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          GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING. I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYONE TO A BEAUTIFUL MORNING HERE APRIL 14TH HERE IN THE CITY COMMISSION. WE HAVE A LOT OF BUSINESS AT HAND, BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR AND TO CELEBRATE FOR. I'D LIKE TO CALL RABBI STOLEC TO COME UP HERE. THIS IS ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE INDIVIDUALS ON THE PLANET. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T MET THE RABBI YET, AND BY THE WAY, I'M A CATHOLIC CATHOLIC, SO I DON'T HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO BE PART OF HIS CONGREGATION. BUT I'VE BECOME VERY CLOSE FRIENDS WITH THIS GENTLEMAN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND THE WORK AND THE AND THE EFFORTS THAT HE PUTS FORTH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. WE ARE TRULY BLESSED TO HAVE THIS GENTLEMAN IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO I TELL YOU, AFTER THE MEETING TODAY, OR MAYBE IN A BREAK, GET TO KNOW THE RABBI. NO MATTER WHAT DENOMINATION YOU ARE, HE'S TRULY DOING GOD'S WORK FOR ALL OF US. RABBI. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU, MY FRIEND. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. MR. MAYOR. ALMIGHTY GOD, I INVOKE YOUR BLESSING TODAY UPON THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS GATHERED HERE AT THE CITY COMMISSION AS THEY PREPARE TO RESUME THEIR WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT CITY OF CORAL GABLES, WE ASK YOUR DIVINE BLESSING FOR ALL THEIR CONSTITUENTS, WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. AS WE HAVE RECENTLY CELEBRATED THE HOLIDAY OF PASSOVER, GATHERED HERE IN A CHAMBER OF ELECTED LEADERSHIP. IN OUR PRAYER, LET US RECALL THE PREEMINENT LEADER, THE BIBLICAL MOSES, WHO LED THE JEWS OUT OF EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND AS THE CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUAL LEADER, THE RABBI, RABBI MENACHEM SCHNEERSON OF RIGHTEOUS MEMORY. EXPLAIN, MOSES WAS NOT MERELY A LEADER WHO SET GUIDELINES AND IMPARTED KNOWLEDGE TO HIS PEOPLE, BUT HE ALSO HAD THE UNIQUE GIFT OF BEING ABLE TO REVEAL EVERY INDIVIDUAL'S INHERENT POTENTIAL. ALMIGHTY GOD, PLEASE BESTOW THE WISDOM UPON THE ELECTED LEADERS GATHERED HERE TODAY TO LEGISLATE LAWS THAT ARE NOT ONLY JUST AND COMPASSIONATE, BUT ONES THAT ENABLE CITIZENS OF ALL AGES, BACKGROUNDS, AND CULTURES THE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE THEIR TRUE POTENTIALS. PLEASE GIVE THEM THE INSPIRATION AND HUMILITY TO UNITE ACROSS ALL DIVIDES IN THE PURSUIT OF A JUST, MEANINGFUL, AND MORAL SOCIETY. AS WAS OUTLINED IN YOUR SEVEN UNIVERSAL LAWS THAT YOU GAVE NOAH AND HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER THE GREAT FLOOD, ONE OF WHICH THE COMMAND TO GOVERN BY JUST LAWS IS THE PURPOSE OF THEIR GATHERING TODAY. MAY IT BE YOUR WILL, GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT THE TIRELESS EFFORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN THESE DIRECTIONS BE SUCCESSFUL, EMPOWERING ALL THE INDIVIDUALS OF THIS GREAT CITY TO BE DECENT HUMAN BEINGS, CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS, REVERENT OF YOU, AND READY TO DO THEIR BIT TOWARD THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF A PERFECT WORLD IN WHICH YOUR PRESENCE WILL BE MANIFEST. AND LET US SAY AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. RABBI, WE'D LIKE TO EXTEND OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU, YOUR CONGREGATION AND WORSHIPERS. ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, ABOVE EVERYTHING, THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND ALWAYS BEING PRESENT FOR THE CITY. BEAUTIFUL. WE'RE REALLY BLESSED TO HAVE THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND YOUR CONGREGATION HERE WITH US. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU COMING BACK SOON. I'D LIKE TO NOW TAKE A MOMENT HERE AND REQUEST CAPTAIN MATT BROPHY TO HELP US LEAD IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. CAPTAIN MATT BROPHY IS A LONGTIME CORAL GABLES RESIDENT AND FORMER UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICER. 
          COMMISSIONED THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ROTC IN 1981. HE SERVED IN EUROPE DURING THE COLD WAR AND LATER IN SPECIAL FORCES AS A GREEN BERET WITH ASSIGNMENTS IN PANAMA AND EL SALVADOR, WHERE HE EARNED COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE. HE CONTINUED HIS SERVICE IN THE ARMY RESERVE, ATTAINING THE RANK OF CAPTAIN. PLEASE RISE. 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, MAYOR. THANK YOU SIR. NOW WE 
          [MERRICK MOMENT]
MOVE ON TO THE MAGIC MOMENT. GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING. THE MAYOR, OF COURSE, GOVERNING BOARD BRINGS YOU THE MAGIC MOMENT. LITTLE TIDBITS THAT ADD UP TO A REMARKABLE STORY. AS I MOANED ABOUT A FOUR DAY IPHONE TRANSFER ODYSSEY PLAGUED BY 
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TECHNICAL ISSUES, I REFLECTED ON OTHERS WHO HAVE ENDURED MUCH MORE HARDSHIP. HAVING LOST HER FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TO DIPHTHERIA IN THE WINTER OF 1899. GEORGE'S MOTHER, ALTHEA FINK MERRICK, SOLDIERED ON, AGREEING WITH HER HUSBAND SOLOMON THAT PURCHASING A 150 ACRE HOMESTEAD IN WHAT WAS THEN PART OF HARDSCRABBLE COCONUT GROVE WAS WORTH THE RISK. 
          SOLOMON AND GEORGE TRAVELED HERE FIRST SO AS TO MAKE THEIR NEW DWELLING SHIP SHAPE FOR THE REST OF THE FAMILY. ALTHEA LEFT HER COMFORTABLE DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, HOME WITH FOUR CHILDREN IN TOW. IN JANUARY 1900, SHE HAD PROMISED HER FATHER SHE WOULDN'T COMPLAIN. 
          FOR FIVE YEARS, THE 38 BY THE 38 BY 20 FOOT BOARD AND BATTEN STRUCTURE, WHICH YOU SEE IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH, WAS A FAR CRY FROM THE HOME THAT THEY HAD LEFT BEHIND. IT HAD NO RUNNING WATER, NO STOVE, EVERYTHING HAD TO BE COOKED AND CLEANED OUT IN THE BACK OVER AN OPEN FIRE. IT WAS AFFECTIONATELY AND ACCURATELY CALLED THE SHACK. HERE ARE HER REFLECTIONS. WHEN AT LAST I SAW THE SHACK. JUST OLD BOARDS UNPAINTED WITH CRACKS WHERE WE COULD STICK OUR THUMBS. TWAS THEN I NEARLY FAINTED. BUT THERE WE WERE. OUR BRIDGES BURNED. THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY BUT JUST TO ALL GO TO WORK. WE KNEW THAT WE MUST STAY. SO WITH SHACK WELL CLEANED AND CRACKS WELL CLOSED AND SCREENS UP TO THE DOORS WE HUNG THE PAINTINGS ON THE WALLS, THE RUGS UPON THE FLOORS. COME FOR MORE OF THE STORY. WEEKENDS AT ONE, TWO AND 3:00. AND THIS SUNDAY. THAT, OF COURSE, IS AT THE MERRICK HOUSE AT 907 CORAL WAY. AND THIS SUNDAY ENJOY CROQUET, POETRY, FLOWER ARRANGING, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND MORE AT OUR PETALS AND PASTIMES. 
          GARDEN PARTY EVENT ON THE LAWN FROM 1 TO 4 P.M. THE EVENT IS FREE. YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT. 
          TOTALLY FREE. I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THIS SUNDAY ON THE LAWN AT THE MERRICK HOUSE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OVER THE PAST YEAR, AS PART OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, WE'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEGINNING OUR COMMISSION MEETINGS WITH A MOMENT, A THOUGHTFUL REMINDER OF THE VISION, HISTORY AND PEOPLE WHO SHAPED CORAL GABLES. WHAT BEGAN AS A CENTENNIAL INITIATIVE BECAME SOMETHING MORE. JOANNE AND THE DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS OF THE MERRICK HOUSE BOARD HAVE PROVIDED US WITH MANY INSPIRING MOMENTS. RECOGNIZE WHAT. WHAT. 
          RECOGNIZING THAT A CENTENNIAL IS NOT JUST A DATE, BUT A FULL YEAR OF REFLECTION AND APPRECIATION. AND WE'RE ALL BETTER FOR THAT. AS WE MARK ONE YEAR OF THESE MAGIC MOMENTS, I WANT TO OFFER MY SINCERE AND HEARTFELT THANKS TO JOANNE AND THE ENTIRE BOARD. YOUR COMMITMENT HAS BEEN EXTRAORDINARY. THESE MOMENTS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY INSIGHTFUL, MEANINGFUL, AND AT TIMES TRULY INSPIRING DEPENDING DEEPENING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR CITY'S RICH HISTORY. AS WE NOW TURN THE PAGE, OUR NATION APPROACHES A HISTORIC MILESTONE AMERICA'S TWO 50TH ANNIVERSARY. BEGINNING NEXT MONTH, WE WILL CARRY THIS TRADITION FORWARD WITH A NEW SERIES OF MOMENTS THAT CELEBRATE THE STORY OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY, THE IDEALS, THE PEOPLE, AND THE EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. JUST AS THE MAGIC MOMENT ENRICHED OUR APPRECIATION OF CORAL GABLES, WE HOPE THESE UPCOMING MOMENTS WILL EXPAND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND REMIND US THE VALUES THAT UNITE US ALL. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN. JOANNE AND THE MERRICK HOUSE VOLUNTEERS FOR LEAVING A LASTING IMPRINT ON THIS COMMISSION AND OUR COMMUNITY. WE'RE TRULY BLESSED FOR YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I MADE A MISTAKE. SO I WANT TO BRING BACK OUR DEAR FRIEND, MR. BROPHY. I MISSED THE PAGE IN WHAT I WAS READING, AND I THINK WE NEED TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE JUSTICE TO THIS GENTLEMAN'S SERVICE, NOT ONLY AS A LEADER IN THIS COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO AS A SERVANT IN THE ARMED FORCES. 
          SO IF YOU INDULGE ME SORRY ABOUT THIS, I APOLOGIZE. I MISSED THE PAGE AND I SHOULD BE WEARING MY GLASSES, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO WEAR MY GLASSES JUST YET. I'M STILL FIGHTING YOU. SO AS I MENTIONED THIS MORNING, WE'RE PROUD TO WELCOME CAPTAIN MATT BROPHY, A LONGTIME CORAL GABLES RESIDENT OF MORE THAN 30 YEARS, LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. THANK YOU FOR THAT HARD WORK. COMMISSION, AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, OUR ROTC IN 1981, HE SERVED IN EUROPE DURING THE COLD WAR AND A HAWK MISSILE BATTERY HOLDING ROLES AS TACTICAL CONTROL OFFICER, PLATOON LEADER AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER. HE LATER COMPLETED THE INFANTRY OFFICER ADVANCED COURSE AND THE JOHN F KENNEDY SPECIAL FORCES QUALIFICATION COURSE, EARNING THE GREEN BERET, RBORATHFINR ANDCLUDES COMB DIVERLIFICAON H DECHMEMANDANAMA AS AN ADVIS I 
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SALVOR, WE WAS AWARDED COINUE S I T ESER T O C CIN BROPHY, ANFOR YERVI T COUNTRY, YRNUED O GABLES.ETANUNITAN YOUR M AT THIS TIME, I INVITE YOU TO PLEASE COME UP AND JUST SAY A FEW WORDS. TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF WORK, NOT ONLY YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE ARMED FORCES, BUT TALK SO PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT YOU DO IN REGARDS TO PHILANTHROPY IN THIS COMMUNITY. I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. 
          PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF OUR VETERANS, ESPECIALLY DISABLED VETERANS, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, AND I KNOW IT'S YOU CAN'T JUDGE BORN ONE OR THE OTHER, BUT JUST YOUR ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF CORAL GABLES IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO IT VERY QUIETLY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, VERY ELEGANTLY, BUT YOU'RE ALWAYS A VOICE OF REASON AND SUPPORT HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY. WELCOME TO YOUR CITY. THANK YOU. MAYOR, ONE THING THAT'S KIND OF INTERESTING ON THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, I'M A PAST GRAND KNIGHT OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. HERE IN CORAL GABLES, WE'RE THE SECOND OLDEST COUNCIL IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, AND WE HAVE A HALL FOR 76 YEARS IN CORAL GABLES. AND IN THE MID 1950S, THE PLEDGE WAS MODIFIED BY THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS TO ADD UNDER GOD IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. THAT WAS NOT PART OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PRIOR TO 1954 1955. A LITTLE TIDBIT, BUT I'M HERE REALLY, ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, WE'RE DOING A SERIES OF PLEDGES FOR THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY. OUR HALL IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER HERE ON SALCEDO. IT'S THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL AND CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OVER 100 YEARS OLD. AND WE DO A LOT FOR THE VETERANS IN OUR COMMUNITY. THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OLDER VETERANS THAT SERVED IN WORLD WAR TWO AND KOREA AND EVEN VIETNAM, INCLUDING OUR PAST MAYOR, MAYOR DON SLESNICK, WHO I THINK DID THE PLEDGE LAST MONTH AS AMERICAN LEGION MEMBER, AND HE WAS A GUN COMMANDER IN VIETNAM. 
          BUT THE LEGION, AND AS WELL, I'M A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. WE DO A LOT FOR DISABLED VETERANS. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WE'VE DONE A LOT OF FUNDRAISERS AT THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FOR VETERANS, ESPECIALLY TUNNEL FOR TOWERS, AND WHAT THEY DO, THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY DO. BUT THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR YOUR PROCLAMATION FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY FOR THE AMERICAN LEGION. THAT WAS LAST YEAR. VERY APPRECIATIVE. IT'S PROUDLY HUNG IN OUR LEGION HALL. AND I THANK YOU, MR. BROPHY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COMMUNITY. AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU'RE NOT AWARE, THE LEGION, IT'S BEEN REVAMPED. THE EXTERIOR HAS A NEW SKIN, NEW LIGHTING, NEW WINDOWS. THOSE WINDOWS WERE DONATED BY RESIDENTS HERE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. AND YOU'RE REALLY TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, NOT ONLY ON BEAUTIFICATION, BUT ALSO REALLY OFFERING A HOME TO RESIDENTS TO TO RESIDENTS AND NONRESIDENTS WHO HAVE SERVED IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY, IN THE ARMED FORCES AND SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE THEY'VE BEEN FORGOTTEN, BUT THEY'RE NOT FORGOTTEN HERE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. WE HONOR THEM, WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THEM, AND WE'RE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU, SIR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR GREAT. THANK THE COMMISSION AND THE MAYOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. SO MOVING ON TO PRESENTATIONS AND PROTOCOL DOCUMENTS. ITEM A1 LANDSCAPE 
          [A.-1. 26-1310 Landscape Beautification Award Presentation.]
BEAUTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION TODAY I'M VERY HONORED TO HAVE THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS WITH ME. WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN ME? AND WE HAVE AN HERE WHO'S CURRENTLY THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD. AND I WILL LET YOU SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MISSION OF THE BOARD. AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN AWARDS PRESENTATION WHERE I'D LIKE TO INVITE ANY OF THE AWARD WINNERS THAT GOT A LETTER STATING THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE AWARD WINNERS. PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF OVER AND STAND HERE AND WE'LL GIVE YOU YOUR PRESENTATIONS AFTER. THANK YOU. GREAT. IT'S VERY EXCITING THAT WE HAVE WINNERS WITH US TODAY. 
          THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY BOARD. OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPE OF CORAL GABLES THROUGH THOUGHTFUL DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY AND PRESERVATION OF ITS HISTORIC BEAUTY. SO WE WORK TO HONOR PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE BEAUTY OF CORAL GABLES THROUGH THEIR OWN LANDSCAPING, AND WE ALSO WORK WITH DINA ON IDEAS FOR THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN DO TO IMPROVE THE BEAUTIFICATION OF THE TOWN. SO THANK YOU, ANNE. AND IS THERE A PRESENTATION, MR. CLARK, THAT YOU CAN PULL UP? THERE'S A POWERPOINT. OKAY, SO HERE WE HAVE THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY BOARD 
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AWARDS FOR 2025. THIS BOARD WORKS VERY HARD THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR. CANVASING ZONES IN THE CITY. THEY'RE OUT THERE LOOKING AT RESIDENTIAL GARDENS. THEY ARE TAKING PHOTOS FROM THE STREET. IF YOU EVER SEE THEM OUT CANVASING, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING. DON'T CALL THE POLICE. BUT THEY'RE THERE TAKING PICTURES OF THE MOST LOVELY, WELL-KEPT LANDSCAPES IN THE CITY. AND THEN THEY CONVENE AT A BOARD MEETING DURING THE YEAR, THEY CAST THEIR VOTES AND SELECT ONE WINNER FROM EACH ZONE IN THE CITY. SINCE ITS INCORPORATION IN 1925, THE CITY'S LUSH TROPICAL FLORA HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE SHARED BY CORAL GABLES RESIDENTS. RECOGNIZING THIS, THE CITY'S LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY BOARD HAS HAD A LONG ESTABLISHED TRADITION OF ACKNOWLEDGING THE EFFORTS OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY OWNERS WHO ADD TO THE BEAUTY OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH LANDSCAPING, FOCUSING MAINLY ON BOTANICAL IMPROVEMENTS, THE BOARD BESTOWS AWARDS OF APPRECIATION EVERY YEAR TO THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES THAT CONTRIBUTE THE MOST TO THE OVERALL BEAUTY OF THE AREA. 
          SUBMISSION CRITERIA, WHICH THEY FOLLOW. I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THIS, BUT THE PROPERTY HAS TO BE IN CORAL GABLES. IT. IT HASN'T WON AN AWARD IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, AND IT UTILIZES THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES FOR GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING. THE CITY IS DIVIDED UP INTO SEVEN ZONES BECAUSE WE HAVE SEVEN BOARD MEMBERS THAT WANT TO CANVASS EACH ZONE TO PUT TOGETHER THEIR NOMINATIONS, AND THEY MIGHT NOMINATE BETWEEN 3 AND 5 HOMES PER ZONE. AND THEN THEY CONVENE AND VOTE AND PICK ONE. AND THESE ARE THE AWARD WINNERS FOR THIS YEAR. ZONE ONE IS 800 CATALONIA AVENUE. ZONE TWO IS A DUPLEX BUILDING THREE, 404 AND THREE 406 PONCE. ZONE THREE IS 40 504 ALHAMBRA CIRCLE. ZONE FOUR IS 4900 GRANADA BOULEVARD. AND ZONE FIVE IS 6506. LEONARDO. ZONE SIX 606 20 ARE VIDA PARKWAY. AND ZONE 711090 SNAPPER CREEK ROAD. SO I WANT TO THANK THE AWARD WINNERS. WE HAVE YOU HERE AND WE HAVE PLAQUES OF APPRECIATION TO GIVE WE'LL, TET UAN TAKE A PHOTO RIG. THIS OURE QCK. YEAHFET THEM COURSEAD PLEE.HA E DEEO ALHAMBRYOU, T Y SOOR RCLE, THAMIE. IT'5BEFO I REMEMR, NDHA Y. O BRDTEEONA O AYAROLINS. 6AS RPRIO WN HER EWAS NAT. EEMOV PONC LEON. THA Y. WOU.  JUST AN THEOMWNLIOSAY AEW WORDS PLEAS ME FORWARD GOO MORND THKOU FOR T HARORK. 
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          [A.-3. 25-1255 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 15, 2026 as "American Airlines Day" in Coral Gables.]
MOVING ONO IT A3, ESDLEEIRLIS D IORAT FROM AMECA AIRNE PE JOIN US.OVE .H.OW U, SIR WDEUL THANK YOU AT SPECIAY. CANOUHEAR ME?ESSIR.M OKAY. ERICAN ALINES PROUDLY LEBR I 100TH VERSARY ONPRIL 15T026, UGH AIRVEL A BINGS A ENO ONOF T'S LDING NEND WASR RE THA THREEES SFVE ROL THEAD ECONOM AND CULTURAL VIT OFOUTHLORIDAGH UN STATES,MERIHERPT, WHICHODAY S MIAMI HUBRI WHE ESOW OPEAT P DULE 430 FGHTSRL UNIES, LINNG SOUTH TO CCRLATINAM AHE CIBBEAN,ROPEED ROUGUT THE UNIDTATE STRETHENMI'SOL AA E, TRI ARO F TVE TERNATIOUSIN A EAS, THE OF CORAL GAES, LOCAT APPXIMA TEN MILROM M BRED ITSNTY AS ARNIONATY A VN CONIVEDNDER CONNTITYVIDAND AMERAN ANES CTI T BUSSESISS A VISBY ENABL SIDENTSOAIN CSE GBAL MTS AURND WHEASCAN ES EMP MOREHAN CALL COR GABLESOMHOI, MOF WORCE,ITALYNDCOITY LIFE. AND ANE ICLI CELEBTES A CENTUR AVIATN LEARSHIP, INVATION, AN SCE COD PARERSHIP ANNTYORADESAD.PACL NO THEREFOI, VINCE LAS T MAYF CL ES, ALONGTHMBERSOFHE CITISSION O PROCLPRIL NAYES,ONGTALTHE CMINATARGE I WTI GABLESIDENTS, A IETHIE W BOT MA ONF O'DIKE TO RLES THA YOUOHE C OF CORALABLES FHIS REITN. ASE CELEBRAT R CENTENNIA CENTEL TOMOOW YRS GA WASNVNED AS A INTERNAT CITY,NE DEFINED ONION, CULTUD ER.HE GBAACH OFAMAN ALINEPS BRI AT VISN TO LEV D ORRAL, AND MM ANDOURI T LK THENITY WLD.UR GL BUT.S TE MEMBERSWE KNOW THAT MAN RITERE  HOME. CS OXIMY IAMI TERNNAL M C OFURMPYEES AHEMAN LI FEARLY 60 YEA A P TO CLGABLESOM ALONGYF MYLEAGUE INCLUNG VI PREOS LIZCANOR FOR SENIOVICE IDENTND L V PRT PETERELAU WHO HAVE RETEE CTINUEO ARA PTIN, WHOOW ECI ILUDING IIVS SEE CITY OFORLEWE A P TO BE PARH COMMUN PROUD T SRTHE INUEDROHNDUCCESS ESCILYROUDO BE RECO HEREAYY E CITYHAT RLECTE SEVAESONCTN, 10HNNERRY, WE ARENOD TO OGZE BTE CIEANDRE PUDO K YOU, THANYO GOOD RNING,OOD RNG,OOD RNING. I IS ALEASUR ANORE Y ON THIS AUSPICIOUS DAYME ZIPAO. RESIDEDS YEARS.AVE ALSO DHEPRIVIL O BEINF TIME TODI HAVEEEM THE GREONOR OFRESENTING AMERIRLINES,S  CY OF COR G PCLAIMS RIL 15,MERICAN AIRS DAY, CRATS 100TH IS A TESTA TO THE LON STAN FTERE RELIOHIP. LOOKS FORWARD TO THE NEXTAD E , 100 YEARS OF MUTUAL POSITIVE GROWTH AND COMMITMENT AND CONTINUED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. AS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE DEDICATED AMERICAN AIRLINES MIAMI HUB TEAM, PAST AND PRESENT, HAPPY CENTENNIAL. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU. SO I'D LIKE TO I'D LIKE TO GET UP, HAVE THE OTHER AMERICAN AIRLINES EMPLOYEES GET UP. BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT. SO THIS GENTLEMAN HERE MENTIONED PETER DILAURA, A LIFELONG FAMILY FRIEND, AN AMAZING PERSON WHO WAS TRULY A TRENDSETTER, A PERSON WHO ALWAYS ADVOCATED FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND ALWAYS SET THE BAR VERY HIGH, SET THE BAR VERY HIGH. EXCUSE ME, BUT ZULY DOESN'T FALL TOO SHORT. ZULY IS AN AMAZING CORAL GABLES RESIDENT WHO ALWAYS, ALWAYS DOES WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY. THERE ISN'T A WEEK THAT DOESN'T GO BY THAT I DON'T SPEAK TO JULIE ABOUT A CITY OF CORAL GABLES ISSUE, OR MAYBE PHILANTHROPY. IT MAY BE ABOUT BEAUTIFICATION. SHE'S NEVER, EVER TALKED TO ME ABOUT AMERICAN AIRLINES. BUT ONE DAY, ONE DAY, I RAN INTO HER AT THE AIRPORT EARLY IN THE MORNING. I WAS CATCHING A FLIGHT FOR WORK, AND SHE WAS COMPLETELY STARTLED. AND I GOT TO SEE THE LOVE AFFAIR THAT SHE HAS FOR AMERICAN AIRLINES AND THE LOVE AFFAIR THAT SHE HAS FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND THE WAY THAT SHE TREATS PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, SHE SHE'S BELOVED BY 
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EVERYONE WHO WORKS AT AMERICAN AIRLINES, WHO WORKS AT M I A, SHE DOES HER JOB WITH IMMENSE AMOUNT OF PRIDE, WHICH IS THE SAME WAY THAT SHE DOES EVERYTHING HERE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. SO ZULY, WE LOVE YOU. WE'RE GRATEFUL AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS AN AMAZING, AMAZING, NOT EMPLOYEE, BUT PARTNER IN YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS DOING WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST NOT ONLY OF THE CITY BUT OF YOUR OF YOUR EMPLOYER. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU SIR, LET'S TAKE A PHOTO TOGETHER, ALL OF US, FOR THE PROCLAMATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'VE ALREADY DONE. I'M GONNA COME RIGHT HERE SO YOU CAN GET IT RIGHT INSIDE. 
          HERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. PERFECT. THAT'S GREAT. 
          CONGRATULATIONS. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE MORE BEFORE WE COME BACK TO A2. 
          [A.-4. 26-1416 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 17, 2026 as "Brigade 2506 Day" in Coral Gables.]
AND THIS IS A PERSONAL FAVORITE OF MINE ITEM A4 PRESENTATION OR A PROCLAMATION DECLARING APRIL 17TH 2026 AS BRIGADA 20 506 DAY IN CORAL GABLES. I ASKED OUR FRIENDS FROM LA TO PLEASE JOIN US WHILE I READ THE PROCLAMATION. MR. MONTALVO, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US. IT'S TRULY A PLEASURE. GRACIAS POR NOSOTROS. WHEREAS ON APRIL 17TH, 1961, A GROUP OF 1414 CUBAN EXILES KNOWN AS BRIGADA. 2506 THE BRIGADE. 2506, LANDED AT THE BAY OF PIGS IN A COURAGEOUS EFFORT TO LIBERATE THEIR HOMELAND FROM A COMMUNIST REGIME. WHEREAS THESE BRAVE MEN, REPRESENTING ALL WALKS OF LIFE, ANSWERED THE CALL TO DEFEND FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, FULLY AWARE OF THE RISKS INVOLVED AND DEMONSTRATED EXTRAORDINARY VALOR IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS. AND WHEREAS THE MISSION WAS CARRIED OUT WITHOUT THE PROMISED AIR SUPPORT CONTRIBUTING TO ITS FAILURE AND RESULTING IN THE LOSS OF LIFE AND THE CAPTURE OF MANY MEMBERS OF 2506 WHO ENDURED IMPRISONMENT UNDER THE INHUMANE CONDITIONS AND SUFFERED PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HARDSHIP FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. AND WHEREAS, DESPITE THESE HARDSHIPS, THE VETERANS OF 20 506 HAVE REMAINED STEADFAST IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, CONTINUING THEIR ADVOCACY FOR FOR A FREE CUBA WHILE BUILDING MEANINGFUL LIVES AND CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING HERE IN CORAL GABLES. AND WHEREAS TODAY, 65 YEARS LATER, APPROXIMATELY 200 VETERANS REMAIN AND THEIR LEGACY IS BEING CARRIED FORWARD BY FUTURE GENERATIONS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO PRESERVING THEIR STORY AND ENSURING THAT THE LESSONS OF HISTORY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. AND WHEREAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW STATE OF THE ART BAY OF PIGS MUSEUM IN MIAMI'S LITTLE HAVANA WILL SERVE AS A LASTING TRIBUTE TO THE SACRIFICE AND HEROISM OF ZERO SIX, PRESERVING ARTIFACTS, ORAL HISTORIES AND THE BRIGADE'S FLAG, AND EDUCATING FUTURE GENERATIONS ON THE ENDURING VALUES OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. NOW THEREFORE, I, VINCE LAGO, AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COMMISSION, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 17TH, 2026, AS VETERANS OF THE BAY OF PIGS DAY IN CORAL GABLES. MR. MONTALVO, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. 
          THANK YOU. I AM DEAF, SO I. I HEARD SOME OF WHAT YOU SAID. I AM RAFAEL MONTALVO. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE VETERANS ASSOCIATION. AND ON BEHALF OF THE BRIGADE, WE ARE HONORED BY THIS RECOGNITION AND THIS AWARD. 65 YEARS AGO, I WAS AN 18 YEAR OLD RIFLEMAN WITH THE SECOND BATTALION, AND THAT IS A AN ACTION THAT WE WILL NEVER FORGET AND THAT THIS COUNTRY 
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SHOULD NEVER FORGET. AND 65 YEARS LATER, WE'RE NOW IN THE 15TH ROUND OF THIS FIGHT WHICH HAS NOT ENDED AND WHICH WE HOPE WILL END VERY SOON. AND WE'RE STILL ACTIVE. THE NEW MUSEUM THAT WE'RE DOING IS GOING TO BE AN EDUCATIONAL VEHICLE TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FAIL FIGHTING COMMUNISM. AND IT'S A VIVID EXAMPLE. ON THE ONE HAND, YOU HAVE A COUNTRY THAT IS DESTROYED. ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE THOSE OF US THAT CAME HERE. I CAME TO THIS FANTASTIC CITY. I'VE LIVED HERE FOR 45 YEARS IN CORAL GABLES, AND WE HAVE FORMED A LIFE RAISE FAMILIES IN A FREE COUNTRY. AND THE DIFFERENCE IS AMAZING. SO THE RECOGNITION HERE IS THAT AT THAT DIFFERENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FAILURE. AND WE THANK YOU, MR. MONTALVO. 
          YOU'RE A PATRIOT, OKAY. ON MANY FRONTS, YOU EMBODY EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD WITH THIS COUNTRY. 
          YOU CAME TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY LIKE MY FATHER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY ALONE. MY FATHER WAS PEDRO PAN AND DEDICATED YOURSELF TO THIS COUNTRY ABOVE EVERYTHING, EVEN ABOVE YOUR OWN FAMILY. YOU HAVE BUILT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESSES, HAD HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES, SOLD. 
          THOSE BUSINESSES BEEN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL. BUT YOU HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN WHO YOU ARE. YOU'RE AN AMERICAN AT HEART. YOU'RE A CUBAN AMERICAN. THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THE MUSEUM IS TO BE COMMENDED. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU CONTACT US. I THINK IT'S ON THE 22ND. CORRECT. IT WILL IT WILL BE OPEN IN, IN IN IN MAY AND MAY. BUT THERE'S A THERE'S A RIBBON. IT'S GOING TO BE OPEN. BUT BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF COMMITMENTS WITH, WITH VETERANS AND FAMILIES AND SO ON AND SO ON. MAY 1ST. AND IT'S WORTHWHILE. IT'S A NEW TECHNOLOGY, IT'S AUDIOVISUAL. IT'S. AND THE MESSAGE, IT'S EVEN FORGETS IT'S GOING TO BE ENGAGING. SO YOU HAVE YOU HAVE RAISED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THIS NEW MUSEUM. THE MUSEUM IS FINISHED. WE'LL BE CUTTING THE RIBBON. I WON'T BE CUTTING THE RIBBON. THEY WILL BE CUTTING THE RIBBON. I WILL JUST BE THERE WITH MY FATHER AND MY BROTHER WHO'S HERE TODAY, WHICH IS TRULY A PRIVILEGE. MY BROTHER DOESN'T COME. I DON'T THINK HE'S EVER BEEN TO A COMMISSION MEETING IN 13 YEARS. IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE COMES TO A COMMISSION MEETING, BUT HE'S HERE FOR ANOTHER MATTER. ON THAT POINT, THE REASON WHY I BRING UP MY BROTHERS IS BECAUSE MY BROTHER DID ALL THE PRO BONO LEGAL WORK, PRO BONO, ON BEHALF OF VEINTICINCO ZERO SIX. OUR FAMILY, OUR FAMILY HAS A DEEP RESPECT FOR CUBAN AMERICANS, FOR YOUR FAMILY. WITHOUT YOUR FAMILY, WE HAVEN'T BEEN WE WOULDN'T HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO THE MUSEUM LIKE YOUR BROTHER WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN CHANGING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S VIEW ABOUT THE SONY. SO THAT THAT EFFORT AND THE EFFORT OF MY FATHER AND MY GRANDFATHER IS A TESTAMENT TO THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. YEAH, THE WORK THAT MANY CUBANS HAVE DONE WHO DONATED TO THIS GREAT CAUSE. SO WE WANT TO HONOR YOU. WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. WE WILL BE THERE THE DAY THAT WE CUT THE RIBBON. AND IT'S MY PRIVILEGE TO BE THERE, ALONG WITH MY FAMILY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, WHO I IMAGINE WILL BE ATTENDING THAT DAY. THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, BUT FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO HONOR A GROUP OF MEN WHO WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP THEIR LIFE, AND SOME OF THEM DID FOR DEMOCRACY, FOR FREEDOM TO TRULY PROTECT OUR WAY OF LIFE. AND IF IT WASN'T FOR INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOURSELF, MANY OF YOU, MANY OF US, MANY OF US WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY. SO ON THE CUSP OF A MAJOR CHANGE, GOD WILLING, VIA THE LEADERSHIP OF MARCO RUBIO, OUR VICE PRESIDENT AND OUR PRESIDENT, GOD WILLING, IN THE NEAR FUTURE WILL HAVE A FREE CUBA. WE'LL HAVE A FREE CUBA. 
          AND PEOPLE LIKE MY GRANDFATHER WHO WILL NEVER SEE IT. OF THE BRIGADE OF THE WHOLE BRIGADE, THERE'S STILL 200 OF US ALIVE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. IF YOU GET A CHANCE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GO TO THE MUSEUM. MAKE SURE YOU GO TO THE MUSEUM. I WANT TO THANK LESLIE BUNTING AND MARTHA WHO HELPED US OUT. PUT THIS TOGETHER TODAY. IF YOU GET A CHANCE, PLEASE GO VISIT THE MUSEUM. I WENT TO THE OLD MUSEUM. I HAVEN'T SEEN THE NEW ONE YET. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RIBBON CUTTING. ISN'T IT AMAZING EXPERIENCE. IT WILL, IT WILL. IT WILL MOTIVATE YOU. AND IT WILL. AND IT WILL SHOWCASE. AND IT'LL REMIND YOU IF FOR SOME REASON YOU FORGOTTEN THE FRAGILITY OF OUR DEMOCRACY. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU AND THANK CORAL GABLES, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ABLE TO LIVE HERE ALL THESE YEARS TO RAISE THREE KIDS, TEN GRANDKIDS, AND ONE AND A HALF GREAT GRANDKIDS. AND THIS THIS CITY HAS BEEN AMAZING. 
          YEAH. SO AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK MAYOR SUAREZ, WHO'S NO LONGER THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, BUT HE ALSO PLAYED A VERY INTEGRAL PART IN MAKING SURE THAT THIS THIS MUSEUM WAS A REALITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS. LET'S TAKE A PHOTO. THANK YOU. FOR 13 YEARS. 
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YES. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO I HAVE A PICTURE ALONG WITH. COME ON. 
          FRANCIS. MAYOR. FOR ONE OF THE. MEETING. 
          [A.-2. 26-1344 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 14, 2026 as "Carlos Migoya Day" in Coral Gables.]
ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'RE GOING BACK TO ITEM TWO. LESLIE GAVE ME A HARD TIME FOR JUMPING OVER ITEM EIGHT TWO AND CARLOS MIGOYA. BUT I THINK MR. MIGOYA WOULD APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT I WENT FIRST. ITEM 82A PRESENTATION OR PROCLAMATION DECLARING APRIL 14TH, 2026, AS CARLOS MIGOYA IN CORAL GABLES. MR. MIGOYA. IS JOINING. SO THIS IS A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE FOR ME. PLEASE JOIN US. I'D LIKE TO READ THE PROCLAMATION ON THE RECORD. 
          WHEREAS CARLOS MIGOYA HAS DEDICATED NEARLY 15 YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEMS, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY'S ONLY PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM AND ONE OF THE LARGEST SAFETY NET HOSPITAL NETWORKS IN THE UNITED STATES. AND WHEREAS, UPON ASSUMING LEADERSHIP OF JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEMS IN MAY 2011, MR. MIGOYA CONFRONTED AN INSTITUTION IN SEVERE FINANCIAL DISTRESS, FACING THE VERY REAL PROSPECT OF HOSPITAL CLOSURES AND THE LOSS OF ESSENTIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, AND THROUGH BOLD AND PRINCIPLED STEWARDSHIP, REVERSE THE TRAJECTORY OF MASSIVE ANNUAL LOSSES TO DELIVER THE SYSTEM'S FIRST FINANCIAL SURPLUS SINCE 22,006, A STANDARD OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY THAT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE. AND WHEREAS MR. MIGOYA LED A HISTORIC AND TRANSFORMATIVE $2 BILLION CAPITAL INVESTMENT CAMPAIGN ANCHORED BY THE JACKSON MIRACLE BUILDING BOND PROGRAM, APPROVED IN NOVEMBER 2013 BY 65% OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY VOTERS, WHICH FUNDED THE RENOVATION, MODERNIZATION AND EXPANSION OF JACKSON'S FACILITIES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY, ENSURING THAT EVERY RESIDENT, REGARDLESS OF ZIP CODE OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAS ACCESS TO WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE. AND WHEREAS, THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE, MR. MIGOYA CHAMPIONED THE PRINCIPLE THAT EXCELLENCE IN PATIENT CARE AND FINANCIAL STABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY ARE NOT COMPETING IDEALS BUT COMPLEMENTARY PILLARS OF A THRIVING PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM, TRANSFORMING JACKSON INTO A MODEL OF OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE WHILE ELEVATING CLINICAL QUALITY, PATIENT SAFETY AND COMMUNITY TRUST. AND WHEREAS, PRIOR TO HIS SERVICE AT JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEMS, MR. MIGOYA BROUGHT MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF LEADERSHIP IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND SERVED AS CITY MANAGER OF MIAMI DURING A PERIOD OF SIGNIFICANT FISCAL CHALLENGE TO SALMAALI, DEMONSTRATING A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA. AND WHEREAS MR. MIGOYA HAS GENERALLY GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED HIS TIME AND TALENT AND HIS OWN WALLET TO THE BROADER CIVIC LIFE OF OUR REGION, SERVING ON THE BOARDS OF THE UNITED WAY OF MIAMI-DADE 
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COUNTY, THE FLORIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MIAMI DADE COLLEGE AND THE BEACON COUNCIL, AMONG OTHERS, AND HAS BEEN A STEADFAST CHAMPION OF EDUCATION, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL WHO CALL SOUTH FLORIDA HOME. AND WHEREAS, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT, THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES WISHES TO HONOR CARLOS GOYA'S EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY, HIS COURAGE IN CRISIS, HIS VISION FOR GROWTH, AND HIS ABIDING COMPASSION FOR THE PATIENT, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES JACKSON SERVES, AND TO EXPRESS THE ENDURING GRATITUDE OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR ALL THAT HE HAS GIVEN IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS. NOW, THEREFORE, I, VINCE LAGO, AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COMMISSION, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 14TH, 2026, AS CARLOS MIGOYA DAY IN CORAL GABLES. 
          THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. COMMISSIONERS, AS YOU WERE TALKING, I REMEMBERED YOUR LEADERSHIP AND PETER'S FIRST ROUND HERE AS CITY MANAGER. WE WORKED TOGETHER ON BUILDING AN URGENT CARE CENTER, WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE BUSIEST URGENT CARE CENTER WE HAVE AT JACKSON AND NORTH GABLES ON GALIANO ON EIGHTH STREET. AND SOON WE'LL HAVE EVEN FURTHER EXPANSION IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. SO WE'RE VERY, VERY PROUD OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WITH THE CITY OF JACKSON. REMEMBER ALSO, THE FIRST TIME THAT I WAS INVOLVED WITH THE CITY WAS WHEN WE BOUGHT CORAL GABLES FEDERAL IN JANUARY 1ST, 1996. SO IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, A LOT OF PARTNERSHIPS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS HONOR AS YOU JUST HONORED THE THE PEOPLE FROM THE. 
          2506 HE REMINDED ME THAT SHORTLY AFTER THAT, MY PARENTS CAME WITH ME FROM CUBA, AND THAT'S HOW WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY. AND WE HAD NO REASON WE HAD TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OTHERWISE MY FATHER WOULD HAVE GONE TO JAIL DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME. SO THIS CITY, THIS COMMUNITY HAS DONE A LOT FOR US CUBAN AMERICANS AND FOR A LOT OF A LOT OF FOREIGN RESIDENTS THAT HAVE MOVED HERE AND MADE MIAMI THEIR HOME. AND AND I'M JUST PROUD TO BE ABLE TO GIVE BACK TO THIS COMMUNITY. I THINK WE ALL WE ALL OWE A LOT TO THE COMMUNITY. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ALL DOING HERE. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND THANK YOU FOR THIS RECOGNITION. THANK YOU. I. SO AFTER READING THE PROCLAMATION, I WAS GIVING IT SOME THOUGHT AND I WAS WORKING WITH MY TEAM AND MARTHA, TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. AND I PUT DOWN A FEW WORDS THAT I THINK REALLY ENCAPSULATE HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO ME AND HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO MY FAMILY. SO IT'S AN, AN OPPORTUNITY THAT COMES AROUND VERY RARELY TO CELEBRATE AN EXTRAORDINARY LEADER, A DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT, AND SOMEONE WHO I'M PROUD TO CALL A MENTOR AND A FRIEND. CARLOS MIGOYA CARLOS, YOUR IMPACT ON JACKSON HEALTH AND ON THIS COMMUNITY CANNOT BE OVERSTATED. YOU STEPPED INTO ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ROLES IN PUBLIC HEALTH CARE AND TRANSFORMED IT WITH VISION, DISCIPLINE, AND WITH YOUR HEART. BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOU TRANSFORMED A SYSTEM THAT WAS LOSING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR INTO A SYSTEM THAT GENERATES OVER $3 BILLION A YEAR. YOU MADE IT DIFFICULT AND AT TIMES, UNPOPULAR. DECISIONS NECESSARY, ALWAYS PUTTING THE HOSPITAL AND PATIENT CARE FIRST. A LOT OF THE DECISIONS THAT I MAKE HERE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES ARE SOMETIMES UNPOPULAR. I'VE LEARNED FROM YOU THAT WE HAVE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, AND WE HAVE TO ALWAYS STAND BY OUR CONVICTIONS, NO MATTER THE PRESSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE PUTTING ON YOU. THE UNIONS, THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, YOU LED BY EXAMPLE. WHAT MAKES THAT IMPACT EVEN MORE REMARKABLE IS EXPERIENCE. IS THE EXPERIENCE YOU BROUGHT WITH YOU. BEFORE JACKSON, YOU BUILT AN IMPRESSIVE CAREER IN BOTH PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR. YOU HAVE A REPUTATION AS SOMEONE WHO CAN TAKE ON COMPLEX CHALLENGES, RESTORE STABILITY, AND DELIVER IMMENSE RESULTS. THAT SAME STEADY LEADERSHIP IS EXACTLY WHAT BROUGHT THAT. WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO JACKSON WHEN IT WAS NEEDED MOST? BUT TODAY I WANT TO SPEAK NOT JUST ABOUT THE CEO, BUT ABOUT THE PERSON WHO IS CARLOS MIGOYA. TO ME, YOU'VE BEEN A MENTOR IN THE TRUEST SENSE OF THE WORD. YOU'VE LED NOT ONLY WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, BUT WITH HUMILITY AND INTEGRITY. YOU'VE ALWAYS MADE TIME TO SHARE YOUR PERSPECTIVE, TO OFFER GUIDANCE, AND TO REMIND THOSE AROUND YOU THAT LEADERSHIP IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT SERVICE TO PEOPLE, TO COMMUNITY, AND TO SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES. YOU NEVER SAID NO WHEN I CALLED YOU AND I SAID I NEEDED TO HAVE DINNER TWO WEEKS AGO, THE ONLY QUESTION YOU ASKED ME IS WHEN. WHEN WE NEEDED TO GO TO LUNCH, 
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TO BOUNCE IDEAS, TO COME UP WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER. OR WHEN I NEEDED YOUR ADVICE, WHETHER IT'S IN MY PERSONAL OR MY PRIVATE CAPACITY OR MY PUBLIC CAPACITY. YOU ALWAYS SAID YES. YOU NEVER SAID NO AND YOU NEVER FORGOT TO RETURN MY CALL. I'VE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL FROM YOU RESILIENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND ABOUT STAYING GROUNDED. THOSE LESSONS HAVE STAYED WITH ME, AND I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE IN THAT. YOUR LEGACY IS NOW ONE THAT YOU'VE BUILT. IT'S IN THE PEOPLE YOU'VE INFLUENCED, THE LEADERS YOU'VE SHAPED, AND THE LIVES YOU'VE MADE BETTER. JUST LOOK AROUND THE COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO ARE HERE TODAY TO HONOR YOU. I ALSO WANT TO MENTION MY BROTHER WHO'S HERE. MY BROTHER HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MAYOR SUAREZ WHEN HE FINISHED LAW SCHOOL. HE WORKED FOR HIM FOR TWO YEARS. AND I THINK HOPEFULLY, MAYBE HE'LL SHARE THAT STORY. YOU CALL THE MAYOR AND SAID, I'M MOVING ON TO JACKSON FROM CITY MANAGER. I WANT TO BRING SOME TALENTED PEOPLE TO HELP ME. RIGHT. THE SHIP YOU CHOSE MY BROTHER, YOU GAVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY. HE WORKED WITH YOU FOR TWO YEARS, AND THEN HE MOVED ON TO WORK AT A MAJOR LAW FIRM WHERE HE'S BEEN THERE FOR BEFORE MY TENURE AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. YOU GAVE HIM AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO SHINE. YOU HELD HIM. YOU HELD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE. YOU PUSHED HIM. YOU MADE HIM A BETTER MAN. YOU MADE HIM A BETTER LAWYER. YOU MADE HIM A BETTER LEADER. THESE. THIS IS YOUR LEGACY. THIS IS WHAT YOU LEAVE AFTER YOU RETIRE. EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT RETIRING. ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR LEADERSHIP, AND YOUR FRIENDSHIP. CONGRATULATIONS ON A REMARKABLE CAREER THAT'S JUST GETTING STARTED. AND BEST WISHES IN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER. SO THANKS TO YOUR LOVELY WIFE AND MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS, I'VE ASKED PEOPLE TO COME. SOME COULDN'T MAKE IT, SOME SENT VIDEOS. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE THEM JUST TO SAY A FEW WORDS ON YOUR BEHALF. IF YOU WOULD INDULGE ME. I KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE THE LIMELIGHT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAYS. MR. CLARK, CAN WE ROLL ONE OF THE VIDEOS? IF CABLE TV COULD PUT UP A VIDEO. MAYOR. COMMISSIONERS, MEMBERS OF THE CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY. GOOD MORNING. APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO BE THERE IN PERSON, BUT I AM HONORED TO TRULY RECOGNIZE A GREAT LEADER AND A GREAT FRIEND. CARLOS MIGOYA CARLOS CAREER HAS BEEN REMARKABLE NOT JUST FOR ITS LENGTH, BUT ALSO FOR ITS IMPACT AND HIS DEEP LOVE AND COMMITMENT TO THIS COMMUNITY. SEE, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH CARLOS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. HE WAS A MENTOR, A ROLE MODEL, AND AT TIMES A VERY EFFECTIVE SOURCE OF PRESSURE. CARLOS LEADERSHIP STYLE HAD WHAT WE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED A TOUGH LOVE COMPONENT. WE ALWAYS SAID IT WAS TIME TO WORRY WHEN CARLOS WASN'T PICKING ON YOU. 
          THE TRUTH IS, MANY OF THE PEOPLE SERVING IN LEADERSHIP ROLES ACROSS THIS CITY TODAY ARE THERE BECAUSE CARLOS TOOK THE TIME TO PUSH THEM, TO CHALLENGE THEM, AND TO BELIEVE IN THEM. HIS IMPACT CONTINUES THROUGH THE PEOPLE HE DEVELOPED. ONE THING ABOUT CARLOS IS YOU ALWAYS KNEW THAT ONCE HE COMMITTED TO SOMETHING, HE WAS ALL IN, WHETHER IT WAS BANKING, CITY MANAGEMENT OR RUNNING ONE OF THE LARGEST PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN THE COUNTRY AND EVEN CYCLING. 
          WHEN CARLOS DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO BECOME A CYCLIST, IT REALLY DIDN'T TAKE LONG BEFORE HE WAS TRAINING LIKE LANCE ARMSTRONG JR, MINUS THE SCANDALS, BUT WITH THE SAME LEVEL OF INTENSITY, TRUST ME. AND WHEN HE TRANSITIONED FROM BANKING TO HEALTHCARE, I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT HE WOULD SUCCEED, NOT BECAUSE OF HIS TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, BUT BECAUSE HIS COMMON SENSE, HIS WORK ETHIC, HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE KEY METRICS AND HIS ABILITY TO CREATE REAL FOLLOWERSHIP. AND THOSE ARE QUALITIES THAT TRANSLATE ANYWHERE. ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES COMES FROM DURING ALMOST EVERY HURRICANE SEASON. 
          SEE, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT WHILE EVERYBODY WAS WATCHING THE FORECAST, CARLOS ACTUALLY BECAME THE WEATHERMAN. HE PREDICTED LANDFALL. HE PREDICTED THE CONE BECAUSE SUCCESS MEANT TO ALL OF US AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, IT MEANT BEING THE LAST BANK TO CLOSE AND THE FIRST BANK TO REOPEN BECAUSE CLIENTS DEPENDED ON US. BUT TRULY, BECAUSE CARLOS WAS INCREDIBLY COMPETITIVE AND HE WANTED TO BEAT EVERY OTHER BANK IN TOWN IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. SO THAT'S REALLY CARLOS IN A NUTSHELL. HE'S HARD, SMART, AGGRESSIVE, COMPETITIVE, BUT ALWAYS, ALWAYS WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR. CARLOS, OUR COMMUNITY IS BETTER BECAUSE OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNWAVERING COMMITMENT. NOW THAT YOU'RE RETIRING, ENJOY THE SLOWER PACE THOUGH. KNOWING YOU, YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO TREAT RETIREMENT THE SAME WAY YOU TREATED CYCLING FULL SPEED, NO COASTING AND LEAVING THE REST OF US TRYING TO KEEP UP. 
          WISHING YOU ALL THE VERY BEST, MY FRIEND. GOOD LUCK. MR. CLARK, COULD WE CALL UP SOME OF THE 
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GUESTS WHO ARE HERE? I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE SPEAKERS, MAYOR SUAREZ. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. 
          IT'S. I THOUGHT THE DAYS OF ME SPEAKING IN THESE KINDS OF FORUMS WERE OVER. BUT I CAN SEE YOU LOOK VERY RELAXED, BY THE WAY. THANK YOU. I LIKE THE LOOK. THIS IS THE NEW ME, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          OF COURSE I CAN SEE THAT. THERE'S A COMMON THEME AMONG CARLOS'S MENTEES. THEY HAVE GREAT HAIR. SO I THINK MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, PSYCHOLOGICAL ABOUT THAT SUBCONSCIOUS. BUT I'LL ECHO SOME OF YOUR YOUR SENTIMENTS AND WHAT JORGE SAID HE WAS ACTUALLY HE WORKED FOR ME IN A SENSE, BECAUSE I WAS A COMMISSIONER WHEN HE WAS THE CITY MANAGER. AND ALTHOUGH HE WORKED FOR ME, HE WAS MY MENTOR AS WELL AND REMAINED MY MENTOR THROUGHOUT MY CAREER. HE TAUGHT ME SOME VERY VALUABLE LESSONS. TWO OF THEM HAVE STUCK WITH ME THROUGHOUT MY CAREER. ONE OF THEM IS TO DO SIGNIFICANT THINGS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE COURAGE. WE HAD TO MAKE SOME VERY, VERY DIFFICULT DECISIONS. THE FIRST YEAR THAT CARLOS WAS OUR MANAGER, AND IT TOOK TREMENDOUS COURAGE FOR US TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, AND THEY ULTIMATELY BENEFITED THE CITY FOR FOR DECADES. THE SECOND THING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CURRENCY IN PUBLIC SERVICE IS CREDIBILITY. ONCE YOU ESTABLISH CREDIBILITY, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH, BECAUSE ONCE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN YOU, BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE TELLING THEM THE TRUTH, YOU CAN GET THINGS DONE AND THEY'LL RELY ON YOU TO GIVE THEM GOOD ADVICE. WE ALWAYS HAD A LOT OF FUN. SO THAT WAS THE THIRD THING THAT I LEARNED FROM HIM, WHICH IS YOU CAN DO GOOD AND HAVE AN ENJOYABLE TIME AT THE SAME TIME. HE TOOK THE JOB SERIOUSLY, BUT HE NEVER TOOK HIMSELF TOO SERIOUSLY, WHICH I THINK IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT LESSON. AND IF I CAN TELL A STORY OR TWO THAT I THINK ARE REFLECTIVE OF WHO HE IS AND MAYBE EMBARRASS HIM A LITTLE BIT, ONE OF THEM IS WE WERE MAKING SOME VERY DIFFICULT DECISIONS WITH OUR EMPLOYEES, AND WE HAD TO MAKE SOME DRAMATIC CUTS, WHICH HE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THAT DEBITS EQUAL CREDITS. AND I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF HIS SUPERPOWERS. 
          SOMETIMES IN GOVERNMENT, WE DON'T REALIZE THAT TO BALANCE A BUDGET, DEBITS HAVE TO EQUAL CREDITS, SORT OF FROM HIS BANKING DAYS. AND, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD COME TO WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY VERY EARLY. HE WOULD LEAVE VERY, VERY LATE. AND WE WERE MAKING SOME TOUGH CHOICES TO MAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT CUTS. BUT I TOLD HIM, YOU KNOW, CARLOS, YOU DON'T NEED TO COME TO WORK IN THE FERRARI. YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN WE'RE DOING THESE THINGS. AND AND SO I THINK AFTER THE FIRST OR SECOND TIME THAT HE WOULD COME TO WORK IN THE FERRARI, I THINK HE UNDERSTOOD THAT MAYBE IT WASN'T SUCH A GOOD, GOOD LOOK. HOW MUCH HOW MUCH ARE YOU PAYING HIM FOR TO I APPARENTLY HE CLAIMS HE NEVER GOT HIS DOLLAR, SO I BROUGHT THE DOLLAR HERE FOR HIS. I'LL TAKE YOUR DOLLAR. THERE YOU GO. SO HIS SALARY WAS $1. HE DID THE JOB FOR FREE. HE HAD JUST, I GUESS, RETIRED AGAIN FROM I THINK IT WAS WACHOVIA AT THE TIME. I HAVE A HARD TIME KEEPING TRACK OF ALL THE ITERATIONS OF FIRST UNION, WACHOVIA, WELLS FARGO. IT GOES WACHOVIA, WHERE HE WAS A REGIONAL PRESIDENT. HE WAS THE THE PRESIDENT OR CEO OF FIRST UNION BEFORE THAT. BUT I REMEMBER THE FIRST CONVERSATION I HAD WITH THEN MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST ABOUT CARLOS BEING THE CEO, AND SOMETHING THAT I VERY MUCH ADVOCATED FOR, GIVEN HIS SUCCESS AS OUR CITY MANAGER. HE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE. I SAID, WELL, HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE BEFORE HE CAME TO CITY HALL AND IN ONE YEAR BALANCED OUR BUDGET AND TURNED AROUND A FINANCIAL CRISIS. WE'RE LITERALLY ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY. AND AS HE DID WITH JACKSON, HE TOOK A AN INSTITUTION THAT WAS SO CRITICAL TO OUR THE FRAMEWORK OF OUR, OUR SOCIETY, OUR COUNTY AND SAVED IT. AND SO, AGAIN, TO YOUR POINT AND TO GEORGE'S POINT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE MAINTAINED THIS INCREDIBLE FRIENDSHIP. HE'S SOMEONE THAT I CAN CALL ON FOR ADVICE, SOMEONE WHO I ADMIRE, SOMEONE WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED A DEEP LEVEL OF INTEGRITY AND COURAGE. IT'S NOT EASY TO PASS A $2 BILLION BUDGET, I'M SORRY, $2 BILLION BOND VOTER APPROVED. THAT SHOWS HOW MUCH CREDIBILITY HE HAD IN THIS COMMUNITY. BUT I THINK IT'S EVEN HARDER TO EXECUTE ON THAT. AND I THINK WHAT HE DID WAS NOT JUST MAKE A PROMISE TO THE PUBLIC THAT THE THAT THE PUBLIC BELIEVED IN, BUT HE DELIVERED ON THAT PROMISE. AND THIS COMMUNITY IS BETTER AS A RESULT. SO I'M HONORED THAT YOU INVITED ME HERE. I'M HONORED TO BE HERE AND SHARE SOME OF THESE STORIES ABOUT SOMEONE WHO I THINK THE WORLD OF. AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR INDULGENCE AND FOR THE TIME THAT YOU'VE GIVEN ME. IF YOU WOULD, IF YOU WOULD INDULGE ME, I WANT TO ASK YOU, JUST BECAUSE I THINK JUST FOR POSTERITY PURPOSES, CAN YOU PROVIDE US YOUR FIRST ENCOUNTER WHEN YOU WORKED WITH MR. MIGOYA? YES. AND I THINK YOU WERE IN 
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COLLEGE. I THINK THIS IS ANOTHER TESTAMENT TO WHO HE IS. I WAS APPLYING TO BE A TELLER AT FIRST UNION BANK, WHICH I ULTIMATELY BECAME, AND I GOT INTERVIEWED BY THE CEO OF THE BANK, AND HE HIRED ME. AND I WAS ONE OF MY FIRST JOBS IN COLLEGE AS A TELLER FOR FIRST UNION BANK. AND THEN LATER ON IN LIFE, OF COURSE, WE HIRED HIM TO BE OUR CITY MANAGER. SO I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE OF LESSONS. THE LESSON, THE FIRST LESSON IS YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOUR EMPLOYEE BECOMES YOUR BOSS, SO YOU BETTER TREAT THEM WELL. AND THE SECOND LESSON IN LIFE WAS CLEARLY HE HAD AN EYE FOR TALENT. SO. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. COULD WE HAVE STUART MILLER JOIN US FOR A MOMENT? MR. MILLER, PLEASE COME UP HERE. THIS IS A TRUE PRIVILEGE TO HAVE MR. MILLER HERE. YOU'RE NOT AWARE WHO STUART MILLER IS. AGAIN, AN INCREDIBLE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY HAS HAD AN ENDLESS, AN ENDLESS THIRST FOR GIVING BACK TO NOT ONLY THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, BUT TO COUNTLESS AMOUNT OF CHARITIES. AND WE'RE BLESSED TO HAVE YOU HERE. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU. PROUD TO BE HERE, MR. MAYOR. I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD A SPEAKING PART. I HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU HERE, MY FRIEND. YOU DON'T COME TO COMMISSION MEETINGS. IT'S LIKE MY BROTHER IN FRANCE. YOU GUYS NEVER COME. SO I GOT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU HERE. SO, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. AND THANK YOU FOR HONORING WHAT I THINK IS CRITICAL IN OUR COMMUNITY. I WAS HERE AS YOU HONORED THE BEAUTIFICATION INITIATIVE IN CORAL GABLES. AND CORAL GABLES IS JUST TRULY A MAGNIFICENT CITY, BUT IT'S BECAUSE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO HONOR BEAUTIFICATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO TO SHINING A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER. AT THE SAME TIME, YOU'RE HERE HONORING ANOTHER BEAUTIFICATION. AND I'M FIRST GOING TO ADD A LITTLE LEVITY AND SAY, UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T CREDIT CARLOS WITH MENTORING ME ON ANYTHING EXCEPT LEARNING HOW TO DRINK HERE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES AND FINE WINE. AND YES, SO BUT BUT THE IMPORTANT THING IS THE WHY AND AND THE WHY IS THAT? CARLOS FELT THAT BRINGING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER WAS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. HE KNEW OF MY COMMITMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, ANOTHER CITIZEN OF CORAL GABLES, AND ESPECIALLY THE HEALTH SYSTEM. 
          AND HE FELT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WAS IN DISARRAY BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND JACKSON NEEDED TO BE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND STRENGTHENED TO BETTER OUR COMMUNITY, TO ELEVATE OUR COMMUNITY. AND WE SPENT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME GETTING TOGETHER TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE BRIDGE THE DIVIDE THAT HAD THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE. AND, AND OVER YEARS, OVER YEARS, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME PIECE OF  PUZO MAKSON STRO MAKEN UNYHAT WED BE.ANI T ABOUT AUTIFITION LANCA, AN I ALSO THINK AHEAUCATI OFN IE ER CORTS BE CRITIL TOAKING COMMITYOM TOGR. SO THE NERS BETWEHE IN CAL GAB JACON,RVG OU BROADERY CRTE A BEAIFICAT THAT CRIBLEAY AND I THANK ALL OU COMTY. E'S  ITEABLY TMENDOUOR WI T QUIET DTY THAT IS SHING BCON A OF US RCT UPON.ECSEEDOESN'TEEECNIONHE DOESN' LIKENION BHE ROICES I T T ING G TS TNI OCMATIO T C, ANNGRALATIS LOS MPATRI. AND KNOW THAT WE'REOT GNG TO LET THAUT HA. I ABODYLSE W KE TO A F WDS O LF OF MR. MOYA, NOW'SHE MENT. ALLIGHTIFOT, I'D S G THAT VENLYDOBOUTES O THE LFIVE. HAS T BEEN MAYNDIKE NORIMH TH TO THE TY OF CAL GABLES MEING THAT. TIS A INDIVIALS HAVELY DEDICATE THES VE DIINGUISHED THEMSELS A TRULYLYONINGS AVE ONLEFIT T OF GS.HISCOMMITY U AND IORKED O 'SN TH STRT. ANDNOW IT GREAT PAE CI.UT YOU F BRGINGHA AOT OF PEOPLE LIS VEEENAVED.HEEIR ALSO BABLE TO RE GRE LEADERSHANDNKOU TTYOUVERYHAT U'E SUED TBE H WIT TOY, H'T M. BU TNK Y RLLY THATOND, YOUNOW,PL T REALLY WHAT JACKOES F PEOPLE IN THIS COUNIT EXCOR WHEN THERE'S  DIS ET ENOU'RE RAUMATIC SI EXCEPRHE HEY, TRE O T YOU SAYS, SUEONS DOACKSON'S KNOW W THATTNERSHIPS A SON TRULTAKERANTED, DE NOBO'S T ABOUT THA MOMENT. THAT' TCENT HEIR LE UNTIL IT HAPPENS, TH.  IAN TO THYOWI H OU, C TNKYO ALOITHE MAY, C GAB, KNOCY OFRAL GABS. IS  TE UNIVERSITY OF I.T'A LITTLE IN DOWN. 
          SOITY OF,O UNDETAND THAT. BUTS ARELT OE THR REORHARDOGETR E 
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MAKSHE UNIVEITY AC WHEREVEBODYTS TOIES VENDHAS AES YOURD WO CLO THANK YO I, ONORED URYOU. L'S DO A YEA OF COURSE JACKSON. INO OH,NKS. L LLOU OVER. ALL RIG. 
          S GEOG I LOV,LOVE T.AYOR.TAY SA CARLOS.KS,S ALRDY TAN RE OF. SO NI TO E YO CARE OUT TT. OH. SOR FOR TH TNKOU FOR SETTI.S. BEFORN IN TO TAKE AIVE MITE EAK. BOOM BREAKAND WE'LE  TO ITEM A5. T WE'REF I COULD H EVNE PLEASSIT DOWN SO IIDOW IF.ADAMICEMAYOR. EVETH THK YOU. I COULD PROBABLY, I COULD, I COULD PROBABLY MOVE THINGS AROUND. LET'S SEE, MR. MAYOR, YOU HAVE A QUORUM. I JUST WANT TO TRY TO GET THROUGH THE PRESENTATIONS AND PROTOCOLS, WHICH IS A LOT. WE HAD SOME LONG ONES. ALL RIGHT, MR. CLARKE, ITEM A5. IF I COULD HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION, PLEASE. OKAY, I GOT IT. YES, MA'AM. IF I COULD HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION, PLEASE. 
          IF I COULD HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION, PLEASE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE A VERY LONG 
          [A.-5. 26-1365 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 24, 2026 as "Arbor Day" in Coral Gables.]
AGENDA TODAY, AND I WANT TO KEEP MOVING. I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE WAITING. 
          ITEM A5, A PRESENTATION, A PROCLAMATION DECLARING APRIL 24TH, 2026 AS ARBOR DAY IN CORAL GABLES. MADAM VICE MAYOR, THANK YOU. SO WONDERFUL DAY TO CELEBRATE ARBOR DAY. HERE WE HAVE EVERYBODY DRESSED IN FLOWERS AND COLORFUL THINGS. I DON'T HAVE THE COLORFUL THINGS ON, BUT I DO HAVE A LITTLE TREE, SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY. SO WITH A GREAT CITY THAT WE HAVE THAT IS A TREE CITY USA. AND I WILL PROCEED TO READ THE PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS ARBOR DAY WAS FIRST OBSERVED WITH THE PLANTING OF MORE THAN 1 MILLION TREES IN NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA ON APRIL 10TH, 1872. AN IDEA THAT WAS FIRST PROPOSED TO THE NEBRASKA BOARD OF AGRICULTURE BY J. STERLING MORTON. THIS EVENT LATER EVOLVED INTO A HOLIDAY THAT IS CELEBRATED AND SPONSORED ANNUALLY SINCE 1985 BY THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CITY'S LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY BOARD AND THE CORAL GABLES GARDEN CLUB. AS A REMINDER OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR CITY TREES. 
          AND WHEREAS TREES PROVIDE COUNTLESS BENEFITS TO OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL, PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS BY IMPROVING OUR AIR QUALITY, PROVIDING US WITH SHADE, ENHANCING OUR PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, FILTERING AND REDUCING STORMWATER RUNOFF INTO OUR WATERWAYS, PROVIDING A NATURAL HABITAT TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WILDLIFE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASING PROPERTY VALUES AND ENHANCING THE VITALITY OF THE CITY'S BUSINESS AREAS WHILE BEAUTIFYING OUR COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS AREAS ALIKE. AND 
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WHEREAS CORAL GABLES FOUNDER GEORGE MERRICK RECOGNIZED AND EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THIS TROPICAL LANDSCAPE AND CONSEQUENTLY HIRED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FRANK BUTTON, DESIGNER OF LINCOLN PARK IN CHICAGO, TO DESIGN THE GRAND VISTAS AND TREE LINED STREETS THAT STILL CONVEY THE QUALITY OF CENTURY OLD PERMANENCE. AND WHEREAS IN 2026 MARKS THE 100TH AND ONE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES AS WELL AS 41ST YEAR AS TREE CITY USA, ACCENTUATING THE CITY'S COMMITMENT AND INVOLVEMENT OF OUR CITIZENRY, BOARD MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES ALIKE IN FURTHERANCE OF CONSERVING OUR CITY'S PICTURESQUE LANDSCAPE. NOW THEREFORE, I, VINCE LAGO, AS MAYOR OF CORAL GABLES, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF OUR CITY COMMISSION, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 24TH, 2026 AS ARBOR DAY IN CORAL GABLES. SO. BEFORE I HAND IT OVER TO TO THE BOARD MEMBERS, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DO AND MAKING OUR CITY BETTER AND PRETTIER. I KNOW YOU'VE WORKED HARD ON BILTMORE WAY, AND LATER THIS YEAR, WE'LL BE CUTTING A RIBBON TO CELEBRATE THE PLANTING OF THE TREES ON BILTMORE WAY. FINALLY, IT'S TAKEN DECADES PERSEVERANCE TO DO THAT, AND WE HAVE ARBOR DAY COMING UP IN WHICH WE'RE GOING TO PLANT SOME MORE PINE TREES IN FUEL PARK. SO WITH THAT, NO FURTHER ADO. I'LL HAND IT OVER TO YOU TO CARRY FORWARD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL. 
          ALL OF YOU WHO WANT TO COME TO ARBOR DAY AT FUEL PARK A WEEK FROM FRIDAY AT NINE 930, WHERE WE WILL DO THE PLANTING AND CELEBRATE ANOTHER WONDERFUL PARK IN CORAL GABLES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LIKE WE SAID BEFORE, AND I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF SAYING IT. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR THE CITY. AND NOT ONLY DO YOU MAKE THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, BUT YOU TRULY, TRULY, TRULY PERSONIFY AND REALLY PUSH US TO THE NEXT LEVEL. SO I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH. YOU MEAN A LOT TO THE CITY, AND WE'RE BEYOND GRATEFUL FOR YOUR HARD WORK. AND I KNOW YOU DO IT FOR THE LOVE OF THE CITY, BUT IF IT WASN'T FOR YOUR HARD WORK, I THINK WE WOULD FALL A FEW NOTCHES. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK ANDSPECY TO O DIRECR. S AMAZING. I SAYT ALTHE ME AILNER GETIR SAYING I SHE DOES AN AMAZJOALONG THEREAM. WHO'S HEREN THBACK? N YOU PLSE STAND TO BRECOGNED? PLSE D'TE SHY. D'T BE TY MA IT HN. WN WOED ON FOA FEWEAOWWS.ETHINGWEE COSTORMO IT STS MEWERSFLOWERINGT THREINDUAND AL THEI CITY WOULD NOT LOO EVEN CSE ES VION ANDT TAKES IF I M DO ME A FAV, WHEN YOU' OUTRENUBLI I DO THILL THE TIME. YOU CAN TM WE ANYOU ESE GENEM O THERE IN HARHE SUN EATING, U KNOW,EMING THE DDES, CGP, PLANNG,O UP AND SAY THANKYOU HE. THESE ARE THE INDIVIDLS AGN, THARET E REFRT Y BEAUTYI THEIT ANDEEPI OUR DARDS AT THEEVT THESEIVLS, YOU KNOP ALE BF IT WO TE TH TY KE T TR STEP, TEMOVE THAT TRA PIECE OFARBAGE, THE MOVE THA ROC TAD A LE BIT  M.OUNOW, CAL CE FOEMEN THEY GO THEXTRA M A CONTINUES TEEP RAR THU. TNK YOU ANT TO SEE YO THANKOU FOROUR U GU TNK YTHUGHW THE MAYORYES,IR. BRIEFLY, ALSO EO WH THE MAYORAY PROUD OF ALL AT Y DO. 
          WE REALLPRECTEDYOU PHEBEAUTIIN . THAT E, IDITIONOND TO ES LIES TH WK SOARD, AND U SEE THET IN THE SET  AND FGEIT. YOU KNOW, IT PLANTED AND NURTURET. 
          AND ITNNGNGTI L T TIME. I'VESONALL TAITPON MYSF T W TH CITY OFTDHE S METHING BIF,IKE AED OF FLOWERSR BEAUTIFULE PICTURE AND TLLUT IT OU ON MOWN RSALOCIA DIA. DT YTERDAY. IDI ON ONEF THH GOOD MAYOR. THAT'S TRUE.ND MY P, RHT? SO WEL  HERE AND WE'Y DO SAKE A P,ENDT'ROR AND PGETO BACKFOLDW PEOPLILN YOU'LL SEHATE ELETTER CAUSEOU TK THEIM RLECTND THING BEAUTUL ANDT' INFECTIOUS. ANPEOPLE CITY THANNG SETHING AS SIMPLE ASHAT. SO MAKE T TA TO HEA I THINKT'S A LOUN T. SOHANK YOU YOU. TAKE PHOTO. 
          THIS A CORATUTIS. THAT'S WHO I PRES O PROAMATIONRON MOVGM6 
          [A.-6. 26-1324 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 2026 as "Parkinson's Awareness Month" in Coral Gables.]
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PASON'WARENESS MONTH IN L GABLE TNK YOU,R. MAR. PARKINSON'SS SOMETHI AT H TCHEDUR FILY. M FOR THOHO DON'TNOW, MY CONSEQUEESROM PARKI'S DISEE WAS AERGET THEY OF MIA PICE PAME A UNFTULY, HE H TO RIRE  THEGE PAINSOS. AND HE P AWAY ABOUT E YEARS A D TO CONSUERO THEISEASE. OCLAON.ASL ME AD THIS PAINSON'S DISEASEACHNIROGRSIVE NEOLOGICEANDSHE COND MOSTMO URODENERIVSEN ESTE TOECTISANDHERE PROXATY 1 MIL PEOE IN THE UNI SS, T EVENCEILL RISE TO.2 MILLN B 20. ANDREAS PARKINN'SISEASE FA GRO NEURATE DSE, WITH 00 NEWEOPLE DIAGNOSEACHEA T UNI. 
          WHEREAKINSON'S DISEA IS INHED STECCORDINGOF DTH TO THEENRS FOREASE COL AND PREVENTION. AND WHER IS ESTIMEDT INS D IS A L LLIONNNUALL ILUNG DIRE AND IIRT C SUCHAS TMENT,OCT PATS L INC AND EREAEPTOMFPARKINS DISEASE VARY M INE TREMORS, SLOWNESS, SLOWNESS OF MOVEMENT AND RIGIDITY, DIFFICULTY WITH BALANCE SWALLOWING, CHEWING AND SPEAKING, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA, MOOD DISORDERS, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER NON-MOTOR SYMPTOMS. AND WHEREAS THE FASTEST GROWING SUBSET OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE DIAGNOSES DIAGNOSES IS IN PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 50, KNOWN AS YOUNG OR EARLY ONSET PARKINSON'S DISEASE. AND WHEREAS, RESEARCH SHOWS THAT A COMBINATION OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, SUCH AS EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES LIKE PARAQUAT AND CERTAIN METALS ARE TIED TO PARKINSON'S DISEASE. BUT MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO UNCOVER THE EXACT CAUSE AND PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASE. AND WHEREAS THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE TEST OR BIOMARKER FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND THERE IS NO CURE OR DRUG TO SLOW OR HALT THE PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASE. WHEREAS VOLUNTEERS, RESEARCHERS, CARE PARTNERS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PERSONS LIVING WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND THEIR FAMILIES. AND WHEREAS INCREASED RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SUCH AS THOSE PROVIDED BY THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ARE NEEDED TO FIND MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS, PROVIDE ACCESS TO QUALITY CARE TO THOSE LIVING WITH THE DISEASE TODAY, AND ADVANCE EFFORTS TOWARDS A CURE NOW. THEREFORE, WE, THE CITY COMMISSION OF CORAL GABLES, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 2026 AS PARKINSON'S AWARENESS MONTH IN CORAL GABLES. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. MISS CAMILA MARIA, I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION WITH MY COLLEAGUE SOFIA AS WELL. WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS RECOGNITION. THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION MAKES LIFE BETTER FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE BY IMPROVING CARE AND ADVANCING RESEARCH TOWARD A CURE. AND EVERYTHING WE DO, WE BUILD ON THE ENERGY, EXPERIENCE AND PASSION OF OUR GLOBAL PARKINSON'S COMMUNITY. SINCE 1957, THE PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION HAS INVESTED MORE THAN 513 MILLION IN PARKINSON'S RESEARCH AND CLINICAL CARE. WE THANK YOU FOR THIS RECOGNITION FOR PARKINSON'S AWARENESS MONTH, THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK FOR THE ORGANIZATION, FOR REALLY DOING A LOT OF OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I WASN'T VERY EDUCATED IN PARKINSON'S UNTIL MY MY OWN FAMILY WAS AFFLICTED. MY MOTHER HAS PARKINSON'S ALONG WITH. SHE WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED LAST MONTH WITH DEMENTIA. AGAIN. 
          I'VE ALSO SEEN WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY THAT HAVE PARKINSON'S, A DIFFERENT TYPE OF PARKINSON'S. NOT EXACTLY PARKINSON'S, BUT THIS IS A VERY TOUGH DISEASE, ESPECIALLY NOT ONLY WITH THE PERSON WHO'S AFFLICTED BUT ALSO WITH THE FAMILY. SO I WANT TO THANK NOT ONLY FOR THE RESEARCH AND THE INVESTMENT THAT YOU'RE DOING, BUT ALSO FOR I WAS LOOKING UP YOUR ORGANIZATION. YOU SPENT A LOT OF TIME TRULY INVESTING IN IN FAMILIES AND AWARENESS AND HELPING FAMILIES MEET THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO'S AFFLICTED WITH PARKINSON'S. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK. I KNOW IT'S A LABOR OF LOVE AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING EASY AND YOU DON'T GET MANY ACCOLADES. BUT HOPEFULLY TODAY, NOT ONLY ARE WE BRINGING AWARENESS, BUT WE'RE ALSO SAYING THANK YOU IN GRATITUDE FOR YOUR HARD WORK. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I JUST WANT TO SHARE AS WELL. WE DO HAVE A HELPLINE. 
          I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING VERY ANYONEINGH INSION WH REGNIT F PARKION'SO TNK YGAIN FR ANYOU SO MUCANK YOU. 
          [A.-7. 26-1385 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring April 2026 as "Landscape Architecture Month" in Coral Gables.]
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          [A.-8. 26-1041 Presentation of a Proclamation declaring June 21, 2026 to June 27, 2026 as "Ocean Pollution Week" in Coral Gables.]
AS O POLLUON WIN NE ECOSYST WHIRODES,HE C C OPPORTIE AND ELOGI WHEA O OCEANS ANYND HATA OISHINGNDHECHALLEES INCLUD, SUAIBILITY OARINEECYSTEMSORWIDEA IMPOCEF RNGREING THE NITION ORGANIZION OPRECIO STOANN FOUNDE BY VSHATN UTIONREEEK RALABLES,RIDAAS, EANOLLUTI AWARENEEEK THE IMPTANCE  OCE AN IPIRELECTIVCTIO SAFEGUA HLT OFUR OS FOUTGETIONS TOOW MAYOR OF T CITF CORA GANG WH THE MEMBE OF THIS CMIIOO HEB PROCLA JUNE ,6 TH JE 27026 A OC POLLUTION AWARENE WEEK CORALLE GORNI. K UOR BNG HEH NAME IS VHNUND THEOMUCH FORAVINY ENNMENTAL NONPRITAN ORGANIZAON. STA IN 202 THE PAS SRS, IE 0,0 POUNDS O PST WASTE D ETI ME AN 5 A FMA T UVERSITYNOW, EXPAN OCE P HER PROU TO CALL NEWE. AWARS  HOP BRI LENGCEANLUTITHK YOU AINO  MAY THE VOR A COMSSN FOTHIS OPPTY. THK O  FORROVIHIS OCLAMA. K YOU. THA YOU FOR INERE WITH US, NOT LY F YOU KHEMOUNT OVE00ILLIONEOTHAT EVY SING YRN GARDS TO HE, VIOUSL F OUREME BEAUFUOCEANS AND OUR HEUTLSO E TAX BA CRITICAY IMRTT CAE THE'SOMETH MT EDIBLY COSIGHEST 
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PRERTY VS N THE WAR. A ISHAT?EC E TERS C.HEATER IS BEAUL EVE WTS TO LIVE  T WATER EVERYDY ASPIRE LIV OE WAR.U FOUE PROTTIN U'RE YOU KW,ECRODIES  WATER OPER VALUES ARGOG WN AT TH END OTHE  SO IT'S A WIN WIN NFO THEENNMENT, R YOU FOR YO ADVOCACYNDR HARD WORK ON BEHATH THANK YOU  THE MAYOR. S, ING TOURATN3DAY,E'RE ON SOME OF THEECYCLINGEFRTS ANEN PRTSHAT THE CYORKSN. IT AND I THIN TYNER BEN W TO S IOOKRD TOCANOF MIAIS A G LI WOG WITH YNHE FE.THANK. ANDEECOK TO MAYOR OE, THE COISSIONFFICE. WE LOOK RWTOONTINUE COATION. LET'S T APHOTHA. 
          [A.-9. 26-1287 Congratulations to Lieutenant Christian Garcia, recipient of the City of Coral Gables "Firefighter of the Month Award, " for the month of March 2026.]
MOVINN IT9. CONATULATIONSO EUTENANTNAR REOFITYCO GABLES FIG OTHE MONTH AWARDOR THE MON MCH MOG EVERYBODYT'LWS A GREATORRATE T WOME DO THE CORAL G FIRE DENAY WAN HHL A IUA THAT ISIG OF TH MONTH.TH IIDL IOULD YOUEEDEOLIPUED A RED A SITTIONM RCIA. TODAY,  WAN TO SPIC HHTIS MENT NEW FIREFER AWESNSURG THALS TRAINED TOHEIG RATULAIEUTENANTCRIS GARA  FIRIG APECIATE I JT WANTED TO SA I EREMELY HED AND NOTO BE ER TOD. ATEFUL. W TOTF TH CY. IT'BE LGIMEFOR TS DARENTN MAN YEAAITI FORS TH MENT. A IS A 'S THEIR DTMO OMERODYN TRT,E' V SUPP THE FURUTR RL IS NOT A M IT' TALKING. IS OUE E TH IVE ANGITH EACHAND ERY DAY. E STATION, EVERY MORNING I HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE. I SIT DOWN AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, I LOOK LEFT, I LOOK RIGHT, I LOOK IN FRONT OF ME AND I SEE SOME OF THE MOST HUNGRIEST, MOST MOTIVATED FIREFIGHTERS I'VE EVER BEEN AROUND. AND BECAUSE OF THEM, THEY INSPIRE ME TO WANT TO BE THE BEST LEADER, MOTIVATOR, INSTRUCTOR FOR THEM. SO I DO THAT BY GOING OUTSIDE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, BEING AN INSTRUCTOR OUTSIDE OF HERE, I GO TAKE CLASSES. I ALWAYS STAY UP TO SPEED ON THE CURRENT PRACTICES, AND I BRING IT BACK TO THE FIREHOUSE BECAUSE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THAT, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE A STUDENT OF THE CRAFT, A STUDENT OF THE PROFESSION FOR YOUR WHOLE CAREER. I'VE BEEN ON ALMOST 18 YEARS NOW, AND I'LL NEVER STOP LEARNING. AND I WEAR THIS UNIFORM, THIS PATCH ON MY SHIRT, THIS BADGE ON MY CHEST. I WEAR IT WITH A LOT OF PRIDE EVERY SINGLE DAY WHEN I GET UP TO WORK. I LOVE IT VERY MUCH. I LOVE THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH. AGAIN, THIS IS OUR LIFE. THIS IS NOT JUST A 9 TO 5 OR A CHECK IN CHECK OUT KIND OF CAREER. IT'S THIS, THIS, THIS JOB. THIS IS OUR LIFE. THIS IS WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE DEDICATE OURSELVES TO EVERY DAY. AND I'M EXTREMELY BLESSED, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO TECHNICAL RESCUE. THE SMALLEST DETAILS MATTER, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, CHECKING A ROPE SYSTEM THAT YOU'RE GOING DOWN OVER OR MAKING SURE A CAR'S STABILIZED CORRECTLY, EVERYTHING MATTERS. AND, AND THE REPETITIONS MATTER A LOT. SO ALL THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKES US HAVE TO WORK HARD TO ULTIMATELY NOT ONLY BE A ONE OF THE BEST FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT TO ULTIMATELY SERVE THE CITIZENS AT THE HIGHEST STANDARD. AND I THINK THE FUTURE LOOKS REALLY BRIGHT IN THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND FOR CORAL GABLES TRT, AND I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE A PART OF IT. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY. THANK YOU. CHIEF. LET'S DO A 810. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS TO DRIVER 
          [A.-10. 26-1288 Congratulations to Driver Engineer Ryan Verdecia, recipient of the City of Coral Gables "Firefighter of the Month Award," for the month of April 2026.]
ENGINEER RYAN VERDECIA, RECIPIENT OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES FIREFIGHTER OF THE MONTH AWARD FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2026. THANK YOU. WANTED TO CELEBRATE AND RECOGNIZE RYAN VERDECIA AS OUR FIREFIGHTER OF THE MONTH. THIS INDIVIDUAL IS ONE THAT TOOK PART IN OUR RECENT SWAT PARAMEDIC TRAINING. THIS TRAINING WAS CONDUCTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE. HE NOT ONLY COMPLETED THE PROGRAM, BUT HE COMPLETED AS NUMBER ONE AND THE CLASS LEADER. SO TODAY WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE AMAZING WORK THAT HE DID AND NOT JUST COMPLETING, BUT LEADING THE WAY AND SHOWING THAT CORAL GABLES FIRE DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO THRIVE THROUGHOUT OUR REGION. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. I HAVE A LITTLE SPEECH. NICE. I LIKE THAT YOU'RE PREPARED, I LIKE IT. GOOD MORNING. I WANT TO START SAYING THANK YOU TO 
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THE DEPARTMENT, TO THE LEADERSHIP AND TO THIS COMMUNITY. WAIT. SCROLL DOWN FOR THIS RECOGNITION. BEING NAMED FIREFIGHTER OF THE MONTH IS SOMETHING I TRULY, I'M TRULY HONORED TO RECEIVE. AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING I TAKE LIGHTLY. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE COMMANDING STAFF FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPRESENT CORAL GABLES FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          THIS RECOGNITION COMES FROM COMPLETING BSL SWAT SCHOOL, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE MOST PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DEMANDING CHALLENGES I'VE EVER FACED. IT PUSHED ME PAST MY LIMITS, TESTED MY DISCIPLINE, AND FORCED ME TO STAY FOCUSED UNDER PRESSURE. THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE QUITTING WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EASIER OPTION, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO. THIS JOB, EVERYTHING WE DO IN THIS PROFESSION COMES DOWN TO ONE THING SHOWING UP WHEN PEOPLE NEED US ON THEIR WORST DAYS, WHETHER IT'S FIRE SUPPRESSION, RESCUE OR SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS, THE STANDARD HAS TO STAY HIGH. THERE'S NO ROOM FOR SHORTCUTS. I DIDN'T GET THROUGH THIS TRAINING ALONE. THIS RECOGNITION MAY HAVE MY NAME ON IT, BUT IT REFLECTS THE PEOPLE BEHIND ME, MY CREW, MY DEPARTMENT, AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO PUSH ME TO IMPROVE EVERY DAY. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, MY WIFE TO MY WIFE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR STRENGTH, AND YOUR CONSTANT SUPPORT. WHILE I WAS FOCUSED ON TRAINING, YOU WERE AT HOME HOLDING EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND TAKING CARE OF OUR TWO BOYS WHO ARE SIX AND THREE. YOU CARRY MORE THAN YOUR SHARE WITHOUT HESITATION. YOU BELIEVED IN ME WHEN THE DAYS WHEN I CAME HOME EXHAUSTED, STRESSED, AND PUSHED ME TO MY LIMIT. I WOULDN'T BE STANDING HERE WITHOUT YOU. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY. I'M COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TRAINING, TO IMPROVE AND TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL POSSIBLE, NOT FOR RECOGNITION, BUT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE BADGE DEMANDS. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS HONOR. I TRULY APPRECIATE IT. LET'S TAKE A PHOTO. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, WELL, YOU READY FOR. THIS? FRIDAY? WE'RE ON. 
          [A.-11. 26-1404 Congratulations to Officer Alexandra Vega, recipient of the City of Coral Gables “Officer of the Month Award,” for the month of February 2026.]
MOVING ON TO ITEM A11. CONGRATULATIONS TO OFFICER ALEXANDRA VEGA, RECIPIENT OF CITY OF CORAL GABLES OFFICER OF THE MONTH AWARD FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2026. CHIEF. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS. MISTER MANAGER. MADAM. CITY ATTORNEY. MR. CLERK. TODAY IS MY HONOR TO PRESENT THE OFFICER OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY 2026. 
          ON JANUARY 31ST, 2026, ON HER FIRST WEEK IN PATROL, OFFICER ALEXANDRA VEGA MADE IT HER FIRST ARREST AT THE 711 HERE IN CORAL GABLES, ALONG WITH HER TRAINING PARTNER, OFFICER TRUJILLO, ON FEBRUARY 16TH. SHE THEN RECOGNIZED AN INDIVIDUAL IN A VIDEO THAT WAS STEALING PACKAGES FROM ONE ALHAMBRA. SHE SAW THE INDIVIDUAL AND FOLLOWED UP WITH THE DETECTIVES THAT SHE THAT STOLE THE PACKAGE AND PUT IT IN THE SAME IN THE PERSON'S BACKPACK. ON FEBRUARY 20TH, OFFICER DETECTIVE TAHA PUT THE BOLO OUT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL THAT SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED AND OBSERVED IN THE. IN THE VIDEOTAPE FROM THE SECOND THEFT. AND THEN ON FEBRUARY 26TH, AT APPROXIMATELY 214, 215 ON THE AFTERNOON IN THE AFTERNOON, WHILE OFFICER VEGA WAS OFF DUTY TRAVELING TO WORK WESTBOUND ON SOUTHWEST EIGHTH STREET. AND WE KNOW HOW BUSY SOUTHWEST EIGHTH STREET IS. SHE RECOGNIZED THE INDIVIDUAL WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH ANOTHER BACKPACK. SHE IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED THE ON DUTY PERSONNEL AS WELL AS THE DETECTIVE KEPT VISUAL SIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL. I THINK THIS IS WHAT YOUR THIRD WEEK ON THE JOB AT THIS POINT, HER THIRD WEEK ON THE JOB AT THIS POINT, AND THE SUBJECT THAT WAS LATER IDENTIFIED TO BE THE PERSON WHO COMMITTED ALL THREE CRIMES. IT'S BECAUSE OF HER DILIGENCE 
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AND HER ENTHUSIASM THAT SHE HAS BROUGHT TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HER ATTEMPT TO CONSTANTLY DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE CITIZENS, THAT SHE TOOK. THIS THREE TIME LOSER HERE THAT COMES AND PREYS ON OUR PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, AND HAD THAT PERSON HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT ARREST, FOR ALL OF THOSE CRIMES. BECAUSE OF THIS BRAND NEW OFFICER, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE WITHIN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF HER JOB, ONE OF OUR REPEAT OFFENDERS OFF THE STREET. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, SHE WAS AWARDED OFFICER OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY. CONGRATULATIONS. WELL DESERVED. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN BY THANKING GOD, CHIEF HUDAK, ASSISTANT CHIEF, THE COMMAND STAFF, THE COMMISSION AND THE AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THIS RECOGNITION. I ALSO WANT TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO MY FTO SERGEANTS AND FELLOW OFFICERS. YOUR GUIDANCE, SUPPORT AND TEAMWORK ARE WHAT MAKES MOMENTS LIKE THIS POSSIBLE. TO MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSTANT SUPPORT. THIS RECOGNITION IS NOT JUST ABOUT ME. IT REFLECTS THE TEAMWORK AND DEDICATION WE ALL BRING TO THIS JOB EVERY DAY. IT IS TRULY AN HONOR TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD. 
          I AM GRATEFUL TO BE PART OF THIS DEPARTMENT AND PROUD TO WORK ALONGSIDE EACH OF YOU. 
          THANK YOU. LET'S TAKE A PHOTO. FOR THE. LASTEE MTHS.I'LL BE.N . LET'S ECIGHT HERE, PLEAS IT A5 YEARLD BIRDAY PAY,ND IT'S ST LIKE. 
          [A.-12. 26-1321 Congratulations to Charles Carr, from Public Works - Greenspace recipient of the "Employee of the Month " for March 2026.]
HE JUSHI ANNERRY.EA. AND WHAT DO YONT? MISSELL? WORTDA IS GOG TO STES. 
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TOUGH CALL ANDLA T . I'VEEEN I'N, YOU KNOW, AF ALL OFOU HAVTODE WH THR ANOT ANDT'T EASY.IT'SOT EASY LLD I WA SOU OUT ERE ON THE , ON TIELD GOING ABOVNDEYOND. SJUST NT TO KNOW TTH COMMISSI, THEITS IS INCREDLY GL FOR YOUR HAORKND F YOUR AUTIFUL. THA Y FOR T CANOPY. THK YOU, THANK YOU. T'S TAKE A P RBER FORLL YOUR.ORNING. THANKS. 
          TIMEP THE. TNK YOUORE WEOVE ON TO THPROVAL MI DO WE HANY 
          [B.-1. 26-1180 Regular City Commission Meeting of January 27, 2026.]
FEALFRHEMISSIO THE AGENDND ARE MOVIN B1IOIVE NE SON LL TELL Y DIDE MOVET. ERRING FKAY. INEED AOTN FOR PLE. I'LL MOVIT. I'L SECOND.LL 
          [B.-2. 26-1366 Regular City Commission Meeting of February 10 2026.]
IN FAV.YE. T. BWO. I'LLOVETEC ALL IN FAVO AYE. THANKOUB THR 
          [B.-3. 26-1367 Regular City Commission Meeting of February 24, 2026.]
REGUR CITY COMMISS MEETI ONEBRUARY TH.'LL MOVE IT. I'ON ALL F 
          [C. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
I BEL SO,F I Y, I JTAKER. WANTO MAKSUHAEVERNE ISWARE. WHEN YOU CUP FOR TYELAT ISS. AND IFOU SP AUTHEESSUEHENOT THAT ITEM MAY COME UP AGAIN. 
          BUT IF YOU HAVE TO LEAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, NOW AND YOU CAN'T MAKE THE ITEM BECAUSE IT MAY BE LATER ON IN THE MORNING OR IN THE AFTERNOON, PLEASE USE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THE ISSUE. GOOD MORNING SIR. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US. 
          I'LL BE VERY BRIEF. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES, PLEASE. GRANADA GOLF COURSE IS 101 YEARS OLD. 
          THE OLDEST NINE HOLE COURSE IN FLORIDA. IT IS BEAUTIFUL NOT JUST FOR GOLFERS, BUT ALSO FOR RUNNERS, DOG WALKERS, DOG WALKERS, BIKERS AND COMMUNITY IN GENERAL. LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY, IT IS VISIBLE TO ALL WHO DRIVE, WALK OR RUN BY. IMPORTANTLY, IT IS A COMMUNITY COURSE WHOSE PROCEEDS GO INTO THE CITY AND FOR WHOM ALL BENEFIT. IT IS A PLACE FOR GREAT GOLFERS, HACKERS, WOMEN'S GROUP, KIDS LEARNING THE GAME AND EVEN 80 YEAR OLDS LIKE ME. 
          THE GABLES ALREADY HAS 218 HOLE COUNTRY CLUBS, VERY UNUSUAL FOR A TOWN OF 6000 60,000, BUT AFFORDABLE ONLY TO THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT. BUT GRANADA IS UNIQUE. A COMMUNITY COURSE ADJUSTMENTS IN ALL ORGANIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY FROM TIME TO TIME, AND THEY ARE TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW. BUT PLEASE DON'T TRY OR INADVERTENTLY MAKE IT INTO A MINI COUNTRY CLUB. BURGER BOB'S WAS POPULAR FOR A REASON. IT SERVED THE COMMUNITY. DON'T LOSE THAT VIBE. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER MR. MAYOR IS CONNOR PEMBERVILLE. 
          GOOD MORNING SIR. GOOD MORNING. COMMISSION. I'LL BE PRETTY BRIEF HERE THIS MORNING. AS A LIFELONG SOUTH FLORIDA RESIDENT, I'VE LIVED IN CORAL GABLES FOR MOST OF MY LIFE. ALL THAT I CAN REMEMBER OF IT, AND I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK AGAINST THE CITY POLICE'S COOPERATION WITH ICE THROUGH THE 287 G AGREEMENT. SINCE THIS AGREEMENT, MANY LIKE IT HAVE TAKEN EFFECT IN FLORIDA. 
          SOUTH FLORIDA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE NATION'S LEADING HOTSPOTS FOR IMMIGRATION ARRESTS UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. IT BOTHERS ME VERY GREATLY THAT THIS IS TAKING PLACE IN THE CITY THAT I CALL HOME, AND THAT THE TAXES I PAY ARE GOING TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS LIKE THIS. 
          PERHAPS IT'S A NAIVE REQUEST, BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE FOR THIS PARTNERSHIP TO END AND FOR THE COMMISSION TO DO WHATEVER THEY THEY CAN TO RESTORE THIS THIS TRUST IN OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, BECAUSE I FEEL THAT THIS DOESN'T MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SAFER AND ERODES TRUST AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. AND YEAH, THANK YOU SIR. THAT'S IT. MR. MAYOR, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION. WE HAVE TIME. STERN AT 11 A.M. ITEMS E THREE AND E 
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SEVEN. WOULD THE COMMISSION LIKE TO ROLL RIGHT INTO THAT OR TAKE A TWO MINUTE BREAK. JUST 
          [D. CONSENT AGENDA]
GOT TO DO ANYTHING. SHOULD WE JUST DO CONSENT? OKAY. WE'LL DO CONSENT BEFORE THE VOTE. 
          ADOPTING THE CONSENT AGENDA IS TAKEN. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION OR REVIEW OF ANY ITEM ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? IF NOT, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MOVE IT. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU. DO WE MOVE ON TO ITEMS E THREE OR E SEVEN OR 
          [Time Certain 11:00am  (Agenda Items E-3 and E-7 are related)]
DOES ANYBODY NEED A BREAK? ALL RIGHT. WE'LL MOVE ON. PERFECT TIME. CERTAIN ITEMS E THREE AND E SEVEN, E THREE AND E SEVEN ARE RELATED. E THREE IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVING THE VACATION OF A PUBLIC ALLEYWAY PURSUANT TO ZONING CODE ARTICLE 14, SECTION 14 DASH 211. ABANDONMENT AND VACATIONS AND CITY CODE. CHAPTER 62, ARTICLE EIGHT VACATION, ABANDONMENT AND CLOSURE OF STREETS, EASEMENTS AND ALLEYS BY PRIVATE OWNERS IN THE CITY. APPLICATION PROCESS PROVIDING FOR THE VACATION OF THE 45 FOOT WIDE ALLEY, WHICH AND7 UGH1 BLO 156WE TRA RIECTITIGHT CORAL GAB FLORIDA. 
          EFFECTIVE EEV. IS AABY COMMISONROVI SITE PL REVIEWURSUT TO NI COD ARTIWO,ONING DISTRIC CTIO 2-4. UNIVERSY IO RIDRANSITIST OVY FOR A PROPOSEIX E PJE REFD TAS THE RK OE PROPER. LEGALLYRIBED  A PC D,ETHEITLOTS7 ROUGH1 D TOTHH THORTION O 45 PLATD YLO 156 VI SECTIART EIGHT CORAGABLES FDA. 
          OVINFOR REPEA PROVIO SEVERABIT CLAE, DATE. T IS A QUASIICL ITEM,R. CLERK,ASEAR INHOSE IIV WHO WIL BERODING TMO T. 
          OR AFFIRM E TESTIMONY Y'L UTHNDOTNGUT T TTH. THKOU THANK YOUER MUC STER MOR.RSFHE MNING, MMON. FORHE RECORD, MY NAME IAURA RUSSOH OFFICES AT 24CE DE LE BOEVD. I AM HER TS INGEPSENT LCD ISITIO L W I CUENTLIN THEROSS O TRYIOELOPHEROY KNOS250 SOUIX HIY, AO K ATHUNERHOPP CENTER. O FITUEST E3 IS FOR ISTS ON ATROPE MOSPEOPLE DON REN ALLEY.SCTUA ABOUT DEEP,ND IT'SN OENOHERNMO Y BEEN TVEWAY FOR THE ANCITIONF DOPING EOPTY UND THEEY PA RAY IN THE CITY ST WORKINGH UNDMANG SURE THAIS C BE PROUD OF. AND I'D L PROJ COM UP ANDAKEHERCHITECTF YOGH THEEN. 
          ANU,SUS M FON BEING HERE. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. MAYOR. COMMISSION MANAGER JAVIER FONT FONT PARTNERS, 4533 PONCE DE LEON BOULEVARD. HAPPY TO BE BACK WITH THIS PROJECT BEFORE THE CITY. IT WILL HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION. AS LAURA MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH STAFF FOR A WHILE ON THIS, TRYING TO DESIGN IT UNDER THE NEW OVERLAY THAT YOU HAVE APPROVED RECENTLY. SO WE'RE ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS SITE. GREAT LOCATION DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, RIGHT AT THE BRIDGE. AND JUST A WONDERFUL CORNER IN THE CITY. IF YOU LOOK AT THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE DRAWING THERE, THAT IS THE HARD CORNER WHERE THE BRIDGE COMES DOWN. SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS CHAMFER THE CORNER CUT, CUT IT BACK TO CREATE A PLAZA, TO RECEIVE ALL THE PEDESTRIANS THAT COULD BE COMING OVER THE CORNER OR FROM THE BRIDGE. AND ALSO TO CREATE A NICE VISUAL. AT THAT POINT, THE TOP OF THE DRAWING IS ALONG US ONE, WHICH IS ALL RETAIL AND OUR MAIN LEASING OFFICE. SO WE'VE ACTIVATED THAT STREET AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. AND THEN ON THE UPPER LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE DRAWING IS OUR VEHICULAR INGRESS AND EGRESS, WHICH IS BASICALLY IN THE SAME LOCATION AS THE CURRENT SHOPPING CENTER HAS TODAY ON MARIPOSA, WHICH IS THE STREET ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE DRAWING, WE TURN THE RETAIL ON THE CORNER, AND THEN WE'VE GOT A LOBBY INTO OUR RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT RIGHT OFF THE BRIDGE THERE. AND THEN THE REST OF THAT STREET IS GROUND FLOOR UNITS TO TRY AND ACTIVATE THE STREET AS WELL. THE LOWER RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE THE DRAWING IS ANOTHER PLAZA AREA THAT WE'VE CUT BACK TO GIVE A LITTLE RELIEF FROM THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL COMPONENTS ACROSS THE STREET. AND THEN MOST OF MADRUGA ALONG THE BACK IS ALSO LINED WITH RESIDENTIAL UNITS. AND THEN ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, LOWER LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE DRAWING, YOU SEE OUR SERVICE AREAS, WHICH WE'VE TRIED TO MINIMIZE AND TRY AND PUT MOST OF OUR SERVICES SORT OF ALONG THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE DRAWING, IF YOU WILL, INTERNALLY. SO THEY'RE NOT FACING THE STREET. OUR TYPICAL FLOOR, WHICH RUNS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR THROUGH THE EIGHTH, YOU CAN SEE IT'S ALL LINED WITH UNITS. WE HAVE AN INTERNALIZED PARKING GARAGE, SO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO PARKING VISIBLE FROM ANY OF THE STREETS OR EVEN FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. WE CREATE TWO COURTYARDS THAT YOU SEE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUILDING THERE, AND THEN OUR ROOFTOP. ALL OF OUR AMENITIES ARE ON OUR ROOFTOP. WE HAVE TWO AMAZING 
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POOL AREAS. WE'VE GOT A GYM, SOME STUDY AREAS, SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL. CLUB ROOMS, IF YOU WILL, AND THEY ALL FACE THE US ONE SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. THESE ARE THE ELEVATIONS PROJECT IS DESIGNED IN A MEDITERRANEAN FORMAT. AS PER THE NEW ORDINANCE, AND THIS IS THE VIEW ALONG US ONE WITH THE RETAIL ON THE GROUND FLOOR. ACTIVATION OF THE STREET, THE LARGE SIDEWALKS AND THIS IS THE ELEVATION ALONG MADRUGA ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE PROPERTY. SO HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ANYTHING ELSE, MADAM ZONING GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. SO WHERE ARE THE LOCATION? THAT RECTANGLE SPACE IN THAT YELLOW BOX IS WHERE THE ALLEY LOCATION IS. AND YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THE AREA AS WELL. 
          IT'S IN THE PARKING LOT. IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SEE AS FAR AS THE PARKING LOT, BUT THERE IS THAT INTO THE THE SITE. AS YOU'RE AWARE, THIS THEY DID APPLY FOR THIS BACK IN 2024, WAS DEFERRED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD. AFTERWARD, THE THE CITY COMMISSION ADOPTED AN OVERLAY DISTRICT WHICH INCLUDED THIS PROPERTY, WHICH CHANGES ZONING AND LAND USE FOR THIS AREA. SO THEY ARE REQUESTING NOW JUSTIFICATION. THE ALLEY AND A MIXED USE SITE PLAN. SO THIS IS AN IMAGE OF THE ALLEY. IT'S 125FT LONG AND 45FT DEEP. THIS IS THE SITE PLAN. AS I JUST WENT OVER THE GARAGE ENTRANCE FROM US. ONE 20 FOOT SETBACK ALONG US, ONE RETAIL FACING US, ONE TURNING THE CORNER THERE ON MARIPOSA, AS WELL AS LIVING UNITS ON THE GROUND FLOOR ALONG MARIPOSA AND ON THE BACK ALONG MADRUGA 15 FOOT REAR YARD AND SIDEWALK ALONG MADRUGA WITH ANOTHER ENTRANCE INTO THE GARAGE OFF OF MADRUGA AND THE LOADING AND BACK OF HOUSE. THERE WOULD BE ALSO ON MADRUGA WITH THE CROSSWALK, I SHOULD SAY, ALONG MONTE PLAZA TO CONNECT MONTE POLSA SOUTH. THE. THE PROPERTY IS 132FT■!S. THE ALLEY 5600FT■!, FOR A TOTAL OF 137,000FT■!S FOR TOTAL BUILDING SITE AREA. THE F.A.R IS PROPOSED IS A LITTLE UNDER THE MAXIMUM, WHICH IS 3.5. THEY'RE PROPOSING TO BE 4.33.4 6FAR. THE BUILDING HEIGHT WOULD BE 105FT TO THE ROOF DECK. THERE WOULD BE A PROPOSAL OF 393 UNITS, WHICH IS JUST UNDER THE MAXIMUM DENSITY, WHICH WOULD ALLOW 396 UNITS. THE COMMERCIAL AREA WILL BE 17,000FT■!S AGAIN ALONG US ONE AND TURN THE CORNER ON MARIPOSA. THE PARKING WOULD BE PROVIDED WOULD BE 670 SPACES. OPEN AREA WOULD BE EXCEEDING THE REQUIREMENT OF 10% AT 15% OF THE PROPERTY AREA, WHICH IS MOSTLY ALONG THE SETBACKS ON US. ONE INTERIOR SETBACK ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, AS WELL AS THE SETBACKS ON MUDDY PULSA AND MADRUGA. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, SETBACKS THERE 20FT ALONG US, ONE INTERIOR SETBACK OF 20FT AND THEN 15FT ON MADRUGA AND MARIPOSA. HAS HAD A LENGTHY TIMELINE. DRC REVIEWED THIS BACK IN 2023. AGAIN, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS BACK IN 2024. MOVING FORWARD, IT WAS DEFERRED, SORRY, THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD IN 2024, AND CAME BACK WITH JUST THE ALLEY VACATION OF FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR. CITY COMMISSION, OF COURSE, IS RIGHT NOW FOR VACATION. LETTERS WERE SENT TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS SEVEN TIMES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EXTENT OF THE PROJECT. FOUR TIMES PROPERTY WAS POSTED SIX TIMES A WEBSITE POSTING AND ADVERTISED THREE TIMES. THIS IS A MAP THAT SHOWS THE 1000FT. THAT INCLUDES THE PROPERTIES THAT WERE ADVERTISED THAT WERE MAILED. 
          NOTICE TO STAFF DOES RECOMMEND APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS. THOSE CONDITIONS ARE OUTLINED IN BOTH OF YOUR EXHIBIT A, EXHIBIT B AND EXHIBIT C, THE ALLEY CONDITION APPROVAL REQUIRES THAT THEY HAVE TO WITHDRAW THEIR PENDING APPLICATION WITH MY COUNTY BEFORE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CITY. IF THEY DO NOT, THEN THE ALLEY VACATION WILL BE NULL AND VOID THERE. THE PROPOSED SITE WOULD HAVE TO WOULD HAVE TO CONFORM TO THE SITE PLAN AS IT PRESENTS A DAY, AND THEN THEY HAVE WITHIN TWO YEARS TO BUILD THE CITY PERMITTED SITE PLAN. THE SITE PLAN CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. THE STANDARD CONDITION OF APPROVAL ARE OUTLINED IN EXHIBIT C, BUT 
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YOU CAN HEAR THE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT. SO AGAIN, THE VACATION OF THE HOURS HAD TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE APPLYING FOR A BUILDING PERMIT SIGNAL RETIREMENT WOULD BE REQUESTED BY THE APPLICANT AT THAT INTERSECTION OF MARIPOSA AND US. ONE SPEED CUSHION ON HARDY AND MADRUGA, SIGNAGE FOR VEHICULAR DELIVERY AND PARKING AGAIN ALONG MADRUGA, BUT MOSTLY ON MARIPOSA, AND THEN TO UPDATE THEIR LOADING OPERATIONS PLAN. AND AS FAR AS THEIR PROFFERED PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS, THEY ARE PREFERRING TO HAVE A MULTI-USE PATH TO CONNECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE BRIDGE ACROSS US ONE. THEY'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO EXTEND A NEW SIDEWALK ALONG MARIPOSA AGAIN TO ENCOURAGE THAT WALKABILITY TO ACCESS THE BRIDGE ACROSS US ONE. AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF SIDEWALK AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG MADRUGA, WHICH IS THEIR NEIGHBORING PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH WEST. AND THEY'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO HAVE BIKE BOULEVARD MARKINGS BEYOND THE PROPERTY ALONG MARIPOSA AND OVER TO CABALLERO. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          MR. CLARK, DO YOU HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO. MR. MAYOR, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT. 
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ASSOCIATN.HERE MENOLOL CIATIOUSTO EDUCAEVERNE THA CURRE BEWE JTRAOU GRAN WRE EABNB 19 A WEUST CELEBRATED OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY LAST YEAR WITH OUR SPECIAL GUEST, FORMER MAYOR DON SELZNICK, WHO SPOKE ABOUT HIS MOTHER AND SELZNICK LIDDELL WITH ALONG WITH KAY FEHRINGER, WHO STARTED BOTH THE GRANADA AND THE BILTMORE WOMEN'S LEAGUE, AS WELL AS THE CORAL GABLES LADIES ASSOCIATION GOLF ASSOCIATION. WE'RE HERE TODAY ALL. A FEW MEMBERS OF MOSTLY ARE SENIOR CITIZENS, BUT WE'RE HERE TO PROTECT OUR TEE TIMES, WHICH THE LADIES PLAY FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS. ON MONDAYS FROM 8 TO 9, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 60 TIMES WITH SLOTS FOR FOUR PLAYERS. AND ON FRIDAY, I BELIEVE THERE'S FOUR TEE TIMES FOR THE CORAL GABLES GOLF ASSOCIATION WOMEN'S FOR FOUR SLOTS FOR FOUR PLAYERS, 16. WE PAY GREEN FEES. WE PAY THE INCREASED GREEN FEES THAT THEY JUST IMPLEMENTED AS OF APRIL 1ST. AND THERE WERE MAJORITY OR SENIOR CITIZENS AND RETIREES. 
          AND I BELIEVE ONE OF THE CORE VALUES IN THE MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE CITY BEAUTIFUL IS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF SENIORS. AND THESE WOMEN. THERE'S LIKE 80 YEAR OLDS WALKING THE COURSE. AND ONE OF WE ARE REQUESTING THAT THESE TEE TIMES BE PROTECTED. WE DON'T HAVE TO CALL. WE DON'T NEED THEY DON'T CAN'T AFFORD TO JOIN THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB AT 2100 TO HAVE A REQUEST A TEE TIME A WEEK IN ADVANCE. THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THAT WOULD BE AN UNDUE BURDEN PLACED PLACED ON APPROXIMATELY 85 MEMBERS. SO WE WANT TO PROTECT THE LIMITED TEE TIMES. IT'S AT 8 TO 9 IN THE MORNING ON MONDAY MORNING. 
          SO THE CITY IS GETTING THE REVENUE AND EVERYONE SHOWS UP. THERE'S NEVER BEEN A CASE, MAYBE ONE WOMAN. SO THEY'RE NOT LOSING ANY MONEY. I JUST WANT TO READ THAT WE YOU KNOW, THAT THE DISCOUNT FOR SENIORS, WE WE WANT TO BE ON PAR WITH THE BILTMORE HAS A WOMEN'S LADIES LEAGUE. SO WE WOULD LIKE THEY GET A DISCOUNT ON THE FEES. SO WE WOULD. WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT GRANADA HAS BEEN ON THE LOW SIDE OF CHANGING GREEN FEE OF CHARGING GREEN FEES. HOWEVER, A DISCOUNT TO SHOW THE MEMBERS WHETHER THEY'RE CORAL GABLES RESIDENT, WHICH A MAJORITY ARE OR NOT WOULD BE WARRANTED TO SHOW HOW MUCH THE CITY VALUES ITS SENIOR CITIZENS AS IT DOES ITS VETERANS BY OFFERING THEM A 50% DISCOUNT. SO. CURRENTLY, THE BILTMORE OFFERS THE WOMEN'S LEAGUE A 20% DISCOUNT ON NINE HOLES AND 30% ON 18 HOLES. 
          THOSE ARE THE FACTS. I DON'T KNOW WHY. WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY, AFTER 60 YEARS OF TRADITION AND SUPPORTING THIS GEM OF A GOLF COURSE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR THE CORAL GABLES RESIDENTS AND THE SENIORS, WHY THEY WOULD WANT TO TAKE AWAY THIS GREAT COMMUNITY BUILDING. LEGACY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NOW, IF. GENTLEMEN, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING OR. SUSAN. OH, THE ONLY THING I WANT TO SPEAKING TO YOU ON BEHALF OF THE SENIORS AFFECTED BY THE CHANGES IN FEES AND SCHEDULING, IT IS TRADITION. I'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES SINCE 1987, AND I'VE PROBABLY BEEN PLAYING AT GRANADA SINCE WELL BEFORE THAT. 
          IT'S TRADITION FOR THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES TO GIVE SENIOR DISCOUNTS, AND AT THE MOVIES, AT RESTAURANTS, AT THE THEATERS, AT AN ENTERTAINMENT AND GOLF AND SENIORS ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COMMUNITY. MANY SENIORS ARE ON FIXED INCOMES, BUDGETS, AND WE KNOW THAT GOOD HEALTH IS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY. GOLF IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO STAY HEALTHY. WHY IT'S IMPACT FREE FOR THE MOST PART. HARD TO GET HURT ON A ON A GOLF COURSE. GOLF IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO. 
          BECAUSE IT INVOLVES WALKING FRESH AIR. WE WERE ABLE TO USE THE COURSE DURING COVID SOCIALIZATION. MOST IMPORTANT. SEE THIS GROUP. IT'S A SMALL. IT'S A HANDFUL OF WOMEN. WE'VE 
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BECOME REALLY FRIENDLY OVER THE YEARS. WE SUPPORT OURSELVES. WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER DURING TIMES OF TROUBLE AND. WITH. IT'S NO ISOLATION. WE GO TO THE GOLF COURSE ON MONDAY MORNINGS AND FRIDAY MORNINGS, AND WE HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO. SO I THINK YOU'VE BEEN SEEING ARTICLES ABOUT LONELINESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION. IT'S A REAL THING. SO THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES HAS RECOGNIZED SENIORS BY BUILDING THE A C THE ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER ON ANDALUSIA, ACROSS FROM THE PALACE, AND IT HAS FREE PARKING TROLLEYS. GO THERE, FREEBIES GO THERE. PEOPLE WALK THERE. AND IN THAT FACILITY, THERE ARE THERE'S ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITIES AS WELL. MANY SENIORS ARE NOT TECHNICALLY ABLE TO USE IPHONES TO USE COMPUTERS TO USE ANYTHING REALLY. THAT'S TECHIE. HOW DO I KNOW? I USED TO TEACH IPHONE SKILLS AT OLI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, AND MANY SENIORS GOT THEIR IPHONES AS PRESENTS FROM THEIR KIDS, AND THE KIDS SAID, OH, STOP USING THAT FLIP PHONE. IT'S RIDICULOUS. USE THIS. AND OF COURSE, THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW AND I WAS, I TAUGHT THEM, I TAUGHT SEVERAL, PROBABLY MORE THAN A HUNDRED SENIORS AT AT OLLIE TO USE THE IPHONE. WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS? BECAUSE YOU WANT TO HAVE PEOPLE SCHEDULING THE NEW RULE. THERE'S A SCHEDULING PROBLEM THAT THEY HAVE TO SCHEDULE MAYBE ONE WEEK BEFORE. YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT A COMPUTER OR AN IPHONE. AND THAT'S ABOUT IT. I MEAN, I THINK REALLY, PLEASE CONSIDER OUR REQUESTS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND GOOD MORNING. JUST ONE MORE, JUST A LITTLE HISTORY ON OUR. WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS? I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY. MY NAME IS SUSAN BLOOM, AND I'M THE TREASURER OF THE GREENWAY WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION. WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS? YOUR ADDRESS, YOUR HOME ADDRESS? 2645 SOUTH BAY SHORE DRIVE. I'M SORRY. 
          WHAT? 2645 SOUTH BAY SHORE DRIVE. OKAY, PERFECT. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO WE JUST CELEBRATED OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY LAST YEAR WITH OUR SPECIAL GUEST, FORMER MAYOR DON SLESNICK. IT'S INTERESTING TO KNOW THAT HIS MOTHER IN THE 30S, 1936, TO BE EXACT, STARTED THIS GOLF ASSOCIATION, BOTH AT THE GRANADA WOMEN'S LEAGUE AND AT THE BILTMORE. HE CAME TO SPEAK AND SPOKE ABOUT IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER AND SLEZAK LIDDELL, WHO WAS ALSO A PART OF THE CORAL GABLES WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION AND BRIDGE CLUB. SO TOGETHER WITH BOTH OF THESE ASSOCIATIONS, WE'RE CELEBRATING 60 AND 90 YEARS OF HISTORY OF WOMEN'S GOLF. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LISTENING TO US TODAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. MAY I JUST SAY SOMETHING QUICKLY? MY NAME IS JEAN CONNOLLY, 100 ANDALUSIA AVENUE, CORAL GABLES. I PLAYED SINCE I RETIRED FROM TEACHING. I PLAYED FOR 11 YEARS, AND I WAS ASTOUNDED WHEN I FIRST GOT THERE THAT THERE WERE WOMEN WHO WERE IN THEIR 80S AND THEIR EARLY 90S WHO WERE STILL PLAYING GOLF. IT'S A VERY, VERY VALUABLE ASSET TO THE ADULT COMMUNITY. I MYSELF AM 80 YEARS OLD. I WALK THE COURSE AND I AM STILL IN TOUCH WITH ONE OF MY DEAR FRIENDS, SHIRLEY ADAMS, WHOM I PLAYED GOLF WITH 97 YEARS OLD. SHE IS UNABLE TO PLAY GOLF AND REGRETS IT DEEPLY, BUT ALWAYS REMEMBERS DEARLY THE WAY SHE WAS ABLE TO MAKE FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY AND BE OF VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AT THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A 12:00 TIME. CERTAIN, BUT WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN TACKLE A FEW ISSUES BEFORE THAT. ITEMS E ONE IS E ONE AND ITEMS E1 AND E2. E1 IS 
          [Agenda Items E-1 and E-2 are related]
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT AND MAPS OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PURSUANT TO SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT 
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PROCEDURES AND ZONING CODE. ARTICLE 14 PROCESS SECTION 14 DASH 213. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TEXT AND MAP AMENDMENTS TO ONE. MODIFY THE REQUIRED MULTIFAMILY DENSITIES AND HEIGHT TO ALLOW HIGHER INTENSITY WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY STATION RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT OVERLAY AND TO ALLOW MULTIFAMILY HIGH DENSITY WITHIN THE MIXED USE OVERLAY DISTRICTS LOCATED WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY STATION RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT OVERLAY TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES. 
          6100 BOULEVARD WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY STATION RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT. OVERLAY ON THE MIXED USE OVERLAY DISTRICTS MAP AND THREE AMEND THE FUTURE LOISE INTENSITY TOMMEIAL LOTS ONE AND TCK FIVTSNEHROU THO WATE STION ANDOTIGHT. BLOCK 2 PREVIS SECTN 1 LO THREE A FOUR. BLOCK FE FOR RIVE WATERY SECTIOR MULTAMY DLEX DENSITY TOMUIFAMILE BLOCSIX SIN SUBSIFIV FR COMMEIAL LOW RE TENSITTOTIFAMILY MEDIUM DEITY FOOTOUR, BCK SIX RIVERA WATERWAY SON, ANDFOUL-FAY TO MTIFALY MEDIUM DENSITY FOR LOT FE A AND THEN SING SUBVISION PROVIDING FORROVISIROVI SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND OVIDING FOR AN EFFTIVE DATE. S AN OINCE OF TH MMISONVIDING F M COBLES. OFAL ZONGITY OF CODEURSUT TOONINDE ARTICLE , SECTION 1DA 212 DISTRIS. SECTION-408GNE TRANSI DISIC OVERL T INCLUDE REQUIMENTS FO IFILYEVOPMENTNDPRE ADDIO PRO 6400 BOULEVATH BNDARY IC ZINULATIONS TVE ISITE SPICS.EE AMEING ARCLE 1TI 14 DASH04 TRANSF OF DEVELOPNT RHTS EXPANDRANSFE OF DELOPMEN RHT REIVING SITEITHIN UNIRSITY STION RAD TRANSIT DTRICT OVERLAY AND FOR AMEND THE ZONING MAP FOR MIXED USE ONE TO MULTIFAMILY FOUR FOR LOTS ONE AND TWO. BLOCK FIVE AND LOTS ONE THROUGH THREE. BLOCK SIX RIVERA WATERWAY SECTION. TRACK K ADDITION TO RIVERA WATERWAY SECTION AND LOT EIGHT, BLOCK 208 RIVERA SECTION 14 FOR MULTIFAMILY THREE TO MULTIFAMILY, FOUR FOR LOT THREE AND FOUR. BLOCK FIVE RIVER WATERWAY SECTION FOR MULTIFAMILY, ONE TO MULTIFAMILY, THREE FOR LOT FIVE, BLOCK FIVE, AND THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF LOT FIVE. BLOCK SIX SINGER SUBDIVISION FOR MIXED USE, ONE TO MULTIFAMILY, TWO FOR LOT FOUR, BLOCK SIX, RIVERA WATERWAY SECTION AND FOR MULTIFAMILY ONE TO MULTIFAMILY TWO FOR LOT FIVE A AND THE NORTHERN PORTION OF LOT FIVE, BLOCK SIX SINGER SUBDIVISION PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY CLAUSE CODIFICATION AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 
          THIS IS A QUASI JUDICIAL ITEM. SO, MISTER CLERK, PLEASE SWEAR IN THOSE WHO WILL BE TESTIFYING TODAY. THOSE WHO WILL BE APPEARING ON THIS ITEM, PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. 
          OKAY. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY YOU'LL PROVIDE TODAY WILL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? I DO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM DIRECTOR. YES. YOUR PRESENTATION FOR US. YES. JUST A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING TODAY. AND THEN ALSO SOME COMPARISON SLIDES. SO AS YOU KNOW, YOU ADOPTED THE OVERLAY DISTRICT NEXT TO THE UNIVERSITY STATION. WE ARE NOW PROPOSING TO EXPAND THAT TO INCLUDE A PROJECT KNOWN AS THE GABLES WATERWAY. AGAIN, YOU ARE ONLY LOOKING TODAY AT LEGISLATION. THE RULES IN PLACE MAP CHANGES, BUT NOT A SITE PLAN. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT IN THE AERIAL RIGHT HERE WHERE THE EXPANSION WOULD OCCUR WAS PROPOSED TO YOU TODAY IS TO CHANGE THE LAND USE MOSTLY TO BE MULTIFAMILY HIGH DENSITY FOR MOST OF THE PROPERTY. AND IT IS SCALED DOWN TO MULTIFAMILY MEDIUM DENSITY AND MULTIFAMILY LOW DENSITY. AS YOU GO SOUTH INTO THE SINGLE FAMILY AND DUPLEX NEIGHBORHOOD, THE MIXED USE OVERLAY DISTRICT MAP WOULD BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE THIS PROPERTY IN THE UNIVERSITY STATION RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT OVERLAY. THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WOULD BE AMENDED TO ALLOW THE MAXIMUM DENSITY OF 125 UNITS AN ACRE, AND THIS WOULD BE TO MIMIC AND MIRROR WHAT THE COUNTY'S CURRENT ARTS SUBZONE ALLOWS. THE MAP WOULD BE AMENDED FOR THE ZONING CODE TO BE MF4 FOR MOST OF THE PROPERTY, AND THEN SCALE DOWN TO M, F2 AND F3, ABUTTING AND ADJACENT TO SINGLE FAMILY AND DUPLEX NEIGHBORHOODS. AND THEN THE ZONING CODE WOULD BE AMENDED TO ALLOW FOR MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND THE RTC CITIES RTC VERSION RTC FOR THE OVERLAY TO LIMIT THE HEIGHT TO BE 120FT FOR MF4, BUT TO ALSO ALLOW 150. 
          IF THE MF4 PROPERTY WOULD HAVE WOULD PROVIDE 10% ADDITIONAL OPEN SPACE, 125 UNITS AN ACRE WOULD BE THE DENSITY FOR M4 AND MF2 WOULD BE A SETBACK ALONG THE WATERWAY OF TEN FEET AND UPPER STORY. STEP BACK OF 25FT WHEN YOU'RE ADJACENT TO OR ACROSS THE WATERWAY FROM SINGLE FAMILY. A 50 FOOT SETBACK WHEN YOU'RE ABUTTING SINGLE FAMILY OR DUPLEX. AND THAT WOULD BE A SETBACK WITH LANDSCAPE. 50 FOOT SETBACK IS MORE OR LESS THE SIZE OF A PROPERTY, A SINGLE FAMILY LOT, AND ALSO SOME GENERAL DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WOULD BE REVIEWED BY STAFF AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION. AND THEN A CHANGE FROM FIRST READING WOULD ALLOW THE BUILDING, THE GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE GREEN CERTIFIED, BUT THE REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE CITY MANAGER. AND THEN THE UNIVERSITY OVERLAY DISTRICT WOULD BE DESIGNATED AS TDR RECEIVING SITE AND THEN RETAINING SOME SITE SPECIFICS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT'S PROPOSED TODAY. NOW, AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE COUNTY DID PASS AN RTC SUBZONE IN OUR CITY IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR. THIS IS A COMPARISON OF THE RTC ON THE LEFT SIDE. THE EXISTING MIXED USE ZONING AND THE CENTER 
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COLUMN. AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY ZONING THAT WE'RE AMENDING IN OUR OVERLAY DISTRICT. SO THE REVIEW, OF COURSE, WOULD BE BY THE COUNTY IF IT WOULD BE AN RTC. AND THE MIXED USE AND MULTIFAMILY WOULD BE REVIEWED BY CITY STAFF AND ALSO BY THE CITY COMMISSION. THE HEIGHT WOULD BE SIMILAR, 150FT FOR THE RTC FOR THE COUNTY, BUT 120FT WITH THE CITY AND ALLOW FOR 150 IF THEY PROVIDE 10% ADDITIONAL OPEN SPACE, THE DENSITY BE THE SAME 125 UNITS AN ACRE. WE WOULD HAVE A MAXIMUM THREE POINT 5FAR, WHERE THE COUNTY HAS NO LIMITATION OF THE SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THAT PROPERTY OR ANY PROPERTY FOR THAT MATTER. IN THE RTC SUBZONE, WE WOULD ALLOW TEACHERS TO HAVE A MAXIMUM F A R OF 4.375. THE OPEN SPACE WOULD BE REQUIRED 10% FOR THE COUNTY. ON THE GROUND FLOOR. WE WOULD REQUIRE 25% FOR MULTIFAMILY, AS CONSISTENT WITH THE REST OF OUR MULTIFAMILY ZONING IN OUR CITY. AND THE SETBACKS WOULD BE 20FT ON US, ONE TEN FEET AGAIN ON THE WATERWAY AND 50FT WHEN OUR ADJACENT OR ABUTTING SINGLE FAMILY. THE USES WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAST ITEM, THE COUNTY, OF COURSE, WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF APPROVING. ANY USES WOULD INCLUDE BARS, PARKING LOTS AND PARKING GARAGES, AND THOSE USES THAT WE DON'T USUALLY HAVE IN OUR MF IN OUR, SORRY, IN OUR MULTIFAMILY ZONING. OF COURSE, WE DON'T ALLOW ANY COMMERCIAL USES, WHICH IS WHAT THIS PROPERTY IS PROPOSED TO BE ZONED AS. DESIGN WOULD BE MATURE MEDITERRANEAN STYLE. THE IMPACT FEES AGAIN WOULD BE COLLECTED BY THE COUNTY INSTEAD OF THE POLICE, FIRE, MUNICIPAL PARKS AND MOBILITY WOULD BE COLLECTED BY THE CITY IF IT WOULD BE BUILT IN THE CITY ITSELF, AS WELL AS OUR UNPLUGGED PLACES. SO THE TOP IMAGE IN RED IS SHOWING THE RTC ZONING. AS YOU MAY KNOW, RTC IS ONE ZONING DISTRICT WITH ONE HEIGHT, SO THE ENTIRE PROPERTY HAS ONE HEIGHT OF 150FT. THE CITY IS PROPOSING THAT THE HEIGHT WOULD BE 120, AND THEN THERE WOULD BE SCALING DOWN BUILT IN WITH THE ZONING. SO THE F2 AND F3 WOULD BE SCALING DOWN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE SOUTH. THERE'S A BIGGER IMAGE OF THE RTC THAT THE COUNTY HAS ALREADY ADOPTED. AND AS YOU KNOW, THEY ARE THE PROPERTY OWNER OF THIS PROPERTY IS COMMUNICATING WITH THE COUNTY TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE RTC SUBZONE. SO THE CITY IS PROPOSING. AS FAR AS EXTRUDING THAT ZONING, SHOWING THE HEIGHT AND SHOWING THOSE SETBACKS. SO I TOGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO OF THESE. YOU CAN SEE THE SETBACKS DISAPPEAR WITH RTC SUBZONE, WITH THE COUNTY, WITH THE CITY. WE HAVE THOSE SETBACKS ON US1 ON THE SIDE STREETS ALSO ALONG THE WATERWAY, AGAIN, 50FT SETBACK WHEN YOU'RE ABUTTING SINGLE FAMILY 25 FOOT UPPER STORY SETBACK 97FT FOR THAT F2 ZONING THAT LIGHT BROWN AREA, THE DARK BROWN WOULD BE 120FT WITH A 20 FOOT SETBACK AGAIN ON US1 AND ON THE SIDE STREETS. SO YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO OF THESE. AND THEN THE IMAGES ON THE LEFT ARE SHOWING THE EXISTING COUNTY'S RTC AT THE CASCADE, AT THE DOUGLAS AND DOUGLAS STATION. 
          AND ON THE RIGHT, OF COURSE, IS YOUR TYPICAL CORAL GABLES DEVELOPMENT WITH ARCHITECTURE. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM DIRECTOR. MR. CLARK, DO YOU HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? I DO, ALL RIGHT. PERFECT. SO IT'S GOING TO BE ON ZOOM. I HAVE CECILIA TANAKA. MADAM. JUDGE, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. GOOD MORNING. I'M NOT SURE IF I CAN TURN ON THE VIDEO. I THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. NO, WE HEAR YOU. WE HEAR YOU. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. MY ADDRESS IS 400 NORTH MIAMI AVENUE. I DON'T GIVE MY HOME ADDRESS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. I WAS AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK WHEN THIS ITEM WAS DISCUSSED. I APPRECIATE, MADAM JUDGE, IF I MAY. I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY, BUT WE HAVE A MAJOR ECHO, AND I WANT. I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE RESPECT THAT YOU DESERVE. IS. CAN WE HAVE THE I TEAM? THE I T TEAM? JUST LOOK FOR ONE SECOND AND WE CAN ADDRESS IT. OKAY? JUST GIVE US A SECOND, MADAM JUDGE. CAN YOU TRY? RIGHT. 
          TRY RIGHT NOW. STILL STILL. IS SHE ON TWO DEVICES HERE? SHE WOULD HEAR HER IF SHE WAS ON 
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TWO DEVICES. IF THE PROBLEM IS ON HER, IS ON HER, SHE WOULD HEAR IT. HEAR IT. HERE. SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS HERE, THERE'S NO ONE HERE. SHE'S THE ONLY ONE. OKAY. BUT ONLY BECAUSE THE MICROPHONES IN YOUR HONOR. BEAR WITH US. BEAR WITH US. THANK YOU. DO YO WAN. ARE WE ODKAY. GIVME O SOND.HE AFOR MINE MELE ME. LETE MAKE ALL. OH. YOU'RE RIGHT. MR. MAYOR. YES. LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE LISA, THE ATTORNEY. SHE'S ACTUALLY HERE IN PERSON AND WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. PERFECT. I THOUGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE. NO WORRIES. 
          PLEASE. HI. ALICIA. DETOURNAY, TEN ARAGON, SUITE 1405. I ALSO OWN A PROPERTY THAT'S CLOSE TO THE CANAL, AND I USED TO LIVE ON THE CANAL. ONE OF THE FOUR HOMES THAT'S BEING AFFECTED BY THIS DEVELOPMENT. I JUST WANT TO SAY I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN FIGHTING DEVELOPMENT ON THIS PROPERTY SINCE 2004. THE LAST TIME WE WERE FIGHTING A DIFFERENT DEVELOPER, WE ENDED UP LOSING BOTH MIAMI COURT AND IN THE THIRD. THIRD DISTRICT APPEALS. I MOVED THEN TO CALIFORNIA, KEPT COMING BACK AND FORTH FOR WORK, MOVED BACK HERE AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN. 
          SAME PROPERTY, DIFFERENT DEVELOPER, BUT MUCH, MUCH LARGER. I THINK ONE OF THE PICTURES THAT JENNIFER WAS SHOWING OF THE EVEN THE RTC LIGHT, THE MAHI CANAL WILL BE COMPLETELY IN THE SHADE BY THE HEIGHT OF THOSE BUILDINGS. THAT'S A PRETTY BIG MANATEE AREA. ONE OF THE FEW IN IN FLORIDA. I MEAN, I'M SORRY, IN CORAL GABLES FOR THE MANATEES TO COME AT THE END OF THE CANAL. I USED TO LIVE THERE AND I KNOW HOW MANY WOULD COME DOWN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE CALVES. SO I DON'T KNOW WHY THE RTC IS EVEN BEING DISCUSSED IN THIS, BECAUSE IT'S A NEW THING, RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHY THIS PROPERTY IS NOW LOOKING INTO RTC. BUT THIS PROPERTY HAS SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES BEING THE CANAL AND THE LOW DENSITY OF THE HOMES, RIGHT UP TO THE SIZE OF THESE LARGE BUILDINGS. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I AM AGAINST ALLOWING ANY DEVELOPMENT OF THIS HEIGHT. THE RESTRICTIONS. THE CURRENT ZONING CODES ARE MUCH, MUCH LOWER. AND AS I MENTIONED AT A LOT OF OUR MEETINGS, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE OUR CODES, EVERYBODY THAT SEEMS TO BUY A PROPERTY WANTS TO DEVELOP IT. AS FOR A FAR GREATER HEIGHT LIMITS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, CHANGE IN THE CODES LIKE THE CODES DON'T EVEN MATTER ANYMORE. 
          AND IF YOU DO WANT TO BUY A HOUSE IN AN AREA THAT YOU THINK WILL BE SAFE FROM LARGE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON EXISTING CODES, YOU'RE IN FOR A SURPRISE AS THINGS GO ON AND AND THE CODES KEEP GETTING CHANGED TO UPSIZE. SO ANYWAY, THANKS FOR YOUR YOUR ATTENTION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MADAM JUDGE. YOUR HONOR, SECOND. LET ME SEE. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW, MAYOR? I'M NOT SURE IF I'M BEING HEARD WITH AN ECHO OR NOT. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME. I THANK YOU, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS, FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HEARD ON THIS ITEM. I WAS AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK. I UNDERSTAND THAT OUR HANDS ARE TIED. WE CAN ALL RELATE TO THAT. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. THE ONE QUESTION I ASKED AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING, AND I CONTINUE TO ASK IF IS WHAT, IF ANYTHING, MORE CAN BE DONE THAN HAS BEEN DONE? IS THERE ANY ABILITY FOR THE CITY TO NEGOTIATE ANYTHING TO SCALE THIS DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT? THIS IS NOT JUST ANY PROJECT. THIS IS NOT JUST HIGH DENSITY. BUILDINGS ARE BIGGER 
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AND TALLER AND THERE'S MORE DENSITY. WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS IS ALSO A A WATERWAY WITH OAK HOURS AGO ABOUT OUR OCEANS, ABOUT OUR CITY, BEAUTIFUL. AND MY CONCERN IS THE SCALE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT ON A WATERWAY. AND ONE OF THE COMMENTS YOU MADE MAYOR IN THE CORAL GABLES MAGAZINE WITH THE HAIL MARY YOU MADE A FEW MOMENTS AGO. ON THE OTHER ITEM ON THE AGENDA WITH THE RTC ZONE IS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST IF THE DEVELOPERS HAD GONE THE COUNTY ROUTE INSTEAD OF THE CITY ROUTE. 
          I ASK YOU, WOULD WE BE WILLING, FOR EXAMPLE, TO GIVE UP THOSE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME CONCESSION ON SLING THIS DOWN? DS THAT WE NTO HAVLL?AND THAS TI SO GUAEES THAT WE'RE G TO LIMIT NUMR OF USERS ON THIATERWAIN TS IVE DEVELOP,NL WE SEHEATERWAYOMETELY. I TH A. KNOUE NSIDERN. YOUNOW TT HAPPING. WE KNOW THAT YOUR HANDS ARE TIED, BUT IS THERE ANY ROOM TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS? THAT'S MY QUESTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR, AND I APOLOGIZE. APOLOGIZE? FOR THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING. 
          WE HAVE REVIEWED THIS, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, IN THE MARK, WE HAD OVER 12 MEETINGS MYSELF, OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S, OUR MANAGER, HIS TEAM, OUR ZONING DIRECTOR IN HOPES OF FINDING AN APPROPRIATE PROJECT. THAT PROJECT IS 105FT WHEN IT COULD BE 150FT IN THE RTC. ALL THE DEVELOPER HAS TO DO IS JUST GO TO THE COUNTY AND CIRCUMVENT THE CITY ALTOGETHER. OUR HANDS ARE TIED AND WE'RE TRYING TO FIND THE BEST DEAL FOR THE CITY. WOULD I GIVE UP THE MONEY TO TO FIND A BETTER PROJECT? 110%. BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AND WE TRIED THAT ALREADY. WE DISCUSSED REDUCING FEES, BUT THE PROJECT AGAIN, THEY HAVE THE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS THAT THEY CAN GO TO THE RTC AND JUST CIRCUMVENT US ANYWAYS. SO THEY'RE GOING TO PAY IT TO THE COUNTY OR THEY'RE GOING TO PAY IT TO THE CITY IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. I'D RATHER HAVE THOSE MONIES GO TO THE CITY AND BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES TO THE MAYOR. YES, SIR, I THINK. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TAKEN OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE CITY. WE HERE, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT RTC? THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S NEW. IT IS NEW. IT WAS CREATED BY THE COUNTY, AND IT IS A WAY THAT THE COUNTY HAS THE ABILITY TO PREEMPT OUR CITY ZONING CODES. WE HAVE LIVE LOCAL, WHICH ALSO HAS THE ABILITY TO PREEMPT THE CITY'S ZONING CODE. WHEN THE PROJECT MEETS THOSE PARAMETERS. AND IT'S REALLY TAKEN THIS COMMISSION'S ABILITY TO CONTROL WHAT THESE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ARE SCALING TO AND WHAT IG IN THE PJECTPLETELOU OANDS PROSS LIKE THE OS THAT E OPPORTITO KIND OFRING IACTOHE CITY D U T SORD A ORHE DEVOPER. YOUR HONOR,OU WERSKING ABOUT, YOUNOW, IS TNY WA T SCALE IT OW I TT N,HAT NEGON CAN POSSIBL BEG WH T LOR ON TJETEY ACTUALLY PSENT?SE MA WE RE ABLEO REDE CALALITY OF TT PROJE WERE ABLTO INCORPORATE ATER NECRY THRGHTY IUE THY N PROSS SO BELIEVE THATHEAY BE TH IT'S  TAN OFD E DELOPER, AND FORTUNATELY, HANDSE AND, COMPLELY CUT TIE NGER HAVE ANBILITY T CONTROL  OWNING COD SOIN TT AS AITY,EHAVEAYS B PUD O EN S BOUR RESIDENTS FOR US Y. AND NOWE DON'T STATHAVE DECID WELL,REE COUNTND TO SOMETHING DNT TONSURE THE DEVELERS CAN DO WHATHEY WAN THE TPRERTIES. AND H OF T D HE AT T MUNICIPAL LEVEL I WRE WSEE THE IMPACFSE PJES ATH MIC LELS, WHERWE HAVE T FIGE OUT TH APPVE A LIVAL PRT. ALL OF A SDE WRE NOTETTING THE FUNDI THA SECY. WE HAVE E WORK DOESN'TOR FORS HEROARTSF TE AND THEY' TRYIN T IMP ATEGISLA HE  U IT'S R UTU. I PUTS AYOUGH TH O TNG, IHAITH MY CLEUES NOW T CAN HAHIS CVERSATN TT IHAD SHAREDITS WOULD LTOEE IF WE HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING AN EXTRA CONVERSATION WITH OUR RESIDENTS. I KNOW WE HAD ONE LAST WEEK, BUT HAVE A SECOND MEETING. I THINK PEOPLE STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND. AND YOU KNOW, I THINK OUR STAFF DID A GREAT JOB OF TRYING TO SHOW WHAT THE TWO DIFFERENCES ARE. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RTC AND THE CITY'S RTC LIGHT. I THINK WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF VISUALIZING IT BECAUSE UNTIL YOU START EXPLAINING IT, I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THE DIFFERENCES IN THE TWO FEATURES. 
          EVEN THOUGH THERE'S DIFFERENT COLORS. I THINK IF WE CAN MAKE IT A LITTLE BETTER FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, VISUALIZE, AND ALSO EXPLAIN WHAT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT THAT RTC AND HOW WE NO 
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LONGER HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO. I KNOW WE DID. I THINK MARTHA AND HER TEAM DID A PSA THAT WAS PUT OUT ON LIVE LOCAL AND THE RTC, BUT I STILL THINK THAT WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT TO OUR RESIDENTS, BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING WHERE WE ARE TODAY, HOW WE'VE GOTTEN TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY, AND THE ACTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY OTHER GOVERNMENTS, WHICH ARE NOW DICTATING WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO. WHAT I HAD ASKED IS IF WE COULD PUSH THIS OFF TO THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING SO THAT WE CAN HAVE AT LEAST ONE MORE COMMUNITY MEETING TO GO OVER THINGS, EXPLAIN IT TO THEM, MAYBE CREATE A BETTER PRESENTATION THAT CAN BE MORE VISUAL FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. 
          THAT WAS THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH THE MANAGER AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY DURING MY MY PRE AGENDA THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. SO WITH REGARD TO NOTICE, I KNOW THAT OUR STAFF, OUR IN OUR E-NEWS WE NOTIFIED FOLKS ABOUT THE APRIL 7TH MEETING. I DID IT IN MY SOCIAL MEDIA. I DID IT IN MY LETTER. WE ONLY HAD A SMALL GROUP OF FOLKS. I HAD AN INDIVIDUAL THAT WROTE ME, AND I SUGGESTED TO THEM THAT THEY NEED TO SIGN UP FOR THE E-NEWS SO THAT THEY CAN GET NOTICE OF THESE TYPES OF MEETINGS. THE COST TO SEND OUT NOTICES IS TREMENDOUS. AND, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETINGS. PLUS, WE HAD INDIVIDUALS THAT PARTICIPATED VIA ZOOM. SO THE HISTORY IS THERE. I MADE, I TOOK TIME, I MADE EFFORTS TO MEET WITH OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONER TO TRY TO SCALE BACK WHAT THE COUNTY RTC WAS TO MOVE THE BUILDING, TO MOVE THE PARKING LOT MORE THAN JUST AN ARM'S LENGTH AWAY FROM THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTY. THE STEPS THAT WERE GOING INTO AN UNDERGROUND GARAGE THAT WAS DUBBED AS BEING A PARK SPACE, OKAY, THERE WAS NOT THE WILLINGNESS OR FLEXIBILITY THERE. THE MESSAGE WAS CLEAR WHEN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER CAME HERE, SHE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IF WE DIDN'T DO OUR OWN VERSION OF RTC, WHICH IS NOW DUBBED THE RTC LIGHT, THAT THAT PROJECT WOULD BE COMING FORTH UNDER THE COUNTY CONTROL WITH THE HEIGHT AND DENSITY, INTENSITY AND UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE A FEW FEET AWAY FROM THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. SO IT IS OUR JOB TO DO MAKE THE HARD DECISIONS BECAUSE THE LONGER YOU DRAG THINGS OUT, THE THE COUYOU. WE ALMOS ST IT BEFE.N THEARK. WENOW HAVET ER THAN WHAT Y METIMES 'ROIO VE MAKTHESHARD DEC. EUTCOMENG T THE ME, WE STILHAVE THE ACTUCTTSELF.HIS T JUST ZONG ISSUE S SAT WN WH TH DEVELOPERND I OWEDM FE FO SIDELK I IFICIENT, A TH'S THEOUY'SEQUIRENT S.NEF T GOOGL MA AND Y IT AOSS ATOUE NOT CRINGING AT LKG ALONGS.NE A THEOPAL BY CNTYF FE. I'M TRN FIVE FEET.OKAYHAT  E D  TO SMM TIR W WN US O TING TO THE CY ROUY TAKIN ANHAT.O WEAN A TI AT THIS T O MEFORWARD AEI TET ANDREVENT THIRO GNG THH THUNTY. O YONE EE? ANY FURTH MMISSIONERS,HETC P 150F HIGH, UNLIMITED A RO TBKS, NO PNG.ND IT WOD BE ESSTIAL A BLDING TH WOULD BE  COUNTY BUIING CERTAIYOTETNY BLDGT I FEESIF WE  TO CONSERT THAT IS. THAT'S BOX. THA A BOXROM FM 150  HIGH.T'HARTY LIN THAT'S WT YOU CANO BAU E'SNL UNLITED SETBKS. D BY THE WAY, NO CARS. T'SO PARKING IT'ASMED THAS WHATTC I IT' AOX. IT'HA TO PY NE AND I TNKIN SOME OICRES THAT ARE COAROHA I C BE. A WA T T REITE THAT WHAT PERSPECTIVS 150 FT BOX FR PPERTY LIO PRO LINE WIT N PARNG A, AND,AND,NDHE RTONPTHANKOU FEW COMME THROUGH MAY. 
          YE S TO NOTEAT THE PORTAN FOR T RESIDENTSOS KN. A B THEAY, I TNK VERY MH JUD CECILIA ALTONAGA FOR FOR PROVIDING HER COMMENTS TODAY. I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF TRYING CASES BEFORE HER, AND SHE'S AN EXTREMELY EDUCATED, REASONABLE AND DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT. AND HER SUGGESTION, HER REQUEST THAT WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO TRY 
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AND NEGOTIATE SOME FURTHER CONCESSIONS ON THAT PROJECT ARE TAKEN TO HEART. RIGHT. BUT LIKE THE VICE MAYOR SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY IS ZONING CHANGE. I FIND THAT WE'RE IN THIS UNIQUE POSITION RIGHT NOW TO NOT COMMIT THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE. THE THE THE DELAYS OCCASIONED BY THE PREVIOUS PROJECT, THE MARK, WERE AN INFIRMITY THAT PUT US ON THE BRINK OF WHAT THE CITY MANAGER IS REFERRING TO IS HAVING A BOX SITTING RIGHT THERE ON US. ONE BECAUSE THE DELAYS AND DELAYS AND THE DELAYS CAUSED THE PROJECT TO NEARLY SLIP COMPLETELY OUT OF OUR HANDS. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST IN IMPACT FEES, SIGNAGE, USAGE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE WE HOLD SO DEAR WITH RESPECT TO THE CITY. ZONING IS IS GIVING WAY TO WHAT'S COMING OUT OF TALLAHASSEE AND WHICH IS IN FACT LAW TODAY. SO I'M A HUGE SUPPORTER OF WORKING AND BEING STRATEGIC IN WORKING WITHIN THE PARAMETERS THAT WE'RE DEALT. 
          THE PROBLEM IS NEVER SOLVED, BUT PUTTING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND, THE PROBLEM IS NOT SOLVED BY WALKING AWAY FROM IT, BUT RATHER MEETING IT HEAD ON, BEING PROFESSIONAL AND BEING CIVIL AND BEING STRATEGIC AND NEGOTIATING WITH THE PLAYERS. SO WHILE I'M ALWAYS IN FAVOR OF PROVIDING NOTICE TO THE RESIDENTS AND I TAKE TO HEART, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, YOUR SUGGESTION AS WELL, THAT THERE BE MORE CONVERSATION HAD WITH THE RESIDENTS. I DO FEEL IN THIS INSTANCE IT'S BEEN MET AND MET PROBABLY, AND THEN SOME. RIGHT. THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE PUBLIC AND HOT TOPIC MATTERS THAT THE CITY HAS SEEN IN A WHILE. AND, YOU KNOW, FROM THE MAYOR AND THE VICE MAYOR HAVING MET WITH THE RESIDENTS SO MANY, SO MANY TIMES, IT'S NOT A NEW IT'S NOT A NEW ITEM, RIGHT? IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME TIME. I THINK WE NEED TO LEARN FROM THE PAST. TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS, MOVE THIS THING WITH APPROPRIATE NOTICE, APPROPRIATE SPEED AND FOCUS ON WHERE THE. THE EFFORTS SHOULD BE BEST PUT. 
          AND THAT'S IN NEGOTIATING DIRECTLY WITH THE DEVELOPERS TO ENSURE THAT WE TAKE AS MUCH AS WE CAN FOR THE CITY. I'M NOT ASHAMED IN SAYING I AM, AS A REPRESENTATIVE, AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY, IN THE BUSINESS OF TAKING FROM THOSE WHO WANT TO TAKE FROM ME. 
          I WANT TO NEGOTIATE AND TAKE MORE FOR US. AND I THINK THAT THAT YOU'VE DONE AN AMAZING JOB, MAYOR, IN DOING THAT. WITH RESPECT TO THE MARK, LET'S WORK WITH RESPECT TO THIS, THIS PROJECT, ALWAYS MINDFUL OF THE UNIQUE NATURE OF WHERE IT'S SITUATED, ALWAYS MINDFUL OF THE OF THE NATURAL HABITAT AND THE ENVIRONMENT THAT IT PROVIDES FOR THE MANATEES. BUT WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, IT'S, IT'S A FAR BETTER PLACE THAN IF IT WAS CEDED TO THE COUNTY UNDER THE RTC AND THROUGH DELAY. I FEAR THAT THAT'S WHERE IT WOULD END UP. THANK YOU. WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, IF MY COLLEAGUES ARE DONE, I'D LIKE TO PUT MY COMMENTS ON THE RECORD. MADAM FINANCE DIRECTOR, WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN US? EXCUSE ME, MADAM ZONING DIRECTOR, I APOLOGIZE. FINANCE DIRECTOR STARTED SWEATING. ALL OF A SUDDEN. I HAVE A PRESENTATION. 
          CAN WE PLEASE PRESENT IT AS A PRESENTATION IN REGARDS TO E1 RTC OVERLAY. OKAY, SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR AND I WANT TO MENTION THIS FOR THE RECORD. AGAIN, I KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE IT ON THE GAZETTE OR ON THE OTHER BLOGS. IT WILL NOT MAKE IT BECAUSE THIS IS THIS IS POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID THIS. THIS IS PURE POLITICS AGAIN. BUT I GOT TO PUT IT ON THE RECORD. I HAVE TO PUT IT ON THE RECORD AT THE END OF THE DAY, BECAUSE IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO PUT THINGS ON THE RECORD THAT MAKES SENSE. I'VE LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS. I DIDN'T SHOW UP HERE FOUR YEARS AGO. OKAY. I'VE SERVED ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD. I'VE SERVED ON EVERY MAJOR PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATION. MY GRANDPARENTS, WHEN THEY CAME FROM CUBA, THEY MOVED TO THE CITY. THEY DIED IN THIS CITY TWO BLOCKS AWAY. SO I CARE ABOUT THE CITY. SO I TAKE IT VERY CLOSE TO HEART WHEN PEOPLE TELL ME THAT I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE CITY. I WANT TO VOTE NO TODAY. BUT YOU KNOW WHY I'M VOTING YES. I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU. IT IS RECKLESS WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IN THE CITY WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE ON THIS COMMISSION. I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. YOU CANNOT MISLEAD RESIDENTS. IF THE DEVELOPER LEAVES AND GOES TO COUNTY ROUTE, HE GOES THE RTC ROUTE. WHAT IS THE HEIGHT OF THE PROJECT IF HE GOES THE RTC ROUTE? OH ONE 5150 LET'S GO OVER THESE ITEMS. NUMBER ONE, THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES VOTED FIVE ZERO IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT. BOTH COMMISSIONER CASTRO'S APPOINTEE, IGNACIO ALVAREZ, AND COMMISSIONER 
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FERNANDEZ APPOINTEE FELIX PRADO, VOTED IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT. AND I QUOTE. SO BASICALLY THE DECISION FOR THE BOARD IS TAKE THIS OR ELSE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT. 
          WHAT DO THEY MEAN? IT'S THE PICTURE BELOW. LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE IN THE DESIGN STANDARDS BETWEEN CORAL GABLES ON THE TOP AND WHAT YOU COULD GET WITH RTC IN THE COUNTY BELOW. IT'S RIGHT A STONE'S THROW AWAY. THAT'S 37TH AVENUE IN THE METRO RAIL. WE CAN PLAY THIS GAME ABOUT POLITICS AND RUN FOR OFFICE. AND I VOTED NO ON THE RTC. FINE. BUT THANK GOD THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR FOR DOZENS OF YEARS AND ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE TOUGH STAND AND TAKE THE BEATING POLITICALLY WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO IN FRONT OF THE RESIDENTS AND TELL THEM, HEY, I HAD TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS, BECAUSE IF NOT, WE WOULD HAVE HAD A MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER PROJECT. NOW THE CITY, TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, THERE IS A VERY STARK DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTY RTC VERSUS WHAT THE CITY ALLOWS. AS I POINTED OUT TO YOU, A VOTE AGAINST THE CITY RTC IS A VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE COUNTY RTC. VERY CLEAR. IF YOU VOTE AGAINST THIS TODAY, YOU'RE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THE COUNTY RTC. YOU'RE VOTING IN FAVOR OF A BIGGER PROJECT. YOU'RE ASKING THE DEVELOPER TO GO TO THE COUNTY. YOU'RE ASKING TO LOSE CONTROL OF SIGNAGE. YOU'RE ASKING TO LOSE CONTROL OF USAGES. YOU'RE ASKING TO LOSE CONTROL OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF IMPACT FEES. YOUR LAST. 
          YOU'RE ASKING TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE ZONING ADDITIONAL HEIGHT. AND BY THE WAY, ADDITIONAL DENSITY. AM I CORRECT, MADAM? MADAM DIRECTOR, THE DENSITY STAY THE SAME AT 125 UNITS AN ACRE. BUT I THINK YOU MEAN INTENSITY. THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY. YES. OKAY. TO SAY THAT THIS IS AN UP ZONING IS INCORRECT IS DISINGENUOUS. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO DENSITY. 
          IT'S VERY CLEAR RIGHT THERE. PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD RECOMMENDED IT FIVE ZERO. I KNOW THIS IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT ON THE BLOGS. I UNDERSTAND THAT AND IT'S GOING TO BE PUMPED THROUGH TEXT MESSAGES. COMMISSION VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE RTC UP ZONING. IT IS WHAT IT IS, BUT I FEEL FINE. I FEEL COMFORTABLE AS A PERSON THAT LIVED IN THE CITY FOR DECADES. 
          I FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH MAKING THIS DECISION TODAY. IT'S A TOUGH DECISION. IT'S NOT ONE THAT I WANT TO MAKE, BUT I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. NEXT SLIDE. HERE WE HAVE SOME DESIGN ELEMENTS. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE COUNTY RTC VERSUS THE CORAL GABLES RTC. WE LOSE. WE LOSE SETBACKS. NO SITE RESIDENTIAL PARKING REQUIREMENTS, MINIMUM LANDSCAPING. COUNTY REQUIRES PERMIT AND IMPACT FEES. MULTIFAMILY AND COMMERCIAL USES WHICH ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CITY. NOW HERE ARE THE DESIGN ELEMENTS IN REGARDS TO THE CORAL GABLES RTD, PEDESTRIAN ARCADES AND CONNECTIONS. JUST LIKE WHAT THE VICE MAYOR MENTIONED IN REGARDS TO SIDEWALKS. PRIORITY PRIORITY ON LANDSCAPING. MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURE. VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENED IN THE COUNTY. DESIGN REVIEW BY THE CITY ARCHITECT. SETBACKS. MINIMAL SIGNAGE ON SITE RESIDENTIAL PARKING REQUIRED. 
          AS THE MANAGER MENTIONED, CITY RECEIVES PERMIT AND IMPACT FEES WHICH GOES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS. PUBLIC ART, BY THE WAY, THAT PUBLIC ART COMES FROM DEVELOPERS AND PERMIT FEES. 
          IT DOES NOT COME FROM THE GENERAL FUND. ANOTHER TON OF MISINFORMATION THAT IS BEING SPEWED OUT THERE THAT'S INCORRECT. MULTIFAMILY USE ONLY, AND THE RESIDENTS RECEIVE NOTIFICATION. LET ME ALSO MAKE SOMETHING AWARE, WHICH AGAIN WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. THE CITY OF MIAMI HAS NOT BONDED THEIR LAWSUIT AGAINST MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. WHY HAVE THEY NOT BONDED THEIR LAWSUIT? WHY? MR. MANAGER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPLAIN WHY THE CITY OF MIAMI HAS NOT BONDED THEIR LAWSUIT IN REGARDS TO THE RTC BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL LIABILITY OF STOPPING A PROJECT OF THIS SIZE? IT COULD BE CERTAIN PROFITS AND IT COULD BE SUBSTANTIAL. WE'VE ALREADY HAD THAT HAPPEN ONE TIME IN EDGEWATER WHEN WE STOPPED THE PROJECT. IT COST THE CITY $5.5 MILLION, AND THAT WAS 25, 30, 25 YEARS AGO. SO IN CLOSING, THIS IS VERY SIMPLE. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A STARK DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY. RTC. THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE YOU HAVE TO HOLD YOUR NOSE AND JUST VOTE IN FAVOR, BECAUSE IF NOT, WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IS SIGNIFICANTLY MASSIVE IN COMPARISON. SO IN CLOSING, THIS IS BEING DONE TO PROTECT THE CITY. BEAUTIFUL. WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. IF WE GO THE RTC ROUTE, WE LOSE CONTROL OF OUR OWN ZONING CODE. SO WE HAVE NO FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT. IF THERE'S ANYONE HERE THAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION, I'LL ACCEPT THE MOTION. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION. AND MADAM DIRECTOR, I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU. OUR LCAPEBUERT SINGLE FOMES 50FT, 
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50ORRENDNHE R, BELIEVE IKING'M OKING A FOR.MEND THOU BE THEIO1.A.ND S,R. CLARK. COMMIIONE FERNDEZ.. COMSSR. 
          LARA. VE M ANDERN. YES. BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO VOTE FOR THE COUNTY RTC TO PROCEED IN THIS AREA. COMMISSIONER CASTRO, I THINK IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH THE CITY'S STANCE AND THAT I SHOULD, AND THAT I SHARE A VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE FROM MY COLLEAGUES. AND I THINK THAT'S OKAY. I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND HERE DISPLAY THAT THIS IS POLITICAL OR WHATEVER THE CASE IS. MY STRONG OPINION IS THAT THE CITY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN A STRONGER STANCE, SHOWN SOME RESISTANCE AND AT THE VERY LEAST SUED THE COUNTY, SHOWED THE RESIDENTS THAT WERE HERE FOR THEM BEFORE CONTINUING THIS ROUTE, LIKE CITY OF MIAMI DID. I KNOW THE CITY MANAGER IS GOING TO COME UP SAYING THEY HAVEN'T BONDED, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE ARE AT LEAST SHOWING THEY CARE THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING. SO NO, MY VOTE IS GOING TO BE NO. ONCE AGAIN, BECAUSE I DO FEEL THAT OUR HANDS ARE NOT TIED 100%. WE COULD STILL DO MORE. I WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER CASTRO, BUT THEN WE WOULD BOTH BE WRONG. LET ME ALSO MAKE YOU AWARE OF THE SIMPLE FACT. THE REASON WHY IT'S NOT BONDED IS BECAUSE THE CITY OF MIAMI KNOWS THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THIS LAWSUIT. OKAY, WHY NOT JUST BOND IT, PAY FOR IT? IT'S A IT'S A FEE. BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING, PUT YOUR MONEY BEHIND IT. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S A WASTE OF CITY RESOURCES. IT'S A WASTE OF CITY RESOURCES. AND IT JEOPARDIZES THE CITY. THIS IS ABOUT PROTECTING THE CITY, NOT ABOUT TRYING TO WIN A REELECTION. THESE ARE THE TOUGH DECISIONS THAT HAVE TO BE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED IN THE CITY FOR DECADES AND TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THIS CITY. NOT JOHNNY COME LATELIES. YES. MOVING ON TO ITEM E TWO. I'LL MOVE IT FOR THE SAME REASONS I MOVED THE LAST ONE. I'LL SECOND MR. CLARK. COMMISSIONER LARA, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WITH RESPECT TO ANY COMMENTS THAT MORE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE, MORE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE. IT'S IT WOULD BE FUTILE. IT WOULD BE A PYRRHIC VICTORY. YOU WOULD BE SPENDING MONEY WASTING RESOURCES ON AN END GAME THAT YOU CAN'T WIN UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE WIN, AS DIFFICULT AS IT IS, THE WIN FOR THE CITY'S IS THIS VOTE OF A YES TODAY. THAT'S THE WIN BECAUSE THAT'S THE EFFORT THAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO TO TRY AND TAKE BACK FOR US A REMNANT OF HOME RULE, SOME CONTROL OVER OUR OUR DESTINY. THIS DECISION IS A DIFFICULT ONE, BUT IT'S THE RIGHT ONE FOR DECADES TO COME. WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH. ANYTHING OTHER THAN A YES VOTE TODAY. IS. WELL, IT'S BEEN SAID BEFORE. IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN JUST A SHOW OF DEFIANCE WITHOUT ANY REAL INTENTION TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE. AND IT IS UNFORTUNATE. I'LL SAY THIS AS WELL, THAT WE WON'T HAVE A5050 UNANIMOUS VOTE, WHICH WOULD SHOW NOT ONLY THE RESIDENTS, BUT ALSO THE COUNTY OF HOW WE THINK, AND WE STAND TOGETHER ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS. BUT SALOVEY, MY VOTE IS YES. VICE MAYOR ANDERSON, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T LITIGATE AND STUFF, IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE CITY SIMPLY JUST DOESN'T SUE. BUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE HAD LITIGATION IN OUR LIFETIME WHO UNDERSTAND THIS IS A PURE LEGAL ISSUE AND IT'S A LOSING ONE, IT'S A DEAD LOSER. THE ONLY THING WE'LL DO IS LOSE FOR THE CITY. WE'LL LOSE FOR THE RESIDENTS, WILL COST THE RESIDENTS LOTS OF MONEY AND EXPEDITE THE ROUTE THAT THE DEVELOPER WILL TAKE. GOING TO THE COUNTY. NOW IS THE TIME TO SEIZE THE MOMENT AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS GOES IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO THE RESIDENTS DO HAVE A VOICE UP HERE. THE THE RESIDENTS DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO AFFECT HOW THIS BUILDING IS DESIGNED TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT THE MANATEE ZONES, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WATER QUALITY IS IMPROVED, AND TO HAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES PUT IN THAT WE CAN. AND I'M GLAD TO REPORT THAT MY MEETING YESTERDAY WITH SENATOR GARCIA, ALONG WITH THE INDIVIDUAL WITH THE UNDERLYING ON THE FDOT, IS MOVING IN A GOOD DIRECTION. WE'VE MADE THE REQUEST FOR CABALLERO BOULEVARD TO HAVE A LIGHT, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOME FRUIT ON THE END OF THAT TREE. THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS YOU CAN DO IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON 
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THIS COMMUNITY. MY VOTE IS YES. COMMISSIONER CASTRO, I WILL CONTINUE TO VOTE NO ON ZONING ON A CORRIDOR, ON A PARCEL THAT IS ON US. ONE IS HIGHLY CONGESTED. THE TRAFFIC THERE IS I MEAN, IT'S TERRIBLE. THE QUALITY OF LIFE NEXT TO THE HOMES THAT LIVE IN THIS PARCEL THAT WE'RE ZONING TO THE TO TO THE RESIDENTS IS GOING TO BE REALLY BAD. AND I WILL CONTINUE TO VOTE NO, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THERE'S ANOTHER ROUTE. BUT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THIS COMMISSION IS NOT WILLING TO GO AHEAD AND ENFORCE IT OR EVEN TAKE A CHANCE. NO, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, AS I STATED EARLIER, I THINK WE ARE REALLY LEFT WITH NO OPTIONS. WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO NOW TRY TO SIT DOWN WITH THE DELER A DUCE THE SCAVE PROPTYWNER HASHEHT TO CITY CANNOT SAY YOU D HAVE E GHT TOEVELR TS BASN THE ZONINGODE. WH WE NEED T GO BACK TO I OUONIN C IS NO LGER D BEC THE CNTY PLEMTED ITC OTHISOPER. SO T ONLT AN BRI IACK TO THE TYND SCALE IS BY CREA TS R ZE,HICH CHGE S ALINGING IT BK.AN KNOWOUN COUNTOMMISSIO A PP,HAT THE ARE N CHS OR NEWNINGN THE ZONOUR STAT ON THEIVEOCAL. TSEARE ACTIVE WAN PREV I ASOR TSROJE MOTIEOTE AGAINST TI PROJT TAY, TOM THEY'LL FILE EI ALICATION R  RTC AND WE WILL HAV A OJECHERE THAT  BE AT THEY OCORALABLEIS AND ALL YOS DRE O US ONE TOWAR DOWNWN MMI YOUEE THE SIZE A SCA OF  OF TH BUDINGS AT BEING PUT THOSEOCATIONS I JUST WO'T WT TO HAT IN AT I'MING Y OTHIS XT FEW WEEKSITH THEG DELOR,YO M MAYOR, HOP WRE T GETHE TOE SONCESSIONS A DU THE SLE A BITS THE SINTS HAVEEESKIN FOR. TEVOPERATING, I WOD  TT YO SIT WITH T RESIDENTSTHE IGHBS I THAT AREA, AS OTHEOPERSAVEHEDEPERSF THE PROJET JR THE ES,UTCT THA WORKEDSECTIY FORTYHA YOU'NG COMINGNTOHENYOU' DELOPIN. 
          NOTBOUTEVIN PROJT A TNING AWAY.IT ABOUTEVIN ING SY WH  AROJECT THA ENRET WHOU'R NEE ILDI THE PROJES, THEY'RE IIT THE COMMUNITYHAU' BUILDG CORAL GLES, TO LIVE U THEORAL GABS STANDDS VE IORAL GABLE AND AR THI PROJEOR 4 A 50EA.T'S M RST DAS  SAID,ON'T TNK WEE AN OPTION. HAV TOTE YES OHI. MAYOR L YES RELTA SILE FACT TT  IS CNSENSE, NOTOLU NO AND TN NDUT A EMAIL MOOW SING, IOTED MENT THAT WE VOTE NO  THE MOME TTHEY GO CY UT AND TGOHEND THLD A MONRO BUILDG HERE.HIBO I YT TNESSED THE MAR IT'S CONG IN05FT I'M S NOT SAIED WITTH, BT COULHAVE BEEN50. COULD HAV LO MONS OOLLARS INIMPACTEES. CAE GENTN'S UB THERE IF TH ULD H HADHE US FR OUY, ATORE, THE UL HAVE HAD MAS SIGNA INOMRIN TO WHA GABLES. THECOD HAVEY HAD THILDIKE I SHOWED YO THAT ARE IN DITEANEAN AND ILAVOR. THEDEA O GOIO IRD TH OVER D OVERGA,ET'S GO TO WAR AGA T COUY. YOU  TWO INCREDI ETENT,REDI CPETENT LITI TEOOKENDINGTHIS COMMISSIONE LITID AT SOME OF THGHEST COURTHP THATHI D AE'RELI YOU LISTEN TO PPLE WHO HAVEO CITY O MMIAS SO CERINN THAWSU, A I'VE AND I'V INQUIRED WITH WOULD BONDED THAAWIT.Y EY DT. ISERY EA TO BE TERANDAY, OTED N VOTE N'M T HERO. EN COME TO YOU AKOO PACTEE OBUILDS A LARR ANDES THOE BU ANDOUOSE LAUIT, WHA HNS TN? AT DYOO? OH, WOU ITT IT IUTASRO AND I LOOD OD ANS BUAT TND OF THE DAY, WEVE TVERDE THIBOUT HETHE ORALHE RESIDTS GAESNDHA THE BLOGSILL INSATYHAT WILLSE O BYLL THESE TT MESSHAT OUAVE A DISCLME B TH W, STARIN ES. I PUT TON MINE. IT'S ILLAL.TO KNOWTHER W O SENOT DIDN'T HAISCLAI ON WE EDO BE MORE RESPONSIBLD OUGHTFUL I-DADE C JT SO OW, VOTES YES. WG TWO TE BRE. HOL ON ONEA SENDE' GOING TO TAKE ANDN WE'LL COME BACKNDREAK, WE'LKE WCHS ME ISON SUPPORTIN OF THE CY 
          [F.-11. 26-1425 A Resolution of the City Commission supporting the Matheson Hammock Market and supporting their efforts to employ individuals on the autism spectrum and those within the special needs community. 
(Sponsored by Commissioner Castro)]
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MAES HAMMOCK MARAN SUPPORTIIRFF T EMPLNDIVLS ON TH TISMPERUM ANDHOSE THIN T SPECIALEE PEECT. OKAY, S TS THISGO AN HAMMOCKS. T HAS FARMS MART. I IED A ND, WAM, MICHAELND NDO. THEY  COM UP THE JUST S A LITE FO I GO AAD A,ELLION. 
          GUYA LITE BORE MYSELF. I IS R PVILEO KO YS TAY WE RUN FR' M ON SATY ANDUN WH TRESS TENT OIRING FROM T URODIVERGE CNI OVINGMPENPOITS,SEL ASACTIS A SMU OW,AVY WORKEHA TO GET TONT COMMYUP BECAU TSGOR NG THAT  WAN GROW WE WANT COM TO BEOLVED WH, TH URODIVERGE COMMUNITY THEY'REESERNGFI OPPOUNITIES., YOU KNOW,ASF RI YOSNDASROD.. EXCEPT RNE MUS TAKE THANK YOU. YES, SIR. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. SO WE'RE REALLY SEEKING THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT. WE UNDERSTAND THE PARK IS AN UNINCORPORATED MIAMI-DADE, BUT THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE IS THE MUNICIPALITY OF CORAL GABLES. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PARTNER AND REFLECT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY VALUES AT THE MARKET, AND JUST CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THESE INDIVIDUALS CAN GI IE PEOPLENDO THAST. A ISING SUCH. AND'DE TO INT ARMANDO.E'BEEN WITH UOR A CPL MON HEANIND OF TALK A LITTLEIT ABOUTIS EXPIEE. WELL, WELL,Y NAME IS ARMANDO. I'MI BONO THE UNDATION WHEY HIRED FROPULLY WE, WE CAN GET YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE, FOR THE FARMERS MARKET. THANK YOU. WELCOME. WELCOME TO THE GABLES. ARMANDO, DO YOU WANT TO SAY A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO IN THE MARKET? WELL, I HELP TO UNLOAD THE. I HELPED UNLOAD THE TRUCK AND LOAD UP THE TRUCK, AND I ALSO WORK WITH MIKE. THE MANAGER. I ALSO LEARNED BE WH UR ABOUTS. ARMANDO AKENN ED A NBER OFDIFFERT SKILL, GENT R WHERE HE HAS A FEW INDIVIDUALS WORKING UNDER HIM. AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T BE MORE PROUD. DO YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT YOUR STORY AND HOW YOU CAME AROUND TO, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT YOUR CHIARI MALFORMATIONS? I ALSO HAVE CHIARI MALFORMATION, AND I'M ALSO ON THE SPECTRUM. YEAH. 
          AGAIN, ARMANDO, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, HE WAS HE WAS VERY SHY. AND HERE WE ARE TODAY TALKING IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL. AND THIS IS AMAZING. WE WOULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED HOW FAR WE COULD HAVE COME TOGETHER. AND AGAIN, WE'RE AGAIN, WE'RE JUST SO PROUD OF THE THE IMPACT WE'RE MAKING IN THE COMMUNITY. AND WE JUST WANT TO EXPAND THAT. AND, AND REALLY YOU GUYS ARE, ARE VERY CRUCIAL TO MAKING THAT HAPPEN. SO. SO HOW CAN WE HELP YOU? WELL, AGAIN, WE WANT TO REFLECT THE CITY'S THE CITY'S VALUES. SO IF MAYBE YOU GUYS CAN, YOU KNOW, ADVERTISE IN SOME OF THE CITY CALENDARS, PUT US ON THE CITY CALENDARS, MAYBE SOME OF YOUR PRINTED MATERIALS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SERVING THIS MUNICIPALITY DESPITE IT HAVING, YOU KNOW, BORDER OF UNINCORPORATED. SO, YOU KNOW, AND I'VE REACHED OUT TO A FEW OF YOUR OFFICES AND I'M HAPPY TO MEET WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND KIND OF SEE HOW WE CAN EXPAND ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU. YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE, WE WANT TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF THE CITY. SO IF I MAY, SO WHY DON'T YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND DO THE COMMISSION A FAVOR? SURE. SO WHY DON'T YOU PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL OF I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO BE INVESTING IN IN ADVERTISEMENT. PLUS, THE COMMISSIONERS CAN DO THAT ON THEIR OWN. WE HAVE VERY LIMITED BUDGETS, AND THEY HAVE TO BE SPENT FOR THE OFFICES. WHY DON'T YOU PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL OF HOW YOU WOULD LIKE FOR US TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CALENDAR, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN, HOW WE CAN WORK SYNERGIES TOGETHER AND 
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PROVIDE IT TO THE MANAGER AND THE MANAGER CAN ASSESS IT TO SEE IF, IF THAT'S FEASIBLE THROUGH THE MAYOR. LET ME JUST GET AN ANSWER FROM THE GENTLEMAN. SURE. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR FUNDS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE ALREADY RUNNING, WHETHER IT'S PRINTED MATERIALS IN THE CITY, JUST MAYBE ADD SOMETHING THAT WOULD INCLUDE US. YEAH, I'M JUST SAYING, JUST RUN IT. WE RUN IT THROUGH THE MANAGER AND AND WE ASK HIM TO YOU T WE HAVE A ARIN WE THINHAT WHAWITH A WITH,ITH CHILN ON THECTRUM. THE AOT ARE INVOLHE RIGND VETHAT THIIS AISMACPTAN MTH, HIS THIS GS BEYNYINGHANITYO Y KNOW,ND'M HAP AGN, WITHBODY IN THECITY BUT IFN DNOST YOU AG, IDOI K THAT WIVE UA LOT OF SUPPO JUST, YOU KW, YOU MAY,OU C,BRBBOUTATRE DNG OY GO VR AR U ACOMEY ANSEE ME OICER OFFI AE' BPP D YOD LIKE, Y REAUT ONIF FRIDAYS. I HAVE OP OICE COME BY A IMORE THAN LLING TOEEWITH Y. AN COULDUT SO. 
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I, I WTHEIDEO BEFORE. YESECOND.S COES CANCTYEE WHAT BIND TS BEAIFCAUSE. SOHROU, TH TOL W DONNOWSAUESTIOY, SO R WHTOINTO MATAN HOW FAROWIST NEARHE REDFD GLL?I GNG B I THERE, WOULD FIND Y KNOW WRE IS? BY NA BEACH. KNOW IT I.E'OCATEDD STAURANT. ANDHEY LYANDT'S A AUTI SEOOBECAUSE  ALSO US UNDERS WTRE D IS, YOU K AUTURPOND T CMUNIRD D HEL A COMMUNITYSTYCALLY UERSES AUA GO OUTND YO KNO OOSIT SID WHEREESTAURANIS'L SEE ULIUP ALONG T WLLOW, YOUANT PELEITH DABILS TO HOHATACAND ENEFATN. REA U GENCTO CUT D ING  FILY ATE'RE PRODIHECOMMUY QUIRENTS W ARE GOING TO TE I FAVORHI RESOTIANCE WISE,HAT DON'HA A PROCO F JSO WE THE ROLUT WHAT DOES SPS?HEDUT PLS ANDOMMUNICATIS. SO WEONAVENY ISHED PROOR ANAG. I TGOESOKAY. A U GOING TO OOKING FOR WE,T'T'S, IT'S A F PROFIT CPORAONSO WOU HANDLE ITOUGHHROUGHHAT GANIZATIONS LOING F.YTG F T WOUL HAVE ANDLE IT I TT'S A FORE THATS AEGUL CORPORATIO S M CONRN IS A SITUIOS AT W WSAM WH WE GIVE GNTS OUT TO ATIO,  ENTIT W HOPEEYOULD DO ENT WITHIE CI CONFI D NNLTHAT IT'S  TO IT'S G T BSOMEING , AGAIN,ENEFE CITY. A E ARE 5 AND 1. THEY'R 500 1RE T MONS EST  A VERYIME ONWEE INTEN ITT'O DON'VE IMATION. I D VE A VID T VID DSN VESEEN AIN I UP YO COMNY. I IN LAST REWEEKS,YO.THAT, LIKE I, LLESHECAN'T DY IT, THEYE RECEED 4 O5MEMOSROM MT INNGEFORE COISON. IT J BNGCONSATE. THAT'SY TS.'RE INOBRING METHING.'RENG TO ASK D KNOW YO I'VE NEVER DONE BINS WI YOU N'KN YOUR GROU. 
          OW WHERE'VE BEEN. DO BEFO. HA YOU HAD ARUPTCY THESE T RMAL THINGS.OU'RASI OWNERT THE D CORAGABLESE TT WE HFGIF'MNGGEINA TO RESPECTTHAT WE HAVE TOPROT IW WH YOU A. SO AT THEND OFDA'M GOO KI FOR YOUND MMEMO WITH E FORMA TH WCAN DO BACKGROUNDECE CAN  A INSUNC THESE A SIMPLE EVERYBATANTSDON ENT HEREN THE CITY ORAL GABL, THATE'RE TTIE OUR ENTI NAME  IT. IA MPLE THIS. SOO SG IFOU WANT T B IF YOU WANT TOH IT,O ANRAM IT DN THROH TODAY,IT YR CHOICE. LL, LDN ONE COND, . CMIIO WELL, I ANTE TO Y TT, FIRST OF ALLI THINK T F AT I'VE SO FAR HAVING ,TSE A V BH TODAY A BLE CAU TNKOUHESPECTRUMTH INDIVS CTM,ENERAL TH I HRY NEAR AND DEART,ECIALLIN U OWMY NIE IUTISTI CURRY RVETHE CH OF DEVEPMENTERVICES FORASTE S,HICHS NO F RVICES IE CTYRODI ACSS THE COUNTRY, ALLY BOTHOR AER'S A A ESPE THEGR.IG. ANDHOSE THAT ARE OUTRE THATPVIDE OPPNITI FOR IIVIDUALS A AUTI OVE T O1. AT DESYORE NNGER CDERED A MINOR I'M SUPPORT ANDSE HAVEN'T HRDAI'VEBE HEARINE NG FROYOU ALLENIT, RIGHT, HATHSE INFOAT YOU KNO A'M SURE Y'RAYING NOO T GOR INFMATI K, IF THIS I SOMETHIS T TT UILEM TH ISIA.OW, IF CAN RSE TO DER UIL W A HANTUTYSEE THE INRMIONHAT'S BNG REQUES INOWT'S IN THEMIDDLE OFNS SECONDED. I DONNO ROUGH THE MAY IT SEEN SE RIGHT. S I C'T GO OY.O WHICHHINKOTION  DEF. NOY ULAVE PPPRTE TIME YOUNOW,RE LLP ON,WHATS TO, TTEN ESOLUTION OR M MAG. T YOU. 
          MAYOR. COMMISSIONERS, WE ARE VERY DILIGENT IN WHO WE SUPPORT. AND WHEN WE. WE HAVE A CORPORATION. AND IN THIS CASE, IT'S IS FOR FOR PROFIT. AND EVEN IF IT WAS FOR NONPROFIT THAT WE DO RESEARCH AND MAKE SURE THAT BEFORE WE PUT OUR NAME ON, ON A CORPORATION, THAT ON ANY ENTITY THAT IT MAKES SURE THAT THIS ENTITY HAS. AND I'M SURE IT'S, IT'S A GREAT CAUSE, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT HAS THAT ENTITY HAS ALL THE VALUES THAT WE, THAT WE, THAT WE HAVE IN CORAL GABLES AND THAT WE CHERISH. AND SO WE WOULD, WE WOULD LOOK INTO THE CORPORATION, LOOK TO SEE WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IT'S DOING, AND ALSO DIG A LITTLE DEEPER TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT THOSE VALUES THAT WE PROPOSE ARE, ARE PART OF THAT CORPORATE STRUCTURE. AND AT THIS MOMENT, I, I DON'T KNOW. OH, WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND. MR. CLARK, THROUGH THE MAYOR, I ASKED FOR A VIDEO WHICH IS GOING TO GIVE YOU GUYS A LOT MORE INFORMATION. 
          AND I'M SORRY, SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES REALLY DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO READ THROUGH THE WHOLE RESOLUTION, BECAUSE THE RESOLUTION ACTUALLY TELLS YOU, THE CORPORATION AND THE INFORMATION SOME OF YOU ARE QUESTIONING. I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES THE AGENDA CAN GET A LITTLE FULL, AND THAT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR SOME OF US, BUT IF WE CAN, PLEASE HAVE THE 
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VIDEO. HELLO, MY NAME IS JANINE. I WORK WITH LIQUID GOLD HONEY, AND TODAY I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH ALEJANDRO. HELLO. HE'S BEEN MY HELPER TODAY. I'M ALSO TEACHING HIM ABOUT HONEY AND HOW THINGS WORK. AND CAN YOU TELL EVERYONE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU LEARNED? DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE DARKEST HONEY HAS? I KNOW IT'S A BIG WORD. AND AND TY. 
          YES, THE BUCKWHEAT IS THE DARKEST HONEY AND IT'S THE STRONGEST WITH ANTIOXIDANTS. 
          ALSO THE WILDFLOWER. DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE WILDFLOWER HAS? ANOTHER EMPTY INFLAMMATIONS. YES. ALSO COMES FROM THE EVERGLADES. VERY IMPORTANT. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE TODAY AND I APPRECIATE WORKING WITH MICHAEL, WHICH IS THE OWNER OF THIS MARKET, BECAUSE HE ALLOWS PEOPLE ON THE SPECTRUM TO HE, HE TRAINS THEM, GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE MY SON IS ALSO ON THE SPECTRUM AND NONVERBAL. AND IT GIVES ME HOPE AND MUCH GRATITUDE THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TREAT MY SON WITH THE SAME RESPECT AND GIVE HIM OPPORTUNITY AS WELL. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE BEING A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND THIS MARKET AND GIVING SOMEONE LIKE ALEJANDRO AN OPPORTUNITY AND JUST LOVING THE FULL EXPERIENCE. AND WE HOPE YOU COME AND SEE US HERE AT MATHESON HAMMOCK EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THANK YOU. HI. WE ARE HERE IN HAMMOCKS FARMER'S MARKET AND TODAY WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH MELISSA. MELISSA, HOW ARE YOU TODAY? WELL, I MADE. TO THE PEOPLE. I DID FEEL IT OUT. AND THEN I DID A SQUEEZE LEMON FOR ICE WATER AND A TV FAVORS. AND HE COULDN'T ANSWER. THE PEOPLE SERVING ON THE M&A BECAUSE THEY ARE SELLING A COCONUT WATER AND M&A. WE THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HIRE PEOPLE FROM THE UNIQUE ABILITIES COMMUNITY BECAUSE TO JUST GIVE THEM AN EXPERIENCE TO PLAY ON AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD WITH ALL OF US. HEY, TODAY WE'RE AT THE MATHESON HAMMOCK FARMER'S MARKET FRUIT STAND WITH DAVID. 
          DAVID, YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO WORK WITH THE FRUIT STAND. WHAT'S YOUR MAIN TAKEAWAY? DOING THE THE MANGOES AND. THE KIWI AND THE ORANGE AND AND AND GUAVA AND GUAVA. 
          THAT'S AWESOME. WHAT KIND OF SKILLS DID YOU LEARN TODAY OR DID YOU LEARN MOSTLY CLASSIFICATIONS OF FRUIT. PICKING UP THE THE THE STICKERS. OKAY, OKAY. AWESOME. AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO GIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO THOSE IN THE NEURODIVERGENT COMMUNITY TO GET GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, ALSO TO LEARN DIFFERENT LIFE SKILLS LIKE WORKING WITH FRUIT, PEELING FRUIT AND PREPARING THEM FOR CONSUMPTION AND PAPAYA AS WELL. 
          SO IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD FIND BENEFICIAL AND WANT TO DO AGAIN, MAYBE. YEAH. 
          AWESOME. WELL THANK YOU, DAVID. WE APPRECIATE IT. YOU TOO. WELL, I WAS MAKING CANDLES IN RISING STAR, THE SCHOOL. AND WE MAKE WITH WAX DRAGONS AND OLD THINGS FOR FOR BUYING. SO THANK YOU SIR. NICO, DO YOU PREFER MAKING CANDLES OR GOING OUT AND SELLING? WHAT DO YOU PREFER? GOING OUT AND SELLING? TAKE NICO AROUND WITH US AND GO OUT AND SELL THE COMMUNITY. AND I GOTTA TELL YOU, THEY ARE GREAT SALESPEOPLE. AND SO THIS IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY, THE ABILITY TO GET OUR KIDS OUT. THIS IS OUR CLASSROOM. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T LOCK OUR KIDS UP INSIDE CLASSROOMS. THIS IS OUR CLASSROOM. THEY GET OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY ENGAGE, THEY LEARN HOW TO SELL, HOW TO ENGAGE WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND THEN THEY CAN TAKE THOSE SKILLS LATER ON IN LIFE AND BE VERY PRODUCTIVE, ACCEPTED MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO WHAT WE NEED IS THE SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE NEED PEOPLE TO COME, COME TO THESE FAIRS, BUY OUR PRODUCTS, SUPPORT OUR KIDS AND GET VERY, VERY ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE AUTISTIC AND NEURODIVERGENT COMMUNITY. I BELONG TO AN ORGANIZATION CALLED THE FOUNDATION, AND THEY HELP PEOPLE WITH UNIQUE ABILITIES FIND JOBS. THAT'S AWESOME. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THE MARKET? THREE MONTHS OR FOUR MONTHS. AND HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? ALL RIGHT. YEAH. WHAT KIND OF SKILLS HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING ON HERE? MANAGEMENT. UNLOADING. DO YOU GREET PEOPLE WHEN YOU COME IN? PEOPLE AS WELL. YEAH. AND THEN WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT THE JOB? ARMANDO? CAN YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE FAMILY? WE DO. WE DO CONSIDER YOU FAMILY. SO 
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IN IN RESPONSE TO COMMISSIONER CASTRO'S COMMENTS, I DID READ YOUR RESOLUTION. IT WAS VERY SHORT AND BRIEF, BUT IT LACKED THE SUBSTANCE OF ACTUAL DOCUMENTS. YOUR LICENSE IS NOT HERE. YOUR INSURANCE IS NOT HERE. JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU HAVE INSURANCE DOESN'T PROVE THAT YOU HAVE INSURANCE. SO THAT'S WHAT I MEANT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LACKED DOCUMENTATION. 
          SO IF YOU LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A VOTE. NOW, WHATEVER HAPPENS AT THE OTHER END, I STILL HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION AT ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. MR. MAYOR. YES. 
          I'M SORRY. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WITH MR. COMMISSIONER, LARA'S QUESTION ABOUT A MOTION TO DEFER. A MOTION TO POSTPONE IS POSTPONED IS ONE OF THE MOTIONS THAT CAN BE MADE WHILE THERE IS ANOTHER PENDING MOTION. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT WE HAVE A MOTION, MR. COMMISSIONER. LARA HAS A MOTION TO POSTPONE. DO WE NEED A SECOND? IS THERE A SECOND IS REQUIRED? YES, I WILL SECOND THAT. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. MR. CLARK, DO WE HAVE A VOTE, COMMISSIONER CASTRO? NO. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. IT IS REALLY DISAPPOINTING TO WATCH THAT ADDING YOUR EVENT TO THE CAARN ANREA THAT HA VERY FEW ENT IN THEITYAS BECOME PITIC A WE SEE TS FRO NOT FROM FOR PROFIT CORPORATIONS ON THE CITY CALENDAR ALL THE TIME. SO I WOULD ASK FOR A FULL LIST OF EVERY EVENT THAT HAS BEEN LISTED ON THE CITY CALENDAR OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS SINCE I'VE BEEN IN THIS COMMISSION. THIS SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER. ARMANDO, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING. I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THE NEURODIVERGENT COMMUNITY. IT'SISAPPOIN TH ISOMEO 'MOT GOIN V TEFER.S ITEM SHO HBE V O DAA NO BRAINEROR M COISSIONER. LA. YES VICMAYO AERE ESN'T MNO. OY. YOUE INHE A DESIBINGWHERE Y MT IS IEI AN AERNG. BE DO HE FOLLOW A NMAROCEDURE ENOU'RE DEA WITH AOR OFITOMNY.N THEEANTIM OONGP OIZIO FLORIDORPORATION S BIZHE , I A NBE OF THEM DON'TNOW IF TY' AORHE IS MIXWEEN WHE YOU U YRIDDL INITIAL ANDOU'T U Y SIDES KNOWTRE DNGSO THE THGSHE SE WR NIZATION WE DO F THE FIORK THAT Y'REOINGGOG  THEL LPG AUTISTIOMNITY D DISLE CMUNINJPRTIVE LIFE.OHANU YE ON E DEFL, TS ISMP. SME ALL MANAGER'S OIC COP ALL T MMIS, T TOGETR COREHEE PAC ORGAZATIONYOU'RE T FORROFIT FIT FINAN FROTHE TYCHASHEES BND OU'RE DNG IT,ND I AO UNRSHYOU'RE H E NEUROVERGOM, D YOU KNOW  ERYDY LLS THE CITY OF CAL URODNT COMMU.'VTO BEEN HE3 YETAED THARTE WE H L ACADEMY,HA THE UNERSI OFMI.O 'VE DOING TS FOR  LTI, A LO T T BLDG ALE.NDN CITYALL WAVE PREC VICTORY WE VE TA OFENT ORNIZAON TE E THE CITOF C GABLEYOU'RE A FORFIT GANITIND I HAV T PROTTH BRA OF CITYOF CAL GABLEWT COISSIER FERNAND I SEND H COMMENT%, NOT I' LE TO KNOW ALE ALL THINOR A F PROFS. A I ALSO WA T WEADBOE ATNEER. 
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READIN INOHAT THCON SD GOOD AER. GD AFTNOON,IR MR. MAYORHA YERY MUCH FO HAVING MERENT ITW ESEN I TWO MINUT. I CPRESENT AST HERE'S MOT R. 
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
          TREES REMAIN, TREES WILL BE ADDED, THE GREEN SPACE. AND WE WOULD ALSO PUT THE DEED IN ESCROW. SO IF YOU HAVE TO CALL THE BOND, YOU ALREADY HAVE THE DEED. WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT BEING A PROBLEM. WE ARE BUILDERS. WE WANT TO BUILD THIS. WE JUST. IT'S HARD TO BUILD A PARK IN AN 18 STOREY TOWER AT THE SAME TIME. AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I'M PERSONALLY GLAD TO BE ASKING FOR THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IT WOULD HAVE LESSENED THE PARK TO HAVE THE CONSTRUCTION. MY DAD GOES TO THAT POST OFFICE ALL THE TIME, AND AS MUCH AS MY DAD LOVES ME AND SUPPORTS ME, I THINK HE'S STILL MAD AT ME THAT WE'VE MADE IT HARDER TO GET TO THE POST OFFICE, SO WE WOULD HAVE MADE IT A LITTLE HARDER TO GET TO THIS TOO. BUT THIS WILL BE A JEWEL. AND, MR. MAYOR, THE JEWEL THAT I THINK YOU WANTED FOR ONE OF THE URBAN PARKS, IT'S IT IS NOT AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY. IT IS, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A $2 MILLION PROJECT THAT OUR COSTS. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE IF IF YOU HAD TRIED TO DO IT WITH WITH. I KNOW WHAT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REQUIRES SOMETIMES. SO I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS LEGISLATION. 
          I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. BUT IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING. IT HAS BEEN. WE HAVE BEEN MOVING FORWARD ALL THE TIME, BUT WE HAVE USED IT AS A BENEFIT TO THE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BY KEEPING. BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUCH THAT'S A COMPLAINT OF CONSTRUCTION SITES. WHEN PEOPLE PARK ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THEY AFFECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY TAKE PARKING AWAY FROM OTHER BUSINESSES THERE, WE ARE JAM PACKED IN THAT LOT 24 SEVEN, YOU CAN SEE IT. SO I KNOW IT'S AN ASK. I KNOW IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO WHAT WE AGREED TO DO, BUT IT IS IN GOOD FAITH AND WE WILL DELIVER WHAT YOU FOUGHT SO HARD FOR. I MEAN, I KNOW AND I SMILE ABOUT IT NOW, BUT YOU FOUGHT ME. FOUGHT ME TOOTH AND NAIL ON THAT ONE. I YOU PUT IT IN THERE. IT WAS A REQUIREMENT. I HAD TO DO IT. SO DID YOU. AND WE DO LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMPLETE PROJECT BEING COMPLETED SOON. SO JOE, FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS IN FOR FRUITION. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT'S BEEN A LABOR OF LOVE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. WHEN I GOT ELECTED MAYOR, WE HAD ONE PARK IN THE DOWNTOWN POND, CIRCLE PARK. WHEN YOU INCLUDE POND CIRCLE PARK. NOW WITH THE ADDITIONAL ONES, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SIX PARKS IN THE DOWNTOWN, ALL NEGOTIATED AT ZERO COST WITH THE DEVELOPERS. PUBLIX HAS A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. JOHN MARQUEZ HAS A 15,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. JOSE BOSCHETTI IN FRONT OF NORDSTROM'S HAS LIKE A 6 OR 7000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. AND THEN WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY THE SITE ADJACENT TO YOUR HOME, MADAM VICE MAYOR, WHICH IS A 
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BEAUTIFUL LITTLE SITE, A LITTLE SITE THERE WITH A WITH A NICE PARK THERE. AND WE'RE WORKING ON TWO OTHER ONES THAT I'M NOT GOING TO DISCUSS RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT ARE, THAT ARE POTENTIAL SEVEN AND EIGHT FOR OUR DOWNTOWN. WE FOUGHT WE TALKED ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME. FOR ME, THIS IS THIS IS A LEGACY ITEM. THIS IS REAL LEGISLATION. THIS IS BRINGING THIS IS YEARS OF HARD WORK THAT YOU SEE HERE BEFORE YOU. BY THE WAY, JOE, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW AND THE MANAGER CAN ATTEST TO IT, AND SO CAN THE DCM. THAT PROPERTY IS NO LONGER $1.2 MILLION. A CORNER ON SEVILLA IS MORE LIKE $4 MILLION NOW. OKAY, $3.5 MILLION OR SO. I'M JUST TELLING YOU THAT'S A CITY ASSET. AND NOW TO BUILD IT, ANOTHER SIX $700,000, WHICH IS GOING TO BE ENJOYED IN PERPETUITY FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY AFTER WE'RE ALL LONG GONE AND NOT SERVING HERE ON THIS COMMISSION ANYMORE. THIS IS WHAT TRULY IT TAKES TO EFFECTUATE CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY, TO COME TO WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY AND NEGOTIATE AND REALLY DELIVER EXCELLENCE FOR THE CITY. SO TO ME, I WANT TO THANK YOU. YOU WORKED YOUR TAIL OFF, ARMANDO MANNI. IT WAS A TOUGH NEGOTIATION. AS THE MANAGER CAN ATTEST. THIS WAS A STICKING POINT IN REGARDS TO THE 17 ADDITIONAL FEET ON THE BUILDING. AND I THINK THE TRADE OFF WAS WAS AN AMAZING WINDFALL FOR THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. I HAVE A FEW ASKS THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE FROM STAFF, NOT FROM YOU. OKAY, MR. DCM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE DECENT MATURE TREES, THAT WE HAVE SHADE TREES THAT WHILE I RESPECT AND I FOLLOW THE LEAD BY MISS BELL, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE OAK TREES. WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL SHADE TREES THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, 15 YEARS FROM NOW. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE AND THEY'RE WELCOMING IN OUR DOWNTOWN, ESPECIALLY AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW. THAT'S THE MARK OF A WORLD CLASS CITY, A TOWN WITH PLAZAS, A TOWN WITH OPEN SPACES IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DOWNTOWN. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH THESE 6 OR 7 PARKS, GOD WILLING, ALONG WITH THE UNDERLINE, WHICH IS BEING COMPLETED, A PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT I WROTE TEN YEARS AGO, AND NOW YOU SEE IT COMING TO FRUITION. SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THERE'S SHADE TREES, REAL SHADE TREES. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SIDEWALKS IS PART OF THEIR CONTRACT. ANYWAYS, THE SIDEWALKS ARE REPLACED ON BOTH SIDES. YOU HAVE, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE FIRE HYDRANT. THERE'S SOME THEY TAPPED INTO THE FIRE HYDRANT. THERE'S BEEN SOME ISSUES THERE. THEY'RE GOING TO REPLACE IT ANYWAYS, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT GETS TAKEN CARE OF. AND I ALSO WANT TO CONSIDER FOR HERE. I KNOW WE'RE WORKING ON IT RIGHT NOW. HERE COMES MISS BELL. TO TALK ABOUT TREES IS TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE OF. I WOULD LIKE ONE DAY TO PUT A WORK OF ART, A WORK OF ART IN THIS IN THIS PARK, I KNOW THAT THE DEVELOPER IS BRINGING A WORLD CLASS PIECE OF ART THAT THEY'RE PUTTING IN FRONT OF THEIR BUILDING, WHICH IS AMAZING. IT'S ALREADY THERE, IT'S ENCASED, IT'S PROTECTED, AND YOU'LL SEE IT. BUT I WOULD LIKE IN THE FUTURE, USING OUR PUBLIC ART IN PUBLIC PLACES FUND TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS INCREDIBLE PARK AND PUT SOMETHING THERE. AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE THERE POTENTIALLY TO BE CONSIDERED IS A WORK BY CARMEN HERRERA, A CUBAN AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WAS DISCOVERED IN NEW YORK WHEN SHE WAS 90 YEARS OLD, AND SHE RECENTLY PASSED AWAY, I THINK IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO, AT AN AGE OF ALMOST 104, 105 YEARS OLD IN NEW YORK. SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT ONE DAY. MAYBE WE GET SOME FUNDS FROM OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE CAN PUT IT INTO THIS PARK. SO I LIKE THE DESIGN OF THE PARK. I'D LIKE TO SEE IT. 
          THE GREENER, THE BETTER I KNOW IT, THE LESS HARDSCAPE, THE CHEAPER IT WILL BE. I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME SHADE TREES AND I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH GRANTING THE EXTENSION BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND BUILDING THIS PARK WITH 300 WORKERS ON A JOB SITE. THE DISASTER THAT IT WOULD'VE BEEN. 
          THIS IS WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING. YOU NEED A PLACE TO PARK. AND I'M OKAY WITH THAT BECAUSE THIS IS A MASSIVE INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY IS GETTING IN REGARDS TO A PARK JUST LIKE THE ONE FOR PUBLIX, JUST LIKE THE 15,000FT■S ON SEVILLA, I THINK IN SEVILLA. CORRECT. THE CORNER SEVILLA AND ALSO THE ONE WHERE JOSE BOSCHETTI IN FRONT OF THE NORTH SLOPES. THESE ARE MASSIVE INVESTMENTS IN THE FUTURE. SO IF WE HAVE TO MAKE SOME ACCOMMODATIONS, AS LONG AS WE HAVE A BOND, WE'RE PERFECTLY FINE ON THE JOB. I HAVE NO ISSUES, MR. MANAGER. YES. THANK YOU MAYOR. IT IS A 10,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. IT WAS USED VERY EFFECTIVELY FOR PARKING VEHICLES, WHICH IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM. AND THROUGH A CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SIZE, THE TITLE IS IN ESCROW. WE HAVE A BONDED JOB AND WE HAVE A, A PARK WHICH IS BEING REVIEWED AND, AND OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF GREEN SCAPE, DINA BELLS DID A DONE A WONDERFUL JOB IN, IN CREATING A BEAUTIFUL PARK THERE. SO GET US SOME SHADE TREES. DINA. MAKE SURE MISS BELL MAKE SURE THAT THEIR SHADE SHADE BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME OAKS IN THE BACK, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET SOME OAKS ON THE PROPERTY. AND BY THE WAY, I FORGOT A PROJECT TRAMMELL CROW PROJECT CORNER LOT. THAT'S ANOTHER PARK THAT WE NEGOTIATED THAT WAS DEEDED TO THE CITY. 
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AND BY THE WAY, JUST SO MY COLLEAGUES UNDERSTAND, THE ESERORTIES ARELL D TO CITHEWETARTED THEY'RLLDED TE CIT THESRE ASSETSHAT BENG TO CIT SO AT ANOTHER ONETH IORGOT1 TT  HAVE RIGHT N AND WE'RE LOOKIWOER ES.THUG THE MAY. YES MAY, BECAUSE OL THESE TITLE EROONFORING ,0,ND TCO AND O EEND PDING TAS LONG, ASON AF S T' IN ESC AND A BOND FOR THEULLT. OK.R.R. MAY YES.USTTOLARI, WE'VH SCUSSIONS WI MR. JENEZ IN LOF PERFORMAN BONDDIT IS WHA WE HAD DISCUSSED. AND AN WE WILL WORK BETEN JINEND IL WORK OUT THE. WHATEVERSON ANHAOCREDIT PROT THROUGH THE MAY MR MANAG, CAN  D ME LATITUDE. WIL Y WK TH HER BTHNT PSOWITHYBEELA ATOURFFE THIS THRGH AND PIS UGH AS ICY AS PSIBLE AND ADDRESS THE IUE THUGHAMBEUS INTO SEE THEM GET TE AND I WTHE PROJECTED I WELIVERTHISS THE FIRS ONE. THISS EST GOG TO FST. TRELEROW WIE DELIV PBAY IN THE NEW M B T COBE TECON ONE W NT TESEARN OUDOWNWN COM LIFE THROUGH THE MOR. YESEAH. SO I THINKHIIS JUST VERY SILE WE' GOI TO GOHE D HAVATERND WE COULD JUST WAIT FOR C. WE'RE NOT PA DONE. ANDF T IF THE RK'S NOT DONHEITY LL OBABLY DO IT R700,0,ICHILHA T. 
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          LADA.ES. VICEAYOR ANDSEN. YES.OMMISSASTR Y, MAYOR. YES.HANKOU FOR YOUR APIATE Y. L SOUD, I ON T SOND UND. I REAY HIS AFFND THETTORNEYG BECAUS WE'VE BEEWE'VE BEEN ATS. AND IEALLY D THEYE GINO IS MATTE AT WE HAVE? YES. WT TVE A MA SURE. LET ME CHECTH YES,IRWEO. YEA GIVME 'RE GOINTO TA0 MITE LUNCH. WE'LL BE BACK H 5  W WILL TAHAIME. 
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          THANKELCOME BACK FROM H TIM CTAIN ITEMS EAND NINE. ON. MAYOR. OH, WE'RE GOING TO KNOW ARE WE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO DEFER THOSE ITEMS FOR A LITTLE BIT. WE'RE WE'RE STILL 
          [E.-4. 26-1394 An Ordinance of the City Commission amending Chapter 74, "Traffic and Vehicles," to create "Article X-Personal Delivery Devices and Mobile Carriers" to impose certain safety and operational requirements for personal deliver devices and mobile carriers consistent with State Law; providing for severability clause, repealer provision, codification and providing for an effective date. 
(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Anderson)]
NEGOTIATING ON THAT POINT. EXCUSE ME. LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM E FOUR. TRYING TO TRYING TO IRON OUT THE LAST DETAILS. WASEETIH ORIENDS FROM PUBLIX, CIT AORNE TYRK, EXCUS MANAGEND M STAFFLONG WIT THTTY. A WE'RE JUST FOE 689. HOPEFULTHAT THECOMMISSE NALHANGES. E FR NANCEF THE TY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 7 TIE TENERNAL DELERYE DES  MOBIL CARRI T POSE CERTA SAFETY AND OPERATIONA RUIREMENTS PERSONAL DELY DEVICES AND WI STEAW PRONG FORSERATY CUS PRR WR MILIT MOBILY.EINABY.ORT DUTYY THAN YOU. THISTEM 
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RED BY THE VICE MAYOR. INFLUX IN OS I'M GNG TCA TM DELT TH'RECTUALLY LLED PEELIVY DES AND MO CARSND SAW SO THISRDCE ACT WHIN OPERATIO THOSEEVICES. WETETO RAS ARENERLY PREEMED ATO ERSONALERY DEST  DO HAVE AARROWA OU S OPETION IICH WE C LEGISTE.  TS W MO A.T DOES IS IT IRAS THOSEVA DENIONS  OUR CODE A AL HAS REQREMENTS FORE SAFE,AFEE S. TAIN ON A T DEVICE TMSVES HAVE HAVE LIGS AND PS.Y CANNOT HAVE CRCL ADRTON THEM. THEYAVETOVIDENC INE CITYUALLYO MAKEURE WE'R COVED F ANYCCID MAYUR.HERE ALSO SPEE LIMITFOR THPETION ON SIDALND CSSWAS, AND MOST IOR,HEY EHA THEY CANT BE RYNY SEWALKS ORSWALESOR MORE THE PATH ORAVEL.IT WANTSASIE TO WORK CLOSELY WTHE INHEY,O MA SURE ATTHEYVOID THO W SIDELKATEW  MAYHAVE IN TOWOWAREO AT WRE THAT THERE'S ALL  OURITYIGHTS OFAY ON AC TL OUR DOWRNS HE SAFE SO H TO AWE THCEAYOR OR MATT, R HA ANYUESTIONS MADAMICE R. A YOULLAVE B SERVING, THE'S MEND REHESE PERLELIVER DEVICE AROUND. I'VE SEEN NUMBER OF INSESRE ANARE SHOFTHE W BY  DICES EMSELVES SEWKS ITOWN,R THEY' SITNG FAKE ANEAY A INTO T SOONE'S HOME, BCKGHE SILKNDORCING PPLEO KE ANOTHEROUTE.O I LIANCE WITH THE ADA, THAN THEICES TMSELVES ARE NOTIN BARERS A IDLS W DON'CREATE A HDHENY ALSO VEHICS ARETING THEM, ESSIKYS LL. S I APPRECIA SFFORK  T D HOPULLY TDO W FOEMENOUN'T BEGIN W BEAB TMOVE O SIONS AFTER ADOPTN. 
          WE THIT LL GIVE TIM FOR D  SURE VERYBOOSE VRS ABLE TOIN COMPLIANCE. SO, OKAY ANY QIONS FROM ALL? IF NOT, I'LL MOV IT. I'LL COND I BUT I DO HAVE A QUESON. YES. DO THESE DEVICES AND THIS MAY JUST BE A NOT NOT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE LEGISLATION, BUT DO THEY HAVE AN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON THEM THAT'S VISIBLE? FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY THAT THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH THE UNIT SO THAT IT CAN BE REPORTED. YEAH. STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT THEY HAVE A NAME AND THE COMPANY NAME ON THEM, AND THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE UNDER STATE STATUTE TO BE ACTIVELY MONITORED WHEN MOVING. THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE A HUMAN BEING THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RIGHT THERE, BUT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ACTIVELY MONITORED. AND WE'VE ALREADY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SOME OF THE COMPANIES. SO WE WE DO HAVE CONTACT INFORMATION AS WELL. I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE IS AN EXPLICIT REQUIREMENT UNDER STATE LAW FOR LIKE A PHONE NUMBER OR COMPLAINTS, HOW AM I DRIVING, ETC. BUT WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT. I MEAN, AN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER FOR THE ACTUAL UNIT. YES, THEY ALL HAVE NAMES. SO THEY HAVE HUMAN NAMES. OKAY. YES. OKAY. THERE'S A NUMBER ON THE TOP. THERE'S THAT LITTLE DEVICE ON THERE. AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, IN THE DEFINITIONS, PART OF MY EDITING WAS INCORPORATING THE ADA AS WELL SO THAT OUR CODE INCORPORATES THE FEDERAL CODE. 
          OKAY. MR. CLARK, DO YOU HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO. MR. MAYOR, WE HAVE A MOTION. A SECOND COMMISSIONER LADA THROUGH THE MAYOR. JUST A QUESTION. SO VICE MAYOR OR TO CITY ATTORNEY, WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE, IT SAYS THE DEVICES IN SECTION. I GUESS IT'S. C B UNDER OPERATIONAL RESTRICTIONS SAYS DEVICES SHALL NOT OBSTRUCT PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT OR IMPEDE ACCESSIBLE ROUTES OR ACCESS TO BUILDINGS. ADA RAMPS, FIRE HYDRANTS, TRANSIT STOPS OR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE. SO JUST WALKING THE STREETS, SOME OF THEM ARE NARROW SIDEWALKS, RIGHT. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DO WHEN IT'S LIKE A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN ME AND LIKE WALLY WHEN YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET. AND IF I WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR, I DON'T KNOW. SO I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT. BUT LIKE WE THOUGHT THROUGH LIKE WHAT THE ENFORCEMENT OF THAT LOOKS LIKE. SURE. SO IT'S AS ALWAYS, AN OPERATIONAL CHALLENGE TO ENFORCE SOME OF THESE RESTRICTIONS. THAT IS THE VERY ISSUE THAT THE VICE MAYOR BROUGHT UP. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS, BUT THEY ARE ALSO TREATED AS PEDESTRIANS LEGALLY UNDER THE STATE STATUTE. SO IT'S AN INTERESTING CASE THERE. OUR INTENTION IS TO WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS STAFF AND WITH MATT'S TEAM TO IDENTIFY THOSE ROADS IN WHICH WE WOULD HOPE THAT THEY WOULD AVOID PASSAGEWAY. WE DO HAVE SOME NARROW SIDEWALKS IN THE CITY ALONG LEJEUNE OR SOME OTHER BUSIER ROADS, WHERE YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY, ROBOT OR HUMAN. AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK TO IDENTIFY THOSE ROADS THAT WE WOULD SORT OF LIKE TO BE OFF LIMITS TO THE EXTENT THAT WE LATER WANT TO COMPLETELY RESTRICT THEM FROM THOSE THOSE SIDEWALKS. WE WE MAY BE ABLE TO DO THAT. WE CAN LOOK AT THAT. BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WE REALLY WANTED TO IDENTIFY THOSE ROADS AND WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE VENDORS TO SORT OF, YOU KNOW, RESTRICT THEIR USAGE THERE. IF 
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THAT'S THE ONLY PATH TO A LOCATION WHERE THEY'RE GOING, THAT MAY BE THE ONLY PATH THEY JUST NEED TO BACK UP, BE IT A BLOCK OR TWO, IF SOMEBODY IS IN THE WAY AND OR IF WE CAN SORT OF MAP OUT ROADS THAT WE DON'T THINK THEY'RE APPROPRIATE ON. IF WE CAN WORK WITH THE VENDORS LIKE WE'VE DONE WITH THE SCOOTERS, ETC. WE WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT AND WORK COLLABORATIVELY, BUT AT THE MOMENT IT DOESN'T BAN THEM FROM ANY SPECIFIC SIDEWALKS. SO THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. SO I BROUGHT UP SPECIFICALLY TO STAFF, YOU KNOW, PARTICULAR ROADS AND STAFF CAN IDENTIFY THOSE ROADS, LIKE FOR INSTANCE, LEJEUNE ROAD. THERE'S NO PLACE TO GO. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE FOR HUMAN BEING TO GO THAT IS DISABLED OTHER THAN THE SIDEWALK. I DID TAKE A PICTURE AND I SENT IT TO STAFF WHERE THE HUMAN BEING WAS FORCED INTO THE GRASS THAT WAS ABLE BODIED. BUT A PERSON IN A WHEELCHAIR CANNOT. SO WE DON'T WANT TO STAND DOWN LIKE THAT. THAT IS AN EXTREMELY BUSY HIGHWAY. IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS HIGHWAY. AND TO HAVE A STUBBORN MACHINE THAT'S NOT GOING TO MOVE, FORCE AN INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES TO GO IN REVERSE ON A SIDEWALK. SIDEWALK LIKE THAT IS UTTERLY DANGEROUS. SO THERE WILL BE STREETS IN WHICH OUR STAFF IS GOING TO HAVE TO SAY, THAT IS TOO DANGEROUS, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T IMAGINE GOING BACKWARDS IN A WHEELCHAIR DOWN SOME OF THESE STREETS. THERE'S ANOTHER ROUTE THAT THESE ROBOTS CAN TAKE. IT'S GOING TO BE LONGER, OKAY. AND BUT IT'S EXACTLY WHY ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS THAT COME FORWARD, WE NEED TO PRESS FOR WIDER SIDEWALKS SO THAT THERE IS SPACE FOR BOTH ALL THESE GADGETS AND DEVICES AND PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO WALK AND STROLL AND STROLLERS AND WHEELCHAIRS AND BE ABLE TO PASS EACH OTHER. 
          SO THAT'S WHY UNDER OPERATIONAL RESTRICTIONS, PARAGRAPH C, THERE'S A SUBPARAGRAPHS E THAT SAYS ALL EFFORTS SHALL BE MADE TO OPERATE THESE DEVICES ONLY ON THOSE SIDEWALKS, PROVIDING MORE THAN FIVE FEET OF CLEARANCE AND FREE OF ANY INFRASTRUCTURE OBSTRUCTIONS, WHICH MAY INHIBIT THE USE OF SIDEWALKS BY PEDESTRIANS. OKAY. IS THERE A STAGING AREA FOR THESE VEHICLES? ARE THEY PICKED UP EVERY NIGHT? I KNOW IN SOME AREAS THEY PICK UP THE SCOOTERS AT NIGHT. IS THAT THE SAME WAY THAT THEY OPERATE, OR IS THERE A PLACE WHERE THEY PARK THESE ON ON A REGULAR BASIS? I'LL DEFER TO MR. ANDERSON, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE ARE SOME ARRANGEMENTS WITH PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE DOWNTOWN WHERE SOME OF THEM ARE BEING STAGED. I BELIEVE THEY'RE ALSO STATIONED STAGING OVER ON WHERE THE FOUNTAIN IS ON ALHAMBRA, RIGHT OVER HERE IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT. THEY'VE BEEN I'VE SEEN THEM STAGING THERE WHERE THEY'RE CIRCLED, THEY'RE DROPPING THEM OFF AND STAGING THEM SURROUNDING THAT FOUNTAIN AREA RIGHT THERE. RIGHT. SO THEY'RE PICKING THEM UP AND DROPPING THEM OFF, I GUESS. 
          YEAH. THEY'RE NOT THERE OVERNIGHT BECAUSE IF WE HAVE A 30 MINUTE LIMIT, NO, IT'S NOT MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY'RE OVERNIGHT. BUT IF THEY ARE, THAT WOULD BE PROHIBITED IF THIS ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED AND ENFORCED. AND I WOULD SUGGEST IF THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT WE CAN MAYBE RENT THEM SPACE TO STORE THESE ON AN OVERNIGHT BASIS AS A REVENUE GENERATING WAY OF DOING THIS WELL, MAITN E DOWNTN, CAN NT OUT THEM F, F EM STORE THE I THI WE FOR TT. I GUESS GNGVEIGHT SIH FORWARD, I TEED DOES ARISE. I KNOW  THNOLOGY O ASUICKLY AS ERYTHING ELSE IS SO, Y I SURE THAT SOLTYE EMAYECOME JUSTHE REGULA LGETY ANYY. SO JU FD F THOUGHT GOI RWARD. O ONTENON ISBEEEN FIRST D READING TO REACH OUT TO THOSE VENDORS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE CITY, TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE AWARE OF THESE NEW RESTRICTIONS, SHOULD THEY BE ADOPTED ON SECOND READING THROUGH THE MAYOR? YES, SIR. SO JUST A COMMENT. YOU KNOW, AND I'M NOT THE GUY THAT THINKS THAT WE SHOULD EVER ALLOW PERFECT TO BE THE ENEMY OF GOOD, RIGHT? BUT ONE THING THAT COMES TO MY MIND IN LOOKING AGAIN AT THE VISIBILITY ENHANCEMENT REQUIREMENT UNDER, I GUESS IT'S B THAT ALL SUCH DEVICES MUST EMIT A PERIOD AUDIBLE SOUND PERIODIC. THAT'S A THAT'S A TYPO, BUT YES, A PERIODIC AUDIBLE PERIOD. BUT OKAY. PERIODIC. GOT IT. THAT WAS FOR A PERIOD. IT'LL BE ON BUT OKAY. PERIODIC AUDIBLE SOUND SWISHING OR OCCASIONAL BEEPING WHEN EMOTION SUFFICIENT TO ALERT NEARBY PEDESTRIANS OF THEIR PRESENCE. I MEAN, WE TREAT THESE AS AS INDIVIDUALS, RIGHT? BUT WE DON'T REQUIRE INDIVIDUALS TO WALK AROUND WITH SWISHING OR OCCASIONAL BEEPING WHEN WE WALK. AND AND ALREADY YOU'VE GOT A FLAG THAT'S THREE FEET HIGH OFF THE TOP OF THE, OF THE, THE DEVICE. I'M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IN PRACTICE WE'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, IF ADOPTED, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE EXPERIENCING. BUT IF LIKE I'M SITTING HAVING A COFFEE AT MORTON'S OR, YOU KNOW, I'M SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THE CITY OUTDOOR CAFE AND C MIGHT NOT WANT THE BEEPING. I HAVE A SENSE BECAUSE I'VE SEEN QUITE A FEW OF THESE PD'S RIGHT THERE. JUST GO, IS IT GOING TO BE A CONSTANT R2D2 KIND OF MOTIF GOING ON? YOU KNOW, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP AT ALL TIMES. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT CITY OF MIAMI BEACH HAS ALSO ADOPTED THIS. AND THE REASON IS FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. IF YOU ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR IF YOU HAVE YOUR BACK TURNED, YOU MAY NOT SEE ONE, BUT SORT OF LIKE 
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AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE HAS THAT SORT OF LOW SWISHING HUM NOISE WHEN BACKING UP OR MOVING THAT IT WOULD ALERT YOU TO THEIR PRESENCE. BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT MODIFYING THAT AGREEMENT IF THE SPONSOR WANTS TO. BUT IT IS SIMILAR TO WHAT MIAMI BEACH HAS ADOPTED. 
          BUT I DO UNDERSTAND, OF COURSE, THE CONCERN AND WE'RE HAPPY TO ADDRESS IT, HOWEVER YOU WOULD LIKE IN THE ORDINANCE. WELL, I'M NOT ASKING FOR IT TO BE AMENDED. I WAS JUST KIND OF THINKING OUT LOUD AND MAYBE THERE'S NO GOOD ANSWER UNTIL WE SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE IN PRACTICE. 
          BUT I'M ENVISIONING SOMETHING LIKE WHERE THE AMOUNT OF OPERATIONAL USAGE RIGHT DURING A GIVEN EVENING MIGHT EVEN DIMINISH THE EFFECTIVENESS WHEN ALL YOU HEAR IS JUST BEEPING, GOING ON, OR SWISHING GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, AND WHETHER THAT'S REALLY GOING TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OR DIMINISH THE EXPERIENCE FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO ENJOY, YOU KNOW? BUT I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW LOUD THE BEEPING IS. I DON'T 150 FOR THE. FOR FEAR REAR FACING. OH, THE LIGHTS ARE. THE LIGHTS ARE 100FT AND THERE. THE OPTION TWO IS SUFFICIENT TO ALERT. YEAH, RIGHT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF. I DON'T KNOW, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT BEHIND IT, WHICH IS MORE THAN LAUDABLE. RIGHT. BUT LIKE WE DON'T REQUIRE THAT OF PEOPLE. WE DON'T REQUIRE THAT OF PEOPLE ON A BICYCLE. WE DON'T REQUIRE THAT OF DOGS THAT ARE ALSO BEING WALKED. ANY ONE OF THOSE COULD PRESENT AN ISSUE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AS WELL, YOU KNOW, BUT I WAS JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE JUST FOR FURTHER CONVERSATION, YOU KNOW, REGARDING THE YES, I THINK THE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IS A PERSON WHO'S WALKING A DOG OR, OR A PERSON WALKING CAN SAY, EXCUSE ME, IF THEY FIND SOMEBODY WHO'S STANDING IN THE WAY OTHER. OTHERWISE THIS DEVICE IS JUST GOING TO STOP THERE AND STAND ON THE SIDEWALK. IF IT'S NOT NOTIFYING, THAT PERSON MAY JUST TURN AROUND AND FALL RIGHT OVER IT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION OR THEY'RE NOT SEEING IT. SO THAT THAT MAY BE THE DIFFERENCE. MAYBE IT'S NOT A BEEPING SOUND THAT WE WANT. MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT THE ELECTRICAL ELECTRIC VEHICLES HAVE, WHICH IS JUST THAT HUMMING SOUND WHICH MAY BE EMITTED IF IT COMES TO A STOP OR, I DON'T KNOW, YOU COULD TRY TO BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING, MAYBE WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION. YEAH. AND YOU SAY A SOLUTION. I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE A PROBLEM EITHER, YOU KNOW, LIKE I'M JUST KIND OF AMUSING OUT LOUD AND REALLY IN PRACTICES WHEN WE'RE REALLY. NO, BUT YEAH, GOOD SUGGESTION THERE. 
          THROUGH THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. SO I HAD BROUGHT UP THE SWISHING SOUND. THE MIAMI BEACH ORDINANCE ONLY HAD BEEPING. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE RIDING A BIKE, THE THING YOU DO IS YOU RING YOUR BELL OR SOMETHING AND SAY, YOU KNOW, AND YOU TELL PEOPLE WHERE THAT YOU'RE COMING. 
          YOU'RE TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT. YOU GIVE THEM A HEADS UP. OKAY, I'M OUT WALKING MY DOGS AT NIGHT. I TRY TO AVOID PEOPLE. PROBLEM IS, THESE THINGS AREN'T AVOIDING PEOPLE. THEY'RE GOING. 
          THEY'RE BLOCKING THE ROAD. AND FOR AN INDIVIDUAL, THAT'S THAT'S SIGHT IMPAIRED. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. NOW, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S SWISHING OR BEEPING SOMETIMES WILL DEPEND ON THE CONTEXT. SO I LEFT STAFF SOME DISCRETION HERE BECAUSE IF YOU'RE ON LEJEUNE ROAD, SWISHING IS NOT GOING TO DO SO. I THINK, YOU KNOW, STAFF WILL NEED TO MAKE AN ASSESSMENT OF THAT. I PREFER THE SWISHING OVER BEEPING BECAUSE WE'RE BEEPED ENOUGH AS IT IS, BUT I DID LEAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY IN THERE FOR STAFF SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SIGHT IMPAIRED DO KNOW THAT THESE DEVICES ARE ON THE ON THE STREET AND THAT THEY LOOK AROUND, TURN AROUND. HERE IT IS. IT'S BEHIND ME. OH MY GOD, I CAN'T GO BACKWARDS. PERHAPS THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN ADDRESS BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING. TO THE EXTENT WE ARE ABLE TO SCHEDULE A MEETING WITH THE VENDORS IN BETWEEN, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO LEARN THE CAPABILITIES. I DON'T THINK THEY CAN TALK YET, BUT WE CAN. 
          WE CAN SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT THE THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, SIR. VICE MAYOR, AS FAR AS IS CONCERNED, WHITE NOISE AND BEEPING ARE CONSIDERED BOTH SAFE. SO THE SWISHING TYPE TALENT THAT'S WHITE NOISE IS USED IN EQUIPMENT WHERE YOU HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL AREA AROUND. AND SO BOTH ACTUALLY COMPLY WITH WITH OSHA FROM A CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE. SO I'M ASSUMING THEY'LL COMPLY WITH WITH THIS, WITH THIS KIND OF ISSUE ALSO. OKAY. SO AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN I'LL JUST AMEND IT ON THE FLOOR HERE AND LET'S SCRATCH BEEPING AND JUST MAKE IT SWISHING. OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND WITH AN AMENDMENT, CORRECT? YES, YES. 
          OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO. MR. MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. WELL, COMMISSIONER LARA? YES. VICE MAYOR ANDERSON. YES. COMMISSIONER CASTRO. YES. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YES. 
          MAYOR LAGO. YES. I'D LIKE TO RUN THROUGH H1, H2 AND H3 QUICKLY IF POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. 
          [H.-1. 26-1371 A Resolution of the City Commission accepting the recommendation of the Chief Procurement Officer to award the Bridges Repairs and Rehabilitation contract in the estimated amount of $803,378.00 to P and P Contracting, Inc., the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, pursuant to Invitation for Bids (IFB) 2025-046 and Section 2-763 of the Procurement Code entitled “Contract Award.”
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ONE MAYOR. H1 IS A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO AWARD THE BRIDGE'S REPAIRS AND REHABILITATION CONTRACT AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $800,378 TO P AND P CONTRACTING INC, THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE BIDDER PURSUANT TO IFB 2025 046 AND SECTION 2-7 63 OF THE PROCUREMENT CODE 
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ENTITLED CONTRACT AWARD. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO, MR. MAYOR, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I'LL MOVE IT. SECOND VICE MAYOR, PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR RUSHING IN. I DON'T KNOW IF. GO AHEAD. DO WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND? SHE WANTS TO HEAR THE VOTE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 
          VICE MAYOR ANDERSON. YES. COMMISSIONER CASTRO. YES. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YES. 
          [H.-2. 26-1386 A Resolution of the City Commission authorizing the renewal of the Property and Casualty Insurance Program which includes, but is not limited to, Property, General Liability, Automobile Liability, Public Officials Errors & Omissions, Excess Workers' Compensation, Crime Liability, Special Risk, Terrorism Property & Liability, Pollution Liability, Deadly Weapon Protection Coverage, Flood, as well as other ancillary lines of insurance coverage and insurance broker fees through Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, Inc., in the amount of $2,877,099 for the policy period of May 1, 2026 to May 1, 2027. (Funding Source: Insurance Fund)
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COMMISSIONER LATTA. YES, MAYOR. YES. GREAT WORK. ITEM H2H2 IS RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE RENEWAL OF THE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE PROGRAM, WHICH INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO PROPERTY, GENERAL LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, ERRORS AND OMISSIONS, EXCESS WORKERS COMPENSATION, CRIME LIABILITY, SPECIAL RISK TOURISM, PROPERTY AND LIABILITY, POLLUTION LIABILITY, DEADLY WEAPON PROTECTION COVERAGE, FLOOD, AS WELL AS OTHER ANCILLARY LINES OF INSURANCE COVERAGE AND INSURANCE BROKER FEES THROUGH ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,877,099 FOR THE PERIOD OF MAY 1ST, 2026 TO MAY 1ST, 2027. YES, SIR. 
          MEGAPHONE. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER. WE'VE HAD WE'VE WE HAD A GOOD HURRICANE YEAR LAST YEAR. SO INSURANCE RATES ARE DOWN THIS YEAR, WHICH WHICH IS A GOOD THING. AND WE WE'VE, I WILL, I WILL LET OUR HR DIRECTOR AND RISK DIRECTOR HANDLE THIS, BUT WE, WE'VE HAD A GOOD HURRICANE SEASON LAST YEAR. HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER GOOD ONE THIS YEAR. AND ACTUALLY WE NEEDED IT BECAUSE OUR RATES ARE DOWN COMPARED TO THE PRIOR TWO YEARS. SO WE HAVE MULTIPLE HURRICANES. OKAY. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS CLIFF FRIEDMAN, HR AND RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR. AS THE CITY MANAGER STATED, THIS ITEM IS FOR THE ANNUAL INSURANCE RENEWAL FOR THE CITY'S PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE PROGRAM. THE PROPERTY INSURANCE PORTION OF THIS HAS ACTUALLY REDUCED 21.6% YEAR OVER YEAR, BRINGING THE TOTAL PREMIUM DOWN 11% YEAR OVER YEAR, WHILE KEEPING THE SAME OR BETTER COVERAGE. LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. I HAVEN'T I HAVEN'T GONE OVER THIS WITH THE MANAGER, AND I'M SORRY THAT I'M BRINGING IT UP HERE. NOT USUALLY WHEN WE HAVE OUR MEETINGS, BUT I JUST WAS THINKING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW IN AN EFFORT TO BE A LITTLE MORE REDUNDANT, WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR OUR PAYMENT LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR? THE DIFFERENCE IS ABOUT $350,000. CAN WE TAKE THOSE $350,000 AND PUT IT IN AN ACCOUNT? AND I BELIEVE THIS SSOT YET I POLICSIONTHAT SHI ANO. I'M I DONNOW IF DIA, TYOU, IL TELL WHY. OKAY. WHEN THGS ARE , WE GOT  PRERE F OF MYOLAGUES  LIKE TO SOME IT, BUT WHEN I GOT HER WEAD $ MILLION IN TH COS. N WE HAVEVE $60 MIN ASH IRESTCT RV. WN I GOT HE,E HAD 52% I RARDS TO THE MID0SLIMBIN JUS NO WEO PREURLVES. FOAT CLD BE POTEIALLY EVERODY KWSHENSCE HA WORS UDOWN. TOOUROKERS, THAOR YOU KNOW IT'S IT'S LIKE GAMBLINGIMES.T ALL ND AE' BNN SITI WHERE O B HASBE AGAST T WLE GEOVERHAT A LOT OF WHEN I WALWAY FRER I LE THE CITYN THE BEST FINANCIAL POS FOR THE EMPLOYEES ANDOR TENTS AND THAT PEOEN'T RAMB THA50 Y I USE IT FOREEWALKS? KNOWTAFFKIND OF AT E ENOFHEEAR WHEN BUDGE ONES, EVYBOD SCLESOR00 HERE, CT,'M I K HASOTHINGTTER OF TO DO WIT, B I'M ATING NOW WTHE MANAGER  REGDS TO OUR OU OUR,UR CA. A GOING TORESENTG SOMEING THTHEANER F TT COMMSION MNG,OTENTIALLY THEAYOR. I'LL MOVE .KAY. LL SECONUSNT TO BE AS NANCLLY PRUDE ASOSSIBLE. 
          THANK YOU FOR THA TOUGHHE R. ARE TSEUN RERICTED? THE FUN FOR T 350.O, NO, I DON'T BELVE REREEDO OECURRINGSTS,HAT ULD AYR ON TE CTS B ILD ITSHISSERSILEATH,E ONL OKAY? THEY ITEMSHAARE RESTRICTRE, F EXAMPLE, ARHEEEST WEOLLEFROM PERMITTINATE BE UDNHA DENHAVE T THES FDST MEROM THEERALUNTHAT LIK PAY OUR INSURANCE HAV TO PAY EALTHNSUR THISGOESP.HANK GOG DO. TNKODS G DN. ANWEE A TOF PEOE, NTS,NGIT OURUTDE URND MANAGER THATEHECM TCMTARE O TR FD SOLUTNSHA THE OST FEE WITHOCOMPROMI COVER. 
          OUR HEALTH INSCE N SO WEOR. A WG SOMEAT.MY POINTST'S ING O U YOU HAVEN EXTR 35000MAYBE WE CAI TT MOY  OSET COINUE TO MAYBE EARA TTLEINRESTN THG. A WE ULDUS BUD UPON TT.HAVE A MOON AND AECD TH A ENDMENASER THEIC MAYOR, COMMISSIONER CASTRO? YES. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YES. COMMISSIONER. LADA. YES. VICE MAYOR ANDERSON. YES, MAYOR. YES. GREAT WORK ON YOUR NEW POSITION. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU FOR 
          [H.-3. 26-1408 A Resolution of the City Commission ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Coral Gables and the Fraternal Order of Police, Coral Gables Lodge Number 7, for the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026.]
YOUR HARD WORK. ITEM H THREE. THANK YOU. MAYOR H THREE IS A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION RATIFYING THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES AND THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, CORAL GABLES LODGE NUMBER SEVEN FOR THE PERIOD OF OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2026. YES. THANK YOU, MAYOR. COMMISSIONERS 
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CLIFF FRIEDMAN, AGAIN, HR AND RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR. I'M PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE REACHED A ONE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE. THE. AS THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY STATED, THIS AGREEMENT WOULD RUN FROM OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2026. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN RATIFIED BY THE FOP AND IS BEFORE YOU TODAY FOR FINAL APPROVAL AND RATIFICATION. THE HIGHLIGHT IS THAT IT PROVIDES FOR A 3.5% SALARY INCREASE, WHICH WILL BE RETROACTIVE TO OCTOBER 5TH, 2025, AS WELL AS OTHER FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR TRAINING OFFICERS. FOR THE NEW CLASS THAT WE HAVE INCOMING. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A FINANCIALLY SOUND CONTRACT AND IS A PRUDENT CONTRACT FOR THE CITY AND IS BENEFICIAL TO ITS EMPLOYEES AS WELL. I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY CHIEF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? NO, SIR. I THINK IT'S IT'S A FISCALLY PRUDENT DECISION ON OUR PART AS FAR AS THE CITY IS CONCERNED, AND IT OPENS UP THE ABILITY FOR THE MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE FOP ON A LONGER TERM DEAL. WHEN THE FINANCIAL STABILITY OF THE CITY IS MORE INTACT, WHICH WAS THE MANAGER'S DIRECTION. SO IF I MAY ADD JUST A FEW POINTS, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE BOTH OF YOU ALONG WITH THE MANAGER. I KNOW THAT WE WERE TEETERING ON NOT HAVINGREENOU STOOD FI OFFICER UNDERSTANDHAT IS I RRECT ME IF I'M ONG. WV1 OR OPE. HA FIVE FHIS MORNING, F THIS ING. BUT W HAV HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE. WE HAVE SIX IN THE PIPELINE, NINE IN THE OR 21 IN THE ACADEMY. OKAY. 
          SO WE ARE WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE. THAT'S A TESTAMENT TO YOUR HARD WORK. THE MANAGER, THE ENTIRE TEAM PROCUREMENT, OUR BACKGROUND INVESTIGATORS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. I WANT TO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES AGREE WITH ME A THREE YEAR DEAL, HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS. I HOPE THAT WE COMMENCE NEGOTIATING THAT. AND I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION THAT RUNS THROUGH THE MANAGER. MR. MANAGER, HAVE WE ALREADY CONTACTED THE FIRE, THE FIRE UNION IN REGARDS TO NEGOTIATIONS? YES, MAYOR. WE'VE CONTACTED THEM TWICE. OKAY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SEND. I WOULD LIKE TO SEND A THIRD LETTER. IF THEY DON'T RESPOND WITHIN A WEEK. I WOULD LIKE TO SEND A THIRD LETTER THAT WE'RE READY TO COME TO THE TABLE AND THAT WE EXPECT TO NEGOTIATE IN REGARDS TO IN REGARDS TO THAT, WE WANT A THREE YEAR CONTRACT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT OURSELVES IN THE BEST POSITION FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS WITH BOTH OF OUR UNIONS. LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR. I WROTE A LETTER THAT WENT TO ALL HOMES BUSINESS OWNERS. I'M PERSONALLY PAYING TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED IN THE CORAL GABLES MAGAZINE. I JUST SENT IT OUT YESTERDAY IN THE MAGAZINE VIA EMAIL. DO NOT RISK HAVING THE STATE OF FLORIDA MAKE A DECISION IN REGARDS TO OUR TAX REVENUE. I'M NOT GOING TO RAISE TAXES. I'M NOT GOING TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE I'M GOING TO HURT THE CITY. THOSE DAYS THAT HAPPENED TWO YEARS AGO WITH THE COLAS FOR 20 MILLION, YOU KNOW, WE DID WITH THAT MONEY. I'M GOING TO PUT IT ON THE RECORD. INSTEAD OF GIVING $9.5 MILLION THAT WE GAVE TWO YEARS AGO, WE SLASHED THE WE WE SLASHED OUR 13TH CHECK BY $2 MILLION TO PAY FOR THAT COLA. SO WE ONLY GAVE $7.5 MILLION. WHILE WE GAVE THE COLA TO PAST EMPLOYEES, WE HEARD OUR CURRENT EMPLOYEES PAYING DOWN THEIR PENSIONS. THAT WAS NEVER THE UNFUNDED. THAT WAS NEVER MY INTENT OF WHY THE CHIEF, THE MANAGER AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES HERE DECIDED TO START OVERFUNDING THE PENSION 13 YEARS AGO WITH THE 13TH CHECK. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES AGREE WITH ME THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE THE FIRE UNION COME TO THE TABLE AND START NEGOTIATING A THREE YEAR DEAL, ALONG WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS. WE NEED TO BE PARTNERS. THEY'RE GOING TO SLASH PROPERTY TAXES. IT'S COMING ANY MOMENT NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO WELL, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO SLASH IT. THEY'RE GOING TO PUT FORTH A PROPOSAL. 
          AND THAT PROPOSAL IS GOING TO GO TO THE VOTERS. WE NEED TO BE PROACTIVE HERE. WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CITY AND PROTECT THE VOTERS. OKAY. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS. BOTH OF YOU. ALL THREE OF YOU, DON'T STOP. DO YOU HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO. MR. MAYOR, ALL RIGHT. CAN I HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND? PERFECT. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YES, COMMISSIONER. LADA. YES. VICE MAYOR ANDERSEN. YES. COMMISSIONER CASTRO, THIS WENT FOR A VOTE, RIGHT? DO YOU KNOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE VOTE WAS? I BELIEVE IT WAS 58 TO 50 8 TO 46%. SO 52 TO 48 52 TO 48, 52, 48. YES. MAYOR LAGO, BEFORE I VOTE YES, THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS TO GO TO A VOTE. THIS CANNOT COME TO THE COMMISSION WITHOUT BEING RATIFIED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION. CORRECT? CORRECT. SO THIS IS OBVIOUS THAT THIS WENT TO A VOTE. I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK ALL THE POLICE OFFICERS. THANK YOU FOR USING REASONABLE JUDGMENT AND BEING OUR PARTNERS MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU. YES. OKAY. WE HAD A TIME SHARING FOR 3:00. 
          CORRECT. THANK YOU CHIEF. F9. F9 IS UPDATES REGARDING BASICALLY OUR RECYCLING PROGRAM. 
          [F.-9. 26-1434 Updates regarding additional plastic food containers that are now recyclable in weekly City recycling bins.  
(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Anderson)]
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IS MATT HERE? YES, THERE HE IS. WE'LL DO IT AFTER THIS. AND I ALSO INVITED SOME INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH MOMMY BLUE ON RECYCLING PLASTIC. IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, YOU'LL SEE A PIECE OF ARTWORK AND INVITE THAT PERSON TO COME UP AND SPEAK AS WELL. AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT. SO MATT, I KNOW YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THIS IN YOUR SLEEP. SO THAT IS THAT IS WHY YOU'RE THE LEAD ONE SPEAKING ON THIS. BUT WE HAD A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION THAT WE DID AT THE FARMER'S MARKET AND BROUGHT A LOT OF PEOPLE UP TO DATE ON WHAT IS AND ISN'T RECYCLABLE IN OUR CITY, REGULAR RECYCLING BIN. AND IT REALLY GETS DOWN TO WHAT IS MARKETABLE, YOU KNOW, CAN IT BE MADE INTO CLOTHING? CAN IT BE MADE INTO FURNITURE? CAN IT BE MADE INTO A PIECE OF ARTWORK, SUCH AS THE PIECE THAT YOU SEE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM? SO, MATT, I'M GOING TO HAND THE FLOOR OVER TO YOU. AND IF I KNOW THAT THAT PIECE OF ARTWORK, ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS HEAVY, ONLY WEIGHS ABOUT 20 POUNDS, PERHAPS IT CAN BE BROUGHT FORWARD TO WHERE IT CAN BE SEEN IN A CAMERA FOR THE PUBLIC AS WELL. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR, MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS, IF WE CAN BRING UP THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. AND AGAIN, MATT ANDERSON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY. SO BRIEFLY, WE WANT TO GO THROUGH JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE WHAT IS ACCEPTED IN OUR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING. SO I WANTED TO START OFF BY REALLY WE TALK ABOUT THE THREE R'S, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, RECYCLE IS REALLY THE LAST R THERE. THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY THING WE CAN DO IS REDUCE OUR CONSUMPTION OR REUSE. RIGHT. SO I JUST WANTED TO START OFF BY BY EMPHASIZING THAT. SO WASTE MANAGEMENT, WE TAKE OUR RECYCLING MATERIALS TO JUST OPENED A BRAND NEW FACILITY UP IN PEMBROKE PINES. I KNOW THAT THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER AND THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER AND I WERE ABLE TO TOUR THE FACILITY ON ITS GRAND OPENING. IT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE, ALL THE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY ARE INCORPORATING AND HOW THEY'RE SORTING MATERIALS, HOW THEY'RE PROCESSING IT, THE VOLUME NOW THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO TAKE UP. AND AGAIN, IT WAS REALLY, REALLY IMPRESSIVE. YOU COULD SEE SOME PHOTOS THAT WE TOOK ON THE RIGHT, BASICALLY WHAT THE RECYCLING LOOKS LIKE AT THE END OF THE PROCESS BEFORE IT GOES TO THE DISTRIBUTORS. SO WHAT'S NEW FROM WASTE MANAGEMENT? WELL, RECENTLY WASTE MANAGEMENT ACTUALLY ADDED CUPS INTO THEIR ACCEPTED LIKE THEIR PROGRAM. SO WE HAVE HOT AND COLD BEVERAGE PAPER CUPS AND PLASTIC CUPS MADE FROM POLYPROPYLENE. SO THOSE ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED WIDELY THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE RECYCLING PROCESS BECAUSE THEY HAVE, AGAIN, AS THE VICE MAYOR MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY RECYCLING IS GREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT RECYCLING IS A COMMODITY DRIVEN MARKET. IF THERE ARE MARKETS FOR THESE MATERIALS TO BE ABLE TO BE PROCESSED, AND YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE LISTED WITH THE TYPES OF CUPS THAT ARE NOT ACCEPTED, WHICH OBVIOUSLY STYROFOAM IS NOT ACCEPTED IN ANY FORM WITHIN THE WITHIN THE RECYCLING PROCESS. AND YOU HAVE ALL THE OTHERS. AND THEN SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE THAT YOU'LL SEE IN OUR MESSAGING IS ALWAYS REMINDING INDIVIDUALS, EMPTY ALL THE LIQUIDS, REMOVE STRAWS AND ANY FOOD DEBRIS FROM ANY OF THESE MATERIALS. SO WASTE MANAGEMENT, WE'VE REALLY ALIGNED OVER THE YEARS, OUR RECYCLING MESSAGE WITH WASTE MANAGEMENT, RIGHT? THAT'S WHERE WE'RE TAKING OUR MATERIALS. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR MESSAGES ARE ALWAYS ALIGNED, AND WE MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE FOR I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU, COMMISSIONER. I'M SORRY. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION BEFORE YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. I'M SORRY. I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT IN WHAT'S ACCEPTED. YOU SAID. OKAY, FINE. YOU'VE GOT STYROFOAM? YES. THE FOAM IS NOT ACCEPTED. IT'S NOT ACCEPTED? YES. SO A PLASTIC CUP THAT'S MADE FROM POLYPROPYLENE, IS THAT LIKE A LIKE A LIKE A SOLO CUP. LIKE A RED SOLO? YEAH. KIND OF THING. YEAH. THE CLEARER THE RED AS OPPOSED TO WHAT'S NOT ACCEPTED IS RIGID POLYSTYRENE. I'M SORRY, BUT WHAT'S POLYSTYRENE IS THE SAME. 
          IT'S ANOTHER TERM FOR STYROFOAM. SO IT'S. YEAH. YOU SEE IT IN BOTH FORMS. SO LIKE YOUR COFFEE CUP, LIKE YOUR STYROFOAM COFFEE CUPS WOULDN'T BE SOMETHING YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT IN YOUR RECYCLING. YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. SO STYROFOAM FOAM. NO. AND EVERYTHING ELSE. THAT'S PLASTIC? YES. OKAY. SORRY. SORRY. YES. BUT THROUGH THE MAYOR. GO AHEAD. STARBUCKS CUP. IS THAT RECYCLABLE OR NOT? IT'S DEPENDING ON THE MATERIAL. I DON'T GO TO STARBUCKS THAT OFTEN, BUT THE CLEAR THE CLEAR CUPS THAT THEY GIVE YOU. YEAH. SO THE THE SORRY, NOT FOR FOR HOT COFFEE, FOR COLD, FOR ICED COFFEE. YES. IF IT'S IF IT'S THE, THE PLASTIC, POLYPROPYLENE, IF YOU SEE THE, YOU KNOW, ON THE BOTTOM, YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK ON THE BOTTOM, TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN AND SEE, THEN IT WOULD BE ACCEPTED. IS THERE A CHART THAT WE CAN MAYBE HAVE AVAILABLE. SO YOU COULD SEE WHICH CODES ARE AND WHICH ONES ARE NOT. SO THE THING IS WITH THE CODES IS 
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THAT'S HOW CAN WE DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW? CAN WE, CAN WE PRINT OUT 51,000 CHARTS AND WE'LL SEND IT TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON SO THEY CAN WALK AROUND WITH THIS. YOU SEE HOW DIFFICULT THIS IS? NO, NO, NO, THIS IS INSANE. I AGREE. SO THEN YOU START AND THEN YOU START RETURNING. YOU NOW YOU START TRYING TO DO THE GOOD THING AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY CONTAMINATING THE WASTE STREAM. EXACTLY. YES. AND YOU'LL, YOU'LL SEE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ON OUR MARKET. WE HAVE THE LOWEST CONTAMINATION RATE OF ANY CITY, MIAMI DADE COUNTY. SO I WANT TO SAY WE'RE DOING OUR BEST. YES. SO I'M GOING TO MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU. JESUS CHRIST, THEY TAKE NARROW NECKED BOTTLES. YES. ON THE BOTTOM OF THAT IS YOUR NUMBER THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. 
          THERE'S YOUR CHART. IF IT MATCHES, IT'S RECYCLABLE. IF IT DOESN'T MATCH, IT'S NOT RECYCLABLE. NOT AT THIS POINT. OKAY, BUT THE STYROFOAM, REMEMBER, YOU CAN RINSE IT OUT AND CLEAN IT. TAKE IT TO PUBLIX, THE FOOD GRADE STYROFOAM CONTAINERS. BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION ON THE ON THE CODES WAS, DO WE HAVE THAT AVAILABLE ONLINE? YEAH. SO YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GO BY THE NUMBER BECAUSE THE NUMBER WAS DEVELOPED BY THE PLASTIC INDUSTRY. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WASTE MANAGEMENT HAS HAS BEEN CLEAR WITH US. SO WE THEY TEND TO MARKET IT WHERE YOU HAVE BY SHAPE. SO YOU HAVE THE NARROW NECK PLASTIC BOTTLES AND THAT DESCRIPTION VERSUS THE NUMBER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T ALWAYS SAY THE NUMBER. WE USED TO HAVE OUR MATERIALS WHEN I FIRST STARTED WITH THE CITY TEN YEARS AGO, A LOT OF OUR MARKETING MATERIALS WENT BY NUMBER LIKE ONE THROUGH FIVE AND SEVEN. AND NUMBER SIX IS YOUR STYROFOAM, WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN ACCEPTED. 
          AND WE'VE GONE AWAY FROM THAT BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S ALIGNING WITH WHAT WASTE MANAGEMENT AND THEIR MARKETING MATERIALS ARE GOING OUT TO TRY TO SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS ON, ON THE SHAPE. 
          RIGHT. SO I'LL INTERRUPT ONE MORE TIME, BECAUSE WE KNOW, WE KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THEY ALSO TAKE BUTTER CONTAINERS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE GUIDELINES. YOU CAN USE THE NUMBER MATCHES AT THE BOTTOM. GREAT. BUT SOME PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THE NUMBERS. 
          SO THAT'S WHY THEY USE SHAPES. YEAH. OKAY. NO CHARTS. OKAY. SO AGAIN HERE IS WASTE MANAGEMENT'S SIMPLIFIED. SO YOUR PLASTIC BOTTLES, CUPS AND CONTAINERS, PAPER AND PAPER CUPS, GLASS BOTTLES AND CONTAINERS, FLATTENED CARDBOARD AND PAPERBOARD AND FOOD AND BEVERAGE CANS. DO NOT INCLUDE BATTERIES, FOAM CUPS, CONTAINERS, FOODS, LIQUIDS, CLOTHING, FURNITURE, LOOSE PLASTIC BAGS. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVE RECYCLING PROGRAMS WE HAVE IN THE CITY THAT NOT ALL CITIES HAVE. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY GREEN WASTE, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT AS WELL. SO THIS IS OUR UPDATED RECYCLING FLIER. 
          AGAIN, KEEPING IT SIMPLE, SIMILAR TO HOW WASTE MANAGEMENT HAS THEIRS. SO WE HAVE PLASTIC CUPS, BOTTLES AND CONTAINERS AND PAPER CUPS. WE JUST UPDATED THAT BASED ON THE NEW INFORMATION FROM WASTE MANAGEMENT, FLATTENED CARDBOARD BOXES AND PAPER GLASS BOTTLES AND CONTAINERS AND FOOD AND BEVERAGE CANS. AND THEN THE ITEMS THAT DEFINITELY YOU DO NOT WANT IN THE RECYCLING BIN, PLASTIC BAGS AND OBVIOUSLY YOUR EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE, YOUR STYROFOAM. AND THEN THE ADDITIONAL TIPS WE HAVE THERE, WE WANT TO ALSO REMIND OUR RESIDENTS, KEEP THE RECYCLES CLEAN, DRY, DO NOT BAG THEM. I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FOLKS THAT DO BAG THE RECYCLING, KEEP FOOD WASTE AND LIQUIDS OUT OF THE RECYCLING EVENT. AND THIS IS THE KEY ONE WE ADDED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. WHEN IN DOUBT, LEAVE IT OUT. 
          DON'T EVEN CONTAMINATE THE RECYCLING STREAM. IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE UNDECIDED ABOUT IT, LEAVE IT OUT. SO I'M GOING TO CLARIFY YOUR. DON'T BAG IT. IF YOU HAVE PAPER AND YOU PUT IT IN A PAPER BAG. IT'S THE PLASTIC BAGS THAT ARE THE PROBLEM. THE PLASTIC BAGS ARE THE PROBLEMATIC ONES. AND IF I MAY, CAN WE ADD THE VICE MAYOR WAS MENTIONING PUBLIX AS A PLACE TO RECYCLE CERTAIN ITEMS. CAN WE ADD A LIST OF, OF OR INCLUDE IN THERE? THESE ITEMS CAN BE RECYCLED AT PUBLIX. SO WE DO. WE DO HAVE INFORMATION FOR ALTERNATIVES ON THE WEBSITE WHICH I'LL TALK HOW WE HOW WE GET THAT INFORMATION. WHAT I WOULD ASK IS IF WE CAN CREATE THIS GRAPHIC AS A SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPHIC SO THAT WE CAN SHARE IT ON OUR SOCIALS AS WELL, BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION ON THERE THAT YOU CAN RECYCLE THE, THE PLASTIC BAGS AT PUBLIX, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW AND THEY JUST SIT AROUND, THEY END UP IN OUR GARBAGE ANYWAY. IF WE DON'T HAVE TO THROW THOSE AWAY, IF WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, THAT ALSO REMOVES EXTRA COSTS FOR THE CITY. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. SO I ALSO WANT TO MENTION WHEN WE, WHEN PUBLIC WORKS AND THE CITY WENT TO THE BLUE RECYCLING BINS, ONE THING THAT WE ADDED THAT I WANT TO DEFINITELY EMPHASIZE TO OUR RESIDENTS IS THERE IS A QR CODE ON THE SIDE OF YOUR RECYCLING BIN ON EVERY, EVERY RESIDENTIAL RECYCLING BIN. IF YOU SCAN IT, IT TAKES YOU TO THE CITY'S RECYCLING EDUCATION PAGE. THAT GIVES YOU ALL THE INFORMATION, WHAT'S ACCEPTED, WHAT'S NOT ALTERNATIVES, AND THAT THAT HAS THAT INFORMATION READILY AVAILABLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS. SO THIS IS OUR CITY WEBSITE. WHAT'S ACCEPTED AND WHAT'S NOT. 
          SO YOU SEE THE LIST THERE AGAIN MIMICS WHAT WE HAVE. AND IT GOES INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL THERE ON WHAT'S ACCEPTED AND WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WHAT CAN'T BE 
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RECYCLED. AND WE HAVE INFORMATION THERE ON THE ALTERNATIVES. A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THAT OUR TEAM MANAGES, LIKE THE PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING THAT WE HAVE AT THE ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER, THE WAR MEMORIAL CENTER, AND OUR PARKING MOBILITY SERVICES OFFICE, ALONG WITH OUR NEXT PROGRAM. SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE PROGRAMS I KNOW WE'VE SHOWED IN THE PAST, BUT WE HAVE OUR CIGARETTE LITTER PROGRAM. WE ALSO HAVE THE PLASTIC BAG, THE, THE, THE RECTANGULAR BOX THERE IS FOR THE SPECIALIZED PLASTIC BAG PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'VE COLLECTED OVER 2,000 POUNDS SINCE WE STARTED. WE ALSO HAVE THE BATTERY RECYCLING AVAILABLE TO THE RESIDENTS. THESE PROGRAMS ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR. MY TEAM IS ALWAYS GOING OUT AND COLLECTING WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF IT ON THE BATTERY SIDE, GOING OUT AND COLLECTING THESE AS THEY FILL UP WITHIN OUR CITY FACILITIES. WE ALSO HAVE THE OTHER PROGRAMS LIKE THE CHRISTMAS TREE DROP OFF AND THE HOLIDAY CARDBOARD, WHICH WAS OUR MOST POPULAR YEAR THIS PAST YEAR WITH ALL THE CARDBOARD BEING GENERATED WITH ONLINE SHOPPING. WE ALSO HAVE OUR EVENTS. WE HAVE OUR RECYCLING DRIVE THROUGH EVENT HAPPENING NEXT SATURDAY, NOT THIS COMING SATURDAY. THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH FROM 9 TO 12 IN THE CITY HALL PARKING LOT. AND ALL THE ITEMS THAT WE TAKE ARE THE ITEMS THAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES THAT AREN'T ACCEPTED IN YOUR REGULAR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING. SO YOUR ELECTRONICS, YOUR HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE, YOUR SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS. WE'LL TAKE PLASTIC BAGS AND FILM AT THAT AND THEN CLOTHING. SO THE CITY HAS A LOT OF ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS IN PLACE FOR THOSE ITEMS THAT AREN'T ACCEPTED IN YOUR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING. SO WE WANT TO GIVE THE RESIDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO PROPERLY EITHER RECYCLE OR DISPOSE OF THESE PRODUCTS. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY SETS OUR CITY APART, BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF CITIES THAT HAVE THIS AMOUNT OF ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS FOR OUR RESIDENTS. AND AGAIN, ANYTIME WE HAVE THESE PROGRAMS, THEY ARE INCREDIBLY POPULAR WITH OUR COMMUNITY. SPEAKING OF WHICH, I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT LATER ON THE OTHER ITEM, BUT WE HAVE OUR COMPOSTING PROGRAM STARTING ON APRIL 20TH NEXT MONDAY. YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE THE INVITE IN YOUR IN YOUR CALENDAR. 
          WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. WE'RE FINALIZING OUR CONTRACT RIGHT NOW WITH RENEWABLE. AND I'LL SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN THE NEXT ITEM. YOU'LL SEE HERE WHAT WE'LL BE ACCEPTING. AGAIN, I'LL COVER THAT IN ANOTHER ITEM. AND THEN JUST OVERALL HOW WE'RE MARKETING, RECYCLING AND SHARING THIS INFORMATION WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE OUR CITY WEBSITE, WE HAVE THE WASTE BILLS EVERY YEAR THAT GO OUT. WE INSERT THAT INFORMATION INTO THE WASTE BILLS AND WORKING WITH COMMUNICATIONS AND THE FINANCE TEAM, WE ALSO HAD OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGH KEEP BEAUTIFUL. WE ALONE HAVE DONE OVER 300 EVENTS SINCE 2020 OR OUT IN THE COMMUNITY ALL THE TIME, AND PROMOTING NOT ONLY THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, BUT ALSO HELPING EDUCATE THE RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES ON, ON RECYCLING PRACTICES, CITY FACILITIES. WE HAVE INFORMATION POSTED IN THE CITY FACILITIES, SOCIAL MEDIA, OBVIOUSLY, E! NEWS, WE HAVE OUR GREEN BUSINESS PROGRAM WHERE WE'RE GOING OUT AND ACTIVELY WORKING WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES ON WHAT THEY CAN DO TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. INCLUDED IN THAT IS A BIG CATEGORY. ON WASTE DIVERSION. WE WORK WITH WASTE MANAGEMENT. THEY GO OUT AND DO EDUCATION. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY TO PROBABLY THE KEY TO ALL OF THIS, OUR SOLID WASTE TEAM, WHO DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB AT OUT AT COLLECTING AND REALLY HELPING EDUCATE OUR RESIDENTS AS WELL ON THE ITEMS THAT SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T BE GOING INTO THE BINS. AND ALL OF THAT KIND OF COMES TOGETHER TO THE, TO THE MAYOR'S POINT ON REALLY MAINTAINING THAT BELOW 10% CONTAMINATION RATE, WHICH IS THE LOWEST IN THE REGION. AND IT'S ONE THING THAT, AGAIN, OUR CITY REALLY DOES WELL. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, YES, WE CAN CONSTANTLY LOOK FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE, BUT OVERALL, OUR CONTAMINATION RATE ON OUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL SIDE REMAINS BELOW 10% WHEN WE'RE AUDITED BY WASTE MANAGEMENT. AND THAT'S SOMETHING TO BE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF. SO NEXT TO YOU IS AN ITEM THAT'S MADE FROM PLASTIC. AND I ASKED THESE, THESE YOUNG MEN TO BRING IT IN TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO PLASTIC BOTTLES AND SO FORTH WHEN THEY ARE COLLECTED, INSTEAD OF BEING ALLOWING YOUR GARDENERS TO THROW THEM INTO THE TRASH PITS AND SO FORTH. I GET PICTURES FROM PEOPLE QUESTIONING WHY THEY'RE IN TRASH PITS. SO IF YOU JUST GIVE US A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THIS PIECE OF ARTWORK AND HOW IT WAS MADE AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE ORGANIZATION CREATING IT, MAYBE IT'LL INSPIRE MORE PEOPLE TO PICK THOSE BOTTLES UP OUT OF THE TRASH PITS, INSTEAD OF LEAVING THEM THERE AND GETTING THEIR GARDENERS TO PUT THEM IN A RECYCLE BIN. GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYBODY, MAJOR LARA AND MAJOR LARGO COMMISSIONER LARA, VICE MAYOR ANDERSON AND THE REST OF THE PANEL. THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF PLASTIC THAT'S BEING COLLECTED FROM THE OCEAN. AND WE HAVE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, ONE OF THEM BEING BLUE OCEAN PRO PROGRAM. MARCO OLIVIA, THE ARTIST, HE'S THE OFFICIAL ARTIST FOR THE MANDELA FAMILY IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, ALSO ONE OF THE WINNERS OF OUR BASEL'S AWARDS CREATED THIS PIECE OF WORK AND HE'S 
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CREATED MANY OF THEM. BUT HIS PURPOSE WASN'T REALLY ART ONLY OR MAKING MONEY LIKE MOST OF THEM ARE. HE WAS BASICALLY HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT. WE LOVE THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, BASICALLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY'RE WORKING TOWARDS. AND THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT THOSE PIECES OF PLASTIC, LIKE VICE MAYOR ANDERSON MENTIONED, YOU THROW IT ON THE FLOOR OR THE GARBAGE, HOPEFULLY. THIS IS WHAT COMES OUT OF IT. AND IT'S NOT ONLY THIS IMAGE, IT COULD BE MANY OTHER IMAGES, SOMETHING THAT CAN MAYBE BE CUSTOMIZED TO THE CORAL GABLES IMAGE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT. I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE. RIGHT. SO I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING IT HERE TODAY BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF MANY EXAMPLES. THE OTHER EXAMPLE WE HAVE IS WITH THE PLASTIC BAGS OVER AT THE YOUTH CENTER. IT'S MADE A BENCH AND I THINK WE'RE CLOSE TO WHAT, A SECOND BENCH SOON. WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED THE SECOND BENCH WHICH THE COMMISSION HAS VOTED ON. WE WILL BE TRIBUTE TO MARK TROWBRIDGE. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE ORDERING THAT PLAQUE AND PUTTING IT ON AND FINDING A LOCATION, WORKING WITH THE CHAMBER. OKAY. SO APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS TODAY BECAUSE I THINK IT PUTS A REAL FACE ON WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH PLASTIC, AS WELL AS THE BENCHES AND OTHER USEFUL MATERIALS THAT WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE IN THE FUTURE. AND HOPEFULLY INSTEAD OF THROWING STUFF IN TRASH PITS, PEOPLE WILL PUT THEM MORE IN A RECYCLE BIN WHERE THEY CAN BE MADE INTO PRODUCTIVE PIECES OF ARTWORK OR BENCHES OR FURNITURE OF OTHER NATURES. SO APPRECIATE YOU DOING THIS PRESENTATION. IT IS EARTH MONTH. THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WORKED ON. I MEAN, IN FACT, WE RECEIVED MESSAGES BEFORE THAT WE COULD TAKE OUR CAMPAIGN SIGNS AND EVEN HAVE THOSE RECYCLED. THAT'S ANOTHER SPECIALIZED PICKUP THAT WE'VE WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST. SO THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT THROUGH THE MAYOR FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. AND THANK YOU, EVERYONE. YES, SIR. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SAY THAT I LOOK AT THAT AND I FEEL LIKE, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST GARBAGE, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S WHAT IT IS, BUT IT'S BEAUTIFUL. IT'S AMAZING. IT'S GORGEOUS. 
          AND I'M SITTING HERE IN AWE THAT THAT'S MADE OUT OF PLASTIC HARVESTED FROM THE FROM THE OCEAN. RIGHT? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? ALL RIGHT. SO VICE MAYOR, THAT WAS A GOOD MOVE ON YOUR PART AMONG MANY TO BRING THIS IN, BECAUSE IT CAUGHT ME PLEASANTLY BY SURPRISE. IT LIKE I ALMOST THINK I WANT ONE, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING. I KNOW I SURPRISED THE MAYOR TOO, SO YOU'RE NOT ALONE. HE WAS LIKE, WHAT? THIS IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, BUT IT'S WONDERFUL. YES IT IS. IT TELLS YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, WHEN YOU THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, RIGHT? AND WHEN YOU, YOU, YOU ASPIRE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO, TO, TO, TO SPIN AND TURN ON ITS HEAD. A PROBLEM CAN BECOME A SOLUTION. AND GARBAGE, YOU KNOW, IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY JUST ALWAYS GIVES SUCH A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO IT, BUT YOU'RE TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING AMAZING. SO ARE YOU THE ARTIST? NO, I AM ACTUALLY THE ARTIST REPRESENTATIVE. MY NAME IS JUAN CARLOS GARCIA. I AM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HIS GALLERY HERE IN MIAMI. THE LOCAL GALLERY THAT I HELPED START UP A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. AND NOW IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE YOU GUYS TO THIS BECAUSE AS A CHILD OF MIAMI, SOMEONE WHO GREW UP HERE IN CORAL GABLES, I WAS ALWAYS INSPIRED BY OUR ECOLOGY HERE. I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CLASSES IN UNIVERSITY HERE AT FIU THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH. AND HOW DO WE ATTACK THESE THINGS? FROM A VERY MIAMI PERSPECTIVE, WE ARE A BEAUTIFYING CITY. WE ARE A CITY THAT DONATES ITS TIME AND ITS EFFORTS TO MAKING IT MORE BEAUTIFUL FOR EVERYONE WHO LIVES HERE. AND WHAT A PERFECT EXAMPLE THIS IS TO BE ABLE TO POLLUTOURESETHING LIKELIKELAS AE KING ITE DIFFICULT OU FAMS TO EOY THE INTO A WHEREHEY CA ENJOYIT FEV U F THEIM AND THI IAL THE FRAGMEE FRAGERIEN GUST. 
          IOLST THAT' BEENAT FTHE OCE THAT HAV ALONGSIDE THE BLUE OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT. THEY SPECIALIZE IN SENDING OUT BOATS ACROSS THE WORLD TO PLASTIC PATCHES, AND WE PURCHASED THEIR RECYCLED MATERIAL THAT IS THEN CLEANED UP. WE PUT IT INTO OUR PROCESS, AND WE COME OUT WITH ART THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS. THE BEST PART IS THAT IT GETS WET AND. EXACTLY. YES, SIR. IS THERE A WAY TO GET SOME OF THE PRODUCT THAT'S COLLECTED IN CORAL GABLES AND CREATE AN ART PIECE, AND MAYBE WE CAN PLACE AT A LOCATION WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING RECYCLING TO SHOWCASE WHAT CAN BE DONE. I THINK THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO TO EXPAND ON THE VICE. MAYOR'S BRINGING THIS TO US, BUT MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE TO WHAT IT'S CURRENTLY IN OUR ART, PUBLIC ART, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT. 
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IT ALSO PROMOTES OUR RECYCLING PROGRAM, AND MAYBE IT CAN BE TAKEN FROM THE PRODUCTS THAT ARE BEING RECYCLED FROM CORAL GABLES 100%. WE'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO FACILITATE THAT HERE IN MIAMI. AND I'LL ADD, I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH CATHERINE TO SEE WHERE WE CAN FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL ART AND ART SIMILAR TO THAT. SO WE'VE ALREADY BEEN KIND OF EXPLORING THAT SORT OF THING. LET'S WORK ON IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DISCUSS E SIX AND E NINE THAT ARE THE NEXT ITEMS THAT WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT. I NEED TO MEET WITH THE MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY AND ANYONE ELSE THAT NEEDS TO MEET IN REGARDS TO THAT MATTER. FIVE MINUTES. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYONE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR COMING. I KNOW. NOWE'REREADIR. ALLHT PEN 
          [Time Certain 2:00pm (Agenda Items E-6 and E-9 are related)]
THE FAL IMSE  MOVE COISSI ANDING ORDINANCNUER 202HH VELOPMENTORRO PLI GR STORE A LIQOREON THEROPERTY.Y SCRIBED  LOTNE TGH FLORA.ODIFERGABS, NDNS O APPROVAL DUE VIONSECESTED BYLOOD ZO REQS AND TO RE ORODIF CERTAIN OFFSI TRCMPROVEMENTS AN VOTEDDAY. SIT'SUST ONESED. IS TE FOYOURORTION. BUIT WILL BNSED AT T TIM OFECDEADING OF E ORDINANC COUNCILOROOAFTERNOON, A COMMISSIONERS.YAMIS MIO 60 BRIEL AVENUE O 9CE DE LEON BLE,REESTING PSUPEE SIOC 2551NERO HASALISTATHISIO FY DECADES, A IN 2024, C MMIS APPA NOFHE A STOREHICH WLD CLLO GAGE, TH EASIDOFHELOCK. ALL FITION O CERTAINHSA IN TRO.WE CONDITIO A WCH FLOO Z ANDNHE OERHE UNASRODEDINCOMM,EQUER RMNNDIA RDIN CER O SITE ADY IMPRONT IF WE PLEASE HERE ARE SOM IMAGES OF THE DESIGN RIGHT NOW. YOUEE ON THE EAST END OF THE BLOCKIDE HERE. WE'LL GO REFER BACK TO THESE AS NECESSARY, BUTHEY ARE PROPOSED R LINES FORHE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME MODIFICATIONS BASED ON DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD TODAY. THERE'S BASICALLY TWO CATEGORIES OR TOPICS THAT WE SHOULD DISCUSS. THE FIRST ONE IS BASE FLOOD ELEVATION AND THE NEED TO ELEVATE THE BUILDINGS TO A HEIGHT THAT BOTH THE HEIGHT TO THE ROOF AS WELL AS TO THE TOP OF THE ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE, AND THEN THE OFF SITE TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS. I'LL GO FIRST INTO DETAIL ON THE FLOOD ZONE AND BASE FLOOD ELEVATION ISSUES. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE BEFORE YOU. THE. THAT'S A FLOOD MAP ZONE OF THIS AREA OF THE CITY. AND WHILE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT IS NOT WITHIN A FLOOD ZONE, THERE IS A FLOOD ZONE THAT CREEPS INTO THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT HERE AND COVERS THE BLOCK WHERE PUBLIX IS LOCATED RIGHT NOW. ORIGINALLY, THE PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO BE AT GRADE. BUT BECAUSE THE BASE FLOOR NEEDS TO BE AT A MINIMUM OF A TEN FOOT ELEVATION, THAT MEANS THAT THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE BUILDING NEED TO GO HIGHER. SO UP TO THE FLAT ROOF BEFORE WAS 36FT, THREE INCHES. NOW IT'S AT 42FT. AND THE VERY TOP OF AN ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE, WHICH WAS BEFORE AT 61FT, IS NOW AT 67FT. THESE HEIGHTS ARE ALL WELL WITHIN THE 190FT OF HEIGHT FOR WHICH THE PROPERTY IS ZONED. ADDITIONALLY, THE TRANSITION FROM SIDEWALK INTO INTO BUILDING FOR THE PEDESTRIAN ALSO NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED BECAUSE WE ARE NO LONGER A GRADE, BUT ELEVATED, CERTAIN STAIRS AND RAMPS NEED TO BE INCORPORATED TO COMPLY WITH FEMA AND ADA. YOU SEE THE STAIR AREAS IN YELLOW AND THE RAMP IN BLUE. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT OUR WHIM. THIS IS TO COMPLY WITH FEMA AND ADA. THE LOOK OF THE PROJECT REMAINS THE SAME AS I'LL SHOW YOU NOW IN SOME BEFORE AND AFTER RENDERINGS. THIS IS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE PROPERTY. TAKE A LOOK AT THE AREA WHERE THE UMBRELLAS ARE. THAT'S WHAT GOES FROM GRAY TO ELEVATED WITH STAIRS. HERE IS THE NORTHWEST CORNER, THE ENTRANCE TO THE LIQUOR STORE. 
          YOU CAN TRY TO LOOK IN THE CORNER THERE. THAT BUILDING RIGHT NOW AT GRADE. AND THEN THERE'S A STAIRWELL THERE WITH THE PROPOSED NEW DESIGN. BUT STILL, THE OVERALL DESIGN AND ESTHETICS OF THE BUILDING ARE REMAINING THE SAME. HERE IS THE ANDALUSIA FRONTAGE BEFORE AND AFTER. AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A RAMP AT A VERY LOW SLOPE THAT'S COMING UP ON THE ON EACH 
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SIDE OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE, THE PARK SIDE OF THE PROPERTY REMAINS THE SAME. NO MODIFICATION DONE HERE. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE AND AFTER IS THAT WE INCORPORATED MORE GREEN SPACE CONSISTENT WITH A RECENT AMENDMENT TO THE TO THE CODE. 
          YOU KNOW, THE USE OF STAIRS AND RAMPS FOR THIS PURPOSE IS COMMON IN CORAL GABLES, BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE FLOOD ZONE. IT IS REALLY THE ONLY PRACTICAL WAY TO GET A PEDESTRIAN FROM A SIDEWALK TO THE ELEVATED FLOOR. HERE WE'RE JUST POINTING OUT VARIOUS BUILDINGS WITHIN THAT SAME FLOOD ZONE AS YOU GO WEST, INCLUDING BUILDINGS VERY FAMILIAR TO YOU LIKE CITY HALL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, SANCTUARY OF THE ARTS, ETC. ALL OF WHICH HAVE STAIRS TAKING YOU FROM GROUND TO BASE FLOOR. HERE ARE SOME MORE AS YOU GO FURTHER WEST AND THEN EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE THE FLOOD ZONE, YOU HAVE CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE BUILDINGS ALSO HAVE STAIRS. JUST FOR THE SAKE OF RESILIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY TO BE AT A HIGHER ELEVATION. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IN THE COMMISSION AT THE TIME OF APPROVAL, YOU REMEMBER THERE WAS A LOT OF INCORPORATION ABOUT INCORPORATING BIKE LANES. WE ENDED UP SUBMITTING THE PROPOSED BIKE LANES, AS WELL AS CERTAIN OTHER OFF SITE TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS TO THE COUNTY. THE COUNTY RESPONDED WITH SOME COMMENTS WHICH MADE COMPLIANCE PROBLEMATIC, SUCH AS THE FACT THAT A CITY MASTER PLAN FOR THE BICYCLE LANES WAS REQUIRED AND THAT IS NOT READY YET. WE ARE PLEDGED TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH THE CITY ON THAT. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT PRESERVING AND LEAVING ENOUGH SORT OF PAVEMENT IN AN AREA FOR FUTURE BIKE INSTALLATION. WE ARE ALSO BASED ON DISCUSSIONS TODAY, GOING TO INCLUDE THE CITY AND THE CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COUNTY, AS WE SAID AT THE ORIGINAL APPROVAL, WE'RE SAYING TODAY WHAT THE COUNTY APPROVES, WE WILL COOPERATE WITH AND IMPLEMENT. BUT THERE IS STILL CONSIDERABLE DISCONNECT BETWEEN COUNTY AND CITY. AND THE SAME GOES FOR WHAT WAS PROPOSED AS A SORT OF ROAD DIET, LIMITING OR NARROWING VALENCIA AVENUE AND REDUCING THE LANES OF TRAFFIC AND TRYING TO INCORPORATE A LEFT HAND TURN LANE AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH CEDAR AND VALENCIA. FEEDBACK FROM THE COUNTY HAS NOT BEEN POSITIVE ON THAT, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM ON THAT. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT WE CANNOT HAVE BUILDING PERMIT HELD UP BASED ON ON THOSE DISCUSSIONS. ALL THESE CONDITIONS WERE PREMISED ON COUNTY REVIEW AND APPROVAL, AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. BUT WE'RE EXPERIENCING SOME ROADBLOCKS WITH THE COUNTY, NOT TO USE A PUN ON WORDS. AND I WOULD JUST CONCLUDE BY SAYING THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. THIS PROJECT HAS HAD A LOT OF PERHAPS TECHNICAL CHALLENGES, BUT WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH THEM, INCLUDING TODAY IN DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD WITH MAYOR, MANAGER, VICE MAYOR. IMPORTANTLY, AS PART OF THE PROJECT AND TRYING TO ADDRESS THE CONCERN THAT'S BEEN COMING THROUGH. AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CONVEYANCE OF THE PARK WE ARE PROFFERING TODAY, A 35,000FT■!S OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHS THAT CORRESPOND TO THE PARK WILL BE CONVEYED TO THE CITY, SO THAT THE CITY COULD ULTIMATELY SELL AND MONETIZE THOSE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS, BUT ON THE CONDITION THAT THEY BE USED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION, THAT PUBLIX BE RECOGNIZED AS PART OF THAT EFFORT OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION. AND THAT, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THAT THE ISSUANCE OF THE BUILDING PERMIT NOT BE TIED TO FINALIZATION ON THE AGREEMENT FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE PARK AND THAT ISSUANCE OF TCO NOT BE TIED TO THE COMPLETION OF THE PARK. SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS PROJECT YOU HAD TODAY, WERE EXPECTING, THAT WILL PROBABLY BE A CO DELIVERABLE, THE COMPLETED PARK. 
          AND LASTLY, THE PARK WOULD BE CONVEYED IN FEE. SIMPLE. THERE'S AN OLD CONDITION THAT CAUSED CONCERN ON THE PART OF THE CITY THAT PERHAPS THE PARK WOULDN'T BE CONVEYED AND FEE SIMPLE THAT WE WOULD GIVE AN EASEMENT. WE ARE AGREEING THAT IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO BE A FEE SIMPLE CONVEYANCE, AND THE CITY HAS AGREED AND REITERATED WHAT WAS DISCUSSED BEFORE, THAT THAT LAND WILL ALWAYS BE A PARK AND PERPETUALLY BE A PARK SUBJECT TO RESTRICTION AGREED UPON. AND THAT IS THE CONCLUSION OF MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE TODAY, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT IT TOOK MORE DISCUSSIONS, BUT THIS IS A VERY PROMISING 
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PROJECT, AND WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT IT'S STILL GOING TO BE THE GREAT PROJECT THAT WE'VE ALWAYS ENVISIONED. AND IMPORTANTLY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OASIS OF GREEN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT NOW. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. SO IF I MAY JUST ADD A FEW POINTS, HAVE YOU NOTICED WE HAD MULTIPLE BREAKS DURING THIS COMMISSION MEETING WHERE MYSELF AND THE MANAGER AND MARIO AND HIS TEAM FROM PUBLIX HELD TWO SEPARATE MEETINGS TO FINALIZE SOME FINAL POINTS TO THIS NEGOTIATION. AS I SAID BEFORE, IN THE PROJECT THAT WE DEALT WITH ARMANDO MOLINA AND MANNY GALLERY, WHERE WE'RE GIVING A WHERE WE'RE GETTING A 10,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK ABOUT TWO BLOCKS AWAY. THIS HAS BEEN A VISION OF MINE TO DELIVER WITH PUBLIX HAND IN HAND, TO BRING A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK TO THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. THIS IS ONE OF THE SIX PARKS THAT IS ALREADY APPROVED AND NOW WILL BE FEE SIMPLE GIVEN TO THE CITY. 
          THIS IS WHAT DEFINES A WORLD CLASS PARK, AND THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE PARTNERSHIP OF PUBLIX AND THE GENTLEMAN AND THE YOUNG LADY WHO'S WHO. I'M SORRY, I SAID, GENTLEMEN, I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE WHO ARE HERE WITH US FROM PUBLIX TODAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THIS HAS BEEN, MARIO, IF I MAY, FOR YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH. YEP. SO MARIO WILL TELL YOU, I WAS IN MY COUSIN'S WEDDING IN NORTH CAROLINA, SITTING AT A RESTAURANT WITH MY FATHER AT A SANDWICH SHOP, AND WE WERE WITH ON A ZOOM CALL WITH MARIO AND THE PUBLIX BRASS TRYING TO GET TO CONSENSUS IN REGARDS TO A DESIGN FOR THIS PROJECT. THERE HAS BEEN MANY, MANY ITERATIONS, MANY, MANY MEETINGS TO THE POINT WE HAD TWO FINAL MEETINGS TODAY. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR INDULGING MY FINAL REQUEST. MY FINAL REQUEST THAT YOU INDULGED WAS, I REQUESTED 35,000FT■!S OF TDR. WHAT IS THE VALUE OF THAT? JUST A ROUGH NUMBER. WHAT DO YOU THINK, MARIO? WELL, $35 A SQUARE FOOT. SO LET'S FIGURE IT OUT. IT'S CLOSE TO ABOUT $40 A FOOT. 1.4 MILLION. SO THAT REQUEST AND THANK YOU FOR PUBLIX FOR INDULGING MY REQUEST IS GOING TO BE DONE THE FOLLOWING WAY WITH THE SUPPORT OF MY COLLEAGUES, OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT IT INTO A BANK ACCOUNT. THE BANK ACCOUNT WILL ONLY BE USED FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. CASE IN POINT, IF WE'RE SHORT ON THE WATER TOWER, IF WE'RE SHORT ON THE BUILDING AND THE BILTMORE GOLF COURSE THAT WE'RE HOPEFULLY GOING TO MOVE IF WE'RE SHORT ON SOME AREAS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION, WE WILL ADD THIS MONEY. PUBLIX WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE. THEY WILL GET CREDIT FOR IT. WE'LL ADD A PLAQUE WITH PUBLIX NAME ON IT, ALONG WITH ALL THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND STAFF, THE ARCHITECT, THE ENGINEER, WHOEVER WAS INVOLVED. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE, PLEASE. THIS IS THIS IS FOR STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S MEMORIALIZED. I DON'T WANT TO LATER FIND OUT. IT'S NOT THAT PUBLIX RECEIVES ALL THE CREDIT THAT THEY GET PUBLIC RELATIONS. THEY'RE GIVING $1.4 MILLION WORTH OF FUNDS THAT WILL ONLY BE USED FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AT THE RIBBON CUTTING, AT THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION, WHATEVER MONEY THAT'S USED FOR, IF A LITTLE PORTION OF IT IS USED FOR CITY HALL, LET'S SAY $500,000, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO. AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS TODAY, AND HOPEFULLY MY COLLEAGUES WILL AGREE WITH ME. IF YOU GO TO CITY HALL TODAY AND YOU WALK IN AND YOU SEE THE STAIRS THAT GO UP TO THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR, THAT IS NOT REAL STONE. THAT IS NOT REAL STONE. CORRECT. MR. MANAGER, WHAT IS THAT? IT'S. IT'S ACTUALLY WHITE MICROPHONE. SORRY. IT'S CAST WHITE CONCRETE. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO AND ASK THE MANAGER ABOUT A YEAR AGO, AND THE DCM IS TO GET A PRICE. GET A PRICE TO DO THAT IN NATURAL STONE. MAYBE A PORTION OF THAT CAN BE PAID FOR BY THIS MONIES. AND WE CAN PUT A SMALL PLAQUE THANKING PUBLIX FOR THAT DONATION. PUBLIX IS A COMMUNITY PARTNER THAT IS INVOLVED FROM KEY WEST ALL THE WAY TO TALLAHASSEE ON MULTIPLE DIFFERENT FRONTS, REALLY ENGAGING IN CHARITY, GIVING BACK IN PHILANTHROPY. THEY'RE A COMMUNITY PARTNER. THEY HAVE FOUR STORES IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, FIVE STORES, 4 OR 5, FOUR, FOUR, AND THINKS HE'S GOING TO GET MAYBE FIVE, FOUR STORES IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. SO THIS IS BEYOND A PARTNERSHIP. WE'RE FAMILY. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP. FEE SIMPLE ON THE PARK. 
          STEPPING UP IN REGARDS TO THE DESIGN, STACKING THE PARKING. BECAUSE REMEMBER THIS WAS WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS. WE WERE GOING TO BUILD ANOTHER PUBLIX ON LEJEUNE AND THEN DEMOLISH THE EXISTING BUILDING AND MOVE SEAMLESSLY. WHAT WE DID WAS WE DECIDED TO BUILD A PUBLIX IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOT AND HAVE THE PARKING STACKED ON TOP OF IT. WHAT DID THAT OPEN UP? THAT OPENED UP A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK THAT I REQUESTED PUBLIX TO DO. SO PUBLIX HAS STEPPED UP TO THE TUNE OF MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF 
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DOLLARS. THIS WILL BE TRANSFORMATIONAL, ALONG WITH WHAT YOU JUST SAW RIGHT NOW FROM ARMANDO CODINA AND MANNY. IT TOOK LEADERSHIP, IT TOOK PATIENCE. BUT I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT THIS IS PART OF NOT ONLY MY LEGACY, BUT OUR LEGACY. THIS IS WHAT REAL LEADERSHIP IS. 
          THIS IS WHAT LEADING BY EXAMPLE IS AND PUSHING TO PUSH THE CITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND PROTECTING OUR CITY. SO I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU, MARIO. I KNOW THAT IT WAS NOT EASY IN THAT CONFERENCE ROOM RIGHT NOW. IT TOOK SOME EFFORT. IT TOOK IT TOOK A LOT OF EFFORT. I WANT TO THANK THE MANAGER FOR HOLDING FIRM AND ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THE INTEGRITY OF THE CITY IS ALWAYS UPHELD. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMISSION, ESPECIALLY THE VICE MAYOR, WHO IS ALSO BEEN PLAYED, PLAYED, I DON'T WANT TO SAY HARDBALL, BUT SHE'S PLAYED HARDBALL IN REGARDS TO LANDSCAPING INFRASTRUCTURE. SIDEWALKS, BICYCLE LANES. AND IF I FORGET, I APOLOGIZE. THANK YOU FOR OUR OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, OUR DCM, OUR ACM, OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM, AND ESPECIALLY PUBLIX. SO I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE LEFT ANYTHING OUT. YOU'RE GOING TO GET CREDIT ON THE BUILDINGS AS THE DONATIONS ARE MADE WITH A SMALL PLAQUE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE PART OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN AND MARKETING AS WE ANNOUNCE THAT WE'RE, LET'S SAY, CUTTING A RIBBON FOR THE WATER TOWER. IF WE USE MONEY FOR THAT PROJECT FOR CITY HALL, YOU WILL BE INVITED AND WE WILL GIVE YOU THE NECESSARY, THE NECESSARY RECOGNITION FOR YOUR HARD WORK. BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING UP WITH OUR REQUESTS. AND THANK YOU FOR DELIVERING ON SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE WAY BEYOND PUBLIX. THIS IS NOT ABOUT GROCERIES. THERE'S A REASON. THERE'S A REASON WHY YOU HAVE FOUR STORES IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. THIS IS GOING TO BE TRANSFORMATIONAL. AND THE REASON WHY IT'S TRANSFORMATION IS BECAUSE OF YOUR COMMITMENT TO DELIVER A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. MARIO. THANK YOU, MY BROTHER. I APPRECIATE YOU. AND THE PARK ALWAYS STAYS A PARK. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT TO PARK. ALWAYS STAYS THE PARK, WHICH IS TO ME, I IT'S TO ME THAT IS GOING TO BE NO WORDS, NO WORDS. IMAGINE TAKING THIS WHEN I TOOK OFFICE 13 YEARS AGO. AND I HATE TO REITERATE THIS AGAIN, WE HAD ONE PARK IN THE DOWNTOWN. NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SEVEN PARKS IN THE DOWNTOWN. THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT IS TRULY, TRULY TRANSFORMATIONAL. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE IN OUR DOWNTOWN. THAT'S WHY COMPANIES WANT TO MOVE HERE. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WANT TO OPEN BUSINESSES HERE. THANK YOU. IT'S ALSO WHY I PREMATURELY GRAY. BUT IT'S YES, YES. THAT'S WHY MY DAD WAS INVOLVED IN A IN A ZOOM CALL WITH THE WITH THE WITH THE PUBLIX BOARD IN THE MIDDLE. I WAS ON VACATION TO AT THE TIME WE WERE ON VACATION, WE WERE BOTH. SO IT GOT DONE. MADAM VICE MAYOR SO MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY I'M GETTING MORE GRAY HAIR TOO. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE SPOKE ABOUT A FEW THINGS AND I'M HOPING THAT PUBLIX WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE THE LEAD AND SET THE EXAMPLE FORESIA GOINGRD. AND KNOW WEAVE SECOND REG,O WN HAVEOME IROVID YOU T E OD THE NUMBER OFONANDEARS QUITRALY, TT I'EEN ING WI, Y KNO AND NOW WE' GNG TO B NG EVEN BGER SP WITH E COUNTY ON TRYING TO GET SOMESE THISONE. F INSTANWITH FDO BN HAVI DISSSIONS ANDILL COIN TO HMORE DISCONSECAUSEE  JUST HAISCU YESTEAYUT PROVIN SAFETNG US ONE GUARDRAILS SPEED, RADAR SIGN DETECTION SIGNS AND SO FORTH GOING FORWARD ON VERY DIFFICULT INTERSECTIONS, MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN WE HAVE HERE TO DELIVER PEDESTRIAN SAFETY FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE RIDING BICYCLES OR DISABLED OR OTHERWISE. SO MY ASK FROM YOU IS NOT TO GO THIS ALONE WITH THE COUNTY, BECAUSE IT TAKES A CONVERSATION AND IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO GET THINGS DONE JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A, A NO FROM THE COUNTY DOESN'T MEAN YOU GIVE UP THERE AND JUST MOVE FORWARD. BECAUSE OUR BOARDS, OUR COMMITTEES, WE HAD A BIKE MASTER PLAN, BUT IT NEEDED UPDATED BECAUSE VALENCIA WAS NOT A GOOD CORRIDOR PUTTING A BICYCLE LANE. IT NEEDS TO MOVE TO ANDALUSIA ON THE SIDE THAT WAS REQUESTED. CITY MANAGER HAS CONSULTANT MOVING FORWARD ON THAT AND WE'LL HAVE A A BOW ON IT. BUT YES, THERE IS A PLAN AND ONE OF OUR OTHER PROJECTS DOWN THE STREET ON SALCEDO HAS COOPERATED BY PUTTING IN THE WIDER SIDEWALK THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE BOTH PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE LANE MOVING THOSE THOSE BICYCLES IN AN AREA THAT IS MUCH SAFER THAN WHAT THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS TAKING THE LANE AND BLOCKING TRAFFIC. AND IT'S JUST IT'S GOING TO BE BETTER FOR THE FUTURE. SO LET'S WORK TOGETHER ON ALL THESE PROJECTS BECAUSE IT IS A SYNERGY THAT WILL HELP US MOVE FORWARD. AND PUBLIX WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE SETTING THE EXAMPLE FOR EVERYBODY, FROM EVERYTHING FROM RECYCLING, OKAY, ON DOWN TO BEING ABLE TO GET TO THE PUBLIX IN A SAFE FASHION. BECAUSE AS I SHARED WITH YOU, A RESIDENT RIGHT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS 
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HIT AT THE CORNER OF VALENCIA AND LEJEUNE ROAD BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE PROPER SAFETY MEASURES THERE, WE CAN DELIVER THIS TOGETHER. SO I APPLAUD THE FACT THAT YOU'VE WE HAVE THE GREEN SPACE IN THE BACK, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, AND WE HAVE SET THIS BUILDING BACK AT A DISTANCE FROM LEJEUNE ROAD. THAT MAKES IT A COMFORTABLE PLACE TO WALK NOW, A SAFER PLACE TO WALK. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A TWO WAY CYCLE TRACK, AS THEY CALL IT, OR A BIKE LANE FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SAFELY TRANSECT OUR DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY AND TO BE ABLE TO GO TO PUBLIX AND GO TO THE ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER AND BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE AMENITIES THAT WE HAVE DOWNTOWN, INCLUDING THE BEAUTIFUL PARK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE BEHIND THE PUBLIX. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS THERE, AND I'LL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU BEFORE WE ENTERTAIN A MOTION WORKING WITH THE COUNTY. BEFORE WE ENTERTAIN A MOTION, I JUST WANT TO MEMORIALIZE YOUR COMMENTS. SO THE PARK IS GOING TO BE USED DURING CONSTRUCTION JUST LIKE WE HAD RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS PERFECTLY FINE. OUR DOWNTOWN IS TIGHT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE CONSTRUCTION AT THE MOBILITY HUB, WHICH MAY PARALLEL OR, YOU KNOW, INTERLINE INTO RAP. THAT'S NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THE TCO OR CEO FOR THE PARK. OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE TO OBVIOUSLY GET TCO FOR THE PUBLIC AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE CAN MOVE FORWARD ON THAT. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S PENDING THAT I MISSED? I MENTIONED THE FUND, I MENTIONED PUBLIX, I MENTIONED MARKETING ADVERTISEMENT. I MENTIONED THE 35,000. I MENTIONED ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMIT. YES. YEAH. WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY HINDRANCES. WE'RE MOVING FORWARD RIGHT NOW. THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. I ALSO, MADAM, HCM AND DCM, PLEASE, LET'S MAKE SURE THROUGH THE MANAGER THAT WE HOLD EVERYONE TO THE SAME STANDARD ON TREES. YOU KNOW, LET'S NOT PLANT SIX FOOT TREES ON THIS 20,000 SQUARE FOOT PARK. 
          IT'S GOING TO TAKE 30 YEARS FOR IT TO BE SHAPED. LET'S DO THIS THE RIGHT WAY, OKAY? THROUGH THE MANAGER. THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. AND ALSO THE THE ISSUE ON THE DEDICATION OF THE YES, OF THE PARK, ON THE ON THE CORRECT CONVEYED IN FEE SIMPLE TO THE CITY PERIOD. WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID, YES. SO I HAVE ONE MORE THAT WOULD BE BAD FOR ME TO FORGET. AND I ASKED FOR OUR LANDSCAPE DIRECTOR TO LOOK AT TREES THAT ARE REUSABLE ON THE LOT. FOR INSTANCE, THE GUMBO LIMBO IS THERE IF OUR CITY STAFF MAKES A DETERMINATION THAT WE CAN REUSE THOSE TREES SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY. PUBLIX BE COMMITTED TO DOING THEIR PART ON HAVING THOSE TREES MOVED. CITY MANAGER I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR TEAM HAS HAD A CHANCE TO DO THAT EVALUATION ON WHAT IS REUSABLE THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, VICE MAYOR, WE WILL HAVE OUR. OUR. OUR ARBORIST, EXCUSE ME, KNOW OUR LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENT. TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND HAVE WE WILL HAVE OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DINA BELL TAKE A LOOK AT AT AT THOSE TREES. OKAY. IF YOU HAVE ANY USE FOR THE TREES, THEY'RE YOURS. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION. DO A MOTION. 
          NOPE. CAN WE HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MOVE IT. I'LL SECOND. ANY FURTHER COMMENT? WE'RE GOOD. 
          ALL RIGHT, LET'S VOTE. COMMISSIONER. LADA. YES. VICE MAYOR ANDERSON. YES, COMMISSIONER CASTRO. YES. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YES. YES, MAYOR. YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'LL SEE YOU BACK AT SECOND READING, MARIO. THANK YOU, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE DON'T NEED E9. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM F1. F1 CAN WE CAN WE START MOVING TO F1. ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANT TO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I HADN'T FORGOTTEN ANYTHING. ITEM F1 WHAT GOLF. YEAH. IF YOU WANT TO DO GOLF THAT'S FINE. WHICH ITEM DO YOU WANT TO HEAR FIRST. I THINK WE HAVE ITEM H40 ALONG WITH THEY WANT TO DO GOLF. OKAY SO H FOUR ALONG WITH ITEMS F11 
          [F.-12. 26-1402 A Resolution of the City Commission directing staff to explore a league-based discount structure comparable to that of other golf facilities.  
(Sponsored by Commissioner Castro)]
          [F.-13. 26-1435 A Resolution of the City Commission formally recognizing the City's ongoing relations with the Greenway Women's Golf Association, Inc. and the Coral Gables Women's Golf and Bridge Association, Inc. and directing staff to continue to set aside certain tee-times for members of those associations. 
(Sponsored by Commissioner Castro)]
          [F.-14. 26-1436 A Resolution of the City Commission amending the Community Recreation Fee Schedule to provide for a Coral Gables Resident Senior Discount at Granada Golf Course.
(Sponsored by Commissioner Castro)]
          [F.-15. 26-1438 A Resolution of the City Commission amending the Community Recreation Fee Schedule to provide for a one-year Transition and Evaluation Program allowing the continuation of Annual Golf Memberships at the Granada Golf Course in place as of March 10, 2026; providing for updated rates; and providing for reporting of data at the conclusion of the one-year period.
(Sponsored by Commissioner Castro)]
          [H.-4. 26-1411 Update on the Coral Gables Golf & Country Club Golf Membership.]
THROUGH F12 F12. F12 EXCUSE ME F12 F13. F14 AND F15. ALL RIGHT. COULD WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION UP PLEASE? YES, MAYOR, I HAVE A STATEMENT. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY CONCERNING GOLF. THIS DISCUSSION BEFORE THE COMMISSION TODAY IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT HOW WE RESPONSIBLY MANAGE A PUBLIC ASSET SO THAT IT REMAINS ACCESSIBLE, SUSTAINABLE FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. 
          GRANADA GOLF COURSE IS A HISTORIC NINE HOLE MUNICIPAL COURSE. RESPONSIBILITIES TO PRESERVE IT AND ENSURE FAIR AND CONSISTENT ACCESS. THE CURRENT MODEL IS OUT OF BALANCE. THE 
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SMALL GROUP OF ACCOUNTS FOR THIS ACCOUNT FOR DISPROPORTION DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE OF USE. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, THE BROADER PUBLIC PAYS MORE AND HAS LESS ACCESS TO TEE TIMES. THIS IS THIS IS AN EQUITY ISSUE. IT'S ALSO A MANAGEMENT ISSUE. THE COURSE IS OPERATING BEYOND SUSTAINABLE LEVELS. THE THE THIS. THAT INCREASE IS WHERE RAISES MAINTENANCE COSTS AND IMPACTS OVERALL CONDITIONS. AT THE SAME TIME, OPERATING COSTS ARE INCREASING FASTER THAN REVENUES. THAT CREATES ONGOING PRESSURE ON THE GENERAL FUND THAT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. THE COMMISSION HAS ADOPTED CHANGES TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES DIRECTLY. THE ANNUAL. THE ANNUAL ROUND CAP IMPROVES ACCESS AND REDUCES OVERUSE. IT MAINTAINS BENEFITS MEMBER BENEFITS, INCLUDING PRIORITY BOOKING AND DISCOUNTED PLAY. IT ALSO ALIGNS WITH STANDARD PRACTICES FOR MUNICIPAL COURSES. RETAINING THE EXISTING MEMBERSHIPS WILL MAINTAIN THE CURRENT IMBALANCE. IT WILL LIMIT ACCESS FOR THE USERS AND CONFLICT WITH THE POLICY DIRECTION ALREADY ESTABLISHED. THERE IS ALSO A NEED TO FORMALIZE HOW OUTSIDE GROUPS USE THE COURSE. USE OF PUBLIC ASSETS SHOULD BE STRUCTURED, CONSISTENT AND TIED TO CLEAR PUBLIC BENEFIT. IN CLOSING, THE CHANGES ARE NECESSARY TO CORRECT THE CURRENT IMBALANCE AND ENSURE THE COURSE IS MANAGED RESPONSIBLY. STAFF RECOMMENDS MOVING FORWARD AS ADOPTED. THANK YOU, MR. MANAGER. MADAM HCM THANK YOU MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY CLERK. THIS ITEM WAS BROUGHT AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING IN THE FORM OF RESTRUCTURING OF THE MEMBERSHIPS AND THE FEES, AND WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS ON THE POSITION OF THE CITY AND THE POLICY DIRECTION OF THE CITY. GOOD AFTERNOON. FOR THE RECORD, FRED, COMMUNITY RECREATION DIRECTOR. SO TODAY'S PRESENTATION, JUST AN OVERVIEW. WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT A COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL RESET TO PROTECT THE CITY ASSET. OUR GOALS ARE TO BALANCE THE ACCESS TO SUSTAINABILITY AND THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE COURSE. WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS WE'RE TRYING TO ALIGN WITH OUR MARKET BENCHMARKS. WE'RE LOOKING AT COST RECOVERY. 
          WE WANT TO ENHANCE THE USER EXPERIENCE, AND WE WANT TO ENSURE LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY. 
          SO BACK ON MARCH 10TH, WHEN WE PRESENTED THE FEE STRUCTURE YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE THERE, WE INCREASED THE FEES. THE MAIN ONES TO LOOK AT THAT ARE DISCUSSED ARE OUR PREVIOUS FEE WAS $22 FOR TEE TIME, AND IT WAS INCREASED TO 30. AND THE NONRESIDENT TEE TIME WAS 28 TO 39. WE TRIED TO WHEN WE DID OUR FUNDS, WE LOOKED AT THE INCREASES AND WE LOOKED AT KEEPING THAT 30% NONRESIDENT PREMIUM. FOR THAT, WE DO MAINTAIN A FIVE YEAR SCHEDULE, BUT WE DID CHANGE THIS BASED ON WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT FOR OUR MAINTENANCE OPERATION CHANGE. 
          SO PART OF THAT FEE PROPOSAL WAS ADOPTED IS WE LOOKED AT THE CLUB MEMBERSHIP. SO BREAKING IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT, WHAT WE DID IS WE HAD A GOLF MEMBERSHIP THAT WAS JUST GOLF. WHAT WE LOOKED AT IS WE LOOKED AT TYING IT IN AS WE WANTED TO DO WITH OUR PHASE TWO DEVELOPMENT. WHEN WE PRESENTED OUR COUNTRY CLUB MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL A FEW YEARS BACK TO START TO COMBINE THOSE MEMBERSHIPS, THE COUNTRY CLUB. IT WOULD BE THE MEMBERSHIP WOULD HAVE ALL THE COUNTRY CLUB BENEFITS. AND THEN IN TERMS OF GOLF BENEFITS, YOU'D HAVE A MAXIMUM OF 30 COMPLIMENTARY ROUNDS PER YEAR. THAT WAS WITH CART, AND THEN AN ADDITIONAL $5 DISCOUNT EACH ADDITIONAL ROUND PLAYED. AND YOU WOULD ALSO HAVE A SEVEN DAY PRIORITY TEE TIME WITH THE THE CURRENT FEES THAT WERE WHEN WE PRESENTED IT WAS 921. THE NEW ADOPTED FEE WENT TO 2100 FOR RESIDENTS, 2730 FOR NONRESIDENTS. WHEN YOU TAKE OUT THE COUNTRY CLUB VALUE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE NET GOLF FEE WAS, WHICH WAS 1050 AND 1380 FOR THE NONRESIDENTS. AND THEN THE COUPLES ONES. YOU CAN SEE THERE AS WELL THAT 1050, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 30 COMPLIMENTARY ROUNDS OF WHAT IT'S COST FOR A RIDE AND SAVE, WHICH IS INCLUDING THE CART, IT KIND OF GETS YOU THERE. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE $5 DISCOUNT AND YOU HAVE THE PRIORITY T TIME AS WELL. AND YOU HAVE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT AMENITIES OF THE COUNTRY CLUB, INCLUDING THE DISCOUNTS THAT ARE PART OF THAT WITH THE PARK AND EVERYTHING ELSE. WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS, WE ALSO LOOKED AT OUR AROUND USAGE. SO IN OUR AROUND USAGE, YOU CAN SEE THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF CATEGORIES THAT ARE TIED IN WITH OUR FEES, WHICH IS OUR NORMAL RESIDENT NONRESIDENT T TIME. THERE'S OUR TWILIGHT HOUR RIDE AND SAVE, WHICH INCLUDES THE CART DURING THE WEEKDAYS, OUR JUNIOR ROUNDS. THEN THERE'S OUR MEMBER ROUNDS, AND THEN THERE'S OUR OUR BOARD AND EMPLOYEE ROUNDS. SO IF YOU LOOK 
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AT WHAT THE AVERAGE WAS IN THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS, 24 AND 25, OUR RESIDENT TEE TIMES MADE UP 21,000 ROUNDS. THE NONRESIDENT WAS 4000 ROUNDS. AND THEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT RESIDENT TWILIGHT WAS 8900. THE RIDE AND SAVE RESIDENT WAS 9900. SO THE MAJORITY OF OUR ROUNDS WERE THE RESIDENT VARIETY OF THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. OUR MEMBER ROUNDS, WHICH IS OF THE 86 MEMBERS AVERAGE OVER THE TWO YEARS, APPROXIMATELY 16,278 ROUNDS. IN OUR BOARD, AN EMPLOYEE COMP ROUNDS WERE 1037. SO IF YOU LOOK AT IT, THE THE CHART TO THE TO MY LEFT IS LOOKING AT ALL THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. AND THE RESIDENT TEE TIME WAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF USE, WHICH WAS 31%. BUT THEN THE NEXT LEVEL WAS OUR MEMBER ROUNDS, WHICH WERE 23.6 OF ALL THE ROUNDS WERE PLAYED BY MEMBERS. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE THE CHART TO THE RIGHT, ALL OF THE PAID TEE TIMES, TWILIGHT JUNIOR, EVERYTHING COMPRISED ABOUT 74.9%. THE MEMBER ROUNDS WERE 23.6. AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE FINAL CATEGORY OF EMPLOYERS 1.5%. SO 86 MEMBERS ACCOUNTED FOR 16,278 ROUNDS, WHICH IS CLOSE TO 24% OF THE TOTAL COURSE USAGE. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE REVENUE BREAKDOWN THAT WE LOOKED AT, OUR AVERAGE OVER THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS OF REVENUE THAT WE GOT FROM THE MEMBERSHIPS WAS 88,000. WHEREAS THE TEE TIMES AND THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES WAS 1.155 MILLION, OUR REVENUE FROM OUR CARTS WAS 120,000. SO THERE'S OUR TOTAL. SO YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, THE ANNUAL IN COMPARISON. AND COMPARING THAT TO THE ANNUAL EXPENSES, THE EXPENSES FOR JUST TAKING CARE OF THE THE GRASS, THE MAINTENANCE PART WAS 926. WHEN WE FACTOR IN ALL THE OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES, WHICH IS THE PRO SHOP, THE MAINTENANCE SHOP, ALL THE DIFFERENT COSTS THAT WE HAVE, AND THEN THE INCREASE IN COSTS THAT WE HAVE FOR BRIGHTVIEW AND ALSO THE TEE RENOVATION PROJECTS. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE WHERE THAT 1.364 IS NOT GOING TO MEET IT. NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE SALES REVENUE IMPACT, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, 84% IS ALL THE TEE TIMES. THE GOLF MEMBERSHIPS MAKE UP 6.5% OF THE REVENUE, WHICH COMPARES TO 24% OF THE TOTAL ROUNDS THAT ARE PLAYED. SO YOU GET 24% OF THE TOTAL ROUNDS PLAYED VERSUS 6.5% OF THE REVENUE. OUR CAR RENTALS ARE 8.9% OF THE REVENUE. SO THE MEMBER MEMBERSHIPS HAVE THE LOWEST CONTRIBUTOR ON THE CHART OF THE OF THE CITY REVENUE, BUT IT DOES HAVE ONE QUARTER OF THE TOTAL COURSE USAGE. SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT BREAKING THAT DOWN FURTHER, THE CITY GOLF MEMBERSHIP COST PER ROUND, THE AVERAGE OF THE TWO YEARS, APPROXIMATELY $5.41 PER ROUND. WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF ROUNDS VERSUS THE MEMBERS THAT WE HAD. SO THE MEMBERS WERE AVERAGING ABOUT $5.41 PER ROUND TO PLAY A ROUND OF GOLF. MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION, MR. DIRECTOR? YES, SIR. I WANT TO MEMORIALIZE THAT $5.41. CAN YOU GIVE ME ONE EXAMPLE? ONE EXAMPLE OF OF OF A GOLF COURSE. WHERE? PEOPLE PAY $5 AROUND. NO, I'M NOT AWARE. I CAN'T I CAN'T SAY ONE OFF. HOW ABOUT $10? NOT IN SOUTH FLORIDA THAT I KNOW OF. YEAH, BUT THAT'S YOU. YOU TOOK MY POINT. YOU TOOK MY POINT. SORRY. MY APOLOGIES. HOW MUCH ARE WE LOSING A YEAR. WELL, THIS COMING YEAR, WE'LL LOSE CLOSE TO 600,000. WITH ALL OF OUR NEW IMPROVEMENTS AND OUR NEW MAINTENANCE. SO THEY'RE CLAMORING. RIGHTFULLY SO. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT GOLF COURSE. IT'S AN IMPORTANT FACILITY. 
          THEY'RE CLAMORING FOR INCREASED MAINTENANCE, INCREASED QUALITY. YEP. BUT WE HAVE AN ISSUE, OBVIOUSLY, WITH REVENUE. WE HAD THE SAME SITUATION AT. AT VENETIAN POOL. YES. WE SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON RENOVATIONS. WHAT DID WE DO? WE RAISE THE RATES. WE STILL CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE THE RESIDENTS WITH LOWER RATES. BUT WE HAD TO RAISE RATES. YEP. WE HAD THE SAME SITUATION AT THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB WHERE CERTAIN MEMBERS THAT I'M NOT GOING TO MENTION WERE CORAL GABLES RESIDENTS CAME HERE AND SAID, YOU KNOW, SAVE THE DONATOS, SAVE THE DONATOS, LET THEM STAY. HOW MUCH ARE WE MAKING A YEAR ON THE GYM 
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MEMBERSHIPS FROM FROM THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB, $50,000. ONCE WE CAUGHT THE DONATOS STEALING THE COMPUTERS OUT THE BACK DOOR. I RECEIVED THAT PHONE CALL. I WAS IN NEW YORK IN A MEETING, AND OUR THEN CITY ATTORNEY, MIA RAMOS, CALLED US AND SAID CHRISTINA WAS THERE. 
          SAYS WE JUST CAUGHT THEM STEALING A LOT OF COMPUTERS OUT THE BACK DOOR ALONG WITH SOME WINE. REMEMBER? AM I AM I CORRECT OR NO? YOU ARE CORRECT, MA'AM. OKAY. THEY LEFT. WHAT WERE THEY DOING IN REGARDS TO. THE GYM, SO THAT IT COULD MAKE IT SEEM AS IF THEY WERE ONLY MAKING $50,000 TO PAY THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. WHAT WERE THEY DOING, MAYOR? WHAT THEY WERE DOING IS THEY WERE LEASING IT TO THE NEPHEW FOR $50,000. AND THE THEY HAD 1200 TO 1300 MEMBERS. HOW MUCH WAS HOW MUCH WERE THEY MAKING A YEAR? 1.2 TO 1.3 MILLION. HOW LONG WAS THIS GOING ON FOR? FOUR YEARS, MAYOR. WE LOST EASILY OVER $10 MILLION HERE. OKAY. WE HAD A LONG CONVERSATION. SOME MEMBERS HERE IN THE COMMISSION FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL, SAID THERE WAS NO WAY, NO WAY THAT THE LITTLE SHOP COULD AFFORD TO PAY A REASONABLE RENT. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT. MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION. HOW MUCH ARE WE MAKING A MONTH NOW ON THE ON THE LITTLE SHOP AFTER THE RENOVATIONS THAT WE PAID FOR THE CITY TAXPAYERS WHO WERE HERE, THEY PAID FOR IT FOR THE PARK CAFE. WE DO ABOUT 22 TO 24,000 A MONTH. WHO MAKES THAT? THE CITY DOES THE REVENUE SHARE. SO WHEN YOU ADD THE 20, LET'S SAY 25,000 A MONTH, THAT'S $300,000 A YEAR PLUS THE 1.4 FROM THE GYM. WE'RE AT $1.7 MILLION OF MONEY THAT BELONGS TO THE RESIDENTS. HOW MUCH DEFERRED MAINTENANCE WAS IN THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB? HOW MANY MILLIONS WOULD YOU SAY? SAVE THAT FOR OUR LAST SLIDE, WE'LL GO INTO OUR JUMPING THE GUN. I APOLOGIZE. SO MY POINT IS THIS. MY POINT IS THIS TRUST ME, I'M ALL FOR IT. I DON'T GOLF, I DON'T GOLF, I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT GOLF THAT ARE PART OF THIS GROUP, BY THE WAY. SO I'VE HEARD I'VE, I'VE HEARD IT AT FAMILY DINNER WHEN THEY TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, CAN I HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU ABOUT THIS? TRUST ME, I HEAR IT, I UNDERSTAND IT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO BE FIDUCIARIES ON BEHALF OF THIS COMMUNITY. WE HAVE TO. 
          ESPECIALLY NOW. YOU SAW ME DO IT RIGHT NOW WITH THE INSURANCE. LET'S NOT JUST TAKE THAT INSURANCE AND SPEND IT ON SOMETHING ELSE. LET'S PUT IT AWAY. WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT TAX TAX REVENUE REDUCTION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S GOING TO VOTE POTENTIALLY IN FAVOR OF A TAX REDUCTION HOMESTEAD. SO WE'LL BE IMPACTED. 
          WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO BE 5 MILLION, OR IT COULD BE HOW MUCH 30 MILLION. 40 MILLION. 
          WE DON'T KNOW YET. WE'RE WAITING FOR THE GOVERNOR. SO. I WANT TO BE I WANT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE THIS HAS BECOME THIS HAS GONE FROM A FINANCIAL DECISION TO AN EMOTIONAL DECISION. AND I UNDERSTAND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE GOLF AWAY FROM ANYBODY. BUT WE HAVE TO ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE LOSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HERE IN THIS GOLF COURSE. AND WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, VERY CAREFUL WHAT WE WHAT WE'RE DOING. THIS IS A DECISION THAT THE COMMISSION HAS TO MAKE TOGETHER CANNOT BE POLITICIZED LIKE THE RTC. AND LIKE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE POLITICIZE HERE, WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, VERY CAREFUL WHAT WE DO HERE, BECAUSE THE DECISIONS THAT WE DO HERE, LIKE THE COLA, AFFECTS THE CITY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS. RIGHT? YES, SIR. IF WE CAN HAVE THE SLIDE BACK. THANK YOU. SO AS WE WERE DISCUSSING. SO THE AVERAGE COST PER ROUND FOR THE MEMBERSHIP OVER THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS WAS APPROXIMATELY $5.41 PER ROUND. IN COMPARISON TO THE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE TEE TIME COST PER ROUND, WHICH WAS APPROXIMATELY $22. LET ME PUT IT INTO CONTEXT FOR YOU. GO TO YOUR APP AND ASK TO ORDER A STARBUCKS COFFEE RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW TO HAVE IT DELIVERED HERE. IT'S $7. JUST THINK ABOUT THAT $7 TO ORDER STARBUCKS COFFEE AND YOU DRINK THAT COFFEE IN 30 MINUTES. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO PLAY AROUND THE GOLF? TWO HOURS FOR NINE HOLES. YEAH. SO THERE'S ALSO A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE NON-CITY MEMBERSHIPS. THERE ARE A FEW INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE AT THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE. THERE'S THREE OF THEM THAT THAT WE FOUND. IT'S THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION, THE GREENWAY WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION AND THE WOMEN'S GOLF AND BRIDGE CLUB. THESE ARE ASSOCIATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HAVE HAD 
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RELATIONSHIPS WITH GRANADA GOLF COURSE WELL BEYOND ALL OF OUR SERVICE TIME HERE, 1960, 1964, 1936. AND THEY DO HAVE VARYING NUMBER OF MEMBERS BETWEEN 35 TO 60. THE MEMBER BENEFITS, THEY ARE PRIORITY ACCESS TO CERTAIN TEE TIMES. THEY DO PAY THEIR GREENS FEES. A COUPLE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS DO USE A CONFERENCE ROOM THERE. THEY COLLECT DUES AND THE DUES ARE USED FOR VARIOUS EXPENSES. IN SOME CASES HANDICAPPED FEES. WE DID GET. WE DID ASK ALL THE ASSOCIATIONS. I DID ASK FOR ALL THE INFORMATION TO LOOK AT WHAT WHAT ALL THE ASSOCIATIONS ENTAIL. THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION DID TELL US THAT THEY HAD, OVER THE YEARS OF COLLECTING THEIR MONEY, THEY HAD DONATED OVER $500,000 TO DIFFERENT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. SO WE DID GET THAT. WE TRIED TO LOOK AND SEE IF THERE WAS A FORMAL AGREEMENT OR A DOCUMENTED ARRANGEMENT. WE WENT THROUGH THE CITY CLERK, WE DID RECORD SEARCHES. I ASKED ALL THE ASSOCIATIONS TO SEE IF THEY HAD ANYTHING, MAYBE BECAUSE THIS WAS LONG AGO, BUT WE REALLY COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING FORMAL. MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE, BUT WE COULDN'T FIND IT. SO LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. OKAY? YOU JUST SAW ME NEGOTIATE RIGHT NOW WITH PUBLIX TO THE TUNE OF A LAST MINUTE NEGOTIATION, TO THE TUNE OF $1.4 MILLION, AND THAT MONEY IS EARMARKED FOR A TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IF I BROUGHT HERE TO THIS COMMISSION AND I SAID, I'D LIKE TO EARMARK THAT MONEY FOR A CHARITY OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, I DON'T THINK I WILL GET THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMISSION. I'M PRETTY SURE I WOULDN'T. I DON'T THINK I WOULD GET ONE VOTE HERE, AND THAT'S OKAY. AND I EXPECT THAT. DO WE HAVE ANY FINANCIALS? DO WE HAVE ANY AUDITED FINANCIALS? DO WE HAVE ANY CHECKS? SO THIS ORGANIZATION RUNS A NOT FOR PROFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT OR A NON-FOR-PROFIT EVENT ON A FACILITY THAT'S OWNED BY THE CITY THAT WE MAINTAINED THAT WE'RE LOSING $600,000 A YEAR, AND THEN THE MONEY IS DIVERTED TO CHARITIES OUTSIDE THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND AND PUT THAT ON THE RECORD TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M CORRECT, BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. YES OR NO? WE DO NOT HAVE ANY FINANCIAL RECORDS AT THIS TIME. WE HAD ASKED FOR ANY RECORDS THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE US, SO WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANY AT THIS POINT. OKAY. SO YES, WE HAD A SIMILAR SITUATION WITH CORAL GABLES GARDEN CLUB. IT BACK OF THE NAPKIN OR SOMEONE'S CONVERSATION FOR USE OF A ROOM AT THE BILTMORE HOTEL. WE FINALLY MEMORIALIZED IT IN WRITING, AND IT DIDN'T GIVE YOU A RIGHT TO HAVE A ISF RABOF A ARRANG YOUAVE TOD SOME SOMEERPACE BUT N VERSTED BEFORE. OKARE INSURANCEW YOUW, LE A GOL ASION,T DOEGO ES TDEN C AND, YOU OWDOMINA THE THE GST ITOE IN CI C GS, ITALSO DOEE VINMT, T SOOLS,ET IM INTO HAVE I RERVG TE. I'M H HEADS  HOW RESERVE TIM AND A ONUMBEALND FAR INANCE CAN, UNESVE SOME I'L I'LL RHO QUFOR LATERKA SO AS WE LOOKED AT THE MEMBERSHIPS AND WE TRIED TO BENCHMARK WITH COMPARABLE MUNICIP COURSES, WE CAME UP WITH A FEW. WINTER PARK IS ONE THAT IS A NINE HOLE COURSE, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT AS A COMPARISON, YOU KNOW, AND SPEAKING WITH WITH THE DIRECTOR THERE, THEY HAVE A TOTAL ROUNDS PLAYED OF 50,000, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN GRANADA, WHICH IS 68,000. THEY HAVE 300 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
          AND THOSE 300 ACTIVE MEMBERS, THEY PLAY 12,000 ROUNDS. SO THEY DO HAVE 24% OF THE ROUNDS, BUT IT'S 300 MEMBERS. SO IT'S 300 MEMBERSHIP RATES, AND THEIR CHARGE IS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN WHAT WE HAD BEFORE THE NEW ADOPTION. SO IT'S ABOUT 1300. SO YOU HAVE 300 OF THEM TAKE UP 12,000 ROUNDS. SO THE ROUNDS PER MEMBER ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BRIER BAY AND MIAMI BEACH. 
          THEIR MODELS ARE MORE OF A, OF A THEY USE THE PATRON CARD. SO THERE'S THERE'S DIFFERENT MODELS. IT'S NOT AN UNLIMITED ROUND MODEL THAT WE LOOKED AT. SO THE UNLIMITED ROUND MODEL SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUTLIER. UNLESS YOU GO INTO COUNTRY CLUB, DIFFERENT SETUPS THAT ARE MORE PRIVATE COURSES. SO I'M LOOKING AT THE MODEL SCENARIO GRANADA RIGHT NOW FOR THE MEMBERS. IT HAS A HIGH CAPACITY SHARE AND A HIGH CONSUMPTION, HIGH AMOUNT OF ROUNDS PER MEMBER. AND ALSO IT'S A PRETTY HIGH PERCENTAGE. WHEREAS FOR INSTANCE, BRIER BAY HAS A HIGH PERCENTAGE, BUT IT'S A LOW NUMBER OF ROUNDS PER MEMBER. THE SAME WITH WINTER 
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PARK. AND MIAMI BEACH IS KIND OF LOW ON BOTH SIDES. AND THAT'S USING THE PATRON CARD. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE 30 ROUND CAP IS TRYING TO ELIMINATE SOME OF THAT USE, YOU KNOW, RECLAIM SOME OF THAT MEMBER HELD CAPACITY, INCREASE THE PUBLIC ACCESS BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALL MEMBER UNLIMITED ROUNDS. WE CAN EXPAND THE MEMBERSHIP BASE AND WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT IT'S REDUCED WHERE WE CAN LOWER THOSE THOSE ROUNDS DOWN FROM THAT 68,000. OUR CURRENT USAGE WITH 86 MEMBERS, IT'S 189 ROUNDS PER MEMBER. THAT WITH THAT 24.6 CAPACITY IMPACT, WITH THE EXISTING MEMBER COUNT OF 86 AND 30 ROUNDS PER MEMBER, IT'S IT WOULD BE 2580 TOTAL MEMBER ROUNDS. AND THEN IF YOU DO A BALANCE MODEL WITH 300 MEMBERS AT THE 30 ROUNDS PER MEMBER, THAT'S 9000 ROUNDS. SO THAT'S 13.6% CAPACITY LOWERS THE CAPACITY. SOME IF YOU GO TO A FULL CAPACITY MODEL OF 500 MEMBERS AND YOU DO THE 30 ROUNDS PER MEMBER, THAT BRINGS YOU BACK UP TO 15,000 ROUNDS, WHICH IS 22.6. SO THE MEMBERS ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST A QUARTER OF THE USAGE. SO THOSE 86 MEMBERS DO USE THE COURSE AT A MUCH HIGHER RATE. WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT AT RECOMMENDED ROUNDS, WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT 50%, 50,000 ANNUAL ROUNDS. I DID. WE DID SPEAK WITH A CONSULTANT FROM THE NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION WHO HAD DONE SOME WORK ON GRANADA PREVIOUSLY. AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CAME BACK TO HIM TO LOOK AT ARE WE ON THE RIGHT TRACK HERE? AND YOU KNOW, WE DID GET A LETTER FROM HIM AFTER HE LOOKED AT ALL THE INFORMATION FOR A NINE HOLE COURSE, ESPECIALLY OF OUR SIZE, ANYTHING OVER 50,000 ROUNDS WOULD SIGNIFY OVER USE AND WOULD REALLY RESULT IN DETERIORATION OF THE COURSE. WHEN WE SHARED THOSE FINDINGS WITH BRIGHT VIEW, WHO IS OUR NEW MAINTENANCE PROVIDER, THEY CONFIRMED THE RECOMMENDATION AND THEY HOLD NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION IN THE HIGHEST REGARD AS THE AUTHORITY, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO FOLLOW. SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE WITH WITH WITH THOSE WITH THAT NUMBER. THAT'S WHERE WE GOT TO THAT NUMBER. SO BASED ON THAT AND THE INDUSTRY STANDARDS WERE EXCEEDING THE THOSE STANDARDS BY ABOUT 36%. AND THAT COMES INTO A LOT OF THINGS. DECLINING TURF CONDITIONS. OUR LAST MAJOR RENOVATION WAS WAS 12 YEARS AGO. IT RESULTS IN HIGHER MAINTENANCE COSTS. SO OBVIOUSLY REDUCED PLAYER EXPERIENCE. IF THE COURSE IS NOT IN THE CONDITION THAT WE CAN AND DETERIORATION ACCELERATES AS WE HIT THAT 67, 68, 70,000, 70,000 ROUNDS, IT DOES ACCUMULATE. THE DISCUSSION IS WELL, EVERYTHING WAS GOING WELL, BUT IT ACCUMULATES TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME. WHEN YOU START HITTING THAT NUMBER, YOU START LOOKING AT THE CONDITIONS. AND THEN OUR LAST THING AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS, IS THE EQUITY. WE HAVE A SMALL GROUP THAT MAKES UP 25, ALMOST 25% OF CORE USAGE. OF COURSE, USAGE. SO OUR FINANCIAL REALITY, APPROXIMATELY 1.33 MILLION WAS OUR TOTAL REVENUE IN FY 25. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR OUR COSTS, WHICH IS NOT ONLY THE MAINTENANCE, BUT IT'S THE WHOLE GROUNDS, THE OPERATION OF IT ALL, AND OUR IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. ON WITH THE RENOVATIONS, WE'RE LOOKING AT APPROXIMATELY 1.95 MILLION. THAT'S NOT GOING TO COVER. WE'RE NOT GOING TO COVER WHAT WE HAVE. AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE REVENUE GENERATION. AND IF WE HAVE THE MAJORITY OF OUR ROUNDS OR NOT UNLIMITED OR $5 A ROUND, THEN WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE FURTHER REVENUE GENERATION. SO WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, THESE ARE THIS IS THE CAPITAL PICTURE OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE FOR THAT WHOLE AREA, WHICH IS THE COUNTRY CLUB FACILITY, THE GOLF COURSE FACILITY, AND THE TENNIS FACILITY, WHICH MAKES UP THAT ENTIRE CAMPUS. UP TO DATE, WE HAVE ALREADY HAD $5,896,572.06. 
          THOSE ARE THAT'S ALREADY INVESTED IN WHAT WE HAVE TO DATE AND THOSE DIFFERENT PROJECTS. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF INVESTMENTS IN. Q BOTH AT THE COUNTRY CLUB FACILITY, THE GOLF COURSE AND THE THE TENNIS FACILITY. THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL $7.4 MILLION. AND THEN IN LOOKING AT FUTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT NEEDS, WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE FUTURE UP TO $15.5 MILLION. SO TOTAL CAPITAL CITY INVESTMENT, WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, WILL BE $28.8 MILLION. 
          AND THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, WHETHER THE COUNTRY CLUB YOU'RE LOOKING AT, THE POOL, THE WINDOWS, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO FUTURE AIR CONDITIONING ISSUES. THE TENNIS FACILITY IS GOING TO NEED MOST LIKELY A NEW BUILDING EVENTUALLY. AND YOU KNOW, THE STUFF AT THE GOLF COURSE WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT WHICH WE HAVE TO FIX THE ENTIRE MAINTENANCE BARN. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THE SHELTERS, WE GOT SOME OTHER GROUNDS, AND WE'RE GOING TO 
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HAVE SOME OTHER PROJECTS. SO THAT IS A COMPLETE PICTURE OF WHAT WE PRESENTED IN TERMS OF THE GOLF COURSE. THANK YOU. WE GOT YOU ANOTHER ONE FOR TODAY. EVERY EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS THROUGH THE MAYOR BEFORE. YES, MA'AM. SIT DOWN BECAUSE I RESERVED SOME SOME QUESTIONS. 
          BUT OF COURSE, IT HAS TO BE A HISTORIC FACILITY THAT YOU'RE DOING MAINTENANCE ON. AND IT IS. 
          YES IT IS. IT IS. REGARDING RESERVING TIME, I SEE THAT THERE IS A PHONE NUMBER THAT CAN BE CALLED. I HAVEN'T TRIED TO CALL IT, SO IT ASKED STAFF TO TEST IT. SO FOLKS THAT DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THESE FANCY PHONES OR HAVE IT PROGRAMED ON THEIR FLIP PHONE TO CALL TO RESERVE TEE TIMES. MY REAL QUESTION GOES INTO HOW FAR IN ADVANCE YOU CAN RESERVE THE TIME AND PAY FOR THE TIME, BECAUSE IF I WANTED TO RESERVE TIME FOR MONDAY RIGHT NOW, NEXT MONDAY, I CAN'T, I CAN'T, YOU CAN'T. AND THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO PLAN. 
          SO WE HAVE A FIVE DAY PRIORITY. SO IT'S A FIVE DAY ADVANCED TEE TIME IS WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW WITH THE NEW MEMBERSHIP PROPOSAL FOR THOSE MEMBERS. THEY WOULD GET SEVEN DAY PRIORITY. SO YOU. 
          PRESS IT AGAIN. YOURS IS WORKING. IS IT ON. OH YES. SO YEAH, THE NEW MEMBERSHIP WOULD GIVE YOU THE SEVEN DAYS PRIORITY SO THE MEMBERS COULD GET THOSE EXTRA TWO DAYS. THAT'S WHAT WE TIED IN TO ADD VALUE TO THAT MEMBERSHIP. ALEX, WHAT KIND OF NUMBERS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? THE THE MEMBERS THAT THE MEMBERSHIP THAT WAS ADOPTED AT THE LAST, WHICH WAS THE, THE NEW GOLF COURSE MEMBERSHIP, THAT WAS THE 30 ROUNDS AND IT HAD A SEVEN DAY PRIORITY. OKAY. SO IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE HISTORIC INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THE 86 OR THE, THE WOMEN'S CLUB, THE TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN'S CLUBS, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN THEY RESERVE IN ADVANCE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE IF THEY WANT MONDAYS TEES TIMES THEY'VE GOT, WE HAVE FOUR PEOPLE TOGETHER OR WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE TOGETHER AND WE WANT TO RESERVE THIS TIME. HOW FAR IN ADVANCE CAN THEY RESERVE A TIME? WELL, WELL, CURRENTLY THOSE TEE TIMES ARE RESERVED FOR THEM. THE MONDAY, THE FRIDAY AND THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR THOSE THREE ASSOCIATIONS WE DISCUSSED. THEY'RE ALWAYS SET. SO THEY HAVE THOSE TEE TIMES. THEY DON'T HAVE TO. 
          YES. SO THOSE ARE SET. SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAVE A DISAGREEMENT HERE. IF THEY'RE SET WHY DO WE HAVE A DISAGREEMENT. NO. SO THEY THEY SERVE ALMOST LIKE A ROOM BLOCK, RIGHT. THESE ASSOCIATIONS, IF WE'RE CORRECTLY SPEAKING ABOUT THE THREE ASSOCIATIONS, THEY HAVE A ROOM BLOCK THAT'S EXCLUSIVE TO THE MEMBERS OF THAT ASSOCIATION. SO A PATRON THAT MIGHT WANT TO CALL IN ADVANCE OR RESERVE AN ADVANCE, THEY NEVER HAVE THE ABILITY TO HIT ANY OF THOSE TIMES BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PERMANENT ROOM BLOCK. OKAY. SO IF I'M A MEMBER AND I DON'T PLAY GOLF, NOR DO I HAVE THE TIME, IF I WANTED TO RIGHT NOW TO PLAY GOLF OR PICKLEBALL OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS. AND I WANT TO PLAN FOR NEXT WEEK AND I'M A MEMBER. OKAY. I CAN RESERVE THE TIME. CORRECT. WITH THE NEW RESTRUCTURED MEMBERSHIP, ONE OF THE BENEFITS WAS THE SEVEN DAYS IN ADVANCE PRIORITY. SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY BE ALMOST LIKE A PRIORITY BRACKET BEFORE A GENERAL PUBLIC COULD GO AND PLAY. OKAY. AND IF THESE GROUPS RIGHT NOW WANTED TO RESERVE THE TIME, WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE TO DO IF THEY DO NOT GET THE ROOM BLOCK OR FROM THE ASSOCIATION BENEFIT? YOU'RE SAYING CURRENTLY THEY CURRENTLY THEY HAVE IT SET. IT'S ALREADY IN THE BOOKS. IF THAT WAS DIFFERENT, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE FIVE DAYS. BUT RIGHT NOW THOSE THOSE DAYS ARE THOSE TEE TIMES ARE ALREADY ATTRIBUTED TO THOSE ASSOCIATIONS AND THEY'RE IN 
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PLACE. THEY'RE ALWAYS IN PLACE. OKAY. I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE FROM THE BILTMORE. WHEN WE SPOKE TO THE BILTMORE STAFF, THEY HAD A ONE POINT COUPLE OF ASSOCIATIONS, AND PART OF THE BENEFIT OF HAVING THOSE ASSOCIATIONS WAS TO GARNER A CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC PLAYER, LIKE A WOMEN'S GROUP, WHEN THERE WAS NOT MANY FEMALE PLAYERS. THEIR BUSINESS MODEL HAS ALSO CHANGED, AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS FOR THOSE MEMBERS, THEY'VE HAD THE OPTION TO FOLD IN TO BECOME AN ACTUAL MEMBER. RIGHT? SO NON-ASSOCIATION MEMBER, BUT A GOLF MEMBER SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE ACCESS TO SOME OF THOSE BENEFITS. OKAY. SO IS THAT WHAT THE STAFF IS PROPOSING THAT THEY BE THAT THESE GROUPS BE FOLDED INTO MEMBERSHIP? WELL, THE RESTRUCTURING THAT WAS PRESENTED AT THE LAST COMMISSION WAS BASICALLY THERE WAS NO MORE ASSOCIATIONS AS THERE'S WHAT WE HAVE FOUND, STAFF. THERE IS NO DOCUMENTATION OF A RELATIONSHIP, A FORMAL RELATIONSHIP. SO IF THE COMMISSION WISHES TO LOOK AT A FORMAL RELATIONSHIP, STAFF CAN EXPLORE THAT. BUT RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ESSENCE. WE WERE NO LONGER HONORING THOSE PAST BENEFITS. OKAY. IN THE PAST, BENEFITS WERE WHAT? THE BLOCK TIME, A BLOCK TIME FOR DIFFERENT BRACKETS FOR DIFFERENT ASSOCIATIONS, BUT BASICALLY FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY MORNINGS. NO GENERAL MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC EVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY. AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING I WANT TO VOICE BECAUSE THERE'S TWO SIDES OF EVERY COIN. AND I'VE HAD RESIDENTS REACH OUT AND SAY, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WHY CAN'T I NEVER PLAY IN THE MORNINGS? OKAY, SO THAT'S A COMMENT THAT CAME UP. ALL RIGHT. SO ALSO THE, THE PLANNING ASPECT OF IT, YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO DO IT ON THE WEBSITE. ARE YOU ABLE TO DO IT? TELEPHONICALLY. YOU CAN MAKE A RESERVATION OVER THE PHONE, REACH THE PRO SHOP RIGHT NOW. THE RESERVATIONS THAT THE RIGHT NOW, JUST TO SET CLEAR THE STAFF THAT MANAGES THE PRO SHOP IS NOT COMMUNITY RECREATION OR CITY STAFF. THAT IS PART OF AN AGREEMENT WITH THE BILTMORE. SO THAT IS THE PRO SHOP STAFF IS STAFFED BY THE BILTMORE AND THEY HAVE THEIR SOFTWARE, BOTH POS AND RESERVATION SOFTWARE. 
          THEIR RESERVATION SOFTWARE DOES NOT REQUIRE PAYMENT, SO YOU CAN GO ONLINE AND RESERVE WITHOUT MAKING A PAYMENT. OR YOU CAN CALL THE PRO SHOP AND MAKE A RESERVATION WITHIN THE ALLOWABLE TIME. AND THEN YOU PAY WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE PRO SHOP, UNLESS YOU ARE PAYING PREVIOUSLY PAID MEMBERSHIP USER, YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR THE GREENS FEE OR THE TEE TIME. SO TO BLOCK A TIME I DON'T HAVE TO PAY. NOPE, NOT RIGHT NOW. NOT RIGHT NOW. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S EQUITABLE THOUGH, FOR FOR INDIVIDUALS. I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE TO PAY BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT SHOW UP REAL CONCERNED ABOUT THE WEAR AND TEAR ON THE COURSE BECAUSE OF THE OVER USAGE. I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF DEFICIT THAT WE'RE RUNNING BECAUSE IT'S NOT EQUITABLE TO RESIDENTS IN GENERAL, BUT ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOR SENIORS, ETC. THAT WE OFFER SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT HAVE ISSUES WITH AFFORDABILITY. HAS STAFF LOOKED AT THAT? WHAT WAS PRESENTED AT THE LAST MEETING WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT BOTH THE MILITARY, ACTIVE MILITARY AND VETERANS AS A DISCOUNT BECAUSE THAT WAS PROPOSED. GENERALLY, THE DEMOGRAPHIC IS OLDER. WE HAVE OLDER PLAYERS ON THE GOLF COURSE. SO TYPICALLY YOU DON'T HAVE A SENIOR DISCOUNT. WE CAN EXPLORE IF YOU WANT TO BENCHMARK OTHER FACILITIES. WE COULD DO THAT PRIMARILY. WE LOOKED AT HAVING THE RESIDENT NONRESIDENT RATE. AND OF COURSE, WHAT WAS ADDED AT THE LAST MEETING WAS THE MILITARY AND VETERANS DISCOUNT. ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, SIR. SO I HAD A LENGTHY CONVERSATION YESTERDAY WITH THE ACM AND THE CITY MANAGER. I WANTED TO SEE IF WE COULD FIND A MIDDLE GROUND THAT STILL ALLOWS FOR US TO COVER OUR EXPENSES AS A CITY, BUT OFFERS A PACKAGE OR A MEMBERSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PART OF THESE, THESE GROUPS FOR FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. AND WHAT I EXPLAINED TO STAFF WAS, AND IT WAS JUST A NUMBERS GAME, IF YOU'RE GETTING 30 ROUNDS FOR THE $2,100 AND YOU'RE GETTING THE ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF $25, IN ESSENCE, 100 ROUNDS IS GOING TO COST YOU $38.75 ROUND, WHICH IS MUCH MORE THAN YOU JUST GO AND PAY THE $30 FOR A REGULAR ROUND OF GOLF. SO IN TALKING TO THE MANAGER AND THE ACM, WE CAME UP WITH A POTENTIAL SOLUTION, WHICH WOULD BE A GOLF MEMBERSHIP LIKE IS OFFERED AT RIVIERA. RIVIERA HAS GOLF ONLY MEMBERSHIPS FOR. FOR THEIR CLUB, THIS WOULD BE A GOLF ONLY MEMBERSHIP THAT WOULD GIVE YOU 100 ROUNDS OF GOLF. SO IT'S NOT THE 189, IT'S 100 ROUNDS OF GOLF. IN ESSENCE, YOU'RE PROBABLY PLAYING TWO ROUNDS A WEEK BECAUSE PEOPLE TRAVEL. AND IT WOULD BE A $2,500 MEMBERSHIP. SO YOU'RE PAYING $2,500 FOR THE 
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100 ROUNDS. YOU'RE IN ESSENCE PAYING $25 A ROUND. SO YOU ARE GETTING A BENEFIT FOR BEING A MEMBER. WE'RE REDUCING THE NUMBER OF ROUNDS THAT ARE BEING PLAYED. AND THIS WOULD BE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THESE THESE RATE HIKES, THE ONES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS. AT THE CURRENT MOMENT, I THINK IF WE'RE FORCING PEOPLE TO TO JOIN THE COUNTRY CLUB IN ORDER TO GET A MEMBERSHIP, THE 30 ROUNDS OF GOLF REALLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR THEM TO JOIN, BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM WILL NOT USE THE BENEFITS OF THE COUNTRY CLUB, WHEREAS MEMBERS OF THE COUNTRY CLUB MIGHT SEE AN ADVANTAGE TO THE 30 ROUNDS OF GOLF, WHICH THEY'RE CURRENTLY NOT PLAYING AND GETTING THE DISCOUNT GOING FORWARD. IN THIS CASE, IT WOULD BE THE $2,500 FOR 100 ROUNDS. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS WOULD BE AT THE REGULAR RATE, AND WE WOULD GIVE YOU FOR THOSE FIRST HUNDRED ROUNDS YOUR ABILITY FOR PRE-BOOKING ON THOSE, THOSE FIRST HUNDRED ROUNDS. SO THAT'S THAT WAS KIND OF A SOLUTION. IT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO CONTINUED INCREASES ON POTENTIAL FEES GOING FORWARD. BECAUSE IF WE DO HAVE THESE INCREASED COSTS YEAR OVER YEAR, NOT KNOWING WHERE WE WILL BE IN TWO YEARS OR IN A YEAR WITH THE PROPERTY TAXES, WE MAY HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO COVER 100% OF THE COST. THE CITY CAN NO LONGER CONTINUE TO SUBSIDIZE THE COST OF THE GOLF COURSE. SO I WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AS A AS A POTENTIAL, I GUESS, BRIDGING THE GAP SOLUTION THAT DOESN'T THAT THAT'LL KIND OF ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE BURDEN THAT WE'RE PLACING ON ON OUR REGULAR GOLFERS, WHICH ARE USING THE GOLF COURSE BECAUSE WE ARE SAYING THAT THEY'RE USING THE GOLF COURSE 24% OF THE TIME, BUT THEY'RE ALSO OUR REGULAR GOLFERS, AND I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT. THIS WOULD ALSO ONLY BE APPLICABLE TO CORAL GABLES RESIDENTS. OKAY, MAYOR, IF I MAY JUST ONE SECOND, MR. CLARK, HOW MANY HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS DO WE HAVE IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS TIME? WE BELIEVE WE ONLY HAVE THREE, MR. MAYOR. LET'S LISTEN TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. I WANT TO THEY'VE BEEN WAITING LONG ENOUGH. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY GET HURT. 
          OKAY, SO FIRST SPEAKER I HAVE HERE IS STEVE ELMORE. GOOD AFTERNOON, AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THIS TIME TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THIS, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR. 
          COMMISSIONERS, MY NAME IS STEVE ELMORE. I RESIDE AT 621 NAVARRE. NOW, FOR THE PAST 43 YEARS, 42 OF THOSE YEARS, I'VE PLAYED GOLF AT GRANADA GOLF COURSE. MY WIFE GREW UP ON THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE. HER FATHER WAS A GOLF PRO THERE. I RAN THE GOLF TOURNAMENT AT DORAL FOR THE PGA TOUR FOR 30 YEARS. I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH GOLF AND WHAT IT ENTAILS. THERE'S SEVERAL ISSUES THAT ARE IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY, AND YOU'VE CHOSEN TO GROUP THEM ALL TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT THIS. SO WHAT I WANT TO DO FIRST IS I WANT TO DISTANCE OURSELVES FROM SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE GONE FORWARD, THAT HAVE CARRIED A GREAT DEAL OF ANGST. I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION. YOU'VE HEARD ALL ABOUT US. IF YOU WANT QUALIFICATIONS OF WHAT WE DO, IF YOU WANT PROOF OF WHAT WE ARE, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT TO YOU. BUT WE REALLY DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS NECESSARY. WE'VE BEEN AN ORGANIZATION THAT OPERATED AT GRANADA GOLF COURSE AND IN THIS CITY NOW, SINCE THE 60S, WE'VE DONE NUMEROUS THINGS TO BENEFIT RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY, AS WELL AS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE IN THE CITY. FOR THOSE YEARS, WE HAVE STOOD STRONG SUPPORTING THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD. THE PAST TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT AND FOR THAT THERE'S NO BLAME. THERE'S ONLY A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD. AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE COMMISSION FOR TAKING THE TIME AT THE LAST MEETING TO TAKE THE FIRST STEPS IN THIS DIRECTION. SINCE TROY HALL WAS OUR SUPERINTENDENT AND LEFT. OUR CONDITIONS AT THE GOLF COURSE HAVE DEPRECIATED SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          NO SURPRISE TO ANYONE WHY? THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS WHY WE COULD GO ON FOR HOURS AND DECIDE THIS. NONE OF THAT IS GERMANE TO WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR TODAY. WE ARE HERE, PETE AND I, TO TALK ABOUT THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION AND EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR DURING THE DAY. AT THE GOLF COURSE, YOU HAVE APPROXIMATELY EIGHT HOURS. YOU HAVE TEE TIMES EVERY NINE MINUTES. SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EIGHT TEE TIMES PER HOUR. 
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THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION USES 70 TIMES ON SATURDAY MORNING FOR TEE TIMES ON SUNDAY MORNING. WE HAVE ADJUSTED THE TIME OF THOSE TEE TIMES OVER THE YEARS TO ACCOMMODATE THE GOLF COURSE. WE TAKE UP TIMES WHERE THERE HASN'T BEEN A DESIRE. WE MOVED FROM 10:00 TO NOW, 810 ON SATURDAY MORNING TO FILL A VOID. OKAY, WE ARE NOT POACHING REVENUE FROM THE CITY. 
          WE HAVE 60 MEMBERS OF THOSE 60 MEMBERS WHICH ARE HELD AT 60, BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE 70 TIMES, WHICH MEANS I CAN ONLY ACCOMMODATE THAT MANY GROUPS DURING THE DAY. OKAY, SO EVERYBODY DOESN'T GET TO PLAY AND DOESN'T GET THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE. EVERY WEEKEND. WE HAVE FOUR ANNUAL MEMBERS. IN THE PAST, WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW MORE. THEY COME AND THEY GO. I DID WITH LAST MONTH'S, OUR LAST, THE LAST RATE CHANGE. I WENT TO THE MEMBERSHIP AND I ASKED THEM TWO QUESTIONS. I SAID, IF THESE RATES STAY THE SAME, WILL YOU CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE AS MUCH AS YOU DO NOW? THE ANSWER WAS NO. SO YOU'VE MADE HEADWAY THERE. YOU'RE TRYING TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PLAY ON THE GOLF COURSE. YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED THAT THROUGH OUR ORGANIZATION, AT LEAST. THE SECOND QUESTION TIME I ASKED THEM WAS, IF YOU WERE PRESENTED WITH A MEMBERSHIP FOR $2,100, WHICH INCLUDES A MEMBERSHIP TO THE CLUB, WILL YOU BECOME AN ANNUAL MEMBER? THEY ALL SAID NO. SO AGAIN, YOU HAVE REACHED A PARTIAL GOAL IN WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. THERE IS TOO MUCH PLAY AT GRANADA. THAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING. THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY THERE'S TOO MUCH PLAY. BUT BEFORE COVID YOU HAD NONE OF THESE PROBLEMS. OKAY? AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WILL BE CYCLIC. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. 
          THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE IS NOT GOING TO MAKE YOU MONEY. IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE. WHERE YOU DON'T PAY ANYTHING FOR IT. OKAY? THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY ARE GOING TO PAY, THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. ARE THEY PAYING TOO MUCH? ARE THEY NOT PAYING ENOUGH? I DON'T KNOW, I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT. I'M TRYING TO PRESERVE AN ORGANIZATION THAT HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE 60S DOING THINGS FOR THIS CITY AND THE GROUPS IN THIS CITY. ALL WE'RE ASKING FOR IS 70 TIMES ON SATURDAY MORNING, FOUR ON SUNDAY IN THE SUMMER. WE MAY NOT EVEN USE THOSE. ON MONDAY MORNING, I SEND OUT A NOTICE TO OUR MEMBERSHIP AND I SAY, DO YOU WANT TO PLAY SATURDAY OR SUNDAY OR BOTH? THEY ANSWER ME BACK BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. I HAVE EVERYONE SLOTTED FOR THE WEEKEND. BY THURSDAY, IF I DON'T USE THE TIMES THAT ARE GIVEN TO OUR ORGANIZATION, I GIVE THEM BACK. SO WE'RE NOT COSTING YOU ANY MONEY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. WE'RE PAYING FOR THE USE OF THE GOLF COURSE. WE WANT TO DO THAT. YES, WE USE THE BANQUET ROOM ONCE A MONTH. WE CAN DO THAT OUTSIDE. WE DO THAT FOR RITA. RITA AT THE OLD BURGER BOB'S. NOW THE BISTRO TAKES CARE OF ALL OUR LUNCHES. ALL OF OUR MONIES AND OUR MONIES ARE VERY. IT COSTS $75 TO JOIN OUR GROUP FOR A YEAR. $40 OF THAT GOES TO THE BILTMORE FOR. FOR YOUR GOLF HANDICAP. THE REST OF IT IS WHAT WE USE FOR OPERATING FUNDS SO THAT WE CAN HAVE EVENTS, SO THAT WE CAN RAISE MORE MONEY TO GIVE AWAY TO CHARITY. SO I ASK YOU TO BE. CAREFUL AS YOU MOVE FORWARD AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE RESIDENTS HERE, FOR THE MOST PART, THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS IN THE CITY FOR YEARS. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANYBODY TO PAT US ON THE BACK. WE'RE JUST LOOKING TO BE AN ORGANIZATION THAT STAYS TOGETHER. THAT IS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT ENJOYS LIVING IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS PETER. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION. FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS, SOLELY TWO POINTS THAT I WANT TO MAKE THAT CAME UP BEFORE, WHICH WERE. NOT NECESSARILY WRONG, BUT THEY WERE THEY WEREN'T PRESENTED THE 
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RIGHT WAY TO VICE MAYOR ANDERSON'S QUESTION ABOUT HOW THESE GROUPS, INCLUDING THE LADIES, THE SENIOR CITIZENS THAT WERE PRESENTED BEFORE, HOW DO THEY GET TO GET THEIR GROUP TO PLAY ON FRIDAY? I BELIEVE IT WAS FRIDAY. ON MONDAY. IF THESE TEE TIMES ARE TAKEN AWAY, THEY CANNOT CALL THE GOLF COURSE. THEY CAN ONLY DO IT ONLINE. THE GOLF COURSE DOES NOT TAKE THE TIMES ON THE TELEPHONE. NUMBER TWO, WHAT THEY HAS BEEN SAID THAT PEOPLE CALL IT. THEY SAY WE CAN NEVER PLAY IN THE MORNING. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXAGGERATION. WE ONLY USE 42 MINUTES OF TEE TIMES ON SATURDAY. I'M HALF THAT ON SUNDAY, SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE TAKING THE MORNING. WE'RE TAKING 42 MINUTES ON SUNDAY AND ABOUT 2020 FOUR MINUTES ON SATURDAY AT 24 MINUTES ON ON SUNDAY. THE SECOND POINT IS BASED ON WHAT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ SAID ABOUT THE MEMBERSHIP FOR GOLF ONLY. I HAVE A LITTLE BIT. I'M A MEMBER AT THE AT THE AT THE GYM, AT THE GYM. OKAY. AND I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A PROBLEM. THE WAY THIS WAS PUT TOGETHER, IT'S BEEN DISCRIMINATION, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GOLFERS. 
          BECAUSE IF YOU MOVE HERE FROM NEBRASKA YESTERDAY AND YOU WANT TO JOIN THE GYM AT THE COUNTRY CLUB FOR THE COUNTRY CLUB ATMOSPHERE, IT WILL COST YOU $900. BUT IF YOU MOVE HERE FROM NEBRASKA, YOU JUST WANT TO PLAY GOLF. YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE GYM, YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE GYM. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE GYM EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT GOING TO USE THE GYM. I USE THE GYM THREE TIMES A WEEK. I GO MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND FRIDAYS. I DON'T KNOW OF ANY GOLFERS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GOLFER FROM GRANADA IN THE GYM. I'M NOT SAYING THERE ISN'T. IT'S POSSIBLE. THEY'RE USING DIFFERENT TIMES THAN I AM, BUT I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY THAT MAYBE 10% OF THE GOLFERS ARE GOING TO THE GYM. SO AGAIN, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE MEMBERSHIP. I WILL JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE WHAT THEY'RE CHARGING. I UNDERSTAND THAT WAS A BUSINESSMAN FOR 45 YEARS. I JUST RETIRED A YEAR AGO, BUT I HAVE DOCUMENTATION HERE AS TO WHEN GRANADA WAS ESTABLISHED, WHICH WAS AUGUST 31ST, THE PGA AUGUST 31ST, 1960, NOT IN THE 60S, 1960, AS I'VE SENT SOME EMAILS TO SOME OF OR ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS RECENTLY. I KEEP HEARING THAT WE DONATED. THE MONEY THAT WE DONATED WAS DONATED OUTSIDE CORAL GABLES, CHARLIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN WAS DISBANDED 30 YEARS AGO, SO I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN FIND THOSE RECORDS, BUT WE DONATED OVER $500,000 TO CHARLIE, AND THEY WERE A CORAL GABLES ORGANIZATION. THEY WERE HEADQUARTERS IN CORAL GABLES. I WAS ON THE BOARD OF CHARLIE, AND WE USED TO MEET IN THE BUILDING BEHIND THE LITTLE FLOWER. SO THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I'M MAKING UP. I I'D BE CRAZY TO DO THAT IN THIS VENUE. HERE WE DONATE TO THE CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST 15 OR 20 YEARS. IF YOU GO TO THE GALA THAT THE CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DOES AT THE BILTMORE EVERY YEAR, THE WINE THAT YOU DRANK CAME FROM US. I WAS IN THE LIQUOR BUSINESS FOR 45 YEARS, AND IN THE AUSPICES OF THE GPA AND THE FOUNDATION THAT I HAD, WE DONATED THE WINE FOR THE GALA EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST 10 OR 15 YEARS. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT THE ORGANIZATION DOES. AND AGAIN, IF THOSE TEE TIMES GOES AWAY, ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO GO AWAY BECAUSE THE ORGANIZATION CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THOSE TEE TIMES. WE DO A LUNCH FOR THE GREENSKEEPERS CITY EMPLOYEES EVERY YEAR IN DECEMBER. WE BUY THEM ALL LUNCH. IT'S DONE BY RITA AT AT THE BISTRO. WE DID DO A FEW 
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CHARITABLE DONATIONS TO BELEN HIGH SCHOOL. WE SPONSOR THEIR GOLF TEAM. THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE YEARS. WE DON'T STICK WITH ONE CHARITY AND WE. WE DON'T DO THE SAME CHARITY EVERY YEAR, BUT WE SPONSOR THE GOLF TEAM. WE SPONSOR THE FIU LADIES TEAM FOR TWO YEARS. AND WE WE'VE DONE THE CORAL GABLES FIRE DEPARTMENT TOY DRIVE A FEW TIMES IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. SO AGAIN, AS STEVE STATED BEFORE, OUR ONLY CONCERN IS THE TEE TIMES VERY MINIMAL IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. AND I THINK THAT THE, THE OVERALL CONTRIBUTION THAT THE THE GRANADA GOLF ASSOCIATION DOES, IT'S FAR HIGHER THAN THAN THE RESULTS. 
          OTHERWISE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. NEXT. SPEAKER MR. MAYOR IS GOING TO BE ON ZOOM. I HAVE A GRIM, GRINNING, GRIM. OKAY, MA'AM. MR. INGRAM, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. GOOD AFTERNOON. SHE IS UNMUTED, SO. BUT SHE'S NOT COMING THROUGH. ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE'LL COME BACK TO HER. I HAVE ONE MORE ON ZOOM. IT'S GOING TO BE DONNA FAILS. LET'S SEE IF THIS ONE WORKS. GOOD AFTERNOON MA'AM, YOU'RE UNMUTED. OKAY. I CAN SEE HER MICROPHONE IS MOVING, WHICH MEANS SHE'S SPEAKING, BUT THE SOUND IS NOT COMING THROUGH. I WILL TRY TO COME BACK. TRY TO COME BACK AFTER. READY? OKAY. OKAY. SORRY. I'M BEING TOLD YOU THE THAT SHE CAN BE HEARD ON ZOOM. HOWEVER, SHE'S NOT COMING INTO THE ROOM. OKAY, JUST FOR THE RECORD, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE PUT IT ON THE RECORD. THE FIRST SPEAKER SPOKE FOR SEVEN MINUTES AND THE SECOND SPEAKER SPOKE FOR SIX MINUTES AND 22 SECONDS. THANK YOU. YEAH. ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. THEN WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT UNTIL SOMEBODY, I GUESS, IS AVAILABLE TO BE ABLE TO JOIN US. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION THROUGH THE MAYOR? YES, YES. THERE'S STILL ARE WE GOING TO GO THROUGH EVERY ITEM SO WE CAN ADDRESS EACH ITEM SEPARATELY? OR IS IS THIS PART OF THE UPDATE? WELL, I THINK WHAT'S THE BEST IS TO HAVE A CONVERSATION AMONGST THE COMMISSION. YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE PUT 4 OR 5 ITEMS ON THE AGENDA THAT ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE COMMISSION SHOULD SPEAK ABOUT WHAT WHAT WE THINK IS APPROPRIATE BEFORE WE START PASSING ANY RESOLUTIONS OR CHANGES TO THE PROPOSAL THAT THE STAFF HAS PUT FORWARD. OKAY. 
          WELL, THAT BEING SAID, THEN I'LL GO AHEAD AND I'LL MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, WHAT HE WAS PROPOSING AND WHAT REALLY WHAT I'M GOING TO ASK HIM IS TO LIKE, HEAR ME OUT WHEN THAT ITEM DOES COME ABOUT, BECAUSE I DID KEEP THOSE THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION. 
          AND REALLY WHAT I WAS PRESENTING WAS A PILOT PROGRAM JUST FOR A YEAR, BECAUSE SINCE THERE HAS BEEN SO MANY A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN 40% AND I DID INCREASE THE NON RESIDENT SIGNIFICANTLY, STILL MAKES SENSE. THEY'RE STILL GETTING A DISCOUNT AND I PUT GUARDRAILS SO THAT RIGHT NOW IT'S 156 ROUNDS THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING. REMEMBER ACCORDING TO THE DATA THAT THE THE CITY IS GIVING ME, THEY DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC DATA. IF YOU READ THE RESOLUTION, IT'LL BE MORE DETAILED. AND I PRESUME THAT WITH THE GUARDRAILS THAT I'M PUTTING FOR THAT MEMBERSHIP, EACH MEMBER SHOULD BE PLAYING AROUND 100 TO 120. AND THEN AFTER THAT, THE CITY CAN GO AHEAD AND EVALUATE THE DATA, NOT ASSUME NOT ON ASSUMPTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SOMETHING SO PERMANENT AND CHANGE POLICY FROM ONE DAY TO ANOTHER. I THINK IT'S PRUDENT TO ACTUALLY MAKE POLICY CHANGES WITH ACCURATE NUMBERS, NOT JUST ASSUMPTIONS. SO, MAYOR, IF I MAY, I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS THAT. MADAM. MADAM, HCM, WE HEARD FROM COMMISSIONER CASTRO THAT WE'RE MAKING ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE'RE NOT USING ACTUAL 
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DATA. IS THAT CORRECT? EVERYTHING THAT WAS PRESENTED WAS ON ACTUAL DATA COLLECTED FROM THE LAST TWO YEARS. AND WHO COLLECTED THAT DATA THAT IS REPORTING FROM THE POS SYSTEM THAT WAS GIVEN TO US BY THE BILTMORE AND PUT TOGETHER BY MYSELF AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT, CAN I CORRECT, BUT IF I MAY, WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL THE THINGS THAT WE SAY HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WORKED ON THAT FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS VERY DILIGENTLY, BECAUSE WE WENT OVER IT MULTIPLE TIMES, YOU AND I, ALONG WITH THE MANAGER. THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. MR. MANAGER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A POINT? YES, MAYOR. THANK YOU. WE HAVE AS A GOLF COURSE THAT CANNOT PAY FOR ITSELF. AT BEST, IF WE LOOK AT 50,000 ROUNDS, AT $30, THAT'S $1.5 MILLION. AND THAT'S WHAT THE $30. THAT'S THE MAXIMUM THAT THIS GOLF COURSE CAN GENERATE FROM. FROM THE ROUNDS PLAYED. WE'VE GOT ONE ALMOST $2 MILLION IN IN COST TO RUN THE GOLF COURSE. SO AS A MINIMUM, IT WILL BE A GENERAL FUND HIT FOR HALF $1 MILLION. SO THE MORE MONEY THAT WE REMOVE, THE MORE MONEY WE MUST TAKE FROM THE GENERAL FUND. BUT EVEN EVEN 50,000 ROUNDS, THAT'S WHAT THIS GOLF COURSE CAN SUSTAIN BECAUSE IT'S A NINE HOLE GOLF COURSE. AND THAT'S AND THAT'S BEEN SHOWN IN THE PRESENTATION THAT THAT'S A CAPACITY OF THIS NINE HOLE OF THIS NINE HOLE COURSE AT $30, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE CHARGING NOW FOR RESIDENTS. THAT'S $1.5 MILLION. SO THOSE ARE THE REAL NUMBERS. THOSE ARE THE REAL NUMBERS. THE MAYOR LET THE MANAGERS FINISH. ONE SECOND. I'M JUST. ARE YOU DONE, SIR? YES, MAYOR. THANK YOU. OKAY. GO AHEAD. OKAY. LET ME GO AHEAD AND CORRECT THE RECORD. WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT DATA. YES, YOU HAVE ACCURATE DATA, BUT IT'S NOT SPECIFIC DATA, AS I AM ASKING IN THIS RESOLUTION, ACCORDING TO THE ACTUAL PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR OF HOW GOLF MEMBERS ARE PLAYING. NOW, WHEN I SAY THERE'S NOT ACCURATE DATA AND ASSUMPTIONS, IT'S BECAUSE THERE IS AN INCREASE OF 40%, WHICH IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN ONE YEAR. AND THERE'S AN THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER DIFFERENCE THAT WE CANCELED THE MEMBERSHIP FOR GOLFING. SO THAT BEING SAID, AND WITH WHAT I'M PROPOSING, WHICH IS A PILOT PROGRAM, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES THAT COME INTO PLAY, RIGHT? SO WHEN I SAY WE'RE MAKING ASSUMPTIONS, IT'S BECAUSE IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE NOT FOLLOWING THE SAME PROCEDURES AS WE WERE FOLLOWING BEFORE. SO WE CANNOT USE THAT DATA ACCURATELY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. OKAY. NOW WE DID PRESENT SEVERAL MODELED SCENARIOS. NOW WITH A 40% INCREASE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR. OKAY? BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO PLAY AT THE SAME RATE BECAUSE 40% IS A VERY BIG INCREASE. WE NEED TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT. NOT ONLY THAT, WITH THE PILOT PROGRAM I'M PROPOSING, I'M PROPOSING A MAXIMUM THREE ROUNDS PER WEEK WITH NO ROLLOVERS. NOW, THE REALITY OF LIFE IS THAT NOBODY IS GOING TO PLAY THREE ROUNDS PER WEEK EVERY SINGLE DAY. DAYS THAT ARE RAINING, DAYS THAT YOU'RE ON VACATION, DAYS THAT YOU'RE SICK. SO AUTOMATICALLY THOSE 156 ROUNDS ARE GOING TO GO DOWN. THAT'S WHY I PUT GUARDRAILS. THERE'S NO ROLLOVERS PER WEEK ON THOSE ROUNDS. SO I'M ASKING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE IT A CHANCE TO EVALUATE THE REAL NUMBERS, THE REAL DATA OF THESE MEMBERS FOR A YEAR. WE OWE IT TO THEM, OKAY, NOT TO STOP A MEMBERSHIP ABRUPTLY AFTER WE HAVE THAT, YOU GUYS CAN BRING THE DATA BACK TO THE COMMISSION, AND IF WE CAN TWEAK IT OR DISCONTINUE IT, DEPENDING ON THE FEASIBILITY RELIABILITY OF THAT DATA, THEN WE CAN DO THAT AND IT'LL BE UP TO THE COMMISSION. BUT I REALLY DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO MAKE A BIG IMPACT. I THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK OUT. THAT'S MY HYPOTHESIS. HOWEVER, THE NUMBERS WILL SPEAK THE TRUTH. SO THE MAYOR, YES, WE CURRENTLY ARE THERE. CURRENTLY THE CURRENT USE IS 189 ROUNDS. I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU BUT SHE DOESN'T. VERSUS 150, THERE WILL BE A REDUCTION OF 39 AUTOMATIC REDUCTION OF 39 ROUNDS A YEAR. SO I CAN YOU REPEAT THAT BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HYPOTHESIS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ALL TYPE OF CAN. CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? THESE ARE FACTUAL NUMBERS. THESE ARE THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF USAGE FOR THE AVERAGE FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS HAS BEEN 189 ROUNDS. THAT'S THE AVERAGE THE AVERAGE PER YEAR. AND IF WE ARE GOING TO REDUCE IT TO AN AVERAGE OF 150, IT'S IT'S NOT EVEN GOING TO GO LOWER. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THERE'S THREE ROUNDS PER YEAR PER PER WEEK. 
          AND MOST, MOST OF THE GOLFERS ARE AVERAGING ARE AVERAGING MORE THAN THREE ROUNDS. SO THOSE ARE THOSE ARE THE FACTS. THOSE ARE THE NUMBERS. IT'S NOT IT'S NOT A HYPOTHESIS OR TESTING, TESTING IDEAS AND A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT. THESE ARE THE ACTUAL NUMBERS. WE HAVE DATA HERE AM I WRONG? I MEAN WE HAVE PETER. PETE SAYS IT'S NOT TELL ME WHERE WE'RE. TELL ME 
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WHERE. IT'S NOT THE NUMBERS. AS I EXPLAINED IN AN EMAIL PREVIOUSLY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THE ONLY DATA WE WERE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE WAS SPECIFICALLY TO EACH SPECIFIC MEMBER THEIR USAGE PATTERNS. WE DO HAVE DATA WHICH WAS PRESENTED ON USAGE AND LIKE THE MANAGER SAID, THEY'RE AVERAGING CLOSE TO 4 TO 5 ROUNDS A WEEK. SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE COMMISSIONER IS SAYING THAT IF YOU CONSIDER LIKE A MEMBERSHIP TO A GYM, MAYBE NOT EVERYBODY GOES TO THE GYM, RIGHT? BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE SPECIFIC MEMBERS. WE ARE REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR TRENDS ARE. THESE ARE NOT NEW MEMBERS COMING IN THAT MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC. THEY MIGHT NOT BE RETIRED, THEY MIGHT BE WORKING AND THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO THREE TIMES A WEEK, FOUR TIMES A WEEK. WE ALREADY KNOW THE HABITS OF OUR CURRENT MEMBERS. AGAIN, LISTEN, LET ME BE LET ME LET ME BE VERY CLEAR ONE SECOND. 
          THIS IS NO SKIN OFF MY BACK. I DON'T PLAY GOLF, OKAY? AND I HAVE PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY THAT ARE MEMBERS OF YOUR ORGANIZATION. I'M ONLY UPSETTING PEOPLE BY MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. THE TOUGH DECISION HERE. I KNOW, I KNOW, IT'S TOUGH, I KNOW, BUT THE IDEA IS THIS WHEN YOU GO TO A GYM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE GYM THAT I GO TO, YOU PAY A FLAT RATE AND THE FLAT RATE GIVES YOU ACCESS TO THE CROSSFIT GYM AND IT GIVES YOU ACCESS TO THE GYM. 
          I DON'T USE THE GYM THAT OFTEN. I DO A LOT OF CROSSFIT, BUT THEY WON'T SELL ME JUST A GYM MEMBERSHIP IF I'M IF I WANT A CROSSFIT MEMBERSHIP, IT'S A BUNDLE. THAT'S THE WO YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE. IF YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT ORGANIZATION, YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE BUNDLE RATE TO USE THE CROSSFIT GYM AND TO USE THE GYM. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. AND I CHOOSE TO DO THAT BECAUSE I WANT TO BE PART OF THAT FACILITY, BECAUSE I LIKE THAT FACILITY. I LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE, I LIKE THE QUALITY, I LIKE THE LOCATION, AND IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR ME. BUT LOOK, I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY. THIS IS NOT ABOUT GOLF FOR ME, OKAY? AND I HAVE THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR THE GOLFERS AND EVERYONE WHO DECIDES TO DO THAT. OKAY? THIS IS ABOUT FAIRNESS. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE 86 INDIVIDUALS ARE USING NEARLY ONE QUARTER OF ALL THE ROUNDS PLAYED AT GRANADA GOLF COURSE 76. OUR RESIDENTS TEN ARE NONRESIDENTS, WHILE CONTRIBUTING ONLY ABOUT 6.5% OF THE REVENUE. MEANWHILE, THE REST OF OUR RESIDENTS, FAMILIES, SENIORS, YOUNG INDIVIDUALS ARE PAYING SIGNIFICANTLY MORE AND GETTING SIGNIFICANTLY LESS ACCESS. THAT IS NOT EQUITABLE. AND FRANKLY, IT'S INDEFENSIBLE. WHAT THAT MEANS IN PLAIN TERMS, IS THAT THE ENTIRE CITY IS SUBSIDIZING A VERY SMALL GROUP OF HIGH FREQUENCY USERS. EVERY RESIDENT WHO PAYS TAXES, EVERY FAMILY WHO WANTS A WEEKEND TEE TIME, EVERY YOUNG PERSON TRYING TO LEARN THE GAME, THEY'RE ALL EFFECTIVELY PAYING THE PRICE FOR AN OUTDATED SYSTEM THAT NO LONGER WORKS. AND NOW LET'S LOSE. AND LET'S NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE BIGGER PICTURE. GRANADA IS A HISTORIC PUBLIC GOLF COURSE ENVISIONED BY GEORGE MERRICK AS A COMMUNITY ASSET. 
          LET ME REPEAT THAT. A COMMUNITY ASSET. THE CURRENT MODEL HAS ALLOWED OVERUSE, LIMITED ACCESS, AND CREATED A STRUCTURAL IMBALANCE THAT IS IMPACTING THE CONDITION OF THE COURSE AND THE CITY'S FINANCES. WE ARE OPERATING FAR BEYOND RECOMMENDED CAPACITY. AS YOU CAN SAW BY THE PRESENTATION. IT'S NOT MY RECOMMENDATION, IT'S THE PROFESSIONAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS, AND WE'RE HEADED TOWARDS HIGHER COSTS AND DECLINING QUALITY IF WE DO NOTHING. THE CHANGES THAT THIS COMMISSION ALREADY APPROVED ARE ABOUT RESTORING BALANCE, FAIR ACCESS, RESPONSIBLE USE AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY. THE IDEA OF GRANDFATHER GRANDFATHERING THIS INEQUITY BY CONTINUING TO ALLOW UNLIMITED USE FOR A SELECT FEW, SIMPLY LOCKS IN A SYSTEM THAT IS UNFAIR TO EVERYONE ELSE. WE WERE NOT ELECTED TO PRESERVE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. WE WERE ELECTED TO SERVE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. THIS IS A PUBLIC ASSET. IT SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE, FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BENEFITED THE MOST. FOR A SYSTEM THAT IS CLEARLY OUT OF ALIGNMENT. I HAVE NEVER PLAYED GOLF. I'VE NEVER PLAYED TENNIS. I'VE NEVER USED PICKLEBALL. I'VE NEVER HAD ANY OF THOSE BENEFITS. WHILE I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO SERVE FOR 13 YEARS, SOMETIMES I'VE NEVER USED THE GYM. AGAIN. I USE MY OWN RESOURCES. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS AS ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE, AND I WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE TO MAKE 76 INDIVIDUALS SIX MONTHS. GOD WILLING, IF ELECTIONS ARE CHANGED IN NOVEMBER, SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION, I'LL BE A HERO AND I'LL BE SUPPORTED. BUT THAT'S NOT WHY I WAS BROUGHT HERE, AND THAT'S WHY I WAS NOT ELECTED. WE'RE HERE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS AND DO WHAT'S 
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FINANCIALLY CORRECT. SO I STAND BY THE ADOPTED CHANGES, AND I URGE THIS COMMISSION TO DO THE SAME. AM I WILLING TO TWEAK THINGS A LITTLE BIT HERE AND THERE? NOT A PROBLEM. BUT THE IDEA, THE IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE IN THE SAME PATH AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE PUTTING THIS AMOUNT OF PRESSURE AND SUBSIDIZING THIS GOLF COURSE TO THE TUNE OF $600,000 A YEAR. THERE'S NO WAY OF DOING IT. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. IF YOU TOLD ME THAT WE HAD AN 18 HOLE GOLF COURSE AND THAT WE HAD OTHER AMENITIES, THAT WE COULD FIGURE OUT SOME WAY TO GET MORE PEOPLE ON THE GOLF COURSE AND SPREAD IT, SPREAD THE USE ACROSS IT, OR BRING IN MORE REVENUE. WE CAN'T BRING MORE REVENUE. WE CAN'T CHARGE MORE THAN WHAT, $30 FOR PEOPLE TO USE. THE GOLF COURSE CURRENTLY FOR RESIDENTS IS $30. WE CAN'T. THERE'S REALLY NO WAY NO ONE'S GOING TO USE IT. SO WE HAVE TO FIND THAT BALANCE TO MAKE SURE WE GIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO RESIDENTS, WHETHER IT BE MAYBE WITH PREFERRED TEE TIMES TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. BUT WE SHOULD ALL THE RESIDENTS SHOULD HAVE BE ABLE TO USE THE TEE TIMES. WHAT IF YOU'RE A DOCTOR, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE MY FATHER, HE LIKES TO PLAY GOLF AND THE ONLY TIME THAT HE CAN PLAY GOLF IS ON A SATURDAY IN THE MORNING BEFORE HE HAS TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL. MY FATHER CAN'T PLAY GOLF. AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE TIMES THAT THEY CAN DO THINGS. SO I UNDERSTAND AND I, AND I WOULD PROTECT THIS ALSO IF I WAS A MEMBER HERE. BUT WE HAVE TO BE EQUITABLE AND WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A COMMUNITY THAT WE REPRESENT. 
          AND IT'S NOT A PERSONAL VENDETTA AGAINST 86 PEOPLE. IT'S THAT FINANCIALLY WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES JUST LIKE WE ADDRESSED THEM AT THE VENETIAN POOL, JUST LIKE WE ADDRESSED THEM AT THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB, JUST LIKE WE ADDRESSED THEM AT BURGER BOB'S, JUST LIKE WE ADDRESSED THEM AT THE AT THE LITTLE RESTAURANT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. WE'VE HAD TO TACKLE THESE ISSUES, AND THIS IS ONE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CLEAR THE RECORD A LITTLE. WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT NUMBERS. SO MAYBE I COULD GET A BETTER CLEAR UNDERSTANDING FROM MY COLLEAGUES WHAT I REFERRED TO. NUMBER ONE, EACH PLAYER PLAYS AT DIFFERENT WAYS IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT ONCE A WEEK. MAYBE THERE'S A PLAYER THAT THAT A GOLFER THAT PLAYS FIVE TIMES A WEEK. OKAY. BUT WHEN I WENT AHEAD AND THE NUMBER THAT THE CITY IS GIVING ME, 189 IS AN AVERAGE, OKAY. IT'S AN AVERAGE. THE AVERAGE IS OVER THE ACTUAL USAGE OVER TWO YEARS. IT'S NOT LIKE AN ESTIMATED AVERAGE. IT'S A MATHEMATICAL AVERAGE. RIGHT. BUT LET ME GO AHEAD AND EXPLAIN SOMETHING. OKAY? THAT MEANS EVERY GOLFER PLAYS DIFFERENT, BUT THE AVERAGE YOU'RE GIVING ME IS IN CONJUNCTION OF THE WHOLE MEMBERSHIP, RIGHT? BECAUSE WHEN I ASKED YOU FOR DATA AND I ASKED AND I ASKED THE CITY MANAGER FOR DATA AND FRED FOR DATA, TELLING ME EXACTLY HOW EVERY MEMBER IS PLAYING SO THAT I CAN EVALUATE THAT DATA AND THE PATTERN OF BEHAVIORS IN WHICH THEY ARE PLAYING. SO I CAN MAKE A I CAN COME UP WITH BETTER POLICY. YOU GUYS TOLD ME THAT YOU COULDN'T DO THAT. SO THE AVERAGE CAME EXACTLY FROM ALL THE MEMBERS, THE 86 MEMBERS TOGETHER. NOW, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS TOLD ME. WHAT I EXPLAINED TO YOU IN AN EMAIL WAS, I DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC DATA ON EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER, RIGHT? SO I DON'T HAVE USAGE PATTERNS ON MEMBER A VERSUS MEMBER B. I CAN TELL YOU BASED ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MEMBERS AND THE ACTUAL AMOUNT PLAYED OVER TWO FISCAL YEARS AND AVERAGED OUT TO GIVE YOU ONE NUMBER OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS OF DATA COLLECTED, I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN ACCURATE NUMBER RIGHT THROUGH THE MAYOR. I'M SO SORRY, CITY MANAGER. LET ME GO AHEAD AND FINISH MY POINT. OKAY. 
          THE 189 IS AN AVERAGE BASICALLY DIVIDED BY THE 86 IS WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME. 
          CORRECT. NOW, WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS THAT THAT INFORMATION IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR ME. THAT'S WHY THE RESOLUTION SAID WE NEED TO EVALUATE THIS DATA IN A MORE PATTERNED WAY OF BEHAVIOR OF THESE GOLFERS SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE TREND, AND SO THAT WE CAN FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN WHAT'S PROFITABLE FOR THE CITY AND WHAT IS ALSO A BALANCE FOR THE GOLFERS. RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE THAT DATA. WE JUST HAVE AN AVERAGE, AND EVERY GOLFER DOES NOT PLAY AT THE SAME THE SAME DAYS AND THE SAME AMOUNTS. THERE'S GOLFERS THAT PLAY ONE DAY AND THERE MIGHT BE GOLFERS THAT, WHO KNOWS, PLAYS SEVEN DAYS. OKAY, BUT WE'RE AVERAGING THAT NUMBER. IT'S NOT A VERY ACCURATE NUMBER TO COME UP WITH GOOD POLICY. OKAY. NOW WHAT I'M ASKING IS, IS NOT TO REVERSE POLICY. THIS IS JUST A ONE YEAR PILOT TO EVALUATE THE POLICY THAT WAS JUST PASSED. WE NEED REAL NUMBERS MOVING FORWARD. I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE ACCURATE DATA FOR WHAT WE HAVE NOT DETAILED. ACCORDING TO THE MEMBERSHIP FROM THE PAST. I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT DISCUSSING 
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THAT. BUT MOVING FORWARD, WE JUST MADE MAJOR MULTIPLE, MAJOR CHANGES AT ONCE. THE 40%, WE ELIMINATED MEMBERSHIPS, WE CHANGED OUR OPERATIONS. WE HAVE ZERO REAL DATA ON THE IMPACT. I THINK WE NEED TO MEASURE FIRST AND DECIDE LATER. OKAY. THAT'S. I'M EXCUSE ME, MAYOR, I'M STILL NOT DONE ABOUT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. AND I KNOW THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE ARE HEADED RIGHT NOW, THAT IT'S NOT SUFFICIENT. THE MONEY THAT WE'RE GETTING FOR THE GOLF COURSE, I HAVE TO DEFER TO THAT. I THINK I THINK THE CITY COULD GIVE THE GOLFERS A YEAR TO DETERMINE IF WHAT I'M PUTTING IN PLACE, AND I'M EVEN WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, COMPROMISE. IF IF COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ WANTS TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT MAYBE YOU THINK IS A LITTLE MORE EQUITABLE, I'M WILLING TO DO SOMETHING TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT TO TAKE A BALANCED APPROACH, JUST GETTING RID OF THE GOLF MEMBERSHIP FROM ONE DAY TO ANOTHER WITHOUT TRANSITIONING IS VERY UNFAIR, ESPECIALLY SINCE OUR MISSION STATEMENT IS THE HEALTH AND PRIORITY OF OUR SENIOR CITIZENS. SO WE NEED TO TEST, MEASURE AND ADJUST. ARE YOU DONE THROUGH THE MAYOR BEFORE? BEFORE MR. MANAGER? OKAY. EVERYTHING SHE SAID RIGHT NOW IS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG. OKAY. LET'S BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES. THIS IS ON THE RECORD. OKAY? HOW MANY MEMBERS ARE PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION? WHICH ORGANIZATION? THE ORGANIZATION 86. CORRECT. RIGHT. 
          SO THE PAYING GRANADA GOLF MEMBERSHIPS AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE AGAIN, SO WE DIFFERENTIATE THE TWO, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE THREE ASSOCIATIONS THAT PAY AN ASSOCIATION FEE. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE A GROUP OF MEMBERS. AND I JUST FOR THE RECORD, I WANT TO CLEAR OUT THE CITY DID NOT ELIMINATE THE GOLF MEMBERSHIP. I WANT TO MAKE THAT VERY, VERY CLEAR. THERE'S STILL A GOLF MEMBERSHIP. IT WAS RESTRUCTURED, WHICH WAS ALWAYS PRESENTED AS PART OF THE ACQUISITION OF THE OPERATIONAL PLAN FOR THE COUNTRY CLUB FOUR YEARS AGO. TO THIS SOME OF THE CHANGING COMMISSION. BUT THE MAYOR WAS HERE AND WE PRESENTED RESPONSIBLE. YOU HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE. YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS ISSUES. YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAND OUT BUNDLES OF MONEY HERE AND EXPECT THE CITY TO BE SOLVENT. OKAY. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. THAT'S WHAT THEY DID BEFORE I GOT HERE. AND WE GOT OURSELVES INTO SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL ISSUES WITH THE BENEFITS AND A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE GIVING OUT HERE, TO THE POINT THAT THEY HAD TO GO BACK AND TAKE IT FROM THE POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS HERE AND ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS HER COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY OFF BASES. AND WE WENT IN LIKE 50 CIRCLES AND YOU CONFUSED HALF OF THE PLANET. OKAY, MADAM, PLEASE EXPLAIN THE NUMBERS THAT YOU WORKED ON FOR OVER A MONTH. PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT WE DO HAVE ACCURATE NUMBERS, THAT WE DO HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION TO MAKE A DECISION. PLEASE. YES, MAYOR. 
          GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY, MAYOR, BUT I HAVE A LITTLE EXPERIENCE IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. I KNOW, I KNOW YOU DO. WHEN? WHEN WHEN YOU HAVE AA2 YEAR SAMPLE OF OF 86 AND YOU HAVE AND YOU HAVE THE FACT THAT IT'S USED ALMOST OVER 34,000 TIMES IN THE TWO YEAR SAMPLE SIZE, YOU HAVE 86 SUCH A LOW NUMBER AND YOU HAVE AN AVERAGE OF 189. THAT'S A HUGELY ACCURATE STATISTICAL SAMPLE. I WISH I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR HURRICANES, I REALLY DO. IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC. BUT WE DON'T. AND AND THAT'S WHY YOU THAT'S WHY YOU SENSE A FRUSTRATION IN ME WHETHER SOMEONE TO MY RIGHT TRYING TO JUSTIFY THAT WE DON'T HAVE NUMBERS WHEN I HAVE WHEN WHAT YOU'RE SAYING RIGHT NOW WE HAVE INCREDIBLY ACCURATE NUMBERS. IT'S VERY ACCURATE BECAUSE OUR STATISTICAL SAMPLE IS VERY LOW. OUR AVERAGE IS OVER TWO YEARS AND OUR AVERAGE IS 16,500 ROUNDS PER YEAR AND AN AVERAGE OF 189 NINE ROUNDS. SO THAT'S STATISTICAL SAMPLE IS VERY ACCURATE. AND TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT EACH EACH STATISTICAL. MEMBER WOULD BE JUST AN ANOMALY. AND THAT'S REALLY THAT'S REALLY YOU REALLY HAVE RARELY HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN SCIENCE. SO THIS IS A STRONG SAMPLE SIZE. IT'S A VERY GOOD AVERAGE. IT'S BASED ON TWO YEARS HUGE NUMBERS AND, AND 86 PLAYERS. IT TELLS YOU THAT THOSE 86 PLAYERS PLAY A LOT. 
          AND THAT'S BECAUSE THAT SAMPLE SIZE GENERATES THAT MUCH DATA. SO IT'S VERY ACCURATE SAMPLE THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AND AND PEEK THINGS OUT IS NOT STATISTICALLY CORRECT. AND IT, IT JUST WOULDN'T YIELD ANY STATISTICAL AND BY THE WAY, ISSUES, BY THE WAY, EVEN IF YOU DID LOOK AT THAT INDIVIDUALS IN THAT 86 SAMPLE SIZE, EVEN IF YOU DID ONE INDIVIDUAL AND YOU HAD ONE PERSON PLAYING 500 TIMES, ANOTHER PERSON'S 300 
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TIMES AND YOU HAD THE NUMBERS, IT DOESN'T MATTER. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ALL THE ROUNDS COMBINED BECAUSE THERE'S A SUBSAMPLE OF 86 PEOPLE THAT CANNOT GROW. THOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVE PREFERRED T TIMES P $920 AND THEY HAVE UNLIMITED GOLF. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, DOESN'T MATTER. ONE PERSON'S PLAYING A THOUSAND TIMES OR ANOTHER PERSON'S PLAYING 300 TIMES. THE ENTIRE SAMPLE OF 86 PEOPLE ARE PLAYING THIS AMOUNT OF GOLF. YOU CAN'T TEACUPS. 
          OKAY, SO EXCUSE ME, SIR, WITH WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING, EVERYONE'S MORE ENTITLED TO SPEAK. BUT LET'S NOT SCREAM FROM THE GRANDSTANDS. NOW. 
          LET'S ADDRESS IF. I'M SORRY, SIR, I SAID MY APOLOGIES. NO WORRIES AT ALL. PLEASE. I'LL BE MORE WILLING TO BRING YOU UP IF YOU'D LIKE. LET ME. LET ME ADDRESS THIS. LET ME ADDRESS THIS STATEMENT. I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE. I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE SINCE YOU DID MAKE THAT STATEMENT, ARE THERE PREFERRED TEE TIMES FOR THESE? THE ASSOCIATION'S THE MEMBERSHIP, AS IT WAS PREVIOUS, DID NOT AS ADOPTED. WE WERE INCLUDING THAT AS A BENEFIT. 
          OKAY. SO WE DO HAVE PREFERRED TEE TIMES AS ADOPTED. IT WAS WITH SEVEN DAYS NOTICE. THEY WOULD HAVE PREFERRED OR PRIORITY ACCESS. YES. WOULD THE COMMISSION INDULGE IN GIVING ME FIVE MINUTES TO TAKE TO. THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO LOOK INTO AND THEN I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS. CAN WE TAKE A FIVE MINUTE OKAY, MR. MAYOR. WE'RE BACK. SO BASICALLY, WE ALL KNOW WE WE'RE HAVING A LOT OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES TODAY. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO BRING AUDIO BACK FROM ZOOM. CAN WE DO SOMETHING? CAN WE CAN WE DO SOMETHING? LET'S JUST DO SOMETHING HERE. LET'S JUST LET'S JUST LET'S DO THIS RIGHT. OKAY. THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK OUT. I HAVE A LOT OF ITEMS THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. SO IT'S A LOT. LET ME LET ME DEAL WITH THIS ONE SECOND. I'M ASKING YOU, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF I'M WILLING TO DEFER THE REST OF THE OF THE AGENDA. 
          CAN I BRING THIS BACK IN MAY? BECAUSE WE CAN'T. WE HAVE SO MANY TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES THAT WE'RE JUST GOING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH. I'LL SECOND THAT. I DON'T WANT TO. TRUST ME, I HAVE A LOT OF ITEMS THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON WITH STAFF, MAJOR ITEMS, BUT WE IF IT'S NOT THE MICROPHONES THAT ARE BACK ON RIGHT NOW, IT'S A TV. WE CAN'T GET PEOPLE. WE CAN'T GET PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. I JUST DON'T WANT TO SAY WE RUSHED THROUGH SOMETHING AND THEN PEOPLE SAY, I WASN'T ABLE TO GET PUBLIC COMMENT. WHAT DO MY COLLEAGUES THINK ABOUT THAT, MR. MAYOR? ACTUALLY, WHAT I WAS COMING BACK TO ASK IS THAT WE DEFER THESE ITEMS SO THAT WE CAN REALLY FIGURE OUT WHAT ALL THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS ARE, HOW MANY MEMBERS THEY ACTUALLY HAVE, BECAUSE I THINK OUR NUMBER OF 86 ISN'T EVEN THE ACTUAL NUMBER. I THINK WE'RE OFF ON THAT NUMBER. THERE MAY BE MORE MEMBERS. SO WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK FOR WAS TO DEFER THIS ITEM TO THE MAY MEETING, SO THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SIT DOWN WITH EACH OF THESE GROUPS AND SEE WHAT EACH OF THEIR EXPECTATIONS HAVE BEEN, AND SEE IF THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH. AND IF IT'S NOT, IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE CAN COME UP WITH, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT AT THAT POINT. BUT WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK FOR IS THAT WE DEFER THIS ITEM TO THE MAY COMMISSION MEETING SO THAT WE CAN PROPERLY HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FOLKS WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS ON THIS ITEM. ARE WE BACK? IS THIS BACK? ARE WE BACK NOW? SO THIS IS BACK. YES. FOR BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR THE LAST FOUR HOURS. AND I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ON THE RECORD THAT WE'VE BEEN BATTLING WITH THIS. AND IT'S NOT STAFF'S FAULT. IT'S JUST WE HAVE A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX. I MEAN, I'M FINE TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT IF THIS CONTINUES, IT'S GOING EX ME ONE SON LET M JUREHE IUES. OY. TWO IIDUALS THAT TRNGO GE THE PN WE GET TM HEHONE? NO, SI WE CNOT ING AUDIO FROM U  MOU WANTED TO GET SOMEBODY ONELL PNE LLRRECT?ES AND SICALL HD E. THASCALL SOONOP FINE. TS WHAT IAS TALKI ABOUT. OKAY, OY.I. HI,OHN. URE ON EROPHON AND YO NE AND ADDRESS.EAH, IYEAH,AVT SAK THE T THAT Y'ALL AR VYONFUSED DON FIN ALPOKE T BNI OFE MTING. I WASG GOING T. HIONE, BUT IT' N DEFERR THIS BAUSE L TALKG ALES AND ONGES COMMSIONER, CAN Y CONFUSING HR AOCIATI WH E 86BEP. WE'REOT. AJUST FOUR IORMI ANAB OTH WEN A THEFERRING MEETING.T I BUT'SOHEIGHING CITY ATTORNE YOU K TKBOUT THE SPEAKG OTISSUES, TINON ISS TWICESO CSSR, PHON THANK YOU VERY , ERENT ITTH YOU CAN.F . MAYOR, IID WANT TO SAY I D HAVEWO PEOPLE ON ZOOM WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO SPEAK, AND THEY DID EMAIL ME THEIR COMMENTS AND HAVE THEM TO HAVE THEM READ INTO THE RECORD, IF YOU WOULD ALLOW IT. YES, PLEASE. AND THEN WE'LL CLOSE. LET'S CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT AND LET'S MOVE FORWARD. GO AHEAD. OKAY, SO THE FIRST SPEAKER WAS DONNA FALSE SAYS, I WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON THE LAST TWO SPEAKERS. WE'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT 70 TIMES ON MONDAY MORNING, ONE HOUR FOR THE G W, G A. WE PAY TO PLAY. FOR MANY OF US, THAT IS THE ONLY TIME WE PLAY. THE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR OVER 60 YEARS. THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE 
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WHAT MAKE A COMMUNITY. PLEASE CONTINUE TO PROTECT THESE TEE TIMES. THE SECOND SPEAKER WAS AMY HAYES. I'M SORRY, MR. MAYOR. I DIDN'T HEAR THE NUMBER. MR. CLARK, THE NUMBER OF TEE TIMES 70 TIMES ON MONDAY MORNING. THANK YOU. THE SECOND SPEAKER WAS AMY HAYES. SHE SAYS, I'VE BEEN A MEMBER SINCE 2021, AND I TYPICALLY PLAY 4 TO 8 TIMES A MONTH, AND MY HUSBAND PLAYS EVEN LESS. HOW DID HE GET YOUR STATISTICS? THE GOLF COURSE KEEPS THE MEMBER RECORDS IN A NOTEBOOK AND NOTHING IS COMPUTERIZED. HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ROUNDS EACH MEMBER PLAYS? DID YOU AUDIT T WIRE? THE ONLY BOOKING SYSTEM. ALSO, COUPLES ARE CONSIDERED ONE MEMBERSHIP EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE. IF I BOOK A TIME FOR FOUR PEOPLE AND I AM A MEMBER, HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO PLAYS WITH ME? AND IF THERE ARE ALSO MEMBERS, YOUR DATA IS INACCURATE. I UNDERSTAND THAT NEED FOR HIGHER GREEN FEES, BUT THE CHORUS IN HORRIFIC SHAPE. I WOULD LIKE TO REMAIN A MEMBER, BUT I CANNOT JUSTIFY PAYING DOUBLE FOR A COURSE. IN ITS CURRENT STATE, HALF OF THE GREENS ARE UNPLAYABLE. I SUGGEST CLOSING DOWN THE COURSE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, AND ALSO SPACING OUT THE TEE TIMES TO EVERY 15 MINUTES. THE COURSES AND EMBARRASSMENT IN ITS CURRENT STATE. I WOULD SAY THE WORST CONDITION OF ANY COURSE I HAVE EVER PLAYED. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU MADAM ECM, WE HAVE TO DISCUSS THESE POINTS BECAUSE THEY KEEP. THEY KEEP REPEATING THAT WE ARE. OUR FACTS ARE NOT CORRECT. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING. THAT'S NOT THE TRUTH, MADAM. ECM TAKE IT FROM THE TOP. SO JUST TO EXPLAIN AGAIN, THE PRO SHOP IS MANAGED BY THE TEAM FROM THE BILTMORE T WIRE. WHAT WAS MENTIONED IS THE BOOKING SOFTWARE AND THEN THEY HAVE A SEPARATE POS SYSTEM. THE REPORTING THAT WE'RE GOING OFF IS NOT ON WHAT WAS RESERVED OR BOOKED, BUT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY PAID FOR. SO THEY GAVE US THE RECORDS OF TWO FISCAL YEARS. 
          THAT'S WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE COMING FROM ON ITEMS PURCHASED AND PAID FOR AS WELL AS COMPS. 
          SO WE NEED TO WE NEED TO STOP UNDERMINING THE DATA. IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. THESE ARE THE NUMBERS. THESE ARE THE FACTS. THESE ARE REAL NUMBERS. WE GOT THE REAL NUMBERS. OKAY. LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO FIND AN ANSWER, BUT NOT UNDERMINING WHAT THE CITY IS DOING BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T WORK WELL. THAT UNDERMINES EVERYONE. THAT MAKES US LOOK LIKE WE'RE INCOMPETENT, THAT MAKES US LOOK THAT MAYBE WE'RE TAKING MONEY, THAT MAKES US LOOK, THAT WE'RE NOT. THAT WE'RE BEING CORRUPT. LET'S DO THINGS THE RIGHT WAY. LET'S ADDRESS THE ISSUE. LET'S FIND A SYSTEM THAT WORKS. BUT LET'S NOT SAY, I'LL THROW OUR HANDS UP AND SAY, NO, NO, NO, THIS IS THIS IS BAD DATA. WHEN IT'S NOT BAD DATA. SECOND THING, WILL YOU ADDRESS COMMISSIONER CASTRO'S STATEMENT THAT THERE'S INSUFFICIENT DATA BASED ON THE FACT THAT WE HAVE 86 MEMBERS AND WE HAVE X AMOUNT OF ROUNDS AND WE DIVIDE IT. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT GIVES US AN AVERAGE. IF YOU HAD HALF THAT, IF YOU HAD HALF THAT AMOUNT OF USE AMOUNT OF MEMBERS, YOU'RE STILL GOING TO GET THE AVERAGE. IF YOU HAD 25%, YOU STILL WOULD GET THE AVERAGE. SO IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. THE POINT IS THAT YOU HAVE THE AMOUNT OF ROUNDS THROUGH, THROUGH THE WORK OF, OF OUR ACM AND HER TEAM, AND YOU HAVE THE AMOUNT OF MEMBERS AND YOU DIVIDE IT AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET YOUR NUMBER. PLEASE TELL ME IF I'M WRONG. ENLIGHTEN US. I THINK THE MANAGER MADE IT VERY CLEAR, BUT I WANT TO GO OVER AGAIN BECAUSE THEY REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IT'S A SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. IT WAS COLLECTED OVER TWO PERIODS, TWO FISCAL YEARS. AND THAT'S SAVED FOR IN THE SCENARIO THERE WERE TWO VERY LARGE INCONSISTENCIES. THEN I WOULD SAY, OKAY, MAYBE WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT IN MORE DEPTH. BUT THEY WERE PRETTY CONSISTENT THE TWO FISCAL YEARS. AND AGAIN, IT'S AN AVERAGE OF THE TOTAL USAGE BY YEAR AND BY THE AMOUNT OF MEMBERS. AND I WANT TO REITERATE AGAIN, THESE ARE PAYING GRANADA GOLF MEMBERS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, NOT THE THREE ASSOCIATIONS. WE ARE NOT TRACKING THE USAGE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT MANAGED BY THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. REPEAT THAT AGAIN, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT TOUCHED OUR DEAR FRIEND PETE OVER HERE, BECAUSE HE AGREES. NOW HE SEES WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. CAN YOU REPEAT THAT AGAIN, PLEASE? ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ITEMS. THERE'S GRANADA GOLF MEMBERS, WHICH IS THE AMOUNT OF NUMBERS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. 
          THAT IS AN AMOUNT THAT WE'RE TRACKING THROUGH THE REPORT PROVIDED BY THE BILTMORE STAFF. 
          THEN THERE'S THREE SEPARATE ASSOCIATIONS WHO ARE PAYING GREEN FEES. THEY HAVE A ROOM BLOCK WHICH GIVES THEM THE PRIORITY ACCESS TO THAT ROOM BLOCK. I CALL IT A ROOM BLOCK BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I SEE IT SIMPLIFIED A TEE TIME THAT'S EXCLUSIVE TO THEM AND THEY'RE PAYING THEIR GREENS FEES. I DO NOT TRACK THOSE. THE CITY DOES NOT TRACK THOSE, AND WE DO NOT HAVE THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY'RE PAYING AS PART OF THE GENERIC PUBLIC. AND IF YOU SEE IN THE PRESENTATION WE PROVIDED EARLIER WHEN WE DID THE NICE LITTLE PIE CHART, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEIR TEE TIMES ARE PART OF THE TOTAL TEE TIME THAT IS FROM PUBLIC ACCESS. THEY'RE NOT WHAT WE CONSIDER MEMBERS TO THE GRANADA GOLF COURSE. IT CANNOT IT CANNOT BE ANY CLEARER. SO WE CAN TRY TO CONFUSE AND JUMBLE AND MAKE NUMBERS UP AND SAY THERE'S NO DATA. THE DATA IS 
          [06:10:03]
THERE. IT'S A FACT. YOU HAVE USED STATISTICS, IT'S THERE. WE DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT HYPOTHESIS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND TRY TO GET REAL SCIENTIFIC. THESE ARE VERY, VERY SIMPLE NUMBERS. IT'S THEIR SIMPLE MATH. SIMPLE MATH. LET'S NOT GET TOO COMPLICATED THROUGH THE MAYOR. I'M NOT DONE YET. SO VERY SIMPLE. WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION HERE. DO WE UPHOLD THE CURRENT STANDARDS OR DO WE TRY TO DO FUZZY MATH TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY? WHAT I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU IS, EVENTUALLY YOU HAVE TO FACE THE REALITY. YOU CANNOT HAVE A GOLF COURSE WHERE THE COSTS CONTINUE TO GO UP LIKE THEY ARE AS A RESULT OF BRIGHT VIEW, WHICH IS A WHAT I FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, PEOPLE HAVE ASKED GOLFERS WHO TOLD ME THAT THEY'RE VERY SERIOUS OUTFIT AND THAT THEY DO VERY, YOU KNOW, WELL-ESTABLISHED LANDSCAPING. THEY HAVE SERIOUS CONTRACTS IN GOLF COURSES. THESE ARE VERY SERIOUS OUTFIT. YOU CANNOT SPEND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE'RE SPENDING TO TAKE THIS GOLF COURSE TO THE LEVEL THAT IT DESERVES AND NOT BE ABLE TO CHARGE WHEN, AS I TOLD YOU VERY CLEARLY, YOU HAVE 86 MEMBERS. YOU HAVE 86 MEMBERS THAT ARE ALMOST 30% OF THE USE OF, OF, OF THIS GOLF COURSE. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO COME TO TERMS WITH WHAT WE'RE FACING. I KNOW WE WANT TO KICK THE CAN DOWN THE CURB AND MAYBE DEAL WITH IT A YEAR FROM NOW, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER $600,000 THAT THE GOLF COURSE LOSES. THE SAME SITUATION THAT WE HAD WITH THE DONATOS IN THE CORAL GABLES COUNTRY CLUB. I REMEMBER WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT, PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING AT US ABOUT TAKING IT AWAY FROM US, REMEMBER? YES, MA'AM. REMEMBER THAT? THEY WERE SCREAMING. HOW COULD YOU TAKE IT AWAY FROM THE TORNADOES? THEY'RE A PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY. AND GUESS WHAT? WE FOUND OUT? SUCH A PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY. THEY WERE STEALING FROM THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. AND I REMEMBER WE HAD HARVEY BARNES HERE SCREAMING HERE, SCREAMING HERE. REMEMBER SCREAMING HERE SAYING, IF YOU TAKE IT AWAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU AWAY. SO YEAH, FACTS, FACTS, REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON, YOU KNOW VERY WELL. SO MY POINT IS THIS WE HAVE TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE OF THE SITUATION THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW. WE GOT TO FIND. I'M NOT SAYING IT HAS TO BE A PROFIT CENTER, BUT LET'S AT LEAST BREAK EVEN. LET'S AT LEAST BREAK EVEN. LET'S IT BE ABLE TO PAY SO THAT SO THAT LIKE I TOLD YOU BEFORE, 86 PEOPLE CAN ENJOY THE GOLF COURSE AND THEY HAVE, THEY'RE PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION AND THEY HAVE UNLIMITED USE, BUT THERE HAS TO BE A MOMENT WHERE WE, WE, THEY GIVE A LITTLE BIT AND WE GIVE A LITTLE BIT. LET'S GET TO THE MIDDLE. YES. SO AGAIN, I WHAT I WOULD ASK IS THAT WE DEFER THIS ITEM. I THINK NO CHANGES RIGHT NOW. I WANT TO HAVE A SIT DOWN WITH THE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND UNDERSTAND HOW EACH GROUP IS OPERATING BEFORE I VOTE ON ANYTHING ELSE, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT COMPONENTS TO THIS THAT WORK COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY THAT WE THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL FOR THE DIFFERENT GROUPS BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT EXPECTATIONS AND THEY OPERATE COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY. SOME MAY BE HAPPY WITH THE SOLUTION, SOME MAY NOT. WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING WITH EACH OF THESE GROUPS, OR AT LEAST I DO. SO THAT'S WHY I ASK THAT WE DEFER THIS ITEM TO TO THE NEXT MEETING, SO THAT I CAN REALLY GRASP WHAT HAS BEEN GOING AND SEE IF, YOU KNOW, EVEN THE PROPOSAL THAT I MADE EARLIER, IF IT MAKES SENSE OR NOT. SO LET ME RESPOND TO YOU ON THAT FRONT. OKAY. NUMBER ONE, THE WORK THAT THE ACM, THE DCM AND THE MANAGER DID IN YOUR ENTIRE STAFF DID IS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE, FACT BASED, DATA DRIVEN DOCUMENT. I DON'T NEED MORE TIME. OKAY. WELL, WHAT WE WERE DOING IS KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE CURB. I'M READY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE RIGHT NOW. OKAY, THAT'S NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE WHEN THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A SOLUTION TO MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY. I KNOW IT'S ELECTION SEASON, AND I KNOW YOU WANT TO MAKE AS MANY PEOPLE HAPPY AS POSSIBLE, SO WE CAN GET AS MANY VOTES AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, BUT WE HAVE TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS. WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. IF WE KICK IT FOR THE CAN FOR ANOTHER YEAR, YEAH, WE BY ANOTHER YEAR. AND WHAT HAPPENS? EVERYBODY'S HAPPY. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO FACE IT IN A YEAR FOR THOSE WHO ARE HERE. OKAY, SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, I SAY FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. NOW DEAL WITH THE ISSUE, FIND COMMON GROUND. THE CITY HAS ALREADY PUT TOGETHER A PLAN OF ACTION. WHEN DOES THIS PROGRAM EXPIRE? OH MY GOD, MAYOR, WE WE IT'S EXPIRED. OKAY. AND THAT'S IT. AND WE MOVE ON THROUGH THE MAYOR. THAT'S IT. OKAY. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND I'M GOING TO SECOND YOUR MOTION, BUT I'M ALSO GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ADD ALL THE OTHER RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE THERE, SO WE COULD TAKE BETTER CONSIDERATION. NOW, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, MAYOR, I REALLY DON'T THINK YOU READ MY RESOLUTION FULLY. I READ THEM ALL. THE GRANDFATHERED ONE. I READ THEM ALL. OKAY. AND I'M IN OPPOSITION TO THAT. LET ME GO. 
          LET ME GO AHEAD AND FINISH. I DON'T I IT IS MY OPINION. IF YOU DID, YOU DID. THEN MAYBE YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THEM. OKAY. THE MATH, IF YOU GO THROUGH IT, YOU WOULD 
          [06:15:02]
UNDERSTAND HOW THE ROUNDS WOULD GO DOWN. NOBODY'S ARGUING THAT YOUR AVERAGE IS 189 FOR PAST DATA. WHAT I'M ARGUING IS THAT MOVING FORWARD, WE NEED TO COLLECT NEW DATA THAT'S MORE SPECIFIC TO THE MEMBERSHIP SO THAT IT CAN WORK FOR THE CITY, AND IT COULD WORK FOR THE MEMBERS. OKAY. SO WHEN THE MAYOR HERE IS SAYING THAT I'M HERE TRYING TO CONFUSE, I'M NOT SAYING YOUR NUMBERS ARE INCORRECT. HOWEVER, I AM SAYING THAT'S THAT'S THE NUMBERS 189 FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS NOW, WITH WHAT I'M PROPOSING, THE MAXIMUM, WHICH IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU READ MY LEGISLATION BECAUSE IT'S THREE ROUNDS, NO ROLLOVERS PER WEEK FOR 365 DAYS. IT'S GOING TO GO DOWN TO 156. IF NOBODY GETS SICK, IF IT'S NEVER RAINING, IF YOU DON'T GO ON VACATION. I MEAN, I ESTIMATE 100 TO 110 ROUNDS. NOW, IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND YOU KNOW, SINCE I WENT AHEAD AND I SECOND AT HIS MOTION, IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME TO EVALUATE THOSE NUMBERS A LITTLE MORE, YOU WANT TO TALK TO THE MEMBERS. I AM ALL FOR THAT. BUT LET'S NOT FORM ANY CONFUSION BETWEEN WHAT THE PAST DATA IS AND WHAT THE PRESENT DATA. THE ASSUMPTION OF WHAT THE PRESENT DATA WOULD BE. BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW. BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF VARIABLES THAT HAVE CHANGED, NOT THE SAME PATTERNS OF GOLFERS ARE GOING TO PLAY WITH A 40% INCREASE, NOT THE 86 MEMBERS ARE GOING TO OPT IN TO THIS NEW MEMBERSHIP. THAT IS NOT UNLIMITED. THE DATA OF 189 WAS FOR UNLIMITED GOLF. WE WE DON'T HAVE UNLIMITED GOLF ANYMORE WITH THE NEW PROPOSAL, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION. THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES HERE, AND WE NEED TIME TO EVALUATE THE NUMBERS A YEAR. I THINK IT'S SUFFICIENT TO THEN COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION AND SAY, OKAY, THIS WAS WE LOST THIS MUCH OR WE MADE THIS MUCH, OR WE'RE EVEN OKAY. VERY QUICKLY PAST DATA. WHAT IS THE PAST DATA? SHE KEEPS HARPING ABOUT PAST DATA. 
          WHAT IS PAST DATA? I WOULD LIKE TO GET AN ANSWER BECAUSE I NEED TO I WANT TO GET TO THE POINT AND WE HAVE A MOTION. A SECOND. I WANT TO MOVE ON PAST DATA. WHAT IS THE PAST DATA? TWO YEARS. CORRECT? CORRECT. WHEN WAS THE LAST DAY? WHEN WAS THE LAST DAY THAT YOU TOOK THE DATA? THE LAST MOMENT. WE DID NOT COUNT THIS FISCAL YEAR. SO THAT WAS THE TWO LAST FISCAL YEARS BECAUSE WE'RE IN MID FISCAL YEAR. PERFECT. SO PAST DATA, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO. YOU COUNT THE PAST DATA THAT YOU HAVE. YOU GOT TO DO IT FROM FISCAL YEAR. IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE STUFF. 
          ONE SECOND. AND THEN WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT UNLIMITED GOLF, THESE GENTLEMEN HERE, THE THREE GENTLEMEN THAT ARE HERE, ALONG WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO CALLED, THEY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR PROGRAMS. THEY DON'T WANT TO THEY DON'T WANT TO CONSIDER ANYTHING ELSE. THEY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH UNLIMITED GOLF. WE HAVE A WE HAVE A MOTION. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR, ALONG WITH AN ADOPTION OF ALL THE THINGS, ALL THE ITEMS THAT THAT COMMISSIONER PUT ON HERE. MR. MR. MANAGER, MR. CLARK, AFTER OUR VICE MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO TAKE A VOTE ON THAT, SIR. OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO PUT A COUPLE OF OBSERVATIONS THAT I'VE GATHERED FROM LISTENING, NOT ONLY TO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE PRESENT, BUT ALSO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT VISITED ME DURING MY OFFICE HOURS OR WROTE ME DURING EMAILS. 
          THE MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS, THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUE HERE IS RESERVING TEE TIMES, AND WE CAN WORK ON A SYSTEM FOR THOSE GROUPS TO HAVE AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CITY, TO HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY TO RESERVE THE TEE TIMES, BECAUSE THE ORGANIZATION'S AND THE CAMARADERIE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM GOES AROUND THE TEE TIMES. THE MONETARY ASPECT OF IT WAS NOT THE PRIORITY ISSUE. IT WAS THE TEE TIMES. SO I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH HERE, AS YOU CAN DO ON THE INTERNET THESE DAYS, AND NOTE THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS FOR THE RECORD GOING FORWARD. OTHER CITIES, OTHER NINE HOLE GOLF COURSES CHARGE CLOSE TO TWICE AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, FOR PLAYING NINE HOLES OF GOLF. SO BASED UPON THAT, IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT I'M HEARING. THAT'S THE TEE TIMES THAT ARE CRITICAL TO MAINTAIN WHAT THE ORGANIZATION IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. SO GO AHEAD. WE CAN GO AHEAD WITH THE DEFERRAL, BUT KEEP THAT IN MIND THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE WOMEN'S GROUPS AND FOR THE ASSOCIATION, IT'S COME FORWARD HERE TO SPEAK TODAY IS PRESERVING THE TEE TIMES AND STAFF CAN WORK ON THAT, JUST LIKE I HAD TO WORK ON IT FOR THE GARDEN CLUB TO HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE BILTMORE HOTEL THAT NEVER, EVER EXISTED IN THE PAST. BUT THERE WAS A PRACTICE AND THAT'S WHAT 
          [06:20:05]
HAPPENED HERE. NOW WE NEED TO MEMORIALIZE IT. SO IT'S PROTECTED IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE IT CAN BE PULLED AWAY FROM YOU IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARRANGEMENT THROUGH THE MAYOR. 
          MR. CLARK, WE HAVE. SO AGAIN, I'M AGAINST THE DEFERRAL, BUT WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND ON THE FLOOR. LET'S TAKE A VOTE. WE HAVE A LONG COMMISSION AGENDA LEFT TO DO, AND I'D LIKE TO TO GET MOVED. MAYOR, JUST TO CLARIFY, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE MOTION IS TO DEFER ITEMS. F12, F13, F AND F15.RE. TH M,ICE MOR IF I CANHAVE YR SUT A T MOTIONND TES STATED, I OFHA ITE WHAT  LIS OPPOUNITY TO MEMIALIZE TS IN WTI WITH THE GROUPSS TO THE TEEIMES A KNOW TT TAESCTTHROUPS A WO WH THEY CANN THE INTERMAKE THETHE PLAIME THHEY ND,UTOAVE THIS INTINGIGHT NOW O THE FASD DUR THE MILE O THE COMMISSION MEETING, WITHOUT GIVING STAFF THE TIME TO MEMORIALIZE. THIS, I THINK IS, IS SOMETHING THAT JUST NOT A WISE DECISION AT THIS TIME. MADAM VICE MAYOR, THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD ALLOW STAFF TO HANDLE THIS. THIS SHOULD NOT BE POLITICIZED LIKE IT'S BEING HERE RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED. I KNOW YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT IT. I I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT'S SCREAMING FROM THE GRANDSTANDS IS YOU NOT SCREAMING. THERE YOU ARE. YOU'RE RAISING YOUR VOICE. NO ONE ELSE IS SCREAMING FROM THE GRANDSTANDS. IT'S IT'S DISRESPECTFUL AND IT'S ACTUALLY IMMATURE. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU SHOULD CONDUCT YOURSELF LIKE A PROFESSIONAL WHEN YOU COME INTO THIS ROOM, BECAUSE I HAVE TO CONDUCT MYSELF WITH THE SAME WAY WITH YOU. SO AT THE END OF THE SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, AT THE END OF DAY, YO HAVE  OPTION, ENDF THY,ET L'S THEWE S LET'S  T L'S H THE VOTES THROU T MAYOR ONTINUE THERRAL. ANWON'T GO AHD D END THAT JT BECAUSIEEL E OBABITF IT COMES CK, 'S GOIO  ATL ING  HAV THE VESGOE NOT AHEAD. VICMAYOR DERS. YE ISSIONER CTRO. YES. TO DEFERRAL. COMMINER FERNAN Y. CSSIONER. LARA NO. MAYOR LARGO.O. ALLRIGH. LESOVE ON TTH NEXT ITEM 
          [F.-1. 26-1396 Update on downtown maintenance program.
(Sponsored by Mayor Lago)]
TRY TO PUSH THE CIORWA. I HA ASEAT TT I'D KE TO PRESENT. SO THESE ARE SOME PHOTOS THAT I TOOK MYSELF OVER THE WEEKEND HERE IN ON OUR DOWNTOWN. AND I WOULD LIKE TO REALLY SHOWCASE STAFF'S RESPONSE. AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY I THINK THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROPOSAL THAT I'M PRESENTING, WHICH WE'RE WORKING WITH STAFF THAT HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE IT IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOMETHING THAT IS HOLISTIC AND ALL ENCOMPASSING FOR THE DOWNTOWN TO MAINTAIN AND BEAUTIFY THE DOWNTOWN AND CLEAN THE DOWNTOWN. MR. DCM BELKIS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS THE END RESULT. AFTER CALLING STAFF THE MANAGER, THE DCM, THE ACM CAME THROUGH BIG. LOOK HOW CLEAN IT IS IN COMPARISON TO THE WAY IT WAS WITH STREET SWEEPER. THAT'S THE WAY OUR CITY SHOULD LOOK EVERY MOMENT OF THE DAY. IT'S INVESTING IN OUR DOWNTOWN AND MAKING SURE THAT WE GET THINGS DONE. SO MAYOR BELKIS PEREZ WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, AT YOUR REQUEST, WE ARE EXPLORING A LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT TO PROVIDE CONSISTENT, HIGH QUALITY LEVEL CLEANLINESS, MAINTENANCE AND LANDSCAPE ENHANCEMENTS ALL THROUGH THE CENTRALIZED, CENTRALIZED SERVICE MODEL. SO THE PROPOSED BOUNDARIES OF THIS ASSESSMENT DISTRICT WOULD BE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT. AMONG THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR LOOKING AT IS. AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS ENHANCING THE SERVICES THAT ARE CURRENTLY PROVIDED BY THE CITY. SO THIS IS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE SERVICES THAT THE CITY PROVIDES. 
          SO THE SCOPE OF WORK WOULD INCLUDE ROUTINE SIDEWALK AND ALLEY MAINTENANCE AND SCHEDULED PRESSURE CLEANINGS, WHICH YOU TALKED ABOUT BEFORE. WE WOULD HAVE ENHANCED TRASH AND LITTER REMOVAL, INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF LANDSCAPING, PREFERABLY DROUGHT RESISTANT, AND SOME MINOR ALLEY RESTORATIONS AND ESTHETIC IMPROVEMENTS. THERE'S SOMETHING THAT HAS ALSO THAT YOU HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE, WHICH IS HAVING A DEDICATED SUPERVISOR AS PART OF THE PROCESS. SO THEY ARE OVERSEEING THE WORK THAT HAPPENS AS FAR AS LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCE, BUT ALSO ELEVATING ANY ISSUES THAT OCCUR WHEN THEY'RE OUT ON THE STREET. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE'S A SIGN THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, THEN THEY ESCALATE IT TO THE CORRECT DEPARTMENT FOR MORE, MORE SERVICE. THIS IS AGAIN, NOT IT'S SUPPOSED TO SUPPLEMENT, NOT REPLACE THE PROPERTY OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITIES BECAUSE THERE IS RESPONSIBILITIES RIGHT NOW THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER DOES HAVE TO MAINTAIN THEIR PROPERTY. AND SO 
          [06:25:02]
WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FINALIZE THAT SCOPE OF WORK, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH A CONSULTANT TO COME UP WITH AN ASSESSMENT, A METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSING THE PROPERTY OWNERS. IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING. JOANNE. I THINK THAT'S IT. AND THAT'S IT FROM OUR END. WE'RE GOOD. OKAY, SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON. AND I WANTED TO USE THE EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU SAW THERE AS. WHAT THE DOWNTOWN COULD LOOK LIKE IN REGARDS TO CLEANLINESS AND THE ABILITY THAT WE HAVE TO REALLY ADDRESS SOMETHING. WHEN DO YOU THINK WE'LL COME BACK WITH WITH A PLAN OF ACTION? WE CAN COME BACK IN MAY WITH THE FINALIZED SCOPE AND A PRICE BREAKDOWN. AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT PER, PER THAT'S GOING TO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME, MAYOR, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO HIRE A CONSULTANT TO KIND OF COME UP WITH THE WITH THE REVENUE MODEL, I'D LIKE I'D LIKE IN MAY TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT BEFORE THE COMMISSION ABOUT THIS AND HAVE MY COLLEAGUES WORK WITH YOU ON THIS FRONT SO THAT WE CAN HOPEFULLY TAKE THE NEXT STEP TO HIRE CONSULTANT TO THEN BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. OKAY. THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, SIR. SO IS THIS A CONTINUATION OF THE LAST TIME THAT WE OKAY, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE TO PRESERVE OR ENHANCE CONTINUITY. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PRESSURE CLEANING, YOU. THIS IS ALREADY AN OBLIGATION THAT CITY STOREFRONT OWNERS,ROORRCL ER OS HAV ALREAYENDONTY WE G T FWHAT T ASSSNT IS  B ING KE SHAINPLOY THEY SA SOME MN HOC VSNE CENTRALED WAY THUTICAT SHOD BEND HANCED.YODO I OON ATI,EG SCHEDULED BAIG YH, ECT. LARK, IF'D LTON NT COMMISSIOEETING US IN F FINONDERATION PONTLLY HIR AN ENTITYRSSI CAN TT AN OUTDE ENTY TOE ABLTO U AOADMO BEE DE THISTHE BESS OW IN THOWN.KAY. 
          [F.-2. 26-1397 Discussion regarding golf cart/ LSV parking study.
(Sponsored by Mayor Lago)]
YOU,TEM F T YOU SO MH  YOUARWO. ANK YOU.ELKITHK YOU, MR.CMISCUSSION REGAR HO AE WITH THAT? STUDY MA DIRR? HOWREE G?OODERNOON. GOO DIRECTOR PARKING SUNATY ANDILITY ES. WHEN?HEN THE ATRNG THE POTENTIAL, THE LEGISLATION REGARDING THE LSVS, ETC. WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU BROUGHT UP. HOW DO WE CHARGE THESE FOLKS? RIGHT. SO THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING THAT BECAUSE THESE VEHICLES WOULD BE OPERATING ONLY IN THE LOWER MPH MILES PER HOUR STREETS LIKE 25MPH, THAT MAYBE IT IS NOT SUCH A BIG ISSUE. HOWEVER, SALCEDO, FOR EXAMPLE, IS 25MPH AND WE DO HAVE METERS, RIGHT? SO WE DO HAVE PAID PARKING. SO I REACHED OUT TO THE THE PAY BY PHONE AND THE PARK MOBILE APPS. 
          AND INDEED WE, WE, I'VE WORKED WITH PD TO COME UP WITH A DECAL THAT WE WOULD PLACE ON THESE VEHICLES WHEN THEY REGISTER, RIGHT. AND WE WOULD DESIGN THESE TO MIMIC A TAG, A LICENSE TAG, RIGHT? SO WE WOULD RECORD THESE, THESE TAGS AND PAY BY PHONE AND PARK MOBILE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT I CANNOT SCAN THEM BECAUSE WHEN I SCAN THESE, THESE, THESE DECALS, IT'LL COMMUNICATE WITH THE COUNTY. AND WE CANNOT CITE THEM THROUGH THE COUNTY BECAUSE THESE ARE NOT TAGS. RIGHT. SO WE WOULD MANUALLY INPUT THE INFORMATION. WE WOULD GENERATE A, A CITATION, NOT A COUNTY CITATION. IF THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANT TO GO. THERE IS A METHOD FOR DOING IT. OKAY. SO MOVING FORWARD, WHAT IS OUR NEXT STEP? WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO? I WOULD I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH PD ABOUT THE DECAL. OKAY. AND THEN WE NEED TO WORK. I NEED TO WORK WITH MY CITY MANAGER AND DCM AND DETERMINE HOW WE WANT TO SCHEDULE THE CITATIONS. THERE ARE DIFFERENT OPTIONS, INCLUDING HOLDING THESE CITATIONS AGAINST PEOPLE IF THEY DON'T PAY AND THEN NOT RENEWING THEIR PERMITS ANNUALLY, ETC. SO IT WOULD BE AN IN HOUSE OR IN CITY CITATION PROCESS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO DO YOU THINK ONE MORE MEETING, TWO MORE MEETINGS, THREE MORE MEETINGS TO FLUSH THIS OUT AND FINALLY BRING THIS TO THE RESIDENTS? WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT'LL TAKE? SO I'LL WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. I'VE ALREADY WORKED WITH PD. IT'S A MATTER OF COMING UP WITH A DECAL THAT WE WANT TO. SOMETHING THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC AND THAT CANNOT BE DUPLICATED. 
          AND THEN YEAH, WE'LL PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE. OKAY. I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND YOU, BY THE WAY, YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAD A MEETING WITH THE TAX COLLECTOR, DANIEL FERNANDEZ THIS PAST WEEK SINCE WE HAD A CONVERSATION, AND WE BROUGHT HIM HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE DISABILITY TAX. YOUR TEAM HAS BEEN OUT THERE REALLY ENFORCING AND ABOUT I THINK IT WAS 3 OR 4 
          [06:30:03]
DAYS AGO, WE HAD A MEETING WITH THE TAX COLLECTOR HERE IN YOUR OFFICES, AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE, THE AMOUNT OF FALSIFICATIONS AND FALSE TAGS. WE WERE ABLE TO FIND DUPLICATE TAGS, PRINTED TAGS, YOU KNOW, STICKERS ON TOP OF THE STICKER. YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB, MR. MANAGER. AND WE'RE REALLY, WE'RE REALLY ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF THESE DISABILITY TAGS THAT ARE BEING USED FOR NEFARIOUS REASONS SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT SAYING, VINCE. BUT WHY DOES IT REALLY MATTER? WHY DO YOU WHY DO YOU THINK? WHY DO YOU GET CAUGHT UP ON DOING THESE THINGS LIKE ADDRESSING DISABILITY TAGS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE DISABILITIES? NUMBER ONE, MY MOTHER'S DISABLED, AND I THINK IT'S A SHAME IF YOU USE A DISABILITY TAG AND YOU DON'T, YOU'RE NOT AFFLICTED WITH ANYTHING. NUMBER TWO, YOU HAVE VETERANS WHO FOUGHT FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY AND FOR OUR FREEDOMS WHO ARE DISABLED AND THEY CAN'T FIND PARKING. AND NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL, BUT IT'S STILL AN ISSUE. AND I KNOW THAT I TALK ABOUT IT A LOT, BUT JUST THE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBLE PART OF ME. DOES MY COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMISSION HERE KNOW WHEN OUR STAFF, OUR DIRECTOR, DID A SWEEP OF MIRACLE MILE, HOW MANY PARKING SPACES BY PERCENTAGE WERE TAKEN UP BY DISABILITY TAGS, WHICH, BY THE WAY, A DISABLED TAG PARKING IN A REGULAR PARKING SPACE DOES NOT PAY FOR A METER. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PERCENTAGE WAS? COMMISSIONERS? ANYONE WANT TO GUESS? 30%. YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUESSED THAT YOU KNEW THE NUMBERS ARE 30% OF THE PARKING SPACES ON THE MILE WERE TAKEN UP BY DISABILITY TAGS. THINK ABOUT THAT. AND BY THE WAY, IT'S A LOSING BATTLE BECAUSE I SPOKE TO THE TAX COLLECTOR WHO SAYS THAT OVER 100,000 PEOPLE APPLIED FOR TAGS THIS YEAR. SO INDIVIDUALS LIKE MY MOTHER AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN WHEELCHAIRS, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TRULY DISABLED FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, PAY THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS. AND MUNICIPALITIES ARE GOING TO SEE LESS AND LESS REVENUE. SO THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING, AND I WANT YOU TO SHOW MY COLLEAGUES, MAYBE YOU CAN SEND THEM AN EMAIL WITH SOME PHOTOS OF THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING IS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO NOT ONLY HELP US FINANCIALLY, BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ADDRESS OUR ARE TRULY DISABLED COMMUNITY THAT IS IN DIRE NEED OF FINDING A PARKING SPACE. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. GREAT WORK. 
          THANK YOU. YES. ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO CLARIFICATION ON, YOU MENTIONED THE 25 MILES AN HOUR FOR LOW SPEED VEHICLE. IT'S UP TO 35 MILE AN HOUR ROADWAYS. SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE PRETTY MUCH OUR ENTIRE DOWNTOWN GOLF CARTS WOULD BE 25. THE LOW SPEED VEHICLES HAVE A TAG. 
          CORRECT. SO THEN YOU CAN PAY FOR PARKING WITH THE TAG. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE BECAUSE THIS SAID GOLF CART SLASH LSV PARKING STUDY, THE LSVS WOULD STILL TAKE UP LESS PARKING SPACE BECAUSE THEY'RE SMALLER AND SOME GOLF CARTS, TRADITIONAL GOLF CARTS ARE STILL CONSIDERED LSVS IF THEY'RE ABLE TO GET TO A CERTAIN MILE PER HOUR THRESHOLD. SO WE'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE WE'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE VEHICLES THAT DO NOT HAVE A TAG, AND THAT THEN WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO PENALIZE UNDERSTOOD TO ENFORCE PAYMENT. BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT REDUCED SIZED PARKING SPACES IF WE NEED IT. NO. OKAY. 
          NO, SIR. SO. OKAY. MAYOR. YES. SINCE YOU SINCE YOU BROUGHT UP PERCENTAGE OF DISABLED PARKING SPACES BEING USED BY TAGS, I'M JUST GOING TO ASK FOR STAFF BASED UPON A PICTURE THAT WAS SENT TO US. OR AT LEAST I SENT IT THROUGH TO OUR PARKING DEPARTMENT TO MAKE AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT THEY REPORT PEOPLE ILLEGALLY PARKING, PARKING IN THE ACCESS AISLES, PARKING WHERE THEY SHOULDN'T BE PARKING. AND THESE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE DISABILITY TAGS. SO MAYBE WE CAN SEND OUT A MESSAGE TO THE CHAMBER, TO OUR MAJOR. 
          VENDORS SUCH AS PUBLIX, TO ALERT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND A PARKING DEPARTMENT WHEN THEY SEE THESE THINGS, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE THERE 24 OVER SEVEN. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THE PERSON THAT REALLY NEEDS THAT ACCESS AISLE DOESN'T HAVE IT CORRECT. THE THE ACCESS VIOLATION, OF COURSE, AS YOU KNOW, CARRIES THE SAME PENALTY AS PARKING IN A REGULAR PARK, IN A PARKING SPACE, A DISABLED PARKING SPACE WITHOUT THE HANG TAG. YES. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. GREAT 
          [F.-3. 26-1398 Discussion regarding voter protections. 
(Sponsored by Mayor Lago)]
WORK. MOVING ON TO ITEM F THREE, A DISCUSSION REGARDING VOTER PROTECTIONS. SO I'D LIKE TO HAND THIS OUT TO MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR. SO I WANT YOU TO FOLLOW 
          [06:35:06]
ME. FOLLOW ME ON A LITTLE JOURNEY. OKAY, SO LET'S WE HAVE SOME SLIDES FOR THIS ITEM THAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU. OKAY, SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS IN MY OFFICE FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS. IT'S ELECTION SEASON. EVERYTHING THAT I SEND OUT SAYS VINCE LAGO ON IT OR CORAL GABLES FIRST, I DON'T HAVE TO USE ANYTHING ELSE. I PUT MY NAME ON EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING I SEND OUT. WE HAVE A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS RIGHT NOW HERE IN THE CITY. IT HAPPENED TODAY THAT ARE SENDING OUT TEXT MESSAGES AND ARE SENDING OUT SHADOW POLLS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE AGAINST STATE STATUTE THAT ARE ACTUALLY AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          WHAT I WANT IS MY COLLEAGUES HERE TO PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS. I'M GOING TO TALLAHASSEE. I'M WORKING ON THIS. I ALREADY HIRED ATTORNEYS. AND I WANT MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT ME ON THIS. LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE WALKTHROUGH. FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS, CORAL GABLES RESIDENTS HAVE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL SURVEY EMAILS FROM AN ENTITY CALLED ANALYTICS 305, ANALYTICS 305 IS NOT REGISTERED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. THE SURVEY ASKED RESIDENTS HOW LIKELY THEY ARE TO CAST THEIR THEIR MAIL IN BALLOT. IT WAS BILINGUAL, PROFESSIONAL AND TARGETED. THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION CALLED ANALYTICS 305 REGISTERED IN FLORIDA. THERE IS NO WEBSITE. THERE IS NO SPONSORING ORGANIZATION. DISCLOSURE AS REQUIRED BY LAW. THE TEXT MESSAGE THAT WAS SENT OUT TODAY DID NOT HAVE A DISCLOSURE. IT WAS COMMISSIONER CASTRO'S AND IT LED YOU BACK TO A IT WAS IT WASN'T. IT LED YOU. IT LED YOU CLEAR THE RECORD. THAT WAS IN MY TEXT MESSAGE. OKAY. IT WAS ANOTHER ENTITY ON HER BEHALF. 
          NO IT WASN'T. I HAVE IF I MAY, I MAY FINISH WITH YOU CAN DO NOT IF I MAKE THINGS THAT ARE NOT MINE, IF I MAY. OKAY. LET ME FINISH. IT WAS ANOTHER ORGANIZATION AND HELP OF COMMISSIONER CASTRO THAT LED BACK TO POLITICO CORTADITO IN AN EFFORT TO OBVIOUSLY DERAIL AND. AND CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE TO THE REFERENDUM'S AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS THE SAME SITUATION YOU HAVE HERE. FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS HAS ESTABLISHED THAT AN ANALYTICS 305 AND PEOPLE COUNT USA SHARE COMMON ATTRIBUTES. I HAVE A LEGAL TEAM AND A AND A TECHNOLOGY TEAM THAT'S WORKING ON THIS. I'VE BEEN HAVING IT FOR TWO YEARS AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT AND WE ALREADY HAVE FOUND OUT. AND WE'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED TO THE ETHICS COMMISSION, BOTH AT THE STATE AND AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, KATHY FERNANDEZ RUNDLE OFFICE, AND A LITANY OF OTHER ENTITIES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I HAVE A MEETING IN TWO WEEKS WITH THE STATE TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND MY ATTORNEY'S. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL AT MY CITY GOVERNMENT EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE A PROBLEM. THE EMAIL CONTAINED WHAT APPEARED TO BE AN INLINE SURVEY QUESTION, BUT WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE BUBBLE, IT TAKES. IT TAKES LAUNCHES YOUR WEB BROWSER TO A WEB BROWSER AND TAKES YOU OUT OF YOUR EMAIL SYSTEM ENTIRELY TO A SURVEY MONKEY PAGE ON THE INTERNET, THE BUBBLE IS DISGUISED AS A LINK. YOUR RESPONSE DOES NOT GO BACK THROUGH THE EMAIL CHAIN. IT DOES NOT ENTER THE CITY'S EMAIL ARCHIVE. IT IS CAPTURED BY A PRIVATE SURVEY MONKEY ACCOUNT OWNED BY AN ANONYMOUS ACTOR, AND THE RESIDENT IS NONE THE WISER. YOU ARE MISLED AND YOU ARE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AND YOUR INFORMATION IS USED. NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN A. WHEN A MAYOR RECEIVES A COMMUNICATION AT HIS OFFICIAL EMAIL ADDRESS ABOUT AN UPCOMING CITY ELECTION AND RESPONSE TO IT, THAT RESPONSE IS PUBLIC RECORD PER FLORIDA STATUTE. CHAPTER 119. THIS IS A DELIBERATE SUBVERSION OF FLORIDA'S PUBLIC RECORDS LAW, AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED. THE COMMISSION IS WELL AWARE OF THE PREVIOUS SURVEY SENT BY PEOPLE COUNT USA. THE OPERATION RESULTED IN A LAWSUIT, AND THIS IS WHY I WANT EVERYONE TO LISTEN. OKAY? THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED. THE COMMISSION IS WELL AWARE OF THE PREVIOUS SURVEY SENT BY PEOPLE COUNT USA. THAT OPERATION RESULTED IN A LAWSUIT IN A COURT ORDER AND REVEALED THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE. I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT COURT ORDER. I PAID FOR THE LAWYER'S. I KNOW WHO DID THAT. FORENSIC ANALYSIS HAS REVEALED THAT THE ANALYTICS 305 AND PEOPLE COUNT USA DOMAINS WERE REGISTERED WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF EACH OTHER IN 2023 AND SHARE MANY SIMILARITIES. I HAVE DIRECTED THAT FORMAL LEGAL COMPLAINT TO 
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BE FILED WITH SURVEY MONKEY TO ENSURE THAT THE RECORDS ARE PRESERVED FOR INVESTIGATORS AND HAVE REFERRED THE ISSUE TO TO THE TO MIAMI-DADE STATE ATTORNEY, THE FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE. OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH ALL OF THEM, AND I'M MEETING WITH THEM NEXT WEEK. AGAIN TODAY, I'M INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION FORMALLY CONDEMNING THIS CONDUCT AND ANNOUNCING A VOTER PROTECTION LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE THAT WILL REQUIRE ANYONE TARGETING FLORIDA CORAL GABLES VOTERS WITH POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES FULLY. I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER HOW THEY WILL VOTE. ANONYMOUS ACTORS SHOULD BE SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO RUN COVERT SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS AGAINST OUR RESIDENTS. THIS IS A PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT I'VE SENT OUT THERE FOR YOU. NOW, DO WE HAVE ANOTHER ANOTHER ANOTHER ITEM ON THIS OR NO. I'M SORRY. DO YOU KNOW IF YOU LOOK IF YOU LOOK AT AT THE INFORMATION HERE IS THE SURVEY THAT WAS SENT OUT. WHEN YOU FILL THIS SURVEY OUT, IT IS NOT A PUBLIC RECORD BECAUSE IT IS NOT PART OF THE CITY'S. THIS WAS RECEIVED BY MANY PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES AND EMPLOYEES. THIS IS MISLEADING. AND SUBVERSIVE AND THREATENS OUR DEMOCRACY. WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IS FOR MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT ME IN THE LEGISLATION THAT I HAVE HERE, WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE. WITH YOUR HELP. EVERYONE, EVERYONE COULD JOIN ME IN THIS RESOLUTION THAT I'M GOING TO ASK OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO PUT ON THE NEXT AGENDA, USING THE RESOLUTION THAT I GAVE YOU HERE. IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE AND TO STOP AN ISSUE THAT I'M CURRENTLY FIGHTING, AND TO FORCE ENTITIES, UNIONS, SHADOW PACTS, INDIVIDUALS WHO DON'T WANT TO USE THEIR NAMES TO STEP OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND FOLLOW THE LAW AND PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY. MADAM CITY ATTORNEY, WITH THE HELP AND SUPPORT OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THE COMMISSION, I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION IN A SIMILAR NATURE THAT ADDRESSES THESE CONCERNS AND URGES ALL LEGAL, LEGAL ENTITIES THAT WE HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL TO ADDRESS THIS TYPE OF MISCONDUCT. MADAM VICE MAYOR, I WOULD I WOULD SUPPORT THAT. 
          ACTIONS LIKE THIS, WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING HERE WITH THE THE SURVEYS, ONE OF THE MANY THINGS THAT CAUSED PEOPLE TO DISTRUST GOVERNMENT. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE EVERY ACTION NECESSARY TO NOT ALLOW THESE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES TO GO ON UNCHECKED. SO I DO SUPPORT COMMISS IT SOUSTN TO COME  NETING SWETHIS CAN RKN IT. I JUST SA IT.NOFOR I ALYS I DON'T JUST RING THINGS ON.E U THEINFORMATION,TUO 3 WKSND TCOMEACK.UT I WOULD LIKE ALL OLAGUES TO SUPPO ME ON THIS AND BE A PA OIS PIECE A COSPOORN IT TO E MAYOR. Y SIR. YOUAN CNT ON ME AS A CO-SPONR. PFE. 
          AND TO WORK ALONGSI ALL O R. I BELOP RESTF MYAGUEN TH DAIS. BECAUSE YOUNOW ?'SEING PRD INTRED BY ITH THIS LEATIO NO,OAIR MINDEDOEMOCRAING BECAUSE WHOU AINGALL HASCCURRET YOUE NG TOREVENT FM HAPPENING IN T FUTE IS HERW IT NO PLA ORT, CSPSOIT BPPY  AOSSIST TWN NOW  NEX CSSN MEING. YOUEAY.YES. IOULD AOIKE E IF WE CAN INCLU INEREXT AGE PLING TT H BEEN NE ASIS ELEION AN LA EION,CH ALSO T ITI OF  W CONDUC THE POL I WLD OKING AT IT. SO AVEN'T GONE IN DEINTOT, BUT I FALIITH WHAT LEOUNTERY YO AS.NDHEN YOU TK ABOUT XT MESS, IT SHOUL TEESGET OULD BE ALL UNICN, MMUNATIO ANDS  SAID, ANS I'D BEFE, NBER ONE, ATHING TT HY ME IS FM M A L GABL F, ANYING THAT I PULWAYS HAS MY NN ERY ABOT,VERYLE AT. I DON'T SEN OUTRTICLES FROM, YOUNO IF I DO SENT TICLEYE MY NAMON AYHEY'VE HADMY NON I BUT AT THND T DAY JUS PEOPL COUNSAWHICH YOU'RE VERMILIAR WIY IT LIHE BK  YR HAND. EXCITHAO WE HAVE FOUTF THE FIV M VICEAY,OU'DIKTO D SOMET? OH, YEAH. NO, I WI DEFINELOIIN ON THAT. 
          OKAY. THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO YOU WERE REFERRING THAT MAYBE I HAD SENT A MESSAGE OR SOMETHING I CAN ADMIT TO IN MY PERSONAL CAPACITY, THERE IS VOLUNTEERS ARE CANVASING AND IN ANY DOCUMENTS THAT I'VE GIVEN, IT SAYS IT IN THE BOTTOM POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PERSONALLY BY ME. SO ANYTHING THAT IS DONE BY ME, EVEN IF IT'S IN MY PERSONAL 
          [06:45:01]
CAPACITY, I AM STATING IT VERY BLUNTLY NOW. I HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH THIS, BUT WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, I WOULDN'T BE OPPOSED TO IT. I CANNOT TELL YOU RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH IT. IT'S BRAND NEW, BUT IF IT MAKES SENSE TO ME, YOU WOULD ALSO HAVE MY SUPPORT AS A CO-SPONSOR. TO DISCUSS AND PUT A LITTLE CLARITY TO WHAT THE COMMISSIONER IS SAYING. RIP HOMES, A FEW OTHER INDIVIDUALS ARE WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR AND HAVE ACTUALLY MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE DOING THIS ON BEHALF OF COMMISSIONER CASTRO, AND THEY PROVIDE A DOCUMENT. 
          THE DOCUMENT DOES NOT HAVE A DISCLAIMER. I HAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT. IT DOES NOT HAVE A DISCLAIMER AT THE END. IT DOES NOT HAVE A DISCLAIMER. YOU'RE NOT LOOKING. SO, COMMISSIONER, PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT ME. I GAVE YOU THE THE RESPECT THAT YOU DESERVE. 
          IT DOES NOT HAVE A DISCLAIMER. TODAY THERE WAS ANOTHER TEXT MESSAGE SENT OUT WHICH TEES OFF. 
          YOU KNOW, I'M COMMISSIONER SO-AND-SO AND I'M AGAINST ALL THE, YOU KNOW, THE AGAINST THE REFERENDUMS. AND IT TAKES YOU BACK TO A POLITICAL ARTICLE. IT DOES NOT HAVE A DISCLAIMER THAT IS AGAINST THE LAW, THAT IS AGAINST THE LAW, WHETHER IT'S A FIRE UNION OR IT'S THE COMMISSIONER OR IT'S ANOTHER ENTITY, NEFARIOUS ENTITY THAT'S HIDING IN THE SHADOWS. IT'S USED IN AN EFFORT TO SUBVERT AND TO PUT OUR DEMOCRACY AT RISK. THIS IS NOT A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WHEN I'M GOING TO SEND OUT INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO AN ELECTION, I'M GOING TO PUT MY NAME ON IT LIKE I ALWAYS HAVE. SO, MADAM CITY ATTORNEY, WE HAVE SUPPORT FROM THE COMMISSION. I ASK YOU TO PLEASE PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA, AND I WILL WORK WITH YOU. AND I WILL GIVE YOU OTHER INFORMATION THAT I THINK IS PERTINENT THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. AND AFTER WE'RE DONE, I ASK THAT THIS LEGISLATION BE SUBMITTED TO ALL STATE ENTITIES, BOTH LOCAL AND STATE, FROM KATHY FERNANDEZ RUNDLE TO THE ETHICS COUNCIL, BOTH AT THE STATE AND AT THE COUNTY, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FOLLOW ALL THE RULES THAT, AGAIN, THAT WE DO NOT SUBVERT OUR DEMOCRACY, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE COULD DO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT WE'RE SEEING. GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ITEM F 
          [F.-4. 26-1399 Discussion regarding boater safety.
(Sponsored by Mayor Lago)]
FOUR. VOTER SAFETY. IN THE LAST WEEK, WE HAVE HAD TWO SATIT A R BOATINGN SOUTH CIDENT. AND OCH 28T ERWAS ATHER FAL TWO WEEKS, ALOZE,AT INCCID OCAE ANRE TRAGEESNDEEPBOGOMNITY SAFEY EAGUES TLEASPEAK W ANAG,HE DCM, THE STAFFOM UWI IDEAS HI THAT WE PE, IFE  GIVE MORE TOOLSO LI, I LIK TO DO WT WECAN.T' IT'S PRET INTESTING. A GO INHE SR,OUNO THERE'S LOT MORE PEOPLEN THWATER SPRFIS AOT. 
          SISE THAYOHAD OME JOR LITIES I MTERFO WEEKS, PEOPT D WE HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. MADAM VICE MAYOR. WELL, THE ONLY THING I'LL ADD IS IT'S A LOT LIKE VEHICLES. 
          YOU START COMBINING ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA AND OTHER ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES. THE SYNERGY OF THOSE SUBSTANCES TOGETHER IS PRETTY PROFOUND. AND I KNOW OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT CAN GIVE US EVEN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT AND MAYBE, PERHAPS COME UP WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS TO WHEN WHEN WE SHOULD START MONITORING PEOPLE MORE OUT THERE ON THE WATER. SO WE WANT TO BRING IT BACK FOR THE NEXT MEETING. YEAH, JUST I JUST WANT IDEAS. I DON'T HAVE ANY. I'M TRYING TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO FOR BOATER SAFETY AND EDUCATE PEOPLE, BECAUSE YOU'RE SEEING A LOT MORE PEOPLE JUST GET RECKLESS OUT THERE AND THE SUMMER IS COMING THROUGH. THE MAYOR. YES. SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO HAVE OUR WATERWAY ADVISORY ANCOME UP WITHUGSTIONS ON GS THATE Y  AE TODO SCIFILLITHIR NALS. IURE TRE ARE ISESN OANS THAT E THE ADVISOR BOARD TT WO RLLYRSEE TS ISSUESO IGH GOO E MADA VICE MAYOR F ARE 
          [F.-6. 26-1428 Discussion regarding Adopt a Circle and Crosswalk Program.
(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Anderson)]
T HOMETRETCH.DOPTCIRCLE AND CRM THERE'AHO THAI PROVID TOHE CODAY JUS SHOWOU AN PLOF WHAT SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE DONE. AND I'VE TALKED TO OUR LANDSCAPE DIVISION ABOUT COMING UP WITH SOME GUIDELINES. IF SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, SOME RESIDENTS WANT TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR AS TO WHAT OUR ACCEPTABLE PLANTINGS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME PASSIONATE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE ASKED ABOUT PLANTING PLANTS AROUND THE CROSS BOXES AND AT&T BOXES, BUT I THINK IT'S BEST THAT OUR OUR TEAM PROVIDE SOME GUIDELINES ON WHAT CAN BE PLANTED. BY THE WAY, CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING, MADAM VICE MAYOR? DID YOU DID YOU DO THIS? DID YOU DO THIS? NO, NO, IT'S MY NEIGHBORS. IT LOOKS GREAT. I DROVE BY IT TODAY. IT 
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CAUGHT ME COMPLETELY. I CAUGHT MY THE COLOR. IT COMPLETELY CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE. THEY PLANTED IT. THEY WATERED IT. YOU SEE, THEY PUT LITTLE REFLECTIVE THINGS ON THERE TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW, IT'S SEEN BETTER. BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THOSE CIRCLES THAT HAVE STOP SIGNS THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE STOP AT. IT'S MORE LIKE YIELD OR SUGGESTING SLOWING DOWN. BUT I DO THINK, AND I DID GIVE THEM SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT PUTTING IN SOME WHITE BECAUSE THAT'S SEEN BETTER AT NIGHT. THEY HAVE YELLOW AND ORANGE. YEAH. NO, THAT WAS MY NEIGHBORS. I LOVE IT. SO. WE COULD USE SOME GUIDANCE FOR RESIDENTS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO BE PLANTING BUSHES THAT GROW 3 TO 4FT TALL AND CREATE A TRIANGLE VISIBILITY PROBLEM AROUND CROSS BOXES AND STUFF. AND, AND WITH THAT, IF YOU'RE GOING TO ADOPT A BOX, YOU GOT TO MAINTAIN THE BOX OR THE CIRCLE THAT INCLUDES THEY GO OUT THERE EVERY WEEK WITH A CART WITH WATER AND A WATER. THIS. AND IT'S IT HAS TO BE WATERED BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WOULDN'T LOOK THIS PRETTY. YEP. 
          SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE SUGGESTION. AND I'LL ASK MISS DINA BELL, WHO'S SMILING BACK THERE AT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE OUR CITY LOOK BETTER. BETTER TO SUGGEST WHEN IT'S TIME TO BRING IT BACK FOR THE AGENDA FOR, FOR A PROGRAM THAT YOU CAN SUGGEST THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THAT PHOTO. THOSE PALM TREES ARE NOT VERY GOOD IN STORMS. I REMEMBER THE LAST HURRICANE. I PICKED UP ABOUT 6 OR 7 OF THEM AND MOVED THEM OUT OF THE ROAD BECAUSE THEY HAD ALL FALLEN. SO I DON'T IF GOING FORWARD, MAYBE WE CAN FIND SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE CAN PLAN BECAUSE THOSE ARE NOT THE BEST ONES FOR, FOR HURRICANE SEASON. SO BY THE WAY, THOSE TWO PALMS HAVE BEEN THERE FOR DECADES. YEAH, THE ONES IN THE NEXT BLOCK OVER I HAD TO PICK UP. WELL, NO, THE ONES IN THE NEXT BLOCK OVER WERE HIT BY A VEHICLE DURING THE STORM. NO, NO, I PICKED IT UP DURING THE STORM. DURING THE LAST HURRICANE? YEAH, IT DEPENDS ON THE VARIETY OF PALM. AGAIN, I DEFER TO OUR LANDSCAPE DIVISION WHO HAVE THE MOST KNOWLEDGE ON WHAT SHOULD BE PLANTED THERE THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, SIR. THE REASON THOSE ARE THEY LOOK AT THE TRAFFIC PEOPLE LIKE THOSE IS EXACTLY BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE THEY'RE FRANGIBLE. 
          SO YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN GO THROUGH AND NOT AND NOT WRAP YOUR CAR AROUND YOU OR YOUR 
          [F.-7. 26-1429 Update regarding City Compost program, signage, registration and library location.
(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Anderson)]
          [F.-8. 26-1433 Updates regarding food waste accepted at Coral Gables Compost Bin opening on April 20th at the Library.
(Sponsored by Vice Mayor Anderson)]
NECK. YEP. THAT'S TRUE. OR YOUR NECK. ALL RIGHT, NEXT ONE UP. NEXT ONE IS F7 COMPOST PROGRAM. 
          AND WHILE YOU'RE COMING UP, MATT, AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE SIGNAGE, WHICH WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE A LINK ON IT. I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT JUST HOW FAR WE'VE COME AS A CITY, BECAUSE THIS IS EARTH MONTH, OKAY. WE'VE DONE SEPTIC TO SEWER. WE'VE GOT OUR BASINS STUDIED. I HAVE PEOPLE CONTACTING ME WANTING TO MOVE FORWARD ON BASINS. SO WE CAN POSSIBLY DO THAT. WE'RE ELIMINATING POOP IN THE TRASH PILES. CITY MANAGER WE'RE GOING TO BE REUSING OUR YARD WASTE. AND WE'VE ALSO DONE A CARBON SEQUESTERED CEMENT. WE HAVE OUR FIRST BUILDING BUILT WITH IT. A FIREHOUSE FOR OUR CITY HAS DONE A LOT OF GREAT GOOD. PRIOR TO ME JOINING THIS COMMISSION, THE PRIOR COMMISSION PUT IN THE CATCH BASINS FOR PLASTICS AND SO FORTH ON CERTAIN DRAINS. AND NOW WE'RE GOING WHERE THE CITY HAS NEVER GONE BEFORE. 
          COMPOSTING THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, SIR. I'D LIKE TO ADD VICE MAYOR BIOCHAR WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT. YEAH, YEAH. THAT'S YOUR THAT WAS YOUR SEGUE. BIOCHAR, BIOCHAR. AND WHAT CAN IT BE USED FOR? CONCRETE ASPHALT OR CONCRETE? ASPHALT. AND WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FOR SOME WATER RECLAMATION. SO THERE'S A QUITE A NUMBER OF USES FOR THAT. 
          AND SOIL AMENDMENT AND FERTILIZATION. FERTILIZATION. YES. YEAH. INSTEAD OF MOUNT TRASHMORE AND TIPPING FEES. YES. ALL YOURS. THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR. COMMISSIONER MAYOR MATT ANDERSON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY. I HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION, SOME KEY FACTS ON FOOD WASTE. IN THE US, 30 TO 40% OF FOOD SUPPLY IS WASTED OVER 133 BILLION POUNDS A YEAR. FOOD IS THE SINGLE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR CATEGORY OF MATERIAL PLACED IN MUNICIPAL LANDFILLS. NEARLY 25% OF LAND FILL WASTE. THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD PRODUCES ABOUT 2 TO 3 POUNDS OF EDIBLE FOOD WASTED PER PERSON WEEKLY. 58% OF LANDFILL EMISSIONS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR FOR FOOD WASTE. AND IF THIS ONE IS STAGGERING, IF IT WERE A COUNTRY, US FOOD WASTE WOULD BE THE THIRD LARGEST PRODUCER OF CARBON DIOXIDE. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE ARE. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BEEN ASKING FOR, BEEN ASKING FOR THE CITY TO EXPLORE. SO IT'S VERY EXCITING FOR US TO BE LAUNCHING THIS PILOT PROGRAM. WE'RE GOING 
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TO BE WORKING WITH THE CORAL GABLES LIBRARY AND SETTING UP A DROP OFF LOCATION, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO LAUNCH THAT ON MONDAY, APRIL 20TH TO KICK OFF EARTH WEEK. WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH RENEWABLE. THEY'VE HAVE A BIG PRESENCE HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA. YOU CAN SEE THE OPERATIONS THAT THEY THEY THEY WORK THROUGH, INCLUDING THE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL, FORMULA ONE ULTRA. THEY HAVE CONTRACTS FOR CITY OF HOLLYWOOD, CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, AND THEY'VE DONE OVER 7.7 MILLION POUNDS OF ORGANICS SINCE 2020. SO THIS IS WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT. 
          RENEWABLE IS GOING TO HANDLE ALL COLLECTION. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THIS BIN WITH 245 GALLON BINS LOCATED INSIDE, LOCATED AT THE LIBRARY. THE PICKUP WILL BE TWICE A WEEK. THERE'LL BE 245 GALLON TOTERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE LOCATED THERE. YOU CAN SEE THE COST FOR THE PILOT PROGRAM IS $6,000 FOR THE YEAR. WE'VE ALSO APPLIED FOR TWO GRANTS. SO IF WE CAN OFFSET THAT COST RIGHT NOW WE'VE IDENTIFIED CITY FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO FUND THAT. BUT OUR TEAM IS ALWAYS WORKING WITH FINANCE AND THE GRANTS TEAM TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL GRANTS THAT WE CAN APPLY FOR. 
          WE APPLIED FOR TWO. WE'RE WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR ON THOSE RENEWABLE. ALSO PROVIDE ONE CUBIC YARD OF COMPOST TWO TIMES A YEAR TO THE CITY, SO WE CAN USE IT IN OUR GREEN SPACE AND WILL ALSO HELP US WITH EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS TO TEACH AND CORRECT COMPOSTING HABITS. 
          I'VE ALREADY BEEN SPEAKING WITH THE LIBRARY ABOUT DOING SOME POTENTIAL PROGRAMING RIGHT THERE. SO THIS IS HOW THE SITE LOOKED BEFORE. THIS IS IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE LIBRARY WHERE THE BOOK DROP OFFS ARE. IT IS RIGHT ADJACENT TO THAT. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. AS OF YESTERDAY, WE LAID PAVERS DOWN AND I WANT TO GIVE ALL CREDIT TO THE GREEN SPACE MANAGEMENT TEAM. I WAS OUT THERE WITH THEM. WE WERE LAYING PAVERS, PLANTING NATIVE PLANTS. 
          WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PICTURE THERE IS WILD COFFEE, LANTANA AND FAKAHATCHEE GRASS. SO ALL NATIVES, WE ALREADY SEE BUTTERFLIES COMING AROUND AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN PUT THE BIN IN YET. BUT THERE'S IT'LL BE GREAT FOR THE LIBRARY AND I THINK A GREAT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE THAT'S VISITING THE LIBRARY AS WELL. THIS IS JUST AN AI IMAGE THAT WE CREATED EARLY ON TO, TO SEE HOW THE BIN WOULD LOOK THERE. WE'RE GOING TO BE SETTING THAT UP EITHER TOMORROW OR THURSDAY FOR THE LAUNCH ON MONDAY, APRIL 20TH. THIS IS A CLOSE UP OF THE EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE THAT WILL BE PLACED ABOVE THE BIN. SO ANYONE THAT GOES UP TO IT WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN SIGN UP ON ON THE RENEWABLES WEBSITE. YOU'LL GET FREE ACCESS UNDER THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. SINCE THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES IS FUNDING THE PROGRAM, THEY COLLECT THEIR COMPOST AT HOME, THEY BRING IT TO THE BIN, THEY PUT IT IN THE BIN, AND AGAIN, THE BIN IS SERVICED TWICE A WEEK. THEY WILL BE CLEANING OUT THE BINS. YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE WILL BE ACCEPTING. I HAVE A LIST ON THE NEXT SLIDE. COFFEE GROUNDS, FOOD, MEAT AND DAIRY, PAPER NAPKINS, ANY COMPOSTABLE PRODUCTS, PLANT MATERIALS. WHAT IS NOT COMPOSTABLE? ANY RECYCLABLES, PLASTIC BAGS, ANIMAL WASTE GLASS, THE STICKERS THAT ARE ON THE FRUIT WE DON'T WANT IN THE COMPOSTING AND ANY COATED PAPER AND RENEWABLE WILL BE RESPONDING. 
          AND SO, SO MY TEAM ON ANY, YOU KNOW, QUESTIONS THAT WE GET AND THEY WILL BE HELPING MANAGE THAT PROGRAM. AND I REALLY WANT TO THANK THE LIBRARY FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN HELPING US WITH THE LOCATION AND HELPING US WITH THE RIBBON CUTTING AS WELL. AND THE COUNTY. SO PARTICIPATING IS SIMPLE. I ALREADY COVERED IT. ONCE THEY OPEN THEIR ACCOUNT, ANYONE THAT WANTS TO PARTICIPATE, THEY OPEN THEIR ACCOUNT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT IN ANY CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. 
          AGAIN, IT'S GOING TO BE FREE ACCESS. YOU WILL GET AN ACCESS CODE, WHICH IS THE LOCK THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE BIN. IT'LL BE THE THE COMBINATION TO THAT SO PEOPLE CAN PARTICIPATE. BUT WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE IT OPEN JUST FOR ANYBODY TO COME BY. THEY WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PARTICIPATING AS PART OF THE PROGRAM. AGAIN, A LIST OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE CAN PUT INTO THE COMPOST BIN. WHAT'S NOT ACCEPTED. AND THE INVITATION THAT YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED FROM YOUR AIDS TO THE LAUNCH ON MONDAY, APRIL 20TH TO KICK OFF EARTH WEEK. SO I'M JUST GOING TO ASK FOR STAFF TO SHARE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN REPOST. SOME OF US ARE NOT AS MUCH INTO THE INSTAGRAM AND POSTING STUFF AS OTHERS, SO WE NEED A LITTLE HELP THERE. SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK YOU'VE DONE AND A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO MAKE THIS COME TRUE, BECAUSE YOU DID ALL THE PRICING COMPARISONS, YOU CAME UP WITH THE BEST DEAL, THE QR CODE FOR ANYBODY THAT YOU KNOW, WONDERS WHY WE HAVE TO DO THAT SO WE DON'T END UP WITH GARBAGE IN THERE. WE HAVE TO DO THAT AND ALSO TRACK USAGE SO WE CAN DETERMINE JUST HOW MUCH WE'RE USING IT AND IF WE WANT TO EXPAND IT IN THE FUTURE, AT LEAST WE HAVE SOME DATA TO WORK WITH, AND RENEWABLE WILL BE PROVIDING US WITH ALL THAT DATA ON A REGULAR BASIS AND TRACKING USAGE. AND THIS IS DEFINITELY A TEAM EFFORT, ALL DEPARTMENTS HELPING US GET THE CONTRACT FINALIZED, WHICH WE FINALIZED TODAY, WE'LL BE SENDING TO THE VENDOR. SO IT IS A TRUE TEAM EFFORT TO BE ABLE TO LAUNCH THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO, AGAIN, DELIVERING THIS TYPE OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. AND IT'S ONE THAT REALLY SETS OUR CITY APART, 
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AND ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO DIVERT MATERIAL AWAY FROM THE LANDFILL, WHICH IS ALWAYS THE GOAL. SO F7 AND F8 FOR WERE REALLY THIS ONE AND THE SAME THING. SOMEHOW IT 
          [F.-10. 26-1400 A Resolution of the City Commission urging Miami-Dade County to reexamine Peafowl Protections and support coordinated countywide mitigation efforts.
(Sponsored by Mayor Lago)]
ENDED UP ON THE AGENDA TWICE. PERFECT. I THINK IT'S THE LAST ONE. F10 MR. CLARKE ALL RIGHT. 
          F10 A RESOLUTION OF CITY COMMISSION URGING MIAMI-DADE COUNTY TO REEXAMINE FILE PROTECTIONS AND SUPPORT COORDINATED COUNTYWIDE MITIGATION EFFORTS. WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD A COALITION HERE. WE SOMETIMES LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT THE RTC AND THE GOLFING SITUATION THAT WE'RE IN. WE HAVE TO DO WHAT IS UNPOPULAR. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY. SOME PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE, SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE PEOPLE. BUT I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING, THEY'RE AN INVASIVE SPECIES, AND WE'RE RECEIVING A LOT OF CALLS AND EMAILS FROM RESIDENTS WHO ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE AGGRESSIVE NATURE, THE STAINING, THE CARS. AGAIN, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING. MR. MANAGER. HAVE WE HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT ALREADY IN REGARDS TO MITIGATION OF, OF OF PR? I THINK WE ALREADY BLEW THROUGH OUR BUDGET, DIDN'T WE? YES, YES WE ARE. WE'VE, WE'VE PICKED UP 141 BIRDS SO FAR AND WE SPENT HOW MUCH. OVER $25,000. 
          SO OVER $25,000. I DON'T WANT TO KILL THE BIRDS. OKAY. I GREW UP MY FATHER WITH CHICKENS IN THE BACKYARD, A FINCH HOUSE, QUAIL, ALL KINDS OF BIRDS. MY FATHER STILL HAS IT ON 159TH. 
          OKAY, WE LOVE BIRDS. I'M A BIG FAN, BUT THERE HAS TO BE SOME COMMON GROUND. IF YOU HAVE SNAKES THAT ARE BEING HUNTED AND YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY THE IGUANAS THAT ARE ALSO BEING ADDRESSED, WE NEED TO ADDRESS THIS PEACEFULLY WHILE THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. I'M GETTING CALLS, AND I KNOW YOU'RE GETTING EMAILS FROM PHYSICIANS WHO WORK AT NIGHT AND COME HOME AT 5 OR 6:00 IN THE MORNING, AND THEY CAN'T FALL ASLEEP BECAUSE THE FILES ON TOP OF THE ROOF, OR THEY'RE SQUAWKING FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED, OR THAT THE FECAL MATTER IS ALL OVER THE DRIVEWAY. SO THEY'RE TRYING DIFFERENT MEASURES. BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IS IF OUR NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES, LIKE THE CITY OF MIAMI, DO NOT ADDRESS THIS, THEY JUST TRAVEL THROUGH LEJEUNE AND COME IN TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY. WE'RE HAVING A MAJOR ISSUE. SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IN MY COLLEAGUES ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING THE COUNTY ADVOCATE FOR US TO TAKE A STAND ON THIS. THEY ARE NOT NATIVE SPECIES. THEY ARE COMPETING WITH NATIVE SPECIES. OUR ENVIRONMENT IS ALREADY SENSITIVE ENOUGH. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 
          I KNOW THAT IT'S A POLITICAL HOT BUTTON, AND EVERYBODY RUNNING FOR OFFICE DOESN'T WANT TO ADDRESS IT AT ALL FRONTS OF GOVERNMENT. BECAUSE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEM. SOME PEOPLE ARE ENAMORED BY THEM. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AND MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES, MADAM VICE MAYOR, GO AHEAD. LADIES FIRST, LADIES FIRST. I'M A LITTLE OLDER TOO. SO LADIES FIRST. I'VE HAD THIS DEBATE WITH A FEW PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. IT'S CONTENTIOUS, IT'S CONTENTIOUS. BUT I ALSO BRING TO THEIR ATTENTION THAT WE'RE LOSING A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL FAUNA AND FLORA BECAUSE OF THEM. YEP. AND YES, OUR NATIVE BIRDS EAT THE SAME FAUNA AND FLORA, BUT THEY DON'T WEIGH 40 POUNDS. A 40 POUND BIRD CAN WIPE OUT A LOT MORE BUTTERFLIES AND A LOT MORE, YOU KNOW, LITTLE WORMS THAT ARE MAKING VERY ENDANGERED BUTTERFLIES, THAT ARE NATIVE MOCKINGBIRDS, CARDINALS, WOODPECKERS, ETC. THAT ARE IN OUR TREES. SO WE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE. AND THERE'S NOTHING CONTROLLING THE POPULATION OF THESE BIRDS OTHER THAN THE COYOTES THAT ARE COMING UP FROM SOUTH DADE TO EAT THEM AND HUNT THEM, BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL THE WAY UP ON THE BEACH. VERY MUCH SO NORTH. I KNOW BECAUSE I RIDE MY BIKE UP THERE. IT'S AMAZING HOW FAR AND WIDE THESE BIRDS HAVE INVADED OUR OUR COUNTY. SO SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE TO CONTROL THE POPULATION BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT BEING CONTROLLED BY THE COYOTES. THEY'RE NOT BEING CONTROLLED BY ANYONE ELSE. AND THERE'S LIKE 12 EGGS THAT COME OUT OF ONE BIRD EVERY SINGLE SEASON. THE ONLY THING THAT'S CONTROLLING THEM A LITTLE BIT ARE CARS. BUT SO YES, I'LL JOIN WITH YOU THAT THESE BIRDS NEED TO BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL. 
          COMMISSIONER, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY I ACTUALLY PASSED THREE OF THEM ON MY WAY IN TODAY. AND IT WASN'T A LONG DRIVE THROUGH LITTLE GABLES. THEY HAVE MAJOR TERRITORIAL GAINS IN LITTLE GABLES, AND I THINK WE'VE AVOIDED THEM CROSSING INTO CORAL GABLES FOR SOME REASON SO 
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FAR. BUT THEY'RE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR THEIR WAY IN. IN MY BLOCK, I HAD NEVER SEEN ONE. I WOULD SAY OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS I'VE SEEN 5 OR 6, AND THEY ARE EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE. 
          THE CAR IS COMING. THEY DO NOT MOVE OUT OF THE WAY. YOU KNOW, THEY THINK THAT ROAD IS THEIRS. 
          AND I THINK WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO TAKE A STAND. I KNOW WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS 2 OR 3 TIMES ALREADY SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION, THE COUNTY FOR LONG PERIOD OF TIME HAD NO APPETITE IN CHANGING ITS STANCE. I THINK THERE'S MORE OF AN OPENING NOW BECAUSE THEY'RE SEEING THE IMPACT IT HAS. WE'VE EVEN HEARD FROM THE COMMISSIONER WHO ORIGINALLY PASSED THE LEGISLATION, SPONSORED THE LEGISLATION TO PROTECT THE P FILE, AND SHE HAS SAID THAT WAS THE ONE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF HER POLITICAL CAREER, BECAUSE SHE'S SEEN THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT IT'S HAD ON OUR FLORA AND FAUNA IN SOUTH FLORIDA. SO, ABSOLUTELY. I THINK WE DEFINITELY NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT THROUGH THE MAYOR. YES. YEAH. I THINK THIS IS A VERY TOUCHY SUBJECT, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND SHARE WHAT I'M DEALING WITH WITH PEACOCKS IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE. THERE'S PROBABLY LIKE 15 PEACOCKS AND EITHER THEY'RE ON TOP OF MY ROOF OR THEY'RE IN THE FRONT, OR THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. BUT THE PROBLEM IS, WHEN I GO WALK MY DOG, THAT IS A YORKIE. THEY'RE VICIOUS AND THEY GO AND ATTACK THE LITTLE DOG. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO KEEP INTO CONSIDERATION AS WELL. I THINK WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM, BUT IN A VERY HUMANE WAY. OKAY, SO WHAT I WAS SAYING WAS. 
          WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION. SO THE INTENT HERE IS VERY SIMPLE IS TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION, SEND THIS OUT TO THE 34 MUNICIPALITIES, TO THE LEAGUE OF CITIES AS AND THEN MOVTHIS TR REPRESENS ANDUR SENATORS ANDOVERNOR ASKING FORCTIO ASKINFOR UNIVTY OF AMI,HE IVERYWHE. IFOUO U C S THEMAIL IFONAL D YOU'RE PSON WHO LIV THOMNITY AND WO ST O SATURDAY YOUAN TOBE WAKE UPTLBIT YOU KNOW, A WING U U OW, WE'OT CONTA WH DO W HERAS CITY? I PAEDLATION AEWEARS TONCREASE THUATY O L DTRUCON, YOAN RIS. T ARENIMA THAT NOT NATIV O COUNITO POLITICAL IS A HOT POTATO, ILL TATAS THIS JU BESA MOND MORE OA WORSSUE. 
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AAT C.HAT'S I COMMISSION. RIGHT. S I JUS FRIEND AND OURSTD FORMERMAYOR, B AP25TH ATNEER DAY AT NEOD CEMERY I CORAL ES. IT IE MORNIN WHEN THEESTI ART. SHE'LBEAKING AT 11:0I'LLEHERE HE TO SEE ALLHEREL. SHE'S A TREURE AND SHE'LL BE EAKI FHERT EMGH HIS,  KNOW, THAT UST TEE WIT HTORY OF THF E,F T OLDESMETERYHA HAVE INE CO. DOFUST MESKEL CHAMPIONS. IF ANYBODY DOESN'T KNOW IT WAS MICHIGAN. THAT WATER TASTES SWEETER THAN EVER. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY BY WAY OF UPDATE. CONGRATULATIONS. WELL DONE. SO GO TO YOUR RECYCLING AND THEN COME LISTEN TO MAYOR THOMPSON. THERE YOU GO. RIGHT BACK AT YOU. I HAVE NOTHING TODAY. OKAY. I WAS GOING TO MENTION DOROTHY THOMPSON, BUT YOU TOOK IT FROM ME, SO I HAVE A SLIDESHOW I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU. WE HAD SOME DISTINGUISHED INDIVIDUALS HERE IN THE CITY LAST WEEK. WE HAD THE VICE MAYOR FOR SEVILLA AND WE HAD A GOOD TURNOUT. I WANT TO THANK OUR OUR SISTER CITIES AND BELKIS AND ALL THE THE MUSEUM EMPLOYEES. WE HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT SEVILLA. 
          THEY GAVE US SOME GREAT GIFTS, REALLY REPRESENTATIVE OF OF OUR SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP, WHICH ALL THOSE, YOU KNOW, STATUES OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND OF CHRIST WITH THE CROSS AND SOME BEAUTIFUL, SOME BEAUTIFUL PRINTS ARE GOING TO BE IN THE SISTER CITIES ROOM AT THE MUSEUM, BUT THAT THAT IS THE MAYOR TO THE LEFT FROM SEVILLA. AND THEN YOU HAVE OUR CONSUL GENERAL OF SPAIN TO THE LEFT OF HER. MY DAUGHTER IS GOING TO BE IN SEVILLA, IN SALAMANCA. SO NEXT MONTH AS A AS A TRIP WITH WITH, WITH HER SCHOOL. SO IT'S EXCITING. IT WAS EXCITING TO REALLY UNDERSTAND A LOT MORE ABOUT SEVILLA, THE HISTORY OF SEVILLA. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL CITY IN SPAIN. AS ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE, I'VE BEEN THERE BEFORE. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO REALLY GO THERE AND THEY'LL ROLL THE RED CARPET OUT FOR YOU AND THEY'LL SHOW YOU SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND CULTURE THAT YOU'VE EVER SEEN. WE HAVE, WE HAVE THIS PRESENTATION. SO I'M GOING TO ASK LAURA AND NICOLE TO SEND IT TO ALL THE COMMISSIONERS SO YOU CAN SEE IT. IT'S AN AMAZINGLY WELL DONE PRESENTATION ON SEVILLA. AND IT HIGHLIGHTS, YOU KNOW, ALL THE GREAT THINGS TO DO IN SEVILLA AND IN SPAIN. AND THEY'RE VERY PROUD TO BE OUR SISTER CITY. SO I'M GOING TO SEND IT TO YOU AND WE'RE GOING TO SEND IT OUT TO THE RESIDENTS. JUST GIVE ME A LITTLE BIT OF A BACKGROUND ON SEVILLA. NUMBER TWO. I'M ACTUALLY REALLY IMPRESSED SO FAR IN REGARDS TO THE BALLOT COUNT. AS OF YESTERDAY WE'RE SHOULD BE AROUND 8000 AS OF TODAY. THOSE ARE BIG NUMBERS. 
          WHEN YOU THINK THAT THERE'S 30,000 BALLOTS THAT WENT OUT, A LITTLE OVER 30,000 BALLOTS, YOU KNOW, IF WE GET TO 10,000, WHICH I THINK IS MORE THAN DOABLE, THE DEADLINE IS APRIL 21ST. IF YOU SUBMIT YOUR BALLOTS WITHIN THE NEXT 3 OR 4 DAYS, YOU'RE FOR SURE, FOR SURE. 
          EVEN EVEN POTENTIALLY FIVE DAYS. BUT I WOULDN'T WAIT TILL FIVE. I WOULD SUBMIT IN THE NEXT 3 OR 4. YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH SURE THAT YOUR BALLOT IS GOING TO COUNT. I'VE BEEN RECEIVING SO MANY PHONE CALLS AND EMAILS FROM RESIDENTS JUST ASKING FOR INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, CONTACTING US WITH PRIDE. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE GOTTEN SOME COMMISSIONERS, BUT I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE FACT. AND THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING. 
          YOU HAVE OVER 8000 BALLOTS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, IF YOU LOOK AT NOT THE LAST RACE, BECAUSE I WAS ON THE BALLOT AND OVER 10,000 PEOPLE VOTED. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE THE PREVIOUS THE PREVIOUS RACE IN 2024, WHEN I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT, WHEN I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT, WHEN I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT, AND COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ AND COMMISSIONER CASTRO WERE ON THE BALLOT, 6000 PLUS PEOPLE VOTED. THIS IS ALREADY MORE THAN THAT, AND WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A WEEK LONG OF EARLY VOTING. WE DON'T EVEN HAVE AN ELECTION DATE. THIS IS JUST WITH ABSENTEE BALLOTS. THIS GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT THERE'S TRUST IN OUR DEMOCRACY. THERE'S TRUST IN OUR DEMOCRACY THAT THAT THINGS HAVE WORKED OUT WELL, THAT THAT ELENA GARCIA, OUR ELECTION SUPERVISOR, HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB, VERY TRANSPARENT, ALWAYS AVAILABLE. SHE'S BEEN IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH THE MANAGER STAFF, ENSURING THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE. I'VE SENT HER MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE QUESTIONS. I DIDN'T RECEIVE MY BALLOT. I SIGNED MY BALLOT WRONG. YOU KNOW, WHAT DO I DO? I WANT TO TRACK MY BALLOT. SHE'S BEEN AMAZING. SHE'S BEEN COMPLIMENTARY. SHE'S WORKED VERY, VERY HARD. SO I THINK, GOD WILLING, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN 9 TO 10,000 PEOPLE VOTING WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. SO I ASK ANYBODY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO THE 
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BALLOTS, IN REGARDS TO THE BALLOT AND THE REFERENDUMS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME AT (786) 397-3957. AGAIN, THAT'S (786) 397-3957. OR YOU CAN WRITE ME AN EMAIL AT VDELGADO AT CORAL GABLES.COM, AND I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH AS MUCH INFORMATION IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT ALREADY. WE'VE SENT OUT TEXT MESSAGES, WE'VE SENT OUT MAIL, WE'VE SENT, WE'VE WE'VE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE MAGAZINE. WE'VE REALLY FOCUSED TO TRY TO GET OUT AS MANY PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY RETURN THEIR BALLOTS. AND I THINK THE FACT THAT ALMOST A LITTLE, ALMOST 8000, PROBABLY OVER 8000 BALLOTS HAVE BEEN RETURNED IS A TESTAMENT TO THE FACT THAT PEOPLE GOT THE MESSAGE. AND WE'VE BEEN EFFECTIVE IN TARGETING INDIVIDUALS TO COME OUT TOWN HALLS. RIGHT. OH, WE'VE HAD TOWN HALLS. MARTHA MARTINEZ DONE A GREAT JOB, YOU KNOW, REALLY GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT THERE. SO EVERYWHERE I GO, PEOPLE ARE TALKING, LOOK, I VOTED, I VOTED, I'M GETTING PICTURES CONSTANTLY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WHO ARE GOING OUT THERE AND REALLY, YOU KNOW, EXCITED ABOUT THE DEMOCRACY AT THE END OF THE DAY. SO GET OUT THERE, FILL OUT YOUR BALLOTS. THE DEADLINE IS APRIL 21ST. I WILL NOT WAIT TILL APRIL 21ST, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO PROBABLY TAKE ABOUT TWO DAYS IN THE MAIL. 
          SO PLEASE TRY TO SUBMIT YOUR BALLOTS BY THE 18TH OR 19TH AT THE LATEST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GETS THERE AND IT COUNTS THROUGH THROUGH THE MAYOR REAL QUICK. IT HAS TO BE RECEIVED BY APRIL 21ST. SO YOU CANNOT WAIT UNTIL APRIL. IF IT GETS THERE LATE, IT WILL NOT COUNT. AND AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S EIGHT ITEMS ON ON THE ON THE REFERENDUMS, EIGHT REFERENDUMS. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO MY OFFICE, REACH OUT TO THE MANAGER'S OFFICE AND WE'LL GIVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION SO YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST DECISION ON BEHALF OF YOUR FAMILY IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. SO I'M GOING TO ADD TO THE URGENCY, BECAUSE I MAILED A BOX TO COLORADO, TO MY BROTHER IN LAW. PRIORITY MAIL TOOK OVER A WEEK, SHOULD HAVE BEEN 2 TO 3 DAYS OVER A WEEK. SO WE'RE TRACKING AND WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF BALLOTS COMING IN HERE AT THE LAST MINUTE. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS PROCRASTINATE. WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE. WE WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE. THANK ALL OF YOU. TODAY'S BEEN A VERY LONG DAY. 730. WE'RE FINISHING THE COMMISSION MEETING. I'D LIKE TO THANK STAFF, EVERYONE THAT WAS HERE. 
          WE TACKLED A LOT OF ISSUES TODAY. YOU SAW A GREAT EXAMPLE OF TWO PARKS THAT MY OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING ON FOR OVER FIVE, SIX YEARS COME TO FRUITION, AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR OUR DOWNTOWN. THANK YOU AND
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