Community Enhancement Board - Regular Meeting

Hey, Alexi.

Hey, Jacob. How are you?

Good. How are you doing? Good. Hi, Lily.

You traveling?

I'm just running around doing a bunch of errands and then

Got caught in Miami traffic, so I never... Didn't make it home, so I'm sitting in the parking lot of Florida Corps.

Okay. Where's that?

I'm in Sunrise because I had to go to Ikea. Ikea, Home Depot, Florida Corps. So, thought I had enough time, but never enough time for 95. Traffic was horrible today.

Yeah, I bet.

It took me like an hour and a half to get to Sunrise at 3 o'clock. It was crazy.

I think that's normal, though. I think Sunrise is so far.

It is. But I was like, oh, it'll be an hour because it's only 3. Then as soon as I got off from exit 7, it was crazy. But, you know, could have gone earlier.

Next time. Yeah, exactly.

Hey, Frank.

Hello, hello.

How are you doing today?

Just another fun day.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Everything's good.

That is good. Hopefully we get a quorum here yeah what's the minimum for a quorum three of the five of us three of the five i think they had enough respond that we're going to be on that's what yeah that's what i thought as well i didn't did have questions and i did walk around the neighborhood today so i wanted to chat about some stuff so we'll see

I hate when you do that.

I know, right? Get out and about. Enjoy the weather. We don't have two feet of snow outside.

We are truly blessed. Truly blessed. I faced down a few friends this week and it was like my one friend just had a kid a few months ago and their daycare was closed. His wife's parents were like, he's like i did no work he's like i got absolutely nothing done today it was just it's crazy when this when the snow happens yeah he said everything shuts down everything he's like i tried to like order groceries couldn't even get to the grocery store got his whole driveway plowed and they came in and buried him in it's like i'm just giving up i'm not leaving

What I find is interesting is watching all the different videos that are out there that show how other countries do snow removal. It's quite fascinating. I don't know if you guys have seen any of those videos or not.

Yeah, where there's like a truck that comes and a truck next to it and it's shooting the snow into the dumpster truck.

Yeah, they actually pick it up and move it versus just like push it. Yeah.

There we go. We got four.

Hey, Chris. Hey, Bree.

Team Manager Frank, how are you? Good evening. Good evening.

I saw you on CBS News earlier in the week with the villagers being mad about the concrete boards.

About the construction starting early?

Yeah, I heard it this morning. It got me this morning.

I had emailed Frank about it to see what the deal was about it.

This morning, right?

Yeah, but that was during regular hours from 8 o'clock on.

Yeah, they had to do the early morning one day. And so I was curious if they were going to have to do that another day or not. Like it started at 4 o'clock in the morning.

So they wanted to pour again early this week. And I said, what are you pouring? And they said they're pouring the foundations. And I said, well, that doesn't have to be a continuous pour. So just, well, then we'll have to do two days. I said, well, then you do two days.

Yeah.

We've got to balance this out a little bit. But when they pour the slabs that are the ones that are the post tension with the cables in them, they have to be all done in one pour. There can't be a joint. Yeah. So every floor they do and every floor continuum does, It's going to be one of those pours lining up for 4.30 in the morning.

Okay. I mean, that's helpful to know. I mean, I don't know if you're able to get a schedule from them or a rough schedule, but I think that's helpful to know that there will be one for every pour.

I told them we want to try to avoid continuum and show them a pour on the same day.

Or do it the same day and just make it one.

Yeah, we'll be closing the causeway.

Yeah, I saw those public work trucks out there earlier last week, too, where there was some bad traffic, where along the median there, we had some stuff going on.

So we had a water leak. So if you remember a few, I spend now a while, that the woman had the accident there and went off and hit the palm tree and knocked over a water thing. And fortunately, she had a baby in the car and her mother. Nobody was injured.

Yeah, it was a big deal.

That has turned out to be a monstrous repair because of the deterioration of the pipes under the ground. We couldn't shut it off. So we had to end up digging down in two separate spots to the 11-inch or 12-inch main, putting in new valves to be able to close the water so we could do the repair. So the lady has insurance, auto insurance, so we're filing for that. But I am sure they're going to be just beside themselves when they see a bill of about $200,000. That's what that repair is going to cost. I got to refurbish. I got to repair the F dot road so many feet with new paving on either side of the diggings. I mean, it's a big deal. And the one we had that was just a two-inch leak on the other side of Hispaniola a few months ago, that was $200,000. You dig into that roadway with that big equipment, and it's big bucks. It sure is. And every time we get into this stuff, we see the shape of what's under the ground. We don't find things that are in good shape.

One problem leads to another, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Well, if everyone is in agreement, I'll call the meeting to order at 6.38pm and proceed to a roll call. So, Jacob Petrini.

Here.

Chris Cotton.

Present here.

Wait, who am I missing? Alexi. Alexi Sigal, excellent. Nick Quay is absent from what I can see. So we have a quorum. Excellent. Where we proceed to, I'm just working off the agenda now. I had a look at the December 18 meeting minutes. They looked very good. I have no problems with them. So motion to approve.

Second. Second.

All right. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

All right. Those meeting minutes will go into the record, which is excellent. And that actually nicely leads me into the first substantive topic tonight, which I wanted to update you guys on. If you recall, in December last year, we talked about the board action tracking document. And it was resolved that we're going to adopt one. And I was very happy to put one together since it was kind of my idea to have this as a living document to begin with. I have a draft. I want to share it with you guys just so you can see what it looks like. um and uh uh and any and invite any comments on it as well so perfect share One moment while I adjust my settings. There we go. Are you guys able to see that?

Yes. Excellent.

Great. Okay, so this is the first draft of the Community Enhancement Board Action and Progress Tracker. And the intention is for it to be a pretty simple living record of the actions that we take as a board. So here... You can see there's a column for the topic project, the board action or direction, the owner of it, the status, next steps. It isn't meant to be complicated or burdensome. I'm very happy to keep an update of this. In fact, I just kind of use the minutes that were generated, the minutes that Chris... prepares and that then informs this document. So it's a simple way that I want to just capture what we've agreed to do, who is responsible for it, and where things stand.

Perfect.

So this gives us a forward-looking view and just kind of lets us see at a glance what is pending, what needs attention, and then this can also inform the agenda on a kind of monthly basis, depending on where, how far things have kind of, how far things have been stalled or when the last time, you know, if it's been months since we last spoke about it, we're able to see that as a glance because sometimes it is easy for them to fall off our radar. yeah this is great and we can actually take some notes in the column h as well for different dates because i know that we've talked about some things here and then we can follow up on those things at the next meeting yeah yeah yeah so after each meeting and after the minutes are circulated um the idea is that i'll update the tracker to reflect what occurred in the public session okay yeah yes i thought so

I mean, if we can use this, honestly, as we go through each agenda item, because I think it would be good to touch on some of these, you know, like, I mean, number seven or reference seven, that one's kind of on hold just because I think that is awaiting the highway construction and bridge elevation project that's going to be in three years from now. Yeah. But I think for future boards, it's definitely something we want to keep on the radar.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

For them.

Yeah. I remember, I mean, something that I hadn't, certainly wasn't front of my mind was the... the artistic planters that I think Frank, Village Manager of Rawlinson had reported on. And I think like there was some talk about this getting done in March, 2026, but we hadn't, I hadn't really, I personally hadn't heard any updates on it. And I know that we were as a board generally interested in what was happening there. So that's another example.

And I think six, nine, and seven are the same as well. So we can probably merge some of these.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Yes. So that's where it stands right now. I'll need some guidance either from Alba or the village as to how this tracker is going to be used. accessible to the public. My thought was that we discussed it in December and that the best path forward in terms of transparency was we were going to attach a PDF snapshot of this to the minutes so it becomes part of the public record and it isn't just something that we review as a board in these sessions, like there has to there should be a written record of it somewhere attached to the minutes. But I'll see clarity on that from Alba separately.

I think Lily's here too. I don't know.

I am. Hi. Hey, hi.

Is that that makes sense to you? Or would it make sense to just copy over the table into the meeting agenda minute or into the minutes?

Yeah, Brie, this looks great. I think the best way would just be to attach a copy of it to the minutes and that would make life easiest for everyone, including Elba.

Okay, fantastic. Fantastic. Yeah, I'm glad you confirmed that because I definitely didn't want to make life harder for anyone over on the staff side.

I think this is good, though, because we can actually, as things get done, too, put that they've been completed. And so even actually putting in maybe some older ones that we've had in here might be helpful, too, for folks to see what the board has done previously. Yeah.

Yeah, I think I only took the minutes back as far as, oh, I want to say like the beginning, maybe halfway through last year, the beginning of last year. But it's easier. I mean, the minutes are all a matter of public record. So it's very easy for me to go back and just like extract those from our community enhancement board page, like website page.

For sure.

Yeah.

Cool.

Excellent. Great. So that's that. In terms of new business, agenda number 4A was discussion on ongoing Comcast installation areas and strategies to enhance beautification. Was that... That was... Was that you? Was that your suggestion, Alexei?

Yeah.

So... Do you want to take it from here?

Sure. I think a few... weeks ago i'm pretty sure they're they might be actually done with a lot of the construction now um but at least on uh like the island i live on north bay island they there's like areas where they dug up for the comcast cables uh like sort of like you know in the front area when you drive in um that were sort of like just sure like empty patches of nothing and then I didn't really go through the other neighborhoods, but I'm guessing they were probably doing that in similar sort of areas throughout the village where they're running cables just to dig. I figured maybe it could be a good opportunity to do some planting. Obviously, you can't plant on top of the box, but maybe adding more greenery and things like that in the areas where they're digging. Maybe this is a frank question, but Sort of what are like the rules around there, whether like the digging was like strategically in places where there wasn't a lot of shrubbery, things like that.

Well, first, I think it's only happening on North Bay Island right now. The other ones, we have not seen the flags. Okay.

I haven't seen anything on treasure.

So I think it's just right now on North Bay Island. They're supposed to restore and put things back. I'm sure there's going to be some posts or something where they have connections that they can operate from once they get finished. They're not going to have no access to those cables. I'm not sure if they're going to be in boxes under the ground or they're going to be a post type thing that sits up. They come in and work sporadically. They're not there every day. It's like they do something and then they go away. But I've asked Timmy, who's out there with his crews on a regular basis, to try to capture some supervisor there. And we can get a timeline. We can figure out what they're doing. Because they have full permits to do the work, but it doesn't really give you a layout of what the plan is.

I actually have someone's number I can pass to you because... initially they put a box, like literally on top of my driveway, about three inches off my driveway. And I was like, you got to move this.

It was a markings or you actually put a box here.

No, they actually put a box there. They came and dug out my driveway, like right next to my driveway. So I had to move it and they moved it right next to the AT&T off, like sort of off to the side instead of in the middle of everything.

You have to remember that 15 feet up from the edge of that roadway is a public right-of-way. Yeah.

He said they shouldn't have put it there.

Yeah, right. A little common sense helps.

Yeah. But then, as I was going around the neighborhood, there's different areas where they dug up a lot and it's sort of just dirt there. And then You know, some of those areas weren't really heavily vegetated beforehand. So I thought it was maybe happening all over the island. But I don't know. I guess we could find out what their plan is and maybe just make it look.

You've got that number. You shoot it to me. I'll run down who that is. We can get a better picture of what you're doing. Usually where they've dug into the ground is where they're coming with the directional bore machine to impact. enter the ground to start running what they're going to run. They've got to have a starting point to be able to push that stuff through.

Yeah.

And they'll have a big machine that has sort of has stuff at an angle and they are able to guide that cabling under the ground wherever they're headed. I don't know if they're headed to the back of places or to poles or I just don't understand. I don't know what they're doing right at this point.

Yeah. Is it possibly a, I don't know, like something you could raise at the commission meeting itself, Alexi? Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm just wondering whether maybe you might be able to have, you might have, people might have more of an idea of what is going on at the commission level.

No, I would rather doubt that because they come to me wanting to know what's going on. We were able to discover it was Comcast. We were able to find out that they pulled permits to do the work that they're doing. And so if you, listen, if you bring it up during the public time when you talk about it, they're just going to direct me to find out what's going on. So I'll run it to ground and then we won't have to wait for another meeting. I can get the clerk to shoot out to you. We'll do a report on what we have found and get it to you. You know, as soon as I find something out, we can do that.

Yeah. Okay. Sounds like a plan. I'll shoot you that guy's number after this meeting.

Okay, cool.

Yep.

Great. Jacob, I know you had a last-minute suggestion. Yeah. I'm not sure how it works, whether we can add this to the agenda at the last minute. Lily, is that possible?

I think just open comments, no? um frank correct me if i'm wrong i'm pretty sure you can just add it if you want you can do that okay okay that's what i thought great yeah i mean i think first we should go through your spreadsheet and just because i know like bus shelters i know were went out for bid i think two months ago there hasn't been an update on those just curious if you made any progress on those um i know we also sent letters to some buildings on the island walk would be good to get an update on that as well so maybe yeah look at that first and then i have a few new ones

Yeah, absolutely. The Island Walk enforcement update slash updated map were things that Commissioner Darrow would typically update us on at this meeting. I'm not sure I saw him here. Do you have any updates on that, Frank?

I know that the city attorney has sent letters out to all of the places that by our list are supposed to be open. The list evidently had not been kept up. And some of the letters that went out, we found that the places are open and they've been open. And they're saying, why am I getting this letter? So Orlando went out and checked those places. And sure enough, they're open. So the issue is, is that there's not a lot of connectivity. So you're like, you got to go in front of them. and then walk into that one, and then you can walk behind there, but you can't get to the next one because it's not, it's not.

Yeah, I was trying to, I actually walked around like the corner of Treasure Island by Grandview Palace and up to like Palm Tree Club today. And a lot of those obviously do have Palm Tree Club in the one at the corner. I forget what the circular building is called, but it's private. Bridge Club. So I think, obviously, I mean, I'm trying to get on the board here in Grandview Palace, so maybe we can try and make this one a bit more public. But still, Bridgewater has some work to do. But I was curious, when I did go over to Moda the other day, one side is clearly... open but there's not signage and so I was curious if maybe part of this is obviously we don't want to have tons of signage but for now to at least promote the idea that being accessible to the water like adding signs by the street to say hey there is an outlet here for you to go to the water and it is public because we do obviously have some signs around promoting the island walk I think by Benihana and then by Grandview Palace but even smaller signs just saying hey water access down this pathway Is it maybe a start to help to create the visibility that we want to create this around the community? I like that idea.

Okay. I wrote that down.

That was just one thought there. And then I am going to try and push Grandview Palace to try and open ours up because I think Moda has set a good example that it's easily doable and it's okay. Like Moda literally has chairs and hammocks and green space coming right up to the Island Walk and they haven't had issues. And so there's no reason why Grandview Palace can't do it and other places around. So I think there's opportunity that if we can try and move one of the buildings, we can then move the others to kind of get on board. Yeah.

Let's talk about Grandview Palace for a moment because it's not really the HOA of Grandview Palace. It so happens that walkway behind there is under the control of the marina.

Which is James Edwards, who's on the board.

And we tried to get the gate open on that one end where you can walk down beside and get down there. And they have resisted in saying that they're not obligated to have that open and it's private property and so forth and so on. And the city attorney has opined that we don't have a position at Grandview Palace to force them to open that up. Yeah, I think it has to come from us as residents. They're all different. They're all different. The older ones from way back, When you look at, there were no real development agreements. There was permitting and an agreement to build a place. The newer ones are far more structured, but then they butt up against an older one, and there's what a problem. And the other issue that we're facing, even if we're fortunate to get them open, is that there are different elevations.

I noticed that today at Continuum. It's going to be like 10 feet from where Palm Tree Club is. And I was like, okay, that's a new problem.

So what happens is, is that you have to put in an ADA ramp if you make that a public walkway. So if you've got one that's next to one and you've got to have that 2% grade for a wheelchair with a small amount of the properties on these older places, you've got a ramp on one side and a ramp up on the other side and you end up with very little space that is between the ramps. So I mean, Some of it is just going to be very difficult because if you try to raise them to the other elevation, they're going to have a flooding problem on their property as the water runs off that walkway back towards their building. So it's, you know, it's challenging.

Which kind of like brings me into, so I was kind of thinking, so, well, I'm going to kind of throw these out all together in some capacity, because I did talk to some folks in the building today, just, hey, like, what are some things on your mind? One was just on dog park access and greenery space in Treasure Island. So part of me was wondering, is there anything part of the community center that's going up to be that will have space for that. Cause I have noticed that there is a lot of green space that could potentially be converted into a dog park around the development, but I haven't seen any like official plans that may or may not have something in that. So I was curious if you guys had plans, um, on treasure Island.

Yes. Okay. Well, there's a couple of things I can tell you. One is, is that Mr. Anson has donated that property that's right at the corner of West Treasure and North Treasure. There's a little house there that sits back, it's empty, right at the corner by the condo where the mayor lives. So on North Treasure, and you go west and you make that turn, well, if you keep going straight, you'd run into that house.

Oh, in the corner.

I didn't set back in that corner right there.

I'm going to share my screen just so we can make sure.

He has, he has, it's in the process of digging that one. Right. That little one right there.

Yeah.

So the plan is, is to make that a park.

Okay. Amazing.

Cool. And the building will be demolished. And, uh, And there's another pump station that's going to go in that area. Now the pumps will go under the street, but the control panel will be in that park. So there's some equipment, electrical equipment, that's similar to what you'll see if you go down West Treasure almost to South Treasure. There's a pump station on the right-hand side and you see a panel that's up high above the ground. You got an electrical panel there because the pumps are in the ground, but the electricity and everything has to be elevated to a certain elevation. So that would go in that park, but it will leave quite a bit of green space. And there's also some talk about, you know, that's right on the bay. So we could put a kayak launch there also, besides the one that we're doing at Vogel Park. So that's the spot. Now he also... has deeded over to us or is in the process of deeding it over. The long stretch of property now where they tore down the building next to KLA School.

Oh, where the parking garage is?

On North Treasure, just west of Hispaniola. those buildings were torn down next. There was actually two properties. There was a single building right next to KLA. He bought that. And then there was the building where the people, you're looking at it right there. Those four buildings are out there.

Oh, yeah. The city hall. Yeah.

The 1643 property. The white building next to KLA. Right there. All right. That's been demolished. And then all of those four, you see going across and the two in the back, that's all been demolished. And he is dating that over to us. We are making that into a park.

Wow. Oh, so that really plays into this whole pirates alley piece and being able to host events and markets and anything like that.

Right. So we'll be able to have some access there. We're probably going to, In that particular thing, you'll see the parking spots were off the street headed in into the property. So we'll probably put those parking spaces back so that when people come there, they got a place to park, you know, rather than trying, you know, a lot of people will walk there, but I'm sure there'll be people drive there.

What's our timeline in terms of being able to maybe for this group to be able to work with you all in terms of designing that and helping to add in like features.

So I know that Lily's been tasked with, so you all are aware that Lily's been elevated in a position.

Oh, congratulations. Officially. We've changed.

Parks and Recreation or what she had there before, it's now Community Engagement. Right. Right, Lily? Lily, we can't hear you.

You didn't want to be like, Leslie, no?

Sorry, Toby's barking, so I'm trying to mute myself.

I tell you, that dog, you got to do something with that dog. He's vicious. So... So the plan there is to do a big grassy field right at the beginning with the limited funds that we have and get it to where we can have the kids that are playing soccer because right now we're having to lease or rent places underneath the I-95. Okay.

Because we don't have access to this.

Because we don't have access. So we're trying to accelerate that work on that property. It still has not been deeded to us yet, but it's in the process of being done. But we're in the process now of trying to line up how we're going to, who's going to do the work. Are we going to pull the permit and get subs to come in and do whatever? Are we going to get a general contractor to do it all? That hasn't been decided, but that'll be a big area there that'll have access for the people. It'll be lit up at night so if your kids are playing. Incredible.

That's great. So that's a pretty good space there. Yeah. It'll be a really important and something that Treasure Island is lacking at the moment, which is that kind of major public realm anchor for the island in the same way that Vogel Park is the anchor for Treasure Island.

I mean, we have the little tot lot, but it's isolated. It is way at the other end. And it's really not that conducive for except for the people that live right around that immediate area. And it's not for older kids. We have a problem there because we have some of the older kids going in there kicking a soccer ball around. and they hit a little three-year-old in the head with a soccer ball, it doesn't, parents are not too happy. So we have to keep the big kids out and they don't really have a place to go. So it's, you know, it's challenging. We just don't have a lot of open land within our property, you know, within the building.

I mean, that's going to be huge to be able to get access to that land. That's amazing.

Yeah, absolutely. And it's, I'd say, um, It's like a new kind of public space strategy for Treasure Island as well.

Yeah. And the community center is coming along really great. I don't know if you ever get a chance to just drive by.

That's really pretty. Yeah, I'm excited to see it open. So I was curious, like, what is the timeline? Is that still set to be opening this summer with the kind of World Cup? Right.

That is the plan. They want to have the building open probably in June. I mean, it's going to be real close right up against FIFA.

Yeah.

But they want the big soccer field available because they plan on having some of the soccer players practicing on that field.

Oh, that's cool.

That's cool. That'll be cool. And they are working. And I've got extended hours for them. And, of course, that causes a problem with the noise on Saturday and, you know, that kind of stuff. But... there's going to be a lot of noise in the village for the next few years because there's this development going everywhere.

Yeah, absolutely. I'd like to understand better what our ability to kind of consult or be involved at the appropriate stage. And we certainly don't need to get into details now, Frank, but when the time is right for community-enhanced, for the CEB to be consulted so we can provide that kind of advisory input, on the design and the community experience. Now, I know for something like um, like the Argentine football center, that's kind of that, our, that, that's my understanding is that that's more of a pub. That's more of a private, um, they have their own kind of like design and that's more private, but for something like, like the parks that Jacob, that you were just describing and the dog, the like space, the green spaces and the dog parks, those sorts of things, we would be able to, um, be able to be involved in. Right.

Absolutely. I'll let Lily speak to it because she's planning on doing some surveys with the public and so forth. So if you want to, Lily, jump in.

Yes.

So coming up, I don't know if any of you... Which is... As far as that, what other cities have available is to have a huge where people can put sticky notes. Of course, I want your. Have like. And then. Up there. Not only advise.

Give me thoughts and I would love to hear them. um and then as far as the other two parks go i will keep you guys updated but like frank was saying um it hasn't even been deeded over to us yet so that's like very preliminary at the moment understood oh that's just so exciting i will put those on our agenda that's great

You know, I think we could put a portion of it...

It's a pretty good... ...by there and see it. It's... Yeah. I would think we could fend off an area that would be used as a doggy park for people who got a place for dogs to run. You know... Yeah. We've talked about People that were in that. through this accessible. So when that bathroom money anyway, but Graded. And then put lighting. And have a daughter. Like people... Okay, cool. time. We are on the. There's a rooftop. There's people on site. The main soccer. All the drainages lighting situation. official turf will be. The site is pretty impressive. Very wide side for jogging or walking. A lot of greenery is going to come in. There'll be very quickly because that's what they've done.

So they're moving. Sometimes I let them work on Sunday. They can't use the backup alarms on their vehicles when they're out there on that field. But the problem is during the weekdays, the school is open and they're out there trying to work with this heavy machinery. And the school is complaining that the noise is bothering the kids for testing and one thing and another. So when we've had these holiday weekends where there's three days in a row, they can get a lot done. So I let them work on Sunday and I let them work on the holiday so that those three days when they're connected, they can accomplish a lot more than when they go one day at a time in between or on a Saturday. So we're trying to help them where we can to, to get that done. And, uh, so that's about it on the community center. The windows are in, all the windows are in except for on the east side, they're keeping it open so they can put the drywall in through those windows or the lifts so they can start, uh, closing up the framing and, uh, So they got a strategic plan on how they're moving. We meet with them regularly. I was on the phone with them today. Lily's been involved just today with the signage on the building. They gave us some renderings. She wasn't real happy with how it looked with where the emphasis was on AFA and not on North Bay Village. And so we're going back and forth with them. And I think they've already agreed to some changes, Lily. I didn't see it all, but. Didn't they change where the order of the signs were?

They changed the size, quality, and illumination of it. I have to email them back and say that they still use the wrong logo, but that's... Well, we'll work that out.

Yeah. But they put ours on top and they put the aphel below it, right?

That was not part of my suggestion, but that can definitely...

I sent them something and I said that the emphasis should be on North Bay Village. And they came back and they said they agreed. And I said, I think the North Bay Village should be on top and the AFSA should be on the bottom. And I got an email back that said, we agree. That's all it said. So we'll follow up on that. The communities, the village hall, where are we on village halls? The groundbreaking is still scheduled or is scheduled now to be no later than August 30th of this year. We have a deal with the county. They gave us an extension because of issues we ran into out there. And I've got a meeting tomorrow. with a lady from Dade County Fire because we had to submit our financials to them because they are putting in $7.5 million towards the fire station itself predicated upon us with our financials. So we have sent them all that information a few weeks ago and she called me yesterday and said they were ready to So we added an extra floor there, just like we did at the community center. We added a floor. And I'm so glad we did, because as I see the layouts now, and, you know, we try to get grants from the Children's Trust for these programs with the younger children. And there's a lot of rules that come along with children being supervised by adults to be able to participate in these programs, as you can understand why. And so like the classrooms, you cannot have a classroom or an activity room that you cannot view from the outside. So you can't be inside a closed room with the door shut and all that. So the rooms that are being done are about, you know, 36, 40 inches up with drywall and then soap and glass across the rest of the room. And we had to put in a shower for where the young kids are because they have accidents and they have to, you know, take a shower. So we modified that and got the shower as an element on that floor. And then with the other floor, it's a lot larger open space where Lily's looking at all different things with different kinds of aerobics or jazzercise or tables with dominoes or whatever for the older residents in the village. And then there's also the chance that we can start bringing in hot meals. There's programs where we can get hot meals. And for some of these people, that's probably the best meal they're going to get for the day. And so we're looking, you know, there's a lot of things we can do with that program. And so we added a floor there. We added a floor at the village hall because when we examined it with what we had when I came there, all the space was filled. All the offices, there was no room for expansion. And I look at what's going to happen in the village over the next, five to 10 years, the administration is going to have to grow. The police department is going to have to grow. Public works is going to have to grow. And, and there's no space for growth. So you build this new building and then all of a sudden you got to go out and you've got to build another building or rent space. Didn't make sense. So we added another floor and that floor right now will just be, uh, just a shell. We're not making offices or anything like that, but we'll have that space inside that we can develop and build out later as it becomes necessary. Another neat thing that's in that building is on the floor that we added, on the fifth floor. So there's six floors now, one floor on the bottom, It's got your building department, the post office. That activity is there. And the fire station is at the east end of it. So that takes a portion of that ground floor. And then the next three floors are parking. And then the fifth floor is the open shell. And the sixth floor is the city hall chambers, the commission chambers, the administration, and the police department is up there. But on the fifth floor, over in the southwest corner, we've been able to cut back into that building and make a huge area that is an open area, but it's covered over. So you can have events or stuff up there, and you're looking at the skyline. You know, you're looking over North Bay Island. So you're looking at the skyline of Miami, and Miami Beach is a pretty neat venue to have events. you know, gatherings of some sort. So that's, so we're moving along.

Wow. Thanks Frank. That was awesome. That was the most, that was the most information. Um, that was the most interesting information I've had on updates of construction ever. I think. That's great. Excellent. All right. Well, uh, Unless there are any more comments from anyone, updates, anything anyone wants to raise?

Not particularly, no.

Maybe if anyone else apart from me is interested, I remember when we, you know, when I first joined, we sort of did like a walk around. We were actually looking for areas for the concert, but maybe... if anyone wants to before like the next meeting, like during daylight, uh, some of us could get together where everyone wants to join and we could sort of like walk, we don't have to like go into the construction sites, but sort of just like walk, walk and show like where things are going to be, et cetera. I don't know if anyone.

Yeah. I mean, I literally did that this afternoon. So before the next meeting, happy to do that in the afternoon if folks want to walk before the meeting.

Yeah. I think that's a great idea.

You know, if you would, if you'd like to set up a time where we can go out to the site and we go on to the site, I can arrange that. You can take a sort of walk through the community center and see what, what it looks like from the inside. And we can walk out where the fields are. I mean, you get a feeling for, if you'd like to do something like that, I can get Lily to, we'll schedule something up and, and, uh, The best time is a late afternoon when they're winding down the construction.

Yep.

You know, something around 4 o'clock, something like that. And then we've got a pretty free hand where we can walk out there and look at things. You know, it's pretty neat. I'd say another couple of weeks because inside there's still some supports that are up. that they can't take down yet until the concrete cures. Once those come down, we'll have a pretty good access where we can walk around. You'll see where the bathrooms are and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah. So if you want to do that. Yeah, yeah. I think that's a great idea. Okay. All right. Maybe before next month's meeting.

We'll set it up.

Brilliant.

Okay, awesome.

Brilliant. Great idea, Alexei.

Yeah.

All right. Well, unless there's anything further, can I have a motion to adjourn? Or a second to... I'm making a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Great. Excellent. Well, meeting adjourned at 7.29. I will, yeah, consistent with the agenda, I'll get that around once the minutes are out and look forward to seeing everyone next time on our on-site excursion. Thanks for arranging that, Frank.

Thank you so much, Frank. Thanks, everybody. Have a good night.

Bye.