Regular City Commission Meeting - Regular Meeting

All right. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. It's great to see so many members of Hollywood Police Department here, along with everyone, residents and staff that are here for our first meeting of 2026. I know it's hard to say. Happy New Year still and kind of like still accept that. But hey, it's our first meeting of the year, so welcome everyone. We're already moving forward and and back into of course. A high gear here at City Hall. Before I ask you to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I do want to end the moment of silence. I do want to extend an opportunity to Vice Mayor Kolody, to take a point of privilege, to speak about a friend that we all recently lost. Vice mayor. Thank you mayor. So I have had the privilege of knowing this individual since the beginning of my commission world career. And she's made a definite impact not only on myself, but several of us sitting up here as well as our community. So if you could please just bear with me. As I was asked to put some words into paper, Karen Caputo some people pass through a place and Karen Caputo natured it. She lived with a simple, beautiful intention. Leave the place better than you found it. And she did so with care, grace and an open heart. Her legacy across the city of Hollywood, especially within North Central community, is not only one of advocacy and achievement, but of love. Love for her neighbors, love for the land, and love for the city. She fiercely protected. Karen believed that community is built through connections. Her passion for preserving green space was never rooted in ownership or recognition, but in stewardship. Through the founding of Friends of Hollywood, Inc. she sparked a grassroots, grassroots effort to educate residents about the delicate balance of our ecosystem and the responsibility we all share to protect it. Because of her

vision and perseverance, what was once Sunset Golf Course became Sunset Park, a living reminder that when we care deeply enough, we can shape spaces that belong to everyone. Her leadership was gently was gentle yet resolute. Caring carried herself with a softness that disarmed and a knowledge that commanded respect. She spoke with intention, listened with patience, and led with compassion. Her words never needed repetition. They landed where they were meant to be. She blended perspectives, built bridges and moved forward. Always with class, always with heart. Karen's relationship across the city, the county and the state were rooted in mutual respect and trust, earned over years of consistency and integrity. But beyond titles and partnerships, she gave something far more lasting. She gave her time, her wisdom, and her genuine care for others. Friends and colleagues will forever remember the long conversations, the thoughtful guidance and the moments of laughter, sometimes paired with her well known lovely delivered sass to her daughter. May you find peace in knowing that your mother's love lives in the places she protected, and the people that she inspired to her friends. She will always be deeply missed. And to the residents of Hollywood, Karen Caputo stands as an example of what it means to show up, speak with a purpose, and love a community enough to fight for it. Karen may long no longer walk among us, but her presence remains rooted in green spaces, woven into our neighborhoods and carried forward by those who believe, as she did, that caring deeply is the most powerful form of leadership because of her love. Hollywood is a better place, and because of her love, it always will be.

Thank you. Please rise for a moment of silence and think of Karen and her family, followed by the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Vice Mayor Callery, for that. And I see Patty here, and Karen Albertson and Elaine and Lynn Smith. I know you all were very close, of course, with with Karen as we all came to be, but you all, especially with forming the Friends of Hollywood group. And so just our condolences to you as, as close friends. And we'll definitely find a way to honor her on sunset, as she ought to be. Thank you so much. All right. At this moment in time, we also take an important moment to recognize our veterans, active service personnel and their families. So if you are a veteran of the US Armed forces or a family member thereof or active service, please rise. We'd love to recognize you. Roll call. Please. Commissioner Gruber here, Commissioner Biederman here. Commissioner Quintana here. Commissioner Shoham here. Commissioner Hernandez here. Vice mayor. Kolody here. Mayor Levy here. Thank you. This time, we'll go on to our consent agenda. These are items five through 28 today. If there is a speaker card on any one of those items or a request for from the dais to withdraw an item for discussion or to pull

an item for discussion, I'm happy to do so. I do want to point out that the city manager has withdrawn item 16 as by the way, is item 33 is withdrawn for some more work on that ordinance before it's brought forward. So again, consent agenda five through 28. Are there any speaker cards motion to approve. All right. We have a motion to approve the balance of the consent agenda five through 28 minus withdrawn. Item 16. All those in favor say aye. Excuse me, mayor, I didn't get a second, second, second by Commissioner Hernandez. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Those items carry unanimously. 16 will come back to us, as will 33 at another day. Okay. All right. On to item 29. This is our proclamation. Happy to have folks here recognizing national certified registered Nurse Anesthetist Week, which is January 18th through the 24th. So everyone who's here, Vice Mayor Callery will be presenting the proclamation. I think we might have Doctor Lori Tolson from Barry, Doctor Tony, Doctor Linda Wonder and Doctor Lisa Ferrand, all from Barry University. Please come on up. Just the two of us. We can get together, you and I. All right? Whatever the whatever the words are, you know, it's just your hair and the song and just the two of us to just. All right, vice Mayor Clary, again. Sorry, everyone. Thank you. Mayor. Proclamation. The city of Hollywood. I'm under the weather today in recognition of national certified registered Nurse Anesthetists Week January 18th through January 24th, 2026. Whereas certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Crnas are advanced practice registered nurses providing anesthesia care to patients in the United States for more than 150 years. Crnas are among the nation's most trusted profession. And why is that? Because they put

them to sleep and wake them up. And whereas legislation passed by Congress in 1986 made nurse anesthetist anesthesiologist the first nursing specialty to be accorded direct reimbursement rights by Medicare. And Whereas, Crnas are the primary anesthesia providers in rural communities and continue to be the primary providers of anesthesia care to the United States military personnel. And Whereas, crnas practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered, traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms to critical access hospitals from ambulatory surgical centers to the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, pain management specialists, and more. And whereas Crnas are qualified to make independent judgments regarding all aspects of anesthesia care based on their education, training and licensure, Crnas are trusted anesthesia experts on the front lines, caring for patients safely and compassionately, delivering specialized, cost effective care to all patients, from newborns to seniors, for every type of procedure and all types of facilities. And whereas, Crnas experience in critical care nursing, in addition to anesthesia care, provide the training and education to address unique healthcare challenges of some of our sickest patients, including veterans. Now, therefore, Josh Levy, mayor of the City of Hollywood, Florida, and the Hollywood City Commission hereby proclaim January 18th through January 2024, 2026 as National Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week. All right. Great to have you guys, and great to see Barry now up and running at the new University Station site. Yes, mayor Josh Levy and fellow nurse, Vice Mayor Larry and the Board of

Commissioners, thank you so much for this opportunity and getting the proclamation. I'd like to introduce you to one of our residents that also are working in Hollywood. Awesome. Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Stephanie Taylor. I had the privilege of working at Memorial Regional Hospital for the last two years, and then just started my studying at Barry University. We appreciate the the University Station campus. It's beautiful, and we really do appreciate this proclamation that you've bestowed upon this Crna this week. You're wonderful. Thank you. And on behalf of all the faculty and staff of Barry University, Crna faculty and staff, and all of us that are 75,000 Crnas here in the country, we provide 58 million anesthetics in this country. And also we also provide 80% of the anesthetics in rural areas. We thank you for this opportunity. And we love University Station. We're finally settled. All the boxes have been unpacked and that's why we're specialized in anesthesia. We put them to sleep and we wake them up. And also we take your pain away. So thank you so much. Thank you so much, doctor. Thank you. Let's take a photo. Picture time. I will read. Come on the other side.   Okay. One more with the cell phones. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes. Yeah. Let us know when you're accepting visitors.

Doctor. We'd love to come visit and see what the instruction feels like. Looks like. Yeah, sure. Thank you. All right, well, Chief Devlin, thank you for being here with everybody. We always love recognizing our police officers. And of course, for the Department of Wards for August, September and October. Here we are. Welcome, Steve. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, thank you once again, one more time for letting me stand before you and share with you some of the incredible work that our officers do on a daily basis. Quite honestly, the hardest part about this is picking which officer and which incident we're going to highlight. So a special shout out to the awards committee and the hard work that they do. So thank you very much. You we all know that these officers do not do this job for the awards or accolades, and it's always fun to me to watch them stand up here and become uncomfortable when they're being their accommodations are being read out loud. But I want to thank you for recognizing the importance. It is for allowing me to share this with the community. So I think it's vitally important for our community to hear about the work that these officers are doing each and every night out there. So thank you for that. Today we're going to hear about a few of our members who took on some different leadership roles inside their units, and whose actions directly resulted in the success of our city. We'll hear about several medical calls where the officers were first arrive on scene, and their quick, decisive actions in these critical moments save lives. I am extremely proud of each and every officer being recognized here today, but also of every officer that serves and protects this community every single day and night. So thank you again.   Good afternoon. Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, assistant city managers and staff. I'm Deanna Bettineschi, public information manager for the Hollywood Police Department, for the officer of the month for August, will Officer Ricardo Sambolin and Officer Raymond Esquilin please come forward. Back in July, officer

Ray Esquilin was finishing up a detail at the beach when he realized there was an elderly man threatening to jump from a balcony. Officer Esquilin made his way up to the apartment and began trying to comfort the man. In a time of crisis, Officer Saint Paulin was also dispatched to assist. The man was not verbally responding to officers, so they made the tactical decision to pull him to safety. Their teamwork and ability to remain calm under pressure prevented a tragedy. In addition to receiving officer of the month, they are also receiving the Life Saving Award for August. Congratulations. We also have another life saving award for August. Will Officer Raymond Barros Navarro please come forward? On August 5th, Officer Barros Navarro was flagged down by a local business employee at the beach for a woman who wasn't feeling well. The woman appeared confused and wasn't pronouncing her words correctly. Officer Barros Navarro immediately notified Fire Rescue. It was later found that she had a stroke. The head of the E.R. at Memorial Regional commended Officer Barros Navarro for his quick response. Congratulations. For the employee of the month for August. Will Crime Scene Technician one Amy Zidell, please come forward? The CSI unit recently acquired new equipment and was presented with new DNA requirements from Bso's lab without being prompted. Amy took the initiative to research the equipment, created a user guide and shared it with her colleagues. Her initiatives went beyond her assigned responsibilities, and her problem solving mindset contributes to the success of her unit. Congratulations. For our September Officer of the

month, will Officer Cameron Beckford please come forward? At the beginning of September, Officer Beckford conducted proactive patrols and initiated a traffic stop. The driver was noncompliant and attempted to put his vehicle in, drive and accelerate. The suspect was removed from the vehicle and taken into custody. It was discovered the suspect was armed and officers found multiple narcotics, including cocaine, meth, ecstasy pills, marijuana and other controlled substances. Officer Bickford's proactive patrolling led to the arrest of the suspect, who had 49 prior felony charges and nine felony convictions. Congratulations. For September. We have two employees of the month, crime intelligence analyst Maryann Valenzuela and crime intelligence intelligence analyst Amber Mitchell. Will you please come forward? In August, several property crimes and a robbery took place. In each case, the same individual was captured on surveillance committing the offenses. Amber and Maryann reviewed each case, determining a time frame and pattern of dates. They utilized the ring app to gather multiple photos of the suspect. This proactive approach helped lead to the arrest of a serial burglar, and brought closure to residents who had been victimized. Congratulations. Next we have our October Officer of the month. Will officer Mark Robbins please come forward? On October 14th, Officer Robbins responded to a call of an infant who was discovered unconscious and not breathing. Officer Robbins immediately began CPR. Hollywood Fire Rescue arrived and transported the infant to Joe DiMaggio, where a pulse and breathing were found to be restored. This officer should be commended on his quick

response and life saving efforts. Congratulations. And if we can have all of the awardees, please come back up for a group picture. Thank you. And while you guys are coming up, wow. You know, hearing these these opportunities, you had to apprehend a suspect or save a life is really, really heartwarming. And just on behalf of the city of Hollywood and all of our residents, thank you all so much. Really exceptional work. Thank you so much. Thank. Thank you everyone. Chief, are you taking everybody out to lunch now or what? That's great. Yeah, yeah, Adam's paying attention to Tallahassee, so. No. Maybe forfeiture funds if that's a permissible use of funds. Right. More forfeitures, chief. More forfeitures. You shouldn't say out loud. No, that's. That's all. That's all within the law. Of course. Absolutely. Yep. That's incentive. Incentive. Yep. Incentive to to get him. All right, let's go on to our 115 time certain item. It's an ordinance of the city of Hollywood on second reading, advertised as a public hearing in conformance with state

statutes and city codes from development services. No changes since the first reading? I don't believe so. Let's go ahead and invite Andrea. This is the ordinance of the city. Hollywood amending the city's adopted comprehensive plan by amending the Land Use Element to create the commercial recreation land use category. Hi, Andrea. It's been a couple months. Yeah. Good afternoon. Mayor, vice mayor, city Commissioners Andrea Winget director of development Services this is kind of your second, second reading on this item. The commission considered this. At first reading we transmitted to the state they had no comments. The commission passed this at second reading with no changes. When we transmitted to the state it was outside of the year ten day requirement to get them the executed ordinance, even though we provided them with a unexecuted one beforehand and there was no grace extended to us. So here we are today asking for you to kind of reaffirm and approve this at a second reading, and we will have it executed immediately by Umair and sent out to the state within the time frame. All right, vice Mayor, is that a motion? Motion to approve. Second board member. Cook. Sorry. Commissioner Biederman has a second all excuse. Please read the ordinance and call the roll call vote. Can we have a public hearing? Because we're doing second reading over. Okay. See? Yeah. This is we got to rewind this whole meeting. Right. Let's go ahead and open up the public hearing. Are there any speaker cards? No cards. All right. Public hearing is now closed. We do have a motion on the floor, a motion and a second. Let's go ahead and read the ordinance, city attorney, and we'll call the roll call. Vote an ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida, amending the city's adopted comprehensive plan by amending the land use element to create the commercial recreation land use category. Commissioner Gruber. Yes, Commissioner. Biederman. Yes. Commissioner. Kent. Yes. Commissioner. Shuhan. Yes. Mayor. Commissioner.

Hernandez. Yes. Vice mayor. Gallery. Yes, mayor. Yes. All right. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on second, second reading. Thank you so much. I do have my pen in hand. Andrea, if you're ready. All right, let's go to item 32. Ladies and gentlemen, I am feeling better. You see? Thank God. Yeah. Ordinance of the City of Hollywood amending the title seven of the Code of Ordinances entitled Traffic Code regulating the operation of Motorized scooters, micro Micro Mobility devices, prohibiting the rental of motorized scooters and micro mobility devices, and clarifying motorcycle operator permit requirements. This is an ordinance on first reading by the Police department. Chief Devlin, welcome. Good afternoon again. Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager. Yeah, this is a couple of months back. We took a look at these ordinance and realized the the way these devices, the motorized scooters and electric devices are changing. We needed to change the ordinance to enhance enforceability on it. So those are the changes that were made before you. So basically this ordinance now mirrors the Florida state statute. Vice Mayor Clary, thank you. Chief. I know there was a lot of work placed into this, and I appreciate it being that I am in that other role of my life. We do see an abundance, amount of injuries and pedestrians hit by car, but we also have created a world where. You know, the alternative ways of transportation. And this is one of them being. We did receive a letter this morning from a resident, Tom lander. He did call me over the weekend. I explained to him that I did speak with you during our one on ones, and with regards to increasing awareness, PSA discussion was had regarding reflectors, something that we can promote as a city to do our part to promote safety. I also

did reach out, reach out to the medical director, Doctor Katz, and I forwarded you some information just to show where we are as a city compared to all of our partner cities and level one trauma centers. And believe it or not, we're not the number one city, which I was shocked to hear. So I sent that over. I can send it to everyone as well and there will be some more information coming through. But just I appreciate all your efforts that have been made. And also if there is any way that we can reach out for grants or something of that nature and reach into the schools to help provide and promote education on safety, whether it's reflectors, lights, so forth and so on. I think it would be behoove us to do that more than we're already doing. That's all. And motion to approve. Thank you. We have a motion from Vice mayor, second from Commissioner Hernandez. Let's hear from Commissioner Ham. So I want to thank staff and HPD for the work on this. Originally, we had a complete scooter ban in the city, and clearly we have big issues with electric scooters, electric bikes, all sorts of things. As commissioner Vice Mayor Clary said, you know, these these vehicles are dangerous, especially to pedestrians. I mentioned to you yesterday I read an article about San Francisco recently. The extra weight of these bikes, even at slow speeds, results in much, much more significant injuries because of the mass. And so we had gone back and forth a little bit. The city attorney, Vanessa. And when I when this came back, really what the only restriction is the speed. So as I read this, we can have these scooters on sidewalks, we can have e-bikes on sidewalks, but they can't go more than 15 miles an hour. And I would ask that we table this just for a little bit more research, because when I look at Tampa, when I look at Miami and I

could be wrong, it looks like they are banning scooters and e-bikes on sidewalks. Now in the state, law on scooters seems to allow the cities to have a lot of discretion. And I understand the concern is the difference between state roads and city roads. But it looks like unless maybe Vanessa has spoken to these other cities and already knows this, but it doesn't look like these cities are making those distinctions. I personally would much rather see somebody going 15 miles an hour in the street or in a bike lane than on a sidewalk, particularly in the downtown area, high traffic areas. So on the one hand, we want to make it simpler and easier for HPD to enforce. But on the other hand, I really don't want the law to allow a scooter to go 15 miles an hour on a downtown sidewalk. So my request is that we take a look, reach out to some of these other cities. I think Fort Myers is precluding them on sidewalks. And let's find out what is the max that we can do to keep pedestrians safe. My concern in our discussion yesterday was heavily about the broadwalk, but as Vanessa pointed out, we've banned scooters completely on the broadwalk and that's enforceable. And bikes, chief, you know, as you had mentioned, you'd rather just rely on recklessness. The the the broadwalk, as I understand it, is not a sidewalk. It's a right of way. But elsewhere in the city, if we can keep these motorized devices off of sidewalks, I would really love to see that. And so my request is that we do a little bit deeper dive and see what other cities are doing. And if we can keep these vehicles off of our sidewalks. And I think actually I see somebody from the MPO here and maybe, you know, the MPO has some insight for us as well. Let's go to Vice Mayor Clary. Correct me if I'm wrong

though. I don't think we need I personally don't think we need to table it. We can add if need be in the future, but didn't we just expand on Taft Street, the sidewalk to eight foot to allow bicycles, scooters and walkers? Multi-Purpose, multi-purpose. So that would defeat its purpose. So I just I'm not sure exactly how that would even. And maybe I'm wrong, but that was my understanding of why we made an 8 foot or 10 foot sidewalk was for multi-purpose because of transportation demands. Taking cars off the road because people are using public service that we've pushed so much in the city. So maybe you can clarify that. And I'm not. I may be completely wrong, but I think that was made for that, I might add. I think I think what Commissioner Shuhan was kind of pointing to is, is that and let's remember, not all sidewalks are the same. Some are in very secluded residential neighborhoods where you have a child, you know, you'd rather the child be on the sidewalk on their scooter and they're not going to go 15, because a sidewalk doesn't really lend itself to going that fast. There's bumps and things. And so I think what you're really getting at is the pedestrian conflict with these devices. And of course, I think we can carve out and maybe treat in a future resolution or ordinance, whatever need be, maybe specific sidewalks in and around downtown that are pedestrian heavy to where if we decide we want to put the same level of non-motorized use as exists on the Broadwalk, maybe that's a more practical and and feasible and appropriate regulation, as opposed to painting all sidewalks with the same brush, because I don't believe, like in a residential area personally, that, you know, I wouldn't have a problem with the child being on their scooter on the sidewalk. I'd rather than be on the sidewalk than the road. And then there's conflicts with cars. So, yeah, if I may. So what this ordinance does and mirror, mirror in state statute. So if you are on a scooter or electric mobility device on a

sidewalk, you have to yield to pedestrians. That's one. Two is it is 15 miles an hour in the state statute. But because we're using this ordinance and we can follow the state statute on a on a road if someone is going too fast for those conditions, if downtown is packed and somebody is on a sidewalk going five miles an hour in and out too fast, the officers can enforce that without the speed. It can take that individual off the sidewalk and write them a ticket for going too fast, for conditions or reckless or whatever. So they once they're on a sidewalk, yes, it's 15 miles an hour, but they have to yield to pedestrians on a sidewalk, just as a bicyclist would. Good, good. All right, let's go. Continue with the queue, Commissioner Biederman. So as I see this, it's not a matter of having something that we're not going to enforce 100% of the time, but it is just another tool in the toolbox for our police officers to be able to stop somebody if they're doing something inappropriate or wrong, just like some of the other ordinances we have that we're not enforcing 100% of the time, because it's just impossible to enforce everything 100% at a time. But it gives us the opportunity to be able to stop somebody from doing something that they shouldn't be doing. So I support this. All right. Thank you. Commissioner Hernandez, the seconder of the motion. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. I too, rather have a 12 year old or a ten year old on a scooter on a sidewalk than the street, particularly if part of the ordinance is that they have to wear a helmet. So that's one of my main concerns. Also regarding the idea of having a program with reflectors in schools and what have you, maybe we can reach out to the school board and see if the SROs can give some kind of educational classes or something. When it comes to some of this mode of transportation, because our youngest generations are the ones that are using this the most, and that will be what we can be more effective if the PD or HPD can reach out to the

school board, see if something like that could be done, that would be great idea, I appreciate that. And and part of the amending this ordinance was to make this clearer for our officers to remove the confusion that was out there before. So enforceability will be enhanced. Yeah, my word on that and the PSA's into the schools will be a clearer message. We'll get in there. So the lights and reflectors so so we're all clear. They per state statute per our ordinance have to follow every rule that a bicyclist has to have. So they have to have reflectors front and back. They have to have a light half hour before sunset and after sunrise. So all those rules still apply. Helmet for 16 and under. You need a helmet following all the traffic control devices out there. The right of way is all that thing. So that's that's what they have to do. As we discussed, all of that is very important. But one of the most important is to follow the traffic laws, because I see them running stop signs as if they don't think it belongs to them where they need to stop. And I think that's the biggest issue that they have. And after they run the stop sign, they give you an number one reaction because you kind of honk your horn or something. And that's just to try to bring safety to their attention. They don't think that that's anything that they have to do. So thank you. Thank you for bringing it up. All right. We have a motion and a second. Let's go to Commissioner Quintana. Thank you. Mayor. Hello, chief. So one of the things that caught my eye and Tom Landry's email message was that idea, that awareness, that campaign that you're about to entertain the PSAs can also be about awareness among motorists. I, I know that it's a really pollyannaish idea that we should encourage courtesy in our modern world, because so often motor vehicle drivers feel like anybody in their way should just get out of their

way and behave that way when we're driving. So I'm, I think that the message is not just for your scooter drivers, but also those of us who drive and everybody's in a hurry, but there's just an awful lot of not considering the fact that we have to share space, public space, with other people. And so if that can be emphasized as well in your PSA, I think it's a really important message to send beyond the law. Let's just exercise common courtesy. Absolutely. Couldn't agree with you more. Commissioner Shoreham. Hold on, Commissioner Schumann. Clara. Okay. So I think what I would like would ask support for if we could, if we pass this today, that we do go back and look at very congested downtown areas because it just we are just asking for trouble if we just don't allow them in the downtown area. So do I have support for staff to take a look at what's being done in other cities, in congested areas with respect to motorized scooters going forward on the sidewalks? Yeah, on sidewalks. And we don't have to make a decision on it, but just come to us with what other cities are doing. Sure, I support that, I guess. Yeah. I mean, happy to see it. Okay. I think I would like to see that just in my quick research, because it was only since yesterday. It seems like there are several cities that and I know I understand the simplicity, the idea of simplicity and enforcement. But, you know, I see it all the time, even though it's not permitted on the broadwalk. And I see it downtown too, during very busy times. And it's just, you know, an accident waiting to happen. So if there's a if we move forward today and there's a carve out that should be considered, I would really like to to see how other Florida cities are handling it. So that

works. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We have a motion and a second commissioner. So in addition to that, even though I think I don't mind getting the information, I think the chief clarified that they have the liberty to do it. I just think it's really hard to implement those laws sometimes, but they have the liberty to pull somebody aside, like he stated. But I don't mind, you know, finding out the information. But what I was going to suggest is, since the MPO is here, perhaps since we have a member on the MPO and, you know, you hear us loud and clear, PSA messages throughout the county would be super important because it's not just the city of Hollywood that's dealing with this. It's the entire county. And we stress, you know, mobility options and trying to use multi transit. This might be a great opportunity for the MPO to do PSA notifications as well for safety courtesy and such. That's the only thing I wanted to add. Thank you. Yeah. Well just to close it out by saying obviously we're talking about different modes of using a sidewalk, whether it's an electric scooter, a bicycle, some other electric powered device, or someone walking, sometimes there's conflict there. We can either divide the walkway into a separate bike lane and a and a sidewalk, sort of like the broadwalk is. Sometimes you have and, you know, sometimes there's shared use paths like we just built with the MPO. And then there's traditional sidewalk, which state law says, hey, these other, you know, non-vehicular kind of devices can be used there as well in the best interest of public safety. And just, you know, the space we have. So, chief, I just think that just in my view, what I would look for is if in certain sidewalks, specifically in the core of downtown, you all believe that there ought to be signage and perhaps an implementing resolution or ordinance allowing for such if for public safety purposes like there shouldn't be bicycles and scooters sharing the sometimes tight, even though it's expanded, but sometimes tight sidewalk of of downtown

Hollywood, the two blocks or beyond that onto Harrison Street. I'd like to know what your recommendation is. When you do come back and analyze what other cities are doing. But let's focus on, you know, our specific areas. And if you recommend any particular sidewalk or two that might qualify as one that needs to be ought to be regulated, similar to how we're doing the boardwalk or what have you. Yeah. No message received. We'll take a look at it. But our understanding of it today is that the city ordinance can be more restrictive on city streets, not on state or county roads. We have no jurisdiction to enforce the city ordinance, restrict more stricter than the state statute. So but again, just the downtown sidewalks there will probably under city control. You can take a look at it. But again, I'll reiterate that even today. And yeah, we may see it. And unfortunately people do do it. But it is illegal. They do have to yield to pedestrians. So if it's a crowded sidewalk you don't have, you can't be riding your bike in and out of people up there. I gotcha. All right. Well we'll look forward. We have a motion and a second on this ordinance on first reading. City attorney, let's please read the ordinance and then we'll call the roll call vote an ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida, amending title seven of the Code of Ordinances entitled Traffic Code Regulating the Operation of Motorized Scooters and Micromobility Devices, prohibiting the rental of motorized scooters and micromobility devices, and clarifying motorcycle operator permit requirements. Providing for severability clause and a repealer provision. Commissioner Gruber. Yes. Commissioner. Biederman. Yes. Commissioner. Quintana. Yes. Commissioner. Shuhan. Yes. Commissioner. Hernandez. Yes. Vice mayor. Kolody. Yes. Mayor. Levy. Yes. All right. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on first reading. Thank you. HPD. All right. Pat, I'm assuming there were no speaker cards on that. I don't

know if I asked, but if there was, you would have told me. Right. All right, let's go to item 34, then. Resolution of the city commission authorizing the city to execute a supplemental grant participation reimbursement agreement with Bright Line Trains Florida, LLC for the implementation of the Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant program. Broward County sealed corridor improvements at Garfield Street crossing of the Florida East Coast Railway. Andrea, that was a mouthful. Good afternoon. Mayor. Vice mayor, city Commissioners Andrea Winget Director of development Services the next three items on your agenda. Mayor, item 34, 35 and 36 are all related to the railroad through the city of Hollywood. The item that you are considering right now is a is more or less a cleanup item for the railroad crossing elimination program known as Arcep, that the city chose to participate in. And previously, over the summer, the city decided that with regards to Garfield Street, we were going to leave that crossing open and put in quad gates. And while we were finalizing the agreement, the attorneys decided that there needed to be some additional cleanup language, some additional ratification in there, the terms, the conditions, everything within the agreement stays the same. This was just some cleanup language decided on by the attorneys involved. So we kindly ask that the commission re-approve this item or the agreement. Work is underway from the MPO in order for the design and construction to take place. The city has also engaged in an additional firm who is looking at the additional safety improvements that the city is responsible for, and I hope to have an update for you on where that is. Hopefully a very preliminary update next month. We have a

motion to approve by Vice Mayor Kolody, a second by Commissioner Gruber to approve item 34. Are there any speaker cards? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Item carries unanimously. Item 35, as Andrea mentioned, is somewhat of a companion resolution. This is for the one authorizing the city to issue the blanket purchase agreement with FEC for the railroad crossing, maintenance and associated signal maintenance at various Florida east coast crossings in an amount not to exceed $4 million over a five year term, in accordance with our procurement code. Andrea. Correct. So the FEC sends the city an estimated bill of what they anticipate their costs to be in order to do maintenance on the rails and the signals associated with each of the nine crossings that the city has. They do that in order for us to be able to properly budget. They do the work and then they send us the final bill. So this has previously been paid using what the city refers to as a dpv. And we're trying to transition away from that. And so we're asking for your permission to establish a blanket purchase order up to that amount. And then every year we will go ahead and budget that. We've done our best to estimate this just over past expenses that they have billed us for. And traditionally it does come in a little bit under that. But we wanted to seek your approval for that higher amount so we wouldn't have to come back to approve. Okay. We have a motion from vice mayor, second from commissioner to approve item 35. Are there any speaker cards on 35? No cards. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Item carries unanimously on to item 36. This is the resolution authorizing the execution of a letter agreement between the city and Florida East Coast Railway and Brightline trains, modifying the existing crossing agreements for the Garfield Street, Johnson Street, Washington Street crossings participating in the Broward County Sealed Corridor project, funded through the Federal Railroad Crossing Elimination

Program grant that is administered by the Broward MPO. Andrea. Correct. Mayor. So because the city is participating in the CEP program. And we have decided to leave Garfield Street open, we the city, are now responsible for the full cost and maintenance. We the city, are responsible for the full cost of maintenance of all of our crossings. With the exception of Garfield Street. It was at 50%. We are now going to take that on as a at 100% cost. So it's consistent with all of the other crossings. Thank you. Andrea, are there any speaker cards on 36? No cards Andrea. Just to well, while we're still open on this item and talking about Garfield Street and the expense, I remember that we had entered into a one year time period to kind of take a look at Broward County with regards to the Quad Gate program. Where is that? We did enter into a one year agreement, and then we came back over the summer and did the supplemental agreement where we committed to doing the quad gate, and then the city would pay for the the difference in the cost for the quad gate, which was about $300,000. And before those gates could go into operation, the city had to do the necessary safety improvements. So that's what we're hoping to have an update for you on a very early update next month. All right. Sounds like a good result. No speaker cards on item 36. All those in favor? Do we have a motion? Excuse me, mayor, I don't have a motion. All right, let's take a motion. Motion to approve. Second motion from Commissioner Biederman, second from Vice mayor. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. That's item 36. Passing unanimously. All right. I see folks from Waste Pro here. Item 37 is a resolution of the city commission authorizing the city to execute an amendment to the agreement with Waste Pro Florida for solid waste collection, recyclables collection, and yard and bulk waste collection services, and to authorize a rate adjustment to the city city's cost from $25.18 to $26.06 per single family residence per month.

This is from the Department of Public Works, and we're happy to have Mister Krol, the Director of Public Works here with us. Mr. Krol, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, on the item before you this afternoon for consideration to approve an amendment to the waste Pro contract for the city's collection of waste. I have a slight presentation for to highlight some of the amendments, and also waste pro representatives is in the audience to answer any questions you may have. There we go. So a little background on this. The existing contract was approved in 2019 was for ten years. It expires in 2029. Just to make to be clear, none of the the pickup schedules, you know all that stays the same. So that wasn't addressed. And it's also everything is going to stay the same with that cart provisions. One of the amendments proposing here is that the current contract has waste pro supplying 10,000 carts. For the ten year period. We exhausted those 10,000 carts in the first three years, and the city was going ahead and purchasing for the following three years. And the proposed amendment, Waste Pro will provide 2700 new carts every year to the end of the contract, as well as 300 lids for both recycling and for trash so that we can repair. Also, when the amendment is utilizing the rear rig cart, which is a cart that has a ten year warranty on it, and it's very sturdy. So we're going to get longevity out of out of the cart. Waste Pro will deliver the carts and the city will will repair the carts. The delivery of the carts, though, are at the direction of the city. So just to show you the waste, Pro has dedicated a truck to deliver the carts and then the city. We have our own repair cart. Now you can see in

the bottom rear corner panel is a QR code which people can use their phone. It brings it to our web page. It gives you the schedule, and you can also ask for repairs or new cars. So it's something new that we're doing. And the truck's been out for a couple of months and people are using it, so. Okay, so liquidated damages is the next changes. The only thing we're doing here is the actual term liquidated damages. We're changing it to cost recovery proposing to change it. Cost recovery fee. The city still expects Waste Pro to deliver high quality service, and high quality service is not delivered there. There's a fine and fee schedule that's in place for that. And just to add into this a little bit, during the one on ones, we were asked to do some research with other cities that utilize Waste Pro as their as their vendor. And we did. And we're all pretty comparable of our fee schedules. And you know, everybody has a different name for the fees. So there wasn't one that had the same. So we're pretty comfortable with cost recovery fee. CPI adjustment. So in the current contract, there was a 3% CPI every year that the commission could approve. And it was capped at 3%. It was proposed to go to 4% this year. And so we decided to split the difference and make it three and a half. What that does is, is it raises up the per house per charge from 2518 to 2606 a month times 12. So and just to be clear with this as well, this is the fee that that we're being charged from waste pro to, to collect the waste. So I just wanted to give you a snapshot, since there hasn't been a CIP approved by the commission for for three years. So I just wanted to show what it would

have been if we presented to commission for a 3% cap, and 23 would have been 2594 per house, and 24 would have been 2672 a house and 2511 2752 house charge. So with the 3.5% that we're recommending, it brings it to 2606. Just to give you a little comparison of where we are and where it would have been. In the current contract that has collection and disposal, both with Waste Pro and this amendment. It's just a collection fee we are paying for our disposal to our sites direct. It gives us a little better opportunity to control where we're at and to audit, and to make sure that everything is up and up. And then our termination agreement with if the city wants to terminate the contract, it's a 45 day written notice. If Waste Pro wants to terminate the contract, it's given us six months notice in writing. And then one more thing that I forgot that I didn't have up there too. They've also dedicated another piece of equipment, a grapple truck that works with code on a daily basis, picking up the illegal dumps. And so we're getting, you know, real time pickups instead of letting it sit there for a while. So that's something that we've been utilizing for the last several months. And things have been getting a little cleaner. So that's it. Thank you Joseph. Let's go to Commissioner Shoreham. So first I want to express appreciation to waste Pro I think with you, Joseph, stepping into this role and Tony and your new staff. Forgive me. Sharon. Sharon. It's it's night and day to where it was several years ago. And that's really thanks to Waste Pro stepping up and working closely with you to get

us here. The one thing that came up during my one on one that you didn't mention, or at least I missed it, was the $20,000 cap on, wasn't there $20,000 monthly cap on penalties or. Oh, okay. Never mind. That was it. I thought I thought that was in what we discussed. Maybe with you weren't there yesterday, but Jovan wasn't that wasn't that something we discussed at the one on ones that were. There was a $20,000 monthly cap on these recoverable fees. No. Good afternoon. Mayor. Commissioner, it wasn't a cap. It was the liquidated cost. Recovery fee is as increased prior to the prior current contract. So right now the cost recovery fees, they have a certain numbers or limitations. So it's not it's it's not it's not a cap at 20,000. It's it could go over 20,000 if necessary. What was the 20,000 up to the amount. And Joseph could correct me on that one. The I'm sorry I'm not sure. I mean, we maybe the city attorney has the document from. There is a cost recovery fee that mentions 20,000 per month in. Let's see. This is page 13 for valid and uncured missed pickups and other legitimate service complaints from residential customers. Is that what you're referencing? Exactly. So is it a not to exceed of $20,000 per month? And that's my that's what is that? In other words, if there's a a unit price for failure to pick up and they do it. City attorney what does the agreement say with regards to that 20,000? Is it a cap on the on the formerly known as liquidated damages. It's it

could be considered a cap because it is only it it only allows for $20,000 per month in regards to more than 1250 of these missed pickups. So that's my concern in light of the performance that we're seeing now, we should never, ever, ever get close to this, and I appreciate that. But at the same time, I'm not sure why it's there. So that's my only concern. If I'm misunderstanding what it said. But if there's hundreds of missed pickups, I don't think it should be capped. And so with that understanding that there's no cap on this cost recovery, I would make a motion to approve. Subject to that understanding. All right. We have a motion. Can I have a second, please? All right. Let's hold the motion then. Lack of second right now. And let's continue discussion. Commissioner Hernandez thank you. Mayor. One of the things that the only thing that I want to bring up for us to make an informed decision is currently it's pickup and disposal of, of the garbage. So if that truck goes into another city and continues to pick up when they dispose, it doesn't bother us whether the garbage belongs to the city of Hollywood or somebody else. My issue is being able to track that garbage that is being tipped. It's only being picked up in the city of Hollywood right now. It doesn't matter to us if it gets picked up in Hollywood or if it gets picked up another city, if it's the same truck, for whatever reason, if the truck is not completely full, they continue to travel past the city of Hollywood boundaries and pick up in the nearby city. When they tip it, they're the one paying for it. So it doesn't matter if it came from us or any other city. If the way it's being changed, I'm

sorry. My understanding is even though they're paying it, they're billing it to us. So I think that my understanding is if we pay it, we have more control over. Where that money is, where that garbage is coming from, as opposed to them tipping it. And charging us for it. Because I had that question. Okay. You want to clarify that, Joseph? Yeah. Yes. So before what was happening, it was hard to to match the tipping numbers with, with with the trucks. So by doing it this way, every truck that works for the city has a number. And every number now is at the disposal sites. So as they come in the numbers recorded, it's it's weighed. And then we're getting charged that, that fee. And then maybe we can have waste Pro come up and answer the commissioner's question with regards to the co-mingling of, of more than one customer, if that's the case. Thank you, Ken. And just to clarify, just to clarify real quick, I had the concern because at one time I'm not saying it's still happening. There was a truck picking up commercial in the same truck that's picking up residential. So we were paying the tipping fee on their private customers. I remember that, and that's the reason I brought it up, so that we all make an informed decision, that's all. All right. So just to be clear, I know let me just clear up the flow control basically was what we're talking about. So the city currently and has always been paying for the residential solid waste bill coming from the residential homes, the commercial businesses like Waste Pro and Waste Management and all the other commercial haulers, they pay the bill themselves. So those two things are not one and the same. Secondly, the city currently has an agreement with Waste

Connections for the solid waste and we they will not allow any waste pro truck that is not assigned to Hollywood to go dump there so that there's internal controls that are happening currently. What's different now is the disposal component, which is on the yard waste and bulk on the old agreement we were paying, and then billing you for those volumes. Now the city is going to be taking those volumes. So from that perspective, every single one of those trucks are assigned for the city of Hollywood. You have waste pro bulk trucks that are assigned for the city of Hollywood. So there is no co-mingling of that type of volume because it's we're in 2026, and the facilities are advanced enough to know that that truck cannot dump under this municipal flow because it's not part of this contract. So there's no co-mingling of that. And then at the other day. So let's just say, for example, hypothetically speaking, one of my Hollywood truck goes to Miramar, picks up and goes dump, right? Hollywood would never get charged that that that that garbage. Because waste Pro does because waste Pro pays the garbage bills and different cities. So there's no it's always a concern. And the other mechanism in places that when we dump, we provide you with the disposal tickets that have a unique number to that ticket to that load and the time and all that. So there's a lot of mechanisms in place to control that. You just you just. Verified what my concern is. If you go to another city that where you actually pay the bill, right, and you pay the bill and you go and dump it, yeah, there's room for error. If that truck is assigned to multiple cities, because whenever they go into the tipping, they can either charge it to Hollywood or they can charge it to

Miramar. If it's Miramar, it's you. If it's Hollywood, we pay for it. But if that truck actually is designed not only to the city of Hollywood, but to multiple cities, which in business you have to do that. How do we know that when he's dumping, he's actually dumping the stuff from the city of Hollywood and not the one from Miramar where it would affect you otherwise, because they have two different locations. Miramar dumps at the FCC facility at North Broward. I mean, South Broward and Hollywood's garbage currently goes to Waste Connection. So those two facilities, they never they will never be a time where a Hollywood truck will go to the burn, at least not in today's environment that will go to the burn center. And they say this is Hollywood, that they will allow them to dump in there? No. Would it be no, no. Would there be the time where Miramar truck actually goes to waste connection. They get they get thrown out that that that happens number one because our trucks and Miramar completely different than than than Hollywood just the actual truck one is automated. Most of the trucks in Hollywood are multi. But there's a lot of. And remember we're not the only company dumping in these facilities. So there's a mechanism in place. But I think most importantly is you have a process internally by staff that that that follows every single load that we declare that comes from the city by ticket number to that granular level. I get the ticket number, but I'm talking about routes, because in I want to make sure that we don't pay for somebody else's. No, that that's not that's not happening guys. Comfortable motion to approve. We have a motion and a second to approve the item. Let's go to Commissioner Clary. I see you in the queue. I'm good. Good. Commissioner Quintana, as long as Ken is up there, I thought maybe he could clarify the thing about the 20,000 pounds per month or one of you. Because I interject briefly. I

just wanted to let everyone know that this is the same from the agreement that as it was originally signed, this is not a change to the agreement or an amendment. This $20,000 figure that we're discussing. So I just want to make that clear that this was not a change that happened here. Okay. That's good for me. Yeah, I was just I was just going to say that on top of if you go to be what we added to there is reimbursement of cost to the city if they have a third party contract or if it costs more. So we gave ourselves a little bit extra because normally it's $100 per mess. So if you're going to have 2000 misses, it would be the $20,000 from what it was before. We just added that if it was more than that, we have the right to get the full reimbursement from this, from them. If it's more than that. Okay. All right. Thank you. We have a motion and a second to approve the resolution. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed hearing none. The item carries unanimously. Ken, I'd love to give you an opportunity just after we've we've completed the item, if you'd like to just a few words on behalf of Waste Pro and yourself. Appreciate it. You know, we've thank you. Mayor, vice mayor, commission city manager, attorney and city staff. You know, we've been a proud server of the city of Hollywood since 2009, you know, and then in 2019, the city did a full procurement process. And we were the sole proposer at the time. And then we entered into really good faith negotiations to not only start a new contract, but to modernize and stabilize the service for long term. You know, then 2020 hit. The industry fundamentally changed because remember, this was in 2019 when we got this and volumes grew sharply, set outs grew, labor availability was shifted over night, operation conditions became more complex, more expensive, and those impacts were felt daily in the field. You know, despite all those challenges, you know, we

overcame, we adopted routes, we equipment, staffing models and service methods methods in real time. While no system is ever perfect, we never stepped away from our responsibility to the city. We continue to show up, collect, respond, and invest. I really, really want to thank the City Manager, Keller, and the city staff for allowing this process to move forward thoroughly and deliberately. This amendment was not quick and it should have never been quick. It required analysis, discussion and a shared understanding of how the industry has changed and what the city expects moving forward. We also are very grateful to the community at large. The service touches households and businesses, often without notice, until something goes wrong. The community's patience, they were patient, their feedback and their engagement over the years have helped shape us, serve and deliver. Today, we take that responsibility seriously and do not view it as transactional. This amendment reflects our commitment to continuous improvement, even even when things appear to be working. We believe that there's always room for improvement, for service and accountability, transparency and responsiveness. This mindset has guided our work in Hollywood for almost 15 years, and it will continue to guide us moving forward and deeply. Personal touch. Thank you so much for the patience and and the discussions over the years, and I'm looking forward to whenever this things ends. I appreciate your your support. Thank you, thank you, thank you I appreciate it. Well, we count on you guys. Thank you so much for the service. Please thank the drivers and let's keep doing better and better every day. Thank you so much. Way you're free to go if you like. Let's go to vice mayor. Claire wants to say something before we leave. I just want to commend Waste Pro. I know we have had our challenges through the years. I've been here 14 years. And I remember when we

first started district three, I think had the most complaints compared to second was district one. And now I, I have to say the the complaints are very minimal. And actually I hear a lot of, of commencement of thank you for your job doing that. You're you make the exceptions and you go above and beyond. So we're we're very we've come a long way boys. Thank you very much. Let's continue that. Thank you. All right. All right. Let's get to item 38 then. Resolution of the city commission authorizing the city to apply for and if awarded, accept the 2026 through 29 Children's Services Council of Broward County maxing maximizing out of school time grant to conduct youth and after school and summer camp programs in approximate amount of $1 million, authorizing the required 5% matching funds to be paid from in-kind staff salaries. ET cetera. ET cetera. And amending the fiscal year 26 adopted operating budget with. So this is an item from Parks and Rec. Do we have any speaker items on 38 motion. We have a motion for Commissioner Kolody and a second from Commissioner. Commissioner. Let's give it to Commissioner Quintana. She's all about the Children's Services Council. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously while Parks and Rec or whoever and staff is. When we're all here talking about youth programing in the summer, I do want to make sure City manager that someone from staff reaches out in the weeks ahead to Careersource Broward, they have an opportunity to employ youth and teen. It's a teen and youth summer program, employment program, and a lot of cities around the county participate, and we're able to allocate some funds to get our youth employed in in Hollywood

for a summer program. And so I just want to connect a little earlier this year if we could. All right. Item 39 then is a resolution of the city commission authorizing the city to approve and execute the contract for consulting professional services with Miller Legend Associates to provide architectural and engineering services for the Sunset Park Master Plan Implementation Project in an amount up to 2.4 million and change. Let's give a round of applause just for the fact that it's here. And maybe it's fate that we're talking about it here. On the day that we recognize the remembered Karen O. Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, my name is Alex Iglesias, deputy director of the design, design and construction management department. We're here to talk about, like you said, sunset Park professional services agreement with Miller leg and Sunset Park is located at 2727 Johnson Street. We're asking for your approval in in authorizing us to execute the the professional services agreement with Miller leg to provide architectural and engineering services for the Sunset Park Master Plan Implementation project in an amount up to $2,493,230. This is the approved conceptual plan that was created after several public meetings and approved the resolution back in 2024 for the 45 acre lot. We. Thanks to the hard work of Adam and Tamara, we've been awarded $7.5

million grant. Money. Yeah, and we have two more in the works that have been recently applied for, so we're waiting to hear back from those. And their names are listed there, Land Water Conservation Fund Program grant and the Cultural Facilities Grant.   Miller leg is the consultant that was awarded back in 20 and April of 2025. Their proposal includes several subconsultants under them, including the soil remediation or environmental engineering consultant, the Geotech, the architect, mechanical, electrical, plumbing engineers, structural engineers, traffic grant services consultants, surveyors, among some others as well. Here's a breakdown of the agreement. Fees, which you can see is comprised of several all the design phases and construction phase, including an allowance. And we've allocated an amount there just in case we need for future for grant management in the future or environmental funding assessment, soil remediation, anything of that kind. The timeline there is about two years between design and permitting and two years for construction for a total of four years. And that concludes the presentation. Thank you so much. We do have a speaker card. Let's go ahead and invite Mr. Michael Seltzer to speak on item 39. Michael, you've always been creative in sharing ideas, so let's see what you have to say on this design. And if we

could put the slide back up that shows the park. You don't have to put up the design. I don't know anything about it. I wanted to see it and keep it up there anyway because I love it. Okay, so I was reading in one of my periodicals, and I think I sent you and Carol an email about something that happened in Polk County, where the county built a blue lagoon. I'm not sure if anybody knows what a blue lagoon. There's one at Salamiya and there's several throughout Florida. And not knowing anything about this because I don't know anything. I thought it would be a great idea on this property to build a blue lagoon for, not for the adults so much, but for the kids to have somewhere to go and not having to go to the ocean and just to have a good time. And some of these places have paddle boats and all this other stuff and barbecues and maybe a restaurant, and I thought it would be a nice idea also to get a developer to buy the land, pay for that, put up 3 or 400 affordable units that could be used for the people that work in the city and or be rented to the people that work in the city. I'm working on a project in Aventura where the developer has to provide housing at a certain level for the firemen, the teachers, whoever works in the city. So instead of building one of these parks and I don't know if it's necessary or not for water or for whatever, I thought it could be a terrific thing for the city, for the kids, for the people that work here and so on and so forth. Well, that's all I have to say. Thank you, Mr. Seltzer. I knew you'd have something creative to say. See, not even knowing what you were going to come up and say, all right, Commissioner Clary,

let's call on you just a little bit. Thank you. We always recommend or we encourage solutions or ideas. And then, you know, from that we migrate into productivity. But that park is a designated passive park for storm water retention to help preserve the the neighborhood. So while those are great ideas, we'll have to find somewhere else to place those recommendations. But thank you for the input and it's very exciting to see this coming to fruition. It makes me upset it's going to take so long for years down the pipeline before any type of movement is happening, but in government, this is what happens. Everything takes is like molasses, very slow and easy. But I'm glad to see that we're actually moving forward with it. So thank you, Patty. Patty, you can stay up. Why don't you go ahead? Since you fill out a card, just go ahead and speak now. Hello, everyone. This is probably the longest thing that's ever happened in my life. At a North Central Civic Association meeting. The property, the family of the property owner told us that there the lease had been sold to the golf course. I think this was 2014 or 2015, and we started an ad hoc committee out of that, and that became the battle to Save Sunset. No development. Many, many people helped that. But I'm more pleased than ever to see that Miller Lake has taken this project on Karen Caputo and I sat on the evaluation committee, and we felt this was the best, best company to do this because they know what they're doing. They've done this before. And so impressed with the architect that she's the one who also did

the armory. So she understands us and feels us and knows us. But this is just, you know, I know that government works very, very, very, very, very, very slow. And I'm still here and I hope to see it fruition. And my dear friend Karen Caputo will be proud that this is coming forward, because we fought every developer there could be the one to put this, and it was a private property and we just needed to keep it an open space and more importantly, for water retention. Thank you. Thank you Patty. Definitely a lot of history here and thankful that we acquired the property. And under the 2019 bond and the voters chosen, and as we've always repeated, this is the largest purchase of vacant green space in the city's history, will be the largest city park when it's complete. Second only. Well, we've got some more than one large county park, Ty Park, which, by the way, has Mr. Seltzer a a big lagoon just on Sheridan Street. And of course, we have the Westlake and Hollywood North Beach as well, and Kolb Nature Center. So certainly lots of large parks in the city, but this will be our largest city park when it's complete. Let's go to Commissioner Quintana. Thank you mayor. You know, this is what I'm always saying. Like context and history is so important. And I'm always kind of wanting to know what were the circumstances at the time, because it really does affect the decisions that we all make. Right? So this particular project has so much history, as you all have said, and the many, many years of work and sacrifice that our residents have put into making this a reality. It's like such an

emotional story for so many Hollywood residents. This is going to be an amazing project. $30 million is what the final plan will cost. So worthwhile, so needed for this particular part of the city. Like Patty said, especially for the drainage. The practical aspect of it. This, along with orange Brook, they kind of came up together, right? The residents were very much involved in what those two projects would look like. And. $30 million for sunset, $24 million was what was raised for the orange Brook development from the general obligation bond. The city then decided that it would pursue the P3 option with with the current developer, who will now be developing orange Brook, different than what the general obligation bond was able to raise funds for from the $24 million that were raised for orange Brook. We have been able then, because the private partner is going to fund that, we have been able then to use the funds from Orange Book to offset overruns and costs for other parks projects, to the point where now, what's left for orange Brook is $5 million in that fund, from the 24 million that was originally allocated for it. I am concerned. Because we don't. I am very much hearing all the reassurances about. We have a

great partner in building orange Brook. They're very committed. I've heard I've heard it, but I'm just concerned because it's not done yet. And things can change, conditions can change, and I'm concerned that all we have is $5 million and the 2 million. Adam helped me out with the exact numbers, please, that we're using for the Miller leg. Please help me. So prior to the budget amendment, which was on today's agenda, there was $7.2 million left. And with the budget amendment, we moved $2.2 million to this project. For the design, we had some some dollars set aside for design, roughly about 300,000. So that's why we needed $2.2 million more. So that has that has gone to this project, which to your point, leaves about $5 million left in the gob orange Brook, right, dollars. So $5 million colleagues. I mean, obviously the 24 million even that was originally raised by the gob wouldn't be enough today to bring orange Brook up to any kind of usable form. But what I. What I realized the $5 million wouldn't help, but I just am wanting some kind of reassurance because please understand me. It's that if something happens and in the end, the people who fought so hard to make orange Brook happen are going to look at me. It didn't happen Edilma we didn't get the P3 and we didn't get the general obligation. And so I feel an obligation to at least speak up on their behalf that I talked about it with Adam and he had a suggestion. So I'm asking your support to

the idea of taking the $2 million that we're putting forth now and at least setting aside, in case we need it as a contingency fund for orange Brook. So I'm asking if you would support that idea. So say I can understand your concern that, you know, what, if the worst case scenario happened and the P3 didn't proceed with improving orange Brook to where it was part of it? Let's keep in mind that the dollars that were used to complete Hollywood Beach Golf Course and the other parks projects that were quicker in the in the queue, so to speak, those were would have been dollars we would have to take from elsewhere anyway. So whether it was, you know, the parks portion of the Gob or the general fund or borrowing money because orange Brook wasn't ready and isn't ready to for that investment anyway, then I don't want to just sequester dollars that could be used to move forward with, you know, the needs of of Parks and Hollywood. And if the circumstance ever came to be where we need to look for different financing for orange Brook, then obviously I'm committed to seeing that project through. But I don't think we should have dollars just sitting out there waiting if worst case scenario happens, sitting there waiting five years, three years, whatever, when we could be utilizing those dollars because we're already the residents are already paying for those dollars. But if the circumstances came to be where we needed, you know, 25 million or 40 million, we would have to find a way to do it, but not hold money. That right now is usable for improvements that are needed. Today is my perspective, George. And if I may, mayor, vice mayor and commissioners. And I do understand the concern, Commissioner, that obviously a big project that still has a long ways to go, but we're all committed to making it happen. The 2 million that Adam was making reference to was, you know, a fund balance availability that typically each year when we close out the prior year, there's something if we've done our job well on

the positive side, so that experience will continue going into the future. And whether it be that source or another, if we need more dollars to bring to that cause to make that project happen incomplete, you will have that at your disposal to do that. I would say instead of tying that up right now, when you can use it for other current expenses going forward at your discretion, you will continue to have that option available to you at the end of this year and the following year, and that will still be timely if you need it at that time, as well as any other potential sources as well. And with that, just mentioning there is complete forward progress on on the P3 and on the orange Brook development. There's county reviews that are scheduled and coming up and it's there's there's not a delay. If anything, it was just, you know, the stormwater review by the county took so long, otherwise you would see a lot more progress. And we believe it's on a successful course that is going to end successfully. And it's and it's managed well on both ends. So at this point there is not a concern. I understand the general, you know, fear about things over time changing, but I think we're in good shape and we're continuing in good shape both on our side as well as the the partner. Well, so please know I'm going to support this item, but I do want to go on record that I'm being reassured by everybody here that no matter what happens, orange Brook is going to get the attention it deserves and that the city will find a way to make sure it gets built. Yes, yes, you have our commitment on that. Yes. Okay. We'll play back the record, the recording. We have to. That's why we're putting it on the record. Yes. Commissioner Hernandez on this. Thank you. Mayor, by the way, how much money did we move to the Hollywood Beach golf course from orange Brook? How many millions of dollars? We moved $6.2 million to the Hollywood Beach golf course. Okay. I think it was a total of 11 or 12, though. It sounded more like $12 million. Correct. What I'm saying this is just from the gob dollars. Oh, the whole thing. We can get back to you

with that number more or less over $10 million. So I get the concern. But nonetheless, we've utilized the practice before, and it didn't seem to be a concern at the time. So. But what was it? Well, I get it. My question is, Alex, do you know if there is any drainage agreement with the Dot? I realize that we have a very large body of water. It does anybody know if the Dot is paying us for water retention, that property, because there may be the ability for us to recoup some of our expense in the long term goal. Do you know anything about that? It's my understanding that we are in conversations and I mean DCM staff and park staff, but there has not been an agreement in place yet or any type of negotiation. Okay. I just want to hopefully become a fruitful negotiation, but I want people to know, particularly the gentleman that says that this park may have a different use is is having a public use as it is, and it has the ability to have monetary gains for the city of Hollywood, which in effect helps the residents of the city, Hollywood, to offset some of the other costs. So that was the one thing, but I it's funny, as you said, mayor, that we honor Karen's memory today, and this is something that it was a vision that she fought so hard for and the group fought so hard for in order to gain. And it became something that it was push come to shove, if you would. If we don't do this, this is opportunities not coming again. So I'm I'm forward this I think it's a beautiful design. I like the fact that it has body of waters on both sides. And it's for the purposes that it was intended at some point somewhere I would love in the design, if possible, to have a a butterfly park in the area designated area for butterflies. Because I know Karen loves

butterflies and she planted trees in her house to butterflies. And if you would, she actually had a stick every morning. And so make sure that the spiders didn't do the webs in accordance so they could save the butterflies. So it's something that would live perpetually there and you can actually go and enjoy. And those are the fond memories that I have of Karen. And I will always cherish those. Thank you, Commissioner Hernandez. Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor Alex. My question is when we originally saw this design, a lot of if I remember the lakes were lined because of the concerns regarding toxic material and things like that. And my request always has been. But a year ago, six months ago, continually when this project comes before us, is trying to maximize the ability of this site to take on drainage for the city. And my curiosity is in the environmental remediation remediation tasks here. Is that the concept now that any sort of pollutants will be removed throughout the site, or are we still talking about capping? So the site is currently capped. So it's meeting current permit regulations. Now if by this design we are required to cut and fill like we call it, we will have to. It requires new permits. And and they will tell us what regulations and what we need to meet at that time for the new design. So I think the question that I had posed previously was, why aren't we looking into removing all of it from the site so that the site can freely accept water from the surrounding communities?

Because the last time I saw this precise design, there's a berm that goes around the perimeter that prevents the neighborhood water from going in here because of the materials that are on the site. So for me, I want to know why. I want to know how much it cost to make this site fully accessible for drainage. And before we move forward with the design, because it could alter what the design looks like. And that's what we still don't have that information. So that's my concern. I want to know how much it would cost to make this site a fully available drainage site. And to Commissioner Hernandez's point, I think one of the hesitations with fDOT was the the material that's present there was inhibiting their abilities. And I and and without knowing that cost, I don't know how we are moving forward. I understand this is a rendering and it'll come back to us with at a later date, but for me, that's a very important dollar amount to understand. And because in the long run, even though it would be expensive to remediate the site as a whole, it could very well be worth it to the city of Hollywood in the long run. So I would hate to spend a fortune on a park design that would constrain our ability to take advantage of the site for drainage. So how how are we addressing that? We can definitely ask our engineering consultant to take a look at that, the environmental engineering consultant, to see what that cost would be. And this is Micah from Miller Lake. Hi, Mike. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor. Vice mayor commissioners. So just just to kind of follow up on your concerns there, that

really is kind of why this is structured. The tasks here are structured in this way. Some of the first things that we're going to do is do the analysis of that material, the volume of that material and the intensity or the contamination levels of those materials. And then by that, what we'll be able to do is identify what portions of that material we can actually cap, maybe under a building, under a parking lot and that type of thing. Look at that volume. And if that volume can all fit under there, and the rest of the area can be graded to make sure that we adhere to and meet the stormwater master plan requirements. That's the approach we'll do. Now. If there's more volume of that contaminated material, that's when we'll assess how much of that material may potentially have to be taken offsite to to render the site totally usable for the public use, but also stormwater use. Excellent. So the next step then would be to come back to us with like scenario A, B, c. This is going to cost X, and you'll have this percentage of the acreage available or Y or correct. And the and the city is moving forward with selection of a construction manager for this project. So they're going to be an integral part of the actual design process. They'll be brought on as we're doing the design. So we're going to have the contractor working with us as we develop the different scenarios. So they will be realistic costs. You know, you'll have a contractor that that's going to be working on this project saying to move that material is X amount of dollars or to cap it is this amount of dollars. So we can do that real analysis and come to come to to you and present to you with realistic. But the other component is that if the areas are capped and and then unavailable for storm drainage, then we lose the ability, as I understand it, to not only accept stormwater from the community, but also to enter into that agreement with fDOT. So I just want to make sure in

your cost analysis that those future potential revenues are also included, because I don't want a the cheapest fix today at the expense of 20, 30 years ago, when we know what we're projecting, water wise is probably too low right now. I mean, we already know it, right? So I think you've addressed my concern, but for my my commissioner and the mayor up here, I just really want us all to go into this. This is a beautiful design, but we need to be thinking 20, 30 years ahead for the city and make sure that this piece of property is not only beautiful for our residents, but is very pragmatic for the storm waters that we know are coming. So I'm grateful to you and your company for looking at it through that lens. So thank you so much. Thank you Mike. So with regards to the phasing here, it looks to me if this is actually if the tasks are in a sequence, I don't know if they are or there's a list here, but if they are in a sequence you do have schematic design ahead of environmental remediation. So are you going to start with phase two. You know, testing and and yes monitoring wells here. Yes. Is that like because that should be up front or close to upfront. Right. It is. We we lump the environmental remediation tasks into one group. But the first few tasks within that environmental remediation remediation group is actually going to be conducted right up front. In a perfect world, the readings are not going to exceed. You know, I think, you know, significant levels of, say, arsenic that is common with with golf courses. Maybe there has been some natural attenuation over the past five plus years. I don't know how when was the last time phase two was done here, but certainly we do need to have that data so we can, you know, start from somewhere on the design and the permitting. Absolutely, absolutely. So we

will do testing right up front. And and in addition, we've also been very successful in getting approved from DEP, a higher level of threshold for arsenic to remain in the soil because it's not a residential use. It is a public use. So again, that's something else that we've been very successful in. And what that does is that minimizes the amount of environmental remediation or soil we have to take off the site. Yeah. From what I recall, the levels were really minimal many, many years ago. Right. Yes. All right. Let's go to Commissioner Callery. So thank you everyone for the a lot of lot of discussion that was brought up. And it's kind of frustrating. And I'll tell you why I don't you don't need to stay if you don't want to okay. So a couple of things I remember and not to bring up old news and we have to do what's good first. My first question is this before I begin Hollywood Beach golf, is it set to make profit? Are we generating profit from that golf course annually? Once it's up and running, anybody can better be. Yes, and the profit will be used towards just repairing the golf course itself, upkeep and maintenance. Or will there be a fund that will be generated for future improvements or something of that nature? Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, city attorney? I can't give you the exact number because I don't have the contract in front of me, but the way the contract's written, we're guaranteed with Hollywood Beach Golf Course a specific amount annually. Always a profit. We don't have any risk of losing any money. If the contractor makes a larger profit than we have a threshold in the

contract that says if they make more than a certain amount, then we get a percentage of that additional revenue that they make. So we will make a profit each year on that. And then with that profit, where does that funding it goes into the park fund or does it go back into the golf course? I believe it would go into the General Revenue Fund. There is another clause in the contract the park revenue into. But there is a golf enterprise fund. Golf enterprise fund. Okay. And we're going to have to decide in the future if we want. So so okay. So that's good. Excuse me one, one thing to follow up on that. There is also a clause in the contract that after the first two years, the contractor has to put a specific amount of money aside for capital improvements for the golf course. So that goes into set aside fund to upgrade the golf course and make capital improvements as the golf course ages. So that goes into effect after the first two years. And so just out of curiosity, are we talking? Like a guesstimate of revenue generated? Do we have is it 100,000 a year? Is it 500,000 a year? Minimum guarantee. What's the minimum guarantee without the contract in front of me? I can't give you that. But I can find that and get back to you on that. So the reason why I bring that up is so just for clarification purposes, we paid $12 million to Hollywood Beach Golf Course, 12 million extra from the 24 million for orange Brook. And these concerns were brought up several times by myself because prior to you entering into your seat, I was the key point person for orange Brook. And I fought very, very hard as much as I fought for sunset. And these concerns have been brought up not just by me, but by my colleagues about the concern that we were taking money from development, that, yes, became a P3, but there's no guarantees, as we know, in

life. And it was a concern, but it was robbing Peter to pay Paul is what I call it. Okay. While it will be beneficial to the city overall because we're going to have a great golf course and hopefully we're going to have a great golf course in probably ten years from now. But it's concerning. And these concerns were brought up. So and I just want to put this in perspective, we paid 12 million, 12.5 million for Sunset Golf Course to purchase it, 12 1212 in addition to the 30 million that we're spending to make it better. So it's a $42 million project currently, and who knows what's to come. But it's concerning because we're using moneys to make something that everyone didn't seem to. And I will say at the time it was like, oh, this is the best thing we're doing. Let's keep giving money. Because it wasn't just one tranche, it was two tranches, if I'm not mistaken, possibly three that we had to keep giving to make a golf course in another area better. But at the end of the day, it'll it'll benefit, I guess, all of Hollywood residents. But still, the uncertainty is orange Brook Golf Course, which we've had and we've stated here, perhaps we need to put that in some type of ordinance or rule of thumb that it will get developed. That would be my first suggestion. Second suggestion would be if the golf course is a profit and it's going to go into a prize, that money should solely be directed towards the development of sunset. If it hasn't been done thus far, and then move on to orange Brook or vice versa, or both, it shouldn't be used for anything else in the city, parks wise, because we've already borrowed money to make

ends meet on the other ones. You understand what I'm saying? I don't know how we can formulate that, and I'm just thinking off the top of my head. But these concerns have been brought forth many times, and it's frustrating. It's frustrating because we can't move forward with a project that we have been fighting with when originally, when we sat here or when I sat here and Commissioner Hernandez and Commissioner Biederman sat here, sunset Golf Course was up for $2.5 million. We could have bought it then. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, and we didn't. And then it was, I think, some crazy 7.8 million. And now it was 12 when we finally bought it. But what I'm saying is, let's be good stewards of our money. Let's make a decision here as a body to make sure that the profit, not the capital improvement that's going to be set aside, but whatever profit that generates from that golf course at the Hollywood Beach Golf Course will go into solely the development of Sunset and Orange Brook as we move forward. Not for some other project that's going to come down the path or something of that nature. That way, it provides a hard stop and a guarantee that we're going to be able to get these projects that we've devoted ourselves to doing to get done. Now, it's not going to be millions like we think, but it will be a stream of revenue that's coming in to make sure we follow suit. I don't know if anyone thinks that that's a good idea. How do we implement that? I don't know, but it is extremely frustrating. The amount of money that we have taken to develop one area, and we now have these two projects on the books that we can't get done. It's frustrating. Beyond means, well, I will say we are going to get these projects done. Vice mayor I certainly and we all are obviously on track to do that. Not all the dollars are at hand today sitting in an account, but as you know, year to year, we're going to, of course, have things. And let's remember on the orange Brook P3, the way in which it was negotiated, any

and all entitlements that are are procured are the expense of the of the P3 partner become the property of the city, you know, if they were to walk away. And so we're forced so much farther along in terms of the entitlement to develop the orange Brook property into what the P3 and the vision is, is that, you know, if push came to shove, we needed to find a new partner in the future, which again, I have 99%. I'm sure that this is going through. But if if that is the case, we still have that same structure that will, I think, finance the development of orange Brook. So I don't see, as we've said, any, any risk in what's where we are. I mean, all roads are at full speed ahead. George. Mayor, vice mayor, Commissioner, let me let me say this on the record, just so that and I would be hesitant to say that if I didn't honestly believe it, but more importantly, that based on the track record, if you look at what this city has done over the last several years and you know not only to others, but especially the DCM staff with Alex and Nicole and Jose and everyone there, what's happened with all those major projects in terms of on budget and timely and successful, you rarely see that in a general obligation bond program in local government to be that efficient. And that's unfortunately true. And fortunately, we're on the plus side of that. We also have a very, very solid, positive partner in the Orange Project. And we're very confident that that project, along with the other ones that we directly have, have managed, will get done and will get done properly and successfully. So I wouldn't say that on the record if we didn't honestly believe that. And we're making that commitment to you in terms of the idea about where to stream some of those potential future revenues, you can do that. You don't have to make a decision now, because in the very near future, we'll be having, you know, kicking off with the fiscal season and you'll have opportunity to say some things there as well as workshops to follow. Obviously, those streams are going to take some

time to develop downline and you'll be able to do that. It's it's a little bit easier with orange Brook because that is part of the Golf Enterprise Fund. Sunset is not it is not an active golf course. It is now part of our holding as an open space and park property. So that would be a little bit trickier. Not that it can happen, but good thoughts and you just don't have to make that decision right now though. But that is open for you down the road. Okay. I do have one question. If you could refresh my memory in reference to the orange Brook Golf Course, how we have hard stops such as 1301 where if it goes beyond, there's a fee that's paid if it doesn't get built, do we have that with orange Brook? I can't recall if we did or not. Granted, I am fully confident that they will be able to get that done. It's just that fear of unknowing and some of the ship drivers are not going to be here in a year, meaning myself, Commissioner Biederman and Commissioner Shoham. So, you know, I have full confidence in whoever steps in and guidance by the staff. But we really have been driving the nail, you know, and it's concerning because these things aren't in place. So it's kind of like leaving it like pie in the sky. Not that I don't have confidence that it will get done, but going back to is there a fee that if it doesn't get built in a certain time, that there's looking right now? See if Raylan remembers of having been close to the contract, if there's some some elements in there. Let's see you guys want to pick this up during comments, but I just want to close out this item. But well, no, no, no. Let's keep this going if you don't mind, mayor. And the reason being is it was open. We were discussing it and then it brought in extra conversation. So let's just finish it, if you don't mind. Let's do it. So in that particular agreement, there aren't payments to continue the agreement, but there are benchmarks that they need to hit. And right now they're on target for all of those benchmarks. They would be obligated to come back to the

commission and ask for extensions if they needed them. I say that, of course, also recognizing that with the governor's executive orders related to the tolling of certain development agreements, there are extensions that developer agreements are entitled to that are at the control of the state. At the moment, they are 100% on target. I speak with Miriam or their attorney, probably weekly, on this project. They are going through the planning process in addition to going through the environmental approvals and the surface water management approvals that are needed, they now have gotten feedback from Broward County that they are on target with all of a meeting, all of the stormwater requirements that Broward County would have for this site. And they have spent an unbelievable amount of time with our staff and with our stormwater consultant to make sure that they have a project that not only works for the next ten years, but works for the next 30 years and 50 years, accommodating all of the stormwater that Broward County has said needs to be accommodated on this site, as well as that our stormwater master plan says. So that was Herculean task number one, which they have rose to the occasion and tackled admirably with the same commitment that our staff has brought to that process. They were right there working hard on that. They also have been meeting with the county. They're going to be coming before the Planning council on January 29th to get the next phase of their land

use, all or of their planning. Excuse me? All, you know, moving forward, staff will be there at that meeting as well. And that is sort of the traffic flow in and out of the site and how that progresses. So, you know, they are moving right along and you all will be seeing their updated with all of these, this feedback that they've been getting to meet all of the regulatory requirements, their updated design and site plan, which continues to meet all of the requirements that were laid out in the general obligation bond vote, as well as the multiple meetings that they've had with the residents regarding things that they wanted to see, the walking path, the, you know, you name it. So it's it's been they've been an incredibly diligent and detailed partner to this point. It is a very complicated project. And so I appreciate that there is concern. But staff, city staff, you all our development partner, are all incredibly committed to this project. Yes. Agree I think that that's great information. Thank you. Raylan. In addition to the sunset, Alex, if I can ask you a couple more questions. It's not just the state, isn't it the county as well, that we have to work with for taking water off of the roads, because Johnson Street is a county, several of the the permit requirements are in Broward County and Fdep. And then I guess my last clarification, if you don't mind, the berms are to prevent the water, not to take it off of the neighborhood, but to prevent it from going into the Seton Canal. Correct? I'm not positive. I mean, I know for in general, all property you need to contain contain the water within itself, within itself. Exactly. Right. So I think that there was an issue with it running into the Seton Canal. But I would encourage Miller

Clegg to look into for years. This was a golf course, and for years the water runoff went into the seats and canal. And now all of a sudden, you know, this can't be done. Whether it's DEP and environmental, all these new changes that are coming across. But what was that percentage that was allowed and how come it's so significant? I think that that gives us a little bit of leverage to look into, because I'm talking years that it would run off. And prior to that, it was a tomato farm and there was fertilizer and nutrients. So years it's gone into the Seton Canal. So what is that limitation? I think that that will give us a little break. And in addition to that, the capping that we talked about, the prior owner brought in sludge or limestone, whatever it was. And I feel like that really created more damage than good to that area. So is there I don't know what abilities we have as far as. I don't like to use the word but lawsuit in reference to putting something illegal or that was not. Is there anything that we can look into to recover some of that costs to prevent? It wasn't it wasn't. I just want to for the record, it wasn't it was something that the county had authorized as clean, a clean and permissible way to cap it. And it still remains the way, the way that it was an abundance amount of it. Well, it it was permitted and as far as we know, it was done so appropriately. Now, whether or not the initial environmental assessments that will be done now going forward shows us anything differently than that. Let's wait until we get that information to see if there's anything else. Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Hernandez, you wanted to chime in? I'm not happy. The lime sludge is

constituted as clean fill. It's not the preferred fill, but it's constituted as clean fill for the purposes that we're doing it, which it was capping the thing. And I'll wait my turn so that I could ask my a couple questions, but it's clean fill material. Commissioner Biederman, thank you. So I'm all in for making sure we finish this project. I know there was some challenges over the years, but just a couple touch base on a couple of things. One is the golf course. We put a lot of money into Hollywood Beach. I mean, money after money. Like they kept coming back for overruns, so to say. We've been on target and under budget on all these projects we've done is just not accurate, especially since we're still waiting for neighborhood signage. But I'm all in for making sure this project, you know, comes to completion. I think the money's all accounted for for this, right? With the grants we've had and the money we've put in from orange Brook. Right, Adam? For the half, half. Adam. Well, we have $7.5 million grant with a $7.5 million match that we have already identified the funds for coming from, from the orange Brook money that was done back in 2023, I believe, is when that money there and then we also have two grants that we're waiting on, which is a $1.5 million Land Water Conservation Fund grant and a $500,000 cultural facilities grant. So where's this 2.5 coming from, though? Is this coming from the seven and a half from orange Brook or is it coming from. Well it's two. We're taking $2.2 million. We had already put aside 300,000 as seed money for design for this project years ago. This 2.2 million would be coming from orange Brook for the total contract of 2.5 million. Okay.

Can you beyond the 7.2 that was left prior to today, can you give us a breakdown in an email later on of the 24 million from orange Brook? Yes. And you had mentioned 6 million is coming from orange Brook. Where do the other 6 million for Hollywood Beach come from? Do we know 5.7 million? That was that came from the stormwater fund, 6.2 million that came from the orange Brook money from the Gobi. Okay. And then the original allocation, which was a little over $12 million for the Hollywood Beach Golf course project. Okay. So my issue with the Hollywood Beach project, which I've mentioned before when others were supporting unlimited funds, was that we are creating a golf course with taxpayer money to lease it to somebody that's going to make a ton of money off of it. And we're getting, you know, a base price, but we're we're not getting the lion's share of the proceeds from orange from Hollywood Beach. That was my issue with it. So if if the lease money is going to the golf course enterprise Fund so that it can be part of, you know, ongoing maintenance for our three golf courses. I'm okay with that. It's got to stay in the golf course enterprise fund for whatever, you know, we're using it for. If we are and I'm talking about the golf course right now, I'll get back to sunset in a minute. But if for some reason we don't have a completion from the developer that we are currently dealing with, remember we always have the old police station site that we're going to hopefully sell or do something with to fund orange Brook if we need to. But orange Brook could also do a revenue

bond, which I've talked about for 13 years already to to redevelop and to. Bring back to, for lack of a better term, glory days, getting back to sunset. A couple of questions I have for sunset is we already talked about the drainage part. Are we using purple pipe at sunset at all or are we using or does anybody have that answer? If we've talked about using purple pipe over there that explain what that is. Sure. So purple pipe is for reclaimed water for irrigation purposes. So that will be one of the things we'll have to look at the capacity that we have adjacent to the park there. And if there is capacity, we will be using reclaimed water, because I think it's very important that we do that. Also, we had a presentation at the Water Advisory Board meeting at the county last week, and one of the things they talked about was a project in the north end of the county where they're going to do PFAS elimination process, where they're going to kill the PFAS in our water through a whole process. And that is going to they're going to have an education center and a water park being developed that I was thinking that we could do here, but it's a very small site, and we already have all the plans for it, but it might be something that we could look into as part of possible expansion of the sewer, the sewer plant or something else we're doing. I sent the presentation to Ray Lynn and Chris O'Brien, and then to see what's going on and to maybe relay the message back to us.

And I covered everything. Thank you. All right. I think that covers everyone. Can we get to you or go ahead. Thank you. Could you send that presentation to us as well? Sent it to Ray land. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to send you the video. My couple of questions. The the berming that you plan on doing and what have you. You can utilize the top layers that is there that it's actually capping the arsenic right now. And based on the level of arsenic, you may be able to place that material, as you said, in an area in order to be capped, which includes parking lots. It includes buildings and anything else that we may need, including the road and what have you. As long as you have the ability to use the material in site, it will be contained the rest of the site. So I want everyone to know that the biggest issue here that we have is the material that it was allowed to be brought in, even to some of our objection, which is the lime sludge. And if you're looking to remove that from the site right now, you're looking at tens of millions of dollars to do that. The site won't be done. At least I don't believe that the taxpayers will have the appetite to pay that kind of money to remove it. However, you have the ability to use that material for berms and other areas, which looks like we may be able to use. So I think that the first thing we need to do is once you do, your environmental will have a better light as to what can we do, can be done and how it can be done. In order to meet some of the desires for the commission, I think we spent over an hour here to try to go back and forth and what have you, when in fact the main thing has yet to be done, which is the engineering to come back and the testing. Having said that, I think that some of the concerns that have shown here about how much money goes into this park versus another park, I think is a big the crux of

the conversation that we've been having, because it seems like that for one part of the city, it doesn't matter how much you spend, you have the ability to do it in other parts of the city. We need to be cautious about how much money we spend and bless you. And so that's the one thing that some of the residents are up in arms about, is we're the same taxpaying as anybody else is, so please go forward with that. But I want the Commission to be assured that I don't believe in the history of the golf courses in the city of Hollywood. The city of Hollywood has ever made any money. I think that the operators of those golf courses have made all the money. But if you're counting on some of the profits from those things to come in order to pay something else, don't hold your breath. Because in the history of the city Hollywood, it of has never happened with the golf courses have made any money. There are tourist attraction and therefore they will bring some dollars to the neighborhood and to the businesses and to the area. And there is a comfort area for some of the residents of the city of Hollywood to play golf, to be able to do it or to visit the amenities. But it has never been a money generator in the history of the city of Hollywood, and I don't believe that it will be, but something like this. It would not only be a feel good for the residents of Hollywood, it would be something they can call their own. And the enterprise part of something like this would be a benefit from all of the residents of the city, Hollywood via drainage. So and it's much needed in the area. So I think that if we're looking to invest any money in any sizable amount, it's going to be something like this in order to do that. At the same time, since we're mentioning orange Brook and the P3 and everything else, there's another opportunity there to regain some money from the dot, because the dot is one of the largest generator of water that we have that needs drainage. But I believe that there's some already agreements in place

where we may not be able to charge the Department of Transportation to take some %f their water. I don't know, because I do know that right next to the railways, they did it huge drainage. And I think the overflow is actually orange Brook. So whatever opportunity we have in order to make money in a silent way, but in a positive way, I think the city should, should take advantage of that and work towards that. But as far as the other, I think until you have your environmental, we're not going to be able to know whether you're going to be able to cap that, as you mentioned earlier, or utilize the excess material that you will have, because you will have some extra. I think it was a few hundred thousand cubic yards of, if not more of lime sludge. They come in and the key is whether that lime sludge and the filtration of the lime actually help reduce some of the arsenic in the, in the sublayer, if you would. So I think we still we and that may very well be the case. But we all objected to this happening. And being that it was private property and the county said it was okay to use, and the issue that I had was it was used as if it was a land dump for this particular product, which is not normally allowed anywhere else. But for whatever reason, it was allowed to be done. So now we're dealing with it. But in order to remove that, it would be cost inhibited to do so. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Just looking at things optimistically now. The lime could have very well helped to some of the remediate some of the arsenic in it, number one and number two and elevation. It needed to be filled no matter what. Yeah. So no matter what it needed to be capped. So they used that. But we may be able to use that sludge for since it's already dry. The kidney sludge is to make sure it's dry. If it's dry then you can shape it. You can do different things to it, and the water that comes after it doesn't soften it, but it doesn't put it on the same thing. Because what in essence, lime sludge, what it does is it filters the impurity and the

iron in the water, but it holds the water for an extended period of time. Once is drained of that, then you have the ability to use it, including mix it. So we may wind up that the arsenic that it's there can be mixed and put in balm and do something like that. So it we're too early to tell what can be done. I just don't want to miss the opportunity to be able to utilize that park for something, that it could be beneficial, and it will bring in revenues years and years to come in a very passive way. Yeah. The only thing I'll add is, as the conversation was ongoing, I thought to myself, well, if you know some of the material on the site, no matter which layer it is right now, it needs to be concentrated in an area or moved out of the way of a particular area. We can use it to our advantage to create like a hill or like a, you know, a big elevation that we otherwise would have never really thought to do. But it could be a feature of the park, which could be a super tall, you know, hill somewhere. It's 45 acres to work with. Yeah, absolutely. And I think I think also it helps add to the resiliency of the park, you know, those those key infrastructure elements, the community center, the roadway that can be actually elevated, you know, and then that really makes them more resilient to sea level rise and those types of things. Gotcha. All right. Well let's let's we've always been optimistic. And we're we're in a spot here that we've wanted to get to over ten years. And we have the dollars and we have a big grant. And we're here with a design. We've got the engineering firm that Patty and Karen worked on and thought was an excellent firm. So we have we're in a we're in the best place we've ever been with regards to sunset. And the environmental conditions over time could have only gotten better. Only natural attenuation could have reduced levels of whatever was there when it was a golf course, not elevated them. So let's let's keep moving forward. We've got a beautiful result in Hollywood Beach. We've got a beautiful design in orange Brook. And we're going to we're lined up to, to complete all three of them successfully. And so thank you all so much. Pat. Do we

have a motion on on this motion to approve. All right. Let's let's motion to approve from Commissioner Hernandez. Second from Commissioner Callery to approve the resolution for item 39 and retaining Miller leg to provide the architectural engineering services for Sunset park and the master plan. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The item carries with jazz hands. That's the silent way of clapping for anyone who thinks I'm strange on TV. All right, it is not 5:00. But that does conclude our regular agenda. Thank you. Mike. Mike, I think for the most part, the discussion we had, Mike was probably good for your own. You know, for you hearing all of the different, you know, accounts of history that a lot of the commissioners have here, it was only, I think, helpful for you to hear these different brainstormed ideas. So thank you. Yeah, it was worthwhile, I think heartache for some worthwhile for others. All right. It is 315. Let's go ahead to comments by the city commission, city attorney, city manager, if any. Let's go ahead to Commissioner Biederman. Commissioner Biederman, I already said what I had to say. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Quintana. Thank you. Mayor. So let's see which of the things do I want to say first? I guess, given the conversation that we just concluded, I think I've brought it up before up here about the needs for improvements of the community centers in district six, Washington Park Community Center, and the Gaither Community Center, where there's some restrictions to when the building can be used. And we

have made I know that Ricky has made some great efforts to hire people so that we can at least now be open to the general public on the weekends. But in general, the condition of the Washington Park Community Center really needs attention. The bathrooms are need attention, and much of the inside really is outdated. So once again, I want to put it on the record that we all support the idea of trying to allocate some funds to make those improvements in the community centers happen. So we're good with that. Okay, good, good. I just and when that will happen, hopefully sooner rather than later. If I could get some idea of when that will happen, I would appreciate it. I would like to. I would like to just invite everybody to come out and be Greek for a day this weekend, the Greek Festival, the annual Greek festival at the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church is happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you've never been, you're really missing out. Fantastic fun and food. And on February 1st, we have a very special day coming up, if you would. I wanted to just share some pictures of the history of the party on the Jay, the Johnson Street business district, those small businesses that are around Johnson Street between 56 and 60 fourth, and along what is now called the seven, have been working together with the community that surrounds them for 13 years to how how do we really make our small businesses understand and be an integral part of our neighborhoods? And because of where the Johnson Street businesses are located, many of them multiple generations, have

run these businesses 30, 40 years out there. And so excited that if you'll hold on to that picture, I'm so excited that we did have a hiatus of Covid. And when the sewer installation happened on Johnson Street, we weren't able to do it for six years. But the folks who were the original pioneers and starting the Johnson Business District, when I hear them talk about when this whole thing started and their little eyes light up when they think back to how we walked together to every business owner to get engagement from everybody. This was yesterday when only half of the businesses that are participating got together to plan what we hope will be the best one yet. And everyone is so excited. All of these business owners are so excited to welcome you to come. If you haven't been before or if you've come before, come and see how it's evolved. We're going to have live music, we're going to have activities for children. It's called the International Music, food and Art Festival, so you'll get a little bit of each. So come bring your kids, join us. It's Sunday, February 1st from 12 to 4. Mark your calendar. Thank you to our CMD department for helping to spread the word. And thank you to our parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department for everything they're doing to make this successful. I know it's a lot of work, but you all have shown from the centennial year that you can really offer excellent programing for our residents. So I just wanted to extend that as part of my comments. Thank you so much for Quintana. Let's go to Commissioner Shuhan. Thank you mayor. First, I wanted to congratulate Russell Long. It's my understanding he was named Building Official of the year for Broward County. So

hats off to Russell.   He always does a fabulous job. I just also wanted to remind everybody that our half priced parking for Hollywood residents was extended in the fall. So it's citywide, not just at the beach like it used to be. So if you are a Hollywood resident, please go on our website and register and make sure that you're taking full advantage of the discount parking rates that we have to offer. I wanted to extend my gratitude to Cassandra myers and her staff for meeting with me and some concerned residents yesterday about a particular canal area in the city. They were prepared and professional and I think alleviated concerns and expressed their willingness to continue to work with the residents. So I just wanted to say thank you to all of those folks who are on the call. I wanted to share that Sheridan is going to be closed for 72 hours starting last night, from federal to a-1a. Local traffic can get through only to, I think, 14th Street and actually at the bridge. No go. You can't cross over the Sheridan Street bridge for the next. Well, probably now it's about 50 hours. Also, I wanted to let everyone know that the county's project in building new dunes on the beach has commenced. I was out there this morning and they're all set up and ready to go. It's going to be an incredible project. It took a long time and we're very excited and grateful to Broward County for helping us with that. Two things I would like to get support from the Commission, to have staff look into. The first is, as all of you know, both by

county and city ordinance, seawalls on private residents are going to become a significant issue throughout the city. They'll have to be raised to the heights required by Broward County and in Fort Lauderdale and several other cities. Their staffs are looking at incentives to use instead of just straight concrete or sheet metal seawalls to give an incentive to homeowners, developers, whoever needs to do it to put in living seawalls. And that can be a multitude of things. But basically it's material and shapes that are designed to encourage growth on the wall, as opposed to when you just have a straight concrete wall or steel wall, nothing grows. So with if I could get support to have staff reach out to Fort Lauderdale, I think Miami also and see what their staffs are considering for to incentivize living seawalls and come back to us and let us know and let us decide if that's something that we want to do. I think, for example, in Fort Lauderdale, they're contemplating waiving or reducing some permitting fees. If you use a living seawall versus not. And it really seems like a great opportunity to maximize living seawalls. So do I have support for staff to reach out to those other cities? Yeah, I would just say city manager. And previously there was you know, when we support something this is for informational report back, not not for a proposed ordinance or anything. And it might lead to that. But just informational memo on on what the what the options are. And then commissioner will bring back if she likes one of the ideas and for support to go beyond that, that's fine. The other idea I spoke with one of the commissioners from Hallandale the other day, and if you'll recall, recently we talked about how our bike share had have they basically have disappeared. And we asked staff to go back and see what's happening. Can we look at bike shares and the idea, as I understand what we had before,

you could rent a bike in Hollywood, but you had to return it where you rented. In other words, you couldn't cross city lines. So with support, I would like staff to reach out to our neighboring cities to see if there's an opportunity for a regional bike share so that you could maybe even beyond Broward, but at least Hallandale, Hollywood, Dania, and you could ride up and down the coast and not have to go back to where you started to return the bike. So it's just, again, for informational purposes. I know there's complexities as far as revenue sharing and how that all works, but if we could have somebody from our staff maybe reach out to these other cities in conjunction with our prior request about reinstating some of these bike share, and instead of just making it citywide, maybe making it East Coast and even like you should be able to ride. And I think you've mentioned this before, mayor, you should be able to ride your bike to Miami on bike lanes, but you should also be able to use a bike share, you know, like in New York City, you get your city bike, you return it anywhere. That's the idea. So do I have support for staff, again for informational purposes, to look at a regional bike share amongst our neighboring cities, I like it. Okay, again, just for informational purposes. Yeah, sure. On that. Go ahead, Commissioner Hernandez. Thank you. Mayor, when we're talking about a bike sharing program, we're talking about a program where somebody rents a bike, their electric bikes, and they drop it off in the middle of the sidewalk anywhere else you want in order to do that. That's the one thing that I wouldn't want to see. No, no, we always have that. That's that. No, to me, that's what you're talking about. If you're going to go regional and I just want to make sure that we don't, that's not. No, I think I think what was referred to was in the model of the old Be cycle, where it was a station and the bicycle gets affixed to a, to a, to a port, you know, to like a holder and then, you know, it gets that's what brownie had a big program but I don't know. And they've done I believe that they've done away with it because it wasn't successful,

because the idea of something like that was in order for the bike to be freedom type, where you can leave it anywhere else. And that's if that is what we're talking about. I just want you guys to know that if you want something that is docked and you have to return it to a dock, I think we may be opening ourselves to wind up by having bicycles all over the place. I just want to be clear on that. I don't think most cities are allowing that. No, no, we're talking about returning to a dock return. Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to know. I think that's a great point. Yeah, I think that's a great point. A lot of cities have learned their lesson on both bikes and scooters being left all over the place. And the reason that the county wasn't successful, because they were pretty much the only ones that were doing it, and that's the reason why they didn't do it. So I don't know how much work you want the staff to do in order to bring it back to us, because now if we're talking about reaching to other cities and other multiple cities in order for this to take place, how much how do you procure it? How do you. Yeah, how do you procure it? And how much time staff do you want this to take place in order to bring it back? And quite frankly, I think this is something that the county should have been the one leading that effort in order for the cities to buy into it, rather than us working on something like this. I think that's a bigger bite, if you would, than than the city of Hollywood. I don't mind the concept. I think it's a great concept. And then the next question would be, is it pedal bike or is it e-bike? So those are the questions that I don't want staff spending a great deal of time when I think that this is something that transportation wise, the county should be the lead on this, I think it's definitely a good idea to include the county in the conversation and me personally. And after speaking with the chief, I don't think e-bikes would be a part of this because we have so many problems already. But those are all discussions. But I love the idea of including the county in those conversations as well. Let me just add, if I could Carol on that, just to close it

out from my point of view, in terms of what I expect from staff, is, is there interest from the neighboring cities? Yes. Yes. No, no. And then what would be the procurement approach? And then a memo to us and we'll take it from there. Perfect. Hold on. Just commissioner, hold on. Commissioner Biederman said. Mayor. And I'm thinking he wants to chime in on this topic. Go ahead. So I think what Commissioner Hernandez said, it was a Broward County thing, right? I think it still should be Broward County thing. If you go to Miami Beach, they have them up and down from Collins Avenue, from fifth Ave, from fifth Street to like 90 something, I guess 80 something. And that's the way it would work. So I mean, I agree that it's city by city, but it should be a county thing with maybe an interlocal agreement with the cities. Okay. Very quickly. This time is up Commissioner. Go ahead really quick. This morning. Bob Glickman mentioned the potholes. Joseph, I don't know if you were here. Potholes on the west span of Hollywood Boulevard bridge. If you could please get with fDOT and make sure that's addressed and raelyn in just to address what Commissioner Quintana was discussing, I recall that I thought we had already approved a survey of all of our city community centers. What's the status of that survey? Yeah, and that's it. What's the status of that? Correct. DCM is working on that survey. And there is a consultant that has been brought on to assess. And so they've gone to each of the facilities, met with staff, looked at the conditions and they're working on the report. Excellent. That's all I have. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. All right. As Commissioner Quintana said that she left something out. And so, please,

thank you so much for your grace there. So I with all of the efforts that Adam Reichbach is making to reach out to all the civic associations to help educate our residents about the property tax bills. I realized that district six really doesn't have civic associations west of Park Road, so I am just looking for your support in the idea of having a community forum for district six that just focuses on educating. That's not tied to any civic association, but just inviting district six residents to a community forum on that topic. On which topics are on the property tax bills that are and the impact, I would think the appropriate time to do that. But hold on. I think the time to do that is once we know what's going to come out of the legislature. I mean, for right now, there's so much spitballing happening on property tax that it's hard to even approach. You know, what the actual issue is? We don't need to cause panic one way or another. Educating the public, mayor. And I mean, just saying the timing matters. I'm not I don't disagree. I just think the timing go ahead, go ahead. So part of the challenge with that is that once there is ballot language, the city is restricted on its ability to provide that information to our residents without it crossing the boundaries between education and advocacy. Okay, so by doing this now, without any official ballot language, we're able to at least educate the residents, albeit, granted, we're not sure what what of those bills will make it through, but at least it's providing some guidance to them as to what impact there will ultimately be impact with any of those bills granted to varying degrees of impact. But there will be impact with those. To me, anything that you would have to say about the topic would be educational. You know, the way you would lay it out. And if you describing impacts to me, that's educating the

public on the ramifications of X. Listen, I'm not opposed. All I'm saying is, you know, having something more tangible to talk about is probably the right time. Mayor. Actually, I've been talking since I got here about the need to do a better job of educating our residents about what their property taxes pay for, that we need to make it more engaging because when we talk, budget speak or passive situations where we're just giving a lot of information to people, they zone out because it doesn't mean anything. So actually, there is some time sensitivity for it now, but I've been wanting to do this since I got here. No objection by my part. Not at all. Thank you. Anybody? Everybody's all right. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. All right. Commissioner Hernandez, let's see. Let you up here. Go ahead. Thank you. Mayor. The one issue in the downtown is parking. Parking is it's a work in progress. There's going to be complaints. We're going to address those, and we're going to see what it is and what we can do regarding this one is Fillmore and Pierce Street. And at some point we're going to be going south. At some point, we're also going to be trying a one way pilot program, see if we can generate more parking in a better flow in the nearby areas, find forgiveness on the it's been extended for six months, if that is, if somebody correct me if I'm wrong, is that correct? That's correct. Commissioner. I just want people to know that if they were, they missed the opportunity to bring their property into compliance and have their liens forgiven, they still have six months in order to do so. And we hope that they do, because our goal is compliance, not necessarily. To find or be egregious to anybody. The Pen program have some language that I'd like for you guys to consider and I need support. I would like support

from you guys regarding the pen and the financial assistance that the city provides to some of the organization. And one of the things that we're looking for is civic associations applying for the Pen grant must submit the names and address of all board members, or board members must reside within the boundaries of the Civic association to be eligible for funding. Is that that's the only change that we're looking to do. I'd like to get some feedback from you guys. Yes, sir. Commissioner Biederman, I have an addition to that request. Well, I'm just saying, is that something that we can live with? Before we go to your other additions? And the reason that I say that is because I'm okay with that part, but I have an addition. I would love to hear your request. Yes, sir. So I think since we have to have term limits in our commission seats, because that is what our voters wanted, as opposed because we don't want under the theory of not having long term politicians that get stale or accumulate too much time in office. Perpetual. That's not what the word I'm looking for, but influence. I think that we need to have term limits amongst our the presidents of our associations. And I would add that to the requirement, in order to receive pen funds, because there are some association presidents that are just there forever, not giving others opportunities to become leaders in their neighborhoods and accumulate way too much influence amongst city staff and residents. Well, let's just interesting concept. Well, it's interesting and there's some

areas that it will or will not work. Mine was only to the Civic Association applying for the Pen grant must submit the names and addresses of all board members. Period. All board members must reside within the boundaries of the Civic Association to be eligible for funding. In other words, if you live, if you live in a neighborhood in the area you're representing, then you're eligible for funding. But if you live in another part or another city or somewhere else, then the city should not be rewarding that that's that's how I see it. Do I have support for that? I support that, I think it just, you know, ensures the integrity of the representation, the neighborhood nature of the, of the board. And I would say officers and board members. Okay. I'm good with that. Anybody else I need I need four altogether. I do have a Q I'll support that with the addition that I had. Well, I don't know if I can get your addition because that's not I'm looking for this. If I can support this then we can talk about your addition. So right now I only have two. Do I need. Let's go to the Q if I could let's we've got commissioners Quintana, Vice Mayor Gruber and Commissioner Quintana thank you. And somehow some way we're going to make it to 5:00 everybody I mean, go ahead, go ahead. Okay. So chiefs and public safety, you guys are excused. No I'm kidding. When I first started the civic association for my neighborhood, it was a different time. It was pre-COVID. And still I had some difficulties recruiting people to want to be engaged in their civic association. Since I've become elected and I can no longer be a leader in my civic association, I have begged everybody I know in my neighborhood, and I haven't been able to get them to step up anyone to take on that role. I'm concerned because as it stands, I mean, I think there's all kinds of research about

people, you know, with technology being what it is. And more and more people are not civically engaged. People are more and more kind of staying home with their devices. And I'm I'm to the first part of what you're proposing, Commissioner Hernandez, about the address. I do remember that on Sundays we had to list the officer's names and addresses, but I'm concerned that if we put a lot of restrictions on who can participate, we're going to have a lot less civic engagement, even as right now, I think the civic associations are struggling to keep their membership up and engagement going. So I'm like, that's where my thought is right now is, how is this going to affect general participation of our residents and civic? I'm actually speaking to lawmakers this Sunday because they're about they're considering that they may have to disband their civic association, which has existed for, I think, 40 years, because they can't get engagement from the people in the neighborhood. So, I mean, that's where my concern is with putting a lot of additional requirements. It's not an additional requirement. It's only for pen. Yeah. It's only it's only for the funding. So in other words, if if you association has people from outside of of you boundaries, then you wouldn't be eligible for the money. But I'm not putting any other restrictions on the association whatsoever. They can do whatever they want or if not, if you don't like that idea, why don't we just do away without the funding and let them continue to act the way they are? I just think that it's hypocritical that we have similar to what Commissioner Kevin just said. Commissioner Biederman just said the we have term limits. We also have to be elected from a geographical boundary. The state requires

you to have a geographical boundary on your civic association. And yet we're willing to forego all of that just to to be able to to give them money. I think that sends the wrong message. If we have to abide by our charter and we have to abide by certain rules, why should we give money to somebody that lives in a completely different district and claims to be representing an area that they know nothing about? They don't live there. They don't own any property there. And yet their bylaws says you supposed to live in this area or you're supposed to have property here. Why are we rewarding them? If I could just get the conversation moving to get some additional feedback and then see if we have support for the concept. Commissioner, vice mayor. So I we all met with the pen leaders here in the city. And we had these discussions. And and while I understand your concerns, first of all, Commissioner Biederman love you. But we we are a paid position. We go out and campaign. We do. And we make really big decisions. These are volunteers. So I don't I don't agree with that because term limits are in place here for a reason. And it's a paid position. These are all volunteers. And volunteers are very, very important. So I'm I hear the concerns and I hear the issues. And first I want to say it's hard enough as it is getting volunteers. As you've stated, Commissioner Quintana, and we know some civic associations have an abundance amount of of attendees in certain areas, and then some areas just don't have enough. And that's currently I don't think it's going to change the dynamics. If there were criterias placed, either you're

engaged or you're not. We talk about it all the time. We talk. We're talking about property taxes. And people are just so busy. Just people are busy and they don't have time to be involved or volunteer or commit to civic associations that have changed quite a bit, because back in the past, they used to be just complaining and arguing about, you know, certain things. Now it's promotion of civic engagement, the happenings that are in the city, bringing people up to speed. And I think that, you know, with all of the venues of social media, Facebook posting, you know, Facebook Live, all of the things that people do, it makes it even harder for people to come or actually gives them an opportunity to be engaged but not attend. You know, this whole Pen project that started was, I think, to really promote engagement. And has it done that? I don't know, I don't know the statistics and I apologize for not asking during our meeting. Has the membership increased or has it stayed the same or has it decreased? But I think where this really all boils down to is having individuals shadow government is really what it boils down to. And while they have a voice and they have an opportunity to discuss issues. They shouldn't have the ability to dictate what happens in the commission. Voicing an opinion is one thing, but. What I've seen and I'm sure I'm going to get a nasty email in the next, you know, hour or so. But what I've seen is a force that's been sent to us, telling us this is we are the voice of all. And I don't think that that's true, just

based on the comments that have been made here today, where the lack of engagement is so limited in certain areas. So you're really not the voice of all. And I think that that's where these questions come up, because people have taken this authoritative position and really. And where the funding comes in is it's even made it, I think, a little bit worse or more challenging. But then on the flip side, and so the balance beam is these are volunteers. These are individuals who are putting in the time and effort to try to spread the word and to try to get the information out to, to help that. And that was the whole purpose of the pen was to provide that opportunity so that they could put the signs out in the neighborhood so that they can engage more people to come in. But I just don't think that that's actually happened. I think it's kind of stayed the same. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know who can speak on that. But if we've seen an increase by the promotion of the Pen funding to get more engagement, to bring people aware, like we talked about today, the scooters, you know, PSA report all of this information instead of a narrative and getting people against. That's where I think that there's the challenge. It needs to be neutral. It needs to be promoted, and it needs to just get people involved. And I don't know if that's actually been done. So while I understand, I don't know if I could 100% support without all the facts. Let me let me ask you something. I'm not looking for facts, just the concept. You support somebody claiming to be a member, not only a member, but a director of an association that doesn't live in that area, and the city gives them money for them to do their thing. You support that. I don't think it's so individual, but I don't think it's an individual. I think it's the promotion of a civic association as a whole that I

don't think that individual person is the one running it. Now. Maybe I'm wrong. There's more. There's multiple one. I can give you examples where more than one director don't live in the neighborhood that they that they claim that they're representing, and yet nothing happens in that association. It goes on and on. My point is, I don't have an issue when it comes to this, but let's send a clear message. We don't care if you live in Hollywood or live somewhere else. If you want to represent an area here in the city of Hollywood, you can and the city is going to give you money. I don't think that's a message that we want to send. That's what's happening out there right now. If you want to curb some of the shadow government that you talked about that exist, bring it, bring it to the neighborhood, bring it to the neighborhood. And that's what I'm trying to do. Let the neighborhood be the ones. And I get it. The volunteering is a problem. You know, at some point I volunteer for the things that I like to do, go into a civic association month after month, seeing the same people talking about the same thing. It gets boring and it gets old. But my hat's off to those individuals that actually live on that neighborhood and have no other alternative but to do something that's best for that neighborhood. And those are the people that I want to support, the people that live somewhere else, and they want to come here because it's convenient, because they're doing somebody else's bidding. Those are the people that I want to make sure that they don't get. They can do what they need to do what they want to do. But I want to make sure that those people don't get the funding from our taxpayers money in order to do that. Okay. So I just need support from 3 to 4 people and I support it. Okay, okay. Thank you. Let's just let's round out the discussion of this. I think you have support, Peter. But let's go to Commissioner Gruber and then shoot him. No, I just a couple questions like so if there's one person from an association and the whole association gets penalized, board member or officer, they don't. If you have a director from the association that doesn't live in that district, never mind the neighborhood. We're talking people that don't live in the district where they

claim to represent those issues. None of the issues that they bring up have to do from that particular area. But the only reason that they exist there is to be a thorn on somebody else's side. Those are the people that I don't think that we should reward. I agree with you on that. I agree with you on that. But I'm just thinking of situations. Well, district four doesn't really have many civic associations. We have plenty on estates and drift. But say, for example, when Emerald Hills had an association and the way the north side of Sterling is very wonky, like some of the streets are Dania, some are Fort Lauderdale. I could see somebody living on one of those streets that feels like they're living in Emerald Hills wanting to participate. It's an association doesn't exist, but we're just pretending here. They're welcome to. So in that example, all they need to do is describe their civic association as encompassing those other areas of Hollywood. That's it. Let's just call it Emerald. The Greater Emerald Hills Civic Association got it, got it, got it. And then and then aren't there some associations that in their bylaws don't allow for people that don't live there and some that do allow. Correct me. If so. So maybe I would see I wouldn't want to go against the bylaws of a civic association. We're not. And that's the reason why we're allowing for them to have their own bylaws. And their bylaws could say anyone from anywhere could be a director, could be a president, and you can do that. And then they just don't get funding from they don't get funded from. They can participate on the pen. They just don't get the benefit of the funding. And the reason that I say that is because there has been association the for years now have been violating their own bylaws by doing that. When I brought this to fruition, they changed their bylaws. And I'm okay with that. Just don't don't be cynical where you can pick and choose what you're going to do. Just if you don't, if you want to have other people. And by the way, I get some of the issues that were brought up. Were people actually doing more online time and time, and that makes it easier for them to

reach out a greater. Nobody's talking about the participation. We're talking about the core person of the association. The civic association should be from the neighborhood that they're representing. I agree with you on that. And and that's what I'm looking for support to do. That's all. Okay. Thank you. All right Commissioner, go ahead. I think my concerns were just expressed by Commissioner Gruber, and that is we should not get involved in the decisions by an association. So if their bylaws say one thing, then that's up to them who they elect, how long their terms are, whatever. I would hate for Alison or whomever on our staff to have to police these associations at the same time. I hear what you're saying, but I think that the avenue to accomplish your concern is to not police. Who's on a board of a private association. The avenue is to better police what the thousand dollars is being used for. Let me finish, please. These are private organizations, and they are deciding who they want to be on their board themselves. I can tell you on the east side of town, we have a lot of snowbirds. Florida may not even be their permanent address. In an analogous situation in my condo, which is very similar to a civic association, our president lives in Kentucky. She's the best president in the world, so I wouldn't want to deny someone the opportunity to be the president of the Hollywood Lake Civic Association. Maybe their parents, grandparents and children live there, but they happen to be resident of another town. Why? Why would we deny them $1,000 grant? But I don't disagree that the thousand dollar grant needs to be utilized for the betterment of the civic association. I'm not sure what happened that you're concerned with how that money is being used, but I don't think the city should inject itself into the operation of a private

organization. I don't think we should put our staff in the position of having to monitor private organizations, and I just feel like it's the money that we are controlling that the burden is on us to make sure that the thousand dollars is not being abused or misused. I don't disagree with that at all. But to say to an I mean, I would hate for the East Coast ones to not be allowed to get $1,000 because one of their board members doesn't live permanently in Hollywood. That happens a lot on the east side of town. So I don't really understand that. I don't see this as solving the concern. To me, solving the concern comes with better, and I don't want to say better, because I'm assuming we're doing it already. Before they get the thousand dollars, we get receipts. Whether I mean, we are monitoring that. So as long as they're spending their thousand dollars on their membership or something that their association's doing, what do we care? Let the person live on the moon, the association, the people that are members are electing them. Let the association decide if Mrs. Smith, who lives in Kentucky, shouldn't be their president. That's not up to us. What's up to us is to make sure the money that that association is getting is spent as this city and this commission decides that money is appropriately spent. And I'm assuming, Adam, you're nodding. We're asking for receipts before we're reimbursing. And that's I think that's the limit that I feel comfortable injecting us in the business of these associations. Thank you. All right. Well, that's that's an opinion. Everybody has an opinion on this. Peter. You asked for support on this particular concept. Yeah. Commissioner Biederman, hold on. I didn't see you in the queue. I usually hold on. I'm. My computer is not telling me. And now the the picture thing has gotten smaller. Hold on. You're on. So

I'm not a smooth talker, obviously. But my concern is, how could you pretend to represent the best interests of a neighborhood if you don't live there? That's why we have single member districts in the city of Hollywood, so that a commissioner that is elected by thousands of people to represent a section of the city has to live and be elected from that part of the city. So neighborhood associations should live up to the same standards of having somebody that is running that association, living in that neighborhood to represent those people, whether they're elected by five people or 75 people. That being said, even the PTAs have term limits. So I think that if we can't dictate what association does, but he who holds the gold makes the rules. And if we're going to support an association for capacity building, they should be living up to the standard that we set as a city body. So I totally agree with Commissioner Hernandez on this particular issue of making sure that our neighborhoods, our residents, that we are elected to represent are represented on a local level by the people that live there, thank you. And that they live there, too. Thank you. So all right, I think we're done on this. We have support. We have support. Yes. Anyone. Just raise your hand real quick if we support this. So there's a count. All right, all right. Let's go ahead to support for term limits. You know I don't disagree with it doesn't have to be one term two terms. It could be a certain set of terms so that you don't have that the there's no bullying involved because some whether you get five people or 50 people showing up, they're just going to vote for whoever's there because they're not going to go against the grain. And if they don't like the person that's there, they're not going to show up anymore, which is also

the case. A lot of people say, I'm not going to that meeting because I don't like that person. I don't they don't represent my interest. Why bother showing up? Let's see how this one works out. First, I don't I don't. If they're going to bring back a change to pen, let them bring back multiple changes. And if it gets voted on or it gets line itemed out, it can get line itemed out. I tell you that there's there's associations in my neighborhood where I used to live that you wouldn't be able to have an association if you have term limits because of the same issue, because of the fact that people are not willing to to participate. Having said that, they don't have problems. Do you know, I well, everybody's got problems. I think with the age of information and social media and all that, and maybe that civic association served the purpose years ago to be a conduit and a, you know, sharing information, a point where you can get information now that you can get it directly from the city, through email, through social media and all that. And and also, if they feel connected to their commissioner or their mayor, they maybe some people don't participate because they feel like they're up to date. And maybe that's some of the reason why. And so in any case, I think we do need to draw the line at our involvement and the management of the civic associations. And I think we have to admit that while maybe there is a a level of discomfort with people voting for a new president, you know, of a civic association when there's the same one is asking, a lot of times they do it in a closed ballot fashion and they do, you know, elect themselves or reelect officers and directors. They do it in a in a democratic way. And so I understand your point, Commissioner Biederman. I think it's healthy to to have term limits. We have them here. But I do think we do need to draw the line. And given that they do close ballot, you know, have elections every two years or whatever they have, I think that they can self-govern in that respect. So I say we draw the line somewhere, and I don't

think we need to impose the term limit, even though I agree with the commissioner on that. Go ahead. So I think, again, I'm going to go back to my original statement. I think that, you know, we initiated this Pen program for civic engagement. And as an incentive. But with that comes burdens and issues. So just do away with the incentive. That would be my answer, because I don't think we need to control people. I don't think that we need to dictate bylaws. I don't think we need to dictate term limits. This has been going on longer than any of us sitting up here. So when you dangle a carrot, sometimes you get a lot of other problems. So I would just say, you know, my my suggestion is I'm in support. But listening to everybody's comments just do away with the funding. Well, let me ask you, with the Pen program, let the civic associations go back to how they were running. And that eliminates the bureaucracy nonsense of us dictating or us controlling or us saying what should be. We're not we're not trying to dictate anything. And that was one of the by the way, no one had fought harder for their independence. And Alison and Adam, by the way, and this is the compromise of something like this, because you wouldn't want to penalize somebody who's doing the right thing all the time. And that's what would happen if we do away with the incentives. So. So, Peter, can I say something, though? Yeah, just say something to that. You have some civic association. I'm sorry. Let me collect. You have some civic some civic associations in your district that refuse to join the pen. Correct. And that are still running. Yeah. And so they have no effect on this whatsoever. And the reason why they refuse to join the pen is because how political the pen has become and how controlling it. No, I understand, look, I was I wasn't trying to kill the

program. I was just trying to stop the incentive for people that have become, as you said, preserve the integrity of the representation. Exactly. And that's what I'm looking for, because maybe that individual that doesn't want to join the pen will probably join the pen. Now, if it's a clean, they would see it. That is representation from the neighborhood that they're actually working with. And that's not the case. So let's see what Adam when he brings it back. And then at that point we'll have more of a discussion. Otherwise we will be here past 5:00 when it comes. That item is is completed. You have support for the thank you for the for the residency requirement for officers and board members. But, Commissioner Biederman, I feel like there's not support for the term limits. The board the commission doesn't want to go that far is the sense I get. And all I all I wanted to talk about was some of the things that are happening in downtown. And I don't know if I need your support for this or not, but I just want, if nothing else, to bring it clear to you. One of the things that we look that we're doing at the CRA that we talked earlier was to look for another consultant firm to tell us what we need in the downtown or not, rather than to do something like that if you guys are okay with it. And if staff could draft it, I could draft it. Allow me to do a letter from the district commissioner to the new residents that are coming into the area, and ask him for them to be able to do some kind of survey so they can tell us what they would like to see in the downtown area, to see if we can fill in some of those vacancies. Would you guys be okay with something like that? And all of us can participate on that letter if you guys want. It could come from you, mayor, but I think I think that if we're going to have that many new residents coming into the area, we should be asking them what they would like to see in the downtown, and maybe we can have a business that would last longer than six months in the downtown area. Are you guys okay with that? I would just say that, you know, if you're talking

about and all existing residents anywhere where the city can do it, I'm just thinking, as you proffer the good idea, say if you're if you live in one of the multifamily buildings and there's a room where you get the mail, there ought to be like a display, like a poster, a small one, whatever, that has a QR code and say, you know, help with survey, you know, to got ideas for downtown Hollywood. You know, city wants your feedback and they have a QR code, something like that. Plus I would love direct also, but I think we need to cover it in all angles because we want to get the feedback and I love it. Thank you, thank you. By the way, it wasn't my idea. It was one of my residents that says, why don't you try this? And I said, I'll bring it up, I liked it, I was planning on doing it, but I'd like to have the support from you guys as well. You just brought up another point. I'm sorry. Yeah. Commissioner Behrmann, the city does surveys all the time. I love the idea. I agree, but there needs to be more of an incentive. And I'm thinking that maybe we could do. Sponsored by one of the businesses in downtown, $100 gift card or something like that. And you draw one a week for people that are submitting their surveys this way. It encourages them to submit surveys, and it promotes those businesses that are donating gift cards. There's that carrot again, I like that. But here's the one thing that the mayor just touched up on. Sometimes our CMA produces a flier digital flier, but it doesn't get printed. In other words, I wouldn't be able to put it on some of those buildings. And there are some businesses that would love to be able to have those fliers printed in order for them to put on their window. Hispanic population throughout the city like seeing things. And I would ask if at some point, if we could actually, whenever they design a digital flier and if we request it for that flier to be printed, in order for us to take that to the businesses, is that something that hundred percent? Okay. So you guys anybody taking notes on this thing? No, I'm just saying okay. Thank you. So we do we do have listen I'll put it in a Tuesday. No but but

we have support for something like this. For example, some of the things that are happening Miramar Bakery which is in Hollywood, they would love to be able to see some of the salsa fest out West that we had. We didn't have the ability to do that. If they wanted to, they would have to print it themselves. We as a city need to be able to promote ourselves. That's all. And that's all. Mayor. And thank you all for your support. All right, let's go to Vice Mayor Kolody with anything or waive fat chance. Haha. Just I want to say, in addition to what the mayor had mentioned, attending the vanilla coffee and pastry ribbon cutting on Hollywood Boulevard and the circle was quite extraordinary. It was a beautiful little place. If you get the opportunity to go. The pastries look amazing. We got some free tastes and wow, wow. No, I'm not, not me. No. Oh, yeah. If you're. That wasn't me. That was him I attended. I had the honor of attending the on behalf of the city, the Italian American Club event on Saturday night and provided them with a proclamation. It was a great attendance. I wish I could have stayed, but I had to rush off to work. But they were very welcoming and very excited that the city recognized them. So thank you for allowing me to provide that proclamation. Commissioner Hernandez and Mayor, I'm going to sound like a broken record about the Engelmann Park, but thank you, Ricky, for getting this pavilion awning up and going in the next week or two. But parking still remains a very big issue. It's a very busy park. We build it and they have come and now we have an issue. It is. They did a survey the other day about where's the best place to go pickleball ING? And it was Stan Goldman Park. But the concern is parking and traffic. So you know I know

there are a lot of opportunities. Some are more costly than others. But there's a lot of suggestions that have been made. And we do need to do something because it is a big problem and people love the park and we don't want them to leave. So I am just putting that back out there for opportunities we talked earlier about. Sunset and the costs and as time goes by, costs continue to increase. And as we know, the cost for parking spot is extremely expensive. But we have to do something. And just so that everyone knows, North Central Civic Association is meeting this coming Tuesday. Unfortunately, the commission majority of us will be out of town fighting the good fight up at the state level. But anyone who is interested in attending please do so. It will be at the Rotary Park. I'm sorry, at the armory at 7:00 it starts and there will be a little time to memorialize our friend Karen Caputo. And so please, if you have the opportunity, residents that are out there or any staff to stop by, there'll be some pastries and some coffee and some kind words, and then we will be finalizing working with Miss Andric and the president of the North Civic Association, some type of memorial in the near future, and we'll keep you all posted. But thank you. That's all I have. Commissioner. I'm sorry, I forgot one thing Friday night. I just wanted to extend appreciation to park staff. Also, HPD fire everybody who was out there. We had a beautiful event at the MLK center for MLK Junior holiday and not very well attended, unfortunately. Maybe people thought it was going to be colder than it was because it was gorgeous outside. But staff did a beautiful job. Once again,

the music was amazing. They had the Junkanoo dancers and I just forgot to mention that. So shout out to to Ricky and his team for yet another great Park event. Thank you Commissioner. I'm sorry, I forgot everyone just received an email so I just wanted to bring it up. So there is a vacancy on the MPO and we had MPO here earlier. And so there was a letter that was submitted to all of us. I don't know if we can if you all can take a look at it, but Tom lander was the on the board and he recommended Alex Riccio to take on his spot. I don't know if if we have what we have to do for that to happen because it is a vacancy and it needs to be filled. And there is where for the MPO for a for outside citizen TAC. Yeah. And there's a request by a resident to see if he can participate by recommendation. And that's our appointment here. All right. Well I'm happy. And Tom is as basically terminated his his role. I don't know if he terminated or resigned to Carol. So I think he stepped down. Okay. Excuse me. Mayor can. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think as of the end of the year, I'm not sure, but I'm also not sure what the appointment. Is it something like a long, long time ago, we appointed Tom. It was before my time, you remember? Okay, so the emails from. Yeah. It's been a long time. Alex is willing. Yeah. So I sent a letter requesting on his behalf from Tom. I guess Tom reached out to him. So I'd like to make a motion to appoint Alex. I'll second that. Okay. All right. Why don't we all take a vote right now? And if there's a supermajority, we can just save time and have it done now. So the motion on the floor is to appoint Alex Riccio to take the place of Tom lander as a citizen appointee of the City Commission for the Broward MPO Citizen Committee. And or role that Tom was serving. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Item

carries unanimously. Thank you. All right, Alex, we're putting you to work. Thank you. All right, let's vice mayor. Anything else? That's all I have. Thank you. All right. Let's go to Commissioner Gruber. Thank you. I wanted to mention about the battle of the badges coming up February 21st. That's at Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale. February 21st at 9 a.m. I think, mayor, you and I and some other people attended that battle of the badges a couple years ago. Yeah, it was a lot of fun, I hear. So our police and fire are going to be competing in it. I hear we're the the favorite a few weeks out, so I'm not competing in the donut run contest anymore. That's right. That's when that was. So that's always a fun time. We'll be battling against Lauderhill police, Hallandale police, Sunrise police. So five different teams just wanted to quickly chime in on the on the topic before with Sunset and Orange Brook. We kind of talked about it for a while, but just just my my opinion on is things are also a lot about perspective. And I know it seemed to take a negative tone that we were taking money away from orange Brook. But, you know, I look at it in a different way. If we didn't have a P3 to come in and take care of orange Brook, none of that's happening. So, you know, I don't look at it like, oh, Commissioner Quintana, it's in your in your. No, no, I'm saying I don't look at it like it's your district and people are gonna be looking at you. I have tons of people that play golf. And if that falls through in orange Brook, they're going to be looking at me just the same. I don't look at any of those spots as it's in a certain district. Sunset, Hollywood Beach golf course, orange Brook. To me, that's my district. Your district? Everyone's district. Because those are amenities to the to the residents. So I won't sit

back and watch that fall through, you know. So yeah. You're welcome. Moving on to a few residents had reached out to me for an Galante Park to. And I think Ricky I fountain working. No that's next. Hold on. So let's go to one other thing first. Then I have a question about the fountain. Ricky, I think I emailed you. It was about possibly a little dog park there on the passive end. If we could do something, if we can talk about that after this, if that's even possible. I think there's room. I went and looked at it, so that would be great. The splash pad, if someone can let me know the water meter is the issue. It's not open yet. The grand opening has been put off already a couple months. Do we know what the deal is with the with the water meter? Like, is it all right, Alex, let's tell us. Tell us what's going on with the splash pad. It's a much awaited. I'm getting to practice. At least the grand opening will be done in warmer weather, you know. Yeah. So apparently the contractor thought that the water meter needed to go underground. And a three inch water meter cannot go underground. It has to be above ground. So he's. We were going back and forth with him. So now he has to buy the meter. So there's a lead time. So it looks like it's going to be another 2 to 3 weeks. 2 to 3 weeks and that the water gets turned on. But for now we are moving the fence and all that. Yes, yes. Thank you. And I reached out because it's, it's the the Jewish schools have their break this week. So it's very utilized this week. And everything was fenced off all the pavilions and all the basketball courts. And you guys quickly removed those fences. So it's only the splash pad. So much appreciated. The residents have thanked me for that as well. So all right so 2 to 3 weeks. Yeah. All right. Can't wait I'll keep you posted. Yep. Commissioner Biederman had mentioned it earlier this morning but I got we went to I went to Salsa Fest West at Boulevard Heights Community Center. It was probably the

best attended one yet. I mean it was packed. Beautiful to see. So that was that was great. Commissioner Quintana, you mentioned party on the J. That should be a good time. It was really nice last year and this year should be even better. February 1st noon to four. And lastly, just if it's possible and I brought this up probably a couple of years ago, the median on 46th Avenue, the low end of it. I know the grass doesn't grow that well, but if it's possible to do a little lipstick and rouge on that, possibly the the curbing, which is a very faded yellow if it's possible to repaint it. I'm getting a lot of calls from residents asking if we can spruce that up and that's it. Thank you everybody. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Gruber. So speaking about parks, I was approached by a local teacher who's involved with a nonprofit that works with Rohan Marley as well. And they're nonprofit. Endeavor involves fundraising on their side and installing skateboard park amenities in different city parks around the country. So the local teacher had reached out to me, and I'm going to forward their interest to the Parks department. Just letting all the commissioners know it could be great if they can raise dollars. And Ricky, as I thought about where, because I know that the Boulevard Heights skate park is getting its improvements done, and even that would have been perfect for what they want to do to consolidate things like with soccer, because Row Marley is all involved with soccer and things like that. They understand that there already is an improvement coming to Boulevard Heights Community Center and the skate park there. And so I don't know if and I'll forward you the email, Ricky, but maybe we could look at our parks master plan, see where there was other demand for skateboard park amenities, and hopefully we'll find a park or

a school board property that is geographically, you know, well positioned to have some skateboard ramp amenities donated for. It could be, you know, areas that have the size of two tennis courts already paved to make things easy or, you know. Driftwood Park. So so I'm saying this out loud because, yeah, I'm saying this. I'm saying this out loud so that we can all, you know, sort of brainstorm on where, you know, with proper proximity versus the other skateboard parks, could there be could there be space? So I'm going to I'm going to forward where? Jefferson Park. Yeah. That could be good. Yeah. Anywhere really. I mean, if there's more than one, then we can we can point to them to a more than one scenario. So sharing that out loud so that everyone listening and yourselves, Ricky, we can all hopefully guide this nonprofit as to where there could be an opportunity in Hollywood or else, you know, of course they'll they'll want to continue elsewhere, but we'd love to have contributions here. It's obviously there's a lot of demand for skateboard activity because we see it at at Stan Goldman at Justice Park. It's been real, real great. I was excited to see a flier in the lobby here that as anticipating the beginning of the street lighting improvements on Johnson Street in the vicinity of Memorial Regional and heading heading east. So I if city manager if there could be an update on that project. I was really excited because it's, you know, fallen off the radar because of its, you know, engineering time and things of that nature, but really excited if that's going to take place sometime soon. Yes, there are some exciting opportunities for for activity this weekend. Hollywood Pride is on Saturday as well. I think it begins at 1 p.m. till about ten at the Arts Park this year. Council and Jeff, Jeff, Oliverio and and folks have been really hard at work to produce another real

quality event as they do each year. So look out for that. And lastly, I want to invite anyone that would like to know where we are in the city of Hollywood. What we have planned for the future kind of reflect a little bit on on the year past. And of course, look at the year going forward and at the year ahead, the years plural ahead and decades ahead. Feel free to join the presentation of the state of the city. It's tomorrow night, Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Development Services Building, which is the second floor of the Hollywood Branch Library, right here at City Hall Circle. That'll be a presentation for the public, of course. No charge. It'll start with some refreshments at 6 p.m. And then we'll get into the presentation. And for other folks who might be attending the Chamber of Commerce presentation, where I'll be presenting the state of city at their luncheon tomorrow at the diplomat. So there's two opportunities. One is at the chamber's luncheon, and one is, of course, here hosted by the city. So I'm excited that we have that added opportunity tomorrow night and eager to see participation and attendance there. And we'll we'll know what to do for next year if we see we have a lot of interest and good, good sense of excitement. City attorney, thank you so much. I'm extremely excited to announce that we have filled the Deputy City attorney position, Kim Fan, who has been in our office for the past several years. Kim's here. Right, Kim? Kim has been an integral part of our office and has been a massive support to me in the past several months. And as I was filling the interim position and afterwards when we were looking, we made sure to do a very thorough search, and we were very happy to find that we had the perfect candidate in house.

So thank you all. Kim comes to us prior to this from the city of Delray Beach, where she was counsel for the CRA there, and prior to that, she was at the Palm Beach County Attorney's Office, where she worked in litigation and did some transactional work there as well. So she has a wealth of governmental knowledge, and if she wants to say a few words, I'd appreciate it. Please do. Well, I want to say that I'm very, very honored to be selected for this position, and I look forward to continuing to serve the city in an expanded role, and I look forward to working more closely with each one of you going forward. Thank you. Kim. Well, it's a big and important position. Thank you, and welcome to the new position. Giovanna reminded me that I failed to mention something exciting that's going on in Hollywood. So the City Parks department had teamed up with Gusto Fitness to host a free community Saturday morning beach boot camp fitness program. Free to the community. That's every Saturday at 10 a.m. It's I think I've got about six more weeks left in this eight week program to get fit in over eight weeks, and so there's been a lot of great participation. Ricky. Javon I think over about 50 people have been coming, and it's really a beautiful, I think, a way that the city can create fitness opportunities for our residents in a way that has minimal cost to the city and yet has a lot of great return in terms of the camaraderie and the recreational spirit that it brings through. And of course, the fitness. I haven't been able to attend because I've been had other obligations over the past couple Saturdays, but looking forward to to joining in myself and getting, getting, getting on the sand, you know, barefoot. It's for all ages, all fitness levels and great camaraderie and great energy. So it's at Chano Park on the sand right across from Garfield Street. You'll come at Saturday, Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. and get some fitness, and then maybe go have a healthy breakfast or continue, you know, with some steps on the broadwalk or jump in the ocean

if the weather's good. So it leads to a beautiful day and a great feeling on a Saturday morning. So just an invitation for all that great work on parks, on on getting the word out on that. All right. City manager floor is yours. Thank you, mayor, vice Mayor and commissioners, I just want to reflect back on the the item on the waste pro contract and appreciate Mr. Rivera's comments, but what a difference a year or two makes, and certainly from the initiation of the contract several years ago. And I just want to recognize Assistant City Manager's Yvonne Douglas, public works director Joseph Krol and Tony Taru, the environmental services manager. All, you know, more recent additions than from the initiation of the contract and the excellent job they've brought it from where it was to where it is now. So and obviously we have a few years left on that contract. But what a much better place to work from towards the the renewal or opening competition on that contract from where it was before. So thank you all very much on that number. The other items I was going to mention, you've already covered the only other other thing I just wanted to say for the record and not to be repetitive, but the the same goes for the, the the city commission, the city and the city manager position that my letter to the commission effective on my resignation March 31st. Just so that's part of the record. And there we go again. Other than that. That concludes my comments. Thank you. Yeah. You have 30 more minutes. No no no no no no no. But I'm sure we'll have plenty of citizens comments. All right. I would invite if there was anything else to highlight, but I know we're all here and it would have been covered on the city manager's executive report if he would have wanted to share anything specific. So we're going to take a recess and we'll come back at 5 p.m.

for citizen comments, ladies and gentlemen.