Resort Tax Board - Regular Meeting

All right, we are recording now, so whenever you're ready.

Okay, Angie. Thank you, everyone, for coming today. Our chair, Gonzalez, is not going to be present today, so I'm going to be doing the chair. We call the order.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and call the roll. Vice Chair Judy Martinez? Here. Board Member Cynthia Callaway?

Here.

Board Member Clara Diaz-Leal? Here. Chair, you have a quorum.

Okay, so, give me one second, let me check the agenda. Okay, Town Commission liaison report. I don't know if Ms. Cinnabon has something to add.

I don't have much of a report, just to say Happy New Year, everyone, and thank you to the Resort Tax Board for the beautiful events you put on and continue to do. One bit of good news is that I believe we're moving forward with the kind tile design at 96th Street Park, which is an environmental project where tiles will be placed on the seawall that will help grow the oysters, which purifies the water. I wanted you to know that.

That's amazing news. Thank you so much. I think there's no public comments. Approval of minutes. Someone has to call, right?

I would need a motion to approve the minutes.

I make a motion to approve the minutes. I'll second it.

All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Motion carries, thank you. Now we move to the Restore Tax Collations and Vacancy Report by Mr. Trieras.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. I did bring a new report that is up on the screen and I did not send out with the agenda because we just got some new numbers from Finance late last week. So we last looked at summer months. I think July was the one that we did at the December meeting. So we now have October and November and In talking to our finance team, I've since learned that they needed to do kind of a deep dive into the payment tracking and kind of come up to speed with some of the different payments in recent months. So they're still in process of that and they are now identifying exactly which businesses they have to follow up with. So I got verification that Code Compliance is going to be involved in following up, so there's more you know, there's more continuity as we definitely don't want to let a lot of months go. And we noticed there were a couple of restaurants that had, you know, not paid in some time. So two sets of numbers on the screen, the food and beverage and the accommodations, October and November. The first number for the food and beverage is not going to be so accurate because I noticed there are still quite a few restaurant payments. I'm confident that those deficits, both the year over year in 2023 are going to be decreased once they have some time to go through that. But the 4% accommodations number is pretty accurate because I was able to verify that all of the payments are in. So we can see. a little bit of a dip versus the previous year. So 4.5% down versus 2024, and we are still way up versus 2023. Just something to keep in mind that we have seen a little bit of a dip, and then looking at the three main hotels, I could see each of them had a little bit of a dip, and that's just enough to get us to that 4.5%. But I wouldn't say it's alarming. I mean, they're still relatively close. And just know that the restaurant payments are going to take a little bit of time, but there is a process that is being followed, and they are now getting to that deep dive.

I do have a question as it relates to, you talk about this process. I mean, we've been doing this for a long time. Maybe somebody needs to review their process if we're constantly trying to figure out who didn't pay us, because otherwise it seems like lending is being a banker, if you're not paying your bills on a regular basis and you're carrying it for two and three and four or five months, then you're in debt and you owe money. And if you owe money, there's usually repercussions with that. And whether it's interest or are we in the business of lending, right? So I think as long as they're open for business, they should be paying and there should be a quality system in place that doesn't have to be reviewed on a regular basis to see who really owes us and who really doesn't. My opinion.

Madam Chair. Thank you, board member. Yes, I completely agree. And I believe in the last board meeting, that topic was also briefly brought up. Our director and I had a conversation with that in mind, and he is doing a little bit of research at the moment to see what some of the other towns like Miami Beach and Miami are doing, because there's a very small group of cities who actually can put that 4% accommodations on. The rest of the cities cannot. So he's taking a look at how they do it. Unfortunately, If my memory serves correct, and it could be wrong, so I'm not gonna speak for him and he's not done doing everything he needs to do. If my memory serves correct, that process is mainly a manual process, even for Miami Beach and Miami, in which they have dedicated staff to essentially audit on a week-to-week basis all of their hotels and and restaurants and they go after them in in a manual process now it's a little difficult for us it's not to say that our process wouldn't work correctly it's a little difficult for surfside at the moment and and these are things that we are addressing and we are going to be improving. But essentially, all but one member of our finance team is new. And when I say new is within four months. On top of that, the town is still trying to finalize the audit for fiscal year 24. We should have already started or been halfway through fiscal year 25. So we're two years behind. So when you compound all of these systematic issues that we are now resolving on top of this, everything's going a little bit slower than what we would like. But the fact that Frank, and I think it really comes down to the director's collaboration and his way of working with other people, That they're able to start getting some of these numbers coming through the system a little bit better is already starting to see. Not the full light at the end of the tunnel, but we're starting to see the glow of it, I guess, is an easier way to say it. So it is something that both he and the department are working towards. I think you're absolutely right and I've asked them to even look beyond what the local cities do to other places because. To me, in 2025, there should be some type of automated process, and I'm sure it's out there. I don't personally know what that would be, but I'm sure it's out there, so he is doing his homework. I'm not trying to put him on the spot or ask him to give all his research today or anything, but we'll definitely be coming back with not only a better internal, but if there's something externally that it's innovation and we need to kind of explore, then we'll be looking at that as well.

Okay, makes sense. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so moving to number seven discussion item, 7A Midnight Minus Recap.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. So yeah, this item is to recap the Midnight Madness event that was held on December 6. And that, again, was organized by some of the businesses in the shopping district. And it is a kind of shopping promotion meant to encourage people to come out and shop. and to animate the business district. So that was held on December 6th. A couple of you were in attendance. I know board member Salsower was there, our chair as well, who's not here tonight. But essentially, it was a nice evening. Some of the stores that were participating, I did notice more activity inside. And some of them really kind of took it to heart and had some fun promotions and discounts. So you could see a little bit more foot traffic in the stores. the stores. Another element that this had was some live music. So, you know, one of the organizing stores took it upon themselves to hire a violinist, which I thought worked well as kind of a pilot for something that I had mentioned to the board last year, which was maybe to add some music to Harding Avenue, some live music every so often, you know, not a big stage or anything like that, just pretty low impact, but just to have that nice vibe with the live music. Personally, I thought the violinist was really good. He got a lot of people engaged. He had a really small footprint. So he had a speaker that accompanied his violin, maybe some beats or some background music. But overall, I thought he was great. So we can also talk about whether the board is interested in having a musician every so often. I do have the rates for his performance. And yeah, just want to hear from maybe some of the other board members.

I was there. He was amazing. I mean, for sure. I don't know what the rates are. Maybe you want to share that with the board. But everyone was standing around him, taking pictures. I actually thought it was part of our event. I didn't realize it was the store that hired him. But he was great. I would definitely pursue having him back, certainly.

Cool, through the chair. So yeah, the store did hire him, but it was for our event. So his rates, his name is Ian Mann, and he's a classically trained violinist. He's performed all over, different events, Miami Heat. I mean, I've seen a lot of different performances. So an hour is 650, two hours is 900, three hours is 1,200. But his manager did say they might be open to some discounts if we book multiple performances. So something to consider.

I do personally believe that if something that really helps to promote the business in our area, it's a good idea to have at least two or three of those events through the year or maybe a couple more. I think you should maybe talk to a different business in the district to, you know, so we not only have the same people organizing, but maybe others.

Yeah, sure. We can talk to different people. Unless you all have a sense of, you know, date preference, day of the week. From a date?

From a date perspective, I think the store should back into what are the busy times of the years that people want to shop. They want to shop for Mother's Day. They want to shop for Valentine's Day. They want to shop for certain things. So when we tie that into... events like that are calendar specific, then I think they're going to probably get more business. So especially jewelry stores and people want to do their hair and whatever it is that you're going to have special promos for and back into, you know, events that we buy significant amount of chocolates and different things for so that they can thrive. And that would be the time to hire Mr. Mann as well.

Yeah, love that. Tie it in with the big shopping dates and key... Yeah, could we actually do that for...

I know it's a month away, but could we maybe do that for Valentine's Day? For Valentine's Day? Yeah, like... Probably. If he's available.

Yeah. I mean, sure.

And the stores would need to put a lot of balloons and put a lot of pink and white and make sure that... you know, things are showing up. I think they would be willing to do that, especially if they want to have sales and Father's Day, Kandati, I'm sure would love to do that. And back to school, like there's probably a lot that we can do to foster that, but make sure that we put it out there, social media and everything else.

Yeah, play into it. The 14th of Valentine's Day is on a Saturday night, which we could do the Saturday night. Would you all want to do two hours, three hours? I think one's a little short.

I don't know that we would want to do it on Valentine's Day. The restaurants might, but people usually shop beforehand. Otherwise, you're late.

You didn't get the flowers.

You didn't get the ring. You're in trouble.

Clearly, I'm not married. We could do the 7th. We could do the weekend before.

I think the weekend before, it's a good idea, because anyway, on the 14th, they are going to be full, so they don't need that.

So I think the previous week will be better. Just make sure the stores are going to be open, because maybe you do Sunday if the stores aren't really open Saturday. They stayed open special for that Saturday night, so I don't know if they're normally open.

Right. Some of them did stay open late. So would you prefer to do the Sunday, the Sunday before Valentine's? I don't know.

I think we ask the stores. Yeah, ask the stores. We cannot assume that everybody's going to cater to anything because this is after hours. It could very well be after Shabbos, right? It could be after everybody's doing whatever they're doing.

And it is very busy Saturday night. So it's busy, yes.

Yeah, as long as the stores are open, then sure. They can get traffic from that, too. Yeah, okay.

So we can be flexible with the date. I can talk to them. But since I'm... Yeah.

I mean, if they're restaurants and there's not anything to be buying ahead of time, you could do it the 14th also if it's just to have a night out. I mean, I don't really think a lot of the Orthodox do Valentine's Day anyway.

But just whichever one, the weekend before. Well, they're not the only ones in town. No, of course not.

I'm saying whichever weekend is fine. But I like that.

Okay. So the restaurants and the stores can decide what they want to do.

So, Angie, I think we need to... Someone needs to make a motion, right?

Yeah, you would need to make a motion to decide.

Let's make a motion to present to the business district the opportunity to host additional dates such as the, what was that? Midnight Madness. Midnight Madness, but not necessarily at midnight, for upcoming special calendar events to include Mother's Day and Valentine's, et cetera. Complete enough?

I need a second. I'll second that. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Okay, let's move to the recap for the second annual Christmas tree lighting.

All right, so yeah, we just wanted to recap the tree lighting ceremony held on December 7. I think most of you were there. It was a really nice evening. You know, we had a great turnout again. I have to say our town hall corner looks much improved this year. You know, the tree looks really nice. The lighting is nicer. The nativity scene upgrade is... Very substantial. Yeah, excellent job. Looks great out there. And then I thought the performance was a nice touch from the kids, the orchestra. A couple of things we can always improve for next year. I think the program could be maybe a little bit better organized and maybe announced from the get go so people kind of know what to expect. coordinate with santa a little bit that's just for me because he gets stressed about his chair and people seeing him set up or whatnot so we'll do a better coordination with santa claus but i think an excellent santa yes he is uh you know just the perfect santa claus i don't know yeah we've been having him for two years already we've had him for a couple years he's great And we did get the new speaker system, which was plenty loud. It was much improved and our sound was good. The treats were great. Thank you to all the volunteers and everybody that came out to help.

I have a comment regarding the lighting itself. Just by passing by through all the days in the holiday, I realized like maybe the lights, that are around the whole building are too cool. Maybe will be better for next year if they're a little bit on the warm color. I don't know if you realize that, but it didn't look like Christmas light. It was more like a white light than the warm ones that we are kind of used to. So I don't know if you pay attention to that, or it's an idea you would like to work on for the next year to have in mind.

Through the chair. So this year, I did ask the board because we did more warmer tones in the past. And it's considered a little bit more old school. So I asked the board. I don't know if you were there at that meeting. I said, would you like a little? So we went with a much whiter, brighter. Maybe this is a little too white and bright.

A little bit.

Maybe we can go a little warmer. Maybe some people like it.

I don't think it detracted from it. I think the space looked really good. If I had to make a comment, I would say is that we do have enough budget and we had aligned enough budget to ensure that we had help to put things together, whether it's the tables for the food and everything else. And then what we did have was our chair running around trying to make sure that it was put together and people getting ice and water. So there needs to be prep in advance so that that doesn't happen that day and we can all just enjoy. versus that's like when you have a big party at your house and everybody has to stay up and clean after. That's really painful if it's one in the morning, right? So we have enough budget here that we should be able to accommodate what that looks like. So for next year, the flow of this probably should be discussed maybe even in a mini meeting or a conference call to say who does this, how do we get that. And maybe we need to hire somebody who serves and helps coordinate for a couple hours. So just putting it out there so that I think that we've gotten big enough that we can do it that way.

Yeah, and through the chair, we'll say it is a long day, you know, for those of us that were here. And, you know, most people left after it was over. You know, I had to come and wash trays and all that, which is a lot.

Maybe you don't need to do that. Yeah, sure. Because we have the budget, and we gave it to you to do that. So let's make sure next year that's part of the budget. So you're not the dishwasher.

We'll bring it to discussion nice and early so we can kind of plan how we want it to go. Maybe it isn't so hands-on from a volunteer standpoint. We can... you know, maybe elevated a little bit more so that it's a bit more manageable.

Yeah. You probably should not be washing the dishes.

I'm just going to say that.

We appreciate you, but we can afford to have that.

Completely agree. And I think because the fact that we want that event to be like, like we want to be involved because it's like, a very special event. That doesn't mean that we cannot hire people to do those chores, and we are the ones who can manage how we want it to be done, but we don't have necessarily to do it ourselves. Exactly.

As it relates to Santa, I do remember one thing, because I was the police standing in front of Santa so people wouldn't, like, jump him. So we probably could put him somewhere where he has, like... sits in like the wall or somewhere where we decorate and then maybe put some ropes so that people have to go through that and not, you know, people don't understand there's a line.

Right.

My kid wants to go next is super important to them. So I became a human wall and I think we need to work on that.

Well, thank you for your service. But yeah, good point. I think we can, we can just watch the human wall thing.

Okay, moving to 7C, third Thursday.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. I think he's on his way, so we could perhaps skip to the next one because I see our other vendors here.

Sure. So let's move to 7D.

All right, so we're going to welcome Charlotte to talk about the Snow Moon Soiree update. She's going to... Did you send something? All right, so she's gonna send me a new file in a minute. But I did want to discuss with the board just the check-in process for this event. Obviously, it's a two-day event at the community center, which is a residence-only facility. So it's likely going to have to be closed for the better part of the weekend or most of the weekend. And we can talk through the check-in and the sign-in.

How would it have to be closed?

Well, because they're going to be setting up in the pool deck as well. So there's going to be furniture going back and forth. There's going to be equipment. So it's hard to keep.

That's perfectly acceptable.

I think it might be too big when I email it. I'm sorry, I wanted to share a . Oh, God, look how much stuff we have. So basically this, go ahead.

Through the chair, if you could please restate your name and address on the microphone.

It's Charlotte L. Sackley, 320 88th Street. Thank you. Okay, so... We're moving full speed ahead for the snow moon soiree. And I wanted to update you with a little bit of what the schedule is looking like and the vendors and that sort of thing. So for the soiree on Saturday evening, as you know, we have the white party. To give you an idea of what it's going to look like, you'll walk in. There will be live mermaids to welcome you. There will be a glam photo booth. potentially with a mermaid. Oh, sorry. How do you do it live? Like, you can, like, press something to make it.

Maybe let me try.

Oh, I clicked. Sorry. There we go. Then you'll enter the green space where I'll be doing some very immersive decor. I'll try and leave it as prize, but it's going to be big and it's going to be white. And we have, I think, a beautiful menu lined up. It's the same food vendor that we used for the 90th anniversary. celebration and the kosher was very, very tricky, but we, um, the, I tried many places. I wound up back with the same person who did the singer fest, um, which I thought was delicious. Um, and she, she's going to have to, she's preparing everything the day before to have it. Um, and she checked with the rabbi. So everything is clear, um, that she's able to have it delivered. It's going to be delivered at exactly seven. So it's going to be a little. um, tight because, um, I don't, I like the, the timing with Shabbat and the travel and, and whatever, but we've got it. It's happening. Um, we have, uh, and let me show you what the menu is looking like. So, um, I, I did this just now cause, um, I'm still, I'm actually in the process. So, so just so people are aware that we had like a, there was a timing issue with, um, With, I guess, the bureaucratic process of getting things out, I got the deposit today. So some of these vendors require a deposit in order to secure them. So I went ahead and took care of some of them, like the kosher vendor, because she had to rearrange her travel to be able to do this. But she is doing, she'll do kosher ceviche, and then the rest of it is vegetarian, which I'm actually, I'm personally very excited about. And then the main vendor, Chef Salvador, who we had for the 90th anniversary, will be doing a big paella, He'll also have ceviche, poke bowls, shrimp cocktails, and it's a sort of coastal-inspired menu. He's also doing the charcuterie and the crudités board. The kosher vendor will be doing all the desserts, so the desserts will all be kosher-friendly. Most of her stuff is white except the chocolate mousse. Um, the, the bar, so the bar that I wanted took another event cause we didn't get the deposit. I got two more bars. Um, I am working with them to try because the other vendor that I had was. much more reasonably priced than these two. So I'm, I'm trying to work with this one who has a similar setup to the, to the little truck there. Um, they're called L bar and they have like a little, it's very similar, but they all, it's just, it's so much more expensive. So I'm not, I'm not sure yet. We'll definitely have a bar though. So I have two I'm working with. Um, and then we have the signature cocktail. Um, I put together some cocktail kits in case we can promote those to the, um, The hotels and they basically include like a little glass vial with the iridescent powder the garnishes and it's going to be the surfside moon spritz. And it was just basically it's like a twist on the Hugo spritz it's like an elderflower liqueur. Um, wait, let me go back. Okay. So, so then, so whether we have the, you know, hopefully very beautiful decor, um, and with lounge seating, a stage where you have a live band, um, um, Elson Torres. So he's, I think he's been nominated for two Grammys, right? Yeah. Um, so, you know, he's going to be fantastic. We will also have a live DJ on the beach and we're going to set her up in the, um, the, the lifeguard sand. Um, and then, so when you enter the beach, you'll see the two huge, um, hopefully huge sand sculptures. on the somewhat limited now beach that we have in front of 93rd Street. And well, so I wanted to set up two, like, well, I wanted to set up originally six and now I'm down to two because I think we need to work on the footprint on the beach a little bit. But we'll be doing a live fire show there. So we'll have fire dancers to do a show around the sand sculptures. And then their show is only like, 12 minutes long. So after that, they'll be doing ambience, which means that they'll be like, they can be on for 10 minutes and off for a few minutes because of the fire. So that is basically, I think, the plan for Saturday night. And then Sunday, I put the schedule here. I put it in two different ways because I didn't know what format. Would make sense because we have different activities in different places So we will have starting at 10 a.m. We'll have a sand sculpting workshop On the beach run by the same like the professional sand sculptor He's used to doing these he does them for families he can make it very fun and friendly and then at 11 we'll have Aqua Zumba at the pool and All of these people are, everybody is confirmed. The fire dancers and the mermaids are confirmed. So is Zumba, and so is the rest of the stuff. There's one piece that I'm working on. So we have Aqua Zumba, then from, I'm gonna skip ahead real quick. One to three, we have the mermaiding lessons. Two to four, surfing on the beach. And then at 5 p.m., we'll do sunset yoga. on the beach, and the yoga teacher is going to work with the sound healing practitioner to make sure that they, like during shivatsana, the sound bath will start. And I'm so excited for this, because the sun is setting at 6.04, and the moon is rising at 6.01. So it's like, that never happens. So I think it's going to be really cool. if we have good weather. And then the afternoon, like the green space is sort of the heart of where all this is happening. And we'll have our garden barbecue, which is, you know, just like it's going to be like hot dogs and sliders and chicken nuggets and that kind of thing. And then we also have Rita's to do Icy's. And then we will have, I wanted to do sort of a scavenger hunt that would be based on the Sirside turtle, Kay. So I was going to call it Kay's Quest. And then for that part, I talked to the plastic fisherman to see if we could coordinate with him to make it into some sort of treasure hunt. My original idea was to sort of incorporate just some very light sort of, things about the Tequesta and environmental types of things and then to give out some eco-friendly prizes. I spoke with the youth council and they are very happy to give out the prizes and like it'd be a really good opportunity for them to engage with a lot of other kids. So they're very excited about it. And then we just sort of like brainstorming about how I can incorporate the plastic fishermen into that. I wanted to show you, just through the pictures on here, these are the takeaways that I know we're definitely doing. I looked into the, I wanted to do this little lantern, but the lantern that I wanted is no longer available. And it was like solar and perfect. This one is, this lantern is like, it's pretty and I like it. It doesn't have an option to personalize it, but I can do that. Like I have a cry cut, I can do something to personalize it. But we're all, but I, so I looked into doing Turkish towels. Um, and this is the sample they sent me with the embroidered surf side on it. I think it's very elegant and like, um, people could use it the next day also for yoga. They can use it that evening to sit on the beach and like wrap themselves in. So, um, kind of wanted to, I wanted to make sure that this is okay with you. If I should do, you know, uh, a certain amount of towels and lanterns or just towels or whatever.

Just towels.

Just towels?

Okay.

What size is the towel? It's an oversized. Like, it's like a, I don't remember offhand, but it's an oversized. I should have brought one, actually, because I have some from the same company. But it's a nice Turkish towel. It's lightweight, you know, like they're much better.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like the, you know what it is? It's like a little bigger than a yoga mat.

It's machine wash?

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Let's see. OK. The other piece is as part of the original proposal that they did that the board approved, we had I think an awards ceremony to sort of ground it in, I was trying to find a way to like incorporate some sort of meaning, like make it a little bit more meaningful for Surfside. I think it already is very meaningful for Surfside, but this was an idea. I don't, I'm not sure if there's enough time to come up with a like, a strategy, like a voting strategy or something for that. So I'm going to leave that to you. If you want us to skip that for now, we could, I think, okay. Because it's just, I mean, it's actually no money. That part of it is no money. It's just time and resources to put into it. But I wanted to, since that was part of the original proposal, I wanted to make sure that was okay at this point.

Go ahead.

I think we,

I think because we don't have time to have qualifications, it would just be a minefield of pettiness, who got what and why. And so I would just skip it.

Yeah. I had already gotten these cute little bracelets for the Youth Council because I figured I wanted to honor them in some way. Oh, yeah. That's fine. Actually, I'm wearing one. They have a little animal, and you track it. And then it also donates money to a conservancy for that particular animal. Anyway. Um, and oh, and the surf, the, the, the youth council would like to be involved in the giveaways. Um, so they will definitely be there and participating in that. Um, let me see. Oh no. I did another map too.

It's not here.

Okay, well, I can email it to Frank and he could share it with you. But this is sort of the, I wanted to show you the soiree one, but the layout that I had. So this one is just Sunday. This is what the activations that are happening at the pool, the green space, and the beach. Okay.

have one question regarding the beach because I went to the beach on Sunday or Saturday and it's really very narrow and not only narrow but with a steep like this and I thought the the work for the beach was gonna be done by now, so I don't know if they already work on that, or we're still working on that, or what happened in that area, because I walk the whole beach, and close to 95th, 96th, it's big and beautiful, and the most narrow part is just in front of the community center, and it looks really awful, and I don't know, and I'm sorry, but I don't know how are you gonna set up that in front of that area. I don't know what's going on there.

Yeah, I don't know if the town.

From the town perspective, yes. The work, I believe, is done. They were working with Public Works to help reduce that slope towards the end. But overall, just since my time being here, yeah, we do have a concern on the shoreline and needing to rebuild that shoreline. I think the town did something... Uh, vice mayor, you were telling me it was almost like, um, 8, 8 years ago or whatnot when we did, uh, it was 2019 that it.

I mean, I think the planning was more than 10 years and it was 2019 and it was completed by 2020 just in time for. COVID and nobody on the beach, no one on the beach.

Um, so I, 1 of. One of the things I would like to begin looking at is working with, and I don't believe the town has a federal advocate or a lobbyist, but being able to go back and really work with the federal government to expand the shoreline that we have.

Renourishment.

renourishment and and hopefully even extends outward eastward because we're every time we get storms and so forth we see the erosion of the beach of the shoreline so that's something especially behind us you know behind the community center the other areas are like really big and beautiful but that part it was like it kind of weaves in and out but you have um communities north and south of us who have a continual presence for the last 15, 20 years. And you're starting to see a lot of those projects now. So now you're starting to see how drastic some of the shoreline is, right? And at the end of the day, I think we're just behind the eight ball on that to making sure, because these are all efforts that like Ball Harbor, we're seeing a lot of that work where the Army Corps of Engineers is spending like $15 million on that. but they've been working on that project for over 10 years, right? So we're now seeing that construction and we're like, wait a minute, where's ours? But, you know, they've put in that time and resource into it. So we need to kind of pick up that ball and start running as fast as we can with it.

Can Public Works get it done before this event?

Just to flatten it out.

Just to flatten it out? So someone doesn't get hurt.

I'll follow up tomorrow and send an email to the board advising.

Yeah, thanks.

Through the chair, I just want to say I have been concerned about the width of the beach as well. I talked about it with Charlotte, and I went out there today to look at it. The cliffing looked a little bit better today than it did late last week. I don't know if that's natural or that somebody did something. It looked a little bit better, but it is pretty narrow. So we'll talk about it more when the film screening items come up, but I'm a little bit concerned. I did give that vendor a heads up. He thinks we'll be okay, but we'll see. But definitely something to think about, you know, for, you know, also we have summer Sundays in the summer, which has a larger footprint. And we may just have to be smart about how much we can do out there while the beach is a little tight.

Yeah. So when I first did this plan, it was assuming that we had a wider beach than we have. I do think that the sand sculptures will be fine. The DJ will be fine. up in the thing, so she'll be fine. I think I'm going to, my idea right now is just to limit more of the lounge type spacing so that it's more of like an active space that people are maybe dancing or just watching the fire ambiance and to keep it more that way and maybe just more centered on sort of the green space. But I do think it's going to be like, It's going to be visually spectacular, I think, to have the fire dancers and the sand sculptures. And I'm looking into whether or not we can take a mermaid out to the shoreline for pictures with the moon. The mermaids turn out to be very needy in terms of what all they want. Dressing rooms with snacks and all kinds of stuff. So I'm working on it. Yeah. But... but it'll come together. The timeline is a little tight right now, but it's coming together, and everybody I talk to is very excited about participating in it, so I think it's going to be a great event.

Okay, sounds great.

I have a question. Is there anything for the boys, like Aquaman-y? wise other than mermaids?

Not at the, well, so that's the cocktail event is more, it's going to be more adult oriented.

Oh, the mermaiding class.

Oh, the mermaiding class. Is there like the boys? Well, there's the sand sculpting. So there's like a professional, like, and he's a man. So there's a sand sculpting.

Yeah, you can have mermen, mermen.

No? They only had mermaids available. Aquaman was booked. I can go back and see. Because I know that there definitely are mermen in Miami. A lot. Yeah. So I'm not sure, but there is like, there's the surfing classes. There's also the treasure hunt sort of idea. I think that's going to be open to everybody.

I think... So mermaids are just creatures of the sea, and boys can see what the mermaids do.

But the boys can put on the fin dance? Yeah, they can. They can put the tail on. Okay, great. That's exactly what the girls do. I'm just saying, call it merman. Yeah.

No, I mean, as far as the participation, they're definitely welcome to participate in the lessons, but I don't have a male merman teaching it. Um, it will be the man to show up, but that's just for, I mean, I have, so I actually have friends with, with fins and I practiced yesterday, so I'm, I'm the sub, but, um, I, we can definitely like, it's not hard. Like they can, they can do it. Um, and it's actually quite a workout to do the monofin.

Do we need to approve anything or do anything?

No, through the chair, I do just want to touch on a couple more things just in terms of the logistics. So some of these classes will be registration based, like, for example, I believe the mermaid. What else would be registration based?

The mermaids and the surfing definitely need to be. Because they have limited tails and they have limited boards. Okay. So it's a supply issue. And then the sculpting workshop, right now I said 50 people to him. So if we need more than that, we need to, it would be good to have an idea about how many people are going to come. I don't know if people will register in advance and how the town wants to handle that. We can do, you know, if you register, you'll definitely have a space. And then if you arrive and there's still space, you can participate, but.

Okay, maybe we'll set something like that up. And just to be clear, any elements within the community center are going to be restricted to hotel guests with proof of stay or registered hotel guests and Surfside residents. Anything on the beach is open to everybody. But in terms of the white party, a couple things to discuss. One is, you know, we're calling it an adults only white party, but what if we get, you know, we know we're going to have the youth council help us with some of the giveaways, but if some teenagers show up, are we being strict about ID? Is there a need? Drinks.

You run into a risk.

No, the drinks will be ticket-based, so they're not going to be like anybody can just go up and get a drink. But even if they're ticket-based,

Adult evening event, I don't know that we should encourage 13-year-olds.

Yeah, we can do whatever you guys would like. We can restrict it. So, yeah, we're calling it an adults-only white party, so if somebody under 18 wants to come, do we deny it?

Oh, people are not allowed to bring their kids to this? Like adult kids?

No, that's what I'm asking.

Oh, yeah, why not? You can't bring your daughter?

No, she's part of the youth council, and she's 18.

Oh, she's 18?

Well, my kid's on youth council, but he's not 18. He's going to be there.

So then he can be there because he's part of youth council.

Yeah, because he's working. He's collaborating. But if you're not in youth council.

Oh, yeah, I guess if you're not working, then probably. I wouldn't trust the teenagers, no.

Okay, so 18 and over unless you're in the youth council or you're a volunteer.

Yes.

Okay, that's what I wanted to know. And then I think to control, you know, Charlotte, I think we have 500 food portions that we have accounted for for the white party. So those... I think the best way to do it for the hotels is going to be to set up an individual registration link for each of the hotels, and that will be public only to them. So I can set up the Four Seasons registration, Grand Beach, Residence Inn. We'll save 30 slots per hotel, and we'll make that link available to the hotel teams so they can register people so they don't have to bring a paper with a whole bunch of information. You're just Jane Smith, and you give your name, and we'll cross-check you, and you're good to go. Yes. If by 2 p.m. on event day those slots are not taken, we release them because otherwise we're just going to be holding, potentially holding empty slots, if you all are okay with that. And then for the general public or Surfside residents, it's just first come, first serve. You know, I think 500 is a lot of portions judging by the 90th anniversary. There was a lot of food. So because this is a resident only facility where you're not going to have the general public like you would at a third Thursday just mingling about. I think we'll be okay food wise, but we're also going to learn, you know, maybe 500 is too big of a number, you know, we have to see how that goes.

I have a question because this is going to happen on the beach and on the green area. Are we going to have someone on the door at the green?

Yes, I think we need.

When, you know, people comes from the beach, it's like, you know, it's not coming. Correct.

We think we need a volunteer there to just check that, you know, we don't have outside people sneaking in. Although, you know, everything is going to be ticket based. So even if somebody sneaks in, you're not going to get your drink or food without the ticket.

Armbands.

So that when they come back, that's another, that's another question because wristbands are either just a simple wristband, but then you still need tickets for each of the individual items, which I think are three for the white party, because it's the giveaway, the drink and the food. So I think it's three tickets total. There are also like the wristbands that have multiple tickets, which we used at a night in Italy. But those are not paper, they're vinyl. So just so you know, you're going to end up with... What about the punch card?

We had that as an event.

Or we could do the punch card.

I think for this event that is more upgrade event, we should have those that are like... Satin, yes. Like the ones that you have at the concerts, you know, like a Taylor Swift concert, that type of concert. There's white satin that comes with a white theme party, and it's more...

I'd rather do biodegradable something, right?

But does it have multiple tickets? Because remember, we need three tickets. No, it doesn't. Right, but then how does the vendor know that you... What about punch cards?

It causes the least mess.

I mean, it could be, but also the vendor has to punch it and give it back. To me, the easiest is the ticket because you get it and that's it. You don't have to give it back. You don't have to think. You just take it and the vendor knows that you get a portion.

The paper? So for entry in and from the beach. We could do a wrist. We definitely need a wristband of some sort so that it's easy for the person monitoring that, you know, show me your wristband. Okay, you can come in.

Why do we need wristbands at all, though?

Because people will come in that are on the beach, and they're allowed to be on the beach, but they cannot come into the pool area. So only registered guests from the hotel, 30 per hotel, and Surfside residents.

Well, Surfside has those paper wristbands that they use all the time, the same way when you check into the pool, that you could use. They have paper wristbands that they put on for guests. They're white, I think so. I'm sure they come in white, sure. They're white.

I'll check with the parks team, but that's perfect.

I don't, it doesn't need to be, I mean, tennis prices are fabulous, but I just think anything would be.

Yeah. Parks and rec has them and that's what they use now. Okay. So they should have white. Okay.

We can check. I mean, that would be great to use, but I think that, yeah, we need something identifiable that says this person has checked into the facility. Then separate from that, you get your tickets that you're redeemed for your items. Okay.

What time does the event start on Saturday? On Saturday, it's 7 to 10. Okay, so because it's an adult-only thing, two concerns is that I don't think the community center should be closed all day because the families need to use it, the kids and stuff. You want to close early, like it closes at 3 or something. But I think there's a lot of people that will be upset if they close the whole thing down for the day and the event is adult-only and not until 7 o'clock. So I would talk to the community center.

I'm open to whatever you want to do. I do think we will need the green space closed.

The green space can be closed the whole time. They don't use that. But the pool itself, because it's not an adult event, it's an adult event only. You've got to give the kids the day. I totally agree.

Totally get it. I, you know, suppose.

Yeah, I think we just.

So we're trying to figure out.

You know, I think you'll know better what the setup is going to look like because, again, if you're transporting heavy furniture through the pool deck and also they're going to decorate the palm trees. and get up there to do stuff. I just don't see how that happens seamlessly with kids and families in the pool.

It's not a zoo at all, by any means. I'm there all the time. It's not a zoo. And you can actually close off. You can put out those, you know.

So the kids actually really use only the little pool on the one side. They don't use the other side. So if you have to- No, they use those. So that's the bigger pool, the bigger kids. Yeah.

Yeah, they're not going to be in the, it's not going to be in the way. Correct. They're not going to, it's not going to be a safety hazard. It's not like that. It's not like a zoo of running back and forth and stuff. I don't see that. I mean, I'm there all the time. It doesn't look like that.

I think, um, I think it will be okay. Like I'm, I, um, I'm going to, we, I've discussed with the lighting crew, what we're going to do in the pool area. And I, you know, if they close by, The thing is, my lighting crew and the furniture people, they have limited windows for work. So that's going to be happening in the morning. And the furniture will probably be in the afternoon. But it should be safe, I don't think.

Also, if you have the youth council people working, they can help with the security stuff.

I think maybe the best thing to do is over the next couple days, because we do need to put this in the Gazette and figure it out this week. But maybe we can talk exactly about the schedules and see what's the longest that we could open, keep the pools open on Saturday. Obviously, it's not going to be the whole time. So whatever time we determine in tandem with the town manager and the Parks and Recreation staff, that is the best time. and safe for everybody, then we'll go ahead and close at that time. We'll discuss internally and let you know.

And Sunday, it's open all day, right?

Sunday, the only activities are taking place in the adult pool, and that's 11 to 12 and 1 to 3. So if they want to open... I don't know.

But again, I envision this as closed on Sunday because I just think it gets very complicated. Why would it be closed?

The families are going to be there.

Because there's stuff happening in the pools, like the mermaid plastic.

Right, but we still need... No, no, what I meant, the pool is... The community center is only open to residents. Strangers can't come in.

It's the same people that are able to come to this. But they're hosting an event. So I think they need to determine what that looks like. It can't be business as usual. As usual, everybody does whatever they want. The pool is always open. This is an event. I disagree with the fact that we're trying to make it the same so that all the families can use the pool all day. But the kids are going to be there anyway. No matter what.

Aren't they going to have access to the pool? Anyway, we need lifeguards. They're going to be in the water with the mermaiding, so the pool's going to have to be staffed. They're going to be mermaiding in the water. But it's a car.

A mermaid knows how to swim.

They have to sign up. No, but the kids are wearing. You said it's mermaiding lessons. The kids are wearing the things.

I believe we'll still have lifeguards for the mermaids. Yeah, you'll meet the lifeguards. And for the Zumba.

Yeah. They're going to sign up events. If I may, at no point should people swimming laps interrupt this beautiful event. Exactly. No, they're not near it. There has to be a level of respect around what we're trying to create. Yeah. And it may not be a normal day for families who go to the pool every day. It just may not. But that's the risk that we run when we're trying to put an event together.

No, that's fine. There's just going to be the same people are going to be in the pool. It's going to involve the same lifeguards. Yes, maybe not. Well, you can't come to it if you're not a resident or a guest.

So I think I don't want to debate. I want them to determine.

I think the same. with Saturday, you know, we'll talk with the town manager and the Parks and Recreation staff and, you know, we'll try to keep things open as much as we can, but for safety reasons and event logistics, if we need to

But isn't, I'm confused about the Sunday event. Isn't Sunday, my question is, is Sunday, Sunday they're using the beach and the pool to do these activities, correct? And the bathrooms and the community center and all that. And the green space. Okay, so we're talking about Saturdays where there's the night party and you need the safety for the setup. So the Sunday is gonna be the access back and forth. They have to get in and out for the beach, right? Right.

Eliana, could we let them consider what is safe? Yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to understand the event.

Through the chair, if I may, if you think about it, when we have events at 96th Street Park, the park is closed for a certain amount of hours to set up. And then it's open. It's logical to let residents know we're having a special event and The pool, you know, the pool needs to be closed for certain hours to prepare for the event.

And then they're invited back for the event. Right. That's what I'm asking about. For the event, they're going to be there. I'm not talking about outside the event. For the event, which is during the day on Sunday, they're going to be at the pool in the community center. That's the event. The event is there. Right? Yes. Okay. That's what I was trying to understand. As an event.

As an event. Right.

Like Family Fun Day at the park.

Right, so they may not, if they deem it necessary, have all the lanes going because that doesn't go with the event. That goes with the normal every day. I think they need to determine what that looks like so that we have the right venue set up and that it's safe and it's welcoming, but at the same time, it's spectacular. It should not look like every day. If it does, we did it wrong.

What time does it run till on Sunday?

I mean, well, the events, so the pool part is just from 11 till 3. The beach, there are activities from 10 to 12, 2 to 4, and then 5 to 7.

So the community center is going to have to stay open later so they can use the pool and the bathrooms till 7. you have to talk to Parks and Rec for sure because you can't, otherwise the whole facility is locked.

Through the chair, we're figuring all of that out.

Let's move because even though we're not going to.

But I do just have one more question for Charlotte. For Sunday, I think the food portions you said were 150 for the garden barbecue. Okay, and that should be ticket-based as well, right?

I think so, yeah. Okay. Same with the redoes, yeah.

Okay, all right, we'll talk just to square away the tickets and the wristbands for Sunday.

Okay, so I think we are ready to move to item 70. Thank you so much, Ariel, for the update. I'm sorry for the delay on all the signing the contract and all the payments and all the thing. I know it's the first event we're doing like this and hopefully it comes out good. It's a pilot.

It's a pilot, yes. So we're learning and we'll see next year, yeah.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So recycle orchestra air the week event.

Thank you. Madam vice chair. So a representative from the recycled, or I guess an acclaimed recycled orchestra reached out to the town saying that they had performed in a number of different municipalities. and with a number of different engagements. Apparently they have something coming out with Gloria Estefan soon. And anyway, it's an orchestra made out of recycled materials and they were asking if we are interested in a performance during Earth Week. So I spoke to the rep and I told her about our Earth Day slash plastic fishing event. So, you know, they're welcome to play for that. However, I did mention that, you know, The Earth Day event is one where people kind of come and go. There isn't too much of a set program, so you don't always have a standing or sitting audience at one time that you can perform to. So I just wanted to manage their expectations so they wouldn't expect 100 seated people. So they understand the flow of the event, and they're willing to do it in the green space. Obviously, it would tie in very nicely to the theme. We might even be able to get some PR attention for it. And there is no fee per se, but there is a donation that you have to make. I believe that could be as low as $1,000 and up from there. So it's really just a question for the board whether you're interested in sponsoring this and adding it to the birthday event.

I think it's a great idea, and it will give a different touch to all the Earth Weeks that we have done before. It's recycled materials, it's music, so I'm all for it. I don't know if we have to vote or we have to make a motion?

Regarding the donation amount.

Is this for April?

Yes, April 19th.

All right, I'll make a motion to invite the Recycled Orchestra and give them a donation in exchange for their performance for Earth Week.

I second that.

Oh, up to $2,000? Is that fine? It says $1,000. $1,000 you want?

Sorry, I said $1,000.

Is that a minimum donation of $1,000 is customary? Okay, so $1,000. Or $1,500.

I mean, we don't have to. Okay, $1,500.

Whatever you want. Okay, $1,500 then. I'm flexible. Sold.

$1,500. Sold. I second the motion.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Moving forward to 7F, Miami Film Festival screening.

And we have a lot of things that we have watched.

Yes. Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. So really quickly, the Miami Film Festival, we did our first screening last year. It was terrific. So was the other one. So this year, we could potentially do two. I mean, the calendar is pretty busy, January, February, and March. But if you are interested in two, we could do two. One, I think, would be February 22nd or 21st, and the other one a little bit later in March. It would be a $5,000 screening fee to do both films. Otherwise, it's $3,000 to do one. And like I said, I was concerned about the width of the beach. And so I did contact Nick, who is the stage and seating vendor. I sent him a video. I said, hey, I'm a little bit concerned about the size. He thinks we'll be okay. You know, we might have to tighten the footprint a little bit, but he seems to think we'll be okay, although I'd still like him to come out and take a look. But assuming that we are okay, you know, beach-wise, just want to hear from you if you want to do one or two. And then we have about six film trailers that I sent. If you guys want, we can watch them now, or you can let me know what you have already looked at. Okay.

We'll come back to it. Sorry.

Can you please speak into the microphone? Thank you.

I have a question regarding two films will be for Miami Film Festival and one film for the Jewish Film Festival to a trio of

Correct. That's going to be a separate item, the Jewish Film Festival.

I know, but I just wanted to mention the two for the Miami Film Festival.

Yes, correct.

Last year we did one and one, right?

We did one and one.

And both were successful. So I think it's a good idea to have two, so to have three in total. I don't know what the board thinks. People liked it.

Sounds good to me. I would agree.

So we agree. Do we want to look at the trailer?

Why not? Did you bring popcorn?

I have to say, I think it's a very solid selection. Okay, so the first one is Sketch.

Amber, you're incredibly creative. Here's the thing, life is all about balancing the good and the bad. If you don't carry the good with you too, then it's just going to make the bad stronger. That's always kind of been her thing, right? Drawing?

All kids like to draw.

But has she always been so... eiders?

Eiders. She's working through a substance.

Are we orphans?

No. You have a dad. I'm alive.

Then what are we? What do you call an orphan that still has a dad? Come on.

You know, feelings aren't bad.

When you get angry, sad, or scared, put it in here, or it can't hurt anyone. Is everything okay? I found this place in the woods. We dropped Amber's notebook in it. And now I'm worried that Amber's drawings might be... What are you talking about? Stop! I promise I didn't want this. You're not an evil person just because you drew pictures. I saw an eyeball with legs. When do you see that?

You know we're supposed to be scared of it, but it's kind of beautiful.

All right, so that was sketch the next one is gonna be nana's no matter how old you are there's nothing worse than losing your mom thank you so much for uh remembering me with the fruit basket and all the tangerines and stuff i lost my cat last year so i understand the grieving process i'm sorry about your cat i didn't know breaks over I'm going through my mom and Nona's recipes. And then I realized food is love. So I want to open an Italian restaurant. What are you, crazy?

Who are you going to get to come down and cook?

Nona's. Other real-life Italian grandmothers.

I am from Bologna. I spit on Bologna. I spit on Sicily, okay?

I wanted to make the dishes that they were passed on from their family. I want to share it with everybody.

This is my main dish, capusella. Dear God's sakes. Oh, that's what smells. I thought maybe with me.

It has to work because it's not just a restaurant. It's more about family, especially for people who may not have family anymore. Maybe the one good idea we can take from this is not to fight in the kitchen.

Oh, she started it.

You ladies are killing me.

We are not quitters. We're strong women with Italian blood in our souls.

The only thing you're going to regret are the moments that you did not take. I'm not asking you to do this for me. I'm asking you to do it for you and for my mama. You're using Catholic guilt on me? I learned it from the best.

Right on. A bottle of red. A bottle of white.

It's very funny.

All right, that was Nonnas. This is Paddington in Peru, which would be one of the kid-friendly options. There's two of those.

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Dear Aunt Lucy, I have very important news. We're coming to visit you. The Browns are coming to Peru.

Get ready, everyone! He's coming!

Oh, what a handsome boat. Hola!

Smooth, strong, easy on the eye, and that's just the boat.

Aunt Lucy! Huntington, we're here! Aunt Lucy! I'm afraid she set off on some sort of quest deep in the jungle. And we have no idea where she is.

Aunt Lucy found me when I was a cub. Now I have to find her. But the Amazon is quite... ...large. We have to try.

And I have faith that you will survive. This will be fun!

I can show you where I'm from.

Well, we wanted a holiday to remember.

Is it me or is it getting a bit choppy?

I appear to be driving the boat.

Ah. Welcome to Peru.

All right, next we have One Life. 30 seconds to on air.

Okay, and you are just here.

Goodbye, St. Fatherback.

Now, an extraordinary story about a young man who many years ago visited Prague. What he found there were thousands of refugees at the mercy of Hitler's imminent invasion.

Do you ever think about the children and what happened to them? I bet you've got some stories. That's really not about me. We are working to evacuate these children by train to safety in Britain. Why are you doing this, Mr. Winton? Because I may be able to do something about it. I must.

Go. Now. Nikki, you must know we cannot save them all. You have to forgive yourself that.

I'm starting to. I have to finish it. We cannot let these people down.

It is incredible what you achieved. We're doing as much as we can. You have a lot of faith in ordinary people.

Because I'm an ordinary person. Save one life, save the world? Forgive me, but how many children are we speaking about?

Can I ask, is there anyone in the audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?

All right, next is Eternity.

Guess you weren't expecting it.

What the hell is going on?

Well, I guess the surgery didn't go so well.

You've passed away, Larry. Who are you?

I'm Anna. I'm your afterlife quarter nigger.

That's not a job.

And this is the junction, where you choose one place to spend eternity.

You want a little sniffle?

And who to spend it with.

Joan! Joan! I was so bad in that I... You look amazing.

I have shocking news.

You're dead.

Yeah, how'd you know?

It took him forever to figure that out. Excuse me. I've been waiting for this golden goose for 67 goddamn years. There's a lot to absorb, so I highly recommend just taking a deep breath in... Honey.

I know this is a lot, but don't worry, I've been doing the research.

Larry.

What do you mean, Larry? We were together a week ago.

Well, a lot has happened in a week. You died, I died, I just been reunited with both of my dead husbands, and I have to pick where to spend eternity.

You've waited 67 years. When eternity's on the line, it seems like nothing. You're a lurker, pal. You're waiting beyond to spoil a half a century of marriage.

It's not a competition. Yes, it is.

Sweetheart, it's 100% for sure a competition. It is in fact a competition. That's literally what we're here for.

I wanted you to have a life, but I wanted us to have a chance to have one too. You're so romantic.

I can be romantic.

I don't care where we end up. Just as long as we're together.

You're going to have to remind her of why she fell in love with you.

Knowing you're happy makes me happy. Eternity is a long time to have regrets. So... Have you chosen your eternity?

All right, next is John Candy, I Like Me.

John Candy, I Like Me.

Who are you? I'm a mob. Half man, half dog.

Gus Polinski, Polka King of the Midwest. Al Griffith, director of sales, shower curtain ring division. This is a lovable guy.

This is a guy who the minute you see his face, you're going to smile. He was amazingly funny.

Thank you.

He was one of the top performers out of all of them. Guess my secret to acting would be I pretend real hard.

Even though John did distinctly different characters, John was always there.

He was so gentlemanly and so Canadian.

Nobody had bigger expectations for himself than John.

And then all of a sudden, it kind of jumped to a different level.

I've made winning my whole life. And when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning.

You've been in more turkeys than a stuffing mix.

I think the weight of everything he was doing was just too much.

A hazard of this business is that it's very unhealthy for people pleasers. You can't really do favors for people. It's a bottomless cup of coffee. If you go a whole lifetime eating your feelings, drinking your feelings, smoking your nerves, it shows up.

You know, there's some things that are just painful. That's it. And you can't make them not painful.

Hollywood still reacting to the shocking news.

John Candy is dead at the age of 43.

But it's the face you put on the world that defines who you are.

He lived his life very much like the movies. He was the child that made everyone happy. And he was the adult that did that.

You know, I remember John Kerry when not a lot of people did.

This is no meager life we reflect on today.

This is as full a life as any human can live.

Hi, Daddy.

Hi, Jennifer. How you doing?

Magnificent of visage, eyes and frame. A titan of a gentle, golden man.

Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing.

Okay, so we have to choose two, right?

Yes, we have one more.

These are for the Miami Film Festival?

Miami Film Festival, yeah.

And these are from the Jewish Film Festival? These are just the Miami Film Festival ones?

That'll be the next item, but they didn't give us a film list, yes. Okay, so we have one more, Eleanor the Great.

What's going on? I use the restroom real quick. There we go. Moving home, actually. To New York, you? Nice knowing you, Clarice. Say goodbye to Melvin for me. We had such a wonderful time the other night. He's very strong. You're so full of shit, Eleanor.

Yeah?

I saw her the other day.

Blonde?

Rebecca? Yeah. Suddenly she became blonde. I'm 94 years old, and I'm moving to Manhattan for the first time today.

I know this, Dad. My condolences.

What am I gonna do here all day alone? I signed you up for a class at JCC. I judged them more prematurely. I can see that now. Hi. I'm Eleanor.

I was wondering if I, um, if I could feature you in my article. I did pick a subject for my journalism project.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm actually profiling a Holocaust survivor.

So tell me about your mother. He never talks about my mother.

It's like she just poof, went away. You liked my article that much?

I loved it. It's thoughtful. It's personal. It's moving. You know, I'd like to have dinner with the two of you. To hell with it. Eight months ago, my daughter and I lost her mom. My wife.

I lost you. I love you.

We lived together for 11 years.

Sometimes when you live with someone for that long, you forget where you end and they begin. I love you, Elle.

All right, so that is the list of films for the Miami Film Festival. So feel free to discuss and see what two you prefer.

I'll go. I would eliminate Paddington, John Candy, and Eleanor the Great because they're just sad. And Paddington was not as good as Sketch. I thought Sketch was a really good kids movie. So that would be my pick for a kid movie. Or Nona. Nona was a good family movie or One Life. Eternity made me also antsy. So my favorites were Sketch, Nona, One Life, and... That was it. It gets known in one life. I mean, eternity would be my fourth. That was just my vote.

Okay. Mine, one life and nonas.

One life and which one?

Nonas. Okay.

Same. One life and nonas for me as well.

Yeah, that sounds good.

I'm definitely on Nona's. I'm with either one, One Life. I guess it would make it easier if I just put it there to make it not go back and forth. Because Nona's is a family movie.

It sounds like Nona's, everybody's got Nona's? Yeah. Okay, so maybe Nona's looks to be one of them.

One Life is good too. Okay. Perfect.

Nona's and One Life. Angie, do you need a motion?

Yes, you can make a motion to approve.

So I'll make a motion to pick the movie Nona's, two movies, Nona's and One Life for the Miami Film Festival screening. I don't remember the dates.

I second that motion.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you. And just one more question about that. Obviously we'll do the best that we can with the screen and the footprint beach permitting in terms of offerings. Do you want, I think we had hot chocolate and I said donuts and cannolis. That's what we had last year. Do you want to repeat that?

I mean, we've heard nonas have some, cannolis is perfect.

Yeah, nonas are perfect. Cannolis are perfect for nonas. Okay, we'll repeat that.

And popcorn?

And popcorn, yes.

Are you eating different food for different events?

No, the same. No, it's fine. Okay, so popcorn, cannolis, and a drink. Okay, perfect. Cool.

Okay, so let's...

Are we doing Jewish Film Festival picks now?

Okay. Let's move forward to Miami Jewish Film Festival. They gave us one movie, though.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. So the Miami Jewish Film Festival has actually not yet given us a list of titles. I asked, but they said they would send it to me in February. So they might have a process. Okay, so we just need approval for the date, Sunday, April 12th.

When is it?

Sunday, April 12th. But I will come back to you with the film titles.

That's not Passover or anything?

Let's check.

It's Easter Sunday?

It's not Easter.

It's a different Easter. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Yes, I think Passover is over on... Over on the 9th, it looks.

Okay, so good.

So that's the 12th is the screening?

Yes, the 12th.

And when is the screening for the Miami Film Festival? What are those dates?

So that is February 22nd and the other one, let me see.

March 15th.

And March 15th.

With which movie would we like to start?

I would do Nona's first.

Nona's? Yeah.

Nona's first? Okay.

So we just need a motion for the Miami Jewish Film Festival?

On the date?

Yes.

Make a motion to... show the Miami Jewish Film Festival film on April 12th.

I second the motion.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Okay, last item, 7H, Surfside Mobile's marquee sign.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair. I do want to apologize. I know our vendor for Thursday, Javier, is trying to get here, and he's on the way. He may not make it, so apologies on his behalf, but he's ready to go for Thursday. And our last item is just an update on the mobile marquee sign. It was just finished, so I just got some photos of it, and it looks really, really nice. I don't know that they can get it here for Thursday, so if it's okay with you guys, we can just unveil it at the Snow Moon event.

Yes.

Should add a nice touch to that. Okay, perfect. We'll work to have it and unveil it at Snowloon.

New business? No? Any comments from the board members?

What about them?

Okay.

So what about Frank? Can you talk to us about the turtles?

Yes. Thank you, board members. Um, we have been waiting to install the two new turtles. The holdup is that you remember you selected one for the Southern Monument signed by 88th Street, but I have a feeling that the turtle that the commission is going to want for that spot is also the same turtle that the Waverly wanted for their location. So I said to them, okay, you know, Waverly, if the commission wants the turtle that you had in mind, are you okay with the second turtle? and they haven't answered me. So that's why it's not on this commission agenda. We've been trying to put it on a couple times. So I did give them a deadline and I said, you have to let me know in the next two weeks because if you don't let me know by February, we're just gonna, I guess, drop the Waverly location and we'll do the 92nd beach entrance. But I'm still hopeful that it'll work out. So that's, just wanted to let you know that's why the delay. But next month, one more month.

Thank you. Okay, I think next meeting will be February 2nd. And we are ready to adjourn the meeting. February 2nd. Okay, 6 o'clock.

Through the chair, is everyone good with that next meeting date? Checking. Okay.

Yeah, I can do it. I mean, it's Groundhog Day. Okay. Sounds good thus far. Yes.

Good for me. Okay, thank you.

Motion to adjourn.

Yay, I second that.

I second it.

Aye. Thank you. Motion to adjourn. Thank you.