City Commission - Regular Meeting

adjourning the meeting. Thank you. Thank you again, everybody.

Madam Mayor? Madam Mayor?

Vice Mayor, would you like for me to begin? Please. Good evening, everyone. Today's June 22nd, 2026. This is a regular city commission meeting. On behalf of Vice Mayor, we're calling it to order at 4.56 p.m. The following members, may I proceed with the roll call? Mayor Cooper. I'll call her back. Vice Mayor Lazaro.

Present.

Commissioner Adams. I'm here. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thanks. Commissioner Adams? She's on her way back. Commissioner Butler?

Here.

Commissioner Lima-Tobb? Here. City Manager Dr. Earl? Present. City Attorney Bryan? Present. Madam Vice Mayor, you have a roll call.

Thank you very much. Quorum?

Do I have an agenda?

We proceed to Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you.

Can we please stand and rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much.

The next item is Order of Business, Vice Mayor. I would like to state on the record, we would like to defer the next item for the next available meeting, which will be August 5th, which is Item 12B, Elections, Tents, and Science Discussion, sponsored by Commissioner Joy Adams.

We were moving that?

Yes, she requested for us to move it to the next meeting for the mayor to be physically present. Okay. And then the next Order of Business is we're going to have Item 6D, then item 6C, item 6A, followed by item 6B.

May I proceed with public participation? Wait a minute. You're going to have item D and then C and then A and then B. Yes, ma'am. What are we doing with E? We have to wait?

E, we already did.

We already did E. Oh, we did that. Yes, ma'am. All right. Yes, go ahead.

So given that there's no one at the moment, we'll follow up with public participation around 5.30. Okay. So I'll proceed with item 6D. Perfect. Item 6D, 10-year water supply facilities work plan presentation. Perfect.

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. I'm going to ask Director Loban and his team to come and do the presentation.

Yes, we had the consultant that's coming to do it, but we had scheduled it for 5.30. Oh, that's right. They're planning to be here at 5.30.

Oh, all right. Yes, please. Should we skip to another presentation then?

What's the matter? What happened?

The consultant's not here.

The consultant's not here?

Yeah, the schedule was for 5.30.

I was doing this earlier, like I asked.

We can do another one. Let me call them and see where they're at. They were supposed to get here by 5.15. Yeah, see where they are.

Okay, what's next?

So we can proceed with item presentations, item 6C, Parks and Recreation Month Proclamation. Are you ready or not?

All right, you know what? We can't do anything, nobody's ready.

So would you like to go right ahead and pause the meeting until 5.30, madam?

No, I don't wanna do that. I wanna wait until somebody shows up for anything.

Okay. So the item A or B is not something we can do?

No.

The retirement possibility?

No, because people want to be here for Martin Jackson, and Mr. Miller's not here. Mr. Miller's not here, right? I mean, I don't know.

Okay, so let's just take a 10 minute because there's nothing, we're gonna be sitting here, no? 15 minutes.

Take a 15 minute break. Okay. Sorry.

You're the, you're chairing, so.

Yeah, sorry, 15 minute break. Good to see you, baby. Thank you. Isn't he?

No. Oh, we'll just leave it like that.

Good evening, everyone. We're now reconvening the regular city commission meeting of June 22nd, 2026. We're reconvening at 5.30 after a brief break. We're going to start with item five, public participation. Vice Mayor, there's only one.

We're going to do the roll call and the footage and all of that.

You want to start all over again? Start the whole meeting. Okay. So I apologize for that. So we're going to start with roll call.

Okay. We're now calling the- We already did that. I see what you're saying. And the pledge. And the pledge. We did that already. Sorry, everybody. We can do it again if you all need us to stand up and- Let's do the pledge again.

Let's. Let's all do it together. Let's do it. Officer Jackson, would you like to lead us in the pledge?

No.

I don't even know the words right now. It starts with, I pledge allegiance. That's all you've got to say is, I pledge allegiance. We'll be right behind you.

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

Vice Mayor, may I proceed with public participation? We only have one speaker signed up for the City Commission meeting. The first speaker is Mr. Ira Lebowitz. Hi, Ira. Oh my gosh, it's been forever. If you may please state your name and the city you reside in.

Would I make up a name like Ira Leibowitz? Okay. I've lived in this town for about 15 years. 116 Northwest 9th Terrace Apartment, 212 Hallandale, Florida, 33009. Same zip as here. I've had several miracles happen to me in the last three or four months. I've been getting miracles every single day, every single day.

Every single day.

I almost died last month. Rabbi Schwartz found me in the car outside the shul going into a coma from diabetes. My diabetes was, sugar was 35 and my blood pressure was 210 over 107 at the same time. And an hour later I was in the hospital singing songs Johnny Cash said with the nurses. It's all a miracle. Every traffic light that I've been through in the last month has been green. That's not possible. And I walked 60 miles in the last six days. And that's not possible for a 70-year-old man. I lost 75 pounds in the last year and a half because I was very, very sick. And they said, what's your secret? I prayed to God. That's the secret. Okay, but something very, very terrible happened to me five weeks ago in the Aventura Hospital. I have an evil sister. She's like from The Exorcist. Her head doesn't spin when I'm not looking. She's hired two nurses. They're very evil. They're stealing from my mom. They make $90,000 each a year. I used to care for my mom for 100 hours a week at $7.50 an hour. And I made her chocolate egg creams, chicken soup, and corned beef sandwich, you know, what she liked. But they said, would you like to leave and go on vacation? I said, yeah. Well, when I came back, they went to family services. They contacted the police. They charged me with crimes like you wouldn't believe. Now, if you're going to charge someone with a crime, don't charge them with I want to murder my mom for her money. I want to molest her sexually. I'm a violent schizophrenic. Now, as soon as I found that out, I went to my psychiatrist. I see him about once every four months. I saw him last week for about 15 minutes. Brought them kosher pizza. We had a pizza party. He says, how are you doing, Ira? I said, super fantastic. He says, OK, bye bye. And his name is Ira. That's more than a coincidence. His name, Ira Silverman. very wonderful guy, and my nephrologist, my kidney doctor, I got stage four kidney disease, I was supposed to die. She told me three months ago, you're gonna live as long as you want. I'm going to Israel, nobody knows it yet except you. I'm gonna pray for the troops, I'm gonna go to the Arab country too and pray for their troops too because that's what it's about. We're all human beings. I have a beautiful dog I got the day after Hanukkah two years ago.

Hi, Ira. I'm so sorry.

Okay, listen.

I have 30 seconds.

30 seconds. I was beaten up by the Aventura police. They crippled my shoulder. I kept telling them I've got screws in my shoulder. I'm going to have to sue them. I have to go to court on a trumped up charge. I'm innocent. And that's it. I need a lawyer. Perhaps the city attorney here who I just met might know how to get me a lawyer. By the way, Mayor Levy happens to be a lawyer. He's a friend of mine. I see him every Veterans Day. And I write newspaper stories about it. That's it.

Always nice to see you, Ira.

I want to wish you all a blessed day.

Have a great day, Ira.

Have a great day.

Great to see you, and we're glad you're feeling better. You look amazing. I'm feeling better. I'm feeling super fantastic.

Wonderful. Keep it up. We have one more speaker, Ms. Gordon.

Okay. You wanted her phone number.

You wanted her number.

There she is.

That's why I was gonna tell her to come early because I thought we were starting early. That's what she knew.

Just want you to know we held, Ms. Gordon, we held up the whole show for you.

Greetings, greetings. On the absence of Mayor Cooper, is she online?

Yes, she's online. Thank you.

Hi, hi, Vice Mayor, our wonderful commissioners, city manager, and all of this wonderful... I am here today as a Friends of the Hepburn Center. I'm sure that all of you receive your emails in regards to getting support and also sponsorship. The Pickleball event will start, will begin on September the 19th at Golden Isles Tennis Center. It's going to be from 11 a.m. until 1. And as I stated in the previous commission meetings, we're here to actually support the Help Burn Center. The Help Burn Center provides not only for just the city of Hallandale, but pretty much all of Broward County. And we're here to support because we really don't know what's gonna happen moving forward, especially with the property tax. and what's going on with that. So we're hoping that we'll be able to raise some additional dollars for the pickleball experience, which again is going to be September the 19th. And we're looking for sponsors for all of those pickleball enthusiasts. We're hoping that we'll be able to have a great time and raise dollars for our students who actually participate in the after school care program. So again, thank you all so much. Please come out, and I want to just say a few words. I'm not here to speak on this right now, but I want to say farewell to one of our officers, Officer Martin Jackson, who was there at the actual satellite facility there at the Hepburn Center. Always supporting, always protecting. We did something for him in Juneteenth where the community came out and we call him our hero, our influencer, and also our mentor. So we're gonna miss him. And I told him, I'm going to make sure that our relationship does not stop here. We want to continue to have him in our city and we welcome him in his civilian life. And we know that he's going to be doing some great things. So thank you again for supporting this. And I look forward to all of you having a team, Dr. Earl, having a pickleball team out there as well. So thank you again so much for everything.

Thank you, Ms. Gordon.

Any questions?

No, I just see your email here now. I know I had asked it for you last time, so I see it.

Yes, I didn't want to get in any trouble with you, Commissioner.

You didn't get in any trouble. Listen, it's to your benefit. I know, I know. I thought about it. I didn't say anything.

I know.

I wasn't going to say, where's my email?

I said, I will not get in trouble with her anymore.

I'm going to make sure I send that email before the next commission meeting. That's okay. I'm glad you did. Thank you so much for everything that you guys are doing and helping us with this pickleball event. Thank you.

You got it. Thank you. Vice Mayor, there are no more speakers. May I proceed with the next item? Yes. The next item is item 6B, Retirement Proclamation for Officer Mark Jackson III, sponsored by the City Commission. Vice Mayor, if I may, before we proceed with our proclamation, There is a video presented on behalf of staff. Yes. And there's also explorers that would like to speak on this item.

Yes.

Please advise how you would like to proceed. However you want to do it, City Clerk. Okay, so we'll proceed with the video first.

I have to do it the way you want. You're very bossy tonight.

Whatever you say, boss. Okay, if we may proceed with the video first. Sure, please. Thank you.

For some, a career is measured by years of service. For Officer Martin Jackson III, it is measured by the lives he touched. Officer Jackson began his journey with the Hallandale Beach Police Department in 2001 as a community service aide. Through determination, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to public service, he successfully completed the police academy and became a sworn police officer in 2003. Over the next 25 years, he became one of the most respected and recognizable members of our department. His career included service on the SWAT team, gang task force, field force, hostage negotiations team, public information team, and as a school resource officer. He also became a certified crime prevention through environmental design practitioner, helping make our neighborhoods safer through proactive crime prevention strategies. As a leader within the community involvement unit, Officer Jackson became the heart of many of the department's outreach efforts. he built lasting relationships with residents, businesses, students, and community leaders through trust, mentorship, and genuine care for others. He was instrumental in the success of numerous programs, including the Police Explorer Program, Citizens Police Academy, GREAT Program, Night Out on the Porch, the Volunteer Program, and the Weed and Seed Initiative. Through these efforts, he helped strengthen relationships between law enforcement and the people we serve. His commitment to Hallandale Beach's youth was especially evident through the Police Athletic League. As a football and basketball coach and mentor, Officer Jackson dedicated countless hours to helping young people develop confidence, discipline, teamwork, accountability, and respect. For many, he was much more than a coach. He was a role model and a source of encouragement during some of life's most important years. Today, we celebrate more than a distinguished career. We celebrate a legacy of service, leadership, compassion, and commitment. On behalf of the city of Hallandale Beach, the Hallandale Beach Police Department, and the countless lives he has impacted, we thank Officer Martin Jackson III for more than 25 years of exemplary service and wish him a healthy, happy, and well-deserved retirement. Congratulations, Martin. Your contributions will never be forgotten, and your legacy will continue to inspire generations to come.

Hello, everyone. I am Captain Megan Jones, and I've had the pleasure actually for the last 18 years of working with Officer Jackson in some capacity. From when I was actually an intern here, he was one of the first people that took me under the wing, not knowing that I was even going to be a police officer, to say, this is how you do community policing. You say hi to everybody. It doesn't matter where you are. You put your windows down, you say hi to everybody. And for the last 18 years, for 25 years of his whole career, he's done that each and every day that he's been here. He's given his heart and soul, emotions, money, countless things that probably will not even be remembered by the people that he helped. But the fact that he was able to help them and leave that lasting impression on them is the biggest joy of this profession. So we say thank you in many ways. We have our explorers here that want to actually come up and give him another, they want to present something to him to show their appreciation for him as well. Every Wednesday night, we're there, he's been there. Rain, if we had sleet, there would be sleet and snow, but he would be there. Anything that you can think of, another mentor, a father figure, just general support. He's been for our community, not just for the youth, but for seniors. From infant to senior, you name it, Officer Jackson has been there for this community in every way. Parents, Explorers, do you want to come up right quick?

Why are the whites here? Yes. Eric and Iris are here.

What did you say?

Eric and Iris White are here. I'm trying to think for what item they're here for. Can I carry this one?

Dude. So this is our 2025, 2026, or 2026 Explorer class. And who's presenting?

You're putting me on the spot like that.

So I wanted to say thank you on behalf of all the parents and all of our children. Thank you so, so very much for making a difference in their lives, for keeping them off the streets, giving them a safe place that they can call a second home. You have no idea how much of a tremendous difference you have made in each one of their lives, how much more motivated they are. and that difference is gonna carry through throughout their whole life. And as parents, as a group together, we decided to commemorate that. And we would like for you to come up because we do wanna present you with something as a whole. Are you gonna read it or you'll mute it?

Oh, he has to read it.

You have to read it.

This is the problem when somebody's too humble. You can't. You've got to. Come on. Come on.

No, he's got to read it. He's got to read it. Come on. You have to read it. After all the service, you have to. We don't have that much time. They're going to cut out the time. You have to read it. There you go. His wife can read it.

Come on, Marty. Come on, Officer Jackson.

Your explorers, they wanted you to know.

What does it say? I don't know.

Lord, I ask for courage, courage to face and conquer my own fears, courage to take me where others will not go. I ask for strength, strength of body to protect others and strength of spirit to lead others. I ask for dedication, dedication to my job, to do it well, dedication to my community, to keep it safe. Give me concern for others who trust me and compassion for those who need me. And please, Lord, through it all, be by my side. Police Explorers 2026.

They also made you a book of memories from pictures with them throughout the years so that you can go back and put that on your trophy wall as well. And then lastly, they have a card and something else.

Explorers have a card for you. Retired 2026 ready for the next great adventure. Dear officer Jackson, the third, the third, As we expressed our deepest gratitude, we remember that the highest appreciation is not to simply utter words, but to live by them. May we always live up to the example you set for our family and the youth you mentored. Wishing you all the best. With heartwarming thanks, parents Elza, Chance, Anna, Petra Nina, Jean Maxwell, Aniele Cardone, Cecilia Merrifield, Jael Gashier, and Crystal Sinaitis. Your legacy lives on in every explorer you have guided and mentored. Thank you for dedicating your career to protecting your community and inspiring our future. You taught us the values of honor, integrity, and dedication. Enjoy your well-earned retirement. Jaden Marin, Alejandro Samara, Adame and Alex Maxwell, Damian Tachon, Maya Merrifield, Khalil Gachir, Pierre Sinatas, Abraham Sinatas, and Kim Forrestal. I hope I pronounced your names right.

Appreciate y'all. Thank y'all so much.

Oh, you have to share this. You have to, like, embarrass yourself right now. Embarrass myself right now? Yes. You found out what you're doing here.

Oh, that's cute.

For those of you that don't know, Officer Jackson is a very big comic hero, and he has a D.C. persona when he deals with the kids, which helps them relate to him and enjoy his superhero skills at basketball courts, the playgrounds. He's there. And then I'll turn it over to the Chief.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, and distinguished members of the dais. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to be able to honor Officer Jackson tonight. More importantly, and again, no offense to the commission, but to the family of Officer Jackson, we know his career was done. It was done with you guys. Thank you so much for your sacrifices. The amount of times that Martin Jackson couldn't be there or missed events or he shared some of the difficulties he had to do in our job. Thank you so much. Madam, I cannot thank you enough. We're going to miss him. Martin Jackson, what a brother he is. I got to tell you, I've had all the years with him. We started his career together. I can't believe he's even before me. It's been 25 years already. You know, we had a pact. He wasn't supposed to leave. CM, I don't know what to do with him. I just don't know. One of the things that we talked about Martin Jackson today is he has no idea the lives that he's impacted. He has no idea how many kids are no longer getting into trouble, staying out of gangs or whatever because of him, because how he mentored them, because he cared. No matter what happened, no matter what the circumstances was, every time that Martin Jackson came into work, he came in with a smile, with that calm demeanor. Sorry, I'm losing my voice. With that calm demeanor. He's just always been that rock and we cannot thank him enough. There's no words to say. Everybody keeps mentioning right now, you can never replace a Martin Jackson III.

We got it, we got it, we got it.

You can never replace a Martin Jackson III. I don't think that Martin Jackson is looking to ever be replaced. He knows he is one of a kind. But what we can say is that we have been very blessed as a city to have had this distinguished gentleman serve in our community for the last 25 years. He has done it with honor and pride, and he has made us, could not be a better example for our police department. So Martin, I would ask, this will be your opportunity, man.

Get on there, bro. Yes, sir.

All right, so I'm going to try to get through this without getting emotional. The last three events, I got a little emotional. So I'm going to try to hold it together and not get emotional. But I'm deeply humbled by everyone that's here today. I just want to say good evening. to city commissioners, city manager, staff, my family, friends, and community residents. I am deeply honored to stand before you tonight and receive this recognition. When I began my career with the City of Hollandale Beach Police Department more than 25 years ago, I'd never imagined how much this community would be a part of my life. Over the years, I've been blessed to serve not only as a police officer, but as a community partner, a mentor. There it is. a mentor, a friend to many residents. Some of my most meaningful memories. Thank you. Some of my most meaningful memories have come from working with our youth, supporting our neighborhood events and building relationships that extend far beyond that badge in a uniform. I want to first thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My faith has been the foundation for my life and my career. Through every challenge, every difficult call, every success, I've trusted that God had a purpose and a plan. His guidance, grace, and protection have carried me throughout this entire journey. I also want to thank my amazing wife, Lakeisha. My family, which is my kids, Tiana, Kai, Kobe, Taylor, Amir, my grandbaby, Milani. I'm sorry, y'all. My colleagues, city leaders, and the residents of this great city of Hollandale Beach. You support it. Your support, your encouragement, and trust have meant more than words can ever express. As I retire from this chapter of service, I do so with heart filled of gratitude. The city of Hollandale Beach will always hold a special place in my life. I will forever be thankful for the opportunity to serve this wonderful community. Thank you. God bless you all and God bless this great city of Hollandale beach.

Now we have to actually get to the proclamation. Whereas Officer Martin Jackson III began his career with the Handel Beach Police Department in 2001 as a community service aide and through determination, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to public service, successfully completed the police academy and became a sworn police officer in 2003. And whereas, throughout more than 25 years of dedicated service, Officer Jackson became one of the most respected and recognizable members of the Hallandale Beach Police Department, serving in specialized assignments and a member of the SWAT team, a school resource officer, and a certified crime prevention through environmental design, SEPTED. practitioner while consistently demonstrating professionalism, integrity, and compassion. And whereas, as a leader within the community involvement unit, Officer Jackson became the driving force behind many of the department's outreach efforts, building lasting relationships with residents, students, businesses, and civic organizations through genuine engagement, mentorship, and trust, earning the respect and admiration of those he served. And whereas Officer Jackson played an instrumental role in the success of numerous programs and initiative, including the Police Explorer Program, Citizens Police Academy, the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program, Night Out on the Porch, and the Houndo Beach Police Department Volunteer Program, creating opportunities for education, mentorship, volunteerism, and positive interactions between law enforcement and the public. And whereas Officer Jackson's dedication to the youth of Hallandale Beach was exemplified through his service as a coach and mentor for the Police Athletic League, football and basketball programs where he positively influenced countless young people by teaching teamwork, discipline, accountability, perseverance, and respect, leaving a lasting impact that extends far beyond his law enforcement career. Now, therefore, I, Michelle Lazaro, Vice Mayor of the City of Hallandale Beach, on behalf of the City Commission, do hereby proclaim June 22nd, 2026, as retirement for Officer Martin Jackson III. Anybody else?

Would you like to say anything?

No? Okay. Come on up and we'll take a picture. Invite whoever you like, officer. Oh, I'm sorry. The mayor wants to say something. So sorry.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Hi. Good evening. Officer Jackson, I'm sorry I could not be there this evening. I saw you this past weekend, and it was great sharing some time with you. It is quite rare that someone does the things that you've done in the short time of 25 years. And I know you're beginning a new chapter. but not just becoming a police officer and swearing an oath to protect and serve the citizens of our city, but impacting the lives of so many of our young students, our young children throughout the community, says volumes to your compassion, your integrity, and your service to helping individuals grow and learn. In trusting your children as a parent, I know that trust you have over and above served and helped comfort kids but also help parents be able to have a peace of mind knowing that someone with your faith Your kindness, your empathy have helped to make sure that not only did they enjoy the community or enjoy their schools, but did it in a safe, caring environment that built a bond, not only with them, but with their respect of men and women in the uniform it has been an honor to know you i wish you godspeed as you do one of the major commandments of serving and honoring thy father and thy mother so in this chapter enjoy it enjoy your family enjoy your time it is so well deserved and i'm sending you love and uh gratitude from over the seas i wish i was there to give you a big hug and kiss thank you so much thank you thank you god bless you

Along with what the mayor was saying as everybody's coming up, 25 years is a short time and it isn't a short time. Thank you, Officer Jackson, for giving up a quarter of your life for this city and for this, if we're lucky enough to live to 100 years, that's the time I'm giving us. So I want to thank him for 25 years is a very long time to dedicate to Hallandale Beach.

That's what I have to say about that.

Bring some people down here, Vice Mayor.

How you doing? Come on behind me.

Right here, baby. Turn sideways.

Here you go. Thank you.

Okay, one, two, three.

One of the men of the hour.

Thank you, Sean.

One more.

I'm a newspaper reporter.

We got you. Okay. One, two, three.

Fireman.

Stay there, stay there. Thank you.

Congratulations. Congratulations. You should take a picture with your officers.

I will.

Okay.

I will. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Ready for the next item, Vice President?

Yes, please. Item 6A, Police and Fire Pension Board Allen Miller Proclamation sponsored by Mayor Joey F. Cooper.

Mr. Miller? Okay. Mr. Miller, would you like to come? Is that your lovely wife? She can come also, whatever you like. Nope. Sorry the mayor couldn't be here this evening, but she is on the phone, so she's listening. Mayor, are you there?

Yes, thank you, Vice Chair.

Mr. Miller and his wife. Okay, good evening. Whereas Mr. Alan Miller, a certified public accountant, has served the city of Houndville Beach with distinction for over 35 years as both an appointed trustee and chairman of the Police and Fire Pension Board. having been selected by the city commission and later chosen by his fellow board members in recognition of his knowledge, leadership, and dedication. And whereas Mr. Miller has demonstrated unwavering dedication, professionalism, and integrity in fulfilling the fiduciary responsibilities entrusted to him as a member of the pension board throughout his decades of service. And whereas, throughout his tenure, Mr. Miller earned the trust and competence of his fellow board members through his commitment to sound governance and effective leadership. And whereas under Mr. Miller's leadership and during his years of service, the funding status of the police and fire pension plan improved significantly, with the most recent funding level exceeding 90%. And whereas Mr. Miller's many years of service reflect a long-lasting commitment to financial security and well-being of the city's police officers and firefighters, contributing to the long-term sustainability of the pension system. Now, therefore, I, Michelle Lazaro, Vice Mayor, and Joy F. Cooper, Mayor of the City of Houndville Beach, on behalf of the entire City Commission, do hereby proclaim June 22, 2026, as Allen Miller Day. Mayor, would you like to say anything before Mr. Miller does, or would you like to speak after?

He can say it. Well, let me say a few words, actually. I apologize. That's okay. First of all, Alan, I am so sorry I could not be there this evening. I've been very privileged to be invited to go to Israel. during this time for a municipal conference through the council general's office. But with that said, I thought it was quite important, and as I think back on the years that I served on the pension board, and the years that you have volunteered of your time and expertise, and how in that service you went through, and we all went through, whether it was the tech bubble, the housing bubble, the ups and downs of the market, the litigation between pensioners, battles with various consultants and debates for hours. The work of the pension board doesn't always go notice, but it is truly appreciated. And working with you and your expertise and your demeanor, really, I'm privileged to be having that, had that experience. I know I'm not on the board anymore, but to hear even the funding levels of over 90, that you have made the lives of not just the pensioners, the city, but every taxpayer with your hard work. And it is really fitting to be recognizing you for that volunteer work. And I want to personally wish you enjoyment and your retirement, thank your lovely wife who, with days and hours also not being able to have you at home, is truly appreciated and it was an honor to serve side by side with you on our pension board. Congratulations and enjoy your next chapter as well, sir.

Thank you.

Would you like to say anything, Mr. Miller?

Yeah. Looking back, I realized that I became involved with the Hounddale police and fire pension board in 1982. Wow. And I've been on the board for 44 years. Most, most of the time as chairman of the board, the board consists of two representatives from the city. a representative from the police department, and a representative from the fire department. And we've gone through a very large increase in the value of the fund. I think it was somewhere around $50 million when I got involved with it, and I think it's over $300 million today. Wow. And it's used to help fund the retirement requirements of all the retired police or firemen. I don't know what more to say. I got involved with the Hallandale Police and Fire Department, the board, When I lived in North Miami Beach and the member of the board, a member of the Hollywood Police and Pension Board asked for someone to volunteer to be on the Hallandale Police and being the fifth member on the board, there's no residence requirement. So I was a resident of North Miami Beach at the time, and I moved to Hallandale in 1987, 1988, and I lived there for about 17 years. and now I'm a resident of Boynton Beach in Florida. And I have to retire from the board because the traveling has gotten to be a little bit more than I really want to tolerate. And I want to thank the city of Hallandale for being so involved in our struggle to be, to make the fund grow.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you for your dedication and your benevolence. I mean, that's, I think, probably the longest volunteer in Hallandale's history, but thank you very much for ensuring that our men and women in uniform, both police and fire, are able to retire with a dignified and so I appreciate your service. I'm sure if my husband, Pablo Lima, if he wasn't working today, he'd be here and thank you himself as well. So thank you very much.

Thank you. He's not gonna come down and say anything, but Director Dodia is back there and the entire time he's been nodding his head for everything that you've been saying. So he's not gonna come up and say anything, but I wanted you to know he was in agreement with everything that was said here tonight.

Thank you.

Welcome. Come on up and take a picture. Thank you.

It's completely in the way.

We'll get you a train pass.

Thank you for lending your husband to us.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. That's a long community.

Yes, uh-huh. Next item, Vice Mayor. Item 6C, Parks and Recreation Month Proclamation. This is introduced by the Parks and Recreation Director.

No, didn't we just do a parks recently? No.

doing parks proclamations. I'm sorry, director.

Okay, is that it? All right.

Well, then you don't get enough recognition if it's only once a year. Where is everybody? Oh, my goodness. All of them? These are the ones that matter. These are the most important people. Whereas parks and recreation make a lasting impact on communities across the country, including the city of Hounddale Beach. Each July, we join in the nation in celebrating the parks and recreation professionals who work tirelessly to improve the lives of our community members. And whereas this year's theme, The Power Of, is a reminder of the power of parks and recreation, play, nature, community, belonging, and the people who make these experiences possible, Parks and recreation provide spaces where relationships grow, cultures meet, and communities bond, reflecting the power of connection. And whereas from playgrounds to programs to youth sports, play fuels creativity, joy, and lifelong learning, reflecting the power of play. Public spaces offer room for everyone to gather, celebrate, and heal, reflecting the power of the community. Access to nature restores, inspires, and improves quality of life reflecting the power of nature. And whereas welcoming parks and programs provide spaces where everyone feels valued reflecting the power of belonging. Parks and recreation advance health and resilience and shared community benefits reflecting the power of well-being. And whereas parks and recreation professionals make these experiences possible, the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month. The City of Hallandale Beach encourages community members to visit local parks and recreational spaces in July. Now, therefore, I, Vice Mayor Michelle Lazaro, and Joy F. Cooper, Mayor of the City of Hallandale Beach, on behalf of the City Commission, do hereby proclaim the month of July 2026 Parks and Recreation Month.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. I appreciate that very much. We do have some of our staff members here, if I can take the privilege of letting them introduce themselves. I'm Kathy Shantz. I've been your director for a little over 14 years.

Good evening, everybody. Delvin Patterson, assistant director of Parks and Rec.

Good evening, everyone. Jasmine Alicia, Parks and Rec superintendent. Good evening.

My name is Gabby.

I'm the lead lifeguard at BF James Pool.

Good evening. I'm Chantel Melvin. I've been here 24 years, 11 months, and 26 days.

And counting. Wow. I'm Robert, an irrigation technician.

Hold it up. Hold it up. Oh, I don't even know.

Yeah, that's it.

Corey Johnson. I've been here quite a long time. Assistant superintendent.

Hello, I'm Reginald Holloway, a proud Hollandale graduate and employee now.

Hello, Michael King, Parks and Rec.

Thank you very much. We did pass out a calendar to you, and we will have it posted online. We invite everyone to enjoy different activities throughout the month in all of our parks. It is the hottest time of year, but some of those activities are very cool. So we hope everyone will visit our parks all year long, but especially in the month of July. And the pool, of course. You can cool off at the pool, Gabby said.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Jen, can you hear me?

Oh, the mayor. Hi. Park staff is there. Can you hear me for a minute? I just wanted to thank them for their hard work on Sunday and throughout the year, but also on Friday with our Juneteenth event. It was really, really well done. And thank the community and the volunteers as well. Thank you. I was going to bring it up under other, but since staff was there, I figured I'd give them kudos.

Bring some people down here. Come on down. Hey, Chantel. I love you, my girl.

How are you, baby?

Corey, are you good?

Okay, we're good? Thank you. Thank you all.

This is the one.

Next item, Vice Mayor. The next item is under presentation, item 6D, a 10-year water supply facilities work plan presentation.

Thank you very much. Director LeBun, do you want to come and introduce your team?

Good afternoon, Commission. My name is Marlon LeBun with the Public Works Department. Today we have a presentation on the water supply plan. The presentation will be done by our consultant, Hazen Sawyer. Janae W. is the engineer who is leading that effort for us, and she's here to do the presentation for you.

Thank you. Janine Whitgrafie with Hazen and Sawyer. I was trying to make it easy, just a short name. Thank you for having us tonight. Let me just get used to this real quick. Tonight we're going to discuss the 10-year water supply facilities work plan for the city. We just recently presented this for planning and zoning. We'll go through the same agenda tonight. What is a water supply facilities work plan? How does that relate to the South Florida Water Management District Lower East Coast water supply plan update? And then what exactly is in Hallandale Beach's water supply facilities work plan? So a water supply facilities work plan is required by the Florida Statutes, Chapter 163, Part 2. It is the city's plan that documents how it will ensure adequate water supply to meet forecasted population growth in the future. Hazen and Sawyer, we serve as a consultant to the city. We completed the update to the water supply facilities work plan in February, 2026. And we have a summary of the key findings are presented in section three of the plan in particular. And we thank the city again for this work, thank you. This plan is related to what is called the Lower East Coast Water Supply Plan Update from the South Florida Water Management District. Every five years these are prepared and you can find it at this QR code if you scan this code. They issue updates to the Lower East Coast Plan every five years. The one that was issued in September 23, 2024 is the last version of the Lower East Coast Plan. It includes all of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade counties, and parts of Monroe County, Collier County, and Hendrick County. Once the plan is issued, every municipality is required to update their water supply facilities work plan and incorporate it into a comprehensive plan in approximately 18 months. Hazen and Sawyer prepared the water supply facilities work plan and another consultant, Corradino, completed the comprehensive plan amendments. The two consultants worked together to ensure that what was developed under the water supply facilities work plan fed into the comprehensive plan amendments. Hallandale Beach Water Supply Facilities Work Plan Update for 2026. This document defines the plan for future water supply and water treatment plant expansions to meet two goals. One of the first goals is that we have to transition to 100% membrane treatment. Membrane treatment uses more water than your current lime softening process. which treats approximately 50% of your water presently. So the transition to 100% membrane treatment to remove the PFAS from both the county supply and city supply was goal number one. And goal number two was to define the capital improvements that are required to meet the expected population growth. The city commission had us present back in January what our recommendations were for water supply and treatment plant capital improvements. That can be accessed by this QR code if anyone wants to refer to that previous presentation. The city's water service area includes all of Hallandale Beach and right now the projections are for a build out population of 60,600 in the year 2050, just within the constraints of Hallandale Beach. So right now the city operates a lime softening plant and a membrane plant at your existing water treatment plant. The lime softening plant, again, is older technology. It's been around since the 1950s. The city has done an incredible job of keeping the lime softening running, keeping it running at a very low cost, providing a very high quality water that meets all the primary and secondary drinking water standards from the US EPA, blending that water with the higher technology of membrane treatment, which is more expensive to run, but does remove more than what the lime softening removes. The existing lime softening plant has a treatment capacity of 10 million gallons per day, and the membrane plant has a treatment capacity of six MGD. Now, just because you have infrastructure constructed to treat 10 million gallons per day does not mean you can actually operate it to the full capacity, and that is because of raw water limitations that are imposed on you by the South Florida Water Management District. Similarly, with the 6 MGD skids from the membrane treatment, you alternate which skids you operate, you're not able to operate a full 6 MGD of membrane treatment because of your limitations in raw water. But you do have excellent installed infrastructure, 16 MGD presently. Right now, the water comes from the Biscayne Aquifer, which is 100 to 150 feet below surface. I have brought our professional geologist, Garrett Pullman, with us. So if you have any questions related to the aquifer, we'll direct those to him at the end of the discussion. But this is common for Broward County. You can see that the Biscayne Aquifer is below Broward County and is very easy to treat and has been treated for many, many years. You recently constructed production well number nine because you had the ability to get a permit because of some groundwater modeling that showed that even though The city is under the threat of saltwater intrusion. You may have a few more years before that happens, so it was a worthwhile investment to build that well and have that well ready to go. You also have the Broward County wells that come through a pipeline from Piccolo Well Field, the south regional Broward County supply. The water use permit that the city has allocates 4.03 MGD from the city wells. That was an increase when we were able to relocate and build production well number nine. We were able to increase the capacity from 3.5 MGD to 4.03 MGD. based on the groundwater modeling and the permitting with the district. The Broward County capacity has increased recently because of your participation in C-51. So you have 4.26 MGD that you can pull from Broward County. So together you can treat a total of 8.29 MGD through your existing plant. The Biscayne Aquifer is presently fully allocated. We will not be able to get any more water out of the Biscayne Aquifer. We did that under production law number nine, capped out, got to the limit. And so now we're looking at Florida aquifer water supply for the city. The city had previously investigated, do we partner with other utilities, nearby utilities? Do we purchase water? Do we move the wells to the west? We looked at moving to West Park. And the final decision was to go to the Florida aquifer, which is 1,000 or more feet below the surface. It does have a higher total dissolved solids and salinity that's greater than the fresh Biscayne aquifer. and it does require reverse osmosis treatment, a very high energy intensive process. The pressure to treat through the RO process is higher than for nanofiltration of the Biscayne aquifer, so it will be the most expensive treatment process. The current and future demands, the city has sufficient treatment capacity to meet the current demand based on your infrastructure already installed and your raw water limits, you can meet the current demand. The city decided to invest in 100% membrane to remove the PFAS from the water and discontinue the lime softening. So the city must design and construct Florida NOC for water supply and then the RO treatment skids in order to meet the future demand. In addition, we recommend that the city pursue additional emergency water interconnects to back up the city's water treatment plant during emergencies. You currently have the one with North Miami Beach, and I believe you're exploring one with the City of Hollywood as well. So when we talk about the 16 MGD capacity that you have, where is the city in that right now? You presently send out roughly six to seven MGD with certain max days of closer to nine MGD, but that's well within your infrastructure of 16 MGD. So that right now, again, the lime softening does not remove the PFAS and that will be removed and that 16 MGD installed capacity will decrease as a function of that. What do you need? We are forecasting that you need somewhere on the order of 12 to 13 MGD installed skids in the building, which you do have the ability to do because we did plan the original design. At the time that we designed your original facility, we had a concern that there would be a reduction in Biscayne aquifer allocation, there would be droughts. We called it drought proofing and we allowed for the installation of future RO skids. And now we are installing those RO skids. There's two 3MGD nanofiltration skids presently. We just completed the installation and the startup of one RO skid, which is flexible to treat either the Biscayne aquifer or the Floridan aquifer. We're in the design of a second RO skid, which again is able to treat the Biscayne aquifer or the Floridan aquifer. And then in the future, there'll be another skid. Depending on the results of the Floridan Aquifer well development, that skid will either be two to three MGD in size, depending on just how saline that water is in the Floridan Aquifer. be able to calculate that and calculate the brake horsepower of the pump that will be allowable based on that. So your future total water production will be 12 to 13 MGD. Again, enough for a redundant capacity during average day treatment, as well as being able to meet your maximum day treatment. SO THIS DOES REQUIRE SOME KEY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN PLANNED AND ARE ON YOUR BOOKS WITHIN YOUR CIP AND WITHIN YOUR BONDING REQUIREMENTS. THE SKIDS WE JUST TALKED ABOUT AS WELL AS DRILLING THE FLORIDA AND AQUA FOR WELLS. THEN ALONG WITH DRILLING THE WELLS YOU HAVE TO EQUIP THE WELLS WITH A PUMP. and you have to add a pipeline to get the floor knock for well water to the plant. And then a second disposal well was also identified in the CIP. There are ways to do other backup of your existing well besides building another well, but at the time of planning, it was the city decided to build a second disposal well so that you are, again, fully in charge of your own destiny. so these improvements along with other supporting improvements will ensure that the city can meet your customers water demands through the year 2050 through build out as we project to build out so the conclusion is that the city meets the current demand for water but must take proactive phased actions now to ensure reliable compliant and sustainable water supply for future growth Are there any questions?

I have one question. Thank you, great presentation. So the Lower East Coast Water Supply Plan, are there any other cities that are already taking water from the Floridan Aquifer today?

Yes, your neighbor, Hollywood, City of Hollywood, has been operating Florida aquifer wells for a number of years. They have several RO skids, and they balance their, they have multiple processes. So they have nanofiltration of the Biscayne, they have lime softening of the Biscayne, and they have RO of the Florida aquifer.

Okay, so they're similar to what we're...

Right. They're very similar. It's an excellent question. You know, we've looked at the quality of their Florida aquifer wells, and it's somewhere around the order of 4,000 to 5,000 milligrams per liter TDS. Yours may be similar. Yours may be different. That's why the drilling of your wells is very important to determine what the quality is, your raw water quality.

Is that good, that TDS measurement you just mentioned?

It's good in terms of it's low enough for us to treat with a reasonable horsepower measurement. So there are other locations within the state of Florida where the TDS has increased drastically, and it becomes very, very difficult to treat as far as having a large enough horsepower pump, and it becomes much more like desalination of seawater.

And is anybody else other than Hollywood, any other cities?

There are other cities, Garrett. That you know of? Deerfield Beach, up the road to Deerfield Beach. So it's not very common. Yeah.

And the Biscayne Aquifer is increasing in salinity. Is that correct?

So there's a saltwater front that is very slowly, we've talked about it for years, is very slowly moving under the wells in Hallandale Beach. And there are groundwater models that we've hired specialists to run in the past. We had them run when we permitted production well number nine. and it shows that where production well number line nine is located, there's some sort of hydrodynamic barrier from Shaves Lake that is helping to keep the toe of that saltwater front away. In theory, in model world, We have to see. But that's how the city made the decision at the time is the modeling was enough information to say that possibly that well is protected and it's worthwhile to make that investment. And again, it was a low expense investment to keep the city in the lime softening treatment, which is again, a low annual cost for lime softening treatment.

And the salinity issue with Biscayne, that doesn't impact the Floridan aquifer? Does that have the same issue? It doesn't increase in salinity over time?

So, Garrett, go ahead.

He's dying to jump up and tell you. Well, it came all the way down here.

Oh, it's a great, it's a great. Okay, so going back to your previous question about is the salinity good?

May you please state your name for the record?

Sure, Garrett Bowman with Hazen & Sawyer. Thank you. Hydrogeologist. Okay, so you asked if the water quality in the Upper Floridan was good. The water quality there is between 3,000 and 5,000 parts per million TDS. By comparison, that's about a tenth of seawater. So seawater's about 35,000, 36,000 parts per million. So it's a pretty huge gradient between the two. From the top of the Upper Floridan Aquifer at about 1,000 feet, there's a salinity gradient that goes all the way down to seawater when you get to about 3,000 feet. So you can have water quality that sort of creates upconing from over pumping, which is why the groundwater modeling that Janine was referring to is so important, because you can actually determine whether or not the rate of withdrawal is gonna cause a degradation of water quality over time. So what we'll do is we have the modeling already. We'll drill one well and test it and determine from the hydraulic parameters the exact spacing between a second well and what rates are sustainable for pumping.

Thank you. I appreciate you explaining that. Thanks very much. Great presentation.

Thank you.

That's all I got. Thank you. Thank you. It's not every day we get to talk to a hydrogeologist, so thank you for coming down.

What are they called? A hydrogeologist, wow.

That's good stuff. All right. We need it.

We need it. In case you were wondering, cocktail parties, what to talk about. Okay. Moving on. Motion to approve draft minutes. Is that where we are?

Motion to approve.

Do I have a second?

A second.

Just, Madam Vice Mayor, if I may, before we proceed. Item 6E, we're skipping it only because that was a repeat of the workshop, just for the record.

Yeah, I don't think, do we need to do, did you want to do it again for any particular reason? Anybody in here?

Moving on. Roll call for minutes. Commissioner Adams. Yes. Commissioner Limatop. Yes. Mayor Cooper. Yes.

Yeah, wait, I'm here. Yes. For minutes, yes? Wait, I wasn't sure if I was muted still, so I had to check.

Go ahead, I'm here. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Butler?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Lazaro? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you.

Consent agenda? Yes, please. Motion to approve. Can we pull item, I think it's B, please? Yes. I just want to have it read into the record.

HB isn't void?

I think it's HB. Yes. Okay. Please.

Motion to approve item A through J. Second. Except B.

Second.

Roll call. Yes. Commissioner Butler.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Lazaro. Yes. Mayor Cooper. Yes. Yes. Commissioner Lima top. Yes. Commissioner Adams. Yes. Motion carries five zero item eight B may I proceed? Vice mayor. Yes, please. A resolution of the city of Holland, the beach, Florida relating to the city stormwater utility fees, providing for collection of such stormwater utility fees as non at the lower mass assessments on the annual property tax bill, estimating the stormwater management service costs to be funded by the non at the lower assessments. In the fiscal year commencing in October 1st, 2026, describing the method of calculating the stormwater non-advalorem assessments, directing preparation of a preliminary non-advalorem assessment rule, establishing a public hearing to consider collection of the stormwater utilities fees as non-advalorem assessments, directing the provision of notice and certain other matters in the connection therewith, and providing an effective date.

Yeah. Okay. Somebody wants to make the motion. No, you pull. That's fine. Somebody make the motion. That's fine.

To do what? Nothing.

I just wanted it right into the record. Okay.

That's all I wanted.

Wait, can I, wait, hello. Can I ask a question? Yes. We just got noticed on the meeting date for this in June 29th for a public meeting. How are residents getting noticed on this? Is that enough turnaround? Because I was curious if we would put it in their utility billing to make sure people were well aware.

Well, somebody is making their way down. Sorry.

Thanks. I'm sorry.

That's okay. Don't be sorry.

You didn't mean to interrupt. City manager. It was timely to the item I was going to ask under other votes.

City manager, if you would.

Good afternoon, Gio Nesti, finance director. We have an information session on Monday. We have a few, I think one in the middle of the day and then one in the afternoon. We did post on social media. We're also sending out postcards, concentrating more on the non-residential accounts, which are the ones most impacted by this change. And then we're also going to have some remote sessions as well in July. So we'll be sending out postcards as well to inform everyone.

So a postcard was sent already focused on commercial property?

Those should be starting to go out tomorrow. But we did post on social media today.

Okay. All right. I'm just hoping with the mail and stuff, it's a little sketchy. We're lack of better explanation to make sure that we, um, that people are are timely noticed. You know, so I don't know if there's anybody else that shares that concern. But, um, as long as we're doing it more than once, and maybe we could do it in the utility bill.

We also have on Friday, we have boots on the ground distribution to the businesses as well that are most impacted.

Oh, thank you. Thank you for that. Yeah, I'm sorry.

We had a presentation.

No worries.

Consultants here. Anything else?

Yeah. I just don't want to be jammed up in the back thinking, well, I didn't know or I didn't hear. So thank you so much for your diligence. Thank you, Vice Chair. You're welcome.

So we have also the increase in the stormwater fees as well that we're increasing by 12% a year for the next 10 years, is that right? So that item is going to come back to us on an annual basis for review?

Yeah, so the item before you is the initial resolution, like the not to exceed amount. And then in August and September, we'll have our... presentations and public hearing to discuss. Okay, good.

I just want to make sure that we get a chance to review this on an annual basis, because it does increase significantly over the 10-year period. Yeah, that's it, exactly.

And this was one of the reasons that I wanted to pull the item. I don't need to see the presentation.

We already had this.

I mean, we're not taking any action. We're like, wait...

it's it's it's up to you i mean it's yeah my consultants here uh we got we we received the feedback uh may 20th and it was just an update as to you know what we did with that feedback and then kind of laying out the timeline of you know the different meetings and hearings yeah the consultant from stantec was here presented this exact

I thought it was the same increase and I had the same concerns about making sure that we get to look at this on an annual basis because it does represent a tax increase for the residents and I want to review that on an annual basis.

And that's why I thought it was important to at least read into the record and sort of reiterate or explain, not just have it in the consent agenda.

The 10 years is a projection.

As a projection, it's not a guarantee. I mean, we're not approving a 10-year increase. We're using that as a projection, which will come back year over year. Is that what you were saying?

Yeah, okay. That's what I was just reading.

Okay, that's fine.

Reaffirming, reconfirming.

No, I'm just making sure there's no confusion about the resolution that's tonight. So this is the initial assessment resolution for the stormwater, right? So everyone's clear on that. So you'll have a second reading of this September 15th, but you have to adopt this tonight in order to be able to timely get it on the property tax bill.

Perfect.

Well, thank you. It'll be a separate resolution. Yes.

Thank you for that, city attorney. Okay, so motion to approve. I'll second it.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Lazaro. Yes. Commissioner Lima-Taub. Yes. Mayor Cooper. Yes. Commissioner Adams. Yes. Commissioner Butler. Yes. Motion carries 5-0.

Thank you guys for coming back.

Thank you. Ordinances on first reading item 9A, an ordinance of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of Hollandville Beach, Florida, amending section 1 through 13 and all elements thereof of the city's adopted a comprehensive plan to incorporate revisions identified through the city's evaluation and appraisal report EAR review in the 10-year water supply facilities work plan 2026 update. pursuant to section 163.3191, Florida Statute, providing for a transmittal of the Comprehensive Plan, text amendments pursuant to chapter 163, Florida Statute, providing for conflict, providing for severability, providing for an effective date. This is first reading. Madam Vice Mayor, just for the record, there's no one signed up for this item.

Okay, do I have a motion?

There's no one wishing to speak on this item?

I think there's a staff presentation. I'm sorry.

It's a public hearing, so is anybody coming forward to speak on this item?

No, seeing nobody approach, I'll open and close the public hearing.

Okay, is that okay? Motion is in order. Are you speaking on this item? No. Oh, okay, come on.

But if you want to speak, you can speak to the city clerk.

Yeah, if you have something that you want to speak on, you can talk to the clerk. Okay.

So motion to approve.

Yeah. Second.

Commissioner Adams. Yes. Commissioner Butler.

Yes.

Commissioner Lima-Topp. Yes. Vice Mayor Lazzaro. Yes. Mayor Cooper. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item. Item B. An ordinance of the mayor and the city commission of the city of Hollandville Beach, Florida, amending Chapter 32, Zoning and Land Development Code, specifically amending Article 3, Zoning Divisions 2, Zoning Districts and Overlays, Section 32-155CF, Community Facility Districts purpose and intent uses permitted conditionally and the site development standards of the community facility district, providing for severability, providing for conflict, providing for codification, providing for an effective date. This is first reading.

Motion to approve.

Second. Open to public.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Sorry, can you take care of it, city clerk?

I'm sorry. Anyone wishing to speak on this item? Seeing none, we're now closing public speaking. Motion?

Yeah. So moved.

Second.

Thank you. Commissioner Butler.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Lazarus.

Yes.

Mayor Cooper. Yes. Commissioner Lima-Tobbs. Yes. Commissioner Adams. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item. Ordinances on second reading and public hearing, item 10A. In Ordinances of the Mayor and the City Commission of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida, amending the adopted budget for fiscal year 2025-26 to reflect the revenues, expenditures, appropriations, and other miscellaneous budget adjustments, providing for conflict, providing for serability, and providing for an effective date. This is second reading. Item was adopted on June 10th, 2026, and a five-zero roll call vote.

open and close the public hearing. This is a public hearing. If there's anybody who would like to speak on this item, please approach. Seeing nobody, can I close the public? I'm looking out for you guys. I know what you're here for. Don't worry. That's what I was talking to the attorney about. Sorry. Seeing nobody approach, I'll open and close the public meeting hearing. Can you give us a roll call, please? Need a motion.

Motion to approve.

Sorry.

Second. All right.

Vice mayor Lazaro. Yes. Commissioner Lima top. Yes. Mayor Cooper. Yes. Commissioner Adams. Yes. Commissioner Butler.

Yes.

Motion carries five zero. Next item. Item 10 B. Yes. An ordinance of the mayor and the city commission of the city of Hallandale Beach, Florida, amending the city of Hallandale Beach adopted comprehensive plan, future land use element part 2.3, permitted uses in future land uses categories, subpart A's residential use to provide for dashed line areas as authorized in the Broward County land use plan, amending the future land use map to change the designation of 17.5 net acres from commercial recreation to commercial recreation. recreation, and irregular residential within a dashed line area, allowing maximum density of 13.03 dwelling units per net acre, providing for transmittal of the comprehensive plan amendment pursuant to Chapter 163, Part 2, Florida Statute providing for terminal of the map, amendment to the Broward County Planning Council, providing for... certification by the Barrett County Planning Council, providing for conflict, providing for surability, and providing for an effective date. This is a second reading. This is a quasi-judicial item. The item was adopted on March 4th, 2026 on a 4-0 roll call vote. This matter is quasi-judicial and there are certain guidelines which we must follow during this hearing. Deputy City Attorney, please outline the process.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. The city is considering the named applications for this project, which are being treated as quasi-judicial in nature. The commission must base its decision on the legal criteria that's detailed in the city code and which are hereby incorporated into the record, along with the cover memo and all of the exhibits. Your decision tonight must be based on substantial competent evidence. Substantial competent evidence is evidence that a reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support a conclusion. Public sentiment alone is not considered evidence. All the facts raised by members of the public may be considered and addressed by the parties. The city will present its summary of the applications and then the applicant will present its case or may wait presentation and make themselves available for questions. Members of the public should be allowed to speak for three minutes each. Because we have to follow rules of due process that allow the parties to respond and provide evidence, members of the public will not get a second opportunity to speak. The city and the applicant will get an opportunity to address the comments, and the commission may then ask questions of staff, the applicants, or the sworn experts. Once all questions are closed, there can be no further comments from any parties. Just to confirm with the applicant that there are less than five commissioners present, we would like to know the mayor is only on the phone and is not participating in the quasi-judicial item. Would you like to proceed with the hearing? And if so, that decision is not revocable.

Thank you. Keith Polycarp for the applicant. We will proceed.

All right. Thank you. Madam Clerk, I think we're ready to pull.

Thank you. Commissioner Adams, have you had any expertise communication with the applicant objector or anyone on this matter?

No, sir.

Thank you. Commissioner Butler, have you had any expertise communications with the applicant objector or anyone on this matter?

I have not.

Uh, vice mayor last year, have you had any expertise communications with the applicant objector or anyone on this matter? No, I have not. Commissioner Lima top. Have you had any expertise communication with the applicant objector or anyone on this matter? I have not. Thank you. All individuals intending to testify this hearing, please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that your testimony on this matter will be the truth and nothing but the truth. If so, please state. I do. Thank you. Vice mayor.

So how do we go about this?

Because we're gonna want to see the presentation on behalf of staff.

Yeah, I believe staff has a presentation and the applicant may have a presentation as well. So if you are ready, or you can wait.

Okay, I have members of the public, did they sign up?

No one signed up officially. Is anyone wanting to speak on this item?

So that's why I don't know. They do. Okay. I don't want to call them out. They. So would you prefer to wait? Yeah, come up and fill out a card, Mr. White. Do you want us to make the presentation or do you want to just speak to the item? Okay. Okay. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, Steve. I'm waiting for them. I don't know what's going on. Yeah, they want to see it. That's why I'm doing it, okay?

Good evening, Stephen Williams, Assistant Director for the Department of Sustainable Development. So tonight we have the second reading of our, this is the wrong presentation.

Oh, sorry.

That one, yes.

So this is the second reading of the Shell Bay Dash Line area application. The property is identified here with the zoning map. The applicant is Matisse Diplomat Owner, LLC. The location is 501 Diplomat Parkway. The property is currently zoned Commercial Recreation Passive and Planned Overlay District. So the request is a comprehensive plan amendment to amend the city's future land use element to provide a dash line area to allow for a maximum residential density within the boundaries as authorized by Broward County and also is requesting a future land use map amendment To change the designation of 17.5 net acres of the shell Bay property from commercial recreation to commercial recreation and irregular residential with the dash line area. Um, so a little background on March 2nd, 2016, the city commission approved the diplomat project, um, which is what it was known as at the time, which included 250 residential units, um, and tower 100 or the slate building. Um, and also a mix of hotel, um, units and the towers identified on the screen as well as the Marina and four single family residential homes. On January 22nd, 2025, the city commission approved the PDO amendment reducing tower 200 from 30 stories to 21 stories and decreasing the number of hotel units from 374 to 108 keys and eliminated the 12,775 square foot conference center. So that was an amendment to the actual building. And then on January 13th, 2026, the Planning and Zoning Board recommended approval of the comprehensive plan that you have before you tonight by a vote of five to zero. I believe the first reading of this application was March 4th, thank you. So the current regulations, neither the existing CRP zoning district or commercial recreation land use designation currently permit residential uses. City zoning regulations restrict hotel stays to 90 days. Under Broward County's comprehensive plan, hotel and condo hotel units must be available for transient occupancy for a significant majority of the year. Otherwise, it's classified as residential. So the applicant's proposal is Tower 200 to operate the 108 hotel keys for longer stays than currently allowed. by the city and the county regulations reduced in 2015 by 266 hotel keys. So this is the tower that recently had the reduction. Tower 300 was eliminated. Tower 400 was reduced. They reduced the number of hotel keys from 252 to 120. And that building would also be operated as an extended stay. So the red outline on the green map shows the area of the dashed line area. That is the only location where the residential units can occur. And this map shows the buildings that would have the residential units, the portions of that property. So the overall impact on public service levels, there would be a decrease in traffic of 356 peak AM hours and 127 PM peak hour trips. And there's also a decrease in water and wastewater service demand based on these amendments. So staff recommends approving this item with second reading. It has been transmitted to the county and the state and we have received no comments about the application.

Madam Clerk, any public speakers?

Yes, Mr. Eric White. Mr. White, before we proceed, did you stand up to be sworn in? Yes. Okay. If you may please step to the podium, state your name and the city you reside for the record.

My name is Eric White. I'm a resident of Hallandale Beach. Do you swear or affirm that your testimony in this matter will be the truth and nothing but the truth?

If so, please state, I do.

Yes, I do. Thank you, sir. I just have a question about, there was nothing in the material that was sent out

about this project that showed the exact locations of where these buildings are going to be. It showed sort of an amorphous outline of the area that will be included, but I would just like to know, as a neighbor right next door to the golf course, where the properties are going to be located, and will they go directly out to Diplomat Parkway in terms of traffic, or will there be another egress for them, although I don't see how that could be without killing the golf course.

Thank you. Okay, we're going to let our Development Services Department address it. Thank you for coming. Nice to see you guys.

So this application is not actually approving building or development. The building has already been approved. It's not constructed yet, but it's already been approved. It's under construction, correct?

Well, that's one tower that's under construction. Correct, there's one tower that's under construction. So we're having two towers, right? They've all been approved already. Right, but he wanted to know location.

Yeah.

Yeah, can you pull up the... Well, he's saying that there was an outline on the map, but that wasn't sufficient. I mean, I'm just... Well, I don't know if we can go any more specific than that at the moment, but... Go ahead. You want to put it up?

Can you make it full screen? Yeah.

That one. That one.

So these blue areas are locations of towers that have already been approved. So all this application is doing is changing the use of those towers to allow for residential instead of the hotel.

so sorry excuse me so what was once a hotel condo will now be full-time resident i mean hotel residential it will now be full-time residential so they would have the ability to do that that that's not even being approved right now right now they have to come back to the city for the agreement yes okay so the towers have already been approved they already know where they're going They want to know specifically where on the map so here the maps not really delineating the yellow is DeSoto waterway. Where are we looking at?

I think the yellow is part of the is that Parkview?

Is that Parkview Drive? How do we know which side this is on? That's the question. Okay.

Yeah, so... There it is. Yeah, so it's on... It's where the golf course developed.

Okay, so the tower that they're building right now is on the same footprint of what was once the spa and the hotel. That's where the tower's going. There's another tower, I believe, that's going on the other side towards Atlantic Shores.

I believe those are the two.

Yeah, there's not a building going up next to the duo, if that's what you're asking. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, because you can't do both now. We can't go back and forth. So whatever the questions were, they needed to be asked, and I don't know if we're answering them, but we can answer. This is not being approved. This is just an amendment, so we can have a conversation again later. But the buildings have already been approved. We're not going to be moving them or changing them, but we'll give you the information as it comes up, right? Yes. Am I okay?

Yes.

Did I say that right?

Yes. Go ahead. I think Commissioner Butler has a question. Go ahead.

No, I just, the other thing I just wanted to emphasize, you mentioned about traffic, so one of the things that this also does tonight, and it's on the screen, is they're actually reducing what they want from the city, so they're actually reducing the amount of traffic that we'll have, and the estimate, I'm sorry.

That was a previous application that was approved by the commission, where they reduced the height and the number of keys.

Yeah, there was something tonight that said that the impact, the analysis here at the bottom, It says that it's a decrease in traffic of 356 a.m. peak hours. So, no, it's not that page. It's the analysis, so maybe the next page. Yeah, right there at the bottom. So I just think it's important to note that the proposed amendments that they're asking for actually reduces, right?

They previously reduced them, yes.

They previously, so tonight is not a reduction, it's just a change in the use of the existing reduction.

It allows them to ask for a change in the use. They have not requested that change yet.

I got it, I got it.

This is the ask before the ask.

Yeah, but I just, one of the things I just want to make sure, Mr. White, so thank you so much for coming in. But this developer has come back to the city many times since the original approval for five towers and reduced what they've asked for. And so we're down now to, what, three towers, I think, from five, the original five? Is that right? Yeah, so, I mean, yeah, they've been very, they've been a great developer for the city, working with us to try to reduce what the impact could be. And based on what they were actually awarded, they've actually continued to bring down what they've asked for. So I just wanted you to be aware that they didn't need to come back to us and decrease the number of keys that they had or the intensity of what they could have built had they wanted to. They had the approval to do that already. As far as the exit, so I don't know if we want to talk about how people are actually exiting the development, so I don't know if you want to talk about the traffic, because that was, I think, one of the questions that she had about.

Keith Polikoff, and for the record, Ari Pearl, the owner, showed up. Mr. White, we'll be happy to meet with you outside.

Connor is here, give you a cell phone number.

Any questions you have, we'll always be willing to meet with neighbors to explain it to them. Commissioner Butler, you're 100% correct. There's a massive reduction. We're going from 710 units to the 200 and change units. The traffic is tremendously reduced. Access is already on Diplomat. It's previously been approved on Diplomat. It's maintaining on Diplomat, but the number of trips have been reduced. tremendously yeah um so we thank you for your support the state approved it already uh so we're almost at our last uh steps in finalizing this process yeah the project looks great and and i don't know if mr white if you've noticed if you and your wife have noticed the landscaping along that diplomat parkway is fantastic right

One of my favorite places to walk in the morning because it's shaded by the buildings there. But thank you so much for coming in today. And I think, like you've just heard, they'll be happy to spend more time to explain anything or answer any questions that you have.

To Vice Mayor and Commissioners, just procedurally, so we're all on the same page. This is the amendment to the comp plan, right, to establish that dashed line area. There's a companion piece, which is the land development regulation amendment. So that will be coming to you subsequently for approval. But this is just the first, well, the second piece of that first step, which is the comp plan amendment.

Thank you. Mr. White, if you have any questions, you certainly can call me. You have my phone number. You know how to reach me. Nice to see you, Iris. Okay. Okay. So if there's no other presentations or questions from commission, is there a motion on the application for rezoning?

Motion to approve?

Well, motion.

Not quite a reason. Do you need the, I don't have the wording, so.

Well, here, it says motion on the application.

Yes, motion on the application. I got it.

So motion to approve with the findings and conditions as stated in the ordinance. Second.

Commissioner Adams. Yes. Commissioner Butler. Yes. Commissioner Lima-Topp. Yes. Vice Mayor Lazaro. Yes. Mayor Cooper is absent. Motion carries 4-0.

Next item? Yes, please.

Was that judicials closed?

For the record, I'm here. I just can't vote. For the people that are in the audience.

What'd she say?

She just said she's here, but she couldn't participate.

Item 11A, a resolution of the mayor of the city... A resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of Hollandale Beach, Florida, making certain findings and designating the real property located at 918 South Federal Highway, Hollandale Beach, Bower County, Florida, 33009, parcel ID numbers 5142280000. 2 0 5 1 4 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 5 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 5 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 8 0 and 5 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 8 2 as it shaves lake green reuse area pursuant to section 376.802b. Florida statute for the purpose of rehabilitation, job creation and promoting economic redevelopment authorizing the city clerk to notify the Florida Department of Environmental Protection of said designation providing an effective date. This item is a second reading. It was adopted on June 10th, 2026 and a five zero roll call vote.

Thank you very much.

I believe we have a presentation. City manager, sorry.

Sure, but first, city attorney, do we need to talk about the Scrivener's error or are we good in terms of the address?

Yes, it has been corrected. So just so we're clear, there was a correction to the title of this resolution between first and second. It had a Scrivener's error with regard to the address. So the title is just read by the city clerk reflects the correction of that Scrivener's error. I will point for the record that the parcel ID numbers were all correct. Nothing has changed with the parcel ID numbers, but this has already been publicly noticed and published in the paper.

Thank you.

So this is the creation of a brownfield area for the Shaves Lake property. This will allow us to do many things, go after grants and other sources of funding. And we have the Michael Goldstein law firm who is here tonight.

Welcome. Welcome.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of the commission, city staff. My name is Brett Brummond. I'm with the Goldstein Environmental Law Firm. We were engaged by the city to assist with this process that will help rehabilitate the Shaves Lake Park area. So we're here at the second and final of two public hearings on this proposed resolution that would create the Shaves Lake Green Reuse Area pursuant to Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Act. And what this designation will do is allow the city to pursue state-based cleanup incentives and liability protection through the Florida Brownfields Program. And what we're going through now, this process, is really just a procedural step that will allow the city to enter into a voluntary cleanup agreement with Broward County called a Brownfield Site Rehabilitation Agreement, or a BISRA. So the property is seven parcels, approximately 32.35 acres. Most of those parcels are surface water and submerged land with a few upland parcels. The property was historically used as a construction and demolition landfill and borrow pit starting in about the 1940s. There may have also been some yard waste disposed there over time. We have several contaminants of concern that are all in soil. and are fairly common for a site like this, including arsenic, total recoverable petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and dioxins or furans. And some of these contaminants may be associated with an old trash incineration operation that was happening nearby in the past. There are some contaminants in surface water as well, including some mercury, aluminum phthalates, and some PFAS, which you heard about earlier today in the water supply presentation. So the Florida Brownfields program, it encourages cleanup and reuse of environmentally challenged sites. It was created back in 1997 by the legislature as a tool for local governments, both to encourage private developers to take on those responsibilities for contamination they did not cause, but also local governments are able to participate in the program as well and use the same incentives that private developers are. It has been used three times so far in the city of Hollandale Beach, including a property located at the very southern end of the lake. Now this is the city's first opportunity to use it for a city-owned property on a city project. So the program encourages the cleanup and reuse of environmentally challenged lands through several specific incentives that are provided by the state that come at no additional cost to the city. The first and the hallmark of the program are the financial incentives. The voluntary cleanup tax credit can offset or will offset the city's eligible assessment and cleanup costs. I'll touch on this in a moment, but these are tax credits that can be sold on the secondary market for cash that comes back to the city. These are not a grant, so the city would spend the money first, then apply to the state afterwards for that partial reimbursement of the eligible cost every single year that costs are incurred. The program also provides a regulatory pathway for the cleanup through that Brownfield site rehabilitation agreement with Broward County. Broward County would remain the primary environmental regulatory agency that oversees the work. And the agreement would also provide some very limited liability protections that would protect against third-party claims for property damage, injunctive relief, and cost recovery. And through a recent amendment in the Florida Brownfields Redevelopment Act, local governments that have not caused or contributed to environmental contamination at the site after July 1st, 2025 are eligible to participate in the program. And now that hallmark of the Brownfields program is the voluntary cleanup tax credit. And the way this works is there are two categories of tax credits that would be available to the city. They come in the form of a state corporate income tax credit, which of course the city cannot use, but they can be sold after they're received from the state. There's an annual site rehabilitation tax credit that is based on up to $1 million in costs every year, and that clock resets every calendar year. The tax credit would be 50% of those costs which means a maximum tax credit of $500,000 per year that comes back to the city. There's also a cleanup completion bonus tax credit that's available one time after Broward County issues a conditional site rehabilitation completion order based on a maximum of $2 million. That tax credit is 25% of up to $2 million, so a maximum of $500,000 tax credit at the end of the process. So the designation process is governed by Section 376.80 of the Florida Statutes, which is the Brownfields Redevelopment Act. And the legislature created a simplified designation process for designations that are recommended or proposed by the local government. And within that simplified process is an even more simple process for designations of property located within an existing economic development district like a CRA, which this property is located within. So the designation for a CRA property, a property located within the CRA simply requires notice through publication, conduct two public hearings, and then adopt that resolution that we're considering on our second public hearing today. And that designation is required before you can reach the step of entering into that Brownfield site rehabilitation agreement with Broward County. And then finally to close, What this action would do by approving this resolution would help the city manage the environmental conditions of this long impacted site, significantly reduce the city's cleanup costs, protect the public, and support the recreational use of this property. It also will attract state funds to this project, in one way competing with other developers and other local governments across the state to bring in these funds to reduce your cleanup costs and ultimately turn this back into a useful asset for the city and its residents. And with that, I'm available to answer any questions. Thank you.

Commissioner Butler.

Thanks. I do have three questions. So did you, thank you very much. First of all, I know you've been here for two hours. Thanks for hanging out and listening to all of our earlier meetings. So did I hear you say that the city has had two brownfield sites previously in the city? Yes, three actually.

Three already. I had no idea. Two on Federal Highway. One is the Atlantic Village 3 site. Another was Gulfstream Point, I believe was its name. And then the third is the Shaves Lake Apartments on the south end of the lake.

So those three were previously designated as brownfield sites? Correct, yes. And then those went through the process to get cleaned up and received certification from the county so that they could redevelop them?

Yes, yes, Commissioner. All three are subject to Brownfield site rehabilitation agreements. I'm not aware of the status of the Gulfstream Point project, but Atlantic Village 3 is fully built out, and I believe the Shaves Lakes Apartments site is fully built out.

That's great. I didn't know that. And then you said something about you have to stop polluting the area by July 1st in order to receive the credits from the state. Did I hear that right?

That is the eligibility threshold for a local government site because the program is designed for parties who have not caused the contamination. You can't come clean up your own mess. However, the legislature made an exception for local governments. Thinking about local governments may have contracted with somebody who used the site, say, to spray pesticides over time. So the legislature created an exception to extend that eligibility window to local governments. So we have until July 1st.

Yeah, but it's not us. Yeah, no, we're not committing to it. I'm going to ask the city attorney about that when you're done. Sorry.

I was going to say, we can pollute until July 1st.

We're not the ones that are polluting it. We're not the ones that are polluting it.

Yeah, I know. And then the last question was, so on the credits that we got, so on the first credit, not the closeout credit, the first credit, that credit is something we can apply for annually until we've gotten the Broward County closeout

Yes, if you enter into your Brownfield site rehabilitation agreement, say even by December 30th of this year, you can claim all of your assessment costs starting January 1st of 2026. And every year you have cost, you would submit another application. The application cycle, it is a strict calendar year cycle. So the application for 2026 costs would be due to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection by January 31st of 2027. And you'll do that every single year until work is done.

Are those typically funded? You do typically get funding if you apply?

Yes, yeah, the legislature has approved, they recently increased the allocation from $10 million to $35 million statewide, so those funds, those tax credits are always available, and it's a government process, it's an administrative decision by the state, so they'll issue the tax credits, and they can be challenged after the fact, so it's a solid process.

And that state, are there also federal dollars available that you're aware of?

There may be federal funds for the federal Brownfields program. They typically assist with technical assistance. They'll provide grants. It'll come in the form of grants. So they provide technical assistance. They will sometimes fund actual cleanup obligation or opportunities, but it's typically a more efficient process to go at it on your own and receive the partial reimbursement. The state also does have some grants available that help with actual cleanup as well.

Great, thanks. Great presentation. Appreciate it.

No. Motion to approve.

Do we need a motion, yeah?

Public hearing.

This is a public hearing, and you do need a motion to adopt the resolution. This resolution will then go up to the state to complete that process. Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry, Brett.

One more thing, if the resolution's approved and the letter is sent to the state with a copy of the resolution, the next step would be that Brownfield site rehabilitation agreement, so I believe that would come back before you once that agreement is fully vetted by Broward County's Attorney's Office. Got it, great.

City Manager, I just wanted to ask you, we had determined that it was runoff from, is that runoff still continuing?

So you have some runoff, but what Mr. Berman was talking about was also some of the historical contamination on the site that's no longer occurring every day. It happened years ago. So that's really what we're trying to fix.

Okay, so we stop that. Okay, no problem. Okay, good. So this is, thank you very much. This is a public hearing. If there's anyone who'd like to speak on this item, please come forward now. Seeing nobody approached, I'll entertain a motion. You have a motion.

Second.

Commissioner Butler?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Lazaro? Yes. Mayor Cooper? Yes. Commissioner Limitao? Yes. Commissioner Adams?

Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Hanging in there like a champ, Mayor.

Only three more meetings to go.

Hang in there.

Yeah, really?

Next item, item 12A, a resolution of the Mayor's City Commission of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida, establishing the proposed military rate, establishing the proposed rate for the debt obligation.

Oh, I'm signing off now. Okay. Good night, Mayor.

Just when it's getting good? All right.

Good night, Mayor. Good night. No, I'm not. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm just joking.

You had your chance.

Okay, go ahead, Janorjan.

Establishing the proposed rate for the debt obligation for the parks and recreation general obligation, GO bond, three islands non-advalorant assessment rate, fire assessment non-advalorant rate, and lot maintenance assessment non-advalorant rate for the fiscal year 2026-2027 and setting the date, time, and place of public hearings to consider the proposed rate and proposed budget and providing for an effective date.

Thank you. City Manager, do you have anything?

Thank you very much, Vice Mayor, Director Mazzei. This is just our millage, and we're asking for approval.

The same as last year.

Natasha Mazzei, Budget and Program Monitoring Director. Yes, the millage rate for the operating millage, we're planning to set that at the maximum millage at 7.3848, debt millage at 0.3445.

That's not the maximum. That's the maximum we're going to set. That is correct. We could reduce it later. Yes, we can.

You can reduce it, but you can't set it any higher in September. That is correct.

Is that okay with this commission?

Yeah, motion to approve.

Yeah. Did you want to just acknowledge the dates for the first and second public hearing?

Yes, hold on one second. The dates for the first hearing for the setting of the adopted millage will be September 14th, 2026 at 5.05 p.m. Fire assessment hearing will be on September 14th, 2026 at 5.10 p.m. Maintenance hearing will be on September 14th, 2026 at 5.15 p.m. Three Islands hearing will be on September 14th, 2026 at 5.15 p.m. at 400 South Federal Highway, Honolulu Beach, Florida, 33009. Very nice.

Thank you. Motion to approve?

I have a motion.

Second. Vice Mayor Lazaro? Yes. Commissioner Limital? Yes. Mayor Cooper? Yes. Commissioner Adams? Yes. Commissioner Butler? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you. The next item is to be deferred for the next meeting August 5th. Okay.

Communications, Commissioner Adams? Yes.

No, I don't have nothing to say.

Commissioner Butler?

No, no communications tonight. Thank you.

Commissioner Taub? No. No. And for myself, everybody, have a nice July. We'll see you in August, and have a good month. That's it for me. City Manager? Mayor? Oh, I'm sorry, Mayor. Okay, good. Well, we're only allowing two. You do not.

No, I'm only joking. I wanted to thank you. Great job, Vice Chair and Vice Mayor, and have a great holiday season, guys. Happy July 4th, and Godspeed. Good night, y'all.

Thanks, Joy. Mayor, sorry. City Manager? Oh, I'm sorry, City Attorney?

None for tonight on this meeting.

She's doing a great job, by the way. We're glad to have you here. Wish we could have you more often, but don't tell, Marion always said that. City Manager?

Yes, just one quick announcement. Thank Charles Casimir for his service to the city of Hellandale Beach with our roadway projects, our water projects, our lift stations. Charles has just done a tremendous job in helping us move things forward. He will be missed. I believe tomorrow is his last day. So Charles, enjoy your retirement. And obviously, we lose some good people like Charles and Officer Jackson tonight. It's very bittersweet, but we wish them well on the next leg of their journey.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, City Manager. Yeah, we'll miss you, Charles. Okay, motion to adjourn?

The City Commission meeting.

Correct. Thank you. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yes? Well, we're coming up to that now. That's okay.

That's okay.

We have three more. I wasn't joking. We're coming up to CRA now.

Are we doing CRA? Yes.

Okay, CRA.

They've been waiting a long time.