Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

City officials in Hialeah outlined updates on the upcoming fiscal year, including water bill reductions, infrastructure improvements, and public safety investments without tax increases.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning & Zoning
Meeting Type
Planning & Zoning
Location
Hialeah, FL
Meeting Date
September 15, 2026

Transcript

20 sections

0:08 – 0:25Speaker 3

Hello. It's on. Hello. Does anyone want to turn on the microphone? Good.

0:27Speaker 2

Mundo, thank you! Thank you for coming! Sorry for the delay, I wanted to say hello to you!

0:34Speaker 1

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you!

0:40 – 8:07Speaker 3

Everything we managed to do during the last 9 months that we are doing for the next fiscal year. This happened about a week ago and it is about the reduction of 25% of the homes and small businesses in the city of Ialea. I'll say it again in English. This is something that we are doing and that will concern the vast majority of all our residents in the city of Ialea. It is a 25% reduction. To give you an idea, you will pay 25% less for water up to a consumption of 10,000 gallons a month. A typical house in our city consumes about 5,000 gallons of water for a family of four people. So this will concern the vast majority, almost 30,000 houses in our city. what we announced for the elderly is an additional 25% this is only valid for the elderly over 65 years old and this will reduce the water bill by 50% compared to what you pay now compared to what you will pay later in a degree in October So, as I said, there is no need for any question, as long as you are the owners of the house and you are also in charge of the water bill. If the name matches, if the data correspond, we know the information. By the way, at any time, now or later, if you have any questions, feel free to contact my office directly at 305 800. Forecheck. ...discorso in lingua straniera... ...lesti nell'arà di meccare una... ...discorso in lingua strana... ...jamp discorso in lingua straniera... ...discorso in lingua straniera. So these water counters, as I was saying, are already in the installation phase in the whole city. We have hundreds of counters that have been successfully installed. The program is working wonderfully and we are conducting this pilot program over the next few months to identify the company we want to choose definitively. But it is a turn to ensure that our bills are accurate, that they are sent only for the water consumed, neither more nor less. Let's form. No Mona. As I was saying, 5,000 new lights and LEDs in the whole city. We are at 80% completion towards the end of the year. We hope to finish the entire project, which is really changing the evening appearance of our city, making it much brighter, safer and simply better in every way.

8:27 – 8:55Speaker 1

I'm just going to sit here and listen. I'm just going to look at the camera. I'm just going to look at the camera. I'm just going to look at the camera. I'm going to look at the camera. I'm going to look at the camera.

9:06 – 11:49Speaker 3

the Olympic. Um, as I was saying, we are dealing with the repair of the road signage. It is a great project. It is 370 miles of roads, we have completed about 30%. We hope by the end of next year to have finished with the city and to ensure that all the signage is in order, and then maintain maintenance as it should be. And then we will also start the cleaning of the roads starting from 1 degree October. Every single street, every street with city roads will be subjected to road cleaning twice a month. Pre-activate. Program. As I was saying, for the cleaning of the drain channels we had a reactive force, so we only responded to the complaints. I am happy to note that 95% of those complaints, of those portraits, has been completed. There is only 5% left and at that point the unit will be totally proactive and systematically clean the drain channels throughout our city. Miami-Dade. There.

13:10 – 13:40Speaker 3

As I was saying, the Carbine system, this is a system that we launched about a month ago, we are the first in the county to use this system, it is helping us enormously in terms of response times. At the moment we are recording record numbers, we are one of the best departments in terms of response to calls to 911. And part of this merit goes to all the technology it has. It allows you to share your position, your camera, share all that information with our first responders, so that they can get the information and get the resources from you as soon as possible.

15:13 – 17:35Speaker 3

As I was saying, the police contract is a historic contract for the city of Alea what we are actually doing is increasing the pay but we will save money in the long term because we were able to do a cost analysis and determine that we were spending too much money to form agents who then left us after an average of 18 months so by granting these higher wage increases we are able to keep people longer, save money in the long term and have a better cleaning force we are also adding agents dedicated to our motorized unit to our unit for economic crimes and also additional motorcycles for those units Babcock Field. Academy.

18:17 – 18:45Speaker 3

Gotcha. I go to the park.

20:04 – 22:23Speaker 3

Well, I'll say something about English. Yes. As I said, this is really the year of parks in our city. We are investing 18 million dollars in our park system. It is a park system that for many years, to be honest, has not received the maintenance and the necessary investments to operate at the levels that we remember from when we grew up here. Many structures are obsolete, they do not have what they should have and many fields are not in the best conditions. So we are investing in numerous structures throughout the city. Almost every park will receive something new or an improvement, whether it is lighting, new fields, new grasslands, new football fields and similar. As I just said, Babcock Park has just received a historic renewal and this is thanks to the Marlins who donated 5 million dollars to rebuild that field and create a baseball academy for our guys, completely free for residents. They don't just get free lessons, free games, but they also receive the educational component, uniforms, equipment and everything else. We are doing it and we are also taking care, as I said, of many pools in our city. Some of them were closed for seven years, they did not receive the maintenance they needed. So we are completely restructuring and repairing all those pools so that they can work for future generations. Not only a temporary solution that we adjust today and that breaks tomorrow, but a definitive and real repair is exactly what we need. And then, as I said, we are investing in the IALEA library. Sixty years have passed since someone has done some restructuring work on that building. It's a historical building. We want to preserve that history. We want to expand the space and ensure that it is ready so that the next generation of residents of Ialea can enjoy that structure. We are also restructuring many of the fire watch stations. We are buying a new ambulance and also a new fire station. And we are improving many other structures within our city. But above all, we have made historical investments in the police. Now we are making historical investments in the parks and also in the fire guards. So this is the balance sheet in summary.

22:23Speaker 2

We will not increase any additional tax.

22:25 – 23:21Speaker 3

We will not increase any of the rates for solid waste. We will not increase anything like that. On the contrary, we are returning money to residents through water bills and we are also returning taxes to people over 65 years old. Saki.

23:23Speaker 1

Supercharger.

24:13 – 28:15Speaker 3

Here are some numbers, managed 500 complaints of citizens, removed 4,500 illegal posters, cleaned 900 graffiti sites, recovered 1,300 shopping carts and cleaned almost 1,000 abusive download sites. This is our connection with the DPVR for any issue related to the condominiums or to the associations of owners. As you know, the city under my guidance has created the first task force in absolute to face these problems. There have already been several arrests in the city related to these episodes of fraud and we continue to work on it. If you know any victims of fraud or if you think you are, please contact us, contact our office. On September 22 we will have the receiving hours of the DPR in the municipality. From 10 to 14. Then there is October 20th, the conference for small businesses. Anyone who wants to open a small business in our city, that is, a current owner and needs help in any form, will find all the resources available on October 20th. And then the other is an informative session for the information center on condominiums. This will also be held on October 29th. This is for our transport survey. We are trying to completely modify our transport system to make it really work for our residents. So we ask the community to compile these surveys. Just take a picture of the QR code and you will be directed directly to the survey.

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