Community Enhancement Board - Regular Meeting

Yeah.

Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Yep.

Who's that?

I'm not going to paint my mainstream stuff for you.

Are you online?

Next question. Can you hop on the Zoom and unmute it? And if you could do me a favor of pulling up the agenda for me, just because I left my laptop upstairs, I would appreciate that.

That way we can see it on the screen. Also, folks.

On the agenda.

We might be out of luck today.

I'm reading. Yeah. Hey, how are you? Good. Okay, great. Cool. Awesome. Okay. That works. Oh, it's here. You know how to get to it?

Oh, okay. Are you carpooling?

Oh, cool. See you soon. All right, bye.

Yeah, we're good. Nick Clay is kind of like missing.

Hey, Chris, how are you?

All good, man. Are you coming to the meeting?

Gotcha. Perfect.

Yeah, no worries. What's your ETA record, like 10, 12? OK. Yeah. We'll probably just wait for you.

OK.

Sounds good.

All right. Thank you for that.

Appreciate it. Agenda.

Discuss the artists.

Yep.

And then update on where we are with these bus shelters.

Yep. That's good.

Hello, guys.

How are we doing? Sorry, I'm 14 minutes late.

I'm a little stressed. That's okay. I just had Leah be. See you. Hi. How are you?

Nice to see you. How are you doing?

How's everyone's day?

Going smooth. Reporting in progress.

We're live. No, that was Johnny.

Johnny, our CIO, is online. He's watching above. Chris Cotton is about 10 minutes away, so I recommend that we just maybe wait for him. Oh, sure. Catch up, yeah. That's okay. You're being recorded.

Recording stopped. Is Nick coming today? I have no idea.

Talk to him about it.

I have no idea.

He doesn't really answer any of our questions.

He's got it.

Tiger. Tiger. Well, This is our second meeting, right? Yeah. Like the new board?

Yeah.

Do a skip last. Do a skip last. Do something about attendance if you don't attend. I think it's three. It's up to you guys. Yeah.

If she doesn't want to, for whatever reason, continue with it. I know he's been doing it for Eight years or something, I feel like. He's always been, like, since the board started, right? Nick's always been around.

He was the first chair of the board, yeah. So when did the board start? When Brent started. Which was six years. Almost seven years ago. Yeah. Yeah. And now Rachel's in the first year after Brent. So I guess that's maybe six years of the board's.

project art that the community enhancement board specifically has done yeah it's a lot of these art projects that that's what you're referring to yeah so this is beyond that i don't know if you are just talking about the city what's some of the larger deals uh that was

Again, that's all over that Facebook page.

On North Treasure, right behind us. The Anson family purchased this multifamily house, and they knocked it down, and they put sod, but the sod burnt, and they sodded it again, and it burned. But it's what they're doing. It's not really a city thing. But the nice part that they're supposed to do is that this field, they've actually donated to the city as a public park in the interim, right?

So they donated to the village exclusively for soccer. For the soccer program.

They don't want it to be like an open space. While APHA renovates the fields and ties and they don't have it. It's still nice, exactly. That's something that private... landowners usually do like they don't they don't it's pretty hard yeah yeah kids youth soccer field yeah it's like a soccer yeah maybe even an adult soccer field size when is the uh june yeah i just saw an email there's a tentative groundbreaking for june 13th that's right yeah just caught that to the right now it's actually a great one June 13th. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Does that mean that they're bringing down the rest of what's there with the public water station? There's still a structure there.

I think the groundbreaking is exclusively for the field space. Because they want that up and running before 26th for the World Cup.

So they're going to turf that right now. It's going to be an artificial turf. like a practice field or something. Yeah, it's all right.

A year and a half. Yeah, it's going to be perfect time for him. It'll be three. I mean, I intend to send him to the North Bay Village Public School. So I think that's great, right?

I like the best.

Yeah, I think there's like three to 400 kids from what I understand. It's only through... Yeah, it's under enrolled.

It's only... That's why we have this promotional thing right now.

It's first through sixth grade.

Or kindergarten.

K-5.

K-5, yeah.

They go to the Miami Beach.

It's the public school system.

I want to say, because we looked at the numbers recently, it's 194 kids from North Bay Village, 165-ish from Beach, and then everyone else is kind of mixed in, and it's a total of like 400. Yeah. Almost 1,000.

Almost 1,000. Yeah.

They're under. Should get more attention in theory, right? When does the school go Tuesday?

Wow. I think we have like 200 or 300. That's what I have, yeah. 222. Yeah.

Where did you, what state did you grow up in?

Florida or Jersey? Northern Jersey or Central? So it sounds like you're Central.

We're Central Jersey. Morristown.

What about the shores of like Avalon? And this is kind of central Jersey, isn't it? Or is it south?

That's the shores. That's south. Well, that's like, depending on what kind of shore. It's south Jersey. Yeah. Avalon. My mom was close to French. That's like, that's not so new. Where am I?

I would usually go, I grew up in Connecticut, but we would mostly go to Rhode Island shores. I didn't, sometimes, you know, Connecticut has shores, but. Hey, it's Leo. Just a quick question.

Do you recall meeting us? I have not. Do you recall where we are with the bush shelters? Because I can't find, you know. I grew up in Hartford County.

Everything was ready and just never actually.

Yeah. Like a suburb outside called Weatherfield. That's where I was born. Smaller town. Right. Okay. But most of my family is still in Connecticut.

Yeah, most people are.

How did I get here? 2012. I've been here now. No, North Bay Village I moved in 2018. But Miami in 2012. And it came from New York. I was working with a real estate team that was looking for someone to do Miami relocation business. So that's how I started getting out here. What about you guys? What brought you guys to Miami?

What's the corporate role? What do you do? No.

Well, I'm obviously not from Florida, or the US for that matter. I'm from Australia. That's right. Yeah, but my husband's from Boston, so we spend a lot of time there.

And you met him where?

We met in Italy. In Italy? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

And then who made the big move to go to the United States?

I'm going to the United States.

Wow. That's a big move. What, did you just come on a vacation first to go see, to revisit this and see how this went? And then decided to stay a little longer?

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but he bought in North Bay Village, he bought on South Bay Drive in 2017.

2017, good time. And you're renovating a house there?

Yeah.

Is it under? Are you doing it now?

Yes. It's right on. It's basically on the corner of like Hispanola and Southfield.

Okay. Will you hold up with the moratorium? Did that hold you up on the construction?

And your path towards Miami?

Well, half my family's in New Jersey, half is in Florida. And then I went back with one. And I was visiting him at my wife's down there. Then we got COVID. Then I went back to New York for work. I was in Miami, so I came back. So my brother was in Miami, and my sister and my mom were in Florida.

You have some family in Florida.

Leo's a Miami guy, right? Born and raised. You were born here, yeah. Leo's Miami. You don't speak, right? like a rare thing you know we all uh we live in west aid no no it's open during the day but you can't no he might join uh on zoom yeah yeah if you've ever uh why i mean let's let's no no no no it's just um usually he's around yeah yeah he's like he's like the kind of like yeah

Yeah, he's like this kind of only sin.

That's absolutely right. Yeah, if you guys want to start up.

It's not a big agenda, but I think if we're 15 minutes past, I mean, let's... Johnny, if you can hear us, if you can start the recording, please.

Recording in progress.

Thank you, sir. Perfect timing. There we go. Perfect timing.

We were just going to call the roll call.

That was like 10 minutes.

You haven't even missed in on that.

Good to see you. Good to see you.

Sitting in traffic.

I had that coming from Fort Lauderdale. Good to see you. All good.

What's going on, Jake?

There's a 15-minute grace period in Miami timing. Oh, I knew it too. If you're within 15, you're still okay.

5 o'clock, 5.30, it's just you're going nowhere the whole ride home. It's nowhere.

Love that shirt, man. Dural, well-represented in here.

Yeah. Yeah, the finance procurement department.

We're leaving you out of the group picture, just so you know.

I was like, maybe I should roll my sleeves up before I get here. Be more tropical. Can't have that cross-branding. Yeah, run an island over here. Exactly. Unbutton the top button, roll the sleeves a little bit as I come in here. Good to be here. Good to be here.

Madam Chair, whenever you'd like to start the meeting.

Okay. We have four board members present, so I'll call this meeting to order at 18.46.

Can we have a roll call?

Yes. Chair Farrugia?

Present.

Vice Chair Petrini? Here. Secretary Cotton?

Present.

Board Member Siegel?

Present.

And Board Member Quay is not here. Cool. If you all hopefully had a chance to review the minutes, they are attached to the agenda. They are extensive. And go for it if you want a motion to approve or deny my beautiful minutes.

Approve the beautiful minutes. Yeah, I saw those. I was like, wow. I don't recall these on the other agenda.

You did the minutes, Leo?

I did, I did. He loves the minutes.

So we should approve the last minutes. seconded in favor hi hi hi cool all right awesome all right especially the fireworks the boat idea should be left for later in the first actually a bit more straightforward

She likes it straightforward. No complications.

Little shade.

Right.

Those are your words, by the way.

Yes. You had discretion as to what to include in that summary.

Johnny would like to remind you all to turn your microphones on. To orange, right?

If you'd like to leave them on, that's totally fine.

Unless you want to say things.

Um, so moving to point three, which is the first order of business, the discussion on solo music, art, just date and time. Um, we had a pretty extensive discussion about this last time. Leo, what are the updates?

So the updates are, uh, we're ready to go. I spoke to the school and the school's aware. They just told me to, um, you know, finalize the date, make sure everything's good with the artists and we have to just reserve it. We've done it many times with the property, uh, whenever we have an event at the field. Every time we have to go through like a system through Miami-Dade County Public Schools. And it should be free because we have an affiliating agreement with the school. So it shouldn't be an issue there.

So is this the kind of like front? Yeah, that's correct. The long frontage? Right.

So what you all had decided as a... well i recommended this artist that i found yep um we all felt like the school was kind of a central location for that uh hopefully you know the people across the street living in uh yeah i can't see your building like that kind of thing and of course you know we're going to have like chairs set up people can come out and that's that's at the treasure island right at the school yeah yeah yeah entrance to the school across the street from grandview yeah treasure island elementary um At the little driveway.

Because they locked it off that little flagpole grass area.

Yeah, that's separate.

Yeah, that was because dogs would come in.

There was a fire last night or something too. Was there a fire there? Apparently. In a car. Did you hear about this? Yeah, yeah. My friends at my house said, there's a car on fire. So I was like, okay. So it's separate. Yeah, I guess so.

did you know that i i've heard something i've been at a conference for two days i was hoping you guys had the details i could get it for you yeah the blue fence the permanent fence yeah yeah totally so we fenced that off uh or they did a while back that's where it's gonna be no so it's gonna be around like on the asphalt in like that half circle driveway area yeah yeah um So we just need to pick a date.

Yeah, yeah. So what's... Yeah, yeah.

So we need to pick a date. I have the guidance from you all from last meeting. I just don't have that immediately in front of me at this moment. But I think you all had told me a Friday early evening. In speaking to the principal, he recommended that it be... after six or start at 630 that's when like the last kids are like getting picked up and that's when like clubs are ending and stuff like that so yeah i think 630 is good i know you were looking to do it maybe a little bit earlier but i just feel like with the sun kind of you know sunset is a little no yeah no i completely agree i think if we it's like an 850 the sun yeah exactly yeah because i had that idea of like golden hour yeah yeah totally yeah

And everyone picked up their kids and stuff like that. That's right.

You want to have a turnout where it's like, okay, you get home at 6.30, you're walking the dog at 7, you're like, oh, what is this? There's like a whole two hours of sunlight. Every time.

Stop playing with it. So I think 7 o'clock might be the best. I think that's great. That's cool with you guys.

I'd like to definitely make it and I'd be leaving work at 5, 5.30 and so it's like, oh, I'm missing the thing.

That's good for dinner time purposes.

So a Friday in May, it can be relatively soon. I want to make sure everyone's in town. That's why I wanted to run it by you. Definitely want all of you present. So let's see. So we have Friday the 16th. That's fine with me. 16th or 23rd. 23rd. Frank is on vacation. 23rd is the start of Memorial Day.

Also, that's the start of Memorial Day. Could we do it in later May?

Do you want to do the 30th of May? That's Memorial Day. No, no, no. We can move forward to Memorial Day. Yeah, the 26th is Memorial Day.

yeah i'm in australia for the next for like two weeks in may 30th would work but end of may memorial day i should be uh any no but i'll be out for memorial day but i'm okay and i think like what do you want to do the 30th yeah i think that would be great okay great cool so let's do it do you want to fantastic your thing um does this require a vote sure Yes. All right. All right. So proposed motion to have our solo music principal perform on Friday, the 30th of May at 7 p.m. Second. All in favor? Aye. Excellent. Motion passed. Thank you. Let's go ahead.

And you're going to take it from here. We'll get some flyers done. We'll put them on social or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're talking about bringing it out.

I was like, there's social stuff that, like, I don't know who produces it. Julie that produces it. If we can, like, get that kind of stuff to share ourselves, if that's allowed or something.

Do you want, like, physical stuff?

Like an Instagram kind of thing. I guess I could just show the North Bay Village post, too.

Yeah, social and something in the newsletter that goes out, too.

Is it helpful if we... I'm assuming we already follow all of you on Instagram. If we don't, we'll maybe... Find us.

I follow you.

I follow you. Is it helpful if we tag you on a story and you all can share it on your own personal account? For sure. Make sure I see it.

I gotta give you my wife's Instagram. She handles I don't even have Instagram. So she's good.

She's good.

I've been trying to get her to come to the meetings, but she's like getting home at the same time I am.

Yeah. And obviously we always tag the commission and they always share on their platforms as well.

What's the artist's name?

It's Nick Tanura. He's a guitarist, right? He's a guitarist, and he plays multiple instruments. His main thing is guitar, and then he also has a drum kit. Is he going to be all music, or does he sing a little bit? He told me he sings a little bit, but his main thing is just... Nice.

It's tough to do drums, guitar, and start singing.

I think the drum machine is kind of like push a button. Oh, okay. Sampler drum machine. Right, right. Exactly. I'm picturing like the people in the keys that are playing like six instruments.

Very impressive. With a pair on their shoulder.

Yeah, exactly. Great. Oh, excellent. Cool. All right.

Just on this topic, I just did the Miami Beach Ballet pop-ups. They had like three this month. I think that would be a good one for us to contact and reach out to as well, I think, because they already do these throughout the year. What is that? Ballet pop-ups? Yeah. So they did in a botanical gardens. They did it at the ballet studio and they did it.

Is it like one performer or like?

Yeah, it's like five or six. Actually, it's closer to maybe eight different shows and groupings of like two to five ballet dancers on stage. So they do different choreographed dances. And where was it? So they did at the Botanical Gardens. They did one at the actual ballet studio and it's free to people. And then they actually had one planned at the bandshell here, but it got canceled earlier this month.

A ballet puppet at the bandshell?

Yeah, they had one, but it got canceled. But they try to do it throughout the year. It's all choreographed by the dancers themselves and through the ballet.

I know the North Beach Fountain does a lot of open air live music. They do a really great job over there. I was going to reach out to them as well.

The fountain down the street here? yeah they were like 79 right there on uh oh yeah in normandy as well well every time i've gone there i always seen them and they've got like the traditional instruments and then they were doing like the karate dancing wow but then that's the only thing i've seen where i'm like man they really like so the last time i was there maybe like

Two weeks ago, there was a like a string symphony type thing. It was bigger than a quartet.

That's what I like is the strings.

It was incredible.

Yeah. Well, this is a success. I mean, I definitely have more opportunity to engage in the new world and stuff like that.

Yeah, for sure. Nice. I didn't know Frank's idea about reaching out to one of the school. Yeah.

The new world.

Yeah. Yeah. Who knows somebody in practice or wants something on their resume or, or a group. Yeah. A few violins and some cellos and you got a whole string quartet. Like you said. Yeah. Cool.

Very good. Very good. Can you go back to the agenda?

Oops.

So point four, which is the update on bus shelters.

Yes. So it's been sitting, not going to lie.

Okay.

It sat for a long time.

Yeah.

And with transition on staff, our public works director leaving and then us. Going to hire a new one and the whole thing. It's ready to go. So we just spoke to Frank and confirmed we're going to be putting it out to bid within a month just to prepare the package and promote it and the whole thing.

so I feel like you're like I'm ready I think it was Christian Adaro who was like quite anxious to have the update last I followed up quite a few times on it on my end as well and I'm glad to see it coming because I see it as another it's bus sheltered but they're artwork pieces I think they're going to be they're going to be designed out there yeah they will be lovely we have the money just got to put the packages together and send it out so that'll be

Very soon. Sweet. All right. And I believe it's six. All right. Well, let's put that. Nice modernization.

Let's move on to the next meeting update.

Yeah. And they've got the North Bay colors on? It's like a teal. Yeah.

We have some designs.

No, that's cool.

It's just like having the North Bay colors everywhere. Just their own unique color branding. It has a lot of glass. And then on one side is the logo, I think, like kind of embossed on the, if that's the right word.

Yeah.

On the glass. Sand glass. Yeah. And it's like a teal color. Ooh. With lighting. They're quite lovely.

Yeah.

has that look nice yes yeah oh there you go yes very modern top there totally yeah this is still this was the design i think we selected because i had a feeling that's right yeah but i think this was basically what option a yeah yeah that's nice yeah yeah it's a very modern and there's some lighting as well um good for the rain yeah yeah overhang there for rain so you're not like There's an LED component to it, I think, as well. In that column.

There's some really bad bus stops in Miami. I passed a bunch on the way over there.

Some of them are older. There's non-existent bus stops in Miami. Exactly. Nighttime right there. Nice. Nice.

Yeah, it's fantastic.

We considered options that we've seen at other municipalities, like our friends down the street, not Miami Beach, but north of that. We decided we wanted our own unique kind of branding. Oh, at Surf Science? Yeah. I think Surfside has their own. I think Bay Harbor has their own stops.

Sorry, Leo. The bus stops were designed with the street signs at the same time in April of 2023. So it's been two years that those were mocked up.

to see it hey better late better late than never yeah exactly street signs are great yeah the street signs they got up those yeah yeah yeah they've been they've been a great success that's new thing is new here yeah it's new and what makes it our own where you go to other municipalities they have their own style right pinecrest south uh for sure um yeah

Bay Harbor Islands, Val Harbor. Yeah.

We kind of did some things with the U.S. flags and the 80-year-old sign on the causeway. You've seen those flags everywhere.

Yeah, so we put up banners for the 80th celebration this year.

Oh, okay. Okay.

And as part of that, we included American flags. It's like, because at first I was like, oh, yeah, that's the construction workers working there.

You know, they're all putting up them there. You know, I thought it was a construction worker thing on our other construction going on across the street from us.

And the entrance and like, OK, I see. I'm like, you know, construction workers will do that. I'm like, oh, that must have been the construction workers. OK. And then when I started seeing it everywhere else, I'm like, well, I doubt they put them over there, too.

You know? Yeah. so just you know the 80 patriotic absolutely they went up last week right it's been a couple weeks yeah it's been a couple weeks yeah but maybe three weeks now has it been that long yeah i noticed them last week i mean it did take i've noticed in a couple weeks um yeah if you guys want to talk about the 80s is that something that you would The 80th anniversary of the building.

Like a party?

Yeah, so it's this year. Technically, it's August 1st. I think it's the official date. We've decided internally that we're going to push it just a little bit, like a couple months, because our budget replenishes October 1st. It's the fiscal year. And we did not already have it budgeted for this fiscal year. So we're going to put that in there. That would be better with it. That's good.

Better weather. More likely to be people here as well.

Yeah, that's right. So we haven't really done too much work on it, which is why I'm happy to open it up to just get your general opinion, thoughts on maybe other celebrations that you've attended in general, and just get a sense of what you would want to see from your village. I think we're going to celebrate our 80th anniversary.

Are we talking... I mean, it would be, are we thinking about like a kind of like a one night kind of celebration or like things that can go over the course of a couple of days?

I think at this point we're kind of open to whatever. Right. So I really, I also, I don't want to promise anything, but I also just want to get your general.

Yep.

So I can tell you that I've been following Coral Gables' Centennial closely. And I just, I love what they do and I love their branding. And obviously their brand is just very well known in general. So they are doing, as you can imagine, they're doing like over the course of like various months. So like each month we'll have like a major event. I'm not saying we can do that, but that's what they're doing. And they'll have, let's say like, Like, the Coral Gables Museum will host a gala one night and bring everyone together over that. There's going to be tours of the history of the city on a random Saturday morning. There's going to be a performance, you know, things like that. So... it's really yeah they have a whole website kind of a blank canvas yeah exactly it's i mean there's a lot of history here in the city with like old nightclubs from that's what i was saying on that note um it's something that i'm particularly passionate about it's kind of like telling that story that i feel like hasn't really been told yeah

Actually, I think North Bay Village was the first incorporated part of Miami, if I'm not mistaken.

North Miami, North Miami, 1945. Incorporated the city part of Miami. Miami was 1896. Gables was obviously 1925. Raleigh was 1915.

Maybe of smaller cities were up there, but definitely not top five or anything like that.

These were like man-made islands. Sorry. It was something about maybe the making of Miami Beach. Because they were man-made islands and they were going to be the theme park. You know, the pirates type theme park. They were like man-made islands, right? here maybe i don't know that's what i'm saying is that like when they were dredging that's when these islands do you fish around where did you do you have that like somewhere like i mean i've been here my whole life i just know all these different random um miami history from so funny fact and not to go off on a tangent but um frank frank actually taught me this that

you look at our city boundaries there's a lot of like open bay space right so we obviously have our three islands you know that we're a third of a square mile we are the densest city in the state of florida with the most amount of people living in the smallest amount of space um but if you look at the boundaries there's like this huge like open area on the bay and that was going to be for a fourth island And that island, according to Frank, was going to be, like, the recreation island. So it was going to have, like, courts and, like, fields and stuff like that.

Because that's what we're missing here so much.

Right. That's why we don't have enough park space.

Is that under our jurisdiction? That's a new item. Make the fourth island.

Can I put a motion to pass to build a fourth island?

You can definitely put a motion to that.

Where was this supposed to be?

It was supposed to be north of Benihana.

By looking out from Benihana or something.

That area? There is a lot of open bay areas there. You have to look at our actual city boundaries and you'll see a big open space. Fascinating. Wow.

That's so interesting. They were dredging it and that's how a lot of these islands and the ancient causeway as well were put here and placed.

And for whatever reason, they had

Right.

Right.

So, yeah, to Jake's point, you know, stuff like that is a jungle area, tropical birds, walkways. So it's all dense over here.

We did raise not a lot. You know, we raised maybe fifteen hundred, two thousand bucks for Give Miami Day through Miami Foundation. And that was supposed to be for like a legacy initiative. So we have just a little bit of money and obviously, you know, we can put that in there for next year's budget. Yeah. If we want to pursue something like that.

I know a city of Doral had their 20th not long ago. Right. And they had like their own 20th logo. Yeah. You guys make like a North Bay 80th logo. Yeah. Just to put up, just for people to recognize. And then we also change our email insignia with the 20th for a little bit.

That's cool.

Afterwards, just like anybody in the public you email, they'll get the North Bay Village 80th insignia on your... so maybe like that side of the island and then yeah they did the same thing too like different events at the parks and stuff right then you know we don't have that as much population to do like a through a a month type of thing so maybe a one big yeah 80 when do we anticipate the fields being done

It'll be a year from now. Oh, yeah.

They're hoping for the World Cup.

Like, exactly. Oh, okay. Yeah. That would be cool to have, like, more of a concert kind of feel.

That's another thing is we're very limited on green space for the next, like, year or so. And we can't really head down streets. Yeah.

So... That's why that third island is really looking nice. Yeah. Just stop the causeway.

There's that one lot by the water that they said we could, like,

ask right for one event to do we're talking about the movie night potentially so i think yeah i think the lot it's funny i was thinking about that the other day sorry yeah the lot you're talking about is the parking lot yeah next to shuckers which is already under construction yeah rip the entire yeah yeah yeah they haven't gone vertical at all but they already ripped up like most of it so

I wonder if there's a way to integrate, because one of the things we were talking about quite a lot last meeting was just stepping up a bit on the greenery and the plant kind of like plants and like trees. And I think that you and Frank said you guys had a bit more budget and like you're thinking about doing it i wonder if we could integrate that with like the 80 year anniversary and do like something like 80 trees like 80 trees in north bay village for 80 years and like we could like start planting a whole lot of unveiling yeah yeah but like you mean like the trees like in like the nice pots and stuff like a like a decorative pot with a big tree but like permanent semi-permanent type of thing permanent like like in the ground yeah i mean if we're gonna plant them we want them to yeah i'd want them to stay there do we have where do we fit 80 trees it's room for zero and everything we point out how many landmarks you have it could be quite interesting Um, or like, or like some sort of, um, like, like a time capsule or something that could be opened in 20 years. That's a great idea.

That's easy to do. I think that's, I think that's cool. Yeah. That's, that's a no brainer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Like here's, here's where we came from. Here's where we are. Here's where we're going. Yeah.

And you know what? That's a good point because I have to find out if there is one buried.

So that might be a thing. You don't see a lot of actual stuff going on now.

It's more 20, 30 years, but you don't see a lot. Yeah, it would be cool to do. We'll put our stuff in there and come back 20 years later. Yeah. Go check it out.

Open it at the 100th.

Yeah, we were the one. Yeah, yeah. Exactly, at the 100th. Yeah, the 100th year.

So on a tour thing, obviously we don't have a crazy history and there might not be a ton of landmarks and things to talk about.

There's mafia history. I was going to say Dean Martin.

So I think doing that kind of stuff, but then also maybe tying it into what's coming next, because there is a lot happening. It's on the website, obviously, and there's PDFs out there, but I don't know how much everyone actually knows what could be the future and kind of thinking through that. It could be kind of neat, like that kind of tour from old to new.

I like that. That's cool.

What about some sort of How many entrances are there to get in and out from behind us? Treasure?

Two. There's two. No, you're right. There's... Well, it all leads to north.

There's three. So East Treasure, Adventure, and Hispaniola.

Is there a way we could do, like, a block party? Yeah. That could, like, shut down... I guess the one right here...

I was thinking a parade. Like, on the causeway.

That would be super cool. That would be great.

PD is, like, going to hate me for it. Do we have enough people for a parade?

Yeah. A parade? A Thanksgiving Day parade in North Bay Village? An 80th Day parade?

Honestly, that would be really cool if people made their own floats and stuff.

Down the causeway? Yeah.

Tradition could restart. Seems like a lot. What's the Orange Bowl one that now is a comical fest?

Oh, the Mango Fest? We can't say that's what it's going to be. There you go.

Maybe that's what it can be.

That's cheap. I like that one. People just dress up on their own. They show up. We're good.

I don't know if we could do that. That's a lot of people.

The state is not going to let us see that.

Closing up the causeway. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, it's an ongoing... Pirate's alley.

Yeah.

Or, like, what about, like, around here? A little loop.

Yeah. But definitely some sort of... Definitely some sort of festival. Yeah. I think we'd, like... yeah vendors and like pop-up food places and yeah yeah i think i think that would be that would be great over the course of like a at least like a weekend oh okay yeah i'm gonna think a month of celebrations yeah yeah i think i do like i mean the

trees idea. Maybe we can't plant 80, but maybe we can plant one every decade kind of thing. One for each decade. One for each decade or like one every decade. 80th and then there's a 90th. Because I don't know how much space we actually have. With the construction, you don't know. Something like that would be kind of neat.

I can get more details. Where do we put this?

In my hometown, they have a Marlboro Day every year in the summer. It was basically what we're thinking. Vendors and all different stuff. Artists, music, food,

inflatable things for kids to jump on i think doing pirate theme is always attractive kids i don't know i'm just seeing the pirate stuff there's pirate alley stuff it's like nobody else does pirate stuff i mean i know it's like that tampa but like i don't know you do like a little hey that's unique this was pirates alley this was gonna be a pirate fun entertainment zone yeah bring it back same thing that's sticking with tradition and history yeah Well, you know, all the streets are named for... All the streets were... Because it was going to be a themed... He was going to build, like, a themed type thing. Oh, really? He wanted to make, like, an amusement park type thing. Oh, that'd be great. Oh, that's a great idea.

Yeah, well... I was thinking like stuff hidden around the city.

Like a bingo cartoon.

A treasure hunt doing some nice weather months. That's a great idea.

I like those. It gets people moving around to different places.

And I feel like we can grow that. We can brand that so that it's not just for residents. That could be something that we kind of expose to all of Miami.

Who's our architect? We have a firm. Planner maybe. He lives across in Little River. lives in little river yeah um when i talked to him one night yeah but i was talking to him about because at some point it'd be kind of cool around like the water to be able to post like for boats to come like learn about north bay village in some way like to have them like come to the island but if we can do that on the land but if a bingo sheet or like a scavenger hunt kind of like forces people to go to these new places yeah same kind of concept i like that idea

You know what that brings to mind is like, I think it's called, what is it called? Like geocaching? Geocaching? Yeah. where it's like a hint that's posted on social media that people have to go and find where it is and something like that.

That's what I was thinking of.

Tangent, slight tangent. I don't know how well our businesses here are updated on Google Maps and stuff. They're trying to support them in those efforts. I don't know if that's something that we could do or help them with.

What does that look like?

I don't know. So you mean like reviews and stuff like that? Yeah. Is their website updated? Do they have a phone number? Do they have their hours posted? I don't know how much of that is always on the responsibility of the businesses in the area versus Google scraping it from the web.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I can put that on the radar of our chamber. I can look into that and see.

Mostly they update their own information. Yeah, no. You know what would be helpful for all North Bay Village businesses? If you've got a collective group of residents to throw five-star reviews at places. Just kind of like pump them a little bit, you know, like with North Bay Village support Petralunga with a five-star and a good review. That would actually help them, I think. The promotion thing is great.

I think it's a really good idea.

These are great. These are really good. Keep it coming. There's also that cement platform that's sitting in the middle of the water. Yes, that is on our radar. What can we do with that? It sits in between Treasure Island and Harbor Island. It's right off the coast of Channel 7.

oh yeah it's just like sitting there with a statue on there yeah that's obviously money it's very expensive yeah we definitely want to in the next couple years i don't know what the timeline would be yeah we did we want to put like a sculpture there that's what it's for okay let's yeah you know how long has it been there

uh i believe since the beginning of the village because that was the location of the first radio tower for wiod okay that yeah first yeah yeah it's like the first thing broadcast key if you look at it on the map it's the perfect spot to broadcast all in south florida where you hit the beach and you're in miami like if you look at that corner central yeah on the north and you'll be like well that makes sense that's why they put it there because it just hits the whole miami area

Heart of the Bay. Yeah, it's right there.

So if you look, you're like, if you broadcast it, all of the beach and South Beach. Maybe it needs to be a big heart and a water fountain heart.

Heart of the Bay.

Oh, Heart of the Bay. Hopefully this board is incorporated into that discussion. If I'm here, I would make sure that happens. We request that we are.

Could we envisage having a budget for fireworks for our 80th birthday?

So fireworks is an issue just because everything's waterfront. And I think we probably talked about that half a dozen times for 4th of July. Oh, okay. I got the route one to use a barge for their new park there. And we're like, I don't know about the barge. My only ask for the 80th, besides the whole legacy thing, which I love, I think that's a great concept. Because I think the history here is really unique about the Mafia stuff and Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and the whole thing. dean martin had a club here yeah yeah um besides that i was telling uh julie our director of communications at lily art that's uh assistant director i really want to do like a drone show oh that'd be cool that's environmentally friendly i like drone show i like that a lot that's cool it's a little pricey but i think it's really really cool and it kind of represents like it reflects like our kind of what if they could do like the history of north

What happened to all the memorabilia from the old restaurant? Shuckers? No, not Shuckers.

Oh, the Dean Martin one?

Dinos was Dean Martin's restaurant. Was that the one right here? I don't know the location of it. I don't know where it was. No, this one right here. Oh, the Crab Shack?

No, the Tretatora here.

Oh, the one here? Yeah. Oh, it's probably still there. What do you mean?

The old restaurant that was there. What about it? Like they had all that old memorabilia and pictures up on the wall.

Oh, they probably never went there.

I don't know.

It's still the same man.

What was it? It started with an O. I already forgot the name. OGs. OGs, yes, yes.

Yeah, they probably still have it. That's a good point. Yeah, I'll ask them.

That's what I'm saying because they were the most old-timey spot in town.

Yeah, and that would be a good place to host kind of like that vibe, like that kind of like 50s, 60s kind of thing.

True, because it's technically historic there. I know I liked Happy's when it was a dive bar.

yeah that was historic yeah happy so speaking of the dinos thing that could also be a neat like if you do want to do a gala type event maybe try and recreate that type of ambience yeah like that like 1940s golden age actually if you do in october yeah it could end up becoming like a halloween type thing oh we could have like oh we could create like a vintage speakeasy or something yeah something like that venue lends itself for that yeah i think a pop-up yeah yeah so naturally singing

Yeah. There's impersonators. You know, there's plenty of that.

That'd be pretty cool.

Like a, Oh, you know what?

An alternative to that is an alternative to a land-based parade is in ocean city, New Jersey for Venice nights in Venice, the Italian holiday. They always do a boat show. They always do a boat parade. So people could dress up boats and just go around the islands. That's a good idea. I've never really done anything like that. And I don't think that exists anymore. But there are people in Miami that just generally have boats. So you could open it up to anyone with a boat to come do it. I'm not aware of there being boat parades here, but maybe there are.

There's the Miami boat parade, Fort Lauderdale boat parade. But they plan it for a while. It's a lot to get your boat out. It's very weather dependent.

The value guys to do something. For sure. It goes without saying.

Absolutely. Giant screen. Yeah. Cool. These are really, really, really good ideas. Thank you for that.

Yeah, this is great.

Let's put it on the agenda for next meeting to continue talking about. Oh, you give us an update on what's happened between now and then and then we can continue to talk about it.

um for sure i i don't know i'll be honest i don't know if i'll have something ready for in a month no no no i mean like we just put it on the agenda yeah we can keep talking about it because you know october's around the corner if we do it in october yeah or november so yeah for sure

Commissioner Darrow, any updates from your end?

From my end? Yes. Well, the bus jobs we talked about was good. We also brought up this idea, which I was just talking to Leo before we came. We wanted to paint the meridian because to me, I thought before it looked... dry or something just like it's very gray as we went across so we came up with this idea where it was we requested fdot a solid color which was blue like north bay village coloring and there's an area now that was they told us long story short that we couldn't do it because it's a state road and things have to comply with their uniformity right they have a code yeah f dot they don't want to bend on anything right yeah yeah however i was just telling him on my way here i noticed just a little bit uh just a little west of here you'll see on both sides right now it's blue it's painted blue and i was like it looked like a sampling of what we wanted to do before and i just was asking him i said hey is this What is this blue? Where did this blue come from? And if it is there, how did they get it there?

Where is that?

Just south of here. If you happen to see driving on either side. And I thought that it would look nice before this was... I mean, we wanted to do green bike lanes as well on the causeway. So to have a green bike path and to do blue just to kind of give it some... life on the car. Both were shut down by FDLT. Is that because of space for the bike lanes?

I feel like they do that just because then they have to let other people do it. So they just don't let anybody do it. But bike lanes are in a lot of places.

The green bike lanes were not shut down because of... No, they were. No, but they were because of turning places?

It's called... What is that called? A point of... What's the word for that? It has to be where a vehicle's turning in to another road.

That is the only place where a bike lane... You would have to cross... A point of... No, it's the wrong word.

I can't think of it right now. You get the idea. They were saying that is the only place that you could do it. They determined that the only place that we have along the causeway for that is... um the intersection of harbor island and north bay island so on the north bay island side they would put like a green like i said no we're on treasure okay i don't know how that determination is made i forget right now but they said yeah any any other green bike lane that you see out there in general because we see them all the time is grandfathered in before this the existing code is written interesting so i have two other comments that are

One will be asked for some feedback. One is just kind of relaying a story for progress with what we had. We've been working for a long time to permit and install sidewalks throughout Harbor Island. I know not anyone lives on Harbor Island, but there's not a connectivity there of all these sidewalks. After a long time of planning, we recently came through with approval from the county on some last holdups. So it looks like this project is going to move forward finally, just getting sidewalks. It sounds like a small thing, but it's been a really big push on this walkability front. And then the second thing, I kind of wanted to get your guys' feedback on this. It's in regards to the island walk. So the island walk is something that I'm sure you guys are all familiar with, but we have an MVP 100, which is a public easement, it's going to be in all of our new developments. And they they kind of broadcast it as like being the the grand thing of MVP 100. I mean, it's like, it's a centerpiece like like Brickel Key or the beach and highlighted even, even better. We have condos throughout North Bay Village that, for instance, 360, Eloquence, Blue Bay, Space 01, Bridgewater Condo. cielo anything basically built since 2005 or after call it has in its develop uh has in its site plan that the island walk there is meant to be public access uh and That's the intent of it. However, all of the condo owners have since fenced off their properties, not made this public. And there's a respect of, okay, there's public, you know, we understand. But, you know, the original intent was there was a site agreement that was made for this to be public access. We have a grander push right now that we're going for the bigger version of the the island walk. We recently made, you know, at one of the last commission meetings, I asked for, and it's, you know, for some it's seen as unfavorable because, you know, people, I guess, at certain condos, they want to keep their place private, which I can respect. And I think there can be some compromise on hours of use, et cetera. But I asked for the island walk to be open and we lost it as a 3-2 situation. uh commissioner schiavone was with me to open the island walk but the rest of the commission and the mayor said uh for whatever reason no they weren't ready to open the island walk so i wanted to hear your guys opinion of this and see if you guys had any thoughts if this is worth continuing to push on my end because again i advocate for the island walk i think it's a great thing it's bringing the waterfront to everyone it was the intent But there are property owners at various condos who don't like when I talk about this or bring this up. So just any feedback on your guys and on this would be appreciated.

Can you remind us exactly where we're talking about? Because there are two different versions of the island walk right now. There's what we have now. And then there's what is going to be the more expanded kind of version. Yeah.

Where do we have public island walks now? I mean, really, Moda, behind Benihana. You know, there's an area of the Grand View. Grand View's got the little walkway there.

It's more of a seawall than a walkway. However, they've locked it off with a fence now, too.

But theirs actually would fall outside. Theirs is kind of weird because it falls outside the purview anyways because it actually is a grandfather building that is not in its site plan that it has to be a public access, apparently. But everything that else we spoke about before, like on the island or on the north side and the plans, of course, you know, eventually it will stretch with all of the new development, the entire length of the 79 tree causeway and have the options to be full connectivity in the future. But, you know, only if it's if it's resolved with also current.

That's the main thing is it just sounds tough with all the different people involved. It sounds like a great idea. I would love that. It's a great exercise and just something that not a lot of places have. It sounds like you're talking about a lot of the buildings on Harbor.

Yeah, a lot of them on Harbor are supposed to and just have remained private.

What if it was like a key fob system? Let's say every house or someone you can pay $10 for a key fob. Then when you swipe the key fob,

know who just went in there right so it's like a private island it's like a place in new york that has a park like this again i would say they should have done more research before they bought their unit to be honest it's in the condo documents like we're supposed to do it if i'm not like the city should be

finding them in some sense we're not doing it honestly i'm yeah i'm i'm with you i'm with you guys on this i'm i'm in favor of having a publicly accessible island walk for people especially for people who like um is don't necessarily like you know we want to we want to maintain access and accessibility and like appreciation of the beauty of like our island and not just like the inner parts of it but all parts of it and that includes like the the waterfront parts

The best part.

I think it's core to the original planning concept, like you said, and I think it's core to who we are as a community.

I love the mode of walk over there. I drive from Grandview Palace. I'll be like, let me go walk the dog and we'll drive over there just to go for a walk.

And maybe this is what the other homeowners fear is that it's going to bring more people to their property. I can understand it too, but there's never been... One island walk incident crime or injury or crime since Moda's open. Exactly. There's never been any issue.

I think we should be committing to a public like a public enjoyment of coastal spaces, regardless of... And I think abandoning that would be like moving away from... I agree.

And the irony is that like all these new developments continue on, you know, any of the ones on the Pagani, you know, any of them, the Anson's who own the most waterfront land, I mean, they advertise the Island Walk as like the center of their project. So, I mean, they see it as a benefit and they're spending... you know, millions of dollars of investment and they still see that public access is a mutual benefit and makes the community better. But there's this mentality between, you know, the, the older buildings are not even that old because some of them are built in 2008, you know, that's our newer buildings that have this mentality of, no, that's not for the greater good, you know, that this is our land, you know, and, and, We want our space private.

Are they in violation of zoning?

As I understand, yes.

I mean, there must be kind of like buffers or like, you know, like guidelines, like use guidelines that we can put up around these kinds of things. People would be kind of like wandering onto private land, you know.

we can we can we as a as a city can possibly facilitate these kinds of sunrise to dusk and have some type of ability yeah yeah yeah or like you know help with like landscaping which we did it's a small but for the first time this year we put a fifty thousand dollar island walk budget related item that's supposed to help for just doggy bats or little things like this yeah

uh frank said he's gonna the village mentor said he's gonna power watch the motive pilot it would be interesting to see what these buildings are concerned with specifically because i assume most buildings have like security and concierge type and if they don't maybe that's their concern maybe it's just trying to find someone that like having the police be able to do more circulations of those areas because if things get a lot outside of my unit and uh grand view like I'll just call the front desk and be like, hey, there's a lot of noise going out there by the marina. Something needs to happen.

Is it like Grandview where there's a unit pretty much ground level?

Eloquence has some lower townhouse units on the back that I could understand, but... most of them have some type of barrier or the parking garage, you know, it's like a four-story parking garage still. So it's not like you're walking by residences.

I think one concern is to that point is that it's not a uniform kind of situation throughout for every single property. So I, you know, and I'm just playing devil's advocate. I don't agree one way or the other. I'm stuck. I'm super biased. I would say that there are some properties that have a barrier there. You could argue Moda has like a smaller fence. Somebody could just jump over the fence if they really wanted to. I know some don't have a barrier at all. You could literally just jump in their pool from the island walk, you know, wherever that is. I'm not sure which building has that, but that's kind of my point.

i think it's a good point and i think maybe that's where the line item is there maybe to go to each building individually and see like what is the actual concern because if it is the case where the pool is right there like all right like maybe the city can help to with the building to you know the barrier of some sort to help separate that out and i would be on walking i would leave that at the discretion i would leave that at the discretion of the of the mayor and commission yeah yeah yeah but you know i i would also say that 50 000 is probably not enough to

do any really meaningful kind of upgrades in that sense. And it's also not really our responsibility to do so if it's in their condos to have that amenity.

Any of the buildings that fall, I'm going to play it more devil's advocate because any of these buildings that I mentioned don't have a pool that would be in the way. The pool comes into play when you lock up the older buildings, which don't have. I mean, these buildings were actually developed with the idea that that was a public access. So it's there. It makes sense to be right. I mean, it flows behind the building and it's clean. What is it? There's space and setback between the water and their buildings.

this one on the corner here though like their pool goes all the way up to the corner so i'm wondering okay but i'm saying that like how would you miss the walkway that'd be through their they still have something back there they have a little lip of something back there really it's tiny

Yeah, but I think that anything on East Treasure still follows the ground. There's no site plans with the island walk as a public.

Because then that would mean some construction there. Absolutely.

Sea wall side construction. And then to further play devil's advocate, if you enforce violations or litigation or whatever the case is, on one property, you've got to do it for all the properties. And there are just vastly different situations. So to the commissioner's point, and not to play science, it's up to the mayor and the commission to give direction to the staff and say, well, to enforce.

What are we going to do? I think it's going to better us in the long run.

That's why I suggested the compromise. The commissioner already said no. to opening it up so the middle ground is what is the best way to alleviate if there's security concerns then somehow limit the access during certain hours put in cameras things like that but if there's other people on the island in the short term we will work with every property that has it and that wants to have it open and we will have resources available to help them maintain and do whatever it is we need to do on that

um so that's kind of our position right now whoever wants to work with us we work with you and whoever doesn't you know we'll see what happens i mean from the legal basis too it could be one of those things where it's like by 2026 this has to be open so you can choose how you want to engage with the i was thinking this too that maybe we just have a more compromised solution yeah it's not like it's marzing but like we're planning for this to happen like what's a section the best section or the best part where the condo will work with you yeah maybe like a section to start get a leg in there

that would be the most take it to your colleagues yeah the most continued conversation but it's definitely I think it falls under community enhancement so do you have that verbiage of the condos that should they should have yes allow public access you know it's uniform across every project has a different site plan but it's been looked at and I've had looked at it with our North Bay Village Council and she has the documented files on each project that we do.

It has that verbiage in there about this.

Yeah, so it's marked from what I understand mostly as on the site plan as public access. The development agreements are not as thorough as what we do in today's with developers, but the site plans are there. That's kind of what I've been told.

Like originally not trying to block off the whole island with every development. Like, okay, you have all your development, but don't block off the waterway access, which is the beauty part.

And recently I've even been told that it's not even the city, it's even the county thing. That when you're developing that since, you know, called for the past 20 years, the county has had code that if you're developing on the water that there's an easement and public access points to the water.

any newer newer construction i think this is even uh my this is a greater than north bay village it's been a county regulation but um because it gets quite another day on this beach where like technically like where the water breaks is public access but then they own the beach and that's that's correct but then you can walk along the water like hey you can't stop walking along the water here on the beach it's weird

I like the idea. It'd be great to see it. I just could understand the roadblocks.

and the difficulty in lining everything up and making it work. There'll be more to come.

Certainly to be continued. Yeah, we'd love to hear an update on that next time.

And that would increase property value. You have this awesome, because like I said, I really love the Moda one, so I'm just picturing a longer one in a different area.

and it's just like more continuous a great thing to walk on sit on walk out the dog is that you yeah so future gender items

Future agenda items. I think we had a couple that we jotted down throughout this meeting. MVP 80.

Bus shelters. Scavenger hunts.

All those things. We should have a think about this between now and next

meeting as well i also talk about those pots that are just laying vacant yeah i just keep going past them every morning i'm like i need to have something in there so like we have so on those pots uh they were put in in the late 80s they're pretty

They're very nice. They were done by a local artist at the time. That's cool. They are set to be removed in the very near future, next couple of years. Unless. No. Unless. Because FDOT, the state, is going to do rehab on the flat bridges. Got it. And that is set for construction in 29th. And they actually already requested that we remove them. So is there a spot somewhere that we can move them to?

Is there a spot that we could think about moving them to? The issue with them is that we fear that if we touch them, they will hurt.

And it is also extremely expensive to move them. They're very heavy. And they're artistic pieces. So that requires another level of care. Can we rehouse them? Well, it's like the moving pieces. You try one. I feel like that's me. I think right now we're kind of just waiting until the state actually starts the project for us to actually move things. That's understandable. We found meeting minutes from the 80s. Wow. Very cool. Where we got the approval from the state saying, yes, you can put the pots there. Because the state now was saying, we never gave you permission to put the pots there. Please remove them. Good job. And we said, no, we found these minutes from the 80s that say that you guys did have that permission granted.

So between now and 2029, could we at least put some flowers in them?

lightweight i will ask the village manager to see if he's open to that i know that the state will not appreciate that i like that yeah you're right you're right they're not our friends on the cause yeah It's an emergency route. It's an evacuation route. They have ownership of it and we respect that and we'll work with that to make sure it looks good for our people.

They are nice looking pots. I've seen them too.

Even without stuff in it. They're sitting on concrete, right?

They're sitting on the...

On the median, they're on the right edge.

They don't cut down around it.

Sounds expensive.

Sounds easy. Things are probably a couple hundred pounds with all the dirt in there.

I think the state's philosophy is probably get all the obstacles out of our way so we don't break anything.

It makes sense on their part for 100%.

That's the story of the class.

Interesting. Alright. remind me do i need a motion to adjourn yes all right i have a motion motion to adjourn at 1944 p.m second all right all in favor aye aye all right meeting adjourned yeah 1944.

Oh, military time.

I want military time, too. Oh, military time. Cool. I still have to do math every time. Thank you.

Oh, my God.

That's such an American thing, I feel.

It is, right?

Like, I can't grasp what I'm saying.

Wait. Aussies and New Zealanders, for some reason, we always work in 24-hour time. And my husband, like, freaks out. He freaks out. He, like, I think he thinks some... I think when he sees 18... When he sees 18 anything... Oh, no, it's 20... I don't know.

He thinks it's two or three hours earlier. Yeah. All right, guys.

I enjoyed our conversation.

Yeah, that was great. That was really interesting to hear. What they blocked off?

Like, where are the areas we can't...