City Commission - Regular Meeting

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all right thank you good evening everyone we're about to start meeting for city commission meeting meeting agenda for tuesday may 19 2026. hello everyone we're about to start can you please thank you thank you we're about to start madam clerk can you please do the role commissioner charnoff here commissioner john here commissioner smith

Commission smuggler president commission to here by smear flooring on. Mayor Michael Joseph I am here you have come Sir.

Thank you. Next up is our invocation pastor for snare Jules first born again Baptist Church of North my beach. That here. Well, I'll just do a quick invocation of God. Our Lord and Heavenly Father, we ask you to come today and give us insight, wisdom, and blessings to do what's right for this city and to continue in being honorable in doing so. Allow us to have a peaceful and expedient meeting, and we say in your precious and holy name, Jesus Christ, amen. All right, let's do our Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam Clerk, action number four.

Oh, this is going to be quick.

Anything's possible.

Mr. Mayor, at the request of the city manager's office, the quasi-judicial item, which is item 10.1, will be deferred to the June meeting. For the city clerk's office, we're going to add, there'll be an addition to add Mara Hawk, uh to be appointed to the beautification board that item will now be item 13.3 per the request of mayor michael joseph item number 9.4 which is a resolution r2026-64 item 9.10 which is resolution number 2026-70, as well as 9.11, which is a resolution number 2026-71 will be moved from the consent agenda and heard first under legislation. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, you wanna have a discussion item with the police?

Yeah, with the police union, a discussion regarding the police union with the manager's office, that's it.

So there'll be a discussion item for the police union and the manager's office regarding that?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to pull item 9.4 completely or table it till next time.

I just had a couple, I just have a, I mean, we can, we can get to a discussion. I just have a couple of questions. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Like I, that's the only reason, because it was pulled out last minute. I'm like, I have a couple of questions if you could allow. Thank you.

Okay.

All right. Mayor.

Yes. Also, as to the quasi-judicial item that's being deferred, I just want to point out that the applicant and counsel and some others are present tonight. Ask them just to stand so they can wave at you and let you know that they're here and they'll be back. All right. Thank you, ma'am.

Madam Secretary, if I may, through the mayor, did we pull 9.6? Microphone. It's on.

No, but you're talking in front of it.

Did we pull 9.6? No.

No, you want to pull that?

Yes, I do.

Please, for right after.

We need to update it a little.

Okay.

Mayor, I'm sorry. 9.6. 9.6. You should have said, now do you mean for discussion, Commissioner Smith?

No, for legislation. Defer. Are you going to defer or are you going to pull it down into discussion?

Oh, we could have it for, well, I want to vote on it. It's a legislation. It'll be in legislation.

It'll be in legislation. Okay. And Mayor, I should have said as to 10.1 that's being deferred, I would ask that it be deferred to a date certain to the next commission meeting, which is scheduled, Madam Clerk, when?

The next is June. Hold on.

June 16th. That it be deferred to a date certain to June 16th. As amended, do I have a motion?

So moved. Second?

Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.

So where did we put Phyllis's item? It's in discussion. In discussion, okay.

Not discussion.

No, under legislation.

All right, next is public comment, right? Because there's no, yeah, there's no presentations. Public comment, Madam Clerk.

Good evening, everyone. The Mayor and Commission of the City of North Miami Beach has opened a meeting for public comment at this time. There is a three minute time limit for each speaker. Please state your name or the name of the organization which you are representing. The Mayor and Commission of the City of North Miami Beach recognizes the importance of civility. The City of North Miami Beach requests that all in attendance to exercise civility towards each other. And our first two signed speakers are Noel Pace and Coach JP. Did I say that right? Sorry.

Yeah, you said my name fine. Yes, hey. Hi, Colonel Noel Pace, retired. Thank you so much again, Mr. Mayor and Council, for this great recognition and this proclamation here in regards to Military Appreciation Month. Just happened to be conveniently here. We brought Aiden with us. Aiden plays on the Miami School of Soccer. It's great to see his fellow teammates here, along with his coach, who you'll be hearing from right now is Joe Pedro Wernick. Uh, he is the, uh, proprietor of the Miami School of Soccer. I can say that Aiden and myself have been involved with Miami School of Soccer now, uh, for a number of years. Uh, great opportunity for kids. I mean, obviously you heard from a professional soccer player who got to start playing military soccer, uh, and, you know, went on to, to be a professional player and, and then, uh, and now is involved with the Olympics. So, um... just a great, uh, opportunity. And, and, uh, we really appreciate JP along with all the parents and all the coaches, uh, that, you know, work, work their tails off. Uh, they have a practice and training programs, uh, to, you know, basically Monday through Thursday nights each week, and then, uh, different gay games and league games. Um, and obviously the, the students and the, and the kids, uh, you know, learn teamwork and discipline and, um, and get some physical activity you know in this age of screens and phones and tablets uh it's great to see them all out there and so i will introduce uh my friend um mr warner thank you very much thank you for your service thank you very much thank you

Hello, good evening. I'm Coach AP, as introduced by Aidan's dad.

You have to speak into the microphone.

Is it working? Oh, sorry. Okay. Thank you. I was telling that I don't know this Coronel Noel. I know Aidan's dad for, what, maybe three years? At least. So last meeting, I had the opportunity to introduce Miami School of Soccer for the city. and it was a surprise that the city was not aware of of our program that has been running here for at least two years in two different parks in allen park and ulita park tonight i'm not here to introduce us i'm gonna let other parents talk about the program i'm here to thank all the parents that sent me support, sent emails, text messages, talked to people in the city, and shared the willing of keeping the program running in the city. I know the city just accept a new program, free program to the city, but I'm here to say also thank you to the city for the open conversation we had the last three weeks, all the emails we exchanged, all the information I sent, and I'm available for in-person meeting with anyone to explain better our mission and what Miami School of Soccer has been done in the last six years we were established in 2019 and we have two locations now um so thank thank your parents for coming tonight okay um and thanks for the city for listening me out have a good night so so i'm i'm sorry i know we're not supposed to be asking questions and through the mayor if i may so um when this soccer schools other soccer schools start where are you going to be Well, when the other soccer school was brought in, I was very concerned that we would be kicked out from Allen Park because what I heard in the meeting is that they were using the same field. I had a meeting with Parks and Recreation this week. So apparently I will be able to use Allen Park throughout the year on Fridays at least. And we're going to see where the other day of the week we're going to move the program. So, yeah, that's what was my understanding in the meeting last week. And I understood that Little Haiti doesn't want to use four days a week as they proposed in the contract because they are opening only two age groups. So they're going to be Tuesdays and Thursdays. So I'm trying to adapt another day. I just want to be... in Island Park throughout the year at least once a week.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Karen Harold and Alicia Proctor.

Hi, good evening. My name is Karen Harold and I'm a resident of the city of North Miami Beach. Thank you for your service. Continuing on and adding to the email that I sent you last week, where I outlined major concerns with a financial slippery slope we are on now and how accountability, responsibility, and efforts to guide the city to solvency need to be the number one priority to get our city into not only being a great city, but a fantastic city that will still be here for the next 200 year celebration. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Edward Everett Hale. I would like to ask all of you to come together and focus on the dire place our finances are in now. I say dire because we have five million in reserve, five million owed to the treasury, leaves zero balance in reserves, with a potential for catastrophic prospects. Catastrophic means possibility of minus 20 million in debt. if change is not implemented, curtailing of spending and plans made and put into place to make the city solvent. Thank you to all who voted for and those who support our city manager as he sorts through the departments under him that are the lifeblood to keeping us in the black, keeping our city running. He has found a lot of clogged arteries and working hard to unblock them and streamline the process of running the city in a smooth, successful way with lots of opportunities for growth. However, we must keep together to realize this progress, and when we are working together with our city's health and well-being in mind, then we will have success. Let your laser focus be on stopping the financial draining of funds, stop adding to the dwindling of our money, and work together with our city manager who has expressed a lot of hope and plans so we can make it to a healthier financial place. Focus, get the job done, city number one, Stop the draining, this is your legacy. Now that the mismanagement and overspending is becoming transparent, the real work can begin. I do have faith that you all can do it. If you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Any idea to help bring in sponsorship for, oh, an idea that came to my mind to help bring money for sponsorship if you're not already doing it for the centennial would be like for $100 donation to have like a lapel pin. I have 100 here for you. If that sounds like a good plan, maybe for 5,000, you can give like a silver coin for 5,000, some kind of a gold coin with our logo, and maybe 100,000, some beautiful Swarovski crystal thing. So I think that you have some money there. I haven't heard anything being planned for sponsorship so far, so I'd like to mention that. If anybody else, a resident, has ideas to help bring in money, send an email to the city manager. we've been told many times the hierarchy of the city starts with the residents we see what's happening we are watching for accountability and transparency and we want to do what we can to help our city thrive thank you for listening next speaker

Yes. Good evening, everyone. My name is Alicia Proctor. I am a proud North Miami Beach resident, but I'm an even prouder parent of a soccer player with the Miami School of Soccer. JP was very gracious in how he presented the information, but really I think in regards to transparency, we're trying to understand why the opportunity wasn't afforded to the soccer clubs that were already present in North Miami Beach. for North Miami Beach taxpayer dollars in essence that are paying for another club to come into North Miami Beach and utilize those resources for their students. The Miami School of Soccer has shown great presence. They are extremely affordable, but yet there are quite a few children in North Miami Beach I'm sure that would love to play soccer, but are not afforded the opportunity. for another city to be brought in given this opportunity, who already has a club and this type of sponsorship in North Miami and Little Haiti, and now they've been invited to North Miami Beach. We as the parents and the residents are just trying to understand why that opportunity wasn't afforded to a present club in North Miami Beach already, growing the great reputation of the city. All these kids are in love with playing soccer. And so I feel in the future beyond being here to petition that the Miami School of Soccer be afforded the first opportunity to stay in Allen Park where they have been dedicated for the past two years, affording that first opportunity to be accommodated. Also that funds and other opportunities like this that are going to be presented in taxpayer dollars should be on the ballot and the taxpayers should be given an opportunity to vote. That's all. Thank you.

Next speaker.

Excuse me. Next speaker, Shana Adorno.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioner members. My name is Shayna Dornal. I'm a born and raised North Miami Beach resident. And I'm here tonight to speak about the recent decision involving the field of Allen Park that our head coach of Miami School of Soccer has been renting and using for over two years. First, I want to say I fully support giving children access to free sports programs. Soccer creates discipline, teamwork, health, and opportunity for kids in our community. I believe every child deserves the chance. However, the issue I'm facing is not about being against youth soccer. The issue is fairness, communication, and the impact this decision has had on our coaches' business, our players, and the families that rely on this program, especially coming from a city that is always so big on supporting our local small businesses. For years, our coach has invested his own time, money, and effort into building a soccer program that consistently is renting this field through the proper channels. He followed the city's rules. He paid the required fees, scheduled practices and games, and built relationships with the local families who depend on having a safe and organized place for their children to play. Without meaningful discussion or consideration, that access was taken away and reassigned to a free soccer program as a result our program has lost this field and many of our kids and families involved are now left without a consistency or direction this is not just about the field it's about the message being sent also to our small business owners coaches mentors and community leaders who invest in the city when someone follows the rules pays their fees and contributes positively to the community There should be transparency and fairness before moving them from what they have built over time. I'm asking the council to consider a solution that supports both programs instead of replacing one with the other. There has to be a way for the city to promote free youth opportunities while also respecting existing organizations that have already been serving the community responsibly. Whether that means shared scheduling, alternative field access, or a formal review process before permits are reassigned, I believe a compromise can be reached that benefits everyone, especially the children. At the end of the day, we all want the same thing, more opportunities for our youth and stronger community involvement. I'm simply asking for fairness and communication. I myself looked for something that can teach discipline, focus, and teamwork when deciding to put my child in a sport. My son who has ADHD needed something where he can get that dopamine in a correct way. And thankfully, we found JP. We have been with him for over four years. It wasn't just looking for something that teaches him discipline and teamwork, but something that was also affordable because everything is so expensive nowadays. I have watched my child who literally, by chemical design, has finally had his brain being able to focus and control his impulses. And Miami School of Soccer is not just a soccer school. It's a literal family. Thank you, time. Okay, thank you.

Okay, I was gonna give you like a few seconds to finish up, if you can, real quick.

Okay. Where was I? Yeah, I lost my train of thought. Oh, we the parents have gotten close. We have beach days. We have cool days. We have bowling. We have barbecues. We do everything together. So from my standpoint as a mom and as someone who grew up in the same very neighborhood, this is the best soccer program for the community, and taking it away will destabilize everything JP and the coaches have worked so hard for our kids. You can bring a free soccer program, and I'm sure someone would join because, of course, it's free. Why not? but they were not going to have that same family feel that Miami School of Soccer has. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker. Next two speakers, Carla Stoner and then Marie-Ange Valsterny.

Good evening to everyone. I'm here this evening not about soccer, about my street. I've been living on my street since...

Your name, please. Your name.

Oh, my name is Collis Stoner. And I'm not talking about soccer. I don't know if you all remember these, what these are. These used to be our water bill. This is my first one when I purchased the house. And I'm telling you, I'm having a problem with my bill. Number two, I'm having a problem with my street. It is the filthiest street in North Miami Beach and 18 Place. The garbage and the apartments over there on the other side, you know, this side is residential. That side is apartments. And I would like for you all to do something towards us. We buy our home. We want to live there. Our children don't live here. My children live in Maryland, Jacksonville, Tennessee. That's where my grandchildren and children are. but I want to live on my street. It is filthy. day and night the apartments garbage is up and down and I'm not going down I'm getting old I'm not going down there to bend down pick up no garbage for no one so please I'm asking you all write those apartment people tell their people to do better what's this actual street you said 18 place what's the street 18th place, I live at 16330, northeast 18th place. And I would like, oh Lord. It's a shame. I'm not going to bend down when it's that dog mess is garbage. I'm not going to clean it up. I've been cleaning. I work to the hospital. I don't know if you all remember St. Francis Hospital. And the one down here, the one right down here, out there. I used to work on the surgical ward. I do enough banding. I do enough work in this country. So I do talk clean street. Thank you.

Thank you. No, she was on the bill. Thank you. Next speaker.

No.

Good evening. Good evening. Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, and the staff, and good evening for all of you. My name is Marie Angie Valsin.

Can you speak a little more on mic? Thank you. Closer. Thank you. Thank you.

My name is Marie Falson. I'm living on 123rd Street, not Miami Beach, Florida, 33162. I've been living there for 26 years. But... I get little bit tired with my neighbors. The same problem she have, this is the problem that I have. They leave their spot and they put the garbage in my spot. So, you know, when the garbage is done come, these not cover everything, come to in my yard. Every morning I have to pick up garbage. And especially right now, I'm in dialysis, I can't do much. much for myself, I cannot even clean people's stuff. And then I remember couple days, couple years ago, the city come Iran, they put glass everywhere. You know, me, I didn't have chance to put for me, so I put my. And my, they take a place to pack their car. I don't really like it. Because to me, I know if I could leave my inside house clean, I have to keep outside clean. Because before people come to your house, they see the outside first. So please, if you could go over there or sign them a paper, tell them to park in the yard, to put the garbage in the yard. Thank you very much. No problem.

Next speaker.

Daniel Pierre and then Dr. Jeanette Palmer. Mr. Pierre. Mr. Pierre, excuse me.

Mr. Pierre. Hello, everybody. Good evening. So anyway, my name is Daniel Pierre. My address is 15240 Northeast 10th Court. So I've been coming here so many time. I think everybody know my address here. But for me, thing got waste. Every day thing got waste. I start from 151, 52, 53. The problem is every neighborhood now, they have a dog. They got the dog out of control. Day and night, you cannot even sleep. That's a big problem now. You cannot sleep at night. The kid have to go to school, dog, all the neighborhood. They don't care. But even, you know, try to talk to them, sometimes they don't even try. They fight you, they tell you they kill you, things like that. You know, the police, this is not Miami Beach, so they have the right to get the dog, things like that. Please, please, send some men up there, the policemen, the court enforcement, do something. People, we don't deserve to live like that. We have to be peace. In your house at nighttime when you sleep, you have to sleep good. That's the reason we go up there, we choose, we vote the people to put the people here to work with us. So that mean you sleep good, me, I cannot sleep. Dog, people making noise, something have to be done. So I cannot even to sell my house for the people that just come in. They don't even know, they don't even vote. Then they try to put me out for I've been working too hard for the city, do all the thing for the city. Something have to be done. Something, I need help. I cannot move to go to Georgia now to sell my house. No, I cannot do that. Something, I know Commissioner Philly Smith, Do you hear me? All around, everybody hear me. Do something. It cannot be like that. So I'm not coming back next time for the same thing. Please do something about that because we don't deserve to live like that. We deserve to live in peace. Our city is supposed to be clean. Please do something. Okay. So I think I'm so happy. I see everybody's face looking good. Fifteen seconds. Thank you. Do the best for us. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Thank you.

Okay.

Hi, good evening everyone. My name is Dr. Jeanette Palmer. I'm the owner of Med Rescue CPR Inc. We're located here at 909 North Miami Beach Boulevard. Can be reached at 954-515-6351. I wanted to introduce myself because I would love the opportunity to collaborate and partner with the city to provide CPR training, first aid training, emergency preparedness training for everyone here in the community. So according to American Heart Association, over 350,000 people die due to cardiac arrest, out of hospital cardiac arrest, right? You never know when it's your last moment. It's very important that we all learn how to perform CPR. We all learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of someone having a stroke or a heart attack. So I would love to collaborate with the city so I can provide more for the community. Thank you.

Thank you.

and i hope that next year ma'am next year i hope that you can be part of the heart health walk we do one every february and we would love to have you participate i would love to so who do i come um communicate with about the way right there right behind you thank you next speaker bring that beautiful daughter ariel vasquez and then whitney padot

Good evening, mayor, commissioners. I'm Ariel Vasquez. I reside in 1270 Northeast, 178th Street. I am stronger NMB, and I want to let you guys know the things that we're doing in our city. We're out there getting petitions. We're 90% done. And we're out there because this is what the people want. This is what the people need. They need equal representation. And at the end of the day, let the people choose what they want. We would have been done with this, but we've been having a lot of oppositions. But at the end of the day, let the people choose what's best for them. So thank you very much. God bless you guys. We'll keep in touch. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Good evening, everybody. My name is Whitney Padult. I live in Lazo Residence 2145 Northeast 164th Street. I'd like to thank mayor and commission and staff for commending and executing and getting the job done for Washington Park. soon in June, 2026, hopefully construction will start. Speaking from the construction industry, I wanna ask commission and the mayor and to see how many shovel ready projects do you have? Because right now, yesterday price is not today's price and things are getting more expensive in the construction industry. And if you don't act now and in the near future, things will get expensive. Um, the second thing as a Centennial task force member, um, our colleagues voted to not move forward with the gala. So I'm axing commission and mayor to what you call it, reconsider into a different idea. and partnering with a nonprofit organization called Radical Partners. They do a table potluck, which we can get sponsorships from small business and restaurants to give catering food to the neighborhood and invite all the neighbors. And you can do a long 100 feet table, just putting that idea as a suggestion. And then the last and third thing I saw in the the agenda, the 23 story mix development. I have two questions. One question is what will be the traffic impact once the development is complete, especially on 163rd street, 163rd street. And then the second thing is what is the community benefits will be provided to the city of North Miami beach. Once that impact of traffic increase within the city. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Ketley Joachim.

Commissioner Chernoff, I may need a few more minutes to speak about other day. Okay. Good evening, Mayor, city leadership and everyone here tonight. My name is Ketley Joachim. And I would love to talk to you about my concern tonight regarding the infrastructure impact of the 23 story high rise. A project of over 300 units require a more robust parking strategy than the proposed 400 spaces. Historical data in our city shows that the under parking development lead directly to the degradation of public swells and increased neighborhood congestion. To align with the sensible development standard that this commission has championed, a more rigorous due diligence review of parking ratios is required before we move forward with this project. I would like to give you all a quick update on how wonderful our Arbor Day celebration turned out to be this year. On April 25th, it was very unique. Two times the number of trees were giving away. 200 native trees, Florida trees, Sampson Stopper, Paradise trees, Crabwood, Oysterwood, Wild Cinnamon. 200 fruit trees, starfruit, carambola, jackfruit, soursop, money, sable. Phase two was at the public library. Phase two began on Monday on 4-27 at 10 a.m. The reason that we did phase two is because you have a lot of residents who are not able to come on Saturday to get these trees. So over the years we have made sure to do phase two where they can walk inside the library and get the same amount of trees that anyone else would get. We wanted to make sure no one left behind. And all trees were available at the event were also the same ones that were available at the library. 400 trees were offered. 28 were giving away at the library, both fruit and natives. So whatever we had that Saturday, everyone else was able to get. We had 31 remaining, and now they're dwindling down. So if anyone who's listening would like to adopt a tree, we do have some at the library. You can walk in and pick it up. We had 200 trees from the county, 200 from the city who were native, So we did everything humanly possible to make sure that everyone was included. Right now, the few that's left at the library, any one of you who didn't make it, if you couldn't make it, you can still go to the library and pick up a few one. Next agenda is just that I wanted to thank each and single one of you for our city manager. Thank you for making this a priority for the Washington Park. Building. Time, thank you. Yesterday, we signed the contract and it is a wonderful thing. I'm hoping each and single one of you come to the demolition and able to see what the great future we all see that's gonna happen in Washington Park. So thank you so much for everything. And one more thing I need to say, I know about Coach JP because I did talk to Andy about it a couple of years back because my nephew played in that soccer group. So definitely let's do everything we can because at that time, JP was not allowed to in the group, the soccer group was not allowed to be in here. And I talked to Andy and some of the parents to see if we were able to find a spot for them at Allen Park. So they're doing a great job, and I'm a soccer mom, I'm a soccer grandma, and I'm a North Miami Beach soccer fan. So thank you, everyone. Thank you. Let's take this into consideration and do something for the kids. Next, please.

Linda Joseph Noel.

Good evening, everyone. Good evening. I want to just piggyback on what my good friend Ariel Vasquez, the pastor, said. I do believe in strong energy. I think we should allow people to make their own decision. This is their city. They live here. If they believe they need.

Your name, please. Oh, sorry. State your name for the meeting.

Linda Joseph Noel, address is 17071 West Dixie Highway 1516, and the great city of North Miami Beach 33160. Can I go on? Okay, no. So yeah, I wanna go back and piggyback on what my good friend Pastor Vasquez says, that we should allow people to do what they think is good. Our community is smart, they're educated, they know exactly what they need or what they want, Allow it to go. Allow them to pick what they want. The best government is the government that's closer to you, that's more responsive. So second thing I want to say is that as I knock on doors and talk to residents, there is one commissioner that always come up. And it's always a delight when this commissioner come up. They smile. They talk. I mean, I've been to Washington Park. I've been to Allen Park. I've been to Sky Lake. This one commissioner, Every time I mention her name, they mention her name, it's always a smile. That is you, Commissioner Phyllis Smith. I have not yet got one complaint on this trail about you and how, and I'm talking about everyone. I'm talking about young, old, Haitian, Mexican, Jewish, everyone, if they have some compliment, it's always to you. I want to say that. Second of all, I also want to say is that the petition is what the people is asked for. If they don't want it, they won't sign it. And that's it. And second, I also want to thank Commissioner Daniella, that young lady that just walked up here, that is a doctor that lives in our city. She came from your your project that you did for the small business. That's why I compliment you. That is what's real government look like. That's giving back to the community. And because you did that, she came in today. And so someone else going to see her and use her service. But thank you for that small business. I thought it was a delight. It was standing room only. People was there, young, old. So kudos to you for that. And keep putting things on like that. And have a good evening.

Next speaker.

Mayor Hawke and then Lorenzo Hall. Hi, thank you. You're welcome.

Good evening, mayor, commissioners and city staff. I will speak again about what is keep concerning me, the septic to sewer. My name is Mara Hawk and I am a resident of this city. I am speaking here tonight about the proposed sector to sewer conversion because many residents do not see this as a progress. We see it as a costly burden being placed on the homeowners without enough protection or justification. Many families already have work-insecting systems that are paid for and affordable. This proposal could force residents to pay large hookup costs plus monthly sewer bills that may be two or three times higher than what we pay now. For working families, retirees, and long-time residents, that is simple, not sustainable. Many of us are concerned about what is really driving this proposal. Expanding sewer access make it easier for larger high density developments to move forward. While residents are asked to carry the financial burden, developers appear to receive the greatest benefits. This is also concerned about gentrification and displacement. In many communities, infrastructure expansion has lead to raising property values, higher taxes, and pressure that push long-time residents out of their own neighborhood. People are afraid that could happen here too. This is not about opposing growth or improvement. It is about protecting residents and making sure Change is fair and responsible. Before moving forward, this city should provide clear warranties on affordability, transparency, and protection against overdevelopment. I respectfully ask the Commission to put residents first and carefully consider the long-term impact this proposal will have in our community. Thank you.

Next speaker.

Lorenzo Hall.

Hello, my name is Lorenzo Hall. I stay at 1581 Northeast 151st Terrace, North Miami Beach, Florida. On behalf of the Voters Council, we would like to say thank you for the contract signing. I think it really made a difference. I feel like the residents alone with the organization is really going to see this coming through. Also, I'd just like to say thank you to also with the city clerk. She's been working as far as making sure that the voting by the building being whatever, not being able to be in use. So I just want to thank her and make sure that she's keeping us up to date. And I also will be remiss if I do not congratulate our new director of Parks and Rec, Ian Forrest. And of course, our assistant city manager, Andrew Plotkins. And, of course, to the city manager, one thing I would like to, and I spoke to you about that, we have had many city managers, but I see that you see that we have a lot of institutional knowledge, and that's like the first time where a lot of promotions took place within the city and not going out bringing people to the city. So I'd just like to say thank you on that behalf. Also, I want to thank everyone who also attended the contract signing. It really meant a lot to the residents that was there.

Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker. Hi. Star Breed Love. Just want to follow up with what Lorenzo Hall said. I want to thank everyone for yesterday. That was such an impact. The next thing I would want to know, though, and I know Commissioner Daniela Jean had mentioned it previously about us having updates. That way we can make sure we know what's going on with the project.

No, we have an update this evening. Yes.

Oh, but if we can get that like consistently, so we can just know so we can provide it to the community. And that way, you know, we can keep out the hope alive. And yes, Miss Andrews, thank you. But if we can find out what's going on to with the I'm on it. Thank you. All right. Have a good day.

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker.

David Zapan and then former Commissioner Barbara Kramer.

David Zapin, 971 Northeast, 158th Street, North Miami Beach. Some of you know my father, the amazing Ronald. Wow. Here in North Miami Beach, we have, or at least are risking an identity crisis. And it's not just that I was offered a petition, part of which was to reverse term limits. I've suggested alternate names for North Miami Beach. Some days bricks without straw comes to mind. Recently children beg here has been an option. And of course my favorite air conditioning optional because Do we have any cooling centers on Sundays when the libraries are closed? I'm not aware of any. They're supposed to go to Aventura. How? And of course, this being, as we approach summer, we have to watch out for mosquito vectors of diseases such as West Nile disease. If I was literally grandfathered here to North Miami Beach. If Dennis Prager, I think as my wayward uncle, if he wanted to come here, what would he do? He doesn't have a master's degree, so he cannot teach at the Allison Academy. He's, unlike me, he's never had a teaching license, so none of the other schools. Could he do anything at the library? I doubt it. I say that because how many people You know, they have knowledge, experience, but whether they're the younger boomers or older Gen Xers, what do you do with all that knowledge? I mean, do we have a rent-a-person program like in parts of Scandinavia? Because we are, you know, the COVID-19 chaos cost us, what, a million unfinished and often unwritten biographies. What do we have? I mean, you know, our cultural events, love them, great. But we have lost, we are losing institutional knowledge and that's scary and sad and I'm only two people as the cliche goes. So I know we're all gonna be busy, belated Happy Mother's Day, early Happy Father's Day. But I just lost my mother a week before Mother's Day, and just one more reminder that institutional memory matters. Blessed be.

Thank you, sir, for your loss. Next speaker.

Did you wanna call me? Good evening, everybody. Barbara, I'm next, right? Just want to make sure. Good evening, everyone. I'm Barbara Kramer. I'm president of Wake Up NMB, a 501 nonprofit organization shining the light in North Miami Beach on local government for almost four years now. For residents here at home listening, we would ask any resident to read the entire petition that Stronger NMB is presenting. is backing before signing it. I call this petition the division petition. The petition seeks to create six fiefdoms, six little kingdoms. Why would a city with five square miles want to be divided when we are one community? We should be able to vote for every candidate to become a commissioner. All seven elected officials vote for millions in spending on infrastructure, transportation, our police department, selecting charter officers, development, our water utility, sanitation, and so much more. If I don't find any of the candidates qualified that are running in my district, what then? Not only is this division petition about separating our community, but it also seeks to restart term limits. So all candidates that are up in 2028, which have already served their total two four-year terms, can run again when we already voted in 2016 for term limits. And now, one of the candidates behind this petition wants to undo that. I would also question the money behind this petition. It takes a lot of money to hire professional canvassers in uniform, print flyers and mail them, and print door hangers and send texts to our phones. This is not a community driven petition. And if it is, their political action committee needs to turn in their contribution paperwork to the state of Florida because it's past due. We wanna see who is really backing this petition. Thank you.

Next speaker.

Dayanara Torres.

Dana Torres, 1879 Northeast, 182nd Street, North Miami Beach. Thank you to all of you. Thank you tonight because I want to say something that I have not said for a while, but I am going to say it tonight. When I came from New York City 22 years ago, I understood. Better yet, I found out quickly that staying engaged in our community, even when we may have different perspectives, It's important. Leaders who make leaders share the same goal. And NMB, I found out that time, we're not weak. Heck no, we're not weak. This city, is a city of unity. At least it was at that time when I came. And I believe in collaboration, transparency, and communication. It's how we move forward together. Our residents deserve leadership that listens, responds, and works with compassion. Our diversity is our strength, and our unity is our power. We may not always agree on the process, but we can agree that our community deserves respect and solutions, not just the little prints and just the fine prints, the large prints, it's a whole print. Educating our residents is important, especially when in this residency we have people who speak different languages. Okay? We need to educate everybody as a whole. A city becomes stronger when we invest in people, not division. So tonight, and I see that all of you are doing such a great job. I went to see Lynn Sue, Commissioner Lynn Sue. Thank you for that. It was so much diversity in there. It was amazing. Commissioner Jean, you know how I feel about everything that you've been doing lately and before, and I love it. We need to keep on with this, Commissioner Smuggler. All of you, vice mayor, mayor, Commissioner Phyllis Smith, city manager, everybody, Commissioner Jay, we are all doing something. We shouldn't have division in our city. We shouldn't. Our ethnicities, our cultures is what brings us together in this city. It's what brought me here 22 something years ago. It's what my children went through when they went to Parks and Rec. They're Parks and Rec babies. One of them is 30 years old today. I have two grandchildren. Two grandchildren. Heck, I don't know if you know this, but there was a college in North Miami Beach. I went to college for public administration in North Miami Beach. Division is not who we are. We need unity, we need leadership, and we need solutions. And I'm counting all of us to do this from now on. Let's keep on with the ethnicity, the culture, the diversity that we need, because we need it. Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker.

good evening everyone my name is Mubarak Kazan Mr City Manager I want to thank you for the blinds Two managers, one interim city manager, they couldn't get a job done. You came in a month, two months, you got a job done. Thank you very much. Says a lot. When you can take care of the small things, you can take care of the big things. In 2024, Mayor Piper came into office and we had more than $18 million in unrestricted reserves. In December, 2024, Mayor Michael Joseph, you took over. In that month, you lost $5 million, $5 million. Why, how we know? The ARPA fund, we have to return according to what I've heard from last meeting, Mubarak Hassan. What I heard from last meeting to now, ARPA fund, we have to return $5 million to the treasury. And this has to be open. It can't be hidden and ducked under the table. I knew two staff members got let go because they supposedly took less than $300 from the federal fund and they had to go. So we can't duck $5 million. And today we have to return that money and today We're $20 million in the hole. So from $18 to $20 million unrestricted reserve, and we've done $20 million into the hole, that's $38 million you dropped us in one year, six months, less than one year, six months. We're in the hole. A senior resident told me this afternoon, I asked her, what would you like me to tell Mayor Joseph? She says, to be honest and to be wise. That is what she says. That came from my mom. Tell Mrs. Kazan, thank you. I will. Money for educating people for the garbage. There's a lot of complaint. The guy who got the contract, he got almost $60 million in about four years. And some of that money should be coming back to educating the people how to dispose of their garbage. That is not happening. And the 25-story building that is coming up, they have 400 parking spots. And they're adding... 30 more units, same 400 parking spots. That is inadequate parking. And what did they do for the last four years with that property? We give them permission to go and build and they coming back, they want two more stories higher. What is it going on there? Thank you very much for having me. Thank you, next speaker.

Mr. Mayor, no more speakers are coming forward.

Seeing public comment is closed, next is announcements.

Good evening, honorable mayor, honorable commissioners, and vice mayor, giving honor to our illustrious city manager, our residents and staff. It's good to be here. My name is Greg Williams. I'm the chief communication officer with the great city of North Miami Beach. We have a plethora of announcements for you, so stand by, but before we give you those announcements, there is one particular fly that didn't make the cut. So we wanna share with you our summer reading kickoff event. It will be happening on June 6th at our amazing library from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Read more, discover more, and do more at our amazing library. It is one of the best in the country at this time. One of our staff members, our interim manager of communication, none other than Ms. Jasmine Joseph, will give you the announcements. Thank you very much.

Good evening, North Miami Beach. The months ahead are filled with opportunities to connect, celebrate, and stay involved. From community events to key city updates, here's a look at what's upcoming as we continue our centennial year and strengthen engagement across our community. The City of North Miami Beach, in partnership with FarmShare and Miami-Dade County, invites residents to the FarmShare Food Drive on Thursday, May 21st from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kevin R. Sims Aquatic Center. Food distribution will be available while supplies last on first-come, first-served bases, and walk-ups are welcome. On Friday, May 22nd, the Parks and Recreation Department will host a senior luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Marjory and William McDonald Center. Residents may register through the Parks and Recreation main office. On Sunday, May 24th, the UMC Mobile Health Clinic will provide free medical services at the ULITA Community Center. From 1230 p.m. to 330 p.m., services will include primary care, pediatrics, mental health support, blood pressure and diabetes screenings. For more information, contact the number below. No insurance or appointments are required. Also on Sunday, May 24th, the Mayor and Commission and the NMB Multicultural Committee invite residents to Jewish American Heritage Movie Day featuring the Prince of Egypt. The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lippmann Theater and will include games, bounce houses, family activities, and free kosher snacks. The City of North Miami Beach Memorial Day Service on Monday, May 25th at 10 a.m. will take place at Corporal Howard B. Henson Park for fallen war heroes. The ceremony will honor the men and women who have served and continue to preserve our nation's freedom. The City of North Miami Beach Mayor and Commission, in partnership with the North Miami Beach Police Department, invite residents and members of the public to attend the upcoming on-site DMV visit on Thursday, May 28, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at the Julius Lippmann Performing Arts Theater. Appointments are required. The City encourages residents to take advantage of this access and convenient opportunity to complete DMV services locally. On Thursday, May 28, the City of North Miami Beach Mayor and Commission will host the ULITA Safety Family First Town Hall at 6 p.m. at the ULITA Community Center. Hosted by Commissioner Phyllis Smith, the Town Hall will feature discussions on safety, traffic, trash, water concerns, and hurricane preparedness with special guests City Manager Darvin Williams and Chief Juan Penillos. On Saturday, May 30th, Commissioner Daniela Jean alongside the Mayor and Commission invite the community to attend the Community Tea Party starting at 9.30 a.m. at the Ronald A. Silver Youth Enrichment Service Center. Residents are encouraged to wear their favorite hat and enjoy a day focused on community, culture, and connection. Looking ahead to June, the City of North Miami Beach Mayor and Commission invite residents to attend the Centennial Edition Neighborhood Family Block Party, taking place on Saturday, June 6, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Yulita Community Center. This free, family-friendly community celebration will feature food, entertainment, music, activities, and opportunities for neighbors to come together as a part of the city's centennial celebration. Also on June 6th, the UMC Mobile Health Clinic will provide free medical services at the Allen Park Community Center from 11.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Services will include primary care, health support, and so much more. No insurance or appointments are required. The City of North Miami Beach Mayor and Commission will host the Juneteenth Breakfast Experience on Friday, June 19th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Marjory and Williams McDonald Center. For additional information, residents may contact the City Manager's Office. Later that evening, residents are invited to the Haiti versus Brazil watch party from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Jeffrey and Patricia Mishcon Athletic Field. The event will feature a live watch screening, food trucks, music and entertainment, family-friendly activities, and community engagement booths. Snag your tickets now as the early bird tickets close June 7th. The Parks and Recreation Department will host another senior luncheon on Friday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Marjorie and Williams McDonald Center. Residents may register through the Parks and Recreation main office. As the city looks ahead, it's all a part of our centennial celebration and continued investment in keeping our community connected and informed. For more information on these events and other city initiatives, visit the City of North Miami Beach website or follow us at CityNMB on social media. Stay connected, stay informed, and continue celebrating 100 years of North Miami Beach.

Thank you. Next is to the commission reports. Madam Clerk.

Commissioner Chernoff.

Good evening, everybody. Hope everybody's having a nice night. Again, it's the start of summer. I would implore everybody who doesn't know how to swim to come to Victory Park Pool and learn how to swim. That includes adults and children. So if you've been waiting for the opportunity, please come. It'd be quiet and you'll get private, not private, but semi-private lessons and you would be the best thing you could do for this summer okay memorial day is coming this monday please come at 10 a.m at the corporal hinson park and we should have all seven of us there and we look forward to everybody being there All right, Washington Park, congratulations on the signing of the contract to build a new facility. Thank you, thank you everybody for making it happen. This is a wonderful thing and we're very excited about that. The Asian Festival over the last weekend was a very successful event. Thank you, Lynn, for pushing it. You had double the population. that you did the year before and the next year should have tripled it so hopefully that's going to happen i look forward to attending the jewish american heritage movie day this sunday so please join us and farm share is may 21st Please join us for that. That's at the victory pool. There's no requirement on residency to attend. So anybody who wants to come can come. If you need food, don't be ashamed. You drive through and you nobody even sees you out of the car. All right. We have a petition going around. If you see this shirt, okay. they are going around to get you to sign a petition to stop hb let me see 1451 which gives the 52 51 5-1 okay and it's to give the governor wants to have more control of our water department. So please, residents, sign against it. That's what we're looking for. If you see this shirt, this is a representative of the city who's asking the petition to be signed. Wish everybody, oh, one more thing. on um june 4th 11th and 25th at 6 30 i will be having my community meetings again so please join me they're free to all thank you commissioner jean

Thank you, good evening everyone. Thank you again for being here tonight. I said I was gonna start my comments with our great attorney and asking you for an update, but obviously we're able to get a great outcome before the meeting. So I'm thankful for that and to the city manager's office as well. So I have some questions, Mr. Manager, I guess I'll shift the attention to you now. I know yesterday there was mention of the notice to proceed or permitting and also can you give us any updates on pre-construction meetings and master schedule and a timeline? Because I know when we had the first, Demolition, fake demolition with the foam blocks. We also had gotten a graphic that had all the timeline. And so when I looked at that graphic, it puts us about four months behind, right? So I wanted to kind of hear from you about the notice to proceed permit and also any pre-construction pre-meeting that would be scheduled.

Yes, through the mayor to Commissioner Jean, thank you for that. We have already hit the ground running. I had a meeting today with our building official and over our building and permitting department. Our target right now to get us to minimize that schedule is we're working on a demolition permit. So that's our first goal was we can close in on that goal and bridge that gap. We will be able to read construct or, or re develop the construction schedule, which covers 18 months. And as you heard yesterday, the developer actually believes that he can get it done in 14 months. So once we get them their permit, that's the only thing that they need from us, the city to adjust these timelines. We will publish the adjusted timelines, both to the mayor commission and to the residents.

thank you so much yes ma'am and from the city side do we who's handling cip for this particular project that would be public works um and gregory christian uh will be handling taking the lead on that thank you uh also this is for you as well with heat safety i know the temperatures are very hot for the workers who are working outdoors what plans do we have for heat safety for our workers

Yes, Public Works is working on a water mitigation plan, which will either have a potable truck or bottled water, whichever is the lesser, more expensive and more convenient for the city available to our workers at site.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I want to take the time to thank all of my colleagues and everyone here who participated in the Small Business Expo. It was very successful. Everyone left happy. So Commissioner Smith and Vice Mayor Floremont were impromptu panelists. and did a great job, so thank you also for Commissioner Linsu who showed up and supported. So I want to thank you all for being part of our small business celebration. I guess I'll also direct this to the manager, ARPA. I've been talking about ARPA for so long, for a long time, and I know with budget season approaching, There's a lot of narratives out there about our budget, and I think that it's very prudent for us as a commission to get those details first, maybe memos, more numbers. That way we are able to kind of speak to the public of these updates that we have. Because when you make an update and we don't have any stats or any numbers, it's kind of hard for us to really fall in line with what's happening with the city's finances. So I would definitely say, especially as we approach budget season, to give us some, usually managers go and do they speak to us individually and ask us what are our priorities. So I would definitely encourage that. I also believe that with the budget season approaching, if we are in a $20 million deficit, then we have to have some freezes with events. I know a lot of the events that I try to bring forth, I try to get a lot of sponsorships. So if we're in a $20 million deficit, as you stated, why are we having a $200,000 party? For Centennial, I know one of the residents mentioned a sponsorship package. Our story has to be able to have some kind of synergy. So if we're in a deficit, then we have to have a freeze. Or if we still want to have the events, then we have to have sponsors. So it has to be something to try to mitigate those conversations. Because if we're $20 million in the hole, then... You know, everything stops, right? So I think that narrative has to be tweaked with a little bit more detail. And I think that would be great. With that said, I wanted to highlight also NACA. I think I sent you an email about the housing. So we're looking to do more housing workshops. So we're hoping that our new economic development director, who's here tonight, we had a lot of promotions, but a lot of promotions we're seeing online. I think it's fair if you send us a memo to let us know, hey, these are the new changes that are happening in the city. I find out a lot about the updates and congratulations to everyone that has been promoted through Instagram. so it would be good to kind of give us a memo that kind of gives us you know a heads up on these these great promotion i know miss morris got a promotion there's different changes mr williams so it's good to for us to have um that information but i'm looking forward to a great meeting and also great celebrations for all the cultural uh celebrations that we've had all month long so kudos to the asian festival that was amazing on on i was able to attend on sunday well attended and again, when we have these events, if we can really hone in on sponsorships, sponsorship packages, we have a lot of partners that want to give to the city versus us going into our general fund for $200,000, $300,000 and more. Thank you. Commissioner Smith. Thank you.

Good evening, everybody. Well, you know, we can't go backwards. But if you didn't go to the Asian Festival for the two days, you really missed it. There was unbelievable entertainment, unbelievable booths with food, unbelievable just interacting with each other. The little girl that was four years old with the umbrella dancing around, you know, you missed it. Okay, if you didn't go to the small business, seminar that we had that was Just one day The booths were so many it was so tight the panel was past professional football players if You didn't go you missed it can't go backwards So pay attention to our social media pay attention to what we have going for us and attend I thank every person that comes because if you don't attend, we're not going to do it. And if you do attend, you're going to have the best time, a wonderful couple hours of your life. So now coming up, going forward, we have the movie. It's for the Jewish community, but you know what? Guess what? You don't have to be Jewish to attend. Come and enjoy the movie. It's a few hours in the air conditioning on hot summer days. The senior lunches, the senior lunches are packed now. There's not an empty seat. The senior lunches are so much fun. These people that have attended have become really friends, really friends. And you have an opportunity Friday, but you must sign up. Once its capacity is sold out. So if you listen to all the things that are coming ahead, All the things that you have an opportunity to enjoy. If you don't go, guess what? You missed it. Now I want to bring up something else that's very important. If you can, if you're home, if you're here, pay attention for one second. Guess what happened in North Miami Beach? We decided, how could we take all the residents and confuse them? So what we did, is we have somebody knocking on doors to sign a petition that you need to read every word so you know what you're signing. And I have seen some door cameras that what they're saying to get you to sign isn't true. And I know for a fact it isn't true because when the mayor moved into North Miami Beach, he remodeled his house before he moved in. Because you shared it. That was when you shared more of your life. You shared it. Well, then you missed it. You missed it. But I know for a fact that he lives here. I know for a fact that he's lived here for years and years. I think before he had his first child. And you know what? When people are knocking on the doors and telling you, we have to get the mayor to live in North Miami Beach, you have to sign. It's not true. It's not true. If you want to sign, I'm not telling you to sign or not to sign. That's up to you. You get that right. But please read it. Please know what you're signing. Now, how did it get confusing? That's simple. Well, what Commissioner Chernoff brought up is a petition that is so important to you, to your pocketbook. This is a petition that the city staff is asking people to sign so that the water that they want to pass, the changing of the water income in Tallahassee, they want to make sure that the public tells the governor to veto it. If it's not vetoed, that's where it comes out of your pocket. Now that's where it's going to cost you. So, again, we didn't mean to confuse everybody. Two petitions at the same time. What I am asking you, the petition that says, Governor, veto this bill, please, if they come to your door, sign it. The petition that says that they want to have several things, don't be fooled because it is not just to have that you are going to have districting, but you're also going to start all over with term limits. Yes, I started all over. Guess what? I sat out two years. That's perfectly what we want you to do. And actually, the people put me back in. So I'm just asking you to pay attention. It is confusing, but not to us. We've got this, we've got this. We know what we're doing. I wanna say one thing about Washington Park. I have to tell you, I was here when Washington Park was fighting for that pool, well-deserved. what that community has given to north miami beach we could never pay back that was the community that built north miami beach and their facilities were falling apart and so the county started it i don't know 20 30 years ago that they're going to refurbish they're going to refurbish and all of a sudden the county didn't have money And back then it was, I don't know what it was, 7,000, 8,000, 7 million, 8 million. Okay, it doesn't matter the cost now. The cost is it had to be done and a bond was issued. What a privilege to be there last night, not just to see the signing, the contract is signed, it's being built, but to meet the builders. To hear the man say, I have never in all my projects, I have never come later than the date that it was due. To hear him say, I have never seen a community more enthusiastic, it was a privilege. It was a privilege. And now guess what? We're going to all be here. Put on our bathing suits and go in that pool. We're going to all be here and get to enjoy the fruits of years of hard work. and i'll tell you the voters council didn't give up and they're still not giving up and that's the backbone that holds us up that's what holds us up so i there's a lot we could say we could say thank you for everyone for your good wishes for my husband and myself for our health we're strong as can be fighting like heck to stay strong as can be and i'm doing it I'm just saying to you, enjoy every day. Look at what we have. There's a lot of responsibility here in these packs. A lot of responsibility. Pay attention to it and then call me if you have something that you want me to change or correct or think about. And I am more than happy to discuss it with you. I wish you all a safe summer. And Jay Turnoff, you took away my most important thing I always say for the summer. You must know how to swim. You must know how to swim. You cannot live in the water where you don't where there's water everywhere. You don't know how to swim. You owe it to your family. You owe it to your family. So we have a swimming pool and we give we give lessons for free. And if they start to charge you, you call me because we are going to make sure everybody learns how to swim. Be blessed. Have a safe, wonderful summer. Make lots of happy memories for you and your family.

Commissioner Spockler. Thank you. So I want to start by saying that last month when I was vice mayor and the month before that, both months on separate occasions, I inquired whether the mayor should be giving me the gavel. And some people in the audience seem to think that I wanted to take the gavel away from him. And no, I didn't want to take the gavel. I don't need a gavel. If I want a gavel, I can buy one. But the reason I was trying to take the gavel is because I believed that when we're discussing, and I'm only pointing out the mayor, I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just pointing it out because he's the mayor and I was the vice mayor at the time. And I did go to Robert's Rules and it says, Yes, the mayor should pass the gavel to the vice mayor if the discussion item directly affects the mayor or if they wish to actively debate the issue. Under Robert's Rules of Orders, a presiding officer must maintain strict neutrality during a meeting. When the mayor must pass the gavel, personal or financial conflict If the discussion involves a motion that signals out the mayor, such as a censure, a promotion, or a personal financial interest, the mayor must step down and turn the chair over to the vice mayor. So, no, I was not trying to take the gavel away from him. I was just trying to do what we should be doing, which is following Robert's rules. now to other things so thank you so much parks and recs for making the multicultural committee look amazing for the haitian heritage comp comp comp did i say that right So much fun making us look good. Parks and Rec, like always, you do such a wonderful job, and thank you to my multicultural committee for being part of it. Also thank you to Parks and Rec for Making the Commission on the Status of Women look good for the wonderful Mother's Day breakfast. Thank you, Parks and Rec, for doing such a great job. And thank you for the Commission on the Status of Women for making the experience so good. On May 24th, we will be celebrating Jewish American History Month, and the food is kosher, 100% kosher, so no one has to worry that none of the kosher laws have been followed. I also want to say that as we celebrate Memorial Day, let us not forget those who died to give us the freedom we have. And the freedom to be right here and speak, right? And to allow the audience come and speak about any of us, all of us. And, you know, when someone comes up and says that they would have done the petition a little bit quicker, but they had opposition, like, that's great to have opposition. Opposition means that we're living in a free country. And opposition means that, you know, maybe you're not doing the right thing and people are opposing you. You know, I actually, the community is smart and educated, but the community is also being lied to by such petition. And I'm actually taking offense to this petition because they're trying to imply that, and I'm only gonna speak for myself, I'm not gonna speak for the rest of the commission, right? And I know that this petition is not about me, it's about the seven of us, but I'm talking and I'm the one who feels this. You know, they're trying to imply that we don't return phone calls, that we don't return emails, that we don't do anything for any part of the community that isn't where we live. And that's not true in my case. And maybe I don't return every phone call and maybe I don't return every email, but I think I have a really good track record, you know, maybe 98%, 99%. For someone to say that they want a petition because the community feels left out and because it's not fair and so on and so forth, I get very offended by that because You know what? I work hard. I've been here eight years now, and I take time away from my family. I was in Taiwan on vacation in Kazan. Did you speak to me when I was in Taiwan? You knew I was in Taiwan because I told you. So even in Taiwan, I have to answer Kazan's calls. I responded to text. I didn't even tell people I was away. I just responded to emails. I responded to texts. so anyways you know the the the petition the the the one petition i'm going to talk about because i'm going to talk about both the one petition that is is actually um and i liked how um former commissioner kramer called it the divisive division petition sorry It is divisive. So, you know, and I'm gonna, I think I'm just gonna sit here for the next six months and read this over and over again, okay? Eastern Shores, or the east side, does not have four commissioners. We have two commissioners in Eastern Shores and one in Western Eastern Shores. Two plus one equals three, okay. Okay, I am termed out. Commissioner Smith, who is from Eastern Shores, is up for reelection. When I am termed out, that leaves three minus one, two on the east side. How many are on the west side? The side that's claiming that's not being taken care of? Four. All right? that petition is going around giving misinformation saying that the west side is not being taken care of because the majority lives on the east side but the majority lives on the west side and yes they are going around because i heard it and saw it with my ears and with my eyes I saw the video where it says the mayor does not live in North Miami Beach. If that's true, then you should step down. Someone is lying. I don't think it's you, Mr. Mayor. I think it's the people who are passing around the petition. Commissioner Smith, you can be my chorus line. I live in Eastern Shores. I don't have underground electricity.

Commissioner Smith, do you have underground electricity?

Okay. I don't have sidewalks. Do you have sidewalks? Oh, okay. I have cable lines falling around me. Do you have cable lines when you go walking around? Do you sometimes have low cable lines? I don't know if you've been walking lately, but there's low cable lines that short people like me can reach. I don't have a community center. Do you have a community center, Commissioner Smith?

I do not. Oh, okay. I need some insurance. Okay.

You don't have a pool either in your house? I do not. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. And our park is smaller than this room. It is smaller. Last time I said it was about the size but I went back with my grand sons and I believe Yeah, it is smaller. So I'm not going to talk about this anymore because I don't want to extend the meeting much longer. It's 840. Just remember, oh, well, I do want to talk about the other petition, sorry. Just remember, when anybody gives you anything to sign, always read it. Right, and don't sign something unless you know for a fact that it's true. Ask questions, ask them to come back. Ask questions. I had someone call me, actually message me, that they were given misinformation. I told them the truth, and they will not be signing your petition. Now, there is another petition, which is, I mistakenly thought was 1452, but it's 1451, that is going around by the city of North Miami Beach. It is really important that that one is signed This is not a political statement. This has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat or term limits, which, by the way, that petition with term limits is coincidentally benefiting three commissioners. This 1451 petition, please, please sign it. This is to benefit you, not to benefit anyone else other than you, your family, your neighbors. I ask that you sign it. Thank you to the police department for always taking care of us, our residents, our neighbors, our friends, our family, our visitors, our businesses, and our city hall.

Commissioner Hsu.

Thank you. Good evening, everyone, residents. Thank you all for coming to the event, listening at home, and also good evening to all my colleagues on the dais. Over the past several weeks, North Miami Beach has continued to showcase the strength and energy that makes our city unique. Our second annual NMB Asian Night Market brought close to 4,000 people to our city. We're hoping to make this a destination city and not a pass-through city, proving once again that North Miami Beach can be the Asian hub of Miami-Dade County. This year, we focus on bringing more NMB-based businesses directly in front of consumers. One standout performance came from the Kenshinjuku, Kenshinjuku? that's a karate school, where they brought all their students to perform on stage, which was wonderful. They're located right here in Dixie Highway in our very own city. Highlighting the talents and business that we have here, what's funny is I think the headmaster only speaks Spanish, so he doesn't even speak English. And he's a karate master, which is awesome. We also celebrated Haitian Heritage Month with a major Kampa Fest at Grannolds Park. I got to buy my mushrooms. I'm super happy. They're not hallucinating type. They are the ones that you make in the rice. That united efforts of multiple departments in one large community event. Listen, it was the library I got a chance to read. I think it's an English creole book to the children in the library van, which was a lot of fun. The kids are great. They're all fighting me to read the books. So it's a great reflection of our culture and diversity and that defines our city greatly. So congratulations to Commissioner Jean for another successful Small Business Expo. We hope to see that continue to succeed year after year. and become a staple of North Miami Beach. Of course, let's not miss the Jewish Heritage Month. Let's go celebrate it together with all the kosher food that we have prepared. I want to remind residents that at the next UMC free clinic is May 24th in Yulita. So of course, it's free, no insurance required. This is very crucial. I think sometimes we avoid going to see the doctors because we're worried about the expense that's going to hit our pocketbooks. So this is completely free. If you needed any medication, They will prescribe it and give it to you for free. If they don't have it, they'll ask you to come to their clinic in Miami Gardens and give it to you for free. I also just completed the National League of Cities Local Solutions to Ending Homelessness Program. So with that as a result, I helped connect the Chapman partnership with the UMC free clinic to explore ways how we can better coordinate outreach, healthcare access, and supportive services for vulnerable individuals in our community. I'm also bringing in some warm hot meals that we can provide seeing that we are coming up to the summer. There are going to be a lot of children who are not going to get food from school. So having these hot meals, I'm working with a local church so we could see how we can support our community that way. I'm also honored to share that I have been recently appointed as the National League of Cities Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee, where I will help advocate for federal resources and policies that can benefit cities like North Miami Beach, especially regarding utilities and infrastructure. Now, before I move on to the end, I just wanted to address some of the parents that came out today about the soccer program. I do think that I am not able to bring this back for a reconsideration, but I really would like to urge my colleagues that I would love for you to reconsider that 52,000. If we can give residents a ticket or a voucher for them to attend their preferred football club, or school, a soccer, sorry, soccer club or soccer school, I think it would be an equitable way that we are treating vendors in our city. We have somebody who comes in and wants to establish something, and I appreciate their initiative. I know that they have been successful elsewhere, And yet, it's next door, right? It's in North Miami. We don't have to replicate the same thing here. What if we have Coach JP doing a wonderful job creating community within a community using sports, bringing parents together? Like, this is amazing what he is doing, and yet there is no subsidy for that. There is nothing for him. And plus, he may get pushed, I don't know, this is the fact, but I know that they were talking about, now that they're only using the option of Friday at Allen Park, I think I need to discuss this further with our new parks director to see, are they being pushed out of their location and training and their soccer schools? But I do urge my colleagues, I know this past 5-2, a lot of you can, if you want to reconsider that vote, I would really encourage you, and I think that the parents would also thank you as well. Thank you. But unfortunately, we're in the... Unfortunately, I can't vote for it, but I ditto that.

Okay, before we go there. You can always remember that the money is not taxpayers' money, it's donations, but you can always bifurcate from the remaining funds to that organization. There are more funds.

I understand. No, what I'm saying... It can be earmarked for... Are you saying that the $52,000 was donation funds? Yes.

Yes.

70 for youth sports?

Yes, it was.

Okay.

But they should spread it. It should be spread.

Well, Commissioner, if I could have one second of the time and through the mayor. I would like the manager to get with Mr. Fors and see what you can do financially. We didn't know about the other soccer team. That whole thing came to light. The man that is bringing his soccer, which has to be a North Miami Beach resident, this has been working for three years. This just didn't happen. So if you could please... get with Mr. Forrest, see what we can do to help him not just have the field, but also what can we do financially to help his program. Well, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you. Okay, so in my closing, so transparency, accountability, and long-term planning remain critical for our city. At our last meeting, the city manager reported a projected $21 million shortfall. And because of that, my decisions moving forward will continue prioritizing fiscal responsibility and protecting the long-term financial stability of North Miami Beach. As we approach Memorial Day, let us remember the men and women who gave their lives in service of our country. Their sacrifice is the reason we enjoy the freedoms and opportunities we have today. And we honor them through service, gratitude, and unity. And I hope to see you all at our Memorial Day service Monday morning. Thank you so much. Vice Mayor Mackenzie Floremon.

Thank you. madam clerk just want to say that we look forward to honoring those who have served during this memorial day upcoming and also for all the great events that have taken place over the past couple of weeks i want to thank city staff thank all of our residents and all of the commissioners that have put their minds together to have those events. So I did participate in the Small Business Expo, which I believe is the fifth one. And so I think it's super important. You know, when you do these events, it's similar to the Heart Walk. You know, some of them last, some of them don't. But to have an event for five years and to have the consistent support and people show up I think says a lot to the need of our community. But one of the things I think that's super important is for us to get the information on the different businesses in our community and their trajectory and what they're going through and what their needs are. Because we've had certain businesses in this community that were here for a while that we've either lost because they've moved over to another municipality or because they have just shut down. Right. So and I can talk about two of them that are in the food service space. So you have Massillon, Griot and Fish that was here off of 163rd, I believe, and about 10th Avenue. And for 15 plus years, he was in that same location. And for a good reason, he moved. He moved because he was able to get the support of a CRA in our sister city. And they expanded their restaurant and their offering. So I'm very happy for them. And I'm very happy that that happened for them. But when I see something like that, I say to myself, what can we do to make sure that our businesses can expand? What can we do to make sure that our businesses stay right here within the city of North Miami Beach and receive the resources necessary for them to continue to succeed? Another business, Fat Boy's Wings and Things, which has been here for almost 10 years. And he's a North Miami Beach Senior High School graduate. He is an involved member of our community who opened not only a restaurant, but a barbershop. And my understanding is that his business is either closed or temporarily closed. And so... I'd like to find out what we can do for a business like that to see if there's anything that our CRA or from economic development that we can do to support and see a business like that remain in North Miami Beach, because these businesses are providing jobs, they're providing opportunities, and these are homegrown residents of our city that started businesses within our city. So we need to definitely Mr. Manager, look into at least Fat Boys, because Maceo's already been performing well in their new location. They're very happy where they're at, but at least with the other restaurant. And as well, look at other businesses in our community and see how we can be of assistance to keep them around. And aside from that, I just want to say that I look forward to an expedient meeting. Oh, one more thing. I noticed that when it comes to the soccer event that we're having here, that there's a price to it now i'm not sure what other municipalities are doing but is if there's a way we can look at making that free to our residents um because you know i think part of being family friendly is being affordable right and so you know it's it's the field people are coming with their own chairs and they're sitting And I'm assuming that whatever food trucks are there, it's going to be food for purchase, correct? So the $20, the $25 is specifically for entry, nothing else.

Yes. Well, there'll be some games and about through the mayor to commissioner Florman.

There'll be some other items there for them. There'll be games, there'll be bounce houses, there'll be a family oriented activities and kids activities.

Similar to, um, Similar to Snowfest or similar to, what is the event that we have? Monster Mash. They have those same offerings to the public as well. But people are just able to come and participate. So I mean, this is a huge, huge deal. the World Cup, very, very big deal. And especially for the game that we are talking about. We have to be conscious of the socioeconomic condition of the community. And $25 may be nothing to some, but for a lot of families, if it's per person, if they're coming with a family of four or family of five, that can automatically become an expense that they may not be able to reach or attain. So I just wanted us to consider that as well.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

You know what, go ahead.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I forgot one more thing. I'm not sure if Jasmine actually mentioned this, but we have a community workshop. It's about the $1,000 account that all the newborns could actually access and how to do the investments. as well as the retirement opportunities for families. So there's like an IRA account that you could open up and also how you can access employer matching funds into your child's account. So if you have kids under 18 or you have a newborn, I encourage everyone to attend because there's some money out there for you and it can grow. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor, for your time.

Mayor Michael Joseph. Thank you, I'll try to be quick, but I'm just compelled to say a couple of things. We have a Juneteenth experience every year, and I know we're having a lot of events, Commissioner Hsu with her Asian market and everything else, but there's a bill out there that's gonna possibly affect all of this, quite frankly. um uh there's certain carve-outs I know Juneteenth is a carve-out because it's a national holiday but certain things won't and then there should be a memo written by our city attorney make sure everybody understands what that bill does and what the ramifications are if you promote or use any type of taxpayer dollars for those events so there's not crowded out that it can be some serious consequences not just for the city but for elected officials that participate remember that okay so in regards to the experience uh i know my my aids been in contact with parks and public um communications uh i saw that enhancement i know that we're doing this fifa event i don't want to like i said our city was i think the first city in dade county to pass a juneteenth holiday correct me if i'm wrong we were i don't want to i don't want to diminish the history and the legacy we have I understand FIFA is important for a lot of people, but I know Juneteenth is important for a lot more people. And we've been experiencing a revival in getting people engaged. We had close to over a thousand people during our Juneteenth experience. I don't want to drop the ball on that. I don't want to feel like that we can start this programming and then we just let the ball drop. So I'm going to be reaching out to your office. I'm going to keep engaging because we did reach because the historic nature of our one in a year, I did reach out to the city of Miami to possibly do like a like a Juneteenth weekend, have an art display at the Perez Art Museum combined with North Miami, having something at the Ron Book Stadium as well as having a step show. So there's a lot of there was a lot of things being worked in that. And I want that to drop. I don't want to drop the ball. I want to diminish that community whatsoever. I respect everybody's communities here, as you guys know, or whatever, but I have to be very cognizant and being respectful to something that the Commission on the Status of Women Multicultural Committee has always promoted, Juneteenth. And I understand we're doing this thing in regards to the FIFA. Understood. I think and I understand there's this breakfast component aspect. But I know a lot of people have been counting on this. They look forward to it last. They look forward to every year. Last year, they like I said, it was up to the rafters of how many people attend. So it was all well and done in regards to the brunch. But I don't want to diminish the quality that we were able to produce several years. And I just want to I just want to put that on the map, just like how when Lin Su throughout the fact that we're going to do an Asian market and you step to. So I wanna have that same type of respect to that community as well, and not to let the ball drop.

I just think that's the right thing to do.

There's a lot more other stuff. Look, we have a PAC commission. I thought it was light, by the way. But let's move forward. Yeah, it can be. So Madam Clerk, next.

Consent agenda.

Move to introduce the consent agenda. Second.

Second. Yes. Okay, consent agenda item 9.1 commission conference minutes of April 21st, 2026. Item 9.2 the regular commission meeting minutes of April 21st, 2026. Item 9.3 resolution number R2026- implementing a new business initiative sponsored by Commissioner Lynn Sue and co-sponsored by Commissioner Phyllis Smith, a resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of North Miami Beach, Florida, authorizing the City Manager to utilize funds allocated to the Housing and Economic Development Department to implement a new business initiative, providing for program elements including monthly selection of new businesses for promotional and operational support, providing for eligibility requirements, collaboration, with the norm, Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and program funding limitations, providing for administrative implementation, providing for conflicts, and providing for an effective date. Item 9.4 was deferred to the next meeting, am I correct, Madam Clerk?

No, not deferred, it was pulled.

It's just pulled. Okay, so we'll get that as soon as we're done with the other items of the consent agenda, and I'll go back and read 9.4 then. Item 9.5, resolution number R2025-65, approving and authorizing a purchase order with Afton Pumps Inc. for the sole source purchase of pumps and motors sponsored by the city manager, resolution of the mayor and city commission of the city of North Miami Beach, Florida, approving and authorizing a purchase order with Afton Pumps for the sole source purchase of pumps and motors in a budgeted amount not to exceed $409,300, authorizing the city manager or designee to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution. subject to the budget appropriation availability funds providing for conflicts, providing for scrivener's errors, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. 9.6, I think, was also pulled for later discussion. Am I correct? Okay, we'll go to 9.7, resolution number R, 2026-67, approving and authorizing a purchase order with Play Corps Wisconsin Inc. DBA game time for the Barry Silverman Park resurfacing, sponsored by the city manager. Resolution of the mayor and city commission of the city of North Miami Beach, Florida, approving a purchase order between the city and Play Corps Wisconsin Inc. DBA game time for the Barry Silverman Park resurfacing in an amount not to exceed $57,600, authorizing the city manager or designated to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution, providing for conflicts, providing for scrimmage errors, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. Item 9.8, resolution number R2026-68, approving and authorizing a purchase order for roadway improvement services through piggyback contracts with Metro Express, Inc., sponsored by the city manager. Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of North Miami Beach, Florida, approving and authorizing purchase orders for citywide roadway and sidewalk infrastructure improvement services through piggyback contracts with Metro Express, Inc. in an annual budget amount not to exceed $500,000 per fiscal year 2026, 2027, and 2028. Authorizing the City Manager to designate all things necessary to effect this resolution providing for conflicts writing for scriveners harris providing severability and friday for an effective date item 9.9 resolution number r2026-69 proving and authorizing an increase in expenditure for financial administration and staff augmentation services caballero fireman urana and garcia llp cflg sponsored by the city manager A resolution of the Mayor and City Commission and the City of North Miami Beach Board approving and authorizing an increase in expenditure.

What item was that? What item was that? The one you just, you said you're, what number are you on right now? I'm now on 9.9.

Okay. Okay. With the two that we passed, that will have to come back to 9.4 and 9.6. Those were pulled for discussion.

No, it was, yeah, yeah.

Well, we're not on 9.10.

9.10 was pulled? Yeah. Okay.

But I'm still on 9.9. All right. Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of North Miami Beach, Florida, approving and authorizing an increase in expenditure for financial administrative support and staff augmentation services by $150,000 with Caballero, Fireman, Urana, and Garcia LLP authorized city manager or designated all things necessary to effectuate this resolution, providing for conflicts, providing for scriveners, providing for severability, subject to the budget appropriation availability funds, and providing for an effective date. 9.10 was pulled for discussion. Yes. And also 9.11?

Yes, yes.

Okay, 9.12, resolution number R2026-72, approving an amendment to North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency fiscal year 2025-26 budget, sponsored by the city manager, resolution of the mayor and city commission of the city of North Miami Beach, Florida. Proving an amendment to the North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency fiscal year 2025-26 budget to reflect changes in revenues, carry forward fund balance and expenditures necessary to fund redevelopment initiatives detailed herein. Authorizing the city clerk to designate and transmit the budget to Miami-Dade County. Authorizing the city manager to designate all action necessary to complete the approval process for the North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency fiscal year 2025-26 amended budget and providing for an effective date. That is the consent agenda.

I have a second. Second. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All right, Madam Clerk. We'll return then to the first item that was pulled for discussion, item 9.4, resolution number R2026. Move to introduce. I'm sorry, you're correct. All right. Thank you. Thank you. You're correct, Commissioner. Long experience. Resolution number are 2026 is 64 accepting a grant award from the Florida Department of Transportation for the 163rd Street median safety and beautification project sponsored by the city manager resolution. The mayor and city commission the city in North Miami Beach, Florida accepting a grant award for the Florida from the Florida Department of Transportation. The amount of $200,000 for the 163rd Street Median Safety and Beautification Project authorized by the City Manager to execute all necessary agreements and documents providing for scrivener's errors, providing for implementation, and providing for an effective date.

Mr. Manager. yes sir on this particular item uh because i i well no um commissioners well look i i i second that i second that but the question i have is that um because i understand from a procedure standpoint right um when it comes to like these awards um typically like we go like like how what's the process of how you guys like deal with these things like because you know there's there's There's like, we do one thing, they do another.

Is it matching that type of stuff?

Oh, yes, yes. And what's the process of us accepting it and moving forward in that regard, at least from your standpoint? Okay, so...

I had requested to defer this item because of the matching funds. And we're looking to do a fiscal impact on every single item that comes before you. And it was unclear to us what the fiscal impact was gonna be. So it was my office's call to pull this item, determine what the fiscal impact is gonna be, and then bring it back next month. So that was the determination.

So it was a matching fund grant?

Yes.

Okay, and in regards to the 1C3rd, because I know we've been having a lot of issues. I know certain residents have been bringing that up. It's a high accident prone area. Certain things you just gotta do because it is what it is when it comes to safety. And I don't want to know the issue. I was that especially, you know, in this environment, I want to lose an opportunity to delay anything because I don't know if lives of lives could be impacted. So that's why I was like saying, OK, and I only took it out initially to have that discussion. But like, I feel something that we should do regardless. But, you know, I see how my other colleagues feel about that.

I think I had a memo sent to you about what the funds could be used for and what categories because like from my understanding is like it's kind of like earmarked for beautification so is that I don't know

Through the Mayor to Commissioner Hsu, yes, we received your memo and we began working on it. Unfortunately, the request for the grant funds to be utilized for infrastructure such as sprinklers and other systems like that is not permitted under the grant.

Commissioner Chernoff.

The question is if we defer it to the next meeting, does that affect the timeline of accepting?

that's that's that's my main that's one of my main concern perhaps it could and that's why i wanted to i didn't want to delay it commissioner thank you mr mayor so why are we why are we not approving it if we do approve it and it is matching what would be the source what would be the funding source

So we have earmarked $350,000 approximately from the CRA. That part of the project is in the CRA boundaries. We have a CIP, a general fund match from the non-CRA boundaries, approximately $352,670. And we also have the beautification grant actually provides $200,000 in funding itself. Okay.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am. So One last point last point, thank you.

Okay, so we're getting I'm sorry the grant amount again, please 200,000 Okay, we're adding 350 from the CRA and then another hundred from the general fund.

Is that correct? 352 352 from the CRA and then another 350 from the CRA 352 from the CIP general fund for trees in the median. Northwest Northeast 167th Street Quarter from Biscayne Boulevard, US 1 to the Sunny Isles Beach Drawbridge.

That's a long stretch.

Near Northeast 35th Avenue and also Northeast 163rd Street Quarter from Biscayne Boulevard, US 1 to the Sunny Isles Beach Drawbridge. It's huge.

Well, I mean, considering that we're $21 million, you know, I mean, can we afford another $700,000 match for that just to get $200,000?

These are budgeted funds for this fiscal year. It's already budgeted, yes.

If we don't use it, it goes into the surplus, right?

Yes. Commissioner Smith.

Are you saying that this beautification money, because the CRA was talking about northeast 163rd Street, like 15th Avenue to 12th Avenue. You just gave numbers east of Biscayne, with your address, east of Biscayne Boulevard.

Yes, ma'am, I did.

Okay, east of Biscayne Boulevard looks good. It's palm trees and clean. I drive it several times a day. I mean, we want to really spend money east of Biscayne Boulevard.

I mean, it looks good. Commissioner Jean. Can I piggyback on that, Commissioner Smith?

Could I just, before you, it has nothing to do with this. Mr. Attorney, did I misunderstand at one time when you leave the room, you come back, you have to vote?

No. You know, if you are not present for a vote, then you're not required to vote. I mean, people... can absent themselves from the dais. And if they're not here, they're in my opinion. No, I don't think they're required to. Now, if you have a conflict, and you absent yourself from the dais because you have a conflict, you're not relieved of the obligation to state your conflict on the record and fill out appropriate documentation. But absent there being some conflict that needs to be disclosed, if you're not on the dais, then you're not here when the vote is done. You may have a privilege if you request to be recorded

as being in favor or opposed to something if you chose to do so but that commissioner smith commissioner smith commissioner jay and myself were at an ethics class and the instructor said that when you come back you have to vote and who was the instructor

25 years.

He's from the Florida League of Cities. He has like patchy skin.

He's the one that has nine children.

I don't know that part.

I don't know who that is. I do not agree with that opinion, but I will research it further. But that is not my understanding. And I've been, you know, I respect the 25 years experience. I've been doing it for 46. But I'd be happy to look further at it. And if that's what the instructor said, perhaps he's correct and perhaps he's not.

That's what I heard. So for the record, I will vote yes. I was in the restroom. For the consent agenda. For the consent agenda, yes.

You have the privilege of asking that your vote be recorded.

Okay, I'm asking them I vote be recorded as a yes. It's noted agenda. Thank you.

I also would like my vote to be recorded as a yes. Thank you.

And then I would like your 40 years to make it 40 in a week and take that extra week to research. Thank you. All right.

So I have a motion and a second.

Oh, I did have a question. Okay. So because this was brought up, it reminded me of something. I have been told that there is a vendor that has been doing some work in the medium in North Miami Beach. and that he's also on a board. The Charter Review. No, Charter. Oh, and PUC? Oh, okay, I just know Charter Review, but if he's on PUC as well. So that's not allowed. I'm not gonna publicly say any names, but I'll go to you afterwards.

Thank you. So I was going to say to Commissioner Smith's point, Mr. Manager, do we have to, does the entire allocation have to be given? So even if it's budgeted and it's a matching of 200K, we can just take, we can just mirror that, not necessarily exceed it based on what you see the need is, right?

To your point, I don't want to lose the money.

That's an option, right? If you want to be more conservative.

Unofficially, yes.

Okay. Leave it to your discretion, but I'm just saying you don't have to do the entire allocation if you don't see the need for it.

Absolutely. I'll have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Opposed. All right. One opposed. Next item.

Move to introduce. Second.

Item 9.6, resolution number R2026-66, approving and authorizing the award of request for price proposal number RFP2026-072, Centennial Celebration Event Production Services to Whatablast Events LLC, sponsored by the City Manager. Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of North Miami Beach, Florida, approving and authorizing the award of request for price proposal number RFP-2026-072, Centennial Celebration Event Production Services to Whatablast Events LLC in a budgeted amount not to exceed amount of $200,000, subject to budget appropriation and availability of funds, authorizing the city manager or designee to execute an agreement and to do all things necessary to effectuate this resolution, and subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds, providing for conflicts surrounding screw-in reserves, for any severability, and providing for an effective date.

Why am I reading 100,000?

It's on the screen or on the paper? On the screen. Oh, on the paper it says 200.

Yeah, we don't have the paper.

Oh. It says 200 on the paper. Yes.

I pulled this because I think it needs to be updated a little as far as what it says that we're voting on and what we're really going to vote on. So I'll turn it over to the manager to discuss it more. Okay.

Yes, so we had two things that occurred during the agenda briefing process. We had a meeting with the Centennial Task Force. The Centennial Task Force made a strong recommendation to remove the gala and to utilize those funds to add to the street festival. We took up that mantle and moved that request forward. And also a member of the commission had requested to have a meeting with the vendor. We facilitated that meeting along with the agenda briefing. and the recommendation to do to take some of those funds and utilize that were earmarked for the gala and utilize them for a block party at windward so those are going to be the changes that are going to be um impacting this item commissioner smith i um you want to go first okay well she was pointing to me

Well, there's a few factors. Number one is the gala, the thought of the gala, and I'm not part of the centennial, but when I heard that, I concur with that completely. You know, the thing about the gala is the Spanish monastery can only hold a certain number of people. So where do you cut it off? Who's not going to be invited? Who's going to be invited? I think the fun thing of celebration and the kids and the family is a much better idea. And then some officials from other cities getting dressed up and we go and limit it to a few hundred people, if that, if you can even get 250 people in there. The second thing is that for sure, for sure, I don't wanna eliminate, even though these carnival events are gonna be on Saturday, I do not want to eliminate our Orthodox neighborhood by any stretch of the imagination. We'll just make their carnival on a Sunday, and they'll be included. And I wanted to ask you, when there was a brief meeting, Alan Park was included. Is Alan Park still included?

Yes.

Okay, so then that would be also, it wasn't on here to vote. the allen park is part of uh one of the other communities when we combine the communities which community is that um i'll have to bring up the list give me just a moment yeah if you if you look at the picture i took a picture i just want to i mean it's a celebration for the people and i'd like to make sure all all the communities are involved That's all.

Mayor, just a very quick point. Procedurally, the changes in the program don't change the resolution in any way and that's something that the manager has the authority to do and to negotiate. If the amount being expended is different than it ought to be amended so that the correct amount that's being authorized is stated in the amended resolution. Now, if it's still being authorized at 200, the manager has authority to not spend all of it if there's some operational issues. But if it's a different amount being authorized, that should be an amendment.

No, I understand. Look, I know that remember when we were running um you had to name all the different neighborhoods if you can't that was like one of the questions during the screenings like if you can winwood aqua bowl monticello um allen park pickwick

Pickwick's going to be with Sky Lake.

Which makes perfect sense. But Allen being coupled with a Washington Park, that's, yeah. No. No, no, I understand that. But is Aqua Bowl going to be tied to Allen Park? Can a case be made for that? I can see that.

That I can definitely see that.

But you have Oak Grove, and I don't think Oak Grove and Washington Park are that connected because Oak Grove is huge. And then you have Yulita, which is massive in and above itself. And how are you guys going to break that up? And I don't even want to get into Pan Yulita and everything else. That's a whole other discussion. But in regards to Alan Park, what was the connection?

I believe Island Park was going to be part of the...

I don't have it connected, so I'm trying to find it.

The city center? Is that the one? Oh, that's separated by one seat.

No, no, because Island Park is south of... Yeah. No, the city center is too big.

It's too big. So let me read what we have. All right, so we had the Washington Park block party already. We have the Yolita block party Saturday, June the 6th, which will be next month. We also have next month tentatively we're looking at creating a windward block party, which would be Saturday, June 28th. Then we have the neighborhood block party for the city center, July the 4th.

uh neighborhood block party question oh to your point yeah and i'm glad that you mentioned this yes i don't know what our plans are for the america 250. i know um commissioner smith was one of the people that pushed for having like a july 4th event this is you know this is our nation's 250 year like i would hope that doesn't get you know diminish in that way i'm honest yeah the mayor like a lot of people are going to do some massive events that that that particular day

I'm going to North Miami Beach. I'm still coming here. I didn't say you're not coming here.

I'm just saying in regards to, I know we're going into the minutiae and just the programming aspect, but just keep in mind how these other block parties are falling into other different dates or very impactful dates, like the fact that we're going to be celebrating America 250 on July 4th. It does, but that's, it shouldn't be, but like, I just want to make sure that when I that's, if we didn't actually, it would have happened. Commissioner Smith.

I'm just saying that that's what, when I sat on into one meeting, What I tried to do in my opinion is keep the community simple so that we can make sure there's parking and make sure there's a place like Allen Park has a place. I don't know each has a place. They we have a place with center said. You read it has a place.

So, anyway, that was my thought.

Now, when I went to go vote on this, waiting to vote on it, it wasn't are gonna be conducive to what we want. The concept is there, but eliminating the gala will give us opportunity for the two neighborhoods that were overlooked to have the celebration as well. The main thing is communication and marketing to every neighborhood that this is your celebration for your 150th year, for your 100th year. This is your 100th year celebration.

Commissioner, thank you so much. Well, you want to OK, so I'm sorry.

I'm trying to find out the resolve for Allen Park.

So we currently do not have anything scheduled for Allen Park. And I also believe there is nothing on the schedule for Oak Grove.

Oak Grove and Allen Park can be the same because a lot of Oak Grove is in the county. So Oak Grove and Allen Park can be the same.

So which one was June 28th?

Oak Grove is pretty big.

Oak Grove is big, but a lot of it's not in the county. Sunday. Sunday. A lot of it's in the city, it's in the county.

One thing I will say is this. I know you have the Centennial Committee that's really trying to shepherd this through. I think there should be some more interconnectivity with us being up here. I don't want to leave anybody out. I think Oak Grove and Allen Park are two different areas, way two different areas. and 12th Avenue, the whole nine, it's a way, the makeup is kind of different, where in Allen Park, it's mostly duplexes and all this other stuff, and Oak Grove is residential homes throughout.

But Oak Grove is just from behind.

And I know you're a realtor, so I'm not saying you don't.

No, but I know it only too well, too, from walking and knocking. You know, we're saying how many people are going to come to each other. Like, Pickwick and Skylake are not near each other at all. But it doesn't behoove us to have a celebration just for Pickwick. No, I understand. As it is. I think we have to recognize financially what we're doing, number one. Number two, we have to, you know... How many people will actually attend from each subdivision? And for instance, Eastern Shores is going to have one. And that'll be Eastern Shores West and East. How many people will come? I don't know we're hoping that advertising will make make the people come to know that we have to have highland village. Highland village is going to have their own they have the island village could if you ever go Christmas, they're big participants in the flash pad of the ready by then right this flash pad is on its way to splash that I don't want to say anything and give it a jinx but hopefully by the end of June will be down there ribbon cutting. i know that um that we have somebody that is employed here higher up and when he makes a promise he never breaks it so i was promised and i think by the end of june the promise will be fulfilled i don't want to jinx it next We'll announce it as soon as we can.

Commissioner Zhang.

Thank you. So the question, I think it was alluded to already. Does the 200,000 cover operational from police and staff? And also, does it cover marketing? or would that be an additional so i'm thinking to the point of what commissioner smith said some some neighborhoods might be smaller so if it's like a draw down type appeal yes where 20 000 might do a smaller area but you might need 60 for a larger area so are you doing something similar with logistics as it relates to transportation as well so i wanted to know operationally does this include police time staff time and marketing

So I think you answered your own question, Commissioner. It is a drawdown. So that's exactly how it's going to roll out. We're going to look to make sure that we provide the services necessary to be impactful for each community based on what its needs are, what the plan is, and what the expected size is going to be.

Because my concern is that if you have one next month, a month from now, or less than a month from now, has that community really been notified that this is happening? And when you're having them every month, then you're actually compounding staff time, compounding police month after month, and so forth. And we know the employees are complaining about their time, and also... their cap on their vacation and all this other stuff that's happening so my question is i don't think 200 000 is enough for five block parties so do you foresee there being a sub supplement because the this legislation is simply for the part for the planners it doesn't include operational reference so um

Originally, we had a set schedule. Eastern Shores was not included. We added Eastern Shores. Highland Village, excuse me, Sky Lake was not included. We added Sky Lake. So we've been constantly making adjustments. And obviously, every single time we add another block party, the budget for the other parties is slightly diminished. So we are aware of that. But the money is what the money is. For the planning or just for the logistics? All inclusive. All inclusive? All inclusive.

May I say something?

Yes.

Why can't we just have one party for everybody? I feel like by doing the neighborhood parties, you're actually being, you're dividing the community. We should be bringing the community together. It's the 100 year celebration. why are we doing separate parties repeating everything and maybe 10 people will come to one party and 100 to the other but let's just do one party let everybody come and let's let's let's come together and i wanted to say this to that point you have snow fest in december which we're allocating like a hundred thousand dollars for snow fest right and then perhaps

But I think it's, well, yeah, the new budget cycle. So you have five block parties, $200,000, four months or five months to have these parties to promote, to compound staff time, logistics, transportation, operational, police time, six different times. In addition to what we already have scheduled on the calendar itself.

So through the mayor to Commissioner Jean, this plan, I was appointed in February and this was the plan that was handed to me that was already budgeted. So we've been trying to work with it as best we can. But my understanding was either this was the will of the commission and the will of the Centennial Task Force. And whenever we've had or requested any adjustments, we have met with individual commissioners to add Sky Lake, to add Windward, and to get the feedback from the task force. But I'm definitely open to, we're not set in stone. As you can see, we're making adjustments as we get feedback from the commissioner. So if it be the will of the commission to condense all of these down and just do the street festival, which was a similar recommendation for the task force with regards to- I wouldn't want to do that.

No, I wouldn't.

My only concern.

No, here's my concern. We already did it for Washington Park. So that's what I was about to say. No, we can't. That would be very unfair. Come on.

When did we do it?

Washington Park was there for the heritage. That's what that was for.

But we always do Heritage Day anyway. No, but we call it a block park. So...

Mr. Mayor, I think also one of the issues is that the task force, the commission has never discussed Centennial as a whole. I think that's another issue is that the task force planned, but we never had a chance to really dialogue through that. And, you know, I've been asking about that, too, for some time before you got here of can the commission have that discussion? Because the task force does their recommendation, but then it comes before that final discussion.

They don't have voting power. They don't suggest it. This all comes back to us. But I always knew that we were going to do block parties in that sense. We've already given that to Washington Park and deservedly so. We amplified it compared to what years passed. Please let me finish. We cannot not treat everybody the same. And that's something that we cannot do. So that being said, I'm gonna go to Commissioner Hsu and then Commissioner Chernow.

Okay, I think if I were Washington Park and my block party was combined with Heritage Day, I'd be mad. That's just my thought. So what I'm trying to say is we had the Heritage Day, we did the block party, and if we choose that we want to... I don't see any harm to the community because they would get kind of a bonus Heritage Day, like a more elaborate... Heritage Day than normal. And I think that we could have a massively fun party if we could combine everything into one and find like a location that is central, close out the street. Yeah, 19th Avenue. I mean, like, kind of like stuff, but it'll kind of repeat, you know what I mean? I don't know. So that's what I'm thinking. I agree with Commissioner. I mean, everybody's been saying, like, all these different expenses that happen with the PD off-duty, you know, staff setting up, cleaning up, you know, tearing down, all that. We just have one massive party. Now my question then goes to, does that mean that... Early October we have our centennial celebration then late October we have Monster Mash Bash Then you know sometime in December we have a snow fest so three parties on 19th Avenue still three parties You know what I'm saying like I'm thinking should we consolidate everything into the centennial party and then like you know Maybe not have the rest Just for one year

Well, we may have to if the tax bill passes, so.

Well, the thing is, even all the, and I want to clarify this. It is 99, I'm 99.9% sure that a bill that comes this year will not affect us this year. It's going to be, I don't like why people think that it's going to happen instantaneously. It would create bedlam.

Yeah, but we need to start being proactive if it didn't.

But no, people have been saying that it is going to happen right now. It's going to happen this year. It's going to get implemented this year. That's not true.

But even if it gets implemented in one or two or three years, you have to start being proactive. You can't just waste all the money now.

I understand that, but at the same time, the fear and the fear that people that's being put out there is not correct. It's not accurate. It's not going to happen this year. It's going to be at least a draw down type of impact. And it might just impact just homestead properties or what have you. So I just want us to be a little bit more adult in what can happen. That's all. This is just basic math and basic understanding how governance operates. Like they are not going to create a situation where they impact millions and millions of people and the services that they that we we service as a community so that.

When you get a chance, I will get to you by fair, but let me continue on to Commissioner Trump and then.

All right. What happened with the block parties was that the Centennial Committee. was thinking of ways to do one party. And then I threw in that they should do block parties. And the reason was that if you do a big one, you're not gonna get everybody. If you do a block party where you give everybody t-shirts and so on and so then you get in draw in each community and you'll hit a lot more people. was the idea behind it, and then they adopted it. I just made the suggestion, and then they adopted it and moved it forward. So that's where it came from. And I believe that the block parties are a better way than one party because the problem is that you won't get as many people.

I mean, Vice Mayor Fuorma.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think that there's two conversations happening, and I want us to focus on the actual proposal before us as to whether or not what we're discussing here changes the proposal that's being recommended.

THROUGH THE MAYOR TO COMMISSIONER FLORON, NO. AS THE CITY, EXCUSE ME, TO VICE MAYOR FLORON, YES, SIR. NO, NO. THAT'S MY SECOND DIG. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. THAT'S GOING TO BE MY LAST. AS THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID, IT WILL NOT CHANGE. WE DID WANT TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION WITH YOU ALL TO GET THE WILL OF THE COMMISSION, BUT THE RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU IS FOR SELECTING THE VENDOR AND FOR THE MONEY ALLOCATION. THAT'S IT. Yes, it is actually, they're actually residents of the.

So having said that, through the mayor, having said that, so if we can kind of like wind down the discussion on like the specifics. Do we have a motion?

So moved.

I second it.

Wait, what's the motion for?

To accept the proposed resolution. But I also wanted to add, if I may, Mr. Mayor, I know you're moving it. For the vendor, selection of the vendor.

But the vendor is for block parties or for what?

The resolution allows for the manager to make changes at the will of the commission.

All right. No, go ahead, Mr. Mayor. All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Next item, Madam Clerk.

Aye. So you leave the block party been promoted already?

No, that's why we pushed it back to June.

So wait, so so if it's at the will of the commission, then we should be discussing what we if we want to do the block parties, or if we want to do the one party, yeah, because yeah, but June six is like, soon. June six is like tomorrow. You know, so look, and to the mayor's point about Washington Park already having a centennial.

Which was promoted and email sent out and graphics.

Which is amazing, which was great, which was nice, but I don't think another community is going to say, washington park had one it's not fair to us like no no community is going to say that like no one's going to say that and washington park did it on heritage day so it's we we would have done we we did something special but we always do something special there so um how much more money was actually spent than what we normally do

We actually saved money. So there was a allocation for $25,000 for a block party. They had a $5,000 allocation. They had a $5,000 allocation for the heritage event. We combined those funds and we only spent $20,000. So we saved about five to $10,000.

So my concern is that we do these little individual parties. You're gonna have staff working and working and working and working. Let's just have them working one party instead of five, six, seven parties. We're going to have police working and working and working. Let's just have them working one time. We're going to be spending probably more money doing these block parties. And who knows? Nobody may come from a certain neighborhood.

I'll second that.

You already passed?

Yeah, we passed the resolution. No, the resolution.

We passed the hiring of the guy, but we're not passing, we haven't decided on one party or six parties.

Either a block party or, and also the other thing about the block parties that, and I remember this very well from when there used to be block parties like, what, 15, 20 years ago, that it all, you know what it became? It became a vote for me party. All the candidates would show up. I can tell you exactly what all the candidates gave away and what all the candidates did. And it was a candidates party. It was not a block party. That's how I remember them from back then. Don't ask me what there was, who was there, who wasn't there. Ask me what it was about, and I'll tell you it was vote for me party. When is the night out, the national night out? August. August 4th.

Or maybe when school starts. August 4th. That's another thing that we have to consider.

We're already doing, we're combining, August 4th, we're combining National Night Out with the annual back to school, health care, school supplies. We're doing it all together. So again, to make one bigger, better, and have- Commissioner Smockway, you want to make a motion? I make a motion to do one event instead of several block parties. May I?

May I? Because I wanted to ask them, I wanted to make a point that while I see that the manager has some ability to change certain things, I mean, we do have an entire RFP that went out and I mean, our procurement director is here, but if we said we're going to allocate a certain amount based on the RFP and what we wanted, and now we're substantially changing that, is that changing the RFP or is that?

No, no, sir. Through the mayor to Commissioner Florman, what we did was we had all of the vendors give us their projection of cost. assuming that we do all the events. So if we, like, for example, for the gala, I think this particular vendor had set aside $40,000 of the budgeted money for that. Got it. So that money would be no longer allocated to them to do the gala.

Okay, so it's fluid in nature. Yes. Okay, so having said that, I'm happy to hear it. But in addition to that, I think that we may not be talking block parties, but we may be talking about activations. Activations. Those things make sense leading up to the big street fair on 19th Avenue. Because if I remember 10 years ago, that's what we did. It was blocked off. We had a huge event. But what I like about having the events in the neighborhoods, it could be an activation. It doesn't have to be in...

So it doesn't have to, through the mayor too?

Was it?

No, that wasn't, it was on 19th Avenue. That was something else on, yeah, that was something else.

It could be a Winnebago that stopped.

Right, so what I'm saying is instead of, instead of, I'm assuming you guys like that idea.

No, I think the activation makes sense. I think the activation makes sense. I think if you can compartmentalize it where you can just take a Winnebago or a tent that just can go to each neighborhood and say, hey, we're going to be in your neighborhood passing out X, Y, and Z, letting people know. However, it might happen. It doesn't have to be a stage. It doesn't have to be all, I mean, a couple of hot dogs and some, I mean.

It's a little, you know.

It's a block party. How is that a block party? If you're going to start getting hot dogs and stuff, you're having a hot party.

Here's the reason why I brought that up. The reason I brought that up is because when you go, ladies and gentlemen, let me finish, please. Are they kosher? Of course they will.

Of course they'll be kosher. Yes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Commissioner Smuckler. Yeah, so activations. Less money, precise, concise, straight to the point, but building up the momentum to the whole street fair that we're gonna have. And just we can get creative with it. And then when you go to the businesses as well, I realize that the businesses are not fully engaged in the centennial, you know, in the centennial, you know, year. So businesses, you should walk into a business and you should see a sign somewhere, either on their door or on the counter that says, you know, something relating to the centennial.

To the Vice Mayor's point, like, I'm glad he said sign. Like, what's the status of the wayfinding? Because I thought those things would be, like, be done by now, at least for the centennial year.

Well, I don't want to, wayfinding, if we're going to talk about wayfinding, we can take it all the way back.

All right.

Because that's a 10 plus year conversation.

Let's talk about the Aspermeyer Wiener truck.

Yeah, if that can go, I'll take that as an activation.

So anyways, so back to what I was saying. Back to what I was saying. So the activations leading to the event, number one. Number two, the businesses getting involved. I think that's something that we need, even if it's some logo that they can stick on their window and say, this business is celebrating the centennial and here's, you know what I mean? Like, we need to do that. And the reason I'm saying that is because when you drive down 125, You see the number 100 everywhere you go. And I don't want to take anything away from our team, but when I look at our banners, I have to squint to see that it's... that it says 100. The only ones that really work are the ones that are on Hanford Boulevard and going up West Dixie because they're lower. But when you're talking about the higher poles that are on 15th Avenue, 163rd, you don't know what's going on.

I'm trying to figure out why is it on 183rd, by the way.

And then the color, the white against the yellow, those things don't work because it's just not, you're unable to really see it. So I feel like branding-wise, we we can level up a little bit more start cooperating with the businesses really letting people know that we're celebrating you know our 100th our 100th anniversary so that's it thank you no i like i like what vice mayor said and i think that because you're also hoping to get t-shirts and merch and stuff like that right is that part of the 202 yes

A large portion of that has already been spent for the T-shirts.

That's what I was thinking. So if you're going to have the block parties, you need a certain amount of merge to go around the 200,000 covers that.

A large, the budgeted amount for the merch has been overspent.

So we would need more merch. Okay. Right? Because we're talking money here, right? So if the merch has already been spent, the budget has already been exceeded. but then you only have 200 000 to do the block parties including police staff logistics and anything else where does the merge fall into that 200 000 or would it fall into that correct uh since the um stickers that the decals that vice mayor is talking about

Yes. So apparently the merch budget just went crazy from before my arrival. I believe the budget amount was five and we've spent about 50,000 on merch. So there was not going to be additional purchases for merchandise.

So if we have a block party without merch, I mean, should we have merch? I guess this is a question for the commission, but the whole point of the centennial is to get people to come and celebrate, but you have to give something away, even if it's a sticker or a pen or whatever.

So stickers and pens we can probably do, but T-shirts and more.

Right, you talked about...

T-shirts are expensive. T-shirts and the pins that everybody loves, those are very expensive.

I think this is a conversation that we should have had, but we're having it now. If you're gonna include $200,000 for everything, there has to be merch in there. There has to be marketing. There has to be- There was merch in there. It's been spent before my arrival.

So the $200,000 in your- No, there was a separate account for merch and it's been overspent by about $50,000.

That's exactly what I'm saying is that we can't do a block party without giving someone a sticker or a pencil or a fan. That defeats the whole thing of branding and having people come out for a hot dog and an apple. I mean, I don't know.

Yes, ma'am. I'm in 100% agreement with you. It's just the type of merch we can afford.

I think the 90th, what they did was similar to the Heat games, if I remember correctly. They were on the stage and they were just, you know, they had this... They shoot them. Yes, exactly. Right. That's what they did.

Here's the thing, what I agree with you, Commissioner Jean, is we should give it. The difference is we should, but we don't have the money. Correct. So that makes a big difference. What does everybody think about having, instead of the block party being on the block, the big party, what about the amphitheater? Because the amphitheater has plenty. That's way too small. It is too small? Way too small. And the parking is horrible. The parking is horrible, yeah.

We get complaints from the people that live right there.

Well, if you're going to do it on a block on 19th Avenue, then we have to do it sooner than later because it's all going to look like one.

Well, I think the will of the commissioner, and I'll go to the motion, because I also want to make sure that we're not doing things improper.

How about Allen Park?

Well, we don't have to decide that now. We don't have to decide that now. So let's call the question. Let's vote about not doing the... And all I'm going to ask is that we support the local businesses in almost as many... As much as we can, please.

But I think the proposal that he gave is not... To eliminate the block parties, to minimize the block parties as an invitation to the big party, which I think makes a lot of sense. It'll bring a lot of locals in.

It's to eliminate the block parties, but it's to make one big event, but to do something to incite. I don't know if that's the right word. Activation. Activation. Like, to get people, like, interested.

Well, that's what I'm saying. It's going to be a minimal... It's not a block party. Well, give it any name you want. It's a minimal something, and I agree. You could have hot dogs and hamburgers or something to keep them there for two hours. What are you going to do? I mean, then that's a block party. Well, what else were you going to do?

Well, just to call you... Okay. Okay. Okay.

Mayor, just to answer that. You voted on the resolution that was on the agenda. You passed it. You only get this opportunity once every 100 years, and the commission is entitled to weigh in on what you want to do. So any subsequent motion about the event that is accepted by you, you recognize somebody, motion is made. No problem with that. And in terms of the normal that you don't interfere with administration, but this is really not administration in the traditional sense. It's a very, very special event. And it involves the expenditure of dollars, which is you guys. So any motion that you recognize somebody that's made that has to do with this, that doesn't tell the manager to buy some little particular thing or something. Anything short of that that's general policy, you do what you want.

Okay, so my motion is to not have block parties, to have one big event for everyone. And I would like to add that let's see what these activations cost and then we can decide if it's worth it or if we should just put that into the actual party.

Well, wait a minute, there's discussion because how can we vote on let's see what it costs?

No, what we're gonna work in it the activations will decide in the near future after we know how much these activations cost if the Manager comes back and says it's $500 and maybe but if he's gonna come back and say it's $5,000 Well, I'm not gonna vote for it.

Commissioner Smith. You've said an overall budget. So you have that I

Look, from a timing standpoint, I don't think changing it mid is going to, I don't want to do that, but I want to just settle this motion now. So I have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Nay. It fails. All right. We'll move forward. We'll move forward. Mayor, who are the nays? Next item. Who are the nays, please? Two nays, Commissioner Hsu and Commissioner...

The two I's.

Oh, the two I's. Sorry.

The two that don't want to spend a lot of money is myself and Commissioner Hsu.

The motion fails. Next item. Next item. There is a cap. It's $200,000. You can't spend more than that.

Yes.

That's already voted.

The two that don't wanna give a lot of work to staff and a lot of work to police, the two who are trying to- You don't necessarily know that that's how it's gonna work. When you have a party every month, you're gonna give staff more and more work to do.

Come on, wait, wait, come on. Next item, Madam Clerk.

Move to introduce resolution number R2026-70. Second.

Item 910, resolution number R2026-70, authorizing a budget transfer for finance department staff augmentation services sponsored by the city manager. Resolution to mayor and city commission of the city of North Miami Beach for authorizing a budget transfer within the annual budget for fiscal year October 1st, 2025 to September 3rd, 2036 in the amount of $150,000 from salaries and related benefits accounts to professional services accountant within the finance department to support staff augmentation services, providing for implementation, providing for scrivener's errors, and providing for an effective date. Mr. Manager. Yes, sir.

So this item is actually a companion item to 9.9. Normally you would see both of these items together. 9.9 is saying what the expenditure is, 9.10 says where the money's gonna be coming from. We had to separate this item due to a resolution that was passed that requires us to create a separate resolution for budget transfer.

That was Commissioner Hsu. And commissioners, yeah. And the reason I pulled, because you can't make, you saw something that, I guess you saw a problem or an issue that would come up where these types of transfers would happen. Where's the money coming from and why do we need to do this?

Absolutely, so I've provided all of you a memorandum as to why we need to do this. No, well, for the residents, please explain. Okay, so our finance department is currently, and I've stated this, have challenges. We have, staffing challenges that we need to address. So first and foremost, we do not have the significant staff that we need in order to run a finance department of over 500 employees, supporting services for residents of nearly 45,000. So we currently do not have a finance director. So one of the purposes of this is that we have tapped TAPPED OUR INTERNAL AUDIT FIRM TO PROVIDE US WITH AN INTERIM FINANCE DIRECTOR. WE ALSO CURRENTLY DO NOT WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF BUDGET SEASON AND WE DO NOT HAVE A BUDGET ADMINISTRATOR. SO WE TAPPED WE TAPPED Brunson, Brunson PA, who is providing us with our interim budget administrator. We are also seeking a CFO. So we have to have, we have a search firm that we actually have to pay for the CFO.

That was a headhunter you mentioned, right? Yes. And has that, so they haven't been retained as of yet?

Yes, they have.

The question I have is like, when I looked at the memo, and that's why I was like, when you look at the cost per hour, it looks like a lot of these guys, if they will work 40 hours and everybody's worried about costs, what have you, they make more money than you.

That's correct. But we're not utilizing them for 40 hours. Like how would we know that? We schedule them. So the finance director comes, currently comes three days per week and the budget administrator is coming as needed.

Okay. Yeah. Any other thoughts?

Thank you so much. I know during the briefings, Mr. Manager, this was one of the questions that I had asked, and I did get the spreadsheet that you sent about the breakdown of every area that needs and the expenditure, I guess, up to this point. I think we've kind of, even with the CFO situation, I think the last meeting you mentioned that you have viewing power only. So the checks are being signed by, who are the checks being signed by currently?

The checks are signed by an automatic system. My signature is in the system and the deputy city manager's system. A name is in the system.

Okay, so you two are kind of... You guys are the only two people that... You guys are the final two sayers and signing off like...

It's not a sayer, it's a signature. So it's authorization for payment. We're signing on behalf of the city saying that this is legal tender.

So my hope is this, right? All of us have gone through different budget processes. Sometimes the city has even brought in additional support to support the management. in how it executes the budget. Now, we've also had a lot, not everything is being outsourced, per se. And we got a lot of flack because of that. Well, I wanted to kind of find out from you, obviously, if you need the staff, you need the staff, right? is your hope to fully outsource or is your hope to give us more perspective into the vision that you have for the department?

Correct, so thank you for that question, Commissioner Zong, and I'm happy to provide the clarification. We do not have a budget administrator. This is an interim budget administrator. We are hiring for a budget administrator. Once the budget administrator is hired, we will transition the interim budget administrator out. We do not have a permanent CFO. Once we have a permanent CFO, the interim finance director position will be transitioned out.

I think what would be good also for us is for us to have a timeline with the budget process of when do we actually start? When do you hope to have budget workshops with the commission? Also, given us the preliminary numbers so we can have a chance to kind of dissect and look at where the numbers are. Because I think one of the things you also mentioned as a cost saving is going from weekly to biweekly. I'm not sure, where are you with that as it relates to, have you made that decision yet?

No, a final decision has not been made on that. The employees prefer to have weekly, so we're going to try to do everything we can to preserve a weekly, which may mean we need to increase our payroll services and our payroll personnel.

So I think this is one of the things I always ask for is, a flow chart of the internal department itself, right? Because obviously we don't know who does what, but that helps us in saying, okay, we do need these external services, but without us actually seeing what's there, we're not sure, right? And I think if you have viewing power only, but you're also, that electronic signature is on, and with the deputies as well, there has to be one more mechanism, right? in place, do you have that currently?

So I think there is a misunderstanding about what our ability is. Mr. Bankole has no access to, although again, he is signing saying that this check, if you receive it from the city of North Miami Beach is legal tender. He has no access to any of the cash, what we call is the cash pro system. As I shared with you in the memorandum, we already put those checks and balances in place. I have no authority to edit, to add, to remove, to make a payment from the cash pro system. My access is visual only. I can look at the system, but I cannot make any edits to it whatsoever.

So I guess the follow up question real quick is what is the check and balance in our mind? What would it be? So if we don't have a CFO, we don't have a budget administrator per se. What how how do you know what's what's happening? Who's controlling the approvals? If not the CFO, then who? Since we don't have a CFO.

I have, I can look into the system. I'm your acting CFO right now. So that's, as I shared with you. Okay, so who would be your backup? Like who would be outside of the deputy? It's the interim, it is the interim finance director. His name is Dwayne Mathis. And then we have from him, we have an internal, employee, the senior staff accountant, Patrick Williams, and then we have another staff accounting, and all of them have access to the Cash Pro system.

I think that's the clarity that we need, right?

Absolutely, I'm happy to provide it.

Obviously, if someone says, well, I can see only, but then my name is also on it, is digitally there, because it has to be a name there, but then who's doing the day-to-day checks and balances? I think that the commission needs to have a clearer picture of what that is. I apologize, I thought I put that in a memorandum, but if that was not clear, my apologies.

Well, to Commissioner Jean's point, because I want to figure, have you already contracted these individuals already, and how much have you spent thus far?

Okay, so I have those numbers here for you, give me just a second. And the answer is yes.

Quick question as you pull it up. So with the threshold in case, obviously you're coming before us right now for approval for certain additional increases. In the case that it continues to supersede your threshold.

It comes back to us, right? Correct.

We have not had any expenditures that supersede my threshold. All right. So for the interim budget administrator with Anthony Brunson, PA, we have spent to date $21,200. For the interim finance director with CFLG, we have spent to date $43,000.

following you because I know this is numbers that I had requested so I'm seeing the numbers that you sent so I think for us I speak for myself we have to get a better picture of what we have right because we're about to enter into budget season and everybody wants a clear picture especially based on what's coming down the pipeline so maybe sharing this with my fellow commissioners um and the mayor obviously would be good so that we can also gauge where we are because if we're into budget season we're going to supersede this amount that you're that you're requesting potentially right there's a high probability because we're going to have to put a lot of hours in for the budget for the budget workshops so we're going to exceed this amount 150 i i there's a probability Because so far, I expect it will exceed 150. So, so I assume there's a possibility. Would you say there's a probability of it? Well, anything's possible.

But like, but why would you request 150 if you're not going to like, why would you request that amount specifically?

Well, this is a race, so we're going to run it as fast as we possibly can. We're trying to recruit as fast as we possibly can. If we get a strong candidate for CFO, I'll make them an offer tomorrow. So. But we do have to have a cushion there with the authorization from the commission to move the finance department forward if we don't get a strong candidate.

Yeah, because I think today, like October 1st to May is a little bit of just about 140. And so another six months will probably put us at 150 in that same range, potentially, especially since we're going to have more work as the budget workshops. Those people are going to have to work longer hours, longer days. So I'm assuming that we might not knowing what hours they put in so far. There's a probability that they'll exceed the 150.

Okay, just so the resolution you'd like to see is for me to get a better picture of where we are, where we're at.

Right. So if there's a potential that we found a great candidate, perfect. Um, but in the, in the, in the likelihood that we don't obviously want the public to know that that this might be an expenditure that's exceeded.

Absolutely. So just as land and plane, I think everyone's supportive because we do need this, and I'm supportive of it. One thing I want to tie to, just for the transparency part, is please update the check registry so we can see what checks are being approved because we don't know what you guys are approving. For all for all we know, but it's what we don't know. Just for the transparency, it can be turned on. Anthony Bronson, I guess that's the firm that you can utilize it and turn it on or be tasked to do that. I'll be great because that creates more transparency for us and we can better understand where the money is going to not because it's being because we don't have a CFO. We don't have a CFO. You're acting that capacity. I understand you explained the flowchart, but I'm still kind of lost in that because you're saying, well, there's this, this. From my understanding from how Munis operates, it's like a step-by-step-by-step-by-step. And I don't know where you guys fall in that step before a check is issued out.

I do not fall in this step.

No, I'm talking about the approval queue. So it's like when somebody submits an invoice saying, hey, I did my PO, here's the work. Where do you fall in that line? Because you have to sign off at some point. And the CFO, that part has to sign off on some point.

Yes. So the finance director is signing off. And for the finance department, I sign off.

And the finance director is?

Is Dwayne Mathis from, yes, is our staff account. He is our interim finance director.

Okay.

Yeah.

Commissioner Smith, are you?

If your power is just to look, At the finances. What stops your power from looking and saying, oh, no, we're not paying that one. I want to pay that one more. You're not signing anything, but your power to look at it could also give you the power as the manager for directions.

I'm not sure I understand.

Why are you looking at it?

I'm looking at it to, as I shared with you all, I'm looking at it to find errors and discrepancies and do a check and balances, which we actually did find myself working with other team that only has what I only have looks powers. We actually found overpayments to employees that we're looking into right now is under review.

But that's what I'm saying. It was a legitimate overpayment and you found it because you were looking at it.

Legitimate, I'm not sure I would say that, but yes, I found it because I was looking at it.

Right. So now somebody, a vendor had to be paid and you looked at it and you said that vendor needs 5,000 more. You're not signing anything, but you're changing.

No, I do not have the authority to make any changes in the system.

No, she's not saying that. You see what's coming out. Basically, you can give, because at the end of the day, like, you are the manager. You know who's signing off at different points. You see the flow. Okay. So she's saying that you can still direct to do X, Y, and Z. Now, if you weren't CFO, would you still have that type of view? Yes. Yes.

Well, considering things that I have forward would also charge as your as your guard guardrails. This is you.

Concerning the things that I've uncovered, I will not I will continue to have oversight. Absolutely.

Can you clarify also approval queues? As I know, you know, back in a long time ago, I used to have to put in invoices into the system, you know, when I was working in government. So I know that with approval queues, like let's say someone puts an invoice in. Right. But that the department had also has to approve, but then above the department head is, I don't know how it works, the finance department. So obviously those guardrails would be those individuals in those places that say, okay, this is approved, this has gone to the procurement, X, Y, and Z, it has all the backup, but then you're also able to view that, right? So I think that's what Commissioner Smith is alluding to, We need a clearer picture, a clearer picture of how it works before you have the CFO that kind of serves as a guardrail to the city manager and says, hey, X, Y and Z. I don't know if you can explain it better.

So let me share. Yes, you had a CFO. Some of the things I found were why you had a CFO. So as your city manager, I do not feel comfortable. Whoever the CFO that we hire, especially since this is going to be a new relationships for me to just hand it off and say, OK, I'm going to assume that nothing happens on my watch. I do not feel comfortable that in this and I will also say members of the Commission can have the same access that I have So I believe we already have it. I believe you already have a transparency portal So as you know, that's what I'm saying.

It's no it's not hasn't been updated almost a year and a half maybe two Hasn't been updated like the the checks the check registry is not updated. Correct me if I'm wrong. Where's procurement? I know that's IT.

Where's IT? Is IT here do we have mr. Castillo here? Okay, please come forward. Mr.

Manager, before you even go there, even with the charter officers, right, you guys kind of tag team on each other, legal, city clerk, so I think it's in that same vein, right, that we want you to have those, you know, the separation, if you will, so that it can go, it still has your overview, but it still has those guardrails, because you guys complement each other, right?

Yes, the guardrails are still there. They're still in place. The guardrails are there. And again, please provide us a status and update on the transparency portal.

The transparency portal is supposed to be updated automatic. It doesn't need anybody to go and push a button and say updated.

It's supposed to be online. So who does the update? Like the check registry, is that part of it?

There is a section for checks there.

That hasn't been updated. How about Ricardo?

let me respond to that uh one of the things that i've uncovered is i shared with you all and i put it in the memo and i've and i've stated it at the city manager's report um you should we should be doing bank reconciliations on a monthly basis and we haven't been um we are currently now on our bank monthly bank reconciliations just our finance department is just entering november of 2025. So if you're what you're not seeing is not there's nothing for the system to take an update if a bank reconciliation is completed.

What I'm saying is that it's not about the bank reconciliation. Every time a check used to go out, you would see it like on a month. It would show it. It's not the reconciliation. Like, no, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about every check. So you you're paying out a particular vendor. You can look it up.

Ricardo's here.

Sorry. Good evening, Ricardo Castillo, Chief Information Officer. We do have the transparency portal, and it is updated every week. If you go to cdnmb.com and click on transparency portal, under vendor payments, it actually shows all of the payments. Last check showing there is May 13th.

So every check that's happened up until May 13th is there? Correct. And you can see, and that's all there?

Yes. Yeah, so I think you might be referring to the prior page where they actually had to upload that process manually. That has been updated since and it's all automated now.

That's part I haven't I never saw it like I was trying to figure out because that's how I write would be that From my understanding it was something that even mr Kazan put up saying I I want to see every time a check goes out who's signing off for it who's getting paid maybe a vendor or some other Consultant as you as you guys are utilizing but like I said, I'm for the this particular resolution I just want to make sure that those things are in the guardrails. I put yes, you're saying that you're enough for that. I think that it's like a new thing. We've never had a situation where you had a manager and a CFO all in one. That's never happened before.

Well, I prefer it not to happen.

So I have a question. So you said that you don't have access to, you can only view.

Correct.

Right. So hypothetically, we wanted you to have access to it. How would that work?

We would have to contact Bank of America and Bank of America would have to agree based off of the person's position to allow access to the cash flow system. There can only be two people to have access to the cash flow system at any given time to make changes.

So has any other city managers, do you know? I don't know.

And you don't have any approval queues to approve?

I still approve the city manager's viewing, which says that one, the department has asked the authorization to purchase this item.

because I know the department heads have their higher queue. Do you fall into any of their queues?

Yes. Again, my signature says that the department head has the authority to make that purchase.

Understood.

Yes, ma'am.

And just so we close up and we can vote on this sucker, on this resolution, just to be fair, the Anthony Bronson, they've been here since what, last month? I'd have to look at the date. I'd have to look at the date. I believe it's less than a month.

So it's been less than a month, and that's why, to Commissioner Jean's point, if they've been here less than a month, then they've charged how much? $20,000.

And the other firm?

$40,000.

And how long have they been here?

They've been here a bit longer. How long? I don't know the exact dates.

But it hasn't been more than two commission meetings?

It hasn't been more than two months, no.

So it's been like, let's say, what, six weeks? Six weeks. Six weeks for six, and they made like $40-something thousand dollars. Like, is $150,000 going to be enough? if it's not we'll have to come back all the questions yes uh do i have a motion and a second so move all in favor say aye aye next item madam clerk i second it which nice move to introduce 9 11. resolution r 2026-71 second

Item 9.11, resolution number R26-71, approving and authorizing a task order for professional engineering services for operational support and staff orientation services for the community development department, sponsored by the city manager. resolution the mayor and city commission the city of north miami beach florida approving and authorizing a task order for professional engineering services for operational support and stab augmentation services for the community development department in an amount not to exceed 150 000 with the corradino group under the continuing services agreement for professional consulting services and authorizing city manager designated to all things necessary to effectuate this resolution providing for conflicts and subject to the budget appropriation and availability of funds and providing for an effective date Mr. Manager.

Your item. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I thought you had a question. No, your name's on it. Okay, so this item is very similar to 9.9, where we were getting permission from the commission to allow us to have augmentated services in order to run our finance department. This item is to bring in Corradino to provide support to us to run our community development department.

How much is it?

$150,000.

What happened to our director? He was so fun.

Well, no, no, to that point, when I got the email, and I don't want to cut you off, Commissioner John, when I got the email that we were pulling the Williams, because I was trying to figure out what was going on, because I know it was scheduled, and I know you clarified it because of notice and what have you. I found out that we don't have a, I forgot the position. Community Development Director. Yeah, director, and I also saw that, and yeah, but you can explain that. Absolutely.

So we have notification from the state of Florida that we essentially do not have. As of April, we do not have a community development department. The community development department for the city of North Miami Beach missed its deadline to submit its comprehensive plan. The comprehensive plan generally takes six to nine months. The comprehensive plan has not been worked on until October, so we're going to, we're about, GOING TO REQUIRE ABOUT SIX TO NINE MONTHS FOR ANOTHER TO COMPLETE THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA WILL NOT ALLOW US TO DO CITY INITIATED ANY CITY INITIATIVES FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DURING THAT TIME WE WILL BE ABLE TO WE WILL BE ALLOWED TO DO PRIVATE DEVELOPER INITIATIVES BUT NONE FROM THE CITY SO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN that I was working on that will be frozen for the next six to nine months the reoccupancy the reoccupancy inspection ordinance that the members of the commission were requesting that will be that will be on hold and there are some other items as well that are going to be city initiative that we will not be able to move forward until we complete our comprehensive plan update

With the ordinance that's currently here for first reading, the one, I know it's here, would that be impacted as well?

No, no, because it skirted the, yes.

Mr. Manager, the previous director was working on some community engagement activities going from neighborhood to neighborhood. Was that part of the plan that was supposed to be submitted?

No, ma'am.

That was something. What was that?

Oh, are you talking about the Tourette's that occurred in October? Yes.

Those because he was doing a few of them consecutively. Was that to gather the information?

So we have a contract with Cordino as the consultant for the comprehensive plan update. It's a three hundred thousand dollar contract. We're about one hundred and something thousand dollars in. But for whatever reason, Cordino. the community development the development department did not move forward with cordino to complete the comprehensive plan for what i can see the last correspondence was in um october of last year when was the last charrette's do anyone remember when the last one was i believe it was october of last year but i thought something that's true a year commissioner smith

I thought some of that charrette was county the county brought them in to discuss that wasn't city that was to discuss the new train and they had hired the same company, I think this is mandatory it's an easy i'll call for the vote because somebody brought a project before me there's one girl one woman handling.

whole department by herself well so i'm going to make no i'm i'm i'm and i'll i'll second that but here's the one issue i have is just like how you know we i remember us a long time ago how people used to get very upset about us outsourcing and contracting out kind of the same makeup as the prior um set up in the augmentation The one thing I find kind of and to me that that seemed very interesting is that the letter or the correspondence Because I don't know when you let go the community development director, but there's a letter that came before that happened pretty much Offering the services and I don't know if that was part of that your decision-making and doing what you've done because you said that they didn't complete they weren't able they didn't complete the the project The comp plan. Because I saw the letter came in like a few days before.

You say the letter came in.

It was an engagement letter from Cardino Group. I don't want to mispronounce their name. What is it? Cardino Group. So it came in and then I guess the director was let go like a couple of days after that. At least from the date. Do you have a copy of the letter?

No, I don't. I mean, the engagement letter from corn, you know, like you have that didn't play. That didn't play a factor. I was not looking for a vendor, Cordino or any other vendor to replace our community development director. What did play a factor is and he was allowed to resign at his own choice. after having these discussions, what did play a factor is not even being informed. I hosted a meet and greet for my office to have the opportunity to meet with him and his staff. And then that was when I was made aware because I asked the question, there's a state statute that requires you to submit a comprehensive plan. So just in introducing myself, hi, I'm the city manager, you guys are community development. Hey, when's the next comprehensive plan update due? And everyone gets quiet in the room He said that he had informed that under the previous structure that he was reporting to the former assistant city manager and that he had informed her numerous times that we weren't moving forward with the comprehensive plan update. I found the answer to be insufficient. I was appointed in February and then the previous assistant city manager who had been no longer with us for an entire month but so to rely on the fact that you inform the previous assistant city manager of the status of the city's community development department, that was an insufficient answer. Yeah. And there were some other factors that played in. Commissioner Dunn, no?

Didn't somebody call the question?

Yes.

I called the question.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Next item, Madam Clerk.

I move that exhausts what was the previous consent agenda. Item 10.1 has been deferred.

Moved it. 10.1 is deferred? Yes. Yes. Yes. And then we go to 11.1. Legislation.

Ordinance number 2026 or second reading I am a motion if I could ask a question it has been brought to my attention and I just want to get clarification from the Commission that Quasar judicial items that Commission meetings are not are permissible if that's a fact I want to get

We voted the quasi judicial would be in their own meeting. If we had quasi judicial now, we would be here till three o'clock in the morning.

So the quasi-judicial, Mr. Mayor, that we had approved the process where anything six units and above considered commercial would be in a separate meeting. Anything that's below that, we can entertain.

We had our own specific, yes, you're right.

That's something we do to the community development.

Yes, so I guess that, well, we voted for it to be brought back at next commission meeting, did we not?

We set it for the next commission meeting, yes, sir. But based on our own standard, that's supposed to go like the third?

The fourth. The fourth week. The fourth Thursday of the month. The fourth Thursday. And that date would be what?

I think it is a particular, excuse me for interrupting, but I think it's not that date. I think there's a specific calendar for the backup date. Just as there is a calendar for the commission meeting dates, there's a calendar that is passed by the court.

No, to Commissioner Smith's point, we specifically did this for a reason because of like community engagement and the fact that we wanted to have, and I guess it was somewhat of a compromise because of that second meeting that we did.

So, no, no, we- But Mayor, the thing is that sometimes the fourth Thursday would be Thanksgiving day.

So it's not automatic that it's- We don't, if it were to be Thanksgiving day, we don't even have a meeting regardless.

well that's what i'm saying so i believe that there is no calendar of of commission meeting dates and a calendar that says that usually the thursday of the week following whenever the commission meets would be the date but that that may be adjusted if it's thanksgiving or it's christmas yeah we we have that um It's a calendar that you adopt for the year.

We have a calendar that we do every year in advance. And we have an optional fourth Thursday of the month.

For specifically those types of.

For commission meetings, really. And then at this, when we voted this in, we said we would do it at that fourth, at the next fourth. If the next fourth happens to be Thanksgiving, then we do it in, we can always change it. It didn't say that we weren't allowed to change the date.

But from his standpoint, The developer showed up. We did. I can understand how that can be a massive issue. Look. We can make an exception. You passed a calendar. I think we should make an exception because like I said, that wasn't, I don't know if the city manager's office was aware of that because we did make that type of resolution. We did agree to that. Now that we know that we did just accommodate this developer, and we did make it, and there was an issue of when it got publicized anyway, so this is the best compromise we can come up with, as opposed to putting, I don't know how many thousands of dollars that the developer's going to have to put for it. mitigating our own mistake.

So what we need to do is keep the proclamations and the next ordinances and legislation for the following month low so we have time to. Was that the question that the manager was asking?

What is your decision about when YOU WANT TO HEAR THE PARTICULAR QUASI JUDICIAL.

ON THIS ISSUE, IT STAYS FOR NEXT MEETING. IT STAYS. WE HAVE ALREADY VOTED ON IT. WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT EXCEPTION. BUT MY QUESTION, MR. MAYOR. MULTI-FAMILY QUASI, BIG DEVELOPMENTS, HAVE TO BE ON THAT FOUR THIRDS.