164, entitled Disposition of Surplus Tangible Personal Property, providing for codification, conflict, severability, and effective date. Thank you, Mr. Ezreal. Council Member Fadgen, would you like to comment on this one? Yeah. I just saw, like, one line in there that I was kind of questioning. Like, it was line 26. It's Section 2-164A. It talks about the CAO making the decision. Are we excluding the mayor from the decision? Because typically we'll say, like, either the CAO or the mayor. It's line 26. It's Section 2-164A. If you want to say mayor or designee, that's fine. Yeah. I think that's what we typically have done. Yeah. We've had it CAO because I'm generally involved in that process. Yeah. But no issues from us. I don't mind, like, mayor or CAO or designee. Just we'll have to look at our internal policies and forms. That may be why we did it this way. Okay. So we'll just have to make... All right. The procedure is consistent with the... It might not be here for the second reading, so make sure you follow up on that. I will follow up. I promise. I promise. I'll call you and let you know. Counsel, do we have a consensus on that? Is that a change you wish to make? A request a change. Or I request that the city attorney make sure that the right... There wasn't an underlying reason why we said the CAO, and if there isn't, then I would like to make it CAO or mayor, CAO, or designee. Okay. So is this something we need to table? Because that seems... No, I don't think we do. It's first reading. So the change can be made. Did you have a comment on that or a question, Council Member Anderson? No. Something next. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve. But I do it with that change. Okay. If the city attorney can just take a look at that and see if it's consistent. Is that it on that item? Second. I have other parts of the item. Oh, okay. Okay. Not line 26. So go ahead, Council Member Anderson. But the same paragraph. Jason, Mr. Mimic. Is the $5,000 limit pursuant to Chapter 274 like it states, that's a state statute? Okay. So I'm just... My work life has been Broward Schools, and we've had a much lower threshold my entire career. So things that are below $5,000, but that's still, you know, $4,999 item is still an expensive item. I don't mind you having you or the mayor or you as the designee having latitude, but I would want strong tracking controls. I know it says we would track what we're donating. Was that previously discussed, right? Right. You want to go ahead and address that, because we have the tracking. Yes, we have the tracking. So even though you have the discretion to decide, we're tracking what we're doing with it. Yes. So if you decide to X, Y, or Z, it's on public record and transparent what we did with it. Absolutely. So a couple things. One, I think one of the major changes is that all of these have to come back to you on a rolled-up basis by end of year. The other, just to let you know what we do now, subsequent to some issues we had previously, every disposal, set of brake lines, no real value, going in the trash, there's a picture, it's signed off, it migrates to me, I sign it, I place it in a file for every disposal. Something that small? Brake shoes. Why is that seems... Well, because where we came from, we didn't have adequate controls within public works. So we're just being very rigorous. Now, we're going to try to streamline that process, but at the same time, we don't want to lose too much of the granularity because we want to be able to say to the public, to council, we're tracking these. And also, I think it sends a good message to employees when they're taking pictures, when they're having a sign-off, it makes people think, I can't just leave. And I'm not suggesting that people would, but you get some bad actors every once in a while. So it's a process we believe in. Okay, that's it. Thank you. Did I hear a motion? Motion by Council Member Fadgen. And I second it. All right, second by Council Member Reinstein. Any further discussion? Did you... I'm sorry, Council Member Anderson. Was your intent to lower the threshold? The state statute apparently is $5,000, but as long as we're tracking this and it's public record, we're just giving the mayor and CAO discretion, but we're still tracking what's done. You can't just dump truckloads of stuff that's $4,990 and we don't know what it is. It will be tracked. I was ensuring that it was going to be tracked. And reported. And reported and available for public record. I didn't know, though, if you were trying to... Because we could correct Mr. Nunamaker if we wanted to go lower. We can't go above the $5,000, but if we wanted to go lower, we could. Yeah, I suppose you could. I would ask that we... I'm having a discretion. I want to ensure that we have record of everything being tracked available for our and public viewing for posterity. But we do. And we'll commit to that. I just wanted to... No, no, I'm just saying, but we do, so I don't know that we... But we do, so I don't mind the threshold. I don't mind their discretion as long as we have the tracking for things. What I didn't want is as long as below that, anything happened wasn't tracked. That's what I was talking about. Agreed. The only modification we're looking to make, and we'll revise our policy once this is finalized, is I don't want to hold hostage a brake line disposal because it's waiting on my signature. Because you can imagine the piles that would accumulate in public works if we did that. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Nenemaker. No further discussion, no public comment on that item. Ms. Beggerel, please call the roll. Council Member Anderson? Yes. Council Member Andrew? Yes. Council Member Fadgen? Yes. Council Member Einstein? Yes. Council Member Horland? Yes. Thank you. Moving on to item number 17, PP26-0020. This is second reading consideration for requests to approve a code text amendment to allow an inline donation center in various zoning districts. The proposed zoning districts are B-1P, B-2L, B-2P, B-3P, M-FCC, and I-LP. Mr. Ezra? Very good. Yes. This is a public hearing, second reading of an ordinance of the City of Plantation, Florida, pertaining to the subject of zoning and land development, amending Chapter 27 of the City Code of Ordinances, specifically amending Section 27-11, entitled Definitions, amending Section 27-100, Master Business List Table, adding a donation center use as a conditional use within the B-1P, B-2L, B-2P, B-3P, M-FCC, and I-LP zoning districts, amending Section 27-105, entitled Specific Use Regulations, amending the physical and digital versions of the land development regulations, providing for codification, severability, a savings clause, conflicts, and an effective date. Thank you, Mr. Ezra. Councilmembers, is there any discussion or questions? No one from the public? Do we have a motion? Motion approved. Okay. Second. Thank you very much. Ms. Beggarrow, please call the roll. Councilmember Anderson? Yes. Councilmember Andrew? Yes. Councilmember Pageant? Yes. Councilmember Einstein? Yes. Councilmember Horland? Yes. Thank you. Item number 18 is PD25-0004, an ordinance of the City Council of Plantation, Florida, adopting a... Oh, why am I reading this? See where you guys have me? I know it's deferred. We got everybody to leave, and then I was going to read it. Yeah. I know. We're done. We're done. I apologize for that. I know. I know. Moving on to comments by the mayor. I have no comments. All right. Councilmember Andrew? Let's start on the left. Thank you. Our plantation chamber, our wonderful plantation chamber, will be hosting Casino Royale on Friday, October 30th, from 5 to 8 p.m. Mayor, I didn't know if the city was doing anything as a whole or we're just each attending, but we're looking forward to that event. Yes. I didn't talk to them if that's part of our overall package or not that we have, but we'll check. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to check. Are you going tomorrow to the breast cancer luncheon? Yes. All right. We'll try to find out there, and then you'll get you an answer. Thank you. And Friday, October 23rd, the fall festival at Plantation Baptist Church. Looking forward to that. Of course, everybody, I'm sure, is already aware that early voting is taking place from now until November 1st. I was very excited to see people utilizing freebie to go out to the West Regional Library and vote, so that's a great use of our freebie system. And it was already mentioned, of course, about the November 1st annual firefighters barbecue at Pine Island Park. And then, of course, Tuesday will be the day, November 3rd, Election Day. If you don't early vote, make sure that you do participate on November 3rd. Thank you, President Horland. Thank you, Council Member Andreu and Council Member Anderson. She got mine other than the fall festival is great, thanks to Chamber and all that participated in making such a great event. Thank you. Okay, great. Council Member Einstein. Yes, thank you very much. I just want to also mention and thank Senator Geller held a town hall meeting here this past week, and we appreciate him and all of his staff coming out to answer our questions. Senator Geller also had the district roundtable luncheon that Mr. Nunaman maker mentioned and it was a great opportunity for the electeds in all of the cities in District 5 to get together with the county. So thank him again for that. And then, I also wanted to make mention that I had the opportunity to attend an economic development program forum with Junior Achievement of South Florida. And if you're not familiar with BizTown or Junior Achievement of South Florida, they do a great job of working to prepare our students and prepare career pathways for our students and teaching financial literacy and working on entrepreneurship and learning soft skills. And so they had a forum breakfast that I attended, and I hope to find an opportunity for the leadership of Junior Achievement to come to one of our meetings and maybe do a presentation and see how we can further, how our city can further work with them to create some type of pipeline to openings in our city for internships and other job opportunities. Thank you. Thank you very much. Council Member Pagin. Thank you, Council President Hornley. So tonight is the end of a chapter for me. This will be my final meeting on the City Council. I've submitted my resignation to the governor effective November 2nd, 2026 in order to run for mayor, as some of you may have heard. I hope. I know you heard. I called you. You did. And I appreciate that. I'm beyond grateful for the opportunity the residents of our city have given me. I'm proud of the contribution I've made as one of the six elected officials on this dais and proud that we have conducted ourselves professionally and respectfully. To the councils that will sit up here after us, my advice is forgive quickly, forget quicker, and always look forward. I would like to thank my colleagues, Council Members Andreu, Council Member Anderson, Council Member Horland, and Council Member Reinstein, former Mayor Stoner, and Mayor Sordal for an incredible ride. I'd also like to thank the past elected officials who were always gracious with their time when I called and who gave me the context behind past decisions that shaped the ones that we make today. I would like to also thank in no particular order Chief Administrator and Officer Jason Neunamaker, Building Official Carmen Herlbut, City Clerk April Begaro, City Engineer Samira Shalon, Finance Director Anna Oteano, Fire Chief Don Todd, Museum Curator John Feeney, Library Director Monica Knapp, HR Director Paulina Ganey, IT Director John Montefusco, Parks and Rec Director Trish O'Toole, Interim Planning and Zoning Director Michael Alpert, Police Chief Jeffrey Slagle, Procurement Director Charles Spencer, Public Works Director Matt Thompson, Utilities Director Danny Polio, and City Attorney Carrie Ezraal. I'd also like to thank our retired City Clerk Susan Slattery, retired Building Official Bill Gale, retired Police Chief Howard Harrison, and retired Planning and Zoning Director Danny Holmes. You're all dedicated professionals. When I called about residents' concerns, most of the time you already knew about it and the solution was already in the works. I admire your dedication to this city and I'm grateful for the knowledge you shared about your individual areas of expertise. You made me a better public servant. Please relay my gratitude to all of the employees in your departments. I am truly in awe of everything that you do for our city. Finally, to the residents of this city, thank you for trusting me with this seat. It has been the honor to serve you. So with that, I will not say goodbye but until we meet again. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Pajan. I don't think I realized it was going to be your last meeting. I don't think I realized it was going to be your last meeting. I thought we had one more together. So I just want to say and you've all heard me say it often but especially as the media past president of the Broward League of Cities I was really proud to stand before Broward County and talk about what we do up here and how we get along and how we deliberate and you and I like to tussle over the budget every year but we do so good naturedly. Okay. But I've really and I've said that we care about one another up here and it's professional but we care about each other personally and what goes on with each one of us affects what we do up here and it's been a pleasure to work with you and thank you so much. Like I said I didn't have anything prepared because I didn't always give you your last meeting so all the best to you. I know we'll be seeing you. All right. Just a couple of things. I don't know if Grannis' time has come in the city but I know that that may have been out of their control today but it was very frustrating and there was a possibility that we would not have been able to stream tonight and having the agenda down was not just critical for the council but also for the residents so I know that we may be looking at other implementations and I think it might be time to upgrade so I will leave that there. I was, as I mentioned earlier, I was invited to Lauderdale West last night so I could not attend the Park East meeting but our friends over at the SDA church has nothing to do with the school we approved but have not been holding up their end of the bargain with parking and I received a message this morning and photographs which I'm going to forward to administration and the police chief and I don't know what we're going to do about enforcement but the residents were very upset last night from what I understand because they're parking on, and you could see the photos they're parking and everybody swale again. So what's frustrating for me and I know for my colleagues up here is they've been in here several times and they said they were going to do better and I know that I heard the pastor at one point say well we can't control it if we have a funeral. Well it's still their property and I think that they can control it so we're going to have to, you know, I don't know what administration how we want to handle it. And they have plenty of parking. But it's unconscionable that the residents who we've asked to be patient who've come in here and spoken about it and we said we're going to take care of it and I don't think the onus is on us but we're going to have to have a very strong conversation or some type of enforcement out there mayor because it's really impacting the homes surrounding that. So I wanted to bring that up. It's Florida City Government Week. I'm wearing my pin today and Council Member Reinstein, you mentioned Senator Geller, he was also in Mr. Vailu's Central Park Elementary class today. I will be there on Friday. We started out the week in Central Park. Monica Mormon has come in here with her Everglades ambassadors many times and they're just doing incredible things. Council Member Reinstein, Andrew, and I started Monday morning there. Yesterday morning I started with a group of first graders at Mirror Lake Elementary reading the City That Talks book and we talk about all the things former Deputy Chief, known as SRO Officer Jim there now, is having the time of his life as an SRO. He can't stop smiling and we rarely saw him smile when he walked in here. I told him that yesterday. But it was really interesting to talk to the first graders about what we all do collectively in the roles. and we went through that. And then I ended my evening at the Over 55 community so I thought that was kind of appropriate. But a lot of wonderful things and as I said I'll be in Mr. Vailu's class on Friday. But it gives us an opportunity really to talk about all of you and the importance of people don't think, we talk about it often, people don't think about all the things that we provide until something goes wrong. So it's really an opportunity this week to celebrate everybody in the city. I wanted to notify everyone that State Representative Darrell Campbell has put out he's going to be partnering with Abbey Ajai and they're bringing the Dash mobile unit for driver's license on November 4th to Jim Ward from 10 to 2. You need to make an appointment if you need to get a driver's license or anything else. Trunk or treat, we did ask Parks to provide a trunk for us and I just, I'm going to be at the Methodist Church first so I wanted to make sure that somebody's going to be there from the council. Okay and then I'll probably get over there about 6.30. Yeah it's this week we've got the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church and Trunk or Treat this weekend. Okay I'm going to try to make it through this and if I pass it off to my colleague here I'm going to ask you to read it for me. Drink a water. So as many of you already know our former building official Danny Esdeen passed away last Friday after fighting a courageous three and a half year battle with stage four colon cancer. Danny and I developed a close friendship over the years. It was a friendship forged of steel as we navigated a difficult time in our city's history. During that time my respect and admiration for him only grew. If you've ever had the opportunity to read his testimony to the OIG or his deposition with the state attorney you would more fully understand that his integrity was unshakable. In fact it is reported that the opposing attorney said to him during the deposition with a bit of admiration you're a tough knot to crack and he was. I'm sure that could be occasionally frustrating for those that he worked with because his attention to detail was impeccable. Danny treated his role as a life safety officer with the utmost of importance. He was steadfast in upholding his professional standards, state law, and his responsibility to the taxpayers of the city. Facts mattered to him. The truth mattered to him. Character mattered to him. And so it should be for all of us especially when we hold a position of trust and service to the public. Protecting this city came at a high cost when Danny was forced to give up a career that he loved. He was a fighter but he would have other battles to fight and I can tell you that he battled cancer for the past three and a half years like he lived his life with grace, poise, and dignity and so much determination. His daughter Serena wrote that her dad lived a life marked by achievement, devotion, and deep personal integrity leaving behind a meaningful legacy through the many buildings, renovations, parks, and community centers to which he contributed across the city. He also held multiple professional licenses including architecture, general contractor, threshold inspector, plan examiner, building official, and interior design. And he continued to maintain these active licenses through his life. Yet for all of his professional accomplishments, those who knew Danny understood that his greatest pride was found in his daughter and his grandchildren. These were the moments that defined him most clearly, moments of presence, affection, and generous attention that he spent with his family. Danny was a true gentleman. Those of you that know him well, when we started having lunches together, he was very upset that I tried to pay the bills so I had to keep track of my phone. He would pay, I would pay. Unfortunately, he left me. It was his turn to pay next and he didn't pay for the last one. He carried himself with the charisma, a wonderful sense of humor, and a smile that could light up a room. He had a rare gift for making everyone feel welcome and important. He was generous and fiercely loyal, steadfast in his beliefs, and grounded in strong morals and ethics. His grace and life was matched by the dignity with which he faced illness. And that example will remain with all who loved him. So I ask all of you to keep Danny's wife, Noah, Serena, and his three beloved grandchildren in your hearts as they navigate this immeasurable loss. Thank you. Council meeting is now adjourned at 8.59.