Community Redevelopment Agency Board - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the, I guess we'll start out with the Community Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting. And, Mr. Clerk, could you please call the roll? Commissioner Herbst?

Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Here. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Here. Vice Chair Sorensen? Here. Chair Tertullis?

Here. We have full attendance. Our first item on the agenda is the M1 Motion Approving Minutes for September 2, 2026, CRA Board Meeting. Do I hear a motion to approve those minutes?

Moved.

Second. They're moved and seconded. Please call the roll.

Commissioner Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Vice Chair Sorensen? Yes. Chair Turntals?

Yes. And those minutes are now approved. R1, a resolution appropriating and authorizing funding in amount not to exceed $150,000 for the installation of a sculpture in the roundabout at 13th Street and Northeast 13th Street and Northeast 7th Avenue with Brooks, Scarpa, Huber, Architects, Inc. We have one person who signed up to speak. Troy? I figured you'd have something to say about it. Mr. Mayor, I... I couldn't figure out which sculpture it was with all the different renderings and all the different options, but I think I finally got it. It looks like a stack of wheat. It does look like a stack of wheat, and it's beautiful. We're famous for wheat growing in Fort Lauderdale. The big blue stack of wheat.

Big blue. Big blue. Okay.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to interrupt you. That's okay, Mr. Mayor. You have 20 seconds left. I'm here to primarily say thank you for this. Oh, great. Thank you. This is a wonderful project. It ended up being a wonderful sculpture. Commissioner Glassman, we talked to him about getting the funding because the old one was literally falling over. And he stepped up, made the request for us, so thank you to all of you for that. I don't want to let the opportunity go by that this was a difficult process. We had to fight for neighborhood input. We didn't intend for an actual artist, when we were fighting for input, for an actual artist from our neighborhood to be designing this, but it turned out wonderfully. You're gonna have the arts ordinance in front of you soon to have an amendment. The Council of Fort Lauderdale Civic Associations has recommended amendments to that. to give a preference for local artists and to provide an avenue for neighborhood input into projects, I hope when that time comes you support those provisions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Troy.

Is there anyone else who wishes to speak on this item?

I just want to say, Troy, I love that smile.

Love it. Troy knows how to smile. Okay, would someone like to introduce the resolution?

I would. I would also, I have one question though for city manager, if that's okay. I just want to make sure, I know we're going to, it's in the backup, but I want to make sure that someone went ahead and really planned what we need to do in terms of conservation. Many times you see public art get installed and then people just forget about the maintenance and the conservation of the art. That was a problem with the sculpture that was already in that roundabout. And so I want to make sure that did someone figure out what we needed going forward who did that in terms of the dollars for the maintenance and conservation of that so we don't run into the same problem that we did with the last piece.

Good afternoon to you. Can you all hear me now? I can hear me. Sorry about that. So we actually have a call out to the artists now to see if there's any type of protective sealant that's being placed over the art. We would work with OMB to budget around 1% to 2% of the maintenance costs. In general, with this sculpture, we have to do just like washing it with water. We estimate around $300 to $600 if the city doesn't do that maintenance itself. But this is not a sculpture that we don't anticipate maintenance of. And I would also like to highlight that we do have a two-year warranty with the artist for the work. So if anything beyond the regular maintenance does come up, it's covered in our service agreement.

Excellent. Thank you for that. I really appreciate that. Again, that's really a key. And Troy, I want to say thank you again for your due diligence in terms of making sure the neighborhood was involved every step of the way. As you said, it was a little bumpy, but it all did work out in the end. And again, thank you for paying attention. Thank you to the entire Middle River Terrace neighborhood. I'm really happy that we can get this done. It's going to be a really nice focal point, I think, for that roundabout. So thank you.

Okay.

Please call. A resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency appropriating funding in the amount of not to exceed $150,000 for the installation of the sculpture in the roundabout at Northeast 13th Street, Northeast 7th Avenue with Brooks, Scarpa, Huber, Architects, Inc. for the Central City Community Redevelopment Area, providing for an effective date. Commissioner Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glassman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman? Yes. Vice Chair Sorensen? Yes. Chair Trentals? Yes.

Yes, and that resolution is now approved. Is there any further business of the CRA? Nothing further. There being nothing further, that meeting is now concluded.